President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada
| President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada | |
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| Président du Conseil privé de la Reine pour le Canada | |
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| Queen's Privy Council for Canada | |
| Style | The Honourable |
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| 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 | Adam Johnston Fergusson Blair |
| Formation | 1 July 1867 |
| Salary | CA$269,800 (2019)[5] |
| Website | pco-bcp |
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In the Canadian cabinet, the president of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada (French: président du Conseil privé de la Reine pour le Canada) is nominally in charge of the Privy Council Office. The president of the Privy Council also has the largely ceremonial duty of presiding over meetings of the Privy Council, a body which only convenes in full for affairs of state such as the accession of a new Sovereign or the marriage of the Prince of Wales or heir presumptive to the Throne. Accordingly, the last time the president of the Privy Council had to preside over a meeting of the Privy Council was in 1981 on the occasion of Charles, Prince of Wales' engagement to Lady Diana Spencer. It is the equivalent of the office of lord president of the council in the United Kingdom.
Under Prime Ministers Pierre Trudeau and Joe Clark the position was synonymous with that of government house leader. In 1989 the government house leader became a separate position and the president of the Privy Council became a largely honorary title (not unlike that of deputy prime minister of Canada) given to a senior minister in addition to other portfolios. From 1993 it has regularly been held by whoever holds the portfolio of minister of intergovernmental affairs. In the past decade the position has generally been seen to be the closest thing to a sinecure posting within the Cabinet.
The current president of the Privy Council is Bill Blair.
List of presidents of the Privy Council[]
| No. | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | Under Prime Minister | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
Adam Johnston Fergusson Blair | July 1, 1867 | December 29, 1867 | Macdonald | |
| vacant | December 30, 1867 | January 29, 1869 | ||||
| 2 |  |
Joseph Howe | January 30, 1869 | November 15, 1869 | ||
| 3 | Edward Kenny | November 16, 1869 | June 20, 1870 | |||
| 4 |  |
Charles Tupper | June 21, 1870 | July 1, 1872 | ||
| 5 |  |
John O'Connor | July 2, 1872 | March 3, 1873 | ||
| 6 |  |
Hugh McDonald (politician) | June 14, 1873 | June 30, 1873 | ||
| 7 | Lucius Seth Huntington | January 20, 1874 | October 8, 1875 | Mackenzie | ||
| 8 | Joseph Édouard Cauchon | December 7, 1875 | June 7, 1877 | |||
| 9 | Edward Blake | June 8, 1877 | January 17, 1878 | |||
| 10 | John O'Connor | October 17, 1878 | January 15, 1880 | Macdonald | ||
| 11 | Louis François Rodrigue Masson | January 16, 1880 | July 31, 1880 | |||
| 12 | Joseph-Alfred Mousseau | November 8, 1880 | May 19, 1881 | |||
| 13 | Archibald McLelan | May 20, 1881 | July 9, 1882 | |||
| 14 | John A. Macdonald | October 17, 1883 | November 27, 1889 | |||
| 15 | Charles Carrol Colby | November 28, 1889 | April 30, 1891 | |||
| 16 | John Abbott | June 16, 1891 | November 24, 1892 | Abbott | ||
| 17 | William Bullock Ives | December 7, 1892 | December 12, 1894 | Thompson | ||
| 18 | Mackenzie Bowell | December 21, 1894 | April 27, 1896 | Bowell | ||
| 19 | Auguste Réal Angers | May 1, 1896 | July 8, 1896 | Tupper | ||
| 20 | Wilfrid Laurier | July 13, 1896 | October 6, 1911 | Laurier | ||
| 21 | Robert Laird Borden | October 10, 1911 | October 12, 1917 | Borden | ||
| 22 | Newton Rowell | October 12, 1917 | July 10, 1920 | |||
| 23 | James Alexander Calder | July 10, 1920 | September 20, 1921 | Meighen | ||
| 24 | Louis-Philippe Normand | October 4, 1921 | December 28, 1921 | |||
| 25 | William Lyon Mackenzie King | December 29, 1921 | June 28, 1926 | King | ||
| 26 | Arthur Meighen | June 29, 1926 | July 12, 1926 | Meighen | ||
| 25 | William Lyon Mackenzie King | September 25, 1926 | August 6, 1930 | King | ||
| 27 | Richard Bedford Bennett | August 7, 1930 | October 22, 1935 | Bennett | ||
| 25 | William Lyon Mackenzie King | October 23, 1935 | November 14, 1948 | King | ||
| 28 | Louis Saint-Laurent | November 15, 1948 | April 24, 1957 | Saint-Laurent | ||
| 29 | Lionel Chevrier | April 25, 1957 | June 20, 1957 | |||
| vacant | June 21, 1957 | December 27, 1961 | Diefenbaker | |||
| 30 | Noël Dorion | December 28, 1961 | July 5, 1962 | |||
| 31 | John Diefenbaker | December 21, 1962 | April 22, 1963 | |||
| 32 | Maurice Lamontagne | April 22, 1963 | February 2, 1964 | Pearson | ||
| 33 | George James McIlraith | February 3, 1964 | July 6, 1965 | |||
| 34 | Guy Favreau | July 7, 1965 | April 3, 1967 | |||
| 35 | Walter L. Gordon | April 4, 1967 | March 10, 1968 | |||
| * | Pierre Trudeau | March 11, 1968 | April 20, 1968 | |||
| * | Pierre Trudeau | April 20, 1968 | May 1, 1968 | P.E. Trudeau | ||
| * | Allan MacEachen | May 2, 1968 | July 5, 1968 | |||
| 36 | Donald Stovel Macdonald | July 6, 1968 | September 23, 1970 | |||
| 37 | Allan MacEachen | September 24, 1970 | August 7, 1974 | |||
| 38 | Mitchell Sharp | August 8, 1974 | September 13, 1976 | |||
| 37 | Allan MacEachen | September 14, 1976 | June 3, 1979 | |||
| 39 | Walter David Baker | June 4, 1979 | March 2, 1980 | Clark | ||
| 40 | Yvon Pinard | March 3, 1980 | June 29, 1984 | P.E. Trudeau | ||
| 41 | André Ouellet | June 30, 1984 | September 6, 1984 | Turner | ||
| 42 | Erik Nielsen | September 7, 1984 | February 26, 1985 | Mulroney | ||
| 43 | Ramon John Hnatyshyn | February 27, 1985 | June 29, 1986 | |||
| 44 | Don Mazankowski | June 30, 1986 | April 20, 1991 | |||
| 45 | Joe Clark | April 21, 1991 | June 24, 1993 | |||
| 46 | Pierre Blais | June 25, 1993 | November 3, 1993 | Campbell | ||
| 47 | Marcel Massé | November 4, 1993 | January 24, 1996 | Chrétien | ||
| 48 | Stéphane Dion | January 25, 1996 | December 11, 2003 | |||
| 49 | Denis Coderre | December 12, 2003 | July 19, 2004 | Martin | ||
| 50 | Lucienne Robillard | July 20, 2004 | February 5, 2006 | |||
| 51 | Michael Chong | February 6, 2006 | November 27, 2006 | Harper | ||
| 52 | Peter Van Loan | November 27, 2006 | January 3, 2007 | |||
| 53 | Rona Ambrose | January 4, 2007 | October 30, 2008 | |||
| 54 | Josée Verner | October 30, 2008 | May 18, 2011 | |||
| 55 | Peter Penashue | May 18, 2011 | March 14, 2013 | |||
| 56 | Denis Lebel | March 15, 2013 | November 3, 2015 | |||
| 57 | Maryam Monsef[6][7] | November 4, 2015 | January 10, 2017 | J. Trudeau | ||
| 58 | Karina Gould[8] | January 10, 2017 | July 18, 2018 | |||
| 59 | Dominic LeBlanc | July 18, 2018 | October 26, 2021 | |||
| 60 | Bill Blair | October 26, 2021 | present | |||
References[]
- ^ "The Canadian Parliamentary system - Our Procedure - House of Commons". www.ourcommons.ca. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
- ^ "Review of the Responsibilities and Accountabilities of Ministers and Senior Officials" (PDF).
- ^ "Constitutional Duties". The Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
- ^ "House of Commons Procedure and Practice - 1. Parliamentary Institutions - Canadian Parliamentary Institutions". www.ourcommons.ca. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
- ^ "Indemnities, Salaries and Allowances". Library of Parliament. April 11, 2018. Archived from the original on June 1, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
- ^ Tim Naumetz (November 9, 2015). "Youngest Cabinet minister Monsef also President of Queen's Privy Council". The Hill Times.
The Privy Council Office confirmed in response to questions from The Hill Times that Ms. Monsef had been designated as President of the Queen’s Privy Council, but as of late Monday had not confirmed whether she was sworn into the office or exactly when she will be.
- ^ Parliament of Canada biography: Monsef is subsequently listed as having assumed the office on November 4, 2015.
- ^ "ParlInfo Has Moved".
External links[]
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