Crown Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II Federal government Governor General - Jeanne Sauvé Cabinet Prime Minister - Brian Mulroney Deputy Prime Minister - Erik Nielsen then Don Mazankowski Minister of Finance - Michael Wilson Secretary of State for External Affairs - Joe Clark Secretary of State for Canada - Benoît Bouchard then David Crombie Minister of National Defence - Erik Nielsen then Perrin Beatty Minister of National Health and Welfare - Jake Epp Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion - Sinclair Stevens then Don Mazankowski (acting) then Michel Côté Minister of the Environment - Thomas McMillan Minister of Justice - John Crosbie then Ray Hnatyshyn Minister of Transport - Don Mazankowski then John Crosbie Minister of Communications - Marcel Masse then Flora MacDonald Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Tom Siddon Minister of Agriculture - John Wise Minister of Public Works - Roch LaSalle then Stewart McInnes Minister of Employment and Immigration - Flora MacDonald then Benoît Bouchard Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - David Crombie then Bill McKnight Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - Pat Carney then Marcel Masse 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 John Sopinka Jean Beetz Julien Chouinard Gerald Eric Le Dain Other Speaker of the House of Commons - John William Bosley then John Allen Fraser Governor of the Bank of Canada - Gerald Bouey Chief of the Defence Staff - General G.C.E. Thériault then General P.D. Manson Provinces Premiers Premier of Alberta - Don Getty Premier of British Columbia - Bill Bennett then Bill Vander Zalm 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 - David Peterson Premier of Prince Edward Island - James Lee then Joe Ghiz Premier of Quebec - Robert Bourassa Premier of Saskatchewan - Grant Devine Lieutenant-governors Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta - Helen Hunley Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia - Robert Gordon Rogers Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba - Pearl McGonigal then George Johnson Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - George F.G. Stanley Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - William Anthony Paddon then James Aloysius