Governor Wilkins?

In our recent trip we went to the SEUS – Canada Alliance dinner where Premier Jean Charest of Quebec (our equivalent of Governor) was speaking and he said he wished to thank former Governor David Wilkins and current US Ambassador for attending the meeting he then went on latter in the meeting to repeat it again Governor David Wilkins. Could this be a slip of the tongue or a prediction of the future?

After the Premier sat down the Ambassador came over and said he was upset the Premier had given him a demotion to Governor.