Post: | Ambassador of Canada to the Philippines |
Insigniasize: | 120 |
Incumbent: | David Hartman |
Incumbentsince: | November 4, 2022 |
Seat: | Embassy of Canada, Manila |
Nominator: | Prime Minister of Canada |
Appointer: | Governor General of Canada |
Termlength: | At His Majesty's pleasure |
Inaugural: | Frank Borden Clark |
Formation: | August 10, 1972 |
Website: | Official website of the Canadian Embassy, Manila (English) |
The ambassador of Canada to the Philippines is the official representative of the Canadian government to the government of the Philippines. The official title for the ambassador is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Canada to the Philippines. The ambassador of Canada to the Philippines is David Hartman, who was appointed on the advice of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on November 4, 2022.
The Embassy of Canada is located at Levels 6–8, Tower 2, RCBC Plaza, 6819 Ayala Avenue, Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines 1200.
No. | Name | Term of office | Career | Prime Minister nominated by | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Start Date | End Date | |||||||||
– | Frank Borden Clark (Chargé d'Affaires) | August 10, 1972 | August 27, 1973 | Career | Pierre Trudeau (1968–1979 & 1980–1984) | |||||
1 | Frank Borden Clark | July 3, 1973 | August 21, 1973 | September 4, 1975 | Career | |||||
2 | John Arnold Irwin | July 17, 1975 | October 29, 1975 | July 16, 1979 | Career | |||||
3 | Edward Lucien Bobinski | April 4, 1979 | July 30, 1979 | August 24, 1983 | Career | |||||
4 | Reginald Hardy Dorrett | October 13, 1983 | November 15, 1983 | February 19, 1986 | Career | |||||
5 | Russell H. Davidson | February 20, 1986 | March 25, 1986 | August 1, 1989 | Career | Brian Mulroney (1984–1993) | ||||
6 | André S. Simard | August 24, 1989 | September 21, 1989 | July 19, 1993 | Career | |||||
7 | Stephen Heeney | July 23, 1993 | September 13, 1993 | September 8, 1997 | Career | style=text-align:center | Kim Campbell (1993) | |||
8 | John Treleaven | July 10, 1997 | October 9, 1997 | July 15, 2000 | Career | Jean Chrétien (1993–2003) | ||||
9 | Robert Collette | July 26, 2000 | September 20, 2000 | August 26, 2003 | Career | |||||
10 | Peter Sutherland | July 31, 2003 | September 5, 2003 | Career | ||||||
11 | Robert Desjardins | August 31, 2007 | September 14, 2007 | Career | Stephen Harper (2006–2015) | |||||
12 | Christopher Thornley | August 10, 2010 | September 9, 2010 | August 2013 | Career | [1] | ||||
13 | Neil Reeder | July 10, 2013 | December 2, 2013 | August 2016 | Career | [2] | ||||
14 | John T. Holmes | August 10, 2016 | December 6, 2016 | August 23, 2019 | Career | Justin Trudeau (2015–present) | [3] | |||
15 | Peter MacArthur | February 6, 2020 | June 21, 2020 | Career | [4] | |||||
16 | David Hartman | November 4, 2022 | January 31, 2023 | Career | [5] [6] | |||||
Source: Global Affairs Canada[7] |