List of 1980 Canadian incumbents explained

Crown

• Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II

Federal government

• Governor General - Edward Schreyer

Cabinet

• Prime Minister - Joe Clark then Pierre Trudeau
• Deputy Prime Minister - Vacant then Allan MacEachen
• Minister of Finance - John Crosbie then Allan MacEachen
• Secretary of State for External Affairs - Flora McDonald then Mark MacGuigan
• Secretary of State for Canada - David MacDonald then Francis Fox
• Minister of the Environment - John Allen Fraser then John Roberts
• Minister of Justice - Jacques Flynn then Jean Chrétien
• Minister of National Defence - Allan McKinnon then Gilles Lamontagne
• Minister of Health and Welfare - David Edward Crombie then Monique Bégin
• Minister of Regional Economic Expansion - Elmer MacKay then Pierre De Bané
• Minister of Transport - Don Mazankowski then Jean-Luc Pépin
• Minister of Communications - David MacDonald then Francis Fox
  • Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - James McGrath then Roméo LeBlanc Minister of Public Works - Erik Nielsen then Paul James Cosgrove
• Minister of Employment and Immigration - Ron Atkey then Lloyd Axworthy
• Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - Jake Epp then John Munro
• Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - Ramon John Hnatyshyn then Marc Lalonde

Parliament

See also: 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
• Willard Estey
• Jean Beetz
• Julien Chouinard
• Gerald Eric Le Dain

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 - Brian Peckford
• Premier of Nova Scotia - John Buchanan
• Premier of Ontario - Bill Davis
• Premier of Prince Edward Island - 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 - Pearl McGonigal
• Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - George F.G. Stanley
• Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - William Anthony Paddon
• Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia - John Elvin Shaffner
• Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - Jean-Pierre Côté
• Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Joseph Aubin Doiron
• Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Gilles Lamontagne
• Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - Irwin McIntosh

See also

• 1979 Canadian incumbents
• Events in Canada in 1980
• 1981 Canadian incumbents
• Governmental leaders in 1980
• Canadian incumbents by year