List of 1996 Canadian incumbents

Crown

 * Head of State – Queen Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General – Roméo LeBlanc

Cabinet

 * Prime Minister – Jean Chrétien
 * Deputy Prime Minister – Sheila Copps
 * Minister of Finance – Paul Martin
 * Minister of Foreign Affairs – André Ouellet then Lloyd Axworthy
 * Minister of National Defence – David Collenette then Doug Young
 * Minister of Health – Diane Marleau then David Dingwall
 * Minister of Industry – John Manley
 * Minister of Heritage – Sheila Copps (position was only created on July 12 of 1996)
 * Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs – Marcel Massé then Stéphane Dion
 * Minister of the Environment – Sheila Copps then Sergio Marchi
 * Minister of Justice – Allan Rock
 * Minister of Transport – Doug Young then David Anderson
 * Minister of Communications – Michel Dupuy then Sheila Copps (position merged into that of Heritage Minister on July 11, 1996)
 * Minister of Citizenship and Immigration – Sergio Marchi then Lucienne Robillard
 * Minister of Fisheries and Oceans – Brian Tobin then Fred Mifflin
 * Minister of Agriculture – Ralph Goodale
 * Minister of Public Works and Government Services – Diane Marleau (position created on July 12.)
 * Minister of Employment and Immigration – Lloyd Axworthy then Doug Young then Pierre Pettigrew (position was renamed Minister of Human Resources Development on July 11)
 * Minister of Natural Resources – Anne McLellan
 * Minister of Public Works – David Dingwall then Diane Marleau (position discontinued on July 11)
 * Minister of Supply and Services – David Dingwall then Diane Marleau (position discontinued on July 11)

Members of Parliament
See: 35th Canadian parliament

Party leaders

 * Liberal Party of Canada – Jean Chrétien
 * Bloc Québécois – Lucien Bouchard then Gilles Duceppe (interim) then Michel Gauthier
 * New Democratic Party- Alexa McDonough
 * Progressive Conservative Party of Canada – Jean Charest
 * Reform Party of Canada – Preston Manning

Supreme Court Justices

 * Chief Justice: Antonio Lamer
 * Beverley McLachlin
 * Frank Iacobucci
 * John C. Major
 * Gérard V. La Forest
 * John Sopinka
 * Peter deCarteret Cory
 * Claire L'Heureux-Dubé
 * Charles D. Gonthier

Other

 * Speaker of the House of Commons – Gilbert Parent
 * Governor of the Bank of Canada – Gordon Thiessen
 * Chief of the Defence Staff – General Jean Boyle then Vice-Admiral Larry Murray

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta – Ralph Klein
 * Premier of British Columbia – Mike Harcourt then Glen Clark
 * Premier of Manitoba – Gary Filmon
 * Premier of New Brunswick – Frank McKenna
 * Premier of Newfoundland – Clyde Wells then Brian Tobin
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – John Savage
 * Premier of Ontario – Mike Harris
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island – Catherine Callbeck then Keith Milligan then Pat Binns
 * Premier of Quebec – Jacques Parizeau then Lucien Bouchard
 * Premier of Saskatchewan – Roy Romanow
 * Premier of the Northwest Territories – Don Morin
 * Premier of Yukon – John Ostashek then Piers McDonald

Lieutenant-governors

 * Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta – Gordon Towers then Bud Olson
 * Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia – Garde Gardom
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba – Yvon Dumont
 * Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick – Margaret Norrie McCain
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador – Frederick Russell
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia – James Kinley
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario – Hal Jackman
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island – Gilbert Clements
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec – Martial Asselin then Jean-Louis Roux
 * Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan – Jack Wiebe

Mayors

 * Toronto – Barbara Hall
 * Montreal – Pierre Bourque
 * Vancouver – Philip Owen
 * Ottawa – Jacquelin Holzman

Religious leaders

 * Roman Catholic Bishop of Quebec – Archbishop Maurice Couture
 * Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal – Cardinal Archbishop Jean-Claude Turcotte
 * Roman Catholic Bishops of London – Bishop John Michael Sherlock
 * Moderator of the United Church of Canada – Marion Best