Geoffrey Stevens

When it comes to politics, there really are two Canadas. There’s Atlantic Canada and there’s the Rest of Canada. For a majority of central and western Canadians, politics is, well, politics. Most of the time, there is no true commitment to parties, politicians or causes. Politics represents an occasional electoral exercise, to be discharged as expeditiously as possible to minimize its intrusion on the more important things in…

The office of governor general is a curious one. It is a historical anomaly, a relic of colonial times, a surrogate for a foreign head of state and a constitutional irrelevancy, which it has mostly been since Mackenzie King won the 1926 election on the back of the GG of the day, Baron Byng of…