Saturday, April 16, 2011

Ministers of State

As I was determining what was the scope of the federal government, their constitutional mandate is shown on the federal tab, I came upon a number of ministers that were called Ministers of State.  I had never heard the term Minister of State used in Canada before, let alone there to be mulitiple ministers of state.  After a quick google search I came to find out that the more common term for ministers of state was junior ministers. 

So there you have it, a junior minister is really a minister of state with a specific portfolio.  Their job is to assist the actual minister over that portfolio.

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