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SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR PM/PPA - EVANS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL EAID PROP PTER MARR KISL
SUBJECT: CANADIAN NOMINEES FOR CONFERENCE IN EUROPE ON 
MODERN INSURGENCY 
 
REF: STATE 12490 
 
¶1. (U) Embassy Ottawa nominates the individuals identified 
in paras 2-6 to attend the conference on modern insurgency in 
Munich, 26-27 March 2007. 
 
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) 
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¶2. (SBU) DFAIT nominees in rank order 
 
-- Associate Deputy Minister (A/S equivalent) David Mulroney. 
 Currently foreign and defense policy adviser to the Prime 
Minister, Mulroney shifts to DFAIT February 13 where he will 
coordinate GOC whole-of-government policy on Afghanistan. 
 
-- Assistant Deputy Minister (A/S equivalent) Colleen Swords. 
 Swords is DFAIT PolDir and chief of its international 
security division. 
 
-- Assistant Deputy Minister for Bilateral Relations James 
Fox. Fox is SCA A/S Boucher's counterpart. He oversees 
Canada's bilateral relations with Afghanistan as well as the 
rest of the world except North America. 
 
-- Director General (DAS equivalent) Don Sinclair. Sinclair 
directs the GOC's S/CRS equivalent, the Stabilization and 
Reconstruction Task Force (START). 
 
Department of National Defence (DND) 
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¶3. (SBU) DND nominees in rank order: 
 
-- Assistant Deputy Minister Vincent Rigby. Recently 
promoted to ADM for Policy, Rigby rose through the ranks 
quickly after joining DND's policy shop less than ten years 
ago. 
 
-- Brigadier General David Fraser. Fraser commanded Task 
Force Aegis (RC-S) in Afghanistan until November 1 2006. 
 
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada (PSEPC) 
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¶4. (SBU) PSEPC nominee: 
 
-- Chief Irvin Studin, PSEPC (DHS counterpart). Studin heads 
the Counter Terrorism Policy and Coordination Division of 
PSEPC's National Security Policy Directorate. Before joining 
PSEPC, Studin was at the Privy Council Office. He was loaned 
to the Australian Prime Minister's Cabinet in 2006 where he 
served as the principal drafter of Australia's 
whole-of-government counter terrorism strategy. 
 
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) 
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¶5. (SBU) RCMP nominee: 
-- Chief Superintendent David Beer, RCMP. Beer is the RCMP's 
director general for international policing 
 
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) 
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¶6. (SBU) CIDA nominee: 
-- Vice President Hau Tsing Tse, CIDA. Tse is responsible 
for CIDA policy and programming throughout Asia. 
 
Visit Canada's Classified Web Site at 
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/ottawa 
 
WILKINS