Premier Kathleen Wynne has made history and now she wants to avoid being history.

The first woman to govern Ontario is betting that 10 new faces in cabinet — and a conciliatory tone toward teachers and the opposition — will put a fresh face on a Liberal government that marks a decade in office later this year.

“We must acknowledge our mistakes, take responsibility for them, and work together to guarantee that they are not repeated,” Wynne said as she was sworn in Monday.

“It is not lost on me that I am the first woman to be sworn into this office and that I am doing so with the support of the woman I love,” she said, referring to partner Jane Rounthwaite.

Wynne is bringing into cabinet the largest roster of rookies since former premier Dalton McGuinty was elected in October 2003.

All 10 MPPs who supported her in last month’s Liberal leadership race are in her executive council, which expanded to 27 from McGuinty’s 23.

“My cabinet is slightly larger than the last because of the serious work that must be done.”

Opposition parties slammed the larger cabinet with the government preaching restraint with an $11.9 billion deficit.

“Clearly, she doesn’t have what it takes to make the tough decisions,” said Progressive Conservative MPP Todd Smith (Prince Edward-Hastings).

New ministers won’t fix old problems such as the turmoil over cancelled power plants, said NDP MPP Gilles Bisson (Timmins-James Bay).

Wynne isn’t just rewarding her allies; former rivals play key roles.

Charles Sousa, the two-term Mississauga South MPP who finished fifth in last month’s leadership race, succeeds retiring finance minister Dwight Duncan.

An affable former Royal Bank executive, Sousa said he hopes to eliminate the deficit by 2017-18.

Wynne disputed a report in the Star that leadership rival Sandra Pupatello was her first choice to be finance minister even though the two women had three conversations about a role for Pupatello.

Multiple Liberal insiders have confided a four-day charm offensive to convince Pupatello to run in Duncan’s soon-to-be-vacated Windsor-Tecumseh seat fell short on Sunday.

The former Windsor West MPP has opted to remain on Bay St. despite overtures from Wynne and her emissaries.

As an olive branch to teachers’ unions battling the government over Bill 115 — the law freezing wages, rolling back benefits and curbing bargaining rights — Education Minister Laurel Broten is being replaced.

In her stead is backbencher Liz Sandals, the three-term Guelph MPP and former Ontario Public School Boards Association president who will try to improve relations with public school teacher unions.

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Broten is being demoted to intergovernmental affairs.

Wynne has asked Infrastructure Minister Bob Chiarelli to fix the Energy department. The wily veteran will try to repair the political damage done by McGuinty’s $230-million cancellation$230-million cancellation of the gas plants in Mississauga and Oakville in 2010 and 2011.

Economic Development and Trade Minister Brad Duguid, at Energy during the gas-plant imbroglio, has been transferred to training, colleges and universities.

Duguid’s plum post, with the expanded new title “economic development, trade and employment,” goes to Wynne’s former leadership rival Eric Hoskins, a co-founder of the charity War Child Canada.

Signalling First Nations are a priority, especially given the Idle No More movement, Wynne, who had First Nations drummers perform at her swearing-in, promoted backbench MPP David Zimmer (Willowdale), an early supporter, to run Aboriginal Affairs.

Also new in cabinet is Labour Minister Yasir Naqvi, who resigned as Ontario Liberal Party president earlier Monday.

Other first-timers in cabinet are: Children and Youth Services Minister Teresa Piruzza, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Michael Coteau; Research and Innovation Minister Reza Moridi; Seniors Minister Mario Sergio; Natural Resources Minister David Orazietti; Rural Affairs Minister Jeff Leal; Consumer Services Minister Tracy MacCharles.

Labour Minister Linda Jeffrey, a top Wynne supporter, has been promoted to municipal affairs and housing minister and will be chair of cabinet.

Toronto Centre MPP Glen Murray, a one-time leadership candidate who quit his campaign to back Wynne, gets transportation and infrastructure.

Natural Resources Minister Michael Gravelle moves to northern development and mines, replacing Sudbury’s retiring Rick Bartolucci.

Wynne’s campaign co-chair, Health Minister Deb Matthews, remains at her key post and adds the largely ceremonial title of deputy premier.

Ted McMeekin, who becomes minister of community and social services, mused about raising the minimum wage from $10.25 an hour.

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