Vitalino José Ferreira Prova Canas (born 14 July 1959, in Caldas da Rainha) is a Portuguese lawyer, professor and politician, member of the Socialist Party.

Still a student, he joined the youth wing and, later, the Socialist Party, having presided over the National Commission of Jurisdiction in the two structures.

He headed the Governor of Macau's office between 1989 and 1991 and in Mozambique he was a legal advisor to the World Bank in 1991 and to the Government from 1992 to 1995.

Between 1995 and 2002 he was Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, under the government of António Guterres.

Aside from politics, he is a lawyer in Lisbon, a legal advisor to the Fundação Oriente and the Stanley Ho Foundation and, since 2004, of the Cape Verdean Government.