{"id":7002,"date":"2023-12-19T16:13:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T21:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nsira-ossnr.gc.ca\/about-nsira\/who-we-are\/marie-lucie-morin-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:27:32","slug":"colleen-swords","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nsira-ossnr.gc.ca\/fr\/a-propos-de-lossnr\/qui-nous-sommes\/colleen-swords\/","title":{"rendered":"Colleen Swords"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"gme80c758\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m4 section-gme80c758 gutentor-module gutentor-advanced-columns has-color-bg has-custom-bg\"><div class=\"grid-container\"><div class=\"grid-row\">\n<div id=\"col-gm92f3cc\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m4-col col-gm92f3cc gutentor-single-column  grid-lg-4 grid-md-12 grid-12\"><div id=\"section-gm92f3cc\" class=\"section-gm92f3cc gutentor-col-wrap\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3071\" height=\"3071\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Colleen-min.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7854\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"col-gma59469\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m4-col col-gma59469 gutentor-single-column  grid-lg-8 grid-md-12 grid-12\"><div id=\"section-gma59469\" class=\"section-gma59469 gutentor-col-wrap\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading title-accent has-white-color has-text-color\">Colleen Swords<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<section id=\"gm282f9b3\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m4 section-gm282f9b3 gutentor-module gutentor-advanced-columns mrgn-tp-xl mrgn-bttm-xl\"><div class=\"grid-container\"><div class=\"grid-row\">\n<div id=\"col-gme079fc\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m4-col col-gme079fc gutentor-single-column  grid-lg-6 grid-md-12 grid-12\"><div id=\"section-gme079fc\" class=\"section-gme079fc gutentor-col-wrap\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colleen Swords est une fonctionnaire de carri\u00e8re en retraite, ayant travaill\u00e9 pendant plus de 35 ans au sein de la fonction publique f\u00e9d\u00e9rale.  Son derni\u00e8re poste \u00e9tait comme sous Ministre aux Affaires autochtone et D\u00e9veloppement du Nord Canada \u00e0 laquelle elle \u00e9tait nomm\u00e9e en 2014.Avant cette nomination, elle occupait les m\u00eames fonctions \u00e0 Patrimoine canadien. Par ailleurs, elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 sous-ministre d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9e \u00e0 Affaires autochtones et D\u00e9veloppement du Nord Canada pendant quatre ans (2009-2013).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mme Swords a pass\u00e9 29 ann\u00e9es au minist\u00e8re des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res et du Commerce international o\u00f9 elle a occup\u00e9 divers postes de haut niveau. Elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 sous-ministre adjointe, Secteur de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 internationale, et directrice des affaires politiques de 2006 \u00e0 2009, en plus d'\u00eatre ambassadrice du Canada aux Pays-Bas, repr\u00e9sentante permanente \u00e0 l'Organisation pour l'interdiction des armes chimiques et haute-commissaire du Canada \u00e0 la Barbade et dans les Cara\u00efbes orientales (de 1994 \u00e0 1997). Elle a aussi \u00e9t\u00e9 en poste \u00e0 Washington, en Tha\u00eflande et en Tanzanie.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"col-gm5468cd\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m4-col col-gm5468cd gutentor-single-column  grid-lg-6 grid-md-12 grid-12\"><div id=\"section-gm5468cd\" class=\"section-gm5468cd gutentor-col-wrap\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ottawa, Mme Swords a occup\u00e9 le poste de jurisconsulte pour le minist\u00e8re des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res de 2002 \u00e0 2005. Dans ce r\u00f4le, elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 agente pour le Canada \u00e0 la Cour internationale de justice dans le cas de la l\u00e9galit\u00e9 du recours \u00e0 la force. Dans d'autres affectations \u00e0 l'administration centrale, elle a occup\u00e9 plusieurs postes aux Affaires juridiques, dont ceux de directrice de la Direction du droit \u00e9conomique et commercial, de jurisconsulte adjointe et de juriste charg\u00e9e des droits de la personne, du droit humanitaire et des questions relatives \u00e0 la paix et \u00e0 la s\u00e9curit\u00e9. Elle a repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 le Canada lors de multiples processus de r\u00e8glement des diff\u00e9rends dans le cadre de l'Accord de libre-\u00e9change nord-am\u00e9ricain (ALENA), l'Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC) et au Tribunal p\u00e9nal pour l\u2019ex-Yougoslavie.  Avant de se joindre \u00e0 la fonction publique f\u00e9d\u00e9rale, Mme Swords a travaill\u00e9 dans une clinique d'aide juridique de Toronto, en Ontario. Mme Swords a re\u00e7u en 2020 le prix de juriste du secteur public du conseil canadien de droit internationale et en 2010 le prix d\u2019 alumni distingu\u00e9 de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Brock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dipl\u00f4m\u00e9e de l'Universit\u00e9 Brock, de l'\u00e9cole de droit Osgoode Hall et de l'Europa Institute de l'Universit\u00e9 d'Amsterdam, Colleen Swords est membre du Barreau de l\u2019Ontario.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1205,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-nsira-subpages.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7002","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-no-index"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Colleen Swords - 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