List of 2008 Canadian incumbents explained

Crown

Monarch - Queen Elizabeth II

Federal government

• Governor General - Michaëlle Jean

Cabinet

• Prime Minister - Stephen Harper
• Minister of Finance - Jim Flaherty
  • • Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Bernier (to May 26)
  • David Emerson (October 20-October 30)
  • Lawrence Cannon (from October 30)
• Minister of National Defence - Peter MacKay
• Minister of Health
  • Tony Clement (to October 30)
  • Leona Aglukkaq (from October 30)
• Minister of Industry - Maxime Bernier
• Minister of Heritage - Bev Oda
• Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs - Rona Ambrose
• Minister of the Environment - John Baird
• Minister of Justice - Rob Nicholson
• Minister of Transport - Lawrence Cannon
• Minister of Citizenship and Immigration - Diane Finley
• Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Loyola Hearn
• Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food - Chuck Strahl
• Minister of Public Works and Government Services - Michael Fortier
• Minister of Natural Resources - Gary Lunn
• Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development - Monte Solberg

Members of Parliament

See: 39th Canadian parliament, 40th Canadian parliament

Party leaders

• Liberal Party of Canada - Stéphane Dion to December 10 Michael Ignatieff
• Conservative Party of Canada - Stephen Harper
• Bloc Québécois - Gilles Duceppe
• New Democratic Party - Jack Layton
• Green Party of Canada - Elizabeth May

Supreme Court justices

• Chief Justice: Beverley McLachlin
• Marshall Rothstein
• Michel Bastarache
• William Ian Corneil Binnie
• Louis LeBel
• Marie Deschamps
• Morris Fish
• Louise Charron
• Rosalie Abella

Other

• Speaker of the House of Commons - Peter Milliken
• Governor of the Bank of Canada - David Dodge
• Chief of the Defence Staff - General Rick Hillier to July 1 General Walter J. Natynczyk

Provinces & Territories

Lieutenant-governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta - Norman Kwong
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia - Steven Point
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba - John Harvard
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick - Herménégilde Chiasson
• Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - Edward Roberts to John Crosbie
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia - Mayann Francis
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario - David Onley
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island - Barbara Hagerman
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec - Pierre Duchesne
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan - Gordon Barnhart

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta - Ed Stelmach
• Premier of British Columbia - Gordon Campbell
• Premier of Manitoba - Gary Doer
• Premier of New Brunswick - Shawn Graham
• Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador - Danny Williams
• Premier of Nova Scotia - Rodney MacDonald
• Premier of Ontario - Dalton McGuinty
• Premier of Prince Edward Island - Pat Binns
• Premier of Quebec - Jean Charest
• Premier of Saskatchewan - Lorne Calvert
• Premier of the Northwest Territories - Joe Handley
• Premier of Nunavut - Paul Okalik (January 1 – November 14), Eva Aariak (November 14 –)
• Premier of Yukon - Dennis Fentie

Mayors

see also list of mayors in Canada

• Toronto - David Miller
• Montreal - Gérald Tremblay
• Vancouver - Sam Sullivan → Gregor Robertson
• Ottawa - Larry O'Brien
• Winnipeg - Sam Katz
• Edmonton - Stephen Mandel
• Calgary - Dave Bronconnier
• Victoria - Alan Lowe

Religious leaders

• Roman Catholic Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of Canada - Cardinal Archbishop Marc Ouellet
• Roman Catholic Archbishop of Montreal - Cardinal Archbishop Jean-Claude Turcotte
• Roman Catholic Bishops of London - Bishop Ronald Peter Fabbro
• Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto - Archbishop Thomas Christopher Collins
• Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada - Fred Hiltz
• Moderator of the United Church of Canada - David Giuliano
• Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Canada - Wilma Welsh
• National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada - Raymond Schultz

Peer

• Michael Grant, 12th Baron de Longueuil

See also

• 2007 Canadian incumbents
• Events in Canada in 2008
• incumbents around the world in 2008
• Canadian incumbents by year