About this episode

Bob Rae discusses his career as a diplomat and politician, sharing personal anecdotes and experiences.

In case you missed it, from October 2022: Canada’s former Ambassador to the United Nations Bob Rae talks about his incredible career as a diplomat, a politician and a lawyer, what an actual ‘day in the life’ is for our UN Ambassador, the funny/not so funny shaving cream incident caused by Frank Zappa at U of T’s Convocation Hall, being inspired by Stephen Lewis, meeting Bill Clinton at a Rhodes Scholar alumni event, and the emotional joy of taking the same job for PM Justin Trudeau as his father Saul Rae did for Justin’s father PM Pierre Trudeau! TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at andrew.applebaum@gmail.com All episodes available at https://www.torontolegends.ca/episodes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Andrew Applebaum

Guest: Bob Rae

Topics covered

• diplomacy
• politics
• law
• personal stories
• Canada
• UN Ambassador
• historical events

Keywords

• Bob Rae
• diplomat
• politician
• UN Ambassador
• Canada
• Stephen Lewis
• Bill Clinton
• Justin Trudeau
• Saul Rae
• Pierre Trudeau

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: United Nations

Places: U of T’s Convocation Hall

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