Roy McMurtry: From Politician to Diplomat
The first thing you notice about Roy McMurtry is his physical size. A big man, he still moves with the slow but sure step of the university footballer which he was at Trinity College. The eyes are hooded and the turmoil of…
Ontario Hydro: New Business Ventures
Canada’s largest province is receiving unprecedented scrutiny by pundits and political watchers in the wake of the May 2 Ontario election and the subsequent change in government, the first in 43 years. Ontario has a significant presence abroad and Bout de papier…
Don Jamieson
The eyes immediately appraise you upon entering the room. His manner is bluff but friendly and the still mellifluous deep voice readily vouches for his earlier and successful career as a broadcaster. His words flow smoothly and with a well-practised ease. The…
Pols Pros and Grey Paper
Rumours of changes involving ministers, deputies, indeed the structure of both department and the foreign service, may prove little more than midsummer madness. We hope so. What the department does not need at a time when it is wrestling with such fundamental…
Portrait of an Issue
The change in regime has been reflected in Canada’s High Commissioner to the Court of St. James and the old and the new, Don Jamieson and Roy McMurtry, provide reflections on their past and future activities. This issue begins a new series,…
The Changing Role of the Diplomat
The Oxford Dictionnary defines diplomacy as “the management of international relations by negotiation: the method by which these relations are adjusted and managed by ambassadors and envoys.”
Canada’s Relations with the Pacific
I wish to note the omission from articles focussing on the development of Canada’s relations with the Pacific of any mention of the Canadian presence in eastern Siberia in the period of 1918-19. In automatic response to a British request, a 4000-man…
The Law and External Affairs
The “new” External Affairs has its basis in the Department of External Affairs Act promulgated on November 17, 1983.
The Foreign Service as I Remember It
I have been asked to make some comments on Canada’s foreign service as I perceived it in my days as Secretary of State of External Affairs, which were from June, 1959, to the defeat of our government in 1963.
Tour d’horizon avec le sous-secrétaire d’État
A l’occasion du 75e anniversaire du ministère, “Bout de papier” rencontrait M. Marcel Massé pour faire un tour d’horizon. Il nous révélait alors ses vues sur l’évolution politique mondiale à long terme et la place que le Canada devra se tailler dans…
