What are the duties of Canada's governor general?

Since 1867, the governor general has represented the Crown in Canada, but what other tasks lay ahead for Mary Simon?


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[arboyprepper]

Steal tax payers money and get a pension. There’s no need for this position

[cedriclasry]

Their primary Job is needlessly consuming tax dollars

[AliceEclipse]

Fly everywhere on a private jet on taxpayers expense and occasionally shake hands and nod - that’s about sums up the job.

[Chris-ntlk]

Wasting taxpayer money is their biggest job.

[TheCSC]

Her duties are to take attention away from burnt churches. Oh, and to make JT appear like a uniting trail blazer, even though appointing an underqualified person to political power based on ethnicity is its own form of pseudo racism.

[rickmars]

So, she speaks about the evils of colonization while wearing the colonizers' clothes, driving in their limousines, flying in their planes and working directly for the queen! Yeah, no hypocrisy there!! LOL!

[bobbradley]

Funny he had to read a pre-written post shameful

[tracymorrison]

pension for life; cushy salary and a sense of entitlement like the previous ones have. A useless position created to waste our tax dollars.

[roncairney]

It's truly amazing the amount of pandering that going on in the world.

[NorthernRockMedia]

She has no duties. The Queen didn't appoint her and JT doesn't have the authority to do it.

[Hibanaiam]

Also can't forget every year for life Even if you quit or get fired

[paulmaloney]

What a complete waste of tax payers money. Imagine we have a monarchy with kings, queens, dukes, prince and princesses in 2021, you swear we living in Disney movie or the 15 century

[moelo]

And now the PM can call a fall election. 🤫

[HTCMagicGuy]

Make a stupid amount of money for pretty much nothing.

[siberiancossack]

Canada's next Prime Minister should be a transvestite.

[josva]

When the Queen can communicate with her subjects all around the globe and accross Canada almost instantly with modern technology, it is completely unnecessary to have a person such as this as representative of the crown. It is a waste of tax dollars and resources to have a governor general representing the crown when the crown has instant communication capabilities with Canada and Canadian citizens.

[unrulian]

waste money. dump it down the same bottomless pit we have been; with no results

[ronnbot]

2 main duties of this meritless, appointed position: being a token and a distraction

[bgtokalau]

Waste of tax payers money bunch of useless government roles

[register]

Can't be worse than the astronaut before. Ribbon cutting, tours, dinners, reciting a speech, smiling for photos, it's not a difficult