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Michaelle Jean will be Canada’s next governor general. The official announcement will be made by Prime Minister Paul Martin at 11 a.m. ET on Thursday…
Historian David Mitchell says Jean will play an important role, at a critical time in Canada’s history. “She will be a voice for Canada in Quebec and she will represent the new Quebec to the rest of Canada very effectively. She has that potential and that sense, this is an inspired choice.”
Jean was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She left in 1968, her family fleeing the oppressive regime of Francois ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier, settling in Quebec with her family. She is fluent in five languages: French, English, Spanish, Italian and Haitian Creole…