Minister of National Revenue

Minister of National Revenue
Ministre du Revenu national
Incumbent Diane Lebouthillier since 4 November 2015
Canada Revenue Agency
Style	The Honourable
Member of	Parliament Privy Council Cabinet[1]
Reports to	Parliament Prime Minister[2]
Appointer	Monarch (represented by the governor general);[3] on the advice of the prime minister[4]
Term length	At Her Majesty's pleasure
Inaugural holder	William Daum Euler
Formation	March 21, 1927
Salary	CA$269,800 (2019)[5]
Website	canada.ca/revenue-agency

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The Minister of National Revenue (French: Ministre du Revenu national) is the minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for the Canada Revenue Agency, as well as the administration of taxation law and collection.

The current Minister of National Revenue is Diane Lebouthillier, who took office in November 2015 following the 2015 federal election.

History[]

The Minister of National Revenue position was created on March 31, 1927, when the office of Minister of Customs and Excise was abolished. The new National Revenue department was established by expanding the former Department of Customs and Excise with a new facility for the collection of income tax, which had formerly been the responsibility of the Finance Department.

The Department became known as Revenue Canada during the 1970s, and subsequently became the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency in 1999.^[6] In 2003, the Department was split into the Canada Revenue Agency and the Canada Border Services Agency, the latter becoming the responsibility of the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness.

List of ministers[]

Key:

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Political party	Ministry
1		William Daum Euler	March 21, 1927	August 7, 1930	Liberal	14 (King)
2		Edmond Baird Ryckman	August 7, 1930	December 1, 1933	Conservative	15 (Bennett)
3		Robert Charles Matthews	December 6, 1933	August 13, 1935	Conservative
4		James Earl Lawson	August 14, 1935	October 23, 1935	Conservative
5		James Lorimer Ilsley	October 24, 1935	July 7, 1940	Liberal	16 (King)
6		Colin William George Gibson	July 8, 1940	March 7, 1945	Liberal
-		James Angus MacKinnon (Acting)	March 8, 1945	April 18, 1945	Liberal
7		David Laurence MacLaren	April 19, 1945	July 29, 1945	Liberal
-		James Angus MacKinnon (Acting)	July 30, 1945	August 28, 1945	Liberal
8		James Joseph McCann	August 29, 1945	November 15, 1948	Liberal
			November 15, 1948	June 20, 1957		17 (St-Laurent)
9		George Clyde Nowlan	June 21, 1957	August 8, 1962	Progressive Conservative	18 (Diefenbaker)
10		Hugh John Flemming	April 9, 1962	April 21, 1963	Progressive Conservative
11		Jack Garland	April 22, 1963	March 14, 1964	Liberal	19 (Pearson)
-		George McIlraith (Acting)	March 19, 1964	June 28, 1964	Liberal
12		Edgar John Benson	June 29, 1964	January 17, 1968	Liberal
13		Jean Chrétien	January 18, 1968	April 20, 1968	Liberal
			April 20, 1968	July 5, 1968		20 (P.E. Trudeau)
14		Joseph Julien Jean-Pierre Côté	July 6, 1968	September 23, 1970	Liberal
15		Herb Gray	September 24, 1970	November 26, 1972	Liberal
16		Robert Stanbury	November 27, 1972	August 7, 1974	Liberal
17		Ron Basford	August 8, 1974	September 25, 1975	Liberal
18		Bud Cullen	September 26, 1975	September 13, 1976	Liberal
19		Monique Bégin	September 14, 1976	September 15, 1977	Liberal
20		Joseph-Philippe Guay	September 16, 1977	November 23, 1978	Liberal
21		Tony Abbott (Ontario politician)	November 24, 1978	June 3, 1979	Liberal
22		Walter Baker	June 4, 1979	March 2, 1980	Progressive Conservative	21 (Clark)
23		Bill Rompkey	March 3, 1980	September 29, 1982	Liberal	22 (P.E. Trudeau)
24		Pierre Bussières	September 30, 1982	June 29, 1984	Liberal
25		Roy MacLaren	June 30, 1984	September 16, 1984	Liberal	23 (Turner)
26		Perrin Beatty	September 17, 1984	August 19, 1985	Progressive Conservative	24 (Mulroney)
27		Elmer MacKay	August 20, 1985	January 29, 1989	Progressive Conservative
28		Otto Jelinek	January 30, 1989	June 24, 1993	Progressive Conservative
29		Garth Turner	June 25, 1993	November 3, 1993	Progressive Conservative	25 (Campbell)
30		David Anderson	November 4, 1993	January 24, 1996	Liberal	26 (Chrétien)
31		Jane Stewart	January 25, 1996	June 10, 1997	Liberal
32		Herb Dhaliwal	June 11, 1997	August 2, 1999	Liberal
33		Martin Cauchon	August 3, 1999	January 14, 2002	Liberal
34		Elinor Caplan	January 15, 2002	December 11, 2003	Liberal
35		Stan Keyes	December 12, 2003	July 19, 2004	Liberal	27 (Martin)
36		John McCallum	July 20, 2004	February 5, 2006	Liberal
37		Carol Skelton	February 6, 2006	August 14, 2007	Conservative	28 (Harper)
38		Gordon O'Connor	August 14, 2007	October 29, 2008	Conservative
39		Jean-Pierre Blackburn	October 30, 2008	January 19, 2010	Conservative
40		Keith Ashfield	January 19, 2010	May 18, 2011	Conservative
41		Gail Shea	May 18, 2011	July 15, 2013	Conservative
42		Kerry-Lynne Findlay	July 15, 2013	November 4, 2015	Conservative
43		Diane Lebouthillier	November 4, 2015	Incumbent	Liberal	29 (J. Trudeau)

Predecessors[]

Minister of Inland Revenue[]

The Minister of Inland Revenue was a portfolio in the Canadian Cabinet established in 1867.

Between 1892 and 1897, during the 7th Canadian Parliament, the portfolio was considered to be only of the ministry, not of the Cabinet, and was thus referred to as the Controller of Inland Revenue during that time.^[7][8] (The 'Minister of Inland Revenue' title returned after 1897 and remained until the office was formally abolished.) In 1918, the portfolio became the Minister of Customs and Inland Revenue.^[8] It was subsequently turned into the Minister of National Revenue in 1927, whereupon the Department of Inland Revenue became the Department of National Revenue—later renamed Revenue Canada and now referred to as Canada Revenue Agency.

Minister of Customs and Inland Revenue[]

The Minister of Customs and Inland Revenue was a Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet responsible for the collection of taxes and duties.

The office was created in 1918 by combining the former positions of Minister of Inland Revenue and Minister of Customs. In 1921, the Minister of Customs and Inland Revenue office was replaced by the Minister of Customs and Excise by Statute 11-12 Geo. V, c. 26, which assented to on 4 June 1921. In 1927, the Department of Customs and Excise was abolished and replaced by the Department of National Revenue, thus the portfolio became the Minister of National Revenue.

See also[]

• Ministry of Revenue (Ontario)
• Minister of Revenue (Quebec)
• Taxation in Canada
• Government revenue
• Revenue service
• Minister of Inland Revenue (General)

References[]

External links[]

• Canada Revenue Agency