Prime Minister Stephen Harper has made Michael Wilson’s appontment as U.S. Ambassador official, now, and has added an official announcement of the new United Nations Ambassador.
Mr. John McNee will be Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations in New York. Mr. McNee will succeed Mr. Allan Rock.
Mr. McNee most recently served as Canada’s Ambassador to Belgium.
Countdown to moonbat Canadian liberal-leftist media pack mocking Harper and McNee for “wanting to turn Canada into another Belgium” or using the “Belgian waffle” hilarity in their headline (as a result of an off-hand remark made three years ago on the way Belgium deals with its internal federalism strife): four… three… two…
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John McNee
John McNee (BA [History], York University, 1973; MA [History], Cambridge University, 1975; Canada Scholar at Cambridge, 1973-1975) joined the Department of External Affairs in 1978 and served abroad in Madrid, London and Tel Aviv. From 1993 to 1997, he was Ambassador to Syria with concurrent accreditation as Ambassador to Lebanon (1993-1995). At Foreign Affairs in Ottawa, he served in the Policy Development Secretariat and in the Canada-United States Transboundary Division. He also served there as Director, Personnel Division, and as Director General, Middle East, North Africa and Gulf States Bureau. Mr. McNee also served on Prime Minister Trudeau’s Task Force on International Peace and Security and at the Privy Council Office. Before coming to Brussels to take up his current posting as Canada’s Ambassador to Belgium, with concurrent accreditation to Luxembourg, he was Assistant Deputy Minister, Africa and Middle East at Foreign Affairs in Ottawa since 2001. Mr. McNee and his wife Susan have two children.
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