Other names being circulated include former Progressive Conservative prime minister Joe Clark, current Ontario Lt.-Gov. James Bartleman, and former Liberal Ontario premier David Peterson.
Ms. Clark, in Ottawa Monday, only chortled at suggestions that Rideau Hall might become available soon. He wouldn't say anything further.
Someone told me yesterday that if Joe Clark becomes Governor General - they would leave the country. He's gone from being a short lived Conservative Prime Minister, to one of the most hated politicians by Conservatives themselves.
And guess who else they're considering?
A non-political person some see as a possibility is former astronaut Marc Garneau, who now heads the Canadian Space Agency.
“He's the chancellor of my university and people there have been talking about this,” said Carleton University historian Duncan McDowall.
“He would bring the kind of high-tech, ‘Canada in the new global economy' edge to things.”
I'm torn on this one. Garneau is the only Canadian Astronaut I can't say anything bad about. Julie Payette came across as arrogant when I first met her. And Hadfield's comments bashing space tourist Dennis Tito for not "earning" his way into space have put him on my hit list. I know first impressions don't mean squat sometimes - but that was one big stinking first impression Payette gave me.
If the choice is between Garneau, a former socialist Premier, a former Liberal Premier, and a former washed out in the closet socialist Conservative Prime Minister then I'll take Garneau anyday.
Joe Clark?! Excuse me while I go lose my lunch in the bathroom.
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