Department of Justice (Canada)

The Department of Justice (French: Ministère de la justice) is an executive department of the Cabinet of Canada, and the Canadian federal government's department responsible for ensuring the administration of justice at the federal level. The Department of Justice is headed by the Attorney General of Canada, the chief legal advisor to the federal government.

The actual administration of justice is handled by the Department of Justice's Crown Prosecution Service of Canada (CPSC), which is headed by the Crown Attorney of Canada, the third-most high-ranking official of the Department of Justice, after the Attorney General of Canada and his deputy the Solicitor General of Canada, who are responsible mainly for government legal counsel and overseeing Department of Justice-administered law enforcement agencies, respectfully.