Compilation 2: Chairman Mo -- The UN, Maurice Strong & His Network -- Kyoto, the Environment, Global Governance & More

Chairman Mo Peter Foster, National Post, April 22, 2005

Paul Martin hardly needs another scandal, but the news that Maurice Strong has stepped down from his UN post as special envoy to Korea in the wake of allegations related to the Iraqi oil-for-food debacle is potentially damaging on several fronts.

This week, Mr. Strong, a long-time mentor and associate of Mr. Martin, admitted . . . .

[. . . . ] A year ago, Time magazine declared: "Not since Lester Pearson has a Canadian Prime Minister devoted so much intellectual energy to the UN" which, allegedly, is "what really winds Mr. Martin's clock." Mr. Strong was instrumental in Mr. Martin's appointment as co-chairman of a UN commission on Third World development while the future PM was waiting to be crowned Jean Chretien's successor. And who was the first international VIP guest of the new Martin government? Kofi Annan.

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Maurice Strong steps down from UN post 20 Apr 2005, CBC News

UNITED NATIONS - Maurice Strong, a long-time Canadian businessman and currently the top UN envoy for North Korea, will suspend his work for the United Nations while investigators look into his ties to a South Korean businessman accused in the UN oil-for-food scandal in Iraq. [. . . . ]

Scandal looming in promised $425 million for Sir Lanka tsunami victims that never arrived? Judi McLeod, Editor, April 20, 2005

Search: Maurice Strong . IDRC (International Development Research Center)




Next Crisis at U.N. May Involve Ties Of Volcker, Strong Benny Avni, Staff Reporter of the NY Sun, April 22, 05

UNITED NATIONS - The next chapter in the United Nations crisis may erupt over U.N. investigator Paul Volcker's membership on the board of one of Canada's biggest companies, Power Corporation, since a past president of the firm, Canadian tycoon Maurice Strong, is now tied to the oil-for-food scandal.

[. . . . ] Yesterday, Mr. Strong acknowledged that Tongsun Park, the Korean accused by federal authorities of illegally acting as an Iraqi agent, in 1997 invested in Cordex, a Denver-based company owned by Mr. Strong and his son, Fred. Mr. Strong has voluntarily stepped down from his U.N. position as adviser to Mr. Annan on Korean affairs for the duration of the investigation. [. . . . ]

The Company He Keeps Apr. 21, 05, Kate McMillan, The Shotgun (http://westernstandard.blogs.com/)

From a profile of Maurice Strong. [. . . . ]

Maurice Strong: The new guy in your future! Henry Lamb, January, 1997 -- via Kate MacMillan of small dead animals and the Shotgun

Shortly after his selection as U.N. Secretary General, Kofi Annan told the Lehrer News Hour that Ingvar Carlsson and Shirdath Ramphal, co-chairs of the U.N.-funded Commission on Global Governance, would be among those asked to help him reform the sprawling, world-wide U.N. bureaucracy. His first choice, however, announced in the Washington Post on January 17, 1997, was none other than Maurice Strong, also a member of the Commission on Global Governance.

Strong's appointment as Senior Advisor, "to assist planning and executing a far-reaching reform of the world body," is seen by U.N. watchers to be a masterful strategic maneuver to avoid political opposition while empowering Strong to implement a global agenda he has been developing for years. More than 100 developing nations coordinated a "Draft Strong" movement in 1995 to replace Boutros Boutros-Ghali. But Strong's name was never presented publicly as a candidate. [. . . . ]

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Scandal looming . . . Judi McLeod, Editor, April 20, 2005

[. . . . ] "The IDRC was a quasi-government agency that had unique authority to receive charitable donations and issue tax deductible certificate--and give money directly to individual governments and private organizations. Strong became its head in 1970."
[. . . . ] Martin’s mentor Strong has been a director on the ZENON board of directors since October, 2003.

Strong is on the public record for predicting that water will have to be rationed by armed guards as soon as 2031. [. . . . ]

Search: Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin

Editor's Note on the CFP website at the bottom of the above article:

Still to come: Garth Pritchard's explosive account of Prime Minister Paul Martin's photo-op in tsunami-ravaged Sri Lanka.




The Power behind the thrones 14 February 2005, Mark Steyn -- via The Key Monk Mar. 15, 05

I always love the bit on the big international news story where they try to find the Canadian angle. A couple of months back, every time I switched on The National, there seemed to be no news at all and Peter Mansbridge was in the middle of some 133-part series of reports on “Canadians making a difference in the world,” which at least three nights a week seemed to be an “encore presentation” of the same worthy soft-focus featurette about some guy helping with an irrigation project in Sudan.

[. . . . ] And yet, throughout this period, there has indeed been a Canadian making a difference in the world-and if The National wanted to do a 133-part special report on him, for once they’d have enough material. Most of us know Paul Desmarais as the [. . . . ]

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