Twenty-Third Ministry
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Liberal[1]
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Prime Minister
The Right Honourable John Napier Turner
The Ministry
Minister of Agriculture
Hon. Ralph Ferguson
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Minister of Communications
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Minister of Consumer and Corporate
Affairs
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Minister of Employment and Immigration
Hon. John Roberts
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources
Hon. Gerald A. Regan
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Secretary of State for External Affairs
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Minister for External Relations
Vacant
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Minister for International Trade
Hon. Francis Fox
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Minister of the Environment
Hon. Charles L. Caccia
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Minister of Finance
Hon. Marc Lalonde
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Minister of Fisheries and Oceans
Hon. Herb Breau
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern
Development
Hon. Douglas Cockburn Frith
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Minister of Justice and Attorney General
Hon. Donald Johnston
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Minister of Labour
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Minister of National Defence
Hon. Jean-Jacques Blais
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Associate Minister of National Defence
Vacant
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Minister of National Health and Welfare
Hon. Monique Bégin
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Minister of National Revenue
Hon. Roy MacLaren
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
President of the Privy Council
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Minister of Public Works
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Secretary of State of Canada
Hon. Serge Joyal
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Minister of State for Economic and
Regional Development[9]
30 June 1984 - -1 Sept. 1984
Minister of State for Social Development[11]
30 June 1984 - 1 Sept. 1984
Minister of State for Science and
Technology
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Leader of the Government in the Senate
Hon. Allan Joseph MacEachen
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Solicitor General of Canada
Hon. Robert Phillip Kaplan
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Minister of Supply and Services
Hon. Charles Lapointe
[14]
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Minister of Transport
Hon. Lloyd Axworthy
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
President of the Treasury Board
Hon. Herbert Eser Gray
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Minister of Veterans Affairs
Hon. W. Bennet Campbell
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Ministers of State
Hon. David Collenette (Multiculturalism)
[15]
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Hon. David Paul Smith (Small Businesses and Tourism)
[16]
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Hon. William Rompkey (Transport)
[17]
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Hon. Joseph Roger Remi Bujold (Regional Development)
[18]
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
Hon. Jean-C. Lapierre (Youth) (Fitness and Amateur Sport)
[19]
30 June 1984 - 16 Sept. 1984
[1] On 30 June 1984 Trudeau resigned as
Prime Minister and the Twenty-Third Ministry assumed office. It was composed of 29
ministers.
[2] Lumley was also Minister of Regional
Industrial Expansion and Minister of State for Science and Technology.
[3] Erola was also Minister of State for
Social Development.
[4] Chrétien was also given the title
"Deputy Prime Minister".
[5] Ouellet was also President of the
Queen's Privy Council for Canada and Minister of State for Economic and Regional
Development.
[6] Ouellet was also Minister of' Labour
and Minister of State for Economic and Regional Development.
[7] Lapointe was also Minister of Supply
and Services.
[8] Lumley was also Minister of
Communications and Minister of State for Science and Technology.
[9] The existence of the Ministry of State
for Economic and Regional Development was terminated effective 1 Sept. 1984 by
proclamation.
[10] Ouellet was also President of the
Queen's Privy Council for Canada and Minister of Labour.
[11] The existence of the Ministry of
State for Social Development was terminated effective 1 Sept. 1984 by proclamation.
[12] Erola was also Minister of Consumer
and Corporate Affairs.
[13] Lumley was also Minister of
Regional Industrial Expansion and Minister of Communications.
[14] Lapointe was also Minister of
Public Works.
[15] Collenette retained the office he
held in the previous Ministry.
[16] Smith retained the office he held
in the previous Ministry.
[17] Rompkey was assigned by Order in
Council P.C. 1984-2435, a Minister of State, to assist the Minister of Transport in
respect of matters relating to transport.
[18] Bujold was assigned by Order in
Council P.C. 1984-2436 of 30 June 1984, a Minister of State, to assist the Minister of
Regional Industrial Expansion in respect of matters relating to regional development.
[19] Lapierre was assigned by Order in
Council P.C. 1984-2437 of 30 June 1984, a Minister of State, to assist the Minister of
Employment and Immigration and the Secretary of State of Canada in the carrying out of
their responsibilities relating to the youth of Canada. He was further assigned by Order
in Council P.C. 1984-2438 of 30 June 1984, a Minister of State, to assist the Minister of
National Health and Welfare in the carrying out of the latter's responsibilities in
respect of Fitness and Amateur Sport. He was given the title "Minister of State
(Youth) (Fitness and Amateur Sport)".
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