Editor’s Notebook // Carnet du rédacteur
In this issue, bout de papier enters a new phase with a new editor and a new year. Similarly, the world of the foreign service and the practice of international diplomacy are changing dramatically. bout will focus ever more closely on these…
Collapse of Meech Lake Accord: A Rogue Foreign Policy Initiative?
Was the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord a rogue foreign policy initiative concocted by someone in the Department of External Affairs? “Tommy rot,” reply senior officials in External who are keeping mum on the subject in face of increasing evidence to…
PAFSO Professional Committee Breakfast Seminars: Fall Program
The Professional Committee has planned an active fall program and is pleased to announce its lineup of Breakfast Seminars for the coming months.
This Shouldn’t Happen to A…
(Editor’s note: Sidney Freifeld’s new book about some of the amusing sidelights of the Department over the years, Undiplomatic Notes: Tales from the Canadian Foreign Service, is being published by Hounslow Press in October.)
Outsider Inside
For most of my working life I have been a professor, but for two years I was metamorphosed into a strange hybrid — the resident sinologist and cultural attaché in the Canadian Embassy in Beijing. I left the tranquillity of academic life…
Letters // Correspondance
Your organization is to be commended on your excellent magazine — bout de papier. There are many well-written articles that catch my interest in each issue.
Editor’s Notebook // Carnet du rédacteur
L’APASE a connu un énorme roulement du personnel, cet automne — elle a notamment perdu son président et la directrice générale de son Comité exécutif, sans compter le rédacteur et le smembres du Comité de rédaction de bout de papier.
The Corporate Review
Canadian foreign policy fans are anxiously awaiting the announcement of the results of the Corporate Policy Review of the Department of External Affairs and International Trade (EAITCI). Like baseball fans, who suffered through the recent Major League Baseball strike, all want to…
Frank Stone
Frank Stone joined the Department in 1949 and served in Bonn, Geneva, Washington and as Deputy Permanent Representative to the U.N. in Geneva. He was Canada’s Ambassador to Pakistan before retiring from the Department in 1979. He died in Ottawa on December…
Pierre-André Bissonnette
André Bissonnette joined the Department in 1953 and served in Brussels, Kuala Lumpur, Paris and London before his transfer from External to the Ministry of the Solicitor General, where he became Deputy Minister. He died in Ottawa on December 23, 1989 shortly…
