News Summary

• Once a friend of the former astronaut-turned-viceregal, John Fraser describes how Julie Payette crumbled into “perpetual petulance” In this excerpt from his new book, The Governors General: An Intimate History of Canada’s Highest Office, Fraser looks at why it all ended so badly.
• It should have ended with a national celebration of an amazing, vibrant, and still young woman who managed to surmount all the challenges in a mostly male world.
• Instead, it ended in national obloquy and left bitter feelings on all sides, which have yet to heal.