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