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<p><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt">November 30, 2006 <i>(3:10 p.m. EST)</i><br>
No. 146</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt">DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif">The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of the Atlantic
Canada Opportunities Agency, today announced the following diplomatic appointments:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: bold">Patricia Fortier</span> becomes Ambassador to the Dominican Republic.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: bold">Sandelle Scrimshaw</span> becomes Consul General in the Principality of Monaco.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif">Biographical notes on the appointees are attached.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif">For further information, media representatives may contact:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif">Foreign Affairs Media Relations Office<br>
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada<br>
613-995-1874<br>
</span><a href="https://bac-lac.wayback.archive-it.org/web/20070221145550/http://www.international.gc.ca/"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="color: #0000ff"><span style="text-decoration: underline">http://www.international.gc.ca</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-weight: bold">Patricia Fortier</span> (BA Honours, Queen’s University, 1978; MPA, Queen’s University,
1979) headed transit policy planning for the City of Edmonton before entering the
foreign service in 1983 and was immediately seconded to the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA). She has served abroad with CIDA in Lusaka and Nairobi,
and as an immigration officer in New Delhi. At headquarters she served with the United
Nations and Economic Relations with Developing Countries divisions. From 1992 to
1995, she took a leave of absence to work in Costa Rica as a consultant with the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights/Centre for Electoral Promotion and Assistance and
Deputy Executive Director, Earth Council. In 1995, she returned to DFAIT and has
since served as Director, Regional Security and Peacekeeping; Senior Advisor to the
Organization of American States mission to Peru; and Minister-Counsellor (Political) at
the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. Most recently, Ms. Fortier has served as
the Department’s Weatherhead Fellow at Harvard University in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. She is married to Paul Durand. Patricia Fortier succeeds Alvin Curling.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-weight: bold">Sandelle Scrimshaw</span> (BA, Honours [French Language and Literature], University of
Western Ontario, 1973) joined the Government of Canada in 1973. She served with the
Department of the Secretary of State and with National Museums of Canada before
joining the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in 1979 and then
transferring to the Department of External Affairs in 1983. She served abroad in Abidjan
from 1984 to 1987 as Counsellor (Development) and was named High Commissioner to
Ghana in 1987, a position she held until 1990. From 1993 to 1997, she was Canadian
Executive Director at the African Development Bank in Abidjan. In Ottawa,
Ms. Scrimshaw held a number of positions at CIDA and in the Department of Foreign
Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), including Director General, Asia Pacific South
and Director General, Africa Bureau. From 2000 to 2003, Ms. Scrimshaw served as
High Commissioner to Barbados. She has most recently held the position of High
Commissioner to South Africa, in Pretoria. She has one daughter, Brianna.
Ms. Scrimshaw becomes Consul General in the Principality of Monaco, with residence
in Paris as Minister*. Sandelle Scrimshaw succeeds Laurette Glasgow. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">* Denotes a diplomatic rank rather than the head of a government ministry.</span></span></p>
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