- Minister of Justice
- Attorney General of Canada
- Minister of State (Agriculture)
- Minister of Veterans Affairs
- Leader of the Government in the Senate
- Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities
- Minister of National Defence
- Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway
- President of the Treasury Board
- Minister of Public Safety
- Minister of Public Works and Government Services
- Minister for Status of Women
- Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development
- Minister of International Cooperation
- Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
- Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Minister of Industry
- Minister of Finance
- Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
- President of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada
- Minister for La Francophonie
- Minister of International Trade
- Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food
- Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board
- Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism
- Minister of Natural Resources
- Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages
- Minister of Health
- Minister of Labour
- Minister of Fisheries and Oceans
- Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
- Minister of National Revenue
- Minister for the Atlantic Gateway
- Minister of the Environment
- Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
- Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians
- Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
- Minister of State (Sport)
- Minister of State
- Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas and Consular Affairs)
- Minister of State (Transport)
- Minister of State (Western Economic Diversification)
- Minister of State (Democratic Reform)
- Minister of State (Science and Technology) (Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario)
- Minister of State (Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec)
- Minister of State (Small Business and Tourism)
- Minister of State (Finance)
- Minister of State (Seniors)
This info was taken from http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainCabinetCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current on Mar 28, 2011.
Some ministers had more than one portfolio. One question that comes to mind when I first read the list is what is the a Minsiter of State and how are they different from other ministers.
- The Public Debt and Property
- The Regulation of Trade and Commerce.
- Unemployment insurance
- The raising of Money by any Mode or System of Taxation.
- The borrowing of Money on the Public Credit.
- Postal Service.
- The Census and Statistics.
- Militia, Military and Naval Service, and Defence.
- The fixing of and providing for the Salaries and Allowances of Civil and other Officers of the Government of Canada
- Beacons, Buoys, Lighthouses, and Sable Island
- Navigation and Shipping
- Quarantine and the Establishment and Maintenance of Marine Hospitals
- Sea Coast and Inland Fisheries
- Ferries between a Province and any British or Foreign Country or between Two Provinces
- Currency and Coinage
- Banking, Incorporation of Banks, and the Issue of Paper Money
- Savings Banks
- Weights and Measures
- Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes
- Interest
- Legal Tender
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency
- Patents of Invention and Discovery
- Copyrights
- Indians, and Lands reserved for the Indians
- Naturalization and Aliens
- Marriage and Divorce
- The Criminal Law, except the Constitution of Courts of Criminal Jurisdiction, but including the Procedure in Criminal Matters
- The Establishment, Maintenance, and Management of Penitentiaries.
- Such Classes of Subjects as are expressly excepted in the Enumeration of the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces.
Now according to the constitution as set in the Constitution Act 1867 (it was renamed to this in 1982) the following is the power of the federal governemnt:To me there seems to be a slight discrepency. This is not to mention all of the crown corporations and other adjuncts to the government that exist. Should we not get back to more of the basics of what we are to do and do them well and cost effectively? Our government continues to get larger regardless of what party is in power
