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Some Public information concerning 
Paul Desmarais
His son Paul Desmarais jr 
From
Financial Opportunities <financial.opportunities@canrem.com> 
And some political link ENGLISH ONLY
From 
Politician's links to the GRAND Canal Project
http://www.jdkoftinoff.com/canal10.html

And complete the Power corporation progression and 

CANADIAN CRIMINAL CONSPIRATION.

This CANADIAN CRIMINAL CONSPIRATION directly related with : 

The electronic concept CDRIL and project international CDRIL robbery 

Paul Desmarais,  POWER CORPORATION,    Paul Desmarais jr,       

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Video made by Radio-Canada
 

Paul Desmarais is the son of a lawyer, Jean-Noel Desmarais, and Lébéa Laforest. He grew up in a prosperous family. He studied at the University of Ottawa where he obtained a B.A. in Commerce. When he finished university, he returned to Sudbury where, in 1951, he took control of a bus company. In 1959, he created the Transportation Management Corporation Limited; though this, he acquired Provincial Transport Ltd in 1960, and then obtained effective control of Gelco Entreprises Ltd in 1962. The following year, he bought the Imperial Life Assurance Company of Canada. Two  years later, it was the turn of the Corporations des valeurs trans-Canada, his first conglomerate. 

In 1967, Trans-Canada created Les Journaux Trans-Canada Ltée, a press company that acquired the great Montreal daily, La Presse. In 1968, Mr. Desmarais took control of the Power Corporation of Canada. Today,  the Power Corporation consists of Gesca Ltée, which publishes La Presse and other dailies and weeklies, and Power Financial Corporation, which owns the Great-West Life Assurance Company, London Life Assurance Company, Investors Group Inc. and Pargesa  Holding S. A., an international holding company  headquartered in Geneva. 

Paul Desmarais is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Power Corporation of Canada. He is also Chairman of the Board and Deputy Director of  Pargesa Holding S.A. (Switzerland). He is a director of  the following companies: CLT-UFA (Luxembourg), the Power Financial Corporation, Power Broadcasting Inc.; Electrafina S.A. (Belgium), the London Assurance Group  Inc., Group Investors Inc., London Life Assurance Company, Pargesa Holding S.A. (Switzerland), the Power Corporation of Canada, La Presse Ltée, the  Telegraph Group Limited (England) and Total Pina (France). He is also a member of the international advisory committee of the Barrick Gold Corporation and Chase Manhattan Bank N.A., and a member of the Supervisory Council of AXA and the Compagnie
Financière de Paribas (France). 

Mr. Desmarais is honorary president of the Canada-China Business Council. He is a member of  the Privy Council, a Companion of the Order of Canada, an Officer of the Ordre national du Québec and an Officer of the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur and Commander of the Ordre de Léopold II. 

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POWER CORPORATION  /  PAUL DESMARAIS jr

We are very fortunate to have Paul Desmarais, Jr. as the National Vice Chair - Business and Finance for the Governor General’s Canadian Study Conference 2000. He is an alumnus of The 1980 Commonwealth Study Conference. 

Born in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada in 1954, Mr. Paul Desmarais, Jr. studied at  university than McGill University in Montreal, the same of is father Paul Desmarais and his friend Conrad Black who had wrote a part of Duplessis biography an publish it on Duplessis 1977.

Plus, concerning Conrad Black who had handle the English part of situation, the French side was cover by Péladeau financing by the Quebec Deposit and Investment Bank (CDPQ), the new printing ACILR-CDRIL technology printing application development, illegally appropriated by the Canadian Corporation, to grow in their field without printing cost competition under the control of DESMARAIS and is Canadian criminal political and financial associated.

Paul Desmarais, Jr. obtained in may 1977 a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He then graduated from the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD) in Fontainebleau, France, with a Master's in Business Administration.

In 1984, Mr. Desmarais was appointed Vice-President of Power Financial Corporation, a company which he helped establish. He was named President and Chief Operating Officer of that company in 1986 and, in 1990, became the Chairman of the Board. In 1991, he was appointed Vice Chairman of Power Corporation of Canada. The company Parfinance (Paris, France) named him Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 1993. Parfinance was dissolved in 1998. In 1996, Mr. Desmarais became Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Power Corporation of Canada.

Mr. Paul Desmarais is a member of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee of several companies. In Canada: Power Financial Corporation, Investors Group Inc., The GreatWest Life Assurance Company; in the United States: Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company; in Europe: Pargesa Holding S.A. (Switzerland), Groupe Bruxelles Lambert S.A. (Belgium) and Imétal (France). He is a member of the Board of Directors of Power Corporation of Canada; Suez-Lyonnaise des Eaux in France; PetroFina S.A. and Tractebel S.A. in Belgium; GWL Properties Inc. in the United States; Gesca Ltd, Les Journaux Trans-Canada (1996) Inc. and La Presse Ltd in Canada.

Mr. Desmarais is also a member of the Board of Directors of INSEAD and member of the INSEAD's International Council, Chairman of the McGill Faculty of Management's International Advisory Board, and Chairman of the HEC (Hautes Etudes Commerciales) International Advisory Committee.  Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer  Power Corporation of Canada, 751 Square Victoria, Montréal, Québec H2Y 2J3

 Chairman of the Board 
Power Financial Corporation, 751 Square Victoria, Montréal, Québec H2Y 2J3

 Director & Member of the Executive Committee: 

Power Financial Corporation (Canada) ; Investors Group Inc. (Canada); The Great-West Life Assurance Company (Canada); Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company (U.S.A.); Pargesa Holding S.A. (Switzerland); Groupe Bruxelles Lambert S.A. (Belgium); Imétal. (France)  Director: 

Power Corporation of Canada (Canada); PetroFina S.A. (Belgium); Tractebel S.A. (Belgium); GWL Properties Inc. (U.S.A.); First Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company (U.S.A.); Great-West Lifeco Inc. (Canada); Gold Circle Insurance Company (Canada); Gesca Ltd. (Canada); La Presse Ltd.;(Canada); Les Journaux Trans-Canada (1996) Inc. (Canada); Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux (France)  Other interests:

Member of the INSEAD's International Council; Member of the INSEAD's Board of directors; Chairman of the Canadian Foundation for International Management for INSEAD; Chairman of the McGill University Faculty of Management International; Advisory Board Chairman of the HEC International Advisory Committee 

 Education: McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Bachelor of Commerce, May 1977; European Institute of Business Administration, Fontainebleau, France; Master's in Business Administration, June 1979  Medals:

Medal of the Confederation (Canada);"Insigne d'Officier de l'Ordre de la Couronne" (Belgium)  Work Experience:

Worked for S.G. Warburg & Co. Ltd. in London (England), 1979-1980;

Planning Manager for Standard Brands Incorporated in New York (USA), 1980-1981;

Director of Planning for Power Corporation of Canada in Montreal (Canada), 1981 –1982;

Vice-President of Power Corporation of Canada from February 1982 to May 1991;

Vice-President of Power Financial Corporation in Montreal (Canada),  February 1984 to April 1986;

President and Chief Operating Officer of Power Financial Corporation, April 1986 to July 1989;

Vice-Chairman of Power Financial Corporation from July 1989 to May 1990;

Chairman of the Board of Power Financial Corporation since May 1990;

Vice-Chairman of Power Corporation of Canada from May 1991 to May 1996;

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Parfinance in Paris (France) from; March 1993 to June 1998 (the company was dissolved in June 1998);

Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Power Corporation of Canada since May 1996

Updated in 2004: Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Power Corporation of Canada since May 1996 with is brother André the husband of the Jean Chrétien former minister and Canadian Premier involve since 1977 in the ACILR-CDRIL stealing patent cover-up.

Power Corporation of Canada     from TCE Standard

Power Corporation of Canada, controlled by Paul DESMARAIS, is a large diversified company engaged in communications, financial services, pulp, paper and packaging. Through its subsidiary, Gesca Ltée, Power publishes 4 daily newspapers in Québec, including La Presse.

In addition, Gesca has 2 separate book-publishing operations; it also has TV and radio stations in Ontario and Québec. Its financial services include controlling interest in the Great-West Lifeco Inc, Montreal Trustco Inc, the Investors Group Inc and Pargesa Holding S.A. The company's pulp, paper and packaging interests are held in Consolidated-Bathurst Inc, a major Canadian pulp and paper firm.

Power Corp's assets in 1993 exceeded $25.5 billion (ranking 11th in Canada), with revenues amounting to $6.14 billion (ranking 19th).

Author PETER S. ANDERSON

Desmarais, Paul     from TCE Standard

Desmarais, Paul, financier (b at Sudbury, Ont 4 Jan 1927). After studying at U of Ontario and McGill, Desmarais worked for Courtois, Fredette et Cie, a Montréal accounting firm, 1945-51; he then returned to Sudbury to run his father's bus company.

In 1961 he gained control of Provincial Transport, a sizable passenger-transport company.

In 1965 he bought his first conglomerate, Trans-Canada Corp Fund, through which he gained control of the major French-language newspaper La Presse (Montréal), the major francophone radio station CKAC, a large assurance company (Imperial Life, Toronto) and several other daily and weekly newspapers.

In 1968 he took control of POWER CORP OF CANADA; one of the major conglomerates in Canada, Power Corp now includes the principal mutual fund in Canada (Investors Group), one of the largest trust funds (Montreal Trust), the fourth-largest paper company in the country (Consolidated-Bathurst), the second-largest life-assurance company (Great-West Life Co, Winnipeg) and several other Canadian and European firms. In 1987 Desmarais sat on the boards of 15 companies other than Power Corp. Desmarais and Conrad BLACK engineered a takeover of Southam Inc in 1992.

He was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1987.
Author JORGE NIOSI