As Mary Simon approaches the end of her five-year term as governor general, Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced that former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour will take on the role.
Arbour is a past Supreme Court of Ontario and Supreme Court of Canada justice, and also previously served as a United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Arbour’s Accomplishments
The Prime Minister’s Office described Arbour, who was born in Montreal in 1947, as a “world-renowned legal scholar, judge, and leader in human rights and justice,” who has “held nearly every office a Canadian jurist can hold, and several that no Canadian had held before.”…