List of 1979 Canadian incumbents

Crown

 * Head of state (monarch) – Queen Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General - Jules Léger then Edward Richard Schreyer

Cabinet

 * Prime Minister - Pierre Trudeau then Joe Clark
 * Deputy Prime Minister - Allan MacEachen then Vacant
 * Minister of Finance - Jean Chrétien then John Crosbie
 * Secretary of State for External Affairs - Don Jamieson then Flora McDonald
 * Secretary of State for Canada - John Roberts then David MacDonald
 * Minister of the Environment - Roméo LeBlanc then Leonard Marchand then John Allen Fraser
 * Minister of Justice - Marc Lalonde then Jacques Flynn
 * Minister of National Defence - Barney Danson then Allan McKinnon
 * Minister of Health and Welfare - Monique Bégin then David Edward Crombie
 * Minister of Regional Economic Expansion - Marcel Lessard then Vacant then Elmer MacKay
 * Minister of Transport - Otto Lang then Don Mazankowski
 * Minister of Communications - Jeanne Sauvé then David MacDonald
 * Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Roméo LeBlanc then James McGrath
 * Minister of Public Works - André Ouellet then Erik Nielsen
 * Minister of Employment and Immigration - Bud Cullen then Ron Atkey
 * Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - James Hugh Faulkner then Jake Epp
 * Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - Alastair Gillespie then Ramon John Hnatyshyn

Parliament
See: 31st Canadian parliament

Party leaders

 * Liberal Party of Canada - Pierre Trudeau
 * New Democratic Party- Ed Broadbent
 * Progressive Conservative Party - Joe Clark

Supreme Court Justices

 * Chief Justice: Bora Laskin
 * William McIntyre
 * Ronald Martland
 * Louis-Philippe Pigeon
 * Roland Almon Ritchie
 * Willard Estey
 * Jean Beetz
 * Julien Chouinard
 * Brian Dickson

Other

 * Speaker of the House of Commons - James Jerome
 * Governor of the Bank of Canada - Gerald Bouey
 * Chief of the Defence Staff - Air General Robert Hilborn Falls

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta - Peter Lougheed
 * Premier of British Columbia - Bill Bennett
 * Premier of Manitoba - Sterling Lyon
 * Premier of New Brunswick - Richard Hatfield
 * Premier of Newfoundland - Frank Moores then Brian Peckford
 * Premier of Nova Scotia - John Buchanan
 * Premier of Ontario - Bill Davis
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island - Bennett Campbell then Angus MacLean
 * Premier of Quebec - René Lévesque
 * Premier of Saskatchewan - Allan Blakeney

Lieutenant-governors

 * Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta - Frank C. Lynch-Staunton
 * Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia - Henry Pybus Bell-Irving
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba - Francis Lawrence Jobin
 * Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - Hédard Robichaud
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - Gordon Arnaud Winter
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia - John Elvin Shaffner
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - Pauline Mills McGibbon
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Gordon Lockhart Bennett
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Jean-Pierre Côté
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - Irwin McIntosh

Mayors

 * Toronto - John Sewell
 * Montreal - Jean Drapeau
 * Vancouver - Jack Volrich
 * Ottawa - Marion Dewar