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CANADA’s ARCTIC AS THE NEW MEDITERRANEAN SEA FALL 09 | OCT–DEC Long Live the Royals A SPECIAL DIPLOMAT REPORT ON THE SURVIVAL OF MONARCHY PRINCE CHARLES THE PRESCIENT: 'THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF CAPITAL IS NATURE'S CAPITAL' Jennifer Campbell on the rule of law vs. Chavez Donna Jacobs on cross-border healthcare Pieter Van den Weghe on biodynamic wines ESTABLISHED 1989 CDN $5.95 PM 40957514 The World in Canada Volume 20, Number 4 PUBLISHER Donna Jacobs ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Neil Reynolds EDITOR Jennifer Campbell Table of ART DIRECTOR Paul Cavanaugh ADVERTISING ADVISOR Cu Van Ha CONTENTS [email protected] 1-613-262-4908 COPY EDITOR Roger Bird BOOKS EDITOR George Fetherling CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Don Cayo CULTURE EDITOR DIPLOMATICA| Margo Roston Column: Reaching for India’s rising star . .5 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Pedro Moitinho de Almeida Good Deeds: Earnscliffe’s tent week and other stories..............7 Arthur Bousfield Diplomatic Agenda: Portugal’s Security Council bid ...............8 Margaret Dickenson Fred Donnelly Questions Asked: Chavez and Venezuela’s justice system . .10 Fen Osler Hampson Laura Neilson Bonikowsky Garry Toffoli DISPATCHES| Pieter Van den Weghe CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Royalty watch Ulle Baum Prince Charles on how to save the world ........................16 Larry Dickenson Fred Donnelly The state of the monarchy worldwide...........................21 Sam Garcia Quotes on Canada’s crown . 26 Brian Goldschmied Mark Horton Complete listing of the world’s monarchies......................28 Victorhea Rivilla Tim Rooke Healthcare Frank Scheme Lois Siegel U.S. clinics filling gaps in Canada’s system . 29 Doug Struck Malcolm Taylor Dyanne Wilson BUSINESS MANAGEMENT DELIGHTS| Jessie Reynolds Books: An interview with an Arctic author . 33 WEBMASTER Books: New in paperback . .37 Leslee McCabe DIPLOPORTAL WEB PARTNERS Historica: A 17th-Century lady ahead of her time.................39 www.diploportal.com Wine: Biodynamic grapes . .40 Alastair Sweeny Richard Evers Entertaining: A turkey-less Thanksgiving........................42 (Northern Blue Publishing) Residences: Barbados in Canada . .44 PUBLISHER EMERITUS Lezlee Cribb Envoy’s album...............................................46 ADVERTISING INQUIRIES Contact Neil Reynolds or Donna Jacobs [email protected] Dignitaries| [email protected] SUBSCRIPTIONS New arrivals in Ottawa’s diplomatic corps . 50 Diplomat & International Canada is published four times a year. 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Return undeliverable Canadian copies to: Diplomat Magazine, Enterprises Inc. P.O. Box 1173, Station B, Ottawa, ON K1P 5R2 DIPLOMATICA|EDITOR’S NOTE Monarchy matters cerpt from the speech CONTRIBUTORS in which he made the oes monarchy seem a quaint and dire prediction that we Arthur Bousfield outdated notion, an irrelevant had 96 months (now Dhistorical remnant? Do you think 93) to save the world. of it mostly as a provider of celebrity For his thoughts on fodder for the tabloids? If this is your im- how to do just that, pression, read on. You may change your JENNIFER CAMPBELL turn to page 16. mind. It turns out that even here in the 21st In an investigation Century, there’s much more to monarchy about healthcare for diplomats, publisher than you might think. At its best, it's is Donna Jacobs found out that some dip- an enduring institution that preserves lomats go south of the border to Ogdens- and perpetuates a country’s sense of its burg for their care. And, they’re joined cultural and historical heritage. And, as by Ottawans who don’t want to wait the our royal writers, Arthur Bousfield and days, weeks and months it can take to get Arthur Bousfield is vice-chairman of Garry Toffoli, tell us in this special issue non-emergency services in the capital. The Canadian Royal Heritage Trust. of Diplomat, monarchy is a universal phe- In our books section, George Fetherling The Toronto-based writer is co-author nomenon that transcends race, religion interviews Arctic expert Michael Byers. Dr. of Lives of the Princesses of Wales; the and economic philosophies. Byers covers everything from ownership popular Royal Observations; bestseller, In our cover story, Mssrs. Bousfield of the Northwest Passage to the current The Queen Mother and Her Century; Fifty and Toffoli determine there are exactly 45 government’s inadequate policy and vi- Years the Queen; and Queen and Consort. monarchies in the world. The monarchies sion for the North. He co-edited Now You Know Royalty come in various forms – from queens and Culture editor, Margo Roston, drops and recently edited In Defence of Monar- kings, sultans and emirs, to the Pope. And in on Barbados High Commissioner Ev- chy, pieces from Monarchy Canada maga- their kingdoms range in size from the em- elyn Greaves and his wife, Francilia, while zine 1975-2002, scheduled to appear pire of Japan (with 127 million subjects) to wine writer, Pieter Van den Weghe, delves in October. Born in Peterborough of that of the Pope (with 826 subjects). into biodynamic wines. Food writer Mar- English and Anglo-Irish background, But before we examine the state of garet Dickenson, whose retired diplomat he has a master’s in modern history monarchy around the world, we kick off husband isn’t a fan of turkey, offers an from the University of Toronto. our cover package with the remarkable alternative to the festive bird for your musings of the world’s most celebrated Thanksgiving table. prince, Charles, Prince of Wales. In July, Up front, we have a column by Fen Garry Toffoli when he delivered the Richard Dimbleby Hampson, director of the Norman Pat- lecture (founded more than 20 years ago erson School of International Affairs. A to honour a famous British journalist well-known commentator and expert in and broadcaster), Prince Charles lauded all things international, he argues that civilization’s progress since the indus- Canada must re-engage with India, and trial revolution and noted the unprec- suggests it will take some doing to re- edented prosperity, increased life spans, turn to the heyday of the Canada-India widespread universal education and relationship which peaked in the ’50s and better healthcare that has occurred. But ’60s. he bemoaned the “debits” that all these Also up front, Portuguese Ambassador advantages have created: “We, in the Pedro Luis Baptista Moitinho De Almeida industrialized world, have increased our makes his pitch for why his country Garry Toffoli has co-authored, edited consumption of the Earth’s resources in should be chosen for a seat on the United or contributed to 13 books and one the last 30 years to such an extent that, as a Nations Security Council. theatrical show on royal and Canadian result, our collective demands on nature’s I hope you enjoy our autumn issue and history. He’s written for magazines capacity for renewal are being exceeded our hats-off to the monarchs who continue in Canada, the United Kingdom and annually by some 25 per cent.” We ex- to reign. France, and is a television and radio commentator and a lecturer. He has a political science degree from York University, is a partner in Monarchy UP FRONT Canada Productions, executive direc- Our cover subject – Prince Charles, the Prince tor of The Canadian Royal Heritage of Wales – is heir to the throne of the Common- Institute and an administrator for the wealth Realms and, in his current position, is one Churchill Society for the Advancement of the most outspoken and conscience-driven of of Parliamentary Democracy. A native the royals in the United Kingdom. He’s shown Torontonian, he is descended from here, in an image from the Press Association/ 20th-Century Italian immigrants and Canadian Press, at a reception for his Affordable 19th-Century British settlers. Rural Housing Initiative, at Clarence House, St. James's, London. 4 FALL 09 | OCT–NOV–DEC DISCOURSE|DIPLOMATICA India's rising star FEN HAMPSON long with China, India is now recognized as a major, global Aeconomic player. Its growth rates have consistently hovered in the nine per- cent range in recent years. Poverty is be- ing reduced as the ranks of India’s middle class, the largest in the developing world, swell. By one reliable, if conservative, esti- When it comes to economic growth, India (its bustling city of Mumbai pictured above) is now discussed in the same glowing terms as China but India is seen as a more “benign behemoth,” Mr. Hampson argues. mate, 50 million people or five percent of Indians are now defined as middle class – earning between $5,000 and $22,500 India is now discussed in the same with neighbouring Pakistan, which is also yearly. By 2025, middle-class Indians are glowing terms as China. However, if a Western ally, is problematic for friends of projected to number nearly 600 million, China is Jupiter in this new constella- both countries and worrying because both or 41 percent of the population. Other tion of global powers — an economic have nuclear weapons. estimates, based on purchasing power, and military powerhouse that inspires a With India’s ascension as a major say the middle class already numbers be- combination of admiration, awe, and ap- global power, Canada has begun to tween 200 and 400 million.