Diplomatic Circles

Roy Norton: from ‘undiplomatic’ diplomat to Canada’s chief of protocol

He hasn't worked at headquarters for 27 years now, and said he wouldn't come back for just any job.

Roy Norton in the protocol office at Global Affairs, in front of portraits of his predecessors. The Hill Times photograph by Chelsea Nash

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BY CHELSEA NASH

November 9, 2016

You might know Roy Norton from his appearance on The Daily Show in 2013, when he was Canada’s consul general in Detroit, fighting a billionaire big-shot for a border-crossing bridge. Now, the man who w...

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