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The
King's Privy Council for Canada
(
KPC
;
French
:
Conseil prive du Roi pour le Canada
; called the
Queen's Privy Council for Canada
when there is a
queen
[1]
[2]
), sometimes called just the
Privy Council
,
[3]
is a group of people that help the
monarch
(king or queen) of Canada. They give advice to the monarch on events related to the
government
. The monarch or the person that represents them (the
Governor General
) must follow the advice of a group of people in the Privy Council, called the
cabinet
, who are usually part of the government and are usually
Members of Parliament
(MPs). Those who are part of the Privy Council are called "Privy Councillors".
When people join the Privy Council, they become members of it for the rest of their lives. They are chosen by the Governor General based on who the
Prime Minister
says should be in the council.
[4]
That causes many of the Privy Councillors to be ex-members of the cabinet. Other Privy Councillors might be people that have important roles, like being the
Leader of the Opposition
.