List of 1996 Canadian incumbents

Crown

• Head of State – Queen Elizabeth II

Federal government

• 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 (position 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

Supreme 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
• Premier of Newfoundland – Clyde Wells then Brian Tobin
• Premier of Nova Scotia – John Savage
• 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 – 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 – Hal Jackman
• Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island – Gilbert Clements
• Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec – Martial Asselin then Jean-Louis Roux
• Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan – Jack 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

See also

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