Minister of Environment and Climate Change | |
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Ministre de l'Environnement et du Changement climatique | |
Environment and Climate Change Canada | |
Style | The Honourable |
Member of | |
Reports to | |
Appointer | Monarch (represented by the governor general); [3] on the advice of the prime minister [4] |
Term length | At His Majesty's pleasure |
Inaugural holder | Jack Davis |
Formation | 11 June 1971 |
Salary | CA$269,800 (2019) [5] |
Website | www.ec.gc.ca |
The minister of environment and climate change (French : ministre de l'environnement et du changement climatique) is a minister of the Crown in the Cabinet of Canada. The portfolio is responsible for the Environment and Climate Change Canada, as well as a number of other federal organizations including Parks Canada, and the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada. [6]
Steven Guilbeault is the current minister of environment and climate change. He was appointed to the role on October 26, 2021. [7]
The position was called the minister of the environment until 2015, when the position was given its current name upon the creation of Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, the 29th Canadian ministry.
Key:
No. | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | Ministry | Refs. | |
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Minister of Environment Minister of Fisheries | |||||||
1 | Jack Davis | June 11, 1971 | August 7, 1974 | Liberal | 20 (P. E. Trudeau) | [8] [9] | |
2 | Jeanne Sauvé | August 8, 1974 | December 4, 1975 | Liberal | [9] [10] | ||
– | Roméo LeBlanc (Acting) | December 5, 1975 | January 21, 1976 | Liberal | [9] [11] | ||
3 | Jean Marchand | January 22, 1976 | June 30, 1976 | Liberal | [9] [12] | ||
– | Roméo LeBlanc (Acting) | July 1, 1976 | September 13, 1976 | Liberal | [9] [11] | ||
Minister of Fisheries and the Environment | |||||||
4 | Roméo LeBlanc | September 14, 1976 | April 1, 1979 | Liberal | 20 (P. E. Trudeau) | [9] [11] | |
Minister of the Environment | |||||||
5 | Leonard Marchand | April 2, 1979 | June 3, 1979 | Liberal | 20 (P. E. Trudeau) | [9] [13] | |
6 | John Allen Fraser | June 4, 1979 | March 2, 1980 | Progressive Conservative | 21 (Clark) | [14] [15] | |
7 | John Roberts | March 3, 1980 | August 11, 1983 | Liberal | 22 (P. E. Trudeau) | [16] [17] | |
8 | Charles Caccia | August 12, 1983 | June 29, 1984 | Liberal | [17] [18] | ||
June 30, 1984 | September 16, 1984 | 23 (Turner) | [18] [19] | ||||
9 | Suzanne Blais-Grenier | September 17, 1984 | August 19, 1985 | Progressive Conservative | 24 (Mulroney) | [20] [21] | |
10 | Thomas McMillan | August 20, 1985 | December 7, 1988 | Progressive Conservative | [21] [22] | ||
11 | Lucien Bouchard | December 8, 1988 (Acting until Jan.30, 1989) | May 21, 1990 | Progressive Conservative | [21] [23] | ||
– | Frank Oberle (Acting) | May 22, 1990 | May 22, 1990 | Progressive Conservative | [21] [24] | ||
12 | Robert de Cotret | May 23, 1990 (Acting until Sep.20) | April 20, 1991 | Progressive Conservative | [21] [25] | ||
13 | Jean Charest | April 21, 1991 | June 24, 1993 | Progressive Conservative | [21] [26] | ||
14 | Pierre H. Vincent | June 25, 1993 | November 3, 1993 | Progressive Conservative | 25 (Campbell) | [27] [28] | |
15 | Sheila Copps | November 4, 1993 | January 24, 1996 | Liberal | 26 (Chrétien) | [29] [30] | |
16 | Sergio Marchi | January 25, 1996 | June 10, 1997 | Liberal | [30] [31] | ||
17 | Christine Stewart | June 11, 1997 | August 2, 1999 | Liberal | [30] [32] | ||
18 | David Anderson | August 3, 1999 | December 11, 2003 | Liberal | [30] [33] | ||
December 12, 2003 | July 19, 2004 | 27 (Martin) | [33] [34] | ||||
19 | Stéphane Dion | July 20, 2004 | February 5, 2006 | Liberal | [34] [35] | ||
20 | Rona Ambrose | February 6, 2006 | January 3, 2007 | Conservative | 28 (Harper) | [36] [37] | |
21 | John Baird | January 4, 2007 | October 29, 2008 | Conservative | [37] [38] | ||
22 | Jim Prentice | October 30, 2008 | November 5, 2010 | Conservative | [37] [39] | ||
23 | John Baird | November 7, 2010 | January 3, 2011 | Conservative | [37] [40] | ||
24 | Peter Kent | January 4, 2011 | July 15, 2013 | Conservative | [37] [41] | ||
25 | Leona Aglukkaq | July 15, 2013 | November 4, 2015 | Conservative | |||
Minister of Environment and Climate Change | |||||||
26 | Catherine McKenna | November 4, 2015 | November 20, 2019 | Liberal | 29 (J. Trudeau) | [42] | |
27 | Jonathan Wilkinson | November 20, 2019 | October 26, 2021 | Liberal | |||
28 | Steven Guilbeault | October 26, 2021 | Incumbent | Liberal |
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