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 | | From: | Bill | | Subject: | CYA Liberal style! | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 07:16:30 -0500 |
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I missed funeral on PM's order: GG
By CP
TORONTO -- Caught between orders from the prime minister and a date with the
Queen, Gov. Gen. Adrienne Clarkson was unable to break her European vacation to
attend the memorial service for her Alberta lieutenant, the Globe and Mail
reported yesterday. In an interview with the newspaper from London -- her first
comments since Albertans reacted with a storm of anger to her absence from the
Tuesday memorial for Lt.-Gov. Lois Hole -- Clarkson said Prime Minister Paul
Martin had instructed her to stay in Europe to attend the installation ceremony
of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko.
Although that ceremony in Kyiv does not take place until today, Clarkson said
she had a "long-standing" obligation to spend Wednesday night with the Queen at
one of her residences.
"The first vice-regal duty, the first duty of the governor general, is to listen
to the advice of her ministers, and in this case the prime minister.
"And the prime minister asked me to go to Kyiv for the installation -- because
it's terribly important to our Ukrainian Canadians what happens in the Ukraine,
we are the largest diaspora of Ukrainians in the world. And I said I would."
'VERY UPSET AND HURT'
Clarkson called the criticism politically motivated.
"I'm very upset and hurt, really, that this should have become some kind of
political football, because I regarded her so highly," she said of Hole, whom
the governor general had visited in the hospital last year a few days before
Hole announced she was dying.
On Tuesday, as the memorial was being held for her Alberta lieutenant, Clarkson
was in Paris where she and her husband were ending a European vacation of about
five days duration.
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| | From: | Bill | | Subject: | Re: CYA Liberal style! | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 07:38:17 -0500 |
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| She'd been home in a heartbeat had that old crook "Cretian" kicked the bucket.
Bill wrote:
> I missed funeral on PM's order: GG
>
> By CP
>
> TORONTO -- Caught between orders from the prime minister and a date with the
> Queen, Gov. Gen. Adrienne Clarkson was unable to break her European vacation to
> attend the memorial service for her Alberta lieutenant, the Globe and Mail
> reported yesterday. In an interview with the newspaper from London -- her first
> comments since Albertans reacted with a storm of anger to her absence from the
> Tuesday memorial for Lt.-Gov. Lois Hole -- Clarkson said Prime Minister Paul
> Martin had instructed her to stay in Europe to attend the installation ceremony
> of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko.
>
> Although that ceremony in Kyiv does not take place until today, Clarkson said
> she had a "long-standing" obligation to spend Wednesday night with the Queen at
> one of her residences.
>
> "The first vice-regal duty, the first duty of the governor general, is to listen
> to the advice of her ministers, and in this case the prime minister.
>
> "And the prime minister asked me to go to Kyiv for the installation -- because
> it's terribly important to our Ukrainian Canadians what happens in the Ukraine,
> we are the largest diaspora of Ukrainians in the world. And I said I would."
>
> 'VERY UPSET AND HURT'
>
> Clarkson called the criticism politically motivated.
>
> "I'm very upset and hurt, really, that this should have become some kind of
> political football, because I regarded her so highly," she said of Hole, whom
> the governor general had visited in the hospital last year a few days before
> Hole announced she was dying.
>
> On Tuesday, as the memorial was being held for her Alberta lieutenant, Clarkson
> was in Paris where she and her husband were ending a European vacation of about
> five days duration.
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