# Governor General of Canada resigns after “scathing” report on workplace harrassment **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 21, 2021, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-general-of-canada-resigns-after-scathing-report-on-workplace-harrassment/931141 "2021-01-21T21:27:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-general-of-canada-resigns-after-scathing-report-on-workplace-harrassment/931141/62 "2021-07-06T13:05:03Z")
New GovGen to be announced this morning. [https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6091376](https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6091376) ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-general-of-canada-resigns-after-scathing-report-on-workplace-harrassment/931141/63 "2021-07-06T13:27:27Z")
Don’t tell me! Let me guess… Karla Homolka. (Too soon?) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-general-of-canada-resigns-after-scathing-report-on-workplace-harrassment/931141/64 "2021-07-06T14:28:36Z")
Mary Simon OC, Inuit leader from northern Quebec. > **[Mary Simon named as Canada's first Indigenous Governor General](https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/politics/mary-simon-named-as-canada-s-first-indigenous-governor-general-1.5498146)** > > Inuk leader Mary Simon will be Canada's 30th Governor General, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Tuesday. She is making history as the first Indigenous person in this country to take on the role. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-general-of-canada-resigns-after-scathing-report-on-workplace-harrassment/931141/65 "2021-07-07T11:37:45Z")
Some say Mary Simon should be bilingual - but she speaks English and Inuktitut fluently. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-general-of-canada-resigns-after-scathing-report-on-workplace-harrassment/931141/66 "2021-07-07T16:02:12Z")
Well that took awhile. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-general-of-canada-resigns-after-scathing-report-on-workplace-harrassment/931141/67 "2021-07-07T16:09:18Z")
It’s almost as if they realized they need to do a thorough vetting before appointing Canada’s acting chief of state. Maybe make a few phone calls to places she worked before? Modern technology and all that. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-general-of-canada-resigns-after-scathing-report-on-workplace-harrassment/931141/68 "2021-07-07T16:15:49Z")
And it took months? 🙂 They could have figured out the problem with Julie Payette in a couple of hours. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-general-of-canada-resigns-after-scathing-report-on-workplace-harrassment/931141/69 "2021-07-07T16:35:30Z")
Haste makes waste. But the new GG looks like she could do a good job. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-general-of-canada-resigns-after-scathing-report-on-workplace-harrassment/931141/70 "2021-07-07T21:40:40Z")
I think she should do all formal speaking engagements in Inuktitut. If anyone complains, tell’em immigrants should be learning the language(s) of the country they move to. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-general-of-canada-resigns-after-scathing-report-on-workplace-harrassment/931141/71 "2021-07-08T16:08:07Z")
:: rimshot :: ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-general-of-canada-resigns-after-scathing-report-on-workplace-harrassment/931141/72 "2021-07-09T00:53:17Z")
High school graduates are awarded a GG’s medal for academic excellence, on the advice of some commission. A graduate I know got one last year, and his mom recently posted a picture of the medal on Facebook. Guess who’s on the medal: Payette in profile, with flowing long hair [https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gg.ca%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Fcontent\_-\_large%2Fpublic%2Fmedia%2Facmed\_payette.jpg%3Fitok%3D2ir2a4SY&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gg.ca%2Fen%2Ffile%2F43024&tbnid=WhYIC27v4k7fvM&vet=12ahUKEwir8eC24dTxAhUPm-AKHZx1Cv0QMyhBegQIARBU..i&docid=JIekX7Xkof6VwM&w=768&h=467&q=governor%20general%20of%20canada%20julie%20payette%20medal&ved=2ahUKEwir8eC24dTxAhUPm-AKHZx1Cv0QMyhBegQIARBU](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gg.ca%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Fcontent_-_large%2Fpublic%2Fmedia%2Facmed_payette.jpg%3Fitok%3D2ir2a4SY&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gg.ca%2Fen%2Ffile%2F43024&tbnid=WhYIC27v4k7fvM&vet=12ahUKEwir8eC24dTxAhUPm-AKHZx1Cv0QMyhBegQIARBU..i&docid=JIekX7Xkof6VwM&w=768&h=467&q=governor%20general%20of%20canada%20julie%20payette%20medal&ved=2ahUKEwir8eC24dTxAhUPm-AKHZx1Cv0QMyhBegQIARBU) (Icon above looks like a broken link, but it works) ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-general-of-canada-resigns-after-scathing-report-on-workplace-harrassment/931141/73 "2021-07-09T12:34:38Z")
I’m more interested in her expense account. Remember when it came out that Michelle Jeanne was still charging tax payers $1mil a year in expenses, several years after leaving the office? I wonder how many former Gov. Gen.’s are still running up ‘expenses’? ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-general-of-canada-resigns-after-scathing-report-on-workplace-harrassment/931141/74 "2021-07-12T18:41:08Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Remember when it came out that Michelle Jeanne was still charging tax payers $1mil a year in expenses, several years after leaving the office? A quick google for Michaelle Jean’s expenses mostly turns up articles about her charging items to la Francophonie, not the GG’s office, along with a few articles about her travel budget while in the GG’s office. Did I miss a scandal? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-general-of-canada-resigns-after-scathing-report-on-workplace-harrassment/931141.md?page=3)