October 27, 2004 for immediate release

Canada's High Commissioner to New Zealand will be visiting UNBC thisFriday morning and speaking to an International Studies class aboutCanada's place in the world.

John Donaghy was born and raised in BC and has been with the foreignservice since 1966. He has served in a number of divisions related totrade policy, trade negotiations, energy/natural resources issues andCanada's relations with Europe, the USA and Latin America. He was partof the negotiating team for the Canada/US Free Trade Agreement and iscurrently Chief Negotiator for the Canada/Singapore Free TradeAgreement negotiations. His position as High Commissioner to NewZealand also includes responsibility for Fiji, Samoa, the Kingdom ofTonga, Tuvalu and Kiribati.

He will be speaking at 10:30am in Room 8-166, located at the north end of the Teaching Laboratory.