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Conversations with Esther Bégin
Michaëlle Jean – Part 1
Michaëlle Jean, Canada’s ex-governor general and former secretary general of the International Organisation of La Francophonie, talks to Esther Bégin about her family’s escape from Haiti’s dictatorial regime of Papa Doc Duvalier, her youth spent in the small town of Thetford Mines and her work in international diplomacy. Being the first Black woman named governor general of Canada at the same time the United States elected its first Black president would be a defining moment in her career. But it is in controversy that she ended her term as head of la Francophonie.