The Under-Secretary on Canadian Foreign Policy
At one of PAFSO’s breakfast seminars in March, the Under-Secretary spoke on the potential vulnerability of Canada’s economic and social interests in a changing world.
Just Right for the VIP Who Has Everything
When Brian Mulroney makes his official visits abroad as Prime Minister, his planners in Ottawa find that not the least of the diplomatic problems they have to confront is what gifts Canada’s PM should bestow on his foreign hosts.
Asleep at the Wheel
More crucially, they fooled themselves through a tragic misunderstanding of the issues… and a misguided faith in the prowess of their own diplomacy.
Editor’s Notebook
Stephen Lewis, the self-declared socialist Excellency, held forth to a packed breakfast meeting of PAFSO the other day. Renowned for his grasp of the English language, he delivered a lively polemic on the plight of Africa. He is convincing even when he…
English Through the Wringer
Sidney Freifield’s alert commentary on The Canadian Style: A Guide to Writing and Publishing prompts me to write about another side of the literary coin, by which I mean rewriting drafts for the Prime Minister and Secretary of State for External Affairs.
A Chat with the Ignatieffs
I was half an hour late. With reasonable instructions, but no map, I had decided I could find my way by foot to Palmerston Court. Toronto was not that big. Happily the pizza shop on Bathurst had a telephone and so I…
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,
Editor’s Notebook
Sound the trumpet, beat the drum. Led by Jon Fried, the negotiations committee is ready for battle. The team, which includes François Laberge and Daryl Copeland (Framework), David Edwards and Cécile Latour (Leave), Rodney Briggs and Rob Brocklebank (Pay) and Jon Allen…
In Memorium
M. Jacques Cousineau, survenu à Ottawa le 4 novembre. M. Cousineau est entré au service du Ministère en 1954. Ila été en poste à Vientiane, Beyrouth, Rome, Addis Abéba, Washington et Libreville.
Herbert Norman
Born in Japan, the son of missionaries, Herbert Norman joined the Canadian Foreign Service in 1939 and served in Tokyo, Wellington and Cairo, in the latter two posts as Canadian High Commissioner and Ambassador respectively. While posted to Cairo he commited suicide…
