David McGuinty

David Joseph McGuinty is a Canadian lawyer and politician who has been Minister of National Defence since May 2025. A member of the Liberal Party, McGuinty has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Ottawa South since 2004. From 2017 to 2024, McGuinty was the first chair of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), an agency which oversees Canadian intelligence services.