From the Rez to 1401 Rockland Avenue

Steven Point, one of Canada's few First Nations judges, will be moving his official residence soon. Although he may choose to maintain his current home on a Fraser Valley reserve, his new business address will be Government House, in Victoria B.C.
His appointment as British Columbia's next Lieutenant-Governor was announced this morning by PM Stephen Harper. When he is sworn in he will become the country's first native Lieutenant-Governor and much is being made of it in some quarters.
It is wonderful that he has been named to the post, but it is somewhat of a shame that any part of the attendant fuss is his being native. The only reason for particular notice to be paid to his appointment should be his qualifications for the post, not his being native.
On August 18th of this year, the wedding of Nova Scotia MP Brison to his same-sex partner came complete with much media attention, but it shouldn't have either. Brison put it well when he said he was looking forward to the day when a like wedding was "not a story at all". When the day arrives that the appointment of someone from the First Nations to a government post is not a story at all, Canada will be a better place.