During a visit to Israel three years ago, the Jerusalem Post asked John Baird what he’d be doing with his life if he were not Canada’s foreign minister. “Likely working on a kibbutz,” Baird said. A joke, maybe, but only sort of, because if your prime minister sends you to Jerusalem to express unequivocal solidarity with what your government’s loudest detractors would prefer you to dismiss as the Middle East’s apartheid-disfigured Zionist Entity, then that’s how you do it.
Now that he’s suddenly bolted from the Conservatives’ front benches, the federal cabinet’s 45-year-old prize linebacker should not be expected to show …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
