bout de papier, Vol. 11, No. 3 (1994) — Fall 1994 // Automne 1994, p. 2
A year of anniversaries. Take a Trade Commissioner to lunch or better yet have him or her take you to lunch.
This is the year of anniversaries for members of the foreign service family. This issue of bout celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Trade Commissioner Service. In June, the Department of Citizenship and Immigration celebrated the 125th anniversary of the first Canadian Immigration Act. Next year, we will devote a special issue to the Immigration Service of the foreign service.
So Happy Birthday, Trade Commissioners! Take a Trade Commissioner to lunch. Or better yet, have a Trade Commissioner take you to lunch. After all, that’s all they do at posts anyway. Just kidding!
This issue offers several glimpses of the Trade Commissioner Service. There is the past. David Knowles and Hector Mackenzie portray John Larke, the first Trade Commissioner and give highlights of the first hundred years of the TCS. James Langley recalls the Early Days in the Life of a Trade Commissioner’s Family as he recounts everyday events in his life in Japan where his father was the first Trade Commissioner to serve within an Embassy.
Then there is the present and the future. Our interview with Minister MacLaren, The Importance of Not Being External, Marie Stamp’s Trade Commissioners: The Next Generation and Andrew Griffith’s Trade Commissioners: Into the Future set out the challenges facing the current generation of Trade Commissioners and set out possible directions for the future.
Former Canadian Ambassador to China Earl Drake examines the linkage of human rights and trade, one of the most persistent issues facing any democratic trading nation like Canada, and draws on his personal experience in managing Canada’s relations with China. Finally, our two Vignettes from the Global Village bring to life the reality of small trade missions. Susan Cartwright recalls Moving Day in Bombay and Stewart Beck sketches Miami Satellite.
The Books in Review section highlights the globalization of the world economy and the challenges for Canadian economic and trade policy. Michael Hart reviews five recent Canadian books seeking to provide a guide to the forces of change and adjustment sweeping Canada and the rest of the world. Hector Mackenzie takes one step back and reviews the development of Post War Canadian Trade Policy.
For those of you who are not into trade policy, there is an Terry Jones’s excellent and topical article on Ethnic Massacres and Refugee Tides which looks at the events in Burundi and Rwanda from Tanzania. Vaughn Lantz takes us to the top of the Himalayas in his article on Travel to Far and Wide.
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