ICYMI - NP View: In defence of boring governors general
Payette has been in the media spotlight for all the wrong reasons before. Previous reporting by the National Post revealed she has substantially reduced the workload of her office, and resisted the constraints of the role. She once tried to get out of her constitutional role of providing royal assent to legislation passed by Parliament because the ceremony interfered with her schedule.
We get it. Astronauts are cool. But, as can be seen by the track records of many of our governors general over the past two decades, appointing “celebrities” to the office often causes more trouble than it’s worth. Her successor, Michaëlle Jean, another former journalist, turned out to be a one-time Quebec separatist with uncomfortable links to the FLQ.
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