Crown Head of state (monarch) – Queen Elizabeth II
Federal government Governor General - Jules Léger then Edward Richard Schreyer
Cabinet Prime Minister - Pierre Trudeau then Joe Clark Deputy Prime Minister - Allan MacEachen then Vacant Minister of Finance - Jean Chrétien then John Crosbie Secretary of State for External Affairs - Don Jamieson then Flora McDonald Secretary of State for Canada - John Roberts then David MacDonald Minister of the Environment - Roméo LeBlanc then Leonard Marchand then John Allen Fraser Minister of Justice - Marc Lalonde then Jacques Flynn Minister of National Defence - Barney Danson then Allan McKinnon Minister of Health and Welfare - Monique Bégin then David Edward Crombie Minister of Regional Economic Expansion - Marcel Lessard then Vacant then Elmer MacKay Minister of Transport - Otto Lang then Don Mazankowski Minister of Communications - Jeanne Sauvé then David MacDonald Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Roméo LeBlanc then James McGrath Minister of Public Works - André Ouellet then Erik Nielsen Minister of Employment and Immigration - Bud Cullen then Ron Atkey Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - James Hugh Faulkner then Jake Epp Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - Alastair Gillespie then Ramon John Hnatyshyn
Parliament See: 31st Canadian parliament
Party leaders Liberal Party of Canada - Pierre Trudeau New Democratic Party- Ed Broadbent Progressive Conservative Party - Joe Clark
Supreme Court Justices Chief Justice: Bora Laskin William McIntyre Ronald Martland Louis-Philippe Pigeon Roland Almon Ritchie Willard Estey Jean Beetz Julien Chouinard Brian Dickson
Other Speaker of the House of Commons - James Jerome Governor of the Bank of Canada - Gerald Bouey Chief of the Defence Staff - Air General Robert Hilborn Falls
Provinces
Premiers Premier of Alberta - Peter Lougheed Premier of British Columbia - Bill Bennett Premier of Manitoba - Sterling Lyon Premier of New Brunswick - Richard Hatfield Premier of Newfoundland - Frank Moores then Brian Peckford Premier of Nova Scotia - John Buchanan Premier of Ontario - Bill Davis Premier of Prince Edward Island - Bennett Campbell then Angus MacLean Premier of Quebec - René Lévesque Premier of Saskatchewan - Allan Blakeney
Lieutenant-governors Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta - Frank C. Lynch-Staunton Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia - Henry Pybus Bell-Irving Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba - Francis Lawrence Jobin Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - Hédard Robichaud Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - Gordon Arnaud Winter Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia - John Elvin Shaffner Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - Pauline Mills McGibbon Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Gordon Lockhart Bennett Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Jean-Pierre Côté Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - Irwin McIntosh
Mayors Toronto - John Sewell Montreal - Jean Drapeau Vancouver - Jack Volrich Ottawa - Marion Dewar
See also
Events in Canada in 1979 Governmental leaders in 1979 Canadian incumbents by year