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Here's the political baggage Louise Arbour brings to the role of governor general

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Whenever a new governor general is selected, it usually takes a while to find any dirt on them. Even Julie Payette, whose term became enough of a disaster to prompt her early resignation, was greeted at the outset as an accomplished scientist and one of only a handful of Canadians to have visited space.

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But with Tuesday’s selection of former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour as the next governor general, the list of controversies on her resume was immediately obvious to anyone with an internet connection.

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As far back as 2008, she was being condemned as a “disgrace” in the House of Commons by Vic Toews, then the president of the Treasury Board. Or, there was that time she publicly praised Cuban dictator Fidel Castro for his “unprecedented positive engagement with the UN human rights system.”

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Below, a not-at-all comprehensive list of some of the political baggage........

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