The next governor general was always going to be francophone. After the Mary Simon debacle, that much, even the Liberals probably couldn’t screw up … although North Vancouver MP Jonathan Wilkinson, soon to be Canada’s ambassador to the European Union, decided to say this crazy thing recently about Simon: “I know there were some controversies with respect to (Simon’s) French over the course of the past while, although I will say for (her) she spoke an Indigenous language, which I think is fair game in Canada.”