What Canadian cabinet members are expected to do

[robkelk]

Every time there's a new government in Canada* or there's a major event in the world, the Prime Minister writes mandate letters to the members of Cabinet, setting out in high level what they're expected to do.

Justin Trudeau has posted these mandate letters online.

Does anybody else do this? Or is Canada the only country that makes public the list of what each cabinet member is expected to do?


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* Continuity of legitimacy of power in Canada is provided by the Head of State, not the Head of Government.

[hazard]

I don't think the Netherlands does that publicly. On the other hand, Prinsjesdag (Prince's Day/Little Prince's Day) is the yearly budget reveal on the third Tuesday of September and that one is always fronted by a speech by the King (the 'Troonrede', literally the 'Speech from the Throne') about what the government intends to do the next budgetary year. It's pretty similar to the Queen's speech opening a Parliamentary session in Great Britain, including that the monarch doesn't have a whole lot to say themselves and is largely a mouthpiece of the current administration.