Segal: A modern Governor General is a good thing for Canada

Independent of the very different politics on both sides of our border with the United States, we Canadians sometimes forget that our constitutional underpinnings are also quite different.
Americans have a congressional republic, with en elected Head of State, and three branches – executive, congressional and judicial – each with its own powers. The system was born through armed revolution against the British in 1776. Canada has a constitutional parliamentary democracy which evolved