List of 1989 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 - Lucien Bouchard then Gerry Weiner
• Minister of National Defence - Perrin Beatty then Bill McKnight
• Minister of National Health and Welfare - Jake Epp then Perrin Beatty
• Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion - Robert de Cotret then Harvie André
• Minister of the Environment - Lucien Bouchard
• Minister of Justice - Joe Clark (acting) then Doug Lewis
• Minister of Transport - Benoît Bouchard
• Minister of Communications - Lowell Murray (acting) then Marcel Masse
• Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Tom Siddon
• Minister of Agriculture - Don Mazankowski
• Minister of Public Works - Otto Jelinek then Elmer MacKay
• Minister of Employment and Immigration - Barbara McDougall
• Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - Bill McKnight then Pierre Cadieux
• Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - Marcel Masse then Jake Epp
• Minister of Veterans Affairs - Gerald Merrithew

Parliament

See: 34th Canadian parliament

Party leaders

• Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - Brian Mulroney
• Liberal Party of Canada - John Turner
• New Democratic Party- Ed Broadbent then Audrey McLaughlin
• Reform Party of Canada - Preston Manning

Supreme Court Justices

• Chief Justice

Brian Dickson

• William McIntyre then Beverley McLachlin
• Bertha Wilson
• Antonio Lamer
• Gérard V. La Forest
• John Sopinka
• Jean Beetz then Peter deCarteret Cory
• Claire L'Heureux-Dubé
• Gerald Eric Le Dain then Charles D. Gonthier

Other

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

Provinces

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta - Don Getty
• Premier of British Columbia - Bill Vander Zalm
• Premier of Manitoba - Gary Filmon
• Premier of New Brunswick - Frank McKenna
• Premier of Newfoundland - Brian Peckford then Thomas Rideout then Clyde Wells
• 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
• Premier of the Northwest Territories - Dennis Patterson
• Premier of Yukon - Tony Penikett

Lieutenant-governors

• Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta - Helen Hunley
• Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia - David Lam
• Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba - George Johnson
• Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - Gilbert Finn
• Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - James Aloysius McGrath
• Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia -Alan Abraham then Lloyd Roseville Crouse
• 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 - Sang Chul Lee

See also

• 1988 Canadian incumbents
• Events in Canada in 1989
• 1990 Canadian incumbents
• Governmental leaders in 1989
• Canadian incumbents by year