Buckingham Palace won’t be acting on a letter from Treaty Six chiefs to intervene in the selection of the Queen’s next stand-in to Canada, the Governor General.
On Jan. 27, the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations wrote Queen Elizabeth II directly, expressing concern after the monarch’s representative — former astronaut Julie Payette — resigned six days earlier after a bombshell investigation found she presided over a “toxic” and abusive workplace.
“Thanks for the enquiry,” the Queen’s own communications secretary Donal McCabe told Windspeaker.com in an email, “but this is a matter for the Canadian Government.”
Payette’s unprecedented resignation — the first time in Canada’s history, in fact — led to her temporary replacement by Richard Wagner, the Supreme Court of Canada’s Chief Justice.