Can we stop avoiding what has happened here, please? The Trudeau government has shed itself of a foreign-policy embarrassment that was about to mangle Canada-U.S.-relations. 1/5 nationalpost.com/news/politics/…
Barton was hired because he'd just stepped down as the big boss at McKinsey, where he'd turned the consultancy into a massive public-relations machine for opioid dealers and gangster states. 2/5 nytimes.com/2018/12/15/wor…
Things were about to become very awkward for Mr. Barton. If you thought his predecessor John McCallum was an international embarrassment, imagine what the spotlight was threatening to expose here: 3/5 nbcnews.com/politics/natio…
There's no way the Trudeau government could allow this guy to continue loitering in the lobbies, greasing palms for the Canada-China Business Council. This is from two months ago: 4/5 nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-…
And let's please stop pretending he played some key role in "securing the release" of the Mikes. Xi dropped them when they no longer served their purpose as hostages. Barton was the most superfluously-credentialed flight attendant in aviation history. 5/5 macleans.ca/opinion/dont-b…
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