Colin Barker
Canadian public servant working in Ottawa to help support a strong and resilient Canadian economy.
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- Visited 🇱🇻 & 🇵🇱 to discuss Security Action for Europe (SAFE) procurement plans. 🇨🇦 has negotiated preferential access for defence firms to participate in SAFE procurements. Our common goal is to strengthen collective security by increasing defence industry collaboration. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...
- Reposted by Colin BarkerAs great powers abandon rules and values for their own interests, middle powers like Canada have a choice: compete with each other for favour or act together with impact.
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- Let’s go Blue Jays!! 🐦⚾️🍁
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- The world needs more Miss Websters.
- This is Canada’s great superpower!
- My posting as Senior Trade Commissioner at Canada’s High Commission in the UK is coming to an end. It has been an honour to work on behalf of Canadians to increase bilateral trade and investment between 🇨🇦 and 🇬🇧. Back to Ottawa now and new challenges.
- Wordle 1,505 X/6 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 That’s got to be some sort of weird record??
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- Wonderful to be out of the office at the @blavatnikschool.bsky.social in Oxford for a day of discussion of international trade policy hosted by the Trade and Public Policy Network. 🌍📦📈
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- We had a some very special visitors at the office today. 👑https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6766161
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- Congratulations @wrexhamafc.co.uk for third straight promotion - wow!! Great memories of my visit to Wrexham and attending a match in January.
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- Great day for a stroll along the King’s Road in Chelsea. ☀️
- There is no ‘pause’.
- Some of Canada’s most innovative companies will be at Hannover Messe this week. 🇨🇦 is the partner country this year. AI, clean energy technology, advanced manufacturing. www.hannovermesse.de/en/expo/part...
- It’s good to be home even for a short visit. 🇨🇦
- My favourite finds today from the Thames foreshore. 🌊 #mudlarkingfinds #mudlarking
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- 1.7 Ford F-150s are sold every minute, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Nearly a million trucks a year across North America and some overseas markets. One of the many successes of the integrated North American supply chain. 🛻🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🛻 @flaviovolpe.bsky.social
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- I just plan to read your newsletter….
- Visited the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibit at the Natural History Museum today. Many great Canadian entries including this year’s winner. Congrats Shane Gross. Amazing! 📷 🦊🦡🦋🐝🐸📷
- Yesterday HM King Charles III visited HMS Prince of Wales wearing his naval uniform. His Majesty was wearing his Canadian decorations ribbon bar. The red ribbon with the rosettes represents his 5 decades of service in honorary roles to the Canadian armed forces. And now as Canada’s Sovereign. 🇨🇦⚓️👑
- Well I guess I know the many, many things that I’m giving up for Lent! 🇨🇦 Buy Canadian! 🇨🇦 #ElbowsUp www.canada.ca/en/departmen...
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- 🇺🇦🌻Slava Ukraini🌻🇺🇦
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- 🌻🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🌻
- 🇨🇦🥅🏆CANADA🏆🥅🇨🇦 www.cbc.ca/sports/hocke...
- Happy Canadian #FlagDay 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
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- Slava Ukraini!! #IG25 #InvictusGames 🇺🇦
- The full list of 🇺🇸 goods that will be subject to a 25% tariff starting Tuesday…it’s a long list. www.canada.ca/en/departmen...
- Spent some time on the Thames foreshore today for some #mudlarking. 1600s pipe, pipe stem with maker’s mark, clothing pins and aiglets and a variety of pottery spanning several centuries. #Mudlark
- Reposted by Colin BarkerAuschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
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- If people stopped leaving them parked across the pavement I would stop breaking their legs.
- We are with you LA. 🇨🇦🛩️💧 #FriendsPartnersAllies www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7426060
- When I am supreme overlord people who do this will be hung, drawn and quartered in front of their loved ones.
- Enjoyed the Christmas Market at Hampton Court Palace on the weekend. 🏰🎄🎁
- Christmas gift idea: Sotheby’s is auctioning off a first edition of Machiavelli’s The Prince. Reasonable estimate of £100K.
- The 🇨🇦 - 🇬🇧 Chamber of Commerce held their annual Christmas Lunch today at the historic and beautiful Saddlers’ Hall in the City of London. The Saddlers are one of City livery companies with a history going back centuries. The dark green saddle in the photo was used by Queen Elizabeth - THE FIRST.
