{"id":1327541,"date":"2022-02-22T14:22:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T19:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1327541"},"modified":"2022-02-22T14:22:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T19:22:58","slug":"fact-check-did-the-governor-general-of-canada-say-she-needs-958000-emails-to-remove-justin-trudeau-from-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-the-governor-general-of-canada-say-she-needs-958000-emails-to-remove-justin-trudeau-from-power\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did The Governor General Of Canada Say She Needs 958,000 Emails To Remove Justin Trudeau From Power?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-the-governor-general-of-canada-say-she-needs-958000-emails-to-remove-justin-trudeau-from-power%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1327541&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PatriotNewsNetwrk\/photos\/a.142014324597380\/351526506979493\/?type=3&#038;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PatriotNewsNetwrk\/photos\/a.142014324597380\/351526506979493\/?type%3D3%26theater&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1645551898925000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3pOUifSaKyZPVAPIPbmSKL\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims Canada\u2019s governor general said she will remove Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from office if she receives 958,000 emails in support of the idea.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence the governor general made such a statement. A spokesperson for the governor general\u2019s office stated the information included in the post is false.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Trudeau\u2019s Liberal government recently won approval in the Canadian House of Commons for a plan to extend emergency powers for police to clear or stop any protests associated with the \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d in Ottawa, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/02\/21\/trudeau-wins-house-vote-emergencies-act-00010474\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a>. Law enforcement officers successfully cleared most demonstrators out of the area by Sunday evening, the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-health-canada-ottawa-justin-trudeau-8b107609b1e33aca4b13a4d46951a935\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Now, an image shared on Facebook claims <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gg.ca\/en\/governor-general\/governor-general-mary-simon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Governor General of Canada Mary Simon<\/a> said she will remove Trudeau from office if she receives 958,000 emails in support of the idea. \u201cThe Governor General of Canada said she needs 958,000 emails to remove Trudeau,\u201d reads text featured in the image, which also includes a sample email addressed to Simon.<\/p>\n<p>The governor general is the representative of Queen Elizabeth II in Canada, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/the-delicate-role-of-the-governor-general-1.701974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence that Simon made such a promise. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=governor+general+958,000+emails&#038;source=lnms&#038;tbm=nws&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=2ahUKEwj7ubfM8pH2AhUHgnIEHZT7CaQQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&#038;biw=1440&#038;bih=821&#038;dpr=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No credible media reports<\/a> about such a statement could be found in Canadian news outlets such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/search?q=Mary%20Simon&#038;section=all&#038;sortOrder=relevance&#038;media=all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBC<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/search.html?q=Mary%20Simon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Star<\/a>. A search of the governor general\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gg.ca\/en\/media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a> and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile\/100044404897287\/search\/?q=Emails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">verified<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=emails%20(from%3AGGCanada)&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/governorgeneralcanada\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media<\/a> accounts also failed to yield any results relating to the alleged announcement.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"FR-CA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/josephine-laframboise-9a627a46\/?originalSubdomain=ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josephine Laframboise<\/a>, a spokesperson for the Office of the Secretary to the Governor General, told Check Your Fact in an email that the \u201cinformation is false.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/02\/14\/fact-check-ottawa-police-covid-vaccine-exemption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Is The Ottawa Police Force Exempt From The COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate?)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The governor general does have the power to remove the prime minister in \u201ca time of great constitutional and political impasse,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/the-delicate-role-of-the-governor-general-1.701974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBC<\/a>, but no governor general has ever invoked this power, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image\u00a0shared on Facebook claims Canada\u2019s governor general said she will remove Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from office if she receives 958,000 emails in support of the idea.Verdict: False<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1327541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}