Minister of Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction

{{Short description|Former Canadian cabinet ministerial position}}

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| post = Minister of Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction

| body = Canada

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| department = Public Safety Canada

| style = The Honourable

| member_of = {{hlist |Cabinet ||Privy Council}}

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| appointer = Governor General of Canada

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| termlength = At His Majesty's pleasure

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| formation = 18 July 2018

| inaugural = Bill Blair

| salary = $255,300 (2017){{cite web|url=https://lop.parl.ca/ParlInfo/Lists/Salaries.aspx?Menu=HOC-Politic&Section=03d93c58-f843-49b3-9653-84275c23f3fb|title=Indemnities, Salaries and Allowances|publisher=Parliament of Canada}}

| abolished = 20 November 2019

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The Minister of Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction ({{langx|fr|Ministre de la Sécurité frontalière et de la Réduction du crime organisé}}) was a short-lived secondary ministerial position under Public Safety Canada with focus of combating organized crime and "irregular migration."{{Cite news|last=Paperny|first=Anna Mehler|date=2018-07-18|title=Canada's Trudeau, facing criticism, appoints border security minister|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/canada-us-canada-immigration-border-idCAKBN1K82DJ-OCADN|access-date=2021-04-27}}

It was a new portfolio introduced in July 2018 during the government of Justin Trudeau. Some criticisms upon its creation included that, it fuelled an "unfounded sense of crisis;" wantonly conflated border security and organized crime; and added further confusion regarding roles and responsibilities, as there already exists overlaps between the portfolio of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship and that of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness (which includes the Canada Border Services Agency and the RCMP).{{Cite web|title=Concerns: Ministry of Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction {{!}} OCASI|url=https://ocasi.org/concerns-ministry-border-security-and-organized-crime-reduction|access-date=2021-04-27|website=ocasi.org}}{{Cite web|date=2019-11-21|title=Public Safety once again a sprawling portfolio of pressing concerns|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/public-safety-once-again-a-sprawling-portfolio-of-pressing-concerns-1.4696469|access-date=2021-04-27|website=CTVNews|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Challenges, but no crisis at the border|url=https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/challenges-no-crisis-border|access-date=2021-04-27|website=Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives}}

The last and only office holder was Bill Blair.{{cite news |title=Trudeau cabinet shuffle brings new faces, several changes for run-up to 2019 campaign |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-cabinet-shuffle-2018-1.4749976 |accessdate=20 July 2018 |work=CBC News |date=July 18, 2018}}{{cite web |title=Profile - Blair, Bill |url=https://lop.parl.ca/sites/ParlInfo/default/en_CA/People/Profile?personId=18537 |accessdate=20 July 2018}} Since 2024, Dominic LeBlanc holds the border security portfolio without it being an official ministry.https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-cabinet-shuffle-1.7415706