Executive Council of Ontario

Executive Council of Ontario
*Conseil des ministres de l'Ontario*
	Coat of arms of Ontario
Nickname	Cabinet of Ontario
Formation	July 20, 1867
Membership	Lieutenant Governor of Ontario; Premier of Ontario and other ministers of the Crown;
Monarch of Canada	Charles III
Represented by	Edith Dumont, Lieutenant Governor
Chair	Vic Fedeli, Chair of Cabinet
Staff	Government of Ontario

The Executive Council of Ontario (French: Conseil des ministres de l'Ontario), often informally referred to as the Cabinet of Ontario (French: Cabinet de l'Ontario), is the cabinet of the Canadian province of Ontario. It comprises ministers of the provincial Crown, who are selected by the premier of Ontario (the first minister of the Crown) and appointed by the lieutenant governor. The activities of the Government of Ontario are directed by the Executive Council.

The Executive Council is almost always made up of members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Though the lieutenant governor does not generally attend Cabinet meetings, directives issued by the Crown on the advice of the ministers are said to be ordered by the Lieutenant Governor-in-Council. Ministers hold the honorific prefix "The Honourable" while members of the council.

The Cabinet is similar in structure and role to the federal Privy Council for Canada, though smaller in size, and, whereas the federal Cabinet is actually a committee of the Privy Council, the Executive Council of Ontario and Cabinet of Ontario are one and the same. Also, unlike the Privy Council, members of the Ontario Executive Council are not appointed for life, and are not entitled to post-nominal letters.