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Ministry of Labour (Ontario)

Canadian provincial ministry

Field	Value
agency_name	Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development
type	Ministry
logo	[[File:Ont-Gov-Shield-Logo.png	150px	class=skin-invert]]
nativename
logo_caption	Arms of the Government of Ontario
formed	1919
jurisdiction	Government of Ontario
headquarters	400 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
coordinates
minister1_name	David Piccini
minister1_pfo	Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development
minister2_name	Deepak Anand
minister2_pfo	Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development
website

The Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development is responsible for labour issues in the Canadian province of Ontario.

The Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development and its agencies are responsible for employment equity and rights, occupational health and safety, labour relations, and supporting apprenticeships, the skilled trades, and industry training. The ministry's three program responsibilities are delivered from a head office in Toronto and 19 offices organized around four regions, centred in Ottawa, Hamilton, Sudbury and Toronto. As well, the ministry oversees the work of eight specialized agencies.

The current minister of labour, immigration, training and skills development is David Piccini.

History

The Province entered the field in 1882 with the creation of the Bureau of Industries, which was attached to the Department of the Commissioner of Agriculture. In 1900, it was transferred to the Department of the Commissioner of Public Works and renamed as the Bureau of Labour, which subsequently became the Trades and Labour Branch in 1916.

In 1919, the Conservative government of William Howard Hearst secured passage of an Act to raise the Branch into a Cabinet-level department to be known as the Department of Labour. Finlay MacDiarmid, the Minister of Public Works, was appointed the first Minister of Labour as well, but the first full-time minister was Walter Rollo of the Independent Labour Party in the government of E.C. Drury that took office after the Conservative defeat in the 1919 general election.

In 1972, as part of a general reorganization of departments initiated by the government of Bill Davis, the department was renamed the Ministry of Labour.

In 2019, the Ministry of Labour changed its name to Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development to reflect its expanding mandate of training, apprenticeships and Employment Ontario.

Following the 2022 provincial election, the ministry was renamed to Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development.

List of ministers

Portrait	Name	Term of office	Tenure	Political party
(Ministry)	Note			colspan=4	Minister of Labour			ON	United Farmers}};"	United Farmers
(Drury)	ON	United Farmers}};"	1	ON	Conservative}};"	2	ON	Conservative}};"	Conservative
(Ferguson)	ON	Conservative}};"	3	ON	Conservative}};"	Conservative
(Henry)	ON	Conservative}};"	4	ON	Liberal}};"	5	ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(Hepburn)	ON	Liberal}};"	6	ON	Liberal}};"	7	ON	Liberal}};"	8	ON	Liberal}};"	9	ON	Liberal}};"	10	ON	Liberal}};"	11	ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(Conant)	ON	Liberal}};"	12	ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(Nixon)	ON	PC}};"	13	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Drew)	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Kennedy)	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Frost)	ON	PC}};"	14	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Robarts)	ON	PC}};"	15	ON	PC}};"	16	ON	PC}};"	17	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Davis)	ON	PC}};"	18	ON	PC}};"	19	ON	PC}};"	20	ON	PC}};"	21	ON	PC}};"	22	ON	PC}};"	23	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Miller)	ON	PC}};"	24	ON	Liberal}};"	25	ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(Peterson)	ON	Liberal}};"	26	ON	Liberal}};"	27	ON	NDP}};"	31	ON	NDP}};"	NDP
(Rae)	ON	NDP}};"	32	ON	PC}};"	33	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Harris)	ON	PC}};"	34	ON	PC}};"	35	ON	PC}};"	36	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Eves)	ON	Liberal}};"	37	ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(McGuinty)	ON	Liberal}};"	38	ON	Liberal}};"	39	ON	Liberal}};"	40	ON	Liberal}};"	41	ON	Liberal}};"	42	ON	Liberal}};"	43	ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(Wynne)	ON	Liberal}};"	44	ON	PC}};"	45	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Ford)	ON	PC}};"	46			colspan=4	Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development			ON	PC}};"	1			colspan=4	Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development			ON	PC}};"	1	ON	PC}};"	2
[[File:Walter Rollo 1919.png	60px]]	Walter Rollo
	Forbes Godfrey
	Joseph Monteith
	John Robb
	???
	David Croll
[[File:Mitchell Hepburn1.jpg	60px]]	Mitch Hepburn
interim
	Morrison MacBride	???
[[File:Norman Hipel.jpg	60px]]	Norman Hipel
[[File:Hon. Peter Heenan, M.L.A. (Kenora), Minister of Lands & Forests MIKAN 3216660.jpg	60px]]	Peter Heenan
	Charles Daley
	Bill Warrender
[[File:Henry Leslie Rowntree portrait.jpg	60px]]	Leslie Rowntree
	Dalton Bales
	Gordon Carton
	Fernand Guindon
	John MacBeth
	Bette Stephenson
	Robert Elgie
	Russ Ramsay
	Robert Elgie
	Bill Wrye
	Greg Sorbara
	Gerry Phillips
	Bob Mackenzie
	Shirley Coppen
[[File:ElizabethWitmerOktimg294.jpg	60px]]	Elizabeth Witmer
[[File:Jim_Flaherty_2007.JPG	60px]]	Jim Flaherty
		Chris Stockwell
	Brad Clark
	Chris Bentley
	Steve Peters
[[File:Brad Duguid - 2017 ROMA Conference (32499226581) (cropped).jpg	60px]]	Brad Duguid
[[File:Peter Fonseca 2022.jpg	60px]]	Peter Fonseca
[[File:CS Headshot 4.jpg	60px]]	Charles Sousa
[[File:Linda Jefferey - 2017 AMO Conference (36693552996) (cropped).jpg	60px]]	Linda Jeffrey
[[File:Naqvi_yasir_ottawa_(cropped).JPG	60px]]	Yasir Naqvi
[[File:Kevin Flynn, MPP Oakville.jpg	60px]]	Kevin Flynn
[[File:Laurie Scott, MPP.jpg	60px]]	Laurie Scott
[[File:Monte McNaughton 2.png	60px]]	Monte McNaughton
[[File:Monte McNaughton 2.png	60px]]	Monte McNaughton
[[File:Monte McNaughton 2.png	60px]]	Monte McNaughton
[[File:David Piccini QP.png	60px]]	David Piccini		present

References

{{Cite canlaw. (1882)
{{Cite canlaw. (1900)
{{Cite canlaw. (1916)
{{Cite canlaw. (1919)
{{Cite canlaw. (1972)
"Ontario Newsroom {{!}} Salle de presse de l'Ontario".
"Ministry of Labour expands name and duties - Landscape Ontario".
"Order in Council 1200/2022 {{!}} ontario.ca". Premier and President of the Council.

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