28th Canadian Ministry
| 28th Canadian Ministry 28e conseil des ministres du Canada |
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 28th ministry of Canada |
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| Date formed | February 6, 2006 |
| Date dissolved | November 4, 2015 |
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| Head of government | Stephen Harper |
| Head of government's history | Premiership of Stephen Harper |
| Head of state | Queen Elizabeth II |
| No. of ministers | 39 |
| Ministers removed (Death/resignation/dismissal) |
30 |
| Member party | Conservative Party of Canada |
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| Election(s) | 2006, 2008, 2011 |
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| Budget(s) | 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 |
| Predecessor | 27th Canadian Ministry |
| Successor | 29th Canadian Ministry |
The Twenty-Eighth Canadian Ministry was the combined Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Ministers that governed Canada from the beginning of the 39th Parliament to the end of the 41st Parliament. Its original members were sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada on February 6, 2006, exactly two weeks after the 2006 election, and nine weeks and six days after the end of the 38th Canadian Parliament. Smaller than its recent predecessors, the Conservative Cabinet originally consisted of 27 members, including the prime minister. On January 4, 2007, five Secretaries of State were added to the ministry who are not members of the Cabinet itself. The cabinet resigned on the morning of November 4, 2015.
Only 24 of the original members were elected to serve as Conservative Members of Parliament (MP) in 2006; Senator Marjory LeBreton is the Leader of the Government in the Senate. The other two choices that raised some controversy were David Emerson, who was elected as a Liberal, but crossed the floor between the election and the swearing-in of the Cabinet to serve as Minister of International Trade, of the Pacific Gateway, and of the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics, and Michael Fortier, a Montreal-area member of the former Progressive Conservatives and co-chair of the Conservatives' 2006 federal campaign, who was not elected as an MP but was named a Senator on February 27, 2006, and subsequently served as Minister of Public Works and Government Services.
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