On Saturday, former governor general Adrienne Clarkson wrote a piece defending herself against a story published a few days before in the National Post. See the appointed get appointed again, above.) We just don’t expect the taxpayer to pay for it, nor do we consider it, somehow, to be public service. Clarkson was an able governor general, particularly in her embrace of the Canadian Forces, as far as governors general go — and this is not far. The former GG’s “reimbursement program,” as the gig is called, was started in 1979 during then governor general Ed Schreyer’s time, with guidelines introduced under governor general David Johnston in 2012.

Source: National Post November 05, 2018 22:52 UTC