Trevor Linden Gets Near Politics, Gets Attacked

He’s a nightmare opponent for the Fry campaign. How do you attack the man most women want and most men want to be. How do you smear the adopted son. The model citizen. The comforter of sick kids.

If anyone could do it, it’s Hedy Fry. She clawed her way to Ottawa, grinding her six-inch pumps into all enemies real or imagined. But Linden’s celebrity exceeds Fry’s ferocity, cross-burning Klansmen in Prince George notwithstanding. If I ran Fry’s campaign (and I’m available, if the money’s right), I’d attack Linden’s record—as a hockey player. Because that’s all anyone really knows about big number 16. And Linden’s record hardly justifies his reputation.