National Post will be running three excerpts from a new book by Lt.-Gen. (retd.) Michel Maisonneuve. In part three, he discusses his experience with being cancelled after expressing a conservative opinion. 

It is September 2023. I am behind a curtain with my wife Barbara, waiting to take the stage to deliver the keynote speech at the opening of the Conservative Party of Canada’s convention in Quebec City. I can hear the emcees reading parts of our biographies. There is a buzz in the crowd of 2,500 attendees, and the speech is going to be broadcast live on television. I wasn’t really nervous, but I was asking myself, “How the hell did I get here?”