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Andrew Scheer - Parliament is suspended! Before MPs even finish debating Trudeau’s massive power grab, the House of Commons gets shut down. https://youtu.be/lC4tlUkAP6o

Australia’s Governor-General has joined the group of high-profile Australian officials who have tested positive for CCP virus, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic. Government House confirmed late on Sunday that Governor-General David Hurley had tested positive to COVID-19. “His Excellency is experiencing only slight symptoms,” a statement reads. “He is isolating at Admiralty House and will continue to follow all health advice and directions.” The governor-general has received three shots of the COVID vaccine, including a booster. He will continue his work in isolation. Meanwhile, New South Wales (NSW) Deputy Premier Paul Toole has also tested positive for the...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper will name David Johnston as governor general designate, QMI Agency has learned, choosing a lifelong academic widely admired for his smarts, his ability to build consensus and - an apparent must for Harper - his ability to play hockey. Johnston, 69, is a fluently bilingual Ontario native known as "Grandpa Book" to his grandchildren because they think he reads so much. And while one of his five daughters works on the staff of Ontario Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty, Johnston himself has avoided being tagged with any partisan political label during his long career as...

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has won a bid to suspend parliament, blocking an opposition attempt to topple his minority government. The governor general agreed to Mr Harper's request, unprecedented in the country, after talks. If the request had been rejected, he would have had to step down or face a confidence vote he was sure to lose. Opposition parties had called the vote for Monday, accusing the government of failing to shore up the economy. Acting head of state Michaelle Jean Governor General Michaelle Jean agreed to prorogue - or suspend - parliament until 26 January when the government...

Canadian politicians got an early start on the Christmas break when Governor General Michaelle Jean Thursday agreed to a request from Prime Minister Stephen Harper to prorogue Parliament. Harper emerged from a two-and-a-half hour meeting with the Governor General, telling reporters that the House of Commons will not resume sitting until Jan. 26. The House had been scheduled to sit until Dec. 12. The first item on the parliamentary agenda in January will be a new budget setting out the stimulus that the Canadian economy needs in the face of the continuing global financial crisis, Harper said. He urged members...

AUSTRALIA is to have its first female governor-general, with the announcement that Queensland's governor, Quentin Bryce, has been appointed to the job. The announcement came as current Governor-General Major General Michael Jeffery handed in his resignation. Major General Jeffery's current term is due to expire next month. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Ms Bryce would become Australia's 25th governor-general. Ms Bryce, who was appointed the 24th Governor of Queensland in July 2003, had been an inspiring governor, serving with great distinction, Mr Rudd said. "Ms Bryce has an outstanding record of service to the entire Australian community," he said in...

The Queen has approved the appointment of Judge Anand Satyanand to succeed Dame Silvia Cartwright as Governor-General of New Zealand. Prime Minister Helen Clark had high praise for the Judge and welcomed his appointment. "Judge Satyanand will bring many personal strengths to the role of Governor-General, including a broad knowledge of the workings of government and the law, as well as a deep appreciation of the different groups and communities which make up contemporary New Zealand. "Judge Satyanand has had a multi-faceted career as a lawyer, a judge, and an ombudsman. Throughout his working life Judge Satyanand has made a...

Quebeckers embrace new Governor-General By BRIAN LAGHI Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Posted at 4:57 AM EDT From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Michaëlle Jean will become Canada's Governor-General today with an overwhelming amount of goodwill from young people and Quebeckers, and a historic opportunity to strengthen the vice-regal role in Quebec, a new poll shows. The poll, conducted for The Globe and Mail-CTV News, found 46 per cent of all Canadians — and 71 per cent of Quebeckers — think Ms. Jean is a good choice to replace Adrienne Clarkson as Governor-General. The survey also finds that Ms. Jean is extremely...

Just how hard can it be to pick a Governor General? Although not every vice-regal appointment has been an inspired choice (for example, Adrian Clarkson), no previous Prime Minister has so thoroughly messed up what should be a very simple task. There is no way the Prime Minster can legitimately distance himself from the controversy he single-handedly created. Michaëlle Jean was his choice, and her record of separatist support was anything but a secret. Her drinking a toast to Quebec independence was captured on film by her husband, whose support for separatism and FLQ terrorists is more blatant than her...

OH! CANADA - Ted Byfield God save the … Liberal Party WorldNetDaily.com August 20, 2005 The prime minister of Canada had to reassure his nation this week that the woman he has chosen to act as the pinnacle symbol of Canadian unity does not in fact favor breaking up the country. Whether she had at one time espoused this, he did not say. He could nevertheless unreservedly declare to Canadians that now that she has been offered the job of governor general of Canada (with a household and travel budget that runs around $20 million a year) she finds herself...

The prime minister of Canada had to reassure his nation this week that the woman he has chosen to act as the pinnacle symbol of Canadian unity does not in fact favor breaking up the country. Whether she had at one time espoused this, he did not say. He could nevertheless unreservedly declare to Canadians that now that she has been offered the job of governor general of Canada (with a household and travel budget that runs around $20 million a year) she finds herself – in her own words – "proud to be Canadian" with "the greatest respect for...

LifeSiteNews.com Friday August 12, 2005 Governor General Elect's Connections to FLQ Marxist Terrorists Commentary by John Muggeridge TORONTO, August 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Since the appointment to the Governor Generalship of Michaelle Jean, a refugee immigrant Haiti and CBC reporter, conservatives in Canada have been wondering what this relative newcomer to public life has to offer a deeply divided country that seems to hover perpetually on the edge of disunion. While Jean's personal accomplishments are seen in English Canada to be insubstantial, on the other side of the French curtain, darker implications are starting to be revealed. An article in...

Suspension following Rideau Hall tour angers teen CTV.ca News Staff An Ontario teen whose class was hustled out of a tour of Rideau Hall after he asked a tough question is angry about how he's been treated by both the Governor-General's staff and by his own school. Jeremy Patfield, 15, was touring the Governor General's official residence on Tuesday when he spotted Adrienne Clarkson -- and wondered aloud about her spending habits. "I said, 'Is that the woman that spends the money on the Queen when she comes?'" Patfield told CTV News. According to the Governor General's press secretary, Randy...

This is a poem about a particular Canadian systme of appointed Governor Generals who tour the world on taxpayers' money.

This is a short poem about the Canadian Governor General's visit to Russia and how Rasputin might have viewed it if he was alive.