It may re-pay the reader to spend a few minutes tracing the connections of Paul Desmarais and Power Corp. to the leading politicians, etc. of Canada:
So...we have the CONSERVATIVE party [via Mulroney], the LIBERAL party [via Chretien], and the NDP [via Rae] all tightly connected to....Paul Desmarais and Power Corp.
And we have the Prime Minister, the Finance Minister, and the Prime Minister's key aide all tightly connected to....Paul Desmarais and Power Corp.
Mel Hurtig wrote, in THE BETRAYAL OF CANADA:
"Since Brian Mulroney became Prime Minister, Big Business has had effective control of the political and economic agenda, and hence the social and cultural agenda as well. Paul Desmarais provided much of the money for Pierre Trudeau's campaign, Brian Mulroney's campaign, and Jean Chretien's campaign." [p.188]
[We hate to disillusion any of the remaining fans of ex-Prime Minister Trudeau, but Pierre Trudeau was also a Bilderberger]
Maurice Strong has now joined Brian Mulroney and Paul Desmarais in investing the Asia Power Group's $100 million venture capital in "small coal-fired power plants being built in the south of China". They are also looking at "larger projects in northern China, as well as in Malaysia, the Philippines and India." The Asian economies are expected to spend $1 trillion [US] on essential infrastructure, of which an estimated $400 billion [US] will be on power generation. Chinese and Asian labour costs are low - as low, in China, as $45 per month - and potential profits are high.
The Nov/Dec. 1993 issue of David Rockefeller's Council on Foreign Relations' publication FOREIGN RELATIONS contains an article, 'THE RISE OF CHINA', in which we are warned that China will begin to use more energy than the United States within a few decades, massively straining the world's energy supplies. Most of China's energy comes from the burning of soft, high-sulphur, highly-polluting coal. In 1991 alone, 11 trillion cubic meters of waste gases and sixteen million tons of soot were emitted into the atmosphere over China - and it has only just begun its long process of increased energy generation!
The sulphur in this coal causes acid rain. The burning of the coal releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the most efficient "greenhouse gas" in the global warming process.
The
Oh, and Paul Desmarais?
In September, 1993, he joined David Rockefeller's
Trilateral Commission.
He won't feel out-of-place there, though. Other
prominent Canadian members include Gerald Bouey
[former Governor of the Bank of Canada]; Conrad
Black, newspaper magnate and chairman of Argus;
John Allen, CEO of Stelco; Raymond Cyr, President
of Bell Canada Enterprises; Peter Dobell, of Foreign
Affairs and Foreign Trade, in Ottawa; Marie-Jose
Druin, Hudson Institute of Canada; Claude Edwards,
Public Staff Relations Board in Ottawa; Allan
Gottlieb, former Canadian Ambassador to the U.S.;
David Henniger, Regional Director of Burns, Fry;
Senator Duff Roblin; Ron Sutherland, CEO of
ATCO Ltd., William Turner, of Montreal's PCC
Industrial Corporation; and J.H. Warren, former
Canadian Ambassador to the U.S.
[And, of course, Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau was
also in the habit of frequently briefing meetings
of David Rockefeller's Council on Foreign Relations
in Washington; and Lucien Bouchard, separatist PQ
leader, was brought into politics by Brian Mulroney,
whose last act in Ottawa was to host a black-tie
dinner for 200 members of Rockefeller's Council of
the Americas, who flew up on Rockefeller's private
jet to celebrate the successful negotiation of
NAFTA - another Rockefeller innovation]
Paul Desmarais and Andre Desmarais General.
The calendar moves ahead, albeit ever so slowly, toward February 2004,
when Prime Minister Jean Chretien is destined to ride off into the
Canadian sunset.
A date with destiny, to which so many look forward. Chretien
detractors in this country and abroad are asking, "Who could be
worse?"
Prime-Minister-in-waiting Paul Martin, that's who.
Although much has been made of their rivalry, both Chretien and Martin
are controlled by the same powerbrokers, and that's just the beginning
of this story.
If there is one latter day saga proving the age-old adage that truth
is often stranger than fiction, the story of Jean Chretien and Paul
Martin is it.
In a country whose largest television network, the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation is state-owned, and whose largest daily
newspaper, the Toronto Star is decidedly Liberal-leaning, little
reference has been made to this Canadian story of stories.
With the exception of Financial Post columnist Diane Francis, this
online publication, and only a smattering of others, the mainline
media has paid scarce attention to a documented made-in-Canada story
that many average Canadians know nothing about.
Many Canadians know that the Province of Quebec has long monopolized
the attention of Chretien, Martin, and too many members of the Liberal
clique in Ottawa. They know that anti-Americanism is alive and well in
Ottawa, which was staunchly against the war in Iraq.
The big question is why?
Deals with Saddam Hussein and Canadians in oil.
Jean Chretien's daughter, France, is married to Andre Desmarais.
Andre's father, Paul Desmarais, is the largest shareholder and
director of TotalFinaElf--the largest corporation in France, which
held tens of billions of dollars in contracts with the deposed regime
of Saddam Hussein.
No wonder Chretien and Martin--who hid the war out--were against
Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Well, that's Chretien, but what of the-up-and-coming Paul Martin you
might ask?
".Optimistic Canadians and Americans say Mr. Chretien is gone in a few
months and his successor, Paul Martin, will scrap the anti-American,
anti-business behaviour and mend the rift between the two countries,"
wrote Francis in a recent Post column. ."Mr. Martin has ducked every
issue except the dreadful Kyoto Accord, which he supported. This puts
him squarely in the anti-business and anti-West Liberal camp. This
should not surprise. Mr. Martin was hired in the 1960s to work for
Paul Desmarais Sr. (the French connection) by Maurice Strong. Mr.
Strong is a Liberal backroom operator, tycoon, and part-time United
Nations official who authored the Kyoto Accord.
"In 1974, Mr. Desmarais made Mr. Martin president of Canada Steamship
Lines and then, in 1981, he made him spectacularly rich by selling the
company to him and a partner for $180 million. Mr. Martin's shipping
company is estimated to be worth about $424 million--making him the
63rd richest person in Canada, wrote Francis.
"I find it astonishing that a guy, in politics off and on all his
life, could be such a genius at business and make so much money so
quickly.
"It all begs a number of troublesome questions. Did Mr. Desmarais give
away the company to Mr. Martin? Did Mr. Desmarais lend him the money
or guarantee the loan? And what does this mean in terms of his
allegiance or loyalty to Mr. Desmarais and his empire in Canada and
France?
"Mr. Martin has given his company to his three sons, but that doesn't
matter. He should fully reveal how he became so wealthy. But he won't
and Canada's sleepy media, except for this newspaper, won't dog him
until he does."
Francis also made reference to what some already suspect: that there
is no Liberal leadership but "a sham, designed to give the appearance
of democracy in Canada."
Raspberry Xpress puts it more succinctly. "Paul Desmarais is linked to
the Privy Council, which influences the Prime Minister, the current
Liberal Prime Minister, to Brian Mulroney, a former Progressive
Conservative Prime Minister. The probable future Liberal Prime
Minister and now a surge of interest to reinstate the former
Progressive Conservative Prime Minister as Progressive Conservative
leader. So who is controlling the federal government?"
The Liberals granted a direct-to-home satellite license to a company
run by Chretien's son-in-law Andre Desmarais, son of Paul Desmarais.
Then there's Montreal businessman, John Rae, the leading strategist of
Chretien's election campaigns. Rae was executive vice president of
Power Corp, and Paul Desmarais' right hand man. John is brother of Bob
Rae, former socialist premier of Ontario, and the man who appointed
Maurice Strong as CEO of Ontario Hydro.
Average Canadians discouraged with the anti-American sentiment coming
from Parliament can look further than the Chretien cabinet.
It all started before George W. Bush came to the White House, with
Raymond Chretien, Jean's 59-year-old nephew.
Ambassador to Washington, at the time of the 2000 presidential
election, Raymond Chretien was quoted as saying Canada would prefer Al
Gore as president, annoying Bush and setting the future strained
relations with his administration. Now Canada's ambassador to France,
Raymond Chretien continues to embarrass average Canadians by
bad-mouthing Bush. Raymond Chretien is also a well-known toady of
President Jacques Chirac.
In February of 2002, Raymond's daughter Carolyn, Jean's grand niece,
was quietly given a plum government job that pays $94,000 a year, plus
perks. Carolyn, who didn't have to suffer the extensive exam given to
everyone else, went to work for the Foreign Affairs Department. Prior
to that, she was senior special assistant in the Prime Minister's
office.
Meanwhile, the much-touted rivalry between Jean Chretien and Paul
Martin notwithstanding, the two are from the same cabal.
The current Who's Who of Ottawa politics could be best described as
"pick up any rock in Canada, and another snake comes slithering out."
The Canadian political elite's interests and connections are many and varied, of course, as the following 2003 story
in the always-excellent Toronto Free Press illustrates...
The French connection:
by Judi McLeod
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