1996 Canadian incumbents

=Federal government=

*Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II
*Governor General - Roméo LeBlanc

Cabinet

*Prime Minister - Jean Chrétien

*Deputy Prime Minister - Sheila Copps
*Minister of Finance - Paul Martin
*Minister of Foreign Affairs - André Ouellet then Lloyd Axworthy
*Minister of National Defence - David Collenette then Doug Young
*Minister of Health - Diane Marleau then David Dingwall
*Minister of Industry - John Manley
*Minister of Heritage - Sheila Copps (position was only created on July 12 of 1996)
*Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs - Marcel Massé then Stéphane Dion
*Minister of the Environment - Sheila Copps then Sergio Marchi
*Minister of Justice - Allan Rock
*Minister of Transport - Doug Young then David Anderson
*Minister of Communications - Michel Dupuy then Sheila Copps (poistion merged into that of Heritage Minister on July 11, 1996)
*Minister of Citizenship and Immigration - Sergio Marchi then Lucienne Robillard
*Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Brian Tobin then Fred Mifflin
*Minister of Agriculture - Ralph Goodale
*Minister of Public Works and Government Services - Diane Marleau (position created on July 12.)
*Minister of Employment and Immigration - Lloyd Axworthy then Doug Young then Pierre Pettigrew (position was renamed Minister of Human Resources Development on July 11)
*Minister of Natural Resources - Anne McLellan
*Minister of Public Works - David Dingwall then Diane Marleau (position discontinued on July 11)
*Minister of Supply and Services - David Dingwall then Diane Marleau (position discontinued on July 11)

Members of Parliament

See: 35th Canadian parliament

Party leaders

*Liberal Party of Canada - Jean Chrétien
*Bloc Québécois - Lucien Bouchard then Gilles Duceppe "(interim)" then Michel Gauthier
*New Democratic Party- Alexa McDonough
*Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - Jean Charest
*Reform Party of Canada - Preston Manning

upreme Court Justices

*Chief Justice: Antonio Lamer
*Beverley McLachlin
*Frank Iacobucci
*John C. Major
*Gérard V. La Forest
*John Sopinka
*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 - General Jean Boyle then Vice-Admiral Larry Murray

Provinces

Premiers

*Premier of Alberta - Ralph Klein
*Premier of British Columbia - Mike Harcourt then Glen Clark
*Premier of Manitoba - Gary Filmon
*Premier of New Brunswick - Frank McKenna then Raymond Frenette
*Premier of Newfoundland - Clyde Wells then Brian Tobin
*Premier of Nova Scotia - John Savage then Russell MacLellan
*Premier of Ontario - Mike Harris
*Premier of Prince Edward Island - Catherine Callbeck then Keith Milligan then Pat Binns
*Premier of Quebec - Jacques Parizeau then Lucien Bouchard
*Premier of Saskatchewan - Roy Romanow
*Premier of the Northwest Territories - Don Morin
*Premier of Yukon - John Ostashek then Piers McDonald

Lieutenant-governors

*Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta - Gordon Towers then Bud Olson
*Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia - Garde Gardom
*Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba - W. Yvon Dumont
*Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - Margaret Norrie McCain
*Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - Frederick Russell
*Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia - James Kinley
*Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - Henry N. R. Jackman
*Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Gilbert Ralph Clements
*Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Martial Asselin then Jean-Louis Roux
*Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - John E. N. Wiebe

Mayors

*Toronto - Barbara Hall
*Montreal - Pierre Bourque
*Vancouver - Philip Owen
*Ottawa - Jacquelin Holzman

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

ee also

*1995 Canadian incumbents
*Events in Canada in 1996
*1997 Canadian incumbents
*Governmental leaders in 1996
*Canadian incumbents by year