‘Perception is everything’: new Governor General Arbour preaches unity, diversity in first address

'Our country is our shared work, and so, too, is our influence on the world,' says Canada's 31st Governor General, former Supreme Court justice and human rights advocate Louise Arbour.
Governor General Louise Arbour swore her oaths of the office on June 8 in the Senate of Canada Building in Ottawa.

Canada’s 31st Governor General Louise Arbour preached unity in diversity—and the dangers of not checking your biases—in her first address from the Senate’s Red Chamber during her swearing-in ceremony. 

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