Canada's New Governor General
xerxes @ Wed Aug 03, 2005 4:53 pm
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'Canadians will fall in love' with new governor general
Last Updated Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:44:22 EDT
CBC News
Michaelle Jean will be Canada's next governor general. The official announcement will be made by Prime Minister Paul Martin at 11 a.m. ET on Thursday.
"It's obviously a very exciting appointment. Here's someone who's quite young, very dynamic, has a rapport with a lot of younger audience," said Paul Benoit, an expert on the Canadian monarchy.
At just 48 years old, the award winning journalist will become one of the youngest governors general ever, the third woman in the job and the first black person to call Rideau Hall home.
Jean, a journalist, is probably best known to English Canadians as the host of The Passionate Eye on CBC TV and Rough Cuts on CBC Newsworld.
But her television career was launched in Quebec where she has worked as a journalist, producer and host for the CBC's French language services, SRC and RDI, since 1988.
She has worked as a correspondent for Le Point, hosted Le Monde ce soir, L'Edition quebecoise, Horizons francophones, le Journal RDI and RDI à l'écoute. Currently she is host of the French-language documentary series Grands Reportages.
Jean has received many awards for her own documentary work including the Amnesty International Journalism Award, the Anik Prize and the Galaxi Award for best information program host.
Historian David Mitchell says Jean will play an important role, at a critical time in Canada's history. "She will be a voice for Canada in Quebec and she will represent the new Quebec to the rest of Canada very effectively. She has that potential and that sense, this is an inspired choice."
Jean was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She left in 1968, her family fleeing the oppressive regime of Jean 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, settling in Quebec with her family. She is fluent in five languages: French, English, Spanish, Italian and Haitian Creole.
A source close to the governor general selection process told CBC News "Canadians will fall in love with this woman. Her story, her nature and her character are nothing short of inspirational."
The prime minister will officially announce Jean's appointment on Thursday morning. She'll be installed as Canada's 27th governor general Oct. 1.
Last Updated Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:44:22 EDT
CBC News
Michaelle Jean will be Canada's next governor general. The official announcement will be made by Prime Minister Paul Martin at 11 a.m. ET on Thursday.
"It's obviously a very exciting appointment. Here's someone who's quite young, very dynamic, has a rapport with a lot of younger audience," said Paul Benoit, an expert on the Canadian monarchy.
At just 48 years old, the award winning journalist will become one of the youngest governors general ever, the third woman in the job and the first black person to call Rideau Hall home.
Jean, a journalist, is probably best known to English Canadians as the host of The Passionate Eye on CBC TV and Rough Cuts on CBC Newsworld.
But her television career was launched in Quebec where she has worked as a journalist, producer and host for the CBC's French language services, SRC and RDI, since 1988.
She has worked as a correspondent for Le Point, hosted Le Monde ce soir, L'Edition quebecoise, Horizons francophones, le Journal RDI and RDI à l'écoute. Currently she is host of the French-language documentary series Grands Reportages.
Jean has received many awards for her own documentary work including the Amnesty International Journalism Award, the Anik Prize and the Galaxi Award for best information program host.
Historian David Mitchell says Jean will play an important role, at a critical time in Canada's history. "She will be a voice for Canada in Quebec and she will represent the new Quebec to the rest of Canada very effectively. She has that potential and that sense, this is an inspired choice."
Jean was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She left in 1968, her family fleeing the oppressive regime of Jean 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, settling in Quebec with her family. She is fluent in five languages: French, English, Spanish, Italian and Haitian Creole.
A source close to the governor general selection process told CBC News "Canadians will fall in love with this woman. Her story, her nature and her character are nothing short of inspirational."
The prime minister will officially announce Jean's appointment on Thursday morning. She'll be installed as Canada's 27th governor general Oct. 1.
What an interesting choice.
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Tman1 @ Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:14 pm
Hey, I got a more interesting choice....how about NO Governor General period.
FuBaR @ Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:37 pm
Wow, I must be really out of the loop. When did Adrienne decide she was finished? Last think I heard about anything Governor General related was her pay-cut. Maybe she could do the job with that kind of salary anymore.
Matsu @ Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:42 pm
I hope this one will be better than Adrienne. She certainly didn't have the common touch.
"I'm Adrienne Clarkson . . . and you're not!"
Tman1 @ Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:44 pm
Meh, she probably gets paid more now from pensions and stuff so now she's probably thumbing her nose at the job.
Proculation @ Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:45 pm
GA-FuBaR GA-FuBaR:
Wow, I must be really out of the loop. When did Adrienne decide she was finished? Last think I heard about anything Governor General related was her pay-cut. Maybe she could do the job with that kind of salary anymore.
GGs have a 6 years term.
Her term finishes in september.
ridenrain @ Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:55 pm
I don't think Canada needs a queen representitive any more.
ShepherdsDog @ Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:58 pm
We have enough of our own queens, and in the new spirit of inclusiveness, appoint on of them. 
SprCForr @ Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:39 pm
What I'd like to know is how the CBC became the farm team for the Governor-Generalcy?
IcedCap @ Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:53 pm
Has there been an Albertan GG or any from BC? here was an opportunity to show the West they aren't totally ignored and what does Martin do? picks another French speaker
ShepherdsDog @ Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:57 pm
Well, chances are that the next anglo phone GG will be Joe Clark
QuebecSpock @ Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:04 pm
ridenrain ridenrain:
I don't think Canada needs a queen representitive any more.
Un gouverneur général
c'est aussi utile
qu'un bonhomme carnaval.
ShepherdsDog @ Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:13 pm
maybe we should make bonhomme the GG
Blue_Nose @ Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:16 pm
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
maybe we should make bonhomme the GG
He's got the waving and smiling down pat...
ShepherdsDog @ Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:17 pm
definitely comes off friendlier than AC