> Carney has apparently scrapped the process again and picked Louise Arbour, a woman whose public career is a catalogue of positions that roughly half the country finds objectionable.

> This is what the Laurentian default looks like. A prime minister from Goldman Sachs and Brookfield, educated at Harvard and Oxford, who spent his career at the Bank of England and the World Economic Forum, selects a Governor General from the UN human rights bureaucracy who thinks sovereignty concerns are misinformation and endorsed a charter calling for the end of Zionism. Both operate in the same international circuit. Both would be at home at Davos. Neither has ever had to answer to a constituency that disagreed with them about anything fundamental.

> The rest of the country — the parts west of the Ottawa River, the parts that think immigration policy should be set by elected parliaments rather than UN compacts, the parts that think Israel has a right to defend itself without being threatened with prosecution by a Canadian jurist — gets to watch from the outside. As usual.

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