Talk:Minister of International Trade Diversification

Merger discussion

Merge Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade into this article. In the new Canadian cabinet, the successor to the Minister of International Trade Diversification is a new post filled by Mary Ng: the Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade. Although the new title includes Min. Ng's title from before the election (when she was Minister of Small Business and Export Promotion, a minister responsible for ISED), she is clearly now the successor to the Minister of International Trade Diversification, one of the ministers responsible for Global Affairs - see: https://www.international.gc.ca/gac-amc/minister-ministre/index.aspx?lang=eng#a1

--Jonnyruutu (talk) 13:39, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Oppose as "Small business" is not a real portfolio and only exists because of government pandering. When International trade will be given back its own minister and small business will be merged to whatever other department a subsequent government will shove the word "small business" in its minister's title, we'll be happy to have kept this article unmerged. Mottezen (talk) 03:04, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

In light of this view, I have copied the table of former ministers to the article Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade Jonnyruutu (talk) 15:18, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Given the Trudeau Jr Ministry's frequent fad-based ministerial title changes, there is a strong argument to move everything back under Minister for International Trade (Canada), which remains the formal, permanent title established by legislation in December 1983. That was when Government Organization Act, 1983 was proclaimed, updated the Department of External Affairs Act to provides for a "Minister for International Trade" to assist the senior departmental minister, then the Secretary of State for External Affairs, on trade matters. While the title of the senior minister was updated in 1995 to Minister of Foreign Affairs, the trade minister title (along with the international development minister title) survived through numerous departmental name changes.

All the other titles are "to be styled" titles, i.e. titles used for carrying business. For example, the Instrument of Advice gazetted for the July 2023 cabinet shuffle, the current minister Mary Ng was listed as

Minister for International Trade, to be styled Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade and Economic Development

Milton Chan (talk) 17:40, 16 October 2024 (UTC)