Canada’s Fast Fading Footprint

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

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…