Wow, that’s a read. Conrad was outraged by Chretien thwarting his desire to be a Lord by…pointing out the laws of Canada. Renounced his citizenship out of spite after losing two law suits where he attempts to have the courts say the law doesn’t apply to him. And then, after all this, loses his seat due to non-attendance, after he’s been quoted as saying he wants to restart his political career (and then doesn’t). Every step of the way, he touts his exceptionalism due to the large pile of cash he sits atop. And as a cute aside, gets convicted of fraud in the U.S. and is pardoned by Trump, which is pretty damning in my eyes. A true caricature of humanity.

Good stuff U.K.

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Former media baron Conrad Black, who famously tried to sue then-Prime Minister Jean Chrétien in his fight to secure a British peerage, has been removed from the House of Lords over his lax attendance.

Black, who founded the National Post newspaper, went to great lengths to secure that seat — battling the prime minister for two years and ultimately forsaking his Canadian citizenship for two decades.

In 1999, then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair offered Black, a dual Canadian-British citizen, a peerage to hold a seat in the United Kingdom’s upper chamber.

“I was just so enraged at Jean Chrétien’s malice that the only way that I could frustrate him in his success … to oppose my becoming a peer while remaining a Canadian citizen was to do what I did,” Black told the National Post last year.

In the same interview, Black — who was convicted in the U.S. in 2007 on charges of fraud and obstruction of justice and later pardoned by then U.S. President Donald Trump — said his Canadian citizenship was reinstated.

Newly elected U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has vowed to reform the chamber, arguing “too many peers do not play a proper role in our democracy.”

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