Louise Arbour named Canada's next Governor-General (brilliant choice):

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Louise Arbour named Canada’s next Governor-General
Ian Bailey
Stephanie Levitz Senior reporter

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-new-governor-general-canada-louise-arbour/

Louise Arbour, a retired justice of the Supreme Court of Canada who also made her mark on international institutions such as the United Nations, will be Canada’s next Governor-General, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Tuesday.

He praised her as a storied defender of human rights who gave voice to the powerless and “those whose dignity was denied, in places where the powerful preferred silence.”

Ms. Arbour, 79, taught at Osgoode Hall Law School and first became a judge in Ontario in the late 1980s. She was a Supreme Court justice from 1999 until 2004.

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She was the chief prosecutor in two UN international criminal tribunals, which investigated war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda. This led to the indictment of Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, the first such legal action against a sitting head of state by an international tribunal.

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1. Brilliant choice indeed!

I have admired her since her time as Chief Prosecutor on International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda as well as when she was the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. She also did the investigation into sexual harassment in the military and that's just a few of her accomplishments.

What she has done so far in her lifetime is already mindboggling and yet here she is taking on yet another pivotal role in serving Canada.

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2. I first heard about her and admired her from that point too.

She's done Canada very proud.