Minister of the Environment (Canada)

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The Minister of the Environment (French: Ministre de l'Environnement) is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for overseeing the federal government's environment department, Environment Canada. The Minister is also responsible for overseeing Parks Canada and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency.

Noted environment ministers of the past have included Jack Davis, Roméo LeBlanc, Jean Charest, Stéphane Dion, Sheila Copps and David Anderson.

The current Minister of the Environment is John Baird, replacing Rona Ambrose, after a cabinet shuffle on January 4, 2007.

[edit] Ministers

1.	Jack Davis	June 11, 1971 - August 7, 1974	under Prime Minister Trudeau
2.	Jeanne Sauvé	August 8, 1974 - December 4, 1975
*	Roméo LeBlanc (Acting)	December 5, 1975 - January 21, 1976
3.	Jean Marchand	January 22, 1976 - June 30, 1976
*	Roméo LeBlanc (2nd time) (Acting)	July 1, 1976 - September 13, 1976
4.	Roméo LeBlanc	September 14, 1976 - April 1, 1979
5.	Leonard Marchand	April 2, 1979 - June 3, 1979
6.	John Fraser	June 4, 1979 - March 2, 1980	under Prime Minister Joe Clark
7.	John Roberts	March 3, 1980 - August 11, 1983	under Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau
8.	Charles Caccia	August 12, 1983 - June 29, 1984
		June 30, 1984 - September 16, 1984	under Prime Minister John Napier Turner
9.	Suzanne Blais-Grenier	September 17, 1984 - August 19, 1985	under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
10.	Tom McMillan	August 20, 1985 - December 7, 1988
*	Lucien Bouchard (Acting)	December 8, 1988 - January 29, 1989
11.	Lucien Bouchard	January 30, 1989 - May 21, 1990
*	Frank Oberle (Acting)	May 21, 1990 - May 22, 1990
*	Robert de Cotret (Acting)	May 22, 1990 - September 19, 1990
12.	Robert de Cotret	September 20, 1990 - April 20, 1991
13.	Jean Charest	April 21, 1991 - June 24, 1993
14.	Pierre H. Vincent	June 25, 1993 - November 3, 1993	under Prime Minister Kim Campbell
15.	Sheila Copps	November 4, 1993 - January 24, 1996	under Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
16.	Sergio Marchi	January 25, 1996 - June 10, 1997
17.	Christine Stewart	June 11, 1997 - August 2, 1999
18.	David Anderson	August 3, 1999 - December 11, 2003
		December 12, 2003 - July 19, 2004	under Prime Minister Paul Martin
19.	Stéphane Dion	July 20, 2004 - February 5, 2006
20.	Rona Ambrose	February 6, 2006 - January 3, 2007	under Prime Minister Stephen Harper
21.	John Baird	January 4, 2007-

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