The Idea of Canada

Canada's 28th Governor General, the Right Honourable DAVID JOHNSTON is chair of the Rideau Hall Foundation, and advisor at Deloitte and at Fairfax Financial Holdings. A graduate of Harvard, Cambridge, and Queen's universities, he was the first non-American to chair Harvard's Board of Overseers, the president of the University of Waterloo, principal and vice-chancellor of McGill University, and dean of the Faculty of Law at Western University. He is the author or co-author of over thirty books and holds honorary doctorates from over thirty universities. His book, Trust, was a national bestseller. A Companion of the Order of Canada, he was born in Sudbury, Ontario, raised in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and now lives with his wife, Sharon Johnston, near Ottawa.