Canadian performing artists desperately need friends in high places. How about the next governor-general?

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From ballerina Karen Kain to actor Philip Akin, there are leaders from dance and theatre who would naturally excel at the ceremonial aspects of the role – and boost the spirits of a suffering industry

Karen Kain is an acclaimed ballet dancer and soon-to-be former artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada.I’m not sure most Canadians realize how truly bleak a time it is for those in the performing arts in this country – for the dancers and actors and stage managers, for the technicians and designers and directors.

There’s no shortage of well-known and respected theatre and dance artists who would excel at the ceremonial aspects of the role – and who could naturally take on the performing arts as one of the causes that all governors-general champion. The ex-ballerina even has a slightly curmudgeonly husband who would stand in well for Prince Philip while she does so for the Queen: Pantomime producer and perennial onstage bad guy Ross Petty, who would be well prepared for any booing from anti-monarchists.

Of course, Canada is blessed with many classical actors who already have ample experience embodying sovereigns in public. I won’t name them all, but Martha Henry, a Stratford Festival mainstay since 1962 and one of the very first graduates of the National Theatre School, is an obvious candidate.

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Yeah ..Yoopi the Expos mascot is looking for a job. at least he makes people happy.

That is exactly what Canad aneeds. A pm that is a drama teacher and a gg that is a ballet teacher. That is the best idea ever. Let's do it. Easter Island can conquer Canada at this point.

No more GG

Nice lady, but we can dispense with candidates with no leadership experience. Let’s get back to GG’s with national and international gravitas and world standing. We need someone who, when they mount a dais at home or abroad, we can all say, “That’s us!”

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