The country's new governor general-designate comes to the role after a decades-long career in Canadian public life — which included this exchange with former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau in the mid-1980s. Mary Simon is an Inuk from Kuujjuaq, a village on the coast of Ungava Bay in northeastern Quebec. Mary Simon challenges Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1984 3:29 The First Ministers Constitutional Conference was held in March of 1984. 3:29At this First Ministers Constitutional Conference in March of that year, Simon weighed in on gender equality in a discussion with Trudeau. "She is a very powerful person in this role if used in the right way," Johnston added.

Source: CBC News July 07, 2021 18:52 UTC