{"id":2979,"date":"2026-06-01T02:50:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T02:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2026-06-01T02:50:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T02:50:44","slug":"outgoing-gov-gen-says-criticisms-levelled-against-her-french-abilities-were-unfair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=2979","title":{"rendered":"Outgoing Gov. Gen. says criticisms levelled against her French abilities were unfair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/mary-simon-french-louise-arbour-indigenous-languages-9.7210109\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Outgoing Gov. Gen. says criticisms levelled against her French abilities were unfair | CBC News\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/4a12bfba-118b-4580-b10d-48f1a7c4427a,1779565899506\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C1%2C5131%2C2886%29%3BResize%3D620\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.cbc.ca<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Outgoing Gov. Gen. says criticisms levelled against her French abilities were unfair | CBC News<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">Outgoing Gov. Gen. Mary Simon says the criticisms levelled against her over her ability to speak French were &#8220;unfair&#8221; and it ultimately did not impede her connecting with Canadians while in the role.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politica","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2980,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions\/2980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}