List of 1997 Canadian incumbents explained

Crown

• Head of State – Queen Elizabeth II

Federal government

• Governor General – Roméo LeBlanc

Cabinet

• Prime Minister – Jean Chrétien
• Deputy Prime Minister – Sheila Copps then Herb Gray
• Minister of Finance – Paul Martin
• Minister of Foreign Affairs – Lloyd Axworthy
• Minister of National Defence – Doug Young then Art Eggleton
• Minister of Health – David Dingwall then Allan Rock
• Minister of Industry – John Manley
• Minister of Heritage – Sheila Copps
• Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs – Stéphane Dion
• Minister of the Environment – Sergio Marchi then Christine Stewart
• Minister of Justice – Allan Rock then Anne McLellan
• Minister of Transport – David Anderson then David Collenette
• Minister of Citizenship and Immigration – Lucienne Robillard
• Minister of Fisheries and Oceans – Fred Mifflin then David Anderson
• Minister of Agriculture – Ralph Goodale then Lyle Vanclief
• Minister of Public Works and Government Services – Diane Marleau then Alfonso Gagliano
• Minister of Human Resources Development – Pierre Pettigrew
• Minister of Natural Resources – Anne McLellan then Ralph Goodale

Members of Parliament

See: 35th Canadian parliament, 36th Canadian parliament

Party leaders

• Liberal Party of Canada – Jean Chrétien
• Bloc Québécois – Michel Gauthier then Gilles Duceppe
• New Democratic Party – Alexa McDonough
• Progressive Conservative Party of Canada – Jean Charest
• Reform Party of Canada – Preston Manning

Supreme Court Justices

• Chief Justice: Antonio Lamer
• Beverley McLachlin
• Frank Iacobucci
• John C. Major
• Gérard V. La Forest then Michel Bastarache
• John Sopinka (retired November 24)
• Peter deCarteret Cory
• Claire L'Heureux-Dubé
• Charles D. Gonthier

Other

• Speaker of the House of Commons – Gilbert Parent
• Governor of the Bank of Canada – Gordon Thiessen
• Chief of the Defence Staff – Vice-Admiral Larry Murray then General Maurice Baril

Provinces

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Ralph Klein
• Premier of British Columbia – Glen Clark
• Premier of Manitoba – Gary Filmon
• Premier of New Brunswick – Frank McKenna then Raymond Frenette
• Premier of Newfoundland – Brian Tobin
• Premier of Nova Scotia – John Savage then Russell MacLellan
• Premier of Ontario – Mike Harris
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Pat Binns
• Premier of Quebec – Lucien Bouchard
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Roy Romanow
• Premier of the Northwest Territories – Don Morin
• Premier of Yukon – Piers McDonald

Lieutenant-governors

• Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta – Bud Olson
• Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia – Garde Gardom
• Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba – Yvon Dumont
• Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick – Margaret Norrie McCain then Marilyn Trenholme Counsell
• Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador – Frederick Russell then Arthur Maxwell House
• Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia – James Kinley
• Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario – Hal Jackman then Hilary Weston
• Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island – Gilbert Clements
• Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec – Jean-Louis Roux then Lise Thibault
• Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan – Jack Wiebe

Mayors

• Toronto – Barbara Hall
• Montreal – Pierre Bourque
• Vancouver – Philip Owen
• Ottawa – Jacquelin Holzman then Jim Watson

Religious leaders

• Roman Catholic Bishop of Quebec – Archbishop Maurice Couture
• Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal – Cardinal Archbishop Jean-Claude Turcotte
• Roman Catholic Bishops of London – Bishop John Michael Sherlock
• Moderator of the United Church of Canada – Marion Best then Bill Phipps

See also

• 1996 Canadian incumbents
• Events in Canada in 1997
• 1998 Canadian incumbents
• Governmental leaders in 1997
• Canadian incumbents by year