Attorney General (Ontario)

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The Attorney General of Ontario's main office (McMurtry-Scott Building) in downtown Toronto

The Attorney General of Ontario is the chief legal adviser to His Majesty the King in Right of Ontario and, by extension, the Government of Ontario.[1] The attorney general is a senior member of the Executive Council of Ontario, and oversees the Ministry of the Attorney General, which is the department responsible for the oversight of the justice system in the province of Ontario.[2]

The attorney general is an elected Member of Provincial Parliament who is appointed by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario on the constitutional advice of the Premier of Ontario. Doug Downey was appointed attorney general of Ontario on 20 June 2019, replacing Caroline Mulroney.[3][4] Most holders of the office have been practising lawyers, with the exception of Mulroney and Marion Boyd.[5][6]

Authority

The attorney general has the authority to represent the provincial government in court personally, but this task is often delegated to crown attorneys, or to crown counsel in civil cases.[2] Previous Attorneys General Ian Scott and Roy McMurtry were both courtroom lawyers before entering politics, and later acted for Ontario in constitutional appeals before the Supreme Court of Canada.[7][8][9]

Responsibilities

The Ministry of the Attorney General delivers and administers a wide range of justice services, including:

  1. administering approximately 115 statutes;
  2. conducting criminal proceedings throughout Ontario;
  3. providing legal advice to, and conducting litigation on behalf of, all government ministries and many agencies, boards and tribunals;
  4. providing advice on, and drafting, all legislation and regulations; and
  5. coordinating and administering court services throughout Ontario.

The Ontario Crown Attorney's Office, the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee, the Office of the Children's Lawyer (formerly called the Official Guardian), and the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) all fall within the Ministry's responsibilities. The Ministry also partially funds Legal Aid Ontario, which is administered by an independent board and also receives funding through the Law Foundation of Ontario and from the federal government.

Portfolios

In 2008, the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (IPRD), now the Law Enforcement Complaints Agency, was established under the authority of the Attorney General, as a civilian body with powers invested through Public Inquiries Act to investigate complaints about municipal police forces and the Ontario Provincial Police.[10][11][12]

Following the 2013 release of former Supreme Court judge Frank Iacobucci's report on the relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the Ontario justice system,[13] a position of deputy attorney general with responsibility for Aboriginal issues was created.[14][11]

List of attorneys-general

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Upper Canada

1. John White (Frontenac County) 1791–1800
2. Robert Isaac Dey Gray 1800–1801
3. Thomas Scott 1801–1806
4. William Firth 1807–1812
5. G. D'Arcy Boulton 1814–1818
6. Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of Toronto 1818–1829, acting AG 1812–1814
7. Henry John Boulton 1829–1833
8. Robert Sympson Jameson 1833–1837, last British-appointed AG
9. Christopher Alexander Hagerman 1837–1840, first Canadian-born AG of Upper Canada
10. William Henry Draper 1840–1841, last AG of Upper Canada

Province of Canada (Canada West)

In 1841, the Province of Upper Canada became the District of Canada West in the Province of Canada

11. William Henry Draper 1841–1843
12. Robert Baldwin 1843–1848
13. William Buell Richards 1848–1854
14. John A. Macdonald 1854–1862, 1864–1867
15. John Sandfield Macdonald 1862–1864

After 1867, the attorney general position was split into federal and provincial counterparts:

Attorney General of Ontario
Attorney General of Quebec (renamed the Ministry of Justice in 1965)
Attorney General of Canada

Ontario (since Confederation)

Portrait Name Term of office Tenure Political party
(Ministry) 		Note
Attorney General rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|Liberal
Conservative
(MacDonald)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|1 File:John S Macdonald-crop.jpg John Sandfield
Macdonald		 Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd While Premier.
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|2 File:AdamCrooks23.jpg Adam Crooks Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| Liberal
(Blake)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|3 File:Oliver Mowat.jpg Oliver Mowat Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| Liberal
(Mowat) 		While Premier.
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|4 File:Arthur Sturgis Hardy.jpg Arthur Sturgis Hardy Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| Liberal
(Hardy) 		While Premier.
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|5 File:John Morison Gibson.jpg John Morison Gibson Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| Liberal
(Ross)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|6 File:Francis Robert Latchford.jpg Francis Robert Latchford Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|7 File:James Whitney.jpg James Whitney Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd rowspan=3; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|Conservative
(Whitney) 		While Premier.
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|8 File:JamesJosephFoy23.jpg James Joseph Foy Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|9 ??? Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|10 File:Isaac Benson Lucas.jpg Isaac Benson Lucas Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|Conservative
(Hearst)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|11 File:WilliamEdgarRaney.jpg William Raney Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|United Farmers
(Drury)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|12 File:William Folger Nickle.png William Folger Nickle Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|Conservative
(Ferguson)
rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|13 File:William Herbert Price portrait 1937 (cropped).jpg William Herbert Price Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd
Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|Conservative
(Henry)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|14 File:Arthur Roebuck 1935.jpg Arthur Roebuck Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd rowspan=3; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| Liberal
(Hepburn) 		Resigned from cabinet to protest Hepburn's handling of the United Auto Workers strike.
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|15 Paul Leduc Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd Interim Attorney General upon Roebuck's resignation, while Minister of Mines.
rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|16 File:Gordon Daniel Conant.jpg Gordon Daniel Conant Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd Conant remained Attorney General when he served as Premier. He resigned both position on May 18, 1943.
Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| Liberal
(Conant)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|17 Eric Cross Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| Liberal
(Nixon) 		Concurrently Minister of Municipal Affairs.
rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|18 Leslie Blackwell Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|PC
(Drew)
Template:Dts Template:Dts style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|PC
(Kennedy)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|19 File:Dana Porter.JPG Dana Porter Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|PC
(Frost)
rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|20 File:Kelso Roberts (cropped).jpg Kelso Roberts Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd
Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=5; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| PC
(Robarts)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|21 File:Attorney-General Fred Cass 1962 (3-4 cropped).jpg Fred Cass Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|22 Arthur Wishart Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd
Minister of Justice and Attorney General
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|22 Arthur Wishart Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|23 Allan Lawrence Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd rowspan=7; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| PC
(Davis) 		Concurrently Provincial Secretary for Justice from January 5, 1972, to September 28, 1972).
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|24 Dalton Bales Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd
Attorney General
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|24 Dalton Bales Template:Dts Template:Dts
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|25 File:Bob Welch portrait.jpg Bob Welch Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd
(first instance)		 Concurrently Provincial Secretary for Justice.
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|26 John Clement Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd Concurrently Provincial Secretary for Justice and Solicitor General (June 18, 1975 - October 7, 1975).
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|27 File:Royag.jpg Roy McMurtry Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd Concurrently Solicitor General (September 11, 1978 – February 13, 1982).
The ministry headquarters is named jointly after McMurtry and Ian Scott.
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|28 File:Bob Welch portrait.jpg Bob Welch Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd
(second instance)
(1 year, 240 days in total) 		rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| PC
(Miller) 		Concurrently Deputy Premier.
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|29 Alan Pope Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|30 Ian Scott Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| Liberal
(Peterson) 		Concurrently Minister Responsible for Native Affairs.
Interim Solicitor General (February 3, 1986 – January 9, 1987; June 6, 1989 – August 2, 1989).
The ministry headquarters is named jointly after Scott and Roy McMurtry.
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|31 File:Howard Hampton small.png Howard Hampton Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd rowspan=3; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| NDP
(Rae)
Minister of Justice and Attorney General
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|32 Marion Boyd Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd First woman to serve as Attorney General.
Only Attorney General who was not a lawyer.
Attorney General rowspan=4; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| PC
(Harris)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|33 File:Charles Harnick, Attorney General of Ontario, 1995–1999.JPG Charles Harnick Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd Concurrently Minister Responsible for Native Affairs.
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|34 File:Jim Flaherty 2007.JPG Jim Flaherty Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd Concurrently Minister Responsible for Native Affairs.
rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|35 David Young Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd Concurrently Minister Responsible for Native Affairs.
Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| PC
(Eves)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|36 Norm Sterling Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd Concurrently Minister Responsible for Native Affairs.
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|37 Michael J. Bryant Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd rowspan=3; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| Liberal
(McGuinty) 		Concurrently Minister Responsible for Native Affairs and Minister Responsible for Democratic Renewal (October 23, 2003 – June 29, 2005).
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|38 Chris Bentley Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd Concurrently Minister Responsible for Native Affairs (January 18, 2010 – October 20, 2011).
rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|39 File:John Gerretsen 2011.png John Gerretsen Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd
Template:Dts Template:Dts rowspan=3; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| Liberal
(Wynne)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|40 Madeleine Meilleur Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd Concurrently Minister Responsible for Francophone Affairs.
First francophone to serve as Attorney General.
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|41 File:Naqvi yasir ottawa (cropped).JPG Yasir Naqvi Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd First visible-minority and first Muslim to serve as Attorney General.
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|42 File:Caroline Mulroney attending ROMA Conference (cropped).jpg Caroline Mulroney Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Ayd rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|PC
(Ford) 		Concurrently Minister Responsible for Francophone Affairs.
Licensed to practice law in New York; not licensed to practice law in Ontario
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|43 File:Doug Downey.png Doug Downey Template:Dts present Template:Ayd

See also

References

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