List of 2008 Canadian incumbents

Crown
Monarch - Queen Elizabeth II

Federal government

 * Governor General - Michaëlle Jean

Cabinet

 * Prime Minister - Stephen Harper
 * Minister of Finance - Jim Flaherty
 * Minister of Foreign Affairs
 * Maxime Bernier (to May 26)
 * David Emerson (October 20-October 30)
 * Lawrence Cannon (from October 30)
 * Minister of National Defence - Peter MacKay
 * Minister of Health
 * Tony Clement (to October 30)
 * Leona Aglukkaq (from October 30)
 * Minister of Industry - Maxime Bernier
 * Minister of Heritage - Bev Oda
 * Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs - Rona Ambrose
 * Minister of the Environment - John Baird
 * Minister of Justice - Rob Nicholson
 * Minister of Transport - Lawrence Cannon
 * Minister of Citizenship and Immigration - Diane Finley
 * Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Loyola Hearn
 * Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food - Chuck Strahl
 * Minister of Public Works and Government Services - Michael Fortier
 * Minister of Natural Resources - Gary Lunn
 * Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development - Monte Solberg

Members of Parliament
See: 39th Canadian parliament, 40th Canadian parliament

Party leaders

 * Liberal Party of Canada - Stéphane Dion to December 10 Michael Ignatieff
 * Conservative Party of Canada - Stephen Harper
 * Bloc Québécois - Gilles Duceppe
 * New Democratic Party - Jack Layton
 * Green Party of Canada - Elizabeth May

Supreme Court justices

 * Chief Justice: Beverley McLachlin
 * Marshall Rothstein
 * Michel Bastarache
 * William Ian Corneil Binnie
 * Louis LeBel
 * Marie Deschamps
 * Morris Fish
 * Louise Charron
 * Rosalie Abella

Other

 * Speaker of the House of Commons - Peter Milliken
 * Governor of the Bank of Canada - David Dodge
 * Chief of the Defence Staff - General Rick Hillier to July 1 General Walter J. Natynczyk

Lieutenant-governors

 * Lieutenant Governor of Alberta - Norman Kwong
 * Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia - Steven Point
 * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba - John Harvard
 * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick - Herménégilde Chiasson
 * Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador - Edward Roberts to John Crosbie
 * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia - Mayann Francis
 * Lieutenant Governor of Ontario - David Onley
 * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island - Barbara Hagerman
 * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec - Pierre Duchesne
 * Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan - Gordon Barnhart

Premiers

 * Premier of Alberta - Ed Stelmach
 * Premier of British Columbia - Gordon Campbell
 * Premier of Manitoba - Gary Doer
 * Premier of New Brunswick - Shawn Graham
 * Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador - Danny Williams
 * Premier of Nova Scotia - Rodney MacDonald
 * Premier of Ontario - Dalton McGuinty
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island - Pat Binns
 * Premier of Quebec - Jean Charest
 * Premier of Saskatchewan - Lorne Calvert
 * Premier of the Northwest Territories - Joe Handley
 * Premier of Nunavut - Paul Okalik (January 1 – November 14), Eva Aariak (November 14 – )
 * Premier of Yukon - Dennis Fentie

Mayors
see also list of mayors in Canada
 * Toronto - David Miller
 * Montreal - Gérald Tremblay
 * Vancouver - Sam Sullivan → Gregor Robertson
 * Ottawa - Larry O'Brien
 * Winnipeg - Sam Katz
 * Edmonton - Stephen Mandel
 * Calgary - Dave Bronconnier
 * Victoria - Alan Lowe

Religious leaders

 * Roman Catholic Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of Canada - Cardinal Archbishop Marc Ouellet
 * Roman Catholic Archbishop of Montreal - Cardinal Archbishop Jean-Claude Turcotte
 * Roman Catholic Bishops of London - Bishop Ronald Peter Fabbro
 * Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto - Archbishop Thomas Christopher Collins
 * Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada - Fred Hiltz
 * Moderator of the United Church of Canada - David Giuliano
 * Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Canada - Wilma Welsh
 * National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada - Raymond Schultz

Peer

 * Michael Grant, 12th Baron de Longueuil