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PM Paul Martin introduced Canada to its next governor-general on Thursday. Haitian-born Michaëlle Jean will be installed as Canada's 27th Governor-General on Sept. 27, following Adrienne Clarkson. Ms. Jean accepted her appointment at a press conference on Thursday, promising to make the rights of women, youth, aboriginals and the disadvantaged a priority during her speech. We welcome her with hopes that she will indeed do as she says, and return to the office some of the dignity stolen from it by Clarkson and her profligate spending.
The 48-year-old's family fled the tyranny and chaos of Papa Doc Duvalier's Haiti when she was 11 years old in 1968 and came to Quebec, where she grew up. Ms. Jean is fluent in French, English, Spanish, Italian and Haitian Creole. She has studied at the University of Montreal and universities in Florence, Milan and Perugia, Italy, and like Clarkson before her, has been a TV host for CBC. Unlike any governor-general before her, Michaëlle Jean is black.
Welcome to the office, Madame Jean. May your years at Rideau Hall be years of accomplishment and pride.
The 48-year-old's family fled the tyranny and chaos of Papa Doc Duvalier's Haiti when she was 11 years old in 1968 and came to Quebec, where she grew up. Ms. Jean is fluent in French, English, Spanish, Italian and Haitian Creole. She has studied at the University of Montreal and universities in Florence, Milan and Perugia, Italy, and like Clarkson before her, has been a TV host for CBC. Unlike any governor-general before her, Michaëlle Jean is black.
Welcome to the office, Madame Jean. May your years at Rideau Hall be years of accomplishment and pride.
1 Comments:
I find it kind of ironic -- both the appointments of Clarkson and now Jean. How far we've come, when the Queen's representative can be a person not from English descent.
While I'm proud of Canada for making the appointment of Jean, with her background, a part of me still questions, why a Governor General? Who really cares?
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