To advance your portfolio, you are supported by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Associate Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. You also play a key role in the allocation of Canada’s international assistance budget and oversee peace and security related programming. As Minister, you are responsible for consular issues, including helping Canadians abroad in distress. As the country’s chief diplomat, you manage international negotiations, advance international law, respond to complex international crises, and play a role in expanding economic opportunities for Canadians. Some circumstances will require that you coordinate a whole-of-Canada approach. You are also able to draw on whole-of-government expertise and assets. You do so by directing a department of Global Affairs that integrates foreign policy, trade, and international assistance capabilities.
Canada needs to position itself to contribute to shaping the evolving global system, adapting and diversifying its foreign policy ‘toolkit’ to protect and pursue Canada’s long-term national interests.Īs Minister of Foreign Affairs, you are responsible for defining, advancing and representing Canada’s interests and values abroad. These dynamic trends, and others including uneven economic growth, climate change and disruptive technologies, require innovative approaches to foreign policy.COVID-19 has introduced greater uncertainty to an international system already in flux, and further exposed strains on a rules-based system that has, to date, served Canada’s interests well. Heightened geopolitical competition among significant political and economic powers, the emergence of new centres of influence, and an evolution of complex transnational threats are transforming the global landscape.Key portfolio responsibilities Strategic overview Issue Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentĪ.Counterterrorism and countering violent extremism.International trade and investment during COVID-19.
Geographic – Integrated regional overviews
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