Roland Michener

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Person.png Roland Michener  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(lawyer, politician, diplomat, deep state operative)
Governor General Roland Michener 1972.jpg
BornApril 19, 1900
Lacombe, Northwest Territories, Canada (Now Alberta)
DiedAugust 6, 1991 (Age 91)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Alma materUniversity of Alberta, Hertford College (Oxford)
SpouseNorah Michener
Member ofRhodes Scholar/1919
Canadian deep state operative who attended the 1961 and 1963 Bilderbergs

Employment.png Governor General of Canada Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
April 17, 1967 - January 14, 1974
Succeeded byJules Léger

Employment.png Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
October 14, 1957 - September 26, 1962

Employment.png Canada/High Commissioner/India

In office
July 9, 1964 - April 9, 1967
Also Nepal

Daniel Roland Michener was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat who served as the 20th governor general of Canada from 1967 to 1974. He attended the 1961 and 1963 Bilderberg conferences, at a time when the US and the Canadian deep state was trying to topple Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.

Education

He studied law at the University of Alberta, and received a Rhodes Scholarship that took him to Hertford College at the University of Oxford. There, he played for the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club and met future Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, who became his lifelong friend.

Career

Michener began his political career as a Conservative candidate in the 1945 election as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. He was a minister in the provincial government of Ontario from 1946 to 1948.

Michener then tried to enter federal politics in the 1949 election but was unsuccessful. He was subsequently elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1953, where he represented the Toronto-St. Paul's constituency until 1962, and then became Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada from 1957 to 1962.[1] After his electoral defeat in the 1962 Lower House elections, he returned private business and attained directorships in a number of major Canadian corporations.[2]

He was recalled to public life in 1964 when Prime Minister Pearson cut across party lines to give him a diplomatic post. Between 1964 and 1967 he was accredited as High Commissioner in India and at the same time in Nepal.[3]

On April 17, 1967, he was appointed Governor General of Canada on the advice of his friend Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson.[4], succeeding Georges Vanier.

In 1967, under his patronage, the World Exhibition (Expo 67) was opened in Montreal. During the October crisis of 1970, which was triggered by the kidnapping of the British diplomat James Richard Cross and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labor of Québec Pierre Laporte by the independence organization Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) in October 1970, he signed the War Measures Act.

Jules Léger succeeded him as Governor-General on 14 January 1974.

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/196121 April 196123 April 1961Canada
Quebec
St-Castin
The 10th Bilderberg, the first in Canada and the 2nd outside Europe.
Bilderberg/196329 March 196331 March 1963France
Cannes
Hotel Martinez
The 12th Bilderberg meeting and the second one in France.
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