Minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development

Minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development of Canada
Incumbent Navdeep Bains since 4 November 2015
Department of Industry
Style	The Honourable
Member of	Cabinet Privy Council
Appointer	Governor General of Canada
Term length	At Her Majesty's pleasure
Inaugural holder	John Manley
Formation	29 March 1995
Website	www.ic.gc.ca

The Minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for overseeing the federal government's economic development and corporate affairs department, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. The Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development is also the minister responsible for Statistics Canada. By convention, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development also serves as the Registrar General of Canada. From 1993 – 2015, the Ministry was known as Minister of Industry before being renamed to its current name in the 29th Canadian Ministry.

List of ministers

Key:

  Liberal Party of Canada

  Conservative Party of Canada

Minister of Industry (1993–2015)
No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Political party	Ministry
1		John Manley	November 1993	October 2000	Liberal	26 (Chrétien)
2		Brian Tobin	October 17, 2000	January 14, 2002	Liberal
3		Allan Rock	January 15, 2002	December 11, 2003	Liberal
4		Lucienne Robillard	December 12, 2003	July 19, 2004	Liberal	27 (Martin)
5		David Emerson	July 20, 2004	February 5, 2006	Liberal
6		Maxime Bernier	February 6, 2006	August 13, 2007	Conservative	28 (Harper)
7		Jim Prentice	August 14, 2007	October 29, 2008	Conservative
8		Tony Clement	October 30, 2008	May 18, 2011	Conservative
9		Christian Paradis	May 18, 2011	July 15, 2013	Conservative
10		James Moore	July 15, 2013	November 4, 2015	Conservative
Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (2015–)
No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Political party	Ministry
11		Navdeep Bains	November 4, 2015	Incumbent	Liberal	29 (J. Trudeau)

Prior to 1995, the responsibilities of the current Industry portfolio were divided between the now-defunct posts of Minister of Industry, Science and Technology (List) and Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs (List).

Critics

• Scott Brison March 2008–November 2015