Who selects Cabinet Ministers in the federal government?

Discover Canada records this in one direct sentence about the Cabinet. The guide writes: In the federal government, the Prime Minister selects the Cabinet ministers and is responsible for the operations and policy of the government. The figure the test wants is therefore the Prime Minister.

Two precise commitments. Discover Canada commits the Prime Minister's Cabinet role to TWO specific facts: (1) the Prime Minister selects the Cabinet ministers; (2) the Prime Minister is responsible for the operations and policy of the government. So the source pinpoints both the appointment power and the broader executive responsibility.

The Prime Minister chooses ministers mainly from the elected House. Discover Canada commits the source pool for ministers to a specific named group: "The Prime Minister chooses the ministers of the Crown, most of them from among members of the House of Commons. Cabinet ministers are responsible for running the federal government departments." So most Cabinet ministers come from the elected MPs in the House of Commons. Each Cabinet minister runs a specific federal government department.

The Prime Minister and Cabinet form the executive. Discover Canada commits the executive grouping to a direct definition: "The Prime Minister and the Cabinet ministers are called the Cabinet and they make important decisions about how the country is governed. They prepare the budget and propose most new laws." So the Prime Minister and the ministers selected by the Prime Minister together form the country's principal decision-making executive body. The Cabinet must retain the confidence of the elected House — meaning ministers must "resign if they are defeated in a non-confidence vote." So the Prime Minister's selection power is exercised within a parliamentary system that holds the chosen ministers continuously accountable to the House of Commons. The Prime Minister is described in Discover Canada elsewhere as "the head of government—the Prime Minister, who actually directs the governing of the country" — distinguishing the Prime Minister from the Sovereign (the head of state). So when the test asks who selects Cabinet ministers, the source-precise answer is the Prime Minister.

The question is testing whether new citizens know who chooses the federal Cabinet. Discover Canada commits to one figure: the Prime Minister. The right test answer matches that.

The wrong answer choices each substitute a different officer. The first choice — Governor General — is the Sovereign's representative who appoints the Prime Minister but does not personally select ministers. The third choice — the Senate — is the appointed upper chamber and has no role in choosing Cabinet. The fourth choice — voters — elect the House of Commons but do not directly choose ministers. Only the Prime Minister — the source's exact named selector — matches.