Editing Joe Clark (section)

===First retirement from Canadian politics===
Clark retired from politics in 1993, side-stepping the near annihilation of the PC party in the [[1993 Canadian federal election|1993 election]] under the leadership of Mulroney's successor [[Kim Campbell]].

Clark was appointed as Special Representative to the [[Secretary-General of the United Nations]] for [[Cyprus]] from 1993 to 1996. In 1993, he founded his own consulting firm, Joe Clark and Associates, Ltd., which he still heads. Clark has also served on the boards of directors or advisory boards of several Canadian companies.

During the 1993–1994 academic year, Clark served as a Regents' Lecturer in the Canadian Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=University of California, Berkeley Canadian Studies Program |date=2012 |title=Celebrating Thirty Years of Canadian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley: 1982–2012 |url=http://canada.berkeley.edu/CAN%20history%20pamphlet%20continuous%20text.pdf#page=3 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130508141912/http://canada.berkeley.edu/CAN%20history%20pamphlet%20continuous%20text.pdf |archive-date=May 8, 2013}}</ref>

In 1994, he was made a Companion of the [[Order of Canada]]. Also in 1994, he wrote the book ''A Nation Too Good to Lose: Renewing the Purpose of Canada''.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/nationtoogoodtol0000clar <!-- quote=A Nation Too Good to Lose: Renewing the Purpose of Canada. --> ''A Nation Too Good to Lose: Renewing the Purpose of Canada''], Joe Clark, Key Porter Books, 1994</ref> This book was also published in a French translation.

The [[1995 Quebec referendum]] saw the federal side win by less than one percent of the vote. It was widely seen as being the failure of the Charlottetown and prior Meech Lake accords that had caused it to be so close.