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found this while researching my paper. very interesting. and yes, i stole an image from this site for my avatar


Corporation of Canada

Canada is not as innocent as many would believe. When analysing power, one must look to the pyramid structure to understand that power flows from the top down.

In Canada, one company has no fear of hiding what they are all about, although they may have chosen their name for energy purposes they have grown into their monicker within time.

According to their website, Power Corporation of Canada is a diversified management and holding company. Power Corporation of Canada has holdings in leading financial services and the communications sector.

Through its European-based affiliate Pargesa group, Power Corporation holds significant positions in major media, energy, water, waste services, and specialty minerals companies. Power Corporation also has diversified interests in Asia.

It is especially one of their holdings TotalFinaElf, the largest oil corporation in France that has them in troubled water. Wealthy Canadian businessman and Power Corporation founder, Paul Desmarais Sr. is a major shareholder and director in TotalFinaElf, the largest oil corporation in France, which has held tens of billions of dollars in contracts with the deposed regime of Saddam Hussein.

France has been identified as one of the chief partners-in-corruption in the Oil-for-Food scandal. The Times of London calculated that French and Russian companies cashed in on $11-billion worth of business from oil-for-food between 1996 and 2003. That has Canada’s dirtiest corporate political secret coming out of the international bag.

Now, word is that the U.N have themselves in a conflict of interest in one of those great whitewashing skills; Appointing someone with vested interest in solving a dispute. Americans might remember this by the 8 member panel of the 9/11 commision whom had their own conflicts of interest with that whitewash. Paul Volcker, the man charged with the task of investigating the UN oil-for-food scandal, has by his association with the Montreal-based Power Corporation, a potential conflict of interest as chief scandal investigator.

For those outside of Canada, it may pay the reader to spend a few minutes tracing the connections of Paul Desmarais and Power Corp. to the leading politicians 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 proceeded to dramatically cut in both skilled human resources and generating capacity [to provide a future need for power from James Bay/Grand Canal?] Presently holds major position in the UN, also has a huge “new age” ranch out in the mid-west.

PAUL MARTIN: current Prime Minister, former 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: former 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.

DANIEL JOHNSON: former 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: former 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.

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]

Maurice Strong had 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.

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.

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.

Those are Power Corporation connections in North America, which is not to say that they do not have their hands dirty around the world How is that for a web of powerful bedfellows?

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