New Govenor General!!

[cmperry4]

I'd like to reserve judgement on Mme. Jean until she is in office, BUT:

I had much misgivings about Clarkson, but her well-known arrogant streak aside, I thought she "got" what the role of GG is all about better than most, notably the Commander in Chief duties - and I credit her consort for that, having read a number of his books on matters weighty, poltical and constitutional.

As for Jean, *her* vice-regal consort evidently has, shall we say "sovereigntist" (Quebec nationalist/separatists/secessionist/independence) leanings, and there is some evidence Mme. Jean shares these nationalist and republican sympathies. What she might bring to the constitutional role of the Queen's representative in Canada - given what she's said so far - does not bode well.

We're back, I fear, to Trudeaupian creeping republicanism in the barely-veiled contempt for the office from the Liberals.