Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada use the title The Honourable if they are ordinary members. Prime Ministers, Governors General and Chief Justices automatically are given the title The Right Honourable. While Governors General have the right to the title Right Honourable upon being sworn into office they are not inducted into the Privy Council until the end of their term unless they were previously members of the council by virtue of another office. Other eminent individuals such as prominent former Cabinet ministers are sometimes also given the title Right Honourable. Leaders of opposition parties and provincial premiers are not automatically inducted into the Privy Council. Opposition leaders are brought in from time to time either to commemorate a special event such as the Canadian Centennial in 1967, the patriation of the Constitution or, in order to allow them to be advised on sensitive issues of national security under the Security of Information Act. Paul Martin inaugurated a practice of inducting parliamentary secretaries into the Privy Council but this has not been continued by his successors.
Current members of the King's Privy Council for Canada (year sworn in)
Former governors general
Current and former prime ministers
Current and former Chief Justices of Canada
Current and former Cabinet ministers (by prime minister at induction)
Pierre Trudeau
Joe Clark
Pierre Trudeau (second ministry)
John Turner
Brian Mulroney
Kim Campbell
Jean Chrétien
Paul Martin
Stephen Harper
Justin Trudeau
(all those listed joined the Privy Council as Cabinet ministers unless otherwise indicated)
Other parliamentarians (not otherwise listed above)
Members of Parliament appointed by nature of being parliamentary secretaries (appointed 2003–2005, only period where all parliamentary secretaries were sworn into Privy Council)
Current and former provincial premiers (not otherwise listed above)
Former Clerks of the Privy Council
Former members of the Security Intelligence Review Committee (not otherwise listed above)
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act established the Security Intelligence Review Committee, and required members to be named from members of the King's Privy Council who were not members of the Senate or House of Commons at the time of their appointment. As such, appointees, if not already members of the Privy Council, were sworn in prior to being named to the committee. In 2019, the SIRC was replaced by the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency.
Other prominent Canadians
While traditionally appointment to the Order of Canada has been utilised to recognize prominent Canadians, Brian Mulroney appointed 18 Canadians to the Privy Council on Canada Day in 1992 in commemoration of Canada's 125th anniversary, and two more (W.O. Mitchell and Maurice Richard) later that year. Conrad Black, who was one of the 18 appointed, was expelled from the Privy Council in 2014 on the recommendation of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.[15]
Longest-serving current Privy Counsellors
This is a list of the longest-serving current members of the King's Privy Council for Canada.
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c Initially joined Privy Council as federal cabinet minister.
- ^ Initially joined Privy Council as federal Opposition Leader.
- ^ "Stephen Harper to officially resign as prime minister next week | CBC News".
- ^ Olivier resigned from the Privy Council in 1987 when he ran for the position of Mayor of Longueuil. He was reappointed to the Privy Council in 2004.
- ^ a b Also a former Speaker of the House of Commons
- ^ a b c d Initially joined Privy Council as Parliamentary Secretary.
- ^ Initially joined Privy Council as Deputy Government Whip.
- ^ a b Rodriguez and Holland joined the Privy Council as Chief Government Whip and were later appointed to ministerial roles.
- ^ Initially joined Privy Council as Chair of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians.
- ^ a b c d e f Sitting Member of Parliament at time of appointment.
- ^ Initially joined Privy Council while a parliamentary secretary.
- ^ a b Was not sworn into Privy Council while leader, but was appointed on a later date.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Initially joined Privy Council as member of the Security Intelligence Review Committee.
- ^ Former Member of Parliament at time of appointment.
- ^ "Conrad Black stripped of Order of Canada". CBC News. 31 January 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
References
- "Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada". Privy Council Office. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- "Parliamentarians sworn in as members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada (Current members only)". Parliament of Canada. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
External links
- [1] Official list of Privy Councillors.