Niki Ashton, NDP MP for the Churchill Keewatinook-Aski riding is not impressed with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new cabinet.

She believes the pared-down Cabinet is missing some key portfolios.

“He flunked the Cabinet. He left out Status of Women, Labour, Crown-Indigenous Relations, and Official Languages. You couldn’t get a clearer message from Mark Carney that labour issues and worker’s issues don’t matter. You couldn’t get a clearer issue that the status of women, that official languages, and that the critical commitment to Indigenous reconciliation to a stand alone Crown-Indigenous relations ministry don’t matter.”

Ashton also took issue with the Carney’s announcement to rescind the Capital Gains Tax, saying it would only give a tax break to the rich who needed it the least.

Ashton echoed the words of Karina Gould, one of the candidates for the position Carney now holds, calling him “Conservative-lite.”