Gov. Gen. Mary Simon is using her role to help build ties between Indigenous people across the globe — an effort experts say is leveraging a colonial institution to advance reconciliation abroad and bolster centuries of collaboration.
"I've had some very interesting dialogue," Simon said in an interview last month after a trip to Finland.
"We discussed with them about how we could further facilitate exchanges between Indigenous communities in Canada and the Sami people." Experts say the viceregal can help guide Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada on collaborating across borders. "This is a natural evolution in what Indigenous diplomacy has looked like now, on a bit more of a broader scale."
"The Governor General also has a unique and important opportunity for Indigenous people to see how other nations are innovating solutions around combating colonialism," he said. "There is this long-standing tradition that is both very historic but also modern, that Mary Simon is part of," he said. The first representative with Indigenous roots, Alberta's former Lt.-Gov. Ralph Steinhauer, was Cree. Tidridge noted that Steinhauer spoke out against a bill that sought to limit Indigenous land claims to create oilsands projects, and even pondered withholding Royal Assent on that legislation before relenting in 1977.
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