News release

Members of the Executive Council, Dec. 16, 1998

Premier's Office

HONOURABLE RUSSELL MacLELLAN, QC
Premier
President of the Executive Council
Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs

HONOURABLE DONALD R. DOWNE<br/>
Deputy Premier
Deputy President of the Executive Council
Minister of Finance
Minister responsible for Aboriginal Affairs
Minister responsible for the administration of Part I of
the Gaming Control Act

HONOURABLE MANNING MacDONALD
Minister of Economic Development and Tourism
Minister responsible for the Petroleum Directorate
Minister responsible for the Innovation Corporation Act
Minister responsible for the Business Development
Corporation
Minister responsible for the Nova Scotia Marketing Agency
Minister responsible for the Sydney Steel Corporation Act

HONOURABLE JAMES A. SMITH, MD
Minister of Health
Chair of Priorities and Planning Committee*
Minister responsible for Communications Nova Scotia*

HONOURABLE ROBERT S. HARRISON<br/>
Attorney General and Minister of Justice
Minister of Business and Consumer Services
Minister responsible for the Technology and Science
Secretariat
Minister responsible for the administration of the Human
Rights Act
Minister in charge of the Regulations Act
Minister responsible for the Nova Scotia Sport and
Recreation Commission
Minister responsible for the Residential Tenancies Act

HONOURABLE WAYNE GAUDET<br/>
Minister of Education and Culture
Minister responsible for Acadian Affairs

HONOURABLE EDWARD LORRAINE<br/>
Minister of Agriculture and Marketing

HONOURABLE KENNETH MacASKILL
Minister of Natural Resources
Minister responsible for the administration of the
Liquor Control Act
Minister responsible for the Emergency Measures Act
Minister responsible for the Nova Scotia Boxing Authority

HONOURABLE FRANCENE COSMAN<br/>
Minister of Community Services
Minister of Human Resources
Minister responsible for the administration of the Advisory
Council on the Status of Women Act
Chair of the Senior Citizens' Secretariat
Minister responsible for the Disabled Persons' Commission
Act

HONOURABLE RUSSELL MacKINNON
Minister of Labour
Minister responsible for the Workers' Compensation Act

HONOURABLE CLIFFORD B. HUSKILSON<br/>
Minister of Transportation and Public Works

HONOURABLE KEITH W. COLWELL<br/>
Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture
Minister responsible for the administration of Part II of
the Gaming Control Act

HONOURABLE RAYMOND J. WHITE<br/>
Minister of Housing and Municipal Affairs
Minister in charge of the administration of the Heritage
Property Act

HONOURABLE MICHEL P.SAMSON<br/>
Minister of the Environment
Minister responsible for the administration of the Youth
Secretariat Act

NOTE: The above does not represent all ministerial responsibilities. Some ministerial responsibilities that are prescribed by statute are not set out above.

[* effective December 18, 1998]