The Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Canada

Canada

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is the Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

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n envoy

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 to Canada. Countries belonging to the Commonwealth of Nations

Commonwealth of Nations

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 typically exchange High Commissioner

High Commissioner

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s, rather than Ambassador

Ambassador

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s. Though there are a few technical differences (for instance, whereas Ambassadors present their diplomatic credentials to the host country's head of state

Head of State

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, High Commissioners are accredited to the head of government

Head of government

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), they are in practice one and the same office. Sri Lanka also maintains a Consul-General in Toronto

Toronto

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High Commissioners

• Hon. William de Silva
  William de Silva
  Peduru Hewage William de Silva was a 20th century Ceylonese politician with Marxist/Trotskyist leanings.P. H. William de Silva was born at Kahatapitiya in Batapola, Ambalangoda, Ceylon, to a wealthy land-owning family...
  
   - (1970 - ?)
• Dr
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   Vernon Mendis
  Vernon Mendis
  Deshamanya Dr Vernon Loraine Benjamin Mendis is a prominent Sri Lankan diplomat, who served as the United Nations' Special Envoy to the Middle East...
  
   - (1976 – 1980)
• Rodney Vandergert
  Rodney Vandergert
  Rodney Clement Austen Vandergert was a prominent Sri Lankan diplomat and civil servant, who served as the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka and Chairman of the Public Service Commission...
  
   - (1980 - ?)
• General
  General
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   Tissa Weerathunga - (1986 – 1990)
• Ernest Corea
  Ernest Corea
  -Early life:Corea was born in Kurana, Katunayake in Ceylon.His parents were Reverend Canon Ivan Corea and Ouida Corea, and was the brother of Vernon Corea a pioneering broadcaster with Radio Ceylon/SLBC and Ethinic Minorities Adviser to the BBC. Rev. Corea was Rural Dean of Colombo in the Church...
  
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• Prof Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera
  Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera
  Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera was a Sri Lankan professor, scholar and diplomat. He was the first Ceylon Ambassador to the Soviet Union,Ceylon High Commissioner in Canada, Ceylon High Commissioner to United Kingdom and Ceylon Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York.-Early life...
  
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• Hon. P.B.G. Kalugalla
  P.B.G. Kalugalla
  Punchi Banda Gunathilleke Kalugalla was a Sri Lankan politician and Cabinet Minister.-References:...
  
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• W.J.S Karunaratne - (13th June 2006 - ?)
• Daya Perera
  Daya Perera
  Lt. Colonel Daya Perera, PC is a Sri Lankan diplomat and lawyer, who was the former Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Canada and former Ambassador to the United Nations in New York.-Education:...
  
   - (2008 – 2010)
• Chitranganee Wagiswara - (2010 – Present)