# List of 1981 Canadian incumbents
## Crown

* Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II

## Federal government

* Governor General - Edward Schreyer

### Cabinet

* Prime Minister - Pierre Trudeau
* Deputy Prime Minister - Allan MacEachen
* Minister of Finance - Allan MacEachen
* Secretary of State for External Affairs - Mark MacGuigan
* Secretary of State for Canada - Francis Fox then Gerald Regan
* Minister of National Defence - Gilles Lamontagne
* Minister of National Health and Welfare - Monique Bégin
* Minister of Regional Economic Expansion - Pierre De Bané
* Minister of the Environment - John Roberts
* Minister of Justice - Jean Chrétien
* Minister of Transport - Jean-Luc Pépin
* Minister of Communications - Francis Fox
* Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Roméo LeBlanc
* Minister of Agriculture - Eugene Whelan
* Minister of Public Works - Paul James Cosgrove
* Minister of Employment and Immigration - Lloyd Axworthy
* Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - John Munro
* Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - John Roberts

## Parliament

See: 32nd 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
* Antonio Lamer
* Roland Almon Ritchie
* John Sopinka
* Jean Beetz
* Julien Chouinard
* Gerald Eric Le Dain

### Other

* Speaker of the House of Commons - Jeanne Sauvé
* Governor of the Bank of Canada - Gerald Bouey
* Chief of the Defence Staff - Air General R.M. Withers

## Provinces
### Premiers

* Premier of Alberta - Peter Lougheed
* Premier of British Columbia - Bill Bennett
* Premier of Manitoba - Sterling Lyon then Howard Pawley
* Premier of New Brunswick - Richard Hatfield
* Premier of Newfoundland - Brian Peckford
* Premier of Nova Scotia - John Buchanan
* Premier of Ontario - Bill Davis
* Premier of Prince Edward Island - Angus MacLean then James Lee
* 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 then Pearl McGonigal
* Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - Hédard Joseph Robichaud then George F.G. Stanley
* Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - Gordon Arnaud Winter then William Anthony Paddon
* Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia - John Elvin Shaffner
* Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - John Black Aird
* Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Joseph Aubin Doiron
* Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Jean-Pierre Côté
* Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - Irwin McIntosh

## Mayors

* Toronto - Art Eggleton
* Montreal - Jean Drapeau
* Vancouver - Michael Harcourt
* Ottawa - Marion Dewar

## Religious leaders

* Roman Catholic Bishop of Quebec - Cardinal Archbishop Louis-Albert Vachon
* Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal - Cardinal Archbishop Paul Grégoire
* Roman Catholic Bishops of London - Bishop John Michael Sherlock
* Moderator of the United Church of Canada - Lois M. Wilson