OTTAWA — Talk of who would be Justin Trudeau’s successor was happening in Ottawa well before he walked out of Rideau Cottage in early January and told the nation he was bowing out.
There were short lists and long lists, cabinet ministers who were quietly organizing and many who were expected to be serious leadership contenders, but Karina Gould’s was not a name that often came up in those conversations.
I think that mask cut off oxygen to her brain.
