But she was Francophone, female and a former astronaut. Trudeau didn’t need to run Payette through the normal vetting process or pay attention to the telltale signs that she was unsuitable.
Payette clicked all the symbolic boxes that Trudeau believed were important and that was good enough. They were his boxes and since he was (in his own mind) the most enlightened person ever to hold his office, how could his choice be wrong?
Trudeau was so sure of his own wisdom he had even dispensed with the Governor-General selection committee set up by his predecessor, Stephen Harper.
This is just the latest of Trudeau’s scandals and he needs to wear it.
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