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Monday, August 08, 2005

all hail the... governor general?!?

Sheesh... only in Canada do they have a job - heck, a second career - for TV JOURNALISTS that is AWARDED like a medal - and it consists of REPRESENTING THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND HERE... that's right... the queen of the colonizer that used to rule here and OWN IT ALL... And Quebec claims that it wants independence... maybe Canada should want it as well?!?
Michaëlle Jean is to be the Gouverneure Générale du Canada - the Governor General gig consists basically to ACT LIKE THE QUEEN! She replaces 66 years-old Adrienne Clarkson who lasted 6 years at it... hmm... 666? *lol* BOTH were CBC journalists - hmm... now, maybe they should have hired ACTRESSES? Eh?
Canada, just like India, belonged to the British Empire - and hated every second of it! So, no matter how used to it we get, this system boggles the mind still... why keep all these mentions of the Queen in everything and anything (a prosecutor in a Canadian Court of [so-called] Law will be called "le Procureur de la Couronne" - a direct reference to the Crown of England! TODAY - not one hundred years ago! The Canadian Constitution was rapatriated - and so was the very first Canadian flag just recently, by Dracula-ish Paul [no - not you!] Martin - and yet... Now, don't NONE of you make any links between this situation and the mentions of GOD in the U.S. Constitution... GOD IS WAY BEYOND THE LEVEL ANY QUEEN OF ENGLAND COULD REACH... especially if Queen Camilla gets to become a reality after all...! And that remains true also had one such as Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, ascended to the throne of England as well - as was her right to, I say - and so do many more historians... But that is digressing in a major way and another HISTORY [class] entirely...!).
Hey - do you people realize that, up until 1998 I think (or 1999), Macau in China still belonged to Portugal... And, officially, North Korea is STILL at war with the USA... the Korean War never got an official Peace Treaty ending it! So things like that do progress slowly - however Canada still having the Queen on its five dollar bill has nothing to do with any of that! Not all bills though - some have dead Prime Ministers... like McKenzie... an Irish name... still a foreigner of sorts - see a pattern emerging?
Adrienne was born in Hong Kong... her replacement was born in Haiti... see the pattern yet? Canadians appear to have no identity, do they - they are a bunch of foreigners who just happen to live here - period! The next one to be exposed as really being from somewhere else will be, logically... the national emblematic animal or critter - the beaver!

Comments:
THE NEWS RELEASE... EN FRANÇAIS!
ANYBODY UP TO TRANSLATE THIS... BABEL FISH... AQUABOY... HELLBOY?!?
THE JOB CLEARLY FITS ONE WHO SPEAKS IN TONGUES HERE...!!! *LOL*
ME - I AM TOO SLEEPY RIGHT NOW TO DO IT... SORRY! MAYBE LATER - OK?





Michaëlle Jean, gouverneure générale du Canada


Mise à jour le jeudi 4 août 2005 à 0 h 02
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Michaelle Jean sera la prochaine gouverneure générale du Canada. Le bureau du premier ministre Paul Martin en fera l'annonce officielle aujourd'hui.

Elle deviendra ainsi la 27e personne à occuper ce poste, succédant à Adrienne Clarkson.


Née à Port-au-Prince, en Haïti, Mme Jean est arrivée à Thetford Mines, au Québec, à 11 ans, sa famille fuyant la dictature de François Duvalier.



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Après des études en langues et littérature, elle s'est dirigée vers le journalisme. Elle a fait son entrée à Radio-Canada en 1988. Elle s'est particulièrement fait remarquer à l'émission Virages, qu'elle coanimait avec Gérard Pelletier.

Elle a par la suite travaillé au magazine télévisé Le Point, animé différentes émissions et a été chef d'antenne du Téléjournal. Elle travaillait aussi pour CBC et pour son réseau d'information continue.

Elle a en outre réalisé avec son conjoint, le cinéaste Jean-Daniel Lafond, le documentaire Tropique Nord ou comment on peut être noir et québécois (1994) et participé à L'heure de Cuba (1999).

Celle qui sera la prochaine chef d'État a mérité de nombreuses distinctions pour ses réalisations en journalisme de même que pour son travail documentaire.

Michaëlle Jean parle cinq langues (français, anglais, espagnol, italien et créole). Elle est reconnue pour son engagement social, notamment auprès des femmes victimes de violence conjugale.

Elle devient la troisième femme et la deuxième Québécoise (après Jeanne Sauvé) à être nommée gouverneure générale.

À 48 ans, elle n'est pas la plus jeune à accéder à ce poste. Edward Schreyer avait 43 ans lors de sa nomination à ce poste.

Adrienne Clarkson quittera en septembre

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Adrienne Clarkson est devenue représentante de la reine au Canada en 1999.

Née à Hong Kong, elle était arrivée au pays sur un bateau de réfugiés quand elle était enfant. Elle a notamment animé des émissions au réseau CBC.

Mme Clarkson travaillait elle-aussi à la CBC lorsqu'elle a été nommée gouverneure générale.

À 66 ans, elle a été hospitalisée en juillet pour se faire implanter un stimulateur cardiaque.

Son mandat a duré six ans.
 
No requests for translation...?

Good! *lol*

To answer a question though, e-mailed to me...

"does the governor general only get the job if she is pretty?"

Well... since it is best when it is a lady getting the post, and since the position is like unto filling in for the Queen (who is too busy doing next to nothing at Buckingham Palace to even visit former colonies anymore... sheesh) - I guess it is sitting mighty fine that Michaëlle Jean is such a cutie... And her predecessor was a refined lady as well... Both are more than suitable replacements for the Queen in mere posing and posturing - and that is, essentially, what that job is all about... so...
 
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