List of 1987 Canadian incumbents explained

Crown

• Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II

Federal government

• Governor General - Jeanne Sauvé

Cabinet

• Prime Minister - Brian Mulroney
• Deputy Prime Minister - Don Mazankowski
• Minister of Finance - Michael Wilson
• Secretary of State for External Affairs - Joe Clark
• Secretary of State for Canada - David Crombie
• Minister of National Defence - Perrin Beatty
• Minister of National Health and Welfare - Jake Epp
• Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion - Michel Côté then Robert de Cotret
• Minister of the Environment - Thomas McMillan
• Minister of Justice - Ray Hnatyshyn
• Minister of Transport - John Crosbie
• Minister of Communications - Flora MacDonald
• Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Tom Siddon
• Minister of Agriculture - John Wise
• Minister of Public Works - Stewart McInnes
• Minister of Employment and Immigration - Benoît Bouchard
• Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - Bill McKnight
• Minister of Energy and Resources - Marcel Masse
• Minister of State (Forestry and Mines) - 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 then Claire L'Heureux-Dubé
• Gerald Eric Le Dain

Other

• Speaker of the House of Commons - John Allen Fraser
• Governor of the Bank of Canada - Gerald Bouey then John Crow
• Chief of the Defence Staff - General P.D. Manson

Provinces

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta - Don Getty
• Premier of British Columbia - Bill Vander Zalm
• Premier of Manitoba - Howard Pawley
• Premier of New Brunswick - Richard Hatfield then Frank McKenna
• Premier of Newfoundland - Brian Peckford
• Premier of Nova Scotia - John Buchanan
• Premier of Ontario - David Peterson
• Premier of Prince Edward Island - 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 - George Johnson
• Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - George F.G. Stanley then Gilbert Finn
• Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - 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 Doré
• Vancouver - 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 - Anne M. Squire

See also

• 1986 Canadian incumbents
• Events in Canada in 1987
• 1988 Canadian incumbents
• Governmental leaders in 1987
• Canadian incumbents by year