Year-end polls point to trouble for Trudeau

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Methinks the LIEbrano Propaganda Machine was kinda confused as to how to put a positive spin on the New Year for Trudeau The Younger N'esy Pas?


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Year-end polls point to trouble for Trudeau — but no clear signs of collapse yet

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Stephen MacMurrough

Justin Trudeau has forsaken our economy, Canadian sovereignty and cultural spirit in favour of far left ideologies, globalism and peer recognition.

The Prime Minister's Office is no place for a tragicomedy. Please, Canada, Make Trudeau A Drama teacher Again.

M.T.A.D.A.

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Matt Thuaii

@Stephen MacMurrough

On no! Trudeau has forsaken us! He will destroy us all! Doom! Terrible doom!

Run to the hills!

David R. Amos

@Matt Thuaii Methinks many a true word is said in jest N'esy Pas?

  

 
Buford Wilson

I’m seeing explosive growth in support for Andrew right across the country.

Our country won’t survive a second Justin term. The most divisive government in Canadian history.

Jacqueline Beava

@Buford Wilson Scheer is about as appealing as cold porridge. He criticizes the Liberals with no alternative to offer. He's yet to tell us how he will lead or state his legislative plan. He is allowing his former rebel media campaign manager to shape his image using the Trump formula. Scheer needs to step it up because a shell game won't win in Canada. And Mulroney is the most divisive PM with his Meech Lake Accord.

David R. Amos

@Buford Wilson "I’m seeing explosive growth in support for Andrew right across the country."

Dream on

David R. Amos

@Jacqueline Beava "Scheer is about as appealing as cold porridge"

Methinks many folks may prefer to partake of cold porridge and blue kool aid on polling day N'esy Pas?

Year-end polls point to trouble for Trudeau — but no clear signs of collapse yet

A series of whiplash-inducing polls is muddying the waters ahead of an election year

Éric Grenier· CBC News· Posted: Dec 21, 2018 4:00 AM ET 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's support has trended down over the course of 2018. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)

A wise man (OK, it might have been Homer Simpson) once said that "people can come up with statistics to prove anything ... forty per cent of all people know that."

Two duelling poll-backed narratives have taken hold in the Canadian political commentary in recent weeks as the country heads into an election year.

The first narrative runs something like this:

The shine has come off Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the 2019 federal election approaches, but his Liberals remain the favourites to win re-election. The margin between the Liberals and Conservatives is relatively narrow — perhaps two to five percentage points — but his party holds leads where it counts in the battle for seats, particularly in Quebec. Boosting Trudeau's chances is the fact that he retains a wide, double-digit advantage over Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer on who Canadians prefer as their prime minister. That personal edge could prove decisive.

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  The Pollcast: The year that was and the one to come

• Poll Tracker: Liberals retain narrow lead over Conservatives

The second narrative looks a little like this:

Trudeau's popularity is collapsing at the least opportune moment for his party, with just 10 months to go before the next federal election. His approval ratings are plummeting and Scheer has surpassed the beleaguered prime minister as the man more Canadians want to see leading the country. The Conservatives are ahead on the question of which party people think would do a better job of governing Canada — including in Quebec — and Scheer is seen as the better person to handle a myriad of issues that could turn out to be next year's ballot box question.

The numbers exist to back up both of these narratives.

Canadians might be forgiven if the polls have confused them over the last few weeks. Forum Research put out a survey showing the Conservatives ahead by nine points. Nanos Research, which reports the results of its four-week rolling surveys weekly, showed significant shifts, with a six-point Liberal lead turning into a one-point Conservative edge and then back into a two-point Liberal advantage.

Campaign Research put the Tories up by two and then Ipsos/Global News put the Liberals ahead by five. The Angus Reid Institute (ARI) did not release voting intention numbers, but put Scheer ahead of Trudeau on Canadians' choice for prime minister by six points, a day after Nanos gave Trudeau the edge by 11 and two days after Campaign put the margin at 10 for Trudeau.

Somehow, all these polls are supposed to be talking about the same country.

Reasons behind differences unclear

The reason for the discrepancies between the polls is hard to figure. Some are easier to dismiss: Forum has had a systemic bias in its polling that has favoured the Conservatives throughout 2018, giving the party a lead of an average of 10 points during the year when all other major pollsters were suggesting an environment that is about 10 to 15 points better for the Liberals.

But the others are more puzzling. Mode of contact is unlikely to be the reason.

Nanos does its polling the old fashioned way, reaching people over the telephone (both land lines and mobile) with live interviewers and achieving a response rate of about nine per cent — about as good as it gets in polling these days, and four to fives times better than the response rate for a standard automated interactive voice response survey like Forum's.

The ARI samples from its online panel — a significant methodological difference — but so does Ipsos and Campaign.

The discrepancies are likely due to the degree to which these panels are representative, how the questions are structured and how the responses are weighted. But it's not clear how these factors are contributing to the spread in the results.

So where do things really stand?

Liberals likely leading more competitive race

The consensus of the polls, taking into account the longer-term trends over the last 12 months, certainly point to a more competitive race between the Liberals and the Conservatives than we saw in 2015, when the Liberals won the popular vote by just under eight points and secured a sizeable majority government.

Considering the normal sampling error, an actual lead of about three points for the Liberals should naturally produce polls showing the variety of results that have been published this week by Nanos, Ipsos and Campaign. While the situation isn't exactly comfortable for the Liberals, the national numbers mask what is a reasonably good electoral map for the party at the regional level.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has seen his personal numbers improve over the year. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)

More polls suggest Trudeau retains a personal lead over Scheer — the prime minister benefits from his incumbency and name recognition advantage. In October, Ipsos found that just 54 per cent of Canadians could name the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (eight per cent said it was Doug Ford).

The trend lines, however, should worry Trudeau. They might wobble up and down from month to month (Ipsos shows an improvement for the Liberals since October, Nanos shows the opposite) but the landscape has gotten worse for the the prime minister over the course of 2018.

Trudeau, Liberals trending down

Since this time last year, Nanos and Campaign have recorded a drop of five points in Liberal support. Ipsos shows the Liberals steady, but their lead over the Conservatives decreased by two points. Nanos and Campaign also show the Conservatives in a better position, up four and five points, respectively, since November and December 2017.

Trudeau's score on the question of who Canadians want as prime minister has dropped three points according to Campaign and ARI, and nine points according to Nanos, while Scheer's score has improved by between four and 12 points.

That's an average swing of seven points between the Liberals and Conservatives and 13 points between Trudeau and Scheer in the last year.

Pollsters agree that NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has not made progress in public opinion in 2018. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)

All four pollsters agree that the New Democrats under Jagmeet Singh have also lost ground, down one to three points in voting intentions. Just five to six per cent of Canadians pick Singh as the best person to be prime minister.

That's probably good news for the Liberals, as the party has a better chance of winning elections when the NDP is struggling.

• Analysis
  The NDP is in trouble — and that's bad news for the Conservatives

Much can change (and almost certainly will) between now and Oct. 21, when Canadians cast their ballots for real. At this point, there are some warning signs for the Liberals in these polls, hinting at potential trouble ahead over the next 10 months.

But are they in as much trouble as some of the year-end narratives suggest? Probably not. Nevertheless, that's probably not the silver lining the prime minister was wishing for this Christmas.

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Politics and polls

Éric Grenier is a senior writer and the CBC's polls analyst. He was the founder of ThreeHundredEight.com and has written for The Globe and Mail, Huffington Post Canada, The Hill Times, Le Devoir, and L’actualité.

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NB Power CEO's salary tops provincial government list

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David R. Amos

Methinks more than 2,200 provincial employees should be Happy Happy Happy this Yuletide Season much to the chagrin of many a minimum wage taxpayer N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos

Methinks they forgot the Vestcor boss John Sinclair and his underlings N'esy Pas?

https://www.telegraphjournal.com/telegraph-journal/story/100655131/vestcor-new-brunswick-public-servants-john-sinclair-investments-pensions

N.B. pension investment bosses rake in huge bonuses

John Sinclair, the organization’s president and CEO, nearly quadrupled his base salary of $327,779 when bonuses kicked in, earning $1,264,690 in total compensation in 2017.

Jonathan Spinney, the chief investment officer, saw his base pay of $233,750 jump to $697,489 after bonuses were factored in.

James Scott, vice president, cashed in on an uptick from $225,000 to $601,962.

Another vice president, Mark Holleran, saw his pay bump up from $214,000 to $593,272 in total compensation.

And Jan Imeson, the chief financial officer, saw his pay jump from $220,000 to $511,175.

Vestcor’s CEO defended the big bonus pay, arguing the size of the funds under management - more than $16 billion - require expert handling.


  






David R. Amos

Methinks folks should listen to was I have been suggesting to do for years in order to rid us of the provincial debt and honour our contract with our provincial employees with regards to their pensions.

I was first to speak in the Fundy area

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZqArRNshSM&t=2284s

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David R. Amos

Methinks all the well paid people under the purview of NB Power's CEO Gaëtan Thomas are not looking forward to arguing my friend Roger Richard and I again this year N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/eub-hearing-nb-power-rate-design-smart-meters-1.4305685

EUB punts rate hearing as NB Power studies $122M smart meter plan

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Opting out smart meter program could cost NB Power customers

 
Roy Kirk

Obviously the province would be much better run if we paid higher salaries to those at the top, eh? ;-(

David R. Amos

@Roy Kirk Methinks thou doth jest too much N'esy Pas?

 
Matthew Smith

I'm totally in favour of paying CEOs commensurate to performance, at a rate that's competitive....but NB Poorer?, NB Liquored and the actual manager of Point Lepreau? C'mon really? 3 massive failures in a row

David R. Amos

@Matthew Smith Go Figure

 
Cam Randal

The wages for these civil servants are way too high when you consider the dismal financial position of the province. There should be a reduction in pay and bonuses across all sectors of government. Moreover, the high salaries paid to the department of education employees has not contributed in a positive way to the performances of New Brunswick students who tend to be at the bottom when compared to other provinces. A hefty pay cut is in order.

Lorne Allen

@Cam Randal

The 10 provinces would be 10 of the most educationally advanced countries in the world if they were split up; not too bad to be at the bottom of that list.

David R. Amos

@Cam Randal Dream on

NB Power CEO's salary tops provincial government list

Province releases annual listing of government salaries

CBC News· Posted: Dec 24, 2018 4:46 PM AT

NB Power CEO Gaëtan Thomas remained the highest paid provincial employee in the last fiscal year. (CBC)

More than 2,200 provincial employees received salaries of $100,000 or more in the last fiscal year, according to the New Brunswick 2017-18 blue book.

The provincial government released the annual listing of government salaries on Wednesday as well as retirement and severance packages, paid out for the year ending March 31, 2018.

Once again, top public-sector earners fell under the umbrellas of NB Power and the departments of justice and health.

NB Power CEO Gaëtan Thomas remained the highest-paid public servant in the province with a salary range of $550,000 to $574,999. The unaudited salary list provides pay ranges instead of the exact figure.

The province's utility employed more than 1,140 workers receiving at least $100,000 — that includes eight employees that make at least $250,000.

• Facing a divided province, a non-profit strives for 'social cohesion' in New Brunswick

• Robert Gauvin questions future with PCs, 'came close' to quitting

Besides the utility, New Brunswick's two health networks and the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development employed the highest numbers of $100,000-and-up earners.

Horizon Health Network and Vitalité Health Network employed more than 190 and 130 people, respectively, in that income bracket, and the top administrators were among the highest-paid provincial employees.

Dr. Édouard Hendriks, Horizon's vice-president of medical, academic and research affairs, Dr. France Desrosiers, Vitalité's vice-president of medical, services, training and research, and Vitalité CEO Gilles Lanteigne made between $275,000 and $299,999.

Horizon CEO Karen McGrath was among the top earning public-sector employees in New Brunswick for the year ending March 31, 2018. (CBC)

Horizon CEO Karen McGrath was one bracket lower, earning between $250,000 and $274,999.

The Education Department had more than 180 employees who made at least $100,000, the vast majority in the $100,000 to $124,999 range. Only deputy ministers John McLaughlin and Gérald Richard earned more than $175,000 (but less than $200,000).

The health and justice departments combined to account for just 82 of the roughly 2,220 highest-earning public-sector workers in New Brunswick, but a handful of those individuals are near the top of the list.

Some provincial court judges and the province's top medical officers were also in the top 20 earners.
You can read the blue book document here.

Here are the highest salaries and the pay for some other notable officials:

$550,000-$574,999

• Gaëtan Thomas, CEO (NB Power)

$325,000-$349,999

• Pierre W. Arseneault, provincial court judge (Justice)

$300,000-$324,999

• Ronald J. LeBlanc, provincial court judge (Justice)
• Mark P. Cormier (NB Power)
• Michael Fairweather (NB Power)
• Ron R. Ferguson (NB Power)

$275,000-$299,999

• Jennifer Russell Wylie, chief medical officer of health (Health)
• Na-Koshie Lamptey, regional medical officer of health (Health)
• Yves Leger, regional medical officer of health (Health)
• Cristin Muecke, deputy chief medical officer of health (Health)
• Marian Paquet, regional medical officer of health (Health)
• Yvette, Finn, provincial court judge (Justice)
• Edouard Hendriks, vice-president of medical, academic and research affairs (Horizon)
• Brian Harriman, CEO (NB Liquor)
• Keith Cronkhite, senior vice-president business development and strategic planning (NB Power)
• Brian McCullum (NB Power)
• Darren Murphy, chief financial officer (NB Power)
• Mark Power, Point Lepreau station director (NB Power)
• France Desrosiers, CEO (Vitalité)
• Gilles Lanteigne, vice-president of medical, services, training and research (Vitalité)

$250,000-$274,999

• Isaac Sobol, regional medical officer of health (Health)
• Karen Ann McGrath, CEO (Horizon)
• Stephen Lund, CEO (Opportunities New Brunswick)
• Martin Robichaud, medical director (Vitalité)

$200,000-$224,999

• Jean Finn, deputy minister of energy and resource development (Energy)
• Jacques Pinet, New Brunswick Jobs Board CEO (general)

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David Amos 1 second ago

SHAME ON ALL OF YOU

Chris Parker 4 hours ago

❣️♥️❣️♥️❣️♥️❣️

Phuck Onyou 5 hours ago

Theres a cool lady fact checking battle for europa and i think youd be happy to hear so far 25 percent false or unverifiable and 75 percent verified https://youtu.be/AhwbIm0vbUc

Lance Rattie 1 day ago (edited)

We ALL have FREE WILL..... and Brain has FREE WILL, to push nerdy UFO's and give NAZI SALUTES on communist Canadian Streets........ and we have FREE WILL to point out how bad those things he does, make us other JEW WISE PEOPLE look..... Brain is a NERD! at the least....

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Starker25 1 day ago

Good video. We all want a National Socialist Christmas.

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Markus Arminius 1 day ago

Brian this Video got you banned last Year ;) Wish you a Merry Christmas and a Good Yule.

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Brian Ruhe 1 day ago

No. This didn't get me banned last year.

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Goyz N' the Hood 1 2 days ago

wpww merry x mas happy yule

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BUZ OSKARSON 2 days ago

Hey Brian that was lovely and that money order check will be sent in January you deserve it just for this performance alone !

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Brian Ruhe 2 days ago

Ho ho ho!!

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moonbeamskies 2 days ago

Good Lord Brian!

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Steppenwolf sister 2 days ago

Merry Christmas!

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NyandUsaPolitics 2 days ago

what are the (jays) gonna say about you on the hate page? You want white people to live and sing songs and pray to buddah. Lol like these son of bitches gonna make something up about you or bring something you said out of context up in 1982. Really redicilous ass media pisses me off after all the daily attacks on trump for almost 2 years now. I voted for the mother fucker, and they are acting like russian software hacked the election. What about my vote ADL/splc assholes? Like we humans are not russian hacking algorithms or hate propaganda plants or numbers the hacker put in the system. BENNY NUTTY-YAHOO met both hillary and trump during the election while putin was banned (sorta) from meeting them. Next thing is mexico hacks the election if the ((jays)) are resisted in mexico. But they are too busy getting attacked by cartels to give a shit about the news doxing you because they already get death threats from gangs in mexico, to care about CNN threatning to kill them for wrestling memes and satire posters in college, so it has to be russia after 40 million dropped and they just want to live but are trying to resist entirely being slaves now.

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NyandUsaPolitics 2 days ago

I want to wish a very special merry chrismas to the ((Jays)). Brian you are not really too extreme and are national socialist. You really contradict the stereo type. I never seen you advocate violence yet or say anything malign of vulgar. I bet the adl has trouble writing a hate page about the bad things you've done. You got a clean criminal record i bet too.

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Brian Ruhe 2 days ago

True. I have a squeaky clean criminal record. Soooooooooooooooooooo spiritual.

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Roman Vargas 2 days ago

0:08 I almost died at this part

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Brian Ruhe 2 days ago

Yeah, I didn't warm up my voice first and didn't bother to do a second take. Ho Ho Ho!

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Markus Arminius 1 day ago

LoL Best Song Ever :)

Purple Carnations 2 days ago (edited)

Here's a great vid about NASA Enjoy https://youtu.be/G9MYnKxrKwAMerry Christmas 🎄

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Lance Rattie 2 days ago

And CHRISTMAS is for CHRISTIANS....... get a conviction the Jews didn't give you, you fucking nerd.

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Markus Arminius 1 day ago

Mind your Language

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Phuck Onyou 5 hours ago

Suck my lance

Lance Rattie 2 days ago

I agree with Patrick Little about your UFO bullshit...... people like you, bring National Socialist down...... you fucking moron....

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Abraham The Grey Goyim 2 days ago

ISRAEL is THE Human Trafficking / PEDOPHILE Capital and REFUGE of the world!!!!!! "Chosen people" MY ASS. NO more WARS for ISRAEL, and SELLOUT ROTHSCHILD international BANKERS!!!! THE TALMUD and KABBALAH are PURE EVIL and we're ALL JUST GOYIM TO these ((((GLOBALISTS)))).... JFK tried TO speak UP!!!! SMASH Cultural MARXISM!!!!/

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Indian NatSoc 2 days ago

@Abraham The Grey Goyim Who doesn't know this??

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BUZ OSKARSON 2 days ago (edited)

Hey Lance lay off ! We are about true freedom it is the Gews that want to curb freedom and hate both truth and freedom, so lay off, Brian can do as he pleases.

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Gen Tristesse 1 day ago (edited)

Lance Rattface - Your comment is a great example of ratface Jewboy tactics. A lot of white people agree with Pat Little on UFOs -- theres just no proof of UFOs, no evidence, and i dismiss the notion that the Pedophile Jewboys are hiding the evidence from us, just as I dismiss the notion that the Jewboys are hiding the evidence of a flat earth from us. But you come into the comment section and launch an ad hominem attack on Brian, when the WHOLE WORLD knows that Brian -- say what you want about the UFO stuff -- does FANTASTIC WORK naming the (((merchants))). Oh and Israel is the human trafficking/pedophile capital of the world.

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Lance Rattie 1 day ago

@BUZ OSKARSON UFO"s......fuck off loser

Lance Rattie 1 day ago

@Gen Tristesse fuck off..... you made no point.... yes pat thinks brain is a loser for pushing ufo bullshit like me

Lance Rattie 1 day ago

@Gen Tristesse he name the Dirty JEw whioch i like...then talks about fairy tales......makes us all look bad

Lance Rattie 1 day ago

@Gen Tristesse where does brain get his money?...... he don't work, how much can he make of you Jew tube......very little for him......he must be on disability

Lance Rattie 1 day ago

@Gen Tristesse by talking about silly UFO"'s..... Brain is worse than ALEX JONES...... if people look at Brain, then hear someone else talking about the dirty Jews, then they assume we are all UFO star trek nerds like brain is..... and doing the HEIL HITLER salute on Canadian Streets, is so silly, and drives the NS movement back

Lance Rattie 1 day ago

@BUZ OSKARSON We all have free will, you moron...... and Free Will means, we are free to JUDGE what others do with their FREE WILL......do you get it..... you can JUDGE...

Gen Tristesse 1 day ago (edited)

@Lance Rattie nah pencil-necked jewboy, youre a cocksucker for calling Ruhe a "fucking moron" ... you arent jew-wise , you suck jew dick when you u dont have your rabbi's talmud scroll being pumped in and out of your mouth. Ruhe is off on the UFOs, most pretty intelligent white people know it. Ruhe makes no one look bad. Hes a brave voice for white people. All the world should watch Brian and take notes. Yeah when he goes on about studying UFOs, he's off, hes being misled into reading up on anti-scientific stuff. But hes not a fucking moron, jewboy.

BUZ OSKARSON 1 day ago

@Lance Rattie Sure you can judge but bossing others around is not ´judging´.

Lance Rattie 1 day ago (edited)

@BUZ OSKARSON Bossing? ... what is Bossing?.... is it anything like Bullying, .....listen pal. the GREAT thing about youtube, it lets us give feedback, good or bad......Besides,, its great being BOSS, democracy sucks shit

oli7019 2 days ago

snow is "racist"

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Markus Arminius 1 day ago

Milk too Hehe

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mickiandalusia 2 days ago

Happy Christmas from Andalusia/Spain, https://www.bitchute.com/video/Iogumpd9DyDV/

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George Rockwell 2 days ago

Ha aha!

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Kata List 2 days ago

keep smiling Brian..

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VIDCID88 2 days ago

Wholesome

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Plasma Plasma John Doe 3 days ago

for those wish to not be controlled by a book watch "CAESAR'S MESSIAH: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus - OFFICIAL VERSION" blissful blessings 2 all beings@

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Plasma Plasma John Doe 3 days ago

Heil the Furher!

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Plasma Plasma John Doe 3 days ago

and many happy new national socialist new years for all!

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Plasma Plasma John Doe 3 days ago

(note, tried 3 times to write "Heil""H(full word) and each time i could not even post it, i.e., did not go spam or anything, just completely blocked, first time i saw that on judentube blessings 2 all beings!

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Indian NatSoc 3 days ago

Thanks, I'm going to watch it.

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Abraham The Grey Goyim 2 days ago

the talmud is evil jews are anti thesis to jesus the judean. Jew-ish means they are not real jews

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Indian NatSoc 2 days ago

@Abraham The Grey Goyim So who are the real Jews??

Abraham The Grey Goyim 2 days ago

@Indian NatSoc Could be anyone because they spread out, there are 12 different tribes. It's not the khazarian mutts that moved there in 1948 and worship rempham

Indian NatSoc 2 days ago

@Abraham The Grey Goyim"Khazarian mutts"?? What does that mean??

Indian NatSoc 3 days ago

Merry Christmas Brian! 🎄🎄🎄🎄

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Plastischer Dämon des Verfalls 3 days ago

My heart is melting. Happy Christmas Mr. Ruhe :)

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zappa bagman 3 days ago

A New Christmas Classic!

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H Bomb 3 days ago

Hail Brian , Hail Bruno , Hail Jesus, Hail Victory Hail our People's. Merry Christmas Goys and a Merry Yule 🙋‍♂️ his spirit will rise again 🙏🙋‍♂️😄

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ndudman8 3 days ago

Erase all guilte that is white... like the ending :)

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Brian Ruhe 2 days ago

That's my lyric and that's what we're doing!

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NaturalNobilityDE 3 days ago

Merry Christmas Mr. Ruhe!! At the end we will have victory! Ave!

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Purple Carnations 3 days ago

Happy Christmas Brian Can you handle the truth? 😢 https://youtu.be/acqRw67EAck

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Scott Massage 3 days ago

Thank you for the aural enema Brian - it worked - look all guilt gone!!!!! Merry Christmas!

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Imperator Rex 3 days ago

In a class of his own... 👏 👏 👏

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Gift Gas 3 days ago

🌲 🌲🌲🌲 🌲 🌲 🌲 🌲🌲🌲🌲 🌲 🌲 🌲🌲🌲 🌲

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jerszak 3 days ago

Reminds me of the swastika forest they found some years back.

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Indian NatSoc 3 days ago

Beautiful! This comment should be pinned.

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Owe Jay 3 days ago

Merry Christmas, Brian, and everyone else too.

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Black Claw 3 days ago

Only in Canada 🇨🇦

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janne korhonen 3 days ago

Sad to see someone that sick roaming amongst us normal people . . .

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Jer Szak 3 days ago

Lol. Well look at you!

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Brian Ruhe 3 days ago

I walk the streets and people have nooooooooooooooooo idea!! HA HA HAAA!!!!

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janne korhonen 3 days ago

@Brian Ruhe you look like an sick uneducated imbecile and are it !

Scott Massage 3 days ago

The joke here is you think you’re normal - but you’ll happily stop someone else’s free-speech - what an imbecile

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Gen Tristesse 3 days ago

@Brian Ruhe awesome work Brian. Incredible work spreading the truth. I'm a big fan of many of your videos. I just finished watching your 3-part video with Pat. I have to say that I do think Pat's point about UFOs and UFOlogy is correct. I fully understand that youve spent hundreds or 1000 hours studying UFOs. Ive spent 20 years in school studying science and astronomy -- i am completely in agreement with both you and Pat on the JQ, but I believe that Pat is right that your acceptance of the UFO stuff is equivalent to some people's acceptance of the flat earth stuff. There was a point in the conversation where Pat kept saying "I just dont think things like flat earth, UFOs, Bigfoot are helpful etc etc... " and you astutely responded -- "Wait, i dont understand why you keep talking about flat earth [in the same sentence as UFOs]?". You were absolutely right, Pat DID keep mentioning Flat Earth in the same sentence as UFOS, and furthermore, he was very correct to do so. Your surveys are misleading -- 50% of the population DOES NOT REALLY BELIEVE IN THE ABSOLUTE PROVABLE EXISTENCE OF UFOs. You are just factually wrong there. Or maybe it's better put this way -- 50 percent of intelligent whites do not believe in UFOs. There is just no scientific proof of it --- AND AND AND the proposition -- that alien life forms are being whipped around the galaxies at something like a few million miles per hour --- is quite similar to the notion of the earth being flat. All current science is in complete contradiction to BOTH THE FLAT EARTH AND THE UFO THEORIES. I appreciate that you dismiss the Flat earth theory, as it should be dismissed. THE VERY SAME FOR UFOs -- As a scientist i can tell you that there are not metals or compounds that are currently known to man that could be used in aircraft such that they would withstand the pressure of millions of miles per hour space travel ... UFOs fly in the face of current science, JUST AS the flat earth nonsense FLIES IN THE FACE OF CURRENT SCIENCE. That is just ONE of the many reasons why UFOs are impossible with current science standing as it does. You are ABSOLUTELY being ANTI-SCIENTIFIC when you talk about UFOs, JUST AS people are anti-scientific when they talk about flat-earth. I get it though -- it's fun to think about the possibilities, to engage with mysterious and arcane ideas and theories. Your work on the Jews is great -- your predilection for the unknowable and the unknown seems to be a weakness for you however -- you refuse to accept hard science, and yet you still rely on hard science (cars, computers, toilets) when it is easier for you to do so. I like your song here. It will piss the (((people))) off who already hate you -- and thats a good thing.

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janne korhonen 3 days ago

@Scott Massage nazis murdered 6 million jews ! Praising something that sick aint free speech its mental disease !

H Bomb 3 days ago

@janne korhonen 6 million🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🐸 ok then but I smell shite

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janne korhonen 3 days ago

@H Bomb so you have the same mental sickness . . . Seek help and education !

Aryan Princess 3 days ago

Oy vey

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janne korhonen 3 days ago

@Aryan Princess you are not an princess ! You are sick uneducated imbecile ! Like the rest of morons here . . .

edwardpowellmusic 3 days ago

@janne korhonen The official number at one time was 6 mill., but that was when it was "said" that Auschwitz had killing 4 mill AND when it was said that 1.5 mill were killed in German "death camps". But today not even the most staunch Holocaust advocate will claim that any gassing took place in Germany > everybody accepts that German herself contained no death camps - and then Auschwitz reduced it's numbers from 4 mill to 1 mill >>> so with this reduction of 4.5 mill here I am ONLY talking about OFFICIAL reduction in deaths. Official means what is considered true from the Jewish Scholars point of view - not talking at all about the mountain of debunking that is not recognized by Jewish authorities... so I recommend to you to review your math: 6 minus 3 minus 1.5 = 1.5 mill. So even the absolute more hard-core BUT KNOWLEDGABLE UPTODATE Holocaust scholars will never claim more than 1.5 mill official deaths. Personally, I think that when you consider all of the "unofficial" research and studies we can safely assume that in truth there was in fact NO extermination order and no attempt to mass murder anyone > this is a myth that has been twisted and manufactured in order to establish an excuse to create Israel. Also, personally I don't know enough about the Nazis or Hitler to join Brian in his song, however I have an open enough mind to at least consider that singing such an ode of praise in justified > why not keep an open mind? An even if you disagree, why not allow someone the right to their own expression of their own beliefs? Have a nice day :)

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janne korhonen 3 days ago (edited)

@edwardpowellmusic nope ! You are suffering from dunning- kruger syndrome ! 6 million are the official number the death tole is much higher cause the nazis did what they could to hide massacre ! Get educated ! The right numbers you found in yad yashem,red cross,international court,un . . .

H Bomb 3 days ago

@janne korhonen that's ok bro will resist the mass mind wash . Seek the light bro . The Truth will out . Merry Christmas to you 🙏🙋‍♂️😁👊😄🐸

Indian NatSoc 3 days ago

@janne korhonen Keep sucking your rabbi's kosher dick and keep ignoring facts. You're fucking stupid you know that bitch??

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edwardpowellmusic 3 days ago

@janne korhonen Hi Janne... OK I am willing to accept that I might be wrong in my current assumptions, and I am willing to "get educated"> so please educate me and I am all ears. Please present to me all the proof you have to support your belief that Hitler killed 6 million. Where, when and how did he kill them, and present your proof. Thanks

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janne korhonen 3 days ago

@edwardpowellmusic i have all the stats on my laptop , now i am celebrating christmas away and writing on my phone ! I gave you all the sources to the right n umbers .merry christmas !

BUZ OSKARSON 2 days ago

@janne korhonen´6 million´ lol ! You need to update yourself, we are living in the internet-age, 6 million lol. Go and watch ´the greatest story never told´ you need an update, 6 million, people are laughing at your ignorance.

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Todd Davis 2 days ago

@janne korhonen Do you eat jew diarrhea all day long or just for breakfast? Anyone with a brain knows that there was no Holocaust of the Jews, expulsion yes mass murder no . Jews were destroying Germany just like they're destroying USA AND EUROPE TODAY with mass immigration, multiculturalism and diversity. If you're not Jewish stop licking their butt hole all day long. The holohoax is the biggest extortion racket in history. Even Anne Frank diary is a hoax. It was written with a ball point pen and pencil. Ball point pen was not available until 1952. Holohuckster crap is getting old. People are waking up to the Jews lies and deception. Payback is gonna be a bitch ain't it?

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edwardpowellmusic 2 days ago (edited)

@janne korhonen Yes, please enjoy your Xmas time, no rush, I am here waiting > ...but let's be serious and real here, "Stats" are just numbers and we know that numbers on their own can be made up by anyone - so I am not asking you to show me "stats" I am asking you to show me the concrete evidence behind the supposed "stats". Personally, I don't decide to believe of disbelieve anything until I have looked very long and hard at BOTH sides of any argument. Aside, like everyone else, from being bombarded my whole life with the Official Holocaust story, I have searched myself long and hard right into hardcore Jewish sources such as the Shoah Foundation "survivor vids" and I have yet to find one shred of material evidence to support the claims of Nazi extermination. The Nazi's of course DID take massive numbers of Jews out of their homes to put them to work in slave labour camps (outside of Germany) in war-time conditions --- yes for sure this happened! ...and this itself can be called a kind of "Holocaust" if you like > but as far as my deep searching can tell, there is no evidence to support the allegation that Nazi's 'exterminated' anyone - and when you truly can have an open mind you can not avoid but see that there is an extraordinary amount of irrefutable evidence indicating clearly that the myth of Nazi extermination via gas chambers was conjured up to serve political ends such as the white washing of war-crimes and atrocities by the Allies, and to serve as the cornerstone excuse and justification for the expansion and consolidation of Israel. You don't have to believe me, and you shouldn't until you have done your own research for yourself and made up your own mind.... so all I am asking you is to show to me what evidence you are relying upon to backup your beliefs about the Holocaust. Maybe I will learn something and revise my own beliefs? ...who knows. Merry Xmas

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janne korhonen 3 days ago

You are totally sick uneducated imbecile ! Seek help and education !

jerszak 3 days ago

Why do you like torturing yourself by coming here? Haven't the poor juden suffered enough?

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janne korhonen 3 days ago

@jerszak i am not a jew ! I am from finland ! And cant stand when imbeciles ruins youtube whit this crap !

jerszak 3 days ago

@janne korhonen Maybe you should worry more about the 2.5 million Africans coming to Europe every year and leave us alone here.

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janne korhonen 3 days ago

@jerszak yep ! If a see them here ill give them directions to you !

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Owe Jay 3 days ago

@janne korhonen You either hate his politics which probably makes you a suicide case (liberal) or you hate his sense of humor so much that you react aggressively in a Youtube comments section which makes you a bitter lunatic. Either way it is you who needs help.

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janne korhonen 3 days ago

@Owe Jay nothing humour about mental diseases . . .

Todd Davis 3 days ago

@janne korhonen Jews call nonjew female Skiksa or an unclean animal. Do you consider yourself an unclean animal?

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Owe Jay 3 days ago

@janne korhonen Agreed. That is why Brian's video made me smile and your comments bore me. Now fuck off.

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Iblis88 Jupiter666 3 days ago

@janne korhonen Stop projecting

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Vita Min 3 days ago

He said positive things about whites and likes hitler, GET HIM!

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Brian Ruhe 3 days ago

janne! I walk the streets with a calm smile and people have nooooooooooooooooo idea!! HA HA HAAA!!!!

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janne korhonen 3 days ago

@Brian Ruhe one day the people with white rocks are coming to get you . . .

Indian NatSoc 3 days ago

@janne korhonen What the fuck are you doing here jew boy?? Ask your rabbi to pump some common sense into you moron.

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Indian NatSoc 3 days ago

@janne korhonen You're a fuckwit lol

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janne korhonen 3 days ago

@Indian NatSoc nope ! I am all facts and truths ! I hac ve studied ME history in cairo and teheran ,worked in both gaza and westbank ,seen and heard all bullshit propaganda lies and cant stand when lies are told they are all crap !

edwardpowellmusic 3 days ago

@janne korhonen It's good that you are passionate and take a deep interest, but please be a bit more patient and EXPAND your field of study somewhat. Include in your research a serious look into Holocaust Revisionism. Before a person can truly assess any situation/dispute it is essential to take a very deep look at BOTH sides of the story. At least give it a chance, and have a look at what the revisionists have to say. It doesn't mean you will come away singing a "Nazi Xmas" but at least you might come away with an understanding of what motivates people to call for a revision of WW2 history. Thanks for listening.

Indian NatSoc 3 days ago

@janne korhonen That's bullshit, you're a fucking pathetic piece of shit

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janne korhonen 3 days ago

@edwardpowellmusic yep ,i work with human rights as an HR observer ,so i have gone thru all genocides over the world ! Inspectin the facts and evidences !

Indian NatSoc 3 days ago

@janne korhonen What about the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people in Occupied Palestine??

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janne korhonen 3 days ago

@Indian NatSoc the name palestine was given by romans ( hadrianus) and it referes to the philistinians who was a seefolk from indoeurope ( near greece ) and they have absolytely nothing to do with these filthy fake palestinians ! https://youtu.be/4x8sdmHSpmg and https://youtu.be/BHsqVB9nxFY and try to answer these simple questions https://goo.gl/images/HjKcyH ( redirects to pinterest )

janne korhonen 3 days ago

@Indian NatSoc see the truth about the palestinians on youtube : palwatch,hamastv,pallywood . . .https://youtu.be/5dnhK4T-K6U

janne korhonen 3 days ago

@Indian NatSoc the truth about the political situation on youtube: unwatch,eyeontheun,ngomonitor . . .https://youtu.be/j7Mupoo1At8 get educated ! Not fooled ! I was fooled for a time when i worked with ISM till a got to see the facts and truths !

Indian NatSoc 3 days ago

@janne korhonen All your comments and references are a steaming pile of horseshit. Show me where was "Israel" before 1948??

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Indian NatSoc 3 days ago

@janne korhonen There was no such thing as "Israel" before 1948, "Israel" is an illegitimate Zionist genocidal entity, a military occupation of the land of Palestine.

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Indian NatSoc 3 days ago

@janne korhonen 80% of the filthy Jew bastards living in "Israel" aren't even semitic!

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Indian NatSoc 3 days ago

@janne korhonen You're a braindead imbecile shithead. Holocau$t is LOLOcaust. Now fuck off Jewish cock-slurping bitch

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janne korhonen 2 days ago

@Indian NatSoc janne is not a girls name ! And i am all facts and truths ! Try education ! Its such a waste of life living dumb in the darkness . . .

janne korhonen 2 days ago

@Indian NatSoc the jewish roots goes back for over 5000 years and the jewish king david founded jerusalem 3.300 years ago ! Nobody could be that uneducated !

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Indian NatSoc 2 days ago

@janne korhonen Hahaha I know that you always claim to be a man, so stop repeating that bullshit. You sound autistic lol

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Indian NatSoc 2 days ago

@janne korhonen I don't need your ed-JEW-cation bitch, so shove it up your ass. And, stop blabbering nonsense.

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Todd Davis 2 days ago

@janne korhonen How does it feel to be brainwashed and mind controlled by the Jews? If you're not Jewish it's past time to wake up! Jews love good donkey Goyim.

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janne korhonen 1 day ago

@Todd Davis nope ! I have studied ME history in cairo and teheran ,worked in both gaza and westbank ,seen and heard all bullshit propaganda and cant stand when lies are told they are all crap ! ! ! Get educated ! Not fooled !

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Todd Davis 17 hours ago

@janne korhonen move along, your Jewish masters are calling you. They need to take a dump in your mouth. Do you eat jew diarrhea 3 times a day or just for breakfast? .

Blitz 777 3 days ago

WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER😎

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H Bomb 3 days ago

Goys goys goys jus looking for a good time🙋‍♂️🐸😍😁

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KCOWMOO 3 days ago

Merry Christmas Brian Rehu !!!!!!!

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Domingo Del Campo 3 days ago

LOL Oh Brian...

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December 25, 2018, 6:54 am

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Replying to @DavidRayAmos@Kathryn98967631 and 49 others

Methinks folks may enjoy my stress testing CBC's Ethics and the Cognitive Abilities of a snobby Acadian Spindoctor Marguerite Deschamps N'esy Pas?

https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2018/12/stress-testing-cbcs-severe-lack-of.html

#nbpoli #cdnpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/dec-15-2018-is-china-winning-the-race-to-the-moon-pig-heart-transplants-cute-aggression-and-more-1.4940912/cognitive-abilities-vary-among-humans-is-the-same-true-of-other-species-1.4940925

Cognitive abilities vary among humans, is the same true of other species?

Animals do vary in intelligence, across and within species

CBC Radio· December 14

The border collie is one of the smartest breeds of dog (Mateo Gossi)

Listen2:13

This week's question comes to us from Anil Patni of Toronto.

Here is his question:

The cognitive abilities of a human with an IQ of 80 compared to a human with an IQ of 140 are significantly different. Are there similar intelligence ranges withing other species?

Stanley Coren, professor emeritus of psychology at The University of British Columbia, says there are differences in the intelligence of any given species.

Dogs are a well-studied example. The brightest dogs have a mental age, or an equivalent intelligence, to that of a two-and-a-half to three-year-old human. The average dog has a mental age equivalent to that of a two to a two-and-a-half-year old human. This is measured by the number of words, signs and signals that the dog can understand.

Very smart dogs can learn up to about 250 commands. Border collies, poodles, German shepherds and golden retrievers are among the smartest dogs.

However, there is individual variability within any given breed of dog. For example, one Labrador retriever may not be as smart as the next.

The same is true of other species. The average cat has a mental age equivalent to an 18-month-old human, but Maine Coon cats are slightly smarter. Among primates, the bonobo chimp is the smartest. It has a mental age equal to a four-year-old human being.

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John Keays

If only our politicians were that smart.

Marguerite Deschamps

@John Keays: “Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” - Plato

David R. Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps

https://www.azquotes.com/author/48979-Louis_Riel

"Life, without the dignity of an intelligent being, is not worth having."

"People consider me more as hero. Apparently they like the way I stand up, for myself and give my opinion. The french speaking people weren't much of a person like me."

Louis Riel

Marguerite Deschamps

@David R. Amos, Louis Riel was a Metis and so are most "Acadiens". I am in good company.

Marguerite Deschamps

@David R. Amos, Joyeux Noël David!

David R. Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps “Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” - Plato

Methinks you must admit I am at least clever enough to engage in politics and sue the Crown who hung Louis Riel and is now protecting your Acadien bosses from their own wrongs N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps Alittle Methinks you may enjoy a little Deja Vu to review in order to stress test your cognitive abilities N'esy Pas?

https://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/integrity-yea-right

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 David Raymond Amos‏ @DavidRayAmos 
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Methinks a former Liberal Minister of Defense David Pratt may take my call N'esy Pas?

https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2018/12/feds-irving-ask-trade-tribunal-to-toss.html

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/irving-canadian-international-trade-tribunal-federal-government-1.4959021

Feds, Irving ask trade tribunal to toss challenge to warship contract

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David Amos

I have no doubt whatsoever that many lawyers working for the Feds and the Irving Shipbuilding Company will be up nights well into the New Year wondering what to do about me now that this article has been published

 
David Amos

Hmmm Perhaps the Alion dudes should talk to me

Nestor Neville Nelson

@David Amos

Nope.

They don't have time
for nonsense

David Amos

@Nestor Neville Nelson Methinks a former Liberal Minister of Defense David Pratt may take my call N'esy Pas?

 
Arlond Lynds

Much like the contract the Harper Government™ signed on our behalf with IBM for the Phoenix debacle, rest assured we are well and truly hung hung out to dry with the Irvings.

David Amos

@Arlond Lynds YUP

Al Kennedy

@Arlond Lynds
Harper IBM. Brison Irving.

James Holden

@Al Kennedy

Right on the first, wrong on the second.
Do try to look these things up beforehand.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2012/01/12/federal_government_and_irving_shipyard_in_halifax_reach_shipbuilding_agreement.html

David Amos

@James Holden Methinks you must be aware that Harper politically vetted all the judges before he appointed them including the General Counsel for the Irving's Shipbuilding Company who is the same dude I had quite a hoedown with in Federal Court of January 11th, 2016 N'esy Pas?

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/stephen-harpers-courts-how-the-judiciary-has-been-remade/article25661306/

David Amos

@Al Kennedy Methinks it should be a small wonder why I ran for public office against these people 6 times thus far N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-normal-scott-brison-letter-1.4865841

Al Kennedy

@David Amos
First sentence in your linked story: "For a decade, the Prime Minister has been on a quest to take back the judiciary from the Liberals." Harper is gone and now Trudeau is changing it back. A good example is in your linked story "Associate Chief Justice John Rooke was appointed by Harper and presided over Khadr trial." And today "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s Liberal government has appointed Omar Khadr‘s former lawyer John Norris as a justice in federal court."

Al Kennedy

@James Holden
I read it different. The lawsuit is not that the ships will be built in Canada, but rather which company's design was selected. In the above story it clearly states: "Lockheed's bid was contentious from the moment the design competition was launched in October 2016. Alion was one of three companies, along with U.S. defence giant Lockheed Martin and Spanish firm Navantia, vying to design the new warships, which are to be built by Irving and serve as the navy's backbone for most of this century."

David Amos

@Al Kennedy "And today "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s Liberal government has appointed Omar Khadr‘s former lawyer John Norris as a justice in federal court."

You must be aware that on the very same day that Trudeau The Younger appointed Norris (whom I crossed paths with many years ago) he also appointed his Deputy Minister of Justice Bill Pentney to Federal Court. Pentney is the same lawyer I was arguing in Federal Court when Harper was still the PM.

Methinks Trudeau was very dumb to continue defending actions of the RCMP and the Harper government against me after he became the PM N'esy Pas?

David Amos

@Al Kennedy FYI this is a recording of my encounter with the former Irving Shipbuilding Company General Counsel in Federal Court on January 11th, 2016.

https://archive.org/details/Jan11th2015

Methinks not many men can talk to judges like I do and win N'esy Pas? BTW Even though Southcott decided in my favour I remained true to my word and appealed his decision because of the conflict of interest.

David Amos

@Al Kennedy "And today "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s Liberal government has appointed Omar Khadr‘s former lawyer John Norris as a justice in federal court."

This is my encounter in Federal Court on December 14th, 2015 with the RCMP's former lawyer within the Arar Inquiry

https://archive.org/details/BahHumbug

Methinks Justice Bell was very ethical N'esy Pas?

James Holden

@Maxim Waddington

Harper is no longer a cabinet member.

David Amos

@James Holden Methinks Harper and will always be a big cheese within the Privy Council Office N'esy Pas?

 
Maxim Waddington

The awarding stinks of fish. A full investigation is in order. The smell is strong of interference by a cabinet member who is pals with Irvine.

David Amos

@Maxim Waddington YUP

 
Gerard Groenewegen

Alion seems to have a reasonable argument. Let's hope it gets standing. What we have seen in the Adm Norman case is there is a great deal of politics in naval procurement. The Trudeau Liberals don't want the politics scrutinized in a court like tribunal. Canadians should want to see it so we can judge the Trudeau Liberals. The Libs' so called urgency is to avoid a tribunal in an election year.

David Amos

@Gerard Groenewegen YUP

 
Howie Torrans

It may be time to examine the whole Canadian military budget. Most countries of Canada's population don't spend anywhere near what Canada does. One exception is Saudi Arabia, but that's part of the price they pay for making the USA their friend. In any case, we should probably cut our military budget in half, and concentrate on ships and aircraft that would be useful in monitoring our coastline, doubling as rescue vehicles.

David Amos

@Howie Torrans I Wholeheartedly Agree Sir

 

Jeff hunt

So let me see if I have this right. Two companies are upset because their bagman didn't have the right stuff ( big enough bags of money).
No one wins fairly and no one loses with dignity seems to be the order of the day when it comes to military contracts.

jimmy vee

@Jeff hunt The Irving's win again

David Amos

@jimmy vee Methinks the fat lady ain't sung yet N'esy Pas?

 
Rob Lehtisaari

I suspect that Alion will not win this tribunal challenge based on the facts.

Nestor Neville Nelson

@Rob Lehtisaari

Our marionette government
has to dance to its
American puppeteers' commands

The American puppeteers likely want
Lockheed to get the deal

David Amos

@Nestor Neville Nelson "The American puppeteers likely want
Lockheed to get the deal"

Methinks the Irving Clan wants it more N'esy Pas?

Bob Gillies

When it comes to military procurement everything this Trudeau touches seems to turn into lead weight.
Sure the previous government had it's challenges too but at least they had some successes along the way...CC-117s, CC-130Js, and CH-147 Chinooks to name a few but this current liberal government seems to turn EVERYTHING to stone. Even their selection of new surveillance aircraft is being challenged.
It will be 4 years in government and the Trudeau liberals will have failed to deliver even ONE piece of new major equipment to our military.

Rob Lehtisaari

@Bob Gillies

The Boeing C 17's are good, and likely the Dfence Minister O'Connor former Boeing Lobbyist just prior to becoming Defence Minister might have had a lot to do with the no competitive bid contract that was sole sourced.

The Hercules J's would have been purchased by wither stripe of Government of Canada...the old Herc's needed replacing and for decades the J was the preffered Candidate.

On the Chinooks the old C, & D's that the "Harper Government" purchased were all older than the Chinooks the Mulroney Conservatives sold to the Dutch (which were refurbished like new by "we" Canadians at Boeing prior to sale & delivery) the loss of said Chinooks by the Conservative Mulroney Government insured the casualties, and wounded from having to run the IED laced roads of Afghanistan.

The Chinooks F's were a good purchase by the Canadian Government after recognizing that loss from the earlier Conservative sale cost Canadians lives.
As such while the credit for the "buy" was done on the Harper Party watch, any Canadian Government would have been hard pressed not to fix that earlier mistake of selling off heavy helicopter lift capability--in the face of Afghanistan's lessons.

On the last bit, did you not notice the purchase of " Airbus chosen to build Canada's new search planes, ending 12-year procurement odyssey"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fixed-wing-search-planes-1.3885653

Noteworthy is that in that last link we see how the process of procurement on CF was being corrupted by politicization over need, price, & capability requirement.

Pete Lang

@Bob Gillies Sounds like another government in recent history!

Carl Gustaf

@Rob Lehtisaari

So what you are saying is war monger Chertien and Mr. Dithers Martin should have bought new Chinooks instead of sending the troops off to a war zone to be blown up in an Iltis wearing a green uniform. Is that what you are saying ??

ABTL 2019

David Amos

@Rob Lehtisaari Methinks Mr Mulroney and his lawyers recall my doings with the Oliphant Inquiry N'esy Pas?

 
Carl Gustaf

Good lord, is there even one single file the Trudeau Liberals have not turned into a expensive and unending debacle ??

ABTL 2019

Nestor Neville Nelson

@Carl Gustaf

Yep.
Electoral reform.
Promise broken quickly.
Not too expensive.

Clarence Hemeon

@Carl Gustaf

drivel

Nestor Neville Nelson

@Carl Gustaf

It's not Trudeau doing that.
It's his puppeteers

Bob Gillies

@Nestor Neville Nelson
"Yep.
Electoral reform.
Promise broken quickly.
Not too expensive"

That is a matter of opinion. The ongoing committee meetings and consultations with Canadians cost money only to have Trudeau trash it.
Add to that the cost of their stupid online survey which was designed to support Trudeau's view and the cost adds up.

Nestor Neville Nelson

@Bob Gillies

Everything adds up.

But that doesn't mean
it was in the billions of dollars
like everything else

David Amos

@Bob Gillies "That is a matter of opinion."

Methinks you should check my words with the ERRE Committee as I did predict the outcome correctly and it is a matter of the public record N'esy Pas?

Colin Beck

Hong Kong's submarines are 50% tofu just like Canada's.

Nestor Neville Nelson

@Colin Beck

As a non-sovereign territory,
Hong Kong has never had
a military force of its own.

David Amos

@Nestor Neville Nelson Methinks they just hired a Canadian judge too N'esy Pas?

 
Mark (Junkman) George

As Trump would say: it sounds very "marginal" (or sketchy) to me.

Nestor Neville Nelson

@Mark (Junkman) George

Perhaps you mean *fishy*

David Amos

@Nestor Neville Nelson "Perhaps you mean *fishy*"

Methinks something smells rotten in the Irving Clan's backrooms N'esy Pas?

 
Darren MacDonald

If companies are not meeting the requirements of the contract, why are the Libs giving these companies the contract? I bet at least 2 Lib Ministers have their hand in on this, no?

Leonardo Chiavatelli

@Darren MacDonald We should ask Mr. Brison I'm sure he has the answer.

Rob Lehtisaari

@Darren MacDonald

If the contract meets the stated re-defined requirements then allegations of wrong doing lacking basis in fact become mere smear, no?

Darren MacDonald

@Rob Lehtisaari "If the contract meets the stated re-defined requirements"
You don't do this unless all bids fail to meet the original requirements. You don't keep doing do-overs until you get your preferred company.

Rob Lehtisaari

@Darren MacDonald

Several of the bidders were all offered these same opportunities to make their bids "compliant" to specifications.

Marguerite Deschamps

@Darren MacDonald, you seem to know a lot about patronage. I wonder why.

David Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks we should ask you the same question N'esy Pas?









Bob Gillies

Strange how the Trudeau liberals turned the ship building file into a debacle when they took over government. The original plan was for a Canadian design, more expensive for sure, but promoting Canadian industry and without all the legal pitfalls of going international.
No wonder we can't compete on the international stage when our government doesn't give Canada a fighting chance.
We would rather buy "off the shelf" stuff rather than develop our own industry.

Alison Jackson

@Bob Gillies
Yeah I know: The F-35 Fighter jet debacle was a complete mess, talk about buying "off the shelf" Cost us billions and we got nothing in return and all because the government didn't do its research, they were so excited to appease the American military Industrial complex.
Who was the PM in charge of that mess...Stephen something..?

Leonardo Chiavatelli

@Alison Jackson your history knowledge is quote limited. Canada started contributing to the F35 project a bit more than 20 years ago. Let me give you a hint Stephen had nothing to do with it. Try again.

Bob Gillies

@Alison Jackson
You may have noticed that the current LIBERAL government has put the F-35 back on the table despite PROMISING not to buy it.

You may also note that the current LIBERAL government has DELAYED any competitive bidding for 3 years despite promising an IMMEDIATE competitive process.
You may also note that your claim of "Cost us billions and we got nothing in return" is also bogus as we have been partners in the F-35 programme since it's exception, have NOT invested "billions" and currently some 100 Canadian companies receive contracts from the F-35 programme.

John Oaktree

@Alison Jackson

Chretien got us into the F35...
Harper continued to fund the program...
As does Trudeau...

Rob Lehtisaari

@Bob Gillies

Why is your framed narrative so far from the details on the facts of the MOU of the F-35 vs. the announced purchase announcement of the F-35 by the then PM, Stephen Harper, Minister of Defence Peter MacKay, & Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose?

As for the Navy Surface Combatant ships the most modern design is the Global 26, I agree it is more of a paper tiger right now...but weren't you earlier on many posts, as well as this one here lecturing that Canadians should not buy old designs & equipment?

What is being seen here is what is more important for our CF versus what is more important for either the Harper Party campaign to regain Canadian Federal Government.

Which are you fighting for Party, or the Canadian Forces...because the Canadian Forces do not care who is the Government, only that they are given the tools, training, and opportunity to represent Canada on the World stage for Canadians.

Robert Tyre

@Bob Gillies if people are willing to pay attention and leave petty politics out of their comments they would note that it is normal in Canada for Lib and or Con governments to play favourites with defense money. It was Mulroney for instance that bypassed a far superior bid by Bristol aerospace in winnipeg and gave the contract for CF 18 maintenance to a Quebec company. This goes on all the time based mostly on donours and cronyism

Robert Tyre

@John Oaktree Lib Con, no difference, cronies, donours, no difference

Bob Gillies

@John Oaktree
Gee....you got it right for a change. I am impressed.

Bob Gillies

@Rob Lehtisaari
"Why is your framed narrative so far from the details on the facts of the MOU of the F-35 vs. the announced purchase announcement of the F-35 by the then PM, Stephen Harper,"

Because the poster wrote
"Cost us billions and we got nothing in return"

An "MOU" is NOT a contract to purchase and cost Canada nothing. All Canada has invested is our contractural obligations under the 21 year old partnership agreement and maintained by every government since Chretien entered into it in 1997. The TOTAL investment in that 21 years is LESS than a billion dollars and Canada has received contracts potentially worth over $10 billion US whether we buy the F-35 or not.

https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/app-acq/amd-dp/air/snac-nfps/dir-irb-eng.html
It is no secret the conservatives wanted to buy the F-35 but the idea that "want""Cost us billions and we got nothing in return" is just plain bogus.

John Oaktree

@Bob Gillies

Facts don't change...

I always go with the facts.

Bob Gillies

@John Oaktree
"I always go with the facts."

I beg to disagree….sometimes you do and sometimes you don't. Your posting history proves it.

Vernon McPhee

@Alison Jackson I really hate to tell you this but the F35 was originally picked by the Liberal government before Harper became PM. We did not spend billions on it at any point but what we did get was access to bid on the sub-contracts prior to the suspension of the deal. When the Liberals restarted the F35 process they again signed on but this time without access to the sub contracts. Seems to me the mismanagement falls on the Liberals more than the Conservatives.

David Amos

@Bob Gillies @John Oaktree "I always go with the facts."

Methinks the fact is that neither you have read my lawsuit N'esy Pas?

 
Philip Lucas

It seems so simple to resolve a procurement.
1. Set the specifications.
2. Solicit interest and select eligible bidders.
3. Review bids and if all are in some way deficient as each bidder to submit an alternative for specs they cannot meet.
4. Review alternatives
5. Select the winning bid
6. Begin construction with price and production guarantees.

Why is it so hard to keep the politics and backhanders out of the process?

Nestor Neville Nelson

@Philip Lucas

Can't trust these Liberals any further
than one can throw one of them warships

Mark (Junkman) George

@Philip Lucas

"Why is it so hard to keep the politics and backhanders out of the process?"

Because every politician involved wants, no, expects, backhanders.

David Amos

@Mark (Junkman) George YUP

Feds, Irving ask trade tribunal to toss challenge to warship contract

2 parties argue the challenge filed by an American company doesn't meet requirements for a tribunal hearing

Lee Berthiaume· The Canadian Press· Posted: Dec 25, 2018 4:02 PM AT 

The Irving Shipbuilding facility is seen in Halifax on June 14, 2018. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)

The federal government and Halifax-based Irving Shipbuilding are asking a trade tribunal to throw out a challenge to their handling of a high-stakes competition to design the navy's new $60-billion fleet of warships.

In separate submissions to the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, the federal procurement department and Irving say the challenge filed by Alion Science and Technology of Virginia does not meet the requirements for a tribunal hearing.

Alion was one of three companies, along with U.S. defence giant Lockheed Martin and Spanish firm Navantia, vying to design the new warships, which are to be built by Irving and serve as the navy's backbone for most of this century.

While Lockheed was selected as the preferred bidder and is negotiating a final design contract with the government and Irving, Alion alleges the company's design did not meet the navy's requirements and should have been disqualified.

Two of those requirements related to the ship's speed, Alion alleged, while the third related to the number of crew berths. Alion has asked both the trade tribunal and the Federal Court to stop any deal with Lockheed.

But the government and Irving say the contract is exempt from normal trade laws, which the tribunal is charged with enforcing, because of a special "national security exception," meaning there is "no jurisdiction for the tribunal to conduct an inquiry."

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Another reason the challenge should be quashed, they argue, is that Alion is not a Canadian company, which is a requirement for being able to ask the tribunal to consider a complaint.

Alion's challenge has been formally filed by its Canadian subsidiary, but the government and Irving say that subsidiary was never actually qualified to be a bidder in the competition — only its American parent.

The responses from the government and Irving are the latest twist in the largest military purchase in Canadian history, which will see 15 new warships built to replace the navy's 12 aging Halifax-class frigates and three already-retired Iroquois-class destroyers.

The trade tribunal ordered the government last month not to award a final contract to Lockheed until it had investigated Alion's complaint, but rescinded the order after a senior procurement official warned that the deal was "urgent."

The procurement department has not explained why the deal is urgent.

Workers look on from the bow of a ship as former prime minister Stephen Harper addresses the crowd at the Halifax Shipyard in Halifax on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)

Lockheed's bid was contentious from the moment the design competition was launched in October 2016.

The federal government had originally said it wanted a "mature design" for its new warship fleet, which was widely interpreted as meaning a vessel that has already been built and used by another navy.

But the first Type 26 frigates, upon which Lockheed's proposal was based, are only now being built by the British government and the design has not yet been tested in full operation.

There were also complaints from industry that the deck was stacked in the Type 26's favour because of Irving's connections with British shipbuilder BAE, which originally designed the Type 26 and partnered with Lockheed to offer the ship to Canada.

Irving, which worked with the federal government to pick the top design, also partnered with BAE in 2016 on an ultimately unsuccessful bid to maintain the navy's new Arctic patrol vessels and supply ships.

That 35-year contract ended up going to another company.

Government confident it did no wrong

Irving and the federal government have repeatedly rejected such complaints, saying they conducted numerous consultations with industry and used a variety of firewalls and safeguards to ensure the choice was completely fair.

But industry insiders had long warned that Lockheed's selection as the top bidder, combined with numerous changes to the requirements and competition terms after it was launched — including a number of deadline extensions — would spark lawsuits.

Government officials acknowledged last month the threat of legal action, which has become a favourite tactic for companies that lose defence contracts, but expressed confidence that they would be able to defend against such an attack.

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Power & Politics' top five political moves and misses of 2018

2166 Comments

 
Kevin Jonson

Justin will go down as the worst PM in the country's history.

mo bennett

@Kevin Jonson as will most of the commenters on this site.

David Amos

@Kevin Jonson" Justin will go down as the worst PM in the country's history."

Methinks many ghosts would agree with me that the old drunk John A. Macdonald earned that title long ago N'esy Pas?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Macdonald

"His most controversial move was to approve the execution of Métis leader Louis Riel for treason in 1885; it alienated many francophones from his Conservative Party."

David Amos

@mo bennett YO Mo Nay Not So

John Houseman

Biggest blunder was Trudeau and pipelines . What a disaster .

Troy Mann

@Jay Schuster

The west coast isn't closed to tankers, only the remote northern part is. Basically to make it the same, the coast of Labrador would be banned for tankers.

David Amos

@Troy Mann Methinks by your words you must have heard about the blowout in the summer of 1981 off the coast of Labrador N'esy Pas?

 
Stan Cox

Despite the mistakes our politicians make - on all political sides - Canada remains the best country in the world!

Maybe it's because we choose to pull together instead of pull each other apart!

David Amos

@Stan Cox Dream on

Methinks the ghosts of my Forefathers would affirm that there hasn't been anything more divisive to our country than the actions of our politicians starting with the sneaky lawyer Macdonald and his cohorts 1867. My generation witnessed it one hundred years later when another lawyer I call Trudeau the Elder became our Prime Minister N'esy Pas?

  

Kevan Cleverbridge (Hill 70)

All of these spell the end of Justin Trudeau's reign in 2019.

James Holden

@Kevan Cleverbridge (Hill 70)

None of that even comes close to being resignation worthy for our Prime Minister.

Even caving to the Conservatives on the first past the post (which disappointed me greatly) is not nearly enough to consider letting Scheer's Conservatives govern.

Harper is still pulling Scheer's strings. Their policies are the same and I would not wish for Canadians to suffer through that again.

Troy Mann

@James Holden

Proportional representation is the worst electoral system devised, ranked ballots made sense.

David Amos

@Troy Mann So you say

 
Bill Mickey

You forgot two of the most important Liberal quotes. Hussen calling Lisa MacLeod un-Canadian and Trudeau calling Conservatives ambulance chasers. I believe these two quotes will come back to bite the arrogant Liberal party at election time. They seriously underestimated how divisive they have become.

Troy Mann

@Bill Mickey

Conservatives were acting like a bunch of ambulances chasers and most canadians are good with calling a spade a spade so it only looked bad for conservatives as the shoe did fit.

Bill Mickey

@Troy Mann Sunlight is the best disinfectant. The Liberals were quite comfortable allowing the murderer of an 8 year old child to be sent off to a healing lodge. The conservatives and the majority of Canadians didn't agree. If that's the definition of an ambulance chaser, then yes. Do you think she should be in a healing lodge?

David Amos

@Bill Mickey YUP

David Amos

@Troy Mann NOPE

Elaine Hancock

The handling of the asylum seekers from the US at the illegal border crossing has been a failure. Our RCMP officers carrying baggage, people housed in hotels, downloading the costs of housing, welfare, health care, etc to the provinces. This is not immigration and it is not what most Canadians will accept as immigration. And our expansive and expensive social safety net cannot support it!

Troy Mann

@Elaine Hancock

Jim isn't a judge Elaine so what he thinks and you think are not a part of the decision making. We have a system for processing people, like th US. If you claim refugee status in the US you will be processed accordingly.

Give it a try and see what happens

Elaine Hancock

@Troy Mann I’ll be turned back at the border!

 

David Amos

@Elaine Hancock Methinks Mr Mann would say anything in defense of his beloved party leader N'esy Pas?

 

Roderick Wilson

Just a few months ago 25 million Canadians in NB, QB and ON, had Liberal Premiers leading them, all were huge Trudeau supporters. They have now all been replaced, showing that support for the Trudeau anti-Canadian agenda is now the political kiss of death in our country.

David Amos

@Roderick Wilson Methinks that you overlooked the fact that the NDP have now become irrelevant and Harper 2.0 and Maxime the lawyer and his new party will likely split the vote on the right thus insuring a second mandate for Prime Minister Trudeau The Younger N'esy Pas?

Rod Begin

It’s something special how the taxpayer funded media can put positive spin on everything Trudeau!

Rob Scott

@Rod Begin

you call this positive ???

Michael Kachmar

@Rod Begin 2018 saw similar funding extend to favored media outlets so that the spin cycle would be favorable towards him no matter how back the actual story was.

Nancy van der Meulen

@Rod Begin
This was hardly positive about Trudeau.
It reads like something put out by the Conservative Party.
Power and Politics is Canada’s answer to FOX News.

James Holden

@Rod Begin

Why let the body of the article get in the way of your Conservative political agenda.

John Oaktree

@Rod Begin

Yup - and under Harper, it was all Harper all the time...

And to think - Conservatives tell me that Sun News Media is now a Liberal PR machine since Trudeau helped save them from bankruptcy...

David Amos

@Rod Begin Very Special Indeed

John Langton

"Events and failures"?

"Successes" is noticeably absent in this headline.

Then again "success" is noticeably absent from this Trudeau term of gov't as well.

Terrance Van Gemert

@John Langton
Success does not show up anywhere.. scheer does not have it nor does NDP.. as we focus on USA canada like the rest of the world has no say or does not count.

Troy Mann

@John Langton

Lowest unemployment rate in 40 years isn't a success to conservatives because they want Canada to fail.

David Amos

@Troy Mann Methinks the Vestcor employees are doing very well compared to all the folks paying taxes on their minimum wages N'esy Pas?

 
Scott Wilson

Make Justin A Drama Teacher Again.

David Amos

@Scott Wilson Methinks JT has already proven himself to be an excellent ringmaster at the circus Hence his future is so bright he should wear shades N'esy Pas?

 
David Amos

Methinks many politicians are relieved that the biggest political story of all was ignored since Trudeau won his mandate 3 years ago but its duly recorded in the public record of Federal Court N'esy Pas?

 

mo bennett

just when exactly will the children leave the building? apparently, the entire planet could use some adult.

David Amos

@mo bennett Yo MO Methinks you are running low on fans N'esy Pas?

mo bennett

on the funnier side was captain gazebo texting pics of himself and a rather comedic trip to the call centre of the planet.

Terrance Van Gemert

@mo bennett
yeah jason kenney looked rather silly with the off white cloth on his head.

mo bennett

@Terrance Van Gemert that was his homofobe attire.

David Amos

@mo bennett YO MO Methinks this morning you are the star of the show N'esy Pas?

mo bennett

@David Amos no applause, just throw money.

David Amos

@mo bennett NO MO Methinks only fools would reward a clown who does nothing but insult people N'esy Pas?

mo bennett

since it's almost award's season, dissing a 7 year olds Santa belief takes 1st place in the Grinch category.

Stan Cox

@mo bennett

He shouldn't even try...

David Amos

@mo bennett YO MO Methinks you would enjoy listening to a recording of a circus in court from 3 years ago N'esy Pas?

Obviously I called the recording of the hearing Bah Humbug

https://archive.org/details/BahHumbug

 

David Conway

This article reminisce the soap operas of the rich and famous.

Terrance Van Gemert

@David Conway
yeah that I can agree with.. or as the world turns.

mo bennett

@David Conway can't get nothin' past you this mornin'!

David Amos

@mo bennett "can't get nothin' past you this mornin'!"

What am I? Chopped liver?

  

Debra Schmitz

The federal-provincial conflict over carbon pricing seems to set the stage for a pitched battle as Canadians ready themselv

Let’s do it!

Rob Scott

@Debra Schmitz

and another country heard from

David Amos

@Debra Schmitz I concur

  

mo bennett

voters tied for second place for electing curly, larry, moe and shemp north of the 49th.

David Conway

@mo bennett
Still sleeping on the couch ?

mo bennett

@David Conway apparently you have forgotten then you only get 1 vote per election.

David Amos

@mo bennett YO MO Methinks you forgot that some folks voted for me Everybody knows anybody can Google the following N'esy Pas?

CBC Fundy Royal

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fundy-royal-riding-profile-1.3274276

mo bennett

@David Amos you do realize you just confirmed my usual observation that voters aren't that smart, right!

 

mo bennett

once again, 45 was the biggest error ever known to the human race.

David Amos

@mo bennett "once again, 45 was the biggest error ever known to the human race."

YO MO Methinks you should finally Google the following ASAP N'esy Pas?

Trump Cohen Amos NAFTA FATCA TPP

mo bennett

@David Amos methinks yer messy paws have got to you, c'est vrai?

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Power & Politics' top five political moves and misses of 2018

Count down the year's most significant political moments with Vassy Kapelos

CBC News· Posted: Dec 26, 2018 4:00 AM ET 

U.S. President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto attend the USMCA signing ceremony before the G20 leaders summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina November 30, 2018. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

As 2018 winds to a close, it's time to take a look back at the year's biggest political events and errors, both at home and abroad.

The Power Panel— Postmedia journalist Jen Gerson, Supriya Dwivedi of Global Radio News and Brad Lavigne of Counsel Public Affairs — helped host Vassy Kapelos count down the unforgettable political moments that defined 2018.

The biggest political blunders of 2018

 

5. Adrienne Clarkson's post-GG spending

 

Power and Politics

P&P top political blunders of 2018: number five

 Adrienne Clarkson's post-GG spending. 6:10

Adrienne Clarkson retired as Canada's governor general 13 years ago, but earlier this year it came to light that from 1999 to 2005, she billed taxpayers for more than $1 million in expenses after leaving the viceregal job.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was forced to address the issue, saying Canada's governors general deserve continued financial support once they retire but need to be more transparent and accountable for their expenses.

"These are people who've stepped up and offered tremendous service to this country, but Canadians expect a certain level of transparency and accountability, and we're going to make sure we're moving forward in a thoughtful way," Trudeau said.

• Former governors general must be more accountable on spending, Trudeau says

• David Johnston has spent $76K in 6 months since leaving Rideau Hall

 

4. The NDP's struggles

 

Power and Politics

P&P top political blunders of 2018: number four

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The NDP's struggles. 4:00

It's been a challenging year for the New Democrats, marred by weak fundraising and a lacklustre performance in the polls. Nine veteran NDP MPs announced they won't be running in 2019's federal election, and leader Jagmeet Singh is still working on winning a seat in Parliament. Will the party's fortunes pick up in 2019?

That will depend, in part, on how much money they can raise for the next election. In 2017 the party's balance sheet showed that it finished the year deeper in the red than it had been for the last 16 years.

The annual financial return, filed with Elections Canada, shows the party finished the year with assets of $6.2 million and liabilities totalling $9.3 million, leaving the party with negative net assets of $3.1 million.

• Analysis
  The NDP is in trouble — and that's bad news for the Conservatives

• Liberals confirm they're running against Singh as byelections planned for February

• Fin Donnelly joins list of NDP MPs not seeking re-election in 2019

 

3. Trump's border separation policy

 

Power and Politics

P&P top political blunders of 2018: number three

President Trump's border separation policy. 3:27

U.S. President Donald Trump's zero-tolerance policy on illegal immigration at the border led to migrant children being separated from their parents.

The move sparked global outrage. Trudeau added his voice to those denouncing the detention policy in June.

"What's going on in the United States is wrong," Trudeau said. "I can't imagine what the families living through this are enduring. Obviously, this is not the way we do things in Canada."

• World expresses outrage at Trump policy on separating migrant families

• After outcry, Trump signs order that will stop separations and detain families together

• Melania Trump dons 'I really don't care' jacket on flight to visit detained migrant children

 

2. Unparliamentary behaviour

 

Power and Politics

P&P top political blunders of 2018: number two

Unparliamentary conduct. 3:52

Coming in at number two is behaviour that just didn't meet the bar of required conduct for a parliamentarian — or anyone else, for that matter. Cases in point: Tony Clement, Erin Weir, Trudeau's groping allegations, Kent Hehr.

Perhaps the most scandalous behaviour involved Conservative MP Clement, who admitted in November to sending sexually explicit images and videos of himself to someone he said he believed was a consenting woman — but who turned out to be a blackmailer targeting him for financial extortion.

Clement was forced to step down as his party's justice critic, was removed from the multi-party national security and intelligence committee and eventually stepped down from the Conservative caucus altogether.

But Clement was far from the only federal politician facing questions this year. Prime Minister Trudeau had to explain allegations that he groped a young woman nearly 20 years ago at a music festival.

Liberal MP Kent Hehr was forced to step down from cabinet, but not from the party, after sexual harassment allegations emerged against him. Weir was removed from caucus in May after an independent investigation commissioned by the party upheld several complaints of harassment and sexual harassment against him.

• Clement admits to multiple infidelities, says foreign actors tried to extort him

• MP Erin Weir expelled from NDP caucus after harassment investigation

• 'I am confident that I did not act inappropriately,' Trudeau says of groping allegation

 

1. Trudeau's trip to India

 

Power and Politics

P&P top political blunders of 2018: number one

The Prime Minister's trip to India. 6:10

This was the Trudeau government's signature pratfall on the world stage, marked by over-the-top wardrobe choices, questions about whether any work was getting done and, of course, the major security failure that allowed a convicted would-be assassin, Jaspal Atwal, to score an invite to a party with the prime minister.

In a year-end interview with Rosemary Barton, host of CBC's The National, Trudeau admitted that he learned from the trip and would not wear the colourful Indian traditional clothing should he return to the country.

The Atwal incident, however, obscured the glare from the prime minister's gold sherwani entirely. Trudeau's national security and intelligence adviser, Daniel Jean, contacted the media and gave an off-the-record briefing suggesting that rogue political elements in India may have orchestrated Atwal's invitation to embarrass Trudeau and make him seem sympathetic to Sikh extremism.

The government got a bit of reprieve when a national security and intelligence committee report on the trip revealed that the RCMP knew Atwal was making his way to India to attend events with Trudeau, but failed to failed to "validate that information."

• Analysis
  What really happened on Trudeau's India trip: Trade concerns overshadowed by wardrobe choices, extremism talk

• Analysis
  Did Trudeau's botched India trip lose the Liberals their polling lead?

• Video
  Leaders trade barbs about PM's India trip at press gallery dinner

• RCMP knew Atwal was joining PM's trip — but did not tell Trudeau's security detail: report

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Biggest political moves of 2018

 

5. Doug Ford and the notwithstanding clause

 

Power and Politics

P&P top political moves of 2018: number five

Doug Ford's threat to use the notwithstanding clause. 5:47

Ontario Premier Doug Ford's threat to invoke the notwithstanding clause in September meant that the political trump card suddenly got a lot more attention from Canadians.

Ford made the threat to use the clause to override the Charter of Rights and Freedoms after an Ontario Superior Court judge ruled that his provincial government's legislation to cut the number of Toronto city councillors was unconstitutional.

The Ontario premier did not have to make good on his threat because the Ontario Court of Appeal stayed the earlier decision, paving the way for city council to be cut from 47 to 25 members.

• POWER & POLITICS
  'He did the right thing': Former premiers back Doug Ford's use of the notwithstanding clause

• Canada's notwithstanding clause — what's that again?

• The 10 biggest things Doug Ford has done in his first 100 days in office

 

4. John Horgan vs. TMX

 

Power and Politics

P&P top political moves of 2018: number four

B.C. Premier John Horgan vs. the TMX Trans Mountain pipeline. 2:15

Doug Ford wasn't the only premier making sure his voice was heard in 2018.

B.C. Premier John Horgan's fight against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion put him at odds with his fellow NDP premier — and next-door neighbour — Alberta's Rachel Notley.

The move allowed Horgan to establish himself publicly as a protector of the environment and a steward of B.C's coast. On its own, that won't stop the eventual construction of the pipeline Trudeau is determined to see through to completion, but it still bolsters Horgan's image as an environmentally-minded political leader.

• Opinion
  Notley, Singh, Horgan and the pipeline that sparked an NDP civil war

• Alberta passes bill 'to turn off the taps' to B.C. over pipeline delays

• 'Rhetoric and hyperbole': Horgan fires back at finance minister over feds' Trans Mountain backing

• B.C. premier has 'full and frank' conversations with western premiers but no consensus on pipeline

 

3. Legalization of marijuana

 

Power and Politics

P&P top political moves of 2018: number three

The legalization of cannabis in Canada. 3:20

Our pick for the number three top political move of the year is the legalization of marijuana on Oct. 17, which made Canada only the second country in the world (after Uruguay) to legalize cannabis for recreational use.

With each of the provinces running the program differently, there have been missteps in the roll-out. Ontario Premier Doug Ford cancelled the previous Liberal government's plan to roll out retail stores, forcing customers to buy from the government's online store — which experienced significant delays delivering products.

Supply shortages across the country made it difficult for Trudeau to argue that the legal market was accomplishing its goal of washing away the illegal marijuana market.

But still, it was a promise made and kept — despite the difficulties along the way — and a win for the federal Liberals.

• Mind your marijuana manners: Navigating the social norms of legal cannabis

• The CBC on pot: Chronicling decades of cannabis coverage

• 10 cannabis-filled films to watch amid legalization

 

2. Premiers vs. the carbon tax

 

Power and Politics

P&P top political moves of 2018: number two

Premiers vs. the national carbon pricing plan. 5:03

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister and Alberta Opposition leader Jason Kenney have formed a united front to take on the federal Liberals' plan to impose a national price on carbon.

They say that, far from being an environmental policy, pricing carbon is little more than a tax grab that will raise the cost of living for commuters, small businesses and farmers, and they want it cancelled.

Meanwhile, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce is backing carbon pricing. A report by Mark Cameron, a former policy director in the Prime Minister's Office under Stephen Harper, said the Liberals' plan to tax polluters and return that money to Canadians directly would leave households better off financially than they are now.


The federal-provincial conflict over carbon pricing seems to set the stage for a pitched battle as Canadians ready themselves for the federal election coming in the fall.

• Ford threatens walkout as provincial officials criticize agenda for first ministers conference

• Premiers vent over climate 'goal posts' and internal trade at first ministers meeting

1. Trump's trade threats and tariffs

Power and Politics

P&P top political moves of 2018: number one

Donald Trump's trade threats and tariffs. 2:36

U.S. President Donald Trump's burgeoning trade war is our number one political move of 2018.
Trump and NAFTA dominated headlines this year. His move to scrap the original trade deal, and to slap tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, had a major impact on the Canadian economy and led to some delicate cross-border diplomatic manoeuvre​s.

A new trade deal was signed by all three countries, but the ratification process in the United States promises to be far more complicated than it will be in Canada. Only when the new deal is implemented will we know whether Trump's strategy paid off.

• 'Battle' over as Trudeau, Trump, Pena Nieto sign 'new NAFTA'

• EU trade chief defends Freeland after Trump trash-talks 'Canada's negotiator'

• Analysis
  Now what? How steel and aluminum tariffs will impact Canada

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Replying to @DavidRayAmos@Kathryn98967631 and 49 others

Methinks the only time Mr Higgs changes his mind on any issue is when the Irving Clan tells him to N'esy Pas?

https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2018/12/blaine-higgs-embraces-challenges.html

#nbpoli #cdnpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/blaine-higgs-new-brunswick-premier-2019-1.4957015

Blaine Higgs embraces challenges — and they are many

91 Comments

Steve Murray

Maybe Higgs' overlords should throw some pocket change back into the province they have taken so much from over all these years. The Irvings could pay the whole bill for the Francophone Games out of petty cash.

David Amos

@Steve Murray Methinks if Higgs just canceled one cheque from NB Power to the Irving Clan it would more than cover the games. After all other folks called it corporate welfare N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-first-full-rate-hearing-gets-questions-about-big-paper-mills-1.3114844

 
David Amos

Methinks the only time Mr Higgs changes his mind on any issue is when the Irving Clan tells him to N'esy Pas?

 
Brian Robertson

There has been official bilingualism in New Brunswick ever since Louis Robichaud.
It has been entrenched into the Constitution ever since McKenna slipped it in during the Meech Lake debacle.

And there have always been ambulances in this Province.

So can someone please explain to me just why this is an issue now?

What service provider will be the next targeted group by the activists.

David Amos

@Brian Robertson" It has been entrenched into the Constitution ever since McKenna slipped it in during the Meech Lake debacle. "

Are you certain the Charter is legal?

Methinks a lot folks should read this document before they argue me N'esy Pas?

Canada was explained within the 2002 Annual Report FORM 18-K filed by The Deputy Minister of Finance with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/230098/000113031902001603/m08476e18vk.htm

 
Paul Krumm

If only New Brunswick could find some statesmen to govern us and not some sycophants. Increase HST by 2%, minimum income tax of (say $100) per person, increase income tax rates by 5% at the bottom end up to 25% at the top. Plastic tax of $2 on every plastic container, plus $1 tax on every single piece of non re-recyclable packaging ($5 or so per pack of cigarettes) increase bottle deposit to $1 per, introduce point of sale refunds, etc etc, legislate that tax increases will revert to 'normal' after 4 years.. Introduce short term (3 year) occupancy tax $100 per person. The problem could be largely solved in as few years. Short term pain etcetera!

David Amos

@Paul Krumm Methinks all we need is a few ethical Independents blessed with the rather thing called common sense seated in the house to keep the professional politicians on the straight and narrow N'esy Pas?

 



  
Claude DeRoche

How sweet the Irving Boy blackmailing his own citizens!

If you don't agree with fracking I will send our transfer payments back to Ottawa!

David Amos

@Claude DeRoche Methinks many folks thought that was pretty funny N'esy Pas?

Wally Manza

Certainly we need more than a taxpayer funded economy provides considering consumers already leveraging themselves through debt are now indebted on average at 174% of income and rising. Consumer spending is not the kind of economic engine which is sustainable.
We need new people(immigration) bringing new money coming into this province. We need new private sector investment and venture capital to replace reliance on consumer spending. In short we need to seek a new economic foundation based upon sustainable growth.

Mark (Junkman) George

@Wally Manza

Consumer spending is only part of the puzzle (a very small part).
Corporate welfare MUST stop.
The resources that successive governments have been giving to the select few belong to ALL New Brunswickers.
EVERYONE and ALL business have to pay their fair share of taxes.
Immigrants are pie in your sky........... most are resource-less refugees who rely on our charity to live.
Money, as in new money, will never come here.......... why would it come?

daryl doucette

@Mark (Junkman) George yu da MAN Mark!

David Amos

@Mark (Junkman) George "Corporate welfare MUST stop."

Methinks folks should check out how much money NB Power gives to the Irving Clan N'esy Pas?

Claude DeRoche

NB is now governed from the Irving head office!
What could go wrong!

David Amos

@Claude DeRoche Methinks you should tell us because everybody knows it has been that way since the lawyer called Little Louie became our Premier N'esy Pas?

  
Lou Bell

Bernard Lord and Ambulance NB have shown that their being awarded the Healthcare contract was NOT about healthcare , but language .

David Amos

@Lou Bell So you say

  
Mario Doucet

The elephant in the room is the cause of the NB debt load.

Marguerite Deschamps

@Mario Doucet, all that was missing was the mouse with the Mikey Mouse comment.

Claude DeRoche

@Mario Doucet
Time to send back transfers to Ottawa!

Dan Lee

@Claude DeRoche
How about we keep the transfers and send Mario back...........

David Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps "all that was missing was the mouse with the Mikey Mouse comment"

Methinks I sometimes resemble that remark N'esy Pas?

David Amos

@Mario Doucet Methinks many would agree that the elephant in the room is Mr .Gauvin N'esy Pas?

"Deputy Premier Robert Gauvin, the only francophone in the government, warned that the Ambulance New Brunswick controversy had brought him close to resigning and that he would spend the holidays pondering his future with the party."

Brian Robertson

So the CBC has established that their sole focus of the Higgs' government is going to be language.

Of the myriad of problems facing this Province, what we are going to be hearing over and over again will be Francophone language rights.

Is it any wonder that we can't seem to pull up out of this death spire?

Graeme Scott

@Brian Robertson I've also noticed that CBC reporting has definitely been showing more and more of a subtle anti PC slant in recent weeks. I guess when you feed at the government trough you're instinctively opposed to fiscal restraint of any kind

David Amos

@Graeme Scott "I've also noticed that CBC reporting has definitely been showing more and more of a subtle anti PC slant in recent weeks."

Methinks a lot of folks noticed a lot more than that N'esy Pas?

Lou Bell

Bernard Lord indicated Ambulance NB was putting off doing any hiring or readjusting as much as possible, in spite of Government directives . These people have a commitment to provide a HEALTHCARE SERVICE , and I would suggest if they CANNOT provide that service, TERMINATE the contract immediately ! Their mandate is healthcare , not language, so either do the job or get fired !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

David Amos

@Lou Bell Methinks folks should ask Mr Higgs why his buddy Bernie Lord had me illegally barred from legislative properties in 2004 while I was running in the election of the 38th Parliament N'esy Pas?

 
Alex Forbes

Higgs will do what's in the best interest of the Irvings...like every other politician in NB it would seem.

Brian Robertson

@Alex Forbes
This tired old, unfounded rant is the kind of comment made by someone who has nothing relevant to add to the discussion.

Mark (Junkman) George

@Brian Robertson

It may be, as you say: "old and tired", but being "old and tired" does not change a NB basic truth.
Very close to the first 2 CONServative policy statements out of old Blaine's mouth were "pipeline and fracking", both activities that will enrich the Irvings by many millions, if not billions, NB not so much.
It matters not, if blue, or red, clowns are elected in NB, the Irvings seem to win every election.

Jim Cyr

@Mark (Junkman) George
You know, you might be right about the Irvings (and fracking, too).

But just the way you talk makes me think that you believe that having a job so that you can have enough money to put food on the table and also pay the bills is a trifling matter...............
Must be nice!

Mark (Junkman) George

@Jim Cyr

Sounds like you need a profession.
Jobs are temporary things you work at to make someone else wealthy.

David Amos

@Alex Forbes I Wholeheartedly Agree Sir

David Amos

@Brian Robertson "This tired old, unfounded rant is the kind of comment made by someone who has nothing relevant to add to the discussion."

Methinks you should intervene in my next lawsuit and argue the facts with me N'esy Pas?

  
Paul Bourgoin

New Brunswick needs elected officials that after being nominated start doing what they were chosen for. That is representing the people of New Brunswick. Not dividing English against French against English by veering them on each other using sensitive cultural differences like language but doing what is best for New Brunswick. Not what their financial supporters believe they bought!

Mark (Junkman) George

@Paul Bourgoin

It's just another Irving smoke screen........... ignore the language issue and watch what is really going on.

David Amos

@Mark (Junkman) George YUP

  
Douglas James

Learning more on a particular issue? How is this Blaine...

New Brunswick, with one of the highest obesity rates in Canada, is a breeding ground for Type 2 diabetes, arguably the greatest epidemic in human history. So far, not a peep out of your government on how it is going to fight this epidemic.

In the midst of this, Type 1 diabetics are provided insulin through the NB Drug Plan but have no idea how much to take based on what they eat or how much exercise they do because the drug plan does not cover continuous glucose monitoring supplies or even basic blood glucose test strips.

People with diabetes are clogging up the healthcare system with unnecessary complications which eventually lead to death because of inaction by successive New Brunswick governments. It will get only get much worse with over one third of the population (tested or untested) likely to already have Type 2 diabetes.

There...you've learned some more on an issue of critical importance. Now, what are you going to do about it?

Douglas James

@Douglas James Clearly those who've put thumbs down on this have no idea of the suffering diabetes causes. They will soon enough.

cheryl wright

@Douglas James thank you!! Insulin dependent patients are numerous in this province and the condition is extremely expensive. I find it funny that we can find money for assistance for heroine and meth addicts but the diabetics are left out in the cold. people go without checking their sugar levels because strips are so costly which in return results in highs or lows and ambulance rides to the ers. its unnecessary and its not right. there are definitely gaps in our health care, diabetics and seniors are just 2 of them.

David Amos

@Douglas James Trust that I am very familiar with Type 1 diabetess the suffering diabetes causes and you got my thumb down anyway for reasons you know as well as I N'esy Pas?

  
Shawn Tabor

What don’t kill you, will only make you stronger. Imagine if Mr Higgs did turn the province around. Just think about how the history books would be written. Hats off to you Sir for being up for the challenge. Be careful not to be like all the Premiers before you, that has lead us to this mess. I only know from Richard Hatfield to present day. Kick the can Sir and Goodluck.

David Amos

@Shawn Tabor I disagree Higgs for many years has been made well aware of my opinion on the debt versus pensions plans. In fact I explained it to you a time or two correct?

David Amos 

 @David Amos I repeat before the stock market takes another nosedive I propose to stop the pensioners lawsuits and secure their investments with our IOU . Everybody but the Banksters win. Simply take the money from the "Shared Risk" pension plan managed by Vestcor and pay off our provincial debt in full. Then honour the contract with the pensioners through general funds. The shortfall between what is going into their pension plans and what is being paid out is only about 70 million which is a whole lot cheaper for the rest of us than paying 700 million a year in interest on our debt to Banksters. Methinks it truly is just that simple that is why nobody will argue me about it N'esy Pas?

  
Errol Willis

Language is definitely the most divisive (and expensive) issue facing NB. On one hand, Anglophones seem to feel that bilingualism should be a requirement "where numbers warrant" and on the other hand, Francophones seem to feel that it is an absolute right in all cases of government supplied services. There has to be some middle ground here. Why can't people get in a room and negotiate what is best for the province, not for each language group? There is no doubt that providing duplication is wildly expensive, but as well, there is no doubt that it should be done when necessary.

The Language Commissioner office is horribly biased and is more of an impediment to progress than an advocate. As long as people back into their own corners and refuse to negotiate in good faith, this province will continue to sink financially.

Joseph Vacher

@Errol Willis i would like to see the playing field at least balanced out. There is no requirement for your ability to speak good English, but you are required to speak perfect Chiac to work in this province

Marguerite Deschamps

@Joseph Vachier; it's in the name. LLol.

David Amos

@Joseph Vacher Methinks my command of Chiac is excellent much to the chagrin of the SANB and their spin doctors N'esy Pas?

  
carter edgar

so if Gauvin goes to the Liberals on this issue,does it sign Liberalsfrench consevatives English what a road to go down

David Amos

@carter edgar Methinks if anything Gauvin will remain true to his word and sit as an Independent N'esy Pas?

Blaine Higgs embraces challenges — and they are many

'I have never been averse to changing my mind if I learn more on a particular issue,' says premier

Jacques Poitras· CBC News· Posted: Dec 27, 2018 7:00 AM AT

New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs described the current Ambulance New Brunswick languages situation as a compromise. (CBC)



Blaine Higgs ends 2018 holding what he says is the only job that allows him to turn around New Brunswick's dire fortunes: premier.

And he has rushed into the task.

But the job is one he also once acknowledged is much more difficult than the post of finance minister he held from 2010 to 2014.

In 2012, he said his single-minded focus on reducing government spending was easier than then-premier David Alward's need to balance myriad other competing priorities.

A finance minister would have firm views "on how aggressive we can be" with the budget, he said back then.

• Weakened bilingual requirements for paramedics violates languages act, says commissioner

• Ottawa should cut equalization to force provinces to develop resources, Higgs says

• Flemming's rhetoric on bilingual paramedics doesn't reflect province's position, says Higgs

"The premier, on the other hand, has to balance not only that aspect of our priorities, but all the other priorities that are in the system, and all of the other demands he has across the province. So his challenge is much greater than mine."

Now Higgs is the premier, and finds himself in the thick of one of those challenges, perhaps the toughest of all in New Brunswick: language rights.

He was sworn in vowing to drop a judicial review launched by the previous Liberal government to clarify its bilingualism obligations. He said a court review wasn't necessary and would only slow down his efforts to fix staff shortages at Ambulance New Brunswick.

But he was persuaded to reverse himself and let government lawyers move ahead with a Jan. 24 hearing. It will determine whether the recommendations of labour arbitrator John McEvoy go against the Official Languages Act and language provisions of the Constitution.

I have never been averse to changing my mind if I learn more on a particular issue.- Blaine Higgs, premier

"I have never been averse to changing my mind if I learn more on a particular issue," Higgs said in a year-end interview.

"In this situation, what I learned is that the Constitution and the way it's worded would suggest that there needs to be clarity."

Higgs also decided that while the province waited for a ruling on McEvoy's recommendations, it would go ahead and implement them — in the interest of ensuring people get life-saving ambulance service.

The judicial review is aimed at resolving apparent contradictions between two rulings on the bilingual hiring requirements for paramedics. (Catherine Allard/Radio-Canada)

So on Dec. 20, Health Minister Ted Flemming directed Ambulance New Brunswick to waive bilingual requirements in temporary paramedic hirings in regions where the government believes demand for second-language service is low.

"The only caveat for me was that we don't lose time here in providing service," Higgs said. "So if we want to carry on [in court] to get a final answer, that's fine, but we're not going to lose time in delivering service. That was kind of the compromise."

Compromise was not something Higgs spoke of fondly as finance minister.

As Alward's finance minister, he complained, often openly, that his own Tory colleagues stymied his balanced-budget plan by worrying more about getting re-elected than about sound fiscal management.

That's one reason he ran for the party leadership in 2016. He couldn't impose his will on the government from the position of finance minister, he said.

"I wasn't the premier."

WorkSafeNB changes

His first few weeks in the job have borne out that view. "You just can — make things happen," he said, citing legislation rewriting the powers of a tribunal for WorkSafeNB appeals.

When the PCs were sworn in Nov. 9, the government had a report in hand recommending changes to the law that would rein in soaring premiums paid by employers.

 

The Higgs government brought in a bill on Nov. 27 to roll back park of scheduled premium increases.

Higgs says officials told him that they could have a bill ready "in the spring, sometime in February or March … So I said, 'In the meantime, we're going to pay the highest rates in the country and that'll likely carry on for a year or more?'

"They said, 'Yeah, it would take a while for the transition.' I said, 'What can we do to speed it up?'"

A bill was ready Nov. 27 and became law 15 days later, in time to roll back part of the scheduled Jan. 1 premium increase.

"What really was exciting was the Worksafe folks themselves were shocked at the speed at which we could actually move," Higgs said. "What it said to me is that if we can do that on this issue, we can do it on other issues."

• Employers to pay smaller WorkSafe premium increase than expected

 

A rush into a legal quagmire?

But speeding to a solution on the more complicated issue of bilingual ambulances is starting to look like a rush into a legal quagmire.

Besides the McEvoy judicial review, another court challenge is looming in response to Flemming's announcement of weaker hiring requirements.

Murielle and Danny Sonier of Moncton plan to return to court to ask a judge to force the province to comply with a 2017 consent order that settled their lawsuit over a lack of bilingual service.

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Premier Blaine Higgs reflects on 2018

00:0024:55

Premier Blaine Higgs talks to the CBC's Harry Forestell about the biggest issues in 2018 and looks forward to 2019. 24:55

That order, signed by both the province and Ambulance New Brunswick as well as the judge in the case, included a commitment to bilingual ambulances everywhere in the province.

The apparent contradiction between that order and the McEvoy recommendation is why the previous Liberal government asked the court to review McEvoy.

The premier says implementing McEvoy immediately is a temporary step, until bilingual staffing is ramped up and the legal issues are sorted out.

• Tories loosen bilingual hiring requirements for paramedics in certain areas

But it's a step he was determined to take right away.

"If someone said to me we're going to wait [for a decision on McEvoy] and service will be at risk in the interim, I would not have agreed to it," he said. "But as long as we can do both, we all get an answer at the end of the day."

'It is never because of language'

But even Ambulance New Brunswick is arguing there was no urgency because service would not be at risk.

"Ambulances are never off the road because of language requirements," spokesperson Chisholm Pothier said in an email statement.

"There are other reasons why ambulances are out of service ... but it is never because of language."

Deputy Premier Robert Gauvin, the only francophone in the government, warned that the Ambulance New Brunswick controversy had brought him close to resigning and that he would spend the holidays pondering his future with the party. (Hadeel Ibrahim/CBC) 

And Higgs's own deputy premier, Shippagan-Lameque-Miscou MLA Robert Gauvin — the only francophone in the government — warned that the controversy had brought him close to resigning, and that he would spend the holidays pondering his future with the party.

It is an indication that, on this issue at least, Higgs's appetite for quick decision-making may not be easily reconciled with what he once called "all of the other priorities in the system" that a premier has to consider.

• Flemming's rhetoric on bilingual paramedics doesn't reflect province's position, says Higgs

• Robert Gauvin questions future with PCs, 'came close' to quitting

 

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. 

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Methinks the Yankee lawyers Tom Fitton and Larry Klayman are big talkers N'esy Pas?

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David Raymond Amos‏ @DavidRayAmos 

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Methinks the Yankee lawyers Tom Fitton and Larry Klayman are big talkers but the FBI and the RCMP know I am the dude who talked to Julian Assange before he dropped the docs on the DNC in 2016 N'esy Pas? 

 https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2018/12/methinks-yankee-lawyers-tom-fitton-and.html

 #nbpoli#cdnpoli#FBI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IQBVMj13F0&t=3235s






David Raymond Amos‏ @DavidRayAmos 

Replying to @DavidTheroux@DailyCaller and 3 others

YO Mr Theroux I tried to speak to Mr Ade but couldn't so I said I would contact you Please check out this document and say hey to your lawyer buddy @TomFitton@JudicialWatch& @RealDonaldTrump for me before @jerome_corsi goes to court Jan 3rd will ya?

https://www.scribd.com/document/2619437/CROSS-BORDER



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IQBVMj13F0&t=3235s

"Criminal" Justice Department Cowers As Klayman Presses On Trump Must Act Now!

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Streamed live 20 hours ago

Larry Klayman and his team at Freedom Watch is battling the corrupt DOJ while President Trump watches from the sidelines. Will the President act before it is too late? Visit Larry's website and support the legal fight – https://www.freedomwatchusa.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQlYF-VU1_0

Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch Speaks About General Flynn at Turning Point USA

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Jason Goodman

Streamed live on Dec 22, 2018

A brief conversation with Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch at the Turning Point USA conference. We spoke about the General Flynn sentencing hearing, the Mark Meadows Non-Profit oversight hearing and the ongoing work Judicial Watch is doing to obtain Clinton emails and other key information through FOIA lawsuits. visit Judicial Watch's website – http://www.judicialwatch.org

---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 15:47:57 -0400
Subject: Fwd: YO Larry Klayman Check out this old file of mine and say
Hey to Mr Corsi and the FBI for me will ya?To: media@judicialwatch.org

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-doj-for-special-counsel-robert-muellers-security-detail-costs/

Judicial Watch Sues DOJ for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Security
Detail Costs

DECEMBER 27, 2018


(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of
Justice for records of costs incurred by and logs maintained by the
security detail for Special Counsel Robert Mueller (Judicial Watch v.
U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-02537)).

Judicial Watch filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District
of Columbia after the agency failed to respond adequately to its March
19, 2018, FOIA request for:

    All records reflecting expenses incurred by, and disbursements of
funds for, the security detail for Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
    All logs maintained by the security detail assigned to Special
Counsel Robert Mueller.

The Special Counsel’s office reportedly has spent over $25 million so far.

In a related lawsuit filed in October 2017, the Justice Department had
refused to release the proposed budget of Robert Mueller’s Special
Counsel Office, but later was forced to release details from the
heavily redacted August 2 memorandum in which Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein granted broad authority to Special Counsel Robert
Mueller, three months after Mueller’s appointment. The initial
appointment memo, controversially, was written in May 2017.

“The Justice Department, the FBI, and Special Counsel Mueller continue
to operate as if they are above the law,” said Judicial Watch
President Tom Fitton. “The American people have a right to know how
much taxpayer money is being thrown at Mueller’s massive
investigation. Judicial Watch has never before seen this level of
secrecy surrounding the operation of a special or independent
counsel.”

Judicial Watch is pursuing numerous additional FOIA lawsuits related
to the surveillance, unmasking, and illegal leaking targeting
President Trump and his associates during the FBI’s investigation of
potential Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election.

Jill Farrell
Director of Public Affairs
(202) 646-5172 (x305)

Cell 703 405 8905
(202) 646-5188
media@judicialwatch.org

 

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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 14:04:20 -0400
Subject: YO Larry Klayman Check out this old file of mine and say Hey
to Mr Corsi and the FBI for me will ya?
To: leklayman@yahoo.com, daj142182@gmail.com, washington field
<washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, "Boston.Mail"<Boston.Mail@ic.fbi.gov>
Cc: "David.Raymond.Amos"<David.Raymond.Amos@gmail.com>

I tried to provide a link to this document in the chat room below


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IQBVMj13F0

"Criminal" Justice Department Cowers As Klayman Presses On Trump Must Act Now!

9,803 views
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Streamed live 17 hours ago
Larry Klayman and his team at Freedom Watch is battling the corrupt
DOJ while President Trump watches from the sidelines.  Will the
President act before it is too late?

Visit Larry's website and support the legal fight –
https://www.freedomwatchusa.org/



https://www.freedomwatchusa.org/contact

To contact Freedom Watch via email: leklayman@yahoo.com or daj142182@gmail.com

Phone: 352-274-9359

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From: JW Info <info@judicialwatch.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 14:06:26 +0000
Subject: RE: Attn Larry Klayman Perhaps we should talk ASAP?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

Dear Mr. Amos:

Mr. Klayman had not been affiliated with Judicial Watch since 2003 and
cannot be reached through us.  Please contact him through Freedom
watch.

Regards,

Susan

-----Original Message-----
From: David Amos [mailto:motomaniac333@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 4:24 PM
To: daj142182@gmail.com; JW Info <info@JUDICIALWATCH.ORG>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>; stateofcorruptionnh1
<stateofcorruptionnh1@gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: Attn Larry Klayman Perhaps we should talk ASAP?

http://www.judicialwatch.org/

Judicial Watch
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Suite 800
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Phone: 352-274-9359

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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:17:06 -0400
Subject: Attn Larry Klayman Perhaps we should talk ASAP?
To: leklayman@yahoo.com
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c4h1OQ3S30
Published on Aug 23, 2017

http://www.larryklayman.com/

Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, is known
for his strong public interest advocacy in furtherance of ethics in
government and individual freedoms and liberties.
Read Full Bio
2020 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Suite 345
Washington, DC 20006
310.595.0800
leklayman@yahoo.com

Please notice the missing Transcript and Webcast

https://www.banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings?ID=90F8E691-9065-4F8C-A465-72722B47E7F2


Now notice the dates on pages 1, 2 and 13 of the old pdf file hereto attached


---------- 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


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From: "Kulik, John"<john.kulik@mcinnescooper.com>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 17:37:49 +0000
Subject: McInnes Cooper
To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com"<motomaniac333@gmail.com>,
"david.raymond.amos@gmail.com"<david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>

Dear Mr. Amos:

I am General Counsel for McInnes Cooper. If you need to communicate
with our firm, please do so through me.

Thank you.

John Kulik
[McInnes Cooper]<http://www.mcinnescooper.com/>

John Kulik Q.C.
Partner & General Counsel
McInnes Cooper

tel +1 (902) 444 8571 | fax +1 (902) 425 6350

1969 Upper Water Street
Suite 1300
Purdy's Wharf Tower II Halifax, NS, B3J 2V1

asst Cathy Ohlhausen | +1 (902) 455 8215



Notice This communication, including any attachments, is confidential
and may be protected by solicitor/client privilege. It is intended
only for the person or persons to whom it is addressed. If you have
received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by e-mail or
telephone at McInnes Cooper's expense. Avis Les informations contenues
dans ce courriel, y compris toute(s) pièce(s) jointe(s), sont
confidentielles et peuvent faire l'objet d'un privilège avocat-client.
Les informations sont dirigées au(x) destinataire(s) seulement. Si
vous avez reçu ce courriel par erreur, veuillez en aviser l'expéditeur
par courriel ou par téléphone, aux frais de McInnes Cooper.



On 8/3/17, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:

> If want something very serious to download and laugh at as well Please
> Enjoy and share real wiretap tapes of the mob
>
> http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2013/10/re-glen-greenwald-and-braz
> ilian.html
>
>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/06/09/nsa-leak-guardian.html
>>
>> As the CBC etc yap about Yankee wiretaps and whistleblowers I must
>> ask them the obvious question AIN'T THEY FORGETTING SOMETHING????
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vugUalUO8YY
>>
>> What the hell does the media think my Yankee lawyer served upon the
>> USDOJ right after I ran for and seat in the 39th Parliament baseball
>> cards?
>>
>> http://archive.org/details/ITriedToExplainItToAllMaritimersInEarly200
>> 6
>>
>> http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/2006/05/wiretap-tapes-impeach-bush.html
>>
>> http://www.archive.org/details/PoliceSurveilanceWiretapTape139
>>
>> http://archive.org/details/Part1WiretapTape143
>>
>> FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006
>> Senator Arlen Specter
>> United States Senate
>> Committee on the Judiciary
>> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
>> Washington, DC 20510
>>
>> Dear Mr. Specter:
>>
>> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
>> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters
>> raised in the attached letter.
>>
>> Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wire tap tapes.
>>
>> I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this previously.
>>
>> Very truly yours,
>> Barry A. Bachrach
>> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
>> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
>> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
>>
>

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Brian Gallant quits as leader of Liberal Party

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Surprise Surprise Surprise

https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2018/12/brian-gallant-quits-as-leader-of.html

 #nbpoli#cdnpoli


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/brian-gallant-politics-future-1.4960442

Brian Gallant quits as leader of Liberal Party

184 Comments

  



David R. Amos

Surprise Surprise Surprise

  


Emilien Forest

Me thinks I smell a rat...

David R. Amos

@Emilien Forest Me too

 
Matthew Locke

Wise decision. Hopefully the Liberals will never again darken the doorstep of the great little province of NB.

David R. Amos

@Matthew Locke Dream on

Lesley Juniper

@David Allan How come the popular vote only matters when liberals lose?

David R. Amos

@Lesley Juniper Methinks that tally only matters to the losers no matter the colour to their coat N'esy Pas?

 
Kyle Doherty

He can have coffee dates with Wynne every day now and tell tales of scandals and duping their provinces into bankruptcy with social programs.

David R. Amos

@Kyle Doherty Methinks many would agree that Mr Higgs and Mr Ford should join them N'esy Pas?

Phil K'Mee

@David R. Amos

Mais non.

  
Lucas Williams

"..Don't let the .... you know the rest....

Justin, are you taking notes? This will be you after your devastating defeat that will be handed to you by Andrew Scheer's winning Conservative government next October.

David R. Amos

@Lucas Williams "Andrew Scheer's winning Conservative government next October"

Methinks it would not be wise to bet the farm on Harper 2.0 pulling anything out of the bag N'esy Pas?.

  
reg jones

.. Trudeau"s canary in the coal mine.

David R. Amos

@reg jones Methinks many would agree that provincial politicking is irrelevant to the Feds Trudeau the Younger's overseers are no doubt is banking on the NDP collapse and the sneaky lawyer Maxime splitting the vote on the right N'esy Pas?

  
Luke Armstrong

I guess NB'ers will never know the truth about the Gallant Gov. property tax scandal.

Mack Leigh

@Luke Armstrong : Wonder if we will ever find out the truth about the Francophonie Game scandal... Smells of collusion and corruption..

David R. Amos

@Luke Armstrong Methinks the Irving Clan will make certain that never happens N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos

@Mack Leigh Methinks the will be no Francophonie Game scandal if Higgs puts stop to it N'esy Pas?

  
Jerome Smith

See ya Never Brian - you were terrible

Colin Seeley

@Jerome Smith

So is and was gray owl.

Perhaps Snow White Will now show up after she leaves Dopey in Ottawa.

David Allan

@Jerome Smith

He's a sitting MPP.
Try to keep up.

Jerome Smith

@David Allan
I’m up to date with his recent loss - try and keep up

David R. Amos

@Jerome Smith Dopey lost his seat??? Oh My My Methinks its news to many folks not just me N'esy Pas?

  
Mario Doucet

Bye Brian SANB has spoken, now Higgs needs to start an investigation to find out where the millions already spent on the games went.

David R. Amos

@Mario Doucet Methinks the SANB spin doctors are slow on the draw today N'esy Pas?

  
Cameron James

Great news. Let’s hope Trudeau is the next liberal to step down.

Paul Bourgoin

@Cameron James
Too early to predict!!! but if he doesn't, Trudeau is going to get another MANDATE!!!

Jeff LeBlanc

@Paul Bourgoin agreed, when Scheer is the best the Con's got, that means another 4 years of JT.

David Allan

@Paul Bourgoin

Learn what a mandate is.
Mulroney was the last PM to have one.

David R. Amos

@David Allan Methinks Harper won a mandate in 2011 N'esy Pas?

 
Shirley Witt

I found it strange how he was bent on staying in power even though he was one seat behind, he should have been more honourable!

Jack Forester

@Shirley Witt There is no honor among thieves.

David R. Amos

@Shirley Witt Methinks Gallant like all lawyers know when it comes to politicking or anything else honour is not an issue N'esy Pas?

 
Mario Doucet

Key player in the francophonie games scam.

David R. Amos

@Mario Doucet Methinks Dominic Leblanc is every bit a player in the francophonie games that Gallant was N'esy Pas?

Brian Gallant quits as leader of Liberal Party

Former premier says he'll step down at next caucus meeting

Shane Magee· CBC News· Posted: Dec 28, 2018 2:23 PM AT

Brian Gallant has announced he'll quit as leader of the Liberal Party rather than wait until a new leader is chosen. 

Former premier Brian Gallant says he'll step down as leader of the Liberal Party earlier than planned.
He made the announcement Friday afternoon at a news conference at the Hampton Inn in Moncton. ​

Gallant said he will resign at the party's next caucus meeting, when an interim leader will be chosen.

But he said he will stay on as MLA for Shediac Bay-Dieppe. He wouldn't say if he would stay on as an MLA until the next election.

Gallant said he will stay neutral on who should be the next Liberal leader.

Gallant, who tried to form a minority government after the Sept. 24 election, already announced his intention to resign when his government was defeated in the legislature and the Progressive Conservatives took over.

• 'With a heavy heart,' Brian Gallant says he'll resign as Liberal leader

• Gallant will enjoy financial perks of decision to stay Liberal leader until successor found

At the time, he said he would stay on as leader until the party found a replacement, which it hasn't done.

In a prepared statement Friday, Gallant suggested he was stepping up his departure as leader to nudge the party into arranging to elect a new leader.

Premier Blaine Higgs appears to be governing as if he has a majority, Gallant said, and as a result, the PC government might fall over its first budget.

"It is therefore, that much more important that I make it clear to the Liberal Party that I will not be reoffering," he said in the statement.

No plans yet

At the news conference, Gallant thanked New Brunswickers for the opportunity to serve the province.

He said he will continue to contribute to the betterment of the province but in other ways.
He has "no plans at the moment."

Gallant became Liberal leader in 2012. He won a majority government in 2014, defeating David Alward's Progressive Conservatives.

About the Author

 

Shane Magee

Reporter

Shane Magee is a Moncton-based reporter for CBC. 

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Stanley Fischer says U.S. president is challenging Federal Reserve's independence

December 29, 2018, 2:08 am

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Methinks even Trump knows that only a fool would trust what a former governor of the Bank of Israel has to say about anything N'esy Pas?


 https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2018/12/facebook-twitter-reddit-linkedin-email.html

 #nbpoli#cdnpoli


https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-december-28-2018-1.4953902/don-t-do-it-trump-s-criticism-of-central-bank-could-backfire-warns-former-vice-chair-1.4959918

'Don't do it': Trump's criticism of central bank could backfire, warns former vice-chair

20 Comments

 
David R. Amos

Methinks even Trump knows that only a fool would trust what a former governor of the Bank of Israel has to say about anything N'esy Pas?

 
Joseph Cluster

Stanley Fischer has been counting beans for a longtime and has a track record that Mr. Trump should listen to.

Adam Karab

@Joseph Cluster He also works for the interests of Israel.

David R. Amos

@Joseph Cluster Nope

David R. Amos

@Adam Karab YUP

  
keith stanley

Amazing that American fed rate policy doesn't get more comments . like it or not their interest rate policy directly affects Canadians .Our Bank rate will have to go up unless Powell reverses from tightening to easing

David R. Amos

@keith stanley Methinks everybody knows why dudes such as Frank McKenna love this guy N'esy Pas?

'Don't do it': Trump's criticism of central bank could backfire, warns former vice-chair

Stanley Fischer says U.S. president is challenging Federal Reserve's independence

CBC News· December 28

Stanley Fischer worked as vice-chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve under presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, from 2014-2017. He was previously governor of the Bank of Israel. (Sebastian Scheiner/Associated Press)

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When it comes to U.S. President Donald Trump's criticism of the Federal Reserve for hiking interest rates this year, a former vice-chair of the central bank has one message for him: "Don't do it."

Trump's remarks could backfire on him by encouraging a further rise in interest rates, rather than a decline, Stanley Fischer told The Current's guest host Piya Chattopadhyay

"When you criticize the Fed in the way you do, you challenge its independence," said Fischer. "And when you challenge its independence, it has to demonstrate its independence."

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Trump, who personally selected Jerome Powell as chairman of the Fed, has repeatedly lambasted Powell and the central bank this year, at one point calling the Fed "my biggest threat."

U.S. President Donald Trump isn't happy with the central bank. He claims its hurting the stock market. (Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press)

The president argues rising interest rates could hurt the stock market, and some investors have been equally wary.

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But Fischer said if Trump continues to attack Powell, the head of the central bank will have to find a way to demonstrate "he will not be shaken by the president."

"We know full well that if if inflation gets out of control, the Fed will be blamed," Fischer said. "And that is one of the things that it has to take into account."

To learn more about the role of the Federal Reserve in the U.S. economy and central banks in general, Chattopadhyay spoke to:

• Stanley Fischer, former vice-chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014-2017, and former governor of the Bank of Israel.​
• Livio Di Matteo, professor of economics at Lakehead University.

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Written by Kirsten Fenn. With files from CBC News. Produced by Richard Raycraft and Sarah-Joyce Battersby.

The Current Transcript for December 28, 2018

Host: Piya Chattopadhyay

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Prologue

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'Don't do it': Trump's criticism of central bank could backfire, warns former vice-chair

Guests: Stanley Fischer, Livio Di Matteo

PIYA CHATTOPADHYAY: Hi I'm Piya Chattopadhyay and this is the Friday edition of The Current. 

SOUNDCLIP

TRUMP: I think the Fed is making a mistake. They are so tight. I think the Fed has gone crazy. 

TRUMP: My biggest threat is the Fed, because the Fed is raising rates too fast. 

TRUMP: But I think the Fed is far too stringent and they're making a mistake and it's not right. And it's despite that we're doing very well, but it's not necessary, in my opinion. And I think I know about it better than they do. Believe me. 

PC: The U.S. president has been taking runs at the head of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Blaming the Fed for bad economic news has come in handy for Donald Trump. The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates four times this year and the president is complaining those hikes are too high and are coming too fast. Like the Bank of Canada, the U.S. Federal Reserve is independent from the government in deciding the interest rate and money supply. But President Trump has publicly criticized Fed Chair, Jerome Powell, and privately mused about firing the man he nominated to lead the American Central Bank. And that sparked a legal debate about whether a president can even remove a Federal Reserve Chair. Stanley Fischer is watching all of this unfold from a unique vantage point. He was vice-chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2017, serving under presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Before that he was governor of the Bank of Israel. And we've reached Stanley Fischer in New York City. Hello to you. 

STANLEY FISCHER: Hi, how are you?

PC: I'm okay. When you hear President Trump say those things about the Federal Reserve what do you want to say to him? 

STANLEY FISCHER: You're making a mistake. When you criticize the Fed in the way you do, you challenge its independence, and when you challenge its independence, it has to demonstrate its independence. And that may lead to the interest rate being higher, rather than lower, as a result of the criticisms you make. Don't do it. First of all you don't know. Secondly, it's not the Fed that is the cause of everything that's going on. The fact that you are overthrowing a world order that has existed successfully on average, since the end of World War II, is fundamental to what is going on now. The Canadians would know that NAFTA suddenly disappeared to be replaced by something else that is close to NAFTA and this sort of thing is going on all over the place. And if we get ourselves into the world - which we seem to be doing - in which it is okay to impose tariffs on everything, to give subsidies everywhere, we will be in a world of the 1960s and 70s in which we were struggling to get out of the aftermath of World War II and the Great Depression. 

PC: Okay so clearly you're clearly not on side with the president's assessment of what's really going on in the U.S. economy. But let me put this to you. You know he does have his defenders and they say look raising interest rates, the Fed doing that, is putting stress on lower and middle class Americans. So how does the Fed justify the increases would be the question. 

STANLEY FISCHER: The Fed justifies the increase is because it's defined in law is to keep the economy-- is to maintain full employment and to end low inflation. We are in that situation now as a result of the policies pursued since the great financial crisis. And the problem with his arguments are he assumes that monetary policy works immediately. It doesn't. It takes time. So they've got to ask themselves where - if the economy continues on the path most people think it will - where will we be six months to a year to a bit later from now, if we don't take action now to deal with the fact that the economy is very strong. And that's the problem. With due respect people from the real estate sector always think interest rates are too high. 

PC: And so the Federal Reserve, like all central banks, plays a long game when it comes to setting policy, right. It isn't tied to a circle of elections and re-election and all those things. It's looking long game. So how do you think this particular team at the Fed is doing right now?

STANLEY FISCHER: I think they are doing well under difficult circumstances. When the president decides to attack you ,for some reason or the other, you are placed before a dilemma; do you do the right thing professionally or do you try and make peace with the powers that be? You have to do the right things professionally. That is what they are doing. 

PC: There are some reports that the head of the Fed, Jerome, Powell may be seeing the president, the U.S. President in January, that meeting may take place and that of course raises the question of the independence of the Federal Reserve which it is built in to the infrastructure that the central bank is independent. Do you think that that kind of meeting might at least send the wrong message at least perception wise?

STANLEY FISCHER: Well the president will of course expect that interest rates come down immediately afterwards. They won't. They'll be kept on a course that has been discussed for a long time and has been talked about within the Fed at every single meeting of the Fed since certainly when I was there, a year and a half ago and is part of the way the Fed does business. It looks ahead and asks what it ought to do. So it's not going to change the polls very much. J. Powell is a very good banker. He's a very reasonable person. And whenever I've read or listen to what he has to say, I say well that makes sense. And I think this is making sense now. And that meeting could go very badly from the viewpoint of the president. If he attacks Powell in the meeting in the way he's attacked others in meetings, Powell is going to have to find some way of demonstrating that he is continuing down the professional road that he's on right now, and that he will not be shaken by the president. Because we know full well that if inflation gets out of control the Fed will be blamed. And that is one of the things that it has to take into account. 

PC: You worked at the Fed under this president, Donald Trump, and the previous one, Barack Obama. What differences did you see from the inside in terms of these administration, in terms of how central bankers were expected to go about their jobs? 

STANLEY FISCHER: Oh I think that what you see is a remarkably professional organization. I found it amazing when I joined the Fed that it very rarely was necessary for me, if I needed to understand effect to understand something that was happening in the economy, to go beyond the professional stuff we had. Of course we listened to the everybody who was talking about the economy, discussed what they had to say. But it is an outstanding group of people. And the interesting thing is that this board of the Fed, the monetary policymaking group, is actually very strong. And this is a board that was appointed by the president. He may feel unhappy about it now, but his initial choice was the right one. 

PC: And so given what you've just said, what is the optimal balance, the relationship between politics and economics in the Central Bank?

STANLEY FISCHER: The Fed can't cannot look at the political situation and say this will make us popular. It's got to figure out what is the right thing to do. It's got the law defines its goals, its goals to maintain full employment and [unintelligible] stable prices. And I think you and Canada have roughly similar goals. And that's what they have to do and that's what they do and that's what the discussion is about. I didn't hear any politics going on. I'd heard about criticisms but I didn't hear anybody saying, "Well we've got to really take that into account". Many many a politician has learnt a lesson that if you attack the Fed, you get yourself into a big problem because you'll be getting inflation down the road if what you want is low interest rates. And when you get that somebody is going to ask, "Well whose idea was that?" The answer will be whoever was pushing and succeeding perhaps, not in this case they weren't succeeding, to push the Fed, the interest rate sitting group in a direction it didn't want to take. It shouldn't do that.

PC: Just to put the America

n situation in context. When you look around the world, do you see other countries where the central bank is being criticized by its leader or a high level politician and vulnerable to volatile politics?

STANLEY FISCHER: Yes I think when you look, there is a set of countries - I'm not going to get into this in detail - but there's a set of countries in the world who are behaving now according to assumptions and principles that essentially reject the world to which we've evolved or which we had evolved, in the previous American administration and in most of the industrialized world. And those countries which do not follow principles in which they allow the central bank to be independent--.

PC: Like which countries? 

STANLEY FISCHER: I am not going to get into, as former Fed person, criticizing which countries. But you know who I'm talking about. Some of them are in Europe. Many of them once were Latin America. They are not there now. They have given central banks independence. And in other countries in the world. So that is a sign of a weak and non-democratic government. That's what's going on.

PC: Stanley Fischer we'll have to leave it there. Thank you very much. 

STANLEY FISCHER: Thank you very much.

PC: Stanley Fischer is a former vice chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve and he's also the former governor of the Bank of Israel. We reached him in New York City. Well heated debate over the central bank in America isn't exactly new in the United States. A fight from 1790 is being revived now on stage in the hit Broadway musical Hamilton. 

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Ladies and gentlemen
You coulda been anywhere in the world tonight
But you're here with us in New York City
Are you ready for a cabinet meeting?
The issue on the table
Secretary Hamilton's plan
To assume state debt
And establish a national bank
Secretary Jefferson, you have the floor, sir
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
We fought for these ideals
We shouldn't settle for less
These are wise words
Enterprising men quote 'em
Don't act surprised, you guys, cuz I wrote 'em

PC: In Cabinet Battle Number One founding father Thomas Jefferson argues against Alexander Hamilton's proposal for a central bank. That battle is one of many colorful stories in the history of central banks. And fill us in, I'm joined by Livio Di Matteo he's a professor of economics at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay. Hello. 

LIVIO DI MATTEO: Good morning to you. 

PC: Let us start with those days of Hamilton What were the conditions that led to the debate over the creation of a U.S. central bank? 

LIVIO DI MATTEO: Well this was in the aftermath of the birth of the American republic. There was a lot of Revolutionary War debt. And there was also a debate between those who wanted I guess a stronger federal and more central government - I guess federalists - and the other side which I guess you would term anti federalists, by the standards of the time. So if you look at the debate between Jefferson and Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton basically wanted a bank of the United States, a central bank to consolidate the debt and issue a national currency. And the reason he wanted that was to create financial stability which in turn would lead to investment and economic growth Foster manufacturing development, etc. On the other side you had Thomas Jefferson. He basically thought a central bank in a sense would favor Eastern banks and creditors and that would basically create a concentration of financial power and Jefferson was more of a de centralist. You know his vision of the republic in the ultimate sense was a sort of a nation of Stout Yeoman in decentralization. And so the debate in the sense also outlined the powers under the Constitution. So I mean a central bank wasn't specifically enumerated in the U.S. Constitution. And so much of the debate was whether the creation of a central bank was implied under something called the necessary and proper clause. And I don't want to get into too much detail. I'm not a U.S. constitutional expert. But in the end the bank was created but it was tenuous. The first bank was created about 1791. The second one in 1816 and after that in the 1930s, interestingly enough a populist president Andrew Jackson under his tenure the bank ended. And so you had basically a more free banking so to speak until the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913. And the Federal Reserve in the end its creation also sort of reflected that tension between centralization and decentralization and distrust of Eastern banking interests. Because in the end they went to sort of regional system as opposed to the I guess the decaying system where you have one central bank. They have a Federal Reserve System. 

PC: So I'm glad you mentioned Canada because when and why did we get our central bank?

LIVIO DI MATTEO: We were late comers. The first central banks actually start to emerge as market economies start to develop although interesting enough the reason they developed was to finance government war expenditures and war debt, and act as sort of marketers of that debt. So you know the first banks, central banks, are the Swedish central bank 1668, the British banks 1694. Then in the 19th century you get a number of them and France. The Bank of Japan, the Bank of Italy the Reichsbank. Canada is rather late. We emerge during the Great Depression in 1935. And so we come about sort of at the tail end of the 20th century and our bank sort of comes about under the rubric of price stability and maintaining full employment. There is a responsibility for the money supply and the credit system currency, and it's bankers bank also, the bank for the federal government. 

PC: I want to ask you about - because we're talking about you know tensions between politicians and central banks - and we've talked to both the U.S. and its president butting on monetary policy. What's the situation like in Canada? Like have we had a dispute between the government and the central bank?

LIVIO DI MATTEO: Well our banks since the late 1960s has been an independent central bank. Day to day operations are free of political influence. However that role in a sense is legislated by the government. I mean the Bank of Canada is created by an act of parliament. So in a sense the independence has been granted by politicians and as defined by the political system. So our central bank like many Central Banks are independent in government but are not independent of government right. So it's a fine line that governments have have to play. Now in our case the major incident that we had is late 1950s early 1960s in which the then governor of the Bank of Canada, James Coyne, began speaking out on government fiscal policy. And so his argument was that the government of the day which is the Diefenbaker government, also by Canadian standards I guess an early populist government in some respects, was running deficits and spending too much and that this would fuel inflation. And so that was resented by the prime minister of the day. And so there was also pressure on the Bank of Canada to basically not raise interest rates. The Bank of Canada wanted to keep its interest rates given policy. So in the end what happened there-- there was also a bit of a personality conflict I believe between the two gentlemen. But in the end the House basically declared the Bank of governors a position vacant. The Conservatives had a majority declare position vacant. The Senate basically turned that down. However once the government of the day has expressed a sort of lack of confidence in the office of the governor of the Bank of Canada he resigned. The aftermath of that was the 67 Bank Act basically laid down the rules in that the central bank is independent on a day to day basis. But the ultimate responsibility for monetary policy and direction does lie with the government. However that's the ultimate responsibility on a day to day basis and even over the longer term. The Bank of Canada has a pretty free rein to basically set long term policy, and that's how it should be and that governments benefit from that. I mean politicians benefit from having an independent central bank because when unpopular actions are taken such as raising interest rates to tame inflation they can point at the bank and say well we're not doing it the bank is independent. But I mean most politicians often [unintelligible] both ways. Then if there's some type of downturn they would like the bank to stimulate the economy and they said you don't mind if the bank lowers interest rates to stimulate the economy during a downturn. But then when the economy improves and inflation starts to pick up they're probably not keen when the bank raises interest rates in order to restrain inflation. 

PC: Okay. Livio Di Matteo, we'll have to leave it there. Thank you very much. 

LIVIO DI MATTEO: Oh you're quite welcome. 

PC: Livio Di Matteo is an economics professor at Lakehead university and we reached him in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

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Roderick Wilson

Based on the information she provide, Elizabeth Warren was named as the “first woman of colour” to be a Professor at Harvard Law in 1997. A distinction she wore proudly. - I guess with the progressives race is now like gender, science, DNA, physiology are to be ignored, just claim to be whatever you want.

Angus Campbell

@Roderick Wilson
and again is this all you can come up with?

Cal Mett

@Angus Campbell That is all.

Roderick Wilson

@Angus Campbell - That would start a half a million strong protest march if she were a Republican.

Jeff Laidlaw

@Roderick Wilson Yeah, those poor Republicans. Always the victims.

Roderick Wilson

@Jeff Laidlaw As oppoded to Democrats whose racism and me too faults are deemed “irrelevant” by other Democrats.

Erin Wilson

@Roderick Wilson

Nice up vote software.

Steve Smith

@Roderick Wilson
The color is pasty white with a touch of old lady grandmother.

Steve Smith

@Angus Campbell
Sorry, he's not making it up it's the truth. You could actually look it up if you wanted to.

David Amos

@Roderick Wilson Methinks that Iggy and many other Canadain politicians know that Elizabeth Warren and all her cohorts in Harvard Law knew why I sued Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, 3 US Treasury Agents, many Yankee lawyers and their Attorney General long before I ran in the election of the 38th Parliament N'esy Pas?

David Amos

@David Amos These documents and many more have been in many people's files and in several court dockets since June of 2004

https://www.scribd.com/document/2619437/CROSS-BORDER

Billie-Bob Brown

@Roderick Wilson
Trump said "I will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test and it shows you're an Indian," Trump said. "I have a feeling she will say no but hold it for the debates.".

Warren had the test done and it confirm that she had a Native American ancestor.

Trump refused to not honor his offer (even claimed he never made it).

No surprise. Trump has proven himself to be a dishonorable President.

Yet his loyal fans continue to believe things he makes up.

Sara Shepard

@Roderick Wilson - She never pretended to be Native American to get into Harvard, but Trump pretended to have bone spurs to get out of something.

William Perry

@Roderick Wilson
The truth shall set you free Mr. Wilson !!
https://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/05/fordham-piece-called-warren-harvard-laws-first-woman-of-color-123526

Art Rowe

@Billie-Bob Brown
Forget the "president" part, he is simply dishonorable!

  

john carter

I'd give Warren, odds of let's say one in one thousand and twenty four, of becoming President.

 
john carter

I'd give Warren, odds of let's say one in one thousand and twenty four, of becoming President.

Roger Deveries

@john carter

Carlos Bustamante, a prominent Stanford University geneticist and MacArthur fellow, led the analysis, so it’s far more likely to be accurate than direct-to-consumer DNA tests that sometimes botch results. He concludes that though Warren is mostly European, “the results strongly support the existence of an unadmixed Native American ancestor” six to 10 generations ago. This could support Warren’s claims, though if her ancestor is fully 10 generations back, she would be only 1/1024th Native American, a fact that critics would love to emphasize.

Mark Johnston

@john carter - Well since 1900 a sitting president has only 5 times for reelection. So the odds are in your favour for sure. But I've learned after the last US election predicting outcomes aren't that easy. Do some research, she's pretty intelligent.

Mark Johnston

@Roger Deveries - What does that matter? How cares? Did she say she was 100% native American did she say she wasn't? Don't let this derail important topics. That's the job of the media.

Mark Johnston

*has only (lost) 5 times for reelection.

Mark Johnston

^*who cares

Fred Ashlton

@Roger Deveries
Sheeesh Putin probably has a higher percentage than she does

Fred Ashlton

@Mark Johnston
If she was intelligent - she wouldn't have let Hilarity run for Pres

Mark Johnston

@Fred Ashlton - Honestly Hilary was the Democrats best chance at winning. If she didn't run people would have said "we would have won if Hilary was in the race"

Roderick Wilson

@Mark Johnston - She listed herself as Native American with Harvard. She did the same with many other organizations. When tests prove she is 0.03% Native American then her claims are clearly false.

david mccaig

@john carter

46 year old Texas Democrat upstart Beto O'Rourke, the guy that reminds us so much odd Bobby Kennedy, raised 62 million dollars in his run to defeat incumbent Ted Cruz and he nearly did it, plus his youthful enthusiasm helped democrats win hard core Texas Republican jurisdictions. He's the ONLY democratic presidential candidate that could deliver the South and a massive 3 house presidential win.

david mccaig

@david mccaig

And Beto O'Rourke is a hard core social liberal, which for Americans means universal healthcare, free public college education, the restoration of all the government protection agencies devastated by the radical right wing suits standing behind Trump. And meaningful significant climate action and green energy ushering out planet harming oil industry.

Stanley Baird

@david mccaig I doubt a majority of US voters would support this agenda - do you? World wide there is currently push back to most climat change policies,

William Perry

@john carter
You are most probably correct unfortunately . Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders want what's best for ALL Americans like Medicare for all with preexisting conditions covered. We are very lucky to live in a country with a health plan that is not 100% perfect but covers all of us. Americans in general do not want what we already have in the way of medical care. The young think that they are invincible right up until they find out that they are not.

Art Rowe

@john carter
However the BIG BIG question remains unanswered, ""What are your thoughts on walls or fences""?
Seriously, just kidding.

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David Amos

@john carter Methinks everybody knows that I consider Warren to be just another corrupt Yankee lawyer N'esy Pas?

Elizabeth Warren takes big step toward launching 2020 presidential run

Outgoing Maryland Rep. John Delaney is only Democrat so far to have formally announced campaign

The Associated Press· Posted: Dec 31, 2018 9:11 AM ET 

U.S. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren says she has formed an exploratory committee to run for president in 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)

Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday took the first major step toward launching a widely anticipated campaign for the U.S. presidency, hoping her reputation as a populist fighter will help her navigate a Democratic field that could include nearly two dozen candidates.

"No matter what our differences, most of us want the same thing," the 69-year-old Massachusetts Democrat said in a video that highlights her family's history in Oklahoma. "To be able to work hard, play by the same set of rules and take care of the people we love. That's what I'm fighting for and that's why today I'm launching an exploratory committee for president."

She elaborated on the theme to reporters outside her Massachusetts home.

"America's middle class is getting hollowed out and opportunity for too many of our young people is shrinking," she said. "So I'm in this fight all the way. Right now Washington works great for the wealthy and the well-connected. It's just not working for anyone else."

Warren burst onto the national scene a decade ago during the financial crisis with calls for greater consumer protections. She quickly became one of the party's more prominent liberals even as she sometimes fought with Obama administration officials over their response to the market turmoil.

Now, as a likely presidential contender, she is making an appeal to the party's base. Her video notes the economic challenges facing people of colour along with images of a women's march and Warren's participation at an LGBT event.

In an email to supporters, Warren said she would announce a campaign plan more formally in early 2019.

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Warren is the most prominent Democrat yet to make a move toward a presidential bid and has long been a favourite target of U.S. President Donald Trump.

In mid-December, former Obama housing chief Julian Castro also announced a presidential exploratory committee, which legally allows potential candidates to begin raising money. Outgoing Maryland Rep. John Delaney is the only Democrat so far to have formally announced a presidential campaign.

But that's likely to change quickly in the new year as other leading Democrats take steps toward White House runs.

Sanders eyeing run

Warren aims to enter a Democratic field that's shaping up as the most crowded in decades, with many of her Senate colleagues openly weighing their own campaigns, as well as governors, mayors and other prominent citizens. One of her most significant competitors could be Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who is eyeing another presidential run harnessing the same populist rhetoric.

She must also move past a widely panned October release of a DNA test meant to bolster her claim to native American heritage. The move was intended to rebut Trump's taunts of Warren as "Pocahontas." Instead, her use of a genetic test to prove ethnicity spurred controversy that seemed to blunt any argument she sought to make. There was no direct mention of it in the video released Monday.

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Warren has the benefit of higher name recognition than many others in the Democratic mix for 2020, thanks to her years as a prominent critic of Wall Street who originally conceived of what became the government's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

She now faces an arduous battle to raise money and capture Democratic primary voters' attention before Iowa casts its first vote in more than a year. She has an advantage in the $12.5 million US left over from her 2018 re-election campaign that she could use for a presidential run.

Warren's campaign is likely to revolve around the same theme she has woven into speeches and policy proposals in recent years: battling special interests, paying mind to the nexus between racial and economic inequities.

"America's middle class is under attack," Warren said in the video. "How did we get here? Billionaires and big corporations decided they wanted more of the pie. And they enlisted politicians to cut them a fatter slice."

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New Brunswick Police Commission reviewing how it conducts investigations

Acting chairwoman's comments come after police association says commission is 'out of control'

The Canadian Press· Posted: Dec 30, 2018 12:09 PM AT

New Brunswick Police Association executive director Bob Davidson has several issues with the way the New Brunswick Police Commission handled a Police Act investigation into former Saint John Deputy Chief Glen McCloskey. (Roger Cosman/CBC)

The New Brunswick Police Commission says it's reviewing how it conducts investigations after facing criticism about its handling of a probe into a senior officer's conduct following millionaire businessman Richard Oland's murder.

Lynn Chaplin, acting chairwoman of the provincial police commission, said in a statement Friday that the review is part of a "strategic planning process" launched earlier this month.

She said the process will carry on in the new year, and also includes a review of the commission's investigators' manual and operational procedures.

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Chaplin said the review will ensure the commission fulfills its role of "safeguarding the public interest in policing in New Brunswick."

Her comments come after the New Brunswick Police Association accused the police oversight body of being "out of control," and alleged the commission is being run in an "abusive, authoritarian fashion."

Bob Davidson, executive director of the New Brunswick Police Association, said the case of Glen McCloskey— a former deputy chief of the Saint John Police Force who came under scrutiny during the first murder trial of Dennis Oland — is an example of the commission "completely ignoring legislative rights."

"The McCloskey case points outs violations under both the Police Act and the Privacy Act," Davidson, whose association represents municipal police officers, said Thursday. "There has been a continued abuse of process and ignoring legislation."

Allegation denied

 

Glen McCloskey speaks at a press conference held by the New Brunswick Police Association last week. (Roger Cosman/CBC)

In 2015, a witness alleged McCloskey asked him to change his testimony not to reveal the high-ranking officer had been at the crime scene.

McCloskey denied the allegation when he took the stand, but said he had entered the crime scene because he was curious.

The police commission agreed it would investigate his conduct once Oland's trial had concluded.

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Although McCloskey retired before a hearing by the provincial police commission was held — the commission only investigates officers on active duty — it still gathered information on the matter.

Davidson alleged the police commission violated McCloskey's privacy by giving its entire file on McCloskey to lawyers involved in the second Oland trial, prompting a complaint to the province's Office of the Integrity Commissioner.

He said a decision earlier this month found the police commission did not have authority to disclose the information to Crown prosecutors or the defence team, and had breached McCloskey's privacy in two instances by disclosing his personal information.

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Police association slams Police Act investigation into ex-deputy police chief

Now-retired Glen McCloskey says he never asked another police officer to lie at first Oland trial

Karissa Donkin· CBC News· Posted: Dec 27, 2018 6:50 PM AT

Former deputy Saint John police chief Glen McCloskey speaks at a news conference held Thursday by the New Brunswick Police Association. (Roger Cosman/CBC)

The association representing municipal police officers is criticizing the way the New Brunswick Police Commission handled a Police Act investigation into former Saint John deputy police chief Glen McCloskey.

The New Brunswick Police Association spent an hour on Thursday criticizing the independent police watchdog and its executive director, Steve Roberge.

The association is calling for Roberge's removal, calling him "anti-police officer."

"The issue here, it's the mentality of this person who has an abusive, authoritarian way of trying to operate up there," New Brunswick Police Association executive director Bob Davidson said.

• Ex-deputy police chief made false statements at Oland murder trial, investigator finds
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 "That's the bottom line. McCloskey is a casualty of this mentality."

Roberge could not be immediately reached for comment on Thursday afternoon to respond to the association's comments.

Steve Roberge was described as 'anti-police officer' by the New Brunswick Police Association. He could not be reached for comment Thursday. (CBC)

The commission's appointed investigator, Barry MacKnight, found that McCloskey made false statements at the first Dennis Oland murder trial and to Halifax police officers, who ultimately cleared McCloskey of criminal wrongdoing.

McCloskey, who retired in April, had no active role in the investigation into the 2011 death of Richard Oland.

Despite this, he walked around the crime scene two times before forensic testing was complete and then encouraged another officer not to tell the court about it, according to a summary of MacKnight's report.

McCloskey denies allegations

At the first Dennis Oland murder trial, now-retired Staff Sgt. Mike King testified that in 2014, either before or during the preliminary inquiry, McCloskey told him he didn't "have to" tell anyone he'd entered the crime scene. McCloskey was an inspector at the time and King's supervisor.

King testified he replied to McCloskey that he had "never lied on the stand in 32 years" and he "wasn't about to start."

Asked on Thursday whether he asked King to lie, McCloskey said it was "a silly question."

Mike King, a retired staff sergeant with the Saint John Police Force, testified at the first Dennis Oland trial that there was no misunderstanding about whether former deputy chief Glen McCloskey wanted him to lie. (CBC)

"I've already said on the stand that I never spoke to anybody about lying, changing their testimony, whatever it was," McCloskey said.

"Especially, Mike King has never made the statement I asked him to lie. That's come from the media. He's made the statement I said something to the effect of 'Don't say I was there.'"

McCloskey said it would have been "illogical" for him to say even that to King because Crown prosecutors and former Saint John police chief Bill Reid knew he was in the crime scene.

Breached privacy

McCloskey suggested the police commission reached a conclusion before the investigation was complete and he alleged MacKnight's report left out part of the interviews with officers.

"I talked to the former chief of police Bill Reid, and Bill Reid made some comments to me with respect to what he said," McCloskey said.

"That's not in the interview because it's detrimental to what he wants to happen."

The association also gave reporters a copy of a Dec. 13 report from Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes, which says the New Brunswick Police Commission "breached [McCloskey's] privacy on two instances by disclosing his personal information to the Crown Prosecutors and the Defence Team on July 4 and 12, 2017."

New Brunswick Police Association executive director Bob Davidson has several issues with the way the New Brunswick Police Commission handled a Police Act investigation into McCloskey, who is now retired. (Roger Cosman/CBC)

The personal information was contained in the New Brunswick Police Commission file in relation to the Police Act complaint against McCloskey, according to Deschênes's report. McCloskey filed a complaint, which prompted Deschênes's investigation.

"As with any case of a violation of privacy, we, unfortunately, cannot turn back the clock to prevent the breach from occurring," Deschênes wrote in his decision.

He did not make any recommendations arising out of his findings.

A jury found Dennis Oland guilty of second-degree murder in the death of his father in December 2015, but the New Brunswick Court of Appeal overturned his conviction in October 2016 and ordered a new trial, citing an error in the trial judge's instructions to the jury.

The retrial, which began on Nov. 21, is adjourned for the holidays until Jan. 7 at 9:30 a.m.

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Dennis Oland's new trial could be at least a year away

Several factors could further delay new murder trial in bludgeoning death of father

Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon· CBC News· Posted: Oct 30, 2016 12:04 PM AT

 

Dennis Oland, who has been in prison for 10 months, walked out of the Fredericton courthouse Tuesday after being granted bail pending a new trial. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)

 

 

It will likely be next fall before a new trial for Dennis Oland can be held, according to a Saint John court clerk.

But depending on the next move made by the Crown or the defence, it could be even longer, according to Amanda Evans.

On Monday, the New Brunswick Court of Appeal overturned Dennis Oland's second-degree murder conviction in the 2011 bludgeoning death of his father, multimillionaire Richard Oland.

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• Fifth estate: The Richard Oland Case: Murder in the Family

The three-justice panel ordered a new trial, citing errors in the trial judge's instructions to the jury regarding Oland's incorrect statement to police about what jacket he was wearing on the night of the murder. Oland, 48, has been released on bail pending his new trial.

The Crown and defence have up to 60 days to seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, which would put the case on hold until the country's highest court decides whether it will hear the matter.

Prosecutors could ask the Supreme Court to reinstate the jury's guilty verdict, while the defence could request an acquittal instead of a retrial.

The Crown could also exercise its discretion not to pursue a second trial if prosecutors feel there is no reasonable prospect of a conviction.

"No final decisions have been made," Assistant Deputy Attorney General Luc LaBonté stated in an email.

Richard Oland, 69, was found dead in his Saint John office on July 7, 2011. (Canadian Yachting Association)

 

 

 If a new trial does proceed, the defence could request it be heard by judge alone, which would eliminate the time required for jury selection, but would require consent by the Crown. 

 

The defence could also seek a change of venue, which could reduce the size of the jury pool required if the trial is held in a location where fewer people have connections or familiarity with the case, thereby shortening the amount of time required for jury selection. But the court must agree.

Court of Appeal Chief Justice Ernest Drapeau said he expects a second trial would be "considerably shorter" than the first trial, which lasted about 50 days, "given the work done as well as the experience and knowledge acquired by the police, counsel and the judiciary, and bearing in mind this court's unqualified endorsement of the trial judge's evidential rulings that were contested on appeal."

There could also be agreed statements of fact between the parties, avoiding the need for some of the witnesses to testify.

Still, the Court of Queen's Bench would need to find a block of time that would fit the schedules of the prosecutors, Oland's three defence lawyers and the presiding judge.

No 'hard and fast' rules for 2nd trials

A recent Supreme Court of Canada decision sets out a "presumptive ceiling" of a 30-month delay between a charge being laid and a first trial being held, with the burden on the Crown to prove any further delay was a result of case complexity or unavoidable circumstances.

Earlier this month, an Edmonton judge stayed a first-degree murder charge against Lance Matthew Regan for the 2011 stabbing death of fellow inmate Mason Tex Montgrand at Edmonton Institution, one week before his trial was set to begin. Justice Stephen Hillier ruled Regan's constitutional right to be tried within a reasonable time had "been violated."

With the Oland matter, I'm not really certain how quickly they can get something of that size back before a court- Daniel Jardine, Miramichi lawyer

But there is no "hard and fast rule" for how quickly second trials should be held, said Miramichi lawyer Daniel Jardine, who represented fellow Miramichi lawyer George Martin on an obstruction of justice charge.

In June 2010, the Court of Appeal ordered a new trial for Martin, who sought leave to push the case to the Supreme Court, but was unsuccessful. A new trial was scheduled for October 2011, but due to various scheduling delays and health problems experienced by Martin, the new trial wasn't held until May 2013 — nearly three years after it was ordered.

"Under the best circumstances it's not easy to get a matter before the court quickly again," said Jardine.

"And particularly with the Oland matter, I'm not really certain how quickly they can get something of that size back before a court," he said.

Martin was found guilty by a jury in May 2013, but the Court of Appeal overturned his conviction again in July 2015, citing a miscarriage of justice over irregularities, which included one juror making phone calls during deliberations.

A third trial was scheduled for May 2016, but a stay of proceedings was ordered three months before it was set to begin due to the "inordinate delay" he faced, in violation of his Charter right to be tried within a reasonable time.

Retrials should be dealt with promptly said Jardine. "They would have to do everything they can to accommodate an accused on a new trial."

Change of venue 'not readily granted'

 

Lawyer David Lutz believes finding 12 unbiased jurors for Dennis Oland's new trial will be a challenge. (CBC ) 

 

 

Veteran Saint John-area lawyer David Lutz, who has handled five or six retrials in his 30-plus year career, said they were all scheduled within three or four months.

 

"My expectation is everyone will do their best to rearrange their schedule to accommodate this case," he said.

Lutz expects the biggest problem will be selecting an unbiased jury. "That's going to be a big issue," he said.

Changes of venue are "not readily granted" because of the "substantially greater cost" of travel and accommodations for the prosecutors, police and witnesses, he said.

"But in this case, I would think it's something that the clerk would have to consider," said Lutz, suggesting people in places such as Miramichi or Bathurst might not be as familiar with the case.

Unless people have been living under a rock, everybody's heard about the Oland trial. You're not going to find anybody anywhere really who hasn't heard about it- Christopher Higgs, Toronto lawyer

Christopher Higgs, a Toronto lawyer who specializes in murder cases, said it's "difficult" to be granted a change of venue due to the so-called challenge for cause procedure, where parties can question whether prospective jurors are capable of setting aside their views and biases.

He isn't convinced it would be beneficial in this case. "Unless people have been living under a rock, everybody's heard about the Oland trial. You're not going to find anybody anywhere really who hasn't heard about it."

It's also "very difficult" to get a judge-alone murder trial, said Higgs. "The jurisprudence in Canada is very much in favour of jury trials, entrusting properly instructed juries to do the right thing."

"I'm a great believer in juries," he said, citing the division of labour and specialization of task. "Everybody has a job to do and they know what their job is."

Oland is scheduled to appear in Saint John's Court of Queen's Bench on Dec. 5 to possibly schedule a new trial date.

He is living in the community under several conditions. He surrendered his passport, must notify police of any travel outside the province, continue to live at his home in Rothesay and notify police of any change of address. His uncle Derek Oland, the executive chairman of Moosehead Breweries, also posted a $50,000 surety.

The body of Richard Oland, 69, was discovered lying face down in a pool of blood in his Saint John investment firm office on July 7, 2011. He had suffered 45 blows to his head, neck and hands. No weapon was ever found.

His son, Dennis Oland, was the last known person to see him alive during a meeting at his office the night before.

A jury found him guilty of second-degree murder following a three-month trial in Saint John's Court of Queen's Bench.

Oland's family has stood by him from the beginning, maintaining his innocence.

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Police board seeks review of officer conduct during Oland jury selection

Defence calls for probe of police handling of case to resume after mistrial declared, jury discharged

Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon· CBC News· Posted: Nov 20, 2018 7:13 PM AT

Const. Sean Rocca has been the Saint John Police Force's file co-ordinator on the Richard Oland homicide investigation since October 2011. (CBC)

The Saint John Board of Police Commissioners will ask for an independent investigation of an officer's actions during jury selection for Dennis Oland's murder retrial that resulted in a mistrial being declared Tuesday morning.

Const. Sean Rocca conducted background checks on prospective jurors using the force's internal database, which Court of Queen's Bench Justice Terrence Morrison said "irreparably" tainted the jury selection process.

Morrison discharged the 16 jurors before any evidence was heard, and the trial will now proceed without a jury, starting Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. AT.

To kind of find this island of ignorance here was a little shocking and surprising.- Alan Gold, defence lawyer

"The board and the chief take these matters very seriously," the Saint John board said in a statement issued late Tuesday afternoon.

"We will be reviewing the court's decision to understand the issues identified and to learn from them."
The board said it will ask the New Brunswick Police Commission to conduct the independent investigation.

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• Dennis Oland's murder retrial delayed by 'unexpected legal issue'

• Dennis Oland jury selected, murder retrial begins Tuesday

Oland, 50, is being retried for second-degree murder in the death of his father, multimillionaire Richard Oland, more than seven years ago.

His defence team contends the Supreme Court of Canada made it clear in 2012 that the privacy of jurors prohibited police from using internal databases to search for any contact they may have had with police.

"These were really landmark decisions and everyone talked about them and understood them. So to kind of find this island of ignorance here was a little shocking and surprising." lead defence lawyer Alan Gold said after court as Oland, his wife Lisa and mother Connie looked on.

"When the courts talk, the police have to listen — just like all of us have to listen to what the courts say."

Defence lawyer Alan Gold held a news conference about the mistrial being declared Tuesday as Dennis Oland, his wife Lisa and mother Connie looked on. (CBC)

The defence was particularly "gobsmacked" to discover Rocca used the same search practices during Oland's first trial in 2015, said Gold.

Rocca, a 16-year veteran of the force, has been the file co-ordinator on the Oland case since October 2011.

Oland's lawyers are calling on the provincial policing oversight body to resume its investigation into the Saint John force's handling of the case now that a mistrial has been declared on the jury trial and there's no risk of tainting the jurors.

"The serious conduct that led to our jury selection being invalidated, and the jury trial having to be nullified, can now be added to the list of what needs to be examined in the interests of justice, not just to Dennis and his family, but also to restore public confidence in the administration of justice," said Gold.

Steve Roberge, executive director of the New Brunswick Police Commission, said the review of the Saint John Police Force's handling of the Richard Oland homicide investigation will remain on hold until the criminal proceedings are completed. (CBC)

In 2015, the provincial commission launched a review of the homicide investigation after several issues came to light during Oland's first trial, which ended in a jury finding him guilty.

The court heard evidence of officers entering the crime scene without wearing protective gear to avoid contamination and using the washroom located in the foyer outside the victim's office for two days before it was tested for evidence. A key piece of the Crown's evidence against Oland — a blood-spotted brown sports jacket — was kept rolled up in a paper bag for months before forensic testing.

In October 2016, when the New Brunswick Court of Appeal overturned Oland's conviction and ordered a new trial, citing errors in the trial judge's instructions to the jury, the commission suspended its review "until such time as all criminal proceedings are completed."

Executive director Steve Roberge told CBC News on Tuesday that decision stands.

"We do not want to prejudice the criminal proceedings with our Police Act investigation," he said.

Asked how that could be a concern now that the trial is proceeding by judge alone, Roberge replied: "In this case it's not necessarily the fact that we're prejudicing the proceedings themselves, it's also prejudicing the perception of the carriage of justice."

Pressed on whether not proceeding with the investigation could have the same effect, he replied, "We don't know who and what kind of material we need to follow up with until the end of the criminal processes."

The Saint John police board declined further comment, citing the continuing court case.
Chief Bruce Connell did not provide any comments or respond to questions about Rocca's current status.

The body of Richard Oland, 69, was discovered face down in a pool of blood in his investment firm office the morning of July 7, 2011. He had suffered 45 sharp- and blunt-force blows to his head, neck and hands.

His son was the last known person to see him alive when they met there the night before.

Oland has maintained his innocence from the beginning and his extended family has stood by him.
"All Dennis and his family want is a fair trial as soon as possible, without further delay, a trial at which they are confident of Dennis finally being vindicated and his innocence declared," said Gold, adding the Olands are "extremely pleased"  Morrison agreed to proceed with a judge-alone trial.

Gold said starting jury selection over with a brand new jury panel could have bumped the trial back several months, raising the possibility of an unconstitutional delay.

The Supreme Court has set a time limit for superior court cases of 30 months, from the time a charge is laid to the conclusion of a first trial. The limit for retrials is still "a little grey," but should be completed even sooner, said Gold.

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https://www.telegraphjournal.com/daily-gleaner/story/42289615/appeal-court-says-fredericton

Appeal court says Fredericton woman is abusing justice system

DON MACPHERSON Fredericton Daily Gleaner May 5, 2015

The province’s top court has denied a Fredericton woman’s appeal seeking to amend a lawsuit that maintains police, lawyers and the courts have plotted against her over the years.

Sarah (Sally) Elizabeth Brooks, 55, previously filed a lawsuit against multiple parties, including the Fredericton Police Force, the City of Fredericton, the New Brunswick Police Commission, several city police officers and several Crown prosecutors.

She sought to amend her original claim to add the New Brunswick Police Commission, commission chairman Peter Seheult and the Law Society of New Brunswick, but that was denied by a lower court. She took that aspect of the case up to the New Brunswick Court of Appeal.

In a decision issued last month, the appeal court denied her motion to add those parties to her wide-ranging lawsuit.

But when her application was about to be heard by New Brunswick’s top court, Brooks brought several additional motions forward, including a request for relief for alleged Charter violations, a motion to strike down parts of the provincial Police Act, awarding of costs from the parties that had yet been added to her claim, and recusal of the entire three-judge appeal panel set to hear her case.
The Court of Appeal panel dismissed her various requests.

“The panel hearing the appeal is not biased. Moreover, there is a total absence of evidence that would cause an informed, prudent and reasonable person to believe there is a real possibility of bias in the circumstances,” the court wrote in its reasons for decision.

“Not only did Ms. Brooks allege actual bias on the part of the entire panel, she informed the Court she would report the panel to the Canadian Judicial Council should the panel rule against her motion for recusal. She was immediately advised that such a threat has no bearing on the matter and would not influence in any manner the members of the panel.”

Brooks also sought to have her hearing adjourned, the court ruled it hadn’t been given any valid reasons to grant such an adjournment.

Expanding on its reasons for denying the recusal motion, the court noted Brooks cited her previous losses at the New Brunswick Court of Appeal as grounds.

“At the root of most of Ms. Brooks’ contentions is her obsessively held belief that she has been defrauded of sufficient spousal support as a result of a conspiracy between her own family solicitor and the one representing her ex-husband. Notwithstanding the fact that this alleged fraud has never been adjudicated in court in any matter in which the alleged perpetrators have had an opportunity to rebut what are until now mere allegations, Ms. Brooks expected the Court of Appeal to find fraud and make sweeping declarations,” the decision stated.

“Since the Court has not done so in any of the previous proceedings before it, she accuses the Court of having ‘conspired and colluded to conceal’ the alleged fraud and ‘violated (her) Charter Rights to an impartial and unbiased tribunal.’ Frankly, her arguments are contemptuous. They betray a flawed understanding of the role of an appellate court, which has limited inherent jurisdiction, and generally limits itself to the questions properly raised before it.”

The court criticized how Brooks conducts herself when she appears before courts in New Brunswick as well.

“... Such specious allegations are characteristic of Ms. Brooks’ approach to many who have crossed her path and refused to accept at face value the multiple allegations she levels against others,” the panel wrote in its decision.

“For example, she has even stated that ‘this court has now actively participated in misconduct that has put, and continues to put, the appellant’s very life in danger,’ ostensibly because the court has not ruled in favour of her many allegations.”

As the court noted in its decision, Brooks’ crusade against public institutions, both municipal and provincial, flow from two key events in her life: her divorce proceedings in court, and a subsequent encounter with Fredericton Police Force officers after she’d told a helpline operator she planned to harm herself.

The Court of Appeal noted that like a small number of other self-represented litigants, Brooks’ understanding of the law is flawed and her tactics aren’t to be condoned.

“While it is the function of the justice system to serve the public, it does not give individuals a right to abuse the service,” the appeal court wrote.

“This appeal, just like the underlying action against the respondents to this appeal, is devoid of any merit. Just like the action against these respondents, the appeal is frivolous. It is an abuse of the justice system.”

Noting that counsel for the respondents in the appeal filed detailed briefs in the matter, the court awarded $1,000 in costs to the law society and $1,000 to the police commission and Seheult, and an additional set of $3,000 for each stemming from the abuse of process.

Brooks told The Daily Gleaner that while she’s not done with the case, a further appeal isn’t in the cards. She said rather than appealing the April appeal decision to the Supreme Court of Canada, she plans to explore her options through the Canadian Judicial Council.

She noted the original lawsuit is still a live action before the courts and she remains intent on pursuing it despite her assertions that the courts and others are conspiring against her.

https://www.gnb.ca/cour/03coa1/decisions/2015/april2015/20150402brooksvthelawsocietyofnewbrunswicketal-2015nbca18.pdf

2017 NBQB 83

New Brunswick Court of Queen’s Bench

Brooks v. Fredericton City Police Force et al

2017 CarswellNB 233, 2017 CarswellNB 234, 2017 NBQB 83, 280 A.C.W.S. (3d) 638

SARAH ELIZABETH BROOKS (Plaintiff) and THE FREDERICTON CITY POLICE FORCE, in particular, DANA ROBERTS of the Fredericton City Police Force, DAVID BANKS of the Fredericton City Police Force, STEFEN DECOURCEY of the Fredericton City Police Force, MATTHEW FLEMMING of the Fredericton City Police Force, Chief of the Fredericton Police Force BARRY MacKNIGHT, Detective Constable BRAD BOURQUE, Staff Sergeant BRIAN FORD, Staff Sergeant DANIEL COPP, THE CITY OF FREDERICTON, WILLIAM CORBY, Law Society of New Brunswick and Canadian Bar Association member, DARLENE BLUNSTON, Law Society of New Brunswick and Canadian Bar Association member, HILARY DRAIN, Law Society of New Brunswick and Canadian Bar Association member (Defendants)

Terrence J. Morrison J.

Heard: November 30, 2016

Judgment: May 9, 2017

Docket: F/C/30/2012

Counsel: Sarah Elizabeth Brook — per se

Matthew T. Hayes, for Defendants, City of Fredericton and the Fredericton Police Force and certain of its members

Heather Doyle Landry, Q.C., for Defendants, William Corby, Darlene Blunston and Hilary Drain

Subject: Civil Practice and Procedure; Constitutional; Public; Torts; Human Rights

Related Abridgment Classifications

Civil practice and procedure

IIIParties

III.2Vexatious proceedings / Abuse of process

Law enforcement agencies

I Police

I.2Duties, rights and liabilities of officers

I.2.dStatutory protection of police from civil liability

I.2.d.iiiStatutes other than Criminal Code

Public law

I Crown

I.3Principles of tort regarding Crown

I.3.aLiability of Crown for torts of servants

I.3.a.ivLiability for specific torts

I.3.a.iv.AAction for malicious prosecution by Crown officers

Headnote

Law enforcement agencies --- Police — Duties, rights and liabilities of officers — Statutory protection of police from civil liability — Statutes other than Criminal Code

Plaintiff alleged her former counsel in family dispute conspired with her husband’s counsel to defraud her of spousal support — Plaintiff alleged police failed to properly investigate her complaint and were party to conspiracy to cover up fraud — Plaintiff was subsequently detained by police and taken to hospital under Mental Health Act — Plaintiff brought action against police defendants and Crown prosecutor defendants for relief for various causes of action — Defendants brought motion for order striking out statement of claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action — Motion granted — Sections 66(1) and (2) of Act constituted complete bar to plaintiff’s action in relation to her detention under Act — Section 66(1) of Act required consent of Attorney General to bring action, but no consent had been obtained — Section 66(2) of Act provided six-month limitation period that had expired — Accordingly, it was plain and obvious that allegations in relation to detention under Act did not disclose reasonable cause of action — Plaintiff had not pleaded any bad faith to overcome statutory immunity provided by s 33.1 of Police Act in relation to negligent investigation.

Public law --- Crown — Principles of tort regarding Crown — Liability of Crown for torts of servants — Liability for specific torts — Action for malicious prosecution by Crown officers

Plaintiff alleged her former counsel in family dispute conspired with her husband’s counsel to defraud her of spousal support — Plaintiff alleged police failed to properly investigate her complaint and were party to conspiracy to cover up fraud — Plaintiff was subsequently detained by police and taken to hospital under Mental Health Act — Plaintiff brought action against police defendants and Crown prosecutor defendants for relief for various causes of action — Defendants brought motion for order striking out statement of claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action — Motion granted — Plaintiff had not pleaded Crown prosecutor defendants had acted outside course of their official duties to overcome statutory immunity in s. 4(8) of Proceedings Against the Crown Act (PACA) — Pleadings fell far short of what was required to make out cause of action for malicious prosecution — No notice had been given under s. 15(1) of PACA in any event.

Civil practice and procedure --- Parties — Vexatious proceedings / Abuse of process

Plaintiff alleged her former counsel in family dispute conspired with her husband’s counsel to defraud her of spousal support — Plaintiff alleged police failed to properly investigate her complaint and were party to conspiracy to cover up fraud — Plaintiff was subsequently detained by police and taken to hospital under Mental Health Act — Plaintiff brought action against police defendants and Crown prosecutor defendants for relief for various causes of action — Defendants successfully brought motion for order striking out statement of claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action — Police defendants brought motion for order prohibiting plaintiff from continuing proceedings without leave of court — Motion granted — Order was extended to prohibiting plaintiff from continuing or commencing proceedings without leave of court — Plaintiff had launched various proceedings in New Brunswick Provincial Court, Court of Queen’s Bench, and Court of Appeal — Plaintiff clearly refused to accept any decision or ruling that prevented her from prosecuting this futile litigation — There was every indication that plaintiff would relentlessly continue to pursue defendants and would not stop unless she was stopped — Terminating this litigation was also in best interests of plaintiff so she could focus her talents and energy on things that might be of benefit to her instead of squandering them on hopeless cause.

Table of Authorities

Cases considered by Terrence J. Morrison J.:

Armstrong v. Tygart(2012), 886 F.Supp.2d 572 (U.S. W.D. Tex.) — considered

Brooks v. Brooks (2012), 2012 NBQB 401, 2012 CarswellNB 713, 1028 A.P.R. 361, 397 N.B.R. (2d) 361 (N.B. Q.B.) — considered

Brooks v. Brooks (2012), 2012 NBCA 50, 2012 CarswellNB 332, 2012 CarswellNB 333, 1011 A.P.R. 94, 390 N.B.R. (2d) 94 (N.B. C.A.) — referred to

Brooks v. Brooks (2014), 2014 NBCA 29, 2014 CarswellNB 198, 2014 CarswellNB 199, 1090 A.P.R. 326, 419 N.B.R. (2d) 326 (N.B. C.A.) — referred to

Brooks v. Fredericton City Police Force (2013), 2013 NBBR 204, 2013 NBQB 204, 2013 CarswellNB 315, 2013 CarswellNB 316, (sub nom.Brooks v. Fredericton Police Force) 1050 A.P.R. 175, (sub nom.Brooks v. Fredericton Police Force) 405 N.B.R. (2d) 175 (N.B. Q.B.) — referred to

Brooks v. Law Society of New Brunswick (2015), 2015 NBCA 18, 2015 CarswellNB 134, 2015 CarswellNB 135, (sub nom. Brooks v. Fredericton Police Force) 1130 A.P.R. 371, (sub nom. Brooks v. Fredericton Police Force) 433 N.B.R. (2d) 371 (N.B. C.A.) — referred to

Cram v. Nova Veterinary Clinic Ltd. (2016), 2016 NSSC 181, 2016 CarswellNS 680, 1185 A.P.R. 66, 376 N.S.R. (2d) 66 (N.S. S.C.) — considered

Deer Island Credit Union Ltd. v. Simson, Cumming, Webber, a Partnership (2012), 2012 NBCA 92, 2012 CarswellNB 635, 2012 CarswellNB 636, (sub nom. Deer Island Credit Union Ltd. v. Simson, Cumming, Webber) 1023 A.P.R. 76, (sub nom. Deer Island Credit Union Ltd. v. Simson, Cumming, Webber) 395 N.B.R. (2d) 76, 356 D.L.R. (4th) 306 (N.B. C.A.) — referred to

Greene v. New Brunswick (2014), 2014 NBBR 168, 2014 NBQB 168, 2014 CarswellNB 626, 2014 CarswellNB 627, (sub nom.Greene v. New Brunswick (Attorney General)) 1116 A.P.R. 204, (sub nom. Greene v. New Brunswick (Attorney General)) 428 N.B.R. (2d) 204(N.B. Q.B.) — referred to

Hamalengwa v. Bentley (2011), 2011 ONSC 4145, 2011 CarswellOnt 7392 (Ont. S.C.J.) — referred to

Knight v. Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. (2011), 2011 SCC 42, 2011 CarswellBC 1968, 2011 CarswellBC 1969, 21 B.C.L.R. (5th) 215, [2011] 11 W.W.R. 215, 25 Admin. L.R. (5th) 1, 86 C.C.L.T. (3d) 1, (sub nom.British Columbia v. Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd.) 335 D.L.R. (4th) 513, (sub nom. British Columbia v. Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd.) 419 N.R. 1, (sub nom. British Columbia v. Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd.) 308 B.C.A.C. 1, (sub nom. British Columbia v. Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd.) 521 W.A.C. 1, 83 C.B.R. (5th) 169, [2011] 3 S.C.R. 45 (S.C.C.) — referred to

Kvello v. Miazga (2009), 2009 SCC 51, 2009 CarswellSask 717, 2009 CarswellSask 718, 69 C.C.L.T. (3d) 1, [2010] 1 W.W.R. 45, 395 N.R. 115, 337 Sask. R. 260, 464 W.A.C. 260, (sub nom.Kvello Estate v. Miazga) 313 D.L.R. (4th) 330, (sub nom. Miazga v. Kvello Estate) [2009] 3 S.C.R. 339 (S.C.C.) — referred to

Lang Michener Lash Johnston v. Fabian (1987), 16 C.P.C. (2d) 93, 59 O.R. (2d) 353, 37 D.L.R. (4th) 685, 1987 CarswellOnt 378(Ont. H.C.) — considered

Moncton Family Outfitters Ltd. v. Schelew (2005), 2005 NBQB 273, 2005 CarswellNB 442 (N.B. Q.B.) — considered

Murray v. New Brunswick Police Commission (2012), 2012 CarswellNB 355, 2012 CarswellNB 356, 1008 A.P.R. 372, 389 N.B.R. (2d) 372(N.B. C.A.) — considered

Nelles v. Ontario (1989), 69 O.R. (2d) 448 (note), [1989] 2 S.C.R. 170, 60 D.L.R. (4th) 609, 98 N.R. 321, 35 O.A.C. 161, 41 Admin. L.R. 1, 49 C.C.L.T. 217, 37 C.P.C. (2d) 1, 71 C.R. (3d) 358, 42 C.R.R. 1, 1989 CarswellOnt 963, 1989 CarswellOnt 415, 69 O.R. (2d) 448(S.C.C.) — referred to

Odhavji Estate v. Woodhouse (2003), 2003 SCC 69, 2003 CarswellOnt 4851, 2003 CarswellOnt 4852, 19 C.C.L.T. (3d) 163, 233 D.L.R. (4th) 193, 312 N.R. 305, 180 O.A.C. 201, [2003] 3 S.C.R. 263, 11 Admin. L.R. (4th) 45, 70 O.R. (3d) 253 (note), [2004] R.R.A. 1, 2003 CSC 69(S.C.C.) — considered

Pension Coalition NB v. New Brunswick (Attorney General) (2014), 2014 NBBR 248, 2014 NBQB 248, 2014 CarswellNB 618, 2014 CarswellNB 619, 64 C.P.C. (7th) 291, 1119 A.P.R. 58, 429 N.B.R. (2d) 58 (N.B. Q.B.) — referred to

R. v. Brooks (2012), 2012 NBQB 227, 2012 CarswellNB 383, 1011 A.P.R. 392, 390 N.B.R. (2d) 392 (N.B. Q.B.) — referred to

Sewell v. Sewell (2007), 2007 NBCA 42, 2007 CarswellNB 280, 2007 CarswellNB 281, 53 C.C.L.I. (4th) 48, 314 N.B.R. (2d) 330, 812 A.P.R. 330 (N.B. C.A.) — considered

University of New Brunswick Student Union Inc. v. Smith (1987), 81 N.B.R. (2d) 397, 205 A.P.R. 397, 1987 CarswellNB 302 (N.B. Q.B.) — considered

University of New Brunswick Student Union Inc. v. Smith (1988), 224 A.P.R. 39, 1988 CarswellNB 261, 88 N.B.R. (2d) 39 (N.B. C.A.) — referred to

Statutes considered:

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Part I of the Constitution Act, 1982, being Schedule B to the Canada Act 1982 (U.K.), 1982, c. 11

Generally — referred to

Courts of Justice Act, 1984, S.O. 1984, c. 11

s. 150 — considered

Mental Health Act, R.S.N.B. 1973, c. M-10

Generally — referred to

s. 9 — considered

s. 10 — considered

s. 66(1) — considered

s. 66(2) — considered

Police Act, S.N.B. 1977, c. P-9.2

s. 33.1 [en. 1996, c. 26, s. 4] — considered

Proceedings Against the Crown Act, R.S.N.B. 1973, c. P-18

Generally — referred to

s. 4(8) — considered

s. 15 — considered

s. 15(1) — considered

Rules considered:

Rules of Court, N.B. Reg. 82-73

R. 22 — considered

R. 22.01(3) — considered

R. 22.04 — considered

R. 22.04(1)(a) — considered

R. 22.04(1)(b) — considered

R. 23 — considered

R. 23.01 — considered

R. 23.01(1)(b) — considered

R. 27 — considered

R. 27.09 — considered

R. 37.10 — considered

R. 37.10(a) — considered

R. 76.1.02 [en. 2009, c. 28, s. 11] — considered

R. 76.1.02(1)(a) [en. 2009, c. 28, s. 11] — considered

R. 76.1.02(1)(b) [en. 2009, c. 28, s. 11] — considered

Forms considered:

Mental Health Act, R.S.N.B. 1973, c. M-10

Form 1 — considered

Words and phrases considered:

abuse of process

A pleading will constitute an abuse of process if it is brought for an improper purpose or if the Court’s process is misused.

frivolous and vexatious

[A] pleading which is without substance or cannot reasonably succeed can be considered frivolous and vexatious.

scandalous pleadings

Scandalous pleadings are those which make immaterial or unfounded allegations of misconduct, bad faith or impute improper motives to the defendants.

MOTION by defendants for order striking out statement of claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action and prohibiting plaintiff from continuing proceedings without leave of court.

Terrence J. Morrison J.:

I. INTRODUCTION

1      The plaintiff, Sarah Brooks, commenced an action against the Fredericton City Police Force, individual named police officers (the “Police Defendants”) and individual named crown prosecutors (the “Prosecutor Defendants”). The plaintiff’s claim relates to two specific events which the plaintiff claims are inter-related. First, the plaintiff alleges that her former legal counsel in a family dispute conspired with her ex-husband’s counsel to defraud her of spousal support. Ms. Brooks reported the alleged fraud to the Fredericton City Police and she claims that the police failed to properly investigate her complaint and were party to a conspiracy to cover up the fraud. The second event occurred on February 6, 2010. On that date officers of the Fredericton Police Force responded to a call at the plaintiff’s home. An altercation ensued and the plaintiff was detained and taken to hospital where she was admitted on a Form 1 under the Mental Health Act. The plaintiff claims that the police officers unlawfully and forcibly entered her home, physically overpowered and assaulted her. As a result of this incident the plaintiff filed complaints against members of the Fredericton Police Force. The plaintiff alleges that the police falsified police reports and submitted them to Crown Prosecution Services in an attempt to intimidate her into withdrawing her complaints. Ms. Brooks alleges that the crown prosecutor launched a malicious prosecution in collusion with the Fredericton Police Force to coerce the plaintiff into withdrawing the complaint she made against the Fredericton Police Force and her divorce legal counsel. This theory espoused by the plaintiff will be referred to herein as the “Conspiracy Theory”. The plaintiff claims that she suffered physical injuries as a result of the altercation with police and that her detention and subsequent prosecution has exacerbated her mental illness and cost her financial losses as a result of her inability to work.

2      The Police Defendants brought a motion (the “Police Motion”) requesting the following relief:

(a) an order that the plaintiff’s statement of claim be struck for failing to disclose a reasonable cause of action pursuant to Rule 23.01;

(b) alternatively, that the plaintiff’s pleadings be struck as being scandalous, frivolous or vexatious and an abuse of process pursuant to Rule 27.09 with a companion motion for judgment pursuant to Rule 37.10;

(c) summary judgment pursuant to Rule 22.01(3) and 22.04; and

(d) that the plaintiff be prohibited from continuing this proceeding pursuant to Rule 76.1.02(b).

An almost identical motion is brought by the Prosecutor Defendants (the “Prosecutors’ Motion”) except that relief under Rule 76.1.02 is not requested.

3      In response to the Police Motion the plaintiff filed a “Notice of Constitutional Issues” dated April 14, 2016 wherein she opposes the relief sought by the Police Motion and the Prosecutors’ Motion and seeks, among other remedies, the following relief:

a) that the Police Defendants file a further and better Affidavit of Documents;

b) leave to cross-examine the deponents of the affidavits filed in support of the Police Motion;

c) a finding that the plaintiff’s Charter rights have been violated; and

d) a request to further amend her pleadings.

4      In response to the Prosecutors’ Motion the plaintiff filed a “Notice of Motion/Counter Motion” dated April 25, 2016 wherein she seeks relief similar to that requested in the Notice of Constitutional Issues.

5      The matter first came before me on April 29, 2016. At that time I heard representations from the plaintiff and counsel for the Police Defendants and counsel for the Prosecutor Defendants. I concluded that the plaintiff’s request to amend her pleadings must await the outcome of the summary judgment motions. I also concluded that the plaintiff’s allegations that her Charter rights were violated goes to the question of whether the defendants should be permitted summary judgment. That left the plaintiff’s request that the defendants file and serve further and better Affidavits of Documents and the question of whether the plaintiff would be permitted to cross-examine the deponents of the affidavits filed in support of the defendants’ motions. I heard argument with respect to these latter two issues and the matter was adjourned until May 24, 2016. I advised the parties that I would render a decision on these latter two issues on the return of the motion. Subsequent to the appearance on April 29, 2016 the matter was adjourned with the consent of all parties until November 30, 2016.

6      On November 22, 2016 I issued a decision dismissing the plaintiff’s motions for cross-examination on the affidavits and for further and better affidavits of documents from the defendants. The hearing with respect to the defendants’ motions for summary disposition proceeded on November 30, 2016. Prior to the commencement of the hearing the plaintiff filed a Notice of Motion dated November 18, 2016 wherein she seeks, among other things, orders restoring the Law Society of New Brunswick, Peter Seheult and the New Brunswick Police Commission as defendants on the basis that the decisions of Justice Clendening and the Court of Appeal dismissing the actions against them were “beyond their jurisdiction and constitute a miscarriage of justice”. In that motion the plaintiff also seeks, among other relief, a declaration that section 33.1 of the Police Act is unconstitutional. I refused to hear the plaintiff’s latter motion until after the defendants’ motions for summary disposition were determined. This is the Court’s decision with respect to the defendants’ motions requesting summary disposition pursuant to Rules 22, 23 and 27 with companion motions for judgment under Rule 37.10 and the Police Motion for relief under Rule 76.1.02.

II. ANALYISIS AND DECISION

A. Motions Under Rule 23.01(1)(b)

7      The correct approach to a motion to strike pleadings under Rule 23.01(1)(b) was set out in Sewell v. Sewell, 2007 NBCA 42(N.B. C.A.) at paragraph 26:

The principles that inform the determination of a defendant’s motion to strike under Rule 23.01(1)(b) are well settled and can be summarized as follows: (1) the only question for judicial resolution is whether it is plain and obvious that the Statement of Claim fails to disclose the essential elements of a cause of action tenable at law. That conclusion should be reached only in the clearest of cases; (2) correlatively, absent exceptional circumstances, the court must accept as proved all facts asserted in the Statement of Claim and abstain from looking beyond the pleading itself and any documents referred to therein (see Hogan v. Doiron (2001), 243 N.B.R. (2d) 263, 2001 NBCA 97 (N.B. C.A.), para. 38 and Boisvert v. LeBlanc (2005), 294 N.B.R. (2d) 325, 2005 NBCA 115 (N.B. C.A.), para. 21). To expand the exercise beyond those limits would operate to morph the motion under Rule 23.01(1)(b) into an application for summary judgment under Rule 22, the appropriate vehicle to determine prior to trial whether there is factual merit to a claim; (3) the Statement of Claim is to be read generously to accommodate drafting deficiencies; and (4) where a generous reading of its provisions fails to breath[e] life into a pleading, all suitable amendments should be allowed (see Rule 27.10(1) and LeDrew v. Conception Bay South (Town) (2003), 231 Nfld. & P.E.I.R. 61, 2003 NLCA 56 (N.L. C.A.)). Those principles reflect the Legislature’s injunction that the Rules be “liberally construed to secure the just, least expensive and most expeditious determination of every proceeding on its merits”: Rule 1.03

8      In Odhavji Estate v. Woodhouse, [2003] 3 S.C.R. 263 (S.C.C.) the Supreme Court of Canada reiterated the test to be applied to motions to strike under a rule similar to Rule 23.01(1)(b) at paragraph 15:

An excellent statement of the test for striking out a claim under such provisions is that set out by Wilson J. in Hunt v. T & N plc, [1990] 2 S.C.R. 959 (S.C.C.), at p. 980:

...assuming that the facts as stated in the statement of claim can be proved, it is “plain and obvious” that the plaintiff’s statement of claim discloses no reasonable cause of action? As in England, if there is a chance that the plaintiff might succeed, then the plaintiff should not be “driven from the judgment seat”. Neither the length and complexity of the issues, the novelty of the cause of action, nor the potential for the defendant to present a strong defence should prevent the plaintiff from proceeding with his or her case. Only if the action is certain to fail because it contains a radical defect...should the relevant portions of a plaintiff’s statement of claim be struck out...

The test is a stringent one. The facts are to be taken as pleaded. When so taken, the question that must then be determined is whether there it is “plain and obvious” that the action must fail. It is only if the statement of claim is certain to fail because it contains a “radical defect” that the plaintiff should be driven from the judgment. See also Inuit Tapirisat of Canada v. Canada (Attorney General), [1980] 2 S.C.R. 735 (S.C.C.).

(See also Knight v. Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd., 2011 SCC 42(S.C.C.) at para. 17; Deer Island Credit Union Ltd. v. Simson, Cumming, Webber, a Partnership, 2012 NBCA 92(N.B. C.A.) at paras. 6-8)

9      Generally speaking, the defendants seek summary judgment under Rule 22 and in the alternative that the entire claim be struck pursuant to Rules 23 and 27. The defendants ask that the plaintiff’s claim be struck on the basis that the pleadings, as a whole, do not disclose a reasonable cause of action and they rely on Rule 23.01(1)(b) in this regard. However, in support of their general proposition they also argue that certain statutory provisions afford a defence thus eviscerating the plaintiff’s alleged cause of action rendering it unreasonable. The defendants also maintain that the plaintiff’s pleading be struck in its entirety pursuant to Rule 27.09. I will deal first with the Police Motion under Rule 23.01(1)(b) then move on to address the Prosecution Motion for the same relief.

10      As far as I am able to glean, the allegations against the Police Defendants fall into two separate categories:

1. Allegations of assault and false arrest against the officers who detained the plaintiff at her home on February 8, 2010; and

2. Allegations against the officers who investigated the plaintiff’s complaints.

The former allegations are contained in paragraphs, 56-62, 65, 72-79, 84-86, 102-103 and 149 and of the Amended Statement of Claim and the latter in paragraphs 47-49, 132-139, 142-143 and 163-164. The defendant police officers Roberts, Banks, DeCourcey and Flemming are the officers who responded to the plaintiff’s residence. They allege in their Statement of Defence (para. 6) that the police were responding to a call from Fredericton Mental Health Clinic when they attended at the plaintiff’s home and therefore were operating under the authority of the Mental Health Act. The plaintiff acknowledges that the police were acting pursuant to the Mental Health Act but not pursuant to s. 10. She argues they should have proceeded under s. 9, but that they acted improperly in arresting her when they had no power or grounds to do so under the Mental Health Act. (see para. 69 of Amended Statement of Claim and paras. 5, 7 and 8 of Notice of Constitutional Issues).

11      The Police Defendants argue that the Attorney General has not consented to the commencement of the plaintiff’s action and thus section 66(1) of the Mental Health Act is a complete defence. Section 66(1) provides as follows:

No action, prosecution or other proceedings shall be brought or be instituted against any officer, nurse, clerk, attendant or other employee of a psychiatric facility, or against any other person, for an act done in pursuance of execution or intended execution of any duty or authority under this Act or the regulations, or in respect of any alleged neglect or default in the execution of any such duty or authority, without the consent of the Attorney General.

12      The Police Defendants also plead and rely on section 66(2) of the Mental Health Act which provides as follows:

All prosecutions against any person, for anything done or omitted to be done in pursuance of this Act, shall be commenced within six months after the act or omission complained of has been committed or occurred, and not afterwards.

13      The only plaintiff’s pleadings which are disclosed on the record are the Amended Notice of Action and Amended Statement of Claim filed on January 27, 2012. However, the Clerk’s Office has a record of a Notice of Action having been filed on February 6, 2012. In any event, the plaintiff’s action was filed well outside the statutory limitation period.

14      In my view, the above statutory provisions constitute a complete bar to the plaintiff’s action against the defendants. Accordingly, it is plain and obvious to me that the plaintiff’s allegations against these defendants do not disclose a reasonable cause of action and are hereby struck.

15      The allegations against the remaining Police Defendants, MacKnight, Bourque, Ford and Copp, are with respect to their investigation of the plaintiff’s complaint of spousal support fraud and collusion by two family law lawyers and for failing to diligently investigate her complaint against the four police officers who responded to her home on February 6, 2010. As far as I can discern from the plaintiff’s pleadings the claim against these defendants is based in negligence in failing to conduct a proper investigation. My review of the paragraphs in the Amended Statement of Claim pertaining to defendants MacKnight, Bourque, Ford and Copp reveals no allegations of bad faith. The Police Defendants rely on section 33.1 of the Police Act which provides as follows:

No action lies for damages or otherwise against any of the following persons in relation to anything done or purported to be done in good faith, or in relation to anything omitted in good faith, under this Act by the person:

(a) the Commission;

(b) the chair or a former chair of the Commission;

(c) the vice-chair or a former vice-chair of the Commission;

(d) any other member or former member of the Commission;

(e) any employee or former employee of the Commission; and

(f) an investigator appointed to investigate a conduct complaint under Division C of Part III or Division B of Part III.1.

16      As mentioned, the plaintiff’s pleadings do not set out any facts that would constitute bad faith on behalf of these defendants. The plaintiff’s failure to specifically plead bad faith or any facts from which an inference of bad faith can be drawn is fatal to her claim against these defendants (Hamalengwa v. Bentley, [2011] O.J. No. 3477 (Ont. S.C.J.); Brooks v. Fredericton City Police Force, 2013 NBQB 204(N.B. Q.B.) at paras. 4-9 affirmed [Brooks v. Law Society of New Brunswick] 2015 NBCA 18(N.B. C.A.) at para. 18). Given that the plaintiff’s claim with respect to these defendants is statute-barred it is plain and obvious that the allegations against them disclose no reasonable cause of action and are hereby struck. There are no specific causes of action alleged against the City of Fredericton or the Fredericton Police Force in the Amended Statement of Claim. Any exposure to liability for these defendants would be vicarious. Given that the claims against their servant police officers have been struck then the claims against the City of Fredericton and The Fredericton Police Force must also fail.

17      I will turn now to the motion under Rule 23.01(1)(b) brought by the Prosecutor Defendants. As far as can be determined from the plaintiff’s Amended Statement of Claim, the allegations against the Prosecutor Defendants are found in paragraphs 36, 39, 41, 140, 148 to 155, 158, 159, 161 and 162 thereof. They fall basically into two categories: negligence and malicious prosecution. (I will deal specifically with the issue of malicious prosecution later.) The allegations all relate to things done or omitted to be done by the Prosecutor Defendants in the course of their duties. The Prosecutor Defendants therefore plead and rely upon section 4(8) of the Proceedings Against the Crown Act (”PACA”) which provides as follows:

Notwithstanding any provision of this or any other Act, no proceedings lie directly against an officer or agent of the Crown, in the name of the officer or agent or in the name of his or her office, in respect of anything done or omitted to be done by the officer or agent in the course of the performance or purported performance of his or her duties.

18      In my view, in order for the plaintiff to advance a legitimate claim against the Prosecutor Defendants personally she would have had to plead material facts demonstrating that they were acting outside the course of their official duties. As mentioned, all of the allegations relate to things done or omitted to be done by the Prosecutor Defendants in the course of the performance of their duties. Accordingly, the claims against the Prosecutor Defendants are statute-barred by virtue of section 4(8) of PACA.

19      I will turn now to what appear to be allegations of malicious prosecution. These are found in paragraphs 140, 149, 150, 152, 154 and 155 and read as follows:

140 Blunston was negligent when she filed a letter with the court stating that she knew of no “case law” requiring Charter Rights to be provided when a person is involuntarily detained to hospital and she failed to state sections 7.4 and 10.1 of the NB Mental Health Act, which both state the requirement for both the hospital and police to immediately inform of Charter rights to retain and instruct counsel or the Charter of Rights and Freedoms requirement for the same - Blunston was either negligent or willfully misleading the Court and Plaintiff.

149 Roberts, Banks, Fleming and Decourcey, Corby, Blunston and Drain knowingly instigated and proceeded with charges and a prosecution against the Plaintiff based on falsified police reports and since the reports were written to be submitted as evidence to a court of law, the Plaintiff maintains this constitutes perjury and abuse of process.

150 Corby frivolously and vexatiously accepted the charges against the Plaintiff for prosecution without lawful grounds and (the following being examples and not a comprehensive list of his failure to properly pre-screen the charges and FPF investigation):

• in spite of there being no public interest in so doing,

• in spite of Corby having to alter the charges from resisting “arrest” to resisting “lawful detention” in order to contrive a charge that was even vaguely plausible

• in spite of there having been no lawful grounds to arrest the Plaintiff,

• in spite of Corby having evidence before him of police misconduct resulting in the Plaintiff being charged with “Assault with intent to resist arrest” where there were clearly no legal grounds for arrest of the Plaintiff

• in spite of the FPF reports, constituting disclosure, stating the FPF officers material to the incident had never informed the Plaintiff of any intention to arrest or detain her yet they charged her with resisting the same

• in spite of the clear evidence from the FPF that the officers themselves initiated assault and battery against the Plaintiff

• in spite of the evidence that the Plaintiff was suffering from mental conditions of anxiety and severe depression,

• in spite of having full knowledge that criminal charges and prosecution would cause further extreme mental distress to the Plaintiff,

• in spite of the Plaintiff not having any criminal record or criminal tendencies,

• in spite of the five reports and dispatch records comprising the Disclosure document confirming that the officers’ reports each conflicted in their descriptions of the facts and

• in spite of the FPF dispatch records confirming the time-frame of one minute and fifty eight seconds between the four FPF officers arriving at the Plaintiff’s home and completing her arrest precluded any possibility of the police having conducted themselves in a manner to preserve, uphold and protect the Plaintiff’s Charter Right and Freedom not to be subjected to arbitrary search and seizure, unnecessary and arbitrary, violent home invasion, assault and battery with aggravating circumstances, detention and imprisonment and confirm there was no possibility of the Plaintiff having premeditated any acts against the invading officers of the FPF, which is a requirement under the Criminal Code of Canada for the criminal act of assault to have been committed.

152 Corby altered and amended the police charges from two counts of “Assault with intent to resist arrest” - which had no lawful substantiation and could not have been prosecuted - to “Assault with intent to resist lawful detention” and therefore contrived to create charges that did not exist and which the evidence could not substatiate, thereby instigating a malicious and unlawful prosecution with no reasonable or just grounds and in spite of the Plaintiffs mental ill health and overwhelming evidence that is was in fact the Plaintiff who was a victim of FPF wrongdoing.

154 In knowingly accepting charges against the Plaintiff for prosecution that had no lawful grounds, knowing the Plaintiff’s Charter Rights to counsel were violated, knowing that the FPF reports submitted as evidence of the “crimes were fabricated and/or implausible, and knowing the charges were to be prosecuted against a mentally distress person, Corby has behaved negligently and breached public trust and disobeyed a statute.

155 Blunston and Drain later proceeded to accept the case and continue to prosecute the Plaintiff, thereby participating in the malicious prosecution, until 22nd June when the Deputy Attorney General stayed proceedings against the Plaintiff with immediate effect after twenty three months of prosecution and twenty eight months of suffering distress and anxiety by the Plaintiff since the incident of 6th February 2010.

20      Essentially, the plaintiff alleges that the defendant Corby acted maliciously by pursuing a prosecution which he knew was based on falsified police reports. She alleges that the defendants Blunston and Drain also acted maliciously by continuing that prosecution. The test for making out a claim of malicious prosecution is an onerous one. The plaintiff must plead material facts which would demonstrate that the proceedings:

a) were initiated by the defendants;

b) were terminated in favour of the plaintiff;

c) were undertaken without reasonable and probable cause; and

d) were motivated by malice or a primary purpose other than carrying the law into effect.

(see Nelles v. Ontario, [1989] 2 S.C.R. 170 (S.C.C.)).

21      The last element is one which requires the plaintiff to plead facts which would establish the deliberate and malicious use of the prosecutor’s office for ends that are improper and inconsistent with that office (Kvello v. Miazga, 2009 SCC 51(S.C.C.)). In my view, the pleadings fall far short of that which is required to make out a cause of action for malicious prosecution.

22      Insofar as the allegations against the Defendant Prosecutors relate to their official functions as agents of the Crown then section 15 of PACA must be considered. The plaintiff’s claim against the Prosecutor Defendants is primarily for damages and not for declaratory relief. It is a claim directly against the interests of the Crown. As such, it is a claim that historically could only be brought by way of a petition of right procedure. That procedure has been subsumed byPACA (see Pension Coalition NB v. New Brunswick (Attorney General), 2014 NBQB 248(N.B. Q.B.) at paras. 39-48). In short, it is a claim to which section 15(1) of PACA applies:

No action shall be brought against the Crown unless two months previous notice in writing thereof has been served on the Attorney General, or on the corporation in the case of an action to be brought against a Crown corporation, in which notice the name and residence of the proposed plaintiff, cause of action, and the court in which it is to be brought shall be explicitly stated.

23      The plaintiff did not give notice to the Attorney General as required and thus the cause of action against the Prosecutor Defendants cannot proceed.

24      For the foregoing reasons I conclude that it is plain and obvious that the allegations against the Prosecutor Defendants disclose no reasonable cause of action and are hereby struck.

B. Motions Under Rule 27.09 -Frivolous and Vexatious Pleadings

25      In the event that I am wrong with respect to any of the above conclusions I will proceed to deal with the motions pursuant to Rule 27.09. It is clear that this Court may strike a pleading that is frivolous, vexatious or an abuse of process pursuant to either Rule 27.09 or its inherent jurisdiction. In Moncton Family Outfitters Ltd. v. Schelew, 2005 NBQB 273(N.B. Q.B.) at paragraph 49 the Court adopts the reasoning of Justice Dickson in University of New Brunswick Student Union Inc. v. Smith, [1987] N.B.J. No. 263 (N.B. Q.B.) upheld on appeal at [1988] N.B.J. No. 240 (N.B. C.A.):

In dismissing the two actions on the basis that they both were frivolous, vexatious, without merit and an abuse of process, Justice Dickson writes at paragraph 18 to 20:

18 The law applicable in this jurisdiction is essentially as set out in Halsbury (4th Ed.) Vol. 37 where in paragraph 430 it is stated:

430. Summary powers to strike out pleadings, dismiss actions and enter judgments. The court is invested with extensive powers to strike out pleadings and thereupon, or for other good reason arising from the making of the claim or defence, to dismiss actions by plaintiffs or to enter judgments against defendants. These powers are both salutary and necessary not only to enforce the basic rules of pleadings but also to dispose of proceedings which are hopeless, baseless or without foundation in law or in equity or are otherwise an abuse of the process of the court. The powers are exercised by the court by summary process, speedily and generally at an early stage of the proceedings, and they operate as a powerful, effective method of disposing of proceedings without a plenary trial.

The powers are derived from two parallel sources. First they are conferred by rules of court and secondly they are exercisable under the court’s inherent jurisdiction. These sources are cumulative, not alternative, and may be invoked by the parties and employed by the court simultaneously.However, the powers are permissive, not mandatory, and they confer a discretionary jurisdiction which the court will exercise in the light of all the circumstances concerning the offending pleading. This discretion will be exercised by applying two fundamental, although complementary, principles. The first principle is that the parties will not lightly “be driven from the seat of judgment,” and for this reason the court will exercise its discretionary power with the greatest care and circumspection, and only in the clearest of cases. The second principle is that a stay or even dismissal of proceedings may “often be required by the very essence of justice to be done,” so as to prevent the parties being harassed and put to expense by frivolous, vexatious or hopeless litigation.

(emphasis added)

26      Is the plaintiff’s pleading frivolous, vexatious or an abuse of process? What constitutes such a pleading was extensively canvassed by Justice Glennie in Greene v. New Brunswick, 2014 NBQB 168(N.B. Q.B.) at paragraphs 155-185 and will not be repeated here. In summary, though, a pleading which is without substance or cannot reasonably succeed can be considered frivolous and vexatious. Scandalous pleadings are those which make immaterial or unfounded allegations of misconduct, bad faith or impute improper motives to the defendants. A pleading will constitute an abuse of process if it is brought for an improper purpose or if the Court’s process is misused.

27      The plaintiff’s entire claim is predicated on the Conspiracy Theory: that her former legal counsel and that of her ex-husband conspired to defraud her of spousal support and that the police and prosecutors were in a conspiracy to cover up that alleged fraud. The plaintiff’s Conspiracy Theory has been debunked in several court decisions. In Brooks v. Brooks, 2012 NBQB 401(N.B. Q.B.) Justice Wooder had this to say about the plaintiff’s conspiracy theory at paragraph 7:

Ms. Brooks has spent much of the past four and a half years regretting and attempting to challenge the Consent Order. She has raised various allegations against the lawyers involved and against Mr. Brooks. The specifics need not be detailed here, but they include such complaints as fraud, negligence, unconscionable conduct, perjury and bad faith. This list is not exhaustive.One of her consistent and principal complaints is that the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines calculations on which the spousal support was based were flawed, and considerable time has been spent by Ms. Brooks in explaining and detailing what she perceives to be the errors. Both the motion judge and the Court of Appeal dealt with that allegation, and legally at least, it has been put to rest.

(emphasis added)

28      In Brooks v. Fredericton City Police Force, 2013 NBQB 204(N.B. Q.B.) Justice Clendening commented on the plaintiff’s Conspiracy Theory at paragraph 20:

It is truly unfortunate that Ms. Brooks has been unable to move forward with her life because of her preoccupation with the issue of spousal support which has been disposed of on many occasions in Family Division, and with the events of 6 February 2010 which have been dealt with in another court. It is difficult to watch Ms. Brooks attempt to navigate the legal system without having empathy for her. She is always polite, respectful and articulate, but she is obsessed about events for whichthereis no legal solution, because there is no basis for a court action in regard to either of the events with which she is preoccupied.

(emphasis added)

(affirmed by the Court of Appeal at 2015 NBCA 18(N.B. C.A.)).

29      Considering the previous judicial pronouncements referred to above and my own review of the Record it is clear that the underlying theory of the plaintiff’s case is completely without merit. Success is hopeless. On that basis alone the entire Amended Statement of Claim is frivolous and vexatious. Furthermore, the pleading consists of 30 pages and 193 paragraphs which are replete with insulting language, allegations of serious criminal misconduct, conclusions and argument. In my view, the pleading is not only frivolous and vexatious but also scandalous and an abuse of process.

30      The pleading that was adjudicated upon in Brooks v. Law Society of New Brunswick is the very same pleading that is before me in these motions. Justice Clendening’s comments condemn the pleadings as prolix, irrelevant and devoid of material facts. In so doing Justice Clendening quoted from Armstrong v. Tygart [886 F.Supp.2d 572 (U.S. W.D. Tex. 2012)], Case No. A-12-CA-606-SS from the State of Texas, USA and Justice Robertson’s comments at paragraph 10 of Murray v. New Brunswick Police Commission, [2012] N.B.J. No. 211 (N.B. C.A.). The Court of Appeal not only concluded that Justice Clendening’s references to the observations in those two cases were entirely justified it went further and declared the action against the respondents to be an abuse of process. At paragraph 29 it states:

In our view, the motion judge’s references to the American case and to Robertson J.A.’s observations were entirely justified. While it is the function of the justice system to serve the public, it does not give individuals a right to abuse the service. This appeal, just like the underlying action against the respondents to this appeal, is devoid of any merit. Just like the action against these respondents, the appeal is frivolous. It is an abuse of the justice system.

(emphasis added)

31      The foregoing pronouncements were with respect to the very same Amended Statement of Claim which is before me. Although arguably those findings are confined to the specific allegations against the specific respondents in that case, in my view there is no material difference between the allegations at issue in Brooks v. Law Society of New Brunswick and the allegations at issue in this motion. I conclude that the plaintiff’s pleadings disclose no reasonable cause of action against the defendants and are frivolous, vexatious and an abuse of process. The plaintiff’s Amended Statement of Claim, in its entirety, against the defendants herein is hereby struck.

32      The defendants’ motions for judgment pursuant to Rules 22.01(3), 22.04(1)(a) and (b) and 37.10(a) are hereby granted and the plaintiff’s action in its entirety is hereby dismissed.

C. Motion under Rule 76.1.02

33      The Police Defendants have brought a motion requesting an order prohibiting the plaintiff from continuing the prosecution of the within action pursuant to Rule 76.1.02(b) which provides as follows:

76.1.02 Order made by a judge of the Court of Queen’s Bench

(1) Where a judge of the Court of Queen’s Bench is satisfied, on application, that a person has persistently and without reasonable grounds commenced vexatious proceedings in the Court of Queen’s Bench or the Small Claims Court or has persistently and without reasonable grounds conducted a proceeding in a vexatious manner in the Court of Queen’s Bench or the Small Claims Court, the judge may make an order containing either or both of the following prohibitions:

(a) prohibiting the person from commencing any further proceeding in the Court of Queen’s Bench or the Small Claims Court except with leave of a judge of the Court of Queen’s Bench; and

(b) prohibiting the person from continuing a proceeding previously commenced in the Court of Queen’s Bench or the Small Claims Court except with leave of a judge of the Court of Queen’s Bench.

34      Counsel for the Police Defendants was unable to refer me to any reported decisions in which Rule 76.1.02 was applied. However, there is jurisprudence from Ontario interpreting a similar provision found in section 150 of the Courts of Justice Act S.O. 1984 c. 11. In Lang Michener Lash Johnston v. Fabian, [1987] O.J. No. 355 (Ont. H.C.) Justice Henry outlined the factors to be considered when making a declaration that a party is a vexatious litigant. At paragraph 20 he outlined those factors:

From these decisions the following principles may be extracted:

(a) the bringing of one or more actions to determine an issue which has already been determined by a court of competent jurisdiction constitutes a vexatious proceeding;

(b) where it is obvious that an action cannot succeed, or if the action would lead to no possible good, or if no reasonable person can reasonably expect to obtain relief, the action is vexatious;

(c) vexatious actions include those brought for an improper purpose, including the harassment and oppression of other parties by multifarious proceedings brought for purposes other than the assertion of legitimate rights;

(d) it is a general characteristic of vexatious proceedings that grounds and issues raised tend to be rolled forward into subsequent actions and repeated and supplemented, often with actions brought against the lawyers who have acted for or against the litigant in earlier proceedings;

(e) in determining whether proceedings are vexatious, the court must look at the whole history of the matter and not just whether there was originally a good cause of action;

(f) the failure of the person instituting the proceedings to pay the costs of unsuccessful proceedings is one factor to be considered in determining whether proceedings are vexatious;

(g) the respondent’s conduct in persistently taking unsuccessful appeals from judicial decisions can be considered vexatious conduct of legal proceedings.

35      The plaintiff has launched various proceedings in the Provincial Court, Court of Queen’s Bench and Court of Appeal. Among those proceedings was an appeal of a decision of a Provincial Court Judge refusing to hear Charter issues raised by her before the commencement of the trial. The appeal was brought even after the criminal charges underlying the proceeding had been stayed and she raised 40 grounds of appeal (R. v. Brooks, 2012 NBQB 227(N.B. Q.B.)). Others include Brooks v. Brooks, 2012 NBQB 401(N.B. Q.B.), Brooks v. Brooks, 2012 NBCA 50(N.B. Q.B.), Brooks v. Brooks, 2014 NBCA 29(N.B. Q.B.) and Brooks v. Law Society of New Brunswick, supra, and its appeal to which I have already referred. With respect to the present motions, rather than filing a cogent response the plaintiff filed a “Notice of Constitutional Issues” seeking cross-examination of affiants, further affidavits of documents and raising a host of issues and claims. In oral argument counsel for the Police Defendants stated that there are currently outstanding costs awards against the plaintiff in the amount of at least $14,000.00. However, I have been unable to locate any evidence in the Record to substantiate the amount of costs awarded in previous proceedings except for $4,000 in costs awarded at trial and appeal in connection with Brooks v. Law Society of New Brunswick (Record pp. 1089-1090). I could locate no evidence that costs awarded have or have not been paid by Ms. Brooks.

36      Perhaps most telling is the fact that just 12 days before the hearing of these motions the plaintiff filed a motion wherein she seeks to restore as defendants The Law Society of New Brunswick, Peter Seheult, and the New Brunswick Police Commission. Her grounds for doing so are that “the previous orders of Justice Clendening and the Court of Appeal of New Brunswick were beyond their jurisdiction and constitute a miscarriage of justice”. Clearly, the plaintiff refuses to accept any decision or ruling which prevents her from prosecuting this futile litigation. There is every indication that the plaintiff will relentlessly continue to pursue the defendants. The Notice of Motion just referred to contains the following among its statement of grounds:

3. The Plaintiff also wishes to bring this application to the Court’s attention since, if the Law Society, NB Police Commission and Seheult are not restored as defendants, she will exercise her rights to file new actions and claims against the Law Society, Seheult and the NB Police Commission, for which the limitation expires two years after the Court of Appeal decision in April 2015.

Any new action will include the Attorney General and the Province of New Brunswick.

(emphasis added)

37      The plaintiff will not stop unless she is stopped. In the recent case of Cram v. Nova Veterinary Clinic Ltd., 2016 NSSC 181(N.S. S.C.) the Court was asked to restrain a plaintiff who had persistently instituted vexatious proceedings. In issuing an order forbidding the plaintiff from commencing any proceeding or taking any further steps in the existing proceeding Justice Campbell stated at paragraph 51:

The courts have to remain open to difficult, obstreperous, annoying, unreasonable, foolish, irrational, wasteful, and mean-spirited people. They are not restricted to internet blogs and postings on news websites. To some extent the legal system can become an open mike for the angry. But when a person crosses over into using multiple legal processes themselves as a cudgel to wreak vengeance on an opponent, the court is obliged to restrain them.

(emphasis added)

38      If the plaintiff is permitted unrestricted access to the courts I have little doubt that the defendants and others whom she perceives have wronged her will be subjected to continuing legal harassment by the plaintiff and the expenditure of further costs, time and energy. Furthermore, I believe that terminating this litigation is also in the best interests of the plaintiff. In her submissions to the Court Ms. Brooks advised that she has mental health issues and that this litigation has been stressful for her. Ms. Brooks is intelligent, articulate and resourceful and has been respectful in her appearances before me. Prohibiting the plaintiff from further litigating these issues will allow her to focus her talents and energy on things that may be of benefit to her instead of squandering them on a hopeless cause. In the circumstances, I am obliged to restrain the plaintiff. Accordingly, the motion by the Police Defendants for an order pursuant to Rule 76.1.02 is granted. The motion seeks relief only with respect to the present proceeding under 76.1.02 (1) (b). However, when an application is brought and the Court is satisfied that the person is a persistent vexatious litigant the Rule gives the Court the authority to make an order under either or both of Rules 76.1.02 (a) and (b). Accordingly, it is hereby ordered that:

(a) the plaintiff is prohibited from commencing any further proceeding in the Court of Queen’s Bench or the Small Claims Court except with leave of a judge of the Court of Queen’s Bench; and

(b) the plaintiff is prohibited from continuing a proceeding previously commenced in the Court of Queen’s Bench or the Small Claims Court, including the present proceeding, except with leave of a judge of the Court of Queen’s Bench.

III. COSTS

39      Costs are awarded and payable forthwith by the plaintiff to the defendants in the amount of $6,000.00 as follows:

a) One set of costs in the amount of $3,000.00 collectively to the Police Defendants;

b) One set of costs in the amount of $3,000.00 collectively to the Prosecutor Defendants.

Motion granted.

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 ---------- Original message ----------
From: "Davidson, Stephen"<stephen.davidson@saintjohn.ca>

Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 20:26:02 +0000
Subject: Information
To: "david.raymond.amos@gmail.com"<david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>

Mr. Amos,

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,

Saint John Police Headquarters: One Peel Plaza, Saint John New Brunswick
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 ---------- Original message ----------

From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:01:25 -0400
Subject: RE More Informaion I just called and talked to a young lawyer
named "Alex"
To: info@alandgoldlaw.com
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>

 
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:43:22 -0400
Subject: Re: Information The Crown should have shared my files with
you before you contacted me
To: "Davidson, Stephen"<stephen.davidson@saintjohn.ca>,
jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca,
Larry.Tremblay@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Cc: motomaniac333@gmail.com

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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: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)"<Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:50:12 +0000
Subject: RE: I just heard on CBC what Justice Drapeau said to the
lawyer Alan Gold Perhaps Mr Gold should send someone to Federal Court
and pull docket no T-1557-15 ASAP N'esy Pas Serge Rouselle?
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,
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Office of the Premier / Cabinet du premier ministre



---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:48:30 -0400
Subject: I just heard on CBC what Justice Drapeau said to the lawyer
Alan Gold Perhaps Mr Gold should send someone to Federal Court and
pull docket no T-1557-15 ASAP N'esy Pas Serge Rouselle?
To: alison.crawford@cbc.ca, garyamiller.gampc@gmail.com, fifth@cbc.ca,
info@alandgoldlaw.com, "ralph.goodale.a1"
<ralph.goodale.a1@parl.gc.ca>, "roger.l.brown"
<roger.l.brown@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
"Bill.Casey"<Bill.Casey@parl.gc.ca>, "jan.jensen"
<jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca>, wteed <wteed@coxandpalmer.com>,
"serge.rousselle"<serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>, premier <premier@gnb.ca>,
"Robert. Jones"<Robert.Jones@cbc.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, gopublic
<gopublic@cbc.ca>, "steve.murphy"<steve.murphy@ctv.ca>, nmoore
<nmoore@bellmedia.ca>, "macpherson.don"
<macpherson.don@dailygleaner.com>, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>,
andre <andre@jafaust.com>

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/dennis-oland-murder-appeal-alan-gold-1.3811727

Drapeau abruptly says he's not suggesting defence should have made
motion for directed verdict. Called for recess.
10:06 AM - 19 Oct 2016

    Retweets


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
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 01:05:01 -0400
> Subject: Hey TJ Burke and Louie lafleur January 11th is coming fast Ya
> can't say that your buddies and the Police Commission ain't mentioned
> bigtime in my complaint N'esy Pas Stevey Boy Roberge?
> To: tj@burkelaw.ca, "lou.lafleur"<lou.lafleur@fredericton.ca>,
> jeddy@coxandpalmer.com, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre
> <andre@jafaust.com>, sunrayzulu <sunrayzulu@shaw.ca>, "greg.byrne"
> <greg.byrne@gnb.ca>, paulzed@zed.ca, smay@coxandpalmer.com, nbpc
> <nbpc@gnb.ca>, ychoukri@wstephenson.com, "Paul.Harpelle"
> <Paul.Harpelle@gnb.ca>, "Michael.Quinn"
> <Michael.Quinn@electionsnb.ca>, "Yves.Cote"<Yves.Cote@elections.ca>,
> "Marc.Mayrand"<Marc.Mayrand@elections.ca>, "steve.roberge"
> <steve.roberge@gnb.ca>, Randy.Reilly@fredericton.ca, "Leanne.Fitch"
> <Leanne.Fitch@fredericton.ca>, "serge.rousselle"
> <serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>, "leanne.murray"
> <leanne.murray@mcinnescooper.com>, "Paulette.Delaney-Smith"
> <Paulette.Delaney-Smith@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Stephen.Horsman"
> <Stephen.Horsman@gnb.ca>, infomorningfredericton
> <infomorningfredericton@cbc.ca>, dmombourquette@pinklarkin.com,
> george.filliter@gnb.ca, "hugh.flemming"<hugh.flemming@gnb.ca>,
> national <national@mppac.ca>, "robert.stoney"<robert.stoney@gnb.ca>,
> "Jacques.Poitras"<Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>, "ht.lacroix"
> <ht.lacroix@cbc.ca>
> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>,
> Catherine.Harrop@cbc.ca, "redmond.shannon"<redmond.shannon@cbc.ca>,
> Joe Friday <Friday.Joe@psic-ispc.gc.ca>, loyalistlawoffice
> <loyalistlawoffice@yahoo.ca>
>
> Like Hell the NBPC do not get my emails EH?
>
> On 12/30/15, David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Happy New Year and Please Enjoy :)
>
> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/stephen-horsman-says-police-act-to-be-modernized-1.2974589
>
>
> Stephen Horsman says Police Act to be modernized
> New Brunswick Police Commission is calling for 13 changes to the law
>
> By Jacques Poitras, CBC News Posted: Feb 27, 2015 6:42 AM AT
>
> Public Safety Minister Stephen Horsman says his department is working
> on changes to the Police Act that will modernize the oversight of
> municipal police officers and departments.
>
> Horsman says it’s too early to talk about specific changes, but he
> says officials will "look at the whole act, what needs to be updated,
> what needs to be modernized, to meet the needs of 2015, not the 1960s
> or 1970s."
>
> His comments come after the 2013-14 annual report by the New Brunswick
> Police Commission called for updates to the law.
>
> "We are of the opinion that the time has come to re-open the Police
> Act and to make changes that are necessary to ensure that police
> oversight is in step with current practices across the country," the
> report states.
>
> Horsman, a retired Fredericton city police officer, says the public’s
> expectations of transparency in law enforcement are higher than they
> were when the legislation was written.
>
> "Today, people are more inclined to question or to ask questions about
> their rights, especially dealing with police officers or police
> departments and I applaud them for that. They should be," he says.
> Police commission seeking 13 changes
>
> Steve Roberge, the police commission’s executive director, says the
> organization is looking for 13 changes.
>
> One would allow the commission to extend the time it has to
> investigate a complaint. The law says if it doesn’t complete an
> investigation within six months and send it to arbitration or a
> settlement conference, it loses jurisdiction.
>
> "The problem with that is that some investigations, for example for
> harassment, involve a lot of interviews and many employees and
> witnesses and they take a very long time," Roberge said.
>
> He’d like to see the law changed so that — like the legislation in
> British Columbia — it gives the commission the power to extend the
> time limit in certain cases.
>
> "It’s an issue of fairness, not only to the complainants to make sure
> we do a thorough investigation and not be pressed by time limits, but
> also to the … police officer who’s the subject of the complaint, to
> give them a thorough investigation and ensure we get all the facts
> properly," he says.
>
> Woodstock police
>
> The New Brunswick Police Commission received 64 complaints last year. (CBC)
>
> Another change would let the commission assign multiple investigators
> to complex complaints. At the moment, it can only assign one
> investigator per case.
>
> But some investigations require more people, Roberge says, and "we
> can’t do that under the act."
>
> The commission investigates complaints from the public about the
> conduct of municipal police officers.
>
> The RCMP has its own complaints process that covers its officers, who
> handle policing in areas of New Brunswick without municipal forces.
>
> The commission also has a role in ensuring adequate policing
> throughout the province and must be consulted if a municipality wants
> to cut the number of officers.
>
> The commission’s report also raises a concern that more police
> officers, who are the subject of complaints, are opting out of the
> settlement conference process.
>
> That process allows the complainant, the officer, and the officer’s
> chief of police to deal with the complaint informally, which takes
> less time and costs less money than a full arbitration hearing.
>
> "It’s an efficiency issue. A settlement conference is done locally and
> doesn’t require a lot of expenditures," Roberge said.
>
> It also means the process isn’t public, but Roberge says the
> complainant, the officer, and the officer’s manager are all in the
> settlement conference and know what happens.
>
> It’s the officer’s right to opt out of the settlement conference and
> Roberge says he doesn’t know why they’re doing that.
>
> Roberge says the commission handled a total of 56 files in 2013-14
> containing a total of 64 allegations. Half dealt with alleged abuse of
> authority, fewer than a quarter alleged discreditable conduct, and the
> rest made other allegations such as neglect of duty.
>
> Of the 64 allegations, 13 per cent were dismissed and four per cent
> were withdrawn, while 50 per cent were investigated and didn’t require
> further action.
>
> Sixteen per cent of the complaints were still unresolved at the end of
> 2013-2014 and 17 per cent went to arbitration.
>
> Of the cases that went to arbitration, one led to sanctions against a
> police officer, Roberge said.
>
> In that case, a Woodstock town police officer, Const. John Morrison,
> was suspended for a week without pay after an arbitrator found he had
> abused his authority while off duty.
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Police Commission / Commission de police
> <Commissiondepolice.PoliceCommission@gnb.ca>
> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:39:10 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Sometimes less is more So heres a little
> Deja Vu for the CBC, CTV, the Irving newsrags, the Fat Fred City
> Finest & their lawyers, Chucky Leblanc and his fan club and his unamed
> lawyer before he is tried for assault
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>
> We are currently out of the office and will return on Monday, January 4th,
> 2016.
>
> Nous sommes présentement hors du bureau  et nous serons de retour
> lundi le 4 janvier 2016.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Don MacPherson <macpherson.don@dailygleaner.com>
> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 07:39:07 -0800
> Subject: Out of office Re: Sometimes less is more So heres a little
> Deja Vu for the CBC, CTV, the Irving newsrags, the Fat Fred City
> Finest & their lawyers, Chucky Leblanc and his fan club and his unamed
> lawyer before he is tried for assault
> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>
> I will be out of the office until Jan. 4. If you have a pressing
> matter you need to discuss with someone at The Daily Gleaner, please
> contact assignment editor Anne Mooers at (506) 458-6441 or email
> news@dailygleaner.com.
>
> --
> Don MacPherson
> The Daily Gleaner
> (506) 458-6479
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "LaBonte, Luc  (OAG/CPG)"<Luc.LaBonte@gnb.ca>
> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:39:08 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Sometimes less is more So heres a little
> Deja Vu for the CBC, CTV, the Irving newsrags, the Fat Fred City
> Finest & their lawyers, Chucky Leblanc and his fan club and his unamed
> lawyer before he is tried for assault
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>
> I will out of the office until January 4, 2016. I will periodically
> check my e-mails, however, expect delays for responses. Should you
> have an emergency, please contact 506-453-2784.
>
> Je serai absent du bureau jusqu'au 4 janvier 2016. Je vérifirai mon
> courriel de temps en temps mais il y aura un délai pour les réponses.
> Si vous avez une urgence, s.v.p. veuillez contacter le 506-453-2784.
>
>



---------- 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


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Kulik, John"<john.kulik@mcinnescooper.com>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 17:37:49 +0000
Subject: McInnes Cooper
To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com"<motomaniac333@gmail.com>,
"david.raymond.amos@gmail.com"<david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>

Dear Mr. Amos:

I am General Counsel for McInnes Cooper. If you need to communicate
with our firm, please do so through me.

Thank you.

John Kulik
[McInnes Cooper]<http://www.mcinnescooper.com/>

John Kulik Q.C.
Partner & General Counsel
McInnes Cooper

tel +1 (902) 444 8571 | fax +1 (902) 425 6350

1969 Upper Water Street
Suite 1300
Purdy's Wharf Tower II Halifax, NS, B3J 2V1

asst Cathy Ohlhausen | +1 (902) 455 8215



Notice This communication, including any attachments, is confidential
and may be protected by solicitor/client privilege. It is intended
only for the person or persons to whom it is addressed. If you have
received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by e-mail or
telephone at McInnes Cooper's expense. Avis Les informations contenues
dans ce courriel, y compris toute(s) pièce(s) jointe(s), sont
confidentielles et peuvent faire l'objet d'un privilège avocat-client.
Les informations sont dirigées au(x) destinataire(s) seulement. Si
vous avez reçu ce courriel par erreur, veuillez en aviser l'expéditeur
par courriel ou par téléphone, aux frais de McInnes Cooper.



On 8/3/17, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:

If want something very serious to download and laugh at as well Please
 Enjoy and share real wiretap tapes of the mob

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/06/09/nsa-leak-guardian.html
As the CBC etc yap about Yankee wiretaps and whistleblowers I musta sk
them the obvious question AIN'T THEY FORGETTING SOMETHING????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vugUalUO8YY

What the hell does the media think my Yankee lawyer served upon the
USDOJ right after I ran for and seat in the 39th Parliament baseball cards?

---------- 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>

The Department of Finance acknowledges receipt of your electronic
correspondence. Please be assured that we appreciate receiving your
comments.

Le ministère des Finances accuse réception de votre correspondance
électronique. Soyez assuré(e) que nous apprécions recevoir vos
commentaires.

http://archive.org/details/ITriedToExplainItToAllMaritimersInEarly2006

http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/2006/05/wiretap-tapes-impeach-bush.html

http://www.archive.org/details/PoliceSurveilanceWiretapTape139

https://archive.org/details/WiretapTape143

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

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:51:14 -0400
Subject: RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President Donald J. Trump I
just got off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen (646-853-0114) Why
does he lie to me after all this time???
To: president <president@whitehouse.gov>, mdcohen212@gmail.com, pm
<pm@pm.gc.ca>, Pierre-Luc.Dusseault@parl.gc.ca, MulcaT
<MulcaT@parl.gc.ca>, Jean-Yves.Duclos@parl.gc.ca,
B.English@ministers.govt.nz, Malcolm.Turnbull.MP@aph.gov.au,
pminvites@pmc.gov.au, mayt@parliament.uk, press
<press@bankofengland.co.uk>, "Andrew.Bailey"
<Andrew.Bailey@fca.org.uk>,
fin.financepublic-financepublique.fin@canada.ca, newsroom
<newsroom@globeandmail.ca>, "CNN.Viewer.Communications.Management"
<CNN.Viewer.Communications.Management@cnn.com>, news-tips
<news-tips@nytimes.com>, lionel <lionel@lionelmedia.com>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>,
elizabeth.thompson@cbc.ca, "justin.ling@vice.com, elizabeththompson"
<elizabeththompson@ipolitics.ca>, djtjr <djtjr@trumporg.com>,
"Bill.Morneau"<Bill.Morneau@canada.ca>, postur <postur@for.is>,
stephen.kimber@ukings.ca, "steve.murphy"<steve.murphy@ctv.ca>,
"Jacques.Poitras"<Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>, oldmaison
<oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre <andre@jafaust.com>

---------- 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>

Effective January 20, 2017, I have accepted the role as personal
counsel to President Donald J. Trump. All future emails should be
directed to mdcohen212@gmail.com and all future calls should be
directed to 646-853-0114.
________________________________
This communication is from The Trump Organization or an affiliate
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This email may contain information that is confidential and/or
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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

Thank you for your email.  I am currently out of the office attending
meetings and have limited access to email and voicemail.  If your
matter is urgent, or if you require assistance, please contact my
assistant, Nicole Bruni at nicole.bruni@bakermckenzie.com or at (416)
865-3861.


This message may contain confidential and privileged information. If
it has been sent to you in error, please reply to advise the sender of
the error and then immediately delete this message.  Please visit
www.bakermckenzie.com/disclaimers for other important information
concerning this message.


---------- 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

Thank you for your email to Premier McNeil.

This is an automatic confirmation your email has been received.

Warmest Regards,

Premier's Correspondence Unit



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:12:04 -0400
Subject: Attn Bob Paulson and Jan Jensen et al Re A call from Cst
Woodman (506 851 7878) today As I said to him I look forward to
meeting you RCMP dudes in Federal Court
To: bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, cathyc@ccca-cba.org,
Larry.Tremblay@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, dwayne.woodman@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca,
hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:17:31 -0400
Subject: Attn Assistant Commissioner Larry Tremblay, Commanding
Officer, New Brunswick I just called and left a message for you
To: Larry.Tremblay@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
dale.drummond@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
CRAIG.DALTON@gnb.ca

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/nb/commanding-officer

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.

A/Commr. Tremblay has received several medals and commendations
throughout his career for his dedication to excellence in policing. He
was granted The Order of Merit of the Police Forces from the Governor
General, His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, in 2014.



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 21:27:19 -0400
Subject: I repeat Mr Jensen have you contacted the RCMP and the FBI YET?
To: jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca, Michael.Kowalchuk@cas-satj.gc.ca,
bill.pentney@justice.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca,
Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca, bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, James.Comey@ic.fbi.gov,
washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, marc.giroux@fja-cmf.gc.ca,
Norman.Sabourin@cjc-ccm.gc.ca, info@gg.ca, serge.rousselle@gnb.ca,
david.eidt@gnb.ca, premier@gnb.ca, blaine.higgs@gnb.ca,
Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca, David.Coon@gnb.ca, david@lutz.nb.ca,
mark.vespucci@ci.irs.gov
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca,
Hon.Dominic.LeBlanc@canada.ca, hon.melanie.joly@canada.ca,
speaker.president@parl.gc.ca, speaker@leg.bc.ca, geoff@geoffregan.ca,
heather.bradley@parl.gc.ca, pm@pm.gc.ca, mcohen@trumporg.com,
president@whitehouse.gov, Bill.Casey@parl.gc.ca,
Pam.Goldsmith-Jones@parl.gc.ca, william.amos@gmail.com,
Catherine.Harrop@cbc.ca, Catherine.McKenna@parl.gc.ca,
Frank.McKenna@td.com, premier@gov.bc.ca, Gerald.Butts@pmo-cpm.gc.ca,
Michael.Wernick@pco-bcp.gc.ca

http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/04/attn-jan-jensen-i-obviously-acknowledge.html

---------- Original message ----------
From: Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:31:32 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Re the CROWN'S SECOND QUERY about a Joint
Book of Authorites for its Cross Appeal within the Federal Court of
Appeal File No. A-48-16
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com

Thank you for writing to the Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Member
of Parliament for Vancouver Granville and Minister of Justice and
Attorney General of Canada.

Due to the significant increase in the volume of correspondence
addressed to the Hon. Jody Wilson-Raybould, please note that there may
be a delay in processing your email. Rest assured that your message
will be carefully reviewed.

-------------------

Merci d'avoir ?crit ? l'honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, d?put?e pour
Vancouver Granville et ministre de la justice et procureur g?n?ral du
Canada.

En raison d'une augmentation importante du volume de la correspondance
adress?e ? l'honorable Jody Wilson-Raybould, veuillez prendre note
qu'il pourrait y avoir un retard dans le traitement de votre courriel.
Nous tenons ? vous assurer que votre message sera lu avec soin.



http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/04/does-anyone-remember-my-phone-calls.html

Monday, 17 April 2017
Does anyone remember my phone calls, Tweets, blogs and emails to
Viktor Orbán the Hungarian Prime Minister about my old politcal
enemies Iggy and George Soros et al


On 9/20/17, Davidson, Stephen <stephen.davidson@saintjohn.ca> wrote:
> Mr. Amos,
>
> 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,
>
> Saint John Police Headquarters: One Peel Plaza, Saint John New Brunswick
> Mailing address: Saint John Police Force, c/o Cst. Stephen Davidson - PO Box
> 1971, One Peel Plaza, Saint John New Brunswick E2L 4L1
> Major Crime Unit:(506) 648 3211
>
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> sommes reconnaissants de votre collaboration.
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 https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2017/11/federal-court-of-appeal-finally-makes.html

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

https://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fca-caf/decisions/en/item/236679/index.do

Federal Court of Appeal Decisions

Amos v. Canada

Court (s) Database	Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
Date	2017-10-30
Neutral citation	2017 FCA 213
File numbers	A-48-16

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)

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

https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2017/11/on-all-hallows-eve-many-feds-and-many.html 

Thursday, 2 November 2017

On all Hallows Eve many FEDS and many ghosts knew I saw RED not just the ghosts of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash and her old lover boy Dennis Banks

http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/11/methinks-rcmp-fbi-dhs-and-lot-od.html

Wednesday, 1 November 2017

Methinks the RCMP, the FBI, the DHS and a lot of lawyers should be concerned about this transcript 

 

"Now I have a bone to pick with many judges in federal court and a lot in the Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick, but not all. And not every judge or every lawyer is a crook. Some of them are actually friends of mine. Only problem I have with them is they think I can't pull this off. That the system is just too powerful. Well could be. Call me crazy if you wish, I can be as crazy as I want to be. How do you explain my having FBI wiretap tapes of the mob and three weeks after he mentioned about me being in federal court, the outgoing Commissioner of the R.C.M.P. said beware of the mob. Bob Paulson said that"

---------- Original message ----------
From: Michael GIBBS michael.p.gibbs@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 18:56:59 -0400
Subject: Re: Fwd: On all Hallows Eve many FEDS and many ghosts knew I saw RED not just the ghosts of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash and her old lover boy Dennis Banks (Out of Office)
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com

I will away from my office until Nov 13th.  In my absence Insp John Sutherland will be the acting District Commander.
Thanks,
Mike

---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 18:56:50 -0400
Subject: Fwd: On all Hallows Eve many FEDS and many ghosts knew I saw RED not just the ghosts of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash and her old lover boy Dennis Banks
To: info@murphyslegal.ca, Gunther.Schonfeldt@cpc-cpp.gc.ca, ian.mcphail@crcc-ccetp.gc.ca, dean.buzza@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Frank.McKenna@td.com, angelina.irinici@bellmedia.ca,
Michael.p.gibbs@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca, Charles.Hamilton@cbc.ca
Cc: David Amos
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Member conduct

•Conduct process overview
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•Amended RCMP Act
•Annual report
•Report on Allegations of Harassment and Sexual Misconduct at the
RCMP's Canadian Police College Explosives Training Unit - July 14,
2016

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/colten-boushie-investigation-rcmp-1.4383816

RCMP clears itself of misconduct in Colten Boushie investigation
Family lawyer vows to appeal, says Mounties were wrong to surround family home

By Charles Hamilton, CBC News Posted: Nov 02, 2017 9:53 AM CT

"The family's lawyer said he plans to appeal to the Civilian Review
and Complaints Commission for the RCMP.

Boushie, 22, was killed on a farm near Biggar, Sask. in August 2016. (Facebook)

"There would have been other ways for the RCMP to notify Debbie
Baptiste of the death of her son," Chris Murphy said.

Murphy said the search of Baptiste's home was based on "complete
speculation" that an armed individual was inside.

"The police [didn't] have any reliable information," he said. "

http://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/when-victims-families-hire-lawyers-chris-murphy-s-role-in-the-boushie-case-1.3360098

When victims’ families hire lawyers: Chris Murphy’s role in the Boushie case
 Angelina Irinici,  Published Friday, April 7, 2017 7:09PM CST

http://www.murphyslegal.ca/profile.php

As a criminal lawyer, drug prosecutor and civil litigator, I have
conducted hundreds of trials. Since becoming a criminal defence lawyer
in Toronto in 2004, I have successfully defended clients charged with
first-degree murder, and have earned dismissals on less serious
charges such as attempted murder, criminal negligence causing death,
impaired operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm, aggravated
assault, and multi-kilogram-level drug trafficking. I have appeared at
the Supreme Court of Canada, and have conducted numerous appeals at
the Ontario Court of Appeal.

I am a former drug prosecutor with the Department of Justice Canada.
Before becoming a prosecutor, I acted as a judicial law clerk at the
Supreme Court of British Columbia and assisted Superior Court justices
in deciding the issues raised during criminal proceedings. I also
practiced civil litigation at a firm of some 150 lawyers in Calgary,
Alberta. In addition, I served as a special constable with the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police.

I received a Bachelor of Laws with Distinction from the University of
Saskatchewan in 2000. In 1997, I graduated from the University of
British Columbia with a Masters of Arts degree. I had previously
graduated from the U of S in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree with
High Honours. In 2004, I received a Certificate in International
Criminal Law from Salzburg Law School.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 16:21:31 -0400
Subject: On all Hallows Eve many FEDS and many ghosts knew I saw RED
not just the ghosts of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash and her old lover boy
Dennis Banks
To: PREMIER@novascotia.ca, OAA@novascotia.ca, bbachrach@bachrachlaw.net, jamiebaillie@gov.ns.ca, Hon.Chrystia.Freeland@canada.ca,
carolyn.bennett@parl.gc.ca, Larry.Tremblay@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, dale.drummond@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, David.Coon@gnb.ca,
washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, Boston.Mail@ic.fbi.gov, bostncs@international.gc.ca
Cc: David Amos
http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/11/on-all-hallows-eve-many-feds-and-many.html

Thursday, 2 November 2017

On all Hallows Eve many FEDS and many ghosts knew I saw RED not just
the ghosts of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash and her old lover boy Dennis
Banks

http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/11/methinks-rcmp-fbi-dhs-and-lot-od.html

Wednesday, 1 November 2017
Methinks the RCMP, the FBI, the DHS and a lot of lawyers should be
concerned about this transcript

"Now I have a bone to pick with many judges in federal court and a lot
in the Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick, but not all. And not
every judge or every lawyer is a crook. Some of them are actually
friends of mine. Only problem I have with them is they think I can't
pull this off. That the system is just too powerful. Well could be.
Call me crazy if you wish, I can be as crazy as I want to be. How do
you explain my having FBI wiretap tapes of the mob and three weeks
after he mentioned about me being in federal court, the outgoing
Commissioner of the R.C.M.P. said beware of the mob. Bob Paulson said
that"


---------- Original message ----------
From: Newsroom newsroom@globeandmail.com
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 19:33:26 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Premie Stevey Boy McNeil RE the Demise of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash's lover boy Dennis Banks Say Hoka Hey to my former Yankee friend Barry Bacjrach for me will ya?
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/indigenous-activist-dennis-banks-dead-1.4378756

American Indigenous activist Dennis Banks dead at 80

Family says Banks developed pneumonia after undergoing heart surgery last month.

The Associated PressPosted: Oct 30, 2017 2:27 PM ET

In a Friday, May 14, 2010 photo, American Indigenous activist Dennis Banks waits to board a canoe to spread a net on Lake Bemidji near Bemidji, Minn., during an American Indian treaty rights protest. Banks, a co-founder of the American Indian Movement and a leader of the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation, died Sunday night at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. (Chris Polydoroff/Pioneer Press via AP)

Dennis Banks, a co-founder of the American Indian Movement and a leader of the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation, has died, his family announced Monday. He was 80.

Banks was one of several activists who founded the American Indian Movement in Minneapolis in 1968, and he was a leader of AIM's armed takeover of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1973, in a protest against both the tribal and U.S. governments. The village had been the site of a massacre by U.S. soldiers in 1890 that left an estimated 300 Indigenous people dead.

The occupiers held federal agents at bay for 71 days.

• Food bank use on the rise in North says report

Banks died Sunday night, his family wrote on his Facebook page . He had developed pneumonia following heart surgery, and his family said they honored his wishes not to be put on life support.

Daughter Arrow Banks told The Associated Press the family would have more to say after a family meeting Monday.

Banks, whose Ojibwe name was Nowacumig, lived near the town of Federal Dam on the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. His family said that as Banks took his last breaths, son Minoh Banks sang him four songs for his journey.

"All the family who were present prayed over him and said our individual goodbyes," the family said. "Then we proudly sang him the AIM song as his final send off."

• G7 urged to address poverty at Iqaluit meeting

Banks and fellow AIM leader Russell Means faced charges stemming from the Wounded Knee occupation, but a judge threw out the case. However, Banks spent 18 months in prison in the 1980s after being convicted for rioting and assault for a protest in Custer, South Dakota, earlier in 1973. He avoided prosecution on those charges for several years because California Gov. Jerry Brown refused to extradite him, and the Onondaga Nation in New York gave him sanctuary.

Banks was part of a group of AIM supporters who returned to Wounded Knee in 2003 to mark the 30th anniversary of the standoff, in which two Native Americans died. Banks paid tribute to them as "warriors" and declared it "a national holiday." He was also there in 1998 for the 25th anniversary.

Banks also helped lead a takeover of the Bureau of Indian Affairs offices in Washington, D.C., in 1972 as part of a protest dubbed "The Trail of Broken Treaties." And he was a participant in the 1969-71 occupation by Native Americans of Alcatraz Island, the site of the former prison in San Francisco Bay.

• Mayor, chief call for united action to protect Indigenous kids in Thunder Bay, Ont.

He returned to the Leech Lake Reservation in the late 1990s and founded a company that sold wild rice and maple syrup, trading on his famous name.

In 2010, Banks joined several other Ojibwe from the Leech Lake and White Earth bands who tested their rights under an 1855 treaty by setting out nets illegally on Lake Bemidji a day before Minnesota's fishing season opener.

The Banks family said funeral arrangements were still being finalized, but that he would be buried with traditional services in his home community of Leech Lake.

---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 15:33:18 -0400
Subject: Yo Premie Stevey Boy McNeil RE the Demise of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash's lover boy Dennis Banks Say Hoka Hey to my former Yankee friend Barry Bacjrach for me will ya?
To: PREMIER@novascotia.ca, OAA@novascotia.ca, bbachrach@bachrachlaw.net,  jamiebaillie@gov.ns.ca,  Hon.Chrystia.Freeland@canada.ca, carolyn.bennett@parl.gc.ca, Larry.Tremblay@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,  dale.drummond@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, David.Coon@gnb.ca, washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, Boston.Mail@ic.fbi.gov, bostncs@international.gc.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, gopublic@cbc.ca, newsroom@globeandmail.ca, news@kingscorecord.com, news-tips news-tips@nytimes.com, law@stevenfoulds.ca,  bob.rae@rogers.blackberry.net, oldmaison@yahoo.com, andre andre@jafaust.com, leader@greenparty.ca, PETER.MACKAY@bakermckenzie.com, Marc.Litt@bakermckenzie.com

Trust that I called all three off your offices and lots of others as well

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/people/members/Stephen_McNeil

Stephen McNeil

Office of the Premier
7th Floor, One Government Place
1700 Granville Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3J 1X5
Phone: 902-424-6600
PREMIER@novascotia.ca

Intergovernmental Affairs
5251 Duke St., 5th Floor
P.O. Box 1617
Halifax, NS
B3J 2Y3
Phone: 902-424-5153
PREMIER@novascotia.ca

Aboriginal Affairs
Phone: 902-424-7409
OAA@novascotia.ca

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3654785.stm

Native American prisoner to fight on
by Chris Summers
BBC News Online

Native American activist Leonard Peltier has spent 28 years in prison
for a crime he says he did not commit - the cold-blooded murder of two
FBI agents on an Indian reservation in the summer of 1975. On Friday,
as another activist was jailed for life for a murder on the same
reservation, BBC News Online spoke to Peltier's lawyer Barry Bachrach.

 "Mr Bachrach said: "We are not going to go away. This is an injustice
and a government cover-up and we are just not going to go away until
Leonard is released and even when he is released we will not go away."

He recently wrote to the US Congress asking them to widen an
investigation into FBI misconduct in Boston, Massachusetts (involving
mafia boss James "Whitey" Bulger) to include alleged misconduct among
FBI agents in South Dakota in the 1970s. "

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


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Zhm5L51XU

Investigative Reporting, the Murder of Annie Mae by members of AIM

Paul DeMain
Published on Nov 24, 2016
During the 2011 Native American Journalists Association national
conference held Florida, panelist Attorney Barry Bachrach, (who once
represented Leonard Peltier), journalist Paul DeMain and the daughter
of Annie Mae Aquash discuss the murder of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash by
members of the American Indian Movement in 1975.  Leadership members
of AIM, came to believe that Aquash may have been in informant, and
Peltier had bragged to Aquash about killing FBI agent Ron Williams at
close range.  Aquash also knew about the 1973 murder of black civil
rights activist Perry Ray Robinson inside Wounded Knee 1973 by an AIM
security crew that, included Carter Camp, Dennis Banks, Stan Holder
and Leonard Crow Dog.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/magazine/who-killed-anna-mae.html

Who Killed Anna Mae?
By ERIC KONIGSBERG APRIL 25, 2014

http://www.nativesunnews.today/news/2016-04-20/Voices_of_the_People/Dennis_Banks_professes_love_for_Anna_Mae.html

Dennis Banks professes love for Anna Mae | www.nativesunnews ...
20 Apr 2016 ... RAPID CITY –– Twenty-eight years after the body of
Mi'kmaq Indian Activist Anna Mae Pictou Aquash was found near Wanblee
on the Pine ...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/indigenous-activist-dennis-banks-dead-1.4378756

American Indigenous activist Dennis Banks dead at 80.
The Associated Press Posted: Oct 30, 2017 2:27 PM ET|


http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1086550083983

Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls (MMIWG) report, Cabaret
law, Dennis Banks obit (Part 3)
As It Happens
November 1, 2017

Season 2017, Episode 300310969

Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls (MMIWG) report, For the
Record: plastic fish, Cabaret law, Dennis Banks obit, Amsterdam beer
bike ban



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "MinFinance / FinanceMin (FIN)" fin.minfinance-financemin.fin@canada.ca
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:00:40 +0000
Subject: RE: So Stephen McGrath if not you then just exactly who sent
me this latest email from your office?
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com

The Department of Finance acknowledges receipt of your electronic
correspondence. Please be assured that we appreciate receiving your
comments.

Le ministère des Finances accuse réception de votre correspondance
électronique. Soyez assuré(e) que nous apprécions recevoir vos
commentaires.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 12:00:35 -0400
Subject: Re: So Stephen McGrath if not you then just exactly who sent
me this latest email from your office?
To: PREMIER@gov.ns.ca, jamiebaillie@gov.ns.ca, justmin@gov.ns.ca>,
StephenMcNeil@ns.aliantzinc.ca, terry.seguin@cbc.ca,
Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca, steve.murphy@ctv.ca, nmoore@bellmedia.ca, David.Akin@globalnews.ca, Davidc.Coon@gmail.com, Bill.Morneau@canada.ca, Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca>, atlantic.director@taxpayer.com, blaine.higgs@gnb.ca, BrianThomasMacdonald@gmail.com, mike.obrienfred@gmail.com, premier@gnb.ca, briangallant10@gmail.com, classaction@wagners.co, oldmaison@yahoo.com, leanne.murray@mcinnescooper.com, jbosnitch@gmail.com
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, ronald.j.macdonald@novascotia.ca, dpink@nsbs.org, michael.comeau@gnb.ca, JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca

On 9/18/17, David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded 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
>
> 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
>
>


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 18:11:05 -0300
Subject: Yo Chucky Baby your old buddy Conrad Mead thinks I am joking
about MURDER and death threats
To: oldmaison@yahoo.com, info@957thewolf.ca,
bernadine.chapman@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, police@fredericton.ca, Leanne.Fitch@fredericton.ca, minister@aadnc-aandc.gc.ca, Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com

 http://charlesotherpersonality.blogspot.ca/2013/08/all-news-staff-from-khj-radio-in.html

Conrad Mead said...

    They can come work for me at CKTP radio "the Wolf". I don't pay
much but I do need a news team. The station is under a native licence
but we play blues music 24/7.
    11:40 AM, August 08, 2013

1036 McLeod Hill Road McLeod Hill NB E3G 6J7 Canada

Email: info@957thewolf.ca  

Phone: (506) 474-2795

Fax: (506) 206-3301


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:40:18 -0300
Subject: YO FBI Special Agent Richard Deslauriers I just called your
office and the nasty Yankee played dumb as usual
To: boston@ic.fbi.gov, washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Brian.Kelly@usdoj.gov,
us.marshals@usdoj.gov, Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov, jcarney@carneybassil.com, bbachrach@bachrachlaw.net
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, birgittaj@althingi.is, shmurphy@globe.com, redicecreations@gmail.com

Clearly I am not joking

Just Dave
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On 6/15/13, David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com wrote:
> FBI Boston
> One Center Plaza
> Suite 600
> Boston, MA 02108
> Phone: (617) 742-5533
> Fax: (617) 223-6327
> E-mail: Boston@ic.fbi.gov
>
> Hours
> Although we operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, our normal
> "walk-in" business hours are from 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday
> through Friday. If you need to speak with a FBI representative at any
> time other than during normal business hours, please telephone our
> office at (617) 742-5533.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:20:20 -0300
> Subject: Yo Fred Wyshak and Brian Kelly your buddy Whitey's trial is
> finally underway now correct? What the hell do I do with the wiretap
> tapes Sell them on Ebay?
> To: Brian.Kelly@usdoj.gov, us.marshals@usdoj.gov,
> Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov, jcarney@carneybassil.com,
> bbachrach@bachrachlaw.net, michael wolfheart
> wolfheartlodge@live.com, jonathan.albano@bingham.com,
> shmurphy@globe.com, mvalencia@globe.com
> Cc: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com,
> oldmaison@yahoo.com, PATRICK.MURPHY@dhs.gov, rounappletree@aol.com
>
> http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/06/05/james-whitey-bulger-jury-selection-process-enters-second-day/KjS80ofyMMM5IkByK74bkK/story.html
>
> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/06/09/nsa-leak-guardian.html
>
> As the CBC etc yap about Yankee wiretaps and whistleblowers I must ask
> them the obvious question AIN'T THEY FORGETTING SOMETHING????
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vugUalUO8YY
>
> What the hell does the media think my Yankee lawyer served upon the
> USDOJ right after I ran for and seat in the 39th Parliament baseball
> cards?
>
> http://archive.org/details/ITriedToExplainItToAllMaritimersInEarly2006
>
> http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/2006/05/wiretap-tapes-impeach-bush.html
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/PoliceSurveilanceWiretapTape139
>
> http://archive.org/details/Part1WiretapTape143
>
> FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006
> Senator Arlen Specter
> United States Senate
> Committee on the Judiciary
> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
> Washington, DC 20510
>
> Dear Mr. Specter:
>
> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters
> raised in the attached letter.
>
> Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wire tap tapes.
>
> I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this previously.
>
> Very truly yours,
> Barry A. Bachrach
> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Amos" david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
> To: "Fred.Wyshak" Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov; "jcarney"
> jcarney@carneybassil.com; Brian.Kelly@usdoj.gov;
> us.marshals@usdoj.gov
> Cc: edit@thr.com; maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca;
> "Wayne.Lang"  Wayne.Lang@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 11:50 AM
> Subject: So Fred Wyshak has Brian Kelly and the rest of the corrupt
> Feds practiced the spirit of fill disclosure with Jay Carney??
>
> If so then why didn't Mr Carney return my phone calls last July???
> http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/01/09/bulger_lawyers_due_in_court_for_update_on_evidence/
>
> http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/lawyer_known_as_patron_saint_of_hopeless_cases_is_representing_whitey_bulge/
>
> http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_0625lawyer_tab_is_in_billys_court_feds_believe_brother_should_shell_out_for_defense
>
> http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-01/news/29726987_1_jay-carney-bulger-brookline-clinics
>
> http://carneybassil.com/team/carney/
>
> Truth is stranger than fiction. Perhaps Ben Affleck and Matt Damon  a
> couple of boyz from Beantown who done good will pay attention to mean
> old me someday EH?
>
> http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ben-affleck-matt-damon-whitey-bulger-254994
>
> Veritas Vincit
> David Raymond Amos
> 902 800 0369
>
> SOMEBODY SHOULD ASK THE CBC AND THE COPS A VERY SIMPLE QUESTION.
>
> WHY was Byron Prior and I banned from parliamentry properties while I
> running for a seat in parliament in 2004 2 whole YEARS before the
> mindless nasty French Bastard Chucky Leblanc was barred in NB and yet
> the CBC, the Fat Fred City Finest and  the RCMP still deny anything
> ever happened to this very day even though Chucky and his pals have
> blogged about it???
>
> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2006/06/20/nb-bloggerbanned20060620.html
>
> http://qslspolitics.blogspot.ca/2008/06/david-amos-vs-fat-fred-citys-finest.html
>
> http://qslspolitics.blogspot.ca/2008/04/david-amos-nb-nwo-whistleblower-part-3.html
>
> http://qslspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/07/feds-institutionalize-determined-nb.html
>
> Did anybody bother to listen to me explain things to the Police
> Commissioners in 2004?
>
> http://archive.org/details/NewBrunswickPoliceCommission
>
> Veritas Vincit
> David Raymond Amos
> 902 800 0369
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 21:56:57 -0300
> Subject: Re Yankee Feds Please allow me to be brief with the crooks in
> Wikileaks and the Guardian EH Birgitta and Ed Pilkington?
> To: "Fred.Wyshak" Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov, "john.warr"
> john.warr@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, redicecreations@gmail.com, birgittaj
> birgittaj@althingi.is, Piratar piratar@pirateparty.is,
> "ed.pilkington" ed.pilkington@guardian.co.uk, janice.smith@cbc.ca,
> camilla.inderberg@cbc.ca, "david.akin" david.akin@sunmedia.ca,
> Alan.Dark@cbc.ca, newsonline newsonline@bbc.co.uk, "John.Williamson"
> John.Williamson@parl.gc.ca
> Cc: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, aih aih@cbc.ca,
> news-tips news-tips@nytimes.com, "bob.paulson"
> bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, "Gilles.Blinn" Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance
>
> "Snowden will go down in history as one of America's most
> consequential whistleblowers, alongside Daniel Ellsberg and Bradley
> Manning. He is responsible for handing over material from one of the
> world's most secretive organisations – the NSA."
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: ed.pilkington@guardian.co.uk
> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 4:04 PM
> Subject: Ed Here is your ticket to keep you out of hot water Just send
> this to Hugh Grant and he can raise hell for you
>
>
> Byway of the US FTC the Feds in many countries can never deny that
> they did not know the truth long ago
>
> From: Ed Pilkington ed.pilkington@guardian.co.uk
> Subject: GUARDIAN
> To: myson333@yahoo.com
> Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2011, 11:42 AM
>
> hi
>
> here's my email and my cell number is below
>
> all best
>
> Ed
>
> --
> Ed Pilkington
> New York bureau chief
> The Guardian
> www.guardian.co.uk
> twitter.com/Edpilkington
>
> Cell: 646 704 1264
>
> Please consider the environment before printing this email.
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> HOWCOME FOR 10 YEARS PUBLIC OFFICIALS IN THE USA CANADA ICELAND
> ENGLAND AND ALL THE OTHERS WITHIN "COALITION OF THE WILLING"  ETC
> IGNORED THE FACT THAT I HAVE HAD MANY YANKEE WIRETAP TAPES THAT COULD
> HAVE IMPEACHED GEORGEY BOY BUSH AND HIS COHORTS LONG BEFORE THE
> PATRIOT ACT OR THE WAR ON IRAQ BEGAN???
>
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>
>
> FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006
> Senator Arlen Specter
> United States Senate
> Committee on the Judiciary
> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
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>
> 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://joyb.blogspot.ca/2010/11/my-statement-from-nato-parliamentary.html
>
> http://50states.ning.com/video/rcmp-sussex-new-brunswick
>
> http://www.nycga.net/members/davidraymondamos/
>
>> From: David Amos
>> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:22:00 -0300
>> Subject: i just called from 902 800 0369 (Nova Scotia)
>> To: 9.17occupywallstreet@gmail.com
>>
>> http://qslspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/03/david-amos-to-wendy-olsen-...
>>
>> I am the guy the SEC would not name that is the link to Madoff and
>> Putnam Investments
>>
>> http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hear...
>>
>> Notice the transcript and webcast of the hearing of the US Senate
>> banking Commitee is missing? please notice Eliot Spitzer and the Dates
>> around November 20th, 2003 in te following file
>>
>> http://www.checktheevidence.com/pdf/2526023-DAMOSIntegrity-yea-righ...
>>
>> From: ”Julian Assange)”
>> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 18:15:46 +0000 (GMT)
>> Subject: Al Jazeera on Iceland’s plan for a press safe haven
>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>
>> FYI: Al-Jazeera’s take on Iceland’s proposed media safe haven
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbGiPjIE1pE
>>
>> More info http://immi.is/
>>
>> Julian Assange
>> Editor
>> WikiLeaks
>> http://wikileaks.org/
>>
>>
>> From: Birgitta Jonsdottir
>> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 07:14:02 +0000
>> Subject: Re: Bon Soir Birgitta according to my records this is the
>> first email I ever sent you
>> To: David Amos
>>
>> dear Dave
>> i have got your email and will read through the links as soon as i
>> find some time
>> keep up the good fight in the meantime
>>
>> thank you for bearing with me
>> i am literary drowning in requests to look into all sorts of matters
>> and at the same time working 150% work at the parliament and
>> the creation of a political movement and being a responsible parent:)
>> plus all the matters in relation to immi
>>
>> with oceans of joy
>> birgitta
>>
>> Better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are
>> not.
>>
>> Andre Gide
>>
>> Birgitta Jonsdottir
>> Birkimelur 8, 107 Reykjavik, Iceland, tel: 354 692 8884
>> http://this.is/birgitta – http://joyb.blogspot.com -
>> http://www.facebook.com/birgitta.jonsdottir
>>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Henrik Palmgren redicecreations@gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:46:26 +0200
> Subject: Re: Oh my my I guess we know the score on you EH?
> To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>
> Oh my. Don't send me your spam. It's not good for anything.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 17:27:53 -0300
> Subject: Re Teddy Baby Olson was on Fox News today yapping about
> Presidential enemies list as he represents the crooks in Koch
> Industries??? If anyone should know about such things it is Olson
> after all he assisted Ashcroft and Bush against me
> To: pm pm@pm.gc.ca, Office@tigta.treas.gov, RBauer@perkinscoie.com,
> mark.vespucci@ci.irs.gov, "Gilles.Moreau"
> Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, ron.klain@revolution.com,
> dboies@bsfllp.com, tolson@gibsondunn.com, bginsberg@pattonboggs.com,
> "ed.pilkington" ed.pilkington@guardian.co.uk, news
> > Cc: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com,
> rtalach@ledroitbeckett.com, gregory.craig@skadden.com,
> Patrick.Fitzgerald@skadden.com
>
> Hey
>
> As Harper sits and bullshits his cohorts in the Council of Foreign
> Relations in the Big Apple today I bet he was listening to what was
> happening with Obama and the IRS and Holder and his DOJ minions
> in Washington.
>
> Notice the Inspector General of the IRS Dudes within this old file?
>
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/9092510/Chicago
>
> Everybody and his dog knows Harper knew about my battles with the US
> Treasury and Justice Depts way back when he was the boss of the
> opposition in Canada's Parliament. Two simple files easily found on
> the Internet cannot be argued.
>
> Notice how old the letter and Form 211 are?
>
> http://qslspolitics.blogspot.ca/2008/06/5-years-waiting-on-bank-fraud-payout.html
>
> Here the Inspector Generals calling me 7 years ago?
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/FedsUsTreasuryDeptRcmpEtc
>
> FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Office of Chief Counsel, Treasury.
> Inspector General for Tax Administration, (202) 622-4068.
>
> When Teddy bitches about polticians using the IRS to attack their
> enemies because he knows it true because he helped Bush the IRS
> against me when Obama was just a State Senator .
>
> The proof was when I sent him the documents that came along with the letter
> found on page 13 of this old file Teddy Baby Olson quit as Solicitor
> General.
>
> http://www.checktheevidence.com/pdf/2619437-CROSS-BORDER-txt-.pdf
>
> Harper and every body else knows It was no coincidence that I sent the
> lawyers Olson as Solicitior General, Ferguson as the co chair of the
> Federal  Reserve Bank, and J Strom Thurmond Jr the youngest US
> Attorney the same pile of documents on April Fools Day 2004.
>
> The sad but terrible truth is that legions of cops, lawyers polticians
> and bureaucrats in Canada and the USA knew about the US Secret Service
>  coming to my home after dark on April Fools Day 2003 bearing false
> allegations of a presidential threat and threatening to use their
> implied right to use exta ordinary rendition against me as a non
> citizen less than two weeks after the needless War in Iraq began and
> no WMD were ever found.
>
> You can bet dimes to dollars i called some Yankee Inspector Generals
> (starting with 202 622 4068) and reminded them that I am still alive
> and kicking and reminding the world of their malicious incompetence
>
> Veritas Vincit
> David Raymond Amos
> 902 800 0369
>
> PS Below you can review some emails I sent you and your Yankee cohorts
> such asTeddy Baby Olson before Obama was reelected EH Harper? In truth
> I would rather settle in confidence with Obama then sue the Hell out
> of the CROWN and the Holy See Trust that the evil old Judge Bastarache
> has known why for a very long time.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Amos" david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
> To: "Rob Talach" rtalach@ledroitbeckett.com
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 10:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Attn Robert Talach and I should talk ASAP about my suing
> the Catholic Church Trust that Bastarache knows why
>
> The date stamp on about page 134 of this old file of mine should mean
> a lot to you
>
> http://www.checktheevidence.com/pdf/2619437-CROSS-BORDER-txt-.pdf
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:37:08 -0400
> Subject: To Hell with the KILLER COP Gilles Moreau What say you NOW
> Bernadine Chapman??
> To: Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, phil.giles@statcan.ca,
> maritme_malaise@yahoo.ca, Jennifer.Nixon@ps-sp.gc.ca,
> bartman.heidi@psic-ispc.gc.ca, Yves.J.Marineau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> david.paradiso@erc-cee.gc.ca, desaulniea@smtp.gc.ca,
> denise.brennan@tbs-sct.gc.ca, anne.murtha@vac-acc.gc.ca, webo
> webo@xplornet.com, julie.dickson@osfi-bsif.gc.ca,
> rod.giles@osfi-bsif.gc.ca, flaherty.j@parl.gc.ca, toewsv1
> toewsv1@parl.gc.ca, "Nycole.Turmel" Nycole.Turmel@parl.gc.ca,
> Clemet1 Clemet1@parl.gc.ca, maritime_malaise
> maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca, oig oig@sec.gov, whistleblower
> whistleblower@finra.org, whistle > david@fairwhistleblower.ca
> Cc: j.kroes@interpol.int, David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com,
> bernadine.chapman@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, "justin.trudeau.a1"
> justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca, "Juanita.Peddle"
> Juanita.Peddle@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, oldmaison oldmaison@yahoo.com,
> "Wayne.Lang" Wayne.Lang@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, "Robert.Trevors"
> Robert.Trevors@gnb.ca, "ian.fahie" ian.fahie@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>
> http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/nb/news-nouvelles/media-medias-eng.htm
>
> http://nb.rcmpvet.ca/Newsletters/VetsReview/nlnov06.pdf
>
>
> From: Gilles Moreau Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:03:22 -0500
> Subject: Re: Lets ee if the really nasty Newfy Lawyer Danny Boy
> Millions will explain this email to you or your boss Vic Toews EH
> Constable Peddle???
> To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>
> Please cease and desist from using my name in your emails.
>
> Gilles Moreau, Chief Superintendent, CHRP and ACC
> Director General
> HR Transformation
> 73 Leikin Drive, M5-2-502
> Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R2
>
> Tel 613-843-6039
> Cel 613-818-6947
>
> Gilles Moreau, surintendant principal, CRHA et ACC
> Directeur général de la Transformation des ressources humaines
> 73 Leikin, pièce M5-2-502
> Ottawa, ON K1A 0R2
>
> tél 613-843-6039
> cel 613-818-6947
> gilles.moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>
>
>>>> David Amos 2012-11-21 00:01 >>>
>
> Could ya tell I am investigating your pension plan bigtime? Its
> because no member of the RCMP I have ever encountered has earned it
> yet
>
> Obviously I am the guy the USDOJ and the SEC would not name who is the
> link to Madoff and Putnam Investments
>
> Here is why
>
> http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=90f8e691-9065-4f8c-a465-72722b47e7f2
>
> Notice the transcripts and webcasts of the hearing of the US Senate
> Banking Commitee are still missing? Mr Emory should at least notice
> Eliot Spitzer and the Dates around November 20th, 2003 in the
> following file
>
> http://www.checktheevidence.com/pdf/2526023-DAMOSIntegrity-yea-right.-txt.pdf
>
> NONE of you should have assisted in the cover up of MURDER CORRECT???
>
>
> http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2011/2011-06-22/html/sor-dors122-eng.html
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Amos" david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
> To: Edith.Cody-Rice@cbc.ca; Rob.Renaud@cbc.ca
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 7:45 PM
> Subject: Question # 1 who the hell is Rob Renaus and di Robert Jone
> and Jaques Poitra and Alan white etc forward you my latest emails
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Edith Cody-Rice Edith.Cody-Rice@cbc.ca
> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:53:07 -0500
> Subject: Calls and E-mails to CBC
> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
> Cc: Rob Renaud Rob.Renaud@cbc.ca
>
> Dear Mr. Amos:
>
> CBC personnel have contacted me concerning your calls and e-mails to
> them. As you are threatening legal action, would you kindly direct any
> further calls or correspondence to me. Other CBC personnel will not
> respond further to your correspondence or calls.
>
>
> Edith Cody-Rice
> Senior Legal Counsel
> Premier Conseiller juridique
> CBC/Radio-Canada
> 181 Queen Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1K9
> Postal Address: P.O. Box 3220, Station C, Ottawa K1Y 1E4
> Tel: (613) 288-6164
> Cell: (613) 720-5185
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:10:14 -0400
> Subject: Yo Mr Bauer say hey to your client Obama and his buddies in
> the USDOJ for me will ya?
> To: RBauer RBauer@perkinscoie.com, sshimshak@paulweiss.com,
> cspada@lswlaw.com, msmith msmith@svlaw.com, bginsberg
> bginsberg@pattonboggs.com, "gregory.craig"
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> bob.rae@rogers.blackberry.net, MulcaT MulcaT@parl.gc.ca, leader
> leader@greenparty.ca
> Cc: alevine@cooley.com, David Amosdavid.raymond.amos@gmail.com.
> michael.rothfeld@wsj.com, remery@ecbalaw.com
>
> http://qslspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/03/david-amos-to-wendy-olsen-on.html
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 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/dennis-oland-murder-trial-defence-lawyer-1.4861528

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 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."

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• Dennis Oland pleads not guilty, again, in father's death

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.

Earlier this year, Lacy helped win a new trial for former Esgenoôpetitj First Nation chief Wilbur Dedam on sexual assault charges dating back to the 1970s.

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."

Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon@BJMCBC

The scene earlier today at Harbour Station in #SaintJohn#NB as hundreds of people summonsed for possible jury duty for Dennis Oland's murder retrial waited to get through security and register

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/terrence-morrison-dennis-oland-retrial-judge-1.4889109 

Judge assigned to oversee Dennis Oland's murder retrial is highly regarded

Court of Queen's Bench Justice Terrence Morrison specialized in commercial law before 2008 bench appointment

Robert Jones· CBC News· Posted: Nov 06, 2018 6:00 AM AT

Court of Queen's Bench Justice Terrence Morrison worked as a lawyer in private practice for 26 years before becoming a judge, including serving as outside legal counsel for NB Power during various hearings before the former Public Utilities Board. (CBC)

The judge overseeing Dennis Oland's retrial for the 2011 murder of his father,Richard is highly regarded among lawyers and considered a solid choice to handle the complex case, which has already tripped up one of New Brunswick's most experienced criminal jurists.

"I think he's probably a very good judge for the Oland trial," said Hartland lawyer Peter Hyslop of Justice Terrence Morrison.

Hyslop once opposed Morrison at utilities board hearings a dozen years ago when the two were lawyers and later appeared before him following his judicial appointment in 2008.

"Patient is the word that first comes to me. He's very thorough and takes his time and is a pleasure to appear in front of."

• Dennis Oland jury selected, murder retrial begins Tuesday

• Dennis Oland pleads not guilty, again, in father's death

• Gary Miller quits Dennis Oland's legal team as murder retrial begins

Finding judges to handle the two Oland trials has not been a simple matter.

The Oland family is so prominent in the Saint John area, none of the judges who normally handle local murder trials have been able to take the case.

Justice John (Jack) Walsh was brought to Saint John from Miramichi to handle the first trial in 2015.
That resulted in a jury finding Dennis Oland guilty, but the Court of Appeal threw the conviction out, citing an error in Walsh's jury instructions.

Court of Queen's Bench Justice John (Jack) Walsh, who presided over Dennis Oland's first trial, is one of the country's foremost experts in the legal application of forensic DNA typing. (Andrew Robson)

Morrison has been imported from Fredericton to run the second trial.

A 1978 graduate of Acadia University, Morrison obtained a law degree from the University of New Brunswick three years later. He worked as a lawyer in private practice for 26 years, mostly in Fredericton, before becoming a judge but far from the murder and mayhem of criminal court.

He specialized instead in the high-rent legal areas of commercial, contract and administrative law.

That's a big difference from Walsh. He came to the Oland trial immersed in criminal matters after a long career as a Crown prosecutor, but he still made enough of an error in his lengthy charge to the jury to scuttle the entire first trial.

Hyslop said properly managing the information that reaches a jury in a trial of someone charged with a serious crime is notoriously tricky even for the most experienced judges.

"A justice once told me criminal trials are the most challenging because of the nature of decisions they have to make during the trial itself on the admissibility of evidence and on making a carefully planned summation to juries," said Hyslop.

"The ultimate decision doesn't rest with the judge. A lot of the decisions that have to be made on the way to the conclusion are made by the judge and they have to made expeditiously."

Handled 2nd-degree murder trial in 2014

Still for Morrison, 10 years on the bench, first in Woodstock and more recently in Fredericton, has served to expose him to a variety of criminal trials, including sex crimes, drug offences, assaults and at least one other brutal murder.

In 2014, he sentenced Kyle Scott for the vicious bludgeoning death of 82-year-old Sarah Kennedy near Woodstock. Kennedy had tried to help Scott after his ATV broke down near her home and he repaid the kindness by striking her 19 times with a hammer and cutting her throat after she died.

"The killing was random and senseless," said Morrison as he sentenced Scott, who had pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, the same charge facing Dennis Oland.

Citing the "multiple hammer blows delivered to Ms. Kennedy and the deliberate mutilation of her corpse," Morrison said he considered Scott's actions "much further along the spectrum of brutality" than previous cases he was being asked to compare it to.

He sentenced the 20-year-old to life in prison with no eligibility for parole for 15 years, five years longer than defence lawyers argued was appropriate.

Diligent, conscientious

It has all been more than enough to prepare Morrison to handle the Oland trial. according UNB associate law professor Nicole O'Byrne.

"The learning curve is extraordinarily steep," said O'Byrne of the education corporate and civil law lawyers undergo as judges suddenly dealing with the gritty world of criminal acts and their ugly consequences.

O'Byrne has no doubt Morrison will be up to the task.

It will be difficult, but anybody who's got a reputation of being as conscientious and hard-working as Justice Morrison — they will be able to handle it.- Nicole O'Byrne , associate law professor

"It comes down to work ethic and how conscientious you are and how much you pay attention to what's happening in front of you — that's the key thing to being a judge, not necessarily your background," she said.

"His reputation is of being a very diligent and very conscientious judge. He's there to kind of guide things. It will be difficult, but anybody who's got a reputation of being as conscientious and hard-working as Justice Morrison — they will be able to handle it."

Morrison has a lengthy record of decisions and most that have been challenged at the New Brunswick Court of Appeal have held up to scrutiny.

In one case where a jury verdict of guilty in a trial presided over by Morrison was thrown out as "a miscarriage of justice," the Appeal Court specifically noted the fault was not his.

Miramichi lawyer George Martin was convicted by a jury of obstruction of justice at a trial in 2013, but subsequent to the verdict it was learned sheriff's deputies had allowed one juror to make a phone call after being sequestered without informing Morrison or seeking his permission.

"The error or irregularity alleged in the present case cannot amount to an error of law, because none of it can be attributed to the trial judge," said the court prior to granting Martin a new trial.

Dennis Oland's retrial for second-degree murder in the killing of his father, Richard Oland, more than seven years ago is scheduled to begin on Nov. 6. (CBC)

Morrison is also used to media attention.

He is best known for the years he spent as outside legal counsel for NB Power during various hearings before the former Public Utilities Board.

He helped present the case in favour of refurbishing the Coleson Cove generating station to burn the Venezuelan fuel orimulsion and of rebuilding the Point Lepreau nuclear plant to extend its life by 25 years.

He also won approval from the utilities board for a hefty 8.8 per cent NB Power rate increase in 2006 following marathon hearings at which he was opposed at every step by Hyslop, who at the time was New Brunswick's public intervener.

"A lot of time you come out of those with somewhat of a dislike for opposing counsel so I'd have to say I came out with a very high level of respect for him at the time," said Hyslop, who notes a friendship that developed in those early years was of no detectable assistance following Morrison's elevation to the bench.

"He found against me too often, but I didn't appeal so that probably tells you more than anything else. I don't think I ever appealed any of his cases," said Hyslop.

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Residential electricity customers underpaying, NB Power says

Commercial customers making up the difference, utility says study shows

Robert Jones· CBC News· Posted: Oct 17, 2014 6:05 PM AT

NB Power says its direct residential customers are expected to underpay for the electricity they use next year by $45 million, or about six per cent. (Jacques Boissinot/CP)

Residential electricity customers in New Brunswick have been freeloading at the expense of commercial customers, according to an NB Power study filed Friday with the province's Energy and Utilities Board (EUB).

The study, which was ordered by the EUB as part of its new responsibilities to set NB Power's rates beginning next year, attempts to sort out who should pay what for electricity in the province, based on the cost to service different customer groups.

However, the utility acknowledges others may disagree with its findings.

"This kind of work isn't an exact science," said NB Power vice-president Darren Murphy.

"We think it’s really important we get a good fulsome discussion on this and get it approved and validated."

According to the study, direct residential customers of NB Power are expected to underpay for the electricity they use next year by $45 million, or about six per cent, with indirect residential customers served by municipal utilities like Saint John Energy undercharged by an additional $7 million.

The utility says that benefit enjoyed by homeowners is mostly paid for by commercial customers — everything from pizza joints to shopping malls to office buildings — which will be overcharged by about $39 million to make up the difference.

NB Power says it will also overcharge about $2 million for water heater rentals and $9 million for street light service under its current rate structure.

The EUB has been on record for more than 20 years saying it doesn't want one group of electricity customers subsidizing another, but NB Power has been slow to make changes as successive New Brunswick premiers, including Frank McKenna, Bernard Lord, Shawn Graham and David Alward bypassed the EUB to impose electricity rates directly by Cabinet order.

Legislative changes passed last spring put the EUB back in charge and the board ordered NB Power to produce a so-called Cost of Service Study to sort out which customers pay too little and which pay too much as a first step toward setting new rates.

The current study found NB Power's large industrial customers pay 99 per cent of what they should for power, but that has been a source of significant dispute at previous hearings and is likely to be looked at closely again.

The EUB's predecessor, the old Public Utilities Board, found large industrial customers were the most heavily subsidized group.

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NB Power didn't seek escape clause in gypsum contract

Crown utility has paid J.D. Irving Ltd. millions in penalties for not delivering on gypsum from Coleson Cove

CBC News· Posted: Jun 18, 2015 10:39 AM AT


The mystery around a 10-year-old gypsum contract signed with J.D. Irving Ltd. that has cost NB Power millions of dollars in penalties deepened at the utility's rate hearing Wednesday as the utility's chief financial officer Darren Murphy tried to explain why the deal was signed without an escape clause.

"So at the time of signing the contract, it was certainly beneficial for NB Power," said Murphy.

NB Power vice-president Darren Murphy says NB Power didn't negotiate an escape clause in its contract to provide gypsum to J.D. Irving Ltd. (CBC) 

Synthetic gypsum is produced by pollution control equipment at NB Power's Coleson Cove generating station. Exhaust from the plant is blown through lime to remove sulphur before going up the stacks, creating gypsum in the process.

Last month, CBC News reported NB Power has had to pay J.D. Irving Ltd. $12.3 million in penalties for failing to deliver promised quantities of gypsum to the Atlantic Wallboard Plant in Saint John over the last six years. NB Power has budgeted another $829,000 penalty payment this year which has made the gypsum contract an issue at its current rate hearing in Fredericton.

Murphy said NB Power did not anticipate the need to escape the 21.5-year contract, even though he said it was signed in 2005. That was in the middle of enormous uncertainty about the future of Coleson Cove after Venezuela backed out of a deal to supply the plant low cost orimulsion in 2003.

NB Power filed suit against the Venezuela state oil company Bitor in February 2004 and then entered negotiations over the following year in a fruitless attempt to try and rescue the deal.

It was while that was unfolding the contract with J.D. Irving Ltd. was signed, committing NB Power to provide substantial quantities of gypsum from Coleson Cove, even though the ability of the plant to operate economically into the future was uncertain.

"Was there an exit provision in this contract," asked Energy and Utilities Board lawyer Ellen Desmond.
"No, I do not believe there is," replied Murphy.

The feeling was that Coleson Cove had a long and successful run ahead of it.- Darren Murphy, NP Power vice-president

"And why not?  Why would there not be an exit provision negotiated or contemplated when this contract was entered into," asked Desmond.

​"I guess at the time it was entered into, the feeling was that Coleson Cove had a long and successful run ahead of it, and that there was a requirement to deal with this particular by-product at the time, and the economics made a lot of sense in terms of how we were to deal with that. So those would have been kind of the reasons going into it," said Murphy.

NB Power says without some kind of deal it would have been stuck with gypsum produced at Coleson Cove and likely would have had to dispose of it in a landfill at considerable cost.

The contract runs until 2026.

Desmond asked if NB Power could produce the contract for inspection at its rate hearing. Murphy said it would, if it does not have a provision forbidding its disclosure.

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  Municipal Utilities lawyer Scott Stoll up now asking about Beechwood dam issues and the connection to flooding in Perth-Andover. #nb

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  Stoll enters an ice jam modelling study of the St. John river between Grand Falls and Beechwood into the proceeding. #nb

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  The study suggests ice jams may have a man made element to them - and recommends detailed study. #nb

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  EUB Chair Ray Gorman now asking questions of his own to NBP. #nb

  9:59 AM - 18 Jun 2015
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  Gorman asks why - since it has been long established sm business is overcharged for power - NBP is applying for a 2% hike for everyone #nb

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  Larlee says since the EUB is soon to hold a "who should pay what" hearing NBP should wait for that before trying to fix rate problems #nb

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  EUB vice chair Francois Beaulieu challenges NBP claims it has eliminated more than 300 positions - noting it has created almost as many. #nb

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  NBP's Murphy acknowledges the point - but says new hires are part of new Reduce and Shift program. Regular operations have fewer people. #nb

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  NB Power rate hearing moving onto generating plant issues. #nb

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  Concerned citizen Gregory Hickey - who always goes first - asks how much power NBP buys from outside suppliers thru set contracts. #nb

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  NBP says it has Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with various suppliers for 730 mega watts - about 10% more than a Lepreau sized plant. #nb

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  There are PPA's for wind farms, for natural gas generators owned by Irving Oil and Emera, for a JDI dam in St. George etc. #nb

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  Hickey wonders how many of the PPA's were imposed by government for political reasons and how many were done for solid business reasons. #nb

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  NBP says the PPA's serve different objectives but it is unfair to assume they are all poor deals for the utility. #nb

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  NBP says a climate change study recently completed for it on the likely effect on hydro flows shows no real impact. #nb

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  NBP's Murphy suggests Lepreau - now operating at 80% capacity - may not be fixed until "late summer/early fall" further hurting budget #nb

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". . . if it does not have a provision forbidding its disclosure."

This is a contract between NB Power and the IRVING'S. Do you really think NB Power is going to show it to the public? Not likely. Irving has better lawyers than our government.

  


buck911
Stop the B.S. here folks and show us the numbers. It is not rocket science.....how much would it cost to dispose of the byproduct in a landfill, and don't fudge the numbers either. And what would it cost the Empire if they had to buy raw gypsum? By the way the stuff is all over the place over in Albert Co..... NB power comes off telling us the Empire is doing us a big favor. NEWS FLASH.....they do not do anyone any " favors " unless it lines their pockets, which it seems this deal has done, as per usual and the peasents end up paying the bill.

 



buck911

And one more little item....where is the oil coming from that is burned at Colesom Cove? Rumour on the street is Irving supplies it....can you say WIN WIN???

@buck911 Bought on the open market. The pipeline to the plant is owned by Irving and is leased by NB Power for transporting the oil.

  

Think It Over

This was another Bernie Lord FIASCO.

Screwed up the Orimulsion Deal.
Gave LNG a $125 M 25 year sweetheart deal.
Set up this Gypsum 21 year deal.

All of these go straight to the premier to make sure the deals are made.

Thanks for NUTHIN' Bernie.

Entropiated

When is someone going to stand up for the rest of New Brunswick that isn't employed by Irving? Seriously, this is getting out of hand. And to all of those worried about Irving leaving if we start to play hardball, consider all the infrastructure they have in place. Picking up and going away would be next to impossible (are they going to cart away the refinery and the pulp mill? Doubtful). Will someone in our government PLEASE think of the province for ONCE and do what's RIGHT instead of what's PROFITABLE or good for a small segment of the population? This is ridiculous and I've had enough of it. If nobody in Fredericton is willing to do that, then they should all be turfed and a new government put in its place made up of people who haven't been bought.

Livin' the dream

@Entropiated Wouldn't it be interesting to find out how many former NB politicians and senior civil servants went to work for the Irving in one capacity or another over the years?

Entropiated

@Livin' the dream that would be interesting indeed. None of the MLAs in Fredericton right now are clean (except for David ****, of course.) The rest need to go, in my opinion.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/eub-challenge-cost-test-nb-power-1.3558574

EUB challenges NB Power to reveal analysis of political burden

Crown corporation resists full disclosure of cost analysis to protect commercially sensitive information

Robert Jones· CBC News· Posted: Apr 29, 2016 7:23 AM AT 

NB Power says the results of its cost analysis simulations should not be made public. (CBC)

 NB Power's effort to keep the results of a computer model it ran to identify the politically imposed costs it operates under away from the public is being challenged by the Energy and Utilities Board.

In a letter to the utility Wednesday EUB lawyer Ellen Desmond said the board does not accept NB Power's claim that the results of the modelling meets the standard of confidential information.

• NB Power's $64M 'political' costs detailed in rate hearings report

"It is in the public interest that as much information as possible be placed on the public record for review. There is no need to limit the disclosure," Desmond wrote in her letter.

There is no need to limit the disclosure.- Ellen Desmond, EUB lawyer

"Board staff request that NB Power provide a full unredacted response."

NB Power is preparing for a rate hearing next month and as part of that process was asked to run simulations to show how much money it would save if it were not obliged to meet a variety of requirements imposed on it, mostly by the New Brunswick government.

Those requirements include providing subsidies to industry, entering long-term contracts with local private power suppliers, committing to expensive wind power over cheaper alternatives and other measures that force the utility to buy electricity at above market rates.

Initially, NB Power ran the simulation and reported that it could provide electricity to customers for $64.1 million less than it does if it was free from government-imposed objectives. However, it then ran a second simulation using different assumptions and has been withholding those results from public release.

The utility said the second simulation revealed production cost information that is commercially sensitive and could harm NB Power as it negotiates electricity prices with suppliers and customers.

But Desmond said NB Power has already revealed that same information in the answer to other questions and so requested the public release of the results of the second simulation.

"Board staff is not convinced that any additional commercially sensitive information would be made public," she wrote.

Intervener issued challenge

The entire issue arose when the EUB and its chairman, Raymond Gorman, were challenged by NB Power critic and self-represented intervener Greg Hickey during last year's rate hearing to dig into the issue.

Hickey registered to participate as a concerned citizen at the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board hearing. (CBC)

 "My observation, Mr. Chairman, is that decisions in this province get made in the halls of power based on political influence, and I don't think sufficient in-depth engineering technical analysis gets done on the making of the sausage," Hickey told the EUB in his final comments last June. 

Hickey then asked that NB Power be allowed to pretend it wasn't stuck with a number of costly long-term contracts imposed on it over the years so it could compare prices it pays to what it could generate on its own or buy in the open market.

He called it a "real economic dispatch."

"Take the cuffs off and let the professionals at NB Power who know what to do, do their job," said Hickey. "And let's find out what the political burden is on this utility."

EUB asked for cost analysis

Hickey is not participating in this year's rate hearing, but the EUB picked up on his request and had NB Power do as he asked as part of preparing its evidence for this year's hearing, which begins May 9.

"Please complete a 'real economic dispatch' for 2016-2017, as described by Mr. Hickey during summation for Matter 272," requested the board as part of a series of written questions to NB Power.
Matter 272 is the file number for last year's rate hearing.

NB Power came back with a report showing it could save an estimated $64.1 million next year if, among other issues, it weren't forced to:

• Accept power from provincial wind farms when cheaper alternatives are available.
• Buy renewable power from large industry and sell it back to them at nearly half the price.
• Take all of the electricity from two natural gas generators at the Irving Oil refinery, no matter what the price.

The EUB wasn't completely satisfied with that answer. It asked for additional calculations that assumed NB Power wasn't tied into one other long-term contract.

Although NB Power supplied that second estimate it has been trying to keep it confidential.
In an email Hickey told CBC News he is aware of the EUB's attempt to have the information released but will not comment until the issue is fully resolved.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-salary-secrecy-eub-1.3929200

Salary secrecy request for NB Power nuclear boss sent to EUB hearing

Board staff objects to confidentiality request, which will be argued at hearing this week

Robert Jones· CBC News· Posted: Jan 10, 2017 3:54 PM AT 

Ellen Desmond, a lawyer for the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board, objects to NB Power's request to keep the compensation details for its vice-president of nuclear a secret. (CBC)

The lawyer for New Brunswick's Energy and Utilities Board is objecting to NB Power's attempt to keep the salary of its nuclear vice-president secret — setting up a hearing on the issue as early as Wednesday morning.

"Board staff object to this claim for confidentiality," Ellen Desmond wrote in a letter to NB Power lawyer John Furey on Tuesday about the effort to keep the salary being paid to Brett Plummer from being publicly released.

The board will hear arguments on that and other issues on Wednesday at a hearing designed to sort out disputes over evidence that NB Power must provide in advance of its February rate hearing. It is possible NB Power will be given a day to respond to Desmond's letter, which could require a second hearing later in the week.

• NB Power pays nuclear boss in U.S. dollars, fights to keep salary a secret

Plummer is a U.S. Navy-trained nuclear operator who was hired by NB Power as its chief nuclear officer and vice-president nuclear in late 2015. His job is to oversee attempts to improve Lepreau's disappointing post-refurbishment performance.

Compensated for low loonie and high taxes

 

Brett Plummer is NB Power's vice-president of nuclear with a salary agreement that pays him comparable to what his after-tax income would be in the United States. (LinkedIn)

 NB Power agreed to pay Plummer enough money to help him achieve similar after-tax income in New Brunswick as he could command in the U.S. That involves paying Plummer extra to compensate for the low Canadian dollar and high Canadian taxes.

The U.S. dollar is currently worth 32 per cent more than the Canadian dollar and New Brunswick residents pay the highest upper income taxes in the country, with the tax on earnings over $200,000 set at 53.3 per cent.

That suggests Plummer would have to be paid substantially more than other NB Power vice-presidents to meet the requirements of his contract, but NB Power does not want to release those details.

Future price protection sought

"Public disclosure of amounts paid under these contracts would undermine the ability of NB Power to obtain competitive pricing for these services in the future," the utility wrote in a request to the Energy and Utilities Board last week to keep Plummer's pay confidential.

But in her letter to the EUB, Desmond disputes that.

"Publication of the information in question to the public is necessary in the public interest," she wrote.

Publication of the information in question to the public is necessary in the public interest.- Ellen Desmond, lawyer for EUB

"The amounts allocated as compensation are paid by the ratepayers in New Brunswick and this information should be disclosed," Desmond wrote.

"In addition there is no evidence on the record that the public disclosure of this information would undermine the ability of NB Power to obtain competitive pricing for these services in the future."

In addition to Plummer's salary, Desmond also asked for a ruling on whether NB Power should provide some information about the Point Lepreau nuclear plant it has withheld, citing security concerns.

Citizen intervener Gregory Hickey has also made a motion asking for more information on NB Power deals with large industrial customers to buy renewable power from them at prices much higher than what NB Power charges when the electricity is then sold back to the same companies.

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NB Power faces searing critique from J.D. Irving Ltd., as rate hearing ends

Utility is under direction from the province to pay down $1B in debt

Robert Jones· CBC News· Posted: Feb 27, 2017 8:23 AM AT 

The Energy and Utilities Board held a five-day hearing into NB Power's request to boost rates by two per cent. The application also contains a 2.3 per cent rate hike for residential ratepayers. (CBC)

NB Power endured a searing critique from its largest customer toward the end of its five-day rate hearing in Fredericton last week, but with no party seriously opposing the utility's need for a rate hike, it seems likely a jump in costs is on the way.

The utility appeared in front of the Energy and Utilities Board last week to defend its request for a two per cent overall rate hike beginning April 1, which includes a 2.3 per cent increase for residential customers.

"I believe the board will be in a position probably at the end of March, beginning of April, to provide some guidance on the application," said François Beaulieu, vice-chairman of the Energy and Utilities Board, as the hearing came to an end Friday afternoon.

• NB Power witnesses at rate-hike hearing challenged about executive pay raises

Eight hearing participants either actively supported or did not oppose NB Power's request for increased rates during closing arguments.

However, Christopher Stewart, a lawyer for J.D. Irving Ltd., ripped the utility for not taking enough responsibility for causing its own financial problems or helping to fix them.

"Lowering the debt of the utility is not solely a ratepayer's responsibility," said Stewart, who accused NB Power of squandering previous rate hikes instead of containing costs and paying down debt.

JDI is NB Power's largest industrial customer and the Irving Paper mill in Saint John is the single largest user of electricity in New Brunswick.

"We do not want to pay more simply to create an ever increasing spending cushion for the utility. There is an obligation on the utility to live up to their part of the bargain [to cut expenses]," he said.

"And our experience so far is, well frankly, that the utility has not."

Utility to pay down debt

 

NB Power vice-presidents Keith Cronkhite, Darren Murphy and Lori Clark were the first of 14 utility witnesses expected to appear before the EUB last week. (Robert Jones/CBC)

 NB Power is under direction from the province to pay down $1 billion in debt in advance of having to rebuild the Mactaquac dam and generating station beginning in the middle of next decade and has been applying for a series of rate increases to boost profits.

Stewart reviewed how the three most current rate increases, including last year, this year and one proposed for take effect in April were supposed to help generate combined profits of $268 million to reduce debt.

Instead, unexpected costs have eaten $145.2 million of that expected return, cutting profits by 54 per cent.

From our perspective, it seems as if the utility spends ever more and the ratepayers pay ever more.-Christopher Stewart

At the hearing, NB Power blamed much of the deterioration on "operating variability" and issues "outside management's control."

But Stewart railed against that idea, instead pointing to preventable problems at the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station as an example of how management has been directly at fault for cost increases.

"Point Lepreau, especially, especially the non-nuclear side, which seems to be the issue, has been exclusively under the operational control of the utility for the last 34 years," said Stewart.

"The state of Point Lepreau is not a mere inherent variability of the utility's business. It is a matter which has been entirely within the utility's control.

"From our perspective, it seems as if the utility spends ever more and the ratepayers pay ever more. The utility has at some length told us how every darn penny is required, but I assure you my client, and I strongly suspect every ratepayer on this system has an equally necessary use for the money that they will now be giving to the utility as their rates increases."

Supporting the rate hike

 

Heather Black, the public intervener, also supported NB Power's application for a rate increase (Robert Jones/CBC)

Still, JDI did not directly oppose NB Power's request for a rate increase with Stewart saying only the company would be "more supportive" if it saw evidence of serious cost cutting at the utility.

Three hearing participants supported the rate hike, including NB Power, public intervener Heather Black and Scott Stoll, a lawyer representing the province's three municipal utilities.

Anti-nuclear intervener Chris Rouse said he supported all but $50,000 of the increase which he calculated would be used to finance pay raises for NB Power executives.

Taking no position for or against the rate hike was Enbridge Gas New Brunswick and the New Brunswick Green Party.

Citizen intervener Greg Hickey gave his summation on Thursday and opposed the rate increase.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-explore-option-second-hydro-station-grand-falls-1.4080239

NB Power investigates building 2nd hydro station at Grand Falls

Studies and site testing will be conducted along with consultations

CBC News· Posted: Apr 21, 2017 6:30 PM AT

NB Power is set to explore the option of generating more clean energy with a new 100-megawatt generating station in Grand Falls. (Shane Fowler/CBC)

NB Power has started exploring whether to build a 100-megawatt generating station in Grand Falls to produce more clean energy.

The corporation says it will do environmental and geotechnical studies and site testing and consult with First Nations and local residents before applying for an environmental impact assessment later this year.

The project is in the early stages and will require study, fieldwork, engineering and environmental approvals prior to going ahead, Gaëtan Thomas, NB Power president and chief executive officer, said in a news release Friday.

"If feasible, it would be an important source of clean energy to our fleet and, we believe, would provide NB Power with even greater capability to provide generation for our customers inside the province and possibly in the New England market," Thomas said.

• NB Power's business model changes as customers try other energy sources
• New Brunswick communities join national climate change program

If approved, the station would require several new structures, including a second tunnel.
Grand Falls already has a 66-megawatt generating station.

Premier Brian Gallant said in a statement the province is pleased NB Power is exploring clean energy options, and another Grand Falls station would be good for the economy,.

"We will work with the people of the region as the project moves through the appropriate phases," he said.

Long-term commitments 

A second unit at Grand Falls has the potential to help NB Power meet its long-term clean energy requirements.

By 2020, 40 per cent of the utility's in-province electricity sales must come from renewable sources.

Green Party Leader David Coon is glad NB Power is looking into a second generating station at Grand Falls but wants the power to stay in the province. (Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick) 

Green Party Leader David Coon welcomed the news NB Power was exploring the Grand Falls option.

"We need to be doing a lot more to reach ultimately 100 per cent renewable power in New Brunswick and this is an obvious one waiting in the wings for a long time."

Coon's said this is the type of project that could reduce the province's use of coal at Belledune.

"The purpose of doing this is its got to contribute to expanding the use of renewables to produce power for New Brunswickers enabling us to reduce the use of coal at Belledune. We've got to phase out Belledune."

Coon, however, did express reservations with the potential plan to export the additional generated power.

"We've got to get our carbon pollution down to targets," he said. "If they simply exported the electricity from the new addition at Grand Falls that would benefit us in no way."

The plan for the new generating station follows the steps outlined in the province's 2016 Climate Change Action Plan.

The community renewable energy program allows NB Power to procure up to 80 megawatts of small-scale renewable energy from First Nations and local entities.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-streetlight-charges-1.4107351 

In the dark: Municipalities pay far too much for streetlights

NB Power charges cities, towns almost double service costs despite pricing guidelines

Robert Jones· CBC News· Posted: May 10, 2017 6:00 AM AT

Downtown Fredericton is well-lit by streetlights, but it's paying through the nose for that service. (Michael Stemm)

New Brunswick municipalities appear to be in the dark about millions of excess dollars they are being charged annually by NB Power for street lighting, although it would take little effort for the cash-strapped governments to band together and fight for better prices.

"I don't think it would be particularly difficult," said Hartland lawyer Peter Hyslop, a former intervener who used to represent the public at NB Power rate hearings.

"They could certainly come forward and make the argument they are being overcharged."

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Street lighting is one of NB Power's smallest costs, but most lucrative businesses.

The utility estimates it costs $13.4 million to supply the service, including overhead and profit charges, but it bills  customers — mainly the province and municipal governments — nearly double that amount, $26.3 million.

That's contrary to pricing guidelines set down for the utility 25 years ago, but municipal governments have traditionally not attended NB Power rate hearings and without prompting the issue of streetlights rarely comes up.

NB Power is charging municipalities almost double what it costs to provide streetlight service. (CBC)

 "It just doesn't get the same attention," said current public intervener Heather Black, who attended the last rate hearing in February and notes information about street light costs were made available, but not acted on.

"NB Power is obliged to give all that data to the board and the board looks at it along with everything else."

Most New Brunswick municipalities rely on NB Power for streetlights and pay the bills they get without any knowledge of whether prices are fair or unfair.

The expense varies among communities depending on how many streets are serviced.

Big bills for cities, towns

A small town, such as Rothesay, pays $146,000 per year while a medium-sized community, such as Riverview, pays $518,000.

Cities pay the most, Fredericton just more than $1 million this year and Moncton just more than $2 million.

But whatever the size of the bill, all communities pay substantially more than what it costs to provide them the service.

In Miramichi, the city has budgeted to pay NB Power $558,000 for its streetlights this year according to Darlene O'Shea, the treasurer.

With a bill of just over $2 million a year for streetlights, the City of Moncton could see a substantial saving if it was reduced to the level suggested by pricing guidelines for NB Power. (CBC)

 It's a substantial expense for the community, 1.7 per cent of the municipal operations budget, just behind the cost of door-to-door garbage collection.

It's also at least $250,000 too high according to pricing guidelines developed for NB Power by the utilities board 25 years ago.

Told to fix rates 25 years ago

In 1992 NB Power was directed to charge different customer groups 100 per cent of the cost of supplying them service, including overhead and profit, with a maximum price of 105 per cent.

At the time NB Power's prices for streetlight service were found to be the furthest from that goal, up to 70 per cent too high, and the utility was encouraged to fix it and other outliers over the following few years.

"The board expects NB Power to develop a plan to move all classes within the approved range (of fairness) over a period of time," the Public Utilities Board wrote in an April 1992 decision.

The board then reconfirmed that decision in 2005 and its successor — the Energy and Utilities Board — reconfirmed it in 2016.

If municipalities want to see lower streetlight rates, they should show up at NB Power's hearings at the Energy & Utilities Board, says a former public intervenor. (CBC)

However, while the pricing of power for most customers has moved closer to the cost of providing the service since 1992, it has only worsened for streetlight customers.

A report commissioned by NB Power for its February rate hearing this year indicated streetlight charges are now at 196 per cent of the cost of providing the service, much worse than 1992 and by far the highest price in relation to cost of any service NB Power provides.

NB Power has a rate design hearing scheduled for next spring and Hyslop said if municipalities want better prices they should show up and fight for them.

"There's no reason at all they couldn't intervene," said Hyslop.

"They're a ratepayer."

NB Power declined to comment on its streetlight pricing practices, saying those will be addressed at next year's hearing.

"We will limit our comments at this time," wrote NB Power spokeswoman Deborah Nobes in an email to CBC News.

"We look forward to providing more details with regard to NB Power's position on this matter via the hearing process."

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Dwight Mullover

Funny that city staffers have no problem increasing property tax, yet have a great opportunity to save money and have neglected this for over 25 years.

Civil servants serving the public.

Shawn McShane

@Dwight Mullover It doesn't matter does it. Either way me and you will pay either through property taxes or NB Power rate increase.

 

SarahRose Werner

"municipal governments have traditionally not attended NB Power rate hearings" - Why the heck not? Municipal governments pay for electricity not only for street lights but also for municipal buildings. Why don't they get themselves more involved in the hearings?

Shawn McShane

@SarahRose Werner What for? If NB Power lowers the rate for the muni they will just raise the electricity costs for your home and mine. Same difference. The public never gets a break. The costs fall to us.

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-former-public-intervener-residential-customers-1.4158898

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

Robert Jones· CBC News· Posted: Jun 14, 2017 6:00 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.

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/eub-peter-hyslop-nbpower-residential-intervener-1.4194478

Board nixes special intervener to defend residential users in NB Power hearings

Energy and Utilities Board concludes it does not have authority to appoint a residential intervener

Robert Jones· CBC News· Posted: Jul 07, 2017 12:08 PM AT 

Peter Hyslop, a Hartland-based lawyer, had argued he should be appointed as the residential representative to the Energy and Utilities Board during NB Power's rate design hearings. (Pat Richard/CBC)

New Brunswick's Energy and Utilities Board has ruled it does not have the authority to order special funding for a lawyer to represent residential electricity users at upcoming NB Power hearings that will reshape how consumers are billed.
"The board finds that it does not have jurisdiction to grant intervener funding," it wrote in a three-page decision released late last week.
NB Power is involved in a rate design hearing, which could dramatically change the prices charged by the utility.
Peter Hyslop, a Hartland-based lawyer, argued in June that homeowners and apartment dwellers are NB Power's largest customer group and should be independently represented at hearings.
"Rate design is going to have significant impact on residential ratepayers," Hyslop said at the June 15 meeting.

There is no question that Mr. Hyslop would bring a meaningful contribution to the proceedings.- Energy and Utilities Board

"The argument and position of residential ratepayers should be before this board."
NB Power is responsible for the expenses of electricity hearings and would have been the one to pay for the bills of a lawyer representing residential customers.
In its decision, the EUB said there is nothing in its governing legislation or in precedent-setting court rulings that allow for that arrangement.
"There is no question that Mr. Hyslop would bring a meaningful contribution to the proceedings," it wrote.
"However, the board concludes that it cannot be implied that intervener funding is of practical necessity in order to accomplish its jurisdiction."

Year-long hearing to reshape bills

Heather Black is the public intervener at the Energy and Utility Board's looking into NB Power's rate design application. (Robert Jones/CBC)Hyslop is a former public intervener at NB Power rate hearings. 

Heather Black, who is now the public intervener, is responsible for representing "the public interest" at the EUB hearings and is barred from advocating for any single group like residential customers.

Hyslop suggested that mandate, which was changed by the Alward government in 2013, meant Black would be unable to represent the best interests of residential customers in the way public interveners used to.

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NB Power is in the middle of a year-long EUB proceeding that is looking at reshaping how the utility bills various customers for electricity.

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.

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Douglas James

Of course not. Customers are just so unimportant in a monopoly business.

  

Dave Peters

Well now. How much is this going to cost the taxpayer again. This new billing system will not even be made public by what I'm reading. NB Power is a crown corporation that will be seeing new revenue to improve Joe Public lives. I can't wait to see our modified bills. Of course we will only see the bottom line $$$.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/eub-hearing-nb-power-rate-design-smart-meters-1.4305685

EUB punts rate hearing as NB Power studies $122M smart meter plan

EUB agrees to suspend hearing so it can deal first with NB Power's proposed $122M purchase of smart meters

Robert Jones· Posted: Sep 26, 2017 6:00 AM AT |

NB Power wants to purchase and install smart meters before it has a rate design hearing. (Ryan Pilon/CBC)

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.

Energy and Utilities Board chair Raymond Gorman says the board has delayed the rate design hearing for one year. (Pat Richard/CBC)

NB Power has been under pressure from the EUB to better match prices it charges for electricity to the cost of producing and distributing power. That could see consumers paying substantially different prices for power between summer and winter — even between day and night.

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But the utility has argued there is little room to make substantial changes like that until its entire inventory of power meters is upgraded.

"It is NB Power's submission that the rate design proceeding is … premature because it does contemplate discussion of rate design options that might not be available depending on … (smart meter) deployment," NB Power's senior legal counsel John Furey said during arguments for the suspension.

Tracking more frequent

Unlike current units that have to be physically visited to be read, smart meters will connect directly to NB Power computers, allowing individual customers to have electricity consumption tracked several times an hour instead of once a month.

The utility says this will allow it to charge a variety of rates for electricity — more when consumption is higher, such as in the mornings, on weekends and during winter — and less when consumption is lower.

"We are going from reading a customer's meter once a month, so 12 times a year, up to 12 times an hour," former NB Power executive Neil Larlee said during testimony in front of the EUB last February.

Smart meters for $122M

But the new meters are expensive, an estimated $92 million to acquire one for each customer and another $30 million to have them installed and made operational.

It's an expense that largely requires EUB approval, something the regulator is expected to hear evidence on this winter and rule on by next spring.  NB Power said without that decision being made first, redesigning rates made little sense.

John Furey, NB Power's senior legal counsel, argued for the delay in the rate design hearing until the utility installs smart meters, which record power usage more frequently. (LinkedIn)"

I don't see how we can have a meaningful process … because we don't know what rate design options are available or might be precluded in the event the (smart meter) decision is not to deploy or to deploy," said Furey.

Because those who heat with electricity consume large amounts of power during high-demand cold snaps, the rate design process is generally expected to result in higher costs for that group.

However, NB Power has argued smart meters will allow for enough discount periods that electric heat customers who move activities such as laundry, dishwashing and showers into the evening will be able to offset some or all of the increases they experience.

NB Power is expected to formally apply to buy and install smart meters provincewide within the next two weeks as part of its next general rate increase application.

The rate design hearing will resume next fall.

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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.

60 Comments

stephen blunston

this is all crap, the EUB is a disgrace ,. if they would stop giving such heavy discount to the big commercial industries , and stopped wasting so much in the office in Fredericton and the management didn't get such big bonuses for screwing it all up , well maybe everyone else could pay the cost and all be happy , but cant do that in the Gallant province of major mismanagement

Fred Brewer

@stephen blunston
In some respects I think you are right, but it is NB Power who has consistently ignored the EUB orders for the last 30 years or so. If the EUB is a disgrace it is because they have not forced NB Power to charge its true cost of service to ALL of its customers. Currently some customers get gouged while others like big industry get huge discounts. The EUB has tried for 30 years to get NB Power to mend its ways and maybe, just maybe it will start to happen now.

Rosco holt

@stephen blunston
Nothing will happen with the discount to industrial users, since it was put in place by politicians and we know who they answer to.

Shawn McShane

@Fred Brewer NB Power says large industrial customers pay 99 per cent of what they should...They are just looking at rate increases for the peons...in this place.

Fred Brewer

@Shawn McShane
Please, back up your statement with some proof.
Do you really expect anyone to believe that the Empire pays anywhere close to the actual cost of generating electricity?
The empire has sweetheart deals for the purchase of electricity for all of its mills and the refinery.

Roy Kirk

@Fred Brewer What does the EUB believe? Has it accepted that the industrial rate classes are near full cost recovery? And does it get to consider *all* of the relevant transfers, or are some shielded from scrutiny by contractual obligations? And if they've seen confidential evidence, can they now base significant decisions on it? If so, we've decended to a lower level of Hell in *public* utility regulation, I think.

Shawn McShane

@Fred Brewer You don't provide any proof Fred: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/residential-electricity-customers-underpaying-nb-power-says-1.2804028

The EUB's predecessor, the old Public Utilities Board, found large industrial customers were the most heavily subsidized group.

Fred Brewer

@Shawn McShane
Thanks for the link Shawn. I see the 99% figure is from NB Power and thus probably originated from their Smoke and Mirrors Dept. The linked article even states that the 99% figure has been a source of significant dispute at hearings.

I understand that large industrial consumers pay 5 or 6 cents per Kw/hr. If that is the true cost of production and delivery, then we are being hosed when we pay over 10 cents for residential service. Something does not add up here. The logical conclusion is that the industry rate and to some extent the residential rate is being subsidized by the commercial rates.

Shawn McShane

@Fred Brewer The industrial rate is being subsidized by the residential and commercial small business rate. Now they split the hair and cause divide. The residential will pay more and not be able to afford the services or shop at small business. We will only be able to shop at the company store...they call it Empire.

Shawn McShane

Prepare for a lot higher electricity bills. The smart meters are used to charge higher electricity rates for peak hours mon-fri which hits working people and families with children the hardest. For those who installed heat pumps...the biggest complaint is that they never shut off. In cold weather, a properly working heat pump will run almost continuously. That is the way they are designed to work.

Shawn McShane

'Astonishing’: Hydro One pulling plug on 36,000 rural smart meters after years of complaints
...mandated by the Liberal government at a cost of about $2 billion, Some customers were double and tripled bills; some had no bills for months; others were comically billed millions in overcharges.
http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/astonishing-hydro-one-pulling-plug-on-36000-rural-smart-meters-after-years-of-complaints

Shawn McShane

@Diana Austin Smart meters linked to 13 fires in Ontario, Fire Marshall
nine fires in Saskatchewan,

SaskPower plans to remove all 105,000 of its smart meters and replace them with traditional units.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/08/08/smart_meters_linked_to_13_fires_in_ontario_fire_marshal_says.html

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/eub-hearings-nb-power-smart-meters-1.4529640

Opting out smart meter program could cost NB Power customers

Power customers in British Columbia, Quebec have faced fees for refusing the installation of smart meters

Robert Jones· CBC News· Posted: Feb 10, 2018 8:00 AM AT 

NB Power Senior VP Operations Lori Clark speaks during the EUB hearings Friday in Saint John. (Robert Jones/CBC NEWS)

NB Power customers who do not want a smart meter installed on their home could be facing a stiff fee for that decision, but so far the utility is not saying how much it might be.

"It will be based on the principles of cost causation, but we have not gotten into the detail of what that fee would be at this point," said NB Power Senior Vice President of Operations Lori Clark at Energy and Utilities Board hearings on Friday.

• NB Power's smart meter plan labelled a 'money loser' during EUB grilling

• NB Power's smart meter program among plans under microscope at EUB hearing

In other jurisdictions that have already adopted smart meters, customers not wanting to participate have faced hundreds of dollars in extra charges.

Thousands of pages of evidence on a number of issues, including smart meters, have been submitted for the 12-day hearing. 

In British Columbia, power customers are charged a meter reading fee of $32.40 per month if they refuse a smart meter, or $20 per month if they accept a smart meter but insist its radio transmitter be turned off. That's a cost of between $240 and $388.80 per year for customers to opt out.

In Quebec, smart meters were installed beginning in 2012. Customers who refused the devices were initially charged $98 to opt out plus a meter reading fee of $17 per month. That was eventually cut by Quebec's energy board in 2014 to a $15 refusal fee and a $5 per month meter reading surcharge.
NB Power said it may be a year or more before it settles on its own fee.

"The opt out policy will be developed and implemented as part of the roll out.  It will be one of the last things we do," said Clark.

Customers need to be on board

NB Power is in front of the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board seeking permission to spend $122.7 million to install 350,000 smart meters province wide.

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)

The meters are capable of transmitting consumption data of customers back to NB Power in real time, which the utility said will allow for a number of innovations in pricing and service.

The meters require near universal adoption by customers to maximize their financial benefit — like eliminating more than $20 million a year NB Power currently spends to read meters manually. The utility has said the switch will not succeed if too many customers opt out.

"We certainly wouldn't be looking at making an investment of this size without having the customer with us," said Clark.

On Thursday, Kent County resident Daniel LeBlanc, who along with Roger Richard, is opposing the introduction of smart meters for health reasons, predicted a cool reception for the technology in many parts of the province.

"If one were to ask most of the people in the rural areas, I'm not sure you would get a lot of takers for this infrastructure," said LeBlanc, who is concerned with the long-term effect microwave frequencies used by the meters to transmit data may have on human health.

That issue is before the EUB next week.

Haven't tested the waters

NB Power acknowledged it has not measured public opinion on adopting smart meters but is confident it can convince customers it is a good idea for them and the utility.

"People don't understand what the smart meter is," said Clark. "We need to educate our customers first to allow them to make an informed decision so that will be part of the roll out plan."

Clark noted that smart meters, helped by stiff opting out penalties, were eventually accepted by 98 per cent of customers in British Columbia and by 97.4 per cent of customers in Quebec.

"We will check and adjust along the way if there are issues with customer uptake," said Clark.

"This is very similar to what has been done in other jurisdictions and they haven't had those challenges."

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdRVUVMgwDo

It would a mistake for Canadian Hero Kevin Vickers to run for the N.B. Liberal Party!!!!

68 views

Charles Leblanc

Published on Jan 1, 2019

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/kevin-vickers-considers-a-run-for-n-b-liberal-leadership-1.4236241

Kevin Vickers considers a run for N.B. Liberal leadership

Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers receives a standing ovation as he enters the House of Commons, on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. (Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Alex Cooke, The Canadian Press
Published Monday, December 31, 2018 4:18PM EST

TROUT BROOK, N.B. -- Kevin Vickers, who became Canada's ambassador to
Ireland after being hailed as a hero for helping to end the 2014
attack on Parliament Hill, is considering a move into politics.

The former sergeant-at-arms of the House of Commons said Monday he's
considering a run for the Liberal leadership in his native New
Brunswick.

Vickers has already met with at least one potential supporter in caucus.

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"He has a great array of experience from all of his different careers
that he's held, and he understands what's happening in this world,"
said Lisa Harris, Liberal MLA for Miramichi Bay-Neguac, who has met
with Vickers.

On Oct. 22, 2014, Vickers fired the shots that killed gunman Michael
Zihaf Bibeau, who had stormed into Centre Block on Parliament Hill
after killing a soldier at the National War Memorial.

Harris said Vickers would be an exciting candidate for the party's
leadership. Their meeting came about after she had heard "rumblings"
that Vickers was considering a political run a few weeks ago, and she
said the two had a chat about current issues in the province and her
experiences as an MLA.

Former premier Brian Gallant announced recently that he'll be stepping
down as Liberal leader earlier than planned, saying the party needs to
move on.

Vickers said he's a "long ways from making a decision," noting that
he's been in public service for nearly 43 years, and there's much to
consider before making another four-year commitment.

"It's a long haul," he said in an interview from Trout Brook, N.B.

Vickers said that if he decides to run, he would hope to heal
relations between the province's English and French-speaking residents
-- a contentious issue during the recent provincial election.

"I don't think there's a linguistic divide; I think there may be a
divide based on misunderstandings, misinformation," said Vickers.

"There's so much negativity, there's so much misinformation that's
used for promotion of agendas that are based not on fact."

Vickers also said he sees a lot of misinformation about the province's
economic state, saying New Brunswick holds a lower debt-to-resident
ratio than Quebec, Ontario, and Newfoundland and Labrador.

Vickers said he wants to carry on the legacy of his father, Bill, who
began the Northumberland co-op dairy in the province decades ago.

He said the business, along with a credit union run by his father's
friend, Martin Legere, gave the province a much-needed boost.

"They brought a lot of jobs, a lot of great times ... (their) story
became a success story all across the province of New Brunswick," he
said. "There's that legacy that I look at."

He added that he'd like to see a better province for his three grandchildren.

While he said his wealth of experience in public service would help
him for a potential run for Liberal leadership, he still needs some
time to think it over.

The next Liberal leader could have a shot at power within 18 months.

The Liberals handed power to Blaine Higgs' Tories in November after
losing a confidence vote in the legislature. But the Tories are
dependent on the People's Alliance, which agreed to support them
during confidence votes for at least 18 months.

The Liberals won just 21 seats in September's election -- one fewer
than the Tories -- while the Greens and People's Alliance each won
three seats.

Vickers had a lengthy RCMP career before joining the House of Commons
security staff in 2005.

According to an Ontario Provincial Police investigation of the 2014
shooting, Vickers found himself that morning on the opposite side of
Zehaf Bibeau, a pillar between them.

Vickers peeked around and saw what he thought was a double-barreled
shotgun and dove to his left and fired up at Zehaf Bibeau, who fell to
his knees. Vickers rolled into a sitting position one metre from Zehaf
Bibeau and kept firing until his magazine was empty. RCMP officers
fired as well.

In a 2015 convocation address to students at Mount Allison University
in Sackville, N.B., he said he found himself in tears the morning
after the shooting in what he called "the loneliest moment of my
life."

Vickers was appointed ambassador to Ireland by then-prime minister
Stephen Harper in 2015.

In 2016, Vickers tackled protester Brian Murphy during a centenary
ceremony to remember British soldiers killed in the 1916 Easter
Rising.

Vickers' son, Const. Andrew Vickers, has been commended for saving the
lives of two women as a police officer in Miramichi, N.B. -- rescuing
a woman from the icy Miramichi River following a 2011 car crash, and
preventing a 2016 suicide.
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Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 06:18:29 -0400
Subject: As Robert Gauvin reflects on his situation over the Christmas break methinks he
hould listen to Justice Richard Bell speak of Mr Higg's pals Rob Moore and Brucc Northrup
and YOU N'esy Pas Franky Boy McKenna?
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Obviously I called the recording of the hearing Bah Humbug


https://archive.org/details/BahHumbug



https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2018/12/methinks-more-than-2200-provincial.html



Monday, 24 December 2018

Methinks more than 2,200 provincial employees should be Happy Happy Happy this Yuletide Season much to the chagrin of many a minimum wage taxpayer N'esy Pas?


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-government-salaries-blue-book-1.4958589



 47 Comments
Commenting is now closed for this story.


Bernard McIntyre
No one should make more money than the Premier. Enough of that Merry
Christmas and a happy New Year to all my fellow commenters.


David R. Amos
@Bernard McIntyre Bah Humbug

David R. Amos
@Bernard McIntyre FYI Mr Higgs et al know that I said Bah Humbug 3
years ago as well

https://archive.org/details/BahHumbug







https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2018/12/robert-gauvin-governments-only.html
Thursday, 20 December 2018

Robert Gauvin, the government's only francophone MLA and minister, also distanced himself from Ted Flemming's comments


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/gauvin-questions-future-pcs-1.4956691

"The lone francophone cabinet minister in the Blaine Higgs Progressive
Conservative government is warning that he's pondering his future
within the party.​

Shippagan-Lameque-Miscou MLA Robert Gauvin said he's going to reflect
on his situation over the Christmas break after provocative comments
about bilingualism by his cabinet colleague, Health Minister Ted
Flemming.

Gauvin called Flemming's remarks "a punch to the gut" and said he
thought about quitting on Wednesday morning.

"It came close," he told Radio-Canada."

Higgs willing to work with Greens as long as it's on his terms

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David Raymond Amos‏ @DavidRayAmos

Replying to @DavidRayAmos@Kathryn98967631 and 49 others

Methinks SANB people have spin down to a fine art N'esy Pas?


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 #nbpoli#cdnpoli


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/year-end-blaine-higgs-pc-government-1.4961077

Higgs willing to work with Greens — as long as it's on his terms

89 Comments

  
Fred Brewer

Higgs' agenda of pro-fracking, pro-pipelines and anti-carbon tax sure sounds like the Empire's agenda.

Robert G. Holmes

@Fred Brewer A complete overhaul of the NB Energy Plan needs be done, before any continuation of the petroleum industry subsidies. Natural Gas through fracking is a short term and risky research project. Re-building Mactaquac, (?), must take into account the economic benefits of alternate hydro sources, (Hydro Quebec). Fundamentally, NB is strategic, through NB Power grid to expanding the Atlantic grid; Get it on with reliable cheaper clean power via QC. Knock out the coal thermal, promote sustainable urban planning. Build to low carbon standards. Lots to do for a qualified Cost Engineer, (Higgs), working in collaboration with other parties. But get it right for the long term.

Harold Benson

@Fred Brewer I do not believe that a majority supports a practice that pumps poison into the ground and ruins the water.

Brian Robertson

@Fred Brewer
Sounds like pragmatism to me; and not the rainbows and unicorns of the Liberals.

Fred Brewer

@Brian Robertson
"Sounds like pragmatism to me;"

Since when is it pragmatic to poison our environment for the sake of a few dollars?

David R. Amos

@Robert G. Holmes Methinks you should attend the EUB hearings N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos

@Harold Benson Methinks I have seen Sam write the same things N'esy Pas?

  
Nancy Alcox

With the climate crisis screaming in our faces, how can this so called leader be pushing everything that will just feed the fire?
He’s so concerned about the budget and spending but is overlooking what we’re going to spend on weather/climate change floods, power outages and eventually forest fires etc..etc..
Our “leader” is still working for the Irving’s..not for us..

Emery Hyslop-Margison

@Nancy Alcox Chicken Little has moved on from "the sky is falling" to "climate change". It's just another excuse to raise your taxes and keep you living in fear.

David R. Amos

@Emery Hyslop-Margison YUP

  
Emery Hyslop-Margison

The Irvings and their high level management are not particularly big on consultation. They tend toward administrative secrecy and a "rule by fiat" approach. But people can change - if only marginally. So, we'll see what happens with Premier Higgs.

Colin Seeley

@Emery Hyslop-Margison

Huh ? Have you tried being a teacher !

David R. Amos

@Emery Hyslop-Margison Methinks a leopard cannot change its spots N'esy Pas?

Winston Smith

@Emery Hyslop-Margison
You are a former Irvnig employee with Midland Courier. Your bias is showing.

  
Pierre LaRoches

Why bother consulting with Kevin Arsenault? His stances on anything will be coloured by his past as president of the SANB. He literally offers nothing but division and whining on all fronts despite his folksy "I have no ties" appearance.

Colin Seeley

@Pierre LaRoches

Sounds like one of those peoplekind’s who sit in Timmy’s yelling and screaming with their big mouths and useless ideas.

Don’t know him. And don’t want to.

Dan Lee

@Pierre LaRoches
Sounds like PA............

David R. Amos

@Pierre LaRoches I Wholeheartedly Agree Sir

 
Alex Forbes

I appreciate the Green's fight for the environment. It's all their other social policies I don't necessarily agree with. The Greens have nothing to whine about here. They are ideologically opposed to 90% of the PA and PC party's beliefs.

David R. Amos

@Alex Forbes However whine they will Methinks its in the DNA of their political party members N'esy Pas?

 


  
Douglas James

"Higgs says that should prove to the New Brunswick Greens that they can support shale gas here and still tackle climate change."

The fact that Premier Irving Higgs believes the Greens or anyone else is opposed to fracking solely because of climate change says everything about the ignorance that permeates government.

David R. Amos

@Douglas James Methinks fellow party member the former SANB Prez and wannabe liberal candidate will insure that the animosity will continue N'esy Pas?

"They haven't shown any willingness to bring anything out that we want to bring forth to date," said Green MLA Kevin Arseneau. "Maybe it will change, but for now I don't feel there's been any consultation on anything."

Douglas James

@David R. Amos As usual, I have no idea what you are talking about.

  
Chantal LeBouthi

So cbc where the story about Kevin Vickers

David R. Amos

@Chantal LeBouthi Methinks they are tongue-tied at the moment N'esy Pas?

Lou Bell

@Chantal LeBouthi It was there yesterday. Try to keep up .

Matt Steele

@Chantal LeBouthi .....CBC should dig a little deeper into the Kevin Vickers story as other media outlets have reported that it was actually another RCMP Officer who took out the shooter on Parliament Hill ; and then Vickers claimed credit for it . Google RCMP Officer Curtis Barrett for the real story .

David R. Amos 

@Chantal LeBouthi Methinks if Kevin Vickers becomes the Liberal Leader next month I doubt he will want to work with the likes of the PANB or the French Lieutenants Mr Arseneau and Mr Gauvin as he tries to unseat Mr Higgs and win the next mandate N'esy Pas?

Alex Cooke, The Canadian Press
Published Monday, December 31, 2018 4:18PM EST

"Vickers said that if he decides to run, he would hope to heal
relations between the province's English and French-speaking residents
-- a contentious issue during the recent provincial election.

"I don't think there's a linguistic divide; I think there may be a
divide based on misunderstandings, misinformation," said Vickers.

"There's so much negativity, there's so much misinformation that's
used for promotion of agendas that are based not on fact."

Vickers also said he sees a lot of misinformation about the province's
economic state, saying New Brunswick holds a lower debt-to-resident
ratio than Quebec, Ontario, and Newfoundland and Labrador.

Vickers said he wants to carry on the legacy of his father, Bill, who
began the Northumberland co-op dairy in the province decades ago.

He said the business, along with a credit union run by his father's
friend, Martin Legere, gave the province a much-needed boost.

"They brought a lot of jobs, a lot of great times ... (their) story
became a success story all across the province of New Brunswick," he
said. "There's that legacy that I look at."

He added that he'd like to see a better province for his three grandchildren.

While he said his wealth of experience in public service would help
him for a potential run for Liberal leadership, he still needs some
time to think it over."







 
Roy Kirk

Shale gas development in NB? Under what rules and conditions?

We need to get adequate direct revenues to compensate us for the risk. $US 1 per GJ or 20% of sale price, whichever is greater.
We need adequate regulatory infrastructure to minimize the risk.

Be clear, except for Sussex area (where we've produced gas but still aren't clear as to the royalties paid), the NB shale gas play is highly speculative. It attracts the bottom feeders of the gas industry. And they need to be ruled and regulated with an iron fist. There's no evidence that we're ready to do that yet.

It's bad news for nb when a PC govts priority for the economy is as likely to pan out as a loto ticket.«

David R. Amos

@Roy Kirk Methinks everybody knows that I have been asking such questions since 2004 N'esy Pas?

Lou Bell

The Greens are destined for irrelevance again in NB. Always were, always will be.

Dan Lee

@Lou Bell
wishfull thinking huh

Jim Moore

@Lou Bell Again? they always have been, and that includes everywhere provincially and federally, A green vote is a wasted vote

David R. Amos

@Lou Bell I agree

 
SarahRose Werner

Translation: "I can work with anyone as long as they agree to do things my way."

Lou Bell

@SarahRose Werner He is after all the leader. We just got over the " dog waving the tail " SANB led Liberals.

Fred Brewer

@Lou Bell
" He is after all the leader."

Yes, but Higgs has a minority government and needs the support of the other parties to get things done. Normally this requires a give and take approach but apparently for Mr. Higgs it is all take and no give.

I see an election in the very near future and believe that is the only way to get out of the mess we are currently in.

Jim Moore

@Fred Brewer He has all the support he needs, the greens aren't worth dealing with after what happened and they tried ally with the liberals to steal the government after they lost without even the minimum needed seats

SarahRose Werner

@Fred Brewer - Yeah, I sure don't see Higgs as lasting a full four years. The Alliance *said* they'd support him for 18 months, but they may not keep that promise and they haven't promised anything after that. I also wouldn't be surprised if Gauvin switched to being an independent or even crossed the floor.

Dan Lee

@SarahRose Werner
Bingo......and thats why higgs is looking at the others.....Gauvin will move....

David R. Amos

@Fred Brewer I agree but methinks everybody must know how much I am enjoying the Circus in the "Mean" time N'esy Pas?

 
Lou Bell

Nice to just have some stability in our government for a change. A few close SANB buddies running the Liberal caucus who didn't seem to have a clue what they were doing was pullin' us down bigtime.

SarahRose Werner

@Lou Bell - We don't have stability. We have a minority government that, for the next 18 months, just barely has enough votes to push its agenda.

Matt Steele

@Lou Bell .......Very true . It is good to have a " REAL " Premier with life and work experience who is trying to move the Province forward , and get the ballooning prov. debt under control ; rather than bending to the special interest groups all the time as the economy falls apart .

David R. Amos

@SarahRose Werner Methinks we will know just exactly how much stability the government of Mr Higgs has when it comes time for his foes to vote on his budget N'esy Pas?

  
Matt Steele

The Greens thought they were going to be " King " makers , and be calling the shots . Instead they have fallen into irrelevance . Every time Green MLA Kevin Arseneau speaks , the Green Party loses more credibility .

David R. Amos

@Matt Steele YUP

 
Don Cafferty

"B.C. Premier John Horgan has said his province can meet its carbon dioxide emission targets even with LNG development. Higgs says that should prove to the New Brunswick Greens that they can support shale gas here and still tackle climate change." It is a false measure of success. Canada is grouped with Russia, China and Saudi Arabia as the worst countries in the world for contributing to carbon emissions. If all other countries behaved like this group, the planet will have +5C degrees in global warming. If all countries continue as they currently are, global warming will increase more than 3C degrees. Everybody including New Brunswick needs to change their focus and behaviour.

David R. Amos

@Don Cafferty Methinks many would agree that you are practicing fear-mongering in order to assist in the increase of taxation N'esy Pas?

 


  
Lou Bell

Like Gallants " inside caucus " Kevin Arseneau has played himself into irrelevance. The new " inside man " of the SANB has played his card and lost.

David R. Amos

@Lou Bell Methinks it was a rather telling thing when Brian Gallant refused to allow his old SANB buddy Arseneau to run as a liberal N'esy Pas?

  
Tim Astle

I don't see anything new in this article that we didn't know of before.

Are CBC reporters mandated to try to make news? The article just seems like an attempt to try to stir up some trouble. It neglects to even bring up the fact that the Green Party chose to vote against the PC throne speech. Of course they wouldn't be heavily involved until some trust could be established.

Maybe we should have an article on why the Green party chose to not vote for the throne speech? Are they betting on a Liberal come-back long game, or did they make the wrong short / medium term decision by putting their own personal interests over that of our environment in which the party is supposed to represent?

I know I'd like to see the Green party focus on bringing an environmental perspective to our future. I have no idea what the Green party's focus is right now based on their current actions. Is the new green member, Kevin Arseneau now leading the greens? It seems like the party has lost its way.« less

David R. Amos

@Tim Astle "I don't see anything new in this article that we didn't know of before"

Me too.

"Are CBC reporters mandated to try to make news? The article just seems like an attempt to try to stir up some trouble."

Methinks they have carte blanche if they can put Conservatives in a bad light N'esy Pas?

"Kevin Arseneau now leading the greens? It seems like the party has lost its way"

Too Too Funny Indeed

 

Jim Cyr

The CBC played it fair with Higgs for exactly two weeks... now the hit pieces are coming every other day (soon to be every day). You would never in a million years have seen a headline like this or read an article such as this about Brian the boy wonder. The narrative that is being set up with propaganda like this is that Higgs is unreasonable and unfair. Smart people see through it.

David R. Amos

@Jim Cyr "Smart people see through it."

Methinks I would not bet the farm on it Most folks vote for the colour of the coat anyway no matter what the media may say of their favourite political party Nesy Pas?

 
Marguerite Deschamps

We live in a feudal system, pretty well everywhere you live in the world, but more so in New Brunswick. No government gets elected here without the blessing of the lord. The main reason that governments run deficits has nothing to do with the French or English. No matter who gets elected governs to please the lord.
We run deficits because we give our natural resources to big multinationals that pit governments one against the other and that do not pay their fair share of taxes all the while getting subsidized with lavish government grants. However, they use our infrastructures and services without paying their fair share for them. They have access to our public lands to do clearcutting, cultivate cranberries and blueberries while leaving the little guy holding the bag at the mercy of these megacorporations leaving him getting a pittance for his wood, cranberries and blueberries from his private lands that he pays property taxes for. The big wheels organize their corporate structure so as not to make any profit here, but in their tax havens where they horde all their cash. No wonder out health services and infrastructures and deficits are in such dismal shape. Yet we keep electing people having ties to these corporate masters.« less

David R. Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks you SANB people have spin down to a fine art N'esy Pas?

Marguerite Deschamps

@David R. Amos, as they say; don't hate the player, hate the game.

David R. Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps I am not playing games You are

SarahRose Werner

I laugh every time I hear the Higgs government being described as part of the "blue wave." NB voters haven't re-elected a Liberal government since McKenna in 1995. For the past couple of decades, the pattern has been to get dissatisfied with the Liberals, put the PCs in power for a term (or, in the case of Bernard Lord, two terms), then get dissatisfied with the PCs and put the Liberals back in power. This suggests that Higgs should have won with a majority in 2018. Instead, he barely squeaked out a minority. That's no "blue wave." It's barely a blue ripple.

David R. Amos

@SarahRose Werner Methinks many can recall that Higgs had to wait until the last poll to be counted in Jake Stewart's riding to know that it was not a tie N'esy Pas ?

Paul Bourgoin

If Higgs can confirm what New Brunswick taxpayers have to gain financially by the supporting shale gas exploitation versus the negative impact on New Brunswick’s Environment. Also make public the accounting sheets of the cost, the profits, where it goes with a contracted profit percentage for the Province supported with a legislated profit margin. The Province of New Brunswick makes no governmental subsidies available, or tax breaks to the investors.

Marguerite Deschamps

@Paul Bourgoin, it will be business as usual, subsidies, tax break and all.

David R. Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks whereas you admit to being a player in the wicked game I have no doubt that you have your fingers in the cookie jar a time or two N'esy Pas?

 

Paul Bourgoin

When will New Brunswick have a Government by the People for the People not a Government selected by the Rich for the Rich, who hand pick our Political Leaders!!

David R. Amos

@Paul Bourgoin Methinks it would happen as soon as the majority of candidates elected were Independents with no political party affiliations whatsoever N'esy Pas Pas?

 

Matt Steele

There has been an interesting story with possible N.B. political ties being reported elsewhere....google RCMP Officer Curtis Barrett for an interesting story .

David R. Amos

@Matt Steele Methinks you should Google David Amos Kevin Vickers for more interesting stories N'esy Pas?

  

Greg Smith

Here's an experiment for all the climate change deniers:

Go into your garage and start your car. Leave it running and sit in there all night. If you wake up tomorrow morning, THEN you can tell me that emissions have no effect on air quality. I know large scale problems are hard to grasp for small minds, but we're doing the same thing, except to the entire planet. It's really not that hard to understand.

David R. Amos

@Greg Smith Methinks if I were to use your logic I would ask you to go jump in a lake in order to prove to me that water is no good for me N'esy Pas?

Higgs willing to work with Greens — as long as it's on his terms

The New Brunswick premier says he's open to working with other parties

Jacques Poitras· CBC News· Posted: Jan 02, 2019 6:00 AM AT 

New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs says he hopes there will be more cooperation from the Green Party in 2019. (CBC)

Premier Blaine Higgs says he hasn't given up on cooperating with political parties other than the People's Alliance in 2019 — but he says that could depend on the Green Party seeing things his way on natural gas.

Higgs's Progressive Conservative minority government has so far cooperated closely with the Alliance, whose three MLAs give the Tories a functioning majority in the legislature.

Meanwhile, the Alliance's ideological opposites, the three-member Green caucus, has tended to vote with the opposition Liberals.

"The current bills have worked out that way," Higgs said in a year-end interview with CBC News.

"There has to still be opportunity. There's still a number of times that we would agree, that we would hope we can work across the floor with."

The Greens have complained that they have not been consulted by the PC government on issues ranging from carbon taxes to bilingual ambulance services.

Green MLA Kevin Arseneau said Premier Blaine Higgs has not consulted the Greens on issues they want to address. (CBC)

"They haven't shown any willingness to bring anything out that we want to bring forth to date," said Green MLA Kevin Arseneau. "Maybe it will change, but for now I don't feel there's been any consultation on anything."

In Higgs's throne speech on Nov. 20, the government promised to seek "common cause with women and men of good faith across party lines" and called on other parties to "embrace the challenge of shared governance."

Develop cooperation

The premier noted that the Liberal opposition voted with the government on a bill to change the powers of a tribunal that hears WorkSafe New Brunswick appeals.

Higgs said he hopes there will be more of that in the coming year. "I think this will develop," he said.

But Higgs's main idea for Green cooperation involves that party moving in his direction to support a homegrown natural gas industry, including shale gas development.

Green Party Leader David Coon, left, and his MLAs have supported the Liberals while People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin, right, have teamed up with the Tories. (James West/Canadian Press)

Higgs returned from a meeting with other premiers last month praising British Columbia's NDP minority government for allowing shale gas development and backing a planned liquefied natural gas export terminal — while relying on the B.C. Green party to stay in power.

"It would be nice if the [New Brunswick] Greens could be a little different shade and maybe look like what B.C. is doing," Higgs said.

B.C. Premier John Horgan has said his province can meet its carbon dioxide emission targets even with LNG development.

Higgs says that should prove to the New Brunswick Greens that they can support shale gas here and still tackle climate change.

Horgan's NDP won 41 seats in B.C.'s 2017 election, two fewer than the incumbent Liberals. But the NDP took office after three Green members agreed to support the party on confidence and budget votes.

B.C.'s Green leader says that doesn't mean his party supports LNG. "We've been very clear that we will support no such legislation that would enable this," Andrew Weaver said in an interview.

There is a difference

Higgs said despite that statement, the B.C. Greens are voting to keep the NDP in power, funded in part by gas revenue.

"They're quite happy to have other activities that are being paid for from this, and they're supporting the government, so I don't really know if he can make that differentiation," Higgs said.

Weaver said the difference is that with both main parties supporting LNG in British Columbia, the Greens accepted that it was going ahead and backed the party most willing to develop a real climate plan.

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That ended up being the NDP, and Weaver says he's "cautiously optimistic" that B.C. can meet aggressive emissions targets even with LNG development, depending on the scale of the industry.

"I don't know where the premier of New Brunswick is getting his information from," Weaver said.
Higgs said last fall that he was working most closely with the Alliance because it was the first to promise to vote with his party to keep the government in power.

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Romney says Trump 'has not risen to the mantle of the office' in scathing op-ed

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Don King

No derogatory hyperbole is sufficient in describing Trump. He is beneath words.

David R. Amos

@Don King Methinks it would not be wise to believe any of their words N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-romney-twitter-endorsement-1.4542691

"President Donald Trump is endorsing Mitt Romney in Utah's Senate race, another sign that the two Republicans are burying the hatchet after a fraught relationship."

John Sollows

Mitt Romney was a good Governor and while I'm glad Obama won in 2012, made some valid criticisms during the campaign.

While I strongly disagree with some of his political philosophy, he does care about the country. Trump cares about himself, and his bullying will work only in the short term. In the long run, he is making enemies and destroying the credibility of the country. That will cost the U.S., bigly.

David R. Amos

@John Sollows "Mitt Romney was a good Governor"

Methinks Trump and legions of others know why I strongly disagree N'esy Pas?

  

Neil Gregory

You know that things are bad when even right-wing Republicans like Romney, are expressing disappointment in Trump.

David R. Amos

@Neil Gregory Methinks Trump should ask Romney why I was suing the Attorney General of Massachusetts months before he became its Governor N'esy Pas?

 

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David R. Amos

@David R. Amos Methinks the US District Court date stamp of December 12th, 2002 on page 134 of this old file easily proves what I say is true about Romney knowing everything before he was sworn in as the Governor of Massachusetts N'esy Pas?

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Romney says Trump 'has not risen to the mantle of the office' in scathing op-ed

Ex-governor vows to speak out against words or actions that are ‘racist, sexist, anti-immigrant'

The Associated Press· Posted: Jan 02, 2019 5:56 AM ET

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mitt Romney speaks during a debate with Democratic opponent Jenny Wilson in Cedar City, Utah, on Oct. 9. The Utah senator-elect has penned an op-ed that is highly critical of U.S. President Donald Trump. (James M. Dobson/The Spectrum via Associated Press)

Days away from joining the Senate's Republican majority, senator-elect Mitt Romney broadly criticized U.S. President Donald Trump's policies and character and argued that the president "has not risen to the mantle of the office."

"With the nation so divided, resentful and angry, presidential leadership in qualities of character is indispensable," the Utah Republican and 2012 presidential nominee wrote in a Washington Post op-ed posted online Tuesday night. "And it is in this province where the incumbent's shortfall has been most glaring."

Romney's biting public assessment came as Trump and Senate Republicans faced a new governing dynamic. Republicans on Thursday will cede control of the House to Democrats, who were prepared to oppose Trump on a number of policies and promised a slew of investigations into his actions and those of his aides and campaign officials, particularly with regard to Russia's election meddling.
Trump responded to the criticism in a tweet early Wednesday.

Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrump

Here we go with Mitt Romney, but so fast! Question will be, is he a Flake? I hope not. Would much prefer that Mitt focus on Border Security and so many other things where he can be helpful. I won big, and he didn’t. He should be happy for all Republicans. Be a TEAM player & WIN!

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8:53 AM - Jan 2, 2019

Trump's warning shot referred to retiring Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, who has been Trump's most consistent critic among Senate Republicans. As he and other critics leave Congress, it is an open question who — if anyone — will take up the role of publicly criticizing a president who remains popular with Republican voters.

Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, had criticized Trump before — notably, in a March 2016 speech he called Trump a "fraud" and opposed his bid for the Republican nomination — but later he made peace with the president-elect and even expressed interest in joining his administration.

He has also accepted Trump's endorsements twice — during his unsuccessful 2012 presidential campaign, and during his Senate race last year.

Trump greets Romney, then a Republican presidential candidate, after announcing his endorsement of Romney in Las Vegas in February 2012. (Julie Jacobson/Associated Press)

Romney's rebuke of Trump drew a cutting reply from Brad Parscale, Trump's campaign manager. In a tweet Tuesday night, Parscale said Romney "lacked the ability to save this nation" and contended that Trump "has saved it."

"Jealously is a drink best served warm and Romney just proved it," Parscale wrote. "So sad, I wish everyone had the courage [Trump] had."

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel also criticized Romney on Twitter, calling his essay an "attack" on Trump that was "disappointing and unproductive." McDaniel is Romney's niece.

'Glaring' shortfall

In the column, Romney offered approval of Trump's corporate tax policies and efforts to cut regulations, appoint conservative judges and other "policies mainstream Republicans have promoted for years. But policies and appointments are only a part of a presidency."

"To a great degree, a presidency shapes the public character of the nation," Romney said. He later added: "With the nation so divided, resentful and angry, presidential leadership in qualities of character is indispensable. And it is in this province where the incumbent's shortfall has been most glaring."

While saying Trump's early administration appointments had been encouraging, Romney added that, "on balance, his conduct over the past two years, particularly his actions this month, is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle of the office."

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In describing a "deep descent" by the Trump presidency in December, Romney cited the departures of Defence Secretary Jim Mattis and White House chief of staff John Kelly and what he called the appointment of people of lesser experience, the abandonment of allies, and Trump's "thoughtless claim that America has long been a 'sucker' in world affairs."

Looking ahead, Romney wrote that he would act as he would with any president from either party in the White House, supporting policies he believes are in the best interest of the country and his state, and opposing those that are not. He said he didn't intend to comment on every tweet or fault.

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"But I will speak out against significant statements or actions that are divisive, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, dishonest or destructive to democratic institutions," he said.

Romney will be sworn in as a senator on Thursday.

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How the upcoming federal byelections could make history

 

1187 Comments

  

Gerry Ferguson

With Jagmeet Singh as leader the NDP will be obliterared this fall. The best thing for their party would be if he loses the byelection, the party dumps him as leader, and they get someone who is electable to take over.

John Dirlik

@Gerry Ferguson

A merger between the NDP and the Green Party may provide the only prospect for a realistic shot at governing.

Johny Ng

@Gerry Ferguson Trudeau wants Bernier to do well and Singh not to, Liberals do better when there is division, as it can easily be seen amongst Canadians since they were elected

William Weston

@Johny Ng
Will we ever return to referring to parties as parties rather than branding them with the name of the front man?
Did that start with Ronald of McDonald’s fame?

Arlond Lynds

@Gerry Ferguson
He may well have saved the country from another Conservative debacle. Imagine the "Scheer Government™", scary.

Neil Gregory

@John Dirlik

The NDP and the Greens seem to be getting along in BC. I'll bet money that if they would co-operate federally, they would both do much better in next fall's election.

Neil Gregory

@Johny Ng

"Liberals do better when there is division."

Yes, they do, and the divisions within the right-wing Conservative Party of Canada generally create enough division to satisfy their need.

Neil Gregory

@Arlond Lynds

A Scheer government sounds like the stuff of a Hollywood horror movie, but this would be real. Scheer could make both Ford and Trump look good.

James Holden

@Johny Ng

More Conservative projection.
Conservatives only get elected through fear and division.

Rick Green

@Neil Gregory

"The NDP and the Greens seem to be getting along in BC. I'll bet money that if they would co-operate federally, they would both do much better in next fall's election."

The NDP would gain one green seat and a power struggle would ensue.

Rick Green

@Neil Gregory

"A Scheer government sounds like the stuff of a Hollywood horror movie" 

Why?

Art Rowe

@John Dirlik
Even a merger of the 2 would never lead to enough seats to form a government.
As it stands Singh is holding back the NDP and while May is an earnest leader, her party is too far removed from reality to ever be anything close to in contention.

David R. Amos

@Rick Green "Why?"

Methinks you should read the article again N'esy Pas?

"The split on the right is unlikely to be so dramatic when Maxime Bernier's People's Party contests the upcoming byelections — the former Conservative MP's party is still languishing at single-digits in the polls. But the PPC doesn't need a significant amount of support to have a real impact on Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer's chances of becoming prime minister in the next federal election."

Art Rowe

@Rick Green
Why? because who would elect a party with NO POLICIES and only promises of policies "coming".
Mr. Smiley Face is leading the Cons to yet another defeat.

David R. Amos

@Johny Ng "Trudeau wants Bernier to do well and Singh not to,"

I agree

 Robert Roode

I have voted NDP many times,voted for mulcair in the last election but most likely will vote liberal this time to keep the cons out,i suspect mant NDP voters will be doing the same.

Milloy Johnson

@Robert Roode

So you would rather vote in proven and embarrassing incompetence then give Conservatives a chance just because you are buying the "back to the 50s" nonsense?

David R. Amos

@Milloy Johnson Methinks the Conservatives had their chance under Harper N'esy Pas?

 

Buford Wilson

I’m seeing a blue Conservative wave rolling across the country. From coast to coast to coast.

Jane Madison

@Buford Wilson Yeah, wondering about that too but there's no crystal ball. Look how quickly the Ontario Liberals got pitched out. We'll see. They'll probably soften the carbon tax blow especially in an election year and be prepared for a goody bag to open.

David R. Amos

@Buford Wilson Dream on

David R. Amos

@Jane Madison Methinks crystal ball or not it would be quite a hoot if Jay Shin defeated his fellow lawyer Jagmeet Singh N'esy Pas?

  

Johny Ng

Canada has had enough of this Trudeau parade of fiascos, his party is done come October

mo bennett

@Johny Ng what? so ya can have an ambulance chaser instead? smart, like a bag of hammers.

Glenn Carducci

@mo bennett The moment you discover that emotion and thought are not the same thing, will be a monumental day for you.

Ryder Pures

@Johny Ng

Hooray for your side.

Neil Gregory

@Johny Ng

Replacing Trudeau's fiascos with Scheer's fiascos, doesn't sound like much of an option to me.

mo bennett

@Glenn Carducci it's always fun to watch the supporters of inept incompetence ID and convict themselves in one simple sentence.

Jane Madison

@Johny Ng Hope so. Just don't know if we have alternative, effective leadership for these times. Time will tell.

David R. Amos

@Johny Ng Methinks it would not be wise to bet the farm on your opinion N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos

@mo bennett YO MO Welcome Back to the Circus

 

John Dirlik

Whether under Conservatives or Liberals, Canada’s voting record at the UN speaks volumes.

Ottawa (alongside a couple of American protectorates like Micronesia, Palau and Marshal Islands) consistently votes alongside the US and Israel against the entire world.

This needs to change. Though I am not optimistic, considering the character (or lack thereof) of today’s politicians.

I remember Joe Clark Conservative) being booed and heckled at a Canadian Jewish Congress event after he brought up Israel’s abuses during the first Palestinian uprising. Can anyone imagine a politician doing that today?

Clark calmly looked at his audience and said: “It has been my experience that denying reality does not change reality”.

That took courage. Principles. And ethics. Qualities sorely lacking in our current batch of spineless and lacklustre politicians.

David R. Amos

@John Dirlik "That took courage. Principles. And ethics. Qualities sorely lacking in our current batch of spineless and lacklustre politicians"

I Wholeheartedly Agree Sir

  

Frank Hammerschmidt

The Liberals have cornered the far left market leaving the NDP out in the cold and irrelevant.

David R. Amos

@Frank Hammerschmidt YUP

 

Paul Pedersen

Singh was a colossal mistake on every level. His performance to date, or rather lack thereof, and the questionable judgment on too many issues proves that. The challenges he faces just getting elected even when cherry picking a riding underscores how the NDP is going absolutely nowhere with him as leader.

David R. Amos

@Paul Pedersen I concur

 

Rod Begin

Everything is always bad for the Conservatives but good for the Liberals, isn’t it rather odd what a $1 billion taxpayer funded media and now subsidized for another 1/2 billion does to your reporting prejudices!

David R. Amos

@Rod Begin Methinks everything political is always about the money Nesy Pas?

 

ArtMuler

Real NDP supporters who live in this riding may well vote against Jagmeet Singh out of party loyalty, because the want the NDP to get new leadership before the next election.

David R. Amos

@ArtMuler Methinks many would agree that would be wise N'esy Pas?

 

Jerry Beam

Traditional NDP will not vote for Singh

Neil Gregory

@Jerry Beam

What is the traditional NDP? I consider myself to be much closer to the left-wing policies of the old CCF than to the watered down socialism of the current NDP. As far as I am concerned, the NDP abandoned its socialist roots years and years ago.

James Holden

@Neil Gregory

The NDP's Quebec base is dwindling.
The non Christian accoutrements are a red flag in Quebec.

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David R. Amos

@Neil Gregory Cry me a river

David R. Amos

@David R. Amos Oh My My

 

Barry William Teske

I just wish we could stop treating our democracy like a sport.
Lol.
Who am I kidding...
At this point in time or history (as it will be called one day), it is the highest bidders who call the shots, foreign or not.

David R. Amos

@Barry William Teske Methinks its not a sport but a rather entertaining Circus N'esy Pas?

How the upcoming federal byelections could make history

At least three byelections will be called in the coming weeks — and they could prove to be memorable

Éric Grenier· CBC News· Posted: Jan 02, 2019 4:00 AM ET 

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh will be on the ballot as his party's candidate in the upcoming byelection in Burnaby South. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press)

It's an election year in Canada. The country will head to the polls in October to render judgment on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government, either giving it a second term or sending it packing after four years in office.

But some voters will get a chance to offer their own verdicts much sooner. At least three byelections will be held in February in ridings spread across the country: York–Simcoe in Ontario, Outremont in Quebec and Burnaby–South in British Columbia. That last contest is the one NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is hoping will give him a seat in the House of Commons.

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  Justin Trudeau's byelection record puts him in the murky middle

Byelections don't always make history and, when they do, their importance often becomes clear only long afterwards. But these byelections could turn out to be significant events — by deciding the fate of a party leader, signalling the end of the NDP's orange wave, or measuring the depth of a new split in the conservative movement.

The byelection that took down a party leader

Arthur Meighen is certainly one of Canada's least illustrious prime ministers. He took over from Robert Borden, the Conservative prime minister who led the country through the First World War, for about a year before meeting defeat at the hands of W. L. Mackenzie King's Liberals in 1921. He remained at the helm of the party for another two elections, getting a second stint as prime minister in 1926.

By 1941, Canada was again at war and the Conservatives were in need of Meighen's experience. The party had been dealt another crushing defeat by King's Liberals in 1940 and convinced Meighen to step back into the job. There was only one problem: Meighen hadn't had a seat in the House of Commons for 15 years, though he did occupy a seat in the Senate. That simply would not do for the leader of Canada's opposition.

Alan Cockeram, Conservative MP for the Ontario riding of South York, dutifully stepped aside to offer Meighen a shot at his seat. It was a safe Tory riding, having voted for the party in every election since its creation in 1904.

The Liberals opted to respect parliamentary tradition and not run a candidate against an opposition leader seeking a seat in the House. But King still wanted to see Meighen defeated, and so the Liberal party threw its weight (unofficially, of course) behind Joseph Noseworthy, candidate for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.

Arthur Meighen, seen here when he was briefly prime minister in 1920, failed in his attempted return to the House of Commons as leader of the Conservatives in a 1942 byelection. (Library and Archives Canada)

Noseworthy had finished a distant third in South York in 1940. But on a snowy Feb. 9, 1942, despite having Ontario Premier Mitch Hepburn and the provincial Conservative leader, George Drew, campaigning by his side, Meighen fell short by 4,426 votes.

Immediately, questions were raised about whether Meighen could hold on as party leader. The Toronto Daily Star wrote that Meighen's "ability, his intellectual honesty and his skill as a debater" were unquestioned, but "his popular appeal is a different matter altogether."

Meighen knew he was done. And the party was moving on, adopting a far more progressive platform than Meighen could support. He successfully persuaded John Bracken, Liberal-Progressive premier of Manitoba, to take his spot. One of Bracken's conditions was that the party would add "Progressive" to its name. And so, the Progressive Conservative Party was born.

Meighen's defeat in South York in 1942 was the last time a national leader met personal defeat in a byelection. That one loss helped set the Tories' course for the next 60 years. It's one byelection precedent Singh will not be looking to repeat in 2019.

Outremont and the rise (and fall) of the NDP in Quebec

In 2007, Outremont was one of the safest Liberal ridings in the country, having backed the party in every election but one over the previous century. So when Jean Lapierre resigned his seat, Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion saw an opportunity to parachute a hand-picked star candidate, Jocelyn Coulon, into the riding.

The Liberals met an unexpected challenge from the New Democrats, who had a star candidate of their own on the ballot — Tom Mulcair, a former environment minister in Jean Charest's provincial Liberal government. It was an ambitious candidacy for the NDP, which had only one victory in Quebec to its credit over its entire history.

Still, the Liberals were feeling the heat from Mulcair's candidacy. The party brought in some big names to help bolster the floundering Dion — including Justin Trudeau, at the time known only as the son of a former prime minister.

The breakthrough by Tom Mulcair (left) in the 2007 byelection in Outremont foreshadowed the party's surge in Quebec under Jack Layton (right) in the 2011 federal election. (Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)

But the New Democrats pulled off the upset; Mulcair won nearly half the vote and outpaced Coulon by almost 20 points.

The NDP's victory didn't immediately open the floodgates for the party in Quebec. But it gave the New Democrats credibility in the province. Mulcair held the seat again in 2008 as the NDP increased its share of the popular vote in Quebec to 12.2 per cent from 7.5 per cent in 2006.

That set the groundwork for the party's breakthrough in 2011, when Mulcair was joined by 58 other NDP MPs from the province. After taking over the party's leadership following the death of Jack Layton, Mulcair was only able to hold 16 of those seats in the 2015 federal election.

For Singh, the byelection this year in Outremont risks being a disappointing bookend to the story of the NDP's rise and fall in Quebec. The polls suggest all of the party's seats in the province could be at risk in this year's federal election. The byelection in Outremont should give us a sense of just how vulnerable those seats are.

Breaking up in public

The Progressive Conservatives went from a solid majority government to just two seats in the 1993 federal election, one of the most dramatic falls from power of any party anywhere in the democratic world. That the PCs were in trouble going into that election was obvious — but the scale of the defeat still came as a shock.

Two byelections years before, however, had signalled what was to come. In 1993, the PCs were defeated in large part because the two voting blocks that helped bring them to power in 1984 — Western Canadian conservatives and Quebec nationalists — broke off to support new parties: the Reform Party under Preston Manning and the Bloc Québécois under Lucien Bouchard.

Reform entered the House of Commons for the first time after Deborah Grey won the 1989 byelection in the Alberta riding of Beaver River, taking the seat away from the PCs. The Bloc — which formed itself out of a group of floor-crossing Liberals and PCs — won its first seat when Gilles Duceppe took the 1990 byelection in Laurier–Sainte-Marie.

Reform Party leader Preston Manning and MP Deborah Grey, a few months after Grey's 1989 byelection victory in the riding of Beaver River, which gave the Reform Party its first seat in the House of Commons. (Ray Giguere/Canadian Press)

In the 1993 federal election, the PCs lost all of their seats in Alberta and retained just one in Quebec — one of two seats they held nationwide — as Reform and the Bloc won the majority of each of those province's ridings.

Ten years later, attempts to re-unite the right were galvanized by another byelection. A vacancy in the Ontario riding of Perth–Middlesex was seen as a key opportunity for the Canadian Alliance — Reform's successor — to pick up a seat and present itself as the government-in-waiting after a decade of Liberal rule. Instead, the Alliance finished third, with the PCs narrowly squeaking out a win over the Liberals.

It was the last straw for Alliance Leader Stephen Harper, convincing him that the only way for his party to defeat the Liberals was to put aside its differences with the PCs. Within seven months, the Conservative Party of Canada was created.

The split on the right is unlikely to be so dramatic when Maxime Bernier's People's Party contests the upcoming byelections — the former Conservative MP's party is still languishing at single-digits in the polls. But the PPC doesn't need a significant amount of support to have a real impact on Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer's chances of becoming prime minister in the next federal election.

For now, the main electoral course will have to wait. But in the coming weeks, Canadians will get an intriguing appetizer in these byelections — a taste of what's to come in October's federal election.

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Éric Grenier

Politics and polls

Éric Grenier is a senior writer and the CBC's polls analyst. He was the founder of ThreeHundredEight.com and has written for The Globe and Mail, Huffington Post Canada, The Hill Times, Le Devoir, and L’actualité.

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Steve Roberge out as head of police watchdog

New Brunswick Police Commission declines comment, calling Roberge's departure a 'human resources matter'

Karissa Donkin· CBC News· Posted: Jan 02, 2019 6:38 PM AT

Steve Roberge is no longer executive director of the New Brunswick Police Commission as of Wednesday, the commission confirmed. (CBC)

The province's independent police watchdog has had a change at the top.

New Brunswick Police Commission executive director Steve Roberge "is no longer employed by the Province of New Brunswick" as of Wednesday, the commission confirmed.

"The commission will not comment any further as this is a human resources matter," acting executive director Jill Whalen wrote in an emailed statement.

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Roberge's departure comes less than a week after the association representing municipal police officers called for his removal, calling him a "dictator" who is "anti-police officer."

The New Brunswick Police Association has been critical of the way the commission, under Roberge's leadership, handled investigations into police officers.

That includes a Police Act investigation into former Saint John deputy police chief Glen McCloskey's conduct during the first Dennis Oland trial.

"The issue here, it's the mentality of this person who has an abusive, authoritarian way of trying to operate up there," association executive director Bob Davidson said.

He described McCloskey as a "casualty of this mentality."

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"We do not want any more officers into this situation where he can destroy them," Davidson said.
CBC News was not able to reach Roberge last week to respond to the association's comments.

Attempts to reach him on Wednesday have also been unsuccessful.

Commission breached privacy

The commission has asked Public Safety Minister Carl Urquhart "to appoint an independent third party" to look into the association's allegations "on the commission's processes and procedures," the commission said in a statement.

"The commission will fully co-operate with this process and is committed to continually reviewing the way it provides quality services to citizens and the police community and meets its mandate with integrity and impartiality."

It's not clear whether that review will look at a privacy breach involving McCloskey.

Glen McCloskey, former deputy police chief in Saint John, speaks at a news conference held last week by the New Brunswick Police Association. (Roger Cosman/CBC)

The commission was found to have "breached [McCloskey's] privacy on two instances by disclosing his personal information to the [Oland trial] Crown Prosecutors and the Defence Team on July 4 and 12, 2017," according to a December report from Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes.

McCloskey's personal information was contained in the New Brunswick Police Commission file in relation to the Police Act complaint against McCloskey, the report says.

 The report doesn't specify what kind of personal information was disclosed. McCloskey filed a complaint, which prompted Deschênes's investigation.

"As with any case of a violation of privacy, we, unfortunately, cannot turn back the clock to prevent the breach from occurring," Deschênes wrote in his decision.

He did not make any recommendations arising out of his findings.

Roberge hired in 2014

Last week wasn't the first time the association has called for Roberge's removal.

The association threatened legal action against the commission in 2016 over comments Roberge made about the association.

The association and the watchdog group also clashed over high-profile Police Act investigations that ultimately led to Fredericton police officers losing their jobs.

The commission, an "independent civilian oversight body," is responsible for managing the "public complaints process into the conduct" of municipal and regional police officers in the province.

Roberge, a former RCMP officer, reported to a government-appointed commission in his role as executive director.

He'd been in the job since 2014.

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Karissa Donkin

Karissa Donkin is a journalist in CBC's Atlantic investigative unit. Do you have a story you want us to investigate? Send your tips to NBInvestigates@CBC.ca.

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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Roberge, Steve (NBPC/CPNB)"<Steve.Roberge@gnb.ca>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 18:29:04 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks whereas l'honorable Mélanie Joly
dans ses fonctions de ministre fédérale des langues officielles et de
la Francophonie I should ask her opinion of my ENGLISH ONLY Barring
Document N'esy Pas Danny Boy Bussieres?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>


Je serais absent du 20 au 26 octobre. Veuillez vous addresser a Jill
Whalen si votre requete est urgente.

I will be away from October 20 to 26. Please contact Jill Whalen if
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http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2015/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html

Friday, 18 September 2015

David Raymond Amos Versus The Crown T-1557-15

                                                                                             Court File No. T-1557-15

FEDERAL COURT

BETWEEN:                      

DAVID RAYMOND AMOS

                                                                                                  Plaintiff

and

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN

                                                                                                  Defendant

STATEMENT OF CLAIM

The Facts of this Matter

25.  The Plaintiff states that on June 24, 2004 within minutes of his being barred, the Sergeant-at-Arms, two members of the FPF and one Commissionaire witnessed him deliver a large number of documents to the attention of two lawyers in the office of the opposition next door. He suspects that the Sergeant-at-Arms read at least the cover letter when his documents were in his care because to support his right to bar a citizen in front two members of the FPF he falsely accused the Plaintiff of attempting to serve documents while in the legislative building.

26.  The Plaintiff states that within the hour of being barred, the Plaintiff visited the headquarters of the FPF and attempted to meet with its Chief in order to discuss the false allegations and the threat of arrest. Whereas a Corporal denied access to his Chief, the Plaintiff contacted the City Solicitor of Fredericton because he knew him personally in younger days. After waiting one week for someone to get back to him, the Plaintiff visited the constituency office of the Premier and the law office of a former Premier of NB and gave them many documents with the same cover letter addressing his concern about being barred from the legislative properties amongst other issues. One month later the Attorney General of NB sent an answer similar to what the Deputy Prime Minister sent eight months earlier telling him to take up his concerns with the police and ignored the issue of a citizen being barred and threatened by the police. A lawyer acting as the NB Ombudsman did not wish deal with the government on his behalf suggested that the Plaintiff take up his concerns with the New Brunswick Police Commission (NBPC) and introduced them. The Plaintiff, his wife and a lawyer met with the NBPC. The NBPC acknowledged the complaint and asked the FPF to investigate their questionable actions. In the eleven years since the NBPC never responded and the Plaintiff knows why. The NBPC and Governor General have many of his documents and one is a letter to the Commissioner of the RCMP. The Plaintiff is well aware the Chair of the NBPC in 2004 was also the Chief Coroner whom he testified before on July 15, 1982 and he clearly informed the Crown he assisted in a successful civil lawsuit against the RCMP about a wrongful death. 

27.  The Plaintiff states that the Sergeant-at-Arms, two Commissionaires, a librarian, and two members of the FPF knew that the Plaintiff was in legislative assembly on June 24, 2004 looking for the “blogger” Charles Leblanc.  While the Plaintiff was waiting for Charles Leblanc to arrive that day he exercised his democratic right to witness the proceedings of the Legislative Assembly from the gallery.

28.  The Plaintiff states that apparently a friend of the Crown put a new spin on this matter the following day. The Crown’s corporate media has never said anything about the Crown’s malicious actions barring him it has had lots to say about the barring the blogger Charles Leblanc two years later and it has made the arrests and prosecutions of him well known. On June 25, 2004 Charles Leblanc a well-known friend of the MLAs, the Sergeant-at-Arms, the Commissionaires, the RCMP and the Fredericton Police Force falsely reported in the social media that the Plaintiff had been “shown the door”claiming that he had attempted to interrupt the proceedings in the Legislature by speaking from the gallery. The Crown knows if that were true it would have been recorded in the legislative records. The words of Charles Leblanc an important witness to be called to testify as to what he knows about this matter are as follows

       “IS ELVY ROBICHAID SEEING THE LIGHT????
        by Charles LeBlanc Friday, Jun. 25, 2004 at 10:56 AM
        Fredericton updates from Charles  

 “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!”

29.  The Plaintiff states that he was not surprised that for the benefit of his political opponents, servants of the Crown would practice such malice against a citizen seeking public office. Three weeks before the Plaintiff was barred in 2004 Elections Canada’s lawyers waited until the very last minute to admit that section 3 of the Charterexisted and that it affirmed his right to run as an Independent.

30.  The Plaintiff states that he has studied the actions of journalists, politicians and their lawyers for many years and has argued many. He has no doubt that during the time of a federal election the Crown would not have barred any member of a wealthy well known political party from any parliamentary property in Canada without dealing with a Charter argument in court and a host of journalists almost immediately. With that in mind the Plaintiff gathered the evidence to support this claim and waited until the CBC reported that the Prime Minister had asked the Governor General to drop a writ. Now history tells us all that the writ has been dropped early in order for the Prime Minister to cause the most expensive and one of the longest federal elections in the history of Canada on a date mandated by a law that his wealthy political party created for its benefit. Now that the stock markets are in a turmoil again the Office of the Inspector General of the SEC is acknowledging the Plaintiff’s emails but only after they were made aware that he received an ethical answer from a global organization that oversees auditors. Recent events have proven to the Plaintiff that it is important that he file this action in Federal Court as soon as possible in order see if the Harer government wishes to continue barring him from parliamentary property before polling day.

31.  The Plaintiff states that during the election of the 38^th Parliament not one of the employees of the CBC denied the fact that it had acted in a deliberate partisan fashion and ignored the Crown Corporation’s mandate. CBC reported that there were five candidates on the ballot in Fundy but failed to name the Plaintiff in their website or on the television and the radio. Nothing surprised the Plaintiff about the actions of the CBC but they should not have laughed at him when he pointed out other citizens should be afforded equal opportunity to hear of him. 

32.  The Plaintiff states that many politicians knew that the CBC had hard copy of two lawsuits of his since 2002 and their journalists had been laughing at him for two years. It was a profound mistake for CBC to ignore his candidacynow that he did as he promised in a statement of one lawsuit and was running for public office in Canada. As CBC continued serving the interests of the politicians who provided the funding sourced from the Canadian taxpayer other citizens noticed that the CBC was ignoring his candidacy. One journalist who had laughed at him called back and tried to make a deal after the Plaintiff had called the Ombudsman for CBC complaining of him and his associates only to be laughed at some more and invited to sue CBC. CBC continued to ignore the Plaintiff even though the popular former CBC reporter Mike Duffy was now employed by their largest corporate competitor, CTV and they claimed Fundy was a riding to watch and at least three newspapers and even the CBC’s blogger friend Charles Leblanc had chosen to put his strange spin the actions and words of the Plaintiff while calling him a Hells Angel. However, the aforementioned CBC journalist did not keep his job very long after his boss and three directors of CBC received the very same documents and CD that the Plaintiff’s political opponents had in their possession. (The former CBC journalist did get a job with the government of NB and has continued with his obvious malice ever since)

33.  The Plaintiff states that the CBC would not have ignored its mandate and the standing of a candidate if he or she were a member of the Liberal Party or the newly merged Conservative parties or the Bloc Quebecois Party or the Green Party or the New Democratic Party without expecting to deal with legions of lawyers. CBC had no legal right whatsoever to ignore the Plaintiff merely because he was an Independent. In fact the mandate of CBC as a publicly owned broadcaster dictates that he must not be ignored whether he be a member of a powerful political party or not. With regards to this complaint, on June 24, 2004 there were many journalists inside the legislative properties of NB not just CBC. They published nothing about the Plaintiff of his running for public office or his being barred or even after their blogger friend, Charles Leblanc certainly did.

34.  The Plaintiff states that in June of 2006 Charles Leblanc was also barred from the same legislative properties but not the Public Documents Building on the UNB campus. More importantly the Sergeant-at-Arms was clever enough not to sign or date the English only document this time. Thus Charles Leblanc who usually demands things in French from the government when he is in trouble was never barred at all. The CBC immediately reported the barring of Charles Leblanc falsely claiming that the Sergeant-at-Arms had signed the Barring Notice. CBC wrote the Sergeant-at-Arms admitted that he had barred about six others but did not disclose as to who they were. CBC did not ask who who the other citizens were because they knew they would have to name the Plaintiff as well. Many people have protested the barring of Charles Leblanc and a petition to have it revoked was placed in the public record of the legislative assembly to no avail. In 2006 Charles Leblanc was arrested in Saint John and in 2011 in Fredericton. In 2009 and 2012 the FPF arrested their blogging friend Charles Leblanc on the legislative properties. The CBC reported each time but failed to follow up and investigate and report why the Crown refused to charge Charles Leblanc in both instances. The CBC knows that as soon as the Plaintiff contacted the politicians and police to remind them that he would appreciate being called to testify at Charles Leblanc’s trial as a hostile but ethical witness about the barring actions of the Crown it would never go forward with the charges. Leblanc was arrested by the FPF two other times in recent years and he is on trial right now. The CBC knows the Plaintiff has talked to members of the RCMP, the FPF, the Saint John Police Force, the Miramichi Police Force and the Edmundston Police Force who were investigating Leblanc for various reasons since 2006. The police usually denied knowing who the Plaintiff was as they refused to answer his emails. The Plaintiff knows the reason why Charles Leblanc was barred from legislative property. He agrees with the Crown doing so but it failed to allow the nasty blogger the right to due process of law just like it did with and several others. He has never understood why the Crown has not charged Leblanc under sections 300 and 319of the Criminal Code in lieu of arresting him for protesting too loudly or possible child porn or trespass or punching an equally nasty poetic beggar. 

35.  The Plaintiff states that by the end of November of 2004 a lawyer in the employ of the Attorney General of NB had answered him in writing and the FPF, two lawyers, the Mayor and a city councilor of Fredericton had some very serious email exchanges with the Plaintiff.  The only responses to the Plaintiff about the breach of his right to peaceful assembly came from the (NBPC) on September 14, 2004 acknowledging his complaint (File no 2110-04-11) and two letters byway of email from the FPF. On September 30, 2004 a Staff Sergeant of the FPF wrote that he was in possession of the complaint and requested evidence to support the Plaintiff’s statement that he had been barred from the legislative properties for “political reasons not legal reasons” The Plaintiff responded and suggested that the FPF listen to the tape of the interview he had with the NBPC and study all the evidence he gave to the NBPC in the presence of a lawyer as a witness. The Staff Sergeant responded on October 29, 2004 stating that he had detailed reports from fellow members of the FPF and he had interviewed the Sergeant-at-Arms. He claimed that his fellow police officers acted appropriately and he would inform the Chief of the FPF that he did not have sufficient cause under the Police Actto investigate the complaint the Plaintiff registered with the NBPC against the FPF. The Plaintiff pointed out that the conflict of interest but grateful the FPF acknowledged the incident. The Mayor of Fredericton found no humour in that fact and sent the Plaintiff many emails within minutes no doubt in an effort to overload his email account. In 2003 the Plaintiff had demanded the Crown investigate the actions of RCMP now the RCMP should do the same with the Crown because that para-military police force has jurisdiction everywhere in Canada including all public and private property controlled by the Crown even military bases. The words of the Sergeant-at-Arms, Commissionaires and police were witnessed by only the Plaintiff. A legal action about their offences against his rights under the Charter would boil down to their word against his. Evidence was required because he was outnumbered and attacked by people the Crown employed to understand the law. It was doubtful they would act ethically and until June 16, 2006 the Crown refused to put anything in writing to prove this claim about the fact that the Plaintiff is barred from parliamentary properties. 

36.  The Plaintiff states that the Crown is aware that far greater offences have been practiced within the Capital District of NB by the FPF and the RCMP against the Plaintiff. Many servants of the Crown have challenged him to seek relief in a Canadian provincial court. The Plaintiff will not oblige Crown attorneys of thier desires he will file in a court of a country at a time he chooses. Time is on the Plaintiff’s side even though he getting old and was finally allowed to collect his Canada Pension. His children and grandchildren are still very young. Whatever was done against the Plaintiff was done against his Clan as well. All of the Plaintiff’s heirs are Canadian citizens and two of them are American citizens as well. The Crown, INTERPOL and the American law enforcement authorities cannot deny that there is no statute of limitations on certain crimes. The problem the Plaintiff is finding an ethical journalist to report about the legal actions that he and the Crown have already been involved in since 1982.

37.  The Plaintiff states that in October of 2004 if the Staff Sergeant of the FPF had listened to the tape of his interview with the NBPC and studied the documents they have in their possession he would not have been so quick to dismiss the Plaintiff and his concerns in such a fashion. Their many lawyers hardly ever allow corrupt police officers to admit that the Plaintiff exists or put their malice towards him in writing. The Plaintiff had explained to the NBPC what transpired on June 24^th, 2004. To explain briefly the police should have known instantly the Sergeant-at-Arms actions were for political reasons as soon as he turned in the guest pass and picked up his documents as he stepped outside the building. While the Plaintiff was inside the legislative building he spoke to only three employees two Commissionaires and the librarian. He did not interfere with the proceedings in the House as he watched the MLAs and their assistants from the gallery, some of whom he knew personally. He did notice political pundits in the building. One Cabinet Minister’s assistant had been following him for a couple of days. His political foes wanted him off the property immediately but they knew that he was not shy of litigation if the Crown attempted to place a malicious charge against him. Therefore they elected the Sergeant-at-Arms to try bully the Plaintiff.

38.  The Plaintiff states that he satisfied himself as to the reasons behind the blatant malice once he asked Sergeant-at-Arms and the police three questions as follows:

(1)     The Plaintiff first asked was why he was being barred from the legislative property. The Sergeant-at-Arms falsely claimed in front of the police that the Plaintiff had tried to serve documents on somebody inside the parliamentary building. The Commissionaires and police knew that was untrue because they all witnessed the fact that the Plaintiff had left all the documents in his possession with the Commissionaire at the entrance before he was allowed into the building and they all watched him pick up the same documents as he turned in a visitor’s pass after he was asked to step outside of the building.

(2)     The second question was to the police to see if they agreed to the false claim of the Sergeant-at-Arms and if they would identify themselves. After the Sergeant-at-Arms said something quickly in French and both police officers stated that they agreed with him but only one would state his name and rank.

(3)     The Plaintiff then asked the Sergeant-at-Arms and the police if they thought they had jurisdiction over him. They all said yes but refused to take any documents from the Plaintiff just as the Deputy Prime Minister suggested.

39.  The Plaintiff states that three people who were mentioned during the aforesaid meeting with the NBPC were Charles Leblanc, Byron Prior and the most wanted American gangster Whitey Bulger. All three were well aware of the Plaintiff and his actions. More importantly the NBPC were made well aware of the RCMP’s knowledge of his possession of many American police surveillance wiretap tapes. The NBPC were shown the very same tapes that he had promised to give to the Suffolk County District Attorney in the Dorchester District Court of Boston Massachusetts before a hearing to discuss an illegal summons to answer a malicious unsigned criminal complaint (Docket no. 0407CR004623). When the Plaintiff did so he was falsely imprisoned under the charges of “other”.

40.  The Plaintiff states that an NBPC Commissioner did ask if they should take the original wiretap tapes. The Plaintiff said no and that the RCMP already had some but the NBPC could make copies of the ones before them. The NBPC declined and said they did not have jurisdiction over the RCMP and that they only wished to investigate why the FPF had threatened to arrest him on June 24^th, 2004.

41.  The Plaintiff states that read a few legal actions involving the NBPC. He truly believes that NBPC has a mandate to oversee the actions of the RCMP in the employ of municipalities and the government of NB. On April 12, 2013 an employee denied that the NBPC it has any concerns with the RCMP, so he forwarded the NBPC a judgment with an important statement. Whenever he called the NBPC afterwards she did not allow him to speak to anyone and denied receiving any emails even though several were published on the Internet. The judgment pertains to Miramichi Agricultural Exhibition Association Ltd. v. Chatham (Town) 1995 CanLII 3862 (NB QB). The statement reads as follows: 

                                                      

“Section 20 of the Police Act authorizes the Police Commission to assess the adequacy of each police force and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and determine whether each municipality and the Province is discharging its responsibility for the maintenance of an adequate level of policing.”

42.  The Plaintiff states that in 2014 a confidential letter from the lawyer who is now the chair of the NBPC was published by Charles Leblanc. Within the aforesaid letter by a lawyer who was an officer in the Canadian Forces when the Plaintiff was illegally barred in 2004 explained why he and some other unnamed lawyers claimed that the Chief of the FPF and the NBPC did not have jurisdiction over the legislative properties in order to investigate the wrongs of the members of FPF under the Police Act. The lawyers claimed that whereas the police were acting under the orders of the Sergeant-at-Arms the immunity afforded them by parliamentary privilege would be undermined if the Chief of the FPF and the NBPC upheld the law and the Charter. 

43.  The Plaintiff states that as soon as he read the aforesaid letter he had a deeper understanding as to why the NBPC and the FPF had ignored his concerns for ten years and have refused to answer hard copy or an email or even come to the phone or return a call for ten years. He did manage to talk the lawyer who wrote the letter. The lawyer just like another lawyer who was the Chair of the NBPC since 2004 was offended that the Plaintiff would dare to call his law office instead of the NBPC. They both knew the reason was because every time he called the NBPC, the Commissioners and their executive directors were never available. They definitely did not return calls or answer emails from the Plaintiff. The assistant who had denied receiving any emails during his last conversation with her in May of 2015 said that NBPC was never going to talk to him again. It appears the NBPC believe that parliamentary privileges extend to them as well. Whether or not that is true the NBPC must agree that the RCMP have no civilian oversight whatsoever and that it is the only police force that has jurisdiction to investigate the actions of the Crown on parliamentary properties, the Canadian Forces and their semi-retired cohorts within the Corps of Commissionaires. It appears to the Plaintiff that the NBPC will not investigate the RCMP and in return the RCMP will not investigate them. However, they do report to the Crown and the Crown answers to the citizens it purportedly serves and protects.

44.  The Plaintiff states that claimed parliamentary privileges of public officials are not above the rule of law just because some unnamed lawyers deem it to be so. Some of the privileges parliamentarians lay claim to cannot be found in the Constitution or any other Act. They are implied by longstanding parliamentary traditions and seldom challenged in a court of law.

45.  The Plaintiff states that claimed parliamentary privileges must not be exercised secretly by the Crown against a citizen of an open and just democracy because he visited parliamentary properties while exercising his rights under the Charter and attempting to unseat its political friends. He vividly recalls the last encounter with the Sergeant-at-Arms that caused the Crown to create a “Barring Notice”.

46.  The Plaintiff states that on or about March 24^th, 2006 he went to the Office of the Conflict of Interest Commissioner of NB to give him the same documents he had promised the Commissioner of Federal Judicial Affairs, the Clerk of the Privy Council, Independent MP Andre Arthur, Independent MLA Tanker O’Malley and many others. The Commissionaire guarding door would not allow him in the building or take the documents. The Sergeant-at-Arms must have been notified because he was soon to appear and threatened to have the Plaintiff arrested again. He asked why this time. The Sergeant-at-Arms said he had already been warned to stay off legislative property. The Plaintiff pointed out the fact that he was not on the legislative property across the street but if the Crown wished to press false charges against him the police should be called then he would look forward to arguing the Sergeant-at-Arms in a court of law. The Sergeant-at-Arms claimed that they were standing on parliamentary property but did not call the police.

47.  The Plaintiff states that he then informed the Sergeant-at-Arms if he thought he had a legal right to bar a citizen from parliamentary properties he should have the Crown put the reasons to do so in writing just like the NBPC had demanded of him when he complained of the Sergeant-at-Arms and the FPF about their malevolent actions against him two years before. There was no response from the Sergeant-at-Arms to that simple statement.

48.  The Plaintiff states that he then asked the Sergeant-at-Arms in front of witnesses if he still thought he had jurisdiction over him on King Street and the response was yes. So the Plaintiff gave him the documents and a CD destined for the Conflict of Interest Commissioner and demanded an answer in writing. The Sergeant-at-Arms took the documents but refused to sign a receipt for them. He tried to take picture but the Sergeant-at-Arms crossed King Street and around the corner too quickly. The Plaintiff received no answer from Conflict of Interest Commissioner about his concerns. He called and emailed a copy of the cover letter to the Commissioner’s office to see if it received his documents and was ignored. The Commissionaire watching that day knows who took the documents.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/police-association-being-bullied-in-misappropriation-probe-says-president-1.3135944

Police Association being 'bullied' in misappropriation probe, says president

Dean Secord has called lawyer about concerns with Police Commission investigator in Fredericton officer case

Redmond Shannon· CBC News· Posted: Jul 02, 2015 7:12 PM AT

The president of the New Brunswick Police Association alleges his members are being "bullied" by an investigator, who is looking into allegations that a Fredericton police officer misappropriated funds from the association while a member of its executive.

The New Brunswick Police Association decided not to file a criminal complaint against the Fredericton police officer after he paid an undisclosed amount of money to the association. (Daniel McHardie/CBC) 

Dean Secord says he has contacted a lawyer about his concerns regarding the investigator, who is working on behalf of the New Brunswick Police Commission (NBPC) — a police oversight body.

"We are more than willing to co-operate and we want to co-operate to put this matter behind us, but we are not going to be intimidated or bullied to give statements," said Secord, speaking on behalf of the NBPA, a lobby group representing police officers at the provincial level.

"[This investigator is] demanding certain items and we have a concern with his demeanour in the way he's demanding this," he said.

Law enforcement obligated to co-operate 

The NBPC has been contacted by a lawyer, confirmed executive director Steve Roberge. But he contends it was pertaining to evidence connected to the investigation.

Roberge expects the investigation, which was sparked by a conduct complaint about the unnamed officer by Fredericton Police Chief Leanne Fitch, should be complete in less than six months.

"Our investigator will interview all members of the NBPA executive, and if they are law enforcement personnel, then they are obligated, under the Police Act, to co-operate," he said.

Secord says he still hasn't been contacted by the investigator. "And I'm the president."

Last month, Secord said the NBPA would not be filing a criminal complaint against the accused member, who is currently suspended from the Fredericton Police Force with pay.

Secord said the decision was taken after the officer paid an amount of money to the NBPA. The paid amount is not necessarily the amount allegedly misappropriated, he said.

The jurisdiction for any criminal investigation would rest with the RCMP, because the officer lives outside the city of Fredericton, Secord said. The RCMP have refused to comment on the matter.

​The NBPC says possible sanctions against an officer it finds guilty of wrongdoing can range from a verbal reprimand to dismissal.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/mike-cook-fraud-1.4627270

Suspended Fredericton officer pleads guilty to defrauding police association

Const. Michael Cook faced 2 charges, related to fraud and theft, but has only entered 1 plea so far

Joseph Tunney· CBC News· Posted: Apr 20, 2018 4:00 AM AT 

Police Chief Leanne Fitch initially filed a conduct complaint almost three years ago against an unidentified police officer, who she suspended with pay. (Facebook)

A suspended Fredericton Police Force officer has pleaded guilty to defrauding the New Brunswick Police Association of more than $5,000 — an indictable offence that could come with a 14-year prison sentence.

Const. Michael [Mike] Cook, 39, a former treasurer for the association, was charged with fraud and theft over $5,000. He appeared in Burton provincial court Thursday morning where he pleaded guilty to the charge of fraud.

• Fredericton police officer charged with theft, fraud

The theft charge carries a sentence of up to 10 years. According to court officials, that case has been set over pending an agreement of facts.

The fraud is believed to have happened between Oct. 16, 2012 and Feb. 26, 2015. The theft allegedly occurred between Dec. 5, 2012 and Feb. 26, 2015.

Investigation launched 

RCMP laid the two charges against Cook in Fredericton provincial court on Jan. 5, 2017.
An investigation was launched following an allegation of misappropriation of funds.

Police Chief Leanne Fitch initially filed a conduct complaint with the New Brunswick Police Commission against a then-unidentified officer, whom she suspended with pay almost three years ago.

After the criminal allegations emerged, the matter was forwarded to the RCMP and the conduct complaint was suspended in order to not hinder the criminal investigation.

Alycia Bartlett, a spokesperson with the Fredericton Police Force, said in an email that the force was "aware" of Thursday's court proceedings involving Cook.

"Any further comment will be reserved until such time that court matters have concluded, and sentencing has taken place," she wrote.

"Following the conclusion of the criminal matter, a Police Act Investigation will proceed, and we need to be cognizant not to impact that process in any way. Const. Cook will now be suspended without pay."

Cook's defence attorney, George Kalinowski, declined to comment Thursday afternoon.

His client is scheduled to appear in court again on July 19 for sentencing.

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Trust that I had a conversation about my lawsuit in Federal Court with the lawyer Harold Doherty as soon as I watched Chucky Leblanc's video. Need I say that he played dumb?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHpPORf5zZU

New Brunswick Police Association is asked by Blogger about dirty Fredericton Police Force!

194 views

Charles Leblanc

Published on Jan 21, 2016

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/police-association-demand-removal-1.3414113

N.B. Police Association threatens legal action against police commission

N.B. Police Association demands removal of the police commission's executive director, Steve Roberge

CBC News· Posted: Jan 21, 2016 6:23 PM AT

Members of the New Brunswick Police Association are demanding the removal of Steve Roberge, executive director of the New Brunswick Police Commission. (Julianne Hazelwood/CBC)

The New Brunswick Police Association is calling for Steve Roberge's removal as executive director of the New Brunswick Police Commission.

While the police association says it accepts an apology and retraction issued by Roberge and police commission chair Ronald Cormier over statements the association says were defamatory of the labour group's executive, the association still wants Roberge removed from his position.

The association says it will take legal action against the police commission if the demand is not met.

• Police association vows to fight 'heavy-handed' commission
• Fredericton police Chief Leanne Fitch being investigated by N.B. Police Commission

At a news conference on Thursday, Dean Secord, president of the N.B. Police Association, said the leadership at the police commission is a problem and there is nothing but attacks on the association and its members.

"At the end of the day, he's the only one who's running the law under the police act. For him to come out and make the comments that he did, to remain in that position, will be a joke," said Secord.

The N.B. Police Commission is an independent oversight body that investigates and resolves citizens' complaints relating to the conduct of police officers as well as other aspects of police services in the province.

Demands made, apology issued

The association had sent a letter to the commission on Jan. 18 threatening legal action if it did get get a retraction, apology and removal. The association said Roberge's defamatory comments had caused damage to its executive members.

The apology and retraction came after Roberge made statements to the media earlier this month saying the executive was under investigation.

In the statement issued Jan. 18 by the police commission and signed by Roberge and Cormier, the commission said, "Any part of the statements to the media by Mr. Roberge and any inference from those statements that the ongoing criminal investigation is about the current Executive of the New Brunswick Police Association or any of its current Executive members, including Mr. Davidson, is false, incorrect, and untrue.

"To the knowledge of the Commission, the only ongoing criminal investigation is respecting a person who was a member of the Police Association Executive in 2015 and not any present member of the Police Association Executive."

CBC News contacted the commission Thursday but no one was available for comment.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fredericton-chief-fitch-commission-investigation-1.3400485

Fredericton police Chief Leanne Fitch being investigated by N.B. Police Commission

Nature of complaint that led to investigation by independent oversight body not being disclosed

CBC News· Posted: Jan 12, 2016 3:53 PM AT

Fredericton Police Chief Leanne Fitch is being investigated by the New Brunswick Police Commission. (CBC)

Fredericton Police Force Chief Leanne Fitch is being investigated by the New Brunswick Police Commission, the city's chief administrative officer has confirmed.

"I can confirm that I have received a complaint against the police chief and that the complaint has been handed over to the police commission for followup and that they will be investigating," Chris MacPherson stated in an email to CBC News on Tuesday.

"That is as much as I can say at this point."

The nature of the complaint that led to the investigation by the independent oversight body has not been disclosed.

Steve Roberge, executive director of the commission, declined to comment.

"As you are aware, the commission does not comment on or confirm investigations of police act matters unless they are proceeding to an arbitration hearing or criminal charges have resulted," he said.
The commission investigates and resolves citizens' complaints relating to the conduct of police officers, according to its website.

It also looks into any other aspect of police services, including the review of police force adequacy in New Brunswick.

Force spokesperson Alycia Bartlett also declined to comment, citing the ongoing investigation.

Latest blow to force

The investigation comes on the heels of two officers being fired from the force in recent weeks — constables Cherie Campbell and Jeff Smiley.

Three other officers are facing criminal charges — Sgt. Tim Sowers, Cpl. Lou Lafleur and Const. Darrell Brewer.

And another officer is being investigated by the RCMP for alleged misappropriation of funds while serving on the executive of the New Brunswick Police Association, an organization that represents unionized municipal police officers in the province.

Last week, Campbell, who was fired after a police commission arbitrator concluded she intentionally took $20-worth of makeup from Marden's Surplus & Salvage store in Houlton, Maine, on Dec. 2, 2014, and used her position as an officer to seek favourable treatment after her arrest, suggested officers have lost confidence in the leadership of the Fredericton force.

"I believe that the present leadership at the Fredericton Police Force has created a difficult, if not poisoned, work environment for the police officers there," she had said.

During the same news conference, police union president Cpl. Shane Duffy suggested fear of reprimand among officers could put the public at risk.

"In this environment we're in right now, I think most officers would think, it's going to cause a couple of seconds delay, and think that this is going to impact the rest of their career, if not end it," Duffy had said.

Cleared in previous complaint

Fitch was cleared by the commission in October of any wrongdoing in the Smiley case.
Smiley had filed the complaint, alleging Fitch was attempting to end his career.

Fitch had filed a complaint against Smiley after a domestic assault charge against him was dropped because of a jurisdictional issue, as the alleged assault involving his common-law wife, Kim Burnett, occurred in Nova Scotia, not New Brunswick.

Smiley was subsequently fired after an arbitrator ruled he breached four counts of professional conduct standards for police officers — discreditable conduct by committing domestic violence, counselling a fellow officer to not disclose he had firearms in his possession, and two counts of improper use and care of firearms.

Fitch has been the chief of the Fredericton Police Force since June 2013, making her Atlantic Canada's first female police chief.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/bob-davidson-police-association-1.3393148

Police association vows to fight 'heavy-handed' commission

Firing of second Fredericton police officer renews call for Police Act changes

CBC News· Posted: Jan 07, 2016 11:25 AM AT

Bob Davidson is a labour analyst for the New Brunswick Police Association, which represents municipal police officers in New Brunswick. (Catherine Harrop/CBC)


The association representing municipal police officers in New Brunswick is vowing to fight for changes to the authority of the New Brunswick Police Commission after an arbitrator ordered Wednesday that a second member of the Fredericton Police Force be fired for discreditable conduct.

• Fired Fredericton police officer, union criticize chief
• Police association says chiefs staging 'power grab'

Arbitrator Cedric Haines ruled that Const. Cherie Campbell be fired for shoplifting $20 worth of cosmetics in Maine and for attempting to seek favourable treatment from a fellow police officer. Campbell has said she will seek a judicial review of the decision.

Any penalty is supposed to be corrective in nature, not punitive.- Bob Davidson, labour analyst for New Brunswick Police Association

New Brunswick Police Association labour analyst Bob Davidson calls the decision to fire Campbell "heavy-handed."

"The Police Act states very clearly … any penalty is supposed to be corrective in nature, not punitive," said Davidson.

"Our opinion is that the arbitrator could have clearly looked at this and said, `Well, there is doubt here and there are corrective ways of dealing with this,' not heavy, punitive action."

Police Act review

Minister of Public Safety Steven Horsman has initiated a review of the Police Act and Davidson said the association will make its case for changes to the committee carrying out the review.

Cherie Campbell says she will seek a judicial review of an arbitrator's ruling that ordered her to be fired from the Fredericton Police Force for discreditable conduct. (CBC)

 "Nobody can be subjected to an environment where the prosecution selects, appoints, and pays for the person you are going to be sitting in front of," said Davidson. "That's where the rubber hits the road."

The commission was established through the Police Act in 2005 and was to be an oversight body, "not a judge, jury, hangman like is going on now," said Davidson.

Stakeholders, including the police association, used to agree on a list of possible arbitrators, but Davidson said the commission has since started acting on its own and appointing arbitrators without consultation.

"Now we have the New Brunswick Police Commission selecting arbitrators, appointing arbitrators, paying the arbitrators, which is totally unacceptable," he said. "That is a denial of natural justice and it is, technically, institutional bias.

Information Morning - Fredericton

Constable Fired

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We talk to Bob Davidson, executive director of the New Brunswick Police Association about the firing of a Fredericton police officer. 14:49"All we want for our officers is a fair process, the same as the criminals that they have to deal with have a fair process," he said.

Objection rejected

Davidson made many of the same points when called to testify at the outset of Campbell's hearing in December, when the police association objected to Haines serving as the arbitrator in the case because of the lack of consultation.

Cedric Haines ordered Const. Cherie Campbell be fired from the Fredericton Police Force for discreditable conduct. (Catherine Harrop/CBC)

 In his decision in the Campbell arbitration, Haines rejected Davidson's opinion that the police association is to be consulted on the list of arbitrators.

"The duty and obligation to establish and maintain the list of arbitrators is that of the commission and not that of the minister," states Haines in his decision.

"I am of the opinion that the expectation to which Davidson alluded in his testimony, and on which the respondent's objection is based, is not founded in law," states Haines. "There is before me no evidence establishing a clear, unambiguous and unqualified basis for such an expectation.

"Moreover, the evidence on which the respondent relies in support of her objection fails to establish any lack of independence on my part, or that she will not be treated impartially and without bias."

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Jones"<Robert.Jones@cbc.ca> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, gopublic <gopublic@cbc.ca>, "steve.murphy"<steve.murphy@ctv.ca>, nmoore <nmoore@bellmedia.ca>, "macpherson.don" <macpherson.don@dailygleaner.com>, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre <andre@jafaust.com> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/dennis-oland-murder-appeal-alan-gold-1.3811727 Drapeau abruptly says he's not suggesting defence should have made motion for directed verdict. Called for recess. 10:06 AM - 19 Oct 2016     Retweets 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 > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 01:05:01 -0400 > Subject: Hey TJ Burke and Louie lafleur January 11th is coming fast Ya > can't say that your buddies and the Police Commission ain't mentioned > bigtime in my complaint N'esy Pas Stevey Boy Roberge? > To: tj@burkelaw.ca, "lou.lafleur"<lou.lafleur@fredericton.ca>, > jeddy@coxandpalmer.com, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre > <andre@jafaust.com>, sunrayzulu <sunrayzulu@shaw.ca>, "greg.byrne" > <greg.byrne@gnb.ca>, paulzed@zed.ca, smay@coxandpalmer.com, nbpc > <nbpc@gnb.ca>, ychoukri@wstephenson.com, "Paul.Harpelle" > <Paul.Harpelle@gnb.ca>, "Michael.Quinn" > <Michael.Quinn@electionsnb.ca>, "Yves.Cote"<Yves.Cote@elections.ca>, > "Marc.Mayrand"<Marc.Mayrand@elections.ca>, "steve.roberge" > <steve.roberge@gnb.ca>, Randy.Reilly@fredericton.ca, "Leanne.Fitch" > <Leanne.Fitch@fredericton.ca>, "serge.rousselle" > <serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>, "leanne.murray" > <leanne.murray@mcinnescooper.com>, "Paulette.Delaney-Smith" > <Paulette.Delaney-Smith@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Stephen.Horsman" > <Stephen.Horsman@gnb.ca>, infomorningfredericton > <infomorningfredericton@cbc.ca>, dmombourquette@pinklarkin.com, > george.filliter@gnb.ca, "hugh.flemming"<hugh.flemming@gnb.ca>, > national <national@mppac.ca>, "robert.stoney"<robert.stoney@gnb.ca>, > "Jacques.Poitras"<Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>, "ht.lacroix" > <ht.lacroix@cbc.ca> > Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, > Catherine.Harrop@cbc.ca, "redmond.shannon"<redmond.shannon@cbc.ca>, > Joe Friday <Friday.Joe@psic-ispc.gc.ca>, loyalistlawoffice > <loyalistlawoffice@yahoo.ca> > > Like Hell the NBPC do not get my emails EH? > > On 12/30/15, David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> wrote: > > Happy New Year and Please Enjoy :) > > http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/stephen-horsman-says-police-act-to-be-modernized-1.2974589 > > > Stephen Horsman says Police Act to be modernized > New Brunswick Police Commission is calling for 13 changes to the law > > By Jacques Poitras, CBC News Posted: Feb 27, 2015 6:42 AM AT > > Public Safety Minister Stephen Horsman says his department is working > on changes to the Police Act that will modernize the oversight of > municipal police officers and departments. > > Horsman says it’s too early to talk about specific changes, but he > says officials will "look at the whole act, what needs to be updated, > what needs to be modernized, to meet the needs of 2015, not the 1960s > or 1970s." > > His comments come after the 2013-14 annual report by the New Brunswick > Police Commission called for updates to the law. > > "We are of the opinion that the time has come to re-open the Police > Act and to make changes that are necessary to ensure that police > oversight is in step with current practices across the country," the > report states. > > Horsman, a retired Fredericton city police officer, says the public’s > expectations of transparency in law enforcement are higher than they > were when the legislation was written. > > "Today, people are more inclined to question or to ask questions about > their rights, especially dealing with police officers or police > departments and I applaud them for that. They should be," he says. > Police commission seeking 13 changes > > Steve Roberge, the police commission’s executive director, says the > organization is looking for 13 changes. > > One would allow the commission to extend the time it has to > investigate a complaint. The law says if it doesn’t complete an > investigation within six months and send it to arbitration or a > settlement conference, it loses jurisdiction. > > "The problem with that is that some investigations, for example for > harassment, involve a lot of interviews and many employees and > witnesses and they take a very long time," Roberge said. > > He’d like to see the law changed so that — like the legislation in > British Columbia — it gives the commission the power to extend the > time limit in certain cases. > > "It’s an issue of fairness, not only to the complainants to make sure > we do a thorough investigation and not be pressed by time limits, but > also to the … police officer who’s the subject of the complaint, to > give them a thorough investigation and ensure we get all the facts > properly," he says. > > Woodstock police > > The New Brunswick Police Commission received 64 complaints last year. (CBC) > > Another change would let the commission assign multiple investigators > to complex complaints. At the moment, it can only assign one > investigator per case. > > But some investigations require more people, Roberge says, and "we > can’t do that under the act." > > The commission investigates complaints from the public about the > conduct of municipal police officers. > > The RCMP has its own complaints process that covers its officers, who > handle policing in areas of New Brunswick without municipal forces. > > The commission also has a role in ensuring adequate policing > throughout the province and must be consulted if a municipality wants > to cut the number of officers. > > The commission’s report also raises a concern that more police > officers, who are the subject of complaints, are opting out of the > settlement conference process. > > That process allows the complainant, the officer, and the officer’s > chief of police to deal with the complaint informally, which takes > less time and costs less money than a full arbitration hearing. > > "It’s an efficiency issue. A settlement conference is done locally and > doesn’t require a lot of expenditures," Roberge said. > > It also means the process isn’t public, but Roberge says the > complainant, the officer, and the officer’s manager are all in the > settlement conference and know what happens. > > It’s the officer’s right to opt out of the settlement conference and > Roberge says he doesn’t know why they’re doing that. > > Roberge says the commission handled a total of 56 files in 2013-14 > containing a total of 64 allegations. Half dealt with alleged abuse of > authority, fewer than a quarter alleged discreditable conduct, and the > rest made other allegations such as neglect of duty. > > Of the 64 allegations, 13 per cent were dismissed and four per cent > were withdrawn, while 50 per cent were investigated and didn’t require > further action. > > Sixteen per cent of the complaints were still unresolved at the end of > 2013-2014 and 17 per cent went to arbitration. > > Of the cases that went to arbitration, one led to sanctions against a > police officer, Roberge said. > > In that case, a Woodstock town police officer, Const. John Morrison, > was suspended for a week without pay after an arbitrator found he had > abused his authority while off duty. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Police Commission / Commission de police > <Commissiondepolice.PoliceCommission@gnb.ca> > Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:39:10 +0000 > Subject: Automatic reply: Sometimes less is more So heres a little > Deja Vu for the CBC, CTV, the Irving newsrags, the Fat Fred City > Finest & their lawyers, Chucky Leblanc and his fan club and his unamed > lawyer before he is tried for assault > To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > > We are currently out of the office and will return on Monday, January 4th, > 2016. > > Nous sommes présentement hors du bureau  et nous serons de retour > lundi le 4 janvier 2016. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Don MacPherson <macpherson.don@dailygleaner.com> > Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 07:39:07 -0800 > Subject: Out of office Re: Sometimes less is more So heres a little > Deja Vu for the CBC, CTV, the Irving newsrags, the Fat Fred City > Finest & their lawyers, Chucky Leblanc and his fan club and his unamed > lawyer before he is tried for assault > To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com > > I will be out of the office until Jan. 4. If you have a pressing > matter you need to discuss with someone at The Daily Gleaner, please > contact assignment editor Anne Mooers at (506) 458-6441 or email > news@dailygleaner.com. > > -- > Don MacPherson > The Daily Gleaner > (506) 458-6479 > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "LaBonte, Luc  (OAG/CPG)"<Luc.LaBonte@gnb.ca> > Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:39:08 +0000 > Subject: Automatic reply: Sometimes less is more So heres a little > Deja Vu for the CBC, CTV, the Irving newsrags, the Fat Fred City > Finest & their lawyers, Chucky Leblanc and his fan club and his unamed > lawyer before he is tried for assault > To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > > I will out of the office until January 4, 2016. I will periodically > check my e-mails, however, expect delays for responses. Should you > have an emergency, please contact 506-453-2784. > > Je serai absent du bureau jusqu'au 4 janvier 2016. Je vérifirai mon > courriel de temps en temps mais il y aura un délai pour les réponses. > Si vous avez une urgence, s.v.p. veuillez contacter le 506-453-2784. > > ---------- 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Kulik, John"<john.kulik@mcinnescooper.com> Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 17:37:49 +0000 Subject: McInnes Cooper To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com"<motomaniac333@gmail.com>, "david.raymond.amos@gmail.com"<david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> Dear Mr. Amos: I am General Counsel for McInnes Cooper. If you need to communicate with our firm, please do so through me. Thank you. John Kulik [McInnes Cooper]<http://www.mcinnescooper.com/> John Kulik Q.C. Partner & General Counsel McInnes Cooper tel +1 (902) 444 8571 | fax +1 (902) 425 6350 1969 Upper Water Street Suite 1300 Purdy's Wharf Tower II Halifax, NS, B3J 2V1 asst Cathy Ohlhausen | +1 (902) 455 8215 Notice This communication, including any attachments, is confidential and may be protected by solicitor/client privilege. It is intended only for the person or persons to whom it is addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by e-mail or telephone at McInnes Cooper's expense. Avis Les informations contenues dans ce courriel, y compris toute(s) pièce(s) jointe(s), sont confidentielles et peuvent faire l'objet d'un privilège avocat-client. Les informations sont dirigées au(x) destinataire(s) seulement. Si vous avez reçu ce courriel par erreur, veuillez en aviser l'expéditeur par courriel ou par téléphone, aux frais de McInnes Cooper. On 8/3/17, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote: If want something very serious to download and laugh at as well Please  Enjoy and share real wiretap tapes of the mob http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/06/09/nsa-leak-guardian.html As the CBC etc yap about Yankee wiretaps and whistleblowers I musta sk them the obvious question AIN'T THEY FORGETTING SOMETHING???? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vugUalUO8YY What the hell does the media think my Yankee lawyer served upon the USDOJ right after I ran for and seat in the 39th Parliament baseball cards? ---------- 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> The Department of Finance acknowledges receipt of your electronic correspondence. Please be assured that we appreciate receiving your comments. Le ministère des Finances accuse réception de votre correspondance électronique. Soyez assuré(e) que nous apprécions recevoir vos commentaires. http://archive.org/details/ITriedToExplainItToAllMaritimersInEarly2006 http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/2006/05/wiretap-tapes-impeach-bush.html http://www.archive.org/details/PoliceSurveilanceWiretapTape139 https://archive.org/details/WiretapTape143 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:51:14 -0400 Subject: RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President Donald J. Trump I just got off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen (646-853-0114) Why does he lie to me after all this time??? To: president <president@whitehouse.gov>, mdcohen212@gmail.com, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, Pierre-Luc.Dusseault@parl.gc.ca, MulcaT <MulcaT@parl.gc.ca>, Jean-Yves.Duclos@parl.gc.ca, B.English@ministers.govt.nz, Malcolm.Turnbull.MP@aph.gov.au, pminvites@pmc.gov.au, mayt@parliament.uk, press <press@bankofengland.co.uk>, "Andrew.Bailey" <Andrew.Bailey@fca.org.uk>, fin.financepublic-financepublique.fin@canada.ca, newsroom <newsroom@globeandmail.ca>, "CNN.Viewer.Communications.Management" <CNN.Viewer.Communications.Management@cnn.com>, news-tips <news-tips@nytimes.com>, lionel <lionel@lionelmedia.com> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, elizabeth.thompson@cbc.ca, "justin.ling@vice.com, elizabeththompson" <elizabeththompson@ipolitics.ca>, djtjr <djtjr@trumporg.com>, "Bill.Morneau"<Bill.Morneau@canada.ca>, postur <postur@for.is>, stephen.kimber@ukings.ca, "steve.murphy"<steve.murphy@ctv.ca>, "Jacques.Poitras"<Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre <andre@jafaust.com> ---------- 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> Effective January 20, 2017, I have accepted the role as personal counsel to President Donald J. Trump. All future emails should be directed to mdcohen212@gmail.com and all future calls should be directed to 646-853-0114. ________________________________ This communication is from The Trump Organization or an affiliate thereof and is not sent on behalf of any other individual or entity. This email may contain information that is confidential and/or proprietary. Such information may not be read, disclosed, used, copied, distributed or disseminated except (1) for use by the intended recipient or (2) as expressly authorized by the sender. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately delete it and promptly notify the sender. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be received, secure or error-free as emails could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late, incomplete, contain viruses or otherwise. The Trump Organization and its affiliates do not guarantee that all emails will be read and do not accept liability for any errors or omissions in emails. Any views or opinions presented in any email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Trump Organization or any of its affiliates.Nothing in this communication is intended to operate as an electronic signature under applicable law. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "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 Thank you for your email.  I am currently out of the office attending meetings and have limited access to email and voicemail.  If your matter is urgent, or if you require assistance, please contact my assistant, Nicole Bruni at nicole.bruni@bakermckenzie.com or at (416) 865-3861. This message may contain confidential and privileged information. If it has been sent to you in error, please reply to advise the sender of the error and then immediately delete this message.  Please visit www.bakermckenzie.com/disclaimers for other important information concerning this message. ---------- 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 Thank you for your email to Premier McNeil. This is an automatic confirmation your email has been received. Warmest Regards, Premier's Correspondence Unit ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:12:04 -0400 Subject: Attn Bob Paulson and Jan Jensen et al Re A call from Cst Woodman (506 851 7878) today As I said to him I look forward to meeting you RCMP dudes in Federal Court To: bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, cathyc@ccca-cba.org, Larry.Tremblay@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, dwayne.woodman@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca, hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:17:31 -0400 Subject: Attn Assistant Commissioner Larry Tremblay, Commanding Officer, New Brunswick I just called and left a message for you To: Larry.Tremblay@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, dale.drummond@rcmp-grc.gc.ca Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, CRAIG.DALTON@gnb.ca http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/nb/commanding-officer 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. A/Commr. Tremblay has received several medals and commendations throughout his career for his dedication to excellence in policing. He was granted The Order of Merit of the Police Forces from the Governor General, His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, in 2014. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 21:27:19 -0400 Subject: I repeat Mr Jensen have you contacted the RCMP and the FBI YET? To: jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca, Michael.Kowalchuk@cas-satj.gc.ca, bill.pentney@justice.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca, Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca, bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, James.Comey@ic.fbi.gov, washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, marc.giroux@fja-cmf.gc.ca, Norman.Sabourin@cjc-ccm.gc.ca, info@gg.ca, serge.rousselle@gnb.ca, david.eidt@gnb.ca, premier@gnb.ca, blaine.higgs@gnb.ca, Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca, David.Coon@gnb.ca, david@lutz.nb.ca, mark.vespucci@ci.irs.gov Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca, Hon.Dominic.LeBlanc@canada.ca, hon.melanie.joly@canada.ca, speaker.president@parl.gc.ca, speaker@leg.bc.ca, geoff@geoffregan.ca, heather.bradley@parl.gc.ca, pm@pm.gc.ca, mcohen@trumporg.com, president@whitehouse.gov, Bill.Casey@parl.gc.ca, Pam.Goldsmith-Jones@parl.gc.ca, william.amos@gmail.com, Catherine.Harrop@cbc.ca, Catherine.McKenna@parl.gc.ca, Frank.McKenna@td.com, premier@gov.bc.ca, Gerald.Butts@pmo-cpm.gc.ca, Michael.Wernick@pco-bcp.gc.ca http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/04/attn-jan-jensen-i-obviously-acknowledge.html ---------- Original message ---------- From: Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:31:32 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: Re the CROWN'S SECOND QUERY about a Joint Book of Authorites for its Cross Appeal within the Federal Court of Appeal File No. A-48-16 To: motomaniac333@gmail.com Thank you for writing to the Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Member of Parliament for Vancouver Granville and Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. Due to the significant increase in the volume of correspondence addressed to the Hon. Jody Wilson-Raybould, please note that there may be a delay in processing your email. Rest assured that your message will be carefully reviewed. ------------------- Merci d'avoir ?crit ? l'honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, d?put?e pour Vancouver Granville et ministre de la justice et procureur g?n?ral du Canada. En raison d'une augmentation importante du volume de la correspondance adress?e ? l'honorable Jody Wilson-Raybould, veuillez prendre note qu'il pourrait y avoir un retard dans le traitement de votre courriel. Nous tenons ? vous assurer que votre message sera lu avec soin. http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/04/does-anyone-remember-my-phone-calls.html Monday, 17 April 2017 Does anyone remember my phone calls, Tweets, blogs and emails to Viktor Orbán the Hungarian Prime Minister about my old politcal enemies Iggy and George Soros et al On 9/20/17, Davidson, Stephen <stephen.davidson@saintjohn.ca> wrote: > Mr. Amos, > > 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, > > Saint John Police Headquarters: One Peel Plaza, Saint John New Brunswick > Mailing address: Saint John Police Force, c/o Cst. Stephen Davidson - PO Box > 1971, One Peel Plaza, Saint John New Brunswick E2L 4L1 > Major Crime Unit:(506) 648 3211 > >         This e-mail communication (including any or all attachments) is > intended only for the use of the person or entity to whom it is addressed > and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the > intended recipient of this e-mail, any use, review, retransmission, > distribution, dissemination, copying, printing, or other use of, or taking > of any action in reliance upon this e-mail, is strictly prohibited. If you > have received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender and delete the > original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof, immediately. > Your co-operation is appreciated. > > >         Le pr?sent courriel (y compris toute pi?ce jointe) s'adresse > uniquement ? son destinataire, qu'il soit une personne ou un organisme, et > pourrait comporter des renseignements privil?gi?s ou confidentiels. Si vous > n'?tes pas le destinataire du courriel, il est interdit d'utiliser, de > revoir, de retransmettre, de distribuer, de diss?miner, de copier ou > d'imprimer ce courriel, d'agir en vous y fiant ou de vous en servir de toute > autre fa?on. Si vous avez re?u le pr?sent courriel par erreur, pri?re de > communiquer avec l'exp?diteur et d'?liminer l'original du courriel, ainsi > que toute copie ?lectronique ou imprim?e de celui-ci, imm?diatement. Nous > sommes reconnaissants de votre collaboration. > Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original

David Amos Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 7:32 AM To: David Amos Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> - Hide quoted text - Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:01:25 -0400 Subject: RE More Informaion I just called and talked to a young lawyer named "Alex" To: info@alandgoldlaw.com Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:43:22 -0400 Subject: Re: Information The Crown should have shared my files with you before you contacted me To: "Davidson, Stephen"<stephen.davidson@saintjohn.ca>, jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca, Larry.Tremblay@rcmp-grc.gc.ca Cc: motomaniac333@gmail.com ---------- Forwarded 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: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)"<Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:50:12 +0000 Subject: RE: I just heard on CBC what Justice Drapeau said to the lawyer Alan Gold Perhaps Mr Gold should send someone to Federal Court and pull docket no T-1557-15 ASAP N'esy Pas Serge Rouselle? 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, Correspondence Manager / Gestionnaire de la correspondance Office of the Premier / Cabinet du premier ministre ---------- Original message ---------- From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:48:30 -0400 Subject: I just heard on CBC what Justice Drapeau said to the lawyer Alan Gold Perhaps Mr Gold should send someone to Federal Court and pull docket no T-1557-15 ASAP N'esy Pas Serge Rouselle? To: alison.crawford@cbc.ca, garyamiller.gampc@gmail.com, fifth@cbc.ca, info@alandgoldlaw.com, "ralph.goodale.a1" <ralph.goodale.a1@parl.gc.ca>, "roger.l.brown" <roger.l.brown@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, "Bill.Casey"<Bill.Casey@parl.gc.ca>, "jan.jensen" <jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca>, wteed <wteed@coxandpalmer.com>, "serge.rousselle"<serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>, premier <premier@gnb.ca>, "Robert. Jones"<Robert.Jones@cbc.ca> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, gopublic <gopublic@cbc.ca>, "steve.murphy"<steve.murphy@ctv.ca>, nmoore <nmoore@bellmedia.ca>, "macpherson.don" <macpherson.don@dailygleaner.com>, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre <andre@jafaust.com> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/dennis-oland-murder-appeal-alan-gold-1.3811727 Drapeau abruptly says he's not suggesting defence should have made motion for directed verdict. Called for recess. 10:06 AM - 19 Oct 2016     Retweets 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 > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 01:05:01 -0400 > Subject: Hey TJ Burke and Louie lafleur January 11th is coming fast Ya > can't say that your buddies and the Police Commission ain't mentioned > bigtime in my complaint N'esy Pas Stevey Boy Roberge? > To: tj@burkelaw.ca, "lou.lafleur"<lou.lafleur@fredericton.ca>, > jeddy@coxandpalmer.com, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre > <andre@jafaust.com>, sunrayzulu <sunrayzulu@shaw.ca>, "greg.byrne" > <greg.byrne@gnb.ca>, paulzed@zed.ca, smay@coxandpalmer.com, nbpc > <nbpc@gnb.ca>, ychoukri@wstephenson.com, "Paul.Harpelle" > <Paul.Harpelle@gnb.ca>, "Michael.Quinn" > <Michael.Quinn@electionsnb.ca>, "Yves.Cote"<Yves.Cote@elections.ca>, > "Marc.Mayrand"<Marc.Mayrand@elections.ca>, "steve.roberge" > <steve.roberge@gnb.ca>, Randy.Reilly@fredericton.ca, "Leanne.Fitch" > <Leanne.Fitch@fredericton.ca>, "serge.rousselle" > <serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>, "leanne.murray" > <leanne.murray@mcinnescooper.com>, "Paulette.Delaney-Smith" > <Paulette.Delaney-Smith@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Stephen.Horsman" > <Stephen.Horsman@gnb.ca>, infomorningfredericton > <infomorningfredericton@cbc.ca>, dmombourquette@pinklarkin.com, > george.filliter@gnb.ca, "hugh.flemming"<hugh.flemming@gnb.ca>, > national <national@mppac.ca>, "robert.stoney"<robert.stoney@gnb.ca>, > "Jacques.Poitras"<Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>, "ht.lacroix" > <ht.lacroix@cbc.ca> > Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, > Catherine.Harrop@cbc.ca, "redmond.shannon"<redmond.shannon@cbc.ca>, > Joe Friday <Friday.Joe@psic-ispc.gc.ca>, loyalistlawoffice > <loyalistlawoffice@yahoo.ca> > > Like Hell the NBPC do not get my emails EH? > > On 12/30/15, David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> wrote: > > Happy New Year and Please Enjoy :) > > http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/stephen-horsman-says-police-act-to-be-modernized-1.2974589 > > > Stephen Horsman says Police Act to be modernized > New Brunswick Police Commission is calling for 13 changes to the law > > By Jacques Poitras, CBC News Posted: Feb 27, 2015 6:42 AM AT > > Public Safety Minister Stephen Horsman says his department is working > on changes to the Police Act that will modernize the oversight of > municipal police officers and departments. > > Horsman says it’s too early to talk about specific changes, but he > says officials will "look at the whole act, what needs to be updated, > what needs to be modernized, to meet the needs of 2015, not the 1960s > or 1970s." > > His comments come after the 2013-14 annual report by the New Brunswick > Police Commission called for updates to the law. > > "We are of the opinion that the time has come to re-open the Police > Act and to make changes that are necessary to ensure that police > oversight is in step with current practices across the country," the > report states. > > Horsman, a retired Fredericton city police officer, says the public’s > expectations of transparency in law enforcement are higher than they > were when the legislation was written. > > "Today, people are more inclined to question or to ask questions about > their rights, especially dealing with police officers or police > departments and I applaud them for that. They should be," he says. > Police commission seeking 13 changes > > Steve Roberge, the police commission’s executive director, says the > organization is looking for 13 changes. > > One would allow the commission to extend the time it has to > investigate a complaint. The law says if it doesn’t complete an > investigation within six months and send it to arbitration or a > settlement conference, it loses jurisdiction. > > "The problem with that is that some investigations, for example for > harassment, involve a lot of interviews and many employees and > witnesses and they take a very long time," Roberge said. > > He’d like to see the law changed so that — like the legislation in > British Columbia — it gives the commission the power to extend the > time limit in certain cases. > > "It’s an issue of fairness, not only to the complainants to make sure > we do a thorough investigation and not be pressed by time limits, but > also to the … police officer who’s the subject of the complaint, to > give them a thorough investigation and ensure we get all the facts > properly," he says. > > Woodstock police > > The New Brunswick Police Commission received 64 complaints last year. (CBC) > > Another change would let the commission assign multiple investigators > to complex complaints. At the moment, it can only assign one > investigator per case. > > But some investigations require more people, Roberge says, and "we > can’t do that under the act." > > The commission investigates complaints from the public about the > conduct of municipal police officers. > > The RCMP has its own complaints process that covers its officers, who > handle policing in areas of New Brunswick without municipal forces. > > The commission also has a role in ensuring adequate policing > throughout the province and must be consulted if a municipality wants > to cut the number of officers. > > The commission’s report also raises a concern that more police > officers, who are the subject of complaints, are opting out of the > settlement conference process. > > That process allows the complainant, the officer, and the officer’s > chief of police to deal with the complaint informally, which takes > less time and costs less money than a full arbitration hearing. > > "It’s an efficiency issue. A settlement conference is done locally and > doesn’t require a lot of expenditures," Roberge said. > > It also means the process isn’t public, but Roberge says the > complainant, the officer, and the officer’s manager are all in the > settlement conference and know what happens. > > It’s the officer’s right to opt out of the settlement conference and > Roberge says he doesn’t know why they’re doing that. > > Roberge says the commission handled a total of 56 files in 2013-14 > containing a total of 64 allegations. Half dealt with alleged abuse of > authority, fewer than a quarter alleged discreditable conduct, and the > rest made other allegations such as neglect of duty. > > Of the 64 allegations, 13 per cent were dismissed and four per cent > were withdrawn, while 50 per cent were investigated and didn’t require > further action. > > Sixteen per cent of the complaints were still unresolved at the end of > 2013-2014 and 17 per cent went to arbitration. > > Of the cases that went to arbitration, one led to sanctions against a > police officer, Roberge said. > > In that case, a Woodstock town police officer, Const. John Morrison, > was suspended for a week without pay after an arbitrator found he had > abused his authority while off duty. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Police Commission / Commission de police > <Commissiondepolice.PoliceCommission@gnb.ca> > Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:39:10 +0000 > Subject: Automatic reply: Sometimes less is more So heres a little > Deja Vu for the CBC, CTV, the Irving newsrags, the Fat Fred City > Finest & their lawyers, Chucky Leblanc and his fan club and his unamed > lawyer before he is tried for assault > To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > > We are currently out of the office and will return on Monday, January 4th, > 2016. > > Nous sommes présentement hors du bureau  et nous serons de retour > lundi le 4 janvier 2016. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Don MacPherson <macpherson.don@dailygleaner.com> > Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 07:39:07 -0800 > Subject: Out of office Re: Sometimes less is more So heres a little > Deja Vu for the CBC, CTV, the Irving newsrags, the Fat Fred City > Finest & their lawyers, Chucky Leblanc and his fan club and his unamed > lawyer before he is tried for assault > To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com > > I will be out of the office until Jan. 4. If you have a pressing > matter you need to discuss with someone at The Daily Gleaner, please > contact assignment editor Anne Mooers at (506) 458-6441 or email > news@dailygleaner.com. > > -- > Don MacPherson > The Daily Gleaner > (506) 458-6479 > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "LaBonte, Luc  (OAG/CPG)"<Luc.LaBonte@gnb.ca> > Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:39:08 +0000 > Subject: Automatic reply: Sometimes less is more So heres a little > Deja Vu for the CBC, CTV, the Irving newsrags, the Fat Fred City > Finest & their lawyers, Chucky Leblanc and his fan club and his unamed > lawyer before he is tried for assault > To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > > I will out of the office until January 4, 2016. I will periodically > check my e-mails, however, expect delays for responses. Should you > have an emergency, please contact 506-453-2784. > > Je serai absent du bureau jusqu'au 4 janvier 2016. Je vérifirai mon > courriel de temps en temps mais il y aura un délai pour les réponses. > Si vous avez une urgence, s.v.p. veuillez contacter le 506-453-2784. > > ---------- 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Kulik, John"<john.kulik@mcinnescooper.com> Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 17:37:49 +0000 Subject: McInnes Cooper To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com"<motomaniac333@gmail.com>, "david.raymond.amos@gmail.com"<david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> Dear Mr. Amos: I am General Counsel for McInnes Cooper. If you need to communicate with our firm, please do so through me. Thank you. John Kulik [McInnes Cooper]<http://www.mcinnescooper.com/> John Kulik Q.C. Partner & General Counsel McInnes Cooper tel +1 (902) 444 8571 | fax +1 (902) 425 6350 1969 Upper Water Street Suite 1300 Purdy's Wharf Tower II Halifax, NS, B3J 2V1 asst Cathy Ohlhausen | +1 (902) 455 8215 Notice This communication, including any attachments, is confidential and may be protected by solicitor/client privilege. It is intended only for the person or persons to whom it is addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by e-mail or telephone at McInnes Cooper's expense. Avis Les informations contenues dans ce courriel, y compris toute(s) pièce(s) jointe(s), sont confidentielles et peuvent faire l'objet d'un privilège avocat-client. Les informations sont dirigées au(x) destinataire(s) seulement. Si vous avez reçu ce courriel par erreur, veuillez en aviser l'expéditeur par courriel ou par téléphone, aux frais de McInnes Cooper. On 8/3/17, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote: If want something very serious to download and laugh at as well Please  Enjoy and share real wiretap tapes of the mob http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/06/09/nsa-leak-guardian.html As the CBC etc yap about Yankee wiretaps and whistleblowers I musta sk them the obvious question AIN'T THEY FORGETTING SOMETHING???? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vugUalUO8YY What the hell does the media think my Yankee lawyer served upon the USDOJ right after I ran for and seat in the 39th Parliament baseball cards? ---------- 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> The Department of Finance acknowledges receipt of your electronic correspondence. Please be assured that we appreciate receiving your comments. Le ministère des Finances accuse réception de votre correspondance électronique. Soyez assuré(e) que nous apprécions recevoir vos commentaires. http://archive.org/details/ITriedToExplainItToAllMaritimersInEarly2006 http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/2006/05/wiretap-tapes-impeach-bush.html http://www.archive.org/details/PoliceSurveilanceWiretapTape139 https://archive.org/details/WiretapTape143 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:51:14 -0400 Subject: RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President Donald J. Trump I just got off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen (646-853-0114) Why does he lie to me after all this time??? To: president <president@whitehouse.gov>, mdcohen212@gmail.com, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, Pierre-Luc.Dusseault@parl.gc.ca, MulcaT <MulcaT@parl.gc.ca>, Jean-Yves.Duclos@parl.gc.ca, B.English@ministers.govt.nz, Malcolm.Turnbull.MP@aph.gov.au, pminvites@pmc.gov.au, mayt@parliament.uk, press <press@bankofengland.co.uk>, "Andrew.Bailey" <Andrew.Bailey@fca.org.uk>, fin.financepublic-financepublique.fin@canada.ca, newsroom <newsroom@globeandmail.ca>, "CNN.Viewer.Communications.Management" <CNN.Viewer.Communications.Management@cnn.com>, news-tips <news-tips@nytimes.com>, lionel <lionel@lionelmedia.com> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, elizabeth.thompson@cbc.ca, "justin.ling@vice.com, elizabeththompson" <elizabeththompson@ipolitics.ca>, djtjr <djtjr@trumporg.com>, "Bill.Morneau"<Bill.Morneau@canada.ca>, postur <postur@for.is>, stephen.kimber@ukings.ca, "steve.murphy"<steve.murphy@ctv.ca>, "Jacques.Poitras"<Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre <andre@jafaust.com> ---------- 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> Effective January 20, 2017, I have accepted the role as personal counsel to President Donald J. Trump. All future emails should be directed to mdcohen212@gmail.com and all future calls should be directed to 646-853-0114. ________________________________ This communication is from The Trump Organization or an affiliate thereof and is not sent on behalf of any other individual or entity. This email may contain information that is confidential and/or proprietary. Such information may not be read, disclosed, used, copied, distributed or disseminated except (1) for use by the intended recipient or (2) as expressly authorized by the sender. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately delete it and promptly notify the sender. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be received, secure or error-free as emails could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late, incomplete, contain viruses or otherwise. The Trump Organization and its affiliates do not guarantee that all emails will be read and do not accept liability for any errors or omissions in emails. Any views or opinions presented in any email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Trump Organization or any of its affiliates.Nothing in this communication is intended to operate as an electronic signature under applicable law. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "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 Thank you for your email.  I am currently out of the office attending meetings and have limited access to email and voicemail.  If your matter is urgent, or if you require assistance, please contact my assistant, Nicole Bruni at nicole.bruni@bakermckenzie.com or at (416) 865-3861. This message may contain confidential and privileged information. If it has been sent to you in error, please reply to advise the sender of the error and then immediately delete this message.  Please visit www.bakermckenzie.com/disclaimers for other important information concerning this message. ---------- 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 Thank you for your email to Premier McNeil. This is an automatic confirmation your email has been received. Warmest Regards, Premier's Correspondence Unit ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:12:04 -0400 Subject: Attn Bob Paulson and Jan Jensen et al Re A call from Cst Woodman (506 851 7878) today As I said to him I look forward to meeting you RCMP dudes in Federal Court To: bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, cathyc@ccca-cba.org, Larry.Tremblay@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, dwayne.woodman@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca, hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:17:31 -0400 Subject: Attn Assistant Commissioner Larry Tremblay, Commanding Officer, New Brunswick I just called and left a message for you To: Larry.Tremblay@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, dale.drummond@rcmp-grc.gc.ca Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, CRAIG.DALTON@gnb.ca http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/nb/commanding-officer 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. A/Commr. Tremblay has received several medals and commendations throughout his career for his dedication to excellence in policing. He was granted The Order of Merit of the Police Forces from the Governor General, His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, in 2014. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 21:27:19 -0400 Subject: I repeat Mr Jensen have you contacted the RCMP and the FBI YET? To: jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca, Michael.Kowalchuk@cas-satj.gc.ca, bill.pentney@justice.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca, Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca, bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, James.Comey@ic.fbi.gov, washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, marc.giroux@fja-cmf.gc.ca, Norman.Sabourin@cjc-ccm.gc.ca, info@gg.ca, serge.rousselle@gnb.ca, david.eidt@gnb.ca, premier@gnb.ca, blaine.higgs@gnb.ca, Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca, David.Coon@gnb.ca, david@lutz.nb.ca, mark.vespucci@ci.irs.gov Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca, Hon.Dominic.LeBlanc@canada.ca, hon.melanie.joly@canada.ca, speaker.president@parl.gc.ca, speaker@leg.bc.ca, geoff@geoffregan.ca, heather.bradley@parl.gc.ca, pm@pm.gc.ca, mcohen@trumporg.com, president@whitehouse.gov, Bill.Casey@parl.gc.ca, Pam.Goldsmith-Jones@parl.gc.ca, william.amos@gmail.com, Catherine.Harrop@cbc.ca, Catherine.McKenna@parl.gc.ca, Frank.McKenna@td.com, premier@gov.bc.ca, Gerald.Butts@pmo-cpm.gc.ca, Michael.Wernick@pco-bcp.gc.ca http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/04/attn-jan-jensen-i-obviously-acknowledge.html ---------- Original message ---------- From: Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:31:32 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: Re the CROWN'S SECOND QUERY about a Joint Book of Authorites for its Cross Appeal within the Federal Court of Appeal File No. A-48-16 To: motomaniac333@gmail.com Thank you for writing to the Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Member of Parliament for Vancouver Granville and Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. 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Why are so many anglophones not bilingual? Edmundston mayor asks DUHHH???

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David Raymond Amos‏ @DavidRayAmos

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Methinks Mayor Cyrille Simard wants to be the Ringmaster for the SANB in this Circus N'esy Pas?

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Why are so many anglophones not bilingual? Edmundston mayor asks

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David R. Amos

Methinks the SANB has had quite a "Hey" Day in this comment section However Mr Higgs et al know the score as well as I N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos

@David R. Amos In a nutshell New Brunswickers desrerve a referendum but that ain't never gonna happen EH?

David R. Amos

Methinks Mayor Cyrille Simard wants to be the Ringmaster for the SANB in this Circus N'esy Pas?

Christine Martinez

@David R. Amos I know the comments have degraded to the point there's no reason to continue reading them as soon as I see a David Amos "Nesy Pas?" comment. Keeps me from wasting too much time. Thanks, Dave!

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Marguerite Deschamps

@Christine Martinez, he runs in elections. it makes him feel impotent.”

Mack Leigh

@Marguerite Deschamps

And exactly what is your excuse ??

Marc Martin

@David R. Amos

You must be the hired clown in that circus you talk about.

David R. Amos

@Mack Leigh Methinks the ladies of the SANB don't like Independent free thinks politicians who sue the Crown and appear at EUB hearings N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos

@Mack Leigh Methinks Mayor Cyrille Simard is not concerned about the EUB hearings merely because his town has its own power company just like Saint John and Grand Falls do N'esy Pas?

 
Noah Hathaway

There's very little incentive for an Anglophone to learn French. English is a global language that dominates business, internet, politics, and sciences. French just doesn't have the global impact that English does and learning French offers very little in terms of a benefit other than saying you are bilingual.

As an Anglophone who has learned French I can say using it is very intimidating. The Francophone tend to be so protective of their language that they treat people with distain if they use it poorly. With the rest of the country being predominantly English there is little need for the language outside NB and Quebec. You will forget it quickly if you don't use it. Even in this province English bilinguals are often not even considered for public facing government jobs because they are not of French Heritage.

Marguerite Deschamps

@Noah Hathaway, totally untrue!

David Hughes

@Noah Hathaway agree 100% exactly my experience!

Mary MacKenzie

@Marguerite Deschamps Care to back up that accusation with anything?

Laurie Clark

@Marguerite Deschamps Actually it is true! One young man sent in an English resume for a bilingual position and used his father's English last name. He received no reply. He then re-wrote his resume in French and used his mother's French maiden name and wouldn't ya know it, he got a call for an interview.

Lewis Taylor

@Mary MacKenzie
I have never seen an anglophone being met with disdain for speaking french in NB and there are legions of primary anglophones that speak french in the public service. It has nothing to do with French Heritage when you name is Smith or Harris and you are ADM or DM!

Lewis Taylor

@Laurie Clark
Are you sure that he did not become CEO??? I would like to know how many anecdotal incidents it takes until something becomes law??? Maybe he made mistakes on his English resume? Maybe it was for a second job? because if you don't get called the first time then the job was probably filled by someone else. People think that 1 incident extrapolates to every time.

Marguerite Deschamps

@Lewis Taylor, I agree, all fake news perpetrated by the Anglo Society, the COR and the PA. I worked with many Anglophone friends who were fluently bilingual and they laugh at these kaputs.

Rob Mason

@Marguerite Deschamps Fake News? Do you ever contribute anything of substance to a discussion? You routinely blame the PA or the Anglos and rarely offer a counter point, just bluster. A well thought out argument/response instead of always going on the offensive would be more welcome.

Marguerite Deschamps

@Rob Mason, not too many here contribute anything positive to the discussion. It is always the same posters harping for the abolition of bilingualism and spreading falsehoods in order to support their position. Not gonna happen, it is enshrined in the Constitution.

Rob Mason

@Marguerite Deschamps don't you think if some of us made the change to thoughtful debate we could drown out the ignorant haters? it would be much more constructive to put forward alternate points of view and debate their merits. I am not against Bilingualism but I am against duplication of services or duality. Why do we need separate education boards, health boards etc? Why does every document need to be translated into both languages? We could cut the number of translators and only provide documents when requested, not everything.

Marguerite Deschamps

@Rob Mason, they are the majority here and you know it. Nothing serious here to discuss.

For starters, duality in education is guaranteed in the Constitution and for good reason. And it applies everywhere in Canada. So what is there to discuss?

David R. Amos

@Noah Hathaway Welcome to the Circus

Rob Mason

@Marguerite Deschamps your reading comprehension would be one topic to discuss. I said duplication of services is my issue, not the right to go to school in either language. why does their need to be 2 separate education boards? I am trying to get you to debate this and make your point, you are resisting, why?

Rob Mason

@Marguerite Deschamps
"@Rob Mason, they are the majority here and you know it. Nothing serious here to discuss."
So by the above statement you admit that you add nothing of value to the conversation and are only here to foment division. You are the same as those you denigrate on this board, if there in nothing serious here to discuss (I disagree) then why contribute to the circus, unless you are also a clown?

Marguerite Deschamps

@Rob Mason, the right of both linguistic groups to manage their school system is also guaranteed by the Constitution and the courts have recognized it. It's cast in stone.

Rob Mason

@Marguerite Deschamps the right to education is in there. The right to have separate school boards is not.

Marguerite Deschamps

@Rob Mason, yes it is!

FlagMarguerite Deschamps

@Rob Mason, there are more clowns here than you can shake a stick at. No need for another one eh? Yet I don't read you taking issue with these extremists like you do with me which sure brings the purity of your intentions into serious question.

Rob Mason

@Marguerite Deschamps Re read my posts, I said there are clowns on here from BOTH sides. I also said rather than engage in low brow commenting why not raise the bar. You continually refuse to do that, brings the purity of your intentions into questions as well!
I have questioned anti french posters here many times, you choose to live in your echo chamber.

Rae Quin

@Noah Hathaway “Disdain”, not distain. Bilingual anglophones, not English bilinguals. What is a “bilingual”? And the speaker is probably Canadian, not English. HTH

Rae Quin

@Marguerite Deschamps Kaput?

Marguerite Deschamps

@Rob Mason, I did way back when. I have found out long ago that I was wasting my time. No use trying to reason with a junkyard dog frothing at the mouth.

Marguerite Deschamps

@Rob Mason, and yes, I quit a long time ago trying to have an intelligent discussion here. It's an exercise in futility. It's like trying to argue with Trump with his fake news.

Jake Devries

@Noah Hathaway French is a dying language..on life support (language police) ..We'd be much better off learning Spanish or Mandarin

Jake Devries

@Marguerite Deschamps Notwithstanding Clause...Was good enough for Quebec to stomp on the Anglos there)

Jake Devries

@Marguerite Deschamps and yet, here you are...

Why are so many anglophones not bilingual? Edmundston mayor asks

Cyrille Simard calls for action plan to boost bilingualism in province

Elizabeth Fraser· CBC News· Posted: Jan 03, 2019 3:40 PM AT

Edmundston Mayor Cyrille Simard is calling on Premier Blaine Higgs and Education Minister Dominic Cardy to set up a strategic commission on education and bilingualism. (CBC)



The mayor of Edmundston is calling on the province to make an action plan to improve bilingualism for 2019.

After 50 years of bilingualism in New Brunswick, Cyrille Simard says only one out of six anglophones can speak French.

He wants Premier Blaine Higgs and Education Minister Dominic Cardy to set up a strategic commission on education and bilingualism to improve those numbers.

• Divisive bilingualism debate rears its head in N.B. election campaign 
• Languages commissioner concerned about ongoing 'resentment' toward bilingualism 
• Departing language watchdog urges MLAs to explode myths that stoke prejudice

Simard is hoping this will make bilingualism something that comes more naturally to New Brunswickers.

"This whole political turmoil around language comes once in a while and it's always very difficult to look at those issues with facts and data and to move forward in the right direction," Simard said in an interview with Information Morning Fredericton.

Simard said being able to speak in both official languages is a strength for individual New Brunswickers and the province as a whole.

"We must change the narrative somehow and focus more on the fact that it's an asset as a province collectively, but it's also an asset for individuals," he said.

The unity of New Brunswick is something that is troubling right now because of the recent situation regarding language.- Cyrille   Simard , mayor of Edmundston

"My English is not perfect but I can live in New Brunswick, I can discuss with anglophones, I can make my living in French and English and I always felt that it gave me a better grasp of what New Brunswick is as a whole."

Over the years, Simard said, he's heard from his anglophone friends in particular that the education system has failed to provide better conditions for them to learn French.

Now he wants to know what kind of solution anglophones need to learn the language.

"There's a general feeling that it could be a good idea at least to change the conversation somehow and get on the right track and see that bilingualism is a strength for this province," he said.

How it would work

Simard said respected citizens of New Brunswick would be chosen for the commission, where they would help try to solve the language issue.

"First they start addressing what are the challenges and if there's some action plan that can be brought forward to address this issue."

Cyrille Simard@cyrillesimard

Le 1er janvier 2019, alors que nous célébrons le 50e du bilinguisme officiel au NB, j'invite le premier ministre @BlaineHiggs et le ministre de l'Éducation @DominicCardyà s'engager à créer une commission stratégique sur l'éducation et le bilinguisme afin de lancer ce processus.

Cyrille Simard@cyrillesimard

I’m sure a wide majority of anglophones in NB support this call to action. 2019 offers a perfect opportunity to prove it can be done! http://nbmediacoop.org/2019/01/01/a-call-to-action-by-anglophones-on-language-rights-in-new-brunswick/ …

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12:53 AM - Jan 2, 2019

Then the group would consult with experts and engage with people about the issue and find solutions.

And he's hoping the commission would perform in full public view so that in the future, this will allow the province to address issues surrounding bilingualism.

Learning both languages 

On Twitter, Cardy said he and the premier have spoken about the importance of the education system, "not just in promoting bilingualism but giving people the chance to actually learn both languages."

Cardy went on to say that he's looking forward to speaking with Simard about his idea.

Dominic Cardy@DominicCardy

.@seguincbc Premier @BlaineHiggs& I have a spoken about the importance of the education system, not just in promoting bilingualism but giving people the chance to actually learn both languages - govt often talks about the virtues but didn’t deliver opportunities or results. 1/2

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7:38 AM - Jan 3, 2019

"The team at Education is talking about how we build a world-class education system, across the board," Cardy wrote. "Looking forward to talking w @cyrillesimard about his idea; building that world class system is a project that has to include all New Brunswickers." 

CBC News has asked for an interview with Higgs and Cardy. 

Information Morning - Fredericton

Edmundston Mayor says there is value in bilingualism

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In this 50th year of official bilingualism in NB, Edmundston Mayor Cyrille Simard, says people are still not getting the message. He says there is great value in speaking both French and English. Simard is calling for a strategic commission on bilingualism. 9:38

Simard said several other countries are multilingual and thriving and is asking why New Brunswick can't be part of that as well.

"The unity of New Brunswick is something that is troubling right now because of the recent situation regarding language," he said. 

With files from Information Morning Fredericton

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Methinks Zionists who do not understand Chiac should Google David Amos Federal Court N'esy Pas?


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Canadian charity used donations to fund projects linked to Israeli military

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David R. Amos

Surprise Surprise Surprise

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and Liberal MP Michael Levitt plant a tree at JNF's VIP Tree Planting Center in the mountains above Jerusalem in July 2017

John Dirlik

@David R. Amos

Both Liberals and Conservatives have a proven history of answering “how high” when told to jump by that lobby that doesn’t exist for that country that cannot be criticized.

David R. Amos

@John Dirlik Methinks Joe Clark didn't tell the whole truth N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jerusalem-embassy-tel-aviv-clark-1.4436795

Bill Matthews

@John Dirlik I think we need to start criticizing

Dee Ray Ng

@Bill Matthews

Many have been, the listening/acting on those criticisms is what is needed.

David R. Amos

@Bill Matthews "@Art Rowe maybe fat fingers hahaha"

So you start by making fun of me?

 
Basil Masse

Projects in the West Bank? Isn't Israel in violation of a UN resolution by occupying that area?

Mashoud Nasseri

@Basil Masse Outrageous! Canadian's tax money went to projects banned by Canada's laws, UN resolutions and even " State of Israel itself"?!!! Shame!
"JNF Canada missions in Israel also have contributed directly to the construction of at least one hilltop settler outpost that was declared illegal by the State of Israel itself."

André Carrel

@Basil Masse
You asked two questions, and I attempted twice do answer them. But the CBC administrator disabled them both.
So this is my third attempt to contribute an answer to your two questions:

"......"

I hope this comment will not offend any rules.

Bill Matthews

@André Carrel I feel your pain. What happened to free speech which seems to be constantly edited by our tax paid CBC

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David R. Amos

@André Carrel "I hope this comment will not offend any rules."

Welcome to the Circus

 
MASSEY JONES

No sarcasm here and respectfully; but doesn't the charity's name speak for itself?
"Jewish National Fund"

Nearly all of the photos above, bear witness to what the JNF accomplishes, mostly in Israel and not in Canada.

I will not even comment here about the complainant, but it's almost evident, why he has a motive.

Nelson Barley

@MASSEY JONES

The JNF is Israel's department of land management, like a ministry of natural resources or department of the interior. Labelling it a charity is ridiculous.

MASSEY JONES

@Nelson Barley

You wrote:
"The JNF is Israel's department of land management, like a ministry of natural resources or department of the interior. Labelling it a charity is ridiculous."

Good post.
I don't know about the JNF but, after the post was sent, I realised that absolutely nothing in the published photos (especially the one in which Harper laid a cornerstone), says the word "Canada" , though it mentioned a benefit dinner held in "Toronto".

Wonder if some visitors will even bother to find out where Toronto is; the stone doesn't even mention "JNF Canada", as it should.

David R. Amos

@MASSEY JONES Methinks I should be permitted to quote Ol Mo N'esy Pas?

"this is not rocket science." ___ mo bennett

mo bennett

pull their charity license permanently. this is not rocket science.

Angus Campbell

@mo bennett
And the Cons complain about funding the Bird Watchers?

Rusty Brown

@Angus Campbell

"Revenue Canada targets birdwatchers for political activity"
"Earlier this year, tax auditors sent a letter to the 300-member group, warning about political material on the group's website."
— CBC - October 17, 2014

David R. Amos

@mo bennett YO MO Methinks thou doth protest too much N'esy Pas?

James Mittlefehldt

@David R. Amos Nes't pa not nesy

Art Rowe

@James Mittlefehldt
Try "N'est pas" or was that a very pathetic attempt at humor?

Bill Matthews

@Art Rowe maybe fat fingers hahaha

Greg Hooper

@Rusty Brown
"Bird watchers" or "environmental extremists"? You decide!

thomas stewart

@Art Rowe

"Try 'N'est pas'"

Try "n'est-ce pas".

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David R. Amos

@thomas stewart Methinks Zionists who do not understand Chiac should Google David Amos Federal Court N'esy Pas?

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David R. Amos

@thomas stewart Methinks whereas you do not understand Chiac then perhaps you should try to Google David Amos Federal Court N'esy Pas?

 
Angus Campbell

Now we know why Harper and the evangelicals loved Israel so much

John Dirlik

@Angus Campbell

Out of conviction or opportunism (I suspect mostly the latter) Harper’s pandering to Israel’s lobby was so blatant we were publicly ridiculed even in Israel.

John Baird (accompanied by “his” Lubavitcher rabbi) grovelled “Israel has no better than Canada” so often there, that an Israeli official finally quipped: “It seems that Canada is an even better friend to Israel than we are!”

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David R. Amos

@John Dirlik Methinks you should ask John Baird and his old boss Mr Harper why I sued the Queen in 2015 N'esy Pas?

http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2015/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html

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David R. Amos

@John Dirlik "Religion doesn’t kill; Zionism does."

POOF

brian duog

@Angus Campbell could be that they are the only democracy in the middle east, or the only country in the middle -east where the majority of the population do not hate the West ?

Teddy Spencer

@brian duog

Half of the people who live in Israel cannot vote in elections.

It's not a democracy.

Scotty Davidson

@Angus Campbell So where is Trudeau's condemnation for all the unarmed Palestinian civilian protesters who have been shot in recent months? Silence equals support in my opinion.

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David R. Amos

@John Dirlik Methinks its rather rough replying to you N'esy Pas?

  

mo bennett

time for Canada to quit blindly supporting benny and the jets.

Angus Campbell

@mo bennett
All religious based charities should be stopped. They go against the very basics of democracy.

John Dirlik

@mo bennett

Time for Canadian lawmakers to grow a pair and strip the JNF of its charitable status. Not only does it bamboozle Canadians by funding Israeli military projects, but it operates in the West Bank which according to Canada’s long-standing official policy is illegally occupied.

John Dirlik

@mo bennett

Like the politicians down south, ours are beholden to that lobby that doesn’t exist for that country that cannot criticized.

David R. Amos

@mo bennett "maybe now y'all will believe me"

NOPE

David R. Amos

@Angus Campbell "All religious based charities should be stopped."

Methinks you should study my freedom of religion lawsuit N'esy Pas?

Richard Zavitz

@John Dirlik I thought the Harper government gave 8million tax payers money to the CRA to stop this sort of thing????? Or was this money only for terrorist that Harper defined?
What happen, CRA didn't do there job as usual or did Harper stuff the information under the mattress so it wouldn't affect his love in with Israeli??

John Dirlik

@Richard Zavitz

Harper cut funding for a Christian organization ( Kairos) that helped women who had been raped in the Congo.

It had the temerity to also speak out about Palestinian rights.

Shawn D. Brenner

@Angus Campbell
.....as most of them are used to disguise their true uses.

Rick Green

@Angus Campbell

"All religious based charities should be stopped. They go against the very basics of democracy."

How so?

Norman Albert Snr

@mo bennett Just another case of Israel playing by it's own rules!!!! BDS

Janie Veston

@Rick Green religion is a myth...created by the rich to keep the poor in line. religions are filled with misinformation, untruths and made-up fairies in the sky. right-wingers almost are always religious and almost always hypocrites. Science proves religion as nonsense...so quit brain-washing people with the fairy tales and trying to push religion into politics.

Rick Green

@Janie Veston

"Science proves religion as nonsense...so quit brain-washing people with the fairy tales and trying to push religion into politics."

Easy sport, i'm an atheist.

Again, how are religious charities are against the basics of democracy?

Doug Mackenzie

@Janie Veston

“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance, he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”

― Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers

"Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth. And they have found that all this happened as a product of forces they cannot hope to discover. That there are what I or anyone would call supernatural forces at work is now, I think, a scientifically proven fact."

Robert Jastrow

Kayle Chak

@Rick Green Cannot agree more. Our tax $ should not support special interest groups.

Rick Green

@mo bennett

"time for Canada to quit blindly supporting benny and the jets."

And hamas.

Patrick Smyth

@Rick Green LMAO, please tell me how much money Canada gives to the internationally recognized terrorist organization called Hamas. Other than humanitarian aid to PALESTINE (i.e. to food, clothes and medicine for human beings), Canada and Canadian charities do little or nothing to help Palestine or Palestinians and particularly organizations like Hamas.

Try coming up with some FACTS if you want to wade in to this.

Meanwhile BILLIONS are funneled into Israel yearly and everyone crows about all the "great" things they have done with money pouring in from abroad. Were that money pouring into Palestine since 1947, I sincerely doubt we would be talking about conflicts between Palestine and Israel as they would both now be flourishing nations instead of one country and a giant prison

Bano Iman

@Shawn D. Brenner How many charitable organizations fund extremists like Hamas? I can name 10 off the top of my head. But apparently the IDF is the problem???

So Canada has no problem with orgs. funding ISIS or Hezbollah but we draw the line at IDF. Hmmm seems about right.

david mccaig

@mo bennett The Jewish National Fund of Canada uses this so called charity to collect funds for Israel's military, most of which will be used to keep the Palestinians in an open air prison while Israel continues to build settlements outside their borders on Palestinian land contravening Explicit UN orders they are committing an international crime.

Patrick Smyth

@Bano Iman

none are so blind as those who choose not to see.

Billions have been invested every year into Israel and by extension the IDF. The US (largest economy in the world) has sponsored the IDF from the very beginning up to and including illegally supplying them with the makings of nuclear weapons. Meanwhile they have largely ignored the plight of the Palestinians and are in the process of removing what little support (in comparison to support for Israel since 1947) they do provide of a humanitarian nature.

The last war involving Israel in the ME was STARTED by Israel not anyone else. They claimed to be preemptively attacking their enemies but we will NEVER know whether or not that was the case since they attacked their neighbours before they could (theoretically) be attacked themselves. They also seized significant territory (illegally) from their "neighbours" at the time.... Land they NOW claim as their own 40 years later (also illegal but remains unsanctioned thanks to US veto power at the UN)

david mccaig

@mo bennett

Easy solution spend a huge tax bill to The Jewish National Fund of Canada, and after its paid, ban the The Jewish National Fund of Canada permanently. Now the question is does Justin Trudeau have the backbone.

John Dirlik

@Bano Iman

I am sure that CSIS would be interested in your, ahem, credible information.

Patrick Smyth

@Doug Mackenzie

Nice quote. Science would seem to be magic to a sufficiently undeveloped society.

I would quibble with this bit in particular:

"That there are what I or anyone would call supernatural forces at work is now, I think, a scientifically proven fact."

There is NOTHING supernatural (by definition) about things we do not yet (or may never) understand, they are simply NOT UNDERSTOOD at this time, it hardly makes them "supernatural".

I would call them unknown natural forces, not "supernatural". They say absolutely nothing in regards to an "act of creation". The big bang was not more an "act" of creation than the formation of a mountain range from tectonic plates grinding together. An "act" implies intelligent design there is NO evidence of.

Bill Matthews

@mo bennett we need to send benny a jet, with a package for him.

david mccaig

@mo bennett

In any civilized world members of the Netanyahu government would be sitting in a Court in the Hague explaining their behavior, instead endorcing the right wing fascist ideology of Brazil's new President Jair Bolsonaro.

david mccaig

@mo bennett

Quote "Canada to quit blindly supporting benny and the jets"
Excellent post my adversaril friend.

david mccaig

@mo bennett

Noticed Netanyahu couldn't wait to have his picture taken at the swearing in of Brazil's new right wing President Jair Bolsonaro.

John Dunn

 @John Dirlik certainly can't on here.

david mccaig

@mo bennett

Netanyahu this is a man that was accused by then Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of inviting violence against his government just before Rabin was assassinated by a right wing orthodox Israeli .

https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/benjamin-netanyahu-denies-rabin-incitement-claims/

david mccaig

@mo bennett

There is no doubt Israeli militant activist groups intimidate American politics.

John Dirlik

@david mccaig

Just weeks before Rabin was killed, a local community (and staunchly Zionist) newspaper in Quebec (the Suburban) ran a fiery opinion piece.

It described Rabin's government as a “conspiratorial and collaborationist Hellenist governmentt" and ended with the chilling exhortation that Rabin's peace plan “be undermined by all means [italics added] and at every juncture. And the more one exceeds in this patriotic duty, the more praiseworthy he is.”

After an American settler (Baruch Goldstein) slaughtered 29 worshippers at a Hebron mosque in 1994, the same paper editorialized that while it did not condone his methods, Goldstein merely "loved Israel more than life itself".

It is not only Hamas that harbours extremists.

Janie Veston

@Doug Mackenzie There is NOTHING supernatural about things we do not yet understand. They are simply NOT understood at this time. That does NOT make them "supernatural".
No where in his ACTUAL quote is there mention of "act of creation" - that was added by dougie or some other fairy believer. The big bang was not an "act" of creation. But thanks for coming out.

Janie Veston, Purveyor of Truths & Facts

John Dirlik

PS

The federal government still supports that rag with paid advertisements.

david mccaig

@david mccaig

Just to set things straight, I'm NOT suggesting a MAJORITY of Jews in Israel are right wing thugs, but instead are reasonable people who want peace and a solution for the Palestinian question. Netanyahu like Trump won his job under dubious circumstances aided by US billionaire Sheldon Adelson.

david mccaig

@david mccaig

Seems billionaire money is corrupting many democracies around this world of ours.

Sandy Gillis

@Doug Mackenzie
Faulty premises and illogical conclusions are just that, whether said plainly or prettily.

David R. Amos

@Sandy Gillis Methinks you are the one who should certainly know about such things N'esy Pas?

Sandy Gillis

@David R. Amos
Do you have anything to add to the discussion David? Or, as usual, are you just desperate for attention? Going to start begging people to Google your name again?

Dee Ray Ng

@Justin Smith

Revisionism.

Nestor Neville Nelson

@David R. Amos

Hey, amigo Amos!
Que pasa with that "N'esy Pas" nonsense again?

David R. Amos

@Sandy Gillis I have not heard back from your lawyer yet so perhaps your your fans should Google yours N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos

@Nestor Neville Nelson Methinks that you are no friend of mine N'esy Pas?

Nestor Neville Nelson

@David R. Amos

Inaccurate.

I'm no friend of that "N'esy Pas" nonsense, amigo Amos.

thomas stewart

@Justin Smith

But was the 1973 war truly the "last" war involving Israel? Wasn't Israel involved in a war in Lebanon in the 1980s, which began as an invasion of Lebanon by the IDF which resulted in the Israeli occupation of a portion of southern Lebanon in order to quell PLO attacks from that quarter?

David R. Amos

@Nestor Neville Nelson Methinks if you know me so well then you know why I fun with Chiac and also must know why I sued 3 IRS Agents twice in 2002 2 years before I ran in the election of the 38th Parliament You can bet that your political heroes Harper and Goodale who featured in this news item certainly do N'esy Pas?

Nestor Neville Nelson

@David R. Amos

> Methinks if you know me so well ...

I don't know your "IRS" affairs
nor why you continue with
your chronic "N'esy Pas" nonsense,
amigo Amos.

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David R. Amos

@Nestor Neville Nelson I repeat I am not your friend in fact methinks I should be offended that some folks may think I am N'esy Pas?

  


Nicholas Markusen

They need to be immediately removed from charity status. If you fund a military, you are a militant organization.

Stephen George

@Art Rowe

Exactly.

David R. Amos

@Nicholas Markusen YUP

 
John Dirlik

“Canada Park.... built on the site of three Palestinian villages left empty after the 1967 Six Day war...”

Left empty. How cute, CBC. How about the reality: that the inhabitants were at gunpoint forced to flee their homeland so that Israel could create it Jewish majority? There’s an accurate term for that: ethnic cleansing.

Jon Holmes

@John Dirlik But God promised them that Land in some Burning Bush or the like....

David R. Amos

@John Dirlik Go figure why you dudes can post such things but I can't talk of the evil Taxman.

 
John Hallberg

harper and the cra do most strongly protest!!!

Dee Ray Ng

@John Hallberg

I gave you a like for your sarcasm.

David R. Amos

@Dee Ray Ng Me Too

 
Shaun Lo

They should be fined heavily and have their charitable status removed

Eric Slyden

@Shaun Lo

Why?

Teddy Spencer

@Eric Slyden

Because they support war criminals.

Shaun Lo

@Eric Slyden

Dumb question .. just because they “stopped”? Why are Jewish organizations still hunting nazi guards? They’ve stopped guarding the concentration camps ..

Just because you sympathize with a cause does not make their transgressions right no matter how small you may want to deem it.

Eric Slyden

@Shaun Lo and Teddy Spencer

The nazi concentration camps deserve nothing in old age. What sympathy did they give their victims?

Teddy Spencer

@Eric Slyden

Israelis deserve nothing either. They're treating their occupied peoples in the same manner that the Nazis did.

Fascists should be shunned. No matter which 'religion' they claim to follow.

Shaun Lo

@Eric Slyden

You seemed to have missed the point .. again ..

Nicolas Krinis

@Nicolas Krinis There is nothing wrong with defending your country.

Teddy Spencer

@Nicolas Krinis

As you're defending Israel, are you saying that's your country?

Move there, then...

Edward Jones

@Nicolas Krinis So the unarmed Palestinians protesting and being slaughtered is considered "defense now"?

Only to cowards and fascists.

Troy Mann

@Eric Slyden "Why?"

Because they knowing broke Canadian law.

John Dirlik

@Teddy Spencer

While that particular analogy is offensive, one difference is that Germans were largely unaware of the horrors perpetuated, and those who did would have been severely punished if they protested.

In sharp contrast with those who not only know exactly what is going on today, but try to deny, justify or whitewash it.

André Carrel

@John Dirlik
That is what is know as "real Politik"

Read Paul Thomas Chamberlin's "The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace" and you will come to realize that many, many so-called Elder Statesmen (e.g. Henry Kissinger) would long ago have been tried for crimes against humanity, but for the fact that they committed their crimes covered by a blankets of special interests.

Dariusz Piatkowski

@John Dirlik "...While that particular analogy is offensive, one difference is that Germans were largely unaware of the horrors perpetuated, and those who did would have been severely punished if they protested... "????

Are you honestly that gullible?

Who do you think was the German military made up from during the war? Do you think they were mercenaries??? LOL....seriously man...last time I checked it was the German air-force strafing the endless lines of fleeing Polish civilians during German's attack on Poland in 1939!

Now imagine yourself in their shoes, trying to get out of the way of military conflict only to have the enemy shoot your whole family of sizeable bullet holes...what is this so difficult to imagine and worse yet to apparently accept today???

This was war, started by Germany (and the Soviets), they are responsible for the atrocities, end of story!

John Dirlik

@Dariusz Piatkowski

Nothing you wrote refutes my point: Germans would have been punished had they objected to Berlin's policies, todays Jews can protest Israel's occupation but many choose to defend it.

thomas stewart

@John Dirlik

"...one difference is that Germans were largely unaware of the horrors perpetuated,..."

They were unaware of the specifics, but they certainly knew that their Jewish neighbours were being subjected to persecution, forced relocation, and confiscation of their goods and homes. There were enough Germans working in the public service, the police, the railways and all the other apparatus of the Holocaust for rumours, tales and knowledge not to have seeped quietly back into the general population.

Knowledge of the persecution is why many non-Jews risked their own lives to protect Jewish individuals.

Of course, few would be in a position to admit how much they knew AFTER the War. Especially after they themselves had endured and been traumatized by the horrors of the Allied bombing of their cities, and the forced deprivations of war.

Shaun Lo

@thomas stewart

That is why we should look forward and not backwards.

We should learn from the German people's mistake where they allow the problem to grow out of their control by not calling out the smallish things that were not right.

We have the same problems today like @Nicolas Krinis who will defend "his country" even when it is breaking international (or in other words - moral) laws.

If this was family, the right thing to do would be to continually work with the member to change their way with constant reminders that what they are doing is wrong. Take them to AA meetings, family counselling. Not buy them booze.

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David R. Amos

@Troy Mann "Because they knowing broke Canadian law."

Why was it ok for me to be falsely imprisoned in Canada and the USA for political reasons?

 
Nelson Barley

Why is it that our government gives tax deductions for donations to Israeli charities? We lose two ways: we lose tax revenue, and money from our economy.

Secondly, the JNF is in fact Israel's department of land management. Its main function is more like a Ministry of Natural Resources or Dept of the Interior. Calling an Israeli government department a charity is ridiculous.

Canada is far too generous to Israel. We have a free trade agreement with it that annually results in a huge trade deficit for us and surplus for Israel. Our government was silent when Israel passed its "Nation State Law" which explicitly states only Jews have a right to expect their national aspirations to be met, making it effectively an apartheid state. A few weeks ago, the Knesset rejected a bill saying all citizens of Israel are equal. The Trudeau government has passed a motion condemning the BDS movement - this motion violates our Charter right to peaceful political action. Our rights as citizens are subject to Israel's approval!

Canada is apparently a signatory to the IHRA Defintition of antisemitism which says it is antisemitic to hold Israel to a standard other countries are not held to. We are not even holding it to our own standards.

Bill Matthews

@Nelson Barley the world is FAR TOO generous to Israel. They have all the money, why does anybody need to donate anything to them period....

Shaun Lo

@Bill Matthews

So they can build more settlements on Palestinian lands.

By the way, who funded the wall? Not Mexico.

Israel has been giving free Palestinian lands to Jews from outside the “country” to entice them to move to Israel so they can pad the population stats to justify its existence for decades.

One documentary a decade or so ago stated that Israel has the largest per capita prostitution in a western democracy .. although it is a bit of a theocracy.

David R. Amos

@Nelson Barley "The Trudeau government has passed a motion condemning the BDS movement - this motion violates our Charter right to peaceful political action. Our rights as citizens are subject to Israel's approval! "

Methinks folks should go figure why I ran for public office 6 times while everyone ignored me N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fundy-royal-riding-profile-1.3274276

John Bouy

may as well admit it - the Jewish lobby is global and powerful. The Jewish state does as it pleases. When non-Jewish civilians are killed its called self defense and condoned by international governments. When a Jew is harmed its called terrorism and the world agrees. When the largest prison camp on earth @ Gaza is brought up it is again condoned as self defense by the Jews and the rest of the world. Appalling global dichotomy.

John Dirlik

@John Bouy

Since Jews are among Israel’s most vociferous critics (and Christian evangelists its most ardent supporters) it would be more accurate to refer to the “Israeli lobby” (also the name of an excellent book by John Mershemeir).

Judaism is a religion while Zionism a political ideology. Big difference. Only two groups deliberately conflate the two terms: anti-Semites (not suggesting you are) and Zionists.

David R. Amos

@John Dirlik Methinks you should ask John Baird and his old boss Mr Harper why I sued the Queen in 2015 N'esy Pas?

Jovian Monty

Canadian representatives should not endorse the construction of theme-parks on occupied land.

https://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/delays-hamper-opening-stephen-harper-bird-sanctuary-israel

John Dirlik

@Jovian Monty

Hey, bird sanctuaries bearing your name and Nobel prize nominations from B’nai Brith don’t come cheap (though I swear I heard the laughter all the way from Oslo).

Stan Johnston

@John Dirlik

Lol. That's bad.

Wil Brown

@Jovian Monty

"Considered a staunch friend of Israel and described by JNF as “an extraordinary world leader,” the organization raised more than $5 million for the Stephen J. Harper Hula Valley Bird Sanctuary Visitor and Education Center in the Hula Lake Nature Eco-Educational Park."

I guess this is why JNF didn't pop up on the government radar until now?

David R. Amos

@John Dirlik "I swear I heard the laughter all the way from Oslo"

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Canadian charity used donations to fund projects linked to Israeli military

JNF says it has since stopped the practice, which contravenes Canadian tax rules

Evan Dyer· CBC News· Posted: Jan 04, 2019 4:00 AM ET

Israeli air force cadets toss their caps into the air during a graduation ceremony at the Hatzerim air force base in southern Israel in 2014. A Canadian charity that funds projects in Israel has faced claims that some of its charitable donations have gone to support projects on Israeli military bases in violation of Canadian tax rules. (Tsafrir Abayov/Associated Press)

The Jewish National Fund of Canada, one of the country's long-established charities, has been the subject of a Canada Revenue Agency audit over a complaint that it used charitable donations to build infrastructure for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), in violation of Canada's tax rules.

The JNF funds numerous projects in Israel, such as reforestation efforts in areas hit by wildfires and the construction of playgrounds for special needs children.

However, it has also funded infrastructure projects on Israeli army, air and naval bases. While no law bars a Canadian citizen from writing a cheque directly to Israel's Ministry of Defence, rules do ban tax-exempt charities from issuing tax receipts for such donations, and also ban donors from claiming tax deductions for them.

The organization, which disclosed to donors last year that it has been under audit by the Canada Revenue Agency, said it stopped funding those projects in 2016.

A JNF Israel webpage describes Canadian-sponsored projects on Bat Galim Naval Base and Palmachim Airbase in Israel. (KKL-JNF)

That would not protect it from action by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), which in August revoked the charitable status of an Ottawa mosque for promoting "hate and intolerance" by inviting controversial speakers, and for financial irregularities that took place between 2009 and 2014 under a previous group of directors.

Guidelines clear on the law

In its guide for Canadian registered charities carrying out activities outside Canada, the CRA states plainly that "increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of Canada's armed forces is charitable, but supporting the armed forces of another country is not."

Yet JNF documents describe some of the charity's spending in Israel in those very terms.

One JNF Canada document called "Project Opportunities" refers to an "outdoor fitness area at a Gadna military base," describing Israel's Gadna program as "a special program for young people in Israel that prepares them for their service in the Israel Defence Forces." The project included "a fitness area for the regular army staff at the Gadna base in Sde Boker."

A JNF Canada Youth Leadership Solidarity Mission picked up tools to help build the hilltop outpost of Givat Oz VeGaon in the West Bank, south of Bethlehem, in 2014. (KKL-JNF)

Documents produced by JNF Canada's Israeli parent organization, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL-JNF), shed additional light on military projects funded by its Canadian affiliate.

They include developing "the new planned IDF Training Base City in the Negev" desert, "helping the development of the Bat Galim training base complex area" at Bat Galim Naval Base, "helping to facilitate the upgrade of the existing auditorium for soldier intake, training and conferences" at the same base and a new "moadon" or mess hall-type facility for the 124th (Blackhawk) Helicopter Squadron at Palmachim Air Force Base ("where crew can relax and refuel"), as well as a similar facility for 131 Squadron at Nevatim Air Force Base.

The logic behind the CRA's guidance to charities is that issuing Canadian tax receipts for contributions to foreign militaries effectively reduces the revenue available to support Canada's own defence spending.

In 2014, JNF Edmonton's Negev Gala dinner was serenaded by members of the Royal Canadian Artillery Band. According to JNF Edmonton's Facebook page, "proceeds from (2014's) Negev Gala will develop three areas of the Negev's Tse'elim army base, the largest military training facility in Israel.

The project will upgrade and landscape the family visiting area, intake and release facility and the barracks' main plaza. The base is the national centre for ground forces training."

JNF Canada declined an interview request for this story, but CEO Lance Davis told CBC News in an email that while the organization has funded projects that support the IDF in the past, it stopped doing so in 2016 after being informed of the CRA guidance.

"To be clear, we no longer fund projects located on IDF land and JNF Canada operates in accordance with CRA regulations governing its status as a charitable organization," Davis wrote in the email.

Greening the land

Megan McKenzie says she first came across the Jewish National Fund when she was planning a bequest in memory of her nature-loving Jewish grandmother. The Jewish National Fund is famous for planting trees, "greening the land of Israel."

McKenzie is a professional mediator and conflict consultant who is married to a Canadian soldier and lives at CFB Shilo in Manitoba. Having worked in conflict resolution from Ireland to DR Congo, she said was "dumbfounded" to find that the JNF was involved in projects she believed did not conform to Canada's charitable rules.

"I have a PhD and I'm sort of a natural researcher and so I did some online research," she said. "And the more I did, the more appalled I was."

Megan McKenzie says she found examples of JNF Canada funds benefiting the Israeli Defence Force when she looked into making a donation to the charity on behalf of her late grandmother. (CBC News)

McKenzie's online research led her to webpages for both JNF Canada and its parent organization giving extensive details on the charity's support for the Israeli military and its reforestation projects that have sprawled across the 1949 armistice line (the "Green Line") into occupied West Bank territory.

In the case of the JNF's Canada Park project, occupied land forested by the JNF was enclosed on the Israeli side of the barrier Israel built to separate its citizens from the Palestinian population in the West Bank.

A new complaint

Canada Park was JNF Canada's first large project in Israel and the West Bank, built on the site of three Palestinian villages left empty after 1967's Six Day War.

Retired physician Ismail Zayid of Halifax was born in one of those villages, Beit Nuba. He has been complaining to CRA about JNF's charitable status for 40 years.

"I wrote to (the CRA) repeatedly," he said. "They would say they are conducting an investigation of (the) complaint, and then I would write again and say, 'What are the findings of your investigation?' And they would say, 'The findings are confidential.'"

Retired physician Ismail Zayid has initiated several complaints about JNF Canada, most recently in 2017. (CBC News)

In October 2017, Zayid filed a new formal complaint, this time in concert with an Ottawa professor, a Vancouver rabbi and a retired nurse from Montreal and using some of McKenzie's research (the complaint has been backed by the activist organization Independent Jewish Voices Canada, which has mounted a "Stop the JNF Canada" campaign). The CRA appears so far to have taken no action against the charity, although it has subjected JNF to an audit.

The CRA declined to be interviewed for this story, citing confidentiality. But JNF Canada's Davis said in an email to CBC News the charity is "currently engaged in ongoing confidential discussions with CRA." Davis dismissed the complaint as "a rehash" and called IJVC "a longstanding opponent of JNF."

Building in the West Bank

The 2017 complaint includes new information about JNF's contributions to Israeli military infrastructure projects and its involvement in building in the West Bank.

Canada officially opposes Israeli settlement-building in occupied territory. CRA policy statement CSP-P13 states: "The courts have held that an organization is not charitable in law if its activities are contrary to public policy."

Canada states its position on settlements on Global Affairs Canada's website: "Israeli settlements in the occupied territories are a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. The settlements also constitute a serious obstacle to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace."

JNF Canada missions in Israel also have contributed directly to the construction of at least one hilltop settler outpost that was declared illegal by the State of Israel itself. Givat Oz VeGaon received and ignored at least 18 demolition orders from the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

A JNF Canadian Young Leadership Solidarity Mission visited the site in August-September 2014 and worked with picks and shovels "to prepare the ground for building a residential unit to be used by the security guard."

'KKL for IDF'

 

A JNF Israel document describes construction work carried out within Tel Nof Airbase in Israel in 2015, paid for by its Canadian subsidiary. (KKL-JNF)

In a 2014 document produced by the JNF Canada's parent organization, the Israeli JNF's Resources and Development Division lists a dozen "KKL for IDF" projects over the previous decade as "Canada-sponsored," mostly in the period 2011-14.

One JNF Canada document from 2014 offers donors the chance to participate in the construction of a "meeting point" to enable soldiers to see family members while on active service. Canadian donors are also invited to fund a 900-metre "security road" at Kadesh Barne'a near the Egyptian border that "will improve access to the area for security forces."

A KKL-JNF document describes its roads in the western Negev as "security roads which serve the armed forces that patrol the border zones … All the work undertaken by KKL-JNF is coordinated with the IDF … Thanks to these roads, military activity is enhanced."

'Improving the quality of lives of Israelis'

In an email to CBC News, Davis said these projects were just part of the works funded by JNF Canada.

"Thanks to the generosity of Canadians, JNF Canada has played an important role in a wide range of projects in Israel. We have, for example, supported the building of water reservoirs, collaborated with dozens of educational institutions, built numerous recreational/educational facilities, planted millions of trees and supported pioneering research in green technology," he said.

Laureen Harper poses with JNF Gala honorees during a group visit to 24 Sussex Drive in 2015. (JNF Canada)

"In keeping with our mission of improving the quality of lives of Israelis, we have in the past funded projects of a charitable nature that indirectly involved the IDF. These projects were built on land owned by the IDF primarily for the benefit of children and youth. When it came to our attention several years ago that supporting these types of projects may not be in keeping with CRA policies, we stopped funding them."

In a subsequent email, Davis said that "the last project we funded was in June 2016 and it was directed to the Hatzerim Airforce Base for a playground/soccer field for the children living on the base."

Hatzerim is home to the Israeli Air Force's flight academy and three combat squadrons.

Low marks for transparency

Kate Bahen heads Charity Intelligence, a Toronto-based NGO that produces a report rating Canadian charities on their transparency and efficiency in spending donors' money.

"When you look at JNF Canada, it's fine for cost efficiency," said Bahen. "It really falls down on financial transparency and accountability. For financial transparency, it gets zero."

Bahen said the charity has done the right thing by disclosing to donors that it's being audited, but it is "an utter black box" when it comes to providing a breakdown of how its money is spent.

"Any Canadian donor who knows of JNF automatically thinks of planting trees. And there is a lot more to JNF than planting trees.

"We have absolutely no information on how much it's spent planting trees, how much goes for irrigation, or education, or how much is diverted to military bases. And that information, I think, is critical, and it's not provided to Canadian donors."

Support in Canada

JNF has had strong relations with successive Conservative and Liberal governments. One of its recent projects in Israel is the Stephen J. Harper Hula Valley Bird Sanctuary in Galilee. Another is John Baird Park in Sderot.

Stephen Harper helps to lay the cornerstone of the JNF's Stephen J. Harper Hula Valley Bird Sanctuary in the Galilee region of northern Israel in January 2014. Harper played the keyboard at a Toronto JNF dinner to raise funds for the project, which remains uncompleted. (JNF)

Although the group enjoyed particularly strong links with the Harper government, it also has been close to the Trudeau government.

Last July, Ralph Goodale, Canada's minister of Public Safety, planted a pistachio tree at the JNF's VIP Tree Planting Center in Jerusalem. He was accompanied by fellow Liberal MP Michael Levitt, a former board member of JNF Canada.

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and Liberal MP Michael Levitt plant a tree at JNF's VIP Tree Planting Center in the mountains above Jerusalem in July 2017. (KKL-JNF)

About the Author

 

Evan Dyer

Senior Reporter

Evan Dyer has been a journalist with CBC for 18 years, after an early career as a freelancer in Argentina. He works in the Parliamentary Bureau and can be reached at evan.dyer@cbc.ca.

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Case against stricter MLA conflict law doesn't wash, says just-retired commissioner

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David R. Amos

Methinks there are many lawyers and other political animals reading this comment section today but none of them will ever admit it N'esy Pas?

Marguerite Deschamps

@David R. Amos, so says the one who thinks he's the reincarnation of J. J. Robinette.

David R. Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps Never heard of him but methinks even you must realize I can use Google as well as you Trust that the last person I would wish to emulate would be a lawyer Everybody knows how much I love to sue such dudes N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks you were quite busy over here earlier today N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/kevin-vickers-new-brunswick-1.4965974

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David R. Amos

Alexandre Deschênes Q.C. knows that in 2004 I proved to Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of New Brunswick as represented by the Office of the Executive Council and the Judicial Council that his buddies were not ethical so why pretend now that he retired?

  

David R. Amos

Methinks the SANB champion Chucky Leblanc and the lawyers Chucky Murrray and Alexandre Deschênes should Google their names and mine then review their files going back to 2004 and most importantly check my work in Federal Court ASAP N'esy Pas?

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New Brunswick Ombudsman Charles Murray sits down with Blogger!!!!

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Trust that everybody knows that my friend Roger Richard ran as an Independent against the Green MLA and former SANB President Kevin Arseneau who was also barred from legislative properties years ago

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Roger Richard

It is disheartening to see people speak-up only when they are finished and cannot correct things anymore. These are the recent words of Mr. Charlie Reese when he was talking of politicians: «  They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses. Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees... We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper. 

David R. Amos

@Roger Richard Methinks folks in Kent County should thank you for having the gumption to run against all the political parties as an Independent and speaking your mind in very ethical fashion I for one know it was a very unusual thing for a very quiet man to do Kinda like your comment I am responding to N'esy Pas?

  
Doug Leblanc

It is interesting that Brian Gallant did not think that Boudreau had a conflict whatsoever, but hung his other buddy Arsenault out to dry on a far less potential conflict of interest. Friends over ethics. I wonder how the new integrity commissioner will rule on the gallant appointing his merry band of friends to the well paid francophonie games committee.

Shawn McShane

@Doug Leblanc Once upon a time Arsenault spoke out against Katherine d'Entremont mandate that all senior bureaucrats had to be bilingual.

Marguerite Deschamps

@Shawn McShane, toi, tu charries pas mal.

David R. Amos

@Doug Leblanc Methinks I should lay odds that the lawyer Chucky Murray will play dumb just like he did when I was conferring with his old boss Elsie Wayne before I ran in the election of the 38th Parliament will being illegally barred from the legislative properties of NB by his conservative lawyer buddies Bernie Lord and Brad Green for the benefit of Blaine Higgs pals Rob Moore and Steve Harper N'esy Pas?

 



  
eddy watts

Irving (I mean politicians) don't want tighter conflict-of-interest rules.......jeeez I wonder what that's about???

David R. Amos

@eddy watts Methinks it ain't rocket science N'esy Pas?

  
Joseph Vacher

or more recently, the Francophone Games.....

Marguerite Deschamps

@Joseph Vacher, je vois que tu es fixé sur les jeux de la francophonie!

Shawn McShane

@Marguerite Deschamps So should you.

Marguerite Deschamps

@Shawn McShane, pourquoi le serais-je?

Marguerite Deschamps

@Joseph Vachier, tu es un crosseur.

David R. Amos

@Shawn McShane YUP

  
Shawn McShane

Both Progressive Conservatives and Liberals rejected Deschênes proposal in the last year.

Here is a novel idea...why don't NBers reject both the Progressive Conservatives and Liberals next election? What are you waiting for?

Marguerite Deschamps

@Shawn McShane, le parti vert serait la seule option.

David R. Amos

@Marguerite Deschamps NOPE

  
Roy Kirk

Acting ethically is too difficult for nb politicians, so we need to write rules to suit them, rather than the public interest!?! :-(

David R. Amos

@Roy Kirk Or sue them

Marc LeBlanc

With strict COI rules political parties wouldn't be able to dish out patronage that enriches their party's coffers.No wonder their against it.Let's face it they're both the same

Case against stricter MLA conflict law doesn't wash, says just-retired commissioner

Alexandre Deschênes calls for ban against 'perceived' or 'apparent' conflicts of interest

Jacques Poitras· CBC News· Posted: Jan 04, 2019 5:45 PM AT 

Alexandre Deschênes, New Brunswick's first integrity commissioner, retired Dec. 31. (CBC)

New Brunswick's first-ever integrity commissioner says he still believes the conflict of interest law for MLAs needs to be toughened — despite both Progressive Conservatives and Liberals rejecting his proposal in the last year.

Alexandre Deschênes officially retired from the watchdog position Dec. 31. In an interview with CBC News, he said he's disappointed no government has acted on his recommendation to ban "apparent" or "perceived" conflicts of interest.

Then-premier Brian Gallant rejected the idea, saying it would impede politicians from doing their jobs, while Progressive Conservative MLA Bruce Fitch said the ban would be complicated because of "the semantics of what exactly does that mean."

"These types of arguments to me are not very convincing," Deschênes said Friday.

"There are several provinces who have the 'apparent' or 'perceived' conflict of interest in force now and the governments have been functioning rather well."

• Government signals a mixed bag on strengthened conflict of interest laws

• Integrity commissioner calls for tougher conflict-of-interest law

Gallant said in December 2017 that banning perceived conflicts would mean a minister or MLA with a slight personal connection to an issue "would potentially not be able to vote, not be able to debate, not be able to discuss, not be able to introduce legislation, not be able to do their work as a minister."

At the time, the opposition PCs wouldn't commit to the change if they formed government.

But government spokesperson Tyler Campbell said Friday the new Higgs government "will explore the issue of perceived conflict of interest as part of its already stated commitment to strengthening conflict of interest rules."

Two previous conflict of interest commissioners have also proposed the change over the years, but to no avail.

A conflict of interest occurs when an elected official's other interests or connections affect his or her decision-making in office.

Two recent perception cases

Deschênes first raised the idea after looking into then-health minister Victor Boudreau's interest in a proposed Parlee Beach campground at the same time public health officials were dealing with fecal contamination at the beach.

Deschênes said in a letter to Boudreau that "one could argue" his investment did not technically put him in a conflict of interest but also said the perception of a conflict was "inevitable." Boudreau recused himself from handling the contamination issue.

The issue of perceived conflicts of interests was raised after then-health minister Victor Boudreau was found to have interest in a proposed Parlee Beach campground when public health officials were dealing with fecal contamination at the beach. (CBC)

Later that year, Gallant demanded MLA Donald Arseneault either quit a new lobbying job in Ottawa or be ejected from the Liberal caucus, citing "a perceived conflict of interest." Arseneault ended up resigning from the legislature.

Deschênes said that makes it obvious that the law should be changed.

"We have seen over the last couple years that leaders of political parties or governments do not want MLAs to continue on in a perceived or apparent conflict of interest. They sometimes hand out pretty severe consequences … so I don't see what the problem is."

As commissioner, Deschênes met with MLAs once a year so they could declare any conflicts. He said 80 per cent of the cases raised by elected members were not clear-cut but did create a potential perception of conflict.

"They would always abide by my recommendations that they get out of it," he said.

'Magnitude' of work too great

Deschênes, 73, retired as a justice of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal in 2015 and was appointed conflict of interest commissioner the following year.

At the time, the position was part-time. But in 2017 the Liberals broadened the role. Renaming it integrity commissioner, they added watchdog responsibility for the Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the registry of lobbyists.

That amounted to a full-time workload, including a "voluminous" number of right-to-information complaints, Deschênes said.

"I came to the conclusion that the magnitude of the mandate was such that I did not think it was proper to continue," he said. "I did not feel I could live up to the expectations of citizens of this province."

The province has appointed Ombud Charles Murray to fill the position temporarily.

Campbell said Murray can only be interim commissioner for a year, and the province will launch an independent process to find a full-time replacement.

Job should be split, Deschênes says

As the first person to have held the position of integrity commissioner, Deschênes said he believes the workload justifies splitting up the functions again, with right-to-information and privacy complaints being handled by a separate commissioner.

That would leave the integrity commissioner to handle MLA conflicts of interest, the lobbyist registry and a new issue — conflict of interest cases for deputy ministers and other senior government officials.

The province has appointed Ombud Charles Murray to temporarily fill the position of integrity commissioner. (CBC)

The conflict law for those non-elected officials is now overseen by a sitting judge designated by the province, an arrangement Deschênes said "has to be abandoned for many reasons."

He points out that judges who have been designated to oversee the law have complained that there is no list of who it covers nor anything in the legislation outlining what action to take against someone found to be in a conflict.

He also believes it's awkward for the independence of the courts if a sitting judge is overseeing the behaviour of civil servants.

"Any potential changes to the role of the integrity commissioner would be considered as work proceeds on the government's stated commitment to strengthen conflict of interest rules," Campbell said.

Calls for changes to information law

Deschênes also used his retirement to call for changes to the right-to-information law to streamline how the courts hear appeals under the act. People whose requests for documents are rejected by the province have the right to appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench.

"The appeal is supposed to be a user-friendly type of process, where citizens from the province can simply file an appeal and argue that the recommendations of the commissioner ought to be followed," he said.

But Deschênes said some judges treat the appeals like full trials, allowing the province to introduce new evidence and new arguments. That can make the appeal a legal challenge for an ordinary citizen, he said.

The law should be changed to prevent the government from adding new arguments to its case, 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. 

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