The Canadian Home Furnishings Alliance Announce Speaker for Awards Gala

Furniture World News Desk on 4/29/2018

The Canadian Home Furnishings Alliance recently announced that former diplomat and NAFTA expert Colin Robertson will be the guest speaker at the 2018 Canadian Home Furnishings Awards.

The current negotiations of NAFTA has Canadian businesses concerned. Almost daily NAFTA is the headline story in the news and with good reason. The guest speaker will be able to shed some light on where things are at with the negotiations and where they may go from here.

Mr. Robertson was one of the negotiators on team-Canada in the first FTA agreement and again on the team that negotiated the subsequent NAFTA. His book "Decision at Midnight: The Inside Story of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement" was popular with Canadians and critically acclaimed.

A former Canadian diplomat, Colin Robertson is Vice President and Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and hosts its regular Global Exchange podcast. He is an Executive Fellow at the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. Robertson sits on the advisory councils of the Johnson-Shoyama School of Public Policy. North American Research Partnership, the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Ottawa and the Conference of Defence Associations Institute. He is an Honorary Captain (Royal Canadian Navy) assigned to the Strategic Communications Directorate. He is a member of the Deputy Minister of International Trade's NAFTA Advisory Council and the North American Forum. He writes on foreign affairs for the Globe and Mail and he is a frequent contributor to other media.

The 2018 Canadian Home Furnishings Awards Gala will be held the day prior to the Canadian Furnishings Show, Thursday Evening, May 24. To register and purchase sponsorship packages visit www.chfawards.ca.