Minister of the Environment (Canada)

Minister of the Environment
Ministry
Federal
Incumbent Peter Kent PC, MP since 4 January 2011
Style	The Honourable
Appointed by	David Johnston as Governor General of Canada
First	Jack Davis
Formation	11 June 1971
Term length	At Her Majesty's pleasure
Website	www.ec.gc.ca

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The Minister of the Environment (French: Ministre de l'Environnement) is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for overseeing the federal government's environment department, Environment Canada. The Minister is also responsible for overseeing Parks Canada and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency.

Noted environment ministers of the past have included Jack Davis, Roméo LeBlanc, Jean Charest, Stéphane Dion, Sheila Copps and David Anderson

The current Minister of the Environment is Peter Kent.

Ministers

Key:

  Liberal Party of Canada

  Historical conservative parties: Liberal-Conservative, Conservative (historical), Unionist, National Liberal and Conservative, Progressive Conservative

  Conservative Party of Canada

Minister the Environment & Minister of Fisheries
No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Political party	Ministry	Refs.
1		Jack Davis	June 11, 1971	August 7, 1974	Liberal	20 (Trudeau)	[1][2]
2		Jeanne Sauvé	August 8, 1974	December 4, 1975	Liberal		[3][2]
–		Roméo LeBlanc (Acting)	December 5, 1975	January 21, 1976	Liberal		[4][2]
3		Jean Marchand	January 22, 1976	June 30, 1976	Liberal		[5][2]
–		Roméo LeBlanc (Acting)	July 1, 1976	September 13, 1976	Liberal		[4][2]
Minister of Fisheries and the Environment
No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Political party	Ministry	Refs.
1		Roméo LeBlanc	September 14, 1976	April 1, 1979	Liberal	20 (Trudeau)	[4][2]
Minister of the Environment
No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Political party	Ministry	Refs.
1		Leonard Marchand	April 2, 1979	June 3, 1979	Liberal	20 (Trudeau)	[6][2]
2		John Allen Fraser	June 4, 1979	March 2, 1980	Progressive Conservative	21 (Clark)	[7][8]
3		John Roberts	March 3, 1980	August 11, 1983	Liberal	22 (Trudeau)	[9][10]
4		Charles Caccia	August 12, 1983	June 29, 1984	Liberal		[11][10]
			June 30, 1984	September 16, 1984		23 (Turner)	[11][12]
5		Suzanne Blais-Grenier	September 17, 1984	August 19, 1985	Progressive Conservative	24 (Mulroney)	[13][14]
6		Thomas Michael McMillan	August 20, 1985	December 7, 1988	Progressive Conservative		[15][14]
7		Lucien Bouchard	December 8, 1988 (Acting until Jan.30, 1989)	May 21, 1990	Progressive Conservative		[16][14]
–		Frank Oberle (Acting)	May 22, 1990	May 22, 1990	Progressive Conservative		[17][14]
8		Robert de Cotret	May 23, 1990 (Acting until Sep.20)	April 20, 1991	Progressive Conservative		[18][14]
9		Jean Charest	April 21, 1991	June 24, 1993	Progressive Conservative		[19][14]
10		Pierre H. Vincent	June 25, 1993	November 3, 1993	Progressive Conservative	25 (Campbell)	[20][21]
11		Sheila Copps	November 4, 1993	January 24, 1996	Liberal	26 (Chrétien)	[22][23]
12		Sergio Marchi	January 25, 1996	June 10, 1997	Liberal		[24][23]
13		Christine Stewart	June 11, 1997	August 2, 1999	Liberal		[25][23]
14		David Anderson	August 3, 1999	December 11, 2003	Liberal		[26][23]
			December 12, 2003	July 19, 2004		27 (Martin)	[26][27]
15		Stéphane Dion	July 20, 2004	February 5, 2006	Liberal		[28][27]
16		Rona Ambrose	February 6, 2006	January 3, 2007	Conservative	28 (Harper)	[29][30]
17		John Baird	January 4, 2007	October 29, 2008	Conservative		[31][30]
18		Jim Prentice	October 30, 2008	November 5, 2010	Conservative		[32][30]
19		John Baird	November 7, 2010	January 3, 2011	Conservative		[33][30]
20		Peter Kent	January 4, 2011	Incumbent	Conservative		[34][30]

See also

• International list of ministers of the environment

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