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The Right Honourable
 Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé
 PC, CC, CMM, CD, BA Ott, BA Paris, LLD(hc) Queen, LLD(hc) Reg, DPSci(hc) Chulalongkorn


In office
14 May 1984 – 29 January 1990
Monarch Elizabeth II
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
John Turner
Brian Mulroney
Preceded by Edward Schreyer
Succeeded by Ray Hnatyshyn


Born 26 April 1922(1922-04-26)
Prud'homme, Saskatchewan
Died 26 January 1993 (aged 70)
Montreal, Quebec
Spouse(s) Maurice Sauvé
Profession Politician, Journalist
Religion Roman Catholic
Signature

Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé PC CC CMM CD (née Benoît, 26 April 1922 – 26 January 1993) was a Canadian politician and stateswoman who, until 29 January 1990, served as the Governor General of Canada. She was appointed as such by Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, on the recommendation of then Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, to replace Edward Richard Schreyer as viceroy (making Sauvé the vicereine). The official announcement of the appointment was made on 28 January 1984,[1] and Sauvé's investiture as the 23rd governor general since Confederation took place on 14 May 1984,[1] making her the first woman to serve as Canada's governor general.

Sauvé was born in Saskatchewan and educated in Ottawa and Paris, prior to working as a journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). She was then elected to the House of Commons in 1972, where-after she served as a minister of the Crown until 1980, when she became the Speaker of the House of Commons. She was appointed as the Canadian viceroy two years later, and while her appointment was initially and generally welcomed, Sauvé caused some controversy during her time serving as the Queen's representative, mostly due to increased security around the office, as well as a somewhat republican attitude towards the position.

On 27 November 1972, Sauvé was sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada,[2] giving her the accordant style of The Honourable; however, as a former governor general of Canada, Sauvé was entitled to be styled for life with the superior form of The Right Honourable.

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[edit] Early life, youth, and first career

Sauvé was born in the Fransaskois community of Prud'homme, Saskatchewan, to Charles Albert Benoît and Anna Vaillant. When Sauvé was three years old, her family moved back to Ottawa, where her father would take her to visit Parliament Hill and show her the bronze bust of Canada's first female Member of Parliament, Agnes Macphail.[3] Sauvé studied at Notre Dame du Rosaire Convent in Ottawa, where she became the head of her class in her first year, before continuing her education at the University of Ottawa. While working for the government of Canada as a translator, in order to pay her tuition, Sauvé also actively involved herself in student and political affairs. Then, at the age of 20, she became the national president of the Young Catholic Students Group, which she was employed by in 1942, and which necessitated her move to Montreal.[3]

It was there that Sauvé met Maurice Sauvé, and the two married on 24 September 1948, the same year the couple moved to London, where Maurice had obtained a scholarship to the London School of Economics, and Sauvé worked as a teacher and tutor. Two years later they moved to Paris, where Sauvé was employed as the assistant to the director of the Youth Secretariat at UNESCO, and in 1951, she enrolled for one year at the Sorbonne before graduating with a degree in French civilization. Sauvé and Maurice returned to Canada near the end of 1952,[3] where the couple settled in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, and had one child, Jean-François, in 1959. Sauvé then became a founding member of the Institute of Political Research and was hired as a journalist and broadcaster with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's French language broadcaster, Radio-Canada.[4]

After success on her first radio programme, Fémina, Sauvé was moved to CBC television and began to focus her efforts on covering political topics on both radio and television, in both English and French. She soon drew attention to herself, and was frequently invited by her friend, Gérard Pelletier, as a panellist on the controversial show Les Idées en Marche, and revealed her left-wing political ideologies. This absorption of a woman into the traditionally male world of political journalism and commentary was unusual, and Sauvé managed to have herself taken seriously, even having her own television show, Opinions, which covered "such taboo subjects as teenage sex, parental authority, and student discipline. Because of the sensitive nature of many of the programs, Jeanne took care to select articulate and clean-cut young people for the show." On air from 1956 to 1963, "it was the show that made Jeanne famous."[5] However, Sauvé also attracted negative attention due to her husband's eventual elevation to become a Crown minister; in a piece in The Globe and Mail, Conservative MP Louis-Joseph Pigeon expressed concern over the wife of a minister being paid "fabulous sums by the CBC," and called the circumstances "a family compact" and a "shame and a scandal."[4]

[edit] Parliamentary career

The Canadian House of Commons, where Sauvé served as a Member of Parliament and later Speaker of the house, sitting in the chair in the far centre of the picture.

It was the Liberal Party that wooed Sauvé into politics, asking her to run in the Montreal riding of Ahuntsic as a candidate during the 1972 federal election. Though she found campaigning arduous – saying: "I felt uneasy for the first time in my life when I was campaigning... I must say I had qualms about it myself"[5] – Sauvé won, became one of five woman MPs in the House of Commons, and was sworn into the Privy Council and appointed to the Cabinet chaired by Pierre Trudeau as the Minister of State for Science and Technology; she was thus the first woman from Quebec to become a minister of the Crown, and was the sole female in that Cabinet.[6]

Sauvé ran again in the 1974 election, re-winning Ahuntsic, and was given the Environment portfolio before replacing it with that for Communications the following year. Then, while Sauvé had won the riding of Laval-des-Rapides in the 1979 election, the Liberals lost their majority in the commons to the Progressive Conservative Party, and its leader, Joe Clark, was appointed prime minister to then Governor General Edward Schreyer. That government, however, lost a vote of non-confidence only nine months later, and, following the federal election of 1980, Trudeau was again prime minister. As such, he advised Schreyer to appoint Sauvé as the Speaker of the house.[6] Because she strongly desired to campaign for the "No" forces in the weeks leading up to Quebec's 1980 referendum on separation from Canada, Sauvé initially refused the offer of the non-partisan position, but eventually acquiesced after Trudeau convinced her that she was the right person for the job and she received permission from the leaders of all the parties in the House of Commons to engage in the federalist campaign in Quebec.[7]

In her early days as speaker, Sauvé often made mistakes with the names of MPs or the ridings they represented, once calling on the Prime Minister as the "leader of the opposition", and occasionally miscarried procedural rulings, which led to MPs addressing her with increasing curtness. Further, all 32 of the New Democratic Party MPs in the house walked out in protest of what they viewed as a bias on Sauvé's part in allowing Liberal MPs to ask more questions than those from any other party. In a CBC interview, Sauvé conceded that the NDP members may have been right that the Liberals may have been allowed more questions over two or three days, but, on the whole, each party received an equal number of opportunities. It was also speculated that MPs had taken to showboating for the television cameras that had recently been installed in the chamber.[7]

Sauvé did, however, find success in implementing reforms that professionalised the speaker's tasks of managing expenses and staff for the House of Commons, cutting back on the excess bureaucracy, staff, overtime waste, and costs she discovered upon her appointment. Once the changes were made, Sauvé had reduced the commons' support personnel by 300, and saved CAD$18 million out of the annual expenses, all of which, to some, actually improved overall service. Sauvé was lauded for her courage in challenging the establishment, by MPs and the media alike. However, other MPs stated that she had gone too far, and balked at the resulting inconveniences, such as having to clear their own plates in the commons cafeteria; Marcel Dionne, then a Liberal MP, told the Canadian Press: "We're not here to clear the table. We're here to do services for our constituents." At the same time, Sauvé also established the first daycare for Parliament Hill staff, MPs, and senators.[8]

She also presided over debates on the constitution, dealing with filibusters and numerous points of order, as well as discussions over the proposed Energy Security Act, against which the Loyal Opposition mounted a counter-campaign that culminated in a two week bell-ringing episode when the Conservatives' Whip refused to appear in the commons to indicate that the opposition was ready for a vote. Despite pressure from the government that she intervene to break the deadlock, Sauvé maintained that it was up to the parties to resolve it themselves through negotiation.

In December 1983, it was announced from the prime minister's office that Trudeau had put forward Sauvé's name to Buckingham Palace as his recommendation on who should succeed Schreyer as governor general. In the national media, the reception was generally positive, with Sauvé's elegance, refined nature, and bilingualism viewed as an asset to such a posting, though there was speculation about her ability to remain non-partisan, as would be expected of the vicereine.[9] By 17 January of the following year, though, Sauvé had fallen ill and was hospitalised; rumours circulated that it was due to cancer, but the official story was that the she had contracted a respiratory virus, which was further complicated by an allergy to antibiotics.[10]

[edit] Governor generalship

Sauvé was the first female governor general in Canada's history, and only the second woman amongst all the Commonwealth realms – both previous and contemporary to the time – to assume the equivalent office, after Elmira Minita Gordon, who was appointed Governor-General of Belize in 1981.

[edit] As Governor General-Designate

On 28 January 1984, Queen Elizabeth II, by commission under the royal sign-manual and signet, approved of the recommendation of her Canadian prime minister, Trudeau, to appoint Sauvé as her representative. However, the latter remained in hospital, and her illness only worsened, leading colleagues to believe that she would die, and the Canadian Press and CBC to draft preliminary obituaries.[5] But, she did recover, and was released from care on 3 March, though the illness had delayed her installation ceremony, which had been scheduled to take place that month. Sauvé remained secretive about the exact nature of the illness, and did not pay attention to rumours that she had developed Hodgkin's lymphoma, stating in interviews that it was a private matter, and that she was well enough to uphold her responsibilities.[10]

[edit] As Governor General

Sauvé was sworn in as governor general on 14 May 1984, in a ceremony in the Senate chamber, during which Trudeau said: "It is right and proper that Her Majesty should finally have a woman representative here," though stessing that the Queen had not appointed Sauvé simply because she was a woman.[11] Almost immediately, Sauvé made it clear that she would use her time as vicereine to promote issues surrounding youth and world peace, as well as that of national unity.

The Governor General kept up to date with Cabinet papers, and met every two weeks with her successive prime ministers. She would not speak openly about her relationship with these individuals, but there was reported friction between Sauvé and Brian Mulroney, whom she'd appointed as her chief executive advisor in 1984. There was noted speculation that Sauvé disapproved of Mulroney's elevation of the stature of his office, giving it more presidential trappings and aura, and his insistence that he alone greet US President Ronald Reagan upon his arrival in Quebec City for the colloquially dubbed "Shamrock Summit" was taken by the media as evidence of these suspicions, and described as a snub against Sauvé;[12] traditionally the Governor General, as the head of state's direct representative, would have welcomed another head of state to Canada. At the same time, Sauvé was criticised for her own presidentialisation of the viceregal post, and she was said by pundits at the time to occupy "Republican Hall".[13]

She did, however, greet a number Canada's royal family members, including the Queen and her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother; Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York. Prince Edward (now Earl of Wessex) met with Sauvé at Rideau Hall on 4 June 1988, to present the Governor General with royal Letters Patent permitting the federal viceroy to exercise the Queen's powers in respect of the granting of heraldic arms in Canada, leading to the eventual creation of the Canadian Heraldic Authority,[14] of which Sauvé was the first head. Among foreign visitors welcomed by Sauvé were King Carl Gustaf of Sweden, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, King Hussein of Jordan, Pope John Paul II, UN Secretary General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, French President François Mitterrand, Chinese President Li Xiannian; Romanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu, Mother Teresa, and, eventually, US President Ronald Reagan. A number of these state visits were reciprocated when Sauvé travelled to represent the Queen in Italy, the Vatican, the People's Republic of China, Thailand, France, Uruguay, and Brazil.

Also in her capacity as vicereine, in 1986 Sauvé accepted on behalf of the "People of Canada" the Nansen Medal, and two years later, opened the XV Olympic Winter Games in Calgary, Alberta. But, one of her favourite events that she hosted was the annual Christmas party for the Ottawa Boys & Girls Club, and its French-language counterpart, the Patro d'Ottawa. The children came to Rideau Hall to visit with Santa, and for lunch in the Tent Room, which Sauvé personally hosted and wore a paper party hat to celebrate the special occasion.[15]

Ironically, as with the speculations about Sauvé's standing in protocol vis-a-vis Mulroney, the Governor General herself was accused of elevating her position above its traditional place. For instance, it was revealed that Sauvé's staff had meddled in Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan Frederick Johnson's plans to host a dinner at Government House at which the Governor General was to be a guest. Further, municipal event organisers were told that singing of the Royal Anthem was not allowed, and the loyal toast to the Queen was to be replaced with a toast to the Governor General, all of which not only disregarded precedent, but also grated on prairie sensitivities.[16][17] Some decades later, one of Sauvé's successors, Adrienne Clarkson, would be critiqued for adopting the same attitude towards the office she occupied.

In her final address as vicereine, at Christmas 1989, some of Sauvé's words were perceived as veiled warning about the failure of the Meech Lake Accord, and she was criticised for this suspected breach of neutrality. The Premier of Newfoundland at the time, Clyde Wells, said it was "inappropriate for the Crown to be intruding in political affairs that way," and Bill Dawson, a law professor at the University of Western Ontario, described Sauvé's use of the word "pact" as "injudicious." Sauvé, though, always held that she had been speaking about Canadian unity in general, and not the Meech Lake Accord in particular, or any side of the debate around it.[18]

[edit] Legacy

Sauvé, during her time as vicereine, established the Governor General Jeanne Sauvé Fellowship/Bourse commémorative du Gouverneur général Jeanne Sauvé to commemorate her state visit to Brazil, and to be awarded each year to a Brazilian graduate student in Canadian studies. She also created two awards for students entering the field of special education, and subsequently created the Sauvé Foundation, which was dedicated to the cause of youth excellence in Canada. For sporting endeavours, Sauvé formed the Jeanne Sauvé Trophy for the world cup championship in women's field hockey, and the Jeanne Sauvé Fair Play Award to recognise national amateur athletes who best demonstrate fair play and non-violence in sport. Further, Sauvé encouraged a safer society in Canada by establishing the Governor General's Award for Safety in the Workplace.

Though there was some criticism in the final evaluations of her performance as a governor general, mostly for a perceived aloofness and sense of self-importance – which her closing of the Rideau Hall estate to the public came to symbolise[19] – Sauvé was also described as having been elegant and charming, and a person who could mingle well with common Canadians – especially children – while also maintaining a sense of the dignity of state.[15] She was said to have enjoyed entertaining and ceremony, two necessary parts of the role of governor general. However, she was pointed out unfavourably by Canadian monarchists for her republican attitudes,[20] clearly illustrated in her stated opinion that the monarchy should be abolished.[N 1]

[edit] Retirement

After departing Rideau Hall for the last time as governor general in 1990, Sauvé and her husband returned to Montreal, where she continued to work with the Sauvé Foundation. Only two years later, however, Maurice died, and Sauvé followed him on 26 January 1993, after a long battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma.[15] The couple were both interred in the Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges in Montreal, and, one year following her death, Canada Post issued a postage stamp bearing an image of Sauvé.

[edit] Titles, styles, honours, and arms

[edit] Titles

Viceregal styles of
Jeanne Sauvé
Crest of the Governor-General of Canada.svg
Reference style Her Excellency The Right Honourable
Son Excellence la très honorable
Spoken style Your Excellency
Votre Excellence
Alternative style Ma'am
Madame
  • 26 April 1922 – 24 September 1948: Miss/Mademoiselle Jeanne Benoît
  • 24 September 1948 – 27 November 1972: Madam/Madame Jeanne Sauvé
  • 27 November 1972 – 14 May 1984: The Honourable Jeanne Sauvé
  • 14 May 1984 – 29 January 1990: Her Excellency The Right Honourable Jeanne Sauvé, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief in and over Canada
  • 29 January 1990 – 26 January 1993: The Right Honourable Jeanne Sauvé

Sauvé's style and title as governor general was, in full, and in English: Her Excellency The Right Honourable Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé, Chancellor and Principal Companion of the Order of Canada, Chancellor and Commander of the Order of Military Merit, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief in and over Canada, and in French: Son Excellence la très honorable Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé, chancelière et compagnon principal de l'ordre du Canada, chancelière et commandante de l'ordre du mérite militaire, gouverneur générale et commandante en chef du Canada. It should be noted that, for Sauvé, Commander-in-Chief was strictly a title, and not a position that she held; the actual commander-in-chief (who can also be, and is, called such) is perpetually the monarch of Canada.[21]

In her post-viceregal life, Sauvé's style and title was, in English: The Right Honourable Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé, Companion of the Order of Canada, Commander of the Order of Military Merit, Member of the Order of New Brunswick, and in French: la très honorable Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé, compagnon de l'ordre du Canada, commandante de l'ordre du mérite militaire.

[edit] Honours

Ribbon bars of Jeanne Sauvé
Order of Canada (CC) ribbon bar.png Order of Military Merit (Canada) ribbon (CMM).jpg Venerable Order of St John Ribbon 1.jpg Canada100 ribbon.png
QEII Silver Jubilee Medal ribbon.png Canada125 ribbon.png CD-ribbon.png
Appointments
Medals
Foreign honours
  • France 1989: Médaille de la Chancellerie des universités de Paris

[edit] Honorary military appointments

[edit] Honorary degrees

[edit] Honorific eponyms

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Buildings
Schools
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[edit] Arms

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Sauvé said: "Mais absolument, on devrait abolir la monarchie au Canada!" ("But absolutely, the Monarchy must be abolished in Canada!")[20]

[edit] References

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  12. ^ "[of a governor general]". [Journal]. 1 July 1985.
  13. ^ Boyce, Peter (2008), The Queen's Other Realms: The Crown and its Legacy in Australia, Canada and New Zealand (ISBN 9-781-86287-700-9), written at Sydney, in Jackson, Michael D., "The Senior Realms of the Queen", Canadian Monarchist News (Toronto: Monarchist League of Canada) Autumn 2009 (30): 9, October 2009, http://www.monarchist.ca/cmn/2009/Autumn_2009_CMN.pdf, retrieved 22 October 2009 
  14. ^ "The Royal Heraldry Society of Canada > About the Royal Heraldry Society of Canada". Royal Heraldry Society of Canada. http://www.heraldry.ca/top_en/top_about.htm. Retrieved 7 March 2009. 
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  16. ^ Jackson, Michael; Political Paradox: The Lieutenant Governor in Saskatchewan; in: Leeson, Howard A., ed.; Saskatchewan Politics Into the 21st Century; Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2002
  17. ^ Gardner, Dan (17 February 2009), "A stealth campaign against the Queen", Calgary Herald, http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/blogs/stealth+campaign+against+Queen/1297679/story.html, retrieved 26 February 2009 
  18. ^ "CBC Digital Archives > Politics > Federal Politics > Jeanne Sauvé, a Woman of Firsts > A veiled Meech reference?". CBC. 11 February 2005. http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/federal_politics/topics/1593/. Retrieved 7 March 2009. 
  19. ^ "CBC Digital Archives > Politics > Federal Politics > Jeanne Sauvé, a Woman of Firsts > Closing off Rideau Hall". CBC. 24 January 2006. http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/federal_politics/topics/1593/. Retrieved 7 March 2009. 
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  21. ^ Victoria (29 March 1867), Constitution Act, 1867, III.15, Westminster: Queen's Printer, http://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/ca_1867.html, retrieved 15 January 2009 
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