Twenty-First Ministry
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Progressive Conservative[1]
4 June 1979 to 2 March 1980
Prime Minister
The Right Honourable Charles Joseph Clark
The Ministry
Minister of Agriculture
Hon. John Wise
4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of Communications
Hon. David S. H. MacDonald
[2]4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of Consumer and Corporate
Affairs
Hon. Allan Frederick Lawrence
[3]4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of Employment and Immigration
Hon. Ronald George Atkey
4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources
Hon. Ramon John Hnatyshyn
[4]4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Secretary of State for External Affairs
Hon. Flora Isabel MacDonald
4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of the Environment
Hon. John Allen Fraser
[5]4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of Customs
Hon. John C. Crosbie
4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of Fisheries and Oceans
Hon. James Aloysius McGrath
4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern
Development
Hon. Arthur Jacob Epp
4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce
Hon. Robert R. de Cotret
Senator[6]4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of Justice and Attorney General
Hon. Jacques Flynn
Senator[7]4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of Labour
Hon. Lincoln Alexander
4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of National Defence
Hon. Allan Bruce McKinnon
[8]4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Associate Minister of National Defence
Vacant
4 June 1969 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of National Health and Welfare
Hon. David Crombie
4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of National Revenue
Hon. Walter David Baker
[9]4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Postmaster General
Hon. John Allen Fraser
[10]4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
President of the Privy Council
Hon. Walter David Baker
[11]4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of Public Works
Hon. Erik H. Nielsen
4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of Regional Economic Expansion
Hon. Elmer Maclntosh MacKay
4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of State for Science and
Technology
Hon. Ramon John Hnatyshyn
[12]4 June 1979 - 7 Oct. 1979
Hon. William Heward Grafftey
8 Oct. 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of State for Economic
Development
Hon. Robert R. de Cotret
Senator[13]4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Secretary of State of Canada
Hon. David S. H. MacDonald
[14]4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Leader of the Government in the Senate
Hon. Jacques Flynn
Senator[15]4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Solicitor General of Canada
Hon. Allan Frederick Lawrence
[16]4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of Supply and Services
Hon. Roch LaSalle
4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of Transport
Hon. Donald F. Mazankowski
4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
President of the Treasury Board
Hon. Sinclair McKnight Stevens
4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of Veterans Affairs
Hon. Allan Bruce McKinnon
[17]4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Minister of State
Hon. Martial Asselin
Senator[18]4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Hon. William Heward Grafftey
[20]4 June 1979 - 7 Oct. 1979
4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Hon. Steven Eugene Paproski
[23]4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Hon. Ronald Huntington
[24]4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Hon. Michael H. Wilson
[25]4 June 1979 - 2 Mar. 1980
Parliamentary Secretaries
Not of the Ministry
Agriculture
Herbert Thomas Hargrave
1 Oct 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
Communications
Scott Fennell
1 Oct. 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
Consumer and Corporate Affairs
Gary Gurbin
1 Oct. 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
Employment and Immigration
Paul McCrossan
1 Oct. 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
Energy, Mines and Resources
Robert Jarvis
1 Oct. 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
Environment and Postmaster General
Joseph Reid
1 Oct. 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
External Affairs
Douglas James Roche
1 Oct. 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
Finance
Ronald Ritchie
1 Oct. 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
Fisheries and Oceans
Thomas Siddon
1 Oct. 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
Indian Affairs and Northern Development
John Robert Holmes
1 Oct. 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
Justice
George Cooper
1 Oct. 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
Labour
William Wightman
1 Oct. 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
National Defence and Veterans Affairs
A. Daniel McKenzie
1 Oct. 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
National Health and Welfare
Stanley Kenneth Schellenberger
1 Oct. 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
Prime Minister
John Bosley
1 Oct. 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
Privy Council
David Kilgour
1 Oct. 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
Regional Economic Expansion
Richard Janelle
1 Oct. 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
Secretary of State of Canada
Diane Stratas
1 Oct. 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
Solicitor General
Christopher Speyer
1 Oct. 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
Supply and Services
Douglas Lewis
1 Oct. 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
Transport
Otto John Jelinek
1 Oct. 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
Treasury Board
Jack Murta
1 Oct. 1979 - 14 Dec. 1979
[1] On 4 June 1979 Trudeau resigned as
Prime Minister and the Twenty-First Ministry assumed office. It was composed of 30
ministers.
[2] MacDonald was also Secretary of State
of Canada.
[3] Lawrence was also Solicitor General of
Canada.
[4] Hnatyshyn was also Minister of State
for Science and Technology.
[5] Fraser was also Postmaster General.
[6] De Cotret was also Minister of State
for Economic Development. He was summoned to the Senate on 5 June 1979.
[7] Flynn was also Leader of the
Government in the Senate.
[8] McKinnon was also Minister of Veterans
Affairs.
[9] Baker was also President of the Privy
Council.
[10] Fraser was also Minister of the
Environment.
[11] Baker was also Minister of National
Revenue.
[12] Hnatyshyn was also Minister of
Energy, Mines and Resources.
[13] De Cotret was also Minister of
Industry, Trade and Commerce.
[14] MacDonald was also Minister of
Communications.
[15] Flynn was also Minister of Justice
and Attorney General of Canada.
[16] Lawrence was also Minister of
Consumer and Corporate Affairs.
[17] McKinnon was also Minister of
National Defence.
[18] Asselin was assigned by Order in
Council P.C. 1979-1630 of 5 June 1979 to assist the Secretary of State for External
Affairs in the carrying out of the latter's responsibilities in respect of the Canadian
International Development Agency and matters related thereto. He was given the title
"Minister of State for the Canadian International Development Agency".
[19] Jarvis was assigned by Order in
Council P.C. 1979-1631 of 5 June 1979 to assist the Prime Minister in respect of matters
relating to federal-provincial relations. He was given the title "Minister of State
for Federal- Provincial Relations".
[20] Grafftey was assigned by Order in
Council P.C. 1979-1632 of 5 June 1979 to assist the Minister of National Health and
Welfare in the carrying out of the latter's responsibilities in respect of social
programs. He was given the title "Minister of State for Social Programmes". He
was appointed Minister of State for Science and Technology on 8 Oct. 1979.
[21] Beatty was assigned by Order in
Council P.C. 1979-1693 of 5 June 1979 to assist the President of the Treasury Board. He
was given the title "Minister of State (Treasury Board)".
[22] Howie was assigned by Order in
Council P.C. 1979-1634 of 5 June 1979 to assist the Minister of Transport. He was given
the title "Minister of State (Transport)".
[23] Paproski was assigned by Order in
Council P.C. 1979-1635 of 5 June 1979 to assist the Secretary of State of Canada in
carrying out of the latter's responsibilities in respect of the policies and programs
related to fitness and amateur sport and to multiculturalism. He was given the title
"Minister of State for Fitness and Amateur Sport and Multiculturalism".
[24] Huntington was assigned by Order in
Council P.C. 1979-1636 of 5 June 1979 to assist the Minister of Industry, Trade and
Commerce in the carrying Out of the latter's responsibilities in respect of small
businesses and industry. He was given the title "Minister of State for Small
Businesses and Industry".
[25] Wilson was assigned by Order in
Council P.C. 1979-1637 of 5 June 1979 to assist the Minister of Industry, Trade and
Commerce in the carrying out of the latter's responsibilities in respect of international
trade. He was given the title "Minister of State for International Trade".
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