Through a minefield: How a bureaucratic battle led Canada's lead cluster munitions negotiator to resign

Published September 7, 2011

This is the final installment of an Embassy special feature on a ranking Canadian diplomat, Earl Turcotte, who was squeezed between Foreign Affairs and the Canadian and American militaries.

In last week's introduction, Mr. Turcotte led a Canadian delegation to Oslo, Norway to talk about cluster munitions, non-surgical weapons deployed by aircraft or artillery in which a bomb in the process of being dropped opens...