{"id":83073,"date":"2026-05-05T11:26:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=83073"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:26:55","slug":"pm-carney-announces-the-kings-approval-of-canadas-next-governor-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/pm-carney-announces-the-kings-approval-of-canadas-next-governor-general\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Carney announces The King\u2019s approval of Canada\u2019s next Governor General"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>May 5, 2026
\nOttawa, Ontario<\/p>\n

Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, announced that, on his recommendation, His Majesty King Charles\u00a0III has approved the appointment of the Honourable Louise\u00a0Arbour as the next Governor General of Canada.<\/p>\n

As Governor General, Ms.\u00a0Arbour will be the representative of His Majesty The King in Canada. She will be Canada\u2019s 31st<\/sup> Governor General since Confederation and the first Governor General of Canada appointed by His Majesty.<\/p>\n

Ms. Arbour is a world-renowned legal scholar, judge, and leader in human rights and justice. With a career of service spanning more than five decades, she has held nearly every office a Canadian jurist can hold, and several that no Canadian had held before. She was appointed as a judge to the Supreme Court of Ontario, the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and the Supreme Court of Canada.\u00a0In 1996, she was appointed by the United Nations (UN) as Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. In these roles, she led efforts that resulted in the first conviction for genocide since the Genocide Convention and the first indictment for war crimes of a sitting head of state.<\/p>\n

Ms. Arbour was appointed High Commissioner for Human Rights by the UN Secretary-General in 2004 and later served as UN Special Representative for International Migration from 2017 to 2018. More recently, Ms. Arbour delivered the Independent External Comprehensive Review on misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces, which became a catalyst for unprecedented culture change and reform.<\/p>\n

Ms. Arbour is a Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada\u2019s highest civilian honour, and a Grande offici\u00e8re de l\u2019Ordre national du\u00a0Qu\u00e9bec. She has received\u00a0nearly 100 honours and awards,\u00a0including 42 honorary doctorates from universities around the world.\u00a0Ms.\u00a0Arbour\u2019s experience, judgement, moral clarity, and conviction will serve Canada exceedingly well.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister expresses his deepest thanks to Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon for her exemplary tenure as Governor General and for her lifetime of advocacy for Inuit rights, Indigenous self-determination, and the preservation of Indigenous language, culture, and identity. Her legacy will endure not only in her service, but in the way she served \u2013 with an unshakable belief in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May 5, 2026 Ottawa, Ontario Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, announced that, on his recommendation, His Majesty King Charles\u00a0III has approved the appointment of the Honourable Louise\u00a0Arbour as the next Governor General of Canada. As Governor General, Ms.\u00a0Arbour will be the representative of His Majesty The King in Canada. She will be Canada\u2019s 31st …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":69448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-federal"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-12 14:06:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83074,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83073\/revisions\/83074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}