By Matthew Ehret-Kump

With the recent announcement by UK and Canadian

foreign ministers that many of the embassies of both

countries shall be melded into single missions, Ca-

nadian-based British agent and media mogul Conrad

Black, unable to control his enthusiasm, has voiced a

revealing op-ed in the right-wing mouthpiece The

National Post. The title of the op-ed reads: "The

British Commonwealth Will Rise Again". After re-

writing history by making FDR appear to be an im-

perialist, and asserting that China's “new imperial-

ism” is meeting resistance with all of its neighbors,

and predicting the breakup of Europe into two teams

(winner and loser countries), Black writes:

"There will be regional powers like Brazil and Tur-

key, but the only other coherent force that could

arise and occupy a role somewhat analogous to a

great power of old would be some cohesive bloc of

Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, India, New

Zealand, Singapore and perhaps a few other Com-

monwealth countries. The talented Australian for-

eign minister, Bob Carr, is capable of advancing

along these lines, and Stephen Harper and John

Baird would do well to explore these possibilities

also".

It is worthwhile to note that while born in Montreal,

Conrad Black is not a Canadian citizen, but rather

100% British. Having received dual citizenship in

Canada and UK in 2002 when the Queen of England

granted him peerage in the British House of Lords as

a reward for his outstanding services to the interests

of the British Empire. Black was confronted with an

ultimatum by then Prime Minister Jean Chrétien

who had intervened with a citation of a 1919 resolu-

tion barring Canadians from being members of the

House of Lords. After a short legal battle which

Black lost, Black renounced his Canadian citizen-

ship becoming Lord Black of Crossharbour.

Since his release from U.S. federal prison in May

2012 after serving 36 months of a 48 month sen-

tence for fraud and obstruction of justice, an unre-

pentant Black has found himself rising again to

prominence within the

Canadian establishment

quicker than one could

say "Hail Britannia".

Having been granted an

unprecedented temporary

resident permit from the

Minister of Immigration,

Jason Kenney, who is

part of the Harper conser-

vative apparatus installed

largely through the direc-

tion of the Canadian neo-

con Sun Media that had

been run by Black as part

of his Hollinger media

empire (1). Black has also

been granted the use of

all of his former Hollin-

ger-Sun-Times media

outlets to continue to

mould public opinion

among Canada’s “right

wing” in line with his

master’s interests.

The context of Black’s

fall from power

It appears that Conrad Black’s fall from power in 2006 occurred in the context of a faction fight that had broken out within the Canadian establishment between the Liberal Party faction on the one side and Conservative Party faction on the other.

Lord Conrad Black Declares:

“The British Commonwealth Will Rise Again”

Lord Black cannot con-

tain his exhuberance upon

smelling the re-emergence

of the New British Empire.

(1) British Crown Assaults Canadian Wheat Board in Grab

for World Grain Control www.larouchepub.com/eiw/

public/2007/eirv34n04-20070126/28-33_704_grain.pdf

2

Where the Liberal establishment was more inter-

ested in maintaining its local interests and local

control outside of British foreign policy inten-

tions, (witnessed by the Chrétien government’s

decision to not participate in the Iraq war of 2002

and Paul Martin’s 1998 successful blocking of

the attempted mergers of four of Canada’s five

largest banks(1)), the Mulroney-Harper anglophile

interests in the Conservative Party had been much

more intent to do the obedient bidding of the City

of London and British Foreign Office. This fac-

tion fight led up to a collapse of the Liberal lead-

ership of Paul Martin, and purging of relevant

Liberal Party controllers from power with the

“Sponsorship scandal” of 2005-06. By 2012, the

federal presence of the Liberal Party has become

almost non-existent, having been hammered by

the 2011 elections that brought Harper’s Conser-

vatives their majority.

The Fall of the Liberals

The Liberal slaughter continues on the provincial

level, witnessed by the loss of one of its last

beachheads with the Quebec election of Septem-

ber 2012 that brought Pauline Marois’ separatist

Parti Quebecois (PQ) to power. The PQ is infa-

mous for their intention to separate from Canada,

their anti-nuclear stance, and cap and trade pol-

icy. Of the two remaining provincial Liberal

power-holds left, British Columbia has found

Liberal support at an all-time low due largely to

the failed HST debacle in 2011. The Liberals un-

der current BC Premier Christy Clark are prepar-

ing to be swept away in favour of the New De-

mocratic Party (NDP) during the upcoming elec-

tions in May 2013. The challenging NDP of Brit-

ish Columbia, just like the PQ of Quebec is in

favour of those resource grabbing policies which

are expedient to the British Empire’s geopolitical

interests (echoing the free market logic of the “fur

trade”), yet push the green agenda of ‘renewable”

energies (except nuclear), and cap and trade. It is

indicative to note that NDP leader Thomas Mul-

cair has just been made a Privy Councillor to the

Queen on September 18 2012, possibly in prepa-

ration to replace the Harper regime in 2014.

During this past year Stephen Harper (Privy

Councillor since 2005) has stepped up the use of

the broad power granted to him via his party’s

majority government, to push through every Brit-

ish policy demanded of him in short order, re-

branding the Canadian military with the term

“Royal”, melding many Canadian and British

embassies around the world, converting Canada

into an official fist of the Monarchy in the execu-

tion of wars with Libya, promoting wars with

Iran and Syria, and falsely accusing Russia of

trying to steal Canada’s arctic sovereignty.

Canada’s role as a chess piece in this “Great

Game” involves returning Canada to its roots as

an aggressive weapon in the Empire’s arsenal, not

seen since the days of the Boer Wars. This colo-

nial function demands Canada act as a subversive

agency to the intentions of nations aspiring sover-

eign development. The accomplishment of this

task involves 1) serving as canon fodder for im-

perial wars abroad, and 2) trapping unwitting na-

tions into reliance upon its abundant cheap re-

sources via the logic of the “fur trade” aka “free

trade”. The question now worth asking is: will

China and India fall prey to the seductive fly trap

of Canada’s natural gas and resources in the con-

text of Lord Black’s nightmarish vision? Or will

they tighten their bonds of survival with Russia

and help usher in a new age of development and

peace?

A third question arises: In the context of an alli-

ance for progress and peace among nations, will

Canada finally throw off the yoke of our imperial

traditions and become a mature republic once and

for all?

(1) On December 14, 1998, then Finance Minster Paul Martin

rejected the major bank mergers of Royal Bank of Canada

with the Bank of Montreal, and CIBC with Toronto Domin-

ion, citing “too much concentration of economic power in

Canada in the hands of too few financial institutions.” Neither

Martin’s role in Canadian policy, nor the Chretien govern-

ment he then operated under should be assumed to be a force

for good. The sense of self-interest, and nationalist tendency

within the party’s elders (while pragmatic more than princi-

pled) should not be missed when evaluating the anomalies

which mark the changes in behaviour of Canadian policy.