1. History

2. List of Ministers

3. Responsibilities

4. General duties

5. References
    Sources 

The Minister of Canadian Heritage ({{lang-fr|Ministre du Patrimoine canadien}}) is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who heads the Department of Canadian Heritage, the federal government department responsible for culture, media, sports, and the arts in Canada.

History

The position was created in 1996 to combine the posts of Minister of Multiculturalism and Citizenship and Minister of Communications. The "Status of Women" was merged from the Minister responsible for the Status of Women in 2006. In 2008, the Status of Women portfolio was transferred to a Minister of State.

On August 16, 2013, the multiculturalism portfolio was assigned to the Hon. Jason Kenney who was appointed Minister for Multiculturalism in addition to his other portfolios.

Those portfolios and responsibilities such as for the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, were returned to the Heritage Minister with the swearing in of the 29th Canadian Ministry in November 2015.^[2]

The present Minister of Canadian Heritage, since 18 July 2018, is the Hon. Pablo Rodriguez.^[3] Rodriguez is also responsible for the National Capital Commission, which was formerly under the senior Ottawa-area cabinet minister under the Harper government, and the Canadian Secretary to the Queen, which was previously under the Privy Council Office.^[2]

List of Ministers

Responsibilities

Prior to 2003, their responsibilities included National Parks and historic sites. The Minister of Canadian Heritage is responsible for:

• Department of Canadian Heritage
• Canada Council for the Arts
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Canadian Race Relations Foundation^[2]
• Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
• Canadian Secretary to the Queen^[2]
• Library and Archives Canada
• National Arts Centre
• National Battlefields Commission
• National Capital Commission^[2]
• National Film Board of Canada
• Canadian Museum of History
• Canadian War Museum
• Virtual Museum of New France)
• Canadian Museum for Human Rights
• Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
• Canadian Museum of Nature
• Ingenium (Canada Science and Technology Museum, Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, Canada Aviation and Space Museum)
• National Gallery of Canada
• Portrait Gallery of Canada)
• Public Service Commission of Canada
• Public Service Staff Relations Board
• Telefilm Canada

General duties

The Minister's general powers, duties, and functions are set out by section 4 of the Department of Canadian Heritage Act,^[4] which provides as follows:

(1) The powers, duties and functions of the Minister extend to and include all matters over which Parliament has jurisdiction, not by law assigned to any other department, board or agency of the Government of Canada, relating to Canadian identity and values, cultural development and heritage.

(2) The Minister’s jurisdiction referred to in subsection (1) encompasses, but is not limited to, jurisdiction over

• the promotion of a greater understanding of human rights, fundamental freedoms and related values;
• multiculturalism;
• the arts, including cultural aspects of the status of the artist;
• cultural heritage and industries, including performing arts, visual and audio-visual arts, publishing, sound recording, film, video and literature;
• national battlefields;
• the encouragement, promotion and development of sport;
• the advancement of the equality of status and use of English and French and the enhancement and development of the English and French linguistic minority communities in Canada;
• state ceremonial and Canadian symbols;
• broadcasting, except in respect of spectrum management and the technical aspects of broadcasting;
• the formulation of cultural policy, including the formulation of cultural policy as it relates to foreign investment and copyright;
• the conservation, exportation and importation of cultural property; and
• national museums, archives and libraries.

In addition, sections 42 to 44 of the Official Languages Act confer certain other responsibilities on the Minister of Canadian Heritage^[5] (see Minister responsible for Official Languages (Canada)).

References

Sources

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120303212736/http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/pc-ch/min/index-eng.cfm Our Ministers and Secretaries of State]
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