Crown Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II
Federal government Governor General - Jeanne Sauvé
Cabinet Prime Minister - Brian Mulroney Deputy Prime Minister - Don Mazankowski Minister of Finance - Michael Wilson Secretary of State for External Affairs - Joe Clark Secretary of State for Canada - David Crombie then Lucien Bouchard Minister of National Defence - Perrin Beatty Minister of National Health and Welfare - Jake Epp Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion - Robert de Cotret Minister of the Environment - Thomas McMillan then Lucien Bouchard Minister of Justice - Ray Hnatyshyn then Joe Clark (acting) Minister of Transport - John Crosbie then Benoît Bouchard Minister of Communications - Flora MacDonald then Lowell Murray (acting) Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Tom Siddon Minister of Agriculture - John Wise then Don Mazankowski Minister of Public Works - Stewart McInnes then Otto Jelinek Minister of Employment and Immigration - Benoît Bouchard then Barbara McDougall Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - Bill McKnight Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - Marcel Masse Minister of Veterans Affairs - Gerald Merrithew
Parliament See: 33rd Canadian parliament then 34th Canadian parliament
Party leaders Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - Brian Mulroney Liberal Party of Canada - John Turner New Democratic Party- Ed Broadbent
Supreme Court Justices Chief Justice: Brian Dickson William McIntyre Bertha Wilson Antonio Lamer Gérard V. La Forest John Sopinka Jean Beetz Claire L'Heureux-Dubé Gerald Eric Le Dain
Other Speaker of the House of Commons - John Allen Fraser Governor of the Bank of Canada - John Crow Chief of the Defence Staff - General P.D. Manson
Provinces
Premiers Premier of Alberta - Don Getty Premier of British Columbia - Bill Vander Zalm Premier of Manitoba - Howard Pawley then Gary Filmon Premier of New Brunswick - Frank McKenna Premier of Newfoundland - Brian Peckford Premier of Nova Scotia - John Buchanan Premier of Ontario - David Peterson Premier of Prince Edward Island - Joe Ghiz Premier of Quebec - Robert Bourassa Premier of Saskatchewan - Grant Devine Premier of the Northwest Territories - Dennis Patterson Premier of Yukon - Tony Penikett
Lieutenant-governors Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta - Helen Hunley Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia - Robert Gordon Rogers then David Lam Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba - George Johnson Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - Gilbert Finn Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - James Aloysius McGrath Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia -Alan Abraham Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - Lincoln Alexander Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Robert Lloyd George MacPhail Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Gilles Lamontagne Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - Frederick W. Johnson then Sylvia Fedoruk
Mayors Toronto - Art Eggleton Montreal - Jean Doré Vancouver - Gordon Campbell Ottawa - James A. Durrell
Religious leaders Roman Catholic Bishop of Quebec - Cardinal Archbishop Louis-Albert Vachon Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal - Cardinal Archbishop Paul Grégoire Roman Catholic Bishops of London - Bishop John Michael Sherlock Moderator of the United Church of Canada - Anne M. Squire then Sang Chul Lee
See also 1987 Canadian incumbents Events in Canada in 1988 1989 Canadian incumbents Governmental leaders in 1988 Canadian incumbents by year