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 - Marc Lalonde Secretary of State for External Affairs - Allan MacEachen Secretary of State for Canada - Serge Joyal Minister of National Defence - Gilles Lamontagne then Jean-Jacques Blais Minister of National Health and Welfare - Monique Bégin Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion - Ed Lumley Minister of the Environment - John Roberts then Charles Caccia Minister of Justice - Mark MacGuigan Minister of Transport - Jean-Luc Pépin then Lloyd Axworthy Minister of Communications - Francis Fox Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Pierre de Bané Minister of Agriculture - Eugene Whelan Minister of Public Works - Roméo LeBlanc Minister of Employment and Immigration - Lloyd Axworthy then John Roberts Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - John Munro Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - John Roberts then Charles Caccia Parliament See: 32nd Canadian parliament Party leaders Liberal Party of Canada - Pierre Trudeau New Democratic Party- Ed Broadbent Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - Joe Clark then Erik Nielsen interim then Brian Mulroney Supreme Court Justices Chief Justice: Bora Laskin William McIntyre Bertha Wilson 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 then General G.C.E. Thériault Provinces Premiers Premier of Alberta - Peter Lougheed 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 Premier of Prince Edward Island - James Lee Premier of Quebec - René Lévesque Premier of Saskatchewan - Grant Devine Lieutenant-governors Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta - Frank C. Lynch-Staunton Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia - Henry Pybus Bell-Irving then 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 - John Elvin Shaffner Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - Jean-Pierre Côté Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Joseph Aubin Doiron Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Gilles Lamontagne Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - Irwin