Authors as Companions, Officers, and Members
Three – well, four – big-name Canadian authors are among the 71 new appointments to the Order of Canada announced by Governor General Michaëlle Jean on Friday. Alistair MacLeod (Officer), Charlotte Gray (Member), and Leon Rooke (Member) are being honoured as “citizens who have shown the most exceptional achievements and are known on the national or international stage,” according to the CBC.
And the fourth author? That Jean Chrétien fellow, whose new memoir is coming out in the fall, was named a Companion, the highest level in the Order. Some of you may have heard of him.
UPDATE: There’s one other notable inclusion; Harbour Publishing owner Howard White was named a Member.
Re: “… Governor General Michaëlle Jean …”
The Governor General of Canada is a “corporation sole”, according to Elizabeth II in this document. A “corporation sole” is defined and recognized as being a corporation.
It is a fiction that a corporation is a person.
“A corporation is a fiction, by definition, …”, according to Patrick Healy in a statement found here.
“A corporation is a ‘fiction’ as it has no separate existence, no physical body and no ‘mind’”, according to this presentation by Joanne Klineberg.
Do Canadians want businesses, companies, their government, and their Queen to operate in the realm of reality, or in the realm of fiction?