bout de papier, Volume 9, Issue No. 2, 1992
bout de papier, Volume 5, Issue No. 2, 1987
Of Governors General and Grown Men
It was early spring in Gallipoli. Aussies, Kiwis, Brits, Turks and others had gathered to commemorate one of the bloodiest, tragic and yet nation-building battles of WWI. The Governor General of New Zealand, the distinguished jurist Dame Silvia Cartwright, presided over the…
The Constitutional Crisis and the Head of State
The Prime Minister’s decision to return Canada to a neo-colonial status by going directly to the Queen of Britain for authority to add eight new seats to the Senate ought to provoke a serious debate over the question of the Head of…
Roland Michener: The Last Viceroy
Roland Michener was not a dull man. Unfortunately, Peter Stursburg’s biography of him, The Last Viceroy, is a dull book and, in my view, fails to convey to the reader the real nature of the man.
Rt. Hon. Roland Michener
A distinguished lawyer, Roland Michener was first elected as a member of the Ontario Legislature and later to the Parliament of Canada, where he subsequently became Speaker of the House of Commons for five years. He served as High Commissioner to India…
Viceregal Diplomacy
Nowadays state visits of the Governor General to other countries are generally accepted as normal instruments of Canadian foreign policy. It was not ever so.
