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Current Members of the Privy Council


The Privy Council was established by the British North America Act, 1867 (later renamed the Constitution Act, 1867), which provides in Section 11:
    "There shall be a Council to aid and advise in the Government of Canada, to be styled the Queen's Privy Council for Canada; and the Persons who are to be Members of that Council shall be from Time to Time chosen and summoned by the Governor General and sworn in as Privy Councillors, and Members thereof may be from Time to Time removed by the Governor General."
Members of the Privy Council are 14th on the Canadian Order of Precedence.


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Members of the Privy Council

(in order of seniority, with precedence given to those who have been given the honourary title of The Right Honourable)
  • The Right Honourable John Napier Turner
  • The Right Honourable Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien
  • The Right Honourable Charles Joseph Clark
  • The Right Honourable Donald Frank Mazankowski
  • The Right Honourable Martin Brian Mulroney
  • The Right Honourable Edward Richard Schreyer
  • The Right Honourable A. Kim Campbell
  • The Right Honourable Paul Martin
  • The Right Honourable Beverley M. McLachlin
  • The Right Honourable Stephen Joseph Harper
  • The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson
  • The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean
  • The Honourable Paul Theodore Hellyer
  • His Royal Highness Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh
  • The Honourable Allan Joseph MacEachen
  • The Honourable Yvon Dupuis
  • The Honourable Alexander Bradshaw Campbell
  • The Honourable Donald Stovel Macdonald
  • The Honourable John-Eudes Dubé
  • The Honourable Otto Emil Lang
  • The Honourable Robert Douglas George Stanbury
  • The Honourable Alastair William Gillespie
  • The Honourable André Ouellet
  • The Honourable James Hugh Faulkner
  • The Honourable Marc Lalonde
  • The Honourable William Warren Allmand
  • The Honourable J. Judd Buchanan
  • The Honourable Marcel Lessard
  • The Honourable Anthony Chisolm Abbott
  • The Honourable Francis Fox
  • The Honourable Iona Campagnolo
  • The Honourable Jean-Jacques Blais
  • The Honourable Leonard Stephen Marchand
  • The Honourable Monique Bégin
  • The Honourable Norman A. Cafik
  • The Honourable J. Gilles Lamontagne
  • The Honourable John M. Reid
  • The Honourable Pierre De Bané
  • The Honourable Arthur Jacob Epp
  • The Honourable David Edward Crombie
  • The Honourable David Samuel Horne MacDonald
  • The Honourable Elmer MacIntosh MacKay
  • The Honourable Henry Perrin Beatty
  • The Honourable J. Robert Howie
  • The Honourable James Aloysius McGrath
  • The Honourable John Allen Fraser
  • The Honourable John Carnell Crosbie
  • The Honourable Michael Holcombe Wilson
  • The Honourable Ronald George Atkey
  • The Honourable Sinclair McKnight Stevens
  • The Honourable William H. Jarvis
  • The Honourable Charles Lapointe
  • The Honourable Donald James Johnston
  • The Honourable Edward C. Lumley
  • The Honourable Gerald Augustine Regan
  • The Honourable James Sydney Clark Fleming
  • The Honourable Judith A. Erola
  • The Honourable Lloyd Axworthy
  • The Honourable Paul James Cosgrove
  • The Honourable Pierre Bussières
  • The Honourable William H. Rompkey
  • The Honourable Yvon Pinard
  • The Honourable Jacob Austin
  • The Honourable Serge Joyal
  • The Honourable Alfred Brian Peckford
  • The Honourable Howard Russell Pawley
  • The Honourable James Matthew Lee
  • The Honourable John Edward Broadbent
  • The Honourable John MacLennan Buchanan
  • The Honourable William Grenville Davis
  • The Honourable William Richards Bennett
  • The Honourable Céline Hervieux-Payette
  • The Honourable David Michael Collenette
  • The Honourable David Paul Smith
  • The Honourable Roger Simmons
  • The Honourable Roy MacLaren
  • The Honourable Peter Michael Pitfield
  • The Honourable Herb Breau
  • The Honourable Jean-C. Lapierre
  • The Honourable Joseph Roger Rémi Bujold
  • The Honourable Ralph Ferguson
  • The Honourable André Bissonnette
  • The Honourable Andrée Champagne
  • The Honourable Barbara Jean McDougall
  • The Honourable Benoît Bouchard
  • The Honourable Charles James Mayer
  • The Honourable Jack Burnett Murta
  • The Honourable Michel Côté
  • The Honourable Monique Vézina
  • The Honourable Otto John Jelinek
  • The Honourable Patricia Carney
  • The Honourable Reverend Walter Franklin McLean
  • The Honourable Robert Carman Coates
  • The Honourable Suzanne Blais-Grenier
  • The Honourable Thomas Edward Siddon
  • The Honourable Thomas Michael McMillan
  • The Honourable William Hunter McKnight
  • The Honourable Paule Gauthier
  • The Honourable Saul Mark Cherniack
  • The Honourable Stewart Donald McInnes
  • The Honourable Frank Oberle
  • The Honourable Gordon Francis Joseph Osbaldeston
  • The Honourable Bernard Valcourt
  • The Honourable Gerry Weiner
  • The Honourable Jean J. Charest
  • The Honourable Lowell Murray
  • The Honourable Monique Landry
  • The Honourable Paul Wyatt Dick
  • The Honourable Pierre H. Cadieux
  • The Honourable Thomas Hockin
  • The Honourable John William Bosley
  • The Honourable Douglas Grinslade Lewis
  • The Honourable Pierre Blais
  • The Honourable Gerry St. Germain
  • The Honourable Lucien Bouchard
  • The Honourable John Horton McDermid
  • The Honourable Shirley Martin
  • The Honourable Alan Redway
  • The Honourable Gilles Loiselle
  • The Honourable Mary Collins
  • The Honourable William Charles Winegard
  • The Honourable Marcel Danis
  • The Honourable Audrey McLauglin
  • The Honourable Pauline Browes
  • The Honourable J. J. Michel Robert
  • The Honourable Antonine Maillet
  • The Honourable David Robert Peterson
  • The Honourable John Charles Polanyi
  • The Honourable Lorne Edmund Nystrom
  • The Honourable Marcel Prud'homme
  • The Honourable Maurice F. Strong
  • The Honourable Paul M. Tellier
  • The Honourable Richard Cashin
  • The Honourable Charles Rosner Bronfman
  • The Honourable Pierre H. Vincent
  • The Honourable Barbara Jane Sparrow
  • The Honourable Garth Turner
  • The Honourable Ian Angus Ross Reid
  • The Honourable James Stewart Edwards
  • The Honourable Larry Schneider
  • The Honourable Peter L. McCreath
  • The Honourable Robert Douglas Nicholson
  • The Honourable Allan Rock
  • The Honourable Anne McLellan
  • The Honourable Arthur C. Eggleton
  • The Honourable Brian Tobin
  • The Honourable David Anderson
  • The Honourable David Charles Dingwall
  • The Honourable Douglas Peters
  • The Honourable Douglas Young
  • The Honourable Ethel Blondin-Andrew
  • The Honourable Fernand Robichaud
  • The Honourable John Manley
  • The Honourable Jon Gerrard
  • The Honourable Joyce Fairbairn
  • The Honourable Lawrence MacAulay
  • The Honourable Marcel Massé
  • The Honourable Michel Dupuy
  • The Honourable Ralph E. Goodale
  • The Honourable Raymond Chan
  • The Honourable Ron Irwin
  • The Honourable Sergio Marchi
  • The Honourable Sheila Maureen Copps
  • The Honourable Alfonso Gagliano
  • The Honourable Lucienne Robillard
  • The Honourable Hedy Fry
  • The Honourable Jane Stewart
  • The Honourable Martin Cauchon
  • The Honourable Pierre Pettigrew
  • The Honourable Stéphane Dion
  • The Honourable James Andrew Grant
  • The Honourable Don Boudria
  • The Honourable Andrew Mitchell
  • The Honourable David Kilgour
  • The Honourable Herb Dhaliwal
  • The Honourable James Scott Peterson
  • The Honourable Lyle Vanclief
  • The Honourable Gilbert Normand
  • The Honourable Robert Keith Rae
  • The Honourable Claudette Bradshaw
  • The Honourable Jocelyne Bourgon
  • The Honourable Frank Joseph McKenna
  • The Honourable Raymond A. Speaker
  • The Honourable Denis Coderre
  • The Honourable Elinor Caplan
  • The Honourable George Baker
  • The Honourable Maria Minna
  • The Honourable Robert Daniel Nault
  • The Honourable J. Bernard Boudreau
  • The Honourable Rey Pagtakhan
  • The Honourable Robert G. Thibault
  • The Honourable Sharon Carstairs
  • The Honourable Gary Albert Filmon
  • The Honourable Claude Drouin
  • The Honourable Denis Paradis
  • The Honourable Gar Knutson
  • The Honourable John McCallum
  • The Honourable Maurizio Bevilacqua
  • The Honourable Paul DeVillers
  • The Honourable Stephen Owen
  • The Honourable Susan Whelan
  • The Honourable Gerry Byrne
  • The Honourable William Graham
  • The Honourable Jean Augustine
  • The Honourable Arnold Wayne Easter
  • The Honourable Baljit Singh Chadha
  • The Honourable Steven W. Mahoney
  • The Honourable Roy J. Romanow
  • The Honourable Albina Guarnieri
  • The Honourable André Harvey
  • The Honourable Brenda Kay Chamberlain
  • The Honourable Carolyn Bennett
  • The Honourable Dan McTeague
  • The Honourable David Pratt
  • The Honourable David Price
  • The Honourable Eleni Bakopanos
  • The Honourable Geoff Regan
  • The Honourable Georges Farrah
  • The Honourable Giuseppe (Joseph) Volpe
  • The Honourable Gurbax Singh Malhi
  • The Honourable Hélène Chalifour Scherrer
  • The Honourable Irwin Cotler
  • The Honourable Jacques Saada
  • The Honourable Jerry Pickard
  • The Honourable Jim Karygiannis
  • The Honourable John Ferguson Godfrey
  • The Honourable John Harvard
  • The Honourable John McKay
  • The Honourable Joseph Frank Fontana
  • The Honourable Joseph Louis Jordan
  • The Honourable Joseph McGuire
  • The Honourable Joseph Robert Comuzzi
  • The Honourable Judy Sgro
  • The Honourable Larry Bagnell
  • The Honourable Liza Frulla
  • The Honourable M. Aileen Carroll
  • The Honourable Mark Eyking
  • The Honourable Mauril Bélanger
  • The Honourable Paul Bonwick
  • The Honourable Robert Speller
  • The Honourable Roger Gallaway
  • The Honourable Ruben John Efford
  • The Honourable Scott Brison
  • The Honourable Shawn Murphy
  • The Honourable Stan Kazmierczak Keyes
  • The Honourable Susan Barnes
  • The Honourable Tony Valeri
  • The Honourable Walt Lastewka
  • The Honourable Yvon Charbonneau
  • The Honourable Andrew Telegdi
  • The Honourable Grant Hill
  • The Honourable Rev. William Alexander Blaikie
  • The Honourable Joseph Marin Jacques Olivier
  • The Honourable Bryon Wilfert
  • The Honourable David Emerson
  • The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc
  • The Honourable Judi Longfield
  • The Honourable Karen Redman
  • The Honourable Keith P. Martin
  • The Honourable Ken Dryden
  • The Honourable Marlene Jennings
  • The Honourable Paul Macklin
  • The Honourable Peter Adams
  • The Honourable Raymond Simard
  • The Honourable Roy Cullen
  • The Honourable Sarmite Bulte
  • The Honourable Tony Ianno
  • The Honourable Ujjal Dosanjh
  • The Honourable Patricia Ann Torsney
  • The Honourable Belinda Stronach
  • The Honourable Aldéa Landry, Q.C.
  • The Honourable Charles Hubbard
  • The Honourable Navdeep Bains
  • The Honourable Anita Neville
  • The Honourable Beverley J. Oda
  • The Honourable Carol Skelton
  • The Honourable Chuck Strahl
  • The Honourable Diane Finley
  • The Honourable Gary Lunn
  • The Honourable Gordon O'Connor
  • The Honourable Gregory Francis Thompson
  • The Honourable Jean-Pierre Blackburn
  • The Honourable Jim Prentice
  • The Honourable John Baird
  • The Honourable John Reynolds
  • The Honourable Josée Verner
  • The Honourable Lawrence Cannon
  • The Honourable Loyola Hearn
  • The Honourable Marjory LeBreton
  • The Honourable Maxime Bernier
  • The Honourable Michael D. Chong
  • The Honourable Michael Fortier
  • The Honourable Monte Solberg
  • The Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay
  • The Honourable Rona Ambrose
  • The Honourable Stockwell Day
  • The Honourable Tony Clement
  • The Honourable Vic Toews
  • The Honourable Jay D. Hill
  • The Honourable Peter Van Loan
  • The Honourable Christian Paradis
  • The Honourable Gerry Ritz
  • The Honourable Helena Guergis
  • The Honourable Jason Kenney
  • The Honourable Daniel Philip Hays
  • The Honourable Diane Ablonczy
  • The Honourable James Abbott
  • The Honourable James Moore
  • The Honourable Arthur Thomas Porter
  • The Honourable Denis Losier
  • The Honourable Denis Lebel
  • The Honourable Gail Shea
  • The Honourable Gary Goodyear
  • The Honourable Keith Ashfield
  • The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq
  • The Honourable Lisa Raitt
  • The Honourable Lynn Yelich
  • The Honourable Peter Kent
  • The Honourable Rob Merrifield
  • The Honourable Steven John Fletcher
  • The Honourable Leonard Joseph Gustafson
  • The Honourable Frances Lankin
  • The Honourable Kevin Lynch
  • The Honourable Rob Moore
  • The Honourable Michael Grant Ignatieff
  • The Honourable Philippe Couillard
  • The Honourable John Duncan
  • The Honourable Laurie Hawn
  • The Honourable Rick Casson
  • The Honourable Julian Fantino
  • The Honourable Ted Menzies
  • The Honourable Alice Wong
  • The Honourable Bal Gosal
  • The Honourable Edward Fast
  • The Honourable Joe Oliver
  • The Honourable Peter Penashue
  • The Honourable Steven Blaney
  • The Honourable Tim Uppal
  • The Honourable Peter Andrew Stewart Milliken
  • The Honourable Mike Lake
  • The Honourable Ronald Cannan
  • The Honourable Thomas J. Mulcair
  • The Honourable Kerry-Lynne D. Findlay
  • The Honourable Ernest Preston Manning
  • The Honourable Deborah Grey
  • The Honourable Candice Bergen
  • The Honourable Chris Alexander
  • The Honourable Greg Rickford
  • The Honourable Kevin Sorenson
  • The Honourable Khristinn Kellie Leitch
  • The Honourable Michelle Rempel
  • The Honourable Pierre Poilievre
  • The Honourable Shelly Glover
  • The Honourable L. Yves Fortier
  • The Honourable Claude Carignan
  • The Honourable Deepak Obhrai
  • The Honourable Gerald J. Comeau
  • The Honourable Cyril Eugene McLean
  • The Honourable Ed Holder
  • His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George)
  • The Honourable Wayne G. Wouters
  • The Honourable Erin O'Toole
  • The Honourable Ian Carl Holloway, Q.C.
  • The Honourable Noël A. Kinsella
  • The Honourable Marie-Lucie Morin

SOURCE: Privy Council Office.

See also
Federal Government
Privy Council

External Links
Privy Council Office Official Website


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