List of current members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada

Members of the Queen'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 Queen's Privy Council for Canada (year sworn in)

Royalty

• HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (1957)
• HRH The Prince of Wales (2014)

Former governors general

• The Right Honourable Edward Schreyer (1984)
• The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson (2005)
• The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean (2012)

Current prime minister

• The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau (2015)^[1]

Former prime ministers

• The Right Honourable John Turner (1965)^[2]
• The Right Honourable Jean Chrétien (1967)^[2]
• The Right Honourable Joe Clark (1979)
• The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney (1984)^[1]
• The Right Honourable Kim Campbell (1989)^[2]
• The Right Honourable Paul Martin (1993)^[2]
• The Right Honourable Stephen Harper (2004)^[1][3]

Current and former Chief Justices of Canada

• The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin (2000)

Current and former Cabinet ministers (by prime minister at induction)

Louis St. Laurent

• The Honourable Paul Hellyer (1957) (currently the longest-serving member of the Privy Council)

Lester Pearson

• The Honourable Allan MacEachen (1963)
• The Honourable Yvon Dupuis (1964)

Pierre Trudeau

• The Honourable Donald Stovel Macdonald (1968)
• The Honourable Jean-Eudes Dubé (1968)
• The Honourable Otto Emil Lang (1968)
• The Honourable Robert Douglas George Stanbury (1969)
• The Honourable Alastair William Gillespie (1971)
• The Honourable William Warren Allmand (1972)
• The Honourable André Ouellet (1972)
• The Honourable Marc Lalonde (1972)
• The Honourable J. Judd Buchanan (1974)
• The Honourable Marcel Lessard (1975)
• The Honourable Monique Begin (1976)
• The Honourable Jean-Jacques Blais (1976)
• The Honourable Francis Fox (1976)
• The Honourable Anthony Chisholm Abbott (1976)
• The Honourable Iona Campagnolo (1976)
• The Honourable Norman Cafik (1977)
• The Honourable John Mercer Reid (1978)
• The Honourable Pierre De Bané (1978)

Joe Clark

• The Honourable James Aloysius McGrath (1979)
• The Honourable John Crosbie (1979)
• The Honourable David Samuel Horne MacDonald (1979)
• The Right Honourable Don Mazankowski (1979)
• The Honourable Elmer MacIntosh MacKay (1979)
• The Honourable Arthur Jacob Epp (1979)
• The Honourable Sinclair McKnight Stevens (1979)
• The Honourable Ronald George Atkey (1979)
• The Honourable David Crombie (1979)
• The Honourable Henry Perrin Beatty (1979)
• The Honourable J. Robert Howie (1979)
• The Honourable Michael Holcombe Wilson (1979)

Pierre Trudeau (second ministry)

• The Honourable James Sydney Clark Fleming (1980)
• The Honourable William H. Rompkey (1980)
• The Honourable Charles Lapointe (1980)
• The Honourable Edward C. Lumley (1980)
• The Honourable Yvon Pinard (1980)
• The Honourable Donald James Johnston (1980)
• The Honourable Lloyd Axworthy (1980)
• The Honourable Paul James Cosgrove (1980)
• The Honourable Judith A. Erola (1980)
• The Honourable Jacob Austin (1981)
• The Honourable Serge Joyal (1981)
• The Honourable David Collenette (1983)
• The Honourable Céline Hervieux-Payette (1983)
• The Honourable Roger Simmons (1983)
• The Honourable David Paul Smith (1983)
• The Honourable Roy MacLaren (1983)
• The Honourable Joseph Mario Jacques Olivier (1984)^[4]

John Turner

• The Honourable Herb Breau (1984)
• The Honourable Joseph Roger Remi Bujold (1984)
• The Honourable Ralph Ferguson (1984)

Brian Mulroney

• The Honourable Jack Burnett Murta (1984)
• The Honourable Otto Jelinek (1984)
• The Honourable Thomas Edward Siddon (1984)
• The Honourable Charles James Mayer (1984)
• The Honourable William Hunter McKnight (1984)
• The Honourable Walter Franklin McLean (1984)
• The Honourable Thomas Michael McMillan (1984)
• The Honourable Patricia Carney (1984)
• The Honourable André Bissonnette (1984)
• The Honourable Suzanne Blais-Grenier (1984)
• The Honourable Benoît Bouchard (1984)
• The Honourable Andrée Champagne (1984)
• The Honourable Michel Côté (1984)
• The Honourable Barbara McDougall (1984)
• The Honourable Monique Vézina (1984)
• The Honourable Frank Oberle, Sr. (1985)
• The Honourable Lowell Murray (1986)
• The Honourable Paul Wyatt Dick (1986)
• The Honourable Pierre H. Cadieux (1986)
• The Honourable Thomas Hockin (1986)
• The Honourable Monique Landry (1986)
• The Honourable Bernard Valcourt (1986)
• The Honourable Gerry Weiner (1986)
• The Honourable Douglas Grinslade Lewis (1987)
• The Honourable Pierre Blais (1987)
• The Honourable Gerry St. Germain (1988)
• The Honourable John Horton McDermid (1988)
• The Honourable Shirley Martin (1988)
• The Honourable Mary Collins (1989)
• The Honourable Alan Redway (1989)
• The Honourable William Charles Winegard (1989)
• The Honourable Gilles Loiselle (1989)
• The Honourable Marcel Danis (1990)
• The Honourable Pauline Browes (1991)
• The Honourable Pierre H. Vincent (1993)

Kim Campbell

• The Honourable Jim Edwards (1993)
• The Honourable Robert Douglas Nicholson (1993)
• The Honourable Barbara Jane Sparrow (1993)
• The Honourable Peter McCreath (1993)
• The Honourable Ian Angus Ross Reid (1993)
• The Honourable Larry Schneider (1993)
• The Honourable Garth Turner (1993)

Jean Chrétien

• The Honourable David Anderson (1993)
• The Honourable Ralph Goodale (1993)
• The Honourable David Dingwall (1993)
• The Honourable Ron Irwin (1993)
• The Honourable Brian Tobin (1993)
• The Honourable Joyce Fairbairn (1993)
• The Honourable Sheila Copps (1993)
• The Honourable Sergio Marchi (1993)
• The Honourable John Manley (1993)
• The Honourable Douglas Young (1993)
• The Honourable Michel Dupuy (1993)
• The Honourable Art Eggleton (1993)
• The Honourable Marcel Massé (1993)
• The Honourable Anne McLellan (1993)
• The Honourable Allan Rock (1993)
• The Honourable Ethel Blondin-Andrew (1993)
• The Honourable Lawrence MacAulay (1993)
• The Honourable Raymond Chan (1993)
• The Honourable Alfonso Gagliano (1994)
• The Honourable Lucienne Robillard (1995)
• The Honourable Jane Stewart (1996)
• The Honourable Stéphane Dion (1996)
• The Honourable Pierre Pettigrew (1996)
• The Honourable Martin Cauchon (1996)
• The Honourable Don Boudria (1996)
• The Honourable Lyle Vanclief (1997)
• The Honourable Herb Dhaliwal (1997)
• The Honourable Jim Peterson (1997)
• The Honourable Andy Mitchell (1997)
• The Honourable Claudette Bradshaw (1998)
• The Honourable George Baker (1999)
• The Honourable Robert Daniel Nault (1999)
• The Honourable Maria Minna (1999)
• The Honourable Elinor Caplan (1999)
• The Honourable Denis Coderre (1999)
• The Honourable Bernard Boudreau (1999)
• The Honourable Sharon Carstairs (2001)
• The Honourable Robert Thibault (2001)
• The Honourable Rey Pagtakhan (2001)
• The Honourable Susan Whelan (2002)
• The Honourable Gar Knutson (2002)
• The Honourable Denis Paradis (2002)
• The Honourable John McCallum (2002)
• The Honourable Stephen Owen (2002)
• The Honourable Bill Graham (2002)
• The Honourable Gerry Byrne (2002)
• The Honourable Jean Augustine (2002)
• The Honourable Wayne Easter (2002)

Paul Martin

• The Honourable Albina Guarnieri (2003)
• The Honourable Stan Kazmierczak Keyes (2003)
• The Honourable Joseph McGuire (2003)
• The Honourable Bob Speller (2003)
• The Honourable Geoff Regan (2003)
• The Honourable Tony Valeri (2003)
• The Honourable Aileen Carroll (2003)
• The Honourable David Pratt (2003)
• The Honourable Irwin Cotler (2003)
• The Honourable Judy Sgro (2003)
• The Honourable Hélène Chalifour Scherrer (2003)
• The Honourable John Efford (2003)
• The Honourable Liza Frulla (2003)
• The Honourable Joe Comuzzi (2003)
• The Honourable Joe Volpe (2003)
• The Honourable Carolyn Bennett (2003)
• The Honourable Jacques Saada (2003)
• The Honourable Joe Fontana (2003)^[5]
• The Honourable John Godfrey (2003)^[5]
• The Honourable Scott Brison (2003)^[5]
• The Honourable Ujjal Dosanjh (2004)
• The Honourable Ken Dryden (2004)
• The Honourable David Emerson (2004)
• The Honourable Tony Ianno (2004)
• The Honourable Belinda Stronach (2005)

Stephen Harper

• The Honourable Jean-Pierre Blackburn (2006)
• The Honourable Gregory Francis Thompson (2006)
• The Honourable Marjory LeBreton (2006)
• The Honourable Monte Solberg (2006)
• The Honourable Chuck Strahl (2006)
• The Honourable Gary Lunn (2006)
• The Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay (2006)
• The Honourable Loyola Hearn (2006)
• The Honourable Stockwell Day (2006)
• The Honourable Carol Skelton (2006)
• The Honourable Vic Toews (2006)
• The Honourable Rona Ambrose (2006)
• The Honourable Michael D. Chong (2006)
• The Honourable Diane Finley (2006)
• The Honourable Gordon O'Connor (2006)
• The Honourable Beverley J. Oda (2006)
• The Honourable John Baird (2006)
• The Honourable Maxime Bernier (2006)
• The Honourable Lawrence Cannon (2006)
• The Honourable Tony Clement (2006)
• The Honourable Josée Verner (2006)
• The Honourable Michael Fortier (2006)
• The Honourable John Reynolds (2006)
• The Honourable Peter Van Loan (2006)
• The Honourable Jason Kenney (2007)
• The Honourable Gerry Ritz (2007)
• The Honourable Helena Guergis (2007)
• The Honourable Christian Paradis (2007)
• The Honourable Diane Ablonczy (2007)
• The Honourable James Moore (2008)
• The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq (2008)
• The Honourable Keith Ashfield (2008)
• The Honourable Steven John Fletcher (2008)
• The Honourable Gary Goodyear (2008)
• The Honourable Peter Kent (2008)
• The Honourable Denis Lebel (2008)
• The Honourable Rob Merrifield (2008)
• The Honourable Lisa Raitt (2008)
• The Honourable Gail Shea (2008)
• The Honourable Lynne Yelich (2008)
• The Honourable Rob Moore (2010)
• The Honourable John Duncan (2010)
• The Honourable Julian Fantino (2011)
• The Honourable Ted Menzies (2011)
• The Honourable Steven Blaney (2011)
• The Honourable Edward Fast (2011)
• The Honourable Joe Oliver (2011)
• The Honourable Peter Penashue (2011)
• The Honourable Tim Uppal (2011)
• The Honourable Alice Wong (2011)
• The Honourable Bal Gosal (2011)
• The Honourable Kerry-Lynne D. Findlay (2013)
• The Honourable Shelly Glover (2013)
• The Honourable Chris Alexander (2013)
• The Honourable Khristinn Kellie Leitch (2013)
• The Honourable Kevin Sorenson (2013)
• The Honourable Pierre Poilievre (2013)
• The Honourable Candice Bergen (2013)
• The Honourable Greg Rickford (2013)
• The Honourable Michelle Rempel (2013)
• The Honourable Ed Holder (2014)
• The Honourable Erin O'Toole (2015)

Justin Trudeau

• The Honourable William Francis Morneau (2015)
• The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould (2015)
• The Honourable Judy M. Foote (2015)
• The Honourable Chrystia Freeland (2015)
• The Honourable Jane Philpott (2015)
• The Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos (2015)
• The Honourable Marc Garneau (2015)
• The Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau (2015)
• The Honourable James Gordon Carr (2015)
• The Honourable Mélanie Joly (2015)
• The Honourable Diane Lebouthillier (2015)
• The Honourable Kent Hehr (2015)
• The Honourable Catherine McKenna (2015)
• The Honourable Harjit Singh Sajjan (2015)
• The Honourable MaryAnn Mihychuk (2015)
• The Honourable Amarjeet Sohi (2015)
• The Honourable Maryam Monsef (2015)
• The Honourable Carla Qualtrough (2015)
• The Honourable Hunter Tootoo (2015)
• The Honourable Kirsty Duncan (2015)
• The Honourable Patricia A. Hajdu (2015)
• The Honourable Bardish Chagger (2015)

(all those listed joined the Privy Council as Cabinet ministers unless otherwise indicated)

Current Government Representative in the Senate

• The Honourable V. Peter Harder (2016)

Current Chief Government Whip

• The Honourable Andrew Leslie (2016)

Current Deputy Government Whip

• The Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor (2016)

Former chief government whips

• The Honourable Jay Hill (2006)
• The Honourable Karen Redman (2004)

Former Secretaries of State (appointed 1993–2003)

• The Honourable Fernand Robichaud (1993)
• The Honourable Jon Gerrard (1993)
• The Honourable Douglas Peters (1993)
• The Honourable Hedy Fry (1996)
• The Honourable David Kilgour (1997)
• The Honourable Gilbert Normand (1997)
• The Honourable Maurizio Bevilacqua (2002)
• The Honourable Paul DeVillers (2002)
• The Honourable Claude Drouin (2002)
• The Honourable Steven W. Mahoney (2003)

Former parliamentary secretaries (appointed 2003–2005)

• The Honourable John McKay (2003)
• The Honourable Jerry Pickard (2003)
• The Honourable Gurbax Malhi (2003)
• The Honourable Larry Bagnell (2003)
• The Honourable Brenda Chamberlain (2003)
• The Honourable Walt Lastewka (2003)
• The Honourable Dan McTeague (2003)
• The Honourable Mark Eyking (2003)
• The Honourable Georges Farrah (2003)
• The Honourable Eleni Bakopanos (2003)
• The Honourable Paul Bonwick (2003)
• The Honourable Joseph Louis Jordan (2003)
• The Honourable Shawn Murphy (2003)
• The Honourable Jim Karygiannis (2003)
• The Honourable David Price (2003)
• The Honourable Roger Gallaway (2003)
• The Honourable Susan Barnes (2003)
• The Honourable André Harvey (2003)
• The Honourable Andrew Telegdi (2004)
• The Honourable Peter Adams (2004)
• The Honourable Roy Cullen (2004)
• The Honourable Marlene Jennings (2004)
• The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc (2004)
• The Honourable Judi Longfield (2004)
• The Honourable Paul Harold Macklin (2004)
• The Honourable Patricia Anne Torsney (2004)
• The Honourable Bryon Wilfert (2004)
• The Honourable Navdeep Singh Bains (2005)
• The Honourable Charles Hubbard (2005)

Current and former federal Leaders of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition

• The Right Honourable John Turner (1965)^[2]
• The Right Honourable Jean Chrétien (1967)^[2]
• The Right Honourable Joe Clark (1979)^[2]
• The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney (1984)
• The Honourable Lucien Bouchard (1988)^[2]
• The Honourable Stéphane Dion (1996)^[2]
• The Honourable Bill Graham (2002)^[2]
• The Honourable Grant Hill (2004)
• The Right Honourable Stephen Harper (2004)
• The Honourable Rona Ambrose (2006)
• The Honourable Michael Ignatieff (2010)
• The Honourable Thomas Mulcair (2012)
• The Honourable Preston Manning (2013)

Other current and former party leaders

• The Honourable Paul Hellyer (1957)^[6]
• The Honourable Sinclair McKnight Stevens (1979)^[7]
• The Honourable Ed Broadbent (1982)
• The Honourable Jean Charest (1986)^[2]
• The Honourable Audrey McLauglin (1991)
• The Honourable Bob Rae (1998)^[8]
• The Honourable Bill Blaikie (2004)^[9]

Current provincial premiers

• The Honourable Philippe Couillard (2010)^[8]

Former provincial premiers

• The Honourable Alexander B. Campbell (1967)
• The Honourable Gerald A. Regan (1980)^[2]
• The Honourable William Grenville Davis (1982)
• The Honourable John Buchanan (1982)
• The Honourable Brian Peckford (1982)
• The Honourable James Matthew Lee (1982)
• The Honourable Jean Charest (1986)^[2]
• The Honourable Lucien Bouchard (1988)^[2]
• The Honourable David Peterson (1992)
• The Honourable Brian Tobin (1993)^[2]
• The Honourable Bob Rae (1998)^[8]
• The Honourable Frank McKenna (1999)^[8]
• The Honourable Gary Filmon (2001)^[8]
• The Honourable Roy Romanow (2003)^[8]
• The Honourable Ujjal Dosanjh (2004)^[2]

Former Speakers of the Senate

• The Honourable Dan Hays (2007)
• The Honourable Noël Kinsella (2015)

Former Speakers of the House of Commons

• The Honourable John Allen Fraser (1979)^[2]
• The Honourable John Bosley (1986)
• The Honourable Peter Milliken (2012)

Other current and former parliamentarians

• The Honourable Marcel Prud'homme (1992)^[10]
• The Honourable Lorne Nystrom (1992)^[10]
• The Honourable John Reynolds (2006)^[11]
• The Honourable Jim Abbott (2007)^[10]
• The Honourable Leonard Gustafson (2009)^[12]
• The Honourable Rick Casson (2010)^[10]
• The Honourable Laurie Hawn (2010)^[10]
• The Honourable Ron Cannan (2012)^[10]
• The Honourable Mike Lake (2012)^[10]
• The Honourable Claude Carignan (2013)
• The Honourable Gerald Comeau (2013)
• The Honourable Deepak Obhrai (2013)^[10]

Former Clerks of the Privy Council

• The Honourable Michael Pitfield (1984)
• The Honourable Gordon Osbaldeston (1986)
• The Honourable Paul M. Tellier (1992)
• The Honourable Marcel Massé (1993)^[2]
• The Honourable Jocelyne Bourgon (1998)
• The Honourable Kevin G. Lynch (2009)
• The Honourable Wayne G. Wouters (2014)

Current and former members of the Security Intelligence Review Committee

• The Honourable Saul Cherniack (1984)
• The Honourable J. J. Michel Robert (1991)
• The Honourable Jim Grant (1996)
• The Honourable Bob Rae (1998)
• The Honourable Raymond Speaker (1999)
• The Honourable Frank McKenna (1999)
• The Honourable Gary Filmon (2001)
• The Honourable Baljit Singh Chadha (2003)
• The Honourable Roy Romanow (2003)
• The Honourable Aldéa Landry (2005)
• The Honourable Denis Losier (2008)
• The Honourable Frances Lankin (2009)
• The Honourable Philippe Couillard (2010)
• The Honourable Deborah Grey (2013)
• The Honourable L. Yves Fortier (2013)
• The Honourable Cyril Eugene McLean (2014)
• The Honourable Ian Carl Holloway (2015)
• The Honourable Marie-Lucie Morin (2015)

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act establishes the Security Intelligence Review Committee, and requires members to be named from current members of the Queen's Privy Council who are not members of the Senate or House of Commons. As such, appointees, if not already members of the Privy Council, are sworn in prior to being named to the Committee.

Other prominent Canadians

• The Honourable John C. Polanyi (1992)
• The Honourable Richard Cashin (1992)
• The Honourable Antonine Maillet (1992)
• The Honourable Charles Bronfman (1992)

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 (the late W.O. Mitchell and Maurice Richard) later that year. The appointments were somewhat controversial and have yet to be repeated. 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.^[13]

See also

• List of members of the Privy Council for Canada (1867–1911)
• List of members of the Privy Council for Canada (1911–1948)
• List of members of the Privy Council for Canada (1948–1968)
• List of members of the Privy Council for Canada (1968–2005)
• List of members of the Privy Council for Canada (2006–present)

Notes

1. 1 2 3 Initially joined Privy Council as federal Opposition Leader.
2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Initially joined Privy Council as federal cabinet minister.
3. ↑ http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stephen-harper-to-quit-nov-4-1.3294536
4. ↑ 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.
5. 1 2 3 Initially joined Privy Council as Parliamentary Secretary.
6. ↑ Initially joined Privy Council as Cabinet Minister in St. Laurent government. Later extraparliamentary leader of the Canadian Action Party.
7. ↑ Initially joined Privy Council as Cabinet Minister in Clark government. Later extraparliamentary leader of the Progressive Canadian Party.
8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Initially joined Privy Council as member of the Security Intelligence Review Committee.
9. ↑ Parliamentary leader of the NDP as party leader Jack Layton did not have a seat in the House of Commons
10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Sitting Member of Parliament at time of appointment.
11. ↑ Former Member of Parliament at time of appointment.
12. ↑ Retired Senator at time of appointment.
13. ↑ "Conrad Black stripped of Order of Canada". CBC News. January 31, 2014. Retrieved January 31, 2014. 

References

• "Current Chronological List of Members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada". Retrieved February 22, 2012. 
• "Parliamentarians sworn in as members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada (Current members only)". Parliament of Canada. Retrieved February 22, 2012.