bout de papier, Volume 8, Issue No. 3, 1991
bout de papier, Volume 10, Issue No. 1, 1993
Canada’s Fast Fading Footprint
When the Canadian government tabled its main estimates for the year 2013-14, it revealed that it intended to reduce the budget of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade by $270 million or slightly more than 10 per cent. If this…
Reinventing Ourselves // Se réinventer
Every Foreign Service seems at a crossroads, perhaps we always have been. Coming to one can be a good thing, giving the traveller the choice of four cardinal directions. But the climate in Canada’s Foreign Service, post Budget, seems different. It is…
Operation MoonDip: A Departmental Joint Venture Extravaganza
The Administrative Deputy Minister recently spoke to a modest Departmental audience on the subject: “A Retrospective of the Corporate Review”. For those of you who were not able to attend this highly informative session, the following is an extract from his impromptu…
Vignettes from a Leaner, Meaner Foreign Service
Has the latest round of budgetary cuts affected the capacity of the Foreign Service to deliver programs overseas and provide foreign policy advice to the government? A recent article in the March edition of Playdiplomat, the magazine of policy advice and nudity…
A Lean Mean Machine
In a talk that lifted some of the veils on management and its practices, Associate Undersecretary Derek Burney told a PAFSO breakfast seminar on April 17 that with the trauma of reorganization behind us, the time had come to “get on with…
