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.
|