by Judi McLeod
July 5, 2004
The key patron in Canadian Governor General Adrienne Clarkson’s "furious covert lobbying effort" to hang on to her powerful position is UN poster boy Maurice Strong.
When her Excellency (former Canadian Broadcasting Corporation journalist) Adrienne Clarkson embarked upon her $5 million "circumpolaring" trip earlier this year, Strong was one of her privileged guests.
Now that he’s "nearly blown the election", writes National Post scribe Gillian Cosgrove, "Paul Martin must make some tough choices."
Replacing Marie Antoinette, Canada style Clarkson is at the very top of the hit list.
Clarkson’s let-them-eat-cake style enraged average Canadians when it was discovered she had--without apologies--blown $5 million on a single trip without leaving them even the crumbs.
By replacing the Queen’s representative in Canada, Martin is caught up in the crosshairs. Strong, who once hired Clarkson’s "self-styled" Excellency, John Ralston Saul at Petro Canada, is also a senior advisor to Martin in the PMO.
In these trying circumstances, will Martin find the backbone to tell GG to hit it?
Clarkson’s waiting-in-the-wings replacement, according to Cosgrove, is Marc Garneau, the first Canadian in space, a candidate bound to irk Mr. and Mrs. Clarkson. Ironically, Garneau was honoured with an Order of Canada award handed out by the GG this year. In typical Canuck fashion, Garneau would be awarded the plum position of governor general, not because he was awarded the coveted Companion of the Order of Canada, along with the son-in-law of Martin predecessor Prime Minister Jean Chretien, or even because of his astronaut acumen, but because it could "shore up Martin’s francophone flank in the wake of the Grit debacle at the Quebec polls."
Note to incoming GG: The merit of being an Order of Canada recipient was made dubious earlier this year when former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali was so honoured. The Rwanda genocide went down under Ghali’s watch, with Kofi Annan holding the peacekeeping portfolio.
Should Martin find the courage to send Canada’s most expensive couple packing from Rideau Hall, he should go one step further by ridding the land of his main mentor, Maurice Strong.
As a 14-year-old schoolboy dropout, Strong, the shadowy architect of the Kyoto Protocol made it big at the Montreal-based Power Corp.
An unshakeable bedrock of influence in Canadian politics, Power Corp. is the major shareholder in Total Fina Elf Sa (TOT), France’s largest oil empire, which did billions of dollars of business with the deposed Saddam Hussein.
Conflicted Canadians in the Power Corp. camp include Martin, brought in to work for the corporation when Strong was boss. Andre Desmarais, the youngest son of Power Corp. CEO, Paul Desmarais is married to Chretien’s daughter, France.
In addition to springing the Kyoto Protocol on the world, oculist Strong in partnership with former Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, is godfather to the Earth Charter, an environmental golden rules book intended to replace the Ten Commandments.
When Strong’s not poking around Canadian parliament, he’s in North Korea, where he’s working as a special emissary for Kofi Annan. As a self-styled peacekeeper, it remains a mystery why North Korea seems to always display more hostility following one of Strong UN missions.
Born in April in 1929, just months before October’s stockmarket crash, Strong, who once said…"Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse?" has been talking about bringing the stockmarket down during most of his adult life.
Anti-American to the core, Strong has publicly avowed to make China a world superpower of the magnitude of the United States.
At age 75, it’s not only time for the Canadian government to retire Strong, but for the UN to follow suit.
Meanwhile, Mo should go, not for the reasons listed in this article. In all of his public speeches, he leans heavily on a mantra of "saving the world". Canadafreepress.com believes it would really be going a long way to Save the World if Paul Martin and Kofi Annan retire Maurice F. Strong.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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