Ceremony at Ottawa’s Senate building marks start of Mary Simon’s tenure as governor-general
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Mary Simon is being installed as governor-general, marking the first time an Indigenous person will serve as the Queen’s representative in Canada.
Governors-general represent the Queen, Canada’s head of state, and carry out some key ceremonial functions to keep the constitutional monarchy running. These duties include dissolving and opening Parliament. The prime minister traditionally visits the governor-general at Rideau Hall and submits what is called anStory continues below advertisement
Ms. Simon’s role as governor-general comes after a long career in Indigenous policy making. In the early 1980s, she worked on the patriation of the Canadian Constitution. She also had a senior role in the 1996 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and represented the Inuit in the government’s 2008 residential schools apology. She was also president of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami , a non-profit group representing more than 65,000 Inuit in Canada, beginning in 2006.
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