The Honourable Bill Bennett is appointed Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts. Minister Bennett is one of five new ministers selected by Premier Gordon Campbell as part of the new cabinet announced on June 23, 2008.

Left to right: The Honourable Steven L. Point, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia; the Honourable Bill Bennett, Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts; and the Honourable Gordon Campbell, Premier of British Columbia.

Ministers of the new provincial cabinet take the oaths of allegiance, of office and of confidentiality.

The Honourable Bill Bennett, Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts signs the Oath Book while being sworn in as a Member of the Executive Council.

The new provincial cabinet, including five new members, from left to right: Joan McIntyre, Bill Bennett, Iain Black, Mary Polak and Blair Lekstrom.