I am honoured to address the Security Council on behalf of Australia, Canada and New Zealand on the serious matter of climate change and its current and projected impacts on global peace and security.
On behalf of our three Governments, I would like to take this opportunity to reiterate our commitm…
The resolution we have just adopted has as its goal the commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the passing of Britain’s Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, which abolished slavery in the then British empire. Canada believes that the Trans-Atlantic slave trade was morally repugnant and a sta…
In December 1991, 19 parties gathered in Johannesburg for the historic opening session of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa
When I was a teenager, Alan Paton’s moving and eloquent novel, Cry, the Beloved Country, was my first introduction, as it was for many Canadians, to the pain and te…
