# List of 2008 Canadian incumbents
## Crown

Monarch - Queen Elizabeth II

## Federal government

* Governor General - Michaëlle Jean

### Cabinet

* Prime Minister - Stephen Harper
* Minister of Finance - Jim Flaherty
* Minister of Foreign Affairs
** Maxime Bernier (to May 26)
** David Emerson (October 20-October 30)
** Lawrence Cannon (from October 30)
* Minister of National Defence - Peter MacKay
* Minister of Health
** Tony Clement (to October 30)
** Leona Aglukkaq (from October 30)
* Minister of Industry - Maxime Bernier
* Minister of Heritage - Bev Oda
* Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs - Rona Ambrose
* Minister of the Environment - John Baird
* Minister of Justice - Rob Nicholson
* Minister of Transport - Lawrence Cannon
* Minister of Citizenship and Immigration - Diane Finley
* Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Loyola Hearn
* Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food - Chuck Strahl
* Minister of Public Works and Government Services - Michael Fortier
* Minister of Natural Resources - Gary Lunn
* Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development - Monte Solberg

## Members of Parliament

See: 39th Canadian parliament, 40th Canadian parliament

### Party leaders

* Liberal Party of Canada - Stéphane Dion to December 10 Michael Ignatieff
* Conservative Party of Canada - Stephen Harper
* Bloc Québécois - Gilles Duceppe
* New Democratic Party - Jack Layton
* Green Party of Canada - Elizabeth May

### Supreme Court justices

* Chief Justice: Beverley McLachlin
* Marshall Rothstein
* Michel Bastarache
* William Ian Corneil Binnie
* Louis LeBel
* Marie Deschamps
* Morris Fish
* Louise Charron
* Rosalie Abella

### Other

* Speaker of the House of Commons - Peter Milliken
* Governor of the Bank of Canada - David Dodge
* Chief of the Defence Staff - General Rick Hillier to July 1 General Walter J. Natynczyk

## Provinces & Territories
### Lieutenant-governors

* Lieutenant Governor of Alberta - Norman Kwong
* Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia - Steven Point
* Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba - John Harvard
* Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick - Herménégilde Chiasson
* Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - Edward Roberts to John Crosbie
* Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia - Mayann Francis
* Lieutenant Governor of Ontario - David Onley
* Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island - Barbara Hagerman
* Lieutenant Governor of Quebec - Pierre Duchesne
* Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan - Gordon Barnhart

### Premiers

* Premier of Alberta - Ed Stelmach
* Premier of British Columbia - Gordon Campbell
* Premier of Manitoba - Gary Doer
* Premier of New Brunswick - Shawn Graham
* Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador - Danny Williams
* Premier of Nova Scotia - Rodney MacDonald
* Premier of Ontario - Dalton McGuinty
* Premier of Prince Edward Island - Pat Binns
* Premier of Quebec - Jean Charest
* Premier of Saskatchewan - Lorne Calvert
* Premier of the Northwest Territories - Joe Handley
* Premier of Nunavut - Paul Okalik (January 1 – November 14), Eva Aariak (November 14 – )
* Premier of Yukon - Dennis Fentie

## Mayors

see also list of mayors in Canada
* Toronto - David Miller
* Montreal - Gérald Tremblay
* Vancouver - Sam Sullivan → Gregor Robertson
* Ottawa - Larry O'Brien
* Winnipeg - Sam Katz
* Edmonton - Stephen Mandel
* Calgary - Dave Bronconnier
* Victoria - Alan Lowe

## Religious leaders

* Roman Catholic Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of Canada - Cardinal Archbishop Marc Ouellet
* Roman Catholic Archbishop of Montreal - Cardinal Archbishop Jean-Claude Turcotte
* Roman Catholic Bishops of London - Bishop Ronald Peter Fabbro
* Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto - Archbishop Thomas Christopher Collins
* Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada - Fred Hiltz
* Moderator of the United Church of Canada - David Giuliano
* Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Canada - Wilma Welsh
* National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada - Raymond Schultz

## Peer

* Michael Grant, 12th Baron de Longueuil