Baird Runs Over Rules for Tricked-Out Business Card

Like American Psycho, but hopefully with far fewer murders.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird demanded, contrary to government rules, that his personal business card be embossed with gold, be in English only, and not make reference to the Foreign Affairs headquarters, the Lester B. Pearson building. Canadian Press uncovered documents showing Baird's Patrick Bateman-like obsession with his business card upon ascending to the new portfolio. Despite much push-back, Baird was granted an exemption by the Treasury Board to pimp out his business cards, as gold-embossed coat of arms had been dropped years ago as a cost-saving measure. The decision to drop the address of his offices at the Lester B. Pearson building is also a bit of a head-scratcher, unless he is so blindly partisan that one of the more universally admired (and Nobel Prize-winning) prime ministers shouldn't grace Baird's card because he was a Liberal. Baird was also approved to drop the "Canada" wordmark that appears on all government documents, despite advice from bureaucrats that doing so "is not good practice."