David Adam (diplomat)

David Graeme Adam (born 1941 in Toronto) is a Canadian diplomat. He was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Ecuador and Panama.^[1]

Adam graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1968.^[2]

In 1973, when Adam was a first secretary in Chile, he gained some notoriety when he and his colleague Marc Dolgin offered refuge in their homes to about fourteen Chileans fleeing the 11 September coup d'état.^[3] Canada's response to the coup was initially ambivalent, and some credit the actions of Adam and Dolgin for the Canadian government's decision to permit Chilean refugees to settle in Canada.^[4] Adam reports that he is quoted (anonymously) in the 1982 film Missing, a dramatization of the story of American journalist Charles Horman, who disappeared in the aftermath of the coup.^[2]

References

1. "Julian Assange & Diplomatic Immunity". As It Happens. CBC. 22 August 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
2. Stren, Olivia (Fall–Winter 2013). "Hundreds of Chileans, one coup d’état, and a Canadian envoy who helped plan an escape". Nexus. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
3. Stevenson, Brian J.R. (2000). Canada, Latin America, and the New Internationalism: A Foreign Policy Analysis, 1968-1990. McGill-Queen's Press. pp. 122–123. ISBN 9780773520325.
4. Heap, David (5 September 2013). "Four decades later, coup in Chile offers lessons". Western News. Retrieved 8 August 2014.