While the cabinet drew praise for enlisting members with considerable public and private sector experience, critics also noted the fact that only seven women and one visible minority currently have a seat on the front benches.

Doug Ford is the middle class man other politicians pine for, Roy Green says. 'This is all good.'

In the weeks since his party's sweeping victory at the polls, Ford has vowed to make dismantling the province's cap-and-trade system his first order of business