OTTAWA—Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has gone from bad-ass to bad asset.
A former Vancouver police detective, Canadian army reservist and military liaison officer to the Afghan police, Sajjan was a star political recruit for the Liberals in 2014. A real warrior who’d done three tours in Afghanistan, he instantly upped the Liberal party’s defence credentials.
Sajjan cut a striking figure posing in combat gear, wraparound sunglasses and a desert-sand-coloured turban. After Justin Trudeau’s win in 2015, he was the “bad-ass” soldier, an instant internet meme, picked to lead the Canadian Forces whose job it is to serve Canadian interests at home and abroad.
