The Sri Lankan high commissioner to Canada is the Sri Lankan envoy to Canada. Countries belonging to the Commonwealth of Nations typically exchange high commissioners, rather than ambassadors. Though there are a few technical differences (for instance, whereas ambassadors present their diplomatic credentials to the host country's head of state, high commissioners are accredited to the head of government), they are in practice one and the same office. Sri Lanka also maintains a consul-general in Toronto.

High commissioners

NamePeriodTitlePresented credentialsRefVelupillai Coomaraswamy1958–1961High Commissioner14 March 1958Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera 1961–1963High CommissionerOctober 1961Senarat Gunawardene1963–1965High Commissioner25 July 1963L. S. B. Perera 1965–1969High Commissioner29 September 1965Glanville S. Peiris1969–1970High Commissioner20 October 1969P. H. William de Silva1970–1974High Commissioner14 October 1970Vernon L. B. Mendis1974–1975High Commissioner3 May 1974Henry W. Tambiah1975–1977High Commissioner29 September 1975M.P.M.D.Fernando1978Acting High Commissioner2 January 1978Ernest Corea1978–1980High Commissioner15 August 1978Rodney C. A. Vandergert1980–1983High Commissioner14 October 1980Punchi Banda Gunatillaka Kalugalla1984–1986High Commissioner6 April 1984General Tissa Indraka Weeratunga1986–1989High Commissioner21 May 1986Walter Gregory Rupesinghe 1989–1993High Commissioner26 September 1989Walter E. Fernando 1993–1996High Commissioner24 March 1993Ananda C. Gunasekera1996–2000High Commissioner16 September 1996M.N.Geethangani De Silva2001–2005High Commissioner5 March 2001Wijesinghe Jinasena S. Karunaratne 2006–2008High Commissioner13 June 2006Dayananda Rupasoma Perera2008–2009High Commissioner22 October 2008Chitranganee Wagiswara2010–2014High Commissioner29 January 2010Ahmed Aflel Jawad 2015–2018High Commissioner10 September 2015Madukande Asoka Kumara Girihagama2018–2020High Commissioner13 November 2018Harsha Kumara Navaratne Weraduwa2021–2024High Commissioner7 December 2021Uthman Lebbe Mohammed Jauhar2024–2025High Commissioner13 September 2024Kiritharan Kumarasamy2025–PresentActing High CommissionerAugust 2025

See also List of heads of missions from Sri Lanka

References The High Commission of Sri Lanka