John Aimers

I think her overwhelming legacy is one of having made the office of Governor General visible and engaged in a read more

I think her overwhelming legacy is one of having made the office of Governor General visible and engaged in a way that it certainly hadn't been in at least a generation, if not more.

I don't know the truth, ... I want to hear it from her lips.

I don't know the truth, ... I want to hear it from her lips.

It's a symbolic act on her part recognizing that the person who represents the Queen as the commander-in-chief of the read more

It's a symbolic act on her part recognizing that the person who represents the Queen as the commander-in-chief of the Canadian Forces doesn't want to be in a position where anyone might say she has divided loyalties. I don't believe for a second she would have had them, but symbols are important.