Talk:Minister of International Trade Diversification

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Merger discussion[edit]

Merge Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade into this article. In the new Canadian cabinet, the successor to the Minister of International Trade Diversification is a new post filled by Mary Ng: the Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade. Although the new title includes Min. Ng's title from before the election (when she was Minister of Small Business and Export Promotion, a minister responsible for ISED), she is clearly now the successor to the Minister of International Trade Diversification, one of the ministers responsible for Global Affairs - see: https://www.international.gc.ca/gac-amc/minister-ministre/index.aspx?lang=eng#a1

--Jonnyruutu (talk) 13:39, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose as "Small business" is not a real portfolio and only exists because of government pandering. When International trade will be given back its own minister and small business will be merged to whatever other department a subsequent government will shove the word "small business" in its minister's title, we'll be happy to have kept this article unmerged. Mottezen (talk) 03:04, 16 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In light of this view, I have copied the table of former ministers to the article Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade Jonnyruutu (talk) 15:18, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]