OTTAWA, Canada — His Excellency V. Alfred Gray, Bahamas High Commissioner to Canada, was officially welcomed to Canada by Chief of Protocol Stewart Wheeler on Tuesday, November 29, 2022.
Wheeler, who was appointed Canada’s Chief of Protocol in January 2019, began his career in the public service in 1993, working in the Public Information Office at the House of Commons. In 1994, he joined External Affairs and International Trade Canada.
He served abroad in Washington, D.C., as second secretary, covering congressional relations and energy trade policy; Bogotá, as political counsellor; London, as head of the public affairs team at High Commission; and Kabul, as political program manager at the Canadian embassy in Afghanistan (2010 to 2011). He also served as parliamentary relations officer, departmental spokesperson in the Press Office, deputy director of Mexico Relations, deputy director of corporate and internal communications, and director of Cabinet relations.
From 1999 to 2004, Wheeler served as press secretary to the Governor General of Canada, Adrienne Clarkson, and in that capacity accompanied her on her State Visit to Iceland in 2003.
From 2012 to 2016, he served as Canadian Ambassador to the Iceland. From July 2016 to December 2018, he served in the Ontario Public Service as the Assistant Deputy Minister of International Relations and Chief of Protocol in the Cabinet Office – Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs.
