Minister of Families, Children and Social Development
{{Short description|Canadian cabinet position (2003–2025)}}
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| department = Department of Employment and Social Development
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| appointer = Monarch (represented by the governor general);{{Cite web|url=https://www.gg.ca/en/role/responsibilities/constitutional-duties|title=Constitutional Duties|website=The Governor General of Canada|access-date=2020-04-20|archive-date=2020-04-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200423211544/https://www.gg.ca/en/role/responsibilities/constitutional-duties|url-status=dead}}
| appointer_qualified = on the advice of the prime minister{{Cite web|url=https://www.ourcommons.ca/procedure-book-livre/Document.aspx?sbdid=73CC891E-0676-4773-850B-CCDCB472AD8C&sbpid=BE842475-5632-4969-835B-FC015CE50169&Language=E&Mode=1|title=House of Commons Procedure and Practice - 1. Parliamentary Institutions - Canadian Parliamentary Institutions|website=www.ourcommons.ca|access-date=2020-04-20}}
| termlength = genderp=~}}}} Majesty's pleasure
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| formation = 12 December 2003
| inaugural = Liza Frulla
| salary = {{nowrap|CA$299,900 (2024){{cite web |url = https://lop.parl.ca/sites/ParlInfo/default/en_CA/People/Salaries?ggCheckbox=false&senateCheckbox=false&HocCheckbox=true |title=Indemnities, Salaries and Allowances |date=April 1, 2024 |access-date=March 15, 2025 }}}}
| website = [http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/ www.hrsdc.gc.ca]
| native_name = {{smaller|{{nobold|{{lang|fr|Ministre de la Famille, des Enfants et du Développement social}}}}}}
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{{Politics of Canada}}
The minister of families, children and social development ({{langx|fr|ministre de la famille, des enfants et du développement social}}) is a minister of the Crown in the Cabinet of Canada. The associated department is Employment and Social Development Canada. On March 14, 2025 the position was abolished, its responsibilities being consolidated into the new position of Minister of Jobs and Families.
History
The position of Minister of Social Development was created in 2000 to be responsible for overseeing Social Development Canada a new federal department concerned with the needs of seniors, children, families and people with disabilities. Prior to 2003, these responsibilities were under the Minister of Human Resources Development.
On February 4, 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper merged the personnel and responsibilities of Social Development Canada into Human Resources and Skills Development Canada using an Order in Council, and did not name anybody to the post of Minister of Social Development.
On November 4, 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau transferred the employment responsibilities to the Minister of Labour and changed the name of the portfolio to Minister of Families, Children and Social Development.
The position was abolished on March 14, 2025, its responsibilities being consolidated into the new position of Minister of Jobs and Families.
Role
The Minister is also responsible for the:
List of ministers
Key:
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!No. !Portrait !Name !colspan=2|Term of office !Political party !Ministry |
| colspan=7|Minister of Social Development |
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| style="background:{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal}}; color:white" | 1
| |December 12, 2003 || July 19, 2004 |
| style="background:{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal}}; color:white" | 2
|50px |July 20, 2004 || February 5, 2006 |Liberal |
| colspan=7|Minister of Human Resources and Social Development |
| style="background:{{Canadian party colour|CA|Conservative}};"| 3
|50px |February 6, 2006 || January 3, 2007 |
| style="background:{{Canadian party colour|CA|Conservative}};"| 4
|50px |January 4, 2007 || October 29, 2008 |Conservative |
| colspan=7|Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development |
| style="background:{{Canadian party colour|CA|Conservative}};"| (3)
|50px |October 30, 2008 || July 15, 2013 |Conservative |
| colspan=7|Minister of Employment and Social Development |
| style="background:{{Canadian party colour|CA|Conservative}};"| 5
|50px |July 15, 2013 || February 9, 2015 |Conservative |
| style="background:{{Canadian party colour|CA|Conservative}};"| 7
|50px |February 9, 2015 || November 4, 2015 |Conservative |
| colspan=7|Minister of Families, Children and Social Development |
| style="background:{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal}}; color:white"| 8
|50px |November 4, 2015 || November 20, 2019 |Liberal |rowspan=4|29 (J. Trudeau) |
| style="background:{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal}}; color:white"| 9
|50px |November 20, 2019 || October 26, 2021 |Liberal |
| style="background:{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal}}; color:white"| 10
|50px |October 26, 2021 || July 26, 2023 |Liberal |
| style="background:{{Canadian party colour|CA|Liberal}}; color:white"| 11
|50px |July 26, 2023 || March 14, 2025 |Liberal |
| colspan=7|Position discontinued, replaced by the Minister of Jobs and Families |
=Minister of State for Social Development=
On July 15, 2012, MP Candice Bergen was appointed Minister of State for Social Development, a newly created position that was abolished two years later.{{Cite news|last=Harris|first=Kathleen|date=October 15, 2020|title=Harper adds 8 new faces in major cabinet shakeup|work=CBC News|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/harper-adds-8-new-faces-in-major-cabinet-shakeup-1.1307385|access-date=December 15, 2020}}
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!No. !Portrait !Name !colspan=2|Term of office !Political party !Ministry |
| colspan=7|Minister of State for Social Development |
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| style="background:{{Canadian party colour|CA|Conservative}};"| 6
|50px |July 15, 2013 || November 4, 2015 |Conservative |
References
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Families, Children and Social Development
Category:Labour relations in Canada
Category:Children, young people and families ministries of Canada
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