Madeleine Meilleur, a long-time Ontario Liberal MPP who served in a variety of cabinet posts, including attorney-general and minister responsible for francophone affairs....

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And just where are all these non-partisan saints supposed to come from?  This exposes the fictional basis for a very partisan Prime Minister appointing supposedly independent citizens to Senate and other public positions, those who over active public careers have supposedly kept themselves pure from political violation. That Ms Meilleur has been and will continue to be a Liberal should not bother sensible people.  Politics does not corrupt an individual's ability to act in a non-partisan fashion when the position warrants it. The question is as a Liberal can Ms Mailleur "act" in a non-partisan way in the position to which she has been appointed.  She seems a reasonably competent individual although more focused on francophone rights than the broader interests of the language commissioner.