Editorial: Julie Payette and the Golden Rule

Governors General tend to take up causes while in office. And although they are unelected, Canadians broadly accept their activism. The last resident of Rideau Hall, David Johnston, extolled the virtues of volunteerism. His predecessor, Michaëlle Jean, advocated powerfully for helping Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake. Adrienne Clarkson vocally supported the military, the arts and the Arctic.
True, all of them ran into controversy at different times, for different reasons: Cl