Michaëlle Jean
Politician
1957 –
Who is Michaëlle Jean?
Michaëlle Jean PC CC CMM COM CD FRCPSC is a Canadian journalist and stateswoman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 27th since Canadian Confederation, from 2005 to 2010.
Jean was a refugee from Haiti—coming to Canada in 1968—and was raised in the town of Thetford Mines, Quebec. After receiving a number of university degrees, Jean worked as a journalist and broadcaster for Radio-Canada and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as well as undertaking charity work, mostly in the field of assisting victims of domestic violence. In 2005, she was appointed governor general by Queen Elizabeth II, on the recommendation of Prime Minister Paul Martin, to replace Adrienne Clarkson as vicereine, and she occupied the post until succeeded by David Johnston in 2010. Early in her tenure, comments of hers recorded in some of the film works by her husband, Jean-Daniel Lafond, were construed as supporting Quebec sovereignty and her holding of dual citizenship caused doubt about her loyalties. But Jean denied separatist leanings, renounced her citizenship of France, and eventually became a respected vicereine.
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- Born
- Sep 6, 1957
Port-au-Prince - Also known as
- Michaelle Jean
- Spouses
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Ethnicity
- French-speaking Quebecer
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- University of Florence
- Université de Montréal
- Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
- University of Perugia
- Lived in
- Montreal
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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