Update: Mélanie Joly, Canada’s new Minister of Canadian Heritage, is one of the 16 cabinet ministers who skipped “So Help Me God.”
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“Stop showing off, Canada. You’re embarrassing us,” are the final sentences of Half of the New Canadian Cabinet Members Chose to Skip ‘So Help Me God’ in Their Oaths of Office“:
Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs
Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister of Justice and Attorney General
Stéphane Dion, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Scott Brison, President of the Treasury Board
Navdeep Singh Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development
Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development
Catherine McKenna, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change
Maryann Mihychuk, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour
Maryam Monsef , Minister of Democratic Institutions
Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities
Harjit Singh Sajjan, Minister of National Defence
Amarjeet Sohi, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities
Patricia Hajdu, Minister for the Status of Women
Hunter Tootoo, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, and Canadian Coast Guard
Bardish Chagger, Minister of Small Business and Tourism
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Note: A Canadian Atheist commenter sent me an email yesterday. His count for the number of ministers who skipped “So Help Me God” is 16.