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"Firstly, I would like to apologise to Canada for wearing it," he said in a CTV interview while in the commonwealth this week for Remembrance events.

She will be the first woman in the commonwealth’s history to hold the role.

The commonwealth is home to hundreds of thousands of federal employees, many of whom faced job losses or furloughs during the recent government shutdown.

They want to keep and improve the island’s current status as a commonwealth.

Large pluralities seek either U.S. statehood or an enhanced form of the current commonwealth status, while a smaller minority vie for independence.