The minister of energy and natural resources <!-- Do not capitalize per MOS:JOBTITLES -->() is the minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for Natural Resources Canada (NRCan).
In addition to NRCan, the minister oversees the federal government's natural resources portfolio, which includes Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, the Canada Energy Regulator, and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, as well as the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore and the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Boards. The Energy Supplies Allocation Board and the Northern Pipeline Agency also report to the Minister as required.
The current minister of energy and natural resources is Tim Hodgson, since May 13, 2025. This position was established in 1995 under the Department of Natural Resources Act, S.C. 1994, c. 41, which merged the positions of the minister of energy, mines and resources and minister of forestry.
History
Prior to 1995, the responsibilities of the current natural resources portfolio were divided between the minister of energy, mines and resources and the minister of forestry, both posts which are now defunct. whereupon the minister of mines and technical surveys was abolished and the minister of energy, mines and resources was established in its place by Statute 14-15 Eliz. II, c. 25—which received royal assent on 16 June 1966 and proclaimed in-force on October 1 later that year.
Three decades later, in 1995, the energy, mines and resources portfolio merged with that of forestry to form the current minister of natural resources, under the Department of Natural Resources Act, S.C. 1994, c. 41—which received royal assent on December 15, 1994. In 1995, during the first mandate of Jean Chrétien's government, the forestry portfolio was merged with that of the minister of energy, mines, and resources to create the post of minister of natural resources. During the cabinet shuffle of July 26, 2023, this title was expanded to become the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources.
List of ministers
Key:
{| class="wikitable"
!No.
!Portrait
!Name
! colspan="2" |Term of office
!Political party
!Ministry
|-
! colspan="7"|Minister of Natural Resources
|-
! style="background:; color:white" | 1
| 50px
| Anne McLellan
| January 12, 1995 || June 10, 1997
| Liberal
| rowspan="3" |26 <small>(Chrétien)</small>
|-
! style="background:; color:white" | 2
| 50px
| Ralph Goodale
| June 11, 1997 || January 14, 2002
| Liberal
|-
! style="background:; color:white" | 3
| 50px
| Herb Dhaliwal
| January 15, 2002 || December 11, 2003
| Liberal
|-
! style="background:; color:white" | 4
| 50px
| John Efford
| December 12, 2003 || September 25, 2005
| Liberal
| rowspan="2" |27 <small>(Martin)</small>
|-
! style="background:; color:white" | 5
| 50px
| John McCallum
| September 26, 2005 || February 3, 2006
| Liberal
|-
! style="background:;" | 6
| 50px
| Gary Lunn
| January 6, 2006 || October 29, 2008
| Conservative
| rowspan="5" |28 <small>(Harper)</small>
|-
! style="background:;" | 7
| 50px
| Lisa Raitt
| October 30, 2008 || January 19, 2010
| Conservative
|-
! style="background:;" | 8
| 50px
| Christian Paradis
| January 19, 2010 || May 18, 2011
| Conservative
|-
! style="background:;" | 9
| 50px
| Joe Oliver
| May 18, 2011 || March 19, 2014
| Conservative
|-
! style="background:;" | 10
| 50px
| Greg Rickford
| March 19, 2014 || November 4, 2015
| Conservative
|-
! style="background:; color:white" | 11
| 50px
| Jim Carr
| November 4, 2015 || July 17, 2018
| Liberal
| rowspan="4" |29 <small>(J. Trudeau)</small>
|-
! style="background:; color:white" | 12
| 50px
| Amarjeet Sohi
| July 17, 2018|| November 20, 2019
| Liberal
|-
! style="background:; color:white" | 13
| 50px
| Seamus O'Regan
| November 20, 2019|| October 26, 2021
| Liberal
|-
! style="background:; color:white" | 14
| 50px
| Jonathan Wilkinson
| October 26, 2021 || July 26, 2023
| Liberal
|-
! colspan="7"|Minister of Energy and Natural Resources
|-
! rowspan="2" style="background:; color:white" | (14)
| rowspan="2" |50px
| rowspan="2" |Jonathan Wilkinson
| July 26, 2023 || March 14, 2025
| rowspan="2" |Liberal
| 29 <small>(J. Trudeau)</small>
|-
| March 14, 2025 || May 13, 2025
| rowspan="2" |30 <small>(Carney)</small>
|-
! style="background:; color:white" | 15
|
| Tim Hodgson
| May 13, 2025 || present
| Liberal
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+Ministers of Energy, Mines, and Resources
!No.
!Minister
!Term
!Ministry
|-
|1.
|Jean-Luc Pépin
|October 1, 1966 – April 20, 1968
|under Pearson
|-
|
|Jean-Luc Pépin (cont'd)
|April 20, 1968 – July 5, 1968
| rowspan="4" |under Trudeau Sr.
|-
|2.
|John James Greene
|July 6, 1968 – January 27, 1972
|-
|3.
|Donald Stovel Macdonald
|January 28, 1972 – September 25, 1975
|-
|4.
|Alastair Gillespie
|September 26, 1975 – June 3, 1979
|-
|5.
|Ramon John Hnatyshyn
|June 4, 1979 – March 2, 1980
|under Clark
|-
|6.
|Marc Lalonde
|March 3, 1980 – September 9, 1982
| rowspan="2" |under Trudeau Sr.
|-
|7.
|Jean Chrétien
|September 10, 1982 – June 29, 1984
|-
|8.
|Gerald A. Regan
|June 30, 1984 – September 16, 1984
|under Turner
|-
|9.
|Patricia Carney
|September 17, 1984 – June 29, 1986
| rowspan="4" |under Mulroney
|-
|10.
|Marcel Masse
|June 30, 1986 – January 29, 1989
|-
|11.
|Arthur Jacob Epp
|January 30, 1989 – January 3, 1993
|-
|12.
|William Hunter McKnight
|January 4, 1993 – June 24, 1993
|-
|13.
|Bobbie Sparrow
|June 25, 1993 – November 3, 1993
|under Campbell
|-
|14.
|Anne McLellan
|November 4, 1993 – January 11, 1995
|under Chrétien
|}
{| class="wikitable"
!No.
!Minister
!Term
!Ministry
|-
! colspan="4" |Minister of Forestry (1960–66)
|-
|1.
|Hugh John Flemming
|1962 – 1963
| rowspan="2" |under Diefenbaker
|-
|2.
|Martial Asselin
|1963
|-
|3.
|John Robert Nicholson
|April 22, 1963 – 1964
| rowspan="2" |under Pearson
|-
|4.
|Maurice Sauvé
|1964 – 1966
|-
! colspan="4" |Minister of Forestry and Rural Development
|-
|1.
|Maurice Sauvé
|1966 – 1968
|
|-
|
|Jean Marchand
|1968 – 1969
|
|-
! colspan="4" |Minister of Fisheries and Forests
|-
|1.
|Jack Davis
|1969 – 1971
|under Trudeau Sr.
|-
! colspan="4" |Minister of Forestry (1990–95)
|-
|1.
|Frank Oberle, Sr.
|February 23, 1990 – June 24, 1993
|under Brian Mulroney
|-
|2.
|Bobbie Sparrow
|June 25, 1993 – November 3, 1993
|under Kim Campbell
|-
|3.
|Anne McLellan
|November 4, 1993 – January 11, 1995
|under Jean Chrétien
|}
See also
- Natural Resources Canada
- List of forestry ministries