Sorry for the low blogging today, but I am overcome with work bringing people into Pajamas Media (now about 200 blogs!). This should slack off in a couple of days, I hope, and life will return to the frenzied normal. Meanwhile, here is an interesting blog from Canada with a detail look into the Oil-for-Food connections up there.
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Questions asked yesterday and today in Canada’s Parliament to Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin .
Martin did not answer.
Maurice Strong is a special advisor to Paul martin our PM.
Strong is also a member of Canada’s Privy Council.
This issue is too hot for Canadain MSM to touch.
Perhaps US bloggers will dig deeper.
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Questions:
ÔøΩÔøΩMr. Stockwell Day (OkanaganÔøΩCoquihalla, CPC): Mr. Speaker, Maurice Strong is the Prime Minister’s mentor, long-time intimate friend, long-time business associate at Power Corporation, and special adviser. Cordex Petroleum is now being investigated under the Iraq oil for food scandal for a $1 million injection from two agents of none other than the former dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein. Mr. Strong has stepped aside while this investigation is going on.
ÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩI would like to ask the Prime Minister, as Mr. Strong is his special adviser, has he ever discussed with him the possibility of any Canadian implications in the oil for food program?
ÔøΩMr. Stockwell Day (OkanaganÔøΩCoquihalla, CPC): Mr. Speaker, just this weekend it has come out that Mr. Strong has failed to comply with the United Nations hiring guidelines. It has also come out that Paribas Bank, affiliated with Power Corporation, has made over 400 payments under the oil for food program to companies that are not on the United Nations approved list, including Canadian recipients.
ÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩWill the Prime Minister, to clear Canada’s name and to fix Canada’s international reputation which is being hurt by the sponsorship scandal, ask for an investigation of any Canadian implication in the oil for food program?
Anyone interested in the Canadian aspects of the Oil-for-Food scandal might want to check out this PrimeTimeCrime.com research page. Just click on the URL under my name and look for the following section:
Oil-For-Food: The Canadian Connection
Here is nice, very detailed expose on Maurice Strong in the NY Sun :
“Embroiled in a United Nations Scandal Is an ‘International Man of Mystery’”
BY PRANAY GUPTE – Special to the Sun
April 29, 2005
What I’m hoping for now is a detailed public investigation into the affairs of the Desmarais lan and Power Corporation. Have a look at the membership of Power Corp’s International Advisory Council, listed towards the end of each year’s Annual Report (except for 2004, I wonder why /irony).
These include: Volcker, Yamani, Helmut Schmidt, Wei Ming Yi (CITIC), Michel Francois-Poncet (BNP Paribas). Canadians include: Paul Desmarais (of course), Bill Davis, Charles Bronfman, Mazankowski, Mulroney, Trudeau (until his death).
Power Corporation
For more on Power Corp, start with: Small Dead Animals, Mark Steyn
As lost citizen said: “cant be a conspiracy when it is so obvious;can it?”
Will this be the scandal that results in the dissolution of Canada? There has been much speculation that the justification for national unity no longer made any sense. The cultural and economic differences between the Anglos and the French Canadians are simply too extreme. Those citizens with ties to France are probably a lost cause. They are a drag on the rest of the country. If nothing else, the French Canadians are not going to surrender their welfare state benefits. They are also against more military spending. Itís probably best to begin the split as soon as possible. Could a few of the provinces become part of the United States?