<?xml version="1.0"?><Regulation lims:pit-date="2025-03-14" lims:lastAmendedDate="2025-03-14" lims:current-date="2025-03-17" lims:inforce-start-date="2025-03-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-03-14" lims:fid="1518481" lims:id="1518481" gazette-part="II" regulation-type="SI" xml:lang="en" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2025-03-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-03-14" lims:fid="1518482" lims:id="1518482"><InstrumentNumber>SI/2025-53</InstrumentNumber><RegistrationDate><Date><YYYY>2025</YYYY><MM>3</MM><DD>26</DD></Date></RegistrationDate><ConsolidationDate><Date><YYYY>2025</YYYY><MM>3</MM><DD>18</DD></Date></ConsolidationDate><EnablingAuthority lims:inforce-start-date="2025-03-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-03-14" lims:fid="1518483" lims:id="1518483"><XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="E-2.01">CANADA ELECTIONS ACT</XRefExternal></EnablingAuthority><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2025-03-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-03-14" lims:fid="1518484" lims:id="1518484">Order Designating the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons for the Purposes of the Canada Elections Act</LongTitle><RegulationMakerOrder><RegulationMaker>P.C.</RegulationMaker><OrderNumber>2025-434</OrderNumber><Date><YYYY>2025</YYYY><MM>3</MM><DD>14</DD></Date></RegulationMakerOrder></Identification><Order lims:inforce-start-date="2025-03-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-03-14" lims:fid="1518485" lims:id="1518485"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2025-03-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-03-14" lims:fid="1518486" lims:id="1518486" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, under the definition <DefinitionRef>Minister</DefinitionRef> in subsection 2(1) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="E-2.01">Canada Elections Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-3-2823_hq_1738699900">a</FootnoteRef>,</Text><Footnote id="fn_81000-3-2823_hq_1738699900" placement="page" status="official"><Label>a</Label><Text>S.C. 2000, c. 9</Text></Footnote><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2025-03-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-03-14" lims:fid="1518487" lims:id="1518487" format-ref="indent-1-1" language-align="no" list-item="no"><Label>(a)</Label><Text>repeals Order in Council P.C. 2025-86 of February 12, 2025<FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-3-2823_hq_1738699962">b</FootnoteRef>; and</Text><Footnote id="fn_81000-3-2823_hq_1738699962" placement="page" status="official"><Label>b</Label><Text>SI/2025-16</Text></Footnote></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2025-03-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-03-14" lims:fid="1518488" lims:id="1518488" format-ref="indent-1-1" language-align="no" list-item="no"><Label>(b)</Label><Text>designates the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, a member of the King’s Privy Council for Canada, for the purposes of that Act.</Text></Provision></Provision></Order></Regulation>