A Very Public Life, Vol. II
P aul Martin’s second volume of memoirs is published at an appropriate time. Two thirds of its 680 pages are devoted to his part in the making and executing of Canadian foreign policy in the period 1948 to 1972, first as the…
Canada-U.S. Trade
The PAFSO Professional Committee recently hosted its annual dinner-seminar on the Free Trade Debate.
Robert Ford
Robert Ford, Canada’s Ambassador to Moscow for more than 16 years, expert in East/West relations and Russian poetry, and recipient of the Governor General’s medal for poetry for his work “A Window on the North”, has retired from the diplomatic service and…
Free Trade and Economic Diversification
A after years of argument, I think it is now agreed that Canada needs to diversify its economy and that reliance on primary products needs to be balanced by greater competitiveness in the growth sectors of high value-added goods and tradeable services.
Rapport du Comité Professionnel
par Robert Desjardins
We Interviewed John Holmes
Behind the ruddy-elfin features, owlish eyebrows and sliding glasses are a pair of penetrating eyes that give a measure of their owner. Gentleman, scholar and diplomat, John Holmes embodies the talents and traits of all three professions.
Hear the People
Richard Doyle was named to the Senate in March by Prime Minister Mulroney after a long career with the Globe and Mail. He is a member of the parliamentary committee looking at the foreign policy review. We asked him for his impressions…
Letters to the Editor
Thank you very much for your letter of August 6 together with a copy of the summer issue of Bout de papier.
Professional Committee Report
The PAFSO Professional Committee’s 1984-1985 season closed with a flurry of events, including two evening seminars (on the future of the Foreign Service and on the Green Paper) and a long roster of major Breakfast Seminar speakers: four departmental deputy ministers; representatives…
Today’s Diplomacy – Part II
In our last issue John Halstead looked at the perils of contemporary diplomacy. He concludes his piece on Today’s Diplomacy with a look at the qualities required by the current diplomat diplomat.
