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Canadian Powerbrokers at Bilderberg Jeff Davis Over the weekend, some of the West's most powerful and influential people met behind closed doors to discuss the future of the world, and a handful of prominent Canadians were among them. The Bilderberg Group held its annual invitation-only conference at a luxury hotel in Chantilly, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., from June 5 to 8. A select few Canadians hobnobbed with 130 of the who's who of the global political, business and foreign policy elite. Among them were U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, billionaire David Rockefeller, former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger, World Bank President Robert Zoellick and the Queens of Holland and Spain.
(Article continues below) As many may remember, the powerful clique met just outside sleepy old Ottawa, at Kanata's Brookstreet Hotel, in May 2006. The Bilderberg Group was started by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands in 1954, and has since been a forum for European and North American elites to discuss in private matters that...well, we really don't know what they talk about. The secrecy surrounding the proceedings has made the Bilderberg Group a lightning rod for conspiracy theorists who see it as but one of a number of Illuminati-populated societies that includes the Trilateral Commission and the Bohemian Grove. Chatter House has obtained the guest list for the 2008 Bilderberg conference. Among the Canadians expected to be in attendance this year were the prime minister's outgoing chief of staff, Ian Brodie, and John Adams, associate deputy minister of National Defence and head of the Communications Security Establishment, Canada's world-leading signals intelligence collection network. Some of Canada's corporate magnates were also expected at Bilderberg, including Power Corporation chairman and co-CEO Paul Desmarais Jr., TD Bank Financial Group president and CEO Edmund Clark, Indigo Books chairwoman and CEO Heather Reisman, and Murray Edwards, the vice-chairman of Calgary-based energy giant Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. Reporters, as usual, were kept at a safe distance from the proceedings, though two correspondents from The Economist attended as official rapporteurs. Nevertheless, Robert Prichard, president and CEO of Torstar media, which owns the Toronto Star, gained entry. Naturally, Frank McKenna, former premier of New Brunswick and former Canadian ambassador to Washington, was also to be in attendance. Mr. McKenna, who is now deputy chair of the TD Bank Financial Group, holds an elite getaway of his own every year at the Fox Harb'r golf resort and spa in Nova Scotia. Fox Harb'r, notably, was built by another eastern Canadian "Codfather", Tim Hortons' co-founder Ron Joyce. Last year, corporate jets clogged the resort's private airstrip as Mr. McKenna's extended network reunited, attracting the likes of former U.S. president Bill Clinton.
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