That's a wrap on a wonderful 3 year assignment as Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City. Sad to be leaving but leaving with many, many great memories. Hẹn gặp lại, Vietnam!
Great meeting today with H.E.
@jmkikwete
about 🇨🇦's past and present work with 🇹🇿 to:
🏥 Improve the health of women and girls
🏫Deliver quality education
🍠End malnutrition
🌍Tackle climate change
Great meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs
@DrTaxs
this morning. Enjoyed discussing how to strengthen the 🇹🇿 🇨🇦 commercial relationship & cooperation in multilateral fora.
#CanadainTanzania
It was an honour to present my credentials as Canada’s High Commissioner to Zambia to President
@HHichilema
this week. I look forward to continued collaboration to take 🇿🇲 🇨🇦 bilateral relations to new heights!
#CanadainZambia
When tackling global markets, being nimble and flexible is key. So often, we need to adapt to local conditions. World, I bring you the Halloween Melonkin!
#halloween2019
#CanadainVietnam
@EyesAbroad
Thank you Ambassador Deborah Paul for the special ceremony marking my 25 years of service. Delighted to celebrate the occasion with my amazing team at the Consulate General of Canada in Ho Chi Minh City. How time flies!
Two minutes silence today at the Remembrance Day Ceremony in 🇹🇿 was a time to think of the senseless loss of so many civilians and combatants in the too many past and present wars.
#LestWeForget
Honoured to help launch the Halong Heli Tour service and celebrate the first sale to 🇻🇳 of 🇨🇦 made Bell 505. What a spectacular way to see Halong Bay!
#CanadainVietnam
@TCS_SDC
Honoured to join Minister
@Dr_DGwajima
,Dr. Monica Mogoke of the GBV Mkuki Coalition & fellow ambassadors to launch 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. Amazing turnout. Inspiring to see such leadership in the fight against GBV.
#16DaysOfActivism
#OrangeTheWorld
🇨🇦
It was great today having a conversation with
@CanadaTanzania
High Commissioner, H.E. Kyle Nunas. Our conversation covered areas of democracy ( political and electoral reforms), human rights issues and our party participation in the Zanzibar Government of National Unity (GNU).
That's a wrap on the Atlantic Canada
#CPTPP
roadshow. Great week of meetings with fantastic 🇨🇦 companies. Back to Ho Chi Minh City to follow-up.
#TimeToDiversify
Had a short visit to Hanoi last Friday. Got to stroll down memory lane. Same location, 21 years apart. Photo on right is from backpacking trip in 1997. Hoan Kiem Lake still a great place to reflect.
A true honour to present my credentials yesterday to Seychelles President Wavel Ramkalawan. Great discussion on the challenges facing SIDs, collaboration on maritime security & the international rules based order. We agreed to roll up our sleeves to grow the 🇨🇦🇸🇨 relationship.
Presented credentials today and enjoyed a great discussion with H.E. president Samia Suluhu Hassan. Looking forward to broadening the 🇨🇦 🇹🇿 bilateral relationship during my tenure.
#CanadainTanzania
High Commissioner Kyle Nunas presented his credentials to H.E. President Samia Suluhu Hassan. Together, they discussed areas of cooperation, including trade, 🇨🇦’s contribution to the health and education sector, and our shared priority of gender equality. 🇨🇦🇹🇿
#CPTPP
has come into force in Vietnam starting today. Our Trade Commissioners in Vietnam are here to help Canadian companies take advantage of business opportunities in this dynamic market. Learn more
#timetodiversify
#canadainvietnam
A great day of meetings with Chief Trade Commissioner
@Ailish_Campbell
. Proud of this team of Trade Commissioners in HCMC who are passionate about helping 🇨🇦 companies tackle the 🇻🇳 market.
#CanadainVietnam
A fantastic night celebrating an (early) Canada Day with members of CanCham in Ho Chi Minh City. Proud of our son, Grey, who fearlessly played drums in front of a packed house and had people on their feet!
#proudparents
Arriving in Zanzibar to attend the National Conference for World Press Freedom Day on the 30th anniversary of this important international day. Looking forward to discussing the role of a free press as a pillar of human rights.
#WorldPressFreedomDay2023
Amazing turnout for this year's Terry Fox Run Vietnam. Huge 🇨🇦 contingent, including 50+ from Consulate General of Canada in HCMC.
#CanadainVietnam
@TerryFoxCanada
After a great day in Halifax, the
#CPTPP
roadshow is off to Charlottetown. Looking forward to another jam-packed day meeting with Canadian companies.
#TimeToDiversify
Thanks
@Saigoneer
for this great article featuring my photos from 20yrs ago. Brings the memories back to life! I often wonder what happened to the people in the photos.
Great to be at the
#RMNCAH
+N Conference today and talk to partners and hear how 🇨🇦’s support is:
🏥 Strengthening adolescent health services
🏫Keeping girls in school
⬇️Adolescent pregnancy
@NutritionIntl
@worldvisioncan
@PlanCanada
Thanks to Vietnam Airlines and CAE for a warm welcome. Interesting to hear about Vietnam's growing airline industry and this amazing 🇨🇦🇻🇳 collaboration. As always, amazed at how realistic and impressive CAE's flight simulators are.
#CanadainVietnam
Delighted to be in Tanga to launch the 🇹🇿 Regenerative Seascapes project with RC Kindamba,
@mi_inclusion
@richardveenstra
&
@IUCNTanzania
. 🇨🇦 is proud to provide $5.5M in 🇹🇿 for this project to enhance climate resilience & improve the lives of 85,000+ coastal Tanzanians.
An amazing evening with 🇨🇦 storyteller
@ivancoyote
before a full house in Ho Chi Minh City. A powerful performance that left the audience spellbound!
#canadainvietnam
@EyesAbroad
A special thanks to the Tofu Friends Band for inviting our son on stage to play the drums. I think that's every child's rock and roll dream! Proud of our son for bravely playing in front of the Canada Day guests after only 8 lessons!
Happy to be back in Nha Trang to mark 45 years of 🇨🇦🇻🇳 bilat relations. Great mtg with Vice Chairman Hai and our 🇨🇦 business + education delegation as we discussed current opps + potential of
#cptpp
and 🇨🇦ASEAN FTA
#TimeToDiversify
#canadainvietnam
@TCS_SDC
@EyesAbroad
This team! A rare opp to catch these people in one place as they develop their 2020 business plans. Here is your team of Trade Commissioners from Hanoi & HCMC who are THE go-to people for 🇨🇦 companies looking for business advice and contacts in 🇻🇳.
#CanadainVietnam
@TCS_SDC
Enjoyed meeting with
Julz Ossom today to learn about the Canadian Music Week 2023 spotlight on Southern Africa. Great to hear about ambitious plans to bring together musicians from 🇨🇦 and the Southern Africa Developments Community.
Proud to join President
@DrHmwinyi
& media stakeholders to mark
#WorldPressFreedomDay2023
. 🇨🇦 recognizes 🇹🇿‘s steps to advance media freedom & looks forward to this being enshrined in an updated media act. Spoke to Canada commitment to press freedom as a pillar of human rights.
On behalf of all Canadians, I would like to express my deepest condolences to all Tanzanians on the passing of the second President of the United Republic of Tanzania, H.E. Alhaj Ali Hassan Mwinyi. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family & friends of former President Mwinyi.
Honoured to join many 🇹🇿 journalists on
#WorldPressFreedomDay
. Gave shoutout to my alma mater
@MyCarletonU
School of Journalism. Spoke to imp. of independent and free press, role of women journalists, combatting disinformation & 🇨🇦 support to 🇹🇿 media capacity & professionalism.
Honoured to lay a wreath on behalf of 🇨🇦 at a Remembrance Day Ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City, hosted by 🇬🇧
@iangibbonsr
. RAF Group Captain Walcot asked us to stand for 2 minutes to think of the sacrifices of soldiers and civilians. Had a lot to think about.
#CanadaRemembers
Wishing 🇻🇳 a Happy (early) National Day. Thank you Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong for hosting the diplomatic community this evening. Enjoyed our conversation and the opportunity to take stock of the 🇨🇦🇻🇳 bilateral relationship.
#CanadainVietnam
Great meetings with Nova Scotia companies about opportunities in
#CPTPP
countries including 🇻🇳. Lots of enthusiasm for this dynamic market!
#TimeToDiversify
Today in Halifax, our Trade Commissioners from Australia🇦🇺 South Korea🇰🇷 Japan🇯🇵 and Vietnam🇻🇳 met with Canadian entrepreneurs eager to take advantage of increased access to Asia Pacific markets thanks to
#CPTPP
and
#CKFTA
!
#TimeToDiversify
Looking forward to working with partners in 🇨🇦 & 🇻🇳 to take take take our already strong educational ties to new heights under Canada's new International Education Strategy.
#CanadainVietnam
Int’l students 🎓 contribute $21.6 billion to Canada’s economy. The new International Education Strategy will help ensure that 🇨🇦 remains among the world’s top destinations for learning! Find out how:
#IntlEd
Final visit to Dalat. Great meeting with Vice Chairman Pham S & discussions on agtech with some of Lam Dong province's leading agriculture companies. Looking forward to continued 🇨🇦🇻🇳 collaboration in this dynamic area.
@CanEmbVietnam
#CanadainVietnam
I am lucky to work with such an inspiring, caring, dedicated and fun group of women and men here at the Consulate General of Canada in HCMC. We had a chance to celebrate our many successes today at our 2nd annual Mission Awards.
#CanadainVietnam
Congratulations Chef Nathan Fong and our Trade Commissioner for Agriculture in HCMC, Minh Truong, on the successful launch of the month-long promotion of 🇨🇦 food
@MeridienSaigon
. These products & many more are now more affordable thanks to
#CPTPP
.
#CanadainVietnam
Kicked off our consulate's workplace charitable campaign today with a raffle, joined by
@CitImmCanada
Associate ADM Mike MacDonald. Proud of our generous team. We're already halfway to beating last year's efforts on day 1!
@EyesAbroad
#iGive
#CanadainVietnam
Delighted to learn that the Vietnamese community in PEI is 700 people strong! Great to be able to say xin chao at the Charlottetown stop of the
#CPTPP
roadshow!
Great discussion w/ women leaders in Dalat 🇻🇳 @ our satellite
#WomenDeliver
event. The passion & drive of these women is inspiring. Strong msg women can do whatever men can. But significant challenges of social pressures + sharing of family responsibilities persist.
@EyesAbroad
Pleased to join the People's Committee of HCMC and fellow members of the Consular Corps in celebrating Vietnam's 73rd National Day. Ngày quốc khánh hạnh phúc!
#canadainvietnam
Unfortunately, there are often sad stories about 🐕 in HCMC. Luckily a community of Vietnamese + expats every day try to improve the lives of these 🐶. So proud of
@JennaNunas
who tx to this community & some clever sleuthing reunited this fella with his family after 5 days apart.
Pleased to meet Canadian High Commissioner to Tanzania
@kylenunas
earlier today. Very good discussion on trade, investment, development cooperation and the future of the Commonwealth.
Dernières discussions hier avec le secrétaire du parti d'HCMV Nhan & président d'HCMV Phong. Fier de notre travail ensemble au cours des 3 dernières années pour faire avancer les relations bilatérales 🇨🇦🇻🇳.
#CanadaauVietnam
Great evening with the Canadian business community at the CanCham members appreciation night. So pleased to welcome Canada's new Ambassador to Vietnam, Deborah Paul, to HCMC.
#canadainvietnam
Delighted to spend the day with
@sherrypriebe
& students fm UBC dentistry faculty @ SOS Children's Village. This 🇨🇦team has volunteered to spend their Christmas providing life-changing dental care & giving these girls & boys something to smile about!
#CanadainVietnam
@EyesAbroad
Fantastic evening with members of HAWEE on the occasion of Ambassador Deborah Paul's visit to Ho Chi Minh City. Looking forward to continuing to advance business connections between dynamic 🇻🇳+🇨🇦 companies.
#CanadainVietnam
Une foule extraordinaire ce matin à la course Terry Fox au Vietnam. Une énorme participation 🇨🇦, dont plus de 50 membres du Consulat général du Canada à HCMV.
#CanadaauVietnam
@TerryFoxCanada
Proud of Ngan Hoang of our trade section for leading a successful buyer's mission to 🇨🇦. Great to see such strong interest in 🇻🇳 for innovative 🇨🇦 technologies and services in waste management.
@TCS_SDC
@EyesAbroad
#CanadainVietnam
Proud to join 🇨🇦
@ZoneStartups_VN
for a successful Investment Day in HCMC. Fantastic pitches from up-and-coming companies in insurance, HR solutions, fintech, medtech and more!
#CanadainVietnam
Important panel on investment in education. Great to hear about investments in access to education and eliminating barriers for girls from leaders of 🇹🇿 🇧🇯 🇸🇿 🇸🇴 🇪🇹 🇸🇱
Wrapping up another successful visit to Can Tho. The Mekong Delta is facing significant challenges from climate change. Inspiring to hear the long-term vision of government and business leaders here as they discover opportunities arising from every challenge
#CanadainVietnam
.
Honoured to join Accelerate Women’s Accelerate Breakfast this morning. Congratulations
@BerniceFernands
& Accelerate Business Group for this important mentoring platform to empower women leadership and
#IgniteTheFire
I look forward to having His Excellency
@kylenunas
High Commissioner to Canada as a Keynote Speaker at the Accelerate Women’s Executive Breakfast this Saturday. We are going to Ignite the Fire.
Ignite the Fire 🔥
#Canada
#Keynote
#Women
#Tanzania
Congratulations to Le Huy Tuan, winner of our Consul General for a Day contest which focused on gender balance. 40% of our participants were male. Tuan helped promote CPTPP & led an engaging roundtable with dynamic women leaders from HCMC.
#HeForShe
#equalforeach
@EyesAbroad
Always a great evening when members of the CEO Club and CanCham come together to talk business. Great opportunity to discuss how to leverage the CPTPP and Canada's suite of FTAs to pursue strategic opportunities between 🇻🇳🇨🇦 companies.
#TimeToDiversify
#CanadainVietnam
An honour yesterday to meet our 4 amazing finalists in the 3rd annual Consul General for a Day contest. Congratulations to our CG for a Day Le Huy Tuan & finalists Le Do Thuy Uyen, Tran Thi Ngoc Mai, and Nguyen Minh Nhat.
#EqualforEach
#HeForShe
@EyesAbroad
#CanadainVietnam
Our flag at the Consulate General of Canada in HCMC remains at half mast this weekend in memory of the victims of Flight PS752, including 63 Canadians. Such a senseless loss. Our thoughts are with their families and loved ones at this difficult time.
#CanadainVietnam
Heading home from an interesting visit to Can Tho, the heart of the Mekong Delta. Great meetings with local environmental groups, companies, officials and Can Tho University on climate change and how to boost bilateral trade.
#TimetoDiversify
#CanadainVietnam
Not the result we wanted. But this goal is something I will remember for a lifetime. What a feeling! We nearly defeated some of the strongest teams in the world at only our second time at the World Cup. We will build on this. Go Canada!
Congratulations B+H Architects and Nguyen Hoang Group on your strategic partnership on the International Education City project. Happy to witness the signing of this important 🇨🇦🇻🇳 collaboration.
#CanadainVietnam
Honoured to deliver opening remarks @ CHANGE's fundraising gala this evening & to join fellow members of the consulate corps in showing our support. Congratulations
@honghoang2tweet
& the entire CHANGE team
for your inspiring efforts to protect the environment.
#CanadainVietnam
A festive drive home this evening, serenaded by vuvuzelas and surrounded by flags as residents of HCMC celebrated 🇻🇳s first ever gold medal in men's football at the SEA Games. Congratulstions to Vietnam's women's and men's teams on your double gold wins!
It is with sadness that I learned of the passing today of former 🇹🇿 Min of Foreign Affairs, Bernard Membe. He had a long & distinguished career in public service, incl @ the Tanzanian High Commission to 🇨🇦. Sharing my condolences to Mr. Membe’s family & to all Tanzanians.
Proud of the work of Dr. Andrew Tsang of Westcoast Dental and the visiting team from the UBC dental faculty in helping the children at the Thien Phuoc Orphanage
@sherrypriebe
Caught up with
@MeridienSaigon
GM Justin Malcolm this afternoon as Le Meridien in HCMC prepares to launch their promotion of 🇨🇦 food. Foodies take note: high quality Canadian food products will be part of Le Meridien's weekend dinner buffet for the next month.
#CanadainVietnam
Final mtgs yesterday with HCMC Party Secretary Nhan & HCMC Chairman Phong. Proud of our work together the past 3 years to advance the 🇨🇦🇻🇳 bilateral relationship. Taking home many great memories.
#CanadainVietnam
Fantastic collaboration between CEO Club in HCMC and Cancham to bring 🇻🇳 and 🇨🇦 companies together as we celebrate 45 years of bilateral relations. Looking forward to taking our trading relationship to new heights.
#TimeToDiversify
#canadainvietnam
@TCS_SDC
Kicked off our second day in Dalat yesterday with a jolt of coffee! Great visit with Coffee House, Cau Dat Farm and local farmers to learn about how startups are bringing greater value to 🇻🇳 coffee and improving economic impact for local farmers.
#CanadainVietnam
@EyesAbroad
Sad moment as we say goodbye to a great colleague, 🇸🇬 CG Siu Lin -- our amazing Dean of the HCMC Consular Corps and a great friend. I hope to work together again in the future!
A rich discussion w/ fantastic women leaders at our HCMC Women Deliver satellite event. A key take away is women wish to have more conversations with men and boys. Education of both boys and girls critical to gender equality.
#WD2019
#GenderEqualityMatters
@EyesAbroad