UFCW Canadian Director Cliff Evans, was the Chairman of the pension investment committee that flowed $15 million to Kelly to finance the purchase of the hotel - and that was just the beginning. Incoming UFCW Canadian Director Tom Kukovica gushed about controlling the "investment destiny" of all those millions.
"Besides putting money directly back into the pockets of the membership, the joint trusteeship of pension plans between the UFCW and its various employers has permitted the union to control the investment destiny of millions of dollars."
(Tom Kukovica, Our Times Magazine, 1993)