Quadrilateral Trade Ministers Conference

APEC Trade Ministerial Meeting

Philip Stone, who our department managed to take from Agriculture Canada a few years back, is the senior policy adviser in the trade policy planning division and is depended upon by all of us to keep our eyes on the big picture, ranging from the OECD to quadrilateral trade ministers to the WTO agenda.

Following up the conclusions of the Miyazaki G8 Foreign Ministers' Meeting, the emphasis was initially on small arms and light weapons, conflict and development, illicit trade in diamonds, children in armed conflicts, and international civilian police.

(b) A list of departments and events follows: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, responsible for APEC economic leaders meeting, AELM, and trade ministers meeting in Montreal; Environment Canada, responsible for the APEC environment ministerial meeting in Toronto and the environmental affairs program at the AELM in Vancouver; Health Canada, responsible for medical services at the AELM in Vancouver; Industry Canada, responsible for the APEC small and medium enterprise ministerial meeting in Ottawa; National Defence, responsible for the provision of ground transportation, communications, ceremonial guard and other su ...[+++]pport at the AELM in Vancouver; Natural Resources Canada, responsible for the APEC energy ministerial meeting in Edmonton; Public Works and Government Services Canada, responsible for provision of office space and assisting in obtaining goods and services in respect to the AELM in Vancouver; Revenue Canada, responsible for the subcommittee on customs procedures, SCCP, meetings in Victoria, B.C., Quebec City and Banff, the customs-industry symposium in Montreal and support for the AELM in Vancouver; Solicitor General Canada, responsible for security at the AELM in Vancouver; and Transport Canada, responsible for the APEC transportation ministerial meeting in Victoria.

It was co-chaired by the Commissioner for Trade, Ms Cecilia Malmström and Korea's Minister for Trade, Industry and Energy, Mr Yoon Sang-jick.