Sentences with phrase «canadian foreign affairs»

Former Canadian Foreign Affairs and National Defense Minister Comments on Brexit Negotiations

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, right, and Mexico's Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarrea, deliver statements to the media during the sixth round of negotiations for a new North American Free Trade Agreement in Montreal in January 2018.

Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto — May 24, 2017 — While Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland undertakes private NAFTA renegotiation meetings in Mexico City, civil society will also hold their own discussions in the same city from May 26 - 28th.

Washington, DC — Today, United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, and Mexican Secretary of the Economy Ildefonso Guajardo successfully concluded the fourth round of the renegotiation and modernization of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy said «this is the first visit that he's had since the takeover.

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The panel, and the day of presentations surrounding it, were part of a series of boot camps for Canadian tech startups organized by the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT).

The guest list included the several of the most successful people in the Canadian business community: GE Canada CEO Elyse Allan, Linamar CEO Linda Hasenfratz, T&T Supermarket's Tina Lee, NRStor's Annette Verschuren, GM board member Carol Stephenson, and foreign affairs minister Chrystia Freeland.

But Joyce Reynolds, executive vice-president of government affairs for the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association, says just 26,000 (or 2.4 %) of her industry's 1.1 million workers nationwide are temporary foreign workers — most of them found in small communities in Western Canada.

Chrystia Freeland, the Canadian minister of foreign affairs, called any measure that deemed Canadian trade a national security threat «entirely inappropriate.»

Among the many well - known Canadians scheduled as «participants» were Stephen Harper's Conservative cabinet ministers Stockwell Day (who at first denied attending) and the then - defence minister Gordon O'Connor, deputy ministers (Defence) Ward Elcock, Peter Harder (Foreign Affairs), Associate Deputy Minister William Elliott (Public Security), Liberal continentalist Anne McLellan, Canada's former deputy prime minister and a defender of the oil patch, the Alberta minister of energy, Greg Melchin, General Rick Hillier, Canada's chief of defence staff, former Conservative cabinet minister Perrin Beatty, now president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the infamous continentalist Thomas d'Aquino, head of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Rear Admiral Roger Girouard, Maj. - Gen.

Supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the mission includes over 20 executives representing Canadian multinationals and small and medium - size enterprises that will promote their products and services and explore business opportunities and partnerships...

Since 2012, the government has closed or consolidated more than a dozen federal libraries at Parks Canada, Environment Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Foreign Affairs, Citizenship and Immigration and Canadian Heritage (see sidebar).

In terms of export market initiatives, Global Affairs Canada is a key partner in the Global Markets Action Plan that underpins Canada's international trade strategy and targets foreign markets of interest to Canadian firms.

Sven Jurschewsky, another retired Canadian foreign service officer who has headed various departments in the foreign affairs ministry, points to an overall malaise in Canada's public service.

Foreign Affairs: The Documentation Service and library of the Canadian Cultural Centre at the Canadian Embassy in Paris closed on June 21, 2012.

«In view of the lack of progress hitherto in bringing the perpetrators to justice, and recent developments which may complicate the investigation, there is a growing sense that Canada should contribute a more active police role to track the Afghan investigation and determine next steps,» said an email from the Canadian embassy to Foreign Affairs headquarters, dated March 28, 2007.

The Canadian International Development Agency is to be amalgamated into a new Department of Foreign Affairs, International Trade, and Development, according to the budget, to «maximize opportunities for international synergies.»

Such an initiative could perhaps be led by Global Affairs Canada, which is heavily involved in assisting Canadian firms targeting foreign markets.

Hugh Stephens is executive - in - residence at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and a fellow of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute.

He currently serves as Executive - in - Residence at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and is a Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute.

Hugh Stephens is a Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and a Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute.

He has considerable expertise and experience in the international trade field having completed hundreds of projects for such organizations as the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canadian International Development Agency, Canadian Commercial Corporation, Forum for International Trade Training, and Team Canada Inc..

(According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, Cuba trails only the U.S. and Mexico as a destination for Canadians holidaying abroad, with more than a million Canadians visiting Cuba every year, the island country's biggest source of tourists.)

He subsequently served as senior assistant deputy minister in the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade with responsibility for managing Canada's relations with the United States and the implementation of NAFTA, including providing advice to business on how to take maximum advantage of the opportunities that NAFTA afforded.

Canada is «totally committed» to supply management, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said last year, and Ottawa has given no indication that it is willing to change a system that, by design, protects the entire Canadian dairy supply chain from competition and dings consumers with some of the highest dairy prices in the world.

Prior to commencing her graduate studies, Serena worked with the former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lloyd Axworthy.

She is a former Jean Monnet Fellow of the European University Institute in Florence, and was a Cadieux Research Fellow in the Policy Planning Staff of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs.

For Ph.D. students who have already initiated some form of joint collaborative effort with a research group or laboratory in France, the French government offers Ministry of Foreign Affairs research scholarships that provide financial support for Canadian Ph.D. students to live and work in France for up to a year.

Run by Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs, this exchange program is administered by the Ottawa - based Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE), an umbrella nongovernmental organization comprising 200 colleges, universities, educational organizations, and businesses across Canada.

With the funds sanctioned by Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development and International Development Research Centre, Canada, the TN Agricultural University, Coimbatore, involving scientists in University of Guelph, Canada, Industrial Technology Institute, Colombo, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania, University of Nairobi [Kenya], University of West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, have jointly developed Hexanal formulation, a nano - emulsion, to minimise post harvest loss and extend shelf life of mango.

Public galleries, universities, and corporations, including Queen's University, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, and the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, collect Yoshikawa's artworks.

COLLECTIONS Ottawa Public Art Program, Ottawa, ON X-2 Condominiums, Toronto, ON BMO Corporate Art Collection, Toronto, ON Buffalo Medical Campus Inc., John E. Friedlander Memorial, Buffalo, NY TELUS House Tower, Calgary, AB Foreign Affairs & International Trade Visual Arts Collection, Canadian Embassy, Prague, Czech Rep Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA KPMG Canada, Toronto, ON Seneca College Art Collection, Toronto, ON X The Condominium, Toronto, ON Musée d'art de Joliette, Joliette, QC Condominium Le Belmont, Montréal, QC Charles Balbach, Buffalo, New York The WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, ON Kiwi Sculpture Garden, Perth, ON City of Ottawa Public Art Program, Ottawa, ON HD VISION Studios, Studio City, CA Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON ARTS Court, Ottawa, ON HD VISION, Dallas, TX Federal Communications Commission, New York Crown Life, Toronto, ON Queen's University, Kingston, ON Northernlight & Picture Corp., Toronto, ON

October 31/11: Internal government documents, released through an Access To Information request, show that Canada's Climate Office in Ottawa, at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), made the decision to cancel Canadian support for the Franke James European Tour.

If you look at the BBC's news website, the headline item is the Khadr interrogation video released as a result of Minister of Justice, Attorney General of Canada, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Appellants v. Omar Ahmed Khadr Respondent — and — British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, Criminal Lawyers» Association (Ontario), University of Toronto, Faculty of Law — International Human Rights Clinic and Human Rights Watch Interveners, in which the court held that

In other words, how Canada should conduct its foreign affairs, including the management of its relationship with the US and the determination of the means by which it should advance its position in regard to the protection of Canada's national interest and its fight against terrorism, should be left to the judgment of those who have been entrusted by the democratic process to manage these matters on behalf of the Canadian people.»

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird made it clear in a speech to the American Jewish Congress in Washington back in May that when it comes to Canadian foreign policy with respect to Israel, «there is no room for moral relativism&Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird made it clear in a speech to the American Jewish Congress in Washington back in May that when it comes to Canadian foreign policy with respect to Israel, «there is no room for moral relativism&foreign policy with respect to Israel, «there is no room for moral relativism».

The Prime Minister Of Canada, The Minister of Foreign Affairs, The Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and The Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police 2009 FC 405, is available in PDF.

CIC worked with Public Safety Canada, the Canada Border Services Agency, the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and consulted with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and Industry Canada to develop the list of countries and territory whose nationals would be subject to biometric screening.

Family of Canadian teacher detained in Indonesian jail reach out to foreign affairs minister, Toronto Star

Our Washington lawyers have served in various government agencies, including the Department of Commerce, the International Trade Commission, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Canadian Department of Justice.

October 3, 2014 — «The authorities of Canada have pledged 9.76 million Canadian dollars ($ 8.6 million) to Ukraine within the Quality and Accessible Legal Aid program, Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development stated.

Advised a global leader in aerospace, and interfacing with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade on their behalf, regarding the Canadian government's third - party participation in two WTO disputes.

Lawyers, and particularly general counsel, have an important role to play in promoting accountability of Canadian mining companies, said Senator Romeo Dallaire and NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar, who spoke at the Law Society of Upper Canada last night.

Ensure clear guidelines are provided by Canada and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to all consular officials to assist any Canadians from the U.S. ban - listed countries who are overseas and find themselves stranded, detained, or otherwise prevented from returning to Canada.

In 1981, he joined Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), serving as a trade lawyer, a trade negotiator at HQ as with the Canadian Embassies in Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Korea.

He is a former Canadian ambassador, and has held other high - level posts within the Department of Foreign Affairs.

The official ceremony featured ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno - Ocampo, Lloyd Axworthy (former foreign affairs minister of Canada), Louise Arbour (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and former Supreme Court of Canada Justice), Allan Rock (former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations), and Kenneth Roth (Executive Director, Human Rights Watch).

Minister of Economic Affairs Shen Jong - chin has been pressing his Canadian counterpart on the issue of a bilateral foreign investment agreement.

According to Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, all Canadians should purchase a policy if they plan to go abroad, even if only for a day.

Both the United States Department of State and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade advise that upon entry to Poland, travelers may be required to provide proof of travel medical insurance.