Ontario. Cabinet Office

• Cabinet Office

The Cabinet Office, under the direction of the Secretary of the Cabinet, was established by Order in Council on September 23, 1948.

As the central agency of the Cabinet, the Cabinet Office provides policy analysis, staffing, and administrative support to a number of standing and ad hoc Committees of Cabinet, including the Policy and Priorities Board.

Additionally, the Cabinet Office acquired responsibility for the Executive Council Office, which was established in 1867 and is responsible for the official records of the Executive Council.

The Cabinet Office formed a part of the Department of the Provincial Secretary from the time of its establishment until 1949. In 1949, however, it was essentially merged with the Premier's Office.

This administrative arrangement of combining the Premier's Office and the Cabinet Office, continued until the general reorganization of government departments in 1972. At that time, the Cabinet Office was formally separated from the Premier's Office and established as a separate entity, though still under the administrative control of the Premier.

The Cabinet Office is responsible for providing administrative services and policy analysis for Cabinet and its Committees. Activities of the Cabinet Office include: arranging Cabinet meetings, preparing the agendas, recording discussion and preparing minutes, analyzing ministry submissions, briefing committee chairmen, preparing the Throne Speech and the Prorogation Speech, and coordinating the annual expenditure budget.

Cabinet Office also works with the Government House Leader to implement the legislative agenda and liases with the Lieutenant Governor.

RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

Bell, George and Andrew Pascoe. The Ontario Government: Structure and Function (1988)

Canadiana Name Authorities, 1996-12- 24

Government of Ontario Telephone Directories, 1998-2006

Archivist(s):
E. Coulter, R. Anger