Cdn. Patsies: UNSCAM-Cdn. Connections, Dingwall-Via Rail-$133,000, Revoke Citizenship Terrorist Fateh Kamel, JC & Dictator, CRTC Head-PQ & PM Friend

UNSCAM -- Canadian connections

Annan's #2 Blocks Oil-for-Food Scrutiny March 01, 2005, George Russell and Claudia Rosett, Fox News

George Russell is Executive Editor of FOX News. Claudia Rosett is a journalist-in-residence with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

Is it possible that between these guys and Maurice Strong, there might have been conflicts of interest in covering up the scam?

UNITED NATIONS — With U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (search) next up for review by Paul Volcker’s inquiry into the Oil-for-Food scandal, a crucial question is whether Volcker will expand upon information tying the scandal directly to the U.N. chief’s office — by way of Annan’s second-in command, Louise Frechette (search). [ See below ]

Four years into the seven-year Oil-for-Food (search) program, with graft and mismanagement by then rampant, Frechette intervened directly by telephone to stop United Nations auditors from forwarding their investigations to the U.N. Security Council.

[. . . . ] When Frechette served as Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations from 1992 to 1995, her boss during most of that time was Canadian Deputy Minister Reid Morden (search), who is now executive director of the Volcker team.

Asked why Frechette was mentioned only by title, not by name, Morden refused to comment [. . . . ]

A search for Reid Morden led to the CSIS site and this:

COMMENTARY No. 85
CANADIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE SERVICE publication
Spies, not Soothsayers: Canadian Intelligence After 9/11
Reid Morden
Unclassified
Fall 2003
Reid Morden is a former Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Deputy Minister of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), and President and CEO of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. He is currently President, Reid Morden & Associates, which provides advice and comment on intelligence, security, and public policy issues.

A search for Louise Frechetter brought this.
LOUISE FRÉCHETTE DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL

Louise Fréchette is the first Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. A national of Canada, she assumed her duties on 2 March 1998, after having been appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

The post of Deputy Secretary-General was established by the General Assembly at the end of 1997 as part of the reform of the United Nations, to help manage Secretariat operations and to ensure coherence of activities and programmes. The purpose was also to elevate the Organization’s profile and leadership in the economic and social spheres. The Deputy Secretary-General assists the Secretary-General in the full range of his responsibilities and also may represent the United Nations at conferences and official functions. She chairs the Steering Committee on Reform and Management Policy and the Advisory Board of the United Nations Fund for International Partnerships (UNFIP), which handles relations with the foundation set up by Ted Turner in support of the United Nations.

Before joining the United Nations, Ms. Fréchette was the Deputy Minister of National Defence of Canada from 1995 to 1998. Prior to that, she was Associate Deputy Minister in her country’s Department of Finance. She served as Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations from 1992 to 1995. [. . . . ]

In January 1991 she became Assistant Deputy Minister for Economic Policy and Trade Competitiveness [in Canada]

Interestingly, the trilingual (Eng. Fr. Span.) Frechette has received an honourary doctorate from, among others, Kyung Hee University in Seoul.





This stellar crowd want to end the Gomery Inquiry because it is too expensive? -- $133,000 for a few phone calls and "other fees"?

Lafleur hired Dingwall to lobby, Gomery told

Note that David Dingwall, a Cabinet Minister, from 1993 until 1996, left active politics in 1997. By 1998 his firm, Walding International, was hired by then Via Rail President Marc LeFrançois to lobby for more money for a Crown Corporation, Via Rail.

By contract, Mr. Dingwall "reported directly" to Mr. LeFrançois -- but he may not have done the actual lobbying of cabinet ministers -- and Canadians just fell off the turnip truck.

Documents tabled at the federal sponsorship inquiry show a company owned by the executive, Jean Lafleur, paid Mr. Dingwall's lobbying firm, Wallding International Inc., $133,549 from August 1998 to March 1999 for "professional services" listed as telephone calls and "other fees."

If you missed this little gem, do read it. Another example -- he ran the country in the same way -- and he wants to deep six Gomery?



Dictator was lobbied by Chrétien Alan Freeman, Mar. 1, 05





Stacking the deck -- another Quebecker

He could be a fine individual -- but why do so many appointees to Crown Corps, regulatory bodies, foundations, and, of course, most if not all language commissars, come from Quebec? -- Can you ever remember a power appointee as coming from Whitehorse, Yellowknife, the Peace River area, Saskatoon, Amherst, Cornerbrook or Doaktown?

New CRTC head facing key decisions -- French takes over at crucial time for regulator Mark Evans, Mar. 1, 05, Financial Post

Richard French, a former Quebec cabinet minister [Quebec's Minister of Communications in 1989 ] and Bell Canada executive, has been selected to lead the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's telecom branch.

[. . . . ] A long-time friend of Prime Minister Paul Martin . . . .

[. . . . ] "He's coming in at an incredibly exciting time for the industry because the promise of competition is becoming a reality in the residential market, and he will oversee the path to deregulation, which is one of the key issues from our perspective," she said. "Then, there is the convergence angle as telephone companies get into the cable business and cable companies get into telephony." [. . . . ]

Playing Canadians for Patsies -- Brought to you by a Liberal Government

Citizen Kamel editorial, Mar. 1, 05, National Post

It is impossible to say, until further information is available, whether the federal government would be justified in revoking the Canadian citizenship of convicted terrorist Fateh Kamel. But should the government follow through on Conservative Deputy Leader Peter MacKay's suggestion to review the grounds on which Kamel's citizenship was awarded in the first place, it will at least rescue from desuetude a powerful tool for fighting terror. [. . . . ]