Cabinet committee (Canada)

This article is about cabinet committees in the Canadian Federal Government. For the equivalent in the Government of the United Kingdom, see United Kingdom cabinet committee.

The Government of Canada is directed by the Cabinet, a group of senior government ministers led by the Prime Minister. Cabinet committees are a set of committees in the ministry that are responsible for enacting their agenda.

When the Prime Minister is unable to attend Cabinet or the chair and any vice-chair of a Cabinet committee are absent, the next most senior minister in the ministerial ranking should take the chair. Committee membership is limited to ministers, but non-ministers may attend in some cases.

Current committees

Members of the following cabinet committees are from the 30th Canadian Ministry, headed by Mark Carney as prime minister since March 2025. ^[1]

Name	Chair	Vice-Chair	Terms of reference
National Security Council	Mark Carney, Prime Minister	Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs	To consider matters relating to national security, foreign policy, defence, trade strategy, international relations, development, resilience and resource security.
Treasury Board [2]	Shafqat Ali, President of the Treasury Board	François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Finance and National Revenue	To consider matters relating to government digitization, the public service, and public funds. Has alternate members.
Priorities, Planning and Strategy	Mark Carney, Prime Minister	Steven MacKinnon, Leader of the Government in the House of Commons of Canada	To consider matters relating to government strategy and legislation implementation.
Operations and Parliamentary Affairs	Dominic LeBlanc, Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs, One Canadian Economy, and President of the King's Privy Council for Canada	Steven MacKinnon, Leader of the Government in the House of Commons of Canada	To consider matters relating to parliamentary affairs and emerging issues.
Build Canada	Tim Hodgson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources	Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Transport and Internal Trade	To consider matters relating to housing, infrastructure, climate change, the economy, and Indigenous prosperity.
Government Transformation / Government Efficiency	François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Finance and National Revenue	Joël Lightbound, Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement	To consider matters relating to government delivery and the reduction of its expenditures.
Secure and Sovereign Canada	David McGuinty, Minister of National Defence	Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs	To consider matters relating to Canada-U.S. relations, Canadian sovereignty, and foreign affairs.
Quality of Life and Well-Being	Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture	Julie Dabrusin, Minister of Environment and Climate Change	To consider matters relating to safety, Indigenous relations, and community.
Incident Response Group	Mark Carney, Prime Minister		Only activated to respond to a national crisis or threat. Eleanor Olszewski, the Minister of Emergency Management and Community Resilience, serves as a "core member".

Former committees

• Cabinet Committee on Security, Public Health and Emergencies, established under the Martin government ^[3]

The following were included in the Trudeau government, between 2015 and 2025:

• Agenda, Results and Communication Cabinet Committee
• Canada in the World & Public Security Cabinet Committee
• Canada-United States Relations Cabinet Committee
• Defence Procurement Cabinet Committee
• Diversity and Inclusion Cabinet Committee
• Environment, Climate Change and Energy Cabinet Committee
• Growing the Middle Class Cabinet Committee
• Litigation Management Cabinet Committee

References

1. https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/cabinet-committee-mandate-and-membership
2. "Cabinet Committee Mandate and Membership" (PDF). Government of Canada. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 January 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
3. "GOVERNMENT OF CANADA RELEASES COMPREHENSIVE NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY". Government of Canada. 27 April 2004.