Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry

Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry of Canada
Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry of Canada
	Incumbent; Navdeep Bains; since 4 November 2015
	Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Style	The Honourable
Member of	Cabinet; Privy Council;
Appointer	Governor General of Canada
Term length	At Her Majesty's pleasure
Inaugural holder	John Manley
Formation	29 March 1995
Salary	$255,300 (2017)
Website	www.ic.gc.ca

The Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry (French: Ministre de l'Innovation, des Sciences et de l'Industrie) is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for overseeing the federal government's economic development and corporate affairs department, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. The Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry is also the minister responsible for Statistics Canada. By convention, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry also serves as the Registrar General of Canada. The current officeholder is Navdeep Bains of Mississauga-Malton.

History of the Office

The office of the Registrar General of Canada has traditionally been associated with the responsibility of overseeing corporate affairs, by virtue of its function in registering all letters patent. From Confederation to 1966, the Secretary of State for Canada was the Registrar General. Between 1966 and 1995, the office was held by the Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs.

The economic development function of the portfolio can be traced from the office of Minister of Trade and Commerce, which was created in 1892. The post of Minister of Industry briefly existed between 1963 and 1969 as a successor to the post of Minister of Defence Production. It was merged with the Trade and Commerce portfolio in 1969. The post of Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce existed between 1969 and 1983. During that time, a separate post of Minister of Regional Economic Expansion (1969 to 1983)/Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion (1983-1990) also existed. In 1990, the post of Minister of Industry, Science and Technology was created.

From 1993 to 1995, a single minister was styled as Minister of Industry while concurrently holding the posts of Industry, Science and Technology, and of Consumer and Corporate Affairs, pending a government restructuring. The post of Minister of Industry was formally created in 1995. The office was renamed to its current name in the 29th Canadian Ministry.^[3]

List of ministers

Predecessor offices

Economic development, industry, science

Minister of Trade and Commerce (1892-1969)
Minister of Industry (1963-1969)
Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce (1969-1983)
Minister of Regional Economic Expansion (1969 to 1983)/Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion (1983-1990)
Minister of Industry, Science and Technology (1990-1995)

Corporate affairs

Secretary of State for Canada (1867-1967)
Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs (1967-1995)

Key:

Liberal Party of Canada

Conservative Party of Canada

Historical conservative parties: Progressive Conservative

Concurrently Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs & Minister of Industry, Science and Technology (1993–1995)
No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Political party	Ministry
*		Jean Charest styled as Minister of Industry	June 25, 1993	November 3, 1993	Progressive Conservative	25 (Campbell)
*		John Manley styled as Minister of Industry	November 4, 1993	March 28, 1995	Liberal	26 (Chrétien)
Minister of Industry (1995–2015)
No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Political party	Ministry
1		John Manley	March 29, 1995	October 16, 2000	Liberal	26 (Chrétien)
2		Brian Tobin	October 17, 2000	January 14, 2002	Liberal
3		Allan Rock	January 15, 2002	December 11, 2003	Liberal
4		Lucienne Robillard	December 12, 2003	July 19, 2004	Liberal	27 (Martin)
5		David Emerson	July 20, 2004	February 5, 2006	Liberal	27 (Martin)
6		Maxime Bernier	February 6, 2006	August 13, 2007	Conservative	28 (Harper)
7		Jim Prentice	August 14, 2007	October 29, 2008	Conservative
8		Tony Clement	October 30, 2008	May 18, 2011	Conservative
9		Christian Paradis	May 18, 2011	July 15, 2013	Conservative
10		James Moore	July 15, 2013	November 4, 2015	Conservative
Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (2015–2019) Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry (2019–)
No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Political party	Ministry
11		Navdeep Bains	November 4, 2015	Incumbent	Liberal	29 (J. Trudeau)