In
Canada, a
lieutenant governor (;
French [masculine]:
lieutenant-gouverneur, or [feminine]:
lieutenant-gouverneure) is the
viceregal representative in a provincial jurisdiction of the , who resides predominantly in oldest realm, the
United Kingdom. On the
advice of his or her
prime minister, the
Governor General of Canada appoints the lieutenant governors to carry out most of the monarch's constitutional and ceremonial duties for an unfixed period of time—known as serving —though five years is the normal convention. Similar positions in
Canada's three territories are termed
Commissioners and are representatives of the federal government, however, not the monarch directly.