List of 1983 Canadian incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Cabinet
- Prime Minister - Pierre Trudeau
 - Deputy Prime Minister - Allan MacEachen
 - Minister of Finance - Marc Lalonde
 - Secretary of State for External Affairs - Allan MacEachen
 - Secretary of State for Canada - Serge Joyal
 - Minister of National Defence - Gilles Lamontagne then Jean-Jacques Blais
 - Minister of National Health and Welfare - Monique Bégin
 - Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion - Ed Lumley
 - Minister of the Environment - John Roberts then Charles Caccia
 - Minister of Justice - Mark MacGuigan
 - Minister of Transport - Jean-Luc Pépin then Lloyd Axworthy
 - Minister of Communications - Francis Fox
 - Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Pierre de Bané
 - Minister of Agriculture - Eugene Whelan
 - Minister of Public Works - Roméo LeBlanc
 - Minister of Employment and Immigration - Lloyd Axworthy then John Roberts
 - Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development - John Munro
 - Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources - John Roberts then Charles Caccia
 
Parliament
Party leaders
- Liberal Party of Canada - Pierre Trudeau
 - New Democratic Party- Ed Broadbent
 - Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - Joe Clark then Erik Nielsen interim then Brian Mulroney
 
Supreme Court Justices
- Chief Justice: Bora Laskin
 - William McIntyre
 - Bertha Wilson
 - 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 then General G.C.E. Thériault
 
Provinces
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta - Peter Lougheed
 - 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
 - Premier of Prince Edward Island - James Lee
 - Premier of Quebec - René Lévesque
 - Premier of Saskatchewan - Grant Devine
 
Lieutenant-governors
- Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta - Frank C. Lynch-Staunton
 - Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia - Henry Pybus Bell-Irving then 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 - John Elvin Shaffner
 - Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario - Jean-Pierre Côté
 - Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island - Joseph Aubin Doiron
 - Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec - Gilles Lamontagne
 - Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan - Irwin McIntosh then Sylvia Fedoruk
 
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 - W. Clarke MacDonald