Crown Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II Federal government Governor General - Jeanne Sauvé then Ray Hnatyshyn Cabinet Prime Minister - Brian Mulroney Deputy Prime Minister - Don Mazankowski Minister of Finance - Michael Wilson Secretary of State for External Affairs - Joe Clark Secretary of State for Canada - Gerry Weiner Minister of National Defence - Bill McKnight Minister of National Health and Welfare - Perrin Beatty Minister of Industry, Science and Technology - Benoît Bouchard (position created February 23, 1990) Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion - Harvie André (position discontinued February 22, 1990) Minister of the Environment - Lucien Bouchard then Frank Oberle (interim) then Robert de Cotret Minister of Justice - Doug Lewis then Kim Campbell Minister of Transport - Benoît Bouchard then Doug Lewis Minister of Communications - Marcel Masse Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Tom Siddon then Bernard Valcourt Minister of Agriculture - Don Mazankowski Minister of Public Works - Elmer MacKay Minister of Employment and Immigration - Barbara McDougall Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - Pierre Cadieux then Tom Siddon Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - Jake Epp Minister of Forestry - Frank Oberle (position was created on February 23, 1990) Minister of Veterans Affairs - Gerry Merrithew Parliament See: 34th Canadian parliament Party leaders Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - Brian Mulroney Liberal Party of Canada - John Turner then Jean Chrétien Bloc Québécois - Lucien Bouchard (party first formed May 21, 1990) New Democratic Party- Audrey McLaughlin Reform Party of Canada - Preston Manning Supreme Court Justices Chief Justice: Brian Dickson then (from July 1) Antonio Lamer Beverley McLachlin Bertha Wilson William Stevenson (arrived on September 17, to replace Lamer who had previously been promoted to Chief Justice) Gérard V. La Forest John Sopinka Peter deCarteret Cory Claire L'Heureux-Dubé Charles D. Gonthier Other Speaker of the House of Commons - John Allen Fraser Governor of the Bank of Canada - John Crow Chief of the Defence Staff - General John de Chastelain Provinces Premiers Premier of Alberta - Don Getty Premier of British Columbia - Bill Vander Zalm Premier of Manitoba - Gary Filmon Premier of New Brunswick - Frank McKenna Premier of Newfoundland - Clyde Wells Premier of Nova Scotia - John Buchanan then Roger Bacon Premier of Ontario - David Peterson then Bob Rae Premier of Prince Edward Island - Joe Ghiz Premier of Quebec