Exceptional!   
      
   (La version française suit.)   
      
      
   Viking   
   =====   
   I have a Swedish Viking family name: Selin (pronounced: say'leen)   
      
      
   Métis   
   ====   
   - my maternal grand-father, Émile Desjardins, was a Métis from Cornwall, ON   
      
   - my maternal grand-mother, 1st Nations, one of 24 children, Dora Piché,    
     was a trapper   
     (Her tribe was moved by the Catholic Church from the Island of Montreal    
       to the other side of the the Ottawa River across from Hawkesbury, ON)   
      
   - my paternal step-grandmother,  Monica Carrier, from St-Vital (Winnipeg)   
     was Louis Riel's granddaughter: she had me become an altar boy at the    
     age of 10 at Nassau Lake when the Mass was in Latin   
      
      
   Family   
   =====   
   - father of 3 children   
      
   - grandfather of 5 grandchildren   
      
   - left home at the age of 18   
      
   - oldest of 7 children: 3 boys + 4 girls   
      
   - my grandfathers were "jobbers": they hired lumberjacks   
      
   - my mother worked (with her dad + brother) as a lumberjack    
     from the age of 13 to 18 - outside of Atikokan, ON   
      
   - my mother started her high school through correspondence,    
     finished her high school with Canada Manpower + went to    
     Nipissing University, North Bay   
      
      
   Businessman   
   ==========   
   - President of K+, speed.htm   
      
   - teach Forkner stenography + sell Forkner stenography products   
      
      
   Political Leader   
   ===========   
   - created Canada’s only anti-fascist political party, the É(eh)PC,    
     August 5th 2001   
      
      
   Unionist   
   ======   
   - did the PSAC Union Steward Course (though unemployed), March, 1985   
      
   - got the union, PSAC, on Parliament Hill single-handedly with union    
     organizer, Yolande Viau, 1984   
      
      
   Country Boy   
   =========   
   - spent my 1st 14 years in a French-speaking (Old French dialect spoken    
     in the Abitibi, North-Western Quebec, my mother's tongue) lumber village   
     (with 3 gravel streets) at Nassau Lake,  "The Camp", (35 miles west of    
     Hearst) owned by my grandpa's company, Henry Selin Forest Products, the   
     largest privately owned lumber business in Northern Ontario, the main   
     employer in the region, whose technology was ahead of its times producing    
     0.5 million lumber feet a year. (My Dad was vice president.) (My grandpa    
     was a teenager when he came with his family from the middle of Sweden to   
     Canada.)   
      
      
   Education   
   =======   
   - 15 years of full-time university + 3 years part+time + 1 year of    
     full-time college   
      
   - worked 9 years full-time while attending university full-time   
      
   - completed 5 university degrees - in the top 5%: B.A.(Psychology),    
     B.A.(Spanish), B.Admin., B.Comm.(Honours), B.A.(Italian) "magna cum laude"   
      
   - completed almost 5 other university degrees: in education,    
     philosophy, classical studies, linguistics + German   
      
   - did my universities in English + French   
      
   - have an office automation college diploma: earned an "A" mark   
      
   - have a software troubleshooting college certificate: earned an "A" mark   
      
   - am multilingual : studied 11 languages at university, a degree in Spanish    
     + one in Italian   
      
   - was an honoured guest at the inauguration of the University of Ottawa    
     B.A. Arabic programme, February, 2006    
     (Before leaving the hall, the 3rd year student who gave her speech in    
      Arabic was intentionally brought over to me so I could speak to her.)   
      
   - completed my Grade 13 in a French high school, École secondaire Algonquin,   
     North Bay   
      
   - was the sole high school representative of Schollard Hall, (North Bay),   
     in the Young Voyageur Program, 1971: spent a week on Vancouver Island   
      
   - was THE POOR BOY whose mother was a widow with 7 children living on the    
     other side of the tracks in West Ferris in North Bay: when THE arrogant +   
     pretentious RICH BOYS at Schollard Hall asked for MY BUS MONEY, I immedi-    
     ately gave it to them unquestioningly + walked 6 miles home determined    
     to do better than them - in the long run.   
      
   - was an altar boy for 8 years: served Mass in Latin, French + English   
      
      
   Work Experience   
   =============   
   - did 100+ jobs:    
     > 9 years part-time at University of Ottawa: barman, receptionist in    
                                                  the residences, security    
                                                  guard at the University    
                                                  Centre + at the dances   
                                                  on campus + handyman   
     > 85+ jobs in 25+ Gov’t departments,    
     > worked in call centres doing - telemarketing + surveys   
                                    - Internet, cable modem + Compaq    
                                      Presario troubleshooting    
      
   - Chief Senate of Canada Page - when Joe Clark was Prime Minister   
      
   - was the only Senate of Canada page chosen to meet Prince Harry    
     along with the athletes of Canada at the Governor General's    
     Residence at Rideau Hall, Winter, 1977   
      
   - in Grade 13 worked at 2 part-time jobs at North Bay's Odeon movie    
     theatre as usher + weekend janitor   
      
   - in Grade 12, I walked 1 mile to shovel snow around Holy Name Church,    
     the rectory + the garage; then, I shovelled the driveway of one of    
     the parishioners a block away before going to my Catholic private    
     boys’ school, Schollard Hall - 5 miles away   
      
      
   Military   
   =====   
   - worked at the National Defence Headquarters   
      
   - successfully completed booth camp training at CFB (Canadian Forces    
     Base) Petawawa, ON   
      
      
   International Intelligence Experience   
   ==========================   
   - 40 years   
      
   - volunteer   
      
   - Cold war veteran: received a personal "last minute" invitation (shortly    
     after becoming Chief Senate of Canada Page) to meet Mr. Gorbachev who    
     was with two (2) other persons in the Senate of Canada Reading Room,    
     June 1980   
      
   - helped end the war in Lebanon, February, 1989   
      
   - saved President’s Arafat’s life from Ottawa, Dec. 13th 2001:    
     this put me under really "severe" RCMP surveillance   
      
      
   Winner   
   =====   
   - won the Christopher Leadership pin   
      
   - received the Embassy of Italy Award for the highest standing in Italian   
      
   - won the Chess trophy + Lion's Club Melvin Jones trophy, Hearst Public School   
      
      
   ¡Oiga! mis amigos   
   americanos de habla hispana,    
   quiero compartir con vosotros mí sueño profundo:   
      
   ¡Ojala!    
      
   Encabezaré le rezo del rosario en español a Guadalupe cuando será Presidente    
   de Canadá en honor de la Morena del Tepeyac y del jefe mestizo canadiense,    
   Louis Riel, el abuelo de mi abuelastra, Monica Carrier, para la prosperidad    
      
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