The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday edition law firm Bennett Jones LLP says it has hired former foreign minister John Baird. The Globe's Jeff Gray writes Mr. Baird will serve as a senior adviser. Waiting for him at Bennett Jones are former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge, prime minister Jean Chretien's former political adviser Eddie Goldenberg, former Canadian ambassador to the United States Allan Gotlieb, former Supreme Court justice Jack Major and former deputy prime minister Anne McLellan. The firm also recently announced the hiring of Leo de Bever, former head of the Alberta Investment Management pension fund, as a senior adviser. In a statement, Mr. Baird said he would be offering "strategic counsel" to the firm and its foreign and domestic clients, but will not be "making representations to the government of Canada." Mr. Baird is also an adviser to Hong Kong billionaire Richard Li; Barrick Gold hired him to sit on its international advisory board; and Canadian Pacific Railway nominated him to serve as a director. Mr. Li's father, Li Ka-shing, controls Husky Energy and is well known in Vancouver for redeveloping waterfront land used for the 1986 World's Fair.