I wondered if you would ever raise the GG appointment. What an appallingly bad choice - to "promote" someone to this office with so little public service or profile. But as many have said, it falls in with the recent pattern of Liberal CBC hack appointments. The office is further diminished to the level of Cinderella at her Castle in Disney World. That's an idea, actually, may they should have a "cast" to play the GG, rotating on shifts.

The position of titular Head of State is not a place for crass multicultural affirmative action. She apparently sees herself, as Martin described her, as a "symbol" for Canadians - you know, the "anyone in Canada can grow up to be GG" story. But they both seem to have forgotten that that story is all about "merit" in an "meritocracy". This appointment is the opposite. I know more black, french-speaking High School teachers or University profs from "disadvantaged" backgrounds, who, from what I can read of her, have done more for the people of this country than Ms. Jean. I suspect there are more skeletons in her closet or her husband's - who, as Coyne or Warren pointed out, couldn't bring himself to wear a tie to the announcement of his wife's appointment - it looked like they were on holidays, touring Parliament Hill, when the PM spotted her in the tour group and popped the question.

When the PMs office contacted her, she must have thought someone was playing a practical joke. If she didn't, it doesn't speak well of her. And how puffed up about yourself do you have to be to be in her relatively obscure position in life and think you're qualified for the job? Well, again, I guess she just needed to look at the past appointments and said to herself "What's Adrienne got that I haven't?" And what is she to do when she "retires" in four years at age 52? I suppose there is some fat pension for such GG retirees? And what, back to the CBC where she is introduced as the "former GG", free to pursue whatever political agenda she has? Or back to France, where she can "cash in" on whatever misplaced cache a former Head of State of Canada would have there?

End of rant.

See I don't really care as it has become, along with the Senate, not much more constitutionally than a trademarked logo. Would a hockey player, as has been proposed in the past, be any better?<p>But what is the "back to France" stuff. She was born in Haiti as I understand.

The 'back to France' stuff refers to the fact that Jean holds dual citizenship with France through her marriage to husband Jean-Daniel.

The other day Bourque elicited many similar comments and much worse, when he raised the issue in an on-line poll on his site.

OK - so "onward" might be a better direction than "back".

Captain COncussion is a Mapleleaf. Heeeeee. At least it's only a one year deal, and it doesn't look like he got Sergei Federov money. At least the LA Kings didn't try to sign him!

I don't understand what conservatives mean when they use the term merit. Apparently being an award winning journalist and documentarist who speaks five languages (which is five more than SayNay speaks when she's really angry) is not enough. What does it take to deserve an important position in the government? Is it that you need to have been born rich?

GG and "important govt position," kinda funny to see those two phrases together.

seems to me that the GG's real job is to serve as an easy target, deflecting the collective gaze from real issues.