By Catherine Morrison and David Baxter Former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour has arrived for the ceremony to install her as Canada’s 31st governor general. Arbour, 79, is replacing Mary Simon, who became Canada’s first Indigenous viceregal in 2021. Arbour was welcomed at the Senate of Canada building by Simon, Prime Minister Mark Carney, his wife Diana Fox, Usher of the Black Rod Greg Peters and other dignitaries. An Algonquin elder read a territorial welcome for Arbour and the assembled dignitaries before they entered the Senate building. Canada’s treaties are agreements signed between First Nations and the Crown, making the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the monarch an important part of the installation ceremony. Arbour will give her first address to the nation as governor general during the ceremony and…
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