Federal Election 2025: Would a Stormont—Dundas—Glengarry MP be a cabinet contender?
Going all the way back to 1867, when Canada’s Parliament first opened in Ottawa at the dawn of the new Dominion, the Canadian cabinet has played a crucial role in the direction of our country. The Canadian Privy Council was the first privy council within the British Empire not based in London. Since that time the size of cabinet has varied. Sir John A. Macdonald’s first cabinet only had 11 ministers but grew to 15 by 1889. The smallest cabinet in Canadian history was Arthur Meighen&