Saskatchewan Lt. Gov. Russ Mirasty is calling the appointment of Canada’s first Indigenous Governor General historic.
“I am also very pleased to hear and see an Indigenous person, especially an Indigenous woman, has been named as our new governor general,” he said of Inuk leader Mary Simon’s appointment to the role by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday. “We look at all of the discussion around reconciliation, around inclusion, around diversity, and it’s always been a position of Indigenous leaders, particularly, that more Indigenous people should be appointed to these high-level offices.”
Simon, who is from Kuujjuaq along the northeastern shore of Quebec, is bilingual in English and Inuktitut. She attended the federal Fort Chimo day school and lived a traditional lifestyle in the subarctic region. Her mother is Inuk and her father was a Caucasian fur trader originally from Manitoba.
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