PEIGUY
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Omokgyo
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 Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 11:42 am Post subject: Don Cherry For Governor General |
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I read this interesting article by Newfounland's own Rex Murphy in the Globe and Mail on Saturday, May 8th, 2004. In it he makes an interesting case for our beloved Cherry becoming the GG(Governor General) of Canada.
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The term of the co-Governor-Generalship of their Excellencies Adrienne Clarkson and John Ralston Saul is moving to its flashy close. An eager and anxious nation awaits a worthy successor. These are large, well-heeled and splendidly itinerant shoes to fill.
Well, Don Cherry is the obvious, the blatant choice. It was said of Diana, most melancholy of Cinderella-celebrities, that she was the people's princess. I do not think of Mr. Cherry as a princess, but he is the people's governor-general.
The Clarkson-Ralston Saul era has left its high-toned and circumpolar imprint. We have had a governor-generalship of lofty (and let us whisper it, bloodless) pretension, a harvest time for the canap� and string-quartet set. It has been a Chardonnay era at Rideau Hall. It's time for some beer.
Being as he already is the impresario and master of ceremonies of the national ritual -- hockey -- Mr. Cherry already carries on his shoulders the mass fealty of this hockey-cherishing country. In every living room and den, in every pool hall and bar, at every checkout counter, in Tim Hortons and at Canadian Tire, Grapes -- such is the affectionate diminutive of this man -- is the toast of every Canadian heart.
I think he would bring to the office of governor-general a kind of profile that has hitherto been only dreamed of, and a popularity not contingent on luring the country's better novelists and musicians to high tea or the annual garden party. Governor-General Don Cherry. It has quite a ring to it. The Conservatives' loss will be the country's gain.
Should this come to pass, I have only one wish: to be present when the Swedish ambassador presents his or her credentials.
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source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040508/COREX08/Columnists/Columnist?author=Rex+Murphy
you can read the full article, the 1st 1/2 talks about the Conservatives trying to woo him into Federal Politics.. which would be good for a laugh but not for him.. he's not the type of person..
* I was almost sure i had posted this in the Off-Topic forum, i will post it again in there where it should belong so can one of the mods just lock this thread.* |
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