List of 1979 Canadian incumbents

Crown

• Head of state (monarch) – Queen Elizabeth II

Federal government

• Governor General - Jules Léger then Edward Richard Schreyer

Cabinet

• Prime Minister - Pierre Trudeau then Joe Clark
• Deputy Prime Minister - Allan MacEachen then Vacant
• Minister of Finance - Jean Chrétien then John Crosbie
• Secretary of State for External Affairs - Don Jamieson then Flora McDonald
• Secretary of State for Canada - John Roberts then David MacDonald
• Minister of the Environment - Roméo LeBlanc then Leonard Marchand then John Allen Fraser
• Minister of Justice - Marc Lalonde then Jacques Flynn
• Minister of National Defence - Barney Danson then Allan McKinnon
• Minister of Health and Welfare - Monique Bégin then David Edward Crombie
• Minister of Regional Economic Expansion - Marcel Lessard then Vacant then Elmer MacKay
• Minister of Transport - Otto Lang then Don Mazankowski
• Minister of Communications - Jeanne Sauvé then David MacDonald
• Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Roméo LeBlanc then James McGrath
• Minister of Public Works - André Ouellet then Erik Nielsen
• Minister of Employment and Immigration - Bud Cullen then Ron Atkey
• Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - James Hugh Faulkner then Jake Epp
• Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - Alastair Gillespie then Ramon John Hnatyshyn

Parliament

See: 31st Canadian parliament

Party leaders

• Liberal Party of Canada - Pierre Trudeau
• New Democratic Party- Ed Broadbent
• Progressive Conservative Party - Joe Clark

Supreme Court Justices

• Chief Justice: Bora Laskin
• William McIntyre
• Ronald Martland
• Louis-Philippe Pigeon
• Roland Almon Ritchie
• Willard Estey
• Jean Beetz
• Julien Chouinard
• Brian Dickson

Other

• Speaker of the House of Commons - James Jerome
• Governor of the Bank of Canada - Gerald Bouey
• Chief of the Defence Staff - Air General Robert Hilborn Falls

Provinces

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta - Peter Lougheed
• Premier of British Columbia - Bill Bennett
• Premier of Manitoba - Sterling Lyon
• Premier of New Brunswick - Richard Hatfield
• Premier of Newfoundland - Frank Moores then Brian Peckford
• Premier of Nova Scotia - John Buchanan
• Premier of Ontario - Bill Davis
• Premier of Prince Edward Island - Bennett Campbell then Angus MacLean
• Premier of Quebec - René Lévesque
• Premier of Saskatchewan - Allan Blakeney

Lieutenant-governors

• Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta - Frank C. Lynch-Staunton
• Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia - Henry Pybus Bell-Irving
• Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba - Francis Lawrence Jobin
• Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - Hédard Robichaud
• Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - Gordon Arnaud Winter
• Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia - John Elvin Shaffner
• Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - Pauline Mills McGibbon
• Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Gordon Lockhart Bennett
• Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Jean-Pierre Côté
• Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - Irwin McIntosh

Mayors

• Toronto - John Sewell
• Montreal - Jean Drapeau
• Vancouver - Jack Volrich
• Ottawa - Marion Dewar

See also

• Events in Canada in 1979
• Governmental leaders in 1979
• Canadian incumbents by year