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The first Department of Health in Canada was established in 1919, and unlike most other departments, had no designated minister. [8] The president of the Privy Council was the first designated to manage the department, [9] which was followed by the minister of immigration and colonization in 1921 under Arthur Meighen, [10] then the minister of soldiers' civil re-establishment later that year ...
Health Canada (HC; French: Santé Canada, SC) [NB 1] is the department of the Government of Canada responsible for national health policy. The department itself is also responsible for numerous federal health-related agencies, including the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), among others.
In July 2013, Stephen Harper appointed Rona Ambrose as Minister of Health and kept her as Minister of Western Economic Diversification. [46] While she was an MP, Ambrose worked closely with Nadia Murad, a Yazidi refugee and Nobel Peace Prize winner, in pushing the House of Commons to label the persecution of Yazidis a genocide. She also led the ...
Minister of Mental Health and Addictions: October 26, 2021: Ya'ara Saks: ON Associate Minister of Health: October 26, 2021: Minister of Families, Children, and Social Development: December 12, 2003: Jenna Sudds: ON Minister of Small Business: September 30, 1976: Rechie Valdez: ON Minister of Justice and Attorney General: July 1, 1867: Arif ...
In January 2016, Blair was named as the head of the federal-provincial task force tasked with creating a plan for the legalization of cannabis in Canada. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] On September 19, 2017, Blair assumed the role of parliamentary secretary to the minister of health .
The Public Health Agency of Canada Act [34] empowers the CPHO to communicate with other levels of government, voluntary organizations, the private sector and Canadians on public health issues. Each year, the CPHO is required to submit a report to the Minister of Health on the state of public health in Canada. [citation needed]
She was the minister of State for Public Health from 2003 to 2006, the minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations from 2015 to 2021 and the minister of Mental Health and Addictions from 2021 to 2023. In 2024, she became the Ambassador of Canada to the Kingdom of Denmark. Prior to entering politics, Bennett worked as a family physician for 20 years.
Prior to introduction of responsible government in 1848, the Province of Canada, then a British colonial possession lacked an organized civil service. [5] Positions in the colonial administration were then largely filled through patronage, with appointments almost exclusively controlled by the sitting governor, often under the advisement of members of the ruling Family Compact, who would ...