According to a report in the Financial Times "questions over multi-million dollar payments to Lord Black and other Hollinger (newspaper) executives - totalling just under $300m - are likely to signal the end of the maverick publisher's attempts to become one of the world's most influential newspaper proprietors." Former Canadian Conrad Black is a Lord in Britain's caste system and entitled to sit in Parliament as a legislator-for-life. Although Black may be forced out of his remaining position as non-executive chairperson of Hollinger International he cannot be removed from Britain's legislature.