Dechert Issues Statement
September 9, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mississauga, Ontario – Bob Dechert, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Member of Parliament for Mississauga-Erindale issued the following statement:
“The person is a journalist whom I have come to know as a friend. I met her while doing Chinese-language media communications.
My understanding is that her emails were hacked as part of an ongoing domestic dispute.
These emails are flirtatious, but the friendship remained innocent and simply that – a friendship.
I apologize for any harm caused to anyone by this situation.”