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Minister of Transport (Canada)

Government department leader in Canada

Government department leader in Canada

FieldValue
postMinister
native_nameMinistre des Transports
flagsize200px
imageREUNIÓN CON STEVEN MACKINNON, MINISTRO DE ASUNTOS PARLAMENTARIOS, 05 DE MARZO DE 2024 (cropped).jpg
incumbentSteven MacKinnon
incumbentsince16 September 2025
departmentTransport Canada
styleThe Honourable
member_of
reports_to
appointerMonarch (represented by the governor general)
appointer_qualifiedon the advice of the prime minister
termlengthgenderp=~}}}} Majesty's pleasure
precursorMinister of Railways and Canals
formation2 November 1936
inauguralC. D. Howe
deputyDeputy Minister of Transport
salary$299,900 (2024)
websitewww.tc.gc.ca
bodyTransport

Minister of Marine

The minister of transport () is a minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet. The minister is responsible for overseeing the federal government's transportation regulatory and development department, Transport Canada, the Saint Lawrence Seaway, Nav Canada, and the Port Authority system. Since September 16, 2025, the position has been held by Steven MacKinnon of the Liberal Party.

History

The Constitution Act, 1867 under section 92(10) established federal responsibility for land and sea transportation between provinces and internationally. Most transportation duties and powers were placed under the minister of public works, with responsibilities for ports and harbours going to the minister of marine and fisheries. In 1879, the Department of Public Works was divided in two, with powers and duties over rail and inland sea transport going to the newly formed minister of railways and canals. The minister of railways and canals was one of the most important cabinet posts because of the importance of railways to the economic development of Canada, with three prime ministers assuming the position either before or during their premiership.

In Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's third cabinet in 1935, C. D. Howe was appointed to both the minister of railways and canals and the minister of marine, which was a short-lived position split from the minister of marine and fisheries in 1930. The office of Minister of Transport was created by Mackenzie King in 1936, which was formally a successor to the minister of railways and canals, and C. D. Howe was appointed as the first Minister of Transport.

From 2006 to 2013, the position was styled Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, a name change corresponding with responsibility for Infrastructure Canada being transferred to the portfolio at that time. "Minister of Transport" remained the title for legal purposes. With the Cabinet shuffle of July 15, 2013, Infrastructure and Communities portfolio was separated from Transport and assigned to the minister of intergovernmental affairs.

Transport Canada used to manage most of Canada's major airports, but in the 1990s, most airports were off-loaded to non-profit private airport authorities. The department is now responsible for transportation safety, appointments to Boards of Governors, and regulation management.

Portfolio

In addition to Transport Canada, the minister of transport is responsible for overseeing 55 other entities, the majority of which are port authorities and airport authorities:

  • Transport Canada
  • Shared governance organizations:
    • 18 port authorities
    • 21 airport authorities
    • Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority
    • Nav Canada
    • St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation
  • Crown corporations:
    • Atlantic Pilotage Authority
    • Canadian Air Transport Security Authority
    • Federal Bridge Corporation
    • Great Lakes Pilotage Authority
    • Laurentian Pilotage Authority
    • Marine Atlantic
    • Pacific Pilotage Authority
    • Via Rail
  • Other entities:
    • Canadian Transportation Agency
    • Ship-source Oil Pollution Fund
    • The Fund for Railway Accidents Involving Designated Goods
    • Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada

Minister of Railways and Canals (1879–1936)

Key:

PortraitNameTerm of officePolitical partyMinistry
CAConservative (historical)}}"[[File:TupperUniform 02.jpg75x150px]]Sir Charles Tupper20 May 187928 May 1884
CAConservative (historical)}}"[[File:John_Henry_Pope.jpg75x150px]]John Henry Pope (acting)29 May 188424 September 1885
CAConservative (historical)}}"[[File:John_Henry_Pope.jpg75x150px]]John Henry Pope25 September 18851 April 1889
[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]vacant2 April 18899 April 1889
CAConservative (historical)}}"[[File:John_A_Macdonald_(ca._1875).jpg75x150px]]John A. Macdonald (acting)10 April 188927 November 1889
CAConservative (historical)}}"[[File:John_A_Macdonald_(ca._1875).jpg75x150px]]John A. Macdonald28 November 18896 June 1891
[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]vacant7 June 189116 June 1891
CAConservative (historical)}}"[[File:SirMackenzieBowell.jpg75x150px]]Mackenzie Bowell (acting)17 June 189110 January 1892
CAConservative (historical)}}"[[File:John_Graham_Haggart.jpg75x150px]]John Graham Haggart11 January 18924 December 1892
5 December 189220 December 18945 (Thompson)
21 December 18945 January 18966 (Bowell)
CAConservative (historical)}}"[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]Joseph-Aldric Ouimet (acting)6 January 189614 January 1896
CAConservative (historical)}}"[[File:John_Graham_Haggart.jpg75x150px]]John Graham Haggart15 January 189630 April 1896
1 May 18968 July 18967 (Tupper)
[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]vacant6 January 189614 January 1896
CALiberal}}"[[File:Andrew_George_Blair.jpg75x150px]]Andrew George Blair20 July 189620 July 1903
CALiberal}}"[[File:William_Stevens_Fielding,_premier_of_Nova_Scotia.jpg75x150px]]William Stevens Fielding (acting)21 July 190314 January 1904
CALiberal}}"[[File:HREmmersonWIK.jpg75x150px]]Henry Emmerson15 January 19042 April 1907
[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]vacant3 April 19078 April 1907
CALiberal}}"[[File:William_Stevens_Fielding,_premier_of_Nova_Scotia.jpg75x150px]]William Stevens Fielding (acting)9 April 190729 August 1907
CALiberal}}"[[File:HREmmersonWIK.jpg75x150px]]George Perry Graham30 August 190710 October 1911
CAConservative (historical)}}"[[File:Francis_Cochrane.jpg75x150px]]Francis Cochrane10 October 191112 October 1917
CAConservative (historical)}}"[[File:John_Dowsley_Reid.jpg75x150px]]John Dowsley Reid12 October 19179 July 1920
10 July 192020 September 192111 (Meighen)
CAConservative (historical)}}"[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]John Alexander Stewart21 September 192129 December 1921
CALiberal}}"[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]William Costello Kennedy29 December 192118 January 1923
[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]vacant19 January 192327 April 1923
CALiberal}}"[[File:Hon._Geo._P._Graham,_7-13-22_LCCN2016846558_(cropped).jpg75x150px]]George Perry Graham28 April 192319 February 1926
[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]vacant20 February 192628 February 1926
CALiberal}}"[[File:People-Dunning.jpg75x150px]]Charles Avery Dunning1 March 192628 June 1926
CAConservative (historical)}}"[[File:Henry_Lumley_Drayton.jpg75x150px]]Henry Lumley Drayton (acting)29 June 192612 July 1926
CAConservative (historical)}}"[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]William Anderson Black (acting)13 July 192625 September 1926
CALiberal}}"[[File:People-Dunning.jpg75x150px]]Charles Avery Dunning25 September 192625 November 1929
CALiberal}}"[[File:People-Dunning.jpg75x150px]]Charles Avery Dunning (acting)26 November 192929 December 1929
CALiberal}}"[[File:CRERAR.jpg75x150px]]Thomas Crerar30 December 19297 August 1930
CAConservative (historical)}}"[[File:MP_Robert_Manion.jpg75x150px]]Robert James Manion7 August 193023 October 1935
CALiberal}}"[[File:C.D. Howe, wartime.jpg75x150px]]C. D. Howe23 October 19351 November 1936
*Railways and Canals portfolio moved to Minister of Transport.*

Minister of Marine (1930–1936)

Key:

PortraitNameTerm of officePolitical partyMinistry
CALiberal}}"[[File:Arthur Cardin.jpg75x150px]]Arthur Cardin14 June 19307 August 1930
CAConservative (historical)}}"[[File:Alfred Duranleau.png75x150px]]Alfred Duranleau7 August 193019 July 1935
[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]vacant20 July 193529 August 1935
CAConservative (historical)}}"[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]Lucien Henri Gendron30 August 193523 October 1935
CALiberal}}"[[File:C.D. Howe, wartime.jpg75x150px]]C. D. Howe23 October 19351 November 1936
*Marine portfolio moved to Minister of Transport.*

Minister of Transport (1936–present)

Key:

PortraitNameTerm of officePolitical partyMinistryMinister of TransportMinister of Transport, Infrastructure, and CommunitiesMinister of TransportMinister of Transport and Internal TradeMinister of Transport and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
CALiberal}}"[[File:C.D. Howe, wartime.jpg75x150px]]C. D. Howe2 November 19367 July 1940Liberal16 (King)
CALiberal}}"[[File:Arthur Cardin.jpg75x150px]]Arthur Cardin8 July 194012 May 1942Liberal
CALiberal}}"[[File:C.D. Howe, wartime.jpg75x150px]]C. D. Howe (acting)13 May 19425 October 1942Liberal
CALiberal}}"[[File:Joseph Enoil Michaud.jpg75x150px]]Joseph-Enoil Michaud6 October 194217 April 1945Liberal
CALiberal}}"[[File:Lionel Chevrier.jpg75x150px]]Lionel Chevrier18 April 194514 November 1948Liberal
15 November 194830 June 195417 (St. Laurent)
CALiberal}}"[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]George Carlyle Marler1 July 195420 June 1957Liberal
CAConservative (historical)}};"[[File:George Hees.jpg75x150px]]George Hees21 June 195710 October 1960Progressive Conservative18 (Diefenbaker)
CAConservative (historical)}};"[[File:Léon Balcer portrait.jpg75x150px]]Léon Balcer11 October 196021 April 1963Progressive Conservative
CALiberal}}"[[File:George McIlraith portrait.jpg75x150px]]George McIlraith22 April 19632 February 1964Liberal19 (Pearson)
CALiberal}}"[[File:Jack Pickersgill portrait.jpg75x150px]]Jack Pickersgill3 February 196418 September 1967Liberal
CALiberal}}"[[File:Paul Hellyer portrait.jpg75x150px]]Paul Hellyer19 September 196719 April 1968Liberal
20 April 196829 April 196920 (P. E. Trudeau)
CALiberal}}"[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]James Armstrong Richardson (acting)30 April 19694 May 1969Liberal
CALiberal}}"[[File:Don Jamieson portrait.jpg75x150px]]Don Jamieson5 May 196926 November 1972Liberal
CALiberal}}"[[File:Jean Marchand1.jpg75x150px]]Jean Marchand27 November 197225 September 1975Liberal
CALiberal}}"[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]Otto Lang26 September 19753 June 1979Liberal
CAConservative (historical)}}"[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]Don Mazankowski4 June 19792 March 1980Progressive Conservative21 (Clark)
CALiberal}}"[[File:Jean-Luc Pepin portrait 1968 (edited).jpg75x150px]]Jean-Luc Pépin3 March 198011 August 1983Liberal22 (P. E. Trudeau)
CALiberal}}"[[File:Lloyd Axworthy 1980 (cropped).jpg75x150px]]Lloyd Axworthy12 August 198329 June 1984Liberal
30 June 198416 September 198423 (Turner)
CAConservative (historical)}};"[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]Don Mazankowski (2nd time)17 September 198429 June 1986Progressive Conservative24 (Mulroney)
CAConservative (historical)}};"[[File:Crosbie 1983-2 crop.jpg75x150px]]John Crosbie30 June 198630 March 1988Progressive Conservative
CAConservative (historical)}};"[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]Benoît Bouchard31 March 198822 February 1990Progressive Conservative
CAConservative (historical)}};"[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]Doug Lewis23 February 199020 April 1991Progressive Conservative
CAConservative (historical)}};"[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]Jean Corbeil21 April 199124 June 1993Progressive Conservative
25 June 19933 November 199325 (Campbell)
CALiberal}}"[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]Doug Young4 November 199324 January 1996Liberal26 (Chrétien)
CALiberal}}"[[File:David Anderson April 2011.jpg75x150px]]David Anderson25 January 199610 June 1997Liberal
CALiberal}}"[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]David Collenette11 June 199711 December 2003Liberal
CALiberal}}"[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]Tony Valeri12 December 200319 July 2004Liberal27 (Martin)
CALiberal}}"[[File:No image.svg75x150px]]Jean Lapierre20 July 20045 February 2006Liberal
CAConservative}};"[[File:Lawrence Cannon on March 29, 2010.jpg75x150px]]Lawrence Cannon6 February 200630 October 2008Conservative28 (Harper)
CAConservative}};"[[File:John Baird cropped 2011-08-04.jpg75x150px]]John Baird30 October 20086 August 2010Conservative
CAConservative}};"[[File:Chuck Strahl 2014.jpg75x150px]]Chuck Strahl6 August 201018 May 2011Conservative
CAConservative}};"[[File:Denis Lebel 2017.jpg75x150px]]Denis Lebel18 May 201115 July 2013Conservative
CAConservative}};"[[File:Lisa Raitt - 2017 (36917974502) (cropped)2.jpg75x150px]]Lisa Raitt15 July 20134 November 2015Conservative28 (Harper)
CALiberal}}"[[File:Marc Garneau - 2018 (42748534304) (cropped).jpg75x150px]]Marc Garneau4 November 201512 January 2021Liberal29 (J. Trudeau)
CALiberal}}"[[File:Canada bilateral at COP 26 (51671787786) (cropped).jpg75x150px]]Omar Alghabra12 January 202126 July 2023Liberal
CALiberal}}"[[File:Réseau Express Métropolitain (inauguration) 12 - Pablo Rodriguez (3-4 crop).jpg75x150px]]Pablo Rodriguez26 July 202319 September 2024Liberal
CALiberal}}"[[File:US Secretary of Defense hosts world leaders during UDCG 001 - Anita Anand (cropped).jpg75x150px]]Anita Anand19 September 202420 December 2024Liberal
CALiberal}}"[[File:US Secretary of Defense hosts world leaders during UDCG 001 - Anita Anand (cropped).jpg75x150px]]Anita Anand20 December 202414 March 2025Liberal29 (J. Trudeau)
CALiberal}}"[[File:Chrystia Freeland 2023 (cropped).jpg75x150px]]Chrystia Freeland14 March 202516 September 2025Liberal30 (Carney)
CALiberal}}"[[File:REUNIÓN CON STEVEN MACKINNON, MINISTRO DE ASUNTOS PARLAMENTARIOS, 05 DE MARZO DE 2024 (cropped).jpg75x150px]]Steven MacKinnon16 September 2025IncumbentLiberal30 (Carney)

References

References

  1. "Indemnities, Salaries and Allowances". Parliament of Canada.
  2. (21 June 2019). "The Transport Canada Portfolio".
  3. {{Cite canlaw. (31 Victoria)
  4. {{Cite canlaw. (31 Victoria)
  5. {{Cite canlaw. (42 Victoria)
  6. "Fourteenth Ministry – The Ministries – Guide to Canadian Ministries since Confederation". Privy Council Office.
  7. {{Cite canlaw. (1 Edward VIII)
  8. "Sixteenth Ministry – The Ministries – Guide to Canadian Ministries since Confederation". Privy Council Office.
  9. Technically it was assigned to the President of the Privy Council, which also had responsibility for intergovernmental affairs. http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/oic-ddc.asp?lang=eng&txtToDate=2013-07-15&txtPrecis=&Page=&txtOICID=&txtAct=&txtBillNo=&txtFromDate=2013-07-15&txtDepartment=&txtChapterNo=&txtChapterYear=&rdoComingIntoForce=&DoSearch=Search+/+List&pg=2&viewattach=28125&blnDisplayFlg=1
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