List of 1981 Canadian incumbents
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Crown
Federal government
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
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
Provinces
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
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