Ministry of Indigenous Affairs (Ontario)

Ministry of Indigenous Affairs and First Nations Economic Reconciliation
Ministère des Affaires autochtones et de la Réconciliation économique avec les Premières Nations (French)
Arms of the Government of Ontario
Ministry overview
Formed2007
Preceding Ministry
  • Ontario Secretariat of Aboriginal Affairs
JurisdictionGovernment of Ontario
Headquarters4th Floor, 160 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Employees150
Annual budget$ 71 million (2011-12 fiscal year)
Ministers responsible
  • Hon. Greg Rickford, Minister of Indigenous Affairs and First Nations Economic Reconciliation
  • Dave Smith, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Indigenous Affairs
Websitewww.ontario.ca/page/ministry-indigenous-affairs-and-first-nations-economic-reconciliation

The Ministry of Indigenous Affairs and First Nations Economic Reconciliation (IAFNER; formerly the Ministry of Indigenous Affairs) is the Government of Ontario ministry responsible for issues relating to First Nations, Métis and Inuit in Ontario. The ministry has been headed by the hon. Greg Rickford, a member of the Executive Council of Ontario (cabinet), since June 2018.

A number of figures of national prominence had led the ministry or its predecessor, including the current senior justice of the Supreme Court Andromache Karakatsanis (as Ontario Native Affairs Secretary, the senior civil servant for the unit, between 1995 and 1997), the late federal Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty (as Minister Responsible for Native Affairs between 1999 and 2001) and former Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne (as Minister of Aboriginal Affairs between 2011 and 2012). Incumbent minister Rickford previously served as federal Minister of Natural Resources.

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