List of high commissioners of New Zealand to Canada

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The high commissioner of New Zealand to Canada is New Zealand's foremost diplomatic representative in Canada, and in charge of New Zealand's diplomatic mission in Canada.

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The high commission is located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada's capital city. New Zealand has maintained a resident high commissioner in Canada since 1942. It holds non-resident accreditation to the nation of Jamaica. Until 2014 the high commissioner to Canada also held accreditation to: Barbados, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago. At that time a post was established in Bridgetown, Barbados with non-resident accreditation to many other isles in the Caribbean transferred. [1]

As fellow members of the Commonwealth of Nations, diplomatic relations between New Zealand and Canada are at governmental level, rather than between heads of state. Thus, the countries exchange high commissioners, rather than ambassadors.

List of heads of mission

High commissioners to Canada

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Staff writer (6 March 2014). "New Zealand names new High Commissioner to Barbados" (Press release). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (New Zealand). Archived from the original on 19 March 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  2. 1 2 Acting High Commissioner only.
  3. ↑ "McCully appoints High Commissioner to Canada". New Zealand government (beehive.govt.nz). 20 March 2013. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
  4. ↑ "Martin Harvey". Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade . Retrieved 26 April 2020.

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