International Policy Archives

National Forum for Youth 2003

More than 120 Canadians from all provinces aged 18 to 21 participated in the event, which was a component of the Minister's Dialogue on Foreign Policy.


"The Role of the Foreign Ministry in the 21st Century"

Prof. Peter Hennessy, Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History, Queen Mary, University of London.

"Earlier this month, I had a hugely jolly lunch with Douglas Hurd, one of the most thoughtful and nicest of our recent Foreign Secretaries. I was chairing a literary lunch at which Douglas was going to speak about his memoirs which are a bit of a treat because he has a novelist's eye, a stylist's pen and he's kept a diary since he was a schoolboy...."