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Her Excellency Sandra McCardell | |
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| Canadian High Commissioner to the Republic of South Africa | |
| In office August 2015 –Ongoing | |
| Preceded by | Gaston Barban |
| Succeeded by | N/A |
Sandra McCardell is a Canadian diplomat. After being appointed on July 20,2009,McCardell was Ambassador to Libya before the 2011 Libyan civil war. [1] She closed the Canadian Embassy and evacuated in February 2011;she subsequently returned to Tripoli in September 2011 to re-establish diplomatic relations after the fall of Gaddafi and completed her assignment in the fall of 2011. [2] In February 2012,it was reported that McCardell's spouse,Edis Zagorac,was hired by engineering firm SNC-Lavalin to work as part of a military-civilian engineering unit with billions in contracts with the Gadhafi regime,including a $270 million prison project. Following the discovery,Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird requested a review into the potential for conflicts of interest,to which nothing was found. [3] In 2012,she was named Ambassador of Canada to Morocco and Mauritania. In 2015,she became High Commissioner of Canada in South Africa,Namibia,Lesotho and Mauritius and Ambassador to Madagascar.
