Post: | Minister |
Insigniasize: | 200px |
Incumbent: | Harjit Sajjan |
Incumbentsince: | July 26, 2023 |
Department: | Public Safety Canada |
Style: | The Honourable |
Appointer: | Monarch (represented by the governor general);[1] |
Appointer Qualified: | on the advice of the prime minister[2] |
Termlength: | genderp=~}}}} Majesty's pleasure |
Formation: | 26 October 2021 |
Body: | Emergency Preparedness |
The minister of emergency preparedness is a minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet. The officeholder is one of two ministers (the other being the minister of public safety) responsible for administering the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness.
The department was previously administered by a single minister, styled Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. The role was split by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a Cabinet shuffle following the 2021 federal election.[3]
Key:
No. | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | Ministry | |
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Minister of Emergency Preparedness | ||||||
1 | Bill Blair | October 26, 2021 | July 26, 2023 | Liberal | 29 (J. Trudeau) | |
2 | Harjit Sajjan | July 26, 2023 | Incumbent | Liberal | 29 (J. Trudeau) | |