OTTAWA—I must admit that up until last week, I had never heard of Alexei Navalny. Now we are being told that Navalny is a very vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who has been organizing opposition support in Russia and plotting mayhem in the streets of neighbouring Belarus. The reason we know this is because Navalny is presently (at time of writing) in a coma in hospital in a German hospital after being transported from the Siberian city of Omsk.