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 - Allan MacEachen then Marc Lalonde Secretary of State for External Affairs - Mark MacGuigan then Allan MacEachen Secretary of State for Canada - Gerald Regan then Serge Joyal Minister of National Defence - Gilles Lamontagne Minister of National Health and Welfare - Monique Bégin Minister of Regional Economic Expansion - Pierre De Bané then Herb Gray then Ed Lumley renamed Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion on December 7 Minister of the Environment - John Roberts Minister of Justice - Jean Chrétien then Mark MacGuigan Minister of Transport - Jean-Luc Pépin Minister of Communications - Francis Fox Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Roméo LeBlanc then Pierre de Bané Minister of Agriculture - Eugene Whelan Minister of Public Works - Paul James Cosgrove then Roméo LeBlanc Minister of Employment and Immigration - Lloyd Axworthy Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - John Munro Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - John Roberts 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 Supreme Court Justices Chief Justice: Bora Laskin William McIntyre Ronald Martland then Bertha Wilson Antonio Lamer Roland Almon Ritchie 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. 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 - Allan Blakeney then Grant Devine Lieutenant-governors Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta - Frank C. Lynch-Staunton Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia - Henry Pybus Bell-Irving 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