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Former governor general David Johnston appears before a Commons committee reviewing his nomination as elections debates commissioner on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Nov. 6, 2018.Sean Kilpatrick Special choice Re “Former governor-general David Johnston named as special rapporteur on China’s election interference” (March 16): David Johnston should never have accepted the appointment as special rapporteur. I believe he has personal and professional conflicts of interest. He has been a long-time friend of the Trudeau family and a member of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, which has already found itself enmeshed in this scandal. It does not surprise me in the...