Ministérial Committees

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Through the years, the Cabinet has endowed itself of boards and ministerial committees to increase its efficiency, its coordination and its coherence. These committees are the following:

Conseil du trésor (Board of Treasure)

Mandate

The Conseil du trésor has triple role. Firstly, it is mainly in charge of the preparation of the budget of the government and the control of its implementation. Secondly, it has as a mandate to implement the policies and measures of management of human, financial, material and technological resources of the government. Thirdly, it plays a role of regulator and coordinator of negotiations with the public and parapublic sectors, thus making it possible the government to ensure its role of employer of Quebec's public servants.

Members of the Conseil du trésor

Comité des priorités
(Committee on Priorities)

Mandate

À venir.

Members of the Comité des priorités

Comité de législation
(Committee on Legislation)

Mandate

The Comité de législation has primarily as a function to formulate, for the Cabinet, opinions on the legislative or statutary implications of the memories or other documents which are presented to him, in addition to ensuring of legislative and legal coherence of bills that are approved by the Cabinet before their presentation to the National Assembly.

Members of the Comité de législation

Comité ministériel du développement social, éducatif et culturel (Ministerial Committee on Social, Educationnal and Cultural Development)

Mandate

The fields of activities entrusted to the Comité ministériel du développement social, éducatif et social are the following: education, labour, vocational training, health and social services, safety of the income, family and childhood, public safety, justice, Francophonie, arts and letters, cultural goods, information and communications, rights of the person, immigrants, cultural communities, elderly, youth, female condition, as well as the sport and the leisure.

Members

Comité ministériel au développement des régions (Ministerial Committee on Regions Development)

Mandate

The mandate of the Comité ministériel au développement des régions consists in ensuring the leadership, the coherence and the follow-up of the governmental actions specifically related to the regionalization process.

Members

Comité ministériel de la prospérité économique et du développement durable (Ministerial Committee on Economic Prosperity and Sustainable Development)

Mandate

The mandate of the Comité ministériel de la prospérité économique et du développement durable consists in ensuring the coherence of the governmental action in the fields of the local and regional economic development, environmental protection, territory, jobs creation, production, marketing and export, simplification and reduction of regulations, as well as innovation, research and technology.

Members

Sources

Bernard, André. 1996. La vie politique au Québec et au Canada. Sainte-Foy: Presses de l'Université du Québec.

Bernard, André. 1995. Les institutions politiques au Québec et au Canada. Montréal : Boréal.

Gouvernement du Québec. Ministère du Conseil exécutif. 2007. Le fonctionnement du Conseil des ministres. Québec: Le ministère. Site internet: www.mce.gouv.qc.ca/publications/fonctionnement.pdf. [à jour au 25 mai 2007].

Last update: June 3, 2007

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