Jeanne Sauve Elevated the Position of Governor General of Canada
To learn more about Canadian or Quebec politics, both McGill University and Concordia University in Montreal offer wonderful political science degrees, that you may want to look into.
Montreal's Concordia University has a wonderful women's studies program at the Simone do Beauvoir Institute
The duties of a governor general is to represent the ruling British Monarch in Canada. The governor general carries out administrative duties and also celebratory or festive activities. We will now look at the three female governor generals of Canada, two of which were from Montreal.
Governor generalship of Jeanne Sauve
The Nansen Refugee Award
Governor General Jeanne Sauve accepted the Nansen Refugee Award on behalf of Canada for its outstanding service to refugees in 1986.
Calgary Olympics
She also opened the XV Olympic Winter Games in Calgary, Alberta.
Favourite functions
You may remember from previous articles that Jeanne Sauve was dedicated to promoting youth and tackling youth issues in her days as member of parliament under the Trudeau government. Therefore, one of her favourite functions was hosting the annual Christmas Party for the Ottawa Boys and Girls club and the french counterpart, Patro d'Ottawa. The children were invited to Rideau Hall, home of the Governor General of Canada, to see Santa, have a fabulous lunch, and get to see the Right Honorable Jeanne Sauve wearing a paper party hat.
What goes around comes around
In a previous article we talked about how there were rumours that Sauve felt that Brian Mulroney was elevating his position of Prime Minister to more than it actually was. It so happens that Mulroney accused her of the same. "She was criticized for her own presidentialization of the viceregal post, with pundits at the time saying she occupied "Republican Hall" She meddled in dinner plans prepared by Frederick Johnson, Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan ,which he was hosting Government House. Her official position was simply to be a guest.
Municipal organizations also had qualms with her when they were told they were not allowed to sing the Royal Anthem at their events and they had to make the Royal toast to the governor general and not the Queen.
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Published by Carol Roach
Carol Roach holds a masters in counselling psychology. She worked as a therapist at the Douglas Hospital in Montreal before becoming a professional writer.Carol is the author of the book Picking Up The Piece... View profile
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Nicely written, Carol, cheers :)