If you want to chart the descent of Canada into the state of woke madness that it has become – where unrestricted abortion and an expanding euthanasia program define a culture of death – then look no further than the governors general that have occupied what is technically the highest office in the land.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s appointment of Louise Arbour as the next governor general confirms the trend that left-wing activists, especially female left-wing activists – are most prone to become the representative of the monarch in Canada.
And for readers unfamiliar with the job title, the governor general is Canada’s is technically Canada’s head of state as the king’s representative and is also the commander-in-chief of the Canadian Armed Forces. Arbour has infamously criticized Canada’s military in a manner that can only be described as overtly racist. “If you just recruit white boys who like guns but don't like women or anybody who doesn't look like them, you'll perpetuate that culture,” Arbour said, in response to allegations of sexism and racism in the military.
Can you imagine anyone describing people in uniform as a bunch of knife-wielding black boys who are fond of joining violent gangs?
Liberal prime ministers have been appointing most governors general since 1999 and in the 27 years since, women have occupied that role for 20 of those years. What happened during Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s tenure? Well, Harper appointed the only male during this period but ironically David Johnston turned out to be a consummate member of the central Canadian Laurentian elites who continue to dominate federal politics and impose their social values on the country. It wasn’t until Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed Johnston, who had long left the GG’s office, as his “special rapporteur” to examine foreign interference (read China) into Canadian elections that we learned how Johnston was a member of the Chinese-connected Trudeau Foundation and a close friend of the Trudeau family.
Johnston eventually resigned from that perch after proving himself utterly incapable of fulfilling the task assigned to him.
Current Gov. Gen. Mary Simon has been awash in controversy since taking over from the incredibly unqualified Julie Payette. Simon, who can barely speak French, Canada’s other official language, remains a staunch First Nations activist who refused to condemn or criticize the desecration of a statue of Queen Elizabeth II in Winnipeg because she believes it is “important for indigenous people to express themselves in whatever form they want.”
She was essentially issuing a carte blanche for First Nations folks to engage in whatever lawless behavior they choose in advancing their political agenda.
That is certainly one reason why the province of BC is descending into chaos because something called “aboriginal title” provides indigenous chiefs the right to claim and occupy and strip of land that their ancestors may have trod upon.
Arbour promises to outdo even that kind of rhetoric as a former justice on Canada’s ultra-Liberal Supreme Court and the former head of the UN Commissioner on Human Rights – an Orwellian body that tends to safeguard countries with no concept of human rights and criticize those that honor political freedom.
At a news conference this week, she couldn’t even provide a direct response to a reporter’s question: “Are you a monarchist?”
Seems like both an appropriate and a safe query, given that this woman will soon be the very embodiment of the monarchy for Canadians who rarely catch a glimpse of King Charles III.
“I started by saying that this term is, unfortunately, very often used in a pejorative way. What I can say is that I will accede to a function in which I will be the representative of the crown in a constitutional arrangement that I think has served Canada, extremely well in her history but even in recent decades, I think, a system that will continue to provide continuity in our institutions and performance.”
Is Arbour related to Mark Carney? She concocts the same bewildering word salads that manage to evade answering a question directly or even providing any clarification. We can be assured, however, that Arbour speaks the THREE official languages required by any successful federal politician in Canada: English, French and Bureaucratic.
The office of governor general used to be filled by candidates who were not overtly aligned with their politics and certainly not by people who have spent their lives as political activists, promoting woke ideologies that are often beyond the mainstream, even in Canada. Arbour has been an advocate of mass migration and the woke theology that has completely defined the Trudeau-Carney era in Canada. She has become an acolyte of Liberal Party politics.
Whenever I ask myself how Canadians feel about the monarchy these days, I look inward. When I joined the Canadian Armed Forces, I swore an oath to a monarch to defend my country from all enemies. I received a Queen’s Commission (a King’s Commission today) as an officer and proudly served. My taste for royalty has soured greatly since the arrival of King Charles and when he tossed off the gratuitous “land acknowledgements” when he read Carney’s Speech from the Throne, I grew nauseous when he spoke of those “unceded lands” under Parliament Hill, supposedly still owned by some First Nations band.
Perhaps it is time to move on, especially when both king and governor general are woke globalists who insist on lecturing, hectoring and corroding the country they pretend to represent.
