Canada & the Arctic: Inuit, territories and non-coastal states weigh in—Pages 15-27 EMBASSYCANADA’S FOREIGN POLICY NEWSWEEKLY OTTAWA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2010 ISSUE 300 • $3.00 CYBER SECURITY STRATEGY DEMANDED page 4 EU COPYRIGHT DEMANDS CAST A CHILL page 4 POLISH EMBASSY MOURNS PHOTO: SAM GARCIA NATIONAL EMBASSY Not-So-Sombre Moment: Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Walter Natynczyk, Governor General Michaëlle Jean and Prime Minister Stephen Harper laugh last week during a ceremony commemorating the 93rd anniversary of Vimy Ridge. Participants also remembered Canada’s First World War veterans, the last of whom died this year. Page 9. LOSS page 2 Experts see Is Security Council bid prompting link between pseudo-interest in Africa? ■ Michaëlle Jean trip highlights increased According to a rough itinerary of Ms. Jean’s trip, Gualtieri, the governor general will talk about the role of the outreach, but absence of solid initiatives. media in Senegal and Rwanda, tour several CIDA proj- ects in Rwanda and the DRC, deliver a speech to the Lee Berthiaume DRC National Assembly, and look at the economic Colvin cases and social progress achieved in Cape Verde. Ms. Jean, who was asked by Prime Minister ■ Gualtieri’s case ‘would have been an overnor General Michaëlle Jean will lead a small GCanadian delegation on a four-country tour of Stephen Harper to undertake the trip, will be embarrassment,’ whistleblower says. Africa starting today that will include stops in Rwanda, accompanied almost exclusively by several media Senegal, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cape experts, artists and human rights activists. Above STRONGER Carl Meyer Verde. The trip comes just over a year after the con- all, it appears the purpose of the visit is to facilitate tinent was shocked by a marked Canadian shift away Canada-Africa contacts. CANADA- Publications Mail Agreement #40068926 from it in favour of Latin America and the Caribbean. Continued on Page 11 xperts and a former whistleblower are MEXICO Edrawing a link between the heavy criti- TO LEVERAGE cism the government received over its treat- ment of diplomat Richard Colvin and its US TALKS recent decision to end a tumultuous 12-year legal battle with a former Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs gets new deputy page 31 employee. Joanna Gualtieri exposed profligate waste at Canadian missions abroad in the early 1990s. At minister as major overhaul launched the time, she said the department was wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on accommoda- ■ Morris Rosenberg gets stellar reviews as who have interacted with him. However, foreign NUNAVUT: tions for diplomats that weren’t being used. policy experts are now split on whether his appar- When she filed her reports on the waste, “Canada-builder.” ent lack of international experience will help or hurt Waiting for the Ms. Gualtieri said her superiors ignored DFAIT, particularly as it is preparing for an overhaul. them. When she went public, she alleged her Lee Berthiaume A career diplomat, Mr. Edwards served in many fulfillment of peers harassed and tried to intimidate her. parts of the world, including as ambassador to Eventually observers say she was pushed out fter three years holding down Fort Pearson, South Korea and Japan. He became deputy minis- promises of the department on unpaid medical leave. AForeign Affairs deputy minister Len Edwards is ter of International Trade in 2001, moved over to In 1998, Ms. Gualtieri filed a $30-mil- preparing to pass the torch—just as the department Agriculture Canada in 2004, then took over from page 25 lion lawsuit against the department for the is about to undergo a major shake-up. Peter Harder as Foreign Affairs deputy minister in alleged harassment, naming a number of Mr. Edwards’s replacement, Health Canada deputy March 2007. Continued on Page 14 minister Morris Rosenberg, is being lauded by those Continued on Page 12 EMBASSY, Wednesday, April 14, 2010—2 Diplomacy This Week Polish Embassy mourns national loss that was broken?’” Ms. Domisiewicz explains. condolences with what Ms. Domisiewicz EMBASSY STAFF “It was very moving, and the music was very thinks are more than 1,000 signatures. appropriate, like lament music for a funeral.” People have started writing their condo- During the second part of the concert, the lences and thoughts in a second book. Chatter House room was covered in almost complete dark- Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Liberal ness as the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra per- opposition leader Michael Ignatieff he somber music playing at the formed The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. and Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Walter National Arts Centre on Monday “I’ve never seen anything like this, but Natynczyk have already signed the book. was very much in tune with the there were even no side lights on, only a A photo of each of the 96 passengers who Tatmosphere of the evening as more little light on the stage, at the centre,” Ms. died in the tragic plane crash is displayed Photo: Sam Garcia than 2,000 people commemorated Polish Domisiewicz recalls. at the Embassy. “They were so important in president Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria Among the attendees were Czech our political life,” Ms. Domisiewicz says. “We Embassy and 94 other Polish passengers who died in Ambassador Karel Žebrakovsky, officials knew many of them personally.” Maria Knapik is applauded by the crowd. a plane crash over the weekend. from the French and other European embas- Eighteen Polish members of parliament The tragic accident left Poland—and the sies, and from the Department of Foreign lost their lives in the plane crash, along with state meeting in favour of a family vacation left world—in shock, especially considering the Affairs and International Trade. the commander of the Polish armed forces, Danish media and opposition parties howling. purpose of the trip. The Polish delegation “Maybe it’s not for me to judge, but I the deputy ministers for foreign affairs and Ms. Espersen is new at the job and it was heading to the Russian city of Katyn to think this was a very wonderful and touch- defence, the chief of diplomatic protocol was felt she missed a key opportunity to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the ing concert,” Ms. Domisiewicz says. and the chief of the Polish national bank. interact with such bigwigs as Mrs. Clinton murder of more than 25,000 Polish officers Although the concert was dedicated to those Mr. Harper announced he will attend the and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey killed by Soviet authorities. who lost their lives last weekend, the Polish funeral of Mr. Kaczynski and his wife on April 18. Lavrov. However, even worse is the fact that The NAC room was filled to capacity. embassy had been planning it for about a year. The Polish embassy has its doors open from Denmark currently chairs the Arctic Council. The concert began with an announcement “It’s only because the music was appro- 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. until Saturday for people to sign “After only a month in her new position as of the catastrophe, followed by a minute of priate to this situation that some of us the book of condolences and light candles. foreign minister, Lene Espersen has by nearly silence, recalls Sylwia Domisiewicz, press decided go,” Ms. Domisiewicz said. “It really all accounts committed a major blunder when officer at the Polish Embassy in Ottawa. is just a coincidence that this happened.” Danish FM catches Arctic heat she bailed out of an important meeting over “You can imagine 2,000 people standing,” Polish Ambassador Zenon Kosiniak-Kamysz Canadian reporters and opposition the Arctic,” the Copenhagen Post stated. she says. “ Really, it was so silent, so touching.” did not attend, as ambassadors were asked to critics had a field day at Foreign Minister Apparently this isn’t the first time Ms. Red and white flowers with black rib- cancel all planned events during a national day Lawrence Cannon’s expense two weeks ago Espersen’s family commitments have gotten bons, symbolizing Poland’s national colours, of mourning. However, his wife was there. after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the way of her job as a minister. The Post covered the stage. Ottawa-based soprano Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was also criticized the decision to exclude represen- reported that as justice minister in 2006, she Maria Knapik sang the Elegia, composed supposed to start his visit to Canada yesterday, tatives from Sweden, Iceland and Finland went to Spain while the Mohammed cartoon by Canadian-Polish composer Peter Paul but that trip was understandably cancelled. from an Arctic meeting in Quebec. furor was burning. And in 2009, “she rubbed Koprowski and directed by David Currie. “We were positively tuned for this visit, it However, it appears Mr. Cannon isn’t her boss, then-prime minister Anders Fogh Elegia is based on a Second World War was so much work and preparation, every- the only one who has been burned by the Rasmussen, decidedly the wrong way by poem about a son’s death. thing was ready to go,” she says. “And then experience. going to Portugal with her family the week he “The last phrase of the poem says ‘Is it a it all turned into this tragedy.” Apparently Denmark’s Foreign Minister Lene was stepping down from his post.” bullet that killed you or is it just your heart Mourners have already filled a book of Espersen’s decision to skip the Arctic coastal [email protected] Nuclear deal struck Talking Points Canada and the United States have struck a deal with Mexico that will see the three coun- US Embassy off the hook tries work to eliminate all highly-enriched ura- A motion by Ottawa city councillor Alex nium from Mexico, the Toronto Sun reported.