Crown

  • Head of State – Queen Elizabeth II

Federal government

  • Governor General – Roméo LeBlanc

Cabinet

  • Prime Minister – Jean Chrétien
  • Deputy Prime Minister – Sheila Copps
  • Minister of Finance – Paul Martin
  • Minister of Foreign Affairs – André Ouellet then Lloyd Axworthy
  • Minister of National Defence – David Collenette then Doug Young
  • Minister of Health – Diane Marleau then David Dingwall
  • Minister of Industry – John Manley
  • Minister of Heritage – Sheila Copps (position was only created on July 12 of 1996)
  • Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs – Marcel Massé then Stéphane Dion
  • Minister of the Environment – Sheila Copps then Sergio Marchi
  • Minister of Justice – Allan Rock
  • Minister of Transport – Doug Young then David Anderson
  • Minister of Communications – Michel Dupuy then Sheila Copps (position merged into that of Heritage Minister on July 11, 1996)
  • Minister of Citizenship and Immigration – Sergio Marchi then Lucienne Robillard
  • Minister of Fisheries and Oceans – Brian Tobin then Fred Mifflin
  • Minister of Agriculture – Ralph Goodale
  • Minister of Public Works and Government Services – Diane Marleau (position created on July 12.)
  • Minister of Employment and Immigration – Lloyd Axworthy then Doug Young then Pierre Pettigrew (position was renamed Minister of Human Resources Development on July 11)
  • Minister of Natural Resources – Anne McLellan
  • Minister of Public Works – David Dingwall then Diane Marleau (position discontinued on July 11)
  • Minister of Supply and Services – David Dingwall then Diane Marleau (position discontinued on July 11)

Members of Parliament

See: 35th Canadian parliament

Party leaders

  • Liberal Party of Canada – Jean Chrétien
  • Bloc Québécois – Lucien Bouchard then Gilles Duceppe (interim) then Michel Gauthier
  • New Democratic Party- 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 Jean Boyle then Vice-Admiral Larry Murray

Provinces

Premiers

  • Premier of Alberta – Ralph Klein
  • Premier of British Columbia – Mike Harcourt then Glen Clark
  • Premier of Manitoba – Gary Filmon
  • Premier of New Brunswick – Frank McKenna
  • Premier of Newfoundland – Clyde Wells then Brian Tobin
  • Premier of Nova Scotia – John Savage
  • Premier of Ontario – Mike Harris
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island – Catherine Callbeck then Keith Milligan then Pat Binns
  • Premier of Quebec – Jacques Parizeau then Lucien Bouchard
  • Premier of Saskatchewan – Roy Romanow
  • Premier of the Northwest Territories – Don Morin
  • Premier of Yukon – John Ostashek then Piers McDonald

Lieutenant-governors

  • Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta – Gordon Towers then Bud Olson
  • Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia – 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 – Gilbert Clements
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec – Martial Asselin then Jean-Louis Roux
  • 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

  • 1995 Canadian incumbents
  • Events in Canada in 1996
  • 1997 Canadian incumbents
  • Governmental leaders in 1996
  • Canadian incumbents by year