Behaviours,
in conjunction with others:--
1. In July 1991,
SNC President and C.E.O. 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, Guy Saint-Pierre 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-President 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 SNC had fired their 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 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 - quote - legal
matter – unquote - 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 particul;ar, had no
credibility whatsoever when he had fired SNC s own law firm for their conduct.
5. Guy
Saint-Pierre, Allan R. Taylor, John E. Cleghorn, and (Premier Bourassa s) Michel Corbeil and
their lawyers were all parties to the corruption described.
6. 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.
7. Later,
as mentioned elsewhere on this site, John E. Cleghorn succeeded Allan R.
Taylor as President and C.E.O of the Royal Bank of Canada. He also became a
Director of SNC-Lavalin. Later still,
he retired as President and C.E.O. of the Royal Bank and became Chairman of the
Board of SNC-Lavalin replacing Guy Saint-Pierre who then became Chairman of the Board of the Royal Bank of
Canada; thus there was what appears to have been a straight swap between
the two men.
* 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
Definitive
contact details not currently known for Mr. Taylor. Possibilities are
shown here:-
1. Mr.
Taylor has been Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
since 1995 CLICK
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Contact
info:- CLICK HERE
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2. Mr Taylor s ideas on corporate social responsibility:- CLICK HERE
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Quote: (Mr. Taylor gave the said Wilder Penfield lecture in the mid-1990 s) – quote - In the Wilder Penfield lecture, Taylor argued that – quote - the modern corporation is something more than an economic institution —— it is clearly a social one as well, - unquote and so – quote - it must accept community responsibilities as well as private obligations, and play a role in insuring and strengthening the society which gives it existence. Business does not operate in a vacuum - it is part of the society in which it operates and its health depends on society s health.- unquote