title: List of 2008 Canadian incumbents
text: # 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
  
  ## Provinces & Territories
  
  ### 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
  