Canada

These organizations need to calm down over this one. You're really going to try to get rid of the first Indigenous governor general because she doesn't sufficiently represent a settler culture?

It's a waste of time on their part. Selection of the GG is a federal power exclusively, and made by the monarch based on the advise of the PM.
Language doesn't enter into it, beyond the convention of alternating between anglophone and French GGs.

Edit: I remember the hoopla when her appointment was made and a number of complaints made to the Commissioner of Official Languages, who investigated the complaints at the time.

Here's the preliminary response:
https://www.clo-ocol.gc.ca/en/newsroom/2021-11-26/statement-commissioner-official-languages-canada-preliminary-investigation?wbdisable=true

One of the important bits:

Furthermore, the Prime Minister, who is not a federal institution subject to the Act, has full authority to appoint any person to the position of Governor General and is not bound by any recommendations issued by the Privy Council Office. For all of these reasons, the conclusions in my preliminary investigation report on the process that led to the 2021 appointment of the Governor General are that the complaints are unfounded.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A group of Quebecers have cleared a major hurdle in their efforts to have Canada’s governor general removed because she does not speak French.

In her June decision, Quebec superior court judge Catherine Piché wrote that the crown is not a federal office, but rather represents the sovereign’s presence in Canada.

The lawsuit was launched by two Quebecers’ rights associations, including Justice pour le Québec, which was led by Frédéric Bastien until his death earlier this year.

That association has previously defended Quebec’s ban on religious symbols, and has called for the closure of the Roxham Road border crossing used primarily by asylum seekers.

In 2020, he filed a complaint after the Canadian Human Rights Commission failed to provide a French version of a federal challenge to Quebec’s secularism law.

The lawyer representing the groups in the governor general case told La Presse on Wednesday that the lawsuit was not an attack on Simon, but rather a “question of principle” and respect for Canada’s constitution, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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How about we get rid of that position once and for all and get rid of the monarchy altogether to finally become a truly independent country, and stop wasting millions on this?

I was really afraid this thread would turn into a typical /r/Canada type Québec bashing thread.

I'm so happy to see some nuanced opinions on the subject instead where people don't see it as all black and white.

I have good hope for the Lemmy community.

So what about the deaf community? Doesn’t sign language need to be also considered at an national level? Oh right there is someone that helps just like a bilingual translator.

Again making a fuss about something common sense has overruled.

Same issue with bringing in medication from out of country without bilingual instructions. We all have devices and access to something to translate. I’d happily have all French medication if it meant relief of symptoms.