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Canada has
stripped former media baron, Conrad Black, of the Order of Canada, its highest
honour.
Lord Black
was also removed from the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.
He served
three years in prison in the US for fraud and obstruction of justice, and was
released in 2012.
Lord Black
of Crossharbour remains a member of the UK House of Lords. He was awarded the
Order of Canada, which recognises a lifetime of achievement, in 1990.
In a
statement on Friday, the Canadian government said it had accepted a
recommendation by the Advisory Council for the Order of Canada to remove Lord
Black as an officer of the order.
The Queen's
Privy Council is a board of prominent Canadians appointed to advise the head of
state, the Queen, although for non-ministers it is normally only honorary.
Lord Black,
who was born in Montreal and now lives in Toronto, hosts a Canadian television
show.
He once
controlled Hollinger International, which published the Daily Telegraph and the
Chicago Sun-Times.
In 2007 he
was found guilty in the US of conspiring with other executives to siphon off
millions of dollars from the sale of newspapers as they unwound Hollinger.
Some of
those convictions were later overturned, and his sentence shortened to 42
months.
He moved
back to Canada following his release from a Florida prison in May 2012.
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