Kenney shuffles cabinet after 3 ministers quit to run for UCP leadership

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney speaks in response to the results of the United Conservative Party leadership review in Calgary on Wednesday May 18, 2022. Kenney has stepped down as leader of the United Conservative Party. Kenney received 51.4 per cent support from the party in a leadership vote. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dave Chidley

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney made some changes to his cabinet on Tuesday afternoon.

Jason Nixon, currently the minister of environment and parks, will become the president of the treasury board and minister of finance — a role he had on an interim basis when Travis Toews announced his leadership campaign.

Whitney Issik is the new environment and parks minister after she was associate minister of status of women.

That associate minister position will go to Jackie Armstrong Homeniuk, MLA for Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville.

Matt Jones, MLA for Calgary-South East, will take Rebecca Schulz's old job as minister of children's services after she stepped down to also run for party leader.

Prasad Panda, the current infrastructure minister, will replace Rajan Sawhney as transportation minister. Sawhney is also running in the UCP leadership race.

Nicholas Milliken, Calgary-Currie MLA, will be infrastructure minister.

Brad Rutherford, deputy government whip and Leduc-Beaumont MLA, is now the chief government whip and minister without portfolio.