It’s safe to say that all of official Ottawa is reading “Time of My Life,” Max Valiquette’s Substacked memoir of his time (“late 2023 to early 2025”) as executive director of communications for Justin Trudeau’s Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). Part five in the series reached inboxes on Monday. The cycle of governments dying and their commencing the posthumous ghost-battle over legacy is a phenomenon that dates back hundreds of years, but Valiquette is breaking new ground in taking the fight to Substack.

This is, or ought to be, the raw material that historians will later feed on, and one would assume that Valiquette could not help but augment our understanding of that all-powerful yet ill-understood entity, the Prime Minister’s Office. At a minimum we might all get a few good anecdotes ou

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