The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday edition for Canada's foreign-policy establishment, John Baird's sprint to cash in on his political career is the final insult. The Globe's Konrad Yakabuski writes during nearly four years as foreign minister, Mr. Baird thumbed his nose at almost every Canadian foreign-policy convention since the Statute of Westminster. He belligerently asserted the Harper government's positions on Israel, Iran and the Islamic State. Time will tell whether those positions have put Canada on the wrong side of history, but this Thatcher-adoring idealogue had no time for what he saw as the mushy moral relativism of the elites. So, when Mr. Baird announced in February that he was retiring from politics at the ripe old age of 45, the elites were decidedly undiplomatic in their assessment of his tenure; most notably Canada became an uncritical defender of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's aggressive policies. Mr. Baird's rush to snag lucrative corporate jobs seem a bit tactless, cashing in on many of his own policies and the privileges, including access to foreign leaders, that he enjoyed simply by virtue of his former office. For now, Mr. Baird is making money, not war.