I ran into the U.S. ambassador to Canada in the upper library after dinner. I told him that my mother immigrated from Czechoslovakia to the United States and became a citizen there, and he suggested we get a photo:
When I told her that she now lives in Vancouver, he asked me to tell her: “Things in America are getting better, and the president is going to win”.
Author: Milan
In the spring of 2005, I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in International Relations and a general focus in the area of environmental politics. Between 2005 and 2007 I completed an M.Phil in IR at Wadham College, Oxford. I worked for five years for the Canadian federal government, including completing the Accelerated Economist Training Program, and then completed a PhD in Political Science at the University of Toronto in 2023.
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If you run into the US Ambassador again, you can tell him that I am confident that Obama will win and that I am very proud of America for many things. As a country it gave me a safe home, a great education and a wonderful reception. For a refugee, those are things that you never forget or treat lightly. I will always consider America my second home. I like his message very much.
I love the picture, and the ambassador’s message.
One of my most memorable moments was being present for Alena’s swearing in as a US citizen.
As the world’s attention is focused on the Presidential Election in the United States, the U.S. Ambassador to Canada will be at Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto to discuss the election, and its implications for Canada. On Tuesday, October 23, the Munk Centre for Global Affairs, Fulbright Canada, and the Centre for the Study of the United States, will present a public lecture featuring the Ambassador David Jacobson, who will be delivering a lecture entitled, “The U.S. Election: An Insider’s View from the Outside”. The lecture will be held at 12:00 pm in the Campbell Conference Facility.
Ambassador Jacobson will address differences between the Canadian and the U.S. election processes; historical trends; polling; key states and races; and the impact of the elections on the bilateral relationship.
For registration and other details please see the attached poster.