Mark Carney has a lot of friends from Quebec. An assortment of high-level cabinet ministers, his chief of staff, senior advisers and even the clerk of the Privy Council, the most senior bureaucrat in Ottawa.  

National Post spoke with more than a dozen sources to find out what this Quebec-heavy team surrounding Carney means for Canada.  

Some said the influx of senior officials from that province is largely a coincidence. Others said it was deliberate and that Carney wants Quebec and its 44 Liberal MPs to be happy. Of course, the path for every Liberal election win runs straight through Quebec.

But the key question centres on what this means in terms of policy and politics. Will it help, for example, earn support for pipelines or ports that require Quebec to be on board?  

Or could it mean new models or ways of looking at these major projects, such as the use of pension funds as a financial tool?

Either way, the Quebec element in the Carney government is, perhaps surprisingly, a marked change from the Trudeau-era.  

Justin Trudeau was often criticized because people from his home province held a limited number of the top jobs in his government.  

Carney is widely seen as the most popular politician in Quebec, despite his limited connections to the province.  But for how long? His francophone team hopes it lasts at least until the next federal election.

Antoine Trépanier, Quebec politics reporter, National Post 

Simon Tuck, politics reporter, National Post 

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