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Ministry of Infrastructure (Ontario)

Provincial ministry

Field	Value
agency_name	Ministry of Infrastructure
type	Ministry
nativename	fr
logo	[[File:Ont-Gov-Shield-Logo.png	150px	class=skin-invert]]
logo_caption	Arms of the Government of Ontario
formed	2016
preceding1	Ministry of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure
preceding2
jurisdiction	Government of Ontario
minister1_name	Kinga Surma
minister1_pfo	Minister of Infrastructure
minister2_name	Stephen Crawford
minister2_pfo	Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Infrastructure
deputyminister2_pfo
chief2_position
child2_agency
keydocument1
website

The Ministry of Infrastructure is a ministry responsible for public infrastructure in the Canadian province of Ontario. The current minister is Kinga Surma.

It is currently responsible for two crown agencies: Waterfront Toronto and Infrastructure Ontario (which was merged with the Ontario Realty Corporation in 2011).

History

The maintenance and management of public infrastructure has consistently been a key function of the government since well before Confederation.

The Board of Works in the Province of Upper Canada was responsible for superintending, managing and controlling public works in the province. It was merged with a similar board in Lower Canada in 1841. The board was replaced in 1846 by the commissioners of public works who were responsible for "managing and controlling the construction, maintenance and repair of all canals, harbours, roads or parts of roads, bridges, slides, and other public works and buildings". Although legislations did not specifically designate the office of the commissioners as the Department of Public Works, that is how the commissioners refer to it in their first annual report.

At Confederation in 1867, responsibility for public works in Ontario was taken over by the Department of Public Works for Ontario, administered by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works. In 1874, legislation was passed establishing a standalone commissioner to be responsible for the Department of Public Works. From 1896 to 1900 the Provincial Instructor in Road-Making was under the department.

In 1900, both the Office of the Commissioner of Highways and the Bureau of Labour were established as part of the Department of Public Works. In 1914, the Office of the Commissioner of Highways (by then renamed the Highways Branch), was elevated to Department status, becoming the Department of Public Highways. Similarly, by 1919, the Bureau of Labour had become the Department of Labour. Also in 1900, the Colonization Roads Branch was transferred to the Department of Public Works. Formerly with the Department of Crown Lands and responsible for constructing and repairing roads in sparsely settled areas of the province, this Branch was transferred to the Department of Lands, Forests and Mines in 1919.

The Department of Public Works continued to exist until 1972, when the government was considerably re-organized as the various Departments were restructured and renamed as Ministries. The Ministry of Government Services was created, assuming most of the functions of the former Department of Public Works, including the functions of constructing and maintaining government buildings.

In 1987, the Realty Group was formed within the Ministry of Government Services to provide accommodation and real estate services for the Ontario Government. In 1993, The Ontario Realty Corporation was established as the successor entity to the Realty Group, the Ontario Mortgage Corporation, and the Ontario Land Corporation. It was established as a Crown corporation and reported through the Management Board Secretariat. The Ministry of Government Services also ceased to exist in 1993, transferring most of its corporate services function, including buildings and facilities management, to the Management Board Secretariat.

In 2003, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure Renewal was created out of the winding-up of the Ontario Superbuild Corporation, inheriting its advisory and policy development and coordination responsibilities. Between 2003 and 2008, it assumed oversight of various agencies including the Smart Growth Secretariat, Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, Ontario Realty Corporation, Infrastructure Ontario, and Liquor Control Board of Ontario.

Between 2008 and 2010, the Ministry was briefly merged with the Ministry of Energy to form the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure. Between 2014 and 2016, it was again briefly merged, this time with the Economic Development Ministry to form the Ministry of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure.

In 2024, the Ministry was merged with the Queen’s Park Restoration Secretariat.

List of ministers

Name	Term of office	Tenure	Political party
(Ministry)	Note			colspan=3	Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works		ON	Liberal-Conservative}};"	Liberal
Conservative
(MacDonald)	ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(Blake)	ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(Mowat)			colspan=3	Commissioner of Public Works				ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(Hardy)	ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(Ross)	ON	Conservative}};"	Conservative
(Whitney)			colspan=3	Minister of Public Works		ON	Conservative}};"	Conservative
(Hearst)			colspan=3	Ministry of Public Works and Highways				ON	United Farmers}};"	United Farmers
(Drury)	ON	Conservative}};"	Conservative
(Ferguson)			colspan=3	Ministry of Public Works				ON	Conservative}};"	Conservative
(Henry)	ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(Hepburn)	ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(Conant)	ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(Nixon)	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Drew)	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Kennedy)	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Frost)	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Robarts)	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Davis)			colspan=3	Minister of Government Services				ON	PC}};"	PC
(Miller)	ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(Peterson)	ON	NDP}};"	NDP
(Rae)			colspan=3	Chair of the Management Board of Cabinet		ON	PC}};"	PC
(Harris)	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Eves)			colspan=3	Minister of Public Infrastructure Renewal		ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(McGuinty)			colspan=3	Minister of Energy and Infrastructure						colspan=3	Minister of Infrastructure	ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(Wynne)			colspan=3	Minister of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure						colspan=3	Minister of Infrastructure	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Ford)
ON	Liberal-Conservative}};"		John Carling
ON	Liberal}};"		Archibald McKellar
ON	Liberal}};"
ON	Liberal}};"		Christopher Finlay Fraser			Resigned due to poor health.
ON	Liberal}};"		William Harty
ON	Liberal}};"
ON	Liberal}};"		Francis Robert Latchford
ON	Liberal}};"		William Andrew Charlton
ON	Conservative}};"		Joseph Octave Reaume
ON	Conservative}};"		Joseph Octave Reaume
ON	Conservative}};"		Findlay George MacDiarmid
ON	Conservative}};"		Findlay George MacDiarmid
ON	United Farmers}};"		Frank Campbell Biggs
ON	Conservative}};"		George Stewart Henry
Joseph Monteith				Concurrently Minister of Labour
ON	Conservative}};"		Joseph Monteith			Concurrently Minister of Labour
Leopold Macaulay				Concurrently Minister of Highways
ON	Liberal}};"		Thomas McQuesten
(first instance)	Concurrently Minister of Highways
ON	Liberal}};"		Colin Campbell
ON	Liberal}};"		Farquhar Oliver
(first instance)	Concurrently Minister of Welfare, resigned to protest Gordon Conant being named Premier.
ON	Liberal}};"		Thomas McQuesten
(second instance)
(3 years, 297 days in total)	Concurrently Minister of Highways and Minister of Municipal Affairs
ON	Liberal}};"		Farquhar Oliver
(second instance)
(2 years, 6 days in total)
ON	PC}};"		George Doucett			Concurrently Minister of Highways
ON	PC}};"
ON	PC}};"
ON	PC}};"		Fletcher Stewart Thomas
ON	PC}};"		William Griesinger			Resigned from the provincial cabinet in 1958 after he was implicated in a stock trading scandal involving Northern Ontario Natural Gas.
ON	PC}};"		James Allan			(interim)
ON	PC}};"		Ray Connell
ON	PC}};"
ON	PC}};"		Jack Simonett
ON	PC}};"		James Auld
(first instance)
ON	PC}};"		James Snow			Ministry was formally renamed from Public Works to Government Services on April 7, 1972
ON	PC}};"		Margaret Scrivener
ON	PC}};"		John Smith
ON	PC}};"		James Auld
(second instance)
(1 years, 63 days in total)
ON	PC}};"		George McCague
ON	PC}};"		Lorne Henderson
ON	PC}};"		Douglas Wiseman
ON	PC}};"		George Ashe
ON	PC}};"		Bob Runciman
ON	PC}};"		Jim Gordon
ON	Liberal}};"		Elinor Caplan
ON	Liberal}};"		Sean Conway
ON	Liberal}};"		Richard Patten
ON	Liberal}};"		Chris Ward
ON	NDP}};"		Frances Lankin
ON	NDP}};"		Fred Wilson
In 1993, most of the functions performed by the Ministry of Government Services were transferred to the Secretariat of the Management Board of Cabinet.
ON	NDP}};"		Brian Charlton
ON	PC}};"		David Johnson
ON	PC}};"		Chris Hodgson
ON	PC}};"		David Tsubouchi
ON	PC}};"
ON	Liberal}};"		David Caplan
ON	Liberal}};"		George Smitherman
ON	Liberal}};"		Gerry Phillips
ON	Liberal}};"		Brad Duguid
(first instance)	Duguid continued to be Minister of Energy until 2011
ON	Liberal}};"		Bob Chiarelli
(first instance)
ON	Liberal}};"		Glen Murray
ON	Liberal}};"		Brad Duguid
(second instance)
(2 years, 202 days in total)
ON	Liberal}};"		Bob Chiarelli
(second instance)
(4 years, 193 days in total)
ON	PC}};"		Monte McNaughton
ON	PC}};"		Laurie Scott
ON	PC}};"		Kinga Surma		present

References

(January 25, 2011). "Infrastructure Ontario and Ontario Realty Corporation To Merge". [[Ministry of Finance (Ontario).
(September 13, 2024). "Schedule - Order in Council 1171/2024".

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