Joyce Murray, a member of Canada’s House of Commons since 2008 representing a riding in Vancouver, British Columbia, has been named Canada’s new minister of fisheries and oceans.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was reelected as prime minister in Canada’s general election on 20 September, but former Minister of Fisheries, Oceans, and the Canadian Coast Guard Bernadette Jordan Bernadette Jordan lost her reelection bid in her local riding in Nova Scotia. Her loss was partially blamed on controversial fisheries policies she pushed for, including a plan to shift aquaculture in British Columbia from in-ocean pens to land-based formats, as well as Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s handling of Indigenous fishing rights in Nova Scotia.
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