Orders In Council

PC Number: 2022-0024

Date: 2022-01-13

The Committee of the Privy Council, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, advises that

1. in the event that the Prime Minister is unable to perform the functions of his Office, the next Minister named, in order of priority, in the list of Ministers set out in Schedule A who is able to perform the functions of the Office of the Prime Minister is authorized to act for the Prime Minister;

2. in the event that a Minister named in Column II of an item of Schedule B is unable to perform the functions of his or her Office, the Minister named in Column III of the item is authorized to act for the Minister named in Column II in respect of the Office set out in Column I of that item;

3. in the event that both the Minister named in Column II of an item of Schedule B and the Minister named in Column III of the item are unable to perform the functions of the Office set out in Column I of that item, the Minister named in Column IV of the item is authorized to act for the Minister named in Column II of the item in respect of that Office;

4. in the event that all three of the Ministers named in Columns II to IV of an item of Schedule B are unable to perform the functions of the Office set out in Column I of the item, the following Ministers, in order of priority, are authorized to act for the Minister named in Column II of that item in respect of that Office:

(a) the Prime Minister,

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(b) in the event that the Prime Minister is unable to perform the functions of the Office, the next Minister named, in order of priority, in the list of Ministers set out in Schedule A who is able to perform the functions of that Office;

5. if an Office set out in Column I of an item of Schedule B is vacant, the Minister named in Column III of the item is authorized to act in the Office;

6. if an Office set out in Column I of an item of Schedule B is vacant and the Minister named in Column III of the item is unable to perform the functions of the Office, the Minister named in Column IV of that item is authorized to act in that Office;

7. if an Office set out in Column I of an item of Schedule B is vacant and both the Minister named in Column III and the Minister named in Column IV of the item are unable to perform the functions of the Office, the following Ministers, in order of priority, are authorized to act in that Office:

(a) the Prime Minister,

Sur recommandation du premier ministre, le Comité du Conseil privé déclare que :

1. dans le cas où le premier ministre est dans l’impossibilité d’exercer les fonctions de sa charge, est autorisé à exercer ces fonctions en son nom, le prochain ministre dont le nom figure dans l’ordre sur la liste prévue à l’annexe A, qui est en mesure de remplir ces fonctions;

2. dans le cas où le ministre dont le nom figure à la colonne II de l’annexe B, en regard de la charge mentionnée à la colonne I, est dans l’impossibilité d’exercer les fonctions de sa charge, le ministre dont le nom figure à la colonne III en regard de la même charge est autorisé à agir en son nom;

3. dans le cas où les ministres dont le nom figure aux colonnes II et III de l’annexe B, en regard de la charge mentionnée à la colonne I, sont dans l’impossibilité d’exercer les fonctions de cette charge, le ministre dont le nom figure à la colonne IV en regard de la même charge est autorisé à agir au nom du ministre nommé à la colonne II;

4. dans le cas où les ministres dont le nom figure aux colonnes II, III et IV de l’annexe B, en regard de la charge mentionnée à la colonne I, sont dans l’impossibilité d’exercer les fonctions de cette charge, sont autorisés, selon l’ordre de priorité ci-après, à exercer au nom du ministre nommé à la colonne II les fonctions de sa charge :

a) le premier ministre,

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b) dans le cas où le premier ministre est dans l’impossibilité d’exercer les fonctions de la charge, le prochain ministre dont le nom figure dans l’ordre sur la liste prévue à l’annexe A, qui est en mesure de remplir ces fonctions;

5. en cas de vacance d’une charge mentionnée à la colonne I de l’annexe B, le ministre dont le nom figure à la colonne III en regard de cette charge est autorisé à en exercer les fonctions;

6. en cas de vacance d’une charge mentionnée à la colonne I de l’annexe B, lorsque le ministre dont le nom figure à la colonne III en regard de cette charge est dans l’impossibilité d’en exercer les fonctions, le ministre dont le nom figure à la colonne IV en regard de la même charge est autorisé à exercer ces fonctions;

7. en cas de vacance d’une charge mentionnée à la colonne I de l’annexe B, lorsque les ministres dont le nom figure aux colonnes III et IV sont dans l’impossibilité d’en exercer les fonctions, sont autorisés, selon l’ordre de priorité ci-après, à exercer ces fonctions :

a) le premier ministre,

SCHEDULE A

LIST OF MINISTERS TO ACT FOR THE PRIME MINISTER

IN THE EVENT OF HIS BEING UNABLE TO PERFORM THE FUNCTIONS

OF HIS OFFICE

The Honourable / l’honorable Chrystia Freeland

The Honourable / l’honorable Lawrence MacAulay

The Honourable / l’honorable Carolyn Bennett

The Honourable / l’honorable Dominic LeBlanc

The Honourable / l’honorable Jean-Yves Duclos

The Honourable / l’honorable Marie-Claude Bibeau

The Honourable / l’honorable Mélanie Joly

The Honourable / l’honorable Diane Lebouthillier

The Honourable / l’honorable Harjit Singh Sajjan

The Honourable / l’honorable Carla Qualtrough

The Honourable / l’honorable Patricia Hajdu

The Honourable / l’honorable François-Philippe Champagne

The Honourable / l’honorable Karina Gould

The Honourable / l’honorable Ahmed D. Hussen

The Honourable / l’honorable Seamus O’Regan

The Honourable / l’honorable Pablo Rodriguez

The Honourable / l’honorable Ginette Petitpas Taylor

The Honourable / l’honorable William Sterling Blair

The Honourable / l’honorable Mary F.Y. Ng

The Honourable / l’honorable Filomena Tassi

The Honourable / l’honorable Jonathan Wilkinson

The Honourable / l’honorable David Lametti

The Honourable / l’honorable Joyce Catherine Murray

The Honourable / l’honorable Indira Anita Anand

The Honourable / l’honorable Mona Fortier

The Honourable / l’honorable Steven Guilbeault

The Honourable / l’honorable Marco E.L. Mendicino

The Honourable / l’honorable Marc Miller

The Honourable / l’honorable Daniel Vandal

The Honourable / l’honorable Omar Alghabra

The Honourable / l’honorable Randy Paul Andrew Boissonnault

The Honourable / l’honorable Sean Simon Andrew Fraser

The Honourable / l’honorable Mark Holland

The Honourable / l’honorable Gudrid Ida Hutchings

The Honourable / l’honorable Marci Ien

The Honourable / l’honorable Helena Jaczek

The Honourable / l’honorable Kamal Khera

The Honourable / l’honorable Pascale St-Onge

SCHEDULE B

ACTING MINISTERS

	Column I OFFICE	Column II NAME	Column III ACTING MINISTER	Column IV SECOND ACTING MINISTER
1.	Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food	M.-C. Bibeau	J.C. Murray	L. MacAulay
2.	Minister of Canadian Heritage	P. Rodriguez	G. Petitpas Taylor	A.D. Hussen
3.	Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations	M. Miller	P. Hajdu	D. Vandal
4.	Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion	C. Qualtrough	K. Gould	S. O’Regan
5.	Minister of Environment and Climate Change	S. Guilbeault	J. Wilkinson	J.C. Murray
6.	Minister of Families, Children and Social Development	K. Gould	C. Qualtrough	S. O’Regan
7.	Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario	H. Jaczek	F. Tassi	O. Alghabra
8.	Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance	C. Freeland	R.P.A. Boissonnault	F.-P. Champagne
9.	Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard	J.C. Murray	L. MacAulay	D. LeBlanc
10.	Minister of Foreign Affairs	M. Joly	M.F.Y. Ng	H.S. Sajjan
11.	Leader of the Government in the House of Commons	M. Holland	D. LeBlanc	P. Rodriguez
12.	Minister of Health	J.-Y. Duclos	C. Bennett	K. Khera
13.	Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health	C. Bennett	J.-Y. Duclos	P. Hajdu
14.	Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion	A.D. Hussen	M. Ien	D. LeBlanc
15.	Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship	S.S.A. Fraser	H.S. Sajjan	M. Ien
16.	Minister of Indigenous Services and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario	P. Hajdu	M. Miller	D. Vandal
17.	Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Infrastructure and Communities	D. LeBlanc	C. Freeland	A.D. Hussen
18.	Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry	F.-P. Champagne	M.F.Y. Ng	J. Wilkinson
19.	Minister of International Development and Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada	H.S. Sajjan	M. Joly	M.F.Y. Ng
20.	Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada	D. Lametti	M.E.L. Mendicino	M. Miller
21.	Minister of Labour	S. O’Regan	C. Qualtrough	K. Gould
22.	Minister of National Defence	I.A. Anand	L. MacAulay	W.S. Blair
23.	Minister of National Revenue	D. Lebouthillier	R.P.A. Boissonnault	C. Freeland
24.	Minister of Natural Resources	J. Wilkinson	O. Alghabra	M.-C. Bibeau
25.	Minister of Northern Affairs, Minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada and Minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency	D. Vandal	M. Miller	R.P.A. Boissonnault
26.	Minister of Official Languages and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency	G. Petitpas Taylor	D. LeBlanc	S.S.A. Fraser
27.	Minister of Public Safety	M.E.L. Mendicino	W.S. Blair	I.A. Anand
28.	Minister of Public Services and Procurement	F. Tassi	M. Fortier	I.A. Anand
29.	Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and Economic Development	M.F.Y. Ng	M. Joly	H.S. Sajjan
30.	Minister of Rural Economic Development	G.I. Hutchings	H. Jaczek	G. Petitpas Taylor
31.	Minister of Seniors	K. Khera	K. Gould	D. Lebouthillier
32.	Minister of Sport and Minister responsible for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec	P. St-Onge	P. Rodriguez	S. Guilbeault
33.	Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance	R.P.A. Boissonnault	C. Freeland	F.-P. Champagne
34.	Minister of Transport	O. Alghabra	F. Tassi	G.I. Hutchings
35.	President of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada and Minister of Emergency Preparedness	W.S. Blair	M.E.L. Mendicino	D. Lametti
36.	President of the Treasury Board	M. Fortier	H. Jaczek	J.-Y. Duclos
37.	Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence	L. MacAuley	I.A. Anand	M.E.L. Mendicino
38.	Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth	M. Ien	P. St-Onge	K. Khera

ANNEXE A

LISTE DES MINISTRES POUVANT AGIR

AU NOM DU PREMIER MINISTRE S’IL LUI EST IMPOSSIBLE

D’EXERCER LES FONCTIONS DE SA CHARGE