Prime Minister Mark Carney headed to Toronto on Tuesday for two days of private meetings with his cabinet ahead of the fall legislative sitting.

It’s Carney’s second cabinet retreat since winning the spring election but the first involving his new chief of staff — former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations Marc-André Blanchard — and his new principal secretary David Lametti, the former justice minister.

Carney’s first cabinet retreat at Meech Lake in Quebec in May was a secretive, two-day postelection planning huddle.

The Prime Minister’s Office denied media access to that event — a departure from the practice of Carney’s predecessor Justin Trudeau, whose ministers used to hit the media microphones at cabinet retreats to promote the government’s plans and priorities.

This time, h

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