Minister responsible for the Canada Revenue Agency

The minister responsible for the Canada Revenue Agency (French: ministre responsable de l’Agence du revenu du Canada) is the minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), as well as the administration of taxation law and collection. Until March 14, 2025, the position was known as the minister of national revenue (French: ministre du revenu national).

Minister responsible for the Canada Revenue Agency
ministre responsable de l’Agence du revenu du Canada
Incumbent Élisabeth Brière since December 20, 2024
Canada Revenue Agency
Style	The Honourable
Member of	Parliament Privy Council Cabinet[1]
Reports to	Parliament Prime Minister[2]
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	William Daum Euler
Formation	March 21, 1927
Salary	CA$299,900 (2024)[5]
Website	canada.ca/revenue-agency

The current minister responsible for the Canada Revenue Agency is Élisabeth Brière who took office on December 20, 2024.^[6]

History

The responsibility for collecting taxes was first assigned to the minister of inland revenue, formed in 1867. Between 1892 and 1897, during the 7th Canadian Parliament, the portfolio was considered to be only of the ministry, but not the Cabinet, and was thus referred to as the controller of inland revenue during that time.^[7][8] The minister of inland revenue title returned after 1897 and remained until the office was formally abolished.^[8]

In 1918, the offices of the minister of inland revenue and the minister of customs were combined into a new position, the minister of customs and inland revenue. In 1921, the minister of customs and inland revenue was replaced by the minister of customs and excise by Statute 11-12 Geo. V, c. 26, which assented to on 4 June 1921.

On March 31, 1927, the position of minister of customs and excise was abolished and replaced by the present minister of national revenue. The new National Revenue department was established by expanding the former Department of Customs and Excise with a new facility for the collection of income tax, which had formerly been the responsibility of the Department of Finance. The department became known as Revenue Canada during the 1970s, and subsequently became the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA) in 1999.^[9] In 2003, the CCRA was split into the Canada Revenue Agency and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), the latter falling under the public safety and emergency preparedness portfolio.

On March 14, 2025, at the start of the 30th Canadian Ministry, the position was renamed the minister responsible for the Canada Revenue Agency.

List of ministers

Key:

  Liberal Party of Canada

  Conservative Party of Canada

  Historical conservative parties

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Political party	Ministry
Minister of National Revenue
1		William Daum Euler	March 21, 1927	August 7, 1930	Liberal	14 (King)
2		Edmond Baird Ryckman	August 7, 1930	December 1, 1933	Conservative	15 (Bennett)
3		Robert Charles Matthews	December 6, 1933	August 13, 1935	Conservative
4		Earl Lawson	August 14, 1935	October 23, 1935	Conservative
5		James Lorimer Ilsley	October 24, 1935	July 7, 1940	Liberal	16 (King)
6		Colin William George Gibson	July 8, 1940	March 7, 1945	Liberal
-		James Angus MacKinnon (Acting)	March 8, 1945	April 18, 1945	Liberal
7		David Laurence MacLaren	April 19, 1945	July 29, 1945	Liberal
-		James Angus MacKinnon (Acting)	July 30, 1945	August 28, 1945	Liberal
8		James Joseph McCann	August 29, 1945	November 15, 1948	Liberal
			November 15, 1948	June 20, 1957		17 (St-Laurent)
9		George Clyde Nowlan	June 21, 1957	August 8, 1962	Progressive Conservative	18 (Diefenbaker)
10		Hugh John Flemming	April 9, 1962	April 21, 1963	Progressive Conservative
11		Jack Garland	April 22, 1963	March 14, 1964	Liberal	19 (Pearson)
-		George McIlraith (Acting)	March 19, 1964	June 28, 1964	Liberal
12		Edgar Benson	June 29, 1964	January 17, 1968	Liberal
13		Jean Chrétien	January 18, 1968	April 20, 1968	Liberal
			April 20, 1968	July 5, 1968		20 (P.E. Trudeau)
14		Joseph Julien Jean-Pierre Côté	July 6, 1968	September 23, 1970	Liberal
15		Herb Gray	September 24, 1970	November 26, 1972	Liberal
16		Robert Stanbury	November 27, 1972	August 7, 1974	Liberal
17		Ron Basford	August 8, 1974	September 25, 1975	Liberal
18		Bud Cullen	September 26, 1975	September 13, 1976	Liberal
19		Monique Bégin	September 14, 1976	September 15, 1977	Liberal
20		Joseph-Philippe Guay	September 16, 1977	November 23, 1978	Liberal
21		Tony Abbott	November 24, 1978	June 3, 1979	Liberal
22		Walter Baker	June 4, 1979	March 2, 1980	Progressive Conservative	21 (Clark)
23		Bill Rompkey	March 3, 1980	September 29, 1982	Liberal	22 (P.E. Trudeau)
24		Pierre Bussières	September 30, 1982	June 29, 1984	Liberal
25		Roy MacLaren	June 30, 1984	September 16, 1984	Liberal	23 (Turner)
26		Perrin Beatty	September 17, 1984	August 19, 1985	Progressive Conservative	24 (Mulroney)
27		Elmer MacKay	August 20, 1985	January 29, 1989	Progressive Conservative
28		Otto Jelinek	January 30, 1989	June 24, 1993	Progressive Conservative
29		Garth Turner	June 25, 1993	November 3, 1993	Progressive Conservative	25 (Campbell)
30		David Anderson	November 4, 1993	January 24, 1996	Liberal	26 (Chrétien)
31		Jane Stewart	January 25, 1996	June 10, 1997	Liberal
32		Herb Dhaliwal	June 11, 1997	August 2, 1999	Liberal
33		Martin Cauchon	August 3, 1999	January 14, 2002	Liberal
34		Elinor Caplan	January 15, 2002	December 11, 2003	Liberal
35		Stan Keyes	December 12, 2003	July 19, 2004	Liberal	27 (Martin)
36		John McCallum	July 20, 2004	February 5, 2006	Liberal
37		Carol Skelton	February 6, 2006	August 14, 2007	Conservative	28 (Harper)
38		Gordon O'Connor	August 14, 2007	October 29, 2008	Conservative
39		Jean-Pierre Blackburn	October 30, 2008	January 19, 2010	Conservative
40		Keith Ashfield	January 19, 2010	May 18, 2011	Conservative
41		Gail Shea	May 18, 2011	July 15, 2013	Conservative
42		Kerry-Lynne Findlay	July 15, 2013	November 4, 2015	Conservative
43		Diane Lebouthillier	November 4, 2015	July 26, 2023	Liberal	29 (J. Trudeau)
44		Marie-Claude Bibeau	July 26, 2023	December 20, 2024	Liberal
44		Élisabeth Brière	December 20, 2024	March 14, 2025	Liberal
Minister responsible for the Canada Revenue Agency
(44)		Élisabeth Brière	March 14, 2025	Incumbent	Liberal	30 (Carney)

Predecessors

Minister of Inland Revenue

Minister	From	To	Ministry	Description
Minister of Inland Revenue
William Pearce Howland	1 July 1867	14 July 1868	1st (Macdonald)
Alexander Campbell, Senator (acting)	15 July 1868	15 November 1869
Alexander Morris	16 November 1869	1 July 1872
Charles Tupper	2 July 1872	3 March 1873		Concurrently served as Minister of Customs
John O'Connor	4 March 1873	30 June 1873		O'Connor was appointed Postmaster General on 1 July 1873.
Thomas Nicholson Gibbs	1 July 1873	5 November 1873
Télesphore Fournier	7 November 1873	7 July 1874	2nd (Mackenzie)	Fournier was appointed Minister of Justice and Attorney General (AG) on 3 July 1874.
Félix Geoffrion	8 July 1874	8 November 1876
Toussaint Antoine Rodolphe Laflamme	9 November 1876	7 June 1877		Laflamme was appointed Minister of Justice and AG on 8 June 1877
Joseph-Édouard Cauchon	8 June 1877	7 October 1877
Wilfrid Laurier	8 October 1877	8 October 1878
vacant	17 October 1878	25 October 1878	3rd (Macdonald)
Louis François Georges Baby	26 October 1878	28 October 1880
vacant	29 October 1880	7 November 1880
James Cox Aikins, Senator	8 November 1880	22 May 1882
John Costigan	23 May 1882	24 November 1892
			4th (Abbott)
Controller of Inland Revenue
John Fisher Wood	5 December 1892	16 December 1895	5th (Thompson)
			6th (Bowell)
Edward Gawler Prior	17 December 1895	8 July 1896
			7th (Tupper)
Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière	13 July 1896	29 June 1897	8th (Laurier)	Joly was not in cabinet until 29 June 1897, thereafter Minister of Inland Revenue
Minister of Inland Revenue
Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière	29 June 1897	21 June 1900	8th
Michel Esdras Bernier	22 June 1900	18 January 1904
Louis-Philippe Brodeur	19 January 1904	5 February 1906
William Templeman	6 February 1906	6 October 1911
Wilfrid Bruno Nantel	10 October 1911	19 October 1914	9th (Borden)
Pierre-Édouard Blondin	20 October 1914	5 October 1915
Esioff-Léon Patenaude	6 October 1915	7 January 1917
Albert Sévigny[8]	8 January 1917	1 April 1918
			10th (Borden)
vacant	2 April 1918	13 May 1918	10th
Arthur Lewis Sifton	14 May 1918	17 May 1918		Sifton was also Minister of Customs, and was appointed Minister of Customs and Inland Revenue on May 18, 1918.

Minister of Customs and Inland Revenue

No.	Minister	Term	Ministry
Minister of Customs and Inland Revenue
1.	Arthur Lewis Sifton	May 18, 1918 – September 1, 1919	Cabinet of Borden
2.	John Dowsley Reid (acting)	September 2, 1919 – December 30, 1919
3.	Martin Burrell	December 31, 1919 – July 7, 1920
	vacant	July 8, 1920 – July 10, 1920
4.	Rupert Wilson Wigmore	July 13, 1920 – June 3, 1921	Cabinet of Meighen
Minister of Customs and Excise
1.	Rupert Wilson Wigmore	June 4, 1921 – September 20, 1921	Cabinet of Meighen
2.	John Babington Macaulay Baxter	September 21, 1921 – December 29, 1921
3.	Jacques Bureau	December 29, 1921 – September 4, 1925	Cabinet of King
4.	Georges-Henri Boivin	September 5, 1925 – June 28, 1926
5.	Henry Herbert Stevens (acting until July 12)	June 29, 1926 – September 25, 1926	Cabinet of Meighen
6.	William Daum Euler	September 25, 1926 – March 30, 1927	Cabinet of King

See also

• Taxation in Canada
• Government revenue
• Revenue service