Canada: The Foreign Minister and the Femme Fatale

Until recently, Maxime Bernier, Canada's foreign minister, led an enviable lifestyle, at least in the eyes of most men my age. He was an elegant fellow in his mid forties, a dapper dandy who traveled a lot (unlike some of us) at the taxpayers' expense while handling official state business—a really suave guy, at least on the surface.

This dashing figure—the country's top diplomat—was accompanied most suitably by Julie Couillard, a ravishing beauty that could turn heads at NATO summits or Francophonie (France's answer to the British Commonwealth) summits, which she apparently did do. The minister and his seductive escort, made a perfect pair indeed.