Guy Saint-Pierre, former President and C.E.O of SNC and former Chairman of the Board at the Royal Bank of Canada
Behaviours: -
1. In July 1991, Guy Saint-Pierre allowed an entire floor of office
furniture at SNC s Montreal , Quebec H.Q. to be seized for non-payment of Court
judgement in my wrongful dismissal suit. He either would not or could not discipline SNC s law
firm, Dunton Rainville, Toupin and Perreault.
2. In August 1991, after SNC still did not pay, he
allowed SNC s Royal Bank of Canada
account to be seized. He was also a Director of the Royal Bank at the time and was still kept on
by then-Pressident and C.E.O. Allan R. Taylor and his nominated successor John
E. Cleghorn even after I sent them documented reports about Guy Saint-Pierre’s conduct.
3. Shortly after this happened, I was told by my own
lawyer – William I. Miller, Q.C. – that Guy Saint-Pierre
had fired SNC s own law firm, namely Dunton Rainville, Toupin and
Perreault
4. After I told Guy Saint-Pierre to pay me $1.5 million in return for
keeping quiet, and copying the letter(s) to Allan R. Taylor and John E.
Cleghorn, he responded
merely by pointing to my legal case which he claimed settled the dispute
between me and SNC fully and
satisfactorily, and said he would turn the matter over to lawyers again
if he saw fit. He was
supported in this by letters to me from from the Royal Bank’s *R.F. (Rob) Edwards on behalf
of both Taylor and Cleghorn, and also from a Michel Corbeil who was
assistant to the late Quebec Premier
Robert Bourassa; all dismissed it as a - legal
matter - as an excuse for doing nothing. All this amounted to was an excuse by all of them to feed
large sums of money to lawyers, so as to force me to do likewise which they all
knew I could not do. As such, it was mere business snobbery in the most odious
and objectionable form designed to cover up blatantly obvious corruption on the
part of a small and narrow-minded social and professional clique - consisting of Guy Saint-Pierre, Allan R. Taylor, John E. Cleghorn, R.F. (Rob) Edwards, (Premier
Bourassa s) Michel Corbeil and their lawyers. Guy Saint-Pierre’s stance, in particular, had no
credibility whatsoever when he had fired SNC s own law firm for their conduct.
5. The above events coincided with the take-over of
Lavalin Inc. by SNC, after Lavalin Inc. got into insuperable financial
difficulties. SNC paid a reported $90 million to purchase Lavalin s assets from
a consortium of 9 banks which had seized them. Thus SNC and Guy Saint-Pierre, by
allowing SNC s Royal Bank account to be seized, hazarded the continued
operation of both SNC and Lavalin and hence the contracts which were their
sources of revenues.
6. There are additional matters. But these are detailed
elsewhere on the site and simply represent extensions of the corruption already
summarized above.
* Note : *R.F. (Rob) Edwards – in 1992, he was Manager, Quality Coordination at Royal Bank of Canada, Head Office, P.O. Box 6001, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3A9
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1. CURRENT (2007):
Previous involvement with Human Resources and Corporate Governance at
Alcan (retired EARLY 2007)
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2. CURRENT (2007):
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Guy Saint-Pierre s
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I would question whether someone like Guy Saint-Pierre should be involved with it, based on doubtful personal qualities which appeared in his dealings with me.
3. (2006):
Involvement in fund-raising for the University of Ottawa
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4. 2004: His retirement as Chairman of the Board of
the Royal Bank of Canada, and his reputation there.
5. 2003: He becomes a Companion of the Order of Canada
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6. 2002: His biography on the Royal Bank of Canada web
site, when he was Chairman of the Board
there.
7. 2002: Awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the
University of Ottawa
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8. 1999: Appointed 1999 National Campaign Chair for
the New Canada Savings Bonds Payroll Program by Paul Martin, when former Prime
Minister Paul Martin was still federal Minister of Finance
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HERE
9. 1998: Institute of Corporate Directors : recipient
of Fellowship Award
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10. Order of Canada appointment, after I objected to
it in writing with a documented report – described and documented elsewhere on
this site.
11. Co-Chair
of 1991 Centraide fund-raising campaign
in Montreal, Quebec, and then explains how well SNC did in the company’s
1991 Annual Report. Described and documented elsewhere on this site. This is
what some people do, to look good in the public eye, and make it appear
that people such as Robert T. Chisholm have gone mad, or are talking
nonsense, or some such. My assessment: this is Canada, and what you might
expect by way of power-grabbing by little Quebecois with big inferiority
complexes and something to hide.