Mary Simon has had to ‘build a thick skin’ during decades of public service | Face to Face

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by pmnationtalk on October 24, 202466 Views

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The role of Governor General of Canada is one that has been met with a long line of criticism. The recent controversy for Mary Simon, the first Indigenous Governor General of Canada, is over her supposed “inability to speak French.”

In a wide ranging interview on Face to Face, Simon, who is Inuk and fluent in Inuktitut, says she has thought a lot about language since the criticism over her French was first leveled in the Quebec media.

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