Ford ministry
26th ministry of Ontario
2018–present
Date formed	June 29, 2018
People and organisations
Monarch	Elizabeth II Charles III
Lieutenant Governor	Elizabeth Dowdeswell Edith Dumont
Premier	Doug Ford
Premier's history	Premiership of Doug Ford
Deputy Premier	Christine Elliott (2018-2022) Sylvia Jones (since 2022)
No. of ministers	36
Member party	Progressive Conservative
Status in legislature	Majority (2018–2022) 76 / 124 (61%) Majority (2022–2025) 83 / 124 (67%) Majority (2025–present) 80 / 124 (65%)
Opposition cabinet	Horwath Shadow Cabinet (2018-2022) Tabuns Shadow Cabinet (2022-2023) Stiles Shadow Cabinet (since 2023)
Opposition party	New Democratic
Opposition leader	Andrea Horwath (2018-2022) Peter Tabuns (2022-2023) Marit Stiles (2023–2025)
History
Elections	2018,2022,2025
Legislature terms	42nd Parliament 43rd Parliament 44th Parliament
Predecessor	Wynne ministry

TheFord ministry is theCabinet, chaired byPremierDoug Ford, that began governingOntario shortly before the opening of the42nd Parliament. The original members were sworn in during a ceremony held atQueen's Park on June 29, 2018.^[1][2]

Ford has carried out four majorCabinet reshuffles: once in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024, and 2025.

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The cabinet was sworn in byLieutenant GovernorElizabeth Dowdeswell on June 29. The cabinet featured Ford as Premier andMinister of Intergovernmental Affairs withformer Progressive Conservative leadership candidatesChristine Elliott asDeputy Premier andMinister of Health, andCaroline Mulroney asAttorney General. Formerinterim leaders of the Progressive ConservativesVic Fedeli andJim Wilson were assigned to beMinister of Finance andMinister of Economic Development, respectively. This initial cabinet also featuredLisa MacLeod as bothMinister of Community and Social Services andMinister of Children and Youth Services,Lisa Thompson asMinister of Education,Rod Phillips asMinister of the Environment, andJohn Yakabuski asMinister of Transportation.^[3]

The first change to the cabinet came on November 2, 2018, when Jim Wilson resigned to sit as an independent and Todd Smith assumed his role as Minister of Economic Development.^[4]

The first major cabinet shuffle came on June 20, 2019, as the premier expanded the cabinet to 28 members^[5]Doug Downey,Paul Calandra,Stephen Lecce andRoss Romano were promoted to cabinet to be Attorney General, Government House Leader, Minister of Education, andMinister of Training, Colleges and Universities, respectively.Jill Dunlop,Kinga Surma, andPrabmeet Sarkaria were promoted to be Associate Ministers. Rod Phillips became Minister of Finance, Jeff Yurek the Minister of the Environment, Todd Smith the Minister of Children and Youth Services, Caroline Mulroney the Minister of Transportation, Vic Fedeli the Minister of Economic Development, Lisa Thompson theMinister of Government and Consumer Services, Lisa MacLeod theMinister of Tourism, Culture and Sport,Laurie Scott theMinister of Infrastructure, andMonte McNaughton theMinister of Labour.Bill Walker andMichael Tibollo were demoted from ministerial positions to be Associate Ministers, and Christine Elliott's portfolio split with Merrilee Fullerton taking over the newly createdMinistry of Long-Term Care.

In February 2021,Peter Bethlenfalvy replaced Rod Phillips as Minister of Finance following criticism of his international vacations during theCOVID-19 pandemic,^[6] though he returned to cabinet in June as the Minister of Long-Term Care. That June shuffle removed 5 members (Jeff Yurek, John Yakabuski, Laurie Scott, Bill Walker, andErnie Hardeman) and introduced 6 new members to cabinet, includingDavid Piccini as Minister of the Environment,Parm Gill as Minister of Citizenship and Multiculturalism,Khaleed Rasheed as Associate Minister of Digital Government,Stan Cho as Associate Minister of Transportation,Nina Tangri as Associate Minister for Small Business and Red Tape Reduction, andJane McKenna as the Associate Minister of Children and Women's Issues. Kinga Surma and Jill Dunlop were promoted from their associate minister roles to be Minister of Infrastructure and Minister of Colleges and Universities, respectively, with Prabmeet Sakaria being promoted from associate minister to President of the Treasury Board.^[7]

This cabinet shuffle was held following the2022 Ontario general election.^[8]

Earlier in the year, a minor shuffle occurred following the resignation ofMerrilee Fullerton, withMichael Parsa replacing her.^[9] A major cabinet shuffle was held following the fallout due to theGreenbelt scandal.^[10] Housing ministerSteve Clark resigned andStan Cho was added to cabinet. Weeks later, another cabinet shuffle took place following the resignations ofMonte McNaughton andKaleed Rasheed.^[11]Andrea Khanjin andTodd McCarthy were added to cabinet.

On June 6th, 2024 on the last day of sitting before the summer breakDoug Ford conducted a major cabinet shuffle, surprising his caucus, the media, and the public. Ford expanded the size of cabinet to 36 members, changing the portfolios of many ministers and adding many Parliamentary Assistants to the cabinet without removing a current minister from cabinet. The new additions to the team includedSam Oosterhoff,Stephen Crawford,Nolan Quinn,Natalia Kusendova-Bashta,Mike Harris Jr. (Son of Former PC PremierMike Harris Sr.), andTrevor Jones. The cabinet shuffle also included the addition of Former Minister of HousingSteve Clark as Government House leader.^[12] (See List below of all Cabinet Members)

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