Crown Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II

Federal government Governor General - Jeanne Sauvé

Cabinet Prime Minister - Brian Mulroney Deputy Prime Minister - Erik Nielsen Minister of Finance - Michael Wilson Secretary of State for External Affairs - Joe Clark Secretary of State for Canada - Walter McLean then Benoît Bouchard Minister of National Defence - Robert Coates then Erik Nielsen Minister of National Health and Welfare - Jake Epp Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion - Sinclair Stevens Minister of the Environment - Suzanne Blais-Grenier then Thomas McMillan Minister of Justice - John Crosbie Minister of Transport - Don Mazankowski Minister of Communications - Marcel Masse then Benoît Bouchard then Marcel Masse Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - John Fraser then Erik Nielsen (acting) then Tom Siddon Minister of Agriculture - John Wise Minister of Public Works - Roch LaSalle Minister of Employment and Immigration - Flora MacDonald Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - David Crombie Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - Pat Carney Minister of State (Forestry) - Gerald Merrithew

Parliament See: 33rd Canadian parliament

Party leaders Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - Brian Mulroney Liberal Party of Canada - John Turner New Democratic Party- Ed Broadbent

Supreme Court Justices Chief Justice: Brian Dickson William McIntyre Bertha Wilson Antonio Lamer Gérard V. La Forest (sworn in January 16) John Sopinka Jean Beetz Julien Chouinard Gerald Eric Le Dain

Other Speaker of the House of Commons - John William Bosley Governor of the Bank of Canada - Gerald Bouey Chief of the Defence Staff - General G.C.E. Thériault

Provinces

Premiers Premier of Alberta - Peter Lougheed then Don Getty Premier of British Columbia - Bill Bennett Premier of Manitoba - Howard Pawley Premier of New Brunswick - Richard Hatfield Premier of Newfoundland - Brian Peckford Premier of Nova Scotia - John Buchanan Premier of Ontario - Bill Davis then Frank Miller then David Peterson Premier of Prince Edward Island - James Lee Premier of Quebec - René Lévesque then Pierre-Marc Johnson then Robert Bourassa Premier of Saskatchewan - Grant Devine

Lieutenant-governors Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta - Frank C. Lynch-Staunton then Helen Hunley Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia - Robert Gordon Rogers Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba - Pearl McGonigal Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - George F.G. Stanley Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - William Anthony Paddon Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia -Alan Abraham Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - John Black Aird then Lincoln Alexander Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Joseph Aubin Doiron then Robert Lloyd George MacPhail Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Gilles Lamontagne Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - Sylvia Fedoruk

Mayors Toronto - Art Eggleton Montreal - Jean Drapeau Vancouver - Michael Harcourt Ottawa - Marion Dewar then James A. Durrell

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 - Robert F. Smith

See also 1984 Canadian incumbents Events in Canada in 1985 1986 Canadian incumbents Governmental leaders in 1985 Canadian incumbents by year