List of 1981 Canadian incumbents

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
 * Secretary of State for External Affairs - Mark MacGuigan
 * Secretary of State for Canada - Francis Fox then Gerald Regan
 * Minister of National Defence - Gilles Lamontagne
 * Minister of National Health and Welfare - Monique Bégin
 * Minister of Regional Economic Expansion - Pierre De Bané
 * Minister of the Environment - John Roberts
 * Minister of Justice - Jean Chrétien
 * Minister of Transport - Jean-Luc Pépin
 * Minister of Communications - Francis Fox
 * Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Roméo LeBlanc
 * Minister of Agriculture - Eugene Whelan
 * Minister of Public Works - Paul James Cosgrove
 * 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 - Joe Clark

Supreme Court Justices

 * Chief Justice: Bora Laskin
 * William McIntyre
 * Ronald Martland
 * Antonio Lamer
 * Roland Almon Ritchie
 * John Sopinka
 * 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

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta - Peter Lougheed
 * Premier of British Columbia - Bill Bennett
 * Premier of Manitoba - Sterling Lyon then 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 - Angus MacLean then James Lee
 * 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 then Pearl McGonigal
 * Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - Hédard Joseph Robichaud then George F.G. Stanley
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - Gordon Arnaud Winter then William Anthony Paddon
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia - John Elvin Shaffner
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - John Black Aird
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Joseph Aubin Doiron
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Jean-Pierre Côté
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - Irwin McIntosh

Mayors

 * Toronto - Art Eggleton
 * Montreal - Jean Drapeau
 * Vancouver - Michael Harcourt
 * Ottawa - Marion Dewar

Religious leaders

 * Roman Catholic Bishop of Quebec - Cardinal Archbishop Louis-Albert Vachon
 * Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal - Cardinal Archbishop Paul Grégoire
 * Roman Catholic Bishops of London - Bishop John Michael Sherlock
 * Moderator of the United Church of Canada - Lois M. Wilson