Deputy minister (Canada)

In Canada, a deputy minister is the senior civil servant in a government department. He or she takes political direction from an appointed minister of the Crown. Responsibility for the department's day-to-day operations, budget, and program development lie with the deputy minister. The deputy minister is the functional head of the department in question, while the minister is the department's political master. Deputy ministers serve at the pleasure of the Governor General-in-Council and can sometimes lose their positions as a result of a change of the party in power, particularly if they are seen as too closely identified with the policies of the previous government. This should not be confused with the position of Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, who is not a deputy minister at all, but a politician and senior member of the Cabinet.

The Canadian position of deputy minister is equivalent to the British position of permanent secretary and the Australian position of departmental secretary.

Deputy Ministers of Tanzania

Deputy Ministers in Tanzania assist the Ministers in running their respective portfolios.

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Deputy Minister (horse)

Deputy Minister (May 17, 1979 – September 10, 2004) was a Canadian-bred Thoroughbred horse racing Champion. At age two, he won eight out of his nine starts and was voted the 1981 Sovereign and Eclipse Award winner as North American Champion 2-Yr-Old, and was also voted Canada's Sovereign Award for Horse of the Year. Early in his 1982 campaign, Deputy Minister wrenched an ankle while competing in the Bahamas Stakes at Hialeah Park, which restricted his racing that year.

After a good 1983 season in which he won the Gulfstream Park Sprint Championship, Donn Handicap and Tom Fool Handicap, Deputy Minister was retired to stand at stud at the Maryland branch of Windfields Farm, where he sired future U.S. Hall of Famer Go for Wand. By 1989, his success as a sire led to his being moved to Fred Seitz's Brookdale Farm in Versailles, Kentucky, where he spent the rest of his life. A career sire of 80 Graded stakes race winners, Deputy Minister was also the damsire of 108 stakes winners.