Exactly.  Vaughan's reputation on Toronto city council as a loud mouthed, arrogant, intolerant, opinionated, aggressive know it all lefty was well established and he was about as popular with councilors and staffers as a skunk at a garden party.

Since no job less than the PM's would fit his gargantuan ego, it must really irk him him these days to be excluded from cabinet due to the 50-50 rule and reduced to occasionally reading PMO scripted short non-answers as a lowly parliamentary secretary.

His generally sour Un-Sunny Ways demeanor always reminded me of an English professor I had at university who was continually sour and bitter because his father was a legendary professor in a more challenging academic field and this guy could not fill his father's shoes and everyone including him knew it.  Adam Vaughan is no Colin Vaughan, the late, great CITY TV news and political reporter.

Good on MP Alice Wong for calling this creep out.