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Bernadette McIntyre became Saskatchewan’s 24th Lieutenant-Governor at the Legistlative Building in Regina on Friday.
McIntyre was appointed by the Governor General. Her role is to grant Royal Assent to provincial laws as the representative of the King of England. She can also summon and dissolved the provincial legislature.
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“I want to represent proudly all the peoples of Saskatchewan,” McIntyre told media on Friday.
“I will try to focus on enhancing and promoting volunteerism. That’s a strength of Saskatchewan already, but we want to make sure that new generations also follow in the footsteps and volunteer for this great province.”
McIntyre was once the Wascana Centre Authority CEO and served on the boards of numerous Saskatchewan-based organizations. She had leadership positions with the Saskatchewan Government Insurance and served as the interim executive director of Regina’s Globe Theatre.
Some of the organizations she’s volunteered with include the 2013 and 2022 Grey Cup festivals, the Canadian Curling Association, SaskSport, the Sandra Schmirler Foundation, Access Communications and the Regina Airport Authority.
McIntyre said her long record of volunteering might have been part of the reason she was chosen for the job.
“I feel so strongly that if we want our community to be strong, we have to be part of making it strong,” McIntyre said.
“… It’s overwhelming, it’s thrilling, it’s humbling, it’s so exciting.”
Premier Scott Moe said McIntyre’s installation marked a very special day.
“She very much will be an example, and has been an example in her life, of what Saskatchewan is about with her very avid volunteerism here in the community of Regina and across the province,” Moe told reporters.
“She does that due to the love that she has for her community, for her province, for her nation serving the people that she lives beside.”
McIntyre was born and raised in rural Saskatchewan.
“My dad was a farmer — a mixed farmer, my mom a schoolteacher,” she said of her idyllic beginnings in Bethune alongside two brothers — just 40 km north of Regina.
The previous lieutenant-governor Russ Mirasty had said a “big part of the job is signing greeting cards”.
“I’ve signed literally thousands of them in my time in office. I do sign them versus an electronic signature. I just think it’s much more meaningful for people.”
He was sworn in as Saskatchewan’s 23rd lieutenant-governor in 2019. He was the first Indigenous person appointed to the office.
— with files from PA Now
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