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 ""...Jean is Canada's first black Governor General, the second person without either a political or military background (after Adrienne Clarkson), the second person from a visible minority and (again after Clarkson), foreign-born (like Clarkson, and breaking tradition since Vincent Massey's appointment)...""  
 -Doesn't everyone think it's rather hollow and terminally PC to keep referring to ""breaking the tradition"" when the last GG who was a British subject was Alexander and he quit in 1952! (Perhaps it would be ""breaking tradition"" if we DID appoint a british subject!"