The Commissioner of Official Languages has ruled that the nomination process of Gov. Gen. Mary Simon did not violate federal legislation concerning bilingualism.
The report by commissioner Raymond Théberge investigated only the role of the Privy Council Office (PCO) in the nomination.
Simon is Inuk and was educated in a federal day school in the Nunavik region, where she was not given the opportunity to learn French as a child. She was installed as Canada’s Governor General on July 26, 2021, and is the first Indigenous person to hold the position.
“The investigation found that PCO took positive measures in the process
