Johnston’s book brought back to mind the leftist writer Hannah Arendt, a fraud and a hypocrite also, but who could at least turn a phrase
Having known David Johnston, the former governor general of Canada, intermittently for 30 years, I was prepared to fear the worst on opening his recently published little book, “Trust.” The sub-title is “Twenty Ways To Build A Better Country.
Johnston has had, basically, three adult occupations: first, a securities lawyer, who wants a national securities commission. Second, he was a university administrator, which I know from my time as a university lecturer and trustee, is the ultimate forum for unprincipled politics.
He counsels that we must “cherish our teachers.” In fact, our state education systems are often little better than ever-more costly unionized daycare centres, and the universities are a mass of under-employed subversive faculty members churning out discontented and under-educated youth generally unqualified to earn a living. Johnston fondles the press, which he always courted, and which never much bothered or even referred to him.
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