List of 1981 Canadian incumbents explained

Crown

• Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II

Federal government

• Governor General - Edward Schreyer

Cabinet

• Prime Minister - Pierre Trudeau
• Deputy Prime Minister - Allan MacEachen
• Minister of Finance - Allan MacEachen
• Secretary of State for External Affairs - Mark MacGuigan
• Secretary of State for Canada - Francis Fox then Gerald Regan
• Minister of National Defence - Gilles Lamontagne
• Minister of National Health and Welfare - Monique Bégin
• Minister of Regional Economic Expansion - Pierre De Bané
• Minister of the Environment - John Roberts
• Minister of Justice - Jean Chrétien
• Minister of Transport - Jean-Luc Pépin
• Minister of Communications - Francis Fox
• Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Roméo LeBlanc
• Minister of Agriculture - Eugene Whelan
• Minister of Public Works - Paul James Cosgrove
• Minister of Employment and Immigration - Lloyd Axworthy
• Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - John Munro
• Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - John Roberts

Parliament

See: 32nd 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
• Antonio Lamer
• Roland Almon Ritchie
• John Sopinka
• Jean Beetz
• Julien Chouinard
• Gerald Eric Le Dain

Other

• Speaker of the House of Commons - Jeanne Sauvé
• Governor of the Bank of Canada - Gerald Bouey
• Chief of the Defence Staff - Air General R.M. Withers

Provinces

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta - Peter Lougheed
• Premier of British Columbia - Bill Bennett
• Premier of Manitoba - Sterling Lyon then Howard Pawley
• Premier of New Brunswick - Richard Hatfield
• Premier of Newfoundland - Brian Peckford
• Premier of Nova Scotia - John Buchanan
• Premier of Ontario - Bill Davis
• Premier of Prince Edward Island - Angus MacLean then James Lee
• 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 then Pearl McGonigal
• Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - Hédard Joseph Robichaud then George F.G. Stanley
• Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - Gordon Arnaud Winter then William Anthony Paddon
• Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia - John Elvin Shaffner
• Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - John Black Aird
• Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Joseph Aubin Doiron
• Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Jean-Pierre Côté
• Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - Irwin McIntosh

Mayors

• Toronto - Art Eggleton
• Montreal - Jean Drapeau
• Vancouver - Michael Harcourt
• Ottawa - Marion Dewar

Religious leaders

• Roman Catholic Bishop of Quebec - Cardinal Archbishop Louis-Albert Vachon
• Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal - Cardinal Archbishop Paul Grégoire
• Roman Catholic Bishops of London - Bishop John Michael Sherlock
• Moderator of the United Church of Canada - Lois M. Wilson

See also

• 1980 Canadian incumbents
• Events in Canada in 1981
• 1982 Canadian incumbents
• Governmental leaders in 1981
• Canadian incumbents by year