List of 1987 Canadian incumbents

Crown

 * Head of State - Queen Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General - Jeanne Sauvé

Cabinet

 * Prime Minister - Brian Mulroney
 * Deputy Prime Minister - Don Mazankowski
 * Minister of Finance - Michael Wilson
 * Secretary of State for External Affairs - Joe Clark
 * Secretary of State for Canada - David Crombie
 * Minister of National Defence - Perrin Beatty
 * Minister of National Health and Welfare - Jake Epp
 * Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion - Michel Côté then Robert de Cotret
 * Minister of the Environment - Thomas McMillan
 * Minister of Justice - Ray Hnatyshyn
 * Minister of Transport - John Crosbie
 * Minister of Communications - Flora MacDonald
 * Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Tom Siddon
 * Minister of Agriculture - John Wise
 * Minister of Public Works - Stewart McInnes
 * Minister of Employment and Immigration - Benoît Bouchard
 * Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - Bill McKnight
 * Minister of Energy and Resources - Marcel Masse
 * Minister of State (Forestry and Mines) - 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 then Claire L'Heureux-Dubé
 * Gerald Eric Le Dain

Other

 * Speaker of the House of Commons - John Allen Fraser
 * Governor of the Bank of Canada - Gerald Bouey then John Crow
 * Chief of the Defence Staff - General P.D. Manson

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta - Don Getty
 * Premier of British Columbia - Bill Vander Zalm
 * Premier of Manitoba - Howard Pawley
 * Premier of New Brunswick - Richard Hatfield then Frank McKenna
 * Premier of Newfoundland - Brian Peckford
 * Premier of Nova Scotia - John Buchanan
 * Premier of Ontario - David Peterson
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island - 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 - George Johnson
 * Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick - George F.G. Stanley then Gilbert Finn
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - James Aloysius McGrath
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia -Alan Abraham
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - Lincoln Alexander
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Robert Lloyd George MacPhail
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Gilles Lamontagne
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - Sylvia Fedoruk

Mayors

 * Toronto - Art Eggleton
 * Montreal - Jean Doré
 * Vancouver - Gordon Campbell
 * Ottawa - James A. Durrell

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 - Anne M. Squire