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 minsters are sometimes also given the title Right Honourable.

Contents

1 Current Members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada (year sworn in) 1.1 Royalty 1.2 Former Governors General 1.3 Current and Former Prime Ministers 1.4 Current and Former Chief Justices of Canada 1.5 Current and Former Cabinet Ministers (by ministry) 1.5.1 St. Laurent 1.5.2 Diefenbaker 1.5.3 Pearson 1.5.4 Trudeau 1.5.5 Clark 1.5.6 Trudeau 1.5.7 Turner 1.5.8 Mulroney 1.5.9 Campbell 1.5.10 Chrétien 1.5.11 Martin 1.6 Former Secretaries of State (appointed 1993-2003) 1.7 Current and Former parliamentary secretaries (appointed 2003-) 1.8 Current and Former Federal Opposition Leaders 1.9 Current and Former members of the Security Intelligence Review Committee 1.10 Former Provincial Premiers 1.11 Former Speakers of the Senate 1.12 Former Speakers of the House of Commons 1.13 Former Clerks of the Privy Council 1.14 Other Prominent Canadians 1.15 See also 1.16 External link

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 Roméo LeBlanc (1974)*
• The Right Honourable Edward Schreyer (1984)

Current and Former Prime Ministers

• The Right Honourable John Turner (1965)*
• The Right Honourable Jean Chrétien (1967)*
• The Right Honourable Joe Clark (1979)
• The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney (1984)
• The Right Honourable Kim Campbell (1989)*
• The Right Honourable Paul Martin (1993)*

Current and Former Chief Justices of Canada

• The Right Honourable Joseph Antonio Charles Lamer (1990)
• The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin (2000)

Current and Former Cabinet Ministers (by ministry)

St. Laurent

• The Honourable Paul Theodore Hellyer (1957)

Diefenbaker

• The Honourable Paul Martineau (1962)
• The Honourable J.H. Théogène Ricard (1963)
• The Right Honourable Martial Asselin (1963)

Pearson

• The Honourable Allan MacEachen (1963)
• The Honourable Yvon Dupuis (1964)
• The Honourable Edgar John Benson (1964)
• The Honourable Léo Alphonse Joseph Cadieux (1965)
• The Honourable Lawrence T. Pennell (1965)

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 Stanley Haidasz (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 Raymond Joseph Perrault (1974)
• The Honourable Barnett Jerome Danson (1974)
• The Honourable J. Judd Buchanan (1974)
• The Honourable Pierre Juneau (1975)
• The Honourable Marcel Lessard (1975)
• The Honourable Jack Sydney George Cullen (1975)
• The Honourable Leonard Stephen Marchand (1976)
• The Honourable John Roberts (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)

Clark

• The Honourable Flora Isabel MacDonald (1979)
• The Honourable James Aloysius McGrath (1979)
• The Honourable Erik Nielsen (1979)
• The Honourable Allan Frederick Lawrence (1979)
• The Honourable John Crosbie (1979)
• The Honourable David Samuel Horne MacDonald (1979)
• The Honourable Lincoln MacCauley Alexander (1979)
• The Honourable Roch LaSalle (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 William Heward Grafftey (1979)
• The Honourable Henry Perrin Beatty (1979)
• The Honourable J. Robert Howie (1979)
• The Honourable Michael Holcombe Wilson (1979)

Trudeau

• 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 Charles L. Caccia (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)****

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)

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 Gerald Stairs Merrithew (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)

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)

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)

Martin

• The Honourable Albina Guarnieri (2003)
• The Honourable Stan Kazmierczak Keyes (2003)
• The Honourable Joseph McGuire (2003)
• The Honourable Bob Speller (2003)
• The Honourable Reg Alcock (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 Mauril Bélanger (2003)
• The Honourable Carolyn Bennett (2003)
• The Honourable Jacques Saada (2003)
• The Honourable Joe Fontana (2003)**
• The Honourable John Godfrey (2003)**
• The Honourable Scott Brison (2003)**
• 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)

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

Former Secretaries of State (appointed 1993-2003)

• The Honourable Christine Stewart (1993)
• The Honourable Sheila Finestone (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)

Current and Former parliamentary secretaries (appointed 2003-)

• The Honourable Serge Marcil (2003)
• 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)

Current and Former Federal Opposition Leaders

• The Right Honourable John Turner (1965)*
• The Right Honourable Jean Chrétien (1967)*
• The Right Honourable Herb Gray (1969)*
• The Right Honourable Joe Clark (1979)*
• The Honourable Erik Nielsen (1979)*
• The Honourable Ed Broadbent (1982)
• The Honourable Jean Charest (1986)*
• The Honourable Lucien Bouchard (1988)*
• The Honourable Audrey McLauglin (1991)
• The Honourable Grant Hill (2004)
• The Honourable Bill Blaikie (2004)
• The Honourable Stephen Harper (2004)
• The Honourable Jack Layton (2005)

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 Edwin A. Goodman (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)

SIRC members are sworn is as they require access to documents available only to Privy Councillors under the Official Secrets Act.

Former Provincial Premiers

• The Honourable Dufferin Roblin (1967)
• The Honourable Alexander B. Campbell (1967)
• The Honourable Gerald A. Regan (1980)*
• The Honourable W. Bennett Campbell (1981)*
• The Honourable William Grenville Davis (1982)
• The Honourable Allan Blakeney (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 Sterling Lyon (1982)
• The Honourable Lucien Bouchard (1988)*
• The Honourable David Peterson (1992)
• The Honourable Brian Tobin (1993)*
• The Honourable Bob Rae (1998)***
• The Honourable Frank McKenna (1999)***
• The Honourable Gary Filmon (2001)***
• The Honourable Roy Romanow (2003)***
• The Honourable Ujjal Dosanjh (2004)*

Former Speakers of the Senate

• The Honourable Maurice Riel (1984)
• The Right Honourable Roméo LeBlanc (1974)*

Former Speakers of the House of Commons

• The Honourable James Alexander Jerome (1981)
• The Honourable Cyril Lloyd Francis (1984)
• The Honourable John Allen Fraser (1984)*
• The Honourable John William Bosley (1986)
• The Honourable Gilbert Parent (2001)

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)*
• The Honourable Jocelyne Bourgon (1998)

Other Prominent Canadians

• The Honourable Lloyd Roseville Crouse (1985)
• The Honourable Marcel Prud'homme (1992)
• The Honourable Lorne Nystrom (1992)
• 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 Honourable Rita Joe (1992)
• The Honourable Patricia Helen Rogers (1992)
• The Honourable Conrad Black (1992)
• 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.

(*)Initially joined Privy Council as federal cabinet minister.

(**)Initially joined Privy Council as Parliamentary Secretary.

(***)Initially joined Privy Council as member of the Security Intelligence Review Committee.

(****) 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.

See also

• Historical members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada (1867-1911)
• Historical members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada (1911-1948)
• Historical members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada (1948-1968)
• Historical members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada (1968-2003)

External link

• Current MPs who are members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada (http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/PrivyCouncil.asp?lang=E&Hist=N&param=H) from the Parliament of Canada website.
• Members of the Privy Council since 1867 (http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/default.asp?Language=E&Page=InformationResources&Sub=PrivyCouncilMembers&doc=PCMembers1867-1910_e.htm) from the Privy Council Office website.