Governor General Adrienne Clarkson: Penko

Immigrant Experience Dept: IMMIGRANTS to Canada shouldn't have to wait until the second generation to feel like they belong -- former governor general of Canada Adrienne Clarkson believes newcomers belong as soon as they arrive, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Clarkson was in Winnipeg Sunday to promote her book, Room For All of Us , which explores the immigrant experience in Canada. The book is about "what it is to come from somewhere else...to be taken out of the context of what you knew," she said. "You have all that context taken away and you have to start again." Former governor general Adrienne Clarkson signs her book Room For All Of Us for Maureen Penko at the West End Cultural Centre Sunday. BORIS MINKEVICH / "'We're Canadians now. We're not waiting one generation. We're Canadians now,'" Clarkson said her father often reminded their family, who arrived in Canada from Hong Kong as refugees in 1941. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.