‘I was lynched’: Why astronaut Julie Payette flamed out as governor general

National Post: “But I was lynched. How else do you explain what I was supposed to do when the prime minister comes and tells me I have to go? I wasn’t given a chance to have my own lawyer present. I tried phoning the chief justice for advice, and he didn’t return my calls. There was no one to come to my help and now I am a pariah. People at the CBC or the Globe and Mail aren’t interested in any viewpoint I might have. They were all part of the lynch mob, too. You didn’t help me. No journalists would help me. No one in the Privy Council would help me. I was completely alone.”…