Canada has a new minister of agriculture and rural economic development.
Kody Blois, the Nova Scotia MP from Kings-Hants, received the appointment from new Prime Minister Mark Carney and was sworn in on March 14.
Blois takes the ag portfolio from Lawrence MacAulay, who recently announced his retirement from politics. Blois also absorbs the rural development file from Gudie Hutchings, who on Jan. 9 announced she wasn’t running in the next federal election.