{"id":33226,"date":"2026-05-05T20:07:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=33226"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:07:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:07:50","slug":"gg-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=33226","title":{"rendered":"GG&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"697\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-at-4.25.34-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-at-4.25.34-PM.png 697w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-at-4.25.34-PM-300x237.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-f72b9e51c84a1a6b712e77b3e64604c4\" style=\"color:#f3f640\">Prime Minister Mark Carney has named former Supreme Court justice <strong>Louise Arbour<\/strong> as Canada&#8217;s next governor general, picking a francophone with a long legal resum\u00e9 which includes stints prosecuting war crimes in Rwanda and Yugoslavia and serving as the UN human rights commissioner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-at-4.28.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-at-4.28.39-PM.png 700w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-at-4.28.39-PM-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-at-4.28.39-PM-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-79a108d735fd489d4b184f1e5f52387d\" style=\"color:#f9f774\"><strong>Arbour<\/strong>, 79, is one of the most celebrated jurists of her time. She has received 42 honorary doctorates and is already a Companion of the Order of Canada \u2014 the country&#8217;s highest honour \u2014 in recognition of her pioneering legal work here and around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-at-4.28.13-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-at-4.28.13-PM.png 700w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-at-4.28.13-PM-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-at-4.28.13-PM-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Court-Painter-Louise-Arbour-GG.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Court-Painter-Louise-Arbour-GG.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Court-Painter-Louise-Arbour-GG-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Court-Painter-Louise-Arbour-GG-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-af997738f3ef1fe2cf6d53e21ceeddb6\" style=\"color:#9c0b04\">Court Painter &amp; Newly Appointed Governor General Louise Arbour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Mark Carney has named former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour as Canada&#8217;s next governor general, picking a francophone with a long legal resum\u00e9 which includes stints prosecuting war crimes in Rwanda and Yugoslavia and serving as the UN human rights commissioner. Arbour, 79, is one of the most celebrated jurists of her time. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=33226\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GG&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33226"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33244,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33226\/revisions\/33244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}