Neil Paterson

Neil Paterson is a politician, former leader of the Natural Law Party of Canada, a senior official of the Transcendental Meditation movement,^[1] and majority owner of Global Gold Corporation.^[2]

Early life and education

Paterson was born and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada^[3][4] and received a doctorate from Maharishi European Research University.^[5]

Career

Paterson is a senior official of the Transcendental Meditation movement.^[1] Paterson served as a director of the for-profit project, Maharishi Veda Land Canada, whose goal was to create a theme park near Niagara Falls, Ontario, and the chief administrator of Maharishi Heaven on Earth Development Corp., a company which owned Maharishi Veda Land Canada and other real estate ventures.^[6]

In 1992, Paterson was a founding member of the Natural Law Party of Canada.^[7] He led the Party through three elections including the 1993, 1997 and 2000 federal elections. According to a senior member, the high point of the party's history was when Paterson participated in a debate on MuchMusic in 1993.^[8] In political advertisements, Paterson was identified with the title, "Governor-General of the Age of Enlightenment for North America"^[6] and has also used the title "Director of Financial Capital of Canada to Crown the Nation with Invincibility".^[1] Magician Doug Henning, was the most famous member of the party and many voters mistook Henning as the party leader instead of Paterson.^[9] Paterson unsuccessfully sought election to the Canadian House of Commons in the Ottawa Centre electoral district, winning 328 votes in 1993, 211 in 1997, and 110 in 2000.^{[citation needed]}

Patterson and others created the "Salt Spring Island Maharishi Invincibility Centre".^[1]

Personal life

He was living in The Glebe, a neighborhood of Ottawa, in the 1990s and^[10] later became "among the most well-known residents" of Salt Spring Island, a community near Vancouver Island.^[1]

Paterson owns 92% of Global Gold Corp ^[2][11][12] which in turn owned "more than seven million shares, representing 16%" of Southwestern Resources Corp (SRC). The two companies were involved in a scandal over fraudulent boring samples in 2007.^[2]

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