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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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07OTTAWA1881G-8: CANADA LOOKING FOR HELP ON THE AFGHAN-PAK
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada's Foreign Ministry briefed G-8 embassies on its recent mission to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border which was focused on border management, immigration, and counter-narcotics. Under the G-8 border initiative Canada is taking the lead on the piece of the frontier where its [...]
2007-10-09 12:03:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL CA AF PK
07OTTAWA189CANADA'S NEW ENVIRONMENT MINISTER HITS THE GROUND
[...] (C) Summary: Canada's new Environment Minister John Baird seems delighted to have responsibility for the politically charged environmental portfolio which is expected to be a key issue in the national election anticipated for later this year. Already, he has demonstrated his skills on the flo [...]
2007-02-02 16:40:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNSENV PGOV PINR ENRG CA
07OTTAWA1903NEW CANADIAN PANEL TO REVIEW AFGHAN OPTIONS;
[...] (U) Prime Minister Stephen Harper in a mid-morning press conference on October 12 announced the formation of a new "Independent Advisory Panel on Canada's Future Role in Afghanistan." He emphasized that he expects the panel to "provide expert non-partisan advice that will help parliamentar [...]
2007-10-12 20:55:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID MARR AF CA
07OTTAWA1910OCTOBER 16 THRONE SPEECH: NEW BEGINNING OR AN END?
[...] (C) Summary. The government's early evening October 16 Speech from the Throne will lay out the revised agenda of Prime Minister Stephen Harper for the new parliamentary session. The Bloc Quebecois and the New Democratic Party (NDP) are already committed to opposing it. The Liberals therefor [...]
2007-10-15 19:29:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV CA
07OTTAWA1922CANADA: MAKING THE CASE FOR THE AFGHAN MISSION
[...] (C/NF) Summary. The Canadian body politic is highly conflicted over the Afghan mission, with one poll in September indicating that 68 pct of Canadians want a complete pullout in February 2009 and 56 pct want the troops out even earlier, while an October poll shows that 54 pct want Canadian tr [...]
2007-10-17 16:10:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MOPS PGOV CA AF PK
07OTTAWA1924 THE HARPER GOVERNMENT'S BLUEPRINT FOR PARLIAMENT
[...] (U) In a tradition-heavy ceremony on October 16 that also broke with tradition by taking place in the early evening rather than mid-afternoon, Canada's Governor General opened the new session of Parliament by reading the government's "Speech from the Throne," which lays out clearly the agenda [...]
2007-10-17 18:04:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ECON SENV CA
07OTTAWA1928 HARPER GOVERNMENT TO SURVIVE THRONE SPEECH
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Liberal leadership will not seek to bring down the Harper government over the contents of the October 16 Throne Speech, recognizing election fatigue among the voters. The Liberals have charged that the government's comments on Afghanistan were nonetheless too ambiguous, w [...]
2007-10-17 22:57:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL CA AF
07OTTAWA1932CANADA MAKES AUNG SAN SUU KYI AN HONORARY CITIZEN
[...] (U) On October 17, the Parliament of Canada unanimously adopted a motion from Prime Minister Stephen Harper to make Aung San Suu Kyi an honorary Canadian citizen "as a demonstration of Canada's support for the people of Burma in their struggle against the brutal military dictatorship that rules [...]
2007-10-18 18:57:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV PREL BM CA
07OTTAWA1954GOC RESPONSE RE 2008 US-CANADA BILATERAL
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel demarche regarding the upcoming Bilateral Consultative Group (BCG) meeting in Washington, Deputy Director for Counterterrorism Yves Beaulieu and Policy Advisor Neil Brennan from the International Crime and Terrorism Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and [...]
2007-10-22 18:38:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL CA
07OTTAWA1955OTTAWA OUTLINES INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STRATEGY
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 17, the Government of Canada announced a three-step strategy to strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR). While short on details and timelines, the strategy addresses several USG's concerns, including conforming Canadian law with the WIPO Inte [...]
2007-10-22 20:03:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR
07OTTAWA1956CANADA AGREES TO HCA NEGOTIATIONS MEETINGS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-22 20:16:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL KTIA CWC CA
07OTTAWA1957CANADIAN VIEWS ON NEXT STEPS ON OAS INDIGENOUS
[...] (SBU) According to Paul Gibbard, Director of the Office of Aboriginal and Circumpolar Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada shares our views that the OAS Declaration is ill-conceived and is headed for a "train-wreck." Gibbard said that Canada had a number [...]
2007-10-22 20:55:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL CA
07OTTAWA1958CANADA SEEKS HIGH-LEVEL U.S. PARTICIPATION IN PRT
[...] (SBU) Please see action request in para. 4. 2. (SBU) On October 22, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Afghanistan Task Force Operations Officer David Fairchild raised the upcoming November 25-27 PRT conference in Lithuania entitled "Provincial Reconstruction [...]
2007-10-23 15:14:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS CA AF
07OTTAWA1959PRESSING BOLIVIA TO END SUPPORT FOR IRAN'S NUCLEAR
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel demarche, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Deputy Director for Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Disarmament Shawn Caza promised on October 22 to seek clearance to instruct Canadian officials in La Paz to urge the Bolivian government to reverse i [...]
2007-10-23 15:18:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KNNP IAEA USUN BO IR CA
07OTTAWA1961GOOD PROSPECTS FOR REVISED SECURITY LEGISLATION
[...] (U) Summary: The Harper government on October 22 introduced a bill to amend Canada's long-standing system of immigration security certificates in response to a February 2007 Supreme Court ruling that had struck down key provisions as unconstitutional. The certificates provide the government t [...]
2007-10-23 19:10:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PGOV PREL CA
07OTTAWA1962GOVERNMENT OF CANADA SHARES USG'S IPR CONCERNS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-23 19:11:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON KIPR CA
07OTTAWA1966CANADIAN READOUT ON DEATH OF MULLAH NAQIBULLA
[...] (/NF) Summary. Canadian officials are concerned about the power vacuum left in the wake of the death of Mullah Naqibullah (Naqib) in Kandahar, as well as likely diminished loyalty to the central government from the Alokozai tribe and greater dangers for NATO-ISAF operations in the Arghandab [...]
2007-10-24 20:44:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MOPS AF CA
07OTTAWA1973CANADIANS DECLINE TO PARTICIPATE IN MNF-1
[...] (SBU) As expected (ref b),the Government of Canada has declined to participate in the MNF-1 Coalition Conference (ref a). Para 2 includes text of an October 24 letter from Assistant Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Political Director Colleen Swords to General Petraeus. 2. (SBU) Be [...]
2007-10-26 13:28:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS IZ CA
07OTTAWA1982CANADA WILL KEEP UP PRESSURE ON BURMA
[...] (C) According to Deborah Paul, Director for the Southeast Asia and Pacific Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT),Canada fully shares our concern with the situation in Burma (ref a). The GOC has already increased its diplomatic efforts to put pressure on [...]
2007-10-26 20:36:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPHUM CVIS PREL ETRD CA BM
07OTTAWA1991 THE CANADIAN DOLLAR AND INFLATION CONTROL
[...] (u) Summary: The consequences of the rapid appreciation of the Canadian dollar's (the "loonie") value to above $1 U.S. for the first time in more than three decades are a topic of daily public discussion in Canada. Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge and other Bank officials have hinted that [...]
2007-10-29 20:06:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN CA
07OTTAWA1993CANADA: POSITIVE INTERIM RESPONSE TO PIC DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-30 11:59:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL NATO PK CA
07OTTAWA2015GOVERNMENT OF CANADA AGREES WITH FATF STATEMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-01 19:08:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL MNUC ECON KTFN CA
07OTTAWA2016 HARPER GOVERNMENT ADVANCES ITS AGENDA... FOR NOW
[...] (SBU) Summary: With the opposition Liberal party abstaining on another key confidence vote on October 31, the Harper government continues aggressively to push its policy agenda in Parliament. Key legislation that Prime Minister Harper promised in the Speech from the Throne (ref c) - on terrori [...]
2007-11-01 20:04:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
07OTTAWA2020CANADA: (2/5) 220TH MEETING OF THE U.S.-CANADA
[...] (U) U.S. Co-Chairman George Nethercutt and Canadian Co-Chairman Rick Casson, M.P. convened the 220th meeting of the Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD) at the Canadian Maritime Warfare Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia October 9-11, 2007 (septels). This is the second in a series of five tele [...]
2007-11-02 19:16:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR MOPS NORAD CA
07OTTAWA2022CANADA: (4/5) 220TH MEETING OF THE U.S.-CANADA
[...] (U) Summary. U.S. Co-Chairman George Nethercutt and Canadian Co-Chairman Rick Casson, M.P. convened the 220th meeting of the Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD) at the Canadian Maritime Warfare Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia October 9 - 11, 2007. This is the fourth in a series of five te [...]
2007-11-02 19:16:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS NORAD CA
07OTTAWA2023CANADA: (5/5) 220TH MEETING OF THE U.S.-CANADA
[...] (U) Summary. U.S. Co-Chairman George Nethercutt and Canadian Co-Chairman Rick Casson, M.P. convened the 220th meeting of the Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD) at the Canadian Maritime Warfare Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia October 9 - 11, 2007. This is the fifth in a series of five tel [...]
2007-11-02 19:17:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS NORAD CA
07OTTAWA2024CANADA: (1/5) 220TH MEETING OF THE U.S.-CANADA
[...] (U) Summary: U.S. Co-Chairman George Nethercutt and Canadian Co-Chairman Rick Casson, M.P. convened the 220th meeting of the U.S.-Canadian Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD) at the Canadian Maritime Warfare Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia October 9 - 11, 2007. Major topics during the 220t [...]
2007-11-02 19:17:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS NORAD CA
07OTTAWA2029INFORMATION ON HOST GOVERNMENT PRACTICES -
[...] (SBU) Officials of the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) declined to meet with Emboffs to discuss elements of their border practices in time to meet the deadline for responding to reftel. The entire issue of "Watch-listing" is extremely politically sensitive in Canada. Therefore, respo [...]
2007-11-05 14:43:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL KVPR PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS CA
07OTTAWA2034CANADA ON MID-NOVEMBER IAEA REPORT ON IRANIAN
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para para 5. 2. (C) In response to reftel demarche, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Nuclear Non-Proliferation Adviser Che van Haastrecht on November 5 expressed appreciation for our text outlining how the P5 Plus [...]
2007-11-05 22:12:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPARM KNNP IAEA IR CA
07OTTAWA2035THE U.S. - CANADA BORDER IN 2007: GROUND TRUTH AND
[...] (SBU) Managing U.S.-Canada relations means managing the border. It's that simple. And that makes the border the number one priority for Mission Canada. For the past year dozens of officers from the Embassy and our seven consulates have fanned out across Canada to observe the border and disc [...]
2007-11-05 22:18:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM PGOV ASEC KHLS ECON CA
07OTTAWA2036CANADIAN VIEWS ON ADVANCING THE DEMOCRACY AGENDA
[...] (SBU) In a discussion with PolMinCouns on November 5, Ben Rowswell, Manager of the Democracy Unit in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT),expressed appreciation for reftel views on the upcoming 4th Community of Democracies Ministerial in Bamako. He said that Pa [...]
2007-11-05 22:36:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KDEM PHUM UNGA CA
07OTTAWA2048THE U.S. - CANADA BORDER IN 2007: GROUND TRUTH AND
[...] (SBU) As part of a year-long effort to "map the border," Mission Canada officers fanned out along the frontier to observe ground truth in how the border functions and how to make it work better. Part I of this three-part series covered our conclusions and recommendations. This message covers [...]
2007-11-07 20:37:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV ASEC KHLS ECON CA
07OTTAWA2058THE U.S. - CANADA BORDER IN 2007: GROUND TRUTH AND
[...] (SBU) As part of a year-long effort to "map the border," Mission Canada officers visited the frontier to observe ground truth in how the border functions and how to make it work better. Part I of this three-part series reviewed conclusions and recommendations, Part II covered ports of entry, [...]
2007-11-08 18:12:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV ASEC KHLS ECON CASC CA
07OTTAWA2060CANADIAN PARTICIPATION IN PDG STEERING GROUP
[...] (SBU) According to Nancy Smyth, Deputy Director of Policy Planning at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT),DFAIT's Director General for Economic Affairs John Sloan will lead Canada's delegation to the November 12 Steering Group meeting, joined by Nicole Gesnot fro [...]
2007-11-08 18:36:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KDEM PREL OECD CA
07OTTAWA2062TERRORIST FINANCE: CANADA'S PROVISIONS AGAINST
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-08 20:34:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN KCRM PTER CA
07OTTAWA2069CANADIANS, GERMANS DISCUSSING HELICOPTER SUPPORT
[...] (S/NF) Summary: German and Canadian officials in Ottawa are discussing the possible deployment of German CH-53 rotary-wing aircraft to southern Afghanistan in support of NATO-ISAF operations. The Canadians asked us to avoid raising or pressing the matter with the Germans for now because thei [...]
2007-11-09 15:42:00Embassy OttawaSECRET//NOFORNPREL MOPS MARR NATO CA GM
07OTTAWA2073NEW CHALLENGES TO CANADA'S AFGHAN DETAINEE POLICY
[...] (C) Summary: According to Canadian officials, the government soon will face new legal and political challenges to its practice of conveying detainees to Afghan authorities. Official documents that the Canadian federal court has compelled the government to convey to opponents of the policy w [...]
2007-11-09 22:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPHUM NATO AG CA
07OTTAWA2076APEC ANTI-COUNTERFEITING HEALTH PRODUCTS SEMINAR:
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-13 16:58:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ECIN APECO TBIO ERD CA
07OTTAWA2078DEMARCHE ON DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA
[...] (C) In a meeting with PolMinCouns on November 13, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's South America Division Director Daniel Daley expressed appreciation for reftel views as well as shared concern about negative trends in Venezuela. He cited mid-October talks in Washingt [...]
2007-11-13 19:38:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM VE CA
07OTTAWA2080NEW CHALLENGES TO HARPER GOVERNMENT FROM AN OLD
[...] (C) Summary: New revelations about a more than decade-old scandal involving then-Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney have begun to haunt the Conservative government of PM Stephen Harper. With opposition members of Parliament openly raising the possibility of a cover-up and rifts devel [...]
2007-11-13 21:14:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA
07OTTAWA2107(C) CANADA STILL CONSIDERING DESIGNATION OF TRO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-16 20:30:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER PREL CE CA
07OTTAWA2123CANADA TO ATTEND ASIA PACIFIC DEMOCRACY
[...] In response to reftel invitation, Canada plans to attend the working breakfast to discuss the Asia Pacific Democracy Partnership on the sidelines of the upcoming Community of Democracies ministerial meeting in Bamako, Mali. Text of letter in para 2. 2. Begin text His Excellency David [...]
2007-11-20 17:33:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM CA
07OTTAWA2125SCENESETTER FOR CANADA POLICY PLANNING TALKS,
[...] (C) Summary: Stephen Harper leads one of the most stable minority governments in Canadian history. He is a Western conservative who came to power on a domestic agenda but has been surprisingly focused on foreign affairs. Harper's foreign policy style includes a halting transition from "peac [...]
2007-11-20 23:06:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CA
07OTTAWA213CANADIAN GOVERNMENT INCREASINGLY FOCUSED ON CHINA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and International Trade Minister David Emerson recently returned to Canada from separate, overlapping trade and economic trips to China. Both trips were described in the press and by government officials in positive terms. Excluding an ag [...]
2007-02-05 22:01:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETRD CA CH
07OTTAWA2133CANADA SEEKS DEDICATED HELICOPTER AND UAV SUPPORT
[...] (C) Summary: The Canadian government is lobbying European NATO partners to provide dedicated helicopter and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) support in the Kandahar region of Regional Command - South (RC-S) in Afghanistan. Canada's military has no organic capability of this type, despite an on [...]
2007-11-21 21:12:00Embassy OttawaSECRET//NOFORNPREL MOPS NATO AF CA
07OTTAWA2135CANADIAN OFFICIALS AND 'MANLEY PANEL' CHART WAY
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Canada's Defense Minister believes Canadian and Afghan forces are performing well in southern Afghanistan but he and his colleagues are worried about the minority Conservative government's ability to convince Parliament to authorize an extension of the current mission from 200 [...]
2007-11-21 21:58:00Embassy OttawaSECRET//NOFORNPREL MOPS NATO AF CA
07OTTAWA2138CANADIAN VIEWS ON OSCE MADRID MINISTERIAL
[...] (C) In a meeting with PolMinCouns on November 23, the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Defence and Security Relations Division Director Michael Walma and Deputy Director Anne Burgess expressed appreciation for reftel views on the OSCE Madrid Ministerial and said that C [...]
2007-11-23 20:08:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL OSCE PGOV PHUM CA
07OTTAWA214HOUSE PASSES NON-BINDING KYOTO RESOLUTION
[...] (U) The House of Commons voted along party lines on Monday to adopt a non-binding resolution calling on the government to "reconfirm Canada's commitment to honor the principles and targets of the Kyoto Protocol in their entirety." Liberal (and Opposition) leader Stephane Dion introduced the me [...]
2007-02-06 14:47:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG PGOV CA
07OTTAWA2150CANADIAN ATTENDANCE AT G-8 INTERNATIONAL
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Director of Crime and International Terrorism Evelyn Puxley will lead the Canadian delegation to the Third Annual G-8 International Kidnappers Conference, accompanied by officers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canadian Security [...]
2007-11-27 12:55:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC PREL PGOV KCRM CA
07OTTAWA2170 CANADIAN FOREIGN MINISTER LAUDS ANNAPOLIS CONFERENCE
[...] (U) Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier, in a November 27 statement, praised the "historic" undertakings of the Annapolis Conference and offered Canada's continued support as the parties move forward toward the goal of two states living in peace and security. Full text in para 2. Bernier led t [...]
2007-11-28 19:41:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL XF CA
07OTTAWA2205CANADA'S RESPONSE TO THE LIBERTAD ACT
[...] (U) Answers below to reftel questions derive from information from the Deputy Director of the Central America and Caribbean Division, the Cuba Desk Officer, and the Trade Commissioner and Director of Latin America and Caribbean Commercial Relations at the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs [...]
2007-12-04 12:46:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL CA CU
07OTTAWA2207CANADA ON NIE REGARDING IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM
[...] (C) The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Director General for the Middle East and North Africa Gordon Venner expressed appreciation to PolMinCouns on December 3 for reftel documents on the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear program, calling them "quit [...]
2007-12-04 18:18:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL KNNP MNUC IR CA
07OTTAWA2209CANADA'S RESPONSE TO U.S. CASH COURIER INITIATIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-04 21:30:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PREL PTER ASEC CA
07OTTAWA2215CANADIAN CONTRIBUTIONS FOR PALESTINIAN SECURITY
[...] (C) Summary. In November 28-29 meetings with senior Canadian officials, U.S. Security Coordinator (USSC) for the Israel-Palestinian Authority Lt. General Keith Dayton expressed his high appreciation for Canadian contributions to his staff and asked for additional assistance on staff and pro [...]
2007-12-06 18:35:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG EAID WE IS GZ CA
07OTTAWA222IMPLEMENTATION OF WHTI AIR RULE--TWO WEEKS ON AND
[...] (U) Two weeks after the January 23 implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) rule requiring U.S.-bound air travelers to hold a passport as proof of identity and citizenship, there have been no serious problems or delays reported at any of Canada's airports. Having been [...]
2007-02-06 21:38:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KHLS EAIR ASEC CPAS CA
07OTTAWA2225CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR THE PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE
[...] (C) PolMinCouns briefed Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Director General for Middle East and North Africa Gordon E. Venner on the upcoming Paris Donors Conference and expected U.S. contributions to the Palestinian Authority (reftel) on December 7. (Both Foreign Minister [...]
2007-12-07 15:54:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID KWBG KPAL IS CA
07OTTAWA2227EMBASSY OTTAWA'S TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-07 16:28:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN ETTC PTER
07OTTAWA2230CANADA REPORTEDLY DRAFTING ANTI-COUNTERFEITING
[...] (U) Summary: The Government of Canada is reportedly preparing two major pieces of legislation designed to better protect intellectual property rights (IPR). The Government of Canada has confirmed that the first bill, an update to Canada's copyright law (see refs A and B),will be introduced t [...]
2007-12-07 21:30:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD KIPR CA
07OTTAWA2231CANADA WORKING HARD ON COUNTRY SPECIFIC RESOLUTIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-07 21:32:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV CA UNGA
07OTTAWA2233U.S.-CANADA POLICY PLANNING TALKS: AFGHANISTAN,
[...] (C) Summary: U.S. and Canadian Policy Planners met November 29-30 to discuss the broad strategic outlook over the next 25 years (with specific reference to the National Intelligence Council's 2020 and 2025 projects) and a range of international and regional issues that represent policy priorit [...]
2007-12-07 22:06:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CA AF PK XB XL XM XK
07OTTAWA2241 CANADA SEES NEED TO STRENGTHEN MEASURES AGAINST SECURITIES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A recent report commissioned by Canada's federal police force (Royal Canadian Mounted Police, or RCMP),and written by former GOC senior financial official and bank regulator Nicholas LePan, criticized the institutions and resources available for fighting white-collar crime in C [...]
2007-12-11 15:49:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN KCRM CA
07OTTAWA2251MINISTERS CITE MEASURABLE RESULTS IN AFGHAN MISSION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-12 20:38:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID PTER AF CA
07OTTAWA2254CANADA IN ACCORD ON IRAN
[...] (C) The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Director General for the Middle East and North America, Gordon Venner, on December 12 expressed renewed appreciation for ref a update on U.S. policy on the Iran National Intelligence Estimate. He confirmed that "the views of ou [...]
2007-12-12 21:12:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP MNUC IR CA
07OTTAWA2255CRITICAL MEDICAL RADIOISOTOPE PRODUCTION MAY
[...] (U) Summary: In the face of a growing shortage of medical radioisotopes, the Canadian House of Commons passed emergency legislation late on December 11 to exempt the nuclear reactor where much of the world's supply of medical radioisotopes is produced from regulatory oversight (for a very narro [...]
2007-12-12 21:45:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO ECON KSCA CA
07OTTAWA2260LEGISLATION PASSED, AECL RESTARTS REACTOR
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-13 19:37:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO ECON KSCA CA
07OTTAWA2265CANADA ON NORTHERN UGANDA, JUBA
[...] (C) This is an action message -- see para 5. 2. (C) In a meeting with PolMinCouns on December 14, Department of Foreign Affairs Director for Eastern and Southern Africa Lisa Stadelbauer and Director of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Group Shawn Barber expressed appreciation for r [...]
2007-12-14 20:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PHUM UG CA
07OTTAWA2266CANADA ON KOSOVO
[...] (C) According to Department of Foreign Affairs Director General for Central, East, and Southern Europe Robert Hage, Canada will not be among either the first or the last to recognize Kosovo following a unilateral declaration of independence. While the government has not yet reached a formal [...]
2007-12-14 21:05:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV YI CA
07OTTAWA2269CANADIAN HELP ON MISSING AMCIT ROBERT LEVINSON
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs Director General for the Middle East and North Africa Gordon E. Venner promised PolMinCouns on December 14 that Canada would "certainly do what we can in concert with other like minded Embassies in Teheran" to seek information from the Iranian government abo [...]
2007-12-17 13:51:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL CASC PTER IR CA
07OTTAWA2272CANADA COMMITS $300 MILLION FOR THE PALESTINIAN
[...] (U) As anticipated (ref a),Canada has made a sizable commitment -- $300 million over the next five years -- in support of the Palestine Authority and the Middle East peace process. At the Paris donors' conference on December 17, Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier pledged to "increase our part [...]
2007-12-17 20:08:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID KWBG KPAL IS CA
07OTTAWA2274CANADA WILL MAINTAIN NEGATIVE VOTE ON DURBAN
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 3. 2. (SBU) Deputy Director Robert Sinclair in DFAIT's Human Rights Division confirmed on December 17 that Canada would vote against the funding of the Durban Review Conference in the upcoming plenary vote. He added that Canada is more concerned [...]
2007-12-17 21:01:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM UNGA CA
07OTTAWA2276AECL REACTOR RESTARTED
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-18 18:59:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO ECON KSCA CA
07OTTAWA2278CANADA COMPLETES WORK ON BILATERAL TAX TREATY
[...] ON DECEMBER 14, FINANCE MINISTER FLAHERTY ANNOUNCED THAT, AS A RESULT OF BILL S-2 RECEIVING ROYAL ASSENT, THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT HAS NOW COMPLETED THE STEPS REQUIRED IN CANADA TO GIVE EFFECT TO THE FIFTH PROTOCOL TO THE CANADA-UNITED STATES INCOME TAX CONVENTION. THE PROTOCOL WILL COME INTO [...]
2007-12-18 21:48:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON ETRD CA US
07OTTAWA2279GoC FOREIGN MINISTRY KEEN ON DISASTER TALKS
[...] Econoff and ESTH/ECON Specialist as well as the Acting CBP Attach met with officials from Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) on December 17 to invite DFAIT participation in the meeting, proposed for January or February 2008, of the Consultative Group called for in the bilateral 19 [...]
2007-12-18 22:10:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR ECON PREL CA MX
07OTTAWA2280NEW CANADIAN PLEDGE TO THE WORLD BANK'S
[...] ON DECEMBER 14, CANADIAN FINANCE MINISTER FLAHERTY ANNOUNCED THAT CANADA WILL CONTRIBUTE CDOLS 1.3 BILLION TO THE WORLD BANK'S INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION. "OUR GOVERNMENT IS COMMITTED TO ENSURING CANADA'S INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE IS EFFECTIVE AND THAT TAXPAYERS' MONEY IS WELL SPEN [...]
2007-12-18 22:13:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON IDA AF CA
07OTTAWA2294UN BUDGET DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel demarche by PolMinCouns on December 20, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Director for UN and Commonwealth Affairs David Wittmann confirmed that Canada shared our concern about growth in the UN budget and that its delegation in New York was work [...]
2007-12-20 16:14:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AORC UNGA CA
07OTTAWA2295CANADIAN OPPOSITION LEADER OPPOSES EXTENSION OF
[...] (C) Summary: Opposition leader Stephane Dion ruled out Liberal Party support for the extension of Canadian combat troops in Kandahar during a discussion of Afghanistan with Ambassador Wilkins, the British High Commissioner, and RC-South country diplomats on December 18. Dion criticized the g [...]
2007-12-20 16:24:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR AF CA
07OTTAWA2299CANADIAN PARTICIPATION IN PSI 5TH ANNIVERSARY
[...] (U) In response to reftel demarche on December 13, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Senior Advisor for Non-Proliferation Michael Blackmore informed Embassy on December 20 that Assistant Deputy Minister and Political Director Colleen Swords plans to head the Canadian del [...]
2007-12-20 21:49:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM KNNP PREL CA
07OTTAWA2307CANADA WILL SUPPORT PROSPER'S CANDIDACY FOR UN CERD
[...] (U) In response to ref b demarche on November 19, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Human Rights Policy Officer Daniel Ulmer confirmed on December 21 that Canada will support the candidacy of Pierre-Richard Prosper for the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Ra [...]
2007-12-21 20:06:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM UNGA CA
07OTTAWA2308NEW BY-ELECTIONS MAY SIGNAL CONSERVATIVE CONFIDENCE
[...] (U) Prime Minister Stephen Harper on December 21 set the date of March 17 for by-elections in the Commons' ridings in Toronto Centre (Ontario),Willowdale (Ontario),Vancouver Quadra (British Columbia),and Desnethe-Missnippi-Churchill River (Saskatchewan). Liberals (including three former [...]
2007-12-21 21:30:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA
07OTTAWA2322CANADIAN PM AND DEFMIN PRAISE AFGHAN MISSION,
[...] (U) Summary: Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay, Chief of Defense Staff Rick Hillier, and U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins visited Canadian troops in Kandahar on Christmas day. MacKay underscored the "remarkable progress" in Afghanistan, while the Ambassador praised Canada's contribution to [...]
2007-12-27 23:13:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MOPS MARR AF CA
07OTTAWA2326PM LINKS PAKISTAN TO AFGHAN MISSION; MEDIA COMMENT
[...] (U) Summary: Prime Minister Harper joined other world leaders on December 27 in condemning the murder of Benazir Bhutto, stressing that Bhutto's death "cannot be allowed to permit any delay in the return of Pakistan to full democracy." Harper expressed concern about the implications of Bhutto [...]
2007-12-31 13:00:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS MARR PK AF CA
07OTTAWA234CANADA, U.S. TO CARRY SAME MESSAGE TO NATO
[...] (C/NF) Following up on Assistant Secretary Boucher's February 5 meetings with his Regional Command - South (RC-S) counterparts in Ottawa (septel),we presented reftel points on February 7 to Department of National Defense (DND) NATO Policy Deputy Director Michael Kaduck and Department of Fore [...]
2007-02-07 23:08:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR MOPS NATO PINS AF CA
07OTTAWA247CANADIAN NOMINEES FOR CONFERENCE IN EUROPE ON
[...] (U) Embassy Ottawa nominates the individuals identified in paras 2-6 to attend the conference on modern insurgency in Munich, 26-27 March 2007. Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) --------------------------------------------- ---------------- 2. (SBU) DFAIT nomin [...]
2007-02-08 21:24:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID PROP PTER MARR KISL
07OTTAWA249CANADA: NO POSITION YET ON LIBERIA'S ARREARS, WILL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-08 22:17:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN LI
07OTTAWA250NUNAVUT PREMIER EXPRESSES CONCERNS OVER POLAR BEAR
[...] (SBU) Nunavut premier Paul Okalik called on Ambassador on February 7 to express his concerns over the Fish and Wildlife Service's December 27 announcement proposing to list the polar bear as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act. Economic Minister-Counselor and ESTH Counselor also sat i [...]
2007-02-09 13:59:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV CA
07OTTAWA266PSI: CANADIAN FOLLOW-UP ON ATTEMPT TO SHIP
[...] Action request: See para 3. 2. (SBU) Responding to refs A and C, on February 9 Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Export Controls Division Deputy Director Steven Goodinson conveyed to us the points below regarding the attempted shipment of U.S.-origin test eq [...]
2007-02-09 19:52:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM KNNP MNUC ETTC PREL SY CA
07OTTAWA267CANADA ANNOUNCES FORESTRY SUPPORT; SAYS IT DOES
[...] (u) On February 8, Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn announced a C$127.5 million aid package for Canada,s struggling forestry sector. The GOC believes that a strong forestry sector "is vital to a strong Canadian economy." Under the aid package, C$122.5 million will go toward three initiati [...]
2007-02-09 20:23:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA EAGR ECON EIND ETRD
07OTTAWA272WMD Foreign Consequence Management MoU
[...] Summary: The Embassy believes that the suggested MoU between DFAIT and State is not necessary because existing arrangements already address its intent. These include a 1986 treaty-level all-hazards mutual assistance agreement; the 1999 Canada-U.S. "Guidelines Concerning Cooperation on Chemica [...]
2007-02-09 21:27:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDKTIA PTER TBIO CA
07OTTAWA303ADDITIONAL CANADIAN AID TO SUDAN
[...] (U) Summary: On February 13, International Cooperation Minister Verner announced that Canada is committing C$13 million over five years to fund an umbrella project to support displaced populations and home communities in Sudan's disputed regions of Abyei, South Kordofan and Blue Nile. End Sum [...]
2007-02-14 22:36:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV SOCI PREF CA SU
07OTTAWA312CANADIAN IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1718 ON NORTH
[...] (U) During Economic Minister-Counselor's February 16 demarche at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) on Canada's implementation of UNSCR 1737 on Iran (reported septel),he learned about the GoC's implementation of UNSCR 1718 on the DPRK. 2. (U) DFAIT United Nat [...]
2007-02-16 21:07:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL KNNP EFIN ETTC KN CA
07OTTAWA316CANADA'S POSITIVE RESPONSE TO UNSCR 1737 DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel delivered by Economic Minister Counselor to Mark Gwozdecky, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Nuclear Division Director, Gwozdecky said that Canada shares the United States' view of the risks of Iran's nu [...]
2007-02-16 22:19:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL KNNP EFIN ETTC IR CA
07OTTAWA338CANADA'S POSITIVE RESPONSE TO IMF VOTE ON ZIMBABWE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-22 22:32:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL
07OTTAWA345AFGHANISTAN: A/S BOUCHER'S DECEMBER 14-15 VISIT TO
[...] (C) Welcome to Ottawa. Your visit provides a great opportunity to reinforce the improved relationship we have developed with Canada since you were here earlier this year. It will be an excellent chance to take stock of what we are doing together in Afghanistan and elsewhere in South Asia, to [...]
2007-02-23 22:35:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV MARR AF CA
07OTTAWA349GOC PLANS FOR WHO POLIO CONSULTATION
[...] (U) ESTH discussed WHO DG Chan's upcoming high-level consultation on polio eradication with GOC officials from Health Canada and Foreign Affairs Canada and provided a non-paper drawn from reftel. Our interlocutors were well aware of Dr. Chan's initiative but were still deciding who would repr [...]
2007-02-26 18:02:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO EAID SENV CA
07OTTAWA351LIBERAL ENVIRONMENT CRITIC SHARES VIEWS ON CLIMATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Liberal MP and environment critic David McGuinty (younger brother of Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty) has substantial experience on economic and environmental issues at the national and international levels and appears a formidable opponent to counter Tory environment Minister Jo [...]
2007-02-26 18:40:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV PINR CA
07OTTAWA363CANADA LOOKING TO NEXT STEPS TO BRING IRAN INTO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-26 23:02:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL KNNP ETTC IR CA
07OTTAWA416DEMARCHE ON MAINTAINING ITA DUTY-FREE COVERAGE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-06 19:30:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD
07OTTAWA432NATO: CANADA SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON CROSS-GROUP
[...] (C) Responding to reftel points on cross-group stationing, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) NATO Deputy Director Isabelle Poupart said Canada would join us in our effort to get the First Option adopted. She noted, however, that, like the U.S., Canada could live w [...]
2007-03-07 22:43:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL KCFE NATO CA
07OTTAWA448CANADA: 2007 SPECIAL 301 RECOMMENDATION
[...] (SBU) Summary and Recommendation: Despite optimism after the Conservative Party took power in early 2006, Canada's track record on strengthening IPR protection has remained disappointing. With one notable exception regarding pharmaceutical data protection, the GOC has made no discernable prog [...]
2007-03-09 15:49:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR CA
07OTTAWA452INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ (ICI) UN INTERIM
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-09 23:24:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL CA IZ
07OTTAWA453CANADA'S IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1737 ON IRAN
[...] (U) Foreign Minister Mackay announced how the Canadian government is implementing UNSCR 1737 on the Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear program on February 27. In a press statement, he said that "the Government of Canada has satisfied its obligations and is fully implementing Resolution 1737, [...]
2007-03-09 23:25:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM EFIN PREL KNNP ETTC IR CA
07OTTAWA47MORE CANADIAN AID TO AFGHANISTAN ANNOUNCED:
[...] (U) Summary: On January 9, International Cooperation Minister Josee Verner announced that Canada will provide C$8.8 million for demining activities in Kandahar province and across Afghanistan as well as C$1.9 million to promote community-led development in that province. The Minister made th [...]
2007-01-10 13:20:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PREL SOCI AF CA
07OTTAWA495CANADA RESPONSE RE: COMMERCIAL REMOTE SENSING
[...] (SBU) We delivered reftel on March 14 to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Policy Adviser for Science and Technology Phillip Baines, who expressed appreciation for para 9 reminder and para 10 draft text. 2. (C) Per reftel para 9, Baines said he would soon [...]
2007-03-15 20:32:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL ETTC CA
07OTTAWA496CANADA TO SUPPORT US POSITION ON PARTNERSHIP FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-15 20:32:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM OECD PREL EAID KDEM CA
07OTTAWA50HARPER NAMES BAIRD ENVIRONMENT MINISTER; HOPES FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The most noteworthy change in PM Harper's January 4 cabinet re-shuffle in preparation for a probable election later this year saw the oft-criticized Rona Ambrose depart Environment Canada for the much less sensitive Intergovernmental Affairs portfolio. Her replaceme [...]
2007-01-11 13:24:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG PGOV PINR CA
07OTTAWA505CANADA: NEW BUDGET COULD SPUR FEDERAL ELECTION
[...] (SBU) Canada's Conservative Government will deliver its second federal budget on March 19. The budget vote, possibly as early as the week of March 26, is an automatic confidence vote that could determine the timing of the next federal election. The budget will be seen as a sign of the Harper [...]
2007-03-16 20:21:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL CA
07OTTAWA524 Canada's federal budget provides lots of cash to
[...] (U) Summary: Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty laid out the government's budget on March 19 with the lion's share of new spending, C$39 billion, directed toward the provinces in the effort to create 'Fiscal Balance' in the federation. As expected, it is an "election" budget crafted to pro [...]
2007-03-21 17:54:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN PGOV CA
07OTTAWA578CANADA'S IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1747 ON IRAN
[...] (SBU) On March 28, Economic Minister-Counselor delivered ref B demarche to John Hannaford, Director of DFAIT's United Nations, Human Rights, and Economic Law Division and urged quick GoC action to implement sanctions imposed by UNSCR 1747, especially with regard to Bank Sepah. Economic Minist [...]
2007-03-28 21:48:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PARM EFIN KTFN ETTC IR CA
07OTTAWA585CANADA ANNOUNCES NEW HEALTH FUNDING FOR HAITI
[...] (U) Summary: International Cooperation Minister Josee Verner recently announced that the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) will commit over C$45 million for new health-related development projects in Haiti: C$18.75 million to support the development of Haiti's health system; C$ [...]
2007-03-29 21:00:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON SOCI CA HA
07OTTAWA627RE-WRITTEN CLEAN AIR ACT WOULD CAP GHG EMISSIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Conservative's "Clean Air Act" emerged March 30 from its legislative committee re-draft a very different document from the draft bill that went to the committee in December 2006. The new bill C-30 emphasizes hard targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and penalties f [...]
2007-04-05 19:55:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG PGOV CA
07OTTAWA629CANADA'S POSITIVE RESPONSE TO U.S. DESIGNATION OF
[...] (SBU) On Aril 5, 2007 Econoff delivered points in reftel to Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs officials from the legal office, non-proliferation office, and Iran desk. The Canadian officials expressed their support for U.S. and UN policies of freezing financial assets of entities and ind [...]
2007-04-05 21:15:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIR KNNP PREL PARM
07OTTAWA639CANADIAN REACTION TO LATEST IPCC REPORT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Environment minister Baird reacted to the latest IPCC report with a statement promising early announcement of mandatory targets for reducing emissions of GHG and air pollutants. The Conservative government has been under intense pressure for its failure to place a policy prior [...]
2007-04-10 17:18:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG CA
07OTTAWA651 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR PDAS MCNERNEY AND
[...] (SBU) Post grants country clearance for visit of PDAS Patricia McNerney, Kurt Kessler, Anthony Ruggiero and Jennifer Fowler to Ottawa on April 15-16 to meet with Canadian officials. 2. Embassy point of contact is Political Officer Keith Mines (613-688-5242). He can be reached by e-mail a [...]
2007-04-11 18:01:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA CA
07OTTAWA67CANADIAN VIEWS ON MERCURY AT UPCOMING UNEP
[...] ESTH Counselor discussed Canadian positions on the UNEP Mercury Program with Grace Howland, manager for heavy metals in the Hazardous Air Pollutants Branch at Environment Canada, on January 12. Howland expects to attend the UNEP Governing Council meeting in Nairobi next month. 2. Howland [...]
2007-01-12 19:06:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV AORC CA
07OTTAWA691IPR: MICHAEL GEIST SHARES HIS VIEWS WITH EMBASSY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 12, the DCM and other Embassy officers met with University of Ottawa Law Professor Michael Geist, who is a prominent public commentator on intellectual property rights (IPR) issues, to discuss Canadian copyright issues. As expected, Geist's views were generally at odds [...]
2007-04-18 13:04:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR CA
07OTTAWA72ADDITIONAL IRANIAN DESIGNATIONS UNDER E.O. 13382:
[...] (SBU) On January 12, Economic Minister-Counselor and newly arrived Deputy Terrorist Financing Coordination Officer discussed reftel non-paper with Yves Beaulieu, Deputy Director for Counter-Terrorism, International Crime and Terrorism Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and International T [...]
2007-01-12 21:46:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KNNP PARM PREL IR KN CA
07OTTAWA753CANADA'S PROVISIONS AGAINST CASH COURIERS
[...] (SBU) Although econoff delivered the points in reftel to an official from Finance Canada in February, that official had no comment but offered to set up a meeting for the Embassy with Canadian officials who are better acquainted with the problems of illicit cash couriers. To that end, the Eco [...]
2007-04-25 20:01:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN LE PREL PTER CA
07OTTAWA757CANADA: MORE CONVERGENCE THAN DIVERGENCE EXPECTED
[...] (SBU) We conveyed reftel demarche to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Non-proliferation Senior Policy Officer Michael Blackmore on April 24, and at a follow-up meeting with Blackmore and Policy Advisor David Da Silva on April 25. Blackmore emphasized convergence [...]
2007-04-25 20:59:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM NPT KNNP ENRG CA
07OTTAWA760LOW KEY RECOGNITION FOR AFRICA MALARIA DAY IN
[...] Foreign Ministry officials advised that Canada planned no nationwide public events for Africa Malaria Day beyond an April 17 announcement by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) of a C$20 million (from the FY 2007 budget) donation to the Canadian Red Cross for bednets in Africa [...]
2007-04-26 18:40:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO EAID KPAO CA
07OTTAWA761BANK OF CANADA GOVERNOR DODGE RETIRING NEXT JANUARY
[...] (U) Summary: The Governor of the Bank of Canada (BOC),David Dodge, will step down at the end of January 2008 at the end of his seven-year term. The news was a surprise. Dodge is widely regarded as an extremely effective Governor who has kept Canada's inflation under control while presiding o [...]
2007-04-26 18:56:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN PGOV CA
07OTTAWA765PRIME MINISTER HARPER'S LETTER ON IPR
[...] (SBU) On April 26, Ambassador Wilkins received a letter from Prime Minister Harper regarding U.S. concerns about the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) in Canada. This letter, dated April 23, responds to a letter that the Ambassador wrote to the Prime Minister on January 31 regar [...]
2007-04-26 20:51:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR CA
07OTTAWA767PSI: CANADA ON AUCKLAND CONFERENCE AND WHA OUTREACH
[...] (U) We conveyed ref A paper on April 26 to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Policy Advisor for Non-proliferation Michael Blackmore and Policy Officer David Da Silva. Blackmore expressed appreciation for the U.S. readout, noted that it tracked with his take [...]
2007-04-27 14:16:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL KNNP MNUC CA
07OTTAWA783SPECIAL 301 CANADA 2007, DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) EconMinCouns delivered points in ref A to Paul Robertson, Director General, North America Trade Policy Bureau, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. DG Robertson said that the GOC understands U.S. concerns very well. Declining to answer questions about when and how Can [...]
2007-04-30 20:54:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR CA
07OTTAWA795TURNING THE CORNER - CANADA'S NEW REGULATORY
[...] (U) Saying "the time has come for action," Environment Minister John Baird released the government's long-awaited "Turning the Corner" plan, its framework to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants, in Toronto on April 26. The plan's targets will force significant action by [...]
2007-05-02 18:26:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG CA
07OTTAWA798DEMARCHE ON U.S. WTO TAFT PROPOSAL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-02 19:58:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON WTRO CA
07OTTAWA799CANADA: Views on Zimbabwe bid for CSD Chairmanship
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-02 20:12:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV UNCSD AORC PREL ZI CA
07OTTAWA819SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR SCHWAB'S VISIT TO
[...] (SBU) Welcome back to Ottawa, Ambassador Schwab. This cable offers background information on Canada,s political and economic environment, especially on issues that may be raised outside the formal agenda of your talks with Trade Minister Emerson. Information regarding Canada-Brazil relations [...]
2007-05-07 18:12:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNBR CA ETRD KIPR PGOV PREL
07OTTAWA856AUSTRALIA GROUP: CANADA RETAINS FOCUS ON RUSSIA
[...] (U) We delivered reftel points on May 8 to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Non-proliferation Policy Officer Kendra Davidson. Canada, she assured us, would send its usual delegation of both policy and "hands-on" enforcement personnel to Paris. 2. (C) Respondi [...]
2007-05-09 14:41:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL CBW CA
07OTTAWA859CANADA: TLSA PAPER DELIVERED, ALTERNATE POC
[...] (U) We conveyed reftel paper to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) G8 and NATO deputy director and Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force (START) policy officer on May 9. Both expressed appreciation but had no immediate reaction to the text. 2. (U) Post co [...]
2007-05-09 18:43:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM KPKO MARR MASS PREL CA
07OTTAWA872DEMARCHE ON WTO ARTICLE XXI PROCEDURE DELIVERED TO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-10 20:24:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON WTRO CA
07OTTAWA877DEMARCHE ON OECD ENLARGEMENT AND FINANCING REFORM
[...] (SBU) EconMinCons and Econof delivered points in reftel to Wendy Clark, Head of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's OECD Office. Clark said that the USG's views on all issues in reftel are very much in line with Canadian views. She said that Canada especially agrees th [...]
2007-05-10 20:58:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON OECD CA
07OTTAWA883SHIP RECYCLING DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO CANADA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-11 14:11:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEIND PHSA SENV ETRD
07OTTAWA887IPR: CANADA REPORTEDLY PREPARING TO CRIMINALIZE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada's reaction to USTR's April 30th decision to maintain Canada's position on the Special 301 Watch List has been largely muted. However, intellectual property rights (IPR) - especially theater camcording - are now generating prominent news stories. The GOC is reportedly pr [...]
2007-05-11 19:30:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR CA
07OTTAWA891CANADA: CITES COP 14 PREPARATION
[...] Emboff delivered reftel demarche to Erum Hasan, Advisor in the Multilateral Affairs Division at Environment Canada, on May 4. After consulting with senior officials, including Canada's CITES Scientific Authorities, Hasan responded on May 10 that Canada had yet to establish firm positions on the [...]
2007-05-11 19:33:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA ETRD CA
07OTTAWA915CANADA'S APPROACH TO MAY 25 ARF MEETING IN MANILA
[...] (SBU) Summary. Canada and the U.S. agree on most of the important issues to be addressed at the upcoming ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) in Manila. Canada is enthusiastic about the U.S. draft UNSCR 1540 implementation statement, agrees that the inter-sessional meet [...]
2007-05-16 21:15:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PTER PARM KNNP ARF XB CA
07OTTAWA95CANADA SEEKS MORE CONSULTATIONS BEFORE JANUARY 25
[...] This is an action request. Please see para 6. 2. (C) Responding to reftel points on January 17, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) NATO Deputy Director Isabelle Poupart expressed appreciation for the briefing, noted that the GOC would welcome early receipt of s [...]
2007-01-18 22:56:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR NATO CA
07OTTAWA951ITU WORLD RADIOCOMMUNICATION CONFERENCE DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-22 20:28:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECPS TSPA CA
07OTTAWA96CANADA SEEKS MORE CONSULTATION BEFORE JANUARY 25
[...] This is an action request. Please see para 6. 2. (C) Responding to reftel points on January 17, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) NATO Deputy Director Isabelle Poupart expressed appreciation for the briefing, noted that the GOC would welcome early receipt of s [...]
2007-01-18 22:56:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR NATO CA
07OTTAWA97CANADA SEEKS MORE CONSULTATION BEFORE JANUARY 26
[...] This is an action request. Please see para 6. 2. (C) Responding to reftel points on January 17, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) NATO Deputy Director Isabelle Poupart expressed appreciation for the briefing, noted that the GOC would welcome early receipt of s [...]
2007-01-18 22:57:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR NATO CA
08OTTAWA1CANADA'S POLICY PRIORITIES FOR 2008
[...] (C) Summary: The government of Prime Minister Harper intends to maintain a steady course in implementing the policy priorities of the October 2007 ""Speech from the Throne"" (reftels),while the Conservative Party's minority status in both Houses of Parliament makes demonstrable progress prob [...]
2008-01-02 17:04:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON SENV AF CA
08OTTAWA10CANADA AGREES TO JOINT DEMARCHE RE UN SENIOR
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel demarche on January 4, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Afghanistan Task Force (FTAG) Deputy Director Richard Arbeiter confirmed that DFAIT would instruct the Canadian Permanent Representative to the UN in New York to participate in the [...]
2008-01-04 21:39:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS IO AF CA
08OTTAWA1006NEW BY-ELECTIONS A TEST FOR FALL ELECTIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Three federal by-elections for members of Parliament will take place on September 8 to fill two formerly Liberal seats and one Bloc Quebecois seat. As in the March 17 by-elections (ref a),the Liberals would need to win big to boost their confidence about bringing down the gove [...]
2008-07-29 12:19:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
08OTTAWA101DFAIT APOLOGIZES OVER TORTURE ALLEGATION
[...] (C) Associate Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs David Mulroney called Ambassador on January 18 to offer DFAIT's "real apology" that a Canadian consular training module on "Torture and Abuse Awareness" had included the U.S. on a list with Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Saudi [...]
2008-01-18 17:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CA
08OTTAWA1018CANADA AND POSSIBLE AMERICAS TRADE SUMMIT
[...] (sbu) Canada strongly supports the U.S. idea of broadening free trade agreements and cooperation in the western hemisphere, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Advisor in the Americas Strategy Secretariat Rouben Khatchadourian told Econcouns on July 30. Respond [...]
2008-07-30 20:55:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON ETRD XM XS CA
08OTTAWA1024CANADIAN AIR FORCE EMBRACES, RUSHES TRANSFORMATION
[...] (C//NF) Summary: The International Security Assistance Force's (ISAF) mission in Afghanistan is a "transformation driver" that has obliged the Canadian Air Force (CAF) to develop a new Air Expeditionary Wing. The current deployment of about 350 airmen to the Afghan theater will grow to about [...]
2008-07-31 17:36:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR NATO CA
08OTTAWA1027CONSERVATIVES SETTING THE STAGE FOR THIS FALL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past two months, the Conservative Party has fine-tuned the Cabinet, shaken up its managerial team, and revamped communications strategy to re-group ahead of the return of Parliament in mid-September. The new look was on display at the Conservative caucus summer policy [...]
2008-07-31 21:33:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
08OTTAWA1028EXCHANGING VIEWS ON THE OAS AND THE SUMMIT OF THE
[...] (C) Summary. In meetings at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) on July 18, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States Hector E. Morales, Jr. emphasized his hopes of maintaining strong coordination and collaboration with Canada on hemi [...]
2008-08-01 11:48:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL XL XM CA
08OTTAWA1032CANADIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONS STIR DEBATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Federal and provincial Canadian Human Rights Commissions and Tribunals have over recent years come under intensified criticism, largely due to high-profile hate speech complaints, including about a controversial article on Muslims in Maclean's, a prominent Canadian magazine. An [...]
2008-08-01 18:00:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV CA
08OTTAWA105CANADA COORDINATING WITH DOS ON UN DRIP
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-22 19:22:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOAS PREL PGOV CA
08OTTAWA1054CANADIANS TO ORGANIZE RC-S MINISTERIAL ON MARGINS
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Afghanistan Task Force Director Richard Arbeiter said on August 8 that Canada plans to propose a meeting of ISAF Regional Command Sounth (RC-S) country ministers on the margins of UNGA. The Canadians envision limiting the meeti [...]
2008-08-08 17:07:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM MOPS NATO UNGA AF CA
08OTTAWA1059THE ROLE OF THE PROVINCIAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONS
[...] (U) Summary: Canadian provincial human rights commissions and tribunals administer provincial human rights law, with varying provisions, procedures, and jurisdictions. While the public has traditionally viewed these commissions and tribunals as defenders of human rights, they are coming under [...]
2008-08-08 20:55:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV CA
08OTTAWA106CANADA ENCOURAGING COUNTRIES TO BAN BURMESE IMPORTS
[...] (SBU) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for the Southeast Asia and Pacific Division Evelyne Coulombe told PolOff that Canada is taking every opportunity to encourage other governments to impose import bans on Burma. Coulombe said that the DFAIT Sout [...]
2008-01-22 21:08:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ETRD PHUM BM CA
08OTTAWA1064CANADA SUPPORTS STRONG NAC STATEMENT CONDEMNING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-11 16:21:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MOPS RU GG CA
08OTTAWA1068CDMA 2008: CANADA TO HIGHLIGHT NEW FOCUS ON THE
[...] (C) Summary: Canada will highlight its renewed focus on the Americas at the Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas (CDMA) 2008 in Banff, September 2-6. Canadian officials look forward to a robust U.S. presence at the CDMA and want to collaborate with the U.S. to ensure that the Dec [...]
2008-08-12 11:53:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR PGOV OAS CA
08OTTAWA1070CANADA SUPPORTS CYBERCRIME CONVENTION, DESPITE
[...] (C) Government of Canada counterparts told acting political counselor on August 13 that Canada strongly supports the Council of Europe Cybercrime convention. They described the GOC's position as almost identical to that of the U.S., especially with respect to Russian resistance and gamesmansh [...]
2008-08-12 19:05:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALEINT KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL CA
08OTTAWA1072CANADA DEDICATES FUNDING TO LAUNCH TIP HOTLINE
[...] (U) Per ref B, Public Safety Canada and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are working with the Canadian Crime Stoppers Association, a non-profit organization, to establish a national hotline for reports of possible Trafficking in Persons (TIP) cases. In January 2008, the Canadian government d [...]
2008-08-12 20:39:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL KWMN KCRM CA
08OTTAWA1075NSG: CANADA SUPPORTS EXCEPTION FOR INDIA, SEEKS
[...] (C) Summary: Canadian officials responded to ref A demarche by noting that Canada and the U.S. share similar views on how to secure an exception for India from the Nuclear Suppliers Group. Senior Canadian Embassy officials in Washington will seek a meeting with Acting Under Secretary John Ro [...]
2008-08-13 13:31:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL ETTC IN CA
08OTTAWA1090CANADA STRONGLY SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON GORI
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-14 18:54:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREL NATO OSCE GG RS CA
08OTTAWA1091YOUNG VOTERS HAVE POTENTIAL TO INFLUENCE ELECTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Conventional wisdom in Canada suggests that young voters are apathetic. Indeed, official data show youth participation rates in federal elections have declined since 1993. However, mission conversations with politically-active young Canadians suggest that many of them are polit [...]
2008-08-14 20:06:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
08OTTAWA1092CANADA REITERATES BACKING U.S. POSITION ON GEORGIA
[...] (C) Colleen Swords, Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security Affairs (and Canada's G-8 Political Director),called DCM August 15 to follow up on the Ambassador's demarche to Deputy Foreign Minister Edwards (refs b and c). Swords said the Ambassador's points had been "well receiv [...]
2008-08-15 15:12:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREL NATO OSCE GG RS CA
08OTTAWA1093CANADA WILL SUPPORT AFGHANISTAN OVER SYRIA FOR
[...] (C) Colleen Swords, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security Affairs (and Canada's G-8 Political Director),told DCM August 15 that she was sure Canada would support Afghanistan over Syria if the race for the IAEA Board [...]
2008-08-15 19:18:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM IAEA KNNP MNUN IR SY AF CA
08OTTAWA1099MANITOBA: A CANADIAN ELECTION BELLWEATHER?
[...] (SBU) Summary: Manitoba voters appear relatively satisfied with the federal and provincial political status quo, including a federal minority government, although the city of Winnipeg will see some hard-fought races in a federal election that could come as early as this fall. Public reaction [...]
2008-08-15 20:50:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON CA
08OTTAWA1106IAEA BOG: CANADIANS OPPOSE SYRIAN BID, OPEN TO
[...] (C//Rel Can) At an August 19 follow-up to ref a demarche, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Non-Proliferation Craig Weichel confirmed DFAIT Assistant Deputy Minister Colleen Swords' assertion (ref b) that Canada would support Afghanistan over Syr [...]
2008-08-19 15:12:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL IAEA KNNP MNUN SY AF CA
08OTTAWA1113NEW MOMENTUM TOWARD A FALL ELECTION
[...] (C) Summary. Chances for a fall federal election in Canada are suddenly improving, with both the Conservatives and the Liberals now seemingly campaign-ready as well as already upping up the rhetoric while gauging the best possible timing in terms of economic news and the U.S. Presidential r [...]
2008-08-20 19:31:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA
08OTTAWA1115RESPONSES TO CANADA'S COMPETITION POLICY REVIEW
[...] (U) Summary: On June 26, the government-appointed Competition Policy Review Panel released its final report entitled &Compete to Win.8 The Panel was created in July of 2007 and tasked with reviewing Canada's competition and foreign investment policies in order to issue recommendations to the [...]
2008-08-20 20:02:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV ETRD CA
08OTTAWA1122CANADA SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT FOR AFGHAN-PAKISTAN
[...] (C//Rel Can) Summary: Canada has shared with Embassy a draft of the Dubai Process's yet-to-be approved Pakistan-Afghanistan Cooperation Action Plan (PACAP) to improve security and efficiency along the two countries' shared borders and legal crossing points. After the final Dubai Process meet [...]
2008-08-21 15:50:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO EAID AF PK CA
08OTTAWA1123CANADA'S PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS GLOBALLY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada remains a strong partner in promoting and defending human rights globally. Thanks to its "principle-based" approach, the Conservative Party believes that "Canada's voice is being heard" once again. Canada has awarded honorary citizenship to the Dalai Lama and Aung San [...]
2008-08-22 13:50:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM CH IS BM CA
08OTTAWA1124BLUE LANTERN POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON
[...] A Locally Engaged Staff (LES) member from mission Canada's American Presence Post in Winnipeg, Manitoba visited Wolverine Supplies in Virden, Manitoba on July 25. Wolverine Supplies is named in subject license application as the foreign end-user of "fixed stock" models of the XCR rifle. Based [...]
2008-08-22 20:22:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC CA
08OTTAWA1130CDMA 2008: CANADA TO PROMOTE SECRETARIAT
[...] (C//NF) Summary: At their September 4 meeting in Banff, Minister of Defence MacKay will urge Secretary of Defense Gates to support the creation of a secretariat for the Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas (CDMA). Canada believes a secretariat is required to bolster the CDMA's abi [...]
2008-08-26 12:35:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR PGOV OAS CA
08OTTAWA1137CANADIANS CALL IN RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR RE: GEORGIA
[...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Minister Len Edwards called in Russian Ambassador to Canada Georgiy Mamedov on August 26 to encourage Russia to reconsider its actions and cooperate fully with the international community [...]
2008-08-27 12:40:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MOPS NATO GG RS CA
08OTTAWA1140 CANADA WANTS TO COORDINATE SUPPORT FOR GEORGIA
[...] (C) Summary: Canada wants to deepen bilateral coordination on support to Georgia. Canadian officials have asked for specific advice regarding the potential deployment of OSCE monitors and separate explosives abatement capability to Georgia. They would also like to coordinate U.S. and Canad [...]
2008-08-27 16:33:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MOPS NATO GG RS CA
08OTTAWA1142CANADIAN ELECTION SPECULATION HITS FEVER PITCH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Harper decided on August 26 to keep Governor General Michaelle Jean in Ottawa through early September. Local media and commentators interpret the move as the clearest sign yet that Harper may soon call an autumn snap election. If Harper does make the announcemen [...]
2008-08-28 15:36:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL CA
08OTTAWA1144CANADA UNLIKELY TO ATTEND DEVELOPMENT MINISTERS
[...] (U) On August 22, Econoff delivered reftel points to Jean-Yves Bourque, Program Officer, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Bourque stated that Canada does not have an aid program with Liberia and therefore is unlikely to attend the September Development Ministers meeting in Mo [...]
2008-08-28 17:28:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL CA LI
08OTTAWA1148CANADIAN RESPONSE TO KOSOVO ICJ DEMARCHE
[...] (C) On August 28, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for East Europe and Balkans Jeremy Wallace expressed appreciation for ref A demarche, and said that his office had not yet decided its stance on the Kosovo ICJ resolution at UNGA. Wallace remarked [...]
2008-08-29 13:34:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA UN KV CA
08OTTAWA1149CANADA: MISSION DISASTER RELIEF OFFICER (MDRO)
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-29 15:06:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA EAID SOCI
08OTTAWA1151CANADA IN RECEIPT OF DEMARCHE ON MED DIALOGUE SOFA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-29 16:22:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MARR NATO CA
08OTTAWA1152CANADA SEEKS U.S. HELP TO PRESS ISI ON BORDER
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Director for South Asia Jim Nickel told pol/miloff on August 28 that Pakistani ISI Director General Lieutenant General Nadeem Taj had just canceled his September 4-5 meetings with senior Canadian officials in Ottawa. Nickel sa [...]
2008-08-29 20:56:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR NATO PK AF CA
08OTTAWA1162GREEN PARTY MAKES HISTORY WITH FIRST MP
[...] The Green Party landed its first Member of Parliament on August 30. Sitting Independent MP Blair Wilson formally joined the party and said he will run under the Green banner in a Canadian federal election that local analysts expect to be called within days. Wilson's recruitment marks a first [...]
2008-09-03 15:06:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SENV PINR CA
08OTTAWA1165TORIES POISED FOR MODEST GAINS IN QUEBEC
[...] (SBU) Summary: With a fall federal election all but certain, our English and French-speaking contacts in Montreal told us that the Conservatives are well-positioned to add to their eleven seats in Quebec. They downplayed the possibility of a major breakthrough, however, and said that seat chan [...]
2008-09-04 11:45:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON SENV CA
08OTTAWA1171CANADA TO CALL FEDERAL ELECTION ON SEPTEMBER 7
[...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Stephen Harper will trigger a Canadian federal election on September 7 with voting day on October 14. The Conservatives are well-positioned to win a second minority government and late August polls suggested they will gain seats in key provinces. However, tight [...]
2008-09-05 21:14:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON SENV CA
08OTTAWA1172CANADA WILL DISCUSS BRAZIL'S PARTICIPATION IN PDG
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Policy Planning officer Helen Fytche told poloff September 4 that Canada would be pleased to discuss Brazil's participation in the Partnership for Democratic Governance (PDG) at the October 17 Steering Group meeting. Canada felt [...]
2008-09-05 21:36:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID ECON KDEM BR CA
08OTTAWA1177ELECTION KICK-OFF HIGHLIGHTS TORY PREPARATIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Harper called a federal election on September 7 for voting on October 14 (Ref A). Harper emphasized continuity and stability in his first message to voters. Dion branded Harper an extremist. Although Harper signaled the date at least a week in advance -- and mo [...]
2008-09-08 21:27:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL CA
08OTTAWA1198NSPD/HSPD ON ARCTIC POLICY - REQUEST CONSIDERATION
[...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy strongly believes release of the new Arctic Policy National Security Presidential Directive/Homeland Security Presidential Directive during Canada's federal election campaign has the potential to insert the United States as an issue in the campaign and negatively impact [...]
2008-09-12 19:44:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EWWT PBTS TPHY TSPL CA
08OTTAWA1199CANADA SUPPORTS US GOALS FOR UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE
[...] (C) Canada supports broadly U.S. goals for the UNGA Third Committee, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade human rights desk officer Cyndy Nelson. Nelson said however she could only offer a preliminary assessment, as Canada is in the middle of an election campaign. [...]
2008-09-12 19:59:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV UN CA
08OTTAWA1200ISAF AMENDMENT OPLAN TO EXPAND CN AUTHORITIES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-12 20:23:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS MARR AF CA
08OTTAWA1202CANADIAN APPROVAL BRINGS CANUS ILOC INTO FORCE
[...] (U) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Continental Defense Relations Victor Rakmil told pol/miloff on September 12 that the Government of Canada had received approval from Parliament to bring into force the Agreement on Integrated Lines of Commun [...]
2008-09-15 19:31:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MARR CA
08OTTAWA1203AVIAN FLU CONFERENCE IN EGYPT: CANADA WILL ATTEND, BUT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-15 19:32:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU AORC TBIO EAGR EAID PREL CA
08OTTAWA1216CANADIAN FEDERAL ELECTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE
[...] (C) Summary. The most likely outcome of the October 14 Canadian federal election is another Conservative victory, with the real question being whether Prime Minister Harper's party wins only a stronger minority or an actual majority. Neither result would likely cause any significant shift of [...]
2008-09-16 20:30:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CA
08OTTAWA123CANADA WILL NOT ATTEND UN WORLD CONFERENCE ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada took a firm stance against the UN World Conference Against Racism on January 23 when it announced it would not attend the 2009 Durban Review Conference (Durban II). Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier stated that the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism "degenera [...]
2008-01-24 20:49:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL CA
08OTTAWA1231VANCOUVER OLYMPIC SECURITY UPDATE - COORDINATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: The February 12-28 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver will present Canada, and the United States, with complex multi-jurisdictional security challenges. The RCMP has the security lead, but is planning for the Canadian Forces (CF) to render military support of civilian security a [...]
2008-09-17 20:10:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ASEC PTER KOLY CA
08OTTAWA1232CANADA: NO NEW PLEDGES AT AD HOC LIAISON COMMITTEE
[...] (sbu) Canada plans no new pledges at the September 22 Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) meeting in New York, according to Louise Corbin, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Israel, West Bank, and Gaza. Corbin told Econcouns that Canada had pledged C [...]
2008-09-17 20:21:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA EAID IS KPAL PGOV PREL WBG
08OTTAWA1234U.S. AND CANADA DISCUSS AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: An inter-agency USG delegation met recently in Ottawa with Canadian counterparts to discuss civilian and military cooperation in South Afghanistan. Canadian interlocutors described the strategic coordination and outreach efforts embodied in their Kandahar Action Plan. Canada seek [...]
2008-09-17 21:05:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO EAID AF PK CA
08OTTAWA1236CANADIAN RESPONSE TO IRAQ COALITION DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel demarche, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Policy Adviser for NATO Amy Galigan confirmed that no Canadian Forces (CF) troops are participating in NTM-I, or are otherwise engaged in Iraq and that the Government of Canada is not pla [...]
2008-09-18 17:20:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS IZ CA
08OTTAWA1237CANADIANS WORKING ON INTER-AGENCY RESPONSE TO RC-S
[...] (SBU) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Senior (DFAIT) Adviser for Afghanistan Policy and Advocacy David Fairchild expressed appreciation for reftel demarche of September 17, noting that the current version appeared to have taken into consideration earlier Canadian concern [...]
2008-09-18 17:26:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS MARR NATO AF CA
08OTTAWA1238CANADIAN ELECTION WILL DELAY DECISION ON FUNDS FOR
[...] (C) Summary: The Canadian government will not consider reftel request that it provide $100 million per year in additional funding for the sustainment of the Afghan National Army (ANA) until a new government takes office after the October 14 federal election. End summary. 2. (C) On Septe [...]
2008-09-18 17:31:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR NATO AF CA
08OTTAWA124OPPOSITION REACTION TO MANLEY REPORT PREDICTABLE
[...] (U) Summary: The New Democratic Party (NDP) and the Bloc Quebecois moved quickly, and predictably, on January 22 to reject the central recommendation of the Manley panel to extend Canada's combat mission in Afghanistan. Their decision puts the onus on the official opposition Liberals to clarify [...]
2008-01-24 21:10:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL MOPS AF CA
08OTTAWA1242MEETING BETWEEN U.S. NRC CHAIRMAN DALE KLEIN AND
[...] (U) Summary: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairman Dale E. Klein traveled to Ottawa from July 17-19, 2008. On July 18 Klein discussed reactor licensing and medical isotope production issues recently appointed Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) President Michael Binder; an [...]
2008-09-18 21:42:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP ENRG TRGY SENV CA
08OTTAWA1243CANADA EYEING C$10 MILLION ASSISTANCE TO GEORGIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-19 16:59:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYGG RS KMCA EAID EFIN PREL
08OTTAWA1244CANADIAN ATTENDANCE AT SEPTEMBER 24 HAITI KEY
[...] (U) The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Assistant Deputy Minister (International Security Branch) and Political Director Colleen Swords and Assistant Deputy Minister (Americas Strategy) Alexandra Bugailiski will participate in the September 24 meeting of Haiti Key Play [...]
2008-09-19 17:51:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPKO UNSC UNGA HA CA
08OTTAWA1245CANADIANS CONSIDERING U.S. IDEAS, INITIATIVES ON
[...] (S/Rel CAN) Summary: Canadian officials are studying ref a demarche on engaging China on proliferation-related trade with Iran, but warn that Canadian action could be slowed by the government's current pre-election caretaker status. Officials expressed appreciation for ref b ideas for blockin [...]
2008-09-19 17:55:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPREL EFIN KNNP PARM PINR IR XS CH CA
08OTTAWA1246CANADIAN ATTENDANCE AT U/S BURNS' MEETING ON
[...] (U) The Canadian representative to the September 24 meeting on Colombia hosted by U/S Burns in New York will be Assistant Deputy Minister (Americas Strategy) Alexandra Bugailiskis of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Visit Canada,s Economy and Environment Forum at [...]
2008-09-19 18:03:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OPDC PTER PHUM UNGA CO CA
08OTTAWA1247CANADA IN STEP WITH U.S. ON MESA CANDIDATE FOR
[...] (S) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Nuclear Disarmament Craig Weichel assured pol/miloff on September 19 that Canada and the U.S. are fully "in step" with respect to Afghanistan's bid for the Middle East South Asia (MESA) seat on the IAEA Board [...]
2008-09-19 18:41:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPARM MNUC IAEA AF SY IR CA
08OTTAWA1250CANADA CONCERNED ABOUT EFFORT TO DERAIL
[...] (C) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Non-Proliferation Shawn Caza, at the upcoming IAEA General Conference Canada will seek to kill a resolution on "Israeli nuclear capability" with a no-action motion. The way that support for the [...]
2008-09-19 20:08:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM MNUC IAEA IS CA
08OTTAWA1251CANADA SUPPORTS RESOLUTION ON COMPLIANCE WITH
[...] (SBU) Following up on reftel demarche, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Deputy Director for Nuclear Non-Proliferation Craig Weichel told pol/mil officer on September 19 that Canada would vote for the U.S.-sponsored UNGA First Committee Resolution on Compliance with Non-Pr [...]
2008-09-19 20:13:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL UNGA CA
08OTTAWA1253CANADA CONSIDERING FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION TO
[...] (C) Canada is leaning toward extending financial support to the Community of Democracies (CD) Secretariat, and will likely announce that it is exploring ways to provide a modest contribution at the September 26 CD meeting, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs' (DFAIT) Senior Policy An [...]
2008-09-19 20:25:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM UNGA CA
08OTTAWA1254CANADIANS WORKING ON RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel demarche on September 19, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Advisor for Defense and Security Sarah Robertson said that Canadian officials were now consulting internally on whether they could extend the HMCS Ville de Quebec's current depl [...]
2008-09-19 20:34:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR MOPS MCAP XW CA
08OTTAWA1257CANADA-EU TRADE PROPOSAL MAY RIVAL SCOPE OF NAFTA...OR NOT.
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-22 12:45:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EAGR EIND EFIN ELAB CA EU
08OTTAWA1258THE U.S. IN THE CANADIAN FEDERAL ELECTION -- NOT!
[...] (C) Summary. Despite the overwhelming importance of the U.S. to Canada for its economy and security, bilateral relations remain the proverbial 900 pound gorilla that no one wants to talk about in the 2008 Canadian federal election campaigns. This likely reflects an almost inherent inferiority c [...]
2008-09-22 18:59:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CA
08OTTAWA1259NATO: CANADA SHARES U.S. VIEW OF NO BUSINESS AS
[...] (C) Summary: Canada agrees with the U.S. position that there should be no business as usual at the NATO Russia Council (NRC),and at the NRC Prep Com, and Canada is making this point to its NATO allies. End summary. 2. (C) On September 22, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAIT) [...]
2008-09-22 20:39:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL NATO PARM KCFE RS GG CA
08OTTAWA1263UNGA: CANADIAN THOUGHTS ON FRIENDS OF PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: At the September 26 Friends of Pakistan Group (FoPG) meeting on the margins of UNGA, Canadian Deputy Foreign Minister Len Edwards will articulate Canada's desire to collaborate with like-minded countries in support of political and economic development and stability in Pakistan. [...]
2008-09-23 16:39:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON PK CA
08OTTAWA1264CANADA EXTENDS WFP ESCORTS OFF SOMALIA
[...] (SBU) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Defense and Security Michael Kaduck on September 23 confirmed that the Canadian government had decided to extend its World Food Program (WFP) escort duty from September 27 to a "hard deadline" of October 2 [...]
2008-09-23 19:32:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR MCAP UNSC XW CA SO
08OTTAWA1265CANADA SUPPORTS MAJORITY OF U.S. GOALS AT UNGA
[...] (C) Canada supports the majority of U.S. goals for the upcoming UN General Assembly (UNGA) general debate and regular session, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Deputy Director for UN and Commonwealth Affairs Shannon-Marie Soni. Deputy Foreign Minister Len Edw [...]
2008-09-23 19:43:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNGA CA
08OTTAWA1271CANADIAN CO-SPONSORSHIP OF COMPLIANCE RESOLUTION
[...] (SBU) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Nuclear Non-Proliferation Craig Weichel has verified that Canada had co-sponsored the U.S. Compliance Resolution at the UN First Committee in 2005 (ref a) and that DFAIT was therefore "in a good position" t [...]
2008-09-26 18:38:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL UNGA CA
08OTTAWA1274CANADA WILLING TO DEMARCHE INDIA ON WFP ESCORTS
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Defence and Security Michael Kaduck confirmed to pol/mil officer after COB on September 26 that he had instructed the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi to respond positively to a U.S. Embassy request that [...]
2008-09-29 13:39:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR MCAP UNSC XW SO CA
08OTTAWA1275BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK
[...] (SBU) Summary: Per reftel, Consulates General Vancouver and Montreal investigated Astro Global Trading (AGT) and DSP Electronics, respectively, regarding the disposition of two cylinder assembly components for the Pilatus aircraft exported under application 050096269. The owner of AGT -- Sal [...]
2008-09-29 16:26:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA ETTC KOMC
08OTTAWA1293ELECTION 2008: VISITS TO THE "WAR ROOMS"
[...] (C) Summary. The contrast between the state-of-the-art Conservative Party campaign "war room" and its rather ramshackle Liberal Party equivalent helps to explain why Conservatives are at least 11 percentage points in the polls about whom electors would vote for if the federal election were [...]
2008-10-02 14:11:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CA
08OTTAWA1297CANADIAN ABSTENTION LIKELY ON KOSOVO ICJ REFERRAL
[...] (C) In response to reftels, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Europe and Central Asia Relations Jeremy Wallace told pol/mil officer that Canada seems to be "moving toward an abstention" if there is a vote. DFAIT officials have not yet made a de [...]
2008-10-03 18:21:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL UN UNGA KV CA
08OTTAWA1300CONSERVATIVES STILL AHEAD FOLLOWING DEBATES
[...] (C) Summary. The Conservatives emerged from the federal election campaign's two national debates having preserved their comfortable lead in the polls. Despite facing a constant barrage of criticism from the four main opposition parties, PM Harper seems to have come through relatively unscath [...]
2008-10-03 21:38:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL CA
08OTTAWA1302CANADIANS APPRECIATE MTCR PAPERS, WANT MORE
[...] (SBU) On October 3, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Advisor for Non-Proliferation Phillip J. Baines expressed appreciation for reftel paper. Baines said he looks forward to receiving even more of the "very useful" U.S. papers in advance of the Information [...]
2008-10-06 21:02:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM MTCRE ETTC MNUC TSPA CA
08OTTAWA1303(S) CANADA CONSIDERING SPACE LAUNCH ALTERNATIVES
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 4. 2. (S/RelCan) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Advisor for Non-Proliferation Phillip Baines raised U.S.-India safeguards on October 3, asking whether the United States intends to broaden its bilateral safegua [...]
2008-10-06 21:07:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPREL PARM ETTC CA
08OTTAWA1308ELECTION 2008: RACE NARROWS WITH ONE WEEK TO GO
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada's major political parties have launched their final push to Election Day on October 14. Although the Conservative government appears certain to be re-elected, whether it will win a majority or another minority mandate is less clear. The apparent slowing of Conservative [...]
2008-10-07 21:12:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL CA
08OTTAWA1313CANADA WILL DONATE TO UNRWA'S RECONSTRUCTION AND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-09 19:09:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PHUM PREL LE CA
08OTTAWA1314ELECTION 2008: WHAT IF...
[...] (C) Summary. A Liberal victory in the federal election, while still not likely, has suddenly become a possibility in the wake of widespread concerns about the world financial situation. Improved prospects for the Liberals in Ontario and for the Bloc Quebecois in Quebec have substantially ea [...]
2008-10-09 21:03:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CA
08OTTAWA1315NO CHANGE IN CANADIAN VIEWS OF CHINA FOLLOWING
[...] (SBU) Many Canadians viewed the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics through the prism of Canadian preparations for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, and were deeply impressed by the smooth success of the sporting events in China, as well as by the dramatic new sporting venues. The Beijing Olympic [...]
2008-10-10 15:42:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAO CH CA
08OTTAWA1316ELECTION 2008: WHAT'S ON THEIR MINDS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The global economic crisis has made the economy the defining issue in the 2008 election campaign, with the environment, healthcare, and crime tacking a distinct backseat. Afghanistan and foreign policy are not under real discussion. Polls continue to fluctuate, but the Conserva [...]
2008-10-10 20:34:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
08OTTAWA1317CANADIAN CHALLENGES RELATED TO ACCESSION OF
[...] (U) Action request -- see para 4. 2. (SBU) In response to reftel, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Policy Adviser for Defence and Security Robert Bissett told pol/mil officer that Canada would move as quickly as possible to complete the ratification of the pro [...]
2008-10-10 20:40:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM NATO MARR PREL KTIA AL CA HR
08OTTAWA1318CANADIAN REACTION TO DEMARCHE ON ISSUES OF
[...] (C) Summary: Canada at the 2008 UNGA First Committee will most likely abstain on the resolutions related to "de-alerting" and depleted uranium munitions. Canada likely will vote for the resolution on telecommunications in the context of international security, but will not repeat its co-spo [...]
2008-10-14 20:28:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM MNUC UNGA NATO CA
08OTTAWA1324CONSERVATIVES TO FORM SECOND MINORITY GOVERNMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada's Conservative party won an enhanced minority in the October 14 federal election, increasing its representation in every region and province except Quebec and Newfoundland. Party leaders of the four major parties all won re-election (although Green leader May failed to w [...]
2008-10-15 17:29:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
08OTTAWA1325ELECTION 2008: WHAT IT MEANS
[...] (C) The next Canadian federal election campaign effectively began on October 15, in the wake of the October 14 election results that gave the Conservative Party of Prime Minister Stephen Harper a stronger "mandate" but yet another minority position in the 308-seat House of Commons (reftel). [...]
2008-10-15 18:27:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL CA
08OTTAWA1329RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3 REQUEST:
[...] SUMMARY: Per reftel A, Consulate General Vancouver investigated Paul Reibin, dba Range Sports Unlimited (RSU),regarding his bona fides to export munitions as identified under application 050113948. Mr. Reibin is in possession of a Business Firearms License issued by the Canadian Firearms C [...]
2008-10-16 16:34:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDCA ETTC KOMC
08OTTAWA1331CANADA TO ANNOUNCE SUPPORT FOR AFGHAN ELECTIONS,
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Afghanistan Task Force Policy Advisor Jennifer Kleniewski confirmed to pol/miloff on October 15 that the just re-elected Conservative government "soon" would announce Canada's "substantial" donation to support the 2009 and 2010 [...]
2008-10-16 20:48:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PGOV KDEM AF CA
08OTTAWA1341LIBERAL PARTY WOES
[...] (C) Summary. The predicted resignation of Liberal leader Stephane Dion, perhaps very soon, will not solve the party's problems, which are financial, geographic, substantive, and perhaps generational. The likely continued disarray within the party -- even with possible a new leader -- must [...]
2008-10-17 20:56:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA
08OTTAWA1343CANADA TO PLEDGE C$3 MILLION AT GEORGIA DONORS'
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-20 17:07:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYGG RS KMCA EAID EFIN PREL
08OTTAWA1345CANADA WILL CONTRIBUTE $35 MILLION TO SUPPORT
[...] (SBU) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Afghanistan Task Force Policy Advisor Jennifer Kleniewski told pol/miloff on October 20 that Canada has budgeted $35 million to support the 2009 and 2010 elections in Afghanistan. In her follow-up to ref a, she also specifie [...]
2008-10-20 18:08:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID KDEM PGOV AF CA
08OTTAWA1348DION TO STEP DOWN AS LIBERAL LEADER -- NEXT YEAR
[...] (U) Stephane Dion announced on October 20 that he would step down as Liberal Party leader, but only after the next leadership convention had selected a replacement; he clarified that he will not be a leadership candidate again. He will remain as Official Opposition leader in the meantime. H [...]
2008-10-20 19:17:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA
08OTTAWA135ELECTRIC POWER FROM CANADA: TRADE DWINDLES AS CONTINENT'S NEEDED INFRASTRUCTURE REMAINS UNBUILT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-25 21:58:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG SENV PGOV CA
08OTTAWA136PRIMETIME IMAGES OF US-CANADA BORDER PAINT U.S. IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has long gone to great pains to highlight the distinction between Americans and Canadians in its programming, generally at our expense. However, the level of anti-American melodrama has been given a huge boost in the current television [...]
2008-01-25 23:15:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KPAO CA
08OTTAWA1362CANADA SUPPORTS INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SUMMIT
[...] (sbu) Summary: Canada fully supports the November 15 Financial Markets and World Economy Summit, and is committed to market-based financial systems and liberalized trading markets, according to senior Canadian financial officials. Canada will work closely with the United States and the G-7 co [...]
2008-10-23 15:04:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALCA ECON EFIN PREL
08OTTAWA1368CANADA KEEN TO ADVOCATE NON-PARTICIPATION IN
[...] This is an action request -- please see para 4. 2. (C) Canada is willing to join the U.S. effort to persuade governments to steer clear of Iran's November 30 conference on nuclear energy. Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Policy Advisor for Non-Proliferat [...]
2008-10-24 21:07:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC AORC ENRG TRGY IR CA
08OTTAWA1372PSYCHOLOGY, REALITY AND INTEGRATION: CANADA'S
[...] (SBU) Summary: How Canada fares in the global economic crisis will be measured as much by its integration with the U.S. economy as by Canada's own domestic economic policies. The bottom line is: Canada's solid economic policy management will only serve to mitigate the impact of the global fi [...]
2008-10-28 14:15:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA ECON EFIN ENRG EPET ETRD
08OTTAWA1392(S) CANADIAN RESPONSE TO U.S. REPLY ON UAE REMOTE
[...] (S/Rel Can) On October 29, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Advisor for Non-proliferation and Disarmament Thomas Gillon expressed appreciation for reftel response regarding the transfer of RADARSAT-2 capabilities to the United Arab Emirates. Gillon remarked [...]
2008-10-30 17:42:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPREL PARM ETTC CA
08OTTAWA1393CANADA WELCOMES U.S. - CARIBBEAN SECURITY
[...] (U) Action request - please see para 4. 2. (SBU) In response to reftel demarche, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Defence and Security Relations Michael Kaduck told pol/miloff on October 29 that Canada is keen to participate in the U.S. - C [...]
2008-10-30 19:45:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER SNAR KJUS EAID MASS XL CA
08OTTAWA1394NEW CANADIAN CABINET: "CERTAINTY, STABILITY, AND
[...] (C) Summary. The Cabinet of the second government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper took office on October 29. Its expanded size includes more women and rewarded some new MPs from key geographic areas. As expected, former Minister of Transport Lawrence Cannon succeeded David Emerson as Mini [...]
2008-10-30 19:52:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR CA
08OTTAWA1395CANADA: INFORMATION FOR SUMMIT ON FINANCIAL
[...] (sbu) Ref a requests information regarding Canada's perspectives and concerns regarding the November 15 Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy -- and also regarding the financial crisis' impact on Canada and government actions to address the crisis. Also per ref a, Econcouns John C [...]
2008-10-31 13:44:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA ECON EFIN
08OTTAWA1396CANADA WILLING TO SIGN CHEMICAL WEAPONS CHALLENGE
[...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Louis-Phillipe Sylvestre confirmed to pol/miloff on October 30 that Canada wants to avoid the "complications" that would accompany a formal b [...]
2008-10-31 17:14:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL KTIA CWC CA
08OTTAWA1407EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOL IN CANADA
[...] (U) Summary: Canada's emergency telecom systems consist of a priority access for dialing (also known as priority access to dial tone or PAD) system for landline phones and a wireless priority system (WPS) similar to the U.S. model. The dated PAD system offers little benefit to the Embassy. How [...]
2008-11-03 22:08:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECPS ACAO AMGT ANET CA
08OTTAWA1408CANADA CONSIDERING U.S. CANDIDATE FOR EXECUTIVE
[...] (SBU) According to Deputy Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Division for Inter-American Relations Leonard Beaulne, Canada will give "strong consideration" to the U.S. candidate for the Inter-American Commission of Women's (CIM) Executive Committee. [...]
2008-11-03 22:11:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AORC KWMN OAS CA
08OTTAWA141PM HARPER SEEKS AFGHAN EXTENSION, WITH CAVEATS
[...] (SBU) Summary: PM Harper publicly voiced his agreement with the Manley panel's call for an extension of Canada's mission in Kandahar after February 2009 - as long as NATO provides additional troops and equipment to help out (ref a). He pledged personally to take the lead to press Canada's alli [...]
2008-01-28 21:57:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS AF CA
08OTTAWA1411CANADA WANTS TO COORDINATE ON IRAN
[...] (U) This is an action request - please see para 5. 2. (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Advisor for Non-Proliferation Che van Haastrecht on November 4 asked to coordinate CANUS outreach to discourage the sale of uranium to Iran by Kazakhstan (ref b). [...]
2008-11-04 20:12:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC ENRG AORC TRGY IR CA
08OTTAWA1414PM HARPER CONGRATULATES PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA
[...] (U) In a statement on November 4, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper offered congratulations to President-elect Barack Obama and all incoming Members of Congress and Governors. He pledged to continue to cooperate to "strengthen the special bond" between our two nations. (Full text in pa [...]
2008-11-05 17:14:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV CA
08OTTAWA1417 NSDD 38 - Department of Homeland Security (DHS),United
[...] The Embassy has received the NSDD-38 request from the Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard (USCG) to establish an 0-4 Coast Guard Liaison Officer billet at the Royal Canadian Mounted political (RCMP) Headquarters in Ottawa. The Chief of Mission approves the establishment [...]
2008-11-06 16:31:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDAODE AMGT KMRS CA
08OTTAWA1421CANADA FULLY SUPPORTS AND HAS ALREADY IMPLEMENTED
[...] (S) Summary. Robert Sample, Senior Project Leader, Financial Crimes, Finance Canada, said that Canada's current regulations regarding financial institutions' (FI's) transactions with Iranian entities are in line with USG and FATF recommendations and are quite onerous on Canadian institutions. [...]
2008-11-06 21:17:00Embassy OttawaSECRETKNNP PARM PREL EFIN CA
08OTTAWA1424OTTAWA HOSTS LIKE-MINDED COUNTRIES INFORMAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada hosted an informal meeting of like-minded countries on Zimbabwe in Ottawa on October 30. Delegates agreed that MDC and ZANU-PF are in the midst of a power struggle to which there is no easy solution in sight. Several countries expressed concern at the Like-Minded Group,s [...]
2008-11-07 16:37:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM KDEM EAID ZI CA
08OTTAWA1426NEW FOREIGN MINISTER LAWRENCE CANNON
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 30, Lawrence Cannon became Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's second Conservative government (reftel). Cannon is an experienced and competent administrator who is likely to provide stability to a department that has had four minist [...]
2008-11-07 17:58:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PINR CA
08OTTAWA1427CANADIAN INTERIM RESPONSE ON AFGHAN REFUGEES
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 3. 2. (SBU) On November 7, Deputy Pol/C conveyed reftel demarche points to James Gilmour, regional policy officer of the Afghan Task Force at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). Gilmour promised to canvas colleagu [...]
2008-11-07 18:10:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM IR PK AF CA
08OTTAWA1430FINAL RESULTS of THE 2008 CANADIAN ELECTION
[...] (U) Elections Canada has now validated all results of the 2008 federal election on October 14 (reftel and previous). The results are not technically official until the Chief Electoral Officer publishes them in a formal report on or before January 14, 2009 (within 90 days of the return of the w [...]
2008-11-07 20:42:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CA
08OTTAWA1431CANADA AWARE OF U.S. COMPROMISE PROPOSAL ON ITU-R
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-10 15:35:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ECPS CA
08OTTAWA1433CANADA WILL SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR EXECUTIVE
[...] (SBU) Canada will support the U.S. candidate for the Inter-American Commission of Women's (CIM) Executive Committee at the CIM Assembly election in Santiago (November 10-12),according to Deputy Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's (DFAIT) Division of Inter-A [...]
2008-11-10 21:03:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AORC KWMN OAS CA
08OTTAWA1437CANADA - ORGANIZING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY WORK
[...] (U) This message responds to ref a's request for information on how the government of Canada has organized itself to prepare for negotiations for a post-2012 climate framework and to develop and implement domestic climate programs. Organizing for Domestic Climate Work ---------------------- [...]
2008-11-13 16:39:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG KCHG CA
08OTTAWA1441CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR FRIENDS OF PAKISTAN MEETING
[...] (C) In response to November 12 ref a demarche, Deputy Director for South Asia Peter Fawcett at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) voiced Canada's full support, while expressing concern that the meeting now appears to be turning into more of a donors' meeting, des [...]
2008-11-13 22:03:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER ECON EAID PK CA
08OTTAWA1443FRIENDS OF PAKISTAN: CANADA SEEKS BROAD SECURITY
[...] (C) On November 13, Deputy Director for South Asia Peter Fawcett at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) elaborated on Canadian views of the upcoming Friends of Pakistan meeting (reftels). According to Fawcett, Canada seeks a "robust and broad" security discussion, [...]
2008-11-14 19:57:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER ECON EAID PK CA
08OTTAWA1444CANADA BROADLY SUPPORTIVE ON IMPLEMENTATION OF
[...] (SBU) According to Ryan Hewer, the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's policy advisor for Iranian non-proliferation issues, Canada broadly supports the ideas outlined in reftel, about which State officials apparently briefed Canadian emboffs in Washington on Novem [...]
2008-11-14 21:59:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MNUC PARM ETTC ENRG IR CA
08OTTAWA1446CANADA REITERATES DESIRE FOR G7 COORDINATION ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-17 16:35:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN PARM PREL KNNP CA
08OTTAWA1452BLEAK WINTER AHEAD FOR THE LIBERAL PARTY
[...] (C) Summary. The opposition Liberal Party faces at least six months of virtual support for the second minority government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, given the necessity of ensuring Parliament deals constructively with the ongoing world financial crisis and domestic economic and emplo [...]
2008-11-17 22:20:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON CA
08OTTAWA1453CANADA DECIDES AGAINST DEMARCHES ON IRAN NUCLEAR
[...] (C) In an unexpected and unwelcome shift from ref a position, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Policy Advisor for Non-Proliferation Ryan Hewer informed poloff on November 17 that DFAIT had now decided Canada was already overextended in its demarches on the [...]
2008-11-18 15:45:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC AORC ENRG TRGY IR CA
08OTTAWA1455CONSERVATIVES TO PURSUE NARROW AGENDA IN 40TH
[...] (C) Summary. The Conservative agenda that the government will lay out in detail on November 19 in the "Throne Speech" will almost exclusively focus on domestic remedies for the international economic crisis, according to senior Conservative staffers. It will -- of political necessity -- a [...]
2008-11-18 18:39:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON CA
08OTTAWA146CANADA'S REPSONSE TO 1377 TELECOM TRADE AGREEMENTS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-29 21:48:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EIND ETRD ECPS CA
08OTTAWA1460CANADA CRITICAL OF NICARAGUAN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel demarche on November 18, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Nicaragua desk officer Sandy Ewart confirmed that Canada fully shares U.S. concerns regarding the November 9 Nicaraguan municipal elections. He noted that the Canadian Embassy in Costa Ri [...]
2008-11-18 22:20:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV NU CA
08OTTAWA1468TWO NEW CONVICTIONS UNDER CANADA'S SEX TOURISM LAW
[...] (U) Summary. Canada secured two new sex tourism convictions in November under Criminal Code amendments that now permit police to charge Canadians for sex crimes against children overseas. At least one other case in is the works for alleged abuses in Cambodia, Colombia, and the Philippines. E [...]
2008-11-19 18:00:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV HA CA
08OTTAWA147CANADA KEEN TO COOPERATE ON COUNTERNARCOTICS AND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-29 22:28:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL SNAR MOPS MARR AF CA
08OTTAWA14702008 THRONE SPEECH FOCUSES ON ECONOMY, NATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary and comment. The second Harper government's Throne Speech on November 19 lived down to expectations of a fairly modest agenda, primarily focused on dealing with the domestic impact of the global economic crisis. The government did not indicate any plans for a major economic sti [...]
2008-11-19 22:49:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON PHUM MARR AF CA
08OTTAWA1474CANADA SEEKS GREATER COHERENCE IN GLOBAL
[...] (SBU) After receiving reftel demarche points and non-paper, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Policy Advisor for Non-proliferation David MacDuff said on November 20 that Canada believes the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) is struggling [...]
2008-11-20 21:13:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PTER PREL KGIC CA
08OTTAWA1476CANADA REMAINS STEADFAST AGAINST ANTI-ISRAEL
[...] (SBU) Canada remains steadfast in its opposition to the plethora of anti-Israel UNGA resolutions outlined in reftel, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Middle East Division Director Michael Grant. Grant noted that Canada has voted this year exactly as it did i [...]
2008-11-20 21:55:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNGA IS PA CA
08OTTAWA1480CANADA CONCERNED BY IRANIAN AND SYRIAN NUCLEAR
[...] (C/NF) Canada found the November 19 IAEA report on the status of Iranian nuclear program to be "very bleak," according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) non-proliferation senior policy advisor Ryan Hewer. Hewer commented that the report clearly suggests a "consi [...]
2008-11-21 21:20:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MNUC KNNP PARM IAEA TRGY IR SY CA
08OTTAWA1481CANADA OFFERS AMENDED LANGUAGE ON CWC CHALLENGE
[...] (C) As promised in ref a demarche response, on November 21 Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Louis-Phillipe Sylvestre provided suggested amendments to the draft language for an exchange of notes on procedures go [...]
2008-11-21 21:26:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL KTIA CWC CA
08OTTAWA149CANADA SEEKS CLOSE COORDINATION IN RUN UP TO
[...] (SBU) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Policy Advisor for the Asia Pacific region Philip Cordier, Canada is generally in agreement with our concept paper on the ASEAN Regional Forum Workplan for Counterterrorism and Transnational Crime (reftel). The Division [...]
2008-01-30 18:51:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ARF PTER CA
08OTTAWA149163RD UNGA: CANADIAN CO-SPONSORSHIP OF FIRST
[...] (SBU) Canada was pleased to support and co-sponsor the First Committee resolution on compliance this year, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament senior policy advisor Sarah Houghton. Houghton expressed appreciation for U [...]
2008-11-25 19:29:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PARM MNUC UNGA CA
08OTTAWA1493CANADA SUPPORTS BROADENING ANA TRUST FUND MANDATE,
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 5. 2. (C) In the absence of the Ambassador, DCM spoke to David Mulroney, Deputy Minister and Afghanistan Coordinator in the Privy Council Office, regarding the U.S.-led initiative to broaden the mandate of NATO,s ANA Trust Fund (ref a). Mulron [...]
2008-11-26 18:36:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MARR MOPS AF CA
08OTTAWA1494CCM: CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR INTEROPERABILITY
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 4. 2. (C) Director of the Mine Action and Small Arms Team Earl Turcotte of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) confirmed to PolMinCouns on November 28 that Canada will make a "helpful" statement during the December [...]
2008-11-28 15:24:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL NATO MOPS CA
08OTTAWA1495NEW POLITICAL BRINKMANSHIP BY THE CONSERVATIVES
[...] (C) Summary. Unexpectedly early in the 40th Parliament, the Conservatives have called the bluff of the opposition parties by announcing an end to the federal funding for political parties, which basically keeps the opposition parties functioning. (The Conservatives' own successful fundrais [...]
2008-11-28 16:27:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA
08OTTAWA1496CANADA IN KANDAHAR; MODEST PROGRESS, LITTLE PUBLIC
[...] (C) Summary and comment. The government's second quarterly report on progress toward Canada's benchmarks through 2011 in Afghanistan's Kandahar province claimed slight gains on the capabilities of Afghan army battalions in Kandahar, infrastructure projects, education and literary training, [...]
2008-11-28 19:25:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PGOV AF CA
08OTTAWA1498MGIN01: CANADA ON MUMBAI TERRORIST ATTACKS
[...] (U) Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon on November 28 confirmed that one Canadian had died and two others had been injured (one of whom remains in intensive care but is in stable condition) as a result of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, while Canadian consular officials had been able [...]
2008-11-28 19:57:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AEMR PTER IN CA
08OTTAWA1501CANADA SEEKING TO KEEP EXCHANGE OFFICERS IN IRAQ
[...] (SBU) This is an action request -- see para 7. 2. (C) Summary: Canada is seeking ways to keep its 13 military exchange officers in Iraq embedded in American and British military units after December 31, 2008, when the UN mandate for Iraq expires. In a December 1 meeting, Canadian interlocu [...]
2008-12-01 21:53:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO IR CA
08OTTAWA1502Harper Government Gives Snapshot of Canada's Economic
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Conservative government's November 27 Economic and Fiscal Statement stated that Canada is well positioned to weather the uncertainty and risks arising from the global financial crisis. Finance Minister Flaherty said the health of Canadian banks and the financial positions o [...]
2008-12-01 21:57:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV EIND CA
08OTTAWA1503CANADA STILL MULLING ARF DISASTER RELIEF EXERCISE
[...] (SBU) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Asia Pacific security policy advisor Jean-Francois Lacasse, Canada is still consulting internally on how it can best match its interest in participating in the May 2009 Asean Regional Forum disaster relief exercis [...]
2008-12-01 21:58:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR MOPS EAID ARF CA
08OTTAWA1504MISSION CANADA ASSESS CURRENT POLITICAL TURMOIL
[...] (C) Summary. Mission Canada reporting officers agreed on December 1 that Prime Minister Harper appears to have badly miscalculated by introducing a divisive political issue (the elimination of public financing for political parties) in the fall economic statement (reftel),when the public expe [...]
2008-12-01 22:06:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA
08OTTAWA1507OTTAWA'S UNEXPECTED POLITICAL TURMOIL; NEW
[...] (C) Summary and comment. Prime Minister Stephen Harper faces a new and rather unexpected political challenge in the wake of the Conservatives' miscalculations in the Economic and Fiscal Statement (reftels). The Liberals and New Democratic Party on December 1 formalized an agreement to try [...]
2008-12-02 20:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AF CA
08OTTAWA1508US-CANADA PERMANENT JOINT BOARD ON DEFENSE (PJBD)
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada hosted the 222nd bi-national Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD) meeting in Quebec City, November 12-14, 2008, with U.S. Chairman George Nethercutt and Canadian Chairman Rick Casson leading the discussions. The PJBD's Record of Decision (ROD) recognized the merit of [...]
2008-12-02 22:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS CA
08OTTAWA151 CANADIAN MONETARY POLICY:
[...] (U) SUMMARY/INTRODUCTION: Mark Carney begins a seven-year term as Governor of the Bank of Canada on Friday, February 1 (ref B). Carney, who gained his first degree at Harvard, is not a career central banker. He worked for merchant bank Goldman Sachs in various assignments for thirteen years p [...]
2008-01-30 21:44:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN CA
08OTTAWA1510BANK OF CANADA GOVERNOR ON G20 SUMMIT AND
[...] (c) Summary: Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney and Deputy Governor John Murray told DCM and EMIN in a November 28 meeting that Bank officials were pleased with the G-20 Summit statement of principles. Carney stated that the Summit had acknowledged the global financial system's failures, an [...]
2008-12-03 16:00:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN CA ETRD PREL
08OTTAWA1511"UNCHARTERED WATERS" FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: The usual ceremonial role of a Governor General may slip into a grey constitutional zone as she faces an imminent decision on a possible new federal election, prorogation of Parliament, or even formation of a new coalition government. While Governors General in Canada have almos [...]
2008-12-03 19:19:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
08OTTAWA1512PM TO ADDRESS THE NATION TONIGHT
[...] (U) Prime Minister Stephen Harper will address the nation at 7 p.m. EST on December 3, with speculation including a possible announcement of a new federal election in late January, prorogation of Parliament until it returns o/a January 26 to deal with the 2009 budget bill, or a conciliatory [...]
2008-12-03 21:23:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA
08OTTAWA1514RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE END USE CHECK
[...] Econoff was unable to verify the validity of a battery shipment order placed by Canada Department of National Defense (DND) identified in reftel. 2. Alaine Girard, Manager of the government of Canada,s Public Works office responsible for DND battery procurement, said he was not able to id [...]
2008-12-04 12:58:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA ETTC IS KOMC
08OTTAWA1516CANADA SUSPENDING PARLIAMENT, AGAIN
[...] (U) Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced on December 4 that Governor General Michaelle Jean had agreed to "prorogue" Parliament (a technical suspension) until January 26. (At the PM's request, the Governor General had similarly prorogued Parliament in September 2007, for one month.) The [...]
2008-12-04 17:22:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA
08OTTAWA1518OPPOSITION OUTRAGE IN OTTAWA
[...] (SBU) Opposition party leaders reacted in outrage to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's announcement on December 4 that the Governor General had agreed to prorogue (suspend) Parliament until January 26, sidestepping a scheduled December 8 vote of confidence in the House of Commons (reftel). Le [...]
2008-12-04 18:57:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA
08OTTAWA1519NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS GROUP: CANADA WILL JOIN
[...] (SBU) Canada will join consensus on the U.S. proposal for strengthening Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) control of transfers of enrichment and reprocessing (ENR) equipment and technology, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) non-proliferation senior policy [...]
2008-12-04 20:15:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PARM ENRG ETTC KNNP CA
08OTTAWA152CANADA SEEKS CLOSE COORDINATION IN RUN UP TO
[...] (SBU) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Policy Advisor for the Asia Pacific region Philip Cordier, Canada is generally in agreement with our concept paper on the ASEAN Regional Forum Workplan for Counterterrorism and Transnational Crime (reftel). The Division [...]
2008-01-31 15:05:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ARF PTER CA
08OTTAWA1522CANADA TO ATTEND ROME MEETING ON NATIONAL MEASURES
[...] (U) Canada will send Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Acting Division Director for Gulf and Mahgreb Relations Jeffrey McLaren and DFAIT non-proliferation senior advisor Ryan Hewer to the Rome meeting on implementation of national measures on Iran, according to DFAI [...]
2008-12-04 21:32:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP MNUC ETTC IR CA
08OTTAWA1523SECRETARY RICE-FOREIGN MINISTER CANNON LETTER
[...] (SBU) Post delivered text of reftel letter to the office of Foreign Minister Cannon on December 5. 2. (SBU) Charge followed up with a phone call the same day to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Assistant Deputy Minister for Asia and Africa Ken Sundquist (U/S equ [...]
2008-12-05 21:05:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OPDC KN CA
08OTTAWA1524ANTI-PIRACY EFFORTS HIGH ON CANADIAN AGENDA
[...] (SBU) Anti-piracy efforts in the Gulf of Aden are "high on the agenda" of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT),according to DFAIT counterterrorism senior policy advisor Neil Brennan. Brennan added that DFAIT has been engaged in extensive internal consult [...]
2008-12-05 21:07:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS PTER PBTS CA
08OTTAWA1529DUMPING DION (PART II)
[...] (C) Summary. Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion on December 8 indicated his intention to resign as leader of the Official Opposition. Michael Ignatieff remains the front runner to replace him, but it appears that the selection process is still not a slam dunk. Technically, the 77-member L [...]
2008-12-08 20:25:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA
08OTTAWA1532FM CANNON LOOKING FOR WAYS TO HELP ON DPRK FUEL OIL
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 4. 2. . (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Assistant Deputy Minister for Asia and Africa Ken Sundquist confirmed to DCM on December 8 that he had briefed Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon on a possible Canadian contribu [...]
2008-12-08 22:31:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL KN CA
08OTTAWA1535CANADA CRAFTING PIRACY POLICY RESPONSES
[...] (C) Summary. Canada is still deliberating about its policy on piracy in the Horn of Africa, but is somewhat stymied by its domestic legal framework, which makes no provision for prosecuting international piracy. DFAIT legal and policy officers continue to search for answers on how best to co [...]
2008-12-09 17:15:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PTER PBTS CA
08OTTAWA1536LIBERALS BEGIN THE HEALING PROCESS
[...] (C) Summary. Michael Ignatieff is the only remaining candidate to replace Stephane Dion as the interim leader of the Official Opposition Liberal Party. A new party mechanism should confirm him in this role o/a December 17. Liberals hope that the members will now be able to concentrate on t [...]
2008-12-09 21:09:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA
08OTTAWA1538PM HARPER HOPES FOR COOPERATION WITH NEW LIBERAL
[...] (SBU) In an exclusive CBC interview on December 9, Prime Minister Stephen Harper welcomed the Liberal Party to "come to the table" and put forward specific suggestions for the 2009 budget and a likely stimulus package. He differentiated sharply the Liberals, with their decades of governing [...]
2008-12-09 21:54:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
08OTTAWA1543LIBERALS RALLYING BEHIND MICHAEL IGNATIEFF AS
[...] (C) Summary. With unexpected speed, the Liberal Party has crowned Michael Ignatieff as its new interim leader. This will position the Liberals better to face the next session of Parliament beginning January 26, including debates over the 2009 budget as well as even a possible election soone [...]
2008-12-10 21:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA
08OTTAWA1546MISSION CANADA PROMOTES AWARENESS OF GENDER-BASED
[...] (U) Summary: Mission Canada marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women with a November 25 digital video conference (DVC) that included an exchange of best practices among leading American, Canadian, and Portuguese governmental, NGO, and law enforcement experts. [...]
2008-12-11 21:54:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KWMN KPAO PHUM CA
08OTTAWA1550CANADA PLANS TO ATTEND PAKISTAN DONORS CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-12 21:16:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPK EAID ECON EFIN IBRD CA
08OTTAWA1552US-EU-CANADA TRILATERAL MEETINGS ON IRAN AND US-EU
[...] (C) Summary: On December 8, the United States, European Union, and Canada held their regularly scheduled trilateral discussion on Iran at the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) in Ottawa. Later in the day, U.S. and EU representatives met at the French Emba [...]
2008-12-12 21:40:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN UN XG XF IR CA
08OTTAWA1556CANADA SUPPORTIVE ON UN HARMONIZATION OF
[...] (SBU) Canada is "broadly" supportive of the U.S. position outlined in reftel, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade international organization policy advisor Bronwyn May. May promised a more detailed response on December 19. May emphasized that Canada does attach [...]
2008-12-16 15:59:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AMGT AORC APER UNGA CA
08OTTAWA1558CANADA STUDYING SUPPORT FOR AFGHAN ELECTION
[...] (C) Canada is well aware of the currently circulating SHAPE estimate of force contributions required for Election Support Forces (ESF) in Afghanistan, and is now actively studying the "realm of the possible" to enhance security in the run up to the 2009 Afghan elections, according to Departmen [...]
2008-12-16 20:43:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MOPS MARR AF CA
08OTTAWA156CANADA'S NUCLEAR SECTOR: REACTOR SHUTDOWN
[...] (SBU) Summary. Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn removed Linda Keen from the Presidency of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) late on January 15. (While no longer CNSC President, she remains a member of the Commission.) Undoubtedly the government hoped this would wrap up the tw [...]
2008-01-31 18:03:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTRGY TBIO PGOV BTIO ENRG CA
08OTTAWA1560CANADA STRIVING TO COMBAT TIP
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada has an active inter-agency working group to combat trafficking in persons, as well as a variety of NGO efforts. More comprehensive research and statistics, a national action plan, greater co-ordination among national and provincial government agencies and NGOs, and great [...]
2008-12-16 22:29:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SMIG KCRM KWMN CA
08OTTAWA1566CANADIAN POLICY ON CUBA
[...] (SBU) Based on Embassy's ongoing dialogue with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's (DFAIT) Latin America and Caribbean officials, Embassy's assessment is that Canada has consistently worked to promote the advancement of democracy, good governance, and human rights in Cu [...]
2008-12-17 21:55:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ETRD ETTC CU CA
08OTTAWA1567CANADA'S UN UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW
[...] (SBU) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Deputy Director for Human Rights Victoria Berry and Policy Officer for Human Rights Daniel Ulmer, the Canadian government will soon submit a 20 page report for the Human Rights Council's February 3rd Universal Periodic Re [...]
2008-12-18 19:15:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM UNHRC CA
08OTTAWA1569CANADA SEEKS INFORMATION ON INDIAN SEA SPARROW SALE
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 6. 2. (S/NF) Summary: Canada requests releasable intelligence assessments and policy analysis by U.S. agencies on the proposed sale of Sea Sparrow missiles by the U.S. to India. Canadian naval forces rely exclusively on this missile, and are seeking [...]
2008-12-18 19:39:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPREL MASS MOPS ETTC MCAP IN CA
08OTTAWA1570CANADA OFFERS ALTERNATE SERVICE CONDITIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada supports UN personnel management reform, but does not agree with U.S. stance on temporary contracts. Canada also recognizes the urgent need for human resources management reform in light of the new challenges to UN operations in Afghanistan and Darfur. Canada remains a [...]
2008-12-18 19:46:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AMGT AORC APER UNGA CA
08OTTAWA1574CANADA'S SHRINKING POLICY PRIORITIES FOR 2009
[...] 1. (C) Summary. For the Canadian government, only three true policy priorities remain for 2009: rescuing the economy (or, more accurately, creating a public perception that it is earnestly trying to do so); remaining in power in face of new threats from the opposition parties; and, buildi [...]
2008-12-19 21:31:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON PREL CA
08OTTAWA1576CANADA TO HALVE IRAQ EXCHANGE OFFICER CONTINGENT
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Canada has run out of time to secure an agreement with Iraq that would allow Canadian exchange officers to receive immunities consistent with the U.S. Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). Canada will halve its contingent of military exchange officers embedded with American units [...]
2008-12-22 21:11:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MOPS NATO IZ CA
08OTTAWA1577ABOUT FACE: PM HARPER STACKS SENATE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-22 21:15:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR CA
08OTTAWA1578CANADA: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] (U) During 2008 Canada secured its first convictions under the 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act. In September, a Toronto court convicted a 20-year-old man, whose identity is protected by the Criminal Youth Justice Act, for conspiring in a group plot to bomb several Canadian targets, including Parliamen [...]
2008-12-22 21:36:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL ASEC CA
08OTTAWA1579CANADA EAGER TO PARTICIPATE IN PSI MEETINGS IN
[...] (SBU) Canada is eager to participate in the Proliferation Security Initiative Operational Experts Group and outreach meetings in May in Miami, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade non-proliferation senior policy advisor David MacDuff. MacDuff added that Canada is [...]
2008-12-22 21:36:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KNNP MNUC PARM CA
08OTTAWA1583CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR LEBANON
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Director General for the Middle East and Maghreb Kerry Buck on December 23 reiterated to PolMinCouns Canada's strong support for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. She confirmed that Canada had already made a contribution in FY07-08 o [...]
2008-12-23 16:48:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER LE SY UNSC EUN CA
08OTTAWA1585STEPHEN HARPER'S CHRISTMAS WISHLIST
[...] (SBU) As Santa Claus prepares to leave his North Pole (Canada) base to deliver presents around the world (with NORAD dutifully tracking his progress),Prime Minister Stephen Harper may be offering up his own wistful wish list for Christmas 2008, perhaps as follows: -- President Obama's fi [...]
2008-12-23 18:12:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON CA
08OTTAWA1586NO TIME TO WASTE: PM HARPER BYPASSES PARLIAMENT ON SUPREME
[...] (SBU) Summary: On December 22, Prime Minister Stephen Harper nominated Thomas Cromwell as a Supreme Court Justice, bypassing the parliamentary scrutiny for Supreme Court appointments he had earlier championed. Together with his near-simultaneous flip-flop over appointing new senators against [...]
2008-12-23 18:40:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
08OTTAWA1590DELIVERY OF NICARAGUA MUNICIPAL ELECTION DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) Poloff on December 24 delivered reftel demarche to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Latin America Division Deputy Director Patric Picard. There was no substantive response. Visit Canada,s Economy and Environment Forum at http://www.intelink.gov/communities/s [...]
2008-12-24 18:33:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID NU CA
08OTTAWA1591CANADA STRONGLY SUPPORTS GLOBAL INITIATIVE MEETING
[...] (SBU) On December 24, Dutch Deputy Head of Mission Erik Boer, Russian Deputy Chief of Mission Dimitri Trasimov, and Deputy Pol/C Kurt van der Walde jointly delivered reftel announcement about the upcoming fifth Global Initiative meeting in The Hague to Department of Foreign Affairs and Inter [...]
2008-12-24 18:37:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC RU NL CA
08OTTAWA1594CANADA WITHDRAWS ENTIRE IRAQI EXCHANGE CONTINGENT
[...] (C/NF) Canada decided on December 26 to withdraw all nine of its exchange officers embedded with U.S. forces in Iraq, following a high-level decision by Department of National Defence (DND) policy makers in response to a DND risk assessment, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and Inter [...]
2008-12-29 21:42:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MOPS IZ CA
08OTTAWA1595CANADA SEEKS ORTEGA MEETING TO DELIVER STRONG
[...] (C) Canada shares U.S. concerns over the flawed November municipal elections (reftels),but will not contemplate cutting its annual aid worth about C$11 million or canceling official visits, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Nicaragua desk officer Sand [...]
2008-12-29 22:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID NU CA
08OTTAWA167MANITOBA HYDRO ANNOUNCES MAJOR ELECTRICITY DEAL WITH MINNESOTA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-01 20:11:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV PGOV CA
08OTTAWA172CANADA ON SYRIAN POLITICAL DISSIDENTS
[...] (SBU) According to Director of the Middle East Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs Michael Grant, Canada decided to make a public statement in Damascus (text in para 2) in lieu of a demarche to the Syrian government in response to reftel demarche. Its embassy issued the statement o [...]
2008-02-04 16:26:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM SY CA
08OTTAWA173MANITOBA HYDRO ANNOUNCES MAJOR ELECTRICITY DEAL WITH MINNESOTA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-04 17:44:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV PGOV CA
08OTTAWA174SEEKING SEPARATE FUNDING FOR OAS CONVENTION
[...] (C) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Human Rights Deputy Director Robert Sinclair, Canada requests U.S. support for its position that the OAS should not/not fund the proposed Inter-American Convention against Racism through the existing OAS budget. S [...]
2008-02-04 17:52:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CA
08OTTAWA175BRITISH MINISTER OF STATE PRAISES CANADIAN ROLE IN
[...] (C) According to British High Commission Head of Political Section Colin Smith, Minister of State (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) Dr. Kim Howells used his February 2 visit to Ottawa to reinforce the multi-national nature of NATO's involvement in Afghanistan -- already including in Kandahar [...]
2008-02-04 22:30:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS AF UK CA
08OTTAWA187TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF DESIGNATION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-06 19:39:00Embassy OttawaSECRETIZ KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL CA
08OTTAWA188POLISH FM OFFERS HELICOPTERS FOR KANDAHAR
[...] (C) During a February 3-4 visit to Ottawa, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Radoslaw Sikorski informed Canada that Poland was prepared to offer two Russian-made helicopters to support Canadian Forces in Kandahar. According to Polish Embassy DCM Artur Michalski Sikorski -- during a private [...]
2008-02-06 19:52:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PL CA AF
08OTTAWA189CANADIAN CONCERN OVER CHAD AND SUDAN
[...] (SBU) FM Bernier issued a statement February 4 in response to recent developments in Chad, which said: "Canada strongly condemns the attacks by rebel groups in Chad and, in particular, in N'Djamena. We join newly elected African Union President Jakaya Kikwete in expressing our deep concern w [...]
2008-02-06 19:56:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM PREF CH SU CA
08OTTAWA191JANUARY 31 END OF ORAL DECLARATION CREATES FEW
[...] (U) Summary: The situation along the U.S.-Canada border following the January 31 implementation of the requirement that U.S. and Canadian citizens show proof of citizenship (rather than simply making an oral declaration) was similar to that reported in reftel concerning the southern border. [...]
2008-02-06 20:32:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC CASC KHLS CA
08OTTAWA192CANADA TO CONTINUE FUNDING FOR JUBA PROCESS, WITH
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Director for Eastern and Southern Africa Lisa Stadelbauer, following up on reftel demarches on the Juba process, confirmed that Canada will -- after extensive internal reviews -- go ahead and make its programmed disbursements. She no [...]
2008-02-06 20:36:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PHUM UG CA
08OTTAWA199CANADA'S DELEGATION TO THE VIENNA FORUM ON HUMAN
[...] (SBU) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Policy Advisor on International Crime Kim Cowan, Canada shares the U.S. view that the Vienna Forum to Fight Human Trafficking is an expert/technical conference and should not result in a political declaration. [...]
2008-02-07 21:10:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF SMIG KCRM KWNM CA
08OTTAWA210CANADIAN VIEWS ON DRAFT POLICY EXCEPTION FOR
[...] (SBU) Per reftel, ESTH Counselor advised officials in the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) that the U.S. would not circulate a draft NSG policy statement regarding India until the Government of India and the IAEA ha [...]
2008-02-08 22:49:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KNNP PARM TRGY IN CA
08OTTAWA211INCHING TOWARD A SPRING ELECTION?
[...] (C) Summary. Chances of a spring election are on the upswing, with upcoming confidence votes on Afghanistan, the crime bill, and the budget. Polling numbers do not look like either major party would have any realistic hope of forming a majority government any time soon, however, and the res [...]
2008-02-08 22:58:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AF CA
08OTTAWA216CONSERVATIVE PARTY EAGER FOR ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Summary. The Conservatives appear ready and eager for spring elections, although even they do not hope for more than a strengthened minority. They see the Liberals as deeply divided and heavily in debt, under a weak leader whose image will not appeal to voters. The Conservatives, while [...]
2008-02-11 21:51:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AF CA
08OTTAWA217SENATE MOVING TOWARD ON TERRORISM LEGISLATION
[...] (C) In a meeting with PolMinCouns on February 12, Senator David Smith, chairman of the Special Senate Committee on Anti-Terrorism, and committee member Senator Joyce Fairbairn (one-time leader of the Government in the Senate under the Liberals) expressed optimism on the future of two key pie [...]
2008-02-12 17:47:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER CA
08OTTAWA218LIBERAL WARINESS OF A SPRING ELECTION
[...] (C) According to Liberal Party National Campaign Co-chair Senator David P. Smith, spring 2008 likely is not the ideal time to face elections, at least from the Liberal perspective. In a meeting with PolMinCouns on February 12, he noted a general lack of public interest in an election so far [...]
2008-02-12 19:28:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA
08OTTAWA219CANADIAN QUESTIONS ON KOSOVO
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 3. 2. (C) According to Department of Foreign Affairs Director General for Central, East, and South Europe Robert Hage, the Cabinet Committee during the week of February 4 had agreed that Canada could not be in the first wave of countries to reco [...]
2008-02-12 20:06:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU CA
08OTTAWA221GOVERNMENT, OPPOSITION NEGOTIATING A WAY AHEAD IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: THE GOVERNING CONSERVATIVES AND THE OPPOSITION PARTIES APPEAR CLOSER THAN EVER ON A WAY FORWARD FOR THE AFGHAN MISSION OF THE CANADIAN FORCES, WITH A NEW LIBERAL AMENDMENT TO THE GOVERNMENT'S MOTION. THERE REMAIN SOME IMPORTANT DIFFERENCES OVER WHETHER THE TARGET DATE FOR THE E [...]
2008-02-12 23:18:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MOPS MARR AF CA
08OTTAWA222SYRIA REBUKES CANADA ON HUMAN RIGHTS STATEMENT
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Director General for Middle East and North Africa Gordon Venner on February 13 shared with PolMinCouns a read-out from the Canadian Head of Mission in Damascus following the Canadian Embassy's January 31 statement of concern over Riad [...]
2008-02-13 19:33:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM SY CA
08OTTAWA228CANADA ON ABKHAZIA
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Director General for Central, East, and South Europe Robert Hage on February 13 expressed appreciation for reftel views on possible Russian recognition of Abkhazia. He expressed mild surprise, however, explaining Canada's own reading [...]
2008-02-13 21:20:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL GG RU YI CA
08OTTAWA23WIREC INVITATION DELIVERED TO FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] On January 7 Embassy delivered the Secretary's letter of invitiation to the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference to the office of Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier. We will share copies of the letter with other interested ministries as well. 2. Embassy Ottawa POC for WIREC 2 [...]
2008-01-07 21:18:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV KGHG CA
08OTTAWA2327CANADA OPEN TO SHORT DELAY IN PAKISTANI ELECTIONS,
[...] (U) During a December 31 news conference, Prime Minister Stephen Harper commented regarding Pakistan that "we understand there may be some delay in holding elections. I think that's justifiable as long as it's a delay to ensure a fairer process. As long as it is not a delay leading to suspen [...]
2008-01-02 12:50:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PRFL PTER SHUM PK CA
08OTTAWA233CANADA SEES "SOME ENCOURAGING SIGNS" IN UN HRC
[...] (C) Summary: According to Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) officials, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) remains a "work in progress," but Canada has seen encouraging signs that it is maturing and shifting its focus from institutional questions to specific [...]
2008-02-14 19:10:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KUNR PREL CA
08OTTAWA24PROBABLE CANADIAN DEMARCHE TO SYRIA
[...] (SBU) PolMinCouns on December 31 delivered reftel demarche on Syria and the White House statement on the National Council of the Damascus Declaration to Director General for the Middle East and North Africa Gordon Venner of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Venner in [...]
2008-01-07 21:29:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM SY CA
08OTTAWA241ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE WORK AT MISSION CANADA:
[...] Befitting U.S. representation in Canada, with which we have the globe's largest bilateral energy relationship, every post in Mission Canada devotes significant resources to energy matters. The Ambassador regularly speaks to Canadian audiences about climate change and the importance of our ene [...]
2008-02-19 13:05:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV APER ABUD CA
08OTTAWA246CANADA STILL NOT READY TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO -- YET
[...] (C) Ambassador has a call in to Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier, who is on an official visit to Colombia (followed by Haiti and South Korea) so Ambassador can convey ref a demarche. DCM discussed recognition of Kosovo with Deputy Foreign Minister Len Edwards on February 15, and Edwards reit [...]
2008-02-19 19:30:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL UN UNMIK YI EU KV CA
08OTTAWA250CANADA SEEKS MORE INFORMATION ON IMPENDING
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Continental Defence Victor Rakmil on February 19 told Poloff that DFAIT had instructed the Canadian Embassy in Washington to contact the Departments of State and Defense for additional information about USG [...]
2008-02-19 22:17:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PNAT PARM KITA TSPA TPHY CA
08OTTAWA251FOREIGN MINISTER BERNIER ON KOSOVO
[...] (C) The Ambassador reached Canadian Foreign Minister Bernier by phone in Colombia (the FM is on a Latin America visit). Saying he had been asked by the Secretary to call, Ambassador strongly urged Canada to join the U.S. and its other allies in recognizing Kosovo's independence. Minister B [...]
2008-02-19 22:29:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL KV YI EU CA
08OTTAWA252CANADA WITH U.S. ON COMPREHENSIVE CONVENTION ON
[...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Deputy Director for Counterterrorism Yves Beaulieu confirmed on February 19 that Canada had also received the text of the Greek proposal that tries to bridge the OIC position with that of the U.S. and li [...]
2008-02-19 22:33:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER CA
08OTTAWA257MOMENTUM TOWARD SPRING ELECTION DECLINES FURTHER
[...] (C) Summary. The government will face four or possibly five confidence motions in the House of Commons in the coming weeks, beginning as early as February 28. However, it now appears increasingly likely that the Liberals will not swallow the bait of bringing down the government over Afghani [...]
2008-02-20 18:58:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA KV
08OTTAWA26S/CRS COORDINATOR HERBST'S MEETINGS IN CANADA
[...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with Canadian officials to discuss areas for collaboration in improving post-conflict stabilization and reconstruction, Ambassador John Herbst of the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS) heard that there is an emerging consensus in C [...]
2008-01-07 21:39:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS CA HA
08OTTAWA260CANADA: INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS AND APEC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-20 22:34:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDAORC TBIO KFLU EAIR EWWT WHO APECO CA
08OTTAWA262CANADA SUPPORTS PD INITIATIVE IN OAS ON
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Human Rights, Gender Equality, Health and Population Division Officer Cyndy Nelson on February 20 expressed appreciation for reftel points and Canada's support for a joint U.S.-Canada public diplomacy initiative, such as a disc [...]
2008-02-21 12:55:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV OAS
08OTTAWA268STRONG CANADIAN DEMARCHE ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN SYRIA
[...] (C) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Middle East Division Director Michael Grant, DFAIT on February 20 summoned Syrian Ambassador to Canada Jamil Sakr to receive a strongly worded aide memoire expressing "deep concerns" over the human rights situatio [...]
2008-02-21 18:54:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM SY CA
08OTTAWA269NOTIFICATION TO CANADA OF U.S. SATELLITE ENGAGEMENT
[...] (C) Ambassador orally briefed Foreign and Defence Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister Susan Cartwright about the U.S. interception of the NRO satellite on February 20. Cartwright expressed concern about the possibility of debris landing in populated Canadian areas, and Ambassador reassured [...]
2008-02-21 19:23:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PNAT KTIA PINS TSPA TPHY CA
08OTTAWA270COMPROMISE AFGHAN MOTION SETS END DATE IN 2011
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a new compromise motion, PM Harper acceded to the Liberals' call for a firm end date to the Afghan mission of Canadian Forces in Kandahar, with pull-outs beginning in July 2011 and ending by December 2011. The new language apparently draws heavily from the Liberals' amendmen [...]
2008-02-21 20:38:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MOPS AF CA
08OTTAWA271MORE CANADIAN AID FOR HAITI ANNOUNCED
[...] (U) Summary: Shortly before Foreign Minister Bernier's ongoing visit, the Canadian Government announced nearly C$125 million in support to Haiti, much of which will be used to construct and rehabilitate roads. The rest will be targeted to improve reproductive health; provide technical assista [...]
2008-02-21 21:17:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SOCI CA HA
08OTTAWA272CANADA AND JORDAN AGREE TO NEGOTIATE A FREE TRADE
[...] (U) Summary: Canada has announced it is launching negotiations with Jordan on a free trade agreement (FTA). Negotiations are to begin in April in Amman. If concluded, the agreement would be Canada,s first FTA with an Arab country. Canada hopes the FTA would serve as a gateway to other Middl [...]
2008-02-21 22:10:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON CA JO
08OTTAWA274CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT: CANADA'S CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE (CI) AND KEY RESOURCES (KR)
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-22 20:07:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CA EAGR EAID ECON EFIN ETTC KHLS PGOV PREL PTER
08OTTAWA279CANADA TO MEET IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION PLEDGE
[...] (SBU) According to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada is well on track to provide the CAD 300 million (approximately USD 295.39 million, at the current exchange rate) it pledged in 2003 to provide for Iraq reconstruction through 2010. As of September 2007, Canada [...]
2008-02-22 22:16:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID IZ CA
08OTTAWA280LIBERALS CLARIFY AFGHANISTAN NO TRIGGER FOR
[...] (U) In remarks to reporters in Winnipeg on February 22, Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion explicitly stated that his party "prefers" that the future mission of Canadian Forces in Afghanistan not be the trigger for a federal election. He indicated that the Liberals welcome the debate on the [...]
2008-02-22 22:31:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS PGOV AF CA
08OTTAWA283CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT - CANADA - CORRECTED VERSION - FORMAT CORRECTED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-25 15:57:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC ECON PTER PREL PGOV ETTC EFIN KHLS CA
08OTTAWA287CANADIAN VIEWS ON IEA MEMBERSHIP FOR CHINA AND
[...] (SBU) Using reftel points, ESTH Counselor demarched both the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) and Natural Resources Canada, urging Canada to support eventual International Energy Agency membership for China and India. The growing role and impact of China and India [...]
2008-02-25 22:05:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG IEA CA
08OTTAWA288CANADA SUPPORTS FORMING CLUSTER GROUPS IN ICG ON
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 9. 2. (C) Summary: Canada supports the establishment of cluster groups within the International Contact Group (ICG) on Somalia, although it is also open to other ideas to improve the ICG's effectiveness. Canada would be interested in joining one [...]
2008-02-25 22:10:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PGOV SO CA
08OTTAWA289CANADIAN GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS UNIVERSITY ASSISTANCE
[...] Summary: Over the last week, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) announced C$8 million under its University Partnership in Cooperation and Development program to support Canadian educational institutions to help three developing countries increase their ability to meet local [...]
2008-02-25 22:20:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SOCI ECON CA ET MI VM
08OTTAWA290NEW BILATERAL CIVIL ASSISTANCE SPARKS SOME
[...] (SBU) Summary: A new U.S. - Canada Civil Assistance Plan (CAP) is one in a series of post-9/11 bilateral defense and security measures designed to serve both countries when natural or manmade disasters occur. Lack of public information here about this bilateral military accord has begun to [...]
2008-02-25 22:52:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR MOPS PTER CA
08OTTAWA291NEW BILATERAL CIVIL ASSISTANCE SPARKS SOME
[...] (SBU) Summary: A new U.S. - Canada Civil Assistance Plan (CAP) is one in a series of post-9/11 bilateral defense and security measures designed to serve both countries when natural or manmade disasters occur. Lack of public information here about this bilateral military accord has begun to [...]
2008-02-25 22:52:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR MOPS PTER CA
08OTTAWA294CANADA ON CUBA
[...] (C) In a meeting with PolMinCouns on February 26, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Director General for Latin America and the Caribbean James M. Lambert expressed appreciation for reftel views on seeking meaningful political change in Cuba leading toward a democratic end [...]
2008-02-26 21:14:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM EAID CU CA
08OTTAWA298CANADA SEES LIMITED OPTIONS ON NEVSUN MINING
[...] (C) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Eastern and Southern Africa Division Director Lisa Stadelbauer, DFAIT will further consider the Nevsun mining venture in Eritrea, but the Canadian government is very limited in what action it could take. Stadelbaue [...]
2008-02-27 20:35:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ER CA
08OTTAWA301CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR UNSC PIRACY RESOLUTION LIKELY
[...] (C) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Eastern and Southern Africa Division Director Lisa Stadelbauer, Canada would likely support a UNSC resolution on piracy off the Somali coast as long as it conformed with international law. She said, however, that C [...]
2008-02-27 22:13:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM PBTS UNAUS UNSC IMO SO CA
08OTTAWA303CANADA'S PARLIAMENT DEBATES AFGHANISTAN MISSION
[...] (C) Summary. Parliamentary debate on the future of the Afghan mission has reflected a new consensus between the Conservatives and Liberals to extend the mission until 2011, as long as there are additional troops and support. The government has voiced optimism about finding 1,000 more troop [...]
2008-02-28 16:51:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PGOV AF CA
08OTTAWA305ELECTIONS IN CANADA: A "HOW TO" PRIMER
[...] (U) Summary: In Canada's parliamentary system, governments must retain the "confidence" of the House of Commons to govern. The Governor General may dissolve the House of Commons -- on the advice of the prime minister - if a sitting government fails to win a "confidence" measure. Minority g [...]
2008-02-28 20:45:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM CA
08OTTAWA309WTO DEMARCHE ON U.S./EC TAFT PROPOSAL - CANADA'S
[...] On February 29, EMIN presented reftel demarche to Balsharan Rakhra, Trade Policy Officer, Technical Barriers and Regulations Division, DFAIT. He had arranged to make the presentation jointly with his EU Mission counterpart, but she was absent due to illness. At the end of his oral presentati [...]
2008-02-29 17:04:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD WTRO ECON CA EUN
08OTTAWA310CANADIAN FORCES RESUME DETAINEE TRANSFERS IN
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Afghanistan Task Force Senior Adviser Cory Anderson confirmed to pol/miloff on February 29 that Canadian Forces (CF) operating under ISAF in Kandahar had decided to resume the transfer of Canadian-captured detainees to Afghan A [...]
2008-02-29 17:51:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM NATO AF CA
08OTTAWA311CANADA: EMBASSY OTTAWA 2008 SPECIAL 301
[...] (sbu) Summary and Recommendation: Embassy Ottawa remains frustrated by the Government of Canada,s continuing failure to introduce - let alone pass - major copyright reform legislation that would, inter alia, implement and ratify the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Internet tre [...]
2008-02-29 18:07:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA ECON ETRD KIPR
08OTTAWA312CANADIAN AID TO KOSOVO (AND BALKANS) TO END BY 2010
[...] (C) Acting Director General for Europe of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Sean Boyd confirmed to PolMinCouns on February 29 that Canada was in the processing of "wrapping up" all of its assistance programs in the Balkans, including Kosovo, with an end date of 2010. He n [...]
2008-02-29 19:37:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID EU KV CA
08OTTAWA315CANADA AND G8 CASH COURIER INITIATIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-29 20:56:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA KCRM KJUS OTRA PTER SNAR
08OTTAWA317CANADA COULD SUPPORT MALDIVES' RESOLUTION WITH KEY
[...] (C) ACCORDING TO DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ROBERT SINCLAIR AND BILATERAL/INSTITUTIONAL ENGAGEMENT AND CARBON MARKETS POLICY ANALYST BRIANNA PETERSON, CANADA MAY SUPPORT THE MALDIVES' HRC RESOLUTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN RIGHTS, [...]
2008-03-03 12:56:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KGHG MV CA
08OTTAWA319 CANADA PASSES KEY NEW CRIME BILL
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Conservatives' comprehensive crime legislation became law on February 28 after the Liberal-dominated Senate met a government-set March 1 deadline and passed the omnibus bill without amendment from the House of Commons' version. The new Act fulfills a 2006 election promise [...]
2008-03-03 22:16:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KCRM CA
08OTTAWA325CANADA: SUCCESS AT BUCHAREST CRITICAL FOR NATO,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: CANADA WILL DEFINE SUCCESS AT THE NATO SUMMIT IN BUCHAREST AS (1) AGREEMENT TO A STRONG POLITICAL MILITARY PLAN REAFFIRMING THE ISAF MISSION AS THE ALLIANCE'S TOP OPERATIONAL PRIORITY, AND (2) THE PROVISION BY AN ISAF PARTNER OF A BATTLE GROUP TO PARTNER WITH THE CANADIANS IN KA [...]
2008-03-03 22:54:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MOPS NATO AF CA
08OTTAWA331CANADA'S VIEWS ON COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 7. 2. (C) Summary: Canada generally supports the aims of the resolution on Screening and Briefing intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) that the U.S. will present at the March 10-14 Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) meeting. However, as tr [...]
2008-03-04 20:29:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC SNAR UN CA
08OTTAWA333INTERNATIONAL OCEANS POLICYMAKING IN CANADA: AMBITIOUS VISION, PAROCHIAL POLITICS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-04 22:02:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIS EWWT PHSA SENV CA
08OTTAWA334CANADA TO FLAG ITS CONCERNS ON IRAN AT IAEA BOG
[...] (C) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Senior Advisor for Non-proliferation Che van Haastrecht, Canada agreed with ref a points on Iran and the IAEA, and is particularly concerned about alleged Iranian studies that could point to weaponization. He added that I [...]
2008-03-04 22:34:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPARM KNNP MNUC IAEA IR CA
08OTTAWA336CONSERVATIVES EASILY SURVIVE FEDERAL BUDGET VOTES
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Conservatives' third budget marks another legislative accomplishment for the minority government, as it easily survived three confidence votes, concluding on March 4. The budget is a lean, low-key document, constrained by prior commitments of C$60 billion in tax cuts and o [...]
2008-03-05 17:57:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SENV KCRM EAID AF CA
08OTTAWA339CANADA FOLLOW-UP RESPONSE TO G8 CASH COURIER
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-06 21:39:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA KCRM KJUS OTRA PTER SNAR
08OTTAWA346CANADA'S TIP REPORT SUBMISSION
[...] (SBU) OVERVIEW OF CANADA'S ACTIVITIES TO ELIMINATE TIP A. Canada is principally a transit and destination country for trafficking in persons (TIP). NGOs estimate that approximately 2,000 people are subject to trafficking into Canada each year. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has [...]
2008-03-07 19:10:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB KCRM KWMN KFRD CA
08OTTAWA347TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF FOUR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-07 19:48:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA EFIN ETTC IZ KTFN PREL PTER SY UNSC
08OTTAWA351CANADIAN VIEWS ON UPCOMING AFGHANISTAN-RELATED
[...] (C) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Afghanistan Task Force (FTAG) Deputy Director for Policy and Advocacy Christopher Gibbins, Canada was "keen" see strong U.S. participation and close coordination with U.S. officials at two upcoming meetings on Afgh [...]
2008-03-10 17:38:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO AF CA
08OTTAWA358CANADA KEEN TO WELCOME EUPOL TO KANDAHAR
[...] (C) In a discussion with pol/miloff about the positioning agreement required for EUPOL to deploy to PRT Kandahar (reftel),Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Afghanistan Task Force (FTAG) Deputy Director for Policy and Advocacy Christopher Gibbins and Senior Adviser [...]
2008-03-11 17:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR NATO AF CA
08OTTAWA36TERRORISM FINANCE: LET OPERATIVES MESSAGE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-08 21:11:00Embassy OttawaSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PREL CA
08OTTAWA360 CANADA'S SECURITY CERTIFICATE SYSTEM
[...] (U) Summary: Revised legislation to improve the balance between national security and civil rights has enabled Canada to meet a Supreme Court deadline and to seek updated immigration "security certificates" against five alleged members of the al-Qaeda network. The legislation permits the co [...]
2008-03-11 21:43:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PTER PHUM PINS CA
08OTTAWA361CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR UNSG'S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE
[...] (U) Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier on March 11 expressed Canada's support for Kai Eide as the UN Secretary General's new Special Representative for Afghanistan, and will brief the media on March 12. (Full text in para 2.) The House of Commons again debated the future of the Canadian mission [...]
2008-03-12 13:52:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AF CA
08OTTAWA365CANADIAN CHARTER RIGHTS: NOT FOR AFGHAN DETAINEES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-13 12:02:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM MOPS AF CA
08OTTAWA372CANADA: DISCORD OVER OSLO PROCESS AND NATO
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Embassy discussions with Canadian officials March 11-12 regarding cluster munitions (CM) inter-operability revealed a worrisome lack of interagency coordination. It appears that the delegation head may be attempting more to burnish his own credentials with anti-landmine and [...]
2008-03-14 14:23:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPARM PREL NATO MOPS CA
08OTTAWA373CANADA EXTENDS TROOP MANDATE IN AFGHANISTAN
[...] (U) Canada's House of Commons on March 13 adopted by a vote of 198 to 77 a government motion to extend the mandate of the Canadian Forces (CF) in NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Kandahar through 2011, contingent upon NATO's provision of 1,000 more troops as well as adequate [...]
2008-03-14 14:42:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO AF CA
08OTTAWA377Canada's Treaty-making Process
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada in January 2008 revised its treaty-making process to include review of all international treaties by the House of Commons before entry into force. The government, however, will maintain the legal authority to decide whether to ratify the treaty; no vote in Parliament is n [...]
2008-03-14 15:39:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON KIPR KTIA CA
08OTTAWA378CANADIAN PERSPECTIVES ON NAFTA: KEEP, KILL OR FIX?
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-14 15:40:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EIND EINV PREL CA
08OTTAWA379CANADA ON 3/17 OAS MINISTERIAL
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Director General for Latin America and the Caribbean James Lambert confirmed to PolMinCouns on March 14 that Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier planned to attend the March 17 OAS Ministerial meeting in Washington. Lambert noted Canada's [...]
2008-03-14 17:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER CO EC CA
08OTTAWA380CANADA ON IRAN'S ELECTIONS
[...] (C) In a meeting with PolMinCouns on March 14, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Director General for the Middle East and North Africa Gordon E. Venner (a former Ambassador to Iran) expressed appreciation for the draft U.S. statement on Iran's parliamentary elect [...]
2008-03-14 17:15:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PHUM IR CA
08OTTAWA381CANADIANS IMPRESSED BY DOD REPORT ON CHINA, WANT
[...] This is an action request -- see para three. 2.. (C) Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Defense and Security Relations Deputy Director Elizabeth Baldwin-Jones on March 11 expressed appreciation for the 2008 Department of Defense (DOD) Report on China (ref [...]
2008-03-14 18:55:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MARR MCAP TSPA CH CA
08OTTAWA389 MP PRAISES U.S. VIRTUAL PRESENCE POST
[...] (SBU) Member of Parliament for the Yukon Larry Bagnell, in a meeting in Ottawa with poloffs on March 13, praised the U.S. Virtual Presence Post in the Yukon, and said that he and his constituents had found it "extremely useful." He commented that public awareness of the website in the Yukon w [...]
2008-03-18 13:30:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAO CA
08OTTAWA39CANADIAN SUPPORT ON ANTI-SATELLITE TEST DEMARCHE
[...] (S) In response to reftel demarche by PolMinCouns on January 8, Director General for East Asia Gordon Houlden of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade confirmed that Canada had raised the January 2007 anti-satellite test numerous times with the Chinese, both in Beijing an [...]
2008-01-09 13:03:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPREL PARM MNUC MARR CH CA
08OTTAWA392CANADA TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO ON MARCH 18
[...] (C) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Director General for Central, East, and South Europe Robert Hage, Canada will formally announce its official recognition of Kosovo's independence later on March 18, following in the wake of Japan's March 17 announcement as [...]
2008-03-18 15:37:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EU KV CA
08OTTAWA394LIBERAL ""BOUNCE"" FROM BY-ELECTIONS, BUT NOT ENOUGH?
[...] (C) Summary: The Liberal Party won three of the four federal by-elections on March 17, which will bring high profile politicians Bob Rae and Martha Hall Findlay to Parliament to bolster the Liberal ""team."" The Conservatives picked up a former Liberal seat in Saskatchewan, however. Low voter [...]
2008-03-18 18:47:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA
08OTTAWA395 CANADIAN RECOGNITION OF KOSOVO
[...] (U) In a statement on March 18, Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier announced Canada's recognition that Kosovo's independence was now an "international reality," without being a precedent (reftel). Full statement in para 3. 2. (U) The Serbian Ambassador to Ottawa told the media on March 18 [...]
2008-03-18 19:53:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EU KV CA
08OTTAWA396CANADA ON DESIGNATION OF AL-SHABAAB AS FTO
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Counter-Terrorism Section Deputy Director Yves Beaulieu and Somalia Desk Officer George Jacoby on March 18 expressed appreciation for reftel information and promised that Canada would examine closely and take under consideratio [...]
2008-03-18 20:49:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV ASEC KCRM SO BG CA
08OTTAWA404CANADA AGREES WITH U.S. CALL FOR COMMON APPROACH
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para three. 2. (SBU) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Policy Adviser for Non-proliferation and Disarmament Michael Blackmore confirmed on March 20 that Canada is in "full agreement" with reftel points. In particular [...]
2008-03-20 16:54:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC EU CA
08OTTAWA407CANADA CARES ABOUT TIBET, TOO
[...] (U) Several hundred protesters -- apparently including large numbers of ethnic Tibetans -- staged a peaceful protest march on March 20 from Parliament Hill to the Chinese Embassy, passing en route in front of the U.S. Embassy. They variously chanted "China out" or "Free Tibet," among other s [...]
2008-03-20 19:56:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM CH CA
08OTTAWA418DELIVERY OF NATO HIGH LEVEL GROUP CHAIRMAN'S LETTER
[...] On March 25, the Charge delivered reftel letter to Colleen Swords, Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security and Political Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Swords expressed her thanks. Visit Canada,s Economy and Environment Forum at http://w [...]
2008-03-26 14:28:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL NATO KCFE MARR RS GG MD CA
08OTTAWA419CANADA ALSO ENCOURAGING PSI ENDORSEMENTS
[...] (C) According to Colleen Swords, Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security and Political Director of the Department of International Trade, Canada fully shares the U.S. goal of encouraging more states to participate in the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) (reftel). Swords c [...]
2008-03-26 14:31:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALMNUC PARM KNNP PHSA PREL XL XM CA
08OTTAWA420CANADA ON PROPOSED NATO CFE STATEMENT
[...] (C) In a meeting with Charge on March 25, Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security and Political Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Colleen Swords expressed appreciation for reftel points on the CFE statement, explaining that she had not yet rece [...]
2008-03-26 14:33:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO KCFE MARR RS GG MD CA
08OTTAWA423CANADA EXPECTS TO UP CONTRIBUTIONS FOR IRAQI
[...] (C) In response to ref a demarche, Director of the Gulf and Maghreb Division Dennis Horak confirmed to PolMinCouns on March 25 that the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade was working hard to convince the Canadian International Development Agency to increase Canada's contri [...]
2008-03-26 19:46:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM CA IZ
08OTTAWA428MONEY FOR CANADIAN HEALTH PROJECTS IN HONDURAS
[...] During her recent visit to Honduras, International Development Minister Bev Oda announced that the Canadian government is providing C$18 million to help youth and other marginalized groups in Honduras through new school-feeding, health, and water and sanitation initiatives. "These projects w [...]
2008-03-27 15:55:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SOCI CA HO
08OTTAWA429CANADA EXPRESSES CONCERNS, ANNOUNCES AID TO SUDAN AND CHAD
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-27 17:45:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PREF EAID CA CD SU
08OTTAWA435CANADIANS EXPECT FRANCE, OR U.S., TO DEPLOY TROOPS
[...] (C) Summary: Canada has redoubled its efforts to convince France to deploy a reinforced battle group to the Kandahar region of Afghanistan by February 2009. The Canadians are especially working to allay French concerns about improvised explosive devices (IEDs),which have emerged from milit [...]
2008-03-31 11:58:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MOPS MARR NATO AF FR CA
08OTTAWA436SHIPRIDER NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA - ROUND ONE
[...] (U) Summary. On March 20, U.S. and Canadian delegations met in Quebec City and completed a productive and successful first round of negotiations on a framework agreement on integrated cross-border maritime law enforcement operations (ICBMLEO). The delegations reached agreement on much of the [...]
2008-03-31 13:58:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPBTS EWWT PINS SNAR KTIA KCRM CA
08OTTAWA440CANADA: AG MUKASEY'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day reviewed for Attorney General Mukasey on the margins of the Cross Border Crime Forum, Canada's program for border security and law enforcement. In addition to hiring 400 new border guards and arming the border service, Canada has put new res [...]
2008-03-31 19:58:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PTER CA
08OTTAWA443CANADA UNLIKELY TO WEIGH IN WITH GREECE
[...] (C) In Ambassador's absence, DCM delivered reftel demarche to the Prime Minister's Foreign and Defence Policy Advisor, Susan Cartwright, and urged that PM Stephen Harper raise the issue of Macedonia's NATO membership directly with Greece's president at the Bucharest Summit. Ms. Cartwright, [...]
2008-03-31 21:13:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MK GR CA
08OTTAWA444CANADA: AG MUKASEY'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with Attorney General Mukasey on the margins of the Cross Border Crime Forum March 18 (septel),Canadian Justice Minister Nicholson said that with its initial law and order agenda of strengthened gun laws, changes to the special advocate system for non-citizen terro [...]
2008-03-31 21:25:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PTER SNAR CA
08OTTAWA446CANADA ANNOUNCES GREATER DETAIL ON CLIMATE POLICY
[...] (SBU) Summary: On March 10 Canada's federal government provided significant additional detail on its "Turning the Corner" climate change plan released last year. This latest iteration announced the government's intent to establish a clear price signal for carbon and greater detail on plans to [...]
2008-04-01 21:11:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG CA
08OTTAWA451CANADA IMPLEMENTING DUAL USE ITEM PROVISION OF
[...] (U) This is an action request - see para four. 2. (SBU) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Policy Adviser for Nuclear Non-proliferation Che van Haastrecht confirmed on April 1 that Canada will implement all the requirements of UNSCR 1803, and that the gov [...]
2008-04-02 15:11:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM KNNP NSG IR CA
08OTTAWA452UNLIKELY SPRING FEDERAL ELECTION IN CANADA
[...] (C) Summary. The Liberal Party is disinclined to pursue a federal election in the spring, and possibly not even in fall 2008. Organization and finances remain problems, as does the weak popularity of its leader, Stephane Dion. Three new Liberal Members of Parliament from the March 17 by-e [...]
2008-04-02 20:54:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER CA
08OTTAWA459ASIA PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION (APEC): EMBASSY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-04 16:16:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ENRG ETRD APEC PGOV CA
08OTTAWA467HAITI: THE CENTERPIECE OF CANADA'S LATIN AMERICA
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 13. 2. (C) Summary: Following the roll-out in 2007 of a higher priority to Latin America in its foreign policy, Haiti has emerged as the key component of Canada's Latin America strategy. During a mid-February 2008 visit, Foreign Minister Bernier [...]
2008-04-07 17:33:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM EAID ECON CA HA
08OTTAWA470CANADA-U.S. BILATERAL CONSULTATIVE GROUP FOLLOW UP
[...] (U) Action request: This is an action request, see para four items 3, 9, and 10, and para 5. 2. (SBU) Summary: One of the commitments at the January 2008 U.S.-Canada Bilateral Consultative Group meeting on counter-terrorism (BCG) was to develop a mechanism for tracking the action items that [...]
2008-04-07 21:41:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL CA
08OTTAWA473CANADA TO SUPPORT AMBASSADOR SWING FOR IOM
[...] (C) Ross O'Connor, Chief of Staff to Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier, confirmed to PolMinCouns on April 8 that Canada would support the U.S. candidate for the next Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM),Ambassador William Swing. He admitted that there had be [...]
2008-04-08 15:49:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM CA
08OTTAWA491CANADA'S RENEWED FOCUS ON LATIN AMERICA
[...] (C) Summary: PM Harper has made Latin America one of a very few focal points for Canada's foreign policy, alongside Afghanistan, improving relations with the U.S., and developing stronger ties with the rising economic powers of Asia. Of the three pillars of the Latin America strategy -- secu [...]
2008-04-10 14:39:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID KDEM XM CA
08OTTAWA496CANADA: IMPLEMENTING THE TRAVEL BAN AND TRAVEL
[...] This is an action request - see para 4. 2. (C) According to Shawn Caza, Deputy Director of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (Nuclear) Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada has fully followed the UN guidance for the implementation of UNSCRs 1737, [...]
2008-04-10 21:16:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALMNUC KNNP IR UNSC CA
08OTTAWA497RISE IN ANTI-SEMITIC INCIDENTS IN CANADA
[...] (U) Summary. On April 9, the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada released its 2007 "Audit of Antisemitic Incidents." According to the audit, 1,042 incidents of anti-Semitism took place in Canada in 2007, the highest figure since B'nai Brith released its first audit 26 years ago, an [...]
2008-04-10 21:32:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV CA
08OTTAWA498CANADA BLOCKS SALE OF ICONIC SPACE ASSETS TO U.S.
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Canadian government has decided to block the acquisition by an American company of the space business assets from MDA Corporation, including its space-based imaging satellite, Radarsat 2. The decision follows broad public concern over the sale, particularly over the potent [...]
2008-04-10 22:00:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN ETRD ECON CA
08OTTAWA504CANADA WELCOMES BAHRAIN TO GLOBAL INITIATIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-11 15:41:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM DTRA PREL PTER KGIC KNNP BA CA
08OTTAWA505CANADA DEVELOPMENT AID FOR PAKISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-11 18:13:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAF CA EAID PGOV PK PREL
08OTTAWA521CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF'S DEPARTURE; ANOTHER
[...] (C) Summary. General Hillier will step down as Canada's Chief of Defence Staff in July 2008. Despite long-time media speculation about bad blood between Hillier and the government (or at least about Conservative frustration related to his recurrent outspokenness),Hillier has been an unusu [...]
2008-04-16 16:25:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR AF CA
08OTTAWA529TORY "BRAND" SUFFERS ETHICAL BLOW
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers executed a search warrant at federal Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa on April 15, apparently related to an ongoing legal case involving possible Conservative election spending violations in the 2006 federal election. The in [...]
2008-04-16 19:03:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
08OTTAWA53CANADA UNABLE TO HELP JOINT INTEGRATED UNITS BUT
[...] (SBU) According to Sudan Desk Officer Suehila Elkateb at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, legal prohibitions on providing military assistance to Sudan, in place since the 1990s, make it impossible for Canada to assist with the JIU program. Even given the exemptions in [...]
2008-01-11 14:08:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM SU CA
08OTTAWA536DESPITE CONTROVERSY, USEFUL FM VISIT TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Apart from unfortunate remarks to the media by FM Bernier suggesting replacement of Kandahar's governor -- which Bernier quickly retracted -- his visit to Afghanistan along with his French counterpart was useful, with a special focus on policing and health. Canada's next st [...]
2008-04-17 21:32:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EAID MOPS AF CA
08OTTAWA538Canada Likely to Label Plastic Ingredient 'Toxic'
[...] (SBU) Summary - As early as April 18 Canada may declare the chemical bisphenol A (BPA),widely used in plastics, toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. This is likely to precipitate additional widespread public concern in both Canada and the United States. We understand that [...]
2008-04-18 14:50:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD TBIO SENV EAGR EIND CA
08OTTAWA545SUPPORT FOR LONGER AFGHAN MANDATE IN CANADIAN
[...] (C) In a meeting with PolMinCouns on April 18, Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence Chairman Colin Kenny described a strong bipartisan consensus within his committee for a much longer-term commitment to Afghanistan than authorized by the March 13 Commons motion extendin [...]
2008-04-18 20:04:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID MOPS PGOV AF CA
08OTTAWA546Canada Takes Precautionary Action against BPA
[...] Summary: Canada announced it will take precautionary actions against bisphenol A (BPA),including a ban on the importation, sale and advertising of polycarbonate baby bottles. The details will be published on April 19 in the Canada Gazette, and will be available for public comment until June 1 [...]
2008-04-18 20:27:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD TBIO SENV EAGR EIND CA
08OTTAWA549MANITOBA HYDRO ANNOUNCES MAJOR ELECTRICITY DEAL WITH MINNESOTA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-21 11:52:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV PGOV CA
08OTTAWA553MANITOBA HYDRO ANNOUNCES ELECTRICITY DEAL WITH
[...] This message originates from U.S. Consulate Winnipeg. 2. Summary. Following hard on the heels of a February 2008 deal to sell 250 megawatts of electricity to Minnesota Power, Manitoba Hydro announced on April 17 that it had reached agreement with Wisconsin to sell up to 500 megawatts of p [...]
2008-04-21 15:25:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV CA
08OTTAWA563CANADIAN REPRESENTATION AT CSD-16
[...] (SBU) Embassy made demarche requested reftel and discussed U.S. views on Zimbabwe chairing the 16th session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-16) with Pamela O'Donnell, director of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Sustainable Development Division. [...]
2008-04-22 19:28:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV AORC PREL EAGR EUN EAID ECON CA
08OTTAWA565LIKELY CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR PRISONERS OF
[...] (C) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Human Rights, Gender Equality, Health, and Population Division official Chantale Walker, Canada is "sympathetic to the goals" of the US-EU Prisoners of Conscience Declaration, and has no specific concerns with it. [...]
2008-04-23 19:39:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL EU CA
08OTTAWA572CANADA ATTENDANCE AT PARIS INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT
[...] (sbu) Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier will likely lead Canada's delegation to the June International Support Conference on Afghanistan in Paris, according to Richard Arbiter, the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Acting Director for Policy and Advocacy on the Afghanistan [...]
2008-04-24 17:38:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAF CA EAID ECON EFIN KDEM PGOV PREL
08OTTAWA581CANADA AND AD HOC LIAISON COMMITTEE MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-24 20:44:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA EAID EU IS KPAL PGOV PREL WBG
08OTTAWA586CANADA AND SPECIAL 301
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-25 13:55:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDCA ECON ETRD KIPR
08OTTAWA590CANADIAN REACTION TO SYRIA'S CLANDESTINE NUCLEAR
[...] (C) The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Director General for the Middle East and North Africa Gordon Venner on April 25 expressed appreciation to PolMinCouns for reftel points, as well as for an April 24 briefing (septel). (Poloff separately provided reftel points to [...]
2008-04-25 15:45:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP KN SY CA
08OTTAWA593CANADIAN EFFORTS TO PROMOTE DEMOCRATIZATION ABROAD
[...] (SBU) Summary: The government of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has taken a middle course between the large expansion of democratization capacity that a Parliamentary committee recommended in July 2007 and the ad hoc approach it had been following before then. Canada is justifiabl [...]
2008-04-25 18:30:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KDEM PREL CA
08OTTAWA594CANADA UNLIKELY TO RAISE ABKHAZIA AND SOUTH
[...] (C) In response to ref a demarche by PolMinCouns, Director General for Central, East, and South Europe Robert Hage of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) confirmed on April 25 that Canada remained unlikely -- for the time being, at least -- directly to raise Rus [...]
2008-04-25 21:10:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL GG RS CA
08OTTAWA595EMBASSY OTTAWA PROPOSALS FOR AMBASSADOR'S CT FUND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada is a close partner on counterterrorism and border security; there is little we do in the counterterrorism arena that does not touch our partnership with Canada. Still, there are areas where we see things differently than our Canadian neighbors, and there are areas where [...]
2008-04-28 14:51:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PREL CA
08OTTAWA6NDP PLANS TO RUN "LARGEST CAMPAIGN" EVER
[...] (SBU) Summary: New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jack Layton has announced that the NDP "will run the largest campaign that our party has ever run in its history" in the next federal elections, which many observers believe will take place in 2008. Although it holds the fewest seats of the fo [...]
2008-01-04 14:04:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
08OTTAWA603PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE ON AFGHANISTAN BEGINS WORK
[...] (SBU) PolMinCouns on April 29 met with chairman Pierre Lemieux (Conservative, Ontario) of the House of Commons' new "Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan," established under the terms of the March 13 bipartisan motion extending the mandate of the Canadian Forces in Kandaha [...]
2008-04-30 19:52:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV CA AF
08OTTAWA619CANADA RESPONDS TO WORLD FOOD PROGRAM EMERGENCY
[...] Summary: In response to an urgent appeal from the United Nations' World Food Program (WFP),Canada announced that it is allocating C$230 million in food aid programming, C$50 million more than last year. The package includes C$10 million in food aid for Haiti. Canada is also fully untying re [...]
2008-05-02 21:00:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SOCI WFP CA HA
08OTTAWA621CANADA CONTINUES PRESSURE ON BURMA; SENDS CYCLONE
[...] (C) Summary: Canada shares U.S. concern about the imposition on the Burmese people of a non-representative constitution, and has been publicly pressuring Burma to bring an end to the country's environment of fear and repression. On May 5, Foreign Minister Bernier conferred honorary Canadian c [...]
2008-05-06 19:53:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM BM CA
08OTTAWA626REGIONAL COMMAND - SOUTH MEETING, APRIL 28, OTTAWA
[...] (U) Summary: On April 28 in Ottawa, Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) hosted a DAS-level officials' meeting for countries contributing to NATO-ISAF Regional Command - South (RC-S). NATO and United Nations Peace Keeping Operations (UNPKO) representatives als [...]
2008-05-07 15:59:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS MARR NATO AF CA
08OTTAWA627U.S.-AUSTRALIA BILATERAL ON MARGINS OF RC-SOUTH
[...] (C) Summary: At their April 27 meeting in Ottawa, the U.S. and Australian delegations agreed the RC-South Plan should emphasize a counterinsurgency approach and retain its counternarcotics elements. The U.S. delegation agreed to include language in the Plan on a long-term approach and period [...]
2008-05-07 16:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR NATO AF AS CA
08OTTAWA628CANADA TO CONSIDER "DAY OF SOLIDARY WITH CUBA"
[...] (C) In separate conversations with PolMinCouns, senior policy advisor to the Foreign Minister Ross O'Connor and Director General for Latin America and the Caribbean James Lambert of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) expressed Canada's willingness to consider o [...]
2008-05-07 17:40:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM CU CA
08OTTAWA632PREPARING FOR AN ELECTION THAT JUST WON'T COME
[...] (C) Summary. While the chances for a spring or summer election remain almost zero, the Conservatives seem fully prepared to start their next campaign at a moment's notice. The Liberals admit to more dire funding problems, and have launched a new fundraising drive. A fall 2008 election rema [...]
2008-05-07 20:16:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA
08OTTAWA633CANADA AND UPCOMING UNSCR 1267 LISTING REQUEST OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-07 20:17:00Embassy OttawaSECRETCA EFIN KTFN KU PINR PREL PTER
08OTTAWA634CANADA CONCERNED ABOUT REDUNDANCY OF G8 INITIATIVE
[...] (U) On May 5 Econoff delivered reftel points to Yves Beaulieu, Deputy Director, International Crime and Terrorism, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Beaulieu confirmed that Canada had received the proposal on April 10 and stated that Canada share the USG's concern regardin [...]
2008-05-07 21:13:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL PTER KTFN CA
08OTTAWA635THEMES FROM THE 10TH CROSS-BORDER CRIME FORUM
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the 10th Cross-Border Crime Forum, 120 participants led by the U.S. Attorney General and the Canadian Ministers of Public Safety and Justice reviewed progress in eight areas, received a threat assessment, and discussed lessons learned from three case studies. From Mission Ca [...]
2008-05-08 11:53:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KJUS KCRM CA
08OTTAWA636SCENESETTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TRILATERALS, MAY 15-16
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada remains a key partner of the United States in the protection and promotion of human rights worldwide, in addition to being the home of one of the world's most successful democratic systems and strongest rule of law. Prime Minister Stephen Harper leads one of the most st [...]
2008-05-08 13:42:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM CA
08OTTAWA637CANADA EQUALLY CONCERNED ABOUT WIPO DIRECTOR
[...] (U) On May 6 Econoff delivered reftel points to Doug George, Director, Intellectual Property, Information and Technology Trade Policy Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. George (protect) said Canada shares the USG's concern regarding the upcoming WIPO DG election. [...]
2008-05-08 16:11:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD AORC WIPO PREL KIPR CA
08OTTAWA638CANADA AND PARIS SUPPORT CONFERENCE FOR AGHANISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-08 17:37:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAF CA EAID ECON EFIN KDEM PGOV PREL
08OTTAWA639CANADA AND PARTICIPATION IN INT'L COMPACT WITH
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-08 19:37:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA EAID ECON EFIN IZ PGOV PREL EINV
08OTTAWA640MISSION CANADA OUTREACH TO DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Mission Canada personnel regularly engage democracy activists, notably from Burma, Somalia, Sudan, and Belarus,. Our outreach has helped to empower groups whose links to their home country can make a difference on the margins in the development of democracy and stability. On [...]
2008-05-08 21:32:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KDEM PREL CA
08OTTAWA645CANADIAN IMMIGRANTS ON THE RISE, BUT SO ARE "LOST"
[...] (U) Summary: In addition to accepting an increasing number of immigrants (especially high-skilled workers),Canada is also a growing destination for asylum seekers and refugees. Canada has successfully managed its immigration policies to maintain a reputation as a successful model of diversity [...]
2008-05-09 18:51:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PTER PGOV CA
08OTTAWA646CANADA'S RESPONSE TO CYCLONE NARGIS
[...] (sbu) Canada is committed to providing emergency aid to Burma, but remains stymied by the Burmese regime's actions blocking humanitarian relief, Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Director of Humanitarian Affairs and Disasters Response Group Leslie Hope told Econcouns on May 9. Joined [...]
2008-05-09 20:16:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL BM CA
08OTTAWA647CLUSTER MUNITIONS: CANADA CONCERNED ABOUT NATO
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 4. 2. (C) In response to ref a and b demarches, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAIT) Oslo Process and CCW Head of Delegation Earl Turcotte observed that there was at best a "50-50 chance" that the Oslo Process (OP) on Cluster Munitions [...]
2008-05-12 16:33:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MOPS NATO GM CA
08OTTAWA649CANADA'S NEW DEFENSE STRATEGY
[...] (U) In a widely televised public address in Halifax, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Defence Minister Peter MacKay outlined a new "Canada First Defence Strategy," building upon themes from the 2006 Conservative election platform and the October 2007 "Throne Speech" at the opening of the fa [...]
2008-05-12 19:06:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MARR CA
08OTTAWA651U.S.- CANADA BILATERAL AT REGIONAL COMMAND - SOUTH
[...] (C) Summary: On the margins of the Regional Command-South meeting (reftel),Canadian representatives provided an overview of their security, reconstruction, and rule of law efforts in Kandahar Province. The Canadians emphasized the need for close U.S.-Canada cooperation in the transition to a [...]
2008-05-13 15:07:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR NATO AF CA
08OTTAWA653CANADA'S POST-CONFLICT STABILIZATION AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada's "Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force" (START) has become a key component of its foreign affairs architecture. Its Ottawa headquarters works on policy formulation, while inter-agency teams now operate in Haiti, Uganda, Colombia, and Kandahar -- and soon also in [...]
2008-05-13 18:06:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID PINS KDEM KJUS MCAP PGOV CA
08OTTAWA654CANADA'S 60-DAY REPORT TO UN SECURITY COUNCIL ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-13 19:35:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KNNP AORC ETRD TRGY UNSC IR CA
08OTTAWA657 Direct investment in Canada: Window closes for ATK to
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The 30-day period (ref A) has ended during which U.S. defense firm Alliant Tech Systems (ATK) could have convinced Canada's Industry Ministry with additional information or proposals to approve its proposed acquisition of Canadian firm MDA's space business. As no appeal is allo [...]
2008-05-14 14:58:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN ETRD ECON CA
08OTTAWA673CANADA'S NUCLEAR SECTOR: AECL SCRAPS ISOTOPE REACTOR PROGRAM
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-16 20:58:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTRGY TBIO PGOV ENRG CA
08OTTAWA683ITAR: PM DAS RUGGIERO, CANADIANS DISCUSS EXPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-20 21:37:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MARR MOPS CA
08OTTAWA684PARLIAMENTARIANS HIGHLIGHT BORDER CONCERNS
[...] (SBU) Summary: In advance of the annual Canada-U.S. Inter-Parliamentary meeting May 17-18, Canadian MPs and Senators expressed concern to Ambassador over the "thickening of the border" and hope that Congress may again push back the June 2009 date for implementation of WHTI on the land border. [...]
2008-05-20 21:41:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PBTS KCRM CA
08OTTAWA685ITAR: PM DAS RUGGIERO, CANADIANS DISCUSS EXPORT
[...] (C) Summary: Canadian officials welcomed PM DAS Frank Ruggiero to Ottawa on May 9 to discuss Canada's export control systems. The visit was meant to build U.S. confidence in Canada's will and ability to execute the May and June 2007 U.S.-Canada Exchange of Letters (EOLs) that guide the imple [...]
2008-05-21 12:14:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPARM PREL MARR MOPS CA
08OTTAWA693CANADA WILL NOT ATTEND FRIENDS OF IRAQ CONFERENCE
[...] (SBU) The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, in response to reftel invitation to attend the Friends of Iraq Conference June 17-19, sent the following reply: Begin text Thank you very much for the invitation to the Friends of Iraq Conference in Abu Dhabi. The Department [...]
2008-05-22 11:50:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID IZ CA
08OTTAWA694DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH CUBA IN CANADA
[...] (U) Following Embassy outreach to the Prime Minister's Office and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (reftels) to encourage Canadian actions in support of the Day of Solidarity with Cuba, Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier issued the following statement "in recognition of [...]
2008-05-22 15:33:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM KPAO CU CA
08OTTAWA695TBI: CANADA LOOKING TO INCREASE CARIBBEAN
[...] (C) Summary: Canada is increasing its engagement in the Caribbean in order to bolster prosperity, security, and democracy. The move reflects the government's desire to recast Canada as a capable and reliable "player" in the hemisphere. Canadian government officials over the past year have h [...]
2008-05-22 18:16:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MOPS XL CA
08OTTAWA700CANADIAN VIEWS ON UN SYSTEM OF INTERNAL JUSTICE
[...] (SBU) In response to May 15 demarche (reftel) by PolMinCouns to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Director General for International Organizations Ferry de Kerckhove, Senior Policy Advisor Shannon-Marie Soni on May 23 provided the following comments, which she said h [...]
2008-05-23 17:35:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNGA AORC APER CA
08OTTAWA701CANADA AND THE BURMA CONFERENCE
[...] (SBU) Canada will highlight its current Cyclone Nargis aid pledges (see paragraph 2 and ref b) at the May 25 UN-ASEAN Conference in Rangoon and will stress the need for increasing access for international relief efforts in Burma, Foreign Affairs and International Trade's (DFAIT) Director of Hu [...]
2008-05-23 19:53:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PHUM CA BM
08OTTAWA702PRIMER ON CANADIAN POLITICAL PARTIES
[...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: The struggle to form Canada's next government will be between the Conservative and Liberal parties in a federal election that will take place possibly in fall 2008, but increasingly more likely in 2009. Whether the vote results in a minority or majority share o [...]
2008-05-23 20:29:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
08OTTAWA703PCO INVESTIGATION ON "NAFTAGATE" FAILS TO SOLVE
[...] (SBU) Following a two month investigation, the Privy Council Office released a May 22 report on "NAFTAGATE" related to alleged leaks by either or both Chief of Staff the Prime Minister Ian Brodie and Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Wilson regarding alleged comments from Democratic U.S. Presid [...]
2008-05-23 20:38:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ETRD CA
08OTTAWA704CANADA TO PRESS G8 TO FUND AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Canadian-led Afghanistan-Pakistan Dubai Cooperation Workshop will publish a five-part border area action plan on June 16. Foreign Minister Bernier will urge G8 members to join Canada in funding the action plan at the June 26-27 G8 Foreign Ministers' meeting in Kyoto. End [...]
2008-05-23 20:54:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS SNAR MARR AF CA
08OTTAWA707FOREIGN MINISTER'S RESIGNATION A BLOW TO
[...] (U) Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier on May 26 submitted his resignation as minister, effective immediately, to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who accepted it and appointed Minister of International Trade David Emerson to the additional post "on an interim basis." In his letter, Bernier admi [...]
2008-05-27 19:44:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CA
08OTTAWA71CANADIAN COURT STRIKES DOWN IPOD LEVY
[...] (U) Federal Court of Appeals of Canada ruled on January 11 that the Copyright Board of Canada does not have the authority to place a copyright levy on iPods and other digital music players. It is possible that the board will appeal this decision to the Supreme Court of Canada. The Copyright [...]
2008-01-11 21:18:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR CA
08OTTAWA712BIOGRAPHY OF NEW FOREIGN MINISTER DAVID EMERSON
[...] (SBU) Summary. PM Harper appointed Vancouver Member of Parliament David Emerson on May 26 as interim Foreign Minister, replacing Maxime Bernier. Emerson will retain his existing ministerial portfolios of International Trade as well as the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics, in [...]
2008-05-28 19:06:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR CA
08OTTAWA713CANADA AND CUBA
[...] (C) Based on Embassy's ongoing dialogues with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Director General for Latin America and the Caribbean, its Deputy Director of the Central America and Caribbean Division, and the Cuba deskoff, Embassy's assessment is that Canada has consi [...]
2008-05-28 20:31:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL PHUM CU CA
08OTTAWA714DELIVERY OF MESSAGE TO THE PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA
[...] Embassy delivered reftel message to Prime Minister Harper's office on May 28 at 9:15 am local time. PM Harper is currently on an official visit to several European countries but is expected to return on May 29. Visit Canada,s Economy and Environment Forum at http://www.intelink.gov/communi [...]
2008-05-28 21:30:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OPDC CA
08OTTAWA719CANADA WILL COOPERATE ON OAS ELECTION OBSERVERS IN
[...] (C) In the Ambassador's abscence, DCM met May 29 with Assistant Deputy Foreign Minister for Bilateral Relations James Fox to deliver reftel points. Fox was joined by DG for Africa David Angell and OAS desk officer Heidi Kutz. Fox was clearly surprised by the U.S. proposal and said Canada shar [...]
2008-05-29 19:56:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL OAS ZI CA CO
08OTTAWA720BIOGRAPHY OF HELENA GUERGIS, CANADIAN SECRETARY OF STATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Stephen Harper promoted Helena Guergis to Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Trade in January 2007 after she had served as Parliamentary Secretary for International Trade from February 2006. The 39 year-old Conservative Member of Parliament [...]
2008-05-29 20:40:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR CA
08OTTAWA723CANADA IN ACCORD ON IRAN AND IAEA
[...] (C) Director General for the Middle East and North Africa Gordon Venner (a former Canadian Ambassador to Iran) of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade on May 30 expressed appreciation to PolMinCouns for reftel views on Iran in advance of the June 2-6 IAEA Board meeting. [...]
2008-05-30 18:43:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP MNUC PARM IR IAEA CA
08OTTAWA724FRIENDS OF IRAQ CONFERENCE DRAFT AGENDA PASSED TO
[...] (U) Poloff passed a copy of the draft agenda for the Friends of Iraq Conference to Iraq Desk Officer David Leach of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade on May 30. Leach thanked us for keeping Canada in the loop, but reconfirmed that Canada would not send a representative [...]
2008-05-30 18:52:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PINS MARR MOPS KDEM EAID ECON CA IZ
08OTTAWA725SNAPSHOTS OF DIFFERING POLITICAL PRIORITIES IN MAY
[...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister Bernier's sudden resignation on May 26 intensified the political pot-shooting in Parliament as it wraps up its spring session. It provided a gleeful Opposition with a welcome counter-message to Prime Minister Harper's May 27-29 four capital visit to Europe, or [...]
2008-05-30 19:59:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON PREL SENV AF CA
08OTTAWA737SOMALI DIASPORA HIGHLIGHTS THE CHALLENGES OF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a well-attended conference on May 22 with keynote speeches by Somali Transitional Federal Government Foreign Minister Jangeli, former Prime Minister of Canada Joe Clark, and AF DAS Jim Swan, the Canadian Friends of Somalia attempted to raise awareness of the "problems and cha [...]
2008-06-03 15:30:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL CA SO
08OTTAWA750CANADA CONTRIBUTION TO THE UN TRUST FUND FOR
[...] (SBU) The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade confirmed on June 5 that Canada plans to make a contribution of C$300,000 for the UN Trust Fund for Electoral Assistance to Zimbabwe, plus an additional contribution to the AU, through the Canadian International Development Agenc [...]
2008-06-06 12:00:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL CA ZI
08OTTAWA752CANADA'S RESPONSE TO ISO SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
[...] Econoff delivered reftel information regarding USG concerns on ISO Social Responsibility Draft Standard to Yolanda Banks, Senior Advisor for Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Affairs at Export Development Canada; Georgina Wainwright-Kemdirim, Senior Policy Analyst for Strategic Polic [...]
2008-06-06 14:22:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD WTRO ECON CA
08OTTAWA753CANADA: NATYNCZYK NEXT CHIEF OF THE DEFENCE STAFF
[...] (U) Defence Minister Peter MacKay on June 6 introduced Lieutenant-General Walter Natynczyk to the media as Canada's next Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS),succeeding General Rick Hillier (reftel),who will retire on July 4. (Text of the Prime Minister's statement on the appointment in para 4. [...]
2008-06-06 15:48:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PINR CA AF
08OTTAWA754DEMARCHE ON CONVENTION ON SUPPLEMENTARY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-06 18:42:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP TRGY ENRG KSTC PARM IAEA CA
08OTTAWA755G-8 COMMITMENT AND DARFUR KEEPS CANADA FOCUSED ON
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Harper has made Latin America, U.S. relations, Afghanistan, and major emerging markets Canada's prime foreign policy themes, leading to concern that Africa would "fall off the map." Africa nonetheless has maintained its spot on Canada's radar screen, in large meas [...]
2008-06-06 19:17:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM EAID XA SU CA CH
08OTTAWA756TERRORISM FINANCE: CANADA'S RESPONSE TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-06 20:07:00Embassy OttawaSECRETEFIN KTFN PTER PINR PREL PK CA
08OTTAWA757CANADA AGREES THAT GLOBAL FOOD EXPORT RESTRICTIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-06 20:14:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EAGR TBIO CA
08OTTAWA758US-CANADA-MEXICO HUMAN RIGHTS TRILATERALS
[...] (C) Summary. Discussions in annual U.S.-Canada-Mexico human rights trilaterals focused on forwarding human rights in multilateral venues, importantly at the UNGA (UN General Assembly) and the UN Human Rights Council (HRC). All three countries agreed that the HRC has failed in its treatment of [...]
2008-06-06 20:17:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL MX CA
08OTTAWA767LABOR SECRETARY CHAO ATTENDS NORTH AMERICAN AGREEMENT OF LABOR COOPERATION MEETING IN OTTAWA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-06 21:10:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ECON ETRD PREL CA
08OTTAWA773P/DAS VOLKER CONSULTS WITH CANADIANS ON NATO
[...] (C) Summary: Senior Canadian officials emphasized to visiting EUR P/DAS Volker the similarity of views held by Washington and Ottawa on NATO issues. On ISAF, the Canadians were pleased by the Bucharest Summit outcomes, but they are worried about the weak commitment and focus of some key Eur [...]
2008-06-09 16:30:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL NATO MARR MOPS AF CA
08OTTAWA774ASYLUM CLAIMS FROM THE AMERICAS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Mexican citizens are now the largest single nationality claiming asylum in Canada, increasingly citing narco-violence instead of sexual discrimination. Haiti, Colombia, and the United States follow as source countries; the four countries account for 50% of asylum claims in Cana [...]
2008-06-09 17:53:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL CO MX HA CA
08OTTAWA778CANADA AND COLOMBIA CONCLUDE FTA TALKS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-10 12:16:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EIND EINV ELAB SENV CA CO
08OTTAWA781CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR THE BERLIN CONFERENCE
[...] (C) According to Director General for the Middle East and North Asia Gordon E. Venner of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs (and Conservative Member of Parliament) Deepak Obhrai will lead Canada's delegation to the Berlin Co [...]
2008-06-10 16:53:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS CA
08OTTAWA787CANADA STAGES TOUR TO RAISE IPR AWARENESS
[...] (U) On June 4, the Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network (CACN) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) hosted the Ottawa segment of the 2008 CACN/RCMP Canadian "Reality" Tour to boost awareness of counterfeiting and piracy. The tour began in April and will stop in ten cities across Canad [...]
2008-06-10 20:11:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KIPR CA
08OTTAWA789CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR ARF STATEMENT ON REGIONAL
[...] (C) Deputy Director for Regional Security Elizabeth Baldwin Jones of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's (DFAIT) Defence and Security Relations Division confirmed to PolMinCouns on June 11 Canada's support generally for an ARF statement on Regional Disaster Preparedne [...]
2008-06-11 19:26:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL ARF EAID ASEAN CA
08OTTAWA790CANADA FURTHER INCREASES AFGHANISTAN AID, WITH NEW
[...] (C) Summary: The Canadian government on June 10 announced an increase of C$600 million in its assistance package to Afghanistan, taking the total from C$1.3 billion to C$1.9 billion through 2011. Also marking a shift favoring some "signature projects" and increasing its diplomatic presence [...]
2008-06-11 21:53:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL NATO MOPS MARR AF CA
08OTTAWA793CANADA SHARES CONCERNS ABOUT UN HRC, BUT URGES US
[...] (C) In response to ref A demarche, Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Human Rights Deputy Director Rob Sinclair underlined that Canada had a similar "laundry list" of complaints about the UN Human Rights Council (HRC),but that Canada hoped the U.S. would -- [...]
2008-06-12 15:44:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CA
08OTTAWA794GOVERNMENT OF CANADA INTRODUCES ACT TO AMEND
[...] (U) On June 12, the Government of Canada introduced Bill C-61, An Act to amend the Copyright Act. This action had been long awaited. Minister of Industry Prentice characterized the bill as a "unique, made-in-Canada approach to copyright reform...(which will) improve the protection of cultura [...]
2008-06-12 20:19:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KIPR CA
08OTTAWA801CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR SOMALIA PEACE AGREEMENT
[...] (U) As yet another sign of Canada's continued attention to and concern for the people of Somalia (reftels),Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade David Emerson on June 11 lauded the new peace accord between the Somali Transitional Federal Government and the Alliance for the Re- [...]
2008-06-13 19:41:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID SO CA
08OTTAWA803CANADIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS CALL ON CHINA TO
[...] (U) Senator Consiglio Di Nino, chairman of the Canadian Senate's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade as well as head of the "Parliamentary Friends of Tibet" group, on June 13 shared with PolMinCouns a copy of a letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao calling for "earn [...]
2008-06-13 19:59:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM CH CA
08OTTAWA808CANADA CONFRONTS RADICALIZATION ABROAD AND AT HOME
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Canada has long struggled with how to avoid or reduce radicalization in one of the most diverse societies in the world, while also supporting global efforts to counter extremism. Its still evolving strategy involves multiple agencies working on various levels of forei [...]
2008-06-16 13:55:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PREL SOCI CA
08OTTAWA815NO PLANS FOR CANADIAN STATEMENT ON PRISONERS OF
[...] (U) According to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada does not plan to release its own press statement on the Prisoners of Conscience Declaration, but welcomes the courtesy copy of the U.S. draft press statement (reftel). Visit Canada,s Economy and Environment F [...]
2008-06-17 17:50:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM CA
08OTTAWA816DESIGNATION OF WORLD TAMIL MOVEMENT AS A TERRORIST ENTITY
[...] (U) Summary. On June 16, the Government of Canada listed the Toronto-based World Tamil Movement (WTM) as a terrorist entity under the anti-terrorism provisions of the Criminal Code, describing it as the "leading front organization" for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Canada, whic [...]
2008-06-17 17:59:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KTFN CA CE
08OTTAWA821CANADIAN PARTICIPATION AT LIBERIA POVERTY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-18 15:45:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN CA LI
08OTTAWA828CONSERVATIVES AGAINST RETURN OF DETAINEE
[...] (U) Summary: Conservative MPs on June 17 defended the government's refusal to press for the repatriation of Canadian citizen detainee Omar Khadr from Guantanamo Bay, emphasizing that he posed a risk, that prosecuting him in Canada was unlikely to result in a conviction, and that he would inevit [...]
2008-06-19 20:19:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PGOV CA
08OTTAWA8302010 G8 MEETING TO BE HELD IN CENTRAL ONTARIO
[...] On June 19, Canadian Prime Minister Harper announced that the Canadian-hosted 2010 G8 Summit will be held at the Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville, Ontario. Canada last hosted the G8 Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta in 2002. Harper noted that "Huntsville is a jewel in the Canadian Shield and an i [...]
2008-06-19 21:03:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDCA ECON PREL
08OTTAWA833LIBERALS LAUNCH "GREEN SHIFT" CARBON TAX
[...] (U) Summary. Liberal leader Stephane Dion rolled-out his long-awaited carbon tax in a splashy launch on Parliament Hill on June 19 to a cheering, and highly partisan, crowd, kicking off a summer campaign to sell the plan to Canadians. The "Green Shift" Plan will be the centerpiece of the Libe [...]
2008-06-20 16:22:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SENV ENERG CA
08OTTAWA85CANADA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] (u) Per reftel instructions, post has updated the Investment Climate Statement for the 2008 Country Commercial Guide. 2. (u) Begin Text of ICS Update Chapter 6: Investment Climate Openness to Foreign Investment General Attitude Strong economic fundamentals, proximity to the U.S. marke [...]
2008-01-15 22:00:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDCA EFIN ELAB ETRD KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR
08OTTAWA850CANADA: KHAWAJA TERROR TRIAL OPENS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Canadian government's ability to win its first major anti-terrorism case will soon be tested in Ontario Superior Court in the landmark trial of Momin Khawaja, which began on June 23 in Ottawa. Khawaja is the first Canadian citizen to be charged under the 2001 Anti-terrorism [...]
2008-06-24 11:52:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PGOV CA
08OTTAWA866HARPER TWEAKS CABINET, BOLSTERS QUEBEC PRESENCE
[...] (U) Summary: Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper fine-tuned his Cabinet in a minor shuffle on June 25, bolstering representation from Quebec following the sudden resignation of former Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier in May (reftel). Bernier's interim successor David Emerson won [...]
2008-06-25 21:06:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON ETRD CA
08OTTAWA868CANADA WILL LIKELY ENGAGE JAPAN ON CONTRIBUTIONS
[...] (C) On June 25, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) NATO Officer David Hutchison expressed appreciation for reftel demarche and remarked that it looked like something Canada would want to do. Hutchison promised to seek approval to convey the talking points to Minist [...]
2008-06-25 22:34:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MOPS NATO AF JA CA
08OTTAWA874CANADA JOINS UNSC IN CONDEMNING ZIMBABWE GOVERNMENT
[...] (U) Summary: Canada endorsed a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) statement on June 24 condemning the Government of Zimbabwe for its actions during the current presidential election period. Canada stated that violence by Zimbabwean state agents had "contaminated" the election, called for th [...]
2008-06-26 15:33:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM UNSC ZU ZI CA
08OTTAWA878FEDERAL COURT ORDERS RELEASE OF KHADR INTERROGATION
[...] (U) Summary: Canada's Federal Court has ordered the government to release sensitive information, including U.S. documents previously shared with Canadian authorities, to lawyers representing Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr. The order derives from a recent Supreme Court of Canada (SCOC [...]
2008-06-27 13:44:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PGOV PREL KJUS CA
08OTTAWA880CANADA BRIEFS KEY PARTNERS ON AFGHANISTAN
[...] (SBU) Deputy Minister of Canada's Afghanistan Task Force in the Privy Council Office David Mulroney on June 25 briefed Canada's key partners on Canada's new priorities in Afghanistan. Mulroney told the chiefs of mission or representatives of Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Australia, New Zeala [...]
2008-06-27 20:57:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL NATO MOPS MARR AF CA
08OTTAWA881NOTIFYING CANADA ON NASA-CNSA CIVIL SPACE
[...] (SBU) ESTH Counselor discussed and left copy of reftel non-paper with officials in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Office of Innovation, Science and Technology on June 27. Their immediate reaction was that the proposed discussions with CNSA seemed reasonable and to [...]
2008-06-27 20:57:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALKSCA PARM PREL TPHY TSPA TSPL CA CH
08OTTAWA882NEW CIDA DIRECTOR NAMED
[...] (U) Prime Minister Harper has named veteran civil servant Margaret Biggs to replace Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) president Robert Greenfield on July 1. Biggs has been a deputy secretary to the Cabinet in the Privy Council Office with responsibility for plans and consultati [...]
2008-06-27 21:02:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV CA
08OTTAWA884A CONSERVATIVE SCORE-CARD: A SOLID B+, BUT NO GOLD STAR
[...] (SBU) Summary. Two-and-a-half years into its mandate, the minority Conservative government is effectively implementing its policy agenda and delivering on core pledges to rebuild Canada's armed forces, tackle violent crime, and cut taxes. The extension of Canada's combat mission in Afghanista [...]
2008-06-27 21:06:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON PTER SOCI CA
08OTTAWA886 CANADA REJECTS ZIMBABWE'S ELECTION OUTCOME, IMPOSES NEW
[...] (U) Prime Minister Stephen Harper on June 27 called Zimbabwe's presidential runoff election "stolen" and expressed Canada's refusal to accept their results. (Full text of the Prime Minister's statement in para 2.) One June 29, Foreign Minister David Emerson announced further restrictions on [...]
2008-06-30 16:53:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM ZI CA
08OTTAWA888CANADA WILL NOT CONTRIBUTE TO NTI NUCLEAR FUEL BANK
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel demarche, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Adviser for Non-Proliferation Janice Fitchett confirmed that Canada would not pledge any financial support to the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) nuclear fuel bank project by the Septemb [...]
2008-06-30 18:36:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KNNP IAEA ENRG CA
08OTTAWA889CANADA TO OPEN NEW TRADE OFFICES IN CHINA, MEXICO
[...] (U) Summary: In a June 19 speech, International Trade Minister Emerson announced that Canada is establishing 10 new trade offices in China, Mexico, and Brazil as part of Canada's "aggressive" trade policy. This is in addition to new trade offices in India and Mongolia announced in April. The [...]
2008-06-30 19:43:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EINV CA EFTA CH BR IN
08OTTAWA897CANADA FACILITATES ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN ARCHIVAL COOPERATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canadian, Israeli, Palestinian, and U.S. archivists have agreed to five joint archival projects, subject to formal approval of a new Memorandum of Understanding. The focus will be on surveying and digitizing records currently in Israel that document the "shared legacy" of the J [...]
2008-07-02 19:45:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SCUL KPAL IS CA
08OTTAWA900CANADA WILL CONTINUE TO PRESSURE BURMA ON ACCESS
[...] (SBU) According to Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Burma Desk Officer Chrystal Waddington, Canada fully agrees with the U.S. view (reftel) that the international community should continue to make clear to Burmese authorities that further assistance will depend o [...]
2008-07-03 16:35:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID BM CA
08OTTAWA906CANADA REQUESTS LIST OF SUPPORTERS OF PRISONERS OF
[...] (SBU) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Human Rights, Gender Equality, Health, and Population Division Policy Advisor Sue Butchart, Canada would like to see a "broad regional cross-section of support" for the prisoners of conscience public affairs event (reftel) [...]
2008-07-07 19:03:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL EUN KDEM CA
08OTTAWA907CANADA UPDATES 1267 COMMITTEE ON ABDELRAZIK
[...] (S) Acting Senior Coordinator for International Crime and Terrorism Evelyn Puxley at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade informed PolMinCouns on July 7 that Canada had advised the UN Security Council's 1267 Committee that Canada was now providing limited in-kind assista [...]
2008-07-07 19:03:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPTER PINR PINS CA
08OTTAWA908SENATORS MCCAIN AND GRAHAM MEET NEW CANADIAN
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting on June 20, new Foreign Minister Emerson welcomed Senators McCain and Graham and Ambassador Wilkins to Ottawa, and emphasized progress Canada's Conservative government had made on re-equiping and enlarging the Canadian Forces (CF) as well as the political support th [...]
2008-07-07 19:03:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MOPS AF CA
08OTTAWA909CANADIAN OBSERVER TO KOSOVO DONORS' CONFERENCE
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 4. 2. (C) In response to ref a demarche, Director General for East, Central, and South Europe Robert Hage of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) confirmed to PolMinCouns on July 7 that Canada would send an observer [...]
2008-07-07 19:52:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID KV UNMIK CA
08OTTAWA910NEW CIHR PRESIDENT ASSUMES DUTIES
[...] (U) Minister of Health Tony Clement appointed Dr. Alain Beaudet to the presidency of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR),effective July 1. Dr. Beaudet replaces Dr. Pierre Chartrand, the acting CIHR head since the resignation of longtime president Alan Bernstein in October of 20 [...]
2008-07-07 20:17:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON TBID CA
08OTTAWA912CANADA, QUEBEC AND FRANCE SIGN AGREEMENT ON
[...] (U) On July 4, the organizations for health research funding of Canada (the Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction, and Institute of Aging; CIHR),Quebec (the Fonds de la recherche medicale, FRSQ) and France (the Institut national de la [...]
2008-07-08 15:26:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO CA
08OTTAWA913CANADIAN ATTENDANCE AT 63RD UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[...] (SBU) Currently available information requested in reftel: A. Head of State not expected to attend B. Head of Government expected to attend -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper -- Arrival on evening of September 24; participation in Millennium Development Goal meeting on morning of Septem [...]
2008-07-08 19:00:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA CA
08OTTAWA918COUNSELOR, CSIS DIRECTOR DISCUSS CT THREATS,
[...] (S/NF) Summary. Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Director Judd discussed domestic and foreign terror threats with Counselor of the State Department Cohen in Ottawa on July 2. Judd admitted that CSIS was increasingly distracted from its mission by legal challenges that could endanger fo [...]
2008-07-09 18:49:00Embassy OttawaSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER MOPS IR PK AF CA
08OTTAWA929CANADIAN RECEIPT OF NEW U.S. POLICY ON CLUSTER
[...] (U) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Mine Action Team Coordinator Carly Volkes expressed appreciation for reftel demarche on July 8. Volkes noted that Canadian delegation head Earl Turcotte and his colleagues were in Geneva for the July 7 - 25 Convention on Conventional [...]
2008-07-11 15:03:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL MOPS KPOA NATO CA
08OTTAWA936CANADA BACKS INCREASE IN SIZE OF AFGHAN NATIONAL
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel demarche, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Defence and Security Relations Anne Burgess said that Canada was "ready to support" the proposed increase in the size of the Afghan National Army fighting force from 80,000 [...]
2008-07-11 19:59:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL NATO MOPS MARR AF CA
08OTTAWA938CANADIAN DIRECT INVOLVEMENT IN NTM-I UNLIKELY
[...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Defence and Security Relations Anne Burgess promised to float our request for support to NATO Training Mission-Iraq (NTM-I) through the Canadian interagency (septel). Burgess [...]
2008-07-11 20:13:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO IZ CA
08OTTAWA94CANADIAN FISHERIES LEGISLATION -- THIRD TIME CHARM?
[...] Summary: On November 29th, 2006, Fisheries and Oceans Minister Loyola Hearn introduced a new bill to Parliament to modernize Canada's 139-year-old Fisheries Act. While there is unanimous agreement that the Act must be updated, there are differences among stakeholders regarding changes that [...]
2008-01-17 20:15:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIS SENV PREL CA
08OTTAWA945A ROCKY PATH FOR CANADA'S COPYRIGHT BILL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Although stakeholders are generally pleased with Canada,s recently introduced copyright bill, critics are working against it at a grassroots level and the opposition parties have thus far been critical. The bill will likely require several months of Parliamentary hearings, and [...]
2008-07-14 17:47:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KIPR ETRD CA
08OTTAWA950CANADIAN VIEWS ON ARF REGIONAL DISASTER
[...] (SBU) ESTH Counselor discussed ref A demarche with Elizabeth Baldwin-Jones, Deputy Director of the Defence and Security Relations Division at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, on July 14. Baldwin-Jones said she and her colleagues had been in direct contact with EAP/RS [...]
2008-07-14 20:58:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID KNNP PARM ARF ASEAN CA
08OTTAWA951COUNSELOR, CANADIAN OFFICIALS DISCUSS PAKISTAN AND
[...] (C) Summary: Senior Canadian officials discussed challenges confronting Canada and the United States in Pakistan and Afghanistan with Counselor of the State Department Eliot Cohen in Ottawa July 2 and 3. The Canadians shared Dr. Cohen's bleak assessment of developments in Pakistan and raised [...]
2008-07-14 22:38:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR NATO PK AF IR CA
08OTTAWA960OMAR KHADR INTERROGATION DVD RELEASED
[...] (SBU) Summary: Omar Khadr's Canadian lawyers on July 15 released DVDs containing the 2003 interrogation of their client by Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) agents at Guantanamo Bay. Khadr's lawyers and friendly media characterized the content as "disturbing" and hoped the mater [...]
2008-07-15 20:57:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PGOV PREL ASEC AF
08OTTAWA961UNSCR 1816: CANADA DEPLOYS THREE WARSHIPS
[...] (U) Pursuant to UNSCR 1816 (reftel),Canada has announced the deployment of three warships to Somali waters. The deployment will include Task Force 150 flagship the destroyer HMCS Iroquois, the multi-role patrol frigate HMCS Calgary, and the oiler HMCS Protecteur. Visit Canada,s Economy and [...]
2008-07-15 21:09:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL EWWT KCRM KJUS SO XA XW CA
08OTTAWA962CANADA REQUESTS INFORMATION ON ECOSOC AND HUMAN
[...] (SBU) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Human Rights, Gender Equality, Health, and Population Division Senior Policy Officer Cynthia Taylor, Canada is still considering its support for the Human Rights Foundation's application for UN Economic and Social Council [...]
2008-07-16 12:19:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM AORC CA
08OTTAWA965LIKELY CANADIAN SUPPORT OF INDIA SAFEGUARDS
[...] (C) Summary: Canada and the U.S. share a similar view of how to proceed with the India-IAEA Safeguards Agreement, and the Cabinet probably will decide to support it early in the week of July 28. Canadian officials are concerned, however, about how the Agreement's corrective measures will pla [...]
2008-07-16 18:40:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL ETTC IN CA
08OTTAWA974CANADA INFORMED OF E.O. 13382 DESIGNATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-18 19:19:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN IR KNNP PARM KTFN CA
08OTTAWA976KEEPING THE PRESSURE ON THE FARC
[...] (C) In meetings with Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Director General for Latin America and the Caribbean James Lambert in Ottawa on July 18 (septel),U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States and PolMinCouns conveyed reftel talking points, ex [...]
2008-07-18 20:12:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL VE CO CA
08OTTAWA977CANADIAN ASSISTANCE TO THE HORN OF AFRICA
[...] (U) In response to reftel demarche by PolMinCouns on June 30 to Director General for Africa David Angell of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, DFAIT's Director for Eastern and Southern Africa Lisa Stadelbauer confirmed on July 18 that Canada "shares the United States' [...]
2008-07-18 22:01:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID PREF DJ ER ET KE SO CA
08OTTAWA978(S) IAEA BOG: CANADA WILL URGE KAZAKHSTAN TO SEEK
[...] (S/Rel CAN) On July 19, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Director for Nuclear Non-Proliferation Shawn Caza agreed to reftel request, confirming Canada would move swiftly to urge Kazakhstan to run for a seat on the IAEA Board of Governors. If Kazakhstan decides to [...]
2008-07-18 22:05:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPREL PARM IAEA AORC SY KZ CA
08OTTAWA98HCOC: CANADA TO MEET REPORTING DEADLINE
[...] (C) In response to reftel demarche on January 16, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Missile and Space Security Andrew Shore confirmed that Canada would meet the March 31 HCOC reporting deadline. 2. (C) Action request: Shore asked whether th [...]
2008-01-18 15:31:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM MNUC MTCRE TSPA CA
08OTTAWA982PROPOSED LNG RECEIVING TERMINALS IN CANADA
[...] (U) Although Canada currently does not have any liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving and regassification terminals, there are many projects under development. Canada has four fully approved LNG import facilities, one of which is under construction, and three proposed terminals. One additiona [...]
2008-07-21 20:32:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEPET ENRG SENV CA
08OTTAWA988CANADIAN URANIUM NOT AVAILABLE TO IRAN
[...] (SBU) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Advisor for Non-Proliferation Che van Haastrecht expressed appreciation for reftel U.S. initiative, and confirmed that Canadian firms would not sell uranium to any Iranian entities. The Canadian government authorizes [...]
2008-07-23 12:40:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM MNUC TRGY ENRG KNNP IR CA
08OTTAWA989UNCERTAINTY ABOUT CANADIAN IE PRESENTATION AT MTCR
[...] (C//Rel MTCR) In response to reftel demarche, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) outgoing Deputy Director for Missile and Space Security Andrew Shore confirmed that Canada would send representatives to the November 3-9 MTCR Plenary in Canberra. Shore noted, however, [...]
2008-07-23 18:57:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MTCR MNUC ETTC CA
08OTTAWA990PUBLIC OPINION STABLE IN WAKE OF OMAR KHADR DVD
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-23 21:37:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PGOV PREL KPAO AF CA
09OTTAWA1"NEVER APOLOGIZE": PM HARPER'S GOVERNING STYLE
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Stephen Harper's reputation as a master political strategist is somewhat tattered in the wake of November's stunning near-fatal mis-step to abolish public financing for all political parties. However, at least on the surface, he remains unbowed and unapologetic. Relyin [...]
2009-01-02 13:20:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR CA
09OTTAWA10(S) VANCOUVER OLYMPICS 2010: CANADIAN REQUEST FOR
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Defense Relations Officer Erwin Sippert told pol/mil officer on January 7 that Canada hopes the United States will respond positively and quickly via dipnote to para 2 request for military-to-military assistance in support of [...]
2009-01-07 20:19:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPREL MARR KOLY CA
09OTTAWA103SECTION 1377 TELECOM REVIEW: CANADA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-10 20:40:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECPS CA
09OTTAWA109CANADA'S "NEW" CHINA STRATEGY EMPHASIZES INCREASED
[...] (C) Summary: The Canadian government recently rolled out a "new" China strategy that will emphasize more high level ministerial visits and dialogue. Prime Minister Harper has yet to visit Beijing during his three year tenure, but may later in 2009. Canada's engagement with China seeks first [...]
2009-02-11 13:58:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ETRD CH CA
09OTTAWA110CANADA RECEIVES REMOTE SENSING DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) On February 10, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Senior Advisor for Non-proliferation and Disarmament Dr. Thomas Gillon expressed appreciation for the U.S. reply to Canadian demarches from October and December 2008 (reftel). During a follow up discussion on February [...]
2009-02-11 16:53:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PARM ETTC CA
09OTTAWA116BANK OF CANADA GOVERNOR DEFENDS OPTIMISTIC GROWTH FORECAST
[...] (U) Summary: The Governor of the Bank of Canada predicts the Canadian economy will recover from the global financial crisis in late 2009, with growth approaching 4 percent in 2010. However, Canadian economic recovery is dependent on a range of domestic and international factors, including the [...]
2009-02-12 20:36:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV EIND PREL PGOV CA
09OTTAWA126INITIAL CANADIAN RESPONSE TO U.S.
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Canada welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the U.S. Afghanistan/Pakistan policy review and has provided initial thinking in a non-paper (see para 5). Canada believes strongly that the reconstruction and development process must be Afghan-led and that strong and [...]
2009-02-20 21:13:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM NATO EAID AF PK CA
09OTTAWA132CANADIAN FM LIKELY AT SHARM AL-SHEIKH CONFERENCE
[...] (C) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Director General for the Middle East and Magreb Kerry Buck, Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon is likely to participate in the March 2 conference in Sharm al-Sheik but has not made a final decision. She indicated t [...]
2009-02-23 19:16:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID KPAL KWBG CA EG
09OTTAWA133SE: NO KNOWN EVIDENCE OF AL-BARAKAAT PRESENCE IN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-24 18:14:00Embassy OttawaSECRETETTC KTFN ETRD CA SO
09OTTAWA134CANADA REITERATES FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITIES
[...] (SBU) Summary: In separate remarks on February 23, Canada's top two diplomats reiterated Canada's top foreign policy priorities -- relations with the U.S., the Americas, Afghanistan, and emerging markets in Asia -- and its support for humanitarian aid to Gaza. Canada will further narrow its pri [...]
2009-02-24 20:49:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID XF XM AF CA
09OTTAWA139CANADA TO MAKE FIRM NATIONAL STATEMENTS, SUPPORT
[...] (C) In response to reftel points, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Nuclear Policy Officer Ryan Hewer confirmed to pol/miloff on February 25 that the Canadian delegation will "be prepared to make suitably firm" national statements on Iran and Syria, as well [...]
2009-02-26 13:10:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM IAEA KNNP MNUC IR SY CA KN
09OTTAWA140CANADA APPRECIATES U.S. POSITION ON RADARSAT-2
[...] (S) Upon receipt of ref a dipnote on February 25, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Advisor for Non-proliferation and Disarmament Dr. Thomas Gillon said that the government was "extremely pleased" by U.S. interagency concurrence with Canada's request to chan [...]
2009-02-26 13:15:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPREL PARM ETTC CA
09OTTAWA141CANADIAN FOREIGN MINISTER'S ATTENDANCE AT SHARM
[...] (U) Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon on February 26 confirmed that he would take part in the March 2 "Conference in Support of the Palestinian Economy for the Reconstruction of Gaza" in Sharm al-Sheikh Egypt (reftels). He underscored that Canada had made a five year commitment begin [...]
2009-02-26 18:19:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID EG IS JO CA
09OTTAWA146FIRST NATIONS TRAILBLAZER IS CANADIAN CANDIDATE
[...] (SBU) Justice Rose Boyko is a "trailblazer among First Nations people in Canada," according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) UN Section Deputy Director Shannon Marie Soni. Soni added that Boyko was the first aboriginal Canadian woman appointed as a superior cour [...]
2009-02-26 22:20:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AORC KUNR UNGA CA ACABQ
09OTTAWA147CANADIAN NPT PRIORITIES
[...] (C) Summary: Canada wants the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) 2009 PrepCom and 2010 RevCon to advance NPT legitimacy by making concrete progress towards a consensus document that confirms the treaty's three pillars -- disarmament, non-proliferation, and peaceful uses -- and acknowledge [...]
2009-02-27 13:23:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MNUC ENRG UNGA IAEA CA
09OTTAWA149CANADA: EMBASSY OTTAWA 2009 SPECIAL 301
[...] (SBU) Mission Canada continues to be frustrated by Canada,s failure to implement the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) internet treaties, to update its copyright laws, and to make the changes necessary to effectively search for and seize counterfeit goods at the border. Despite [...]
2009-02-27 20:07:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR CA
09OTTAWA15CANADA: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON DOD NUCLEAR
[...] (U) On January 7, pol/miloff delivered reftel demarche to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Continental Defense Victor Rakmil, Senior Policy Adviser for NATO Eugenie Panitcherska, and Deputy Director for Nuclear Non-proliferation Karen Gunar. Se [...]
2009-01-08 21:05:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL MNUC KNNP CA
09OTTAWA151CANADA?S TIP REPORT SUBMISSION
[...] (SBU) OVERVIEW OF CANADA'S TIP SITUATION A. The Government of Canada collects trafficking in persons (TIP) information through a number of sources, including police and court-reported data and reported case law. The 2008 Annual Criminal Intelligence Service Canada Report on Organized Cri [...]
2009-02-27 21:52:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB KCRM KWMN
09OTTAWA152CANADA WELCOMES U.S. DURBAN WITHDRAWAL AND UN HRC
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Human Rights Policy Chantale Walker on February 27 welcomed the U.S. decision to discontinue negotiations on the current text of the Durban Review Conference (reftel). Walker noted that Canada shares the U.S [...]
2009-02-27 22:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV UNHRC CA
09OTTAWA153CANADA WELCOMES U.S. DURBAN WITHDRAWAL AND UN HRC
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Human Rights Policy Chantale Walker on February 27 welcomed the U.S. decision to discontinue negotiations on the current text of the Durban Review Conference (reftel). Walker noted that Canada shares the U.S [...]
2009-02-27 22:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV UNHRC CA
09OTTAWA154SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE -
[...] This Message is SECRET/NOFORN. ---------------------------- 2. POLITICAL VIOLENCE ---------------------------- ---------------------------- I. (SBU) DEMONSTRATIONS ---------------------------- A. Human rights groups, small political protest/grass roots organizations and Canadian Aboriginal group [...]
2009-02-27 22:09:00Embassy OttawaSECRETASEC PTER
09OTTAWA155CANADA: GRINIUS TO HEAD DELEGATIONS TO NPT, CNS
[...] (U) In response to reftels, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Non-proliferation Karen Garner confirmed to pol/miloff on March 2 that PermRep in Geneva Marius Grinius will lead the Canadian delegation to the May 2009 Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT [...]
2009-03-02 20:24:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM MNUC ENRG IAEA CA
09OTTAWA158CANADA WELCOMES ADDITIONAL US TROOPS IN
[...] (C'/NF) Summary: Ottawa-based Canadian officials responded positively to potential changes to the U.S. force posture in Afghanistan, but repeated long-standing concerns about command and control issues related to multi-mission integration in NATO-ISAF's Regional Command - South. Canada will [...]
2009-03-03 22:00:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MOPS NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA159CANADA APPLAUDS IRAQ STRATEGY REVIEW, BUT FOCUSES
[...] (C/NF) Canada welcomed the new U.S. administration's review of Iraq policy (ref a),especially since it will free up more U.S. combat troops for Afghanistan, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Iraq desk officer David Leach. Canada recognizes the importance of I [...]
2009-03-03 22:11:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MOPS IZ AF CA
09OTTAWA16CANADA TO DOWNPLAY ROLE OF UNDP CHAIR IF IRAN WINS
[...] (C) Canada will not openly oppose Iran's candidacy for the chair of the UNDP executive board, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) International Organization Deputy Director Shannon-Marie Soni. Instead, Canada will seek to downplay the importance of the ro [...]
2009-01-08 21:19:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID IR UN CA
09OTTAWA160 Canada adopts a wait-and-see position on U.S. COOL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada does not intend - for now - to launch a WTO trade challenge against the United States over the voluntary guidelines that complement the U.S. Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) final rule, Canadian Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz stated on February 25. Ritz said the volunta [...]
2009-03-04 19:13:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD EIND PREL PGOV CA
09OTTAWA161CANADA: INFORMATION FOR LONDON G-20 MEETINGS
[...] (sbu) Ref a requested information regarding Post's outlook on the continuing impact of the economic and financial situation on Canada, as well as Canada's expected priorities and objectives for the London G-20 Summit on April 2. Econcouns John Carwile (carwilejl@state.sgov.gov) and EMIN Eric B [...]
2009-03-04 20:00:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA ECON EFIN
09OTTAWA165TERRORISM FINANCE: CANADA UNLIKELY TO COSPONSOR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-05 16:50:00Embassy OttawaSECRETEFIN ETRD KTFN ETTC CA CH
09OTTAWA167CANADA UPHOLDS NEED FOR TOUGH ZIMBABWE BENCHMARKS
[...] (C) Ahead of the March 20 informal meeting in Washington of like-minded countries on Zimbabwe, Canada believes the previously agreed benchmarks on political reconciliation and reform remain valid. Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Director for Eastern and Southern [...]
2009-03-05 20:19:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM EAID ZI CA
09OTTAWA168CANADA URGES SUDAN'S COOPERATION WITH ICC
[...] (U) In a public statement on March 4, Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon offered Canada's appreciation of the International Criminal Court for its indictment of Sudan President Omar al-Bashir, noting that "Canada strongly supports the work of the ICC, including its work in Sudan." He called on S [...]
2009-03-05 21:47:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM KICC SU CA
09OTTAWA177CANADIANS POSITIVE ABOUT AFGHANISTAN CONFERENCE,
[...] This is an action request -- see para seven. 2. (C) Summary: Canadian officials hope to coordinate with U.S. counterparts in advance of the upcoming Dutch-hosted Conference on Afghanistan. They are concerned about both the need to manage disruptive delegations and the risk that some tra [...]
2009-03-09 13:58:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO PK AF CA
09OTTAWA179PARLIAMENTARY REPORT ON KANDAHAR SHOWS FEW GAINS,
[...] (C) Summary: As required under a March 2008 House of Commons motion, the government has issued its third report to Parliament tracking progress on key benchmarks. The report cited modest continued progress in training of the Afghan National Security Forces, improvements to Sarpoza prison, [...]
2009-03-09 18:27:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS EAID AF CA
09OTTAWA180CANADA SUPPORTS GAZA ACTION PROGRAM
[...] (C) Canada supports the program of action (ref a) to combat Gaza arms smuggling and is identifying resources and confirming legal authority to assist the effort, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Israel/Gaza/West Bank Deputy Director Gregory Lemermeyer. [...]
2009-03-09 18:38:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO EUN CA
09OTTAWA182ISAF RC-S: CANADIANS PREPARE FOR MEETINGS IN
[...] (C/NF) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Afghanistan Task Force (FTAG) Senior Policy Officer David Fairchild (please protect) confirmed to pol/miloff on March 9 that Canadian and U.S. officials in Kabul would meet March 11 or 12 to discuss the operational integration of the [...]
2009-03-09 21:04:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MOPS NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA183CANADA WANTS STATE, USAID TO JOIN AFGHAN
[...] (U) This is an action Request for SCA/A -- see para seven. 2. (SBU) Summary: Canada would like a total of six State Department and USAID personnel to join hundreds of Canadian military and civilian personnel preparing to serve in Afghanistan for a large, "realistic" pre-deployment valida [...]
2009-03-10 15:45:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS EAID NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA188CANADA SEEKING BETTER TIP DATA COLLECTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada wishes to improve its Trafficking In Persons (TIP) data collection system and seeks to learn in an upcoming visit (see para 6) about the USG's best practices. Its existing system clearly does not yet capture all trafficking cases within the criminal justice system, maki [...]
2009-03-10 20:58:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM SMIG CA
09OTTAWA194CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR MEXICAN POLICE AND JUDICIAL
[...] (C) Summary: An inter-agency Canadian team will meet with counterparts in Mexico City on March 12 and 13 to see how Canada might better support President Calderon's efforts to reform the police, corrections, and judicial sectors. The mission, which National Security Advisor Marie-Lucie Morin [...]
2009-03-11 20:15:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCRM KJUS KCOR SNAR MX CA
09OTTAWA196CHALLENGES TO THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CANADIAN
[...] (C) Summary: Despite the recurrent pledges by PM Harper's government to re-build the capabilities of the Canadian Forces, the Canadian Army still faces serious funding, recruitment, and procurement challenges as it seeks to meet pressing requirements in Afghanistan while also transforming itself in [...]
2009-03-12 15:14:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA198FIRST SENTENCING IN TERRORIST TRIAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: On March 13, an Ontario Superior Court judge sentenced convicted Canadian terrorist Momin Khawaja to ten-and-a-half years in prison on terrorism-related charges, with no eligibility for parole for five years. Khawaja was the first Canadian to be charged under Canada's 2001 Anti- [...]
2009-03-12 18:54:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PGOV CA
09OTTAWA2CANADA TO PROVIDE FOUR MILLION DOLLARS FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-05 19:10:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDLE EAID PGOV PREL PHUM CA
09OTTAWA20CANADA SEEKS U.S. ASSISTANCE WITH HOSTAGE POLICY
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para three. 2. (S) Summary: Canada is for the first time planning on Cabinet endorsement by April of a formal national policy to respond to the kidnapping of its citizens by terrorists or criminals. A spate of five cases of kidnapped Canadians since Jun [...]
2009-01-09 19:02:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPTER PREL PINR PGOV CA
09OTTAWA212High unemployment rates speed passage of Canadian budget
[...] (SBU) Summary: The combination of worse-than-expected unemployment numbers and high unemployment in key opposition Parliamentary ridings put pressure on Liberal Senators to pass budget and stimulus legislation quickly and with less than the usual level of rancor. The budget legislation receive [...]
2009-03-13 20:33:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV EIND PREL PGOV CA
09OTTAWA217(C) CANADA TO MINIMIZE PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF MANAS
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Defence and Security Senior Policy Advisor Amy Galigan on March 16 characterized the U.S. approach regarding Manas Air Base in Kyrgyzstan (reftel) as "eminently reasonable." Galigan assured polmiloff that she would advise senior Canadi [...]
2009-03-17 16:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MOPS AF CA
09OTTAWA218(S) CANADA: RE-CONSIDERING ALL OPTIONS FOR ITS
[...] (S/NF) Summary: The minority government of Prime Minister Harper may not have actually ruled out extending Canada's 2,800-member military contingent, including combat forces, in Kandahar beyond 2011. If this government remains in office throughout 2010, operational requirements would force [...]
2009-03-17 16:03:00Embassy OttawaSECRET//NOFORNPREL MOPS NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA22WHAT ABOUT US? CANADA SEEKS INVITATION TO CONTACT
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 4. 2. (C) On January 9, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Advisor for defense and security relations Sarah Robertson called in pol/mil officer to emphasize Canada's extensive, positive engagement on anti-piracy i [...]
2009-01-09 20:54:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS KCRM EWWT XW SO CA
09OTTAWA220ABOUSFIAN ABDELRAZIK IS WELCOME TO RETURN TO
[...] (C) On March 17, Katherine Burke, Senior Policy Advisor, International Crime and Terrorism, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade told Econoff that Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Canadian and Sudanese dual citizen currently living in the Canadian Embassy in Khartoum, has not run afoul [...]
2009-03-17 21:04:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC CA SU
09OTTAWA228CANADIAN INTERIM REPLY ON KFOR TROOP REDUCTIONS
[...] (C) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade NATO Deputy Director Anne Burgess, Canada is not likely to have a strong policy stance on the recent controversy over a possible drawdown in NATO's Kosovo Force (KFOR). She noted that Canada has only five Canadian Forces p [...]
2009-03-19 21:57:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR NATO KPKO KV CA
09OTTAWA231LITTLE LOVE LEFT - THE CONSERVATIVES AND QUEBEC
[...] (C) Summary: The 2008 federal election damaged Prime Minister Harper's political standing in Quebec. Rather than heal campaign rifts over Conservative juvenile crime proposals and cuts to arts funding, PM Harper's subsequent attacks in December against the "separatist" Bloc Quebec's support [...]
2009-03-23 17:15:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON CA
09OTTAWA234CANADA ON AFGHAN RECONCILIATION: PERHAPS A MEETING
[...] (U) This is an action request for SCA/A -- see para 4. 2. (C) As promised in reftel, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Afghanistan Task Force (FTAG) Desk Officer Samantha Pass gave pol/miloff a copy of the reconciliation non-paper that FTAG Assistant Deputy Minister Y [...]
2009-03-24 18:49:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA237CANADA TO SPONSOR UNSCR 1540 SEMINAR FOR CARICOM
[...] (U) This is an action request for ISN/CPI -- see para 5. 2. (U) In response to reftel demarche, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Policy Officer David MacDuff expressed Canada's appreciation for the U.S. decision to provide both legislative drafting suppo [...]
2009-03-25 17:22:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PARM ETRD KSTC XL HA DR CA
09OTTAWA242CANADA TO SEEK MEMBERSHIP IN CONTACT GROUP ON
[...] (U) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Advisor for Defense and Security Relations Sarah Robertson confirmed to pol/miloff on March 25 that Foreign Minister Cannon had instructed DFAIT staff to seek membership for Canada in the Contact Group on Piracy off the [...]
2009-03-26 12:16:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PBTS KCRM EWWT XW SO CA
09OTTAWA246Canada's Green Investments in its Stimulus Package
[...] Begin Summary: Canada's federal budget for FY 2009 (April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010) introduced on January 29, 2009 announced approximately C$3.64 billion dollars (USD$2.97 billion at current exchange rates) for "Green Spending"; the Budget was passed on March 12, 2009. The federal budget for F [...]
2009-03-26 18:13:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ENRG CA KGHG SENV
09OTTAWA248CANADA SUPPORTIVE OF AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN STRATEGIC REVIEW
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-27 20:35:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL NATO MARR MOPS EAID AF PK CA
09OTTAWA249TOWARD A CANADIAN DEMOCRACY PROMOTION AGENCY
[...] (C) Summary. The Conservative Party and the Harper government have championed the creation of a non-partisan Canadian democracy promotion agency. Details are still few and may not emerge with any clarity until fall 2009. So far, the government appears not to have included any new funding i [...]
2009-03-27 21:03:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM CA
09OTTAWA252CLOSE RACES ARE HOT ELECTION PROSPECTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the 2008 federal election, 42 members of Parliament won their seats by five pct or less of the vote; these "marginals" will be particularly in play in the next election -- which most pundits expect sometime within the next twelve months. The Conservatives hold the greatest num [...]
2009-03-30 16:59:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
09OTTAWA254CANADA TO ATTEND APRIL 17 PAKISTAN DONORS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-30 19:19:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN IBRD PK CA
09OTTAWA256NO ICJ BRIEF FROM CANADA ON KOSOVO
[...] (C) The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Director General for Europe Robert Hage confirmed to PolMinCouns on March 31 that Canada had decided against filing a brief with the International Court of Justice in support of Kosovo (reftel). He commented that lingering sens [...]
2009-03-31 19:09:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL ICJ KV CA
09OTTAWA257CANADA TO PARTICIPATE IN GICNT EVENT, SEEKS ADVICE
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 5. 2. (C) In response to reftel, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Policy Officer David MacDuff said he, or perhaps one of his Seoul-based colleagues, would represent Canada at the Global Initiative to Combat N [...]
2009-03-31 21:08:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPTER PINS KGIC PARM PREL CA
09OTTAWA259STREAMLINING SENTENCING TO CUT TRIAL TIMES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Partly in response to concerns about the length of the trial process in the Canadian justice system, the federal government on March 27 introduced proposed legislation to limit the judicial practice of, effectively, "rewarding" newly convicted individuals for time already served [...]
2009-04-01 17:24:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCRM CA
09OTTAWA260CANADA MAINTAINING 2009 IMMIGRATION TARGETS
[...] (SBU) Summary. In light of the current economic conditions, Canada is reviewing its 2009 immigration targets but may end up maintaining Canada's 2009 target of about a quarter million new permanent residents. In 2008, Canada accepted a record high of 247,202 permanent residents. Canada is [...]
2009-04-01 18:33:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF SMIG ELAB CA
09OTTAWA262CANADA SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Human Rights Policy Director Gwyn Kutz confirmed to poloff on April 1 that Canada will support the U.S. candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Separately, DFAIT Deputy Director for Hu [...]
2009-04-02 17:10:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL CA
09OTTAWA263CANADIAN CAPACITY ISSUES SHAPE MEXICAN SECURITY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following a successful visit to Mexico (reftel),Canadian officials are now analyzing how best to help Mexico reform its police and corrections sectors. Canada will likely focus its assistance on revamping police recruit education, strengthening witness security programs, and buil [...]
2009-04-02 17:39:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCRM KJUS KCOR SNAR MX CA
09OTTAWA265CANADA-MEXICO SECURITY DIALOGUE SHARES BEST
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Canada's and Mexico's bilateral security working group, established in February 2007, focuses on increasing cooperation and information exchange in the areas of migration, emergency management, marine security, and law enforcement. Public Safety Canada and Mexico's Center for Inv [...]
2009-04-02 21:50:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCRM KJUS KCOR SNAR MX CA
09OTTAWA266CANADA'S INITIAL REACTION TO SPECIFIC REQUESTS TO
[...] (C) Summary: The Prime Minister will have personally to decide whether to extend Canada's politically fraught combat mission in southern Afghanistan beyond its scheduled 2011 end of operations and subsequent troop withdrawal. The European response to the President's engagement on ISAF at the [...]
2009-04-03 13:34:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA267UPDATE ON DUBAI PROCESS ACTION PLAN FOR
[...] (C) Summary and comment. The Dubai process for enhancing Pakistan-Afghanistan cooperation, under Canada's facilitation, continues to move forward, as a March 27-29 workshop in Dubai underscored. There will be four new working groups -- on counternarcotics, managing the movement of people, [...]
2009-04-03 13:40:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID SNAR ETRD PK AF CA
09OTTAWA268CANADA SEEKS U.S. ADVICE TO REINVIGORATE ITS
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 4. 2. (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Policy Officer David MacDuff noted on April 1 that the government had extended the deadline from mid-December 2008 to early June 2009 for senior officials to brief the [...]
2009-04-03 13:57:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP PINR CA
09OTTAWA269CANADA PREPARING FORMAL REQUEST TO JOIN CONTACT
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Advisor for Defense and Security Relations Sarah Robertson promised to draft and clear the required correspondence and convey it as soon as possible to our Charge d'Affaires. DFAIT will ensure t [...]
2009-04-03 14:01:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PBTS KCRM EWWT XW SO CA
09OTTAWA272CANADA STRONGLY CONDEMNS DPRK MISSILE TEST
[...] (SBU) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) North Asia Deputy Director Karine Asselin told poloff on April 6 that Canada agrees with the U.S. on the seriousness of the situation after the weekend DPRK missile test launch. Despite the apparent failure of the test, Assel [...]
2009-04-06 20:41:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PARM KNNP KN CA
09OTTAWA273CANADA FIGHTING ANTI-SEMITISM WHILE INCIDENTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: According to B'nai Brith Canada, white supremacists, radical Muslims, and far leftists are uniting to promote anti-Semitic propaganda in Canada. A recent B'nai Brith report claimed that the current economic crisis had spurred an upsurge in anti-Semitic incidents over the last [...]
2009-04-06 20:44:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV SOCI CA
09OTTAWA278CANADA'S "CALIBRATED" RE-ENGAGEMENT WITH RUSSIA IN
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Russia is seeking strong re-engagement with Canada following the chilling of relations after the Russian invasion of Georgia and "Russian provocations in the Arctic." Canada nonetheless recognizes the need to work with Russia, given the many intersecting areas of mutual concern [...]
2009-04-07 21:02:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL ETRD RS GG CA
09OTTAWA281SEARCHING A MODEL FOR A NEW CANADIAN DEMOCRACY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of State for Democratic Reform Steven Fletcher is examining other models for a new Canadian democracy promotion agency (reftel),with an intended focus on aiding like-minded political parties worldwide to help fill a gap in Canadian International Development Agency ( [...]
2009-04-08 12:16:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV KDEM CA
09OTTAWA282CANADIAN PARTICIPATION IN PAKISTAN DONORS'
[...] (SBU) PolMinCouns, jointly with Acting Pakistan High Commissioner Naela Chohan and Japanese Minister Counselor Abe Koji, on April 6 met with Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Senior Policy Advisor Keith Fountain to encourage high level Canadian participation and a generous ple [...]
2009-04-08 18:04:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID PK JA CA
09OTTAWA285CANADA FIGHTING TRAFFICKING OF ABORIGINAL WOMEN
[...] (U) Summary: Canada's federal government will provide C$100,000 to the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) to develop education and awareness programs to protect First Nations women and youth from trafficking and sexual exploitation. The grant supplements the federal government's partnership w [...]
2009-04-09 16:11:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KTIP KWMN CA
09OTTAWA286PRIME MINISTER HARPER TO LEAD AMERICAS SUMMIT
[...] (SBU) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Summit of the Americas Coordinator Paul Williams on April 9 confirmed that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will lead Canada's delegation, accompanied by Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon. He expects the delegation also to inclu [...]
2009-04-09 16:27:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KSUM BEXP ECON CA
09OTTAWA290CANADA SUPPORTIVE OF E3 PLUS 3 PROCESS ON IRAN
[...] (S) In a meeting on April 15 with Director General for the Middle East and Maghreb Kerry Buck of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, PolMinCouns delivered reftel demarche and urged Canada's efforts to persuade Iran to seize this opportunity. Ms. Buck welcomed the new [...]
2009-04-15 17:02:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPARM PREL KNNP MNUC IR CA
09OTTAWA291CANADA AND THE AMERICAS
[...] (C) Summary: Under Prime Minister Harper, Canada has devoted more of its diplomatic and aid attention to the Americas, notably a 2007 high-profile Latin America trip by the PM, as well as other high level visits. The government has apparently abandoned an initial effort to develop a strategic [...]
2009-04-15 20:23:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD EAID XM BR CA
09OTTAWA298REMNANTS OF ANTI-AMERICANISM IN CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES
[...] (SBU) Summary: As President Obama noted in Strasbourg on April 3, anti-Americanism in developed countries is sometimes both "casual and insidious." Canada's traditionally liberal universities have often displayed some anti-American biases, as emboff discovered first-hand as a part-time graduat [...]
2009-04-16 19:21:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM SOCI SCUL KPAO CA
09OTTAWA30A MODERN ROLE MODEL: GOVERNOR GENERAL MICHAELLE JEAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-13 16:45:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR CA
09OTTAWA300Broadband Deployment in Canada
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada moved quickly to achieve extensive, cross-country broadband deployment early this decade and leads the G7 in national connectivity rates. This achievement is particularly impressive given the size and geography of Canada and it showcases the government's commitment to br [...]
2009-04-17 13:58:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ECPS CA
09OTTAWA304OTTAWA WOMAN SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEARS FOR HUMAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: A Quebec court sentenced a Canadian woman to seven years in prison on April 9 for human trafficking and sexual exploitation offenses. Her accomplice is scheduled to face charges in December. This conviction further demonstrates Canada's progress and commitment in fighting hu [...]
2009-04-20 13:52:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KTIP KWMN CA
09OTTAWA305CANADA SEEKING U.S. VIEWS ON RENEWED
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) Prime Minister Harper and his cabinet will decide at the end of April whether to explore some form of renewed air link between Montreal and Beirut, according to a Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) cont [...]
2009-04-20 20:28:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER EAIR ASEC CA
09OTTAWA306CANADIAN INTERIM RESPONSE ON U.S. IAHRC CANDIDATE
[...] (SBU) Further to reftel, Canada will decide in the next few weeks which candidate it will support for the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IAHRC),according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) human rights senior policy advisor Cyndy Nelson. Nelson told act [...]
2009-04-20 20:54:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL OAS IAHRC CA
09OTTAWA309CANADA IP UPDATE: GOC OFFICIAL REPORTS NO PROGRESS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Senior Canadian officials have privately told the Embassy that the federal government plans to hold public consultations on potential copyright legislation this summer. The government hopes to introduce a new copyright bill in the fall of 2009. Industry representatives are co [...]
2009-04-22 15:49:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD KIPR CA
09OTTAWA310CANADIAN ACTIONS AGAINST TRAFFICKING - UPDATE TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: As of April 20, there were thirteen trafficking-related convictions in Canada in 2008-2009, with an additional twelve cases now before the courts. Ongoing investigations, including alleged cases of forced labor and trafficking of foreign victims, should lead to additional ch [...]
2009-04-22 19:30:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KTIP KWMN CA
09OTTAWA311TOUJOURS EN PLACE: THE BLOC QUEBECOIS
[...] (C) Summary. The Bloc Quebecois, a federal political party exclusively devoted to promoting Quebec's interests in Parliament, emphasizes that Quebec's values -- including the primacy of French, the "crucial" role of culture, and Quebec's immigration policy -- differ from the rest of Canada. [...]
2009-04-22 21:28:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CA
09OTTAWA313COURT RULES CANADA MUST SEEK KHADR'S REPATRIATION
[...] (U) Summary: On April 23, a Federal Court judge ruled that the Canadian government's refusal to seek Omar Khadr's repatriation from the United States violated his constitutional rights and that the government must press the United States to return him to Canada. The government may appeal the de [...]
2009-04-23 20:39:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER PHUM CA
09OTTAWA317REGIONAL VIEWS ON CANADA'S AFGHAN MISSION
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a monthly Digital Video Conference, Mission Canada reporting officers agreed on strong Canadian support for Canada's troops, but no appetite to extend the 2011 end-date for Canada's combat mission or to engage in any substantive discussion of the role Canada might play in [...]
2009-04-27 20:02:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV AF CA
09OTTAWA321Canada tries to keep credit markets open as foreign bankers
[...] SBU) Summary: The traditional conservatism of the Canadian banking sector helped it avoid some of the damage suffered in other G-7 countries during the international financial crisis. Canada's banks have had fewer toxic assets to deal with and much higher capital reserve requirements. Howeve [...]
2009-04-29 17:07:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV EIND PREL PGOV CA
09OTTAWA324THE LIBERALS GETTING THEIR GROOVE BACK
[...] (SBU) Summary: Since December, interim federal Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff has set in motion changes to overhaul fundraising, to centralize administration, to restore confidence, and to rebuild the party's claim to be Canada's "natural governing party." The biennial Liberal Conventi [...]
2009-04-29 19:36:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
09OTTAWA326CANADA HOPES TO SEE POWERFUL LEADERSHIP AT GICNT
[...] (SBU) Canada will attend the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) plenary conference in The Hague and is looking for "powerful leadership" from the Russian-Dutch-U.S. troika to "attack the problem of nuclear terrorism in a fulsome way," according to Department of Foreign Affai [...]
2009-04-29 20:45:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PARM PREL KNNP KGIC MNUC RS NL CA
09OTTAWA328GOC NOTIFIED OF CANADA'S POSITION ON SPECIAL 301
[...] (SBU) Summary: On April 30, Embassy officials notified GOC officials that Canada will be included on the Priority Watch List (PWL) in the 2009 Special 301 Report. Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) officials stated that elevation to the PWL will make it more difficul [...]
2009-04-30 18:30:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR CA
09OTTAWA329DEMARCHE: SRI LANKA INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-30 19:41:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDCA ECON EFIN KDEM PHUM PREL
09OTTAWA33CONVENTION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS COULD LIMIT CANUS
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 6. 2. (C) Summary: Canada's decision to sign the (Oslo) Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) could limit the interoperability of Canadian Forces (CF) exchange pilots and artillery officers embedded in the U.S. armed forces. Embassy recommends Sta [...]
2009-01-13 20:37:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MOPS MARR CA
09OTTAWA330STAFFDEL CASEY - APR 30 - MAY 1
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes the visit of Staffdel Casey to Ottawa on April 30 and May 1 (reftel). 2. (U) The administrative point of contact is Deputy Political Counselor Kurt van der Walde, (o) 613-688-5242, BB 613-698-5018, unclass email address: VanderwaldeK@state.gov 3. (U) Staffdel has [...]
2009-04-30 20:16:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN PREL CA
09OTTAWA334CANADA SUPPORTS U.S./AUSTRALIA ON SHIP RECYCLING
[...] (sbu) Econcouns and Emil Stojanovski, Third Secretary at the Australian High Commission, delivered reftel joint demarche on the draft international convention for the safe and environmentally sound recycling of ships to Transport Canada's Manager for Environmental Protection Paul Topping on Ma [...]
2009-05-04 18:09:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA ECON EIND ETRD EWWT KTIA PREL SENV
09OTTAWA338GUILTY PLEA IN TORONTO TERROR CASE
[...] (SBU) Summary: One of the so-called "Toronto 18" alleged terror plot to attack federal targets in Ontario in 2006 pled guilty on May 4 to one count of participating in a terrorist activity. Along with the earlier conviction of another defendant in this case as well as the conviction under Cana [...]
2009-05-06 18:53:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PGOV CA
09OTTAWA34 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR CANADA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-14 18:36:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB USTR OPIC PGOV CA
09OTTAWA341LIBERALS UNDER IGNATIEFF VOW TO RAISE THEIR GAME
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-06 20:08:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
09OTTAWA345CANADA AGREES WITH PROPOSED CHANGES TO CWC HCA ON
[...] (SBU) During a May 8 discussion of the draft Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) Host Country Agreement (HCA) with Canada on Challenge Inspections, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) CWC Canadian National Authority Deputy Director Louis-Philippe Sylvestre told pol/mil [...]
2009-05-12 11:48:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL KTIA CWC CA
09OTTAWA347CANADA SEEKS ITAR RELIEF FOR INDUSTRY
[...] (C) Summary: Officials and business leaders in Ottawa told PM Acting A/S Ruggiero that Canadian human rights commissions or courts soon could force the defense industry to stop applying U.S. International Trafficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR) rules that deny proscribed nationals, including c [...]
2009-05-12 18:20:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPARM PREL ETTC CA
09OTTAWA348PERSISTENT ABUSES IN REFUGEE SYSTEM PROVOKE
[...] (C) Summary. Canada is increasingly concerned about "wide-scale and almost systematic abuse" of its generous immigration, citizenship, and refugee policies. According to a recent report by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),the number of asylum seekers to Canada in 2008 increa [...]
2009-05-12 20:39:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PREL SMIG CVIS KFRD MX EZ CA
09OTTAWA35CANADA RATIFIES NATO ACCESSION PROTOCOLS FOR ALBANIA AND
[...] (U) Summary: On January 14, Canada announced its ratification of the protocols of accession to NATO for Albania and Croatia. Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon and Defence Minister Peter MacKay jointly noted that Canada's action would help move the two countries closer to membership in the allia [...]
2009-01-14 21:46:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR KTIA PARM HR AL CA
09OTTAWA358CANADA STRONGLY BACKS AMANO FOR IAEA DG
[...] (C) Acting Pol/C delivered ref points to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Deputy Director for Non-Proliferation Shawn Caza on May 8. Caza confirmed that Canada "stands strongly behind" Ambassador Amano in the upcoming election for Director General of the International Ato [...]
2009-05-14 19:59:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP IAEA AORC
09OTTAWA364CANADA'S LIST OF TRADE IRRITANTS CEMENTING IDEA OF GROWING
[...] (SBU) Summary: Several recent U.S.-Canada trade irritants have led Canadian business associations and the media to accuse the USG of economic protectionism. The major problem areas are the Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) voluntary requirements on meat products and "Buy American" provisions [...]
2009-05-15 17:30:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV EIND PREL KPAO CA
09OTTAWA365CANADA TO MATCH PRIVATE DONATIONS FOR AFGHAN AID
[...] (U) The Canadian government on May 14 launched a pilot project to match individual online donations to aid organizations participating in Canada's reconstruction and development effort in Afghanistan. The 'Afghanistan Challenge' encourages individual Canadians to participate directly in gove [...]
2009-05-15 18:39:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAID PREL MOPS AF CA
09OTTAWA37CANADIAN AMENDED LANGUAGE ON CWC CHALLENGE
[...] (SBU) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) Senior Adviser Adrian Ghita-Duminica told pol/miloff on January 13 that Canada and the U.S. are "very close" to agreement on an Exchange of Notes on CWC challenge inspections that would integrate U.S. [...]
2009-01-15 18:14:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL KTIA CWC CA
09OTTAWA374CANADA NON-COMMITTAL ON GUANTANAMO DETAINEES
[...] (S) Summary: During a May 11 meeting with Canadian officials, Special Envoy for Guantanamo Dan Fried discussed the possible resettlement in Canada of the three Uighur detainees now at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba who have pending refugee applications in Canada. [...]
2009-05-20 21:28:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPREL PTER PHUM CA
09OTTAWA376CANADA REFOCUSES MULTILATERAL AID
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Canadian International Development Agency plans to narrow its foreign aid priorities to focus primarily on increasing food security, stimulating sustainable economic growth, and securing the future of children and youth. The new strategy complements a February announcement ( [...]
2009-05-21 18:16:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID PGOV CA
09OTTAWA377SEEKING SENATE REFORM -- AGAIN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Although the economy remains the most likely ballot-box issue in the next federal election, the Conservatives continue to move ahead on non-economic fronts, notably on law and order issues, but also on the "wedge" issue of Senate reform. The government's reform initiatives have [...]
2009-05-21 18:17:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
09OTTAWA378FROM COAST TO COAST - CANADA COMBATING HUMAN
[...] (U) Summary. The recent conviction of a British Columbia couple that had smuggled Indian nationals from Canada into the United States through the Peace Arch border crossing and arrests by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) of four people in Ontario and New Brunswick involved in a human [...]
2009-05-21 19:03:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KCRM KTIP SMIG GY IN CA
09OTTAWA379CANADA AND SABERI
[...] (SBU) This is an action request -- see para 4. 2. (C) In response to reftel demarche points, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Iran desk officer Alistair Wallbaum said that Canada was pleased to be of assistance in the Saberi case. He added that Foreign Ministe [...]
2009-05-21 19:53:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CASC IR CA
09OTTAWA382DEMARCHE ON PAKISTAN'S IDP CRISIS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-22 15:04:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDCA EAID PHUM PK PREF
09OTTAWA383CANADA SECURES FIRST WAR CRIMES CONVICTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada on May 22 secured a landmark first judicial decision under its 2000 Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act (CAHWCA),convicting failed refugee claimant Dsir Munyaneza on all seven charges against him related to genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes during t [...]
2009-05-22 17:15:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KAWC PREF RW CA
09OTTAWA384CANADA TO ATTEND MAY 29 SOMALIA PIRACY CONTACT
[...] (C) Canada will attend the May 29 meeting of the Somali Piracy Contact Group (reftel),according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) senior policy advisor Sarah Robertson, who expressed Canada's appreciation to USG for its efforts to include Canada in the contact g [...]
2009-05-22 20:38:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCRM MARR CA
09OTTAWA385CANADA GIVING $8 MILLION FOR PAKISTAN'S IDP CRISIS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-22 20:49:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDCA PK EAID PHUM PREF
09OTTAWA386CANADIAN FUNDING FOR ADAPTATION ASSISTANCE
[...] (SBU) ESTH counselor discussed U.S. thinking and planning on funding for climate adaptation with John Moffet, Director General of Environment Canada,s International Climate Change Office, and inquired about Canada,s own assistance efforts for adaptation and planning for future assistance. Moff [...]
2009-05-22 21:06:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG CA
09OTTAWA393Talk of Retaliation Against "Buy American" Escalates in
[...] (SBU) Summary: Calls for retaliation against "Buy American" provisions in U.S. federal legislation are growing in Canada. Canadian officials and businesses claim "Buy American" actions threaten serious economic damage here, both to American and Canadian firms and their joint supply chains. I [...]
2009-05-27 19:17:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV EIND PREL PGOV CA
09OTTAWA394SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY LEW'S VISIT
[...] (SBU) Mr. Secretary, Mission Canada warmly welcomes you to Toronto and hopes that you will soon be able to visit Ottawa and our other six constituent posts as well. Canada remains one of if not the closest partners we have around the world, and there are few foreign policy priorities and pr [...]
2009-05-27 19:17:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON CA
09OTTAWA398COULD THERE BE A SUMMER ELECTION IN CANADA?
[...] (C) Summary. The Conservatives appear increasingly to favor a summer election, but so far the other opposition parties -- all of whom must vote together to bring down the government -- may not be willing to play along. Usually, summer elections are anathema to Canadian electors, but the Co [...]
2009-05-28 21:37:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA
09OTTAWA407CANADA: NO MI-17 HELICOPTERS
[...] (SBU) Canadian officials on June 1 confirmed to pol/miloff and DATT that there are no Mi-17 helicopters in Canadian military or civilian aircraft inventories. Visit Canada,s North American partnership community at http://www.intelink.gov/communities/state/nap / BREESE [...]
2009-06-01 16:51:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL SMIG MOPS PK CA
09OTTAWA413CANADA APPRECIATES COUNTER-PROLIFERATION FEEDBACK,
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Senior Policy Officer Che van Haastrcht expressed appreciation on June 2 for ref a, noting that it had "significantly influenced" the interagency effort underway to reinvigorate Canada's counter-proliferation regime. In part due to ne [...]
2009-06-03 11:45:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL KNNP PINR CA
09OTTAWA423COURT ORDERS CANADA TO REPATRIATE ABDELRAZIK
[...] (U) In a decision on June 4, a Federal Court judge ruled against the Canadian government in the case of Abousfian Abdelrazik and ordered it to issue him an emergency passport, arrange (and, if necessary, pay for) his transportation -- within 30 days -- from Khartoum to Montreal along with an [...]
2009-06-04 19:10:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL SU CA
09OTTAWA424PARLIAMENTARY REPORT NOTES INCREASING VIOLENCE,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-04 20:18:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS EAID AF CA
09OTTAWA425Prime Minister announces proposal to expand NAFTA's
[...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Harper is receiving guarded support from Canada's provinces over his proposal to counter "Buy American" measures by expanding the NAFTA government procurement chapter. The government hopes such an expansion will secure access for Canadian suppliers to the U.S. su [...]
2009-06-04 20:23:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV EIND PREL PGOV CA
09OTTAWA426(S) VANCOUVER OLYMPICS 2010: SECOND CANADIAN
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Director for Defence and Security Relations Shelley Whiting conveyed to Embassy on June 4 the second of two Canadian diplomatic notes seeking U.S. military-to-military support in advance of and during the February 2010 Winter Olympic [...]
2009-06-04 21:01:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPREL MARR KOLY PTER CA
09OTTAWA429PARLIAMENTARY REPORT NOTES INCREASING VIOLENCE,
[...] (SBU) Summary. The government's fourth quarterly report to Parliament on the Canadian mission in Afghanistan cited improvements in Canadian and Afghan combat effectiveness in Kandahar, but noted that progress on key development benchmarks had faced challenges from growing insurgent violence. [...]
2009-06-05 12:22:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS EAID AF CA
09OTTAWA430CANADA DECLINES UIGHUR DETAINEES
[...] (U) Prime Minister Stephen Harper's spokesman Kory Teneycke on June 4 confirmed to the media that Canada had declined requests from the Obama and Bush Administrations to take any Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay, noting "given that these detainees have no link with Canada...I do not see [...]
2009-06-05 16:34:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM CA
09OTTAWA432DEMARCHE TO CANADA ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AT THE
[...] (SBU) PolMinCouns on June 5 delivered ref a demarche to Assistant to the Cabinet for Foreign and Defence Policy Gordon Venner and Director of Operations for the Foreign and Defence Policy Secretariat at the Privy Council Office Matthew Levin, and strongly urged that Canada defer introduction [...]
2009-06-05 20:06:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM UN CA
09OTTAWA434 SUCCESSFUL VISIT TO CANADA BY DHS SECRETARY NAPOLITANO
[...] (SBU) Summary. DHS Secretary Napolitano held productive meetings in Ottawa on May 27 with PM Harper, National Security Advisor Morin, Public Safety Minister Van Loan, and Citizenship Minister Kenney, at which Canadian officials pledged cooperation on border issues, especially in facing threa [...]
2009-06-05 21:03:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPBTS PREL PGOV ETRD ECON PTER CA
09OTTAWA435GOC AGREES WITH USG APPROACH TO UN CONFERENCE ON
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-08 17:15:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN UNGA CA
09OTTAWA436CANADIAN POLICY ON CUBA
[...] (SBU) The Government of Canada continues to promote the advancement of democracy, good governance, and human rights in Cuba according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Officials. Canada shares the U.S. goals of promoting democracy and human rights in Cuba, while [...]
2009-06-08 17:21:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ETRD ETTC CU CA
09OTTAWA437CANADA SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDATE MYERS IN ICSC
[...] (SBU) Canada will support the election of U.S. candidate Lucretia Myers in the upcoming election for the UN International Civil Service Commission, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's UN and Commonwealth Affairs Division Deputy Director Shannon-Marie Soni. Ms [...]
2009-06-08 19:16:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AORC KUNR KAWC UNGA APER CA
09OTTAWA44RAISING TIP AWARENESS IN CANADIAN HIGH SCHOOLS
[...] (U) Summary: A Catholic religious group has produced an educational packet to raise awareness of trafficking in persons among high school students in advance of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. While the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has downplayed the possibility of increased traffi [...]
2009-01-16 21:29:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KTIP SMIG KCRM KWMN CA
09OTTAWA440Canadian municipalities adopt resolution to counter US Buy
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 6, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) adopted a non-binding "Buy Canadian" resolution on municipal procurement to counter alleged Canadian losses resulting from "Buy American" legislative provisions. The resolution called on municipalities to only purchase go [...]
2009-06-09 15:47:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV EIND PREL PGOV CA
09OTTAWA441CANADA OPPOSES INCREASE IN IAEA BUDGET
[...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for International Nuclear Cooperation Shawn Caza and Senior Policy Officer Ryan Hewer told polmil officer on June 5 that current Canadian policy called for zero nominal growth in t [...]
2009-06-09 17:31:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPARM PREL ENRG IAEA AORC KNNP UN CA
09OTTAWA442CANADA WILL NOT ATTEND EXPORT CONTROL CONFERENCE
[...] (U) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Director General for Export and Import Controls Suzanne McKellips confirmed to polmiloff that Canada "is not in a position to send officials" to the tenth International Export Controls Conference June 25-27 in Istanbul, Turkey. [...]
2009-06-09 17:33:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM ETTC KSTC TU CA
09OTTAWA443CANADIAN AND U.S. ANTI-PIRACY PRESCRIPTIONS ALIGN
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Policy Advisor for Defence and Security Sarah Robertson confirmed to polmiloff on June 9 that Canadian and U.S. policy prescriptions on the best way to prosecute suspected pirates off the Horn of Africa (ref a),and elsewhere, [...]
2009-06-09 18:38:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EWWT KCRM PTER MARR CA
09OTTAWA448SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH
[...] (SBU) Mission Canada warmly welcomes the Secretary to the International Joint Commission centennial celebration on June 13 and to the bilateral meeting with Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon. I along with Consul General John Nay and his staff from Toronto will be on hand to welcome you. 2 [...]
2009-06-09 20:45:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ETRD CA
09OTTAWA451CANADA WANTS STRONG ANTI-PIRACY ROLE FOR NATO
[...] (C) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Policy Advisor for NATO Operations Amy Galigan, Canada "agreed totally with the essence" of ref a points on the need for NATO members to support Operation Ocean Shield. Galigan said that she was not aware o [...]
2009-06-10 19:43:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL NATO KCRM MOPS CA
09OTTAWA452CANADA SEEKS MORE ANTI-TERRORIST TOOLS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The federal government has begun a new legislative push to restore two anti-terrorism tools -- investigative hearings and preventive arrest -- that lapsed in 2007. Separately, the government has introduced a bill to allow victims of state-sponsored terrorism to sue the perpetra [...]
2009-06-10 20:59:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PGOV PREL CA
09OTTAWA453CANADA TO CONSIDER PROPOSAL TO INCREASE
[...] (SBU) Doug Rubbra, Senior Trade Policy Officer, Multilateral Market Access, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade explained that the GOC initially opposed the U.S. sponsored proposal advocating for increased transparency in export licensing. However, according to Rubbra the pr [...]
2009-06-11 13:57:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD CA
09OTTAWA455CANADA IN STEP WITH U.S. IN ADVANCE OF OSCE CORFU
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade OSCE Senior Policy Advisor Jude Pecora expressed appreciation for reftel demarche on June 10 and noted that it "looks like the points (he) prepared for senior officials and the foreign minister." Pecora specified that Canadian and U.S. [...]
2009-06-11 17:59:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO OSCE PGOV MARR CA
09OTTAWA459CANADIAN SUPPORT ON IRAN AND SYRIA AT IAEA
[...] (SBU) In a discussion with PolMinCouns on June 12, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Acting Director General for International Security Andre Giroux expressed appreciation for reftel views on Iran and Syria, and said that Canada had already been already planning to make a [...]
2009-06-12 17:40:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KNNP PARM IAEA MNUC IR SY CA
09OTTAWA466LIBERAL BRINKSMANSHIP MAY FORCE SUMMER ELECTION
[...] (C) Summary. The Liberals have demanded greater accountability in the government's June budget update and on its handling of a growing medical isotope shortage in exchange for their votes in favor of the June budget estimates, a confidence vote. The 77-person Liberal caucus appears united [...]
2009-06-15 18:49:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON CA
09OTTAWA468CANADA'S DEMOCRACY PROMOTION COMMUNITY ACTIVE
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment. Several government-funded Canadian organizations are active around the world in promoting human rights and good governance, whose work the government's proposed creation of a new Canadian democracy promotion agency focused on political party development would comp [...]
2009-06-16 12:04:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV KDEM KWMN AORC EAID CA
09OTTAWA469REQUEST FOR UPDATED GUIDANCE ON ABDELRAZIK
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 3. 2. (S) According to Privy Council Office Director of Operations Matthew Levin, the government would have to file an appeal to the Federal Court by June 19 should it decide to contest the court's order to repatriate Abousfian Abdelrazik from S [...]
2009-06-16 17:14:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPTER PREL SU CA
09OTTAWA470LIBERALS BEGIN TO BLINK?
[...] (C) Summary. Chances for a snap election over the summer dimmed on June 16 in the wake of unusual meetings between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Official Opposition. The public appears overwhelmingly against a summer election. Some Liberals privately question the wisdom of thei [...]
2009-06-16 20:12:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA
09OTTAWA478CANADA PLANNING JUNE 23 REPATRIATION FOR ABDELRAZIK
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 6. 2. (S) Canada will not appeal the June 4 federal court ruling that the government must repatriate Abousfian Abdelrazik from Sudan and present him for a July 7 hearing in Montreal (Ref B),according to Department of Foreign Affairs and Internati [...]
2009-06-18 20:13:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPTER PREL SU CA
09OTTAWA479NO ELECTION - FOR NOW
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Canadians have dodged a summer election, but the reprieve appears likely to last only till autumn. Following three meetings in less than twenty-hours, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff agreed that a bipartisan panel will study Employme [...]
2009-06-18 20:44:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
09OTTAWA481VANCOUVER OLYMPICS 2010: CANADIAN REQUEST FOR
[...] (SBU) Introduction and Action Request: The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) conveyed to Embassy on June 16 Diplomatic Note No. GGA-0028 seeking United States Postal Inspection Service support to the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Vancouver. The dipno [...]
2009-06-19 15:24:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KOLY PTER ECPS CA
09OTTAWA482UN COMPREHENSIVE CONVENTION ON TERRORISM DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) Acting Pol/C delivered ref points on June 17 to Chantal Meagher, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Acting Director for International Crime and Counterterrorism. Meagher apologized for her unfamiliarity with the upcoming negotiations and expressed regret that [...]
2009-06-19 19:54:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER CA
09OTTAWA486CANADA ON RECONCILIATION OF AFGHAN INSURGENTS
[...] (C) Summary: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) officials want to coordinate with State Department counterparts on the development of a plan for the reconciliation of Afghan insurgents. In particular, the Canadians would like to hear current U.S. thinking on secu [...]
2009-06-23 15:25:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA487TIP REPORT MAKES HEADLINES AROUND CANADA
[...] (SBU) Summary. The 2009 Trafficking In Persons (TIP) report received widespread media coverage in Canada, thanks largely to the selection of Canada's first ever TIP hero, Benjamin Perrin. ConGen Vancouver took maximum advantage of this opportunity by organizing a press conference and bookin [...]
2009-06-23 21:21:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KTIP KPAO KMDR SMIG KCRM KWMN ELAB
09OTTAWA488CANADA: DUTY OF CARE, ROE'S FOR CIVILIANS ASSIGNED
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 5. 2. (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Afghanistan Task Force Deputy Director for Counterinsurgency and Security Niall Cronin made an urgent request to pol/mil officer on June 23 for information on U.S. "duty of c [...]
2009-06-24 15:55:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA492CANADA REACTS OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE TO
[...] (U) Summary: Across Canada the reaction to President Obama,s June 4 speech in Cairo was overwhelmingly positive. Canadian Muslim leaders, national and local politicians and journalists described the speech as inspirational, respectful, and empowering. Many remarked it was a turning point in U [...]
2009-06-25 14:57:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV PINR PTER SCUL KPAO CA
09OTTAWA495INAUGURAL U.S.-CANADA DEMOCRACY SUPPORT
[...] (SBU) Summary: During the first U.S.-Canada Democracy Support Consultations in Ottawa in late May, the delegations agreed to explore establishing an early warning and rapid response task force for threats to democratic governance. Canada will consider placing the issue of restrictive NGO laws [...]
2009-06-25 21:03:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV KDEM CA
09OTTAWA501CANADA PROTESTS IRAN ELECTION IRREGULARITIES AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Across Canada government officials and the public continue to express condemnation for the Iranian regime's use of violence against dissent following the disputed June 12 presidential election. A day after President Obama rescinded July Fourth invitations to Iranian officials, [...]
2009-06-26 20:04:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM IR CA
09OTTAWA510LOBBYING REFORMS LACK TEETH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada has broadened and tightened federal regulation of domestic lobbying since 1985, creating an independent Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying in 2008, and building a new Canadian model to enhance transparency and integrity in government. However, the expanded role of the [...]
2009-07-06 21:10:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
09OTTAWA512CANADA SUPPORTS U.S. ITSO POSITION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-07 15:16:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDKTIA AORC ECON ECPS EFIN PREL TSPA
09OTTAWA521CANADA AGREES WITH U.S. ADVISORY ON UNSCR 1874
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-09 20:50:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP ECON EFIN PARM PREL
09OTTAWA522CANADA WELCOMES COMMERCIAL, NOT GOVERNMENTAL,
[...] (SBU) The Government of Canada would welcome USG discussions with Canadian commercial entities regarding extraction of Helium-3 for the purposes outlined in reftel, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for International Nuclear Cooperation [...]
2009-07-09 20:58:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PARM KNNP MNUC ASEC KCRM PINR XS CA
09OTTAWA529CANADA SUPPORTS NGO INVOLVEMENT AT UNITED NATIONS
[...] (U) Canada supports the U.S. position on the involvement of NGOs at the United Nations as outlined in reftel, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade United Nations and Commonwealth Affairs Division Policy Advisor David Murphy Haglund. He noted that U.S. and Canadia [...]
2009-07-10 20:19:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM CA
09OTTAWA540CANADA EMBRACES ENHANCED MEASURES TO DETER URANIUM
[...] (C) Senior Canadian leaders are seeking enhanced measures to block Iran's nuclear proliferation ambitions, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Senior Policy Officer Ryan Hewer. He called the U.S. initiative (ref a) "very [...]
2009-07-14 20:39:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM MNUC KNNP IR CA
09OTTAWA543CANADIAN PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT TORTURE VICTIMS
[...] (U) Summary. Canada avoids deporting individuals to any country where they would be at risk of persecution, torture, or cruel and unusual punishment. With a few exceptions, anyone ordered removed from Canada may apply for a pre-removal risk assessment. "Security certificate" legislation s [...]
2009-07-16 18:03:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF PGOV PREL UN CA
09OTTAWA544CANADIANS AGAINST FUTURE AFGHAN ROLE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Public opinion has turned "decisively" against Canada's military mission in Afghanistan, with more than 50 pct now opposing it, especially in the key electoral battleground provinces of Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia, as well as in Atlantic Canada. A separate poll indicat [...]
2009-07-16 18:45:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR PGOV AF CA
09OTTAWA547CANADIANS SEE PEMBINA DIKE CONCERNS AS "ONE OF A
[...] Summary. Canada sees the Pembina dike/road and the other water issues in the North Dakota/Manitoba border region as carrying risks for both sides and which would be best treated as a "suite of issues." They are interested in greater bilateral involvement at the Federal Government level, but al [...]
2009-07-17 20:13:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDCA SENV
09OTTAWA549TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS IN THE CANADIAN PROVINCE OF MANITOBA
[...] (U) This cable was prepared by APP Winnipeg. 2. (SBU) Summary: In the Canadian central plains, trafficking in persons is tied inextricably to the prostitution of aboriginal women and female children in the largest cities. A conference hosted by the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs July 8-9 br [...]
2009-07-17 20:52:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KTIP SOCI CA
09OTTAWA550FIRST U.S.-CANADA DEMOCRACY SUPPORT CONSULTATIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: During the first U.S.-Canada Democracy Support Consultations in Ottawa in late May, the delegations agreed to explore establishing an early warning and rapid response task force for threats to democratic governance. Canada will consider placing the issue of restrictive NGO laws [...]
2009-07-17 20:53:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV KDEM CA
09OTTAWA569SLEEPY SUMMER FOR CANADIAN POLITICS
[...] (C) Summary. Even by Canadian standards, political life in Canada in summer 2009 is remarkably comatose, at least on the surface. Neither the Prime Minister nor the Liberal Party leader has even been in the public eye for over ten days. They may both genuinely be on vacation or, like boxe [...]
2009-07-22 19:40:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON CA
09OTTAWA575CANADA IN SYNC WITH U.S. ON AFGHAN ASSISTANCE
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 8. 2. (C) Summary: Canadian policy in Afghanistan is "very much on the same page" as that of the U.S. Canada has tripled its civilian presence in Afghanistan in the last 15 months and will have 50 civilian police advisors by December 2009. In Jun [...]
2009-07-23 15:51:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA577INTERIM RESPONSE ON CANADIAN UNGA ATTENDANCE
[...] Responses keyed to reftel, per instructions. A. Attendance of Head of State -- The Governor General has no plans to attend UNGA, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) UN and Commonwealth Affairs Policy Advisor David Murphy Haglund. -- Governor General [...]
2009-07-24 18:37:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OTRA OVIP KSEP CVIS UNGA CA
09OTTAWA581Canada's Foreign Investment Reforms Create A More Open
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada's July 17 federal court action against U.S. Steel attempts to force the company to meet the production and employment commitments it made to the Federal Government in 2007 in exchange for permission to take over Canada's Stelco. At that time, the GOC exercised its legal r [...]
2009-07-27 19:08:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV EIND PREL CA
09OTTAWA583COPYRIGHT REFORM IN CANADA: DAY 4,235
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 20, the Government of Canada kicked off broad public consultations on copyright reform with an invitation-only roundtable discussion in Vancouver. Over the next several weeks the Government will solicit the opinions of experts at roundtable and town hall meetings across [...]
2009-07-27 19:53:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR CA
09OTTAWA594CANZUS INDIGENOUS ISSUES CONSULTATIONS ADDRESS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and U.S. (CANZUS) officials met recently in Ottawa for consultations on indigenous issues. Governmental changes since the last meeting in July 2006 have resulted in a number of new policy directions on aboriginal issues. Between now and the [...]
2009-07-30 18:10:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV AS NZ CA
09OTTAWA595LEADERS BREAK SUMMER LULL WITH TOUGH TALK
[...] (SBU) Summary: Federal Conservatives used a late July election training conference and a summer caucus meeting in Ottawa to sharpen their attack lines and spark a flurry of renewed election speculation in an otherwise somnolent political summer. Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff also ratcheted [...]
2009-07-30 21:13:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR CA
09OTTAWA596DETERMINED PRO-MEK DEMONSTRATORS PROTEST OUTSIDE
[...] (SBU) Approximately 95 supporters of the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (Mek) gathered again across the street from the chancery on July 30 to condemn the recent attack on the Ashraf camp in Iraq by Iraqi military and police forces (reftel). The protest began on July 29 at 09:14 with approximately 80 pro [...]
2009-07-30 21:26:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PHUM IZ IR CA
09OTTAWA597NATIVE BORDER DISPUTE RAISES COMPLEX ISSUES
[...] (SBU) Summary: An ongoing dispute between Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the Mohawk aboriginal reserve of Akwesasne over the arming of border guards on the reserve straddling the Canada-U.S. border raises cross-cutting political, jurisdictional, and law enforcement issues. CBSA reta [...]
2009-07-30 21:36:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PBTS CA
09OTTAWA609DELIVERY OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION HOST
[...] (U) On August 5, Acting Pol/C delivered the finalized copy (reftel) of the Host Country Agreement (HCA) on challenge inspections under the Chemical Weapons Convention to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Deputy National Coordinator (WCW Issues and IPCW Inspections),Adr [...]
2009-08-06 20:10:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL KTIA CBW CWC CA
09OTTAWA610CANADA IN THE UNHRC: A CHAMPION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) Summary. Canada closed its three year term on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) with an enhanced reputation as a strong advocate for human rights protection and democracy promotion worldwide. During its term, Canada was a spirited advocate -- condemning human rights abuses, standing alon [...]
2009-08-06 20:43:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV KDEM UNHCR CA
09OTTAWA615CANADA UNABLE TO OFFER ADDITIONAL SUPPORT TO
[...] (C) Canada concurs that "now is the right time" for U.S. and other like-minded countries to marshal support for the Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG),according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Director for Eastern and Southern Africa Lisa Stadelbauer [...]
2009-08-07 20:08:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER EAID KPKO SO CA
09OTTAWA616MTCR: CANADA ON-BOARD FOR ONE OR MORE
[...] (C) Canada will pleased to offer "at least one but perhaps more presentations" at the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Rio Plenary Information Exchange in November, according to Phillip Baines, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Deputy Director for Missiles, Space Se [...]
2009-08-07 21:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MNUC MTCRE ETTC KSCA TSPA CA
09OTTAWA621CANADA ON SOMALIA SANCTIONS: NO INFO TO SHARE YET
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-11 19:02:00Embassy OttawaSECRETEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER XW UNSC CA
09OTTAWA622FURTHER PROGRESS ON DUBAI PROCESS
[...] (C) Summary: According to Canadian officials, there was some -- but not much -- "concrete progress" at the most recent Dubai Process meetings, notably in that Afghanistan and Pakistan had agreed to call on international experts to assist them in drafting action plans, MOUs, and assessments for [...]
2009-08-11 21:27:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID SNAR ETRD PK AF CA
09OTTAWA623RECEIPT OF CANADIAN LETTER ON CHEMICAL WEAPONS
[...] (U) Canada responded on August 10 to Embassy's August 5 delivery of U.S. finalized language on the conduct of challenge inspections under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) (ref a). Text of letter from Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade CWC National Coordinator Louis-Phi [...]
2009-08-12 15:06:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL KTIA CBW CWC CA
09OTTAWA624NEW CANADIAN AID FOR DISPLACED PAKISTANIS
[...] (U) Summary: Canada will provide C$25 million (C$1 = US$0.93) in additional support to displaced civilians in Pakistan. The contribution brings Canada's total humanitarian assistance to Pakistan to C$33 million since October 2008. Canada also remains active in facilitating dialogue and improv [...]
2009-08-12 19:50:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID PK AF CA
09OTTAWA627CANADA CONCERNED ABOUT CONTEMPLATED FORSYS SALE AND IRAN NEXUS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-13 20:57:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPREL PARM MNUC KNNP IR CA NA
09OTTAWA628CANADIAN POINTS OF CONTACT FOR NUCLEAR
[...] (U) In response to reftel request, the following are Embassy and Canadian government points of contact for nuclear non-proliferation issues: Jeremy Brenner First Secretary and Political-Military Officer U.S. Embassy Ottawa P.O. Box 5000, MS - 12 Ogdensburg, NY 13669 tel: 613-688-5241 e [...]
2009-08-14 17:47:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL KNNP ENRG UNGA NPT IAEA PGOV CDG CA
09OTTAWA629APPEALS COURT REAFFIRMS CANADA MUST SEEK KHADR'S
[...] (SBU) Canada's appellate court on August 14 upheld a lower court ruling requiring the government to seek the repatriation of Guantanamo detainee and Canadian citizen Omar Khadr. According to the Prime Minister, the government will study the decision before deciding on next steps. An appeal [...]
2009-08-14 19:05:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PTER CU CA
09OTTAWA630UN 1267 (AL-QAIDA/TALIBAN) SANCTIONS: CANADA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-17 16:44:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN PREL PTER UNSC KTFN CA
09OTTAWA631CANADA SUPPORTS U.S. EFFORTS ON GLOBAL INITIATIVE
[...] (SBU) Canada supports U.S. leadership to make the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) a durable international institution and welcomes the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) as an official observer (ref a),according to Department of Foreign Affairs and Internat [...]
2009-08-17 18:09:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL PTER KGIC CA
09OTTAWA634CANADIAN OPINION LEADERS ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT NEW
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canadians have noted a new tone in U.S. foreign policy and have responded enthusiastically, according to a group of Canadian opinion leaders who met with the Charge on August 13. They praised the Secretary's recent Council on Foreign Relations speech and commented the new rheto [...]
2009-08-18 21:03:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KPAO CA AF
09OTTAWA636CANADIAN-SOMALIS FEAR AL-SHABAB STRENGTHENING
[...] (C) Rumors continue to circulate within the Somali Diaspora in Canada of increasing Ethiopian and Kenyan meddling in Somalia, according to Farah Aw-Osman, Executive Director of the Canadian Friends of Somalia. Aw-Osman expressed worry that these rumors might fuel Somali-Canadian youth to retu [...]
2009-08-19 17:26:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER EAID SO CA
09OTTAWA639CANADA IMPOSES 45-DAY HOLD ON FORSYS URANIUM SALE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-19 20:56:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MNUC KNNP EINV IR NA CA
09OTTAWA64SCENESETTER FOR THE PRESIDENT'S TRIP TO OTTAWA
[...] (C) Mr. President, Mission Canada warmly welcomes you and the First Lady to Ottawa. We and Canadians alike are thrilled that your first foreign trip as President will be to Canada, which Canadians claim as a long-standing tradition reflecting the vital importance of this bilateral relationship b [...]
2009-01-22 16:35:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ECON MARR SENV AF CA
09OTTAWA642CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER PRAISES AFGHAN ELECTIONS
[...] (U) In remarks to reporters in Pangnirtun, Nunavut on August 20, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said that "what is taking place in Afghanistan is remarkable" and praised the 2009 Afghan elections -- "warts and all," noting the inherent difficulties involved in elections in a country that had [...]
2009-08-20 20:40:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM AF CA
09OTTAWA643ABORIGINAL LAND CLAIMS DEFY TIMELY RESOLUTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: The recent imbroglio between the Canadian Border Services Agency and the Mohawk community of Akwesasne over armed agents at the crossing point on Cornwall Island, Ontario (reftel) highlights again the complexity, lack of clarity, and evolving nature of relations between the fed [...]
2009-08-21 14:37:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM CA
09OTTAWA644REQUEST FOR COPYRIGHT TALKING POINTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Post requests interagency-cleared talking points for Embassy to deliver to appropriate senior Canadian Officials to encourage them to quickly introduce legislation to modernize Canada's copyright regime. The Government of Canada is conducting wide ranging consultations on copyr [...]
2009-08-21 15:10:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR CA
09OTTAWA647NO PASSPORT FOR CONVICTED TERRORIST KAMEL
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment. The Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear an appeal on August 20 by convicted terrorist and naturalized Canadian citizen Fateh Kamel of the federal government's refusal to issue him a passport (reftel). The decision decisively underscores the federal government's [...]
2009-08-21 19:07:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL PGOV CA
09OTTAWA649GOVERNMENT TO APPEAL COURT DECISION ON KHADR
[...] (C) On August 24, Christian Rousseau, Director of Operations for Defence and International Security Policy at the Privy Council Office, informed PolMinCouns that the Canadian government would appeal to the Supreme Court the August 14 decision (ref a) of the Federal Court of Appeals upholding [...]
2009-08-24 17:02:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPTER PHUM PREL CU CA
09OTTAWA65CANADA: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON REMOTE SENSING
[...] (C) Pol/miloff delivered reftel text to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Director for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament James Junke on January 22. Junke expressed appreciation for the U.S. responses to the Canadian demarche of July 9 and inquiries raised at the De [...]
2009-01-22 16:44:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL ISN CA
09OTTAWA651CANADA APPRECIATIVE OF INFORMATION ON THE BMENA
[...] (U) Canadian interlocutors expressed thanks for the information on the upcoming BMENA Forum for the Future, which they also received from the Italians and Moroccans, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Algeria, Libya, and Morocco Desk Officer Denys Laliberte. He [...]
2009-08-25 20:15:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON KMPI KDEM KPAO CA
09OTTAWA654CANADA WILL ATTEND ARF INTER-SESSIONAL MEETING ON
[...] (SBU) Canada will send a representative to the upcoming ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Ninth Inter-Sessional Meeting on Disaster Relief (ISM-DR) in Honolulu, Hawaii, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Defense Relations Senior Policy Advisor Paul Jones. He ad [...]
2009-08-26 20:19:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR ARF EAID CA
09OTTAWA656CANADA LOOKS FORWARD TO SINGAPORE PSI EXERCISE,
[...] (SBU) Canada is looking forward to its participation in the October Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) exercise "Deep Sabre" in Singapore, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) International Counter-Proliferation Senior Policy Officer David MacDuff. He [...]
2009-08-27 14:56:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL KNNP MNUC CA
09OTTAWA658GETTING IN SHAPE FOR FALL
[...] (SBU) Summary: PM Stephen Harper announced new Senate appointments and key changes to his inner team on August 27 as the Conservatives prepare for the return of Parliament -- and a possible election -- in the fall. The Liberal caucus will gather for a planning retreat at month's end. Senior [...]
2009-08-28 19:37:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR CA
09OTTAWA659CANADA SEEKING OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION FORSYS URANIUM DEAL HAS COLLAPSED REF: A. OTTAWA 639 B. OTTAWA 627 C. STATE 84119
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-28 19:52:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPREL PARM MNUC KNNP EINV IR NA CA
09OTTAWA662CANADA CONFIRMS COLLAPSE OF FORSYS URANIUM DEAL REF: A. OTTAWA 659 B. OTTAWA 639 C. OTTAWA 627 D. STATE 84119
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-31 19:05:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPREL PARM MNUC KNNP EINV IR NA CA
09OTTAWA67ITALIAN AMBASSADOR SEEKS UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL
[...] (C) Italian Ambassador to Canada Gabriele Sardo met with Charge d'Affaires on January 21 to sound out the U.S. response to himself as a candidate for Director-General of UNESCO. Ambassador Sardo, who noted he had served as Italy's Ambassador to UNESCO from 1998 to 2002 and as First Counselor [...]
2009-01-23 16:25:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL SCUL UNESCO CA IT
09OTTAWA68NEW LIBERAL LEADER MICHAEL IGNATIEFF
[...] (C) Summary: An intellectual, historian, and award-winning author and journalist, Michael Ignatieff is the new interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada (pending formal confirmation at a party conference in May). Harvard-educated and a former U.S. resident, the would-be prime minister is [...]
2009-01-23 19:54:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR CA
09OTTAWA689JOHN WILLIAMSON: NEW DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: In an August 27 shake-up of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) senior political staff, Prime Minister Stephen Harper named John Williamson as the new Director of Communications, the fourth in as many years. A strong fiscal conservative, Williamson does not have a high public profi [...]
2009-09-04 17:29:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KPAO CA
09OTTAWA695TIP: BC PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS A SUCCESSFUL
[...] (C) Summary: Increased collaboration among the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP),British Colombia (BC) government officials, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has strengthened the province's capacity to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). Advocacy groups and police continue to d [...]
2009-09-08 19:32:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KTIP KCRM CA
09OTTAWA696HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONS: A LOW PROFILE, AT LEAST
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada's federal and provincial human rights commissions (HRCs) have maintained a lower public profile this year than in 2008. They could, however, face a sharp increase in complaints in 2010 due to new Vancouver city bylaws enacted for the upcoming Winter Olympic Games. The ex [...]
2009-09-08 20:15:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV CA
09OTTAWA698SLOWER, LOWER, WEAKER: NGOS PROTEST FREE SPEECH
[...] (SBU) Summary: The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) is protesting new Vancouver city bylaws that allow "draconian curtailment of free expression" during the 2010 Winter Olympics. BCCLA argues the new laws are "ripe for constitutional challenge." Local media has given wide [...]
2009-09-09 17:09:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KOLY CA
09OTTAWA70Canada's Coming Federal Budget and Stimulus Prospects
[...] (SBU) Summary: With the economy dominating the political landscape (ref a),Canada's opposition parties have made the January 27 federal budget a litmus test of PM Harper's ability to make his Conservative minority government work. Ottawa observers estimate that the budget will pass with just [...]
2009-01-26 13:07:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV EIND PREL PGOV CA
09OTTAWA700CANADA WELCOMES U.S. OUTREACH ON MISSILE TECHNOLOGY
[...] (C) Summary: Canadian nonproliferation and enforcement officers told visiting U.S. officials that Canada is in broad agreement with U.S. goals for the upcoming plenary session of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). Canadian political leaders are likely to support U.S. efforts to sin [...]
2009-09-09 20:19:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MNUC MTCRE ETTC KSCA TSPA CA
09OTTAWA707CANADA: SHARING U.S. VIEWS ON THE LATEST IAEA
[...] (C) Summary: Canada is in full agreement with U.S. views concerning Iranian and Syrian nuclear-related activities. Ottawa is prepared to consider additional steps, and seeks enhanced dialogue and coordination with the U.S., as well as additional insights into U.S. thinking for the G20 and UNS [...]
2009-09-11 19:26:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPARM KNNP IAEA MNUC TRGY PREL SY IR CA
09OTTAWA708CANADA SUPPORTIVE OF SRI LANKA FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT
[...] (C) Canada is supportive of the U.S. strategy to promote freedom of movement in Sri Lanka (reftel),according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) South Asia Deputy Director Jonathan Yendall. He cautioned that he was still seeking to coordinate a "whole of governme [...]
2009-09-11 19:34:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF PTER MASS SOCI EAID EUN
09OTTAWA709ATLANTIC CANADA: FALL ELECTION WON'T CHANGE MUCH
[...] (SBU) Summary: A fall election "that no one wants" appears increasingly likely as Parliament reconvenes on September 14. Polls suggest such a fourth election in five years would produce another minority government. After falling to a historic low of 77 seats in the 2008 election, the Liberal [...]
2009-09-11 21:08:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
09OTTAWA716CANADA: RESPONSE TO AUSTRALIA GROUP NON-PAPERS
[...] (C) Summary: Canada sees no immediate problem with the proposals contained in the non-papers drawn from reftel, but is concerned about the system for classification of AG documents, given that there are now 41 members. Canada sees no advantage in inviting Russia to join the AG, but foresees [...]
2009-09-15 15:02:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL ETTC CA
09OTTAWA717CANADA READY TO HELP ON MISSING/DETAINED AMCITS IN
[...] (C) Canadian Foreign Minister Cannon and other senior officials will be seeking meetings with Iranian counterparts on the margins of the upcoming UN General Assembly in New York to raise the issue of detained Canadians in Iran, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade [...]
2009-09-15 15:13:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PINR PROP PTER CASC IR CA
09OTTAWA718CANADIAN ATTENDANCE AT SEPTEMBER 25 HAITI KEY
[...] (SBU) Canada expressed thanks for its inclusion in the September 25 Haiti Key Players Meeting in New York, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Haiti Task Force Director Denis Robert. He noted that Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon will be in New York on September [...]
2009-09-15 18:01:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPKO UNSC UNGA HA CA
09OTTAWA719CANADA: ODDS RISE FOR GOVERNMENT TO SURVIVE -- THIS WEEK
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-15 19:45:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
09OTTAWA72PRIME MINISTER HARPER'S POPULAR WIFE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Laureen Harper, wife of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, plays no formal public role (unlike the U.S. First Lady),but those close to the family have described her as politically engaged and as her husband's most valuable political asset. Extroverted and friendly, she is widely cre [...]
2009-01-26 16:56:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR CA
09OTTAWA720CANADA: EXPERIENCE ENGAGING DIASPORA COMMUNITIES
[...] (U) Like the United States, Canada is a nation of immigrants. Immigrants make up twenty percent of the overall population in Canada, according to the most recent census data (2006). The largest Diaspora in Canada is from the United Kingdom (579,620) followed by China (466,940),India (443,6 [...]
2009-09-15 19:57:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL SMIG SCUL EAID TSPL BTIO BEXP
09OTTAWA725CANADA; AFGHANISTAN QUARTERLY REPORT CLAIMS
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Canadian government's fifth quarterly report to Parliament on "Canada's Engagement in Afghanistan" on September 15 again claimed progress on most of the benchmarks of its six priority areas and three signature projects, while admitting high levels of insurgent violence an [...]
2009-09-15 21:38:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR EAID AF CA
09OTTAWA727CANADA: IAEA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
[...] (SBU) The relevant Canadian policymakers are unavailable to discuss the ref b message until their return from the IAEA General Conference in Vienna. However, polmiloff had already raised the key issues at stake with respect to the Middle East in conversations with working-level Department of [...]
2009-09-16 18:45:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL AORC KNNP IAEA IR SY CA
09OTTAWA728CANADIAN PM TO ATTEND FRIENDS OF DEMOCRATIC
[...] (U) The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) on September 16 confirmed to PolMinCouns that Prime Minister Stephen Harper would attend the September 24 Friends of Democratic Pakistan Summit in New York and that he wishes an opportunity to speak. Neither DFAIT nor the [...]
2009-09-16 19:27:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON EAID PK CA
09OTTAWA730CANADIAN DELEGATION TO FRIENDS OF DEMOCRATIC
[...] (U The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade has confirmed that the Canadian delegation to the September 24 Friends of Democratic Pakistan Summit will consist of: Prime Minister Stephen Harper Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon Foreign and Defence Policy Advisor to the Prime [...]
2009-09-17 13:39:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON EAID PK CA
09OTTAWA731CANADIAN MINISTERS AT SEPTEMBER 25 HAITI KEY
[...] (U) The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade confirmed on September 17 that both Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon and Minister of State (Americas) Peter Kent, likely along with Assistant Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Latin America and the Caribbean Alexandra Bugaili [...]
2009-09-17 19:28:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPKO EAID UNSC UNGA HA CA
09OTTAWA732CANADA SHARES OUR CONCERNS ON IRAN
[...] (C) CDA, accompanied by PolMinCouns, delivered ref a Iran demarche on September 17 to Assistant Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Political Director Yves Brodeur. CDA highlighted the need to use all public and private avenues, including bilaterally and with other nations, to try to inf [...]
2009-09-17 20:07:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP MNUC IAEA CASC IR CA
09OTTAWA735CANADIAN GOVERNMENT SURVIVES CONFIDENCE VOTE
[...] (U) The government of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper on September 18 easily survived a confidence vote on a Ways and Means motion, with the unusual support of both the New Democratic Party (NDP) and the Bloc Quebecois. The Official Opposition Liberal Party voted en masse against [...]
2009-09-18 17:35:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
09OTTAWA736CANADA; WEIGHING IN ON VIKTOR BOUT
[...] (C) Charge on September 18 discussed Victor Bout case (reftel) with Yves Brodeur, Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security Affairs and Political Director of Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). Brodeur was already familiar with the case. Charge [...]
2009-09-18 19:51:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM PETER CO RS TH CA
09OTTAWA739CANADA EAGER TO JOIN INFORMAL MEETING OF CTBT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada is enthusiastic about participating in the informal meeting on the margins of the Article XIV Conference. Foreign Minister Cannon will deliver Canada's national statement at the conference, and the Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security is expected to att [...]
2009-09-21 17:34:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL CA
09OTTAWA7440th PARLIAMENT'S THRONE SPEECH - TAKE TWO
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the January 26 opening of the second session of the 40th Parliament, the government's latest Throne Speech was brief, sober in tone, focused exclusively on the economy, and unabashed in hitting key Liberal Party buttons in a clear bid to secure bipartisan political support. T [...]
2009-01-26 21:44:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON CA
09OTTAWA743CANADA TO SKIP IRAN SPEECH AT UNGA, NO FORMAL
[...] (C) According to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's United Nations and Commonwealth Affairs Division Director Patrick Wittmann, Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon has instructed the Canadian delegation not to send a representative to the speech by Iran at the UN General [...]
2009-09-22 20:47:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA IR CA
09OTTAWA747COURT QUASHES SECURITY CERTIFICATE, FOUR REMAIN
[...] (SBU) Summary: On September 24, the Federal Court of Canada announced it will quash an immigration security certificate against Moroccan-born Adil Charkaoui, reducing the number of active certificates in suspected terrorist cases to four. The decision is the latest setback for the government i [...]
2009-09-25 15:12:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER PHUM CA
09OTTAWA748Treasury Discussions with Canada Regarding Export Credits
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 2, Treasury DAS for Trade and Investment Sharon Yuan, Treasury Director for Trade Finance Steve Tvardek, Embassy EMIN, Embassy Commercial MC and Senior ECON FSN met with officials from key GOC departments and representatives from Canada's export financing agency to [...]
2009-09-25 19:53:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND EFIN EAIR ECON EINV PREL CA
09OTTAWA756Canadian Finance Minister Announces Canadian Economy
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Canadian government's plan to eliminate the nation's budget deficit and return to pre-recession growth rates by 2015 without cutting spending or raising taxes is leaving some economists scratching their heads. Ottawa observers suggest that the optimistic forecast is an atte [...]
2009-09-28 21:20:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV EIND PREL PGOV CA
09OTTAWA762Canadian Government announces plan to eliminate tariffs on
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada's plan to eliminate tariffs on a broad range of manufacturing should take effect in early 2010. GOC submits that the elimination of tariffs for inputs in key manufacturing sectors will help facilitate economic recovery and improve Canadian competitiveness. Critics in C [...]
2009-09-30 17:57:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV EIND PREL PGOV CA
09OTTAWA765CANADA SPEAKING OUT ON AVERTING A REFUGEE
[...] (SBU) According to Policy Advisor for Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Response Sarah Robertson of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Affairs (DFAIT),DFAIT's Director General for Stabilization and Reconstruction Elissa Goldberg spoke out at the UNHCR's Executive Committee [...]
2009-10-01 19:09:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL KE UNHCR CA
09OTTAWA766CANADA: CONSERVATIVES SURVIVE ANOTHER CONFIDENCE VOTE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Conservative minority government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper on October 1 again survived a confidence vote in the House of Commons. The censure motion, introduced by the Official Opposition Liberal Party, was the first that the Conservatives had faced since they took of [...]
2009-10-01 22:23:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
09OTTAWA768VISAS VIPER: THE "TORONTO 18" AS CANDIDATES FOR
[...] (S) SUMMARY At Embassy Ottawa's monthly Visas Viper meeting on September 09, 2009, a list of 27 indidivudals who were involved in the so-called "Toronto 18" conspiracy, a plot to engage in terrorist activities in the Toronto metropolitan area, was submitted for consideration. All of these i [...]
2009-10-02 20:25:00Embassy OttawaSECRETKVPR CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC CA
09OTTAWA769CANADA CONFIRMS LIKE-MINDED MEETING DELEGATES
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Middle East and Maghreb Director General John Holmes will lead the Canadian delegation to the October 7 Like-Minded Meeting in Washington, DC (ref b),according to DFAIT's Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and Qatar Deputy Director Gallit Dob [...]
2009-10-02 20:36:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP MNUC UNSC ETTC IR CA
09OTTAWA770CANADA PROVIDES INFORMATION ON FOREIGN DETAINEES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-02 20:38:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPREL CASC IR CA
09OTTAWA771 S/CIEA Goldwyn visit to Ottawa - Energy security,
[...] (U) Summary: S/CIEA David Goldwyn's September 17-18 trip to Ottawa was immensely successful and has continued to reap positive engagement from Canadian interlocutors. Goldwyn's message of Canada as a pillar of U.S. energy security was embraced by the Government of Canada and by a Canadian pub [...]
2009-10-02 21:11:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET SENV CA
09OTTAWA772CANADA TO DEMARCHE RTG ON VIKTOR BOUT
[...] (C) Director General for South, Southeast Asia & Oceania Kenneth Macartney of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade confirmed to PolMinCouns on October 3 that the Canadian Embassy in Bangkok would demarche the Royal Thai Government on the extradition of Viktor Bout, as Emb [...]
2009-10-05 11:59:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KCRM TH CA RS CO
09OTTAWA777CANADA: FOUR BY-ELECTIONS TO TEST ELECTION MOMENTUM
[...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Stephen Harper has called four federal by-elections for November 9 to fill current House of Commons vacancies. The Conservatives held none of the seats, but have a crack at two of the four. In contrast, the opposition Liberals have little realistic prospect of wi [...]
2009-10-05 20:36:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
09OTTAWA778CANADA: BRIEFING ON P5+1 IRAN TALKS IN GENEVA
[...] (C) Canada has "done its homework" for the upcoming Like-Minded Meeting in Washington on October 7 (ref b),according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and Qatar Deputy Director Gallit Dobner, and looks forward to participating in the discussi [...]
2009-10-05 21:10:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM KNNP MNUC IR CA
09OTTAWA779AMBASSADOR BEGINS MEETING CANADIAN LEADERS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Since presentation of credentials on October 2, Ambassador has actively engaged top Canadian political leaders, including the Prime Minister, to underscore the central importance of this highly successful bilateral relationship. He will begin a series of provincial travels o [...]
2009-10-06 16:09:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON MARR ETRD CA AF
09OTTAWA78LIBERALS TO SUPPORT BUDGET, WITH CONDITIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff publicly confirmed on January 28 that his party will support PM Harper's latest "flawed" budget (septel),on the condition that the government submit three reports to Parliament this year on its budget implementation, notably about actual expendit [...]
2009-01-28 22:01:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EFIN CA
09OTTAWA786CANADA: FEDERAL COURT EXPANDS TERROR WIRETAP POWERS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada's Federal Court has approved the authorization, on a case-by-case basis, of warrants permitting the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to track terrorism suspects electronically overseas, in addition to existing authority to do so domestically. The decision si [...]
2009-10-09 20:28:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PGOV PREL CA
09OTTAWA789CANADA: FREE SPEECH V. HATE SPEECH HEADED TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) has appealed to the Federal Court to clarify Canada's hate speech laws after a controversial ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. The Tribunal's finding related to the constitutionality of a law and penalty targeting the dis [...]
2009-10-13 20:47:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV CA
09OTTAWA79COURT BOLSTERS PASSPORT DENIAL FOR TERRORISTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: A Canadian appeals court has upheld the constitutional authority of the Foreign Minister (in charge also of Canada's passport agency) to refuse to issue a passport to Canadian citizens convicted of terrorist offences. The decision appears to bolster the federal government's abil [...]
2009-01-30 20:55:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PGOV PREL CA
09OTTAWA790CANADA: GOLDSTONE REPORT DEMARCHE RESPONSE
[...] (SBU) Upon receipt of reftel demarche on October 14, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade DFAIT) Deputy Director for Israel/West Bank and Gaza Greg Lemermeyer promised to deliver the U.S. talking points to Canada's permanent mission to the UN immediately and to report back to [...]
2009-10-14 16:26:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PTER IS KPAL CA
09OTTAWA791CANADA DEMARCHES RTG ON VIKTOR BOUT
[...] (C) Assistant Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Political Director Yves Brodeur confirmed to DCM on October 14 that the Canadian Ambassador in Bangkok had on October 6 made a demarche supporting the extradition of Viktor Bout to the Thai Ministry of Justice's Permanent Secretary. The A [...]
2009-10-14 20:02:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL KRCM PTER TH CA RS CO
09OTTAWA793CANADA TO SUPPORT US CANDIDACY IN IMO ELECTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-15 20:15:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPHSA APCS EWWT IMO UK CA
09OTTAWA794CANADA: SECURITY CERTIFICATES TAKE MAJOR HIT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada's Federal Court has formally quashed the immigration security certificate against alleged terror suspect Adil Charkaoui. The Court also blocked a potential federal appeal to the Federal Court of Appeal to clarify the limits of legal disclosure in national security cases. [...]
2009-10-15 20:16:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PGOV CA
09OTTAWA795BLUE DAYS FOR LIBERAL LEADER MICHAEL IGNATIEFF
[...] (C) Summary. Liberal Party poll numbers continue to decline, while the Conservatives appear in their strongest position in at least a year. Fundraising has also slowed down noticeably. Leader Michael Ignatieff is clearly on the defensive, but has vowed to do a better job in shaping the po [...]
2009-10-15 21:24:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR CA
09OTTAWA8CANADA ON SEPARATIST REGIONS OF GEORGIA
[...] (C) In a meeting with PolMinCouns on January 7 to discuss our way forward on the separatist regions of Georgia (reftel),Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Director General for Europe Robert Hage confirmed that Canada remains concerned about Abkhazia and South Ossetia and [...]
2009-01-07 20:07:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID GG RS CA
09OTTAWA80Canada Budget Offers Economic Stimulus
[...] (SBU) Summary: Although battered by economic shocks, Canada is well positioned for economic recovery if and when commodity prices rise and U.S. demand returns. To best position Canada for eventual recovery, the Conservative government's January 27 budget provides massive (by Canadian standards [...]
2009-01-30 21:13:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV EIND PREL PGOV CA
09OTTAWA801CANADIAN PM WELCOMES AFGHAN RUN-OFF ELECTION
[...] (U) Summary: Prime Minister Harper on October 20 expressed pleasure that both leading Afghan presidential candidates had recognized the need for a run-off election, encouraged the people of Afghanistan to participate in the second round of elections, and reiterated Canada's continued support. [...]
2009-10-20 20:45:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV AF CA
09OTTAWA802GICNT: CANADA WELCOMES UNODC AS AN OBSERVER
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-20 22:05:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL PTER KGIC CA RU
09OTTAWA803CANADIAN PARTICIPATION IN THE 2009 G-8 BMENA FORUM
[...] (U) Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon -- who is visiting Libya, Israel, and Saudi Arabia October 19-25 -- will be unable to participate in the 2009 G-8 BMENA Forum for the future. Canada's representative will be the Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Conservative Member of Parliame [...]
2009-10-21 17:18:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OPDC ECON KPAO KDEM KMPI CA
09OTTAWA809CANADIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO ATTEND G-8 BMENA FORUM
[...] (SBU) Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon has agreed to represent Canada at the G-8 Broader Middle East and North Africa Forum for the Future in Marrakech November 2-3. His staff confirmed that he reversed an earlier decision (ref b) to send Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs Deepak O [...]
2009-10-23 14:08:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OPDC KPAO KDEM KMPI CA
09OTTAWA811Ambassador meets with Liberal Party leadership
[...] (C) Summary. In a luncheon on October 23, Ambassador discussed key bilateral issues, notably ""Buy America"" and climate change policies, with Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff and key staff. Ignatieff reiterated that Canadians do not want an election now, but said that he could not be [...]
2009-10-23 20:23:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD SENV PGOV CA
09OTTAWA814AMBASSADOR'S INITIAL MEETINGS WITH PARLIAMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary. In separate meetings with the Speaker of the Senate and the Canada-U.S. Interparliamentary Group on Parliament Hill on October 22, Ambassador underscored the close ties between our two nations, welcomed more legislative exchanges, and responded to concerns about "Buy America" [...]
2009-10-23 19:36:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
09OTTAWA815Canada coordinating 64th UNGA positions closely with US
[...] (SBU) Canada is closely coordinating its 64th UN General Assembly, Third Committee positions on no-action motions, country-specific resolutions, and the defamation of religions thematic resolution with the U.S., according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) [...]
2009-10-26 20:08:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL UN CA
09OTTAWA816Canada Appreciates Learning Results of U.S. Review of
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-28 14:02:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC CA
09OTTAWA817Canada: A defensive response to UN report on minority issues
[...] (SBU) Summary: A United Nations Independent Expert on minority issues has highlighted Canada's Muslim communities' fears of "unsubstantiated use" of security certificates, racial profiling, and harassment as well as "uneven and unclear" human rights protections for all minorities in Canada. T [...]
2009-10-27 18:17:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV CA
09OTTAWA820Canada provides details for coordination with US for 64th
[...] (SBU) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) human rights officials, Canadian priorities for this year's Third Committee echo those of U.S. (refs a and b). Canada's main priorities are the adoption of the Iran resolution and other country-specific resoluti [...]
2009-10-28 17:43:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL UN CA
09OTTAWA821Canada to vote against UNGA Goldstone Report motion
[...] (C) Canada "will vote against" the Goldstone Report resolution during the November 4 UN General Assembly discussion and shares U.S. concerns against transmitting the matter to the Security Council or to the International Criminal Court, according to Greg Lemermeyer, Deputy Director of the Isr [...]
2009-11-03 21:11:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER KPAL UN IS CA
09OTTAWA822CANADA: MPs PASS CENSURE MOTION ON IRAN
[...] (U) Summary: Canada's House of Commons has unanimously passed a strongly-worded, non-binding motion supporting the democratic aspirations and human rights of the people of Iran, condemning Iran's disregard of UN Security Council Resolutions 1696, 1737, 1747 and 1803 and International Atomic En [...]
2009-10-28 18:42:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV IR CA
09OTTAWA823U.S. Security Dialogues with Canada
[...] (U) The following responses are keyed to questions posed in reftel concerning U.S. security dialogues. 2. (SBU) Canada and the United States have conducted a security dialogue for 70 years through the Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD),created in 1940. The PJBD brings toget [...]
2009-11-06 16:00:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL CA
09OTTAWA826CANADA: LIFE SENTENCE FOR RWANDAN WAR CRIMINAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: A Quebec court has sentenced D????sir???? Munyaneza, a failed Rwandan refugee claimant, to life imprisonment with no eligibility for parole for 25 years for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes stemming from his participation in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The l [...]
2009-10-29 19:45:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL ICTR KAWC CA RW
09OTTAWA827Canada Broadly Support U.S. Strategy for NATO Enlargement
[...] (C) Summary. Canada broadly supports U.S. goals with respect to NATO enlargement, including strong support for Ukraine's NATO aspirations, although Canada wants to see more evidence of reform. Bosnia represents the one area of divergence, as Canada supports the Membership Action Plan (MAP) p [...]
2009-11-06 16:24:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO PARM MARR KTIA BK GG MK MW UP CA
09OTTAWA828HydroQu??bec to acquire most of the assets of NB Power
[...] (U) This cable contains an action request, see para 11. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 29 the Quebec and New Brunswick (NB) provincial governments announced that HydroQu????bec intends to purchase the assets of New Brunswick Power (NB Power). The deal is attractive to HydroQu????bec becaus [...]
2009-10-29 20:19:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EINV SENV PGOV CA
09OTTAWA829Canada Supports U.S. Sudan Strategy, See Little New
[...] (C) Canada sees the new Sudan strategy as "basically a continuation of General Gration's strategy for the past year" and praises it as a "flexible, pragmatic step forward," according to Jeremy Bryan, Multilateral Affairs Officer, Sudan Task Force in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Interna [...]
2009-11-06 17:33:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SU CA
09OTTAWA83CANADA RECEIVES NPT REQUESTS, NAMES POCS
[...] (U) Pol/miloff delivered reftel points to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Karen Garner on February 2. Garner said that she looked forward to receiving U.S. views in greater detail well in advance of th [...]
2009-02-02 22:14:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM IAEA UNGA KNNP MNUC CA
09OTTAWA833CANADIAN RESPONSE TO PARTNERING FOR GLOBAL HUNGER AND FOOD
[...] (U) The Secretary's letter and proposal were delivered to Foreign Minister Cannon. The proposal was also shared with the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrifood Canada (AAFC) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Jennifer MacKay, Development Policy Officer, Foreign Affairs a [...]
2009-11-10 21:44:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID ETRD CA
09OTTAWA834Canada: 2009-2010 International Narcotics Control Strategy
[...] . (U) Summary In 2009, Canada continued to implement its National Anti-Drug Strategy, involving three action plans to reduce the supply of and demand for illicit drugs as well as associated crime. Canada remains a country of concern due to the amount of MDMA (3, 4-methylenedioxymethampheta [...]
2009-11-02 22:39:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR CA
09OTTAWA835Canadian Response to UK Decision to Ban the Provision of
[...] (C) ECONOFF demarched Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT) Iran Deputy Director Gallit Dobner regarding referenced cable. She expressed surprise that the UK was moving forward with this action given that it is one of a suite of actions the Like-Minded Countries have considere [...]
2009-11-13 22:12:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KNNP XF ZP ZR IR UK CA
09OTTAWA836AMBASSADOR JACOBSON'S VISIT TO WINNIPEG, OCTOBER 18-20
[...] Summary. Ambassador Jacobson's October 18-20 trip to Manitoba capitalized on Manitoba Premier Doer's preparation as Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. and the swearing-in of a new Premier, Greg Selinger. The headline read "New kids roll up their sleeves," and the atmosphere of good will, good i [...]
2009-11-03 15:00:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON MARR PREL PGOV SENV CA
09OTTAWA837CANADA: ENGAGING AFGHAN GOVERNMENT ON APPOINTMENTS AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada strongly supports U.S. efforts to ensure the new Afghan administration is committed to the fight against corruption. The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister have both made statements calling on President Karzai to address corruption, and the announcement of future aid [...]
2009-11-13 22:55:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA839SEARCH FOR NEXT HEAD OF UN OFFICE OF INTERNAL OVERSIGHT
[...] (C) Sheila Frazer has been a very high profile and well respected Auditor General of Canada since 2001. She has assumed a much more activist stance in this office than her predecessors, sometimes to the discomfort of the government, which she has not been shy to criticize when she has encou [...]
2009-11-16 21:05:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC AMGT UN CA
09OTTAWA84Canada warns "Buy American" legislation would trigger
[...] (SBU) The "Buy American" provisions in the U.S. economic stimulus bill in the Senate have received widespread critical attention in Canada - the United States' largest trading partner. -- Running front-page headlines, newspapers across Canada have been uniformly negative about the "Buy American [...]
2009-02-03 21:12:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV EIND PREL PGOV CA
09OTTAWA840CANADIAN WARSHIPS COMPLETE COUNTER-NARCOTICS OPERATION
[...] (U) Summary: On October 30, two Canadian Forces (CF) warships completed operations in support of Operation CARIBBE, Canada's contribution to an ongoing U.S.-led, multi-national effort to interdict drug trafficking in Caribbean and east Pacific waters. The Canadian vessels provided surveillance [...]
2009-11-03 20:36:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS SNAR CA XL
09OTTAWA841Deputy Secretary Steinberg's Meeting with Canadian Foreign
[...] (U) October 22, 2009, 11:15 a.m., Ottawa, Canada. 2. (U) Participants: United States James Steinberg, Deputy Secretary David Jacobson, U.S. Ambassador to Canada Lourdes Cue, Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary Kurt van der Walde, notetaker Canada Claude C [...]
2009-11-17 21:36:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KGHG UNRWA IR AF PK CU CA
09OTTAWA843WHA Assistant Secretary's Meeting with Canadian Trade
[...] (U) October 22, 2009, 8:45 a.m., Ottawa, Canada. 2. (U) Participants: United States Arturo Valenzuela, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemispheric Affairs David Jacobson, U.S. Ambassador to Canada Eric Benjaminson, Economic Minister-Counselor, notetaker Kurt van der Wal [...]
2009-11-23 20:51:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALETRD PREL ECON CA
09OTTAWA845Canadian Relations with Cuba
[...] (SBU) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) interlocutors tell us that Canada continues to promote the advancement of democracy, good governance, and human rights in Cuba. Canada shares the U.S. goals of promoting democracy and human rights in Cuba, while maintaining it [...]
2009-11-25 20:55:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ETTC ETRD CU CA
09OTTAWA850Canada IPR: One Step Forward, 26.2 Miles To Go
[...] (SBU) The Canadian Department of Justice on November 3 proposed amending Canadian regulations in order to include offenses against the Copyright Act under Proceeds of Crime provisions. This change will allow law enforcement officials to seize assets that were paid for with money gained from ac [...]
2009-11-04 19:57:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR CA
09OTTAWA854QUEBEC SCHOOL LANGUAGE LAW FAILS CONSTITUTIONALITY TEST
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada's Supreme Court unanimously struck down a Quebec law that closed a loophole in allowing English-language education in the francophone province, finding that it was "excessive" and violated constitutional minority language rights. Signaling that it found the procedures -- [...]
2009-11-05 14:45:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM CA
09OTTAWA858CANADA BY-ELECTIONS: CAN LIBERALS ARREST SLUMP?
[...] (SBU) Summary: Voters go to the polls in four federal by-elections in Quebec, Nova Scotia, and British Columbia on November 9 (ref a). Although the contests will not change the balance of power in the House of Commons, pundits are looking for signs that the federal Liberals can pull themselve [...]
2009-11-05 19:55:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
09OTTAWA861Canada's Prime Minister Ventures to China for First Time
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Prime Minister Stephen Harper will make his first visit to China as Canadian leader December 3-6. He will most importantly meet with President Hu Jintao, National People's Congress chairman Wu Bangguo, and Premier Wen Jiabao. According to Canadian officials, his main empha [...]
2009-12-01 22:59:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL ETRD EMIN PHUM CH CA HK KS
09OTTAWA862Embassy Ottawa FY 2012 Mission Strategic Plan and Global
[...] (U) Further to reftel, Embassy Ottawa designates Deputy Political Counselor Kurt van der Walde as its FY 2012 Mission Strategic Plan Coordinator. His email address is: vanderwaldek@state.gov. 2. (U) Economic Minister-Counselor Eric Benjaminson will serve as the Mission's Global Partne [...]
2009-11-05 21:50:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT PREL KSPR KICA AFIN ABUD CA
09OTTAWA867Canada working "behind the scenes" on democratic reform in
[...] (C/NF) Canada is working "behind the scenes" on new ideas for advancing democratic reform in Burma and welcomes U.S. high level engagement with the Burmese government (reftel),according to Erin Koenig, deskoff for Burma, Thailand, and Regional Human Rights in the Southeast Asia and Oceania Rel [...]
2009-12-03 19:42:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM BM CA
09OTTAWA869Canada taking "harsher line" on DPRK's UPR
[...] (C/NF) Canada agrees with U.S. views and suggested questions and recommendations for the UN Human Rights Council's (HRC) Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the DPRK (reftel),according to Cyndy Nelson, Policy Advisor for Human Rights, and Daniel Ulmer, Policy Officer for Human Rights, in the Human [...]
2009-12-03 22:25:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPHUM PREL AORC SOCI UN KN CA
09OTTAWA870CANADA: CONSERVATIVES AID JOBLESS, BUY TIME
[...] (SBU) Summary: On November 5, the federal Conservatives unexpectedly secured swift final passage of Employment Insurance (E.I.) legislation to extend jobless benefits. The achievement is the key deliverable for the left-of-center New Democratic Party (NDP),which stepped in to prop up the min [...]
2009-11-06 21:21:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON CA
09OTTAWA874Ottawa: Ambassador Jacobson and Environment Minister
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-09 22:20:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG CA
09OTTAWA876CANADA: CONSERVATIVE BOUNCE FROM BY-ELECTIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The governing Conservatives added two seats in the House of Commons on November 9, after the governing party surprisingly won two of four federal by-election victories. Its upset win in rural Quebec suggests the party may at least be back in the game in that province. The Con [...]
2009-11-10 22:18:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
09OTTAWA877Iraq's Ambassador seeks USG help with Canada
[...] (U) This is an action request -- para 4. 2. (C/NF) In a lunch with Ambassador on December 10, Iraq's Ambassador to Canada Howar Ziad requested U.S. Embassy assistance in pressing the Canadian government to permit the Iraqi embassy to set up "out of country" polling stations in major Cana [...]
2009-12-10 21:27:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KDEM IZ CA
09OTTAWA879CANADA IN AFGHANISTAN: SOME PROGRESS, WITH STEPS BACKWARD
[...] (SBU) Summary. In its sixth quarterly report to Parliament on Canada's engagement in Afghanistan, the government cited slight progress - mostly on school construction, micro-finance, and polio eradication -- in its efforts in Kandahar Province. Training and mentoring of Afghan Security Forc [...]
2009-12-11 22:21:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS EAID AF CA
09OTTAWA885Promoting Support for UNSCR 1540 Voluntary Fund: Canadian
[...] (SBU) Summary. Canada is concerned that the creation of a UN-based 1540 fund might deplete other nonproliferation resources and be subject to additional administrative costs. Canada supports a G-8 led, states-based approach in which donors would provide support on a bilateral basis. A ne [...]
2009-12-21 18:39:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC EUN CA
09OTTAWA887EU Draft Code of Conduct for OUter Space Activities:
[...] (C/NF) In a meeting on December 16, polmiloff conveyed reftel non-paper to Phil Baines, Deputy Director for Missiles and Space Security in the Nonproliferation and Disarmament Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and to Pearl Williams, Senior Policy Adviso [...]
2009-12-21 18:43:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MCAP KTIA KACT EUN ESA CDG CA
09OTTAWA890CANADA: AFGHAN DETAINEE CONTROVERSY RE-ERUPTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: In testimony to a House of Commons committee on November 18, a Canadian diplomat claimed to have filed numerous written reports in 2006 and 2007 from Afghanistan alleging that "all" Afghans detained by Canadian Forces and transferred to Afghan authorities likely faced torture [...]
2009-11-19 21:44:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM AF CA
09OTTAWA894CANADIAN VIEWS OF U.S. PRIORITIES FOR THE NEW AFGHAN
[...] (SBU) Summary. Canada strongly agrees with the U.S. priorities for the new Afghan government, notably the need for greater anti-corruption efforts and for greater security, especially in the south. Canada also calls upon Afghanistan to implement its international human rights commitments, [...]
2009-11-20 21:32:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM AF CA
09OTTAWA895Canada's Burgeoning Pol-Mil Relationship with Mexico
[...] (SBU) Summary. The defense and security relationship between Canada and Mexico is evolving and both countries are open to exploring new areas for further cooperation. Humanitarian assistance, disaster response, counternarcotics, and nonproliferation were among the areas for detailed disc [...]
2009-12-22 16:35:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR CA MX
09OTTAWA896REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO BE ABSENT FROM POST
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-23 15:13:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMGT APER OTRA
09OTTAWA897CANADA AGREES TO URGE IRAN TO RESOLVE AMCIT CASES
[...] (C/NF) In response to December 18 reftel demarche by PolMinCouns, Director General for the Middle East and Maghreb John Holmes of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade confirmed on December 22 that he was prepared to meet with the Iranian Charge d'Affaires in Ottawa to mak [...]
2009-12-22 18:24:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL CASC PHUM CA IR
09OTTAWA899CANADA CONCURS ON NEW NORAD COMMANDER
[...] (C/NF) Canada has agreed to the appointment of Vice Admiral James A. Winnefield, Jr., as the next Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command. Text of diplomatic note in para 2. 2. (C/NF) Begin text Note No. IDR0948/09 The Department of Foreign Affairs an [...]
2009-12-22 20:36:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR CA
09OTTAWA9CANADA AND ICSID SECRETARY-GENERAL NOMINATION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-07 20:15:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA KIDE EINV ECON EFIN
09OTTAWA901CANADA'S CANDIDACY FOR THE 2011-2012 UNSC
[...] (SBU) In a letter that Embassy received on December 22, Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon laid out to Ambassador Jacobson some of Canada's goals if it wins a seat on the UN Security Council for the 2011-2012 term, highlighting Canada's "strong track record at the UN." (Full text in para 4.) [...]
2009-12-22 22:31:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC CA
09OTTAWA902(SBU) Canada Concerned about Serbian ITU Proposal
[...] (SBU) On November 20, Econoff delivered reftel points to Christine Phillips, Senior Desk Officer for Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, and Kosovo, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Phillips was unaware of Serbia's proposed Annex, but is concerned about Serbia's activities with [...]
2009-11-23 19:36:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON ECPS ITU KV CA
09OTTAWA903Canada's Supreme Court strengthens free speech
[...] (U) Summary: A Supreme Court of Canada ruling on December 22 has added greater protections for journalists against claims of defamation in striking down two separate findings of libel against two newspapers. Stating that "current [defamation] law does not give adequate weight to the constitu [...]
2009-12-23 18:55:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV CA
09OTTAWA904Canada not "TIP"ping the scales in data collection
[...] (U) PolMinCouns on November 23 chaired the monthly Reporting Officers' DVC, with a particular focus on trafficking in persons. He underscored the continued commitment of the new Administration to combating TIP, and highlighted the need to maintain a substantive reporting and outreach focus on [...]
2009-11-24 18:19:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KTIP KWMN CA
09OTTAWA905CANADA DEMARCHES IRAN ON AMCIT CASES
[...] (C/NF) As promised (ref a),Director General for the Middle East and Maghreb John Holmes of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade raised the six Amcit cases in Iran (ref b) in a discussion with Iranian Charge d'Affaires in Ottawa Bahram Ghasemi on December 23. DG Holmes s [...]
2009-12-23 22:19:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL CASC IR CA
09OTTAWA906CANADIAN OFFICIALS DENY AFGHAN ABUSE CLAIMS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-27 21:13:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM MOPS AF CA
09OTTAWA907CANADA OKAYS FLIGHT SANTA SLED 01
[...] (U) In a diplomatic note dated December 17, Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade provided authorization for Flight SANTA SLED 01 to overfly Canada, with unlimited "touch and go" landings. (Full text in para 2.) The diplomatic note also declared all Canadian childre [...]
2009-12-24 13:49:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM CA
09OTTAWA909CANADA TO SUSPEND PARLIAMENT, AGAIN
[...] (SBU) Summary. Canada's Parliament will be suspended until March 2010, reminiscent of a similar but shorter suspension one year ago. The Conservatives' argument is that the government will have additional time to concentrate on the "next phase" of its economic recovery plan. There will be [...]
2009-12-30 20:08:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL AF CA
09OTTAWA911Canada will co-sponsor AQAP UNSCR 1267 listing request
[...] (S) Canada is prepared to co-sponsor Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula UNSCR 1267 listing request, according to Jessica Dawson in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's (DFAIT) International Crime and Terrorism Division (ICT). Dawson added that DFAIT has "no information [...]
2009-12-30 20:14:00Embassy OttawaSECRET//NOFORNPTER PINR PREL KTFN SA YM UN CA
09OTTAWA92Response to OPIC on Operation Eyesight Universal
[...] (SBU) The health NGO Operation Eyesight Universal Foundation (OEUF) is well known and highly regarded in Canada. USAID's Canadian counterpart, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA),cites OEUF as having been a key partner for more than thirty years. The 2007 OEUF annual report [...]
2009-02-05 13:49:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV CA
09OTTAWA940NO ROOM FOR DOUBT: ALL CANADIAN TROOPS OUT OF AFGHANISTAN BY
[...] (SBU) Summary: In testimony to Parliament on December 8, Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) General Walter Natynczyk confirmed that, in accordance with a March 2008 parliamentary motion, no Canadian Forces - apart from a military attache in Kabul - or military equipment will remain in Afghanistan [...]
2009-12-09 15:45:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS AF CA
09OTTAWA944CANADA: DEFENCE MINISTER IN HOT SEAT OVER ALLEGED ABUSE OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada's opposition parties united on December 9 and 10 to demand the resignation of National Defence Minister Peter MacKay and to institute a public inquiry into allegations that the government ignored credible evidence of abuse at least in 2006 of Afghan detainees transferred [...]
2009-12-10 20:58:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM MOPS AF CA
09OTTAWA954CANADA: RULING CONSERVATIVES SURVIVE 2009 IN COMFORT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Early in the fall, the ruling Conservatives sidestepped the threat of an election, seized control of the parliamentary agenda, and moved forward on a twin-track of economic and justice issues, largely unhampered by their minority status. By the close of the fall parliamentary [...]
2009-12-14 22:53:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON CA
09OTTAWA956WFP Assistance Demarche for Pakistan Delivered to Canadians
[...] (U) EconOff delivered reftel demarche to Jennifer MacKay, Development Policy Officer Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) and to Frederic Levesque, Program Officer, Pakistan/Afghanistan, DFAIT on December 14. MacKay acknowledged the demarche and said she would do her best to find [...]
2009-12-15 21:44:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ECON ETRD PGOV PHUM PK PREF PREL CA
09OTTAWA96CANADIAN HOTLINE SUPPORTS FIGHT AGAINST TIP
[...] (U) The Department of Public Safety, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP),and Canadian Crime Stoppers Association have formed a new partnership to raise awareness about human trafficking and to explain how to identify and report suspected cases. In this national campaign, the NGO Canadian Cr [...]
2009-02-06 13:15:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KTIP KWMN KCRM SMIG CA
09OTTAWA980CANADIAN FORCES' INVESTIGATION FINDS AFGHAN DETAINEE
[...] (SBU) Summary: On December 21, the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service (CFNIS) -- the independent investigative arm of the Canadian Forces Military Police (CFMP) -- cleared the Canadian Forces (CF) of almost all allegations of mistreatment of Afghan detainees while in CF custody b [...]
2009-12-22 19:34:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM MARR AF CA
10OTTAWA1CANADA; TOP FIVE POLICY PRIORITIES IN 2010
[...] (C/NF) Summary. PM Harper's top goal for 2010 is remaining in power, preferably without an election that the public does not want but, if need be, to force the weak opposition parties to bring on another election and bear the political consequences. The Conservatives will need to demonstrate slow b [...]
2010-01-04 15:32:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV MARR ECON ETRD SENV CA AF
10OTTAWA106CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER LAYS OUT G8, G20 PRIORITIES
[...] (SBU) Summary: In Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Harper set out his agenda as host of the June 2010 G8 and G20 summits, focusing primarily on financial sector reform, stimulus programs, and global trade and growth. He also underscored a continued important role for the G8 and its "close coope [...]
2010-01-28 21:32:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON ETRD CA
10OTTAWA12LIBERALS CHART RENEWAL IN 2010
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Liberal Party of Canada plans an eighteen month program of policy renewal, rebuilding, and member engagement to "inspire, engage, activate" the party faithful between now and its next biennial convention in June 2011. It will also organize a long-delayed "thinkers' conferenc [...]
2010-01-05 20:38:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
10OTTAWA124CANADIAN SUPREME COURT: GOVERNMENT CAN DECIDE ON KHADR
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a unanimous decision on January 29, the Supreme Court of Canada overturned an Appeals Court order that the Canadian government must request the repatriation of Canadian citizen Omar Khadr in Guantanamo Bay from U.S. authorities. However, the Supreme Court also ruled that the f [...]
2010-01-29 21:08:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PTER CA
10OTTAWA126CANADA: CONSERVATIVES GAIN CONTROL OF SENATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Harper has gained effective control of the Senate in the next session of Parliament following the appointment of five new Conservative Senators, which gives his party a working plurality in the upper house for the first time. The shift should strengthen the Conser [...]
2010-02-01 20:51:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
10OTTAWA140Tales of the U.S.-Canada Border #1 - Who Goes Where
[...] (U) Summary: Canadians regularly complain to U.S. officials that increased U.S. security measures such as the June 2009 Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative passport requirement have stifled cross-border travel and U.S. tourist visits to Canada. Recent Statistics Canada figures show that whil [...]
2010-02-03 18:36:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON CA EIND ETRD SOCI SMIG
10OTTAWA152CANADIAN COURT INTERVENES OVER TAMIL RELEASE
[...] (SBU) Summary: A Federal Court decision has underscored the federal government's responsibility to exercise due diligence in determining the admissibility of individuals to Canada on security grounds, overturning an Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) order to release a Tamil male whom the gov [...]
2010-02-08 20:18:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER PHUM PREF CA CE
10OTTAWA156CANADA CALLS ON IRAN TO END ENRICHMENT PROGRAM
[...] (U) Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon on February 8 issued a statement expressing concern over Iran's decision further to enrich nuclear material, and calling on Iran to "end its contempt for the international community" and to "take steps toward transparency and compliance" with the [...]
2010-02-09 13:07:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM UNSC IR CA
10OTTAWA158TFHA01: CANADIANS GIVE GENEROUSLY FOR HAITI RELIEF
[...] (U) Summary: Canadians have so far contributed C$113 million (approximately US$105.6 million) to the Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund; the government has pledged to match all such contributions through February 12. In addition, the Government of Canada has earmarked C$135 million (approximately U [...]
2010-02-09 16:36:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID HA CA
10OTTAWA162CANADIAN PM VOWS TO KEEP PRESSURE ON IRAN
[...] (U) Prime Minister Stephen Harper on February 10 expressed Canada's concern about Iran's nuclear enrichment program as well as its "deplorable human rights practices." He pledged to use Canada's G8 presidency in 2010 to work with partners to "hold Iran to account" through "strong and viable [...]
2010-02-11 14:09:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PARM IR CA
10OTTAWA168TFHA01: MORE ON CANADIAN MILITARY CONTRIBUTIONS IN HAITI
[...] (U) The Canadian Forces confirmed to DATT that their 60 day deployment to Haiti will end o/a March 13. The deployments will be somewhat staggered, with the Disaster Assistance Relief Team (DART) and at least one ship and possibly some helicopters departing first. Any extension will have to [...]
2010-02-12 16:59:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MOPS MARR HA CA
10OTTAWA172TFHA01: CANADIAN PM IN HAITI
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a two day visit to Haiti, Canadian Prime Minister Harper pledged C$12 million (US$11.4 million) to construct temporary buildings as a base for key Haitian government departments and underscored that Haiti would remain a long-term Canadian aid priority despite future budge [...]
2010-02-16 17:41:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID MOPS HA CA
10OTTAWA174CANADA CRITICIZES IRAN'S ARRESTS OF BAHA'I FOLLOWERS
[...] (U) In a statement on February 14, Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon criticized Iran for its recent detention of seven Baha'i followers, which he called "unacceptable," as well as for other human rights violations. He called on Iran to adopt "meaningful change in its human rights practices. [...]
2010-02-17 16:28:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM IR CA
10OTTAWA178CANADA: SECOND LIFE SENTENCE FOR ANOTHER TERRORIST
[...] (U) A Quebec court in Montreal on February 17 laid down a life sentence for Moroccan-born Said Namouh on a charge of conspiracy to detonate an explosive device, on which he had been convicted in October 2009. The court at the same time gave him concurrent sentences of four, eight, and eight [...]
2010-02-17 22:16:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL PHUM MO CA
10OTTAWA19Canadian Representation at PRT Conference in Prague
[...] (SBU) In response to a January 14 demarche by PolMinCouns concerning high level Canadian participation at the Prague PRT conference (ref a),Acting Director General Jamie Christoff of the Afghanistan Task Force at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade confirmed that Jess D [...]
2010-01-19 15:31:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL NATO AF CA
10OTTAWA206Canada To Vote No On UNGA Goldstone Resolution
[...] (SBU) Canada will vote against the Palestinian-drafted resolution in the UN General Assembly on the Goldstone Report, according to the Human Rights Policy Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Canada voted against the draft resolution tabled in the UNGA in No [...]
2010-02-26 22:10:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL UNGA CA
10OTTAWA208CANADA 2010 TIP REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-26 23:32:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CA ELAB KCRM KFRD KMCA KTIP KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG
10OTTAWA21Canadian PM and NATO S-G Discuss Afghanistan, the Strategic
[...] (C/NF) Summary. In a meeting in Ottawa with the NATO Secretary General, PM Harper promised to consider a training role in Afghanistan after Canada's combat mission ends in 2011, while noting the importance of managing messaging to avoid characterizations of ""withdrawal."" Mounting Canadian d [...]
2010-01-20 18:49:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MOPS MARR AF NATO CA
10OTTAWA23Canada on Amendments to GICNT Terms of Reference
[...] (U) In response to reftel demarche on the draft revised terms of reference for the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT),David McDuff, Senior Policy Officer in the Nonproliferation and Nuclear Disarmament Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade ( [...]
2010-01-20 18:56:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL PTER KGIC CA
10OTTAWA29Canada's Conservative Government and its Arctic Focus
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Since the day after his initial election victory in January 2006, Canadian PM Stephen Harper has continually played up his government's commitment to defending Canada's "North" (the landmass above 60 degrees North latitude represents about 40% of Canada's total territory, but only h [...]
2010-01-21 16:52:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PBTS PGOV SENV CA XQ
10OTTAWA31CANADA PRESSES IRAQ ON BARRING CANDIDATES FROM ELECTIONS
[...] (C/NF) In response to reftel demarche by PolMinCouns on January 21, Director General for the Middle East and Maghreb John Holmes of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade confirmed that Canada was "way ahead of you" on pressing the Iraq government over the attempts to bar c [...]
2010-01-22 16:13:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV IZ CA
10OTTAWA33CANADA PRESSES IRAN AGAIN ON AMCIT CASES
[...] (C/NF) In a discussion with PolMinCouns on January 22, Director General for the Middle East and the Maghreb John Holmes of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade said that he had once again raised the six Amcit cases in Iran (reftels) with the Iranian Charge d'Affaires in O [...]
2010-01-22 16:30:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL CASC IR CA
10OTTAWA39Canada To Urge Yemen Conference to Consider "Fragile State"
[...] (C/NF) Canada will approach the London Conference on Yemen (reftel) with a "modest" agenda to "find out what is needed" and to "see how Canada might be able to help," according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Gulf and Maghreb Relations Director Jeffrey McLaren. [...]
2010-01-26 18:11:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PTER YM CA
10OTTAWA41Canadian Views on Afghanistan Heading into the London
[...] (SBU) Summary. Canada's priorities for London are the transition to Afghan lead, reintegration, and reconciliation. Canada is looking for more information on the Reintegration Trust Fund before making a decision on its contribution. Canada hopes to avoid specific time lines for transition, [...]
2010-01-26 21:54:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV ECON EFIN AF CA
10OTTAWA43Canada to maintain human rights pressure on Iran at UPR
[...] (C/NF) Canada agrees with U.S. views and suggested questions and recommendations for the UN Human Rights Council's (HRC) Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Iran (reftel),according to Flavie Major, Deputy Director, and Dane Hiebert, Policy Officer, of the Human Rights Policy Division of the De [...]
2010-01-27 19:22:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPHUM PREL IR CA
10OTTAWA49Transforming the Canadian Forces: The Spirit is Willing...
[...] (C/NF) Summary. The Canadian Forces are severely stretched and the ambitious goals set by the Canada First Defence Strategy continue to encounter delays and budget constraints that will limit the scope of the projected transformation of the forces. The government of Prime Minister Harper may [...]
2010-02-04 15:58:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV MOPS MARR CA
10OTTAWA5Canadian review almost complete of MOU for Support to U.S.
[...] (C/NF) On January 7, Jamie Pennell of the Bilateral Relations and Operations Division of the Afghanistan Task Force within the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) provided an update on the status of the draft MOU for life support and security to U.S. civilians operati [...]
2010-01-07 18:31:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MOPS NATO MARR AF CA
10OTTAWA51Ottawa Proposes Only Minor Changes in MOU on Life Support
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) has concluded that the draft MOU for life support for U.S. civilians deployed to non-U.S. PRTs cannot be between two embassies and must be non-binding. Either DFAIT or the Department of National Defence would b [...]
2010-02-04 19:08:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMOPS MARR PREL EAID AF CA
10OTTAWA55TFHA01: CANADA CONSIDERING MEDEVACS
[...] (U) Canada is in the process of establishing procedures to treat medevac patients from Haiti. A British Columbia-based NGO -- the Rick Hansen Foundation (which specializes in spinal cord injuries) -- has identified eight Haitian patients with spiral cord injuries recommended by contacts on t [...]
2010-02-05 20:27:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID MOPS HA CA
10OTTAWA57VISAS VIPER: REVOCATION OF VISA OF XXXXXXXXXXXX DUE
[...] (S/NF) BEGIN SUMMARY Based on information received from GRPO, Post nominates XXXXXXXXXXXX, a Turkish citizen who is a permanent resident of Canada, for inclusion in the Visas Viper program. XXXXXXXXXXXX is being nominated because of his association with Hiva ALIZADEH, a Canadian c [...]
2010-02-05 23:02:00Embassy OttawaSECRET//NOFORNCVIS KVPR CMGT PINR PTER ASEC CA
10OTTAWA60Canada's 2010 Investment Climate Statement
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-19 15:18:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDOPIC KTDB USTR ETRD EINV
10OTTAWA61CANADA: WELCOME THE PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATION
[...] (U) Embassy warmly welcomes the Presidential delegation to the Opening Ceremony of the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and grants country clearance. Ambassador Jacobson looks forward to welcoming the delegation personally upon arrival. JACOBSON [...]
2010-02-10 19:22:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAFIN AMGT OTRA PGOV CA
10OTTAWA63OTTAWA - DTSPO INTERNET TRANSPORT SERVICE - RENEW CONTRACT
[...] Contract # CW0075066 with Allstream (ISP VPN vendor for 1 MBPS service) is CD$729.75 per month x 12 = CD$8757. Including exchange rate plus 5% = US$9200. 2. Post will await fund cite via return cable. JACOBSON [...]
2010-02-10 20:28:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDACOA AMGT ANET AFIN KRIM XTAG
10OTTAWA67CANADIAN PLANS IN AFGHANISTAN POST-2011
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Canada will not only end its military mission in Afghanistan in 2011 but will likely significantly scale back its assistance after 2011 and offer only relatively modest contributions to Afghan Trust Funds. A top priority is likely to be the Afghan-Pakistan border programs. With grow [...]
2010-02-18 22:11:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EAID MOPS MARR AF CA HA
10OTTAWA69Canadian Thoughts on FMCT and Part 1 of the Conference on
[...] (C) Summary. Canada continues to engage Pakistan bilaterally in an effort to persuade Islamabad to join consensus within the CD and allow negotiations to begin on a Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty. Informal discussions under the auspices of a reputable NGO might offer a venue for more open [...]
2010-02-19 13:46:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPARM MNUC KNNP PREL CA
10OTTAWA70CANADA: MODEST CABINET SHUFFLE
[...] (SBU) Summary: PM Harper reshuffled his cabinet on January 19 in preparation for a new session of Parliament and Speech from the Throne on March 3 and a federal budget on March 4. The changes included ten medium and lower rank portfolios, and reflected a strongly economic focus. He identifi [...]
2010-01-19 22:12:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON PINR CA
10OTTAWA79VISAS VIPER: INDIVIDUALS ASSOCATED WITH HIVA ALIZADEH, A
[...] (S/NF) Based on information received from GRPO, Post nominates the following individuals for inclusion in the Visas Viper program. All of them are known associates of Hiva Alizadeh, a Canadian citizen born in Iran who is strongly suspected of being an Islamic extremist who is plotti [...]
2010-02-24 19:29:00Embassy OttawaSECRET//NOFORNCVIS KVPR CMGT PINR PTER ASEC CA
10OTTAWA81Canada Supports U.S. Position on Phenyl Acetic Acid at UN
[...] (SBU) Canada is "supportive" of U.S. efforts to tighten controls on phenyl acetic acid at the upcoming UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (UNCND) and is willing to help in "rounding up likeminded countries," according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) contacts. Ther [...]
2010-02-24 21:42:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SNAR UNCND AORC CA
10OTTAWA83CANADIAN AUDITOR GENERAL DECLINES OIOS NOMINATION
[...] (C) In a meeting with PolMinCouns on February 25, Auditor General of Canada Shelia Fraser said that she was "deeply honored" that the USG had nominated her as a candidate for the head of the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS). She asked, however, that the USG withdraw her nomination. S [...]
2010-02-25 18:16:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC AMGT CA
10OTTAWA84CANADA POISED TO TIGHTEN CRIME SENTENCING RULES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Although PM Harper continues to criticize sentencing provisions in Canada that permit terrorists and criminals, including at least one convicted "Toronto 18" terrorist, to obtain enhanced sentencing credit for time served in pre-trial custody, Parliament actually passed a govern [...]
2010-01-22 20:30:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER CA
10OTTAWA85Canada Shares U.S. Views on Challenges, Way Forward in Sri
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Canada's analysis of the challenges the international community faces in Sri Lanka "tracks almost identically" with that of the U.S. Canada is nonetheless less optimistic than the U.S. about Sri Lanka's long-term future in light of the undercutting of democratic institutions [...]
2010-02-26 14:12:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM CE CA
10OTTAWA86CANADA AND HAITI
[...] (U) Summary. Haiti, even before the recent earthquake, was a major foreign policy priority for Canada. Haiti is Canada's second largest recipient of humanitarian assistance worldwide, with a number of Canadian federal and provincial agencies as well as private sector institutions active in [...]
2010-01-22 20:44:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID MOPS HA CA
10OTTAWA89GCINT: Informing Canadaof 2010 UAE Plenary
[...] (SBU) In a February 25 meeting with David McDuff, Senior Policy Officer in the Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Disarmament Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, polmiloff delivered reftel message about the 2010 GCINT plenary. McDuff offered no substantive com [...]
2010-02-26 23:37:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC CA
10OTTAWA91Canadian Views on Syria and Iran at IAEA BOG Meeting
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Canada supports the U.S. call for strong statements on both Iranian and Syrian nuclear activities at the IAEA Board of Governors meeting March 1-5. Nonproliferation is a major theme of Canada's G-8 Presidency, and the Prime Minister has repeatedly voiced his strong views on I [...]
2010-02-26 23:41:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPARM PREL SY IAEA MNUC TRGY CA IR
10OTTAWA93Canada Willing To Consider Training, Equipping Formed Police
[...] (C/NF) In a discussion with Deputy Pol/C on February 25, Michael Kaduck, Director of Peace Operations and Fragile States at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT),dismissed the idea of contributing a Canadian formed police unit (FPU) for Haiti. He noted that Canada [...]
2010-02-26 23:45:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV SOCI MCAP ASEC MARR KJUS KPKO EFIN HA CA
10OTTAWA95Canada Strongly Supports U.S. Approach to OAS Reform,
[...] (C/NF) Canada "strongly supports" the U.S. approach to OAS reform and the mandate for the next OAS Secretary General (reftel),according to Jeff Marder, Director of South American and Inter-American Relations at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). Marder added th [...]
2010-02-26 23:48:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KDEM OAS AORC CA
85OTTAWA4824 AIRLINE BOMBINGS
[...] (CONFIDENTIAL - ENTIRE TEXT) 2. AMBASSADOR ROBINSON OPENED HIS CALL TODAY ON DR. FRED DOUCET, SENIOR POLICY ADVISOR FOR THE CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER, WITH AN EXPRESSION OF U.S. SYMPATHY AND CONCERN OVER THE TRAGIC AIRLINE INCIDENTS THIS PAST WEEKEND. (THE AMBASSADOR HAD BEEN SCHEDULED TO M [...]
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