David Adam (diplomat)

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David Graeme Adam (born 1941) is a Canadian diplomat. He was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Ecuador and Panama. [1]

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Adam graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1968. [2]

In 1973, when Adam was a first secretary in Chile, he gained some notoriety when he and his colleague Marc Dolgin offered refuge in their homes to about fourteen Chileans fleeing the 11 September coup d'état. [3] Canada's response to the coup was initially ambivalent, and some credit the actions of Adam and Dolgin for the Canadian government's decision to permit Chilean refugees to settle in Canada. [4] Adam reports that he is quoted (anonymously) in the 1982 film Missing , a dramatization of the story of American journalist Charles Horman, who disappeared in the aftermath of the coup. [2]

References

  1. ↑ "Julian Assange & Diplomatic Immunity". As It Happens. CBC. 22 August 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
  2. 1 2 Stren, Olivia (Fall–Winter 2013). "Hundreds of Chileans, one coup d'état, and a Canadian envoy who helped plan an escape". Nexus. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
  3. ↑ Stevenson, Brian J.R. (2000). Canada, Latin America, and the New Internationalism: A Foreign Policy Analysis, 1968-1990. McGill-Queen's Press. pp. 122–123. ISBN   9780773520325.
  4. ↑ Heap, David (5 September 2013). "Four decades later, coup in Chile offers lessons". Western News. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
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