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Originally Posted by merrylander
That affair quite possibly led to the aftermath where the role of GG became little more than a figurehead. Prior to Byng the GGs acquiesed whenevr they were asked to dissolve the government and call an election, any more than the Queen rules GB.
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The Canadian Governor Generalship seems an odd sort of thing. The title makes me think it's probably a remnant of the government of New France. Is it? I wonder how it came to persist under English rule. Now it seems that the Governor General is more or less the Queen's representative in Canada, a figurehead of a figurehead.
John