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Methinks the Auditor General would be the first to agree that everything is political and its always about the money N'esy Pas?

 


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/worksafenb-claims-auditor-general-report-1.4981326



WorkSafeNB claims process preventing injured workers from returning sooner: AG report

WorkSafeNB needs focus on return-to-work outcomes, says report


WorkSafeNB says it accepts all the auditor general's recommendations to improve its injured worker claims management. (CBC)


WorkSafeNB says it accepts all of the auditor general's recommendations to improve deficiencies in the Crown corporation's handling of injured worker claims.

Kim MacPherson's report, which focused on claim management, found the process lacks a return-to-work focus, creates unnecessary delays, needs new claim management software and suffers from a general lack of communication.

Those deficiencies are preventing injured workers from returning to work sooner, she said.

"What we found is that generally the policies and the practices within WorkSafe are in line with other workers' compensation organizations across the country," MacPherson told reporters Wednesday.

"But when it comes to managing injured worker claims, there is a lot WorkSafe can do to reduce the time the injured worker is off by ingraining in their processes this focus on return to work."
That focus will reduce the duration and cost of the claim, she said.

WorkSafeNB said in a statement Wednesday the recommendations are an "opportunity to improve the medical treatment and return to work outcomes."


WorksafeNB CEO Doug Jones said the recommendations will help the organization better service clients. (Ed Hunter/CBC)
"[The recommendations] fully align to the objectives of our business transformation that is currently underway to significantly improve process efficiencies and outcomes for injured workers and employers," the statement said.

Doug Jones, president and CEO of WorkSafeNB, thanked MacPherson in a tweet.



I’d like to thank Kim MacPherson, Auditor General, for her work on both phases of WorkSafeNB’s audit. The recommendations will help us be a better organization and provide the highest level of service to our clients.




"The recommendations will help us be a better organization and provide the highest level of service to our clients," he said.

Daniel Theriault, chair of the Workers' Compensation Appeals Tribunal, agreed with MacPherson's statement that the recommendations will be "mutually beneficial" to injured workers and employers.

"Anytime you can speed up the process and try to get the injured worker back to work, it's good for the injured worker and it's certainly good for the employer," he said.

29 recommendations

The report outlined 29 recommendations to be implemented before the end of 2021. They include:
  • Automate the claim management software to improve efficiency and tracking;
  • Develop detailed case plans with return-to-work goals, proposed treatments, forecast recovery date;
  • Have case managers speak with injured workers about their abilities and limitations in forming the return-to-work plan;
  • Follow up with injured workers and health care providers about treatment and closely monitor claims;
  • Train case managers to better understand specific types of injuries and refer those claims to them;
  • Develop key performance indicators and targets for internal processes;
  • Promote early referrals to the Workers' Rehabilitation Centre.
MacPherson said the Workers' Rehabilitation Centre in Grand Bay-Westfield is often used as a "last resort" in complex cases.

"[WorkSafeNB] should consider these complex cases going to the rehab centre earlier in their treatment plan, rather than waiting until after they've exhausted every other opportunity," she said.

Skyrocketing claims


The report, released Wednesday, is the second of two from the auditor general's office on WorkSafeNB in the past seven months. In June, MacPherson found the corporation is plagued by poor governance and lack of oversight.

The cost of claims has also skyrocketed in recent years. The figure soared more than $300 million since 2013, reaching $486 million in 2017, the report stated.

And New Brunswick employers are feeling the brunt in the premiums they pay. Starting Jan.1, they are paying $2.65 for every $100 of payroll — almost double what they were paying two years earlier.


Auditor General Kim MacPherson made 29 recommendations to improve WorkSafeNB's claim management process. (CBC)
Most, including MacPherson in her report, point to the Workers' Compensation Appeals Tribunal, a quasi-judicial tribunal that's independent of WorkSafeNB, as the reason for the ballooning costs.

Critics say the scope of its powers were too broad and that led to a high number of decisions being overturned.

MacPherson's report recommended amending legislation so that appeals go the issues resolution office before the tribunal.

Theriault, the tribunal chair, said it makes sense to consider the appeal internally before sending it to the independent body.

New legislation


In an effort to tackle rising premiums, the Higgs government passed legislation in December ending the tribunal's power to overrule WorkSafeNB policies when hearing claim cases.
Theriault, the tribunal chair, said he was consulted on the auditor general's first WorkSafeNB report, but not the second one. If he had been, Theriault said he would have clarified some of MacPherson's findings.


Daniel Theriault is the chair of the Workers' Compensation Appeals Tribunal. (CBC)
"I'm assuming she received her information mainly from WorkSafe ... and didn't challenge it," he said.

For instance, the report stated WorkSafeNB, due to WCAT decisions, continues to pay benefits for non-compensable injuries — something that's inconsistent with the rest of Canada.

Theriault said the tribunal is only following case law that dates back two decades.

The new legislation has changed that, he said, and WorkSafeNB will be introducing new policies.






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David R. Amos 
David R. Amos
Methinks the time has come to talk of many things so said the Walrus N'esy Pas?

and Chucky said

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/worksafe-premiums-new-brunswick-premiums-1.4923562

The new Progressive Conservative government introduced legislation Tuesday that could see rates start to come down by the end of January, after three years of increases in the premiums paid by employers.

Charles Murray, who as ombud has had a longtime interest in workplace fairness in New Brunswick, said those increases were needed because WorkSafeNB ran irresponsible deficits, giving employers hundreds of millions of dollars in premium rebates and setting unrealistically low rates.

"I'd say WorkSafe has become a cautionary tale about what happens when an agency of government runs irresponsible deficits year after year and then is suddenly forced to face the reality of those decisions," he told Information Morning Fredericton on Wednesday.

Murray said that in the past 20 years there has been a "very stable system in the province, where rates hovered around $2."

But in recent years, he said, "huge" rebates on premiums were given to employers, and the fund for compensating injured workers was "drained of literally hundreds of millions of dollars."

"We took the fund from 140 per cent protection to 110 per cent protection in just a couple of years and surprise, surprise now the piper has to be paid. ... Now the money has to go back into the system."








Daniel Rawlins
Daniel Rawlins
Worksafe (workers compensation board) is not the workers guardian employees have been led to believe it is. The truth of the matter is Workers Compensation Boards were set up to protect employers from being sued by injured workers (civil cases awarded to much to broken workers) and as such has the employers financial well being as its focus, not the financial, physical or mental well-being of injured employees.
Giving the consideration of appeals to Worksafe for approval or denial is an illustration of justice for workers denied and the only alternative (civil litigation) for workers has been denied them by government decree.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Daniel Rawlins Methinks they also have a mandate to hang on to the money that is meant to compensate the workers for their injuries N'esy Pas?

Daniel Rawlins
Daniel Rawlins
@David R. Amos
Which is something they seem to do poorly. Workers ... and lawyers would be better off if workers compensation boards were dissolved and employers had to provide their own employee injury, disability and death insurance through a private insurer.

Rosco holt
Rosco holt
@Daniel Rawlins
There's businesses that insures their employees in case of death, but it's the business cashes the benefits.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Daniel Rawlins I agree









Harold Benson 
Harold Benson
Should just about balance out with the employer hounding you to get back when you aren't ready.


Daniel Rawlins
Daniel Rawlins
@Harold Benson
I hear you, I find it interesting that employers are concerned with higher rates,$2.65 for every $100 of payroll seems quite high but instead of crying about the cost employers should be driving Safe Work Practices and putting their focus on providing safe workplaces for their employees. Employers fail to see Workplace Safety as a cost saving mechanism. Injured workers cost employers production, delays, and often damage costs for repairs, modifications to workplaces, job-site shutdowns and even Department of Labour code violation charges.
We work 'AT OUR JOBS', but we don't work for our employer (unless your self employed) we work for ourselves, so we must do everything we can to go home in one piece at the end of every day.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Daniel Rawlins "Employers fail to see Workplace Safety as a cost saving mechanism."

Methinks the Auditor General would be the first to agree that everything is political and its always about the money N'esy Pas?










Emilien Forest
Emilien Forest
With the salary Jones et al are getting, one would think he, (they) would be able to come up with a few ideas on their own. Appointments like this are the issue to New Brunswick's financial woes, Liberal or Conservative, everyone of them costs us a lot of money.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Emilien Forest Oh So True







https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/worksafe-nb-premiums-1.4944325

Employers to pay smaller WorkSafe premium increase than expected

Province promises other changes in law governing WorkSafeNB


Labour Minister Trevor Holder thanked all parties in the house for quick passage of the bill, which made the lesser premium increase possible. (CBC)

New Brunswick employers will be getting a small break on the premiums they pay to WorkSafeNB New Brunswick in 2019.

Labour Minister Trevor Holder said in the legislature Thursday that the rate on Jan. 1 will increase to $2.65 on every $100 of payroll, not the higher $2.92 announced by WorkSafe earlier this fall.

"We suspect that future rates will continue to be more predictable for employers," Holder said.
The premium was $1.11 in 2016, $1.48 in 2017 and $1.70 this year.

The reduction is the result of passage of a bill earlier this week that changes the law governing the Crown corporation. Lt.-Gov. Jocelyne Roy Vienneau gave royal assent to the legislation Wednesday.

Holder thanked all parties in the house for quick passage of the bill, which was introduced Nov. 27.
Employers pay premiums to WorkSafe to cover the Crown corporation's operations, including benefits to workers injured on the job.

With the original 2019 increase, WorkSafe estimated the 7,000 smallest employers in the province would be forking over an additional $700 each.

The legislation ended the Workers Compensation Appeal Tribunal's power to overrule WorkSafe policies when hearing claim cases. That power was created by legislation passed in 2014 by the previous Progressive Conservative government.
An independent task force made up of employers and workers concluded earlier this year that the new powers for the tribunal, and its rewriting of WorkSafe policies, drove up the costs of benefits, forcing the board to raise premiums.

The legislation passed this week implemented only some of the task force's recommendations. Holder said Thursday the government would work with WorkSafe to put the others in effect.

CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices



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David Amos
David Amos
Methinks the Irving Clan won't be satisfied with the reduction N'esy Pas?




https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/worksafe-premiums-new-brunswick-premiums-1.4923562


Injured workers will pay price for lower WorkSafeNB premiums, ombud says

The PC government introduced legislation Tuesday which aims to reduce premiums


Employers say premiums to WorkSafeNB are costing their businesses too much money. (Dan McGarvey/CBC)

New Brunswick's ombud says injured employees will pay the price if WorkSafeNB premiums are lowered.

The new Progressive Conservative government introduced legislation Tuesday that could see rates start to come down by the end of January, after three years of increases in the premiums paid by employers.

Charles Murray, who as ombud has had a longtime interest in workplace fairness in New Brunswick, said those increases were needed because WorkSafeNB ran irresponsible deficits, giving employers hundreds of millions of dollars in premium rebates and setting unrealistically low rates.

"I'd say WorkSafe has become a cautionary tale about what happens when an agency of government runs irresponsible deficits year after year and then is suddenly forced to face the reality of those decisions," he told Information Morning Fredericton on Wednesday.

Murray said that in the past 20 years there has been a "very stable system in the province, where rates hovered around $2."
New  Brunswickers  have to recognize there's no such thing as a free lunch.-Charles Murray, ombud
But in recent years, he said, "huge" rebates on premiums were given to employers, and the fund for compensating injured workers was "drained of literally hundreds of millions of dollars."

"We took the fund from 140 per cent protection to 110 per cent protection in just a couple of years and surprise, surprise now the piper has to be paid. ... Now the money has to go back into the system."


Ombud Charles Murray warns that any reduction in the rates will mean less protection for workers and higher costs elsewhere in the government. (CBC)
Murray said trying to maintain fairness will be "extremely difficult" because of pressure on the government to lower the premiums, and a weak counter-voice from injured workers.

Starting Jan.1, employers will pay an average of $2.92 for every $100 of payroll — a figure that's almost double what they were paying just two years earlier.

But if the PC bill passes quickly, there's a narrow legislative window that would allow WorkSafeNB to partially roll back the increase before Jan. 31.

Less protection for workers


Murray warned that any reduction in the rates will mean less protection for injured workers and a shift in costs to other taxpayer-funded programs, such as New Brunswick's health-care system.

"New Brunswickers have to recognize there's no such thing as a free lunch," he said.

"You can't decrease premiums, decrease the money going into the WorkSafe system without decreasing benefits if you're going to seek some sort of balance."


Krista Ross, CEO of the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce, says she wants the system to be fair to workers but also affordable. (CBC News)
WorkSafeNB has said that as a result of decisions by the Workers Compensation Appeal Tribunal's over the last four years, the cost of future benefit payouts is projected at $800 million, a cost that premiums must cover.

The premium was $1.11 in 2016, $1.48 in 2017 and $1.70 this year.

"We — over the past few years — have literally drained the fund of hundreds of millions of dollars rebating that to employers and now our rates are going back to where they need to be to maintain protection," Murray said.

A system that's sustainable


Krista Ross, CEO of the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce, said there's been no suggestion of taking away benefits from workers and injured workers will be protected.

Ross said she wants the system that protects workers to be fair but also affordable.

"We couldn't agree more that it needs to be fair but it needs to be fair to both sides," she said.

"The best way to protect employees is to have a system that's sustainable. Businesses have to be able to afford it."

Ross is pleased with the move to lower the rates employers pay for workers' compensation and said there's widespread support for the change.

"What we were seeing was a potential projection of huge increase year over year and with these changes that hopefully won't be taking place."
With files from Information Morning Fredericton, Jacques Poitras

CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices


Nurses withdraw lawsuit against language commissioner over licensing exam

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Methinks naughty nurses and fancy French men keep too many secrets N'esy Pas?


https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/01/nurses-withdraw-lawsuit-against.html




https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nurses-association-withdraws-lawsuit-language-commissioner-1.4981862


---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:21:47 -0400
Subject: I just called Nurses Association of New Brunswick and they played dumb
so perhaps Michel Carrier and his SANB lawyer pals can explain why I called
N'esy Pas Serge Rouselle?
To: serge.rousselle@gnb.ca, Michel.Carrier@gnb.ca, president@nanb.nb.ca,
 ljanes@nanb.nb.ca, jwhitehead@nanb.nb.ca, peter.lindfield@carlisleinstitute.org,
hugh.flemming@gnb.ca, andrea.anderson-mason@gnb.ca ,brian.gallant@gnb.ca,
David.Coon@gnb.ca, blaine.higgs@gnb.ca, kris.austin@gnb.ca,
 kristar@frederictonchamber.ca, Tim.RICHARDSON@gnb.ca, megan.mitton@gnb.ca,
Kevin.A.Arseneau@gnb.ca, robert.mckee@gnb.ca, robert.gauvin@gnb.ca,
rick.desaulniers@gnb.ca, michelle.conroy@gnb.ca, Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca,
Hon.Dominic.LeBlanc@canada.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com, andre@jafaust.com

You folks can always talk to Chucky Leblanc and his new buddy Krista
Ross it seems that they know everybody and everything N'esy Pas?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMA45Ht5MK0


CEO of the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce Krista Ross sits down to

educate Blogger!!!

Charles Leblanc
Published on Jan 16, 2019


    Nurses Association of New Brunswick
    165 Regent Street
    Fredericton NB
    Canada  E3B 7B4
    Phone: 506-458-8731

    Jennifer Whitehead
    Manager, Communications and Government Relations
    jwhitehead@nanb.nb.ca
    506-459-2852 (ext 852)



https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nurses-association-withdraws-lawsuit-language-commissioner-1.4981862

Nurses withdraw lawsuit against language commissioner over licensing exam

Nurses group was angry with commissioner's report on failure rate by francophone nurses


The pass rate by francophone nursing graduates plunged after a new licensing exam was adopted. (iStock)

The New Brunswick Nurses Association is withdrawing a lawsuit launched last August against the commissioner of official languages after a stinging report on the exam nurses take to get a licence.

The licensing body was challenging the commissioner's findings that it broke the Official Languages Act by adopting an exam that put francophone students at a disadvantage.

The exam, developed from the American NCLX-RN licensing test, saw University of Moncton nursing students with the highest failure rate in the country.

After the exam was introduced in 2015, the school's success rate dropped to 32 per cent from 91 per cent.

Former languages commissioner Katherine d'Entremont found there was a lack of preparation material, such as practice tests, in French and that the translation was weak, likely because it was done by people who were not qualified translators.


The former commissioner of official languages said the lack of preparatory materials and practice exams in French was a major factor in the high failure rates. (CBC)
After discussions between the two parties, the nurses association decided to withdraw the lawsuit from Fredericton Court of Queen's Bench this week.

D-Entremont has retired, and the interim commissioner, Michel Carrier, said the office would decline to comment on the reasons why the lawsuit was dropped. The nurses association said it declined comment for the time being.

The association is still being sued by the Acadian Society of New Brunswick and the student federation at the University of Moncton, who took it to court last May over the failure rate.

CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices


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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


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From: "Eidt, David (OAG/CPG)"<David.Eidt@gnb.ca>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 00:33:21 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Mr Lutz howcome your buddy the clerk
would not file this motion and properly witnessed affidavit and why
did she take all four copies?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

I will be out of the office until Monday, March 13, 2017. I will have
little to no access to email. Please dial 453-2222 for assistance.


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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:16:46 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE: The New Brunswick Real Estate
Association and their deliberate ignorance for the bankster's benefit
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

I will be out of the office until  August 15, 2016. Je serai absent du
bureau jusqu'au 15 août 2016.





> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:32:09 -0400
> Subject: Attn Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
> To: coi@gnb.ca
> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>
> Good Day Sir
>
> After I heard you speak on CBC I called your office again and managed
> to speak to one of your staff for the first time
>
> Please find attached the documents I promised to send to the lady who
> answered the phone this morning. Please notice that not after the Sgt
> at Arms took the documents destined to your office his pal Tanker
> Malley barred me in writing with an "English" only document.
>
> These are the hearings and the dockets in Federal Court that I
> suggested that you study closely.
>
> This is the docket in Federal Court
>
> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=T-1557-15&select_court=T
>
> These are digital recordings of  the last three hearings
>
> Dec 14th https://archive.org/details/BahHumbug
>
> January 11th, 2016 https://archive.org/details/Jan11th2015
>
> April 3rd, 2017
>
> https://archive.org/details/April32017JusticeLeblancHearing
>
>
> This is the docket in the Federal Court of Appeal
>
> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=A-48-16&select_court=All
>
>
> The only hearing thus far
>
> May 24th, 2017
>
> https://archive.org/details/May24thHoedown
>
>
> This Judge understnds the meaning of the word Integrity
>
> Date: 20151223
>
> Docket: T-1557-15
>
> Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 23, 2015
>
> PRESENT:        The Honourable Mr. Justice Bell
>
> BETWEEN:
>
> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>
> Plaintiff
>
> and
>
> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>
> Defendant
>
> ORDER
>
> (Delivered orally from the Bench in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on
> December 14, 2015)
>
> The Plaintiff seeks an appeal de novo, by way of motion pursuant to
> the Federal Courts Rules (SOR/98-106), from an Order made on November
> 12, 2015, in which Prothonotary Morneau struck the Statement of Claim
> in its entirety.
>
> At the outset of the hearing, the Plaintiff brought to my attention a
> letter dated September 10, 2004, which he sent to me, in my then
> capacity as Past President of the New Brunswick Branch of the Canadian
> Bar Association, and the then President of the Branch, Kathleen Quigg,
> (now a Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal).  In that letter
> he stated:
>
> As for your past President, Mr. Bell, may I suggest that you check the
> work of Frank McKenna before I sue your entire law firm including you.
> You are your brother’s keeper.
>
> Frank McKenna is the former Premier of New Brunswick and a former
> colleague of mine at the law firm of McInnes Cooper. In addition to
> expressing an intention to sue me, the Plaintiff refers to a number of
> people in his Motion Record who he appears to contend may be witnesses
> or potential parties to be added. Those individuals who are known to
> me personally, include, but are not limited to the former Prime
> Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper; former
> Attorney General of Canada and now a Justice of the Manitoba Court of
> Queen’s Bench, Vic Toews; former member of Parliament Rob Moore;
> former Director of Policing Services, the late Grant Garneau; former
> Chief of the Fredericton Police Force, Barry McKnight; former Staff
> Sergeant Danny Copp; my former colleagues on the New Brunswick Court
> of Appeal, Justices Bradley V. Green and Kathleen Quigg, and, retired
> Assistant Commissioner Wayne Lang of the Royal Canadian Mounted
> Police.
>
> In the circumstances, given the threat in 2004 to sue me in my
> personal capacity and my past and present relationship with many
> potential witnesses and/or potential parties to the litigation, I am
> of the view there would be a reasonable apprehension of bias should I
> hear this motion. See Justice de Grandpré’s dissenting judgment in
> Committee for Justice and Liberty et al v National Energy Board et al,
> [1978] 1 SCR 369 at p 394 for the applicable test regarding
> allegations of bias. In the circumstances, although neither party has
> requested I recuse myself, I consider it appropriate that I do so.
>
>
> AS A RESULT OF MY RECUSAL, THIS COURT ORDERS that the Administrator of
> the Court schedule another date for the hearing of the motion.  There
> is no order as to costs.
>
> “B. Richard Bell”
> Judge
>
>
> Below after the CBC article about your concerns (I made one comment
> already) you will find the text of just two of many emails I had sent
> to your office over the years since I first visited it in 2006.
>
>  I noticed that on July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the  the Court
> Martial Appeal Court of Canada  Perhaps you should scroll to the
> bottom of this email ASAP and read the entire Paragraph 83  of my
> lawsuit now before the Federal Court of Canada?
>
> "FYI This is the text of the lawsuit that should interest Trudeau the most
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca
> Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:18 PM
> Subject: Réponse automatique : RE My complaint against the CROWN in
> Federal Court Attn David Hansen and Peter MacKay If you planning to
> submit a motion for a publication ban on my complaint trust that you
> dudes are way past too late
> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>
> Veuillez noter que j'ai changé de courriel. Vous pouvez me rejoindre à
> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>
> Pour rejoindre le bureau de M. Trudeau veuillez envoyer un courriel à
> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>
> Please note that I changed email address, you can reach me at
> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>
> To reach the office of Mr. Trudeau please send an email to
> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>
> Thank you,
>
> Merci ,
>
>
> http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2015/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
>
>
> 83.  The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war
> in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation to
> allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over
> five years after he began his bragging:
>
> January 13, 2015
> This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate
>
> December 8, 2014
> Why Canada Stood Tall!
>
> Friday, October 3, 2014
> Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And
> Stupid Justin Trudeau
>
> Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide
> behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
>
> When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean Chretien
> actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second campaign
> in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or contrary to
> the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were
> involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There were
> significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the dearth
> of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for
> operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “last minute”
> Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its mind.
> The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not
> deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a
> Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins to
> redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was
> less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq. But
> alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister Chretien’s
> then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s
> incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic,
> professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle
> Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway
> campaign of 2006.
>
> What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that then
> Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the
> Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice, consent,
> support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament.
>
> What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and babbling
> chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment of
> less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by planners
> as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a
> deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make.
>
> The Canadian Government or The Crown unlike our amerkan cousins have
> the “constitutional authority” to commit the Canadian nation to war.
> That has been recently clearly articulated to the Canadian public by
> constitutional scholar Phillippe Legasse. What Parliament can do is
> remove “confidence” in The Crown’s Government in a “vote of
> non-confidence.” That could not happen to the Chretien Government
> regarding deployment to Afghanistan, and it won’t happen in this
> instance with the conservative majority in The Commons regarding a
> limited Canadian deployment to the Middle East.
>
> President George Bush was quite correct after 911 and the terror
> attacks in New York; that the Taliban “occupied” and “failed state”
> Afghanistan was the source of logistical support, command and control,
> and training for the Al Quaeda war of terror against the world. The
> initial defeat, and removal from control of Afghanistan was vital and
>
> P.S. Whereas this CBC article is about your opinion of the actions of
> the latest Minister Of Health trust that Mr Boudreau and the CBC have
> had my files for many years and the last thing they are is ethical.
> Ask his friends Mr Murphy and the RCMP if you don't believe me.
>
> Subject:
> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:02:35 -0400
> From: "Murphy, Michael B. \(DH/MS\)"MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca
> To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>
> January 30, 2007
>
> WITHOUT PREJUDICE
>
> Mr. David Amos
>
> Dear Mr. Amos:
>
> This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29,
> 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP.
>
> Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have
> taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve
> Graham of the RCMP “J” Division in Fredericton.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Honourable Michael B. Murphy
> Minister of Health
>
> CM/cb
>
>
> Warren McBeath warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote:
>
> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500
> From: "Warren McBeath"warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
> To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca,
> nada.sarkis@gnb.ca, wally.stiles@gnb.ca, dwatch@web.net,
> motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
> CC: ottawa@chuckstrahl.com, riding@chuckstrahl.com,John.Foran@gnb.ca,
> Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,"Bev BUSSON"bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> "Paul Dube"PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
> Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has
> forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have not
>
> Dear Mr. Amos,
>
> Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off
> over the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured I
> was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
>
> As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our position
> is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
> testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the
> Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
> services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
> instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
>
> As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
> imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear
> that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada
> the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment
> and policing in Petitcodiac, NB.
>
> It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on
> December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
>
>  Sincerely,
>
> Warren McBeath, Cpl.
> GRC Caledonia RCMP
> Traffic Services NCO
> Ph: (506) 387-2222
> Fax: (506) 387-4622
> E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>
>
>
> Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
> Office of the Integrity Commissioner
> Edgecombe House, 736 King Street
> Fredericton, N.B. CANADA E3B 5H1
> tel.: 506-457-7890
> fax: 506-444-5224
> e-mail:coi@gnb.ca
>


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
>>
>

http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/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

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Methinks everybody knows why I am looking forward to being enlightened as to who will run under Max's banner in Fundy Royal N'esy Pas?


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Maxime Bernier applauds Higgs's call for cuts to equalization





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David R. Amos 
David R. Amos
Methinks everybody knows why I am looking forward to being enlightened as to who will run under Max's banner in Fundy Royal N'esy Pas?


Lou Bell
Lou Bell
@David R. Amos You have some good ideas, yet everything is about you . Not sure if this is how you ATTEMPTED to run as a politician , but NO ONE cares for anyone RUNNING FOR THERMSELVES . Not sure who you are, where you ran , how long ago it was, or really even care . Time to get over oneself and just move on .

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Lou Bell Methinks it should be a small wonder to your political pals why I often think that we get the governments we deserve N'esy Pas?







Lou Bell
Bernard McIntyre
Politician's must really think people are stupid. They always say great things to get into power then seem to forget every thing they said when they get the power.


Lou Bell
Lou Bell
@Bernard McIntyre Some people seem to really have a problem with getting up off their rearends and just working . Time to end handouts and do what the rest of the country is doing . Develop our resources, create jobs , and quit being a welafare province !!

Rosco holt
Rosco holt
@Lou Bell
You believe the BS of politicians about shale gas?

We get nothing from royalties of our resources, we subsidize these businesses to extract/ harvest.

How many jobs are created, really?

Use your head, it isn't thousands of jobs that will be created, just a handful and it will not be NBers doing them.

And if an environmental disaster happen like contaminated well water crop up, who will be held responsible and pay?

Higgs, the business extracting shale or the people in that area.

Higgs will deny his responsibility and the same goes for the business.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Bernard McIntyre "Politician's must really think people are stupid"

Methinks they are always betting on our apathy but every now and then their political plans fail and the elections do not yield the results they were hoping for N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Rosco holt Do you know how many times I ran in the Sussex area?

Rosco holt
Rosco holt
@David R. Amos
No, I don't how many times you ran.








 Rosco holt 
David Stairs
no one should listen to this arrogant politician...he got caught leaving government documents at his so called girlfriends....this tells tons about his personality and what he will do to get what he wants..I can't believe he is even allowed to be a politician with his track record..


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@David Stairs Welcome back to the Circus



 




 Rosco holt 
Toby Tolly
Did you have to pay to listen to him?


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Toby Tolly Mais Oui









Fred Brewer 
Fred Brewer
Vote for me and I will cut your transfer payments!

Wow. Great strategy there Maxime.


Tom Simmons
Tom Simmons
@Fred Brewer You give a poor man a fish and you feed him for a day. You teach him to fish and you give him an occupation that will feed him for a lifetime.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Tom Simmons Methinks the fish are all but gone perhaps the west will sent us some beef that we are not supposed to eat N'esy Pas?

Fred Brewer
Fred Brewer
@Tom Simmons
Yes until the cod industry collapsed along with salmon and other species.








Marc Goudreau 
Marc Goudreau
Comparing Quebec's transfer payments with NB's right to have an oil pipeline snake through La Belle Province for the sake of "progress" is ludicrous. Energy East is another oily, dirty, CO2 heavy investment in an industry largely responsible for a coming ecological catastrophe, Higg's and Bernier, like Trump, have no time for the future when greed and personal wealth are in sight... shame.


Lou Bell
Lou Bell
@Marc Goudreau Don't think these guys are gonna make millions at their jobs, although McKenna bled the system dry for his personal use. Better to have development than continue being a welfare state , although you apparently disagree !

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Lou Bell Cry me a river about your buddy McKenna Google his name and mine sometime









Marc LeBlanc 
Marc LeBlanc
If you think you're appealing to peoples intelligence,you've come to the wrong place!


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Marc LeBlanc Methinks you should check out who he was appealing to The rich folks in the Fundy area ain't dumb Even Wayne Long, would have to admit that fact N'esy Pas?









Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
What a dufus!


Rosco holt
Rosco holt
@Marguerite Deschamps
That's the impression I get too.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks he is a French lawyer as well N'esy Pas?

Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
@David R. Amos, there are good and bad lawyers as in any walk of life, be they French, English or whatever. He's no J. J. Robinette, that's for sure! - Robinette, how more French can one be!









Brian Dufoe 
Brian Dufoe
nobodys voting for mad Max,
his party exists for one reason only,
tax write offs.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Brian Dufoe Methinks many think Maxime is more popular than you think N'esy Pas?

Dr John Smythe
Dr John Smythe
@Brian Dufoe Brian, you sound just like a Liberal party "agent provocateur"...









Marc LeBlanc 
Douglas James
Simplistic is too simple a word for this politician's bizarre views.


Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
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Claude DeRoche
Claude DeRoche
@Marguerite Deschamps
Higgs too :-)

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps "I'm appealing to the intelligence of people," he said."

Methinks that must mean you N'esy Pas?









Lou Bell
Rosco holt
God no, not another politician with an inflated ego.

I wonder if Higgs and/ or Bernier would cut their salaries and pensions the same way they want to cut equalization payments?


Lou Bell
Lou Bell
@Rosco holt Liberals took the payments an ran with them !

Rosco holt
Rosco holt
@Lou Bell
At least the Libs didn't shoot their mouth by spewing stupidity like Higgs ny calling for cut to equalization payments like our blackmailing Irving-boy Premier.

The province has the most seniors and we need the cash, but he would prefer to risk NBers lives to develop fracking.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Lou Bell Methinks you last name dictates to me that you may be related to the Judge I met in Federal Court on December 14th, 2015 At least the first judge Harper ever appointed did the right thing N'esy Pas?










Claude DeRoche 
Claude DeRoche
The Irving Boy Higgs' CORservative Party blackmailing New Brunswickers that if they don't support fracking they will lose their equalization transfers that is guaranteed in our Constitution !

MadMax will get the COR Party vote in October paving the way for another Trudeau victory!


Cindy Fordyce
Cindy Fordyce
@Claude DeRoche

If it walks like a duck and so on.... he does seem to care for anything but putting greed ahead of everything else.

Lou Bell
Lou Bell
@Claude DeRoche Will he be able to get some of the SANB / Liberal vote ?":

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Lou Bell Nope

Cindy Fordyce
Cindy Fordyce
@Lou Bell

Why the heck would anybody with more brain cells than Max vote for him

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Claude DeRoche YUP

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Cindy Fordyce Methinks the majority of Canadian voters did not vote for Trudeau the Younger and his cohorts N'esy Pas?



Rosco holt
Rosco holt
@David R. Amos
Allot voted to get rid of Harper and his replacement Andrew WHO? isn't any better.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Rosco holt True but Harper maintained his base support which now being split much to the chagrin of Harper 2.0 and his cohorts. Methinks the votes that elected Trudeau last time came from the NDP camp because of his promise to change the first past the post vote and from many folks who looked forward to smoking dope legally The Liberals may win this time merely because the Conservatives are butting heads N'esy Pas?




Maxime Bernier applauds Higgs's call for cuts to equalization

Leader of the People's Party spoke at a luncheon in Saint John on Thursday


Maxime Bernier gave a speech at a business luncheon in Saint John on Thursday. He said he approves of Premier Blaine Higgs's call to reduce equalization payments to the province to force governments to develop natural resources. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)

The leader of the upstart People's Party of Canada says he believes he has found an ally in New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs.

Maxime Bernier told a business luncheon in Saint John that Higgs was right to recently call for a reduction in equalization payments to the province in order to force governments to develop natural resources.

Bernier told about 75 people that the premier "essentially" agrees with him and called it "a significant development" that the leader of a province that receives equalization is willing to see it reduced.

"It's courageous for a politician to say that," the former federal Conservative cabinet minister told reporters later. "We must have a discussion with him about changing the formula.



Higgs says the current system allows Quebec to accept large transfer payments but say no to important national projects like the Energy East pipeline. (CBC)

"He is the first premier of a province who receives money to tell the truth. That was great to hear that."

The federal equalization program transfers funds from so-called "have" provinces to "have-not" provinces to support a roughly equal level of provincial services at roughly equal levels of taxation.
I think his views are, to be perfectly blunt, simplistic, and I don't think there'd be a lot of support certainly around the business community and around Atlantic Canada for those views.- Wayne Long, Saint John-Rothesay MP
New Brunswick and other less well-off provinces have been receiving the funding for decades, something Bernier cites when he calls it "a poverty trap" that gives governments no incentives to encourage private-sector growth.

"I am sure that you, too, in New Brunswick would prefer to live in a more prosperous province rather than getting more money from the rest of the country," he said in his speech.

Appealing to New Brunswickers


Speaking later to reporters, Bernier said he thinks New Brunswickers would support his policies as long as he is able to explain them. He said that's why he was in Saint John.

"I'm appealing to the intelligence of people," he said.

Bernier, a Quebec MP, quit the federal Conservatives last year, complaining that leader Andrew Scheer — who defeated him for the party leadership in 2017 — was not willing to take clearly conservative positions on key issues.
On Thursday, he said Scheer will not touch the equalization issue "because his Quebec MPs would freak out."

Saint John-Rothesay Liberal MP Wayne Long said he didn't think Bernier's message, which also includes abolishing the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, would resonate in the city or the province.

"I think his views are, to be perfectly blunt, simplistic, and I don't think there'd be a lot of support certainly around the business community and around Atlantic Canada for those views," Long said.

'Big questions'


But Jim Quinn, chair of Saint John's regional chamber of commerce, which hosted the luncheon, said some of Bernier's ideas on reducing environmental hurdles for pipeline approvals "would resonate with a lot of people."

He said Bernier's pledge to eliminate the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and other federal agencies that hand out business subsidies raises "big questions."

"Those agencies certainly have a focus on helping to expand businesses, so I'm sure there's another part to the discussion that would need to be explored in terms of how businesses and entrepreneurs can have the opportunity to develop their businesses and grow," he said.


Maxime Bernier said he believes he can get New Brunswickers' approval as he's 'appealing to people's intelligence.' (CBC)

Quinn added that while change is never easy, "our country is at a crossroads, our province is at a crossroads, having to look at doing things differently. I think our economic situation more or less dictates that."

Bernier's anti-government, pro-business message seemed well-tailored to a city and business community still lamenting the cancellation of the Energy East pipeline.

Fewer environmental regulations would have allowed the project to go ahead, Bernier told the crowd.
"There have been so, so many bad decisions on the part of the Trudeau government, I don't know where to start."
If the project is ever revived, he said, a People's Party government would use federal powers in the Constitution to force it through over provincial opposition in Quebec.

"Justin Trudeau will not do this," he said. "Andrew Scheer will never propose this either. He is just too afraid of the pushback from his Quebec MPs, and getting bad press in Quebec."

No mention of immigration


During his speech, Bernier didn't raise his controversial proposal to reduce the number of immigrants entering Canada.

He told reporters he planned to discuss it at an evening rally for his party and said his views are not at odds with the many experts who say more immigration is needed to fill labour shortages and grow the population in New Brunswick.

He said under his plan, there would be fewer immigrants overall but more "economic immigrants" bringing needed skills or investment.
Bernier said his party has established riding associations in all federal constituencies and is now recruiting candidates ahead of October's federal election.

He believes he can win support from Conservatives but also from Liberals who support balanced budgets and New Democrats who are against corporate subsidies.

And while he's not familiar with the policies of the provincial Green Party and the People's Alliance, he said, he believes their breakthroughs in the recent provincial election show voters here are willing to support new parties.

"It's very encouraging for us," 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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Methinks many folks are beginning to realize why I have been enjoying watching this circus so much lately N'esy Pas?

https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/01/michael-cohen-says-rigging-polls-was-at.html






https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/giuliani-trump-mueller-collusion-1.4983035



Giuliani just made it a lot harder for Trump to cry 'witch hunt'



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Liam Young
Liam Young
We're watching the disintegration of the US right before our eyes. Welcome to the world of conservative mismanagement.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Liam Young Methinks many folks are beginning to realize why I have been enjoying watching this circus so much lately N'esy Pas?






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Methinks its unthinkable to even consider that Trump would have to order his greedy Yankee lawyer to lie N'esy Pas?

https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/01/michael-cohen-says-rigging-polls-was-at.html



 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cohen-trump-buzzfeed-1.4983384



U.S. Congress to probe BuzzFeed report that Trump directed Cohen to lie



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David R. Amos 
David R. Amos
Methinks its unthinkable to even consider that Trump would have to order his greedy Yankee lawyer to lie N'esy Pas?



Elmer (Elmo) Fludd
Elmer (Elmo) Fludd
@David R. Amos

His fibs are so far out, they MUST get his approval.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Elmer (Elmo) Fludd Methinks that Trump knows that I spoke to Cohen personally 3 times before the FBI did their big raid and he turned coat on the Prez. Each time Mikey played dumb about the documents I had been sending Trump and his lawyers ever since his old boss came down the escalator in the summer of 2015. This is just one of the files I sent pages 2 and 5 should make any US Special Counsel or Attorney General sit up and pay attention N'esy Pas?

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








Paul Knapp
Bill Nest
Get rid of him before he instructs the military to march into Congress. At this point, nothing would be a surprise.


Paul Knapp
Paul Knapp
@Bill Nest the military swore an oath to protect the constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. The military would refuse such an order.

Richard Sharp
Richard Sharp
@Paul Knapp

The US military aren’t always so honourable. Eisenhower and Kennedy had to stop them from starting a nuclear war. Remember Vietnam? The countless other countries the Americans invaded, bombed and destroyed since, killing, maiming and displacing tens of millions?

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Richard Sharp Methinks you should read statement 83 of my lawsuit against the Crown real slow sometime N'esy Pas?

Darcy Wells
Darcy Wells
@Richard Sharp The Vietnam war was entirely motivated by politics and fear, which at the time, the white House's goal was to oppose the rising communist wave.

The U.S. military is a tool, I doubt it has a will of it's own. But I also believe some generals would refuse, even at the threat of a court Martial, to mount a coup.






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Methinks some folks must have read the emails I got from Cohen by now N'esy Pas?

https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/01/michael-cohen-says-rigging-polls-was-at.html





https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cohen-poll-rigging-was-at-the-direction-of-trump-1.4981747




Michael Cohen says rigging polls 'was at the direction of' Trump




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James Fitzgibbon  
James Fitzgibbon
Trump's corruption makes Nixon look like a rank amateur.


David R. Amos
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David R. Amos
@James Fitzgibbon Methinks some folks must have read the emails I got from Cohen by now N'esy Pas?

Lou Parks
Lou Parks
@James Fitzgibbon

Cohen is a͟l͟l͟e͟g͟i͟n͟g͟ something.

There's no report of
his allegation being c̲o̲r̲r̲o̲b̲o̲r̲a̲t̲e̲d̲,
never mind p͟r͟o͟v͟e͟n͟.

Andreas Burnett
Andreas Burnett
@James Fitzgibbon

Where was the outrage when Bush hunted WMDs and opened Guantanamo? He didn't threaten the globalist pie did he?

Drain that swamp. Whether you hate DT or not, "Drain the swamp" is a good non-partisan mantra. "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance..."

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@James Fitzgibbon Methinks some folks must have read the emails I got from Cohen by now N'esy Pas?








  
Mark Sobkow
Mark Sobkow
Giuliani should have cut it short at "Trump has no knowledge." Of anything.


Darius Spence
Darius Spence
@Mark Sobkow
Giuliani has zero credibility

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Mark Sobkow Trust that Giuliani knows everything

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Darius Spence "Giuliani has zero credibility"

Oh My My Methinks you are referring to the Yankee lawyer Rudolph Giuliani who received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II Even though his boss Mr Trump is not supposed to recognize such titles bestowed on a fellow American most Yankee lawyers call themselves Esquires anyway N'esy Pas?









Jason James 
Jason James
Duh, it's known (to those who aren't blind tRump followers, that he didn't win fair and square. Heck, he lost the popular vote (the one that SHOULD determine the winner).


Gorden Feist
Gorden Feist
@Jason James
One person, one vote. And the electoral college to declare the Republican candidate the winner.
Andreas Burnett
Andreas Burnett
@Jason James

Look up the difference between a democracy and a republic. I for one am not keen to return to mob rule and witch trials. Have a nice day!

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Gorden Feist True









Jason Baker 
Jason Baker
It's just a matter of time before Rudy Giuliani ends up like Michael Cohen. Is it stupidity? Blind loyalty? Or does Trump have something on these guys?


 
Andreas Burnett
Andreas Burnett
@Jason Baker

No convictions for the GFC ($24 TRillion in "off balance sheet" transactions), no serious convictions for torture or the lack of finding WMDs. Yet, people are outraged about this?

So this is fake news? Kind of like fake justice?

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Jason Baker Methinks its none of the above but simple human greed that glues the narcissistic power hungry sociopaths together no matter what country they play their political games within for their benefit not ours N'esy Pas?










Mark Oliver 
Mark Oliver
This would be a great smoking gun if there's definitive proof such as a recording. I hope Mueller has definitive, incontestable proof of Trumps illegalities that end this charade once and for all.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Mark Oliver Methinks folks should check out page two of this file trust that Cohen and Trump know that Giuliani and legions of other lawyers got a copy of it about 14 years ago. Interesting N'esy Pas?

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









Jason Baker 
André Bérubé
I hope that Donald Trump reality show presidency hits a brick wall; the sooner the better.


Ian McCorriston
Ian McCorriston
@André Bérubé When Trumph is gone the U.S. is still left with the problems that enable him to get elected in the first place.

André Bérubé
André Bérubé
@Ian McCorriston
I agree but but at least Trump's reality TV presidential performance will be over.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@André Bérubé Methinks many folks are enjoying the circus N'esy Pas?









Gary McGarry 
Gary McGarry
It's not about respecting the institution or process of democracy it's all about winning. Only Trump and the GOP could make politics a zero sum game. And the rest of the world pays the price.


Gorden Feist
Gorden Feist
@Gary McGarry "Only Trump and the GOP could make politics a zero sum game. "

No, that's the global conservative mindset.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Gorden Feist and the liberal one as well









Jason Baker 
Jamie Robins
Those Americans who voted for Trump and continue to support him, deserve govt shutdowns, no jobs and no money!


Gryphon Hobbes
Gryphon Hobbes
@Jamie Robins - Unfortunately a lot of good people are getting hurt by it too.

Clifton Tremblay
Clifton Tremblay
@Jamie Robins That's Trump-like thinking

james dougmore
james dougmore
@Jamie Robins ....their children too?

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Jamie Robins Methinks you seem bitter N'esy Pas?








Jason Baker 
Ray Boychuk
"If you dont cheat, youre not trying"

- Republicans


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Ray Boychuk Methinks the same could be said of your favourite politicians too N'esy Pas?








Lon Chaney 
Lon Chaney
Donnie, Donnie, Donnie...You know it's time for the hammer to fall...


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Lon Chaney True but on who?






Giuliani just made it a lot harder for Trump to cry 'witch hunt'

Lawyer's about-face on collusion helps legitimize Mueller probe, legal experts say


A screengrab shows an interview between CNN host Chris Cuomo, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani admitted on Wednesday that collusion may have occurred between Trump campaign associates and the Russians during the 2016 presidential election. (CNN)

No collusion. No collusion. No collusion.

U.S. President Donald Trump's legal team had a simple, consistent message to sell for the last year and a half — only for one of Trump's lawyers to blow it up by introducing his own line this week. With a sudden pivot on the question of collusion, former federal prosecutors said, Rudy Giuliani ended up legitimizing special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling and whether Trump associates conspired.

Giuliani made his walkback on Wednesday night, telling CNN's Chris Cuomo that he "never" contested that collusion may have occurred. Rather, Giuliani insisted, he merely denied that "the president of the United States" was involved.

Cuomo looked flabbergasted. The CNN host challenged that Giuliani had indeed stated in the past there was no collusion by the Trump campaign with the Russians.

"I never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign," Giuliani claimed.

"Yes, you did," Cuomo said.

"No, I did not. I said the president of the United States" did not collude, Giuliani said.

The lawyer and former New York mayor's latest attempt to recast the narrative on the Trump-Russia affair sounded to legal scholars like a bid to get ahead of a possible Trump impeachment in the House and imminent developments in Mueller's investigation.

It was also perhaps the Trump legal team's biggest concession yet that Mueller's probe isn't the "witch hunt" they've claimed. The admission that collusion may have occurred in any form was a startling departure. Trump himself has tweeted dozens of times there was "no collusion"— period, including by campaign associates.

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"I never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign... I have not. I said the President of the United States," Pres. Trump’s attorney @RudyGiuliani tells @ChrisCuomohttps://cnn.it/2FwzM5o 



In a widely cited July 2018 interview with Fox News contributor Guy Benson, Giuliani was also asked directly: "Is it still the position of you and your client that there was no collusion with the Russians whatsoever on behalf of the Trump campaign?"

"Correct," Giuliani answered.

The sharp reversal is "very grave," said Harry Litman, a former U.S. attorney and deputy assistant attorney general.

"But it also means this whole trash-talking of the last year and a half of the Mueller probe as a 'witch hunt' has to completely fold up shop now," he said.
"Because from this basic concession, there's certainly no 'witch hunt' now. How can you not seriously go after what you concede is a collusion between the highest members of the campaign — maybe just not the candidate — and a hostile foreign nation?"

In other words, rather than try to dismiss Mueller's probe, Giuliani only served to validate it.
(In a statement issued Thursday, Giuliani rephrased his position again. "I can only speak of what I know, and that is that I have no knowledge that anyone on the campaign illegally colluded with Russia," he said.)


There is No Collusion! The Robert Mueller Rigged Witch Hunt, headed now by 17 (increased from 13, including an Obama White House lawyer) Angry Democrats, was started by a fraudulent Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC. Therefore, the Witch Hunt is an illegal Scam!



As for what provoked his comments on CNN in the first place? It's possible he's preparing for potential criminal charges against Trump associates as the special counsel probe racks up more convictions and guilty pleas, said Julie Grohovsky, a former federal prosecutor who worked in Mueller's office at the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C.

"He's having to shift his position to deal with reality, which is [that] people on the campaign have pled guilty, or been found guilty" for various crimes, she said.

Giuliani may be expecting a cascade of damaging new evidence in the coming weeks that might point to collusion.
He has established a pattern of moving the goal posts at interesting times.

Last May, he appeared to surprise Fox News presenter Sean Hannity when he suddenly revealed that Trump had repaid his fixer Michael Cohen the $130,000 that Cohen had paid in hush money to Stormy Daniels, the pornographic actress who alleges she had an affair with Trump.

Trump had previously claimed he had no idea Cohen made the payment.


Trump listens during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Dec. 13. Trump himself has tweeted dozens of times there was 'no collusion,' including by campaign associates. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press)
Giuliani might have good reason to try to change the collusion narrative, given what's expected to come. He has reportedly said he expects Mueller's findings to be "horrific" for Trump.

Cohen has since flipped on the president, pleading guilty last year to lying to Congress, as well as to committing campaign finance violations and financial crimes. He began co-operating with Mueller's team and is due next month to testify before Congress.

Trump's ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort, who pleaded guilty in September on financial charges, is alleged to have shared 2016 polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, who has ties with Russian intelligence.
And Mueller's team this week filed nearly 200 pages of new material on Manafort.

The timing of Giuliani's backtrack suggests anticipation that those heavily redacted Manafort filings could document more concrete evidence of collusion, say observers.

"Certainly it's a strategy to try to lessen the blow of the information hitting the press," Grohovsky said.
He might even be girding the president in the event of impeachment, offering Republican senators more justification to vote not to convict him in the Senate, should that scenario arise.


Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal lawyer, left, is due to testify before Congress next month. Former campaign manager Paul Manafort had agreed to co-operate, but it was recently revealed that deal had fallen through. (Craig Ruttle/Alexandria Detention Center/Associated Press )
"It is possible that Giuliani's efforts to distance Trump from Manafort and others is not only based on a fear of a criminal prosecution, but also about giving GOP politicians room to avoid calling for impeachment and removal," former Southern District of New York federal prosecutor Harry Sandick wrote in an email.

At the same time, the decision to wall off the president from collusion accusations while leaving his associates — including his own family members — vulnerable could spell trouble for people like Manafort.

As Sandick noted: "Trump continues to say what a fine person Manafort is — a position that is hard to reconcile with a defense that blames Manafort as a greedy person who violated the law."

Insulating the president from possible inculpatory material appears to be Giuliani's ultimate strategy for now. And that may require admitting that collusion may have taken place after all.

To Litman, there's an irony there, given how the White House has attacked Mueller's mission.
"It's a real concession to the probe's overall legitimacy," he said.

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U.S. Congress to probe BuzzFeed report that Trump directed Cohen to lie

Key Democrat says he will 'do what's necessary' to confirm report


Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump, gets into an elevator at Trump Tower in 2016 in New York City. Trump told Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations over a real estate project in Moscow, a BuzzFeed News report claims. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)


The Democratic chairs of two U.S. House committees pledged Friday to investigate a report that President Donald Trump directed his personal lawyer to lie to Congress about negotiations over a real estate project in Moscow during the 2016 election.

House intelligence committee chair Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, said "we will do what's necessary to find out if it's true." He said the allegation Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie in his 2017 testimony to Congress "in an effort to curtail the investigation and cover up his business dealings with Russia is among the most serious to date."

The chair of the House judiciary committee, Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, said directing a subordinate to lie to Congress is a federal crime.

"The @HouseJudiciary Committee's job is to get to the bottom of it, and we will do that work," Nadler tweeted.


BuzzFeed story cites 2 unnamed sources


The report by BuzzFeed News, citing two unnamed law enforcement officials, says Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress and Cohen regularly briefed Trump and his family on the Moscow project — even as Trump said he had no business dealings with Russia.

The Associated Press has not independently confirmed the BuzzFeed report.
An adviser to Cohen, Lanny Davis, declined to comment on the substance of the article, saying he and Cohen wouldn't answer questions out of respect for special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.

Mueller is investigating Russia meddling in the election and contacts with the Trump campaign.

The BuzzFeed story says Cohen told Mueller that Trump personally instructed him to lie about the timing of the project in order to obscure Trump's involvement.

Giuliani scoffs at report


Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, scoffed at the report, saying in a statement, "If you believe Cohen I can get you a good all cash deal on the Brooklyn Bridge."

Cohen pleaded guilty in November to lying to Congress in 2017 to cover up that he was negotiating the real estate deal in Moscow on Trump's behalf during the heat of his presidential campaign. The charge was brought by Mueller and was the result of his co-operation with that probe.


Cohen stands behind Trump as a group of supporters lay hands on Trump in prayer in September 2016. Cohen is scheduled to testify before the House oversight and reform committee next month. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

Cohen was recently sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to tax crimes, bank fraud and campaign violations. He is scheduled to testify before the House oversight and reform committee Feb. 7.

The report comes as House Democrats have promised a thorough look into Trump's ties to Russia.

Though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has discouraged any talk of impeachment in the early days of her new majority, some senior Democrats said that if the BuzzFeed report is true, Trump's actions could rise to that level.

'This is obstruction of justice'


"If the @BuzzFeed story is true, President Trump must resign or be impeached," tweeted Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro, a member of the House intelligence panel.
Rhode Island Rep. David Cicilline, a member of the House judiciary committee, tweeted that if Trump directed Cohen to lie, "that is obstruction of justice. Period. Full stop."

William Barr, Trump's nominee for attorney general, said at his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday that a president or anyone else who directs a witness to lie is illegally obstructing an investigation. That statement attracted attention given Barr's expansive views of presidential powers and his belief that presidents can't be scrutinized by prosecutors for acts the Constitution allows them to take.

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Michael Cohen says rigging polls 'was at the direction of' Trump

Tweet follows report Cohen paid firm to manipulate pre-election polls to favour the future candidate


U.S. President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, said Thursday that Trump directed him to pay a firm to rig polling data ahead of the 2016 election. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters)



Michael Cohen, a former lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump, said on Thursday he paid a firm to manipulate online polling data "at the direction of and for the sole benefit of" Trump.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Cohen had paid the data firm Redfinch Solutions to manipulate two public opinion polls in favour of Trump before the 2016 presidential campaign.

"What I did was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of" Trump, Cohen later responded on Twitter after the Journal published the story. "I truly regret my blind loyalty to a man who doesn't deserve it."


As for the @WSJ article on poll rigging, what I did was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of @realDonaldTrump@POTUS. I truly regret my blind loyalty to a man who doesn’t deserve it.



The attempts to influence the polls ultimately proved largely unsuccessful but they shed a light on the tactics of the Trump campaign and Cohen's role within it. On the campaign trail, Trump frequently referred to his polling numbers to help fuel his candidacy.

Last month, Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in making illegal hush-money payments to women to help Trump's 2016 campaign and lying to Congress about a proposed Trump Tower project in Russia.
Cohen has said Trump had directed him to commit the campaign-finance violations, which Trump has denied.

The Journal said Cohen commissioned John Gauger, who runs RedFinch Solutions, to write a computer script to repeatedly vote for Trump in a February 2015 Drudge Report poll on potential Republican candidates. The move came as Trump was preparing to enter the 2016 presidential election race, the newspaper reported.




John Gauger, the founder of IT company Redfinch Solutions, was paid by Cohen to influence two online polls — one from Drudge Report and another from CNBC. (LinkedIn Corporation)
Cohen also commissioned Gauger to do the same for a 2014 CNBC online poll identifying the country's top business leaders, although Trump was unable to break the top 100 candidates, the Journal reported.

"The president has no knowledge of the polls being rigged," Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said in an interview with Reuters.

Blue Walmart bag of cash


Trump tweeted about the CNBC poll on business leaders after it was released in March 2014, calling it "a joke" and suggested he was removed from the list because of "politics."

Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the details of the newspaper report. Cohen did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and neither did representatives for RedFinch Solutions and the Trump Organization. Charles James, a lawyer for Gauger, declined to comment.

According to the Journal, Gauger said Cohen handed him cash out of a blue Walmart bag, although not for the total amount he was owed. Cohen also promised Gauger work on the Trump campaign that never materialized, the Journal reported.
Cohen worked for Trump for many years as his self-proclaimed fixer, and once said he would take a bullet for Trump.

But the relationship has since publicly soured. Trump has called Cohen a "rat," while Cohen has co-operated with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of links between the Trump campaign and Russia during the campaign. Both Trump and Moscow have denied any wrongdoing.

Cohen has also agreed to testify publicly in front of the House of Representatives' oversight committee in a hearing scheduled to take place next month.

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David R. Amos 
David R. Amos
Methinks Michael Boudreau sure knows how to jerk an old dog's chain N'esy Pas?




 David R. Amos 
David R. Amos
Methinks Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale will likely enlist his buddy Frank McKenna to pick the committee just like he did in hiring the latest RCMP Commissioner N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-commissioner-job-1.4414864




David R. Amos 
David R. Amos
"Michael Boudreau, a criminology professor in Fredericton, welcomed the step, although he is concerned the civilians will be former Mounties.

"Depending on who those former Mounties are that would be a step backwards," said Boudreau.

But he hopes the government will choose committee members who have been advocates for women in the RCMP and maybe even a "whistle blower" attuned to what's been happening in the force."

Methinks if anyone bothers to read my lawsuit they would understand that I am a bigtime "whistle blower" who is definitely attuned to what's been happening in the force. since 1982 N'esy Pas?










Rod McLeod 
Rod McLeod
I'm skeptical of a watch dog group that can only make suggestions. All I see here are 13 favors being cashed in. Any mention of their salaries?


David R. Amos
FDavid R. Amos
@Rod McLeod Trust that I don't the RCMP any favours and I would watch the watch dogs for free

David R. Amos
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David R. Amos
@Rod McLeod Go Figure why I don't owe anyone any favours

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



David R. Amos
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David R. Amos
@David R. Amos "Content disabled".Surprise Surprise Surprise



Civilian RCMP watchdog could change culture if right people involved, prof says

Michael Boudreau says he's 'cautiously optimistic' about promised oversight committee


Michael Boudreau, a St. Thomas University criminology professor, is hopeful the new civilian oversight committee will encourage more women to join the RCMP. (CBC)

A committee of civilian advisers being set up to strengthen oversight of RCMP management could play a vital role in changing the culture of the force and getting more women to join it, a St. Thomas University criminology professor says.

The federal government announced this week it will appoint an external board of civilian advisers to improve oversight and how the force handles harassment and bullying.

The interim 13-member civilian watchdog will be provide recommendations on best ways to manage and modernize the force but won't be involved in police operations.

Michael Boudreau, a criminology professor in Fredericton, welcomed the step, although he is concerned the civilians will be former Mounties.

"Depending on who those former Mounties are that would be a step backwards," said Boudreau.

But he hopes the government will choose committee members who have been advocates for women in the RCMP and maybe even a "whistle blower" attuned to what's been happening in the force.

The changes are long overdue and he's "cautiously optimistic" the oversight committee will bring cultural change to the RCMP.

More women need to join the force 

 


The federal government announced this week it will be bringing in an external board of civilian advisers to improve how the force handles harassment and bullying (Canadian Press)
Right now, he said, women are reluctant to join because of toxic work environments in some detachments.

"If this committee can demonstrate to women that indeed they can make some structural changes over time within the force, maybe then more women may start to enter the force," he said.

Over the years, he said, RCMP have been reluctant to welcome any type of civilian oversight.

"There's this notion that we can police ourselves, literally, that we know what's best, we are professionals, and indeed they are, but we don't need anyone from the outside telling us how to run our business."

Issues dealt with 'in house' 


This creates a form of "insularity" or tunnel vision, as police deny there are problems. And if there are, they can be dealt with in-house.

"We don't need anyone else telling us how to deal with complaints, sexual harassment or bullying," he said.

"It's just something that we accept, but we can deal with ourselves, or indeed dismiss as well, because of course without any civilian oversight, it makes it very easy to dismiss a claim of harassment or bullying in the workplace."
It comes down to a cultural change. So how effective this panel is going to be at helping to chart that cultural change.- Michael Boudreau, criminology professor
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale has said the interim board will be appointed before April 1 and plans to introduce legislation in the spring to make it a fixture.

Many of the details, including how the board's recommendations will be communicated and how transparent it will be, have yet to be figured out.

Boudreau said there's still a lot of work to be done to improve the RCMP workplace, which could take years, or even a generation.

"It comes down to a cultural change," he said.
With files from Information Morning Fredericton, the CBC's Catharine Tunney

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Campobello ferry proponents say it's getting harder to cross border

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Methinks common sense is never to be considered when it comes to money and politicking and particularly ferries for some strange reason N'esy Pas? 



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Campobello ferry proponents say it's getting harder to cross border



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Matt Steele 
Matt Steele
It is very strange how the Govt. of N.B. can operate , and maintain , several ferries running to the Kingston Peninsula outside of Saint John ; yet cannot afford even one ferry to run to Campobello . Even if Campobello had a ferry that just ran 8 hours per day would be better than nothing .


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Matt Steele Methinks you should ask you old buddy Dominic Cardy that question N'esy Pas?







Don Smith 
Don Smith
Why couldn't the Grand Manan ferries swing buy Campobello on their scheduled runs. Without knowing the why nots it seems like the most economical solution to provide direct access to N.B. within Canada.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Don Smith Methinks common sense is never to be considered when it comes to money and politicking and particularly ferries for some strange reason. For instance Nova Scotia won't forget the ferry nonsense between Yarmouth and the USA in any hurry N'esy Pas?

Bernard McIntyre
Bernard McIntyre
@Don Smith That would be quite a detour for the Grand Manan ferry. You do know where Campobello Island is located at? Just off of Deer Island.

Trina Stephenson
Trina Stephenson
@Don Smith Look at a map. Campobello needs direct connection to Canadian mainland, the same as Grand Manan and Deer Island currently enjoy.









Harold Benson 
Harold Benson
Those politicians federal and provincial, are just lazy. No other way to put it I guess maybe if they got paid better....and pensions a little quicker, we could get some work out of them.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Harold Benson Methinks thou doth jest too much N'esy Pas?







Jim Cyr
Jim Cyr
Seems like an awful lot of money to spend when we're only talking about 800 people...........just saying.


Jim Johnston
Jim Johnston
@Jim Cyr And what if you were one of those 800 Canadians, New Brunswickers?

Harold Benson
Harold Benson
@Jim Cyr Where do you live.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Harold Benson Methinks his whereabouts should make no difference to you or Sam We are all taxpayers N'esy Pas?









David Peters
David Peters
Tax, spend and regulate...it's the liberal way.


Jim Moore
Jim Moore
@David Peters you forgot all with not benefit to taxpayers!

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@David Peters Methinks that has nothing to do with required ferry service N'esy Pas?




Campobello ferry proponents say it's getting harder to cross border

Federal public safety minister says new security regulations 'will not impinge' on Campobello residents


Campobello residents say it's getting increasingly difficult to travel through the United States to the rest of Canada. (Elaine Thompson/Associated Press)

People lobbying for better ferry service on Campobello are taking little comfort in the assurances of politicians about Bill C-21, the recently enacted border security legislation.

"It sounds to me like it's unknown if it's going to cause more disruption," said Brent MacPherson, one of the people who has been looking into the need for year-round ferry service for about the past year.

The main reason for that investigation is that since the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S., it's been getting harder for islanders to pass through the United States to get to the rest of Canada.

They've always had to do that through the winters, but last summer, even the seasonal private ferry service to Deer Island didn't operate, a situation that MacPherson described as "devastating" to the Island economy on top of the personal day-to-day inconvenience.

"Dealing with a border situation, the political climate is different," MacPherson said. "It's getting difficult. It's a challenging life."

New Brunswick Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Greg Thompson, who is the MLA for St. Croix, which includes Campobello, said he was sending a letter to federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale this week to request that the implementation of the border security amendments be delayed.
Bill C-21 has received royal assent, but regulations have not been drawn up for implementation. Among other things, the new law will allow Canada to track how long people are out of the country.

Information on Page 2 of the Canadian passport, such as name, birth, citizenship and passport number, will be collected at border crossings and shared by the U.S. and Canada.

Goodale issued a written statement Wednesday, suggesting there will be a time and place for concerns to be addressed, and reinforcing, in part, what New Brunswick Southwest MP Karen Ludwig had said.

"The claim that C-21 will mean additional paperwork for those crossing the land border into the United States is completely false," said Goodale.


The international bridge between Campobello and Lubec, Maine, is the only way islanders can get to New Brunswick. 

"The traveller's experience will be entirely unchanged," he said.

With respect to goods being sent out of Canada, Canada Border Services Agency officers will be given the discretion to require reporting and to conduct examinations as and where necessary, in order to crack down on smuggling of things like stolen vehicles and nuclear materials, "which are not serious concerns with respect to Campobello Island shipments," Goodale said.

"The relevant regulations are currently being drafted. I am confident they will not impinge on Campobello residents in any negative manner.
Every officer is different — how you deal with them. … So you never know what you're going to run into." - Brent MacPherson, Campbobello
"But in any event, before any regulations take effect, the normal drafting process provides an opportunity for the general public to be informed and to comment if any concerns need to be addressed."

The discretion of border guards is something that makes MacPherson uneasy, following a negative personal experience.

He and his husband, who grew up on the island, moved back there for semi-retirement, and his husband ended up taking a job in Saint Andrews.

On one of his four daily border crossings, they were travelling together, said MacPherson, and an officer in Calais, Maine, asked how the two men were related.

"Victor said, 'Well, we're married.

"It was shortly after that that the officer said, 'You're flagged,' and, 'Go in,'" meaning they had to go into the customs building and their car was searched.


A group of Campobello residents is about to release the second part of a study calling for the creation of year-round ferry service. ((CBC))

MacPherson said that after that day, the same thing happened, time after time, when his husband tried to cross the border.

"Every time Victor was making a trip through the border it was on the computer to flag him and the search and questions and everything, until Victor one day said, 'This is enough.' He demanded to see a superintendent."

"The superintendent looked at the screen. He said, 'I don't see why you have been flagged. I don't know why this is happening.' Victor said, 'Well, I could tell you why it's happening.'

"We felt it was discriminatory because we're a same sex couple."

"Every officer is different — how you deal with them. … So you never know what you're going to run into."

"This is what Campobelloers have to deal with on a daily basis."

Other examples


MacPherson cited two other recent border issues faced by fellow islanders. One happened to a young man with a disability who can only travel by ambulance.

He recently lost his passport somewhere between leaving Campobello and being in hospital, an hour's drive away, through Maine.

"The thing is, in order to get a passport he needs a New Brunswick ID, which he doesn't have.
"You have to get that … from Service New Brunswick in St. Stephen.

The ambulance couldn't transport the man to St. Stephen, he said.

"It's being looked into, but ... there's no easy answer."

In-home assessment impossible


The other case involved young parents and their three-year-old who has autism.

"He needs an assessment and his caseworker is somewhere on the mainland but doesn't have a passport, so can't come to the island."

MacPherson said children elsewhere in New Brunswick would receive an in-home assessment.
"These are things that people on the mainland take for granted," he said.

A ferry service would only address some of these issues, but according to a survey conducted by Vaughn McIntyre Consulting, most people on the island think it's needed.

"Respondents, finding it more and more difficult to cross the border, believe a ferry is an imperative, and not a choice," said a report completed last fall.

Ferry could benefit mainland


The island has about 875 full-time residents, and 163 people, including some visitors, took the survey.
More than 80 per cent of respondents said crossing the border is more difficult than it was five years ago. Nearly half felt American border controls had increased wait times.

For example, residents now have to fill out a form even for a piece of hardware, such as bolt, worth less than $5.

Ninety-one per cent said they'd use a ferry to Deer Island if it were available year-round.

The consultant estimated that if they had a ferry, island residents would spend an additional $3 million a year in Canada.

A second phase of the study is expected to be released Jan. 28 at the Campobello municipal council meeting. It's expected to include business plans for different ferry landing options, including Deer Island, Blacks Harbour and Saint Andrews.

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Methinks Bernard Lord's spokesperson Chisholm Pothier has lots to say today about the doings of government. I bet the SANB lawyers recall the last day he spoke for the government N'esy Pas?

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/ambulance-new-brunswick-bilingual-staffing-1.4984352

New Ambulance New Brunswick policy lets unilingual paramedics stay on for now

Jobs for which bilingual paramedics can't be found won't have to be reposted every 8 weeks


Medavie, which runs Ambulance New Brunswick, has stopped re-posting vacant bilingual positions every eight weeks. (CBC)

New Ambulance New Brunswick policy lets unilingual paramedics stay on for now



Ambulance New Brunswick says it's implementing a directive from the Blaine Higgs government on language-based hiring of paramedics.

Medavie, which runs the ambulance system, has frozen the re-posting of vacant bilingual positions every eight weeks, something Health Minister Ted Flemming ordered on Dec. 18, said spokesperson Chisholm Pothier.

That was one of the recommendations in a labour board ruling last year by arbitrator John McEvoy, who said the repeated re-posting of vacant bilingual positions was interfering with the seniority rights of the unionized paramedics.

It's a significant move because deputy premier Robert Gauvin suggested before Christmas that Medavie was trying to "delay … as long as possible" the implementation of the McEvoy ruling pending the outcome of a court hearing next week.



New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs claims the inability to fill vacant bilingual positions has led to ambulances not being on the road. (CBC)

The judicial review will determine if McEvoy's recommendations comply with the Official Languages Act.

Ambulance New Brunswick requires at least one paramedic in each two-person ambulance crew to be bilingual to comply with the law.

When no bilingual candidate has been available to fill a vacancy, the organization has temporarily hired unilingual paramedics for eight weeks at a time, then has re-posted the positions.

A unilingual paramedic will now be able to stay in a position indefinitely, until a qualified bilingual applicant comes along.
Higgs and People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin have claimed the inability to fill vacant bilingual positions has led to ambulances not being on the road, something Medavie has said is not true.

Pothier said so far, Ambulance New Brunswick has not adopted the province's suggestion of reducing bilingual requirements in areas where the government feels there is less demand for second-language service — another of McEvoy's recommendations.

Part of Flemming's Dec. 18 directive was to hire paramedics based on seniority for what he called "non-relevant bilingual positions."


Health Minister Ted Flemming's directive called for hiring paramedics based on seniority for what he called 'non-relevant bilingual positions.' (Jacques Poitras/CBC)

Pothier said it's too early to implement that because "I don't think 'relevant bilingual positions' has been defined at this point."

He said Ambulance New Brunswick plans to review how much demand there is for bilingual service but only after it has established a new separate service for transporting patients from hospital to hospital.

The service won't require bilingual paramedics because the language choice of the patient will be registered in advance. That, in turn, will allow Ambulance New Brunswick to hire 40 full-time unilingual paramedics, lessening the need for as many bilingual staff.

That system should be in place by the end of March, Pothier said.

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David R. Amos 
David R. Amos
Methinks Bernard Lord's spokesperson Chisholm Pothier has lots to say today about the doings of government. I bet the SANB lawyers recall the last day he spoke for the government N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/n-b-premier-s-press-secretary-resigns-over-letter-leak-1.615046



David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@David R. Amos Hmmm its been over an hour and all I hear is crickets

David R. Amos
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David R. Amos
@David R. Amos "Pothier said it's too early to implement that because "I don't think 'relevant bilingual positions' has been defined at this point."

Methinks Pothier's latest bilingual position will become irrelevant to NB Taxpayers if Higgs start ripping up contracts N'esy Pas?


Blaine Higgs promises to try to scrap Medavie deal if elected premier

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/blaine-higgs-break-medavie-contract-extra-mural-1.4396154

Medavie contract still secret, despite Liberal vow of quick release

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/medavie-deal-contracts-1.4470434

Province can cancel Medavie deal — at $1M cost to taxpayers

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/medavie-contract-telecare-extramural-care-1.4478090









daryl doucette 
daryl doucette
I still do not get it about this silly " bilingual" requirement for paramedics here in New Brunswick. Every one here speaks english, so why bother having a bilingual requirement?


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@daryl doucette Methinks the PANB supporters would agree that you are not alone in that opinion much to the chagrin of the SANB N'esy Pas?







daryl doucette 
Chuck Michaels
Remember that when they say "Unilingual" that this also includes the Francophone Paramedics in the North who speak only French who are in bilingual-designated positions. Although the number may be smaller, this is an issue that concerns ALL of us together no matter what the language.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Chuck Michaels True

Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
@Chuck Michaels, Really? After I read here all along that most Francophones were bilingual.

Chuck Michaels
Chuck Michaels
@Marguerite Deschamps - Kind of like some of our neighbours to the South... "Ev'ry one speaks American if'n ya talks slowly and loud enuf!" (Kidding of course... mostly)

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Chuck Michaels Methinks Maggie is gonna love dicing with you N'esy Pas?

daryl doucette
daryl doucette
@Chuck Michaels yes that is true....but what they should do is offer those 3 people free English language training.....








 David R. Amos
David R. Amos
Methinks the political spin doctors are playing with fire on this topic The many comments on this topic for months should prove that most folks be they French or English could give two hoots as to what language is spoken by the people working for Ambulance NB as long as they get to the hospital as quick as possible. This French versus English rhetoric raised the ire of many people and split the province in half in the last election and gave 6 seats to two wannabe kingmakers. The next election after Mr Higg's budget no doubt fails the stress test is gonna be a dilly N'esy Pas?




 



 daryl doucette 
Lou Bell
Nice to finally see someone to represent Anglophones at the Ambulance NB hearings ! For over 50 year s they've been represented BY NO ONE !! SANB has had their people put in place by government for decades, with no representatives for NB Anglophones ! Problem is , even the judges are SANB plants !


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Lou Bell Methinks everybody knows your hero Harper appointed most of the judges now sitting on the benches throughout Canada after he had politically vetted them N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Lou Bell "You may have some good ideas like others, but as per who you are , what/who you represent , no one knows or cares. Time to ditch the ego"

Methinks the same could be said of you However I have never seen your name on a ballot or in a lawsuit against the Crown N'esy Pas?









 George Smith 
George Smith
@ David R. Amos
@George Smith Methinks if you want things done right you should do it yourself Hence why not run for public office as an Independent just like I often do N'esy Pas?
A well known union official says he could get me elected to city council. I told him that at 70 I couldn't handle the workload.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@George Smith Methinks you are younger than Trump N'esy Pas?

Chuck Michaels
Chuck Michaels
@David R. Amos - touche!


  





George Smith
George Smith
@Matt Steele
"Sounds like a SANB idea ; so it should make the Liberals happy".

How is it possible to relate this policy to the Liberals. It's all on Higgs. I'm almost sorry that I didn't vote for Higgs, he has this one right unlike the former government.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@George Smith Methinks if you want things done right you should do it yourself Hence why not run for public office as an Independent just like I often do N'esy Pas?

Lou Bell
Lou Bell
@David R. Amos You represent only yourself. Them people never get anywhere. Take a look at your support. You had none. You may have some good ideas like others, but as per who you are , what/who you represent , no one knows or cares. Time to ditch the ego.










George Smith 
George Smith
This is a good policy for those in need of medical help as they can be assured that no matter what the language lifesaving services will be provided with as rapid a response as is possible. How in the world is that wrong? As for training paramedics in another language when would they have the time? You can't force them to give up their time off as they need relief from very stressful work.


Roland Godin
Roland Godin
@George Smith
While on wait time a little effort multiplies...et voilà.

David R. Amos
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David R. Amos
@Roland Godin Methinks everybody knows the last time I was forced by the RCMP to visit the DECH in Fat Fred City the immigrant shrinks didn't get paid because I don't have a Health Care Card N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Roland Godin Methinks when one does not have a Health Care Card wait times are irrelevant. Hence I will just wait until I keel over then call the ambulance and for obvious reasons I won't care what lingo the EMT speaks N'esy Pas?








 daryl doucette 
Anne Bérubé
So, let me get this straight...is once you arrive at the ER, does your emergency physician have to learn your language before he is allowed to treat you? Also if you are travelling to another country for a vacation (or business) and need care, what will you do then? I, for one, do not care if the doctor or paramedic talk German (or whatever) I would want to be looked after. Dah!


Roland Godin
Roland Godin
@Anne Bérubé
Had the pleasure visiting a country for 21 days and learn a word of their language per day and on other occasions spend a bit of time learning the basics of the language of countries where I travelled, and yes I can laugh in all the languages of the world...et voilà.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Roland Godin Methinks many folks would agree that you know as many people as you know languages However in your case it appears that folks of many languages know what to think about you N'esy Pas?






Roland Godin
 eddy watts
OMG....some common sense (for a change) from politicians: Well done Ted.


Roland Godin
Roland Godin
@eddy watts
Having my common cents pay for you all I suppose some would call it common sense...eh!

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@eddy watts Methinks Ted is just another lawyer playing politics as usual After all he was appointed to be the Minister of Health as soon as he won the by-election in 2012 He could have done a lot more then N'esy Pas?






Robert Levesque 
Robert Levesque
I think the health of NB citizens should be most important. Anyone can learn a few key phrases in both languages on the job and help anyone in an emergency. Language should not be a barrier to employment and certainly not to provide an essential service.


Evelyn Gaudreau
Evelyn Gaudreau
@Robert Levesque Bilingualism is a skill, a professional skill, and like any other professional skill it can be learned.

Brian Robertson
Brian Robertson
@Evelyn Gaudreau
Certainly, it can be learned.
The issue is should it be mandated by a government upon it's citizens, by restricting employment opportunities; especially when there technological solutions that fully address the need.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Robert Levesque I wholeheartedly agree sir.







Matt Steele 
Matt Steele
Certainly not much in the way of job security for the unilingual paramedics . They will be allowed to have a job until a bilingual person wants it ; then they will be fired and replaced regardless of how much experience that the paramedic has . Seems that language is more important than skill . Sounds like a SANB idea ; so it should make the Liberals happy .


eddy watts
eddy watts
@Matt Steele you're argument is with unions in general and (the value/or lack of) seniority, not about language.

Evelyn Gaudreau
Evelyn Gaudreau
@Matt Steele or until they themselves become bilingual...

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Matt Steele Methinks you tell that to all the Conservatives N'esy Pas?









Evelyn Gaudreau 
David Stairs
the Language Police need to quit the B.S...the bottom line for medical help for a distressed person is to get medical help...the distressed person cares nothing about language used by the first responders..all they hear are the sirens and see flashing lights and I'm surprised that those do not have to be developed and produced by the Language Police...get over yourself...


daryl doucette
daryl doucette
@David Stairs yeah baby!

Roland Godin
Roland Godin
@David Stairs
And if it is not important why are some making such a big fuss about it...EH!

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@David Stairs YUP

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Roland Godin "And if it is not important why are some making such a big fuss about it...EH!"

Methinks its called politicking N'esy Pas?






  

Les Cooper
Paul Bourgoin
Premier Blaine Higgs claims the inability to fill vacant bilingual positions has led to ambulances not being on the road. YA! RIGHT!! The more it changes the more it remains the same!!


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Paul Bourgoin Or in other words

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose N'esy Pas?








 Les Cooper 
Roland Godin
Politicians need a basic introductory session on the essence of a law and it’s objects to deal with these issues, as legislators, from a rational with insight and discernment perspective...et voilà.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Roland Godin Methinks I did that when I filed my lawsuit in 2015 while running in Fundy Royal for a seat in the 42nd Parliament. I have no doubt Premier Higgs, his Ministers, Wilson, Oliver, Holland, Flemming and Wetmore and the back-benchers Crossman and Northrup voted for their lawyer buddy Rob Moore N'esy Pas?








Les Cooper 
Lou Bell
I can see the next election being along linguistic lines. Government created it , they're gonna have to live with it ! There'll be those who vote for the dog, those who vote for the tail. I suspect those voting for the tail are gonna lose.


Roland Godin
Roland Godin
@Lou Bell
Pouvez-vous traduire s’il vous plaît ou l’ecrire en English (UK)...eh!

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Roland Godin So you say N'esy Pas?

Roger Richard
Roger Richard
@Lou Bell What is dog and tail make reference too?

Roger Richard
Roger Richard
@Lou Bell French is difficult to understand but English is also. It is very easy to misunderstand each other.

Anne Bérubé
Anne Bérubé
@Roger Richard Well, I am no doctor or paramedic, but common sense tells me that the vital signs tell the first responders what is wrong with the injured/sick person here, it is no brainer (literally). The hell with the language, most are unconscious anyhow, are they not?

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Roger Richard "What is dog and tail make reference too?"

BonJour mon ami

Methinks Austin is the tail who is wagging the dog named Higgs N'esy Pas?

Roger Richard
Roger Richard
@Anne Bérubé I certainly agree that language is not the biggest issue in an emergency. I now understand that it is like the tail is wagging the dog. Thank you Mr. Amos for the clarification. I would like to add that this issue about bilingualism is a politician and lawyer problem. Our province has more pressing problems that are ignored.








 Roger Richard 
Les Cooper
How about the next election everyone vote for the English guy.
People of Canada voted a prime minister in for legalizing marijuana. That seems to be more F'ed.Up!


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Les Cooper Methinks everybody knows that English politicians are no better than French politicians Thats why so many folks don't bother to vote N'esy Pas?

Anne Bérubé
Anne Bérubé
@David R. Amos I say, both equally incompetent!






Les Cooper 
Paul Bourgoin
We are not handling nor discriminating against English or French but are serving a bilingual province whose citizens have decided decades ago that New Brunswick residents have the legislated civil and human rights to be served in the language of their choice English or French. So why does government, in the press trying to erase an accepted legislated practice. Maybe the Crown should study incentive subsidies and giving property tax breaks to Rich Corporations. New Brunswick is poor province!


Brian Robertson
Brian Robertson
@Paul Bourgoin
Services in either language can now be provided through real time translation.
That is good enough.

The gravy train has run out of steam.
End of.

Paul Bourgoin
Paul Bourgoin
@Brian Robertson
No not really ! The cash gravy is only served at one table and the surplus is stored in offshore refrigerators and the balance is subsidized to those sitting at the table! Lots of Gravy but miss-deposited!

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Paul Bourgoin "whose citizens have decided decades ago that New Brunswick residents have the legislated civil and human rights to be served in the language of their choice English or French."

Nope

Methinks you know as well as I that Hatfield decided it all by himself in order to court the French vote. He had to get Trudeau the Elder to put it in the Federal Charter because New Brunswick does not have its own Constitution N'esyPas?

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Brian Robertson "The gravy train has run out of steam. "

YUP

Fred Brewer
Fred Brewer
@Paul Bourgoin
"whose citizens have decided decades ago ... to be served in the language of their choice English or French. "

Say What??? So the citizens had a referendum on this? When was that? Please show me the proof of your statement.

Paul Bourgoin
Paul Bourgoin
@David R. Amos
I believe you forgot the true author, your friend's driving influence in this matter the Late Honorable Minister, Jean-Maurice Simard!! : -)

Les Cooper
Les Cooper
@Paul Bourgoin The citizens of NB were lied to and tricked into bilingualism. No one ever wanted it. Why do u think no other province went Bilingual. They see the diaster in NB keeping province from succeeding. It's been 50 + years. Time for a change!

Roland Godin
Roland Godin
@Les Cooper
Frustrated because some can't pay their share, whatever having all the jobs we will pay for you all, worry pas...et voilà.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Paul Bourgoin Methinks everybody knows when its comes to politicking nobody has any friends N'esy Pas?








Brian Robertson 
Brian Robertson
The whole issue of communication can be addressed by technology.
That is all that is required by any honest interpretation of the law.

If that is insufficient to some, then their motivation is more one of propagation and growth of French; which is NOT necessary, required nor to the majority's benefit.


Rosco holt
Rosco holt
@Brian Robertson
You're ok with a francophone using technology when they serve you, even in a time of emergency.

Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
@Rosco holt, of course, he is. He just stated it.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Rosco holt Methinks common sense dictates that nobody should care Just get them to the hospital ASAP and try to keep them breathing as they dodge the potholes along the way.N'esy Pas?

Brian Robertson
Brian Robertson
@Rosco holt
In an emergency?
You're absolutely right I am OK with it.
But, given that a uni lingual francophone is a rarity, the chances of that happening are pretty remote.










Harold Benson 
Harold Benson
I don't care what you say, or how you say it, if you are trying to help me with my heart attack. Spasms and a purple face speak for themselves. Thank you for your service not matter what language you speak


Cory Kamermans
Cory Kamermans
@Harold Benson Exactly.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Cory Kamermans YUP









Jeff LeBlanc
 Trevis L. Kingston
When the patient is unconscious... are they deemed Anglophone...or Francophone?
If we get sick in a non- English OR French speaking country … I guess...we'll just die?
No...we would be appreciative of ANYONES medical assistance.
We take our cars to a "non- dealer" for repairs...and usually they get fixed OK.
I would gladly accept medical help from ANY ambulance attendant...in any country!


Jeff LeBlanc
Jeff LeBlanc
@Trevis L. Kingston well said!

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Jeff LeBlanc Its just common sense






 

 Jeff LeBlanc 
Richard Dunn
It truly is refreshing to see adults running the province.
Nice to see so many common sense, and positive, decisions being made.


Rosco holt
Rosco holt
@Richard Dunn
Wake me up when we actually have adults running government. All I see is spoiled children who have to resort to blackmail, when they don't get things their way.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Rosco holt Me Too
Les Cooper
Les Cooper
@Rosco holt This is why french and English are leaving province. And the high taxes we pay because everyone is moving away. I wonder what the taxes will be in 10 years?









 Jeff LeBlanc 
Lou Bell
A life saved by a unilingual is worth a lot more than someone dying because no help was available because of language. I would think any morally adjusted person would agree.


Roland Godin
Roland Godin
@Lou Bell
Thanks for accepting to be served in la langue officielle de mon choix...et voilà.

Colin Seeley
Colin Seeley
@Roland Godin

And that needs to be changed.

Lou Bell
Lou Bell
@Roland Godin Yeah , just as long as you are in your own little circle. Otherwise , yer outta luck if you think it'll be in " language of your choice "! There's a whole big world out there, and you might take a look and realize that little circle you're in is like a pimple on an elephant's --s .

Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
@Lou Bell, talking about New Brunswick? - On a world scale, a pimple on an elephant is an understatement.

Roland Godin
Roland Godin
@Lou Bell
So do I understand you prefer being served only in la langue officielle de votre choix...eh!

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks that is what most of you Quebeckers think of us N'esy Pas?

Les Cooper
Les Cooper
@Roland Godin what are u saying. Half in french


 






Jeff LeBlanc 
daryl doucette
Well well well common sense has finally reared its ugly head in this issue about bilingual paramedics. This should just about drive the French Language Commissioner off the deep end.


Lou Bell
Lou Bell
@daryl doucette Last thing they'd wanna see is someone saved by an Anglophone !

Roland Godin
Roland Godin
@Lou Bell
According to some an anglophone has to be unilingue...eh!

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Roland Godin Methinks Maggie and Lou should get a room N'esy Pas?

Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
@David R. Amos, separate rooms!








Take politics out of education, says teachers' union leader

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Methinks politics and education are the reasons George Daley has his job as the president of New Brunswick Teachers' Association in the first place N'esy Pas?

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/teachers-union-education-system-politics-auditor-general-1.4983045



Take politics out of education, says teachers' union leader

Auditor general’s report detailed instability in New Brunswick's education system


George Daley, president of New Brunswick Teachers' Association, says he wants politics out of the education system. (Catherine Harrop/CBC)



The head of New Brunswick's teachers' union says the voices of teachers have finally been heard, following the release of a report by the auditor general calling for stability in the provincial education system.

Kim MacPherson found that schools are failing to hit performance targets because frequent changes in education strategy "create instability and shift focus away from educating students."
"The system needs to stabilize," MacPherson said.

Her report explained that a student who started school in September 2004 would have experienced five different strategies, each with its own priorities, by the time they graduated.
George Daley, president of the New Brunswick Teachers' Association, offered another statistic: 37 major changes in the past 35 years.

"I now understand why I never felt I could never get my feet under me: because everything was always changing," Daley said.

"There was a new target, there was a new way of doing something, there was a new program, there was a new district office I had to deal with. It was always there."



Information Morning - Fredericton
AG grades student performance

 Assessments indicate students continue to fail to meet targets. Auditor General Kim MacPherson says each time government makes changes to the education plan, it filters down and impacts student performance. 11:06

Daley said the contents of the audit, which also touched on a lack of accountability for school districts, were not surprising. What did surprise him was hearing a government official articulate what he and his members have been saying for years.

"I think there are teachers out there today that are going to read this auditor general's report and say, 'You know, my voice has been finally heard,'" he said.

Policy changes and reversals


The policy changes cover everything from inclusive teaching practices to beefing up security standards, and there have been plenty of reversals, too. Gym teachers and shop class were nixed and restored, while the entry point for French immersion has changed several times.

MacPherson slammed the decision by then-premier Brian Gallant's Liberal government to return to a Grade 1 entry point for French immersion because it gave school districts only one year to implement the change.


Auditor General Kim MacPherson says frequent system changes and lack of accountability have taken a toll on student learning. (CBC)

The education system is still dealing with a shortage of French immersion teachers, said Daley.
Working in a system in constant flux has worn on teachers trying to meet the needs of students without adequate support or funding from the province, he said, suggesting that's leading to earlier retirements and younger people turning away from the profession.

 

Leave politics out of it, says Daley


The "well-intended" reforms often developed from an election promise or new report that promises to improve the system without understanding its complexities, Daley said.

Change can be a good thing, he said, but it has to be "well thought out, researched, planned, properly implemented," rather than change sparked by political motives.

He want to get politics out of education.

Daley said the role of elected officials should be to establish "realistic goals" for education and then follow up with appropriate funding.

"After that, the decision of how it's applied, what's done, has got to fall back into the hands of the professionals and the educators," he said.

"We need to listen to our teachers, we need to listen to the people in the system."
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 David R. Amos 
David R. Amos
Methinks politics and education are the reasons George Daley has his job as the president of New Brunswick Teachers' Association in the first place N'esy Pas?







Matt Steele 
Matt Steele
The Higgs PCs would be wise to get rid of Gallant's ten year education plan , and try to adopt a plan similar to what former Liberal Premier Shaun Graham had proposed . Graham may have been a one term failure as a Premier , but he did have teacher certification and an Education Degree ; so he did have some idea of what was actually going on in the classroom . Of all the changes to the N.B. Education program over the last 20 years ; Shaun Graham's education proposals seemed to have been the best thought out ; and productive .


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Matt Steele Methinks you should take up your concerns with your old buddy Dominic Cardy N'esy Pas?

After layoffs, Cannabis NB employees in 2 cities take steps to unionize

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After layoffs, Cannabis NB employees in 2 cities take steps to unionize

New Brunswick Union calls move to organize 'a step in the right direction'


A majority of employees at two of the 20 Cannabis NB locations in New Brunswick have signed union cards. (Julia Wright / CBC)



Cannabis NB employees at two New Brunswick stores have taken the first steps toward joining a union.

The announcement from the New Brunswick Union, which represents many public employees in the province, comes just over a week after a major round of layoffs at the cannabis authority.

A majority of employees at the Campbellton and Miramichi Cannabis NB locations signed cards with the New Brunswick Union, said union president Susie Proulx-Daigle.

"In these specific stores, we had a large majority," said Proulx-Daigle. "We decided that those employees should have the right to freedom of association, which is in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms."

Once the application has been made by NBU to the Labour and Employment Board, the board will contact Cannabis NB to compare lists and ensure that the cards match the employees working in the two locations. Then then notices will be put up inviting any objections.

Susie Proulx-Daigle called the actions of workers in Campbellton and Miramichi a 'step in the right direction.' (cbc)
The employer could, in theory, object to unionization on a store-by-store basis, in which case the application would go to a hearing, Proulx-Daigle said.

"We would contest on the basis that we think they should have freedom of association."

The process might be slowed by the fact that the responsibilities and duties of Cannabis NB jobs have not been officially defined and passed through the legislature, she said.

"It's going to take a little longer than usual because of that, but the sooner the better," Proulx-Daigle said.

'No honest one-on-one- discussion'


The approximately 60 layoffs earlier this month were "representative of normal new retail industry operations and long-term fiscal responsibility," according to Cannabis NB communications specialist Marie-Andrée Bolduc.

But according to Proulx-Daigle, employees have indicated "there's no honest one-on-one discussion happening with employees to help them improve if they need improvement, or help them understand what they need to do to fit the corporate image."

She said NBU has heard that "people are afraid to even say that they're talking about a union."

The move to unionize follows not  "just the recent round of layoffs, but the layoffs before that — and the fact that there is no rhyme or reason to who gets let go," she said.

"I think they just want a fair shot at continuing to do the job that they do."

"For these people to step up is good in that it may allow other stores to say, 'if they can do it, we can too.'"

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Julia Wright is a reporter based in Saint John. She has been with the CBC since 2016. 


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Methinks the LIEbranos must be nuts to pick a fight with farmers in an election year N'esy Pas?

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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 18:21:30 -0400
Subject: YO Wayne Easter are you LIEbranos nuts to pick a fight with farmers in an election year?
To: wayne.easter@parl.gc.ca, lawrence.macaulay@parl.gc.ca, ourfarmcsa@gmail.com

Seed royalty proposal irks National Farmers Union

'We'd like to be able to use our own seed and plant our own seed'


The National Farmers Union feels farmers should have control over seeds they have grown themselves. (Kirk Pennell/CBC)

 
A proposal to impose royalties on seeds, including seeds farmers save from their own crops, has the National Farmers Union concerned about a loss of autonomy.

Representatives from Agriculture Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency will be on Prince Edward Island Friday to explain the plan.

The government says money raised from the seed royalties will be used to fund seed research, allowing for the development of new varieties and better crops.

Reg Phelan, a P.E.I. farmer and national board member for the NFU, said it means the loss of a right farmers have had since the dawn of agriculture.

"It could mean that we lose an awful lot of control in terms of our farms and being able to use our own seed. They're asking, wanting, to have control over that and we don't think they should be involved," said Phelan.

"We'd like to be able to use our own seed and plant our own seed, which we've been doing for thousands of years."

This is the only information session planned in Atlantic Canada, and the NFU says farmers from across the Maritimes will attend.

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https://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 Parties

1.      HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crown) is Elizabeth II, the Queen of
England, the Protector of the Faith of the Church of England, the
longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom and one of the
wealthiest persons in the world. Canada pays homage to the Queen
because she remained the Head of State and the Chief Executive Officer
of Canada after the Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) 1982, c. 11 came into force
on April 17, 1982. The standing of the Queen in Canada was explained
within the 2002 Annual Report FORM 18-K filed by Canada with the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). It states as
follows:

     “The executive power of the federal Government is vested in the
Queen, represented by the Governor General, whose powers are exercised
on the advice of the federal Cabinet, which is responsible to the
House of Commons. The legislative branch at the federal level,
Parliament, consists of the Crown, the Senate and the House of
Commons.”

     “The executive power in each province is vested in the Lieutenant
Governor, appointed by the Governor General on the advice of the
federal Cabinet. The Lieutenant Governor’s powers are exercised on the
advice of the provincial cabinet, which is responsible to the
legislative assembly. Each provincial legislature is composed of a
Lieutenant Governor and a legislative assembly made up of members
elected for a period of five years.”

2.      Her Majesty the Queen is the named defendant pursuant to
sections 23(1) and 36 of the Crown Liability and Proceedings Act. Some
of the state actors whose duties and actions are at issue in this
action are the Prime Minister, Premiers, Governor General, Lieutenant
Governors, members of the Canadian Forces (CF), and Royal Canadian
Mounted Police (RCMP), federal and provincial Ministers of Public
Safety, Ministers of Justice, Ministers of Finance, Speakers, Clerks,
Sergeants-at-Arms and any other person acting as Aide-de-Camp
providing security within and around the House of Commons, the
legislative assemblies or acting as security for other federal,
provincial and municipal properties.

3.      Her Majesty the Queen’s servants the RCMP whose mandate is to
serve and protect Canadian citizens and assist in the security of
parliamentary properties and the protection of public officials should
not deny a correspondence from a former Deputy Prime Minister who was
appointed to be Canada’s first Minister of Public Safety in order to
oversee the RCMP and their cohorts. The letter that helped to raise
the ire of a fellow Canadian citizen who had never voted in his life
to run for public office four times thus far is quoted as follows:

  “Mr. David R. Amos
            Jan 3rd, 2004
153Alvin Avenue
   Milton, MA U.S.A. 02186

                Dear Mr. Amos

      Thank you for your letter of November 19th, 2003, addressed to
                my predecessor, the Honourble Wayne Easter, regarding
your safety.
                I apologize for the delay in responding.

      If you have any concerns about your personal safety, I can only
               suggest that you contact the police of local
jurisdiction. In addition, any
               evidence of criminal activity should be brought to
their attention since the
               police are in the best position to evaluate the
information and take action
               as deemed appropriate.

       I trust that this information is satisfactory.

                                                              Yours sincerely

 A. Anne McLellan”

4.      DAVID RAYMOND AMOS (Plaintiff), a Canadian Citizen and the
first Chief of the Amos Clan, was born in Sackville, New Brunswick
(NB) on July 17th, 1952.

5.      The Plaintiff claims standing in this action as a citizen
whose human rights and democratic interests are to be protected by due
performance of the obligations of Canada’s public officials who are
either elected or appointed and all servants of the Crown whose
mandate is to secure the public safety, protect public interests and
to uphold and enforce the rule of law. The Crown affirms his right to
seek relief for offences to his rights under section 24(1) of the
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Charter). Paragraphs 6 to 13
explain the delay in bringing this action before Federal Court and
paragraphs 25 to 88 explain this matter.

6.      The Plaintiff states that pursuant to the democratic rights
found in Section 3 of the Charter he was a candidate in the elections
of the membership of the 38th and 39th Parliaments in the House of
Commons and a candidate in the elections of the memberships of the
legislative assemblies in Nova Scotia (NS) and NB in 2006.

7.      The Plaintiff states that if he is successful in finding a
Chartered Accountant to audit his records as per the rules of
Elections Canada, he will attempt to become a candidate in the
election of the membership of the 42nd Parliament.

8.      The Plaintiff states that beginning in January of 2002, he
made many members of the RCMP and many members of the corporate media
including employees of a Crown Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation (CBC) well aware of the reason why he planned to return to
Canada and become a candidate in the next federal election. In May of
2004, all members seated in the 37th Parliament before the writ was
dropped for the election of the 38th Parliament and several members of
the legislative assemblies of NB and Newfoundland and Labrador (NL)
knew the reason is the ongoing rampant public corruption. Evidence of
the Plaintiff’s concerns can be found within his documents that the
Office of the Governor General acknowledged were in its possession ten
years ago before the Speech from the Throne in 2004. The Governor
General’s letter is as follows:


  “September 11th, 2004
          Dear Mr. Amos,

           On behalf of Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne
Clarkson,
           I acknowledge receipt of two sets of documents and CD
regarding corruption,
           one received from you directly, and the other forwarded to
us by the Office of
           the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick.

                       I regret to inform you that the Governor
General cannot intervene in
           matters that are the responsibility of elected officials
and courts of Justice of
           Canada. You already contacted the various provincial
authorities regarding
           your concerns, and these were the appropriate steps to take.

                                                  Yours sincerely.
                                                              Renee
Blanchet
                                                              Office
of the Secretary
                                                              to the
Governor General”

9.      The Plaintiff states that the documents contain proof that the
Crown by way of the RCMP and the Minister of Public Safety/Deputy
Prime Minister knew that he was the whistleblower offering his
assistance to Maher Arar and his lawyers in the USA. The Governor
General acknowledged his concerns about the subject of this complaint
and affirmed that the proper provincial authorities were contacted but
ignored the Plaintiff’s faxes and email to the RCMP and the Solicitor
General in November of 2003 and his tracked US Mail to the Solicitor
General and the Commissioner of the RCMP by way of the Department of
Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) in December of 2003
and the response he received from the Minister of Public Safety/Deputy
Prime Minister in early 2004. One document was irrefutable proof that
there was no need whatsoever to create a Commission of Inquiry into
Maher Arar concerns at about the same point in time. That document is
a letter from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office
Inspector General (OIG complaint no. C04-01448) admitting contact with
his office on November 21, 2003 within days of the Plaintiff talking
to the office of Canada’s Solicitor General while he met with the US
Attorney General and one day after the former Attorney General of New
York (NY) and the former General Counsel of the SEC testified at a
public hearing before the US Senate Banking Committee about
investigations of the mutual fund industry.

10.  The Plaintiff states that another document that the Plaintiff
received during the election of the 39th Parliament further supported
the fact he was a whistleblower about financial crimes. In December of
2006 a member of the RCMP was ethical enough to admit that he
understood the Plaintiff’s concerns and forwarded his response to the
acting Commissioner of the RCMP and others including a NB Cabinet
Minister Michael B. Murphy QC. The Crown is well aware that any member
sitting in the last days of the 37th Parliament through to the end of
the 41st Parliament could have stood in the House of Commons and asked
the Speaker if the Crown was aware of the Plaintiff’s actions. All
parliamentarians should have wondered why his concerns and that of Mr.
Arar’s were not heard by a committee within the House of Commons in
early 2004. Instead, the Crown created an expensive Commission to
delay the Arar matter while he sued the governments of Canada and the
USA and his wife ran in the election of the 38th Parliament. In 2007,
Arar received a $10-million settlement from the Crown and the Prime
Minister gave him an official apology yet the US government has never
admitted fault. A month after the writ was dropped for the election of
the 42nd Parliament and CBC is reporting Syrian concerns constantly,
Mr. Arar’s lawyer announced that the RCMP will attempt to extradite a
Syrian intelligence officer because it had laid a charge in absentia
and a Canada-wide warrant and Interpol notice were issued. The
Plaintiff considers such news to be politicking practiced by the
Minister of Public Safety. He noticed the usually outspoken Mr. Arar
made no comment but his politically active wife had lots to say on
CBC. Meanwhile, the RCMP continues to bar a fellow citizen from
parliamentary properties because he exercised the same democratic
rights after he had offered his support to Arar by way of his American
lawyers. The aforementioned letter about financial crimes was from the
Inspector General for Tax Administration in the US Department of the
Treasury. Mr Arar’s lawyers, the RCMP, the Canadian Revenue Agency and
the US Internal Revenue Service still refuse to even admit TIGTA
complaint no. 071-0512-0055-C exists. However, the Commissioner of
Federal Court, the Queen’s Privy Council Office and other agencies
were made well aware of it before the Speech from the Throne in 2006.

11.  The Plaintiff states that from June 24, 2004 until the day he
signed this complaint he has diligently tried to resolve the breach of
his rights under the Charter that are the subject of this complaint
with any public official in Canada whom he believed had the mandate or
the ability to request that the Crown investigate and correct the
malicious actions and inactions of the RCMP, Sergeants-at-Arms and
Aides-de-Camp in all jurisdictions. Until June 16, 2006 the Plaintiff
did not have irrefutable proof to support this complaint. Time did not
permit him to address it immediately in Federal Court in 2006 because
his slate was full. For instance on June 16, 2006 while dealing with
deeply troubling private family matters, he was running against the
Attorney General for his seat in the NS provincial election while
arguing members of the RCMP about strange calls he got from someone in
Ottawa who claimed the Department of Public Safety as her client,
dealing with many liberal party members who were about to witness in
Moncton NB the first debate of all those who wished to become their
new leader, assisting a farmer in his attempt to get some authority to
properly investigate the demise of his cattle and discussing with
members of the Saint John NB City Council the actions of a sergeant in
the Saint John Police Force who was calling friends of the Plaintiff
and claiming that he was drug dealing member of a bike gang that they
should stay away from while he was preparing to intervene in pipeline
matter that was about to heard by the National Energy Board in Saint
John .

12.  The Plaintiff states that in April of 2007 he wrote a complaint
about this matter and returned to the Capital District of NB in order
to file it and argue the Crown before the Federal Court if it did not
wish to settle. A clerk of this court informed him that his complaint
was not composed correctly, so he began to rewrite this complaint.
However, as soon as it was known what the Plaintiff was about to file
he was subject to further police harassment and his family began to
suffer from constant slander, sexual harassment and death threats on
the Internet and on the telephone that continues to this very day
while the RCMP, the FBI and many other law enforcement authorities
continue to ignored the obvious evidence of cybercrime practiced
against many people including his minor children.

13.  The Plaintiff states that the Crown’s only response has been
further harassment by the RCMP including false arrest and imprisonment
and theft of his property by the Fredericton Police Force supported by
other law enforcement authorities in Canada and the USA. The Governor
General has had the Plaintiff’s documents for over ten years to study.
The Crown now has one of the complaints that the RCMP has been
delaying since 2003. It is as follows:




---------- Original message ----------
From: Ministerial Correspondence Unit - Justice Canada <mcu@justice.gc.ca>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 17:58:23 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: C'yall in Court
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

Thank you for writing to the Honourable David Lametti, Minister of
Justice and Attorney General of Canada.

Due to the significant increase in the volume of correspondence
addressed to the Minister, please note that there may be a delay in
processing your email. Rest assured that your message will be
carefully reviewed.

-------------------

Merci d'avoir écrit à l'honorable David Lametti, ministre de la
Justice et procureur général du Canada.

En raison d'une augmentation importante du volume de la correspondance
adressée à la ministre, veuillez prendre note qu'il pourrait y avoir
un retard dans le traitement de votre courriel. Nous tenons à vous
assurer que votre message sera lu avec soin.


---------- Original message ----------
From: "Gallant, Brian (LEG)"<Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 17:58:36 +0000
Subject: RE: C'yall in Court
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

Thank you for writing to the Leader of the Official Opposition of New
Brunswick. Please be assured that your e-mail will be reviewed.

If this is a media request, please forward your e-mail to
ashley.beaudin@gnb.camedia-medias@gnb.ca
>. Thank you!

---

Nous vous remercions d’avoir communiqué avec le chef de l’opposition
officielle du Nouveau-Brunswick.  Soyez assuré(e) que votre courriel
sera examiné.

Si ceci est une demande médiatique, prière de la transmettre à
ashley.beaudin@gnb.camedia-medias@gnb.ca>.  Merci!



---------- Original message ----------
From: Newsroom <newsroom@globeandmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 17:58:26 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: C'yall in Court
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 13:58:20 -0400
Subject: C'yall in Court
To: Catherine.Tait@cbc.ca, pablo.rodriguez@parl.gc.ca,
sylvie.gadoury@radio-canada.ca, Alex.Johnston@cbc.ca, pm@pm.gc.ca,
premier@gnb.ca, Gerald.Butts@pmo-cpm.gc.ca, blaine.higgs@gnb.ca,
robert.gauvin@gnb.ca, Hon.Dominic.LeBlanc@canada.ca,
brian.gallant@gnb.ca, serge.rousselle@gnb.ca, David.Coon@gnb.ca,
Kevin.A.Arseneau@gnb.ca, megan.mitton@gnb.ca, kris.austin@gnb.ca,
rick.desaulniers@gnb.ca, michelle.conroy@gnb.ca,
Larry.Tremblay@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca, Nathalie.Drouin@justice.gc.ca,
hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca, Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
mcu@justice.gc.ca, Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca,
David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca, andrea.anderson-mason@gnb.ca,
oldmaison@yahoo.com, andre@jafaust.com, Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca,
steve.murphy@ctv.ca, Newsroom@globeandmail.com,news@kingscorecord.com,
news@dailygleaner.com, news919@rogers.com
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, jesse@viafoura.com, marc.martin@snb.ca

https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/01/methinks-many-folks-would-agree-that.html


Tuesday, 15 January 2019

Methinks many folks would agree that Robert Gauvin and Dominic Leblanc
deserve each other


https://twitter.com/DavidRayAmos/with_replies


David Raymond Amos‏ @DavidRayAmos
Replying to @DavidRayAmos @Kathryn98967631 and 49 others
Methinks many folks would agree that Robert Gauvin and Dominic Leblanc
deserve each other and would easily understand why I am honoured that
they both hate me as well N'esy Pas?


 #nbpoli #cdnpoli






---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michael Cohen <mcohen@trumporg.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 05:54:40 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: ATTN Blair Armitage You acted as the Usher
of the Black Rod twice while Kevin Vickers was the Sergeant-at-Arms
Hence you and the RCMP must know why I sued the Queen Correct?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

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---------- 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


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Eidt, David (OAG/CPG)"<David.Eidt@gnb.ca>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 00:33:21 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Mr Lutz howcome your buddy the clerk
would not file this motion and properly witnessed affidavit and why
did she take all four copies?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

I will be out of the office until Monday, March 13, 2017. I will have
little to no access to email. Please dial 453-2222 for assistance.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Marc Richard <MRichard@lawsociety-barreau.nb.ca>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:16:46 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE: The New Brunswick Real Estate
Association and their deliberate ignorance for the bankster's benefit
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

I will be out of the office until  August 15, 2016. Je serai absent du
bureau jusqu'au 15 août 2016.





> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:32:09 -0400
> Subject: Attn Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
> To: coi@gnb.ca
> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>
> Good Day Sir
>
> After I heard you speak on CBC I called your office again and managed
> to speak to one of your staff for the first time
>
> Please find attached the documents I promised to send to the lady who
> answered the phone this morning. Please notice that not after the Sgt
> at Arms took the documents destined to your office his pal Tanker
> Malley barred me in writing with an "English" only document.
>
> These are the hearings and the dockets in Federal Court that I
> suggested that you study closely.
>
> This is the docket in Federal Court
>
> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=T-1557-15&select_court=T
>
> These are digital recordings of  the last three hearings
>
> Dec 14th https://archive.org/details/BahHumbug
>
> January 11th, 2016 https://archive.org/details/Jan11th2015
>
> April 3rd, 2017
>
> https://archive.org/details/April32017JusticeLeblancHearing
>
>
> This is the docket in the Federal Court of Appeal
>
> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=A-48-16&select_court=All
>
>
> The only hearing thus far
>
> May 24th, 2017
>
> https://archive.org/details/May24thHoedown
>
>
> This Judge understnds the meaning of the word Integrity
>
> Date: 20151223
>
> Docket: T-1557-15
>
> Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 23, 2015
>
> PRESENT:        The Honourable Mr. Justice Bell
>
> BETWEEN:
>
> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>
> Plaintiff
>
> and
>
> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>
> Defendant
>
> ORDER
>
> (Delivered orally from the Bench in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on
> December 14, 2015)
>
> The Plaintiff seeks an appeal de novo, by way of motion pursuant to
> the Federal Courts Rules (SOR/98-106), from an Order made on November
> 12, 2015, in which Prothonotary Morneau struck the Statement of Claim
> in its entirety.
>
> At the outset of the hearing, the Plaintiff brought to my attention a
> letter dated September 10, 2004, which he sent to me, in my then
> capacity as Past President of the New Brunswick Branch of the Canadian
> Bar Association, and the then President of the Branch, Kathleen Quigg,
> (now a Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal).  In that letter
> he stated:
>
> As for your past President, Mr. Bell, may I suggest that you check the
> work of Frank McKenna before I sue your entire law firm including you.
> You are your brother’s keeper.
>
> Frank McKenna is the former Premier of New Brunswick and a former
> colleague of mine at the law firm of McInnes Cooper. In addition to
> expressing an intention to sue me, the Plaintiff refers to a number of
> people in his Motion Record who he appears to contend may be witnesses
> or potential parties to be added. Those individuals who are known to
> me personally, include, but are not limited to the former Prime
> Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper; former
> Attorney General of Canada and now a Justice of the Manitoba Court of
> Queen’s Bench, Vic Toews; former member of Parliament Rob Moore;
> former Director of Policing Services, the late Grant Garneau; former
> Chief of the Fredericton Police Force, Barry McKnight; former Staff
> Sergeant Danny Copp; my former colleagues on the New Brunswick Court
> of Appeal, Justices Bradley V. Green and Kathleen Quigg, and, retired
> Assistant Commissioner Wayne Lang of the Royal Canadian Mounted
> Police.
>
> In the circumstances, given the threat in 2004 to sue me in my
> personal capacity and my past and present relationship with many
> potential witnesses and/or potential parties to the litigation, I am
> of the view there would be a reasonable apprehension of bias should I
> hear this motion. See Justice de Grandpré’s dissenting judgment in
> Committee for Justice and Liberty et al v National Energy Board et al,
> [1978] 1 SCR 369 at p 394 for the applicable test regarding
> allegations of bias. In the circumstances, although neither party has
> requested I recuse myself, I consider it appropriate that I do so.
>
>
> AS A RESULT OF MY RECUSAL, THIS COURT ORDERS that the Administrator of
> the Court schedule another date for the hearing of the motion.  There
> is no order as to costs.
>
> “B. Richard Bell”
> Judge
>
>
> Below after the CBC article about your concerns (I made one comment
> already) you will find the text of just two of many emails I had sent
> to your office over the years since I first visited it in 2006.
>
>  I noticed that on July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the  the Court
> Martial Appeal Court of Canada  Perhaps you should scroll to the
> bottom of this email ASAP and read the entire Paragraph 83  of my
> lawsuit now before the Federal Court of Canada?
>
> "FYI This is the text of the lawsuit that should interest Trudeau the most
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca
> Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:18 PM
> Subject: Réponse automatique : RE My complaint against the CROWN in
> Federal Court Attn David Hansen and Peter MacKay If you planning to
> submit a motion for a publication ban on my complaint trust that you
> dudes are way past too late
> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>
> Veuillez noter que j'ai changé de courriel. Vous pouvez me rejoindre à
> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>
> Pour rejoindre le bureau de M. Trudeau veuillez envoyer un courriel à
> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>
> Please note that I changed email address, you can reach me at
> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>
> To reach the office of Mr. Trudeau please send an email to
> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>
> Thank you,
>
> Merci ,
>
>
> http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2015/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
>
>
> 83.  The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war
> in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation to
> allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over
> five years after he began his bragging:
>
> January 13, 2015
> This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate
>
> December 8, 2014
> Why Canada Stood Tall!
>
> Friday, October 3, 2014
> Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And
> Stupid Justin Trudeau
>
> Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide
> behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
>
> When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean Chretien
> actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second campaign
> in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or contrary to
> the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were
> involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There were
> significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the dearth
> of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for
> operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “last minute”
> Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its mind.
> The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not
> deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a
> Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins to
> redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was
> less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq. But
> alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister Chretien’s
> then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s
> incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic,
> professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle
> Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway
> campaign of 2006.
>
> What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that then
> Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the
> Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice, consent,
> support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament.
>
> What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and babbling
> chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment of
> less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by planners
> as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a
> deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make.
>
> The Canadian Government or The Crown unlike our amerkan cousins have
> the “constitutional authority” to commit the Canadian nation to war.
> That has been recently clearly articulated to the Canadian public by
> constitutional scholar Phillippe Legasse. What Parliament can do is
> remove “confidence” in The Crown’s Government in a “vote of
> non-confidence.” That could not happen to the Chretien Government
> regarding deployment to Afghanistan, and it won’t happen in this
> instance with the conservative majority in The Commons regarding a
> limited Canadian deployment to the Middle East.
>
> President George Bush was quite correct after 911 and the terror
> attacks in New York; that the Taliban “occupied” and “failed state”
> Afghanistan was the source of logistical support, command and control,
> and training for the Al Quaeda war of terror against the world. The
> initial defeat, and removal from control of Afghanistan was vital and
>
> P.S. Whereas this CBC article is about your opinion of the actions of
> the latest Minister Of Health trust that Mr Boudreau and the CBC have
> had my files for many years and the last thing they are is ethical.
> Ask his friends Mr Murphy and the RCMP if you don't believe me.
>
> Subject:
> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:02:35 -0400
> From: "Murphy, Michael B. \(DH/MS\)"MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca
> To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>
> January 30, 2007
>
> WITHOUT PREJUDICE
>
> Mr. David Amos
>
> Dear Mr. Amos:
>
> This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29,
> 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP.
>
> Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have
> taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve
> Graham of the RCMP “J” Division in Fredericton.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Honourable Michael B. Murphy
> Minister of Health
>
> CM/cb
>
>
> Warren McBeath warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote:
>
> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500
> From: "Warren McBeath"warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
> To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca,
> nada.sarkis@gnb.ca, wally.stiles@gnb.ca, dwatch@web.net,
> motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
> CC: ottawa@chuckstrahl.com, riding@chuckstrahl.com,John.Foran@gnb.ca,
> Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,"Bev BUSSON"bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> "Paul Dube"PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
> Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has
> forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have not
>
> Dear Mr. Amos,
>
> Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off
> over the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured I
> was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
>
> As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our position
> is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
> testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the
> Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
> services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
> instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
>
> As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
> imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear
> that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada
> the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment
> and policing in Petitcodiac, NB.
>
> It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on
> December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
>
>  Sincerely,
>
> Warren McBeath, Cpl.
> GRC Caledonia RCMP
> Traffic Services NCO
> Ph: (506) 387-2222
> Fax: (506) 387-4622
> E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>
>
>
> Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
> Office of the Integrity Commissioner
> Edgecombe House, 736 King Street
> Fredericton, N.B. CANADA E3B 5H1
> tel.: 506-457-7890
> fax: 506-444-5224
> e-mail:coi@gnb.ca
>


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
>>
>

http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/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

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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 19:25:10 -0400
Subject: YO Wayne Easter Heres a little Deja Vu for you and the LIEbrano lawyers to enjoy
N'esy Pas?
To: wayne.easter@parl.gc.ca, lawrence.macaulay@parl.gc.ca, ourfarmcsa@gmail.com
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, riley.demerchant@gmail.com, David.Coon@gnb.ca,
Alaina.Lockhart@parl.gc.ca, Matt.DeCourcey.c1@parl.gc.ca


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Claude J.G. Levesque"<Claude.J.G.Levesque@inspection.gc.ca>
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:16:30 -0400
Subject: Re: Re the CFIA I just called AGAIN perhaps Gerry Ritz should
have his lawyer Google his name and mine or simply Werner Bock (Auto -
Reply - Away on leave / Absent en congé / Réponse automatisée)
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>

I am away from the office Friday, August 5th. and returning on
Tuesday, August 9th.  You may contact luc.lavergne@inspection.gc.ca on
August 5th and nadine.dube@inspection.gc.ca on August 8th or write to
securitycfia-aciasecurite@inspection.gc.ca    Thank you.
==================================================
Je suis absent du bureau vendredi le 5 août et je retourne mardi le 9
août.  Au cours de l'absence, vous pouvez communiqué avec
luc.lavegne@inspection.gc.ca the 5 août et
nadine.dube@inspection.gc.ca le 8 août ou écrire votre demande à  :
securitycfia-aciasecurite@inspection.gc.ca      Merci.



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 18:16:07 -0300
Subject: Re the CFIA I just called AGAIN perhaps Gerry Ritz should
have his lawyer Google his name and mine or simply Werner Bock
To: ritzg@sasktel.net, Claude.J.G.Levesque@inspection.gc.ca,
denis.cardinal@inspection.gc.ca,
Shalene.Curtis-Micallef@inspection.gc.ca
Cc: gerry.ritz@parl.gc.ca, "Andrews.S"<Andrews.S@parl.gc.ca>,
maritime_malaise <maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:08:29 -0300
Subject: Fwd: I just called and tried to reason with you people whilst
the Stock Markets tumble AGAIN Correct?
To: henchin@vancouversun.com, dlamb@postmedia.com
Cc: maritime_malaise <maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>, whistleblower
<whistleblower@ctv.ca>, whistleblower <whistleblower@finra.org>

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Fear+stalks+stocks+Economic+malaise+mauls+markets/5210477/story.html

http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Market+losses+continue+grow+Friday/5211372/story.html

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 09:59:29 -0300
Subject: i just called and tried to reason with you people whilst the
Stock Markets tumble AGAIN Correct?
To: david.barry@nbsc-cvmnb.ca, kptummon@gov.pe.ca, obrienhl@gov.ns.ca,
slattejw@gov.ns.ca, atkinssj@gov.ns.ca, gsinfo@gov.nl.ca,
harryharding@gov.nl.ca, "terry.seguin"<terry.seguin@cbc.ca>,
"jonesr@cbc.ca"<jonesr@cbc.ca>
Cc: maritime_malaise <maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>, oig <oig@sec.gov>,
ministerofstate <ministerofstate@acoa-aperca.gc.ca>, "Dean.Buzza"
<Dean.Buzza@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, newsroom <newsroom@telegraphjournal.com>,
"Barry.MacKnight"<Barry.MacKnight@fredericton.ca>,
"oldmaison@yahoo.com"<oldmaison@yahoo.com>

Since you won't speak to me, why not talk about your deliberate
incompetence to the foreign newsmen contacting me?

csa-acvm-secretariat@acvm-csa.ca

http://www.nbsc-cvmnb.ca/nbsc/LanguageRH.do?type=english

http://www.gov.pe.ca/securities/index.php3?number=48628&lang=E

http://www.gov.ns.ca/nssc/contactnssc.htm

http://www.gs.gov.nl.ca/

Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
902 800 0369



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 04:10:09 -0300
Subject: Yo Gerry Ritz what planet does your nasty help
Claude.Levesque come from? FYI I never called Moncton at all.
To: Ritz.G@parl.gc.ca, Easter.W@parl.gc.ca,
sarah.paquet@inspection.gc.ca, Claude.J.G.Levesque@inspection.gc.ca,
ppileggi@schiffhardin.com, tbattistoni@schiffhardin.com,
agrumet@schiffhardin.com, djacoby@schiffhardin.com,
dcampbell@aldf.org, mliebman@aldf.org, lfranzetta@aldf.org,
hfa@hfa.org, hsullivan@hsus.org, rquerry@hsus.org,
media@farmsanctuary.org, sotto@aldf.org, bwagman@schiffhardin.com,
action1@aldf.org, emerchant@merchantlaw.com,
mapleleaffoods@consumerservicesemail.com, stoffp1@parl.gc.ca, "Godin.
Y"<Godin.Y@parl.gc.ca>, "oldmaison@yahoo.com"<oldmaison@yahoo.com>,
injusticecoalition@hotmail.com, gypsy-blog@hotmail.com,
"forest@conservationcouncil.ca"<forest@conservationcouncil.ca>,
Investorrelations <Investorrelations@mapleleaf.ca>, riding
<riding@chuckstrahl.com>, ottawa <ottawa@chuckstrahl.com>
Cc: drbilldeagle@earthlink.net, drbilldeagle@hotmail.com, webo
<webo@xplornet.com>, barneybrook@ns.sympatico.ca,
info@colchestermusquodoboitvalley.liberal.ns.ca,
info@cumberlandnorth.liberal.ns.ca,
info@cumberlandsouth.liberal.ns.ca, office@nscattle.ca,
kingssouth@greenparty.ns.ca

I CALLED YOU REMEMBER???

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 14:50:38 -0300
Subject: RE: Taylor tells farmers "Shape up or ship out" Perhaps
somebody should read some of my work real slow EH Willy?
To: barneybrook@ns.sympatico.ca,
info@colchestermusquodoboitvalley.liberal.ns.ca,
info@cumberlandnorth.liberal.ns.ca,
info@cumberlandsouth.liberal.ns.ca, office@nscattle.ca,
kingssouth@greenparty.ns.ca
Cc: webo <webo@xplornet.com>

http://www.dailybusinessbuzz.ca/2009/05/22/ns-shape-up-or-ship-out-taylor-tells-farmers/

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nsvotes2009/story/2009/05/22/novascotiavotes-beef-farmers.html

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 16:47:32 -0300
Subject: Fwd: Yo Andy maybe your NDP buddy Alex Atamanenko can explain
this CFIA document to my friend Werner Bock and the Merchant Law firm
to mean old me.
To: ppileggi@schiffhardin.com, tbattistoni@schiffhardin.com,
agrumet@schiffhardin.com, djacoby@schiffhardin.com,
dcampbell@aldf.org, mliebman@aldf.org, lfranzetta@aldf.org,
hfa@hfa.org, hsullivan@hsus.org, rquerry@hsus.org,
media@farmsanctuary.org, sotto@aldf.org, bwagman@schiffhardin.com,
action1@aldf.org

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: lgraebner@aldf.org
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 12:22:30 -0700
Subject: AUTO REPLY from ALDF's Criminal Justice Program
To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com

This reply is being sent to confirm that we have received your information.

Animal Legal Defense Fund

§

Thank you for contacting our Criminal Justice Program.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 22:37:25 -0300
Subject: Yo Andy maybe your NDP buddy Alex Atamanenko can explain this
CFIA document to my friend Werner Bock and the Merchant Law firm to
mean old me.
To: andrewgraham@nbsouthwestndp.com, "Atamanenko.A"
<Atamanenko.A@parl.gc.ca>, rmoir <rmoir@unbsj.ca>, "Easter. W"
<Easter.W@parl.gc.ca>, "Ritz. G"<Ritz.G@parl.gc.ca>, "strahl. c"
<Strahl.C@parl.gc.ca>, emerchant@merchantlaw.com,
mapleleaffoods@consumerservicesemail.com, "Harris. J"
<Harris.J@parl.gc.ca>, Byron Prior <alltrue@nl.rogers.com>, Barry
Winters <sunrayzulu@shaw.ca>, dean Ray <deanr0032@hotmail.com>, Robin
Reid <zorroboy2004@hotmail.com>
Cc: ndpnpd <ndpnpd@nbnet.nb.ca>, "travis. ndp"<Travis.ndp@gmail.com>,
"Jack - M.P. Layton"<Layton.J@parl.gc.ca>, stoffp1
<stoffp1@parl.gc.ca>, "Godin. Y"<Godin.Y@parl.gc.ca>,
"oldmaison@yahoo.com"<oldmaison@yahoo.com>, Richard Harris
<injusticecoalition@hotmail.com>, gypsy-blog <gypsy-blog@hotmail.com>,
"forest@conservationcouncil.ca"<forest@conservationcouncil.ca>,
Investorrelations@mapleleaf.ca

 FOOD FOR THOUGHT TOUR: DISCUSSION WITH NDP FOOD SECURITY CRITIC.
"Alex Atamanenko, M.P. for British Columbia Southern Interior  would
like to hear what the people are saying in order to guide the
development of a national food policy. Government decisions should
reflect what people are saying at the grassroots level so all are
encouraged to come out and let your voices be heard. For further
information, please contact Andrew Graham at 506 693-7924 or
andrewgraham@nbsouthwestndp.com"

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:41:52 -0300
Subject: Fwd: Attn Dr Biil Deagle we should talk about Canadian Food
Inspection Agency (CFIA) on your show ASAP
To: wpatels@telus.net, wally.oppal.mla@leg.bc.ca

From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:18:01 -0300
Subject: Fwd: The United States Centers For Disease Control appears to
be nervous too
To: Schreiberbarbel@aol.com, sennecke@karlheinzschreiber.ca

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:40:01 -0300
Subject: Re: The United States Centers For Disease Control appears to
be nervous too
To: jones.alexander39@gmail.com
Cc: drbilldeagle@earthlink.net, drbilldeagle@hotmail.com, webo
<webo@xplornet.com>

Look who was worried about me this morning

Just Dave
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Alexander S Jones <jones.alexander39@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:06:00 -0400
Subject: Re: Attn Dr Biil Deagle we should talk about Canadian Food
Inspection Agency (CFIA) on your show ASAP
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>

Thanks David

They are coming after me now , trying to charge me with over $6000 in fines
for $5 in unpaid tolls.


On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:20 PM, David Amos
<david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 10:21:11 -0300
Subject: Attn Dr Biil Deagle we should talk about Canadian Food
Inspection Agency (CFIA) on your show ASAP
To: drbilldeagle@earthlink.net, drbilldeagle@hotmail.com, webo
<webo@xplornet.com>, "Gilles. Blinn"<Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
Cc: sarah.paquet@inspection.gc.ca,
Claude.J.G.Levesque@inspection.gc.ca, "Easter. W"
<Easter.W@parl.gc.ca>, "Ritz. G"<Ritz.G@parl.gc.ca>, "strahl. c"
<Strahl.C@parl.gc.ca>

Werner discussed this nonsense in the pdf hereto attached (me with the
CFIA) and Werner the RCMP before you and I crossed paths Now that you
and I talked in the media  the bastards are playing dumb bigtime this
week like it never happend..

This avian influenza issue is up your alley and was published by them
just before you and I first crossed paths (interesting coincidence
eh?) Now these bastards are trying to have us locked up in a very
covert fashion. (Remember i told you on air that people were acting
rather porrly? well it wasn't just Dean Buzza who is buzzing there are
many nasty little Bees who hate us for many reasons.

http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/corpaffr/newcom/2009/20090403e.shtml

OTTAWA, April 3, 2009 — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has
lifted all remaining movement restrictions on birds and bird products
in southern British Columbia. No additional cases of avian influenza
were found during extensive testing of commercial poultry in the area.

The latest boss of the CFIA is Carole Swan

http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/agen/pres/prese.shtml

"During her career in the federal public service, Ms. Swan held other
senior positions within Industry Canada and the Treasury Board, and
has worked in a number of departments and agencies including the Privy
Council Office, the Office of Privatization and Regulatory Affairs,
the Department of Regional and Industrial Expansion, the Ministry of
State for Economic Development, Status of Women Canada and the
Department of Communications."

by virtue of he last position in the Canadain govrnment she certainly
knows who I am I truly believe that they overlooked the fact that i
was on Werners farm when they decided to try to shut him up. To say
that i am pissed off afer my converstion withthe CFIA today would be
an understatement after the RCMP in Moncton denied to Werner about
knowing anything about the false allegations.

Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 17:37:27 -0300
Subject: Re CFIA threat Attn Sarah Paquet (613) 773-5772 and her
associate Claude J.G. Levesque (613) 773-5161
To: "Easter. W"<Easter.W@parl.gc.ca>, "Ritz. G"<Ritz.G@parl.gc.ca>,
"strahl. c"<Strahl.C@parl.gc.ca>
Cc: webo <webo@xplornet.com>, sarah.paquet@inspection.gc.ca,
Claude.J.G.Levesque@inspection.gc.ca

What kind of nonsense is? Did you people forget that I am on Werner
Bock's farm too. How about my three dead calves?  Furthermore are you
going to try to deny that  I have witnessed alot of malice practiced
against him that you and you associates working for the CROWN have
ignored for many years?

Rest assured I look forward to arguing Wayne Easter's old underlings
in the RCMP about many things other than dead farm animals. Quite
frankly I think the CROWN is crazy to attack a decent German Immigrant
again at this point in time. Has any of you even considered working
within the scope of your employment just once or is everything a
matter of politics? The rest of us have to eat too. Won't it be nice
if you protected our farmers and their animals and crops for a change
instead of just allowing questionable corporations closing processing
plants down here and sending all the work to upper Canada then sending
the tainted meat back down here. Wouldn't it be a wonderful world in
the Maritimes if all of Werner's cattle would be allowed to live on
the farm long enough to be sold at a reasonable price to a local
outfit on PEI so that Maritimers could enjoy a decent homegrown steak
at a fair price EH Wayne Easter?

Verita Vincit
David Raymond Amos



From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 19:50:16 -0400
Subject: Settle all you wish. Mr Merchant you dudes are far from done
with me EH?
To: emerchant@merchantlaw.com,
mapleleaffoods@consumerservicesemail.com, pcrawford@osler.com,
"oldmaison@yahoo.com"<oldmaison@yahoo.com>, "spinks08@hotmail.com"
<spinks08@hotmail.com>, "Nicholson. R"<Nicholson.R@parl.gc.ca>, Dan
Fitzgerald <danf@danf.net>, "Duceppe. G"<Duceppe.G@parl.gc.ca>
Cc: jennifery@fcbarristers.com, sharon@strosbergco.com,
moore.r@parl.gc.ca, Investorrelations@mapleleaf.ca,
injusticecoalition@hotmail.com, BHudson@widowsonwarpath.com,
LDavenport@widowsonwarpath.com, Kentar@telus.net,
carl.urquhart@gnb.ca, mark.panus@realogy.com, thompson.g@parl.gc.ca

http://www.mapleleaffoodsclaim.com/

For further information please contact Jennifer Yiin-Mackovski, who is
a law clerk in the Charney litigation group at
jennifery@fcbarristers.com or call (416) 964-3408 at extension 246, or
Sharon Strosberg at Sutts, Strosberg at sharon@strosbergco.com or call
(519) 561-6244.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Raymond Amos <noreply-comment@blogger.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:56 PM
Subject: [Gypsy-blog] New comment on Everyone in a nursing home in NB.
To: David.Raymond.Amos@gmail.com


David Raymond Amos has left a new comment on the post "Everyone in a
nursing home in NB":

Rest assured that Tony Merchant a few fancy Yankees and the Maple Leaf
crooks know I don't miss much.


http://www.scribd.com/doc/5352095/Tony-Merchant-and-Yankees

I must ask you Mikey Baby did you know your local liberal hero David
Innes pedals military hardware on the side? Or that one of Chucky's
local heroes in the Green Party is none other than the nasty lawyer Ms
Menard? FYI she is the wife of Scotty Baby Agnew (The nasty Irving
dude who had Chucky's and one of my blogs killed as well a two email
accounts of mine) Methinks he had a little something to do with the
Spinksy crowd of Neo Cons putting up a the Gay Porn Youtubes lately
with my name tagged to them.

Here is a lttle proof of the pudding between the Merchant law firm and
I recently Take carefull notice how long Chucky and your other blogger
friends in Fat Fred City knew this stuff. It appears that I am the
only one who is not playing games with you EH?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Date: Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:30 PM
Subject: Mr. Crawford why are the McCain's playing games with me AFTER
I offered my assistance against Merchant's actions
To: pcrawford@osler.com, emerchant@merchantlaw.com
Cc: moore.r@parl.gc.ca


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:06:35 -0300
Subject: Fwd: Perhaps you should have a long talk with your Daddy FYI
you were way past too late the last time bullshitted me Evatt
To: mapleleaffoods@consumerservicesemail.com

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:01:09 -0300
Subject: Fwd: Perhaps you should have a long talk with your Daddy FYI
you were way past too late the last time bullshitted me Evatt
To: Investorrelations@mapleleaf.ca

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:22:30 -0300
Subject: Fwd: Perhaps you should have a long talk with your Daddy FYI
you were way past too late the last time bullshitted me Evatt
To: Evatt Merchant emerchant@merchantlaw.com,
BHudson@widowsonwarpath.com, LDavenport@widowsonwarpath.com,
"merchant@merchantlaw.comcarl.urquhart@gnb.ca"
carl.urquhart@gnb.ca, mark.panus@realogy.com, thompson.g@parl.gc.ca,
"Harper.S@parl.gc.ca"Harper.S@parl.gc.ca, "moore.r@parl.gc.ca"
moore.r@parl.gc.ca, scotta@parl.gc.ca
Cc: injusticecoalition@hotmail.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com,
Investor.Relations@realogy.com, bruce.noble@fredericton.ca, Dan
Fitzgerald danf@danf.net

Prepare to defend yourself in a court of law lawyer. I found true joy in
your amazing BULLSHIT.

Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Evatt Merchant emerchant@merchantlaw.com
Date: Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: Perhaps you should have a long talk with your Daddy FYI you
were way past too late the last time bullshitted me Evatt
To: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com


Dear David:

Thank you for your last email. I have not reviewed the same closely but it
was a reminder to me to send you a note regarding your correspondence
earlier this week.

Further to your earlier correspondence, I wish to make the following clear:



1. I have spoken to Tony and he does not recall ever receiving any
documents from you. Further, our office staff can not find any file or
documents held in your name.

2. I am not in a position to confirm or deny whether or not you sent us
documents to our firm by registered mail. Regardless, if unsolicited
documents were received by our Regina or other offices, it would appear they
have been discarded. Our Regina office receives thousands of documents each
month, most of which are not brought to Tony's attention.

3. Our firm does not know what the nature of the issue you are seeking to
pursue against third parties. However, given the tone of your voicemail and
e-mail messages, we are not prepared to act on your behalf or provide any
legal advice or opinion on any issues you wish to pursue.

4. Simply to be clear, we are not handling any matter on your behalf and we
are not prepared to act as your lawyers. If there is some legal issue you
wish to pursue, and you desire the assistants of a lawyer, you should
contact another law firm forthwith. Respectfully, there is no further need
for you to be in contact with our firm or its lawyers, and we will not reply
to further correspondence.

In a recent e-mail that you sent to various third parties including
Government Leaders (with a carbon copy to our office), you seemed to make
reference to our firm being involved or handling the matter you wish to
pursue. As we are not acting as your lawyers or otherwise involved, please
cease referencing our firm or any of our lawyers in any further
communication to third parties.

Thank you.


Evatt F. A. Merchant
Merchant Law Group LLP
emerchant@merchantlaw.com

----- Original Message -----
*From:* David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
*To:* Evatt Merchant emerchant@merchantlaw.com ;
BHudson@widowsonwarpath.com ; LDavenport@widowsonwarpath.com ;
merchant@merchantlaw.com
carl.urquhart@gnb.camerchant@merchantlaw.com+carl.urquhart@gnb.ca ;
mark.panus@realogy.com ; thompson.g@parl.gc.ca ; Harper.S@parl.gc.ca ;
moore.r@parl.gc.ca ; scotta@parl.gc.ca
*Cc:* injusticecoalition@hotmail.com ; oldmaison@yahoo.com ;
Investor.Relations@realogy.com ; bruce.noble@fredericton.ca ; Dan
Fitzgerald danf@danf.net
*Sent:* Saturday, August 30, 2008 8:01 PM
*Subject:* RE: Perhaps you should have a long talk with your Daddy FYI you
were way past too late the last time bullshitted me Evatt

Here ya Mr. Nerchant go just as I promised.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/5352095/Tony-Merchant-and-Yankees

FYI the news about Dizzy Lizzy May and Blair Wilson is pretty funny once
folks start reading this document EH?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/5352139/Dizzy-Lizzy-May-and-the-Big-Boyz

Furthermore this is one Hell of a document for Harper to argue whilst he is
seeking another mandate N'est Pas?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/5352212/Public-Sector-Integrity

Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Date: Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Subject: Perhaps you should have a long talk with your Daddy FYI you were
way past too late the last time bullshitted me Evatt
To: Evatt Merchant emerchant@merchantlaw.com, BHudson@widowsonwarpath.com,
LDavenport@widowsonwarpath.com, "merchant@merchantlaw.com
carl.urquhart@gnb.ca"carl.urquhart@gnb.ca, mark.panus@realogy.com,
thompson.g@parl.gc.ca, "Harper.S@parl.gc.ca"Harper.S@parl.gc.ca, "
moore.r@parl.gc.ca"moore.r@parl.gc.ca, scotta@parl.gc.ca, Dan Fitzgerald
danf@danf.net
Cc: injusticecoalition@hotmail.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com,
Investor.Relations@realogy.com, bruce.noble@fredericton.ca,
webo@xplornet.com


My documents were sent by registered mail to your law firm signature
required not long after Eddy Greensapn answered me. When I get a
chance just as I just said on your cell phone's voicemail I will post
the proof of that fact here as well.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3100345/Eddy-Greenspan-playing-dumb

Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:49:20 -0300
From: "David Amos"david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
To: Paulette.Delaney-Smith@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Akoschany@ctv.ca,
jtravers@thestar.ca, warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
Stephane.vaillancourt@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, oldmaison.wcie@gmail.com,
"Richard Harris"injusticecoalition@hotmail.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com,
Investor.Relations@realogy.com, bruce.noble@fredericton.ca,
webo@xplornet.com, samperrier@hotmail.com, gypsy-blog@hotmail.com,
donald.arseneault@gnb.ca
Subject: Hey WICE you should make sure that Chucky Leblanc and the
RCMP read this blog N'est Pas
CC: premier@gnb.ca, Chris.Baker@gnb.ca, nouvelle@acadienouvelle.com,
newsroom@nbpub.com, carl.davies@gnb.ca, advocacycollective@yahoo.com,
mleger@stu.ca, jwalker@stu.ca, plee@stu.ca, dwatch@web.net,
Duane.Rousselle@unb.ca, jonesr@cbc.ca,
collins.moncton-east@hotmail.com, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca,
kelly.lamrock@gnb.ca, greg.byrne@gnb.ca, Bill.Fraser@gnb.ca,
mary.schryer@gnb.ca, rick.miles@gnb.ca, Bernard.LeBlanc@gnb.ca,
Cheryl.Lavoie@gnb.ca, claude.landry@gnb.ca, Jack.Keir2@gnb.ca,
abel.leblanc@gnb.ca, eugene.mcginley2@gnb.ca, John.Foran@gnb.ca,
roly.macintyre@gnb.ca, Ed.Doherty@gnb.ca
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:57:48 -0800 (PST)
From: "David Amos"
Subject: What kind of Bullshit Response is that Paulette
To: "Paulette Delaney-Smith"Paulette.Delaney-Smith@rcmp-grc.gc.ca

We also talked at least twice recently because your fellow cops
directed me to you instead of the dudes I wanted to speak to. You told
me that you gave my material to Kevin Jackson and commented that you
had not received any emails from me lately ( you never respnded to the
ones I sent in the past anyway) and I told you that they had been
blocked by your pals and I suggested that you talk to your incompetent
lawyer Gilmour. Remember lady?

Anyway I was so pissed off by your pals stalking me and putting the
proof of their malice in Youtube that i sent you some emails from my
son's email address (your cop pals killed my other email accounts)
just to see if they would get through. Surprise surprise some did and
some did not. However Iknew that you got yours Methinks there is some
defections in your ranks. Perhaps you and your fellow whisleblowers
who cry alot in the Media should pick up the phone and make a deal
with a honest whistleblower and then tell the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth for the benefit of all Canadians EH?
Everybody and his dog knows that the RCMP are as crooked as hell and
they only care about the RCMP and their pensions not the interests of
the people they were hired to serve and protect.

Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

P.S. I will keep this email in confidence for one day then email it to
politicians and the media and then post it on the web. Quit playing
games and call me will ya? they may be a very importenat election in
the near future and our affairs may become of interest to some smiling
bastards loooking to get relected. Obviously nobody can deny that you
and I did not cross paths before the 39th Parliament sat on April 4th,
2006 and you refused to act within the scope of your employment for
some strange reason and shortly thereafter your former lawyer Richard
Bell whom I had crossed paths with in 2004 became the first judge
Stevey boy Harper appointed Surprise Surprise N'est Pas? 506 434 1379
Please use it tomorrow before I file my first complaints in Federal
Court.

Paulette Delaney-Smith Paulette.Delaney-Smith@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote:

David,

I received your voice mail, I have been transferred to another unit
and I am unaware of who is dealing with your complaints at this time.

Paulette Delaney-Smith, Cpl.
RCMPolice "J" DIvision HQ

David Amos 01/03/08 12:49 AM

Whereas you RCMP people refused to act within the scope of your
employment and investigate major crimes Tis time for me to sue many
bankers too N'est Pas Ms. Paulette Delaney-Smith and your old buddy
Louie Lefebvre?

US-KPMG FW Ombudsman Office wrote:

Subject: Response to your emails
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:16:12 -0500
From: "US-KPMG FW Ombudsman Office"
To: ,

Dear Mr. Amos,

Thank you for contacting us. We have reviewed the information that you
provided in your emails, and are not able to determine what specific
issues you are raising that we should consider investigating. Thus, in
order to conduct an investigation, we need to gather more specific
information. Would you be willing to have a confidential conversation
with me, the Ombudsman here at KPMG LLP (US) or would you be willing
to provide me with a summary of your allegations as they relate to
KPMG LLP or its clients and any evidence to support those allegations?
Thank you for your continued assistance with this matter.

Thanks,

Michael Plansky
Ombudsman

The information in this email is confidential and may be legally
privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this
email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended
recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken
or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be
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contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions
expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter.


On 8/26/08, Evatt Merchant emerchant@merchantlaw.com wrote:
> David
>
> As I tried to explain to you by telephone some months ago, no one in our
law
> firm seems to know who you are or why you are contacting us. As far as I
> know, we are not handling a case on your behalf and I have been unable to
> find any documents from you.
>
> We are pleased if you are a claimant affected by one or more of our class
> actions, but if there is a specific individual matter where you are a
> client, could you please provide me with details of the same matter.
>
> If you are dealing with a specific lawyer at our office, please make me
> aware of his name. You should be forwarding e-mails to him directly.
> Otherwise, you should not be carbon copying uson e-mail correspondence to
> third parties, or representing to third parties that we are involved in
your
> matter.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Evatt F. A. Merchant
> Merchant Law Group LLP
> emerchant@merchantlaw.com
> Member of the Saskatchewan, Alberta & Ontario Bars
> (403) 397-2222 (Cellular)
> (866) 982-7777 (Direct Line)
>
>
>
>
> DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message is intended only for the named
recipient(s)
> above and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or
> exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this
> message in error, or are not the named recipient(s), please immediately
> notify the sender and delete this e-mail message.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: MONTREAL@MERCHANTLAW.COM
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 9:28 AM
> Subject: Fwd: I tried to call Bette Hudson perhaps you should mention my
> name to Greg Thompson and his buddy Carl Urquart
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:22:50 -0300
> Subject: I tried to call Bette Hudson perhaps you should mention my
> name to Greg Thompson and his buddy Carl Urquart
> To: BHudson@widowsonwarpath.com, LDavenport@widowsonwarpath.com,
> merchant@merchantlaw.com
> Cc: "oldmaison@yahoo.com"oldmaison@yahoo.com,
> "carl.urquhart@gnb.ca"carl.urquhart@gnb.ca, mark.panus@realogy.com,
> thompson.g@parl.gc.ca, "Harper.S@parl.gc.ca"Harper.S@parl.gc.ca,
> "moore.r@parl.gc.ca"moore.r@parl.gc.ca, scotta@parl.gc.ca, Dan
> Fitzgerald danf@danf.net
>
> You may get what you want just so that my name does not pop up on the
> radar
> screen before another election.
>
> May I suggest that your read his false allegations against me in July
then
> Google me? After all I did run for a seat in parliament twice in your
> area.
>
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/4303943/Jacks-letter-to-Thompson
>
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/3870307/rcmp-hospital
>
> Rest assured that the lawyer Merchant knows everything
>
> Veritas Vincit
> David Raymond Amos
>
>
>
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> copyright. Any unauthorized use or disclosure is prohibited.
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Ritz says he'll meet government's listeriosis investigator


OTTAWA — Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz is going to get his audience
with the head of a secretive government probe into the listeriosis
outbreak after all.

Investigator Sheila Weatherill will question Ritz about his role in
the crisis that caused the deaths of 22 people who ate tainted meat.

Weatherill raised eyebrows last week when she conceded she had not
formally spoken to Ritz since being hired in January.

Ritz, as the federal minister who oversees Canada's food safety
watchdog, seemed a rather glaring omission on Weatherill's witness
list - and Weatherill refused to say whether the minister would be
interviewed.

But Ritz told a special parliamentary panel on food safety Wednesday
he will indeed meet Weatherill for questioning "in the coming days."

Ritz's appearance at the food safety panel marked his first real
grilling over the listeriosis outbreak.

He apologized last fall after The Canadian Press reported that he
unnerved some public servants by cracking tasteless jokes during a
conference call.

Sources who took notes during the Aug. 30, 2008 call said Ritz
quipped: "This is like a death by a thousand cuts. Or should I say
cold cuts."

News of Ritz's gallows humour broke during last fall's federal
election campaign - an inopportune time for a Conservative government
vying for a second term.

Despite opposition calls to fire Ritz, Prime Minister Stephen Harper
re-appointed the former grain and ostrich farmer to the agriculture
portfolio last fall.

Weatherill must report to Ritz by July 20. That's four months past the
original March 15 due date set when Harper promised an "arm's-length"
investigation last September.

"She will decide at the end of the day what will be in her report," Ritz
said.

"I know she has millions of documents to go through. I know she's had
tremendous response from everyone who she called forward to make
presentations."

Secrecy shrouds Weatherill's work. It's not known exactly who she has
questioned, and she isn't speaking to reporters until she hands in her
report.

Late Wednesday, MPs on the food safety panel were given copies of
briefing material, memos and speaking notes prepared for Ritz during
and after the listeriosis crisis.

The documents refer to new Listeria testing procedures put in place at
the beginning of this month, to reviews of the Maple Leaf Foods plant
in Toronto that was linked to the tainted meats, and to a series of
"lessons learned" reports released earlier this month.

Any memos and briefing notes that may have been prepared for Ritz in
August 2008 - considered the outbreak's apex - were not included in
the package of documents given to the food safety panel. The first
memo to Ritz is dated Sept 10.

Meanwhile, top officials at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency played
down annotations made to inspection reports from Maple Leaf's Bartor
Road plant.

The Canadian Press obtained records for the facility showing that
on-site inspectors highlighted problems with the company's slicer
sanitation processes some six months before the outbreak.

An inspector's verification worksheet from Feb. 11, 2008 notes he
conducted a review of the slicing department sanitation and that
monitoring was not being done properly between Jan. 2 and Feb. 8.

But the inspector made an addendum to his Feb. 11 notes on Aug 26
during the height of the Maple Leaf recall and listeriosis outbreak.
He wrote that a supervisor told him the slicing equipment was indeed
being sanitized, just that it was not being recorded for all lines.

The CFIA's vice-president of operations, Cameron Prince, denied the
records had been altered.

The reports were modified, he said, after food safety auditors called
in during the outbreak questioned the inspector who made the notes and
found he was missing some details.

"They went back, spoke to the inspectors, got a full picture of what
had happened at that time, and they believed that the records did not
indicate the full recollection of the inspector," Prince said.

"So they advised the inspector to annotate the records with their full
recollection of what took place at the time."

Twenty-two people died and hundreds more fell ill after eating
contaminated deli meats from a Maple Leaf Foods plant in Toronto.

The company apologized and agreed to pay up to $27 million to settle
class-action lawsuits.

Maple Leaf has since instituted more rigorous testing for Listeria in
plants producing ready-to-eat meat.

Copyright © 2009 The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <myson333@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 12:04:33 -0700 (PDT)
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
To: ed.pilkington@guardian.co.uk
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com

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
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Cell: 646 704 1264
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--- On Tue, 8/2/11, David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> wrote:


From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re Rupert Murdoch and his associates Perhaps Ms Curtis should
show this email to the actor Hugh Grant
To: polly.curtis@guardian.co.uk
Cc: jhenderson@newscorp.com, rnolte@newscorp.com,
jdorrego@newscorp.com, "maritime_malaise"<maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>
Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2011, 2:21 PM


http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/12/hugh-grant-phone-hacking-inquiry

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: OIG <OIG@ftc.gov>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:29:48 -0400
Subject: RE: I just called again and tried to speak with John Seeba
and Cynthia Hogue of the FTC
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>

Mr Amos. I just talked to you.  Our office only has jurisdiction over
internal matters like if an FTC employee is involved in fraud.  We
also report to congress to notify them how the FTC utilizes funds.

What can we do for you?

Thanks. Zisa Walton

-----Original Message-----
From: David Amos [mailto:david.raymond.amos@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 4:23 PM
To: OIG; maritime_malaise
Cc: Fred. Pretorius; Fred.Wyshak
Subject: I just called again and tried to speak with John Seeba and
Cynthia Hogue of the FTC

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:56:13 -0300
Subject: RE BSkyB and News Corp I am on the phone to you right now
To: jhorner@newscorp.com, teverett@newscorp.com,
jhenderson@newscorp.com, rnolte@newscorp.com, jdorrego@newscorp.com,
"Marc.Litt"<Marc.Litt@usdoj.gov>
Cc: oig <oig@sec.gov>, maritime_malaise <maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>,
"Dean.Buzza"<Dean.Buzza@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>

http://www.newscorp.com/management/newscor.html

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:05:59 -0300
Subject: RE BSkyB and News Corp
To: aarti.maharaj@thecrossbordergroup.com, bpollack@milchev.com,
emma.gilpin-jacobs@ft.com, saltschuller@foleyhoag.com
Cc: newsroom <newsroom@wnyc.org>

http://www.corporatesecretary.com/articles/11949/newscorp-searches-legal-help-help-combat-us-lawsuits/

http://www.corporatesecretary.com/articles/11928/corporate-social-responsibility-and-role-board-directors/

http://www.csrandthelaw.com/sarah-a-altschuller.html

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:45:11 -0300
Subject: RE BSkyB and News Corp Opps ol Rupert would be pissed that I
forgot to send the oh so important attachments
To: jacques.nasser@bhpbilliton.com, clerks@oeclaw.co.uk,
asiskind@newscorp.com, investor-relations@bskyb.com,
investor@newscorp.com, "Rupert.Murdoch@fox.com"
<Rupert.Murdoch@fox.com>, "James.Murdoch@fox.com"
<James.Murdoch@fox.com>, Edith Cody-Rice <Edith.Cody-Rice@cbc.ca>,
Jacques Poitras <Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>, Robert Jones
<Robert.Jones@cbc.ca>, Terry Seguin <Terry.Seguin@cbc.ca>, "richard.
dearden"<richard.dearden@gowlings.com>, maritime_malaise
<maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>, "Carol.Coristine@cbc.ca"
<Carol.Coristine@cbc.ca>, "Bob.Kerr@CBC.CA"<danfour@myginch.com>
Cc: newsdesk@theage.com.au, jbrowning9@bloomberg.net,
athomson6@bloomberg.net, kwong11@bloomberg.net,
frank.pingue@thomsonreuters.com, editor <editor@newsday.com>,
news-tips <news-tips@nytimes.com>, newsonline <newsonline@bbc.co.uk>,
newshour <newshour@pbs.org>, newsroom <newsroom@theguardian.pe.ca>,
Newsroom <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>, foreigneditor
<foreigneditor@independent.co.uk>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Grant.McCool@thomsonreuters.com
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 01:23:36 -0400
Subject: Out of Office AutoReply: RE BSkyB and News Corp Hey Jac
Nasser Howcome or the trusted lawyers Arty Siskind and Lony Jacobs did
not tell the Murdochs I was still alive and kicking like hell?
To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com

I am out of the office until Monday, August 8. I will not be reading
email until then. Regards

This email was sent to you by Thomson Reuters, the global news and
information company. Any views expressed in this message are those of
the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states
them to be the views of Thomson Reuters.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:23:30 -0300
Subject: Fwd: RE BSkyB and News Corp Hey Jac Nasser Howcome or the
trusted lawyers Arty Siskind and Lony Jacobs did not tell the Murdochs
I was still alive and kicking like hell?
To: jbrowning9@bloomberg.net, athomson6@bloomberg.net,
kwong11@bloomberg.net, frank.pingue@thomsonreuters.com,
grant.mccool@thomsonreuters.com, juan.lagorio@thomsonreuters.com,
vasilescua@sec.gov, friedmani@sec.gov, krishnamurthyp@sec.gov,
"Dean.Buzza"<Dean.Buzza@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
Cc: maritime_malaise <maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>,
newsdesk@theage.com.au, bruce.alec@gmail.com

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 01:41:59 -0300
Subject: RE BSkyB and News Corp Hey Jac Nasser Howcome or the trusted
lawyers Arty Siskind and Lony Jacobs did not tell the Murdochs I was
still alive and kicking like hell?
To: jacques.nasser@bhpbilliton.com, clerks@oeclaw.co.uk,
asiskind@newscorp.com, investor-relations@bskyb.com,
investor@newscorp.com, "Rupert.Murdoch@fox.com"
<Rupert.Murdoch@fox.com>, "James.Murdoch@fox.com"
<James.Murdoch@fox.com>, Edith Cody-Rice <Edith.Cody-Rice@cbc.ca>,
Jacques Poitras <Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>, Robert Jones
<Robert.Jones@cbc.ca>, Terry Seguin <Terry.Seguin@cbc.ca>, "richard.
dearden"<richard.dearden@gowlings.com>, maritime_malaise
<maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>, "Carol.Coristine@cbc.ca"
<Carol.Coristine@cbc.ca>, "Bob.Kerr@CBC.CA"<Bob.Kerr@cbc.ca>
Cc: pm@pm.gc.ca, LaytoJ <LaytoJ@parl.gc.ca>, info <info@bobrae.ca>,
oldmaison@yahoo.com, danfour <danfour@myginch.com>

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-25/bskyb-directors-face-4-2-billion-quandary.html

Interesting quandary you bskyb dudes have. Seems it just got worse EH Jac?

Clearly you and I crossed paths bigtime before TWO IMPORTANT elections
in Canada last year and obviously News Corp and Bloomberg's pal Joel
Klein's old buddies in the US Justice Dept and the SEC etc pissed me
off way back in 2002 EH?

Need I say iIdid not like it when and heard of corrupt cops in seven
cars pounced on my son and I at 2;30 in the morning about two weeks
after i received this email from you with the attached letter. Small
wonder Stevey Boy Harper stopped the BHP take over bid of Potash when
he could not get th RCMP to shut me up EH?

BTW the pdf file hereto attached that should refresh Siskind's and
Jacobs memories can be found here as well the letter you sent to me
last September

http://www.scribd.com/doc/60818237/FCC-News-Corp

Altough my contempt towards greedy publicly held companies is well
known my desire to expose corrupt law enfocement people is far higher
on my list of offensive things. If old Rupert were wise and his son is
clever perhaps they should have somebody finally call me back ASAP.
Perhap Ruper Murdoch can figure how to deal with an honest man
ethically for the benefit of many shareholders and the chagrin of the
SEC and Barack Obama EH?

News Corp has the media and I have the evidence. Why not pretend I am
Monte Hall and lets make a deal for the benefit of all. Try leaving
the dark side and ignoring your crooked lawyers for a change. What say
you Rupert? Dickens wrote books about such things.

Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
902 800 0369

The links to newsrags etc at the bottom of this email prove that
obviously I have been reading many things lately. Your lawyers should
study some of my work within this one email alone As you well know i
will be forwarding this email to many people in short order.



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:36:47 -0300
Subject: RE the Email from BHP Billiton's Chairman Perhaps your
lawyers and I should talk ASAP? 902 800 0369
To: Jane.McAloon@bhpbilliton.com
Cc: jacques.nasser@bhpbilliton.com

Jane McAloon (Group Company Secretary) BEc (Hons), LLB, GDipGov, FCIS
Term of office: Jane McAloon was appointed Group Company Secretary in
July 2007 and joined the BHP Billiton Group in September 2006 as
Company Secretary for BHP Billiton Limited.
Skills and experience: Prior to joining BHP Billiton, Jane McAloon
held the position of Company Secretary and Group Manager External and
Regulatory Services in the Australian Gas Light Company. She
previously held various State and Commonwealth government positions,
including Director General of the NSW Ministry of Energy and Utilities
and Deputy Director General for the NSW Cabinet Office, as well as
working in private legal practice. She is a Fellow of the Institute of
Chartered Secretaries.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Collins, Susan J (COSEC)"<Susan.J.Collins@bhpbilliton.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:23:12 +1000
Subject: Email to BHP Billiton Chairman's
To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com


Please find attached a letter from Mr Jac Nasser, Chairman of BHP
Billiton

Susan Collins
Company Secretariat
BHP Billiton | 180 Lonsdale St | Melbourne Vic 3000 |Australia
T: +61 3 9609 2654 | M: +61 427 713 994 | F: +61 3 9609 3290
E: susan.j.collins@bhpbilliton.comjane.mcaloon@bhpbilliton.com
>

<>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Amos [mailto:david.raymond.amos@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 8:36 AM
> To: pr@potashcorp.com; Podwika@potashcorp.com;
> fosterd@bennettjones.ca; corporate.relations@potashcorp.com;
> lgold.blcanada@b-l.com; shawn. graham; David.ALWARD@gnb.ca;
> krisaustin; jacques_poitras@cbc.ca; cjcw@nbnet.nb.ca;
> tomp.young@atlanticradio.rogers.com; nmiller@corridor.ca;
> bruce.northrup@gnb.ca; atlbf@nb.aibn.com; akapoor@globeandmail.com;
> nmacadam@globeandmail.com; vepp@globeandmail.com;
> potash@mackenziepartners.com; contactus@kingsdaleshareholder.com;
> rick.hancox; Bernard.LeBlanc; Liebenberg, Andre;
> mclellana@bennettjones.com; MooreR; danfour; oldmaison@yahoo.com;
> Harris, Brendan; Dean.Buzza; Gilles. Blinn
> Cc: wcoady; michel.desneiges@sade-els.org; producers@stu.ca;
> WaterWarCrimes; Penny Bright; tony; Nasser, Jacques
> Subject: Fwd: PotashCorp should mention my concerns about their lack
> of ethical conduct and actions against me to your shareholers before
> you people buy much stock in their stock eh?
>
> With ANOTHER election in the near future I see no need to explain my
> issues again about  the exploitation of our natural resources to a
> bunch of sneaky lawyers.(everyboy shoul checkout the pdf hereto
> attache) especially our former Deputy Prime Minister Lanslide Annie
> McLelllan an the RCMP thought they knew everything seven years ago and
> did nothing let alone call me back just like you an your many
> conservative cohorts NEVER did EH Brucy Baby Northrup? (902 800 0369
> Notice my new contact number? You an the RCMP can forget Werner Bock's
> now)
>
> Clearly there is no need for politicians to try to be confidential
> with mean old me when the Globe and Mail loves spilling the beans
> sometimes ou woul think those unethical journlists woul know that
> simple truths spoken amongst common folk about corrupt politicians
> have a good habit of coming to the surface sooner or later anyway EH?
>
> Veritas Vincit
> David Raymond Amos
>
>


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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:05:02 -0300
Subject: Mr Lee I just called you from 902 800 0369 after listening to
you on CAPAC last night perhaps we should talk ASAP
To: ian_lee@carleton.ca
Cc: maritime_malaise <maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>

First and foremost do you see Eliot Spitzer testified on the very day
he thanked me for the info?  I ask again where did the transcripts and
webcasts go not long after I made the congressman Ron Paul and legions
of others well aware of their existence as he bitched about such
things whle running for the GOP endorcement to run for president in
2007? For the PUBLIC Record the records of the hearings were deleted
in late fall 2007 just as all the subprime morigages began to smell
bad.

http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=90f8e691-9065-4f8c-a465-72722b47e7f2

Now check the dates on the letters in this file page 13 in particular

http://www.checktheevidence.com/pdf/2526023-DAMOSIntegrity-yea-right.-txt.pdf

Then read ths old email exchange

http://qslspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/03/david-amos-to-wendy-olsen-on.html

Get it? If not call me will ya?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:56:05 -0300
Subject: Fwd: Wheras ol Whitey Bulger is now in custody Perhaps the
FEDS should review this old file ASAP EH Assange?
To: jcarney@carneybassil.com, "jacques.boucher"
<jacques.boucher@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov,
"william.elliott@rcmp-grc.gc.ca"<william.elliott@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
"Wayne.Lang"<Wayne.Lang@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, dean <dean@law.ualberta.ca>,
Daniel.Conley@massmail.state.ma.us, dboeri@wbur.bu.edu,
wburnews@wbmur.org, birgittajoy <birgittajoy@gmail.com>, "Julian
Assange)"<editor@wikileaks.org>, "Bathurst, News Max"
<maxnews@astral.com>, "mckeen.randy"<mckeen.randy@gmail.com>, "Frank.
McKenna"<Frank.McKenna@td.com>, "mclaughlin.heather"
<mclaughlin.heather@dailygleaner.com>
Cc: maritime_malaise <maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>, danfour
<danfour@myginch.com>, "oldmaison@yahoo.com"<oldmaison@yahoo.com>,
editorial <editorial@thedailybeast.com>, "terry.seguin"
<terry.seguin@cbc.ca>, nickysbirdy <nickysbirdy@yahoo.ca>, webo
<webo@xplornet.com>, "Loiseau, Frederic"
<frederic.loiseau@fredericton.ca>, "Barry.MacKnight"
<Barry.MacKnight@fredericton.ca>

http://www.wbur.org/2011/07/06/bulger-arraignment

http://carneybassil.com/team/carney/

From: magicJack <voicemail@notify.magicjack.com>
Subject: New VM (16) - 0:47 minutes in your magicJack mailbox from
7097728272
To: "DAVID AMOS"
Date: Monday, July 4, 2011, 6:16 AM

Dear magicJack User:

You received a new 0:47 minutes voicemail message, on Monday, July 04,
2011 at 09:16:24 AM in mailbox 902 800 0369 from 709 772 8272.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:02:45 -0300
Subject: Wheras ol Whitey Bulger is now in custody Perhaps the FEDS
should review this file ASAP?
To: "william.elliott@rcmp-grc.gc.ca"<william.elliott@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
"Wayne.Lang"<Wayne.Lang@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, dean <dean@law.ualberta.ca>,
maritime_malaise <maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>,
"greg.preston"<greg.preston@police.edmonton.ab.ca>, acampbell
<acampbell@ctv.ca>, LaytoJ <LaytoJ@parl.gc.ca>, godiny
<godiny@parl.gc.ca>, Ashfik1a <Ashfik1a@parl.gc.ca>
Cc: "terry.seguin"<terry.seguin@cbc.ca>, danfour
<danfour@myginch.com>, "oldmaison@yahoo.com"<oldmaison@yahoo.com>,
"richard. dearden"<richard.dearden@gowlings.com>

http://www.checktheevidence.com/pdf/2619437-CROSS-BORDER-txt-.pdf

Beginning on page 56 All of Whitey's lawyers will get the jitters

Notice Andrew Bulger?

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/the_martyrdom_of_john_connolly/page4


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:18:17 -0300
Subject: Thanx for the call back
To: dboeri@wbur.bu.edu
Cc: maritime_malaise <maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:35:19 -0300
Subject: "He looks forward to facing the charges against him," said
Bulger lawyer Peter Krupp
To: pkrupp@luriekrupp.com
Cc: maritime_malaise <maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>, "Daniel.Conley"
<Daniel.Conley@massmail.state.ma.us>, "Daniel.Conley"
<Daniel.Conley@state.ma.us>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 09:43:17 -0300
Subject: Thanx for listening to me I will call WBUR's David Boeri in
short order (617 353 1059)
To: wburnews@wbur.org, maritime_malaise <maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>
Cc: Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov, oldmaison@yahoo.com, danfour
<danfour@myginch.com>, "jonesr@cbc.ca"<jonesr@cbc.ca>

I called and tried to talk to David Boeri because of what he said
recently within this video and what he wrote about Whitey na the Feds
over the years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8mQTMZts0U

http://www.wbur.org/contact

FYI After I called a lot of parliamentarians, the RCMP and the FBI I
noticed this hit on a blog about me this morning. I have no doubt the
following emails is what they were reading so I called Fred Wyshak and
read him the riot act once again byway of his voicemail within the US
Attorney's Office and then called the WBUR newsroom

http://qslspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/04/david-amos-nb-nwo-whistleblower-part-3.html

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Date: Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:09 PM
Subject: Attn Fred Wyshak and Stockwell Day Here is some proof that I
was not joking with you last week
To: Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov, USAMA.MEDIA@usdoj.gov, W-Five@ctv.ca,
day.s@parl.gc.ca, "Harper.S@parl.gc.ca"Harper.S@parl.gc.ca, "Duceppe.
G"Duceppe.G@parl.gc.ca, dions1@parl.gc.ca, "layton. j"
Layton.J@parl.gc.ca, leader@greenparty.ca, "lou.lafleur@fredericton.ca"
lou.lafleur@fredericton.ca, "fbinhct@leo.gov"fbinhct@leo.gov,
webo@xplornet.com, "wally.stiles@gnb.ca"wally.stiles@gnb.ca
Cc: josie.maguire@dfait-maeci.gc.ca, "moore.r@parl.gc.ca"
moore.r@parl.gc.ca, kmearn@townofmilton.org, kmunro@yahoo-inc.com,
Ryan Johnson nelsonresisters@gmail.com, Alfonso Carcamo
alfonso@canucklinks.com, robin reid zorroboy@live.com, Byron Prior
alltrue@nl.rogers.com, "t.j.burke@gnb.ca"t.j.burke@gnb.ca,
thompson.g@parl.gc.ca, townhall@town.woodstock.nb.ca,
ted.tax@justice.gc.ca, townofsussex@sussex.ca, "thibault.
r"Thibault.R@parl.gc.ca, "oldmaison@yahoo.com"oldmaison@yahoo.com,
"bruce.noble@fredericton.ca"bruce.noble@fredericton.ca,
"faye.rammage@pcnb.org"faye.rammage@pcnb.org, Dan Fitzgerald
danf@danf.net, "danny.copp@fredericton.ca"danny.copp@fredericton.ca>

Some of the docments within this file are signed by your boss the US
Attorney Michael Sullivan and it was me he was trying to argue about a
great deal of money as he covered up for the actions of corrupt US
Treasury Agents Correct?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2619437/CROSS-BORDER-

And this is a true copy of one of many American Polce surveilance
wiretap tapes that I have in my pssession many law enforcement
authorities in Canada and the USA have received and acknowledged
Correct?

http://www.archive.org/details/PoliceSurveilanceWiretapTape139

Who the Hell do you think chucked them in the garbage in Boston many
years ago? Here is your clue.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/09/16/conno
lly_portrayed_as_corrupt_agent/?page=full


Furthermore Didn't Connoly tell the bartender's daughter Whitey Bulger
buried some of his victims just outsife Yarmouth in the crooked
politician Robert Thibault's riding in Nova Scotia?

Must I sue you too Fred???

Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Date: Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 4:20 PM
Subject: Hey Fred Wyshak Say hey to your boss the US Attorney Michael
J. Sullivan for me will ya? In return I will say hey to Callahan's
family for you, Deal?
To: Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov, USAMA.MEDIA@usdoj.gov, w-five W-Five@ctv.ca, "
t.j.burke@gnb.ca"t.j.burke@gnb.ca, oldmaison.wcie@gmail.com, "
bruce.northrup@gnb.ca"bruce.northrup@gnb.ca, "bev.harrison@gnb.ca"
bev.harrison@gnb.ca, "bruce.noble@fredericton.ca"
bruce.noble@fredericton.ca, bmosher@mosherchedore.ca
Cc: "moore.r@parl.gc.ca"moore.r@parl.gc.ca, "
william.elliott@rcmp-grc.gc.ca"william.elliott@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, "
ken.cook@fredericton.ca"ken.cook@fredericton.ca, "
Kathy.Alchorn@fredericton.ca"Kathy.Alchorn@fredericton.ca,
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My concerns are far from confidential never mind what I know about
BANKERS and the US Treasury Dept etc

MURDER is a capital crime CORRECT? Connoly the ex FBI Agent's long
delayed trial started today and I am the guy with the wiretap tapes
that he threw out long ago. Why the Hell do you think I took such a
chance with the corrupt RCMP last week and recorded me serving a copy
of one wiretap tape upon them in Youtube before your boss Stevey Boy
Harper had his buddy the
Governor General drop the writ?

Scroll down you will see that I am no liar. I posted this email there as
well.

Veritas Vincit
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FEDERAL EXPRESS February 7, 2006

Senator Arlen Specter
United States Senate
Committee on the Judiciary
224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

Dear Mr. Specter:

I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters
raised in the attached letter. Mr. Amos has represented to me that
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Very truly yours,
Barry A. Bachrach
Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
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Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 08:03:39 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Higgs still wants to spend 8 million we
ain't got for Francphonie games or hosital beds or potholes to remove
a dam on the Musquash yet David Coon and his buddies say nothing???
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Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 08:04:01 +0000
Subject: RE: Higgs still wants to spend 8 million we ain't got for
Francphonie games or hosital beds or potholes to remove a dam on the
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 04:03:33 -0400
Subject: Higgs still wants to spend 8 million we ain't got for Francphonie games or
hosital beds or potholes to remove a dam on the Musquash yet David Coon and his 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/musquash-dam-evacuation-1.4488832

"According to NB Power, the Musquash dam and generating station were
built on the Musquash River in 1922. The station was decommissioned in
2009 after the last generator broke down.

Still, the dams remain intact and many camps and cottages have been
built by the lakes that are formed by them."




https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/scott-falls-dam-musquash-saint-john-1.4984221


People worried about Scott Falls Dam removal get chance to ask questions

Dam in Musquash on the outskirts of Saint John was decommissioned in 1970s


In late May, residents were notified of the government's intention to tear down the Scott Falls Dam, which was decommissioned in 1978 with the removal of its penstock and generator. (Joseph Tunney/CBC)

The New Brunswick government is hosting two open house sessions Friday and Saturday to hear any concerns and questions about the removal of the Scott Falls Dam in southeastern New Brunswick.

Last May, residents in the Musquash area were told the dam, built in the 1920s, must be brought down because it was no longer feasible to continue maintaining it. The dam was decommissioned in the 1970s because of weak water flow.

Removing the former power-generating dam would drain the reservoir above the dam and restore that section of the West Branch Musquash River.

Ken Kinney, manager of planning at the Crown lands branch of Energy and Resource Development, said the government allotted $8 million over two years for the project in the recent infrastructure budget.



The crumbling Scott Falls dam was decommissioned in the 1970s, allowing much of its reservoir to drain. (Connell Smith/CBC)

But it's not a done deal, since the project has not gone through the environmental assessment stage yet. Even before that comes public consultation.

"Part of it will include consultations and discussion with people on that community as to how they feel they may be affected and also to inform them of our proposed decommissioning project," Kinney said.
Kinney said if the project is approved, blasting the dam is not an option. He said demolition would probably "certain mechanical concrete jackhammers."
We don't often see a project where we can actually remove barriers in a river system.- Ken Kinney, Department of Energy and Resource Development
The first open house about the project is Friday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Musquash fire hall, and the second will be held Saturday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the same location.

Residents like Wayne Pollock will have an opportunity to air their grievances about the plan.


Wayne Pollock is worried removal of the dam will hurt people in the area. He and others have cabins on the lake the dam holds back. (Joseph Tunney/CBC)

Pollock, who has a cottage on the Scott Falls Reservoir, said removing the dam would remove a recreational area for cottage owners as well as beaver and loon habitat.

"I'm hoping that they can show me some logical reason why they want to take this dam out," he told Information Morning Saint John.

He said he's hoping to get some answers at the meeting.
"Have they done studies, for example, on all the homes that are below the dam? How far they are above sea level compared to the water level behind the dam itself? … I'm hoping they have done some homework to, I guess, prove that this is the right thing to do."

Restoring the river


Kinney said the ultimate goal is to restore the area to what it was like 100 years ago. The river will be about 30 metres wide.

"What we've got is essentially a three-year timeline here," he said. "Right now, 2019, we're doing the environment regulatory piece, the detailed design work and the submission.

"Then what will happen is a gradual drawdown of the reservoir behind the dam … and with the drawdown in phases of the head pond behind the dam."

Even after the dam is physically removed, he said, there will be much more work to do, including soil stabilization and planting vegetation.

"We don't often see a project where we can actually remove barriers in a river system, so it will be, at the end of the day,  a complete restoration of the river environment," he said.

Kinney said if the project is approved, blasting the dam is not an option.

"It would probably be certain mechanical concrete jackhammers," he said.
With files from Information Morning Saint John and Connell Smith


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New carbon tax plan presented at clean energy conference

Carbon Tax Investment Plan involves investing and reinvesting carbon tax income into the public sector


Mark D'Arcy is a campaigner for the Fredericton branch of the Council of Canadians, and he is pushing for increased jobs in the renewable energy sector. (Matthew Bingley/CBC)

A group of environmental activists in Saint John are urging the New Brunswick government to create a new department, called RenewNB, to oversee a $20 per ton carbon tax investment plan.

The plan was unveiled at the Clean Energy East Summit, held at the same time as the large, more industry-oriented East Coast Energy Conference happening at the Trade and Convention Centre next door.

With numerous politicians and businesspeople attending the larger conference, local clean energy activists felt like their message was being lost, so they got together and put together a free conference with limited funds.

Mark D'Arcy, a campaigner with Council of Canadians in Fredericton, helped to organize the conference.

"We wanted to counter the message, and this project for Energy East is years away from even a decision on it," he said.

"We'd like to see job creation programs started right now in clean energy and building efficiency."

But most of the presenters, with topics such as solar, wind, and tidal energy, were speaking to the converted: roughly 25 supporters showed up on the first day, and there were even fewer on the second.


Compounded carbon tax


While D'Arcy was focused largely on the job-creation aspect of the clean energy field, many presenters were more focused on the technology and plans for the energy itself.


Chris Rouse is the founder of New Clear Free Solutions, and came up with the plan to reinvest interest from a carbon tax into public renewable energy organizations. (Matthew Bingley/CBC)

 Chris Rouse, the founder of New Clear Free Solutions, came up with the carbon tax and investment plan the group is promoting.
"First, there's an economy-wide carbon tax where everybody pays their fair share, $15 to $20 per ton," he said.

"And instead of subsidizing private industry or using it for general revenue, the money is invested into renewable energy projects."

He said the plan makes a lot of money out of a small tax because of the compound interest, where the money multiplies as it is continually reinvested into the public companies.

Rouse came up with the plan on his own at home, and while speaking with others, he realized if he used basic economic principles, he could make it work.

Now, he is in the process of getting it modelled more professionally so that he can begin presenting it to the province officially.

"Right now, there is a policy vacuum, both federally and provincially, and all the governments are looking at carbon taxes and different types," he said.

"So it's really good timing, I guess, that this is going to be an option on the table."


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Musquash eyed for possible hydro dam by environmentalist

Retired Fundy Baykeeper David Thompson says hydro dam could generate 30 megawatts of electricity


NB Power shut down previous hydro units in Musquash several years ago. Saint John Energy has said it is interested in developing renewable energy sources. (Connell Smith/CBC) 

A long-time New Brunswick environmentalist is hoping Saint John Energy is looking at East Musquash as a potential site for a hydro-electric power station.

David Thompson says a generating station there would be cost effective and have little or no impact on the environment.

Thompson is a retired Fundy Baykeeper and long-time advocate for the protection of the Musquash estuary.

He's also familiar with the system of lakes and dams that make up the Musquash fresh-water system.

"This is a site that would be very, very valued if it was down in the United States or if it was up in Ontario," says Thompson.

"It would be very easy to put in the station."

Thompson said the dams, roadways and power-line right-of-ways are already in place.

He adds a modern hydro station would be far more efficient than the 60- to 70-year-old generators that had operated on the site before NB Power shut it down several years ago.

At one point the station created 7.5 megawatts from three generators.

Thompson said he believes a new station could generate up to 30 megawatts using the same amount of water.

An operating power station at East Musquash would also ensure the dams on the lake system are better monitored and maintained.

"Many times now there's too much water, says Thompson.

"It's flooding camps, which are upstream of the dams around these lakes. And also the community has to evacuate at times in the spring when there are big rainstorms and freshets."

The opening into the renewable energy business springs from NB Power's Integrated Resource Plan released in 2014.

It looks at ways to get the amount of renewable energy on the grid up to the 40 per cent mark by 2020.

NB Power has allotted space for 75 megawatts of energy from sources like hydro, wind and solar.
Saint John Mayor Mel Norton was in Edmundston last week talking to officials about the northwestern city’s hydro dams.

Edmundston and Saint John both have municipal power utilities.


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Publicly Investing A $20/Ton Carbon tax would create 15,000 – 20,000 lifetime jobs, says New Brunswick groups


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Press Conference– at 10:00am on Tuesday, June 14th at the Saint John Free Public Library, 1 Market Square, Saint John

The Energy Future is now. The rapid expansion of clean energy and building efficiency will create large numbers of local and lifetime jobs across this province.

A coalition of New Brunswick groups kick off the start of their clean energy and efficiency summit by asking Premier Brian Gallant to create a government department called RenewNB.  Set up as a public investment fund, it would oversee the use of a $20/Ton carbon tax revenue to create a massive job creation program by investing into clean energy and building efficiency programs.  This investment strategy would create 15,000 – 20,000 lifetime jobs, eventually wipe out NB Power debt, and generate over $2 Billion in extra revenue for the province once the transition to a low carbon economy is complete.

The following will be included at the head table:
– Mark D’Arcy, Council of Canadians – Fredericton chapter
– Garth Hood, certified Passive House consultant in Fredericton
– Sharon Murphy, Team EcoHealth
– Serge Plourde, Vice President-at-large, CUPE NB
– Chris Rouse, Saint John
– David Thompson, Saint John
– Dr. Paula Tippett, Council of Canadians – Saint John chapter
We invite you to our press conference at 10:00am on Tuesday, June 14th at the Saint John Free Public Library, 1 Market Square, Saint John

Update


SAINT JOHN– A coalition of New Brunswick groups kick off the start of their clean energy and efficiency summit by asking Premier Brian Gallant to create a government department called RenewNB. Set up as a public investment fund, it would oversee the use of a $20/Ton carbon tax revenue to create a massive job creation program by investing into clean energy and building efficiency programs. This investment strategy would create 15,000 – 20,000 lifetime jobs, eventually wipe out NB Power debt, and generate over $2 Billion in extra revenue for the province once the transition to a low carbon economy is complete.

“A $20/Ton carbon tax would initially generate $300 million/year to be invested into public energy programs. Instead of giving the money away to private corporations in subsidies, or using the money for general revenue, this money would be transparently invested into publicly-owned renewable energy projects for the benefit of all New Brunswickers. The electricity generated by these projects would then earn 7 cents per kilowatt hour (7cents/kwh) from NB Power, and this revenue that would be reinvested once again by RenewNB. This is less than NB Powers current total cost of 9.1 cents/kwh, so it will help keep rates low and stable.” said Chris Rouse

“Reinvesting profits back into growth is the hallmark of any good business, and the same principles as a well invested RRSP. This would result in a near doubling of the initial $300 million per year to $565 million per year in just 10 years without any additional rate increases. This is due to compound interest.” adds Rouse.

“The concept of reinvesting in environmentally-friendlier energy production and energy efficiency to create a compound interest effect is founded economic theory,” University of New Brunswick economist Rob Moir told Rouse. Dr. Moir said the approach “should be considered by all provinces and not only New Brunswick.”

“CUPE’s National Environmental policy calls for a rapid expansion of clean, renewable and energy delivered by the public sector,” says Serge Plourde, CUPE NB. “Canada must take a leadership role on climate change and help push the world to a brighter, more sustainable future, by moving to a green economy.”

“A flagship project for RenewNB would be to celebrate the centennial of our public utility, NB Power, with investing in the refurbishment of the Musquash Generating Station,” says Saint John resident and retired Fundy Baykeeper David Thompson. “New Brunswick Electric Power Company was originally created in 1920 to build the Musquash dam. All the dams, roads, power line, and west branch water tunnel are already in place. “

“It has been proven, including with New Brunswick examples, that investing energy efficiency in buildings is cost effective and usually the least costly building option – when future energy savings are considered. An energy efficient building will use more local labour & materials, creating more local jobs.” says Garth Hood, a certified Passive House consultant in Fredericton.

“It is not fair to our underemployed workers to delay this huge job creation opportunity any longer,” says Mark D’Arcy, a member of the Fredericton chapter of the Council of Canadians. “Our world leaders decided in Paris last year that we will limit the effects of global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and it is time we all get to work fulfilling that commitment.”

The Clean Energy East Summit is being held at the Saint John Free Public Library, 1 Market Square on Tuesday, June 14th (10am-4pm) and Wednesday June 15 (12noon-4pm).




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Friends of the Musquash

279 Mansfield Place
Unit #2
Saint John,    E2M 5R8
Phone: 506 -672-4807

Primary contact: David Thompson
Language of Service: English
Scope of Activities: Local
Region: Southwest
Purpose: Promote the proper management of a Marine Protected area in the Musquash estuary, Bay of Fundy, and to expand the protected area.
 
Resources Available to the Public: Environmental monitoring, Environmental research



Saint John Energy eyes hydro project at Musquash

Engineering firm hired to study feasibility of redeveloping site for power generation


NB Power shut down previous hydro units in Musquash several years ago. Saint John Energy is studying whether it makes economic sense to redevelop hydro generation in Musquash. (Connell Smith/CBC)
 
Saint John Energy is looking hard at hydro power generation in Musquash.

The city-owned utility has hired Hatch, a Mississaugua-based engineering firm, to study the proposal.
"The work is underway at Musquash," said Ray Robinson, the president and chief executive officer of Saint John Energy.

"We're looking at more of a technical concept study to see if it would make economic sense to redevelop hydro at the Musquash watershed."



Saint John Energy president Ray Robinson says the utility is studying whether it makes economic sense to redevelop hydro generation in Musquash. (Saint John Energy) 



For several decades, beginning in 1922, NB Power operated a small hydro power station at Musquash.
Although the station has since been decommissioned, the dams, roadways and power-line right-of-ways remain in place.

In 2014, NB Power released the Integrated Resource Plan, a document that opens the door to community-generated energy from renewable sources. That change would permit the city to step out of its current role, which limits it to distributing electricity purchased from NB Power.

"It's been confirmed that we do qualify for that program," said Robinson.

"Hopefully it will be feasible."

Robinson said Hatch engineers have been asked to determine the optimum size for a generator given the volume of water that exists in the Musquash lakes system.

"They're doing the wizardry and we'll see what comes of it," said Robinson, who expects to see some of the study results in a couple of weeks.

David Thompson, a long-time environmentalist, said in May that he was hoping that Saint John Energy would use the Musquash dam to generate power.

Earlier this year, Saint John Mayor Mel Norton was in Edmundston to speak with officials about the northwestern city's hydro dams.

Edmundston and Saint John both have municipal power utilities.

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Methinks Ms Harris should review the documents I sent her in 2002 before she says too much more about the big company that owns her journalistic competition N'esy Pas?

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David R. Amos Methinks some folks may enjoy reading a portion of a comment I made as I ran in the election of the 42nd Parliament N'esy Pas?

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


----- Original Message -----
From: martine.turcotte@bell.ca
To: motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com
Cc: bcecomms@bce.ca ; W-Five@ctv.ca
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 9:28 AM
Subject: RE: I am curious

Mr. Amos, I confirm that I have received your documentation. There is
no need to send us a hard copy. As you have said yourself, the
documentation is very voluminous and after 3 days, we are still in the
process of printing it. I have asked one of my lawyers to review it
in my absence and report back to me upon my return in the office. We
will then provide you with a reply.

Martine Turcotte
Chief Legal Officer / Chef principal du service juridique
BCE Inc. / Bell Canada
1000 de La Gauchetière ouest, bureau 3700
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Tel: (514) 870-4637
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Norm Jones 
Norm Jones
Every time they increase prices they claim improved infrastructure including this time from Bell. The fact is that my DSL service has been stuck at 10 Mbps for the last 8 years. They should not be allowed to do this unless they can show they are actually improving services for the places they increase prices.


James Carpenter
James Carpenter
@Norm Jones

Where are all the right wing champions explaining why CEO's should make 30 million a year? Common boys, you got no problem baiting the left...

William Weston
William Weston
@James Carpenter
How can this be a left-right dichotomy? Both national parties have been in power while the telcos and their CRTC have controlled those same Canadian resources...unless, of course, both parties are considered right wing.

Neil Gregory
Neil Gregory
@William Weston

You are ignoring the fact that BOTH the Liberals and the Conservative are right-wing parties, and that the NDP abandoned its socialist principles decades ago.

Nicolas Krinis
Nicolas Krinis
@Norm Jones We already have the lousiest, most inept regulator in the world and you want them to do what exactly? Unless you want to create another regulator that will be just as inept and sold to the telcos.

Nicolas Krinis
Nicolas Krinis
@James Carpenter They can earn whatever they want. Want change? Vote with your wallet. The French took to the streets. We are here whining about how the system needs to change while in other countries, they fight for their rights.

Gregg Kehoe
Gregg Kehoe
@Norm Jones

10 Mbps! Lucky. I only get 1 on average, and it only costs me $110/month for 50Gb!

Titus Pullo
Titus Pullo
@James Carpenter why should anybody come in here and try to explain a fact that you made up? This article does not describe any of the canadian telecom CEOs making 30 million.

I looked it up, none are making anywhere near what you claim.
https://www.canadianbusiness.com/lists-and-rankings/richest-people/canada-100-highest-paid-ceos/

Charly Vaughan
Charly Vaughan
@Norm Jones time for the conservatives to hyperventilate the virtues of the government sponsored price gouging

David R. Amos
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David R. Amos
@Norm Jones Methinks Ms Harris should review the documents I sent her in 2002 before she says too much more about the big company that owns her journalistic competition N'esy Pas?


David R. Amos
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David R. Amos
@Charly Vaughan "time for the conservatives to hyperventilate the virtues of the government sponsored price gouging"

Methinks the CRTC and all the politicians know that I have been doing that since 2002 That is just one of the many reasons why I run against all the political parties as an Independent N'esy Pas?









Gorden Feist 
Gorden Feist
They know you can cut the cable cable but you can't cut the internet cable.

Welcome to Canada, where the excuse is "Our customers want to pay more."

No, we don't.


Art Rowe
Art Rowe
@Gorden Feist
We're not happy until you're unhappy.

Richard McCallum
Richard McCallum
People cutting cable TV is the reason internet charges are increasing so much. Streaming video needs faster lines and more bandwidth. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Art Rowe "We're not happy until you're unhappy."

Methinks their shareholders are Happy Happy Happy N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Richard McCallum "There is no such thing as a free lunch."

Methinks legions of Yankee Feds are getting a free lunch while they complain all over the internet N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/u-s-shutdown-has-workers-turning-to-food-banks-to-make-ends-meet-1.4985225








Shaun sturby
james fryday
In Nova Scotia I pay $185.00 for basic cable tv and internet with land line phone. Smartphone is extra $70.00 a month. Brother in Montreal pays 95.00 for same service and 60.00 for smartphone.There s no excuse for this large difference. Prices should be regulated across the country.


Shaun sturby
Shaun sturby
@james fryday cut the cord, you complain you pay too much but do nothing about it


Edward (E) Merij
Edward (E) Merij
@Shaun sturby
Cut the cord and replace it with what? Whoever the competitor is in Nova Scotia, the price will likely be the same.

Ian Berg
Ian Berg
@Edward (E) Merij Cut the basic cable TV is what he means by cut the cord. I dropped $50+ basic cable TV and have just internet, smartphone & Netflix. CBC sports app is free otherwise I'd have no sports at all.

Richard McCallum
Richard McCallum
So, you live in the middle of nowhere, a mile from the nearest neighbour and think your utilities should cost the same as a city-dweller's. Suggest taking a course in basic economics.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@james fryday Methinks whereas I pay about the same in rural New Brunswick without cable TV and a line I share your pain N'esy Pas?







James Holden
James Holden
That's a step too far.

Write your MP or make an appointment to see them in their office and ask for a new CRTC that protects Citizens as the first priority.
It needs sharp tools to keep telcos in line.


James Holden
James Holden
@James Holden

No CRTC board member should be a former Telco executive, or have any stock in companies they regulate.
Contracts should be clear one page 10pt documents with no fine print and no clause that lets telcos break the deal prematurely.
The New CRTC should have a team of forensic accountants to go through the finances of the telcos. This will allow a determination of the rates that will first protect customers and then provide a reasonable/small profit to the telcos.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@James Holden Dream on






James Holden 
Steve Munro
Nothing more than a corporate cash grab from the greedy telecommunications companies! Their greed is limitless!


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Steve Munro YUP








James Holden 
mo bennett
gouging 101. this shouldn't surprise anyone! after all, there's all those executive pockets to be lined.


David Conway
David Conway
@mo bennett
Stocks and shares are borrowed monies. Look at the dividends per quarter to the portion of company ownership.

mo bennett
mo bennett
@David Conway who cares. still doesn't change the fact that executive pockets will get lined with gouged money!

Nicolas Krinis
Nicolas Krinis
@mo bennett And shareholders, like you and me via our pension plans and RRSPs.

James Holden
James Holden
@Nicolas Krinis

The vast majority of Telco's shares are owned by the top 10%, not the average Canadian.

Norm Mohamid
Norm Mohamid
@James Holden - yep, Rogers is owned and controlled by the preferred shares of the Rogers family.

Edward (E) Merij
Edward (E) Merij
@James Holden
Canada Pension Plan owns shares in all telecoms in Canada.
Like Kevin O'Leary (Dragon's Den) once said, in giving advice about the stock market:
"Buy companies you hate".

David R. Amos
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David R. Amos
@mo bennett "who cares."

YO MO Methinks you know I care N'esy Pas?









Neil Gregory 
Neil Gregory
As I have said on many previous occasions, Canada needs to Nationalize these corporations and run the communications industry as a not-for-profit service for all Canadians.

Of course, the right-wing, Conservative posters here are going to "down-vote" this idea, but they seem to like being ripped off by greedy corporations, so I don't pay any attention to them.


David Conway
David Conway
@Neil Gregory
It all goes into the same hands at the end of the day. The only difference, nationalization forces the taxpayer to pay more taxes or accept less services to keep it all rolling.
-- What's next door ? If the US was in Europe, what would Europe look like.

Tomasz Rakowski
Tomasz Rakowski
@Neil Gregory Worst idea ever. In countries that had telcos nationalized, the level of service was aweful. First hand experience from place like Poland where in the 80s, wait time to have a land line installed was 20 years. It was cheap, but you could not have it... Why would not you list some success stories of Canadian nationalizations ? There ain't any. Have you tried to take a train in Canada ? What a disappointment. Took a business class, MTL to Toronto. Dirty, expensive...

Neil Gregory
Neil Gregory
@Tomasz Rakowski

"Why would not you list some success stories of Canadian nationalizations ? There ain't any. "

ABSOLUTE NONSENSE from some hither-to unknown right-wing poster who appears to know NOTHING about Canadian economic history

Neil Gregory
Neil Gregory
@Robin Reichal

NO! You can't because with only 3 comments to you credit, you obviously haven't been on this site long enough to have read much less paid attention to what I say about Trudeau II.

Gorden Feist
Gorden Feist
@Tomasz Rakowski
Part of the reasdon your internet was so slow in 1980's Poland was that the internet only launched in 1993 with the world wide web debuting in 1995, so the salesman that sold you internet in the '80's lured you in hook, line, and sinker.

How many years did it take before you realized it wasn't invented yet?

Michael MacKenzie
Michael MacKenzie
@Neil Gregory When Bell had a telephone monopoly, price was expensive, service poor and innovation slow to be implemented.

Bob Winter
Bob Winter
@Neil Gregory

So, cite one.

William Weston
William Weston
@Neil Gregory
Having our telephony delivered by the same folks who brought us Phoenix may have an inherent flaw.
Better to avoid large government and large corporations - too much focus on power, too little on service. Nationally networked cooperatives employing the same Canadians providing the knowledge, service, experience running the system today but without the international investors taking the profits would provide the best service and value. Profits could be reinvested in the system rather than palatial homes on some distant beach

James Holden
James Holden
@Neil Gregory

I don't think it has to go that far.
A new CRTC focused on protecting citizens and power to set fines in the multi millions and regulate rates and simplified contracts, would make thingss much better.
No CRTC board member should be a former telco exec or have any stock in companies they regulate.

William Weston
William Weston
@James Holden
Great idea. We could start by electing a different type of government, one consisting of dedicated constituent representatives determined to put such measures in place.


Nicolas Krinis
Nicolas Krinis
@Neil Gregory Why don't you stop typing for a second and stop throwing around insults and tantrums?

Bob Hull
Bob Hull
@Nicolas Krinis

Insults?
You work for a greedy corporation do you?

Sam Uel
Sam Uel
@Neil Gregory

Angry Liberals know better because the use capitol letters!

Vernon McPhee
Vernon McPhee
@Gorden Feist Except he was talking about "telcos" not internet specifically. So your whole comment is meaningless.

Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley
@Neil Gregory

One good idea is to nationalise the the infrastructure and lease it out to providers. Coquitlam City near me has put down fibre to office and high rise buildings and leases it out. The winner is the customer who can have more choice of service providers. http://www.qnetbc.net/about-us/overview

Scotty Davidson
Scotty Davidson
@Neil Gregory I gave you a down vote for pretending the Liberals are not allowing the same thing to happen...

Louren Organzo
Louren Organzo
@Michael MacKenzie
"When Bell had a telephone monopoly [...] "
What you say is true however it is also true that were it not for that monopoly, many hundreds of communities wouldn't have any service at all.

Mark Jones
Mark Jones
@William Weston Phoenix was brought to us by IBM. Dumb people fear government and are eaten alive by corporations.

William Weston
William Weston
@Mark Jones
As long as our government didn't pay IBM with any of our tax dollars I suppose you are right.

Jacqueline Beava
Jacqueline Beava
@Neil Gregory We need less government interference and regulation not more. The CRTC needs to go! Let a free market correct the prices.

Ian Berg
Ian Berg
@Neil Gregory Rationing out of equipment upgrades. A social scoring system to decide who can have telecom access. Revoking of telecom access to citizens who disagree with the government. Easier wiretapping & digital surveillance of its own citizens. Taxpayer subsidization of any money-losing telecom projects. These are just some of the reasons why we don't want government ownership of the telecom industry.

Phil Mein
Phil Mein
@Neil Gregory If the government run CRTC can't do its job then why would you expect a government run internet provider to operate without lack luster service and restrictions of content, speed and distribution etc.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Sam Uel Methinks many would agree that he is a NDP dude N'esy Pas?










Mark Klement 
Mark Klement
Meanwhile the cost per MB of connectivity has been falling for decades. A 10G wavelength from Hong Kong to Los Angeles was worth about $50k per month 10 years ago, now the same service is $5k per month. The same is true for almost all international routes. Plus telcos are able to squeeze more bandwidth from older cables due to tech improvements. Corporations are paying much less for services these days. Guess the telcos just want to stick it to consumers.


William Weston
William Weston
@Mark Klement "Guess the telcos just want to stick it to consumers."
With the election this year, we will probably give them the opportunity to do it all again for years to come.
We need to stand up for what we believe and stop expecting the politicians we elect to suddenly change the system for our benefit. Is there any indication by way of action - not words - they would decide to do that?

Nicolas Krinis
Nicolas Krinis
@William Weston Yes, change the system, whatever that means..

William Weston
William Weston
@Nicolas Krinis
And again...
Elect independents with no party affiliation.
Don't keep electing the same parties and expect a different result.
Take representation more seriously than political advertising.
In a democracy the onus is on the voters to elect responsible representation, not just elect a candidate selected by others for their benefit.
In this case, that's what it means.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@William Weston Methinks I should wholeheartedly agree Nobody should deny that I have run as an Independent six times thus far while being ignored N'esy Pas?

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










Jordan F. Dorino
Jordan F. Dorino
They need the Money to pay those Ridiculous Bonuses, on top of the already Overly generous Salaries to their K9 seducing Puppy Pounding Management.


Peter Ray
Peter Ray
@Jordan F. Dorino

Sounds like someone had their resume rejected...


Mark Jones
Mark Jones
@Peter Ray "Sounds like" you are still upset because you found out that your parents are each others brother and sister.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Jordan F. Dorino @Peter Ray @Mark Jones

Tut Tut Tut Play nice kids



David R. Amos
David R. Amos 
@Jordan F. Dorino @Peter Ray @Mark Jones

Enjoy

----- Original Message -----
From: Martine Turcotte
To: David R. Amos
Cc: bcecomms@bce.ca ; W-Five@ctv.ca
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 9:28 AM
Subject: RE: I am curious

Mr. Amos, I confirm that I have received your documentation. There is
no need to send us a hard copy. As you have said yourself, the
documentation is very voluminous and after 3 days, we are still in the
process of printing it. I have asked one of my lawyers to review it
in my absence and report back to me upon my return in the office. We
will then provide you with a reply.

Martine Turcotte
Chief Legal Officer / Chef principal du service juridique
BCE Inc. / Bell Canada
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Richard McCallum
Gordon McPherson
100% growth in demand each year for the past five years.
That's a lot of revenue, like 100% more revenue each year for the past five years.

If a business can grow its customer base by 100% every year for the past five years, there is no way in hell that they cannot afford to provide the infrastructure and services that create that demand.

There is a chicken and an egg ....


Richard McCallum
Richard McCallum
By "growth in demand", they mean demand by existing users for faster speed and higher data volumes. To which the telcos respond by building more robust networks. Which costs money. For which consumers must pay.

Welcome the the reality of market economics -- supply and demand -- not some socialist fantasy world.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Richard McCallum Methinks if you put socialist fantasy worlds aside for a minute perhaps you should consider collusion and price fixing in lieu of a competitive marketplace that entry level capitalists dream of N'esy Pas?




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David R. Amos
This comment is awaiting moderation by the site administrators.
Methinks some folks may enjoy reading a portion of a comment I made as
I ran in the election of the 42nd Parliament N'esy Pas?

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

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Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 9:28 AM
Subject: RE: I am curious

Mr. Amos, I confirm that I have received your documentation. There is
no need to send us a hard copy. As you have said yourself, the
documentation is very voluminous and after 3 days, we are still in the
process of printing it. I have asked one of my lawyers to review it
in my absence and report back to me upon my return in the office. We
will then provide you with a reply.

Martine Turcotte
Chief Legal Officer / Chef principal du service juridique
BCE Inc. / Bell Canada
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Big telcos hike internet prices amid soaring demand, revenues

Bell, Telus and Shaw are once again raising prices on select plans, after increases in 2018


Dennis Fitt, of Truro, N.S., was unhappy to discover that his internet, TV and phone service with Bell Aliant is going up by $9 next month, as three of the big telcos once again raise their prices on certain internet plans. (Andy Fitt)


You can run but you can't hide from internet price hikes. That's what Sean Barry in Powell River, B.C., learned after leaving his provider, Shaw, following a couple of price increases.

He switched to competitor Telus in September only to discover that the cost of his current Telus internet plan is also going up — by $5 a month.

"I am choked over the increase so soon," said the 71-year-old Barry, who lives on a fixed income.
"Every year it just goes up and up and up."

Telus, Bell and Shaw are all raising prices on select internet plans over the next few months. The hikes come on the heels of internet price increases by Telus, Shaw, Bell and Rogers in 2018.



Sean Barry, of Powell River B.C., says he is on a fixed income and switched providers after Shaw increased its prices. He was unhappy to learn that his new provider, Telus, is hiking his bill by $5 a month. (Submitted by Sean Barry)
Meanwhile, Canadians are living more of their lives online and signing up in record numbers for internet service, driving up revenues for providers.

"They can do whatever they want; it's big business," said Barry. "We've just got to suck it up."

Price hike roundup


Beginning on Feb. 25, Telus will hike rates on internet plans by $2 to $5 a month.

On Feb. 1, Bell will raise internet prices by $5 a month for Bell Aliant customers in Atlantic Canada. In Ontario and Quebec, the telco is hiking various internet plans by up to $6 a month as of March 1.

"I laughed, because I pretty much knew it was coming," said Christopher Provias, of Welland, Ont., after learning that he's facing a $5 monthly increase on his Bell internet bill.

"It's pretty much like clockwork."

On April 1, Shaw also plans to raise rates on select internet plans. The telco declined to say by how much prices are going up.

Why raise prices?


In 2017, home internet was the fastest-growing sector of all telecommunications services.

According to the latest Communications Monitoring Report by the CRTC, Canada's telecom regulator, 86 per cent of Canadian households subscribed to home internet service in 2017, up almost four per cent from 2016.
Canadians are also demanding faster internet speeds with more data — average monthly data use for high-speed users jumped by a whopping 30 per cent in 2017 compared to 2016.

Bell, Telus and Shaw say they have to raise rates to continually improve their networks to accommodate growing demand.

Bell said customers' internet usage has increased by more than 500 per cent over the past five years.
"Our costs to meet that demand and provide customers with the best experience possible also continue to rise," said spokesperson Nathan Gibson in an email.


Total Canadian internet service revenues in 2017 (Communications Monitoring Report 2018/CRTC)
Industry analyst Dwayne Winseck acknowledges that the big telcos are investing significant amounts in their networks. But he says that's not the only reason customers face higher internet bills.

"These price increases are at least as much, if not more, about protecting very high operating profits," says Winseck, a professor at Carleton University's School of Journalism and Communication.

According to the CRTC report, residential internet service revenues, including applications, equipment and other related services, totalled $9.1 billion in 2017 — an 8.8 per cent increase over 2016.

'Makes me so mad'


In a notice sent to customers facing price hikes, Bell said it invested $4 billion in its infrastructure last year.

But that's cold comfort for Dennis Fitt, of Truro, N.S., who's facing a monthly increase of $9 come February for his bundled internet, phone and TV service with Bell.

"Their profits aren't enough to cover the infastructure — this $4 billion that I have to pay for now?" said Fitt, whose family of six relies on internet for both their TV and phone service.
"It just makes me so mad."
Because the internet has become so important in Canadians' lives, Fitt believes the CRTC should do something to ensure prices don't get out of control.

"The CRTC should call [the internet] a necessity, and at that point they should be able to regulate it a lot more than they do now."

The telecom regulator is currently exploring an internet code of conduct to address a growing number of complaints from Canadians about their internet service.


86% of Canadian households subscribed to home internet service in 2017, up almost four per cent compared to the previous year. (Nathan Denette/Canadian Press)
While there's no mention of price regulation, the CRTC says the code would include measures to make it easier for consumers to switch providers to take advantage of competitive offers.

For Canadians planning to make a switch, there are a growing number of independent internet providers such as TekSavvy, Distributel and Start that offer competitive rates.
In 2017, only 13 per cent of Canadian internet subscribers were signed up with an independent, according to the CRTC report.

Reasons for the modest uptake include the fact that many are unaware of Canada's smaller providers or are fearful of switching to a lesser-known company.

Others believe they're better off bundling their internet with other services at a discount with one of the major telcos.

Barry in Powell River says because he has a promotional deal with Telus, if he cancelled his internet, he'd likely face a bigger bill for his phone and TV service with the company

"They've got you coming and going," he said.

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YO Chucky Leblanc Methinks its obvious that your far from ethical "IT Guy" Mr Faust stands with the SANB dudes and against your buddy Mr Higgs N'esy Pas?

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Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 20:52:02 +0000
Subject: RE: YO Chucky Leblanc Methinks its obvious that your far from
ethical "IT Guy" Mr Faust stands with the SANB dudes and against your
buddy Mr Higgs N'esy Pas?
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Manifesto of the FLQ (1970) English Translation

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Manifesto of the FLQ (1970)


The Front deliberation du Québec is not a messiah, nor a modern-day Robin Hood. It is a group of Québec workers who have decided to use every means to make sure that the people of Québec take control of their destiny.

The Front de liberation du Québec wants the total independence of all Québécois, united in a free society, purged forever of the clique of voracious sharks, the patronizing “big bosses” and their henchmen who have made Québec their hunting preserve for “cheap labour” and unscrupulous exploitation.
The Front de liberation du Québec is not a movement of aggression, but is a response to the aggression organized by high finance and the puppet governments in Ottawa and Québec (the Brinks “show,” Bill 63, the electoral map, the so-called social progress tax, Power Corporation, “Doctors’ insurance,” the Lapalme guys …)

The Front de liberation du Québec finances itself by “voluntary taxes” taken from the same enterprises that exploit the workers (banks, finance companies, etc. …)

“The money power of the status quo, the majority of the traditional teachers of our people, have obtained the reaction they hoped for; a backward step rather than the change for which we have worked as never before, for which we will continue to work” ( René Lévesque, April 29, 1970) .

We believed once that perhaps it would be worth it to channel our energy and our impatience, as René Lévesque said so well, into the Parti Québecois, but the Liberal victory clearly demonstrated that that which we call democracy in Québec is nothing but the democracy of the rich. The Liberal party’s victory was nothing but the victory of the election riggers, Simard-Cotroni. As a result, the British parliamentary system is finished and the Front de liberation du Québec will never allow itself to be fooled by the pseudo-elections that the Anglo-Saxon capitalists toss to the people of Québec every four years. A number of Québecois have understood and will act. In the coming year Bourassa will have to face reality; 100,000 revolutionary workers, armed and organized.

Yes, there are reasons for the Liberal victory. Yes, there are reasons for poverty, unemployment, slums, and for the fact that you, Mr Bergeron of Visitation Street and you, Mr Legendre of Laval who earn $ 10,000 a year, will not feel free in our country of Québec.

Yes, there are reasons, and the guys at Lord know them, the fishermen of the Gaspé, the workers of the North Shore, the miners for the Iron Ore Company, Québec Cartier Mining, and Noranda, also know these reasons. And the brave workers of Cabano that you tried to screw again know lots of reasons.

Yes, there are reasons why you, Mr Tremblay of Panet Street and you Mr Cloutier, who work in construction in St Jerôme, cannot pay for “Vaisseaux d’or” with all the jazz and oom-pa-pa like Drapeau the aristocrat, who is so concerned with slums that he puts coloured billboards in front of them to hide our misery from the tourists.

Yes, there are reasons why you, Mrs Lemay of St Hyacinthe, can’t pay for little trips to Florida like our dirty judges and parliamentary members do with our money.

The brave workers for Vickers and Davie Ship, who were thrown out and not given a reason, know these reasons. And the Murdochville men, who were attacked for the simple and sole reason that they wanted to organize a union and who were forced to pay $2 million by the dirty judges simply because they tried to exercise this basic right – they know justice and they know the reasons.

Yes, there are reasons why you, Mr Lachance of St Marguerite Street, must go and drown your sorrows in a bottle of that dog’s beer, Molson. And you, Lachance’s son, with your marijuana cigarettes …

Yes, there are reasons why you, the welfare recipients, are kept from generation to generation on social welfare. Yes, there are all sorts of reasons, and the Domtar workers in East Angus and Windsor know them well. And the workers at Squibb and Ayers, and the men at the Liquor Board and those at Seven-Up and Victoria Precision, and the blue collar workers in Laval and Montreal and the Lapalme boys know those reasons well.

The Dupont of Canada workers know them as well, even if soon they will only be able to express them in English (thus assimilated they will enlarge the number of immigrants and New Quebeckers, the darlings of Bill 63 ) .

And the Montreal policemen, those strongarms of the system, should understand these reasons – they should have been able to see we live in a terrorized society because, without their force, without their violence, nothing could work on October 7.

We have had our fill of Canadian federalism which penalizes the Québec milk producers to satisfy the needs of the Anglo-Saxons of the Commonwealth; the system which keeps the gallant Montreal taxi drivers in a state of semi-slavery to shamefully protect the exclusive monopoly of the nauseating Murray Hill and its proprietor – the murderer Charles Hershorn and his son Paul, who, on the night of October 7, repeatedly grabbed the twelve-gauge shot gun from his employees hands to fire upon the taxi drivers and thereby mortally wound corporal Dumas, killed while demonstrating.

We have had our fill of a federal system which exercises a policy of heavy importation while turning out into the street the low wage-earners in the textile and shoe manufacturing trades, who are the most ill-treated in Québec, for the benefit of a clutch of damned money-makers in their Cadillacs who rate the Québec nation on the same level as other ethnic minorities in Canada.

We have had our fill, as have more and more Québecois, of a government

which performs a-thousand-and-one acrobatics to charm American millionaires into investing in Québec, La Belle Province, where thousands and thousands of square miles of forests, full of game and well-stocked lakes, are the exclusive preserve of the almighty twentieth century lords.

We have had our fill of a hypocrite like Bourassa who relies on Brinks armoured trucks, the living symbol of the foreign occupation of Québec, to keep the poor natives of Québec in the fear of misery and unemployment in which they are accustomed to living.

We have had our fill of taxes which the Ottawa representative to Québec wants to give to the Anglophone bosses to encourage them to speak French, old boy, to negotiate in French: Repeat after me: “Cheap labour means manpower in a healthy market.”

We have had our fill of promises of jobs and prosperity while we always remain the cowering servants and boot-lickers of the big shots who live in Westmount, Town of Mount Royal, Hampstead, and Outremont; all the fortresses of high finance on St James and Wall streets, while we, the Québecois, have not used all our means, including arms and dynamite, to rid ourselves of these economic and political bosses who are prepared to use every sort of sordid tactic to better screw us.

We live in a society of terrorized slaves, terrorized by the big bosses like Steinberg, Clark, Bronfman, Smith, Neaple, Timmins, Geoffrion, J. L. Levesque, Hershorn, Thompson, Nesbitt, Desmarais, Kierans. Compared to them Remi Popol the lousy no-good, Drapeau the Dog, Bourassa the lackey of the Simards, and Trudeau the fairy are peanuts.

We are terrorized by the capitalist Roman church, even though this seems less and less obvious (who owns the property on which the stock exchange stands?) ; by the payments to pay back Household Finance; by the publicity of the overlords of retail trade like Eaton, Simpson, Morgan, Steinberg, and General Motors; we are terrorized by the closed circles of science and culture which are the universities and by their bosses like Gaudry and Dorais and by the underling Robert Shaw.

The number of those who realize the oppression of this terrorist society are growing and the day will come when all the Westmounts of Québec will disappear from the map.

Production workers, miners, foresters, teachers, students, and unemployed workers, take what belong to you, your jobs, your right to decide, and your liberty. And you, workers of General Electric, it’s you who makes your factories run, only you are capable of production; without you General Electric is nothing!

Workers of Québec, start today to take back what is yours; take for yourselves what belongs to you. Only you know your factories, your machines, your hotels, your universities, your unions. Don’t wait for an organizational miracle.

Make your own revolution in your areas, in your places of work. And if you don’t do it yourselves, other usurpers, technocrats and so on will replace the handful of cigar smokers we now know, and everything will be the same again. Only you are able to build a free society.

We must fight, not singly, but together. We must fight until victory is ours with all the means at our disposal as did the patriots of 1837-38 (those whom our sacred Mother church excommunicated to sell out to the British interests) .

In the four corners of Québec, may those who have been contemptuously called lousy French and alcoholics start fighting their best against the enemies of liberty and justice and prevent all the professional swindlers and robbers, the bankers, the businessmen, the judges, and the sold-out politicators from causing harm.

We are the workers of Québec and we will continue to the bitter end. We want to replace the slave society with a free society, functioning by itself and for itself; a society open to the world.
Our struggle can only lead to victory. You cannot hold an awakening people in misery and contempt indefinitely. Long live Free Québec!
Long live our imprisoned political comrades. Long live the Québec revolution!
Long live the Front de liberation du Québec.
©
1999 Claude Bélanger, Marianopolis College









Blaine Higgs: Can a leopard change its spots?


Canadian or French, what are we going to be? Or “Canadians or French, who will we be?

By André Faust (Nov 21, 2018)



Blain Higgs
Premier Blain Higgs, Photo credit: Charles Leblanc

33 years ago Blaine Higgs while a member of (CoR) Confederation of Regions presented his report to the Advisory Committee on Official Languages of New Brunswick. Blain was less than complimentary to the Francophone population of New Brunswick. 33 years later is patronizing the Francophone population. L’Acadie Nouvelle received a copy of Blaine Higgs handwritten manifesto which was tabled by Official Languages of New Brunswick.
His1985 manifesto titled “Canadian or French, what are we going to be? Or “Canadians or French, who will we be? sounded more like Teddy Roosevelt’s speech on the assimilation of immigrants. If you read Roosevelt’s speech and compare it to the Higgs manifesto you will see some similarities.
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American … There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag … We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” – Theodore Roosevelt 1907
In his manifesto, Higgs was critical of the Federal Government because they were negotiating a dollar and cent settlement with Japanese Canadians to compensate Canadian residents of Japanese origin who were interned at two main camps, Camp P and Camp X, not only adults but women and children as well. The Canadian government also seized their assets, these civilians were not prisoners of war. (“Thematic Guides – Internment Camps in Canada during the First and Second World Wars – Library and Archives Canada”, 2018)

Canada was in the wrong by interning and taking away assets from Canadian residents who were of Japenese origin and not prisoners of war, yet Blaine Higgs opposed compensating the Japanese for the Canadian wrongdoing.

Throughout his manifesto Blaine Higgs, the theme was English only in New Brunswick even though the Canadian charter of rights explicitly says that New Brunswick is a bilingual province.

It is rare that a person will change their core beliefs and take the opposite position.  One has to question the motive behind Premier Higgs for his change of heart.

Here is Premier Blaine Higgs 1985 Manifesto in its entirety

Canadian or French, what are we going to be? Or “Canadians or French, who will we be?


I am native of a small English speaking village located on the Maine new Brunswick border. In this community, I grew up in constant association with American neighbours. It was through this association that I soon came to realize low supportive and proud these Americans are of their country. 

In an emergency situation, which is when the real test would come, it is easy to see how forcefully with a people would stand united in defence of their country under one flag, one government and one language. This is further illustrated as American, in general, continue to brag about their country and openly state that quotation nothing is as good as the united states quote. Isn’t it wonderful to be so proud of a nation and not ashamed to admit it?

Canada also has this same potential, but we must return to a rational system and get away from the unrealistic fantasies of linguistic rates in all sectors. I challenge each and every citizen in this country to consider their loyalty to Canada as a nation as being first and foremost in their personal gold. We are not and will never achieve such loyalty and unity while at the same time embarking on a course supporting two different cultures.

In our military forces, alone, we have an English and a French division. In the event of a conflict which we must stand together, we could not even communicate amongst the very power which was to defend our country. Even if all the troops were bilingual we would no doubt stand at the front and argue which language the orders were to be given then while the enemy walks over us.

We have, as was recently stated, some 80 different cultures in this fine country. Imagine the chaos if each one of them demanded services in their native tongue and of course, the government in there current accommodating fashion would endeavour to provide it. This May seem, at first glance to be ridiculous to even suggest but consider the fact the Federal government is currently negotiating monetary settlement with Japanese Canadians to compensate for alleged afflictions occurring some 50 years ago. The decision at that time was made in the interests of national defense and it should not have to be paid for by the Canadian Taxpayers generations later. The Japanese Canadian Lobby groups demand repayment monetarily and s reveal their true allegiance to Canada and that is for personal gain.

Returning, now, closer to the homefront we find the French Canadians in Quebec have now illustrated their true allegiance, to Canada as a nation, by divorcing themselves from the majority of Canadians and to alienate these English speaking Canadians in their own province. There is only one clear goal in this pursuit and that is for “French Power” at any cost.

The rest of Canada sits idly by while the Federal government pours millions of dollars into Quebec and elevates Quebec to a status unequalled by another Canadian province. This is all done in the name of keeping Quebec within confederation. We must not continue to cater to the idealist pursuit which will only divide our country. our path is one of divisiveness among our people and if this continues we would be better served to negotiate separation as an alternative which I personally hope is never required.

As stated Quebec has made their stand and that is to be French and French alone. We must recognize and be impressed by their persistence and dedication to the French cause, not the Canadian cause.

It is now time to get to the real issues in question at this time and that is the issue of bilingualism within this already poorer Canadian province of New Brunswick. At this time we are the sacrificial province for the bilingual issue across Canada, as we are the only bilingual Canadian province. It is for this very reason that we must stand and clearly demonstrate the problems which are being created.

Premier Richard Hatfield upon his initial election to office in the late sixties chose at that time to ignore the vows of the majority. Premier Lous J. Robichaud had put forward the proposal for the Official Languages Act just before he was voted out of office and this should have been indicators enough for Premier Hatfield, upon his victory that the majority of people did not support this act. His subsequent re-elections to office should not be attributed as the people supporting his policies but instead the lack of choice in the eyes of the voters for a government which could truly represent them. I feel the name Hatfield has carried him for many years.

Currently, we still have no such party which will listen to the people and take a stand for them, thus the inevitable formation of an Association dedicated solely for the preservation of the English speaking Canadians. Despite the radical image that has been portrayed by the media and the elements of bigotry that have been thrown at this association it is still well supported throughout the province. With re-organization and a clear development of the Association’s goals, we will see it’s continued rapid growth. This could eventually result in the formation of a political party will truly represent the majority.

The Poirier Bastarache Report clearly does not reflect a representative sample of the people of New Brunswick of the people of New Brunswick. It instead reflects the deeply biased viewpoint of the three French authors and the one English author, thrown is as a token gesture, who really is not part of the issue as he is an out of province resident. Many English speaking moderates feel there must be just caused to all of these demands, based on linguistic rights. because of the amount of noise that is being generated. I would like to emphasize, However, that many of these so-called spokesmen for the French minority are on a payroll of some sort to fight for this cause. In many cases, this is a government payroll which means the Canadian Taxpayers is supporting financially those activists who peruse the breakdown of our national unity. In support of this argument,, consider the thousands of dollars that have been spent by the government to finance this report. I was told at the first round of those sessions, by Bernard Poirier, one of the authors, that the cost of publishing of the reports was free of charge. Can you possibly imagine who would be too kind as to published an unlimited supply of these reports absolutely free? The whole issue reeks of below board tactics.

Another issue worthy of note, by those moderate overtaken by compassion for the cause, was on the Federal front. This was regarding the formation of the Canadian Parents for French organization. This was not started and funded by the concerned French Parents as one might tend to believe but organized and funded by the Federal government. Additionally, the Federal government provided assistance for different groups to take the Provincial government to court to face the provision of French education. Is this what unity is all about, the Federal government versus the provinces?

I dismiss the Poirier Bastarache repost as being biassed, unnecessary and not promoting the real needs of the New Brunswick People. I cannot support arguments that New Brunswick residents are suffering because they cannot get service in their mother tongue. The point is the service is being provided. According to the report, only 16% of the New Brunswick population are unilingual French. This would indicate that 84% or approximately 195,000 Francophones in this province can speak English. The existing government policies appear to support the idea that even though a person speaks fluent English they have a right to refuse services in that language. When are we going to grow up and start acting like responsible citizens in the real world?

For the 16% or 37,000 unilingual Francophones in this province, we should develop an English Immersion Program instead of the current French Immersion Program for the estimated 66% or 350,000 unilingual Anglophones. The Anglophone population Have a long-standing history of being compassionate and tolerant of the needs of others especially when these needs are justified. However, in this situation, I feel the breaking point is fast approaching.

Let us now truly examine the cultural motivation of the Acadians. As stated in the report they have a higher rate of unemployment and an average lower income than do Anglophones in the other parts of the province. If I had chosen to stay in my native village I would no doubt have had a much lower income as I would have been unemployed. I instead chose to move to where the work was. I did not feel slighted nor did I feel the government should have provided employment in my hometown. In the case of the northern part of the province, we are dealing with a greater number of people whose jobless rate is abnormally high and the government should show additional interest to stimulate the economy of this region. The private sector must be encouraged to invest in this area. It does not seem likely if industrial entrepreneurs are plagued with language restrictions they will be here to invest. It must be emphasized that the greater number of investors comes from the English speaking sector whether it is foreign or otherwise. The province can not and will not ever function effectively by the legislation of additional burdens on the investment groups.

The money spent by the government to teach everyone French and to duplicate all governmental services could be better be utilized to create jobs and improve the standard of living for the average New Brunswicker especially in the northern part of the province. The formation of a French dual government system as proposed will satisfy only those activists in pursuit of a personal power struggle. Democratically the northern part of the province can elect whomever they choose to represent them and I do not feel the Anglophone portion of the Government will oppose improvements to their economic situation. I do not feel that supply the entire north shore with government jobs is the answer to the economic woes of the region.

I would like to emphasize that I am not supporting bigotry but reality and I am sure that many of the moderates both Anglophone and Francophone will agree.

1) The Poirier Bastarache Report entitled “Towards Equality of Official Languages in New Brunswick” be dismissed in its entirety as being unnecessary and impractical.

2) The government of New Brunswick confront the people of Ne Brunswick with a referendum asking; Should New Brunswick have only one official language and should that language be English? Yes or No. Accompanying information should include the actual costs of the current and proposed duplication.

3) The educational system return to the previously higher standard than now currently being offered.
In place of the French Immersion Programs a qualified level of teaching the French language to be offere3d to all New Brunswick students equally as part of the regular school curriculum.

4) The government stress through the future policies the concept that cultures are a personal issue and in this land can be practiced as a personal basis. From this point on the government will support only once culture and that is Canadian and only the language of the vast majority and that is English.

5) A qualified educational program is set up to teach those unilingual Francophones the English language so they will be able to communicate effectively with government agencies. This does not restrict the use of their mother tongue for any other activity.

6) I urge all New Brunswickers to examine the issues at hand. Look closely at the real driving force behind the French cause and the source of the funds which support it. I do not wish to hold any prejudices toward the Francophones but I Feel our current course is one of division and conflictions. I wish only to return to the system where qualification and ability takes precedence over the language or speaks contrary to the report I do not feel that all Francophones suffer from an identity crisis. I work every day with Francophones who are well qualified and every bit as capable as any Anglophones. They do not need to rely on being hired for a job because they are French but because they are capable individuals and that is the way it should be.

Thank-you
Blaine M. Higgs



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The Paradox Of Minimum Wage In Contemporary Society

By André Faust (11/11/2018)

In our system of economics, the minimum wage is functional in controlling for inflation and for that reason, the minimum wage will always create a class working poor and create a loss of buying power in the higher wage earners.

What happens when the minimum is raised inflation goes up? As inflation goes up the bank of Canada increases the lending rate to control the rate of inflation. The consequence is that all the industries in the system raise their prices to offset the increase of wages and interest rates.

In essence, what we have is an endless loop which each time it cycles there is a loss of buying power.
How much one makes really isn’t a good measure of prosperity. A better measure is the buying power of wages earned. As buying power diminishes workers have to work more hours to pay for goods and services.

There was a time that a worker working for the minimum wage of 75 cents or less per hour had greater power buying power than today’s worker, who in New Brunswick makes 11.25 per hour. The loss of buying power effects every wage earner, the 20.00$ per hour wage earner wage doesn’t increase yet everything else increases so his/her wages gets closer to the minimum rate.

The result of the loss of buying power is that the supply and demand are also affected. Wage earners are buying less so the demand drops, and with a drop in demand, supply decreases as well. When supply decreases the frequency of layoff also increases resulting in less money to spend. This process will continue until the entire system fails.

Our economics is a system consisting of nodes, and whatever happens in one node affects all the other nodes of the system. An example nodes are the banking institution, industry, the wage earners, investors, the stock markets, human displacement technology and so on.

Our present system of economics is not sustainable and as a result, it will eventually collapse. To avoid the eventual collapse, we have to have the social and political will to change the system. In other words, we need to have the sociological imagination to resolve the wage issue as it relates to the consumer price index. The likelihood of such a change ever happening is possible, but highly improbable. The most likely reason why changes are highly unlikely is that they are too many stakeholders working for their own interest.

In summary, not including the price of fuel minimum wage contributes to inflation and a loss of buying power for the higher wage earners. While there are other factors which contribute to rising inflation such as willfully creating a shortage to boost prices the increase in the cost of production precipitated by increased wages is the dominant factor for the increase in inflation. Our system of economics is made of nodes, and each node can affect the whole system because whatever happens in one node cascades throughout the entire system. Lastly, each business is self-centered it only looks after its own interest and doesn’t acknowledge that it is part of a system.

The cycle of inflation is always greater than the cycle of deflation and if this process is allowed to continue the likelihood of catastrophic economic failure is possible.








Do voters really know the philosophy of the party they vote for?

By André Faust (Oct 21,  2018)

An election has come and gone here in New Brunswick, but we could go into an early election if the kids cannot get their shit together.

When it comes to voting do people know or understand the philosophy of the party they are voting for? Do people just vote on the campaign marketing plan or do they really know what their chosen party stands for?

I would argue that most people don’t know what their party stands for, except for the Greens from the discussion, verbal, in the media and online it does appear that green supporters understand what green stands for.

For the two old-school parties the Liberal and Conservatives voters do not know the political differences between the two. During the last election, the common phrase was Liberals and Conservatives are one of the same. If one knew and understood the philosophy of each they would realize that there is a fundamental philosophical difference between the two.

According to (Jana, Keith, and Goldman) there are some fundamental differences between the two and in both camps there exist small l and large L for the liberal camp and for the conservatives you have small c and large C.

What Jana, Keith, and Goldman describe is more the difference between center-left liberals and center-right conservatives which pretty well describes our provincial conservative and liberals.
So what does it mean to be Liberal or conservative? Remember this is just a general description of the ideologies between the two in the province of New Brunswick. Harper’s conservative border lines extremisms.

To be a liberal is to have a core value system that believes in freedom of thought, and speech placing limitations on government, tolerance, our charter of rights and freedom is built on liberal ideologies.

Liberal ideology a mixed economy between state own and private enterprises. When it comes to social order Liberals try to find that balance between individual freedoms and social order. Which when you look at the constitution and the Charter of rights is based on these fundamental values and ideology.

Conservatives, on the other hand, tend to focus on personal wealth and private ownership of business enterprises which foster self-reliance and individualism. When it comes to crime and punishment, conservatives tend to be more punitive towards offenders, rather than focusing on rehabilitation of the offender. Tolerance conservative is less tolerant and is more ethnocentric and more than often be hostile toward minority groups such as newcomers coming in either in the province or in the country.

Extreme liberalism and Conservatism are really in their own categories, while they do have the fundamental ideologies they also push the envelope at both ends.

Related to Liberal ideology or philosophy is the Green Party. The green party has a lot more in common with liberal philosophy than conservative philosophy yet they have their own philosophy.

The Greens political philosophy aka ecopolitcs core ideology encapsulates creating an ecologically sustainable society which is rooted in environmentalism, nonviolence, and social justice than the liberals, but still within the parameters of center-left. The NDP also shares Liberal ideology/philosophy or inverse can be said Liberals share NDP ideologies. While the NDP are not radical left out of the five parties they are left because the NDP has adopted socialist philosophy as their core values, for example, social democracy and democratic socialism.

The People’s Alliance of New Brunswick while different than the Progressive conservative share some of the same philosophy, but the Peoples Alliance also share Liberal values as well in terms of transparency. Both the Conservatives and the Peoples Alliance of New Brunswick financial philosophy tend to follow Hayekian economics which says that it is business that should inject money into the economy to stimulate growth, and both PC and PANB seem to favor austerity to balance the books.

The Liberals and Greens, on the other hand, tend to be more Keynesian in the sense that if you want the economy to grow the states has to put money into peoples pockets.

I have just skimmed the surface of political ideologies and philosophies, that has been countless books that have been written about political philosophies.









Green Party diminishes their credibility the very thing they wanted to avoid by banning Chris Smissaert as Candidate for Fredericton North

Chris Smissaert
Chris Smissaert former candidate Green Party Fredericton North – Photo Charles Leblanc
Chris Smissaert was banned to run as a Green Party Candidate even though he won his nomination with a wide margin. He won his candidacy by a democratic process. Removing him as a candidate undermines the democracy that we as Canadians so cherish.

It appears that Political correctness was the justification for his removal. Anecdotally speaking the word is that he was removed because he wasn’t the favored Candidate among some of the members of the Fredericton North Green Party Riding. The Green Party executive claimed that one of the reasons for banning Smissaert was because of his bullying tactics. What constitutes bullying, the concept has been watered down so much that simply raising one’s voice or if one is assertive can be construed as bullying. Concepts such as bullying, character unbecoming, and public safety are contextual terms and there meaning is dependent on the spin that is given to them.

The other reason that has been officially stated as a reason for his removal was that Mr. Smissaert introduced himself as a Green Party Candidate at a non-political function. Just stating that he is a Candidate is not a political comment but a fact. Had Chris expanded suggesting that the green party is the party of choice then it would have been a political comment. That was not the case.

Politically removing Chris Smissaert as a candidate for Fredericton North and parachuting Tamara white as an alternative candidate has damaged the party’s credibility.

Whether a party wins or not, the number of votes that a party receives represents x number of dollars that the party will receive. Unfortunately for the Green Parties decision of terminating Smissaert the party will not maximize the potential votes they would have received had they not banned Smissaert as a bonafide candidate for Fredericton North.







Bank of Canada increases interest rates to make the rich even richer


By André Faust (July 12, 2018)




 https://youtu.be/BqCj8Lfj47I



Today in a press release the Bank of Canada has announced that it Is increasing lending rates to 1.5% to the retail banks. (“Bank of Canada raises overnight rate target to 1 ½ percent”, 2018). So what does that mean for the average Joe/Jane on the streets, well it means that if you are taking out a loan or credit today your interest payment will increase by 1.5 % and if you add it to compound interest then that number becomes significant.

Before going on, let’s turn the pages back and look at the role of the Bank of Canada before I get into today’s announcement.

Let’s go back to 1938 to the year 1974, Canada was borrowing from itself at interest-free loans, which allowed Canada to be very prosperous. So as a result of these loans Canada developed quite substantially, with the money created being used to build highways such as the McDonald-Cartier freeway, public transportation systems, subway lines, airports, the St. Lawrence Seaway, funding the universal healthcare system, and the Canadian Pension Plan and so on.

In 1973 Trudeau’s government decided to stop borrowing from the Bank of Canada at interest-free to the retail commercial banks who charge interests. Here is where it gets crazy because of it the Bank of Canada who sets the interest rates. How rational is that?

After Canada started to borrow from the commercial banks is when we see Canada’s debt load increase to where it is at today.

Obviously, Trudeau did not follow the wisdom of Mackenzie King himself who had once said,
“ Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nation’s laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation. Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most sacred responsibility, all talk of sovereignty of parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

So here we are at today’s announcement, basically, the Bank of Canada said it would increase the interest by 1.5 % which means that the Federal, Provincial and municipal government will now even pay more interest on interest. For Canadians especially those seniors on Fixed income and if their mortgage is up for renewal there is a likely hood that they will not be able to pay the new rates, and lose their home to the banks.

Both Trudeau and Gallant inject a considerable amount of money into the economy which did stimulate economic growth people had more money so they were spending more.

This interests increase is going to remove money and buying power from the people which we should see all of the efforts to strengthen our economy go down the toilet bowl. It is expecting that the bank of Canada will have another rate increase in September.

The only winners in this are the banks. Let follow Mackenzie king approaches to economics where the country, the provinces and the manipulates don’t pay interests on interest but pay the Bank of Canada like the old day’s interest-free.


References Bank of Canada raises overnight rate target to 1 ½ per cent. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2018/07/fad-press-release-2018-07-11/
Household debt-to-income ratio edges lower: Canadians now owe $1.70 for every $1 earned. (2018). Retrieved from https://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/statistics-canada-reports-household-debt-to-income-ratio-edges-lower
Prudent Press | The History of the Bank of Canada. (2018). Retrieved from http://prudentpress.com/finance/history-bank-of-canada/
Remember when: What have we learned from the 1980s and that 21% interest rate?. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/the-market/remember-when-what-have-we-learned-from-80s-interest-rates/article24398735/
Trade tensions the ‘biggest issue’ on the horizon as Bank of Canada hikes interest rate | CBC News. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bank-of-canada-rate-decision-1.4742063





PCs step back from hard line on ONB transparency

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 David R. Amos 
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David R. Amos 
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Methinks some folks may find this worth reading N'esy Pas?

https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/how-nova-scotia-has-sold-its-soul-to-cater-to-tax-avoidance-schemes-morning-file-tuesday-november-7-2017/#1.%20The%20Paradise%20Papers,%20Appleby,%20and%20Nova%20Scotia%E2%80%99s%20welcome%20to%20tax%20avoiders

"Lund, for his part, has his own interesting history:

About that NSBI job… the position used to be held by Stephen Lund, who before coming to work for NSBI worked at Butterfield Bank in Bermuda. At the helm of NSBI, he oversaw the extension of $9.1 million in payroll rebates for Butterfield Bank to expand in Halifax, but somehow neglected to mention he once worked for the bank. Lund left NSBI in August 2013, heading back to his old stomping grounds and took charge of the Bermuda Business Development Agency. But he abruptly left that job in April for unspecified personal reasons, and headed back to Nova Scotia. Lund was gobbled up by the Irvings and now works as Vice President of the Halifax Shipyard, where he uses his expertise in ladling out public funds to private corporations to design war ships, I guess.

Lund left Irving for a job as CEO of Opportunities New Brunswick, which is that province’s equivalent of NSBI. I can’t imagine how he reflects upon a career trajectory that took him from working for one of the world’s largest hedge fund banks in sunny Bermuda to an obscure posting in podunk and cold New Brunswick, but that’s his business. Still, there in New Brunswick, he’s managed to make himself the subject of a legislative controversy."



PCs step back from hard line on ONB transparency

In 2017, then-Opposition Leader Blaine Higgs called for the firing of ONB's CEO


Economic Development Minister Mary Wilson says she has met with officials at Opportunities New Brunswick who say they are committed to transparency. (CBC)

Progressive Conservative enthusiasm for more transparency at Opportunities New Brunswick appears to be less urgent now that the party is back in power.

The Tories demanded specific job-creation figures from the agency just two years ago — and called for the firing of its CEO when those numbers weren't provided — but are now counselling patience.

The shift in tone comes after Auditor General Kim MacPherson reported again last week that ONB still won't say how many jobs are created at each individual company it subsidizes.

"It's a big job for ONB to make sure they do their best to answer what the AG requires," Economic Development Minister Mary Wilson said in an interview.

She said she has met officials there and they're committed to transparency.

"All I can do, I guess, is continue to work with ONB and do our best to accommodate the auditor general, and be accountable to New Brunswickers on that."

Wilson also brushed aside questions about the agency's CEO, Stephen Lund.

In 2017, then-Opposition Leader Blaine Higgs called on the Liberal government to fire Lund after accusing him of misleading MLAs about MacPherson's recommendations.

No plans to remove agency's CEO


Now that Higgs is premier, Wilson said there are no plans to remove Lund.

"All I can say if we continue to look in the past, we're not going to be able to move forward," she said.
"So let's draw that line in the sand and work towards tomorrow, and see how we can make things better."

MacPherson first called for greater transparency at ONB in 2015, when she issued 19 recommendations as part of an audit into tens of millions of dollars of lost loans and loan guarantees to the Atcon group of companies.


Mary Wilson says there are no plans to remove ONB CEO Stephen Lund, pictured. (CBC New Brunswick)
The bulk of the lost money was $50 million approved in 2009 by the Liberal cabinet of then-Premier Shawn Graham over the objections of civil servants, who warned the investment was risky.

ONB didn't exist at the time and Lund has said the Atcon money would never have been approved through his agency's more rigorous scrutiny.

Among MacPherson's 19 recommendations was one urging ONB to release figures comparing how many jobs are expected and created at each company that received a subsidy.
I recall our premier stating that over many years, there's been huge money handed out on corporate handouts, and again, where's the accountability? Are jobs being created? Job creation is the number one thing we're looking for, and that's my job going forward.- Mary Wilson, Economic Development Minister
In January 2017, Lund got into a lengthy and tense exchange with then-PC MLA Kirk MacDonald at a legislative committee hearing. Lund refused to give MacDonald job-creation results for several companies MacDonald listed.

The Tory MLA suggested that companies shouldn't get subsidies if they weren't willing to let their job-creation results go public.

ONB said last March it could not release company-by-company results because that would reveal commercial, competitive information protected by confidentiality.

Instead, the organization says on its website how many total jobs have been promised and how many have been created. As of Friday, the site said 10,907 jobs have been committed and 4,989 have been created since ONB's inception in April 2015.

In a written statement, ONB vice-president Heather Libbey did not respond to a question about company-by-company job figures.

Instead, she said MacPherson's report "validates that ONB continues to demonstrate its commitment to improving access to and proactively disclosing how it manages and invests public funds."

More transparency needed 


Wilson, a first-term MLA elected last September, at first defended ONB's decision to provide only aggregate numbers, calling it "all of their information that New Brunswickers would want to see."
But over the course of a 10-minute interview, she warmed to the need for more transparency.

"We have to be careful on those corporate handouts, absolutely," she said.
"I recall our premier stating that over many years, there's been huge money handed out on corporate handouts, and again, where's the accountability? Are jobs being created? Job creation is the number one thing we're looking for, and that's my job going forward."

She said she will be reviewing the issue in the months to come.

ONB discloses how much money it has handed out to each company, but last year it said it surveyed recipients and found 70 per cent did not want their individual job numbers released.

Auditor general upset over lack of progress


Even so, MacPherson returned to the issue in her report released last week, writing that she was "disappointed further progress has not been made on this important recommendation."

MacPherson said last week 12 of the 19 recommendations to ONB have now been implemented, up from her count of four in 2017.


Auditor General Kim MacPherson reported again last week that ONB still won't say how many jobs are created at each individual company it subsidizes. (Michel Corriveau/Radio-Canada)
"There's progress, but yet we would have liked to have seen 100 per cent implementation, and I definitely think that's what should have happened, given that we're now 2019," she told MLAs last Wednesday.

The call by Higgs for Lund's firing stemmed from a disagreement over how MacPherson counted implemented recommendations.

ONB claimed in 2017 it had implemented 15 recommendations, only to be contradicted by MacPherson's count of four.

Minister doesn't see major changes coming


ONB vice-president Paul Fudge said last year they had put in place most of the extra monitoring MacPherson wanted, but, in a few cases, some files "were missing a piece of paperwork." ONB considered that an implemented recommendation but MacPherson did not.

After the auditor general contradicted Lund's count in 2017, Higgs declared, "Stephen Lund should lose his job over this. He should be fired."

But Wilson said, "in fairness, they are working very hard to make things better, accountable, transparent. I don't see any major changes coming in the near future."

The minister said in the coming months the Higgs government will launch an all-party review of ONB's mandate and will look at other ways to "energize" the private sector by lowering taxes and reducing red tape.


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News


1. The Paradise Papers, Appleby, and Nova Scotia’s welcome to tax avoiders




Newly released documents reveal how the world’s wealthiest people and corporations are using dummy corporations and offshore accounts to avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes.

The documents are dubbed the “Paradise Papers.” They are millions of internal records, emails, and other documents from the Bermuda-based law firm Appleby, which specializes in helping the wealthy shield their assets. The Paradise Papers were leaked to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, which provided them to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the same group that worked on the Panama Papers.



Alex Boutilier

The Canadian branch of the Consortium consists of reporters at the CBC and the Toronto Star. (One of the three Star reporters is King’s College grad and former Metro Halifax reporter Alex Boutilier.) Their first article on the Paradise Papers, published Sunday evening, focused on Liberal fundraisers and Trudeau confidants Stephen Bronfman and retired senator Leo Kolber who parked $60 million in a Cayman Islands trust. “Internal email correspondence and financial records in the Kolber trusts appear to show evidence of bogus records to hide payments, false invoicing and six-figure gifts to avoid paying tax, raising red flags for experts consulted by the Star and CBC/Radio-Canada,” they report.
The reporters are following up with a steady stream of articles detailing the tax avoidance schemes of other wealthy Canadians. Yesterday, the Star reported on how Appleby explored looping Nova Scotia into the tax avoidance game:
It was to be a little tax haven in Nova Scotia.
The idea was simple: the companies would be registered in Bermuda but the people processing the paperwork would be in Halifax.
Appleby, the leading offshore law firm in the Paradise Papers leak, explored this vision for outsourcing its back office administrative functions in 2007.
With direct Bermuda-to-Halifax flights, “very reasonable operating costs” and “very significant payroll tax rebates,” the case for Halifax was strong.
That last paragraph sounds like Nova Scotia Business, Inc promotional material. I’m surprised they didn’t mention the world’s best time zone. The article continues:
But Appleby needed assurances that its clients, who had incorporated in a zero-tax jurisdiction, wouldn’t have to pay tax to Canada.
No problem, wrote Halifax lawyer Jim Cruickshank, who was hired to analyze the legal issues.
“We do not believe the activities of (Appleby) could in any way constitute your clients ‘carrying on business in Nova Scotia,’” Cruickshank wrote in a memo to Appleby.
What about extending offshore financial secrecy to the new office in Canada? For this, Cruickshank had a creative solution.
“We believe a ‘paperless office’ and ‘dummy terminals’ for (Appleby) would provide significant but not complete practical immunity from search and seizure by Canadian authorities.”

Jim Cruickshank

Cruickshank is a partner at Stewart Mckelvey, the gigantic Halifax law firm.
Appleby had good reason to think Nova Scotia would make a good tax haven. I refer to a 2015 article by reporter Rachel Ward in the Halifax Examiner:
Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI) got quite the critique Friday by Université de Montréal professor Alain Deneault.
“It’s politically very surprising,” said Deneault. “It’s a concern to see that a Canadian province is so convenient (for) offshore entities that exist only to allow wealthy people and powerful corporations to circumvent the set of constraints society gives to itself to work properly.”
Deneault is about to publish a new book, “Canada, a New Tax Haven: how the country that shaped the Caribbean tax havens is becoming one itself.” NSBI funds, he argued in a presentation at Dalhousie University, subsidize offshore-based companies that avoid paying Canadian taxes.
NSBI, a “private sector-led business development agency,” uses provincial government money to encourage companies to expand or invest in the province. That’s done using payroll rebates, research and development tax credits, as well as offering accounting support…
Several offshore banks, said Deneault, have taken NSBI money in exchange for a few jobs — yet haven’t returned the favour by paying taxes.
“It’s all only about allowing offshore firms to get access to the skills of the people of Nova Scotia without participating to the public effort to give to Nova Scotia public institutions that work,” said Deneault, “and it’s a concern to have that kind of system here.”
I wrote about this back in 2010, in an article that suggested that catering to offshore banks was the driving force behind putting the new convention centre in the Nova Centre:
Pursuing the financial industry made sense in 2006 and still makes sense today, says NSBI’s Stephen Lund. “We need to raise the bar for everybody. We need to take university grads that are working in Tim Hortons and Wendy’s and get them better-paying jobs, and have everybody move up the food chain. The reason I’m saying financial services is, if we had new jobs that are below a certain level, then we’re not really growing the economy. We have to grow the top line of the economy — we really do. We’ve got to create more tax revenues, we’ve got to create more high-paying jobs, and we’ve got to be able to move everybody up the chain.”
This is, in a nutshell, the trickle-down theory of economics: Get enough high-income people, and the rest of the economy benefits. Whether this actually ever happens in the real world is an open question.
A series of NSBI press releases in November, 2006, trumpeted the successes: Butterfield Bank, in Bermuda, was promised $9.1 million in payroll rebates in return for 400 “full- and part-time jobs” coming to Halifax over seven years. Olympia Capital, a hedge fund administrator also based in Bermuda, would establish a local office with 150 workers over five years, in return for $1.5 million.
One of the big scores was Citco Fund Services, a Cayman Island-based firm that became a financial industry giant by developing, as The Hedge Fund Journal explains, “the ‘hedge fund model’ of using leverage and shorting securities which was prohibited under the US Securities Act.” NSBI promised Citco $7.35 million in return for 350 jobs over seven years.
Citco, incidentally, seemed to be playing Nova Scotia. While it had and still has offices in Halifax, the goal appears to have been to get Nova Scotia to offer up ever-increasing incentives and tax breaks that could be dangled in front of other cities competing for a new Citco headquarters, essentially saying, “hey, match this offer.” The race to the bottom was won by Charlotte, North Carolina. It’s hard to tell who was the bigger chump here, Halifax or Charlotte, but there’s enough chump-dom to spread around. See also: Amazon bid.



Stephen Lund
Lund, for his part, has his own interesting history:
About that NSBI job… the position used to be held by Stephen Lund, who before coming to work for NSBI worked at Butterfield Bank in Bermuda. At the helm of NSBI, he oversaw the extension of $9.1 million in payroll rebates for Butterfield Bank to expand in Halifax, but somehow neglected to mention he once worked for the bank. Lund left NSBI in August 2013, heading back to his old stomping grounds and took charge of the Bermuda Business Development Agency. But he abruptly left that job in April for unspecified personal reasons, and headed back to Nova Scotia. Lund was gobbled up by the Irvings and now works as Vice President of the Halifax Shipyard, where he uses his expertise in ladling out public funds to private corporations to design war ships, I guess.
Lund left Irving for a job as CEO of Opportunities New Brunswick, which is that province’s equivalent of NSBI. I can’t imagine how he reflects upon a career trajectory that took him from working for one of the world’s largest hedge fund banks in sunny Bermuda to an obscure posting in podunk and cold New Brunswick, but that’s his business. Still, there in New Brunswick, he’s managed to make himself the subject of a legislative controversy.


In any event, shouldn’t there be an ethical filter on these tax rebate offers? Back in 2015, I wrote about the missing ethical filter in the context of Origin BioMed, the purveyor of a quack homeopathic product that was promised nearly $8 million in tax incentives by NSBI. I guess no one cares when desperate sick people are tricked out of their money, but can we at least pay attention when catering to offshore companies that operate as tax shelters lowers our own tax receipts?

This morning, Toronto Star reporters Alex Boutilier and Robert Cribb describe how the Canada Revenue Agency refused to provide information to the Parliamentary Budget Office that would allow the PBO to calculate the “tax gap” — the difference between taxes due and taxes actually collected:
For more than 50 years, the U.S. has measured and publicly reported the country’s tax gap. The U.K. began doing the same in 2009, annually detailing the amount of taxes — from both domestic and offshore sources — that never make it into the country’s tax coffers.
In all, more than a dozen Western countries — including Australia, Sweden, Poland, Belgium, Portugal, Mexico and Denmark — measure their uncollected taxes in order to understand the size of their shortfalls and plot public policy strategies to address the problem.
Canada lags.
The reporters go on to say that the CRA has published reports about the relatively small underground economy built to avoid paying sales tax:
But those reports ignored the white elephant in the room: uncollected offshore taxes fuelled by the billions flowing out of the country and often into foreign tax havens.
That offshore chunk, say experts, should be the government’s tax gap focus.
“They’ve just gone for the low-hanging fruit and left the important matters alone,” says Liberal Senator Percy Downe, a vocal advocate for tax gap reporting in Canada.
The best guesses from credible sources place Canada’s tax losses to offshore havens at between $6 billion and $7.8 billion each year.
But those estimates are theoretical.
So, we don’t even know the real number. It could be $6 billion a year. Could be $20 billion. But whatever it is, that’s money that’s not being delivered to Ottawa, and therefore not being spent on federal services that could benefit Nova Scotians, and it’s money that is not part of equalization payments that go to the Nova Scotian government.

And that tax avoidance is being facilitated, in part, by the Nova Scotian government.
It’s true that if Nova Scotia didn’t cater to the offshore banks, some other jurisdiction would. It’s also true, well, pick your analogy: if your landlord doesn’t rent to the drug dealer, some other landlord will; if your convenience store doesn’t buy black market cigarettes, the store down the street will; if… well, you get the point.

For sure, it is primarily Ottawa’s responsibility to calculate the tax gap, identify the strategies for tax avoidance, and revise tax law to close those opportunities. But all of us, including the provincial governments, set the tone for what are legitimate business practices and what are not. When we simply accept that tax avoidance is a normal part of our economy, and when we cater to those companies that specialize in tax avoidance schemes, we’ve already sold our soul to the devil.




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  1. As of December 31 2016 the HRM pension fund had investments valued at $$34.59 million in MacQuarie European Infrastructure Fund $ L.P : https://www.macquarie.co.uk/mgl/uk/meif/meif-4
    The fund is located in an offshore tax haven in Guernsey, Channel Islands : https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/LP014601
    Other public sector pension funds have invested in the same fund and details are available by searching the ‘Filing history’. University of Victoria is also invested in the fund.
  2. Reading Jim Cruickshank’s words brought Wordsworth’s immediately to mind: “The child is father of the man.” Continuing to read, the words extended – extend to Stephen Lund also. It’s not going to change anything, but wonder whether they were inherently deceitful growing up with, we assume, western values and ethics, or did they learn power confers legal, ethical and conscience immunity?
    • Donna, you might find this post interesting:
      “It’s pretty perverse that our culture celebrates individualism and yet condones submission only to inhuman institutions like schools, companies, and governments. It’s a sort of inverse Confucianism – a system where authority can only be exercised by people who deliberately do not engage in one-on-one superior-inferior relationships. And while a principled liberal might dislike hierarchy in all its forms, if you’ve got to have one or the other, we’ve settled on the greater of the two evils. Both institutions and personal authority may have incentives imperfectly aligned with yours, but only personal leaders may disregard their incentives in the interests of their subordinates. And for the most part, institutional authority feels less human-shaped than personal authority – compare a visit to the DMV with filling out paperwork with a trusted secretary, or a minor pay raise compared to a minor pay raise with a handshake and word of thanks from a long-time boss and mentor.”
      http://thefutureprimaeval.net/servants-without-masters/
      I will point out that I do not agree with 100% of what is posted on that website, but I agree with most of it.
      • Thank you, Nick.
        I not only find the piece interesting, I find it fascinating. It provokes so many thoughts and opinion that I’ve spent time trying to distill my response. In making principal points on principle, the piece touches upon an unstated but massive, inherent periphery.
        About the final sentence, I’d opt for AI governance if we could program in algorithms based upon a common acceptance of specific goals and equality, decisively moderated and determined by specific discrete and related factors. Take out the human factor entirely, especially greed and exploitation. Fantasy, of course. We’re a universe away from that. Our politicians – our governance – don’t even raise automation, its effects and potential.
        This sentence from the piece jumps out at me: “What individualism has bought us is not the end of servitude, but merely the cloaking of masters.”
        Indeed so, in my opinion, and until we examine how we’re conditioned from birth to unquestionably, punitively accept the cloaking – and with age, knowledge and greater wisdom, reject, develop and promote our own values and ethics, we’re doomed to have more Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, and characters like Cruickshank, Lund et al ripping us off societally, collectively.
        Yes, we need structure and hierarchy within collective living, but from birth we’re conditioned to recognize and accept authority and class. Education occupies a unique position within except it’s not universally accessible to all at post-secondary level, and for those who achieve it, they gain a perpetual passport to power and influence. From outside, to speak against any element within their sphere is to be struck down as specifically uneducated, without standing, credibility and justification. Tradition is often slung in as well. Shut up about sacred cows. In some ways, we’re more subjugated today than serfs were in yesteryear, and with our modern sophistication, we’ve rejected violence as a route to change. Our sophistication and conditioning create a maelstrom within us except for those who opt out, as 47% of the eligible Nova Scotia electorate did last election – just quit participating.
        A couple of other examples to end with:
        On values and ethics, childhood environment too often dictates – the conditioning I mention. Friend/neighbour during recent visit spoke of her now-adult son having summer overnight job as teenager to which he took his pillow and alarm clock. I bit my tongue because past objection to stated physical child punishment became pointless. That son now has children of his own; wonder if he advocates sleeping on the job, “sticking it to the man.” As adults, we get to choose or should – as the person in the linked piece felt inherently uncomfortable with a servant hovering. Nature vs nurture. It’s complicated.
        Someone I greatly respect, our soon-to-retire Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, recently gave a speech in which she listed four areas of Canadian justice which continue to be of her and general concern. Her fourth is titled “Reconciling the Rights of the Accused and Complainants’ Expectations.” I take it to be a caution to those of us demanding fairness in sexual assault law and justice. She is the epitome of hierarchical justice in our system and reaffirms freedom, liberty as ultimate “precious thing.” No shades of gray, no complexity, no mention of another “precious thing,” human personal body sovereignty and intimacy invaded and taken by force, both from men and women. Authority, hierarchy, legal expertise speaks, warns, solidifies tradition and status quo.
        http://www.scc-csc.ca/judges-juges/spe-dis/bm-2017-10-28-eng.pdf
        Last example returns to temporary foreign workers, mentioned in the piece and an issue in Canada, but I’ll use US President Trump and his “America First” mantra. Mar-a-Lago has applied for and received approval to recruit and employ 70 foreign workers. In a different article, the local employment office said they had 5,000 available for the jobs cited. Hierarchy again. Power and influence. And exploitation. Betrayal of mandate. Servants and Masters. Literally.
        http://www.newsweek.com/trump-gets-visas-70-foreign-workers-mar-lago-despite-hire-american-pledge-702295
  3. Excellent article/commentary on tax havens. Nova Scotia must use ethical judgement in its economic development policy – facilitating tax haven activity is cutting off your nose to spite your face.
    But the main work to solve the tax haven problem must be done federally. Tax haven use has increased enormously in the last 15 years. Along with tax cuts, tax avoidance and tax evasion contribute to expanding inequality and to underfunded public services.
    The current federal government has taken some good steps on tax havens, re-funding some of the cuts to the CRA that the Harper government made. But there’s a long way to go. Decisive action on this will be a litmus test for the LIberals and their focus on tax fairness. Especially after the botched attempt with small business tax changes, which were a sound idea, poorly articulated and defended.
    Keep up your focus on tax havens.

Every ambulance must provide service in both official languages, says health minister

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Methinks if one speaks of the devil they are sure to appear N'esy Pas?


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Every ambulance must provide service in both official languages, says health minister




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 David R. Amos
Content disabled.
David R. Amos
Methinks plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose N'esy Pas?




 David R. Amos
Content disabled.
David R. Amos
Hmmm



 David R. Amos 
David R. Amos
Methinks its strange that I cannot post a response in French EH?




 David R. Amos
David R. Amos
Methinks most folks don't recall when bilingualism became an issue for paramedics in New Brunswick N'esy Pas?


Mark (Junkman) George
Mark (Junkman) George
@David R. Amos

Mighty strange, that all of a sudden, illness and life threatening situations has developed a language component?
Does anyone really *think*, that when a ride in "the horizontal taxi" is required, that language is an "issue"?
Maybe we should be hiring Hungarian, or Russian, Paramedics and let EVERYONE take their chances?


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Mark (Junkman) George Methinks we should simply revert to the way things were before the questionable company "Ambulance NB" burst upon the scene N'esy Pas?







Gilles LeBlanc 
Gilles LeBlanc
And the sh!t show continues.... (Pi la sh!t sho continu )


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Gilles LeBlanc Welcome back to the Circus








Gilles LeBlanc 
Mario Doucet
This province is doomed.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Mario Doucet Nope but methinks Mr Higgs" mandate may be N'esy Pas?







Gilles LeBlanc 
Aaron Allison
Time for a Referendum or put the question on the Ballot about Bilingualism.


Clive Gibbons
Clive Gibbons
@Aaron Allison

When two lions and a gazelle vote on what to have for supper, the result is never a surprise.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Clive Gibbons Methinks that if the lions are wise and its blatantly obvious that the gazelle is diseased then they all go hungry N'esy Pas?








Fred Brewer 
Fred Brewer
"That effectively abandons a regional-based hiring system that Flemming announced one month ago"

Well it is official. We have a flip-flop back-pedaling government from the Premier down to the Ministers.
I cannot wait for the 18 month PA support to end so we can have an election. No more Red and no more Blue.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Fred Brewer Methinks the green and purple teams may be in trouble too. If they keep supporting Mr Higgs perhaps Kevin Vickers may be the next Premier N'esy Pas?







Harold Benson 
Harold Benson
Every emergency ambulance in the province can provide service" , would have been a start. Where these guys keep coming from.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Harold Benson Methinks you should ask Sam I bet he knows N'esy Pas?








Gilles LeBlanc 
Karen Goodwin
When in an emergency who cares what language you are served in, I know people, English speaking, who needed service in French speaking community and could only get French. They are just grateful they got help. Stop the whining folks we are a poor province and cannot afford all this foolishness. Make it easier and free for English speakers to get French training.

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Karen Goodwin Methinks folks should relax and enjoy the circus and look forward to the next election because its gonna be a dilly N'esy Pas?



Gilles LeBlanc 
Andrew Clarkson
Looks like he has that dreaded Gallant disease...... Flip Flop Fever!


Mack Leigh
Mack Leigh
@Andrew Clarkson

Did not take long for Carrier, Doucet, the SANB and the Elite to set this government straight, did it guys !!

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Mack Leigh Methinks the fat lady ain't sung yet on this topic N'esy Pas?









Gilles LeBlanc 
Aaron Allison
A house Divided cannot stand, Toronto has over 80 Languages and Ambulances have know problems. NB has 2 language and the Ambulance service is a DISGRACE.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Aaron Allison Except in Frank Mckenna's first mandate the house is always divided. Methinks Mr Higgs and Mr Flemming and their cohorts can only kowtow to Mr Gauvin and Mr Austin for so long before their circus tent collapses and another writ is dropped N'esy Pas?

Yves Savoie
Yves Savoie
@Aaron Allison I'm french and this comment is as on point as it get's....well said sir! this circus has to end...








Gilles LeBlanc 
Mack Leigh
And the unwarranted, unnecessary, unsustainable language requirements continue...Welcome to New Brunswick where the majority is treated like second-class citizens and marginalized...........Apartheid-style governing is alive and well, here in this place..


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Mack Leigh YUP








 Matt Steele 
Matt Steele
How about all the other long serving casuals working in Govt. who are being by-passed for full time positions . There are lots of long serving Substitute Teachers who are being by-passed in the hiring process . It has reached such a crisis , that Anglophone North School District is now hiring Substitute Teachers who do not even have a University Degree as so many experienced and certified ( licensed ) Substitute Teachers have left the profession after being by passed for full time positions . It is not just Ambulance Drivers that are being treated poorly by govt .


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Matt Steele Methinks unions dudes can cry a river when need be N'esy Pas?









Gilles LeBlanc 
Frank Campbell
This is really not a language issue... NB'ers, french or english or whatever are very tolerant of the issues... It is an issue of a "few" who want 'POWER' and mask it as language rights.....Get rid of those who are still fighting the wars of the 1700's.....


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Frank Campbell "It is an issue of a "few" who want 'POWER' and mask it as language rights"

C'est Vrai







Gilles LeBlanc 
Lou Bell
SANB / Ambulance NB , all the same .


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Lou Bell Nope








Gilles LeBlanc 
Lou Bell
I can see a minority government next election , and Liberals losing seats BIGLY ! The smoke and mirrors have come out in the open . And their attempt to secure unqualified, inexperienced Mr. Vickers as their candidate shows desperation setting in .


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Lou Bell Methinks many think Mr Vickers may save the day for "Canada's Natural Governing Party" N'esy Pas?







Gilles LeBlanc 
Lou Bell
The Cons sacrifice now will assure more votes for them as well , as PA come next election , courtesy of the Liberals .


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Lou Bell Methinks it would not be wise to bet the farm on your opinion N'esy Pas?









Gilles LeBlanc 
John Young
Of course, Lord (MASH Frank Burns look-a-like) would approve Flemming’s new directive.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@John Young Methinks many would agree that nobody looks like Frank Burns Hence I have no idea who Lord is in order to agree or disagree with you N'esy Pas?









Gilles LeBlanc 
David Stairs
and the S.A.N.B. get there way again we cannot afford this foolishness..it's unwarranted and not needed..politicians trying to win with the old party politics approach again...time to kick each and everyone of them out and let the people have their say in what is needed...lets have a province wide referendum on this matter and see how it turns out..


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@David Stairs "lets have a province wide referendum on this matter and see how it turns out"

I wholeheartedly agree. Methinks if Election NB just were to add such referendum to the ballot of the next election it would cost us next to nothing to see a truly wickedly wonderful circus N'esy Pas?










Marguerite Deschamps 
Marguerite Deschamps
Like many other lawyers, Flemming had to be schooled by the experts on sections 16 to 20 of the Constitution and thereby revise his unconstitutional position.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks if one speaks of the devil they are sure to appear N'esy Pas?



Every ambulance must provide service in both official languages, says health minister

Minister Ted Flemming outlines policy in letter to Ambulance New Brunswick


Health Minister Ted Flemming has abandoned a regional-based hiring system that he announced one month ago. (CBC)



New Brunswick's health minister has given new directives to Ambulance New Brunswick that include a requirement that every emergency ambulance in the province can provide service in both English and French.

Ted Flemming says in a new letter to ANB officials that the organization should continue to recruit paramedics with a goal "of having all bilingual-designated positions filled with bilingual paramedics."

That effectively abandons a regional-based hiring system that Flemming announced one month ago.

At the time, he directed Ambulance New Brunswick to weaken bilingualism requirements in areas where anglophones or francophones are fewer than five per cent of the population or number fewer than 500 people.

At the Dec. 18 news conference, Flemming brushed off questions about whether that violated the provincial Official Languages Act, which requires equal service in both languages everywhere.

He said it was more important to fill vacancies, which he claimed were keeping ambulances out of service and off the road.

"I'm more interested in filling that gap than I am in having some academic discussion of the legal nuances," he said at the time.

But in his new letter, dated Jan. 18 and obtained by CBC News, Flemming says the Progressive Conservative government will ensure the ambulance service respects legal obligations under the act.

He says filling all bilingual-designate positions with bilingual paramedics "will ensure every emergency 911 ambulance unit be a bilingual unit."

It also directs the organization to "continue to ensure that under no circumstances an ambulance is taken out of service for reason of language alone"— in effect accepting ANB's assertions that bilingualism requirements are not to blame for idle ambulances.

New 'float team positions'

 


People’s Alliance Leader Kris Austin welcomed the move to create new “float team positions.” (CBC)
The letter was sent to Richard Losier, CEO of Ambulance New Brunswick, and Rene Boudreau, the chair of its board.

The letter directs ANB to create "new float team positions" that will be offered to all the unilingual paramedics who do not have permanent full-time positions.

The float team paramedics would be deployed to fill vacant bilingual positions where no bilingual applicant has been found, the letter says.

The unilingual "float team" paramedic would be moved elsewhere, and would keep their job, once a bilingual candidate was hired for a given position.
People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin welcomed Flemming's letter. In a press release, he said the creation of the float teams would guarantee jobs to unilingual paramedics "and ensure no ambulance is out of service due to language."

He said a "common-sense approach" has finally been achieved.

Flemming could not be reached for comment on Monday, but in the letter, he predicts the system, along with a new dedicated service for hospital transfers, will reduce the number of vacant bilingual positions from 60 to 20 by March and eventually eliminate them.

He also says it will provide permanent full-time positions to existing temporary paramedics, improving their morale and quality of life.

The new transfer system, announced in November, won't require bilingual paramedics because the patient's choice of English or French will be known in advance, when the transfer is booked.

Language testing discussions

 


Ted Flemming’s letter also promises to revisit language testing procedures which the paramedic’s union say require a higher level of French than what's necessary to treat a patient. (CBC)
Flemming's letter also promises discussions with Ambulance New Brunswick and the union representing paramedics about a new language testing procedure.

The Paramedic Association of New Brunswick has argued the current test requires a higher level of French than what's necessary to treat a patient.

Flemming says in the letter that "in the rare instance" where a two-person ambulance team won't be able to provide bilingual services, paramedics and the patient will initially talk to bilingual dispatch staff.
In some cases, a second ambulance with bilingual paramedics may meet the first one en route to hospital to take over the transfer.
Last week, Ambulance New Brunswick said it was implementing a freeze on the re-posting of vacancies every eight weeks, something Flemming asked for in December.

The frequent repostings were unfair to temporary paramedics and didn't respect the seniority rights in their union contract, labour arbitrator John McEvoy ruled in a decision last year.

McEvoy's ruling also recommended the region-based hiring standards that Flemming embraced in December.

New Brunswick's official languages commissioner said that provision violates the Official Languages Act and will argue that in court on Thursday, when the McEvoy ruling is subject to a judicial review.

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Jacques Poitras
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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 social justice activist Judy Day has finally found a topic CBC did not ignore N'esy Pas?

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'Watch out for the newspaper': Residents upset over frozen flyers caught in snowblowers

People are fed up with having to spend hundreds of dollars on repairs to their snowblowers

A Fredericton resident is warning others after her snowblower ran over a newspaper wrapped in plastic, forcing her to send it in for repairs. (Shane Fowler/CBC)




Some New Brunswick residents take huge issue with flyers landing in their driveways — especially ones that get eaten up by their snowblowers after a storm.

When Judy Day went out to snowblow her driveway after this weekend's major storm, the first thing she did was dig under the snow to look for any Brunswick News flyers that could be run over by her machine.

When she finally did find the flyer, she carefully stored it on top of a nearby snowbank.

"As people go with their snowblowers to clean the heavy snow … there is going to be a bundle of newsprint wrapped in plastic underneath their snow," she said.

Day is warning other residents about the dangers of these flyers and how they can damage machines like snowblowers.
"I think this is ridiculous," she said.

The Fredericton resident said she had an accident last year involving her snowblower and one of the flyers distributed by Brunswick News.

The snowblower ran over the flyer in her driveway, breaking the machine.

"I went to get it repaired and the snowblower repair person said, 'This is the number one call I get from snowblowers needing repair,'" he said.

"And that is heavy, wet newsprint wrapped in plastic, dropped in their driveway. Snow comes on it, they don't see it."
It's the same old story; it's that frozen newspaper that's inside that plastic wrapper.- Steven Butler, manager of Yard Gear 
Day recently asked to no longer have any more flyers delivered to her home if they're going to be tossed onto her driveway.

Before the major storm hit two nights ago, she picked up another three flyers throughout the neighbourhood and put them in her recycling bin to avoid other snowblowers from getting wrecked.

"I saw them drop another one that evening," she said. "I said, 'Well I've got to remember now where they dropped that because that's another accident waiting to happen.'"

CBC News has asked Brunswick News for comment and is waiting for a response.

The same old story


Steven Butler, manager of Yard Gear, which repairs snowblowers just outside Fredericton, isn't surprised by some of the frustrations residents are having with flyers wrapped in plastic. In fact, he said frozen newspapers causing damage to snowblowers is quite common in the area

"We see that at our front counter almost everyday," he said. "Whenever it snows we have a drove of people that just come in."

He said many customers need repairs, which can cost hundreds of dollars.

"It's the same old story; it's that frozen newspaper that's inside that plastic wrapper," he said.

Information Morning - Fredericton
Frozen flyers caught in snowblowers 'very common issue'
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Steven Butler repairs snowblowers and says he sees snowblowers that have been damaged by newspapers on a daily basis. 8:18
 
While most objects would get shredded right through the snowblower, Butler said he thinks the ice and snow gets inside the bag and freezes the newspaper.

"It has enough elasticity or something to cause the snowblower to just jam up instead of shred it and throw it out," he said. "If you're not quick to stop the snowblower, next thing you know you have a shear pin broken … your belt that drives the snowblower, they will burn up, pop off."

The local manager said he has even seen newspapers bend the snowblower's steel augers.

Butler said snowblowers can handle tough ice, snow — but "that little newspaper brings it to a quick stop for some reason." 

"I don't have a solution, I really don't," he said. "She [Day] seems to have the best solution, watch out for the newspaper.'"





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David R. Amos 
David R. Amos
Methinks the social justice activist Judy Day has finally found a topic CBC did not ignore N'esy Pas?






 George Smith 
George Smith
These packages are all over the place summer and winter and make a mess. Why do our cities allow this littering? Most of us would be prosecuted if caught littering at this level, and it is littering. Because of the way they deliver these ads a Saint John motorcyclist was killed last spring by a delivery person. Some sort of control needs to be exercised on these deliveries. They know about it so sue them.





 George Smith 
George Smith
I had this problem for years so I complained. I told them either stop putting them in places that need snow blower clearing or don't deliver them at all. I also threatened legal action. They stopped the practice for a few years but are now doing it again. I was told they aren't supposed to be thrown in driveways. All the flyers delivered by Canada Post end up in my mail box. These should be delivered to the door step too.

Methinks Walther Lauffer and I should talk ASAP N'esy Pas?

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Methinks Mayor Mikey and his cohorts have no idea who they are messing with I believe the Aquilini family can afford far more clever lawyers than the Trump Clan can N'esy Pas?

https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/01/methinks-walther-lauffer-and-i-should.html



https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fredericton-hotel-developer-hilton-garden-1.4987538


Hotel developer wants $250K back from Fredericton

Hilton Garden developer says it shouldn't be penalized for delays beyond its control


The Hilton Garden Inn in Fredericton was originally supposed to be finished in 2017 but didn't open until August 2018. (Catherine Harrop/CBC)

A hotel developer in Fredericton is asking council to reconsider its decision to withhold a $250,000 performance bond because the new Hilton Garden Inn opened three months late.

Aquilini Properties LP never completed the construction of the hotel on Queen Street on time. As a result, council voted to keep the money last fall.

Originally scheduled to open in the fall of 2017, Aquilini Properties LP was granted an extension by city council to finish the project by May 2018.




But the company didn't hit that deadline either — and didn't open until August.
Walther Lauffer, vice-president of Aquilini Properties LP, called council's decision to withhold the money a "slap in the face."

"We essentially delivered on the project."

An unusual project


Lauffer said this was an unusual project with circumstances out of their control, including 40 weeks of delays, which started with the demolition of the buildings on the site.

"Traditionally, you don't necessarily find, when you excavate, 18 archaeology finds that needed to be catalogued, and needed to be looked after. Obviously we did."

In January 2017, hotel construction came to a halt when a man was killed while he was working on the building.

At one point during construction, Lauffer said, the company had to replace the contractor on the project because it looked as if construction wasn't going to be ready in time.


Walther Lauffer says Aquilini Properties LP couldn't complete construction of the Hilton Garden Inn on time because of numerous delays out of the company's control. (Gary Moore/CBC)

And the historic flood in April 2018 delayed the project by at least two weeks, according to Lauffer.
Lauffer said he was surprised when council voted last fall to withhold the performance bond because the timelines were subject to adjustment based on a force majeure condition in the development
agreement — meaning factors that were beyond reasonable control of the developer.

"We had communication with the city, staff, council — that here's the reasons why we delayed."


Artifacts dating back several hundred years were uncovered at the site of the Hilton Garden Inn during construction. (Shane Fowler/CBC)

Lauffer made his case at Monday night's council-in-committee meeting.

No decision was made during the meeting, and the mayor didn't indicate if they would have another vote, but said council would take Lauffer's presentation into consideration.

Coun. Bruce Grandy said during the meeting that given the reasons for the delays, council should give Aquilini Properties LP's concerns some consideration.

"When you're in the middle of a project and you change contractors, you know you're going to have delays and that other contractor has to get up to speed," Grandy said.

Grandy also pointed to projects that the city has done and failed to meet timelines, as an example.


Coun. Bruce Grandy says council should consider Aquilini Properties' concerns. (Philip Drost/CBC)

"When I look at our construction project on Regent and Queen, and it's supposed to be done at a certain time, and we impacted business much more than you [Aquilini Properties LP] did."

Lauffer said he doesn't know when he'll hear back from council it's too early to say if Aquilini Properties LP will consider legal action.

The company also owns the Crowne Plaza Fredericton-Lord Beaverbrook across the street from the Hilton Garden Inn.

Lauffer said he doesn't know how this will impact future developments in New Brunswick's capital city.

"I don't think a message like this needs to be talked about openly to other developers because obviously it would not be something that other developers would appreciate."

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Samual Johnston 
Samual Johnston
The city has already given this company far more than they should have to compete in an already saturated market. cheap land - parking spaces and....???







David R. Amos 
David R. Amos
Methinks Fredericton Mayor Brad Woodside and his buddy Randy Dickinson sang different tunes not all that long ago when they sold the turf for a loonie N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fredericton-hotel-deal-1.3269901

"People have asked us about spending the money because we have turned properties for $1, that's news for one day," Woodside said.

"The bigger news is when we start generating revenue, such as with the brewery over on the northside — that was an investment. All these things are investments."

Coun. Randy Dickinson was the only councillor who voted against the agreement on Tuesday.
"I have a problem in giving so much money to a private enterprise when we will not be owners of that facility, when we don't have money for hospice, we don't have money for homelessness, we don't have money for good transit services," Dickinson said.

"I think our priorities are a little out of whack."

Aquilini Properties is owned by the billionaire Aquilini family of Vancouver. The group also owns the Crowne Plaza across the street.

"We need development," Woodside said.

"We need a hotel."






Jonas Smith 
Jonas Smith
Time for Grandy to get on the side of the City that he's a councilor for.......


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Jonas Smith Methinks he may save the City a lot of money in legal fees N'esy Pas?





David R. Amos
David R. Amos
Methinks Mayor Mikey and his cohorts have no idea who they are messing with I believe the Aquilini family can afford far more clever lawyers that the Trump Clan can N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fredericton-withholds-money-1.4856453

"The City of Fredericton will be withholding a $250,000 performance bond from developer Aquilini Properties LP for its late completion of the Hilton Garden Inn, which opened in August.

At its regular council meeting on Tuesday night, city council voted unanimously to keep the money, which will go into the city's general fund.

"It helps our downtown, it helps our convention business, it helps bring more people to support our businesses," said Mayor Mike O'Brien."







 David R. Amos 
David R. Amos
Methinks Walther Lauffer and I should talk ASAP N'esy Pas?


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@David R. Amos It appears that he is a hard guy to talk to so I will call his boss later








 Les Cooper 
Les Cooper
So how did this guy die?
Was it do to neglect of safety rules or just bad luck?


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Les Cooper That is not the issue of the article








John Montgomery 
John Montgomery
I don't believe we are really hearing all the details here. They should be reimbursed for the archeological finds...... provided those delays contributed to the fine at all. The other things seem to be problems with construction that should be the responsibility of the company doing the work.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@John Montgomery YUP



Samual Johnston
Samual Johnston
@John Montgomery don't you think they should have accounted for the possibility of archaeological finds when diffing in a historic city? I say unless they did they should not be reimbursed for anything.









 Harold Benson 
Harold Benson
2 late. already spent.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Harold Benson No doubt








 Les Cooper 
DJ Redfern
I wonder how many large building projects the Mayor and councillors of Fredericton have been involved in......and completed "on time"


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@DJ Redfern Me Too



Samual Johnston
Samual Johnston
@DJ Redfern I wonder how many performances bonds the city has tried to wiggle its way out of? guessing none...








Les Cooper 
Greg Smith
This company wants their completion bonus after a supervisor was killed due to a fall from the top floor? If they weren't shut down for over a month following this lost time incident, they likely wouldn't have finished the project as late. To then turn around and demand their completion bonus is despicable.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Greg Smith Its not a bonus









 Les Cooper 
Dan Lee
At one point during construction, Lauffer said, the company had to replace the contractor on the project because it looked as if construction wasn't going to be ready in time
I would give them a % for the excavation but the rest NO...........suck it up and do your job on time.......

David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Dan Lee So you say








John Creaghan 
John Creaghan
"The finds may have delayed us a little bit," said Walther Lauffer, vice president of hospitality for Atlantic Canada at Aquilini Properties. "But we're still on track for the build and hitting all our milestones." Delays were caused by something other than archaeological finds. They were already given an extension due to flood. City keeps the money.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@John Creaghan We shall see about that








Don Julio 
Don Julio
They already spent the money on cutting down trees in Officer's Square.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Don Julio YUP






Jason jeandron 
Jason jeandron
Any time delays associated with the archaeological work definitely should not be a part of the consideration for fines. With so few projects in the City actually following the provincial and municipal requirements, it would be shameful for a project that is responsible, and looking out for our heritage, be docked for their efforts.


David R. Amos
David R. Amos
@Jason jeandron Its not a fine



 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fredericton-withholds-money-1.4856453


Fredericton withholds $250,000 from hotel developer for late completion

Aquilini Properties LP was granted an extension by the city and still ended up finishing late


The Hilton Garden Inn was originally supposed to be finished in 2017 but didn't open until this past August. (Catherine Harrop/CBC)

The City of Fredericton will be withholding a $250,000 performance bond from developer Aquilini Properties LP for its late completion of the Hilton Garden Inn, which opened in August.

At its regular council meeting on Tuesday night, city council voted unanimously to keep the money, which will go into the city's general fund.

"It helps our downtown, it helps our convention business, it helps bring more people to support our businesses," said Mayor Mike O'Brien.


"By having it delayed a long time, it had a negative effect on all those issues."
The hotel was originally supposed to be complete by late 2017, but in July of that year the city agreed to a request from Aquilini to extend the deadline to May 2018.

However, as that date approached, Aquilini was still behind schedule.

In April 2018 Aquilini requested a second extension, which would have changed the completion date to Aug. 13. The city denied that request.


Fredericton Mayor Mike O'Brien said the $250,000 will go into the city's general fund. (Philip Drost/CBC)
In a letter to the city, Aquilini Properties cited unusual weather conditions and changes in order to build "the next generation Hilton Garden Inn prototype".

In the letter, Aquilini said the delays were already costing them $20,000 for each week the project went past its original completion date.

Due to the late closure, the company had to make arrangements with other hotels for people who had planned to stay at the Hilton Garden Inn in May for a convention.

Downtown investment

While the vote to keep the money was unanimous, one councillor was conflicted on the decision. Coun. Bruce Grandy was worried it might discourage other developers looking to build in the city.
"Are we getting ready to penalize people as we go through this, not understand the challenges that developers have in our city?" Grandy said during the meeting.

But O'Brien replied, "that's business."

 "A company like Aquilini would know what the potential risks are," said the mayor, adding the city invested far more than it's getting back from the performance bond.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fredericton-hotel-deal-1.3269901



Fredericton secures new downtown hotel with $2.2M deal

Coun. Randy Dickinson is lone vote against 8-storey, 120-room hotel deal with Aquilini Properites LP


The new hotel will connect to the Fredericton Convention Centre, according to the city. (Daniel McHardie/CBC)

Downtown Fredericton is getting a new hotel after council approved an agreement between the city and Aquilini Properties on Tuesday night.

The Hilton Garden Inn will be built beside the Convention Centre on Queen Street, a site the city bought for $800,000 three years ago, but sold to Aquilini for $1 as part of the hotel deal.

In total, the deal will cost the city about $2.2 million:

  • $800,000 the city paid for the property in 2012
  • $700,000 the city will contribute for site development
  • 60 free parking spaces in the east end garage for 10 years at a cost of about $72,000 a year.
Fredericton Mayor Brad Woodside said the parking spaces given to the B.C.-based developer are mostly unused.

Despite all of the costs, the mayor said it is still a good deal for the city.


Fredericton Mayor Brad Woodside said $2.2 million that is being invested by taxpayers in the hotel project is a good investment. He said the hotel will generate $140,000 in property taxes each year and there will be about $160,000 in permits for the project.
The city also projects the hotel will add about $1 million a year to the local economy for the next 10 years.

"People have asked us about spending the money because we have turned properties for $1, that's news for one day," Woodside said.

"The bigger news is when we start generating revenue, such as with the brewery over on the northside — that was an investment. All these things are investments."

The billionaire Aquilini family is not new to New Brunswick hotel developments.

In 2012, the development company purchased property in downtown Moncton, next to the Crowne Plaza, which it also owns. The Aquilini family's property is next to Moncton's planned downtown sports and entertainment complex.

The Aquilinis also own the Vancouver Canucks.

Dickinson objects to funds for hotel


Coun. Randy Dickinson was the only councillor who voted against the agreement on Tuesday.


Fredericton Coun. Randy Dickinson was the only politician to vote against the hotel deal, saying it was a lot of money when the city was not funding other services. (Redmond Shannon/CBC News)
 "I have a problem in giving so much money to a private enterprise when we will not be owners of that facility, when we don't have money for hospice, we don't have money for homelessness, we don't have money for good transit services," Dickinson said.
"I think our priorities are a little out of whack."

Aquilini Properties is owned by the billionaire Aquilini family of Vancouver. The group also owns the Crowne Plaza across the street.

"We need development," Woodside said.

"We need a hotel."

The city has been trying to get a hotel on the site for several years, with previous deals falling through.
The hotel will be eight storeys, have 120 rooms, a small restaurant and bar and a pedway to the convention centre.

Woodside said council has seen the initial plans.

"What we've seen is very tasteful and it keeps in with the convention centre, it's almost like it's a part of it," he said.

Final plans will be released in November.

The hotel is expected to open by the end of 2017.

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unmaskedwonder
Jan
Come on guys, look on the bright side: at least we're helping out billionaire families from the west coast now instead of just the local one.

Also, before you start hating on the deal and think our elected geniuses got duped, you gotta remember that a guy worth billions probably can't be bothered to invest a few million extra of his own money..That's would just make him look silly and all the other billionaires would laugh at him.


unmaskedwonder
unmaskedwonder
@Jan how much is it going to cost to build the hotel? all the construction labour and materials being sourced locally. The land deal is all they are really getting out of it, the city had to buy the adjacent properties when building the center so the $1.5m is already done, the $72,000 per year parking is fake as the spots are not used now. This is a good deal for the city, even the property tax alone will be $1.4m over 10 years instead of an empty lot making nothing....

Jan
Jan
@unmaskedwonder I don't know how people can support private companies getting handouts from governments.

The private company in question has the funds to build and buy everything themselves. I was raised to be self sufficient and take care of myself. These private companies prey on public money and get rich. Sure, we may all be dumb to support it but at least I can go to sleep at night knowing I'm not a rodent... maybe a rich rodent, but a rodent nevertheless.

And it's asinine that a province does not have money is handing out money to billionaires. They can bring out all the talking points about how in the long run it'll be beneficial but I think we've seen many times in this province that the only thing this benefits is the rodents.

tomkatt
tomkatt
@unmaskedwonder well if it s such a money maker and a good deal for a private investor then surely he would reconize what the property is worth? but why buy it when we have folks like you who would give it away for nothing.

unmaskedwonder
unmaskedwonder
@tomkatt it would not have been bought either way, just sat empty. This creates jobs now and in the future as well tax revenue the day construction starts. The $2.2m is all figurative numbers, the city bought the land to build the center and had to do the site work with the construction of the center so the $1.5m is already been invested and unrecoverable, the land is not worth $1.5m, at best the land could be sold for $500.000 which is comparable to assessments close to the area. The $720,000 is $72,000 per year for parking spaces that are not being used now, there is no way to say that they would see any revenue from those spaces, so that money is speculative. So the city really paid nothing for this deal, it just helps the investor pitch the idea to the board.

tomkatt
tomkatt
@unmaskedwonder respect your opinion but disagree. let the land sit there until you can sell it for fair market value. the city is out nothing to wait.












Aquilini Investment Group Completes Rebranding of Hotels in Frederiction
and Moncton to the Crowne Plaza Brand; Both Properties
Managed by Pacrim Hospitality
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ATLANTA (March 9, 2006) – InterContinental Hotels Group announced today the expansion of Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts into the New Brunswick province of  Canada. Fredericton, N.B. welcomes its first Crowne Plaza hotel and will join its sister property, the Crowne Plaza Moncton, N.B., which opened earlier this year.
 
“With the addition of two Crowne Plaza hotels in New Brunswick, our portfolio of upscale hotels in Canada continues to expand,” said Kevin Kowalski, vice president, brand management, Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts.  “We look forward to providing our industry leading meetings service and a great night’s sleep via our Sleep Advantage program to our guests in Fredericton and Moncton.”
 
“We are delighted to open New Brunswick’s first two Crowne Plaza hotels,” said Glenn Squires president, Pacrim Hospitality, the management company for both properties. “Both Fredericton and Moncton are ideal locations for a Crowne Plaza hotel—an upscale brand with a top-notch meetings program.” 
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Formerly the Lord Beaverbrook Hotel, the 168-room property in Fredericton is situated downtown along the St. John River at 659 Queen St., Fredericton, N.B., within walking distance to the Garrison District, Lord Beaverbrook Art Gallery and the Playhouse. The hotel’s restaurant, the Terrace Dining Room offers upscale French cuisine, while casual dining is available in the James Joyce Pub.
 
Formerly the Howard Johnson Plaza, the 191-room property in Moncton is located downtown at 1005 Main St., Moncton, N.B., just ten miles from the Moncton International Airport and close to shopping and attractions. The hotel’s restaurant, Top Deck offers a fresh seafood menu along with other American favorites.
 
The Crowne Plaza Fredericton-Lord Beaverbrook and the Crowne Plaza Moncton-Downtown are owned by Aquilini Investment Group and managed by Pacrim Hospitality, under a license agreement with a company in the InterContinental Hotels Group.
Consistent with the Crowne Plaza brand, both hotels offer a comprehensive meetings package to ensure a seamless planning process and exceptional meeting experience consisting of three key components: a Two-Hour Response Guarantee, Crowne Meetings Director and a Meetings Daily Debrief. The Crowne Plaza Fredericton-Lord Beaverbrook will have nearly 10,000 sq.-ft, of meeting space including two ballrooms, one large meeting room and five boardrooms. The Crowne Plaza Moncton-Downtown offers 14,000 sq.-ft. of meetings space, including a large ballroom and three additional meeting rooms. Both are perfect venues for business meetings and social functions.
 
The hotels feature the newly introduced Crowne Plaza Sleep Advantage which is available at all Crowne Plaza hotels in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.  The Sleep Advantage encompasses the entire sleep experience, from training staff on how to create and maintain a restful environment to providing innovative products and services. Program components include new bedding, guaranteed wake-up calls, designated quiet zones, night lights, drape clips, sleep CDs, sleep tips and amenities such as eye masks, ear plugs and lavender spray.  
 
Guest room amenities at both properties include: air conditioning, voice mail, coffee maker, hair dryer, in-room safe, make-up mirror, complimentary high speed Internet access, iron and ironing board.  Both hotels also offer complimentary parking, indoor pool and business center.
 
The InterContinental Hotels Group portfolio in New Brunswick is represented by three of its brands, including the upscale, full service and limited service segments.
 
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Crowne Plaza Fredericton Lord Beaverbrook Hotel Re-Opens At Full Service

    FREDERICTON, NB, May 7 /CNW/ - A defining feature of the recently
renovated Crowne Plaza Lord Beaverbrook Hotel in downtown Fredericton, New
Brunswick is its close proximity to the majestic Saint John River. However
that same scenic location is also squarely in the flood plain of the powerful
river and this afternoon (May 07-2008) the hotel reopens at full service for
the first time in seven days as the clean-up continues from record-breaking
floods in New Brunswick's capital city.
"It is a testament to the emergency efforts of the city and the province,
the leadership of the hotel's management team and dedication of the staff that
the Crowne Plaza Lord Beaverbrook reopens today, virtually free of any damage
to guest related areas of the hotel," Glenn Squires, CEO of management company
Pacrim Hospitality Services Inc. (PHSI) said today. Last Wednesday (April 30,
2008) 200 guests were evacuated from the hotel as flood waters reached record
levels in Fredericton. "The initial concern for the hotel was our guests and
their safety and comfort...yet once each was settled the 24-7 battle against
relentless rising water became the focus of the Crowne Plaza team,"
Mr. Squires said. Even Prime Minister Steven Harper could not be accommodated
when he traveled to view damage in the area.
The hotel's General Manager Walther Lauffer and Regional Chief Engineer
Ron Hebert lead the 'round the clock efforts of the staff of 120 people who
kept guests and clients advised of the status of the closure and were
determined to avoid significant property damage if at all possible. "In teams
of 20, everyone from food and beverage and housekeeping staff to the sales
team manned pumps and generators, moved furniture to higher ground and
sand-bagged as required to ensure the Crowne Plaza is in a position to re-open
today without any long-term damage to guests' comfort and services," GM Walter
Lauffer said. All guest rooms, meeting areas, catering and dining area of the
hotel have re-opened this afternoon. The new saltwater swimming pool will
re-open tomorrow (Thursday) and the full service Arabesque Spa on Friday.
"Even the parking lot, which spent days under 1.9 meters of water, has been
cleared and swept."
The hotel is owned by Aquilini Investments of Vancouver, British
Columbia, "the principals of which have expressed their appreciation and
admiration to the staff," Glenn Squires added.
Mr. Lauffer indicated that working on-site; it was clearly the "amazing
combined efforts" of the City of Fredericton, the provincial Environment
Department, the Emergency Measures Organization (EMO) and NB Power that
managed a dangerous and difficult situation.

Pacrim Hospitality Services Inc. (www.pacrimhospitality.com) is one of
Canada's largest, privately-owned hotel management companies with a portfolio
of some 60 hotels throughout Canada and the United States totaling more than
6,000 hotel rooms and suites. Pacrim Hospitality is the preferred management
company of Holloway Lodging REIT (www.hlreit.com) and is based in Halifax,
Nova Scotia. Pacrim manages 19 hotels in Atlantic Canada, seven of them in New
Brunswick.


For further information:
For further information: Walther Lauffer, General Manager, Crowne Plaza
Lord Beaverbrook Hotel, (506) 455-3371; Mike Jackson, President and C.O.O.,
PHSI, (902) 404-7474



Organization Profile


PACRIM HOSPITALITY SERVICES INC.






Canada’s Richest People: The Aquilini family

 
 Aquilini family 
(Photo: Jonathan Hayward/CP)


Aquilini family

Net Worth:
$3.3 billion
(▼0.9% from 2017)

Rich 100 rank: #27
Change in rank from 2017: ▼6
Major company holdings: Aquilini Investment Group
Location: Vancouver

By the end of last year, the Aquilinis saw their plans to build a four-season ski resort at Garibaldi Mountain finally move forward. The progress is a testament to the merits of making peace, which is what the Aquilinis appear to have done with that other billionaire Italian-Canadian developer clan in Vancouver, the Gaglardis. Seven years ago, family frontman Francesco Aquilini was embroiled in a bitter lawsuit with Tom Gaglardi and construction tycoon Ryan Beedie, who both claimed they’d been wrongfully jilted out of a deal to purchase the Vancouver Canucks from Seattle cellphone magnate John McCaw. Aquilini prevailed in court, and Gaglardi was offered a consolation prize from NHL commissioner Gary Bettman in the form of the Dallas Stars in 2011. Fast-forward to today, and the Aquilini Investment Group stands shoulder to shoulder with the Gaglardis’ Northland Properties in the joint venture to construct the $5.2-billion Garibaldi at Squamish resort, which would be the first greenfield ski hill built in Canada since 1980.

While the project is massive, it’s just one of the Aquilinis’ many high-profile, highly profitable ventures: Through Aquilini Investment Group, now more than 50 years old, the family controls one of British Columbia’s biggest development conglomerates, as well as its NHL team, the Rogers Arena, blueberry and cranberry farms, restaurants and some $80-million worth of vineyard properties in Washington state.

Updated Thursday, November 9, 2017


 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Aquilini 
 
 

Francesco Aquilini

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Francesco Aquilini
Born1969 (age 49–50)

Francesco Aquilini (born 1969) is a Canadian businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the managing director of Vancouver-based Aquilini Investment Group,[1] the parent company of several diverse subsidiaries. The company is best known for its ownership of the Vancouver Canucks and Rogers Arena, where Aquilini sits as Chairman and NHL Governor.

Early life and family business

Francesco Aquilini was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia.[2] Aquilini attended Templeton Secondary School. He went on to graduate from Simon Fraser University with a degree in Business Administration.[1][3] He later earned an MBA from UCLA.[1][3]
 
His father, Luigi Aquilini, emigrated from Travagliato, Brescia, Italy, to Vancouver in 1953. He started Aquilini Investment Group in the 1960s and is still active in the company operations and decision making. Having come to Canada from Italy in the mid-1950s, Luigi started his own construction company, working in East Vancouver during the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1980s, he bought and sold older buildings in Vancouver, Ontario and Quebec. He then began buying land to build new condominium towers.[4] Francesco and his two brothers, Roberto and Paolo, began working in the company during the 1980s and are now all Managing Directors.

Aquilini Investment Group

Francesco, along with his brothers and father, oversees several subsidiaries:

Vancouver Canucks and Rogers Arena

The Canucks is a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver. On November 17, 2004, Aquilini purchased a 50% share in Orca Bay Sports and Entertainment (the owners of both the Canucks franchise and Rogers Arena) from John McCaw, Jr.[citation needed] On November 8, 2006, Aquilini purchased the remaining 50% of the Vancouver Canucks and Rogers Arena. In May 2007, Gaglardi and Beedie's civil lawsuit over Aquilini's purchase reached the Supreme Court of British Columbia. The court ruled for Aquilini, on January 10, 2008. The court held that there was no legal partnership between Aquilini, Beedie, and Gaglardi, and that McCaw was free to sell the team to anyone he wished.[5] Aquilini and Gaglardi knew each other from the many joint family events they had attended over the years. Their fathers (Luigi and Bob) were longtime friends and commercial allies. Both families are still majority partners in the proposed Garibaldi At Squamish resort north of Vancouver.[6]

Aquilini Developments

Aquilini Developments, a division led by Dave Negrin, owns and develops real estate. The company is primarily focused on Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, but has holdings across Canada, in the US and Italy. Recent multi-storey residential developments in Vancouver include the King Edward Village,[7] Richards Living tower,[8] and Maynards Block.[9] The company has also built three residential towers around Rogers Arena.[10] Other recent acquisitions include an acre of land in downtown Moncton, NB [11] and a bankrupt golf course and commercial land in Chilliwack, BC.[12]
Aquilini Developments, in partnership with the Gaglardi family, is the proponent of the proposed $2.6B Garibaldi at Squamish resort. The planning and approvals from the project have dragged on since 1996 and community opposition to the project has steadily grown.[13] On March 23, 2010, the BC province stated that the proponents had failed to provide enough information to earn the project a passing grade.[14]
 
On August 17, 2012 the Vancouver Sun reported rumours that Aquilini was contemplating the acquisition of Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre and the land it occupies.[15]

Aquilini Properties

Aquilini Properties, managed by Don Turple, owns and manages hotels and other income-producing properties across Canada. Aquilini Properties owns five office towers across Canada[16] and has half ownership of Halifax-based Pacrim Hospitality Services, which owns and manages 30 hotels across Canada.[17] These include the Embassy Suites hotel in Montreal,[18] the Holiday Inn Express in East Vancouver, The division also owns all 48 Pizza Hut locations in BC.[19]
 
The company previously owned one of the largest rental complexes in Canada, the West Edmonton village.[20]

Golden Eagle Group

Golden Eagle Group operates a variety of recreational and agricultural businesses within 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) of prime agricultural land. This is the single largest land holding in the Greater Vancouver Area. This includes two 18-hole golf courses, a western town movie set, real estate, and a 400-acre (160 ha) hardwood tree nursery. The Group also owns and manages one of the world’s larger blueberry and cranberry growing and processing operations.[21]

Aquilini Renewable Energy

Aquilini Renewable Energy, led by John Negrin, is looking for opportunities in green energy, including waste-to-power and wind power.[3] The division earned community and media attention for a proposal in 2008 and 2009 to build a petroleum waste reduction and recycling plant near Christina Lake, a lake that is popular with summer vacationers.[22]

Aquilini Brands

Aquilini Brands, led by Barry Olivier, was formed in October 2009. Bassano Hard Soda, the division's first consumer brand, is a vodka-based refreshment beverage inspired by classic Italian sodas. Bassano Hard Soda was launched in Canada in March 2011. Now, Jaw Drop cooler co. is its newest consumer brand, launching in Canada in 2012.

Personal life and Philanthropy

Francesco is known for his philanthropic work in British Columbia, through both his personal contributions and the charitable organizations founded by his family through their various business ventures.

Francesco is the Chair and primary sponsor of the Italian Gardens (Il Giardino Italiano) in Hastings Park.[23] His company has given significant support to the BC Children's Hospital.[24][25] Francesco is also a regular participant and contributor to the Boys Club Network, which provides mentorship for at-risk young men in BC.[26]
 
The Aquilini Investment Group also supports land conservation and wildlife habitat protection, including contributing to the purchase of the Codd Wetlands in Pitt Meadows to protect the area.[27] Additionally, a 104 hectare site adjacent to Blaney Bog Regional Park was renamed the Aquilini Land Conservancy to recognize their significant financial contribution that helped permanently protect the area.[23]
 
Under the Canucks brand, Francesco has hosted many charity groups at Canucks games and supports a number of charitable organizations, including: the Canucks for Kids Fund,[28] to support childhood health and wellness, with specific programs aimed at issues like childhood diabetes;[28] the Canucks Autism Network (CAN), which provides adaptive sports, recreational, social and arts programs for children, teens and young adults living with autism in British Columbia;[28] and the Canuck Place Children’s Hospice, which provides care for sick children in BC.[28]
 
In his early 20s, Aquilini married Dusty Martel, then a local radio personality at CFMI. They had one child but were soon divorced.[29]

See also

References




  • "Francesco Aquilini, Chairman & Governor, NHL", NHL.com.

  • "Francesco Aquilini Speaker at WVCC Breakfast March 14, 2007 | Heritage Law Blog". Bcheritagelaw.com. Retrieved 2016-10-27.

  • "The Breakaway Shot", BC Business, October 9, 2008.

  • Posted by COS Admin (2009-01-15). "2011 Recipient: Luigi Aquilini – Vancouver : Order of BC". Orderofbc.gov.bc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-27.

  • Court feud yields a rare look into Canucks' backroom dealing By Ian Mulgrew. Vancouver Sun, B1. May 8, 2007.

  • "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-02-14. Retrieved 2012-08-09.

  • "King Edward Village - King Edward Village Real Estate Information". Kingedwardvillage.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-27.

  • "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-08-18. Retrieved 2012-08-09.

  • "HugeDomains.com - MaynardsBlock.com is for sale". Maynards Block. Retrieved 2016-10-27.

  • Canada (2012-07-15). "Rental units proposed for Rogers Arena - The Globe and Mail". M.theglobeandmail.com. Retrieved 2016-10-27.

  • "Vancouver developer buys Moncton properties - New Brunswick - CBC News". Cbc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-27.

  •  posted May 1, 2012 at 8:00 AM (2012-05-01). "Falls golf resort to be 'resurrected,' says Aquilini - Chilliwack Progress". Theprogress.com. Retrieved 2016-10-27.

  • "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-04-11. Retrieved 2012-08-09.

  • Scott Simpson (2010-05-19). "$2.9 billion Garibaldi at Squamish ski and golf resort troubles regulators | Vancouver Sun". Blogs.vancouversun.com. Retrieved 2016-10-27.

  • "Fraser Valley abuzz that Vancouver Canucks owner has designs on Abbotsford hockey team, arena". Vancouversun.com. 2012-08-17. Retrieved 2016-10-27.

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  • Richard L. Johnson. "Aquilini Group Properties LP Opens 210-suite Embassy Suites by Hilton® in Downtown Montréal / August 2007". Hotel-online.com. Retrieved 2016-10-27.

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  • "Golden Eagle Group". Geberries.com. Retrieved 2016-10-27.

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    CRA now transferring 600,000 banking records per year under controversial information sharing agreement


    The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has received information on 1.6 million Canadian bank accounts over four years from the Canada Revenue Agency. (Susan Walsh/Associated Press)

    The Canadian government has shared more than 1.6 million Canadian banking records with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service since the start of a controversial information-sharing agreement in 2014, CBC News has learned.

    In 2016 and again in 2017, the Canada Revenue Agency provided the IRS with information on 600,000 Canadian bank accounts each year. That's a sharp increase from the 300,000 records shared in 2015 and the 150,000 records shared in 2014, the year the sharing began.

    However, that doesn't necessarily correspond to the number of people affected. Some people may have more than one bank account, while some joint accounts could have more than one account holder — including people who don't hold U.S. citizenship.


    Among the items of Canadian bank account information being shared with the U.S. are the names and addresses of account holders, account numbers, account balances or values, and information about certain payments such as interest, dividends, other income and proceeds of disposition.

    The information transfer is the result of a controversial information sharing agreement between Canada and the U.S. negotiated in the wake of the American government's adoption of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). The act, adopted in a bid to curb offshore tax evasion, obliges foreign financial institutions to report information about accounts held by people who could be subject to U.S. taxes.

    The Canadian government argued that negotiating the information-sharing agreement would be better than forcing Canadian banks to deal directly with the IRS. Under the agreement, Canadian financial institutions send information on accounts held by clients with U.S. indicia (such as the account-holder being born in the United States) to the CRA; once a year, the CRA then forwards the information to the IRS.


    Under the intergovernmental agreement, Canadian financial institutions transfer information on bank accounts held by people who could be subject to U.S. taxes to the CRA. 
    In return, the IRS is supposed to send the CRA information about U.S. bank accounts held by Canadians. The CRA, however, has repeatedly refused to reveal how many records, if any, it has received from the IRS as a result of the agreement.

    Nor does the CRA automatically notify Canadian account holders when their information is transferred to the U.S., said CRA spokesman Etienne Biram.

    "There is no legislative requirement to disclose this information," he wrote. "However, if requested by a taxpayer, the CRA will confirm whether information relating to a particular individual or entity has been reported and provided to the United States of America under FATCA."

    The CRA said the increase in the number of records transferred from one year to the next was expected because certain financial accounts did not have to be reported during the first two years of the agreement.

    The revelation that 1.6 million records have been shared with the U.S comes as the Federal Court of Canada prepares to hear a constitutional challenge of the information-sharing agreement next week in Vancouver.

    Those challenging the agreement argue that it violates sections 7, 8 and 15 of Canada's Charter of Rights, which protect Canadians from violations of their right to life, liberty and security, unreasonable search and seizure and discrimination against those who hold U.S. as well as Canadian citizenship.

    In its submission to the court, the plaintiffs argue that some of the people whose banking records have been shared with the IRS may not be subject to U.S. taxes.


    Conservative Revenue Critic Pat Kelly says the information sharing agreement could help the IRS target Canadian residents who could be subject to the repatriation tax signed into law by U.S. President Donald Trump in 2017. (Christian Diotte/House of Commons)
    The government, however, presents the information-sharing agreement as the lesser of available evils and an attempt to mitigate the potential impact of FATCA, which included a potential 30 per cent withholding tax on institutions that didn't comply.

    "There were potentially severe consequences to the Canadian financial sector, its customers and investors, and to the Canadian economy as a whole if Canadian financial institutions were unable or unwilling to comply with FATCA," wrote the government in its submission to the court.

    "Canada sought to avoid those consequences and at the same time obtain less burdensome compliance rules for Canadian financial institutions and their customers, and additional information from the United States for Canadian tax compliance purposes."

    The government argues the deal doesn't violate any charter rights — and that even if it does,  it is a reasonable limit on those rights given what was at stake. It also points out that close to 100 countries have negotiated similar deals with the U.S. in the wake of FATCA.


    NDP Revenue Critic Pierre-Luc Dusseault says the CRA should advise Canadian residents when their banking information is shared with the IRS. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)
    Stephen Kish is a member of the Alliance for the Defence of Canadian Sovereignty, which mounted the legal challenge. He questioned how many of those records should have been shared.

    "It's a huge number of accounts. What our lawyers are trying to find out is how many of those accounts were those of Canadian citizens, how many of those accounts were, in fact, U.S. persons, how many of those accounts should not have been sent because they didn't achieve the correct account balance."

    Conservative Revenue Critic Pat Kelly said sharing banking records with the IRS has increased the number of Canadian residents at risk of being hit by the repatriation tax signed into law by U.S. President Donald Trump in December 2017. The tax has hit thousands of Canadian residents with U.S. or dual citizenship and a company incorporated in Canada.

    "The information sharing agreement ... helps facilitate giving the IRS a target list in Canada," he said. "The Canadian government has to respect Canadians' privacy and be aware of all of these consequences."

    NDP Revenue Critic Pierre-Luc Dusseault said the CRA should proactively notify Canadian bank account holders when information about their accounts is transferred to the U.S.

    "The CRA should do its job of informing their citizens, the taxpayers of Canada that they are taking their personal banking information and transferring it to a foreign country. This is the bare minimum and it shows again the lack of transparency of this government."


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    ---------- Original message ----------
    From: "Hancox, Rick  (FCNB)"<rick.hancox@fcnb.ca>
    Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:15:22 +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>

    G'Day/Bonjour,

    Thanks for your e-mail. I am out of the office until 24 February. If
    you need more immediate assistance, please contact France Bouchard at
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    ---------- Original message ----------
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    Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 04:46:16 +0000
    Subject: Automated response from the office of Hon Bill English
    To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

    Thank you for your email to the Prime Minister.

    This is an automated response.

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    ---------- Original message ----------
    From: Jean-Yves.Duclos@parl.gc.ca
    Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 15:48:00 +0000
    Subject: Merci / Thank you
    To: motomaniac333@gmail.com

    Bonjour,

    Nous vous remercions d'avoir communiqué avec le bureau de Jean-Yves
    Duclos, député de Québec et Ministre de la Famille, des Enfants et du
    Développement social.

    Ce courriel confirme la réception de votre correspondance.

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    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
    Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:44:27 -0400
    Subject: Fwd: Hey Elizabeth Tompson RE your concrens about the PCO and
    the TPP We talked once again yesterday and as usual you were too busy
    to listen to me but I also called many of your associates in the
    Parliamentry Press Galllery and some did listen to me Correct?
    To: gerry@marinerpartners.com, "Stephen.Horsman"
    <Stephen.Horsman@gnb.ca>, customerservice@schiffradio.com,
    curtis@marinerpartners.com, "rick.hancox"<rick.hancox@nbsc-cvmnb.ca>,
    rjgillis@gmglaw.com, rgfaloon@gmglaw.com, "sally.gomery"
    <sally.gomery@nortonrosefulbright.com>, ahamilton
    <ahamilton@casselsbrock.com>, "bruce.northrup"
    <bruce.northrup@gnb.ca>, bruce <bruce@brucehyer.ca>, "bruce.fitch"
    <bruce.fitch@gnb.ca>
    Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>

    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
    Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 10:13:15 -0400
    Subject: Hey Elizabeth Tompson RE your concerns about the PCO and the
    TPP We talked once again yesterday and as usual you were too busy to
    listen to me but I also called many of your associates in the
    Parliamentry Press Galllery and some did listen to me Correct?
    To: elizabeththompson@ipolitics.ca, david@openmedia.org, pm
    <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "justin.trudeau.a1"<justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca>,
    "justin.ling"<justin.ling@vice.com>, "rob.moore.a1"
    <rob.moore.a1@parl.gc.ca>, jesse <jesse@jessebrown.ca>,
    "thomas.mulcair.a1"<thomas.mulcair.a1@parl.gc.ca>, leader
    <leader@greenparty.ca>, "Jacques.Poitras"<Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>,
    editor@canadalandshow.com, editor <editor@thetyee.ca>, editor
    <editor@frankmagazine.ca>, "peacock.kurt"
    <peacock.kurt@telegraphjournal.com>, news <news@kingscorecord.com>,
    nbmilk@nbmilk.org, weekesj@bennettjones.com,
    mclellana@bennettjones.com, votefast2015@gmail.com,
    info@karenmccrimmon.ca, info@marthahallfindlay.ca
    Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, "ed.fast"
    <ed.fast@parl.gc.ca>, asiskind@newscorp.com, Rupert.Murdoch@fox.com,
    shipshore44 <shipshore44@gmail.com>, investor@newscorp.com,
    Claude.J.G.Levesque@inspection.gc.ca, maryann4peace
    <maryann4peace@gmail.com>, grant.mccool@thomsonreuters.com,
    newsroom@theguardian.pe.ca, Bob.Kerr@cbc.ca,
    Susan.J.Collins@bhpbilliton.com, J.Key@ministers.govt.nz,
    bruce.northrup@gnb.ca, Andrew.Robb.MP@aph.gov.au, gopublic
    <gopublic@cbc.ca>, "marylou.babineau"
    <marylou.babineau@greenparty.ca>, policy.karenforcanada@gmail.com,
    ritzg <ritzg@parl.gc.ca>, ritzg <ritzg@sasktel.net>,
    mgeist@uottawa.ca, birgittaj <birgittaj@althingi.is>, birgittajoy
    <birgittajoy@gmail.com>

    Here is a little proof to support what I said on the phone.

    A debate

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cFOKT6TlSE

    and a lawsuit

    https://www.scribd.com/doc/281544801/Federal-Court-Seal

    https://www.scribd.com/doc/281442628/Me-Versus-the-Crown

    FYI During my debates  in Fundy Royal I made certain that Rob Moore
    and his boss Harper and the Libranos knew within the emails found
    below that I was not talking through my hat with reference to the TPP
    false promises dairy farmers and my concerns about the Internet

    As you journalists well know I made good on my promise to sue the
    CROWN while running for a seat in Parliament one last time. As usual
    CBC and most of the other very unethical "journlists" ignored the
    obvious except Rogers TV and the local reporters employed by the
    Irving billionaires

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yx8twtlgp4


    Clearly Jesse Brown and  his buddy Mean Mikey Geist were yapping about
    the TPP before you revealed the PCO's point of view about Harper's
    false promise. More importantly to Mean Old Me both those very snobby
    and very unethical Upper Canadian spin doctors well aware I knew the
    very sneaky Julian Assange long BEFORE he and Birgitta Jonsdotir made
    Wikileaks. Hell I have been dicing with  the bast Geist for over ten
    years since he stuck his nose in Byron Prior's matters (Another matter
    no journalist will report about) Anyone can scroll down or just Google
    "Michael Geist""David Amos" or "Julian Assange"  "David Amos" to see
    the proof of what I say is true.

    http://canadalandshow.com/podcast/tpp-spying-blocking-and-internet

    Katie Jensen • October 12, 2015

    Show notes:
    University of Ottawa's Michael Geist breaks down the TPP
    (Trans-Pacific Partnership), a proposed trade agreement that Stephen
    Harper has been toiling over in secret for the last five years - an
    agreement that will have huge impacts on Canada's internet freedom and
    copyright issues.

    Michael Geist's Twitter: @mgeist

    I am a law professor at the University of Ottawa where I hold the
    Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law. My current
    contact information is included below:

    Address: University of Ottawa
    Faculty of Law
    Common Law Section
    57 Louis Pasteur
    Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5
    Canada

    Phone: (613) 562-5800 extension 3319
    Fax: 613-562-5124
    E-mail: mgeist@uottawa.ca


    Full text of the TPP leak

    http://ipolitics.ca/2015/10/13/pm-lacks-authority-for-promised-4-3b-tpp-farm-compensation-pco-admits/

    Harper lacks authorities for promised $4.3B TPP farm compensation, PCO admits
    By Elizabeth Thompson | Oct 13, 2015 4:20 am | 1 comment |


    http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-privy-council-office-transition-government-1.3269132

    Privy Council Office tracks party promises to prepare for government transition
    Senior public servants log and analyze every election promise on a
    daily basis to prep briefing books
    By Dean Beeby, CBC News Posted: Oct 14, 2015 5:00 AM ET|


    http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-trans-pacific-partnership-liberals-pco-1.3273342

    Liberals, NDP decline PCO offer of confidential briefing on TPP trade deal
    Offer to view trade deal just before election rejected as 'political ploy'
    CBC News Posted: Oct 15, 2015 5:11 PM ET|

    "Mulcair said Trade Minister Ed Fast broke a promise to make all
    details of the accord public ahead of election day.

    "Instead of openness and transparency, Canadians are learning details
    through leaked information and the government's own self-serving
    promotional efforts. That's not acceptable," Mulcair said.

    The Privy Council Office is the department that provides non-partisan
    support to the prime minister and cabinet. The Conservative campaign
    told CBC News the government asked the PCO to offer the briefing to
    the opposition parties.

    But in a separate letter released Thursday, Liberal candidate John
    McCallum accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper of continuing a "lack
    of transparency" over the deal's details.

    "Despite a commitment by the minister of international trade, Mr. Ed
    Fast, to release the text of the agreement so all Canadians can judge
    it on its merits before election day, media reports this week state
    that the details will remain secret," McCallum wrote.

    "It is troubling that with just four days remaining until election
    day, you continue to refuse to release the text of the agreement for
    Canadians to see."

    McCallum noted that a previous briefing attended by party
    representatives on Oct. 4 "provided no actual details beyond the
    limited information already released publicly."

    "It is simply not possible to conduct a meaningful, in-depth analysis
    of the 1,500-plus page agreement in 90 minutes," he wrote.

    I am included in briefing. I was only leader to participate in the 1st
    #TPP briefing. #GPC #elxn42 @CanadianGreens @Politicolnews @PnPCBC

    — @ElizabethMay
    Conservative campaign spokesman Kory Teneycke told CBC News the
    Liberals initially agreed to attend the Friday briefing, while the NDP
    declined. Teneycke said the briefing was to be based on the chapter
    summaries, since the final text does not exist yet.

    A Liberal campaign spokesman referred CBC News to McCallum's letter,
    but said any suggestion the party had accepted the offer of the
    briefing was false."



    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    From: "Robb, Andrew (MP)"<Andrew.Robb.MP@aph.gov.au>
    Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 03:51:41 +0000
    Subject: Automatic reply: RE TPP Trust that LOTS of Farmers in New
    Brunswick and many Yankees, Icelanders and New Zealanders know exactly
    who I am EH John Key. Birgitta Jonsdottir, Wayne Easter and Rob
    Nicholson?
    To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

    Thank you for taking the time to contact me.

    This is an automatically generated reply so that you know that your
    email has arrived.

    As you will appreciate given the large number of emails received each
    day, a reply cannot be sent immediately, nor can a reply be sent to
    every email received.

    I will however read your correspondence.

    I prioritise emails from my constituents and those relating to my
    trade, investment and tourism portfolio.

    If your email relates to my responsibilities as Minister for Trade and
    Investment, I will consider your correspondence and respond if
    appropriate.

    If your email is part of an automatically generated campaign, I will
    note your views.

    For those interested, there is a significant amount of useful facts
    regarding the China FTA and Trans Pacific Partnership on my
    Department’s website:

    http://dfat.gov.au/trade/agreements/chafta/Pages/australia-china-fta.aspx

    and

    http://dfat.gov.au/trade/agreements/tpp/Pages/trans-pacific-partnership-agreement-tpp.aspx


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    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
    Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 23:47:53 -0400
    Subject: Fwd: RE TPP Trust that LOTS of Farmers in New Brunswick and
    many Yankees, Icelanders and New Zealanders know exactly who I am EH
    John Key. Birgitta Jonsdottir, Wayne Easter and Rob Nicholson?
    To: t.groser@ministers.govt.nz, m.mccully@ministers.govt.nz,
    t.mcclay@ministers.govt.nz, reception@liberal.pe.ca, birgittaj
    <birgittaj@althingi.is>, jamie_macphail@hotmail.com, nichor
    <nichor@parl.gc.ca>, MMcalvanah@ustr.eop.gov,
    Andrew.Robb.MP@aph.gov.au, "peter.mackay"
    <peter.mackay@justice.gc.ca>, "rob.moore.a1"<rob.moore.a1@parl.gc.ca>
    Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>,
    sally.gomery@nortonrosefulbright.com, correspondence@ustr.eop.gov,
    Timothy_Reif@ustr.eop.gov, Michael_Froman@ustr.eop.gov,
    public.div@asean.org, sflynn@wcl.american.edu

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/open/around/eop/ustr

    https://ustr.gov/about-us/biographies-key-officials/timothy-reif-general-counsel

    http://www.international.gc.ca/media/aff/photos/2012/07/16b.aspx?lang=eng

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/feds-fail-to-have-henk-tepper-court-case-tossed-1.2638251

    http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2013/10/re-glen-greenwald-and-brazilian.html

    http://infojustice.org/archives/34482

    http://www.liberal.ca/candidates/wayne-easter/

    Riding President
    Jamie MacPhail
    jamie_macphail@hotmail.com
    reception@liberal.pe.ca


    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    From: "J Key (MIN)"<J.Key@ministers.govt.nz>
    Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 01:38:56 +0000
    Subject: Thank you for your email
    To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

    On behalf of the Prime Minister, Rt Hon John Key, thank you for your email.

    Please note that although email increases the speed of delivery, it
    may not be possible to provide you with the rapid response users of
    email may anticipate.

    The fact that you have taken the time to write is appreciated.  You
    can be assured that your views will be noted.


    Yours sincerely
    The Office of the Prime Minister


    ________________________________




    ---------- Original message ----------
    From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
    Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 21:38:42 -0400
    Subject: RE TPP Trust that LOTS of Dairy Farmers in New Brunswick and
    many Yankee, Icelanders and New Zealanders know exactly who I am EH
    John Key. Birgitta Jonsdottir, Wayne Easter and Rob Nicholson?
    To: J.Key@ministers.govt.nz
    Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>

    https://www.facebook.com/birgitta.jonsdottir.english

    Birgitta Jonsdottir
    September 23 at 10:52am ·

    Transparency Tim: show us the text
    The TPP Internet Censorship Plan is coming
    We need you to tell your Trade Minister today: don't let the
    Trans-Pacific Partnership destroy our laws and censor the Internet.
    stopthesecrecy.net
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            Gary Bonn

    Gary Bonn Thank you Birgitta Jonsdottir
    1 · September 24 at 5:30am

    http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2014/05/yo-birgitta-who-is-more-of-crook-julian.html

    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/birgittahttp://joyb.blogspot.com -
    http://www.facebook.com/birgitta.jonsdottir

    >>> From: "Julian Assange)"editor@wikileaks.org
    >>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
    >>> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 3:15 PM
    >>> Subject: Al Jazeera on Iceland's plan for a press safe haven
    >>>
    >>> 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: "David Amos"david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
    >>> To: "Julian Assange)"editor@wikileaks.org
    >>> Cc: "Dan Fitzgerald"danf@danf.net; "Byrne. G"Byrne.G@parl.gc.ca
    >>> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 8:35 PM
    >>> Subject: Re: Al Jazeera on Iceland's new plan Thanx Here is
    >>> something
    >>> about Iceland and Banksters Al Jazeera would enjoy
    >>>
    >>> Checkout this old pdf file from 2005 at about page two or three
    >>>
    >>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/4304560/Speaker-Iceland-etc
    >>>
    >>> Then read on and chuckle
    >>>
    >>> From: postur@fjr.stjr.is
    >>> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009
    >>> Subject: Re: RE: Iceland and Bankers etc I must ask the obvious
    >>> question. Why have you people ignored me for three years?
    >>> To: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
    >>>
    >>> Dear David Amos
    >>>
    >>> Unfortunately there has been a considerable delay in responding to
    >>> incoming letters due to heavy workload and many inquiries to our
    >>> office.
    >>>
    >>> We appreciate the issue raised in your letter. We have set up a web
    >>> site www.iceland.org where we have gathered various practical
    >>> information regarding the economic crisis in Iceland.
    >>>
    >>> Greetings from the Ministry of Finance.
    >>>
    >>> Tilvísun í mál: FJR08100024
    >>>
    >>> From: postur@for.stjr.is
    >>> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008
    >>> Subject: Regarding your enquiry to the Prime Ministry of Iceland
    >>> To: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
    >>>
    >>> David Raymond Amos
    >>>
    >>> Your enquiry has been received by the Prime Ministry of Iceland and
    >>> waits attendance.
    >>>
    >>> Thank you.
    >>>
    >>> From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
    >>> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008
    >>> Subject: I just called to remind the Speaker, the Bankers and the
    >>> Icelanders that I still exist EH Mrs Mrechant, Bob Rae and Iggy?
    >>> To: Milliken.P@parl.gc.ca, sjs@althingi.is, emb.ottawa@mfa.is,
    >>> rmellish@pattersonlaw.ca, irisbirgisdottir@yahoo.ca,
    >>> marie@mariemorneau.com, dfranklin@franklinlegal.com,
    >>> egilla@althingi.is, william.turner@exsultate.ca
    >>> Cc: Rae.B@parl.gc.ca, Ignatieff.M@parl.gc.ca, lebrem@sen.parl.gc.ca,
    >>> merchp@sen.parl.gc.ca, coolsa@sen.parl.gc.ca, olived@sen.parl.gc.ca
    >>>
    >>> All of you should review the documents and CD that came with this
    >>> letter ASAP EH?
    >>>
    >>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/Integrity-Yea-Right
    >>>
    >>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/4304560/Speaker-Iceland-etc
    >>>
    >>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/5352095/Tony-Merchant-and-Yankees
    >>>
    >>> Perhaps Geir Haarde and Steingrimur Sigfusson should call me back
    >>>
    >>> Veritas Vincit
    >>> David Raymond Amos
    >>>
    >>> The Reykjavík Grapevine
    >>> Hafnarstræti 15
    >>> 101 Reykjavík
    >>> Iceland
    >>> grapevine@grapevine.is
    >>> +354-540-3600
    >>
    >>



    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
    Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 21:21:42 -0400
    Subject: FWD LOTS of Dairy Farmers in New Brunswick know exactly who I
    am ask Wayne Easter why EH Rob Moore?
    To: nbmilk@nbmilk.org, weekesj@bennettjones.com,
    mclellana@bennettjones.com, votefast2015@gmail.com,
    info@karenmccrimmon.ca, info@marthahallfindlay.ca
    Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>

    https://mobile.twitter.com/wayneeaster

    Wayne Easter  @WayneEaster  15h
    Heartwarming y'day on campaign trail as several non-farm households
    stated "concerned for dairy farmers"(due 2 TPP)Support 4 fellow
    citizens

    http://wayneeaster.parl.liberal.ca/media-reports/media-releases/conservative-government-must-be-transparent-with-canadians-during-tpp-talks/

    Conservative Government Must be Transparent with Canadians during TPP Talks

    Posted on July 16, 2012

    CHARLOTTETOWN— Liberal International Trade critic Wayne Easter made
    the following statement today on Canada’s Trans-Pacific Partnership
    (TPP) negotiations:

    “According to a recent report, the US will be seeking ‘new market
    access’ from Canada in the TPP negotiations. The report noted that a
    major component of negotiations would be Canada’s supply management
    system.

    It is imperative that this Conservative government be completely
    transparent on their TPP negotiations, especially in regards to what
    Canada is conceding in order to be accepted into this partnership.
    Canadian dairy and poultry producers depend on the supply management
    system, just as Canadian consumers rely on its stable pricing, and
    they all deserve assurance that their livelihoods and food safety will
    not be compromised in these negotiations.”



    http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/montreal-dairy-company-saputo-says-it-can-adapt-to-any-tpp-deal-1.2501466

    "Saputo said some dairy farmers have good reason to be worried if
    there are dramatic changes to Canada's protective supply management
    system, as demanded by some of the 12 countries involved in
    negotiating the trade deal. But he said other farmers are efficient,
    can compete with anybody in the world and flourish in an unregulated
    system.

    The abolition of Canada's dairy supply management system would
    threaten 4,500 to 6,000 farms and up to 24,000 direct jobs across the
    country, according to a study released last week commissioned by dairy
    co-operative and Saputo rival Agropur.

    Up to 40 per cent of Canada's milk production would be at risk, said
    the 56-page report from Boston Consulting Group."

    http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/tpp-trade-deal-is-now-close-and-for-canada-the-last-big-issue-is-dairy-1.2592586

    "Fast used more guarded language on dairy. Of that, he said: "There's
    still lots of work to be done."

    The Canadian government faces domestic pressure from dairy-producing
    provinces, who are not at the negotiating table but have provincial
    representatives in Atlanta pushing against any opening to foreign milk
    and cheese.

    Canada isn't the only country with domestic pressure: the American
    delegation has received a public letter from influential lawmakers
    urging it to walk away unless it can secure certain gains for American
    businesses.

    But the biggest U.S. business lobby is urging a deal now.

    It says the decade-long TPP project could be destroyed by domestic
    politics if it doesn't happen immediately, with elections in Canada,
    then the U.S., Japan and Peru next year and governments under pressure
    to protect individual sectors.

    "If we miss this opportunity I believe we may lose it forever," said
    Tami Overby, vice-president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

    "We have the Canadian election. No one knows what that outcome's going
    to be. We also get closer to the U.S. 2016 (presidential race) -- that
    gets harder. So from my perspective nothing gets better. But the risk
    increases, and in some cases quite significantly as time goes by."

    As if to underscore her point, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair announced Friday
    that he wouldn't consider himself bound to ratify any deal reached
    during the election campaign.

    Overby encouraged all countries to put some of the proverbial water in
    their wine.

    For Canada, that wine comes with a little more foreign cheese.

    She said New Zealand hasn't asked for much. But it helped spearhead
    the TPP project years ago, with its one major demand being access to
    dairy markets.

    Other Canadian industries are thrilled at the prospect of a deal.

    The head of Canada's pro-free-market agriculture group said he expects
    a nine-per-cent increase in canola exports alone, with big gains for
    other industries including pork, beef and barley.

    "We're extremely optimistic for our sector," said Brian Innes of the
    Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance, and vice-president of the Canola
    Council.

    "We face significant trade barriers, this is the most ambitious deal
    in decades, and it could have a major impact on our ability to
    export."


    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
    Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:15:04 -0400
    Subject: RE FATCA ATTN Pierre-Luc.Dusseault I just called and left a
    message for you
    To: Pierre-Luc.Dusseault@parl.gc.ca, david <david@lutz.nb.ca>,
    "Diane.Lebouthillier"<Diane.Lebouthillier@cra-arc.gc.ca>,
    "mark.vespucci"<mark.vespucci@ci.irs.gov>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>,
    curtis <curtis@marinerpartners.com>, "rick.hancox"
    <rick.hancox@nbsc-cvmnb.ca>
    Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, djtjr
    <djtjr@trumporg.com>, mcohen <mcohen@trumporg.com>,
    elizabeth.thompson@cbc.ca, "ht.lacroix"<ht.lacroix@cbc.ca>,
    "hon.melanie.joly"<hon.melanie.joly@canada.ca>

    Trust that Trump, CBC and everybody else knows that I speak and act
    Pro Se particularly when dealing with the Evil Tax Man

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    Transfer of Canadian banking records to U.S. tax agency doubled last year
    Documents for thousands of Canadian residents transferred under
    controversial FATCA legislation

    By Elizabeth Thompson, CBC News Posted: Jan 29, 2017 5:00 AM ET

    Banking records of more than 315,000 Canadian residents were turned
    over to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service last year under a
    controversial information sharing deal, CBC News has learned.

    That is double the number transferred in the deal's first year.

    The Canada Revenue Agency transmitted 315,160 banking records to the
    IRS on Sept. 28, 2016 — a 104 per cent increase over the 154,667
    records the agency sent in September 2015.

    Lisa Damien, spokeswoman for the CRA, attributed the increase to the
    fact it was the second year for the Canada-U.S. information sharing
    deal that was sparked by the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
    (FATCA).

    "The exchange in September 2015 was based on accounts identified by
    financial institutions at the time," she said. "The number of reported
    accounts was expected to increase in 2016, because the financial
    institutions have had more time to complete their due diligence and
    identify other reportable accounts."
    Trudeau Nuclear Summit 20160331

    Prior to coming to power, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau opposed the
    agreement to share banking records of Canadian residents with the IRS.
    He has since changed his position. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

    The transmission of banking records of Canadian residents is the
    result of an agreement worked out in 2014 between Canada and the U.S.
    after the American government adopted FATCA. The U.S. tax compliance
    act requires financial institutions around the world to reveal
    information about bank accounts in a bid to crack down on tax evasion
    by U.S. taxpayers with foreign accounts.
    Dual citizens, long-term visitors affected

    The deal requires financial institutions to share the banking records
    of those considered to be "U.S. persons" for tax purposes — regardless
    of whether they are U.S. citizens.

    Among the people who can be considered by the IRS as "U.S. persons"
    are Canadians born in the U.S., dual citizens or even those who spend
    more than a certain number of days in the United States each year.

    Former prime minister Stephen Harper's government argued that given
    the penalties the U.S. was threatening to impose, it had no choice but
    to negotiate the information sharing deal. The former government said
    it was able to exempt some types of accounts from the information
    transfer.
    CRA

    The Canada Revenue Agency transfers banking records of people believed
    to be 'U.S. persons' to the IRS. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

    The Canada Revenue Agency triggered controversy after it transferred
    the first batch of Canadian banking records to the IRS in September
    2015 in the midst of the election campaign, without waiting for an
    assessment by Canada's privacy commissioner or the outcome of a legal
    challenge to the agreement's constitutionality.

    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Treasury Board President Scott Brison
    and Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale have dropped calls to scrap
    the deal, which they had made before the Liberals came to power.
    Watchdog wants proactive notification

    Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has raised concerns about the
    information sharing, questioning whether financial institutions are
    reporting more accounts than necessary. Under the agreement, financial
    institutions only have to report accounts belonging to those believed
    to be U.S. persons if they contain more than $50,000.

    Therrien has also suggested the CRA proactively notify individuals
    that their financial records had been shared with the IRS. However,
    the CRA has been reluctant to agree to Therrien's suggestion.
    Racial Profiling 20160107

    Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has questioned whether the CRA is
    transmitting more banking records to the IRS than is necessary.
    (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)

    NDP revenue critic Pierre-Luc Dusseault said the increase in the
    number of files transferred was "surprising," and he questioned
    whether financial institutions are only sharing records of accounts
    worth more than $50,000.

    "I don't see how there would be 150,000 more accounts reportable to
    the IRS in one year. It is something I will look into."

    Dusseault said the CRA should notify every Canadian resident whose
    banking records are shared with the IRS.

    Lynne Swanson, of the Alliance for the Defence of Canadian
    Sovereignty, which is challenging the information sharing agreement in
    Federal Court, said she has no idea why the number of banking records
    shared with the IRS doubled.
    Youngest MP 20110519

    NDP revenue critic Pierre-Luc Dusseault says the CRA should notify
    every Canadian resident whose banking records are shared with the IRS.
    (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)

    "It still seems low in comparison to the number of Canadians that are
    affected by this," she said. "It is estimated that a million Canadians
    are affected by this."
    Hopes for repeal

    Swanson hopes that U.S. President Donald Trump, or Congress — which is
    now controlled by the Republican Party — will scrap FATCA. The
    Republican platform pledged to do away with the information collecting
    legislation.

    "FATCA not only allows 'unreasonable search and seizures' but also
    threatens the ability of overseas Americans to lead normal lives," the
    platform reads. "We call for its repeal and for a change to
    residency-based taxation for U.S. citizens overseas."

    Swanson's group is also hoping the Federal Court of Canada will
    intervene, although a date has not yet been set for a hearing.

    "A foreign government is essentially telling the Canadian government
    how Canadian citizens and Canadian residents should be treated. It is
    a violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms."

    Elizabeth Thompson can be reached at elizabeth.thompson@cbc.ca

    Canada's ambassador to China says Meng has strong defence to fight extradition

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    ---------- Original message ----------
    From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
    Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:55:30 -0300
    Subject: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and the War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still alive
    To: DECPR@forces.gc.ca, Public.Affairs@socom.mil, Raymonde.Cleroux@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca, john.adams@cse-cst.gc.cawilliam.elliott@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, stoffp1 <stoffp1@parl.gc.ca>,
    dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca, media@drdc-rddc.gc.ca, information@forces.gc.ca, milner@unb.ca, charters@unb.ca, lwindsor@unb.ca, sarah.weir@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca, birgir <birgir@althingi.is>, smari  <smari@immi.is>, greg.weston@cbc.ca, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>,
    susan@blueskystrategygroup.com, Don@blueskystrategygroup.com,
    eugene@blueskystrategygroup.com, americas@aljazeera.net
    Cc: "Edith. Cody-Rice"<Edith.Cody-Rice@cbc.ca>, "terry.seguin"
    <terry.seguin@cbc.ca>, acampbell <acampbell@ctv.ca>, whistleblower  <whistleblower@ctv.ca>


    I talked to Don Newman earlier this week before the beancounters David Dodge and Don Drummond now of Queen's gave their spin about Canada's Health Care system yesterday and Sheila Fraser yapped on and on on  CAPAC during her last days in office as if she were oh so ethical.. To be fair to him I just called Greg Weston (613-288-6938) I suggested that he should at least Google SOUCOM and David Amos It would be wise if he check ALL of CBC's sources before he publishes something else about the DND EH Don Newman? Lets just say that the fact  that  your old CBC buddy, Tony Burman is now in charge of Al Jazeera English never impressed me. The fact that he set up a Canadian office is interesting though

    http://www.blueskystrategygroup.com/index.php/team/don-newman/
     
    Anyone can call me back and stress test my integrity after they read
    this simple pdf file. BTW what you Blue Sky dudes pubished about
    Potash Corp and BHP is truly funny. Perhaps Stevey Boy Harper or Brad Wall will fill ya in if you are to shy to call mean old me.
     
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/Integrity-Yea-Right

    The Governor General, the PMO and the PCO offices know that I am not a shy political animal
     
    Veritas Vincit
    David Raymond Amos
    902 800 0369
     
    Enjoy Mr Weston
    http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/news/story/2011/05/15/weston-iraq-invasion-wikileaks.html

    "But Lang, defence minister McCallum's chief of staff, says military
    brass were not entirely forthcoming on the issue. For instance, he
    says, even McCallum initially didn't know those soldiers were helping
    to plan the invasion of Iraq up to the highest levels of command,
    including a Canadian general.
     
    That general is Walt Natynczyk, now Canada's chief of defence staff,
    who eight months after the invasion became deputy commander of 35,000 U.S. soldiers and other allied forces in Iraq. Lang says Natynczyk was also part of the team of mainly senior U.S. military brass that helped prepare for the invasion from a mobile command in Kuwait."
     
    http://baconfat53.blogspot.com/2010/06/canada-and-united-states.html
     
    "I remember years ago when the debate was on in Canada, about there being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Our American 'friends" demanded that Canada join into "the Coalition of the Willing. American "veterans" and sportscasters loudly denounced Canada for NOT buying into the US policy.

    At the time I was serving as a planner at NDHQ and with 24 other of my colleagues we went to Tampa SOUCOM HQ to be involved in the planning in the planning stages of the op....and to report to NDHQ, that would report to the PMO upon the merits of the proposed operation. There was never at anytime an existing target list of verified sites where there were deployed WMD.
     
    Coalition assets were more than sufficient for the initial strike and invasion phase but even at that point in the planning, we were concerned about the number of "boots on the ground" for the occupation (and end game) stage of an operation in Iraq. We were also concerned about the American plans for occupation plans of Iraq because they at that stage included no contingency for a handing over of civil authority to a vetted Iraqi government and bureaucracy.

    There was no detailed plan for Iraq being "liberated" and returned to its people...nor a thought to an eventual exit plan. This was contrary to the lessons of Vietnam but also to current military thought, that folks like Colin Powell and "Stuffy" Leighton and others elucidated upon. "What's the mission" how long is the mission, what conditions are to met before US troop can redeploy?  Prime Minister Jean Chretien and the PMO were even at the very preliminary planning stages wary of Canadian involvement in an Iraq operation....History would prove them correct. The political pressure being applied on the PMO from the George W Bush administration was onerous
     
    American military assets were extremely overstretched, and Canadian military assets even more so It was proposed by the PMO that Canadian naval platforms would deploy to assist in naval quarantine operations in the Gulf and that Canadian army assets would deploy in Afghanistan thus permitting US army assets to redeploy for an Iraqi operation....The PMO thought that "compromise would save Canadian lives and liberal political capital.. and the priority of which  ....not necessarily in that order. "

    You can bet that I called these sneaky Yankees again today EH John
    Adams? of the CSE within the DND?







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    Replying to and 49 others
    Methinks many politicians can recall that this is not the first time John McCallum has been in diplomatic hot water N'esy Pas?

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    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/weston-canada-offered-to-aid-iraq-invasion-wikileaks-1.1062501

    WESTON: Canada offered to aid Iraq invasion: WikiLeaks


    Then prime minister Jean Chrétien is applauded by his Liberal caucus in the House of Commons on March 17, 2003, after announcing Canada's refusal to partake in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. (CBC)

    The same day Canada publicly refused to join the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, a high-ranking Canadian official was secretly promising the Americans clandestine military support for the fiercely controversial operation.

    The revelation that Canadian forces may have secretly participated in the invasion of Iraq is contained in a classified U.S. diplomatic memo obtained exclusively by CBC News from the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.

    On March 17, 2003, two days before U.S. warplanes launched their attack on Baghdad, prime minister Jean Chrétien told the House of Commons that Canadian forces would not be joining what the administration of then U.S. president George W. Bush dubbed the "coalition of the willing."


    Chrétien's apparent refusal to back the Bush administration's invasion, purportedly launched to seize weapons of mass destruction possessed by Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein (which were never found), was hugely popular in Canada, widely hailed as nothing less than a defining moment of national sovereignty.


    Greg Weston
    But even as Chrétien told the Commons that Canada wouldn't participate in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Canadian diplomats were secretly telling their U.S. counterparts something entirely different.

    The classified U.S. document obtained from WikiLeaks shows senior Canadian officials met that same day with high-ranking American and British diplomats at Foreign Affairs headquarters in Ottawa.

    The confidential note, written by a U.S. diplomat at the gathering, states that Foreign Affairs official James Wright waited until after the official meeting to impart the most important news of all.

    According to the U.S. account, Wright "emphasized" that contrary to public statements by the prime minister, Canadian naval and air forces could be "discreetly" put to use during the pending U.S.-led assault on Iraq and its aftermath.

    At that time, Canada had warships, aircraft and over 1,200 naval personnel already in the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, intercepting potential militant vessels and providing safe escort to other ships as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, the post-Sept. 11, 2001, multinational war on terrorism.

    The U.S. briefing note states: "Following the meeting, political director Jim Wright emphasized that, despite public statements that the Canadian assets in the Straits of Hormuz will remain in the region exclusively to support Enduring Freedom, they will also be available to provide escort services in the Straits and will otherwise be discreetly useful to the military effort.

    "The two ships in the Straits now are being augmented by two more en route, and there are patrol and supply aircraft in the U.A.E. [United Arab Emirates] which are also prepared to 'be useful.'

    "This message tracks with others we have heard," the U.S. diplomat wrote in his briefing note to State Department bosses in Washington.

    "While for domestic political reasons… the GOC [Government of Canada] has decided not to join in a U.S. coalition of the willing,… they are also prepared to be as helpful as possible in the military margins."

    'Please destroy cable'


    The original U.S. briefing cable, dated the day of the meeting, was marked "unclassified." Two days later, the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa issued an urgent internal notice to "please destroy previous cable," replacing it with the same message but marked "confidential."

    The Canadian official involved, James Wright, is now Canada's high commissioner in London. He declined to comment for this report.

    The U.S. ambassador to Canada at the time, Paul Cellucci, says he couldn't be at the meeting in Ottawa that day — he was stranded in a snowstorm in the U.S. — but the version of events in the leaked memo "sounds right."

    "The message from the Canadians was pretty clear," Cellucci told CBC News. "We are not putting boots on the ground in Iraq. We will say good things about the United States and not-so-good things about Saddam Hussein."

    And finally: "We will keep our ships in the Persian Gulf helping in the war on terror — and any way else we can help."

    Exactly what that meant for the Canadian naval ships and surveillance aircraft in the Gulf region at the time — and how much they ultimately became involved in the Iraq war — remains a matter of considerable debate.

    Before the invasion of Iraq, the duties of the Canadian ships had been mainly to protect other vessels from attacks by militants and to intercept craft suspected of gun-running and other potentially militant-related activities.

    The issue is what, if anything, changed after the Chrétien government  decreed those ships and aircraft couldn't be involved in intercepting vessels connected to the Iraq war.


    Three months before the Iraq invasion, the then Canadian defence minister John McCallum, right, met with U.S. counterpart Donald Rumsfeld, left, whose diplomats had told him to keep his expectations 'modest' for what Canada might contribute to the war. ((CBC))
    Eugene Lang, chief of staff to then defence minister John McCallum, says there was no end of internal debate over whether the Canadian Forces were being put into a mission impossible.

    "How do you know if something is connected to terrorism or Iraq? When you are intercepting unknown boats, you don't know what you have taken over until you have taken it over."

    Lang says that after "painful" consultations with federal lawyers, the Department of National Defence issued Canadian naval commanders in the Gulf clear orders not to engage in anything to do with Operation Iraqi Freedom.

    "But who knows whether in fact we were doing things indirectly for Iraqi Freedom? It is quite possible."

    McCallum's former chief recalled a bitter internal battle over whether to pull the Canadian ships out of the Gulf altogether to avoid any confusion.

    "For a long time, the [Canadian] military pushed really hard not to be in Afghanistan, and instead be part of a full-blown boots-on-the-ground Iraq invasion," Lang said.

    "So the military was dead set against pulling out [of the Gulf], and in the end the government decided we would stay mainly, I think, for Canada-U.S. relations."

    Former defence minister McCallum recalls he and his officials having "extremely long and detailed meetings to make sure that we were not in fact committing to help the war in Iraq."

    "Now, what happens on the high seas is not something I can prove or disprove, but those were the orders that the military had."

    U.S. didn't seem to care


    Ironically, after all the fuss, the Americans didn't seem to care whether Canada contributed a lot of military might to the Iraq mission.

    A former senior Canadian bureaucrat said: "The Americans knew we were stretched to the limit on the military side, and they really just wanted a political endorsement of their plan to go into Iraq."

    Former U.S. ambassador Cellucci concurred: "We were looking for moral support. That's all we were looking for.… We were looking for 'we support the Americans.'"


    Flight deck crew watch as a U.S. F/A-18 Hornet launches from an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf one week into the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Canada had two warships nearby at the time, and secretly offered to make them 'useful' to the U.S., a leaked American document says. ((Steve Helber/Associated Press))
    Then defence minister McCallum met with his counterpart, U.S. defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, three months before the Iraq invasion. McCallum recalls Rumsfeld never even mentioned Canada's possible military contribution to Iraq.

    A U.S. diplomatic briefing note prepared for Rumsfeld prior to the meeting states: "As for what Canada might bring to the table, our expectations should be modest."

    The memo, also obtained by CBC News from WikiLeaks, goes on to say: "Canada probably would need to use assets currently devoted to Operation Enduring Freedom, including a naval task group [in the Gulf] and patrol and transport aircraft."

    If the secret U.S. memos cast doubts on Canada's status as a refusenik of the Iraq war, the public also didn't exactly get the whole truth about a group of Canadian soldiers the government admitted were in Iraq.

    From the outset, the Chrétien government said a "few" Canadian soldiers embedded with the U.S. and British militaries as exchange officers would be allowed to remain in their positions, even if they wound up in Iraq.

    While the revelation caused a ruckus in Parliament, it all sounded relatively innocuous at the time.
    But Lang, defence minister McCallum's chief of staff, says military brass were not entirely forthcoming on the issue.  For instance, he says, even McCallum initially didn't know those soldiers were helping to plan the invasion of Iraq up to the highest levels of command, including a Canadian general.

    That general is Walt Natynczyk, now Canada's chief of defence staff, who eight months after the invasion became deputy commander of 35,000 U.S. soldiers and other allied forces in Iraq. Lang says Natynczyk was also part of the team of mainly senior U.S. military brass that helped prepare for the invasion from a mobile command in Kuwait.

    The Department of National Defence refused to comment on Natynczyk's role, if any, in the invasion of Iraq.

    CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices




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    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 Parties
    1.      HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crown) is Elizabeth II, the Queen of England, the Protector of the Faith of the Church of England, the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom and one of the wealthiest persons in the world. Canada pays homage to the Queen because she remained the Head of State and the Chief Executive Officer of Canada after the Canada Act 1982(U.K.) 1982, c. 11 came into force on April 17, 1982. The standing of the Queen in Canada was explained within the 2002Annual Report FORM 18-K filed by Canada with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). It states as follows:
         “The executive power of the federal Government is vested in the Queen, represented by the Governor General, whose powers are exercised on the advice of the federal Cabinet, which is responsible to the House of Commons. The legislative branch at the federal level, Parliament, consists of the Crown, the Senate and the House of Commons.”
         “The executive power in each province is vested in the Lieutenant Governor, appointed by the Governor General on the advice of the federal Cabinet. The Lieutenant Governor’s powers are exercised on the advice of the provincial cabinet, which is responsible to the legislative assembly. Each provincial legislature is composed of a Lieutenant Governor and a legislative assembly made up of members elected for a period of five years.”      
    2.      Her Majesty the Queen is the named defendant pursuant to sections 23(1) and 36 of the Crown Liability and Proceedings Act. Some of the state actors whose duties and actions are at issue in this action are the Prime Minister, Premiers, Governor General, Lieutenant Governors, members of the Canadian Forces (CF), and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), federal and provincial Ministers of Public Safety, Ministers of Justice, Ministers of Finance, Speakers, Clerks, Sergeants-at-Arms and any other person acting as Aide-de-Camp providing security within and around the House of Commons, the legislative assemblies or acting as security for other federal, provincial and municipal properties.
    3.      Her Majesty the Queen’s servants the RCMP whose mandate is to serve and protect Canadian citizens and assist in the security of parliamentary properties and the protection of public officials should not deny a correspondence from a former Deputy Prime Minister who was appointed to be Canada’s first Minister of Public Safety in order to oversee the RCMP and their cohorts. The letter that helped to raise the ire of a fellow Canadian citizen who had never voted in his life to run for public office four times thus far is quoted as follows:
      “Mr. David R. Amos                                                               Jan 3rd, 2004

    153Alvin Avenue

       Milton, MA U.S.A. 02186
                    Dear Mr. Amos
          Thank you for your letter of November 19th, 2003, addressed to   
                    my predecessor, the Honourble Wayne Easter, regarding your safety.  
                    I apologize for the delay in responding.
          If you have any concerns about your personal safety, I can only
                   suggest that you contact the police of local jurisdiction. In addition, any
                   evidence of criminal activity should be brought to their attention since the
                   police are in the best position to evaluate the information and take action
                   as deemed appropriate.
           I trust that this information is satisfactory.
                                                                  Yours sincerely
                                                                            A. Anne McLellan”



    82.  The Plaintiff states that any politician or police officer should have seen enough of Barry Winter’s WordPress blog by June 22, 2015 particularly after the very unnecessary demise of two men in Alberta because of the incompetence of the EPS. Barry Winters was blogging about the EPS using battering ram in order to execute a warrant for a 250 dollar bylaw offence at the same time Professor Kris Wells revealed in a televised interview that the EPS member who was killed was the one investigating the cyber harassment of him. It was obvious why the police and politicians ignored all the death threats, sexual harassment, cyberbullying and hate speech of a proud Zionist who claimed to be a former CF officer who now working for the Department of National Defence (DND). It is well known that no politician in Canada is allowed to sit in Parliament as a member of the major parties unless they support Israel. Since 2002 the Plaintiff made it well known that he does not support Israeli actions and was against the American plan to make war on Iraq. On Aril 1, 2003 within two weeks of the beginning of the War on Iraq, the US Secret Service threatened to practice extraordinary rendition because false allegations of a Presidential threat were made against him by an American court. However, the Americans and the Crown cannot deny that what he said in two courts on April 1, 2003 because he published the recordings of what was truly said as soon as he got the court tapes. The RCMP knows those words can still be heard on the Internet today. In 2009, the Plaintiff began to complain of Barry Winters about something far more important to Canada as nation because of Winters’ bragging of being one of 24 CF officers who assisted the Americans in the planning the War on Iraq in 2002. In the Plaintiff’s humble opinion the mandate of the DND is Defence not Attack. He is not so naive to think that such plans of war do not occur but if Barry Winters was in fact one of the CF officers who did so then he broke his oath to the Crown the instant he bragged of it in his blog. If Winters was never an officer in the CF then he broke the law by impersonating an officer. The Plaintiff downloaded the emails of the Privy Council about Wikileaks. The bragging of Barry Winters should have been investigated in 2009 before CBC reported that documents released by WikiLeaks supported his information about Canadian involvement in the War on Iraq.

    83.  The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war in Iraq again itdid notserve Canadian interests and reputation to allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over five years after he began his bragging:  
    Friday, October 3, 2014
    Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And
    Stupid Justin Trudeau

    Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide
    behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
    When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean Chretien actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second campaign in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or contrary to the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There were significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the dearth of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “last minute” Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its mind. The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins to redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq. But alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister Chretien’s then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic, professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway campaign of 2006.
    What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that then Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice, consent, support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament.
    What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and babbling chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment of less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by planners as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make. 
    The Canadian Government or The Crown unlike our amerkan cousins have the “constitutional authority” to commit the Canadian nation to war. That has been recently clearly articulated to the Canadian public by constitutional scholar Phillippe Legasse. What Parliament can do is remove “confidence” in The Crown’s Government in a “vote of non-confidence.” That could not happen to the Chretien Government regarding deployment to Afghanistan, and it won’t happen in this instance with the conservative majority in The Commons regarding a limited Canadian deployment to the Middle East.
    President George Bush was quite correct after 911 and the terror attacks in New York; that the Taliban “occupied” and “failed state” Afghanistan was the source of logistical support, command and control, and training for the Al Quaeda war of terror against the world. The initial defeat, and removal from control of Afghanistan was vital and essential for the security and tranquility of the developed world. An ISIS “caliphate,” in the Middle East, no matter how small, is a clear and present danger to the entire world. This “occupied state,” or“failed state” will prosecute an unending Islamic inspired war of terror against not only the “western world,” but Arab states “moderate” or not, as well. The security, safety, and tranquility of Canada and Canadians are just at risk now with the emergence of an ISIS“caliphate” no matter how large or small, as it was with the Taliban and Al Quaeda “marriage” in Afghanistan.
    One of the everlasting “legacies” of the “Trudeau the Elder’s dynasty was Canada and successive Liberal governments cowering behind the amerkan’s nuclear and conventional military shield, at the same time denigrating, insulting them, opposing them, and at the same time self-aggrandizing ourselves as “peace keepers,” and progenitors of “world peace.” Canada failed. The United States of Amerka, NATO, the G7 and or G20 will no longer permit that sort of sanctimonious behavior from Canada or its government any longer. And Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Foreign Minister John Baird , and Cabinet are fully cognizant of that reality. Even if some editorial boards, and pundits are not.
    Justin, Trudeau “the younger” is reprising the time “honoured” liberal mantra, and tradition of expecting the amerkans or the rest of the world to do “the heavy lifting.” Justin Trudeau and his “butt buddy” David Amos are telling Canadians that we can guarantee our security and safety by expecting other nations to fight for us. That Canada can and should attempt to guarantee Canadians safety by providing “humanitarian aid” somewhere, and call a sitting US president a “war criminal.” This morning Australia announced they too, were sending tactical aircraft to eliminate the menace of an ISIS “caliphate.”
    In one sense Prime Minister Harper is every bit the scoundrel Trudeau “the elder” and Jean ‘the crook” Chretien was. Just As Trudeau, and successive Liberal governments delighted in diminishing, marginalizing, under funding Canadian Forces, and sending Canadian military men and women to die with inadequate kit and modern equipment; so too is Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Canada’s F-18s are antiquated, poorly equipped, and ought to have been replaced five years ago. But alas, there won’t be single RCAF fighter jock that won’t go, or won’t want to go, to make Canada safe or safer.
    My Grandfather served this country. My father served this country. My Uncle served this country. And I have served this country. Justin Trudeau has not served Canada in any way. Thomas Mulcair has not served this country in any way. Liberals and so called social democrats haven’t served this country in any way. David Amos, and other drooling fools have not served this great nation in any way. Yet these fools are more than prepared to ensure their, our safety to other nations, and then criticize them for doing so.
    Canada must again, now, “do our bit” to guarantee our own security, and tranquility, but also that of the world. Canada has never before shirked its responsibility to its citizens and that of the world.

    Prime Minister Harper will not permit this country to do so now

    From: dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca
    Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:17:17 -0400
    Subject: RE: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and the War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still alive
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    Subject: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and the War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still alive
    To: DECPR@forces.gc.ca, Public.Affairs@socom.mil, Raymonde.Cleroux@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca, john.adams@cse-cst.gc.ca,
    william.elliott@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, stoffp1 <stoffp1@parl.gc.ca>,
    dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca, media@drdc-rddc.gc.ca, information@forces.gc.ca, milner@unb.ca, charters@unb.ca, lwindsor@unb.ca, sarah.weir@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca, birgir <birgir@althingi.is>, smari  <smari@immi.is>, greg.weston@cbc.ca, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>,
    susan@blueskystrategygroup.com, Don@blueskystrategygroup.com,
    eugene@blueskystrategygroup.com, americas@aljazeera.net
    Cc: "Edith. Cody-Rice"<Edith.Cody-Rice@cbc.ca>, "terry.seguin"
    <terry.seguin@cbc.ca>, acampbell <acampbell@ctv.ca>, whistleblower  <whistleblower@ctv.ca>

    I talked to Don Newman earlier this week before the beancounters David Dodge and Don Drummond now of Queen's gave their spin about Canada's Health Care system yesterday and Sheila Fraser yapped on and on on  CAPAC during her last days in office as if she were oh so ethical.. To be fair to him I just called Greg Weston (613-288-6938) I suggested that he should at least Google SOUCOM and David Amos It would be wise if he check ALL of CBC's sources before he publishes something else about the DND EH Don Newman? Lets just say that the fact  that  your old CBC buddy, Tony Burman is now in charge of Al Jazeera English never impressed me. The fact that he set up a Canadian office is interesting though

    http://www.blueskystrategygroup.com/index.php/team/don-newman/
     
    Anyone can call me back and stress test my integrity after they read
    this simple pdf file. BTW what you Blue Sky dudes pubished about
    Potash Corp and BHP is truly funny. Perhaps Stevey Boy Harper or Brad Wall will fill ya in if you are to shy to call mean old me.
     
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/Integrity-Yea-Right

    The Governor General, the PMO and the PCO offices know that I am not a shy political animal
     
    Veritas Vincit
    David Raymond Amos
    902 800 0369
     
    Enjoy Mr Weston
    http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/news/story/2011/05/15/weston-iraq-invasion-wikileaks.html

    "But Lang, defence minister McCallum's chief of staff, says military
    brass were not entirely forthcoming on the issue. For instance, he
    says, even McCallum initially didn't know those soldiers were helping
    to plan the invasion of Iraq up to the highest levels of command,
    including a Canadian general.
     
    That general is Walt Natynczyk, now Canada's chief of defence staff,
    who eight months after the invasion became deputy commander of 35,000 U.S. soldiers and other allied forces in Iraq. Lang says Natynczyk was also part of the team of mainly senior U.S. military brass that helped prepare for the invasion from a mobile command in Kuwait."
     
    http://baconfat53.blogspot.com/2010/06/canada-and-united-states.html
     
    "I remember years ago when the debate was on in Canada, about there being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Our American 'friends" demanded that Canada join into "the Coalition of the Willing. American "veterans" and sportscasters loudly denounced Canada for NOT buying into the US policy.

    At the time I was serving as a planner at NDHQ and with 24 other of my colleagues we went to Tampa SOUCOM HQ to be involved in the planning in the planning stages of the op....and to report to NDHQ, that would report to the PMO upon the merits of the proposed operation. There was never at anytime an existing target list of verified sites where there were deployed WMD.
     
    Coalition assets were more than sufficient for the initial strike and invasion phase but even at that point in the planning, we were concerned about the number of "boots on the ground" for the occupation (and end game) stage of an operation in Iraq. We were also concerned about the American plans for occupation plans of Iraq because they at that stage included no contingency for a handing over of civil authority to a vetted Iraqi government and bureaucracy.

    There was no detailed plan for Iraq being "liberated" and returned to its people...nor a thought to an eventual exit plan. This was contrary to the lessons of Vietnam but also to current military thought, that folks like Colin Powell and "Stuffy" Leighton and others elucidated upon. "What's the mission" how long is the mission, what conditions are to met before US troop can redeploy?  Prime Minister Jean Chretien and the PMO were even at the very preliminary planning stages wary of Canadian involvement in an Iraq operation....History would prove them correct. The political pressure being applied on the PMO from the George W Bush administration was onerous
     
    American military assets were extremely overstretched, and Canadian military assets even more so It was proposed by the PMO that Canadian naval platforms would deploy to assist in naval quarantine operations in the Gulf and that Canadian army assets would deploy in Afghanistan thus permitting US army assets to redeploy for an Iraqi operation....The PMO thought that "compromise would save Canadian lives and liberal political capital.. and the priority of which  ....not necessarily in that order. "

    You can bet that I called these sneaky Yankees again today EH John
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    Methinks John McCallum's words about the War on Iraq backfired long ago and I proved it in my lawsuit in 2015 Thats why Trudeau shipped him off to China after the last election N'esy Pas?

    https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/01/canadas-ambassador-to-china-says-meng.html




    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mccallum-meng-huawei-china-1.4989235


    Canada's ambassador to China says Meng has strong defence to fight extradition




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    Jay Bertsch 
    Jay Bertsch
    I really don't think an Ambassador should be publicly weighing in an a judicial matter. These words could backfire.



    Ernest Gregson
    Ernest Gregson
    @Jay Bertsch
    Exactly. Trump weighs in-bad. Ex liberal cabinet minister now ambassador weighs in-good.

    Mandel Rooney
    Mandel Rooney
    @Ernest Gregson
    Trump stated he would use her as leverage, indicating this was political and not judicial. The ambassador was talking about the merits of her case. Not quite the same thing.

    Ernest Gregson
    Ernest Gregson
    @Ernest Gregson
    Don’t get me wrong. I believed from the get go that her bail conditions should have permitted travel as long as she solemnly promised to return for the extradition hearing.

    Ernest Gregson
    Ernest Gregson
    @Mandel Rooney
    Agree not the same but both are interfering in the judicial process.

    Jay Bertsch
    Jay Bertsch
    @Mandel Rooney no, Trump is another story as always...on this matter though, imagine if the extradition is granted. China can say "Canada's own ambassador supported her case and Canada is just bending to the will of the US". It makes our judicial process look bias and political. No good can come of that comment.

    Troy Mann
    Troy Mann
    @Jay Bertsch

    He said she has a good case which is 100% truth.

    Penny Catt
    Penny Catt
    @Troy Mann

    It may be 100% true but it's still out of line for him to say anything.

    Troy Mann
    Troy Mann
    @Penny Catt

    Why? He is an ambassador

    Ulanbek Mamatov
    Ulanbek Mamatov
    @Troy Mann He is a political figure representing Canada in China and not a judge.

    Ralph Ashton
    Ralph Ashton
    @Jay Bertsch
    Not only should the ambassador have weighed in ... he (or his government) should have done so since December.

    The three points he raised are quite valid and one hopes the American effort will be thwarted.

    Art Rowe
    Art Rowe
    @Jay Bertsch
    AGREE. First he says there has been no federal involvement BUT then just who is he if not a high ranking federal official?
    He is not judicial in any way, so HE has caused the federals to now be involved.

    Clint Allen
    Clint Allen
    @Jay Bertsch
    Exactly , and as much as Trump weighed in,
    This is currently before the Canadian courts, not American.
    He should stay quiet.

    Keith Burton
    Keith Burton
    @Troy Mann
    JT wanted him out of cabinet so gave him a reward. Off to
    China he went.

    Glen robert
    Glen robert
    @Jay Bertsch
    He is the Ambassador to China nothing more.
    Keep Quiet John

    Matt Thuaii
    Matt Thuaii
    @Jay Bertsch

    He’s saying this judicial matter is solely a judicial matter, and that the federal government is not involved...

    ...which makes perfect sense in light of the misplaced (and likely manufactured) rage toward the federal government on this matter.

    David R. Amos
    David R. Amos
    @Jay Bertsch Methinks John McCallum's words about the War on Iraq backfired long ago and I proved it in my lawsuit in 2015 Thats why Trudeau shipped him off to China after the last election N'esy Pas?


    Al Kennedy
    Al Kennedy
    @David R. Amos
    You have piqued my interest. What was that lawsuit about?


    David R. Amos
    David R. Amos
    @Troy Mann "Why? He is an ambassador"

    Methinks he is an Ambassador because I embarrassed Trudeau with statement 83 of the lawsuitI filed in Federal Court in Fredericton N'esy Pas?

    David R. Amos
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    David R. Amos
    @Al Kennedy "You have piqued my interest. What was that lawsuit about?"

    Thanks for asking Basically I sued as a whistle-blower who was illegally barred from parliamentary properties while running for public office.

    Checkout this comment section

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



    David R. Amos
    David R. Amos
    @Al Kennedy I just noticed that my reply to you was blocked. Try googling David Amos Federal Court







    betty einweiss 
    Steve Prior
    What is McCallum doing even discussing the case let alone giving her a leg up? I had always thought diplomats were suppose to be neutral


    Troy Mann
    Troy Mann
    @Steve Prior

    How is stating she has a good case giving her a leg up? It is pretty blatant she has a good case but it is up to her lawyer to bring it. 100% what the government has been stating.

     
    Byron Whitford
    Byron Whitford
    @david mccaig

    Wrong. The extradition is based on actions Huawai took in 2012 to defraud banks causing them to violate international sanctions on Iran that weren't lifted until 2015.

    Essentially Huawai defrauded the banks (HSBC) which caused them to violate the UN sanctions on Iran in 2012 long before international sanctions were lifted or Trump was even President.
    John Hancock
    John Hancock
    @Steve Prior mcallum is a senile old wind bag who has no purpose being in politics anymore. He’s anti Canadian every time he speaks and has served no purpose other than soaking up taxpayer money far past his due date.



    Troy Mann
    Troy Mann
    @Steve Prior

    He stated a clear fact
    How is stating facts not being neutral?

    Let's face facts here, there is nothing Canada can do that would make you happy, conservatives hate Canada

    David Allan
    David Allan
    @Steve Prior
    " I had always thought diplomats were suppose to be neutral"

    Where did you get that idea?
    It's patently false.

    Do you really think our ambassadors aren't supposed to have our national interest at heart?

    What do you think an ambassador is?

    David Allan
    David Allan
    @david mccaig

    "Thats hilarious if its true"

    What do you mean, "if."

    It was in all the news.

    I can't believe people think they have a valid opinion without even knowing what Meng was arrested for.


    David R. Amos
    David R. Amos 
    @David Allan Methinks many politicians can recall that this is not the first time your hero has been in diplomatic hot water N'esy Pas?

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/weston-canada-offered-to-aid-iraq-invasion-wikileaks-1.1062501

    "From the outset, the Chrétien government said a "few" Canadian soldiers embedded with the U.S. and British militaries as exchange officers would be allowed to remain in their positions, even if they wound up in Iraq.

    While the revelation caused a ruckus in Parliament, it all sounded relatively innocuous at the time.

    But Lang, defence minister McCallum's chief of staff, says military brass were not entirely forthcoming on the issue. For instance, he says, even McCallum initially didn't know those soldiers were helping to plan the invasion of Iraq up to the highest levels of command, including a Canadian general.

    That general is Walt Natynczyk, now Canada's chief of defence staff, who eight months after the invasion became deputy commander of 35,000 U.S. soldiers and other allied forces in Iraq. Lang says Natynczyk was also part of the team of mainly senior U.S. military brass that helped prepare for the invasion from a mobile command in Kuwait.

    The Department of National Defence refused to comment on Natynczyk's role, if any, in the invasion of Iraq."
    David R. Amos 
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    David R. Amos  
    @Troy Mann "conservatives hate Canada"

    Methinks you tell that to all your pals N'esy Pas?

    betty einweiss 
    Leslie Green
    MacCallum is Canada's ambassador to China. He should be working on securing the release of Canadians held in China. Instead of that he seems to be acting as China's ambassador to Canada


    David R. Amos
    David R. Amos
    @Leslie Green YUP









    betty einweiss 
    Carol Becker
    I hope she does get off. The more I read the more I feel the Canadian government was used by the US as scapegoats.


    David R. Amos
    David R. Amos
    @Carol Becker Me Too








    betty einweiss 
    betty einweiss
    hey people..America is our largest trading partner NOT china...some of you may not like Trump but that doesn't change the fact that we need the US more than china


    David R. Amos
    David R. Amos
    @betty einweiss True However methinks that Mr Trump and his minions do not understand the rule of law N'esy Pas?








    betty einweiss 
    Daryl McBride
    This government is terrible at diplomacy.


    David R. Amos
    David R. Amos
    @Daryl McBride True




     


    betty einweiss
    betty einweiss
    regarding his appearance at a news conference with"Canadian Chinese-language media in Markham"
    two sets of messages here? 1) we will uphold the law (for everyone else) or
    2) she has a strong defense - so don't worry ( for people of chinese descent who happen to live in Canada)
    get some balls McCallum, or are you afraid the chinese will grab you next?


    David R. Amos
    David R. Amos
    @betty einweiss Methinks Mr McCallum and his many cohorts wish to forget that the Department of Foreign Affairs did nothing for me when the Yankees threatened to take in to Gitmo in April of 2003 after I won some judgements in Yankee courts and then laughed at me in October of 2004 in a Yankee jail where I was being held in solitary confinement under the charges of "Other" after I ran for a seat in the 38th Parliament N'esy Pas?







    betty einweiss
    Ross Beatty
    Attaboy McCallum, undercut your own citizens who are being brutalized by China.

    Now, if Meng is in fact extradited to the US, the Chinese will use McCallum's comments to justify continued vicious treatment of the Canadian hostages by their Chinese kidnappers.

    What is it with Liberal politicians that they just cannot grasp the concept of whose interests they are supposed to be working for?

    McCallum's ONLY concern should be in obtaining the release of the Canadian hostages.


    David R. Amos
    David R. Amos
    @Ross Beatty I wholeheartedly agree Sir









    betty einweiss
    Marc Desbiens
    McCallum is way out of line. This is a judicial matter, not a political one. The Liberals berated Trump for over stepping the same line. Liberals are caving to Chinese pressure. I would rather a government that represents Canadians!


    David R. Amos
    David R. Amos
    @Marc Desbiens "I would rather a government that represents Canadians!"

    Me Too




    Canada's ambassador to China says Meng has strong defence to fight extradition

    John McCallum says Huawei executive has 'quite good arguments on her side'


    Canadian Ambassador to China John McCallum says Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has good arguments to fight extradition to the United States. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press)

    Canada's top diplomat in China says the Huawei executive arrested in Vancouver at the request of the United States has a strong case to fight extradition.

    Meng Wanzhou, the 46-year-old chief financial officer of the telecom giant, has "quite good arguments on her side," John McCallum said at a news conference with Canadian Chinese-language media in Markham, Ont., on Tuesday.

    "One, political involvement by comments from Donald Trump in her case. Two, there's an extraterritorial aspect to her case, and three, there's the issue of Iran sanctions which are involved in her case, and Canada does not sign on to these Iran sanctions. So I think she has some strong arguments that she can make before a judge," he said in his opening remarks



    McCallum said a judge will ultimately make the decision on whether she should be extradited, and stressed there has been "zero involvement" by the federal government.

    "It's purely a judicial process. There may come a time when the justice minister is required to give a view, but that will not be for some months to come," he said.

    "I know this has angered China, but we have a system of extradition treaty, a system of rules of law, which are above the government. The government cannot change these things, and as I said, I think Ms. Meng has quite a strong case."

    Despite those assurances, the Liberal government to this point has not weighed in on the merits of the case or offered an opinion on the possible legal avenues her counsel could pursue in court.

    In fact, before Tuesday, the government had studiously avoided discussing the facts of the case in public.

    Meng is accused of violating U.S. sanctions against Iran through a Huawei subsidiary.
    Meng's case has drawn international attention, and sparked diplomatic tensions between Canada and China.

    McCallum, who spoke only to Chinese-language journalists Tuesday without providing advanced knowledge to mainstream media outlets, said the Meng case has angered Chinese President Xi Jinping personally.

    "I do know that President Xi Jinping was very angry about this and so others in the Chinese government have taken the lead from him, and I don't know exactly why," McCallum said of the Communist party leader.

    "Maybe it's because Huawei is a national flagship company of China. It's not just any company; it's a special Chinese company. So, maybe that is why he is so angry."

    After McCallum's comments surfaced in the mainstream media early Wednesday, a spokesperson for Freeland said Canada is committed to pursuing a fair and transparent legal proceeding.

    "There has been no political involvement in this process. Canada respects its international legal commitments, including by honouring its extradition treaty with the United States," Adam Austen said.

    Erin O'Toole, the Conservative foreign affairs critic, said McCallum's comments, which were made after a meeting with the prime minister and his cabinet on the matter, inevitably raises questions about political interference in sensitive legal proceedings.

    "Did Trudeau instruct the ambassador to make these statements? Did the Liberals exclude Canadian media from the press conference to limit scrutiny? Why did the ambassador not raise these issues when he met with MPs?" O'Toole tweeted.


    For Ambassador McCallum to comment in detail on the legal merits of an extradition case after closed door meetings with the Liberal cabinet on the subject raises questions of political interference. 1/3 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mccallum-meng-huawei-china-1.4989235 



    "The Conservatives have urged more strategic outreach to Chinese media, but with a focus on the fair process and friendly treatment of Meng Wanzhou without assessing the legal merits of her case," he said.

    David Mulroney, a former Canadian ambassador in China, said McCallum's comments to Chinese-language media were "almost impossible to understand."

    Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying has said Canada and the U.S. had abused the extradition agreement in Meng's case.

    David MacNaughton, Canada's ambassador to the U.S., confirmed to CBC News that U.S. officials have indicated to him they will soon file the formal request needed in the extradition case.

    There is a Jan. 30 deadline to complete this work.


    Canadians detained in China


    Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor have been detained in China in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has described as "arbitrary" detentions in retaliation for Meng's arrest. Chinese officials has said only that the two men are accused of "engaging in activities endangering national security."

    Another Canadian, Robert Schellenberg, recently had his 15-year sentence for drug smuggling changed to a death sentence by a Chinese court after a retrial.

    McCallum said there had been great progress in strengthening Canada-China relations before Meng's case erupted.

    He said while it is a "difficult time" in bilateral relations, officials and business leaders should continue to move forward.

    Canada has issued a travel advisory for China that warns of arbitrary detention, and China has reciprocated with its own warning about Canada. Citing the "arbitrary detention" of a Chinese national at the request of a "third-party country," China asked citizens to "fully evaluate risks" and exercise caution when travelling to Canada.

    McCallum said the government is not saying don't go to China, but rather that each person must make a personal decision after evaluating the situation. If someone has a history of running afoul of Chinese laws, it's probably not a good idea to go, but ordinary tourists or business people should have no reason not to travel there, he said.



    With files from the CBC's Kathleen Harris, Philip Ling and John Paul Tasker







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    news@dailygleaner.com, news919@rogers.com, Michel.Carrier@gnb.ca
    Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, Marc.Martin@nserc-crsng.gc.ca,
    jesse@viafoura.com, marc.martin@snb.ca, darrow.macintyre@cbc.ca,
    support@viafoura.zendesk.com

    Perhaps your lawyers should go Figure how Deschamps wrote this in CBC
    before the lawyer Doucet said it on CBC N'esy Pas?


    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/ambulance-english-french-minister-1.4986645


    Marguerite Deschamps
    Like many other lawyers, Flemming had to be schooled by the experts on
    sections 16 to 20 of the Constitution and thereby revise his
    unconstitutional position.


    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/ambulance-flemming-lord-compromise-1.4988700


    "I believe that somebody at the attorney general's office gave a
    Constitutional 101 course to some politicians in Fredericton,
    explaining that they can't just modify the Canadian Constitution and
    decide not to follow the Official Languages Act based on some whim
    they say in public," Doucet said.




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    Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 21:03:19 +0000
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    As per our conversation in November 2018, I can confirm that I am not
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    > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
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    > Subject: [Request received] I must say the SANB spin doctors had lots
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    > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    > From: "Gallant, Brian (LEG)"<Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca>
    > Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 17:32:21 +0000
    > Subject: RE: I must say the SANB spin doctors had lots to say about
    > Auditor General Kim MacPherson's annual report while CBC blocked me
    > AGAIN N'esy Pas/
    > To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
    >
    > Thank you for writing to the Leader of the Official Opposition of New
    > Brunswick. Please be assured that your e-mail will be reviewed.
    >
    > If this is a media request, please forward your e-mail to
    > ashley.beaudin@gnb.camedia-medias@gnb.ca
    >. Thank you!
    >
    >
    > https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/francophonie-games-update-1.4978580
    >
    > Province sets deadline for signal the Francophonie Games can be saved
    >
    >
    > Marc Martin
    > @David R. Amos
    > Are you sure your talking to the right Marc Martin Davis ? I mean you
    > have contacted two others lol.
    >
    >
    > Marc Martin
    > @David R. Amos
    > Are you talking to me Davis or one of the other Marc Martin ?
    >
    >
    >
    > Marc Martin
    > @Marguerite Deschamps
    > *I don't even have a HEALTH CARE CARD *
    >
    > He should have one, its not normal to think there is only one Marc
    > Martin across Canada....
    >
    >
    > Marc Martin
    > @David R. Amos
    > Come one Davis you know who you are.
    >
    >
    > Marc Martin
    > @Mario Doucet
    > *SANB is playing with fire and could get burned.*
    >
    > It makes me laugh when you target a non-for profit organization with
    > no power only because it French.
    >
    >
    >
    > Marc Martin
    > @David R. Amos
    > Your making no sense again Davis...
    >
    >
    > Marc Martin
    > @David R. Amos
    > Uh Oh Libel right there Davis !!!
    >
    >
    > Marc Martin
    > @David R. Amos
    > *Methinks when your lawyer read my lawsuit he would know that I was
    > barred from the Highland Games in Fat Fred City in 2015 N'esy Pas?*
    >
    > Lawyers ? I think you have the wrong Marc Martin, try the other 2.
    >
    >
    > Marc Martin
    > @cheryl wright
    > *we are absolutely going to riot in the streets.. I will lead us*
    >
    > I don't find that hard to believe, you where part of the anti-French
    > rally's in Fredericton..
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > stephen blunston
    > cancel these gamers already NB can not afford them to begin with even
    > if it was only 10 million, the organisers didn't not give an honest
    > assessment of costs when they planned it so NB should give zero extra
    > dollars take the organserr to court and sue them for lying period . if
    > higgs caves and offer more he is done .. time to stop all the welfare
    > for these types of events the oraganisers and the holders of games
    > whether it is the francaphonie games or Olympic walk away with a lot
    > of cash leaving the taxpayers the bills it is not right and needs to
    > end now« less
    >
    >
    > David R. Amos
    > Content disabled.
    > @stephen blunston "NB should give zero extra dollars take the
    > organserr to court and sue them for lying period"
    >
    > I wholeheartedly agree
    >
    >
    > David R. Amos
    > @stephen blunston Methinks it is strange to be blocked for merely
    > agreeing with you N'esy Pas?
    >
    >
    > Marc Martin
    > @David R. Amos
    >
    > *Methinks it is strange to be blocked for merely agreeing with you N'esy
    > Pas?*
    >
    > If it was for me you would be completely banned.
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > McKenzie King
    > Not sure why we need special games for people just because they speak
    > a certain language. NB is broke. It doesn't have two nickles to rub
    > together or a pot to p**s in, yet we are expected to spend money on
    > this foolishness. If we have to spend money we don't have, let's spend
    > it on something useful, not on something to support differences in
    > people because of the language they speak.
    >
    >
    > Marc Martin
    > @McKenzie King
    >
    > *Not sure why we need special games for people just because they speak
    > a certain language*
    >
    > Anyone could participate in these games regardless of their language...
    >
    >
    > David R. Amos
    > @Marc Martin Methinks not just anyone is making money off of this
    > francophonie nonsense N'esy Pas?
    >
    >
    > Shawn McShane
    > @Marc Martin Au contraire mon frere .
    >
    > Only for New Brunswickers and Canadians, the ones on the hook if this
    > boondoggle goes ahead.
    >
    >
    > Marc Martin
    > @Shawn McShane
    >
    > What does this comment have to do with mine ??
    >
    >
    > David R. Amos
    > @Marc Martin Methinks even you must understand that the dude is making
    > fun of you because the government supported SANB spin doctors have
    > become irrelevant N'esy Pas?
    >
    >
    > Marc Martin
    > @David R. Amos
    >
    > I have no idea what your talking about, maybe the 2 other Marc Martin
    > would know you should contact them lol.
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > Craig O'Donnell
    > Whether it's federal dollars or provincial, it's still taxpayers
    > footing the bill, and I doubt taxpayers in Alberta or Saskatchewan are
    > much interested in paying for games that have no benefit for them.
    >
    >
    > Marc Martin
    > @Craig O'Donnell
    >
    > They didn't complain when the Feds gave the Pan-Am game in Ontario 2 Billion
    > ?
    >
    >
    > Shawn McShane
    > @Marc Martin There is a lesson to learn from games: Two Ontario mayors
    > are calling on Toronto to pick up the tab for cost overruns from the
    > Pan Am Games. Ontario's auditor general said Wednesday the games came
    > in $342 million over budget, with more than $5 million being spent on
    > performance bonuses...Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley has long opposed
    > funding the games, calling the event a "tremendous waste."
    >
    >
    > David R. Amos
    > @Marc Martin Methinks nobody believes you N'esy Pas?
    >
    >
    > Marc Martin
    > @David R. Amos
    >
    > Are you sure your talking to the right Marc Martin Davis ? I mean you
    > have contacted two others lol.
    >
    >
    > David R. Amos
    > @Marc Martin Methinks everybody know who you are by now N'esy Pas?
    >
    >
    > Marc Martin
    > @David R. Amos
    >
    > I think your the only one who thinks knows who I am...
    >
    >
    > David R. Amos
    > @Marc Martin Methinks even you must understand about IP addresses N'esy
    > Pas?
    >
    >
    >
    > On 1/16/19, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
    >> https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/01/methinks-many-folks-would-agree-that.html
    >>
    >>
    >> Tuesday, 15 January 2019
    >>
    >> Methinks many folks would agree that Robert Gauvin and Dominic Leblanc
    >> deserve each other
    >>
    >> https://twitter.com/DavidRayAmos/with_replies
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> David Raymond Amos‏ @DavidRayAmos
    >> Replying to @DavidRayAmos @Kathryn98967631 and 49 others
    >> Methinks many folks would agree that Robert Gauvin and Dominic Leblanc
    >> deserve each other and would easily understand why I am honoured that
    >> they both hate me as well N'esy Pas?
    >>
    >>
    >>  #nbpoli #cdnpoli
    >>
    >>
    >> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/francophonie-games-update-1.4978580
    >>
    >>
    >> Province sets deadline for signal the Francophonie Games can be saved
    >> Cost of games ballooned to $130 million from $17 million
    >> Jacques Poitras · CBC News · Posted: Jan 15, 2019 2:08 PM AT
    >>
    >>
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    >> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 22:18:45 +0000
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    How a former PC premier helped forge the Higgs government's ambulance compromise

    Medavie CEO Bernard Lord key to new Ambulance New Brunswick policy


    Bernard Lord, CEO of Medavie and former premier, received a call from Health Minister Ted Flemming seeking advice on bilingual hiring requirements for paramedics. (Radio-Canada)

    A phone call the day before Christmas from Health Minister Ted Flemming to a former Progressive Conservative premier opened the door to solving a thorny political dilemma involving language rights and health care.

    Flemming made the call less than a week after his brusque performance at a news conference announcing a new directive that Ambulance New Brunswick weaken bilingual hiring requirements for paramedics.

    At that Dec. 18 announcement, the minister dismissed questions about constitutionally protected language rights as "some academic discussion of the legal nuances" and said francophones who need ambulances in anglophone regions "don't live in a perfect world."



    That provoked alarm, and talk of lawsuits, among francophones. The province and its new Progressive Conservative government seemed destined for a protracted legal and political confrontation over bilingualism.
    Six days later, Flemming called Bernard Lord, the former premier whose government passed the 2002 Official Languages Act and who is now CEO of Medavie, the company that administers Ambulance New Brunswick.

    "He was seeking improvements to what was in place," Lord recalled. "He had a clear objective. And based on that conversation, we agreed to have more conversations. He included other people in that conversation."

    Aftermath of combative announcement


    One of those other people was Michel Carrier, the acting commissioner of official languages, who had warned publicly that Flemming's solution would violate the legal requirement for services "of equal quality" in both languages throughout the province.

    Carrier said when he heard from Flemming early in January, the minister was no longer using the combative tone of his Dec. 18 news conference.


    Michel Carrier, the acting commissioner of official languages, met with Health Minister Ted Flemming after his combative Dec. 18 news conference. (Radio-Canada)
    "Minister Flemming did not have an adversarial approach," Carrier recalled. "He said to me, 'I think I understand the concerns and we can fix this. Let's see if we can put something together to fix it.'"
    Soon the three men were working together to replace the provocative Dec. 18 directive.

    Carrier said Lord's experience as premier was key to the eventual solution.
    "He is well aware of language rights, how they have been interpreted by the courts, what they mean to New Brunswick and what they mean to both linguistic communities," Carrier said.

    Perilous political footing


    Navigating the politics of bilingual ambulance service has been perilous for the Tories, who are governing without a majority in the legislature.

    They've been relying on the support of the three MLAs from the People's Alliance. It demanded that the province implement a 2018 labour ruling by arbitrator John McEvoy that found seniority rights of non-permanent unilingual paramedics were being violated when they weren't placed in vacant bilingual positions.

    The Alliance wanted unilingual paramedics hired to fill vacant, designated-bilingual positions for which there were no bilingual candidates.


    Premier Blaine Higgs' minority government has been relying on the support of the three MLAs from the People's Alliance, who demanded the province implement the John McEvoy ruling. (CBC)
    In December, Flemming told Ambulance New Brunswick to comply with McEvoy's suggestion of bypassing the bilingualism requirement in regions where there is less demand for second-language service, which Carrier quickly labelled contrary to the law.

    Carrier said when Flemming called him the following month and asked for help, he agreed immediately.
    It's not easy to find a solution that works, that is better for everyone.- Bernard Lord, CEO of Medavie
    "The commissioner's role is to advise the government," Carrier said. "We can do it in public or we can do it behind the scenes. I've always believed the way to move things forward is to have frank discussions with the key players."

    The negotiations came to a head in a meeting at Medavie's Moncton head office on Jan. 11, attended by Carrier, Flemming, Lord, Ambulance New Brunswick CEO Richard Losier and Deputy Premier Robert Gauvin.
    "It's not easy to find a solution that works," Lord said, "that is better for everyone, that improves the services for people, that is offered in both official languages, improves working conditions, and that is acceptable to all political parties, and acceptable to the languages commissioner and acceptable to the workers."

    The compromise


    The five men developed a plan that became Flemming's Jan. 18 letter to Medavie. Lord said it "supersedes" the earlier Dec. 18 directive.

    It replaces the relaxing of hiring requirements with a new model: a "float team" of unilingual paramedics in permanent, full-time positions who will fill bilingual-designated positions until a bilingual paramedic can be found.

    The solution plugs holes in the system, maintains a commitment to eventually having at least one bilingual paramedic on every ambulance crew, and means permanent, full-time jobs for unilingual paramedics.


    While the compromise doesn't go as far as implementing the arbitrator ruling, People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin said 'the outcome's the same.' (CBC)
    That last point was key to winning the support of Alliance Leader Kris Austin, who met with Flemming several times. Austin said Tuesday that even the province abandoning the McEvoy proposal, his goals have been met.

    "The outcome's the same," Austin said. "If I were in government today, I would have implemented McEvoy's ruling without hesitation. However, in a minority government, it gets back to give and take.
    "But the objective is the same: unilingual paramedics will be receiving permanent full-time work which means there are more boots on the ground."

    He shrugged off Flemming's letter that says the goal remains that "every emergency 911 ambulance unit be a bilingual unit."
    If I were in government today, I would have implemented McEvoy's ruling without hesitation.- People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin
    "It's an unreasonable goal, but if that's what they want to put on paper, have at it," Austin said.

    While Austin said the outcome is the same, Lord said the two directives are very different. The new version respects the law because "the bilingual positions remain bilingual" even if they are temporarily filled with unilingual "float" paramedics.

    Upcoming judicial review


    Lord's comments this week were the first time he has spoken to reporters since Flemming's Dec. 18 announcement. During those four weeks, Medavie refused to say how or even whether it would implement the weaker hiring standards.

    Michel Doucet, a retired University of Moncton law professor and an expert on language rights, said Lord "certainly played a very important role in having the government modify its position. … He certainly has a good knowledge of the obligations under that act."

    Doucet also believes Thursday's scheduled judicial review of the McEvoy decision forced the province to reconsider its position.


    A judicial review is scheduled Thursday to determine if McEvoy's ruling violated the language law and Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees of bilingual government services in New Brunswick. (Radio-Canada/Guy R. LeBlanc)
     
    The judicial review Thursday was sought by the previous Liberal government to determine if McEvoy's ruling violated the language law and Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees of bilingual government services in New Brunswick.

    "I believe that somebody at the attorney general's office gave a Constitutional 101 course to some politicians in Fredericton, explaining that they can't just modify the Canadian Constitution and decide not to follow the Official Languages Act based on some whim they say in public," Doucet said.
    Doucet said Monday's announcement brings the situation back to when Ambulance New Brunswick was created in 2008, with the organization setting bilingual service as its goal but with obstacles to getting there.

    Flemming was not available to comment on his new directive, but Lord said it's the minister who deserves the credit for making the initial phone calls. "He decided to bring us together," Lord 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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