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| Nickname | Cabinet of Ontario |
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| Formation | July 20, 1867 |
| Membership | |
| Charles III | |
Represented by | Edith Dumont, Lieutenant Governor |
Chair | Vic Fedeli, Chair of Cabinet |
| Staff | Government of Ontario |
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| Crown |
| Provincial legislature |
| Government |
| See also |
| Politics by province /territory |
The Executive Council of Ontario (French : Conseil des ministres de l'Ontario), often informally referred to as the Cabinet of Ontario (French: Cabinet de l'Ontario), is the cabinet of the Canadian province of Ontario. It comprises ministers of the provincial Crown, who are selected by the premier of Ontario (the first minister of the Crown) and appointed by the lieutenant governor. The activities of the Government of Ontario are directed by the Executive Council.
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The Executive Council is almost always made up of members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Though the lieutenant governor does not generally attend Cabinet meetings, directives issued by the Crown on the advice of the ministers are said to be ordered by the Lieutenant Governor-in-Council. Unless disqualified by law, Ministers are granted honorific prefix "The Honourable" and post-nominal “ECO” for life. The honorific applies to current and future ministers, as well as to former ministers who were alive in June 2025. [1]
The Cabinet is similar in structure and role to the federal Privy Council for Canada, though smaller in size, and, whereas the federal Cabinet is actually a committee of the Privy Council, the Executive Council of Ontario and Cabinet of Ontario are, for the most part, one and the same (past members of the Executive Council are appointed honorary members of the Executive Council, without a right to attend Cabinet meetings or having any other rights except the use of The Honourable before their name and the post-nominal ECO). [2]
