List of 1979 Canadian incumbents
# List of 1979 Canadian incumbents

## Crown

* Head of state (monarch) – Queen Elizabeth II

## Federal government

* Governor General - Jules Léger then Edward Richard Schreyer

### Cabinet

* Prime Minister - Pierre Trudeau then Joe Clark
* Deputy Prime Minister - Allan MacEachen then Vacant
* Minister of Finance - Jean Chrétien then John Crosbie
* Secretary of State for External Affairs - Don Jamieson then Flora McDonald
* Secretary of State for Canada - John Roberts then David MacDonald
* Minister of the Environment - Roméo LeBlanc then Leonard Marchand then John Allen Fraser
* Minister of Justice - Marc Lalonde then Jacques Flynn
* Minister of National Defence - Barney Danson then Allan McKinnon
* Minister of Health and Welfare - Monique Bégin then David Edward Crombie
* Minister of Regional Economic Expansion - Marcel Lessard then Vacant then Elmer MacKay
* Minister of Transport - Otto Lang then Don Mazankowski
* Minister of Communications - Jeanne Sauvé then David MacDonald
* Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Roméo LeBlanc then James McGrath
* Minister of Public Works - André Ouellet then Erik Nielsen
* Minister of Employment and Immigration - Bud Cullen then Ron Atkey
* Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - James Hugh Faulkner then Jake Epp
* Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - Alastair Gillespie then Ramon John Hnatyshyn

## Parliament

See: 31st Canadian parliament

### Party leaders

* Liberal Party of Canada - Pierre Trudeau
* New Democratic Party- Ed Broadbent
* Progressive Conservative Party - Joe Clark

### Supreme Court Justices

* Chief Justice: Bora Laskin
* William McIntyre
* Ronald Martland
* Louis-Philippe Pigeon
* Roland Almon Ritchie
* Willard Estey
* Jean Beetz
* Julien Chouinard
* Brian Dickson

### Other

* Speaker of the House of Commons - James Jerome
* Governor of the Bank of Canada - Gerald Bouey
* Chief of the Defence Staff - Air General Robert Hilborn Falls

## Provinces

### Premiers

* Premier of Alberta - Peter Lougheed
* Premier of British Columbia - Bill Bennett
* Premier of Manitoba - Sterling Lyon
* Premier of New Brunswick - Richard Hatfield
* Premier of Newfoundland - Frank Moores then Brian Peckford
* Premier of Nova Scotia - John Buchanan
* Premier of Ontario - Bill Davis
* Premier of Prince Edward Island - Bennett Campbell then Angus MacLean
* Premier of Quebec - René Lévesque
* Premier of Saskatchewan - Allan Blakeney

### Lieutenant-governors

* Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta - Frank C. Lynch-Staunton
* Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia - Henry Pybus Bell-Irving
* Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba - Francis Lawrence Jobin
* Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - Hédard Robichaud
* Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - Gordon Arnaud Winter
* Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia - John Elvin Shaffner
* Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - Pauline Mills McGibbon
* Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Gordon Lockhart Bennett
* Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Jean-Pierre Côté
* Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - Irwin McIntosh

## Mayors

* Toronto - John Sewell
* Montreal - Jean Drapeau
* Vancouver - Jack Volrich
* Ottawa - Marion Dewar
