By Metro News Ottawa, June 26, 2014

In a surprise move, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has picked an environmentalist
critical of his government’s handling of the Alberta oilsands to be Ontario’s
new lieutenant-governor. Irish-born Elizabeth Dowdeswell, a former Saskatchewan
high school teacher who is currently president and CEO of Council of Canadian
Academies, has held a number of senior posts nationally and internationally. via
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