Governor General calls 2022 ‘monumental,’ mourns Queen Elizabeth II in NYE message – National | 24CA News

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Published 30.12.2022
Governor General calls 2022 ‘monumental,’ mourns Queen Elizabeth II in NYE message – National | 24CA News

Canada’s Governor General says 2022 was a “difficult and monumental year” marked by the loss of life of Queen Elizabeth II.

Gov. Gen. Mary Simon, who serves because the monarch’s consultant in Canada, remembered the queen’s loss of life in her annual New Year’s message.

She died in September after celebrating 70 years on the throne, the longest reign of any British monarch.

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Simon says over the previous 12 months, Canadians additionally witnessed devastating climate occasions attributable to local weather change and continued to expertise the feelings sparked by the invention of what are believed to be the unmarked graves of Indigenous youngsters at former residential college websites.

Simon, who’s Inuk, additionally spoke about these in northern and distant elements of Canada who stay in darkness over the winter and use that point to “tell stories, rejuvenate and to move forward together.”

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Simon, the nation’s first Indigenous governor normal, inspired Canadians to do the identical and to achieve out to their buddies and neighbours.

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