List of 1980 Canadian incumbents

Crown

 * Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General - Edward Schreyer

Cabinet

 * Prime Minister - Joe Clark then Pierre Trudeau
 * Deputy Prime Minister - Vacant then Allan MacEachen
 * Minister of Finance - John Crosbie then Allan MacEachen
 * Secretary of State for External Affairs - Flora McDonald then Mark MacGuigan
 * Secretary of State for Canada - David MacDonald then Francis Fox
 * Minister of the Environment - John Allen Fraser then John Roberts
 * Minister of Justice - Jacques Flynn then Jean Chrétien
 * Minister of National Defence - Allan McKinnon then Gilles Lamontagne
 * Minister of Health and Welfare - David Edward Crombie then Monique Bégin
 * Minister of Regional Economic Expansion - Elmer MacKay then Pierre De Bané
 * Minister of Transport - Don Mazankowski then Jean-Luc Pépin
 * Minister of Communications - David MacDonald then Francis Fox
 * Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - James McGrath then Roméo LeBlanc
 * Minister of Public Works - Erik Nielsen then Paul James Cosgrove
 * Minister of Employment and Immigration - Ron Atkey then Lloyd Axworthy
 * Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - Jake Epp then John Munro
 * Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - Ramon John Hnatyshyn then Marc Lalonde

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
 * Antonio Lamer
 * Roland Almon Ritchie
 * Willard Estey
 * Jean Beetz
 * Julien Chouinard
 * Gerald Eric Le Dain

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 - Brian Peckford
 * Premier of Nova Scotia - John Buchanan
 * Premier of Ontario - Bill Davis
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island - 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 - 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 McIntosh