Commentary
In June 2020, at the peak of Black Lives Matter rage over the killing of George Floyd, Jessica Mulroney, “the fairy godmother of Canadian fashion” as Harper’s Bazaar described her, and daughter-in-law of former prime minister Brian Mulroney, was brutally cancelled by a false allegation of racism. Even though no evidence was put forward to back up the charge, the defamation stuck because, the accuser being a black woman, not a single Canadian journalist attached to that news sector was willing to investigate the claim.
The fashion world isn’t my wheelhouse. But cancel culture is. So, many months later when my National Post editor suggested it as a topic, I agreed. The feature article I wrote provided evidence that exonerated Jessica completely. I was reminded of Jessica’s ordeal when her name cropped up in journalist Tom Bower’s just-published biography, “Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War between the Windsors.”…