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August 04, 2005

PM announces next Governor General

Paul Martin kept his promise that the next appointed Governor General of Canada wouldn't be any of the names that were under media discussion last week. He has announced that the new GG will be Michaelle Jean.

I had to Google for information on Ms. Jean, as I was not familiar with her background. She will be the first black head of state in Canadian history, and has been working as a journalist in Quebec for most of her life. She was born in Haiti and her family came to Canada to escape the violence of the Duvalier regime.

Update: Paul Wells is delighted with the choice.

Update the second: Kate at SDA begs to differ with Paul Wells, and the name of Irshad Manji is mentioned. Now she would be a candidate I'd really approve of. Nobody could accuse a government of tokenism if she was the appointee . . . well, I guess they could, but then Ms. Manji would hand them their figurative heads. Manji for GG!

Posted by Nicholas at August 4, 2005 12:03 PM
Comments
Small point, but the GG is not our head of state. She represents HM the Queen in Right of Canada and exercises her constitutional authority (such as it is)on HM behalf. But the Queen of Canada is our head of state. (But you knew that, mais non?) Posted by: John the Mad at August 9, 2005 11:29 AM
Uh, yeah, of course I knew that. Of course. I was, uh, testing you guys to see if you picked up the intentional error, that's right. Of course. [Blush] Posted by: Nicholas at August 10, 2005 09:26 AM


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