Article content continuedApart from that, the highest protocol position in the country has been shunted between voting groups. I thought Julie Payette would be excellent, as contemporary and an ex-astronaut, and from my slight acquaintance with her, a charming woman. Obviously it has not worked out, but the manner of her departure further minimizes the credibility and relevance of the viceregal office. It would be difficult to imagine anything more conducive to reducing the ostensibly highest office in the land to a state of utter fatuity. None of them was conscripted to do this work; why didn’t they quit if they didn’t like their jobs?

Source: National Post January 29, 2021 18:11 UTC