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这个内容不知道怎么排标题格式,麻烦版主通融下
给“人民网”补充一点背景资料“达赖窜访加拿大卡尔加里市留下债务”
刚才拜阅了Mujica 网友的转贴:
http://bbs.m4.cn/thread-210926-1-1.html
觉得挺有意思的,顺便网上搜了一下~~
这个新闻英文背景原文出处
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/peace-and-harmony-event-leaves-bitter-legacy/article1376565/
果然是不少钱啊~~
加拿大《环球邮报》:达赖两天布道 留下—堆债务
2009-12-09来源: 作者:http://www.tibet328.cn/tj/200912/t489260.htm
中国西藏信息中心消息:加拿大《环球邮报》11月25日刊登一篇文章,披露达赖到加拿大卡尔加里“演讲”后,当地参与活动的供应商和演出者总共被欠了30万加元的债务。文章摘译如下:
“世界的和平使者”来到卡尔加里,在他的布道活动之后留下了一堆麻烦事。
在达赖喇嘛来访之后的几个礼拜里,在参与举办来访活动的人们中间充满了相互指责声和诉诸法律的威胁声。这些人在为活动付出人力物力之后,却发现他们有成千加元的债务没有收回来。
这个结果昨天最终导致了一个高调的野玫瑰联盟党(WILDROSE)党员(活动的举办者)的辞职,这个成为新贵的党派正在挑战在艾伯塔省执政的保守党。这个结果带来了一个担忧:卡尔加里今后还能不能吸引高端的演讲者来做客?
为期两天的达赖喇嘛的来访活动使卡尔加里着迷了,这次活动以南非前总统德·克勒克 (F.W.de Klerk)的出席和凯蒂莲·朗 (k.d.1ang) 、布赖恩·亚当斯 (Bryan Adams)的音乐会为特色,达赖喇嘛戴白色宽边帽的照片上了当地报纸的头版。这位藏人领袖的演讲吸引了大约15000人来到潘葛洛体育馆(Pengrowth Saddledome),每位听众支付的票价都在25—75加元之间。
参加为期两天的全程活动的票价要花费好几百加元。
活动结束两个月之后,一些演出者和组织者仍然没有拿到报酬,包括参与了废除种族隔离制度的南非前总统德·克勒克先生(Mr·de Klerk)。整个活动在“卡特麦克雷项目公司”(Carter McRaeEvents)的运营下留下了300000加元无法偿付的债务,该公司被卡尔加里大学雇用来协调运营整个活动项目,卡特麦克雷项目公司告诉一个供货商说:项目赔钱了,债务无法支付。
一个没有拿到报酬的声音艺术卡尔加里公司(Sound Art Calgary Inc.)的老板丹·弗雷里克斯(Dan Frerichs)说:“他们没有钱来支付任何人”,该公司有51000加元欠款没有拿回来。老板丹·弗雷里克斯(Dan Frerichs)说:“钱都到哪里去了?这是我的问题”。
这次事件导致好几家公司诉诸了法律诉讼手段,事件也激怒了为活动出力的本地工人们,这些本地工人们曾亲眼看着自己的城市卡尔加里这些年里成为世界级的演讲圈子里的一员,比尔·克林顿、乔治·布什、艾伦·格林斯潘等名人都来这里做过演讲。
参加活动的工人们说:“尽管其它领导人是被不同的公司带到卡尔加里来的,但这次达赖喇嘛来访之后留下的混乱污损了我们城市的形象。”
有70000加元债务没有收回的AVW-TELAV公司在加拿大西部的负责人珍妮特·班尼特(Janet Bennett)说:“每天晚上报纸上都在说我们把这么多名人带进来是一件多么自豪的事情,但结果是我们为活动出力的供货商和参与者没有得到报酬!这影响了这个城市和它的声誉。”
这也给野玫瑰联盟党带来了问题,因为这个党派雇用斯蒂芬·卡特(Stephen Carter)作为战略分析师。而斯蒂芬·卡特正是负责本次项目运营的卡特麦克雷(Carter McRae)公司的合伙老板之一。
斯蒂芬·卡特上周也为另外一个事件向公众道歉,他在Twitter上发表的言论被一些人认为是对艾伯塔省首相埃德·斯特默(Ed Stelmach)的乌克兰式习惯的贬损。
在回答《环球邮报》昨天的提问时,野玫瑰联盟党发言人肖恩·霍华德(Shawn Howard)表示斯蒂芬·卡特辞去了在野玫瑰联盟党的职务。他说:“他不希望这些商业上的事情对野玫瑰联盟党带来不利影响,不希望政治对手利用这件事来反对党的领导人丹尼尔·史密斯(Danielle Smith)。”
在一次采访中,斯蒂芬·卡特说他本人在事件中遭受到的损失比其他人更惨痛。他说:“我晕了头,其他人也晕了头。很多人都被这个事给毁了,没有人比我更伤心、更感到抱歉。我在这件事上损失了太多太多。我知道我的很多供货商有成千上万的钱没有收回来,但我也多了二十多万加元的个人债务。”
负责本次项目运营的卡特麦克雷公司12年前成立,这家公司是卡尔加里最主要的活动承办者和组织商。这家公司的老板是斯蒂芬·卡特(Stephen Carter)和他的妻子希瑟·麦克瑞(Heather McRae),有9位员工,并以从事道德方面的活动项目的经营而著称。
据斯蒂芬·卡特说,自从今年夏天开始,问题就已经出现了。他的公司被雇用去组织在卡尔加里南部举办的2009年滑水世界锦标赛,那次活动给公司带来了400000加元的赤字。
在组织达赖喇嘛这次演讲项目的过程中,斯蒂芬·卡特也是赔进去了很多钱。
邀请达赖喇嘛来访的卡尔加里大学成为了法律诉讼的被告,因为他们通过卡特麦克雷公司而欠了债。——这一切,都是那次本想要传递和平与和谐的活动带来的。(来源:NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE,GLOBE AND MAIL 加拿大《环球邮报》 任文启译,张海燕、宁真、丁丁校)
Peace-and-harmony event leaves bitter legacy
Suppliers and performers are owed $300,000 for the gathering around the Dalai Lama's visit in Calgary this fall
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CALGARY — From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
Published on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009 12:00AM EST
Last updated on Friday, Dec. 04, 2009 2:07AM EST
When the world's ambassador of peace came to Calgary, he left a battle in his wake.
The weeks following the Dalai Lama's visit to the city in September have been filled with furious recriminations and threats of lawsuits among those who contributed to the event only to find out later they would not be paid the thousands of dollars they are owed.
The fallout led yesterday to the resignation of a high-profile member of the upstart Wildrose Alliance Party, which is challenging Alberta's ruling Progressive Conservatives, and to worries about Calgary's ability to host high-profile speakers in the future.
The two-day Dalai Lama event enthralled Calgary, featuring an appearance by former South African leader F.W. de Klerk and concerts by k.d. lang and Bryan Adams. Pictures of the Dalai Lama wearing a white Stetson made local newspaper front pages, while the Tibetan leader's speech attracted 15,000 to the Pengrowth Saddledome, each paying ticket prices between $25 and $75.
Tickets for the full two-day event cost several hundred dollars.
Almost two months later, some performer expenses have not been paid, including those of Mr. de Klerk, the former South African president who helped abolish apartheid. In total, the event has left $300,000 in unpaid bills after Carter McRae Events, which was hired by the University of Calgary to co-ordinate the occasion, told a supplier that the event "lost money," leaving it "completely insolvent."
"They have no money to pay anybody," said Dan Frerichs, the owner of Sound Art Calgary Inc., which is owed $51,000.
"Where did the money go is my question."
The debacle has several companies pursuing their legal options and has infuriated city event workers, who have watched Calgary become part of the world speaking circuit. In recent years, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Alan Greenspan have all come here.
But though other leaders have been brought to town by different companies, the Dalai Lama mess may tarnish the city's image, event workers say.
"It was on the news every night how proud Calgary was to have brought these people in - and then we turn around and don't pay the guest speakers, we don't pay the suppliers," said Janet Bennett, the Western Canada regional director for AVW-TELAV, an audio-visual company that is owed just under $70,000.
"It affects the city and its reputation."
It has also cast questions over the Wildrose party, which hired Stephen Carter, the co-owner of Carter McRae, as a strategist.
Mr. Carter was forced to apologize last week after making Twitter comments that some saw as derogatory to Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach's Ukrainian heritage.
Following inquiries by The Globe and Mail yesterday, Wildrose spokesman Shawn Howard said Mr. Carter resigned from the party position because "he did not want these business issues becoming a distraction and did not want political opponents to be able to use that against [Wildrose leader] Danielle [Smith]."
In an interview, Mr. Carter said he was as much the victim as those with unpaid bills.
"I got screwed. And in turn others got screwed," he said. "There's lots of people devastated by this. And no one is more sorry or sad than I am. ... I lost an awful lot through this. I know that a lot of my suppliers are on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars, but I added an extra $200,000-plus to my own personal debt."
Carter McRae Events was formed 12 years ago and became one of the leading events organizations in Calgary. Owned by Mr. Carter and his wife, Heather McRae, it had a staff of nine and a reputation as an ethical business.
According to Mr. Carter, the problems started this summer. His company was hired to organize the Water Ski World Championship 2009, which was held south of Calgary, and oversaw most of the financial aspects of the event.
But when it did not make the money it expected to, Mr. Carter was left with just over $400,000 in red ink, which the event's backers have been unwilling to pay, he said.
He also lost a significant sum of money from the Dalai Lama event, after representatives for the spiritual leader challenged his ability to profit from the speech through higher ticket prices, he said.
"Anything we tried to do to increase the revenue, the Dalai Lama's people said no to," he said. "And ultimately, the event just couldn't generate enough revenue."
Combined, the two flops left him with about $700,000 in unpaid bills, more than he could handle, he said.
But Mr. Carter's story was challenged by the water ski event organizers.
"It's true we haven't paid him. But that presupposes that we owe him something. And there's no way in heck I'm prepared to say that, because the accounting is just an absolute mess," said Kim Reid, a lawyer who volunteered with the championship.
The University of Calgary, which invited the Dalai Lama, is owed money by Carter McRae, but it may, through its own involvement and the tangle of financial transactions, also become the target of lawsuits - all thanks to an event meant to spread peace and harmony.
"The irony," Mr. Carter said, "is not lost on me."
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