{"id":889950,"date":"2026-10-21T20:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/889950\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T20:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:34:08","slug":"quebecs-new-pq-premier-unveils-smaller-cabinet-as-minority-government-prepares-to-govern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/889950\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec&#8217;s new PQ premier unveils smaller cabinet as minority government prepares to govern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Education Ministry goes to Arseneau<\/p>\n<p>Jo\u00ebl Arseneau is the minister of national education. He was one of only three PQ MNAs elected in the 2022 provincial election, alongside the new premier and Pascal B\u00e9rub\u00e9. He has represented the \u00celes-de-la-Madeleine riding since 2018, and most recently served as the party\u2019s critic on homelessness and public security.<\/p>\n<p>Elsie Lefebvre will oversee four ministries: higher education, housing, the status of women and she is also the minister for the Lanaudi\u00e8re region, where her Berthier riding is located. From 2009 to 2017, she was a city councillor for the Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension borough in Montreal. She was recently a columnist and contributor for Qu\u00e9becor media outlets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mathieu Lebrun is the minister of labour, employment and social solidarity. He served as chief mediator-conciliator at the Labour Ministry from 2021 to 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Education Ministry goes to Arseneau Jo\u00ebl Arseneau is the minister of national education. He was one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-889950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}