8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (5)
#12074310 at 2020-12-18 03:48:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15415: Night Shift Is Buckled In And Ready To Rumble Edition
>>12074286
Follow the wives…John Poulos leads us to the Century Initiative that Canada's ambassador to China co-founded in Canada
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Willa Black is the VP, Corporate Affairs of Cisco Canada and is married to Donald Jarvis, who is related to the deceased Canadian politician and lawyer Bob Jarvis. Jarvis served as a Member of Parliament for Joe Clark and later was the Chairmann of the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Willa Black founded the One Million Acts of Green campaign in partnership with CBC, Canada's state-run media. This campaign went global with supporters like David Suzuki and others. Black serves on the Century Initiative, a group that advocates for open border policies to ensure a population of 100 million individuals by the year 21000. The current Canadian population is estimated at 37 million. The Century Initiative was co-founded by Mark Wiseman and Dominic Barton. Wiseman is of Blackrock and Barton is Canada's ambassador to China who also sat on the advisory board of state-run China Development Bank. Also on the board of Century Initiative is: Andrew Pickersgill, McKinsey & Co's Managing Partner of Canada; and Goldy Hyder, President and CEO of Business Council of Canada and former President and CEO of Hill+Knowlton Strategies.
Black was also involved with the Canada2020 progressive think tank on pushing for investments into the Universal Broadband Fund to connect Canadians with high-speed internet by 2030. She is a current member and former board member of the Canadian Club of Toronto and a member of the Rideau Hall Foundation. She has been pictured with Ahmed Hussein, Canada's former open border Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/fashion-and-beauty/the-next-36/article4475499/ / https://archive.vn/aV8nQ
https://nhhfoundation.ca/board/ian-macvicar / https://archive.vn/vPvmu
https://www.prostatecancer.ca/getmedia/3d07f0c2-6f7c-4095-b072-845bc3ca45b6/01-pcc-annual-report-14-15-web.pdf.aspx
https://camh.ca/en/driving-change/about-camh/performance-and-accountability/annual-report-and-financial-statements/annual-report-2017-2018/thank-you-to-our-donors / https://archive.vn/24bU3
https://strategyonline.ca/1993/07/27/6292-19930727/ / https://archive.vn/G3AlX
https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_ns/2165136
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-p-main-08b1248/
https://reboot2020.org/about/ / https://archive.vn/FWHjm
https://www.womenofinfluence.ca/2011/10/03/willa-black-3 / https://archive.vn/DRnhY
https://www.centuryinitiative.ca/about/our-team / https://archive.vn/wf08L
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theglobeandmail/obituary.aspx?n=robert-jarvis&pid=190006134&fhid=17701
https://www.connectednorth.org/en/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Jarvis
#7444713 at 2019-12-07 05:22:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9521: Riders On The DDoS Storm. ALL FOR A LARP Edition
>>7444710
Resignations in the news 12/5/2019 - part 2
University of North Texas General Counsel to Retire Following Assistant GC's Resignation
https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2019/12/05/university-of-north-texas-general-counsel-to-retire-following-assistant-gcs-resignation/
CEO of Alabama Space & Rocket Center to Resign
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/alabama/articles/2019-12-05/ceo-of-alabama-space-rocket-center-to-resign
Orangefield superintendent resigned amid harassment probe
https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Orangefield-superintendent-resigned-amid-14885703.php
Idaho Public Charter School Commission Director Tamara Baysinger will resign at the end of the month.
https://www.idahoednews.org/news/public-charter-school-commission-director-announces-resignation/
Georgia high court justice announces plan to resign in March
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/georgia/georgia-high-court-justice-announces-plan-to-resign-in-march/1015833499
North Dakota's lone female police chief retiring, says it's been a great ride
https://kfgo.com/news/articles/2019/dec/05/north-dakotas-lone-female-police-chief-is-retiring-saying-its-been-a-great-ride/963936/
Vittorio Grigolo, Star Tenor, Fired for 'Inappropriate' Behavior
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/arts/music/vittorio-grigolo.html
A top BlackRock exec was fired for having a relationship with a subordinate
https://Markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/blackrock-Mark-Wiseman-fired-for-relationship-with-employee-2019-12-1028741470
Krulwich Retiring After Half Century In Journalism
https://radioink.com/2019/12/05/krulwich-retiring-after-half-century-in-journalism/
Detroit police board secretary fired after IG report
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2019/12/05/detroit-police-board-commissioners-secretary/2618095001/
Open house for retiring New Haven Mayor Terry McDonald Sunday
https://www.news-sentinel.com/news/local-news/2019/12/05/open-house-for-retiring-new-haven-mayor-terry-mcdonald-sunday/
Timnath town manager, police chief retiring; interim replacements named
https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2019/12/05/timnath-town-manager-and-police-chief-retiring/2620220001/
City Council votes to terminate contract with Muscatine City Administrator Gregg Mandsager
https://wqad.com/2019/12/05/muscatine-city-administrator-gregg-mandsager-fired/
#7432390 at 2019-12-05 15:57:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9505: D5...Time For Pain To Arrive Edition
another resignation from the cesspool of wall st.
BlackRock says global active equities chief Wiseman to leave firm
Mark Wiseman, global head of active equities at BlackRock Inc (BLK.N), is leaving the firm following a violation of the company's "relationships at work policy," the world's largest asset manager said in an internal memo on Thursday.
Wiseman, one of several people tipped as BlackRock Chief Executive Larry Fink's possible successors, is a former Canadian pension manager who ran active equities and served as chairman of BlackRock's alternatives unit.
"When the firm becomes aware of a breach of policy or conduct that is not in line with our values, we move quickly and decisively to address it," CEO Fink and BlackRock President Rob Kapito said in the memo, which was reviewed by Reuters.
In a separate memo to employees, Wiseman said, "I am leaving BlackRock because in recent months I engaged in a consensual relationship with one of our colleagues without reporting it as required by BlackRock's Relationships at Work Policy. I regret my mistake and I accept responsibility for my actions."
Wiseman's conduct had no impact on any portfolios or client activities, the first memo said. The leaders of the active equity teams who previously reported to Wiseman will report to Kapito, the company said.
Wiseman's is the second BlackRock senior executive departure this year due to lapses in personal conduct. Jeff Smith, head of the human resources group at BlackRock left the firm in July because "he failed to adhere to company policy," BlackRock said at the time.
BlackRock declined to comment beyond the contents of the memo. The news was earlier reported by the Financial Times on Thursday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-blackrock-Mark-Wiseman/blackrock-says-global-active-equities-chief-Wiseman-to-leave-firm-idUSKBN1Y920R
#7129035 at 2019-07-22 06:36:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9121: Shill Fu Baker was on it! Comfy now! Learn his skills! Be a Baker Edition
>>7129025
Sullivan & Cromwell (cont)
Notable clients and cases
Advised Kraft Foods Group in 2015 during its $55 billion merger with H.J. Heinz Holding Corporation, making the combined Kraft Heinz North America's third-largest food and beverage company.[14]
Represented BP plc in its global $18.7 billion settlement in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The firm continues to represent BP in related securities and class action suits.[15]
Advised AT&T in its acquisition of DIRECTV in a $67 billion transaction in 2014.[16][17]
Advised a special directors' committee of Dole Food Company Inc. during the effort by major shareholder David Murdock to take the company private in 2013, together with related follow-on litigation.[18][19]
Beginning in 2011, advised Kodak during its Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring and subsequent reemergence as a public company.[20] The transaction was named Technology, Media, Telecom Deal of the Year (over $1 billion) by M&A ADVISOR[21] and Turnaround of the Year: Mega Company, by the Turnaround Management Association.[22]
Served as national coordinating counsel for German automaker Volkswagen Group in connection with the settlement of multidistrict litigation arising from the company's emissions violations.[23][24] The settlement built upon Sullivan & Cromwell's earlier representation of Porsche SE (a majority shareholder in Volkswagen), which set precedents on cross-border securities litigation.[25]
Represented Ferrari S.p.A and its principal shareholder in an initial public offering, part of nearly $370 billion worth of equity and debt offerings in which Sullivan & Cromwell represented issuing companies during 2015.[26][27][28]
Represented Los Angeles Dodgers co-owner Frank McCourt in the $2.15 billion Chapter 11 bankruptcy sale of the team to Guggenheim Baseball Management.[29]
Represented Barclays in investigations regarding manipulation of the London interbank offered rate (LIBOR) and manipulation of the foreign exchange Market.[30]
Represented a number of leading commercial and investment banks, asset managers and other companies in transactions during and after the financial crisis of 2008, including Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae, American International Group (AIG), Wachovia, National City and Barclays.[31][32]
Represented Cory Maples on a pro bono basis in the appeal of his murder conviction. The firm missed a deadline in Maples' death row appeal after the two attorneys handling the case left the firm without notifying the court in Alabama.[33][34] A ruling on a denial petition was sent to Sullivan & Cromwell. However, the mailroom returned the envelopes to the court. In the 2012 Supreme Court case Maples v. Thomas, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote: "Abandoned by counsel, Maples was left unrepresented at a critical time for his state post-conviction petition, and he lacked a clue of any need to protect himself pro se. In these circumstances, no just system would lay the default at Maples' death-cell door."[35]
Notable employees
M. Bernard Aidinoff, partner and chairman of Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association
Ann Althouse, blogger and professor of law
Louis Auchincloss, writer
Michael Bryant
Jay Clayton, current chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Amal Clooney
Norris Darrell, president, American Law Institute
Lori Damrosch [de], president, American Society of International Law
Florence A. Davis, president of the Starr Foundation
Arthur Dean
Allen Welsh Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence (1953-1961)[36]
John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State (1953-1959)[36]
Ronald Dworkin, philosopher and law professor
Judith Kaye, chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Robert MacCrate, counsel to New York Governor Nelson D. Rockefeller, special counsel to the Department of the Army for its investigation of the My Lai Massacre
Keith Rabois
Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice of the United States
Peter Thiel, technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist and co-founder of PayPal
Joseph Tsai, vice chairman of Alibaba Group
Mark Wiseman, Head of Global Active Equity and Chairman of the Global Investment Committee, BlackRock; former president & chief executive officer, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Paul Mahoney, former dean, University of Virginia Law School
Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, Judge of the Supreme Court of India
#6981964 at 2019-07-10 16:56:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8932: Q Drops and Dungeons Edition
Tom Steyer - Why wouldn't he sleep well ? PANAMA PAPERS, CIA groomed, Central America ?
Farallon Capital:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/04/the-epic-hypocrisy-of-tom-steyer.php
Blood ?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-blood-therapeutics-inc-gbt-145420503.html
Web of Charities buying securities at a loss (includes Steyers OneCalifornia->OnePacifica foundations ties to San Fran & Portland)
https://familycourtmatters.org/2018/08/29/look-beyond-the-logo-and-if-a-nonprofit-is-named-in-the-news-or-even-hinted-at-in-the-news-look-it-up/
Father Roy H. Steyer : Career at Sullivan & Cromwell LLC post WWII (Alumni reads like a DS who's who)
Listed as Lt. United States Naval Reserve… worked with Nuremberg prosecution team on Nazi Aggression brief as analyst (listed last on credits.. so not prominent contributor)
* * * Need to Dig more on this but my theory is he was an OSS(CIA before CIA) plant that assembled info on NAZI's to recruit for operation paperclip
S&C what a group of globalists since civil war days
https://ourhiddenhistory.org/entry/sullivan-cromwell-capitalism-intelligence-fascism-hugo-turner-our-hidden-history-interview
Guatemala / Panama /Cuba tie-ins for this company:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1948-UNITED-FRUIT-COMPANY-Great-White-Fleet-CRUISE-Ship-BROCHURE-Panama-Canal-/362597325140
https://www.vault.com/company-profiles/law/sullivan-cromwell-llp
Dulles Brothers….
https://washingtonsblog.com/2013/11/eisenhowers-drones.html
(Taken from Wikipedia)
Individuals who have worked at Sullivan & Cromwell include:
M. Bernard Aidinoff, partner and chairman of Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association
Ann Althouse, blogger and professor of law
Louis Auchincloss, writer
Michael Bryant
Jay Clayton, current chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Amal Clooney
Norris Darrell, president, American Law Institute
Lori Damrosch [de], president, American Society of International Law
Florence A. Davis, president of the Starr Foundation
Arthur Dean (*** helped form NK cease fire agreement)
Allen Welsh Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence (1953-1961) (Vietnam, Cuba aggression)
John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State (1953-1959)
Ronald Dworkin, philosopher and law professor
Judith Kaye, chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Robert MacCrate, counsel to New York Governor Nelson D. Rockefeller, special counsel to the Department of the Army for its investigation of the My Lai Massacre
Keith Rabois
Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice of the United States
Peter Thiel, technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist and co-founder of PayPal
Joseph Tsai, vice chairman of Alibaba Group
Mark Wiseman, Head of Global Active Equity and Chairman of the Global Investment Committee, BlackRock; former president & chief executive officer, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Paul Mahoney, former dean, University of Virginia Law School
Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, Judge of the Supreme Court of India
8chan/8kun QResearch CANADA Posts (6)
#13878545 at 2021-06-11 15:18:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #20: Anons Accelerate, Adversaries Agonized Edition
BlackRock and Real Estate Bun
>>13874800 Mark Wiseman, BlackRock and Century Initiative
>>13874813 Three links (video no longer available)
>>13874927 Right now Blackrock is buying every single family house they can get their hands on
>>13874942 Canadian pension funds are seeking to boost their real estate investments
>>13875476 50 years ago they figured out that discouraging private property ownership was a depopulation measure
>>13875888 Tweets by the Century Initiative with Brian Mulroney
>>13875954 What is BlackRock, and why does it matter now in Ottawa? Part One
>>13875957 What is BlackRock, and why does it matter now in Ottawa? Part Two
>>13875973 Articvle by Maclean's
>>13876174 Century Initiative, "our priciples are pluralism"
#13875957 at 2021-06-11 03:53:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #20: Anons Accelerate, Adversaries Agonized Edition
>>13875954
2/2
The New York-based company, which manages US$5.4 trillion in assets, describes itself as a firm that invests on behalf of a wide assortment of clients - from governments, to large institutions, to middle-income people saving for retirement.
The company, founded by CEO Larry Fink in 1988, is also considered an expert in risk management and asset valuation, said Moshe Milevsky, an associate professor of finance at York University's Schulich School of Business.
Milevsky said the company also consults with, and for, firms and governments around the world - including, he noted, the U.S. government during the 2008 financial crisis.
With a company the size of BlackRock, Milevsky said it's likely that it oversees at least a portion of just about every Canadian's retirement nest egg.
"It's almost impossible to talk about them without tip-toeing around the fact that they're an integral part of anything we do in the financial community," said Milevsky, who describes Fink as a "hero" in investment circles.
He noted that publications like The Economist magazine have expressed concerns the firm is getting larger and larger.
"Their expertise is very, very deep - very broad around the world - and that's where the knowledge resides," said Milevsky, who noted BlackRock has recruited many of his students over the years.
"That's not to say we shouldn't be alarmed about the fact that there is one company that has an indirect control of over 10 per cent of world assets."
But Milevsky said if one decided to seek private-sector advice on something like Ottawa's proposed infrastructure bank, he would rank BlackRock at the top of his list.
Laurence Booth, a University of Toronto professor, said he doesn't think Ottawa's decision to seek BlackRock's advice was a conflict of interest because it provided international expertise to government that was unavailable in-house.
"If you're going to sell something to people, you need to know what the customer wants," said Booth, a CIT chair at the Rotman School of Management.
The Liberals' adversaries have tried to cast BlackRock's involvement with the government as an example of its focus on the well-being of big investors rather than Canadians.
"The infrastructure bank boondoggle is just another taxpayer-funded Liberal vanity project," interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose said Tuesday during question period.
"Has the prime minister forgotten that his job is to serve regular working people?"
Matthew Dube, the NDP's parliamentary infrastructure critic, accused the Liberals on Wednesday of developing the infrastructure bank behind closed doors with BlackRock at the table. His party is calling for a full day of House of Commons debate on the issue this Thursday.
Dube insisted Canadians will likely have to pay twice for their infrastructure - first through the federal treasury and then through user fees that will generate corporate profits.
"This thing is chock full of conflicts of interest," Dube said.
The government unveiled the design of the infrastructure bank in November. The announcement came a couple of weeks after the feds' council of economic advisers recommended Ottawa create such an institution in order to lure private capital by offering steady returns through user fees.
The influential advisory council includes powerful executives of institutional investors: Michael Sabia, head of Quebec's public pension fund manager, and Mark Wiseman, the former president and CEO of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
Last May, BlackRock announced Wiseman had joined the company as a senior managing director.
In November, Trudeau participated in a summit hosted by the federal government that brought together some of the world's most powerful institutional investors - with a combined $21 trillion at their disposal.
Ottawa, which used the opportunity to promote Canada as an attractive place to invest, engaged BlackRock to invite its clients to the event. Fink and Trudeau were to deliver the opening reMarks, according to a draft agenda.
In the lead-up to the summit, BlackRock reportedly participated in biweekly conference calls with Infrastructure Canada and the Privy Council Office to create a presentation Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi was to deliver to the investors.
BlackRock says it has organized similar events in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, India, Mexico and the U.S.
"Our role in assisting to organize the summit included logistical planning, helping the government establish more relationships with global investors and providing directional feedback on Canadian long-term investment opportunities they might be interested in," a BlackRock spokeswoman wrote in an email statement.
"Any investments in Canada that may ultimately result from the summit's discussions would likely be made directly by an investor and wouldn't necessarily include BlackRock or a BlackRock-advised fund."
#12074251 at 2020-12-18 03:44:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #11: Locked in at Home for the Holidays
>>12074178
Follow the wives Q says…John Poulos leads us to the Century Initiative that Canada's ambassador to China co-founded in Canada
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Willa Black is the VP, Corporate Affairs of Cisco Canada and is married to Donald Jarvis, who is related to the deceased Canadian politician and lawyer Bob Jarvis. Jarvis served as a Member of Parliament for Joe Clark and later was the Chairmann of the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Willa Black founded the One Million Acts of Green campaign in partnership with CBC, Canada's state-run media. This campaign went global with supporters like David Suzuki and others. Black serves on the Century Initiative, a group that advocates for open border policies to ensure a population of 100 million individuals by the year 21000. The current Canadian population is estimated at 37 million. The Century Initiative was co-founded by Mark Wiseman and Dominic Barton. Wiseman is of Blackrock and Barton is Canada's ambassador to China who also sat on the advisory board of state-run China Development Bank. Also on the board of Century Initiative is: Andrew Pickersgill, McKinsey & Co's Managing Partner of Canada; and Goldy Hyder, President and CEO of Business Council of Canada and former President and CEO of Hill+Knowlton Strategies.
Black was also involved with the Canada2020 progressive think tank on pushing for investments into the Universal Broadband Fund to connect Canadians with high-speed internet by 2030. She is a current member and former board member of the Canadian Club of Toronto and a member of the Rideau Hall Foundation. She has been pictured with Ahmed Hussein, Canada's former open border Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/fashion-and-beauty/the-next-36/article4475499/ / https://archive.vn/aV8nQ
https://nhhfoundation.ca/board/ian-macvicar / https://archive.vn/vPvmu
https://www.prostatecancer.ca/getmedia/3d07f0c2-6f7c-4095-b072-845bc3ca45b6/01-pcc-annual-report-14-15-web.pdf.aspx
https://camh.ca/en/driving-change/about-camh/performance-and-accountability/annual-report-and-financial-statements/annual-report-2017-2018/thank-you-to-our-donors / https://archive.vn/24bU3
https://strategyonline.ca/1993/07/27/6292-19930727/ / https://archive.vn/G3AlX
https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_ns/2165136
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-p-main-08b1248/
https://reboot2020.org/about/ / https://archive.vn/FWHjm
https://www.womenofinfluence.ca/2011/10/03/willa-black-3 / https://archive.vn/DRnhY
https://www.centuryinitiative.ca/about/our-team / https://archive.vn/wf08L
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theglobeandmail/obituary.aspx?n=robert-jarvis&pid=190006134&fhid=17701
https://www.connectednorth.org/en/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Jarvis
#7730834 at 2020-01-06 13:12:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #3 - Maple Syrup Truth Bomb Edition
>>7730829
7. Jim Leech, ON Teachers' Pension, CIB
CANADA'S DEEP STATE Part 7 - Jim Leech - Ontario Teachers Pension Plan & Architect of the Canada Infrastructure Bank.
Currently the Chancellor of Queen's University after retiring in 2014 as Pres/CEO of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) 2001-2014, one of the world's largest and most innovative pension funds. During his tenure as CEO, Teachers' eliminated its funding deficit and was RANKED FIRST IN THE WORLD amongst peer plans for absolute returns and value-added returns over 5 & 10 years.
Feb.10, 2017 - he was named Special Advisor "to the Prime Minister of Canada" on the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB), working in collaboration with the Privy Council Office, the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, and the Minister of Finance to expedite the swift and successful creation of the CIB
Mr. Leech is also a SENIOR ADVISOR to MCKINSEY & CO. (location & date unknown) & long-term acquaintance of Dominic Barton & Mark Wiseman.
Prior to his appointment as CEO, Mr. Leech headed Teachers' Private Capital as Senior VP, the pension plan's private investing arm where he oversaw the growth in private equity, venture capital, and infrastructure investments from $2B in 2001 to over $20B by 2007
-> This is when he and the fund gained world-wide attention
After retiring from OTPP in 2014, Mr. Leech was also appointed Special Advisor to the Ontario Minister of Finance to review the sustainability of the province's electricity sector pension. His report was accepted by the government and is currently being implemented.
from a Globe & Mail interview Jan.2015:
Is there a particular metric you lean on?
"It's funny, the whole time I was at Teachers, if you asked me on any given day what the stock Market had done, I wouldn't have been able to tell you. But in terms of meaty economic analysis, I put some weight in the World Economic Forum in Davos. That's probably where I got the information."
Also an Honorary Colonel in the Canadian Armed Forces
Check out this speech, from Jim Leech.
#7730821 at 2020-01-06 13:08:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #3 - Maple Syrup Truth Bomb Edition
>>7730819
4. Canada Infrastructure Bank
Canada's Deep State Part 4 - Canada Infrastructure Bank
The Canada infrastructure Bank (CIB) has been steeped in controversy since it was first proposed.
The Liberal's 2015 election promise was to provide low-cost financing to municipalities for infrastructure projects, as a vehicle for Ottawa to use its strong credit rating and lending authority to help municipalities reduce their cost of borrowing.
The Liberal plans evolved considerably since the party first promised an infrastructure bank during that election campaign - there was no mention of attracting private capital. The role of the proposed Canadian Infrastructure Development Bank was to attract financing from institutional investors to fund projects over the next 10 years as a Crown corporation.
Dominic Barton and Michael Sabia sketched out the infrastructure bank idea at the Public Policy Forum summit in Oct. 2016, a more ambitious plan in which the bank would gather and prioritize large projects that could earn revenue, such as electrical networks, and that attract billions in added international investment.
Sounds an awful lot like McKinsey's "for-profit public-sector work" and advising governments.
The proposal to entice global pension funds into major Canadian investments goes far beyond anything promised to date by the federal Liberals, but Finance Minister Bill Morneau - who worked directly with the panel over the past several months - signalled a strong openness to the recommendations announced Thursday.
However, the panel's 14 members include leaders of some of those institutional investors, including Mark Wiseman, senior managing director of BlackRock Inc., and Michael Sabia, CEO of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec pension fund.
Examples of potential projects listed... include toll highways and bridges, high-speed rail, port and airport expansions, city infrastructure, national broadband infrastructure, power transmission and natural resource infrastructure.
PM hopes to attract billions in private capital for infrastructure
Trudeau takes his foreign-investment agenda to investors, two weeks after announcing an infrastructure bank.
He will be accompanied by nine members of cabinet, including Finance Minister Bill Morneau, Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi, Transport Minister Marc Garneau, and Health Minister Jane Philpott. Trudeau and four of the ministers also are set to make their pitch to about a dozen Canadian investors - insurance companies and big pension funds like the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board - in the morning before meeting with the international investors in the afternoon.
Attracting billions in private-sector capital for "transformative" infrastructure projects is key to the Liberal government's lonhg-term strategy to boost Canada's sluggish economic growth.
#7730816 at 2020-01-06 13:06:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #3 - Maple Syrup Truth Bomb Edition
>>7730814
2. CPPIB, Blackrock, Mark Wiseman
CANADA'S DEEP STATE Part 2
Now that ambassador Dominic Barton has been identified as the architect, let's look at some of his buddies and their connections with BlackRock and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB)
Born in Niagara Falls Ontario, Mark Wiseman became a Senior Managing Director at BlackRock NYC in 2016 as Global Head of Active Equities for BlackRock and Chairman of BlackRock Alternative Investors. He also serves as Chairman of the firm's Global Investment Committee and on its Global Executive Committee.
He was President and CEO of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) 2012-2016 after starting there in 2005 as Senior Vice-President, Private Investments.
Prior to joining CPPIB, Mark was responsible for the private equity fund and co-investment program at the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. He has worked at Harrowston Inc., a publicly traded Canadian merchant bank, and as a lawyer with Sullivan & Cromwell, where he practiced in New York and Paris.
He also served as a law clerk to Madam Justice Beverley McLachlin at the Supreme Court of Canada - ring a bell? During the Justice Committee hearings with Jody Wilson-Raybould about the SNC-Lavalin Scandal, Buttsputin & Clerk of the Privy Council had insisted Jody talk with her for "advice".
But the BlackRock ties don't stop there.
BlackRock Canada CEO is Marcia Moffat since 2015- who just happens to be Mark Wiseman's wife - based in Toronto. Mark returns home to Toronto on weekends from New York. She was formerly with RBC under Janice Fukakusa (see pic)
Wiseman is also the Chairman of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization that encourages longer-term approaches in business and investing, which was set up by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow, McKinsey & Company and Tata in 2016.
Mark is also a member of the Advisory Council on Economic Growth, which advises Finance Minister MORNEAU on economic policies to achieve long-term, sustainable growth. Mark serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including Sinai Health Services in Toronto, the Capital Markets Institute and the Dean's Advisory Board at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
At CPPIB, Wiseman made a name for himself by opening offices and pursuing investments abroad, particularly in South America and South Asia.
CPP investment chief Mark Wiseman to make surprise exit after nearly four years at helm.
While the one source characterized his departure as amicable, another source familiar with CPPIB's inner workings said there was friction on leadership issues.
"...some questioned whether it was only the CPP's interests that were being promoted" His years as CEO at CPPIB have been Marked by a stream of deals, ranging from a lucrative early investment in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.
In 2015 - Why the head of Canada's biggest pension fund is bullish on energy.
Mark Wiseman says CPPIB is looking at a range of investments from buying equity and partnering on acquisitions to outright takeovers
Mark Wiseman, who runs Canada's biggest pension fund, offered the Davos crowd last week a two-pronged argument on why he's bullish on energy assets after the recent plunge in oil prices.
Wiseman said that simple supply and demand perspective all but guarantees oil prices will be higher 10 years down the road, offering investment opportunities now for the $234 billion fund. "I'll take that bet" on oil's rebound, he said in an interview Tuesday at Bloomberg's Toronto office.
"We see a lot of value in the Western Canadian basin," he said, noting that oil sands projects are on his radar.
"WE LIKE COMPANIES THAT HAVE GOOD UNDERLYING ASSETS AND BAD BALANCE SHEETS. That's the perfect scenario for us."
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He encouraged the Canadian federal and provincial governments to look to jurisdictions like Australia, where state governments are given incentives to invest in infrastructure and court outside funding.
In the meantime, Canada Pension is looking to places like China, India and Brazil.