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 successor, Stephen Harper.

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

Royalty

• HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (1957)

Former governors general

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

Current and former prime ministers

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

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 Theodore Hellyer (1957) (currently the longest-serving member of the Privy Council)

John Diefenbaker

• The Right Honourable Martial Asselin (1963)

Lester Pearson

• The Honourable Allan MacEachen (1963)
• The Honourable Yvon Dupuis (1964)
• The Honourable Edgar John Benson (1964)

Pierre Trudeau

• The Honourable Donald Stovel Macdonald (1968)
• The Honourable Jean-Eudes Dubé (1968)
• The Honourable Otto Emil Lang (1968)
• The Right Honourable Herb Gray (1969)
• The Honourable Robert Douglas George Stanbury (1969)
• The Honourable Jean-Pierre Goyer (1970)
• The Honourable Alastair William Gillespie (1971)
• The Honourable Patrick Morgan Mahoney (1972)
• The Honourable Eugene Francis Whelan (1972)
• The Honourable William Warren Allmand (1972)
• The Honourable James Hugh Faulkner (1972)
• The Honourable André Ouellet (1972)
• The Honourable Marc Lalonde (1972)
• The Honourable J. Judd Buchanan (1974)
• The Honourable Pierre Juneau (1975)
• The Honourable Marcel Lessard (1975)
• The Honourable Leonard Stephen Marchand (1976)
• 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 J. Gilles Lamontagne (1978)
• The Honourable John Mercer Reid (1978)
• The Honourable Pierre De Bané (1978)

Joe Clark

• The Honourable Flora Isabel MacDonald (1979)
• The Honourable James Aloysius McGrath (1979)
• His Honour, the Honourable John Crosbie (1979)
• The Honourable David Samuel Horne MacDonald (1979)
• The Honourable Lincoln MacCauley Alexander (1979)
• The Right Honourable Don Mazankowski (1979)
• The Honourable Elmer MacIntosh MacKay (1979)
• The Honourable Arthur Jacob Epp (1979)
• The Honourable William H. Jarvis (1979)
• The Honourable Sinclair McKnight Stevens (1979)
• The Honourable John Wise (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 Robert Phillip Kaplan (1980)
• The Honourable James Sydney Clark Fleming (1980)
• The Honourable William H. Rompkey (1980)
• The Honourable Pierre Bussières (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)^[3]

John Turner

• The Honourable Herb Breau (1984)
• The Honourable Joseph Roger Remi Bujold (1984)
• The Honourable Jean Lapierre (1984)
• The Honourable Ralph Ferguson (1984)
• The Honourable Douglas Cockburn Frith (1984)

Brian Mulroney

• The Honourable Robert Carman Coates (1984)
• The Honourable Jack Burnett Murta (1984)
• The Honourable Harvie Andre (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 James Francis Kelleher (1984)
• The Honourable Marcel Masse (1984)
• The Honourable Barbara McDougall (1984)
• The Honourable Monique Vézina (1984)
• The Honourable Stewart Donald McInnes (1985)
• 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 James Stewart 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 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 Diane Marleau (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 Fred J. Mifflin (1996)
• 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 Alasdair Bernard Graham [1997)
• The Honourable Lyle Vanclief (1997)
• The Honourable Herb Dhaliwal (1997)
• The Honourable Andy Scott (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)^[4]
• The Honourable John Godfrey (2003)^[4]
• The Honourable Scott Brison (2003)^[4]
• 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 Marjory LeBreton (2006)
• The Honourable Gary Lunn (2006)
• The Honourable Peter MacKay (2006)
• The Honourable Loyola Hearn (2006)
• The Honourable Carol Skelton (2006)
• The Honourable Vic Toews (2006)
• The Honourable Rona Ambrose (2006)
• The Honourable Michael Chong (2006)
• The Honourable Diane Finley (2006)
• The Honourable Gordon O'Connor (2006)
• The Honourable Bev Oda (2006)
• The Honourable John Baird (2006)
• The Honourable Maxime Bernier (2006)
• The Honourable Tony Clement (2006)
• The Honourable Jim Flaherty (2006)
• The Honourable Peter Van Loan (2006)
• The Honourable Gerry Ritz (2007)
• The Honourable Christian Paradis (2007)
• The Honourable Jason Kenney (2007)
• The Honourable Diane Ablonczy (2007)
• The Honourable James Moore (2008)
• The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq (2008)
• The Honourable Lisa Raitt (2008)
• The Honourable Gail Shea (2008)
• The Honourable Rob Merrifield (2008)
• The Honourable Lynne Yelich (2008)
• The Honourable Steven Fletcher (2008)
• The Honourable Gary Goodyear (2008)
• The Honourable Denis Lebel (2008)
• The Honourable Keith Ashfield (2008)
• The Honourable Peter Kent (2008)
• The Honourable Rob Moore (2010)
• The Honourable Julian Fantino (2011)
• The Honourable Ted Menzies (2011)
• The Honourable Steven Blaney (2011)
• The Honourable Ed Fast (2011)
• The Honourable Bal Gosal (2011)
• The Honourable Joe Oliver (2011)
• The Honourable Peter Penashue (2011)
• The Honourable Tim Uppal (2011)
• The Honourable Alice Wong (2011)

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

Former chief government whips

• The Honourable Jay Hill (2006)
• The Honourable Karen Redman (2004)
• The Honourable Mauril Bélanger (2003)

Former Secretaries of State (appointed 1993–2003)

• The Honourable Christine Stewart (1993)
• 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 Yvon Charbonneau (2003)
• The Honourable Gurbax Malhi (2003)
• The Honourable John Harvard (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 the Opposition

• The Right Honourable John Turner (1965)^[1]
• The Right Honourable Jean Chrétien (1967)^[1]
• The Right Honourable Herb Gray (1969)^[1]
• The Right Honourable Joe Clark (1979)^[1]
• The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney (1984)
• The Honourable Lucien Bouchard (1988)^[1]
• The Honourable Bill Graham (2002)^[1]
• The Honourable Grant Hill (2004)
• The Right Honourable Stephen Harper (2004)
• The Honourable Michael Ignatieff (2010)

Other current and former party leaders

• The Honourable Ed Broadbent (1982)
• The Honourable Jean Charest (1986)^[1]
• The Honourable Audrey McLauglin (1991)
• The Honourable Bob Rae (1998)^[5]
• The Honourable Bill Blaikie (2004)^[6]

Current and former provincial premiers

• The Honourable Alexander B. Campbell (1967)
• The Honourable Gerald A. Regan (1980)^[1]
• The Honourable William Grenville Davis (1982)
• The Honourable Peter Lougheed (1982)
• The Honourable William Richards Bennett (1982)
• The Honourable John Buchanan (1982)
• The Honourable Brian Peckford (1982)
• The Honourable James Matthew Lee (1982)
• The Honourable Howard Pawley (1982)
• The Honourable Jean Charest (1986)^[1]
• The Honourable Lucien Bouchard (1988)^[1]
• The Honourable David Peterson (1992)
• The Honourable Brian Tobin (1993)^[1]
• The Honourable Bob Rae (1998)^[5]
• The Honourable Frank McKenna (1999)^[5]
• The Honourable Gary Filmon (2001)^[5]
• The Honourable Roy Romanow (2003)^[5]
• The Honourable Ujjal Dosanjh (2004)^[1]

Former Speakers of the Senate

• The Honourable Dan Hays (2007)

Former Speakers of the House of Commons

• The Honourable John Allen Fraser (1984)^[1]
• The Honourable John William Bosley (1986)

Other current and former parliamentarians

• The Honourable Marcel Prud'homme (1992)^[7]
• The Honourable Lorne Nystrom (1992)^[7]
• The Honourable John Reynolds (2006)^[8]
• The Honourable Jim Abbott (2007)^[7]
• The Honourable Leonard Gustafson (2009)^[9]
• The Honourable Rick Casson (2010)^[7]
• The Honourable Laurie Hawn (2010)^[7]

Former Clerks of the Privy Council

• The Honourable Robert Gordon Robertson (1982)
• The Honourable Peter Michael Pitfield (1984)
• The Honourable Gordon Francis Osbaldeston (1986)
• The Honourable Paul M. Tellier (1992)
• The Honourable Marcel Massé (1993)^[1]
• The Honourable Jocelyne Bourgon (1998)
• The Honourable Kevin G. Lynch (2009)

Current and former members of the Security Intelligence Review Committee

• The Honourable Saul Mark Cherniack (1984)
• The Honourable Paule Gauthier (1984)
• The Honourable J. J. Michel Robert (1991)
• The Honourable George W. Vari (1992)
• The Honourable James Andrew 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 Arthur Thomas Porter (2008)
• The Honourable Denis Losier (2008)
• The Honourable Frances Lankin (2009)
• The Honourable Philippe Couillard (2010)

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 David Alexander Colville (1992)
• The Honourable Paul Desmarais (1992)
• The Honourable John C. Polanyi (1992)
• The Honourable Maurice F. Strong (1992)
• The Honourable Richard Cashin (1992)
• The Honourable Antonine Maillet (1992)
• The Right Honourable The Lord Black of Crossharbour (1992)^[10]
• The Honourable Charles Rosner 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.

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r} Initially joined Privy Council as federal cabinet minister.
2. ^ ^{a b} Initially joined Privy Council as federal Opposition Leader.
3. ^ 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.
4. ^ ^{a b c} Initially joined Privy Council as Parliamentary Secretary.
5. ^ ^{a b c d e} Initially joined Privy Council as member of the Security Intelligence Review Committee.
6. ^ Parliamentary leader of the NDP as party leader Jack Layton did not have a seat in the House of Commons
7. ^ ^{a b c d e} Sitting Member of Parliament at time of appointment.
8. ^ Former Member of Parliament at time of appointment.
9. ^ Retired Senator at time of appointment.
10. ^ Was Canadian when appointed; gave up his citizenship in 2001 to enter the British House of Lords. Black's Right Honourable honorific is a result of his membership in that body.

See also

• List of members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada (1867–1911)
• List of members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada (1911–1948)
• List of members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada (1948–1968)
• List of members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada (1968–2011)

External links

• Current MPs who are members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada from the Parliament of Canada website.
• Members of the Privy Council since 1867 from the Privy Council Office website.