A Aalto meets the weird sisters
“It’s absurd, Liebnitz,” growled Chief Inspector de Toombs. “We have these four sisters with the maiden name of Hath – Beth, Barbara, Beulah and Brandy. We know that they are each married to one of a set of identical quadruplets named Streep…
The Secret Kingdom: Interpretations of the Canadian Character
The Secret Kingdom is one of the finest books about Canadians I have ever read. Dominique Clift writes, after thirty years of political journalism, in both languages. In the preface, he says his book is derived in part from that experience. But…
Haven’s Gate: Canada’s Immigration Fiasco
Victor Malarek is both thought-provoking and disturbing in his examination of the problems facing immigrants and refugees applying for status in Canada. Yet Haven’s Gate, despite its well-researched approach, is at times heterotopic and does not properly amalgamate the conclusions which the…
Canada and the International Seabed — Domestic Interests and External Constraints
The time is fast approaching when Canadians may be anxiously asking themselves whatever did become of Canada in this twentieth century that Wilfrid Laurier predicted, with due allowance for the politician’s fallibility factor, would belong to us. Policy practitioners, watchers and consultants…
Somoza Falling: The Nicaraguan Dilemma: A Portrait of Washington at Work
When Anthony Lake resigned from his job as the Director of Policy Planning in the State Department at the end of the Carter presidency, he became a university professor at a small but distinguished New England college. His dilemma was teaching about…
The Corporate Review
Canadian foreign policy fans are anxiously awaiting the announcement of the results of the Corporate Policy Review of the Department of External Affairs and International Trade (EAITCI). Like baseball fans, who suffered through the recent Major League Baseball strike, all want to…
The Foreign Service Directives: Prospects for Mutual Benefit
The following is an edited excerpt from PAFSO’s brief on the reform of the Public Service submitted in April to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.
J.E. Ghislain Hardy
An officer of the Department for 38 years, Ghislain Hardy served in Rome, London and Geneva, and was Canada’s Ambassador to Spain, Moscow, Italy and the North Atlantic Council. He was an active member of the Senior Editorial Board of bout de…
Frank Stone
Frank Stone joined the Department in 1949 and served in Bonn, Geneva, Washington and as Deputy Permanent Representative to the U.N. in Geneva. He was Canada’s Ambassador to Pakistan before retiring from the Department in 1979. He died in Ottawa on December…
Pierre-André Bissonnette
André Bissonnette joined the Department in 1953 and served in Brussels, Kuala Lumpur, Paris and London before his transfer from External to the Ministry of the Solicitor General, where he became Deputy Minister. He died in Ottawa on December 23, 1989 shortly…
