He first worked for the Canadian federal government in 1971, as a policy analyst in the Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce.
[1] By 1995, he had risen to the position of Deputy Minister of International Trade, where he served until Prime Minister Jean Chrétien appointed him Canadian Ambassador to Japan in 2001.
[1] He served in this position until 2005, when Prime Minister Paul Martin appointed him Ambassador to People's Republic of China, a position he held until 2009, under Prime Mister Stephen Harper.
He sat on the advisory council of the Calgary-based Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, starting sometime between November 2012[2] and January 2013,[3] until sometime between June[4] and September of 2020.
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