Crown

  • Head of State – Queen Elizabeth II

Federal government

  • Governor General – Ray Hnatyshyn then Roméo LeBlanc

Cabinet

  • Prime Minister – Jean Chrétien
  • Deputy Prime Minister – Sheila Copps
  • Minister of Finance – Paul Martin
  • Secretary of State for External Affairs – André Ouellet (replaced by position of Minister of Foreign Affairs on May 13.)
  • Minister of National Defence – David Collenette
  • Minister of National Health and Welfare – Diane Marleau
  • Minister of Industry, Science and Technology – John Manley (merged with the Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs position on March 28 to become Minister of Industry)
  • Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs – Marcel Massé
  • Minister of the Environment – Sheila Copps
  • Minister of Justice – Allan Rock
  • Minister of Transport – Doug Young
  • Minister of Communications – Michel Dupuy
  • Minister of Citizenship and Immigration – Sergio Marchi
  • Minister of Fisheries and Oceans – Brian Tobin
  • Minister of Agriculture – Ralph Goodale
  • Minister of Public Works – David Dingwall
  • Minister of Employment and Immigration – Lloyd Axworthy
  • Minister of Natural Resources – Anne McLellan (position created on January 12)
  • Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources – Anne McLellan (position discontinued on January 11)
  • Minister of Forestry – Anne McLellan (position discontinued on January 11)

Members of Parliament

See: 35th Canadian parliament

Party leaders

  • Liberal Party of Canada – Jean Chrétien
  • Bloc Québécois – Lucien Bouchard
  • New Democratic Party – Audrey McLaughlin then Alexa McDonough
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Canada – Jean Charest
  • Reform Party of Canada – Preston Manning

Supreme Court Justices

  • Chief Justice: Antonio Lamer
  • Beverley McLachlin
  • Frank Iacobucci
  • John C. Major
  • Gérard V. La Forest
  • John Sopinka
  • Peter deCarteret Cory
  • Claire L'Heureux-Dubé
  • Charles D. Gonthier

Other

  • Speaker of the House of Commons – Gilbert Parent
  • Governor of the Bank of Canada – Gordon Thiessen
  • Chief of the Defence Staff – General John de Chastelain General Jean Boyle

Provinces

Premiers

  • Premier of Alberta – Ralph Klein
  • Premier of British Columbia – Mike Harcourt
  • Premier of Manitoba – Gary Filmon
  • Premier of New Brunswick – Frank McKenna
  • Premier of Newfoundland – Clyde Wells
  • Premier of Nova Scotia – John Savage
  • Premier of Ontario – Bob Rae then Mike Harris
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island – Catherine Callbeck
  • Premier of Quebec – Jacques Parizeau
  • Premier of Saskatchewan – Roy Romanow
  • Premier of the Northwest Territories – Nellie Cournoyea then Don Morin
  • Premier of Yukon – John Ostashek

Lieutenant-governors

  • Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta – Gordon Towers
  • Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia – David Lam then Garde Gardom
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba – Yvon Dumont
  • Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick – Margaret Norrie McCain
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador – Frederick Russell
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia – James Kinley
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario – Hal Jackman
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island – Marion Reid then Gilbert Clements
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec – Martial Asselin
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan – Jack Wiebe

Mayors

  • Toronto – Barbara Hall
  • Montreal – Pierre Bourque
  • Vancouver – Philip Owen
  • Ottawa – Jacquelin Holzman

Religious leaders

  • Roman Catholic Bishop of Quebec – Archbishop Maurice Couture
  • Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal – Cardinal Archbishop Jean-Claude Turcotte
  • Roman Catholic Bishops of London – Bishop John Michael Sherlock
  • Moderator of the United Church of Canada – Marion Best

See also

  • 1994 Canadian incumbents
  • Events in Canada in 1995
  • 1996 Canadian incumbents
  • Governmental leaders in 1995
  • Canadian incumbents by year