Guest Speaker
Oct 30th
Ambassador
Barry Steers
postings included

• Athens
• New York
• Brazilia
• Tokyo
• Tel Aviv

Ambassador Steers reached the pinnacle of his foreign service career in 1980 when he was appointed by the Prime Minister to be Canada's ambassador to Japan. Ambassador Steers held this post for 8 years at a time when there was much development of Canada-Japan relations. Many people who laud the current state of good relations between Canada and Japan, and note the large number of Japanese companies operating in Canada, and the wide variety of Canadian business in Tokyo, point to the groundwork laid by Ambassador Steers and his team in the 1980's.