List of 1986 Canadian incumbents explained

Crown

• Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II

Federal government

• Governor General - Jeanne Sauvé

Cabinet

• Prime Minister - Brian Mulroney
• Deputy Prime Minister - Erik Nielsen then Don Mazankowski
• Minister of Finance - Michael Wilson
• Secretary of State for External Affairs - Joe Clark
• Secretary of State for Canada - Benoît Bouchard then David Crombie
• Minister of National Defence - Erik Nielsen then Perrin Beatty
• Minister of National Health and Welfare - Jake Epp
• Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion - Sinclair Stevens then Don Mazankowski (acting) then Michel Côté
• Minister of the Environment - Thomas McMillan
• Minister of Justice - John Crosbie then Ray Hnatyshyn
• Minister of Transport - Don Mazankowski then John Crosbie
• Minister of Communications - Marcel Masse then Flora MacDonald
• Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Tom Siddon
• Minister of Agriculture - John Wise
• Minister of Public Works - Roch LaSalle then Stewart McInnes
• Minister of Employment and Immigration - Flora MacDonald then Benoît Bouchard
• Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - David Crombie then Bill McKnight
• Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - Pat Carney then Marcel Masse
• Minister of State (Forestry) - Gerald Merrithew

Parliament

See: 33rd Canadian parliament

Party leaders

• Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - Brian Mulroney
• Liberal Party of Canada - John Turner
• New Democratic Party- Ed Broadbent

Supreme Court Justices

• Chief Justice

Brian Dickson

• William McIntyre
• Bertha Wilson
• Antonio Lamer
• Gérard V. La Forest
• John Sopinka
• Jean Beetz
• Julien Chouinard
• Gerald Eric Le Dain

Other

• Speaker of the House of Commons - John William Bosley then John Allen Fraser
• Governor of the Bank of Canada - Gerald Bouey
• Chief of the Defence Staff - General G.C.E. Thériault then General P.D. Manson

Provinces

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta - Don Getty
• Premier of British Columbia - Bill Bennett then Bill Vander Zalm
• Premier of Manitoba - Howard Pawley
• Premier of New Brunswick - Richard Hatfield
• Premier of Newfoundland - Brian Peckford
• Premier of Nova Scotia - John Buchanan
• Premier of Ontario - David Peterson
• Premier of Prince Edward Island - James Lee then Joe Ghiz
• Premier of Quebec - Robert Bourassa
• Premier of Saskatchewan - Grant Devine

Lieutenant-governors

• Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta - Helen Hunley
• Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia - Robert Gordon Rogers
• Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba - Pearl McGonigal then George Johnson
• Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - George F.G. Stanley
• Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - William Anthony Paddon then James Aloysius McGrath
• Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia -Alan Abraham
• Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - Lincoln Alexander
• Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Robert Lloyd George MacPhail
• Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Gilles Lamontagne
• Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - Sylvia Fedoruk

Mayors

• Toronto - Art Eggleton
• Montreal - Jean Drapeau then Jean Doré
• Vancouver - Michael Harcourt then Gordon Campbell
• Ottawa - James A. Durrell

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 - Robert F. Smith then Anne M. Squire

See also

• 1985 Canadian incumbents
• Events in Canada in 1986
• 1987 Canadian incumbents
• Governmental leaders in 1986
• Canadian incumbents by year