Minister of Social Development (Canada) Stephanie Cadieux was appointed the BC Minister of Social Development. She is the previous Minister of Labour Citizens' Services and Open Government and is the MLA of the Surrey - Panorama district. She was elected in the 2009 provincial election. Minister of Social Development (Canada) The Minister of Social Development () is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for overseeing Social Development Canada, the federal government's department concerned with the needs of seniors, children, families and people with disabilities. On February 6, 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper merged the personnel and responsibilities of Social
Deputy Prime Minister of Canada the Liberal leadership in 2006 that was triggered when Martin resigned. Aside from Chrétien, the only deputy prime minister to even become leader of their party (not counting Erik Nielsen and Herb Gray, who acted as leaders of their respective parties, but only on a temporary basis, and before their time as deputy prime minister) was Jean Charest, who took over as leader of the Progressive Conservative party following its defeat at the 1993 election, which saw party leader Kim Campbell defeated in her riding. However, the Progressive Conservatives would never form a government again, and Charest left the party