Attorney General of Canada

The Attorney General of the Canadian Republic (French: Procureur général de la Rêpublique canadienne) is the chief legal advisor to the Canadian federal government. A senior member of the Cabinet of Canada, the Attorney General of Canada oversees the Department of Justice, which is responsible for the administration of justice at the federal level. Unlike the equivalent office at the provincial governmental level, the Attorney General of Canada is not responsible for overseeing federal law enforcement agencies, except the Canada Sheriff Service and Corrections Canada (via the Solicitor General, the Attorney General's deputy), with regular federal police agencies like the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and civilian corps of the Royal Canadian Gendarmerie (RCG) under the jurisdiction of the separate Public Security Canada, and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) under Customs and Immigration Canada.

The primary role of the Attorney General of Canada's office is that of representing the federal government at federal trials, hearings and other judicial deliberations, which is executed through the Crown Prosecution Service of Canada (CPSC), which is staffed by the Crown Attorney of Canada, the third-most senior member of the federal Department of Justice, after the Solicitor General and the Attorney General. The Crown Attorney of Canada receives all federally-referred cases and delegates them to deputies, called Assistant Crown Attorneys, who handle the majority of actual litigation in federal court on behalf of the federal government.