28th Canadian Ministry

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Governor General Michaëlle Jean and her Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, with the Twenty-Eighth Ministry after the swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall (February 6, 2006).
Governor General Michaëlle Jean and her Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, with the Twenty-Eighth Ministry after the swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall (February 6, 2006).
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The Twenty-Eighth Canadian Ministry is the combined Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Secretaries of State that have governed Canada since the beginning of the 39th Parliament. Its members were sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada on February 6, 2006, exactly two weeks after the 2006 election, and nine weeks and six days after the end of the 38th Canadian Parliament. Smaller than usual, the Conservative Cabinet currently consists of 27 members, including the prime minister. On January 4, 2007 five Secretaries of State were added to the ministry who are not members of the Cabinet itself.

Only 24 of the original members were elected to serve as Conservative Members of Parliament (MP) in 2006; Senator Marjory LeBreton is the Leader of the Government in the Senate. The other two choices that raised some controversy were David Emerson, who was elected as a Liberal, but crossed the floor between the election and the swearing-in of the Cabinet to serve as Minister of International Trade, of the Pacific Gateway, and of the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics, and Michael Fortier, a Montreal-area member of the former Progressive Conservatives and co-chair of the Conservatives' 2006 federal campaign, who was not elected as an MP but was named a Senator on February 27, 2006, and is serving as Minister of Public Works and Government Services.

The reason given for the appointments of Emerson and Fortier was that the Conservatives were completely shut out of the three most populous cities in Canada - Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. The Liberals were the only party to win seats in all three, with the Bloc represented in Montreal and the NDP in Toronto and Vancouver. Emerson's riding is Vancouver Kingsway, and Fortier lives and works in the Montreal-Laval area, and ran for the riding of Laval West for the Tories in 2000. The only major city this leaves out is Toronto, although the Conservatives have indicated that they consider that enough Cabinet Ministers are from the Greater Toronto Area, including Jim Flaherty and Bev Oda, to adequately represent the city in Cabinet.

Contrary to precedent, Harper did not name a Deputy Prime Minister, confounding rumours that Quebec lieutenant Lawrence Cannon or Conservative deputy leader Peter MacKay might be awarded the honorary post. Harper's explanation was that, instead, any replacement Prime Minister would be named as required and this assignment could be conferred upon different ministers.

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[edit] List of Ministers

Note: This is in Order of Precedence, which is established by the chronological order of appointment to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, then in order of election or appointment to parliament if for ministers who joined the Privy Council on the same day.

[edit] Members of the Ministry outside of the Cabinet

  • Jay Hill
    • Chief Government Whip and Secretary of State January 4, 2007 - present
  • Jason Kenney
    • Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity January 4, 2007 - present
  • Helena Guergis
    • Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Trade January 4, 2007 - present
    • Secretary of State for Sport January 4, 2007 - present
  • Christian Paradis
    • Secretary of State for Agriculture January 4, 2007 - present
  • Diane Ablonczy
    • Secretary of State for Small Business and Tourism August 14, 2007 - present

[edit] Provincial Breakdown

Cabinet Ministers

11
6
5
4
2
1
1
1
1

Conservative Members of Parliament

40
10
18
28
8
12
3
3
3

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27th Canadian Ministry		 Canadian Ministries
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