1985 Canadian incumbents
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[edit] Federal government
[edit] Cabinet
- Deputy Prime Minister - Erik Nielsen
- Minister of Finance - Michael Wilson
- Secretary of State for External Affairs - Joe Clark
- Secretary of State for Canada - Walter McLean then Benoît Bouchard
- Minister of National Defence - Robert Coates then Erik Nielsen
- Minister of National Health and Welfare - Jake Epp
- Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion - Sinclair Stevens
- Minister of the Environment - Suzanne Blais-Grenier then Tom McMillan
- Minister of Justice - John Crosbie
- Minister of Transport - Don Mazankowski
- Minister of Communications - Marcel Masse then Benoît Bouchard then Marcel Masse
- Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - John Fraser then Erik Nielson (acting) then Tom Siddon
- Minister of Agriculture - John Wise
- Minister of Public Works - Roch LaSalle
- Minister of Employment and Immigration - Flora MacDonald
- Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - David Crombie
- Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - Pat Carney
- Minister of State (Forestry) - Gerald Stairs Merrithew
[edit] Parliament
[edit] Party leaders
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - Brian Mulroney
- Liberal Party of Canada - John Turner
- New Democratic Party- Ed Broadbent
[edit] Supreme Court Justices
- Chief Justice: Brian Dickson
- William Rogers McIntyre
- Bertha Wilson
- Antonio Lamer
- Gérard V. La Forest (sworn in January 16)
- John Sopinka
- Jean Beetz
- Julien Chouinard
- Gerald Eric Le Dain
[edit] Other
- Speaker of the House of Commons - John William Bosley
- Governor of the Bank of Canada - Gerald Bouey
- Chief of the Defence Staff - General G.C.E. Thériault
[edit] Provinces
[edit] Premiers
- Premier of Alberta - Peter Lougheed then Don Getty
- Premier of British Columbia - Bill Bennett
- Premier of Manitoba - Howard Pawley
- Premier of New Brunswick - Richard Hatfield
- Premier of Newfoundland - Brian Peckford
- Premier of Nova Scotia - John Buchanan
- Premier of Ontario - Bill Davis then Frank Miller then David Peterson
- Premier of Prince Edward Island - James Lee
- Premier of Quebec - René Lévesque then Pierre-Marc Johnson then Robert Bourassa
- Premier of Saskatchewan - Grant Devine
[edit] Lieutenant-governors
- Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta - Frank C. Lynch-Staunton then Helen Hunley
- Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia - Robert Gordon Rogers
- 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 -Alan Abraham
- Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - John Black Aird then Lincoln Alexander
- Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Joseph Aubin Doiron then Robert Lloyd George MacPhail
- Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Gilles Lamontagne
- Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - Sylvia O. Fedoruk
[edit] Mayors
- Toronto - Art Eggleton
- Montreal - Jean Drapeau
- Vancouver - Michael Harcourt
- Ottawa - Marion Dewar then James A. Durrell
[edit] 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 - Robert F. Smith
