| The Dechert Affair Sep 17 - Is friendship standing in the way of the National Interest? "... if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." E. M. Foster Dechert affair did not compromise Canadian interests, Harper Says Globe and Mail, Sept 16, 1011 There is no way to tell, even if the married Dechert was more honest with the Prime Minister then he has been with the Canadian people. Because of this uncertainty, and the real risk that the indiscreet fifty-something Dechert will not learn from the experience, he should only have access to information ordinarily available to every Member of Parliament. If the Prime Minister does not see that, then he is letting friendship interfere with his greater responsibility to safeguard the National Interest at almost any cost, even if it means sacrificing a friendship. Sep 14 - Ms. Rong gets some advice from Ms. Qu on what to do about an “Old Fox” The Globe and Mail reports that Ms. Rong received an email (written in Chinese which the government had translated) from a Ms. Qu who has some advice for Ms. Rong about a relationship with an “Old Fox” that has gone sour. "About the old man, tune him out ... about the sad tales you told me about him keeping you waiting for a long time, put it out of your mind. I have experienced the same, sweep him into dust bin, he is not good enough for you.” If the “Old Fox” is the fifty-something Dechert, than the married Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Foreign Affairs has some explaining to do, as do the Liberals for not pressing the government on what is conceivably a national security matter; and to a lesser extent the NDP who made a timid call for the ostensibly adulterous Parliamentary Secretary's resignation. And what does Ms. Ruth Clark, Dechert's wife, have to say about all this? Is she standing by her man, a man who has expressed, in writing, love for another woman with "puffy cheeks", and who wrote that the woman with puffy cheeks is the woman he thinks about, not his wife or matters of state, when driving from his Toronto riding to Ottawa. Sep 13 -What does the government have on the opposition? In what is highly uncharacteristic behaviour for an opposition party, the Liberals are praising the government for letting the compromised Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs keep his job; the Liberal foreign affairs critic going as far as lauding the work of the married Dechert, who may or may not have failed to seduce, or may have been seduced, by a Chinese journalist working for a government controlled news agency. Who have the Liberals been flirting with? Maybe Richard Fadden was right all along to raise the alarm. Fadden raises espionage alarm Foreign powers infiltrating government, CSIS director says At least two provincial cabinet ministers and a number of other government officials and employees are under the control of foreign countries as part of espionage schemes, Canada’s top security official said Tuesday. In an exclusive interview on CBC’s The National, CSIS director Richard Fadden said foreign powers are infiltrating Canadian political circles and influencing public servants, fuelling a growing concern about economic espionage in Canada... He would not name the provinces the cabinet ministers are from. Globe and Mail, June 23. 2010 Sep 10 - "Foreign Affairs Minister Baird says Dechert will not be fired, calls affair ‘ridiculous’" Some of the content of the emails the married fifty-something Robert "Bob" Dechert sent to a younger woman: “You are so beautiful. I really like that picture of you by the water with your cheeks puffed. That look is so cute. I love it when you do that. Now, I miss you even more.” “Dearest Rong, How is your day? ……I enjoyed the drive by thinking of you…. We will be voting at 6:30 p.m. If you have time, watch on TV and I will smile at you. I miss you. Love, Bob"
What, in your opinion, is the married Member for Mississauga– Erindale looking for in sending this type of email to Ms. Rong, an employee of Xinhua, China’s state-controlled news agency? Sex comes to mind. Haiyan Zhang was fired from her federal government job for simply having been a reporter with Xinhua; the smitten, compromised, juvenile Bob Dechert gets to keep his job as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, John Baird, for, in all likelihood, manoeuvring to have sex (if it has not already happened) with a reporter from the same agency. The unmitigated hypocrisy of it all! What was that you said, John, about "reputations" and providing "the best possible service to the people of Canada" (read The more things change...)? You did not mean it, did you! China, the Canadian Supreme Court and Bob Dechert! The married Dechert, who has shown such a lack judgement in his handling of the sensitive portfolio of Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and in the management of his "personal affairs" (French-Canadian Bernier, who may have been setup, was fired for much less) is one of five Members of Parliament who will recommend to the Prime Minister who should replace two retiring Supreme Court justices (the PM can still appointed whomever he pleases). It is to be expected that the married Dechert's conversations with Ms. Rong were not only of the puerile variety revealed in his emails. Only a stupid women will listen to such drivel for any length of time, and Ms. Rong does not come across as a stupid woman. What else did they discuss?
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