‘Diplomacy is all about being there’: former diplomats call for reassessment of foreign service global presence during GAC review
'We need human beings in these other countries, in these war zones, to give a genuinely Canadian perspective that’s not filtered through the internet,' says former diplomat Ben Rowswell.
As Global Affairs embarks on a review of its foreign service work, former diplomats and experts say they want to see the concentration of envoys in Ottawa addressed in favour of more foreign service officers stationed in Canada’s missions around the world.
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly (...
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