Associate Minister of National Defence

Associate Minister of National Defence of Canada ; Ministre associé de la Défense nationale
	Incumbent; Lawrence MacAulay; since 1 March 2019
	Department of National Defence
Style	The Honourable
Member of	House of Commons; Privy Council; Cabinet[1];
Reports to	Parliament; Prime Minister[2];
Appointer	Monarch (represented by the governor general);[3]; on the advice of the prime minister[4]
Term length	At Her Majesty's pleasure
Inaugural holder	Charles Gavan Power
Formation	July 12, 1940
Salary	CA$269,800 (2019)[5]
Website	www.forces.gc.ca

The associate minister of national defence (French: ministre associé de la défense nationale) is a member of the Canadian cabinet who is responsible for various files within the defence department as assigned by the prime minister or defence minister.

The position was created in 1940 during World War II under the War Measures Act along with the creation of a minister of defence for air and a minister of defence for naval services. These positions lapsed with the end of the war. The position of associate minister of defence was recreated in 1953 when the National Defence Act was amended to provide for the appointment in peacetime.

This post remained vacant under Prime Ministers Pierre Trudeau, Joe Clark and John Turner. Brian Mulroney revived the position but it was abolished under Kim Campbell when she decreased the size of cabinet from 35 to 24 ministers. The post was also not used under Jean Chrétien.

This position reappeared on December 12, 2003, when Paul Martin chose his first cabinet and named Albina Guarnieri as the associate minister of national defence and minister of state for civil preparedness, and the portfolio passed to Mauril Bélanger in a subsequent reshuffle. Stephen Harper did not name anyone to the position until his May 18, 2011 reshuffle, when Julian Fantino was appointed to the portfolio. The position was left vacant by Harper in the July 15, 2013 cabinet shuffle.

Since forming government in 2015, Justin Trudeau has appointed the minister of veterans affairs as associate minister of national defence.

Associate Ministers of National Defence

	Tenure		Prime Minister
Charles Gavan Power	July 12, 1940	November 26, 1944	King (16)
vacant	November 27, 1944	November 15, 1948	King (16)
vacant	November 15, 1948	February 11, 1953	St-Laurent (17)
Ralph Osborne Campney	February 12, 1953	June 30, 1954
vacant	July 1, 1954	April 26, 1957
Paul Hellyer	April 27, 1957	June 20, 1957
vacant	June 21, 1957	August 19, 1959	Diefenbaker (18)
Pierre Sévigny	August 20, 1959	February 8, 1963
vacant	February 9, 1963	April 21, 1963
Lucien Cardin	April 22, 1963	February 14, 1965	Pearson (19)
Léo Cadieux	February 15, 1965	September 18, 1967
vacant	September 19, 1967	April 20, 1968
	April 20, 1968	June 3, 1979	P.E. Trudeau (20)
	June 4, 1979	March 2, 1980	Clark (21)
	March 3, 1980	June 29, 1984	P.E. Trudeau (22)
	June 30, 1984	September 16, 1984	Turner (23)
	September 17, 1984	August 19, 1985	Mulroney (24)
Harvie Andre	August 20, 1985	June 29, 1986
Paul Dick	June 30, 1986	June 29, 1989
Mary Collins	June 30, 1986	January 3, 1993
vacant	January 4, 1993	June 24, 1993
	June 25, 1993	November 3, 1993	Campbell (25)
	November 4, 1993	December 11, 2003	Chrétien (26)
Albina Guarnieri	December 12, 2003	July 20, 2004	Martin (27)
Mauril Bélanger	July 20, 2004	February 6, 2006	Martin (27)
vacant	6 February 2006	18 May 2011	Harper (28)
Julian Fantino	18 May 2011	4 July 2012
Bernard Valcourt	4 July 2012	22 February 2013
Kerry-Lynne Findlay	22 February 2013	15 July 2013
vacant	22 February 2013	5 January 2015
Julian Fantino	5 January 2015	3 November 2015
Kent Hehr	4 November 2015	28 August 2017	J. Trudeau (29)
Seamus O'Regan	28 August 2017	14 January 2019
Jody Wilson-Raybould	14 January 2019	12 February 2019
Lawrence MacAulay	1 March 2019	Present

Cadieux and Hellyer were later appointed as minister of national defence.

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References

"The Canadian Parliamentary system - Our Procedure - House of Commons". www.ourcommons.ca. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
"Review of the Responsibilities and Accountabilities of Ministers and Senior Officials" (PDF).
"Constitutional Duties". The Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
"House of Commons Procedure and Practice - 1. Parliamentary Institutions - Canadian Parliamentary Institutions". www.ourcommons.ca. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
"Indemnities, Salaries and Allowances". Library of Parliament. April 11, 2018. Archived from the original on June 1, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.

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[1] "The Canadian Parliamentary system - Our Procedure - House of Commons". www.ourcommons.ca. Retrieved 2020-04-20.

[2] "Review of the Responsibilities and Accountabilities of Ministers and Senior Officials" (PDF).

[3] "Constitutional Duties". The Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 2020-04-20.

[4] "House of Commons Procedure and Practice - 1. Parliamentary Institutions - Canadian Parliamentary Institutions". www.ourcommons.ca. Retrieved 2020-04-20.

[salary-5] "Indemnities, Salaries and Allowances". Library of Parliament. April 11, 2018. Archived from the original on June 1, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.