Federal government

  • Governor General - Edward Schreyer

Cabinet

  • Prime Minister - Pierre Trudeau
  • Deputy Prime Minister - Allan MacEachen
  • Minister of Finance - Marc Lalonde
  • Secretary of State for External Affairs - Allan MacEachen
  • Secretary of State for Canada - Serge Joyal
  • Minister of National Defence - Gilles Lamontagne then Jean-Jacques Blais
  • Minister of National Health and Welfare - Monique Bégin
  • Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion - Ed Lumley
  • Minister of the Environment - John Roberts then Charles Caccia
  • Minister of Justice - Mark MacGuigan
  • Minister of Transport - Jean-Luc Pépin then Lloyd Axworthy
  • Minister of Communications - Francis Fox
  • Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Pierre de Bané
  • Minister of Agriculture - Eugene Whelan
  • Minister of Public Works - Roméo LeBlanc
  • Minister of Employment and Immigration - Lloyd Axworthy then John Roberts
  • Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - John Munro
  • Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - John Roberts then Charles Caccia

Parliament

See: 32nd Canadian parliament

Party leaders

  • Liberal Party of Canada - Pierre Trudeau
  • New Democratic Party- Ed Broadbent
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - Joe Clark then Erik Nielsen interim then Brian Mulroney

Supreme Court Justices

  • Chief Justice: Bora Laskin
  • William McIntyre
  • Bertha Wilson
  • 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 then General G.C.E. Thériault

Provinces

Premiers

  • Premier of Alberta - Peter Lougheed
  • Premier of British Columbia - Bill Bennett
  • Premier of Manitoba - 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 - James Lee
  • Premier of Quebec - René Lévesque
  • Premier of Saskatchewan - Grant Devine

Lieutenant-governors

  • Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta - Frank C. Lynch-Staunton
  • Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia - Henry Pybus Bell-Irving then Robert Gordon Rogers
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba - Pearl McGonigal
  • Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - George F.G. Stanley
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - William Anthony Paddon
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia - John Elvin Shaffner
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - Jean-Pierre Côté
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Joseph Aubin Doiron
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Gilles Lamontagne
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - Irwin McIntosh then Sylvia Fedoruk

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 - W. Clarke MacDonald

See also

  • 1982 Canadian incumbents
  • Events in Canada in 1983
  • 1984 Canadian incumbents
  • Governmental leaders in 1983
  • Canadian incumbents by year