Baird's background doesn't indicate he's a natural to head Canada's Foreign Affairs, but he has to be uneasy about Dechert's long range dalliance with Shi Rong. Baird radiates ambition. One suspects he'll get new Parliamentary Secretary when the fuss with Dechert blows over.

Amorous emails between the Toronto correspondent for China’s Xinhua news agency and a Canadian M.P. have recently focused attention on what role rep...

OTTAWA - Beleaguered Tory MP Bob Dechert apparently did not spill any state secrets during his dalliance with a reporter from a foreign news agency li...

OTTAWA - The foreign affairs minister says his confidence in parliamentary secretary Bob Dechert has not been shaken by an embarrassing email exchange...