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Date: March 25, 1999
Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs to Speak at Princeton
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Honorable N. Lloyd Axworthy, Canada's minister of foreign affairs and a Princeton alumnus, will speak on "Human Security and Canada's Foreign Policy" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Wednesday, April 7, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 2.
Axworthy, who earned a master's degree and a doctorate in political science from Princeton, was appointed minister of foreign affairs in 1996. He had previously served as minister of human resources development and minister of western economic diversification from 1993 until 1996, a period during which he also served on the Social Development Policy and Economic Development Policy committees of the cabinet. He remains a member of the Economic Development Policy Committee.
First elected to Parliament in 1979, Axworthy has been the minister of employment and immigration, the minister responsible for the status of women, and minister of transport. He as been Parliament's official opposition critic for regional and industrial expansion, liberal critic for trade, and chair of both the LiberalTrade Task Force and the Liberal Caucus Economic Policy committee. In 1990, he was appointed liberal critic for external affairs and chairman of the Liberal Caucus Committee on External Affairs and National Defense.
The talk is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School.