Minister of International Trade Diversification | |
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Ministre de la Diversification du commerce international | |
Incumbent since November 20, 2019Vacant | |
Global Affairs Canada | |
Style | The Honourable |
Status | vacant |
Member of | |
Reports to | |
Appointer | Monarch (represented by the governor general);[3] on the advice of the prime minister[4] |
Term length | At His Majesty's pleasure |
Inaugural holder | Gerald Regan |
Formation | 8 December 1983 |
Final holder | Jim Carr |
Abolished | November 20, 2019 |
Salary | $255,300 (2017)[5] |
Website | www |
The Minister of International Trade Diversification (French: ministre de la Diversification du commerce international) was a minister of the Crown position in the Canadian Cabinet who was responsible for the federal government's international trade portfolio.
Along with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, the office was one of the three ministers who led Global Affairs Canada, the Canadian foreign affairs department. Since the 2019 federal election, the international trade portfolio is now overseen by the Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade,[6] who remains one of the three ministers of the Crown responsible for Global Affairs Canada.[7]