Crown

  • Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II

Federal government

  • Governor General - Adrienne Clarkson

Cabinet

  • Prime Minister - Jean Chrétien then Paul Martin
  • Deputy Prime Minister - John Manley then Anne McLellan
  • Minister of Finance - John Manley then Ralph Goodale
  • Minister of Foreign Affairs - Bill Graham
  • Minister of National Defence - John McCallum then David Pratt
  • Minister of Health - Anne McLellan then Pierre Pettigrew
  • Minister of Industry - Allan Rock then Lucienne Robillard
  • Minister of Heritage - Sheila Copps then Hélène Scherrer
  • Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs - Stéphane Dion then Pierre Pettigrew
  • Minister of the Environment - David Anderson
  • Minister of Justice - Martin Cauchon then Irwin Cotler
  • Minister of Transport - David Collenette then Tony Valeri
  • Minister of Citizenship and Immigration - Denis Coderre then Judy Sgro
  • Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Robert Thibault then Geoff Regan
  • Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food - Lyle Vanclief then Bob Speller
  • Minister of Public Works and Government Services - Ralph Goodale then Stephen Owen
  • Minister of Human Resources Development - Jane Stewart (position discontinued on December 11)
  • Minister of Natural Resources - Herb Dhaliwal then John Efford
  • Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development - Joe Volpe (position created on December 12)
  • Minister of Social Development - Liza Frulla (position created on December 12)

Members of Parliament

See: 37th Canadian parliament

Party leaders

  • Liberal Party of Canada - Jean Chrétien then Paul Martin
  • Canadian Alliance - Stephen Harper
  • Bloc Québécois - Gilles Duceppe
  • New Democratic Party - Alexa McDonough then Jack Layton
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - Joe Clark then Peter MacKay

Supreme Court Justices

  • Chief Justice: Beverley McLachlin
  • Frank Iacobucci
  • John C. Major
  • Michel Bastarache
  • William Ian Corneil Binnie
  • Louise Arbour
  • Louis LeBel
  • Marie Deschamps
  • Charles D. Gonthier then Morris Fish

Other

  • Speaker of the House of Commons - Peter Milliken
  • Governor of the Bank of Canada - David Dodge
  • Chief of the Defence Staff - General R.R. Henault

Provinces

Premiers

  • Premier of Alberta - Ralph Klein
  • Premier of British Columbia - Gordon Campbell
  • Premier of Manitoba - Gary Doer
  • Premier of New Brunswick - Bernard Lord
  • Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador - Roger Grimes, then Danny Williams
  • Premier of Nova Scotia - John Hamm
  • Premier of Ontario - Ernie Eves, then Dalton McGuinty
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island - Pat Binns
  • Premier of Quebec - Bernard Landry, then Jean Charest
  • Premier of Saskatchewan - Lorne Calvert
  • Premier of the Northwest Territories - Stephen Kakfwi, then Joe Handley
  • Premier of Nunavut - Paul Okalik
  • Premier of Yukon - Dennis Fentie

Lieutenant-governors

  • Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta - Lois Hole
  • Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia - Iona Campagnolo
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba - Peter Liba
  • Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - Marilyn Trenholme Counsell then Herménégilde Chiasson
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - Edward Roberts
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia - Myra Freeman
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - James Bartleman
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Léonce Bernard
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Lise Thibault
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - Lynda Haverstock

Mayors

  • Toronto - Mel Lastman then David Miller
  • Montreal - Gérald Tremblay
  • Vancouver - Larry Campbell
  • Ottawa - Bob Chiarelli
  • Victoria - Alan Lowe

Religious leaders

  • Roman Catholic Bishop of Quebec - Cardinal Archbishop Marc Ouellet
  • Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal - Cardinal Archbishop Jean-Claude Turcotte
  • Roman Catholic Bishops of London - Bishop Ronald Peter Fabbro
  • Moderator of the United Church of Canada - Marion Pardy then Peter Short

See also

  • 2002 Canadian incumbents
  • Events in Canada in 2003
  • 2004 Canadian incumbents
  • Governmental leaders in 2003, Canadian incumbents by year