{"id":2983,"date":"2026-06-01T02:52:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T02:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2026-06-01T02:52:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T02:52:27","slug":"of-course-i-think-its-unfair-governor-general-on-backlash-to-her-french-language-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=2983","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Of course I think it&#8217;s unfair&#8217;: Governor General on backlash to her French language skills"},"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\/player\/play\/video\/9.7210529\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"&#039;Of course I think it&#039;s unfair&#039;: Governor General on backlash to her French language skills\" 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\/e1a155fb-c339-48c9-bf8f-e1186a07dd20,1779646256902\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C1280%2C720%29%3B\" 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\">&#8216;Of course I think it&#8217;s unfair&#8217;: Governor General on backlash to her French language skills<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">Chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton speaks with outgoing Governor General Mary Simon to look back at her time as the first Indigenous person in the role, and the criticism she faced over her French language skills.<\/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-2983","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\/2983","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=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}