First reports

CTV: Flaherty for Finance, MacKay for Foreign Affairs...
Lunn, Skelton, O'Connor, Prentice, Solberg, Toews, Day, Clement, Baird, Oda, Strahl, Verner, Bernier, Ambrose ...
Eminence grises Reynolds, Speaker, Fortier... DAVID EMERSON??? Has crossed floor -- days after being elected as a Liberal. First reaction: he should immediately resign his seat and run in a byelection, having effectively won it by false pretenses. Second point: so much for Tory fury over Belinda Stronach trading her vote for a cabinet seat. This is not a good note to be striking on their first day. UPDATE: He gets TRADE and "responsibility for Olympic Games." Tories get a two-seat swing in the balance of the House. Standings now are 125-102-29-51-1. So Tories plus NDP equals majority. André Arthur is no longer the swing vote. MICHAEL FORTIER appointed to Senate seat from Montreal. (Gets PUBLIC WORKS.) He, apparently, will run in some sort of election. Will "Senator" Emerson do the same? Complete List: HARPER Prime Minister NICHOLSON House Leader, Democratic Reform LEBRETON Senate leader FLAHERTY Finance MACKAY Foreign Affairs (and ACOA -- what, between flights?) TOEWS Justice DAY Public Safety O'CONNOR Defence BAIRD Treasury Board FORTIER Public Works CLEMENT Health (and FEDNOR) FINLEY Human Resources and Social Development CANNON Transport, Infrastructure and Communities BERNIER Industry EMERSON Trade LUNN Resources STRAHL Agriculture (and Wheat Board) HEARN Fisheries ODA Heritage AMBROSE Environment PRENTICE Indian Affairs CHONG Intergovernmental Affairs/PCO (!!) (and Sports) SOLBERG Immigration SKELTON Revenue (and WEDI) VERNER Int'l Cooperation (?) and La Francophonie THOMPSON Veterans Affairs BLACKBURN Labour and Housing (and EDAC-FROQ) 27 in all, down from 39... ABLONCZY out, RAJOTTE out, HILL out, KENNEY, MOORE out. But Emerson's in.... DIVERSITY SCORECARD: Quebec 5, Ontario 8 (plus LeBreton?), B.C. 4, Alberta 4, Man/Sask 2, Atlantic 3 Women 6, Vizmin 1 (Oda. Chong? Clement? How viz is a min?)... Catholic/Protestant/Jewish/Other: anybody know? IDEOLOGY SCORECARD: Red - MacKay, Prentice, Hearn Blue - Toews, Clement, Baird, Flaherty, Fortier, Bernier Reform - Day, Strahl, Solberg, Lunn Liberal - Emerson