Brett Kavanaugh confirmed as U.S. Supreme Court justice amid protests
Following an acrimonious nomination, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to be sworn in later today
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Brian T. Johnston
This is the worst partisan politics I have ever seen.
David Amos
@Brian T. Johnston Welcome to the Circus
Bertrum G.Gruff
after all these years--- Kavanaugh's hand is still over her mouth
David Amos
@Bertrum G.Gruff Nobody can't say that I didn't try to help them expose Trump
Jaslynn Mayson
There is no evidence of any crime!
Democrats will throw away their ethics and morals to personally destroy an innocent person's life and character all for the sake of political gains.
Doug James
@Andrew Hebda (NS) According to some there is no such thing as man or woman. Being gender fluid means your objections have no relevance.
David Amos
@Jaslynn Mayson "Democrats will throw away their ethics and morals to personally destroy an innocent person's life and character all for the sake of political gains."
So will Trump and his cohorts
David Amos
@Doug James "Being gender fluid means your objections have no relevance."
So says peoplekind but being a proud part of Mankind I strongly disagree and you know why N'esy Pas?
Chris Goetz
Why am i not surprised. I think anyone who opposed the Kavanaugh nomination (myself included) knew that justice and truth doesn't prevail anymore in America. They are country of imbalance and injustice. Its Trump world.
Doug James
@Chris Goetz Justice and truth did prevail. No witnesses, inconsistent testimony, falsehoods, no evidence. How can you prove guilt without these things? How would you like to have your life turned upside down through innuendo.
David Amos
@Chris Goetz "truth doesn't prevail anymore in America"
Methinks a lot of ghosts would agree that it never did N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@Doug James "How would you like to have your life turned upside down through innuendo."
Methinks everybody knows that is exactly what happened to my Clan in 2002 N'esy Pas?
Earl Higgins
The fix was always in, the rest was a dog and pony show.
David Amos
@Earl Higgins YUP
Buz Hartford
The DEMocrats (finally) losing their minds during this nomination and resorting to seriously depraved acts of the lowest form against this candidate, has turned away a large portion of their support base. This will reflect very badly for them in the midterms. In my view the DEMocratic party of United States is dead and what remains is elements of its far left fringes struggling to lead the party.
David Amos
@Buz Hartford "This will reflect very badly for them in the midterms."
I would not bet the farm on it if I were you
Sammy Redfeather
even democrat senators say there was no collaboration from the FBI investigation but the alt left can't accept it, just like the election refusing to accept fact
Bob McRae
@Sammy Redfeather
"There was no collaboration from the FBI". What does that even mean? Numerous Dem senators have come out and blasted the FBI investigation as a complete sham. Remember, they interviewed only 9 people. The fix was in before the investigation even started.
Doug James
@scott sheppard The electoral college was supposed to eliminate the possibility of large voting areas from dominating the rest of the country. The US is a republic and not a democracy.
Doug James
@Susan Smith See wiki "republic".
Doug James
@Mark O'Brien The state is the primary unit. That is why pot can be legal in California but not in Rhode Island. Our Canadian system ensures all Canadians are ruled by the wishes of Ontario and Quebec.
David Amos
@Doug James "Our Canadian system ensures all Canadians are ruled by the wishes of Ontario and Quebec."
I concur
David Amos
@Bob McRae "There was no collaboration from the FBI". What does that even mean?"
Check out page 2 of this old file of mine and you will understand why
Congratulations Judge Kavanaugh! There was absolutely zero evidence to support Fords allegations.
David Amos
@James Douglas True
Natasha Pushkin
In my view the reason that the Democratic party of United States is in such disarray and operating on the most depraved ts of human psyche, is because Obama single handedly managed to destroy this party by pulling it away from its core belief platform of equity and centerism. Now fringe left elements of the party are supported by BILLIONAIRE celebrities and paid HOLLYWOOD ACTORS, a dynamic that is deeply telling of where this SHATTERED Political Party is headed.
David Amos
@Natasha Pushkin Methinks Obama had a lot of help N'esy Pas?
Brett Kavanaugh confirmed as U.S. Supreme Court justice amid protests
Following an acrimonious nomination, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to be sworn in later today
The Associated Press·
Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, in a near party-line 50-48 vote in the Senate in Washington on Saturday. (Tom Williams/EPA-EFE)
The U.S. Senate has voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court, following a polarizing process plagued by incendiary accusations, hardball politics and rowdy Capitol protests.
The 50-48 vote — which was repeatedly interrupted by protesters, some of whom shouted "I do not consent" from the Senate gallery — marked the end of a fight for the ages between Democrats and Republicans. It was one of the narrowest ever margins for a vote on a Supreme Court nomination.
Following the vote, a White House spokesperson said President Donald Trump would sign his nominee's commission of appointment and that Kavanaugh will be officially sworn in later Saturday at a private ceremony at the Supreme Court.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, explains her decision to oppose the nomination of Kavanaugh. (Shawn Thew/EPA-EFE)
Meanwhile, hundreds of protesters in Washington swarmed Capitol Hill, where raucous demonstrators — largely anti-Kavanaugh — have been a fixture throughout the nomination process. U.S. Capitol Police said they arrested 164 people on Saturday for taking part in "unlawful demonstration activities."
Before the vote, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, called the prospect of Kavanaugh's confirmation "a low moment for the Senate, for the court, for the country." But Senate Republicans expressed an entirely different tone.
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, said, "The members of this body are duty bound to ensure we confirm justices of the Supreme Court who are men and women of the highest character and the most superlative qualifications.
"So fortunately, that is just the sort of nominee who stands before us today," McConnell said.
Following the vote, McConnell said the Senate "stood up for presumption of innocence," while Trump congratulated lawmakers on Twitter for confirming a "great nominee."
I applaud and congratulate the U.S. Senate for confirming our GREAT NOMINEE, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, to the United States Supreme Court. Later today, I will sign his Commission of Appointment, and he will be officially sworn in. Very exciting!
Kavanaugh's opponents had raised concerns that he'd push the court further right, including the possibility of rulings sympathetic to Trump's positions.
But for the past few weeks, the battle was dominated by allegations that he sexually abused women decades ago — accusations he continues to emphatically deny.
While aboard Air Force One on his way to a rally in Kansas, Trump said "there is no one with a squeaky clean past like Brett Kavanaugh. He is an outstanding person and I'm very honoured to have chosen him."
Collins says no corroborating evidence
Despite fierce opposition from Democrats, by Saturday, Kavanaugh's confirmation was already all but certain. Two swing votes, Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, announced Friday they would vote for Kavanaugh.
Collins told fellow senators that Christine Blasey Ford's dramatic testimony last month describing Kavanaugh's alleged 1982 assault on her was "sincere, painful and compelling." But Collins said the FBI had found no corroborating evidence from witnesses whose names Ford had provided.
Actress Amy Schumer gestures after getting detained at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington on Thursday nightalong with several other protesters against the confirmation of Kavanaugh. (Erik S. Lesser/EPA-EFE)
"We will be ill-served in the long run if we abandon the presumption of innocence and fairness, tempting though it may be," she said. "We must always remember that it is when passions are most inflamed that fairness is most in jeopardy."
Those passions were on full display in a fight that could energize both parties' voters in elections for control of Congress just five weeks away.
Collins, perhaps the chamber's most moderate Republican, proclaimed her support for Kavanaugh at the end of a floor speech that lasted nearly 45 minutes. While she was among a handful of Republicans who helped sink Trump's quest to obliterate President Barack Obama's health-care law last year, this time she proved instrumental in delivering a triumph to Trump.
Watch Collins explain why she will vote to confirm Kavanaugh:
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Sen. Collins on why she'll vote to confirm Kavanaugh
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Republican Susan Collins explained to the Senate her reasons for supporting Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court 0:55
Manchin, the only Democrat to vote for Kavanugh on Saturday, announced his support for Kavanugh in an emailed statements sent moments after Collins finished talking. He faces a competitive re-election race next month in a state Trump carried in 2016 by 42 percentage points.
Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski, a fellow moderate and a friend of Collins, was the only Republican to say she opposed Kavanaugh. But on Saturday, she voted "present" instead of "no," offsetting the absence of Kavanaugh supporter Steve Daines of Montana, who was attending his daughter's wedding.
That rare procedural maneuver left Kavanaugh with the same two-vote margin he'd have had if Murkowski and Daines had both voted.
Vice-President Mike Pence was available Saturday in case his tie-breaking vote was needed.
Limit on debate passed
In a procedural vote Friday that handed Republicans an initial victory, senators voted 51-49 to limit debate, defeating Democratic efforts to scuttle the nomination with endless delays.
That vote occurred amid smouldering resentment by partisans on both sides, on and off the Senate floor.
"What left-wing groups and their Democratic allies have done to Judge Kavanaugh is nothing short of monstrous," the chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, Iowa's Chuck Grassley, said before the vote.
Watch Grassley defend Kavanaugh:
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Grassley defends Kavanaugh
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U.S. Senate judiciary committee chair Chuck Grassley says the treatment of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been 'monstrous.' 1:29
When Trump nominated Kavanaugh in July, Democrats leapt to oppose him, saying that past statements and opinions showed he'd be a threat to the Roe vs. Wade case that assured the right to abortion. They said he also seemed ready to rule for Trump if federal authorities probing his 2016 campaign's connections to Russia try to pursue him in court.
Yet Kavanaugh's pathway to confirmation seemed unfettered until Ford accused him of drunkenly sexually assaulting her in a locked bedroom at a 1982 high school gathering. Two other women later emerged with sexual misconduct allegations from the 1980s.
Democrats also challenged Kavanaugh's honesty, temperament and ability to be nonpartisan after he fumed at last week's Judiciary hearing that Democrats had launched a "search and destroy mission" against him fuelled by their hatred of Trump.
Kavanaugh will replace the retired justice Anthony Kennedy, who was a swing vote on issues including abortion, campaign finance and same-sex marriage.
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PCs will 'likely' seek to have Saint John Harbour results thrown out, despite recount
Recount confirms PC candidate Barry Ogden lost to Liberal Gerry Lowe by 10 votes, but PCs allege double voting
Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon· CBC News·
The recount confirmed PC candidate Barry Ogden (left) received 1,855 votes compared to Liberal candidate Gerry Lowe's 1,865. (CBC)
The Progressive Conservatives will "likely" proceed with their application to have the election results for the close riding of Saint John Harbour thrown out, despite a recount of ballots confirming Liberal candidate Gerry Lowe's 10-vote win over PC candidate Barry Ogden, a lawyer for the party said Thursday.
The PCs allege at least 40 people in the riding were recorded as voting more than once. "There's no suggestion that any one person has done something wrong or has done something inappropriate," said Kelly VanBuskirk.
"It's just a matter of looking at the documentation and finding very clear evidence of duplication, so we have to find out why that's the case."
The PCs had filed an application earlier this week alleging at least 40 instances where the unique combined poll number and elector number assigned to each voter appeared twice, but were advised by Elections New Brunswick officials they had to wait until the writ is returned, which only occurs after any recounts.
Once the writ is returned, the PCs have 30 days to resubmit their application.
Saint John Harbour was the closest race in last week's provincial election and has been at the centre of the fight for power between the PCs and Liberals, who both hope to form government. Neither party won the 25 seats required for a majority in the 49-seat legislature.
If I had lost by 10, I'd have done the same thing.- Gerry Lowe, Liberal candidate
Blaine Higgs's PCs won 22 seats, while Brian Gallant's Liberals garnered 21.
The Liberals issued a statement on social media Thursday night, saying they are "pleased" with the recount and "hope the [Progressive] Conservatives accept the results so that Gerry can move forward to continue working for his constituents in the legislature."
Lowe's campaign team "has always acted with integrity and honour; any suggestion to the contrary is unfair to the people who elected him," the statement said.
Totals 'exactly right'
Court of Queen's Bench Justice Hugh McLellan allowed the media to film the recount process inside the courtroom. (CBC)
The riding recount, requested by Ogden, began in Court of Queen's Bench on Wednesday and was completed Thursday morning.
"Based on this recount, which has been an exercise verifying that each vote counts, every vote counts, we've come to the conclusion through this exercise that the votes counted for each of the candidates in Saint John Harbour on election night are in fact exactly right," presiding Justice Hugh McLellan declared around 11:40 a.m.
The only deviation from the tabulation machine totals was one additional spoiled ballot, referred to by Elections New Brunswick as an "undervote," which didn't bear a vote for any candidate and didn't affect the numbers for Lowe or Ogden.
"The critical numbers here are that Mr. Ogden is in second place at 1,855 and Gerry Lowe is in first place at 1,865 and thus it's my duty to declare that Gerry Lowe has received the largest number of votes," said McLellan, who took the unusual step of allowing members of the media to film the courtroom process.
Saint John Harbour PC candidate Barry Ogden congratulated Liberal candidate Gerry Lowe following Thursday's recount. (CBC)
Ogden, who participated in the recount, showed no reaction and declined to comment outside the courthouse.
He did, however, congratulate Lowe and shake his hand.
Lowe, who only showed up as the recount was wrapping up, said he was not surprised by the results "because everybody said the machines work perfect."
"I never doubted it was wrong but, I mean, naturally there's always a chance," he said. "The other side of the coin, if I had lost by 10, I'd have done the same thing that the [Progressive] Conservatives did."
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The requested recount saw no change in the totals from election night. 1:11
Recounts are granted, upon request, in any race decided by 25 votes or less.
Chief electoral officer Kim Poffenroth said the process went "very smoothly and relatively quickly," given the number of special ballots, advance ballots and ordinary ballots that had to be counted by hand.
She said she hopes the fact the recount upheld the election night results will reinforce the public's confidence in the tabulation machines.
Worthwhile process
Ogden's lawyer, Kelly VanBuskirk, said he expects to resubmit an application to have the riding results thrown out in the coming days, unless new information comes to light to explain the alleged vote duplication. (CBC)
VanBuskirk said it was a worthwhile process.
"If we look at the way democracies are under attack in other countries, I think the fact that we have a system that allows for this kind of scrutiny is important," he said.
"That's something that the public should feel really good about. I think it's something that helps reduce doubt."
Elections New Brunswick officials spent the morning sorting the advance ballots and ordinary ballots into piles by candidate at one table in the courtroom, while lawyers for Ogden and Lowe went through them by hand at another table, counting them aloud under the watchful eye of the judge.
Justice Hugh McLellan ruled this disputed ballot was a vote for Liberal candidate Gerry Lowe. He described the 'little squiggle' in the white circle beside PC candidate Barry Ogden's name as 'sloppy penmanship.' (Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon/CBC)
VanBuskirk disputed two of the paper ballots, but McLellan ruled one was a vote for Lowe and the other was a spoiled ballot.
The first disputed ballot had an X beside Lowe's name, but also a "little squiggle" at the edge of the circle for Ogden, said McLellan. He ruled it as a vote for Lowe, just "sloppy penmanship."
The second disputed ballot had a large black X through all of the candidates' names, but part of the X extended into the circle beside Lowe's name. The judge ruled it "incidental." The voter's intention was to indicate "none of the above," he said.
The special ballots were dealt with on Wednesday.
Justice Hugh McLellan ruled the partial mark in Liberal candidate Gerry Lowe's circle on this disputed ballot was 'incidental.' The voter's intention was to indicate 'none of the above,' he said. (Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon/CBC)
Liberal John Fife asked for the recount for the riding of Oromocto-Lincoln-Fredericton. (Graham Thompson/CBC)
The recount for Oromocto-Lincoln-Fredericton has shown no change in vote tally
Liberal John Fife requested a recount after Progressive Conservative Mary Wilson won by 93 votes. He believed the votes did not reflect the support he saw in the Oromocto area.
He and his campaign workers were especially interested in checking the results from one polling station, but every poll had to be recounted under the rules.
"That was the whole reason for requesting a recount," he said. "We have a system where you go door to door … we thought we had really good feedback in that particular area."
Fife said the recount process was fair and he's satisfied, but his political future is unclear.
"You have to see a path to being successful and obviously I wasn't successful, so I think you have to accept those results and you have to move on," he said. "Would I ever offer for office again? I'm not really convinced that I would. I guess I'm kind of sitting a little bit on the fence."
Wilson said she's satisfied with the judge's decision and appreciated the civility of the campaign in Oromocto-Lincoln-Fredericton.
"I respected that," she said.
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'It is 100 per cent accurate'
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The recount for Oromocto-Lincoln-Fredericton riding found the tabulation machines were correct. 0:40
She did not attend any of the recount days at the Fredericton courthouse because she said she's been busy with meetings, but she had a representative there each day.
The recount was a slow process. On Friday, officials sifted through dozens of boxes of special ballots to find those for the Oromocto-Lincoln-Fredericton riding.
Thanking everyone for their work Justice Clendening ruled the results from the tabulation machines would stand.
Chief electoral officer Kim Poffenroth says the recount results reinforced her confidence in the machines. (Graham Thompson/CBC)
Chief electoral officer Kim Poffenroth said this result reinforces her confidence in the machines.
"It's a long laborious task and that's why we're glad at Elections New Brunswick that the hand recounts have confirmed the accuracy and reliability of the tabulation machines, which makes the counting on all 49 electoral districts much simpler for everyone on election night."
Over the span of two days Justice Judy Clendening hand counted 7,522 ballots. (Hadeel Ibrahim/CBC)
The Memramcook-Tantramar and Saint John Harbour recounts also found no change in vote tally. Standings remain at Progressive Conservatives 22 seats, Liberals 21, Green Party three, and People's Alliance three.
Friday officially closed out election period, but Poffenroth said Elections New Brunswick still has work to do, perhaps preparing for an election that's nearer than expected because of the minority government situation the province is experiencing.
"An election that you have to be ready for on a much shorter timeframe costs more than an election that you have 18 months or more to prepare for," she said.
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Frustration mounts in Shippagan-Lamèque-Miscou ahead of election
A battle is brewing between PC star candidate Robert Gauvin and Liberal incumbent Wilfred Roussel
Gabrielle Fahmy· CBC News·
A hotly disputed battle is brewing between Conservative candidate Robert Gauvin and the incumbent Liberal Wilfred Roussel in the riding of Shippagan-Lamèque-Miscou. (CBC)
Frustration is growing in Shippagan-Lamèque-Miscou, a riding in northern New Brunswick, where voters depend on the health of the fishery.
That's true for the fishing boat captains and deckhands catching the fish, the plant workers processing it, or the store and restaurant owners who sell to the people who only have money to spend when the season has been good.
Shippagan is the largest centre in the riding, with more than 2,000 people. Smaller fishing villages are scattered throughout the peninsula that extends into the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Uncertainty is the best way to describe what happened to the fishery this past season.
Most fishermen ended up catching their quota, but a series of zone closures to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales travelling through fishing grounds, was enough to scare people into halting their spending.
And after a winter where many seasonal workers were in the so-called "black hole," the uncertainty around whether they will get employment insurance next winter — with the work weeks needed to qualify going up — is the number one issue on people's minds this election.
Although a federal matter, people in the area expect their provincially elected candidates to stand up and fight for them to Ottawa.
A series of zone closures to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales had New Brunswick fishermen worried they wouldn't catch their quota this year. (CBC)
"What we'd like is for them to stop promising things and actually do something for us. It's like they don't understand us," said Mona Chiasson, a factory worker at the Fishermen's Co-op in Lamèque.
Three days before the official kick-off of the campaign, Jean-Yves Duclos, the federal minister of social development, came to New Brunswick to announce a pilot project, where about 7,000 workers in the province might be able to get up to five additional weeks of employment insurance next winter — possibly avoiding the "black hole."
Victor Beaudin, a fishing boat captain in Pidgeon Hill, says people in the area want to vote for someone who will provide job opportunities. (CBC)
But for many, it was too little, too late.
"If I vote for someone, and they do nothing, well four years later I'll change my vote," said Chiasson. On the wharves, the frustration with the Liberal government can be heard just as loud.
"What people want is someone who works for them. Someone who can create so much work," said Victor Beaudin, a fishing boat captain in Pidgeon Hill.
Beaudin thinks PC candidate Robert Gauvin will be elected in Shippagan-Lamèque-Miscou, a riding with a history of electing Progressive Conservatives going back to the late 70s when Gauvin's father, Jean joined the government of Richard Hatfield.
"They want people who are going to work for the Acadian Peninsula. That's what people need. Doesn't matter the party," he said.
Jonathan Larocque, a fisherman in Pidgeon Hill, also believes Gauvin will win the seat.
Jonathan Larocque, a fisherman in Pidgeon Hill, said people in the area are mostly talking about unemployment insurance as opposed to bilingualism. (CBC)
He said his name is on everyone's lips, and no one in his circle is too bothered by Higgs' lack of French.
"I never really heard anyone talk about the fact he's not bilingual," admits Larocque.
Around here, unemployment insurance is the only thing people talk about.- Jonathan Larocque , fisherman
"Around here, unemployment insurance is the only thing people talk about, and it's the only thing that's going to matter when they vote," he said.
"The Liberals have put laws in place that have really enraged people. I don't think people will vote Liberal again."
Tories try to win over francophones
The Tories knew they'd face an uphill battle adding to their seats in largely francophone northern New Brunswick with Blaine Higgs, a unilingual anglophone, as leader.
This time, the Conservatives tried to get ahead of the game.
On Aug. 28, PC Leader Blaine Higgs visited a mechanic shop in Lamèque with his team of local francophone star candidates, which include Robert Gauvin and Kevin Haché, the mayor of Caraquet.
There, he promised credits for small and medium businesses that would create jobs.
Gauvin telling a crowd to cheer for Higgs for making the effort to address them in French at a small business announcement in Lamèque on Aug. 28. (CBC)
Gauvin asked the crowd to applaud Higgs for "making the effort" to address them in French, and reassured voters francophone rights issues would not be tossed aside in a Higgs government.
"Effort, that's all we ask," exclaimed Gauvin. "Will we punish someone who wants to learn French?" "If we give him the chance, he will continue, and I can guarantee you he will speak five languages before Brian Gallant balances the budget," he added.
A week later, candidates — some from as far south as Memramcook, gathered in Gauvin's campaign headquarters in Shippagan.
In the past, Gauvin has said the PCs plan to solve the province's francophone issues. (CBC)
Gauvin introduced each of the 19 francophone candidates on the Higgs team, and announced their intention to form a common front to "solve the province's francophone issues".
"He is an ally of the Francophonie," he told the crowd.
Liberals say they've helped
Gauvin said he's not too worried about his leader's unilingualism affecting the local campaign.
"I'm hearing it a little, not a lot," he said. "People are more worried about whether they're going to eat."
People are more worried about whether they're going to eat.- Robert Gauvin , Conservative candidate
Gauvin said he wants to put pressure on the federal government to decrease the number of work weeks needed to qualify for employment insurance.
"If the federal government doesn't move, well we're going to talk to the shop owners, and talk to the people who work there and go by priority — people who are in need right now, and try to plug them with a job as soon as possible, just to fill the weeks they need," he said.
Meanwhile, outgoing Liberal candidate, Wilfred Roussel, feels his party has helped seasonal workers.
In 2014, Liberal Wilfred Roussel won against Conservative Paul Robichaud. (CBC)
"They know I am the one who stood in the legislative assembly and who asked that the insurance regulations be changed, they know that," said Roussel referring to the pilot project announced last month.
Some not buying the act
While many voters said they're not bothered by Higgs's language skills, some municipal leaders are.
"Someone running as the leader of a party, who is a unilingual anglophone and has a past against bilingualism, that's a major concern," said Rémi Hebert, a town councillor in Shippagan.
"What message does that send to anglophones in the south of the province? That from now on we're going to tolerate having a premier who is a unilingual anglophone in a bilingual province?"
"Next year we're going to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the official languages act, but I feel we're going backwards. That worries me," he said.
The mayor of Lamèque is of the same opinion.
"That after years he still hasn't been able to learn French, it doesn't bode well," said Jules Haché. "I'm worried we're regressing."
In 2014, Liberal Wilfred Roussel won by only a 44-vote margin against Conservative Paul Robichaud. Hébert thinks this will be another hotly disputed battle between Conservative and Liberal.
"Me what scares me about Higgs, is that he's trying to seduce francophones right now, but if he's elected he'll do whatever he wants with us," he said.
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Si votre courriel s'addresse au Gouvernement du Nouveau-Brunswick, svp m'envoyez un courriel à brian.gallant@gnb.ca
Pour les urgences, veuillez contacter Greg Byrne à greg.byrne@gnb.ca
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marc Richard <MRichard@lawsociety-barreau.nb.ca> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 22:51:09 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: RE Irving's ridiculous constitutional challenge and Federal Court File no T-1557-15 I wonder if George Cooper and Hélène Beaulieure even know how many times the Irvings and partners of their VERY snobby law firm have offended me over t... To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
I will be out of the office until October 30, 2017. Je serai absent du bureau jusqu'au 30 octobre 2017.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Eidt, David (OAG/CPG)"<David.Eidt@gnb.ca> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 00:33:21 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Mr Lutz howcome your buddy the clerk would not file this motion and properly witnessed affidavit and why did she take all four copies? To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
I will be out of the office until Monday, March 13, 2017. I will have little to no access to email. Please dial 453-2222 for assistance.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marc Richard <MRichard@lawsociety-barreau.nb.ca> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:16:46 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: RE: The New Brunswick Real Estate Association and their deliberate ignorance for the bankster's benefit To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
I will be out of the office until August 15, 2016. Je serai absent du bureau jusqu'au 15 août 2016.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "McNair, John (SNB)"<John.McNair@snb.ca> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 16:04:29 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: RE: The New Brunswick Real Estate Association and their deliberate ignorance for the bankster's benefit To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
I will be out of the office August 1 - August 12. I will reply to your email when I return. If you require immediate assistance, please contact Chantal Leger at 663-2510. Thank you.
Je serai absent du bureau les 1 aout - 12 aout. Je répondrai à votre courriel à mon retour. Si vous nécessitez de l'assistance immédiatement, veuillez contacter Chantal Leger au 663-2510. Merci.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Hardy, Erin (SNB)"<Erin.Hardy@snb.ca> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 16:04:28 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: RE: The New Brunswick Real Estate Association and their deliberate ignorance for the bankster's benefit To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Le francais suit:
Hello,
I am currently out of the office. I will gladly reply to your message upon my return on August 15, 2016. Should you require immediate assitance please contact Celeste Savoie at (506) 471-5290 or by email: Celeste.Savoie@snb.ca.
Have a nice day!
Bonjour,
Je suis presentement hors du bureau. Il me fera plaisir de repondre a votre message a mon retour August 15, 2016. Si vous avez besoin d'une assitance immediate, veuillez communiquer avec Celeste Savoie au (506) 471-5290 ou par courriel a: Celeste.Savoie@snb.ca.
Bonne journee!
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marc Richard <MRichard@lawsociety-barreau.nb.ca> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 17:43:27 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: Oh My My we just talked briefly Correct Ms Beaulieu? It appears to me that the latest President of the NB Law Society thinks non lawyers are not worth talking to To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
I will be out of the office until July 21, 2014. Je serai absent du bureau jusqu'au 21 juillet 2014.
> ---------- 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 >
Mr. Amos, We acknowledge receipt of your recent emails to the Deputy Minister of Justice and lawyers within the Legal Services Division of the Department of Justice respecting a possible claim against the Province of Nova Scotia. Service of any documents respecting a legal claim against the Province of Nova Scotia may be served on the Attorney General at 1690 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS. Please note that we will not be responding to further emails on this matter.
Sunday, 19 November 2017 Federal Court of Appeal Finally Makes The BIG Decision And Publishes It Now The Crooks Cannot Take Back Ticket To Try Put My Matter Before The Supreme Court
BETWEEN: DAVID RAYMOND AMOS Respondent on the cross-appeal (and formally Appellant) and HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN Appellant on the cross-appeal (and formerly Respondent) Heard at Fredericton, New Brunswick, on May 24, 2017. Judgment delivered at Ottawa, Ontario, on October 30, 2017. REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY:
THE COURT
Date: 20171030
Docket: A-48-16 Citation: 2017 FCA 213 CORAM:
WEBB J.A. NEAR J.A. GLEASON J.A.
BETWEEN: DAVID RAYMOND AMOS Respondent on the cross-appeal (and formally Appellant) and HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN Appellant on the cross-appeal (and formerly Respondent) REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY THE COURT
I. Introduction
[1] On September 16, 2015, David Raymond Amos (Mr. Amos) filed a 53-page Statement of Claim (the Claim) in Federal Court against Her Majesty the Queen (the Crown). Mr. Amos claims $11 million in damages and a public apology from the Prime Minister and Provincial Premiers for being illegally barred from accessing parliamentary properties and seeks a declaration from the Minister of Public Safety that the Canadian Government will no longer allow the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Forces to harass him and his clan (Claim at para. 96).
[2] On November 12, 2015 (Docket T-1557-15), by way of a motion brought by the Crown, a prothonotary of the Federal Court (the Prothonotary) struck the Claim in its entirety, without leave to amend, on the basis that it was plain and obvious that the Claim disclosed no reasonable claim, the Claim was fundamentally vexatious, and the Claim could not be salvaged by way of further amendment (the Prothontary’s Order).
[3] On January 25, 2016 (2016 FC 93), by way of Mr. Amos’ appeal from the Prothonotary’s Order, a judge of the Federal Court (the Judge), reviewing the matter de novo, struck all of Mr. Amos’ claims for relief with the exception of the claim for damages for being barred by the RCMP from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004 (the Federal Court Judgment).
[4] Mr. Amos appealed and the Crown cross-appealed the Federal Court Judgment. Further to the issuance of a Notice of Status Review, Mr. Amos’ appeal was dismissed for delay on December 19, 2016. As such, the only matter before this Court is the Crown’s cross-appeal.
II. Preliminary Matter
[5] Mr. Amos, in his memorandum of fact and law in relation to the cross-appeal that was filed with this Court on March 6, 2017, indicated that several judges of this Court, including two of the judges of this panel, had a conflict of interest in this appeal. This was the first time that he identified the judges whom he believed had a conflict of interest in a document that was filed with this Court. In his notice of appeal he had alluded to a conflict with several judges but did not name those judges.
[6] Mr. Amos was of the view that he did not have to identify the judges in any document filed with this Court because he had identified the judges in various documents that had been filed with the Federal Court. In his view the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal are the same court and therefore any document filed in the Federal Court would be filed in this Court. This view is based on subsections 5(4) and 5.1(4) of the Federal Courts Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. F-7:
5(4) Every judge of the Federal Court is, by virtue of his or her office, a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal and has all the jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal. […]
5(4) Les juges de la Cour fédérale sont d’office juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale. […] 5.1(4) Every judge of the Federal Court of Appeal is, by virtue of that office, a judge of the Federal Court and has all the jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court.
5.1(4) Les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale sont d’office juges de la Cour fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que les juges de la Cour fédérale.
[7] However, these subsections only provide that the judges of the Federal Court are also judges of this Court (and vice versa). It does not mean that there is only one court. If the Federal Court and this Court were one Court, there would be no need for this section. [8] Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act provide that: 3 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court — Appeal Division is continued under the name “Federal Court of Appeal” in English and “Cour d’appel fédérale” in French. It is continued as an additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and for Canada, for the better administration of the laws of Canada and as a superior court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.
3 La Section d’appel, aussi appelée la Cour d’appel ou la Cour d’appel fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée « Cour d’appel fédérale » en français et « Federal Court of Appeal » en anglais. Elle est maintenue à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et d’amirauté du Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit canadien, et continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant compétence en matière civile et pénale. 4 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court — Trial Division is continued under the name “Federal Court” in English and “Cour fédérale” in French. It is continued as an additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and for Canada, for the better administration of the laws of Canada and as a superior court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.
4 La section de la Cour fédérale du Canada, appelée la Section de première instance de la Cour fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée « Cour fédérale » en français et « Federal Court » en anglais. Elle est maintenue à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et d’amirauté du Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit canadien, et continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant compétence en matière civile et pénale.
[9] Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act create two separate courts – this Court (section 3) and the Federal Court (section 4). If, as Mr. Amos suggests, documents filed in the Federal Court were automatically also filed in this Court, then there would no need for the parties to prepare and file appeal books as required by Rules 343 to 345 of the Federal Courts Rules, SOR/98-106 in relation to any appeal from a decision of the Federal Court. The requirement to file an appeal book with this Court in relation to an appeal from a decision of the Federal Court makes it clear that the only documents that will be before this Court are the documents that are part of that appeal book.
[10] Therefore, the memorandum of fact and law filed on March 6, 2017 is the first document, filed with this Court, in which Mr. Amos identified the particular judges that he submits have a conflict in any matter related to him.
[11] On April 3, 2017, Mr. Amos attempted to bring a motion before the Federal Court seeking an order “affirming or denying the conflict of interest he has” with a number of judges of the Federal Court. A judge of the Federal Court issued a direction noting that if Mr. Amos was seeking this order in relation to judges of the Federal Court of Appeal, it was beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal Court. Mr. Amos raised the Federal Court motion at the hearing of this cross-appeal. The Federal Court motion is not a motion before this Court and, as such, the submissions filed before the Federal Court will not be entertained. As well, since this was a motion brought before the Federal Court (and not this Court), any documents filed in relation to that motion are not part of the record of this Court.
[12] During the hearing of the appeal Mr. Amos alleged that the third member of this panel also had a conflict of interest and submitted some documents that, in his view, supported his claim of a conflict. Mr. Amos, following the hearing of his appeal, was also afforded the opportunity to provide a brief summary of the conflict that he was alleging and to file additional documents that, in his view, supported his allegations. Mr. Amos submitted several pages of documents in relation to the alleged conflicts. He organized the documents by submitting a copy of the biography of the particular judge and then, immediately following that biography, by including copies of the documents that, in his view, supported his claim that such judge had a conflict.
[13] The nature of the alleged conflict of Justice Webb is that before he was appointed as a Judge of the Tax Court of Canada in 2006, he was a partner with the law firm Patterson Law, and before that with Patterson Palmer in Nova Scotia. Mr. Amos submitted that he had a number of disputes with Patterson Palmer and Patterson Law and therefore Justice Webb has a conflict simply because he was a partner of these firms. Mr. Amos is not alleging that Justice Webb was personally involved in or had any knowledge of any matter in which Mr. Amos was involved with Justice Webb’s former law firm – only that he was a member of such firm.
[14] During his oral submissions at the hearing of his appeal Mr. Amos, in relation to the alleged conflict for Justice Webb, focused on dealings between himself and a particular lawyer at Patterson Law. However, none of the documents submitted by Mr. Amos at the hearing or subsequently related to any dealings with this particular lawyer nor is it clear when Mr. Amos was dealing with this lawyer. In particular, it is far from clear whether such dealings were after the time that Justice Webb was appointed as a Judge of the Tax Court of Canada over 10 years ago.
[15] The documents that he submitted in relation to the alleged conflict for Justice Webb largely relate to dealings between Byron Prior and the St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador office of Patterson Palmer, which is not in the same province where Justice Webb practiced law. The only document that indicates any dealing between Mr. Amos and Patterson Palmer is a copy of an affidavit of Stephen May who was a partner in the St. John’s NL office of Patterson Palmer. The affidavit is dated January 24, 2005 and refers to a number of e-mails that were sent by Mr. Amos to Stephen May. Mr. Amos also included a letter that is addressed to four individuals, one of whom is John Crosbie who was counsel to the St. John’s NL office of Patterson Palmer. The letter is dated September 2, 2004 and is addressed to “John Crosbie, c/o Greg G. Byrne, Suite 502, 570 Queen Street, Fredericton, NB E3B 5E3”. In this letter Mr. Amos alludes to a possible lawsuit against Patterson Palmer. [16] Mr. Amos’ position is that simply because Justice Webb was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer, he now has a conflict. In Wewaykum Indian Band v. Her Majesty the Queen, 2003 SCC 45, [2003] 2 S.C.R. 259, the Supreme Court of Canada noted that disqualification of a judge is to be determined based on whether there is a reasonable apprehension of bias: 60 In Canadian law, one standard has now emerged as the criterion for disqualification. The criterion, as expressed by de Grandpré J. in Committee for Justice and Liberty v. National Energy Board, …[[1978] 1 S.C.R. 369, 68 D.L.R. (3d) 716], at p. 394, is the reasonable apprehension of bias: … the apprehension of bias must be a reasonable one, held by reasonable and right minded persons, applying themselves to the question and obtaining thereon the required information. In the words of the Court of Appeal, that test is "what would an informed person, viewing the matter realistically and practically -- and having thought the matter through -- conclude. Would he think that it is more likely than not that [the decision-maker], whether consciously or unconsciously, would not decide fairly."
[17] The issue to be determined is whether an informed person, viewing the matter realistically and practically, and having thought the matter through, would conclude that Mr. Amos’ allegations give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias. As this Court has previously remarked, “there is a strong presumption that judges will administer justice impartially” and this presumption will not be rebutted in the absence of “convincing evidence” of bias (Collins v. Canada, 2011 FCA 140 at para. 7, [2011] 4 C.T.C. 157 [Collins]. See also R. v. S. (R.D.), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 484 at para. 32, 151 D.L.R. (4th) 193).
[18] The Ontario Court of Appeal in Rando Drugs Ltd. v. Scott, 2007 ONCA 553, 86 O.R. (3d) 653 (leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada refused, 32285 (August 1, 2007)), addressed the particular issue of whether a judge is disqualified from hearing a case simply because he had been a member of a law firm that was involved in the litigation that was now before that judge. The Ontario Court of Appeal determined that the judge was not disqualified if the judge had no involvement with the person or the matter when he was a lawyer. The Ontario Court of Appeal also explained that the rules for determining whether a judge is disqualified are different from the rules to determine whether a lawyer has a conflict: 27 Thus, disqualification is not the natural corollary to a finding that a trial judge has had some involvement in a case over which he or she is now presiding. Where the judge had no involvement, as here, it cannot be said that the judge is disqualified.
28 The point can rightly be made that had Mr. Patterson been asked to represent the appellant as counsel before his appointment to the bench, the conflict rules would likely have prevented him from taking the case because his firm had formerly represented one of the defendants in the case. Thus, it is argued how is it that as a trial judge Patterson J. can hear the case? This issue was considered by the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) in Locabail (U.K.) Ltd. v. Bayfield Properties Ltd., [2000] Q.B. 451. The court held, at para. 58, that there is no inflexible rule governing the disqualification of a judge and that, "[e]verything depends on the circumstances."
29 It seems to me that what appears at first sight to be an inconsistency in application of rules can be explained by the different contexts and in particular, the strong presumption of judicial impartiality that applies in the context of disqualification of a judge. There is no such presumption in cases of allegations of conflict of interest against a lawyer because of a firm's previous involvement in the case. To the contrary, as explained by Sopinka J. in MacDonald Estate v. Martin (1990), 77 D.L.R. (4th) 249 (S.C.C.), for sound policy reasons there is a presumption of a disqualifying interest that can rarely be overcome. In particular, a conclusory statement from the lawyer that he or she had no confidential information about the case will never be sufficient. The case is the opposite where the allegation of bias is made against a trial judge. His or her statement that he or she knew nothing about the case and had no involvement in it will ordinarily be accepted at face value unless there is good reason to doubt it: see Locabail, at para. 19.
30 That brings me then to consider the particular circumstances of this case and whether there are serious grounds to find a disqualifying conflict of interest in this case. In my view, there are two significant factors that justify the trial judge's decision not to recuse himself. The first is his statement, which all parties accept, that he knew nothing of the case when it was in his former firm and that he had nothing to do with it. The second is the long passage of time. As was said in Wewaykum, at para. 85: To us, one significant factor stands out, and must inform the perspective of the reasonable person assessing the impact of this involvement on Binnie J.'s impartiality in the appeals. That factor is the passage of time. Most arguments for disqualification rest on circumstances that are either contemporaneous to the decision-making, or that occurred within a short time prior to the decision-making. 31 There are other factors that inform the issue. The Wilson Walker firm no longer acted for any of the parties by the time of trial. More importantly, at the time of the motion, Patterson J. had been a judge for six years and thus had not had a relationship with his former firm for a considerable period of time.
32 In my view, a reasonable person, viewing the matter realistically would conclude that the trial judge could deal fairly and impartially with this case. I take this view principally because of the long passage of time and the trial judge's lack of involvement in or knowledge of the case when the Wilson Walker firm had carriage. In these circumstances it cannot be reasonably contended that the trial judge could not remain impartial in the case. The mere fact that his name appears on the letterhead of some correspondence from over a decade ago would not lead a reasonable person to believe that he would either consciously or unconsciously favour his former firm's former client. It is simply not realistic to think that a judge would throw off his mantle of impartiality, ignore his oath of office and favour a client - about whom he knew nothing - of a firm that he left six years earlier and that no longer acts for the client, in a case involving events from over a decade ago. (emphasis added)
[19] Justice Webb had no involvement with any matter involving Mr. Amos while he was a member of Patterson Palmer or Patterson Law, nor does Mr. Amos suggest that he did. Mr. Amos made it clear during the hearing of this matter that the only reason for the alleged conflict for Justice Webb was that he was a member of Patterson Law and Patterson Palmer. This is simply not enough for Justice Webb to be disqualified. Any involvement of Mr. Amos with Patterson Law while Justice Webb was a member of that firm would have had to occur over 10 years ago and even longer for the time when he was a member of Patterson Palmer. In addition to the lack of any involvement on his part with any matter or dispute that Mr. Amos had with Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer (which in and of itself is sufficient to dispose of this matter), the length of time since Justice Webb was a member of Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer would also result in the same finding – that there is no conflict in Justice Webb hearing this appeal.
[20] Similarly in R. v. Bagot, 2000 MBCA 30, 145 Man. R. (2d) 260, the Manitoba Court of Appeal found that there was no reasonable apprehension of bias when a judge, who had been a member of the law firm that had been retained by the accused, had no involvement with the accused while he was a lawyer with that firm.
[21] In Del Zotto v. Minister of National Revenue, [2000] 4 F.C. 321, 257 N.R. 96, this court did find that there would be a reasonable apprehension of bias where a judge, who while he was a lawyer, had recorded time on a matter involving the same person who was before that judge. However, this case can be distinguished as Justice Webb did not have any time recorded on any files involving Mr. Amos while he was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer or Patterson Law.
[22] Mr. Amos also included with his submissions a CD. He stated in his affidavit dated June 26, 2017 that there is a “true copy of an American police surveillance wiretap entitled 139” on this CD. He has also indicated that he has “provided a true copy of the CD entitled 139 to many American and Canadian law enforcement authorities and not one of the police forces or officers of the court are willing to investigate it”. Since he has indicated that this is an “American police surveillance wiretap”, this is a matter for the American law enforcement authorities and cannot create, as Mr. Amos suggests, a conflict of interest for any judge to whom he provides a copy.
[23] As a result, there is no conflict or reasonable apprehension of bias for Justice Webb and therefore, no reason for him to recuse himself.
[24] Mr. Amos alleged that Justice Near’s past professional experience with the government created a “quasi-conflict” in deciding the cross-appeal. Mr. Amos provided no details and Justice Near confirmed that he had no prior knowledge of the matters alleged in the Claim. Justice Near sees no reason to recuse himself.
[25] Insofar as it is possible to glean the basis for Mr. Amos’ allegations against Justice Gleason, it appears that he alleges that she is incapable of hearing this appeal because he says he wrote a letter to Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien in 2004. At that time, both Justice Gleason and Mr. Mulroney were partners in the law firm Ogilvy Renault, LLP. The letter in question, which is rude and angry, begins with “Hey you two Evil Old Smiling Bastards” and “Re: me suing you and your little dogs too”. There is no indication that the letter was ever responded to or that a law suit was ever commenced by Mr. Amos against Mr. Mulroney. In the circumstances, there is no reason for Justice Gleason to recuse herself as the letter in question does not give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias.
III. Issue
[26] The issue on the cross-appeal is as follows: Did the Judge err in setting aside the Prothonotary’s Order striking the Claim in its entirety without leave to amend and in determining that Mr. Amos’ allegation that the RCMP barred him from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004 was capable of supporting a cause of action?
IV. Analysis
A. Standard of Review
[27] Following the Judge’s decision to set aside the Prothonotary’s Order, this Court revisited the standard of review to be applied to discretionary decisions of prothonotaries and decisions made by judges on appeals of prothonotaries’ decisions in Hospira Healthcare Corp. v. Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, 2016 FCA 215, 402 D.L.R. (4th) 497 [Hospira]. In Hospira, a five-member panel of this Court replaced the Aqua-Gem standard of review with that articulated in Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 235 [Housen]. As a result, it is no longer appropriate for the Federal Court to conduct a de novo review of a discretionary order made by a prothonotary in regard to questions vital to the final issue of the case. Rather, a Federal Court judge can only intervene on appeal if the prothonotary made an error of law or a palpable and overriding error in determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and law (Hospira at para. 79). Further, this Court can only interfere with a Federal Court judge’s review of a prothonotary’s discretionary order if the judge made an error of law or palpable and overriding error in determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and law (Hospira at paras. 82-83).
[28] In the case at bar, the Judge substituted his own assessment of Mr. Amos’ Claim for that of the Prothonotary. This Court must look to the Prothonotary’s Order to determine whether the Judge erred in law or made a palpable and overriding error in choosing to interfere.
B. Did the Judge err in interfering with the Prothonotary’s Order?
[29] The Prothontoary’s Order accepted the following paragraphs from the Crown’s submissions as the basis for striking the Claim in its entirety without leave to amend:
17. Within the 96 paragraph Statement of Claim, the Plaintiff addresses his complaint in paragraphs 14-24, inclusive. All but four of those paragraphs are dedicated to an incident that occurred in 2006 in and around the legislature in New Brunswick. The jurisdiction of the Federal Court does not extend to Her Majesty the Queen in right of the Provinces. In any event, the Plaintiff hasn’t named the Province or provincial actors as parties to this action. The incident alleged does not give rise to a justiciable cause of action in this Court. (…)
21. The few paragraphs that directly address the Defendant provide no details as to the individuals involved or the location of the alleged incidents or other details sufficient to allow the Defendant to respond. As a result, it is difficult or impossible to determine the causes of action the Plaintiff is attempting to advance. A generous reading of the Statement of Claim allows the Defendant to only speculate as to the true and/or intended cause of action. At best, the Plaintiff’s action may possibly be summarized as: he suspects he is barred from the House of Commons. [footnotes omitted].
[30] The Judge determined that he could not strike the Claim on the same jurisdictional basis as the Prothonotary. The Judge noted that the Federal Court has jurisdiction over claims based on the liability of Federal Crown servants like the RCMP and that the actors who barred Mr. Amos from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004 included the RCMP (Federal Court Judgment at para. 23). In considering the viability of these allegations de novo, the Judge identified paragraph 14 of the Claim as containing “some precision” as it identifies the date of the event and a RCMP officer acting as Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant Governor (Federal Court Judgment at para. 27).
[31] The Judge noted that the 2004 event could support a cause of action in the tort of misfeasance in public office and identified the elements of the tort as excerpted from Meigs v. Canada, 2013 FC 389, 431 F.T.R. 111:
[13] As in both the cases of Odhavji Estate v Woodhouse, 2003 SCC 69 [Odhavji] and Lewis v Canada, 2012 FC 1514 [Lewis], I must determine whether the plaintiffs’ statement of claim pleads each element of the alleged tort of misfeasance in public office:
a) The public officer must have engaged in deliberate and unlawful conduct in his or her capacity as public officer;
b) The public officer must have been aware both that his or her conduct was unlawful and that it was likely to harm the plaintiff; and
c) There must be an element of bad faith or dishonesty by the public officer and knowledge of harm alone is insufficient to conclude that a public officer acted in bad faith or dishonestly. Odhavji, above, at paras 23, 24 and 28 (Federal Court Judgment at para. 28).
[32] The Judge determined that Mr. Amos disclosed sufficient material facts to meet the elements of the tort of misfeasance in public office because the actors, who barred him from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004, including the RCMP, did so for “political reasons” (Federal Court Judgment at para. 29).
[33] This Court’s discussion of the sufficiency of pleadings in Merchant Law Group v. Canada (Revenue Agency), 2010 FCA 184, 321 D.L.R (4th) 301 is particularly apt:
…When pleading bad faith or abuse of power, it is not enough to assert, baldly, conclusory phrases such as “deliberately or negligently,” “callous disregard,” or “by fraud and theft did steal”. “The bare assertion of a conclusion upon which the court is called upon to pronounce is not an allegation of material fact”. Making bald, conclusory allegations without any evidentiary foundation is an abuse of process…
To this, I would add that the tort of misfeasance in public office requires a particular state of mind of a public officer in carrying out the impunged action, i.e., deliberate conduct which the public officer knows to be inconsistent with the obligations of his or her office. For this tort, particularization of the allegations is mandatory. Rule 181 specifically requires particularization of allegations of “breach of trust,” “wilful default,” “state of mind of a person,” “malice” or “fraudulent intention.” (at paras. 34-35, citations omitted).
[34] Applying the Housen standard of review to the Prothonotary’s Order, we are of the view that the Judge interfered absent a legal or palpable and overriding error.
[35] The Prothonotary determined that Mr. Amos’ Claim disclosed no reasonable claim and was fundamentally vexatious on the basis of jurisdictional concerns and the absence of material facts to ground a cause of action. Paragraph 14 of the Claim, which addresses the 2004 event, pleads no material facts as to how the RCMP officer engaged in deliberate and unlawful conduct, knew that his or her conduct was unlawful and likely to harm Mr. Amos, and acted in bad faith. While the Claim alleges elsewhere that Mr. Amos was barred from the New Brunswick legislature for political and/or malicious reasons, these allegations are not particularized and are directed against non-federal actors, such as the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick and the Fredericton Police Force. As such, the Judge erred in determining that Mr. Amos’ allegation that the RCMP barred him from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004 was capable of supporting a cause of action.
[36] In our view, the Claim is made up entirely of bare allegations, devoid of any detail, such that it discloses no reasonable cause of action within the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts. Therefore, the Judge erred in interfering to set aside the Prothonotary’s Order striking the claim in its entirety. Further, we find that the Prothonotary made no error in denying leave to amend. The deficiencies in Mr. Amos’ pleadings are so extensive such that amendment could not cure them (see Collins at para. 26).
V. Conclusion [37] For the foregoing reasons, we would allow the Crown’s cross-appeal, with costs, setting aside the Federal Court Judgment, dated January 25, 2016 and restoring the Prothonotary’s Order, dated November 12, 2015, which struck Mr. Amos’ Claim in its entirety without leave to amend. "Wyman W. Webb" J.A. "David G. Near" J.A. "Mary J.L. Gleason" J.A.
FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD
A CROSS-APPEAL FROM AN ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE SOUTHCOTT DATED JANUARY 25, 2016; DOCKET NUMBER T-1557-15. DOCKET:
A-48-16
STYLE OF CAUSE:
DAVID RAYMOND AMOS v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
PLACE OF HEARING:
Fredericton, New Brunswick
DATE OF HEARING:
May 24, 2017
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY:
WEBB J.A. NEAR J.A. GLEASON J.A.
DATED:
October 30, 2017
APPEARANCES: David Raymond Amos
For The Appellant / respondent on cross-appeal (on his own behalf)
Jan Jensen
For The Respondent / appELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL
SOLICITORS OF RECORD: Nathalie G. Drouin Deputy Attorney General of Canada
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New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative party is losing one of its highest-profile MLAs just months before the next provincial election.
Brian Macdonald says he won't be a candidate this fall and may instead jump into federal politics.
Calling the last year "my best year in politics," the two-term MLA said his decision has nothing to do with PC Leader Blaine Higgs, who beat Macdonald for the party leadership in 2016.
"It's been a really good year," Macdonald said. "I've had a strong voice in the legislature on issues that are really important to my heart.
"I also think it can be a challenge being in provincial politics. It's very small, it's very close, it's very tight, and on a personal basis, I want to move on."
Macdonald says he’s considering running for the federal Conservative nomination in New Brunswick Southwest, which includes part of the riding of Fredericton West-Hanwell, where he has been the MLA. (CBC)
Macdonald said he's considering running for the federal Conservative nomination in New Brunswick Southwest, a constituency that includes part of Macdonald's provincial riding of Fredericton West-Hanwell.
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That decision would pit him against former Conservative MP John Williamson, who announced May 21 he'll also seek the nomination in the riding he represented from 2011 to 2015. Party members in the riding will nominate their candidate June 28.
Macdonald said he'll also consider running federally in Fredericton. The former soldier said he's also looking at job opportunities with national organizations that advocate for veterans.
"I'm looking for opportunities and considering a lot of options," he said.
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Macdonald is the fifth candidate from the 2016 provincial PC leadership race to opt against running in this year's election under Higgs.
Macdonald said he is confident he would have won his riding again and the Tories will win the election Sept. 24, meaning he'd have a shot of becoming a minister.
But he said being a provincial politician "does wear on you and it does make you think about what the other options are. … If I go another four years in provincial politics, it concerns me that my options would be limited after that."
The 47-year-old also said the recent death of some friends made him realize he should pursue other opportunities when he can.
Macdonald's interest in federal politics has been well-known for years. He was a political assistant to former federal Defence Minister Peter MacKay and sought the federal Conservative nomination for Fredericton for the 2008 election.
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Macdonald ran for the leadership of the New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Party but lost to Blaine Higgs. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
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Macdonald said he doesn't think his departure will hurt the provincial party's chances of holding on to Fredericton West-Hanwell.
"It's going to be very attractive to a number of high-calibre candidates who are now beginning to come forward," he said.
Nikki Haley resigning as U.S. ambassador to United Nations at year end
Haley represented Trump's hardline policies at UN, earning gratitude from Israel
CBC News· Posted: Oct 09, 2018 10:56 AM ET
2266 Comments Commenting is now closed for this story.
Damien Johnston
Another leaving the sinking ship!
David Amos
@Damien Johnston Methinks the lady may not be as dumb as I thought she was N'esy Pas?
Jackie Barrett
Since Nikki Haley was very confrontational and abusive, I'm glad that she's leaving as UN Ambassador.
Its time to celebrate.
HORRAY!!!!
David Amos
@Jackie Barrett "Its time to celebrate"
Yea but who is gonna fill her jackboots?
Peter Hill
Funny that they need 2/3's majority for UN ambassador but only 50% for Supreme Court Justice.
David Amos
@Peter Hill Methinks it is kind of funny in a sad sort of way N'esy Pas?
James Holden
@David Amos
You would have to go to Scotland if you wanted to see Nessy pass.
danny powell
@David Amos It's "n'est pas" big guy.
David Amos
@danny powell Only to snobby little Anglos
David Amos
@James Holden At least you know who I am N'esy Pas?
John Tobias
The number of senior management personnel to leave the WH in less than two years is unprecedented
David Amos
@John Tobias YUP
Bertrum G.Gruff
question is - who has Fox lined up for her replacement?
Patrick Kennedy
@Bertrum G.Gruff Hannity?
David Amos
@Patrick Kennedy Methinks Tucker would be a excellent choice Fox is getting tired o him anyway N'esy Pas?
Albert Grove
Trump is currently praising her, ...tonight he will tweet her into oblivion!
David Amos
@Albert Grove Perhaps
Dan Croteau
Let me guess, she wants to leave before Trump decides to take the US out of the UN entirely?
This country is really in free fall.
Ron Paul
@Billy Smith Not sure what world these people are living in, the US economy is soaring, in every possible measureable metric.
Paul Pedersen
@Ron Paul Soaring? No. Its benefitting from team trumps mind blowing increase in debt. Like buying lots on your credit card. Your 'soaring' will come crashing to the ground when it comes to pay off that debt. And that day will come.
John Conrad
@Ron Paul What is an immeasurable metric?
David Amos
@Paul Pedersen "Your 'soaring' will come crashing to the ground when it comes to pay off that debt. And that day will come."
I concur
David Amos
@John Conrad "What is an immeasurable metric?"
Methinks he is hoping it is something we can't argue N'esy Pas?
Tom Simpson
"Haley called the ambassadorship "an honour of a lifetime" and said that countries were once again respecting the U.S. if not always liking the country's policy initiatives.?
Respecting the USA again eh? Uhhhh, I don't know about that one Haley....
Wayne Webb
@Tom Simpson Yes here in the U.N. we always laugh at those we respect.
David Amos
@Wayne Webb Methinks that is why peoplekind laugh at our Mr Dressup and his sunny ways N'esy Pas?
Dwight Williams
'Haley, 46, served as South Carolina's governor from 2011 until she was nominated by Trump to the UN post, a move that surprised some observers given her lack of foreign policy experience.'
I have to seriously wonder if Trump appointed her because he thought she didn't look American, and that might go over well with the leaders of other countries.
Really.
That's his level of thinking.
David Amos
@Dwight Williams Methinks nobody knows what Trump thinks not even him That is why he changes his mind sometimes in mid sentence N'esy Pas?
Dean Lenglet
I guess her conscience finally caught up to her.
David Amos
@Michael MacKenzie "she just decided to leave while the leaving was good"
I agree
Joe Smithson
@Michael MacKenzie
No it;'s because a report about her spending and gift taking came out
Nikki Haley's resignation comes one day after an ethics watchdog requested an investigation into her acceptance of free flights on private jets
Nikki Haley resigning as U.S. ambassador to United Nations at year end
Haley represented Trump's hardline policies at UN, earning gratitude from Israel
CBC News· Posted: Oct 09, 2018 10:56 AM ET
President Donald Trump meets with outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley in the Oval Office on Tuesday. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press)
Nikki Haley is resigning from her post as United States ambassador to the United Nations effective at the end of 2018, with President Donald Trump indicating he had advance warning she would leave.
"Big announcement with my friend Ambassador Nikki Haley in the Oval Office at 10:30am," Trump wrote on Twitter ahead of their Tuesday morning meeting.
Trump accepted the resignation and said at the meeting with reporters present that Haley had told him months ago she intended to serve for less than two years. Trump was effusive in his praise of Haley, saying she could have "her pick" of roles if she decided to come back to the administration.
Haley called the ambassadorship "an honour of a lifetime" and pointed to moving the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, cutting the UN budget by $1.3 billion US and helping to broker an arms embargo in South Sudan as accomplishments.
Haley has been the face of Trump's "America First" policy at the United Nations, steering the U.S. withdrawal from several UN programs and ardently defending his hardline policies against Iran and North Korea over their nuclear programs.
"Now the United States is respected," she said. "Countries may not like what we do, but they respect what we do. They know that if we say we're going to do something, we follow it through."
After an anonymous essay in the New York Times from an administration official brought up the spectre of Trump's competence for the presidency, Haley wrote a defence in a Washington Post op-ed.
"I proudly serve in this administration, and I enthusiastically support most of its decisions and the direction it is taking the country," wrote Haley. "But I don't agree with the president on everything."
Praise from Lindsay Graham
While thanking her husband and two children for their support on Tuesday, Haley said the reasons for her departure weren't personal.
"I think it's very important for government officials to understand when it's time to step aside," she said.
The move will raise speculation about her political future nonetheless.
Haley, 46, served as South Carolina's governor from 2011 until she was nominated by Trump to the UN post, a move that surprised some observers given her lack of foreign policy experience.
As well, Haley had campaigned for Marco Rubio during the Republican primaries, with Trump at one point tweeting "the people of South Carolina are embarrassed by Nikki Haley."
Haley campaigns for Marco Rubio on Feb. 17, 2016, during a rally in Chapin, S.C., but any friction between her and Trump was forgotten months later as she was nominated to be UN ambassador. (Chris Keane/Reuters)
She was that state's first female governor.
Haley said she has no intention of running for office in 2020 and promised to campaign for Trump.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina praised Haley as "a true agent of reform when it came to the United Nations" and predicted she would be heard from again in national politics.
Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey thanked Haley for her service in a statement but decried the surprise resignation as "yet another sign of the Trump administration's chaotic foreign policy." The White House in less than two years has seen Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and national security adviser H.R. McMaster depart, with Mike Pompeo moved after just a short time as CIA director to fill the Tillerson vacancy.
'Arrogant discourse': UN Palestinian rep
United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres expressed on Tuesday his "deep appreciation for the excellent co-operation and support" Haley provided, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said. "They had a very productive and strong working relationship," Dujarric told reporters.
Danny Danon, Israel's ambassador to the UN, praised Haley on social media, saying she'd "always be a true friend to the State of Israel."
Haley left the UN session in May as Riyad Mansour, lower left, Palestinian observer to the UN, prepared to address the Security Council. (Mary Altaffer/Associated Press)
Her legacy will be less kind to many in the Arab world after both the controversial embassy move and the slashing of millions in humanitarian aid to Palestinians by the Trump administration.
Riyad Mansour, observer to the UN for the Palestinians, has previously accused Haley of "arrogant discourse" and "becoming more Israeli than the Israelis themselves."
When Mansour moved to speak in May at a UN Security Council session in the wake of dozens of Palestinian deaths near the Israeli-Gaza border, Haley walked out.
Canada has yet to officially comment, but just last week Marc-Andre Blanchard, Canadian ambassador to the UN, praised Haley's stewardship last month of the Security Council presidency.
While a resolution declaring "null and void" the U.S.'s recognition last year of Jerusalem as Israel's capital passed 128-9, Canada was one of about three-dozen countries to abstain from the vote.
Haley's replacement will require confirmation by the Senate, with over one-third of the seats in that legislative body being contested in next month's midterm elections. Haley was confirmed with 96 of 100 votes.
Trump said he would name a replacement in two to three weeks.
With files from Reuters
ROUND TWO
Nikki Haley resigning as U.S. ambassador to United Nations at year end
Haley represented Trump's hardline policies at UN, earning gratitude from Israel
CBC News· Posted: Oct 09, 2018 10:56 AM ET
President Donald Trump meets with outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley in the Oval Office on Tuesday. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press)
Nikki Haley announced Tuesday she would resign from her post as United States ambassador to the United Nations effective at the end of 2018, and President Donald Trump is already publicly considering who should replace her.
Trump accepted Haley's resignation and said at the meeting with reporters present that she had told him months ago she intended to serve for less than two years. Trump was effusive in his praise of Haley, saying she could have "her pick" of roles if she decided to come back to the administration. But just hours after Haley's announcement, Trump had already begun speculating on who could replace Haley, indicating that a short list of five people had been created and that it included Dina Powell, his former deputy national security adviser.
Trump told reporters outside the White House that he has heard his daughter Ivanka's name being discussed for the post. He said he was certain Ivanka would be "incredible" in the role, but added he knows if he selected her he'd be accused of nepotism.
"I've heard a lot of names. I've heard Ivanka. The people that know, it's nothing to do with nepotism. But I want to tell you, the people that know, know that Ivanka would be dynamite," Trump said. Watch as Trump talks about possible replacements, including his daughter Ivanka:
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Ivanka Trump later quashed any speculation she would be appointed to take over from Haley. "I know that the president will nominate a formidable replacement for Ambassador Haley. That replacement will not be me," she tweeted.
It is an honor to serve in the White House alongside so many great colleagues and I know that the President will nominate a formidable replacement for Ambassador Haley. That replacement will not be me.
Earlier Tuesday, Haley called the ambassadorship "an honour of a lifetime" and pointed to moving the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, cutting the UN budget by $1.3 billion US and helping to broker an arms embargo in South Sudan as accomplishments.
Haley has been the face of Trump's "America First" policy at the United Nations, steering the U.S. withdrawal from several UN programs and ardently defending his hardline policies against Iran and North Korea over their nuclear programs.
"Now the United States is respected," she said. "Countries may not like what we do, but they respect what we do. They know that if we say we're going to do something, we follow it through."
After an anonymous essay in the New York Times from an administration official brought up the spectre of Trump's competence for the presidency, Haley wrote a defence in a Washington Post op-ed.
"I proudly serve in this administration, and I enthusiastically support most of its decisions and the direction it is taking the country," wrote Haley. "But I don't agree with the president on everything."
'True agent of reform'
While thanking her husband and two children for their support on Tuesday, Haley said the reasons for her departure weren't personal.
"I think it's very important for government officials to understand when it's time to step aside," she said.
The move will raise speculation about her political future nonetheless.
Haley, 46, served as South Carolina's governor from 2011 until she was nominated by Trump to the UN post, a move that surprised some observers given her lack of foreign policy experience.
As well, Haley had campaigned for Marco Rubio during the Republican primaries, with Trump at one point tweeting "the people of South Carolina are embarrassed by Nikki Haley."
Haley campaigns for Marco Rubio on Feb. 17, 2016, during a rally in Chapin, S.C., but any friction between her and Trump was forgotten months later as she was nominated to be UN ambassador. (Chris Keane/Reuters)
She was that state's first female governor.
Haley said she has no intention of running for office in 2020 and promised to campaign for Trump.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina praised Haley as "a true agent of reform when it came to the United Nations" and predicted she would be heard from again in national politics.
Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey thanked Haley for her service in a statement but decried the surprise resignation as "yet another sign of the Trump administration's chaotic foreign policy." The White House in less than two years has seen Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and national security adviser H.R. McMaster depart, with Mike Pompeo moved after just a short time as CIA director to fill the Tillerson vacancy.
'Arrogant discourse': UN Palestinian rep
United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres expressed on Tuesday his "deep appreciation for the excellent co-operation and support" Haley provided, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said.
"They had a very productive and strong working relationship," Dujarric told reporters.
Danny Danon, Israel's ambassador to the UN, praised Haley on social media, saying she'd "always be a true friend to the State of Israel."
Haley left the UN session in May as Riyad Mansour, lower left, Palestinian observer to the UN, prepared to address the Security Council. (Mary Altaffer/Associated Press)
Her legacy will be less kind to many in the Arab world after both the controversial embassy move and the slashing of millions in humanitarian aid to Palestinians by the Trump administration.
Riyad Mansour, observer to the UN for the Palestinians, has previously accused Haley of "arrogant discourse" and "becoming more Israeli than the Israelis themselves."
When Mansour moved to speak in May at a UN Security Council session in the wake of dozens of Palestinian deaths near the Israeli-Gaza border, Haley walked out.
Marc-André Blanchard, Canada's ambassador to the UN, tweeted Tuesday that Haley "should be proud" of her accomplishments as ambassador.
"I have so enjoyed working with you and even more getting to know you as a friend," Blanchard tweeted.
.@nikkihaley you should be proud of all you have accomplished @UN. I have so enjoyed working with you and even more getting to know you as a friend. Best to you, Michael, Rena and Nalin.
While a resolution declaring "null and void" the U.S.'s recognition last year of Jerusalem as Israel's capital passed 128-9, Canada was one of about three-dozen countries to abstain from the vote.
Haley's replacement will require confirmation by the Senate, with over one-third of the seats in that legislative body being contested in next month's midterm elections. Haley was confirmed with 96 of 100 votes.
Don Lemon is one person, not the mass media. Opinion based media is always going to have a slant. CNN has run news stories about all the various Clintons, Frankens, Weinsteins, Weiners, etc. of the world, just as they have the Kavanaughs, Trumps, Moores, etc. So has MSNBC. So has Fox. So has CBC. That's news media.
However, each outlet has their own target market, and their opinion pieces slant in the direction of their target market. Respectable outlets will ensure opinion space for a variety of views, shameless ones will build echo chambers.
You're reading an opinion piece demanding Clinton get his comeuppance on CBC, just as you've read others attacking Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh is much more recent, so you're going to see more pieces on him.
Peter Samson
@Sandy Gillis While I agree that citing Don Lemon is anecdotal are you arguing with the assertion that CNN is biased? Because that's a point I'll defend. I'm not denying Fox is biased, that's obvious, but it's just as obvious that CNN and MSN are biased as well. How much coverage have you noticed of Keith Ellison? Are you even aware of his story?
David Amos
@Peter Samson "You're reading an opinion piece demanding Clinton get his comeuppance on CBC"
Methinks the dude Yankees call "The Donald" should start reading and watching CBC particularly before the mid term elections N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@Peter Samson BTW Say Hey to Sandy for me will ya?
Joan MacDonald
It's different you know.....Bill Clinton was a democrat.
David Amos
@Joan MacDonald "Bill Clinton was a democrat."
BINGO
Methinks that therein lies the rub N'esy Pas?
Ed Norton Which is worse, Clinton's indiscretions or Trump's?
Clinton behaved completely inappropriately with Lewinsky, but to apply the term "sexual predator" is completely unfounded.
As for Clinton's lie to cover up the affair, how does that stand up with the serial mistruths that Trump utters constantly and without impunity.
Trump is a far greater danger to female dignity and rights than Clinton ever was. Not to say Clinton behaved well in matters of the flesh, but his governance had standard of truthfulness that far exceeds that of the serial mistruther (Trump).
David Amos
@Ed Norton "Which is worse, Clinton's indiscretions or Trump's? "
Clinton's
Ben Smith
This is why Trump won and will keep winning.
David Amos
@Ben Smith "This is why Trump won and will keep winning."
I agree Methinks its not so much that Trump won it is that fact that Hillary and the "The System" lost that has the corporate media so upset. Anyone with two clues between their ears understand that "The Donald" is the President merely because ordinary folks had had enough of the BS and sought change anywhere they could find it.
Nobody can deny that Trump was the ultimate outsider during his election campaign. Now two years later he is still popular much to the chagrin of the Democrats and Liberals etc. Even though Trump has turned out to be just another player he does make a great Ringmaster in the Circus called the US Congress N'esy Pas?
Tom Barry
The "virtuous" Hollywood crowd loved and defended Bill as they vilified his accusers.
David Amos
@Tom Barry YUP
Tom Barry
Clinton is the poster boy for the democrats hypocrisy.
Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky.
Now we have Keith Ellison and his two accusers who the Democrats have treated with distain.
David Amos
@Tom Barry Well Put Sir
Issac Boyle
I know that this topic has been a favorite “what-Aboutism” of late for right wing commentators - that is it is a device used distract from the issues currently at hand - they have a point on this, and this article captures that same point well.
Collectively there is a great deal of hypocrisy regarding Bill Clinton. There is actually real evidence of his transgressions which today would be considered a metoo issue. And a sad reality is that Hilary was (reportedly) complicit in silencing his victims over the years.
Bill’s stature as a politician and past president shouldn’t mean he should be shielded from responsible for his past.
David Amos
@Issac Boyle "Bill’s stature as a politician and past president shouldn’t mean he should be shielded from responsible for his past'
I Wholeheartedly Agree Sir
Leslie Rowe
Creepy couple.
David Amos
@Leslie Rowe "Creepy couple."
Methinks that may be the understatement of the year but just enough said N'esy Pas?
Douglas Blake
So, how did this obvious hatchet job get published?
Seriously CBC ... you used to be better than this.
David Amos
@Douglas Blake Methinks if you do not like the Lady's opinion just click your mouse and surf away to find someone singing Clinton's praises. Nobody has tied you down to view only the CBC domain N'esy Pas?
Dave Williams
He gets away with it because he is a liberal and liberals are not held to the same standard as conservatives .Our current PM is another excellent example of that .
David Amos
@Dave Williams Methinks there is a lot more to it than that N'esy Pas?
Chrétien says Americans made 'a monumental error' when they elected Donald Trump
'People don't take them seriously anymore,' the former prime minister tells CBC News
CBC News·
Former prime minister Jean Chrétien sat down with CBC's Rosemary Barton to talk up his new book with his usual candour. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
"When you're in public life,' Jean Chrétien said, "you fill a hole. And you realize that to fill the hole, you have to dig two more."
For many people, that would be reason enough not to get into public life. But listening to the former prime minister — now 15 years removed from his last day in office — one gets the feeling he might like nothing more than to pick up that shovel again.
Chrétien may protest that he doesn't want to be a Monday morning coach, doesn't want to comment on the issues of the day in which he no longer plays a central part, but nudge him just a bit, and it turns out the 84-year-old has plenty to say.
He's written some of it down, in a book coming out next Thursday called My Stories, My Times. And in a conversation with The National's Rosemary Barton, he goes further — on everything from marijuana (never touched the stuff) to U.S. President Donald Trump ("fanatical").
Legalizing marijuana
One day before Chrétien's book comes out, recreational marijuana use will become legal in Canada. "I never tasted that, I don't have a clue what it is," he says as soon as the topic is raised.
But 20 years ago, Chrétien knew enough about it to conclude that smoking marijuana should not be a crime.
"I was for decriminalization. I was not, at that time, for legalization. I thought for a kid having smoked a joint and to have a criminal record forever, it was unreasonable."
Chrétien's government introduced a bill in 2003 to decriminalize simple possession of marijuana, but the bill died before a final vote.
Listen to whether Chrétien thinks marijuana legalization will change Canada.
CBC News
Chrétien on legalizing pot
Former prime minister Jean Chrétien tells CBC's Rosemary Barton where he stands — and whether legalizing recreational pot will change Canada. 0:51
Is he a feminist?
Chrétien jokes that he once told a fellow leader visiting Rideau Hall that Canada "is run by women," explaining that, "The governor general is [Adrienne] Clarkson, the [Supreme Court] Chief Justice is [Beverley] McLachlin, and my wife!"
But jokes aside, he admits it was important to him that women were elevated to higher positions. "Yes. Yes, yes. But first they had to have the competence," he said.
As justice minister in 1982, he announced the appointment of Bertha Wilson as the first female justice to the Supreme Court. He followed that up in 2000 as prime minister, by nominating the first female chief justice, Beverley McLachlin.
"I'm happy that Wilson turned out to be a great judge and the chief justice was extremely respected. So I cannot complain."
But is he a feminist? Listen to his full answer.
CBC News
Chrétien on appointing women to top positions
Barton asks Chrétien if he considers himself a feminist. 0:51
Political divides
"Good news is not news," Chrétien said. "Bad news is news." The implication being, conflict and tension get the most attention in the media. But he suggests that if you think it's bad out there now, consider the political divides of his day.
"At the time, we thought it was pretty bad. We had people in Montreal who were blown up because of the fanatic separatists of the day," he said, speaking of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ), which set off several bombs between 1963 and 1970, including one at the Montreal Stock Exchange, and another at the home of then-Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau.
And he offers some further perspective in his full answer.
CBC News
Are Canadians more divided today than ever?
Chrétien puts today’s political tensions into context. 1:03
Notwithstanding all that …
Chrétien was one of the main architects of the deal that would see the notwithstanding clause included in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982. He says it was an important section then — and remains so today.
The clause allows provincial or federal authorities to override or essentially ignore sections of the charter.
"You have to declare that you are discriminating. How many normal person would say, 'I want to discriminate'?"
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he was ready to invoke the clause in order to cut the number of Toronto city councillors in half even though the election was already underway.
And Quebec's next premier, François Legault, says he'll do it to ban the wearing of religious symbols by provincial public servants.
Chrétien offers his view on that.
CBC News
Chrétien on the importance of the notwithstanding clause
Does Chrétien think today’s leaders will really use the notwithstanding clause? 0:34
The world leader he calls 'fanatical'
The day before Chrétien spoke to CBC News, Donald Trump stood in front of a crowd in Southaven, Miss., and mocked the Senate committee testimony of Christine Blasey Ford, who says she was sexually assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh decades before he was nominated to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Come on," Chrétien said, shaking his head. "I would not be proud if my prime minister would have done something like that."
His words are sharper in his book. He calls Trump "fanatical," and says Americans made "a monumental error" when they elected him.
"But," he said, "they have to live with it."
Chrétien describes what international leaders say to him about the U.S. and Trump. It's not good.
CBC News
He still travels the world — and gets an earful about Trump
What international leaders tell Chrétien about Trump and the U.S. 1:05
Watch Rosemary Barton's full interview with Jean Chrétien:
The National
Jean Chrétien talks to The National's Rosemary Barton
The former prime minister weighs in on several news issues - many of which he tackled during his own career - ahead of the release of his book, My Stories, My Times. 10:10
Bill Clinton is massively overdue for a #MeToo reckoning: Robyn Urback
Clinton cites his feminist policy achievements as if they are some sort of anti-venom to his past behaviour
Robyn Urback· CBC News· Posted: Oct 11, 2018 4:00 AM ET
Somewhere now in Camp Clinton, expert communicators are curling the ribbons on the package of manure that Bill Clinton will offer as a prepared response to questions about #MeToo. (Patrick Semansky/Associated Press)
So many things would be different if the world were just and good: your high school bully would end up in jail, dogs would evolve to outlive humans, and one of America's most famous sexual predators would be destitute and alone, eating chilli out of a can in sweat-stained pyjamas.
Instead, he is set to travel North America with his wife on an upcoming speaking tour, which could cost attendees up to $750 US a pop. With two scheduled stops in Canada, the tour will see Bill and Hillary Clinton share "stories and inspiring anecdotes that shaped their historic careers in public service, while also discussing issues of the day and looking toward the future."
It is to be expected, then, that the former president who lied about having a sexual relationship with a 21-year-old intern in the White House will be asked to weigh in on the current #MeToo movement. Which also means that somewhere now in Camp Clinton, expert communicators are curling the ribbons on the package of manure that Bill Clinton will offer as a prepared response.
Clinton has somehow become a curious figure of both levity and adulation.
It is both utterly baffling and genuinely impressive how, over the course of just a few decades, Clinton has freed himself from the crippling embarrassment of impeachment, the infernal shame of his lies and the moral repugnance of such a demonstrable abuse of power to become this curious figure of both levity and adulation.
But if there is one person in North America who is massively overdue for a #MeToo reckoning, it is him. He is the practical embodiment of everything the movement was designed to reject: abuse of power, privilege, double standards, harassment, sexual abuse and trauma.
Clinton's story involves all of that and more, wrapped up in an allegation of a violent rape, of sexual assault, of harassment, and of course, a sexual relationship with an intern in his office while he held the most powerful job in the country.
“Through the lens of #MeToo now, do you think differently or feel more responsibility?... Did you ever apologize to her [Lewinsky]?” @craigmelvin to Bill Clinton
To this day, Clinton maintains a rather unrepentant air. When he was pushed about his affair with Monica Lewinsky during a television interview back in June, Clinton lashed out at the interviewer and accused him of ignoring supposed "gaping facts" about the saga. Clinton also noted that he was a victim, too, in that he left the White House $16 million in debt. Let's pause here a moment to appreciate the trauma of the Clintons'fleeting financial insecurity.
Lewinsky, during that time, was made the nation's punchline, villain and slut. Decades before the term "gaslighting" would enter the mainstream lexicon, the president of the United States went on national television and told the world that he "did not have sexual relations with that woman." Clinton's allies painted Lewinsky as a stalker and a manipulator, and even feminist icon Gloria Steinem suggested in a column for the New York Times that Lewinsky was equally at fault for the illicit affair.
Monica Lewinsky will always be 'that woman' first, no matter what else she does in her life. (Reuters)
It would take Lewinsky nearly 20 years to realize that the power imbalance between an unpaid intern and her boss — a man 27 years her senior and also the president of the United States — complicates notions of consent and culpability. She would grapple with post-traumatic stress disorder for decades and struggle to find a clear career path. These are not ordinary consequences for a poor decision; most of us do dumb things we regret in early adulthood, but few of us are defined by them for the rest of our lives.
Monica Lewinsky will always be "that woman" first, no matter what else she does in her life. But for Bill Clinton, the label of "sexual predator" somehow never stuck much beyond a footnote.
To be clear, this is not about politics. Sexual harassment happens on both sides of the aisle, and getting away with it happens on both sides of the aisle, too (See: Trump, Donald).
Nor is this about forever saddling a man to his past bad behaviour as some sort of petty exercise in retribution. I have written before about the need to find a way forward for men who have taken ownership of certain past abhorrent acts, and in theory, that could apply here, too.
But that ownership still eludes Bill Clinton, who will cite his feminist policy achievements as if they are some sort of anti-venom to his decidedly anti-feminist personal behaviour. Decades on, Clinton still has never privately apologized to Lewinsky for abusing his authority, or for making her out to be a liar, or for his lack of judgment in an affair that ruined her life, but not his.
So this is — or ought to be — about a long, long overdue reckoning for a man who was lucky enough to time his bad behaviour a few decades before we collectively knew what it meant to gaslight and to victim-blame. Before our understanding of consent evolved. A reckoning for someone who should have, by now, genuinely admitted the profound depravity of his actions.
If the world were just and good, one of America's most well-known and unrepentant sexual predators would be forced to cancel his speaking tour before it even begins. If the world were just and good, his time would really be up.
Robyn Urback is an opinion columnist with CBC News and a producer with the CBC's Opinion section. She previously worked as a columnist and editorial board member at the National Post. Follow her on Twitter at:
Unfilled Speaker's chair could bring on another election — this fall
Party leaders won't let their caucus members run for job when standings are so close
Jacques Poitras· CBC News·
187 Comments Commenting is now closed for this story.
David Amos
I sincerely hope that folks read what remains of the comment sections before the next election
Content disabled. David Amos Methinks before October 23rd is upon us I should remind many politicians and the folks who vote in New Brunswick that this story appeared in the Kings County Record on June 22, 2004 two days before Premier Lord had me illegally barred from legislative properties Everybody knows that I have run for public office 5 more times since then including this election. Clearly nothing has changed N'esy Pas?
The Unconventional Candidate By Gisele McKnight
"FUNDY—He has a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket, a chain on his wallet, a beard at least a foot long, 60 motorcycles and a cell phone that rings to the tune of "Yankee Doodle."
Meet the latest addition to the Fundy ballot—David Amos. The independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife and two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from running for office in Canada."
"Amos, 52, is running for political office because of his dissatisfaction with politicians. "I've become aware of much corruption involving our two countries," he said. "The only way to fix corruption is in the political forum."
"What he's fighting for is the discussion of issues – tainted blood, the exploitation of the Maritimes' gas and oil reserves and NAFTA, to name a few.
"The political issues in the Maritimes involve the three Fs – fishing, farming and forestry, but they forget foreign issues," he said. "I'm death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say chuck it (NAFTA) out the window
NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement which allows an easier flow of goods between Canada, the United States and Mexico."
David Amos
Methinks the lawyer Ted Flemming doth jest too much N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Methinks the Liberals, the PCs, their pals the Greens have their fancy knickers in quite a not. If a new election were to be called the PANB could win even more seats in the Circus and all their Gooses would be cooked before the Yuletide season was over N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Methinks the PCs French Lieutenant Mr Gauvin really should take my advice and make good on his threat to sit as Independent then go for the Speaker's chair before somebody like Kevin Arsenault a former liberal wannabe candidate or the clever lawyer Ted Flemming grabs the brass ring in order to oversee the Circus on behalf of the British Queen N'esy Pas?
Jim Moore
@David Amos David everything you say is so slanted to francophone superiority its not even funny, the people have spoken, they want proper representation in relation to population
David Amos
@Jim Moore Clearly you do not have the first clue as to who I am.
Matt Steele
@Jim Moore .....If you click on David Amos profile ; you can mute his comments so that you would not have to see or read them . I had to mute his comments as he cluttered up the comments section so badly , that it became very hard to read the comments of others .
David Amos
@Matt Steele Methinks a proud member of the mindless NDP just admitted that I existed N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@Matt Steele Methinks its kinda comical how my political opponents do not wish to know what I am saying to them and about them Clearly you act like an ostrich with its head in the sand N'esy Pas?
Jonas Smith
The only thing Brian is doing, is making sure I never vote Liberal and I will make sure my kids know what he did to democracy here in NB.
Dan Armitage
@Jim Moore that'll teach the liberals for bringing in clown.
David Amos
@Dan Armitage 'that'll teach the liberals for bringing in clown."
Methinks you don't appreciate the Circus as much as I N"esy Pas?
Norman Albert Snr
@Jonas Smith Let's have a do over. I fully expect the two smaller parties to reap the benefits. They may not form government but they will have more say.
David Amos
@Norman Albert Snr I agree
Anne Bérubé
So, let me get this straigt, if you can....isn't the job of the Lieutenant-Governor to step in at this time? So have another election, let's say both Conservatives and the Liebs each have 24 seats and the balance goes to the 2 other parties, what happens then?
Jim Moore
@Anne Bérubé The PC have 25 seats, the liberals can at best get 24, they won't form the next government provincially or federally, they have lost every election since and lost every province in the last 3 years leaving them with no support
David Amos
@Jim Moore The PC do not have 25 seats
David Amos
@Anne Bérubé The Lieutenant-Governor only intervenes when the House has no confidence in anyone to form a government. Otherwise the British Queen and her vice regal representatives has no business in our affairs. Methinks the Green and PANB parties should also be asked it they wish to try to form a government before the Lieutenant-Governodrops another writ N'esy Pas?
Richard Riel
Get someone from the private sector that is impartial to politicking.
David Amos
@Richard Riel Pick me I am a Independent the private sector
Rosco holt
@Richard Riel "Get someone from the private sector that is impartial to politicking." That won't work, no-one from the private sector is impartial, especially when money is involve.
David Amos
@Rosco holt FYI I am long retired from the private sector. Furthermore I have no money whatsoever except what comes to me once a month byway of my Old Age entitlement and CPP
Troy Murray
Another election will be a waste of time. If anything, voters will choose any party except Liberal to send Gallant away.
David Amos
@Troy Murray Methnks that many folks would agree that elections are ever a waste of time in a Just Democracy N'esy Pas?
Norman Albert Snr
@Troy Murray Either way they are just middle managers for the Empire. Time to try the other guys.
Norman Albert Snr
@Troy Murray That is the premise behind all elections (Democracy???) 90% who show up to vote do so to vote against not for a candidate(s). They is the way elections are orchestrated beginning the day after the last ballot box option.
David Amos
@Norman Albert Snr Methinks you should ask yourself why so many folks don't bother to vote in a purportedly Just Democracy or why folks such as I were not allowed to vote until after the last federal election N'esy Pas?
Fred Brewer
Another quick election should not cost that much. Elections NB has all their staff trained and things went smoothly last time so its a no-brainer for me. Let the people speak while the Libs and Cons run scared.
David Amos
@Fred Brewer For what it is worth I do not disagree with your reasoning. I know I am game to run again.
Murray Brown
The Liberals would probably benefit more if they choose to give up power now, rather than face the prospect of losing a confidence vote. If it gets to a confidence vote and they lose and the Tories then decide not to take control of government, an election will occur and the Liberals will likely take the blame and lose in the end. Let the Tories take over and wait for them to screw up. It's a conundrum either way.
David Amos
@Murray Brown If all else fails one a liberal should take the Speaker's Chair on the 23rd in order to roll the dice to see what happens next. I suspect that Higgs is wise enough to know that he is not secure in winning confidence of the house either. If Higgs does not support Gallant's attempt to secure a second mandate another election will be called if he fails as well. Methinks both parties will lose even more seats to the PANB and the Greens if another election is called before Xmass N'esy Pas?
Rosco holt
@David Amos It depends on who will make the government fall.
David Amos
@Rosco holt It should make no difference at all to the electorate
Nicholas Dippler
By the sounds of it the geese are migrating cause all I hear is a lot of honking.
David Amos
@Nicholas Dippler Methinks when the politician vacation in Florida this winter all of them will be studying the pension plans closely because many will be out of work next year N'esy Pas?
Dan Armitage
They'll do what ever they can to convince the voters it's a language election. It's an economic election and Gallant has already let us down 4 years of it proved it.
David Amos
@Dan Armitage I agree
Norman Albert Snr
@Dan Armitage If you check the electoral map it would appear it is still working in 99% of most cases. They more they press the issue the more we are divided (out of fear) and the more it costs us for the band-aides.
David Amos
@Norman Albert Snr Methinks Mr Gallant and Mr Higgs should shoulder the blame for the way the electoral map looks today N'esy Pas?
Matt Steele
Given the fact that N.B. already has a nearly 14.5 BILLION dollar debt ; the cost of another election would just be a drop in the bucket . The cost of another election would be well worth it to get rid of Brian Gallant and his U de M buddies who have mismanaged the province , and raised taxes to the max . The N.B. school system is in crisis ; and even the ambulance service cannot function because Gallant wants french speaking paramedics . Bring on another election....and GOOD BYE Brian !!!
Tim Locke
@Matt Steele
I'm hoping we still end up with a minority government, just one that is stable enough to survive and not so evenly split like this last one.
David Amos
@Tim Locke "I'm hoping we still end up with a minority government,"
Me Too Furthermore I hope that government is Liberal if only to see that Gallant keeps his promised about freezing Electricity rate hikes.
FYI I just got back from a hearing at the EUB in Sain John about NB Power's plans for rat increase. Trust that none of the political party leaders would like what I said on the public record today.
Methinks everybody who has trouble making ends meet should be irritated by what the Green Party has to say on the topic N'esy Pas?
"It's a non-starter," **** said Thursday about the signature Liberal campaign promise to bypass the Energy and Utilities Board and impose up to $300 million in rate freezes on the financially challenged utility over the next four years.
"Freezing power rates is a bad idea. It's interference in a regulatory process; we've got to look at the best economic interests of New Brunswickers. It would be foolish."
Norman Albert Snr
@Matt Steele I can see the two smaller parties pulling in a lot more support and likely a greater say in Governments to come. Let's do it.
David Amos
@Norman Albert Snr Methinks the NDP dude will likely not reply to you either N'esy Pas?
Richard Dunn
Gallants' arrogance has put himself in this situation...…...His ego and narcissistic personality are why he is not budging. All the while he does more damage to NB and his own political party.
NB'ers will hopefully remember this and send a goodbye message to the Liberal party when we vote again next month, or next year.
David Amos
@Richard Dunn "Gallants' arrogance has put himself in this situation."
Methinks you should be fair Everybody knows the ex COR dude Mr Higgs is every bit to blame for causing this Circus that I thoroughly enjoy N'esy Pas?
Rosco holt
@Richard Dunn Why is it only Gallant's fault? Nobody wanted Gallant or Higgs has premier.
David Amos
@Rosco holt I disagree Obviously a lot folks voted for Gallant and Higgs but for the wrong reasons tis all
Norman Albert Snr
@Rosco holt "Nobody wanted Gallant or Higgs has premier." And they said NBers were dumb? We just needed to come out of our shell(box)
David Amos
@Norman Albert Snr Methinks you may prefer an old expression that a very decent farmer who used to work for me as a mechanic often said it went as follows "You can't fool me I am too stupid" Many a true word is said in jest N'esy Pas?
Todd Stephen
So Gallant wants to remain in the Premier's chair but thinks its the opposition's job to fill the Speaker's chair?? Someday (soon) there will be reference to this as an example of the worst display of leadership ever...public or private sectors. You want to lead??? Lead by a vision and actions that inspire others to support and participate. Unreal.
David Amos
@Todd Stephen Somebody must take the Speaker Chair or there will be another election. Methinks it would be hilarious and everybody would be in shock if Gallant were to put up his name for the job currently held by his old pal Chris Collins N'esy Pas?
Rosco holt
@Todd Stephen The same could apply to Higgs. Neither wants to bit the bullet and have one of their own fill the speaker's chair.
Norman Albert Snr
@Todd Stephen The PCs with the extra seat are in the best position to provide speaker, but it is not without risk. In the event of a tie speaker still gets a vote. Things do change though.
David Amos
@Norman Albert Snr That is why I suggested that the French Lieutenant Mr Gauvin go for the job
David Amos
@Rosco holt True
John Cannothan
If Blaine Higgs truly cared about the stability of New Brunswick’s finances, he’d put up a speaker and allow NB to continue on its positive fiscal track.
Fred Brewer
@John Cannothan " positive fiscal track" ???? Whose kool-aid have you been drinking?
Todd Stephen
Unless you are a Trustee in Bankruptcy, I'm not sure how anyone could see our fiscal trajectory as positive.
David Amos
@Todd Stephen I agree
David Amos
@Fred Brewer Methinks the dude should quit drinking the red kool-aid and take a red pill ASAP N'esy Pas?
Rosco holt
@David Amos In reality they should quit the blue Kool-Aid too.
David Amos
@Rosco holt I wholeheartedly agree
Norman Albert Snr
@Todd Stephen we really do need to be testing our political candidates much like the empire tests for employees. Aptitude, inteligence, honesty levels and integrity but in our case we would shoot for high scores and some sense of sanity. Perhaps Amazons AI testing would work to some degree.
David Amos
@Norman Albert Snr I agree Please feel free to pick up the phone and call me in order to stress test my aptitude, intelligence, honesty levels and integrity any time you wish.
Methinks if you are sincere you must agree that you should not have to wait until the next time you see me registered as a candidate N'esy Pas?
David Stairs
holy cow,Brian Gallant and David **** are doing more flip flops than a freshly caught eel...and people actually voted for these 2....hopefully people will realize that the only one who a stood his ground is the PANB.....
David Amos
@David Stairs Methinks you should fair and admit that the ex CPR dude Blaine Higgs has stood his ground too N'esy Pas?
Roy Nicholl
@David Stairs Funny ... I was getting the impression that the Green Party were the only adults in the room. They have been trying to get Gallant and Higgs to put aside their personal quests for power and allow the legislature to work more collectively in the best interest of New Brunswick.
Norman Albert Snr
@David Stairs Regrettably I am Green at heart but some what disappointed with David and Ms May of late. Power corrupts. PANB by default. The Empire has savaged the NDP. Kill the unions and silence the lambs.
David Amos
@Norman Albert Snr "Regrettably I am Green at heart but some what disappointed with David and Ms May of late. "
Methinks we should talk N'esy Pas?
Rod McLeod
What a mess! This same confusion runs right through this government. Is it any wonder that an election would end in a similar failure?
David Amos
@Rod McLeod Trust that I am not surprised
Peter Manchak
@David Amos Wow, a posting frenzy..just saying...
David Amos
@Peter Manchak Perhaps you should Google me to understand why
Peter Manchak
@David Amos Thanks, but no.
David Amos
@Peter Manchak Then why insult me?
David Amos
@Peter Manchak Does my doings with Encana and the NEB ring any bells for you?
Peter Manchak
@David Amos What insult? Being busy posting is an insult now?
Peter Manchak
@Peter Manchak Why should it?
David Amos
@Peter Manchak Ask them
David Amos
@Peter Manchak "Wow, a posting frenzy..just saying..."
For the record when you decided to insult me. I had made only 3 comments and merely replied to everyone else on the topics they had addressed first. I am entitled to do that correct?
Gleason Gallinger
why not just cut to the chase and have the Lt.Governor dissolve what ever you want to call this mess and set another election date. Hopefully those who voted Liberal will finally wtf up and see that it was the Liberals that caused this colossal waste of cash by trying to hold onto power.
David Amos
@Gleason Gallinger "why not just cut to the chase and have the Lt.Governor dissolve what ever you want to call this mess and set another election date."
Methinks everybody knows that the Lt. Governor does not have the power to do such a thing N'esy Pas?
Norman Albert Snr
@Gleason Gallinger Just that little thing called "protocol" that gets in the way. They at least have the right to try to govern in tight spaces. It is a great scenario for the people. No one dare do anything stupid or corrupt under a minority situation. Kinda like walking the sharp edge of a raiser-blade. Ooops!!!
David Amos
@Norman Albert Snr "No one dare do anything stupid or corrupt under a minority situation"
Methinks you should review Mr Harper's work.
Roy Kirk
The problem with a new election for the smaller parties is that their few ridings will be in the cross-hairs of both of the larger parties.
Supposing that the Libs could count on Green support, they'd still only have 24 votes. If PANB provided the speaker and the remaining 2 voted with the PC's, you'd have 24 again, and the speaker would have to break the tie in governments favour, something that the speaker's colleagues would likely have a hard time with.
OTOH, if the PCs form govt and can get support from the greens, they've got 25 votes to pass legislation. A PANB speaker would have to vote to support the govt, providing some margin for votes where one or another party member would not support.
Smart move is for all non-libs to refuse to serve as speaker, and let higgs seek the confidence of the house after a member from either PANB or Greens assumes the speakers chair. But that can only happen once Gallant's libs are no-long incumbent.
David Amos
@Roy Kirk"The problem with a new election for the smaller parties is that their few ridings will be in the cross-hairs of both of the larger parties'
Methinks in return all the ridings of both the larger parties will be in the cross-hairs of the small parties and the Independents such as I N'esy Pas?
SarahRose Werner
"Both say it's up to their opponent to put forward a name." - It's like two little boys and you ask them whose turn it is to do the chores and each one points to the other and says, "His."
David Amos
@SarahRose Werner YUP
James Watson
If anything describes the sad state of democracy in Canada - this is it - petty , power princes (and princesses)
David Amos
@James Watson Oh So True
Norman Albert Snr
@James Watson Democracy? These people don't run to serve the people or their country anymore. This is all about self gratification and future prospects.
David Amos
@Norman Albert Snr None of them ever did long before I was born. Methinks the last decent politician Canada ever had was R.B. Bennett and nobody will talk about him in a political forum except yours truly N'esy Pas?
Peter Ray
So, regardless of what ANY political party says - Liberals, Conservatives, Greens, People's Alliance - their goal is NOT the best interests of citizens.
The ONLY goal is power - at whatever cost.
Shame.
If indeed a new election is required because there is no Speaker - sorry, Liberals, but you LOST unless you can stomach a coalition gov't - and that the fringe parties refused to allow a member to become Speaker, I hope that the spoiled ballot vote - which DOES 'count' - is somewhere over 50%.
Now THAT would send a message!
David Amos
@Peter Ray Welcome to the Circus
Lou Bell
Will Gallant run again under the Liberal flag, or Acadian party flag ? They're all backin' him anyway .
David Amos
@Lou Bell Methinks the Green Party would allow him to cross the floor to join their caucus N'esy Pas?
capilano dunbar
As Christy Clark found out last year based on long-standing parliamentary convention; The Government must provide a Speaker. That means no matter how you slice it a Liberal majority requires both the PA and the Greens whereas a Conservative majority requires only one of the third parties. Gallant should read the writing on the wall and step down.
David Amos
@capilano dunbar Methinks November 2nd is an eternity away for Mr Higgs and his purported PANB cohorts N'esy Pas?
Roy Nicholl
"I'm OK," he said. "I do whatever the leader tells me to do."
That's the problem. Higgs and Gallant need to put the party whip away and allow the MLAs to perform the task for which they were elected.
Ironically, the Green party seems to be the only ones who got the message from the electorate and are trying to get Higgs and Gallant to suspend their personal quests for power in the best interests of the province.
David Amos
@Roy Nicholl "Ironically, the Green party seems to be the only ones who got the message from the electorate"
Methinks the Greens and the PANB are on power plays of their own and the Greens are feeling their oats while the PANB remains quiet. I suspect that the electorate sees this Circus for what it is. Many agree that if there is another election this year the PANB will put New Brunswick the news bigtime instead of just Rebel TV N'esy Pas?
Roy Nicholl
@David Amos "Surprisingly", I disagree with you ... or at least I am hopeful there is some sense of public service {altruism would be asking too much} amongst those MLAs calling for a more collaborative approach to governance that is not short-changed by party rhetoric or ambition.
David Amos
@Roy Nicholl Nothing you say surprises me
Norman Albert Snr
@Roy Nicholl Party First, Sponsors second. Self, Corporate interests and way down at the bottom those people I am paid to and promised to represent.
David Amos
@Norman Albert Snr In New Brunswick the Corporate interests of the Irving and the McCain Clans are of greatest concern to all political parties especially yours truly.
Ask Canada's latest Minister of Finance why that is.
kirk hancock
Welcome to "proportional representation". This is what it looks like. No one is in charge but everyone wants to be. fun times. Bring out the snow boots because election time is just around the corner.
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David Amos
@kirk hancock I agree
Methinks the Green Party Leader David **** got feeling his oats way too much and went over a bridge too far from his former positions against NB Power. Nobody in New Brunswick who is having a hard time making ends meet would oppose a rate freeze on our electric bills especially heading into winter N'esy Pas?
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@kirk hancock Go figure why CBC blocks it own link
@kirk hancock YUP Methinks the Greens attacking the NB Power rate freeze sealed the deal N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@David Amos Nobody in New Brunswick who is having a hard time making ends meet would oppose a rate freeze on our electric bills especially heading into winter N'esy Pas?
Samuel Porter
@David Amos What most people don't understand ( even though it's a no brainer ), is that energy and it's costs to people barely making ends meet, is not a luxury, it is a matter of life and death in winter in our climate. in the lower US states, where it never goes below zero, that is not the case.
David Amos
@Samuel Porter I agree Methinks you should read the transcripts found in the public record of the EUB to see what my friend Dr Roger Richard and I have been saying in the 357 and the 375 matters N'esy Pas?
Norman Albert Snr
@Roy Nicholl If it is not broke don't fix it?? This works very well for the two corporate powers. One of them under the current system will always rule. That is why JT back off on the promise of reform. Why bit the hand that feeds them. As bad as they are they have little to fear now from the NDP or Smiley Andy. Provincially it is not that much difference. Tweedledee or Tweedledum? The both work for the same agenda and it ain't us.
David Amos
@Norman Albert Snr "Tweedledee or Tweedledum? The both work for the same agenda and it ain't us."
Oh So True However Canada and New Brunswick in are just bit players in the wicked game. The evil agenda is global in nature and it even has the fancy knickers of dude the Yankees call "The Donald" in quite a knot these days.
Methinks you should Google the following for some comic relief at my expense N'esy Pas?
trump cohen amos nafta fatca tpp
Buford Wilson
Brian needs to get out of the way so Blaine can start to clean up the mess.
David Amos
@Buford Wilson Methinks after successfully dividing the electorate over bilingual nonsense all the party leaders should pick up their marbles and quit the political game N'esy Pas?
Norman Albert Snr
@Buford Wilson Neither is fit to govern or have the man date to alone. This needs to be addressed under a more representative system. PR and Preferential ballot.
David Amos
@Norman Albert Snr Methinks Premier Gallant should roll the dice and continue down the path he has chosen it is legal and its gonna make for a fun Circus to watch N'esy Pas?
Michael durant
Flemming is bizarre.
David Amos
@Michael durant Naw he is just another snobby political lawyer who thinks he is funny. Methinks such people are as common as mud in parliamentary circles N'esy Pas?
Mike Murphy
Theres a shocker, no one from NB wants a job.
Bernard McIntyre
@Mike Murphy. Not true myself and Emilen Forest just said we would take the job. lol.
David Amos
@Bernard McIntyre Methinks like most folks in New Brunswick you would not expect the MLA salary and be more than happy to work for just the supplement pay and the perks that come with the Speaker's job N'esy Pas?
"For all the headaches, there are incentives that come along with the post.
An extra $52,614 is added on top of the MLA salary, along with an extra few thousand in allowances. And the speaker can choose to drive a government car."
Robbie Adams
"""The Arrogant Liberals of all ilk feel it is their right to run this country regardless of the vote count and what people want.
David Amos
@Robbie Adams Methinks that is why they call themselves "Canada's Natural Governing Party" N'esy Pas?
Peter Inya
Liberal arrogance. Canada is back(wards).
David Amos
@Peter Inya Methinks many would agree that all political parties are worse than merely arrogant That is why so many folks don't bother to vote N'esy Pas?
Craig O'Donnell
I can see why neither the PC's nor the Liberals want a member to fill the Speaker's Chair; so why not somebody from the Green Party? After all, David **** is trying to get all MLA's to sign some kind of agreement to put asided partisanship and work together for the people (or possibly to fill the Green's agenda). If he truly believes in getting the ball rolling, have one of his caucus step up to the plate. After all, given the fact that they only won 3 seats and a rather small percentage of the vote, why should the Greens' agenda be pushed first and foremost?
Roy Nicholl
@Craig O'Donnell The speaker should be / needs to be someone with legislative experience and not a first time MLA. The MLAs of the two smaller parties are all brand new.
Samuel Porter
@Roy Why do you think that? With the state of affairs in this province, I think everything new would be much better. we've had enough of the "old boys ".
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David Amos
@Craig O'Donnell Methinks some folks may recall that within an earlier comment section this week I suspected that the Green Party member and former wannabe liberal candidate Mr Arsenault may go for the Speaker's chair if the French Lieutenant of the PC Party does not take my advice N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@Craig O'Donnell Its too bad that my latest reply to you was blocked I know you would have enjoyed it
David Amos
@Craig O'Donnell Here is a tip for you Google my name and "the French Lieutenant of the PC Party"
mo bennett
way too funny! why don't you boys get big, leave yer fat heads at the front door and just get this sorted, instead of inflicting the cost of another JOKE election on the taxpayers that yer all supposed to protect. you did swear an oath to do that, remember!
David Amos
@mo bennett YO MO Methinks you are enjoying the Circus as much as I N'esy Pas?
Nicholas Markusen
You know what would fix this problem? Proportional representation and coalition governments, like every other successful developed nation on the planet.
David Amos
@Nicholas Markusen I disagree. I believe that political parties should be abolished
Dave Peters
The responsibility of the speakers chair is to be filled by a representative of whoever forms government. It is clear nonsense to do otherwise. If not you get another Robert McCready. Arguments can be made for an against what happened there. However, we do not have the same political situation with third parties being represented. If Brian Gallant or Blaine Higgs wants to form government they need to fill this chair from their own caucus
David Amos
@Dave Peters "The responsibility of the speakers chair is to be filled by a representative of whoever forms government. "
Not true. Any MLA can be the Speaker
Methinks everybody can recall that in 2006 The Independent "Tanker" was elected in New Brunswick legislature and even the liberal lawyer Peter Milliken was elected Speaker In Harper's minority Government N'esy Pas?
Luke Armstrong
Another election? Of course, I'll be voting again then.....Mr. Blaine Higgs.
David Amos
@Luke Armstrong I can I will run in Fundy again
David Amos
@Luke Armstrong Mr Higgs knows this story appeared in the Kings County Record on June 22, 2004
The Unconventional Candidate By Gisele McKnight
"FUNDY—He has a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket, a chain on his wallet, a beard at least a foot long, 60 motorcycles and a cell phone that rings to the tune of "Yankee Doodle."
Meet the latest addition to the Fundy ballot—David Amos. The independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife and two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from running for office in Canada."
"Amos, 52, is running for political office because of his dissatisfaction with politicians. "I've become aware of much corruption involving our two countries," he said. "The only way to fix corruption is in the political forum."
"What he's fighting for is the discussion of issues – tainted blood, the exploitation of the Maritimes' gas and oil reserves and NAFTA, to name a few.
"The political issues in the Maritimes involve the three Fs – fishing, farming and forestry, but they forget foreign issues," he said. "I'm death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say chuck it (NAFTA) out the window
NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement which allows an easier flow of goods between Canada, the United States and Mexico."
Richard Dunn
Moncton East Liberal MLA Monique LeBlanc was Deputy Speaker so why would she not become speaker now that Chris Collins is no longer an MLA?
David Amos
@Richard Dunn Its a new Legislature the Speaker must be elected by the new members
Emilen Forest
I'll take the job.
Bernard McIntyre
@Emilen Forest No I'll take the job. Might as well argue about it like the MLA'S who seem to not be able to act like civilized people after 3 weeks.
David Amos
@Bernard McIntyre Just like me neither of you were elected to sit in the House. However at least you can visit and watch the Circus from the peanut gallery while I cannot because my political foes illegally barred me from all legislative properties many years ago. End of argument
Bernard McIntyre
@David Amos. Myself and Emilen Forest realize that we can't be speaker. Just stating how stupid the MLA'S are being.
David Amos
@Bernard McIntyre Its cool I was just running with your jokes
Emilen Forest
@David Amos Hem, hem...first point of order. It is called the Legislature not "House" where MLAs gather to dither. The "House" is in Ottawa, hence House of Parliament. End of session, free of charge :)
David Amos
@Emilen Forest Methinks I have the right to call it anything I wish and I doubt the Crown or its Speaker would disagree in light of the fact that I sued the Crown over this issue. Furthermore the world famous Acadian blogger Chucky Leblanc who is a buddy of every MLA calls it the "Old Maison" N'esy Pas?
Bernard McIntyre
@David Amos. Oky doky.
Bernard McIntyre
N.B can't wait any longer to have a government so it these MLA'S can't talk together to form a government then just call a new election now instead if prolonging the inevitable. They can't even decide how the speaker will be, pathetic.
David Amos
@Bernard McIntyre Methinks it not October 23rd yet N'esy Pas?
Bernard McIntyre
@David Amos. The way it's going the sooner the better.
David Amos
@Bernard McIntyre I concur
leonard g MacAulay
Could the provience of NB be more confuddled? No wonder a provience being financially gutted by over expenditures in the name of official bi-lingualism, and now they are in a political dead lock by voters that are fed up with this nonsense. Time for the elected to put on their grownup pants and show the bewildered voters that they voted for a govt that can figure this out without another election. Canada is watching and are greatly amused.
David Amos
@leonard g MacAulay "Could the provience of NB be more confuddled?"
Methinks its goona get worse before its gets better so in the "mean" time we might as well just sit back and enjoy the Circus while we wait for the next election N'esy Pas?
ChristineChuck Dandy
@leonard g MacAulay They could choose PR and have 6 or 7 parties without a clear winner or winning side.
Bernard McIntyre
@leonard g MacAulay. When spoiled children have their minds made up your not going to change it know matter how bad the consequences turn out.
David Amos
@Bernard McIntyre Methinks you should ask the spoiled children why my last comment was blocked N'esy Pas?
Bernard McIntyre
@David Amos. I know that feeling ,happens to me all the time.
Norman Albert Snr
'Glowing snapshot of uptown Saint John released by business group" Rose colored glasses much? Void of the reality. I understand they have a job to do but this borders on the ridiculous.
David Amos
@Norman Albert Snr FYI History easily proves that I ran in the election in 2006 in Saint John Harbour while intervening in the NEB Hearing about the Emera Pipeline Project. Even though i got only 44 votes trust that the NDP, the Green Party and every other political pundit in Saint John has never forgotten why I was in town in 2006.
In 2015 I ran against the latest the current NDP provincial leader in the federal election long before she put her name on the ballot in Saint John Harbour. This year my friend Dr Roger Richard and I ran as Independents in this election while intervening in EUB matters. The latest EUB hearing was held in Saint John yesterday while this article was being published. go figure why I laugh at the irony of it all
Much to the chagrin of Mr Higgs and the other party leaders Minister Rick Doucet and Premier Gallant still oversee the EUB until October 23rd even though Doucet was not reelected and who will be the next Premier is still in much dispute.
Methinks truth can be much stranger than fiction N'esy Pas?
Robert Anderson
Have a look at what is going on in New Brunswick. This is why minority governments are essentially useless. The can't get anything done. That is why we would be crazy to even consider for a second the use of proportional voting. There would be perpetual useless minority governments. Just don't do it.
David Amos
@Robert Anderson I strongly disagree
Methinks many would agree that minority governments are the only way to fly with some Independents finding seats as well so that at least some people can't be whipped by any political party leader N'esy Pas?
Unfilled Speaker's chair could bring on another election — this fall
Party leaders won't let their caucus members run for job when standings are so close
Jacques Poitras· CBC News·
Who will be Speaker of the New Brunswick Legislature when it reconvenes on Oct. 23 is a question still not answered. (CBC)
Forget about throne speeches, confidence votes and two-party deals. A looming standoff over who will be Speaker of the New Brunswick legislature could bring it all to a screeching halt.
In fact, it could plunge the province into a new election campaign this fall.
As of today, no one seems to want the job, despite its cabinet-level salary and perks, including a government car.
Miramichi Bay-Neguac MLA Lisa Harris said she might be Speaker of the house at the end of her career but not now. (Jacqueline Cormier)
"Am I going to be Speaker of the house? Probably at the end of my career," Miramichi Bay-Neguac Liberal Lisa Harris said at an orientation session for MLAs on Thursday.
Moncton Northwest MLA Ernie Steeves said he's not interested in being the Speaker and will do what his leader, Blaine Higgs, tells him. (CBC)
Moncton Northwest Progressive Conservative MLA Ernie Steeves said he's not interested either. "I'm OK," he said. "I do whatever the leader tells me to do."
Liberal Premier Brian Gallant and Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs both say they won't allow any member of their respective caucuses to seek the position.
Both say it's up to their opponent to put forward a name.
"He's going to have to try to put up a Speaker," Gallant said of Higgs this week.
But Higgs says if Gallant wants to hold on to power, he should do it.
No obligation
In fact, no party is obligated to provide a Speaker. All MLAs, except ministers and party leaders, are on the ballot by default until they remove their names.
Choosing a Speaker is the first order of business when the legislature begins a new session Oct. 23 following an election in which no party won a majority.
Liberal Leader Brian Gallant and PC Leader Blaine Higgs say they don't want any of their members to become Speaker. (CANADIAN PRESS)
Gallant's Liberals will present a throne speech. If they can persuade MLAs from two smaller parties to support it — in effect a vote of confidence in the Liberal government — they can stay in power. If they lose that vote, the PCs will be sworn in.
But the legislature's standing rules say none of that can happen until a Speaker is chosen. "It takes precedence "over all other business," say the rules adopted in 1994.
"If the legislative assembly fails to elect a Speaker, then the only way that the impasse can be broken is through early dissolution and another election," said parliamentary expert James Bowden. "That's the most likely scenario."
Neither leader wants a Speaker from his caucus because it would reduce their ability to pass legislation in a house where the numbers are already razor-thin.
The PCs won 22 seats and the Liberals 21. Even if either party wins the support of one of the smaller parties — the Greens or the People's Alliance, with three seats each — it can't afford to give up one MLA.
Other option
If no one budges, there is another possible step before an election, Bowden said.
Because the circumstances in New Brunswick are "so strange and exceptional," Roy-Vienneau could swear in a PC government led by Higgs "and see whether the Assembly would be willing to elect a Speaker under him."
There are precedents for both scenarios: in 1859, the lieutenant-governor of the colonial assembly on Prince Edward Island , Dominick Daly, declared it was his "painful duty" to dissolve the house after it spent two days trying in vain to choose a Speaker.
But in Newfoundland in 1908, a similar standoff led to a new government being sworn in.
In that election, the two parties won the same number of seats and both refused to let any member become Speaker.
The incumbent Liberal premier asked for a new election, which the governor refused. The other party, the People's Party, was sworn in, but the house still couldn't find a Speaker. Only then was a new election was called.
With the Liberals and PCs refusing to provide a Speaker, Gallant could try to persuade an MLA from one of the smaller parties to take the post.
Alliance, Greens not interested
But People's Alliance leader Kris Austin told CBC News no one from his three-member caucus would accept.
Kris Austin, leader of the People's Alliance Party of New Brunswick, said no one from his party will put their name forward to be Speaker. (CBC)
"We've been elected to be a voice in the legislature, and I think being a Speaker diminishes that voice," he said. "And where we only have three here, we want to make sure our voice is strong."
Rothesay PC MLA Ted Flemming is the only member who expressed a tongue-in-cheek interest in the position this week, mainly because of the ceremonial garb that comes with it.
"It takes me back to Loyalist Days," he said. "I had a tricorn hat when I used to be around Loyalist Days, and it would be nice to get one back because I lost the first one that I had."
NB Power could escape Liberal-promised rate freeze thanks to unlikely source
Green Leader David Coon has long history of battling NB Power initiatives
Robert Jones· CBC News·
The Liberals promised to freeze NB Power rates for four years, but that pledge could be scrapped as the party courts Green support for the upcoming throne speech. (Shane Fowler/CBC)
The likelihood of NB Power having its rates frozen for the next four years appears to have dimmed to near zero given the uncertainty over who will govern the province — even if New Brunswick Liberals manage to retain power — and the utility can thank its old nemesis, Green Party leader David Coon, for the reprieve.
"It's a non-starter," Coon said Thursday about the signature Liberal campaign promise to bypass the Energy and Utilities Board and impose up to $300 million in rate freezes on the financially challenged utility over the next four years.
"Freezing power rates is a bad idea. It's interference in a regulatory process; we've got to look at the best economic interests of New Brunswickers. It would be foolish."
Premier Brian Gallant has said he will seek to find "common ground" with Green Party MLAs in an upcoming throne speech to win enough support to keep governing — a condition the freeze does not meet.
Premier Brian Gallant hinted Thursday the Liberal platform could be modified to incorporate elements from other parties' platforms. (Photo: CBC)
"We believe we can earn the votes of many in the legislature," Gallant said Thursday. "We want to be able to consult and discuss what should get into the speech from the throne. We are open to other ideas from other political parties "
No Liberal election promise attracted more scorn from Coon during the campaign than the proposed rate freeze, a position he has not budged on since.
Gallant has not said the freeze is dead, but on Thursday sounded like he might be laying the groundwork for its funeral.
"We have to be open to the other political parties platforms, which means we have to put water in our wine for our platform as well," said Gallant when asked if Coon's objections to the rate freeze would be fatal to the promise.
"We are willing to look at some of the elements we put forward in our platform and to say maybe another day."
'They should go forward'
NB Power has been conspicuously silent on what it plans to do with power rates going forward since Liberals first promised a freeze to voters in late August.
It has a longstanding plan to increase rates by two per cent per year or more to retire $1 billion in debt and cope with carbon taxes if they come.
In each of the last two years, the utility has submitted its annual rate application to the Energy and Utilities Board during the first week of October, but this year it has already let that date pass with no word of its intention.
Green Party Leader David Coon opposes the Liberal-promised power rate freeze. (CBC)
Coon said if NB Power is waiting to find out who will be governing the province before applying for new rates, it shouldn't.
"To me, they should be continuing on as required if they are looking for a change in power rates. They should go forward," he said
Coon's history with NB Power
Coon is an unlikely white knight to come to the utility's defence.
He has a long history of opposing NB Power initiatives at regulatory hearings in his former role as executive director of the New Brunswick Conservation Council.
In the early 2000s, he fought the utility's ill-fated, $700-million conversion of the Coleson Cove oil-fired generating station to burn the Venezuelan fossil fuel orimulsion. He later battled executives over what proved to be optimistic plans to quickly and cheaply refurbish the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station.
David Coon fought the conversion of Coleson Cove to burn orimulsion — one of several battles the Green Leader waged against the utility. ((CBC))
Venezuela eventually refused to deliver orimulsion after the Coleson Cove conversion was complete and the nuclear refurbishment went three years late and $1 billion over budget, all problems Coon predicted.
Still, Coon has long been an advocate of NB Power answering to a professional regulator like the Energy and Utilities Board and not to politicians, and he instantly opposed the idea of a rate freeze imposed by a political party on that principle.
Coon said if NB Power executives are grateful for the backing of an old foe against political meddling in its rates, they are not saying.
"I haven't heard from any of them yet," he said.
About the Author
Robert Jones
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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.
Green Party calls for inquiry into ambulance problems
Jacques Poitras· CBC News·
Issues like ambulance delays and bilingual paramedics will likely play a role in whether the Liberals can win the confidence of the house. (Radio-Canada/Guy R. LeBlanc)
Ambulance delays and the thorny issue of bilingual paramedics are emerging as a key factor in who will get to lead a minority provincial government.
People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin said Thursday his party could support a Liberal throne speech if it promises quick action on the issue.
"What we would like to see is the paramedic crisis resolved," he said. "That's the big one for us. Beyond that, we can talk about tax reform, we can talk about the auditor-general receiving more funding. There's lots of things we campaigned on that we'd like to see."
Austin and the other two People's Alliance MLAs could be vital to the survival of Premier Brian Gallant's Liberal government and would also be key to the Progressive Conservatives holding power if they get a chance to govern.
Gallant won 21 seats in last month's election, one fewer than the 22 for the Progressive Conservatives. But the Liberal premier said he plans to try to stay in power by winning confidence votes in the legislature with the Green Party's three MLAs.
Premier Brian Gallant needs four non-Liberal votes to secure a confidence vote. (James West/THE CANADIAN PRESS)
That support would only get Gallant to 24 votes, one short of a majority.
The legislature will sit Oct. 23, with a vote on the Liberal throne speech — the first test of confidence in the government — likely on Nov. 2.
If Austin's Alliance caucus votes to support the speech, or even abstains from voting against it, the Liberals would be able to cling to power in the short term.
Gallant said Thursday afternoon that the election results make it clear New Brunswickers want more action on ambulance delays, so his throne speech will "include a commitment to take concrete action to strengthen ambulance services and address the shortage of paramedics."
Greens want inquiry
The Alliance leader is not the only one pitching quick action on the ambulance delays. Green Leader David Coon is proposing a commission of inquiry into the issue but said there should be no change to the guarantee of equal service in English and French.
Austin said he wouldn't necessarily oppose an inquiry but he doesn't think it's needed.
People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin said he could support a Liberal throne speech if it promises quick action on the issue of ambulance delays. (CBC)
"I think you can figure out pretty quick where the problems lie," he said. "I think the problem needs to be fixed. I'm not opposed to an inquiry, but I'm opposed to delays. We need to get this done."
The Alliance leader has blamed bilingual hiring requirements at Ambulance New Brunswick for the fact many positions are vacant and said that is to blame for delays.
I don't like to think in today's society in New Brunswick that anyone is anti-bilingualism, because that's not going to help our province move forward.- PC Leader Blaine Higgs
PC Leader Blaine Higgs has proposed hiring qualified unilingual paramedics in the short term to address the shortages, and then giving them second-language training after the fact.
Higgs said Thursday because that promise was already in his campaign platform, he'd be willing to address it in a PC throne speech if the Liberals are defeated and he gets to form a government.
"That's not a new item for us," he said. "It happens to be a common one. So yes, we'll be looking to have that as part of a platform anyway, to have it included that we want ambulances back on the road."
Asked if his promised actions would include changes to the bilingual hiring requirement, Gallant said the Liberal response would be "within the legal framework that we have as a province."
Class action lawsuit
The issue flared up again this week after a local committee in Saint-Quentin said it was considering a class action lawsuit because of repeated delays in ambulance responses in the village.
The latest case was last Friday, when local residents drove a cyclist injured in a collision with a car to the hospital after waiting 40 minutes for an ambulance to arrive.
In 2017, Ambulance New Brunswick and the province acknowledged they had violated the constitutional language rights of a Moncton-area patient who did not receive ambulance service in French.
Ambulance New Brunswick has been under fire for delays and staff shortages. (Photo: Catherine Allard/Radio-Canada)
They agreed to a binding consent order in which they promised to "immediately put in place concrete measures," including extra funding, to ensure service "of equal quality" in both languages "uniformly across the entire territory of the province."
Earlier this year, a labour arbitrator ruled that the province should relax the bilingual requirement in areas of the province where there's less demand for second-language service to comply with seniority rules in staffing.
The Liberal government asked the courts to review that decision because it contradicts the legal requirements in the court order.
Higgs has not said how he would get around the court order if he relaxed the hiring requirements.
PC Leader Blaine Higgs says that if he takes power, he will gather all the stakeholders and find a solution to the ambulance service delivery problems. (CBC)
Coon has said his party will not vote for anything that would take away existing language rights.
Higgs said Thursday that bilingual hiring requirements are likely "part of" the problem at Ambulance New Brunswick but not the entire issue. He said if he becomes premier, he'll put all the players in a room together to find a solution.
The PC leader said the province needs to move past debating official bilingualism and he didn't want to think the Alliance was against it.
"I don't like to think in today's society in New Brunswick that anyone is anti-bilingualism, because that's not going to help our province move forward," he said.
"Bilingualism is a fabric of our province and it's here to stay, so people shouldn't debate that. And I won't be debating that. … Let's not spend time debating what is already part of our fabric, part of our Constitution, part of what makes our province special."
About the Author
Jacques Poitras
Provincial Affairs reporter
Jacques Poitras has been CBC's provincial affairs reporter in New Brunswick since 2000. Raised in Moncton, he also produces the CBC political podcast Spin Reduxit.
No deal: Green Party won't formally side with Liberals or PCs in N.B.
Green Party leader announces a 'declaration of intent' he hopes MLAs from other parties will sign
Jacques Poitras· CBC News·
Green Party Leader David Coon says he hasn't made any formal deals to keep the Liberals in power or to support the Progressive Conservatives. (David Coon/CBC)
New Brunswick's Green Party will not sign a formal agreement with any political party to support a minority government, the three Green MLAs announced Wednesday.
Instead, the Green members will base their votes in the legislature on a "declaration of intent" to tackle fiscal and environmental challenges and to respect language and Indigenous rights.
CBC News
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The Green Party announced a 'letter of intent' that they hope other parties will sign. 0:58
And they say they'll base their first major decision — whether to topple Premier Brian Gallant's Liberal government by voting against its throne speech — on what the speech says.
"Support for the throne speech is based on the substance of the throne speech and the practicality of implementing the commitments in the throne speech, so in other words, on its merits," Green Party Leader David Coon said.
Green Party members, from left, Kevin Arseneau, Megan Mitton and Coon, sign the party's declaration of intent, which expresses what their votes in the legislature will be based on. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
In an added wrinkle, Coon said his two fellow Green MLAs will not have to follow a party line and will be able to vote their own way on the throne speech.
"We'll have different takes on what we see in there," said Kent North MLA Kevin Arseneau, who also said he'll base his decision on the contents.
Memramcook-Tantramar MLA Megan Mitton agreed.
"I can't decide how to vote until I have actually seen what's in the throne speech," she said.
No guarantee for Gallant
The decision means Gallant will head into the first session of the legislature Oct. 23 with no guarantee his government can survive.
The Sept. 24 election saw Gallant's Liberals win 21 seats, four short of a majority and one fewer than the Progressive Conservatives.
The Greens' decision against signing a formal agreement with the Liberals or the PCs puts Premier Brian Gallant's bid to stay in power in jeopardy. (James West/THE CANADIAN PRESS)
PC Leader Blaine Higgs has been pressuring Gallant to give up power based on the seat count. But Gallant says he plans to try to hold on persuading at least one other party to vote for Liberal legislation.
The premier announced Wednesday the new legislature will sit Oct. 23, with a throne speech expected that day. Under normal house procedure, a vote by MLAs on whether to endorse the speech would likely happen Nov. 2.
The Greens are inviting all parties to sign their declaration of intent, which commits MLAs to find "common ground that reflects the foundational principles" of New Brunswick, including respect for aboriginal and treaty rights as well as for bilingualism and dual education systems.
The three Green Party caucus members signed the declaration of intent on Wednesday afternoon. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
It also says MLAs should commit to fighting poverty and "fiscal and ecological debts" and to respecting the autonomy of the legislature.
Liberals would sign declaration
Gallant said Wednesday his Liberal caucus had agreed unanimously to sign the Green declaration, and if the Greens in turn support a Liberal throne speech along those lines, "we believe we have a clear path to earn at least 24 votes."
He said that would beat the PCs'"blatant attempt to try to seize power" with just 22 seats.
Gallant's 24-22 math contradicts his earlier accusations that the PCs and the People's Alliance had made a deal to put together a bare majority of 25 in the 49-member house.
We all want the citizens of the province to be the winners. And for them to be winners, we need to be able to collaborate in the house across party lines.- Green Party Leader David Coon
Now Gallant says Higgs is pretending to have no deal with the Alliance because some members of his caucus are against the idea.
The combined Liberal and Green numbers would still be one short of a majority, but Gallant said he hopes that a "progressive" member of the PC caucus who wants to block Tory co-operation with the Alliance will agree to vote with the Liberals or become Speaker.
Higgs was not available to comment on Wednesday's developments.
Coon said the Green approach respects the outcome of the election, in which neither traditional party won a majority and two newer parties, the Greens and the People's Alliance, captured three seats each.
"No one won this election," he said. "We all want the citizens of the province to be the winners. And for them to be winners, we need to be able to collaborate in the house across party lines."
He said the results showed the need to "blur" partisan lines and "get away from these power games of who's going to be in power, who's going to rule, who's not going to rule."
Here is a Tale of Horse Racing and 3 Lawsuits before the Yankee Mid Term Election that Franky Boy McKenna and many other Maritimers may enjoy N'esy Pas Petey Baby MacKay?
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before the Yankee Mid Term Elections that your fellow lawyer Franky Boy McKenna and many other Maritmers may enjoy
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Sunday, 14 October 2018 Here is a Tale of Horse Racing and 3 Lawsuits before the Yankee Mid Term Elections that your fellow lawyer Franky Boy McKenna and many other Maritmers may enjoy N'esy Pas Petey Baby MacKay?
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Frank Stronach sues daughter Belinda for allegedly mismanaging family fortune
Lawsuit in Ontario Superior Court seeks more than $500M in damages
The Canadian Press·
Frank Stronach, right, and his daughter Belinda Stronach are shown in 2010. Stronach, an Ontario business magnate, is suing his daughter, two grandchildren and others for allegedly mismanaging the family's assets and trust funds. (Frank Gunn/Canadian Press)
An Ontario business magnate is suing his daughter, two grandchildren and others for allegedly mismanaging the family's assets and trust funds. Frank Stronach, the man who started the auto-parts business Magna International, and his wife Elfriede have launched the lawsuit in Ontario Superior Court and say they have done so as a last resort. Stronach says in a statement that the couple has made "considerable efforts" over the last two years to resolve the matter. Thoroughbred Daily News reports the couple have accused Belinda Stronach, the chairman and president of The Stronach Group that runs horse racetracks around the world, of conspiring by "unlawful actions" against the best interests of other members of the Stronach family. The suit, which has not been proven in court, seeks more than $500 million in damages.
'His allegations are untrue'
Belinda Stronach has denied the allegations. "Family relationships within a business can be challenging," she said in a statement Wednesday night. "My children and I love my father. However, his allegations are untrue and we will be responding formally to the statement of claim in the normal course of the court process." A spokesperson for The Stronach Group CEO Alon Ossip, who is also named in the suit, called the allegations "baseless and are not grounded in fact or reality." "Alon has always honoured his obligations and acted in good faith to preserve and grow the Stronach family's assets and to protect the interests of all members of the family," Paul Deegan said in a statement. "This is a dispute between Stronach family members that should be resolved between family members."
Then there are the legions of Yankees who love to race and gamble over what happens in the races at the Stonach racetracks I bet many Yankees recall the email found below with the Subject line "Whereas Michael C Beck of Liberty Mutual and others want to know what I know about Horse Racing perhaps you Yankees should ask your lawyers or the Wannabe Governor Mike Gill or follow my Twitter account"
Eclipse Award-winning owner Michael Gill, who is no longer involved in the horse racing industry, has once again made headlines after a New Hampshire jury awarded three Manchester, N.H., businessmen a whopping $274.5 million in a defamation suit they had filed against him. According to a report in the New Hampshire Union Leader, the three men, AutoFair owner Andy Crews, Manchester developer Dick Anagnost and Primary Bank founder William Greiner, filed the lawsuit against Gill after he used electronic billboards, radio ads and social media to accuse them of committing crimes, such as dealing drugs and money laundering. The plaintiffs' attorney, Steve Gordon, told the Union Leader that he believes the $274.5 million verdict is the largest personal injury verdict in the state's history. As to how much of that amount the three men will actually receive from Gill remains to be seen. “The chances are my clients will see some of it. How much he has? I do not know,” Gordon said. “In 2015, he claimed he was the largest mortgage broker in the country. The energy we put into trying the case, we will double that energy into collection. And we put a lot of effort into trying this case.” Gill is the founder of The Mortgage Specialists, a large mortgage brokerage firm. Gill represented himself at the week-long trial, but left before a jury was picked. He called the proceeding a “criminal enterprise.” After the verdict was announced, Gill took to social media, posting a statement on his ‘State of Corruption NH' Facebook page in which he said, “I know that there is massive corruption in all of our states. My purpose was to expose NH giving you the absolute evidence of the depth of corruption and to use NH as a domino to expose corruption in every state.” “I have exposed politicians, judges and law enforcement with absolute evidence and witnesses,” Gill went on. “I am not at that trial, it was a fix from the beginning.” Read more in the New Hampshire Union Leader Publisher – Ray Paulick Telephone – 859-312-2102
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The RCMP and Stephen McGrath the Deputy Minister of Justice of Nova Scotia Should never forget their invitation to sue them N'esy Pas Gilles Moreau?
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RCMP faces $1.1B lawsuit over bullying, harassment claims dating back decades Potential class action could represent thousands of officers, civilian employees, students and volunteers Rachel Houlihan, Dave Seglins · CBC News · Posted: Jun 25, 2018 4:00 AM ET
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Friend,
I've spent a lifetime listening to Canadians. I've considered it my duty since 1974, when I was first elected as an MP.
I've always valued when Canadians have come to me with an idea or issue, whether it affects them personally, or touches the entire country. When people speak up, they can help ignite real, positive change. So I listen closely.
In 2015, Canadians told us we needed to grow the middle class, and to build an inclusive Canada where everybody has a real and fair chance at success.
People spoke up about the high costs of raising a family. Now, more than 300,000 Canadian children have been lifted out of poverty thanks to the Canada Child Benefit - with 9 out of 10 families getting more money to help with the costs of raising kids.
Canadians told us that they expect their government to get our natural resources to market - and to do so while protecting the environment and meeting our obligations to Indigenous peoples. We're getting that hard work done.
This is the kind of progress we're making together - and I know there's more work to do.
That's why I'm calling on you.
This week, my colleagues and I will be heading to our Summer Caucus Retreat in Saskatchewan where we'll discuss our plans for this fall and for the year ahead. I want to make sure that your input stays at the heart of everything we do.
The Liberal team has launched our Forward to 2019 fall priorities survey to give you the opportunity to share what matters to you.
Will you take this two-question survey to give important feedback to the Liberal team about your priorities for the hope and hard work ahead of us?
Wednesday, 5 September 2018 ATTN David Duncan Young I just met your nasty little buddy Chris Spencer of SNB tonight Thanks to the Green Meanies from Fat Fred City anyone can view the circus last night in Fundy
Federal Court of Appeal Finally Makes The BIG Decision And Publishes It Now The Crooks Cannot Take Back Ticket To Try Put My Matter Before The Supreme Court
BETWEEN: DAVID RAYMOND AMOS Respondent on the cross-appeal (and formally Appellant) and HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN Appellant on the cross-appeal (and formerly Respondent) Heard at Fredericton, New Brunswick, on May 24, 2017. Judgment delivered at Ottawa, Ontario, on October 30, 2017. REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY:
THE COURT
Date: 20171030
Docket: A-48-16 Citation: 2017 FCA 213 CORAM:
WEBB J.A. NEAR J.A. GLEASON J.A.
BETWEEN: DAVID RAYMOND AMOS Respondent on the cross-appeal (and formally Appellant) and HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN Appellant on the cross-appeal (and formerly Respondent) REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY THE COURT
I. Introduction
[1] On September 16, 2015, David Raymond Amos (Mr. Amos) filed a 53-page Statement of Claim (the Claim) in Federal Court against Her Majesty the Queen (the Crown). Mr. Amos claims $11 million in damages and a public apology from the Prime Minister and Provincial Premiers for being illegally barred from accessing parliamentary properties and seeks a declaration from the Minister of Public Safety that the Canadian Government will no longer allow the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Forces to harass him and his clan (Claim at para. 96).
[2] On November 12, 2015 (Docket T-1557-15), by way of a motion brought by the Crown, a prothonotary of the Federal Court (the Prothonotary) struck the Claim in its entirety, without leave to amend, on the basis that it was plain and obvious that the Claim disclosed no reasonable claim, the Claim was fundamentally vexatious, and the Claim could not be salvaged by way of further amendment (the Prothontary’s Order).
[3] On January 25, 2016 (2016 FC 93), by way of Mr. Amos’ appeal from the Prothonotary’s Order, a judge of the Federal Court (the Judge), reviewing the matter de novo, struck all of Mr. Amos’ claims for relief with the exception of the claim for damages for being barred by the RCMP from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004 (the Federal Court Judgment).
[4] Mr. Amos appealed and the Crown cross-appealed the Federal Court Judgment. Further to the issuance of a Notice of Status Review, Mr. Amos’ appeal was dismissed for delay on December 19, 2016. As such, the only matter before this Court is the Crown’s cross-appeal.
II. Preliminary Matter
[5] Mr. Amos, in his memorandum of fact and law in relation to the cross-appeal that was filed with this Court on March 6, 2017, indicated that several judges of this Court, including two of the judges of this panel, had a conflict of interest in this appeal. This was the first time that he identified the judges whom he believed had a conflict of interest in a document that was filed with this Court. In his notice of appeal he had alluded to a conflict with several judges but did not name those judges.
[6] Mr. Amos was of the view that he did not have to identify the judges in any document filed with this Court because he had identified the judges in various documents that had been filed with the Federal Court. In his view the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal are the same court and therefore any document filed in the Federal Court would be filed in this Court. This view is based on subsections 5(4) and 5.1(4) of the Federal Courts Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. F-7:
5(4) Every judge of the Federal Court is, by virtue of his or her office, a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal and has all the jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal. […]
5(4) Les juges de la Cour fédérale sont d’office juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale. […] 5.1(4) Every judge of the Federal Court of Appeal is, by virtue of that office, a judge of the Federal Court and has all the jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court.
5.1(4) Les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale sont d’office juges de la Cour fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que les juges de la Cour fédérale.
[7] However, these subsections only provide that the judges of the Federal Court are also judges of this Court (and vice versa). It does not mean that there is only one court. If the Federal Court and this Court were one Court, there would be no need for this section. [8] Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act provide that: 3 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court — Appeal Division is continued under the name “Federal Court of Appeal” in English and “Cour d’appel fédérale” in French. It is continued as an additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and for Canada, for the better administration of the laws of Canada and as a superior court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.
3 La Section d’appel, aussi appelée la Cour d’appel ou la Cour d’appel fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée « Cour d’appel fédérale » en français et « Federal Court of Appeal » en anglais. Elle est maintenue à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et d’amirauté du Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit canadien, et continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant compétence en matière civile et pénale. 4 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court — Trial Division is continued under the name “Federal Court” in English and “Cour fédérale” in French. It is continued as an additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and for Canada, for the better administration of the laws of Canada and as a superior court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.
4 La section de la Cour fédérale du Canada, appelée la Section de première instance de la Cour fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée « Cour fédérale » en français et « Federal Court » en anglais. Elle est maintenue à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et d’amirauté du Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit canadien, et continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant compétence en matière civile et pénale.
[9] Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act create two separate courts – this Court (section 3) and the Federal Court (section 4). If, as Mr. Amos suggests, documents filed in the Federal Court were automatically also filed in this Court, then there would no need for the parties to prepare and file appeal books as required by Rules 343 to 345 of the Federal Courts Rules, SOR/98-106 in relation to any appeal from a decision of the Federal Court. The requirement to file an appeal book with this Court in relation to an appeal from a decision of the Federal Court makes it clear that the only documents that will be before this Court are the documents that are part of that appeal book.
[10] Therefore, the memorandum of fact and law filed on March 6, 2017 is the first document, filed with this Court, in which Mr. Amos identified the particular judges that he submits have a conflict in any matter related to him.
[11] On April 3, 2017, Mr. Amos attempted to bring a motion before the Federal Court seeking an order “affirming or denying the conflict of interest he has” with a number of judges of the Federal Court. A judge of the Federal Court issued a direction noting that if Mr. Amos was seeking this order in relation to judges of the Federal Court of Appeal, it was beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal Court. Mr. Amos raised the Federal Court motion at the hearing of this cross-appeal. The Federal Court motion is not a motion before this Court and, as such, the submissions filed before the Federal Court will not be entertained. As well, since this was a motion brought before the Federal Court (and not this Court), any documents filed in relation to that motion are not part of the record of this Court.
[12] During the hearing of the appeal Mr. Amos alleged that the third member of this panel also had a conflict of interest and submitted some documents that, in his view, supported his claim of a conflict. Mr. Amos, following the hearing of his appeal, was also afforded the opportunity to provide a brief summary of the conflict that he was alleging and to file additional documents that, in his view, supported his allegations. Mr. Amos submitted several pages of documents in relation to the alleged conflicts. He organized the documents by submitting a copy of the biography of the particular judge and then, immediately following that biography, by including copies of the documents that, in his view, supported his claim that such judge had a conflict.
[13] The nature of the alleged conflict of Justice Webb is that before he was appointed as a Judge of the Tax Court of Canada in 2006, he was a partner with the law firm Patterson Law, and before that with Patterson Palmer in Nova Scotia. Mr. Amos submitted that he had a number of disputes with Patterson Palmer and Patterson Law and therefore Justice Webb has a conflict simply because he was a partner of these firms. Mr. Amos is not alleging that Justice Webb was personally involved in or had any knowledge of any matter in which Mr. Amos was involved with Justice Webb’s former law firm – only that he was a member of such firm.
[14] During his oral submissions at the hearing of his appeal Mr. Amos, in relation to the alleged conflict for Justice Webb, focused on dealings between himself and a particular lawyer at Patterson Law. However, none of the documents submitted by Mr. Amos at the hearing or subsequently related to any dealings with this particular lawyer nor is it clear when Mr. Amos was dealing with this lawyer. In particular, it is far from clear whether such dealings were after the time that Justice Webb was appointed as a Judge of the Tax Court of Canada over 10 years ago.
[15] The documents that he submitted in relation to the alleged conflict for Justice Webb largely relate to dealings between Byron Prior and the St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador office of Patterson Palmer, which is not in the same province where Justice Webb practiced law. The only document that indicates any dealing between Mr. Amos and Patterson Palmer is a copy of an affidavit of Stephen May who was a partner in the St. John’s NL office of Patterson Palmer. The affidavit is dated January 24, 2005 and refers to a number of e-mails that were sent by Mr. Amos to Stephen May. Mr. Amos also included a letter that is addressed to four individuals, one of whom is John Crosbie who was counsel to the St. John’s NL office of Patterson Palmer. The letter is dated September 2, 2004 and is addressed to “John Crosbie, c/o Greg G. Byrne, Suite 502, 570 Queen Street, Fredericton, NB E3B 5E3”. In this letter Mr. Amos alludes to a possible lawsuit against Patterson Palmer. [16] Mr. Amos’ position is that simply because Justice Webb was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer, he now has a conflict. In Wewaykum Indian Band v. Her Majesty the Queen, 2003 SCC 45, [2003] 2 S.C.R. 259, the Supreme Court of Canada noted that disqualification of a judge is to be determined based on whether there is a reasonable apprehension of bias: 60 In Canadian law, one standard has now emerged as the criterion for disqualification. The criterion, as expressed by de Grandpré J. in Committee for Justice and Liberty v. National Energy Board, …[[1978] 1 S.C.R. 369, 68 D.L.R. (3d) 716], at p. 394, is the reasonable apprehension of bias: … the apprehension of bias must be a reasonable one, held by reasonable and right minded persons, applying themselves to the question and obtaining thereon the required information. In the words of the Court of Appeal, that test is "what would an informed person, viewing the matter realistically and practically -- and having thought the matter through -- conclude. Would he think that it is more likely than not that [the decision-maker], whether consciously or unconsciously, would not decide fairly."
[17] The issue to be determined is whether an informed person, viewing the matter realistically and practically, and having thought the matter through, would conclude that Mr. Amos’ allegations give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias. As this Court has previously remarked, “there is a strong presumption that judges will administer justice impartially” and this presumption will not be rebutted in the absence of “convincing evidence” of bias (Collins v. Canada, 2011 FCA 140 at para. 7, [2011] 4 C.T.C. 157 [Collins]. See also R. v. S. (R.D.), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 484 at para. 32, 151 D.L.R. (4th) 193).
[18] The Ontario Court of Appeal in Rando Drugs Ltd. v. Scott, 2007 ONCA 553, 86 O.R. (3d) 653 (leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada refused, 32285 (August 1, 2007)), addressed the particular issue of whether a judge is disqualified from hearing a case simply because he had been a member of a law firm that was involved in the litigation that was now before that judge. The Ontario Court of Appeal determined that the judge was not disqualified if the judge had no involvement with the person or the matter when he was a lawyer. The Ontario Court of Appeal also explained that the rules for determining whether a judge is disqualified are different from the rules to determine whether a lawyer has a conflict: 27 Thus, disqualification is not the natural corollary to a finding that a trial judge has had some involvement in a case over which he or she is now presiding. Where the judge had no involvement, as here, it cannot be said that the judge is disqualified.
28 The point can rightly be made that had Mr. Patterson been asked to represent the appellant as counsel before his appointment to the bench, the conflict rules would likely have prevented him from taking the case because his firm had formerly represented one of the defendants in the case. Thus, it is argued how is it that as a trial judge Patterson J. can hear the case? This issue was considered by the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) in Locabail (U.K.) Ltd. v. Bayfield Properties Ltd., [2000] Q.B. 451. The court held, at para. 58, that there is no inflexible rule governing the disqualification of a judge and that, "[e]verything depends on the circumstances."
29 It seems to me that what appears at first sight to be an inconsistency in application of rules can be explained by the different contexts and in particular, the strong presumption of judicial impartiality that applies in the context of disqualification of a judge. There is no such presumption in cases of allegations of conflict of interest against a lawyer because of a firm's previous involvement in the case. To the contrary, as explained by Sopinka J. in MacDonald Estate v. Martin (1990), 77 D.L.R. (4th) 249 (S.C.C.), for sound policy reasons there is a presumption of a disqualifying interest that can rarely be overcome. In particular, a conclusory statement from the lawyer that he or she had no confidential information about the case will never be sufficient. The case is the opposite where the allegation of bias is made against a trial judge. His or her statement that he or she knew nothing about the case and had no involvement in it will ordinarily be accepted at face value unless there is good reason to doubt it: see Locabail, at para. 19.
30 That brings me then to consider the particular circumstances of this case and whether there are serious grounds to find a disqualifying conflict of interest in this case. In my view, there are two significant factors that justify the trial judge's decision not to recuse himself. The first is his statement, which all parties accept, that he knew nothing of the case when it was in his former firm and that he had nothing to do with it. The second is the long passage of time. As was said in Wewaykum, at para. 85: To us, one significant factor stands out, and must inform the perspective of the reasonable person assessing the impact of this involvement on Binnie J.'s impartiality in the appeals. That factor is the passage of time. Most arguments for disqualification rest on circumstances that are either contemporaneous to the decision-making, or that occurred within a short time prior to the decision-making. 31 There are other factors that inform the issue. The Wilson Walker firm no longer acted for any of the parties by the time of trial. More importantly, at the time of the motion, Patterson J. had been a judge for six years and thus had not had a relationship with his former firm for a considerable period of time.
32 In my view, a reasonable person, viewing the matter realistically would conclude that the trial judge could deal fairly and impartially with this case. I take this view principally because of the long passage of time and the trial judge's lack of involvement in or knowledge of the case when the Wilson Walker firm had carriage. In these circumstances it cannot be reasonably contended that the trial judge could not remain impartial in the case. The mere fact that his name appears on the letterhead of some correspondence from over a decade ago would not lead a reasonable person to believe that he would either consciously or unconsciously favour his former firm's former client. It is simply not realistic to think that a judge would throw off his mantle of impartiality, ignore his oath of office and favour a client - about whom he knew nothing - of a firm that he left six years earlier and that no longer acts for the client, in a case involving events from over a decade ago. (emphasis added)
[19] Justice Webb had no involvement with any matter involving Mr. Amos while he was a member of Patterson Palmer or Patterson Law, nor does Mr. Amos suggest that he did. Mr. Amos made it clear during the hearing of this matter that the only reason for the alleged conflict for Justice Webb was that he was a member of Patterson Law and Patterson Palmer. This is simply not enough for Justice Webb to be disqualified. Any involvement of Mr. Amos with Patterson Law while Justice Webb was a member of that firm would have had to occur over 10 years ago and even longer for the time when he was a member of Patterson Palmer. In addition to the lack of any involvement on his part with any matter or dispute that Mr. Amos had with Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer (which in and of itself is sufficient to dispose of this matter), the length of time since Justice Webb was a member of Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer would also result in the same finding – that there is no conflict in Justice Webb hearing this appeal.
[20] Similarly in R. v. Bagot, 2000 MBCA 30, 145 Man. R. (2d) 260, the Manitoba Court of Appeal found that there was no reasonable apprehension of bias when a judge, who had been a member of the law firm that had been retained by the accused, had no involvement with the accused while he was a lawyer with that firm.
[21] In Del Zotto v. Minister of National Revenue, [2000] 4 F.C. 321, 257 N.R. 96, this court did find that there would be a reasonable apprehension of bias where a judge, who while he was a lawyer, had recorded time on a matter involving the same person who was before that judge. However, this case can be distinguished as Justice Webb did not have any time recorded on any files involving Mr. Amos while he was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer or Patterson Law.
[22] Mr. Amos also included with his submissions a CD. He stated in his affidavit dated June 26, 2017 that there is a “true copy of an American police surveillance wiretap entitled 139” on this CD. He has also indicated that he has “provided a true copy of the CD entitled 139 to many American and Canadian law enforcement authorities and not one of the police forces or officers of the court are willing to investigate it”. Since he has indicated that this is an “American police surveillance wiretap”, this is a matter for the American law enforcement authorities and cannot create, as Mr. Amos suggests, a conflict of interest for any judge to whom he provides a copy.
[23] As a result, there is no conflict or reasonable apprehension of bias for Justice Webb and therefore, no reason for him to recuse himself.
[24] Mr. Amos alleged that Justice Near’s past professional experience with the government created a “quasi-conflict” in deciding the cross-appeal. Mr. Amos provided no details and Justice Near confirmed that he had no prior knowledge of the matters alleged in the Claim. Justice Near sees no reason to recuse himself.
[25] Insofar as it is possible to glean the basis for Mr. Amos’ allegations against Justice Gleason, it appears that he alleges that she is incapable of hearing this appeal because he says he wrote a letter to Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien in 2004. At that time, both Justice Gleason and Mr. Mulroney were partners in the law firm Ogilvy Renault, LLP. The letter in question, which is rude and angry, begins with “Hey you two Evil Old Smiling Bastards” and “Re: me suing you and your little dogs too”. There is no indication that the letter was ever responded to or that a law suit was ever commenced by Mr. Amos against Mr. Mulroney. In the circumstances, there is no reason for Justice Gleason to recuse herself as the letter in question does not give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias.
III. Issue
[26] The issue on the cross-appeal is as follows: Did the Judge err in setting aside the Prothonotary’s Order striking the Claim in its entirety without leave to amend and in determining that Mr. Amos’ allegation that the RCMP barred him from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004 was capable of supporting a cause of action?
IV. Analysis
A. Standard of Review
[27] Following the Judge’s decision to set aside the Prothonotary’s Order, this Court revisited the standard of review to be applied to discretionary decisions of prothonotaries and decisions made by judges on appeals of prothonotaries’ decisions in Hospira Healthcare Corp. v. Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, 2016 FCA 215, 402 D.L.R. (4th) 497 [Hospira]. In Hospira, a five-member panel of this Court replaced the Aqua-Gem standard of review with that articulated in Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 235 [Housen]. As a result, it is no longer appropriate for the Federal Court to conduct a de novo review of a discretionary order made by a prothonotary in regard to questions vital to the final issue of the case. Rather, a Federal Court judge can only intervene on appeal if the prothonotary made an error of law or a palpable and overriding error in determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and law (Hospira at para. 79). Further, this Court can only interfere with a Federal Court judge’s review of a prothonotary’s discretionary order if the judge made an error of law or palpable and overriding error in determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and law (Hospira at paras. 82-83).
[28] In the case at bar, the Judge substituted his own assessment of Mr. Amos’ Claim for that of the Prothonotary. This Court must look to the Prothonotary’s Order to determine whether the Judge erred in law or made a palpable and overriding error in choosing to interfere.
B. Did the Judge err in interfering with the Prothonotary’s Order?
[29] The Prothontoary’s Order accepted the following paragraphs from the Crown’s submissions as the basis for striking the Claim in its entirety without leave to amend:
17. Within the 96 paragraph Statement of Claim, the Plaintiff addresses his complaint in paragraphs 14-24, inclusive. All but four of those paragraphs are dedicated to an incident that occurred in 2006 in and around the legislature in New Brunswick. The jurisdiction of the Federal Court does not extend to Her Majesty the Queen in right of the Provinces. In any event, the Plaintiff hasn’t named the Province or provincial actors as parties to this action. The incident alleged does not give rise to a justiciable cause of action in this Court. (…)
21. The few paragraphs that directly address the Defendant provide no details as to the individuals involved or the location of the alleged incidents or other details sufficient to allow the Defendant to respond. As a result, it is difficult or impossible to determine the causes of action the Plaintiff is attempting to advance. A generous reading of the Statement of Claim allows the Defendant to only speculate as to the true and/or intended cause of action. At best, the Plaintiff’s action may possibly be summarized as: he suspects he is barred from the House of Commons. [footnotes omitted].
[30] The Judge determined that he could not strike the Claim on the same jurisdictional basis as the Prothonotary. The Judge noted that the Federal Court has jurisdiction over claims based on the liability of Federal Crown servants like the RCMP and that the actors who barred Mr. Amos from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004 included the RCMP (Federal Court Judgment at para. 23). In considering the viability of these allegations de novo, the Judge identified paragraph 14 of the Claim as containing “some precision” as it identifies the date of the event and a RCMP officer acting as Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant Governor (Federal Court Judgment at para. 27).
[31] The Judge noted that the 2004 event could support a cause of action in the tort of misfeasance in public office and identified the elements of the tort as excerpted from Meigs v. Canada, 2013 FC 389, 431 F.T.R. 111:
[13] As in both the cases of Odhavji Estate v Woodhouse, 2003 SCC 69 [Odhavji] and Lewis v Canada, 2012 FC 1514 [Lewis], I must determine whether the plaintiffs’ statement of claim pleads each element of the alleged tort of misfeasance in public office:
a) The public officer must have engaged in deliberate and unlawful conduct in his or her capacity as public officer;
b) The public officer must have been aware both that his or her conduct was unlawful and that it was likely to harm the plaintiff; and
c) There must be an element of bad faith or dishonesty by the public officer and knowledge of harm alone is insufficient to conclude that a public officer acted in bad faith or dishonestly. Odhavji, above, at paras 23, 24 and 28 (Federal Court Judgment at para. 28).
[32] The Judge determined that Mr. Amos disclosed sufficient material facts to meet the elements of the tort of misfeasance in public office because the actors, who barred him from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004, including the RCMP, did so for “political reasons” (Federal Court Judgment at para. 29).
[33] This Court’s discussion of the sufficiency of pleadings in Merchant Law Group v. Canada (Revenue Agency), 2010 FCA 184, 321 D.L.R (4th) 301 is particularly apt:
…When pleading bad faith or abuse of power, it is not enough to assert, baldly, conclusory phrases such as “deliberately or negligently,” “callous disregard,” or “by fraud and theft did steal”. “The bare assertion of a conclusion upon which the court is called upon to pronounce is not an allegation of material fact”. Making bald, conclusory allegations without any evidentiary foundation is an abuse of process…
To this, I would add that the tort of misfeasance in public office requires a particular state of mind of a public officer in carrying out the impunged action, i.e., deliberate conduct which the public officer knows to be inconsistent with the obligations of his or her office. For this tort, particularization of the allegations is mandatory. Rule 181 specifically requires particularization of allegations of “breach of trust,” “wilful default,” “state of mind of a person,” “malice” or “fraudulent intention.” (at paras. 34-35, citations omitted).
[34] Applying the Housen standard of review to the Prothonotary’s Order, we are of the view that the Judge interfered absent a legal or palpable and overriding error.
[35] The Prothonotary determined that Mr. Amos’ Claim disclosed no reasonable claim and was fundamentally vexatious on the basis of jurisdictional concerns and the absence of material facts to ground a cause of action. Paragraph 14 of the Claim, which addresses the 2004 event, pleads no material facts as to how the RCMP officer engaged in deliberate and unlawful conduct, knew that his or her conduct was unlawful and likely to harm Mr. Amos, and acted in bad faith. While the Claim alleges elsewhere that Mr. Amos was barred from the New Brunswick legislature for political and/or malicious reasons, these allegations are not particularized and are directed against non-federal actors, such as the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick and the Fredericton Police Force. As such, the Judge erred in determining that Mr. Amos’ allegation that the RCMP barred him from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004 was capable of supporting a cause of action.
[36] In our view, the Claim is made up entirely of bare allegations, devoid of any detail, such that it discloses no reasonable cause of action within the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts. Therefore, the Judge erred in interfering to set aside the Prothonotary’s Order striking the claim in its entirety. Further, we find that the Prothonotary made no error in denying leave to amend. The deficiencies in Mr. Amos’ pleadings are so extensive such that amendment could not cure them (see Collins at para. 26).
V. Conclusion [37] For the foregoing reasons, we would allow the Crown’s cross-appeal, with costs, setting aside the Federal Court Judgment, dated January 25, 2016 and restoring the Prothonotary’s Order, dated November 12, 2015, which struck Mr. Amos’ Claim in its entirety without leave to amend. "Wyman W. Webb" J.A. "David G. Near" J.A. "Mary J.L. Gleason" J.A.
FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD
A CROSS-APPEAL FROM AN ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE SOUTHCOTT DATED JANUARY 25, 2016; DOCKET NUMBER T-1557-15. DOCKET:
A-48-16
STYLE OF CAUSE:
DAVID RAYMOND AMOS v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
PLACE OF HEARING:
Fredericton, New Brunswick
DATE OF HEARING:
May 24, 2017
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY:
WEBB J.A. NEAR J.A. GLEASON J.A.
DATED:
October 30, 2017
APPEARANCES: David Raymond Amos
For The Appellant / respondent on cross-appeal (on his own behalf)
Jan Jensen
For The Respondent / appELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL
SOLICITORS OF RECORD: Nathalie G. Drouin Deputy Attorney General of Canada
For The Respondent / APPELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL
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> ---------- 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 >
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Oh My My It appears that there are now two fellas named Keven Arseneau working for the Province of New Brunswick who wish to communicate with me in only one official language N'esy Pas?
After all you do work for the government I have been suing. The ethical education our children is important and you do have the right to vote. Its wise to educate yourself in order to educate the children about their rights under the Charter etc N'esy Pas?
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Green MLA Kevin Arseneau says he'll put Kent North first CBC News · Posted: Sep 26, 2018 4:37 PM AT
When asked who the Green Party would likely form an alliance with, the new MLA said he wasn't sure, since the party has a trust and confidence problem with the Liberals and an ideology problem with the PCs. "
Green MLA Kevin Arseneau says he'll put Kent North first CBC News · Posted: Sep 26, 2018 4:37 PM AT
When asked who the Green Party would likely form an alliance with, the new MLA said he wasn't sure, since the party has a trust and confidence problem with the Liberals and an ideology problem with the PCs. "
People's Alliance more likely to support the PCs, Kris Austin says Jacques Poitras · CBC News · Posted: Sep 26, 2018 12:13 PM AT
"Several of the Alliance leader's positions have alarmed francophones. On Tuesday, PC Robert Gauvin, newly elected in Shippagan-Lamèque-Miscou and the party's only francophone MLA, said he'd find it difficult to accept any co-operation between his party and Austin's."
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Some of the more interesting comment by one French dude in particular
Paul Arseneault You might want to put a hold on that PC/PA alliance, Gauvin is getting cold feet and no wonder..if it happens he is a one term MLA.
Fred Brewer @Paul Arseneault Can you spell "another election?"
Marc Martin @Paul Arseneault He will switch, ive heard people already have a rope with a tree for him.
Marc Martin @Fred Brewer I actually think it would be the best.
Marc Martin @Joseph Vacher *Mean while there is no English equivalency test required.*
Another lie brought to you by the PANB. I've been a test SLE test language administrator for years, BOTH language are tested equally.
Marc Martin @Roy Nicholl These don't exist anymore, they now use SLE like the Federal government.
Marc Martin @David Webb That is not true, I even challenge you to come with me at Service NB, if they are ill be the first to fill a complain ? What you say champ?
Rob Landry @Marc Martin As a test administrator for SNB, I think you should brush up on your grammar a bit.
Friday, 12 October 2018 Unfilled Speaker's chair could bring on another election this fall
David Amos Content disabled. @Craig O'Donnell Methinks some folks may recall that within an earlier comment section this week I suspected that the Green Party member and former wannabe liberal candidate Mr Arsenault may go for the Speaker's chair if the French Lieutenant of the PC Party does not take my advice N'esy Pas?
David Amos Content disabled. @kirk hancock I agree
Methinks the Green Party Leader David Coon got feeling his oats way too much and went over a bridge too far from his former positions against NB Power. Nobody in New Brunswick who is having a hard time making ends meet would oppose a rate freeze on our electric bills especially heading into winter N'esy Pas?
David Amos Content disabled. @kirk hancock Go figure why CBC blocks it own link
David Amos Content disabled. Methinks before October 23rd is upon us I should remind many politicians and the folks who vote in New Brunswick that this story appeared in the Kings County Record on June 22, 2004 two days before Premier Lord had me illegally barred from legislative properties Everybody knows that I have run for public office 5 more times since then including this election. Clearly nothing has changed N'esy Pas?
The Unconventional Candidate By Gisele McKnight
"FUNDY—He has a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket, a chain on his wallet, a beard at least a foot long, 60 motorcycles and a cell phone that rings to the tune of "Yankee Doodle."
Meet the latest addition to the Fundy ballot—David Amos. The independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife and two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from running for office in Canada."
"Amos, 52, is running for political office because of his dissatisfaction with politicians. "I've become aware of much corruption involving our two countries," he said. "The only way to fix corruption is in the political forum."
"What he's fighting for is the discussion of issues – tainted blood, the exploitation of the Maritimes' gas and oil reserves and NAFTA, to name a few.
"The political issues in the Maritimes involve the three Fs – fishing, farming and forestry, but they forget foreign issues," he said. "I'm death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say chuck it (NAFTA) out the window
NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement which allows an easier flow of goods between Canada, the United States and Mexico."
Methinks if the PC star candidate Robert Gauvin were truly a wiseguy he swear in as an Independent tomorrow then offer his name to become elected as the Speaker just like Tanker did years ago N'esy Pas David Coon and Kris Austin?
PC leader wants 'faster than normal' transition if given the chance to govern Jacques Poitras · CBC News · Posted: Oct 10, 2018 5:00 AM AT
David Amos Content disabled. If anyone were to review the comment sections of CBC for the past couple of months as they pertain to the New Brunswick election it should be blatantly obvious that the lions share of the comments were about French versus English issues.
In my humble opinion this nonsense was fueled by political pundits of the Liberal party in order to split the vote on the right. Clearly it backfired on them. The liberal succeeded in dividing the province in two on polling day. Three cabinet ministers lost their seats while the PANB and the Green Parties each won three seats.
On the other hand the PCs complained of the PANB constantly because of the concerns of one French Lieutenant when in fact in several ridings the PCs would not be as successful as they were if the PANB were not on the ballot as well. The nasty theoretic against the PANB clearly backfired on Higgs and he has no idea how to make amends with them without upsetting his beloved French Lieutenant and his newfound ex NDP cohorts..
Methinks the Liberals and the PCs are big losers and it looks good on them N'esy Pas?
David Amos Methinks that Mr Higgs may huff and puff all he wishes in order to try to blow down Gallant's House. However the simple fact is it will be the PANB and the Greens who will decide in November whether or not it stands or falls N'esy Pas?
Anne Bérubé @David Amos Well, with the Greenies or not, the liebs will still be missing a seat, not?
David Amos @Anne Bérubé YUP but
Methinks the PANB will vote in support of Gallant and who knows who the speaker may be. Methinks if the French Lieutenant of the PC Party were a wiseguy he would have sworn in as an Independent yesterday like he threatened to do then put up his name to be the Speaker. That can still happen. If if it does then we would truly have a Circus to enjoy for at least 18 months if the leader of the PANB remains true to his word N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin @David Amos
*PANB will vote in support of Gallant *
OMG no he wont, the Libs are the total opposite of PANB.
Al Bekirkey @Marc Martin im pretty sure the panb are aloud to vote their conscious they are not forced to hold party lines or atleast that is what they have promised in the past
David Amos @Al Bekirkey I agree
Marc Martin @Al Bekirkey
PANBs is anti-French, the Liberals already know not to sign a deal with them...
David Amos Content disabled. @Al Bekirkey Thats funny I thought of him as a Little Lord Ha Ha
David Amos Content disabled. @Al Bekirkey "ok tokyo rose no one wants your supper marc"
Trust that you would have laughed at my reply
Lou Bell @Marc MartinGallants party is anti english.
Marc Martin @Lou Bell
No its not, they are against the anti-Francophones.
David Amos Content disabled. @Marc Martin Methinks that now that CBC is busy editing the comment section for your benefit it makes no sense to post anything more tonight N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin @David Amos
*The independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife and two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from running for office in Canada*
Why would want to run in the country you don't live in ? That doesn't make any sense....
David Amos @Marc Martin Methinks you should lead to read the articles before asking questions that have obvious answers N'esy Pas?
Checkout this comment section if you truly seek enlightenment.
David Amos @Marc Martin Methinks everybody but you knows that I am a Canadian citizen ONLY who is the Proud Father and Grandfather of 5 Canadian citizens N'esy Pas?
David Amos @Marc Martin "Not interested in debating an American citizen"
Methinks anyone can Google "Fundy Royal Debate" N'esy Pas?
Why don't you leave Upper Canada next year and come down to Fundy and put you name on a ballot in order to debate me in real space and time instead of cyberspace?
Marc Martin @David Amos
*Grandfather of 5 Canadian citizens*
Ishhh no comment....
David Amos Content disabled. @Marc Martin I posted "Methinks anyone can Google "Fundy Royal Debate" N'esy Pas? "
Trust that I don't care if you do or not.
David Amos Content disabled. @Marc Martin Methinks that is imore than merely nteresting that CBC deleted your insult ASAP and then hours later deleted my response as well N'esy Pas?
Johnny Horton Lot of chatter going around that the back room boys think it’s better to concede than force a vote and lose.
It’s the long game that counts. Years and decades.
David Amos Content disabled. @Johnny Horton I disagree with your gossip about what the liberal backroom boys are mumbling. October 23rd is an eternity for Mr Higgs, his French Lieutenant and his ex NDP cohorts. Gallant may have signed theGreen declaration but there is no mention of whether the PCs or the PANB would. As it stands today clearly Mr Austin and the PANB will be the Masters of Disaster next week for both the PC party and the Liberals.
Folks should never forget a former leader of Acadians Kevin Arseneau sought the liberal nomination first and was turned down. What if Gallant offers him and Madame Mitton Cabinet positions just like Shawn Graham did with Wally Stiles and his wife in 2006?
Methinks folks should read what CBC published The added wrinkles are always special N'esy Pas?
" In an added wrinkle, **** said his two fellow Green MLAs will not have to follow a party line and will be able to vote their own way on the throne speech.
"We'll have different takes on what we see in there," said Kent North MLA Kevin Arseneau, who also said he'll base his decision on the contents.
Memramcook-Tantramar MLA Megan Mitton agreed.
"I can't decide how to vote until I have actually seen what's in the throne speech," she said."
David Amos Content disabled. @Johnny Horton Methinks folks should read what CBC published The added wrinkles are always special N'esy Pas?
No deal: Green Party won't formally side with Liberals or PCs
David Amos @David Amos Now that Kevin Arseneau a former president of the Acadian society made a big speech today methinks I should remind the folks that he wanted to be a liberal candidate first but Gallant turned him down N'esy Pas?
The New Brunswick election could be close with 5 parties hoping to gain seats on Monday Daniel McHardie · CBC News · Posted: Sep 23, 2018 3:30 PM AT
"Kent North, which takes in the eastern communities of Rexton, Richibuto, Rogersville and Saint-Louis-de-Kent, is a riding that has suddenly become a curious race to watch.
The riding was won by the Liberals in 2014, but Bertrand LeBlanc decided not to reoffer in this campaign.
Liberal candidate Emery Comeau is trying to hold onto the riding, but the Greens are hoping that Kevin Arseneau may be able to break through.
The Greens placed second in the riding in 2014, so there is a base of support for the party in the riding. Arseneau is a former president of the Acadian society and he had wanted to run for the Liberals in the riding. However, the Liberals did not approve his candidacy, so Arseneau switched to the Greens.
The Greens gave Arseneau's campaign a boost in the final days of the campaign by sending environmentalist David Suzuki to his riding."
David Amos @David Amos Methinks I should remind all the political party leaders that there was also an Independent candidate running in Kent North. CBC did inform us all as to why my good friend Dr Roger Richard put his name on the ballot. More importantly a very quirt man debated Kevin Arseneau and the NDP professor even though the Liberal and the PC candidates were too afraid to argue anyone in a public forum while Dr David Suzuki was making the scene as well N'esy Pas?
Green Party hopes to cultivate Kent North, stronghold for the Liberals in last 2 elections Nathalie Sturgeon · CBC News · Posted: Sep 19, 2018 8:03 PM AT
"Roger Richard said he's hoping to get a few votes as the independent candidate, but isn't doing any campaigning to get them.
He decided to run as an independent after the Green Party decided to support smart meters.
"Either you are for the environment or you are not and that's why."
Richard said he doesn't think any of the parties have a strong enough voice when it comes to protecting the environment."
David Amos @David Amos Last year I did my best to assist my friend Dr Roger Richard with our common concerns about the questionable actions and plans of NB Power
"Smart meter opponent Roger Richard, right, leads a group worried about human health problems caused by long term exposure to the devices. (Robert Jones/CBC NEWS)"
This week we renew our efforts before the EUB as this long delayed matter begins again.
EUB punts rate hearing as NB Power studies $122M smart meter plan Robert Jones · Posted: Sep 26, 2017 6:00 AM AT
"An effort to redesign the way NB Power charges customers for electricity — generally viewed as bad news for those who heat with electricity — has been suspended by the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board for one year.
The EUB has agreed to consider an upcoming NB Power application to spend $122 million on new "smart meters" for homes and businesses first.
"The Board finds that the AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) application should precede the rate design hearing and therefore it is in the public interest to grant an adjournment," ruled EUB chairman Raymond Gorman in a brief hearing last week."
David Amos @David Amos Just in case folks forgot NB Power lost the battle over smart meters this summer. However methinks that folks should have no doubt whatsoever they will have a brand new plan to bill New Brunswickers for more more more in order to support the favourite cash cow of greedy corporations and their political pals in New Brunswick and New England N'esy Pas?
EUB denies NB Power request to deploy smart meters across province Move would 'not be in the public interest' Robert Jones · CBC News · Posted: Jul 20, 2018 12:51 PM AT
"NB Power said later Friday that it will be "reviewing the decision and assessing its overall impact."
David Amos @David Amos Methinks in closing I should point out the fact that my friend Roger is proud of being an Acadian just as I am proud of my Scottish heritage. The bilingualism issues that political pundits go on and on about are never mentioned by either of us in the political forum because they are not nearly as important as our concerns about the environment, provincial debt, taxation, Health care, NB Power, corrupt law enforcement, public corruption etc etc. versus the future of our children. However i cannot deny that my friend an I laugh every time some snobby Anglophone or Francophone gets angry when I start my statements with a touch of the old bard and end it with my version of Chiac N'esy Pas?
David Amos @Greg Smith Methinks politicians would not tell the truth even under oath because of a prior oath to the Privy Council N'esy Pas?
Greg Smith @David Amos *n'est-ce pas?
David Amos Content disabled. @Greg Smith I you ever heard Chiac? Trust that Premier Gallant, Mr Higgs Mr Coon, Mr Austin, CBC and their blogging buddy Chucky Leblanc certainly have N'esy Pas?
David Amos @Greg Smith NOPE
Roy Kirk 'Haste makes waste' comes to mind. Two weeks is fast enough. Take you time to get it right.
David Amos @Roy Kirk Methinks Mr Higgs has no time to waste or his French Lieutenant wll quit bailing out his boat just like his daddy did with Cochrane many moons ago N'esy Pas?
"Nearly 25 years ago, his father, Jean Gauvin, the Progressive Conservative MP for the riding called Shippagan-les-Îles, made a very emotional and tearful speech to the Assembly. legislative. He had almost resigned when his leader, Dennis Cochrane, had opened the door of the party to former members of the anti-bilingual party CoR.
"I think I would rather die politically and die standing up. Jean Gauvin, former MP and Progressive Conservative Minister"
"Mr. Cochrane knows my position on this," explained Jean Gauvin. "And if Mr. Cochrane decides to give a new orientation to the party, then, for sure, I will re-evaluate my presence inside the party."
David Amos @David Amos Continued "Jean Gauvin was of the opinion that accepting members of the Progressive Conservative Party who oppose the collective rights of the Acadians was an affront to Francophones. He had issued an ultimatum to his leader to force him to rule on the eligibility of CoR members for the Progressive Conservative Party. Jean Gauvin had raised a storm when he was the whip of the Progressive Conservatives, the very one who has to ensure discipline in the ranks of the party.
Chief Dennis Cochrane has somehow punished his fiery Acadian MP. "It is necessary for the Progressive Conservative Party, in the opposition, to present a very united front," he said, "actions with an ultimatum are not in the best activities for a team. why I finished John's actions as a whip. "
Gauvin's answer was scathing. "If it's the price I have to pay to defend the rights of francophones inside a political party, well, listen, give the whip to someone else, do not make any difference to me. "
A newspaper of the CoR (Confederation of Party). The Confederation Party was founded in 1989 in New Brunswick and was dissolved in 2002. Photo: Radio-Canada
Bernard Valcourt then succeeded Dennis Cochrane as Progressive Conservative Party Leader and Jean Gauvin decided not to run for the 1995 election."
Marguerite Deschamps @David Amos; Jean Gauvin ended his political career running for the federal Canadian Alliance led by Stockwell Day and lost.
David Amos @Marguerite Deschamps Who cares?
Marguerite Deschamps @David Amos; you! Otherwise you would not have wasted your time with all the write-up about it. .
David Amos @Marguerite Deschamps Methinks you should read my comment and then the article Everybody else knows I was referring to the French Lieutenant under the thumb of Mr Higgs for the time being N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps Thumb me down all you want, Jean Gauvin did finish his political career running for the fed Canadian Alliance led by Stockwell Day and here's the proof:
David Amos @Marguerite Deschamps Methinks Richard Bell the first judge Harper appointed, his old pal Andy Savoy, many other judges and and lawyers and lots of common folks must recall when and why I ran against Andy Scott in Fat Fred City. At least nobody should deny that I explained it to Steve Murphy on live ATV News at Xmass Time in 2005 just before I debated Any Scott in Oromocto N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps @David Amos; all politics aside, Richard Bell was a very good appointment and ended up being a very good judge.
David Amos @Marguerite Deschamps Did you hear about our encounter in Federal Court on December 14th, 2015?. Why did he not act ethically since then?
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(Shane Fowler/CBC) > > The likelihood of NB Power having its rates frozen for the next four > years appears to have dimmed to near zero given the uncertainty over > who will govern the province — even if New Brunswick Liberals manage > to retain power — and the utility can thank its old nemesis, Green > Party leader David Coon, for the reprieve. > > "It's a non-starter," Coon said Thursday about the signature Liberal > campaign promise to bypass the Energy and Utilities Board and impose > up to $300 million in rate freezes on the financially challenged > utility over the next four years. > > Liberals promise 4-year freeze on NB Power rates for homeowners, > small businesses > > Analysis > Saint John and Edmundston initially left out of power rate freeze > > "Freezing power rates is a bad idea. It's interference in a regulatory > process; we've got to look at the best economic interests of New > Brunswickers. It would be foolish." > > Premier Brian Gallant has said he will seek to find "common ground" > with Green Party MLAs in an upcoming throne speech to win enough > support to keep governing — a condition the freeze does not meet. > Premier Brian Gallant hinted Thursday the Liberal platform could be > modified to incorporate elements from other parties' platforms. > (Photo: CBC) > > "We believe we can earn the votes of many in the legislature," Gallant > said Thursday. "We want to be able to consult and discuss what should > get into the speech from the throne. We are open to other ideas from > other political parties " > > No Liberal election promise attracted more scorn from Coon during the > campaign than the proposed rate freeze, a position he has not budged > on since. > > Gallant has not said the freeze is dead, but on Thursday sounded like > he might be laying the groundwork for its funeral. > > NB Power rate freeze could cost more than Liberal calculation > > NB Power rate freeze could cost utility $135M in stranded carbon costs > > NB Power faces poorest first quarter in 3 years > > "We have to be open to the other political parties platforms, which > means we have to put water in our wine for our platform as well," said > Gallant when asked if Coon's objections to the rate freeze would be > fatal to the promise. > > "We are willing to look at some of the elements we put forward in our > platform and to say maybe another day." > 'They should go forward' > > NB Power has been conspicuously silent on what it plans to do with > power rates going forward since Liberals first promised a freeze to > voters in late August. > > It has a longstanding plan to increase rates by two per cent per year > or more to retire $1 billion in debt and cope with carbon taxes if > they come. > > In each of the last two years, the utility has submitted its annual > rate application to the Energy and Utilities Board during the first > week of October, but this year it has already let that date pass with > no word of its intention. > Green Party Leader David Coon opposes the Liberal-promised power rate > freeze. (CBC) > > Coon said if NB Power is waiting to find out who will be governing the > province before applying for new rates, it shouldn't. > > "To me, they should be continuing on as required if they are looking > for a change in power rates. They should go forward," he said > Coon's history with NB Power > > Coon is an unlikely white knight to come to the utility's defence. > > He has a long history of opposing NB Power initiatives at regulatory > hearings in his former role as executive director of the New Brunswick > Conservation Council. > > In the early 2000s, he fought the utility's ill-fated, $700-million > conversion of the Coleson Cove oil-fired generating station to burn > the Venezuelan fossil fuel orimulsion. He later battled executives > over what proved to be optimistic plans to quickly and cheaply > refurbish the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station. > > David Coon fought the conversion of Coleson Cove to burn orimulsion — > one of several battles the Green Leader waged against the utility. > ((CBC)) > > Venezuela eventually refused to deliver orimulsion after the Coleson > Cove conversion was complete and the nuclear refurbishment went three > years late and $1 billion over budget, all problems Coon predicted. > > Still, Coon has long been an advocate of NB Power answering to a > professional regulator like the Energy and Utilities Board and not to > politicians, and he instantly opposed the idea of a rate freeze > imposed by a political party on that principle. > > Coon said if NB Power executives are grateful for the backing of an > old foe against political meddling in its rates, they are not saying. > > "I haven't heard from any of them yet," he said. > 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. >
NB Power could escape Liberal-promised rate freeze thanks to unlikely source
Green Leader David Coon has long history of battling NB Power initiatives
Robert Jones· CBC News·
The Liberals promised to freeze NB Power rates for four years, but that pledge could be scrapped as the party courts Green support for the upcoming throne speech. (Shane Fowler/CBC)
The likelihood of NB Power having its rates frozen for the next four years appears to have dimmed to near zero given the uncertainty over who will govern the province — even if New Brunswick Liberals manage to retain power — and the utility can thank its old nemesis, Green Party leader David Coon, for the reprieve.
"It's a non-starter," Coon said Thursday about the signature Liberal campaign promise to bypass the Energy and Utilities Board and impose up to $300 million in rate freezes on the financially challenged utility over the next four years.
"Freezing power rates is a bad idea. It's interference in a regulatory process; we've got to look at the best economic interests of New Brunswickers. It would be foolish."
Premier Brian Gallant has said he will seek to find "common ground" with Green Party MLAs in an upcoming throne speech to win enough support to keep governing — a condition the freeze does not meet.
Premier Brian Gallant hinted Thursday the Liberal platform could be modified to incorporate elements from other parties' platforms. (Photo: CBC)
"We believe we can earn the votes of many in the legislature," Gallant said Thursday. "We want to be able to consult and discuss what should get into the speech from the throne. We are open to other ideas from other political parties "
No Liberal election promise attracted more scorn from Coon during the campaign than the proposed rate freeze, a position he has not budged on since.
Gallant has not said the freeze is dead, but on Thursday sounded like he might be laying the groundwork for its funeral.
"We have to be open to the other political parties platforms, which means we have to put water in our wine for our platform as well," said Gallant when asked if Coon's objections to the rate freeze would be fatal to the promise.
"We are willing to look at some of the elements we put forward in our platform and to say maybe another day."
'They should go forward'
NB Power has been conspicuously silent on what it plans to do with power rates going forward since Liberals first promised a freeze to voters in late August.
It has a longstanding plan to increase rates by two per cent per year or more to retire $1 billion in debt and cope with carbon taxes if they come.
In each of the last two years, the utility has submitted its annual rate application to the Energy and Utilities Board during the first week of October, but this year it has already let that date pass with no word of its intention.
Green Party Leader David Coon opposes the Liberal-promised power rate freeze. (CBC)
Coon said if NB Power is waiting to find out who will be governing the province before applying for new rates, it shouldn't.
"To me, they should be continuing on as required if they are looking for a change in power rates. They should go forward," he said
Coon's history with NB Power
Coon is an unlikely white knight to come to the utility's defence.
He has a long history of opposing NB Power initiatives at regulatory hearings in his former role as executive director of the New Brunswick Conservation Council.
In the early 2000s, he fought the utility's ill-fated, $700-million conversion of the Coleson Cove oil-fired generating station to burn the Venezuelan fossil fuel orimulsion. He later battled executives over what proved to be optimistic plans to quickly and cheaply refurbish the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station.
David Coon fought the conversion of Coleson Cove to burn orimulsion — one of several battles the Green Leader waged against the utility. ((CBC))
Venezuela eventually refused to deliver orimulsion after the Coleson Cove conversion was complete and the nuclear refurbishment went three years late and $1 billion over budget, all problems Coon predicted.
Still, Coon has long been an advocate of NB Power answering to a professional regulator like the Energy and Utilities Board and not to politicians, and he instantly opposed the idea of a rate freeze imposed by a political party on that principle.
Coon said if NB Power executives are grateful for the backing of an old foe against political meddling in its rates, they are not saying.
"I haven't heard from any of them yet," he said.
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.
Methinks it is because of our little spit and chew EH Frenchie? Did ya notice the CT Yankee put back my work and a great deal more? Give me a call at(506 434 1379) and try to call me a liar. I Double Dog Dare Yaa Too. Say Hey to your wannabe lawyer buddy Vaughn for me will ya. Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos
The obvious answer is: You see my phone number why not call me and ask me direct? I ain't shy.It is not my fault you never heard of me. I ran for a Seat in Parliament twice with no hope of getting elected if you are so concerned about LNG whay not ask me what i know of the crap. Furthermore I sent you some emails to prove my integrity. Didn't so it I before I tried to post my comments in your blog? Why did you block them? My question Mikey MacDonald is who the hell are you? Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos
Watch Frenchie prove his malice shaortly by making this blog melt as he always does however As a double check I just emailed it to you and Chucky in order to prove that it once existed.
Mr Amos when I tore apart Mr Chases article I sent it to him with my full name .I don't care that you know who I am.
I may soon have a pipeline running through my back yard which is going to change the quality of life of my family.I am a citizen who got fed up with one sided journalism.There is no smoke and mirrors with me.I am calling them as I see them.If you don't like the blog .I guess all I can say is don't blog or blog away .Thats what it is there for.I don't expect everyone to agree with me.Thats democracy. If you are trying to intimidate me with your rants.think again.
No you think again Mikey Baby. USE your telephone as I challenged you to do. The simple truth should not intimadate an honest man. It was you who struck my words. If you had bothered to read my so called rants before you ignored them and then asked the world you the Hell I am, you would have noticed I agree with you and in fact know about this crap than you can dream of.
Now stayed tuned to this particular blog and watch Frenchie make it melt. He is the liar not me. He labelled me as a Hells Angel when I ran against the aptly named lawyer Rob Moore in Fundy in 2004. There is no denying that I am a vindictive son of a bitch with a long memory but even you must admit that i am fair. Although both Chucky and Indymedia erased their blogs when I protested their obvious malice, like you they erased everything I attemped to post. Ask yourself why Mikey Baby and the cry me a river again about what Irving is having crammed through your backyard. Guess who saves every word I write or what is said of me to use in litigation? In answer to your question in your own blog. Yes the people in Saint John should sue somebody in order to put a stop to the evil Empires control. Good luck finding a lawyer that ain't afraid of Irvings. You took a picture down as soon as you got a phone call. In my book that makes you a chickenshit. You talk the talk but do not walk the walk. You should have let them sue you in order to meet them in court and make you issues well known and recorded in the public record. I have been begging someone to sue me for years if they think they can prove what I say is untrue because whenever I sue them the corrupt courts meerely see it dismissed and stricken from the record. Look up Byron Prior sometime in Google and then tell me again that you Obviously you used my phone number now I know yours. Clearly you just pissed me off Lets see you apology ya bastard.
THere's no site like Charles!!! Entertaining as all hell! I have no idea what all these people are talking about, but it's more entertaining than anything on television! God bless the loonies!
Rick Hancox Executive Director c/o Suzanne Ball Senior Legal Counsel and Manon Losier General Counsel and Secretary to the New Brunswick Securities Commission 85 Charlotte Street, Suite 300 Saint John, NB E2L 2J2 RE: Securities Fraud and Public Corruption Sir, Pursuant to our conversation today please find enclosed exactly the same material sent to the eight other provincial Attorney Generals in Canada before I returned to my native land again this year. Obviously the AGs Brad Green and Tom Marshall have known the truth of my matters since the summer of 2004. They have maliciously ignored my false imprisonment in the USA for their own political benefit. The tapes enclosed are exactly the same copies that were served upon the lawyers acting for Rogers Media byway of their newsman Tom Young today. As you listen to the tape you will hear that I mentioned your Commission on air in Saint John weeks ago. Methinks you should have called me then instead of waiting for me to contact you again today. The tapes and the CD of wiretap tape #139 are served upon the Commission's lawyers Ms. Ball and Ms. Losier as in confidence as officers of the court in order that my allegations of illegal wiretaps by crooked law enforcement authorities may be finally properly investigated ASAP by ethical law enforcement authorities. Hopefully this will be done before I sue the Crown about my false imprisonment but I am not holding my breath. April 3rd is coming fast. Upon your study of these documents you will see that I have not yet given the Yankee SEC all of my evidence of Securities Fraud. However every Attorney General in Canada has been made well aware of it for quite sometime before the SEC declared it was willing to investigate the actions of the former Minister of Finance Ralph Goodale. To date not one person has responded me nor did me the simple courtesy of returning my calls or emails as you finally did today. Clearly I must complain of the Crown myself without delay before further harm is done to my Clan. Rest assured I will be calling you, Mr. Hancox and the lawyers within your Commission to testify at a trial of my matters in Federal Court in Fredericton. A very pigheaded yet ethical Maritimer knows that justice has been delayed way past too long for the benefit of public corruption and not the public trust. I will not wait for anyone on public service to act within the scope of their employment anymore. To put it simply, after our conversation today I had no faith that you were willing to do your job. Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos P.O. Box 234 Apohaqui, NB E5P 3G2
Nope the first question should be Chucky where is the computer I gave you in 2004 Yopu know the one the Anglo due from Minto took home for you. You claimed it was no good yea well I would like to have it back
The next question is does your buddy Vaughn Burnett still have the material that you promised you would serve upon Brad Green in June of 2004 for me? Has he listened to the CD which is a copy of police surveilance tape # 139? I will call hinm and you as witnesses to testify in Federal Court in Fredericton. The wannabe lawyer and you buddy Bernard Richard both admitted to me that they had the evidence before I was falsely imprisoned in the Yankee jail in 2004. So much for etyhical EH?
As far as blogging goes I do have one but do not post much. Because unlike you I feel that less is moreI do not need a blog I employ other people's blogs and only deal with the issues they raise first then take them down the path of the garden of good and evil just like I did with you years ago when they call me a liar. Check with your associate Mikey. He did not allow even my first comment. Just like your buddies in Indymedia. However they certainly allowed you to slam me. Didn't they Chucky? Just in case anyone cares about the spelling I am typing quickly because Methinks Chucky will soon erase this stuff just like he always does. However here is my phone number again call me and I will show anyone the proof of what I is true and I will even allow them to listen to a wiretap tape or two.
Your said the computer didn't work but I know that it did and I brought it all the way from Boston because you were crying poor mouth on the phone. Furthermore I have to witnesses that heard you say you would love to take on Brad Green. the Anglo dude from Minto is one. you the one you call a bigot. I was looking for you in the legislature library to witness me serving the liberal lawyers Burke and Lamrock next door at 710 Queen St when your buddy Dannyboy Bussieres and the Fredericton cops threw me out on June 24th 2004. I was not talking from the gallery as you falsely claim. I have a witness to that fact to . In fact he is a Deputy Minister you was on the floor at the time. the Commisssioners you have befriended made false allegations about me.
Charles? Friends with the commissioners?? That's funny! Sounds like you two guys should be getting along great-two peas in a pod of crazy. Nobody even knows what you guys are talking about.
We respectfully invite you to consider a Letter to the Editor, i.e.., How Free Trade undermines Maritime Economic Development. We had heard you make some representation about a U.S. company which truck out Maritime 'wealth', as a result of not having similar .provincial resources rights as Alberta, Many Maritimes would be potentially interested in such an editorial.
Merci.
Office of John Stokes
The Canadian National Newspaper internet site: http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com
Hey Mr. Stokes Thanks for the suggestion. As you should know the most glaring example of a company that has been raping the Maritimes with abandon for many years is obviously the Irving Empire. However lately there are some very nasty new players on the scene such a PCS and Corridor Resourses etc etc. I am very busy these days and I am not a journalist. You people are though yet it seems you would rather me say the awlful truth than yourselves because of some possible lawsuit EH? So be it. I will because it is not slander if one's words are true. Perhaps you should consider checking my work and then come to court sometime in order to listen to me argue all the smiling bastards. You can have much of my work in a click of the button of my mouse. But first please allow me to introduce you to the New Brunswick Securities Commission. I got a rather interesting response from them today whilst I was in Fredericton. They have ignored my concerns for almost a year but now that Bernie Lord's government is getting tipsy, it appears all the bad actors want to show me their arse just in time for me to boot it. It is Securities Commissions such as this that allow many publicly held companies such as Corridor Resources or Magna Entertainment etc to get away with many things rather than remind them of the law and on how they should conduct business in an ethical fashion. That said, these Commisssions have no say whatsoever over the Irving Empire and that is truly bad. It is a privately held corporation that knows very well the power of money and on how to pay off greedy politicians in order to get anything they want. In the nutshell of the Maritimes that is quite simply everything. It seems that I am the only Maritimer who is not afraid of the ghost of mean old KC Irving and his monoply game. It has always been hard times in the Maritimes. We lament about it all the time but our apathy and fear of the Irvings etc gives us the govenments we deserve. Print this if you wish. You are off the hook that Irving's lawyers threaten ordinary folks with. I am fearless yet never reckless with the truth. I stand by my own words and invite anyone to sue me if they think I am a liar and wish to argue me. I hate it when the chickenshits send crooked cops against me bearing false allegations in a faint hearted effort to shut me up. It does the smiling bastards no good and only serves to make matters worse. Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos
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 Everybody received hard copy in hand to their offices except of course what the UPS dudes are bringing to Paul Shuttle and Andre Arthur. Obviously Yankees ain't as quick as me even when I give them two days head start. I have signatures and pictures to prove that all the New Brunswickers named below got their material today as I promised last week except for the sneaky Conflict of Interest Commmissioner Mr. Patrick who hides behind locked doors. He just sent the Sergeant at Arms who tried to run me off again. However the Frenchman Danny Boy Bussieres had to accept my material on behalf of the Commissioner and our Queen whom he represents no matter how much he wishes to ban me from the Legislature. He didn't sign anything but what transpired between us was witnessed by a man who was not involved. I gave the crooked Quebecer hard copy in hand. Somebody speaking for the Queen should answer me ASAP. EH? If Danny Boy wishes to attempt to ban me from the Legislature again he really should put it in writng. EH? Perhaps he should clearly state the reasons behind his malice and who is accusing me of what. Otherwise I will ignore him until we meet in court. Then I will have many questions for him on the public record. I repeat, I have never threatened or harassed anyone. The next time he and I meet I hope to have many witnesses watching our exchange of words instead of just one man.The Sergeant at Arms Danny Boy Brouseirres lake most lawyers and politicians is a liar. I will leave you all to wonder who receives this email next but lets just say I was very correct about my assessment of the Public Utilities Board and the New Brunswick Securoties Commission. corrupt Maritimers act just like crookedYankees. After all most of them are lawyers and their brotherhood practices their malice across borders all day long every day. The thing is can they trust each other when the politiking gets down and dirty. Methinks there is no honour amongst theives no matter how powerful they are. What say you? I know your answer already and that only time will tell the tale to prove what I say is true. Until then I will simply remain a man of my word and hope for justice to prevail. It is your job to uphold the Public Trust not mine. Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos
Bernard Shapiro Ethics Commissioner C/o Andre Arthur MP 325 de l'Eglise Donnacona, Québec G3M 2A2
Jean T. Fournier Senate Ethics Officer C/o Senator Noel Kinsella and Michael Comeau Holy Cross House Rm. 206 St. Thomas University Fredericton NB
Kevin Lynch Clerkc/o Paul Shuttle Director of Legal Operations Privy Council Office 59 Sparks Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0A3
David Gourdeau Commissioner for FederalJudicial Affairs c/o Willa Doyle District Administrator Suite 100 82 Westmorland Street Fredericton, NB E3B 3L3
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 and or Parliamentarians in order that it may be investigated byway of my suing the Crown. While Stevey Boy Harper is busy in New Brunswick today trying hard to shore up the shaky government of his little buddy, Bernie Lord with long delayed federal tax dollars. I am polishing off all my promises to crooked lawyers in the hope that the very corrupt House crumbles ASAP. 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 PO Box 234 Apohaqui, NB. E5P 3G2
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David Amos is mentally ill folks. just ignore him and maybe he will go away. he is a criminal and a liar. he rants and raves like a lunatic. he makes charlie seem like a choir boy. he is one sick s.o.b.
Well I must say I am not surprised. I am in fact delighted to introduce some folks in the Martimes to the man most responsible for my false imprisonment in the USA. I have been fishing for him to make his usual appearance within a Blog. If one speaks of the devil long enough he is sure to appear. EH Chucky? This crook's name is Deputy Dog Robert F. O'Meara of the Norfolk County sheriffs Dept. A bigger snake in Massachusetts there never was. Right now it is suppertime and I ain't goona let it grow cool worrying about what he may say of me but rest assured I will relish and save every word of it. Stay tuned and I will post many of his words that have been deleted from many other blogs in order to protect him and the crooks who have covered up his many crimes. At least I have a name EH Deputy Dog? Even on the internet you use girlfriend's Wicked Wanda Willard's ID
Now that I finally see one vote of confidence.It is time to stress Chucky's words to the max. Lets see if this post stands the test of time. I am posting something that only a few politicians have seen. Whereas Chucky's buddy Danny Boy Brussieres had banned me from the Legislature and Chucky did not have the balls to deliver the material to Brad Green I and my son, Max delivered in hand the matereial to both of the following dudes offices in Moncton right after Canada Day and Paul Martin's boat had been caught in Sidney with more coke than coal on board. We then went home to where I was raised in Dorchester Nb and I laughed at the thought of Charles LeBlanc as I drove through his hometown. If he had had the sand to deliver this letter and the material I had given him to Brad when he promised to so. He would be my hero, Bernie Lord's government would have fallen, my adversary Deputy Dog Robert F. O'Meara would have gone to jail instead of me and most importantly my little Clan would be still in their home today. If Brad Green Bernie Lord and Franky Boy McKenna had acted with integrity I would not have to sue the Crown in order to have a fraudulent warrant for my arrest revoked in the USA. Anyone should feel free to print or email the text of this letter with abandon simply because Brad Green answered it. I can email anyone a copy of his response in a tif file. In fact I will email one to Frenchie and Deputy Dog Robert F. O'Meara, Brad Green and his buddies first first. You will know that Chucky got it first and can never play dumb no more. I will forward it on to anyone who asks and they can decide you is crazy and who is not and who is a liar and who is not. My email address is motomaniac_02186 at yahoo.com and my phone number is 506 434 1379 I do not call people collect as Chucky does.
July 1st, 2004
Brad Green c/oBernard Lord 132 Mill Road Moncton, NB. E1A 4A5
Frank McKenna c/o McInnis Cooper 655 Main St. Moncton NB E1C 8T6 RE: Corruption Hey Fellas, Please find enclosed exactly the same material served upon Paul Zed before he met Paul Martin at the airport last weekend. The copy of wiretap tape numbered 139 is served upon you in confidence as officers of the court in order that it may be properly investigated. As you review the material it should be painfully obvious to you why I have no respect for your chosen profession of lawyer/politician. I must say that both Mr. Lord and Mr. McKenna were clever to keep some distance from the recent federal election but I don’t think it was very wise for Mr. Lord to have me expelled from the Legislature Building for political reasons rather than legal reasons. I have done as the Sargent at Arms ordered on June 24th and stayed away from the Legislature and waited for it to take its summer break so that no more bullshit about me can be said. I have now delivered this material to your constituency office Mr. Lord so that you may deal with this at a personal level with Mr. Green. I will complain of you Mr. Lord and your friends Mr. Green, Mr. Armstrong and Mr. Burke to court along with the Fredericton Police Dept. and the Sargent at Arms if I do not receive a satisfactory response very quickly and convince me of your ethics and stand with me. I have not heard from the Fredericton Police Dept. thus I suspect that Corporal Ross has done as he threatened and thrown this material in the trash for the benefit of his fellow police officer, Mr. LeBlanc. Mr. Green may I suggest that you study every word and listen to the CD closely and prepare to argue every word if you disagree with the fact that a fellow Canadian has the right to seek justice and relief for the many wrongs practiced against him. What would you do if the Men in Black had appeared at your door and were willing to take you away to Cuba without counsel because of false allegations were made against you in order to stop you from defending your family’s interests? As you can see I have come home to protest these actions in a political and legal fashion. I have done only as the Solicitor General Anne McLellan has suggested and given the evidence to those who claim to have jurisdiction over me. You speak for the Sargent at Arms and the Fredericton Police. They dropped the ball the instant they pulled me outside the building for no reason. They claimed jurisdiction but refused to investigate. I have seen it reported that I had tried to speak from the gallery and the Sargent at Arms falsely claimed that I had attempted to serve someone within the legislature building. Both statements are untrue. I left materials at the door in the custody of the security guard as he requested. I was only looking to find Charles Leblanc in order that he may witness me delivering the enclosed materials to T.J. Burke’s office. This was necessary for me to do because as you know most lawyers are reckless with the truth. I will let your fellow politician/lawyer. Peter McKay, explain to you the reason why that is. However it was no longer necessary to require a witness because the Sargent at Arms and the Fredericton Police had watched me go into 710 Queen St and come out without the material they had just refused after harassing me. They are my witnesses as you are now. As for you, Mr. McKenna, I expect you and your fellow lawyers at McInnes Cooper to uphold the law and conduct yourselves in a professional manner according to the rules that allow you to practice law for a fee. Don’t you think you should act ethically rather quickly and report your newfound knowledge of crime? At the very least I have made you witnesses to my complaints and rest assured I will be asking you many questions in court if the RCMP doesn’t ask you first. Mr. McKenna, I read your recent speech about how you likened the actions of federal political leaders to various purebred dogs. I must add my two bits worth to your comments. Those fancy dogs don’t hunt like the mangy old mutt that is the guard dog of my little Clan. I don’t bark but I am quick to bite. If you turn around you will see me sniffing at your heels. If any lawyer makes one false move, I make every effort to rip his nuts off. Check my work before you call me a liar. I have followed the money home to the Maritimes. I find that you and many other liberals have been in pursuit of filthy lucre every bit as much as Mr. Mulroney, Mr. Crosbie and their many cohorts. The Maritime Provinces have suffered the most from the many years of political abuse by greedy lawyers and their bosses. Mr. Harper called Maritimers defeatists but he failed to say who was beating us up. Obviously it was federal politicians on both sides of the fence. The last thing Mr. Martin is to me is noble. In my opinion he is a fine example of a very crooked lawyer aspiring to be an adept politician like his daddy. I view your speech about dogs simply as a little dog licking a big dog’s nuts in a stylish way in order to win the Alfa male’s favor and someday win his position amongst a pack of political thieves. Feel free to argue me after you explain to me real slow how Cardinal Law was legally removed from my complaint and what right the Men in Black had to try to take me away because I am exposing the awful truth about bad acting bankers and Feds. Please don’t pretend that you guys don’t know a few very well heeled Yankees that have helped you along in your own personal pursuit of happiness. Mr. Tobin got a great job working for an interesting Conservative. Eh? Should Belinda listen to Mr. Mulroney and Mr. Harper or to her new CEO? What do you think? How much time do you think I may have left on the planet for asking such questions as this? What do you think may cause my demise? In the end I will rest assured that someday my ghost will be very vindictive against lawyers that failed to uphold the law. At this point in time it would be very easy for some lawyer to act ethically and become the people’s political hero. What say you? Can you trust your legal and political friends to not turncoat and stand with me? Interesting dilemma, eh?
Cya’ll in Court:) David R. Amos 153 Alvin Ave. Milton. MA. 02186
Certificate of Service
I, David R. Amos on July 2, 2004, I served the enclosed materials in hand to the offices of Frank McKenna at McInnis Cooper 655 Main St. Moncton NB E1C 8T6 and Bernard Lord at 132 Mill Road. Moncton, NB.E1A 4A5
yeah it's not pretty. it's like a car wreck that just keeps happening. kinda scary knowing he is in our back yard again. Mr.Amos you need professional help man. i can give you some numbers. you don't have to live with your paranoia. there is help if you seek it.
Before I can even begin to believe that you are for real Why not crawl out of cyber space and into the real world. It stars by proving to all that you have a name. Cheap shots under Anoymous in Chucky's ain't worth squat to me unless you are man enough to look me in the eye and stand by your words. I do What say you got a name and a set of balls or just a mouth like Chucky?
Only the crooks are scared that I am back in the Maritimers. A lot of ordinary folks like me are laughing at how I am poking holes in their stuffed shirts. This letter is wickedly funny, Both Adrienne Clarkson and Herménégilde Chiasson answered this one after my wife and I and a lawyer who wanted Rob Moore's seat in parliament visited the Police Commission in New Brunswick. Bev Harrison would not answer this letter or even return my calles even though he has represented me from my spot on the hill since I landed home last year. His assistants have affirmed to me several times that they received it. I am demanding an answer from Tanker now tha old Bev's assistant Bill Oliver refused to call me back for the last time on Friday. I do not care what the tough talking Danny Boy Bussieres says only the Speaker can authorize the Sergeant at Arms to ban a man from the legislature. Besides that the Governor General his ultimate boss told me I was doing the right thing before I returned to the USA and into Deputy Dog's buddy's jail. I wiil put this letter and the responses in the same email to Chucky and Deputy Dog
August 24th, 2004
Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, Herménégilde Chiasson Old GovernmentHouse 51 Woodstock Road Fredericton, NB E3B 9L8 Phone (506) 453-2505 Fax (506) 444-5280
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Bev Harrison Constituency Office: Hampton-Belleisle Room: Unit 4, 46 Keirstead Avenue Hampton, NB E5N 5A4 Phone (506) 832-6464 Fax (506) 832-6466 RE: Corruption Sirs, Please find enclosed exactly the same material served upon Premier Lord and Frank McKenna on the day after Canada Day and a copy of Brad Green’s response. I have also enclosed a letter to Senator Joe Day that was to be forwarded to the Arar Commission. The copy of wiretap tape numbered 139 is served upon you in confidence as the Queen’s representatives of in order that it may be properly investigated. I ask New Brunswick’s Lieutenant-Governor of, Herménégilde Chiasson to forward this material to the Governor General of Canada. I have already emailed her notice to expect this material and I will email her the text of this letter as well. Whereas the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick stands adjourned until Tuesday, December 14, 2004, at 1 o'clock p.m, perhaps you fellas can find a little time to answer me before I sue the Queen in the USA. My questions are as follows: Why did Sergeant-at-Arms, Dan Bussieres and the Fredericton Police Dept. ask me to step outside the Legislature Building and then forever ban me from re-entering the premises on June 24th, 2004? What will you do with your newfound knowledge of crime? It is only fair that I ask these questions. After all I am a Canadian Citizen and I do have the right to ask any question to those who represent me. Whether they are born to the position or elected or appointed or merely hired, they all must uphold the law and the public trust. The Queen of Canada, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, is the official Head of State and is represented in New Brunswick by the Lieutenant-Governor. Therefore, the Lieutenant-Governor is the nominal Head of State at the provincial level, empowered with the responsibility of representing the Queen in the province. Thus I have asked him the aforesaid questions before I leave the jurisdiction of New Brunswick. The Ombudsman, Bernard Richard told me to take my matter up the Speaker of the House and thus far Mr. Harrison has ignored my phone calls and emails. Bev Harrison did have the opportunity to ask me any question he wished before he decided not to vote for me. It seems he would rather have the lawyer, Rob Moore speak for him in Parliament. I would not be surprised to learn that Bev Harrison was the same man I had spoken to months ago or that he had attended the debate in Hampton. I have no doubt that Mr Harrison knows exactly who I am and why I was in Fredericton that day. I am not a rebel just because I make inquiries and demand that people in public service uphold the law. The problem is that on June 24th I was a candidate for the 38th Parliament. I was busy challenging those still in public service such as John Herron to do their jobs and uphold the law. I was merely in the legislative building looking for the Frenchman Charles Leblanc so he could witness me serve this material upon the lawyer, T J Burke next door. I had made certain that many politicians were made well aware of my concerns and allegations before coming home to run for a seat in the next Parliament. The local liberal, Leroy Armstrong was willing to debate me so I was giving this material to his liberal lawyer friends to review. Dan Bussieres offended me for political reasons not legal reasons. The Speaker of the House should not have allowed the Sergeant’s actions or at least responded to my inquiry. These must be irrefutable facts because after almost two months of asking everyone imaginable about the actions of the Sergeant-at-Arms, no one would even tell me his name let alone explain his actions, It appears that the Government of Canada would rather assist corrupt politicians within a country that had rebelled against the Queen than assist one of her subjects to escape their harassment. I must return to the USA because I have been summoned to court to argue more false allegations made against me. Whereas my country is willing to throw me back into Ashcroft’s clutches, I must complain of the Crown. It seems the Yankees may have been right long ago when they refused to pay taxes without proper representation. Perhaps Canada should follow suit. We all know what has been said about the evils of longstanding governments. What say you sirs? Am I speaking sedition or common sense? I have heard that Louis Riel once said that the French would take over Canada without firing a shot. Now many of the French wish to separate. Maybe true Canadians can reunite our country in the same fashion. There is no need of the cartridge box as long as we properly employ the soap box and ballot box. The tools of bloodless revolutions are the laws of the land. They are in the hands of people begging us for our vote every so often. Canada does not need to pay homage to a Queen who will not check the work of the people representing her and us. We need a new form of government. I agree with Louis Riel’s thinking when he proclaimed that the Metis were “loyal subjects of Her Majesty the Queen of England’. If we are rebels, we are rebels against the Company that sold us” Although he was labelled a rebel, Louis Riel was a Canadian patriot who did stop Western Canada from being absorbed by the USA. He was also elected to Parliament twice. He would abhor NFTA as much as I. The words in Riel’s diary are well worth heeding. “O my God! Save me from the misfortune of getting involved with the United States. Let the United States protect us indirectly, spontaneously, through an act of Providence, but not through any commitment or agreement on our part.” Riel stated in his diary this as well: “God revealed to me that the government of the United States is going to become extraordinarily powerful.”
Cya’ll in Court:) David R. Amos 153 Alvin Ave. Milton. MA. 02186
This letter really put Lizzy Weir's panties in a knot. Chucky's buddy Bernie Richard answered me immediately but she never did. When I got out of jail and jumped bail in the USA one year later and started demanding answers from the NDP she was not long taking a job from Bernie Lord and leaving her party in the toilet. Bernie Richard di the same thing years ago to save Lord nasty little minority. The problem is the liberals are no better ask the not so good Dr. Doherty if he wishes to argue me in public about it. In order to argue him and the pretty woman Bernie Lord had his eyes on I tried to run in Bernie's snap election in Saint John Harbour because in my opinion I caused Lizzy to quit and run off. I knew I would never be elected but the decent folks who always voted NDP deserved to know the score and my opinion of the LNG scene is worth listening to. However the not so non partison Anne Hollies and her yo yo underling Paddy Addison illegally refused me for the benefit of Bernie Lord.The Irvings and the Spanish dudes who have lost their popularity in other countries want to put such a dangerous thing right int the damned harbour and the crooked Mayor suppots it? What planet is he from I must ask. People with no names call me crazy. Well in retort I say if the politicians are sane then I am glad I am nuts. However before they put me away anyone can have this letter and Bernie Richard's very dumb answer. I would not be surprised if this blog turns into a pumpkin by midnight EH Chucky? However if you leave it up I will post sometime a very wicked Cinderella Affadavit by Newfy Johnny Crosbie's law firm of Patterson Palmer that will explain why the liberal President in NB Greg Byrne has now gone solo.
August 24th, 2004
NDP Leader Elizabeth Weir Constituency Office 39 King Square North Saint John, NB E2L 1E6
Bernard Richard Office of the Ombudsman 767 Brunswick Street Fredericton, NB E3B 1H8
Re: Corruption
Sir and Madam, Please find enclosed exactly the same material served upon New Brunswick’s Lieutenant-Governor, Hermenegilde Chiasson and many others today. The copy of wiretap tape numbered 139 is served upon you in confidence as officers of the court in order that it may be properly investigated. There is no need to be long winded with you two people. I can prove contact with each of you and your associates many times. I know that you are expecting this material and why I am providing it to you for your review. Not only will I be mentioning your names today to the Police Commission but your names can be found in various places within my documents. I feel that you are entitled to review the material and I am entitled to expect you to act ethically and with integrity as would befit an officer of the court. What you will do with your newfound knowledge of crime? Please send your response to this letter to the address below. I can no longer linger in New Brunswick and wait for politicians to find the time to uphold the Public Trust.
Cya’ll in Court:) David R, Amos 153 Alvin Ave. Milton, MA. 02186
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I, David R. Amos, of 153 Alvin Ave. Milton, MA. on August 25th, 2004, I delivered the enclosed material to the Office of the Ombudsman, Bernard Richard at 767 Brunswick Street, Fredericton, NB E3B 1H8. Whereas the Provincial office building at 710 Queen St. is no longer assessable to the public, I will provide these documents to Elizabeth Weir’s Constituency Office at 39 King Square North Saint John, NB E2L 1E6 as soon as possible.
One no named dude lamented that I go on and on and I admit that that is true. On ther other hand earlier another fella ask for more and lamented that I was too slow posting. Rest assured I know most Maritimers do not give a damn about legal crap or politics. I fit in that boat as well it is just that the smiling bastards attacked me and my little clan and I must defend myself the best way I know how. I figure fire with fire so to speak so I went fiercely political and did not care about being elected. I just wanted to make my issues public for the benefit of my family first and foremost and the awful truth only hurts crooks. Most folks would find this crap boring yet lawyers and politicians like old women are gossips big time. They climb to the top pulling on the balls of others to get there. Trust that many would find this an interesting read. There is a lot to tell after being blocked in most places for years and I am trying hard to stay local to Fredericton only simply because that is the audience the Chucky draws. If the dude don't like to read my stuff click to another of Chucky's mindless blogs and look a pictures that take a long time to look at in dial up. For ethical lawyers (if there is such athing) benefit here is something that will help explain the news today in a very funny light. McAllister answered me but Miller did not. Miller's (David Hache's too)law firm is merging with the rest of Patterson Palmer's outfit so it appears I have now crossed paths with the same bunch of bastards at least four times in various matters. Merging makes a firm more powerful but it also opens the door to the need to defend the bad actions of your many partners. Everybody knows you can't trust lawyer the that Patterson and palmer in Halifax went with Franky Boy McKenna's buddies i all to funny to me. The dudes in Turo are the only smart ones in the bunch. They said to hell with them all. Maybe I will give then a call. If you cannnot find an honest lawyer your might as well hire the wisest one EH? As i said Byron Priors complaint will prove to the Maritimes why. Look him up on the web or in front of Parliament next week.
August 24th, 2004
Gary A. Miller 371 Queen St. Suite 400, Fredericton, NB E3B 4Y9
George A. McAllister 212 Queen St. Fredericton, NB E3B 1A8
RE: Corruption Sirs, Please find enclosed exactly the same material served upon New Brunswick’s Lieutenant-Governor Hermenegilde Chiasson and many others. The copy of wiretap tape numbered 139 is served upon you in confidence as officers of the court in order that it may be properly investigated. Months ago I contacted you, Mr. McAllister by phone and informed you that I wholeheartedly agreed with your standing that Insurance companies were making the consumers cover their losses in the stock market. Brad Green and Premier Lord played Ms. Weir and the Commission like a fiddle and were merely doing their part to assist the interests of the Insurance Companies at the expense of the public trust. Although you were happy to hear that your opinions had been read and understood, you definitely did not want my evidence supporting your claims. Pursuant to my last statement to you, Mr. McAllister I have now proved to you that I am a man of my word and I now expect you to obey the Code of Conduct that you must obey in order to practice law for a fee. Mr. Miller, the same holds true for you. Within these documents you will find the name of a lawyer you know very well, David Lutz. I find this man to be a very poor example of an officer of the court and I don’t mind telling the world my opinion of him. Please read my letter to him and let me know as to whether or not you stand with him and against me. If anyone were to ask me, Mr. Lutz is a man in need of legal aid and has no right to charge others for his malicious assistance. Will you spring to his defence when I file a complaint against him? Whether you fellas like it or not I have now made you witnesses to my sad complaints before I returned to the USA. If I survive the malicious prosecution that I am looking forward to in Boston next month, I will return to litigate in New Brunswick. There is no middle ground for any lawyer to stand on in this battle within two corrupt justice systems. All that I have demanded from any lawyer is simple ethical conduct. Why is that too much to ask for? I have read your various spit and chews with Brad Green and I must admit I find them to be quite comical from my position as a layman in the catbird seat. Rest assured that I will endeavour to make my opinions widely known. Sue me if you wish. In fact I double dog dare ya to. Bring this material to court so that the jury can have something to read while we argue truth, justice and the Maritimes kowtowing to the American Way. Cya’ll in Court:) David R, Amos 153 Alvin Ave. Milton, MA. 02186
Even if you do delete it Chucky you know for a fact that I already saved it. With luck I will be showing you a printed copy of it in court someday. I will ask you many questions in public not private emails about what the hell you know about this crap. Why you lied about me called me names and didn't give Brad Green my material as you promised spoke volumes to me about your integrity. Don't even try to argue me about my manners. I know how to behave myself it is you who does not.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR TRIAL DIVISION
BETWEEN: WILLIAM MATTHEWS PLAINTIFF AND: BYRON PRIOR DEFENDANT
AND BETWEEN: BYRON PRIOR DEFENDANT/PLAINTIFF BY COUNTERCLAIM
AND: WILLIAM MATTHEWS PLAINTIFF/FIRST DEFENDANT BY COUNTERCLAIM
AND: T. ALEX HICKMAN SECOND DEFENDANT BY COUNTERCLAIM
AND: THOMAS MARSHALL THIRD DEFENDANT BY COUNTERCLAIM
AND: DANNY WILLIAMS FOURTH DEFENDANT BY COUNTERCLAIM
AND: EDWARD M. ROBERTS FIFTH DEFENDANT BY COUNTERCLAIM
AND: JOHN CROSBIE SIXTH DEFENDANT BY COUNTERCLAIM
AND: PATTERSON PALMER SEVENTH DEFENDANT BY COUNTERCLAIM SUMMARY OF CURRENT DOCUMENTCourt File Number(s):2005 01 T 0010Date of Filing of Document:25 January 2005Name of Filing Party or Person:Stephen J. MayApplication to which Document being filed relates:Amended Application of the Plaintiff/Defendant by Counterclaim to maintain an Order restricting publication, to strike portions of the Statement of Defence, strike the Counterclaim in it’s entirety, and to refer this proceeding to case management.Statement of purpose in filing:To maintain an Order restricting publication, to strike portions of the Statement of Defence, strike the Counterclaim in its entirety and refer this proceeding to case management. A F F I D A V I T
I, Stephen J. May, of the City of St. John’s, in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Barrister and Solicitor, make oath and say as follows:
THAT I am a Partner in the St. John’s office of PATTERSON PALMER solicitors for William Matthews, the Member of Parliament for Random-Burin-St. George’s in the Parliament of Canada.
THAT Mr. Matthews originally retained Mr. Edward Roberts, Q.C. on or about 30 April 2002 after Mr. Byron Prior, the Defendant/Plaintiff by Counterclaim, had made allegations against Mr. Matthews in a publication called “My Inheritance - The truth - Not Fiction: A Town with a Secret”. In that publication, the allegation was made that Mr. Matthews had had sex with a girl who had been prostituted by her mother. That girl was alleged to have been Mr. Prior’s sister.
THAT upon being retained, Mr. Edward Roberts wrote a letter to Mr. Prior. That letter to Mr. Prior is attached as Exhibit “1" to my Affidavit.
THAT subsequent to Mr. Roberts’ letter to Mr. Prior, Mr. Roberts received a 1 May 2002 e-mail from Mr. Prior. That e-mail is attached as Exhibit “2".
THAT subsequent to Mr. Roberts receipt of the e-mail, Mr. Prior swore an Affidavit acknowledging that what had been said in that publication was false. That Affidavit is attached as Exhibit “3" to my Affidavit. Following Mr. Roberts’ receipt of that Affidavit, Mr. Matthews advised that he was satisfied not to pursue the matter any further and our firm closed our file.
THAT on or about 25 October 2004, I was retained by Mr. Matthews following his gaining knowledge that a web site, made a series of allegations against him relating to my having sex with a girl of approximately 12 years old through to an approximate age of 15 years old. It also accused him of being a father of one of her children and accused him of having raped that girl. Upon checking the web site I saw that Byron Prior, the Defendant, had been identified as the author of the material on the site.
THAT Mr. Matthews instructed me to write Mr. Prior, to remind him of the fact that the allegations had been admitted to being false through a 16 May 2002 Affidavit to advise him of Mr. Matthews’ intentions to commence legal proceedings if the comments were not removed from the web site. A copy of my letter to Mr. Prior is attached as Exhibit “4" to this Affidavit.
THAT I attach as Exhibit “5" a transcript from a 5 November 2004 voicemail left by David Amos, identified in the voicemail as a friend of Mr. Prior.
THAT I attach as Exhibit “6" a portion of a 6 November 2004 e-mail from Mr. Amos.
THAT until I received his voicemail and e-mail, I had never heard of Mr. Amos.
THAT Mr. Amos has continued to send me e-mail since his 5 November e-mail. Including his 6 November 2004 e-mail, I have received a total of 15 e-mails as of 23 January 2005. All do not address Mr. Matthews’ claim or my involvement as Mr. Matthews’ solicitor. I attach as Exhibit “7" a portion of a 12 January 2005 e-mail that Mr. Amos sent to me but originally came to my attention through Ms. Lois Skanes whose firm had received a copy. This e-mail followed the service of the Statement of Claim on 11 January 2005 on Mr. Prior. I also attach as Exhibit “8" a copy of a 19 January 2005 e-mail from Mr. Amos.
THAT I attach as Exhibit “9" a copy of a 22 November 2004 letter addressed to me from Edward Roberts, the Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador covering a 2 September 2004 letter from Mr. Amos addressed to John Crosbie, Edward Roberts, in his capacity as Lieutenant Governor, Danny Williams, in his capacity as Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, and Brian F. Furey, President of the Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador. I requested a copy of this letter from Government House after asking Mr. Roberts if he had received any correspondence from Mr. Amos during his previous representation of Mr. Matthews. He advised me that he received a letter since becoming Lieutenant Governor, portions of which involved his representation of Mr. Matthews. Mr. Roberts’ letter also covered his reply to Mr. Amos.
THAT I attach as Exhibit “10" an e-mail from Mr. Amos received on Sunday, 23 January 2005.
THAT I swear this Affidavit in support of the Application to strike Mr. Prior’s counterclaim.
SWORN to before me at St. John’s, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador this 24th day of January, 2005.
Signed by Della Hart STEPHEN J. MAY Signature STAMP DELLA HART A Commissioner for Oaths in and for the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. My commission expires on December 31, 2009.
On behalf of Ms. McLellan I would like to thank you for your email message concerning the current federal election. I regret that the volume of messages prevented me from responding sooner.
Your message has been brought to Ms. McLellan`s attention, as she is always pleased to receive comments, both positive and negative.
Again, thank you for bringing this matter to Ms. McLellan`s attention.
Sincerely, Kirsten Odynski Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
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
From: “Steve Erickson” To: motomaniac Subject: from Steve Erickson from Masschusetts Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:26:32 +0000
Mr. David Amos, we talked about 2 years ago. My cell that we talked on is [Boston area code cellphone # snipped]
Much has happened good for me since then.
Are you in Canada, in Parliment, or are you still in the Boston area?
-Steve Erickson
Does this stuff answer your question Stevey Baby? I read what you said of me within your long winded Blogs. I told you the truth years ago and now I will tell you a little bit more. To me you are just another greedy sneaky Yankee now. But to be fair to you I must admit that we have our share of bull___ing bloggers and crooked politicians in the Maritimes as well One of them is a Frenchie named Charlie Leblanc and another named Bernie Lord. Please allow me to introduce them and some of their cohorts to you. Their emails are wittin and his Blog and yours is below. How dare you bastards imply that I am a one percenter in order to promote yourselves.
This is obvious Bull__ supported by Charlie Leblanc for his old buddy the malevolent Sergreant at Arms Danny Boy Bussieres were talking two years ago. Now that he has lost his trusted staus he files a human rights compalint after he laughed at my false imprisonment in a Yankee jail?
Original article is at http://maritimes.indymedia.org/news/2004/06/7980.php Print comments. IS ELVY ROBICHAID SEEING THE LIGHT???? by Charles LeBlanc Friday, Jun. 25, 2004 at 10:56 AM Fredericton
updates from Charles
I got a few late stories that I want to bring up. They had a protest at the Legislature on Wednesday and I would say about 400 people showed up. I made my own little investigation in the crowd and I soon found out that many people from the Northern Part of the Province knew about my protest. These Acadians read about my protest in L’Acadie Nouvelle! A few weeks earlier, I found out that the English Population from the Miramichi area didn’t know about my fight so this shows me that it’s so important to have the media covering your issues. During the protest, I felt like I was in a police state. There were cops are over the place. I approached three of them and said - My God? We need violence, bricks going through windows, people being shot and tear gas!!! This is the only way that the Government will listen. One cop said - If I have to use my gun? I know exactly where my first bullet is going to go!! Pretty scary…lol…. Speaking of violence? That guy from the Sackville area who went to Toronto with his vehicle full of guns! Very scary Stuff!!! What did I tell you people in the past? Someone is going to crack up one of these days and I know for a fact the area targeted is going to be the Legislature.
There’s always undercovers cops around but only when the House is in session. As God as my witness I hope nothing happens but it’s just a matter of time till someone is push over the edge. I guess a guy name David Amos was shown the door yesterday at the Legislature. This guy is running as an Independent candidate in the riding of Fundy Royal. I met the guy over the net and he has a beef with our political bureaucrats. I admire people fighting for what they believe in but you can’t get carried away. I guess in this case? He wanted to speak from the Gallery and that’s a big faux pas!
After Stevey Boy Harper gets sworn in I will call Washington to see if Spectre got the wiretap tapes and then start forwarding this email everywhere. In an ethical effort to impeach Bush and his lapdog Harper myself. What did Lamrock, Burke, Murphy, McGuinley and you think of the copy of # 139? Scared the shit out of you EH? Whereas you little local liberal lawyers would not help me unseat Premier Lord and stop Stevey Boy Harper in h9s tracks i will through in the same lawsuits with him. It is hard to get good help these days. The word integrity does not fit in the job discription of a lawyer or a Parliamentian. EH? The fact that Emerson just crossed the floor and the Dastardly Dave Dingwall story broke yesterday kinda sends your wicked little party down the tubes EH? From my point of view it looks good on you dudes. Say Hey to Franky Boy McKenna for me will ya? I hope to argue you all very soon in court. Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos
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 wiretap 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
David Amos wrote
To Whom it may concern I know Petey Baby MacKay don't love me so there is no sense in wasting my dime calling him. Hell he has refused to answer my letters or call me back even after Belinda Baby dumped him, so I do not expect him to do the right thing as Minister of Foreign Affairs other than to accept nasty little Franky Boy McKenna's resignation ASAP. Tell me is Franky Boy entitled to severance pay like his fellow Malawyer ritime buddy Dingwall is? Whereas the liberals Wayne Easter and Landslide Annie refused to protect my dumb arse over the years in their capacity as Solicitor General/Minister of Public Safety. I guess I should be fair and allow it Mr. Day's to try to act ethically on my behalf for a day or so, before I sue the Crown. EH? Rest assured that I ain't holding my breath waiting for Mr. Day to call me back. Like many of the rest of you Stockwell Day has known of my troubles ever since Harper was elected as his latest boss in 2004 when he sat in the 37th Parliament In the meantime in answer to Andrew Kyrstal's very dumb question on the radio just now.,methinks I should inform the NHL dudes that are being prosecuted by corrupt Yankees how I can help them.I know Andrew Kystral and all the Rogers dudes never will. What the New Jersey Dudes are up to right now is merely a case of the big bad pot calling a minor little kettle black to me and Andrew Kyrtal knows it too. Just like the Lord Conrad Black versus FitzGerald matter in Chicago everybody is trying to play dumb and it was to funny that Peter C. Newman apologized after I sent his lawyers some of my stuff.. Tell me something honestly if any you can find it in your soul to do so. Do you really think that the Conservatives thought that I didn't notice that Mulroney's right hand man Dereck Burney set up your Cabinet or that Michael Fortier was not a partner in his law firm? Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos
As a little reward Frenchie Here is the reason Franky Boy McKenna, Allan Rock, John Manley, and Brian Tobin will not run for leader of the liberal party. Call them and ask them or the FBI to sse if they wish to call me a liar. Better yet call the Yankee Senators Arlen Spevter or Russ Feingold. Nitey night Chucky. The clock clicked past midnight and the blog has not turned into a pumpkin yet. I am impressed with your your Newfound sense of integrity but quit the wise cracks and try to say something about this crap I have posted that really matters. Will ya? A polite argument in public in front of many witnesses would be nice.
May 11th, 2005
Ambassador: H.E. Mr. Allan Rock One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza 885 Second Avenue , 14th Floor New York , NY 10017
Ambassador Franky McKenna Canadian Embassy 501 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20001
Assistant Director Louis M. Reigel III Federal Bureau of Investigation J. Edgar Hoover Building 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
Special Agent David Price FBI Minneapolis Suite 1100 111 Washington Avenue, South Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401-2176
RE: Rampant Public Corruption in Canada and the USA Hey, Now that Paul Martin has finally set the date for his confidence vote, methinks its time to pack my bags and head for home. I must raise some serious political hell in the Maritimes before the Commonwealth of Massachusetts does its worst to bankrupt my wife and put my kids on the street before I can expose the rampant public corruption. This is also a very good day to prove within the USA that we are well aware of each other and of my concerns and allegations in order to stress test the integrity of the US Mail. It and the Canada Post have failed me big time in recent years particularly just before the Yankees falsely imprisoned me last year for the benefit of George W. Bush, John Kerry and Paul Martin to name a few. I have no doubt whatsoever each of you dudes know more about me than I do about you. However that does not mean that I have not studied each of you a lot more than the ordinary layman. Just so we are clear, I have no respect for any of you. I know that all of you are as crooked as Chief Mearn, his cops and the lawyers who are coming into our home tomorrow without a warrant. This mail should prove your malice and willingness to support crime and public corruption. Pursuant to my many emails, phone calls and faxes etc., you will find enclosed as promised exactly the same material I served upon the Solicitor Generals Teddy Olson and landslide Annie McLellan last year before I ran for Parliament last year. The CD of the copy of wiretap tape # 139 is served upon you as officers of the court and FBI Agents in order that it may be properly investigated. Franky got this stuff and more last year. The FBI got even more the year before. Perhaps they should go find the original tapes that the Suffolk County District Attorney and Special Agent in Charge Ken Kaiser have been playing dumb about for far too long. This material was good enough to impeach George W. Bush last year and cause many people to quit or lose their jobs. It is every bit as valuable today and you all know it. Ask the many people whose names can be found within these documents or Franky Boy or Claude Richer, Allan Rock’s lawyer buddy in the RCMP about this stuff before you call me a liar. As you all know I am out of jail on bail pending my upcoming criminal trial in front of a jury of my peers. I have the right to remain silent in the USA. I will employ different rights in Canada and say a lot. What I choose to say while stumping for a seat in Parliament in Canada is of my concern not yours. If you dudes do your jobs here and I act ethically and legally up home with luck the world will be far better off in short order. I have already checked the rules with the people working for Elections Canada. We agree it is perfectly legal for an innocent man to run for Parliament while being prosecuted with false charges in the wrong jurisdiction and venue in the USA. Everybody knows I can secure my personal freedom quicker in a political forum in Canada rather than argue crooked judges in the USA. They have already imprisoned me on bull**** charges without even reading me my rights or telling me why I was in jail. The crooks are not going to have a sudden fit of ethical behavior now without it becoming a matter of political will. We all know it is high time for a change, the sooner the better for the Maritimes as well as the rest of the world. What better politician to argue with than a right wing lawyer named Rob Moore? As you all no doubt know I have been talking to many people within the UN and have sent many much of my stuff. You all must have laughed as hard as I did when the Cubans were afraid to talk about my stuff. I must agree with George Bush about one thing. The UN is certainly in need of an overhaul. Yet we all know that nasty dudes like Maurice Strong’s buddy, Paul A. Volcker, the Former North American Chairman of the Trilateral Commission and Karl Rove’s puppet, John Bolton are just going to make matters worse. The same holds true with the turncoat Robert C. Pozen. He now offers advice to Bush on how to fix Social Security simply because I sent him running for cover with my Putnam Investment concerns and the malevolent media control of Global Corporations. Feel free to argue me or act ethically. You choose. I don’t care. Franky Boy knows he is way past too late. I am just rubbing his nose it before I talk a lot about him and his failure to uphold the public trust in our old stomping grounds up home. I can’t help but wonder how he explained his “Harper is a lapdog for Bush” dogma to Karl Rove and his nasty cohorts. I suspect it was an allowed comment from an insider of the Carlyle Group. Don’t you? We all know Stephen Harper would never fit in that group. He is as dumb as a post. All of his successes playing at politicking have just been a matter of luck and playing on the PC and Liberal scandals. Harper is kinda scary to me. He has a truly awful agenda in store for all Canadians like evil old T. Alex Hickman and Johnny Crosbie did for our Newfys. Sometimes less is more. So in conclusion I will just quote former Inspector General of the DHS Clark Kent Irwin and simply say it would have benefited all if he had taken his own advice way back in November of 2003 when he had an important job. POGO: “Any advice for your fellow public servants?” Irwin: “Well, just do your job and let the political chips fall where they may. Unless you’re willing to do that, it seems to me you shouldn’t take the job in the first place.” What say you?
Cya’ll in Court:) David R. Amos 153 Alvin Ave. Milton MA. 02186
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I am impressed with Chucky's newfound sense of ethics the blog still stands this morning. If anyone would like to view the material and listen to a copy of a wiretap tape that Chucky and his buddy Vaughn are so afraid of all they have to do is call me and meet me in public somewhere before I leave Fredericton. I am sitting in town right now and trying to write my first complaint to file in Federal Court ASAP. Here is my cell number again 506 434 1379 Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos
Oh ye critics with no names why not pick up the phone tomorrow and call your Ombudsman and Chucky's buddy Bernie Richard mention my name and ask him whether or not he received this email on August 11th, 2004 at 3.11 pm two weeks before he met my family in his office. Then if you grow up and get a name and an emaiul address watch me prove to you I am no friend of Charles Leblanc
Hey Bernard Thanks for your response though. I didn't believe you on the phone the instant that you tried to make an issue about not receiving the email to Wayne Steeves. I figured that you were covering for Brad Green because that would mean that you knew the CISNB was involved. I laughed when you repeated it in the email. Do you think me dumb?The Fredericton PD guard the legislature correct? Ask Sgt. Kelly or Chief Carlisle if they had jurisdiction over me when they threw me out. The Crown always has jurisdiction over a Canadian citizen particularly when he is on native soil. I figured out it was Dan that threw mw out. He should have taken the stuff in the yard just as soon as he affirmed that he and the cops had jurisdiction over me as he ordered me away from the legislative building. They did watch me go into 710 Queen St to serve TJ Burke and come out without the stuff. They know I did it. Over Two hundred people watched me serve Leroy.Armstrong once he stuck his nose in my affairs. Anne McLellan and Brad Green both suggested that I give this stuff to cops that claim jurisdiction. Go argue Bruce Noble. .I don't need any luck Uncle Franky has been dead for two months even though no one has notified my wife I know it. Watch me turn the worm on the Secret Service, the FBI and the RCMP There is no way you could have known about Connie Fogal without getting Wayne Steeves' email as well. He should have sent the CISNB out to do their job by now. Obviously that is not the case. Maybe Elizabeth Weir will have more luck making you understand. As for me I simply don't trust you. I will be calling you to court. We can argue about integrity and jurisdiction there. In the mean time perhaps you should go find Leroy Armstrong or T J Burke or Brad Green or Premier Lord or Bruce Noble and ask to see the documents and the copy of the wiretape tape I sent them before I compel you to argue about them with me. There is another fella running around Fredericton with the same stuff. His name is Vaughn Barnett. If the politicians won't talk to you, maybe he will. his number is 457-4559 But he is likely out in the front yard protesting something. I don't trust him either because he and Charles Leblanc are buddies and I know he is a liar.
I still can't understand what this guy is trying to say. His posts/letters or whatever are WAYYYYYY too long! I still have no idea what his beef is or who it's with.
I sent the email I promised I would to Chucky and many of his buddies. I will forward it on to anyone else. All you have to do is ask. Again my email address motomaniac_02186 (at) yahoo.com
My beef is what all politicians talk about but do nothing about because they are the ones who practice it. In a nutshell it is called Public Corruption Get it? If not so be it. I have said enough for now. Dave
All I know is that David and Chucky make great friends. They are heavenly made couple. They think alike and behave alike. Only difference is that David rights a little better English when Chucky sucks.
Charlie you've been leaving comments since someone above asked you what papers you were supposed to deliver to brad green for this guy? and #2 why didn't you complete the task?
> HELL ANGELS FROM MONTREAL LOOKING FOR CHARLES > LEBLANC???? > by Charles LeBlanc Saturday, Jun. 12, 2004 at 11:26 > AM > oldmaison@yahoo.com Fredericton > Thursday morning, I showed up at the Legislature to > use the computer at the Library. > I was told by security that two rough looking > individuals walked through the doors and asked for a > Charles Leblanc? > They described the guys as rough looking and one of > them had a long gray beard with a leather jacket! > At first, I believe it was the Hell Angels coming > down from Montreal for a hit on Charles. > Hours later, I seen my bigot buddy Matthew Glenn and > he was in front of the Legislature with his > blowhorn. > For you people who don’t know the bigot? He’s the > one who started the Anglo Society. I seen him > preaching to three young kids and of course I butt > in and said - Hey Bigot??? Why don’t you bigot go > home? > Minutes later, we were approached by two guys and > they asked politely –Where can we locate a Charles > LeBlanc??? > In a matter of seconds, the bigot quickly pointed at > me. > I said to myself - Ohhh?? Thanks a lot Bigot!!! > At the end? It was a guy named David Amos and I > guess that he’s running at an independent in the > riding of Fundy Royal. The guy have been living in > the area of Boston and he's been following my > updates on the internet. I'm telling you that the > information highway is a great way to spread the > message to the rest of the world! > We talked for around 30 minutes and it was nice to > see the bigot, me and David Amos together debating > our own little concern issue. We all have our own > issues and it’s too bad that we cannot unite and > fight but that’s the way Canadians do things. > They remind silent until the Government really > pissed them all and go out and vote the party in > power out of office
From: charles leblanc Subject: Re: This is David Amos To: moto maniac
I don't know what you're talking about but I gace your info to Vaughn...Maybe he can explain to me what your papers are all about...lol
--- moto maniac wrote:
> Hey Charles > I just found out a simple truth about you. You > are a liar. Not only did you not give my stuff to > Brad Green as you promised. You did not give it to > the man from Minto that you enjoy calling a bigot. I > just had a little talk with him and he affrimed what > I had suspected about you and denied receiving the > documents etc. from you as you claimed. > Perhaps you should get honest and give the > stuff to Vaughn Barnett. (I just called him 506 > 457-4559 and left him a message to assure him that I > am sincere and this is not spam I have not been to > Fredericton lately but I plan to come soon if you > don't give him the documents and CD I will) I am > certain he will understand them and know what to do > with them. Rest assured that I will tell him you > have them. (In fact I just did didn't I) You can > explain your own actions to your friends. I > understand you well enough already. > I always suspected that you were all about > Charles LeBlanc and in the self promotion game. But > I thought you may at least be ethical. Turns out you > are just a liar and a chickenshit like all the rest. > By the way I did figure out who threw me out of the > legislature it was a french fella by the name of > Dan. I have no idea why he would claim that his name > was Jean Claude but it does explain to me why he did > not show me his ID. I ain't no Hells Angel as you > and the fellas in the legislature like to claim that > I am. However I am a plenty pissed off boy from > Dorchester who just had another French asshole show > me his ass. Ask me why I am not surprised? Don't you > think I asked around about you? Never forget you > were raised just up the road from me. I told you > that out of the gate when I first called you from > Boston. Remember? That should have been a little > clue to you. You should have done the same before > slandering me and adding to the offense by proving > to me that you are a liar. I > gave you the benefit of my doubt but you proved for > me once more first impressions are seldom wrong. I > have now thrown you in the same boat with your > frienf the Sergeant at Arms(Even that has acquired a > french spelling for an English Queen) I don't hate > french folks but I do find french bullshit very > contemptable. I have many Cajun friends that share > the same opinion about french Canadians. In fact I > was the first Canadian that a lot of them ever met > that they actually saw eye to eye with. We quickly > put the english/french stuff in the proper corner > and went on with our pursuit of happiness We just > laughed at your snotty attitudes about culture. > everybody knows it ain't about that at all. It is > about money and power as usual. Wave all the flags > you want, you can't fool me. I am too stupid. What > you and all my other fellow maritmers seem to be > overlooking is that while we can't see the forest > for the trees because of our petty squabbles, the > evil Global dudes have been raping our > forest primeval. They playing us like a fiddle > while you dance their jig out of your own self > interest. Do you want a job in the media or do you > wish to be like Michael Moore and become famous > byway of notoriety? Do you really think anyone in > the media owned by the rich and powerful takes you > seriously? Can anyone take you seriously once they > find you to be a liar? At least I do what I say and > say what I mean. What say you now Chucky Baby? > Better yet wait until I turn up and say it to me in > front of your friends. Premier Lord know I love to > argue with Frenchmen we can talk about it on his > front lawn. You buddy Dan and the CISNB can listen > in. > The following are your words about me. I find > that you are so full of yourself it is ridculous > particularly in light of the fact that I consider > you to be full of shit. Watch how easily I prove > that fact about you the next time I am in > Fredericton. Which maybe sooner that you think. Rest > arrured I will be telling your friends what I think > of you. Feel free to argue with me. It should prove > interesting to see who they believe. > David R. > Amos > 506 > 434-1379
Vaughn did you get my material as Leblanc claims? You are the third guy he says he gave it to. If not I know I will be the last. I have had enough of him and his funny ways at my expense. He whined and complained that he had no computer so I gave him one. But he failed to even say Thanks. Now the liar wants people to buy him a Bull Horn so he can bother more people with his Bullshit. Well Fredericton has already met a real legal and social activist and i did it all without a whisper or any press coverage. Soon Ottawa will receive the same stuff and much much more before I return to the USA to argue the bastards pulling the strings up here in our old houses. The folks working there seem to care more what language the liars are speaking in rather than what they are actually saying. Charles LeBlanc spoke with a forked tongue when he claimed his Scottish heritage. He made my blood boil and my ancestors bones rattle when he went on and on about his roots. First the frenchy wants his flag on the government houses then he wants to wave it wearing our kilts? I am of the Keith Clan and founded my own. My ancestors were fine and noble warriors. Read their motto on the beer bottle Chucky and tell me if you believe it or not. Rest assured I do. Neither my Septs nor I would accept such a man as Charles Leblanc as a trusted friend.
Yes, Charles gave me the material - although I must admit that I was not able to make much sense of it. Because of that, and because it appears to be out of my area of expertise, I doubt that I can help you very much. Also, unfortunately, your clash with Charles, and your low opinion of him (which I feel is unwarranted) has created a conflict of interests, as Charles is a friend of mine and a fellow activist. Since I doubt I can assist you much anyway, perhaps that doesn't matter. In any event, good luck with your cause.
Lets get this straight Chucky so there is no misunderstanding. You only allowed my words to stand this time around because other people read them and asked you to? Hmmm some ethics EH?
As for guts not only is my belly bigger than you my balls are as big as basketballs compared to yours. I ain't afraid of Count Peter Hans Klovenbach so why would I be afraid of you? You and your wannbe lawyer friend know full well I have been trying to impeach George W. Bush byway of the courts since 2002. Long before that nonsense in Iraq began. You hate me because if you had even glanced at the papers you just confessed you read then you know I sued Cardinal Law and caused him to quit his job on Dec 13th, 2002. It had nothing to do with child abuse like the media claims. It was merely filthy lucre that is all. Well my wife's cousin the exbanker turned priest Robert T. Kickham is still around around and cooking the books for the brand new Cardinal in Beantown. You know the dude in named O'Malley.
Furthmore Chucky you offer no argument to anything I state other than lie about not promising to serve Brad Green or falsely claiming that the computer I gave you was no good? The best you can is make jokes or critize my choice of words whilst I point out your serious lack of integrity?
In my law books it is not illegal to have poor manners or use the words I have employed thus far(as of yet anyway) I believe it falls under something that can be found in the Charter
However to slander someone and tell ouright lies about them for one's own gain is more than offensive. I have been falsely imprisoned because of the perjury of people like you who choose to support public corruption for their own gain. Methinks I should seek relief in court in fredericton particularly when I can prove it. Furthermore you know you have told several lies within the very blog.
I will wager if I posted something that you can never refute this blog will evporate immediately. Perhaps I should seal its fate and let your friends wonder why you erased me so quickly after I busted you in front of everybody. Never fear though I saved this blog in its entirety already. However you really should check you email and press print on the tif file that I just sent you and yoy hard copy of the proof that I keep wonderful records. Some of your buddies and adversaries may be reading it already. At the end of the day you may realize that I just may turn out to be the honest man that you ever met.
Don't you think you should hire a lawyer too? That last email was hell in a hand basket wasn't it? Why not call Cleveland Allaby (your know Tanker's lawyer) he hates both Bernie Lord and me but he won't demand any sort of apology from me. Hell he won't even whisper my name. Just maybe Cleveland Allaby will help Vaughn and you to understand my material and then ask you two dudes why you didn't call the RCMP years ago. Yea I know I am pipe dreaming. Honest cops and lawyers don't exist. That is pure Hollywood all the way and a long long way from the Maritimes EH? Ask my Newfy buddy Byron Prior how bad things really are around here. I Double Dog Dare Ya too Chucky. Que Sera Sera and Cya'll in Court David Raymond Amos
Chucky giving advice to David Amos to not burn bridges? That is funny. Chucky is good at burning bridges himself. He has no bridge left to burn. How can give advice to others to not do the same.
Subject: Fwd: Sue me Eddy Baby I double Dog Dare Ya I telling Lord Black on you
Everybody loves a mystery. A lot of folks were no doubt wondering why the big talking old fart named Petey Newman apologized to Lord Conrad Black not long after he and Mikey Levine laughed off his lawsuit at the big party in Toronto. Didn't it seem strange to anyone that the Tory's law firm wrote the crooked old Lord a fat cheque as well? It seems that the Torys, a dude named Mr. Moate, Levine, Greenspan, Newman and I may be the only ones to know the true reason why and I am the only one who will tell the tale. Here is your clue see if you can figure it out. I know of two Maritimers who will never have a hope in hell of figuring it out because they do not have two clues between them and if the did they would not know what to do with them. One dude everybody calls Tanker and the other I call Frenchie. They know who they are do you Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 06:36:11 -0800 (PST) From: David Amos To: Eddy Greenspan Subject: Sue me Eddy Baby I double Dog Dare Ya I telling Lord Black on you
Say hey to your buddies the old fart Peter C. Newman and and the corrupt Yankee FitzGerald for me will ya?
"Edward L. Greenspan, Q.C." wrote:
Subject: RE: Since Susan Prosnitz and her boss Fynn would not answer Hard Copy Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:10:13 -0500 From: "Edward L. Greenspan, Q.C." To: "David Amos"
Please delete my name from your emails
Greenspan, White 144 King Street East Toronto, Ontario M5C 1G8 Tel: 416-366-3961 Fax: 416-366-7994
Bingo You Mr. Cleveland Allaby win the cake baked by Bernie Lord.
Cya'll in Court . Thanks for finally responding to me. Your timing is perfect. One hour before or so before the 39th Parliament begins and just in time before I polish off my first complaint to file in Federal court in Fredericton. Was it done so quickly after I blogged my letter to you in Chucky LeBlanc's web page? Did the gossip about my blogging in his website reach you first thing this morning? In my book you are as dumb as the Frenchie is. Wise or dumb I will call you as a witness to testify in Federal Court before I get around to suing you. Perhaps your lawyer and I should talk now. Hostile or not you will make an important witness not only on because of your lawsuits concernining Native Aboriginal matters (Remember Barry Bachrach represents me in the USA right now) but more importantly because Bernie Lord paid you a lot of money years ago to study the Justice Dept. (Wasn't it 112,000 grand or so?) Obviously Cleveland you are no wiser than Eddy Greenspan. Clearly you think your status as a well known lawyer allows you not only to ignore and not uphold the law but break it if you wish. Should you have contacted the RCMP as soon as you listened the the CD I provided you with. Guess what I told them you got it already. My next calls are to the General Counsel of the SIRC and the old lawyer who represent the following folks. He has played dumb with me for way past to long.
THE CANADIAN CIVIL LIBERTIES ASSOCIATION A. ALAN BOROVOY, GENERAL COUNSEL Suite 200, 394 Bloor Street West Toronto, Ontario M5S 1X4 phone: 416-363-0321 fax: 416-861-1291
Cleveland did you really think your email will scare me off? Look how fast I bounced it back and forwarded it to many others. When a man has been diligently attempting to impeach George W. Bush for over three years despite the attacks from crooked Feds etc nothing scares him anymore. A threat of litigation coming from the email box of a lawyer into mine is like manna from heaven to me. Didn't I slam Eddy Greenspan the same way? Man you are dumb if you though that I would not do the same thing with you. You just proved for me that every body else got my email and hard copy too. you asgin the same question I asked you on February 23rd. Whois your god damned lawyer maybe I know him already. If not tell him he has a fool for a client. Will ya?
Tell me honestly, Cleveland if you can find it in your your soul to do so. Why Didn't you sue Bernie Lord as you threatened to do particularly after you and I talked the day before I gave my material to your buddy Tom Young and the New Brunswick Securities Commission? I heard of no apology from him and I laughed when I saw Tanker being trundled down to the Speakers chair arm in arm with two crooks. I figured another backroom deal went down and Tanker needed a smarter lawyer because I had heard nothing from you and I made certain that you knew the score with Hard Copy of my material before that shit went down. Something definitely smells rotten in New Brunswick EH? Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos
The question still remains who is the April Fool and will Chucky evict me for Blogging?
chucky leblanc wrote:
You can add this note to all the millions of other notes but I feel that I have to send ya this note.
We allowed you to have your own little blog. I believe it's a good way for you to spread your message.
I'm still trying to figure out exactly what the message is???...lol
Anyway, there's no need to condenm the people who are activists like Vaugh.
I believe it attracts new visitors that search the names you mention.
But once that blog is delete? It's too fini.
I too had problems at the Legislature and it's in front of the Human Rights Commission.
It takes time.....
All I'm asking is that you try to be nice and don't condenm people like Vaugh who an activist also.
What, specifically, are all these people being sued for? You rant and rave and nobody can make heads or tails out of what you are talking about.
We know you ran for office. We know that you try to impeach Bush (and anybody who does that certainly gets good marks from me!) We know that for some reason they held you in jail? Is that correct?
I'm assuming its under the new terrorism laws, since you say they wouldn't let you see evidence. That also is not surprising the way the US is functioning.
But what are all the lawsuits about? There is something about wiretap evidence that for some reason you are sending to canadian politicians and lawyers..why is that?
What exactly are all these law firms doing? If they are crooked, then specifically what evidence do you have? That lawyers are crooks also doesn't surprise most people, I"m mostly surprised we continue to elect so many of them.
But if you could explain point by point what the grievances are against these people, then people may understand. Perhaps you don't care and just want to let off steam, that's fine too, that's what blogs are for. However, many people would like to know what you are suing these people for?
Good day to ye with no name. thanks for the question. Methinks by your questions you must be Vaughn.I stated the reason for my first lawsuit clearly live on CTV news to that Murphy character at suppertime just before I was allowed to debate Andy Scot in Oromocto. My first lawsuit will be to seek relief for the offense against my rights under the Charter because I was falsely imprisoned without being charged, held without bail and it was all done without even being read my rights. Then I was denied my right to a trial after met the Canadian Consulate in jailand came screaming out. I had tried to remove the matter to the proper jurisdiction and venue in order to prove the malicious prosecution to no avail. the bastarsds in the USA will never give a jury of my peers and Federal Court in Canada does not employ a jury. Thus I must make my issues well known locally before I file so that the Judges will not dismiss my complaints so easily as they have done in the past. Give me a call if you are not Vaughn and I will meet you show you the evidence. Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos P.S. My next posting is quite a rant. I explain things in greater detail to say the least but my manners are slipping fast. It will be the maximum stress test of Chucky's newfound sense of ethics.
So you are suing the canadian government for being held in jail in the US? Is that right, or were you held in Canada? How does that even work?
Why go on a lengthy rant to 'test' Charles? Take a break if your manners are slipping. Having your messages deleted on the last place your story can be told hardly seems helpful.
"Then I was denied my right to a trial after met the Canadian Consulate in jailand came screaming out"
That makes no sense whatsoever. People don't need long rants, they need clarity. You are suing the canadian government because they refused to help you while in US custody, is that correct?
Wouldn't it be funny if you are not Vaughn but actually Clevelans Allaby or Bras Green or Jeff Mockler or beter yet David Lutz or Vaughn's buddy Brucy Baby Noble. that can't be though because Vaughn must be Chucky's only legal minded friend
You know what? I am am gonna take you advice and take a break from Chucky's little sideshow and go downtown to see what condition my condition is in Fredericton. I will be the ugly guy grinning and smoking a lot but not saying a damned think. From now on i want everything i say recorded. One must do such things when one sues the Crown. EH Vaughn?
Well, that makes some sense anyway. So how are these New Brunswick lawyers involved? Are you saying that none of them will represent you or what? You are sending them this wiretap evidence for what reason? If it's federal court why are you even in New Brunswick, all the lawyers in this province are idiots and irving lackeys. Why not go to Toronto where there are at least some civil liberties lawyers.
The trouble is, I don't know of any legal grounds that 'forces' the canadian government to intervene in a foreign country's legal system. If somebody plants coke on you in columbia and you get caught, then plead with canada to help you out, you'll be out of luck.
Under the charter canadians have fewer rights than americans. Our 'terror laws' are the mirror image of the US's, but never even had moranda rights or anything ike that. In Canada, you are simply f&&&&& if you cross the state, as any native, environmentalist, protestor, or civil rights attorney will tell you.
I don't know of a single case where somebody successfully sued, even David Milgaard was given a settlement since it was dragging out so long. Natives have tried suing for years.
However, it's easy to talk from the outside. But if Ernst Zundel couldn't sue for being held for almost a decade with no charges against him in Canada, I don't see how far a lawsuit against Canada for not intervening in a foreign country will go.
Civil rights? Where do you think you ar?? Lok at th e blog. A woman can't panhandel to make life a little bettre. Boarding house residents can't do anything. This was a joke, but if that owner wanted to, he could toss Charles for just that reason. Hell, owners could show up at their apartments and tell them they want a blowjob, any body who said no would be told to get out. Welcome to New Brunswick.
I am back in more ways than one. It is half past quitting time and all the corrupt politicians are out getting drunk or laid or both. Tis time for bloggers to come out and play maybe with luck what the smiling bastards read in the morning will give a few of them a stroke and Lord can call some more snap by elections EH? "Welcome to New Brunswick?" Jeez I was born and raised here i have lived here for over forty years of my life. I am older than Chucky and lived just down the road from where he was brought up in Dorchester NB. I went to High School and UNB in Fredericton when most of the snots that are screwing us did. Why do you think I am so pissed off? You don't think I know the score. If someone claims that I am a Yankee again I think I may hunt them down. If because a man lives somewhere else for awhile makes him a man of that place then how come a Newfy is always a Newfy everywhere he goes. Here is a God's moment for Chucky: Wht did God tell the Newfys? Play dumb til I get back Will ya? that joke seems to hold true here to. since I left the room nothing further was said. How come. cat got you tongue chucky or could it be the emails I sent ya? Love and Kisses Dave
Nobody called you a yankee, but starting threatening people is sure to get you deleted, as well as guaranteeing no court in the country will give you the time of day except to prosecute. As was said, there is virtually zero chance of suing the government for your claim. At least Charles is being constructive and taking it to the human rights people and doing his part to get more rights for new brunswickers. But good luck getting to court.
I see that you are watching Vaughn. Spoken just like a lawyer you wish to be. "Hunt you down" is an expression. But it brought you out of the woods didn't it. Perhaps you should read your next email real slow. Before I go I must ask you are you trying to intimadate me by making false allegations against me? Love and Kisses Dave (hows that for nice Chucky?)
"As was said, there is virtually zero chance of suing the government for your claim." Hmm maybe I will ask Vaughn under oath in court someday why he has formed that opinion of my pending lawsuit. Clearly he knows more of my matters than what I or Chucky have given him. I am still human don't you know. Fredericton does not have the only courts in this old World. I except them crooked judges here to try hard to dismiss my matters. Why to you think I am raising hell first. If anyone should understand what I am up to it is an actvist. Love and Kisses Dave
You certainly ain't Bruce Noble because he represents the Fredericton PD if you choose to send them to hassle me. He already know I have a few bones to pick with him in court. I would welcome more false charges. Here is the obvious question. Are you Chucky's buddy Vaughn or are you not? If not who are you? Love and Kisses Dave
I have noticed that Chucky hit counter has picked up a little speed. His count is starting to appraoch Byron Prior's website. Here it is if anybody cares. I know I do. Byron is human too and he has been far more offended than Chucky ever was.
http://maxpages.com/sexualabuse
I was bored waiting and check to see if it clicked over a big milestone for him.
80 grand was how many viewers he had when the MP Billy Matthews intmadted him into taking it down.
Chucky is appraoching that number for the first time. this is Byron second kick at the can of worms of injustice.
Tick tick tick Methinks when the count get to 100 I will evict myself before I get the bum's rush. It is getting kinda boring here anyway. I wil just safe the posts and go about my evening knowing nobody will miss me here. Hell I was even being kinda sorta nice:) Love and Kisses Dave
Your silence is deafening Vaughn i must be coorect at you or are you to busy trying to revive Chucky with mouth to mouth. Did I give you two too much information in the last email and it overloaded you little minds? What gives Chuckys other blogs barely have any comments at all he can't be that busy. I will leave the comment after 99 for Chucky to fill in or delete. He always likes to have the last word. EH? I will post this look for a comment and then be gone to leave you to wonder when and where we will cross paths again. Love and Kisses Dave
Now I don't even make sense to myself. I will consider myself evicted and save the blog in its entirety to argue about later. Cya'll in court or in Hell. C'est la meme chose n'est pas? Bon nuit ma petite chou chous. (Aren't I nice)
Veritias Vincit (check the Keiths beer bottle) David Raymond Amos
I don't know who Vaughn is, I was interested in the story because I couldn't decide whether you were crazy or just very angry. I still don't know.
I know there are constructive uses for anger, Charles has accomplished quite a bit with his. I'd hate to see ANYBODY spend all that time and energy in a fruitless cause such as trying to sue the government. The mention of being an 'activist' was heartening. Charles has been an activist and he and Tim Smith have almost single handedly got the rights of tenants on the map, and soon an injustice there 'may' be rectified, one that is a hundred years overdue.
Yet he and Tim accomplished it in less than two months, albeit with the help of a byelection.
Being imprisoned in the states is no crime in my book, their entire federal system is an illegal entity. Manlin Chee has been a public defender for over twenty years, won many awards, and now sits in jail because she sat on a panel that argued against the patriot act. While Canada isn't MUCH better, it is SOME better.
But like I said, the courts will give no recourse, as the courts have clearly stated that Canada's own terrorist act does not infringe on civil liberties. Anybody who thinks highly of civil liberties in Canada just needs to remember Oka, or Quebec, where thousands of french were rounded up without charge just so Trudeau could pretend to be macho.
There are lots of organizations that are attacking these things, and personally I think its a shame that those who have virtually identical claims against the government can't seem to get along. If there were a dozen Charles Leblanc's in the province we could literally turn the province upside down. YOu seem to have the passion, but maybe a little too much, as often you are incomprehensible. That's unfortunate because those who are victims of the aggression of the state are those whose stories most deserve to be heard.
Just a recommendation, but when you mentioned all those lawyers then you definitely got my interest. These guys work in a shroud of secrecy and somebody with the guts to air their dirty laundry would definitely accomplish more good with political activism than with lawsuits. Courts were designed to put undesirables in jail, not mete out justice. Hell, New Brunswick doesn't even allow class action lawsuits!
I don't always agree with Charles, and often his views and how he states them make me cringe, but I'm glad that he does what he does, and NB is a province that NEEDS more 'activism'. I'd just suggest doing it in a way that's guaranteed to get the most results. But that's just my opinion-not Vaughns.
What planet in cyber space are you from oh yet with noname who claims not to be Vaughn? The first thing you should do when you touch down on mother earth is get a name. Then learn to read BEFORE you write. I ain't no god damned activist. GET IT? However I am a very fierce political animal. GET IT? I am just a very pissed off Maritimer with way bigger balls than you.
Some activist you are with only half a mind to say something like this to me. Go to jail sometime in Yankee Doodleland and then come back home and tell me that crap again. "Being imprisoned in the states is no crime in my book,"
After you figure out the nonsense that you just wrote in support of a liar. Why not get an email account and a telephone too and learn how to use them BEFORE you attack a man who understands more about what you are yapping about than you could ever dream. I have no doubt that you are clever and you may be well on your way to being just another lawyer but you cannot learn to be ethical in any law school. You must be born with the genes. It seems that you and Chucky are a couple bricks shy of that load.
On the other hand in reading some of your words about what Chucky has done I think you may be the political science student at the homeless shelter that the lady that was on Tom Young's show spoke of when I called her afterwards. Either way I don't care. i don't want to know you. Ask you buddy Chucky sometime to share his emails from me with you if you are truly are not his buddy Vaughn. Better yet go on a mission with your mouse and go through Chuckys many blogs and figure out who he is for yourself. Then ask Vaughn if you can view the hard copy of the material he admited having BEFORE I was falsely imprisoned in 2004. Activists have a lot to learn about listening to folks before there is trouble. It seems they allow things to happen just so they can protest about it later. I was challenging the FBI etc and arguing crooked US Attorneys about other matters in Federal Court in Boston months before that nonsense in Iraq began. whereas you seem to have a love of lucre Vaughn should tell ya that in two matters I was awarded judgements by default for 32 million bucks and I laughed and told them to shove it up their arse because the judgement came from the wrong court. It is all about jurisdiction venue and justice. I cannot demand integrity of others without proving my own first. When the crooked lawyers filed motions to remove the defaults and file their answers late I did not oppose them. It so shocked the hell out of the Yankee bastards they were not long sending the Secret Service to try to take a man away who would rather argue the awful truth than take a pay off. In my book false imprisonment is definite illegal and when I look at your writing and Chuckys I cannot forget what I was taught. There are NO degrees of honesty either you are or your are NOT. Go kiss Chucky good night. Will ya? I have had enough of both of you oh ye who may be Vaughn. I so not feel sorry that I do not believe you.(Damned for a little Damned for at lot) Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos
One last ting before I sign off that I forgot to say. Yankee lawyers swear an oath before the Bar before they are allowed to practice law for a fee. Part of it goes something like this. "I will not delay or deny any man for lucre or malice" the politicians and lawyers I am arguing ignore their oath for lucre which far easier to understand than the malice you and Chucky wish against me. i tried to help Chucky and even gave him a computer because he whined that he did not have one. The only thing I asked in return was for him to go to Brad Green's office and give him a pile of documents and one CD in an unsealed envelope so that every one could see that there was nothing harmful inside.The liar claimed many things and slammed me six ways to Sunday while blocking my protests. I was getting even on April fools and draging him into a place where most lawyer fear to go. An ethical argument in public view. Like Tom Young on the radio he keep threatening to press the delete button when things were not going his way. Charles Leblanc is all about Charles LeBlanc no less no more. Veritas Vincit
Gary Miller quits Dennis Oland's legal team as murder retrial begins
Prominent Fredericton lawyer, who is being replaced by Michael Lacy of Toronto, cites benefit of fresh eyes
Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon· CBC News· Posted: Oct 15, 2018 12:00 PM AT
---------- Original message ---------- From: Ministerial Correspondence Unit - Justice Canada <mcu@justice.gc.ca> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 17:28:45 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: Attn Michael Lacy I just called and left a voicemail reminding you of the email I sent you 2 years ago and published it within my blog as well To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
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Gary Miller quits Dennis Oland's legal team as murder retrial begins
Prominent Fredericton lawyer, who is being replaced by Michael Lacy of Toronto, cites benefit of fresh eyes Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon · CBC News · Posted: Oct 15, 2018 12:00 PM AT
Gary A. Miller 371 Queen St. Suite 400, Fredericton, NB E3B 4Y9
George A. McAllister 212 Queen St. Fredericton, NB E3B 1A8
RE: Corruption
Sirs,
Please find enclosed exactly the same material served upon New Brunswick’s Lieutenant-Governor Hermenegilde Chiasson and many others. The copy of wiretap tape numbered 139 is served upon you in confidence as officers of the court in order that it may be properly investigated.
Months ago I contacted you, Mr. McAllister by phone and informed you that I wholeheartedly agreed with your standing that Insurance companies were making the consumers cover their losses in the stock market. Brad Green and Premier Lord played Ms. Weir and the Commission like a fiddle and were merely doing their part to assist the interests of the Insurance Companies at the expense of the public trust. Although you were happy to hear that your opinions had been read and understood, you definitely did not want my evidence supporting your claims. Pursuant to my last statement to you, Mr. McAllister I have now proved to you that I am a man of my word and I now expect you to obey the Code of Conduct that you must obey in order to practice law for a fee.
Mr. Miller, the same holds true for you. Within these documents you will find the name of a lawyer you know very well, David Lutz. I find this man to be a very poor example of an officer of the court and I don’t mind telling the world my opinion of him. Please read my letter to him and let me know as to whether or not you stand with him and against me. If anyone were to ask me, Mr. Lutz is a man in need of legal aid and has no right to charge others for his malicious assistance. Will you spring to his defence when I file a complaint against him? Whether you fellas like it or not I have now made you witnesses to my sad complaints before I returned to the USA.
If I survive the malicious prosecution that I am looking forward to in Boston next month, I will return to litigate in New Brunswick. There is no middle ground for any lawyer to stand on in this battle within two corrupt justice systems. All that I have demanded from any lawyer is simple ethical conduct. Why is that too much to ask for?
I have read your various spit and chews with Brad Green and I must admit I find them to be quite comical from my position as a layman in the catbird seat. Rest assured that I will endeavour to make my opinions widely known. Sue me if you wish. In fact I double dog dare ya to. Bring this material to court so that the jury can have something to read while we argue truth, justice and the Maritimes kowtowing to the American Way.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)"<Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:08:46 +0000 Subject: RE: The BC Ont.and AB Attorney Generals and the Criminal Lawyers' Association cannot deny that I called all your offices before Justice Drapeau made the news bigtime and the lawyer Alan Gold started yapping to Chucky Leblanc CORRECT? To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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Dennis Oland to travel to Ottawa for Supreme Court bail appeal Oland was released from prison Tuesday after N.B. Court of Appeal overturned conviction in father's murder By Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon, CBC News Posted: Oct 27, 2016 6:00 AM AT
This should be an interesting decision considering the obvious fact that most of the Judges now sitting on the bench in the Surpeme Court of Canada were politically vetted by the law and order right wing wacko whom I enjoy call ing Stevey Boy Harper N'esy Pas Mr Prime Minister Trudeau "The Younger" and Mr Wannabe Neo Con Leader Maxime Bernier?
Gold, Alan D., Professional Corporation Ste. 210 20 Adelaide St. E. Toronto, Ontario M5C 2T6 Phone: 416-368-1726 Fax: 416-368-6811 info@alandgoldlaw.com
The lawyer Alan Gold told Chucky Leblanc last week that he was looking forward to appearing before the Supreme Court next week ME TOO
I have no idea whatsoever if the snobby lawyer from Toronto sent anyone across the street to pull my docket in Federal Court in Fat Fred City. However I did call and talk to Gold's assistant again today. She told me that Gold was well aware of my email last week and I was welcome to send another one today. ENJOY because as i said Methinks it is High time for me to sue Gold and his cohorts. After all ALL officers of the court should know that murder is acapital crime and there is no statute of limitations CORRECT?
What concerned me last week with Gold's actions last week was his client's freedom ASAP. Once that was attained I was satisfied for now in that some rules of law had been upheld by a very corrupt court. I presumed that once Oland's bail was determined, the upcoming hearing in the Supreme Court would be a waste of that court's precious time and the matter would be set aside. Even though Gold had said nay not so within Chucky's video last week, who would trust the words of a lawyer to a mindless blogger and his very corrupt media cohorts when the same lawyer and his cohorts did not have the balls to return phone calls or answer emails since last February? So I did not bother to send the email i had promised all the other lawyers I had contacted last week until I knew the score for sure.
I don't know if Oland's lawyers are aware of what Chucky's published above but they cannot deny that I made them aware that I published my email to them last week only AFTER Drapeau and cohorts made their big decision in their client's favour.
The email below can be found within this blog.This email will bee published within the same blog in short order.
At least the very corrupt Crown Corp commonly known as the CBC did me the service of affirming Gold's opinion today. So you now have my email that I had promised to send to many of you when I called last week. Enjoy your Halloween in the Supreme Court I will be very busy practicing hard ball politciking with Trump and Hillary on the same day.
Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos 902 800 0369
P.S. Perhaps I should remind the very evil lawyer evil lawyer Norman Sabourin and Chief Justice the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin that the cover letter that I sent along to them along with a huge pile of documents and a CD,had been published within My blog, Chucky Leblanc's blog and that of a former friend of his for many years and still can be viewed to this very day
At least the RCMP/GRC should not deny that the RCMP, many other Canadian Feds etc. many Yankees and their FBI and even quite a few Russians amongst other interesting countries have been checking my work alot lately EH Gilles Blinn of the RCMP, sneaky Gerry Butts of the PMO and your nasty butt buddy Mean Mikey Wernick of the PCO?.
BTW if gold has two clues between his ears he should know that the same CD and many of the same documenst are now in the docket of Federal Court. The RCMP and everybody else knows the lawyer Shirley Heafey and her many minions and their replacements answered me long ago. This year Norman Saborin and his cohorts merely told me to make another complaint CORRECT?
Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, C/o Norman Sabourin Andrew Grant and Renée Maria Tremblay Canadian Judicial Council Ottawa, 150 Metcalfe Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0W8
Shirley Heafey Chair of CommissionGeneral Counsel and for Public Complaints against the RCMP P.O. Box 3423 Station "D" Ottawa, ON K1P 6L4
RE: Rampant Public Corruption
Hey,
Pursuant to my recent phone calls to Norman Sabourin and various underlings of Shirley Heafey within the Commission for Public Complaints against the RCMP over the years plus my many faxes and emails please find enclosed exactly the same material received by every Attorney General in Canada over the past year. The CD which is a copy of a police surveillance wiretap tape # 139 is served upon you as officers of the court in order that it may be properly investigated.
As you can see I have enclosed a copy of a letter sent to the latest Attorney General Mr. Wally Opal in BC. Perhaps he should take a little trip to Surrey and ask your office some hard questions. Perhaps the ghost of my fellow Independent politician, Chuck Cadman may wish to answer few questions now as well. Hard telling not knowing.
I will not bother you with the details of what I am sending to you byway of the certified US Mail because I will be serving identical material to many other Canadian Authorities in hand and tell them I gave this stuff to you first and enclose a copy of this letter. All that is important to me right now is that I secure proof that this mail was sent before I make my way back home to the Maritimes. However I will say I am also enclosing a great deal more material than what Allan Rock had received in the UN. Some of it is in fact the same material the two maritime lawyers, Rob Moore and Franky Boy McKenna in particular received, while I was up home running for Parliament last year. Things have changed greatly in the past year so I have also included a few recent items to spice thing up for you. I am tired of trying to convince people employed in law enforcement to uphold the law. So all I will say for now is deal will your own conscience and be careful how you respond to this letter. If you do not respond. Rest assured I will do my best to sue you some day. Ignorance is no excuse to the law or me.
Veritas Vincit
David R. Amos 153 Alvin Ave Milton, MA. 02186
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Drapeau abruptly says he's not suggesting defence should have made motion for directed verdict. Called for recess. 10:06 AM - 19 Oct 2016
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On 2/20/16, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote: > Alan D. Gold > Called to the bar: 1973 (ON) > Gold, Alan D., Professional Corporation > Ste. 210 > 20 Adelaide St. E. > Toronto, Ontario M5C 2T6 > Phone: 416-368-1726 > Fax: 416-368-6811 > Email: info@alandgoldlaw.com > > > etc etc etc
Gary Miller quits Dennis Oland's legal team as murder retrial begins
Prominent Fredericton lawyer, who is being replaced by Michael Lacy of Toronto, cites benefit of fresh eyes
Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon· CBC News·
Gary Miller, who has represented Dennis Oland for the past seven years, said he will follow the case 'with keen interest.' (CBC)
One of Dennis Oland's defence lawyers is stepping down, just as his retrial for second-degree murder in the 2011 death of his father, multimillionaire Richard Oland, gets underway in Saint John today with jury selection.
Gary Miller, who has represented Dennis Oland from the beginning and is one of the most prominent and experienced criminal defence lawyers in New Brunswick, is being replaced by Michael Lacy of Toronto.
"It's not real complicated," Miller told CBC News. "I generally think that it's a good idea to get a fresh set of eyes on a retrial, pure and simple."
A jury found Oland guilty in December 2015, but the New Brunswick Court of Appeal overturned his conviction and ordered a new trial in October 2016, citing an error in the trial judge's instructions to the jury.
The other members of his defence team on retrial include Alan Gold of Toronto, and James McConnell of Saint John, who were both involved in the first trial.
The Crown prosecutors are P.J. Veniot, Derek Weaver and Jill Knee.
Miller, 70, of Fredericton, said he could think of only one other case in his 41-year career where he represented a client at both trial and retrial.
Am I looking forward to sinking my teeth into something else? You betcha.- Gary Miller, defence lawyer
"And that was a relatively straightforward one-issue case," heard by a judge and jury at the first trial and by a judge alone on retrial.
"It wasn't this kind of case where there's issues all over the place," he said without elaborating.
Miller said he remained on the Oland defence team throughout the summer to give Lacy an opportunity to "get up to speed" and will participate in the jury selection, scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. AT at Saint John's Harbour Station, but his involvement going forward will be "peripheral … at best."
"Am I looking forward to sinking my teeth into something else? You betcha."
He will continue to follow the case "with keen interest," he added.
'Intensely familiar with the file'
Lacy, who trained under Gold and has worked with him on various cases during his 20-plus-year career, said he has worked on Oland's case since the original trial, although he has not appeared in court.
"My work on the appeal required me to get up to speed on all of the trial evidence and to become intensely familiar with the file. I have continued to work on the file since then in various ways," he said in an emailed statement.
"From my initial involvement in the case I was of the view that justice would only be served if Dennis was acquitted. I look forward to [continuing] to work with the other members of the team to achieve that end."
Toronto-based lawyer Michael Lacy has done some appellate work in New Brunswick. Earlier this year, he represented Wilbur Dedam, the former chief of Esgenoôpetitj First Nation. (CBC)
Lacy, of law group Brauti Thorning Zibarras LLP, has worked on many homicide trials and appeals, including the case of Toronto police Const. James Forcillo, who is asking the Supreme Court of Canada to allow him to appeal his attempted murder conviction in the 2013 shooting death of Sammy Yatim, 18.
In April, the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed Forcillo's appeal and opted to uphold his six-year prison sentence.
Dedam was sentenced in 2016 to nine years in prison after a jury found him guilty of six sex crimes against three girls, but the New Brunswick Court of Appeal overturned his convictions, citing violations of the Criminal Code of Canada and Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms during his trial.
'Tremendous amount of work'
Lead defence lawyer Alan Gold said he's very familiar with Michael Lacy's abilities and is grateful he was available to join the defence team for the retrial. (Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon/CBC)
Gold said he's grateful Lacy's schedule allowed him to join Oland's defence team for the retrial, describing him as "a real asset to share this very substantial workload that we have for this very, very serious case."
Miller also "remains a valuable asset" to the defence team and will be available to consult on the case on an "as-needed basis," said Gold.
"He simply felt that the day-to-day work in court everyday was becoming too much. It's extremely taxing, not to mention the preparation you have to do each evening."
"I mean this is, as legal proceedings go, this is as large and demanding a legal proceeding as lawyers encounter," said Gold.
The Crown prosecutors and Saint John Police Force have "devoted thousands and thousands and thousands of hours" to the case, he said.
"So there's dozens and dozens and dozens of things that Dennis' lawyers have to prepare for court and for the jury."
"There is just a tremendous amount of work."
---------- Original message ---------- From: David Amos Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:32:43 -0400 Subject: Fwd: Information Mr Gold Obviously I won't keep secrets with the Saint John cops To: info@alandgoldlaw.com Cc: David Amos
Alan D. Gold Called to the bar: 1973 (ON) Gold, Alan D., Professional Corporation Ste. 210 20 Adelaide St. E. Toronto, Ontario M5C 2T6 Phone: 416-368-1726 Fax: 416-368-6811 Email: info@alandgoldlaw.com
On September-17, 2017, I was made aware that you placed a call to Mr. Paul Veniot, a lawyer with Public Prosecutions, and left a voicemail (attached to this email) on September 15th, 2017, regarding something that you had read about in the news. In your message you are heard saying, "You guys got some problems to iron out for me, for my friend's son, again. I think I'm one of those problems."
I can only assume that you are referring to the upcoming re-trial of Dennis Oland, please correct me if I am wrong. If so, as the investigator assigned to this case, I am required to follow up on your comments as to what you are referring to in your message to Mr. Veniot, for any potential information you may have relating to the case, or upcoming trial.
If you could, please provide me with the information you may have via email, postal service, in person or telephone. The particulars for contact are listed below,
Thank you,
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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 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
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?
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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?
---------- Original message ---------- From: "Finance Public / Finance Publique (FIN)" <fin.financepublic-financepublique.fin@canada.ca> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 22:05:00 +0000 Subject: RE: Yo President Trump RE the Federal Court of Canada File No T-1557-15 lets see how the media people do with news that is NOT FAKE To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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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.
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---------- Original 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>
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "MacKay, Peter"Peter.MacKay@bakermckenzie.com Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:39:17 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: YO Minister Jean-Yves.Duclos Once again you are welcome Now how about the RCMP, the LIEbranos and all the other parliamentarians start acting with some semblance of Integrity after all these years? To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Premier PREMIER@gov.ns.ca Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 05:38:11 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: [PROBABLE-SPAM] RE Corrupt cops ignoring Sections 300 and 319 Sexual Harassment and Death threats and of course Glen Canning;s concern about Barry Winter and butt Buddy Patrick Doran To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
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Assistant Commissioner Larry Tremblay, Commanding Officer, New Brunswick
Larry TremblayAssistant Commissioner Larry Tremblay joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1985 from Montreal, Quebec. Prior to joining the Force, he served nearly four years in the Royal Canadian Navy.
A/Commr. Tremblay began his RCMP career in New Brunswick, where he spent 11 years occupying positions in general duty, covert operations and drug enforcement across the province. Prior to joining the executive ranks in 2002 with A Division's (Ottawa Region) Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit/Drug Section, he completed a series of assignments related to federal enforcement and specialized services in Regina, Milton, Ontario and Ottawa.
Between 2004 and 2008, A/Commr. Tremblay had the unique opportunity to be seconded to CSIS, where he developed expertise in counter proliferation and terrorism. Upon his return to the RCMP, he was assigned to Federal Policing Criminal Operations as the Director General responsible for National Security, Financial Crimes and Serious Organized Crime investigations until 2014. Following this role, he became the Criminal Operations and Protective officer at National Division (Ottawa Region), where he was responsible for sensitive and international investigations as well as the security of Canada's Prime Minister, Governor General and Parliament Hill.
In 2015, A/Commr. Tremblay returned to Headquarters as Assistant Commissioner of Federal Policing Strategic Policy & External Relations. In this strategic advisor role, he led initiatives aimed at maximizing the impact of RCMP programs, enhancing relationships with domestic and international partners, as well as prevention initiatives.
In 2016, A/Commr. Tremblay was appointed the 30th Commanding Officer of the RCMP in New Brunswick.
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I have no illusions I know for a fact CBC promotes an ugly, dystopian world Go figure why they would do that after you check both the comment sections if you care
Lose your illusions. It's an ugly, dystopian world: Neil Macdonald
People my age grew up believing the world, led by the West, was becoming more progressive. It wasn't and isn't
Neil Macdonald· CBC News· Posted: Oct 16, 2018 4:00 AM ET
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David Amos
Methinks Neil Macdonald and his cohorts questionable journalistic practices work hard hoping for us to accept an ugly, dystopian world that he thinks we the people can do nothing about N'esy Pas/
David Amos
I have no illusions I know for a fact that I have run for public office 6 times thus far even though CBC has denied each time until after the elections were over. Go figure why they would do that.
witch characters from orwell's story are 45 and the bin portraying?
David Amos
@mo bennett YO MO Orwell called this Newspeak Methinks the words were assigned to no character in particular to spew to the sheople N'esy Pas?
Lose your illusions. It's an ugly, dystopian world: Neil Macdonald
People my age grew up believing the world, led by the West, was becoming more progressive. It wasn't and isn't
Neil Macdonald· CBC News·
Donald Trump, who professes great affection for the crown prince and his family, has said just about nothing about the presumed murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi other than to remark, after speaking with Mohammed bin Salman, that it might have been "rogue killers." (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
A few thoughts on the Republic of Dystopia, our southern neighbour, and the Kingdom of Draconia, Canada's most violent and temperamental weapons customer.
A second man credibly accused of sexual misconduct now sits on the Supreme Court of the United States. The story is over, and Americans quickly moved on. As they do.
Ultimately, all Christine Blasey Ford — the woman who alleged Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her back in high school — received for her rather courageous decision to testify on live television was cruel ridicule from her savage, braying president, and guffaws from the simple-minded flying monkeys he commands at his rallies.
Her testimony never had a chance of changing anything, as she herself acknowledged early in the process. Anyone who thinks the outcome could have been different should take a moment and read a NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist poll taken late last month. It received far too little attention.
According to a recent poll, more than half of Republicans and significant factions of Democrats and independents were keen to see Kavanaugh confirmed even if Ford's accusation was proven true. (Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)
Marist pollsters asked approximately 1,000 men and women voters whether, "if the charge of sexual assault during a party in high school by Christine Blasey Ford against Brett Kavanaugh is true, do you think Brett Kavanaugh should be confirmed …?"
Fifty-four per cent of Republicans, 12 per cent of Democrats, and 31 per cent of independents said yes.
Think about that a moment. More than half the Republicans and significant factions of Democrats and independents were keen to see Kavanaugh confirmedeven if Ford's accusation was proven true. Put more bluntly, they would have been happy seeing a rapist (or attempted rapist) seated on the court. If Ford had shown up with video of the assault she says Kavanaugh inflicted on her back in his prep school days, it would have made no difference to them.
It's a stunning statistic, until you remember that millions of Americans voted for President Donald Trump, who was caught bragging on tape about committing sexual assault, and who stands accused by around 20 women.
Social justice advocates would say it's all got to do with the emboldenment of white male rage against loss of entitlement, and there's no doubt that motivation exists. There's a reason Trump portrays the #MeToo movement as a barrage of life-ruining false accusations against men.
CBC News
Trump says 'It’s a very scary time for young men in America'
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But it's more than that. White women broke for Trump in 2016, and significant numbers of white women, with and without college educations, would have seated Kavanaugh even after seeing hard evidence of guilt, the Marist poll suggests.
As, too, would have almost half of the respondents who identified as white Evangelical Christians. Because, you know, better an anti-abortion sexual predator than a liberal baby murderer.
And then there's the motivation often planted by right-wing commentators under stories on news websites. They're basically for anything they think will "make liberals' heads explode." And their hero is the chief exploder. Thanks to them, Trump was able to wave off his own piggish admissions as "locker room talk." Had there been tape of Kavanaugh assaulting Ford, it would no doubt have been accepted as wacky locker room hijinks.
It's increasingly apparent Trump represents Americans better than any of his predecessors. I'm willing to bet his fellow Dystopians will elect him to a second term.
Execution of Jamal Khashoggi
But sexual assault isn't the only crime met with a shrug from the highest echelons of the United States. Cold-blooded murder is fine, too, as long as the perpetrators are willing to buy American.
It's becoming pretty clear that the crazed princeling of Draconia, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, likely dispatched a 15-man assassination squad with a bone saw to slaughter and carve up the bothersome expat journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who visited the theocracy's embassy in Turkey last month for marriage-related documents. There may actually be a recording of the execution; Turkish intelligence, the regime in Ankara is suggesting to journalists, has a copy.
Khashoggi was an American resident and wrote for the Washington Post, among other outlets, criticizing the Saudi regime.
Such criticism clearly drives Prince Mohammed nuts, as Canada discovered last summer, when he decreed a series of sanctions against Canada in reply to a relatively mild expression of concern by our foreign affairs minister about his family's human rights record.
Very alarmed to learn that Samar Badawi, Raif Badawi’s sister, has been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia. Canada stands together with the Badawi family in this difficult time, and we continue to strongly call for the release of both Raif and Samar Badawi.
As it turns out, U.S. intelligence agents intercepted Saudi discussions about abducting Khashoggi, but reportedly said nothing, just as Donald Trump, who professes great affection for the crown prince and his family, has said just about nothing, other than to remark, after speaking with the Saudi king, that it might have been "rogue killers," and to assure reporters the Saudi monarch "flatly denies" executing Khashoggi, in much the same way as Trump rushed to accept President Vladimir Putin's flat denial that Russia meddled in the 2016 American election.
(To be fair to Trump, the United States has a history of generosity and offering the benefit of doubt where the Saudis are concerned . Remember, the U.S. government, even as it rounded up thousands of innocent Muslims living on American soil in the days after the 9/11 attacks, and contemplated attacking Iraq in retaliation, allowed the family of Osama Bin Laden — who actually directed the team of mostly Saudi extremists who carried out the attacks — to fly back to sanctuary in Saudi within days of the attack as the Twin Towers lay in smoking ruins).
After speaking with the Saudi king, Trump said that it might have been "rogue killers" who murdered Khashoggi. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images, Getty Images)
Should the United States curtail shipment of American weapons to the Saudis — weapons that the Saudis then use to slaughter civilians wholesale in Yemen?
Absolutely not, says Trump, at whose hotels the Saudis spend lavishly. Besides, Khashoggi wasn't an American citizen, he adds. No doubt the White House is trying to figure out some way to blame all this on Iran.
But it's not Iran, it's America's closest Arab pals. The same bunch Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland surely wants to flatter back into a fond relationship here. Canada sells the Saudis billions in weapons systems too, after all, and we need those medical residents Mohammed bin Salman threatened to yank from our underfunded hospitals.
People my age grew up believing the world, led by the West, was becoming ever more progressive. It wasn't, and it isn't. All it took was one ambitious real estate huckster to dispel the illusion.
Neil Macdonald is an opinion columnist for CBC News, based in Ottawa. Prior to that he was the CBC's Washington correspondent for 12 years, and before that he spent five years reporting from the Middle East. He also had a previous career in newspapers, and speaks English and French fluently, and some Arabic.
CBC says the PCs could be sworn into office by mid-November however there also could be a writ dropped for another election and if so methinks that the Liberals will out spend them again N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Methinks our local provincial politicians have far more important things to argue about lately N'esy Pas?
Chuck Stewart
Leave it to Brian Gallant, to go broke with selling weed, something dealers can make a profit with. According to Gallant this was going to be the economic savior of the province, what a joke and now we see his true colours his only concern is holding on to power for another term, no matter what the cost. Worst Premier and government in New Brunswick History.
Marc Martin
@Chuck Stewart
*something dealers can make a profit with*
Dealers are criminals and don't pay taxes, at least the money will go to job creation and have a revenue to the province.
David Amos
@Marc Martin "at least the money will go to job creation and have a revenue to the province."
Too Too Funny
Marc Martin
@Shawn McShane
*Some cannabis companies turning to temporary foreign worker program ahead of legalization.*
I am not surprised, the people in NB don't want to work, there are over 2000 positions on job bank not filled. Its like the group that feel entitled they should get a government job even if they don't have the requirement to do so.
Marc Martin
@Shawn McShane
*NBers are paying for NB students to learn to grow pot in Dieppe*
NBers are paying for a lot more then pot grower jobs...
Marc Martin
@David Amos
Prove me wrong....
Content disabled. David Amos
@Marc Martin Methinks there is no need to prove a negative to a troll all the down votes against you tell the tale N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@Marc Martin I did and was blocked as usual
SarahRose Werner
The stores are ready to go in any case, and we don't know how well (or badly) they're going to do yet because we've never done this before. How about instead of jumping to a new model, we run the one we have ready, gather some data on how it's doing and then decide whether or not we want to change?
Marc Martin
@Greg Smith
The organized crime samples are not pure you don't even know what they have in it.
Marc Martin
@Samuel Porter
*Fake Weed sells for about $1500/lb now*
I corrected you.
Marc Martin
@Greg Smith
I have not watched any documentaries, I come from a rural community and I know for a fact that the dealers do not receive pure cannabis.
Marc Martin
@Greg Smith
Some people don't like when the facts are true....right ?
Marc Martin
@Jeff LeBlanc
You seem knowledgeable ? I've seen people add tea, normal grass, what about you ?
@Marc Martin a fact? you should move to a different community before someone in yours poisons you. sounds like quite the place.
Content disabled. David Amos
@Marc Martin "I know for a fact that the dealers do not receive pure cannabis."
Methinks we should ask how is it that you know that N'esy Pas?
Content disabled. David Amos
@Marc Martin "Some people don't like when the facts are true....right ?"
Methinks everybody knows that you hate dealing with the truth N'esy Pas?
Content disabled. David Amos
@Marc Martin "I know for a fact that the dealers do not receive pure cannabis."
Methinks certain people should find that an interesting statement N'esy Pas?
Content disabled. David Amos
@Marc Martin "Some people don't like when the facts are true....right ?"
Methinks everybody can figure out why all 3 of my replies to you were blocked N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@Marc Martin Methinks trying to reply to you within this thread is like flogging a dead horse N'esy Pas?
Samuel Porter
Call a new election and open up the market. Pc's will be a shoe in. ( not that I'm a PC or LIB ).
David Amos
@Samuel Porter It would not be wise to bet the farm on it
Jake Quinlan
Assuming NB Liquor employees will work the stores? There's your price gap there relative to black market. Unionized cashiers require higher product prices (less competitive) to cover their wages.
Marc Martin
@Jake Quinlan
And dealers do not pay taxes on what they sell so your point is useless.
Marc Martin
@Paul Black
*they need to be all laid off and the outlets privatized and staffed by the new owners. Same with booze.*
Yes, give more money to the private sector so they can pay minimum wage and buy bigger trucks and boats and take more vacations to the south...You must have voted PANB.
David Amos
@Marc Martin "your point is useless."
Methinks you have yet to make a point N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@Marc Martin "You must have voted PANB."
Methinks everybody knows who you vote for N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
@David Amos
*Methinks you have yet to make a point N'esy Pas?*
I did, government monitored = job creation and taxes Drug dealers = no tax money and selling to minors to addict them and to put more pressure on our health system.
Marc Martin
@David Amos
*Methinks everybody knows who you vote for N'esy Pas?*
The last 2 election I voted Liberals, they are the only ones who stand up for French rights.
David Amos
@Marc Martin Methinks you just proved my point for me N'esy Pas?
Shawn McShane
New Brunswick based Organigram “accompanied government personnel and representatives of other manufacturing companies on recruiting trips to Mexico and the Philippines.”
We have students in NB learning to grow pot on the taxpayer dime while the Liberals go abroad for workers...in this place!
There was plenty of good dispensaries that I used to frequent until they all got shut down. They should be allowed to reopen and pay the government a license fee to operate. By far their staff are more educated and passionate about their craft. I can't see a government employee being the same.
Marc Martin
@Jeff LeBlanc
*There was plenty of good *illegal* dispensaries that I used to frequent until they all got shut down*
I corrected it for you Jeff, your welcome.
Marguerite Deschamps
@Marc Martin, a PA supporter and a pot head, go figure!
Marc Martin
@Marguerite Deschamps
You have also noticed all the PANB supporters are the ones complaining regarding this subject?
Marc Martin
@Paul Black
*The laws are illegal*
Why ?
Jeff LeBlanc
@Marguerite Deschamps you just aged yourself big time with that post
Jeff LeBlanc
@Marc Martin ever notice how many thumbs down your posts get. Seriously go back and look at your profile, you can comment all you want but your efforts are futile, you can't even type in proper sentences and your English and grammar are horrible. Why not give it a rest?
Marc Martin
@Jeff LeBlanc
*you can't even type in proper sentences and your English and grammar are horrible. *
You don't read a lot of your anti-French buddy posts do ya ?
*you can comment all you want but your efforts are futile*
If they are why read them ?
Marc Martin
@Jeff LeBlanc
*is part of the vocal minority*
My minority got the popular vote at 38% what about yours ?
Marc Martin
@Marguerite Deschamps
That was a threat.
David Amos
@Marc Martin "My minority got the popular vote at 38% what about yours ?"
Methinks you have yet to figure out who I am merely because I did not get many votes in the six elections I ran in N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@Marc Martin "That was a threat."
Nope anyone can read this comment section if they care
@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks you should say Hey to your pal Judge Richard Bell N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
@David Amos
Your in need of attention today Davis ?
David Amos
@Jeff LeBlanc "ever notice how many thumbs down your posts get. Seriously go back and look at your profile, you can comment all you want but your efforts are futile,"
I agree
Rod McLeod
Good luck with that, Blaine. NB Liquor's strangle-hold will continue with Cannabis-NB. While I love the idea of it, it'll never happen. If it does happen, maybe you could do the same with NB Liquor.
Marc Martin
@Rod McLeod
Why would you want to remove NB Liquor the only government agency that makes money ? You must have voted for PANB right ?
Rod McLeod
@Marc Martin Cannabis-NB-Liquor is a gouge operation with no competition. What I'm doing is agreeing to having some competition. We just watched their strong arm tactics with the cross border issue. These are purely scam operations. I've no doubt that the black market issue with cannabis will still do just fine after Wednesday. The reason: no competition which will drive inflated prices; just like alcohol.
Marc Martin
@Rod McLeod
Alcohol is a privilege not a necessity, you don't have the money to buy it then don't. Privatizing alcohol will only put more money into business and wont be reinvested into the public.
*I've no doubt that the black market issue with cannabis will still do just fine after Wednesday*
That the people choice I guess, you can buy good beer or make your own... The same thing will apply to cannabis you can buy the right stuff or buy the diluted and mixed with all short of stuff rom drug dealers.
David Amos
@Marc Martin "That the people choice I guess, you can buy good beer or make your own... The same thing will apply to cannabis you can buy the right stuff or buy the diluted and mixed with all short of stuff rom drug dealers."
Methinks you seem rather bitter about something N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@Marc Martin "You must have voted for PANB right ?"
Methinks it is not illegal to vote for the PANB yet N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
@David Amos
What are you talking about again Davis ?
Marc Martin
@David Amos
*Methinks it is not illegal to vote for the PANB yet N'esy Pas?*
I never said it was... .
Content disabled. David Amos
@Marc Martin Methinks Mr Leblanc has you figured out. I would lay odds that he understands Chiac as well N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@Marc Martin Yea Right
Paul Black
Government should not be in the business of running a business. They can’t get it right. They’re role is to create a framework for private enterprise to compete on a level playing field. This liberal nanny state stuff has to end. Premier Higgs will be sworn in soon.
Marc Martin
@Paul Black
They are trying to fight the black market dealers and control it, its a drug all drugs are controlled in civilized worlds.
David Amos
@Marc Martin "its a drug all drugs are controlled in civilized worlds"
Methinks if it such a nasty drug then your liberal pals should not have legalized it N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
@David Amos
A lot of drugs are legalized you didn't know ?
David Amos
@Marc Martin Methinks folks who know me well know that I know far more about politicking than you ever will. Furthermore they know that the government makes far too much off of my addiction to nicotine but they are thankful that I never had a beer in my life and I seldom take a drink of wine or booze anymore. Hard to believe but nevertheless true N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
@David Amos
Cannabis is only legal tomorrow Davis.
David Amos
@Marc Martin I don't smoke dope so I will let you and your heroes Brian Gallant and Trudeau The Younger worry about tomorrow. Methinks everybody know why am too busy with "The Donald" the Yankee mid term elections Its called an October Surprise N'esy Pas?
Michael durant
Organigram in Moncton used a fungicide supplied by Dow chemical which was approved by Health Canada. When medical marijuana smokers began getting very ill Dow chemical was contacted and explained their product should never be inhaled. It was designed to be ingested in the gut and not the lungs. Health Canada missed that bit of info, what else are they missing in their "approved" facilities?
David Amos
@Michael durant Good Point Sir
Rosco holt
And again government will shoot itself in the foot to profit their friends.
If privatize, only those close the Conservatives party will be chosen and with it all of the profit minus licenses, taxes & fees.
David Amos
@Rosco holt YUP
Rob Williams
"It's a very strongly educated guess that we would maybe not break even but be close to that by the end of the year."
Wow, and that's despite charging twice as much for product than what the street does. Aaaaand despite that product being sub-par compared to that street stuff.
This whole thing is being handled by people who can't even begin to understand the basics of the market. No one who uses cannabis now is going to likely go legal when it costs twice as much and doesn't even look good. Pictures I've seen posted on CBC before have inspired zero confidence.
There's a difference between liquor and cannabis. People can't easily get off-market beer, so they put up with asinine prices. People -can- easily get off-market weed, that's not only cheaper, but better.
How long until they learn this lesson?
David Amos
@Rob Williams "How long until they learn this lesson?"
Methinks your question is rhetorical in nature N'esy Pas?
Joseph Vacher
government should step back and let private corp. do 100% of this. Why the hell are we paying tax dollars for cashiers to sell goverrnments controlled anything
David Amos
@Joseph Vacher Methinks it is just another cash cow for the government's political pals N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
@Joseph Vacher
Yes lets give it to private CORP and let them create the minimum wage jobs so they can keep more money to buy big trucks, big boats and go on more trips to the south....
David Amos
@Marc Martin Methinks the government should not have all the fun N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
@David Amos
Actually the way it implemented right now you have more people able to enjoy a decent wage instead of a few individuals.
David Amos
@Marc Martin So says an overpaid bureaucrat whose salary and pension are supported byway of the Crown's taxes on way too many folks who are forced to work for a minimum wage that he would consider a mere pittance N'esy Pas?
Allan J Whitney
Anybody think people are going to buy this grossly overpriced product when they can grow it themselves for almost nothing? Heaven only knows what it will have been sprayed with. They are already relocating their grow ops to foreign countries where production costs are one thirtieth what they are here.
David Amos
@Allan J Whitney Methinks that is par for the course of the liberals in their failed efforts of making work for Maritimers N'esy Pas?
Matt Steele
Just another Brian Gallant failure . It looks like Gallant was more interested in creating high paying govt. jobs for his buddies than he was in trying to save taxpayers money . Why pay high prices at a govt. store when users can grow it themselves , or buy it on the street for a fraction of the price . Luckily for New Brunswicker's , Gallant lost the election before he can do any more damage....Bye Bye Brian !!!
Rosco holt
@Matt Steele Didn't the Alward government do the same thing?
What her name again, the one that resign being an MLA and given a administrative job in NBPower. Then there's also Alward exchange his job of PM for diplomat in Boston.
Colin Seeley
@Rosco holt
Not the same thing at all. Alward is gone. We kicked him out.
Now it’s Gallant’s turn to be licked out.
Bye Bye. Brian !! Sadly Rogers is still getting paid by me.
Rosco holt
@Colin Seeley He wasn't kicked out, he left before he was kicked out.
Samuel Porter
@Rosco holt Now if Nb voters would just get some gonads, and quit voting for the old boys clubs.... .
Rosco holt
@Colin Seeley What about Margaret-Ann Blaney, she was given another government job that paid just has well has being an MLA.
David Amos
@Rosco holt Methinks the NDP dude has a selective memory N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@Samuel Porter "Now if Nb voters would just get some gonads"
I agree
Marc Martin
@Matt Steele
*Why pay high prices at a govt. store when users can grow it themselves , or buy it on the street for a fraction of the price *
Because its a drug and it needs to be monitored, all drugs are monitored by the way didn't you know ?
*buy it on the street for a fraction of the price*
And this is the type of people who voted for the Cons and PANB....
David Amos
@Marc Martin So says a liberal bureaucrat N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
@David Amos
*So says a liberal bureaucrat N'esy Pas?*
That is not possible unless you work under the party itself, im glad I educated you on this you can say ty now.
David Amos
@Marc Martin "im glad I educated you on this you can say ty now."
Dream on and when you wake up say hey to your boss for me will ya?
Thomas Davie
I live in another province and was able to create an account w/my real address. Wonder if it'll choke when I try to check out tomorrow night.
I'm on medical retirement so I may as well see how many provincial stores, if any, I can buy from.
Tom
David Amos
@Thomas Davie Good Luck
Samuel Porter
There is no such thing as a locked tight contract. Just ask Frank McKenna.
Rosco holt
@Samuel Porter Contracts with the NB government aren't what the used to.
David Amos
@Samuel Porter Oh So True
Jeff Smith
A lot of people are going to buy it at the beginning just for the joy of legally buying cannabis - then it's going to drop off, as competition with 4 home grown plants and "gifts" kicks in.
David Amos
@Jeff Smith I concur
David Amos
@Jeff Smith Methinks a lot of the first purchases will never be smoked and turned into collectors items N'esy Pas?
stephen blunston
smartest thing I heard in awhile no need to have another crown corp that has unreasonable overhead like NB liquor, their needs to be tough rules and regulations but the government needs to stay away from running businesses they just make it too costly , maybe a cannabis place that regulates and sells to the store, but not on the retail side
David Amos
@stephen blunston Methinks the government will never rid us of its latest cash cow N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
@stephen blunston
* crown corp that has unreasonable overhead like NB liquor*
The only crown corp that makes money you do know that right?
Bernard McIntyre
@Marc Martin. Yes they could make more money, you do know that right?
David Amos
@Bernard McIntyre Methinks you should forget trying to argue an overpaid liberal pundit That dog don't hunt he just barks at people N'esy Pas?
Darren J Taylor
What kind of idiot is going to pay almost $300 an ounce??
David Amos
@Darren J Taylor Wealthy ones
Bernard McIntyre
I wrote about the same thing in yesterday's comment that the private sector should have run the pot stores instead of government wasting tax payer's money. The same as alcohol N.B . Sell it and the government would still make money if not more from taxes , no expenses. The money from the sale goes to pay down our deficit. The government has proven that it can't run business and not just the current government but past also. Example our Provincial deficit getting close to 15 billion
David Amos
@Bernard McIntyre "Provincial deficit getting close to 15 billion"
Methinks many political pundits know that I told the folks my solution to that problem in a debate and on the TV during this election which is being much disputed right now N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
@Bernard McIntyre
*Sell it and the government would still make money if not more from taxes , no expenses. *
Yeah sell it to a private Corp to have them create minimum salary jobs and to able them to buy a bigger boat, car and travel more....Alcohol and Cannabis is not a necessity, if you cant afford it don't buy it.
David Amos
@Marc Martin Methinks you are being rather redundant N'esy Pas?
Bernard McIntyre
@David Amos. I don't know. I can't ansewer that question scince I don't remember of hearing you ask a question on the tv debate for this election. But saying this I never watched all the debates It's hard to watch something when no one shows any respect towards other people.
Marc Martin
@David Amos
You think too much, your going to overwhelm yourself, relax, don't be so angry Davis.
Bernard McIntyre
@Marc Martin. You can stop repeating your self . No one is listening.
David Amos
@Bernard McIntyre "The same as alcohol N.B . Sell it and the government would still make money if not more from taxes , no expenses."
I agree let private businesses sell the dope just like they do cigarettes and now some booze
Methinks that whereas the Tax Man is involved with cannabis they will come down hard on the illegal sale of it just like they do with tobacco and cross border booze N'esy Pas?
Bernard McIntyre
@David Amos .I don't believe your the angry one here.
David Amos
@Bernard McIntyre "It's hard to watch something when no one shows any respect towards other people."
Google Fundy Royal Debate
David Amos
@Bernard McIntyre "I don't believe your the angry one here."
Methinks if you can't find some fun the madness you will go crazy just like my political foes in Canada and the USA have falsely claimed that I am and had me illegally arrested and falsely imprisoned in both countries N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
@Bernard McIntyre
I wasn't aware you could listen to posts on a website....
David Amos
@Marc Martin Methinks most folks know what YouTube is N'esy Pas?
Martine Stevenson
Of course change everything, New Brunswick has so much money.
David Amos
@Martine Stevenson Methinks many a true word is said in jest N'esy Pas?
Martine Stevenson
@David Amos ??????????
David Amos
@Martine Stevenson I figured you were not serious
Martine Stevenson
@David Amos . LOL! maximum sarcastic.
Al Bekirkey
it doesnt matter their isnt enough supply in the legal market right now the person that sets up a few reliable testing facilities to take in overproduction from the public and sell to private stores should be the gov perogative
Al Bekirkey
@Al Bekirkey the person that sets that facility will be the person that keeps this game going and really this company should be the crown control not the stores the stores should be run by the ma and pa outfits
David Amos
@Al Bekirkey Methinks many a Ma and Pa Outfit agree with you N'esy Pas?
Anne Bérubé
Well, isn't a more pressing issue that getting stoned a.s.a.p. here? For God's sake, give your little heads a shake, this country went from NO SMOKING signs to PLEASE SMOKE POT, WE NEED THE MONEY in a heartbeat. Is this real? Shame on this federal government.
David Amos @Anne Bérubé I truly believe that legalizing dope was the big reason the liberals won the last time folks voted. The next election folks will affirm whether or not the liberals are a one trick pony or if they will get lucky and Maxime's new political party splits the vote on the right. Either way 2019 will be interesting and all the political pundit know why I look forward to the Circus r in Fundy Royal next yea. Methinks elections are for the benefit of more than the middle class, out of work potash miners, and wealthy dairy farmers. Folks collecting the minimum wage and pensioners pay taxes too N'esy Pas?
Fundy Royal campaign targets middle class with focus on jobs
Where New Brunswickers buy cannabis could change if PCs take over
PCs could be sworn into office by mid-November with a chance to change the cannabis retail model
Jacques Poitras· CBC News·
The province has signed leases for some of its retail stores and also has agreements with cannabis suppliers. (Jeff McIntosh/Canadian Press)
Government and NB Liquor officials say it won't be difficult to change the way cannabis is sold in New Brunswick if a Progressive Conservative government wants to let the private sector enter the market.
They say the current design — 20 government-owned retail stores around the province — is "quite flexible" and could be changed.
"We would be able to, given some time, shift gears, depending on what government decides to do," Nicole Picot, the deputy minister of finance, said at a technical briefing Monday.
"We have leases to consider. There are a number of different factors to consider. It would probably be a matter of months, I'd say, not days."
Cannabis becomes legal in Canada on Wednesday.
Each province decides own system
Different provinces have adopted different systems for regulating the legal sale of the drug, with New Brunswick's Liberal government opting for a chain of 20 stores operated by a subsidiary of NB Liquor.
The opposition Progressive Conservatives have called for a greater role for the private sector, predicting the government-run model will be a money loser.
CBC News
'We'll have a range of products that will range form $8 a gram to $16 a gram'
Cannabis NB CEO Brian Harriman talks about what the province's cannabis stores are expecting come legalization on Wednesday. 0:48
Last month's election left both parties with no majority in the legislature. The Liberals will try to govern by winning a confidence vote in the legislature with the support of at least one of the smaller parties that won seats.
If they fail, the PCs could be sworn into office by mid-November with a chance to change the cannabis retail model.
CBC News
'The only legal place to buy cannabis is from a Cannabis NB store or from Cannabis NB's website'
Deputy minister of finance Nicole Picot reminds New Brunswickers of some of the basic ground rules regarding the purchase, transport and consumption of legal cannabis. 0:48
On the CBC political panel, PC MLA Ross Wetmore said the party wants to "expand" the retail system and will review existing contracts that have been signed to see what can be done.
"It could be locked-tight contracts that are signed and we can't do anything to get out of them," he said.
A 'tight, high-government-oversight model'
The Cannabis NB location at 87 Landsdowne Ave. in Saint John was the first government cannabis store to be unveiled in Canada. (Julia Wright / CBC)
The province has signed leases for some of its retail stores and also has agreements with cannabis suppliers.
"We are essentially operating under a service contract with the Province of New Brunswick," said NB Liquor CEO Brian Harriman. "We are in essence a franchisee."
"If the province chose to add other retailers or to switch to a mixed or a private market, it's an option, but it's not something we can turn on overnight. It's certainly something that's possible."
Liberal Finance Minister Cathy Rogers said the government opted to start with "a tight,
high-government-oversight model" because some U.S. states that legalized cannabis said it had been a mistake to start out "loosely."
CBC News
CBC NB Political Panel October 12
The political panel discusses the various political parties' approaches to retail sales of marijuana. 18:17
"Their advice is they wouldn't do that again," Rogers said on the political panel.
Harriman was part of the task force that recommended a strict government-run model. He said it was best suited to match the federal government's mandate of shrinking the criminal cannabis market and protecting children.
"This was the model we felt best delivered on the mandate," he said.
PCs predict losses
PC Leader Blaine Higgs predicted repeatedly during the election campaign that the system would see taxpayers lose money on sales.
The province had projected $6 million in tax revenue and $1.2 million in store profits in the 2018-19 fiscal year when legalization was set for July 1.
But when delays to passing federal legislation pushed the legalization date to this week — meaning sales for a smaller part of the fiscal year — the projections shrank.
Might near breaking even
Tax revenue is now expected to be $3.6 million. The figure for store profits was not available Monday but Finance Department spokesperson Sarah Bustard said overall, the impact on the provincial budget would be neutral this year.
Harriman said because it's a new market, the corporation won't really be able to forecast its sales revenue until the stores open.
"Until that happens, we don't know," he said.
But with start-up costs, including the construction of stores, on the books this year, "It's a very strongly educated guess that we would maybe not break even but be close to that by the end of the year."
Harriman said that he expects the stores will turn a profit for the government in fiscal 2019-2020.
Brian Gallant, Blaine Higgs urged to form a grand coalition to govern New Brunswick
Bud Bird, an ex-mayor and cabinet minister, says a Liberal-PC coalition is a 'historic opportunity'
Jacques Poitras· CBC News·
71 Comments
David Amos
Methinks everybody should thank Bud Bird for the greatest chuckle of the day N'esy Pas?
Michael durant
There is very little separating these two mainstream parties anyway. Its been our experience for at least the last four decades both these parties follow the same political ideology and very little changes in this province. A coalition of the two is just another way of expressing little change.
Norman Albert Snr
@Michael durant They both serve the same master and it ain't us wee folk.
David Amos
@Norman Albert Snr Oh So True
Robert Brannen
Recent polling shows that the people of New Brunswick have the following preferences for a blended government:
It would be a tsunami political shift, from the narcissistic emotional intelligent muscle brawn side of the brain colour painting by numbers politics; to the intellectual cognitive rational side, with insight and discernment, needed to legislate.
David Amos
@Roland Godin Methinks many a true word is said in jest N'esy Pas?
Nicholas Dippler
The Irvings have spoken.
David Amos
@Nicholas Dippler YUP
Dave Peters
I believe that this reporter is more interested in the status quo than moving us forward. Do the election results even matter to you Monsieur Poitras. This province obviously wants change, perhaps your articles could reflect this once in awhile. Both leaders have indicated to Mr. Bird not a chance of coalition. Was this article to ask them to re-consider??
David Amos
@Dave Peters Methinks you should prepare for the next election N'esy Pas/
Dwight Williams
You have to understand the significance of a coalition like this. The two entrenched neoliberal parties comprise two opposing organizations whose existence has been justified mainly by the need to fight one another. For two entrenched power centres whose main objective has always been to get power and keep it from the other organization, to agree to share it instead, is a big thing.
This is fundamentally different that one of these entrenched powers agreeing to partner short-term with a fringe party. And maybe that's why the partisans here hate it so much.
David Amos
@Dwight Williams Methinks the PANB would have a hay day that would last four years if Bud Bird got his wish N'esy Pas?
Shawn McShane
In Europe "grand coalitions" are formed to keep the smaller parties out of government. As smaller parties gain electoral support the traditional governments lose their majorities. Traditional parties like the PCs and LIbs which have historically alternated in government join forces to remain in power. It is all about holding onto power. It isn't about democracy.
David Amos
@Shawn McShane "It isn't about democracy."
Methinks everybody knows democracy and justice are myths promoted by politicians, journalists and Hollywood No doubt Leonard Cohen's ghost agrees N'esy Pas?
Al Marsden
People want good government and do not care about politicians playing childish games, jockeying for position and uncertainty. If these guys can't grow up and do what is best for the province then have another election and toss them all out and start over.
David Amos
@Al Marsden "toss them all out and start over."
Methinks many folks would agree that is the best part of of your comment N'esy Pas?
Dwight Williams
Can you imagine this happening in the USA?
I find this a very encouraging sign for the health of our democracy.
David Amos
@Dwight Williams Methinks you must know that most folks consider this a joke N'esy Pas?
Mark Deckard
Someone should tell Bird that marijuana is only legal in NB starting on October 17th. What a pipe dream!
David Amos
@Mark Deckard Well Put Sir
William Edwards
Really no diff between PC and Libs, they both stink.
David Amos
@William Edwards Oh So True
Aaron Allison
I have been saying this since the election was over. It's a smart move
reginald churchill
@Aaron Allison and I wouldn't want the Conservatives working with Liberal and the anti English Acadian Party
David Amos
@reginald churchill Methinks about half the folks in the province agree with you N'esy Pas?
Jake Quinlan
If you are of the mind that these two parties are 2 sides of the same coin and you wanted neither, then this does not serve you. This would give the 2 3rd parties a hell of a lot of question period time, might be good as they may not hold much back with those questions - would put both parties records on trial at same time.
The legislation coming out of the meat grinder that is the 2 big parties being forced to compromise, may not be a bad thing either, get sort o middle of the road governance that has balanced approach to things.
Interesting politics to say the least in this place.
David Amos
@Jake Quinlan "Interesting politics to say the least in this place."
Welcome to the Circus
John Valcourt
I think this would be a good idea. Imagine if you could, our provincial politicians putting New Brunswick first, ahead of their own agendas. What a thought.
Shawn McShane
@John Valcourt Liberal/Tory same ol story. What a thought.
Dan Lee
@John Valcourt Ithink its a great idea.................
Shawn McShane
@Dan Lee Of course you think it is a great idea to keep the Libs in power.
David Amos
@Shawn McShane YUP
Shawn McShane
Do another election instead of the above two headed abomination. Remember both parties refused to appoint a speaker. When CBC Jacques Poitras asked the PC and Liberal members if any of them would be willing to be speaker all said no and sounded snooty (radio). Roy-Vienneau could swear in a PC government led by Higgs "and see whether the Assembly would be willing to elect a Speaker under him."
Jacques Poitras says that option would also likely fail as it did in 1908 in Newfoundland.
David Amos
@Robert Brannen Methinks I should be fair and reveal to you that not everybody who runs for public office cares what Jacques Poitras has to say about anything N'esy Pas?
Donna Beardy
Liberals should learn to lose with some dignity like Philippe Couillard did. They have a lot of losses coming their way in the next year.
David Amos
@Donna Beardy True
cheryl wright
for starters Higgs and most of all Gallant will not allow this to happen.. there is too much animosity between the two and really.. why spend all the money and go to the polls if they just form a government anyways
David Amos
@cheryl wright Methinks this article should go in the entertainment section N'esy Pas?
Donna Beardy
PC-Liberal alliance? Naw….Gallant should just go away
John Price
@Donna Beardy Naw, they should all go away. That's what the voters wanted - they didn't feel any party earned their trust for a majority, so the leaders of both major parties should go, and new platforms developed.
David Amos
@John Price I agree
Murray Brown
Sorry Bud... You are an elder statesman and you were a good politician, but that's the sort of idea that somebody who isn't in the game can say... But it is highly unlikely that Higgs and Gallant will never come together to form a coalition. Higgs needs to the PA party and viola... We have a government. If not, then we go to the polls and have a do over.
David Amos
@Murray Brown "Sorry Bud... You are an elder statesman and you were a good politician,"
Methinks you don't know the said Bud Bird I know N'esy Pas?
Brian Gallant, Blaine Higgs urged to form a grand coalition to govern New Brunswick
Bud Bird, an ex-mayor and cabinet minister, says a Liberal-PC coalition is a 'historic opportunity'
Jacques Poitras· CBC News·
Liberal Premier Brian Gallant and Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs spoke for the first time since the election on Oct. 11, when they encountered each other at an orientation session for MLAs. Bud Bird, a longtime politician, has suggested Gallant and Higgs form a grand coalition. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
An elder statesman of New Brunswick politics is pushing a bold idea to resolve the political standoff in the legislature: a coalition government between the Liberal and Progressive Conservative parties.
Bud Bird, a former Fredericton mayor, PC provincial cabinet minister and MP, made the proposal in a letter to Liberal Premier Brian Gallant and Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs.
"There can be no doubt of the strength and direction that would be inherent in the principles of a coalition between Liberal and Conservative parties working together in common cause for the future of New Brunswick," he said.
In an interview, Bird said Gallant and Higgs could work as co-premiers, heading a cabinet of ministers drawn in equal numbers from the Liberal and PC caucuses.
The PCs won 22 and the Liberals 21, with the Greens and the People's Alliance winning three seats each.
The Liberals hope to hold on to power by winning a confidence vote in the legislature in the coming months, even though neither of the smaller parties has committed to voting for them.
A 'historic opportunity' proposed
Bird said a better solution would be a Liberal-PC — or PC-Liberal — agreement. He wrote in his letter that it represents a "historic opportunity" for a new approach to politics.
Relying on the smaller parties would mean "we will end up governing to the lowest common denominator, as opposed to the highest common strength," he said.
A Liberal-PC government would hold a commanding majority of 43 out of 49 seats in the legislature.
Gallant has indicated he will try to win the confidence of the legislature. (James West/THE CANADIAN PRESS)
Without such a deal, Bird said, another election is inevitable soon, and he believes the two smaller parties will gain more seats and make the province even harder to govern.
Such "grand coalitions" between two large, rival parties are common in European politics but almost unheard of in Canada. One of the few examples when this country came close was the federal Union government, made up of Conservatives and Liberals, during the First World War.
But Bird said many other organizations have been run well with two people at the top, including McCain Foods and J.D. Irving Ltd.
Bird sent the letter quietly on Oct. 2 and had not planned to make it public until he was contacted by CBC News.
He said in an interview that both Higgs and Gallant turned down the idea, Higgs through an intermediary and Gallant in a phone call to him directly.
"In both cases the message was that it would be impossible to get together, that feelings were so deep as a result of political conflicts over the past several years that this just would not work," he said.
Even so, "I do think it's a wonderful opportunity and I've not been dissuaded. But I don't think it's likely. I know there are all kinds of political obstacles and so on, but none that could not be surpassed if all the people involved put their minds to it."
Bad blood between leaders
The bad blood between the Liberal and PC leaders has been on public display since election night, when Gallant announced he would rely on parliamentary precedents to convene the new legislature and try to win a confidence vote with the support of at least one smaller party.
Higgs has complained that Gallant should have called him to concede when the results showed the PCs winning more seats.
"I guess I would have expected to get a call from him on election night because that's how the system works, but I didn't," Higgs said last week.
Higgs has said he expected Gallant to concede the election to him after the PCs won 22 seats and the Liberals won 21 seats on Sept. 24. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)
Gallant in turn has accused Higgs of ignoring the parliamentary rules that let the Liberals try to govern. "He's tried to tell New Brunswickers he's the premier-elect, which is just not the case. So obviously it puts all of us in a very difficult situation."
The two men spoke for the first time since the election on Oct. 11, when they encountered each other at an orientation session for MLAs.
"We haven't talked much directly," Higgs told Gallant.
The premier ignored the remark and congratulated the PC leader for winning his Quispamsis seat on Sept. 24.
Bird suggested the two men "get together in a closed room, with or without the lieutenant-governor, and talk seriously about this. … I know at first glance it will raise hackles all over the place."
But he said Gallant and Higgs would "set a tone" that's different from the political climate throughout North America and go down in history as statesmen willing to rise above their partisan interests.
"If they reflect on the model and the example they would be setting, I think their marks in New Brunswick history would become indelible," he said.
About the Author
Jacques Poitras
Provincial Affairs reporter
Jacques Poitras has been CBC's provincial affairs reporter in New Brunswick since 2000. Raised in Moncton, he also produces the CBC political podcast Spin Reduxit.
Proposed Irving plea deal would put money into Irving-controlled salmon group
James Irving of JDI is chair of CAST, a non-profit trying to bring back wild salmon
Connell Smith· CBC News· Posted: Oct 17, 2018 6:00 AM AT
64 Comments
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David Amos
Methinks the Irving Clan proved to us once again not only just how powerful they are but just how dumb and or corrupt the Crown truly is N'esy Pas?
Rick Given
Why are we so worried about the lack of a functioning government in Freddy...we know who actually runs this province.
David Amos
@Rick Given YUP
Edwin Kelley
Looks like the Empire controls both provincial and federal governments. This whole process stinks, pay a fine to yourself for an area that wasn't even involved in the incident????
David Amos
@Edwin Kelley "Looks like the Empire controls both provincial and federal governments."
Methinks everybody has known that for years. E ven Mr Trump and his minions south of the 49th like the Irving Clan N'esy Pas?
Shawn McShane
The crown is recommending this deal? There was a song about this stuff... Money and Corruption Are ruining the land Crooked politicians Betray the working man, Pocketing the profits And treating us like sheep, And we’re tired of hearing promises That we know they’ll never keep.
David Amos
@Shawn McShane The Kinks were pretty decent band
Murray Brown
I should be able to pay my fines to my favourite charity... Me!
David Amos
@Murray Brown Me Too
kelly sherrard
The money from the fine should be used to clean up the waters where the incident occurred NOT to an Irving interest. It doesn't make sense. They pollute the waters in one area and then walk away from it and look to pour the money from their fine into one of their special projects..... NO IT DOESN'T PASS THE SNIFF TEST.
David Amos
@kelly sherrard I wholeheartedly agree
Stanley Beemish
The Atlantic Salmon Federation has been around for decades, perhaps they could use the funds? Or the Huntsman Centre in St. Andrews?
David Amos
@Stanley Beemish Methinks they don't need money either their sponsors make sure of that N'esy Pas?
David Stairs
this is Irving simply trying to divert money for a tax right off..what a wonderful system...Irving gets to claim the money paid, for the fines, as tax right offs, and then gets to divert the same money into a program in which he is CEO ..and the next thing you know he will be going to Gallant for a non refundable loan...
Roy Kirk
@David Stairs I thought fines were not tax deductible no matter to whom they are paid. Is this wrong?
David Amos
@Roy Kirk Methinks fines are tax deductible but the CRA won't argue with the Irving Clan anyway N'esy Pas?
Bernard McIntyre
@Roy Kirk. This is N.B. and the Irving's so what do you think.
Fred Brewer
@David Stairs You are 100% right. Irving will pay the "fine" to himself and then claim it as charitable donation for a tax write-off. No wonder a judge wants to review this settlement before approving it.
Fred Brewer
@David Stairs And here is another sneaky way the Irvings and others get a nice tax write-off.
When I go to an Irving Kent store I am frequently asked if I wish to donate to a charity. I always ask if Kent will match my donation and the answer is always no, and then I decline. I don't think it is right for Irving to collect thousands from its customers and then look like a good guy by making the donation and then filing for a tax write-off without donating a single penny!!!
David Amos
@Fred Brewer I don't think it is right for Irving to collect thousands from its customers and then look like a good guy by making the donation and then filing for a tax write-off without donating a single penny!!!
Methinks that is simply standard operating procedure for the Irving Clan N'esy Pas?
Roy Kirk
New Brunswick Justice: Pay your fine to yourself and your friends. Be . . . well-connected . . . in this place!
David Amos
@Roy Kirk Methinks the Irving Clan will be allowed to deduct the fine from their taxes as well N'esy Pas?
Roy Kirk
@David Amos I thought fines were not tax deductible, and so a contribution to a charity in lieu of a fine would not be deductible either. But I'm no tax accountant/lawyer.
David Amos
@Roy Kirk "I'm no tax accountant/lawyer."
Nor I but methinks everybody knows I am whistleblower about financial crimes who sued many Yankee accountant/lawyers, judges and tax men in 2002 long before I ran for a seat in the 38h Parliament. N'esy Pas?
Norman Albert Snr
What kind of a deal is that!!!!! You get to dictate where the fines go???? Is this God we are talking about here
Bernard McIntyre
@Norman Albert Snr. Of course it is. This is N.B. where the Irving's are supreme.
David Amos
@Bernard McIntyre Sad but Oh So True
Jack Forester
@David Amos Yes sadly, billionaires are the new gods, and we are their pawns.
David Amos
@Jack Forester Methinks the powerful ones ruled over the meek as soon as peoplekind could think N'esy Pas?
Norman Albert Snr
Not a chance in H. Pay your fines on all charges. This special treatment policy needs to stop!!!! NOW!!!!
David Amos
@Norman Albert Snr Methinks it is a small wonder that my first comment has not appeared yet N'esy Pas?
Rene Cusson
Nice...when you get a fine, you can basically give it to yourself and consider it paid?
Fine...the next time I get a speeding ticket, I'm going to take the money for the fine, and rather than pay it, I'll invest it in improvements for my car, in the name of making me a safer driver of course.
It's the same deal...think the courts will go for it? :) Probably not, because I'm not rich enough to own them, unlike Irving apparently.
David Amos
@Rene Cusson Methinks the Irving Clan knows as well as I that everything is political and its always about the money. Obviously they abide in the Golden Rule of all corporations and governments. Everybody knows it is "He with the Gold Makes the Rules" N'esy Pas?
Dan Lee
Remember the blue heron habitat he destroyed a few years ago.......same thing......he was allowed to deduct as a contribution.............
David Amos
@Dan Lee Methinks folks should finally wake up, sit up and pay attention N'esy Pas?
Norman Albert Snr
Just when you thought the justice system here couldn't sink any lower???/
Shawn McShane
@Norman Albert Snr It is downright creepy. People are supposed to trust the justice system.
“Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying.” ― Steven Magee
David Amos
@Norman Albert Snr Methinks if you wish to see how low things can go Google my name and Federal Court then when you find the text to the lawsuit read Statement # 83 real slow Truth is stranger than fiction N'esy Pas?
Shawn McShane
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others
David Amos
@Shawn McShane Methinks George Orwell explained that to us a long time ago N'esy Pas?
Shawn McShane
@David Amos Animal Farm was essential reading when I was in school. Today kids have never heard of it.
Jack Forester
Conflict of interest = a situation in which a person is in a position to derive personal benefit from actions or decisions made in their official capacity.
Megalomania = obsession with the exercise of power, especially in the domination of others.
If the shoe fits, wear it. The Irving control & madness never ends.
David Amos
@Jack Forester Amazing ain't it?
Jack Forester
Ya Mr. Irving, bring back the salmon that you have killed with effluents and/or fished out of your private pools so you will once again have plenty to catch with your rich buddies (govt etc), and have something to point to that was for the environment. Nothing you will ever do will erase, or make up for the damages, both financial and environmental, which your companies have caused directly or indirectly all over this once "Picture Province" and elsewhere.
David Amos
@Jack Forester Methinks the ghost of old KC and his Clan quite simply don't care N'esy Pas?
Norman Albert Snr
If Irving wants to donate some on the billions it extracts from NB back into the community great. They should do so. The fines for criminal activities is quite another matter. Pay the fines on all charges to the courts and clean up your messes.
David Amos
@Norman Albert Snr Methinks you must be old enough to know that justice is a myth N'esy Pas?
Colin Seeley
Nothing wrong with this. At least it appears more open and honest than moving revenue numbers from Sunday to Sunday.
David Amos
@Colin Seeley Methinks its not rocket science figuring out who you work for N'esy Pas?
Colin Seeley
@David Amos
I’m a nurse. KMA.
Samuel Porter
@Colin Seeley Where is KMA?
David Amos
@Samuel Porter Methinks he wants me to kiss the fat thing he has that is just like what the Crown and the Irvings have just shown us N'esy Pas?
Samuel Porter
@David Amos baahaaaa yeah
Samuel Porter
I saw the big ad in the TJ where cast was complaining about inaction on the salmon file. Didn't realize Irving was the chair. What a farce. Deforestation has to be A major reason why the salmon are disappearing. Guess I won't be paying any more attention to that outfit. The chair wanting nbers to complain to the politicians about not allowing cast to fix the problem that the chair was a major cause of.
David Amos
@Samuel Porter Methinks I should be very disappointed but I was not surprised to see an old friend is apparently supporting this malicious madness No doubt Trudeau The Younger and his Tax Man would agree that money can ruin the best of peoplekind N'esy Pas?
Reid Gilker
WOW!! Put the fox in charge of the hen house, and then allow him to make the decisions as to what is going to get paid and how much and then dictate to where the monies will be directed to. Now never mind that these people have been polluting that river for over the past 50 years, and have been fined about 1/16 of what they should been fined for it, and then they play games after. The justice system in N.B. when dealing with the Irving's has absolutely No Back Bone !! Shame on you!!, SHAME!!, SHAME!!!, SHAME!!!!
David Amos
@Reid Gilker Methinks folks should ask Premier Gallant and the Feds how much money the Irving Clan has received from NB Power Trust that Trump's old buddy Wilbur Ross and many other Yankees have considered it to be corporate welfare Truth is stranger than fiction N'esy Pas?
Proposed Irving plea deal would put money into Irving-controlled salmon group
James Irving of JDI is chair of CAST, a non-profit trying to bring back wild salmon
Connell Smith· CBC News· Posted: Oct 17, 2018 6:00 AM AT
J.D. Irving Ltd. agreed to a joint recommendation which would see Irving Pulp and Paper Ltd. plead guilty to three charges related to 15 instances of effluent discharges from its Saint John pulp mill. (Roger Cosman/CBC)
A plea deal awaiting approval by a Saint John judge would allow J.D. Irving Ltd. to pay part of its fine for pollution in the St. John River to CAST, an Atlantic salmon conservation company it controls.
The Crown and lawyers for JDI are jointly recommending the plea deal, which would see Irving Pulp and Paper Ltd. plead guilty to three charges related to 15 instances of effluent discharges from its Saint John pulp mill.
CAST, which stands for Collaboration for Atlantic Salmon Tomorrow, is a New Brunswick-registered company chaired by James Irving, the co-CEO of JDI, with Glenn Cooke of Cooke Aquaculture and Saint John businessman Brian Moore listed as fellow directors.
It just doesn't pass the sniff test for me.- Matthew Abbott, Fundy baykeeper
Under the terms of the proposed deal, $2.3 million would be paid by Irving to the federal Environmental Damages Fund and a further $1.1 million would be directed to CAST, which wants to restock the Miramichi River this fall with more than 1,000 wild salmon raised in a hatchery.
CAST's executive director, Andrew Willett, a JDI Woodlands manager, said it is a non-profit corporation.
The proposal to direct the money to a Miramichi River project far away from the St. John River, where the pollution occurred, is galling to Fundy baykeeper Matthew Abbott.
Matthew Abbott, the Fundy baykeeper, said the fine arrangement is problematic. (CBC)
"It just doesn't pass the sniff test for me," Abbott said. "The proposal is that Irving would give $1.1 million through the courts to a project that Jim Irving himself chairs, as a deterrent for polluting the St. John River."
Non-profit challenges DFO
CAST is already mired in a very public dispute with scientists at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans over the Miramichi project.
The company took out a full page ad in Saturday's Telegraph-Journal urging readers to lobby the department's Moncton office, their members of Parliament and MLAs in favour of CAST's plans for the Miramichi River.
"We are witnessing the extinction of the Atlantic Salmon from the Miramichi River in slow motion as bureaucrats in the Moncton Office of the Federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) Gulf Region do little to address the issue facing the salmon," says the open letter.
"We don't need more study, more talk or more of the status-quo — we need immediate action — or it will soon be too late."
In 2015, three-year-old wild Atlantic salmon smolt from the Miramichi were captured and raised in a hatchery.
CAST slow to consult First Nations
They were to be released into the river this fall in the same place they were originally captured in order to spawn, but the Fisheries Department is refusing to issue the necessary permit, arguing the release could weaken the wild fish population.
"Fisheries and Oceans Canada has a responsibility to consider the benefits of this type of scientific experiment along with the risks to wild Atlantic salmon populations and level of support from partners, including Indigenous communities who access these salmon populations for food," Frank Stanek, manager of media relations for the department, said in an email.
Eel Ground Chief George Ginnish said the CAST plan to place adult salmon in the river began two years before local First Nations along the Miramichi Valley were even consulted.
"We were brought into the project late and from our perspective, as a primary user of the resource in our traditional territory, to say it was an insult would be an understatement," Ginnish said. "You are talking about a food that has deep cultural significance."
Suggests leaving river alone
Ginnish said CAST's newspaper ad on Saturday did not reflect First Nations concerns raised in the past. The organization, he said, "hit the panic button hard."
"You know we've suggested if everyone feels that the salmon is truly at risk on this river, then shut the whole river down to everyone. Give it a couple of years to see what happens, let Mother Nature do the work. Not a scientific experiment on a system that still has a viable population."
CAST, an Atlantic salmon conservation, wants to restock the Miramichi River this fall. (Shutterstock)
CAST executive director Andrew Willett said the federal department had the responsibility to create a steering committee to include First Nations but failed to put it together. He said concerns raised by the department in scientific review have all been addressed.
"We agreed to all of the mitigation measures that were suggested in that report," said Willett. "We thought that we had met all the conditions that DFO had laid out for the science.
"We're very surprised that now they're saying that they still have concerns about the science." Willett says early stages of the project - including capturing the salmon smolts - had the blessing of DFO.
Concerns about mingling
The Atlantic Salmon Federation, a major North American conservation group, also has serious concerns that re-introducing the hatchery fish could weaken the wild fish population overall.
Fish of the same age that have remained in the wild have already survived a 5,000-kilometre ocean journey before returning to the river system.
Eel Ground First Nation Chief George Ginnish said CAST should leave the river alone. (CBC)
Neville Crabbe, a federation spokesperson, said CAST does valuable work in the field of salmon conservation but the adult-stocking problem poses too many risks and should be reserved for river systems where wild salmon are either extinct or on the very brink.
"I would say that the broad consensus within the scientific community on this question would lean strongly against this type of an activity," said Crabbe.
Both sides have supporters
Several partners are lined up with CAST, including the Miramichi Salmon Association, which has seen a $2 million upgrade of its South Esk hatchery to accommodate the larger adult fish, scientists with the Canadian Rivers Institute at the University of New Brunswick, and several lodge owners, fishing clubs and the river communities of Upper Miramichi, Blackville and Doaktown.
"We believe that the Miramichi salmon population is really in trouble. We believe that the numbers are going down at a rate that is not sustainable … salmon population recovery becomes very much more difficult when you go to your last legs," said Prof. Tommi Linnansaari, a CAST partner at UNB.
He said steps are being taken to ensure that strong adult fish are placed in the river and that they and their offspring are carefully monitored afterward to discover how the process can be improved.
He said the three-year-old smolts collected in the wild have already survived a difficult natural selection process.
"We're keeping the winners that nature has selected, and we're borrowing them from nature for a little bit so they don't go back to the ocean — because that's where currently the high mortality is happening — and as the fish mature, then we just put them back where they came from. Now we let the chips fall as they may."
Sees benefits for other rivers
In response to concerns about the proposal to direct Irving Pulp and Paper fine money to the Miramichi CAST project, JDI spokesperson, Mary Keith said the research will bring widespread benefits.
"My understanding of CAST is that their research work will deliver models of conservation that can be adapted to other rivers, including the St. John," she said. "ARIS technology, the database, cold water refugia, as well as smolt to adult supplementation are all examples of this.
"The intent is to transfer learnings from the Miramichi to other rivers in New Brunswick."
Judge David Walker is expected to issue a decision on the proposed plea deal on Nov. 5.
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Feds 'looking into' whether Cannabis NB website violates advertising rules
Federal rules prohibit showing people or depictions suggesting excitement and glamour
Shane Magee· CBC News·
People in Fredericton lined up outside a Cannabis NB store to buy legal recreational marijuana on Wednesday. (Photo: Ed Hunter/CBC)
The federal government is looking into whether the Cannabis NB website violates advertising rules.
Tammy Jarbeau, a spokeswoman for Health Canada, confirmed in a brief email that the department is "looking into" the New Brunswick website that sells cannabis. Jarbeau did not say what prompted the review or how long it may take.
Cannabis NB says it is open to changing the website if required.
The website includes photos showing a group of people smiling and taking a selfie, a woman in a yoga pose and a man working.
The website also includes step-by-step directions on rolling a joint to smoke cannabis.
The federal Cannabis Act prohibits any promotion of cannabis, accessories or service related to cannabis with a "depiction of a person, character or animal, whether real or fictional."
A screenshot of a section of the Cannabis NB website.
It also bars promotion that evokes an emotion or image of "a way of life such as one that includes glamour, recreation, excitement, vitality, risk or daring."
The law also prohibits promoting cannabis in a way that could reasonably be considered appealing to young people.
'No grey there'
Trina Harris, a lawyer with the firm Brazeau Seller Law in Ottawa, has examined the website. "I just don't see how they comply with the promotional restrictions in the Cannabis Act," Harris said.
"It 100 per cent depicts people — there's no grey there," she said. She's told her clients, including licensed cannabis producers, not to use any images of people.
CBC requested an interview with Cannabis NB, though only an emailed statement was provided. Marie-Andrée Bolduc said in an email the website focuses on public education.
Open to change
"Naturally, we expect Health Canada to be interested in what all jurisdictions are doing, and we look forward to having continued discussions with them," Bolduc stated.
"We are open to receiving feedback from the public, provincial and federal officials and modify the content accordingly if required."
Premier Brian Gallant told reporters Wednesday that it would be unfortunate if a Crown corporation is breaking the law. He said recreational cannabis legalization is new and everyone may need time to get things right.
A screenshot of a page on the Cannabis NB website. Health Canada says it is 'looking into' whether the website violates sections of the federal Cannabis Act related to promotions.
A page on the Cannabis NB website outlines various ways people can consume cannabis. The group photo is on a page with the headline "connect."
"Although many consume cannabis alone, more and more are getting together with friends for different occasions," the website states.
"It could be the weekly poker game, girls' night out, or a concert with the whole group. It could even be video chatting with your friends from the comfort of your own home."
With files from Colleen Kitts-Goguen and Jacques Poitras
Local democracy will 'suffer' after byelections delayed, municipalities group says
Elections NB pushed votes back to prepare for another potential provincial election
Shane Magee· CBC News·
Elections NB has postponed the municipal byelections planned for Dec. 3 until May 6, 2019. (CBC)
Elections New Brunswick has pushed back byelections in more than a dozen municipalities as it faces the possibility of a snap provincial election.
Kim Poffenroth, New Brunswick's chief electoral officer, sent a notice following the Sept. 24 provincial election announcing votes set for Dec. 3 would instead be held May 6, 2019. The tight election results, and ongoing jockey for power, means Elections NB must prepare to hold another provincial election.
"Elections New Brunswick does not have the resources required, including trained staff, warehouse space and technical support, to effectively and simultaneously prepare for two large-scale elections," Poffenroth said in a statement.
With the potential of another provincial election, chief electoral officer Kim Poffenroth said Elections NB doesn't have the resources required for two large-scale elections. (Graham Thompson/CBC)
For cities like Saint John and Moncton, that means months with a single vacant seat. But in the Village of Aroostook, two vacant seats on the four-person means no quorum.
That leaves the village unable to carry out municipal business, such as passing a budget. The village did not return a request for comment.
Decision condemned
The Union of Municipalities of New Brunswick condemned the decision to push back the byelections.
"The delay denies residents local representation and risks the ability of some municipal councils to operate," said Wayne Sturgeon, president of the union and Grand Manan councillor.
"We strongly disagree that local democracy should suffer as a result," Sturgeon stated. "Elections NB should not be in the position of choosing between levels of government."
Aware of concerns
Poffenroth was not available for an interview.
She said in a statement she's aware of the union's concerns and plans to meet with the group to explain her decision in more detail.
The provincial election caused vacancies in Saint John, Moncton, Shediac and Sackville.
In Moncton, Ward 3 Coun. Bryan Butler resigned from the city's social inclusion committee in part because the other ward councillor — Rob McKee — resigned from council after he was elected Moncton Centre MLA.
Moncton Coun. Bryan Butler resigned from the city's social inclusion committee in part because the ward's other councillor was elected to the provincial legislature on Sept. 24. (Kate Letterick/CBC News )
"Elections New Brunswick has decided they're not going to have a byelection until next May so that would give me approximately 10 months in largest ward by myself," Butler said at Monday's council meeting.
Butler said he's still concerned about social issues affecting the city.
In Tracadie and Sussex Corner, vacant council seats mean if one council member misses a meeting, the community government won't have quorum.
Sussex Corner faced a series of resignations and retirements earlier this year, with the acting mayor saying she looked forward to the fall byelection to help resolve the problems.
Open seats
The Union of Municipalities of New Brunswick has compiled a list of council vacancies:
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Mr. Amos, We acknowledge receipt of your recent emails to the Deputy Minister of Justice and lawyers within the Legal Services Division of the Department of Justice respecting a possible claim against the Province of Nova Scotia. Service of any documents respecting a legal claim against the Province of Nova Scotia may be served on the Attorney General at 1690 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS. Please note that we will not be responding to further emails on this matter.
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If you don't wish to speak to me before I begin litigation then I suspect the Integrity Commissioner New Brunswick or the Federal Crown Counsel can explain the email below and the documents hereto attached to you and your Premier etc.
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 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
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?
Vertias Vincit David Raymond Amos 902 800 0369
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.
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.
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.
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
Integrity commissioner calls for tougher conflict-of-interest law N.B. legislation should apply to apparent conflicts, not just actual ones, Alexandre Deschênes says By Jacques Poitras, CBC News Posted: Jun 12, 2017 6:30 AM AT
Alexandre Deschênes's first act as commissioner was to deal with Victor Boudreau's 20 per cent investment in Shediac Campground Ltd., a proposed 700-site facility that has generated local opposition. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
New Brunswick's integrity commissioner says the conflict-of-interest law for politicians should be toughened to clarify cases such as cabinet minister Victor Boudreau's former investment in a proposed campground near Parlee Beach.
Alexandre Deschênes said earlier this year that Boudreau's stake in the project did not put him in a conflict of interest but that the appearance of a conflict was "inevitable."
Unlike other conflict-of-interest laws, "our act does not apply to an apparent conflict of interest," he said in an interview with CBC News. "It's not in there."
Previous commissioners suggested law
Boudreau recused himself from Parlee Beach issues anyway, even though he didn't technically have to. The law said ministers aren't in a conflict if decisions that affect their private interests also apply to the general public.
Boudreau recuses himself from Parlee Beach controversy Victor Boudreau case shows 'huge loophole' in conflict law, ethics group says
"Mr. Boudreau could have gone on and said, 'I'm the minister of health and I'm going to make decisions that apply to the general public and the act allows it,'" Deschênes said.
"If you'd had the words 'apparent conflict of interest' [in the law] it would have been clear."
Deschênes pointed out two of his predecessors as conflict-of-interest commissioner, Pat Ryan and Stuart Stratton, recommended expanding the act to include the appearance of conflicts.
"It started out way back," he said. "We're looking at almost a decade here where the suggestion has been made that apparent conflict of interest ought to be included in the act. It's not been done.
"But as a commissioner, I will be following what they've been doing and I will be recommending it when I file a report."
Updated conflict act
The Gallant Liberals passed amendments to update the Members Conflict of Interest Act during the spring session of the legislature, but they did not include a ban on perceived conflicts.
Progressive Conservative MLA Brian MacDonald has also called for the Liberals to fix what he calls "a gap in the law."
'Gap in the law': PC critic suggests review of conflict law Premier backs Victor Boudreau's involvement in Parlee Beach issueDeschênes was appointed the province's integrity commissioner last year. The new role incorporates the role of conflict-of-interest watchdog and registrar of lobbyists, and in September it will also include the Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
Victor
Cabinet minister Victor Boudreau recused himself from the Parlee Beach issues anyway, even though the law said ministers aren't in a conflict if decisions that affect their private interests also apply to the general public. (CBC)
Deschênes's first act as commissioner was to deal with Boudreau's 20 per cent investment in Shediac Campground Ltd., a proposed 700-site facility that has generated local opposition.
As health minister, Boudreau oversees the public health offices, and his department was part of a working group looking at how to deal with fecal contamination at Parlee Beach. One option the group looked at was a moratorium on new development near the beach.
That would have affected the proposed campground.
'I told him, and he made it public, that the appearance of conflict in this case was absolutely inevitable. He couldn't get around it. It was there.'
- Alexandre Deschênes
The law bans ministers from making decisions that affect their "private interest," but it makes an exception if the decision applies to the broader public, even if the minister would still benefit.
Deschênes said in his letter to Boudreau in March that "one could argue" a decision on a moratorium would affect the broader public.
"Under the act, he might have been entitled to continue to have discussions that applied to the general population, even though he was part of [the project] at that point," Deschênes said in an interview last week.
"I told him, and he made it public, that the appearance of conflict in this case was absolutely inevitable. He couldn't get around it. It was there." An MP's perceived conflict matters
The federal conflict of interest code for MPs also includes an exception for decisions that affect the general public, but it includes an explicit reference to perceived conflicts.
Boudreau put his investment in a blind trust in 2014, which meant he had no role in the running of the business. But the value of his stake would have been affected by a moratorium on future development.
Parlee beach
In May, Victor Boudreau announced he was giving up his investment in the campground on Parlee Beach altogether.
He said in March he learned of the potential moratorium Feb. 28 and met with Deschênes March 2, the first date they could arrange it.
"That perception is the issue," Boudreau said at the time. "And if the perception is the issue, and the perception is what's going to be prevent us from getting to the bottom of it, then I'm prepared to recuse myself from all activities relating to this committee."
Last month he announced that he was giving up his investment in the campground altogether.
Deschênes said he believes most ministers and MLAs would do the same thing if he told them there was an apparent, but not actual, conflict.
"In most cases I think they will listen and they will do what has to be done to put an end to an apparent conflict of interest, although technically they could continue to do what they want to do."
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David Raymond Amos David Raymond Amos I sure hope the new integrity commissioner finally does his job and answers me in writing
Michael Geraldson Michael Geraldson Integrity and politicians, two words that should rarely be used in the same sentence!
David Raymond Amos David Raymond Amos @Michael Geraldson Sad but oh so true. However I can think of a few exceptions The first to come mind is Jim Traficant. Check history to see look what the Yankees did to him for trying to make the rest act ethically
Here is one of my favourite quotes of his
"I think Congress should take the IRS, handcuff them to a chain-link fence, and flog them with their own damn Tax Code"
David Raymond Amos David Raymond Amos @Shawn McShane We already know the answer don't we?
Jeffrey Parker Jeffrey Parker Who's going to enforce these proposed laws? Never did before, just help cover them up or be so incompetent in investigating that no one takes a fall for corruption in the system, Surely screwed here in this place.
David Raymond Amos David Raymond Amos @Jeffrey Parker We can hold them accountable. All you have to do is sue them. Good luck finding a lawyer willing to stand before a judge appointed to the bench by their buddies. Hell two judges NB are former Conservative Attorney Generals who lost their seats in recent elections. Go figure who is putting the screws to us. Methinks its the Brotherhood of the Bar. What say you?
Keith Jagger Keith Jagger @David Raymond Amos - He (she) who writes the laws and administers the laws rules the common folks David. Judges are just lawyers with connections and the gift of gabb
Shawn McShane Shawn McShane Last month Boudreau announced that he was giving up his investment in the campground altogether.
Past two days Parlee Beach had "No Swimming Advisory" and today as well. I wonder if Boudreau would have gave up his investment under the old water advisory system that he defended...Victor Boudreau dismisses call for Parlee Beach sign improvements. The health minister said people can "use their own judgement" on whether they want to go into the water.
Jeffrey Parker Jeffrey Parker @Shawn McShane we we are UdeMer than the rest of Canada, that's why they leave.
David Raymond Amos David Raymond Amos @Shawn McShane Methinks Mr Boudreau should thank us all for his fat pension because I doubt he could get elected as a dog catcher after all this malicious nonsense
Keith Jagger Keith Jagger @David Raymond Amos - You obviously don't know the mindset of the people of his riding who would vote Liberal if a spruce fencepost was running for the party. (Well - I think you probably do and you are being fasicious)
Shawn McShane Shawn McShane @David Raymond Amos He got re-elected after Atcon. He can thank them. The rest of us need to make sure this doesn't happen anymore.
William Roberts William Roberts Integrity, Politicians? LOL If you had any integrity you wouldn't want to be a politician here.
David Raymond Amos David Raymond Amos @William Roberts I tried the water of the political sewer once in 2006 while intervening in the NEB Emera Pipeline hearing and I got all of 44 votes in Saint John Harbour. Trust that I was not surprised. I learned something long ago when my Father and his PC friends were disgusted that the lawyer Trudeau "The Elder" was having fun falsely claiming he said "Fuddle Duddle" on the Hill. In a nutshell it is that nobody gives a damn just as long as our politicians appear to be cool dudes. Nothing has changed since.
Paul Bourgoin Paul Bourgoin The selection of Dr. Louis Lapierre, recipient of the Order of Canada whose Medal was revoked because because of his recognized lack of needed competence which he falsified is a documented example of how strong this influence and consequences of this mis-guided forest management has destroyed the Fish and Wildlife habitat and populations in New Brunswick. This design of forest management supported by industry, impacts negatively on our Grand Children's heritage, forcing them to leave their native province because of lack of work.
David Raymond Amos David Raymond Amos @Paul Bourgoin All True However we keep on electing these people correct?
Terry L. Sisson Terry L. Sisson I find it difficult to believe: 1) March 2,2017 Alexandre Deschense informed Victor Boudreau he should leave the business group Shediac Campground Ltd. and he agreed. 2) It is now June 12, 2017 and to my knowledge this has not been done. Did I miss something here? Mr. Deschenes is Integrity Minister, correct!
Jay Oak Jay Oak @Terry L. Sisson Integrity Commissioner, not Minister.
David Raymond Amos David Raymond Amos @Jay Oak True but we are still compelled to call them both "Honourable
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
Hon. Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C., who resides in Bathurst, N.B., is a native of Kedgwick, N.B., and is married to Huguette (Savoie) Deschênes. They have two sons.
He studied at Saint-Joseph University (now Université de Moncton) from 1960 to 1962, University of Ottawa from 1962-1965 (B.A.), and University of New Brunswick (LL.B., 1968). He was admitted to the Law Society of New Brunswick in 1968. He was legal counsel to the Department of Justice in Fredericton from 1968 to 1971. He was in private practice from 1972 to 1982 and specialized in civil litigation as a partner in the law firm of Michaud, Leblanc, Robichaud, and Deschênes. While residing in Shediac, N.B., he served on town council and became the first president of the South East Economic Commission. He is a past president of the Richelieu Club in Shediac.
In 1982, he was appointed a judge of the Court of Queen’s Bench of New Brunswick and of the Court of Appeal of New Brunswick in 2000.
On July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada.
While on the Court of Appeal of New Brunswick, he was appointed President of the provincial Judicial Council and in 2012 Chairperson of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of New Brunswick for the 2015 federal election.
He was appointed Conflict of Interest Commissioner in December 2016 and became New Brunswick’s first Integrity Commissioner on December 16, 2016 with responsibilities for conflict of interest issues related to Members of the Legislative Assembly. As of April 1, 2017 he supervises lobbyists of public office holders under the Lobbyists’ Registration Act.
As of September 1, 2017, he will be assuming the functions presently held by the Access to Information and Privacy Commissioner.
From: "Bussières, Dan (LEG)"<Dan.Bussieres@gnb.ca> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 15:47:49 -0400 Subject: RE: I just called all three of your offices To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Oui je vois
On 12/6/12, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't take orders well ask the corrupt ex cop Bussieres why that is >
Methinks if Kik MacDonald were truly wise he would make another speech before Xmass but this time he should tell the awful truth instead of just making fun of our trubles with LIEBRANOS N'esy Pas Davey Baby Coon?
Trust that watching this politite nonsense is truly offensive to any Maritmer with two clues between their ears.
Conflict of Interest 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
Michèle Pelletier Arseneault & Pelletier 568A Ave. des Pionniers Balmoral, New Brunswick E8E 1E3 Phone: 506-826-1819 Fax: 506-826-1817 Email: m.pelletier@nb.aibn.com
KIM POFFENROTH Assistant Deputy Attorney General Legislative Services (Branch) Office of the Attorney General Phone : (506) 453-2855 Fax : (506) 457-7342 Email : Kim.POFFENROTH@gnb.ca
The Gallant government has introduced legislation to merge several legislative watchdog positions into a single job and has chosen a retired judge to take on the newly expanded role.
Alexandre Deschênes
Alexandre Deschênes, a retired New Brunswick Court of Appeal justice, is to be the first integrity commissioner in New Brunswick.
Retired New Brunswick Court of Appeal justice Alexandre Deschênes will become the province's first integrity commissioner, an appointment supported by the opposition Progressive Conservatives and Green Party Leader David Coon.
Premier Brian Gallant introduced a bill Wednesday to create the position.
For now, Deschênes fills the vacant position of conflict-of-interest commissioner and will also oversee legislation governing the privacy of personal health records.
Next July, Deschênes will add responsibility for the lobbyist registry to his duties.
The Liberals say they will proclaim legislation to set up the registry by next July. The law was passed by the previous PC government in 2014 but not enacted.
Conflict of interest commissioner, MLAs have conflicting views on transparency Commissioner wants mandatory privacy breach reporting N.B. legislature will study cutting independent watchdogs
And next September, after Anne Bertrand, the information and privacy commissioner, finishes her seven-year term, that job will become part of Deschênes's job as integrity commissioner.
An independent study, done as part of the government's program review, recommended the merging of the legislative officer positions.
All parties in the legislature agreed on two other appointments Wednesday: lawyer Michèle Pelletier as consumer advocate for insurance and assistant deputy attorney general Kim Poffenroth as chief electoral officer.J
At its Annual General Meeting on Saturday, June 25th, 2016, the Law Society of New Brunswick elected its new Executive for the 2016-2017 term:
New Executive
George P. Filliter, Q.C. President 68 Avonlea Court Fredericton, NB E3C 1N8 Tel: (506) 454-7678 Fax: (506) 454-6983 george.filliter@gmail.com
Luc Marcoux, Q.C. Vice-President McCain Foods Limited 8800 Main Street Florenceville-Bristol, NB E7L 1B2 Tel: (506) 375-5353 Fax: (506) 375-5058 lcmarcou@mccain.ca
Christian E. Michaud, Q.C. Treasurer Cox & Palmer Blue Cross Center 644 Main Street, Suite 500 Moncton, NB E1C 1E2 Tel: (506) 863-1131 Fax: (506) 856-8150 cmichaud@coxandpalmer.com
Law Society of New Brunswick 68 Avonlea Court Fredericton, New Brunswick E3C 1N8 (506) 458-8540 (506) 451-1421
Eleven New Brunswick lawyers were appointed Queen’s Counsel by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, the Honourable Jocelyne Roy Vienneau, on Monday, October 24, 2016, at the Legislative Assembly in Fredericton.
Christa Bourque, Q.C., of Moncton Krista Lynn Colford, Q.C., of Fredericton The Honourable Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C., of Bathurst Edward L. Derrah, Q.C., of Fredericton Shannon Doran, Q.C., of Fredericton Nathalie L. Godbout, Q.C., of Saint John Stephen J. Hutchison, Q.C., of Saint John The Honourable Dominic A. J. LeBlanc, Q.C., of Shediac Luc Marcoux, Q.C., of Florenceville-Bristol D. Andrew Rouse, Q.C., of Fredericton John R. Williamson, Q.C., of Fredericton
The distinction of Queen’s Counsel is conferred upon experienced lawyers in recognition of their commitment to the principles of the legal profession and contributions to their communities. Eligible lawyers include those who have been members of the Law Society of New Brunswick and have been engaged in the active practice of law in the province for at least 15 years with extensive experience before the courts or have demonstrated exceptional service to the profession.
In the fall of this year, a committee consisting of the Chief Justice of New Brunswick, J. Ernest Drapeau, the Attorney General of New Brunswick and the President of the Law Society of New Brunswick, will consider candidates for the next Queen’s Counsel appointments.
The distinction of Queen’s Counsel is conferred upon experienced lawyers in recognition of their commitment to the principles of the legal profession and contributions to their communities. The criteria for these appointments are:
A regular member of the Law Society of New Brunswick who:
a) has been engaged in the active practice of law in the Province of New Brunswick for at least fifteen years, with extensive experience before the courts;
b) in the opinion of the Committee, merits the appointment by reason of exceptional service to the legal profession.
It should be noted that past practice indicates that Queen’s Counsel appointments typically have more than seventeen years at the Bar.
The Law Society encourages members to forward a letter and a resume in order to be considered as a candidate for a Queen’s Counsel appointment. Persons may either apply personally or may nominate a member of the Law Society. All applicants will be treated equally by the Committee whether they are nominated, or whether they apply personally.
In your letter, you may wish to identify two individuals, either within or outside the Law Society who might provide additional information to assist the Committee in considering this matter. If letters of reference are provided, they may be identified for this purpose.
Your application or nomination should be received by Chief Justice J. Ernest Drapeau no later than Friday, June 24, 2016, at 4:00 p.m.
It may be sent via email to tross@judicom.ca or sent/delivered to:
Committee on Queen’s Counsel Appointments c/o The Hon. Chief Justice J. Ernest Drapeau Court of Appeal of New Brunswick Justice Building 427 Queen Street, Room 311 Fredericton, NB E3B 1B7
Judge-moving bill aims to help Dominic LeBlanc, Tory MLA charges Kirk MacDonald says Liberals drafted bill to help put Jolène Richard and André Richard on court
By Jacques Poitras, CBC News Posted: Nov 24, 2016 6:03 PM AT
A Progressive Conservative MLA has taken the unusual step of naming names — including that of a sitting provincial court judge — in his attack on a proposed law on how Court of Queen's Bench judges are transferred.
Kirk MacDonald told the legislature last week that he believes the government bill was drafted to help the spouse and the brother-in-law of federal Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc, a close ally of Premier Brian Gallant. nb-andre-richard-jolene-richard
A Progressive Conservative MLA believes the Liberal government's judge-moving bill was drafted to help have André Richard and Jolène Richard appointed to the Court of Queen's Bench. (CBC)
"I will give you two names. I will give you Jolène Richard and André Richard, two people I believe are looking for judicial appointments here in New Brunswick," MacDonald said during second-reading debate on the bill.
In fact, Jolène Richard is already a provincial court judge. André Richard is her brother and a senior lawyer at Stewart McKelvey.
Province names new judge, wife of MP Dominic LeBlanc
"Dominic LeBlanc has some judges that he wants to appoint in New Brunswick, and the framework as it currently exists does not allow for that to happen," MacDonald said.
André Richard stated Thursday he "had no involvement in the government's decision to propose changes to the Judicature Act."
"As you know, my sister is already a judge who sits in Moncton. I fail to understand why our names are being brought into this debate." Bill gives veto to minister
The Liberal bill would amend the Judicature Act, which governs how courts operate, to give the justice minister a veto over Chief Justice David Smith of the Court of Queen's Bench transferring judges from one court to another. nb-chief-justice-david-smith
Court of Queen's Bench Chief Justice David Smith has transferred 13 judges since becoming chief justice in 1998. (Acadia University)
PC MLAs have hinted in the past about who they believe the bill was designed to help. But until now, no one was willing to name them.
It's rare for politicians to draw sitting judges into partisan debates, and the veteran Tory MLA did not offer any evidence to back up his allegations. He turned down a request to explain his views in an interview. Parliamentary privilege
Parliamentary privilege protects members of the legislature from being sued for defamation or held in contempt of court for comments they make during proceedings. No such protection exists for things they say outside the legislature.
Provincial court judges such as Richard are appointed by the province, but Court of Queen's Bench justices are named by Ottawa. Both courts are administered by the province, but the current law gives Smith the power to move judges on his court on his own.
Smith has argued the bill would threaten the independence of the courts, which could make it unconstitutional. Bill brought back
The Liberals introduced the bill during the last session, but it didn't pass before the session ended. They brought it back last week.
Justice Minister Denis Landry said last week the bill was designed to bring "best practices" to court administration and end the pattern of justices being named to smaller courthouses and then being transferred soon after.
Judge-moving legislation introduced again 2 chief justices appear at odds over judge-moving bill 7 things list reveals about controversial judge-moving bill
"This is what we want to correct," he said. "If we name a judge, they should reside there, for a long period of time, not just two or three months then move them where they want to go."
Asked whether he'd veto such a transfer, Landry said, "This is what we'll see."
Landry's department said Thursday it would not comment on MacDonald's accusation. Larger locations favoured
MacDonald said during last week's debate that it's true Court of Queen's Bench justices are often appointed to smaller locations and are then moved to one of the three largest cities. Dominic LeBlanc
Federal Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc is a close ally of New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant. (CBC)
He said that court postings in Moncton, Fredericton, and Saint John are "The positions that everyone seems to want."
And he said the current system for moving judges, "which is controlled by the chief justice, does not work for Dominic LeBlanc and the Liberal Party of New Brunswick," MacDonald said.
Upside to judge-moving bill touted by ex-constitutional lawyer Gallant government's judge-moving bill questioned by legal expert
"They want to change it. They want to have a situation where they have a mechanism to control that decision and to effect change on that decision."
In June, Smith transferred Justice Tracey DeWare from Woodstock to Moncton and Justice Richard Petrie from Saint John to Woodstock.
DeWare was moved to fill a vacancy after Justice Brigitte Robichaud switched to supernumerary, or part-time, status.
Jolène Richard did not respond to interview requests.
---------- Original message ---------- From: Póstur FOR <postur@for.is> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 22:05:47 +0000 Subject: Re: Hey Premier Gallant please inform the questionable parliamentarian Birigtta Jonsdottir that although NB is a small "Have Not" province at least we have twice the population of Iceland and that not all of us are as dumb as she and her Prime Minister pretends to be.. To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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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 essential for the security and tranquility of the developed world. An ISIS “caliphate,” in the Middle East, no matter how small, is a clear and present danger to the entire world. This “occupied state,” or“failed state” will prosecute an unending Islamic inspired war of terror against not only the “western world,” but Arab states “moderate” or not, as well. The security, safety, and tranquility of Canada and Canadians are just at risk now with the emergence of an ISIS“caliphate” no matter how large or small, as it was with the Taliban and Al Quaeda “marriage” in Afghanistan.
One of the everlasting “legacies” of the “Trudeau the Elder’s dynasty was Canada and successive Liberal governments cowering behind the amerkan’s nuclear and conventional military shield, at the same time denigrating, insulting them, opposing them, and at the same time self-aggrandizing ourselves as “peace keepers,” and progenitors of “world peace.” Canada failed. The United States of Amerka, NATO, the G7 and or G20 will no longer permit that sort of sanctimonious behavior from Canada or its government any longer. And Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Foreign Minister John Baird , and Cabinet are fully cognizant of that reality. Even if some editorial boards, and pundits are not.
Justin, Trudeau “the younger” is reprising the time “honoured” liberal mantra, and tradition of expecting the amerkans or the rest of the world to do “the heavy lifting.” Justin Trudeau and his “butt buddy” David Amos are telling Canadians that we can guarantee our security and safety by expecting other nations to fight for us. That Canada can and should attempt to guarantee Canadians safety by providing “humanitarian aid” somewhere, and call a sitting US president a “war criminal.” This morning Australia announced they too, were sending tactical aircraft to eliminate the menace of an ISIS “caliphate.”
In one sense Prime Minister Harper is every bit the scoundrel Trudeau “the elder” and Jean ‘the crook” Chretien was. Just As Trudeau, and successive Liberal governments delighted in diminishing, marginalizing, under funding Canadian Forces, and sending Canadian military men and women to die with inadequate kit and modern equipment; so too is Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Canada’s F-18s are antiquated, poorly equipped, and ought to have been replaced five years ago. But alas, there won’t be single RCAF fighter jock that won’t go, or won’t want to go, to make Canada safe or safer.
My Grandfather served this country. My father served this country. My Uncle served this country. And I have served this country. Justin Trudeau has not served Canada in any way. Thomas Mulcair has not served this country in any way. Liberals and so called social democrats haven’t served this country in any way. David Amos, and other drooling fools have not served this great nation in any way. Yet these fools are more than prepared to ensure their, our safety to other nations, and then criticize them for doing so.
Canada must again, now, “do our bit” to guarantee our own security, and tranquility, but also that of the world. Canada has never before shirked its responsibility to its citizens and that of the world.
Prime Minister Harper will not permit this country to do so now
From: dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:17:17 -0400 Subject: RE: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and the War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still alive To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
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I talked to Don Newman earlier this week before the beancounters David Dodge and Don Drummond now of Queen's gave their spin about Canada's Health Care system yesterday and Sheila Fraser yapped on and on on CAPAC during her last days in office as if she were oh so ethical.. To be fair to him I just called Greg Weston (613-288-6938) I suggested that he should at least Google SOUCOM and David Amos It would be wise if he check ALL of CBC's sources before he publishes something else about the DND EH Don Newman? Lets just say that the fact that your old CBC buddy, Tony Burman is now in charge of Al Jazeera English never impressed me. The fact that he set up a Canadian office is interesting though
Anyone can call me back and stress test my integrity after they read this simple pdf file. BTW what you Blue Sky dudes pubished about Potash Corp and BHP is truly funny. Perhaps Stevey Boy Harper or Brad Wall will fill ya in if you are to shy to call mean old me.
"But Lang, defence minister McCallum's chief of staff, says military brass were not entirely forthcoming on the issue. For instance, he says, even McCallum initially didn't know those soldiers were helping to plan the invasion of Iraq up to the highest levels of command, including a Canadian general.
That general is Walt Natynczyk, now Canada's chief of defence staff, who eight months after the invasion became deputy commander of 35,000 U.S. soldiers and other allied forces in Iraq. Lang says Natynczyk was also part of the team of mainly senior U.S. military brass that helped prepare for the invasion from a mobile command in Kuwait."
"I remember years ago when the debate was on in Canada, about there being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Our American 'friends" demanded that Canada join into "the Coalition of the Willing. American "veterans" and sportscasters loudly denounced Canada for NOT buying into the US policy.
At the time I was serving as a planner at NDHQ and with 24 other of my colleagues we went to Tampa SOUCOM HQ to be involved in the planning in the planning stages of the op....and to report to NDHQ, that would report to the PMO upon the merits of the proposed operation. There was never at anytime an existing target list of verified sites where there were deployed WMD.
Coalition assets were more than sufficient for the initial strike and invasion phase but even at that point in the planning, we were concerned about the number of "boots on the ground" for the occupation (and end game) stage of an operation in Iraq. We were also concerned about the American plans for occupation plans of Iraq because they at that stage included no contingency for a handing over of civil authority to a vetted Iraqi government and bureaucracy.
There was no detailed plan for Iraq being "liberated" and returned to its people...nor a thought to an eventual exit plan. This was contrary to the lessons of Vietnam but also to current military thought, that folks like Colin Powell and "Stuffy" Leighton and others elucidated upon. "What's the mission" how long is the mission, what conditions are to met before US troop can redeploy? Prime Minister Jean Chretien and the PMO were even at the very preliminary planning stages wary of Canadian involvement in an Iraq operation....History would prove them correct. The political pressure being applied on the PMO from the George W Bush administration was onerous
American military assets were extremely overstretched, and Canadian military assets even more so It was proposed by the PMO that Canadian naval platforms would deploy to assist in naval quarantine operations in the Gulf and that Canadian army assets would deploy in Afghanistan thus permitting US army assets to redeploy for an Iraqi operation....The PMO thought that "compromise would save Canadian lives and liberal political capital.. and the priority of which ....not necessarily in that order. "
You can bet that I called these sneaky Yankees again today EH John Adams? of the CSE within the DND?
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Póstur IRR <postur@irr.is> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 21:43:50 +0000 Subject: Re: After crossing paths with them bigtime in 2004 Davey Baby Coon and his many Green Meanie and Fake Left cohorts know why I won't hold my breath waiting for them to act with any semblance of integrity now N'esy Pas Chucky Leblanc?? To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)"<Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 21:39:17 +0000 Subject: RE: After crossing paths with them bigtime in 2004 Davey Baby Coon and his many Green Meanie and Fake Left cohorts know why I won't hold my breath waiting for them to act with any semblance of integrity now N'esy Pas Chucky Leblanc?? To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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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 Corespondence Manager / Gestionnaire de la correspondance Office of the Premier / Cabinet du premier ministre
For the public record I knew Birgitta was no better than the people she bitches about when she refused to discuss the QSLS blog with me while she was in Canada making her rounds in the Canadain media in January of 2011.
Mr. Amos: Upon your request I will inform Mr. Derek Pleadwell[(506) 444-2897], Chairperson SNB Board of Directors, of our extended conversation regarding the issues surrounding the 1965 Harley-Davidson motorcycle when he visits my office at approximately 3:30 P.M. today.
Also, as requested, I've copied in Ms. Sylvie Levesque-Finn[ (506) 453-3879 ],SNB President.
Lloyd D. MacKenzie, AACI, P. App, CAE Regional Manager of Assessment - Beauséjour Region/Responsable régional de l'évaluation - region Beauséjour Assessment/ de l'évaluation Service New Brunswick/ Service Nouveau-Brunswick 633 rue Main St. 4th floor/4ième étage Moncton, NB E1C 8R3 Tel/Tél: (506) 856-3910 Fax/Téléc: (506) 856-2519
From: Grady, Louise (ENB) Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 11:55 AM To: mailto:David.Raymond.Amos@gmail.com Subject: Final Follow up: Your registration as an independent candidate
Mr. Amos:
Following the Chief Electoral Officer's request by telephone on May 28, 2014 and his previous e-mailed requests for additional information with respect to your registration as an independent candidate (please see below), and having not received that information despite having provided you with several opportunities to furnish the requested information, he has now directed that said registration be cancelled. Should you wish to re-apply for registration as an independent candidate, you may do so after 60 days following the cancellation of your present registration as provided for under subsection 146.1(1) of the Elections Act.
Louise Grady Elections Coordinator / Coordinatrice des élections
From: Grady, Louise (ENB) Sent: May 28, 2014 4:20 PM To: 'David.Raymond.Amos@gmail.com' Subject: Follow up: Your registration as an independent candidate
Mr. Amos:
At the request of Mr. Michael Quinn, Chief Electoral Officer of the Province of New Brunswick, I am writing to summarize his phone call to you this afternoon, reminding you of his message of May 14 (see below). In the message he left on your voice mail, he granted you a few more days' grace and asked you to return his call at (506) 453-2218. He added that should he not hear from you by then, he would proceed to cancel your registration as an independent candidate as provided for in the Elections Act.
Louise Grady Elections Coordinator / Coordinatrice des élections
---------- Original message ---------- From: Brian Gallant <briangallant10@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 13:54:31 -0700 Subject: Merci / Thank you Re: YO Chucky Leblanc maybe Jackie Vautour will give his Green Meanie MLA Kevin Arseneau a tie if he bothers to pay him a visit N'esy Pas Bian Gallant? To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com
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Seems that even your buddies in the PANB want to raise our power bills while the municipal byelections are delayed through the winter much to the chagrin of your pals in the Union of Municipalities of New Brunswick EH Dominic Cardy?
Methinks many folks would like to see Gallant have a second mandate so that we won't freeze in the dark like your western heroes Rotten Ralphy Klein and his buddy Stevey Boy wished upon us many moons ago N'esy Pas Blaine Higgs?
BTW Methinks Shediac needs a new Mayor too Perhaps Marcel Doiron should go for Jacques Leblanc's old job in the spring N'esy Pas Dominic LeBlanc?
Yo Bob Scott Clearly your friend the former public intervenor Peter Hyslop had his knickers in quite a knot again during this election N'esy Pas Brian Gallant?
Yo Bob Scott Clearly your friend the former public intervenor Peter Hyslop had his knickers in quite a knot again during this election N'esy Pas Brian Gallant?
---------- Original message ---------- From: Brian Gallant <briangallant10@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 09:24:54 -0700 Subject: Merci / Thank you Re: Yo Bob Scott Clearly Clearly your friend the former public intervenor Peter Hyslop had his knickers in quite a knot again during this election N'esy Pas Brian Gallant? To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
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Ties matter: Green MLA will represent New Brunswickers by sporting their neckties
Kevin Arseneau doesn't own many ties — so he's calling on his constituents for ties meaningful to them
Jacques Poitras· CBC News·
Green Party MLA Kevin Arseneau doesn't wear ties. But he's going to have to if he plans to represent his constituents in the legislative assembly. (Tori Weldon/CBC)
As soon as Kevin Arseneau realized he'd been elected as the new Green Party MLA for Kent North, he knew he had a problem.
He was going to have to start wearing neckties.
"One of my first questions to the clerk was, 'What are the other options?'" he said. "I was kind of looking for a creative way to get out of it, but there's not really any way out of it."
CBC News
Green MLA makes call out for ties
Kevin Arsenault doesn't like ties, but he'll wear meaningful ones for his MLA job. 1:02
The rules of the legislative assembly require men to wear ties if they're in the chamber during official business.
But Arseneau, a 33-year-old organic farmer from Rogersville, owns exactly two ties — each of which he has worn exactly once.
"I got married without a tie," he said.
'I'm not wearing it for me'
He complained on Twitter, tongue-in-cheek, about the stuffy requirement, and in response received two ties in the mail from one of his fans, Louisiana-based Cajun singer and activist Zachary Richard. And that gave Arseneau an idea.
"The tie means nothing for me, absolutely nothing for me. I'm not wearing it for me. I'm not going to go shop for some ties and blow my money on some ties," he said.
"I'm thinking to myself: 'Why am I wearing a tie? I'm wearing a tie so I can be in the legislative assembly and defend my constituents and defend the people who elected me, so why don't I wear their ties instead?'"
Having meaningful ties
Arseneau posted to Facebook to ask that his constituents mail him ties — ties that are meaningful to them somehow.
And, he said, he plans to find a way to pass on why the ties matter.
"I might as well, if I have the tie on, know what it means and what it stands for," he said. "I definitely want to tell those stories."
Before posting the request, the rookie MLA checked with the ethics commissioner on the restrictions on accepting gifts.
My biggest problem now is I've got to learn how to tie the knot. I haven't done that yet.-Kevin Arseneau, MLA
So he's stipulating that he'll send back any ties from people or businesses who have dealings with the government, or that exceed the maximum allowable value for a gift: $250.
"I hope there are not ties that are worth that kind of money," Arseneau said.
No ties have arrived yet, but Arseneau said he has received many messages that some are on the way.
"My biggest problem now is I've got to learn how to tie the knot. I haven't done that yet," he said. "I was hoping Zachary sent them with the knot already in. I'm going to be looking at YouTube videos or asking my dad or [Green Leader David Coon] for some pointers."
The downside of the promise to freeze NB Power rates
Former public intervenor Peter Hyslop calls the Liberal promise to freeze power rates blatant interference, and a sad return to the days when political parties used NB Power as a vote-getting operation.
Liberals promise 4-year freeze on NB Power rates for homeowners, small businesses
PC leader says one way or another, New Brunswickers will pay for a rate freeze
CBC News·
Liberal Leader Brian Gallant says NB Power has to do better. (Nicolas Steinbach/Radio-Canada)
A Liberal promise to freeze power rates for residential customers and small businesses drew sharp criticism from opposition parties Wednesday.
Liberal Brian Gallant said the party would introduce legislation to freeze rates for some customers over the next four years and force NB Power to cut jobs and spending.
"Many people's power bills are going up faster than their wages," Gallant said during a campaign announcement on the lawn of a private home in Moncton.
The legislation would force NB Power to find about $13 million in annual savings to make up for revenue it would have otherwise raised if it could increase the cost of electricity.
NB Power spokeswoman Sheila Lagacé said the utility won't be commenting "as this is an election campaign promise."
Leaders call move 'irresponsible'
David Coon, leader of the Green Party, and NDP Leader Jennifer McKenzie both called the Liberal plan an "irresponsible" move.
"We have a regulatory process that's designed to ensure that any rate increase proposals are properly vetted and if they're not warranted, they're turned down," Coon said, referring to the Energy and Utilities Board.
McKenzie called it a "dangerous path" the Liberals have proposed and suggested a better approach would be focusing on developing renewable energy.
Blaine Higgs, the Progressive Conservative leader, said "putting a political hand-cuff" around the utility will make its financial situation less secure.
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Liberals promise to freeze power rates
Gallant promised to freeze NB Power rates if re-elected. He said "enough is enough." 0:56
"One way or another, the people of the province will pay for a rate freeze," Higgs said in Lamèque. NB Power forecasts a two per cent rate increase each year as it seeks to pay down its $4.8 billion debt. The utility recorded a profit of $23 million in the last fiscal year.
People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin said in an emailed statement that the Liberal announcement "is an encouraging idea." But he said the financial strain of increasing power bills isn't new.
'A small relief'
"We question as to why only during an election cycle does the Gallant government offer a small relief, after four years of tax increases that have many at the breaking point," Austin said. "Seeing as this promise is coming from the Liberals, is this a promise the people can really trust?"
Annual increases of two per cent per year would cost residential and small businesses more than $13 million a year over the next four years, said Gallant.
The freeze would also apply for municipal utilities on electricity purchased from NB Power for either residential or small business customers.
Blaine Higgs, the Progressive Conservative leader, says the Liberal promise effectively means 'putting a political hand-cuff' around the utility that will make its financial situation less secure. (Radio-Canada)
The freeze would not apply for large industrial customers.
Asked what would happen if NB Power shifted the rate increase to industrial customers, Gallant said the utility would have to make up the $13 million difference through "efficiencies" in measures the party has proposed.
'Mandate' savings
"We will mandate them to find the $13 million and we will have a discussion with the measures we'll put in place, and we hope they'll come with their own ideas," Gallant said. "With the measures we put in place, we believe we can find the $13 million, but even more than that."
He said the legislation will include an "incentive" for NB Power to cut costs so rate increases aren't required.
"Call it a stick, if you will, but we're going to make it real clear that they're going to have to reduce power rates and that's going to be the case for four years," he said.
Liberals say there will be no freeze on wholesale power rates, but that government will "work with" municipal utilities to ensure residential and commercial business rate freeze extends to SJ and Edmundston. Haven't said whether that means subsidies or some other mechanism.
The freeze will apply for municipal utilities on the portion of power they purchase from NB Power that is for either residential or small business customers.
A Liberal government would also reduce the size of management at NB Power by 30 per cent and would require a review of senior salaries. It would also set a "cap" on administrative expenses as a percentage of overall expenses.
The Liberals would also prevent NB Power from introducing any kind of "weather tax" to help pay for extreme weather events, he said.
The 2017 ice storm cost NB Power about $30 million.
NB Power could escape Liberal-promised rate freeze thanks to unlikely source
Green Leader David Coon has long history of battling NB Power initiatives
Robert Jones· CBC News·
The Liberals promised to freeze NB Power rates for four years, but that pledge could be scrapped as the party courts Green support for the upcoming throne speech. (Shane Fowler/CBC)
The likelihood of NB Power having its rates frozen for the next four years appears to have dimmed to near zero given the uncertainty over who will govern the province — even if New Brunswick Liberals manage to retain power — and the utility can thank its old nemesis, Green Party leader David Coon, for the reprieve.
"It's a non-starter," Coon said Thursday about the signature Liberal campaign promise to bypass the Energy and Utilities Board and impose up to $300 million in rate freezes on the financially challenged utility over the next four years.
"Freezing power rates is a bad idea. It's interference in a regulatory process; we've got to look at the best economic interests of New Brunswickers. It would be foolish."
Premier Brian Gallant has said he will seek to find "common ground" with Green Party MLAs in an upcoming throne speech to win enough support to keep governing — a condition the freeze does not meet.
Premier Brian Gallant hinted Thursday the Liberal platform could be modified to incorporate elements from other parties' platforms. (Photo: CBC)
"We believe we can earn the votes of many in the legislature," Gallant said Thursday. "We want to be able to consult and discuss what should get into the speech from the throne. We are open to other ideas from other political parties "
No Liberal election promise attracted more scorn from Coon during the campaign than the proposed rate freeze, a position he has not budged on since.
Gallant has not said the freeze is dead, but on Thursday sounded like he might be laying the groundwork for its funeral.
"We have to be open to the other political parties platforms, which means we have to put water in our wine for our platform as well," said Gallant when asked if Coon's objections to the rate freeze would be fatal to the promise.
"We are willing to look at some of the elements we put forward in our platform and to say maybe another day."
'They should go forward'
NB Power has been conspicuously silent on what it plans to do with power rates going forward since Liberals first promised a freeze to voters in late August.
It has a longstanding plan to increase rates by two per cent per year or more to retire $1 billion in debt and cope with carbon taxes if they come.
In each of the last two years, the utility has submitted its annual rate application to the Energy and Utilities Board during the first week of October, but this year it has already let that date pass with no word of its intention.
Green Party Leader David Coon opposes the Liberal-promised power rate freeze. (CBC)
Coon said if NB Power is waiting to find out who will be governing the province before applying for new rates, it shouldn't.
"To me, they should be continuing on as required if they are looking for a change in power rates. They should go forward," he said
Coon's history with NB Power
Coon is an unlikely white knight to come to the utility's defence.
He has a long history of opposing NB Power initiatives at regulatory hearings in his former role as executive director of the New Brunswick Conservation Council.
In the early 2000s, he fought the utility's ill-fated, $700-million conversion of the Coleson Cove oil-fired generating station to burn the Venezuelan fossil fuel orimulsion. He later battled executives over what proved to be optimistic plans to quickly and cheaply refurbish the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station.
David Coon fought the conversion of Coleson Cove to burn orimulsion — one of several battles the Green Leader waged against the utility. ((CBC))
Venezuela eventually refused to deliver orimulsion after the Coleson Cove conversion was complete and the nuclear refurbishment went three years late and $1 billion over budget, all problems Coon predicted.
Still, Coon has long been an advocate of NB Power answering to a professional regulator like the Energy and Utilities Board and not to politicians, and he instantly opposed the idea of a rate freeze imposed by a political party on that principle.
Coon said if NB Power executives are grateful for the backing of an old foe against political meddling in its rates, they are not saying.
"I haven't heard from any of them yet," he said.
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Robert Jones
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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.
Local democracy will 'suffer' after byelections delayed, municipalities group says
Elections NB pushed votes back to prepare for another potential provincial election
Shane Magee· CBC News·
Elections NB has postponed the municipal byelections planned for Dec. 3 until May 6, 2019. (CBC)
Elections New Brunswick has pushed back byelections in more than a dozen municipalities as it faces the possibility of a snap provincial election.
Kim Poffenroth, New Brunswick's chief electoral officer, sent a notice following the Sept. 24 provincial election announcing votes set for Dec. 3 would instead be held May 6, 2019. The tight election results, and ongoing jockey for power, means Elections NB must prepare to hold another provincial election.
"Elections New Brunswick does not have the resources required, including trained staff, warehouse space and technical support, to effectively and simultaneously prepare for two large-scale elections," Poffenroth said in a statement.
With the potential of another provincial election, chief electoral officer Kim Poffenroth said Elections NB doesn't have the resources required for two large-scale elections. (Graham Thompson/CBC)
For cities like Saint John and Moncton, that means months with a single vacant seat. But in the Village of Aroostook, two vacant seats on the four-person means no quorum.
That leaves the village unable to carry out municipal business, such as passing a budget. The village did not return a request for comment.
Decision condemned
The Union of Municipalities of New Brunswick condemned the decision to push back the byelections.
"The delay denies residents local representation and risks the ability of some municipal councils to operate," said Wayne Sturgeon, president of the union and Grand Manan councillor.
"We strongly disagree that local democracy should suffer as a result," Sturgeon stated. "Elections NB should not be in the position of choosing between levels of government."
Aware of concerns
Poffenroth was not available for an interview.
She said in a statement she's aware of the union's concerns and plans to meet with the group to explain her decision in more detail.
The provincial election caused vacancies in Saint John, Moncton, Shediac and Sackville.
In Moncton, Ward 3 Coun. Bryan Butler resigned from the city's social inclusion committee in part because the other ward councillor — Rob McKee — resigned from council after he was elected Moncton Centre MLA.
Moncton Coun. Bryan Butler resigned from the city's social inclusion committee in part because the ward's other councillor was elected to the provincial legislature on Sept. 24. (Kate Letterick/CBC News )
"Elections New Brunswick has decided they're not going to have a byelection until next May so that would give me approximately 10 months in largest ward by myself," Butler said at Monday's council meeting.
Butler said he's still concerned about social issues affecting the city.
In Tracadie and Sussex Corner, vacant council seats mean if one council member misses a meeting, the community government won't have quorum.
Sussex Corner faced a series of resignations and retirements earlier this year, with the acting mayor saying she looked forward to the fall byelection to help resolve the problems.
Open seats
The Union of Municipalities of New Brunswick has compiled a list of council vacancies:
Irving Oil opposes new assessment criteria for Energy East pipeline Irving said project will not influence greenhouse gas emissions
By Jacques Poitras, CBC News Posted: Jun 14, 2017 7:00 AM AT
"New transmission lines needed
NB Power said in its response to the NEB's request for comments that there would need to be new transmission lines to power the pumping stations.
Those lines would require a provincial Environmental Impact Assessment, the utility said.
But it also said the NEB review's examination of electricity generation "may impact matters of provincial jurisdiction in a more than incidental fashion."
The Crown corporation said that's because the NEB may attach conditions to the pipeline approval that would change the routing of power lines already approved by provincial regulators.
The Conservation Council of New Brunswick said in its submission that it supports the new NEB panel looking at upstream and downstream emissions, marine traffic, and other issues it's considering adding as new criteria."
---------- Original message ---------- From: "MinFinance / FinanceMin (FIN)" fin.minfinance-financemin.fin@canada.ca Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 15:47:42 +0000 Subject: RE: RE The CBC report of Peter Hyslop versus NB Power and a Perfect Storm in Fredericton tomorrow. Trust that all the lawyers within McInnes Cooper know that nobody speaks for me unless I say OK To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
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Peter G. Hyslop, Unit 16 380 Main St. Hartland, New Brunswick E7P 2N2 Phone: 506-375-6700 Fax: 506-375-6715 Email: gphlaw@nb.aibn.com
Former public intervener asks to represent NB Power's residential ratepayers Peter Hyslop gets support from P.E.I. consultant, who says residential customers need voice at rate hearings By Robert Jones, CBC News Posted: Jun 14, 2017 6:00 AM AT
Former public intervener asks to represent NB Power's residential ratepayers Peter Hyslop gets support from P.E.I. consultant, who says residential customers need voice at rate hearings By Robert Jones, CBC News Posted: Jun 14, 2017 6:00 AM AT Last Updated: Jun 14, 2017 9:32 AM AT
A former public intervener, Hartland lawyer Peter Hyslop is arguing residential customers need to be represented by their own lawyer at future rate hearings. (CBC)
With parties lining up to argue for higher residential electricity bills at NB Power's upcoming rate design hearing, especially for people who use electric heat, a former public intervener is arguing residential customers need to be represented by their own lawyer — and he is proposing himself for the job.
Hartland lawyer Peter Hyslop says the interests of residential ratepayers need to be heard. (CBC)
"The interests of the residential rate payers, as a class, are meritorious," Hartland lawyer Peter Hyslop wrote in a motion submitted to the Energy and Utilities Board this week.
"It is necessary for the proper completion of the record in this application that the interests of the residential rate class be presented."
Year-long review
NB Power is in the middle of a year-long look at how it bills various customers for electricity. The review could result in prices charged by the utility changing dramatically.
Some of the most significant proposals are aimed at homeowners and apartment dwellers, including higher than average rate increases for that group, premium prices for electric heat and the possible adoption of different rates at different times of the day, different days of the week or different months of the year.
NB Power is undergoing a year-long review of how it bills various customers for electricity. (Shane Fowler/CBC)
Companies that are already on record as favouring some of those ideas, including Enbridge Gas New Brunswick and J.D. Irving Ltd. have their own lawyers who will be presenting evidence and arguments in support of their positions.
• Seasonal power rates could cause consumer backlash, says consultant
Enbridge has long argued electric heat prices are artificially low in New Brunswick, making it more difficult for the company to attract customers while J.D. Irving has expressed concern industrial rates are too high, in part, because evidence has shown NB Power undercharges homeowners.
'Advocate in the public interest'
Heather Black, the current public intervener, will be participating at the hearing but she is not legally permitted to represent the interests of any single group, including residential customers. Instead she is exclusively required to "advocate in the public interest," even if the public interest is not necessarily favourable to homeowners.
Public intervener Heather Black says she isn't legally permitted to represent the interests of any other single group. (CBC)
"Legislation prohibits me from representing or advocating on behalf of a particular class of customers," Black wrote in a statement to CBC News.
"My role is to assist the Board by submitting evidence and advancing arguments that consider the broader public interest, which has many — sometimes conflicting — components."
Residential consumers are NB Power's largest customer group, accounting for 46 per cent of the utility's in-province sales and Hyslop is arguing it needs aggressive and well-financed representation to avoid unfair treatment.
Asks utility to pay costs
In an unusual manoeuvre that began two weeks ago, Hyslop's legal assistant, Carolanne Power, applied to intervene in the rate design hearing as a residential customer and then gave notice she would be asking for Hyslop to represent her — and all other residential customers — at NB Power's expense.
"She will be seeking an Order from the Board directing (NB Power) to pay her costs for the intervention, including but not limited to legal fees, professional advisors and all proper and necessary costs and expenses related thereto," reads Power's application.
P.E.I. energy consultant Robert O'Rourke agrees the residential rate class must be represented at hearings. (CBC)
Neither NB Power nor Hyslop would agree to an interview prior to their motion being heard Thursday but have submitted partial arguments in writing, including an affidavit from P.E.I. regulatory consultant Robert O'Rourke.
"I am of the view that the residential rate class must be represented in this matter to ensure that the proper evidence arguments and submissions before this Board can be properly presented," says O'Rourke's affadavit.
"In the absence of such evidence, representation and submissions I am of the view that a significant impact may result on today's residential rate class."
No response
NB Power did not immediately respond to questions about Hyslop's request that it pay his bills, but the request, if granted, could cost the utility hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The province has paid a number of private practice lawyers over the years to intervene at Energy and Utilities Board hearings, and the bill for expert and legal fees has never been less than $40,000 and several times exceeded $500,000.
Hyslop served as public intervener at a number of NB Power hearings more than a decade ago during the term of the Bernard Lord government.
The current rate design hearing is not scheduled until April 2018 but there are several months of pre-hearing activities, including the preparation of studies and expert evidence.
Laura Lee Langley 1700 Granville Street, 5th Floor One Government Place Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 1X5 Phone: (902) 424-8940 Fax: (902) 424-0667 Email: LauraLee.Langley@novascotia.ca
If you don't wish to speak to me before I begin litigation then I suspect the Integrity Commissioner New Brunswick or the Federal Crown Counsel can explain the email below and the documents hereto attached to you and your Premier etc.
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 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
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?
Vertias Vincit David Raymond Amos 902 800 0369
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.
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.
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.
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
Integrity commissioner calls for tougher conflict-of-interest law N.B. legislation should apply to apparent conflicts, not just actual ones, Alexandre Deschênes says By Jacques Poitras, CBC News Posted: Jun 12, 2017 6:30 AM AT
Alexandre Deschênes's first act as commissioner was to deal with Victor Boudreau's 20 per cent investment in Shediac Campground Ltd., a proposed 700-site facility that has generated local opposition. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
New Brunswick's integrity commissioner says the conflict-of-interest law for politicians should be toughened to clarify cases such as cabinet minister Victor Boudreau's former investment in a proposed campground near Parlee Beach.
Alexandre Deschênes said earlier this year that Boudreau's stake in the project did not put him in a conflict of interest but that the appearance of a conflict was "inevitable."
Unlike other conflict-of-interest laws, "our act does not apply to an apparent conflict of interest," he said in an interview with CBC News. "It's not in there."
Previous commissioners suggested law
Boudreau recused himself from Parlee Beach issues anyway, even though he didn't technically have to. The law said ministers aren't in a conflict if decisions that affect their private interests also apply to the general public.
Boudreau recuses himself from Parlee Beach controversy Victor Boudreau case shows 'huge loophole' in conflict law, ethics group says
"Mr. Boudreau could have gone on and said, 'I'm the minister of health and I'm going to make decisions that apply to the general public and the act allows it,'" Deschênes said.
"If you'd had the words 'apparent conflict of interest' [in the law] it would have been clear."
Deschênes pointed out two of his predecessors as conflict-of-interest commissioner, Pat Ryan and Stuart Stratton, recommended expanding the act to include the appearance of conflicts.
"It started out way back," he said. "We're looking at almost a decade here where the suggestion has been made that apparent conflict of interest ought to be included in the act. It's not been done.
"But as a commissioner, I will be following what they've been doing and I will be recommending it when I file a report."
Updated conflict act
The Gallant Liberals passed amendments to update the Members Conflict of Interest Act during the spring session of the legislature, but they did not include a ban on perceived conflicts.
Progressive Conservative MLA Brian MacDonald has also called for the Liberals to fix what he calls "a gap in the law."
'Gap in the law': PC critic suggests review of conflict law Premier backs Victor Boudreau's involvement in Parlee Beach issueDeschênes was appointed the province's integrity commissioner last year. The new role incorporates the role of conflict-of-interest watchdog and registrar of lobbyists, and in September it will also include the Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
Victor
Cabinet minister Victor Boudreau recused himself from the Parlee Beach issues anyway, even though the law said ministers aren't in a conflict if decisions that affect their private interests also apply to the general public. (CBC)
Deschênes's first act as commissioner was to deal with Boudreau's 20 per cent investment in Shediac Campground Ltd., a proposed 700-site facility that has generated local opposition.
As health minister, Boudreau oversees the public health offices, and his department was part of a working group looking at how to deal with fecal contamination at Parlee Beach. One option the group looked at was a moratorium on new development near the beach.
That would have affected the proposed campground.
'I told him, and he made it public, that the appearance of conflict in this case was absolutely inevitable. He couldn't get around it. It was there.'
- Alexandre Deschênes
The law bans ministers from making decisions that affect their "private interest," but it makes an exception if the decision applies to the broader public, even if the minister would still benefit.
Deschênes said in his letter to Boudreau in March that "one could argue" a decision on a moratorium would affect the broader public.
"Under the act, he might have been entitled to continue to have discussions that applied to the general population, even though he was part of [the project] at that point," Deschênes said in an interview last week.
"I told him, and he made it public, that the appearance of conflict in this case was absolutely inevitable. He couldn't get around it. It was there." An MP's perceived conflict matters
The federal conflict of interest code for MPs also includes an exception for decisions that affect the general public, but it includes an explicit reference to perceived conflicts.
Boudreau put his investment in a blind trust in 2014, which meant he had no role in the running of the business. But the value of his stake would have been affected by a moratorium on future development.
Parlee beach
In May, Victor Boudreau announced he was giving up his investment in the campground on Parlee Beach altogether.
He said in March he learned of the potential moratorium Feb. 28 and met with Deschênes March 2, the first date they could arrange it.
"That perception is the issue," Boudreau said at the time. "And if the perception is the issue, and the perception is what's going to be prevent us from getting to the bottom of it, then I'm prepared to recuse myself from all activities relating to this committee."
Last month he announced that he was giving up his investment in the campground altogether.
Deschênes said he believes most ministers and MLAs would do the same thing if he told them there was an apparent, but not actual, conflict.
"In most cases I think they will listen and they will do what has to be done to put an end to an apparent conflict of interest, although technically they could continue to do what they want to do."
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David Raymond Amos David Raymond Amos I sure hope the new integrity commissioner finally does his job and answers me in writing
Michael Geraldson Michael Geraldson Integrity and politicians, two words that should rarely be used in the same sentence!
David Raymond Amos David Raymond Amos @Michael Geraldson Sad but oh so true. However I can think of a few exceptions The first to come mind is Jim Traficant. Check history to see look what the Yankees did to him for trying to make the rest act ethically
Here is one of my favourite quotes of his
"I think Congress should take the IRS, handcuff them to a chain-link fence, and flog them with their own damn Tax Code"
David Raymond Amos David Raymond Amos @Shawn McShane We already know the answer don't we?
Jeffrey Parker Jeffrey Parker Who's going to enforce these proposed laws? Never did before, just help cover them up or be so incompetent in investigating that no one takes a fall for corruption in the system, Surely screwed here in this place.
David Raymond Amos David Raymond Amos @Jeffrey Parker We can hold them accountable. All you have to do is sue them. Good luck finding a lawyer willing to stand before a judge appointed to the bench by their buddies. Hell two judges NB are former Conservative Attorney Generals who lost their seats in recent elections. Go figure who is putting the screws to us. Methinks its the Brotherhood of the Bar. What say you?
Keith Jagger Keith Jagger @David Raymond Amos - He (she) who writes the laws and administers the laws rules the common folks David. Judges are just lawyers with connections and the gift of gabb
Shawn McShane Shawn McShane Last month Boudreau announced that he was giving up his investment in the campground altogether.
Past two days Parlee Beach had "No Swimming Advisory" and today as well. I wonder if Boudreau would have gave up his investment under the old water advisory system that he defended...Victor Boudreau dismisses call for Parlee Beach sign improvements. The health minister said people can "use their own judgement" on whether they want to go into the water.
Jeffrey Parker Jeffrey Parker @Shawn McShane we we are UdeMer than the rest of Canada, that's why they leave.
David Raymond Amos David Raymond Amos @Shawn McShane Methinks Mr Boudreau should thank us all for his fat pension because I doubt he could get elected as a dog catcher after all this malicious nonsense
Keith Jagger Keith Jagger @David Raymond Amos - You obviously don't know the mindset of the people of his riding who would vote Liberal if a spruce fencepost was running for the party. (Well - I think you probably do and you are being fasicious)
Shawn McShane Shawn McShane @David Raymond Amos He got re-elected after Atcon. He can thank them. The rest of us need to make sure this doesn't happen anymore.
William Roberts William Roberts Integrity, Politicians? LOL If you had any integrity you wouldn't want to be a politician here.
David Raymond Amos David Raymond Amos @William Roberts I tried the water of the political sewer once in 2006 while intervening in the NEB Emera Pipeline hearing and I got all of 44 votes in Saint John Harbour. Trust that I was not surprised. I learned something long ago when my Father and his PC friends were disgusted that the lawyer Trudeau "The Elder" was having fun falsely claiming he said "Fuddle Duddle" on the Hill. In a nutshell it is that nobody gives a damn just as long as our politicians appear to be cool dudes. Nothing has changed since.
Paul Bourgoin Paul Bourgoin The selection of Dr. Louis Lapierre, recipient of the Order of Canada whose Medal was revoked because because of his recognized lack of needed competence which he falsified is a documented example of how strong this influence and consequences of this mis-guided forest management has destroyed the Fish and Wildlife habitat and populations in New Brunswick. This design of forest management supported by industry, impacts negatively on our Grand Children's heritage, forcing them to leave their native province because of lack of work.
David Raymond Amos David Raymond Amos @Paul Bourgoin All True However we keep on electing these people correct?
Terry L. Sisson Terry L. Sisson I find it difficult to believe: 1) March 2,2017 Alexandre Deschense informed Victor Boudreau he should leave the business group Shediac Campground Ltd. and he agreed. 2) It is now June 12, 2017 and to my knowledge this has not been done. Did I miss something here? Mr. Deschenes is Integrity Minister, correct!
Jay Oak Jay Oak @Terry L. Sisson Integrity Commissioner, not Minister.
David Raymond Amos David Raymond Amos @Jay Oak True but we are still compelled to call them both "Honourable
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
Hon. Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C., who resides in Bathurst, N.B., is a native of Kedgwick, N.B., and is married to Huguette (Savoie) Deschênes. They have two sons.
He studied at Saint-Joseph University (now Université de Moncton) from 1960 to 1962, University of Ottawa from 1962-1965 (B.A.), and University of New Brunswick (LL.B., 1968). He was admitted to the Law Society of New Brunswick in 1968. He was legal counsel to the Department of Justice in Fredericton from 1968 to 1971. He was in private practice from 1972 to 1982 and specialized in civil litigation as a partner in the law firm of Michaud, Leblanc, Robichaud, and Deschênes. While residing in Shediac, N.B., he served on town council and became the first president of the South East Economic Commission. He is a past president of the Richelieu Club in Shediac.
In 1982, he was appointed a judge of the Court of Queen’s Bench of New Brunswick and of the Court of Appeal of New Brunswick in 2000.
On July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada.
While on the Court of Appeal of New Brunswick, he was appointed President of the provincial Judicial Council and in 2012 Chairperson of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of New Brunswick for the 2015 federal election.
He was appointed Conflict of Interest Commissioner in December 2016 and became New Brunswick’s first Integrity Commissioner on December 16, 2016 with responsibilities for conflict of interest issues related to Members of the Legislative Assembly. As of April 1, 2017 he supervises lobbyists of public office holders under the Lobbyists’ Registration Act.
As of September 1, 2017, he will be assuming the functions presently held by the Access to Information and Privacy Commissioner.
From: "Bussières, Dan (LEG)"<Dan.Bussieres@gnb.ca> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 15:47:49 -0400 Subject: RE: I just called all three of your offices To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Oui je vois
On 12/6/12, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't take orders well ask the corrupt ex cop Bussieres why that is >
Methinks if Kik MacDonald were truly wise he would make another speech before Xmass but this time he should tell the awful truth instead of just making fun of our trubles with LIEBRANOS N'esy Pas Davey Baby Coon?
Trust that watching this politite nonsense is truly offensive to any Maritmer with two clues between their ears.
Conflict of Interest 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
Michèle Pelletier Arseneault & Pelletier 568A Ave. des Pionniers Balmoral, New Brunswick E8E 1E3 Phone: 506-826-1819 Fax: 506-826-1817 Email: m.pelletier@nb.aibn.com
KIM POFFENROTH Assistant Deputy Attorney General Legislative Services (Branch) Office of the Attorney General Phone : (506) 453-2855 Fax : (506) 457-7342 Email : Kim.POFFENROTH@gnb.ca
The Gallant government has introduced legislation to merge several legislative watchdog positions into a single job and has chosen a retired judge to take on the newly expanded role.
Alexandre Deschênes
Alexandre Deschênes, a retired New Brunswick Court of Appeal justice, is to be the first integrity commissioner in New Brunswick.
Retired New Brunswick Court of Appeal justice Alexandre Deschênes will become the province's first integrity commissioner, an appointment supported by the opposition Progressive Conservatives and Green Party Leader David Coon.
Premier Brian Gallant introduced a bill Wednesday to create the position.
For now, Deschênes fills the vacant position of conflict-of-interest commissioner and will also oversee legislation governing the privacy of personal health records.
Next July, Deschênes will add responsibility for the lobbyist registry to his duties.
The Liberals say they will proclaim legislation to set up the registry by next July. The law was passed by the previous PC government in 2014 but not enacted.
Conflict of interest commissioner, MLAs have conflicting views on transparency Commissioner wants mandatory privacy breach reporting N.B. legislature will study cutting independent watchdogs
And next September, after Anne Bertrand, the information and privacy commissioner, finishes her seven-year term, that job will become part of Deschênes's job as integrity commissioner.
An independent study, done as part of the government's program review, recommended the merging of the legislative officer positions.
All parties in the legislature agreed on two other appointments Wednesday: lawyer Michèle Pelletier as consumer advocate for insurance and assistant deputy attorney general Kim Poffenroth as chief electoral officer.J
At its Annual General Meeting on Saturday, June 25th, 2016, the Law Society of New Brunswick elected its new Executive for the 2016-2017 term:
New Executive
George P. Filliter, Q.C. President 68 Avonlea Court Fredericton, NB E3C 1N8 Tel: (506) 454-7678 Fax: (506) 454-6983 george.filliter@gmail.com
Luc Marcoux, Q.C. Vice-President McCain Foods Limited 8800 Main Street Florenceville-Bristol, NB E7L 1B2 Tel: (506) 375-5353 Fax: (506) 375-5058 lcmarcou@mccain.ca
Christian E. Michaud, Q.C. Treasurer Cox & Palmer Blue Cross Center 644 Main Street, Suite 500 Moncton, NB E1C 1E2 Tel: (506) 863-1131 Fax: (506) 856-8150 cmichaud@coxandpalmer.com
Law Society of New Brunswick 68 Avonlea Court Fredericton, New Brunswick E3C 1N8 (506) 458-8540 (506) 451-1421
Eleven New Brunswick lawyers were appointed Queen’s Counsel by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, the Honourable Jocelyne Roy Vienneau, on Monday, October 24, 2016, at the Legislative Assembly in Fredericton.
Christa Bourque, Q.C., of Moncton Krista Lynn Colford, Q.C., of Fredericton The Honourable Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C., of Bathurst Edward L. Derrah, Q.C., of Fredericton Shannon Doran, Q.C., of Fredericton Nathalie L. Godbout, Q.C., of Saint John Stephen J. Hutchison, Q.C., of Saint John The Honourable Dominic A. J. LeBlanc, Q.C., of Shediac Luc Marcoux, Q.C., of Florenceville-Bristol D. Andrew Rouse, Q.C., of Fredericton John R. Williamson, Q.C., of Fredericton
The distinction of Queen’s Counsel is conferred upon experienced lawyers in recognition of their commitment to the principles of the legal profession and contributions to their communities. Eligible lawyers include those who have been members of the Law Society of New Brunswick and have been engaged in the active practice of law in the province for at least 15 years with extensive experience before the courts or have demonstrated exceptional service to the profession.
In the fall of this year, a committee consisting of the Chief Justice of New Brunswick, J. Ernest Drapeau, the Attorney General of New Brunswick and the President of the Law Society of New Brunswick, will consider candidates for the next Queen’s Counsel appointments.
The distinction of Queen’s Counsel is conferred upon experienced lawyers in recognition of their commitment to the principles of the legal profession and contributions to their communities. The criteria for these appointments are:
A regular member of the Law Society of New Brunswick who:
a) has been engaged in the active practice of law in the Province of New Brunswick for at least fifteen years, with extensive experience before the courts;
b) in the opinion of the Committee, merits the appointment by reason of exceptional service to the legal profession.
It should be noted that past practice indicates that Queen’s Counsel appointments typically have more than seventeen years at the Bar.
The Law Society encourages members to forward a letter and a resume in order to be considered as a candidate for a Queen’s Counsel appointment. Persons may either apply personally or may nominate a member of the Law Society. All applicants will be treated equally by the Committee whether they are nominated, or whether they apply personally.
In your letter, you may wish to identify two individuals, either within or outside the Law Society who might provide additional information to assist the Committee in considering this matter. If letters of reference are provided, they may be identified for this purpose.
Your application or nomination should be received by Chief Justice J. Ernest Drapeau no later than Friday, June 24, 2016, at 4:00 p.m.
It may be sent via email to tross@judicom.ca or sent/delivered to:
Committee on Queen’s Counsel Appointments c/o The Hon. Chief Justice J. Ernest Drapeau Court of Appeal of New Brunswick Justice Building 427 Queen Street, Room 311 Fredericton, NB E3B 1B7
Judge-moving bill aims to help Dominic LeBlanc, Tory MLA charges Kirk MacDonald says Liberals drafted bill to help put Jolène Richard and André Richard on court
By Jacques Poitras, CBC News Posted: Nov 24, 2016 6:03 PM AT
A Progressive Conservative MLA has taken the unusual step of naming names — including that of a sitting provincial court judge — in his attack on a proposed law on how Court of Queen's Bench judges are transferred.
Kirk MacDonald told the legislature last week that he believes the government bill was drafted to help the spouse and the brother-in-law of federal Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc, a close ally of Premier Brian Gallant. nb-andre-richard-jolene-richard
A Progressive Conservative MLA believes the Liberal government's judge-moving bill was drafted to help have André Richard and Jolène Richard appointed to the Court of Queen's Bench. (CBC)
"I will give you two names. I will give you Jolène Richard and André Richard, two people I believe are looking for judicial appointments here in New Brunswick," MacDonald said during second-reading debate on the bill.
In fact, Jolène Richard is already a provincial court judge. André Richard is her brother and a senior lawyer at Stewart McKelvey.
Province names new judge, wife of MP Dominic LeBlanc
"Dominic LeBlanc has some judges that he wants to appoint in New Brunswick, and the framework as it currently exists does not allow for that to happen," MacDonald said.
André Richard stated Thursday he "had no involvement in the government's decision to propose changes to the Judicature Act."
"As you know, my sister is already a judge who sits in Moncton. I fail to understand why our names are being brought into this debate." Bill gives veto to minister
The Liberal bill would amend the Judicature Act, which governs how courts operate, to give the justice minister a veto over Chief Justice David Smith of the Court of Queen's Bench transferring judges from one court to another. nb-chief-justice-david-smith
Court of Queen's Bench Chief Justice David Smith has transferred 13 judges since becoming chief justice in 1998. (Acadia University)
PC MLAs have hinted in the past about who they believe the bill was designed to help. But until now, no one was willing to name them.
It's rare for politicians to draw sitting judges into partisan debates, and the veteran Tory MLA did not offer any evidence to back up his allegations. He turned down a request to explain his views in an interview. Parliamentary privilege
Parliamentary privilege protects members of the legislature from being sued for defamation or held in contempt of court for comments they make during proceedings. No such protection exists for things they say outside the legislature.
Provincial court judges such as Richard are appointed by the province, but Court of Queen's Bench justices are named by Ottawa. Both courts are administered by the province, but the current law gives Smith the power to move judges on his court on his own.
Smith has argued the bill would threaten the independence of the courts, which could make it unconstitutional. Bill brought back
The Liberals introduced the bill during the last session, but it didn't pass before the session ended. They brought it back last week.
Justice Minister Denis Landry said last week the bill was designed to bring "best practices" to court administration and end the pattern of justices being named to smaller courthouses and then being transferred soon after.
Judge-moving legislation introduced again 2 chief justices appear at odds over judge-moving bill 7 things list reveals about controversial judge-moving bill
"This is what we want to correct," he said. "If we name a judge, they should reside there, for a long period of time, not just two or three months then move them where they want to go."
Asked whether he'd veto such a transfer, Landry said, "This is what we'll see."
Landry's department said Thursday it would not comment on MacDonald's accusation. Larger locations favoured
MacDonald said during last week's debate that it's true Court of Queen's Bench justices are often appointed to smaller locations and are then moved to one of the three largest cities. Dominic LeBlanc
Federal Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc is a close ally of New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant. (CBC)
He said that court postings in Moncton, Fredericton, and Saint John are "The positions that everyone seems to want."
And he said the current system for moving judges, "which is controlled by the chief justice, does not work for Dominic LeBlanc and the Liberal Party of New Brunswick," MacDonald said.
Upside to judge-moving bill touted by ex-constitutional lawyer Gallant government's judge-moving bill questioned by legal expert
"They want to change it. They want to have a situation where they have a mechanism to control that decision and to effect change on that decision."
In June, Smith transferred Justice Tracey DeWare from Woodstock to Moncton and Justice Richard Petrie from Saint John to Woodstock.
DeWare was moved to fill a vacancy after Justice Brigitte Robichaud switched to supernumerary, or part-time, status.
Jolène Richard did not respond to interview requests.
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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 essential for the security and tranquility of the developed world. An ISIS “caliphate,” in the Middle East, no matter how small, is a clear and present danger to the entire world. This “occupied state,” or“failed state” will prosecute an unending Islamic inspired war of terror against not only the “western world,” but Arab states “moderate” or not, as well. The security, safety, and tranquility of Canada and Canadians are just at risk now with the emergence of an ISIS“caliphate” no matter how large or small, as it was with the Taliban and Al Quaeda “marriage” in Afghanistan.
One of the everlasting “legacies” of the “Trudeau the Elder’s dynasty was Canada and successive Liberal governments cowering behind the amerkan’s nuclear and conventional military shield, at the same time denigrating, insulting them, opposing them, and at the same time self-aggrandizing ourselves as “peace keepers,” and progenitors of “world peace.” Canada failed. The United States of Amerka, NATO, the G7 and or G20 will no longer permit that sort of sanctimonious behavior from Canada or its government any longer. And Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Foreign Minister John Baird , and Cabinet are fully cognizant of that reality. Even if some editorial boards, and pundits are not.
Justin, Trudeau “the younger” is reprising the time “honoured” liberal mantra, and tradition of expecting the amerkans or the rest of the world to do “the heavy lifting.” Justin Trudeau and his “butt buddy” David Amos are telling Canadians that we can guarantee our security and safety by expecting other nations to fight for us. That Canada can and should attempt to guarantee Canadians safety by providing “humanitarian aid” somewhere, and call a sitting US president a “war criminal.” This morning Australia announced they too, were sending tactical aircraft to eliminate the menace of an ISIS “caliphate.”
In one sense Prime Minister Harper is every bit the scoundrel Trudeau “the elder” and Jean ‘the crook” Chretien was. Just As Trudeau, and successive Liberal governments delighted in diminishing, marginalizing, under funding Canadian Forces, and sending Canadian military men and women to die with inadequate kit and modern equipment; so too is Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Canada’s F-18s are antiquated, poorly equipped, and ought to have been replaced five years ago. But alas, there won’t be single RCAF fighter jock that won’t go, or won’t want to go, to make Canada safe or safer.
My Grandfather served this country. My father served this country. My Uncle served this country. And I have served this country. Justin Trudeau has not served Canada in any way. Thomas Mulcair has not served this country in any way. Liberals and so called social democrats haven’t served this country in any way. David Amos, and other drooling fools have not served this great nation in any way. Yet these fools are more than prepared to ensure their, our safety to other nations, and then criticize them for doing so.
Canada must again, now, “do our bit” to guarantee our own security, and tranquility, but also that of the world. Canada has never before shirked its responsibility to its citizens and that of the world.
Prime Minister Harper will not permit this country to do so now
From: dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:17:17 -0400 Subject: RE: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and the War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still alive To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
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I talked to Don Newman earlier this week before the beancounters David Dodge and Don Drummond now of Queen's gave their spin about Canada's Health Care system yesterday and Sheila Fraser yapped on and on on CAPAC during her last days in office as if she were oh so ethical.. To be fair to him I just called Greg Weston (613-288-6938) I suggested that he should at least Google SOUCOM and David Amos It would be wise if he check ALL of CBC's sources before he publishes something else about the DND EH Don Newman? Lets just say that the fact that your old CBC buddy, Tony Burman is now in charge of Al Jazeera English never impressed me. The fact that he set up a Canadian office is interesting though
Anyone can call me back and stress test my integrity after they read this simple pdf file. BTW what you Blue Sky dudes pubished about Potash Corp and BHP is truly funny. Perhaps Stevey Boy Harper or Brad Wall will fill ya in if you are to shy to call mean old me.
"But Lang, defence minister McCallum's chief of staff, says military brass were not entirely forthcoming on the issue. For instance, he says, even McCallum initially didn't know those soldiers were helping to plan the invasion of Iraq up to the highest levels of command, including a Canadian general.
That general is Walt Natynczyk, now Canada's chief of defence staff, who eight months after the invasion became deputy commander of 35,000 U.S. soldiers and other allied forces in Iraq. Lang says Natynczyk was also part of the team of mainly senior U.S. military brass that helped prepare for the invasion from a mobile command in Kuwait."
"I remember years ago when the debate was on in Canada, about there being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Our American 'friends" demanded that Canada join into "the Coalition of the Willing. American "veterans" and sportscasters loudly denounced Canada for NOT buying into the US policy.
At the time I was serving as a planner at NDHQ and with 24 other of my colleagues we went to Tampa SOUCOM HQ to be involved in the planning in the planning stages of the op....and to report to NDHQ, that would report to the PMO upon the merits of the proposed operation. There was never at anytime an existing target list of verified sites where there were deployed WMD.
Coalition assets were more than sufficient for the initial strike and invasion phase but even at that point in the planning, we were concerned about the number of "boots on the ground" for the occupation (and end game) stage of an operation in Iraq. We were also concerned about the American plans for occupation plans of Iraq because they at that stage included no contingency for a handing over of civil authority to a vetted Iraqi government and bureaucracy.
There was no detailed plan for Iraq being "liberated" and returned to its people...nor a thought to an eventual exit plan. This was contrary to the lessons of Vietnam but also to current military thought, that folks like Colin Powell and "Stuffy" Leighton and others elucidated upon. "What's the mission" how long is the mission, what conditions are to met before US troop can redeploy? Prime Minister Jean Chretien and the PMO were even at the very preliminary planning stages wary of Canadian involvement in an Iraq operation....History would prove them correct. The political pressure being applied on the PMO from the George W Bush administration was onerous
American military assets were extremely overstretched, and Canadian military assets even more so It was proposed by the PMO that Canadian naval platforms would deploy to assist in naval quarantine operations in the Gulf and that Canadian army assets would deploy in Afghanistan thus permitting US army assets to redeploy for an Iraqi operation....The PMO thought that "compromise would save Canadian lives and liberal political capital.. and the priority of which ....not necessarily in that order. "
You can bet that I called these sneaky Yankees again today EH John Adams? of the CSE within the DND?
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Póstur IRR <postur@irr.is> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 21:43:50 +0000 Subject: Re: After crossing paths with them bigtime in 2004 Davey Baby Coon and his many Green Meanie and Fake Left cohorts know why I won't hold my breath waiting for them to act with any semblance of integrity now N'esy Pas Chucky Leblanc?? To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið. / Your request has been received.
Kveðja / Best regards Innanríkisráðuneytið / Ministry of the Interior
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)"<Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 21:39:17 +0000 Subject: RE: After crossing paths with them bigtime in 2004 Davey Baby Coon and his many Green Meanie and Fake Left cohorts know why I won't hold my breath waiting for them to act with any semblance of integrity now N'esy Pas Chucky Leblanc?? 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 Corespondence Manager / Gestionnaire de la correspondance Office of the Premier / Cabinet du premier ministre
For the public record I knew Birgitta was no better than the people she bitches about when she refused to discuss the QSLS blog with me while she was in Canada making her rounds in the Canadain media in January of 2011.
Mr. Amos: Upon your request I will inform Mr. Derek Pleadwell[(506) 444-2897], Chairperson SNB Board of Directors, of our extended conversation regarding the issues surrounding the 1965 Harley-Davidson motorcycle when he visits my office at approximately 3:30 P.M. today.
Also, as requested, I've copied in Ms. Sylvie Levesque-Finn[ (506) 453-3879 ],SNB President.
Lloyd D. MacKenzie, AACI, P. App, CAE Regional Manager of Assessment - Beauséjour Region/Responsable régional de l'évaluation - region Beauséjour Assessment/ de l'évaluation Service New Brunswick/ Service Nouveau-Brunswick 633 rue Main St. 4th floor/4ième étage Moncton, NB E1C 8R3 Tel/Tél: (506) 856-3910 Fax/Téléc: (506) 856-2519
From: Grady, Louise (ENB) Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 11:55 AM To: mailto:David.Raymond.Amos@gmail.com Subject: Final Follow up: Your registration as an independent candidate
Mr. Amos:
Following the Chief Electoral Officer's request by telephone on May 28, 2014 and his previous e-mailed requests for additional information with respect to your registration as an independent candidate (please see below), and having not received that information despite having provided you with several opportunities to furnish the requested information, he has now directed that said registration be cancelled. Should you wish to re-apply for registration as an independent candidate, you may do so after 60 days following the cancellation of your present registration as provided for under subsection 146.1(1) of the Elections Act.
Louise Grady Elections Coordinator / Coordinatrice des élections
From: Grady, Louise (ENB) Sent: May 28, 2014 4:20 PM To: 'David.Raymond.Amos@gmail.com' Subject: Follow up: Your registration as an independent candidate
Mr. Amos:
At the request of Mr. Michael Quinn, Chief Electoral Officer of the Province of New Brunswick, I am writing to summarize his phone call to you this afternoon, reminding you of his message of May 14 (see below). In the message he left on your voice mail, he granted you a few more days' grace and asked you to return his call at (506) 453-2218. He added that should he not hear from you by then, he would proceed to cancel your registration as an independent candidate as provided for in the Elections Act.
Louise Grady Elections Coordinator / Coordinatrice des élections
An apparent leaked memo has told Julian Assange (hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London (UK)), to clean his bathroom and take better care of his cat, if he wants his internet privileges restored
Julian Assange clean your (bath) room & cat (UK/Ecuador) - BBC News - 16th October 201829 views00ShareSaveMark 1333Published on Oct 16, 2018An apparent leaked memo has told Julian Assange (hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London (UK)), to clean his bathroom and take better care of his cat, if he wants his internet privileges restored
Image copyrightReutersImage caption The cat can often be seen peering out of the embassy's windows
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been given a set of house rules at the Ecuadorean embassy in London that include cleaning his bathroom and taking better care of his cat.
The whistle-blower was sent a memo in which he was warned that his feline companion could be confiscated.
He was also told to look after its "well-being, food and hygiene" in the set of guidelines, written in Spanish.
Ecuador also said it would partially restore his internet connection.
Mr Assange, who has been holed up at the embassy since 2012, had his online access cut in March this year after "interfering in other countries' affairs", Ecuador said.
In a set of guidelines presented to Mr Assange this month, Ecuador warned the 47-year-old to provide better care of the feline that he shares the embassy with or it may be handed to a refuge.
Image copyrightReutersImage caption The cat is said to be "interested in counter-purrveillance"The cat - which was given to Mr Assange by his children - often appears at the embassy window to watch the journalists gathered outside. The cat also has its own Twitter feed, which says it is "interested in counter-purrveillance".
From the community of Nunavik, Quebec reeling after a recent spike in suicides, pleading for support from the government; to why it's taken six years for the Ecuadorian embassy in London to tell its house guest, Julian Assange to clean his dirty dishes ... This is The Current with guest host, Piya Chattopadhyay.
---------- Original message ---------- From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 10:25:43 -0400 Subject: Priority To: Birgitta Jonsdottir <birgitta@this.is>
LIAR
---------- Original message ---------- From: Birgitta Jonsdottir <birgitta@this.is> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 07:08:08 -0700 Subject: e-mail overload Re: ATTN Damian Collins Perhaps we should talk about many things ASAP? To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com
Thank you for writing to me. I get so many emails that it is impossible for me to even read them all. If you have an urgent matter to discuss. Please put Priority in the subject. Please refrain from sending email to multitude of email addresses you might have for me. Only send one email with priority in the subject. It means I will read it and will do my very best to reply asap :)
Cambridge Analytica director 'met Assange to discuss US election'
Brittany Kaiser also claims to have channelled payments and donations to WikiLeaks
"Damian Collins, the DCMS committee chair, asked Kaiser: “If Alexander Nix wanted to reach out to Julian Assange, couldn’t he do it through you?” Kaiser replied: “That’s what I was wondering when I found that out from the press – he could have asked me to put him in touch with the legal team. But he didn’t.”
Kaiser told MPs that her principal connection to WikiLeaks was via John Jones QC. Jones represented Assange in his extradition case against the Swedish government and became a close, personal friend, visiting him weekly until he was killed by a train in April 2016. The inquest ruled that no-one else was involved in the death of Jones, who had been depressed."
QC who worked on Julian Assange case jumped in front of West Hampstead train after being allowed out of private hospital PUBLISHED: 15:22 19 August 2016 Rachel Roberts
Damian Collins was elected to the House of Commons in May 2010.
You can follow Damian in parliament using the links below which record every time he speaks or asks a question. You can also follow his voting record here.
In October 2016 Damian was elected as Chairman of the House of Commons Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport, having intially joined the Committee in July 2010. Whilst serving on the Committee Damian has been involved in a number of high profile inquiries, including into the governance of football, both nationally and internationally, phone hacking at News International Newspapers, gambling, the future of the BBC and press regualtion. The Committee is currnetly undertaking inquiries on the implications of Brexit for the creative industires, fake news and the abuse of ticket selling. Damian also serves as a member of the House of Commons Liaison Committee and is Chairman of the Conservative Arts & Creative Industries Network. He was previously PPS to both the Foreign Secretary and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. You can out more information about the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee here.
Damian was made Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Foreign Secretary in July 2014. He had previously served as PPS to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, from September 2012 up to that date.
> I decided to check out these guys and give them a scoop because one of > them just followed me in Twitter and I like what he Tweeted about > Trump locking up Hillary > > > Do telldoes anyone remember how many Canadian were murdered by Tainted > Blood from Arkansas? > > > > https://yournewswire.com/ > > > Contact Our Contributors > SEAN ADL-TABATABAI > Editor-in-chief > sean@yournewswire.com > > BAXTER DMITRY > Staff Writer > baxter@yournewswire.com > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mike Therien <therien.mike@brunswicknews.com> > Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 18:44:44 -0300 > Subject: Re: YO Chucky Leblanc maybe Jackie Vautour will give his > Green Meanie MLA Kevin Arseneau a tie if he bothers to pay him a visit > N'esy Pas Bian Gallant? > To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> > > Stop emailing me please. Not interested in your emails. Remove me from your > list. > > Mike Therien > Editor, Telegraph-Journal > > > > Methinks before October 23rd is upon us I should remind many > politicians and the folks who vote in New Brunswick that this story > appeared in the Kings County Record on June 22, 2004 two days before > Premier Lord had me illegally barred from legislative properties > Everybody knows that I have run for public office 5 more times since > then including this election. Clearly nothing has changed N'esy Pas? > > > The Unconventional Candidate > By Gisele McKnight > > > "FUNDY—He has a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket, a chain on his > wallet, a beard at least a foot long, 60 motorcycles and a cell phone > that rings to the tune of "Yankee Doodle." > > > Meet the latest addition to the Fundy ballot—David Amos. The > independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife and > two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from > running for office in Canada." > > > "Amos, 52, is running for political office because of his > dissatisfaction with politicians. "I've become aware of much > corruption involving our two countries," he said. "The only way to fix > corruption is in the political forum." > > > "What he's fighting for is the discussion of issues – tainted blood, > the exploitation of the Maritimes' gas and oil reserves and NAFTA, to > name a few. > > > "The political issues in the Maritimes involve the three Fs – fishing, > farming and forestry, but they forget foreign issues," he said. "I'm > death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say chuck it > (NAFTA) out the window > > > NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement which allows an > easier flow of goods between Canada, the United States and Mexico." > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 12:53:03 -0400 > Subject: Re Emails to Department of Justice and Province of Nova Scotia > To: wrscott@nbpower.com, "brian.gallant"<brian.gallant@gnb.ca>, > "blaine.higgs"<blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, "David.Coon" > <David.Coon@gnb.ca>, krisaustin <krisaustin@peoplesalliance.ca>, > "rick.doucet"<rick.doucet@gnb.ca>, "Sollows, David (ERD/DER)" > <david.sollows@gnb.ca>, "Robert. Jones"<Robert.Jones@cbc.ca>, > "robert.gauvin"<robert.gauvin@gnb.ca>, kevin.a.arseneau@gnb.ca, > "Bill.Fraser"<Bill.Fraser@gnb.ca>, "John.Ames"<John.Ames@gnb.ca>, > gerry.lowe@gnb.ca, "hugh.flemming"<hugh.flemming@gnb.ca>, > michelle.conroy@gnb.ca, "art.odonnell"<art.odonnell@nb.aibn.com>, > "jake.stewart"<jake.stewart@gnb.ca>, mike.holland@gnb.ca, votejohnw > <votejohnw@gmail.com>, andrea.anderson-mason@gnb.ca, > greg.thompson2@gnb.ca, jean-claude.d'amours@gnb.ca, > jacques.j.leblanc@gnb.ca, megan.mitton@gnb.ca, keith.chiasson@gnb.ca, > "serge.rousselle"<serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>, robert.mckee@gnb.ca, > rick.desaulniers@gnb.ca, premier <premier@gnb.ca>, "Dominic.Cardy" > <Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca>, gphlaw@nb.aibn.com, wharrison > <wharrison@nbpower.com>, "Furey, John"<jfurey@nbpower.com>, > "Jody.Wilson-Raybould"<Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca>, > "clare.barry"<clare.barry@justice.gc.ca>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>, > "hon.ralph.goodale"<hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca>, > "Hon.Dominic.LeBlanc"<Hon.Dominic.LeBlanc@canada.ca>, "Bill.Morneau" > <Bill.Morneau@canada.ca>, PREMIER <PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, > JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca, LauraLee.Langley@novascotia.ca, > Karen.Hudson@novascotia.ca, Joanne.Munro@novascotia.ca, Newsroom > <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>, news <news@kingscorecord.com>, news > <news@dailygleaner.com> > Cc: "David.Raymond.Amos"<David.Raymond.Amos@gmail.com>, motomaniac333 > <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, Victoria.Zinck@novascotia.ca, > Kim.Fleming@novascotia.ca > > ---------- Original message ---------- > From: "McGrath, Stephen T"<Stephen.McGrath@novascotia.ca> > Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 12:40:22 +0000 > Subject: Automatic reply: Does anyone recall the email entitled "So > Stephen McGrath if not you then just exactly who sent me this latest > email from your office?" > To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > > Thanks for your message, however I am no longer at the Department of > Justice, and this email account is not being monitored. > > Please contact Kim Fleming at Kim.Fleming@novascotia.ca (phone > 902-424-4023), or Vicky Zinck at Victoria.Zinck@novascotia.ca (phone > 902-424-4390). Kim and Vicky will be able to redirect you. > > > > ---------- Original message ---------- > From: Justice Website <JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca> > Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:21:11 +0000 > Subject: Emails to Department of Justice and Province of Nova Scotia > To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com"<motomaniac333@gmail.com> > > Mr. Amos, > We acknowledge receipt of your recent emails to the Deputy Minister of > Justice and lawyers within the Legal Services Division of the > Department of Justice respecting a possible claim against the Province > of Nova Scotia. Service of any documents respecting a legal claim > against the Province of Nova Scotia may be served on the Attorney > General at 1690 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS. Please note that we will > not be responding to further emails on this matter. > > Department of Justice > > > > ---------- Original message ---------- > From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com > Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 15:16:38 -0400 > Subject: Attn Laura Lee Langley, Karen Hudson and Joanne Munro I just > called all three of your offices to inform you of my next lawsuit > against Nova Scotia > To: LauraLee.Langley@novascotia.ca, Karen.Hudson@novascotia.ca, > Joanne.Munro@novascotia.ca > Cc: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com > > https://novascotia.ca/exec_council/NSDeputies.html > > https://novascotia.ca/exec_council/LLLangley-bio.html > > Laura Lee Langley > 1700 Granville Street, 5th Floor > One Government Place > Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 1X5 > Phone: (902) 424-8940 > Fax: (902) 424-0667 > Email: LauraLee.Langley@novascotia.ca > > https://novascotia.ca/just/deputy.asp > > Karen Hudson Q.C. > 1690 Hollis Street, 7th Floor > Joseph Howe Building > Halifax, NS B3J 3J9 > Phone: (902) 424-4223 > Fax: (902) 424-0510 > Email: Karen.Hudson@novascotia.ca > > https://novascotia.ca/sns/ceo.asp > > Joanne Munro: > 1505 Barrington Street, 14-South > Maritime Centre > Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 3K5 > Phone: (902) 424-4089 > Fax: (902) 424-5510 > Email: Joanne.Munro@novascotia.ca > > If you don't wish to speak to me before I begin litigation then I > suspect the Integrity Commissioner New Brunswick or the Federal Crown > Counsel can explain the email below and the documents hereto attached > to you and your Premier etc. > > Veritas Vincit > David Raymond Amos > 902 800 0369 > > ---------- 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 > > 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? > > > Vertias Vincit > David Raymond Amos > 902 800 0369 > > 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 > > > http://www.archive.org/details/PoliceSurveilanceWiretapTape139 > > http://www.archive.org/details/FedsUsTreasuryDeptRcmpEtc > > > 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 > > > > > > > http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-integrity-commissioner-conflict-of-interest-boudreau-1.4154004 > > Integrity commissioner calls for tougher conflict-of-interest law > N.B. legislation should apply to apparent conflicts, not just actual > ones, Alexandre Deschênes says > By Jacques Poitras, CBC News Posted: Jun 12, 2017 6:30 AM AT > > Alexandre Deschênes's first act as commissioner was to deal with > Victor Boudreau's 20 per cent investment in Shediac Campground Ltd., a > proposed 700-site facility that has generated local opposition. > (Jacques Poitras/CBC) > > New Brunswick's integrity commissioner says the conflict-of-interest > law for politicians should be toughened to clarify cases such as > cabinet minister Victor Boudreau's former investment in a proposed > campground near Parlee Beach. > > Alexandre Deschênes said earlier this year that Boudreau's stake in > the project did not put him in a conflict of interest but that the > appearance of a conflict was "inevitable." > > Unlike other conflict-of-interest laws, "our act does not apply to an > apparent conflict of interest," he said in an interview with CBC News. > "It's not in there." > > Previous commissioners suggested law > > Boudreau recused himself from Parlee Beach issues anyway, even though > he didn't technically have to. The law said ministers aren't in a > conflict if decisions that affect their private interests also apply > to the general public. > > Boudreau recuses himself from Parlee Beach controversy > Victor Boudreau case shows 'huge loophole' in conflict law, ethics > group says > > "Mr. Boudreau could have gone on and said, 'I'm the minister of health > and I'm going to make decisions that apply to the general public and > the act allows it,'" Deschênes said. > > "If you'd had the words 'apparent conflict of interest' [in the law] > it would have been clear." > > Deschênes pointed out two of his predecessors as conflict-of-interest > commissioner, Pat Ryan and Stuart Stratton, recommended expanding the > act to include the appearance of conflicts. > > "It started out way back," he said. "We're looking at almost a decade > here where the suggestion has been made that apparent conflict of > interest ought to be included in the act. It's not been done. > > "But as a commissioner, I will be following what they've been doing > and I will be recommending it when I file a report." > > Updated conflict act > > The Gallant Liberals passed amendments to update the Members Conflict > of Interest Act during the spring session of the legislature, but they > did not include a ban on perceived conflicts. > > Progressive Conservative MLA Brian MacDonald has also called for the > Liberals to fix what he calls "a gap in the law." > > 'Gap in the law': PC critic suggests review of conflict law > Premier backs Victor Boudreau's involvement in Parlee Beach > issueDeschênes was appointed the province's integrity commissioner > last > year. The new role incorporates the role of conflict-of-interest > watchdog and registrar of lobbyists, and in September it will also > include the Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act. > > Victor > > Cabinet minister Victor Boudreau recused himself from the Parlee Beach > issues anyway, even though the law said ministers aren't in a conflict > if decisions that affect their private interests also apply to the > general public. (CBC) > > Deschênes's first act as commissioner was to deal with Boudreau's 20 > per cent investment in Shediac Campground Ltd., a proposed 700-site > facility that has generated local opposition. > > As health minister, Boudreau oversees the public health offices, and > his department was part of a working group looking at how to deal with > fecal contamination at Parlee Beach. One option the group looked at > was a moratorium on new development near the beach. > > That would have affected the proposed campground. > > 'I told him, and he made it public, that the appearance of > conflict in this case was absolutely inevitable. He couldn't get > around it. It was there.' > > - Alexandre Deschênes > > The law bans ministers from making decisions that affect their > "private interest," but it makes an exception if the decision applies > to the broader public, even if the minister would still benefit. > > Deschênes said in his letter to Boudreau in March that "one could > argue" a decision on a moratorium would affect the broader public. > > "Under the act, he might have been entitled to continue to have > discussions that applied to the general population, even though he was > part of [the project] at that point," Deschênes said in an interview > last week. > > "I told him, and he made it public, that the appearance of conflict in > this case was absolutely inevitable. He couldn't get around it. It was > there." > An MP's perceived conflict matters > > The federal conflict of interest code for MPs also includes an > exception for decisions that affect the general public, but it > includes an explicit reference to perceived conflicts. > > Boudreau put his investment in a blind trust in 2014, which meant he > had no role in the running of the business. But the value of his stake > would have been affected by a moratorium on future development. > > Parlee beach > > In May, Victor Boudreau announced he was giving up his investment in > the campground on Parlee Beach altogether. > > He said in March he learned of the potential moratorium Feb. 28 and > met with Deschênes March 2, the first date they could arrange it. > > "That perception is the issue," Boudreau said at the time. "And if the > perception is the issue, and the perception is what's going to be > prevent us from getting to the bottom of it, then I'm prepared to > recuse myself from all activities relating to this committee." > > Last month he announced that he was giving up his investment in the > campground altogether. > > Deschênes said he believes most ministers and MLAs would do the same > thing if he told them there was an apparent, but not actual, conflict. > > "In most cases I think they will listen and they will do what has to > be done to put an end to an apparent conflict of interest, although > technically they could continue to do what they want to do." > > > > 28 Comments > Commenting is now closed for this story. > > > David Raymond Amos > David Raymond Amos > I sure hope the new integrity commissioner finally does his job and > answers me in writing > > > Michael Geraldson > Michael Geraldson > Integrity and politicians, two words that should rarely be used in the > same sentence! > > > David Raymond Amos > David Raymond Amos > @Michael Geraldson Sad but oh so true. However I can think of a few > exceptions The first to come mind is Jim Traficant. Check history to > see look what the Yankees did to him for trying to make the rest act > ethically > > Here is one of my favourite quotes of his > > "I think Congress should take the IRS, handcuff them to a chain-link > fence, and flog them with their own damn Tax Code" > > > Shawn McShane > Shawn McShane > Boudreau should recuse himself from anything government. How he got > elected after the Atcon scandal is beyond belief. He personally signed > off on removing the province's security in loan guarantees costing > taxpayers more than $70 million. Why? We will never know: > > http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/victor-boudreau-refuses-to-answer-atcon-questions-1.3025556 > > > David Raymond Amos > David Raymond Amos > @Shawn McShane We already know the answer don't we? > > > Jeffrey Parker > Jeffrey Parker > Who's going to enforce these proposed laws? Never did before, just > help cover them up or be so incompetent in investigating that no one > takes a fall for corruption in the system, > Surely screwed here in this place. > > > David Raymond Amos > David Raymond Amos > @Jeffrey Parker We can hold them accountable. All you have to do is > sue them. Good luck finding a lawyer willing to stand before a judge > appointed to the bench by their buddies. Hell two judges NB are former > Conservative Attorney Generals who lost their seats in recent > elections. Go figure who is putting the screws to us. Methinks its the > Brotherhood of the Bar. What say you? > > Keith Jagger > Keith Jagger > @David Raymond Amos - He (she) who writes the laws and administers the > laws rules the common folks David. Judges are just lawyers with > connections and the gift of gabb > > > Shawn McShane > Shawn McShane > Last month Boudreau announced that he was giving up his investment in > the campground altogether. > > Past two days Parlee Beach had "No Swimming Advisory" and today as > well. I wonder if Boudreau would have gave up his investment under the > old water advisory system that he defended...Victor Boudreau dismisses > call for Parlee Beach sign improvements. The health minister said > people can "use their own judgement" on whether they want to go into > the water. > > > Jeffrey Parker > Jeffrey Parker > @Shawn McShane we we are UdeMer than the rest of Canada, that's why they > leave. > > David Raymond Amos > David Raymond Amos > @Shawn McShane Methinks Mr Boudreau should thank us all for his fat > pension because I doubt he could get elected as a dog catcher after > all this malicious nonsense > > Keith Jagger > Keith Jagger > @David Raymond Amos - You obviously don't know the mindset of the > people of his riding who would vote Liberal if a spruce fencepost was > running for the party. (Well - I think you probably do and you are > being fasicious) > > Shawn McShane > Shawn McShane > @David Raymond Amos He got re-elected after Atcon. He can thank them. > The rest of us need to make sure this doesn't happen anymore. > > > William Roberts > William Roberts > Integrity, Politicians? LOL If you had any integrity you wouldn't want > to be a politician here. > > > David Raymond Amos > David Raymond Amos > @William Roberts I tried the water of the political sewer once in 2006 > while intervening in the NEB Emera Pipeline hearing and I got all of > 44 votes in Saint John Harbour. Trust that I was not surprised. I > learned something long ago when my Father and his PC friends were > disgusted that the lawyer Trudeau "The Elder" was having fun falsely > claiming he said "Fuddle Duddle" on the Hill. In a nutshell it is that > nobody gives a damn just as long as our politicians appear to be cool > dudes. Nothing has changed since. > > > Paul Bourgoin > Paul Bourgoin > The selection of Dr. Louis Lapierre, recipient of the Order of Canada > whose Medal was revoked because because of his recognized lack of > needed competence which he falsified is a documented example of how > strong this influence and consequences of this mis-guided forest > management has destroyed the Fish and Wildlife habitat and populations > in New Brunswick. This design of forest management supported by > industry, impacts negatively on our Grand Children's heritage, forcing > them to leave their native province because of lack of work. > > > David Raymond Amos > David Raymond Amos > @Paul Bourgoin All True However we keep on electing these people correct? > > > Terry L. Sisson > Terry L. Sisson > I find it difficult to believe: 1) March 2,2017 Alexandre Deschense > informed Victor Boudreau he should leave the business group Shediac > Campground Ltd. and he agreed. 2) It is now June 12, 2017 and to my > knowledge this has not been done. Did I miss something here? Mr. > Deschenes is Integrity Minister, correct! > > > Jay Oak > Jay Oak > @Terry L. Sisson Integrity Commissioner, not Minister. > > David Raymond Amos > David Raymond Amos > @Jay Oak True but we are still compelled to call them both "Honourable > > > > 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 > > Hon. Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C. > Integrity Commissioner > > Hon. Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C., who resides in Bathurst, N.B., is a > native of Kedgwick, N.B., and is married to Huguette (Savoie) > Deschênes. They have two sons. > > He studied at Saint-Joseph University (now Université de Moncton) from > 1960 to 1962, University of Ottawa from 1962-1965 (B.A.), and > University of New Brunswick (LL.B., 1968). He was admitted to the Law > Society of New Brunswick in 1968. He was legal counsel to the > Department of Justice in Fredericton from 1968 to 1971. He was in > private practice from 1972 to 1982 and specialized in civil litigation > as a partner in the law firm of Michaud, Leblanc, Robichaud, and > Deschênes. While residing in Shediac, N.B., he served on town council > and became the first president of the South East Economic Commission. > He is a past president of the Richelieu Club in Shediac. > > In 1982, he was appointed a judge of the Court of Queen’s Bench of New > Brunswick and of the Court of Appeal of New Brunswick in 2000. > > On July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the Court Martial Appeal Court of > Canada. > > While on the Court of Appeal of New Brunswick, he was appointed > President of the provincial Judicial Council and in 2012 Chairperson > of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of New > Brunswick for the 2015 federal election. > > He was appointed Conflict of Interest Commissioner in December 2016 > and became New Brunswick’s first Integrity Commissioner on December > 16, 2016 with responsibilities for conflict of interest issues related > to Members of the Legislative Assembly. As of April 1, 2017 he > supervises lobbyists of public office holders under the Lobbyists’ > Registration Act. > > As of September 1, 2017, he will be assuming the functions presently > held by the Access to Information and Privacy Commissioner. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 16:22:25 -0400 > Subject: Thank you for your signature Frenchy > To: Andre Murray <andremurraynow@gmail.com>, "marie-claude.blais" > <marie-claude.blais@gnb.ca>, sallybrooks25 <sallybrooks25@yahoo.ca>, > evelyngreene <evelyngreene@live.ca>, law <law@stevenfoulds.ca>, > "danny.copp"<danny.copp@fredericton.ca>, nbpc <nbpc@gnb.ca>, nbombud > <nbombud@gnb.ca>, coi <coi@gnb.ca>, "Wayne.Lang" > <Wayne.Lang@rcmp-grc.gc.ca> > Cc: "dan. bussieres"<dan.bussieres@gnb.ca>, oldmaison > <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre <andre@jafaust.com> > > From: "Bussières, Dan (LEG)"<Dan.Bussieres@gnb.ca> > Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 15:47:49 -0400 > Subject: RE: I just called all three of your offices > To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > > Oui je vois > > > > On 12/6/12, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't take orders well ask the corrupt ex cop Bussieres why that is > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:46:11 -0400 > Subject: Attn premier Brian Gallant and Kirk MacDonald I just called > your friends in the Law Society of New Brunswick for the last time > From now on we argue before the courts > To: george.filliter@gmail.com, lcmarcou@mccain.ca, > cmichaud@coxandpalmer.com, tross@judicom.ca, coi@gnb.ca, > m.pelletier@nb.aibn.com, "Kim.Poffenroth"<Kim.Poffenroth@gnb.ca>, > nbpc <nbpc@gnb.ca>, "Gilles.Blinn"<Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, > "bruce.northrup"<bruce.northrup@gnb.ca>, "brian.keirstead" > <brian.keirstead@gnb.ca>, "blaine.higgs"<blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, > "Davidc.Coon"<Davidc.Coon@gmail.com>, "David.Coon" > <David.Coon@gnb.ca>, "david.eidt"<david.eidt@gnb.ca>, "jan.jensen" > <jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca>, "bill.pentney" > <bill.pentney@justice.gc.ca>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>, postur > <postur@for.is>, postur <postur@irr.is>, birgittaj > <birgittaj@althingi.is> > Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, "kirk.macdonald" > <kirk.macdonald@gnb.ca>, briangallant10 <briangallant10@gmail.com>, > "Jacques.Poitras"<Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>, premier <premier@gnb.ca> > > Methinks if Kik MacDonald were truly wise he would make another speech > before Xmass but this time he should tell the awful truth instead of > just making fun of our trubles with LIEBRANOS N'esy Pas Davey Baby > Coon? > > Trust that watching this politite nonsense is truly offensive to any > Maritmer with two clues between their ears. > > http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/political-panel-dec-8-1.3888331 > > Conflict of Interest 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 > > Michèle Pelletier > Arseneault & Pelletier > 568A Ave. des Pionniers > Balmoral, New Brunswick E8E 1E3 > Phone: 506-826-1819 > Fax: 506-826-1817 > Email: m.pelletier@nb.aibn.com > > KIM POFFENROTH > Assistant Deputy Attorney General > Legislative Services (Branch) > Office of the Attorney General > Phone : (506) 453-2855 > Fax : (506) 457-7342 > Email : Kim.POFFENROTH@gnb.ca > > > > > http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/integrity-commissioner-named-1.3885165 > > The Gallant government has introduced legislation to merge several > legislative watchdog positions into a single job and has chosen a > retired judge to take on the newly expanded role. > > Alexandre Deschênes > > Alexandre Deschênes, a retired New Brunswick Court of Appeal justice, > is to be the first integrity commissioner in New Brunswick. > > Retired New Brunswick Court of Appeal justice Alexandre Deschênes will > become the province's first integrity commissioner, an appointment > supported by the opposition Progressive Conservatives and Green Party > Leader David Coon. > > Premier Brian Gallant introduced a bill Wednesday to create the position. > > For now, Deschênes fills the vacant position of conflict-of-interest > commissioner and will also oversee legislation governing the privacy > of personal health records. > > Next July, Deschênes will add responsibility for the lobbyist registry > to his duties. > > The Liberals say they will proclaim legislation to set up the registry > by next July. The law was passed by the previous PC government in 2014 > but not enacted. > > Conflict of interest commissioner, MLAs have conflicting views on > transparency > Commissioner wants mandatory privacy breach reporting > N.B. legislature will study cutting independent watchdogs > > And next September, after Anne Bertrand, the information and privacy > commissioner, finishes her seven-year term, that job will become part > of Deschênes's job as integrity commissioner. > > An independent study, done as part of the government's program > review, recommended the merging of the legislative officer positions. > > All parties in the legislature agreed on two other appointments > Wednesday: lawyer Michèle Pelletier as consumer advocate for insurance > and assistant deputy attorney general Kim Poffenroth as chief > electoral officer.J > > > http://lawsociety-barreau.nb.ca/en/about/council/council > > At its Annual General Meeting on Saturday, June 25th, 2016, the Law > Society of New Brunswick elected its new Executive for the 2016-2017 > term: > > New Executive > > George P. Filliter, Q.C. > President > 68 Avonlea Court > Fredericton, NB E3C 1N8 > Tel: (506) 454-7678 > Fax: (506) 454-6983 > george.filliter@gmail.com > > Luc Marcoux, Q.C. > Vice-President > McCain Foods Limited > 8800 Main Street > Florenceville-Bristol, NB E7L 1B2 > Tel: (506) 375-5353 > Fax: (506) 375-5058 > lcmarcou@mccain.ca > > Christian E. Michaud, Q.C. > Treasurer > Cox & Palmer > Blue Cross Center > 644 Main Street, Suite 500 > Moncton, NB E1C 1E2 > Tel: (506) 863-1131 > Fax: (506) 856-8150 > cmichaud@coxandpalmer.com > > > Law Society of New Brunswick > 68 Avonlea Court > Fredericton, New Brunswick > E3C 1N8 > (506) 458-8540 > (506) 451-1421 > > general@lawsociety-barreau.nb.ca > > http://lawsociety-barreau.nb.ca/en/for-lawyers/queen-counsel-nominations > > October 24, 2016 > > Eleven New Brunswick lawyers were appointed Queen’s Counsel by the > Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, the Honourable Jocelyne Roy > Vienneau, on Monday, October 24, 2016, at the Legislative Assembly in > Fredericton. > > Christa Bourque, Q.C., of Moncton > Krista Lynn Colford, Q.C., of Fredericton > The Honourable Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C., of Bathurst > Edward L. Derrah, Q.C., of Fredericton > Shannon Doran, Q.C., of Fredericton > Nathalie L. Godbout, Q.C., of Saint John > Stephen J. Hutchison, Q.C., of Saint John > The Honourable Dominic A. J. LeBlanc, Q.C., of Shediac > Luc Marcoux, Q.C., of Florenceville-Bristol > D. Andrew Rouse, Q.C., of Fredericton > John R. Williamson, Q.C., of Fredericton > > The distinction of Queen’s Counsel is conferred upon experienced > lawyers in recognition of their commitment to the principles of the > legal profession and contributions to their communities. Eligible > lawyers include those who have been members of the Law Society of New > Brunswick and have been engaged in the active practice of law in the > province for at least 15 years with extensive experience before the > courts or have demonstrated exceptional service to the profession. > > In the fall of this year, a committee consisting of the Chief Justice > of New Brunswick, J. Ernest Drapeau, the Attorney General of New > Brunswick and the President of the Law Society of New Brunswick, will > consider candidates for the next Queen’s Counsel appointments. > > The distinction of Queen’s Counsel is conferred upon experienced > lawyers in recognition of their commitment to the principles of the > legal profession and contributions to their communities. The criteria > for these appointments are: > > A regular member of the Law Society of New Brunswick who: > > a) has been engaged in the active practice of law in the Province of > New Brunswick for at least fifteen years, with extensive experience > before the courts; > > b) in the opinion of the Committee, merits the appointment by reason > of exceptional service to the legal profession. > > It should be noted that past practice indicates that Queen’s Counsel > appointments typically have more than seventeen years at the Bar. > > The Law Society encourages members to forward a letter and a resume in > order to be considered as a candidate for a Queen’s Counsel > appointment. Persons may either apply personally or may nominate a > member of the Law Society. All applicants will be treated equally by > the Committee whether they are nominated, or whether they apply > personally. > > In your letter, you may wish to identify two individuals, either > within or outside the Law Society who might provide additional > information to assist the Committee in considering this matter. If > letters of reference are provided, they may be identified for this > purpose. > > Your application or nomination should be received by Chief Justice J. > Ernest Drapeau no later than Friday, June 24, 2016, at 4:00 p.m. > > It may be sent via email to tross@judicom.ca or sent/delivered to: > > Committee on Queen’s Counsel Appointments > c/o The Hon. Chief Justice J. Ernest Drapeau > Court of Appeal of New Brunswick > Justice Building > 427 Queen Street, Room 311 > Fredericton, NB E3B 1B7 > > > > http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/kirk-macdonald-dominic-leblanc-judge-moving-bill-1.3866450 > > > Judge-moving bill aims to help Dominic LeBlanc, Tory MLA charges > Kirk MacDonald says Liberals drafted bill to help put Jolène Richard > and André Richard on court > > By Jacques Poitras, CBC News Posted: Nov 24, 2016 6:03 PM AT > > A Progressive Conservative MLA has taken the unusual step of naming > names — including that of a sitting provincial court judge — in his > attack on a proposed law on how Court of Queen's Bench judges are > transferred. > > Kirk MacDonald told the legislature last week that he believes the > government bill was drafted to help the spouse and the brother-in-law > of federal Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc, a close ally of Premier Brian > Gallant. > nb-andre-richard-jolene-richard > > A Progressive Conservative MLA believes the Liberal government's > judge-moving bill was drafted to help have André Richard and Jolène > Richard appointed to the Court of Queen's Bench. (CBC) > > "I will give you two names. I will give you Jolène Richard and André > Richard, two people I believe are looking for judicial appointments > here in New Brunswick," MacDonald said during second-reading debate on > the bill. > > In fact, Jolène Richard is already a provincial court judge. André > Richard is her brother and a senior lawyer at Stewart McKelvey. > > Province names new judge, wife of MP Dominic LeBlanc > > "Dominic LeBlanc has some judges that he wants to appoint in New > Brunswick, and the framework as it currently exists does not allow for > that to happen," MacDonald said. > > André Richard stated Thursday he "had no involvement in the > government's decision to propose changes to the Judicature Act." > > "As you know, my sister is already a judge who sits in Moncton. I fail > to understand why our names are being brought into this debate." > Bill gives veto to minister > > The Liberal bill would amend the Judicature Act, which governs how > courts operate, to give the justice minister a veto over Chief Justice > David Smith of the Court of Queen's Bench transferring judges from one > court to another. > nb-chief-justice-david-smith > > Court of Queen's Bench Chief Justice David Smith has transferred 13 > judges since becoming chief justice in 1998. (Acadia University) > > PC MLAs have hinted in the past about who they believe the bill was > designed to help. But until now, no one was willing to name them. > > It's rare for politicians to draw sitting judges into partisan > debates, and the veteran Tory MLA did not offer any evidence to back > up his allegations. He turned down a request to explain his views in > an interview. > Parliamentary privilege > > Parliamentary privilege protects members of the legislature from being > sued for defamation or held in contempt of court for comments they > make during proceedings. No such protection exists for things they say > outside the legislature. > > Provincial court judges such as Richard are appointed by the province, > but Court of Queen's Bench justices are named by Ottawa. Both courts > are administered by the province, but the current law gives Smith the > power to move judges on his court on his own. > > Smith has argued the bill would threaten the independence of the > courts, which could make it unconstitutional. > Bill brought back > > The Liberals introduced the bill during the last session, but it > didn't pass before the session ended. They brought it back last week. > > Justice Minister Denis Landry said last week the bill was designed to > bring "best practices" to court administration and end the pattern of > justices being named to smaller courthouses and then being transferred > soon after. > > Judge-moving legislation introduced again > 2 chief justices appear at odds over judge-moving bill > 7 things list reveals about controversial judge-moving bill > > "This is what we want to correct," he said. "If we name a judge, they > should reside there, for a long period of time, not just two or three > months then move them where they want to go." > > Asked whether he'd veto such a transfer, Landry said, "This is what we'll > see." > > Landry's department said Thursday it would not comment on MacDonald's > accusation. > Larger locations favoured > > MacDonald said during last week's debate that it's true Court of > Queen's Bench justices are often appointed to smaller locations and > are then moved to one of the three largest cities. > Dominic LeBlanc > > Federal Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc is a close ally of New > Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant. (CBC) > > He said that court postings in Moncton, Fredericton, and Saint John > are "The positions that everyone seems to want." > > And he said the current system for moving judges, "which is controlled > by the chief justice, does not work for Dominic LeBlanc and the > Liberal Party of New Brunswick," MacDonald said. > > Upside to judge-moving bill touted by ex-constitutional lawyer > Gallant government's judge-moving bill questioned by legal expert > > "They want to change it. They want to have a situation where they have > a mechanism to control that decision and to effect change on that > decision." > > In June, Smith transferred Justice Tracey DeWare from Woodstock to > Moncton and Justice Richard Petrie from Saint John to Woodstock. > > DeWare was moved to fill a vacancy after Justice Brigitte Robichaud > switched to supernumerary, or part-time, status. > > Jolène Richard did not respond to interview requests. > > ---------- Original message ---------- > From: Póstur FOR <postur@for.is> > Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 22:05:47 +0000 > Subject: Re: Hey Premier Gallant please inform the questionable > parliamentarian Birigtta Jonsdottir that although NB is a small "Have > Not" province at least we have twice the population of Iceland and > that not all of us are as dumb as she and her Prime Minister pretends > to be.. > To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > > > Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið / Your request has been received > > Kveðja / Best regards > Forsætisráðuneytið / Prime Minister's Office > > > ---------- Original message ---------- > From: Póstur IRR <postur@irr.is> > Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 22:05:47 +0000 > Subject: Re: Hey Premier Gallant please inform the questionable > parliamentarian Birigtta Jonsdottir that although NB is a small "Have > Not" province at least we have twice the population of Iceland and > that not all of us are as dumb as she and her Prime Minister pretends > to be.. > To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > > > Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið. / Your request has been received. > > Kveðja / Best regards > Innanríkisráðuneytið / Ministry of the Interior > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Póstur FOR <postur@for.is> > Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 21:43:50 +0000 > Subject: Re: After crossing paths with them bigtime in 2004 Davey Baby > Coon and his many Green Meanie and Fake Left cohorts know why I won't > hold my breath waiting for them to act with any semblance of integrity > now N'esy Pas Chucky Leblanc?? > To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > > > Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið / Your request has been received > > Kveðja / Best regards > Forsætisráðuneytið / Prime Minister's Office > > > This is the docket > > > 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 two hearings > > Dec 14th https://archive.org/details/BahHumbug > > Jan 11th https://archive.org/details/Jan11th2015 > > This me running for a seat in Parliament again while CBC denies it again > > Fundy Royal, New Brunswick Debate – Federal Elections 2015 - The Local > Campaign, Rogers TV > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cFOKT6TlSE > > > http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fundy-royal-riding-profile-1.3274276 > > Veritas Vincit > David Raymond Amos > 902 800 0369 > > FYI This is the text of the lawsuit that should interest Trudeau the most > > > 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 > essential for the security and tranquility of the developed world. An > ISIS “caliphate,” in the Middle East, no matter how small, is a clear > and present danger to the entire world. This “occupied state,” > or“failed state” will prosecute an unending Islamic inspired war of > terror against not only the “western world,” but Arab states > “moderate” or not, as well. The security, safety, and tranquility of > Canada and Canadians are just at risk now with the emergence of an > ISIS“caliphate” no matter how large or small, as it was with the > Taliban and Al Quaeda “marriage” in Afghanistan. > > One of the everlasting “legacies” of the “Trudeau the Elder’s dynasty > was Canada and successive Liberal governments cowering behind the > amerkan’s nuclear and conventional military shield, at the same time > denigrating, insulting them, opposing them, and at the same time > self-aggrandizing ourselves as “peace keepers,” and progenitors of > “world peace.” Canada failed. The United States of Amerka, NATO, the > G7 and or G20 will no longer permit that sort of sanctimonious > behavior from Canada or its government any longer. And Prime Minister > Stephen Harper, Foreign Minister John Baird , and Cabinet are fully > cognizant of that reality. Even if some editorial boards, and pundits > are not. > > Justin, Trudeau “the younger” is reprising the time “honoured” liberal > mantra, and tradition of expecting the amerkans or the rest of the > world to do “the heavy lifting.” Justin Trudeau and his “butt buddy” > David Amos are telling Canadians that we can guarantee our security > and safety by expecting other nations to fight for us. That Canada can > and should attempt to guarantee Canadians safety by providing > “humanitarian aid” somewhere, and call a sitting US president a “war > criminal.” This morning Australia announced they too, were sending > tactical aircraft to eliminate the menace of an ISIS “caliphate.” > > In one sense Prime Minister Harper is every bit the scoundrel Trudeau > “the elder” and Jean ‘the crook” Chretien was. Just As Trudeau, and > successive Liberal governments delighted in diminishing, > marginalizing, under funding Canadian Forces, and sending Canadian > military men and women to die with inadequate kit and modern > equipment; so too is Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Canada’s F-18s are > antiquated, poorly equipped, and ought to have been replaced five > years ago. But alas, there won’t be single RCAF fighter jock that > won’t go, or won’t want to go, to make Canada safe or safer. > > My Grandfather served this country. My father served this country. My > Uncle served this country. And I have served this country. Justin > Trudeau has not served Canada in any way. Thomas Mulcair has not > served this country in any way. Liberals and so called social > democrats haven’t served this country in any way. David Amos, and > other drooling fools have not served this great nation in any way. Yet > these fools are more than prepared to ensure their, our safety to > other nations, and then criticize them for doing so. > > Canada must again, now, “do our bit” to guarantee our own security, > and tranquility, but also that of the world. Canada has never before > shirked its responsibility to its citizens and that of the world. > > Prime Minister Harper will not permit this country to do so now > > From: dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca > Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:17:17 -0400 > Subject: RE: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and > the War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still > alive > To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com > > This is to confirm that the Minister of National Defence has received > your email and it will be reviewed in due course. Please do not reply > to this message: it is an automatic acknowledgement. > > > ---------- Original message ---------- > From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:55:30 -0300 > Subject: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and the > War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still alive > To: DECPR@forces.gc.ca, Public.Affairs@socom.mil, > Raymonde.Cleroux@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca, john.adams@cse-cst.gc.ca, > william.elliott@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, stoffp1 <stoffp1@parl.gc.ca>, > dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca, media@drdc-rddc.gc.ca, information@forces.gc.ca, > milner@unb.ca, charters@unb.ca, lwindsor@unb.ca, > sarah.weir@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca, birgir <birgir@althingi.is>, smari > <smari@immi.is>, greg.weston@cbc.ca, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, > susan@blueskystrategygroup.com, Don@blueskystrategygroup.com, > eugene@blueskystrategygroup.com, americas@aljazeera.net > Cc: "Edith. Cody-Rice"<Edith.Cody-Rice@cbc.ca>, "terry.seguin" > <terry.seguin@cbc.ca>, acampbell <acampbell@ctv.ca>, whistleblower > <whistleblower@ctv.ca> > > I talked to Don Newman earlier this week before the beancounters David > Dodge and Don Drummond now of Queen's gave their spin about Canada's > Health Care system yesterday and Sheila Fraser yapped on and on on > CAPAC during her last days in office as if she were oh so ethical.. To > be fair to him I just called Greg Weston (613-288-6938) I suggested > that he should at least Google SOUCOM and David Amos It would be wise > if he check ALL of CBC's sources before he publishes something else > about the DND EH Don Newman? Lets just say that the fact that your > old CBC buddy, Tony Burman is now in charge of Al Jazeera English > never impressed me. The fact that he set up a Canadian office is > interesting though > > http://www.blueskystrategygroup.com/index.php/team/don-newman/ > > > http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/media/story/2010/05/04/al-jazeera-english-launch.html > > Anyone can call me back and stress test my integrity after they read > this simple pdf file. BTW what you Blue Sky dudes pubished about > Potash Corp and BHP is truly funny. Perhaps Stevey Boy Harper or Brad > Wall will fill ya in if you are to shy to call mean old me. > > http://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/Integrity-Yea-Right > > The Governor General, the PMO and the PCO offices know that I am not a > shy political animal > > Veritas Vincit > David Raymond Amos > 902 800 0369 > > Enjoy Mr Weston > > http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/news/story/2011/05/15/weston-iraq-invasion-wikileaks.html > > "But Lang, defence minister McCallum's chief of staff, says military > brass were not entirely forthcoming on the issue. For instance, he > says, even McCallum initially didn't know those soldiers were helping > to plan the invasion of Iraq up to the highest levels of command, > including a Canadian general. > > That general is Walt Natynczyk, now Canada's chief of defence staff, > who eight months after the invasion became deputy commander of 35,000 > U.S. soldiers and other allied forces in Iraq. Lang says Natynczyk was > also part of the team of mainly senior U.S. military brass that helped > prepare for the invasion from a mobile command in Kuwait." > > http://baconfat53.blogspot.com/2010/06/canada-and-united-states.html > > "I remember years ago when the debate was on in Canada, about there > being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Our American 'friends" > demanded that Canada join into "the Coalition of the Willing. American > "veterans" and sportscasters loudly denounced Canada for NOT buying > into the US policy. > > At the time I was serving as a planner at NDHQ and with 24 other of my > colleagues we went to Tampa SOUCOM HQ to be involved in the planning > in the planning stages of the op....and to report to NDHQ, that would > report to the PMO upon the merits of the proposed operation. There was > never at anytime an existing target list of verified sites where there > were deployed WMD. > > Coalition assets were more than sufficient for the initial strike and > invasion phase but even at that point in the planning, we were > concerned about the number of "boots on the ground" for the occupation > (and end game) stage of an operation in Iraq. We were also concerned > about the American plans for occupation plans of Iraq because they at > that stage included no contingency for a handing over of civil > authority to a vetted Iraqi government and bureaucracy. > > There was no detailed plan for Iraq being "liberated" and returned to > its people...nor a thought to an eventual exit plan. This was contrary > to the lessons of Vietnam but also to current military thought, that > folks like Colin Powell and "Stuffy" Leighton and others elucidated > upon. "What's the mission" how long is the mission, what conditions > are to met before US troop can redeploy? Prime Minister Jean Chretien > and the PMO were even at the very preliminary planning stages wary of > Canadian involvement in an Iraq operation....History would prove them > correct. The political pressure being applied on the PMO from the > George W Bush administration was onerous > > American military assets were extremely overstretched, and Canadian > military assets even more so It was proposed by the PMO that Canadian > naval platforms would deploy to assist in naval quarantine operations > in the Gulf and that Canadian army assets would deploy in Afghanistan > thus permitting US army assets to redeploy for an Iraqi > operation....The PMO thought that "compromise would save Canadian > lives and liberal political capital.. and the priority of which > ....not necessarily in that order. " > > You can bet that I called these sneaky Yankees again today EH John > Adams? of the CSE within the DND? > > http://www.socom.mil/SOCOMHome/Pages/ContactUSSOCOM.aspx > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:20:29 -0400 > Subject: Hey before you Red Coats swear an Oath to the Queen and the > 42nd Parliament begins perhaps the turncoat Big Bad Billy Casey the > Yankee carpetbagger David Lutz or some Boyz from NB should explain > this lawsuit to you real slow. > To: alaina@alainalockhart.ca, david <david@lutz.nb.ca>, > "daniel.mchardie"<daniel.mchardie@cbc.ca>, info@waynelong.ca, > info@ginettepetitpastaylor.ca, rarseno@nbnet.nb.ca, > matt@mattdecourcey.ca, info@sergecormier.ca, pat@patfinnigan.ca, > tj@tjharvey.ca, karen.ludwig.nb@gmail.com > Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, "Frank.McKenna" > <Frank.McKenna@td.com>, info@votezsteve.ca, info@billcasey.ca, > "justin.trudeau.a1"<justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca>, > "dominic.leblanc.a1"<dominic.leblanc.a1@parl.gc.ca>, oldmaison > <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, jacques_poitras <jacques_poitras@cbc.ca>, > "Jacques.Poitras"<Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>, "peter.mackay" > <peter.mackay@justice.gc.ca> > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Póstur IRR <postur@irr.is> > Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 21:43:50 +0000 > Subject: Re: After crossing paths with them bigtime in 2004 Davey Baby > Coon and his many Green Meanie and Fake Left cohorts know why I won't > hold my breath waiting for them to act with any semblance of integrity > now N'esy Pas Chucky Leblanc?? > To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > > Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið. / Your request has been received. > > Kveðja / Best regards > Innanríkisráðuneytið / Ministry of the Interior > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)"<Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca> > Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 21:39:17 +0000 > Subject: RE: After crossing paths with them bigtime in 2004 Davey Baby > Coon and his many Green Meanie and Fake Left cohorts know why I won't > hold my breath waiting for them to act with any semblance of integrity > now N'esy Pas Chucky Leblanc?? > 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 > Corespondence Manager / Gestionnaire de la correspondance > Office of the Premier / Cabinet du premier ministre > > > For the public record I knew Birgitta was no better than the people > she bitches about when she refused to discuss the QSLS blog with me > while she was in Canada making her rounds in the Canadain media in > January of 2011. > > > > > http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2012/12/so-det-louie-lafleur-have-you-and.html > > From: "MacKenzie, Lloyd (SNB)"lloyd.mackenzie@snb.ca > Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 13:01:27 -0400 > Subject: Telephone Conversation re: 1965 Harley-Davidson Motorcycle > To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com > Cc: "Bastarache, Donald J.(SNB)"Donald.Bastarache@snb.ca, > "Morrison, Bill (SNB)"bill.morrison@snb.ca, > "Levesque-Finn, Sylvie(SNB)"Sylvie.Levesque-Finn@snb.ca, "Pleadwell, > Derek > (SNB)"Derek.Pleadwell@snb.ca > > Mr. Amos: > Upon your request I will inform Mr. Derek Pleadwell[(506) > 444-2897], Chairperson SNB Board of Directors, of our extended > conversation regarding the issues surrounding the 1965 Harley-Davidson > motorcycle when he visits my office at approximately 3:30 P.M. today. > > Also, as requested, I've copied in Ms. Sylvie Levesque-Finn[ (506) > 453-3879 ],SNB President. > > Lloyd D. MacKenzie, AACI, P. App, CAE > Regional Manager of Assessment - Beauséjour Region/Responsable > régional de l'évaluation - region Beauséjour > Assessment/ de l'évaluation > Service New Brunswick/ Service Nouveau-Brunswick > 633 rue Main St. > 4th floor/4ième étage > Moncton, NB E1C 8R3 > Tel/Tél: (506) 856-3910 > Fax/Téléc: (506) 856-2519 > > > http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2014/06/friday-13th-of-june-was-my-final-follow.html > > From: Grady, Louise (ENB) > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 11:55 AM > To: mailto:David.Raymond.Amos@gmail.com > Subject: Final Follow up: Your registration as an independent candidate > > Mr. Amos: > > Following the Chief Electoral Officer's request by telephone on May > 28, 2014 and his previous e-mailed requests for additional information > with respect to your registration as an independent candidate (please > see below), and having not received that information despite having > provided you with several opportunities to furnish the requested > information, he has now directed that said registration be cancelled. > Should you wish to re-apply for registration as an independent > candidate, you may do so after 60 days following the cancellation of > your present registration as provided for under subsection 146.1(1) of > the Elections Act. > > Louise Grady > Elections Coordinator / Coordinatrice des élections > > Elections New Brunswick / Élections Nouveau-Brunswick > Office/bureau : (506) 453-2218 / 1-800-308-2922 > Fax/télécopieur: (506) 457-4926 > http://www.electionsnb.ca > > From: Grady, Louise (ENB) > Sent: May 28, 2014 4:20 PM > To: 'David.Raymond.Amos@gmail.com' > Subject: Follow up: Your registration as an independent candidate > > Mr. Amos: > > At the request of Mr. Michael Quinn, Chief Electoral Officer of the > Province of New Brunswick, I am writing to summarize his phone call to > you this afternoon, reminding you of his message of May 14 (see > below). In the message he left on your voice mail, he granted you a > few more days' grace and asked you to return his call at (506) > 453-2218. He added that should he not hear from you by then, he would > proceed to cancel your registration as an independent candidate as > provided for in the Elections Act. > > Louise Grady > Elections Coordinator / Coordinatrice des élections > > > Elections New Brunswick / Élections Nouveau-Brunswick > Office/bureau : (506) 453-2218 / 1-800-308-2922 > Fax/télécopieur: (506) 457-4926 > http://www.electionsnb.ca >
John Jones, a highly respected QC, took his own life after he was allowed to leave private hospital The Nightingale to go for a 5am walk
A “brilliant” barrister who represented Julian Assange ended his life by leaping under a train after he was allowed to leave a private mental health hospital to go for a walk at 5am.
Cambridge Analytica director apparently visited Julian Assange in February last year and told friends it was to discuss what happened during the US election, the Guardian has learned.
Brittany Kaiser, a director at the firm until earlier this year, also claimed to have channelled cryptocurrency payments and donations to WikiLeaks. This information has been passed to congressional and parliamentary inquiries in the UK and US.
Cambridge Analytica and WikiLeaks are already subjects of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, but the revelations open up fresh questions about the precise nature of the organisations’ relationship.
Assange issued a statement saying that he had turned down the Cambridge Analytica offer. Alexander Nix, the company’s chief executive, told Westminster MPs the same in February, during an appearance at the Commons digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS) select committee. Nix said he found a contact for WikiLeaks’ speaking agency on the internet and sent Assange an email.
Julian Assange said he had turned down Cambridge Analytica’s offer of help with the Hillary Clinton email leak. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA
But visitor logs from the Ecuador embassy obtained by the Guardian and Focus Ecuador appear to show that Brittany Kaiser, a senior executive at Cambridge Analytica until earlier this year, visited Assange on 17 February 2017. Information passed to the DCMS committee in the UK and the Senate judiciary committee in the US states that the meeting was “a retrospective to discuss the US election”.
Kaiser is also alleged to have said that she had funnelled money to WikiLeaks in the form of cryptocurrency. She called the organisation her “favourite charity”. The reports passed to investigators say that money was given to her by third parties in the form of “gifts and payments”.
Nix is due to appear before the DCMS committee for the second time at 3pm on Wednesday, where he is expected to be pressed on Cambridge Analytica’s relationship with WikiLeaks.
At his first appearance, Nix told the committee: “We have no relationship with WikiLeaks. We have never spoken to anyone at WikiLeaks. We have never done any business with WikiLeaks. We have no relationship with them, period.”
He told MPs that Cambridge Analytica had found out about the Clinton emails leak on the news and had “reached out to a speaking agency that represents [Assange] – that was the only way we could find to get hold of him”.
But when Kaiser appeared before MPs in April, she acknowledged that some employees at the company had contacts with lawyers who had also represented Assange.
Damian Collins, the DCMS committee chair, asked Kaiser: “If Alexander Nix wanted to reach out to Julian Assange, couldn’t he do it through you?” Kaiser replied: “That’s what I was wondering when I found that out from the press – he could have asked me to put him in touch with the legal team. But he didn’t.”
Kaiser told MPs that her principal connection to WikiLeaks was via John Jones QC. Jones represented Assange in his extradition case against the Swedish government and became a close, personal friend, visiting him weekly until he was killed by a train in April 2016. The inquest ruled that no-one else was involved in the death of Jones, who had been depressed.
Robert Murtfeld, who worked with Jones on some matters, subsequently went to work for Cambridge Analytica as director of commercial sales in New York.
In a Tweet on Wednesday, Wikileaks said: “WikiLeaks has no knowledge of donations from either party mentioned, did not have a meeting to discuss the US election and was not approached by Murtfeld or anyone connected to him.”
After publication of this article, Murtfeld, Kaiser (through her lawyer), and Assange (through his lawyer), all separately denied that Murtfeld had arranged Kaiser’s visit to Assange last year. Murtfeld said in an email that he had no connection, past or present, with Assange. Assange said through his lawyer that he had not met Murtfeld and, to the best of his knowledge, Murtfeld had not arranged any meetings for him.
A lawyer for Kaiser acknowledged on Thursday that she visited Assange in February 2017 and said the two discussed “a range of topics including what he had been through in recent years”. Jim Walden, however, denied that they had discussed the 2016 US presidential election.
“I met once with Julian Assange for about 20 minutes in February 2017, long after the US election was over, and listened to his story of what he had experienced in recent years,” Kaiser said in a statement provided to the Guardian.
Walden said Kaiser had made one donation of several hundred dollars to Wikileaks in 2011, in connection to academic research she was doing while studying human rights law at University of London Birkbeck College, for which she used original source documents from Wikileaks. He said Kaiser had “never solicited payments” to Wikileaks from third parties.
• This article was updated on 7 June 2018 to include a response from Kaiser’s lawyer received after publication, and on 10 August 2018 to remove a reference to Murtfeld having worked with Jones on the WikiLeaks/Assange matter and to add responses received after publication from Murtfeld and Assange.
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---------- Original message ---------- From: Michael Cohen <mcohen@trumporg.com> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 23:49:05 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Bill Morneau before Trump causes the markets to crash Methinks I should remind folks of the Bank of Canadas long lost mandate, Harper's Bankster bail out 10 years ago and Trudeau The Younger's recent Bankster Bail-In plan To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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---------- Original message ---------- From: "Office, Press"<Press@bankofengland.co.uk> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:23:31 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Bill Morneau before Trump causes the markets to crash Methinks I should remind folks of the Bank of Canadas long lost mandate, Harper's Bankster bail out 10 years ago and Trudeau The Younger's recent Bankster Bail-In plan To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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---------- Original message ---------- From: Póstur FOR <postur@for.is> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 12:00:24 +0000 Subject: Re: ATTN GUDNI TH. JOHANNESSON (354 540 4400) I am on the phone to your office right now To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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---------- Original message ---------- From: Póstur IRR <postur@irr.is> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 12:00:27 +0000 Subject: Re: ATTN GUDNI TH. JOHANNESSON (354 540 4400) I am on the phone to your office right now To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Þessu pósthólfi hefur verið lokað
Þar sem innanríkisráðuneytinu hefur nú verið skipt í tvö ný ráðuneyti hefur netföngum verið breytt: - Vegna erinda til dómsmálaráðuneytis sendið póst á postur@dmr.is - Vegna erinda til samgöngu- og sveitarstjórnarráðuneytis sendið póst á postur@srn.is
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---------- Original message ---------- From: Póstur DMR <postur@dmr.is> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 12:00:20 +0000 Subject: Re: ATTN GUDNI TH. JOHANNESSON (354 540 4400) I am on the phone to your office right now To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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---------- Original message ---------- From: "MinFinance / FinanceMin (FIN)"<fin.minfinance-financemin.fin@canada.ca> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 11:57:13 +0000 Subject: RE: ATTN GUDNI TH. JOHANNESSON (354 540 4400) I am on the phone to your office right now To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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---------- Original message ---------- From: "MinFinance / FinanceMin (FIN)"<fin.minfinance-financemin.fin@canada.ca> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:39:14 +0000 Subject: RE: Clearly as PM Trudeau "The Younger" meets with the Queen and the Commonwealth bosses today I must thank CNN for proving to the world that President Trump, his lawyer Michael Cohen and his lawyer David Schwartz is every bit as dumb and nasty as Obam... To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Póstur FOR <postur@for.is> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:52:50 +0000 Subject: Re: Re: ATTN Sigríður Á. Andersen, Bjarni Benediktsson and Gudlaugur Thór Thórdarson, RE Federal Court File No T-1557-15 I just called your offices Again To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Póstur DMR <postur@dmr.is> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:52:49 +0000 Subject: Re: Re: ATTN Sigríður Á. Andersen, Bjarni Benediktsson and Gudlaugur Thór Thórdarson, RE Federal Court File No T-1557-15 I just called your offices Again To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið. / Your request has been received.
Kveðja / Best regards Dómsmálaráðuneyti / Ministry of Justice
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Póstur IRR <postur@irr.is> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:53:29 +0000 Subject: Re: Re: ATTN Sigríður Á. Andersen, Bjarni Benediktsson and Gudlaugur Thór Thórdarson, RE Federal Court File No T-1557-15 I just called your offices Again To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Þessu pósthólfi hefur verið lokað
Þar sem innanríkisráðuneytinu hefur nú verið skipt í tvö ný ráðuneyti hefur netföngum verið breytt: - Vegna erinda til dómsmálaráðuneytis sendið póst á postur@dmr.is - Vegna erinda til samgöngu- og sveitarstjórnarráðuneytis sendið póst á postur@srn.is
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Cardy, Dominic (LEG)"<Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:56:35 +0000 Subject: RE: ATTN Sigríður Á. Andersen, Bjarni Benediktsson and Gudlaugur Thór Thórdarson, RE Federal Court File No T-1557-15 I just called your offices Again To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> Cc: "Wright, Hamish (LEG)"<Hamish.Wright@gnb.ca>
Mr. Amos,
Did you know that they eat puffins in Iceland?? Puffins!
Full disclosure: I have a cat named Puffin but she is (a) not from Iceland; (b) does not eat puffins; (c) has no discernible central nervous system - though I guess that is my cross to bear, as a responsible cat owner, and not yours, as a public nuisance.
Did you enjoy your butter tart substitute? I was expecting a thank you note but then I realized you were likely very busy suing the government of Rwanda for using the wrong sort of hand cream or something equally important.
Sincerely,
Dominic
________________________________________ From: David Amos [motomaniac333@gmail.com] Sent: November-23-17 1:48 PM To: postur@dmr.is; postur@irr.is; postur@for.is; pm; cullen1; leader; Matt.DeCourcey; valdimarsson@bloomberg.net; editor; editor; Jacques.Poitras; rmellish Cc: David Amos; birgitta; smari; smarim; newsroom; Bill.Morneau; bill.pentney; mcu; Norman.Sabourin; marc.giroux; birgittajoy@gmail.com; Coon, David (LEG); Cardy, Dominic (LEG); Donald.Arsenault; adawson; Leanne.Fitch; Mark.Blakely; martin.gaudet; Gilles.Blinn; Gilles.Moreau Subject: Re: ATTN Sigríður Á. Andersen, Bjarni Benediktsson and Gudlaugur Thór Thórdarson, RE Federal Court File No T-1557-15 I just called your offices Again
ATTN Sigríður Á. Andersen, Bjarni Benediktsson and Gudlaugur Thór Thórdarson, RE Federal Court File No T-1557-15 I just called your offices Again
And the mindless women with no names who speak on your behalf on the phone invited me to sue Iceland AGAIN CORRECT?
So be it
Trust that I will enjoy arguing this Lady at least she has a name just like you do EH Birgitta?
Sigríður Á. Andersen Minister of Justice Tel.: +(354) 545 9000 Fax: + (354) 552 7340 E-mail: postur@dmr.is
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Birgitta Jonsdottir birgitta@this.is Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 03:46:20 -0800 Subject: e-mail overload Re: YO Ed and Birgitta Andrew O'Hagan Julian Assange’s ghostwriter dishes on the Wikileaks founder??? Need I say big deal? To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
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[26]. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Sincerely, >>>> >>>> Public Affairs Team >>>> Rocky 2016 LLC >>>> >>>> >>>> On 10/26/16, David Amos wrote: >>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>>> From: David Amos >>>>> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 13:31:43 -0400 >>>>> Subject: Attn Alain Rayes remember me? >>>>> To: Alain.Rayes@parl.gc.ca [27], pm , > "Gerald.Butts" >>>>> >>>>> Cc: David Amos >>>>> >>>>> > http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2016/10/mr-prime-minister-trudeau-younger-and.html > [28] >>>>> >>>>> Friday, 21 October 2016 >>>>> Mr Prime Minister Trudeau "The Younger" , the > CBC, the RCMP and the >>>>> CROWN's many lawyers should understand why I > appreciate Parliament >>>>> labelling citizen's words as EVIDENCE N'esy Pas? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> > http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=e&Mode=1&Parl=42&Ses=1&DocId=8493010 > [29] >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Special Committee on Electoral Reform >>>>> NUMBER 039 >>>>> l >>>>> 1st SESSION >>>>> l >>>>> 42nd PARLIAMENT >>>>> EVIDENCE >>>>> Friday, October 7, 2016 >>>>> [Recorded by Electronic Apparatus] >>>>> (1335) >>>>> [English] >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The Chair: >>>>> Thank you very much. >>>>> Mr. David Amos, the floor is yours. >>>>> >>>>> Mr. David Amos (As an Individual): >>>>> Mr. Chair, I ran for public office five times > against your party. >>>>> That said, I ran against Mr. DeCourcey's boss > right here in >>>>> Fredericton in the election for the 39th > Parliament. >>>>> I was not aware of this committee meeting in > Fredericton today >>>>> until I heard Mr. DeCourcey speaking on CBC this > morning. I don't >>>>> pretend to know something I don't, but I'm a > quick study. I thought I >>>>> had paid my dues to sit on the panel. I notified > the clerks in a >>>>> timely fashion, but I received no response. At > least I get another >>>>> minute and a half. >>>>> The previous speaker answered the $64,000 > question: 338. I can >>>>> name every premier in the country. Governor > Maggie Hassan is my >>>>> governor in New Hampshire. The people there who > sit in the house get >>>>> paid $100 a year plus per diem expenses. I think > that's the way to run >>>>> a government. There are lots of seats in the > house for a very small >>>>> state. >>>>> My understanding of this hearing is that you > have to report to Mr. >>>>> Trudeau by December 1, because he said during > the election that if he >>>>> were elected Prime Minister, the 42nd > Parliament, which I also ran in, >>>>> would be the last first-past-the-post election. > You don't have much >>>>> time, so my suggestion to the clerks today, > which I published and sent >>>>> to the Prime Minister of Iceland and his > Attorney General, was to do >>>>> what Iceland does. Just cut and paste their > rules. They have no first >>>>> past the post. They have a pending election. >>>>> A former friend of mine, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, > founded a party >>>>> there, for which there is no leader. It is the > Pirate Party. It's high >>>>> in the polls right now with no leader. That's > interesting. I tweeted >>>>> this. You folks said that you follow tweets, so > you should have seen >>>>> what I tweeted before I came here this evening. >>>>> That said, as a Canadian, I propose something > else. Number one, >>>>> my understanding of the Constitution and what I > read about law.... >>>>> There was a constitutional expert named Edgar > Schmidt who sued the >>>>> government. He was the man who was supposed to > vet bills for Peter >>>>> MacKay to make sure they were constitutionally > correct. He did not >>>>> argue the charter. He argued Mr. Diefenbaker's > Bill of Rights. >>>>> In 2002 I read a document filed by a former > deputy minister of >>>>> finance, Kevin Lynch, who later became Mr. > Harper's clerk of the Privy >>>>> Council. Now he's on an independent board of the > Chinese oil company >>>>> that bought Nexen. As deputy minister of > finance, he reported to the >>>>> American Securities and Exchange Commission on > behalf of the >>>>> corporation known as Canada. It is a very > interesting document that I >>>>> saved and forwarded to you folks. It says that > he was in a quandary >>>>> about whether the charter was in effect. >>>>> (2005) >>>>> >>>>> The Chair: >>>>> Could it be in relation to a particular voting > system? >>>>> >>>>> Mr. David Amos: >>>>> According to Mr. Lynch, because of the failure > of the Meech Lake >>>>> and Charlottetown accords, he was in a quandary > as to whether the >>>>> charter was in effect. I know that the Supreme > Court argues it on a >>>>> daily basis. That charter, created by Mr. > Trudeau and Mr. Chrétien, >>>>> his attorney general at the time, gave me the > right to run for public >>>>> office and vote as a Canadian citizen. However, > in the 1990s, Mr. >>>>> Chrétien came out with a law, and because I am > a permanent American >>>>> resident, I can't vote. Yet the charter says I > can. >>>>> >>>>> The Chair: >>>>> That's a— >>>>> >>>>> Mr. David Amos: >>>>> That said, that's been argued in court. In 2000, > Mr. Chrétien came >>>>> out with a law that said I couldn't vote. Right? > He also took away my >>>>> social insurance number. >>>>> >>>>> The Chair: >>>>> I don't know about the case— >>>>> >>>>> Mr. David Amos: >>>>> No, he did. >>>>> >>>>> The Chair: >>>>> But I don't know about the case. >>>>> >>>>> Mr. David Amos: >>>>> I did prove, after I argued with Elections > Canada's lawyers in >>>>> 2004.... You might have taken away my right to > vote, but you can't >>>>> stop me from running for public office, and I > proved it five times. >>>>> >>>>> The Chair: >>>>> Given that you're an experienced candidate— >>>>> >>>>> Mr. David Amos: >>>>> Very experienced. >>>>> >>>>> The Chair: >>>>> —does that experience provide you with a > particular insight on the >>>>> voting systems we're looking at? >>>>> >>>>> Mr. David Amos: >>>>> In Mr. Trudeau's words, he has to come up with a > plan and no more >>>>> first past the post. My suggestion to you, in my > contact today, is to >>>>> cut and paste Iceland's rules. >>>>> >>>>> The Chair: >>>>> What kind of system does Iceland have? >>>>> >>>>> Mr. David Amos: >>>>> It's just what you need, just what Mr. Trudeau > is ordering now. >>>>> It's proportional elections. >>>>> >>>>> The Chair: >>>>> Is it MMP, or is it just...? >>>>> >>>>> Mr. David Amos: >>>>> I tweeted you the beginner's book for Iceland. >>>>> >>>>> The Chair: >>>>> Okay, we'll look at Iceland. >>>>> We're just checking on the kind of system they > have, but I >>>>> appreciate the input, especially from a > candidate, from somebody who >>>>> has run many times. >>>>> But we do have— >>>>> >>>>> Mr. David Amos: >>>>> I have two other points, because I don't think > you can pull this >>>>> off. I don't think it will happen. >>>>> >>>>> The Chair: >>>>> Well, I'm hoping we do. >>>>> >>>>> Mr. David Amos: >>>>> Here is my suggestion. You guys are going north. >>>>> >>>>> The Chair: >>>>> Yes. >>>>> >>>>> Mr. David Amos: >>>>> Look how parliamentarians are elected in the > Northwest >>>>> Territories. There is no party, and I like that. >>>>> >>>>> The Chair: >>>>> That's true. We were just up in Yellowknife, in > fact, and we >>>>> learned all about that. That's why it's good for > us to be travelling >>>>> the country. >>>>> But, sir, I— >>>>> >>>>> Mr. David Amos: >>>>> I have one more suggestion. >>>>> >>>>> The Chair: >>>>> One more. >>>>> >>>>> Mr. David Amos: >>>>> Mr. Harper changed the Canada Elections Act and > I still couldn't >>>>> vote. >>>>> >>>>> The Chair: >>>>> Yes, I was in the House when that happened. >>>>> >>>>> Mr. David Amos: >>>>> Anyway, that said, when you alter the Canada > Elections Act, make >>>>> it.... >>>>> The biggest problem we have is, look at the vast > majority of >>>>> people who, like me, have never voted in their > life. Apathy rules the >>>>> day. >>>>> >>>>> The Chair: >>>>> Except that you've put us on to an idea about > Iceland— >>>>> >>>>> Mr. David Amos: >>>>> Let me finish. >>>>> I suggest that you make voting mandatory, such > as Australia does. >>>>> Make it that if you don't vote, it costs you > money, just like if you >>>>> don't report to Statistics Canada. >>>>> >>>>> The Chair: >>>>> Well, we're talking about that. That is part of > our mandate, to >>>>> look at mandatory voting and online voting. >>>>> You already had your last suggestion. >>>>> (2010) >>>>> Mr. David Amos: >>>>> Put in the line, “none of the above”, and if > “none of the above” >>>>> wins— >>>>> >>>>> The Chair: >>>>> That's right, we've heard that, too. >>>>> >>>>> Mr. David Amos: >>>>> Well, I haven't. >>>>> >>>>> The Chair: >>>>> We've heard that in our testimony. >>>>> >>>>> Mr. David Amos: >>>>> You and I will be talking again, trust me on > that one, by way of >>>>> writing. >>>>> You answered my emails, Ma'am. >>>>> >>>>> The Chair: >>>>> Thank you very much, sir. >>>>> Now we'll hear from Julie Maitland. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> > http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-trudeau-electoral-reform-critics-1.3813714 > [30] >>>>> >>>>> Critics accuse Justin Trudeau of electoral > reform flip-flop for >>>>> 'selfish' political gain >>>>> Prime minister insists he is 'deeply committed' > to consultation >>>>> process on changes to voting system >>>>> By Kathleen Harris, CBC News Posted: Oct 20, > 2016 4:44 PM ET >>>>> >>>> > > ---------- Original message ---------- > From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:10:43 -0400 > Subject: Re: RE My calls to the people who speak for Mexico today for > the record The RCM and the FBI know until he gets sworn as President > "The Donald" is sibject to all laws just like I am > To: gobmx@funcionpublica.gob.mx [31], contacto@funcionpublica.gob.mx > [32], > gcarrera@ns.sympatico.ca [33], marine.affairs@dal.ca [34], > gcarrera@dal.ca [35], > "stephane.dion"<stephane.dion@parl.gc.ca>, mcohen > <mcohen@trumporg.com>, "Donald.J.Trump" > <Donald.J.Trump@donaldtrump.com>, "James.Comey" > <James.Comey@ic.fbi.gov>, washington field > <washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, "Boston.Mail" > <Boston.Mail@ic.fbi.gov>, > "Gilles.Blinn"<Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Gilles.Moreau" > <Gilles.Moreau@forces.gc.ca>, > stephane.dion@international.gc.ca [36], DJT > <DJT@trumporg.com>, djtjr <djtjr@trumporg.com> > Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, > info@embamexcan.com [37], > "bob.paulson"<bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, > "hon.ralph.goodale" > <hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca>, "Hon.Dominic.LeBlanc" > <Hon.Dominic.LeBlanc@canada.ca>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca> > > ---------- Original message ---------- > From: stephane.dion@parl.gc.ca [38] > Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 16:08:02 +0000 > Subject: Accusé de réception / Receipt Acknowledgement > To: motomaniac333@gmail.com [39] > > -English Follows - > > Bonjour, > > Nous vous remercions d’avoir contacté le bureau de l’honorable > Stéphane Dion. 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---------- Original message ---------- From: Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 18:18:35 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: Attn Minister Ralph Goodale and Pierre Paul-Hus Trust that I look forward to arguing the fact that fhe Crown filed my Sept 4th email to you and your buddies To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
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---------- Original message ---------- From: Kennedy.Stewart@parl.gc.ca Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 18:18:35 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: Attn Minister Ralph Goodale and Pierre Paul-Hus Trust that I look forward to arguing the fact that fhe Crown filed my Sept 4th email to you and your buddies To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
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---------- Original message ---------- From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 14:27:32 -0400 Subject: Fwd: Attn Minister Ralph Goodale and Pierre Paul-Hus Trust that I look forward to arguing the fact that fhe Crown filed my Sept 4th email to you and your buddies To: Pierre.Paul-Hus.a1@parl.gc.ca Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Obviously the last email worked and I am now in receipt of a digital copy of what the Crown purportedly filed on August 31st. I have yet to see Hard Copy of anything but I will respond in writing ASAP and DEMAND an oral argument in front of 3 judges who do not have a conflict of interest with me.. This is clearly an attempt of Jensen and his cohorts within the Registry Office to try to stop me from filing more lawsuits.
Furthermore why does the link to the Federal Court's records no longer function so that I can check the history of the docket for myself?
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---------- Original message ---------- From: Jensen, Jan jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2018 6:06 AM To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com Subject: DAVID RAYMOND AMOS V. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN - COURT FILE NO. A-48-16
Mr. Amos
Further to our previous email, please find attached a pdf of the Crown’s written submissions to the Court in respect of our request for an assessment of costs and related order. A physical copy of the materials has been couriered to you.
I am aware that you left a voice message for Ms. Warner. If you wish to discuss any relevant matter in respect of this file, please direct your communication to me. I also remind you that I previously advised you to make any communication in writing, by letter, since you have demonstrated a lack of restraint in your email correspondence generally.
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Warner, Lorri Sent: Friday, October 19, 2018 7:46 AM To: mailto:david.raymond.amos@gmail.com Cc: Jensen, Jan Subject: DAVID RAYMOND AMOS v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN - COURT FILE NO. A-48-16
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How Iran is using 'ghost ships' to flout Donald Trump's oil sanctions
Iran has already started shipping crude on the sly, as U.S. oil sanctions are set to kick in
Pete Evans· CBC News· Posted: Oct 20, 2018 4:00 AM ET
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Erin Wilson
Iran is right about one thing - America under Don Trump is not trustworthy.
David Amos
@Erin Wilson Methinks what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander N'esy Pas?
"In Israel's case, tanker operators bringing oil from Arab states who don't have relations with Israel will turnoff the tracking devices to keep up appearances that they aren't "dealing with the Jewish state," Adesnik says."
How Iran is using 'ghost ships' to flout Donald Trump's oil sanctions
Iran has already started shipping crude on the sly, as U.S. oil sanctions are set to kick in
Pete Evans· CBC News·
A support vessel flying an Iranian national flag sails alongside an oil tanker off the Iranian coast earlier this year. Iranian supertankers have started turning off their GPS transponders to evade detection in recent weeks, analysts say. (Ali Mohammadi/Bloomberg)
It sounds like something out of a pirate story, but the normally staid world of international trade has been beset by a flotilla of ghost ships in recent weeks, and they're weighed down by several million barrels of trouble for U.S. foreign policy.
Iran is one of the world's biggest oil suppliers, and according to official records, the country shipped about 1.8 million barrels of oil per day last month, a slight decline from August's level and 40 per cent below a peak of almost 3 million barrels in April.
All things being equal, that figure is likely to plunge even more in the coming weeks, as U.S. sanctions aimed at forcing Tehran to negotiate a new nuclear agreement are set to come into force next month. If fully implemented and adhered to, the sanctions will cut Iran's oil exports to zero as long as the rest of the world plays along.
But the Iranian government seems to already have found innovative ways around those efforts by moving millions of barrels of crude on the sly.
People who monitor global tanker traffic noticed a curious new development last month, as about a dozen tankers known to be carrying Iranian oil mysteriously turned off transponders designed to track their movements via GPS.
Under an international law known as the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, ship captains must keep their transponders — known as Automatic Identification System or AIS — on at all times. But sometimes vessels wishing to move about without as much scrutiny will turn them off, and so far the international community doesn't seem too interested in stopping them
Iran has lately become a hub for the tactic. And the journey of one ship, the Dino I, is a good example of how it works.
On Sept. 4, AIS data shows that the supertanker picked up 2 million barrels of Iranian oil at Kharg Island, a massive fill-up station in the middle of the Persian Gulf. From there, the ship made its way through the Strait of Hormuz and into the Indian Ocean, where the ship went dark from Sept. 15 onward.
It reappeared on the grid more than ten days later while passing through the busy shipping lanes near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and its transponder stayed on while it paid a visit to the shipping hub of Singapore a day later, on Sept. 27.
Then it vanished again for more than a week, before reappearing off the coast of Taiwan on Oct. 5. It then went dark for another few days before checking in off the South Korean coast and delivering its cargo at the Chinese port of Dalian on Oct. 13.
Dino I is not the only such "ghost ship," as experts have called them, and the eyebrow-raising voyage seems part of a targeted attempt to evade the coming sanctions.
"They think they'll throw people off the scent [and] they want to confuse what they're picking up," says David Adesnik, research director at Washington, D.C.-based national security think-tank the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, of what the ships are up to.
"We're still puzzling through their precise motives," he says, "but broadly speaking, it's about the money."
The threat of Iran being locked out of the oil market has pushed up oil prices in recent weeks. So deploying an armada of cloaked tankers allows Tehran's leaders to have their cake and eat it too by selling just as much oil as ever.
Oil prices have risen steadily in recent weeks ahead of sanctions that will theoretically lock Iranian crude out of the market. (Larry MacDougal/Canadian Press)
"They're doing it more because they embraced the media narrative that exports are down hard," says Samir Madani, co-founder of ship monitoring firm TankerTrackers.com. "It helps boost the price of oil. They don't want OPEC to go into higher production," he says. OPEC refers to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, a producers' cartel that includes Iran as a member.
In the first 13 days of October, TankerTrackers calculated that Iran shipped an average 2.2 million barrels per day. That's an increase of 10 per cent from what the company was seeing in September, and several hundred thousand barrels more than what's being reported in the official numbers from OPEC.
Madani's firm supplements rudimentary AIS data with other technology to fill in the gaps, and he estimates that official numbers sometimes only capture about 20 per cent of the tanker traffic at any given time. "The other 80 per cent is a cat and mouse chase involving satellite imagery," he says.
This isn't the first time that Iran has tried such chicanery. Iranian ghost ships last criss-crossed the seas to this extent between 2011 and 2015, when the previous U.S. administration had sanctions on Iranian oil before signing the nuclear deal that the current inhabitant of the White House pulled out of.
It's not just oil destined to feed China's voracious appetite for fuel, either. Madani says Syria and Israel "both instruct tanker operators to switch off their transponders prior to arrival." Officially, there are U.S. sanctions on selling oil to Syria, but Iran shipped up to 60,000 barrels per day to Syria in August, worth some $150 million, TankerTrackers says.
In Israel's case, tanker operators bringing oil from Arab states who don't have relations with Israel will turnoff the tracking devices to keep up appearances that they aren't "dealing with the Jewish state," Adesnik says.
Ghost ships aren't the only type of subterfuge currently at play in the oil market. Madani has noticed a marked uptick in the amount of barrels that Iran is storing in idle tankers. That's a great way for the regime to get oil off of its official ledgers, until it can find a buyer on the sly in future, he says.
On the last day of September, for example, Madani's satellites witnessed 10 million barrels sitting in six supertankers floating just offshore of Kharg Island. They hadn't moved in days, nor did they move for several days following.
The red dots represent oil tankers spotted by TankerTrackers.com holding as many as 2 million barrels of oil on Sept. 30. The yellow dots represent smaller tankers that were holding a million barrels. (TankerTrackers.com)
That's more than 10 per cent of all the oil the world consumes every day, just floating around, looking for a buyer — possibly one who's willing to do business even after U.S. sanctions are in place next month.
"It would seem to be practice," Adesnik says. "They'll really need the cloaking after November 4, but they're practicing with it now."
The risk isn't only financial. In January, Iranian tanker the Sanchi burned and sank in waters 300 kilometres east of Shanghai after colliding with a freight ship. The Sanchi was carrying about a million barrels of condensate at the time, and all 32 members of the crew are missing and presumed dead.
Rescue efforts were hampered by the fact that the Sanchi hadn't broadcast an AIS signal for at least nine hours prior to the collision, Adesnik says.
More than 30 people who were on board the Sanchi when it exploded and sank in Chinese waters earlier this year are presumed dead. (10th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters/Reuters)
Tragedies like the Sanchi are likely to repeat for as long as the international community is willing to turn a blind eye to the shipping subterfuge. Tehran has an incentive to keep doing it and "authoritarian regimes are not known for their ability to confront the truth in an expeditious manner" Adesnik says.
"I'd imagine we're interested in taking some pretty serious measures to prevent them from getting oil out illicitly," he says. "But we have to prioritize who we're going to be pressuring into compliance."
David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos 
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Give me a call at(506 434 1379) and try to call me a liar. I Double Dog Dare Yaa Too. Say Hey to your wannabe lawyer buddy Vaughn for me will ya.
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Watch Frenchie prove his malice shaortly by making this blog melt as he always does however As a double check I just emailed it to you and Chucky in order to prove that it once existed.
I may soon have a pipeline running through my back yard which is going to change the quality of life of my family.I am a citizen who got fed up with one sided journalism.There is no smoke and mirrors with me.I am calling them as I see them.If you don't like the blog .I guess all I can say is don't blog or blog away .Thats what it is there for.I don't expect everyone to agree with me.Thats democracy.
If you are trying to intimidate me with your rants.think again.
Obviously you used my phone number now I know yours. Clearly you just pissed me off Lets see you apology ya bastard.
Listen David? I'll let a debate your issues in this blog here.
I must delete the blog that has emails.
As long you don't swear and smear anyone? You should be ok!!
Everyone has their different style of sending out their message.
I got mine and you got yours.
By the way? Evicted??? It was a April Fool joke from Millie and Jim but I didn't bite!...lol
You got that email list and you could invite people to your site like I do!!!!
Rick Hancox Executive Director
c/o Suzanne Ball Senior
Legal Counsel
and Manon Losier General Counsel
and Secretary to the New Brunswick
Securities Commission
85 Charlotte Street, Suite 300
Saint John, NB E2L 2J2
RE: Securities Fraud and Public Corruption
Sir,
Pursuant to our conversation today please find enclosed exactly the same material sent to the eight other provincial Attorney Generals in Canada before I returned to my native land again this year. Obviously the AGs Brad Green and Tom Marshall have known the truth of my matters since the summer of 2004. They have maliciously ignored my false imprisonment in the USA for their own political benefit. The tapes enclosed are exactly the same copies that were served upon the lawyers acting for Rogers Media byway of their newsman Tom Young today. As you listen to the tape you will hear that I mentioned your Commission on air in Saint John weeks ago. Methinks you should have called me then instead of waiting for me to contact you again today.
The tapes and the CD of wiretap tape #139 are served upon the Commission's lawyers Ms. Ball and Ms. Losier as in confidence as officers of the court in order that my allegations of illegal wiretaps by crooked law enforcement authorities may be finally properly investigated ASAP by ethical law enforcement authorities. Hopefully this will be done before I sue the Crown about my false imprisonment but I am not holding my breath. April 3rd is coming fast. Upon your study of these documents you will see that I have not yet given the Yankee SEC all of my evidence of Securities Fraud. However every Attorney General in Canada has been made well aware of it for quite sometime before the SEC declared it was willing to investigate the actions of the former Minister of Finance Ralph Goodale. To date not one person has responded me nor did me the simple courtesy of returning my calls or emails as you finally did today.
Clearly I must complain of the Crown myself without delay before further harm is done to my Clan. Rest assured I will be calling you, Mr. Hancox and the lawyers within your Commission to testify at a trial of my matters in Federal Court in Fredericton. A very pigheaded yet ethical Maritimer knows that justice has been delayed way past too long for the benefit of public corruption and not the public trust. I will not wait for anyone on public service to act within the scope of their employment anymore. To put it simply, after our conversation today I had no faith that you were willing to do your job.
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David Raymond Amos
P.O. Box 234
Apohaqui, NB E5P 3G2
You know the answer!
Papers? to deliver to the Justice Minister? Sorry...I'm not a Sheriff!!!!
Remember be nice in this blog....
Always read your site Charles.
The person is right. More entertaining the TV, and I mean that as Big Compliment :>)
Just in case anyone cares about the spelling I am typing quickly because Methinks Chucky will soon erase this stuff just like he always does. However here is my phone number again call me and I will show anyone the proof of what I is true and I will even allow them to listen to a wiretap tape or two.
wroteBonjour
Mr. David Raymond Amos,
We respectfully invite you to consider a Letter to the Editor, i.e.., How Free Trade undermines Maritime Economic Development. We had heard you make some representation about a U.S. company which truck out Maritime 'wealth', as a result of not having similar .provincial resources rights as Alberta, Many Maritimes would be potentially interested in such an editorial.
Merci.
Office of John Stokes
The Canadian National Newspaper
internet site: http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com
Thanks for the suggestion. As you should know the most glaring example of a company that has been raping the Maritimes with abandon for many years is obviously the Irving Empire. However lately there are some very nasty new players on the scene such a PCS and Corridor Resourses etc etc. I am very busy these days and I am not a journalist. You people are though yet it seems you would rather me say the awlful truth than yourselves because of some possible lawsuit EH?
So be it. I will because it is not slander if one's words are true. Perhaps you should consider checking my work and then come to court sometime in order to listen to me argue all the smiling bastards. You can have much of my work in a click of the button of my mouse. But first please allow me to introduce you to the New Brunswick Securities Commission. I got a rather interesting response from them today whilst I was in Fredericton. They have ignored my concerns for almost a year but now that Bernie Lord's government is getting tipsy, it appears all the bad actors want to show me their arse just in time for me to boot it.
It is Securities Commissions such as this that allow many publicly held companies such as Corridor Resources or Magna Entertainment etc to get away with many things rather than remind them of the law and on how they should conduct business in an ethical fashion. That said, these Commisssions have no say whatsoever over the Irving Empire and that is truly bad. It is a privately held corporation that knows very well the power of money and on how to pay off greedy politicians in order to get anything they want. In the nutshell of the Maritimes that is quite simply everything. It seems that I am the only Maritimer who is not afraid of the ghost of mean old KC Irving and his monoply game. It has always been hard times in the Maritimes. We lament about it all the time but our apathy and fear of the Irvings etc gives us the govenments we deserve.
Print this if you wish. You are off the hook that Irving's lawyers threaten ordinary folks with. I am fearless yet never reckless with the truth. I stand by my own words and invite anyone to sue me if they think I am a liar and wish to argue me. I hate it when the chickenshits send crooked cops against me bearing false allegations in a faint hearted effort to shut me up. It does the smiling bastards no good and only serves to make matters worse.
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David Raymond Amos
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
Everybody received hard copy in hand to their offices except of course what the UPS dudes are bringing to Paul Shuttle and Andre Arthur. Obviously Yankees ain't as quick as me even when I give them two days head start. I have signatures and pictures to prove that all the New Brunswickers named below got their material today as I promised last week except for the sneaky Conflict of Interest Commmissioner Mr. Patrick who hides behind locked doors. He just sent the Sergeant at Arms who tried to run me off again.
However the Frenchman Danny Boy Bussieres had to accept my material on behalf of the Commissioner and our Queen whom he represents no matter how much he wishes to ban me from the Legislature. He didn't sign anything but what transpired between us was witnessed by a man who was not involved. I gave the crooked Quebecer hard copy in hand. Somebody speaking for the Queen should answer me ASAP. EH? If Danny Boy wishes to attempt to ban me from the Legislature again he really should put it in writng. EH? Perhaps he should clearly state the reasons behind his malice and who is accusing me of what. Otherwise I will ignore him until we meet in court. Then I will have many questions for him on the public record. I repeat, I have never threatened or harassed anyone. The next time he and I meet I hope to have many witnesses watching our exchange of words instead of just one man.The Sergeant at Arms Danny Boy Brouseirres lake most lawyers and politicians is a liar.
I will leave you all to wonder who receives this email next but lets just say I was very correct about my assessment of the Public Utilities Board and the New Brunswick Securoties Commission. corrupt Maritimers act just like crookedYankees. After all most of them are lawyers and their brotherhood practices their malice across borders all day long every day. The thing is can they trust each other when the politiking gets down and dirty. Methinks there is no honour amongst theives no matter how powerful they are. What say you? I know your answer already and that only time will tell the tale to prove what I say is true. Until then I will simply remain a man of my word and hope for justice to prevail. It is your job to uphold the Public Trust not mine.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
Bernard Shapiro
Ethics Commissioner
C/o Andre Arthur MP
325 de l'Eglise
Donnacona, Québec G3M 2A2
Jean T. Fournier
Senate Ethics Officer
C/o Senator Noel Kinsella and Michael Comeau
Holy Cross House Rm. 206
St. Thomas University
Fredericton NB
Kevin Lynch Clerkc/o Paul Shuttle
Director of Legal Operations
Privy Council Office
59 Sparks Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A3
David Gourdeau
Commissioner for FederalJudicial Affairs
c/o Willa Doyle
District Administrator
Suite 100
82 Westmorland Street
Fredericton, NB E3B 3L3
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 and or Parliamentarians in order that it may be investigated byway of my suing the Crown.
While Stevey Boy Harper is busy in New Brunswick today trying hard to shore up the shaky government of his little buddy, Bernie Lord with long delayed federal tax dollars. I am polishing off all my promises to crooked lawyers in the hope that the very corrupt House crumbles ASAP.
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
PO Box 234
Apohaqui, NB. E5P 3G2
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At least I have a name EH Deputy Dog? Even on the internet you use girlfriend's Wicked Wanda Willard's ID
He's pretty mellow with his words compare to past emails.
Hey? We might have a second Spinks here???...lol
July 1st, 2004
Brad Green
c/oBernard Lord
132 Mill Road
Moncton, NB. E1A 4A5
Frank McKenna
c/o McInnis Cooper
655 Main St.
Moncton NB E1C 8T6
RE: Corruption
Hey Fellas,
Please find enclosed exactly the same material served upon Paul Zed before he met Paul Martin at the airport last weekend. The copy of wiretap tape numbered 139 is served upon you in confidence as officers of the court in order that it may be properly investigated. As you review the material it should be painfully obvious to you why I have no respect for your chosen profession of lawyer/politician. I must say that both Mr. Lord and Mr. McKenna were clever to keep some distance from the recent federal election but I don’t think it was very wise for Mr. Lord to have me expelled from the Legislature Building for political reasons rather than legal reasons.
I have done as the Sargent at Arms ordered on June 24th and stayed away from the Legislature and waited for it to take its summer break so that no more bullshit about me can be said. I have now delivered this material to your constituency office Mr. Lord so that you may deal with this at a personal level with Mr. Green. I will complain of you Mr. Lord and your friends Mr. Green, Mr. Armstrong and Mr. Burke to court along with the Fredericton Police Dept. and the Sargent at Arms if I do not receive a satisfactory response very quickly and convince me of your ethics and stand with me. I have not heard from the Fredericton Police Dept. thus I suspect that Corporal Ross has done as he threatened and thrown this material in the trash for the benefit of his fellow police officer, Mr. LeBlanc.
Mr. Green may I suggest that you study every word and listen to the CD closely and prepare to argue every word if you disagree with the fact that a fellow Canadian has the right to seek justice and relief for the many wrongs practiced against him. What would you do if the Men in Black had appeared at your door and were willing to take you away to Cuba without counsel because of false allegations were made against you in order to stop you from defending your family’s interests? As you can see I have come home to protest these actions in a political and legal fashion. I have done only as the Solicitor General Anne McLellan has suggested and given the evidence to those who claim to have jurisdiction over me. You speak for the Sargent at Arms and the Fredericton Police. They dropped the ball the instant they pulled me outside the building for no reason. They claimed jurisdiction but refused to investigate. I have seen it reported that I had tried to speak from the gallery and the Sargent at Arms falsely claimed that I had attempted to serve someone within the legislature building. Both statements are untrue. I left materials at the door in the custody of the security guard as he requested. I was only looking to find Charles Leblanc in order that he may witness me delivering the enclosed materials to T.J. Burke’s office. This was necessary for me to do because as you know most lawyers are reckless with the truth. I will let your fellow politician/lawyer. Peter McKay, explain to you the reason why that is. However it was no longer necessary to require a witness because the Sargent at Arms and the Fredericton Police had watched me go into 710 Queen St and come out without the material they had just refused after harassing me. They are my witnesses as you are now.
As for you, Mr. McKenna, I expect you and your fellow lawyers at McInnes Cooper to uphold the law and conduct yourselves in a professional manner according to the rules that allow you to practice law for a fee. Don’t you think you should act ethically rather quickly and report your newfound knowledge of crime? At the very least I have made you witnesses to my complaints and rest assured I will be asking you many questions in court if the RCMP doesn’t ask you first. Mr. McKenna, I read your recent speech about how you likened the actions of federal political leaders to various purebred dogs. I must add my two bits worth to your comments. Those fancy dogs don’t hunt like the mangy old mutt that is the guard dog of my little Clan. I don’t bark but I am quick to bite. If you turn around you will see me sniffing at your heels. If any lawyer makes one false move, I make every effort to rip his nuts off. Check my work before you call me a liar.
I have followed the money home to the Maritimes. I find that you and many other liberals have been in pursuit of filthy lucre every bit as much as Mr. Mulroney, Mr. Crosbie and their many cohorts. The Maritime Provinces have suffered the most from the many years of political abuse by greedy lawyers and their bosses. Mr. Harper called Maritimers defeatists but he failed to say who was beating us up. Obviously it was federal politicians on both sides of the fence. The last thing Mr. Martin is to me is noble. In my opinion he is a fine example of a very crooked lawyer aspiring to be an adept politician like his daddy. I view your speech about dogs simply as a little dog licking a big dog’s nuts in a stylish way in order to win the Alfa male’s favor and someday win his position amongst a pack of political thieves. Feel free to argue me after you explain to me real slow how Cardinal Law was legally removed from my complaint and what right the Men in Black had to try to take me away because I am exposing the awful truth about bad acting bankers and Feds. Please don’t pretend that you guys don’t know a few very well heeled Yankees that have helped you along in your own personal pursuit of happiness. Mr. Tobin got a great job working for an interesting Conservative. Eh? Should Belinda listen to Mr. Mulroney and Mr. Harper or to her new CEO? What do you think? How much time do you think I may have left on the planet for asking such questions as this? What do you think may cause my demise? In the end I will rest assured that someday my ghost will be very vindictive against lawyers that failed to uphold the law. At this point in time it would be very easy for some lawyer to act ethically and become the people’s political hero. What say you? Can you trust your legal and political friends to not turncoat and stand with me? Interesting dilemma, eh?
Cya’ll in Court:)
David R. Amos
153 Alvin Ave.
Milton. MA. 02186
Certificate of Service
I, David R. Amos on July 2, 2004, I served the enclosed materials in hand to the offices of Frank McKenna at McInnis Cooper 655 Main St. Moncton NB E1C 8T6 and Bernard Lord at 132 Mill Road. Moncton, NB.E1A 4A5
David R. Amos
153 Alvin Ave.
Milton, MA. 02186
August 24th, 2004
Lieutenant-Governor of
New Brunswick,
Herménégilde Chiasson
Old GovernmentHouse
51 Woodstock Road
Fredericton, NB E3B 9L8
Phone (506) 453-2505
Fax (506) 444-5280
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly,
Bev Harrison
Constituency Office: Hampton-Belleisle
Room: Unit 4, 46 Keirstead Avenue
Hampton, NB E5N 5A4
Phone (506) 832-6464
Fax (506) 832-6466
RE: Corruption
Sirs,
Please find enclosed exactly the same material served upon Premier Lord and Frank McKenna on the day after Canada Day and a copy of Brad Green’s response. I have also enclosed a letter to Senator Joe Day that was to be forwarded to the Arar Commission. The copy of wiretap tape numbered 139 is served upon you in confidence as the Queen’s representatives of in order that it may be properly investigated. I ask New Brunswick’s Lieutenant-Governor of, Herménégilde Chiasson to forward this material to the Governor General of Canada. I have already emailed her notice to expect this material and I will email her the text of this letter as well.
Whereas the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick stands adjourned until Tuesday, December 14, 2004, at 1 o'clock p.m, perhaps you fellas can find a little time to answer me before I sue the Queen in the USA. My questions are as follows: Why did Sergeant-at-Arms, Dan Bussieres and the Fredericton Police Dept. ask me to step outside the Legislature Building and then forever ban me from re-entering the premises on June 24th, 2004? What will you do with your newfound knowledge of crime?
It is only fair that I ask these questions. After all I am a Canadian Citizen and I do have the right to ask any question to those who represent me. Whether they are born to the position or elected or appointed or merely hired, they all must uphold the law and the public trust. The Queen of Canada, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, is the official Head of State and is represented in New Brunswick by the Lieutenant-Governor. Therefore, the Lieutenant-Governor is the nominal Head of State at the provincial level, empowered with the responsibility of representing the Queen in the province. Thus I have asked him the aforesaid questions before I leave the jurisdiction of New Brunswick.
The Ombudsman, Bernard Richard told me to take my matter up the Speaker of the House and thus far Mr. Harrison has ignored my phone calls and emails. Bev Harrison did have the opportunity to ask me any question he wished before he decided not to vote for me. It seems he would rather have the lawyer, Rob Moore speak for him in Parliament. I would not be surprised to learn that Bev Harrison was the same man I had spoken to months ago or that he had attended the debate in Hampton. I have no doubt that Mr Harrison knows exactly who I am and why I was in Fredericton that day. I am not a rebel just because I make inquiries and demand that people in public service uphold the law.
The problem is that on June 24th I was a candidate for the 38th Parliament. I was busy challenging those still in public service such as John Herron to do their jobs and uphold the law. I was merely in the legislative building looking for the Frenchman Charles Leblanc so he could witness me serve this material upon the lawyer, T J Burke next door. I had made certain that many politicians were made well aware of my concerns and allegations before coming home to run for a seat in the next Parliament. The local liberal, Leroy Armstrong was willing to debate me so I was giving this material to his liberal lawyer friends to review. Dan Bussieres offended me for political reasons not legal reasons. The Speaker of the House should not have allowed the Sergeant’s actions or at least responded to my inquiry. These must be irrefutable facts because after almost two months of asking everyone imaginable about the actions of the Sergeant-at-Arms, no one would even tell me his name let alone explain his actions, It appears that the Government of Canada would rather assist corrupt politicians within a country that had rebelled against the Queen than assist one of her subjects to escape their harassment.
I must return to the USA because I have been summoned to court to argue more false allegations made against me. Whereas my country is willing to throw me back into Ashcroft’s clutches, I must complain of the Crown. It seems the Yankees may have been right long ago when they refused to pay taxes without proper representation. Perhaps Canada should follow suit. We all know what has been said about the evils of longstanding governments. What say you sirs? Am I speaking sedition or common sense?
I have heard that Louis Riel once said that the French would take over Canada without firing a shot. Now many of the French wish to separate. Maybe true Canadians can reunite our country in the same fashion. There is no need of the cartridge box as long as we properly employ the soap box and ballot box. The tools of bloodless revolutions are the laws of the land. They are in the hands of people begging us for our vote every so often. Canada does not need to pay homage to a Queen who will not check the work of the people representing her and us. We need a new form of government. I agree with Louis Riel’s thinking when he proclaimed that the Metis were “loyal subjects of Her Majesty the Queen of England’. If we are rebels, we are rebels against the Company that sold us” Although he was labelled a rebel, Louis Riel was a Canadian patriot who did stop Western Canada from being absorbed by the USA. He was also elected to Parliament twice. He would abhor NFTA as much as I. The words in Riel’s diary are well worth heeding.
“O my God! Save me from the misfortune of getting involved with the United States. Let the United States protect us indirectly, spontaneously, through an act of Providence, but not through any commitment or agreement on our part.” Riel stated in his diary this as well: “God revealed to me that the government of the United States is going to become extraordinarily powerful.”
Cya’ll in Court:)
David R. Amos
153 Alvin Ave.
Milton. MA. 02186
However before they put me away anyone can have this letter and Bernie Richard's very dumb answer. I would not be surprised if this blog turns into a pumpkin by midnight EH Chucky? However if you leave it up I will post sometime a very wicked Cinderella Affadavit by Newfy Johnny Crosbie's law firm of Patterson Palmer that will explain why the liberal President in NB Greg Byrne has now gone solo.
August 24th, 2004
NDP Leader Elizabeth Weir
Constituency Office
39 King Square North
Saint John, NB E2L 1E6
Bernard Richard
Office of the Ombudsman
767 Brunswick Street
Fredericton, NB E3B 1H8
Re: Corruption
Sir and Madam,
Please find enclosed exactly the same material served upon New Brunswick’s Lieutenant-Governor, Hermenegilde Chiasson and many others today. The copy of wiretap tape numbered 139 is served upon you in confidence as officers of the court in order that it may be properly investigated.
There is no need to be long winded with you two people. I can prove contact with each of you and your associates many times. I know that you are expecting this material and why I am providing it to you for your review. Not only will I be mentioning your names today to the Police Commission but your names can be found in various places within my documents. I feel that you are entitled to review the material and I am entitled to expect you to act ethically and with integrity as would befit an officer of the court. What you will do with your newfound knowledge of crime? Please send your response to this letter to the address below. I can no longer linger in New Brunswick and wait for politicians to find the time to uphold the Public Trust.
Cya’ll in Court:)
David R, Amos
153 Alvin Ave.
Milton, MA. 02186
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I, David R. Amos, of 153 Alvin Ave. Milton, MA. on August 25th, 2004, I delivered the enclosed material to the Office of the Ombudsman, Bernard Richard at 767 Brunswick Street, Fredericton, NB E3B 1H8. Whereas the Provincial office building at 710 Queen St. is no longer assessable to the public, I will provide these documents to Elizabeth Weir’s Constituency Office at 39 King Square North Saint John, NB E2L 1E6 as soon as possible.
David R, Amos
Well? As I said earlier in the day.
No swearing or smears and everything should be ok.
I can delete this particular blog in seconds but we'll keep it here.
So far so good....
Try to be nice....
For ethical lawyers (if there is such athing) benefit here is something that will help explain the news today in a very funny light. McAllister answered me but Miller did not. Miller's (David Hache's too)law firm is merging with the rest of Patterson Palmer's outfit so it appears I have now crossed paths with the same bunch of bastards at least four times in various matters. Merging makes a firm more powerful but it also opens the door to the need to defend the bad actions of your many partners. Everybody knows you can't trust lawyer the that Patterson and palmer in Halifax went with Franky Boy McKenna's buddies i all to funny to me. The dudes in Turo are the only smart ones in the bunch. They said to hell with them all. Maybe I will give then a call. If you cannnot find an honest lawyer your might as well hire the wisest one EH? As i said Byron Priors complaint will prove to the Maritimes why. Look him up on the web or in front of Parliament next week.
August 24th, 2004
Gary A. Miller
371 Queen St. Suite 400,
Fredericton, NB E3B 4Y9
George A. McAllister
212 Queen St.
Fredericton, NB E3B 1A8
RE: Corruption
Sirs,
Please find enclosed exactly the same material served upon New Brunswick’s Lieutenant-Governor Hermenegilde Chiasson and many others. The copy of wiretap tape numbered 139 is served upon you in confidence as officers of the court in order that it may be properly investigated.
Months ago I contacted you, Mr. McAllister by phone and informed you that I wholeheartedly agreed with your standing that Insurance companies were making the consumers cover their losses in the stock market. Brad Green and Premier Lord played Ms. Weir and the Commission like a fiddle and were merely doing their part to assist the interests of the Insurance Companies at the expense of the public trust. Although you were happy to hear that your opinions had been read and understood, you definitely did not want my evidence supporting your claims. Pursuant to my last statement to you, Mr. McAllister I have now proved to you that I am a man of my word and I now expect you to obey the Code of Conduct that you must obey in order to practice law for a fee.
Mr. Miller, the same holds true for you. Within these documents you will find the name of a lawyer you know very well, David Lutz. I find this man to be a very poor example of an officer of the court and I don’t mind telling the world my opinion of him. Please read my letter to him and let me know as to whether or not you stand with him and against me. If anyone were to ask me, Mr. Lutz is a man in need of legal aid and has no right to charge others for his malicious assistance. Will you spring to his defence when I file a complaint against him? Whether you fellas like it or not I have now made you witnesses to my sad complaints before I returned to the USA.
If I survive the malicious prosecution that I am looking forward to in Boston next month, I will return to litigate in New Brunswick. There is no middle ground for any lawyer to stand on in this battle within two corrupt justice systems. All that I have demanded from any lawyer is simple ethical conduct. Why is that too much to ask for?
I have read your various spit and chews with Brad Green and I must admit I find them to be quite comical from my position as a layman in the catbird seat. Rest assured that I will endeavour to make my opinions widely known. Sue me if you wish. In fact I double dog dare ya to. Bring this material to court so that the jury can have something to read while we argue truth, justice and the Maritimes kowtowing to the American Way.
Cya’ll in Court:)
David R, Amos
153 Alvin Ave.
Milton, MA. 02186
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
TRIAL DIVISION
BETWEEN:
WILLIAM MATTHEWS PLAINTIFF
AND:
BYRON PRIOR DEFENDANT
AND BETWEEN:
BYRON PRIOR DEFENDANT/PLAINTIFF
BY COUNTERCLAIM
AND: WILLIAM MATTHEWS PLAINTIFF/FIRST DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM
AND: T. ALEX HICKMAN SECOND DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM
AND: THOMAS MARSHALL THIRD DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM
AND: DANNY WILLIAMS FOURTH DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM
AND: EDWARD M. ROBERTS FIFTH DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM
AND: JOHN CROSBIE SIXTH DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM
AND: PATTERSON PALMER SEVENTH DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM
SUMMARY OF CURRENT DOCUMENTCourt File Number(s):2005 01 T 0010Date of Filing of Document:25 January 2005Name of Filing Party or Person:Stephen J. MayApplication to which Document being filed relates:Amended Application of the Plaintiff/Defendant by Counterclaim to maintain an Order restricting publication, to strike portions of the Statement of Defence, strike the Counterclaim in it’s entirety, and to refer this proceeding to case management.Statement of purpose in filing:To maintain an Order restricting publication, to strike portions of the Statement of Defence, strike the Counterclaim in its entirety and refer this proceeding to case management.
A F F I D A V I T
I, Stephen J. May, of the City of St. John’s, in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Barrister and Solicitor, make oath and say as follows:
THAT I am a Partner in the St. John’s office of PATTERSON PALMER solicitors for William Matthews, the Member of Parliament for Random-Burin-St. George’s in the Parliament of Canada.
THAT Mr. Matthews originally retained Mr. Edward Roberts, Q.C. on or about 30 April 2002 after Mr. Byron Prior, the Defendant/Plaintiff by Counterclaim, had made allegations against Mr. Matthews in a publication called “My Inheritance - The truth - Not Fiction: A Town with a Secret”. In that publication, the allegation was made that Mr. Matthews had had sex with a girl who had been prostituted by her mother. That girl was alleged to have been Mr. Prior’s sister.
THAT upon being retained, Mr. Edward Roberts wrote a letter to Mr. Prior. That letter to Mr. Prior is attached as Exhibit “1" to my Affidavit.
THAT subsequent to Mr. Roberts’ letter to Mr. Prior, Mr. Roberts received a 1 May 2002 e-mail from Mr. Prior. That e-mail is attached as Exhibit “2".
THAT subsequent to Mr. Roberts receipt of the e-mail, Mr. Prior swore an Affidavit acknowledging that what had been said in that publication was false. That Affidavit is attached as Exhibit “3" to my Affidavit. Following Mr. Roberts’ receipt of that Affidavit, Mr. Matthews advised that he was satisfied not to pursue the matter any further and our firm closed our file.
THAT on or about 25 October 2004, I was retained by Mr. Matthews following his gaining knowledge that a web site, made a series of allegations against him relating to my having sex with a girl of approximately 12 years old through to an approximate age of 15 years old. It also accused him of being a father of one of her children and accused him of having raped that girl. Upon checking the web site I saw that Byron Prior, the Defendant, had been identified as the author of the material on the site.
THAT Mr. Matthews instructed me to write Mr. Prior, to remind him of the fact that the allegations had been admitted to being false through a 16 May 2002 Affidavit to advise him of Mr. Matthews’ intentions to commence legal proceedings if the comments were not removed from the web site. A copy of my letter to Mr. Prior is attached as Exhibit “4" to this Affidavit.
THAT I attach as Exhibit “5" a transcript from a 5 November 2004 voicemail left by David Amos, identified in the voicemail as a friend of Mr. Prior.
THAT I attach as Exhibit “6" a portion of a 6 November 2004 e-mail from Mr. Amos.
THAT until I received his voicemail and e-mail, I had never heard of Mr. Amos.
THAT Mr. Amos has continued to send me e-mail since his 5 November e-mail. Including his 6 November 2004 e-mail, I have received a total of 15 e-mails as of 23 January 2005. All do not address Mr. Matthews’ claim or my involvement as Mr. Matthews’ solicitor. I attach as Exhibit “7" a portion of a 12 January 2005 e-mail that Mr. Amos sent to me but originally came to my attention through Ms. Lois Skanes whose firm had received a copy. This e-mail followed the service of the Statement of Claim on 11 January 2005 on Mr. Prior. I also attach as Exhibit “8" a copy of a 19 January 2005 e-mail from Mr. Amos.
THAT I attach as Exhibit “9" a copy of a 22 November 2004 letter addressed to me from Edward Roberts, the Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador covering a 2 September 2004 letter from Mr. Amos addressed to John Crosbie, Edward Roberts, in his capacity as Lieutenant Governor, Danny Williams, in his capacity as Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, and Brian F. Furey, President of the Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador. I requested a copy of this letter from Government House after asking Mr. Roberts if he had received any correspondence from Mr. Amos during his previous representation of Mr. Matthews. He advised me that he received a letter since becoming Lieutenant Governor, portions of which involved his representation of Mr. Matthews. Mr. Roberts’ letter also covered his reply to Mr. Amos.
THAT I attach as Exhibit “10" an e-mail from Mr. Amos received on Sunday, 23 January 2005.
THAT I swear this Affidavit in support of the Application to strike Mr. Prior’s counterclaim.
SWORN to before me at
St. John’s, Province of Newfoundland
and Labrador this 24th day of
January, 2005.
Signed by Della Hart STEPHEN J. MAY Signature
STAMP
DELLA HART
A Commissioner for Oaths in and for
the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
My commission expires on December 31, 2009.
On behalf of Ms. McLellan I would like to thank you for your email message concerning the current federal election. I regret that the volume of messages prevented me from responding sooner.
Your message has been brought to Ms. McLellan`s attention, as she is always pleased to receive comments, both positive and negative.
Again, thank you for bringing this matter to Ms. McLellan`s attention.
Sincerely,
Kirsten Odynski
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
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
To: motomaniac
Subject: from Steve Erickson from Masschusetts
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:26:32 +0000
Mr. David Amos,
we talked about 2 years ago. My cell that we talked on is [Boston area code cellphone # snipped]
Much has happened good for me since then.
Are you in Canada, in Parliment, or are you still in the Boston area?
-Steve Erickson
Does this stuff answer your question Stevey Baby? I read what you said of me within your long winded Blogs. I told you the truth years ago and now I will tell you a little bit more. To me you are just another greedy sneaky Yankee now. But to be fair to you I must admit that we have our share of bull___ing bloggers and crooked politicians in the Maritimes as well One of them is a Frenchie named Charlie Leblanc and another named Bernie Lord. Please allow me to introduce them and some of their cohorts to you. Their emails are wittin and his Blog and yours is below. How dare you bastards imply that I am a one percenter in order to promote yourselves.
http://oldmaison.blogspot.com/2006/03/very-first-day-at-new-brunswick.html
This is obvious Bull__ supported by Charlie Leblanc for his old buddy the malevolent Sergreant at Arms Danny Boy Bussieres were talking two years ago. Now that he has lost his trusted staus he files a human rights compalint after he laughed at my false imprisonment in a Yankee jail?
Original article is at http://maritimes.indymedia.org/news/2004/06/7980.php Print comments.
IS ELVY ROBICHAID SEEING THE LIGHT????
by Charles LeBlanc Friday, Jun. 25, 2004 at 10:56 AM
Fredericton
updates from Charles
I got a few late stories that I want to bring up.
They had a protest at the Legislature on Wednesday
and I would say about 400 people showed up. I made my
own little investigation in the crowd and I soon found
out that many people from the Northern Part of the
Province knew about my protest.
These Acadians read about my protest in L’Acadie
Nouvelle! A few weeks earlier, I found out that the
English Population from the Miramichi area didn’t know
about my fight so this shows me that it’s so important
to have the media covering your issues.
During the protest, I felt like I was in a police
state. There were cops are over the place. I
approached three of them and said - My God? We need
violence, bricks going through windows, people being
shot and tear gas!!!
This is the only way that the Government will
listen.
One cop said - If I have to use my gun? I know
exactly where my first bullet is going to go!! Pretty
scary…lol….
Speaking of violence?
That guy from the Sackville area who went to
Toronto with his vehicle full of guns! Very scary
Stuff!!!
What did I tell you people in the past? Someone is
going to crack up one of these days and I know for a
fact the area targeted is going to be the Legislature.
There’s always undercovers cops around but only
when the House is in session.
As God as my witness I hope nothing happens but
it’s just a matter of time till someone is push over
the edge.
I guess a guy name David Amos was shown the door
yesterday at the Legislature. This guy is running as
an Independent candidate in the riding of Fundy Royal.
I met the guy over the net and he has a beef with our
political bureaucrats.
I admire people fighting for what they believe in
but you can’t get carried away. I guess in this case?
He wanted to speak from the Gallery and that’s a big
faux pas!
What did Lamrock, Burke, Murphy, McGuinley and you think of the copy of # 139? Scared the shit out of you EH? Whereas you little local liberal lawyers would not help me unseat Premier Lord and stop Stevey Boy Harper in h9s tracks i will through in the same lawsuits with him. It is hard to get good help these days. The word integrity does not fit in the job discription of a lawyer or a Parliamentian. EH?
The fact that Emerson just crossed the floor and the Dastardly Dave Dingwall story broke yesterday kinda sends your wicked little party down the tubes EH? From my point of view it looks good on you dudes. Say Hey to Franky Boy McKenna for me will ya? I hope to argue you all very soon in court.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
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 wiretap 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
David Amos wrote
To Whom it may concern
I know Petey Baby MacKay don't love me so there is no sense in wasting my dime calling him. Hell he has refused to answer my letters or call me back even after Belinda Baby dumped him, so I do not expect him to do the right thing as Minister of Foreign Affairs other than to accept nasty little Franky Boy McKenna's resignation ASAP. Tell me is Franky Boy entitled to severance pay like his fellow Malawyer ritime buddy Dingwall is? Whereas the liberals Wayne Easter and Landslide Annie refused to protect my dumb arse over the years in their capacity as Solicitor General/Minister of Public Safety. I guess I should be fair and allow it Mr. Day's to try to act ethically on my behalf for a day or so, before I sue the Crown. EH?
Rest assured that I ain't holding my breath waiting for Mr. Day to call me back. Like many of the rest of you Stockwell Day has known of my troubles ever since Harper was elected as his latest boss in 2004 when he sat in the 37th Parliament
In the meantime in answer to Andrew Kyrstal's very dumb question on the radio just now.,methinks I should inform the NHL dudes that are being prosecuted by corrupt Yankees how I can help them.I know Andrew Kystral and all the Rogers dudes never will. What the New Jersey Dudes are up to right now is merely a case of the big bad pot calling a minor little kettle black to me and Andrew Kyrtal knows it too. Just like the Lord Conrad Black versus FitzGerald matter in Chicago everybody is trying to play dumb and it was to funny that Peter C. Newman apologized after I sent his lawyers some of my stuff..
Tell me something honestly if any you can find it in your soul to do so. Do you really think that the Conservatives thought that I didn't notice that Mulroney's right hand man Dereck Burney set up your Cabinet or that Michael Fortier was not a partner in his law firm?
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
Call them and ask them or the FBI to sse if they wish to call me a liar. Better yet call the Yankee Senators Arlen Spevter or Russ Feingold. Nitey night Chucky. The clock clicked past midnight and the blog has not turned into a pumpkin yet. I am impressed with your your Newfound sense of integrity but quit the wise cracks and try to say something about this crap I have posted that really matters. Will ya? A polite argument in public in front of many witnesses would be nice.
May 11th, 2005
Ambassador: H.E. Mr. Allan Rock
One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
885 Second Avenue , 14th Floor
New York , NY 10017
Ambassador Franky McKenna
Canadian Embassy
501 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20001
Assistant Director Louis M. Reigel III
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
Special Agent David Price
FBI Minneapolis
Suite 1100
111 Washington Avenue, South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401-2176
RE: Rampant Public Corruption in Canada and the USA
Hey,
Now that Paul Martin has finally set the date for his confidence vote, methinks its time to pack my bags and head for home. I must raise some serious political hell in the Maritimes before the Commonwealth of Massachusetts does its worst to bankrupt my wife and put my kids on the street before I can expose the rampant public corruption. This is also a very good day to prove within the USA that we are well aware of each other and of my concerns and allegations in order to stress test the integrity of the US Mail. It and the Canada Post have failed me big time in recent years particularly just before the Yankees falsely imprisoned me last year for the benefit of George W. Bush, John Kerry and Paul Martin to name a few. I have no doubt whatsoever each of you dudes know more about me than I do about you. However that does not mean that I have not studied each of you a lot more than the ordinary layman. Just so we are clear, I have no respect for any of you. I know that all of you are as crooked as Chief Mearn, his cops and the lawyers who are coming into our home tomorrow without a warrant. This mail should prove your malice and willingness to support crime and public corruption.
Pursuant to my many emails, phone calls and faxes etc., you will find enclosed as promised exactly the same material I served upon the Solicitor Generals Teddy Olson and landslide Annie McLellan last year before I ran for Parliament last year. The CD of the copy of wiretap tape # 139 is served upon you as officers of the court and FBI Agents in order that it may be properly investigated. Franky got this stuff and more last year. The FBI got even more the year before. Perhaps they should go find the original tapes that the Suffolk County District Attorney and Special Agent in Charge Ken Kaiser have been playing dumb about for far too long. This material was good enough to impeach George W. Bush last year and cause many people to quit or lose their jobs. It is every bit as valuable today and you all know it. Ask the many people whose names can be found within these documents or Franky Boy or Claude Richer, Allan Rock’s lawyer buddy in the RCMP about this stuff before you call me a liar. As you all know I am out of jail on bail pending my upcoming criminal trial in front of a jury of my peers. I have the right to remain silent in the USA. I will employ different rights in Canada and say a lot.
What I choose to say while stumping for a seat in Parliament in Canada is of my concern not yours. If you dudes do your jobs here and I act ethically and legally up home with luck the world will be far better off in short order. I have already checked the rules with the people working for Elections Canada. We agree it is perfectly legal for an innocent man to run for Parliament while being prosecuted with false charges in the wrong jurisdiction and venue in the USA. Everybody knows I can secure my personal freedom quicker in a political forum in Canada rather than argue crooked judges in the USA. They have already imprisoned me on bull**** charges without even reading me my rights or telling me why I was in jail. The crooks are not going to have a sudden fit of ethical behavior now without it becoming a matter of political will. We all know it is high time for a change, the sooner the better for the Maritimes as well as the rest of the world. What better politician to argue with than a right wing lawyer named Rob Moore?
As you all no doubt know I have been talking to many people within the UN and have sent many much of my stuff. You all must have laughed as hard as I did when the Cubans were afraid to talk about my stuff. I must agree with George Bush about one thing. The UN is certainly in need of an overhaul. Yet we all know that nasty dudes like Maurice Strong’s buddy, Paul A. Volcker, the Former North American Chairman of the Trilateral Commission and Karl Rove’s puppet, John Bolton are just going to make matters worse. The same holds true with the turncoat Robert C. Pozen. He now offers advice to Bush on how to fix Social Security simply because I sent him running for cover with my Putnam Investment concerns and the malevolent media control of Global Corporations. Feel free to argue me or act ethically. You choose. I don’t care. Franky Boy knows he is way past too late. I am just rubbing his nose it before I talk a lot about him and his failure to uphold the public trust in our old stomping grounds up home. I can’t help but wonder how he explained his “Harper is a lapdog for Bush” dogma to Karl Rove and his nasty cohorts. I suspect it was an allowed comment from an insider of the Carlyle Group. Don’t you? We all know Stephen Harper would never fit in that group. He is as dumb as a post. All of his successes playing at politicking have just been a matter of luck and playing on the PC and Liberal scandals. Harper is kinda scary to me. He has a truly awful agenda in store for all Canadians like evil old T. Alex Hickman and Johnny Crosbie did for our Newfys.
Sometimes less is more. So in conclusion I will just quote former Inspector General of the DHS Clark Kent Irwin and simply say it would have benefited all if he had taken his own advice way back in November of 2003 when he had an important job.
POGO: “Any advice for your fellow public servants?”
Irwin: “Well, just do your job and let the political chips fall where they may. Unless you’re willing to do that, it seems to me you shouldn’t take the job in the first place.” What say you?
Cya’ll in Court:)
David R. Amos
153 Alvin Ave.
Milton MA. 02186
They got their mail now. Check for yourself
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And why didn't you complete the task?
Chucky really needs you.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
Hey Bernard
Thanks for your response though. I didn't believe you on the phone the instant that you tried to make an issue about not receiving the email to Wayne Steeves. I figured that you were covering for Brad Green because that would mean that you knew the CISNB was involved. I laughed when you repeated it in the email. Do you think me dumb?The Fredericton PD guard the legislature correct? Ask Sgt. Kelly or Chief Carlisle if they had jurisdiction over me when they threw me out. The Crown always has jurisdiction over a Canadian citizen particularly when he is on native soil. I figured out it was Dan that threw mw out. He should have taken the stuff in the yard just as soon as he affirmed that he and the cops had jurisdiction over me as he ordered me away from the legislative building. They did watch me go into 710 Queen St to serve TJ Burke and come out without the stuff. They know I did it. Over Two hundred people watched me serve Leroy.Armstrong once he stuck his nose in my affairs. Anne McLellan and Brad Green both suggested that I give this stuff to cops that claim jurisdiction. Go argue Bruce Noble. .I don't need any luck Uncle Franky has been dead for two months even though no one has notified my wife I know it. Watch me turn the worm on the Secret Service, the FBI and the RCMP
There is no way you could have known about Connie Fogal without getting Wayne Steeves' email as well. He should have sent the CISNB out to do their job by now. Obviously that is not the case. Maybe Elizabeth Weir will have more luck making you understand. As for me I simply don't trust you. I will be calling you to court. We can argue about integrity and jurisdiction there. In the mean time perhaps you should go find Leroy Armstrong or T J Burke or Brad Green or Premier Lord or Bruce Noble and ask to see the documents and the copy of the wiretape tape I sent them before I compel you to argue about them with me. There is another fella running around Fredericton with the same stuff. His name is Vaughn Barnett. If the politicians won't talk to you, maybe he will. his number is 457-4559 But he is likely out in the front yard protesting something. I don't trust him either because he and Charles Leblanc are buddies and I know he is a liar.
Cya'll in Court
David R. Amos
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
Dave
Only difference is that David rights a little better English when Chucky sucks.
and #2 why didn't you complete the task?
Dave
> LEBLANC????
> by Charles LeBlanc Saturday, Jun. 12, 2004 at 11:26
> AM
> oldmaison@yahoo.com Fredericton
> Thursday morning, I showed up at the Legislature to
> use the computer at the Library.
> I was told by security that two rough looking
> individuals walked through the doors and asked for a
> Charles Leblanc?
> They described the guys as rough looking and one of
> them had a long gray beard with a leather jacket!
> At first, I believe it was the Hell Angels coming
> down from Montreal for a hit on Charles.
> Hours later, I seen my bigot buddy Matthew Glenn and
> he was in front of the Legislature with his
> blowhorn.
> For you people who don’t know the bigot? He’s the
> one who started the Anglo Society. I seen him
> preaching to three young kids and of course I butt
> in and said - Hey Bigot??? Why don’t you bigot go
> home?
> Minutes later, we were approached by two guys and
> they asked politely –Where can we locate a Charles
> LeBlanc???
> In a matter of seconds, the bigot quickly pointed at
> me.
> I said to myself - Ohhh?? Thanks a lot Bigot!!!
> At the end? It was a guy named David Amos and I
> guess that he’s running at an independent in the
> riding of Fundy Royal. The guy have been living in
> the area of Boston and he's been following my
> updates on the internet. I'm telling you that the
> information highway is a great way to spread the
> message to the rest of the world!
> We talked for around 30 minutes and it was nice to
> see the bigot, me and David Amos together debating
> our own little concern issue. We all have our own
> issues and it’s too bad that we cannot unite and
> fight but that’s the way Canadians do things.
> They remind silent until the Government really
> pissed them all and go out and vote the party in
> power out of office
Subject: Re: This is David Amos
To: moto maniac
I don't know what you're talking about but I gace your
info to Vaughn...Maybe he can explain to me what your
papers are all about...lol
--- moto maniac wrote:
> Hey Charles
> I just found out a simple truth about you. You
> are a liar. Not only did you not give my stuff to
> Brad Green as you promised. You did not give it to
> the man from Minto that you enjoy calling a bigot. I
> just had a little talk with him and he affrimed what
> I had suspected about you and denied receiving the
> documents etc. from you as you claimed.
> Perhaps you should get honest and give the
> stuff to Vaughn Barnett. (I just called him 506
> 457-4559 and left him a message to assure him that I
> am sincere and this is not spam I have not been to
> Fredericton lately but I plan to come soon if you
> don't give him the documents and CD I will) I am
> certain he will understand them and know what to do
> with them. Rest assured that I will tell him you
> have them. (In fact I just did didn't I) You can
> explain your own actions to your friends. I
> understand you well enough already.
> I always suspected that you were all about
> Charles LeBlanc and in the self promotion game. But
> I thought you may at least be ethical. Turns out you
> are just a liar and a chickenshit like all the rest.
> By the way I did figure out who threw me out of the
> legislature it was a french fella by the name of
> Dan. I have no idea why he would claim that his name
> was Jean Claude but it does explain to me why he did
> not show me his ID. I ain't no Hells Angel as you
> and the fellas in the legislature like to claim that
> I am. However I am a plenty pissed off boy from
> Dorchester who just had another French asshole show
> me his ass. Ask me why I am not surprised? Don't you
> think I asked around about you? Never forget you
> were raised just up the road from me. I told you
> that out of the gate when I first called you from
> Boston. Remember? That should have been a little
> clue to you. You should have done the same before
> slandering me and adding to the offense by proving
> to me that you are a liar. I
> gave you the benefit of my doubt but you proved for
> me once more first impressions are seldom wrong. I
> have now thrown you in the same boat with your
> frienf the Sergeant at Arms(Even that has acquired a
> french spelling for an English Queen) I don't hate
> french folks but I do find french bullshit very
> contemptable. I have many Cajun friends that share
> the same opinion about french Canadians. In fact I
> was the first Canadian that a lot of them ever met
> that they actually saw eye to eye with. We quickly
> put the english/french stuff in the proper corner
> and went on with our pursuit of happiness We just
> laughed at your snotty attitudes about culture.
> everybody knows it ain't about that at all. It is
> about money and power as usual. Wave all the flags
> you want, you can't fool me. I am too stupid. What
> you and all my other fellow maritmers seem to be
> overlooking is that while we can't see the forest
> for the trees because of our petty squabbles, the
> evil Global dudes have been raping our
> forest primeval. They playing us like a fiddle
> while you dance their jig out of your own self
> interest. Do you want a job in the media or do you
> wish to be like Michael Moore and become famous
> byway of notoriety? Do you really think anyone in
> the media owned by the rich and powerful takes you
> seriously? Can anyone take you seriously once they
> find you to be a liar? At least I do what I say and
> say what I mean. What say you now Chucky Baby?
> Better yet wait until I turn up and say it to me in
> front of your friends. Premier Lord know I love to
> argue with Frenchmen we can talk about it on his
> front lawn. You buddy Dan and the CISNB can listen
> in.
> The following are your words about me. I find
> that you are so full of yourself it is ridculous
> particularly in light of the fact that I consider
> you to be full of shit. Watch how easily I prove
> that fact about you the next time I am in
> Fredericton. Which maybe sooner that you think. Rest
> arrured I will be telling your friends what I think
> of you. Feel free to argue with me. It should prove
> interesting to see who they believe.
> David R.
> Amos
> 506
> 434-1379
Yes, Charles gave me the material - although I must admit that I was not able to make much sense of it. Because of that, and because it appears to be out of my area of expertise, I doubt that I can help you very much. Also, unfortunately, your clash with Charles, and your low opinion of him (which I feel is unwarranted) has created a conflict of interests, as Charles is a friend of mine and a fellow activist. Since I doubt I can assist you much anyway, perhaps that doesn't matter. In any event, good luck with your cause.
Vaughn
Anyway? I tried to read those papers and I can honestly say that I don't uderstand what your battle is all about?
I never told you that I would give those papers to any MLA's. Why the hell do I want to be involded in your issues anyway.
I got enough on my own plate.
Ok...you got a little blog because a good supporter of this blog asked me to let you post your views.
Don't blow it!!!!
Is you wish to smear and used bad words? I'll delete the whole blog.
Try to be nice. Not too many websites allowso you to post your views so be nice in here.....
Watch the language....is not??? Well? Why don't you start a new blog????
Is easy to do.....
I really don't understand your point of view.
All the activists are trying to bring important issues to the public and you wish to condenm the same people.
Why burn all those bridges?
Oh well c'est la vie.....
As for guts not only is my belly bigger than you my balls are as big as basketballs compared to yours. I ain't afraid of Count Peter Hans Klovenbach so why would I be afraid of you? You and your wannbe lawyer friend know full well I have been trying to impeach George W. Bush byway of the courts since 2002. Long before that nonsense in Iraq began. You hate me because if you had even glanced at the papers you just confessed you read then you know I sued Cardinal Law and caused him to quit his job on Dec 13th, 2002. It had nothing to do with child abuse like the media claims. It was merely filthy lucre that is all. Well my wife's cousin the exbanker turned priest Robert T. Kickham is still around around and cooking the books for the brand new Cardinal in Beantown. You know the dude in named O'Malley.
Furthmore Chucky you offer no argument to anything I state other than lie about not promising to serve Brad Green or falsely claiming that the computer I gave you was no good? The best you can is make jokes or critize my choice of words whilst I point out your serious lack of integrity?
In my law books it is not illegal to have poor manners or use the words I have employed thus far(as of yet anyway) I believe it falls under something that can be found in the Charter
However to slander someone and tell ouright lies about them for one's own gain is more than offensive. I have been falsely imprisoned because of the perjury of people like you who choose to support public corruption for their own gain. Methinks I should seek relief in court in fredericton particularly when I can prove it. Furthermore you know you have told several lies within the very blog.
I will wager if I posted something that you can never refute this blog will evporate immediately. Perhaps I should seal its fate and let your friends wonder why you erased me so quickly after I busted you in front of everybody. Never fear though I saved this blog in its entirety already. However you really should check you email and press print on the tif file that I just sent you and yoy hard copy of the proof that I keep wonderful records. Some of your buddies and adversaries may be reading it already. At the end of the day you may realize that I just may turn out to be the honest man that you ever met.
Que Sera Sera and
Cya'll in Court
David Raymond Amos
Everybody loves a mystery. A lot of folks were no doubt wondering why the big talking old fart named Petey Newman apologized to Lord Conrad Black not long after he and Mikey Levine laughed off his lawsuit at the big party in Toronto. Didn't it seem strange to anyone that the Tory's law firm wrote the crooked old Lord a fat cheque as well? It seems that the Torys, a dude named Mr. Moate, Levine, Greenspan, Newman and I may be the only ones to know the true reason why and I am the only one who will tell the tale. Here is your clue see if you can figure it out. I know of two Maritimers who will never have a hope in hell of figuring it out because they do not have two clues between them and if the did they would not know what to do with them. One dude everybody calls Tanker and the other I call Frenchie. They know who they are do you
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
From: David Amos
To: Eddy Greenspan
Subject: Sue me Eddy Baby I double Dog Dare Ya I telling Lord Black on you
Say hey to your buddies the old fart Peter C. Newman and and the corrupt Yankee FitzGerald for me will ya?
"Edward L. Greenspan, Q.C." wrote:
Subject: RE: Since Susan Prosnitz and her boss Fynn would not answer Hard Copy
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:10:13 -0500
From: "Edward L. Greenspan, Q.C." To: "David Amos"
Please delete my name from your emails
Greenspan, White
144 King Street East
Toronto, Ontario M5C 1G8
Tel: 416-366-3961
Fax: 416-366-7994
"Cleveland J. Allaby" wrote:
Please do not email, write, copy or send anything to me in the future.
Cya'll in Court . Thanks for finally responding to me. Your timing is perfect. One hour before or so before the 39th Parliament begins and just in time before I polish off my first complaint to file in Federal court in Fredericton. Was it done so quickly after I blogged my letter to you in Chucky LeBlanc's web page? Did the gossip about my blogging in his website reach you first thing this morning? In my book you are as dumb as the Frenchie is. Wise or dumb I will call you as a witness to testify in Federal Court before I get around to suing you. Perhaps your lawyer and I should talk now. Hostile or not you will make an important witness not only on because of your lawsuits concernining Native Aboriginal matters (Remember Barry Bachrach represents me in the USA right now) but more importantly because Bernie Lord paid you a lot of money years ago to study the Justice Dept. (Wasn't it 112,000 grand or so?)
Obviously Cleveland you are no wiser than Eddy Greenspan. Clearly you think your status as a well known lawyer allows you not only to ignore and not uphold the law but break it if you wish. Should you have contacted the RCMP as soon as you listened the the CD I provided you with. Guess what I told them you got it already. My next calls are to the General Counsel of the SIRC and the old lawyer who represent the following folks. He has played dumb with me for way past to long.
THE CANADIAN CIVIL LIBERTIES ASSOCIATION
A. ALAN BOROVOY, GENERAL COUNSEL
Suite 200, 394 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1X4
phone: 416-363-0321
fax: 416-861-1291
Cleveland did you really think your email will scare me off? Look how fast I bounced it back and forwarded it to many others. When a man has been diligently attempting to impeach George W. Bush for over three years despite the attacks from crooked Feds etc nothing scares him anymore. A threat of litigation coming from the email box of a lawyer into mine is like manna from heaven to me. Didn't I slam Eddy Greenspan the same way? Man you are dumb if you though that I would not do the same thing with you. You just proved for me that every body else got my email and hard copy too. you asgin the same question I asked you on February 23rd. Whois your god damned lawyer maybe I know him already. If not tell him he has a fool for a client. Will ya?
Tell me honestly, Cleveland if you can find it in your your soul to do so. Why Didn't you sue Bernie Lord as you threatened to do particularly after you and I talked the day before I gave my material to your buddy Tom Young and the New Brunswick Securities Commission? I heard of no apology from him and I laughed when I saw Tanker being trundled down to the Speakers chair arm in arm with two crooks. I figured another backroom deal went down and Tanker needed a smarter lawyer because I had heard nothing from you and I made certain that you knew the score with Hard Copy of my material before that shit went down. Something definitely smells rotten in New Brunswick EH?
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
The question still remains who is the April Fool and will Chucky evict me for Blogging?
chucky leblanc wrote:
You can add this note to all the millions of other
notes but I feel that I have to send ya this note.
We allowed you to have your own little blog. I believe
it's a good way for you to spread your message.
I'm still trying to figure out exactly what the
message is???...lol
Anyway, there's no need to condenm the people who are
activists like Vaugh.
I believe it attracts new visitors that search the
names you mention.
But once that blog is delete? It's too fini.
I too had problems at the Legislature and it's in
front of the Human Rights Commission.
It takes time.....
All I'm asking is that you try to be nice and don't
condenm people like Vaugh who an activist also.
Just try to be nice.....
Lets try to spread our message in a nice way!
What do you think???
We know you ran for office. We know that you try to impeach Bush (and anybody who does that certainly gets good marks from me!) We know that for some reason they held you in jail? Is that correct?
I'm assuming its under the new terrorism laws, since you say they wouldn't let you see evidence. That also is not surprising the way the US is functioning.
But what are all the lawsuits about? There is something about wiretap evidence that for some reason you are sending to canadian politicians and lawyers..why is that?
What exactly are all these law firms doing? If they are crooked, then specifically what evidence do you have? That lawyers are crooks also doesn't surprise most people, I"m mostly surprised we continue to elect so many of them.
But if you could explain point by point what the grievances are against these people, then people may understand. Perhaps you don't care and just want to let off steam, that's fine too, that's what blogs are for. However, many people would like to know what you are suing these people for?
My first lawsuit will be to seek relief for the offense against my rights under the Charter because I was falsely imprisoned without being charged, held without bail and it was all done without even being read my rights. Then I was denied my right to a trial after met the Canadian Consulate in jailand came screaming out. I had tried to remove the matter to the proper jurisdiction and venue in order to prove the malicious prosecution to no avail. the bastarsds in the USA will never give a jury of my peers and Federal Court in Canada does not employ a jury. Thus I must make my issues well known locally before I file so that the Judges will not dismiss my complaints so easily as they have done in the past. Give me a call if you are not Vaughn and I will meet you show you the evidence.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
P.S. My next posting is quite a rant. I explain things in greater detail to say the least but my manners are slipping fast. It will be the maximum stress test of Chucky's newfound sense of ethics.
Why go on a lengthy rant to 'test' Charles? Take a break if your manners are slipping. Having your messages deleted on the last place your story can be told hardly seems helpful.
"Then I was denied my right to a trial after met the Canadian Consulate in jailand came screaming out"
That makes no sense whatsoever. People don't need long rants, they need clarity. You are suing the canadian government because they refused to help you while in US custody, is that correct?
EH Vaughn?
The trouble is, I don't know of any legal grounds that 'forces' the canadian government to intervene in a foreign country's legal system. If somebody plants coke on you in columbia and you get caught, then plead with canada to help you out, you'll be out of luck.
Under the charter canadians have fewer rights than americans. Our 'terror laws' are the mirror image of the US's, but never even had moranda rights or anything ike that. In Canada, you are simply f&&&&& if you cross the state, as any native, environmentalist, protestor, or civil rights attorney will tell you.
I don't know of a single case where somebody successfully sued, even David Milgaard was given a settlement since it was dragging out so long. Natives have tried suing for years.
However, it's easy to talk from the outside. But if Ernst Zundel couldn't sue for being held for almost a decade with no charges against him in Canada, I don't see how far a lawsuit against Canada for not intervening in a foreign country will go.
It is half past quitting time and all the corrupt politicians are out getting drunk or laid or both. Tis time for bloggers to come out and play maybe with luck what the smiling bastards read in the morning will give a few of them a stroke and Lord can call some more snap by elections EH?
"Welcome to New Brunswick?" Jeez I was born and raised here i have lived here for over forty years of my life. I am older than Chucky and lived just down the road from where he was brought up in Dorchester NB. I went to High School and UNB in Fredericton when most of the snots that are screwing us did. Why do you think I am so pissed off? You don't think I know the score. If someone claims that I am a Yankee again I think I may hunt them down. If because a man lives somewhere else for awhile makes him a man of that place then how come a Newfy is always a Newfy everywhere he goes.
Here is a God's moment for Chucky:
Wht did God tell the Newfys?
Play dumb til I get back Will ya?
that joke seems to hold true here to. since I left the room nothing further was said. How come. cat got you tongue chucky or could it be the emails I sent ya?
Love and Kisses
Dave
If you speak of the devil he is sure to appear particularly when you jerk his chain and piss him off.
Dave again
Love and Kisses
Dave
(hows that for nice Chucky?)
Hmm maybe I will ask Vaughn under oath in court someday why he has formed that opinion of my pending lawsuit. Clearly he knows more of my matters than what I or Chucky have given him. I am still human don't you know. Fredericton does not have the only courts in this old World. I except them crooked judges here to try hard to dismiss my matters. Why to you think I am raising hell first. If anyone should understand what I am up to it is an actvist.
Love and Kisses
Dave
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Dave
Love and Kisses
Dave
http://maxpages.com/sexualabuse
I was bored waiting and check to see if it clicked over a big milestone for him.
80 grand was how many viewers he had when the MP Billy Matthews intmadted him into taking it down.
Chucky is appraoching that number for the first time. this is Byron second kick at the can of worms of injustice.
Love and Kisses
Dave
Hell I was even being kinda sorta nice:)
Love and Kisses
Dave
Love and Kisses
Dave
Cya'll in court or in Hell.
C'est la meme chose n'est pas?
Bon nuit ma petite chou chous.
(Aren't I nice)
Veritias Vincit
(check the Keiths beer bottle)
David Raymond Amos
I know there are constructive uses for anger, Charles has accomplished quite a bit with his. I'd hate to see ANYBODY spend all that time and energy in a fruitless cause such as trying to sue the government. The mention of being an 'activist' was heartening. Charles has been an activist and he and Tim Smith have almost single handedly got the rights of tenants on the map, and soon an injustice there 'may' be rectified, one that is a hundred years overdue.
Yet he and Tim accomplished it in less than two months, albeit with the help of a byelection.
Being imprisoned in the states is no crime in my book, their entire federal system is an illegal entity. Manlin Chee has been a public defender for over twenty years, won many awards, and now sits in jail because she sat on a panel that argued against the patriot act. While Canada isn't MUCH better, it is SOME better.
But like I said, the courts will give no recourse, as the courts have clearly stated that Canada's own terrorist act does not infringe on civil liberties. Anybody who thinks highly of civil liberties in Canada just needs to remember Oka, or Quebec, where thousands of french were rounded up without charge just so Trudeau could pretend to be macho.
There are lots of organizations that are attacking these things, and personally I think its a shame that those who have virtually identical claims against the government can't seem to get along. If there were a dozen Charles Leblanc's in the province we could literally turn the province upside down. YOu seem to have the passion, but maybe a little too much, as often you are incomprehensible. That's unfortunate because those who are victims of the aggression of the state are those whose stories most deserve to be heard.
Just a recommendation, but when you mentioned all those lawyers then you definitely got my interest. These guys work in a shroud of secrecy and somebody with the guts to air their dirty laundry would definitely accomplish more good with political activism than with lawsuits. Courts were designed to put undesirables in jail, not mete out justice. Hell, New Brunswick doesn't even allow class action lawsuits!
I don't always agree with Charles, and often his views and how he states them make me cringe, but I'm glad that he does what he does, and NB is a province that NEEDS more 'activism'. I'd just suggest doing it in a way that's guaranteed to get the most results. But that's just my opinion-not Vaughns.
Some activist you are with only half a mind to say something like this to me. Go to jail sometime in Yankee Doodleland and then come back home and tell me that crap again.
"Being imprisoned in the states is no crime in my book,"
After you figure out the nonsense that you just wrote in support of a liar. Why not get an email account and a telephone too and learn how to use them BEFORE you attack a man who understands more about what you are yapping about than you could ever dream. I have no doubt that you are clever and you may be well on your way to being just another lawyer but you cannot learn to be ethical in any law school. You must be born with the genes. It seems that you and Chucky are a couple bricks shy of that load.
On the other hand in reading some of your words about what Chucky has done I think you may be the political science student at the homeless shelter that the lady that was on Tom Young's show spoke of when I called her afterwards. Either way I don't care. i don't want to know you.
Ask you buddy Chucky sometime to share his emails from me with you if you are truly are not his buddy Vaughn. Better yet go on a mission with your mouse and go through Chuckys many blogs and figure out who he is for yourself. Then ask Vaughn if you can view the hard copy of the material he admited having BEFORE I was falsely imprisoned in 2004. Activists have a lot to learn about listening to folks before there is trouble. It seems they allow things to happen just so they can protest about it later. I was challenging the FBI etc and arguing crooked US Attorneys about other matters in Federal Court in Boston months before that nonsense in Iraq began. whereas you seem to have a love of lucre Vaughn should tell ya that in two matters I was awarded judgements by default for 32 million bucks and I laughed and told them to shove it up their arse because the judgement came from the wrong court. It is all about jurisdiction venue and justice. I cannot demand integrity of others without proving my own first. When the crooked lawyers filed motions to remove the defaults and file their answers late I did not oppose them. It so shocked the hell out of the Yankee bastards they were not long sending the Secret Service to try to take a man away who would rather argue the awful truth than take a pay off.
In my book false imprisonment is definite illegal and when I look at your writing and Chuckys I cannot forget what I was taught. There are NO degrees of honesty either you are or your are NOT. Go kiss Chucky good night. Will ya? I have had enough of both of you oh ye who may be Vaughn. I so not feel sorry that I do not believe you.(Damned for a little Damned for at lot)
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
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