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...jovial, well-meaning leader was as untrustworthy as his predecessor, Jean Chr?tien. Harper, on the other hand, has based his entire approach to Washington on the proposition that that won't happen on his watch. "What's important in dealing with Americans is the absence of surprise," says Derek Burney, former chief of staff to ex-PM Brian Mulroney. "The last government never really focused on Canadian foreign policy, so you kept getting these incidents. This one won't make that mistake...
...Clinton at a 1993 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting two weeks after taking office, and Martin's credentials as Finance Minister helped finesse his first trip as PM, to a 2004 meeting of leaders in Monterrey, Mexico. "Foreign policy was not among Harper's top five priorities," concedes Derek Burney, who heads the transition team...
...same senior coterie of professional Tory advisers that helped smooth out the kinks in his campaign. The five-person transition team, which has met every day in the fourth-floor office of the Langevin Block, where Canada's Prime Ministers have their office, is headed by Derek Burney, former chief of staff to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and a former Canadian ambassador to the U.S. The team's members, all volunteers, are arranging high-level briefings for the new PM with key organizations like the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...
Junior Anne Browning handled most of the duties in goal, although senior Jen Burney saw considerable action as well. Together, the Crimson's defensive unit recorded six shutouts and gave up only one goal on seven other occasions...
...Crimson graduated eight seniors this season: co-captains Stauffer and Devon Bingham, Miller, Marynick, Chu, Burney, Meredith Bagley and Brynne Zuccaro. The Class of '99 leaves with a career record of 54-13-4, and the claim of putting Harvard women's soccer on the proverbial national...