The Rockefeller links of Canadian
politicians...
{ Pulled this article in from: http://www.inforamp.net/~jwhitley/canpol.htm }
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:
- JOHN RAE: leading strategist for Prime
Minister Chretien's election campaign. Was Executive
Vice- President of Power Corp. and Paul Desmarais' right-
hand man. His brother is....
- BOB RAE: Rhodes Scholar and ex-NDP
[Socialist] Premier of Ontario, who appointed....
- MAURICE STRONG to the chairmanship of
Ontario Hydro, which he proceded to dramatically cut in
both skilled human resources and generating capacity [to
provide a future need for power from James
Bay/Grand Canal?]
- PAUL MARTIN: current federal Finance
Minister. Rose through the ranks at Power Corp., mentored
by Paul Desmarais. Bought Canada Steamship Lines from
him. Ran against Chretien for Liberal Party leadership.
He attended the 1996 meeting of the Bilderberg
Group, where those he mingled with included -
surprise! - David Rockefeller.
- JEAN CHRETIEN: Prime Minister. Daughter,
France, is married to Andre Desmarais, son of Paul
Desmarais, chairman of Power Corporation. Chretien's
"advisor, counsellor and strategist" for the
past 30 years has been MITCHELL SHARP,
who brought Chretien into politics when he
was Finance Minister. Sharp has been, since 1981,
Vice-Chairman for North America of David Rockefeller's
TRILATERAL COMMISSION. Chretien attended the 1996 meeting
of the Bilderberg
Group [For a list of the other attendees at this
private and secretive Conference, see our 1996
BILDERBERG CONFERENCE PRESS RELEASES].
- DANIEL JOHNSON: present Liberal [and
Opposition] leader in Quebec. Rose through the ranks of
Power Corp.
- BRIAN MULRONEY: ex-Conservative Prime
Minister. Now a lawyer and lobbyist for Power Corporation
which, together with Ontario Hydro and Hydro Quebec, has
just formed the Hong Kong-based ASIA POWER CORP., to help
China to develop its energy potential. Power Corp.'s
legal interests in Asia will be handled by a Hong Kong
branch of Mulroney's Montreal law firm, Olgilvy, Renault.
He is also a well-remunerated member of the board of
Archer-Daniels-Midland, a Rockefeller-owned conglomerate,
which is headed by Dwayne Andreas who, like Rockefeller
himself, is also a member of the elite and secretive Bilderberg
Group.
- Mike Harris, Premier of Ontario, who
headed off for a fishing weekend at a remote Northern
camp with George
Bush and Paul Martin soon after his
election. Harris, like his colleague Ralph Klein,
Premier of Alberta, is also a Bilderberger.
- Two intriguing recent additions to this list are PRESTON
MANNING, leader of the Reform Party of Canada and of
Canada's Official Opposition in the Federal Parliament,
and STEPHANE DION, Federal Minister for
Intergovernmental Affairs [Canada's "Unity
Minister"], who, together with RAYMOND A.J.
CHRETIEN, Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. [and nephew
of Jean Chretien, Prime Minister of Canada],
attended the tightly-guarded, super-secret 1998
BILDERBERGER CONFERENCE at the Turnberry Arms Hotel,
Ayr, Scotland, where, of course, David Rockefeller
was also in attendance. One wonders if the Bilderbergers'
planned breakup of Canada, following the projected
separation of Quebec via a Unilateral Declaration of
Independence in January, 2000, and the planned 2005
Continental Union of the U.S. and the rest of Canada
might have been on the agenda...?
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 warmer the climate becomes, the greater
the need for fresh water in Mexico and the southern United States
- and the more urgent the need for a GRAND Canal
project to get it there. An astute businessman could, if he were
so inclined, potentially make astronomical
profits off both ends of this process!
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]