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
Prime Minister of Canada a knighthood from Queen Victoria. Following the 1919 Nickle Resolution, however, it was against non-binding policy for the sovereign to grant such honorific titles to Canadians; the last prime minister to be knighted was Sir Robert Borden, who was premier at the time the Nickle Resolution was debated in the House of Commons. Still, Bennett was in 1941, six years after he stepped down as prime minister, elevated to the peerage by King George VI as Viscount Bennett, of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgary and Hopewell in the Dominion of Canada. The Canadian Heraldic Authority (CHA)