# 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