PROVINCE OF

ORDER OF THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL

Order in Council No. 280 , Approved and Ordered JUN 1 0 2009

Lieutenant Governor

Executive Council Chambers, Victoria

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that (a) all previous designations of officials under section 9 (2) of the Constitution Act are rescinded, (b) the designations in the Schedule to this order are made, (c) all previous appointments of parliamentary secretaries under section 12 of the Constitution Act are rescinded, and (d) the appointments of parliamentary secretaries in the Schedule to this order are made.

(This part is for administrative purposes only and is no art of the Order.)

Authority under which Order is made: Act and section:- Constitution Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, e. 66, ss. 9 and 12 Other (specify):- June 10, 2009 0/415/2009/7 SCHEDULE

From among those persons appointed by the Lieutenant Governor to compose the Executive Council, the following persons are designated as officials with portfolio and the portfolio designated for each official is that shown opposite the name of the official:

The Honourable Gordon Campbell Premier

The Honourable George Abbott Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation

The Honourable Advanced Education and Labour Market Development

The Honourable Steve Thomson Agriculture and Lands

The Honourable Attorney General

The Honourable Children and Family Development and Minister Responsible for Child Care

The Honourable Citizens' Services and Minister Responsible for Multiculturalism and the Public Affairs Bureau

The Honourable Bill Bennett Community and Rural Development

The Honourable Margaret MacDiarmid Education and Minister Responsible for Early Learning and Literacy

The Honourable Energy, Mines, and Petroleum Resources

The Honourable Environment

The Honourable Corm Hansen Finance and Deputy Premier

The Honourable Forests and Range and Minister Responsible for the Integrated Land Management Bureau

The Honourable Health Services

The Honourable Healthy Living and Sport

The Honourable Housing and Social Development

The Honourable Murray Coell Labour

The Honourable Kash Heed Public Safety and Solicitor General

The Honourable rain Black Small Business, Technology and Economic Development

The Honourable Kevin Krueger Tourism, Culture and the Arts

The Honourable Transportation and Infrastructure

2 2 From among those persons appointed by the Lieutenant Governor to compose the Executive Council, the following persons are designated as officials without portfolio with the title for each that is shown opposite the name of the official: The Honourable Randy Hawes Minister of State for Mining The Honourable Mary McNeil Minister of State for the Olympics and ActNow BC The Honourable Minister of State for Intergovernmental Relations The Honourable Minister of State for Climate Action

3 The following members of the Legislative Assembly are appointed as Parliamentary Secretaries:

Donna Barnett Parliamentary Secretary for Pine Beetle Community Recovery to the Minister of Community and Rural Development Dave Hayer Parliamentary Secretary for Multiculturalism to the Minister of Citizens' Services and Minister Responsible for Multiculturalism and the Public Affairs Bureau Parliamentary Secretary for the Ranching Task Force to the Minister of Agriculture and Lands Richard Lee Parliamentary Secretary for the Asia-Pacific Initiative to the Minister of Small Business, Technology and Economic Development Parliamentary Secretary for Silviculture to the Minister of Forests and Range and Minister Responsible for the Integrated Land Management Bureau John Slater Parliamentary Secretary for Water Supply and Allocation to the Minister of Environment

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