Ministry of Finance (Ontario)
The Ministry of Finance is a ministry of the Government of Ontario responsible for managing the province's fiscal policy , developing the provincial budget, and financial sector regulation. The minister of finance – called the treasurer before 1993 – leads the ministry and is responsible to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario .
History
For most of the period from 1867 until 1993, the minister was called the treasurer or provincial treasurer.[ 1]
The ministry were renamed the Ministry of Economics in 1956 and the minister became known as Minister in charge of Economics instead of treasurer. From January to December 1961, the ministry became the Ministry of Economics and Federal and Provincial Relations. The title of treasurer was revived in December 1961 with the minister also often holding the secondary title of minister of economics or some variation after 1968. Frank Miller had the sole title of minister of economics from 1978 until 1981 when he was given the additional title of treasurer. At various times in the 1960s and 1970s the minister also held the titles of chairman of the management board of cabinet , chairman of the treasury board and/or minister of revenue. This practice was revived in recent years with Greg Sorbara acting as finance minister and chair of both the management board and the treasury board. It has ended as there is now a different person holding the position of chair of the management and treasury board.
In 1993, the positions of treasurer and minister of economics were formally combined and renamed the minister of finance.
In early 2007, Premier Dalton McGuinty split the province's revenue collection function from the Ministry of Finance and resurrected the Ministry of Revenue ,[ 2] a portfolio that had not been used since the Ontario New Democratic Party government of Bob Rae in 1993. Following the 2011 Ontario general election , the Ministry of Revenue was merged back into the Ministry of Finance.
List of ministers
Portrait
Name
Term of office
Tenure
Political party(Ministry)
Note
Treasurer
Edmund Burke Wood
July 20, 1867
December 20, 1871
4 years, 153 days
Liberal Conservative (MacDonald )
Alexander Mackenzie
December 20, 1871
October 25, 1872
310 days
Liberal (Blake )
Adam Crooks
October 25, 1872
March 19, 1877
4 years, 145 days
Liberal (Mowat )
Samuel Wood
March 19, 1877
June 2, 1883
6 years, 75 days
Concurrently Commissioner of Agriculture
James Young
June 2, 1883
November 1, 1883
152 days
Concurrently Commissioner of Agriculture
Alexander Ross
November 2, 1883
September 16, 1890
6 years, 318 days
Concurrently Commissioner of Agriculture (November 2, 1883 - May 1, 1888)
Richard Harcourt
September 16, 1890
July 21, 1896
9 years, 35 days
July 21, 1896
October 21, 1899
Liberal (Hardy )
George William Ross
October 21, 1899
February 8, 1905
5 years, 110 days
Liberal (Ross )
While Premier
Arthur Matheson
February 8, 1905
January 25, 1913
7 years, 352 days
Conservative (Whitney )
Died in office
???
January 25, 1913
May 13, 1913
108 days
Isaac Lucas
May 13, 1913
October 2, 1914
1 year, 223 days
October 2, 1914
December 22, 1914
Conservative (Hearst )
Thomas McGarry
December 22, 1914
November 14, 1919
4 years, 327 days
Peter Smith
November 14, 1919
July 16, 1923
3 years, 244 days
United Farmers (Drury )
William Herbert Price
July 16, 1923
October 18, 1926
3 years, 94 days
Conservative (Ferguson )
Joseph Monteith
October 18, 1926
September 16, 1930
3 years, 333 days
Edward Arunah Dunlop
September 16, 1930
December 15, 1930
3 years, 106 days
December 15, 1930
December 31, 1933
Conservative (Henry )
George Stewart Henry
January 12, 1934
July 10, 1934
179 days
While Premier
Mitchell Hepburn
July 10, 1934
October 21, 1942
8 years, 236 days
Liberal (Hepburn )
While Premier
October 21, 1942
March 3, 1943
Liberal (Conant )
Arthur Gordon
March 3, 1943
May 18, 1943
167 days
May 18, 1943
August 17, 1943
Liberal (Nixon )
Leslie Frost
August 17, 1943
October 19, 1948
12 years, 0 days (first instance)
PC (Drew )
Concurrently Minister of Mines
October 19, 1948
May 4, 1949
PC (Kennedy )
Concurrently Minister of Mines
May 4, 1949
August 17, 1955
PC (Frost )
While Premier
Dana Porter
August 17, 1955
March 28, 1956
2 years, 166 days
Minister in Charge of the Department of Economics
Dana Porter
March 28, 1956
January 30, 1958
Leslie Frost
February 3, 1958
April 28, 1958
84 days (second instance) (12 years, 84 days in total)
While Premier
James Allan
April 28, 1958
January 27, 1961
8 years, 210 days
Concurrently Minister of Public Works (May 14, 1958 – December 22, 1958)
Minister of Economics and Federal and Provincial Relations
James Allan
January 27, 1961
December 15, 1961
Treasurer
PC (Robarts )
James Allan
December 15, 1961
November 24, 1966
Also Chair of the Treasury Board
Charles MacNaughton
November 24, 1966
July 23, 1968
4 years, 97 days (first instance)
Also Chair of the Treasury Board
Treasurer and Minister of Economics
Charles MacNaughton
July 23, 1968
March 1, 1971
Also Chair of the Treasury Board
Darcy McKeough
March 1, 1971
April 7, 1972
1 year, 190 days (first instance)
PC (Davis )
Also Chair of the Treasury Board
Treasurer and Minister of Economics and Intergovernmental Affairs
Darcy McKeough
April 10, 1972
September 7, 1972
Charles MacNaughton
September 7, 1972
March 15, 1973
130 days (second instance) (4 years, 286 days in total)
John White
January 15, 1973
June 18, 1975
2 years, 154 days
Darcy McKeough
June 18, 1975
August 16, 1978
3 years, 59 days (second instance) (4 years, 249 days in total)
Frank Miller
August 16, 1978
August 30, 1979
4 years, 319 days
Treasurer and Minister of Economics
Frank Miller
August 30, 1979
July 1, 1983
Larry Grossman
July 6, 1983
February 8, 1985
1 year, 299 days
Treasurer
PC (Miller )
Larry Grossman
February 8, 1985
May 1, 1985
Bette Stephenson
May 17, 1985
June 26, 1985
40 days
While Deputy Premier
Treasurer and Minister of Economics
Liberal (Peterson )
Robert Nixon
June 26, 1985
October 1, 1990
5 years, 97 days
Concurrently Minister of Revenue (June 26, 1985 – September 29, 1987) Interim Chair of Management Board of Cabinet (June 17, 1986 – September 29, 1987) Minister of Financial Institutions (September 29, 1987 – August 16, 1988)
Floyd Laughren
October 1, 1990
February 1, 1993
4 years, 268 days
NDP (Rae )
Minister of Finance
Floyd Laughren
February 1, 1993
June 26, 1995
Ernie Eves
June 26, 1995
February 8, 2001
5 years, 227 days
PC (Harris )
While Deputy Premier
Jim Flaherty
February 8, 2001
April 14, 2002
1 year, 65 days
While Deputy Premier
Janet Ecker
April 15, 2002
October 22, 2003
1 year, 190 days
PC (Eves )
Greg Sorbara
October 23, 2003
October 11, 2005
1 year, 353 days (first instance)
Liberal (McGuinty )
Concurrently Chair of Management Board of Cabinet
Dwight Duncan
October 11, 2005
May 23, 2006
224 days (first instance)
Concurrently Chair of Management Board of Cabinet
Greg Sorbara
May 23, 2006
October 30, 2007
1 year, 160 days (second instance) (3 years, 148 days in total)
Interim minister; Concurrently Chair of Management Board of Cabinet
Dwight Duncan
October 30, 2007
February 11, 2013
5 years, 104 days (second instance) (5 years, 328 days in total)
Concurrently Chair of Management Board of Cabinet; Concurrently Minister of Revenue (September 18, 2008 – June 24, 2009); Concurrently Deputy Premier (October 20, 2011 – February 11, 2013) Interim Minister of Government Services (November 27, 2012 – February 11, 2013)
Charles Sousa
February 11, 2013
June 29, 2018
5 years, 138 days
Liberal (Wynne )
Concurrently Chair of Management Board of Cabinet; Associate Ministers of Finance (Ontario Retirement Pension Plan ) are: Mitzie Hunter (June 24, 2014 – June 13, 2016)Indira Naidoo-Harris (June 13, 2016 – August 24, 2016)
Vic Fedeli
June 29, 2018
June 20, 2019
356 days
PC (Ford )
While Chair of Cabinet
Rod Phillips
June 20, 2019
December 31, 2020
1 year, 194 days
Peter Bethlenfalvy
December 31, 2020
present
4 years, 4 days
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