Fired Horizon CEO awarded record-breaking $2M in unjust dismissal case against province

February 16, 2023, 6:10 am

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Fired Horizon CEO awarded record-breaking $2M in unjust dismissal case against province

Dr. John Dornan was publicly fired by Premier Blaine Higgs in July after death of patient in ER waiting room

Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon· CBC News · Posted: Feb 16, 2023 6:18 AM AST

Dr. John Dornan held the position of president and CEO of Horizon Health Network for only four months before he was fired. (Horizon Health Network)

The former head of Horizon Health Network has been awarded more than $2 million in his unjust dismissal case against the province after he was publicly fired by the premier last summer following the death of a patient in a Fredericton emergency department waiting room.

Dr. John Dornan's lawyers say it's the largest employment compensation award in the province's history and accurately reflects the losses suffered by their client.

It includes about $385,000 a year for the balance of his five-year contract, plus $200,000 in aggravated damages, which is unprecedented under the Public Service Labour Relations Act, according to his lawyers.

No punitive damages or costs were awarded in the decision the adjudicator issued Wednesday.

Dornan served as president and CEO of Horizon for only four months when Premier Blaine Higgs announced his termination during a news conference July 15 in a major shakeup of New Brunswick's health-care leadership.

"If we don't get better management results in our hospitals, we won't get better health care," Higgs said at the time.

Grievance not just about money

Dornan's grievance wasn't just about the money, said his Toronto-based lawyer Howard Levitt.

"What he was interested in … was reputation protection and vindication," Levitt said in an interview.

Dornan, who had served as interim Horizon president and CEO for about seven months, agreed to take on the role permanently to serve the public and to advance health care in New Brunswick — and took a pay cut to do so, Levitt said.

He gave up his previous positions as regional chief of staff and internal medicine specialist at the Saint John Regional Hospital.

"And then he had his reputation essentially assailed by the government for something he had nothing to do with," Levitt said.

Employment lawyer Howard Levitt said Dornan's reputation was 'so thoroughly vindicated' by the adjudicator's decision Wednesday, he could confidently say his client was 'delighted,' without even having spoken to him. (Levitt LLP)

During the news conference, when Higgs also dropped Dorothy Shephard as health minister and removed the boards of both Horizon and Vitalité, he cited a growing health-care crisis that included the "traumatizing"death of a patient July 12 in the waiting room of the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital's emergency department.

Witness John Staples told CBC News the man, a senior, had been waiting alone in a wheelchair, in visible discomfort, for hours when he appeared to fall asleep. It was only during a routine check of people in the waiting room that a hospital employee realized the man had stopped breathing, he said.

Levitt alleged that Higgs's comments made "it look as if somehow, John Dornan, who of course had nothing to do with what happened in those few hours in that hospital ward, four months after taking the job permanently, was somehow responsible.

"That was the impression given, in any event."

I think what we now know, in very explicit, clear terms, is that problems in our health-care system, and problems in our emergency rooms, are not isolated.

- Kelly VanBuskirk, lawyer

Adjudicator George Filliter found Dornan "had nothing to do with it at all," according to Levitt.

"I think what we now know, in very explicit, clear terms, is that problems in our health-care system, and problems in our emergency rooms, are not isolated," said Dornan's other lawyer, Saint John-based Kelly VanBuskirk.

"Those are unfortunately much more frequent than anyone had hoped, and certainly have been repeated since Dr. Dornan's departure," VanBuskirk said when interviewed with Levitt.

35-year reputation ruined within 40 minutes

Still, in the span of a 40-minute news conference, the reputation of Dornan, an endocrinologist and internal medicine specialist, who has practised medicine in New Brunswick for 35 years, was ruined, his lawyers argue.

In the aftermath, Dornan was interviewed twice for a similar job in another province, but negotiations suddenly ended "because they heard from New Brunswick some negative commentary about the circumstances of his termination," Levitt said.

That's why the adjudicator took the unprecedented step of not only awarding aggravated damages, but such a high amount, he said.

He "looked at all the facts and said [the province] really muddied [Dornan's] reputation when he's a guy who's operated with pure integrity, and was untouched in cross-examination of the case, acted in good faith, and was badly treated," Levitt said.

Dornan did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Province is reviewing the decision

CBC has also requested a comment from the Premier's Office.

The province is "aware of the decision," said Department of Health spokesperson Adam Bowie.

"We are reviewing it and have no other comment," he said in an emailed statement.

Premier Blaine Higgs has defended what he called his 'shock and awe' changes to New Brunswick's health-care system leadership. He was removing a 'bureaucratic stalemate,' he has said. (CBC News)

The province could seek a judicial review of the decision, but Levitt contends it's unlikely.

"The test for judicial review [is] you have to show no reasonable adjudicator could have come to this decision," he said. "It's an extraordinarily hard test."

Verbal agreement overrides later contract

The province had Dornan sign a contract after he had already accepted the job and started working that stipulated he could be terminated with one year's pay. The adjudicator found this was unenforceable.

Dornan agreed to sign it, according to Levitt, because he had already given up his previous positions and arranged replacements for himself.

"And he thought, 'Well, geez, what am I going to do now? I've taken this job, I can't go back to my old jobs. If I don't sign this contract, I'll have nothing.'"

The government had argued if Dornan signed it, he was bound by it.

A portrait of a smiling man. Dornan's lawyer Kelly VanBuskirk said to have his employment ended in the way that it was constituted a 'serious … embarrassment and upset for him,' as well as his family. (Submitted by Kelly VanBuskirk)

But the adjudicator found Dornan wasn't asked to get independent legal advice, and the contract didn't override the verbal five-year agreement he already had since he received nothing in return for the punitive one-year termination provision.

The arbitrator reached his decision following a Saint John hearing held Dec. 20-21 and written arguments that extended into February.

Dornan filed his grievance within 25 days of termination, as required under the act that governs relationships between the New Brunswick government and government employees.

Pushed for tighter COVID rules leading up to firing

Just days before his ouster, Dornan had pushed to move the province's hospitals back to the "red phase" of COVID-19 measures, an internal email obtained by CBC News revealed.

"A seventh COVID wave is amongst us," with hospitalizations and staff outbreaks increasing, he wrote on July 11.

A Horizon infectious disease and infection protection control committee was "recommending moving to Hospital Red phase next week if numbers continue to deteriorate," according to the email.

Dornan wrote that officials "could make that call collectively on Monday or Tuesday next week," referring to July 18 and 19.

He was fired on July 15, and the move to the red phase never happened, even though the numbers did continue to deteriorate.

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In a COVID update July 19, Horizon and Vitalité reported an increase in COVID hospital admissions, active hospitalizations, hospital outbreaks and staff infections between July 10 and July 16.

Three days after his email, and one day before his firing, Dornan encouraged Horizon staff to "consider showing an example" by masking in indoor public spaces because of "escalating" COVID-19 transmission, an internal memo obtained by CBC said.

Masking has not been required in New Brunswick since March 14, when all COVID-19 restrictions were lifted.

Dornan's firing was "not related" to the July 14 memo, a Department of Health spokesperson told CBC on July 18.

When Dornan was appointed president and CEO last March, then-health minister Shephard noted he had held "several positions in leadership, educational and front-line activities."

"His skills, abilities and competencies will ensure the Horizon Health Network will continue to deliver high-quality health-care services to residents," she said in a statement at the time.

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David Amos

Methinks Higgy et all should review all my emails ASAP N'esy Pas?

marc lapointe

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David Amos
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and you are from Quebec N'esy Pas?

Shawn Tabor

Folks finding out just how screwed up our province is. This is just one matter, their is lots more. Over 40 years and both Liberals and PC’s and the families connected to the parties. Remember,,,, welcome to little NB, the place to be, were folks and families, businesses have gotten wealthy on the backs of taxpayers. Windy day, Windy day,,, blew all that money away,,,, oh well change the government party again and watch certain families and friends get wealthy on Sweet heart deals. A big thanks to all you taxpayers for your contributions over the years. Been a great game. LOL

David Amos

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Cry me a river

Shawn Tabor

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The Great Dave Amos, LOL just keep feeding you rope. LOL

David Amos

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Shame on you How to do you sleep at night?

Al Clark

It's great to be off today, unlike higgy's it PR team, who are in for a long day here. Don't forget to take ur breaks shammy! Al out....

David Amos

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YO Mr G4TR I thought you and your buddy Sgt York had crawled back under your rocks

David Amos

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N.B. now in line for federal carbon tax rebates as Higgs scraps provincial price

February 16, 2023, 3:24 pm

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N.B. now in line for federal carbon tax rebates as Higgs scraps provincial price

Families of four can expect more than $900 per year under federal carbon backstop

Jacques Poitras· CBC News · Posted: Feb 16, 2023 3:44 PM AST

With New Brunswick switching gears, its 11-cent provincial rate will remain in place until July 1 when the higher federal rate will take effect, the premier said. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press)

New Brunswickers are joining Canada's carbon-tax rebate club.

Residents of the province will begin receiving federal rebate cheques later this year after the federal government's carbon pricing system kicks in on July 1.

Premier Blaine Higgs announced Thursday he will scrap his own provincially designed price on carbon effective on Canada Day, triggering the implementation of Ottawa's so-called backstop plan.

That means quarterly federal rebate cheques adding up to more than $900 per year for a family of four, Higgs said.

"What this does right now is provide relief," Higgs said. "I would rather see no carbon tax at all. … But I don't have a choice.

"So given that, how do we get relief to people who want it right now, in their homes, at a time when inflation is higher than they've experienced, maybe in their lifetime? This will do that."

Ottawa's climate plan requires provinces to implement a carbon price that matches national standards.

Provinces that refuse are subjected to the federal government's pricing system.

The rate per litre of regular gasoline this year is 11 cents and it will rise to 14.3 cents April 1.

Higgs reluctantly complied with federal standard

But with New Brunswick switching gears, its 11-cent provincial rate will remain in place until July 1 when the higher federal rate will take effect, the premier said.

It's not clear when the first rebate cheques will arrive for New Brunswickers.

A man wearing a suit and tie speaks from a podium. Behind him are the Canadian and New Brunswick flags. Premier Blaine Higgs announced Thursday he will scrap his own provincially-designed price on carbon effective on Canada Day. (Ed Hunter/CBC)

Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador will also be subject to the federal backstop as of July 1, because they refused to adjust their provincial carbon prices to match tighter federal standards now in effect.

Ottawa said last fall the first cheques for those provinces will be sent out in July.

Higgs reluctantly adopted a provincial pricing system that complied with the federal standard in 2020, following a federal election that saw the Trudeau Liberals win a second term with six of 10 seats in the province.

Rather than rebate the provincial carbon revenue directly to consumers, Higgs cut the provincial gas tax and reduced personal income taxes over the three years his system has been in place.

Those tax cuts won't be reversed, despite the province giving up the revenue that allowed them, the premier said.

He has used the remaining carbon tax revenue to fund climate projects.

That has included mitigation projects such as raising roads and reinforcing coast lines against erosion from more frequent extreme weather. The money also helped fund a heat pump subsidy program.

Higgs says the end of the provincial carbon tax "will have an impact" on those programs.

"We will continue to have a climate fund to deal with. It just might not be as robust as it would have been," he said, though he added his government remains committed to climate action.

Aligning with public opinion

Higgs said his decision was driven in party by the perception of New Brunswickers having "that impression of cash in hand. … Our neighbours all around us now are doing that, because they've accepted the backstop."

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault tweeted earlier this year that eight out of 10 people who receive carbon tax rebates in backstop provinces "get more than they paid, and low income people will benefit the most."

Guilbeault told CBC News Thursday that he was "very pleased" by Higgs's announcement.

"I agree with him that the federal system is a very good system, and it will enable the people of New Brunswick to be supported as we transition away from fossil fuels to cleaner sources of energy."

University of New Brunswick political scientist Heather Millar, who studies climate and energy policy, said Higgs's move aligns with where public opinion appears to be.

"The return of funds directly to individuals through the carbon tax does seem to have a positive effect on people's perceptions," she said.

University of New Brunswick political scientist Heather Millar, who studies climate and energy policy, said Higgs’s move aligns with where public opinion appears to be. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)

She believes once the other Atlantic provinces opted against revising their provincial carbon prices to comply with the federal requirement, Higgs was likely to do the same.

She also said premiers may be making a political calculation that the federal Conservatives, who have promised to repeal the federal pricing system, will win the next election.

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"There seems to be generally across the country still an element of wait-and-see about to what degree carbon pricing is a done deal in the country at the federal level, should the party in power change."

Last year, when gas was at $1.70 per litre, New Brunswick Southwest Conservative MP John Williamson called on Higgs to repeal the provincial tax and accept the federal backstop.

"Right now it's those working Canadians on modest and low incomes that need the help the most and this will deliver assistance right away," he said at the time.

Williamson issued a statement Thursday saying Higgs had tried to "work in good faith" with the Trudeau government in Ottawa but the cost to New Brunswick families was too high.

"This is a big political problem for the Trudeau Liberals as more and more provinces force the federal government to go it alone on the carbon tax," he said.

New Brunswick becomes the eighth province subject to the federal backstop. British Columbia and Quebec will be the only two with their own provincial pricing systems.

The separate provincially designed carbon pricing system for large industry will remain in place, Higgs said.

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David Amos

Methinks will just another cheque I will never get because the Feds deleted my SIN long ago but the upside is I don't have to deal with the CRA N'esy Pas?

Robert Losier

Reply to David Amos

Right on. It is cheque not check.

David Amos

Reply to Robert Losier

Not where I come from

Robert Losier

Reply to David Amos

You wrote cheque not check.

David Amos

Reply to Robert Losier

Methinks most folks would agree that old Maritimers from the Bay Of Fundy know what they write and why they spell it the way they do N'esy Pas?

Robert Losier

Reply to David Amos

I write cheque and I am not from there.

David Amos

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Methinks(Old Englsh) after you surf the net to check the true spelling of cheque why not check out one of my Fundy Royal Debates N'esy Pas?(Chiac)

David Amos

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No doubt you are from Quebec

David Amos

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Methinks instead of checking my spelling your time would be better spent reading one of my lawsuits N'esy Pas?

David Amos

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I tried calling a dentist in Tracadie–Sheila but he didn't pick up

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Thefts, vandalism and poor gas mileage: No issue too small to review at N.B. Power rate hearing

February 16, 2023, 3:51 pm

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Thefts, vandalism and poor gas mileage: No issue too small to review at N.B. Power rate hearing

Expenses down to tens of dollars being looked at during two-week rate hearing

Robert Jones· CBC News · Posted: Feb 16, 2023 6:49 PM AST

A panel of people in the background and a row of individuals on laptops in the foreground

N.B. Power is producing 22 separate witnesses over a number of days at its ongoing rate hearing to answer questions large and small. (Ed Hunter/CBC)

Theft of copper wire and catalytic converters, and incidents of general vandalism of N.B. Power property have become so common the utility has begun to track and account for the incidents as a regular recurring expense, its rate hearing heard on Thursday.

"Folks are breaking into some of our substation terminals and they are stealing copper," said Phil Landry, N.B. Power's executive director of project management offices and engineering.

"And no different than we've seen on the news, getting our catalytic converters stolen out of our trucks."

Daily at N.B. Power's rate hearing, attention swings widely from big-picture examinations of billion-dollar expenses like the upcoming refurbishment of the Mactaquac dam down to issues that involve thousands — or even tens of dollars — like thefts, vandalism or poor gas mileage recorded in company vehicles.

A side profile of a woman with long light brown hair J.D. Irving Ltd. lawyer Brianne Rudderham questioned N.B. Power on a variety of cost items Thursday from spending on the Mactaquac dam project to the cost of speeding employees. (Jonathan Collicott/CBC)

On Thursday, J.D. Irving Ltd. lawyer Brianne Rudderham covered all of those topics and more.

On the theft and vandalism issue, the utility documented 118 incidents in 2022, more than double the number in 2021 and nearly five times what was suffered in 2019 when just 25 events were noted.

N.B. Power's director of finance operations, Angela Leaman, said with incidents occurring more frequently, the utility has set up a category in its accounting and budgeting system to track events and costs as they occur.

High gasoline and diesel prices in New Brunswick over the past year hit N.B. Power and its extensive vehicle fleet. The utility says speeding by employees in company cars and trucks is adding to that problem. (Robert Jones/CBC)

"We hadn't been, but this past fiscal year we did set up a structure," said Leaman.

N.B. Power self-insures many of its assets and Phil Landry said every incident represents a complete financial loss.

"Are these covered by insurance," asked Rudderham.

"No, they are not," said Landry.

Rudderham asked questions on the big issues as well. She tried to get a figure on how much has been spent on planning for the multi-billion-dollar Mactaquac dam refurbishment project to date but no one had the amount at their fingertips.

One man was killed in 2019 attempting to steal copper wire from an N.B. Power substation in Bathurst. N.B. Power told its rate hearing Thursday thefts and vandalism have only escalated since then. (Francois Lejeune/Radio-Canada)

She had more luck on smaller items, including a revelation some lead-footed N.B. Power employees regularly drive over the speed limit and add to company fuel costs.

Leaman confirmed many company vehicles are equipped with devices that track driving habits and in some cases they do show evidence of high speeds.

N.B. Power self insures much of its vehicle fleet and has been taking losses on the theft of catalytic converters. (Catherine Harrop/CBC News)

"The faster you go, the more fuel you burn," said Leaman.

"To the extent that they are exceeding speed limits when they are executing their work, there would be reports available to provide to managers."

Twenty-two N.B. Power witnesses are scheduled to testify during the two-week hearing, in which 400 documents have been submitted for review. Three expert witnesses hired by other participants are also expected to give evidence.

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David Amos

Welcome back to the circus

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As Emergencies Act report tabled, key witnesses have moved on

February 17, 2023, 7:48 am

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Federal government met the threshold to invoke Emergencies Act: Rouleau

Report calls out policing failures and Ontario's inaction during an 'unsafe and chaotic' protest

Catharine Tunney· CBC News · Posted: Feb 17, 2023 5:00 AM AST

Police clear an area of protesters near Parliament Hill.

Police clear protesters from the area around Parliament Hill on Feb. 19, 2022. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)

Commissioner Paul Rouleau said today the federal government met the "very high" threshold needed to invoke the Emergencies Act last winter, citing "a failure in policing and federalism."

"Lawful protest descended into lawlessness, culminating in a national emergency," he wrote in his highly-anticipated report, tabled Friday in the House of Commons.

"Invocation of the Emergencies Act is a drastic move, but it is not a dictatorial one."

The document sheds new light on one of the most controversial decisions ever made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government. On Feb. 14, 2022, Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to end the protests that had blocked downtown Ottawa's streets for nearly a month.

The protesters were angry with the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including vaccine requirements.

It was the first time the law had been triggered since it was created in 1988.

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By invoking the act, the federal government gave law enforcement extraordinary powers to remove and arrest protesters, and gave itself the power to freeze the finances of those connected to the protests. The temporary emergency powers also gave authorities the ability to commandeer tow trucks to remove protesters' vehicles from the streets of the capital.

The law defines a national emergency as a situation that "cannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada." Further, a public order emergency can only be invoked when there is "a threat to the security of Canada" as defined by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act.

Justice Paul Rouleau releases his report on the Liberal government's use of the Emergencies Act, in Ottawa, Friday, Feb.17, 2023. Justice Paul Rouleau releases his report on the Liberal government's use of the Emergencies Act, in Ottawa, Friday, Feb.17, 2023. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

"In my view, there was credible and compelling information supporting a reasonable belief that the definition of a threat to the security of Canada was met," Rouleau wrote in his executive summary, which runs to more than 200 pages.

"I have concluded that cabinet was reasonably concerned that the situation it was facing was worsening and at risk of becoming dangerous and unmanageable."

Rouleau's report largely exonerates Trudeau regarding his decision to invoke the Emergencies Act. But the prime minister does not escape criticism.

For example, Rouleau said Trudeau's reference on Jan. 27 to some protesters as a "fringe minority" likely inflamed the situation and hardened protesters' resolve.

He also concluded that federal consultation with the provinces was "adequate" but "could, and likely should, have been better."

Ontario government's response was 'troubling'

His report makes 56 recommendations to improve intelligence sharing, police response to wide-scale protests and the Emergencies Act itself.

Rouleau reserved some of his most blistering remarks for the Ontario government.

"I find the Province of Ontario's reluctance to become fully engaged in such efforts directed at resolving the situation in Ottawa troubling," he said.

Rouleau said Premier Doug Ford and his cabinet did not properly respond to a crisis in a city in their jurisdiction.

A white man stands at a podium with the words 'School of medicine in Brampton' written on it. He is wearing a suit with a blue tie. Commissioner Paul Rouleau said Premier Doug Ford and his cabinet did not properly respond to a crisis in an Ontario city subject to their jurisdiction. (Greg Bruce/CBC)

"Given that the city and its police service were clearly overwhelmed, it was incumbent on the province to become visibly, publicly and wholeheartedly engaged from the outset," wrote Rouleau, a justice of the court of appeal for Ontario.

He wrote that moments of urgency require leaders of governments at all levels "to rise above politics and collaborate for the common good."

"Unfortunately, in January and February of 2022, this did not always happen," he wrote.

The Ottawa Police Service also gets poor marks from the justice, who wrote that if city police had properly assessed the information and intelligence at their fingertips, it "would have told a different story."

He said the city police response was marred by a lack of proper planning, intelligence failures and internal dysfunction.

While Rouleau takes aim at some of former Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly's leadership choices and decisions, he also said that it would be too easy to attribute all of the shortfalls and errors to him.

"As well, some errors on Chief Sloly's part were unduly enlarged by others, to a degree that suggests scapegoating," he wrote.

Rouleau praised the Windsor police, the Ontario Provincial Police, the RCMP and the City of Windsor for learning from the mistakes of the Ottawa police.

Rouleau says situation could have been avoided

During six weeks of testimony last fall, the Public Order Emergency Commission heard from more than 70 witnesses, including cabinet ministers and protesters.

Rouleau wrote that the "spark" for the early 2022 protests was more than two years of COVID-19 restrictions and the federal government's decision to require that commercial truck drivers be vaccinated in order to enter Canada.

Growing distrust in government in certain segments of the population, coupled with government responses to COVID, "exacerbated" this pre-existing dynamic.

Rouleau said he accepts that COVID-19 had a profound impact on Canadians and they had a right to to lawfully protest what they saw as government overreach.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears as a witness at the Public Order Emergency Commission in Ottawa, Friday, Nov. 25, 2022. Trudeau defended the government's use of the act in his testimony. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

"I do not accept the organizers' descriptions of the protest in Ottawa as lawful, calm peaceful or something resembling a celebration," Rouleau wrote.

"The bigger picture reveals that the situation in Ottawa was unsafe and chaotic."

He also dismissed the organizers' claims that they were unaware of acts of harassment and intimidation directed at local residents.

Ultimately, Rouleau wrote, "it is regrettable that such a situation arose here, because in my view, it could have been avoided."

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David Amos

Surprise Surprise Surprise

Donna Cameron

Quelle surprise

David Amos

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Surely you jest

Davide Richard

Wow, I'm so shocked that a lifelong liberal judge has agreed with Trudeau ! Who could possibly have imagined that from the outset.

So there you have it, dare not speak out against the great man.

How many people died during this protest? How many government agencies collapsed? We all know the answer, none. So a few people lost sleep for several nights, well, that might happen in a democracy. But Canada, is now clearly seen to be no longer a democracy.

David Amos

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How can you get away with posting that while I am blocked for merely stating Surprise 3 times like Gomer used to do?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyvGbcfDkWM&ab_channel=GlobalNews

Trudeau's use of Emergencies Act during "Freedom Convoy" justified, inquiry rules | FULL

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The Trudeau government met the “very high threshold” for invoking the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canadian history during the “Freedom Convoy” protests in Ottawa last year, the inquiry commissioner has ruled. In the over 2,000-page report, Justice Rouleau called the “Freedom Convoy” a “singular moment in history” exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as online misinformation and disinformation. While there was failure in policing, Rouleau said the ‘Freedom Convoy” protests and response can also be seen as a “failure of federalism.” Trudeau took the unprecedented step to invoke the Emergencies Act – the successor to the controversial War Measures Act – on Feb. 14, 2022. By that time, the convoy protest in Ottawa was grinding into its third week, and like-minded protests had popped up at Canada-U.S. border crossings in Windsor, Ont., and Coutts, Alta.

David Amos

Methinks we get the governments we deserve when apathy rules the day N'esy Pas?

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I didn't vote for him, so how does that work in your twisted world??

David Amos

@T I am grateful that you did not vote me as well

Canadian Guy

Paul Rouleau is justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, Canada. He led the Public Order Emergency Commission in 2022. His brother Pierre Rouleau was married to Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau's aunt and former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's sister, Suzette. Remember, when you need a commission to find in your favor stack the head of it with people who are essentially in the family.

Ryan Bennett

That whole inquiry was a shame.90% of the inquiry was about the convoy connections, police preparedness, and people complaining about how long it lasted.Nothing to do with using a wartime act to end a nosy/disruptive protest.I cannot say I am surprised, with all the ethics violation which seem to happen every other week. The fact they've blocked investigations into their own questionable, unethical, and likely illegal activities.

David Brown

I'm shocked that a government investigating itself was exonerated

Nosnibor Mailliw

We investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing.Obviously all the people who thought anything was going to come from this are new to politics.

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Is anyone really shocked with this outcome?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyrbYZm36Os&ab_channel=GlobalNews

Emergencies Act inquiry: Trudeau speaks after use of powers deemed appropriate | LIVE

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580 watching nowStarted streaming 18 minutes ago#GlobalNews#Trudeau#emergenciesact

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, along with Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, will speak after the government was cleared for invoking the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canadian history during the so-called “Freedom Convoy” protests in Ottawa last year. In the over 2,000-page report, Justice Rouleau called the “Freedom Convoy” a “singular moment in history” exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as online misinformation and disinformation. While there was failure in policing, Rouleau said the ‘Freedom Convoy” protests and response can also be seen as a “failure of federalism.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoPkPETxVM8&ab_channel=cpac

NDP MPs react to the Emergencies Act inquiry’s final report – February 17, 2023

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New Democrats Matthew Green and Daniel Blaikie speak with reporters on Parliament Hill about the Public Order Emergency Commission’s report on the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act.

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As Emergencies Act report tabled, key witnesses have moved on

Public Order Emergency Commission to release findings later today

Alistair Steele· CBC News · Posted: Feb 17, 2023 5:00 AM AST

A man in a suit at a desk listens to a speaker.

Commissioner Paul Rouleau listens to counsel question a witness during hearings in Ottawa on Nov. 4, 2022. The commission will table its final report in Parliament later today. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

As the Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC) prepares to release its highly anticipated report into last winter's convoy protests, many of the witnesses from the City of Ottawa and the Ottawa Police Service who testified last fall have either left or moved to new roles.

On Thursday, the commission announced it would make its final report public later today after tabling it in Parliament.

The Canadian Press reported the commission had requested, and been granted, an extension to the original Feb. 6 deadline for submitting its final report to the government.

The deadline for tabling the report in Parliament — Feb. 20 — remained intact, however. That meant the commission's findings and recommendations had to be made public no later than Monday, the Family Day statutory holiday in Ontario.

(The timeline set out by the Emergencies Act requires that the report be submitted to Parliament and released to the public within 360 days of the emergency declaration being revoked, which occurred on Feb. 23, 2022.)

A politician at a desk, as seen from the middle of the audience. Former Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson testifies before the Public Order Emergency Commission on Oct. 18, 2022. Watson did not run for re-election. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

Mayor, councillors gone

The commission heard from 76 witnesses over six weeks of public testimony, from Oct. 14 until the prime minister's appearance on Nov. 25. Of those, seven were either elected officials or senior bureaucrats with the City of Ottawa, and five more were senior members of the Ottawa Police Service (OPS).

None of the elected officials from the city who testified — former mayor Jim Watson, former councillor and police services board chair Diane Deans, and former councillors Mathieu Fleury and Catherine McKenney — remains in office. Of those, only McKenney ran for re-election last fall, but failed in their bid to become mayor.

Of the other city officials who testified, only Kim Ayotte, Ottawa's general manager of emergency and protective services, remains in the same job.

Former city manager Steve Kanellakos, who testified about his efforts to broker a deal between police and the protesters, resigned amid controversy on Nov. 28, just two days before the release of a damning report on Ottawa's troubled LRT project.

Watson's former chief of staff Serge Arpin left with his boss, customary practice among political staffers.

A police officer sits on a row of chairs. Deputy Chief Steve Bell, now chief administrative officer of the Ottawa Police Service, waits to appear before the Public Order Emergency Commission on Oct. 24, 2022. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

All 5 OPS witnesses remain

All five senior members of the Ottawa Police Service who testified before the commission last fall remain, though most have changed jobs. (This doesn't include former chief Peter Sloly, who resigned during the occupation of Ottawa by convoy protesters, and who had been out of policing for more than eight months by the time he testified before the commission in late October.)

Steve Bell, who was named interim chief after Sloly's resignation, and who oversaw the eventual dispersal of the protest in Ottawa, is now a deputy chief and chief administrative officer of the OPS. At the time of the convoy's arrival in Ottawa, Bell was in charge of intelligence, information and investigation for the force.

Patricia Ferguson, who testified to the deep "dysfunction" at the top of the OPS, and said the force was left "floundering" when protesters failed to leave the capital after the first weekend, remains acting deputy chief.

Russell Lucas, an inspector with the police service's special events section during the protests, is currently an acting superintendent, according to an update provided by the OPS on Thursday.

Supt. Robert Bernier, an inspector within the force's communications branch who was appointed event commander during the occupation, is also listed by the OPS as an acting superintendent.

Supt. Robert Drummond, who was tasked with overseeing the police liaison team that negotiated with protest leaders and the public order unit that eventually helped end the occupation, also maintains that rank. (Drummond was in an acting role at the time of his testimony last fall.)

Police clear an area of protesters near Parliament Hill. Police and protesters square off in front of Parliament Hill on Feb. 19, 2022. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)

'Multiple points of failure'

In an email to CBC, Paul Champ, a lawyer who represented downtown residents and businesses during the Emergencies Act inquiry, noted the commission heard "extensive evidence of multiple points of failure" by both government officials and police.

"Even though many of those responsible have left the stage, the POEC report will memorialize those mistakes and serve as a guide for public officials going forward. I would also like to see some apologies by the police, the city and the province, but that's probably asking too much," Champ wrote.

He said he also hopes to see the report provide some guidance "about the oversight and direction the Ottawa Police Services Board can have over the Ottawa Police Service."

Journalists covering the inquiry will be allowed to peruse an embargoed version of the report starting at 10 a.m. ET. The embargo will be lifted once the report is tabled in Parliament.

Commissioner Paul Rouleau will also read a prepared statement, which will be streamed live on the commission's website, where the full report will be made available to the public.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alistair Steele

Writer and editor

After spending more than a decade covering Ottawa city hall for CBC, Alistair Steele is now a feature writer and digital copy editor at cbc.ca/ottawa.

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> "As discussed, for your review and comments. Trying to keep it simple!
> Note that I dropped your last bullet point"
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lphe5nuUjE4&ab_channel=WARCAMPAIGN
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> February 14, 2022 Declaration of Public Order Emergency: Explanation
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> Subject: Automatic reply: Attn Colleen McKeown I just called Trust
> that Greg DelBigio and a legion of RCMP members should remember me
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
>
> Hello / Bonjour,
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> ---------- Original message ----------
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> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 21:41:01 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Kim Ayotte and Alan Honner are
> interesting dudes N'esy Pas Norm Traversy?
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
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> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:55:52 +0000
> Subject: Re: Attn Jeff Pniowsky I was readig about you in CBC today
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> David,
>
> Further to our conversation, and to be clear I have not agreed to act
> as your counsel. Please address all such correspondence to your
> counsel/advisors and not to our firm.
>
> Jeff
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Oct 24, 2022, at 9:45 AM, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>
> The pdf files hereto attached forever prove that the RCMP, the US
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> Jacqueline.Maarse@ca.gt.com, bdysart <bdysart@smss.com>, Brian Gallant
> <briangallant@nbliberal.ca>, "Davidc.Coon"<Davidc.Coon@gmail.com>,
> nraynard@grantthornton.ca, "john.logan"<john.logan@gnb.ca>,
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Maarse, Jacqueline"<Jacqueline.Maarse@ca.gt.com>
> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:54:05 +0000
> Subject: Your call today with Grant Thornton
> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com"<motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> Dear Mr. Amos,
>
> Further to your call with the 2 gentlemen in our Moncton office today,
> we appreciate your interest in Grant Thornton. We ask that you direct
> any correspondence you may wish to send to my attention at the address
> indicated below. We will not be in a position to copy documents from
> your computer and we ask that you do not attend at our offices for
> that purpose. As indicated in the call, communications relating to
> ongoing litigation are dealt with by our General Counsel's Office and
> our partners and staff are not able to engage with you on these
> matters.
>
> Regards,
> Jacqueline Maarse
>
> Jacqueline Maarse | General Counsel
> Grant Thornton LLP
> 12th Floor | 50 Bay Street | Toronto | ON | M5J 2Z8
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> http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/news/national/new-brunswick-government-seeks-to-recoup-50-million-lost-in-atcon-collapse-1.1155837<http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/news/national/new-brunswick-government-seeks-to-recoup-50-million-lost-in-atcon-collapse-1.1155837>
>
> FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government has launched a lawsuit
> against an accounting firm in an effort to recover $50 million
> provided as loan guarantees to the Miramichi-based Atcon group of
> companies.
>
> The lawsuit filed with the Court of Queen's Bench in Saint John
> alleges that Grant Thornton was in breach of its duties to the
> province in an inspection of the financial books of the Atcon group of
> companies.
>
> The former Liberal government of then premier Shawn Graham provided
> the loan guarantees to the companies in 2009.
>
> The statement of claim alleges the government approved the loan
> guarantees as a result of financial reports from Grant Thornton.
>
> "But for the Grant Thornton opinions and representations, the province
> would not have sustained a loss in excess of $50 million," the
> document asserts.
>
> It says the accounting firm "failed to exercise the care, diligence,
> and skill of an auditor of reasonable competence and prudence."
>
> None of the allegations contained in the statement of claim have been
> proven in court.
>
> Atcon, based in Miramichi, went bankrupt in April 2010.
>
> Grant Thornton LLP, Grant Thornton International and a chartered
> accountant who works for the company are named as the defendants. They
> have not filed a statement of defence and the accountant named in the
> statement of claim could not be reached for comment.
>
> Norm Raynard, managing partner in New Brunswick for Grant Thornton,
> said in an emailed statement that the company would not offer specific
> comments on the lawsuit because they are still reviewing the court
> documents.
>
> "We will vigorously defend ourselves against this action," he wrote.
>
> "Our initial reaction is that this timing has much to do with the
> political calendar in the province."
>
> The next provincial election is set for Sept. 22.
>
> Attorney General Hugh Flemming said the timing is not political.
>
> "This is not a time schedule which in any way was influenced by the
> government and it is not a political issue," he said Tuesday.
>
> He said the government had no choice but to take the matter to court
> because of the $50 million that was spent.
>
> "The government owes a duty to the people of New Brunswick to do what
> they can to recover this," Flemming said.
>
> © Copyright 2014
>
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>
> http://www.missingwomeninquiry.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Exhibit-130.pdf<http://www.missingwomeninquiry.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Exhibit-130.pdf>
>
> http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/news/national/strong-suspects-but-no-charges-in-highway-of-tears-cases-rcmp-1.1173928<http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/news/national/strong-suspects-but-no-charges-in-highway-of-tears-cases-rcmp-1.1173928>
>
> 'Strong suspects' but no charges in Highway of Tears cases: RCMP
>
> VANCOUVER - The Mountie overseeing the investigation into the murders
> and disappearances of women and girls along British Columbia's
> so-called Highway of Tears says his officers have a number of "strong
> suspects," but they have yet to uncover enough evidence to lay charges
> nearly two years after the last major break in the case.
>
> Staff-Sgt. Wayne Clary leads project E-PANA, which has spent years
> investigating the deaths and disappearances of 18 women and girls
> along three highways in the province's north.
>
> Roughly 60 officers were assigned to the case at the height of the
> investigation, though Clary said that number has dropped to between 12
> and 15, who spend most of their time on the project. Still, he said
> E-PANA is very much an active investigation.
>
> "It has scaled down, because we've pounded through a lot of work, but
> there's still enough work in front of us to keep going," Clary told
> The Canadian Press.
>
> "There's more than one investigation where we have strong suspects or
> persons of interest, and we're clearly focusing on those. ... I'd like
> nothing more than to sit down with the families and say, 'We've got
> the guy."'
>
> Clary declined to offer details about how many suspects the RCMP have
> identified or in which specific cases, though he said the suspects
> they have in mind are located in Canada.
>
> The last significant development came in September 2012, when
> investigators said they believed a dead American convict named Bobby
> Jack Fowler was responsible for killing as many as three of the women.
>
> The RCMP said investigators had uncovered DNA evidence linking Fowler,
> who died in an Oregon prison in 2006, to Colleen MacMillen, who was
> murdered in 1974. They also said they believed Fowler may have been
> involved in the deaths of Gale Weys and Pamela Darlington, both 19,
> who were killed in the mid-1970s.
>
> Clary said the force doesn't have the same kind of direct evidence
> tying Fowler to Weys and Darlington, but he added: "Personally, I
> think it's him in the other two."
>
> Clary said E-PANA hasn't come up with evidence to suggest any of the
> other women and girls were linked together, meaning there could be 15
> different suspects for the 15 remaining cases.
>
> "If we have a strong suspect, absolutely we're looking for crossed
> lines, but right now we're not seeing that," he said.
>
> E-PANA was launched in 2005 amid growing concern about the number of
> women and girls who vanished or were found dead along highways in the
> province's north. It also came several years after serial killer
> Robert Pickton was arrested in the Vancouver area - a case that Clary
> worked on as part of Project Evenhanded.
>
> The Highway of Tears often refers to a remote stretch of Highway 16
> between Prince Rupert and Prince George, but E-PANA also includes
> cases along the adjacent Highways 97 and 5.
>
> Investigators identified 18 women and girls who were involved in
> hitchhiking or other high-risk behaviour and were last seen within a
> couple of kilometres of those highways. The final list included cases
> between 1969 and 2006.
>
> Investigators once held annual group meetings, but Clary said they now
> contact each family individually, either in person or by telephone.
>
>
>
> http://www.pgfreepress.com/city-bids-adieu-to-rcmp-supt-eric-stubbs/<http://www.pgfreepress.com/city-bids-adieu-to-rcmp-supt-eric-stubbs>
>
> City bids adieu to RCMP Supt. Eric Stubbs
> Posted On 26 Jun 2014By : Staff ReporterComment: 0Tag: RCMP
> Firepit manager Robert Ryan, left, elders Violet Bozoki and Tom Reece
> and executive director Vanessa West presemted RCMP Supt. Eric Stubbs
> with some gifts before he leaves for a new posting in Ottawa at the
> end of the month. Stubbs and Ryan both spoke of the steps which have
> been taken to bring the First Nations community and the RCMP in Prince
> George closer. The gifts were made by patrons of the Firepit, and Ryan
> told Stubbs, “You’re taking a part of us with you.” Allan WISHART/Free
> Press
> After three years as the top cop in Prince George and a combined 14
> years in Northern BC, Superintendent Eric Stubbs is leaving Prince
> George and province.
>
> Friday June 27, marks the final day Superintendent Stubbs will be in
> charge of the RCMP’s Municipal Detachment in Prince George, a position
> he held since arriving in June 2011. During his time here,
> Superintendent Stubbs has reduced crime in nearly every category,
> created a unit dedicated to combating domestic violence, and was a
> catalyst in the transformation of the Community Policing Section to a
> new model with focuses on youth and enforcement. Of course, he was
> also the detachment commander leading up to, during and following the
> move to the new City of Prince George Municipal Detachment.
>
> “I would like to thank Superintendent Stubbs for his excellent service
> to Prince George and northern B.C.,” said Mayor Shari Green of Prince
> George, in a press release. “Among the many achievements on his watch,
> I’d like to point out his dedication to reducing domestic violence,
> the continued support of the Downtown Enforcement Unit, and his
> essential role in the Mayor’s Task Force on Crime. I wish
> Superintendent Stubbs every success in this next exciting phase of his
> service to Canadians.”
>
> Stubbs will be taking on a new role as National Criminal Operations
> Officer in Ottawa; a role that comes with a promotion to Chief
> Superintendent.
>
> Superintendent Stubbs has provided a tremendous service to the
> citizens of northern BC through his work in four communities over 14
> years said Supt. Lesley Bain, acting officer in charge of the RCMP in
> northern B.C. He has had a significant impact in each community he has
> policed, none more than Prince George. He will be greatly missed and
> we wish him the best in his new role in Ottawa.
>
> Inspector Brad Anderson, the Detachment’s Operations officer, will
> take over command of the detachment until such time that a successor
> is named.
>
> On behalf of the members, staff and volunteers of the Prince George
> RCMP, I want to extend a thank you to Eric for his leadership over the
> past three years said Anderson. It has been a pleasure working for him
> in such a positive environment.
>
>
>
>
> ------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 23:43:38 -0400
> Subject: Re: The politicians and cops etc cannot deny that I warned
> New Brunswick not to trust Grant Thornton and KPMG many times
> beginning in 2004
> To: jacqueline.maarse@ca.gt.com, pnoble@grantthornton.ca,
> paul.robichaud@gnb.ca, ggilbert@grantthornton.ca,
> nraynard@grantthornton.ca, jdelaney@grantthornton.ca,
> kferguson@grantthornton.ca, blewis@grantthornton.ca,
> krieger@grantthornton.ca, hjaffer@grantthornton.ca,
> rgodbold@grantthornton.ca, pmartin@grantthornton.ca,
> gdent@grantthornton.ca, karrt <karrt@sec.gov>, oig <oig@sec.gov>, oig
> <oig@ftc.gov>, whistleblower <whistleblower@finra.org>, whistle
> <whistle@fsa.gov.uk>, Whistleblower <Whistleblower@ctv.ca>,
> "dean.buzza"<dean.buzza@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, police
> <police@fredericton.ca>, GillesLee <GillesLee@edmundston.ca>, andre
> <andre@jafaust.com>, "peter.dauphinee"<peter.dauphinee@gmail.com>,
> law <law@stevenfoulds.ca>, "rick.hancox"<rick.hancox@nbsc-cvmnb.ca>,
> "marie-claude.blais"<marie-claude.blais@gnb.ca>, "jeff.mockler"
> <jeff.mockler@gnb.ca>, "luc.labonte"<luc.labonte@gnb.ca>,
> "lucie.dubois"<lucie.dubois@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "bernadine.chapman"
> <bernadine.chapman@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, cullen1
> <cullen1@parl.gc.ca>, "bob.rae"<bob.rae@rogers.blackberry.net>,
> rhouston <rhouston@burkerobertson.com>, richard.dearden@gowlings.com,
> "allan.cutler"<allan.cutler@canadians4accountability.org>,
> Stephane.vaillancourt@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>,
> "justin.trudeau.a1"<justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca>, "marc.garneau.a1"
> <marc.garneau.a1@parl.gc.ca>, ottawairc@state.gov, bginsberg
> <bginsberg@pattonboggs.com>
> Cc: Minister.Industry@ic.gc.ca, David Amos
> <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> amacbeath@grantthornton.ca, bmatthews@grantthornton.ca,
> derrickrideout001@yahoo.ca
>
> From: "Matthews, Bev"<Beverley.Matthews@ca.gt.com>
> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 03:36:55 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: The politicians and cops etc cannot deny
> that I warned New Brunswick not to trust Grant Thornton and KPMG many
> times beginning in 2004
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have stepped down from my position as General Counsel of Grant
> Thornton as of July 31, 2012.
>
> My successor, Jacqueline Maarse, can be reached at
> jacqueline.maarse@ca.gt.com or at 416 369-7013.
>
> I will respond directly to any e-mails associated with the limited
> matters for which I have responsiblity as Special Counsel to the firm
> or to any e-mails of a personal nature.
>
> Bev Matthews
>
> ________________________________
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> the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 23:36:40 -0400
> Subject: The politicians and cops etc cannot deny that I warned New
> Brunswick not to trust Grant Thornton and KPMG many times beginning in
> 2004
> To: pnoble@grantthornton.ca, paul.robichaud@gnb.ca,
> ggilbert@grantthornton.ca, nraynard@grantthornton.ca,
> jdelaney@grantthornton.ca, kferguson@grantthornton.ca,
> blewis@grantthornton.ca, krieger@grantthornton.ca,
> hjaffer@grantthornton.ca, rgodbold@grantthornton.ca,
> pmartin@grantthornton.ca, gdent@grantthornton.ca, karrt
> <karrt@sec.gov>, oig <oig@sec.gov>, oig <oig@ftc.gov>, whistleblower
> <whistleblower@finra.org>, whistle <whistle@fsa.gov.uk>, Whistleblower
> <Whistleblower@ctv.ca>, "dean.buzza"<dean.buzza@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
> police <police@fredericton.ca>, GillesLee <GillesLee@edmundston.ca>,
> andre <andre@jafaust.com>, "peter.dauphinee"
> <peter.dauphinee@gmail.com>, law <law@stevenfoulds.ca>, "rick.hancox"
> <rick.hancox@nbsc-cvmnb.ca>, "marie-claude.blais"
> <marie-claude.blais@gnb.ca>, "jeff.mockler"<jeff.mockler@gnb.ca>,
> "luc.labonte"<luc.labonte@gnb.ca>, "lucie.dubois"
> <lucie.dubois@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "bernadine.chapman"
> <bernadine.chapman@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, cullen1
> <cullen1@parl.gc.ca>, "bob.rae"<bob.rae@rogers.blackberry.net>,
> rhouston <rhouston@burkerobertson.com>, richard.dearden@gowlings.com,
> "allan.cutler"<allan.cutler@canadians4accountability.org>,
> Stephane.vaillancourt@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>,
> "justin.trudeau.a1"<justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca>, "marc.garneau.a1"
> <marc.garneau.a1@parl.gc.ca>, ottawairc@state.gov, bginsberg
> <bginsberg@pattonboggs.com>
> Cc: Minister.Industry@ic.gc.ca, David Amos
> <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> amacbeath@grantthornton.ca, bmatthews@grantthornton.ca,
> derrickrideout001@yahoo.ca
>
> "Harper, Stephen - M.P."<Harper.S@parl.gc.ca> wrote:
>
> Subject: RE: Re: Lets all go through the looking glass to check the
> Integrity of the Talking Heads in BC tonight
> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:32:54 -0500
> From: "Harper, Stephen - M.P."<Harper.S@parl.gc.ca>
> To: <motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com>
>
> Thank you for your e-mail message to Stephen Harper, Leader of the
> Opposition. Your views and suggestions are important to us. Once they
> have been carefully considered, you may receive a further reply.
>
> *Remember to include your mailing address if you would like a response.
>
> If you prefer to send your thoughts by regular mail, please address them
> to:
>
> Stephen Harper, M.P.
> Leader of the Opposition
> House of Commons
> Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6
>
> maggie.trudel-maggiore@international.gc.ca wrote:
>
> Mr. Amos,
>
> thank you for your phone message and several email messages. As the
> Director of Values and Ethics in the departments of Foreign Affairs
> Canada and International Trade Canada, my current mandate applies only
> to internal management issues. For example, establishing a code of
> conduct for our employees as well as providing advice to staff on
> conflict of interest and conflict resolution.
>
> As such I don't think I could be in a position to assist you. Please
> remove my name from your distribution list.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Maggie Trudel-Maggiore
> A/Director, Values and Ethics
>
> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2012/12/14/nb-robichaud-atcon-audit-707.html
>
> The crook Paul Robichaud spewed Pure Double talking Bullshit today
>
> "Robichaud told reporters on Thursday that suing Grant Thornton, the
> company that audited Atcon’s financial records, could be considered
> but he said the province is unlikely to follow that specific option.
>
> “[A lawsuit] is something that we could consider, but I already said
> in the past it is not an option that we are going to look at this
> point. But we are looking at every option at this point,” Robichaud
> said."
>
> http://www.grantthornton.ca/<http://www.grantthornton.ca/>
>
> http://www.nbica.org/english/members/advanced_search.asp?iPageCurrent=5&iPageSize=5&strSQL=select+*+from+members+where+city+like+'%25%25'+order+by+company&from=myself<http://www.nbica.org/english/members/advanced_search.asp?iPageCurrent=5&iPageSize=5&strSQL=select+*+from+members+where+city+like+'%25%25'+order+by+company&from=myself>
>
> The RCMP, Rick Hancox,Bruce Lewis of Fat Fred City and his bosses in
> Upper Canada should at least recall what I explained to them on the
> phone in 2006 before you nasty bastards sent all the cops against me.
> CORRECT???
>
> GO FIGURE
>
> http://secfilings.nasdaq.com/filingFrameset.asp?FileName=0000943374%2D03%2D000023%2Etxt&FilePath=%5C2003%5C01%5C24%5C&CoName=BROOKLINE+BANCORP+INC&FormType=8%2DK&RcvdDate=1%2F24%2F2003&pdf=<http://secfilings.nasdaq.com/filingFrameset.asp?FileName=0000943374%2D03%2D000023%2Etxt&FilePath=%5C2003%5C01%5C24%5C&CoName=BROOKLINE+BANCORP+INC&FormType=8%2DK&RcvdDate=1%2F24%2F2003&pdf=>
>
> http://qslspolitics.blogspot.ca/2008/06/5-years-waiting-on-bank-fraud-payout.html<http://qslspolitics.blogspot.ca/2008/06/5-years-waiting-on-bank-fraud-payout.html>
>
>
> My concerns about the severe lack of INTEGRITY of Grant Thornton and
> KPMG obviously had to do with their fraudulent auditing of the
> Brookline Bancorp etc (Putnam Investments is now owned by Power Corp
> BTW) while many Yankees, the USDOJ and the US Treasury Dept attacked
> my family and I in order to cover up their many wrongs. Meanwhile the
> cops and politicians in my nativeland did everything in ther power to
> assist in the many wrongs for nearly 11 years and counting. N'esy Pas?
>
> http://www.powercorporation.com/en/companies-group/great-west-lifeco-inc/profile/<http://www.powercorporation.com/en/companies-group/great-west-lifeco-inc/profile>
>
>
>
> http://www.nbsc-cvmnb.ca/nbsc/nbsc_content.jsp?nbscid=1273&pid=4<http://www.nbsc-cvmnb.ca/nbsc/nbsc_content.jsp?nbscid=1273&pid=4>
>
> 13 December 2012
>
> Canadian Securities Regulators Publish Discussion Paper on Mutual Fund Fees
>
> Toronto – The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) today published
> for comment CSA Discussion Paper 81-407 Mutual Fund Fees, which
> examines the mutual fund fee structure in Canada and identifies
> potential investor protection issues arising from that structure. The
> Discussion Paper sets out various topics for discussion in order to
> evaluate the appropriate structure for Canada.
>
> Canada’s mutual fund fees have been the subject of much debate in
> recent years. Some research studies examining Canada’s mutual fund
> fees, along with international reforms, have prompted greater interest
> in reviewing the issue of mutual fund fees in Canada.
>
> “Mutual funds are a key investment in the portfolios of many
> Canadians,” said Bill Rice, Chair of the CSA and Chair and CEO of the
> Alberta Securities Commission. “It is important that we look at
> Canada’s mutual fund fee structure carefully in determining what
> changes could or should be considered to enhance investor protection
> and foster confidence in our market.”
>
> To date, the CSA has focused its efforts on enhancing the transparency
> of mutual fund fees and commissions through initiatives such as the
> Point of Sale, and Cost Disclosure and Performance Reporting projects.
> While these initiatives remain a priority on behalf of investors, the
> CSA has determined that it is also necessary to consult extensively
> with investors and market participants to explore whether further
> issues remain.
>
> The CSA welcomes feedback on the Discussion Paper, which can be found
> on CSA members’ websites. The comment period is open until April 12,
> 2013. All comments will be considered in the CSA’s decision and next
> steps, and also assist in the development of a roundtable the CSA
> plans to hold with investors and industry participants in 2013.
>
> The CSA, the council of the securities regulators of Canada’s
> provinces and territories, coordinates and harmonizes regulation for
> the Canadian capital markets.
>
> – 30 –
>
> For more information:
> Wendy Connors-Beckett
> New Brunswick Securities Commission
> 506 643-7745
>
> Subject:
> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:02:35 -0400
> From: "Murphy, Michael B. $DH/MS$"MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca
> To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>
> January 30, 2007
>
> WITHOUT PREJUDICE
>
> Mr. David Amos
>
> Dear Mr. Amos:
>
> This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29,
> 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP.
>
> Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have
> taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve
> Graham of the RCMP "J" Division in Fredericton.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Honourable Michael B. Murphy
> Minister of Health
>
> CM/cb
>
> Warren McBeath warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote:
>
> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500
> From: "Warren McBeath"warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
> To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca,
> nada.sarkis@gnb.ca, wally.stiles@gnb.ca, dwatch@web.net,
> motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
> CC: ottawa@chuckstrahl.com, riding@chuckstrahl.com,
> John.Foran@gnb.ca, Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,
> "Bev BUSSON"bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> "Paul Dube"PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
> Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has
> forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have n
>
> Dear Mr. Amos,
>
> Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off over
> the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured I was not
> ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
>
> As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our position
> is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
> testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the
> Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
> services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
> instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
>
> As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
> imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear
> that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada and
> theUS. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment policing
> in Petitcodiac, NB.
>
> It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on
> December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Warren McBeath, Cpl.
> GRC Caledonia RCMP
> Traffic Services NCO
> Ph: (506) 387-2222
> Fax: (506) 387-4622
> E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Raymond Amos
> To: warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 2:59 PM
> Subject: Fw: Please press print on this attachment and give it to MacKay
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Raymond Amos
> To: ottawairc@state.gov
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 10:28 AM
> Subject: Fw: Please press print on this attachment and give it to MacKay
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Raymond Amos
> To: doralee.smith@pwgsc.gc.ca ; MacKay.P@parl.gc.ca
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 9:49 AM
> Subject: Please press print on this attachment and give it to MacKay
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Raymond Amos
> To: eamacleod@cbrmps.cape-breton.ns.ca
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 5:26 PM
> Subject: Fw: Press print on this attachment and call me a liar now Ms.
> Matthews
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Raymond Amos
> To: comartin.j@parl.gc.ca ; Brown.G@parl.gc.ca ; cotler.i@parl.gc.ca ;
> Hawn.L@parl.gc.ca ; Menard.S@parl.gc.ca ;
> scarpinelli@publicintegrity.org ; Norlock.R@parl.gc.ca ;
> MacKenzie.D@parl.gc.ca ; Chan.R@parl.gc.ca ; Bevilacqua.M@parl.gc.ca ;
> Batters.D@parl.gc.ca ; Siksay.B@parl.gc.ca ; Anderson.Da@parl.gc.ca ;
> Komarnicki.E@parl.gc.ca
> Cc: SECU@parl.gc.ca ; Breitkreuz.G@parl.gc.ca ; hollam@parl.gc.ca ;
> arnold.zeman@psepc-sppcc.gc.ca ; Duceppe.G@parl.gc.ca ;
> Harper.S@parl.gc.ca ; Layton.J@parl.gc.ca ; Godin.Y@parl.gc.ca ;
> McDonough.A@parl.gc.ca ; Stoffer.P@parl.gc.ca ;
> gemerson@tor.fasken.com ; garth@garth.ca ; rmooremp@nb.sympatico.ca ;
> Matthews.B@parl.gc.ca ; smay@pattersonpalmer.ca ;
> news957@rci.rogers.com ; Scott.A@parl.gc.ca ; zedp@parl.gc.ca ;
> leo@primetimecrime.com ; crilf@ucalgary.ca ;
> giuliano.zaccardelli@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ; rod.smith@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ;
> stephane.vaillancourt@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ; cnichols@norwellpolice.com ;
> info@pco-bcp.gc.ca ; Daniel.Conley@state.ma.us ; kmearn@mpdmilton.org
> ; Freeman.C@parl.gc.ca
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 3:52 PM
> Subject: Fw: Press print on this attachment and call me a liar now Ms.
> Matthews
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Raymond Amos
> To: chanr0@parl.gc.ca
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 3:00 PM
> Subject: Fw: Press print on this attachment and call me a liar now Ms.
> Matthews
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Raymond Amos
> To: johnforan.mla@nb.aibn.com ; Chris.Baker@gnb.ca ;
> yvon.leblanc3@gnb.ca ; rachel.bard@gnb.ca ; Louise.LEMON@gnb.ca
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 2:47 PM
> Subject: Fw: Press print on this attachment and call me a liar now Ms.
> Matthews
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Raymond Amos
> To: amacbeath@grantthornton.ca
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 2:09 PM
> Subject: Fw: Press print on this attachment and call me a liar now Ms.
> Matthews
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Raymond Amos
> To: bmatthews@grantthornton.ca
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 1:32 PM
> Subject: Press print on this attachment and call me a liar now Ms. Matthews
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Raymond Amos
> To: freemc@parl.gc.ca
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 1:00 PM
> Subject: Fw: Angie press print on this attachment I know for a fact it
> works
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Raymond Amos
> To: pmartin@GrantThornton.ca
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 12:07 PM
> Subject: Fw: Angie press print on this attachment I know for a fact it
> works
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Raymond Amos
> To: nraynard@GrantThornton.ca ; jdelaney@GrantThornton.ca ;
> kferguson@GrantThornton.ca ; blewis@GrantThornton.ca
> Cc: krieger@GrantThornton.ca ; hjaffer@GrantThornton.ca ;
> rgodbold@GrantThornton.ca
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:59 AM
> Subject: Fw: Angie press print on this attachment I know for a fact it
> works
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Raymond Amos
> To: gdent@GrantThornton.ca
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 10:04 AM
> Subject: Fw: Angie press print on this attachment I know for a fact it
> works
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Raymond Amos
> To: ckennedy@notes.tcs.treas.gov
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 5:32 PM
> Subject: Fw: Angie press print on this attachment I know for a fact it
> works
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Raymond Amos
> To: Raf.Souccar@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ; tim.killam@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ;
> martin.blais@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ; harrir1@parl.gc.ca ; harrir@parl.gc.ca ;
> peterj@parl.gc.ca
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 2:44 PM
> Subject: Fw: Angie press print on this attachment I know for a fact it
> works
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Raymond Amos
> To: leo@primetimecrime.com ; gary.bignell@peelpolice.on.ca ;
> crilf@ucalgary.ca
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 12:17 PM
> Subject: Fw: Angie press print on this attachment I know for a fact it
> works
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Raymond Amos
> To: angie.coss@cjad.com
> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 8:03 PM
> Subject: Angie press print on this attachment I know for a fact it works
>
> Just Dave
> By Location Visit Detail
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Amos"<david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> To: <derrickrideout001@yahoo.ca>; <thedderson@gov.nl.ca>; "pm"
> <pm@pm.gc.ca>; <premier@gov.nl.ca>; <pnoble@grantthornton.ca>;
> "ggilbert"<ggilbert@grantthornton.ca>; "Minister.Industry"
> <Minister.Industry@ic.gc.ca>; <sheila.fraser@oag-bvg.gc.ca>
> Cc: "IgnatM"<IgnatM@parl.gc.ca>; "maritime_malaise"
> <maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>; <ducepg@parl.gc.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 2:00 PM
> Subject: Tell me another one Mr Rideout after you talk to Brian
> Crawley perhaps you PCs should consider returning my calls EH?
>
>
> Representative of the Leader’s Office
> Mr. Derrick Rideout
> Principal Assistant to the Premier
> Email: derrickrideout001@yahoo.ca
>
> From: Derrick Rideout <derrickrideout001@yahoo.ca>
> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 07:33:19 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Re: Fwd: RE Financial oversight the media, the SEC, Madoff,
> Putnam and the Whistleblower @ 1-866-96-FINRA etc etc
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>
> Don't know why i was sent this.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Auto-reply from csheahan@pa-law.ca"<csheahan@pa-law.ca>
> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:22:37 -0400
> Subject: Re: Fwd: RE Financial oversight the media, the SEC, Madoff,
> Putnam and the Whistleblower @ 1-866-96-FINRA etc etc
> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>
> Please be advised that I will be away from the office from April 1,
> 2011 to April 11, 2011 (inclusive). If you require immediate
> assistance, please contact Debbie White at 709-634-3136. Thank you,
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Williams, Norm"<nwilliams@grantthornton.ca>
> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:23:15 -0400
> Subject: Out of Office AutoReply: RE Financial oversight the media,
> the SEC, Madoff, Putnam and the Whistleblower @ 1-866-96-FINRA etc etc
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>
> Thank you for contacting Grant Thornton LLP. Norm Williams, CA has
> withdrawn from the firm effective December 31, 2010 and will be
> transitioning his files to other professionals within the firm over
> the next few weeks. If you have immediate needs please contact Bill
> Budgell at bbudgell@GrantThornton.ca or (709) 778-8802 and we will be
> pleased to service your needs.
> This email is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is
> addressed and may contain confidential and/or
> privileged information. Any review, dissemination, copying, printing
> or other use of this email by persons or entities other
> than the addressee is prohibited. If you have received this email in
> error, please contact the sender immediately and
> delete the material from any computer.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:56:23 -0300
> Subject: Fwd: RE Financial oversight the media, the SEC, Madoff,
> Putnam and the Whistleblower @ 1-866-96-FINRA etc etc
> To: pnoble@grantthornton.ca, ggilbert@grantthornton.ca
> Cc: "Minister.Industry"<Minister.Industry@ic.gc.ca>, "sheila. fraser"
> <sheila.fraser@oag-bvg.gc.ca>, ducepg <ducepg@parl.gc.ca>
>
> http://www.ic.gc.ca/app/ccc/srch/nvgt.do?lang=eng&prtl=1&sbPrtl=&estblmntNo=123456240927&profile=cmpltPrfl&profileId=501&app=sold<http://www.ic.gc.ca/app/ccc/srch/nvgt.do?lang=eng&prtl=1&sbPrtl=&estblmntNo=123456240927&profile=cmpltPrfl&profileId=501&app=sold>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:22:34 -0300
> Subject: Fwd: RE Financial oversight the media, the SEC, Madoff,
> Putnam and the Whistleblower @ 1-866-96-FINRA etc etc
> To: pcparty@nf.aibn.com, derrickrideout001@yahoo.ca, jbabb@babblaw.ca,
> cynthia_downey@hotmail.com, "ddexter@ns.sympatico.ca"
> <ddexter@ns.sympatico.ca>, "David.ALWARD@gnb.ca"<David.ALWARD@gnb.ca>
> Cc: nwilliams@grantthornton.ca, csheahan@pa-law.ca, abugden@pa-law.ca,
> maritime_malaise <maritime_malaise@yahoo.com>
>
> I just called agsin. Heres why
>
> http://www.dunderdale2011.ca/our-team/executive-board/<http://www.dunderdale2011.ca/our-team/executive-board>
>
> Just Dave
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> ISP Shaw Communications
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> Country : Canada (Facts)
> State/Region : British Columbia
> City : Vancouver
> Lat/Long : 49.25, -123.1333 (Map)
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:46:59 -0300
> Subject: Fwd: RE Financial oversight the media, the SEC, Madoff,
> Putnam and the Whistleblower @ 1-866-96-FINRA etc etc
> To: mark@snellingcenter.org
> Cc: maritime_malaise <maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:16:39 -0300
> Subject: Fwd: RE Financial oversight the media, the SEC, Madoff,
> Putnam and the Whistleblower @ 1-866-96-FINRA etc etc
> To: Harriet.Johnson@state.vt.us, michael.clasen@state.vt.us,
> Harold@haroldalbrechtmp.ca, colleen@snellingcenter.org
> Cc: "PATRICK. MURPHY"<PATRICK.MURPHY@dhs.gov>, "jacques.boucher"
> <jacques.boucher@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:35:28 -0300
> Subject: Fwd: RE Financial oversight the media, the SEC, Madoff,
> Putnam and the Whistleblower @ 1-866-96-FINRA etc etc
> To: GovernorVT@state.vt.us, jeb.spaulding@state.vt.us
> Cc: cmain2@bloomberg.net
>
> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-11/hedge-fund-survey-popcorn-disclosure-energy-bill-compliance.html<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-11/hedge-fund-survey-popcorn-disclosure-energy-bill-compliance.html>
>
> Whats this? A possibly ethical Governor in Vermont? I tried talking to
> his people Heres hoping that he emails me back because his help
> suddenly got busy didn't ask for my number.
>
> "Vermont’s governor, Democrat Peter Shumlin, has said he seeks to use
> an escape clause in the law to create a government- run health system
> that would cover every resident and put private insurers, including
> Cigna Corp. (CI), out of business in that state."
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:15:49 -0300
> Subject: RE Financial oversight the media, the SEC, Madoff, Putnam and
> the Whistleblower @ 1-866-96-FINRA etc etc
> To: whistleblower@finra.org, michael_copeland@fortunemail.com,
> letters@fortune.com, susan.pulliam@wsj.com, Russ.Stanton@latimes.com,
> meredith.goodman@latimes.com, ninkster@navigantconsulting.com,
> dgolub@sgtlaw.com, firstselectmanffld@town.fairfield.ct.us,
> editor@whatsupfairfield.com, info@csiworld.org, jacques_poitras@cbc.ca
> Cc: oig <oig@sec.gov>, "Dean.Buzza"<Dean.Buzza@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
> "Fred. Pretorius"<Fred.Pretorius@gov.yk.ca>, "rick.hancox"
> <rick.hancox@nbsc-cvmnb.ca>
>
> http://qslspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/03/david-amos-to-wendy-olsen-on.html<http://qslspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/03/david-amos-to-wendy-olsen-on.html>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Olsen, Wendy (USANYS)"Wendy.Olsen@usdoj.gov
> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:21:08 -0400
> Subject: RE: USANYS-MADOFF AND IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM US
> ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SDNY
> To: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, USANYS-MADOFF
> USANYS.MADOFF@usdoj.gov, "Litt, Marc (USANYS)"Marc.Litt@usdoj.gov Cc:
> webo webo@xplornet.com, vasilescua@sec.gov, friedmani@sec.gov,
> krishnamurthyp@sec.gov
>
> Thank you for your response.
>
> Wendy Olsen
> Victim Witness Coordinator
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Amos [mailto:david.raymond.amos@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:48 AM
> To: USANYS-MADOFF; Olsen, Wendy (USANYS); Litt, Marc (USANYS)
> Cc: webo; vasilescua@sec.gov; friedmani@sec.gov; krishnamurthyp@sec.gov
> Subject: RE: USANYS-MADOFF AND IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM US
> ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SDNY
>
> Ms Olsen
>
> Thank you for keeping me informed.
>
> Yes unseal all my emails with all their attachments immediately and
> make certain that the US Attorny's office finally practices full
> disclosurement as to who I am and what my concerns are as per the Rule
> of Law within a purported democracy.
>
> As you folks all well know I am not a shy man and I have done nothing
> wrong. It appears to me that bureacratic people only use the right to
> privacy of others when it suits their malicious ends in order to
> protect their butts from impreacment, litigation and prosecution.
>
> The people in the US Attorney's Office and the SEC etc are very well
> aware that I protested immediately to everyone I could think of when
> the instant I knew that my correspondences went under seal and Madoff
> pled guilty so quickly and yet another cover up involing my actions
> was under full steam. Everybody knows that.the US Government has been
> trying to keep my concerns about the rampant public corruption a
> secret for well over seven long years. However now that a lot of
> people and their countries in general are losing a lot of money people
> are beginning to remember just exactly who I am and what i did
> beginning over seven years ago..
>
> Veritas Vincit
> David Raymond Amos
> 506 756 8687 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 506 756 8687
> end_of_the_skype_highlighting
>
> P.S. For the record Obviously I pounced on these Yankee bastards as
> soon as the newsrag in Boston published this article on the web last
> night.
>
> http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1162354&format=&page=2&listingType=biz#articleFull<http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1162354&format=&page=2&listingType=biz#articleFull>
>
> Notice that Nester just like everyone else would not say my name? It
> is because my issues surrounding both Madoff and are NOT marketing
> timing They are as you all well know money laundering, fraud, forgery,
> perjury, securites fraud, tax fraud, Bank fraud, illegal wiretappping
> and Murder amongst other very serious crimes.
>
>
> "SEC spokesman John Nester dismissed similarities between Markopolos
> and Scannell's cases as "not a valid comparison."
>
> He said the SEC determined the market-timing by Putnam clients that
> Scannell reported didn't violate federal law. Nester said the SEC only
> acted after another tipster alleged undisclosed market-timing by some
> Putnam insiders.
>
> Scannell, now a crusader for SEC reforms, isn't surprised the agency
> is in hot water again.
>
> Noting that several top SEC officials have gone on to high-paying
> private-sector jobs, he believes hopes for future employment impact
> investigations. "It's a distinct disadvantage to make waves before you
> enter the private sector," Scannell said."
>
>
> --- On Mon, 3/30/09, David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com wrote:
>
> From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
> Subject: Fwd: USANYS-MADOFF IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM US ATTORNEY'S
> OFFICE SDNY
> To: NesterJ@sec.gov, letterstoeditor@bostonherald.com, "oig"
> oig@sec.gov, Thunter@tribune.com, david@davidmyles.com,
> ddexter@ns.sympatico.ca, "Dan Fitzgerald"danf@danf.net
> Cc: dsheehan@bakerlaw.com, dspelfogel@bakerlaw.com,
> mc@whistleblowers.org, gkachroo@mccarter.com,
> david.straube@accenture.com, gurdip.s.sahota@accenture.com,
> benjamin_mcmurray@ao.uscourts.gov, bob_burke@ao.uscourts.gov
> Date: Monday, March 30, 2009, 10:00 PM
>
> Need I say BULLSHIT?
>
> http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1162354&format=&page=2&listingType=biz#articleFull<http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1162354&format=&page=2&listingType=biz#articleFull>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:03:13 -0300
> Subject: RE: USANYS-MADOFF IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM US ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
> SDNY
> To: Russ.Stanton@latimes.com, meredith.goodman@latimes.com,
> ninkster@navigantconsulting.com, dgolub@sgtlaw.com
> Cc: firstselectmanffld@town.fairfield.ct.us,
> editor@whatsupfairfield.com, info@csiworld.org, jacques_poitras
> jacques_poitras@cbc.ca
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:45:07 -0300
> Subject: RE Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, Wikileaks and Daniel Ellsberg
> etc
> To: ellsbergpress@gmail.com, info@armycourtmartialdefense.com,
> "birgittaj@althingi.is"<birgittaj@althingi.is>, "Julian Assange)"
> <editor@wikileaks.org>, julian@sunshinepress.org,
> julian@wikileaks.org, smari <smari@immi.is>
> Cc: cindy@eff.org, clg_news@legitgov.org, maritime_malaise
> <maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>, Wayne_Boone@carleton.ca
>
> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:33:32 -0400
> Subject: Notice that I knew Assange before he got World Famous?
> To: CLG_News <clg_news@legitgov.org>
>
> From: "Julian Assange)"<editor@wikileaks.org>
> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 18:15:46 +0000 (GMT)
> Subject: Al Jazeera on Iceland's plan for a press safe haven
> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>
> FYI: Al-Jazeera's take on Iceland's proposed media safe haven
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbGiPjIE1pE
>
> More info http://immi.is/<http://immi.is>
>
> Julian Assange
> Editor
> WikiLeaks
> http://wikileaks.org/<http://wikileaks.org>
>
>
>
>
> On 10/7/22, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> wrote:
>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/duty-to-document-nb-1.6608066
>>
>> New Brunswick·CBC Investigates
>> How to keep secrets from the public: Don't write anything down
>>
>>
>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/demara-tax-court-appeals-abuse-1.6608659
>>
>> Judge slams CRA and Justice Department for 'egregious' conduct in epic
>> Tax Court battle
>>
>>
>> Decision likely to affect dozens of Canadians appealing gross
>> negligence penalties from tax agency
>>
>> Jason Proctor · CBC News · Posted: Oct 07, 2022 4:00 AM PT |
>>
>>
>> A tax Court judge has slammed the Canada Revenue Agency for failing to
>> comply with pre-trial court rules and orders. (Chris Wattie/Reuters)
>>
>> A Tax Court judge has slammed the Canada Revenue Agency and the
>> Justice Department for "egregious" conduct that threatened to deny
>> three taxpayers the right to a fair trial in an epic battle over
>> millions of dollars worth of tax penalties.
>>
>> In a scathing decision that could have widespread implications, Judge
>> Patrick Boyle found the CRA committed an "intentional and deliberate"
>> pattern of ignoring court rules to "frustrate" the right that all
>> Canadians have to get a full picture of an opponent's case before
>> heading to court.
>>
>> The three taxpayers — a Manitoba psychiatrist, an Ontario nurse and a
>> B.C. Air Canada pilot — were appealing three million dollars' worth of
>> gross negligence penalties levelled against them, for rejected returns
>> filed through a pair of disgraced tax consultancy firms.
>>
>> But after years of pre-trial delays resulting from the CRA's repeated
>> failure to comply with his orders, Boyle took the extraordinary
>> measure of allowing the appeals without having a trial on the merits
>> of the case this week, to "protect the integrity of the judicial
>> process."
>>
>> Canada Revenue Agency accused of blaming victims as 'gross
>> negligence' cases drag on
>>
>> "I find the [CRA's] egregious approach to pre-trial discovery in these
>> appeals to prejudice all three appellants who have been denied," Boyle
>> wrote in his ruling.
>>
>> "These abuses of the discovery process ... have caused considerable
>> delay and expense to three Appellants in respect of their appeals.
>> They have also led to an inefficient use of public resources financed
>> by all Canadians."
>> 'With great power comes great responsibility'
>>
>> Boyle's decision is the latest chapter in a saga that has seen
>> hundreds of Canadians slapped with gross negligence penalties after
>> filing returns through DeMara Consulting and Fiscal Arbitrators.
>>
>> The principals of both companies were jailed for tax fraud for
>> promoting schemes Boyle says "resemble in many respects the
>> de-taxation practices of sovereign citizens, though with less of the
>> non-fiscal cultish aspects."
>> Hundreds of Canadians filed appeals in Tax Court after the CRA
>> levelled gross negligence penalties against them in association with
>> returns filed through a pair of disgraced tax consultancies. (Minichka
>> / Shutterstock)
>>
>> According to court records, B.C.-based DeMara's scheme was called "the
>> remedy" and essentially involved claiming personal expenditures and
>> debts as expenses and capital losses for a non-existent business.
>>
>> Canada's Income Tax Act gives CRA the ability to levy penalties
>> against Canadians who make false statements and omissions on their tax
>> returns, either knowingly or under circumstances that amount to gross
>> negligence.
>>
>> The penalties in the DeMara and Fiscal Arbitrators case have reached
>> into the millions, leading to a huge backlog of appeals that have been
>> making their way through tax court since 2013.
>>
>> Tax agency obtains 'jeopardy order' for debt from Downton
>> Abbey-loving billionaire
>>
>> Jeff Pniowsky, the Winnipeg-based lawyer who represented all three
>> plaintiffs, said fighting a decade-long court battle with the threat
>> of financial ruin hanging over their heads has cost his clients "years
>> of happiness."
>>
>> "This was fundamentally a case about justice. Justice for the
>> taxpayers who had to endure years of gamesmanship and chicanery by one
>> of Canada's most powerful institutions: the CRA," Pniowsky told the
>> CBC.
>>
>> Pniowsky, who has four children, said Boyle's ruling reminded him of a
>> line from one of his family's favourite superhero movies: Spiderman.
>>
>> "With great power comes great responsibility," he said.
>>
>> "It's clear from this case that the CRA and the Justice Department
>> have lost sight of that common-sense principle."
>> 'Unprepared, unco-operative or untruthful'
>>
>> Boyle's detailed 53-page ruling goes through the history of the case,
>> and the circumstances that led to each of the orders he found the CRA
>> later ignored.
>>
>> The fight centred on pre-trial discovery, and the rights of the
>> taxpayers to examine a CRA representative or "nominee" who was
>> "knowledgeable" about their case.
>> The CRA has the ability to levy gross negligence penalties against
>> taxpayers who lie on their income tax forms. The penalties have been
>> devastating for some. (Graeme Roy/The Canadian Press)
>>
>> The first person the agency put forward was "unaware of any criminal
>> investigation and had not informed himself" about any involvement of
>> the CRA's criminal investigators in the case.
>>
>> The second nominee was a lead criminal investigator who "did not even
>> inform himself ... whether any investigation was undertaken of any of
>> these three appellants."
>>
>> At one point, Boyle called the investigator "thoroughly unprepared,
>> unco-operative or untruthful."
>>
>> The judge said the CRA and its lawyers twisted the words of an order
>> that boiled down to a demand for the agency to hand over any documents
>> relating to any investigations that touched on the three appellants.
>>
>> "I variously described this as 'outrageously misleading and
>> inappropriate,''this might be contemptuous,' ... 'deeply, deeply
>> disturbed,''highly inappropriate' and 'I don't think you were
>> reasonably mistaken,'" Boyle wrote.
>>
>> It is an ex-reference: B.C. judge removes 'dead parrot' joke from
>> class-action ruling
>>
>> The judge also zeroed in on the CRA's failure to tell the defence that
>> the second page of a three-page "Investigation Abort Report" against
>> one of the plaintiffs had gone missing. The report was handed over in
>> the middle of hundreds of documents. The missing page explained why a
>> criminal investigation was dropped.
>>
>> The CRA claimed it had no "specific obligation" to point out missing
>> pages — a position Boyle found "shocking."
>>
>> "Courts do not consider discovery to be a game, and it is particularly
>> disappointing when the Crown is the offending party," the judge said.
>>
>> He said the omission gave credence to the idea the CRA "is hiding
>> something from them, from the Court and from Canadians about how these
>> investigations have been conducted.
>> 'Stop, or I'll yell stop again!'
>>
>> The judge pointed out that the CRA is "represented by the Department
>> of Justice which is essentially Canada's largest national law firm and
>> employs a large number of tax litigation lawyers who are wholly
>> familiar" with the court's rules.
>>
>> Boyle said making yet another order for compliance would be pointless.
>> The judge compared his battle to get the CRA to comply with his orders
>> to a skit by Monty Python, whose troupe members are seen here from
>> left to right: John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Graham
>> Chapman, Michael Palin and Eric Idle. (PBS/Python (Monty) Pictures
>> Ltd./The Associated Press)
>>
>> He was reminded of a skit by legendary English comedy troupe Monty
>> Python.
>>
>> "To make such an order would conjure up memories of the Pythonesque
>> skit of the British bobby of another era yelling at a scofflaw: 'Stop!
>> Stop!—Stop, or I'll yell 'stop' again!'" the judge wrote.
>>
>> The three appeals were supposed to be the lead plaintiffs for a much
>> larger group of appeals. The judge said those people will have to
>> speak with their lawyers to determine how the ruling applies to them.
>>
>> Pniowsky says he believes the decision is the first of its kind
>> against the CRA. He predicted fallout both in other DeMara and Fiscal
>> Arbitrators cases and in the wider world of tax litigation.
>>
>> "Intoxicated with a sense of moral righteousness, the government
>> apparently determined or acted like these Canadians were not worthy of
>> basic procedural rights, thereby committing the same wrongs they
>> accused the taxpayers of: gross neglect, wilful blindness and at times
>> deceptive conduct," he said.
>> ABOUT THE AUTHOR
>> Jason Proctor
>>
>> @proctor_jason
>>
>> Jason Proctor is a reporter in British Columbia for CBC News and has
>> covered the B.C. courts and the justice system extensively.
>>
>> CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
>>
>>
>> https://www.tdslaw.com/lawyers/jeff-pniowsky/
>>
>> Jeff Pniowsky
>>
>> Jeff focuses his practice in the areas of tax litigation and dispute
>> resolution in the tax audit and appeals process, tax advisory
>> services, and complex commercial litigation.
>>
>> (204) 934-2586
>> jdp@tdslaw.com
>>
>> Winnipeg
>> (204) 934-0586
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2021 23:52:35 -0400
>> Subject: Diane.Lebouthillier and her old buddy John Ossowski should
>> remember my email and a couple of their own documents EH Madame
>> Desmond and Christian Lorenz ?
>> To: "Diane.Lebouthillier"<Diane.Lebouthillier@cra-arc.gc.ca>,
>> John.Ossowski@cbsa-asfc.gc.ca, megan.maloney@crtc.gc.ca,
>> bell.regulatory@bell.ca, martine.turcotte@bell.ca, Newsroom
>> <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>, Nathalie Sturgeon
>> <sturgeon.nathalie@brunswicknews.com>, "Nathalie.Drouin"
>> <Nathalie.Drouin@justice.gc.ca>, Norman Traversy
>> <traversy.n@gmail.com>, jswaisland@landingslaw.com,
>> Andrew.LeFrank@cbsa-asfc.gc.ca, Andrew.Baumberg@cas-satj.gc.ca
>> Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, "Ellen.Desmond"
>> <Ellen.Desmond@crtc.gc.ca>, Christian.Lorenz@cbsa-asfc.gc.ca,
>> Allison.St-Jean@tc.gc.ca, media@tc.gc.ca, hc.media.sc@canada.ca,
>> mary-liz.power@canada.ca, media@cbsa-asfc.gc.ca,
>> Chris.Lorenz@cbsa-asfc.gc.ca, "christopher.rupar"
>> <christopher.rupar@justice.gc.ca>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: martine.turcotte@bell.ca
>> To: motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com
>> Cc: bcecomms@bce.ca ; W-Five@ctv.ca
>> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 9:28 AM
>> Subject: RE: I am curious
>>
>> Mr. Amos, I confirm that I have received your documentation. There is
>> no need to send us a hard copy. As you have said yourself, the
>> documentation is very voluminous and after 3 days, we are still in the
>> process of printing it. I have asked one of my lawyers to review it
>> in my absence and report back to me upon my return in the office. We
>> will then provide you with a reply.
>>
>> Martine Turcotte
>> Chief Legal Officer / Chef principal du service juridique
>> BCE Inc. / Bell Canada
>> 1000 de La Gauchetière ouest, bureau 3700
>> Montréal (Qc) H3B 4Y7
>>
>> Tel: (514) 870-4637
>> Fax: (514) 870-4877
>> email: martine.turcotte@bell.ca
>>
>> Executive Assistant / Assistante à la haute direction: Diane Valade
>> Tel: (514) 870-4638
>> email: diane.valade@bell.ca
>>
>>
>>
>> A copy of this letter and all related correspondence will be added to
>> the public record of the proceeding.
>>
>> If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me
>> at (613) 697-4027 or megan.maloney@crtc.gc.ca.
>>
>> In the meantime, the Commission is currently continuing its review of
>> this costs application.
>>
>> Yours Sincerely,
>>
>> originally signed by
>>
>> Megan Maloney
>> Legal Counsel
>>
>> PIAC Welcomes New Board Members
>>
>> Adds Expertise in Telecommunications, Broadcasting and Class Actions
>>
>> OTTAWA – The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), today announced
>> the recent election of four new directors to its Board, all experts in
>> either telecommunications, broadcasting or class actions:
>>
>> Konrad von Finckenstein is a lawyer and consultant based in
>> Ottawa. He was previously Chair of the Canadian Radio-television and
>> Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), an Honourable Justice of the
>> Federal Court of Canada and the Commissioner of Competition at the
>> Competition Bureau of Canada. In addition, he has held senior posts in
>> the Government of Canada in positions related to international trade,
>> telecommunications, competition and electronic commerce. Mr. von
>> Finckenstein has been elected as PIAC’s Chair of the Board.
>> Suzanne Lamarre is a lawyer and engineer with the firm of
>> Therrien, Couture and is a former Commissioner of the CRTC. Maitre
>> Lamarre works in the areas of telecommunications, radiocommunications
>> and broadcasting law as a strategic advisor on regulatory and
>> governmental matters at both the national and international level.
>> Monica Auer is a lawyer and the Executive Director of Canada’s
>> Forum for Research & Policy in Communications (FRPC), a non-partisan
>> organization focused on Canada’s communications system. She previously
>> worked at the CRTC and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
>> Ms. Auer has been elected as PIAC’s Vice-Chair.
>> Jonathan Schachter is a Toronto based lawyer with Sotos LLP, with
>> his practice areas including class actions, consumer protection
>> litigation, competition and price fixing, privacy litigation,
>> professional liability litigation, and trademarks and intellectual
>> property litigation and arbitration.
>>
>> “PIAC’s extensive work on behalf of consumers before the CRTC requires
>> the utmost guidance and insight,” said John Lawford, Executive
>> Director and General Counsel of PIAC. “We are therefore thrilled to
>> add to our Board persons with unparalleled experience to guide our
>> communications advocacy, as well as an expert in consumer class
>> actions as this sector becomes more litigious,” he added.
>>
>> PIAC is a federally incorporated not-for-profit and registered charity
>> that advocates for consumer interests, and in particular vulnerable
>> consumer interests, in the provision of important public services.
>> PIAC is known for its representation of consumer, low-income and
>> seniors groups before the CRTC, arguing for better services, more
>> choice and consumer protection for customers of Internet, wireless,
>> telephone and broadcasting services.
>>
>> For more information, please contact:
>>
>> John Lawford
>> Executive Director and General Counsel
>> Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC)
>> (613) 562-4002 ×25
>>
>>> http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2017/02/re-fatca-nafta-tpp-etc-attn-president.html<http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2017/02/re-fatca-nafta-tpp-etc-attn-president.html>
>>>
>>> Tuesday, 14 February 2017
>>>
>>> RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President Donald J. Trump I just got
>>> off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen (646-853-0114) Why does he lie
>>> to me after all this time???
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Michael Cohen <mcohen@trumporg.com>
>>> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:15:14 +0000
>>> Subject: Automatic reply: RE FATCA ATTN Pierre-Luc.Dusseault I just
>>> called and left a message for you
>>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Effective January 20, 2017, I have accepted the role as personal
>>> counsel to President Donald J. Trump. All future emails should be
>>> directed to mdcohen212@gmail.com and all future calls should be
>>> directed to 646-853-0114.
>>> ________________________________
>>> This communication is from The Trump Organization or an affiliate
>>> thereof and is not sent on behalf of any other individual or entity.
>>> This email may contain information that is confidential and/or
>>> proprietary. Such information may not be read, disclosed, used,
>>> copied, distributed or disseminated except (1) for use by the intended
>>> recipient or (2) as expressly authorized by the sender. If you have
>>> received this communication in error, please immediately delete it and
>>> promptly notify the sender. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed
>>> to be received, secure or error-free as emails could be intercepted,
>>> corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late, incomplete, contain viruses
>>> or otherwise. The Trump Organization and its affiliates do not
>>> guarantee that all emails will be read and do not accept liability for
>>> any errors or omissions in emails. Any views or opinions presented in
>>> any email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily
>>> represent those of The Trump Organization or any of its
>>> affiliates.Nothing in this communication is intended to operate as an
>>> electronic signature under applicable law.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: "Min.Mail / Courrier.Min (CRA/ARC)"<PABMINMAILG@cra-arc.gc.ca>
>>> Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 13:10:52 +0000
>>> Subject: Your various correspondence about abusive tax schemes -
>>> 2017-02631
>>> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com"<motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Mr. David Raymond Amos
>>> motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear Mr. Amos:
>>>
>>> Thank you for your various correspondence about abusive tax schemes,
>>> and for your understanding regarding the delay of this response.
>>>
>>> This is an opportunity for me to address your concerns about the way
>>> the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) deals with aggressive tax planning,
>>> tax avoidance, and tax evasion by targeting individuals and groups
>>> that promote schemes intended to avoid payment of tax. It is also an
>>> opportunity for me to present the Government of Canada’s main
>>> strategies for ensuring fairness for all taxpayers.
>>>
>>> The CRA’s mission is to preserve the integrity of Canada’s tax system,
>>> and it is taking concrete and effective action to deal with abusive
>>> tax schemes. Through federal budget funding in 2016 and 2017, the
>>> government has committed close to $1 billion in cracking down on tax
>>> evasion and combatting tax avoidance at home and through the use of
>>> offshore transactions. This additional funding is expected to generate
>>> federal revenues of $2.6 billion over five years for Budget 2016, and
>>> $2.5 billion over five years for Budget 2017.
>>>
>>> More precisely, the CRA is cracking down on tax cheats by hiring more
>>> auditors, maintaining its underground economy specialist teams,
>>> increasing coverage of aggressive goods and service tax/harmonized
>>> sales tax planning, increasing coverage of multinational corporations
>>> and wealthy individuals, and taking targeted actions aimed at
>>> promoters of abusive tax schemes.
>>>
>>> On the offshore front, the CRA continues to develop tools to improve
>>> its focus on high‑risk taxpayers. It is also considering changes to
>>> its Voluntary Disclosures Program following the first set of program
>>> recommendations received from an independent Offshore Compliance
>>> Advisory Committee. In addition, the CRA is leading international
>>> projects to address the base erosion and profit shifting initiative of
>>> the G20 and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
>>> Development, and is collaborating with treaty partners to address the
>>> Panama Papers leaks.
>>>
>>> These actions are evidence of the government’s commitment to
>>> protecting tax fairness. The CRA has strengthened its intelligence and
>>> technical capacities for the early detection of abusive tax
>>> arrangements and deterrence of those who participate in them. To
>>> ensure compliance, it has increased the number of actions aimed at
>>> promoters who use illegal schemes. These measures include increased
>>> audits of such promoters, improved information gathering, criminal
>>> investigations where warranted, and better communication with
>>> taxpayers.
>>>
>>> To deter potential taxpayer involvement in these schemes, the CRA is
>>> increasing notifications and warnings through its communications
>>> products. It also seeks partnerships with tax preparers, accountants,
>>> and community groups so that they can become informed observers who
>>> can educate their clients.
>>>
>>> The CRA will assess penalties against promoters and other
>>> representatives who make false statements involving illegal tax
>>> schemes. The promotion of tax schemes to defraud the government can
>>> lead to criminal investigations, fingerprinting, criminal prosecution,
>>> court fines, and jail time.
>>>
>>> Between April 1, 2011, and March 31, 2016, the CRA’s criminal
>>> investigations resulted in the conviction of 42 Canadian taxpayers for
>>> tax evasion with links to money and assets held offshore. In total,
>>> the $34 million in evaded taxes resulted in court fines of $12 million
>>> and 734 months of jail time.
>>>
>>> When deciding to pursue compliance actions through the courts, the CRA
>>> consults the Department of Justice Canada to choose an appropriate
>>> solution. Complex tax-related litigation is costly and time consuming,
>>> and the outcome may be unsuccessful. All options to recover amounts
>>> owed are considered.
>>>
>>> More specifically, in relation to the KPMG Isle of Man tax avoidance
>>> scheme, publicly available court records show that it is through the
>>> CRA’s efforts that the scheme was discovered. The CRA identified many
>>> of the participants and continues to actively pursue the matter. The
>>> CRA has also identified at least 10 additional tax structures on the
>>> Isle of Man, and is auditing taxpayers in relation to these
>>> structures.
>>>
>>> To ensure tax fairness, the CRA commissioned an independent review in
>>> March 2016 to determine if it had acted appropriately concerning KPMG
>>> and its clients. In her review, Ms. Kimberley Brooks, Associate
>>> Professor and former Dean of the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie
>>> University, examined the CRA’s operational processes and decisions in
>>> relation to the KPMG offshore tax structure and its efforts to obtain
>>> the names of all taxpayers participating in the scheme. Following this
>>> review, the report, released on May 5, 2016, concluded that the CRA
>>> had acted appropriately in its management of the KPMG Isle of Man
>>> file. The report found that the series of compliance measures the CRA
>>> took were in accordance with its policies and procedures. It was
>>> concluded that the procedural actions taken on the KPMG file were
>>> appropriate given the facts of this particular case and were
>>> consistent with the treatment of taxpayers in similar situations. The
>>> report concluded that actions by CRA employees were in accordance with
>>> the CRA’s Code of Integrity and Professional Conduct. There was no
>>> evidence of inappropriate interaction between KPMG and the CRA
>>> employees involved in the case.
>>>
>>> Under the CRA’s Code of Integrity and Professional Conduct, all CRA
>>> employees are responsible for real, apparent, or potential conflicts
>>> of interests between their current duties and any subsequent
>>> employment outside of the CRA or the Public Service of Canada.
>>> Consequences and corrective measures play an important role in
>>> protecting the CRA’s integrity.
>>>
>>> The CRA takes misconduct very seriously. The consequences of
>>> misconduct depend on the gravity of the incident and its repercussions
>>> on trust both within and outside of the CRA. Misconduct can result in
>>> disciplinary measures up to dismissal.
>>>
>>> All forms of tax evasion are illegal. The CRA manages the Informant
>>> Leads Program, which handles leads received from the public regarding
>>> cases of tax evasion across the country. This program, which
>>> coordinates all the leads the CRA receives from informants, determines
>>> whether there has been any non-compliance with tax law and ensures
>>> that the information is examined and conveyed, if applicable, so that
>>> compliance measures are taken. This program does not offer any reward
>>> for tips received.
>>>
>>> The new Offshore Tax Informant Program (OTIP) has also been put in
>>> place. The OTIP offers financial compensation to individuals who
>>> provide information related to major cases of offshore tax evasion
>>> that lead to the collection of tax owing. As of December 31, 2016, the
>>> OTIP had received 963 calls and 407 written submissions from possible
>>> informants. Over 218 taxpayers are currently under audit based on
>>> information the CRA received through the OTIP.
>>>
>>> With a focus on the highest-risk sectors nationally and
>>> internationally and an increased ability to gather information, the
>>> CRA has the means to target taxpayers who try to hide their income.
>>> For example, since January 2015, the CRA has been collecting
>>> information on all international electronic funds transfers (EFTs) of
>>> $10,000 or more ending or originating in Canada. It is also adopting a
>>> proactive approach by focusing each year on four jurisdictions that
>>> raise suspicion. For the Isle of Man, the CRA audited 3,000 EFTs
>>> totalling $860 million over 12 months and involving approximately 800
>>> taxpayers. Based on these audits, the CRA communicated with
>>> approximately 350 individuals and 400 corporations and performed 60
>>> audits.
>>>
>>> In January 2017, I reaffirmed Canada’s important role as a leader for
>>> tax authorities around the world in detecting the structures used for
>>> aggressive tax planning and tax evasion. This is why Canada works
>>> daily with the Joint International Tax Shelter Information Centre
>>> (JITSIC), a network of tax administrations in over 35 countries. The
>>> CRA participates in two expert groups within the JITSIC and leads the
>>> working group on intermediaries and proponents. This ongoing
>>> collaboration is a key component of the CRA’s work to develop strong
>>> relationships with the international community, which will help it
>>> refine the world-class tax system that benefits all Canadians.
>>>
>>> The CRA is increasing its efforts and is seeing early signs of
>>> success. Last year, the CRA recovered just under $13 billion as a
>>> result of its audit activities on the domestic and offshore fronts.
>>> Two-thirds of these recoveries are the result of its audit efforts
>>> relating to large businesses and multinational companies.
>>>
>>> But there is still much to do, and additional improvements and
>>> investments are underway.
>>>
>>> Tax cheats are having a harder and harder time hiding. Taxpayers who
>>> choose to promote or participate in malicious and illegal tax
>>> strategies must face the consequences of their actions. Canadians
>>> expect nothing less. I invite you to read my most recent statement on
>>> this matter at
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February 17, 2023, 12:48 pm

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Revelation at N.B. Power rate hearing triggers order for more evidence

Utility told to hand over critical cost information it updated internally in January

Robert Jones· CBC News · Posted: Feb 17, 2023 4:15 PM AST

J.D. Irving Ltd. is the largest private sector customer for electricity in New Brunswick. The company has been trying to undermine N.B. Power's case for an 8.9 per cent rate increase at hearings. (Robert Jones/CBC)

A surprise revelation that N.B. Power internally updated estimates about how much its power generation and purchase costs are likely to be in the coming year — and did not disclose at a rate hearing now going on — has triggered an order from the Energy and Utilities Board to produce the material.

The board made the order over strenuous objections from the utility.

"N.B. Power does … have an obligation to advise the board if there has been a material or exceptional change in its evidentiary package," EUB chair François Beaulieu said in ordering the updated material be provided.

"If corrections to the evidence are required, such corrections should be made at the earliest opportunity."

N.B. Power is seeking approval from the EUB for an 8.9 per cent rate increase effective April 1.

A side profile of a man with glasses with his hand on his mouth. J.D. Irving Ltd. lawyer Conor O'Neil learned through cross-examination that N.B. Power has new cost estimates for the coming year that it has not shared at its ongoing rate hearing. He successfully argued they should be produced. (Ed Hunter/CBC)

Opponents of the application, principally forest product manufacturers J.D. Irving Ltd. and Twin Rivers Paper Company, have been questioning whether stale budget numbers used by N.B. Power in its application are exaggerating how much of an increase it really needs.

N.B. Power's evidence shows it plans to buy $1.09 billion worth of oil, coal, natural gas, uranium and wholesale electricity to generate and supply power to customers in the coming year — an estimated increase of $403 million over the current year.

It's the main reason for the size of the rate increase N.B. Power is seeking, but costs quoted for those commodities in the application were calculated back in June 2022 and that has become a focus of the hearing.

Commodity prices have generally fallen since then and hearing participants have been probing whether that opens the door to the rate increase being lowered.

A man with short hair and glasses N.B. Power lawyer John Furey argued against the utility being made to supply updated cost numbers it generated internally in January for the coming year. He accused J.D. Irving Ltd. of cherry-picking information to support its case undermining the utility's rate increase request. (Ed Hunter/CBC)

That effort has been energized by a surprise disclosure made during cross-examination of an employee at the centre of creating the cost estimates from last summer who acknowledged newer estimates exist.

Under questioning from J.D. Irving Ltd. lawyer Conor O'Neil, Craig Church, N.B. Power's chief modeller, explained elaborate simulations of N.B. Power's operations meant to estimate electricity supplies and costs are created internally every three months.

That immediately caught O'Neil's attention.

A man in a suit and tie and glasses writing in a notebook. Energy and Utilities Board Chair François Beaulieu has ordered N.B. Power to produce updated cost estimates for what it is spending on fuel and purchased power next year. (Ed Hunter/CBC)

"Did you run one in January 2023?" he asked.

"Yes we did," said Church.

"Can we have that?" said O'Neil.

N.B. Power lawyer John Furey objected to the request.

Furey told the board many things have changed positively and negatively for N.B. Power since its budget was first prepared and said J.D. Irving Ltd. is fishing only for certain things that would support its view the rate increase is exaggerated.

"Interveners don't just get to focus on one thing that they think may have gone favourably and ignore all of the negative variances that have likely occurred," said Furey.

N.B. Power estimates it will spend $166.2 million on oil to generate electricity at the Coleson Cove generating station next year, based on price estimates from last June. The utility has been ordered to provide more recent figures at its rate hearing. (Shane Fowler/CBC News)

"What does that do to the fairness of the process?"

The three-member panel hearing the rate application, including Beaulieu, Stephanie Wilson and former public intervenor Heather Black who is now an EUB member, recessed to consider the issue and emerged with a ruling in J.D. Irving Ltd.'s favour.

"Considering that the magnitude of the fuel and purchased power and their revenue requirements for this year, the board will permit the ... January update results to be provided to Mr. O'Neil," said Beaulieu.

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Bill C-11 passed the Senate with amendments. What could it mean for Canadian creators?

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Bill C-11 passed the Senate with amendments. What could it mean for Canadian creators?

The Online Streaming Act aims to promote Cancon in the online streaming era, proponents say

Mouhamad Rachini· CBC Radio · Posted: Feb 17, 2023 6:38 PM AST

After passing Senate with 26 amendments, the Online Streaming Act is back in front of the House of Commons. (Kowit Khamanek/Shutterstock

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Bill C-11, Canadian content and the world of online streaming

As a bill aimed at promoting Canadian content on digital platforms reappears before the House of Commons, some worry about how it could affect digital content creation.

"It is potentially regulating people's individual expression if we don't very carefully safeguard it to make sure that doesn't happen," said Matt Hatfield, campaigns director for internet advocacy group OpenMedia.

The legislation, also known as Bill C-11, proposes an amendment to the Broadcasting Act — which saw its last major reform in 1991.

It aims to regulate digital streaming platforms such as Netflix, YouTube and Spotify in the same way as broadcasters by requiring them to create a certain percentage of Canadian content and make it accessible to Canadian users.

It was introduced by then-heritage minister Steven Guilbeault in 2020, but it failed to pass the Senate before Parliament was dissolved for the 2021 federal election. It was reintroduced with amendments in February 2022.

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Changes to the government's broadcasting bill C-10 would allow the CRTC to regulate user-generated content uploaded to social media platforms. Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault says the exemption for user-generated content was 'not necessary.'

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The Senate recently passed the bill with dozens of amendments to its text, including an amendment to its language around user-generated content. The House of Commons hasn't reviewed the changes.

"The Online Streaming Act will help make sure that our cultural sector works for Canadians and supports the next generation of artists and creators in this country," Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said in a February 2022 news release.

CRTC chair says online streaming bill won't police user-generated content, algorithms

Streamers may be required to feature more Cancon. But what should qualify as Canadian?

Brad Danks, CEO of LGBTQ-focused TV service OutTV, says having these regulations in place is critical for Canadian content creators, as producers are now selling programs beyond traditional television distributors.

"We no longer control distribution in our marketplace like we did," he told The Current's Matt Galloway. "Our new distributors will be online platforms, none of which are controlled by Canadians."

Producers and consumers

From a producers' perspective, Danks said there are several threats that foreign-owned streaming platforms pose to Canadian showrunners, which Bill C-11 could solve.

"The first one is, will Canadian services even be carried on a lot of these new [streaming] services?" he said. "You have to pitch them and get on them now. There's no sort of requirement that they carry you."

"Number two is if you are carried, are you carried properly in a way that you can be competitive? In other words, are you going to get paid properly?"

That's especially concerning when considering that most large platforms will usually preference their own productions over content made by others, according to Danks.

Quebecers are listening to less local music; artists hope Bill C-11 will change that

Does loosening Cancon rules hobble Canadian TV creators?

"This move is timely because, of course, most people are moving … from linear, traditional cable television to online streaming," he said.

But while making it easy for producers to make Canadian content is important, there are concerns. Hatfield believes the voice of the consumers is being lost in the discussion.

"People don't necessarily want to have their online experience forced back into their curated garden," he told Galloway. "I think people, when we do a search online, we want to find the content that best matches our search."

We need to make it very clear that the CRTC should not be regulating people's individual content and that this is not a censorship bill.

-Matt Hatfield, campaigns director for OpenMedia

The bottom line

Another significant concern some Canadian creators have with Bill C-11 is the effect it will have on their content being seen.

In a May 2022 meeting at the House of Commons, Oorbee Roy, also known as @AuntySkates on TikTok, told the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage that because it's unclear if she qualifies as Cancon, she'll have to compete with other small creators for fewer views.

She told the committee that large production companies will dominate the Cancon-designated space, leaving small digital creators like her fighting for visibility. This can have a significant impact on her bottom line, she said.

Hatfield said it's difficult to determine if Bill C-11 will create a two-tiered system for creators due to the lack of a concrete definition of Cancon.

"There is a point-based system that leads to being Cancon verified," he said. "But a lot of online creators wouldn't currently qualify under that system, and we don't know how they're going to qualify in the future under the new version of it."

A red logo with the words YouTube bolded in white. Part of the concern among individual Canadian creators is what impact Bill C-11 will have on how often their content is seen on platforms such as YouTube and TikTok. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)

Ian Scott, chair of the CRTC, says Bill C-11 will not result in the policing of user-generated content or the mandating of a specific algorithm.

"The CRTC's objective is to ensure that Canadians are made aware of Canadian content and that they can find it. It is not about manipulating algorithms,"he told a Senate committee in November 2022.

While Danks agrees that both the Senate and the House of Commons need to prevent some content from being preferred over other content, he says the response from many digital creators is "really exaggerated."

"The Canadian content we're talking about is professional content in that it's expensive to qualify," he said.

"Those shows cannot be monetized on the YouTubes and TikTok … If you went to our YouTube page right now, you wouldn't see our best shows."

Clear language

The Senate made 26 amendments to the bill before passing it on Feb. 2.

One such amendment, made by Senators Paula Simons and Julie Miville-Dechêne, curbs the CRTC's discretionary power and limits the bill's application to professional music content.

"This amendment also recognizes the fact that the world of cultural creation has changed," said Miville-Dechêne during a reading on Jan. 31.

"Individual creators have flooded social media with special content. They aren't subsidized. They don't have money. They manage on their own and they use their own business model. Our amendment helps to better maintain their autonomy."

Some Canadians worried new legislation could change how they stream media

CRTC could force YouTube, Spotify to 'manipulate' algorithms, under proposed streaming bill

Rodriguez has said that while some amendments will be accepted, others that fundamentally change the intent of the bill will not.

Hatfield said the Senate did "a decent job" of putting a few safeguards in place. And while he doesn't believe the bill's "worst possible outcomes" are the government's intention, he says clearer language needs to be used.

"We need to make it very clear that the CRTC should not be regulating people's individual content and that this is not a censorship bill," he said. "They need to support that amendment to ensure that's clear, and I hope the House will when they finally vote."

With files from CBC News and the Canadian Press. Produced by Samantha Lui and Samira Mohyidden.

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I have a YouTube Channel and I am a Canadian. Please do not force viewers to watch my videos. Let them succeed or fail based on their content.

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February 19, 2023, 1:45 pm

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How the changing face of the New Brunswick winter is forcing some adjustments

'How many times can you make a commitment to something that's high risk?'

Jordan Gill· CBC News · Posted: Feb 19, 2023 9:00 AM AST

Winter is becoming less snowy and cold in parts of New Brunswick. (David Horemans/CBC)

New Brunswick Exhibition executive director Mike Vokey figured cold weather and snow in February in New Brunswick was a given.

Unfortunately, for the outdoor event Winterfrolic, he was mistaken.

The event featuring sled hills, snow mazes and, at one point, a skating rink was scheduled to take place on a weekend in January, but a lack of snow pushed that date back to the February Family Day weekend.

But even February brought difficulties with rain and warm weather, forcing the event to shrink to just two days and shutter the skating rink.

"It's frustrating," said Vokey.

"It's a lot of work, too, for a lot of volunteers. You can't do anything about it. There's lots of things within your control, but the weather isn't."

It's not just frustrating, it's costly. Vokey said postponing an event, even the size of Winterfrolic, can cost between $100,000 and $300,000.

Widespread issues

Winterfrolic isn't the only casualty of a mild winter.

Ski hills like Crabbe Mountain in Upper Hainesville had to shut down several times, going so far as having to close over part of the holiday season because of warm temperatures.

Outdoor activities like snowshoeing and cross-country skiing have also been impacted by a lack of snow, or at least uncertainty about when snow will come.

But some activities appear a little more resilient.

Several activities, like skiing, ice fishing and winter festivals, have been impacted by the changing climate. (Alexandre Silberman/CBC)

Dave Garland, the president of the New Brunswick Federation of Snowmobile Clubs, said snowmobilers by and large have been able to cope with changing winters.

He said while some people may have to travel a bit to find snow.

But he said elevation and not latitude makes the difference in New Brunswick when it comes to snow. He said even southern areas aren't that far away from trails, which are groomed and keep longer.

"The field could be bare with grass and crop showing through, but you look where the groomer went and there's still an eight-inch base," said Garland.

"Once we get the groomers out and build a base, that base has a lot of longevity to it."

Climate change to blame

Charles Bourque, a professor of forestry and environmental management at the University of New Brunswick, said the ultimate culprit of the warmer winters is climate change and not traditional warming cycles like a seasonal thaw.

He said data shows increasing temperatures in the winter going back decades, but even first-hand experience shows something has changed.

"My hometown is in Shediac and at one time I remember about this time of year you'd see all these sheds on the bay … people ice fishing," said Bourque.

"Now you never see any of these sheds on the ice anymore, or I haven't seen it, and so that's an indication what we're going to."

Tricky tourism

The changing climate presents an issue for the province's tourism sector, which often promotes winter in New Brunswick as a place with lots of snow, perfect for outdoor activities.

Danielle Elliott, spokesperson for the Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture, says the changing climate has negatively impacted some planned events and activities, and has prompted more investments in mitigation measures like snow-making machines.

But she said warmer temperatures are making some activities more accessible.

"Less harsh weather conditions have also made some outdoor activities more attractive to New Brunswickers and visitors alike," said Elliott in an email.

A campsite is set up in the winter underneath a sky full of stars. A man stands off to the side wearing a headlamp. The Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture said warmer temperatures are making some activities more accessible. (Submitted by Tyler Sklazeski)

"For instance, winter camping is becoming more palatable for many and increasing in popularity."

Stacey Russell, Fredericton's manager of tourism and events, said the changing weather has prompted the city to become more creative when it comes to hosting and promoting winter events, like the annual Frostival.

"Our strategy and approach for the last number of years is [whenever] we're introducing any new products … it would be a mix of both indoor and outdoor activities," said Russell.

"If, heaven forbid, Mother Nature drove us for a loop, we do have some other opportunities to be able to get people out and enjoy the celebrations."

Silver linings?

There are some silver linings, but even they come with strings attached.

Bourque said it's possible that a slightly warmer winter could mean more snow, not less, in some areas of the province, but it still wouldn't help ice to form on rivers, lakes and outdoor hockey rinks.

Daniel Rainham, a professor in the faculty of health at Dalhousie University, said a warmer winter could mean fewer deaths during the season.

"Even before COVID, there were people dying all the time in the winter from influenza … to a large degree one could say that's from being in close contact with people indoors in wintertime," said Rainham.

"The other reason why is you'd be surprised at how many people die from cardiac arrest or cardiovascular-related Issues associated with shoveling and heavy exertion associated with snow clearing."

A warmer winter could mean a hotter summer with more drastic temperature swings, which would have a negative effect on health.

Charles Bourque is a professor of forestry and environmental management at the University of New Brunswick. (CBC)

Bourque said depending on the model, and how much effort the world makes in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, average winter temperatures would rise between 1.6 C and 4.5 C, which could change the face of winter in New Brunswick for generations.

"There can be areas where the traditional winter that people are accustomed to think about may disappear," said Bourque.

"If the temperatures keep on climbing there's no other way but to get into a state where you don't have the level of snow."

As for Winterfrolic, Vokey said he would never want to put an end to the event, but he has to be realistic.

"If you look at it, how many times can you make a commitment to something that's high risk?"

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Higgs government scraps plan to replace French immersion

February 19, 2023, 5:12 pm

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Higgs government scraps plan to replace French immersion

Minister says 50/50 plan ‘wasn’t the best choice for all our children’

Jacques Poitras· CBC News · Posted: Feb 17, 2023 1:22 PM AST

Man wearing glasses and a goatee stands in from of reporters at the legislature.

Bill Hogan, the minister of education and early childhood development, says recent consultations revealed the proposed change wasn’t right for all students. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)

The New Brunswick government is abandoning its plan to replace French immersion this fall.

Education Minister Bill Hogan announced Friday that recent consultations had revealed that the proposed change wasn't right for all students.

"This wasn't the best choice for all our children," he said.

"We want to do what's best for our children and that's why we've arrived at this decision."

People sitting at round tables. A woman on the left is standing at a microphone Public consultation sessions drew crowds, including one that brought out more than 300 people in Fredericton. (Ed Hunter/CBC)

The Blaine Higgs government had planned to phase in a new program for all students this fall, featuring half-days in English and half-days in French from kindergarten to Grade 5.

That would have been more French than non-immersion students get in the English prime program but less than those in immersion.

The plan provoked many questions, including whether there would be enough teachers who speak French for the program, and how some students with learning challenges would gain language skills spending only half their days in English.

"To be honest, I really thought that the framework we announced was a great idea," Hogan said. "I still think that in certain cases it could work really well. However, what we found out is that it's not in the best interests of all our children."

Hogan said he was confident the system would find enough teachers "but now we don't have to worry about it."

He said the province will launch a new process to look at how to improve the English prime program and French immersion outcomes.

"Immersion doesn't work any better today than it did yesterday. It doesn't meet the targets," he said.

The province will look at how it measures not just oral language skills but also reading, writing and comprehension with a goal of improving the program "so that our students are getting a quality French immersion education."

A man wearing a baseball hat speaking into a microphone and holding papers in his hand. Parent Micah Peterson, who attended the Saint John meeting and has two children he hopes to enrol in immersion along with his five older children, says his family was 'pretty excited' by the news. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)

The minister said that would involve a stakeholder group that will include parents, experts and the New Brunswick Teachers Association.

Registration is opening for parents who want to enrol Grade 1 students in French immersion this fall, he said.

The department will also look at how to address the challenges creating by "streaming" caused by immersion — the clustering of students with learning difficulties in the English prime system, leading to difficult classroom environments.

Hogan said a recent online consultation with 400 English prime teachers made it clear that the 50-50 program would not be workable for all students.

That meeting came on the heels of public consultation sessions, including three packed gatherings in Moncton, Saint John and Fredericton attended by hundreds of people where no one spoke in favour of the reform.

Parent Micah Peterson, who attended the Saint John meeting and has two children he hopes to enrol in immersion along with his five older children, said his family was "pretty excited" by the news.

"It's kind of mixed emotions because we are cognizant that there are challenges in the education system … but we also don't believe that getting rid of French immersion is the answer. We're relieved, I guess."

Peterson's brother is married with children in a French-speaking household in Quebec and immersion allowed all the cousins to speak the language to each other.

Liberal Leader Susan Holt says she was also relieved that the Progressive Conservative government had listened. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)

He said his five older children already in immersion were conscious that their two younger children wouldn't get the same level of French and had been "feeling it for them" until Friday's announcement.

Liberal Leader Susan Holt said she was also relieved that the Progressive Conservative government had listened.

"It's great to see the power of these teachers and these parents and these experts and the population of New Brunswick has made a difference," she said.

Chris Collins, the executive director of Canadian Parents for French in New Brunswick, also credited parents with the government's decision.

"It's really encouraging because what I'm seeing here is a big vote for bilingualism in New Brunswick," he said.

"New Brunswickers have come together over this issue."

The change of course on immersion is the second major policy reversal by the Higgs government in as many days.

On Thursday, Premier Blaine Higgs announced he will repeal the provincial carbon tax he set up in 2020 so that the federal pricing system — which includes rebates — applied in New Brunswick as of July.

Last month PC MLA Andrea Anderson-Mason urged the government to "pump the brakes" on the phaseout of immersion, which would have coincided with the rollout of a new literacy program in anglophone schools this fall.

Man in brown jacket with closely cropped grey hair. Chris Collins, the executive director of Canadian Parents for French in New Brunswick, also credited parents with the government’s decision. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)

Anderson-Mason said Friday that she'd been relaying the concerns of teachers in her riding, and the announcement was a great way to end Teacher Appreciation Week.

She said educators have seemed reluctant to comment publicly on provincial policy in the past, but the immersion debate changed that.

"I think that we turned a corner and I'm excited to see a new path forward. I hope it opens up a whole new level of communication between government and educators, because we saw educators turn out."

Hogan would not respond to reporters' questions about whether the Progressive Conservative caucus had demanded the government backtrack.

"What happens in caucus is confidential and will remain that way. Thanks for the question, though."

A woman sits at a table in front of a laptop computer in the new Brunswick legislature. PC MLA Andrea Anderson-Mason says she’d been relaying the concerns of teachers in her riding and the announcement was a great way to end Teacher Appreciation Week. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)

Former education minister Dominic Cardy, who left the Higgs cabinet last fall over the premier's determination to implement the change this year, said the reversal was "depressingly predictable."

"The premier made the emotional decision to override everyone in the education system, to destroy relationships with everyone in his caucus, with the teachers, with the unions, with the opposition," Cardy said.

"Now he's reaping the consequences. … I give full credit to Minister Hogan for having pushed back and stood up to the premier to make sure that this foolish waste of time didn't go ahead."

A man wearing a blue blazer and a blue unbuttoned shirt stands in front of a bookcase in a school classroom. Former education minister Dominic Cardy says he hopes the department can pivot to reform school governance so that future premiers can’t interfere with educational decisions. (CBC)

Still, he said, the education system had to go through four months of "completely needless" chaos during which many teachers retired early over the change.

Cardy said he hopes the department can pivot to reform school governance so that future premiers can't interfere with educational decisions.

Cardy said the reversal and the $2-million payout to former Horizon Health CEO Dr. John Dornan, who Higgs fired last year, were two examples "of how emotion has no place in our politics."

"The premier's clearly past his sell-by date," he said, urging Higgs to step down to let someone else lead the PC Party into the next election.

Corrections

In an earlier version of this story, a quote by Micah Peterson was missing two words. The correct quote is: "It's kind of mixed emotions because we are cognizant that there are challenges in the education system … but we also don't believe that getting rid of French immersion is the answer. We're relieved, I guess." The same story incorrectly attributed a comment about the place of emotion in politics to Blaine Higgs instead of Dominic Cardy.
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 03:26:24 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Matter 541 I see Mr Furey is up to his usual
tricks and filing last minute documents on Yankee experts who are paid
by GNB on my behalf yet they refuse to speak to me
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 23:26:11 -0400
Subject: Re: Matter 541 I see Mr Furey is up to his usual tricks and
filing last minute documents on Yankee experts who are paid by GNB on
my behalf yet they refuse to speak to me
To: John Furey <JohnFurey@fureylegal.com>, "blaine.higgs"
<blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, "Holland, Mike (LEG)"<mike.holland@gnb.ca>,
"martin.gaudet"<martin.gaudet@fredericton.ca>, "kris.austin"
<kris.austin@gnb.ca>, "Brenda.Lucki"<Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
Cc: "Mitchell, Kathleen"<Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca>,
"louis-philippe.gauthier@cfib.ca"<louis-philippe.gauthier@cfib.ca>,
"frederic.gionet@cfib.ca"<frederic.gionet@cfib.ca>,
"david.sollows@gnb.ca"<david.sollows@gnb.ca>, "Daly, Gerard"
<daly@nbnet.nb.ca>, "hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com"
<hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com>, "nrubin@stewartmckelvey.com"
<nrubin@stewartmckelvey.com>, "coneil@stewartmckelvey.com"
<coneil@stewartmckelvey.com>, "lmclements@stewartmckelvey.com"
<lmclements@stewartmckelvey.com>, "brudderham@stewartmckelvey.com"
<brudderham@stewartmckelvey.com>, "Brandy.Gellner@libertyutilities.com"
<Brandy.Gellner@libertyutilities.com>, "dave.lavigne@libertyutilities.com"
<dave.lavigne@libertyutilities.com>, "Gilles.volpe@libertyutilities.com"
<Gilles.volpe@libertyutilities.com>, "jpetrie@nbpower.com"
<jpetrie@nbpower.com>, "SWaycott@nbpower.com"<SWaycott@nbpower.com>,
"DAMurphy@nbpower.com"<DAMurphy@nbpower.com>, "bcrawford@nbpower.com"
<bcrawford@nbpower.com>, "lgordon@nbpower.com"<lgordon@nbpower.com>,
"nbpregulatory@nbpower.com"<nbpregulatory@nbpower.com>, NBEUB/CESPNB
<General@nbeub.ca>, "Young, Dave"<Dave.Young@nbeub.ca>,
"Aherrington@lawsoncreamer.com"<Aherrington@lawsoncreamer.com>,
"Dickie, Michael"<Michael.Dickie@nbeub.ca>, Veronique Otis
<Veronique.Otis@nbeub.ca>, "Colwell, Susan"<Susan.Colwell@nbeub.ca>,
"dustin@emrydia.com"<dustin@emrydia.com>, Melissa Curran
<Melissa.Curran@nbeub.ca>, "Vincent.musco@bateswhite.com"
<Vincent.musco@bateswhite.com>, "richard.williams@gnb.ca"
<richard.williams@gnb.ca>, "rdk@indecon.com"<rdk@indecon.com>,
"tyler.rajeski@twinriverspaper.com"<tyler.rajeski@twinriverspaper.com>,
"darcy.ouellette@twinriverspaper.com"<darcy.ouellette@twinriverspaper.com>,

"Hoyt, Len"<len.hoyt@mcinnescooper.com>, "paul.black@twinriverspaper.com"
<paul.black@twinriverspaper.com>, "tammy.grieve@mcinnescooper.com"
<tammy.grieve@mcinnescooper.com>, "jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com"
<jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com>, "shelley.wood@sjenergy.com"
<shelley.wood@sjenergy.com>, "dan.dionne@perth-andover.com"
<dan.dionne@perth-andover.com>, "pierreroy@edmundston.ca"
<pierreroy@edmundston.ca>, "pzarnett@bdrenergy.com"
<pzarnett@bdrenergy.com>, "sstoll@stollprofcorp.com"<sstoll@stollprofcorp.com>

N.B. Power lawyer John Furey argued against the utility being made to supply updated cost numbers it generated internally in January for the coming year. He accused J.D. Irving Ltd. of cherry-picking information to support its case undermining the utility's rate increase request. (Ed Hunter/CBC)

Matter 541 - NB Power 2023-2024 General Rate Application / Instance no 541 - Énergie NB Demande générale de tarifs pour 2023-2024

John Furey <JohnFurey@fureylegal.com>	Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 6:48 PM
To: "Mitchell, Kathleen"<Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca>, "louis-philippe.gauthier@cfib.ca"<louis-philippe.gauthier@cfib.ca>, "frederic.gionet@cfib.ca"<frederic.gionet@cfib.ca>, "David.Raymond.Amos333@gmail.com"<David.Raymond.Amos333@gmail.com>, "david.sollows@gnb.ca"<david.sollows@gnb.ca>, "Daly, Gerard"<daly@nbnet.nb.ca>, "hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com"<hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com>, "nrubin@stewartmckelvey.com"<nrubin@stewartmckelvey.com>, "coneil@stewartmckelvey.com"<coneil@stewartmckelvey.com>, "lmclements@stewartmckelvey.com"<lmclements@stewartmckelvey.com>, "brudderham@stewartmckelvey.com"<brudderham@stewartmckelvey.com>, "Brandy.Gellner@libertyutilities.com"<Brandy.Gellner@libertyutilities.com>, "dave.lavigne@libertyutilities.com"<dave.lavigne@libertyutilities.com>, "Gilles.volpe@libertyutilities.com"<Gilles.volpe@libertyutilities.com>, "jpetrie@nbpower.com"<jpetrie@nbpower.com>, "SWaycott@nbpower.com"<SWaycott@nbpower.com>, "DAMurphy@nbpower.com"<DAMurphy@nbpower.com>, "bcrawford@nbpower.com"<bcrawford@nbpower.com>, "lgordon@nbpower.com"<lgordon@nbpower.com>, "nbpregulatory@nbpower.com"<nbpregulatory@nbpower.com>, NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca>, "Young, Dave"<Dave.Young@nbeub.ca>, "Aherrington@lawsoncreamer.com"<Aherrington@lawsoncreamer.com>, "Dickie, Michael"<Michael.Dickie@nbeub.ca>, Veronique Otis <Veronique.Otis@nbeub.ca>, "Colwell, Susan"<Susan.Colwell@nbeub.ca>, "dustin@emrydia.com"<dustin@emrydia.com>, Melissa Curran <Melissa.Curran@nbeub.ca>, "Vincent.musco@bateswhite.com"<Vincent.musco@bateswhite.com>, "richard.williams@gnb.ca"<richard.williams@gnb.ca>, "rdk@indecon.com"<rdk@indecon.com>, "tyler.rajeski@twinriverspaper.com"<tyler.rajeski@twinriverspaper.com>, "darcy.ouellette@twinriverspaper.com"<darcy.ouellette@twinriverspaper.com>, "Hoyt, Len"<len.hoyt@mcinnescooper.com>, "paul.black@twinriverspaper.com"<paul.black@twinriverspaper.com>, "tammy.grieve@mcinnescooper.com"<tammy.grieve@mcinnescooper.com>, "jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com"<jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com>, "shelley.wood@sjenergy.com"<shelley.wood@sjenergy.com>, "dan.dionne@perth-andover.com"<dan.dionne@perth-andover.com>, "pierreroy@edmundston.ca"<pierreroy@edmundston.ca>, "pzarnett@bdrenergy.com"<pzarnett@bdrenergy.com>, "sstoll@stollprofcorp.com"<sstoll@stollprofcorp.com>

Dear Ms. Mitchell, Please find attached an additional Aid to Cross to which NB Power will make reference during its cross-examination of each of Mr. Knecht and Mr. Musco. The aid references the regulatory principle of the prohibition against single issue ratemaking. Regards, John

Aid to Cross - Centra Gas Manitoba Response to Information Requests of NEB.pdf
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Début du message réexpédié :

De: "Furey, John"<john.furey@mcinnescooper.com>
Objet: Application to Vary Board Decision Dated July 16, 2019 (Matter 430)
Date: 7 septembre 2021 16:19:50 UTC−3
À: "Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca"<Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca>,
"david.sollows@gnb.ca"<david.sollows@gnb.ca>,
"cstewart@stewartmckelvey.com"<cstewart@stewartmckelvey.com>,

"hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com"<hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com>,
"Paul.Volpe@libertyutilities.com"<Paul.Volpe@libertyutilities.com>,
"Gilles.volpe@libertyutilities.com"<Gilles.volpe@libertyutilities.com>,
"dave.lavigne@libertyutilities.com"
<dave.lavigne@libertyutilities.com>, "NBPRegulatory@nbpower.com"
<NBPRegulatory@nbpower.com>, "SWaycott@nbpower.com"
<SWaycott@nbpower.com>, "BCrawford@nbpower.com"
<BCrawford@nbpower.com>, "JGagnon@nbpower.com"<JGagnon@nbpower.com>,
"General@nbeub.ca"<General@nbeub.ca>, "John.Lawton@nbeub.ca"
<John.Lawton@nbeub.ca>, "Michael.Dickie@nbeub.ca"
<Michael.Dickie@nbeub.ca>, "Dave.Young@nbeub.ca"
<Dave.Young@nbeub.ca>, "dmadsen.consulting@gmail.com"
<dmadsen.consulting@gmail.com>, "heather.black@gnb.ca"
<heather.black@gnb.ca>, "rdk@indecon.com"<rdk@indecon.com>,
"rrichard@nb.aibn.com"<rrichard@nb.aibn.com>, "sstoll@airdberlis.com"
<sstoll@airdberlis.com>, "jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com"
<jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com>, "dan.dionne@perth-andover.com"
<dan.dionne@perth-andover.com>, "pierreroy@edmundston.ca"
<pierreroy@edmundston.ca>, "ray.robinson@sjenergy.com"
<ray.robinson@sjenergy.com>, "pzarnett@bdrenergy.com"
<pzarnett@bdrenergy.com>, "gerald@kissnb.com"<gerald@kissnb.com>,
"mletson@lawsoncreamer.com"<mletson@lawsoncreamer.com>, Katherine
McBrearty <Katherine.McBrearty@nbeub.ca>

Dear Ms. Mitchell,

Please find attached:
1. Letter to NBEUB dated September 7, 2021;
2. Application in the above noted Matter, in redacted form;
3. Affidavit of Darren Murphy in support of the Application; and
4. Claim for Confidentiality.

As noted in the enclosed correspondence, a copy of the redacted
Application is provided to parties in each of Matter 430 and Matter
458.

By separate email, I will provide the Confidential version of the
Application. I will also confirm when the Public Intervener has been
provided with the Confidential version.

Regards,

John

John Furey
Counsel
McInnes Cooper

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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 09:31:18 -0400
Subject: Methinks the EUB and Johnny "Never Been Good" Herron in
particular forgot that one Intervener had lots to say EH Mr Furey?
To: andrea.anderson-mason@gnb.ca, Bruce.Macfarlane@gnb.ca,
marc.martin@snb.ca, hugh.flemming@gnb.ca, robert.gauvin@gnb.ca,
kris.austin@gnb.ca, rick.desaulniers@gnb.ca, serge.gauvin@snb.ca,
michelle.conroy@gnb.ca, attorneygeneral@ontario.ca,
caroline.mulroneyco@pc.ola.org, rbrossard@contribuables.ca,
krondolo@generationscrewed.ca, federal.director@taxpayer.com,
jbowes@taxpayer.com, Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca, Ernie.Steeves@gnb.ca,
greg.byrne@gnb.ca, tyler.campbell@gnb.ca, andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca,
PABMINMAILG@cra-arc.gc.ca, Bill.Morneau@canada.ca, premier@gov.bc.ca,
maxime.bernier@parl.gc.ca, strathmore.brooks@assembly.ab.ca,
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leader@freedomconservativeparty.ca, premier@gnb.ca,
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premier@leg.gov.mb.ca, ksims@taxpayer.com, fterrazzano@taxpayer.com,
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prairie@taxpayer.com, Diane.Lebouthillier@cra-arc.gc.ca,
brian.gallant@gnb.ca, David.Coon@gnb.ca, Kevin.A.Arseneau@gnb.ca,
megan.mitton@gnb.ca, BrianThomasMacdonald
<BrianThomasMacdonald@gmail.com>, votejohnw <votejohnw@gmail.com>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>, john.mcneil@gnb.ca,
jason.humphrey2@gnb.ca, "Furey, John"<jfurey@nbpower.com>, wharrison
<wharrison@nbpower.com>

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Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 08:17:44 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks whereas the EUB transcripts can't
be trusted perhaps the Brattle Group should have some of their people
attend the EUB hearing next week
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 04:17:36 -0400
Subject: Methinks whereas the EUB transcripts can't be trusted perhaps
the Brattle Group should have some of their people attend the EUB
hearing next week
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, Michael.Cragg@brattle.com,
James.Reitzes@brattle.com, Lynda.Borucki@brattle.com,
Andy.Harington@brattle.com
Cc: "Jacques.Poitras"<Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>, "Robert. Jones"
<Robert.Jones@cbc.ca>, "David.Akin"<David.Akin@globalnews.ca>,
Newsroom <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>, "steve.murphy"
<steve.murphy@ctv.ca>, gthomas@nbpower.com, jfurey@nbpower.com,
bplummer@nbpower.com, Marc.Belliveau@gnb.ca, "Dominic.Cardy"
<Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca>, tj <tj@burkelaw.ca>, kelly
<kelly@lamrockslaw.com>, "Holland, Mike (LEG)"<mike.holland@gnb.ca>,
"robert.mckee"<robert.mckee@gnb.ca>, "robert.gauvin"
<robert.gauvin@gnb.ca>, "kris.austin"<kris.austin@gnb.ca>,
"rick.desaulniers"<rick.desaulniers@gnb.ca>, "michelle.conroy"
<michelle.conroy@gnb.ca>, "David.Coon"<David.Coon@gnb.ca>, "Arseneau,
Kevin (LEG)"<Kevin.A.Arseneau@gnb.ca>, "Mitton, Megan (LEG)"
<megan.mitton@gnb.ca>, "blaine.higgs"<blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>,
"brian.gallant"<brian.gallant@gnb.ca>, "denis.landry2"
<denis.landry2@gnb.ca>, "greg.byrne"<greg.byrne@gnb.ca>, "Jack.Keir"
<Jack.Keir@gnb.ca>, "jeff.carr"<jeff.carr@gnb.ca>, "hugh.flemming"
<hugh.flemming@gnb.ca>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "Katie.Telford"
<Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca>, andre <andre@jafaust.com>, oldmaison
<oldmaison@yahoo.com>, "andrew.scheer"<andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca>,
"maxime.bernier"<maxime.bernier@parl.gc.ca>, leader
<leader@greenparty.ca>, "elizabeth.may"<elizabeth.may@parl.gc.ca>

Obviously the Henneberry Reporting Service forgot to mention that Mr.
Beaulieu attended the hearing and it was held in Delta Hotel,
Fredericton N.B, it should be easy to understand why I stongly
disagreed with their trancript of the public session I spoke at in
2018 N'esy Pas?

New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board
Commission de L’Energie et des Services Publics N.-B.

Matter 430

IN THE MATTER OF an application by New Brunswick Power Corporation
for approval of the schedules of the rates for the fiscal year
commencing April 1, 2019, and other relief as outlined in NB Power’s
application

Held at the Delta Hotel, Saint John, N.B., on May 9th 2019.

BEFORE: Raymond P Gorman, Q.C. - Chair
          John Patrick Herron - Panel Member
          Michael Costello - Panel Member
          Patrick Ervin - Panel Member

NB Energy and Utilities Board
- Counsel - Ms. Ellen Desmond, Q.C.
- Staff - David Young
     John Lawton
     Michael Dickie
     Chief Clerk - Kathleen Mitchell

CHAIRMAN: Good afternoon, everyone. Bonjour. Before we get
started with today’s session, I want to point out that translation
devices are available at the back of the room so if anybody needs one,
please take this opportunity to secure one. All right.

Welcome to today’s special session of the New Brunswick Energy and
Utilities Board. All members of the Energy and Utilities Board are
present today, including Vice-Chair, Francois Beaulieu, and Members,
Michael Costello, Patrick Ervin and John Herron.

Today’s public session will deal with Matter 430, which is NB Power’s
2019-2020 General Rate Application. In that application, NB Power is
seeking Board approval for, amongst other things, an average increase
in rates of 2.5 percent with some customers receiving an increase as
high as 2.9 percent.

This session of the rate hearing won’t follow the same format as we
typically use at the formal hearing which will commence in about 10
days. Today’s session is intended to be much less formal so despite
the fact that we are sitting here on the dais and in the front of the
room and everybody seems to have a jacket and tie on, you shouldn’t
take that to mean that we are requiring any formality today. And the
reason that I wanted to emphasize that informality is that we really
want to encourage members of the general public to come to the session
and provide their views on these rate applications. Many people don’t
have the time or the resources to present evidence before the Board
but still have important contributions to make to the process. I want
to assure you that your comments are taken seriously by the Board.

I want to also point out that NB Power is represented here today over in the
right-hand side of the room and although they will not be making a
presentation today, they will be available to hear your concerns and
to discuss them further following the conclusion of the presentations.

Our Public Intervener, Heather Black, is also present and will be
available to discuss any public interest concerns that you may have
following today’s presentations.

In addition, we have several members from the Energy and Utilities
Board Staff who are also available to discuss matters with you.

Each presenter today has been allocated 15 minutes to make his or her
presentation and before we start with the presentations, I am going to
invite Mr. Beaulieu to say a few words in French.

CHAIRMAN: Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Mr. Shaw. I
think that is all the presenters that we had for this afternoon. So
we will conclude for this afternoon and we will be back at 6:00 p.m.
Thank you.

(Recess - 4:25 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.)

CHAIRMAN: Good evening, everyone. Bonjour. This session is a
continuation of our annual public session related to the general rate
application by NB Power. And we had three excellent presentations
earlier today.

Before we get started with the presentations this evening, I want
to point out that there are translation devices available at the back
of the room. So if anybody feels that they may need that translation
device, please take this opportunity to get one.

All right. And I just want to -- for those who perhaps haven’t
appeared before the Board in the past, I want to point out that the
full Board is present here tonight, including to my left our
Vice-Chair, Francois Beaulieu, Patrick Ervin to my far left, next to
me Michael Costello and Mr. Ervin. Did I call him Mr. Ervin? Mr.
Herron is down there. There, I have got them mixed up.

All right. So would you say a few words in French?

VICE-CHAIRMAN: Bon soir à tous. C’est un continuation de la séance
public que nous avons débuter cette après-midi. Comme M. le président
l’a indiqué, nous avons reçu trois bonnes présentations cet
après-midi. Et puis avant de commencer, nous tenons à souligner que
les dispositifs a l’arrière pour l’écoute en française si vous voulez,
et puis cette un séance extraordinaire, un session extraordinaire de
la Commission. Pis comme vous pouvez le voir, toute le monde est
présent aujourd’hui, Monsieur le président, M. Gorman, et puis à ma
gauche, puis M. Herron, at puis M. Costello, puis M. Ervin.

CHAIRMAN: All right. So just before we get started, I should
indicate as well that we have allocated 15 minutes for each of the
presenters this evening. So we will start with David Amos.

Mr. Amos, I think you can either take that table or the podium.
Either one there is a microphone at both so whatever you are most
comfortable with.

MR. AMOS: Good evening. I presume I can speak for 15 minutes uninterrupted?

CHAIRMAN: Yes. You are allocated 15 minutes, that’s correct, Mr. Amos.

MR. AMOS: First I guess I should thank you for your signature, sir.
I am probably the only man that wanted to intervene that you barred
twice thus far. At least this time I have your signature, that and
Mr. Herron’s and Mr. Costello. Everybody knows I ran against Mr.
Herron in the election of the 38th parliament. And his lawyer,
another Queen’s Counsel, David Lutz never answered me. So I filed the
very same documents that I served upon Mr. Herron and David Lutz in
2004. That said, at that time, I believe you were the lawyer for the
Saint John utilities.

Anyway, Mr. Furey of NB Power, in his opposition to my intervening
this time, didn’t think my whistle blowing efforts against KPMG
amounted to anything, even though I gave you the proof I was
conferring with Diane Lebouthiller, the Commissioner of Revenue
Canada. Well if you don’t think a whistle blower who understands the
malice of a law firm and an accounting firm has the right to
intervene, who also owns property here and is a ratepayer, I don’t
know who is. If you had said such things of Stephen Harper, he would
consider it libel. So do I.

The other two fellows that signed, Mr. Herron and Mr. Costello are
not lawyers. But Mr. Costello and Mr. Ewing both worked for Bell
Aliant. If you looked at the documents I sent, I even had a request
for information from their former lawyer for Bell back in 2004. It
took them four days to print my files.

Anyway, when I first intervened in the 357 Matter, and you asked
me why I intervened, I introduced myself. And I said every lawyer in
the room knows who I am. And you do. And you did not stop me from
intervening in the 357 Matter and I thank you for that. I am still an
intervener in that Matter.

The next hearing they take -- or Mr. Furey takes documents from
the 357 Matter, takes out certain documents, uses them against me and
you barred me without one word in writing. I opposed you delaying the
357 Matter with a proper motion and you never answered that motion.
When you barred me just before you were done, you never put anything
in writing. So the last time I said, fool me once shame on you, fool
me twice shame on me. Now Mr. Furey filed a bunch of documents and
then accused me of things I did not say from a transcript where I was
never given a recording of it. I never threatened to kill anyone.
Who are you people to say any different. That said, the last thing I
said to you, Mr. Gorman, is do you understand the documents that are
already on file. You wouldn’t answer me.

Mr. Herron, who I have debated in several debates, looked like a
deer in the headlights. He wouldn’t say one word the whole time we
were there. As I explained to you, this is a rate increase hearing.
When -- the last meeting we had at the 357 Matter, none of you guys
knew what to do because Mr. Gallant wanted to be Premier again. His
people appointed you to be Chair again.

David Coon, the -- who had lots to say about NB Power when he was
just a guy, was now opposing Mr. Gallant’s promise to freeze rates for
at least three years. Well Mr. Gallant isn’t Premier. However, a
Cabinet Minister’s wife, you allowed to intervene halfway through a
hearing. Interesting. Then as soon as Mr. Higgs becomes Premier, NB
Power all of a sudden wants a rate increase. Ain’t that interesting.
Where is the Green Party.

Now when I first intervened in the 357 Matter, you didn’t want my
friend Gerald Bourque to intervene because he is a leader of a
fledgling political party. He is still intervening. Gerald Bourque,
my friend Roger Richard who I will back up till the cows come home and
I all ran in the last provincial election. My friend Roger Richard
clearly stated his issues were Smart Meters. You should still not
allow Smart Meters until the 357 Matter is heard. I am still an
intervener there.

I will address your libel against me in the proper venue. In my
opinion that’s federal court. You are a Queen’s Counsel, you are
probably aware that New Brunswick does not have a constitution. I
filed the documents that proved that I was involved in a National
Energy Board matter in Saint John while you were a counsellor for the
Utilities. Mr. Morrison, who is hearing a trial of a friend of mine’s
murder, Dick Oland, was NB Power’s lawyer at the National Energy Board
hearing. Did not surprise me when Mr. Furey took out his boss’
documents from those days. He used to work for Brad Green. And yet
inserts a judgment by Mr. Morrison of Patterson & Palmer about barring
some woman to speak because she is frivolous and vexatious. I don’t
know why you think because some woman is frivolous and vexatious that
I am too. I am no less a man than you.

Now as far as these people in New Brunswick goes, I do speak on
behalf of my fellow New Brunswicker. The average income, from what I
read in CBC, of a New Brunswicker is about 31,000. I bet you there is
not one soul in this room that makes over double that. From these --
most folks to make a salary of 31,000, it is comprised of a lot of
people that make a lot less than 31,000 and then a lot of people that
make a lot more, like the people in this room. But a lot of people
are like me, seniors getting by on old Age pensions and Canada Pension
or people working at Tim Hortons and trying to raise a couple of kids.
And a lot of folks have to balance their heat bill versus their
grocery bill or their pharma bill. And yet NB Power has got all kinds
of money for their highest paid employee, a Yankee who makes like
$750,000 to invest in mini nucs and try to peddle them around the
world. Well the last thing I know about NB Power, its mandate, is to
provide my fellow New Brunswickers reliable energy at a reasonable
price. You make lots of electricity now, in fact, you sell it to
other jurisdictions. I used to be in business. I would like to have
$1.7 billion in sales, owed 5 billion. I think I would get out of
debt pretty quick. You are supposed to have 20 percent equity before
you invest in Mactaquac. Just from what I look at the books, what
KPMG says we have for assets I think is what, 6.7 billion, book value
nearly 5 billion. Well the difference between book value and what the
assets are, you are already over 20 percent equity. There is no need
for a price increase. There is no need to borrow money to invest in
mini nucs for the benefit of a bunch of Yankees. I find all of this
very aggravating. The reason that you bar me is because I sue lawyers
and love to argue.

Mr. Gorman, you and I will meet in another court. In my humble
opinion, you need a lawyer. Good evening.

CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Mr. Amos. All right. Next we will have Frank Jopp.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-behind-on-debt-reduction-commitment-1.5005527

NB Power behind on plan to pay down $1 billion in debt
The utility would need to increase rates by 22.3% to pay down its debt
on schedule

Robert Jones · CBC News · Posted: Feb 05, 2019 6:30 AM AT

185 Comments

David Amos
Methinks the folks who offer their opinions on NB Power's debt and
rate hikes should consider attending the first day of the public EUB
hearing of the 430 Matter today at 9.30 AM in the Delta Hotel in Saint
John N'esy Pas?

David Amos
Methinks tomorrow should prove to be an interesting day at the EUB
hearing o the 430 Matter byway of all the documents that the NB Power
lawyers served on me at the last minute Anyone can download them from
the EUB website if they truly cared N'esy Pas?

Mark (Junkman) George
Here is "the deal".

It serves no one's purpose to run NB Hydro efficiently.

The politicians don't care and see it only as a source to provide
patronage positions.

The folks running it have no desire to operate it efficiently,
otherwise they would have no excuse for rate hikes, and big budgets
indexed to their bonuses.

I *guess*, on many levels, privatization is an answer of sorts, but
does not assure efficient operation and/or decent competitive energy
pricing.

I *suppose* the best thing to do is remove all political control along
with all the middle managers.

Roger Richard
@Mark (Junkman) George You may be right, we should be able to find a
solution. But I wonder where integrity when?

David Amos
@Roger Richard Methinks you know as well as I that I will have another
chance to teach NB Power, the EUB and many lawyers a lesson about
Integrity tomorrow morning at 9.30 in the Delta Hotel in Saint John
N'esy Pas mon cher ami???

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Re: #541 - Expert Qualification Request for Bob Knecht Perhaps Mr Williams and his expert should review the Board's Opinion of my concerns about KPMG in the 530 Matter as Furey suggested

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Subject: Re: #541 - Expert Qualification Request for Bob Knecht Perhaps Mr Williams and his expert should review the Board's Opinion of my concerns about KPMG in the 530 Matter as Furey suggested

Held at the Fredericton Convention Centre, Fredericton, N.B. on
February 15, 2023.

CROSS-EXAMINATION BY MR. WILLIAMS:
Q. - Morning, Panel. Just to refresh my memory, I know there are a
bunch of accountants here, but I am not sure everybody is an
accountant. Mr. Blackier, I don't think you are an accountant?
MR. BLACKIER: No, I am not an accountant.
Q. - How long did you say you have been working at NB Power?
MR. BLACKIER: I am currently employed by NB Power directly for four
years -- just short of four years. But I have worked in various other
roles in the ICT sector and indirectly supported NB Power for 24.
Q. - But everybody else is -- there is an HR person on the end. I
know that. And so the three people on the left, you guys are all
accountants?
MS. COLLYER: Yes.
MS. HICKS-GESNER: Yes, we are.
Q. - Yeah. Okay. So hopefully these questions are appropriate for
you. I think they are. If not, you can just let me know.
So I have just got a few questions on O&M capitalization. Could we
start by turning to your rebuttal evidence, which is exhibit 20.12 --
NB Power 20.12, pages 19 -- you could start at page 9.
So just to refresh my memory, now it is IFRS. What did it used to
be? I had that -- I had -- what was the what was the accounting
standard in the olden days, we will say?
MS. COLLYER: It used to be Canadian Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles, so GAAP.
Q. - Yeah, right, right. So and it became IFRS like five years ago or
something or six? Time flies and --
MS. HICKS: It sure does. NB Power adopted IFRS in April 1st 2014.
Q. - And IFRI -- or IFRS doesn't, I mean it is GAAP basically, isn't it?
MS. HICKS: It is. Some people would refer it -- to it as a GAAP,
but it is an international reporting standard that is followed by most
countries in the world, with the exception of the U.S. and probably
some other countries as well.
Q. - And I mean as accountants, that is the standard that you follow
and that NB Power follows is IFRS now?
MS. COLLYER: Yes, that is correct.
Q. - Okay. So is it your -- is it the panel's view that NB Power’s
capitalization practices, capitalization of expenses is consistent
with IFRS?
MS. COLLYER: Yes, we believe that our capitalization practices are
consistent with IFRS. There is an amount of professional judgment
that is applied to all capitalization decisions. NB Power has a
process whereby through the investment governance process, all
spending for projects or for initiatives are reviewed by the
accountants in the particular divisions. If those accountants -- they
would apply standards. They would look at all the facts and
circumstances of the initiatives or the projects and apply their
professional opinion. If they have a difficulty or if they are
particularly complex or unusual, then the decisions would go to the
corporate accounting group. And those accountants would then take all
the facts and circumstances of that situation and apply guidance from
various sources. For example, we would use IFRS standards. We would
also use any guidance that goes along with those standards. Also we
would use the accounting guidance that is produced by the large
accounting firms. And taking all of that information, we would make a
conclusion on whether something qualified as capital or whether we
felt it was an expense.
Q. - So can I take it that NB Power has never had any problems with
revenue -- with -- what is it called now? Not Revenue Canada. It is
called --
MS. COLLYER: CRA?
Q. - CRA. So NB Powers never had any CFR -- CRA problems with respect
to what it is capitalized and what it is expensed that you are aware
of?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: NB Power is not a taxable entity, so we wouldn’t
have any issues with CRA. However, we have also not had any issues
with our previous auditor who was Deloitte and our current auditor who
is KPMG. They both are in agreement with our capitalization practices
and most of our account -- and all of our accounting decisions. Any
large items or any unusual items, we would always run by the auditors
to make sure that we were in agreement, because we don't like to get
to the big final audit and come to a large issue. So we always --once
we make our decisions, we generally run them by the auditor to make
sure they are in agreement. And also we have the Auditor General who
also reviews the auditors work. And so we have not had any issues
with any of those parties.
Q. - As far as you know?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: Correct, as far as I know.
Q. - Okay. And are you familiar with the report that Dustin Madsen
prepared for the UEB?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: Yes, I am.
Q. - Have you read it?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: Yes, I have.
Q. - And I mean this isn’t just directed -- it could be directed to
any of the panel members. Feel free to chime in. Have the other two
accounts on the panel read Mr. Madsen’s report?
MS. COLLYER: Yes, I have.
MS. FRASER: Yes, I have.
Q. - And so you agree when Mr. Madsen talks about -- and What is the
-- what is your name, the lady on the left?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: Ms. Hicks-Gesner.
Q. - Right. So Ms. Hicks-Gesner, you did touch upon the fact that
there is -- there is accounting judgment at play here in determining,
look, this is something that should be capitalized, something that
should be expensed, and generally -- as a general statement, do owners
of businesses want to expense as much as possible, or is the tendency
to depreciate?
MS. COLLYER: Depending upon what the business is. If it is a
taxable entity, you may find that they are incented to expense more
than capitalize to keep their earnings low to keep their taxes low.
Q. - So do you recall in Mr. Madsen's report where he dealt with the
issue of look, you know, I, being Mr. Madsen, have looked at -- have
looked at other power utilities in the country and NB Power’s
capitalization rates are low in comparison to other power generation
companies. Do you recall that section?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: I do recall the section.
Q. - And by cap -- by having a high -- am I correct by having a higher
-- or let me see now, by capitalizing --by having a higher
capitalization rate, does that not just push an expense down into
future years and future ratepayers will cover a part of that expense
in whatever future year we are dealing with. Is that the way that
works?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: Yes, I will -- I will explain it this way. When
we capitalize an item, it means that we, as NB Power or we as the
accountants, believe there is a future benefit associated with that
spend or that expenditure. And from that perspective, we anticipate
that there would be a future cash flow associated with that.
If we expense something, it means there is no future benefit. And if
you capitalize more or at a higher rate than -- I don't want to say
should, but if you capitalize at a higher rate, then yes, you are
pushing out the recovery of those costs or the revenue that it is
going to generate and it will increase NB Power’s debt and interest
costs.
NB Power doesn't really have any -- back to your earlier question
about incentive. NB Power doesn't have any incentive one way or
another to capitalize, overcapitalize or undercapitalize. We -- I
don't believe we really have any bias.
Q. - No tax advantage to it, in other words?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: There is no advantage to NB Power one way or
another. I know some utilities have a return on their rate base, and
so they might be incented to capitalize more than NB Power would.
So it is hard to really say and hard to really compare one utility to
the other without really understanding what the costs are, what the
level of capital -- their level of their capital spend is, what their
capital spend is. There is so many different factors that it is
really hard to understand by just doing a simple calculation on the
percentages of amounts capitalized. Does that answer your question?
Q. - Yeah, it does. Thanks. So with respect to O&M expenditures, I
think you have agreed that, look, if an expense has an enduring value,
then that would justify capitalizing that particular expense. So
Mactaquac -- let's use Mactaquac dam. I mean, the thing was built
for -- to last decades. So that would -- that would be something, the
cost of Mactaquac dam, you would depreciate it because it is a -- the
type of asset that should be depreciated. Type of expense that should
be depreciated, right?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: Yeah, it is very complex. In general, we would
capitalize costs that have a future economic benefit or who have
long-term value and when -- and you will probably have seen in Mr.
Madsen's evidence a discussion around directly attributable. So that
is a term that we would use. So that means all the costs that
directly relate to the installation or getting that asset into the
state that it needs to be in in order to do the work that it -- that
we intended it to do. So we would capitalize not just the item but
all of the costs surrounding that item that are directly attributable
to that asset. Doesn't that answer your question?
Q. - Yeah. So I wonder, Ms. Mitchell, if you could turn to NBEUB
exhibit 1.01, which is Mr. Madsen's report at page 6. Incidentally, I
am just -- I am sort of nosey and this is relevant. So what type of
preparation do NB Power witness panels have prior to coming here? Let
me -- and let me preface that. All the witnesses are looking at the
Board Members when they are testifying. Were you advised to do that
by anybody in particular?
MS. COLLYER: Yes, we were.
Q. - Who would that be?
MS. COLLYER: Our regulatory team.
Q. - What type of -- were mock cross-examinations conducted or
anything of that sort? Have you been questioned outside of this
process?
MS. COLLYER: Within our teams, we would practice and practice
speaking, answering questions, ensuring that our answers are clear and
understood and relatable to the evidence that have been put on file.
Q. - Mr. Furey has his finger on the button. I suspect he is about to
object to something here, but I am not sure. So we are now at
exhibit 1.01, which is page 6 of Mr. Madsen’s report. One of his
recommendations is to reduce OM&A by 48.3 million. Do you see that?
MS. COLLYER: Yes, I do.
Q. - And if you add that number to the 27 -- I think it was 27.5 in
unidentified savings that NB Power has as a placeholder, what does
that -- what does that come out to? 28 and 48 and 27.5, I guess.
75.5 million, I guess. So let’s say the Board agrees with Mr. Madsen
that, yes, O&M should be reduced by 48 million and we will accept that
NB Power is going to succeed in cutting 27.5 million as per PwC, what
actions would NB Power have to take if the Board were to order those
-- were to go with Mr. Madsen’s -- in particular the 48 million
reduction in O&M?
MS. FRASER: Ms. Mitchell, if I could ask you to go to page 37 of
Mr. Madsen’s evidence, at table 7.
So just to start out the conversation about the adjustment of 48.3
million, along with the 27.5 that’s being referred to. In Mr.
Madsen’s evidence on the second row of data, he is adding back the 27
and a half million. So in -- the way we understand it is in his
recommendation, the 48.3 reflects the addition back of the 27.5. So
in his math he is adding it back and taking out costs in specific
areas. So it wouldn’t be a cumulative impact.
Q. - Okay. So if you look at that table then at page 37 on NBEUB
1.01, the top line is 596.4 million for -- applied for OM&A, 23/24.
And when you remove certain things and change certain things, it goes
down to 536.8, which is what you are saying it’s 48 million cumulative
reduction that Mr. Madsen is proposing?
MS. FRASER: Within Mr. Madsen’s table he does not kind of draw out
the 48.3. So it can be difficult to get to the number. But it’s
actually -- if you see the recommended OM&A in 23/24 B before
deferrals --
Q. - Yeah.
MS. FRASER: -- it’s 548. If you take the difference between the
548 on that line, and the top row, the 596.4, that brings you to the
48.3 million dollar reduction that he’s recommending in table 1.
Q. - Now keeping with that table, there is an 8.8 million dollar
number regarding Mactaquac write-off. Do you know what the 8.8 -- do
you know what work that is? If you don’t, it’s fine. But does
anybody know what that relates to? And I realize there is a lot of
numbers, you know. And if you want to defer it to another panel,
that’s fine.
MS. HICKS-GESNER: Could you just give me a minute?
Q. - Yeah. Look, let’s just move on. It doesn’t really matter. I
was just kind of wondering what it was. But as a matter of fact, if
you were to -- so the 8.8 was or was not capitalized?
CHAIRPERSON: You know, Mr. Williams, I mean, you ask your first
question and then I think --
MR. WILLIAMS: But I said let’s just move on. I said let’s just
move on from that. I don’t need the answer if it’s going to take --
CHAIRPERSON: I mean, if you are asking a question and she is
looking for it, I mean just give her some time to look for the answer.
MR. WILLIAMS: Sure.
Q. - So what is the 8.8 million. What work is that?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: If I could take you to the rebuttal evidence from
NB Power’s section, exhibit 20.12, pages 27 to 29. Thank you.
So as you can imagine, the Mactaquac project was a -- is a very
complex matter. And so when the project was undertaken, there were
four distinct options. I think it was talked about a little bit on
the first day. So at the time we had discussions with our auditors at
the time, who were Deloitte, on the accounting for these transactions.
So there were -- so there were costs related to four very distinct
options, one being, for example, the cost of rebuilding Mactaquac on
the other side of the river, and what -- and direct engineering I’m
going to say costs related to that option. There were also costs
related to option 2 and option 3.
When NB Power made its recommended option, the accounting team as
well as the engineering team went through and did an analysis of all
of these costs.
So to answer your question, we kind of pulled out specific
engineering costs that were related to option 1 and 2. They weren’t
-- they are not costs that are the evaluation of the options. Costs
that remain capitalized were -- would be like fish passage studies and
spillway analysis and that kind of thing. Those are still
capitalized, but the ones that were recommended for write-off, and our
current auditor also agrees with this treatment, would be the cost
directly associated with the other two options, which would be mostly
engineering type work.
Q. - So the 8.8 was not a discrete expense in one year?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: No, it was not. It was originally capitalized as
part of the other options.
Q. - If you were to -- so right now the 8.8 is capitalized or written
off -- capitalized?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: Yes. The 8.8 is capitalized. When the decision
is final and accepted, then the proposal was that those would be
required to be written off as they are not directly attributable to
the recommended option. They were directly attributable to options 1
to 3, which are no longer -- or would no longer progress.
Q. - And there is also an item on there for the Point Lepreau
initiative spending of 13.3 million. Again I’m referring to the
evidence of Mr. Madsen, page 37, exhibit 1.01. Do you see that? Can
you just explore that a little bit and tell me how that was -- how the
determination was made on how to deal with that, whether to expense it
or depreciate, if you know the answer?
I’m going to withdraw that question. So -- just because it’s just
taking too long to come up with the answer.
Here is the question I have got though. With respect to this 13.3 on
Point Lepreau and the 8.8 on Mactaquac, would you agree with me that
if you expense it in one year or if you depreciate it, would both of
those options be in compliance with IFRS? Either because of the --
because of the judgment nature of calls of this nature?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: I’m sorry. Could you repeat your question, please?
Q. - So let’s just deal with -- you know -- I mean, deal generally
with what an accountant decides is going to be capitalized versus what
is going to be expensed, but in particular I’m just talking about
those two line items, Mactaquac 8.8 million and Point Lepreau -- what
was it -- 13.8 or something like that?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: 13.3.
Q. - 13.3. If an accountant -- if NB -- let’s say if NB Power said,
well, we are going to expense both of those items in a year, or we are
going to capitalize them, would either of those scenarios potentially
comply with IFRS standards, because of the nature of the ability to
make judgment calls within IFRS?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: I guess I would -- I would say that NB Power has
made a judgment on those items. It has gone through a process. We
have discussed with our auditor. And the items are to be treated as
OM&A and not capitalized. That would be our position.
So to capitalize them, in our professional opinion, in NB Power’s
position would be that that would not be correct under IFRS.
Q. - Who is the auditor? Not the person but the accounting -- is it
an outside accounting firm?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: Yes. Our auditor is KPMG.
Q. - And so KPMG made the call on those two items, is that --
MS. HICKS-GESNER: No. KPMG does not make the call. NB Power makes
the call. But they are in agreement with our policies and our
procedures and practices. And in particular we would have consulted
with them on various items, but we did consult with them on the
Mactaquac issue and they were in agreement with our professional
judgment.
Q. - Okay. So I have just a very little knowledge of accounting, so
I’m dangerous. But I know there is straight line depreciation. What
is the other one that -- with the variable depreciation? What is that
called?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: Declining balance?
Q. - Declining balance. So when NB Power depreciates assets, does it
do so using straight line depreciation?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: Yes, NB Power uses straight line depreciation.
Q. - Does it use declining balance on any assets at all?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: No, it does not.
Q. - Okay. And do you happen to know on -- for the generating fleet,
what -- the generation fleet, what is the rate that is used for
depreciation, do you happen to know that?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: Each generating station would have an economic
life associated with it, but also each station is comprised of various
components and those components would be depreciated at the economic
life of the -- of the component. So I don't have those available.
Q. - Okay. So it is just -- yeah. So is it just the -- like the
original cost. The parts of the equation are the original cost and
the useful life. Like you would divide one into the other, is that
where the percent would come out, do you think or -- just, look,
again, I have a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, so I don't know
anything about math.
MS. HICKS-GESNER: At a high level, yes, that is kind of how it works, yes.
Q. - Okay. Okay. Has NB Power ever asked its auditor or any other
consultant or accounting firm whether it is -- the way it is doing
depreciation is appropriate for its generation assets? Another way, I
mean have any of the auditors ever said listen, we were looking at
your statements, maybe you should do it another way. Has that ever
happened?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: No. Well, NB Power engages a depreciation
expert, I guess I will call -- Concentric, I believe, who does a
depreciation study every five years. I think we discussed -- we
talked about that a little bit earlier. We are looking at the
generating stations and the Lepreau Nuclear Station in the upcoming
year. They would look at the established lives. They don't
necessarily talk about the method of depreciation, straight line
versus declining balance. But that is a management estimate, I will
call it. And I wouldn't say we have ever had a recommendation on
whether to change it or not, as they are management’s estimates. I
don't think KPMG has, not to my recollection. We have looked at it
before and decided that straight line was still the most appropriate
basis for calculating the depreciation.
Q. - Okay. And just a couple of final questions. Is Belledune being
depreciated through -- is it 2040 or 2041, do you happen to know the
answer to that? In other words, useful life is 2041 or 2040. It is
just that I have seen both numbers, and I am just wondering if you
know. And if -- you know, no need to guess about it. If you don't
know, it is fine.
MS. COLLYER: Sorry, I just wanted to add to Ms. Gesner's last
answer about depreciation. Our auditors would audit our notes to our
financial statements and our notes to our financial statements contain
our accounting policies, which would contain our depreciation
policies. And so those are audited by our auditors, KPMG.
Q. - And the auditors have never come back and said we have read your
notes, and they are inappropriate?
MS. COLLYER: Not to my knowledge. No, they haven't. And if they
had, we would change the policy --
Q. - Right.
MS. COLLYER: Or we would have a qualified audit opinion if we did not.
Q. - Okay. So let's assume that Belledune is being -- the useful life
is 2040. If Belledune is shut down in 2030 because of the fact that
it burns coal, what happens to the unwritten off balance at that point
in time? So in other words, you are depreciating it to 2040, but is
it called recapture, is that --
MS. HICKS-GESNER: No.
Q. - No.
MS. HICKS-GESNER: That would be a tax term. So the undepreciated
balance would be written off in the year --
Q. - Just as an expense?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: As an expense.
Q. - And that would then reduce book equity and increase long-term
debt, I guess, would it?
MS. HICKS-GESNER: No, it -- it would not impact debt as the as the
expenditure has already been made, but it would impact equity in that
it would reduce our earnings, yes.
MR. WILLIAMS: Could I just have a moment to confer with Mr. Knecht?
CHAIRPERSON: Yes, sir.
MR. WILLIAMS: Thank you. Okay. Those are all my questions. Thank
you very much.
CHAIRPERSON: Thank you, Mr. Williams. Ms. Herrington?

On 2/6/23, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> wrote:
> BTW I have been calling Mr Knecht all morning and the people who
> answer his phone play dumb
>
> On 2/6/23, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> wrote:
>> How can he be an expert as you claim in light of the fact that he just
>> bragged to me on your behalf last week that he was not an accountant?
>>
>> Furthermore if the Yankee is oh so clever howcome he didn't cacth this
>> years ago???
>>
>> https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/02/nb-power-debt-claim-to-mlas-appears-to.html
>>
>> Tuesday, 12 February 2019
>>
>> NB Power debt claim to MLAs appears to be untrue
>>
>> Utility can't say who made the statement its president referenced
>>
>> Robert Jones · CBC News · Posted: Feb 12, 2019 4:00 AM AT
>>
>> NB Power President Gaetan Thomas said even modest profit targets are
>> frowned on by the Energy and Utilities Board. (CBC)
>>
>> NB Power president Gaetan Thomas's claim to MLAs that the Energy and
>> Utilities Board once told the utility profits should be kept below $80
>> million, despite its need to pay off debt, appears to be untrue.
>>
>> The EUB has never issued a directive to NB Power to keep earnings
>> below $80 million and the utility has been unable to explain who made
>> the statement Thomas is referring to or when, if ever, it was said.
>>
>> Thomas, chairman Ed Barrett and other NB Power executives made a
>> presentation on Jan. 5 to the legislature's Crown corporations
>> committee to discuss the utility's latest financial results and MLAs
>> questioned them about NB Power's debt problems.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Both Barrett and Thomas told the committee the Energy and Utilities
>> Board has stood in the way of the utility earning sufficient profits
>> to substantially reduce its $4.9 billion debt load, instead forcing it
>> to keep rates low.
>>
>> Consumers will pay for NB Power's debt one way or another, intervener
>> says
>>
>> Thomas said even modest profit targets are frowned on by the EUB.
>>
>> "Every time we're confronted with a low rate," Thomas told MLAs.
>>
>> "That is the dominant factor for the regulator. Even if we can show,
>> lets say, we can make say $80 million earnings the point is they say
>> you don't really need that much earnings."
>>
>> However, all profit requests NB Power management has made to the EUB
>> in the last four years have been approved, three for more than $80
>> million, the amount Thomas claims the EUB has said is too much.
>>
>>
>> NB Power has been unable to explain who made the statement its
>> president is referring to or when, if ever, it was said. (Michael
>> Heenan/CBC)
>> Heather Black has represented the public at NB Power's last four rate
>> hearings and says the utility has set its own profit target each year
>> and has never had any part of the amounts rejected by the EUB.
>>
>> "In each case, the board has approved NB Power's proposed earnings in
>> the full amount NB Power requested," Black wrote in an email to CBC
>> News.
>>
>> Marc Belliveau, a spokesman for NB Power, said in an email the comment
>> Thomas made about the EUB telling the utility an $80 million profit is
>> too high should not be taken literally.
>>
>> "I don't have a transcript of the (MLA) proceedings but this was a
>> general statement/example not a specific one," he wrote.
>>
>> NB Power behind on plan to pay down $1 billion in debt
>>
>> NB Power tells customers to ease pain of rate hikes with efficiency
>>
>> It's the second statement Thomas has made in the last month that has
>> needed clarification, and both were in relation to the utility's debt
>> problem.
>>
>> In January, Thomas told CBC News that NB Power is applying for a $36
>> million rate increase for the next fiscal year to help generate a
>> profit and "most of it would go to debt reduction".
>>
>> But NB Power figures show the utility is planning no debt reduction
>> next year, even with a rate increase. Expected profits at the utility
>> are budgeted to be spent on capital projects with none applied to its
>> $4.9 billion debt.
>>
>> It is scheduled to increase by $6 million.
>>
>> NB Power has failed to meet earnings targets in each of the last four
>> years, mostly because expenses have been higher than anticipated, but
>> the EUB has never opposed the targets themselves.
>>
>> David Coon calls on NB Power to justify power rate increase to MLAs
>>
>> NB Power requests higher-than-expected rate increases
>>
>> The board approved a combined $329.5 million in profit over the
>> four-year period but NB Power expects to generate less than 25 percent
>> of that — just $71.3 million - once the current year is factored in.
>>
>> Black says NB Power's failure to pay down its debt is not a problem
>> with the EUB.
>>
>> "While the board cuts NB Power's proposed spending where it determines
>> that the spending is imprudent, this has not been the cause of NB
>> Power's failure to meet its earnings targets," said Black, citing
>> performance problems at Lepreau, unbudgeted storm damage and other
>> issues.
>>
>> "NB Power's earnings erode when its costs are over budget or when it
>> fails to earn its budgeted revenue."
>>
>> The EUB is declining to comment but the organization has openly
>> expressed concerns about NB Power's debt in the past.
>>
>>
>> Heather Black, the public intervener, said the EUB has never rejected
>> any part of the utility's profit targets in the last four rate
>> hearings. (Robert Jones/CBC)
>> At hearings last April, Ellen Desmond, the EUB's lawyer, questioned
>> Darren Murphy, NB Power vice-president, in detail about whether the
>> utility's profits are too low and its debt retirement schedule too
>> slow.
>>
>> She suggested the utility consider reducing its spending to generate
>> higher profits in years its financial projections are coming up short.
>>
>> "Why not perhaps delay spending where necessary to meet other
>> objectives, including your reduction in net debt which we have heard a
>> lot about in the last three years," said Desmond.
>>
>> "I mean if that is a priority, if that is a target, why not perhaps
>> adjust the plan? Why not adjust that so that we can see reduction --
>> larger reductions on the net debt?"
>>
>> NB Power' Belliveau said in an email the utility believes rate
>> hearings focus too much on questioning spending and not enough on the
>> bottom line.
>>
>> "The underlying tone of recent rate hearings has been focused on low
>> and stable rates as opposed to a more balanced view," said Belliveau.
>> About the Author
>>
>>
>> Robert Jones
>> Reporter
>> Robert Jones has been a reporter and producer with CBC New Brunswick
>> since 1990. His investigative reports on petroleum pricing in New
>> Brunswick won several regional and national awards and led to the
>> adoption of price regulation in 2006.
>>
>>
>> CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "Mitton, Megan (LEG)"<Megan.Mitton@gnb.ca>
>> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 13:48:37 +0000
>> Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks there has been a lot of water over
>> the dam since this was in the news N'esy Pas Chief Martin Gaudet?
>> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
>>
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>> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 13:47:13 +0000
>> Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks there has been a lot of water over
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>> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
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>> Tuesday, 12 February 2019
>> NB Power debt claim to MLAs appears to be untrue
>> ---------- Original message ----------
>> From: Roger Richard <rrichard@nb.aibn.com>
>> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:45:50 -0400
>> Subject: Matter 430 - NB Power 2019-2020 General Rate Application /
>> Instance Nº 430 - Énergie NB Demande générale de tarifs pour 2019-2020
>> To: "Mitchell, Kathleen"<Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca>
>> Cc: "David.Raymond.Amos333@gmail.com"
>> <David.Raymond.Amos333@gmail.com>, "david.sollows@gnb.ca"
>> <david.sollows@gnb.ca>, "Paul.Volpe@enbridge.com"
>> <Paul.Volpe@enbridge.com>, "dave.lavigne@enbridge.com"
>> <dave.lavigne@enbridge.com>, "Gilles.volpe@enbridge.com"
>> <Gilles.volpe@enbridge.com>, "jeffery.callaghan@mcinnescooper.com"
>> <jeffery.callaghan@mcinnescooper.com>, "gerald@kissnb.com"
>> <gerald@kissnb.com>, "cstewart@stewartmckelvey.com"
>> <cstewart@stewartmckelvey.com>
>> , "hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com"
>> <hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com>, "lcozzarini@nbpower.com"
>> <lcozzarini@nbpower.com>, "jfurey@nbpower.com"<jfurey@nbpower.com>,
>> "SWaycott@nbpower.com"<SWaycott@nbpower.com>,
>> "NBPRegulatory@nbpower.com"<NBPRegulatory@nbpower.com>,
>> "wharrison@nbpower.com"<wharrison@nbpower.com>,
>> "bcrawford@nbpower.com"<bcrawford@nbpower.com>, "Lawton, John"
>> <John.Lawton@nbeub.ca>, "Desmond, Ellen"<ecdesmond@nbeub.ca>,
>> "Dickie, Michael"<Michael.Dickie@nbeub.ca>, "Young, Dave"
>> <Dave.Young@nbeub.ca>, "Mitchell, Kathleen"
>> <Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca>, NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca>,
>> "heather.black@gnb.ca"<heather.black@gnb.ca>, "rdk@indecon.com"
>> <rdk@indecon.com>, "rrichard@nb.aibn.com"<rrichard@nb.aibn.com>,
>> "jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com"<jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com>,
>> "dan.dionne@perth-andover.com"<dan.dionne@perth-andover.com>,
>> "pierreroy@edmundston.ca"<pierreroy@edmundston.ca>,
>> "ray.robinson@sjenergy.com"<ray.robinson@sjenergy.com>,
>> "sstoll@airdberlis.com"<sstoll@airdberlis.com>,
>> "pzarnett@bdrenergy.com"<pzarnett@bdrenergy.com>
>>
>> M. le Président,
>>
>> Je vous écrit ce matin pour faire valoir mon indignation
>> vis-à-vis
>> les propos de NB Power concernant M. Amos le 6 février 2019. Plus
>> spécifiquement les paroles suivantes: « He might be dead before me. »
>>
>> M. Amos est très habile lorsque vient le temps d’argumenter. En
>> plus, il connait très bien les lois et ses responsabilités sociales.
>> M. Amos est bien plus efficace en Cour que dans une sombre ruelle…
>> Jamais il aurait dit de pareils choses!
>>
>> J’étais présent la soirée du 7 février 2018. C’était une très
>> longue
>> journée avec le début de l’audience #375 le matin et l’intervention
>> publique le soir en plus de la pluie verglaçante. Tout le monde était
>> fatigué.
>>
>> Je n’ai pas entendu M. Amos dire de telles paroles. Il est vrai
>> qu’il parlait vite ce soir là. C’était pour profiter le plus possible
>> de son temps de paroles. Après avoir reçu la transcription de la
>> soirée, il a essayé à mainte reprises d’avoir une copie de
>> l’enregistrement mais sans succès.
>>
>> Les erreurs de transcriptions sont possibles car cela m’est
>> arrivé
>> à
>> quelques reprises. C’est pourquoi, quand j’ai la possibilité, je
>> fournis un document écrit pour limiter les erreurs. L’erreur est
>> humaine et je ne m’en fait pas d’histoires. Mais maintenant je
>> réalise que c’est très dangereux.
>>
>> C’est pourquoi je doute de l’intégrité de NB Power lorsqu’elle
>> utilise cette technique pour faire valoir son point. Selon moi, c’est
>> un coup bas!
>>
>> Je prie donc à la commission de prendre ceci en considération
>> pour
>> aider M. Amos à devenir intervenant.
>>
>> Cordialement vôtre,
>>
>> Roger Richard.
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original message ----------
>> From: "Harrison, Wanda"<WHarrison@nbpower.com>
>> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 15:36:44 +0000
>> Subject: Automatic reply: EXT - RE Request for information Attn Ellen
>> C. Desmond Q.C. WOW How dumb is NB Power
>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>
>> I will be out of the office until Tuesday, February 19.
>>
>> For Legal issues please contact Joanne Regan at jregan@nbpower.com or
>> 458-3711.
>>
>> Thank you
>>
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>> ---------- Original message ----------
>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:36:37 -0400
>> Subject: RE Request for information Attn Ellen C. Desmond Q.C. WOW How
>> dumb is NB Power
>> To: mike.holland@gnb.ca, blaine.higgs@gnb.ca, Robert.Jones@cbc.ca,
>> brian.gallant@gnb.ca, Jack.Keir@gnb.ca, greg.byrne@gnb.ca,
>> robert.mckee@gnb.ca, robert.gauvin@gnb.ca, David.Coon@gnb.ca,
>> Kevin.A.Arseneau@gnb.ca, megan.mitton@gnb.ca, kris.austin@gnb.ca,
>> "Rick De Saulniers". sweetbends@gmail.com michelle.conroy@gnb.ca,
>> Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca, wharrison@nbpower.com, jfurey@nbpower.com,
>> andrea.anderson-mason@gnb.ca
>> Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com
>>
>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-debt-presentation-mlas-untrue-1.5015174
>>
>> David Amos
>> Methinks the EUB's lawyer Ellen Desmond needs to explain to me how Mr
>> Jones got a tape of a hearing and play it on the radio while I have
>> been denied the right to have a tape of my own words that have been
>> transcribed for the EUB improperly N'esy Pas?
>>
>> "At hearings last April, Ellen Desmond, the EUB's lawyer, questioned
>> Darren Murphy, NB Power vice-president, in detail about whether the
>> utility's profits are too low and its debt retirement schedule too
>> slow.
>>
>> She suggested the utility consider reducing its spending to generate
>> higher profits in years its financial projections are coming up short.
>>
>> "Why not perhaps delay spending where necessary to meet other
>> objectives, including your reduction in net debt which we have heard a
>> lot about in the last three years," said Desmond.
>>
>> "I mean if that is a priority, if that is a target, why not perhaps
>> adjust the plan? Why not adjust that so that we can see reduction --
>> larger reductions on the net debt?
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca>
>> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 11:52:31 +0000
>> Subject: RE: Attn Ellen C. Desmond Q.C and Minister Rick Doucet Funny
>> how one has to wait until the crooked bastards take a vacation before
>> their computers will act ethically EH?
>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Amos [mailto:motomaniac333@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2018 2:21 AM
>> To: NBPRegulatory@nbpower.com; derek.burney
>> <derek.burney@nortonrosefulbright.com>; Mitchell, Kathleen
>> <Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca>; david.sollows@gnb.ca;
>> Gilles.volpe@enbridge.com; Paul.Volpe@enbridge.com;
>> dave.lavigne@enbridge.com; Hoyt, Len <len.hoyt@mcinnescooper.com>;
>> jeffery.callaghan@mcinnescooper.com; rzarumba@ceadvisors.com;
>> bdavis@ceadvisors.com; toneill@ceadvisors.com;
>> KissPartyofNB@gmail.com; SueR1941@msn.com; hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com;
>> cstewart@stewartmckelvey.com; Furey, John <JFurey@nbpower.com>;
>> Harrison, Wanda <WHarrison@nbpower.com>; Russell, Stephen
>> <SRussell@nbpower.com>; Connelly Bosse, Natacha
>> <NConnellyBosse@nbpower.com>; Lawton, John <John.Lawton@nbeub.ca>;
>> Desmond, Ellen <ecdesmond@nbeub.ca>; Dickie, Michael
>> <Michael.Dickie@nbeub.ca>; Young, Dave <Dave.Young@nbeub.ca>;
>> NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca>; twoolf@synapse-energy.com;
>> ktakahashi@synapse-energy.com; anapoleon@synapse-energy.com;
>> ahopkins@synapse-energy.com; jmarusiak@synapse-energy.com;
>> chris_r_31@hotmail.com; heather.black@gnb.ca; rdk@indecon.com;
>> avitulli@indecon.com; efinamore@valutechsolutions.com;
>> rrichard@nb.aibn.com; leblanc.daniel.m@gmail.com;
>> sussexsharingclub@nb.aibn.com; jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com;
>> dan.dionne@perth-andover.com; pierreroy@edmundston.ca;
>> ray.robinson@sjenergy.com; marta.kelly@sjenergy.com;
>> sstoll@airdberlis.com; pzarnett@bdrenergy.com; Andrew Logan
>> <Andrew.Logan@tsdca.com>; john.logan <john.logan@gnb.ca>; rick.doucet
>> <rick.doucet@gnb.ca>; chris.collins <chris.collins@gnb.ca>;
>> brian.gallant <brian.gallant@gnb.ca>; tj <tj@burkelaw.ca>; dan.
>> bussieres <dan.bussieres@gnb.ca>; serge.rousselle
>> <serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>
>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>; george.furey
>> <george.furey@sen.parl.gc.ca>; coi@gnb.ca; jody.carr
>> <jody.carr@gnb.ca>; Frank.McKenna <Frank.McKenna@td.com>; Brenda.Lucki
>> <Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>; washington field
>> <washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>; Boston.Mail <Boston.Mail@ic.fbi.gov>;
>> Michael.Wernick <Michael.Wernick@pco-bcp.gc.ca>; marc.giroux
>> <marc.giroux@fja-cmf.gc.ca>; daniel.mchardie <daniel.mchardie@cbc.ca>;
>> michael.comeau <michael.comeau@gnb.ca>; davidcoon@greenpartynb.ca;
>> sheppardmargo@gmail.com; carmen.budilean@greenpartynb.ca; Robert.
>> Jones <Robert.Jones@cbc.ca>; Gilles.Moreau
>> <Gilles.Moreau@forces.gc.ca>; Gilles.Blinn
>> <Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>; ethics-ethique
>> <ethics-ethique@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
>> Subject: Re: Attn Ellen C. Desmond Q.C and Minister Rick Doucet Funny
>> how one has to wait until the crooked bastards take a vacation before
>> their computers will act ethically EH?
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "Furey, John"<JFurey@nbpower.com>
>> Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 05:10:04 +0000
>> Subject: Automatic reply: EXT - Funny how one has to wait until the
>> crooked bastards take a vacation before their computers will act
>> ethically EH?
>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>
>>
>> I am away from my office until Monday, July 30, 2018, and unable to
>> access my email. I will respond to your message on my return to the
>> office. If your message is urgent, please contact my assistant, Janet
>> Campbell, at JCampbell@nbpower.com.
>>
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>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "Harrison, Wanda"<WHarrison@nbpower.com>
>> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 16:32:34 +0000
>> Subject: Automatic reply: EXT - YO Serge Rousselle Should I presume
>> that your buddies in the University of Moncton Law School will never
>> work PRO BONO for English New Brunswickers trying to defend their
>> rights under the Charter?
>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>
>> I will be working offsite until Monday, November 27. I will be
>> periodically checking emails.
>>
>> Thank you
>>
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>>
>> On 5/6/18, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Perhaps you should ask Henneberry’s Reporting Service about this
>>> yourself? This is the text of your letters to me last month and four
>>> years ago Correct?
>>>
>>> April 17, 2018
>>>
>>> VIA EMAIL
>>>
>>> Mr. David Amos
>>> Dear Mr. Amos
>>>
>>> Re: Right to Information and Protection of Privacy ActRequest for
>>> information
>>>
>>> This will acknowledge your request for “a true copy of the recording
>>> of the Public Hearing held on the evening of February 7, 2018”, in
>>> connection with Board Matter 375.
>>>
>>> Please be advised that the recording is not in the possession of the
>>> New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board (Board) nor is it under the
>>> Board’s control. The recording is prepared and controlled by
>>> Henneberry’s Reporting Service.
>>>
>>> We do note that a copy of the transcript can be found on the Board’s
>>> website at www.nbeub.ca.
>>>
>>> Yours truly,
>>> Ellen C. Desmond, Q.C.
>>> Director, Legal and Administration
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>> From: "Doucet, Rick (LEG)"<Rick.Doucet@gnb.ca>
>>> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 01:07:58 +0000
>>> Subject: RE: Final Docs
>>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Will get right on this.
>>> Always look forward to your brilliant thoughts.
>>> R
>>>
>>> Hon.Rick Doucet
>>> Legislative member for Charlotte-the isles
>>> 28 Mt.Pleasant Rd.
>>> St.George, N.B. E5C 3K4
>>>
>>> Phone / Téléphone : 506-755-4200
>>> Fax / Télécopieur : 506-755-4207
>>> E-mail / Courriel : rick.doucet@gnb.ca
>>>
>>>
>>> This message is intended for the person to whom it is addressed and is
>>> to be treated as confidential or private communications. It must not
>>> be forwarded unless permission has been received from the originator.
>>> If you have received this message inadvertently, please notify the
>>> sender and delete the message. Then delete your response. Thank you
>>> for your cooperation.
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Ce message est destiné à la personne désignée dans la présente et il
>>> doit demeurer confidentiel. Il ne doit pas être réacheminé sans la
>>> permission de l’expéditeur. Si ce message vous a été envoyé par
>>> erreur, veuillez aviser l’expéditeur et effacer le message. Effacez
>>> ensuite votre réponse. Merci de votre collaboration.
>>>
>>> I will never understand why your friends in Henneberry’s Reporting
>>> Service won't get back to me or why they took so long to produce a
>>> transcript of the Public Session in the first place. The public
>>> session was not much over an hour in duration. Yet Henneberry’s
>>> Reporting Service can provide a transcript of a full day of a hearing
>>> almost overnight if they wish to. (Although I see no record of the
>>> transcripts for May the 2nd and 3rd as of yet)
>>> Furthermore there is one statement I found in the transcript of the
>>> Public Session that the EUB offers to the public which I have no
>>> recollection of whatsoever. It is the main reason why I want a true
>>> copy of the recording of the hearing. It certainly appears to me that
>>> you people are attempting to make me seem to be some kind of nut.
>>> Also for the record I did not say "Dead Bernie" as the transcript
>>> falsely claims. I said the name of a former Chairman of the Board of
>>> NB Power, Derek Burney.
>>> On October 30th, 2017 your friend Mr Furey filed a submission in this
>>> matter as "APPENDIX"G" (Hereto attached) It is a true copy of the
>>> cover letter I sent to Burney and many others in 2006 along with a
>>> many documents and a CD. My actions in Federal Court since 2015 that
>>> Mr. Furey laments about easily prove that I am very willing to argue
>>> every word of my evidence of public corruption.
>>> Derek Burney and NB Power lawyers have ever answered me to this very
>>> day. Other than Mr. Furey having me illegally barred as an Intervener
>>> and the EUB answering a freedom of information request I have been
>>> deliberately ignored since 2006. Need I say I was not impressed with
>>> the ethics of all the other Interveners when they said nothing about
>>> the EUB very questionable actions against me on October 31st, 2018?
>>> The EUB never even bothered with its protocol in order to ask any of
>>> the other Interveners about their actions that day. I truly believe
>>> that is because you and all the other lawyers did not want your
>>> opinion of me recorded in the public record Correct? What if such
>>> malicious nonsense had happened to you or any other lawyer involved in
>>> the 375 matter? I bet you people would have filed a lawsuit
>>> immediately.
>>> Obviously I have sent the Former Chairan of the Boeard of NB Power
>>> this email as well as most of the other people named within my
>>> documents that Mr. Furey filed as "APPENDIX"G"
>>> http://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/people/42473/derekhburney
>>> Derek H. Burney, OC, LLD
>>> Senior Strategic Advisor
>>> Ottawa
>>> T: 613.780.8657
>>> derek.burney@nortonrosefulbright.com
>>>
>>> Veritas Vincit
>>> David Raymond Amos
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)"<Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca>
>>> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 19:48:30 +0000
>>> Subject: RE: RE Request for information Attn Ellen C. Desmond Q.C.
>>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Thank you for writing to the Premier of New Brunswick. Please be
>>> assured that your email will be reviewed.
>>>
>>> If this is a media request, please forward your email to
>>> media-medias@gnb.camedia-medias@gnb.ca
>>>. Thank you!
>>>
>>> *************************************
>>>
>>> Nous vous remercions d’avoir communiqué avec le premier ministre du
>>> Nouveau-Brunswick. Soyez assuré(e) que votre courriel sera examiné.
>>>
>>> Si ceci est une demande médiatique, prière de la transmettre à
>>> media-medias@gnb.camedia-medias@gnb.ca>. Merci!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca>
>>> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 12:00:39 +0000
>>> Subject: RE: RE Request for information Attn Ellen C. Desmond Q.C.
>>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>> Cc: NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca>
>>>
>>> Thank you for your email to the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities
>>> Board.
>>>
>>> ***
>>>
>>> La Commission de l’énergie et des services publics du
>>> Nouveau-Brunswick vous remercie pour votre courriel.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board
>>> Commission de l’énergie et des services publics du Nouveau-Brunswick
>>> general@nbeub.ca
>>> Telephone : (506) 658-2504
>>> Fax/Télécopieur : (506) 643-7300
>>>
>>>
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>>> informatique et de vos dossiers. Merci.
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>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: David Amos [mailto:motomaniac333@gmail.com]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 4:48 PM
>>> To: NBPRegulatory@nbpower.com; Mitchell, Kathleen
>>> <Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca>; david.sollows@gnb.ca;
>>> Gilles.volpe@enbridge.com; Paul.Volpe@enbridge.com;
>>> dave.lavigne@enbridge.com; Hoyt, Len <len.hoyt@mcinnescooper.com>;
>>> jeffery.callaghan@mcinnescooper.com; rzarumba@ceadvisors.com;
>>> bdavis@ceadvisors.com; toneill@ceadvisors.com;
>>> KissPartyofNB@gmail.com; hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com;
>>> cstewart@stewartmckelvey.com; Furey, John <JFurey@nbpower.com>;
>>> Harrison, Wanda <WHarrison@nbpower.com>; Russell, Stephen
>>> <SRussell@nbpower.com>; Connelly Bosse, Natacha
>>> <NConnellyBosse@nbpower.com>; Lawton, John <John.Lawton@nbeub.ca>;
>>> Desmond, Ellen <ecdesmond@nbeub.ca>; Dickie, Michael
>>> <Michael.Dickie@nbeub.ca>; Young, Dave <Dave.Young@nbeub.ca>;
>>> NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca>; twoolf@synapse-energy.com;
>>> ktakahashi@synapse-energy.com; anapoleon@synapse-energy.com;
>>> ahopkins@synapse-energy.com; jmarusiak@synapse-energy.com;
>>> chris_r_31@hotmail.com; heather.black@gnb.ca; rdk@indecon.com;
>>> avitulli@indecon.com; efinamore@valutechsolutions.com;
>>> rrichard@nb.aibn.com; leblanc.daniel.m@gmail.com;
>>> sussexsharingclub@nb.aibn.com; jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com;
>>> dan.dionne@perth-andover.com; pierreroy@edmundston.ca;
>>> ray.robinson@sjenergy.com; marta.kelly@sjenergy.com;
>>> sstoll@airdberlis.com; pzarnett@bdrenergy.com; Andrew Logan
>>> <Andrew.Logan@tsdca.com>; john.logan <john.logan@gnb.ca>; rick.doucet
>>> <rick.doucet@gnb.ca>; chris.collins <chris.collins@gnb.ca>;
>>> brian.gallant <brian.gallant@gnb.ca>; tj <tj@burkelaw.ca>; dan.
>>> bussieres <dan.bussieres@gnb.ca>; serge.rousselle
>>> <serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>
>>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>;
>>> davidcoon@greenpartynb.ca; sheppardmargo@gmail.com;
>>> carmen.budilean@greenpartynb.ca; Robert. Jones <Robert.Jones@cbc.ca>;
>>> Gilles.Moreau <Gilles.Moreau@forces.gc.ca>; Gilles.Blinn
>>> <Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>; ethics-ethique
>>> <ethics-ethique@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>; Brenda.Lucki
>>> <Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
>>> Subject: RE Request for information Attn Ellen C. Desmond Q.C.
>>>
>>> Ms Desmond
>>>
>>> Thanks for finally admitting that I exist after eleven very long years.
>>>
>>> However I don't believe you.
>>>
>>> I have no doubt whatsoever if you or any other lawyer involved with
>>> NBEUB matters required a tape of a public hearing you would have it
>>> nearly instantly
>>>
>>> Veritas Vincit
>>> David Raymond Amos
>>> 902 800 0369
>>>
>>> On 4/17/18, NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca> wrote:
>>>> Good afternoon,
>>>>
>>>> Please see the attached letter from the New Brunswick Energy and
>>>> Utilities Board.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> N.B. Energy and Utilities Board
>>>> Commission de l'énergie et des services publics du N.-B.
>>>> 15 Market Square - Suite 1400
>>>> P.O. Box 5001/C.P. 5001
>>>> Saint John, NB E2L 4Y9
>>>> Telephone : 506-658-2504
>>>> Fax/Télécopieur : 506-643-7300
>>>> Email : general@nbeub.cageneral@nbeub.ca> / Courriel :
>>>> general@cespnb.cageneral@cespnb.ca>
>>>> Website: www.nbeub.ca<http://www.nbeub.ca/> / Site Web :
>>>> www.cespnb.ca<http://www.cespnb.ca/>
>>>>
>>>> Confidentiality Notice This private message (and any attachments) is
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>>>>
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>>>> interdite. Si vous recevez cette communication par erreur, veuillez
>>>> nous appeler dans les plus brefs délais, à frais virés, au (506)
>>>> 658-2504. Aussi, si vous avez reçu ce courriel par erreur, veuillez
>>>> effacer ce courriel, ainsi que les pièces jointes, de votre système
>>>> informatique et de vos dossiers. Merci.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 08:56:44 -0400
>>> Subject: Attn Andrew Logan RE NBEUB, NB Power and your upcoming report
>>> on KPMG's secretive work
>>> To: andrew.logan@tsdca.com
>>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Good Day Sir
>>>
>>> I just called and you did not pick up so I left a message with your
>>> assistant.
>>>
>>> Your name came up during the hearing I attended on April 3rd, 2018
>>> Clearly I have studied you a bit. Now its your turn to check me out. I
>>> believe I am being fair. Trust that there is much more for you to know
>>> before you create a report on KPMG's work.
>>>
>>>
>>> Please view attachments and ask me anything you wish.
>>>
>>> I sent you and many others an email this weekend that was acknowledged
>>> by the board this morning and I published it within my blog.
>>>
>>> http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2018/04/i-bet-nb-power-and-many-lawyers-such-as.html
>>>
>>> Thursday, 5 April 2018
>>>
>>> I bet NB Power and many lawyers such as Michael Dixon are cursing me
>>> about now N'esy Pas?
>>>
>>> Now I will try to talk to you before publishing this email. Quite
>>> frankly I want to see how you respond to me on a personal level before
>>> Mr Furey and the other lawyers advise you to ignore my concerns. Some
>>> of which you will find below.
>>>
>>> Veritas Vincit
>>> David Raymond Amos
>>> 902 800 0369
>>>
>>> https://www.teedsaundersdoyle.com/our-team/show/19
>>>
>>> Andrew Logan Partner
>>> Saint John
>>> (506) 633-9572
>>>
>>> andrew.logan@tsdca.com
>>>
>>> Andrew Logan is all about helping people. His profession involves
>>> work that builds personal connections, and that makes sense for this
>>> guy who was born and raised in Saint John. He’s a CPA with more than
>>> 30 years experience, and he came to Teed Saunders Doyle 20 years ago
>>> looking to work with small and medium-sized businesses. He loves his
>>> work, especially on the days he can ride his Harley Davidson to the
>>> office.
>>>
>>> First things first.
>>>
>>> http://www.nbeub.ca/images/documents/2009-06-26-Report-3-Percent-E.pdf
>>>
>>> Whereas you were involved with making a report on the PDVSA matter, I
>>> should inform you that I took an interest in it before I ran in the
>>> election of the 39th Parliament and the comment section of Charles
>>> Leblanc's old blog from 12 years ago affirms it;
>>>
>>> http://oldmaison.blogspot.ca/2006/04/roomers-truly-have-no-rights.html
>>>
>>> March 24, 2006
>>>
>>> Michael “Tanker” Malley
>>> C/o Cleveland Allaby
>>> 480 Queen Street
>>> Suite # 200
>>> Fredericton NB. E3B 1B6
>>>
>>> Simpson Thacher & Barlett LLP
>>> C/o Derek Burney
>>> Chair of the Board of Directors of NB Power
>>> 515 King Street Fredricton, NB E3B 4X1
>>>
>>> Jody Carr
>>> C/o Paul Blackmore
>>> Chestnut Complex
>>> 470 York Street
>>> Fredericton, NBE3B 3P7
>>>
>>> Patrick A.A. Ryan
>>> Edgecombe House
>>> 736 King Street
>>> Fredericton, NB E3B 1G2
>>> Re: Public Corruption
>>>
>>> Sirs,
>>>
>>> Pursuant to my many phone calls and email to your offices please find
>>> enclosed the material I promised to you before I file my complaints in
>>> Federal Court in Fredericton. The CD which is a true copy of wiretap
>>> tape number 139 is served upon you all in confidence as officers of
>>> the court in order that it may be investigated byway of my suing the
>>> Crown.
>>>
>>> While Norm Betts and Derek Burney’s buddy Stevey Boy Harper is busy in
>>> New Brunswick today trying hard to shore up the shaky government of
>>> Jody Carr’s buddy, Bernie Lord with long delayed federal tax dollars.
>>> I am polishing off my promises to crooked lawyers in the hope that the
>>> very corrupt House crumbles ASAP. If not maybe President Chavez will
>>> help me bankrupt the crooks working within NB Power within a crooked
>>> government’s blessing. Methinks Tanker will need another lawyer if the
>>> one he has now continues to play dumb. Lord paid Allaby a lot of money
>>> to study the doings of the Justice Dept a long time ago. He should
>>> understand the scene.
>>>
>>> Shame on you all for forcing me to go to such lengths to protect my
>>> rights under the Charter. Methinks you have underestimated my
>>> diligence EH? Now ask yourselves why I don’t sue you after I sue the
>>> Crown? I fail to see any reason not to. That is the only way I know of
>>> to hold such people as you accountable. Stevey Boy Harper never will
>>> even though he talks the talk of such things. Everybody knows what I
>>> served upon his party’s lawyer Arthur Hamilton before I was falsely
>>> imprisoned in the USA in 2004.
>>>
>>> Despite whatever Act our latest Prime Minister wishes to introduce to
>>> the Canadian people that he claims will compel our government to act
>>> with integrity, he can never deny my right to drag anyone into court.
>>> In fact he has done so himself in the past and I am no less of a man
>>> than he. Even a simple pigheaded Maritimer has the right to argue the
>>> law even with people who think themselves above it. How you all have
>>> failed to uphold the law and the public trust placed in your public
>>> office is either a matter of public record or soon shall be or my name
>>> ain’t Dave. There is no Democracy without Truth and Justice. It is
>>> just that simple.
>>>
>>> Thats all for now fellas. I look forward to seeing you all in court
>>> someday or I will die trying to make it happen in an ethical fashion.
>>> It is just another one of those things I do that lawyers fail to
>>> appreciate. Ask your friends why that is if you don’t already know.
>>>
>>> Veritas Vincit
>>> David Raymond Amos
>>> P.O. Box 234
>>> Apohaqui, NB. E5P 3G2
>>>
>>> Hey Mr. Costello
>>> Need I say I was not impressed by you yesterday. At least you
>>> confessed that you knew who I was but so much for a jealous defense of
>>> your client’s interests. EH? That said there is no need to send you
>>> hard copy of my material. Your associates within McInnes Cooper
>>> already have enough to review and confer with you about.
>>> Perhaps you should call the dudes or ladies (: Tell them how I chuck
>>> rocks will ya? from Patterson Palmer in Halifax that merged with your
>>> firm or better yet Lenny Hoyt and Franky Boy McKenna. In my humble
>>> opinion your little buddy Franky Boy as Canadian Ambassador should
>>> have tried to stop NB Power’s malicious lawsuit against Venezeula in
>>> the USA before it picked up steam. But what do I know. EH? I think the
>>> dudes from Venezeula were wise to bring the issues back to the
>>> Maritimes and into the Irvings’ lap. I think it was a hoot that they
>>> employed your firm to do so. What say you?
>>>
>>> Whereas you do not wish to speak to me I will speak to these dudes
>>> about you,
>>>
>>> Embassy of Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,
>>> 32 Range Rd
>>> Ottawa Ontario
>>> K1N 8J4,
>>> Phone: 613 235-5151
>>>
>>> and then send them what I sent Allan Rock Franky Boy Mckenna and the
>>> FBI almost one year ago. Perhaps you should call some of your friends
>>> mentioned below that I served my stuff upon yesterday after I talked
>>> to you and ask them what the Hell I am up to if you don’t already
>>> know.
>>>
>>> Veritas Vincit
>>> David Raymond Amos
>>>
>>> P.S. the following was an interesting article to come out in the local
>>> paper just as Humpty Dumpty had the Governor Gerneral drop the Writ on
>>> the last election. It certainly seems to me that the Irving’s and
>>> Bernie Lord were trying hard to help Stevey Boy Harper’s government
>>> and John Wallace get elected in order to protect their own selfish
>>> interests. EH? If he won’t tell ya then ask me why Franky Boy does not
>>> want to be the liberal leader right now. I Double Dog Dare Ya. As I
>>> said in closing yesterday you have my number but maybe the dudes from
>>> Venezeula lost it so here it is again 506 434 1379. Your problem is do
>>> I want to talk to you now. Whilst I am talking to your clients about
>>> your incompetance I will explain to them why I am preparing to sue
>>> your whole god damned law firm.
>>>
>>> November 25, 2005
>>>
>>> Liberal leader ‘jeopardizing’ NB Power’s chances in lawsuit over
>>> failed Orimulsion deal: Tory MLA
>>>
>>> New Brunswickers should question whether Liberal Leader Shawn Graham
>>> is fighting for them or for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, says a
>>> Tory MLA. Jody Carr, MLA for Oromocto-Gagetown, made the stinging
>>> indictment against Mr.Graham Thursday during a heated committee
>>> hearing where the Liberal leader took repeated swipes at David Hay, NB
>>> Power’s president and chief executive officer, for failing to answer
>>> legal questions regarding the utility’s Orimulsion lawsuit.
>>>
>>> Mr. Graham questioned some of the tactics being advanced by NB
>>> Power’s legal staff and demanded to know how much the power
>>> corporation budgeted for the legal battle against the Venezuelan
>>> government and its state-owned oil company.
>>>
>>> Mr. Carr said the Liberal leader crossed the line in Thursday’s
>>> committee hearing and could endanger NB Power’s lawsuit. “The issue is
>>> complicated and it shows the issue is far over his head to what he can
>>> comprehend,” Mr. Carr said in an interview later."He was in effect
>>> working on the side of the Venezuelan government by jeopardizing the
>>> court proceedings."He was jeopardizing the chances of government and
>>> NB Power recouping the $2.2 billion in savings and therefore, in
>>> essence, that put him on the other side.”
>>>
>>> NB Power restarted its lawsuit on Sept. 1, when it filed a statement
>>> of claim looking for $2.2 billion in financial damages, which equates
>>> to the price difference between purchasing heavy fuel oil to burn at
>>> the Coleson Cove Generation Station and Orimulsion, a cheap
>>> water-and-bitumen mixture patented by Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A.
>>> (PDVSA).
>>>
>>> NB Power has hired Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales to quarterback the
>>> lawsuits filed in Fredericton and New York along with Simpson Thacher
>>> & Bartlett LLP to serve as their U.S. counsel. Mr. Hay estimated that
>>> the corporation has already spent as much as $600,000 on legal bills
>>> relating to the Orimulsion lawsuit.
>>>
>>> The Liberal leader grew increasingly frustrated when Mr. Hay
>>> stonewalled his attempt to get a firm answer on NB Power’s budget for
>>> Orimulsion-related legal fees. “For the life of me I can’t understand
>>> how it could jeopardize the court proceedings in saying how much we
>>> are thinking this court challenge may cost,”
>>>
>>> Mr. Graham said.Throughout the committee session, Mr. Hay assured the
>>> Liberal leader that the power corporation was evaluating the
>>> risk-reward ratio at each legal “fork in the road.”
>>>
>>> Mr. Hay said he cannot disclose any details that could tip the
>>> utility’s legal hand considering the Venezuelans are keeping a close
>>> eye on the proceedings."We are dealing with people with extremely deep
>>> pockets. And if you go to a poker game “... and you say, I have my
>>> $1,000 here or whatever it is you are playing with, that gives an
>>> advantage to the other side,” Mr. Hay said.
>>>
>>> Mr. Carr also accused Mr. Graham of misleading Saint John residents
>>> about the Orimulsion costs during the recent byelection campaign in
>>> Saint John Harbour. Mr. Carr said he found it disconcerting that
>>> Liberal campaign signs said the Conservative government lost $2.2
>>> billion through the bungled Orimulsion fuel deal but now Mr. Graham
>>> admits the money was a “potential loss of savings.”
>>>
>>> - Daniel McHardie - Canadaeast News Service Source: Telegraph-Journal
>>> | page A5 on Nov. 25, 2005
>>>
>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/junior-minister-left-to-defend-lord-s-comments-1.587503
>>>
>>> Junior minister left to defend Lord's comments
>>> CBC News · Posted: Feb 20, 2006 4:33 PM AT
>>>
>>> One of Bernard Lord's newest cabinet ministers is defending his boss
>>> in the midst of a political firestorm that has left New Brunswick with
>>> a minority government.
>>>
>>> A prominent Fredericton lawyer and long-time Tory supporter who found
>>> himself caught up in the story is also demanding a personal apology
>>> from the premier.
>>>
>>> Lord refused to comment on the situation Monday, but left his
>>> newly-minted minister of post-secondary education and training, Jody
>>> Carr, to tell CBC he's proud of his leader.
>>>
>>> Carr says he supports Lord's decison to hold a press conference about
>>> a conversation he had with outgoing Conservative member Michael
>>> (Tanker) Malley.
>>>
>>> "What Tanker said publicly is that he went Independent because the
>>> Miramichi wasn't getting its fair share, and the premier felt that
>>> that was contradicting the truth, and he wanted to lay the facts out."
>>>
>>> Malley quit the party Friday night to sit as an Independent,
>>> frustrated that he was left out of cabinet and claiming that his
>>> riding hasn't received enough support from Lord's government.
>>>
>>> Lord's Conservatives now hold 27 seats, the Liberals hold 26, with two
>>> Independents Malley and Frank Branch.
>>>
>>> READ MALLEY'S LETTER OF RESIGNATION: 'I will no longer be taken
>>> for granted,' Malley writes
>>>
>>> Lord responded to Malley's decision by holding a news conference on
>>> Saturday, saying he had no regrets about the loss. Lord told reporters
>>> that Malley demanded a number of unreasonable favours, including the
>>> appointment of lawyer Cleveland Allaby to the bench as a provincial
>>> court judge.
>>>
>>> "The first item on his list was to appoint his friend Cleveland Allaby
>>> as judge of the province of New Brunswick," Lord said.
>>>
>>> But that was news to Allaby, who says he couldn't believe his ears
>>> when he heard Lord had mentioned his name in connection with Malley's
>>> defection. He says he never asked Malley to try to get him a judicial
>>> appointment and is insulted at the suggestion.
>>>
>>> "I did not ask him to do that, and for him to assume that I'm behind
>>> some nefarious plot if indeed that's what they talked about at the
>>> meeting because we don't know I have real difficulty with that."
>>>
>>> Allaby, a staunch supporter of the party who once ran for the
>>> leadership, admits Malley is a friend but says when he asked Malley
>>> about this list of demands, Malley told him his conversations with the
>>> premier were confidential and he couldn't tell him anything.
>>>
>>> Allaby says the premier could learn a lesson from Malley. "Let me know
>>> what you're saying. Rather than this pot-shotting, this
>>> cheap-shotting, this behind the backs, sneaky business that's going
>>> on. Stand up and be a man."
>>>
>>> Allaby says he wants an apology directly from Lord, in person, face to
>>> face and not over the phone.
>>>
>>> Liberal house leader Kelly Lamrock admits the turn of events has left
>>> his party feeling like a hockey team that skates onto the ice to find
>>> its opponents in a bench-clearing brawl, but says his caucus will
>>> focus on the issues facing the province – and getting ready for the
>>> next election.
>>>
>>> He says if Lord is dumb enough to blurt out Allaby's name to the media
>>> and air his party's dirty laundry he'll enjoy the show. "I certainly
>>> think when we vote in the upcoming [session of the] legislature we
>>> will find there is little to be gained by letting a tired government,
>>> ripped apart by infighting and not focused on the province, carry on."
>>>
>>> The Lord government could fall as soon as April 7, when the house is
>>> expected to vote on Finance Minister Jeannot Volpé's spring budget.
>>>
>>>
>>> Obviously I must ask before you created your report did you ever see
>>> all the documents that accompanied this cover letter to NB Power's
>>> Chairman of the Board in 2006? FYI the NB Power lawyers filed as
>>> Appendix "G" in the 375 Matter as well
>>>
>>> www.nbeub.ca/opt/M/get_document.php?doc=176623&no=21329
>>>
>>> What you may not know is that I asked your firm if they would audit my
>>> records as per Elections Canada's rules as I ran in the Election of
>>> the 42nd Parliament. Your firm refused me as is your right to do.
>>> However I was truly amazed that nobdy would even some fancy people in
>>> Toronto so I made a complaint to the the Glogal Oversight of the
>>> accounting business and got a respnse. Months later obviously I found
>>> an auditor who was not afraid of Mr Harper and his cohorts and managed
>>> to run for Parliament again. Even though CBC ignored its
>>> "Non-Partisan" mandate and denied that simple fact for the fifth time
>>> Rogers TV did not.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)"<Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca>
>>> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 17:05:07 +0000
>>> Subject: RE: So what does Premier Gallant and Minister Doucet et al
>>> think of my lawsuit? How about David Coon and his blogging buddy
>>> Chucky joking about being illegally barred from parliamentary property
>>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Thank you for writing to the Premier of New Brunswick.
>>> Please be assured that your email has been received, will be reviewed,
>>> and a response will be forthcoming.
>>> Once again, thank you for taking the time to write.
>>>
>>> Merci d'avoir communiqué avec le premier ministre du Nouveau-Brunswick.
>>> Soyez assuré que votre courriel a bien été reçu, qu'il sera examiné
>>> et qu'une réponse vous sera acheminée.
>>> Merci encore d'avoir pris de temps de nous écrire.
>>>
>>> Sincerely, / Sincèrement,
>>> Mallory Fowler
>>> Correspondence Manager / Gestionnaire de la correspondance
>>> Office of the Premier / Cabinet du premier ministre
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/19/18, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>>>> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:32:09 -0400
>>>>> Subject: Attn Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
>>>>> To: coi@gnb.ca
>>>>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>>>
>>>>> Good Day Sir
>>>>>
>>>>> After I heard you speak on CBC I called your office again and managed
>>>>> to speak to one of your staff for the first time
>>>>>
>>>>> Please find attached the documents I promised to send to the lady who
>>>>> answered the phone this morning. Please notice that not after the Sgt
>>>>> at Arms took the documents destined to your office his pal Tanker
>>>>> Malley barred me in writing with an "English" only document.
>>>>>
>>>>> These are the hearings and the dockets in Federal Court that I
>>>>> suggested that you study closely.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is the docket in Federal Court
>>>>>
>>>>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=T-1557-15&select_court=T
>>>>>
>>>>> These are digital recordings of the last three hearings
>>>>>
>>>>> Dec 14th https://archive.org/details/BahHumbug
>>>>>
>>>>> January 11th, 2016 https://archive.org/details/Jan11th2015
>>>>>
>>>>> April 3rd, 2017
>>>>>
>>>>> https://archive.org/details/April32017JusticeLeblancHearing
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This is the docket in the Federal Court of Appeal
>>>>>
>>>>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=A-48-16&select_court=All
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The only hearing thus far
>>>>>
>>>>> May 24th, 2017
>>>>>
>>>>> https://archive.org/details/May24thHoedown
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This Judge understnds the meaning of the word Integrity
>>>>>
>>>>> Date: 20151223
>>>>>
>>>>> Docket: T-1557-15
>>>>>
>>>>> Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 23, 2015
>>>>>
>>>>> PRESENT: The Honourable Mr. Justice Bell
>>>>>
>>>>> BETWEEN:
>>>>>
>>>>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>>>>>
>>>>> Plaintiff
>>>>>
>>>>> and
>>>>>
>>>>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>>>>>
>>>>> Defendant
>>>>>
>>>>> ORDER
>>>>>
>>>>> (Delivered orally from the Bench in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on
>>>>> December 14, 2015)
>>>>>
>>>>> The Plaintiff seeks an appeal de novo, by way of motion pursuant to
>>>>> the Federal Courts Rules (SOR/98-106), from an Order made on November
>>>>> 12, 2015, in which Prothonotary Morneau struck the Statement of Claim
>>>>> in its entirety.
>>>>>
>>>>> At the outset of the hearing, the Plaintiff brought to my attention a
>>>>> letter dated September 10, 2004, which he sent to me, in my then
>>>>> capacity as Past President of the New Brunswick Branch of the Canadian
>>>>> Bar Association, and the then President of the Branch, Kathleen Quigg,
>>>>> (now a Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal). In that letter
>>>>> he stated:
>>>>>
>>>>> As for your past President, Mr. Bell, may I suggest that you check the
>>>>> work of Frank McKenna before I sue your entire law firm including you.
>>>>> You are your brother’s keeper.
>>>>>
>>>>> Frank McKenna is the former Premier of New Brunswick and a former
>>>>> colleague of mine at the law firm of McInnes Cooper. In addition to
>>>>> expressing an intention to sue me, the Plaintiff refers to a number of
>>>>> people in his Motion Record who he appears to contend may be witnesses
>>>>> or potential parties to be added. Those individuals who are known to
>>>>> me personally, include, but are not limited to the former Prime
>>>>> Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper; former
>>>>> Attorney General of Canada and now a Justice of the Manitoba Court of
>>>>> Queen’s Bench, Vic Toews; former member of Parliament Rob Moore;
>>>>> former Director of Policing Services, the late Grant Garneau; former
>>>>> Chief of the Fredericton Police Force, Barry McKnight; former Staff
>>>>> Sergeant Danny Copp; my former colleagues on the New Brunswick Court
>>>>> of Appeal, Justices Bradley V. Green and Kathleen Quigg, and, retired
>>>>> Assistant Commissioner Wayne Lang of the Royal Canadian Mounted
>>>>> Police.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the circumstances, given the threat in 2004 to sue me in my
>>>>> personal capacity and my past and present relationship with many
>>>>> potential witnesses and/or potential parties to the litigation, I am
>>>>> of the view there would be a reasonable apprehension of bias should I
>>>>> hear this motion. See Justice de Grandpré’s dissenting judgment in
>>>>> Committee for Justice and Liberty et al v National Energy Board et al,
>>>>> [1978] 1 SCR 369 at p 394 for the applicable test regarding
>>>>> allegations of bias. In the circumstances, although neither party has
>>>>> requested I recuse myself, I consider it appropriate that I do so.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> AS A RESULT OF MY RECUSAL, THIS COURT ORDERS that the Administrator of
>>>>> the Court schedule another date for the hearing of the motion. There
>>>>> is no order as to costs.
>>>>>
>>>>> “B. Richard Bell”
>>>>> Judge
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Below after the CBC article about your concerns (I made one comment
>>>>> already) you will find the text of just two of many emails I had sent
>>>>> to your office over the years since I first visited it in 2006.
>>>>>
>>>>> I noticed that on July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the the Court
>>>>> Martial Appeal Court of Canada Perhaps you should scroll to the
>>>>> bottom of this email ASAP and read the entire Paragraph 83 of my
>>>>> lawsuit now before the Federal Court of Canada?
>>>>>
>>>>> "FYI This is the text of the lawsuit that should interest Trudeau the
>>>>> most
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>>>> From: justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca
>>>>> Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:18 PM
>>>>> Subject: Réponse automatique : RE My complaint against the CROWN in
>>>>> Federal Court Attn David Hansen and Peter MacKay If you planning to
>>>>> submit a motion for a publication ban on my complaint trust that you
>>>>> dudes are way past too late
>>>>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>>>
>>>>> Veuillez noter que j'ai changé de courriel. Vous pouvez me rejoindre à
>>>>> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>>>>>
>>>>> Pour rejoindre le bureau de M. Trudeau veuillez envoyer un courriel à
>>>>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>>>>>
>>>>> Please note that I changed email address, you can reach me at
>>>>> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>>>>>
>>>>> To reach the office of Mr. Trudeau please send an email to
>>>>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>
>>>>> Merci ,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2015/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 83. The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war
>>>>> in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation to
>>>>> allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over
>>>>> five years after he began his bragging:
>>>>>
>>>>> January 13, 2015
>>>>> This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate
>>>>>
>>>>> December 8, 2014
>>>>> Why Canada Stood Tall!
>>>>>
>>>>> Friday, October 3, 2014
>>>>> Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And
>>>>> Stupid Justin Trudeau
>>>>>
>>>>> Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide
>>>>> behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean Chretien
>>>>> actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second campaign
>>>>> in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or contrary to
>>>>> the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were
>>>>> involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There were
>>>>> significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the dearth
>>>>> of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for
>>>>> operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “last minute”
>>>>> Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its mind.
>>>>> The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not
>>>>> deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a
>>>>> Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins to
>>>>> redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was
>>>>> less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq. But
>>>>> alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister Chretien’s
>>>>> then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s
>>>>> incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic,
>>>>> professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle
>>>>> Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway
>>>>> campaign of 2006.
>>>>>
>>>>> What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that then
>>>>> Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the
>>>>> Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice, consent,
>>>>> support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament.
>>>>>
>>>>> What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and babbling
>>>>> chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment of
>>>>> less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by planners
>>>>> as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a
>>>>> deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make.
>>>>>
>>>>> The Canadian Government or The Crown unlike our amerkan cousins have
>>>>> the “constitutional authority” to commit the Canadian nation to war.
>>>>> That has been recently clearly articulated to the Canadian public by
>>>>> constitutional scholar Phillippe Legasse. What Parliament can do is
>>>>> remove “confidence” in The Crown’s Government in a “vote of
>>>>> non-confidence.” That could not happen to the Chretien Government
>>>>> regarding deployment to Afghanistan, and it won’t happen in this
>>>>> instance with the conservative majority in The Commons regarding a
>>>>> limited Canadian deployment to the Middle East.
>>>>>
>>>>> President George Bush was quite correct after 911 and the terror
>>>>> attacks in New York; that the Taliban “occupied” and “failed state”
>>>>> Afghanistan was the source of logistical support, command and control,
>>>>> and training for the Al Quaeda war of terror against the world. The
>>>>> initial defeat, and removal from control of Afghanistan was vital and
>>>>>
>>>>> P.S. Whereas this CBC article is about your opinion of the actions of
>>>>> the latest Minister Of Health trust that Mr Boudreau and the CBC have
>>>>> had my files for many years and the last thing they are is ethical.
>>>>> Ask his friends Mr Murphy and the RCMP if you don't believe me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Subject:
>>>>> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:02:35 -0400
>>>>> From: "Murphy, Michael B. $DH/MS$"MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca
>>>>> To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>>>>
>>>>> January 30, 2007
>>>>>
>>>>> WITHOUT PREJUDICE
>>>>>
>>>>> Mr. David Amos
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear Mr. Amos:
>>>>>
>>>>> This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29,
>>>>> 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP.
>>>>>
>>>>> Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have
>>>>> taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve
>>>>> Graham of the RCMP “J” Division in Fredericton.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>
>>>>> Honourable Michael B. Murphy
>>>>> Minister of Health
>>>>>
>>>>> CM/cb
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Warren McBeath warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500
>>>>> From: "Warren McBeath"warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>>> To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca,
>>>>> nada.sarkis@gnb.ca, wally.stiles@gnb.ca, dwatch@web.net,
>>>>> motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>>>> CC: ottawa@chuckstrahl.com, riding@chuckstrahl.com,John.Foran@gnb.ca,
>>>>> Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,"Bev BUSSON"bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>>>>> "Paul Dube"PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>>> Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has
>>>>> forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have not
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear Mr. Amos,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off
>>>>> over the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured I
>>>>> was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
>>>>>
>>>>> As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our position
>>>>> is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
>>>>> testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the
>>>>> Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
>>>>> services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
>>>>> instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
>>>>>
>>>>> As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
>>>>> imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear
>>>>> that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada
>>>>> the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment
>>>>> and policing in Petitcodiac, NB.
>>>>>
>>>>> It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on
>>>>> December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>
>>>>> Warren McBeath, Cpl.
>>>>> GRC Caledonia RCMP
>>>>> Traffic Services NCO
>>>>> Ph: (506) 387-2222
>>>>> Fax: (506) 387-4622
>>>>> E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
>>>>> Office of the Integrity Commissioner
>>>>> Edgecombe House, 736 King Street
>>>>> Fredericton, N.B. CANADA E3B 5H1
>>>>> tel.: 506-457-7890
>>>>> fax: 506-444-5224
>>>>> e-mail:coi@gnb.ca
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>>>> Date: Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:35 AM
>>>>> Subject: RE My complaint against the CROWN in Federal Court Attn David
>>>>> Hansen and Peter MacKay If you planning to submit a motion for a
>>>>> publication ban on my complaint trust that you dudes are way past too
>>>>> late
>>>>> To: David.Hansen@justice.gc.ca, peter.mackay@justice.gc.ca
>>>>> peacock.kurt@telegraphjournal.com,
>>>>> mclaughlin.heather@dailygleaner.com,
>>>>> david.akin@sunmedia.ca, robert.frater@justice.gc.ca,
>>>>> paul.riley@ppsc-sppc.gc.ca,
>>>>> greg@gregdelbigio.com, joyce.dewitt-vanoosten@gov.bc.ca,
>>>>> joan.barrett@ontario.ca, jean-vincent.lacroix@gouv.qc.ca,
>>>>> peter.rogers@mcinnescooper.com, mfeder@mccarthy.ca, mjamal@osler.com
>>>>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, gopublic@cbc.ca,
>>>>> Whistleblower@ctv.ca
>>>>>
>>>>> https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/14439/index.do
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/WebDocuments-DocumentsWeb/35072/FM030_Respondent_Attorney-General-of-Canada-on-Behalf-of-the-United-States-of-America.pdf
>>>>>
>>>>> http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2013/10/re-glen-greenwald-and-brazilian.html
>>>>>
>>>>> I repeat what the Hell do I do with the Yankee wiretapes taps sell
>>>>> them on Ebay or listen to them and argue them with you dudes in
>>>>> Feferal Court?
>>>>>
>>>>> Petey Baby loses all parliamentary privelges in less than a month but
>>>>> he still supposed to be an ethical officer of the Court CORRECT?
>>>>>
>>>>> Veritas Vincit
>>>>> David Raymond Amos
>>>>> 902 800 0369
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>>>> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:10:14 -0400
>>>>> Subject: Yo Mr Bauer say hey to your client Obama and his buddies in
>>>>> the USDOJ for me will ya?
>>>>> To: RBauer@perkinscoie.com, sshimshak@paulweiss.com,
>>>>> cspada@lswlaw.com, msmith@svlaw.com, bginsberg@pattonboggs.com,
>>>>> gregory.craig@skadden.com, pm@pm.gc.ca, bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>>>>> bob.rae@rogers.blackberry.net, MulcaT@parl.gc.ca,
>>>>> leader@greenparty.ca
>>>>> Cc: alevine@cooley.com, david.raymond.amos@gmail.com,
>>>>> michael.rothfeld@wsj.com, remery@ecbalaw.com
>>>>>
>>>>> QSLS Politics
>>>>> By Location Visit Detail
>>>>> Visit 29,419
>>>>> Domain Name usdoj.gov ? (U.S. Government)
>>>>> IP Address 149.101.1.# (US Dept of Justice)
>>>>> ISP US Dept of Justice
>>>>> Location Continent : North America
>>>>> Country : United States (Facts)
>>>>> State : District of Columbia
>>>>> City : Washington
>>>>> Lat/Long : 38.9097, -77.0231 (Map)
>>>>> Language English (U.S.) en-us
>>>>> Operating System Microsoft WinXP
>>>>> Browser Internet Explorer 8.0
>>>>> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET
>>>>> CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2;
>>>>> DI60SP1001)
>>>>> Javascript version 1.3
>>>>> Monitor Resolution : 1024 x 768
>>>>> Color Depth : 32 bits
>>>>> Time of Visit Nov 17 2012 6:33:08 pm
>>>>> Last Page View Nov 17 2012 6:33:08 pm
>>>>> Visit Length 0 seconds
>>>>> Page Views 1
>>>>> Referring URL http://www.google.co...wwWJrm94lCEqRmovPXJg
>>>>> Search Engine google.com
>>>>> Search Words david amos bernie madoff
>>>>> Visit Entry Page http://qslspolitics....-wendy-olsen-on.html
>>>>> Visit Exit Page http://qslspolitics....-wendy-olsen-on.html
>>>>> Out Click
>>>>> Time Zone UTC-5:00
>>>>> Visitor's Time Nov 17 2012 12:33:08 pm
>>>>> Visit Number 29,419
>>>>>
>>>>> http://qslspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/03/david-amos-to-wendy-olsen-on.html
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Could ya tell I am investigating your pension plan bigtime? Its
>>>>> because no member of the RCMP I have ever encountered has earned it
>>>>> yet
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>>>> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:36:04 -0400
>>>>> Subject: This is a brief as I can make my concerns Randy
>>>>> To: randyedmunds@gov.nl.ca
>>>>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>>>
>>>>> In a nutshell my concerns about the actions of the Investment Industry
>>>>> affect the interests of every person in every district of every
>>>>> country not just the USA and Canada. I was offering to help you with
>>>>> Emera because my work with them and Danny Williams is well known and
>>>>> some of it is over eight years old and in the PUBLIC Record.
>>>>>
>>>>> All you have to do is stand in the Legislature and ask the MInister of
>>>>> Justice why I have been invited to sue Newfoundland by the
>>>>> Conservatives
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Obviously I am the guy the USDOJ and the SEC would not name who is the
>>>>> link to Madoff and Putnam Investments
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is why
>>>>>
>>>>> http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=90f8e691-9065-4f8c-a465-72722b47e7f2
>>>>>
>>>>> Notice the transcripts and webcasts of the hearing of the US Senate
>>>>> Banking Commitee are still missing? Mr Emory should at least notice
>>>>> Eliot Spitzer and the Dates around November 20th, 2003 in the
>>>>> following file
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.checktheevidence.com/pdf/2526023-DAMOSIntegrity-yea-right.-txt.pdf
>>>>>
>>>>> http://occupywallst.org/users/DavidRaymondAmos/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>> From: "Hansen, David"David.Hansen@justice.gc.ca
>>>>> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 19:28:44 +0000
>>>>> Subject: RE: I just called again Mr Hansen
>>>>> To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello Mr. Amos,
>>>>>
>>>>> I manage the Justice Canada civil litigation section in the Atlantic
>>>>> region. We are only responsible for litigating existing civil
>>>>> litigation files in which the Attorney General of Canada is a named
>>>>> defendant or plaintiff. If you are a plaintiff or defendant in an
>>>>> existing civil litigation matter in the Atlantic region in which
>>>>> Attorney General of Canada is a named defendant or plaintiff please
>>>>> provide the court file number, the names of the parties in the action
>>>>> and your question. I am not the appropriate contact for other
>>>>> matters.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> David A. Hansen
>>>>> Regional Director | Directeur régional
>>>>> General Counsel |Avocat général
>>>>> Civil Litigation and Advisory | Contentieux des affaires civiles et
>>>>> services de consultation
>>>>> Department of Justice | Ministère de la Justice
>>>>> Suite 1400 – Duke Tower | Pièce 1400 – Tour Duke
>>>>> 5251 Duke Street | 5251 rue Duke
>>>>> Halifax, Nova Scotia | Halifax, Nouvelle- Écosse
>>>>> B3J 1P3
>>>>> david.hansen@justice.gc.ca
>>>>> Telephone | Téléphone (902) 426-3261 / Facsimile | Télécopieur (902)
>>>>> 426-2329
>>>>> This e-mail is confidential and may be protected by solicitor-client
>>>>> privilege. Unauthorized distribution or disclosure is prohibited. If
>>>>> you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us and delete
>>>>> this entire e-mail.
>>>>> Before printing think about the Environment
>>>>> Thinking Green, please do not print this e-mail unless necessary.
>>>>> Pensez vert, svp imprimez que si nécessaire.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>>>>> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:23:24 -0300
>>>>>> Subject: ATTN FBI Special Agent Richard Deslauriers Have you talked
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> your buddies Fred Wyshak and Brian Kelly about the wiretap tapes YET?
>>>>>> To: boston@ic.fbi.gov, washington.field@ic.fbi.gov,
>>>>>> bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>>>>>> Brian.Kelly@usdoj.gov, us.marshals@usdoj.gov, Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov,
>>>>>> jcarney@carneybassil.com, bbachrach@bachrachlaw.net
>>>>>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, birgittaj@althingi.is,
>>>>>> shmurphy@globe.com, redicecreations@gmail.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>> FBI Boston
>>>>>> One Center Plaza
>>>>>> Suite 600
>>>>>> Boston, MA 02108
>>>>>> Phone: (617) 742-5533
>>>>>> Fax: (617) 223-6327
>>>>>> E-mail: Boston@ic.fbi.gov
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hours
>>>>>> Although we operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, our normal
>>>>>> "walk-in" business hours are from 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday
>>>>>> through Friday. If you need to speak with a FBI representative at any
>>>>>> time other than during normal business hours, please telephone our
>>>>>> office at (617) 742-5533.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>>>>> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:20:20 -0300
>>>>>> Subject: Yo Fred Wyshak and Brian Kelly your buddy Whitey's trial is
>>>>>> finally underway now correct? What the hell do I do with the wiretap
>>>>>> tapes Sell them on Ebay?
>>>>>> To: Brian.Kelly@usdoj.gov, us.marshals@usdoj.gov,
>>>>>> Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov, jcarney@carneybassil.com,
>>>>>> bbachrach@bachrachlaw.net, wolfheartlodge@live.com,
>>>>>> shmurphy@globe.com,
>>>>>> >> jonathan.albano@bingham.com, mvalencia@globe.com
>>>>>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com,
>>>>>> PATRICK.MURPHY@dhs.gov, rounappletree@aol.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/06/05/james-whitey-bulger-jury-selection-process-enters-second-day/KjS80ofyMMM5IkByK74bkK/story.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/06/09/nsa-leak-guardian.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As the CBC etc yap about Yankee wiretaps and whistleblowers I must
>>>>>> ask
>>>>>> them the obvious question AIN'T THEY FORGETTING SOMETHING????
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vugUalUO8YY
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What the hell does the media think my Yankee lawyer served upon the
>>>>>> USDOJ right after I ran for and seat in the 39th Parliament baseball
>>>>>> cards?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.archive.org/details/FedsUsTreasuryDeptRcmpEtc
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://archive.org/details/ITriedToExplainItToAllMaritimersInEarly2006
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/2006/05/wiretap-tapes-impeach-bush.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.archive.org/details/PoliceSurveilanceWiretapTape139
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://archive.org/details/Part1WiretapTape143
>>>>>>
>>>>>> FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006
>>>>>> Senator Arlen Specter
>>>>>> United States Senate
>>>>>> Committee on the Judiciary
>>>>>> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
>>>>>> Washington, DC 20510
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Mr. Specter:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
>>>>>> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters
>>>>>> raised in the attached letter.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wire tap
>>>>>> tapes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this
>>>>>> previously.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Very truly yours,
>>>>>> Barry A. Bachrach
>>>>>> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
>>>>>> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
>>>>>> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "David Amos"david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>>>> To: "Rob Talach"rtalach@ledroitbeckett.com
>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 10:59 PM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Attn Robert Talach and I should talk ASAP about my suing
>>>>>> the Catholic Church Trust that Bastarache knows why
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The date stamp on about page 134 of this old file of mine should mean
>>>>>> a lot to you
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.checktheevidence.com/pdf/2619437-CROSS-BORDER-txt-.pdf
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>>>>> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:37:08 -0400
>>>>>> Subject: To Hell with the KILLER COP Gilles Moreau What say you NOW
>>>>>> Bernadine Chapman??
>>>>>> To: Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, phil.giles@statcan.ca,
>>>>>> maritme_malaise@yahoo.ca, Jennifer.Nixon@ps-sp.gc.ca,
>>>>>> bartman.heidi@psic-ispc.gc.ca, Yves.J.Marineau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>>>>>> david.paradiso@erc-cee.gc.ca, desaulniea@smtp.gc.ca,
>>>>>> denise.brennan@tbs-sct.gc.ca, anne.murtha@vac-acc.gc.ca,
>>>>>> webo@xplornet.com, julie.dickson@osfi-bsif.gc.ca,
>>>>>> rod.giles@osfi-bsif.gc.ca, flaherty.j@parl.gc.ca, toewsv1@parl.gc.ca,
>>>>>> Nycole.Turmel@parl.gc.ca,Clemet1@parl.gc.ca,
>>>>>> maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca,
>>>>>> >> oig@sec.gov, whistleblower@finra.org, whistle@fsa.gov.uk,
>>>>>> david@fairwhistleblower.ca
>>>>>> Cc: j.kroes@interpol.int, david.raymond.amos@gmail.com,
>>>>>> bernadine.chapman@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca,
>>>>>> Juanita.Peddle@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, oldmaison@yahoo.com,
>>>>>> Wayne.Lang@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Robert.Trevors@gnb.ca,
>>>>>> ian.fahie@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/nb/news-nouvelles/media-medias-eng.htm
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://nb.rcmpvet.ca/Newsletters/VetsReview/nlnov06.pdf
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From: Gilles Moreau Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>>>> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:03:22 -0500
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Lets ee if the really nasty Newfy Lawyer Danny Boy
>>>>>> Millions will explain this email to you or your boss Vic Toews EH
>>>>>> Constable Peddle???
>>>>>> To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please cease and desist from using my name in your emails.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gilles Moreau, Chief Superintendent, CHRP and ACC
>>>>>> Director General
>>>>>> HR Transformation
>>>>>> 73 Leikin Drive, M5-2-502
>>>>>> Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R2
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tel 613-843-6039
>>>>>> Cel 613-818-6947
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gilles Moreau, surintendant principal, CRHA et ACC
>>>>>> Directeur général de la Transformation des ressources humaines
>>>>>> 73 Leikin, pièce M5-2-502
>>>>>> Ottawa, ON K1A 0R2
>>>>>>
>>>>>> tél 613-843-6039
>>>>>> cel 613-818-6947
>>>>>> gilles.moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> https://twitter.com/DavidRayAmos/with_replies
>>
>>
>>
>> David Raymond Amos‏ @DavidRayAmos
>> Replying to @DavidRayAmos @Kathryn98967631 and 49 others
>> Methinks the EUB needs to explain to me how Mr Jones got a tape of a
>> hearing to play on the radio while I have been denied the right to
>> have a tape of my words that were improperly transcribed N'esy Pas?
>>
>>
>> https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/02/nb-power-debt-claim-to-mlas-appears-to.html
>>
>>
>> #nbpoli #cdnpoli
>>
>>
>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-debt-presentation-mlas-untrue-1.5015174
>>
>>
>>
>> NB Power debt claim to MLAs appears to be untrue
>>
>>
>> 45 Comments
>>
>>
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> Methinks the EUB's lawyer Ellen Desmond needs to explain to me how Mr
>> Jones got a tape of a hearing and play it on the radio while I have
>> been denied the right to have a tape of my own words that have been
>> transcribed for the EUB improperly N'esy Pas?
>>
>> "At hearings last April, Ellen Desmond, the EUB's lawyer, questioned
>> Darren Murphy, NB Power vice-president, in detail about whether the
>> utility's profits are too low and its debt retirement schedule too
>> slow.
>>
>> She suggested the utility consider reducing its spending to generate
>> higher profits in years its financial projections are coming up short.
>>
>> "Why not perhaps delay spending where necessary to meet other
>> objectives, including your reduction in net debt which we have heard a
>> lot about in the last three years," said Desmond.
>>
>> "I mean if that is a priority, if that is a target, why not perhaps
>> adjust the plan? Why not adjust that so that we can see reduction --
>> larger reductions on the net debt?"
>>
>>
>>
>> Roger Richard
>> Roger Richard
>> @David Amos I would like to know too.
>>
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>> Paul Bourgoin
>> Shawn Tabor
>> What a bunch of B/S, and they know it. Need Premier Ford to get rid of
>> a few at the TOP.
>>
>>
>> Harold Benson
>> Harold Benson
>> @Shawn Tabor Might be a problem with the arrogance there. Seems like
>> they tell the Gov't what to do and where to go, like most crown
>> corporations.
>>
>> T.J. Jacob
>> T.J. Jacob
>> @Shawn Tabor I fail to see how Ford can do anything as he's the
>> premier of Ontario and not New Brunswick...
>>
>> Alexandre Hilton
>> Alexandre Hilton
>> @T.J. Jacob What a great ostrich impression!
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Shawn Tabor YUP
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Alexandre Hilton "What a great ostrich impression!"
>>
>> Methinks you are pretty good at it too N'esy Pas?
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @T.J. Jacob Methinks you know as well as I that is not what my friend
>> meant N'esy Pas?
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> Paul Bourgoin
>> Aaron Allison
>> Time for a Forensic Audit by the AG, and Time to clean house starting
>> at the top.
>>
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Aaron Allison "Time for a Forensic Audit by the AG"
>>
>> I have been saying that for years and It was recorded by the EUB last
>> week as NB Power was having me booted again as an Intervener. I have
>> the transcript now lets see if they will give me a copy of the tape of
>> what I said this time
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul Bourgoin
>> Ned MacAllister
>> N.B. Power is top heavy in snouts in the trough. Clean house and
>> promote from within around the $135,000 to $160,000 range.
>>
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Ned MacAllister I agree
>>
>>
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>> Paul Bourgoin
>> Roy Kirk
>> Standard operating procedure for this bunch. When before the
>> regulator, you blame the politicians and their interference for your
>> inability to perform. When before the politicians you blame the
>> regulator! The one thing you never, ever do is accept any blame
>> yourself. :-(
>>
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Roy Kirk I agree
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> Paul Bourgoin
>> June Arnott
>> Gaetan Thomas doesn’t seem to have any clue as to what is going on.
>> When are we ever going to get someone in charge who knows what’s going
>> on and will take action?
>>
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @June Arnott Likely never. Methinks if they appointed an ethical soul
>> with two clues between his ears the politicians would lose their cash
>> cow N'esy Pas?
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> Paul Bourgoin
>> Paul Bourgoin
>> Who, Why, or what is holding back NB-POWER from making profits?
>> Who benefited from NB-Power decision of loosing, limiting NB
>> electricity Profits?
>> Who within the NB government initiated and approved such a money loosing
>> deal?
>> Where is the paper work?
>> Who will pay the costs of such public generosity? Joe Public or his
>> children?
>>
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Paul Bourgoin Its all Pure D BS
>>
>> Dan Flanagan
>> Dan Flanagan
>> @Paul Bourgoin
>> Politicians are responsible because they don't want to lose votes due
>> to rate increases. NB Power is also to blame because they are mostly
>> ex-politicians. How can you run a viable corporation with people that
>> have no financial experience?
>> At a modest 6% interest rate, just paying the interest costs $276
>> million a year.
>>
>> Rosco holt
>> Rosco holt
>> @Paul Bourgoin
>> Politicians rigged NBPower to not show profit.
>> Friends/ backers of politicians/ party benefit.
>> Government of that day.
>> The paperwork has been shredded and thrown out.
>> Residential clients (Joe Public and their future progeny) will always
>> pay.
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Rosco holt Methinks all the politicians know I have been doing my
>> best to expose it the corruption of NB Power within the EUB while
>> everyone laughs at my efforts but I may get the last laugh when I put
>> the issues before a real court N'esy Pas?
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @David Amos Methinks Mr Higgs and his Minister Mr Holland should have
>> noticed long ago that my friend Roger Richard and I are not laughing
>> in this photo N'esy Pas?
>>
>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/eub-hearings-nb-power-smart-meters-1.4529640
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul Bourgoin
>> Dan Flanagan
>> Politicians are responsible because they don't want to lose votes due
>> to rate increases. NB Power is also to blame because they are mostly
>> ex-politicians. How can you run a viable corporation with people that
>> have no financial experience?
>> At a modest 6% interest rate, just paying the interest costs $294
>> million a year.
>>
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Dan Flanagan "At a modest 6% interest rate, just paying the interest
>> costs $294 million a year."
>>
>> Methinks that is not chump change but they are making a lot of chumps
>> pay it At least the EUB knows that I am one chump who does not
>> appreciate their malicious antics against me N'esy Pas?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul Bourgoin
>> Paul Bourgoin
>> NB POWER should be obligated to make public all customers, commercial,
>> Industrial or Residential that receive from NB POWER a special cheaper
>> rate for their electricity and who authorized the sweetheart deal..
>>
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Paul Bourgoin The Yankees know the score ask Wilbur Ross
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> Jef Cronkhite
>> Jef Cronkhite
>> Is anyone else sick and tired of NB Power's consistent mismanagement
>> and ridiculous excuses? Forget the EUB, we need a civilian oversight
>> panel with the power to over-rule Thomas and his "Old Boys Club".
>> Government oversight is quite obviously FAILING.....
>>
>>
>> Rosco holt
>> Rosco holt
>> @Jef Cronkhite
>> "Government oversight is quite obviously FAILING....."
>> Government is the problem.
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Rosco holt BINGO
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> stephen blunston
>> stephen blunston
>> lets get rid of Thomas and all the fools running things in Fredericton
>> be fired and replaced with someone who knows what they are doing,
>> because after all this time and they keep saying the same BS but keep
>> giving themselves raises and bonuses for not doing their jobs and
>> making their targets . sick and tired of no one being held accountable
>> at this crown corp
>>
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @stephen blunston " sick and tired of no one being held accountable at
>> this crown corp"
>>
>> Methinks you are not alone N'esy Pas?
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> Repair Guy
>> Repair Guy
>> So maybe Mr. Thomas and NBPower could help rate payers out and explain
>> which parts of his statements we are supposed to believe/take
>> literally and which parts we can ignore. Thanks!
>>
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Repair Guy Methinks it would be easier to merely boil things down
>> and believe nothing he says N'esy Pas?
>>
>> For instance do you really think Thomas is going to consult with us
>> about smart meters when his lawyer informed the EUB last week that
>> they will making another stab at it with them in short order?
>>
>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/smart-meters-nb-power-1.4973785
>>
>> NB Power launches PR campaign for revived smart meter plan
>> CBC News · Posted: Jan 10, 2019 7:19 PM AT
>>
>> 135 comments
>>
>> David R. Amos
>> @Stephanie Haslam I repeat folks need to download the transcripts of
>> the EUB hearings from last year if they are truly concerned about
>> smart meter coming to New Brunswick (BTW they are already in Saint
>> John)
>>
>> David R. Amos
>> @Stephanie Haslam Please pay particular attention to the work of my
>> friend Roger Richard
>>
>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-rate-hearing-eub-1.4544322
>>
>> "Several self-represented participants have been taking turns
>> questioning NB Power's plans on an equal footing with lawyers hired by
>> companies, like J.D. Irving Ltd. and Enbridge Gas New Brunswick, and
>> municipal utilities like Saint John Energy.
>>
>> Gently guided on proper procedure by Beaulieu, non-professional
>> participants have had free rein to have a say.
>>
>> Anti-smart meter activist and St. Louis de Kent dentist Roger Richard,
>> left, and environmentalist Daniel LeBlanc spent hours questioning NB
>> Power witnesses. (Robert Jones/CBC NEWS)
>>
>> Those participants include environmentalist Chris Rouse, anti-smart
>> meter activist and St. Louis de Kent dentist Roger Richard and
>> political hopeful Gerald Bourque, the leader of the fledgling KISS
>> N.B. Political Party.
>>
>> They've been able to submit evidence, call witnesses and cross-examine
>> NB Power executives and others and make motions."
>>
>>
>>
>> Roger Richard
>> Roger Richard
>> @David Amos I am hoping that things can change with enough work. Your
>> help is most appreciated Mr. Amos.
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Roger Richard Methinks you will enjoy your next email n'esy pas mon ami?
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> Fred Brewer
>> Fred Brewer
>> It's been 35 years since the regulator ordered NB Power to bring all
>> of its customer categories in line with the true cost of providing
>> power. In other words the regulator wanted NB Power to end the
>> practice where they charge some customers high rates so that other
>> customers can be subsidized.
>>
>> 35 years later, not much headway has been made. This proves to me that
>> NB Power can flagrantly disobey the regulator without any
>> consequences. This has to stop now! What is the point of having a
>> regulator if the regulator's orders can be ignored?
>>
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Fred Brewer Methinks folks should wonder if the taxpayers in Fat Fred
>> City have noticed how much they pay to keep the streets lights on
>> around the Legislature and the NB Power HQ N'esy Pas?
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul Bourgoin
>> Lou Bell
>> There was a Committee that Higgs disbanded last week that appear to
>> have had the same financial qualifications as Thomas ! Also Government
>> appointed !
>>
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Lou Bell What else is new
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul Bourgoin
>> Lou Bell
>> Over 500,000 dollars a year to Thomas whose legacy will be for
>> flooding the lower Saint John River Valley annually. I'll volunteer to
>> do it for half of that !
>>
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Lou Bell Methinks folks should have no doubt that you would enjoy it
>> too much N'esy Pas?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> NB Power debt claim to MLAs appears to be untrue
>> Utility can't say who made the statement its president referenced
>>
>>
>>
>> Robert Jones · CBC News · Posted: Feb 12, 2019 4:00 AM AT
>>
>> NB Power President Gaetan Thomas said even modest profit targets are
>> frowned on by the Energy and Utilities Board. (CBC)
>>
>> NB Power president Gaetan Thomas's claim to MLAs that the Energy and
>> Utilities Board once told the utility profits should be kept below $80
>> million, despite its need to pay off debt, appears to be untrue.
>>
>> The EUB has never issued a directive to NB Power to keep earnings
>> below $80 million and the utility has been unable to explain who made
>> the statement Thomas is referring to or when, if ever, it was said.
>>
>> Thomas, chairman Ed Barrett and other NB Power executives made a
>> presentation on Jan. 5 to the legislature's Crown corporations
>> committee to discuss the utility's latest financial results and MLAs
>> questioned them about NB Power's debt problems.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Both Barrett and Thomas told the committee the Energy and Utilities
>> Board has stood in the way of the utility earning sufficient profits
>> to substantially reduce its $4.9 billion debt load, instead forcing it
>> to keep rates low.
>>
>> Consumers will pay for NB Power's debt one way or another, intervener
>> says
>>
>> Thomas said even modest profit targets are frowned on by the EUB.
>>
>> "Every time we're confronted with a low rate," Thomas told MLAs.
>>
>> "That is the dominant factor for the regulator. Even if we can show,
>> lets say, we can make say $80 million earnings the point is they say
>> you don't really need that much earnings."
>>
>> However, all profit requests NB Power management has made to the EUB
>> in the last four years have been approved, three for more than $80
>> million, the amount Thomas claims the EUB has said is too much.
>>
>>
>> NB Power has been unable to explain who made the statement its
>> president is referring to or when, if ever, it was said. (Michael
>> Heenan/CBC)
>> Heather Black has represented the public at NB Power's last four rate
>> hearings and says the utility has set its own profit target each year
>> and has never had any part of the amounts rejected by the EUB.
>>
>> "In each case, the board has approved NB Power's proposed earnings in
>> the full amount NB Power requested," Black wrote in an email to CBC
>> News.
>>
>> Marc Belliveau, a spokesman for NB Power, said in an email the comment
>> Thomas made about the EUB telling the utility an $80 million profit is
>> too high should not be taken literally.
>>
>> "I don't have a transcript of the (MLA) proceedings but this was a
>> general statement/example not a specific one," he wrote.
>>
>> NB Power behind on plan to pay down $1 billion in debt
>>
>> NB Power tells customers to ease pain of rate hikes with efficiency
>>
>> It's the second statement Thomas has made in the last month that has
>> needed clarification, and both were in relation to the utility's debt
>> problem.
>>
>> In January, Thomas told CBC News that NB Power is applying for a $36
>> million rate increase for the next fiscal year to help generate a
>> profit and "most of it would go to debt reduction".
>>
>> But NB Power figures show the utility is planning no debt reduction
>> next year, even with a rate increase. Expected profits at the utility
>> are budgeted to be spent on capital projects with none applied to its
>> $4.9 billion debt.
>>
>> It is scheduled to increase by $6 million.
>>
>> NB Power has failed to meet earnings targets in each of the last four
>> years, mostly because expenses have been higher than anticipated, but
>> the EUB has never opposed the targets themselves.
>>
>> David Coon calls on NB Power to justify power rate increase to MLAs
>>
>> NB Power requests higher-than-expected rate increases
>>
>> The board approved a combined $329.5 million in profit over the
>> four-year period but NB Power expects to generate less than 25 percent
>> of that — just $71.3 million - once the current year is factored in.
>>
>> Black says NB Power's failure to pay down its debt is not a problem
>> with the EUB.
>>
>> "While the board cuts NB Power's proposed spending where it determines
>> that the spending is imprudent, this has not been the cause of NB
>> Power's failure to meet its earnings targets," said Black, citing
>> performance problems at Lepreau, unbudgeted storm damage and other
>> issues.
>>
>> "NB Power's earnings erode when its costs are over budget or when it
>> fails to earn its budgeted revenue."
>>
>> The EUB is declining to comment but the organization has openly
>> expressed concerns about NB Power's debt in the past.
>>
>>
>> Heather Black, the public intervener, said the EUB has never rejected
>> any part of the utility's profit targets in the last four rate
>> hearings. (Robert Jones/CBC)
>> At hearings last April, Ellen Desmond, the EUB's lawyer, questioned
>> Darren Murphy, NB Power vice-president, in detail about whether the
>> utility's profits are too low and its debt retirement schedule too
>> slow.
>>
>> She suggested the utility consider reducing its spending to generate
>> higher profits in years its financial projections are coming up short.
>>
>> "Why not perhaps delay spending where necessary to meet other
>> objectives, including your reduction in net debt which we have heard a
>> lot about in the last three years," said Desmond.
>>
>> "I mean if that is a priority, if that is a target, why not perhaps
>> adjust the plan? Why not adjust that so that we can see reduction --
>> larger reductions on the net debt?"
>>
>> NB Power' Belliveau said in an email the utility believes rate
>> hearings focus too much on questioning spending and not enough on the
>> bottom line.
>>
>> "The underlying tone of recent rate hearings has been focused on low
>> and stable rates as opposed to a more balanced view," said Belliveau.
>> About the Author
>>
>>
>> Robert Jones
>> Reporter
>> Robert Jones has been a reporter and producer with CBC New Brunswick
>> since 1990. His investigative reports on petroleum pricing in New
>> Brunswick won several regional and national awards and led to the
>> adoption of price regulation in 2006.
>>
>>
>> CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2/6/23, Williams, Richard (OAG/CPG) <Richard.Williams@gnb.ca> wrote:
>>> Good morning everyone,
>>>
>>> The Public Intervener intends to seek a declaration from the Board that
>>> Mr.
>>> Knecht is an expert in the areas of regulatory economics and ratemaking.
>>>
>>> Mr. Knecht has been previously qualified as an expert in these and
>>> similar
>>> areas of expertise by this Board and other administrative tribunals in
>>> Canada and the United States. His relevant education and professional
>>> experience are described in his CV attached to his written evidence , as
>>> amended. Mr. Knecht's Expert Witness Acknowledgement is also attached to
>>> his
>>> written evidence, as amended.
>>>
>>> Mr. Knecht's written evidence is based upon his review of the
>>> application
>>> materials and other documents filed to date in this proceeding, the
>>> records
>>> and decisions of this Board in previous proceedings and his own
>>> calculations, all as more particularly described in his written
>>> evidence.
>>>
>>> Richard A. Williams, K.C./c.r.
>>> Acting Public Intervener for the Energy Sector / l'intervenant public
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Failure to appoint promised mental health advocate in N.B. 'a complete disgrace'

More than 3 years after MLAs voted unanimously for a mental health advocate, position has yet to be created

Vanessa Blanch· CBC News · Posted: Feb 21, 2023 6:00 AM AST

Older man in a suit sitting at his kitchen table, which is covered with stacks of paper and files

Paul Ouellet lobbied for years for the creation of a mental health advocate in the province but three years after a motion to establish the position passed, the Department of Health says it's not sure it's necessary. (Vanessa Blanch/CBC)

Paul Ouellet works every day at his kitchen table, surrounded by stacks of papers and handwritten notes.

This retired accountant, now in his 70s, has spent his adult life managing care for his three siblings who have schizophrenia.

Over the years, he has become an unofficial advocate for many in the Moncton area fighting to get the mental health and addictions treatment they need.

In 2019, he celebrated when the New Brunswick legislature unanimously passed a motion to appoint a mental health advocate, but more than three years later he is at a loss as to why it hasn't been budgeted for, nor acted upon.

WATCH | Nikki Kennedy shares her struggle with grief, addiction and explains why an advocate is long overdue

Paul Ouellet calls government failure to create mental health advocate for New Brunswick ‘a disgrace’

3:56

More than three years after New Brunswick’s MLAs voted unanimously for a dedicated advocate, the Department of Health now isn’t sure it’s needed.

"Is it that they don't care?" he wonders. "I just don't understand. I don't understand — and what really bothers me and hurts me is who is suffering through all this? Each and every person in New Brunswick suffering from mental illness."

At the request of a past minister in the Blaine Higg's government, Ouellet even wrote a job description for the new position.

He envisioned an office with staff across the province who could investigate complaints, make recommendations, and review programs and policies for those with mental illness, including substance use disorder or addiction.

Province now says advocate might not be necessary

CBC News was not allowed to interview Health Minister Bruce Fitch.

Instead, spokesperson Adam Bowie sent an e-mail saying the Department of Health "is still considering the creation of a mental health advocate position, or whether that accountability and oversight is being provided by several existing resources."

It is a disgrace and a lack of respect — a great lack of respect to every person in New Brunswick suffering from mental illness.

- Paul Ouellet

Bowie said the province already has an ombud and a child and youth advocate to hear concerns about mental health issues and hold government to account when it comes to "its promise to bolster and enhance mental health services."

"And it also has Psychiatric Patient Advocate Services, which ensures that New Brunswick's Mental Health Act is appropriately applied and that each section of the Act is respected," he wrote.

Psychiatric patient advocate services is a Department of Health office that offers advice and assistance to people detained in a psychiatric facility, and those who are involuntary patients in psychiatric facilities.

The Department of Health declined CBC's request for an interview with Health Minister Bruce Fitch and said in an email the department is "still considering" whether a mental health advocate is necessary. (CBC)

That response from the Department of Health was the first time Ouellet had heard that a mental health advocate may not be appointed.

"It is a disgrace and a lack of respect — a great lack of respect to every person in New Brunswick suffering from mental illness," Ouellet said, adding politicians have told him for years that the position is "going to happen," and "we just need to put things in place."

Ouellet said the ombud and the child and youth advocate are already busy, and the challenges for people suffering with mental illness and addiction are so great, a dedicated advocate is needed.

"Mental illness does not go away — will not go away. It's only getting worse. You have addiction, you have homelessness and you have mental illness. The problem is just getting much worse, much worse."

Tragedy leads to addiction

Nikki Kennedy, 31, is one of many New Brunswickers Ouellet has helped to find the care they need to get better.

After struggling for eight years with an addiction to the drug known as "speed," she is convinced a permanent mental health advocate is long overdue.

Young smiling woman with blonde hair holding a baby and posing for a photo outside in front of a tree Nikki Kennedy, seen here with her baby boy, Riley, didn't know how to cope when he accidentally drowned at a family barbeque. She believes all addiction is rooted in trauma, and that people deserve dedicated, one-on-one-support to recover. (Submitted by Nikki Kennedy)

The Moncton woman was a new mother when the unimaginable happened to her 17-month-old son.

"I wanted to be the best mom I could be for him, even though I was young," she said. "I really tried hard but unfortunately during a family barbecue he passed away accidentally. He drowned in my parents' pool."

Kennedy said the loss of her baby boy broke her.

"I stayed in my room for a very long time until everybody was telling me, 'You need to get up, you need to get out of the house.' But I didn't want to. I couldn't understand or comprehend how my son could be here one minute and then gone the next."

Blonde smiling toddler wearing a plaid shirt and overalls standing in the middle of a dining room looking at the camera Kennedy said after the death of her son she would wake up and hear his cries, only to realize he was gone. She said it was the hardest thing she has ever been through and drugs helped her to get out of bed after the tragedy. (Submitted by Nikki Kennedy)

Kennedy turned to the powerful stimulant to cope. She said the amphetamine pills allowed her to get up and get through the day without crying. Soon, she was buying them by the hundreds and taking two or three every day.

During those years, she completed two college programs and worked, but Kennedy said her world "was caving in" and her health was deteriorating to the point that her hair was falling out "in chunks."

Advocate would be a life changer for many

Over eight years Kennedy went to detox three separate times, but without the help she needed after the seven-day stints, she always relapsed.

"Detox isn't actually a treatment centre. You don't learn how to cope with recovery or your everyday life," Kennedy explained. "Each time I would beg the nurses to allow me to stay longer, but unfortunately because of the wait list, they weren't able to let me stay."

Kennedy was offered weekly group counselling sessions, and the meeting times for Narcotics Anonymous, but said at that time she wasn't ready to share her story with a group. She asked for a long-term rehab program, but was told there were none available to her.

Young woman with blonde hair smiling Nikki Kennedy believes a mental health advocate could work to eliminate the stigma around mental illness and addiction, and could have helped her to find the help she needed to cope with the loss of her son much sooner. (Vanessa Blanch/CBC)

Eventually, Kennedy's family paid nearly $10,000 for a private, 28-day residential treatment program in Nova Scotia, which was the beginning of her recovery.

When she graduated, Paul Ouellet was there. When she relapsed, he advocated for her and she finally got a weekly, one-on-one appointment with a mental health counsellor.

Kennedy went to that first appointment after an overdose scare. She said the two events combined to finally change her life.

"That made me realize, wow, I would have literally let this addiction take my life," she said. "And that's kind of where things shifted. It was the day that I had my first meeting with the counsellor."

Kennedy believes New Brunswickers need as many mental health resources as possible, and said having someone who can advocate for individuals and navigate the system "would be a life changer for a lot of people."

"For me personally, it would have changed my life. It would have. Eight years of trying and and failing and trying and failing — it's so, so discouraging. And after awhile I really thought, am I going to be an addict — like in active addiction forever? Maybe this is all I can be."

'It's desperate out there'

Myra Leger, 75, calls Paul Ouellet "an angel in man's clothes."

The Moncton grandmother and retired nurse has adult children who suffer with mental illness.

She said they grew up in an abusive home. Eventually she packed them up and went to an emergency shelter, but decades later, two of her children still struggle.

"It's desperate out there," she said of trying to find a psychiatrist after she persuaded her son to stop sleeping in his car and move to a shelter.

"I tried to get my son [a psychiatrist] a year ago, and I was informed that it's going to be six years to see him."

Leger is trying to "hang in there," and said it is Ouellet who helped her son get in to see a counsellor. He is now stable enough to live with her, rather than in a shelter, while he searches for an apartment of his own.

Older grey haired man in suit smiles with his arm around an older grey haired woman in sweater, also smiling Myra Leger calls Paul Ouellet 'an angel in man's clothes' and says his support has helped her to find care for her adult children who suffer with mental illness. (Vanessa Blanch/CBC)

"He was too lonesome … he was just hurting and he didn't have any money."

Leger said she prays for her kids to "be OK," and that she will be able to "make everything good for them" before she is gone.

"I wouldn't be where I am if it wasn't for God and Paul."

Leger said a mental health advocate is badly needed to fight for services for families like hers.

Government urged to 'look out for the people'

Ouellet said seeing people get the help they need, and get better, is what keeps him going.

He continues to work seven days a week from his dining room table, working to expand the mental health courts in the province, establish a long-term residential treatment program for women and of course, appoint a mental health advocate.

man sits at his dining room table with stacks of papers and files surrounding him Paul Ouellet considers himself New Brunswick's "unofficial mental health advocate." The retired accountant works every day to improve care in the province and to support people who need help. (Pierre Fournier/CBC)

Kennedy said she is now strong enough to join that fight.

"There's not enough being done — please do what we elected you to do," she said when asked what message she would send to members of the Blaine Higgs government. "Look out for the people. We still have so many people that are struggling."

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51 Comments

David Amos

Ouellet should say Hey to Fitch and Higgy for me

Nancy Alcox

Thank you Paul Ouellet and shame on you Higgs.

Stop treating NB like a company. People are suffering and dying because of it.

David Amos

Reply to Nancy Alcox

I agree

Alex Butt

This provinces so called leadership (all parties) are just all talk and no action. Hence the reason this province is a social-economic drain on this country.

David Amos

Reply to Alex Butt

These are your words on this topic last year Correct?

"Proof positive that the government (all parties) are all talk and very little action. Unless it adds to the bottom line or appeases the wants of the likes of the irvings, we get prettty much nothing for our representation and tax dollar. Just look at the condition of our health care, schools, infrastructure, roads and the list goes on an on."

Kyle Woodman

Higgs don't care.

David Amos

Reply to Kyle Woodman

Guess who I just talked to again

Winston Gray

Reply to David Amos

Your psychiatrist?

David Amos

Reply to Winston Gray

Try again

Samuel Champlain

Reply to David Amos

Parole officer?

David Amos

Reply to Samuel Champlain

Strike 2

Greg Miller

Elvis?

David Amos

Reply to Greg Miller

Nope but he is old enough to be a fan of Elvis

Trevis L. Kingston

New Brunswick ... The Land of Miracles !

People with physical and mental illnesses amazingly " disappear"

without ANY medical or mental health assistance.

We NB'ers truly are blessed!

David Amos

Reply to Trevis L. Kingston

Surely you jest

Archara Goldehere

Reply to Trevis L. Kingston

Some even take there own life :( Sad to say . We need to fix this and fast before more do

Mike Barkman

This governments constant failures are the fault of the people of NB.

You voted for them, gave them a majority in fact. You have no one to blame than yourselves. And if you didn't vote and sat on yer 'rse, well it's your fault as well. Don't complain, you reap what you sow.

David Amos

Reply to Mike Barkman

I Wholeheartly Agree Sir

Samuel Champlain

Reply to Mike Barkman

What a pile of nonsense, the positives outweigh the negatives exponentially. But you cling to a "story" that has been in effect for years and years yet somehow it is all on Higgs. No one on this site even knew this situation existed until today.

Jim Lake

Reply to Mike Barkman

Saying it’s all the people’s fault is ludicrous. Yes, New Brunswickers voted in the government, but it was based on election promises to do things right for New Brunswickers. The blame for this rests solely on the government - every MLA voted for it yet the government has not fulfilled its responsibility to carry through. It’s especially reprehensible to ignore a segment of the population that needs help while sitting on the massive surpluses the government has beefed reporting - they are simply not doing everything the people of New Brunswick elected them to do.

Jim Gootjes

Reply to Mike Barkman

That’s a really dumb statement. Basically you are saying every elected politician is free from criticism. Why even have opposition? I do agree that electing this government was a horrible mistake but that doesn’t mean no criticism is allowed.

Samuel Champlain

Reply to Mike Barkman

We reap a gov't that has provided many more positive and negatives. Name me a province doing it better?

Jim Lake

Reply to Samuel Champlain

Oh, I read the article … others clearly have not understood the details.

Jim Lake

Reply to Samuel Champlain

Time to put the pompoms away.

Michael Cain

Reply to Mike Barkman

People need to participate in the process and become better informed as to the issues outside of their own world.

David Amos

Reply to Jim Gootjes

My reply to Mr Butt last year still applies today

"Methinks when apathy rules the day we get the governments we deserve N'esy Pas?"

David Amos

Reply to Samuel Champlain

I see that your first reply is already gone

SarahRose Werner

Reply to Mike Barkman

Alas, we can only vote for those who run for office.

David Amos

Reply to SarahRose Werner

How many times did I run?

Michael Cain

The Feds are giving money for mental health issues; does Higgs have another place he wants to use it?

Samuel Champlain
Reply to Michael Cain

The feds give money to their friends and family and then to anyone who wanted a CERB cheque, billions wasted.

David Amos

Reply to Samuel Champlain

So says a dude without the sand to use his real name

Michael Cain

Reply to Michael Cain

Pseudo Sam could use a little help too.

Samuel Champlain

If anyone bothered to read the article you would have read that the work is being done, it is just not coordinated under one office. But let's pretend if we had an advocate then mental illness goes away and otherwise it is all on Higgs, it is just easier that way.

Jim Lake

Reply to Samuel Champlain

Implying the ‘psychiatric advocate’ is an adequate substitute is ludicrous - they advocate for those in psychiatric facilities only, as stated in this article. Mental illness is not confined to those in psychiatric facilities … a mental health advocate would advocate for those others in society struggling to find help. Defending the government’s inaction on this is reprehensible.

SarahRose Werner

Reply to Samuel Champlain

After reading the article, I realized that we do have a mental health advocate. It's a retired accountant in his 70s who works for free from his kitchen table. He's doing this because the province won't hire anyone to do the job he's doing.

David Amos

Reply to Samuel Champlain

May I at least ask what planet you come from?

Harvey York

Reply to David Amos

one could ask the same of you

David Amos

Reply to Harvey York

So say a cop who is afraid to use his own name

Raymond Leger

Sad state of affairs we have here in New Brunswick.

David Amos

Reply to Raymond Leger

I said that way back in 2004 while running for a seat in Parliament where Higgy resides That was 6 years before he was first elected

On 1/4/22, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2022/01/mental-health-advocate-challenges.html
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> https://twitter.com/DavidRaymondAm1/with_replies
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> David Raymond Amos
> @DavidRaymondAm1
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> Replying to @DavidRaymondAm1 @DavidRayAmos and 49 others
>
> Methinks all the doctors, lawyers and particularly the LIEBranos know
> why Higgy ain't crazy about appointing a mental health advocate
> anytime soon N'esy Pas???
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> https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2022/01/mental-health-advocate-challenges.html
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> #cdnpoli
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> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/paul-ouellet-mental-health-advocate-new-brunswick-1.6296355
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>
> Mental health advocate challenges province to make good on promise
> Paul Ouellet calls failure to appoint a mental health advocate 2 years
> after motion passed 'unacceptable'
>
> Vanessa Blanch · CBC News · Posted: Jan 03, 2022 8:00 AM AT
>
>
> Paul Ouellet of Moncton is calling on the provincial government to
> finally appoint a mental health advocate after a motion was passed
> unanimously in the legislature more than two years ago. (Vanessa
> Blanch/CBC)
>
> A longtime advocate for people suffering with mental illness hopes
> 2022 will be the year the New Brunswick government finally makes good
> on a promise that's more than two years old.
>
> Paul Ouellet lobbied for years for New Brunswick to appoint a mental
> health advocate. He celebrated in November 2019 when a motion passed
> unanimously in the legislature to introduce the position, but nothing
> has happened since.
>
> "To me that is unacceptable," he said. "That a motion voted
> unanimously over two years ago has not yet been actioned."
>
> Introduced by the Liberals, the original 2019 motion called on the
> Progressive Conservative government to create an independent
> legislative officer position, to represent people with mental health
> issues and their caregivers.
>
> When the Higgs government refused, the motion was amended to create a
> mental health advocate position, but that has never been budgeted for,
> nor acted upon.
>
> Province's 'neglect' leaves man on verge of breaking promise to
> sister with schizophrenia
> Advocate for mentally ill says shortage of home-care workers
> landed sister in hospital - twice
>
> Ouellet has two siblings with schizophrenia, and he has helped to care
> for them for decades.
>
> He has seen firsthand the difficulties that families like his face
> trying get patients the help they need.
>
> Ouellet has fought for adequate home care for his sister on several
> occasions and has seen her spiral into psychosis requiring
> hospitalization when no care providers were available to help her
> manage her medication.
>
> He now worries she will have to move into a special care home since
> the health system cannot provide what she needs.
>
> "Mentally ill individuals don't have a voice," said Ouellet, a retired
> civil servant. "Those individuals in the community that I journey
> with, who suffer from mental illness, and I accompany them to the
> clinic and other appointments that they have, I so often see that
> they're not fully understood and they're not capable to speak for
> themselves."
> Wish list for new year
>
> In a letter to Health Minister Dorothy Shephard in October, Ouellet
> outlined his top priorities for the new year.
>
> In addition to the appointment of a mental health advocate for New
> Brunswick, he asked that the mental health court that operates in
> Saint John be expanded to Fredericton, Bathurst, Edmundston, Miramichi
> and Moncton.
>
> Mentally ill offenders get court program back in Saint John
>
> He is also calling for a mental health addiction treatment centre in
> Moncton that would be exclusively for women.
>
> CBC News tried to ask Shephard why the province hasn't yet appointed a
> mental health advocate, and when someone will be appointed.
>
> Health Minister Dorothy Shephard introduced a plan to improve mental
> health services in the province in 2021, but it did not include any
> mention of the appointment of a mental health advocate. (Ed
> Hunter/CBC)
>
> No one from the Department of Health has responded.
>
> Ouellet has received a letter from Shephard in which she explained
> that work continues on multiple initiatives. He said her response was
> not what he was hoping for.
>
> "I sometimes wonder if our high ranking officials in government are
> sensitized to mental illness. I ask myself that question because … it
> has been a need for years."
>
> Ouellet is calling on Shephard and the Higgs government to finally
> appoint an advocate to represent the concerns of those who are all too
> often unable to get the help "they truly and deeply need."
>
> "We definitely need an advocate position to be there for those most
> vulnerable in our province — the mentally ill. They need someone to be
> there to help them navigate the system, someone to be there to make
> sure their rights are respected, and that they're treated with
> dignity."
>
> Mental health plan not enough
>
> In February, Shephard laid out a five-year action plan to improve
> mental health services in the province.
>
> It includes a promise for same-day service at walk-in clinics across
> New Brunswick, and a provincial youth centre based in Moncton by 2024.
>
> More walk-in clinics, mobile crisis units coming this year, vows
> health minister
>
> It did not include any mention of appointing a mental health advocate.
>
> Ouellet said that after decades of helping his sisters and brother and
> many others navigate the mental health care system, the plan simply
> does not go far enough.
>
> Paul Ouellet goes through the detailed files he keeps about the care
> of his sister who suffers from severe schizophrenia. He has helped to
> care for his siblings with mental illness for decades, and believes
> that without his advocacy they would be dead. (Vanessa Blanch/CBC)
>
> "If I would not have been journeying with them for the past 47 years,
> I don't think honestly that they would be alive today," he said of his
> siblings.
>
> "I can be the advocate for them — but those are only a few in my
> family that I'm journeying with and a few in the community. How about
> those others in the province who don't have anyone to talk to, anyone
> to express their frustration, their difficulty to navigate the
> system?"
> ABOUT THE AUTHOR
> Vanessa Blanch
>
> Reporter
>
> Vanessa Blanch is a reporter based in Moncton. She has worked across
> the country for CBC for more than 20 years. If you have story ideas to
> share please email: vanessa.blanch@cbc.ca
>
> CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
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> 30 Comments
> .Commenting is now closed for this story.
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> David Amos
> Content deactivated
> Hmmm
>
> David Amos
> Content deactivated
> Guess who I just talked to
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> Jim .Jackson
> This government likes to bandy about the term "mental health" when it
> provides them with a justification for keeping schools open (and the
> economy rolling) during a pandemic. It is a hollow reference to a
> serious matter when used to justify political decisions. Especially
> when we see no serious effort to address the concerns of those who
> suffer from mental illness in real terms.
>
> David Amos
> Content deactivated
> Reply to @.Jim .Jackson: I ran for public office 7 times despite the
> fact that Higgy et al call me crazy and they send me butter tarts
>
> David Amos
> Content deactivated
> Reply to David Amos: Figures
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>
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> Alex Butt
> Proof positive that the government (all parties) are all talk and very
> little action. Unless it adds to the bottom line or appeases the wants
> of the likes of the irvings, we get prettty much nothing for our
> representation and tax dollar. Just look at the condition of our
> health care, schools, infrastructure, roads and the list goes on an
> on.
>
> David Amos
> Content deactivated
> Reply to @Alex Butt: Methinks when apathy rules the day we get the
> governments we deserve N'esy Pas?
>
> David Amos
> Content deactivated
> Reply to @David Amos: The truth hurts EH?
>
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>
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> Sarah Brown
> our mental health system is in sad shape and has been sorely neglected
> with the onset of COVID almost 2 years ago. the minister of health is
> in over her head on this file as well as many other health related
> files and she does not have the confidence of many people. Sad state
> of affairs in this province on many fronts.
>
> Maxime Babineau
> Reply to @Sarah Brown: Can't imagine why people don't have confidence in
> her.
>
> David Amos
> Reply to @Sarah Brown: Yup
>
>
>
>
> Derek Grant
> They are of the belief that it's too much of a $$$$ sinking ship -
> once people go past the tipping point.
>
> David Amos
> Reply to @Derek Grant: Who is they?
>
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> Graeme Scott
> Mental healthcare has always been the red headed stepchild of our
> healthcare system. Sadly, given deteriorating conditions and the near
> breakdown of "regular" healthcare in recent years it is hard to
> imagine that situation improving anytime soon.
>
> Ferdinand Boudreau
> Reply to @Graeme Scott: What has been done so far? Nothing I can see.
> Talk is cheap.
>
> Graeme Scott
> Reply to @Ferdinand Boudreau: Exactly!
>
> David Amos
> Reply to @Graeme Scott: Try bucking the system and see how fast they
> call you crazy and use the system to try to lock you up
>
>
>
>
>
> Johnny Lawrence
> Mental health is an issue that unfortunately gets overlooked way to
> often. You only need to come on these boards a time or 2 to see what
> happens when it is left unchecked.
>
> Alison Jackson
> Reply to @Johnny Lawrence: It's frightening to see it. But you also
> have to factor in social media's part of helping to push people to the
> edge. Paranoia, distrust of authority, wanting the entire world to
> share your personal views drives some to becoming unstable. If social
> media was gone, a lot of mental health issues would probably vanish
> with it.
>
> Johnny Lawrence
> Reply to @Alison Jackson: I certainly agree that social media is a
> huge part of the problem.
>
> Norman Albert Snr
> Reply to @Johnny Lawrence: Speaking from first party experience. WE
> have seen your post.
>
> Johnny Lawrence
> Reply to @Norman Albert Snr: don't you have some irrational union
> somewhere to support? I am sorry I spent time on here humiliating them
> and their greedy efforts and those like you who blindly supported
> them.
>
> David Amos
> Content deactivated
> Reply to @Norman Albert Snr: LMAO
>
>
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>
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> David Peters
> Get gov't cronyism out of the medical treatment sector.
>
> David Amos
> Content deactivated
> Reply to @David Peters: Good luck with that
>
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> Bill Henry
> Dot will add this to her resume. She would consider herself an expert
> here as well. Lol
>
> Johnny Lawrence
> Reply to @Bill Henry: she hasn't considered herself an expert on
> anything, she gets information from experts from her department and
> acts accordingly, you must be new to this process.
>
> David Amos
> Content deactivated
> Reply to @Johnny Lawrence: Obviously you ain't EH?
>
>
>
>
>
> Timothy Walton
> Proper mental health support would probably be cheaper than building
> even more jails.
>
> Donald Gallant
> Reply to @Timothy Walton:
> Please define proper mental health supports ?
> Who? What? Where ?
>
> David Amos
> Reply to @Donald Gallant: Social Workers, Assistance To The Needy,
> Everywhere
>
>
>
>
>
> Nicholas Murphy
> How about not taxing therapy sessions?
>
> David Amos
> Reply to @Nicholas Murphy: Dream on
>
>
>
> Blair Churchill
> No one from the Department of Health has responded - there is the
> priority. Throw money at symptoms, not the issues, thats their
> solution. But the government is good at dividing people and wasting
> money.
>
> David Amos
> Reply to @Blair Churchill: Bingo
>
>
>
> Charles Oliver
> Just a matter of appointing someone and its been 2 years . I would say
> they have no intention of helping. Thanks to Paul Oulette for trying
> to do something and appoint a mental health advocate, this is badly
> needed in New Brunswick. The Higgs government seems to feel the only
> thing worth doing in NB begins with Irving.
>
> David Amos
> Reply to @Charles Oliver: Surprise Surprise Surprise
>
>
>
> David Amos
> Hmmmm
>
> David Amos
> Reply to @David Amos: How can I offend myself???
>

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/paul-ouellet-mental-health-advocate-new-brunswick-1.6296355

Mental health advocate challenges province to make good on promise

Paul Ouellet calls failure to appoint a mental health advocate 2 years after motion passed 'unacceptable'

Vanessa Blanch· CBC News · Posted: Jan 03, 2022 8:00 AM AST

Paul Ouellet of Moncton is calling on the provincial government to finally appoint a mental health advocate after a motion was passed unanimously in the legislature more than two years ago. (Vanessa Blanch/CBC)

A longtime advocate for people suffering with mental illness hopes 2022 will be the year the New Brunswick government finally makes good on a promise that's more than two years old.

Paul Ouellet lobbied for years for New Brunswick to appoint a mental health advocate. He celebrated in November 2019 when a motion passed unanimously in the legislature to introduce the position, but nothing has happened since.

"To me that is unacceptable," he said. "That a motion voted unanimously over two years ago has not yet been actioned."

Introduced by the Liberals, the original 2019 motion called on the Progressive Conservative government to create an independent legislative officer position, to represent people with mental health issues and their caregivers.

When the Higgs government refused, the motion was amended to create a mental health advocate position, but that has never been budgeted for, nor acted upon.

Ouellet has two siblings with schizophrenia, and he has helped to care for them for decades.

He has seen firsthand the difficulties that families like his face trying get patients the help they need.

Ouellet has fought for adequate home care for his sister on several occasions and has seen her spiral into psychosis requiring hospitalization when no care providers were available to help her manage her medication.

He now worries she will have to move into a special care home since the health system cannot provide what she needs.

"Mentally ill individuals don't have a voice," said Ouellet, a retired civil servant. "Those individuals in the community that I journey with, who suffer from mental illness, and I accompany them to the clinic and other appointments that they have, I so often see that they're not fully understood and they're not capable to speak for themselves."

Wish list for new year

In a letter to Health Minister Dorothy Shephard in October, Ouellet outlined his top priorities for the new year.

In addition to the appointment of a mental health advocate for New Brunswick, he asked that the mental health court that operates in Saint John be expanded to Fredericton, Bathurst, Edmundston, Miramichi and Moncton.

Mentally ill offenders get court program back in Saint John

He is also calling for a mental health addiction treatment centre in Moncton that would be exclusively for women.

CBC News tried to ask Shephard why the province hasn't yet appointed a mental health advocate, and when someone will be appointed.

Health Minister Dorothy Shephard introduced a plan to improve mental health services in the province in 2021, but it did not include any mention of the appointment of a mental health advocate. (Ed Hunter/CBC)

No one from the Department of Health has responded.

Ouellet has received a letter from Shephard in which she explained that work continues on multiple initiatives. He said her response was not what he was hoping for.

"I sometimes wonder if our high ranking officials in government are sensitized to mental illness. I ask myself that question because … it has been a need for years."

Ouellet is calling on Shephard and the Higgs government to finally appoint an advocate to represent the concerns of those who are all too often unable to get the help "they truly and deeply need."

"We definitely need an advocate position to be there for those most vulnerable in our province — the mentally ill. They need someone to be there to help them navigate the system, someone to be there to make sure their rights are respected, and that they're treated with dignity."

Mental health plan not enough

In February, Shephard laid out a five-year action plan to improve mental health services in the province.

It includes a promise for same-day service at walk-in clinics across New Brunswick, and a provincial youth centre based in Moncton by 2024.

More walk-in clinics, mobile crisis units coming this year, vows health minister

It did not include any mention of appointing a mental health advocate.

Ouellet said that after decades of helping his sisters and brother and many others navigate the mental health care system, the plan simply does not go far enough.

Paul Ouellet goes through the detailed files he keeps about the care of his sister who suffers from severe schizophrenia. He has helped to care for his siblings with mental illness for decades, and believes that without his advocacy they would be dead. (Vanessa Blanch/CBC)

"If I would not have been journeying with them for the past 47 years, I don't think honestly that they would be alive today," he said of his siblings.

"I can be the advocate for them — but those are only a few in my family that I'm journeying with and a few in the community. How about those others in the province who don't have anyone to talk to, anyone to express their frustration, their difficulty to navigate the system?"

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Higgs dismisses January immersion consultations as 'shouting session'

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YO Alex Vass I must say if CBC opens the comment section your boss Higgy would see another shouting match

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/higgs-shouting-session-january-immersion-1.6755298

Higgs dismisses January immersion consultations as 'shouting session'

Premier didn’t attend public meetings, says they ‘distracted’ from ideas for change

Jacques Poitras· CBC News · Posted: Feb 21, 2023 3:37 PM AST | Last Updated: 24 minutes ago

An older man with a furrowed brow standing in front of a New Brunswick flag and a Canada flag.

Premier Blaine Higgs said despite last week’s cancellation of a plan to replace immersion, he still hopes to address problems created by what he calls a two-tiered education system. (CBC)

Premier Blaine Higgs has dismissed public consultation sessions held last month on French immersion as "a shouting session" that didn't contribute useful ideas to fix the province's anglophone school system.

Higgs said despite last week's cancellation of a plan to replace immersion, he still hopes to address problems created by what he calls a two-tiered education system.

But the public meetings his government organized — including large, packed sessions in Moncton, Saint John, and Fredericton — had failed to generate potential solutions, he said.

"Many of the teachers in the English system have great ideas," Higgs told reporters Monday at a news conference in Prince Edward Island with the other Atlantic premiers.

An image of the four premiers sitting at a table. Premiers Blaine Higgs, Dennis King, Tim Houston and Andrew Furey met in Charlottetown Monday. Higgs told reporters at the news conference that the public consultation sessions on immersion became 'distracted.' (Aaron Adetuyi/CBC)

"Unfortunately in these sessions, rather than get to the root cause of how do we fix this, which the commissioner wrote the report on, it becomes a shouting session, and it becomes distracted in terms of what is the real point."

In fact, many current and retired teachers attended the sessions and offered ideas on how to address the issues Higgs identified.

Higgs did not attend any of the meetings.

Olivia Donovan, a retired Hampton teacher who spoke at the Saint John session, said she disagreed with the premier's description.

A woman with short white hair speaks into a microphone, crowd in the background Olivia Donovan, a retired Hampton teacher who spoke at the Saint John session, said she found most participants in Saint John 'very measured' in their comments, with many relying on prepared notes. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)

"That's a funny thing to say, if you weren't in the room."

In Saint John, Donovan proposed smaller class sizes and more educational assistants as ways to address issues such as streaming and classroom composition.

She said she found most participants in Saint John "very measured" in their comments, with many relying on prepared notes.

"People were very, I guess, controlled in what they were saying. I didn't feel anyone was shouting at all."

Higgs government scraps plan to replace French immersion

N.B. teachers forced to 'triage' students because of lack of resources, minister hears

The meetings in Moncton, Saint John and Fredericton attracted more than 300 people each. Among dozens of participants who spoke publicly, no one endorsed replacing immersion.

Education Minister Bill Hogan made it clear last Friday that this played a role in the reversal.

"Clearly, the more we consulted, the more that we heard … it became clearer and clearer as we moved through that this wasn't the best choice for all our children."

The premier said Hogan "had to make a change, given where we were," but said he hoped "the conversation has only just begun."

Education Minister Bill Hogan said last Friday that his department will revisit how to assess immersion grads, including their oral language skills as well as reading, writing and comprehension. (Patrick Richard/CBC)

He said "the very severe streaming" of students with learning challenges into non-immersion classes, and the low number of immersion students fluent after Grade 12, still need to be addressed.

Hogan said his department will revisit how to assess immersion grads, including their oral language skills as well as reading, writing and comprehension.

He also said a "stakeholder group" involving parents, experts and the New Brunswick Teachers' Association, will be set up "to inform the development of next steps."

NBTA president Connie Keating said Tuesday the province already has reports and studies pointing to what's needed.

Connie Keating, president of the New Brunswick Teachers' Association, warned that the turmoil created by the premier’s plan led many teachers to consider leaving the profession. (Raechel Huizinga/CBC via Zoom)

Like many teachers who spoke at the public sessions, Keating said more teachers, smaller classrooms and additional resources would address the disruptions caused by a concentration of children with learning challenges in non-immersion classrooms.

More resources would also help some of those children to opt for immersion, she said.

"We're ready to get to work and I hope government is as well," she said.

But Keating warned that the turmoil created by the premier's plan led many teachers to consider leaving the profession.

"There was a lot of dismay and anxiety that was created by the proposed changes," she told CBC's Information Morning Fredericton.

"A lot of teachers were questioning whether or not they were going to stay in the profession … because there's the flip-flop every time we have a new government."

Liberal Leader Susan Holt said it is 'a little bit dismissive' to call the consultations 'shouting sessions.' (Ed Hunter/CBC)

Opposition parties also disputed Higgs's description of the consultation sessions.

Liberal Leader Susan Holt said she took "pages and pages of notes" full of ideas from participants at the Saint John event and also heard many important personal stories.

"It's a little bit dismissive to call the sessions 'shouting sessions,'" she said.

Green MLA Megan Mitton was at the meetings in Fredericton and Moncton and said she heard "a lot of important things and a lot of solutions proposed."

Last week, Fundy-The Isles-Saint John West Progressive Conservative MLA Andrea Anderson-Mason said she hoped the government had "turned a corner" after hearing from teachers at the sessions.

"I'm excited to see a new path forward. I hope it opens up a whole new level of communication between government and educators, because we saw educators turn out," she said.

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New Brunswick tenants by the hundreds adjust to life under new landlords

February 21, 2023, 12:27 pm

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New Brunswick tenants by the hundreds adjust to life under new landlords

Investors from across Canada have been snapping up New Brunswick rental properties

Robert Jones· CBC News · Posted: Feb 21, 2023 7:00 AM AST

More than 180 rental properties in Saint John's central uptown core have sold to new buyers since 2019, including 18 buildings up and down Princess Street. (Robert Jones/CBC)

Jaclyn Reinhart has lived with her two children in a three-bedroom duplex on the east side of Saint John since 2018.

It used to belong to a local landlord, but last year the building sold to new owners in Coquitlam, B.C. Last month, Reinhart received notice her lease is being terminated.

"It's one of the most stressful times in my life," Reinhart said. "Out of the, maybe, five stressful times in my life, it's definitely in the top three."

She and her teenage children have been given until the beginning of May to move out to allow for what she has been told will be a $5,000 bathroom renovation to fix a cracked tub and other issues.

Reinhart doesn't believe a renovation that size requires the apartment to be empty.

Picture of a building in Saint John Two buildings at the corner of Prince Edward and Richmond were sold by Calgary investor Brock Rogerson to a Nova Scotia company earlier this month for a combined $1.1 million. (Robert Jones/CBC)

She suspects it is a manoeuvre to replace her with new tenants who can be charged substantially more rent than the $934 per month plus utilities she currently pays, and without the difficulty raising her rent might entail.

Unlike a new tenant, Reinhart is entitled to six months notice of a rent increase. If she objects to its size, she can request an official review by the Residential Tenancy Tribunal that could see it rejected or imposed in stages over a three-year period.

'They don't want me here'

"I can go stay at a hotel for two days," Reinhart said about the renovation. "I can go to my parents. I can do something for even three days so they can fix it.

"They don't want me here. They want me out."

The property manager for the building confirms the need to fix the bathtub triggered the termination notice, but says there are other issues to be addressed.

"We are not people who are renovicting people," said Bee Ty.

"There's multiple holes in the wall. There's a door frame that's loose that I need a professional [to] come in and do it. So we decided instead of just doing a bathtub and spending $5,000 we may as well have the whole crew go in and do everything."

Ty said she feels awful about removing a tenant and defends the B.C. owner as an amazing person who is doing what makes financial sense for his investment. But she does acknowledge they do want Reinhart and her children out.

"A $5,000 renovation on an undervalued property does not work, so we are renovating the entire apartment and we'll be finding a new tenant or switching to an Airbnb depending on what would be more profitable," she said.

Reinhart is among hundreds of tenants in New Brunswick who have been adjusting to life under new landlords.

Over the last four years, a wave of individuals and companies, many from Ontario and British Columbia, have been investing heavily in rental buildings.

Brock Rogerson, a Calgary-based investor, has grown into one of the largest private landlords in Saint John over the last decade.

He said even with recent increases in property values, prices for rental buildings in Saint John are so low compared to other Canadian cities, landlords can earn higher returns than almost anywhere in North America. That has been attracting the interest of investors across the country.

"I still believe that Saint John offers the best value for Canada," he said.

A picture of Rebecca Beaulieu. Multiple leaks in an apartment Rebecca Beaulieu rented in December forced her to move out in January. (Roger Cosman/CBC)

Provincial property records show that in Saint John's south-central peninsula alone, more than 180 apartment buildings have sold to new owners since 2019. Just over 100 of those have been bought by out-of-province investors.

The new investments have helped raise property values in many neighbourhoods, increased tax revenues to the city and, in cases where repairs and renovations are undertaken after a sale, have helped revitalize aging buildings.

But the buying spree has also contributed to escalating rents and housing affordability problems for many, especially lower-income tenants.

Among the many new landlords in the market, some have been more aggressive than others about boosting rents to earn a return on what they've spent. Some also appear to be novices who are learning about their buildings and responsibilities to tenants in real time.

Rebecca Beaulieu found that out over Christmas.

She moved into an apartment in Saint John's south end in mid-December, but a leaking roof had her scrambling to move back out in January.

"It was like eight different spots," Beaulieu said of the leaks.

Puddles formed in one room and began moving toward a live outlet that was built into the floor.

Beaulieu called the fire department for advice about what to do and was told power to the outlet had to be cut off for safety. She said she then discovered the outlet was one of several on the same breaker.

"It fed 90 per cent of our apartment, so we didn't have any power in the rest of the apartment either," she said.

A picture of Jaclyn Reinhart Jaclyn Reinhart holds up a termination-of-lease notice she received from her Coquitlam, B.C., landlord. She's been told bathroom renovations require her and her children to move out. (Robert Jones/CBC)

The building is owned by a West Vancouver investor who bought it four years ago. Beaulieu isn't sure if the owner understands the state of the building.

But if the owner doesn't know and lives 5,000 kilometres away, Beaulieu believes the property management company that looks after the building should be made responsible for not renting what was an unlivable space.

"I think property management companies should be held accountable for who they take on as clients," said Beaulieu.

"I think they should be responsible for telling building owners things that they don't want to hear, like: 'I'm sorry, we cannot rent this apartment in the condition it's in. We cannot get rent for you unless you fix it.'"

Shift in attitudes

Rogerson has been watching with some alarm what has been happening in the rental market in Saint John. He's detected a shift in attitudes toward building owners and has turned from a buyer of properties into a seller.

"If I have more than a few properties in residential, people tell me that I'm greedy," said Rogerson.

"So, fair enough. I just don't want to be part of it."

Rogerson blames a combination of "bad apples" and a "learning curve" among new landlords for some of the bad experiences tenants have encountered in recent months. He believes media reports have sensationalized individual incidents and government has responded with poor solutions as a result.

He said rents are too low in Saint John given the increased demand for apartments. He contends the fix for that is increased supply, both public and private, not imposing new rules, and restrictions to prevent current owners of buildings from charging tenants market rates

"You know, unfortunately, rather than focusing on the fact that these people have been benefactors of below-market rents, the media stories come out and they say, hey, the rents are up by 30 per cent or 50 per cent, said Rogerson

"It's really just going to fair market value. But that's not what this story is. The story is 'evil landlord charging market rents.'"

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Rogerson is making good on his plan to reduce his rental property holdings in Saint John, but new buyers continue to enter the market behind him

He sold four buildings in the city in January and February for a combined $1.88 million that he originally bought in 2017 for a combined $842,500. Two of them sold to an investor in Chilliwack, B.C., and two to a Nova Scotia-based company.

Tenant plans to challenge landlord

Reinhart plans to challenge her landlord's attempt to terminate her lease at the Residential Tenancies Tribunal. But, if she can afford it, she hopes to be able to buy a place of her own later this year and leave renting behind.

"You've got all these people from out of province buying houses just to make money off of New Brunswickers, which predominantly, we don't even have a living wage," she said.

Beaulieu largely shares that view.

But earlier this month she moved into a building purchased 14 months ago by a company in New Westminster, B.C., and said it is showing her that absentee owners need to be judged individually.

"They delivered my keys to my old place because I couldn't leave because I was waiting for the fire department to show up," said Beaulieu.

"They've just been really, really fantastic. So, I feel like if there were more people like them things could improve."

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Anyone remember the old Dylan tune entitled "Dear Landlord"?

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Tim Hortons franchisee in P.E.I. evicts tenants to make way for temporary foreign workers

February 21, 2023, 2:24 pm

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-souris-tim-hortons-evictions-housing-1.6752938

Tim Hortons franchisee in P.E.I. evicts tenants to make way for temporary foreign workers

‘I don’t think it’s right,’ says advocate for 3 tenants fighting eviction

Kerry Campbell· CBC News · Posted: Feb 21, 2023 6:00 AM AST

Cécile Sly is one of the tenants taking on D.P. Murphy Inc., its lawyer and now the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission. (Stacey Janzer/CBC)

One of three people fighting eviction notices they received from the local Tim Hortons franchisee in Souris, P.E.I., says the company has no legal grounds to make tenants leave their apartment building.

D.P. Murphy Inc., which operates a number of Tim Hortons franchises across Prince Edward Island, bought the apartment building at 4 Pleasant St. in November, and issued eviction notices to the tenants on Jan. 5.

According to documents filed by the company with the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission, P.E.I.'s rentals regulator, the company plans to use the building to house temporary foreign workers.

"There's no legal grounds on which to do this at all," said Cécile Sly, one of the tenants taking on the corporation, its lawyer and now the provincial rentals regulator.

An exterior of an apartment building D.P. Murphy Inc. bought the apartment building at 4 Pleasant St. in Souris last year, and issued eviction notices to the tenants in January. (CBC)

According to the eviction notices, D.P. Murphy said it's planning to convert the premises "to a use other than residential," which can be grounds for eviction under section 15(1)(b) of the Rental of Residential Properties Act.

Sly said they don't think that can apply, given the company has said it plans to house workers in the building.

They noted the property remains zoned as residential.

The mayor of Souris, JoAnne Dunphy, said there's been no application filed to change that zoning – but such a change would not be necessary in order for the building to be used for staff housing.

"If it was changing into a business such as a hotel, then it would mean the owner would have to apply for a zoning change and a business permit," Dunphy told CBC News via email.

"We certainly do not like to see anyone lose their homes," she added. "There is a shortage of housing in our area."

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P.E.I. is seeing a pressing demand for both workers and housing.

When the province's tourism industry began to rebound post-pandemic in the latter part of 2021, employers in the service industry said they were having a hard time getting workers to come back to their jobs.

We are… very concerned about possible public dissemination of our business records so I felt I had no choice but to notify the rental officer of this issue.

- Mark Doucet, lawyer for D.P. Murphy Inc.

Since then, demand for workers has continued to grow, with the province's traditionally high unemployment rate reaching a record low of 4.9 per cent last June.

The P.E.I. government launched a new stream of its provincial nominee program early last year, open to the tourism industry.

Then the federal government announced an expansion of the temporary foreign worker program, allowing tourism businesses to take part.

In documents filed with IRAC as part of the eviction case, D.P. Murphy said providing staff accommodations has been "an essential part of our sponsoring temporary foreign workers," according to a statement signed by Abdul Babar, the company's senior human resources manager.

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A tight rental market

But the company's plan for the Souris building is coming at a time when housing in P.E.I. has become a hot commodity.

P.E.I.'s apartment vacancy rate dropped to 0.8 per cent in 2022, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. That's the lowest rate among all of Canada's provinces.

A lack of staff accommodations in Souris "has meant managers driving staff for over an hour to and from Charlottetown," Babar wrote, "or the employees drive on their own, often late at night on winding roads and in winter conditions."

A photo of the Tim Hortons restaurant in Souris, P.E.I. D.P. Murphy Inc. operates a number of Tim Hortons franchises on P.E.I. According to documents filed with the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission, the company plans to use the building to house temporary foreign workers. (Stacey Janzer/CBC)

In its filing with IRAC, D.P. Murphy listed four other Island properties it uses for staff accommodations, including a home in Souris where the company listed 10 tenants.

In some cases, the company said it charges workers a monthly rent of between $200 and $400. In others, the accommodations are listed as a taxable benefit for the employee.

The company said the rent charged to staff "is so that we can begin to recover our costs and is not intended as a profit centre for the company."

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Tenants could face 'fines or sanctions' for sharing info

D.P. Murphy's lawyer, Mark Doucet, said the company would not provide comment for this story.

However, the day after CBC News advised D.P. Murphy that it had received copies of the company's submissions to IRAC, Doucet said two of the tenants fighting their eviction notices, both seniors, had been warned by the commission they could face "fines or sanctions" for sharing records related to their hearing.

Both tenants later declined to provide interviews to CBC News.

A woman sits indoors and smiles toward the camera Rosalind Waters with P.E.I. Fight for Affordable Housing says the story is emblematic of the power imbalance between landlords and tenants on the Island. (CBC)

"We are… very concerned about possible public dissemination of our business records so I felt I had no choice but to notify the rental officer of this issue," Doucet wrote in an email.

He cited a provision of the Rental of Residential Property Act that requires confidentiality in hearings over rental increases. However, the same provision is not included in the legislation relating to eviction proceedings.

But Doucet said that under the act, the director of residential rental property at IRAC has "the power to determine rules of procedure."

CBC News then asked IRAC what confidentiality requirements could be placed on an eviction hearing.

"The Commission cannot comment on matters that have come before the Director or that may come before the Commission," was the email response.

"Matters at the Director-level are private and confidential and between landlords and tenants. If the matter is appealed to the Commission, that is when it becomes public."

A landlord with 'deep pockets'

Rosalind Waters, a volunteer with P.E.I. Fight for Affordable Housing, said that group has "attended numbers of hearings over the years… and never have tenants been told that they can't talk to anyone about what went on in the hearing. So the optics of this are not good."

"It kind of illustrates the huge power imbalance between landlords and tenants in this province," Waters said, adding it can be intimidating for tenants to go up against landlords who have "a lawyer representing them, and a landlord that the tenants know has deep pockets."

It kind of illustrates the huge power imbalance between landlords and tenants in this province.

- Rosalind Waters, P.E.I. Fight for Affordable Housing

Waters said her group has been advocating for "massive investment in public and non-profit housing" with below-market, subsidized rents "so everybody has access to decent, affordable housing. And of course migrant workers should have access to decent affordable housing."

But she said it's wrong to pit such workers against existing residents as has happened with the evictions taking place in Souris.

"I don't think it's right and I also don't think it does anything to solve the housing crisis for folks who live up around Souris," she said.

'Not an issue of national security'

Sly said their hearing is coming up Feb. 23.

They said some other tenants left without trying to fight their evictions, and some people have told Sly they should be "frightened" to stand up against such a big corporation.

A wide shot of a woman using a wheelchair sitting at a desk. P.E.I.'s apartment vacancy rate dropped to 0.8 per cent in 2022, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, making it difficult for tenants like Cécile Sly to find a new place to live. (CBC)

But Sly said they want to have their eviction notice declared invalid — and said they won't be silenced when it comes to talking about the results of their hearing.

"This is a rental board hearing, not an issue of national security."

Summerside renters have received a second eviction notice in two months

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Tim Hortons shops on P.E.I. not for sale: Danny Murphy

Have you heard Danny Murphy is selling his many Tim Hortons restaurants?

So has he. And he has heard enough.

The province’s best known coffee man wants to quash persistent rumours that he is trying to sell any or all of his Tim Hortons and Wendy’s outlets.

“I’ve never talked to anybody and I have no interest in selling,’’ he says. “I’m going to work for a long time.’’

The 58-year-old businessman started out as a baker at Tim Hortons in 1979. Today, he owns 20 Tim Hortons coffee shops and five Wendy’s restaurants in P.E.I. that employ about 900 people. He also has another five Wendy’s in Montreal.

Murphy says he remains very hands on in the operations, regularly getting in behind the counter of his businesses that dot the Island.

He still relishes the fast pace.

“I really enjoy this business and I have no intention of leaving it. None.’’

He has no plans, though, to add to his current number of shops that serve up double doubles and Timbits. He notes the coffee market is “pretty much’’ saturated in Prince Edward Island.

However, he is pumping money into giving his stores fresh, new exteriors.

Murphy is also concentrating expansion to the hotel portfolio of his business empire.

Have you heard Danny Murphy is selling his many Tim Hortons restaurants?

So has he. And he has heard enough.

The province’s best known coffee man wants to quash persistent rumours that he is trying to sell any or all of his Tim Hortons and Wendy’s outlets.

“I’ve never talked to anybody and I have no interest in selling,’’ he says. “I’m going to work for a long time.’’

Murphy says he remains very hands on in the operations, regularly getting in behind the counter of his businesses that dot the Island.

He still relishes the fast pace.

“I really enjoy this business and I have no intention of leaving it. None.’’

He has no plans, though, to add to his current number of shops that serve up double doubles and Timbits. He notes the coffee market is “pretty much’’ saturated in Prince Edward Island.

However, he is pumping money into giving his stores fresh, new exteriors.

Murphy is also concentrating expansion to the hotel portfolio of his business empire.

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Downward turn in N.B. Power finances stuns the utility's rate hearing

February 21, 2023, 10:52 pm

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Full 8.9% rate increase not required, N.B. Power hearing told

Updated budget numbers wrestled from the utility give rate opponents hope increase can be trimmed

Robert Jones· CBC News · Posted: Feb 22, 2023 8:00 PM AST

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Nancy Rubin has led a team of three lawyers hired by J.D. Irving Ltd. to fight N.B. Power's rate increase. The group successfully forced N.B. Power to provide updated budget numbers for next year that they are using to dispute the need for a large hike. (Ed Hunter/CBC)

Opponents of N.B. Power's proposed 8.9 per cent rate increase say updated financial estimates filed at its ongoing rate hearing over the objections of the utility prove most of the increase is not needed and a two per cent change would be enough.

But a deterioration in N.B. Power's overall financial health revealed by the same updated numbers, which even experts call shocking, is complicating that argument.

On Tuesday, N.B. Power supplied new estimates for what it expects to spend on fuel and purchased power in the coming year and what it believes it will earn on export sales of electricity.

The figures showed a $106.4 million overall improvement over estimates N.B. Power has in its official budget document at the rate hearing, which was mostly generated last spring and never updated.

A man in a suit holding a takeout coffee cup Robert Knecht, a senior consultant at Industrial Economics Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., has testified in multiple N.B. Power hearings and correctly predicted years of two per cent rate increases risked getting the utility into financial trouble. (Ed Hunter/CBC)

J.D. Irving Ltd. requested more up-to-date numbers last week, and its lead lawyer, Nancy Rubin, pounced on what they revealed.

Because the 8.9 per cent increase is meant to raise an additional $135.8 million in revenue for N.B. Power in the coming year, Rubin elicited evidence to suggest a $106.4 million improvement in budget costs and revenues shows most of the increase is not required.

"If we applied this, what would that do to the requested rate increase?" she asked utility expert Robert Knecht during cross-examination.

"Taking out $106 million from that would leave roughly $29 million, or a rate increase of somewhere between one and a half and two per cent," Knecht said.

Side profile of a man with glasses. Two people are sitting beside him and out of focus. N.B. Power lawyer John Furey said using partially updated numbers to decide on its rate application would be unfair. (Ed Hunter/CBC)

But those same updated numbers also showed N.B. Power's current financial year has deteriorated by more than $200 million from its budget, and Knecht said this is a problem that may trump the good news about next year.

On Tuesday, Knecht said he "did not believe it" when he first saw evidence of how poorly N.B. Power's finances have deteriorated this year following a series of generating station troubles and commodity price increases.

Under new accounting systems put in place by the Higgs government, those heavy losses have to be placed in a "variance" account and billed to N.B. Power customers over multiple years until they are paid in full, with interest.

Knecht estimated that the variance account will likely reach a $300 million balance by the end of the year and that will trigger a three per cent surcharge on all N.B. Power bills starting in April 2024 until the amount is fully recovered.

A man with dark hair and a beard sitting in front of a silver pitcher and a microphone. U.S.-based utility expert Vincent Musco was the final witness at N.B. Power's rate hearing. He criticized the utility for not providing fresher budget numbers from the start in its rate application. (Ed Hunter/CBC)

Knecht made the point that if N.B. Power makes $106 million more than expected next year because of the 8.9 per cent rate increase, it will lessen the variance account balance, so leaving it alone has a benefit.

"The variance account is starting in a terrible place," said Knecht.

"If you reduce the rates now they [customers] are going to face those costs again in the future with interest."

N.B. Power lawyer John Furey has been arguing against using the updated budget numbers to set rates for next year, in part because they involve only some of what has changed for the utility.

He noted, for example, that N.B. Power is facing $30 million in higher interest costs than it included in the original budget because of rising interest rates and new debt caused by this year's poor results.

A man with short brown hair sitting in front of a laptop. There is a silver pitcher on either side of him and a disposable coffee cup on the table on the left. Dustin Madsen, a consultant from Calgary hired by the EUB, recommended a lower increase than 8.9 per cent. He admitted being alarmed at a recent downward turn in N.B. Power's financial situation. (Ed Hunter/CBC)

Vincent Musco, an expert witness from Washington hired by the Energy and Utilities Board, has been critical of N.B. Power for not supplying fresher budget numbers for the rate hearing. He agreed with Furey, however, that everything, good and bad, should be updated if possible.

"If there's an update where you can get it more accurate, it makes sense to do it," said Musco.

A second expert hired by the board who criticized N.B. Power's rate increase as too high also conceded to Furey he has concerns about the financial problems at the utility that were revealed during the hearing.

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Dustin Madsen of Calgary recommended a rate increase for N.B. Power of "no more than 5.06 per cent" based on his review of its application but admitted he, too, was stunned by numbers showing how poorly N.B. Power is doing this year.

"You sat through this proceeding. Would you agree that N.B. Power's financial condition has deteriorated? Furey asked.

"Yes, I am as surprised as Mr. Knecht," said Madsen. "I agree the position is deteriorating.

"It is alarming if that is the case."

Testimony at the hearing concluded on Wednesday afternoon. The hearing reconvenes Friday for final arguments from all parties.

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David Amos

Welcome back to the Circus

David Amos

Oh My My 3 strikes out of the gate EH?

David Amos

Reply to David Amos

Methinks Mr Jones and Jesse Baby are gonna enjoy my next email N'esy Pas?

David Amos

Methinks the EUB Hearing slated for June 7th is gonna be quite a hoedown N'esy Pas?

David Amos

The plot thickens rather nicely

David Amos

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"Under new accounting systems put in place by the Higgs government, those heavy losses have to be placed in a "variance" account and billed to N.B. Power customers over multiple years until they are paid in full, with interest.

John Montgomery

There goes those yacht plans for NB Power execs.

David Amos

Reply to John Montgomery

They already have them parked south of the 49th

Greg Miller

There was a news clip on BNN tonight that indicated the windfall that Quebec Power made last year selling electricity for something like 8.3 cents/kwh south of the border. They indicated that in 2023 they don't expect to make as much at 5 cents/kwh.

Wow wouldn't it be nice New Brunswick?

David Amos

Reply to Greg Miller

Trust that Hydro Quebec called me today and we discussed this hearing

Harvey York

Reply to David Amos

Nah, I don't believe you. Hydro Quebec has way better things to do than talk to you

David Amos

Reply to Harvey York

You dudes know where to find the number correct? 514 289 2316 Why don't you or one of your cop pals grow a couple and call them yourselves in order to ask them if what I stated is true or false? Trust that I will call your boss on Friday and talk about you for obvious reasons.

Harvey York

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lol...you'll call somebody, but it won't be my boss.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/downward-turn-nb-power-rate-hearing-1.6755676

Downward turn in N.B. Power finances stuns the utility's rate hearing

'When I saw it I did not believe it,' said Robert Knecht, utility expert from Massachusetts

Robert Jones· CBC News · Posted: Feb 21, 2023 7:32 PM AST

A man in a suit holding a takeout coffee cup

Robert Knecht has testified in multiple N.B. Power hearings and correctly predicted years of 2 per cent rate increases risked getting the utility into financial trouble. (Ed Hunter/CBC)

An American utility expert who has been sounding alarms about N.B. Power's finances for several years told its rate hearing on Tuesday he initially could not grasp how much worse things have gotten this year.

Robert Knecht was called to testify Tuesday afternoon, but prior to his testimony N.B. Power filed updated financial information for the current year that showed a quarter-billion-dollar deterioration in the company's fortunes just since September.

The decline is so sharp, Knecht told N.B. Power lawyer John Furey, he initially thought it was a mistake when the amount first began to emerge last week.

"That's a pretty significant change in three months, isn't it?" asked Furey.

A side profile of a man with a beard looking down Rick Williams, acting public intervenor, hired Robert Knecht to give his opinion on N.B. Power's rate increase request. Knecht endorsed it in full. (Ed Hunter/CBC)

"Yes, when I saw it I did not believe it," said Knecht.

Doing quick calculations on the fly as he testified, Knecht estimated that N.B. Power is $260 million worse off since the fall, due to higher than expected fuel costs and untimely outages at the Bayside natural gas and Point Lepreau nuclear generating stations.

"I see a variance $260 million worse than what was in the filing, which was based on the budget, if I understand this correctly," he said.

Knecht is a senior consultant with Industrial Economics in Cambridge, Mass.

He has appeared at multiple N.B. Power rate hearings over several years and has consistently, and for the most part correctly, predicted the utility was courting financial trouble by being too optimistic in its company forecasts.

In 2017 he raised doubts the utility's long-term plan to pay down $1 billion in debt by raising rates 2 per cent per year would work. He believed it relied too much on good things happening — such as the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station operating without trouble — and bad things not happening, such as damaging major storm events.

A crowd of people sitting in front of open computer screens. It was a full house to start week two of N.B. Power's ongoing rate hearing. It is scheduled to finish on Friday. (Ed Hunter/CBC)

"I have concerns that the N.B. Power 10-year plan may be more of an optimistic rather than an expected value forecast," he said at the time.

Since then, instead of N.B. Power's net debt falling to $4.5 billion this year as the utility was predicting in 2017, it has surged past $5 billion as Knecht feared it might.

He was hired to give his opinion on N.B. Power's proposed rate increase this year by acting public intervenor Rick Williams and has expressed concerns again the utility is still underestimating what it needs to do to move to a more stable financial footing.

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"I have had a longstanding concern with respect to this utility that it is simply not making any progress towards [debt reduction]." said Knecht.

He pointed out N.B. Power is budgeting for Point Lepreau to operate trouble free next year and said that tells him the utility is still using too much wishful thinking in its planning.

"As you know, I have expressed these concerns in a number of proceedings," he said.

"That [budgeted] level is higher than anything that the plant has achieved since it was refurbished."

Knecht said he thinks there are opportunities to cut costs inside N.B. Power, but that its stubbornly high debt levels and recent financial setbacks require more revenue from customers, and he endorsed the rate increase request in full.

"I recommended that the board accept the company's proposed rate increase of 8.9 percent," said Knecht.

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David Amos

Methinks we all should contact Higgy and his opposition and ask what gives with this ongoing Yankee beancounting nonsense about their favourite cash cow N'esy Pas?

David Amos

Methinks some folks now know what I already knew about Mr Knecht N'esy Pas?

David Amos

Methinks I should remind Higgy et al that this opinionated Yankee is not a chartered accountant N'esy Pas?

claude bourgeois

We had a chance to dump this junk company to Hydro-Québec and people in NB went in panic mode. I bet they are now second guessing their protests at the time. We will need to pay more, and more, and more. Point Lepreau seems to always break down at the most inopportune times.

Stephen Sonnier

Reply to claude bourgeois

All of a southern NB was against it, most of northern NB were for it for obvious reasons : about 1/2 the cost of electricity unde Hydro Quebec. This balance of power to southern NB has costed the province multi million of dollars in revenue and opportunities: buildings and scrapping the toll highway in the Sussex area, building the 200km double lane highway Route 2 between St Stephen and Sussex only to serve American and the NS economy , the lack of leadership to impose a provincial corporate tax and revenue earned in the province which would have taken care of aggressive tax scheme by the Irving’s.

JOhn D Bond

Reply to claude bourgeois

So are you suggesting we land a sweetheart deal like NFLD did in 1969 with Hydro Quebec.

I say pass.

But we do need to get that titanic like wreck in order. But that won't happen as long as the province plays politics with the cost of electricity.

David Amos

Reply to claude bourgeois

Welcome back to the circus

David Amos

Reply to claude bourgeois

Methinks Higgy et al should at least agree that Hydro-Québec is audited and NB Power is not N'esy Pas?

Greg Meahan

How much do the sweet heart deals with industry in NB play into these financial problems? That and investing in schemes that defy physics (in Florida).

And it is noted here that Lepreau is down a lot. NB Power and the Higgs and Trudeau governments are in the process of wasting even more money on unproven small nuclear reactors. Another financial fiasco in the making.

How is that the executives and the board of NB Power are never held accountable for these messes? This article states that in 2017 they made what has turned out to be a nearly $10 billion mistake in their projections. That is just 6 years ago. Is that not a firing offense? It sure as heck should be.

Kyle Woodman

Reply to Greg Meahan

They all belong to the same golf club.

David Amos

Reply to Kyle Woodman

Of that I have no doubt

Kyle Woodman

I've known guys that work at NBP. The amount of company property they have in their houses is crazy. I knew a guy who wired his whole camp from "scraps". Even used a scrap to run the line from the pole. Probably a scrap pole he installed too. I used to go get stuff from BAP in the industrial park and buddy told me every time a NBP employee would come to pick up supplies they would buy themselves a new Leatherman and Axe. I seen a guy with 3 chainsaws with NBP marked on the in his garage. We have all seen this at some point. NBP needs to be audited.

Anne Bérubé

Reply to Kyle Woodman

I just deducted from your comment that those 'guys' do not need to worry about ennemies when they have friends like you...

David Amos

Reply to Kyle Woodman

You would never believe who just called me after ignoring me for years

Kyle Woodman

Reply to Anne Bérubé

I'm not a rat, but they don't take much effort to hide things. It's really part of the culture at this point. No one internally sees the problem. Same goes on in government to a certain extent. Lots of moonlighting using government equipment/ software in certain sectors.

Kyle Woodman

Reply to David Amos

Cardy? I could tell you a funny story about that.

David Amos

Reply to Anne Bérubé

I just deducted from your comment that its OK for those 'guys' to steal from our assets

David Amos

Reply to Kyle Woodman

Trust that I never would talk to Cardy when he did call me years ago

Kyle Woodman

Reply to David Amos

Moreso that if I'm aware of it, then the management certainly is too, yet nothing is done.

David Amos

Reply to Kyle Woodman

Lets just say the French folks who called me are audited

Fred Brewer

Reply to Anne Bérubé

Your deduction skills are lacking. He never said they were his friends.

David Amos

Reply to Kyle Woodman

Did you ask him for some butter tarts?

Fred Sanford

Sell it to Hydro-Québec as long as we can get an enforceable commitment that NB customers pays the same rate as Quebec customers.

David Amos

Reply to Fred Sanford

Dream on

Ellen Moore

While I’m appalled at the NBPower mess I’d also like to know why the Public Intervenor, Rick Williams, brought in a USA consultant. Aren’t there any qualified Canadian experts? How much was Knecht paid? Was it in American or Canadian consultant dollars?

David Amos

Reply to Ellen Moore

Go Figure

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David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>	Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 12:35 PM
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Community of Creative Citizens 506-451-1357 \| PO Box 804 \| Station A \| Fredericton, NB \| E3B 5B4 2023 New Brunswick Energy Symposium Feb 7, 2023 · March 15th, 2023 at the Wu Centre in Fredericton You are invited to join CCC and the Atlantica Centre for Energy as we host our first symposium of 2023. The region’s foremost energy leaders from GNB, NB Power, and industry will discuss topics including: NB’s role in the region’s energy transition Hydrogen Small Modular Reactors LNG Export Natural Gas For more details or to buy tickets, please visit Eventbrite: 2023 New Brunswick Energy Symposium Tickets, Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 9:00 AM \| Eventbrite ---------- Forwarded message ----------

#541 - Expert Qualification Request for Bob Knecht

Williams, Richard (OAG/CPG)

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Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 10:41 AM

To: "Mitchell, Kathleen"<Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca>, "louis-philippe.gauthier@cfib.ca"<louis-philippe.gauthier@cfib.ca>, "frederic.gionet@cfib.ca"<frederic.gionet@cfib.ca>, "David.Raymond.Amos333@gmail.com"<David.Raymond.Amos333@gmail.com>, "Sollows, David (DNRED/MRNDE)"<David.Sollows@gnb.ca>, "Daly, Gerard"<daly@nbnet.nb.ca>, "hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com"<hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com>, "nrubin@stewartmckelvey.com"<nrubin@stewartmckelvey.com>, "coneil@stewartmckelvey.com"<coneil@stewartmckelvey.com>, "lmclements@stewartmckelvey.com"<lmclements@stewartmckelvey.com>, "brudderham@stewartmckelvey.com"<brudderham@stewartmckelvey.com>, "Brandy.Gellner@libertyutilities.com"<Brandy.Gellner@libertyutilities.com>, "dave.lavigne@libertyutilities.com"<dave.lavigne@libertyutilities.com>, "Gilles.volpe@libertyutilities.com"<Gilles.volpe@libertyutilities.com>, "JohnFurey@fureylegal.com"<JohnFurey@fureylegal.com>, "jpetrie@nbpower.com"<jpetrie@nbpower.com>, "SWaycott@nbpower.com"<SWaycott@nbpower.com>, "DAMurphy@nbpower.com"<DAMurphy@nbpower.com>, "bcrawford@nbpower.com"<bcrawford@nbpower.com>, "lgordon@nbpower.com"<lgordon@nbpower.com>, "nbpregulatory@nbpower.com"<nbpregulatory@nbpower.com>, NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca>, "Young, Dave"<Dave.Young@nbeub.ca>, "Aherrington@lawsoncreamer.com"<Aherrington@lawsoncreamer.com>, "Dickie, Michael"<Michael.Dickie@nbeub.ca>, Veronique Otis <Veronique.Otis@nbeub.ca>, "Colwell, Susan"<Susan.Colwell@nbeub.ca>, "dustin@emrydia.com"<dustin@emrydia.com>, Melissa Curran <Melissa.Curran@nbeub.ca>, "Vincent.musco@bateswhite.com"<Vincent.musco@bateswhite.com>, "rdk@indecon.com"<rdk@indecon.com>, "tyler.rajeski@twinriverspaper.com"<tyler.rajeski@twinriverspaper.com>, "darcy.ouellette@twinriverspaper.com"<darcy.ouellette@twinriverspaper.com>, Len Hoyt <Len.Hoyt@mcinnescooper.com>, "paul.black@twinriverspaper.com"<paul.black@twinriverspaper.com>, "tammy.grieve@mcinnescooper.com"<tammy.grieve@mcinnescooper.com>, "jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com"<jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com>, "shelley.wood@sjenergy.com"<shelley.wood@sjenergy.com>, "dan.dionne@perth-andover.com"<dan.dionne@perth-andover.com>, "pierreroy@edmundston.ca"<pierreroy@edmundston.ca>, "pzarnett@bdrenergy.com"<pzarnett@bdrenergy.com>, "sstoll@stollprofcorp.com"<sstoll@stollprofcorp.com>

Good morning everyone,

The Public Intervener intends to seek a declaration from the Board that Mr. Knecht is an expert in the areas of regulatory economics and ratemaking.

Mr. Knecht has been previously qualified as an expert in these and similar areas of expertise by this Board and other administrative tribunals in Canada and the United States. His relevant education and professional experience are described in his CV attached to his written evidence , as amended. Mr. Knecht’s Expert Witness Acknowledgement is also attached to his written evidence, as amended.

Mr. Knecht’s written evidence is based upon his review of the application materials and other documents filed to date in this proceeding, the records and decisions of this Board in previous proceedings and his own calculations, all as more particularly described in his written evidence.

Richard A. Williams, K.C./c.r.

Acting Public Intervener for the Energy Sector / l’intervenant public dans le secteur énergétique par intérim

Office of the Public Intervener / Bureau d’intervenant public

(506) 440-8915

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David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>	Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 12:35 PM
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Community of Creative Citizens 506-451-1357 \| PO Box 804 \| Station A \| Fredericton, NB \| E3B 5B4 2023 New Brunswick Energy Symposium Feb 7, 2023 · March 15th, 2023 at the Wu Centre in Fredericton You are invited to join CCC and the Atlantica Centre for Energy as we host our first symposium of 2023. The region’s foremost energy leaders from GNB, NB Power, and industry will discuss topics including: NB’s role in the region’s energy transition Hydrogen Small Modular Reactors LNG Export Natural Gas For more details or to buy tickets, please visit Eventbrite: 2023 New Brunswick Energy Symposium Tickets, Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 9:00 AM \| Eventbrite

David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>	Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 11:08 AM
To: "Williams, Richard (OAG/CPG)"<Richard.Williams@gnb.ca>, "Holland, Mike (LEG)"<mike.holland@gnb.ca>, "blaine.higgs"<blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, "fin.minfinance-financemin.fin"<fin.minfinance-financemin.fin@canada.ca>
Cc: "Mitchell, Kathleen"<Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca>, "louis-philippe.gauthier@cfib.ca"<louis-philippe.gauthier@cfib.ca>, "frederic.gionet@cfib.ca"<frederic.gionet@cfib.ca>, "Sollows, David (DNRED/MRNDE)"<David.Sollows@gnb.ca>, "Daly, Gerard"<daly@nbnet.nb.ca>, "hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com"<hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com>, "nrubin@stewartmckelvey.com"<nrubin@stewartmckelvey.com>, "coneil@stewartmckelvey.com"<coneil@stewartmckelvey.com>, "lmclements@stewartmckelvey.com"<lmclements@stewartmckelvey.com>, "brudderham@stewartmckelvey.com"<brudderham@stewartmckelvey.com>, "Brandy.Gellner@libertyutilities.com"<Brandy.Gellner@libertyutilities.com>, "dave.lavigne@libertyutilities.com"<dave.lavigne@libertyutilities.com>, "Gilles.volpe@libertyutilities.com"<Gilles.volpe@libertyutilities.com>, "JohnFurey@fureylegal.com"<JohnFurey@fureylegal.com>, "jpetrie@nbpower.com"<jpetrie@nbpower.com>, "SWaycott@nbpower.com"<SWaycott@nbpower.com>, "DAMurphy@nbpower.com"<DAMurphy@nbpower.com>, "bcrawford@nbpower.com"<bcrawford@nbpower.com>, "lgordon@nbpower.com"<lgordon@nbpower.com>, "nbpregulatory@nbpower.com"<nbpregulatory@nbpower.com>, NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca>, "Young, Dave"<Dave.Young@nbeub.ca>, "Aherrington@lawsoncreamer.com"<Aherrington@lawsoncreamer.com>, "Dickie, Michael"<Michael.Dickie@nbeub.ca>, Veronique Otis <Veronique.Otis@nbeub.ca>, "Colwell, Susan"<Susan.Colwell@nbeub.ca>, "dustin@emrydia.com"<dustin@emrydia.com>, Melissa Curran <Melissa.Curran@nbeub.ca>, "Vincent.musco@bateswhite.com"<Vincent.musco@bateswhite.com>, "rdk@indecon.com"<rdk@indecon.com>, "tyler.rajeski@twinriverspaper.com"<tyler.rajeski@twinriverspaper.com>, "darcy.ouellette@twinriverspaper.com"<darcy.ouellette@twinriverspaper.com>, Len Hoyt <Len.Hoyt@mcinnescooper.com>, "paul.black@twinriverspaper.com"<paul.black@twinriverspaper.com>, "tammy.grieve@mcinnescooper.com"<tammy.grieve@mcinnescooper.com>, "jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com"<jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com>, "shelley.wood@sjenergy.com"<shelley.wood@sjenergy.com>, "dan.dionne@perth-andover.com"<dan.dionne@perth-andover.com>, "pierreroy@edmundston.ca"<pierreroy@edmundston.ca>, "pzarnett@bdrenergy.com"<pzarnett@bdrenergy.com>, "sstoll@stollprofcorp.com"<sstoll@stollprofcorp.com>


BTW I have been calling Mr Knecht all morning and the people who answer his phone play dumb

David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>	Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 10:49 AM
To: "Williams, Richard (OAG/CPG)"<Richard.Williams@gnb.ca>, "Holland, Mike (LEG)"<mike.holland@gnb.ca>, "blaine.higgs"<blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, "fin.minfinance-financemin.fin"<fin.minfinance-financemin.fin@canada.ca>
Cc: "Mitchell, Kathleen"<Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca>, "louis-philippe.gauthier@cfib.ca"<louis-philippe.gauthier@cfib.ca>, "frederic.gionet@cfib.ca"<frederic.gionet@cfib.ca>, "Sollows, David (DNRED/MRNDE)"<David.Sollows@gnb.ca>, "Daly, Gerard"<daly@nbnet.nb.ca>, "hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com"<hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com>, "nrubin@stewartmckelvey.com"<nrubin@stewartmckelvey.com>, "coneil@stewartmckelvey.com"<coneil@stewartmckelvey.com>, "lmclements@stewartmckelvey.com"<lmclements@stewartmckelvey.com>, "brudderham@stewartmckelvey.com"<brudderham@stewartmckelvey.com>, "Brandy.Gellner@libertyutilities.com"<Brandy.Gellner@libertyutilities.com>, "dave.lavigne@libertyutilities.com"<dave.lavigne@libertyutilities.com>, "Gilles.volpe@libertyutilities.com"<Gilles.volpe@libertyutilities.com>, "JohnFurey@fureylegal.com"<JohnFurey@fureylegal.com>, "jpetrie@nbpower.com"<jpetrie@nbpower.com>, "SWaycott@nbpower.com"<SWaycott@nbpower.com>, "DAMurphy@nbpower.com"<DAMurphy@nbpower.com>, "bcrawford@nbpower.com"<bcrawford@nbpower.com>, "lgordon@nbpower.com"<lgordon@nbpower.com>, "nbpregulatory@nbpower.com"<nbpregulatory@nbpower.com>, NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca>, "Young, Dave"<Dave.Young@nbeub.ca>, "Aherrington@lawsoncreamer.com"<Aherrington@lawsoncreamer.com>, "Dickie, Michael"<Michael.Dickie@nbeub.ca>, Veronique Otis <Veronique.Otis@nbeub.ca>, "Colwell, Susan"<Susan.Colwell@nbeub.ca>, "dustin@emrydia.com"<dustin@emrydia.com>, Melissa Curran <Melissa.Curran@nbeub.ca>, "Vincent.musco@bateswhite.com"<Vincent.musco@bateswhite.com>, "rdk@indecon.com"<rdk@indecon.com>, "tyler.rajeski@twinriverspaper.com"<tyler.rajeski@twinriverspaper.com>, "darcy.ouellette@twinriverspaper.com"<darcy.ouellette@twinriverspaper.com>, Len Hoyt <Len.Hoyt@mcinnescooper.com>, "paul.black@twinriverspaper.com"<paul.black@twinriverspaper.com>, "tammy.grieve@mcinnescooper.com"<tammy.grieve@mcinnescooper.com>, "jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com"<jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com>, "shelley.wood@sjenergy.com"<shelley.wood@sjenergy.com>, "dan.dionne@perth-andover.com"<dan.dionne@perth-andover.com>, "pierreroy@edmundston.ca"<pierreroy@edmundston.ca>, "pzarnett@bdrenergy.com"<pzarnett@bdrenergy.com>, "sstoll@stollprofcorp.com"<sstoll@stollprofcorp.com>


How can he be an expert as you claim in light of the fact that he just bragged to me on your behalf last week that he was not an accountant? Furthermore if the Yankee is oh so clever howcome he didn't cacth this years ago??? https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/02/nb-power-debt-claim-to-mlas-appears-to.html Tuesday, 12 February 2019 NB Power debt claim to MLAs appears to be untrue Utility can't say who made the statement its president referenced Robert Jones · CBC News · Posted: Feb 12, 2019 4:00 AM AT NB Power President Gaetan Thomas said even modest profit targets are frowned on by the Energy and Utilities Board. (CBC) NB Power president Gaetan Thomas's claim to MLAs that the Energy and Utilities Board once told the utility profits should be kept below $80 million, despite its need to pay off debt, appears to be untrue. The EUB has never issued a directive to NB Power to keep earnings below $80 million and the utility has been unable to explain who made the statement Thomas is referring to or when, if ever, it was said. Thomas, chairman Ed Barrett and other NB Power executives made a presentation on Jan. 5 to the legislature's Crown corporations committee to discuss the utility's latest financial results and MLAs questioned them about NB Power's debt problems. Both Barrett and Thomas told the committee the Energy and Utilities Board has stood in the way of the utility earning sufficient profits to substantially reduce its $4.9 billion debt load, instead forcing it to keep rates low. Consumers will pay for NB Power's debt one way or another, intervener says Thomas said even modest profit targets are frowned on by the EUB. "Every time we're confronted with a low rate," Thomas told MLAs. "That is the dominant factor for the regulator. Even if we can show, lets say, we can make say $80 million earnings the point is they say you don't really need that much earnings." However, all profit requests NB Power management has made to the EUB in the last four years have been approved, three for more than $80 million, the amount Thomas claims the EUB has said is too much. NB Power has been unable to explain who made the statement its president is referring to or when, if ever, it was said. (Michael Heenan/CBC) Heather Black has represented the public at NB Power's last four rate hearings and says the utility has set its own profit target each year and has never had any part of the amounts rejected by the EUB. "In each case, the board has approved NB Power's proposed earnings in the full amount NB Power requested," Black wrote in an email to CBC News. Marc Belliveau, a spokesman for NB Power, said in an email the comment Thomas made about the EUB telling the utility an $80 million profit is too high should not be taken literally. "I don't have a transcript of the (MLA) proceedings but this was a general statement/example not a specific one," he wrote. NB Power behind on plan to pay down $1 billion in debt NB Power tells customers to ease pain of rate hikes with efficiency It's the second statement Thomas has made in the last month that has needed clarification, and both were in relation to the utility's debt problem. In January, Thomas told CBC News that NB Power is applying for a $36 million rate increase for the next fiscal year to help generate a profit and "most of it would go to debt reduction". But NB Power figures show the utility is planning no debt reduction next year, even with a rate increase. Expected profits at the utility are budgeted to be spent on capital projects with none applied to its $4.9 billion debt. It is scheduled to increase by $6 million. NB Power has failed to meet earnings targets in each of the last four years, mostly because expenses have been higher than anticipated, but the EUB has never opposed the targets themselves. David Coon calls on NB Power to justify power rate increase to MLAs NB Power requests higher-than-expected rate increases The board approved a combined $329.5 million in profit over the four-year period but NB Power expects to generate less than 25 percent of that — just $71.3 million - once the current year is factored in. Black says NB Power's failure to pay down its debt is not a problem with the EUB. "While the board cuts NB Power's proposed spending where it determines that the spending is imprudent, this has not been the cause of NB Power's failure to meet its earnings targets," said Black, citing performance problems at Lepreau, unbudgeted storm damage and other issues. "NB Power's earnings erode when its costs are over budget or when it fails to earn its budgeted revenue." The EUB is declining to comment but the organization has openly expressed concerns about NB Power's debt in the past. Heather Black, the public intervener, said the EUB has never rejected any part of the utility's profit targets in the last four rate hearings. (Robert Jones/CBC) At hearings last April, Ellen Desmond, the EUB's lawyer, questioned Darren Murphy, NB Power vice-president, in detail about whether the utility's profits are too low and its debt retirement schedule too slow. She suggested the utility consider reducing its spending to generate higher profits in years its financial projections are coming up short. "Why not perhaps delay spending where necessary to meet other objectives, including your reduction in net debt which we have heard a lot about in the last three years," said Desmond. "I mean if that is a priority, if that is a target, why not perhaps adjust the plan? Why not adjust that so that we can see reduction -- larger reductions on the net debt?" NB Power' Belliveau said in an email the utility believes rate hearings focus too much on questioning spending and not enough on the bottom line. "The underlying tone of recent rate hearings has been focused on low and stable rates as opposed to a more balanced view," said Belliveau. About the Author Robert Jones Reporter Robert Jones has been a reporter and producer with CBC New Brunswick since 1990. His investigative reports on petroleum pricing in New Brunswick won several regional and national awards and led to the adoption of price regulation in 2006. 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LaSalle-Émard-Verdun Tuesday, 12 February 2019 NB Power debt claim to MLAs appears to be untrue ---------- Original message ---------- From: Roger Richard <rrichard@nb.aibn.com> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:45:50 -0400 Subject: Matter 430 - NB Power 2019-2020 General Rate Application / Instance Nº 430 - Énergie NB Demande générale de tarifs pour 2019-2020 To: "Mitchell, Kathleen"<Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca> Cc: "David.Raymond.Amos333@gmail.com" <David.Raymond.Amos333@gmail.com>, "david.sollows@gnb.ca" <david.sollows@gnb.ca>, "Paul.Volpe@enbridge.com" <Paul.Volpe@enbridge.com>, "dave.lavigne@enbridge.com" <dave.lavigne@enbridge.com>, "Gilles.volpe@enbridge.com" <Gilles.volpe@enbridge.com>, "jeffery.callaghan@mcinnescooper.com" <jeffery.callaghan@mcinnescooper.com>, "gerald@kissnb.com" <gerald@kissnb.com>, "cstewart@stewartmckelvey.com" <cstewart@stewartmckelvey.com> , "hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com" <hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com>, "lcozzarini@nbpower.com" <lcozzarini@nbpower.com>, "jfurey@nbpower.com"<jfurey@nbpower.com>, "SWaycott@nbpower.com"<SWaycott@nbpower.com>, "NBPRegulatory@nbpower.com"<NBPRegulatory@nbpower.com>, "wharrison@nbpower.com"<wharrison@nbpower.com>, "bcrawford@nbpower.com"<bcrawford@nbpower.com>, "Lawton, John" <John.Lawton@nbeub.ca>, "Desmond, Ellen"<ecdesmond@nbeub.ca>, "Dickie, Michael"<Michael.Dickie@nbeub.ca>, "Young, Dave" <Dave.Young@nbeub.ca>, "Mitchell, Kathleen" <Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca>, NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca>, "heather.black@gnb.ca"<heather.black@gnb.ca>, "rdk@indecon.com" <rdk@indecon.com>, "rrichard@nb.aibn.com"<rrichard@nb.aibn.com>, "jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com"<jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com>, "dan.dionne@perth-andover.com"<dan.dionne@perth-andover.com>, "pierreroy@edmundston.ca"<pierreroy@edmundston.ca>, "ray.robinson@sjenergy.com"<ray.robinson@sjenergy.com>, "sstoll@airdberlis.com"<sstoll@airdberlis.com>, "pzarnett@bdrenergy.com"<pzarnett@bdrenergy.com> M. le Président, Je vous écrit ce matin pour faire valoir mon indignation vis-à-vis les propos de NB Power concernant M. Amos le 6 février 2019. Plus spécifiquement les paroles suivantes: « He might be dead before me. » M. Amos est très habile lorsque vient le temps d’argumenter. En plus, il connait très bien les lois et ses responsabilités sociales. M. Amos est bien plus efficace en Cour que dans une sombre ruelle… Jamais il aurait dit de pareils choses! J’étais présent la soirée du 7 février 2018. C’était une très longue journée avec le début de l’audience #375 le matin et l’intervention publique le soir en plus de la pluie verglaçante. Tout le monde était fatigué. Je n’ai pas entendu M. Amos dire de telles paroles. Il est vrai qu’il parlait vite ce soir là. C’était pour profiter le plus possible de son temps de paroles. Après avoir reçu la transcription de la soirée, il a essayé à mainte reprises d’avoir une copie de l’enregistrement mais sans succès. Les erreurs de transcriptions sont possibles car cela m’est arrivé à quelques reprises. C’est pourquoi, quand j’ai la possibilité, je fournis un document écrit pour limiter les erreurs. L’erreur est humaine et je ne m’en fait pas d’histoires. Mais maintenant je réalise que c’est très dangereux. C’est pourquoi je doute de l’intégrité de NB Power lorsqu’elle utilise cette technique pour faire valoir son point. Selon moi, c’est un coup bas! Je prie donc à la commission de prendre ceci en considération pour aider M. Amos à devenir intervenant. Cordialement vôtre, Roger Richard. ---------- Original message ---------- From: "Harrison, Wanda"<WHarrison@nbpower.com> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 15:36:44 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: EXT - RE Request for information Attn Ellen C. Desmond Q.C. WOW How dumb is NB Power To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> I will be out of the office until Tuesday, February 19. For Legal issues please contact Joanne Regan at jregan@nbpower.com or 458-3711. Thank you ________________________________ This e-mail communication (including any or all attachments) is intended only for the use of the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, any use, review, retransmission, distribution, dissemination, copying, printing, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this e-mail, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender and delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof, immediately. Your co-operation is appreciated. Le présent courriel (y compris toute pièce jointe) s'adresse uniquement à son destinataire, qu'il soit une personne ou un organisme, et pourrait comporter des renseignements privilégiés ou confidentiels. 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WOW How dumb is NB Power To: mike.holland@gnb.ca, blaine.higgs@gnb.ca, Robert.Jones@cbc.ca, brian.gallant@gnb.ca, Jack.Keir@gnb.ca, greg.byrne@gnb.ca, robert.mckee@gnb.ca, robert.gauvin@gnb.ca, David.Coon@gnb.ca, Kevin.A.Arseneau@gnb.ca, megan.mitton@gnb.ca, kris.austin@gnb.ca, "Rick De Saulniers". sweetbends@gmail.com michelle.conroy@gnb.ca, Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca, wharrison@nbpower.com, jfurey@nbpower.com, andrea.anderson-mason@gnb.ca Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-debt-presentation-mlas-untrue-1.5015174 David Amos Methinks the EUB's lawyer Ellen Desmond needs to explain to me how Mr Jones got a tape of a hearing and play it on the radio while I have been denied the right to have a tape of my own words that have been transcribed for the EUB improperly N'esy Pas? "At hearings last April, Ellen Desmond, the EUB's lawyer, questioned Darren Murphy, NB Power vice-president, in detail about whether the utility's profits are too low and its debt retirement schedule too slow. She suggested the utility consider reducing its spending to generate higher profits in years its financial projections are coming up short. "Why not perhaps delay spending where necessary to meet other objectives, including your reduction in net debt which we have heard a lot about in the last three years," said Desmond. "I mean if that is a priority, if that is a target, why not perhaps adjust the plan? Why not adjust that so that we can see reduction -- larger reductions on the net debt? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 11:52:31 +0000 Subject: RE: Attn Ellen C. Desmond Q.C and Minister Rick Doucet Funny how one has to wait until the crooked bastards take a vacation before their computers will act ethically EH? 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Jones <Robert.Jones@cbc.ca>; Gilles.Moreau <Gilles.Moreau@forces.gc.ca>; Gilles.Blinn <Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>; ethics-ethique <ethics-ethique@rcmp-grc.gc.ca> Subject: Re: Attn Ellen C. Desmond Q.C and Minister Rick Doucet Funny how one has to wait until the crooked bastards take a vacation before their computers will act ethically EH? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Furey, John"<JFurey@nbpower.com> Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 05:10:04 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: EXT - Funny how one has to wait until the crooked bastards take a vacation before their computers will act ethically EH? To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> I am away from my office until Monday, July 30, 2018, and unable to access my email. I will respond to your message on my return to the office. If your message is urgent, please contact my assistant, Janet Campbell, at JCampbell@nbpower.com. ________________________________ This e-mail communication (including any or all attachments) is intended only for the use of the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, any use, review, retransmission, distribution, dissemination, copying, printing, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this e-mail, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender and delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof, immediately. Your co-operation is appreciated. Le présent courriel (y compris toute pièce jointe) s'adresse uniquement à son destinataire, qu'il soit une personne ou un organisme, et pourrait comporter des renseignements privilégiés ou confidentiels. 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Thank you ________________________________ This e-mail communication (including any or all attachments) is intended only for the use of the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, any use, review, retransmission, distribution, dissemination, copying, printing, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this e-mail, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender and delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof, immediately. Your co-operation is appreciated. Le présent courriel (y compris toute pièce jointe) s'adresse uniquement à son destinataire, qu'il soit une personne ou un organisme, et pourrait comporter des renseignements privilégiés ou confidentiels. Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire du courriel, il est interdit d'utiliser, de revoir, de retransmettre, de distribuer, de disséminer, de copier ou d'imprimer ce courriel, d'agir en vous y fiant ou de vous en servir de toute autre façon. Si vous avez reçu le présent courriel par erreur, prière de communiquer avec l'expéditeur et d'éliminer l'original du courriel, ainsi que toute copie électronique ou imprimée de celui-ci, immédiatement. Nous sommes reconnaissants de votre collaboration. On 5/6/18, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps you should ask Henneberry’s Reporting Service about this > yourself? This is the text of your letters to me last month and four > years ago Correct? > > April 17, 2018 > > VIA EMAIL > > Mr. David Amos > Dear Mr. Amos > > Re: Right to Information and Protection of Privacy ActRequest for > information > > This will acknowledge your request for “a true copy of the recording > of the Public Hearing held on the evening of February 7, 2018”, in > connection with Board Matter 375. > > Please be advised that the recording is not in the possession of the > New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board (Board) nor is it under the > Board’s control. The recording is prepared and controlled by > Henneberry’s Reporting Service. > > We do note that a copy of the transcript can be found on the Board’s > website at www.nbeub.ca. > > Yours truly, > Ellen C. Desmond, Q.C. > Director, Legal and Administration > > > ---------- Original message ---------- > From: "Doucet, Rick (LEG)"<Rick.Doucet@gnb.ca> > Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 01:07:58 +0000 > Subject: RE: Final Docs > To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > > Will get right on this. > Always look forward to your brilliant thoughts. > R > > Hon.Rick Doucet > Legislative member for Charlotte-the isles > 28 Mt.Pleasant Rd. > St.George, N.B. E5C 3K4 > > Phone / Téléphone : 506-755-4200 > Fax / Télécopieur : 506-755-4207 > E-mail / Courriel : rick.doucet@gnb.ca > > > This message is intended for the person to whom it is addressed and is > to be treated as confidential or private communications. It must not > be forwarded unless permission has been received from the originator. > If you have received this message inadvertently, please notify the > sender and delete the message. Then delete your response. Thank you > for your cooperation. > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Ce message est destiné à la personne désignée dans la présente et il > doit demeurer confidentiel. Il ne doit pas être réacheminé sans la > permission de l’expéditeur. Si ce message vous a été envoyé par > erreur, veuillez aviser l’expéditeur et effacer le message. Effacez > ensuite votre réponse. Merci de votre collaboration. > > I will never understand why your friends in Henneberry’s Reporting > Service won't get back to me or why they took so long to produce a > transcript of the Public Session in the first place. The public > session was not much over an hour in duration. Yet Henneberry’s > Reporting Service can provide a transcript of a full day of a hearing > almost overnight if they wish to. (Although I see no record of the > transcripts for May the 2nd and 3rd as of yet) > Furthermore there is one statement I found in the transcript of the > Public Session that the EUB offers to the public which I have no > recollection of whatsoever. It is the main reason why I want a true > copy of the recording of the hearing. It certainly appears to me that > you people are attempting to make me seem to be some kind of nut. > Also for the record I did not say "Dead Bernie" as the transcript > falsely claims. I said the name of a former Chairman of the Board of > NB Power, Derek Burney. > On October 30th, 2017 your friend Mr Furey filed a submission in this > matter as "APPENDIX"G" (Hereto attached) It is a true copy of the > cover letter I sent to Burney and many others in 2006 along with a > many documents and a CD. My actions in Federal Court since 2015 that > Mr. Furey laments about easily prove that I am very willing to argue > every word of my evidence of public corruption. > Derek Burney and NB Power lawyers have ever answered me to this very > day. Other than Mr. Furey having me illegally barred as an Intervener > and the EUB answering a freedom of information request I have been > deliberately ignored since 2006. Need I say I was not impressed with > the ethics of all the other Interveners when they said nothing about > the EUB very questionable actions against me on October 31st, 2018? > The EUB never even bothered with its protocol in order to ask any of > the other Interveners about their actions that day. I truly believe > that is because you and all the other lawyers did not want your > opinion of me recorded in the public record Correct? What if such > malicious nonsense had happened to you or any other lawyer involved in > the 375 matter? I bet you people would have filed a lawsuit > immediately. > Obviously I have sent the Former Chairan of the Boeard of NB Power > this email as well as most of the other people named within my > documents that Mr. Furey filed as "APPENDIX"G" > http://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/people/42473/derekhburney > Derek H. Burney, OC, LLD > Senior Strategic Advisor > Ottawa > T: 613.780.8657 > derek.burney@nortonrosefulbright.com > > Veritas Vincit > David Raymond Amos > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)"<Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca> > Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 19:48:30 +0000 > Subject: RE: RE Request for information Attn Ellen C. Desmond Q.C. > To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > > Thank you for writing to the Premier of New Brunswick. Please be > assured that your email will be reviewed. > > If this is a media request, please forward your email to > media-medias@gnb.camedia-medias@gnb.ca >. Thank you! > > ********************************* > > Nous vous remercions d’avoir communiqué avec le premier ministre du > Nouveau-Brunswick. Soyez assuré(e) que votre courriel sera examiné. > > Si ceci est une demande médiatique, prière de la transmettre à > media-medias@gnb.camedia-medias@gnb.ca>. Merci! > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca> > Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 12:00:39 +0000 > Subject: RE: RE Request for information Attn Ellen C. Desmond Q.C. > To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > Cc: NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca> > > Thank you for your email to the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board. > > * > > La Commission de l’énergie et des services publics du > Nouveau-Brunswick vous remercie pour votre courriel. > > > > New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board > Commission de l’énergie et des services publics du Nouveau-Brunswick > general@nbeub.ca > Telephone : (506) 658-2504 > Fax/Télécopieur : (506) 643-7300 > > > Confidentiality Notice > This private message (and any attachments) is for the exclusive use of > the individual for whom, or entity for which, it is intended. It may > contain information that is privileged, confidential or exempt from > disclosure by law. Its author does not waive the protection afforded > to it under applicable law. Disclosure to anyone other than the > intended recipient does not constitute waiver of privilege. Its > possession or usage, by any person other than the one for whom it is > intended, is not authorized by its author and is strictly prohibited. > If you have received this communication in error, please notify us > immediately, at our expense, by telephone at (506) 658-2504. Also, if > you received this email in error, delete it and any attachments from > your computer system and records. Thank you. > > Avis de confidentialité > Ce message privé (et toutes les pièces jointes) est à l'usage exclusif > de la personne pour laquelle ou entité pour laquelle, il est destiné. > Il peut contenir des informations qui sont personnelles, > confidentielles ou exemptées de la divulgation par la loi. Son auteur > ne renonce pas à la protection accordée en vertu de la loi applicable. > Sa divulgation à toute personne autre que son destinataire ne > constitue pas une renonciation de privilège. Sa possession ou > l'utilisation, par une personne autre que celle pour laquelle il est > destiné, n'est pas autorisée par son auteur et est strictement > interdite. Si vous recevez cette communication par erreur, veuillez > nous appeler dans les plus brefs délais, à frais virés, au (506) > 658-2504. Aussi, si vous avez reçu ce courriel par erreur, veuillez > effacer ce courriel, ainsi que les pièces jointes, de votre système > informatique et de vos dossiers. Merci. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Amos [mailto:motomaniac333@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 4:48 PM > To: NBPRegulatory@nbpower.com; Mitchell, Kathleen > <Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca>; david.sollows@gnb.ca; > Gilles.volpe@enbridge.com; Paul.Volpe@enbridge.com; > dave.lavigne@enbridge.com; Hoyt, Len <len.hoyt@mcinnescooper.com>; > jeffery.callaghan@mcinnescooper.com; rzarumba@ceadvisors.com; > bdavis@ceadvisors.com; toneill@ceadvisors.com; > KissPartyofNB@gmail.com; hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com; > cstewart@stewartmckelvey.com; Furey, John <JFurey@nbpower.com>; > Harrison, Wanda <WHarrison@nbpower.com>; Russell, Stephen > <SRussell@nbpower.com>; Connelly Bosse, Natacha > <NConnellyBosse@nbpower.com>; Lawton, John <John.Lawton@nbeub.ca>; > Desmond, Ellen <ecdesmond@nbeub.ca>; Dickie, Michael > <Michael.Dickie@nbeub.ca>; Young, Dave <Dave.Young@nbeub.ca>; > NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca>; twoolf@synapse-energy.com; > ktakahashi@synapse-energy.com; anapoleon@synapse-energy.com; > ahopkins@synapse-energy.com; jmarusiak@synapse-energy.com; > chris_r_31@hotmail.com; heather.black@gnb.ca; rdk@indecon.com; > avitulli@indecon.com; efinamore@valutechsolutions.com; > rrichard@nb.aibn.com; leblanc.daniel.m@gmail.com; > sussexsharingclub@nb.aibn.com; jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com; > dan.dionne@perth-andover.com; pierreroy@edmundston.ca; > ray.robinson@sjenergy.com; marta.kelly@sjenergy.com; > sstoll@airdberlis.com; pzarnett@bdrenergy.com; Andrew Logan > <Andrew.Logan@tsdca.com>; john.logan <john.logan@gnb.ca>; rick.doucet > <rick.doucet@gnb.ca>; chris.collins <chris.collins@gnb.ca>; > brian.gallant <brian.gallant@gnb.ca>; tj <tj@burkelaw.ca>; dan. > bussieres <dan.bussieres@gnb.ca>; serge.rousselle > <serge.rousselle@gnb.ca> > Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>; > davidcoon@greenpartynb.ca; sheppardmargo@gmail.com; > carmen.budilean@greenpartynb.ca; Robert. Jones <Robert.Jones@cbc.ca>; > Gilles.Moreau <Gilles.Moreau@forces.gc.ca>; Gilles.Blinn > <Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>; ethics-ethique > <ethics-ethique@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>; Brenda.Lucki > <Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca> > Subject: RE Request for information Attn Ellen C. Desmond Q.C. > > Ms Desmond > > Thanks for finally admitting that I exist after eleven very long years. > > However I don't believe you. > > I have no doubt whatsoever if you or any other lawyer involved with > NBEUB matters required a tape of a public hearing you would have it > nearly instantly > > Veritas Vincit > David Raymond Amos > 902 800 0369 > > On 4/17/18, NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca> wrote: >> Good afternoon, >> >> Please see the attached letter from the New Brunswick Energy and >> Utilities Board. >> >> Regards, >> >> N.B. Energy and Utilities Board >> Commission de l'énergie et des services publics du N.-B. >> 15 Market Square - Suite 1400 >> P.O. Box 5001/C.P. 5001 >> Saint John, NB E2L 4Y9 >> Telephone : 506-658-2504 >> Fax/Télécopieur : 506-643-7300 >> Email : general@nbeub.cageneral@nbeub.ca> / Courriel : >> general@cespnb.cageneral@cespnb.ca> >> Website: www.nbeub.ca<http://www.nbeub.ca/> / Site Web : >> www.cespnb.ca<http://www.cespnb.ca/> >> >> Confidentiality Notice This private message (and any attachments) is >> for the exclusive use of the individual for whom, or entity for which, >> it is intended. It may contain information that is privileged, >> confidential or exempt from disclosure by law. Its author does not >> waive the protection afforded to it under applicable law. Disclosure >> to anyone other than the intended recipient does not constitute waiver >> of privilege. Its possession or usage, by any person other than the >> one for whom it is intended, is not authorized by its author and is >> strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in >> error, please notify us immediately, at our expense, by telephone at >> (506) 658-2504. Also, if you received this email in error, delete it >> and any attachments from your computer system and records. Thank you. >> >> Avis de confidentialité >> Ce message privé (et toutes les pièces jointes) est à l'usage exclusif >> de la personne pour laquelle ou entité pour laquelle, il est destiné. >> Il peut contenir des informations qui sont personnelles, >> confidentielles ou exemptées de la divulgation par la loi. Son auteur >> ne renonce pas à la protection accordée en vertu de la loi applicable. >> Sa divulgation à toute personne autre que son destinataire ne >> constitue pas une renonciation de privilège. Sa possession ou >> l'utilisation, par une personne autre que celle pour laquelle il est >> destiné, n'est pas autorisée par son auteur et est strictement >> interdite. Si vous recevez cette communication par erreur, veuillez >> nous appeler dans les plus brefs délais, à frais virés, au (506) >> 658-2504. Aussi, si vous avez reçu ce courriel par erreur, veuillez >> effacer ce courriel, ainsi que les pièces jointes, de votre système >> informatique et de vos dossiers. Merci. >> >> > > > ---------- Original message ---------- > From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 08:56:44 -0400 > Subject: Attn Andrew Logan RE NBEUB, NB Power and your upcoming report > on KPMG's secretive work > To: andrew.logan@tsdca.com > Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > > Good Day Sir > > I just called and you did not pick up so I left a message with your > assistant. > > Your name came up during the hearing I attended on April 3rd, 2018 > Clearly I have studied you a bit. Now its your turn to check me out. I > believe I am being fair. Trust that there is much more for you to know > before you create a report on KPMG's work. > > > Please view attachments and ask me anything you wish. > > I sent you and many others an email this weekend that was acknowledged > by the board this morning and I published it within my blog. > > http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2018/04/i-bet-nb-power-and-many-lawyers-such-as.html > > Thursday, 5 April 2018 > > I bet NB Power and many lawyers such as Michael Dixon are cursing me > about now N'esy Pas? > > Now I will try to talk to you before publishing this email. Quite > frankly I want to see how you respond to me on a personal level before > Mr Furey and the other lawyers advise you to ignore my concerns. Some > of which you will find below. > > Veritas Vincit > David Raymond Amos > 902 800 0369 > > https://www.teedsaundersdoyle.com/our-team/show/19 > > Andrew Logan Partner > Saint John > (506) 633-9572 > > andrew.logan@tsdca.com > > Andrew Logan is all about helping people. His profession involves > work that builds personal connections, and that makes sense for this > guy who was born and raised in Saint John. He’s a CPA with more than > 30 years experience, and he came to Teed Saunders Doyle 20 years ago > looking to work with small and medium-sized businesses. He loves his > work, especially on the days he can ride his Harley Davidson to the > office. > > First things first. > > http://www.nbeub.ca/images/documents/2009-06-26-Report-3-Percent-E.pdf > > Whereas you were involved with making a report on the PDVSA matter, I > should inform you that I took an interest in it before I ran in the > election of the 39th Parliament and the comment section of Charles > Leblanc's old blog from 12 years ago affirms it; > > http://oldmaison.blogspot.ca/2006/04/roomers-truly-have-no-rights.html > > March 24, 2006 > > Michael “Tanker” Malley > C/o Cleveland Allaby > 480 Queen Street > Suite # 200 > Fredericton NB. E3B 1B6 > > Simpson Thacher & Barlett LLP > C/o Derek Burney > Chair of the Board of Directors of NB Power > 515 King Street Fredricton, NB E3B 4X1 > > Jody Carr > C/o Paul Blackmore > Chestnut Complex > 470 York Street > Fredericton, NBE3B 3P7 > > Patrick A.A. Ryan > Edgecombe House > 736 King Street > Fredericton, NB E3B 1G2 > Re: Public Corruption > > Sirs, > > Pursuant to my many phone calls and email to your offices please find > enclosed the material I promised to you before I file my complaints in > Federal Court in Fredericton. The CD which is a true copy of wiretap > tape number 139 is served upon you all in confidence as officers of > the court in order that it may be investigated byway of my suing the > Crown. > > While Norm Betts and Derek Burney’s buddy Stevey Boy Harper is busy in > New Brunswick today trying hard to shore up the shaky government of > Jody Carr’s buddy, Bernie Lord with long delayed federal tax dollars. > I am polishing off my promises to crooked lawyers in the hope that the > very corrupt House crumbles ASAP. If not maybe President Chavez will > help me bankrupt the crooks working within NB Power within a crooked > government’s blessing. Methinks Tanker will need another lawyer if the > one he has now continues to play dumb. Lord paid Allaby a lot of money > to study the doings of the Justice Dept a long time ago. He should > understand the scene. > > Shame on you all for forcing me to go to such lengths to protect my > rights under the Charter. Methinks you have underestimated my > diligence EH? Now ask yourselves why I don’t sue you after I sue the > Crown? I fail to see any reason not to. That is the only way I know of > to hold such people as you accountable. Stevey Boy Harper never will > even though he talks the talk of such things. Everybody knows what I > served upon his party’s lawyer Arthur Hamilton before I was falsely > imprisoned in the USA in 2004. > > Despite whatever Act our latest Prime Minister wishes to introduce to > the Canadian people that he claims will compel our government to act > with integrity, he can never deny my right to drag anyone into court. > In fact he has done so himself in the past and I am no less of a man > than he. Even a simple pigheaded Maritimer has the right to argue the > law even with people who think themselves above it. How you all have > failed to uphold the law and the public trust placed in your public > office is either a matter of public record or soon shall be or my name > ain’t Dave. There is no Democracy without Truth and Justice. It is > just that simple. > > Thats all for now fellas. I look forward to seeing you all in court > someday or I will die trying to make it happen in an ethical fashion. > It is just another one of those things I do that lawyers fail to > appreciate. Ask your friends why that is if you don’t already know. > > Veritas Vincit > David Raymond Amos > P.O. Box 234 > Apohaqui, NB. E5P 3G2 > > Hey Mr. Costello > Need I say I was not impressed by you yesterday. At least you > confessed that you knew who I was but so much for a jealous defense of > your client’s interests. EH? That said there is no need to send you > hard copy of my material. Your associates within McInnes Cooper > already have enough to review and confer with you about. > Perhaps you should call the dudes or ladies (: Tell them how I chuck > rocks will ya? from Patterson Palmer in Halifax that merged with your > firm or better yet Lenny Hoyt and Franky Boy McKenna. In my humble > opinion your little buddy Franky Boy as Canadian Ambassador should > have tried to stop NB Power’s malicious lawsuit against Venezeula in > the USA before it picked up steam. But what do I know. EH? I think the > dudes from Venezeula were wise to bring the issues back to the > Maritimes and into the Irvings’ lap. I think it was a hoot that they > employed your firm to do so. What say you? > > Whereas you do not wish to speak to me I will speak to these dudes > about you, > > Embassy of Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, > 32 Range Rd > Ottawa Ontario > K1N 8J4, > Phone: 613 235-5151 > > and then send them what I sent Allan Rock Franky Boy Mckenna and the > FBI almost one year ago. Perhaps you should call some of your friends > mentioned below that I served my stuff upon yesterday after I talked > to you and ask them what the Hell I am up to if you don’t already > know. > > Veritas Vincit > David Raymond Amos > > P.S. the following was an interesting article to come out in the local > paper just as Humpty Dumpty had the Governor Gerneral drop the Writ on > the last election. It certainly seems to me that the Irving’s and > Bernie Lord were trying hard to help Stevey Boy Harper’s government > and John Wallace get elected in order to protect their own selfish > interests. EH? If he won’t tell ya then ask me why Franky Boy does not > want to be the liberal leader right now. I Double Dog Dare Ya. As I > said in closing yesterday you have my number but maybe the dudes from > Venezeula lost it so here it is again 506 434 1379. Your problem is do > I want to talk to you now. Whilst I am talking to your clients about > your incompetance I will explain to them why I am preparing to sue > your whole god damned law firm. > > November 25, 2005 > > Liberal leader ‘jeopardizing’ NB Power’s chances in lawsuit over > failed Orimulsion deal: Tory MLA > > New Brunswickers should question whether Liberal Leader Shawn Graham > is fighting for them or for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, says a > Tory MLA. Jody Carr, MLA for Oromocto-Gagetown, made the stinging > indictment against Mr.Graham Thursday during a heated committee > hearing where the Liberal leader took repeated swipes at David Hay, NB > Power’s president and chief executive officer, for failing to answer > legal questions regarding the utility’s Orimulsion lawsuit. > > Mr. Graham questioned some of the tactics being advanced by NB > Power’s legal staff and demanded to know how much the power > corporation budgeted for the legal battle against the Venezuelan > government and its state-owned oil company. > > Mr. Carr said the Liberal leader crossed the line in Thursday’s > committee hearing and could endanger NB Power’s lawsuit. “The issue is > complicated and it shows the issue is far over his head to what he can > comprehend,” Mr. Carr said in an interview later."He was in effect > working on the side of the Venezuelan government by jeopardizing the > court proceedings."He was jeopardizing the chances of government and > NB Power recouping the $2.2 billion in savings and therefore, in > essence, that put him on the other side.” > > NB Power restarted its lawsuit on Sept. 1, when it filed a statement > of claim looking for $2.2 billion in financial damages, which equates > to the price difference between purchasing heavy fuel oil to burn at > the Coleson Cove Generation Station and Orimulsion, a cheap > water-and-bitumen mixture patented by Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. > (PDVSA). > > NB Power has hired Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales to quarterback the > lawsuits filed in Fredericton and New York along with Simpson Thacher > & Bartlett LLP to serve as their U.S. counsel. Mr. Hay estimated that > the corporation has already spent as much as $600,000 on legal bills > relating to the Orimulsion lawsuit. > > The Liberal leader grew increasingly frustrated when Mr. Hay > stonewalled his attempt to get a firm answer on NB Power’s budget for > Orimulsion-related legal fees. “For the life of me I can’t understand > how it could jeopardize the court proceedings in saying how much we > are thinking this court challenge may cost,” > > Mr. Graham said.Throughout the committee session, Mr. Hay assured the > Liberal leader that the power corporation was evaluating the > risk-reward ratio at each legal “fork in the road.” > > Mr. Hay said he cannot disclose any details that could tip the > utility’s legal hand considering the Venezuelans are keeping a close > eye on the proceedings."We are dealing with people with extremely deep > pockets. And if you go to a poker game “... and you say, I have my > $1,000 here or whatever it is you are playing with, that gives an > advantage to the other side,” Mr. Hay said. > > Mr. Carr also accused Mr. Graham of misleading Saint John residents > about the Orimulsion costs during the recent byelection campaign in > Saint John Harbour. Mr. Carr said he found it disconcerting that > Liberal campaign signs said the Conservative government lost $2.2 > billion through the bungled Orimulsion fuel deal but now Mr. Graham > admits the money was a “potential loss of savings.” > > - Daniel McHardie - Canadaeast News Service Source: Telegraph-Journal > \| page A5 on Nov. 25, 2005 > > http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/junior-minister-left-to-defend-lord-s-comments-1.587503 > > Junior minister left to defend Lord's comments > CBC News · Posted: Feb 20, 2006 4:33 PM AT > > One of Bernard Lord's newest cabinet ministers is defending his boss > in the midst of a political firestorm that has left New Brunswick with > a minority government. > > A prominent Fredericton lawyer and long-time Tory supporter who found > himself caught up in the story is also demanding a personal apology > from the premier. > > Lord refused to comment on the situation Monday, but left his > newly-minted minister of post-secondary education and training, Jody > Carr, to tell CBC he's proud of his leader. > > Carr says he supports Lord's decison to hold a press conference about > a conversation he had with outgoing Conservative member Michael > (Tanker) Malley. > > "What Tanker said publicly is that he went Independent because the > Miramichi wasn't getting its fair share, and the premier felt that > that was contradicting the truth, and he wanted to lay the facts out." > > Malley quit the party Friday night to sit as an Independent, > frustrated that he was left out of cabinet and claiming that his > riding hasn't received enough support from Lord's government. > > Lord's Conservatives now hold 27 seats, the Liberals hold 26, with two > Independents Malley and Frank Branch. > > READ MALLEY'S LETTER OF RESIGNATION: 'I will no longer be taken > for granted,' Malley writes > > Lord responded to Malley's decision by holding a news conference on > Saturday, saying he had no regrets about the loss. Lord told reporters > that Malley demanded a number of unreasonable favours, including the > appointment of lawyer Cleveland Allaby to the bench as a provincial > court judge. > > "The first item on his list was to appoint his friend Cleveland Allaby > as judge of the province of New Brunswick," Lord said. > > But that was news to Allaby, who says he couldn't believe his ears > when he heard Lord had mentioned his name in connection with Malley's > defection. He says he never asked Malley to try to get him a judicial > appointment and is insulted at the suggestion. > > "I did not ask him to do that, and for him to assume that I'm behind > some nefarious plot if indeed that's what they talked about at the > meeting because we don't know I have real difficulty with that." > > Allaby, a staunch supporter of the party who once ran for the > leadership, admits Malley is a friend but says when he asked Malley > about this list of demands, Malley told him his conversations with the > premier were confidential and he couldn't tell him anything. > > Allaby says the premier could learn a lesson from Malley. "Let me know > what you're saying. Rather than this pot-shotting, this > cheap-shotting, this behind the backs, sneaky business that's going > on. Stand up and be a man." > > Allaby says he wants an apology directly from Lord, in person, face to > face and not over the phone. > > Liberal house leader Kelly Lamrock admits the turn of events has left > his party feeling like a hockey team that skates onto the ice to find > its opponents in a bench-clearing brawl, but says his caucus will > focus on the issues facing the province – and getting ready for the > next election. > > He says if Lord is dumb enough to blurt out Allaby's name to the media > and air his party's dirty laundry he'll enjoy the show. "I certainly > think when we vote in the upcoming [session of the] legislature we > will find there is little to be gained by letting a tired government, > ripped apart by infighting and not focused on the province, carry on." > > The Lord government could fall as soon as April 7, when the house is > expected to vote on Finance Minister Jeannot Volpé's spring budget. > > > Obviously I must ask before you created your report did you ever see > all the documents that accompanied this cover letter to NB Power's > Chairman of the Board in 2006? FYI the NB Power lawyers filed as > Appendix "G" in the 375 Matter as well > > www.nbeub.ca/opt/M/get_document.php?doc=176623&no=21329 > > What you may not know is that I asked your firm if they would audit my > records as per Elections Canada's rules as I ran in the Election of > the 42nd Parliament. Your firm refused me as is your right to do. > However I was truly amazed that nobdy would even some fancy people in > Toronto so I made a complaint to the the Glogal Oversight of the > accounting business and got a respnse. Months later obviously I found > an auditor who was not afraid of Mr Harper and his cohorts and managed > to run for Parliament again. Even though CBC ignored its > "Non-Partisan" mandate and denied that simple fact for the fifth time > Rogers TV did not. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)"<Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca> > Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 17:05:07 +0000 > Subject: RE: So what does Premier Gallant and Minister Doucet et al > think of my lawsuit? How about David Coon and his blogging buddy > Chucky joking about being illegally barred from parliamentary property > To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > > Thank you for writing to the Premier of New Brunswick. > Please be assured that your email has been received, will be reviewed, > and a response will be forthcoming. > Once again, thank you for taking the time to write. > > Merci d'avoir communiqué avec le premier ministre du Nouveau-Brunswick. > Soyez assuré que votre courriel a bien été reçu, qu'il sera examiné > et qu'une réponse vous sera acheminée. > Merci encore d'avoir pris de temps de nous écrire. > > Sincerely, / Sincèrement, > Mallory Fowler > Correspondence Manager / Gestionnaire de la correspondance > Office of the Premier / Cabinet du premier ministre > > > On 1/19/18, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com >>> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:32:09 -0400 >>> Subject: Attn Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C., >>> To: coi@gnb.ca >>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com >>> >>> Good Day Sir >>> >>> After I heard you speak on CBC I called your office again and managed >>> to speak to one of your staff for the first time >>> >>> Please find attached the documents I promised to send to the lady who >>> answered the phone this morning. Please notice that not after the Sgt >>> at Arms took the documents destined to your office his pal Tanker >>> Malley barred me in writing with an "English" only document. >>> >>> These are the hearings and the dockets in Federal Court that I >>> suggested that you study closely. >>> >>> This is the docket in Federal Court >>> >>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=T-1557-15&select_court=T >>> >>> These are digital recordings of the last three hearings >>> >>> Dec 14th https://archive.org/details/BahHumbug >>> >>> January 11th, 2016 https://archive.org/details/Jan11th2015 >>> >>> April 3rd, 2017 >>> >>> https://archive.org/details/April32017JusticeLeblancHearing >>> >>> >>> This is the docket in the Federal Court of Appeal >>> >>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=A-48-16&select_court=All >>> >>> >>> The only hearing thus far >>> >>> May 24th, 2017 >>> >>> https://archive.org/details/May24thHoedown >>> >>> >>> This Judge understnds the meaning of the word Integrity >>> >>> Date: 20151223 >>> >>> Docket: T-1557-15 >>> >>> Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 23, 2015 >>> >>> PRESENT: The Honourable Mr. Justice Bell >>> >>> BETWEEN: >>> >>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS >>> >>> Plaintiff >>> >>> and >>> >>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN >>> >>> Defendant >>> >>> ORDER >>> >>> (Delivered orally from the Bench in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on >>> December 14, 2015) >>> >>> The Plaintiff seeks an appeal de novo, by way of motion pursuant to >>> the Federal Courts Rules (SOR/98-106), from an Order made on November >>> 12, 2015, in which Prothonotary Morneau struck the Statement of Claim >>> in its entirety. >>> >>> At the outset of the hearing, the Plaintiff brought to my attention a >>> letter dated September 10, 2004, which he sent to me, in my then >>> capacity as Past President of the New Brunswick Branch of the Canadian >>> Bar Association, and the then President of the Branch, Kathleen Quigg, >>> (now a Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal). In that letter >>> he stated: >>> >>> As for your past President, Mr. Bell, may I suggest that you check the >>> work of Frank McKenna before I sue your entire law firm including you. >>> You are your brother’s keeper. >>> >>> Frank McKenna is the former Premier of New Brunswick and a former >>> colleague of mine at the law firm of McInnes Cooper. In addition to >>> expressing an intention to sue me, the Plaintiff refers to a number of >>> people in his Motion Record who he appears to contend may be witnesses >>> or potential parties to be added. Those individuals who are known to >>> me personally, include, but are not limited to the former Prime >>> Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper; former >>> Attorney General of Canada and now a Justice of the Manitoba Court of >>> Queen’s Bench, Vic Toews; former member of Parliament Rob Moore; >>> former Director of Policing Services, the late Grant Garneau; former >>> Chief of the Fredericton Police Force, Barry McKnight; former Staff >>> Sergeant Danny Copp; my former colleagues on the New Brunswick Court >>> of Appeal, Justices Bradley V. Green and Kathleen Quigg, and, retired >>> Assistant Commissioner Wayne Lang of the Royal Canadian Mounted >>> Police. >>> >>> In the circumstances, given the threat in 2004 to sue me in my >>> personal capacity and my past and present relationship with many >>> potential witnesses and/or potential parties to the litigation, I am >>> of the view there would be a reasonable apprehension of bias should I >>> hear this motion. See Justice de Grandpré’s dissenting judgment in >>> Committee for Justice and Liberty et al v National Energy Board et al, >>> [1978] 1 SCR 369 at p 394 for the applicable test regarding >>> allegations of bias. In the circumstances, although neither party has >>> requested I recuse myself, I consider it appropriate that I do so. >>> >>> >>> AS A RESULT OF MY RECUSAL, THIS COURT ORDERS that the Administrator of >>> the Court schedule another date for the hearing of the motion. There >>> is no order as to costs. >>> >>> “B. Richard Bell” >>> Judge >>> >>> >>> Below after the CBC article about your concerns (I made one comment >>> already) you will find the text of just two of many emails I had sent >>> to your office over the years since I first visited it in 2006. >>> >>> I noticed that on July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the the Court >>> Martial Appeal Court of Canada Perhaps you should scroll to the >>> bottom of this email ASAP and read the entire Paragraph 83 of my >>> lawsuit now before the Federal Court of Canada? >>> >>> "FYI This is the text of the lawsuit that should interest Trudeau the >>> most >>> >>> >>> ---------- Original message ---------- >>> From: justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca >>> Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:18 PM >>> Subject: Réponse automatique : RE My complaint against the CROWN in >>> Federal Court Attn David Hansen and Peter MacKay If you planning to >>> submit a motion for a publication ban on my complaint trust that you >>> dudes are way past too late >>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com >>> >>> Veuillez noter que j'ai changé de courriel. Vous pouvez me rejoindre à >>> lalanthier@hotmail.com >>> >>> Pour rejoindre le bureau de M. Trudeau veuillez envoyer un courriel à >>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca >>> >>> Please note that I changed email address, you can reach me at >>> lalanthier@hotmail.com >>> >>> To reach the office of Mr. Trudeau please send an email to >>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca >>> >>> Thank you, >>> >>> Merci , >>> >>> >>> http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2015/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html >>> >>> >>> 83. The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war >>> in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation to >>> allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over >>> five years after he began his bragging: >>> >>> January 13, 2015 >>> This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate >>> >>> December 8, 2014 >>> Why Canada Stood Tall! >>> >>> Friday, October 3, 2014 >>> Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And >>> Stupid Justin Trudeau >>> >>> Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide >>> behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts. >>> >>> When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean Chretien >>> actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second campaign >>> in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or contrary to >>> the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were >>> involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There were >>> significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the dearth >>> of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for >>> operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “last minute” >>> Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its mind. >>> The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not >>> deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a >>> Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins to >>> redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was >>> less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq. But >>> alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister Chretien’s >>> then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s >>> incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic, >>> professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle >>> Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway >>> campaign of 2006. >>> >>> What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that then >>> Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the >>> Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice, consent, >>> support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament. >>> >>> What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and babbling >>> chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment of >>> less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by planners >>> as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a >>> deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make. >>> >>> The Canadian Government or The Crown unlike our amerkan cousins have >>> the “constitutional authority” to commit the Canadian nation to war. >>> That has been recently clearly articulated to the Canadian public by >>> constitutional scholar Phillippe Legasse. What Parliament can do is >>> remove “confidence” in The Crown’s Government in a “vote of >>> non-confidence.” That could not happen to the Chretien Government >>> regarding deployment to Afghanistan, and it won’t happen in this >>> instance with the conservative majority in The Commons regarding a >>> limited Canadian deployment to the Middle East. >>> >>> President George Bush was quite correct after 911 and the terror >>> attacks in New York; that the Taliban “occupied” and “failed state” >>> Afghanistan was the source of logistical support, command and control, >>> and training for the Al Quaeda war of terror against the world. The >>> initial defeat, and removal from control of Afghanistan was vital and >>> >>> P.S. Whereas this CBC article is about your opinion of the actions of >>> the latest Minister Of Health trust that Mr Boudreau and the CBC have >>> had my files for many years and the last thing they are is ethical. >>> Ask his friends Mr Murphy and the RCMP if you don't believe me. >>> >>> Subject: >>> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:02:35 -0400 >>> From: "Murphy, Michael B. $DH/MS$"MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca >>> To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com >>> >>> January 30, 2007 >>> >>> WITHOUT PREJUDICE >>> >>> Mr. David Amos >>> >>> Dear Mr. Amos: >>> >>> This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29, >>> 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP. >>> >>> Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have >>> taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve >>> Graham of the RCMP “J” Division in Fredericton. >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> >>> Honourable Michael B. Murphy >>> Minister of Health >>> >>> CM/cb >>> >>> >>> Warren McBeath warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote: >>> >>> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500 >>> From: "Warren McBeath"warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca >>> To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca, >>> nada.sarkis@gnb.ca, wally.stiles@gnb.ca, dwatch@web.net, >>> motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com >>> CC: ottawa@chuckstrahl.com, riding@chuckstrahl.com,John.Foran@gnb.ca, >>> Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,"Bev BUSSON"bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, >>> "Paul Dube"PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca >>> Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has >>> forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have not >>> >>> Dear Mr. Amos, >>> >>> Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off >>> over the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured I >>> was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns. >>> >>> As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our position >>> is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process >>> testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the >>> Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these >>> services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this >>> instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done. >>> >>> As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false >>> imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear >>> that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada >>> the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment >>> and policing in Petitcodiac, NB. >>> >>> It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on >>> December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors. >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> >>> Warren McBeath, Cpl. >>> GRC Caledonia RCMP >>> Traffic Services NCO >>> Ph: (506) 387-2222 >>> Fax: (506) 387-4622 >>> E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca >>> >>> >>> >>> Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C., >>> Office of the Integrity Commissioner >>> Edgecombe House, 736 King Street >>> Fredericton, N.B. CANADA E3B 5H1 >>> tel.: 506-457-7890 >>> fax: 506-444-5224 >>> e-mail:coi@gnb.ca >>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com >>> Date: Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:35 AM >>> Subject: RE My complaint against the CROWN in Federal Court Attn David >>> Hansen and Peter MacKay If you planning to submit a motion for a >>> publication ban on my complaint trust that you dudes are way past too >>> late >>> To: David.Hansen@justice.gc.ca, peter.mackay@justice.gc.ca >>> peacock.kurt@telegraphjournal.com, mclaughlin.heather@dailygleaner.com, >>> david.akin@sunmedia.ca, robert.frater@justice.gc.ca, >>> paul.riley@ppsc-sppc.gc.ca, >>> greg@gregdelbigio.com, joyce.dewitt-vanoosten@gov.bc.ca, >>> joan.barrett@ontario.ca, jean-vincent.lacroix@gouv.qc.ca, >>> peter.rogers@mcinnescooper.com, mfeder@mccarthy.ca, mjamal@osler.com >>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, gopublic@cbc.ca, >>> Whistleblower@ctv.ca >>> >>> https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/14439/index.do >>> >>> http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/WebDocuments-DocumentsWeb/35072/FM030_Respondent_Attorney-General-of-Canada-on-Behalf-of-the-United-States-of-America.pdf >>> >>> http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2013/10/re-glen-greenwald-and-brazilian.html >>> >>> I repeat what the Hell do I do with the Yankee wiretapes taps sell >>> them on Ebay or listen to them and argue them with you dudes in >>> Feferal Court? >>> >>> Petey Baby loses all parliamentary privelges in less than a month but >>> he still supposed to be an ethical officer of the Court CORRECT? >>> >>> Veritas Vincit >>> David Raymond Amos >>> 902 800 0369 >>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com >>> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:10:14 -0400 >>> Subject: Yo Mr Bauer say hey to your client Obama and his buddies in >>> the USDOJ for me will ya? >>> To: RBauer@perkinscoie.com, sshimshak@paulweiss.com, >>> cspada@lswlaw.com, msmith@svlaw.com, bginsberg@pattonboggs.com, >>> gregory.craig@skadden.com, pm@pm.gc.ca, bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, >>> bob.rae@rogers.blackberry.net, MulcaT@parl.gc.ca, leader@greenparty.ca >>> Cc: alevine@cooley.com, david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, >>> michael.rothfeld@wsj.com, remery@ecbalaw.com >>> >>> QSLS Politics >>> By Location Visit Detail >>> Visit 29,419 >>> Domain Name usdoj.gov ? (U.S. Government) >>> IP Address 149.101.1.# (US Dept of Justice) >>> ISP US Dept of Justice >>> Location Continent : North America >>> Country : United States (Facts) >>> State : District of Columbia >>> City : Washington >>> Lat/Long : 38.9097, -77.0231 (Map) >>> Language English (U.S.) en-us >>> Operating System Microsoft WinXP >>> Browser Internet Explorer 8.0 >>> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET >>> CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2; >>> DI60SP1001) >>> Javascript version 1.3 >>> Monitor Resolution : 1024 x 768 >>> Color Depth : 32 bits >>> Time of Visit Nov 17 2012 6:33:08 pm >>> Last Page View Nov 17 2012 6:33:08 pm >>> Visit Length 0 seconds >>> Page Views 1 >>> Referring URL http://www.google.co...wwWJrm94lCEqRmovPXJg >>> Search Engine google.com >>> Search Words david amos bernie madoff >>> Visit Entry Page http://qslspolitics....-wendy-olsen-on.html >>> Visit Exit Page http://qslspolitics....-wendy-olsen-on.html >>> Out Click >>> Time Zone UTC-5:00 >>> Visitor's Time Nov 17 2012 12:33:08 pm >>> Visit Number 29,419 >>> >>> http://qslspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/03/david-amos-to-wendy-olsen-on.html >>> >>> >>> Could ya tell I am investigating your pension plan bigtime? Its >>> because no member of the RCMP I have ever encountered has earned it yet >>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com >>> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:36:04 -0400 >>> Subject: This is a brief as I can make my concerns Randy >>> To: randyedmunds@gov.nl.ca >>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com >>> >>> In a nutshell my concerns about the actions of the Investment Industry >>> affect the interests of every person in every district of every >>> country not just the USA and Canada. I was offering to help you with >>> Emera because my work with them and Danny Williams is well known and >>> some of it is over eight years old and in the PUBLIC Record. >>> >>> All you have to do is stand in the Legislature and ask the MInister of >>> Justice why I have been invited to sue Newfoundland by the >>> Conservatives >>> >>> >>> Obviously I am the guy the USDOJ and the SEC would not name who is the >>> link to Madoff and Putnam Investments >>> >>> Here is why >>> >>> http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=90f8e691-9065-4f8c-a465-72722b47e7f2 >>> >>> Notice the transcripts and webcasts of the hearing of the US Senate >>> Banking Commitee are still missing? Mr Emory should at least notice >>> Eliot Spitzer and the Dates around November 20th, 2003 in the >>> following file >>> >>> http://www.checktheevidence.com/pdf/2526023-DAMOSIntegrity-yea-right.-txt.pdf >>> >>> http://occupywallst.org/users/DavidRaymondAmos/ >>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: "Hansen, David"David.Hansen@justice.gc.ca >>> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 19:28:44 +0000 >>> Subject: RE: I just called again Mr Hansen >>> To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com >>> >>> Hello Mr. Amos, >>> >>> I manage the Justice Canada civil litigation section in the Atlantic >>> region. We are only responsible for litigating existing civil >>> litigation files in which the Attorney General of Canada is a named >>> defendant or plaintiff. If you are a plaintiff or defendant in an >>> existing civil litigation matter in the Atlantic region in which >>> Attorney General of Canada is a named defendant or plaintiff please >>> provide the court file number, the names of the parties in the action >>> and your question. I am not the appropriate contact for other >>> matters. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> David A. Hansen >>> Regional Director \| Directeur régional >>> General Counsel \|Avocat général >>> Civil Litigation and Advisory \| Contentieux des affaires civiles et >>> services de consultation >>> Department of Justice \| Ministère de la Justice >>> Suite 1400 – Duke Tower \| Pièce 1400 – Tour Duke >>> 5251 Duke Street \| 5251 rue Duke >>> Halifax, Nova Scotia \| Halifax, Nouvelle- Écosse >>> B3J 1P3 >>> david.hansen@justice.gc.ca >>> Telephone \| Téléphone (902) 426-3261 / Facsimile \| Télécopieur (902) >>> 426-2329 >>> This e-mail is confidential and may be protected by solicitor-client >>> privilege. Unauthorized distribution or disclosure is prohibited. If >>> you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us and delete >>> this entire e-mail. >>> Before printing think about the Environment >>> Thinking Green, please do not print this e-mail unless necessary. >>> Pensez vert, svp imprimez que si nécessaire. >>> >>> >>>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com >>>> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:23:24 -0300 >>>> Subject: ATTN FBI Special Agent Richard Deslauriers Have you talked to >>>> your buddies Fred Wyshak and Brian Kelly about the wiretap tapes YET? >>>> To: boston@ic.fbi.gov, washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, >>>> bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, >>>> Brian.Kelly@usdoj.gov, us.marshals@usdoj.gov, Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov, >>>> jcarney@carneybassil.com, bbachrach@bachrachlaw.net >>>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, birgittaj@althingi.is, >>>> shmurphy@globe.com, redicecreations@gmail.com >>>> >>>> FBI Boston >>>> One Center Plaza >>>> Suite 600 >>>> Boston, MA 02108 >>>> Phone: (617) 742-5533 >>>> Fax: (617) 223-6327 >>>> E-mail: Boston@ic.fbi.gov >>>> >>>> Hours >>>> Although we operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, our normal >>>> "walk-in" business hours are from 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday >>>> through Friday. If you need to speak with a FBI representative at any >>>> time other than during normal business hours, please telephone our >>>> office at (617) 742-5533. >>>> >>>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com >>>> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:20:20 -0300 >>>> Subject: Yo Fred Wyshak and Brian Kelly your buddy Whitey's trial is >>>> finally underway now correct? What the hell do I do with the wiretap >>>> tapes Sell them on Ebay? >>>> To: Brian.Kelly@usdoj.gov, us.marshals@usdoj.gov, >>>> Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov, jcarney@carneybassil.com, >>>> bbachrach@bachrachlaw.net, wolfheartlodge@live.com, shmurphy@globe.com, >>>> >> jonathan.albano@bingham.com, mvalencia@globe.com >>>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com, >>>> PATRICK.MURPHY@dhs.gov, rounappletree@aol.com >>>> >>>> http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/06/05/james-whitey-bulger-jury-selection-process-enters-second-day/KjS80ofyMMM5IkByK74bkK/story.html >>>> >>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/06/09/nsa-leak-guardian.html >>>> >>>> As the CBC etc yap about Yankee wiretaps and whistleblowers I must ask >>>> them the obvious question AIN'T THEY FORGETTING SOMETHING???? >>>> >>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vugUalUO8YY >>>> >>>> What the hell does the media think my Yankee lawyer served upon the >>>> USDOJ right after I ran for and seat in the 39th Parliament baseball >>>> cards? >>>> >>>> http://www.archive.org/details/FedsUsTreasuryDeptRcmpEtc >>>> >>>> http://archive.org/details/ITriedToExplainItToAllMaritimersInEarly2006 >>>> >>>> http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/2006/05/wiretap-tapes-impeach-bush.html >>>> >>>> http://www.archive.org/details/PoliceSurveilanceWiretapTape139 >>>> >>>> http://archive.org/details/Part1WiretapTape143 >>>> >>>> FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006 >>>> Senator Arlen Specter >>>> United States Senate >>>> Committee on the Judiciary >>>> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building >>>> Washington, DC 20510 >>>> >>>> Dear Mr. Specter: >>>> >>>> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man >>>> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters >>>> raised in the attached letter. >>>> >>>> Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wire tap >>>> tapes. >>>> >>>> I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this previously. >>>> >>>> Very truly yours, >>>> Barry A. Bachrach >>>> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403 >>>> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003 >>>> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "David Amos"david.raymond.amos@gmail.com >>>> To: "Rob Talach"rtalach@ledroitbeckett.com >>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 10:59 PM >>>> Subject: Re: Attn Robert Talach and I should talk ASAP about my suing >>>> the Catholic Church Trust that Bastarache knows why >>>> >>>> The date stamp on about page 134 of this old file of mine should mean >>>> a lot to you >>>> >>>> http://www.checktheevidence.com/pdf/2619437-CROSS-BORDER-txt-.pdf >>>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com >>>> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:37:08 -0400 >>>> Subject: To Hell with the KILLER COP Gilles Moreau What say you NOW >>>> Bernadine Chapman?? >>>> To: Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, phil.giles@statcan.ca, >>>> maritme_malaise@yahoo.ca, Jennifer.Nixon@ps-sp.gc.ca, >>>> bartman.heidi@psic-ispc.gc.ca, Yves.J.Marineau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, >>>> david.paradiso@erc-cee.gc.ca, desaulniea@smtp.gc.ca, >>>> denise.brennan@tbs-sct.gc.ca, anne.murtha@vac-acc.gc.ca, >>>> webo@xplornet.com, julie.dickson@osfi-bsif.gc.ca, >>>> rod.giles@osfi-bsif.gc.ca, flaherty.j@parl.gc.ca, toewsv1@parl.gc.ca, >>>> Nycole.Turmel@parl.gc.ca,Clemet1@parl.gc.ca, maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca, >>>> >> oig@sec.gov, whistleblower@finra.org, whistle@fsa.gov.uk, >>>> david@fairwhistleblower.ca >>>> Cc: j.kroes@interpol.int, david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, >>>> bernadine.chapman@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca, >>>> Juanita.Peddle@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, oldmaison@yahoo.com, >>>> Wayne.Lang@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Robert.Trevors@gnb.ca, >>>> ian.fahie@rcmp-grc.gc.ca> >>>> >>>> http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/nb/news-nouvelles/media-medias-eng.htm >>>> >>>> http://nb.rcmpvet.ca/Newsletters/VetsReview/nlnov06.pdf >>>> >>>> From: Gilles Moreau Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca >>>> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:03:22 -0500 >>>> Subject: Re: Lets ee if the really nasty Newfy Lawyer Danny Boy >>>> Millions will explain this email to you or your boss Vic Toews EH >>>> Constable Peddle??? >>>> To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com >>>> >>>> Please cease and desist from using my name in your emails. >>>> >>>> Gilles Moreau, Chief Superintendent, CHRP and ACC >>>> Director General >>>> HR Transformation >>>> 73 Leikin Drive, M5-2-502 >>>> Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R2 >>>> >>>> Tel 613-843-6039 >>>> Cel 613-818-6947 >>>> >>>> Gilles Moreau, surintendant principal, CRHA et ACC >>>> Directeur général de la Transformation des ressources humaines >>>> 73 Leikin, pièce M5-2-502 >>>> Ottawa, ON K1A 0R2 >>>> >>>> tél 613-843-6039 >>>> cel 613-818-6947 >>>> gilles.moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca >>>> >> > https://twitter.com/DavidRayAmos/with_replies David Raymond Amos‏ @DavidRayAmos Replying to @DavidRayAmos @Kathryn98967631 and 49 others Methinks the EUB needs to explain to me how Mr Jones got a tape of a hearing to play on the radio while I have been denied the right to have a tape of my words that were improperly transcribed N'esy Pas? https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/02/nb-power-debt-claim-to-mlas-appears-to.html #nbpoli #cdnpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-debt-presentation-mlas-untrue-1.5015174 NB Power debt claim to MLAs appears to be untrue 45 Comments David Amos David Amos Methinks the EUB's lawyer Ellen Desmond needs to explain to me how Mr Jones got a tape of a hearing and play it on the radio while I have been denied the right to have a tape of my own words that have been transcribed for the EUB improperly N'esy Pas? "At hearings last April, Ellen Desmond, the EUB's lawyer, questioned Darren Murphy, NB Power vice-president, in detail about whether the utility's profits are too low and its debt retirement schedule too slow. She suggested the utility consider reducing its spending to generate higher profits in years its financial projections are coming up short. "Why not perhaps delay spending where necessary to meet other objectives, including your reduction in net debt which we have heard a lot about in the last three years," said Desmond. "I mean if that is a priority, if that is a target, why not perhaps adjust the plan? Why not adjust that so that we can see reduction -- larger reductions on the net debt?" Roger Richard Roger Richard @David Amos I would like to know too. Paul Bourgoin Shawn Tabor What a bunch of B/S, and they know it. Need Premier Ford to get rid of a few at the TOP. Harold Benson Harold Benson @Shawn Tabor Might be a problem with the arrogance there. Seems like they tell the Gov't what to do and where to go, like most crown corporations. T.J. Jacob T.J. Jacob @Shawn Tabor I fail to see how Ford can do anything as he's the premier of Ontario and not New Brunswick... Alexandre Hilton Alexandre Hilton @T.J. Jacob What a great ostrich impression! David Amos David Amos @Shawn Tabor YUP David Amos David Amos @Alexandre Hilton "What a great ostrich impression!" Methinks you are pretty good at it too N'esy Pas? David Amos David Amos @T.J. Jacob Methinks you know as well as I that is not what my friend meant N'esy Pas? Paul Bourgoin Aaron Allison Time for a Forensic Audit by the AG, and Time to clean house starting at the top. David Amos David Amos @Aaron Allison "Time for a Forensic Audit by the AG" I have been saying that for years and It was recorded by the EUB last week as NB Power was having me booted again as an Intervener. I have the transcript now lets see if they will give me a copy of the tape of what I said this time Paul Bourgoin Ned MacAllister N.B. Power is top heavy in snouts in the trough. Clean house and promote from within around the $135,000 to $160,000 range. David Amos David Amos @Ned MacAllister I agree Paul Bourgoin Roy Kirk Standard operating procedure for this bunch. When before the regulator, you blame the politicians and their interference for your inability to perform. When before the politicians you blame the regulator! The one thing you never, ever do is accept any blame yourself. :-( David Amos David Amos @Roy Kirk I agree Paul Bourgoin June Arnott Gaetan Thomas doesn’t seem to have any clue as to what is going on. When are we ever going to get someone in charge who knows what’s going on and will take action? David Amos David Amos @June Arnott Likely never. Methinks if they appointed an ethical soul with two clues between his ears the politicians would lose their cash cow N'esy Pas? Paul Bourgoin Paul Bourgoin Who, Why, or what is holding back NB-POWER from making profits? Who benefited from NB-Power decision of loosing, limiting NB electricity Profits? Who within the NB government initiated and approved such a money loosing deal? Where is the paper work? Who will pay the costs of such public generosity? Joe Public or his children? David Amos David Amos @Paul Bourgoin Its all Pure D BS Dan Flanagan Dan Flanagan @Paul Bourgoin Politicians are responsible because they don't want to lose votes due to rate increases. NB Power is also to blame because they are mostly ex-politicians. How can you run a viable corporation with people that have no financial experience? At a modest 6% interest rate, just paying the interest costs $276 million a year. Rosco holt Rosco holt @Paul Bourgoin Politicians rigged NBPower to not show profit. Friends/ backers of politicians/ party benefit. Government of that day. The paperwork has been shredded and thrown out. Residential clients (Joe Public and their future progeny) will always pay. David Amos David Amos @Rosco holt Methinks all the politicians know I have been doing my best to expose it the corruption of NB Power within the EUB while everyone laughs at my efforts but I may get the last laugh when I put the issues before a real court N'esy Pas? David Amos David Amos @David Amos Methinks Mr Higgs and his Minister Mr Holland should have noticed long ago that my friend Roger Richard and I are not laughing in this photo N'esy Pas? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/eub-hearings-nb-power-smart-meters-1.4529640 Paul Bourgoin Dan Flanagan Politicians are responsible because they don't want to lose votes due to rate increases. NB Power is also to blame because they are mostly ex-politicians. How can you run a viable corporation with people that have no financial experience? At a modest 6% interest rate, just paying the interest costs $294 million a year. David Amos David Amos @Dan Flanagan "At a modest 6% interest rate, just paying the interest costs $294 million a year." Methinks that is not chump change but they are making a lot of chumps pay it At least the EUB knows that I am one chump who does not appreciate their malicious antics against me N'esy Pas? Paul Bourgoin Paul Bourgoin NB POWER should be obligated to make public all customers, commercial, Industrial or Residential that receive from NB POWER a special cheaper rate for their electricity and who authorized the sweetheart deal.. David Amos David Amos @Paul Bourgoin The Yankees know the score ask Wilbur Ross Jef Cronkhite Jef Cronkhite Is anyone else sick and tired of NB Power's consistent mismanagement and ridiculous excuses? Forget the EUB, we need a civilian oversight panel with the power to over-rule Thomas and his "Old Boys Club". Government oversight is quite obviously FAILING..... Rosco holt Rosco holt @Jef Cronkhite "Government oversight is quite obviously FAILING....." Government is the problem. David Amos David Amos @Rosco holt BINGO stephen blunston stephen blunston lets get rid of Thomas and all the fools running things in Fredericton be fired and replaced with someone who knows what they are doing, because after all this time and they keep saying the same BS but keep giving themselves raises and bonuses for not doing their jobs and making their targets . sick and tired of no one being held accountable at this crown corp David Amos David Amos @stephen blunston " sick and tired of no one being held accountable at this crown corp" Methinks you are not alone N'esy Pas? Repair Guy Repair Guy So maybe Mr. Thomas and NBPower could help rate payers out and explain which parts of his statements we are supposed to believe/take literally and which parts we can ignore. Thanks! David Amos David Amos @Repair Guy Methinks it would be easier to merely boil things down and believe nothing he says N'esy Pas? For instance do you really think Thomas is going to consult with us about smart meters when his lawyer informed the EUB last week that they will making another stab at it with them in short order? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/smart-meters-nb-power-1.4973785 NB Power launches PR campaign for revived smart meter plan CBC News · Posted: Jan 10, 2019 7:19 PM AT 135 comments David R. Amos @Stephanie Haslam I repeat folks need to download the transcripts of the EUB hearings from last year if they are truly concerned about smart meter coming to New Brunswick (BTW they are already in Saint John) David R. Amos @Stephanie Haslam Please pay particular attention to the work of my friend Roger Richard https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-rate-hearing-eub-1.4544322 "Several self-represented participants have been taking turns questioning NB Power's plans on an equal footing with lawyers hired by companies, like J.D. Irving Ltd. and Enbridge Gas New Brunswick, and municipal utilities like Saint John Energy. Gently guided on proper procedure by Beaulieu, non-professional participants have had free rein to have a say. Anti-smart meter activist and St. Louis de Kent dentist Roger Richard, left, and environmentalist Daniel LeBlanc spent hours questioning NB Power witnesses. (Robert Jones/CBC NEWS) Those participants include environmentalist Chris Rouse, anti-smart meter activist and St. Louis de Kent dentist Roger Richard and political hopeful Gerald Bourque, the leader of the fledgling KISS N.B. Political Party. They've been able to submit evidence, call witnesses and cross-examine NB Power executives and others and make motions." Roger Richard Roger Richard @David Amos I am hoping that things can change with enough work. Your help is most appreciated Mr. Amos. David Amos David Amos @Roger Richard Methinks you will enjoy your next email n'esy pas mon ami? Fred Brewer Fred Brewer It's been 35 years since the regulator ordered NB Power to bring all of its customer categories in line with the true cost of providing power. In other words the regulator wanted NB Power to end the practice where they charge some customers high rates so that other customers can be subsidized. 35 years later, not much headway has been made. This proves to me that NB Power can flagrantly disobey the regulator without any consequences. This has to stop now! What is the point of having a regulator if the regulator's orders can be ignored? David Amos David Amos @Fred Brewer Methinks folks should wonder if the taxpayers in Fat Fred City have noticed how much they pay to keep the streets lights on around the Legislature and the NB Power HQ N'esy Pas? Paul Bourgoin Lou Bell There was a Committee that Higgs disbanded last week that appear to have had the same financial qualifications as Thomas ! Also Government appointed ! David Amos David Amos @Lou Bell What else is new Paul Bourgoin Lou Bell Over 500,000 dollars a year to Thomas whose legacy will be for flooding the lower Saint John River Valley annually. I'll volunteer to do it for half of that ! David Amos David Amos @Lou Bell Methinks folks should have no doubt that you would enjoy it too much N'esy Pas? NB Power debt claim to MLAs appears to be untrue Utility can't say who made the statement its president referenced Robert Jones · CBC News · Posted: Feb 12, 2019 4:00 AM AT NB Power President Gaetan Thomas said even modest profit targets are frowned on by the Energy and Utilities Board. (CBC) NB Power president Gaetan Thomas's claim to MLAs that the Energy and Utilities Board once told the utility profits should be kept below $80 million, despite its need to pay off debt, appears to be untrue. The EUB has never issued a directive to NB Power to keep earnings below $80 million and the utility has been unable to explain who made the statement Thomas is referring to or when, if ever, it was said. Thomas, chairman Ed Barrett and other NB Power executives made a presentation on Jan. 5 to the legislature's Crown corporations committee to discuss the utility's latest financial results and MLAs questioned them about NB Power's debt problems. Both Barrett and Thomas told the committee the Energy and Utilities Board has stood in the way of the utility earning sufficient profits to substantially reduce its $4.9 billion debt load, instead forcing it to keep rates low. Consumers will pay for NB Power's debt one way or another, intervener says Thomas said even modest profit targets are frowned on by the EUB. "Every time we're confronted with a low rate," Thomas told MLAs. "That is the dominant factor for the regulator. Even if we can show, lets say, we can make say $80 million earnings the point is they say you don't really need that much earnings." However, all profit requests NB Power management has made to the EUB in the last four years have been approved, three for more than $80 million, the amount Thomas claims the EUB has said is too much. NB Power has been unable to explain who made the statement its president is referring to or when, if ever, it was said. (Michael Heenan/CBC) Heather Black has represented the public at NB Power's last four rate hearings and says the utility has set its own profit target each year and has never had any part of the amounts rejected by the EUB. "In each case, the board has approved NB Power's proposed earnings in the full amount NB Power requested," Black wrote in an email to CBC News. Marc Belliveau, a spokesman for NB Power, said in an email the comment Thomas made about the EUB telling the utility an $80 million profit is too high should not be taken literally. "I don't have a transcript of the (MLA) proceedings but this was a general statement/example not a specific one," he wrote. NB Power behind on plan to pay down $1 billion in debt NB Power tells customers to ease pain of rate hikes with efficiency It's the second statement Thomas has made in the last month that has needed clarification, and both were in relation to the utility's debt problem. In January, Thomas told CBC News that NB Power is applying for a $36 million rate increase for the next fiscal year to help generate a profit and "most of it would go to debt reduction". But NB Power figures show the utility is planning no debt reduction next year, even with a rate increase. Expected profits at the utility are budgeted to be spent on capital projects with none applied to its $4.9 billion debt. It is scheduled to increase by $6 million. NB Power has failed to meet earnings targets in each of the last four years, mostly because expenses have been higher than anticipated, but the EUB has never opposed the targets themselves. David Coon calls on NB Power to justify power rate increase to MLAs NB Power requests higher-than-expected rate increases The board approved a combined $329.5 million in profit over the four-year period but NB Power expects to generate less than 25 percent of that — just $71.3 million - once the current year is factored in. Black says NB Power's failure to pay down its debt is not a problem with the EUB. "While the board cuts NB Power's proposed spending where it determines that the spending is imprudent, this has not been the cause of NB Power's failure to meet its earnings targets," said Black, citing performance problems at Lepreau, unbudgeted storm damage and other issues. "NB Power's earnings erode when its costs are over budget or when it fails to earn its budgeted revenue." The EUB is declining to comment but the organization has openly expressed concerns about NB Power's debt in the past. Heather Black, the public intervener, said the EUB has never rejected any part of the utility's profit targets in the last four rate hearings. (Robert Jones/CBC) At hearings last April, Ellen Desmond, the EUB's lawyer, questioned Darren Murphy, NB Power vice-president, in detail about whether the utility's profits are too low and its debt retirement schedule too slow. She suggested the utility consider reducing its spending to generate higher profits in years its financial projections are coming up short. "Why not perhaps delay spending where necessary to meet other objectives, including your reduction in net debt which we have heard a lot about in the last three years," said Desmond. "I mean if that is a priority, if that is a target, why not perhaps adjust the plan? Why not adjust that so that we can see reduction -- larger reductions on the net debt?" NB Power' Belliveau said in an email the utility believes rate hearings focus too much on questioning spending and not enough on the bottom line. "The underlying tone of recent rate hearings has been focused on low and stable rates as opposed to a more balanced view," said Belliveau. About the Author Robert Jones Reporter Robert Jones has been a reporter and producer with CBC New Brunswick since 1990. 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https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2023/02/higgss-comments-about-family-doctors.html Wednesday, 22 February 2023 Higgs's comments about family doctors could hurt recruitment, says N.B. Medical Society https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/higgs-family-doctors-more-patients-new-brunswick-medical-society-president-recruitment-1.6756135

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/higgs-family-doctors-more-patients-new-brunswick-medical-society-president-recruitment-1.6756135

Higgs's comments about family doctors could hurt recruitment, says N.B. Medical Society

Premier suggested doctors could eliminate waiting lists if they 'took two or three more patients a week'

CBC News · Posted: Feb 22, 2023 1:18 PM AST

Dr. Michèle Michaud, president of the New Brunswick Medical Society, says the work of family doctors involves more than just office visits. (New Brunswick Medical Society)

The president of the New Brunswick Medical Society is challenging a suggestion by the premier earlier this week that everyone could have access to a family doctor if doctors would take on more patients, and says his comments could hurt recruitment and retention.

Dr. Michèle Michaud contends family doctors are already working beyond maximum capacity.

"With the current resources, you won't get there just by saying, 'Take two or three more,'" she said in French.

Michaud was reacting to comments Premier Blaine Higgs made Monday at a news conference in Charlottetown.

"If every doctor in our province took two or three more patients a week, we wouldn't have a backlog," Higgs said.

A portrait of a man with grey hair and glasses, wearing a trench coat, speaking. Premier Blaine Higgs estimates that if New Brunswick family doctors in the province each saw two to three more patients a week, everyone could have access to care. (Radio-Canada)

"Every one of us has to find out a way that we can deliver health care differently, because I think, unanimously, we'll all say just putting more money into an unmanaged system isn't going to fix it," he said.

"I think we're all in a position to be innovative in this process."

About 55,000 people are registered with the province as not having a family doctor.

According to Michaud, who is a family doctor, palliative care physician, pain clinic physician and hospitalist at the Edmundston Regional Hospital, family doctors "have already had their capacity at maximum and even beyond their maximum for some time."

They care for patients who are increasingly sick, she said, pointing to the aging population, who each require more time.

In addition, the work of family doctors is not limited to office appointments, Michaud stressed. It could include "working in an emergency room, doing obstetrics, deliveries, pregnancy follow-up clinics, palliative care. We are also doing more and more oncology clinics, in addition to serving nursing homes, which need doctors present on site on a regular basis," she said.

There are also follow-ups on the health of patients, the management of test results, as well as the management of the personnel and the other administrative tasks, said Michaud.

We risk causing more professional burnout among doctors in the community.

- Michèle Michaud, New Brunswick Medical Society president

To alleviate the waiting lists, she suggests instead filling the lack of human resources. This would, for example, support collaborative work in clinics.

"Asking family doctors [to work] more is currently not necessarily the solution: on the contrary, we risk causing more professional burnout among doctors in the community," Michaud said.

"It also risks, in the long and medium term, harming our recruitment and the retention of doctors who are already in office."

Opposition calls comments 'irresponsible,''attack'

New Brunswick Liberal Party Leader Susan Holt agrees.

"It was a little irresponsible comment to just say, 'Hey, get two or three more people a week.' It does not respect the nature of the problem," she said.

According to Holt, Higgs's comments, made on a regional forum following a meeting of Atlantic premiers, do not help New Brunswick.

"It is not a good message to attract people here that we are asking our doctors to do more. That's not a good recruiting message."

Doctors have to spend more time with patients, whose needs are increasingly serious, according to the president of the medical society. (iStock)

Green Party health critic Megan Mitton was also surprised by Higgs's comments. "It is not only bizarre, it is also problematic that the premier is attacking the various health-care professionals," she said.

Mitton rejects the idea that doctors are not already doing enough. "It's not true that they sit around and do nothing, so it's a bit of an attack on doctors."

Like Michaud and Holt, Mitton believes a collaborative approach could help reduce waiting lists for a family doctor.

It would also be necessary, according to her, to hire more doctors in hospitals to free up family doctors to devote more time to their patients.

With files from Michel Corriveau

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69 Comments

David Amos

Methinks every time Higgy opens his mouth lately he inserts his foot and makes the circus even more enjoyable N'esy Pas?

Rosco Holt

Reply to David Amos

It would be more enjoyable if NBers weren't dying by his incompetence.

David Amos

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Deja Vu???

PCs elect new president, Higgs attacked verbally

By Andrew Waugh

Telegraph-Journal

Erika Hachey is the new president of the Progressive Conservative

Party of New Brunswick after defeating Andrew Dawson in an election on

Saturday. . Photo: Andrew Waugh/Legislature Bureau

David Amos

Guess who just made a lot of calls

David Amos

Reply to David Amos

Trust that Higgy and my cousin know why

"Green Party health critic Megan Mitton was also surprised by Higgs's comments. "It is not only bizarre, it is also problematic that the premier is attacking the various health-care professionals," she said."

Peaceful Ambivalence

The fact that doctors practicing in a the Atlantic will now be licensed in 4 provinces at once will be a big benefit compared to other provinces where they will only be licensed in one. Should help recruitment of doctors who want to be able to try out a few provinces before deciding where to stay. Let’s hope that causes them to try out The Atlantic. They come initially to try 1 province and eventually stay in 1 of the 4 regardless of whether or not they stay where they intitially came. Definitely regional cooperation on these areas while maintains our distinct Atlantic provinces is the way forward for our region.

David Amos

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JOhn D Bond

Reply to Peaceful Ambivalence

Might want to keep up on the news. Alberta and Ontario will now recognize credentials from any Canadian province or territory.

Peaceful Ambivalence

Reply to JOhn D Bond

So if doctors get licensed in Ontario or Alberta they’ll be good to in 2 provinces, if they get licenses in other provinces they’ll be good to go in 3 provinces (that province plus Alberta and Ontario),and if they get license in The Atlantic they’ll be good to go in 6 provinces.

JOhn D Bond

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lol The city of Toronto has more people and doctors and nurses than all of Atlantic Canada.

Wes Gullison

Que the over-reaction.... instead of just presenting facts that doctors are already over worked and what he suggested just won't work

David Amos

Reply to Wes Gullison

Hmmm I was confused when you were spinning for Higgy and hoping to get the nod to run under his party banner after being a big wig in the PANB. What party are you with now?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/atlantic-physician-registry-pei-premiers-meeting-1.6754317

Doctors in Atlantic Canada will soon be able to work in any of the 4 provinces

Atlantic Physician Register expected to launch May 1

CBC News · Posted: Feb 20, 2023 1:29 PM AST

An image of the four premiers sitting at a table.

Premiers Blaine Higgs, Dennis King, Tim Houston and Andrew Furey met in Charlottetown Monday. (Aaron Adetuyi/CBC)

Doctors living and working within the four Atlantic provinces will soon be able to work within the region without additional licensing — thanks to a new Atlantic Physicians Register.

The registry was announced Monday following a meeting of the four Atlantic premiers. The registry is expected to be in place by May 1.

P.E.I. Premier Dennis King said the registry has been in the works for "the last number of months." He said physicians and surgeons will be able to opt in to the registry. By doing so, they will be able to work in any of the Atlantic provinces without additional licensing requirements.

"Right now, for example, when I fill out my college paperwork, I just get a licence for Newfoundland and Labrador, so for me to come and work in P.E.I. or New Brunswick or Nova Scotia is quite onerous," said N.L. Premier Andrew Furey, who is also an orthopaedic trauma surgeon.

Premier Andrew Furey sitting at a desk looking to the side. Premier Andrew Furey says the registry will allow the four provinces to draw from a larger pool of specialists when they need to fill gaps. (Aaron Adetuyi/CBC)

"People who would like to move around in the summertime, for example, P.E.I.'s a beautiful place and want to spend a couple of week with their family, they can certainly do that."

He said it will also allow the provinces to fill "certain gaps in the system" with a bigger pool of candidates.

"We think that, especially with new physicians, there is a want and desire to have a different style of practice — one that offers opportunity, geographic opportunities, different experiences — that having this mobility and eliminating the barriers to moving around Atlantic Canada first and ultimately, we hope, the nation will be something that's very attractive."

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Summerside patients call on province to act quickly, after losing their family doctor

'Not a competitive space'

The premiers say the initiative isn't aimed at taking medical resources from each other.

"What we're talking about is temporary pitching in," said Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, pointing out that if a doctor wants to relocate to a different province permanently, they already can.

Tim Houston and Andrew Furey sitting side by side at a desk. Premier Tim Houston says the registry makes it easier for doctors to move around — something they are already able to do within the current system. (Aaron Adetuyi/CBC)

They can also travel as locums, but that requires what Furey referred to as about a month of paperwork.

"I don't see this as a competitive space, I see this as a collaborative space and when one wins, we all win," said Furey.

King, however, did hint at this possibly being a recruitment tool.

"We do know, as Prince Edward Island for example, the 40 doctors that we recruited in 2021 … over 50 per cent of them were locums who came here first through one of these agreements, came here, did some work here, found a comfort level here and opted to come back."

Not a magic bullet

The premiers said the registry wouldn't fix the physician shortage currently facing the health-care system.

"It gives us more Band-Aids, if you will, to help plug some immediate issues along the way, while we are developing a moderate and modern system for the future," said Furey.

Premier Dennis King sitting at a desk. Premier Dennis King says the registry isn't a 'magic bullet,' but he hopes it will make a difference. (Aaron Adetuyi/CBC)

"Nothing that we do in health is a magic bullet that will just miraculously fix everything, but I think this is one more small little thing that keeps us moving forward and will make a difference, not just today but into the future," said King.

King said he hopes to eventually see a similar system extend to other heath-care professionals.

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<Alex.Vass@gnb.ca>, info@easterncms.com, "Mark.Blakely"
<Mark.Blakely@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Marco.Mendicino"
<Marco.Mendicino@parl.gc.ca>, "Bill.Hogan"<Bill.Hogan@gnb.ca>,
DH.MS.Medicare@gnb.ca, President@nbms.nb.ca, aknight@nbms.nb.ca,
tross@nbms.nb.ca, rcampbell@nbms.nb.ca, llepage@nbms.nb.ca
Cc: motomaniac333@gmail.com, Waugh.andrew@brunswicknews.com, "Robert.
Jones"<Robert.Jones@cbc.ca>

https://twitter.com/andrewwaugh13/status/1588959534835720192

Andrew Waugh
@andrewwaugh13
Fredericton lawyer Erika Hachey is the new @pcnbca
president, defeating Andrew Dawson 110-70.
3:20 PM · Nov 5, 2022

Fredericton lawyer Erika Hachey is the new @pcnbca
president, defeating Andrew Dawson 110-70.
3:20 PM · Nov 5, 2022

David Raymond Amos
@DavidRaymondAm1
Nov 21
Replying to @andrewwaugh13 and @pcnbca
Hmmm

Leo-James Levesque
@Leo_JamesLeves
Nov 5
Replying to @andrewwaugh13 and @pcnbca
Message received! Blinded by power.
Image
N
@miscougal
·
Nov 5
Replying to
@andrewwaugh13 and @pcnbca
Less murder,, what about covid 19 measures, should I say NO measures

Adrien Lebouthillier
@DukeLeBout
Nov 5
Replying to @andrewwaugh13 and @pcnbca
At least they're anti-murder.
Quote Tweet
E. R. Hachey
@erikahachey
·
Jun 28
Replying to @TheFwordNB @ChrisCollins506 and @kinsellawarren
Excellent point, I prefer less murder in my life

Andrew Waugh
@andrewwaugh13·
Nov 5
Well ... a scorcher of an interview with Andrew Dawson as voting for
the PC presidency gets underway.
The party isn't what it used to be, he said.
Members are quietly quitting, and "no one cares."
Too much power is centralized in @premierbhiggs
's office. /1

Andrew Waugh
@andrewwaugh13
Nov 5
Higgs is a good premier, Dawson says, but he hasn't been a good PC Party leader.
And he has a circle of people around him who "want to tell him
everything is good."
Asked if the erosion in the party he's talking about is because of
Higgs, Dawson said it's part of the reason.

Andrew Waugh
@andrewwaugh13
Nov 5
Asked what his first conversation with Higgs will be like if he wins
the presidency, Dawson replied: "Frank."
And will he stay in the party if he loses? Yes, he says, because he's
not a "quitter."
But he adds that he'll need to understand what the party stands for now.

Andrew Waugh
@andrewwaugh13
Nov 5
I asked about a reference Dawson made in his speech about people being
frozen out of the weekend's events.
"There should be 1,000 people here, and there's what, 150?" he says.
"Something's wrong."
Party volunteers shouldn't have to pay to be here, he says.

Andrew Waugh
@andrewwaugh13
Nov 5
According to Dawson, the party had made about $10,000 on tickets for
the weekend.
"We've got three hundred grand," he notes, so why charge the faithful?
"I would have rather seen 1,000 people for no grand," he says.

·

---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 02:23:46 -0300
Subject: Fwd: At least your lawyer Tim Ross can never deny that I am
still alive despite the fact I have been denied Heath Care since 2008
when a doctor directed 3 members of the RCMP and two hospital security
guards to assault me CORRECT?
To: mike@valentlegal.ca, erika.hachey@mosshacheylaw.com,
andrew.moss@mosshacheylaw.com, "blaine.higgs"<blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>,
Dr.France.Desrosiers@vitalitenb.ca,
Brigitte.Sonier-Ferguson@vitalitenb.ca, ethique.ethics@vitalitenb.ca,
"thomas.lizotte"<thomas.lizotte@vitalitenb.ca>,
Stephanie.Thebeau@vitalitenb.ca, MelanieDawn.Cameron@horizonnb.ca,
info@vitalitenb.ca, benoit.bourque@gnb.ca,
fin.minfinance-financemin.fin@canada.ca, tom.fetter@gnb.ca,
dave.dell@gnb.ca, Dorothy.Shephard@gnb.ca, "chuck.chiasson"
<chuck.chiasson@gnb.ca>, MichelleAnne.Duguay@gnb.ca,
Jason.Sully@gnb.ca, "kris.austin"<kris.austin@gnb.ca>, "robert.mckee"
<robert.mckee@gnb.ca>, "robert.gauvin"<robert.gauvin@gnb.ca>,
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<Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca>, "Ian.Shugart"
<Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca>, "ian.fahie"<ian.fahie@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
"andrew.scheer"<andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca>, DND_MND@forces.gc.ca,
"pierre.poilievre"<pierre.poilievre@parl.gc.ca>, "Candice.Bergen"
<Candice.Bergen@parl.gc.ca>, Nick.Brown@gnb.ca,
Bruce.Macfarlane@gnb.ca, Adam.Bowie@gnb.ca, "Alex.Vass"
<Alex.Vass@gnb.ca>, info@easterncms.com, "Mark.Blakely"
<Mark.Blakely@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Marco.Mendicino"
<Marco.Mendicino@parl.gc.ca>, "Bill.Hogan"<Bill.Hogan@gnb.ca>
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, DH.MS.Medicare@gnb.ca,
President@nbms.nb.ca, aknight@nbms.nb.ca, tross@nbms.nb.ca,
rcampbell@nbms.nb.ca, llepage@nbms.nb.ca

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ryan Campbell <rcampbell@nbms.nb.ca>
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 02:55:53 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: CBC makes a splash about Brody McGee's
health care issues and his troubles go away fast So much for ethics EH
Higgy??
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

I am currently away from the office until Tuesday, July 12, 2022.  If
this is urgent please contact John Maher at jmaher@nbms.nb.ca.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/university-of-new-brunswick-manoj-bhargava-class-action-lawsuit-1.6513513

14 people come forward in lawsuit against UNB, psychiatrist accused of
sexual assault

One victim wants to be representative for students allegedly sexually
assaulted by psychiatrist
Hadeel Ibrahim · CBC News · Posted: Jul 07, 2022 4:52 PM AT

---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 12:06:21 -0300
Subject: Fwd: Re The coverup of the the actions of the Fredericton
Police Force, the RCMP and Manoj Bhargava against me
To: mike@valentlegal.ca
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

https://valentlegal.ca/class-action/university-new-brunswick-class-action/

University New Brunswick Class Action
Overview

Valent Legal has commenced a class action lawsuit against the
University of New Brunswick and Dr. Manoj Bhargava on behalf of a
group of students who accessed mental health services through the UNB
Student Health Centre and allege to have been subjected to sexual
assault perpetrated by Dr. Bhargava.

The Class Action alleges the University of New Brunswick, and its
employees, were negligent by failing to properly protect the students
accessing their health care services. The Class Action further alleges
Dr. Bhargava was medically negligent by subjecting the student class
members to sexual assault.

Valent Legal is working on this Class Action in collaboration with New
Brunswick law firm, Moss Hachey Law. To speak with a representative
from Moss Hachey Law, please contact Erika Baker at 506-449-7544.
Documents

Notice of Action

---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 09:06:58 -0300
Subject: Re The coverup of the the actions of the Fredericton Police
Force, the RCMP and Manoj Bhargava against me
To: erika.hachey@mosshacheylaw.com, andrew.moss@mosshacheylaw.com
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

Erika R. Hachey
Called to the bar: 2013 (NB)
erika.hachey@mosshacheylaw.com,
Andrew C.W. Moss
Called to the bar: 2015 (NB)
Email: andrew.moss@mosshacheylaw.com
Moss Hachey Law
90 Woodside Lane, Suite 103
Fredericton, New Brunswick E3C 2R9
Phone: 506-449-7544
Fax: 506-300-2072

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/university-of-new-brunswick-sexual-assault-manoj-bhargava-1.5983964

"Referring complaints to police

Schollenberg said the college involved the police recently, after
suspending Bhargava.

"It became apparent that there may be more to this," he said.

He said the college asked some of the 18 complainants if they were
interested in speaking to the police and passed on their information
to the Fredericton Police Force if they said yes.

Fredericton psychiatrist suspended by College of Physicians and Surgeons

Alycia Bartlette, spokesperson for the Fredericton Police Force, would
not confirm whether the police are investigating Bhargava.

"In general, we would not confirm whether a specific individual was
the subject of a police investigation until such time as charges are
laid in court, or there are operational reasons otherwise," she said
in an email."

>>> From: "Ross, Ken (DH/MS)"<ken.ross@gnb.ca>
>>> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 08:43:31 -0300
>>> Subject: Re: Hey Ken Who is Mental Health's and the Hospital in
>>> Fredericton's lawyers?
>>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>
>>> Got your messages Dave. I am in Toronto for meetings and will be back
>>> in the office Friday. I will ask Barb Whitenect to follow up with you
>>> in the interim. Yes Herby picked up ypur bike a while back.
>>>
>>> Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld
>>>
>>>
>>> --- On Wed, 7/9/08, David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Hey Ken Who is Mental Health's and the Hospital in
>>> Fredericton's lawyers?
>>> To: ken.ross@gnb.ca, Barbara.Whitenect@gnb.ca, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca
>>> Cc: rosaire.santerre@gnb.ca, Marc.Pitre@gnb.ca, David.Eidt@gnb.ca,
>>> oldmaison@yahoo.com, Judy.Cyr@gnb.ca, t.j.burke@gnb.ca,
>>> police@fredericton.ca, Carrie.Levesque@gnb.ca, anne.elgee@gnb.ca,
>>> danny.copp@fredericton.ca, jacques.boucher@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>> Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 3:03 AM
>>>
>>> KENNETH ROSS, Assistant Deputy Minister
>>> Addictions and Mental Health Services / Health
>>> Contact Information
>>> Phone: (506) 457-4800
>>> Fax: (506) 453-5243
>>>
>>> BARBARA WHITENECT, Director
>>> Addictions and Mental Health Services / Health
>>> Contact Information
>>> Phone: (506) 444-4442
>>> Fax: (506) 453-8711
>>> EMail Address: Barbara.Whitenect@gnb.ca
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry to involve you but lets just say that I am really really pissed
>>> off for very justifiable reasons.
>>>
>>> This should prove to some folks that at least I know how to read.
>>>
>>> http://www.ahsc.health.nb.ca/Programs/MentalHealth/rights.shtml
>>>
>>> I have no doubt whatsoever that you would more pissed than I am if
>>> the malicious bullshit that happened to me last weekend had happened
>>> to you.
>>>
>>> I will try to call you in business hours but I suspect in the end I
>>> will wind up arguing this dude in court in short order. (On a lighter
>>> note did Herby pick up my bike?)
>>>
>>> David Eidt
>>> Legal Services
>>> Office of the Attorney General
>>> Tel: (506) 453-3964
>>> Fax: (506) 453-3275
>>> david.eidt@gnb.ca
>>>
>>> Best Regards
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>>> These emails and the bullshit from the news last year should to all
>>> that I am as serious as a heart attack and far from mentally unstabe
>>> but the cops have proven themselves to be monumental liars many times
>>>
>>> Subject:
>>> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:02:35 -0400
>>> From: "Murphy, Michael B. $DH/MS$"MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca
>>> To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>>
>>>
>>> January 30, 2007
>>>
>>>
>>> WITHOUT PREJUDICE
>>>
>>> Mr. David Amos
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear Mr. Amos:
>>>
>>> This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29,
>>> 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP.
>>>
>>> Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have
>>> taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve
>>> Graham of the RCMP "J" Division in Fredericton.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Honourable Michael B. Murphy
>>> Minister of Health
>>>
>>> CM/cb
>>>
>>> Warren McBeath warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote:
>>>
>>> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500
>>> From: "Warren McBeath"warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>> To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca,
>>> nada.sarkis@gnb.ca, wally.stiles@gnb.ca, dwatch@web.net,
>>> motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>> CC: ottawa@chuckstrahl.com, riding@chuckstrahl.com,
>>> John.Foran@gnb.ca, Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,
>>> "Bev BUSSON"bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>>> "Paul Dube"PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>> Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has
>>> forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have n
>>>
>>> Dear Mr. Amos,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off over
>>> the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured I was not
>>> ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
>>>
>>> As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our position
>>> is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
>>> testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the
>>> Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
>>> services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
>>> instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
>>>
>>> As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
>>> imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear that
>>> Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada and the
>>> US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment policing in
>>> Petitcodiac, NB.
>>>
>>> It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on
>>> December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Warren McBeath, Cpl.
>>> GRC Caledonia RCMP
>>> Traffic Services NCO
>>> Ph: (506) 387-2222
>>> Fax: (506) 387-4622
>>> E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>
>>> charles leblanc oldmaison@yahoo.com wrote:
>>>
>>> Where are ya living now???? Since the media seem to ignore ya? I'll
>>> sit down for a debate with a recorder for the blog...Now? Don't get
>>> all exicted and send this all over the world.....lol
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>> From: David Amos motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>> To: brad.woodside@fredericton.ca; whalen@fredericton.ca;
>>> david.kelly@fredericton.ca; cathy.maclaggan@fredericton.ca;
>>> stephen.kelly@fredericton.ca; tom.jellinek@fredericton.ca;
>>> scott.mcconaghy@fredericton.ca; marilyn.kerton@fredericton.ca;
>>> walter.brown@fredericton.ca; norah.davidson@fredericton.ca;
>>> mike.obrien@fredericton.ca; bruce.grandy@fredericton.ca;
>>> dan.keenan@fredericton.ca; jeff.mockler@gnb.ca;
>>> mrichard@lawsociety-barreau.nb.ca; cynthia.merlini@dfait-maeci.gc.ca;
>>> jlmockler@mpor.ca; scotta@parl.gc.ca; michael.bray@gnb.ca;
>>> jack.e.mackay@gnb.ca
>>> Cc: news@dailygleaner.com; kcarmichael@bloomberg.net;
>>> oldmaison@yahoo.com; advocacycollective@yahoo.com;
>>> Easter.W@parl.gc.ca; Comartin.J@parl.gc.ca; cityadmin@fredericton.ca;
>>> info@gg.ca; bmosher@mosherchedore.ca; rchedore@mosherchedore.ca;
>>> police@fredericton.ca; chebert@thestar.ca; Stoffer.P@parl.gc.ca;
>>> Stronach.B@parl.gc.ca; Matthews.B@parl.gc.ca; alltrue@nl.rogers.com;
>>> Harper.S@parl.gc.ca; Layton.J@parl.gc.ca; Dryden.K@parl.gc.ca;
>>> Duceppe.G@parl.gc.ca
>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:37:04 PM
>>> Subject: I promised one of the Fat Fred City cop Randy Reilly that I
>>> would try to make him famous
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=davidraymondamos&search=Search
>>>
>>> A man is only as good as his word EH? To bad priests, bankers,
>>> politicians, lawyers and cops can't claim the same N'est Pas
>>>
>>> http://actionlyme.org/FBI_WIRETAPE_TAPES.htm
>>>
>>> FEDERAL EXPRESS February 7, 2006
>>>
>>> Senator Arlen Specter
>>> United States Senate
>>> Committee on the Judiciary
>>> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
>>> Washington, DC 20510
>>>
>>> Dear Mr. Specter:
>>>
>>> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
>>> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters
>>> raised in the attached letter. Mr. Amos has represented to me that
>>> these are illegal FBI wire tap tapes. I believe Mr. Amos has been in
>>> contact with you about this previously.
>>>
>>> Very truly yours,
>>> Barry A. Bachrach
>>> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
>>> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
>>> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://davidamos.blogspot.com/.
>>>
>>> Paulette Delaney-Smith Paulette.Delaney-Smith@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote:
>>> David,
>>>
>>> I received your voice mail, I have been transferred to another unit
>>> and I am unaware of who is dealing with your complaints at this time.
>>>
>>> Paulette Delaney-Smith, Cpl.
>>> RCMPolice "J" DIvision HQ
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://gypsy-blog.blogspot.com/2008/03/media-restrains-itself-inexplicably.html
>>>
>>> Threat against Burke taken seriously
>>>
>>> By STEPHEN LLEWELLYN
>>> dgleg@nb.aibn.com
>>> Published Thursday May 24th, 2007
>>> Appeared on page A1
>>> An RCMP security detail has been guarding Justice Minister and
>>> Attorney General T.J. Burke because of threats made against him
>>> recently.
>>>
>>> Burke, the Liberal MLA for Fredericton-Fort Nashwaaksis, wouldn't
>>> explain the nature of the threats.
>>>
>>> "I have had a particular individual or individuals who have made
>>> specific overtures about causing harm towards me," he told reporters
>>> Wednesday.
>>>
>>> "The RCMP has provided security to me recently by accompanying me to a
>>> couple of public functions where the individual is known to reside or
>>> have family members in the area," said Burke. "It is nice to have
>>> some
>>> added protection and that added comfort."
>>>
>>> The RCMP provides protection to the premier and MLAs with its VIP
>>> security
>>> unit.
>>>
>>> Burke didn't say when the threat was made but it's believed to have
>>> been in recent weeks.
>>>
>>> "When a threat is posed to you and it is a credible threat, you have
>>> to be cautious about where you go and who you are around," he said.
>>> "But again, I am more concerned about my family as opposed to my own
>>> personal safety."
>>>
>>> Burke said he doesn't feel any differently and he has not changed his
>>> pattern of activity.
>>>
>>> "It doesn't bother me one bit," he said. "It makes my wife
>>> feel awful nervous."
>>>
>>> Burke served in an elite American military unit before becoming a
>>> lawyer and going into politics in New Brunswick.
>>>
>>> "(I) have taken my own precautions and what I have to do to ensure my
>>> family's safety," he said. "I am a very cautious person in
>>> general due
>>> to my background and training.
>>>
>>> "I am comfortable with defending myself or my family if it ever had to
>>> happen."
>>>
>>> Burke said it is not uncommon for politicians to have security concerns.
>>>
>>> "We do live unfortunately in an age and in a society now where threats
>>> have to be taken pretty seriously," he said.
>>>
>>> Since the terrorism attacks in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001,
>>> security in New Brunswick has been
>>> beefed up.
>>>
>>> Metal detectors were recently installed in the legislature and all
>>> visitors are screened.
>>>
>>> The position of attorney general is often referred to as the
>>> province's "top cop."
>>>
>>> Burke said sometimes people do not differentiate between his role as
>>> the manager of the justice system and the individual who actually
>>> prosecutes them.
>>>
>>> "With the job sometimes comes threats," he said. "I have had
>>> numerous
>>> threats since Day 1 in office."
>>>
>>> Burke said he hopes his First Nations heritage has nothing to do with
>>> it.
>>>
>>> "I think it is more of an issue where people get fixated on a matter
>>> and they believe you are personally responsible for assigning them
>>> their punishment or their sanction," he said.
>>>
>>> Is the threat from someone who was recently incarcerated?
>>>
>>> "I probably shouldn't answer that," he replied.
>>>
>>> Reporters asked when the threat would be over.
>>>
>>> "I don't think a threat ever passes once it has been made," said
>>> Burke. "You have to consider the credibility of the source."
>>>
>>> Bruce Fitch, former justice minister in the Conservative government,
>>> said "every now and again there would be e-mails that were not
>>> complimentary."
>>>
>>> "I did have a meeting with the RCMP who are in charge of the security
>>> of the MLAs and ministers," said Fitch.
>>>
>>> "They look at each and every situation."
>>>
>>> Fitch said he never had bodyguards assigned to him although former
>>> premier Bernard Lord and former health minister Elvy Robichaud did
>>> have extra security staff assigned on occasion.
>>>
>>> He said if any MLA felt threatened, he or she would discuss it with the
>>> RCMP.
>>

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Ottawa, N.B. say bilateral health deal will be ready in time for March budget

Federal minister says private Bathurst clinic doesn’t violate principles of Canada Health Act

Jacques Poitras· CBC News · Posted: Feb 22, 2023 3:23 PM AST

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Premier Blaine Higgs met with federal Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos Wednesday in Saint John. All three politicians say they are aligned on funding. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)

The federal and New Brunswick governments expect to clinch a bilateral deal on additional health-care funding in time for the money to be included in next month's provincial budget.

Federal Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos met with Premier Blaine Higgs Wednesday in Saint John, and all three politicians said afterward they are aligned on the funding.

"I think we're close to coming to an agreement in principle, which would allow New Brunswick to plan how they'd use these incremental federal dollars," LeBlanc said.

Higgs said the money will start flowing in July but the province will be able to account for it in the 2023-24 budget to be tabled March 21.

A table with people sitting on either side of it The discussions Wednesday focused on the federal offer of one-on-one agreements with individual provinces, tailored to their needs but still required to fall under four categories: family health services, wait times, mental health and addiction and modernizing the system. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)

"We'll recognize that in our budget — what this money would fund — and we'll have agreements in place that would say exactly where it's going to go and what it's going to be used for."

The money in question is separate from the additional cash New Brunswick will receive from an increase to the Canada Health Transfer that Ottawa offered the provinces earlier this month.

Higgs pegged that amount at $200 million.

The discussions Wednesday focused on the federal offer of one-on-one agreements with individual provinces, tailored to their needs but still required to fall under four categories: family health services, wait times, mental health and addiction and modernizing the system.

The bilateral agreement alone will be worth $900 million to New Brunswick over 10 years.

That includes a base amount of $50 million that each province will get each year regardless of what they're entitled to under a per capita formula.

Higgs pointed to a recently opened private cataract surgery clinic in Bathurst as an example of health-care innovation that could be expanded thanks to the federal funding.

The clinic is privately owned, but Medicare pays for the procedures done there.

It has reduced the wait time for cataract surgery by 70 per cent in the area, the premier said.

"We'll do that in other parts of the province and we'll get rid of that wait list," he said.

Doesn't violate Health Act: federal minister

A bill passed by the legislature in December would allow more surgeries normally done in hospitals to be performed in private clinics, paid for with public funds.

Public-sector unions, the federal NDP and the provincial Greens have objected to private clinics and to the federal government sending more money to provinces allowing them.

But Duclos suggested Wednesday he does not believe New Brunswick's move violates the Canada Health Act.

The key principle of the act "is that people are looked after not based on their wallet, but based on their health-care needs," he said.

"That's a principle that is thankfully recognized and understood by everyone, and certainly here in New Brunswick," he said.

"If that were not the case, my responsibility as federal health minister would be to ensure that it changed, or that there were consequences if it did not."

'Constructive partner'

The bilateral funding agreement will run for 10 years.

LeBlanc and Duclos said they weren't concerned that New Brunswick is projecting a huge surplus this year, $862 million, that it refuses to spend while seeking more federal funding for next year.

"We haven't found any jurisdiction that believes or says that they can reduce their own level of spending" thanks to the federal dollars, LeBlanc said.

The federal minister praised Higgs as a "very constructive partner" in health-care negotiations, pointing out he was one of the first premiers to embrace data sharing as a way of measuring whether the new funding was having an effect.

Other premiers were initially reluctant to agree to that but Higgs "has publicly and privately been an ally to our government in these conversations," LeBlanc said.

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14 Comments

Michael G. McKay

I would ask premier Higgs not to allow Trudeau to implement this so-called digital ID mandate. New Brunswick is don’t need to have their lives devalued by this situation. Mr. Higgs! Please do not sell New Brunswick is out and so I would autonomy.

Peaceful Ambivalence

Reply to Michael G. McKay

Amen! It’s a simple equation. Either Higgs sells out NB and is the worst premier in history or else he says no to the digital ID, protects NB sovereignty within Canada and is the best premier in history. I pray he makes the choice to be a great New Brunswicker and a great premier.

G. Timothy Walton

Reply to Michael G. McKay

How unreasonable, to want a person's entire medical history available anytime they're forced to visit a different hospital.

I just love having to struggle to remember minutiae every time I'm in rough enough shape to visit a stressful, crowded environment. And there's that certain frisson, that je ne sais que of communicating clearly with strangers. Heavenly.

David Amos

Reply to G. Timothy Walton

I make the best of it by teasing them with my form of Chiac

Raymond Leger

How much money can one Higg get and still sleep at night while New Brunswickers are freezing to death in the streets?

David Amos

Reply to Raymond Leger

Such questions never cross politician's minds. Hence they sleep just fine

Rosco holt

Just in time to post another surprise surplus.

Peaceful Ambivalence

Reply to Rosco holt

Things are not going too well and our politicians might find that they can’t squeeze water from a stone. Having record surpluses while the population chooses between food, heat, gas, clothing, debt, etc is not good governance. I’m not necessarily being critical of this government and see many positives as well as negatives to some of the things they’ve done, but I wish they’d realize just how much New Brunswickers are struggling with inflation before it’s too late. They’re going to squeeze until the surplus quickly dissipated as business dries up. It’s a fine line between record tax revenues due to inflation and a complete drying up of consumer spending.

Peaceful Ambivalence

Reply to Rosco holt

PS I know the word in the saying isn’t water but I didn’t want to use the other word.

David Amos

Reply to Peaceful Ambivalence

For somebody with brand new anonymous ID you certainly have a lot to say EH?

Peaceful Ambivalence

We need less government. Obviously if our politicians spend 90% of their time and efforts arguing over who gets to spend the money they collect from us and what they spend it on, then we have too many administrators. Decentralize Canada so decisions are made more locally and then people can decide whether they like the decisions of the provincial government when elections come. We don’t need the federal government acting like a parent in giving us back some of the money they take from us via taxation- only giving it if we elect provincial politicians who do as they say. How many travel expenses and dinners etc were paid for groups of bureaucrats to come to an agreement on how to spend our money? Nothing Ottawa is giving Fredericton came from a money tree, it’s still just our money.

G. Timothy Walton

Reply to Peaceful Ambivalence

So your solution is the existing system but without new federal transfers.

Peaceful Ambivalence

Reply to G. Timothy Walton

No, but why have the federal government collecting taxes and then “funding” the provincial government. Why wouldn’t the federal government just collect fewer taxes? As for complaints about any specific provincial government, that’s up to the electorate. My main point is that we spend a lot of time in this country negotiating which level of government gets to collect and spend the taxes.

David Amos

Reply to Peaceful Ambivalence

Why not confer with the CRA Boss?

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