A domestic PEP is a person who currently holds, or has held within the last 5 years, a specific office or position in or on behalf of the Canadian federal government, a Canadian provincial (or territorial) government, or a Canadian municipal government. Specifically, the person has held the office or position of:
- governor General
- lieutenant governor
- head of government agency
- member of the Senate
- member of House of Commons
- member of a legislature
- deputy minister (or equivalent) rank in government
- ambassador
- counsellor of an ambassador
- attaché
- military officer with a rank of general or above
- president of a corporation that is wholly owned directly by Her Majesty in right of Canada or a province
- judge of an appellate court in a province
- judge of the federal court of appeal
- judge of the supreme court of Canada
- leader (or president) of a political party represented in a legislature
- holder of any prescribed office or position
- mayor
**Note: In line with legislation across Canada, municipal governments include cities, towns, villages and rural (county) or metropolitan municipalities. A mayor is the head of a city, town, village and rural or metropolitan municipality, regardless of the size of the population.
A person stops being a domestic PEP 5 years after they have left office or 5 years after they are deceased. You must continue to mitigate the risks associated with domestic PEPs until they are no longer domestic PEPs.