Canada has a new Governor General, and it's an old white guy.
We're sorry, but that's a bummer. One of the refreshing aspects of liberal governments is that they tend to appoint people who reflect the glorious diversity of humanity. Conservative governments give us the same old, same old.
We may not always have agreed with Michaelle Jean — especially when she allowed Stephen Harper to prorogue Parliament — but we loved the fact that, as a Haitian immigrant to Canada, she didn't look like any of her predecessors. And we were impressed by her evident joy when she welcomed newly minted U.S. President Barack Obama to Ottawa in February 2009.
Ah, well. Perhaps next time, Prime Minister Ignatieff will appoint someone as interesting as Jean. We cats live in hope.
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