Canada’s new Governor-General, Louise Arbour, is right to say perspective is everything

Shannon Proudfoot/The Globe and Mail: She had “experienced both the comfort and the discomfort of homogeneity,” she said, first growing up in Montreal and educated exclusively among white Catholic girls like her, then in a legal career where she was the anomaly in a sea of anglophone men. In her work as a judge, and in living and working abroad and witnessing poverty and war in places where people yearn to live like Canadians, “I have always been struck by the fact that everything is a matter of perspective,” Ms. Arbour said…