Share this Story: Colby Cosh: Our new governor general is not fluent in French, and that's just fineColby Cosh: Our new governor general is not fluent in French, and that's just fine … though it does expose Trudeau's hypocrisy on language issues Photo by Peter J. Thompson/National PostArticle content Being a newspaper columnist is a tricky business. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Try refreshing your browser, or Colby Cosh: Our new governor general is not fluent in French, and that's just fine Back to video His candidate was someone a little less well integrated than Jean with the Liberal arts and media worlds, but nonetheless thoroughly sociable and familiar in Ottawa. It seems inconceivable now, but he didn’t even make a point of mentioning that Simon would have been the first Aboriginal governor general of Canada. I would like to give them my personal assurance that I would be 99.9 per cent comfortable with a unilingually French governor general whose credentials were otherwise good.

Source: National Post July 07, 2021 17:15 UTC