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The minister of National Defence (MND; French: ministre de la défense nationale) is a minister of the Crown in the Cabinet of Canada responsible for the management and direction of all matters relating to the national defence of Canada.
William Sterling Blair PC COM MP (born 1954) [2] is a Canadian politician and former police officer who has served as the minister of National Defence since 2023. A member of the Liberal Party, Blair represents Scarborough Southwest in the House of Commons.
He is Canada's first Sikh minister of national defence, [3] and was also the first Sikh Canadian to command a Canadian Army reserve regiment. In 2017, Sajjan apologized for exaggerating his role in Operation Medusa , a 2006 military operation in Afghanistan in which he was involved.
From 2021 to 2023, while serving as minister of national defence, Anand led Canada's efforts to provide military aid to Ukraine during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, sought to reform the culture in the Canadian Armed Forces following a series of sexual misconduct scandals, and made efforts to reform and strengthen Canada's military ...
Previous National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The Department of National Defence was established by the National Defence Act, which merged the Department of Militia and Defence (which was created in 1906 when the British Army withdrew its forces stationed in Canada), the Department of Naval Services (the department responsible for the administration of the Royal Canadian ...
This is a list of current defence ministers of the 193 United Nations member states, Holy See (Vatican City) and the State of Palestine. Defence ministers of sovereign countries with limited recognition are included in a separate table .
Minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada: October 26, 2021: Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities: November 4, 2015: Nathaniel Erskine-Smith: ON December 20, 2024: Minister of Veterans Affairs: December 12, 2003: Darren Fisher: NS December 20, 2024: Associate Minister of National Defence: July 12, 1940 ...
Pages in category "Ministers of national defence of Canada" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .