Choppers, Plots, and Cold Hard Cash
Two decades ago, Joe Clark was evicted from the leadership of his own party. For years, there have been sinister rumours about the 'Dump Joe Clark' movement. The rumours include that foreign money helped to do the dumping and there was a right-wing plot to install a Tory leader who was friendlier to big business and more enthusiastic about tearing down obstacles to foreign trade. the fifth estate sheds some light on that definitive moment in Canadian history through a story about a helicopter purchase and some secret payola. The payola scheme might explain in part how the foreigners who helped to pay to dump Joe Clark got their money back. Two of the key people who helped bankroll the movement to remove Joe Clark and install Brian Mulroney as Tory leader were an enigmatic tycoon named Walter Wolf, and Karlheinz Schreiber, best known as the mysterious Airbus middleman. |
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About the Airbus Affair
 For more than a decade, the fifth estate has investigated rumours and allegations surrounding the 1988 sale of 34 Airbus A-320 jets to Air Canada and the mysterious dealmaker, Karlheinz Schreiber.
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