The deputy prime minister of Canada is a position in the Canadian Cabinet which is conferred from time to time by the prime minister of Canada to a senior cabinet member. That title does not have any
Ellen Fairclough served as acting prime minister from February 19 to 20, 1958, in the absence of John Diefenbaker.
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Christina Alexandra Freeland is a Canadian politician and journalist who served as the tenth deputy prime minister of Canada from 2019 to 2024. A member of the Liberal Party, she was first elected as
Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
…privilege maintained for life. The title has not been in use at any point in the Carney ministry that is currently in office. The title was last held by Chrystia Freeland in the Trudeau Ministry between 2019 and 2024, and before Freeland by Anne McLellan in the Martin ministry between 2003 and 2006. The title deputy prime…
Freeland in 2023
Freeland, then the minister of international trade, speaks at the 2015 WTO ministerial conference
Freeland meeting with Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman in December 2017
Freeland stands behind Trudeau during the signing of the CUSMA trade agreement, November 2018