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The debate over closer economic links with the United States is as important to Canadians as was the debate over constitutional patriation and revision. Once again, Canada’s foreign service will be playing a leading role in seeking to secure an agreement on behalf of the government. In December, the Professional Committee of PAFSO held an evening debate on the Trade Initiative. It was provocative and informative and we include an edited version of the remarks of participants Tom Hockin, Mel Hurtig, Laurent Thibault, and Richard Lipsey.
Dr. Stuart Smith is our guest columnist. He too, looks at some of the implications of freer trade with the United States.
The Professional Committee has a new chairman, David Adam. We welcome his appointment, recognizing that the shoes he must fill are of a certain scale. As founding chairman, John Higginbottom gave tremendous momentum to the idea conceived by Howard Balloch and George Haynal. The committee has become the forum for the enhancement of our professional skills as members of the foreign service.
Robert Ford and Pauline Sabourin share their experience of life in External Affairs. Their perspectives are different but their memories are of equal interest; Ford from Moscow was a sure guarantee of an elegant and fascinating despatch, while as ’secretary to the undersecretary’ Pauline Sabourin watched the creation and development of the modern Canadian foreign service.
We have book reviews! Peter Towe, who observed the unfolding of our relations with the United States through three postings, latterly as Ambassador, looks at Richard Gwyn’s Forty-Ninth Paradox. Paul Martin has come out with the second volume of A Very Public Life and Geoffrey Pearson looks at our former SSEA’S memoirs. A keen observer of Central America, David Kilgour, has recently finished Shirley Christian’s Nicaragua: Revolution in the Family and he offers his views. Canadian television is going through a period of transformation
– broadcaster Al Bonner reviews Herschel Hardin’s provocative Closed Circuits. As something new, inveterate film goer Pagan Hugh provides us with a review of recent movies, which for those abroad who have to wait months before they are shown, will give you some idea of what’s worth the trip to the theatre or watching on the videomachine. Keep sending us your tales of life abroad.
IN OUR NEXT ISSUE
IN OUR NEXT ISSUE:
- Bob Grauer talks with Bruce Rankin
- PAFSO appears before the Parliamentary Committee looking at our foreign policy review
- British Columbia and Expo 86
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