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Deputy Premier of Ontario
Vice-première ministre de l'Ontario
Incumbent Sylvia Jones since June 24, 2022
Executive Council of Ontario
Style	The Honourable (formal) Deputy premier (informal)
Status	Incumbent
Member of	Executive Council
Reports to	Legislative Assembly Premier
Seat	Queen's Park, Toronto
Appointer	The lieutenant governor on the advice of the premier
Term length	At His Majesty's pleasure
Inaugural holder	Bob Welch
Formation	September 21, 1977 (47 years ago) (1977-09-21)
Salary	$101,750 (2018)

The deputy premier of Ontario (French: vice-première ministre de l'Ontario) is a minister of the Crown and senior member of the provincial Executive Council (Cabinet). The office was first created in 1977, and is conferred on the advice of the premier of Ontario. Though the role is seen as informally important, it does not hold formal legal power in its own right, and does not automatically receive any powers in the case of absence or death of a premier.

Sylvia Jones is the 12th and current deputy premier of Ontario, assuming office on June 24, 2022. She concurrently serves as the minister of health.

Politics of Ontario
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Monarch: King Charles III Lieutenant Governor (list): Edith Dumont
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Legislative Assembly of Ontario Speaker: Ted Arnott Current assembly (list) Political parties Progressive Conservative New Democratic Liberal Green Recent elections: 2018 2022 Next By-elections Electoral districts
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Premier (list): Doug Ford Cabinet: Executive Council of Ontario Official Opposition Opposition Leader: Marit Stiles Shadow cabinet
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History

For much of the province's early history, the position of provincial secretary and registrar of Ontario was the second most powerful position in the Ontario Cabinet. This role diminished by the 1960s, overtaken by the deputy premier in 1977 and abolished in 1985.

To date, every person serving as deputy premier of Ontario has also concurrently held another senior position in the Ontario Cabinet. Bette Stephenson, Robert Nixon, Floyd Laughren, Ernie Eves, Jim Flaherty, and Dwight Duncan were all concurrently provincial treasurer or, as that position was renamed in 1993, minister of Finance.

Christine Elliott, deputy premier from 2018 to 2022, was widow of Jim Flaherty, deputy premier from 2001 to 2002 (who died in 2014).

Deputy premiers of Ontario

See also

• Deputy premier (Canada)
• List of Ontario premiers
• Politics of Ontario
• Premier (Canada)

References

1. "Public sector salary disclosure 2018: all sectors and seconded employees". Government of Ontario. June 14, 2019.
2. Lang, Eugene (August 6, 2020). "The role of deputy prime minister is not as powerful as most think". Policy Options. Archived from the original on 2022-01-15. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
3. Jun 29, Marieke Walsh Published on; 2018 11:40am (2018-06-29). "Doug Ford reveals 21-member cabinet featuring deputy premier Christine Elliott". iPolitics. Retrieved 2021-11-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
4. "Dwight Duncan". Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Retrieved 30 April 2024.

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