<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>If we are to talk about women in key positions in government, let's not forget Canada , eh!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">Here in Canada we too have women in prominent positions - in case you don't already know, the head of of supreme court is a woman (where there's almost a gender balance) . More inspiring, and perhaps of interest to Africans is that our newly installed governor general is not only a woman, but also born in Haiti - making her the first black governor general we've ever had. Her story is truly inspirational. Details below.</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean [english]</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><A href="http://www.gg.ca">http://www.gg.ca</A></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><A href="http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/08/03/gg050803.html">http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/08/03/gg050803.html</A></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><A href="http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/actualite/nouvelles/200508/04/001-actualite-bio-michaelle-jean.shtml">http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/actualite/nouvelles/200508/04/001-actualite-bio-michaelle-jean.shtml</A></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Michaëlle Jean est devenue la 27e gouverneure générale du Canada, lors d'une cérémonie qui s'est déroulée au Sénat le 27 septembre. Elle a succédé à Adrienne Clarkson.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Née à Port-au-Prince, en Haïti, Michaëlle Jean part pour le Québec à l'âge de 11 ans, en 1968, avec sa famille, qui fuit le régime dictatorial de François Duvalier.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">....</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/aboutcourt/judges/mclachlin/index_e.asp">http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/aboutcourt/judges/mclachlin/index_e.asp</A> [english]</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/aboutcourt/judges/mclachlin/index_f.asp">http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/aboutcourt/judges/mclachlin/index_f.asp</A> [french]</DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">Robert</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">--</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">Robert Guerra <<A href="mailto:rguerra@privaterra.org">rguerra@privaterra.org</A>></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">Managing Director, Privaterra <<A href="http://www.privaterra.org">http://www.privaterra.org</A>></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"> </P><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 12-Oct-05, at 3:23 AM, NANA Delphine wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><BR>Une Femme à la tête de la Chancellerie Allemande !</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Vive l'effort Féminin !</DIV> <DIV>Vive les Femmes !</DIV> <DIV>Vive la Complémentarité</DIV> <DIV>Pour que soit consolidé l'équité de Genre</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Félicitations à toutes les femmes</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Delphine <BR></DIV><P><B><I></I></B> </P><DIV> <BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> <BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><HR size="1"> <B><FONT color="#FF0000">Appel audio GRATUIT</FONT> partout dans le monde</B> avec le nouveau Yahoo! 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