bout de papier, Volume 15, Issue No. 4, 1998-1999
How others (in Ottawa) see us
In an earlier issue (bout de papier, Vol. 28, No. 4) we I that launched the “McGill Report” on the role of the Dep the examination, other Canadian government departmen of the foreign ministry. The summary of these opinions, w Document Admin…
Basil Robinson
Basil Robinson, who died on December 21, 2012, at the age of 93, entered the Department with the classic background for a foreign service officer of his generation. Although born in England, he grew up in Vancouver, where his parents settled in…
Managing Transition
… My tour of duty in Washington was from 1989 to 1993 — the first Bush presidency. Many in the current Bush Administration were also players back then — Cheney, Powell, Zoellick, Rice and Andy Card, to name a few. They know…
John Holmes: Thou Shouldst Be Living at This Hour
Every generation at DFAIT creates its own legends. A legend for my generation was John Holmes. It may stimulate efforts of the current generation and those of others in and out of Government, to consider the enduring values of some of the…
