President of the King's Privy Council for Canada

Template:Sidebar with collapsible lists President of the King's Privy Council for Canada (Template:Langx)<ref group="n">Referred to as the President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada (Template:Langx) during the reign of a female monarch.<ref>Template:Citation</ref><ref>Template:Citation</ref></ref> is the title held by a member of the Canadian Cabinet who has the – largely ceremonial – duty of chairing meetings of the Privy Council. The Privy Council president often holds an additional portfolio, commonly minister of intergovernmental affairs, and is supported by the Privy Council Office.

Dominic LeBlanc has been President of the Privy Council since March 14, 2025; he previously held the role from 2018 to 2021. LeBlanc concurrently serves as the minister responsible for Canada-U.S. trade, intergovernmental affairs and one Canadian economy. The officeholder is selected by the prime minister of Canada and appointed by the Crown.

The president of the Privy Council has additionally been designated as the minister responsible for the Major Projects Office since 2025.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Role

The president of the Privy Council has the largely ceremonial duty of presiding over meetings of the Privy Council, a body which only convenes in full for affairs of state such as the accession of a new Sovereign or the marriage of the Prince of Wales or heir presumptive to the Throne. Accordingly, the last time the president of the Privy Council had to preside over a meeting of the Privy Council was in 2022 for the proclamation of the accession of King Charles III. It is the equivalent of the office of lord president of the council in the United Kingdom.

Under prime ministers Pierre Trudeau and Joe Clark, the position was synonymous with that of government house leader. In 1989, the government house leader became a separate position and the president of the Privy Council became a largely honorary title (not unlike that of deputy prime minister of Canada) given to a senior minister in addition to other portfolios. From 1993 it has regularly been held by whoever holds the portfolio of minister of intergovernmental affairs. In the past decade the position has generally been seen to be the closest thing to a sinecure posting within the Cabinet.

List of presidents of the Privy Council

President of the Privy Council Template:Small Template:Small			Term of office	Concurrent Cabinet Posts	Ministry Template:Small		Monarch Template:Small
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |1	File:Adam Johnston Fergusson Blair.jpg	Adam Johnston Fergusson Blair Template:Small	Template:Small 1867 Template:Small 1867	none	rowspan="9" style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |	File:John A Macdonald (ca. 1875).jpg Macdonald Template:Small	File:Queen Victoria by Bassano.jpg Victoria Template:Small
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |–	File:John A Macdonald (ca. 1875).jpg	John A. Macdonald Template:Small	Template:Small 1867 Template:Small 1869	(acting)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |2	File:Joseph Howe 1.jpg	Joseph Howe Template:Small	Template:Small 1869 Template:Small 1869	none
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |3		Edward Kenny Template:Small	Template:Small 1869 Template:Small 1870	none
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |4	File:Sir charles tupper (cropped).jpg	Charles Tupper Template:Small	Template:Small 1870 Template:Small 1872	none
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |5	File:John O'Connor.jpg	John O'Connor Template:Small	Template:Small 1872 Template:Small 1873	none
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |–	File:John A Macdonald (ca. 1875).jpg	John A. Macdonald Template:Small	Template:Small 1873 Template:Small 1873	(acting)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |6	File:Hugh McDonald MP.jpg	Hugh McDonald Template:Small	Template:Small 1873 |Template:Small 1873	none
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |–	File:John A Macdonald (ca. 1875).jpg	John A. Macdonald Template:Small	Template:Small 1873 Template:Small 1873	(acting)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |–	File:Alexander MacKenzie - portrait.jpg	Alexander MackenzieTemplate:Small	Template:Small 1873 Template:Small 1874	(acting)	rowspan="6" style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; " |	File:Alexander MacKenzie - portrait.jpg Mackenzie Template:Small
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |7	File:LuciusSethHuntington23.jpg	Lucius Seth Huntington Template:Small	Template:Small 1874 Template:Small 1875	none
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |–	File:Alexander MacKenzie - portrait.jpg	Alexander Mackenzie Template:Small	Template:Small 1875 Template:Small 1875	(acting)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |8	File:Joseph Edouard Cauchon.jpg	Joseph-Édouard Cauchon Template:Small	Template:Small 1875 Template:Small 1877	none
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |9	File:Edward Blake.jpg	Edward Blake Template:Small	Template:Small 1877 Template:Small 1878	none
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |–	File:Alexander MacKenzie - portrait.jpg	Alexander Mackenzie Template:Small	Template:Small 1878 Template:Small 1878	(acting)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |(5)	File:John O'Connor.jpg	John O'Connor Template:Small	Template:Small 1878 Template:Small 1880	none	rowspan="8" style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |	File:John A Macdonald (ca. 1875).jpg Macdonald Template:Small
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |10	File:LouisRodrigueMasson23.jpg	Louis-Rodrigue Masson Template:Small	Template:Small 1880 Template:Small 1880	none
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |–	File:John A Macdonald (ca. 1875).jpg	John A. Macdonald Template:Small	Template:Small 1880 Template:Small 1880	(acting)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |11	File:Joseph-Alfred Mousseau.jpg	Joseph-Alfred Mousseau Template:Small	Template:Small 1880 Template:Small 1881	none
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |12	File:Archibald Woodbury McLelan.jpg	Archibald McLelan Template:Small	Template:Small 1881 Template:Small 1882	none
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |13	File:John A Macdonald (ca. 1875).jpg	John A. Macdonald Template:Small	Template:Small 1883 Template:Small 1889	Prime Minister Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs (1878-87, 88)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |14	File:CharlesCarrollColby23.jpg	Charles Carroll Colby Template:Small	Template:Small 1889 Template:Small 1891	none
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |–	File:John A Macdonald (ca. 1875).jpg	John A. Macdonald Template:Small	Template:Small 1891 Template:Small 1891	(acting)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |15	File:SirJohnAbbott1.jpg	John Abbott Template:Small	Template:Small 1891 Template:Small 1892	Prime Minister	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |	File:SirJohnAbbott1.jpg Abbott Template:Small
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |–	File:John Thompson.jpg	John Sparrow David Thompson Template:Small	Template:Small 1892 Template:Small 1892	(acting)	rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |	File:John Thompson.jpg Thompson Template:Small
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |16	File:WilliamIves.jpg	William Bullock Ives Template:Small	Template:Small 1892 Template:Small 1894	none
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |17	File:SirMackenzieBowell.jpg	Mackenzie Bowell Template:Small	Template:Small 1894 Template:Small 1896	Prime Minister	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |	File:SirMackenzieBowell.jpg Bowell Template:Small
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |18	File:Auguste-Réal Angers.jpg	Auguste-Réal Angers Template:Small	Template:Small 1896 Template:Small 1896	none	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |	File:Sir charles tupper (cropped).jpg Tupper Template:Small
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" rowspan="3" |19	File:The Honourable Sir Wilfrid Laurier Photo C (HS85-10-16873) - medium crop.jpg	Wilfrid Laurier Template:Small	Template:Small 1896 Template:Small 1911	Prime Minister	rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; " |	File:The Honourable Sir Wilfrid Laurier Photo C (HS85-10-16873) - medium crop.jpg Laurier Template:Small
File:Eduard VII.jpg Edward VII Template:Small
File:King George 1923 LCCN2014715558 (cropped).jpg George V Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |20	File:Borden-sm (cropped).jpg	Robert Borden Template:Small	Template:Small 1911 Template:Small 1917	Prime Minister	rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |	File:Borden-sm (cropped).jpg Borden Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |21	File:Newton Rowell.jpg	Newton Rowell Template:Small	Template:Small 1917 Template:Small 1920	Minister presiding Department of Health (1919-20)
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |22	File:James Alexander Calder in 1920.jpg	James Alexander Calder Template:Small	Template:Small 1920 Template:Small 1921	Minister of Immigration and Colonization, Minister presiding Department of Health	rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |	File:Former PM Arthur Meighen.jpg Meighen Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |23	File:Louis-Philippe Normand.png	Louis-Philippe Normand Template:Small	Template:Small 1921 Template:Small 1921	none
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |24	File:William Lyon Mackenzie King 1942.jpg	William Lyon Mackenzie King Template:Small	Template:Small 1921 Template:Small 1926	Prime Minister, Secretary of State for External Affairs	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; " |	File:William Lyon Mackenzie King 1942.jpg King Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |25	File:Former PM Arthur Meighen.jpg	Arthur Meighen Template:Small	Template:Small 1926 Template:Small 1926	Prime Minister, Secretary of State for External Affairs	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |	File:Former PM Arthur Meighen.jpg Meighen Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |(24)	File:William Lyon Mackenzie King 1942.jpg	William Lyon Mackenzie King Template:Small	Template:Small 1926 Template:Small 1930	Prime Minister, Secretary of State for External Affairs	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; " |	File:William Lyon Mackenzie King 1942.jpg King Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |26	File:Richard Bedford Bennett (cropped).jpg	R. B. Bennett Template:Small	Template:Small 1930 Template:Small 1935	Prime Minister, Minister of Finance (until 1932), Secretary of State for External Affairs,	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |	File:Richard Bedford Bennett (cropped).jpg Bennett Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" rowspan="3" |(24)	File:William Lyon Mackenzie King 1942.jpg	William Lyon Mackenzie King Template:Small	Template:Small 1935 Template:Small 1948	Prime Minister, Secretary of State for External Affairs (until 1946)	rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; " |	File:William Lyon Mackenzie King 1942.jpg King Template:Small
File:HRH The Prince of Wales No 4 (HS85-10-36416).jpg Edward VIII Template:Small
File:King George VI LOC matpc.14736 (cleaned).jpg George VI Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" rowspan="2" |27	File:Louisstlaurent.jpg	Louis St. Laurent Template:Small	Template:Small 1948 Template:Small 1957	Prime Minister	rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; " |	File:Louisstlaurent.jpg St. Laurent Template:Small
File:Queen Elizabeth II official portrait for 1959 tour (retouched) (cropped) (3-to-4 aspect ratio).jpg Elizabeth II Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |28	File:Lionel Chevrier.jpg	Lionel Chevrier Template:Small	Template:Small 1957 Template:Small 1957	none
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |29	File:John G. Diefenbaker (cropped).jpg	John Diefenbaker Template:Small	Template:Small 1957 Template:Small 1961	Prime Minister	rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |	File:John G. Diefenbaker (cropped).jpg Diefenbaker Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |30		Noël Dorion Template:Small	Template:Small 1961 Template:Small 1962	none
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |(29)	File:John G. Diefenbaker (cropped).jpg	John Diefenbaker Template:Small	Template:Small 1962 Template:Small 1963	Prime Minister
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |31		Maurice Lamontagne Template:Small	Template:Small 1963 Template:Small 1964	none	rowspan="5" style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |	File:Lester B. Pearson (1963 ABC press photo).jpg Pearson Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |32	File:George James McIlraith a047411-v8.jpg	George McIlraith Template:Small	Template:Small 1964 Template:Small 1965	none
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |33		Guy Favreau Template:Small	Template:Small 1965 Template:Small 1967	Registrar General (from 1966)
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |34	File:Walter L. Gordon sitting on the corner of a desk (F0563 fl0036 it0002) (cropped).jpg	Walter L. Gordon Template:Small	Template:Small 1967 Template:Small 1968	none
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" rowspan="2" |–	File:Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau 1975 (UPI press photo) (cropped).jpg	Pierre Trudeau Template:Small	Template:Small 1968 Template:Small 1968	(acting)
	rowspan="6" style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; " |					File:Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau 1975 (UPI press photo) (cropped).jpg P. Trudeau Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |–	File:Allan MacEachen.jpg	Allan MacEachen Template:Small	Template:Small 1968 Template:Small 1968	(acting)
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |35		Donald Stovel Macdonald Template:Small	Template:Small 1968 Template:Small 1970	Government House Leader
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |36	File:Allan MacEachen.jpg	Allan MacEachen Template:Small	Template:Small 1970 Template:Small 1974	Government House Leader
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |37	File:Mitchell Sharp 1962 Toronto Star (Restored) (cropped 3-4).jpg	Mitchell Sharp Template:Small	Template:Small 1974 Template:Small 1976	Government House Leader
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |(36)	File:Allan MacEachen.jpg	Allan MacEachen Template:Small	Template:Small 1976 Template:Small 1979	Government House Leader
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |38		Walter Baker Template:Small	Template:Small 1979 Template:Small 1980	Minister of National Revenue	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |	File:Joe Clark being interviewed 1979 crop.jpg Clark Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |39		Yvon Pinard Template:Small	Template:Small 1980 Template:Small 1984	Government House Leader	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; " |	File:Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau 1975 (UPI press photo) (cropped).jpg P. Trudeau Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |40		André Ouellet Template:Small	Template:Small 1984 Template:Small 1984	Minister of Labour	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; " |	Turner Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |41		Erik Nielsen Template:Small	Template:Small 1984 Template:Small 1985	Deputy Prime Minister	rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |	File:Brian Mulroney (cropped).jpg Mulroney Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |42		Ray Hnatyshyn Template:Small	Template:Small 1985 Template:Small 1986	Government House Leader
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |43		Don Mazankowski Template:Small	Template:Small 1986 Template:Small 1991	Deputy Prime Minister, Government House Leader
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |44	File:JoeClark.jpg	Joe Clark Template:Small	Template:Small 1991 Template:Small 1993	Minister responsible for Constitutional Affairs
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |45		Pierre Blais Template:Small	Template:Small 1993 Template:Small 1993	Minister of Justice and Attorney General	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |	File:Prime Minister Kim Campbell of Canada (42-WHPO-P05407-13-1) (cropped).jpg Campbell Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |46		Marcel Massé Template:Small	Template:Small 1993 Template:Small 1996	Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs	rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |	File:Jean Chrétien 1993.jpg Chrétien Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |47	File:Canadian Foreign Minister Stéphane Dion - 2016 (28405975206) (cropped).jpg	Stéphane Dion Template:Small	Template:Small 1996 Template:Small 2003	Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |48	File:Montréal Mayor Denis Coderre (16930743281) (cropped).jpg	Denis Coderre Template:Small	Template:Small 2003 Template:Small 2004	Minister res. for La Francophonie, for the Office of Indian Residential Schools Resolution, Federal interlocutor for Métis and non-status Indians	rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; " |	File:Paul Martin in 2006 (3x4).jpg Martin Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |49		Lucienne Robillard Template:Small	Template:Small 2004 Template:Small 2006	Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |50	File:Michael Chong in 2017.jpg	Michael Chong Template:Small	Template:Small 2006 Template:Small 2006	Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Minister of State for Sport	rowspan="6" style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |	File:Stephen Harper by Remy Steinegger Infobox.jpg Harper Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |51	File:Peter Van Loan - 2014 (14377788468) (cropped).jpg	Peter Van Loan Template:Small	Template:Small 2006 Template:Small 2007	Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |52	File:Rona Ambrose at the 67th World Health Assembly - 2014 (cropped).jpg	Rona Ambrose Template:Small	Template:Small 2007 Template:Small 2008	Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |53		Josée Verner Template:Small	Template:Small 2008 Template:Small 2011	Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |54		Peter Penashue Template:Small	Template:Small 2011 Template:Small 2013	Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |55	File:Denis Lebel 2017.jpg	Denis Lebel Template:Small	Template:Small 2013 Template:Small 2015	Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Minister of Infrastructure
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |56	File:Maryam Monsef, 2016.jpg	Maryam Monsef<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Parliament of Canada biography: Monsef is subsequently listed as having assumed the office on November 4, 2015.</ref> Template:Small	Template:Small 2015 Template:Small 2017	Minister of Democratic Institutions	rowspan="7" style="background:Template:Canadian party colour; " |	File:Prime Minister Trudeau's message on Christmas 2023 (0m29s) (cropped).jpg J. Trudeau Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |57	File:Karina Gould, LPC MPP for Burlington, Minister Of Democratic Institutions.jpg	Karina Gould<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Small	Template:Small 2017 Template:Small 2018	Minister of Democratic Institutions
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" |58	File:Dominic LeBlanc 2023-03-06.jpg	Dominic LeBlanc Template:Small	Template:Small 2018 Template:Small 2021	Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Northern Affairs and Internal Trade
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" rowspan="2" |59	File:Bill Blair - MOU U.S. - Canada Wildland Fires - Group Shot (002) (cropped).png	Bill Blair Template:Small	Template:Small 2021 26 July 2023	Minister of Emergency Preparedness
File:King Charles III (July 2023).jpg Charles III Template:Small
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | 60	File:Harjit Sajjan - 2023 - P060539-646377 (cropped).jpg	Harjit Sajjan Template:Small	Template:Small 2023 Template:Small 2025	Minister of Emergency Preparedness, Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada
	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;" | (58)	File:Dominic LeBlanc (cropped) from DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Attends the U.S.-Canada Cross Border Crime Forum (53851012985).jpg	Dominic LeBlanc Template:Small	Template:Small 2025 Incumbent	Minister of Internal Trade, Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs and One Canadian Economy	File:Prime Minister Mark Carney June 2025.jpg Carney Template:Small

Notes

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External links

• Privy Council Office

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