Topic: Elections Canada

Election Monitoring

Mr. William L. McDiarmid of Hamilton, Ontario and myself speaking with a camp leader in a refugee camp near Asmara at the time of the Eritrean referendum. We were there as members of the United Nations Observer Mission.

Shortly after I retired from External Affairs in the autumn of 1989, Elections Canada asked the Department to recommend a retired Spanish-speaking Foreign Service Officer who would be willing to accompany Mr. Ron Gould, Deputy Chief Electoral Officer, as a Canadian observer…