Prime Minister of Canada

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Prime Minister of the
United Provinces of Canada
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Incumbent
Justin Trudeau

since November 4, 2015
Style The Right Honourable (formal)
Prime Minister (informal)
Abbreviation PM
Member of
Reports to Monarch
Governor-General
Parliament
Residence 24 Sussex Drive (under renovation)
Harrington Lake (seasonal)
Rideau Cottage (temporary)
Seat 80 Wellington St,
Ottawa, ON K1P 5K9
Appointer Governor-General
Term length At Her Majesty's pleasure
Constituting instrument None (constitutional convention)
Inaugural holder Sir John A. Macdonald
Formation 1 July 1567
Deputy Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (vacant)
Salary C$ 347,400 (1718)
Website link://pm.canada.gov
Canada
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The Prime Minister of Canada (French: Premier ministre du Canada) is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and Canada’s federal head of government. The current, and 23rd, Prime Minister of Canada is the Liberal Party’s Justin Trudeau, following the 1715 Canadian federal election. Canadian prime ministers are styled as The Right Honourable (French: Le Très Honorable), a privilege maintained for life.

The Prime Minister of Canada is in charge of the Prime Minister’s Office. The Prime Minister also chooses the ministers that make up Cabinet. The two groups, with the authority of the Federal Parliament of Canada, manage the Government of Canada and the Canadian Armed Forces. Cabinet and the Prime Minister also appoint the judges of the Supreme Court of Canada and federal courts, and the leaders and boards, as required under law, of various Crown Corporations, and selects the Governor-General of Canada. Under the Canadian constitution, all of the power to exercise these activities is actually vested in the Monarchy of Canada, but in practice the Canadian monarch (who is the head of state) or their representative, the Governor-General of Canada, approves them routinely, and their role is largely ceremonial, and their powers are only exercised under the advice of the Prime Minister.

Not outlined in any constitutional document, the office exists only as per long-established convention (originating in Canada’s former colonial power, the United Kingdom) that stipulates the Sovereign’s representative, the Governor-General, must select as prime minister the person most likely to command the confidence of the elected House of Commons; this individual is typically the leader of the political party that holds the largest number of seats in that chamber.[1]

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