A Cabinet Secretary is usually a senior official who provides services and advice to a Cabinet of Ministers as part of the Cabinet Office. In many countries, the position can have considerably wider functions and powers, including general responsibility for the entire civil service.
The Privy Council Office is the secretariat of the federal cabinet of Canada, which is a committee of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, and provides non-partisan advice and support to the Canadian ministry, as well as leadership, coordination, and support to the departments and agencies of government.
The following list outlines the structure of the Government of Canada.
The Clerk of the Privy Council is the senior civil servant in the Canadian government. The title and office is formally "Clerk of the Privy Council and the Secretary to the Cabinet".
Peter Michael Pitfield, was a former Canadian Senator and senior civil servant.
Jane Pitfieldc. 1954 is a former Toronto city councillor, representing one of the two Don Valley West wards. She ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Toronto in 2006.
William John Shannon Elliott,, known commonly as Bill Elliott, is a career civil servant with the Government of Canada and served as the first civilian Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from July 16, 2007 to November 20, 2011. He served as the Special Representative of INTERPOL to the United Nations, as well as the Special Adviser to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness until his retirement in 2014.
The National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister is an associate secretary in the Privy Council Office (PCO) and is responsible for advising the Prime Minister of Canada on security and intelligence matters. The person in this role is supported by the Security and Intelligence Secretariat and the Intelligence Assessment Staff.
James Judd is a Canadian retired diplomat and senior civil servant. He served as the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). He was appointed to the position by Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin on November 29, 2004 and retired from the position on June 27, 2009, before the end of his term. He was succeeded by Richard Fadden, the former Deputy Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
The Office of the Prime Minister, abbreviated as PMO, is located in the Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council building, facing Parliament Hill, in Ottawa. It is a wholly partisan organization made up of political staff. It exists to support the prime minister in a wide variety of ways, including the provision of policy advice, information gathering, communications, planning, and strategizing, and is headed by the principal secretary, the chief of staff, or another key advisor who has the duty of managing, administrating and co-ordinating the activities of the PMO.
Kevin G. Lynch is a Canadian economist and former Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet, Canada's most senior civil servant.
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) is an Australian Government public service central department of state with broad ranging responsibilities, primary of which is for intergovernmental and whole of government policy coordination and assisting the Prime Minister of Australia in managing the Cabinet of Australia. The PM&C was established in 1971 and traces its origins back to the Prime Minister's Department established in 1911.
The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada is the national financial intelligence agency of Canada. FINTRAC was established in 2000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act to facilitate detection and investigation of money laundering, FINTRAC's mandate was expanded in December 2001 following amendments to the Proceeds of Crime Act to also disclose financial intelligence to other Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies with respect to suspected terrorist financing. FINTRAC's mandate was further expanded in 2006 under Bill C-25 to enhance the client identification, record-keeping and reporting measures, established a registration regime for money services businesses and foreign exchange dealers, and created new offences for not registering.
Peter Michael Boehm is a Canadian Senator, former diplomat and deputy minister. He was appointed to the Senate of Canada in October 2018. Boehm was ambassador of Canada to Germany from 2008 to 2012. He was Associate and then Senior Associate Deputy Minister at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada from 2012 to 2016. He became Deputy Minister of International Development in March 2016, and was appointed Deputy Minister for the upcoming G7 Summit effective July 31, 2017. He also continued as the Canadian "Sherpa" or Personal Representative of the Prime Minister for the G7 Summits, as well as the Nuclear Security Summit.
Richard Brian Marcel Fadden, OC is a Canadian former civil servant who was the National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada and an Associate Secretary to the Cabinet. He retired from that position on March 31, 2016. He had previously served as the Deputy Minister of National Defence from 2013 to 2015. From 2009 to 2013, he was Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). He was previously the Deputy Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada from 2006 to 2009.
Janice Charette is a Canadian public servant and the current Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. She previously served as the Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet.
Michael Wernick is a retired Canadian public servant (1981-2019) who served as the 23rd Clerk of the Privy Council of Canada from 2016 to 2019. Wernick was previously the deputy minister for the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development from May 2006 to July 11, 2014. Before being the clerk for the Privy Council office, Wernick was the deputy clerk under predecessor Janice Charette. He has held several other positions in the Privy Council office and as Associate Deputy Minister for the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Marie-Lucie Morin is a Canadian public official, lawyer, and former diplomat and a former Committee member of the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency of Canada, and was also the same for its predecessor the Security Intelligence Review Committee from 2015, till the latter was superseded by the former in 2019. As such, she is also a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and entitled to be styled as The Honourable. She is on the board of directors of AGT Food and Ingredients and Stantec since 2016.
Greta Bossenmaier is a now-retired Canadian civil servant.
Ian D. Shugart is a Canadian public servant, serving as the 24th and current Clerk of the Privy Council of Canada. Before becoming clerk in 2019, he served as the deputy minister of Foreign Affairs.
