NP View: Louise Arbour alienates the West

With every Governor General appointment comes an opportunity. In July 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used it to smooth over an Indigenous relations maelstrom that began swirling in May of that year, when a B.C. First Nation announced that it found 215 “graves” (later corrected to “potential graves”) at the site of the old Kamloops residential school. It’s no coincidence that he settled on the appointment of Mary Simon, a half-Inuk woman, to symbolize his reconciliation efforts and show the community that they had a stake in Canada’s highest offices, too. Read More