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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Anne McLellan
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A. Anne McLellan is a Canadian politician and academic who served as the ninth deputy prime minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006. She was a cabinet minister in the Liberal governments of Jean Chrétien
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…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 minister, a political title conferred upon cabinet members, should not be confused…
McLellan in 2011