bout de papier, Volume 5, Issue No. 1, 1987
The Washington Scene: Getting the Americans Interested in the Six
Note de la rédaction : Cette section spéciale marquant le décès de John Sheardown et célébrant l’aventure des « évadés d’Iran » fait appel à plusieurs intervenants clés. Gar Pardy était agent du renseignement à Washington à l’époque et il a joué…
What I Saw
bout de papier, Vol. 24, No. 2 (2009) — Spring 2009 // Printemps 2009, p. 7 Like countless others, watched Obama’sInauguration. did so, evenAs my mind remembered Tanzania,A presidential function there too, andA remark made to me by the CabinetSecretary about Canada’s just heldElections. “We followed CanadianDevelopments very closely,” he said.“And what results! The Government […]
Prose, not Poetry
Scholars and others may debate whether or not there was a “golden age of Canadian diplomacy” but there is little doubt that Canadian diplomats of the 1940s and 1950s were distinguished not only by the quality of their despatches and memoranda but…
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…
The Canadian Women’s International Business Initiative:
From November 12-14, 1997, the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC played host to the first-ever Canadian Businesswomen’s International Trade Mission. With Minister Marchi at the helm, over 120 participants, and no less than the Royal Bank as main corporate sponsor, the mission…
Mr. Heeney Goes to Washington — Eventually
“In some respects,” Jack Granatstein has written, “Arnold Heeney fitted the concept of a perfect civil-service mandarin.” Heeney had been recruited personally by W.L. Mackenzie King in 1938 to serve as Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister: Steering adroitly around King’s more…
Negotiating with the Neighbours / Négocier avec les voisins
On June 2, the Senior ADM, who is also the Coordinator of the NAFTA negotiations, is in Mexico for consultations with the Mexican government on the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. He opens secret negotiations with the Chilean government…
