King Axworthy and the Quest for the Holy Rail: Knowledge Driven Revolution

Hosted by the University of Winnipeg and its President, Lloyd Axworthy, the third annual OmniTRAX/Broe Quest conference recently passed. Quest is touted as a "series for global citizens" that explores concepts such as “education, knowledge, and global citizenship in the 21st century."

In 2004, as part of the inaugural year of Axworthy's Quest, I attended the screening of "Women on Patrol", an NFB documentary about two Canadian women police officers sent to train local police in East Timor, a country that had finally been liberated from the tyrannical rule of General Suharto, leader of one of the most murderous governments of the twentieth century.

I remember watching the documentary, looking at Lloyd, looking at the audience and then realizing that the whole evening seemed like a horrible whitewash.

Back in the late 90s, when Mr. Axworthy was Foreign Affairs Minister, Canada had gingerly profited and supported the genocidal Indonesian regime, and it was only after hundreds of thousands of East Timorese had been murdered, and the UN decided to intervene, that Mr. Axworthy decided to stop Canadian military exports to the regime. Ignoring the protests of the East Timorese Alert Network, Axworthy cleared ten export permits of military equipment between 1996 and 1998. Axworthy has blood on his hands and this conference seemed like a desperate attempt to wash it off.

The only greater irony than Axworthy hosting a night about human rights in Indonesia, is the man being the president of a University. The first time I ever met the "Ax," was when I was a protesting university student and he was the new Liberal government's minister of Human Resource Development charged with the gutting of the Canadian Health and Social Transfer (CHST). By destroying the CHST, Axworthy and the Liberal government created a funding crisis that acted as a doorway for the private sector to come and “save the day” with its investment and corporate efficiency. The neo-liberal agenda to corporatize our health system, our social services and our universities has since spread like a cancer, destroying all that was good about Canada. I remember at the time thinking how could a one-time student radical like Axworthy become everything he hated.

Is it politics? Is it power?

Lloyd Axworthy's most recent book, "Navigating a New World – Canada’s Global Future", is called a "deeply compassionate appeal to confront poverty, war and environmental disaster." The book should be more properly called Navigating an Exploited World While Appeasing Liberal Guilt – Canada’s Colonial Future.

Axworthy's navigating skills perhaps are best revealed by his relationship with the main sponsor of his Quest, his friend Patrick Broe, a Colorado based businessman who owns OmniTRAX, North America's largest private short-line railroad owner. Broe owns the railroad that leads to Churchill and in 1997 he bought the Port of Churchill for the price of 7$. Mr. Axworthy sits on the Port of Churchill Advisory Board. A 2005 New York Times article took note of this deal and declared Broe a rare visionary who could see the positive side of global warming. It is estimated that there is more oil in the Artic Sea than all of Saudi Arabia, and now that the ice is melting, Patrick Broe is set to make a handsome profit transporting artic resources for consumption south of the border

Lloyd Axworthy is doing more than navigating this world. He's conquering it and looking good at the same time!

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