Canada's Governor General, Michaelle Jean, born in Haiti

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You may remember her as the beautiful lady laughing uproariously when President Obama visited Canada last year:




And today:


http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/1...thquake_cda_gg

Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean driven to tears over Haitian earthquake disaster

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By Bruce Cheadle And Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean had just received word of the worst disaster to hit her Haitian homeland in two centuries of calamities when her American dinner guests arrived Tuesday evening.

The vice-regal, known for her heart-on-sleeve candour, held it together through a long, fraught evening getting urgent but sporadic reports at Rideau Hall with U.S. ambassador David Jacobson.

And she kept her composure during a highly unusual inside-the-war-room photo-op with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his crisis management team Wednesday.

Jean even managed to deliver, unbroken, a French-language statement to the media on the devastating 7.0 earthquake, when "fate once again turned against the people of Haiti."

But shortly after switching to English during a sombre press conference, the weight of Haiti's troubled history appeared to crush one of the country's most celebrated daughters.