Madeleine Meilleur withdraws as candidate for language commissioner

QUEBEC – Madeleine Meilleur has pulled out of the running for the job of Canada’s language commissioner, saying the controversy surrounding her candidacy has compromised her ability to do the job.
In a letter to Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly released Wednesday in Ottawa, the former Ontario cabinet minister said she was giving up, faced with increasingly difficult questions about the process.
Her newly revealed lack of knowledge about the minority situation in Quebec was