Minister of Justice (Canada)

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Minister of Justice
Ministry
Federal
Incumbent: Rob Nicholson
Style:	The Honourable
Appointed by:	Michaëlle Jean as Governor General of Canada
First :	Sir John A. Macdonald
Formation:	July 1, 1867

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The Minister of Justice (French: Ministre de la Justice) is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for the Department of Justice and is also Attorney General of Canada.

This cabinet position is usually reserved for someone with formal legal training in both Common Law and Civil Law. This cabinet portfolio has been held by many individuals who went on to become Prime Minister including John Sparrow David Thompson, R.B. Bennett, Louis St Laurent, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, John Turner, Kim Campbell and Jean Chrétien. This is one of the few Canadian Ministries which had not been reorganized since its creation in 1867.

The current Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada is Rob Nicholson.hello

[edit] Ministers of Justice

1.	John A. Macdonald	July 1, 1867 - November 5, 1873	as PM
2.	Antoine Dorion	November 7, 1873 - May 31, 1874	Cabinet of Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie
*	Albert James Smith (Acting)	June 1, 1874 - July 7, 1874
3.	Télesphore Fournier	July 8, 1874 - May 18, 1875
4.	Edward Blake	May 19, 1875 - June 7, 1877
5.	T. A. R. Laflamme	June 8, 1877 - October 8, 1878
6.	James McDonald	October 17, 1878 - May 18, 1881	Cabinet of Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
7.	Alexander Campbell	May 20, 1881 - September 24, 1885
8.	John Sparrow David Thompson	September 26, 1885 - June 6, 1891
		June 16, 1891 - November 24, 1892	Cabinet of Prime Minister John Abbott
		December 5, 1892 - December 12, 1894	as PM
9.	Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper	December 21, 1894 - January 5, 1896	Cabinet of Prime Minister Mackenzie Bowell
*	Thomas Mayne Daly (Acting)	January 6, 1896 - January 14, 1896
10.	Arthur Rupert Dickey	January 15, 1896 - April 27, 1896
		May 1, 1896 - July 8, 1896	Cabinet of Prime Minister Charles Tupper
11.	Oliver Mowat	July 13, 1896 - November 17, 1897	Cabinet of Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier
12.	David Mills	November 18, 1897 - February 7, 1902
13.	Charles Fitzpatrick	February 11, 1902 - June 3, 1906
14.	Allen Aylesworth	June 4, 1906 - October 6, 1911
15.	Charles Doherty	October 10, 1911 - July 9, 1920	Cabinet of Prime Minister Robert Borden
		July 10, 1920 - September 20, 1921	under Prime Minister Arthur Meighen
16.	R. B. Bennett	October 4, 1921 - December 28, 1921
17.	Lomer Gouin	December 29, 1921 - January 3, 1924	Cabinet of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
*	Ernest Lapointe (Acting)	January 4, 1924 - January 29, 1924
18.	Ernest Lapointe	January 30, 1924 - June 28, 1926
*	Hugh Guthrie (Acting)	June 29, 1926 - July 12, 1926	Cabinet of Prime Minister Arthur Meighen
19.	Esioff-Léon Patenaude	July 13, 1926 - September 24, 1926
	Ernest Lapointe (2nd time)	September 25, 1926 - August 6, 1930	Cabinet of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
20.	Hugh Guthrie	August 7, 1930 - August 11, 1935	Cabinet of Prime Minister R. B. Bennett
	Esioff-Léon Patenaude (2nd time)	August 14, 1935 - October 22, 1935
21.	George Reginald Geary	August 14, 1935 - October 22, 1935
	Ernest Lapointe (3rd time)	October 23, 1935 - November 26, 1941	Cabinet of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
*	Joseph Enoil Michaud (Acting)	November 27, 1941 - December 9, 1941
22.	Louis Saint-Laurent	December 10, 1941 - December 9, 1946
23.	James Lorimer Ilsley	December 10, 1946 - June 30, 1948
*	Louis Saint-Laurent (Acting)	July 1, 1948 - September 9, 1948
	Louis Saint-Laurent (2nd time)	September 10, 1948 - November 14, 1948
24.	Stuart Sinclair Garson	November 15, 1948 - June 20, 1957	Cabinet of Prime Minister Louis Saint-Laurent
25.	E. Davie Fulton	June 21, 1957 - August 8, 1962	Cabinet of Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker
26.	Donald Fleming	August 9, 1962 - April 21, 1963
27.	Lionel Chevrier	April 22, 1963 - February 2, 1964	Cabinet of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson
28.	Guy Favreau	February 3, 1964 - June 29, 1965
*	George McIlraith (Acting)	June 30, 1965 - July 6, 1965
29.	Louis Cardin	July 7, 1965 - April 3, 1967
30.	Pierre Trudeau	April 4, 1967 - April 19, 1968
		April 20, 1968 - July 5, 1968	as Prime minister
31.	John Turner	July 6, 1968 - January 27, 1972	Cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
32.	Otto Lang	January 28, 1972 - September 25, 1975
33.	Ron Basford	September 26, 1975 - August 2, 1978
*	Otto Lang (Acting)	August 3, 1978 - August 8, 1978
	Otto Lang (2nd time)	August 9, 1978 - November 23, 1978
34.	Marc Lalonde	November 24, 1978 - June 3, 1979
35.	Jacques Flynn	June 4, 1979 - March 2, 1980	Cabinet of Prime Minister Joe Clark
36.	Jean Chrétien	March 3, 1980 - September 9, 1982	Cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
37.	Mark MacGuigan	September 10, 1982 - June 29, 1984
38.	Donald Johnston	June 30, 1984 - September 16, 1984	Cabinet of Prime Minister John Turner
39.	John Crosbie	September 17, 1984 - June 29, 1986	Cabinet of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
40.	Ray Hnatyshyn	June 30, 1986 - December 7, 1988
*	Joe Clark (Acting)	December 8, 1988 - January 29, 1989
41.	Doug Lewis	January 30, 1989 - February 22, 1990
42.	Kim Campbell	February 23, 1990 - January 3, 1993
43.	Pierre Blais	January 4, 1993 - June 24, 1993
		June 25, 1993 - November 3, 1993	Cabinet of Prime Minister Kim Campbell
44.	Allan Rock	November 4, 1993 - June 10, 1997	Cabinet of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
45.	Anne McLellan	June 11, 1997 - January 14, 2002
46.	Martin Cauchon	January 15, 2002 - December 11, 2003
47.	Irwin Cotler	December 12, 2003 - February 5, 2006	Cabinet of Prime Minister Paul Martin
48.	Vic Toews	February 6, 2006 - January 3, 2007	Cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper
49.	Rob Nicholson	January 4, 2007 – present

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