The bastard turned his back on Canada, relinquishing being a Canadian to become a Prickish Lord. He gave up his soul for a trinket. Screw him.
Mr. Black, who was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1990, was convicted in the United States of fraud. He has exhausted all of his appeals and returned to a Florida prison this month to serve the remainder of his sentence. With good behaviour, he could be released in May.
He has also been in the news of late after releasing a new memoir – and suing his former business partner, David Radler, who became the prosecution’s chief witness against him. Losing the Order of Canada would be a final humiliation for the 67-year-old, who gave up his Canadian citizenship in 2001 to become a life peer in Britain’s House of Lords.
Despite his conviction he keeps his membership in the House of Lords as it requires an act of Parliament to be revoked.
Only four people have been stripped of their Orders of Canada. The criteria state that the council shall consider “termination of a person’s appointment to the Order of Canada if the personal has been convicted of a criminal offence.”
