OTTAWA – CBC Television said last night that another of its female journalists will be Canada’s next Governor General.
According to the report, repeated by Reuters, Haitian-born Quebecker Michaelle Jean, 48 will announced as the new G-G this morning at 11 a.m. 
Jean will be Canada’s first black governor general and will replace another former CBC journalist, Adrienne Clarkson, who has had the job since 1999, on October 1st.
The award-winning Jean is currently the host of CBC and CBC Newsworld’s The Passionate Eye and Rough Cuts and has hosted numerous shows on RDI as well.
Jean joined Radio-Canada in 1988, serving as a reporter for Actuel, then the public affairs news show Montréal ce soir in 1989. From 1991-1992, she hosted Virages and for three years, starting in 1992, she appeared on the national and international news program Le Point.
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, she fled François Duvalier’s regime in 1968, settling in Quebec with her family, says her bio on the CBC web site. Fluent in five languages – French, English, Spanish, Italian and Haitian Creole – Jean studied at the University of Montreal and universities in Florence, Milan and Perugia, Italy.
