Power Corp. & the Desmarais Family

As Power Corp.'s Paul Desmarais quietly steps out of the picture, he's giving his progeny the keys to a $3.8-billion family fortune and a legacy of political clout that will be nearly impossible to maintainThe Globe and Mail Update, Konrad Yakabuski, 26 May 2006The Desmarais family, a London Daily Telegraph reporter explained to her readers in 2004, is "Canada's equivalent of the Rockefellers or