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It's been 30 years since a Governor General has come from the west
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With every Governor General appointment comes an opportunity. In July 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used it to smooth over an Indigenous relations maelstrom that began swirling in May of that year, when a B.C. First Nation announced that it found 215 “graves” (later corrected to “potential graves”) at the site of the old Kamloops residential school. It’s no coincidence that he settled on the appointment of Mary Simon, a half-Inuk woman, to symbolize his reconciliation efforts and show the community that they had a stake in Canada’s highest offices, too.
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In 2026 — and billions of reconciliatory dollars later — it’s not the Indigenous who are most unhappy within Confederation but Western Canadians. Between one-fifth and one-third of Albertans favour separation, and the numbers out of Saskatchewan are close. And that’s just the crest of the alienation wave: many more federalist Albertans are frustrated with how they’re treated by Ottawa. Which is why the appointment of a Governor General from out west should have been a top priority.
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