Crown

  • Head of State – Queen Elizabeth II

Federal government

  • Governor General – Roméo LeBlanc

Cabinet

  • Prime Minister – Jean Chrétien
  • Deputy Prime Minister – Sheila Copps then Herb Gray
  • Minister of Finance – Paul Martin
  • Minister of Foreign Affairs – Lloyd Axworthy
  • Minister of National Defence – Doug Young then Art Eggleton
  • Minister of Health – David Dingwall then Allan Rock
  • Minister of Industry – John Manley
  • Minister of Heritage – Sheila Copps
  • Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs – Stéphane Dion
  • Minister of the Environment – Sergio Marchi then Christine Stewart
  • Minister of Justice – Allan Rock then Anne McLellan
  • Minister of Transport – David Anderson then David Collenette
  • Minister of Citizenship and Immigration – Lucienne Robillard
  • Minister of Fisheries and Oceans – Fred Mifflin then David Anderson
  • Minister of Agriculture – Ralph Goodale then Lyle Vanclief
  • Minister of Public Works and Government Services – Diane Marleau then Alfonso Gagliano
  • Minister of Human Resources Development – Pierre Pettigrew
  • Minister of Natural Resources – Anne McLellan then Ralph Goodale

Members of Parliament

See: 35th Canadian parliament, 36th Canadian parliament

Party leaders

  • Liberal Party of Canada – Jean Chrétien
  • Bloc Québécois – Michel Gauthier then Gilles Duceppe
  • 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 then Michel Bastarache
  • John Sopinka (retired November 24)
  • 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 – Vice-Admiral Larry Murray then General Maurice Baril

Provinces

Premiers

  • Premier of Alberta – Ralph Klein
  • Premier of British Columbia – Glen Clark
  • Premier of Manitoba – Gary Filmon
  • Premier of New Brunswick – Frank McKenna then Raymond Frenette
  • Premier of Newfoundland – Brian Tobin
  • Premier of Nova Scotia – John Savage then Russell MacLellan
  • Premier of Ontario – Mike Harris
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island – Pat Binns
  • Premier of Quebec – Lucien Bouchard
  • Premier of Saskatchewan – Roy Romanow
  • Premier of the Northwest Territories – Don Morin
  • Premier of Yukon – Piers McDonald

Lieutenant-governors

  • Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta – Bud Olson
  • Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia – Garde Gardom
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba – Yvon Dumont
  • Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick – Margaret Norrie McCain then Marilyn Trenholme Counsell
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador – Frederick Russell then Arthur Maxwell House
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia – James Kinley
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario – Hal Jackman then Hilary Weston
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island – Gilbert Clements
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec – Jean-Louis Roux then Lise Thibault
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan – Jack Wiebe

Mayors

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

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 then Bill Phipps

See also

  • 1996 Canadian incumbents
  • Events in Canada in 1997
  • 1998 Canadian incumbents
  • Governmental leaders in 1997
  • Canadian incumbents by year