Cohen: Being Governor General may be too confining for Julie Payette

For months, Julie Payette has been the talk of Ottawa. Her travails were discussed, sotto voce, among public servants and engaged observers long before they emerged recently in the Globe and Mail, followed, more thoroughly, in the National Post.
The news: The Governor General of Canada is struggling in the job, dislikes its demands and duties, and wants to leave. The Globe did not say explicitly that she wants to resign and the Post only implied that it might happen, 10 paragraphs into a fine pi