Editing Adrienne Clarkson (section)

===Legacy===
Clarkson was seen as having brought new life to the post of governor general, receiving praise through her first years in office for being a more modern governor general who brought increased public attention to the position;<ref name=Fraser /><ref name=CMNed>{{cite journal|last=Editorial |title=Our Governor General |journal=Canadian Monarchist News |volume=Spring 2005 |issue=23 |page=6 |publisher=Monarchist League of Canada |location=Toronto |year=2005 |url=http://www.monarchist.ca/cmn/2005/Spring_2005_CMN.pdf |access-date=February 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226172807/http://www.monarchist.ca/cmn/2005/Spring_2005_CMN.pdf |archive-date=February 26, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=CTVClark>{{cite news| title=Clarkson out of hospital after pacemaker surgery| publisher=CTV| date=July 11, 2005| url=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20050711/clarkson_recovering_050710?s_name=tiff2006&no_ads=| archive-url=https://archive.today/20071120223345/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20050711/clarkson_recovering_050710?s_name=tiff2006&no_ads=| url-status=dead| archive-date=November 20, 2007| access-date=March 1, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| last=Nersessian| first=Mary| title=Adrienne Clarkson's legacy as Governor General| publisher=CTV| date=September 27, 2005| url=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1126648772299_7| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050914141545/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1126648772299_7| url-status=dead| archive-date=September 14, 2005| access-date=January 25, 2010}}</ref><ref name=Wilcox>{{Citation |last=Wilcox |first=Jack |title=The commander-in-chief's first duty is remembrance |newspaper=Ottawa Citizen |date=November 5, 2010 |url=https://ottawacitizen.com/news/commander+chief+first+duty+remembrance/3780661/story.html |access-date=November 15, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101109143052/http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/commander%2Bchief%2Bfirst%2Bduty%2Bremembrance/3780661/story.html |archive-date=November 9, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Michaëlle Jean recognised Clarkson as having "infused the office with a new energy", for "promot[ing] artists and their achievements from across Canada", and for her "close work with aboriginal communities". Clarkson was further praised for her devotion to the armed forces and remembrance,<ref name=Wilcox /> and was credited for breathing new life into the Canadian monarchy as a whole; [[Ken Wiwa|Mailo' Ken Wiwa]] stated in ''The Globe and Mail'': "that Adrienne Clarkson, once a refugee, represents the Queen here in Canada is, for me, the singular most important reason for believing that the monarchy is relevant to Canada's emerging identity. Her role may only be ceremonial and symbolic, but as the enduring quality of the Royal Family attests, you can never underestimate the power of myth. Even{{mdash}} or rather, especially{{mdash}} in this iconoclastic age."<ref>{{Cite journal| last=Wiwa| first=Mailo' Ken| journal=The Globe and Mail| year=2002| title=The House of Wiwa salutes the House of Windsor|  publication-date=October 12, 2002| url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-house-of-wiwa-salutes-the-house-of-windsor/article757124/| access-date=March 17, 2021}}</ref> Clarkson and her husband also travelled across Canada and met more Canadians than any other governor general in Canadian history and, unlike many other state figures, Clarkson also wrote most of her own speeches, which were noted for being simultaneously intellectual and approachable.<ref name=Fraser /> Clarkson's tenure was also notable for her patronage of all the arts{{mdash}} making such efforts as ensuring the governor general's study at Rideau Hall had copies of every book that had won the [[Governor General's Award]]s for literature{{mdash}} and for sports, as demonstrated in her creation on September 14, 2005, of the [[Clarkson Cup]] for women's [[ice hockey|hockey]] in Canada. John Fraser in 2012 stated of Clarkson: "[N]o one, in the whole history of Rideau Hall, ever evoked the country quite as effectively".<ref name=FraserNP />

Other summaries of Clarkson's time as governor general, however, found that the increased travel abroad attracted negative attention to the viceregal post over costs and caused conflict between domestic duties and foreign obligations. Also, it was observed that Clarkson had succumbed too easily to the desires of her advisors{{mdash}} both in the prime minister's and [[Privy Council Office (Canada)|Privy Council office]]s, as well as amongst the staff of Government House{{mdash}} to turn the viceregal post into something it was not: Canada's head of state. Clarkson had expressed admiration for the Queen, was said to understand "the lustre the Crown affords," and to have "shudder[ed] a little in sympathy with members of the Royal Family at the degree of intrusion into their lives they must bear."<ref name=Fraser /> But the systematic downplaying of the monarch led to confusion over who was head of state and there was a sense that,<ref name=CMNed /> by taking this view, Clarkson and her office were overturning the long-standing theory that all the viceroys and their respective jurisdictions are equal under a sovereign who reigns consistently over the whole country.<ref>{{cite book| last=Jackson| first=Michael| title=The Canadian Monarchy in Saskatchewan| publisher=Provincial Secretary of Saskatchewan| year=1990| location=Regina| page=12| id=ASIN B0006EY308}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| last=McKinnon| first=Frank| title=The Crown in Canada| publisher=Glenbow-Alberta Institute| year=1976| location=Calgary| isbn=978-0-7712-1016-7| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/crownincanada0000mack}}</ref> When Clarkson attended a provincial occasion, her protocol officers insisted that she take precedence over the pertinent lieutenant governor and denied knowledge of the established order in which the lieutenant governor, as a direct representative of the Queen in a province, takes precedence at a provincial function over all other attendees, save for the monarch. These situations would result in "precedence battles", in which the provincial authorities would frequently acquiesce to pressure and ultimatums from Rideau Hall.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Editorial |title=Hope for the Monarchy in Canada: The Provincial Crown |journal=Canadian Monarchist News |volume=Spring 2005 |issue=23 |page=12 |publisher=Monarchist League of Canada |location=Toronto |year=2005 |url=http://www.monarchist.ca/cmn/2005/Spring_2005_CMN.pdf |access-date=March 1, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226172807/http://www.monarchist.ca/cmn/2005/Spring_2005_CMN.pdf |archive-date=February 26, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Clarkson also took the place of the monarch in presenting to the next vicereine the Chancellor's insignia of the [[Order of Canada]], thereby breaking the order's "first and oldest tradition"; a move Canada's expert on honours, Christopher McCreery, called "a rather bizarre turn of events".<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 2006 |last=Jackson |first=Michael D. |title=Honours of the Crown |periodical=Canadian Monarchist News |issue=26; Summer 2007 |page=12 |url=http://www.monarchist.ca/cmn/2007/Summer_2007_CMN.pdf |access-date=July 25, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090708040312/http://www.monarchist.ca/cmn/2007/Summer_2007_CMN.pdf |archive-date=July 8, 2009}}</ref> The [[Monarchist League of Canada]] even reported that a member of parliament had telephoned to ask if they had ever before heard of the eruption of booing at the mention of the governor general's name, as had apparently happened in the MP's riding when Clarkson was spoken about.<ref name=CMNed />