List of 2009 Canadian incumbents explained

Crown

• Head of State (monarch) - Queen Elizabeth II

Federal government

• Governor General - Michaëlle Jean

Cabinet

• Prime Minister - Stephen Harper

28th Canadian Ministry

• Minister of Finance - Jim Flaherty
• Minister of Foreign Affairs - Lawrence Cannon
• Minister of International Trade - Stockwell Day
• Minister of National Defence - Peter MacKay
• Minister of Health - Tony Clement
• Minister of Industry - Maxime Bernier
  • Minister of National Revenue - Jean Pierre Blackburn Minister of Heritage - Josée Verner
• Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs - Josée Verner
• Minister of the Environment - John Baird
• Leader of the Government in the House of Commons (House Leader) - Jay Hill
• Minister of Justice - Rob Nicholson
• Minister of Transport - John Baird
• Minister of Labour - Rona Ambrose
• Minister of Citizenship and Immigration - Jason Kenney
  • Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - Chuck Strahl Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Gail Shea
• Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food - Chuck Strahl
• Minister of Public Works and Government Services - Michael Fortier
• Minister of Public Safety - Peter Van Loan
• President of the Treasury Board - Vic Toews
• Minister of Natural Resources - Gary Lunn
• Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development - Diane Finley
• Minister of Western Economic Diversification - Jim Prentice
• Minister for International Cooperation - Bev Oda

Members of Parliament

See: 39th Canadian parliament, 40th Canadian parliament

Party leaders

• Liberal Party of Canada - Michael Ignatieff (interim until May 2)
• 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 Senate - Noël Kinsella
• Speaker of the House of Commons - Peter Milliken
• Governor of the Bank of Canada - David Dodge (until January 31), Mark Carney (February 1 on)
• Chief of the Defence Staff - 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 then Philip S. Lee
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick - Herménégilde Chiasson then Graydon Nicholas
• Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - 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 then Greg Selinger
• Premier of New Brunswick - Shawn Graham
• Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador - Danny Williams
• Premier of Nova Scotia - Rodney MacDonald then Darrell Dexter
• Premier of Ontario - Dalton McGuinty
• Premier of Prince Edward Island - Robert Ghiz
• Premier of Quebec - Jean Charest
• Premier of Saskatchewan - Brad Wall
• Premier of the Northwest Territories - Floyd Roland
• Premier of Nunavut - Eva Aariak
• Premier of Yukon - Dennis Fentie

Mayors

see also list of mayors in Canada

• Charlottetown - Clifford J. Lee
• Fredericton - Brad Woodside
• Halifax - Peter J. Kelly
• Iqaluit - Elisapee Sheutiapik
• Toronto - David Miller
• Ottawa - Larry O'Brien
• Winnipeg - Sam Katz
• Edmonton - Stephen Mandel
• Quebec City - Régis Labeaume
• Regina - Pat Fiacco
• St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador - Dennis O'Keefe
• Victoria - Dean Fortin
• Whitehorse - Bev Buckway
• Yellowknife - Gordon Van Tighem

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

• 2008 Canadian incumbents
• Events in Canada in 2009
• incumbents around the world in 2009
• Canadian incumbents by year