Immigration: Daughter Jean

Canadian Values Dept: As a well-educated Haitian immigrant with a husband and an adopted daughter, Jean embodied contemporary Canadian values in a way no other candidate for the post of the monarchy's representative could match. Confident, bright, open-minded and outward-looking, she mirrors the way our sprawling and diverse country likes to picture itself, and proved an effective constitutional symbol to boot, according to Calgary Herald. To her everlasting credit, Jean quickly distanced herself from the suspicions and nary a sovereigntist shadow has attached to her since. On the contrary, she has worked strenuously to support Canada's constitutional order while representing the True North abroad with panache and passion and despite an inauspicious start, Michaelle Jean deservedly ends her term as governor general hardly short of icon status -- a fate any elected politician would envy. Things did not appear quite so rosy at the beginning when Jean was appointed. It was not long before some disturbing items came to light. Her husband, Jean-Daniel Lafond, a French-Canadian filmmaker, was alleged to harbour separatist sympathies while Jean herself proved not to be above suspicion, thanks to the emergence of some old footage of her making apparently favour-able separatist comments. Canadians were aghast at the possibility that the country's top post had been given to someone dedicated to undoing the various institutions she was meant to serve. As reported in the news.
@t haitian immigrant, canadian filmmaker