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Chris Selley: How can the Liberals possibly be this awful at picking governors general?

Louise Arbour ticks none of the boxes they should have been trying to tick

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They did it again. It’s absolutely extraordinary. The Liberals have appointed another opinionated Type A personality from the most central realms of Central Canada as the next governor general, and it’s Louise Arbour — former Supreme Court justice, International Criminal Court prosecutor and United Nations high commissioner for human rights.

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It is divisive from the get-go, which is the No. 1 thing a governor general is not supposed to be. It’s entirely possible she might be really good at it: stranger things have happened. But at 79 years of age, she is starting the job in a hole the government had no reason to dig.

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Arbour’s controversies are mostly long in the past, at least: praising the Cuban tyrant Fidel Castro for his “unprecedented........

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