Crown Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II
Federal government Governor General - Edward Schreyer
Cabinet Prime Minister - Pierre Trudeau Deputy Prime Minister - Allan MacEachen Minister of Finance - Allan MacEachen Secretary of State for External Affairs - Mark MacGuigan Secretary of State for Canada - Francis Fox then Gerald Regan Minister of National Defence - Gilles Lamontagne Minister of National Health and Welfare - Monique Bégin Minister of Regional Economic Expansion - Pierre De Bané Minister of the Environment - John Roberts Minister of Justice - Jean Chrétien Minister of Transport - Jean-Luc Pépin Minister of Communications - Francis Fox Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Roméo LeBlanc Minister of Agriculture - Eugene Whelan Minister of Public Works - Paul James Cosgrove Minister of Employment and Immigration - Lloyd Axworthy Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - John Munro Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - John Roberts
Parliament See: 32nd 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 Antonio Lamer Roland Almon Ritchie John Sopinka Jean Beetz Julien Chouinard Gerald Eric Le Dain
Other Speaker of the House of Commons - Jeanne Sauvé Governor of the Bank of Canada - Gerald Bouey Chief of the Defence Staff - Air General R.M. Withers
Provinces
Premiers Premier of Alberta - Peter Lougheed Premier of British Columbia - Bill Bennett Premier of Manitoba - Sterling Lyon then Howard Pawley Premier of New Brunswick - Richard Hatfield Premier of Newfoundland - Brian Peckford Premier of Nova Scotia - John Buchanan Premier of Ontario - Bill Davis Premier of Prince Edward Island - Angus MacLean then James Lee 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 then Pearl McGonigal Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - Hédard Joseph Robichaud then George F.G. Stanley Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - Gordon Arnaud Winter then William Anthony Paddon Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia - John Elvin Shaffner Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - John Black Aird Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Joseph Aubin Doiron Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Jean-Pierre Côté Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - Irwin McIntosh
Mayors Toronto - Art Eggleton Montreal - Jean Drapeau Vancouver - Michael Harcourt Ottawa - Marion Dewar
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 - Lois M. Wilson
See also
1980 Canadian incumbents Events in Canada in 1981 1982 Canadian incumbents Governmental leaders in 1981 Canadian incumbents by year