text: I agree about the G&M gotcha reporting in general, but this one seems to be for real.  There's no denying that she's a very well connected Liberal insider who was actively lobbying for the PMO to give her a patronage plum (recall that she tried for the Senate first).  IMO this is the very definition of objectionable patronage and would only have been worse if the person appointed was PM Trudeau's cousin or something.