While it has received no
attention from the mainstream media up to this point in time, a recent tweet by D.
Matthew Millar is quite interesting, given that John Baird, Stephen
Harper's former parliamentary pitbull and right-hand man, was travelling on the taxpayers'
nickel when he met with Barrick Gold Corporation at their annual dinner in Switzerland
on January 24th, 2015:
Russna Klosters is
located near Davos, Switzerland which was the location for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting which was
held between the 21st and 24th of January, 2015. This meeting was
attended by Canada's former Minister of Foreign Affairs who resigned his
position on February 3, 2015. For those of you who
aren't aware or who haven't been privileged enough to receive an invitation, the meeting with Barrick was held at Chalet Viti Levu, the Swiss chalet owned
by the founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Barrick Gold Corporation, Peter Munk.
In case you've forgotten,
John Baird was appointed to serve on Barrick's Advisory
Board (along with Newt Gingrich) after finishing a "distinguished
career" in politics, information that was released to the public on March
27, 2015 in Barrick's 2014 annual report as shown
here:
Just in case you were curious, here are the expenses and details of the travel that were claimed by
John Baird for the period between January 12 to January 27, 2015 which took him
from Egypt to Israel and on to Davos, Switzerland and Saudi Arabia:
You'll note that there is
no mention of Barrick in his rather detailed itinerary. Not that there's anything wrong with that....
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