OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) \u2014 Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Tuesday that retired Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour will be Canada\u2019s next governor general.<\/p>\n
The governor general is the representative of Britain\u2019s King Charles III. The king is the head of state in Canada, a member of the Commonwealth of former colonies.<\/p>\n
Carney said Charles approved the appointment on his recommendation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will have an opportunity to have very in-depth conversations with Arbour in private on issues that affect Canada and the rest of the world,\u201d Carney said. <\/p>\n
The governor general has important constitutional duties, but the job is mostly ceremonial and symbolic. Carney picked a Francophone for the job. <\/p>\n
Asked if she considers herself a monarchist, Arbour said in French that she \u201cdoesn\u2019t really know what that term is supposed to mean\u201d but voiced her support for the current system.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will be the representative of the Crown in a constitutional arrangement that has served Canada extremely well throughout our history, even more in recent decades. I think a system that will continue to provide continuity in our institutions and form of governance,\u201d she said<\/p>\n
Arbour will replace Mary Simon, Canada\u2019s first Indigenous governor general, who will reach the five-year mark of her tenure in July.<\/p>\n
Carney said Arbour, 79, is a world-renowned legal scholar, judge, and leader in human rights and justice. She was appointed as a judge to the Supreme Court of Ontario, the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and the Supreme Court of Canada. <\/p>\n
In 1996, she was appointed by the United Nations as Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. She led efforts that resulted in the first conviction for genocide since the Genocide Convention and the first indictment for war crimes of a sitting head of state. <\/p>\n
She later served as a U.N. Special Representative for International Migration from 2017 to 2018. <\/p>\n
After the United States gained independence from Britain, Canada remained a colony until 1867, and afterward continued as a constitutional monarchy with a British-style parliamentary system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) \u2014 Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Tuesday that retired Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2424,2425,1111,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-32987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ap-politics","9":"tag-ap-world-news","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}