Crown

  • Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II

Federal government

  • Governor General - Adrienne Clarkson

Cabinet

  • Prime Minister - Jean Chrétien
  • Deputy Prime Minister - Herb Gray
  • Minister of Finance - Paul Martin
  • Minister of Foreign Affairs - Lloyd Axworthy then John Manley
  • Minister of National Defence - Art Eggleton
  • Minister of Health - Allan Rock
  • Minister of Industry - John Manley then Brian Tobin
  • Minister of Heritage - Sheila Copps
  • Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs - Stéphane Dion
  • Minister of the Environment - David Anderson
  • Minister of Justice - Anne McLellan
  • Minister of Transport - David Collenette
  • Minister of Citizenship and Immigration - Elinor Caplan
  • Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Herb Dhaliwal
  • Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food - Lyle Vanclief
  • Minister of Public Works and Government Services - Alfonso Gagliano
  • Minister of Human Resources Development - Jane Stewart
  • Minister of Natural Resources - Ralph Goodale

Members of Parliament

See: 36th Canadian parliament, 37th Canadian parliament

Party leaders

  • Liberal Party of Canada - Jean Chrétien
  • Reform Party of Canada (dissolved March 25) - Preston Manning
  • Canadian Alliance (formed March 27) - Deborah Grey (interim) then Stockwell Day
  • Bloc Québécois - Gilles Duceppe
  • New Democratic Party- Alexa McDonough
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - Joe Clark

Supreme Court Justices

  • Chief Justice: Antonio Lamer then Beverley McLachlin
  • Frank Iacobucci
  • John C. Major
  • Michel Bastarache
  • William Ian Corneil Binnie
  • Louise Arbour
  • Louis LeBel (appointed to replace Lamer)
  • 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 Maurice Baril

Provinces

Premiers

  • Premier of Alberta - Ralph Klein
  • Premier of British Columbia - Dan Miller then Ujjal Dosanjh
  • Premier of Manitoba - Gary Doer
  • Premier of New Brunswick - Bernard Lord
  • Premier of Newfoundland - Brian Tobin then Beaton Tulk
  • Premier of Nova Scotia - John Hamm
  • 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 - James Antoine then Stephen Kakfwi
  • Premier of Nunavut - Paul Okalik
  • Premier of Yukon - Piers McDonald then Pat Duncan

Lieutenant-governors

  • Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta - Bud Olson then Lois Hole
  • Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia - Garde Gardom
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba - Peter Liba
  • Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - Marilyn Trenholme Counsell
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - Arthur Maxwell House
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia - James Kinley then Myra Freeman
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - Hilary Weston
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Gilbert Clements
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Lise Thibault
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - Jack Wiebe then Lynda Haverstock

Mayors

  • Toronto - Mel Lastman
  • Montreal - Pierre Bourque
  • Vancouver - Philip Owen
  • Ottawa - Jim Watson
  • Victoria - Alan Lowe

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 - Bill Phipps then Marion Pardy

See also

  • 1999 Canadian incumbents
  • Events in Canada in 2000
  • 2001 Canadian incumbents
  • Governmental leaders in 2000
  • Canadian incumbents by year