Anita Anand
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Anand in 2025 | |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| Assumed office May 13, 2025 | |
| Prime Minister | Mark Carney |
| Preceded by | Mélanie Joly |
| Registrar General of Canada Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry | |
| In office March 14, 2025 – May 13, 2025 | |
| Prime Minister | Mark Carney |
| Preceded by | François-Philippe Champagne |
| Succeeded by | Mélanie Joly |
| Minister of Transport | |
| In office September 19, 2024 – March 14, 2025 | |
| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Pablo Rodriguez |
| Succeeded by | Chrystia Freeland |
| Minister of Internal Trade | |
| In office December 20, 2024 – March 14, 2025 | |
| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Dominic LeBlanc (2019) |
| Succeeded by | Chrystia Freeland |
| President of the Treasury Board | |
| In office July 26, 2023 – December 20, 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Mona Fortier |
| Succeeded by | Ginette Petitpas Taylor |
| Minister of National Defence | |
| In office October 26, 2021 – July 26, 2023 | |
| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Harjit Sajjan |
| Succeeded by | Bill Blair |
| Receiver General for Canada Minister of Public Services and Procurement | |
| In office November 20, 2019 – October 26, 2021 | |
| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Carla Qualtrough |
| Succeeded by | Filomena Tassi |
| Member of Parliament for Oakville East (Oakville, 2019–2025) | |
| Assumed office October 21, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | John Oliver |
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| Born | Indira Anita Anand May 20, 1967 Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Party | Liberal |
| Relatives | Sonia Anand (sister) |
| Alma mater | Queen's University (BA) University of Oxford (BA) Dalhousie University (LLB) University of Toronto (LLM) |
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Anita Indira Anand (born May 20, 1967) is a Canadian politician, lawyer and former academic who has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2025. A member of the Liberal Party, Anand was elected to the House of Commons in 2019 and is the member of Parliament (MP) for Oakville East. She has held a number of Cabinet portfolios since 2019.
Anand was elected as the MP for Oakville in the October 2019 election and was appointed to the Cabinet in November. In the 29th Canadian Ministry, chaired by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Anand was first the minister of public services and procurement, where she was responsible for the federal government's procurement of vaccines and personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, she became the minister of national defence and played a key role in Canadian efforts to provide military aid to Ukraine during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Anand was the president of the Treasury Board from 2023 to 2024 and the minister of transport and internal trade from 2024 to 2025. In 2021, Anand was named Canada's "most valuable politician" by The Hill Times, and in 2022, Maclean's described her as the Trudeau government's "all-round fixer".
In the 30th Canadian Ministry, chaired by Prime Minister Mark Carney, Anand was appointed as the minister of innovation, science and industry. She held the role for two months prior to her appointment as the minister of foreign affairs following the 2025 federal election.
Anand is the first Hindu woman to be elected to Parliament and the first Hindu member of Cabinet in Canada. She is only the second woman, after former Prime Minister Kim Campbell, to be minister of national defence and the first visible minority to be minister of foreign affairs.