Joyce Napier CM (born June 15, 1958) is a Canadian diplomat and former television journalist, currently serving as Canada's ambassador to the Holy See.
[4] Born in Montreal, Quebec, she spent her childhood in Europe where her father worked for the Encyclopædia Britannica.
[7] During the 1995 Quebec referendum, Napier asked Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament Suzanne Tremblay to explain the Yes side's assertion that Quebec would be better able to support and protect francophone language rights in Canada as an independent country than as a Canadian province.
[9] Napier was named Radio-Canada's Middle East correspondent in 1998, at the same time as Macdonald was assigned to the same role with the CBC's English division.
[3] She returned in August 2015 as a correspondent in the network's national parliamentary bureau in Ottawa, Ontario,[13] before transferring to CTV in 2016.