MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes quits Liberal caucus

March 22, 2019, 11:10 am

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Methinks Trudeau was upset because the lady was bailing out on him before the election because she knew any liberal could not be reelected in her riding N'esy Pas?

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MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes quits Liberal caucus

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces Ontario MP's departure after weekly caucus meeting

Kathleen Harris· CBC News· Posted: Mar 20, 2019 2:26 PM ET

Celina Caesar-Chavannes has quit the Liberal caucus. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press)

Whitby, Ont. MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes has quit the Liberal caucus and will sit as an independent, prompting Conservative attacks calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a "fake feminist."
Trudeau announced her decision after the weekly caucus meeting.

"I have just been notified by my office that Celina Caesar-Chavannes has decided to sit as an independent. I want to thank her for her service to the Liberal Party and to her constituents, and wish her the best in her continued service to her constituents," he said.

Caesar-Chavannes, who had announced already that she will not run in the October election, attended today's Liberal caucus meeting.
She told the Globe and Mail that when she first told Trudeau about her plan not to seek re-election, he became hostile towards her.

"He was yelling. He was yelling that I didn't appreciate him, that he'd given me so much," Caesar-Chavannes told the newspaper.

The Prime Minister's Office insisted that Trudeau displayed "absolutely no hostility" in the exchange.
Leaving Parliament Hill this afternoon, Caesar-Chavannes said that the Globe and Mail interview was the reason for her departure from caucus.

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Celina Caesar-Chavannes on leaving Liberal Caucus

The Whitby, Ontario MP spoke with the CBC's Chris Rands after Question Period on Wednesday 1:24

"I think it's important to understand that while I support the values and principles of the Liberal Party, that it might be good, since that message did go out, that I sit as an independent for the rest of the term that I'm here," she told CBC News.

Philpott faced 'tough' questions from Liberal MPs in Wednesday's regional caucus meeting

PMO denies 'hostility' in Trudeau's interactions with Liberal MP

Caesar-Chavannes said that while she loves representing her constituents, she did not want to cause them any more "grief" — especially those who are strong Liberal supporters.

When asked if she and Trudeau are "OK" with each other now, she declined comment.

MP Celina

✔@MPCelina

The interview I gave last week to the Globe and Mail has had unintended effects on those I care about. Although that was not the intention, it was the consequence, and I am sorry. I no longer want to distract from the great work my caucus colleagues are doing. Love and hugs, C.

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4:15 PM - Mar 20, 2019· Ottawa, Ontario

On Twitter, she said the Globe interview had "unintended effects" on people she cared about.
"Although that was not the intention, it was the consequence, and I am sorry. I no longer want to distract from the great work my caucus colleagues are doing," she tweeted.

On Mar. 7, Caesar-Chavannes issued a cryptic tweet quoting the prime minister:

"'I believe real leadership is about listening, learning & compassion ... central to my leadership is fostering an environment where my Ministers, caucus & staff feel comfortable coming to me when they have concerns.'

"I did come to you recently. Twice. Remember your reactions?"

MP Celina

✔@MPCelina

“I believe real leadership is about listening, learning & compassion...central to my leadership is fostering an environment where my Ministers, caucus & staff feel comfortable coming to me when they have concerns” I did come to you recently. Twice. Remember your reactions?

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11:36 AM - Mar 7, 2019

The MP's Liberal Party website has been shut down.

Trudeau called 'fake feminist'

In the House of Commons, Conservative House Leader Candice Bergen said the development is more evidence that Trudeau doesn't live up to his feminist statements.

"When he silences women, when he yells and screams at them, when he says that their experiences are just different perspectives, he is demeaning all women and showing what a fake feminist he is," she said.

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Conservative MPs accuse Trudeau of 'fake feminism'

In the House of Commons, Conservative MPs Candice Bergen and Lisa Rempel challenged Trudeau on his feminism 2:27

Trudeau shot back that he would be "delighted" if Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer defended women's causes, including a woman's right to abortion.

"If the leader of the Opposition wants to be a better feminist than me, I wish him good luck. That would be a great thing," he said.

Scheer commented on Caesar-Chavannes quitting caucus as he left Parliament Hill.

Ontario Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes not running in October election

Jane Philpott resigns from cabinet, citing loss of 'confidence' over government's handling of SNC-Lavalin

"Clearly, the real Justin Trudeau's come out ... the way he's been treating people who have expressed their concerns to him, who have stood up to him," he said. "It's just another example of his lack of leadership."

During an afternoon event in Orléans, Ont. to promote the affordable housing measures in Tuesday's federal budget, Trudeau said the government should be judged on its actions. He said the Liberals have consistently invested in women's programs and advanced an equality agenda.

"We continue every day to stand up for gender equality and opportunities for women, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it's the economically smart thing to do," he said. "That is what we will continue to do, and we will take no lessons from the Conservatives on standing up for women's rights."

The Trudeau government has seen several high-profile departures since the SNC-Lavalin controversy first broke in February. (CBC News)

Bergen said later that a pattern is emerging in Trudeau's interactions with women in his caucus. She pointed to Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott, both of whom have resigned from cabinet but remain in the Liberal caucus.

Minister of Democratic Institutions Karina Gould accused the Conservatives of "hypocrisy" for suggesting the Liberal government is not feminist. She said there is a "clear and concerted difference" in the way Conservatives treat women Liberal cabinet ministers in the Commons, heckling them more often than they do male cabinet ministers.

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"As they stand there and try to discredit the numerous actions that we've taken to support women both here at home and abroad, they are also shutting down women when they're speaking," she said.
Wilson-Raybould praised Caesar-Chavannes.

"I think Celina's an extraordinary person, a great MP," she said.

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Trudeau on Celina Caesar-Chavannes resignation

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces that Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes has stepped down from the Liberal caucus and will now sit as an independent MP. 0:16

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Dave MacDonald
Two female cabinet ministers have quit and two other female MP's have left the party in the last 6 months . Seems Justin has a big problem with women .

David R. Amos
Reply to @Dave MacDonald: "Seems Justin has a big problem with women"

Surprise Surprise Surprise

David R. Amos
Reply to @William Wilder: "I believe most people would call it integrity, a quality that seems to be missing with Trudeau and his Liberals."

I Wholeheartedly Agree particularly after dealing with the offices of Dion and Legault his politically appointed parliamentary ethics dudes again today

David R. Amos
Reply to @Ron Brady: "Please don't quote articles from the toronto star."

Methinks desperate liberals post desperate things N'esy Pas?

Brett Hol
Even if you are a Liberal supporter...you gotta admit this is getting completely out of hand.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Earl Sargent: "Ethics and truth is not their strong points."

Methinks that holds true for all political parties N'esy Pas?

Richard Hirschfield
“"He was yelling. He was yelling that I didn't appreciate him, that he'd given me so much," Caesar-Chavannes told the newspaper.”

Utterly believable.

David R. Amos

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Reply to @Rick Ellis: "Do you think that she could be lying or exaggerating? "

Who cares? The fact is CBC says she quit the Liberal caucus. Methinks she got the boot N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Richard Hirschfield: “"He was yelling. He was yelling that I didn't appreciate him, that he'd given me so much,"

Methinks he was upset because she was bailing out on him before the election because she knew any liberal could not be reelected in her riding N'esy Pas?

Dave MacDonald:
Our feminist PM is a fake . From Creston to this latest case today we see how he really treats women

Scott Stevens.
Reply to @Dave MacDonald:
You mean giving women cabinet posts and parading them around as a feminist victory only to have it blow up in your face because they don't roll over like the old boys club used to isn't working?

david kirby
Reply to @Scott Stevens:
Oh but they still have Maryam Monsef to parade, she clearly is the upcoming star of the Liberal party.

David R. Amos
Reply to @david kirby: Methinks thou doth jest too much N'esy Pas?

Don Oard
For the good of this country Trudeau needs to resign.

Derek Golota
Reply to @Don Oard: JT is too proud , ego won't let him. He's crashing and taking Lib party with him.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Derek Golota: Methinks you forgot that Trudeau The Younger became leader after Iggy and Rae had run the Liberal party into the ground. If he manages to win even a minority mandate in October after the SNC Scandal what does the say of Harper 2.0? It should be a small wonder as to why I am looking forward to running again N'esy Pas?

Chelsea Lang
I applaud you for this Ms Caesar-Chavannes, I’m not a Liberal supporter but I sure do respect anyone with a moral compass. Thank you for your service to Canadians.

Louisa Walker
Reply to @Chelsea Lang:
Neither are her constituents. She couldn’t be re elected so she’s taking a runner.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Louisa Walker: "She couldn’t be re elected so she’s taking a runner."
I agree

Darren MacDonald
A self-proclaimed feminist disrespecting strong women again and again, the jig is up.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Darren MacDonald: Methinks the fat lady ain't sung about this issue N'esy Pas?

Ugo Ball
The revolving doors are getting faster and faster... who's next ?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Ugo Ball: "who's next ?"

Survey Says???

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Philpott and Wilson-Raybould can speak freely on SNC-Lavalin in Commons, says former House law clerk

March 22, 2019, 12:14 pm

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Methinks the Jane and Jody Tag Team should join Maxime's new party right after they fess up about what they know about Federal Court File No T-1557-15 N'esy Pas?

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Philpott and Wilson-Raybould can speak freely on SNC-Lavalin in Commons, says former House law clerk

'In my view they are totally at liberty to say whatever they want' - Rob Walsh

Peter Zimonjic, Vassy Kapelos· CBC News· Posted: Mar 21, 2019 7:36 PM ET

Jane Philpott (right) listens to former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould respond back in April 14, 2016. According to a former law clerk of the House, both can say whatever they want in the Commons, without penalty. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)

For the past 24 hours, opposition MPs in the House of Commons have staged a series of consecutive confidence votes in an effort to pressure the Liberal government to let former attorney general and justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould answer more questions before a committee of MPs.

According to a former law clerk of the House, however, that pressure tactic may not have been necessary: Wilson-Raybould and her former cabinet colleague Jane Philpott — who resigned from cabinet in protest over the government's handling of the SNC-Lavalin file — can say whatever they want in the Commons, without penalty.

"If they are speaking in the House, or in a committee proceeding, they are absolutely protected by the law of parliamentary privilege and no legal proceedings of any kind can be brought against them based on what they say in the House or in House committee proceedings," Rob Walsh told host Vassy Kapelos today in an interview with CBC News Network's Power & Politics.

"In my view they are totally at liberty to say whatever they want in the House or in appearing before a committee … Doesn't matter what it is. The right is absolute."

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Former House of Commons law clerk @toccataprima says Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott can speak freely on the SNC-Lavalin affair under parliamentary privilege: "They are totally at liberty to say whatever they want in the House or appearing before a committee."

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5:54 PM - Mar 21, 2019

Walsh was the law clerk and parliamentary counsel for the House of Commons from 1999 to 2012. In that role he was responsible for providing legal services to the Speaker, MPs and committees, and represented MPs in proceedings that involve parliamentary privileges and immunities.

Walsh was offering his insights into the limitations (or lack of them) that affect Wilson-Raybould's ability to say more about her role in the SNC-Lavalin affair and her reasons for resigning from the federal cabinet.

Trudeau defends actions as Philpott asks if Wilson-Raybould was sidelined over SNC-Lavalin

Philpott faced 'tough' questions from Liberal MPs in Wednesday's regional caucus meeting

Last month, Wilson-Raybould appeared before the Commons justice committee to answer questions about a Globe and Mail report citing unnamed sources that alleged the minister was pushed by senior people in the Trudeau government to allow the Quebec engineering firm SNC-Lavalin to avoid criminal prosecution on fraud and bribery charges by meeting a number of conditions laid out in a remediation agreement.

Once before the committee, Wilson-Raybould told MPs that she had been improperly pressured by 11 officials in the Prime Minister's Office to reverse a decision that denied SNC-Lavalin access such an agreement.

Wilson-Raybould also told MPs that when she was shuffled out of her post in January, she felt it was because she had blocked the remediation deal — a charge PMO officials deny.

The waiver

When MPs asked the former justice minister why she resigned from cabinet, she said she could not answer that question — because speaking publicly about what happened after she was moved to the Veterans Affairs portfolio would not be covered by the waiver issued by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The waiver (which actually was issued by the Governor General in Council on a recommendation from the prime minister) said Wilson-Raybould was free to tell the committee any cabinet confidences related to her decision on SNC-Lavalin.

That same waiver also said that she could discuss the decision to deny SNC-Lavalin a remediation agreement — even if, in doing so, she had to reveal legal advice provided to government or discussions she had with government officials that may have been covered by solicitor-client privilege.

Michael Wernick to step down as clerk of Privy Council, cites lack of 'mutual trust' with opposition

Liberals on justice committee say it's time to end SNC-Lavalin probe

Once the waiver was made public, Wilson-Raybould, who has hired retired Supreme Court justice Thomas Cromwell to advise her, published a letter on her MP website saying she still could not speak freely.

"The OIC addresses only my time as attorney general of Canada and therefore does nothing to release me from any restrictions that apply to communications while I served as minister of veterans affairs and in relation to my resignation from that post or my presentation to cabinet after I had resigned," she wrote.

Opposition outrage

When Wilson-Raybould was asked by committee members if she would return to answer further questions, she said she would.

When opposition MPs on the committee subsequently heard contradictory evidence from the former clerk of the Privy Council, Michael Wernick, and Trudeau's former principle secretary Gerry Butts, they put forward a motion asking for Wilson-Raybould to return and rebut.

The Liberal majority on the committee voted that request down and, earlier this week, also voted to end the inquiry into whether Wilson-Raybould was improperly pressured, arguing that "Canadians now have the necessary information to arrive at a conclusion."

The decision to shut down the committee inquiry prompted outrage from Conservatives and New Democrats. The Conservative Opposition staged a protest in the Commons this week, tangling the governing Liberals up in a marathon voting session and offering to end it only if Trudeau agrees to let Wilson-Raybould speak.

SNC-Lavalin's criminal trial

But Walsh, an expert in parliamentary privilege, said that Wilson-Raybould could have said whatever she wanted before the committee, regardless of whether or not it violated cabinet confidences or solicitor-client privilege — and she can do so now as well.

The only limitation still facing the former minister, Walsh said, is one of time. As a member of the Liberal caucus, he said, Wilson-Raybould would have to be put on a list given to the Speaker by the government side in order to be given time to speak in the Commons.

Walsh said there are a number of ways Wilson-Raybould could work around that limitation, although he didn't offer specifics.

Former Speaker Peter Milliken told CBC News that an MP can rise in the House of Commons to raise a point of order or a question of privilege, make the argument that their ability to speak freely or act as an MP has been hampered, and then make an extended argument.

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Former House of Commons law clerk @toccataprima says he doesn't see any significant legal consequences for Jody Wilson-Raybould or Jane Philpott if they were to break cabinet confidence OUTSIDE of parliamentary privilege on the SNC-Lavalin affair.

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6:23 PM - Mar 21, 2019

Milliken said the Speaker can cut that MP off if the MP wanders off-topic, but most often the MP is given latitude to make at least an initial 15-minute argument.

Jennifer Quaid, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, points out that while Wilson-Raybould would not be sanctioned in any way for what she says in the Commons, her words could have an impact on SNC-Lavalin's ongoing criminal trial.

"In the same way that you might argue that other things that happen outside of the trial might affect the fairness of the trial, so too you might refer to things that happen in the House of Commons. I don't think the House of Commons offers any cover," she said.

"The question that arises, of course, is on what basis (the defence is) arguing that the fairness of the trial has been affected. And that would have some relationship with your chances of success."

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David Fletcher

JWR and Philpott need to say whatever they have to say and get it over with. The Liberal caucus need to remove them shortly after. With any luck the Conservatives can have them since they are such fans now.

David R. Amos

Reply to @David Fletcher: Methinks the Jane and Jody Tag Team should join Maxime's new party right after they fess up about what they know about Federal Court File No T-1557-15 N'esy Pas?

Marc Poitras

"According to a former law clerk of the House ... Wilson-Raybould and her former cabinet colleague Jane Philpott ... can say whatever they want in the Commons, without penalty."

Hmmm, so apparently JWR wasn't aware of this. And neither was Trudeau since we would have signed a complete waiver or told her she didn't need any waiver. And neither was any of the opposition members who accepted her statement that the waiver didn't cover the questions being asked.

So, basically, nobody else in the entire parliament was aware that she didn't need a waiver except for this one former law clerk. Or maybe, just maybe, the former law clerk is just plain wrong. Occam's razor.

David R. Amos

Reply to @Marc Poitras "According to a former law clerk of the House "

Methinks even Trudeau knows that I encountered the parliamentary counsel Rob Walsh many times when Harper was the PM and and he always acted against me Why else would I sue the Crown in 2015 N'esy Pas?

Jamie Gillis

I do look forward to hearing the rest of what she has to say. I fully support her. But I do have to admit I enjoy watching Trudeau's fan club become more vicious by the day. It's like a social experiment. How vile can they become?

David R. Amos

Reply to @Jamie Gillis: "I do have to admit I enjoy watching Trudeau's fan club become more vicious by the day. It's like a social experiment. How vile can they become?"

Methinks you should read your own words sometime N'esy Pas?

Jamie Gillis

Reply to @David R. Amos:

Oh, I don't think I'm that bad.

Lucas Williams

"former" being the operative word here...a has-been legal mouthpiece with nothing to lose but wanting some self-promotional national air time.
CBC is playing this up to appear that Trudeau is innocent again...
Why doesn't Trudeau publicly give JWR and Philpott absolute freedom to speak; what is he so scared of that he continues to muzzle these two women?

David R. Amos

Reply to @Lucas Williams: Methinks this article kinda sorta proves that the Tag Team of Jane and Jody are muzzling themselves in a rather selective fashion N'esy Pas?

Davee Foster

Trudeau musta studied the movie Dodgeball. Dodge, duck, dip, dive and...dodge.

David R. Amos

Reply to @Davee Foster: Methinks the Ghost of Charles Dickens likely considers Gerry Butts as a modern form of the "Artful Dodger" N'esy Pas?

Don Cameron

Philpott covered this question at length in her interview with Maclean's.
Reader's Digest version. It's technically possible, but not as easy as it seems.
Here's what she had to say:
"In terms of speaking in the House and using parliamentary privilege as a cover, it is technically possible. It’s easier said than done. Even SO-31s are sometimes sought-after spots, and I don’t think this is something that, you know, you’re going to be able to explain in a few minutes. We got four hours of testimony from the former AG, and I think there’s still a substantial amount of her story that’s not out there. I doubt that I would get four hours of time, or she would, or others would, to be able to explain the story in the House of Commons."

David R. Amos

Reply to @Don Cameron: Methinks the lady could say want needs to be said in less than a minute then call the RCMP herself N'esy Pas?

Keith Laughton

I do find it amazing that so many posters are defending the self-declared feminist Mr Trudeau by attacking the competence and integrity of a pair of his star female candidates from 2015.

Cognitive dissonance anyone?

Regards,

David R. Amos

Reply to @Keith Laughton: "Cognitive dissonance anyone?"

Methinks all political parties rely on it and greed and apathy as well N'esy Pas?

Don Cameron:

"As a member of the Liberal caucus, he said, Wilson-Raybould would have to be put on a list given to the Speaker by the government side in order to be given time to speak in the Commons."

In other words, JWR and Philpott would still need Trudeau to agree to put them on the list to be given time to speak. If that actually happened, they would only have a couple of minutes to talk.

It's doubtful either one of them would be able to say what they want to say in 2 minutes. This is all going to come out one way or another. Probably in a way that makes Trudeau very unhappy.

David R. Amos

Reply to @Don Cameron: "It's doubtful either one of them would be able to say what they want to say in 2 minutes."

Methinks they could say all that needs to be said within a two minute call to another lady who is the current Commissioner of the RCMP N'esy Pas?

wal wiseman

Reply to @David R. Amos: Maybe they already have. How do we know that the RCMP are not already investigating this fiasco?

David R. Amos

Reply to @wal wiseman: "do we know that the RCMP are not already investigating this fiasco?"

Methinks I know for sure it because I have been contacting both of these ladies and the RCMP for years about Federal Court File No T-1557-15 yet everybody is still trying to play dumb today Anyone can Google their names and mine N'esy Pas?

Bill Nest

As a card carrying Liberal, I ask JWR and Philpott to stand up in the HOC, or give them a waiver to make a public announcement. The continual running to the media with innuendo is doing more harm to the party than anything they might say.

David R. Amos

Reply to @Bill Nest: "The continual running to the media with innuendo is doing more harm to the party than anything they might say. "

Methinks it should be fairly obvious to most folks why I always run as an Independent N'esy Pas?

Darren MacDonald

Open up the "non partisan" committee, let them speak.

David R. Amos

Reply to @Darren MacDonald: Good luck with that demand

Mike Miles

Speak the truth and nothing can happen but good things for Canada. They will have your back. Meanwhile JT will say and do anything for votes.

David R. Amos

Reply to @Mike Miles: Meanwhile JT will say and do anything for votes.

Methinks all the political party leaders are doing the same N'esy Pas?

Harold Baines

On and on drags the cover up.

David R. Amos

Reply to @Harold Baines: Welcome to the Circus

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Wilson-Raybould to provide emails, texts and written statement on SNC-Lavalin affair

March 22, 2019, 2:32 pm

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Wilson-Raybould to provide emails, texts and written statement on SNC-Lavalin affair

Liberal-dominated committee shut down study of allegations of political interference in criminal case

Kathleen Harris· CBC News· Posted: Mar 22, 2019 11:11 AM ET

Jody Wilson Raybould at the justice committee meeting in Ottawa on Feb. 27, where she testified about the SNC-Lavalin controversy. She now says she'll provide a written statement and copies of text messages and emails to the committee. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press )

Jody Wilson-Raybould says she will provide a written statement and copies of text messages and emails to the Commons justice committee that shut down its probe of the SNC-Lavalin affair.

This week, the Liberal MPs who hold the majority on the committee voted to close down the inquiry without recalling the former attorney general and justice minister to testify a second time in response to other witnesses.

In a letter today to the committee chair, Liberal MP Anthony Housefather, Wilson-Raybould said she would respond to a request to provide copies of texts and emails she cited in her Feb. 27 testimony before the committee.

"Related to these requests, I also have relevant facts and evidence in my possession that further clarify statements I made and elucidate the accuracy and nature of statements by witnesses in testimony that came after my committee appearance," she wrote.

"As such, in response to these requests, and consistent with the standard practice of the committee of receiving written submissions, I will be providing a written submission to the committee in relation to matters within the confines of the waiver of cabinet confidence and solicitor-client privilege."

Philpott and Wilson-Raybould can speak freely on SNC-Lavalin in Commons, says former House law clerk

Philpott faced 'tough' questions from Liberal MPs in Wednesday's regional caucus meeting

Housefather said submissions to the committee are not automatically made public but it's the committee's general practice to do so — except in the case of personal information, such as cell phone numbers or email addresses, which would be redacted.

Political wrangling over claims that PMO officials and others in government inappropriately pressured the former attorney general to override a decision to prosecute SNC-Lavalin on bribery charges overshadowed the Liberal budget this week.

The Conservatives triggered a marathon vote in the Commons that lasted 31 hours to protest the Liberals' decision to shut down the committee before bringing back Wilson-Raybould.

Adding to the uproar was a Maclean's interview with former cabinet minister Jane Philpott, in which she insisted there is "much more" to the SNC-Lavalin story and the Canadian public deserves to know more.

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Jack Cracker
Until she gets to speak again the only logical choice for me is to assume guilt of the Liberal Party.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Jack *******: "the only logical choice for me is to assume guilt of the Liberal Party"

Methinks folks should never forget that the lady lawyer is still a member of the Liberal Party N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Jack *******: Whats with your name?

Cecil Row
Jody Wilson Raybould, you will forever be a hero to us. Thank you for standing firm truth sayer!

David R. Amos
Reply to @Cecil Row: "Jody Wilson Raybould, you will forever be a hero to us"

Who is "us" ???

Wes Ballantine
Reply to @Cecil Row: And you know she’s telling the truth how exactly?
Because it fits YOUR narrative?
Regardless, the questions have been raised so there should be a full enquiry into this, and that includes the AGs behaviour as well.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Wes Ballantine: "Regardless, the questions have been raised so there should be a full enquiry into this, and that includes the AGs behaviour as well."

YUP Methinks the first question I would ask her in an enquiry is why did she have her minions attack me in Federal Court N'esy Pas?

Cecil Row
Reply to @David R. Amos: those who care about the integrity of our justice system above politics. That and the overwhelming majority of posts in recent weeks supporting this.

David R. Amos
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Reply to @Cecil Row: Are you saying I don't?

Go Figure

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

David R. Amos
Reply to @Cecil Row: Need I say that I was not surprised to see that my reply to you insult was blocked?

William Carrol
KABOOM out goes Trudeau's lights, is government will fall by next week........its all over Justin!

David R. Amos
Reply to @William Carrol: Dream on

Jason Tremblay (JasonDiggy)
Reply to @Edward O'Brien:

She can stand on parliamentary privilege and spill all.

Enough with her and the CONs’ drama.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Jason Tremblay (JasonDiggy): "Enough with her and the CONs’ drama."

I agree

Chris commishavich
JWR says she has proof and is willing to disclose it. Good for her, However you know that the Liberals will kill any attempt to have this proof become public knowledge.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Chris commishavich: "the Liberals will kill any attempt to have this proof become public knowledge."

Methinks that is impossible Everybody knows the Goble and Mail would be willing to publish anything JWR gives them in a heartbeat N'esy Pas?

Mac Lester
each and every day this SNC issue gets more and more interesting, liberals can't shake it away

Adam Gajewski
Reply to @Mac Lester:
JT cannot handle SNC file or any other file crossing his desk. Saudi file - FAIL, Trans Mountain file - FAIL, China file - FAIL, electoral reforms - FAIL. And so on... FAIL

David R. Amos
Reply to @Adam Gajewski: Methinks Trudeau's only achievement was legalizing dope for his fans N'esy Pas?

James Watson
The Trudeau Regime's desperate cover up continues - Canadians are fed up with this abusive behaviour.

Pablo Wall
Reply to @Steve Vaughan:
Some posters like claiming they speak for many Canadians. When I see claims like that I remember Doug Ford claiming he speaks for all Ontarians before he was elected.
I can speak for myself and don't speak for others that I have never met.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Pablo Wall: "I can speak for myself and don't speak for others that I have never met."

Me Too

Stacey Bindman
"Jody Wilson-Raybould says she will provide a written statement and copies of text messages and emails to the Commons justice committee that shut down its probe into the SNC-Lavalin affair."

I hope the written statement is in addition to the text messages and e-mails.
I also want the "Justice" Committee to make these documents public, and to allow an open and televised (to the public) view of what will be going on. The Liberals may try to blockade the Conservatives in the justice committee, but if they want this story to go away, they have to be open to all Canadians!

David R. Amos
Reply to @Stacey Bindman: Methinks everybody knows that I published my communications etc with Jody Wilson Raybould and her many minions in the Justice Dept Anyone can Google her name and mine N'esy Pas?

Gerry Atrich
We may find out why those top Liberals resigned after all .

David R. Amos
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Reply to @Gerry Atrich: Methinks everybody already knows It just a liberal version of the Duffy coverup N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos
Reply to @David R. Amos: No surprise to see that go "Poof"

Chris Spring
Yammer and stammer your way outta that JT.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Chris Spring: Methinks all he has to do is clam up and it will go away His best buddy Mr Butts already fell on his sword for him N'esy Pas?

Paul Lirette
Why not just take the gag off and let her testify under oath and just tell the truth. Another question is what she is providing to the liberal majority committee be made public for the people of Canada to see?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Paul Lirette: Methinks the lady lawyer is clever enough to know that she can take the muzzle of anytime she wishes Whereas the Jane and Jody Tag Team still remain in caucus I am not alone in smelling a palace coup coming on N'esy Pas?

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'Put up or shut up': Liberal MP challenges Philpott and Wilson-Raybould over SNC-Lavalin

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Methinks it would not be wise to trust the advice of the first Cabinet Minister to resign from Paul Martin's government N'esy Pas?

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'Put up or shut up': Liberal MP challenges Philpott and Wilson-Raybould over SNC-Lavalin

Judy Sgro said she doesn't want justice committee probe reopened

Darren Major· CBC News· Posted: Mar 23, 2019 4:00 AM ET

Liberal MP Judy Sgro says her Liberal colleagues Jane Philpott and Jody Wilson-Raybould need to clear the air on SNC-Lavalin. (CBC)

Long-time Liberal MP Judy Sgro is calling out fellow caucus members Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott, accusing them of targeting their anger and frustration directly at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the SNC-Lavalin scandal.

In an explosive interview with Maclean's— her first media interview since she resigned from the Liberal cabinet on Mar. 4 — Philpott said there is "much more" to the SNC-Lavalin affair and Canadians have concerns about the government's attempts to "shut down" the story.

On Friday, Wilson-Raybould said she will provide a written statement and copies of text messages and emails to the Commons justice committee that shut down its probe of the SNC-Lavalin affair.

Both the interview and the letter landed in the midst of a parliamentary uproar over the Liberals' move to end the Commons justice committee's probe of Wilson-Raybould's claim that she was pressured by senior government officials to allow SNC-Lavalin to avoid a criminal trial on bribery charges.

Philpott and Wilson-Raybould can speak freely on SNC-Lavalin in Commons, says former House law clerk

Philpott and Wilson-Raybould can speak freely on SNC-Lavalin in Commons, says former House law clerk

Philpott faced 'tough' questions from Liberal MPs in Wednesday's regional caucus meeting

Philpott, who resigned from cabinet over the government's handling of the file, said she believes Canadians need answers to maintain their confidence in the independence of the justice system.

But Sgro said she thinks Wilson-Raybould and Philpott are providing fodder to the opposition and challenged them to use their parliamentary privilege to air whatever they have to say on the SNC-Lavalin affair.

"It's either put up or shut up," Sgro told Chris Hall, host of CBC Radio's The House, in an interview airing Saturday.

"If you've got something to say, you've had two months to get out there and say it."

When asked if she thought Trudeau was being targeted by Wilson-Raybould and Philpott, Sgro didn't mince words.

"It certainly appears to be that way," she said.

Sgro was one of the MPs attending a meeting of the Liberals' Ontario caucus on Wednesday — a meeting described by people in the room as "rough" and "uncomfortable."

CBC News reported this week that Philpott faced tough questions from her colleagues at the closed-door meeting. Sources inside the room told CBC News Philpott began by defending her decision to resign from cabinet, saying she was acting on principle and for the good of the country.

Some MPs reminded her that the caucus had supported her on sensitive issues, including her handling of medical assistance in dying legislation, and had backed her when she ran into controversy over limo costs in 2016.

Some at the meeting also told CBC News that Philpott appeared to be taking notes and was asked to stop.

Election looming

Sgro said she thinks the ongoing affair is hurting the Liberal government's chance of re-election this year and some of her fellow MPs are worried.

"It affects all of us when one of our members of the team decides to go out and speak against the rest of us, or unnerve the rest of us," she said. "You can't keep dropping innuendo every day and expect that all of us from the prime minister down are hopeless to stand back and do anything about this."

But despite her challenge to her caucus colleagues, Sgro said she thinks the justice committee probe shouldn't be reopened and that any further probe should be handled by the ethics commissioner.

"Let the commissioner do his job. He'll come back with a recommendation to the House of Commons, with a report, and then whatever action ... if any action needs to be done, it'll be done then," she said.
"Let's let things get investigated by the proper people and not politicians who are out to knock each other."

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Jay Singh
If so then have the PM waive every restrictions on them. Let them speak in committee about everything that has happened to do. If PM and his office haven't done anything wrong or inappropriate then they dont have anything to be afraid of.

vic thomas
Reply to @Jay Singh: Exactly. Judy says speak up and we all say yes..we want to hear the truth. BUT the Liberals have shut downt he justice committee and Justin has not waived restrictions on what JWR and Jody can talk about. More nonsense from the Liberals..

David R. Amos
Reply to @vic thomas: Methinks it would not be wise to trust the advice of the first Cabinet Minister to resign from Paul Martin's government N'esy Pas?

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The wise Mr Rawlins said "Taxes are neither 'Goods or Services' yet we have been paying taxes on our taxes for years." Methinks we all should agree and protest N'esy Pas?

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Sales taxes on carbon taxes will cost N.B. consumers additional millions

Premier Blaine Higgs's Progressive Conservative government says $9M HST windfall is needed by province

Robert Jones· CBC News· Posted: Mar 22, 2019 5:30 AM AT

The Higgs government will gain $9 million in provincial HST on the carbon taxes this year. ( Joe McDonald/CBC)

Although it is campaigning aggressively against federal carbon taxes coming April 1 to New Brunswick consumers, the Higgs government will collect up to $9 million in extra HST on the new charges this year — and says it took no steps in this week's budget to neutralize the effect on consumers because it needs the money.

On Wednesday, Energy Minister Mike Holland introduced legislation to allow the federal 4.42 cent per litre tax on gasoline, 5.37 cent per litre tax on diesel and heating oil and 3.1 cent per litre tax on propane to pass through to consumers on April 1.

Taxes on other unregulated fuels — like a $1.05 per gigajoule carbon tax on natural gas — do not require legislation but Holland made it clear it is all Ottawa's doing.

How the carbon tax will affect you in 2019

NB Power to dodge major carbon taxes after Ottawa proposes looser rules on coal plants

"The real story here is we've got a tax that's being imposed upon us that is probably going to do a lot less to reduce emissions but its definitely going to create financial implications for consumers," he said.
But those new fuel taxes have a hidden benefit for the Higgs government.

All will be subject to the 15 per cent HST, generating millions of dollars in sales taxes on top of the carbon taxes, with most of that secondary amount going to the province.

In an anti-carbon tax ad posted on the New Brunswick government's website, the province says a New Brunswick family that burns 5,200 litres of gasoline a year will pay "$230 more in gas per year" because of the new federal tax.

Not mentioned is that the same family will also pay $34.50 more in HST on that amount, with $23 of that going to the province.

Energy Minister Mike Holland said the federal carbon tax won't reduce emissions as much as it will hurt consumers financially. (Hadeel Ibrahim/CBC)

The Department of Finance says it will not know for years how much extra HST revenue it will raise from carbon taxes.

But based on taxation information it supplied to political parties in advance the provincial election last fall, the province should earn about $4.4 million on Ottawa's new gasoline carbon tax and another $3.2 million on the new diesel tax in the first year.

Federal numbers suggest the province should also earn a further $1.4 million in HST on carbon charges on other fuels — primarily heating oil, propane and natural gas. That's $9 million in provincial HST on the carbon taxes in total this year, an amount that will grow to $13 million next year and $21 million by 2022 as the federal charges rise.

The province could avoid profiting from the imposition of carbon taxes by slightly lowering its own fuel taxes to compensate for the HST effect, but in Tuesday's budget Finance Minister Ernie Steeves left fuel taxes untouched.

Higgs works on 'backup plan' while he fights carbon tax

PCs' carbon-price plan for industry similar to Ottawa's, except for weaker emissions standards

A half-cent reduction in provincial gasoline and diesel taxes would have cost the province $9 million in revenue including HST, about the same amount it will gain from its share of HST imposed on the new federal taxes.

In a statement emailed to CBC News, VickyDeschenes, a finance department spokesperson, said the province needs whatever extra revenue it gets from HST collected on carbon taxes this year to cope with its own carbon tax bills.

"Any suggestion that the provincial government is going to benefit from the carbon tax fails to recognize that it will have to pay the tax on its entire fleet of vehicles, like school buses and plows. It will also drive up the cost of heating government buildings that use oil or gas, like hospitals and schools," read the statement.

The federal government has a $3 million fund to rebate costs incurred by New Brunswick hospitals and schools already, as well as municipalities, universities, colleges, non profit organizations and indigenous communities as part of an overall promise to rebate everything it gains from carbon taxes in New Brunswick back to the province.

Finance Minister Ernie Steeves left fuel taxes untouched in Tuesday's budget. (Maria Jose Burgos/CBC)

It has already begun prepaying consumers an estimate of what they will be charged through income tax refunds.

The average New Brunswick family of four qualifies for $256 this year to compensate for carbon tax costs.

New Brunswick is the only Atlantic province facing steep fuel tax increases on April 1 after the other three provincial governments had carbon plans accepted by Ottawa. Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island are required to impose just one-cent provincial gas tax increases under their provincial plans on April 1, a fraction of the increases facing New Brunswick.

Gas taxes in Newfoundland and Labrador are rising even less — 0.42 cents per litre.

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Robert Jones has been a reporter and producer with CBC New Brunswick since 1990. His investigative reports on petroleum pricing in New Brunswick won several regional and national awards and led to the adoption of price regulation in 2006.

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David R. Amos
Surprise Surprise Surprise

Daniel Rawlins
Taxes are neither 'Goods or Services' yet we have been paying taxes on our taxes for years. Governments do NOT need more money they need 'fiscal responsibility' and penalties for not being so. If our elected members were as irresponsible with their own finances as they are with ours they would all be homeless or hopelessly indebted up to their ears.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Daniel Rawlins: I Wholeheartedly Agree Sir

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Methinks that whereas nobody cares about what I would have to say about Ernie Baby's budget I didn't say much N'esy Pas?

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Provincial budget gets mixed reaction from business, social justice advocate

Economist surprised by how much the budget benefited from bigger federal transfer payment

Jordan Gill· CBC News· Posted: Mar 20, 2019 2:24 PM AT

Finance Minister Ernie Steeves is getting a so-so grade from the business community. (Maria Jose Burgos/CBC)

Some observers give the provincial government praise for starting to pay down the debt, but there is less enthusiasm for other parts of the budget delivered this week.

Moncton-based economist Richard Saillant said he expected more from the budget, the first to be presented by the Progressive Conservative government of Blaine Higgs.

"I just felt that it was somewhat, not anticlimactic, but lacking in details," Saillant told Information Morning Moncton on Wednesday.

He said Finance Minister Ernie Steeve's job was made easier by December's capital budget and increased transfer payments from Ottawa.

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The capital budget did most of the government's "heavy lifting," which made the overall budget, with a projected surplus of $23 million, easier to construct, Saillant said.

The capital budget scaled back infrastructure spending by almost a third, and much of the province's revenue growth can be attributed to a $149.5 million boost in federal equalization.

"I was a bit surprised to see how important the revenue growth [was] from Ottawa," said Saillant.

"So if the province scored a balanced budget, I think the assist needs to go to Ottawa, to use hockey terms."

John Wishart, CEO of the Greater Moncton Chamber of Commerce, said a broader vision for the economy is still missing from provincial spending plans, but starting to pay down the debt is a good start.

"It's been 13 years since we made a payment on the debt," Wishart said.

"If you had a credit card that was maxed out, and you only paid interest for 13 years, you know you'd find yourself in pretty bad shape. So I think that that sends the right signal."

Social development

While the Department of Social Development saw its overall budget increase, several high-profile areas in the department saw their budgets cut.

They include cuts for child welfare, social assistance and housing services.

"That is scary," said Pauline Gallant, co-chair of the Common Front for Social Justice.

"When we talk about trying to get New Brunswick moving, the first thing you've got to do to move the economy is to get people out of poverty. And he's made major cuts in our most vulnerable in this society."

Several key areas in Social Development Minister Dorothy Shephard's department saw their budgets slashed. (CBC)

Gallant said she understands the debt needs to be paid down, but there are vulnerable people who need help.

She cited continuing concerns about homelessness, especially in the winter.

Gallant said the province should have focused on increasing revenues, instead of just cutting expenditures.

"We have a lot of people in this province that are very wealthy," said Gallant.

"If they need money, there's better ways to … get it than from the most vulnerable people, who are in the most need of money."

Work to do

Wishart said he was disappointed the budget didn't include any mention on eliminating the small business tax or removing double taxation on rental properties.

Saillant said he would have liked to see more plans for how the province plans to grow the economy and a greater focus on immigration.

Economist Richard Saillant found the budget 'lacking in details.' (CBC)

"There's one mention of immigration," said Saillant. "It's for attracting more nurses.

"The biggest problem that we have in the economy today is drawing more workers, so that businesses can stay open and grow."

Saillant said the province will eventually have to focus on finding more savings, instead of picking up small savings along the way

"It's not with removing the front licence plate that we will grow the economy that much."

With files from Information Morning Moncton

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David R. Amos
Methinks I should ask the obvious question N'esy Pas?

Who care what Richard Saillant thinks about anything?

Survey Says???

Al Stevenson
Reply to @David R. Amos: Who cares what David R. Amos has to say?

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Canadian Conflict of Interest Network

In March 2010, the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner accepted a coordination role in the Canadian Conflict of Interest Network (CCOIN), which includes federal, provincial and territorial commissioners. The Office is responsible for gathering and disseminating within this network information and materials acquired or developed in the various jurisdictions within Canada.

Members of CCOIN are listed below. Please note that not all of the websites below are available in both official languages.

Federal

Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner

Mario Dion
Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner
Parliament of Canada
22nd Floor, 66 Slater Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6

Phone: 613-995-0721
Fax: 613-995-7308
ciec-ccie@parl.gc.ca
Website: ciec-ccie.parl.gc.ca

Office of the Senate Ethics Officer

Pierre Legault

Senate Ethics Officer Thomas D’Arcy McGee Building
90 Sparks Street, Room 526
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5B4

Phone: 613-947-3566
Fax: 613-947-3577
1-800-267-7362 (toll-free)
cse-seo@sen.parl.gc.ca
Website: www.parl.gc.ca/seo-cse

Alberta

Office of the Ethics Commissioner

Hon. Marguerite Trussler, Q.C.Ethics Commissioner
9925 109 Street NW, Suite 1250
Edmonton, Alberta
T5K 2J8

Phone: 780-422-2273
Fax: 780-422-2261
info@ethicscommissioner.ab.ca
Website: www.ethicscommissioner.ab.ca

British Columbia

Office of the Conflict of Interest Commissioner

Paul D.K. Fraser, Q.C.
Conflict of Interest Commissioner
421 Menzies Street, First Floor
Victoria, British Columbia
V8V 1X4

Phone: 250-356-0750
Fax: 250-356-6580
conflictofinterest@coibc.ca

Website: www.coibc.ca

Manitoba

Office of the Conflict of Interest Commissioner

Jeffrey Schnoor, Q.C.
Conflict of Interest Commissioner
303-386 Broadway
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3C 3L6

Phone: 204-948-1018
Fax: 204-948-3556
mbcoic@legassembly.mb.ca
Website: www.mbcoic.ca

New Brunswick

Office of the Conflict of the Integrity Commissioner

Mr. Charles MurrayActing Integrity Commissioner
Edgecombe House
736 King Street
Fredericton, New Brunswick
E3B 5H1

Phone: 506-457-7890
Fax: 506-444-5224
coi@gnb.ca

Website: www.gnb.ca/legis/conflict

Newfoundland and Labrador

Office of the Commissioner for Legislative Standards

Mr. Bruce ChaulkCommissioner for Legislative Standards
39 Hallett Crescent
St. John's, Newfoundland
A1B 4C4

Phone: 709-729-0714
Fax: 709-729-0679

brucechaulk@gov.nl.ca

Website: www.legislativestandardscomm.gov.nl.ca

Northwest Territories

Office of the Conflict of Interest Commissioner

David Phillip Jones, Q.C.
Conflict of Interest Commissioner
300 Noble Building
8540 109 Street Northwest
Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 1E6

Phone: 780-433-9000
Fax: 780-433-9780
DPjones@sagecounsel.com

Website: www.assembly.gov.nt.ca/about/statutory-officers

Nova Scotia

Office of the Conflict of Interests Commissioner

Chief Justice Joseph Kennedy
Acting Conflict of Interest Commissioner
P.O. Box 1617
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3J 2Y3

Phone: 902-424-5345 or 902-242-5978
Fax: 902-424-0632

Website: nslegislature.ca/index.php/people/offices/conflict-of-interest-commissioner

Nunavut

Office of the Integrity Commissioner

Katherine Peterson, Q.C.
Integrity Commissioner
c/o PO Box 1200
926 Federal Road
Iqaluit, NU
X0A 0H0
Phone: 1-888-398-2785 (toll-free)
Fax: 1-866-676-4923
kpeterson@integritycom.nu.ca
Website: www.integritycom.nu.ca

Ontario

Office of the Integrity Commissioner

Honourable J. David Wake, Q.C.
Integrity Commissioner
2 Bloor Street West, Suite 2100
Toronto, Ontario
M4W 3E2

Phone: 416-314-8983 or 1-866-884-4470
Fax: 416-314-8987
integrity.mail@oico.on.ca

Website: www.oico.on.ca

Prince Edward Island

Office of the Conflict of Interest Commissioner

Honourable John A. McQuaid
Conflict of Interest Commissioner
Province House
Richmond Street / P.O. Box 2000
Charlottetown, PE
C1A 7K7

Phone: 902-368-5970
Fax: 902-368-5175
baodonnell@assembly.pe.ca

Website: www.assembly.pe.ca/index.php3?number=1031388&lang=E

Quebec

Ethics Commissioner

M^e Ariane MignoletEthics Commissioner
800, place d'Youville
Suite 4.02, 4^th Floor
Québec, Quebec
G1R 3P4
Phone: 418-643-1277
Fax: 418-643-1318info@ced.assnat.qc.ca
Website: www.ced-qc.ca

Jurisconsult of the National Assembly

M^e Jean-Louis BaudouinJurisconsult
c/o Fasken Martineau
Tour de la Bourse, Suite 3700, P.B. 242
Montreal, Quebec
H4Z 1E9

Phone: 514-397-5299
Fax: 514-397-7600

jbaudouin@fasken.com

Saskatchewan

Office of the Conflict of Interest Commissioner

Honourable Ronald L. Barclay, Q.C.
Conflict of Interest Commissioner
Box 10, 630-1855 Victoria Avenue
Regina, Saskatchewan
S4P 3T2

Phone: 306-787-0800
Fax: 306-787-9090

Website: www.legassembly.sk.ca/about/independent-officers/conflict-of-interest-commissioner

Yukon

Office of the Conflict of Interest Commissioner

David Phillip Jones, Q.C.
Conflict of Interest Commissioner
300 Noble Building
8540 109 Street Northwest
Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 1E6

Phone: 780-433-9000
Fax: 780-433-9780
DPjones@sagecounsel.com

Website: www.conflictofinterest.gov.yk.ca

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Methinks whereas April Fools Day is near Chucky Leblanc and his buddy Kris Austin should thank Franky McKenna and Bernie Lord for creating a Language Commissioner we can't be rid of like Ontario has N'esy Pas?

https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-language-commissioner-and-his.html

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New Brunswick People Alliance Leader Kris Austin confronted by Blogger of Budget!

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Published on Mar 20, 2019

Chucky and Krissy can whine and cry all they wish but Franky Boy McKenna had the Charter amended in 1993 and ten years later On April Fools Day Bernie Lord told Mikey Carrier to start putting to them N'esy Pas?

http://officiallanguages.nb.ca/publications-links-other/history-official-languages

1993

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was amended to include the principles of An Act Recognizing the Equality of the Two Official Linguistic Communities in New Brunswick. The amendment contains a declaration that “the English linguistic community and the French linguistic community in New Brunswick have equality of status and equal rights and privileges, including the right to distinct educational institutions and such distinct cultural institutions as are necessary for the preservation and promotion of those communities.” The Charter also affirms the role of the legislature and government of New Brunswick to preserve and promote this status as well as these rights and privileges.

2003

On February 20, 2003, Michel A. Carrier was appointed Commissioner of Official Languages for New Brunswick for a renewable five-year term. On April 1, 2003, the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages for New Brunswick opened its doors.

Do Tell Does anyone recall Chucky's April Fools Day Blog in 2006 after Tanker became the Speaker? Or my conversation with the not so long gone Tom Young about electing Independents as Speakers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ca6Egqghmw

Tom Young

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Published on Dec 12, 2012

https://archive.org/details/ITriedToExplainItToAllMaritimersInEarly2006

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Saturday, April 01, 2006

ROOMERS TRULY HAVE NO RIGHTS!!!

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EVICTION NOTICE
FOR CHARLES LEBLANC

It has been bought to my attention that you have been bloggling too much and taking too many pictures without consent of individuals.

You must leave the premises in one houe as of this time and date. 7:15am April 2/06

Thanks

Millie and Jim

102 comments:

Anonymous said...: You are being evicted for blogging?; 10:45 AM
Anonymous said...: Methinks it is because of our little spit and chew EH Frenchie? Did ya notice the CT Yankee put back my work and a great deal more?
Give me a call at(506 434 1379) and try to call me a liar. I Double Dog Dare Yaa Too. Say Hey to your wannabe lawyer buddy Vaughn for me will ya.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos; 11:13 AM
Anonymous said...: April Fool's; 11:13 AM
Anonymous said...: Way ahead of ya Frenchie I was already laughing at the joke
Verita Vincit
David Raymon Amos; 11:24 AM
Anonymous said...: You ain't as quick on the draw all of a sudden. Did you fall asleep Frenchie or have a stroke?; 11:45 AM
City Under Siege The Fight for Saint Johnsaid...: who the heck is David Amos?; 12:47 PM
Anonymous said...: is this for real. he is a good person, he trys to help people out. i hope he is not evioted because he is a good person; 12:58 PM
Anonymous said...: The obvious answer is: You see my phone number why not call me and ask me direct? I ain't shy.It is not my fault you never heard of me. I ran for a Seat in Parliament twice with no hope of getting elected if you are so concerned about LNG whay not ask me what i know of the crap. Furthermore I sent you some emails to prove my integrity. Didn't so it I before I tried to post my comments in your blog? Why did you block them? My question Mikey MacDonald is who the hell are you?
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

Watch Frenchie prove his malice shaortly by making this blog melt as he always does however As a double check I just emailed it to you and Chucky in order to prove that it once existed.; 1:24 PM
City Under Siege The Fight for Saint Johnsaid...: Mr Amos when I tore apart Mr Chases article I sent it to him with my full name .I don't care that you know who I am.

I may soon have a pipeline running through my back yard which is going to change the quality of life of my family.I am a citizen who got fed up with one sided journalism.There is no smoke and mirrors with me.I am calling them as I see them.If you don't like the blog .I guess all I can say is don't blog or blog away .Thats what it is there for.I don't expect everyone to agree with me.Thats democracy.
If you are trying to intimidate me with your rants.think again.; 2:35 PM
Anonymous said...: No you think again Mikey Baby. USE your telephone as I challenged you to do. The simple truth should not intimadate an honest man. It was you who struck my words. If you had bothered to read my so called rants before you ignored them and then asked the world you the Hell I am, you would have noticed I agree with you and in fact know about this crap than you can dream of.; 2:48 PM
Anonymous said...: Now stayed tuned to this particular blog and watch Frenchie make it melt. He is the liar not me. He labelled me as a Hells Angel when I ran against the aptly named lawyer Rob Moore in Fundy in 2004. There is no denying that I am a vindictive son of a bitch with a long memory but even you must admit that i am fair. Although both Chucky and Indymedia erased their blogs when I protested their obvious malice, like you they erased everything I attemped to post. Ask yourself why Mikey Baby and the cry me a river again about what Irving is having crammed through your backyard. Guess who saves every word I write or what is said of me to use in litigation? In answer to your question in your own blog. Yes the people in Saint John should sue somebody in order to put a stop to the evil Empires control. Good luck finding a lawyer that ain't afraid of Irvings. You took a picture down as soon as you got a phone call. In my book that makes you a chickenshit. You talk the talk but do not walk the walk. You should have let them sue you in order to meet them in court and make you issues well known and recorded in the public record. I have been begging someone to sue me for years if they think they can prove what I say is untrue because whenever I sue them the corrupt courts meerely see it dismissed and stricken from the record. Look up Byron Prior sometime in Google and then tell me again that you
Obviously you used my phone number now I know yours. Clearly you just pissed me off Lets see you apology ya bastard.; 3:09 PM
Charles LeBlancsaid...: ok...I just came back from moving someone. I see that David is debating his issues again.

Listen David? I'll let a debate your issues in this blog here.

I must delete the blog that has emails.

As long you don't swear and smear anyone? You should be ok!!

Everyone has their different style of sending out their message.

I got mine and you got yours.

By the way? Evicted??? It was a April Fool joke from Millie and Jim but I didn't bite!...lol; 3:35 PM
Anonymous said...: This is weird! What in the hell is going on here?; 3:38 PM
Charles LeBlancsaid...: Hey David??? Why don't you start your own blog?

You got that email list and you could invite people to your site like I do!!!!; 3:56 PM
Anonymous said...: THere's no site like Charles!!! Entertaining as all hell! I have no idea what all these people are talking about, but it's more entertaining than anything on television! God bless the loonies!; 4:01 PM
Anonymous said...: February 24th, 2006

Rick Hancox Executive Director
c/o Suzanne Ball Senior
Legal Counsel
and Manon Losier General Counsel
and Secretary to the New Brunswick
Securities Commission
85 Charlotte Street, Suite 300
Saint John, NB E2L 2J2
RE: Securities Fraud and Public Corruption
Sir,
Pursuant to our conversation today please find enclosed exactly the same material sent to the eight other provincial Attorney Generals in Canada before I returned to my native land again this year. Obviously the AGs Brad Green and Tom Marshall have known the truth of my matters since the summer of 2004. They have maliciously ignored my false imprisonment in the USA for their own political benefit. The tapes enclosed are exactly the same copies that were served upon the lawyers acting for Rogers Media byway of their newsman Tom Young today. As you listen to the tape you will hear that I mentioned your Commission on air in Saint John weeks ago. Methinks you should have called me then instead of waiting for me to contact you again today.
The tapes and the CD of wiretap tape #139 are served upon the Commission's lawyers Ms. Ball and Ms. Losier as in confidence as officers of the court in order that my allegations of illegal wiretaps by crooked law enforcement authorities may be finally properly investigated ASAP by ethical law enforcement authorities. Hopefully this will be done before I sue the Crown about my false imprisonment but I am not holding my breath. April 3rd is coming fast. Upon your study of these documents you will see that I have not yet given the Yankee SEC all of my evidence of Securities Fraud. However every Attorney General in Canada has been made well aware of it for quite sometime before the SEC declared it was willing to investigate the actions of the former Minister of Finance Ralph Goodale. To date not one person has responded me nor did me the simple courtesy of returning my calls or emails as you finally did today.
Clearly I must complain of the Crown myself without delay before further harm is done to my Clan. Rest assured I will be calling you, Mr. Hancox and the lawyers within your Commission to testify at a trial of my matters in Federal Court in Fredericton. A very pigheaded yet ethical Maritimer knows that justice has been delayed way past too long for the benefit of public corruption and not the public trust. I will not wait for anyone on public service to act within the scope of their employment anymore. To put it simply, after our conversation today I had no faith that you were willing to do your job.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
P.O. Box 234
Apohaqui, NB E5P 3G2; 4:05 PM
Anonymous said...: Nope the first question should be Chucky where is the computer I gave you in 2004 Yopu know the one the Anglo due from Minto took home for you. You claimed it was no good yea well I would like to have it back; 4:09 PM
Anonymous said...: The next question is does your buddy Vaughn Burnett still have the material that you promised you would serve upon Brad Green in June of 2004 for me? Has he listened to the CD which is a copy of police surveilance tape # 139? I will call hinm and you as witnesses to testify in Federal Court in Fredericton. The wannabe lawyer and you buddy Bernard Richard both admitted to me that they had the evidence before I was falsely imprisoned in the Yankee jail in 2004. So much for etyhical EH?; 4:14 PM
Charles LeBlancsaid...: What do you do with a computer that don't work?

You know the answer!

Papers? to deliver to the Justice Minister? Sorry...I'm not a Sheriff!!!!

Remember be nice in this blog....; 4:16 PM
Anonymous said...: What's everybody talking or fighting about ?

Always read your site Charles.

The person is right. More entertaining the TV, and I mean that as Big Compliment :>); 4:22 PM
Anonymous said...: As far as blogging goes I do have one but do not post much. Because unlike you I feel that less is moreI do not need a blog I employ other people's blogs and only deal with the issues they raise first then take them down the path of the garden of good and evil just like I did with you years ago when they call me a liar. Check with your associate Mikey. He did not allow even my first comment. Just like your buddies in Indymedia. However they certainly allowed you to slam me. Didn't they Chucky?
Just in case anyone cares about the spelling I am typing quickly because Methinks Chucky will soon erase this stuff just like he always does. However here is my phone number again call me and I will show anyone the proof of what I is true and I will even allow them to listen to a wiretap tape or two.; 4:22 PM
Anonymous said...: Your said the computer didn't work but I know that it did and I brought it all the way from Boston because you were crying poor mouth on the phone. Furthermore I have to witnesses that heard you say you would love to take on Brad Green. the Anglo dude from Minto is one. you the one you call a bigot. I was looking for you in the legislature library to witness me serving the liberal lawyers Burke and Lamrock next door at 710 Queen St when your buddy Dannyboy Bussieres and the Fredericton cops threw me out on June 24th 2004. I was not talking from the gallery as you falsely claim. I have a witness to that fact to . In fact he is a Deputy Minister you was on the floor at the time. the Commisssioners you have befriended made false allegations about me.; 4:29 PM
Anonymous said...: Charles? Friends with the commissioners?? That's funny! Sounds like you two guys should be getting along great-two peas in a pod of crazy. Nobody even knows what you guys are talking about.; 4:41 PM
Anonymous said...: C'mon keep it going; 4:44 PM
Anonymous said...: Anonymous said...
wroteBonjour

Mr. David Raymond Amos,

We respectfully invite you to consider a Letter to the Editor, i.e.., How Free Trade undermines Maritime Economic Development. We had heard you make some representation about a U.S. company which truck out Maritime 'wealth', as a result of not having similar .provincial resources rights as Alberta, Many Maritimes would be potentially interested in such an editorial.

Merci.

Office of John Stokes

The Canadian National Newspaper
internet site: http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com; 4:48 PM
Anonymous said...: Hey Mr. Stokes
Thanks for the suggestion. As you should know the most glaring example of a company that has been raping the Maritimes with abandon for many years is obviously the Irving Empire. However lately there are some very nasty new players on the scene such a PCS and Corridor Resourses etc etc. I am very busy these days and I am not a journalist. You people are though yet it seems you would rather me say the awlful truth than yourselves because of some possible lawsuit EH?
So be it. I will because it is not slander if one's words are true. Perhaps you should consider checking my work and then come to court sometime in order to listen to me argue all the smiling bastards. You can have much of my work in a click of the button of my mouse. But first please allow me to introduce you to the New Brunswick Securities Commission. I got a rather interesting response from them today whilst I was in Fredericton. They have ignored my concerns for almost a year but now that Bernie Lord's government is getting tipsy, it appears all the bad actors want to show me their arse just in time for me to boot it.
It is Securities Commissions such as this that allow many publicly held companies such as Corridor Resources or Magna Entertainment etc to get away with many things rather than remind them of the law and on how they should conduct business in an ethical fashion. That said, these Commisssions have no say whatsoever over the Irving Empire and that is truly bad. It is a privately held corporation that knows very well the power of money and on how to pay off greedy politicians in order to get anything they want. In the nutshell of the Maritimes that is quite simply everything. It seems that I am the only Maritimer who is not afraid of the ghost of mean old KC Irving and his monoply game. It has always been hard times in the Maritimes. We lament about it all the time but our apathy and fear of the Irvings etc gives us the govenments we deserve.
Print this if you wish. You are off the hook that Irving's lawyers threaten ordinary folks with. I am fearless yet never reckless with the truth. I stand by my own words and invite anyone to sue me if they think I am a liar and wish to argue me. I hate it when the chickenshits send crooked cops against me bearing false allegations in a faint hearted effort to shut me up. It does the smiling bastards no good and only serves to make matters worse.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos; 4:52 PM
Anonymous said...: March 24, 2006

Michael “Tanker” Malley
C/o Cleveland Allaby
480 Queen Street
Suite # 200
Fredericton NB. E3B 1B6

Simpson Thacher & Barlett LLP
C/o Derek Burney
Chair of the Board of Directors of NB Power
515 King Street Fredricton, NB E3B 4X1

Jody Carr
C/o Paul Blackmore
Chestnut Complex
470 York Street
Fredericton, NBE3B 3P7

Patrick A.A. Ryan
Edgecombe House
736 King Street
Fredericton, NB E3B 1G2
Re: Public Corruption

Sirs,
Pursuant to my many phone calls and email to your offices please find enclosed the material I promised to you before I file my complaints in Federal Court in Fredericton. The CD which is a true copy of wiretap tape number 139 is served upon you all in confidence as officers of the court in order that it may be investigated byway of my suing the Crown.
While Norm Betts and Derek Burney’s buddy Stevey Boy Harper is busy in New Brunswick today trying hard to shore up the shaky government of Jody Carr’s buddy, Bernie Lord with long delayed federal tax dollars. I am polishing off my promises to crooked lawyers in the hope that the very corrupt House crumbles ASAP. If not maybe President Chavez will help me bankrupt the crooks working within NB Power within a crooked government’s blessing. Methinks Tanker will need another lawyer if the one he has now continues to play dumb. Lord paid Allaby a lot of money to study the doings of the Justice Dept a long time ago. He should understand the scene.
Shame on you all for forcing me to go to such lengths to protect my rights under the Charter. Methinks you have underestimated my diligence EH? Now ask yourselves why I don’t sue you after I sue the Crown? I fail to see any reason not to. That is the only way I know of to hold such people as you accountable. Stevey Boy Harper never will even though he talks the talk of such things. Everybody knows what I served upon his party’s lawyer Arthur Hamilton before I was falsely imprisoned in the USA in 2004.
Despite whatever Act our latest Prime Minister wishes to introduce to the Canadian people that he claims will compel our government to act with integrity, he can never deny my right to drag anyone into court. In fact he has done so himself in the past and I am no less of a man than he. Even a simple pigheaded Maritimer has the right to argue the law even with people who think themselves above it. How you all have failed to uphold the law and the public trust placed in your public office is either a matter of public record or soon shall be or my name ain’t Dave. There is no Democracy without Truth and Justice. It is just that simple.
Thats all for now fellas. I look forward to seeing you all in court someday or I will die trying to make it happen in an ethical fashion. It is just another one of those things I do that lawyers fail to appreciate. Ask your friends why that is if you don’t already know.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
P.O. Box 234
Apohaqui, NB. E5P 3G2; 5:15 PM
Anonymous said...: Hey
Everybody received hard copy in hand to their offices except of course what the UPS dudes are bringing to Paul Shuttle and Andre Arthur. Obviously Yankees ain't as quick as me even when I give them two days head start. I have signatures and pictures to prove that all the New Brunswickers named below got their material today as I promised last week except for the sneaky Conflict of Interest Commmissioner Mr. Patrick who hides behind locked doors. He just sent the Sergeant at Arms who tried to run me off again.
However the Frenchman Danny Boy Bussieres had to accept my material on behalf of the Commissioner and our Queen whom he represents no matter how much he wishes to ban me from the Legislature. He didn't sign anything but what transpired between us was witnessed by a man who was not involved. I gave the crooked Quebecer hard copy in hand. Somebody speaking for the Queen should answer me ASAP. EH? If Danny Boy wishes to attempt to ban me from the Legislature again he really should put it in writng. EH? Perhaps he should clearly state the reasons behind his malice and who is accusing me of what. Otherwise I will ignore him until we meet in court. Then I will have many questions for him on the public record. I repeat, I have never threatened or harassed anyone. The next time he and I meet I hope to have many witnesses watching our exchange of words instead of just one man.The Sergeant at Arms Danny Boy Brouseirres lake most lawyers and politicians is a liar.
I will leave you all to wonder who receives this email next but lets just say I was very correct about my assessment of the Public Utilities Board and the New Brunswick Securoties Commission. corrupt Maritimers act just like crookedYankees. After all most of them are lawyers and their brotherhood practices their malice across borders all day long every day. The thing is can they trust each other when the politiking gets down and dirty. Methinks there is no honour amongst theives no matter how powerful they are. What say you? I know your answer already and that only time will tell the tale to prove what I say is true. Until then I will simply remain a man of my word and hope for justice to prevail. It is your job to uphold the Public Trust not mine.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos; 5:28 PM
Anonymous said...: March 24, 2006

Bernard Shapiro
Ethics Commissioner
C/o Andre Arthur MP
325 de l'Eglise
Donnacona, Québec G3M 2A2

Jean T. Fournier
Senate Ethics Officer
C/o Senator Noel Kinsella and Michael Comeau
Holy Cross House Rm. 206
St. Thomas University
Fredericton NB

Kevin Lynch Clerkc/o Paul Shuttle
Director of Legal Operations
Privy Council Office
59 Sparks Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A3

David Gourdeau
Commissioner for FederalJudicial Affairs
c/o Willa Doyle
District Administrator
Suite 100
82 Westmorland Street
Fredericton, NB E3B 3L3

Re: Public Corruption

Sirs,
Pursuant to my many phone calls and email to your offices please find enclosed the material I promised to you before I file my complaints in Federal Court in Fredericton. The CD which is a true copy of wiretap tape number 139 is served upon you all in confidence as officers of the court and or Parliamentarians in order that it may be investigated byway of my suing the Crown.
While Stevey Boy Harper is busy in New Brunswick today trying hard to shore up the shaky government of his little buddy, Bernie Lord with long delayed federal tax dollars. I am polishing off all my promises to crooked lawyers in the hope that the very corrupt House crumbles ASAP.
Shame on you all for forcing me to go to such lengths to protect my rights under the Charter. Methinks you have underestimated my diligence EH? Now ask yourselves why I don’t sue you after I sue the Crown? I fail to see any reason not to. That is the only way I know of to hold such people as you accountable. Stevey Boy Harper never will even though he talks the talk of such things. Everybody knows what I served upon his party’s lawyer Arthur Hamilton before I was falsely imprisoned in the USA in 2004.
Despite whatever Act our latest Prime Minister wishes to introduce to the Canadian people that he claims will compel our government to act with integrity, he can never deny my right to drag anyone into court. In fact he has done so himself in the past and I am no less of a man than he. Even a simple pigheaded Maritimer has the right to argue the law even with people who think themselves above it. How you all have failed to uphold the law and the public trust placed in your public office is either a matter of public record or soon shall be or my name ain’t Dave. There is no Democracy without Truth and Justice. It is just that simple.
Thats all for now fellas. I look forward to seeing you all in court someday or I will die trying to make it happen in an ethical fashion. It is just another one of those things I do that lawyers fail to appreciate. Ask your friends why that is if you don’t already know.

Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
PO Box 234
Apohaqui, NB. E5P 3G2

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Anonymous said...: David Amos is mentally ill folks. just ignore him and maybe he will go away. he is a criminal and a liar. he rants and raves like a lunatic. he makes charlie seem like a choir boy. he is one sick s.o.b.; 6:20 PM
Anonymous said...: Well I must say I am not surprised. I am in fact delighted to introduce some folks in the Martimes to the man most responsible for my false imprisonment in the USA. I have been fishing for him to make his usual appearance within a Blog. If one speaks of the devil long enough he is sure to appear. EH Chucky? This crook's name is Deputy Dog Robert F. O'Meara of the Norfolk County sheriffs Dept. A bigger snake in Massachusetts there never was. Right now it is suppertime and I ain't goona let it grow cool worrying about what he may say of me but rest assured I will relish and save every word of it. Stay tuned and I will post many of his words that have been deleted from many other blogs in order to protect him and the crooks who have covered up his many crimes.
At least I have a name EH Deputy Dog? Even on the internet you use girlfriend's Wicked Wanda Willard's ID; 7:07 PM
Charles LeBlancsaid...: Hey? As long he leaves his view in this little blog and not others? I don't have a problem with the guy.

He's pretty mellow with his words compare to past emails.

Hey? We might have a second Spinks here???...lol; 7:11 PM
Anonymous said...: David is a less of lunatic compared to Chucky.; 7:15 PM
Charles LeBlancsaid...: SPINKS??? WHERE ARE YA????; 8:48 PM
Anonymous said...: Now that I finally see one vote of confidence.It is time to stress Chucky's words to the max. Lets see if this post stands the test of time. I am posting something that only a few politicians have seen. Whereas Chucky's buddy Danny Boy Brussieres had banned me from the Legislature and Chucky did not have the balls to deliver the material to Brad Green I and my son, Max delivered in hand the matereial to both of the following dudes offices in Moncton right after Canada Day and Paul Martin's boat had been caught in Sidney with more coke than coal on board. We then went home to where I was raised in Dorchester Nb and I laughed at the thought of Charles LeBlanc as I drove through his hometown. If he had had the sand to deliver this letter and the material I had given him to Brad when he promised to so. He would be my hero, Bernie Lord's government would have fallen, my adversary Deputy Dog Robert F. O'Meara would have gone to jail instead of me and most importantly my little Clan would be still in their home today. If Brad Green Bernie Lord and Franky Boy McKenna had acted with integrity I would not have to sue the Crown in order to have a fraudulent warrant for my arrest revoked in the USA. Anyone should feel free to print or email the text of this letter with abandon simply because Brad Green answered it. I can email anyone a copy of his response in a tif file. In fact I will email one to Frenchie and Deputy Dog Robert F. O'Meara, Brad Green and his buddies first first. You will know that Chucky got it first and can never play dumb no more. I will forward it on to anyone who asks and they can decide you is crazy and who is not and who is a liar and who is not. My email address is motomaniac_02186 at yahoo.com and my phone number is 506 434 1379 I do not call people collect as Chucky does.

July 1st, 2004

Brad Green
c/oBernard Lord
132 Mill Road
Moncton, NB. E1A 4A5

Frank McKenna
c/o McInnis Cooper
655 Main St.
Moncton NB E1C 8T6
RE: Corruption
Hey Fellas,
Please find enclosed exactly the same material served upon Paul Zed before he met Paul Martin at the airport last weekend. The copy of wiretap tape numbered 139 is served upon you in confidence as officers of the court in order that it may be properly investigated. As you review the material it should be painfully obvious to you why I have no respect for your chosen profession of lawyer/politician. I must say that both Mr. Lord and Mr. McKenna were clever to keep some distance from the recent federal election but I don’t think it was very wise for Mr. Lord to have me expelled from the Legislature Building for political reasons rather than legal reasons.
I have done as the Sargent at Arms ordered on June 24th and stayed away from the Legislature and waited for it to take its summer break so that no more bullshit about me can be said. I have now delivered this material to your constituency office Mr. Lord so that you may deal with this at a personal level with Mr. Green. I will complain of you Mr. Lord and your friends Mr. Green, Mr. Armstrong and Mr. Burke to court along with the Fredericton Police Dept. and the Sargent at Arms if I do not receive a satisfactory response very quickly and convince me of your ethics and stand with me. I have not heard from the Fredericton Police Dept. thus I suspect that Corporal Ross has done as he threatened and thrown this material in the trash for the benefit of his fellow police officer, Mr. LeBlanc.
Mr. Green may I suggest that you study every word and listen to the CD closely and prepare to argue every word if you disagree with the fact that a fellow Canadian has the right to seek justice and relief for the many wrongs practiced against him. What would you do if the Men in Black had appeared at your door and were willing to take you away to Cuba without counsel because of false allegations were made against you in order to stop you from defending your family’s interests? As you can see I have come home to protest these actions in a political and legal fashion. I have done only as the Solicitor General Anne McLellan has suggested and given the evidence to those who claim to have jurisdiction over me. You speak for the Sargent at Arms and the Fredericton Police. They dropped the ball the instant they pulled me outside the building for no reason. They claimed jurisdiction but refused to investigate. I have seen it reported that I had tried to speak from the gallery and the Sargent at Arms falsely claimed that I had attempted to serve someone within the legislature building. Both statements are untrue. I left materials at the door in the custody of the security guard as he requested. I was only looking to find Charles Leblanc in order that he may witness me delivering the enclosed materials to T.J. Burke’s office. This was necessary for me to do because as you know most lawyers are reckless with the truth. I will let your fellow politician/lawyer. Peter McKay, explain to you the reason why that is. However it was no longer necessary to require a witness because the Sargent at Arms and the Fredericton Police had watched me go into 710 Queen St and come out without the material they had just refused after harassing me. They are my witnesses as you are now.
As for you, Mr. McKenna, I expect you and your fellow lawyers at McInnes Cooper to uphold the law and conduct yourselves in a professional manner according to the rules that allow you to practice law for a fee. Don’t you think you should act ethically rather quickly and report your newfound knowledge of crime? At the very least I have made you witnesses to my complaints and rest assured I will be asking you many questions in court if the RCMP doesn’t ask you first. Mr. McKenna, I read your recent speech about how you likened the actions of federal political leaders to various purebred dogs. I must add my two bits worth to your comments. Those fancy dogs don’t hunt like the mangy old mutt that is the guard dog of my little Clan. I don’t bark but I am quick to bite. If you turn around you will see me sniffing at your heels. If any lawyer makes one false move, I make every effort to rip his nuts off. Check my work before you call me a liar.
I have followed the money home to the Maritimes. I find that you and many other liberals have been in pursuit of filthy lucre every bit as much as Mr. Mulroney, Mr. Crosbie and their many cohorts. The Maritime Provinces have suffered the most from the many years of political abuse by greedy lawyers and their bosses. Mr. Harper called Maritimers defeatists but he failed to say who was beating us up. Obviously it was federal politicians on both sides of the fence. The last thing Mr. Martin is to me is noble. In my opinion he is a fine example of a very crooked lawyer aspiring to be an adept politician like his daddy. I view your speech about dogs simply as a little dog licking a big dog’s nuts in a stylish way in order to win the Alfa male’s favor and someday win his position amongst a pack of political thieves. Feel free to argue me after you explain to me real slow how Cardinal Law was legally removed from my complaint and what right the Men in Black had to try to take me away because I am exposing the awful truth about bad acting bankers and Feds. Please don’t pretend that you guys don’t know a few very well heeled Yankees that have helped you along in your own personal pursuit of happiness. Mr. Tobin got a great job working for an interesting Conservative. Eh? Should Belinda listen to Mr. Mulroney and Mr. Harper or to her new CEO? What do you think? How much time do you think I may have left on the planet for asking such questions as this? What do you think may cause my demise? In the end I will rest assured that someday my ghost will be very vindictive against lawyers that failed to uphold the law. At this point in time it would be very easy for some lawyer to act ethically and become the people’s political hero. What say you? Can you trust your legal and political friends to not turncoat and stand with me? Interesting dilemma, eh?

Cya’ll in Court:)
David R. Amos
153 Alvin Ave.
Milton. MA. 02186

Certificate of Service

I, David R. Amos on July 2, 2004, I served the enclosed materials in hand to the offices of Frank McKenna at McInnis Cooper 655 Main St. Moncton NB E1C 8T6 and Bernard Lord at 132 Mill Road. Moncton, NB.E1A 4A5

David R. Amos
153 Alvin Ave.
Milton, MA. 02186; 8:54 PM
Anonymous said...: "WOW" What a guy.Where did all that come from. Sounds like this guy has a problem.NO maybe a lot of problems.Too bad.; 9:32 PM
Anonymous said...: He just goes on and on doesn't he?; 9:34 PM
Anonymous said...: yeah it's not pretty. it's like a car wreck that just keeps happening. kinda scary knowing he is in our back yard again. Mr.Amos you need professional help man. i can give you some numbers. you don't have to live with your paranoia. there is help if you seek it.; 9:48 PM
Anonymous said...: Before I can even begin to believe that you are for real Why not crawl out of cyber space and into the real world. It stars by proving to all that you have a name. Cheap shots under Anoymous in Chucky's ain't worth squat to me unless you are man enough to look me in the eye and stand by your words. I do What say you got a name and a set of balls or just a mouth like Chucky?; 10:01 PM
Anonymous said...: Only the crooks are scared that I am back in the Maritimers. A lot of ordinary folks like me are laughing at how I am poking holes in their stuffed shirts. This letter is wickedly funny, Both Adrienne Clarkson and Herménégilde Chiasson answered this one after my wife and I and a lawyer who wanted Rob Moore's seat in parliament visited the Police Commission in New Brunswick. Bev Harrison would not answer this letter or even return my calles even though he has represented me from my spot on the hill since I landed home last year. His assistants have affirmed to me several times that they received it. I am demanding an answer from Tanker now tha old Bev's assistant Bill Oliver refused to call me back for the last time on Friday. I do not care what the tough talking Danny Boy Bussieres says only the Speaker can authorize the Sergeant at Arms to ban a man from the legislature. Besides that the Governor General his ultimate boss told me I was doing the right thing before I returned to the USA and into Deputy Dog's buddy's jail. I wiil put this letter and the responses in the same email to Chucky and Deputy Dog

August 24th, 2004

Lieutenant-Governor of
New Brunswick,
Herménégilde Chiasson
Old GovernmentHouse
51 Woodstock Road
Fredericton, NB E3B 9L8
Phone (506) 453-2505
Fax (506) 444-5280

Speaker of the Legislative Assembly,
Bev Harrison
Constituency Office: Hampton-Belleisle
Room: Unit 4, 46 Keirstead Avenue
Hampton, NB E5N 5A4
Phone (506) 832-6464
Fax (506) 832-6466
RE: Corruption
Sirs,
Please find enclosed exactly the same material served upon Premier Lord and Frank McKenna on the day after Canada Day and a copy of Brad Green’s response. I have also enclosed a letter to Senator Joe Day that was to be forwarded to the Arar Commission. The copy of wiretap tape numbered 139 is served upon you in confidence as the Queen’s representatives of in order that it may be properly investigated. I ask New Brunswick’s Lieutenant-Governor of, Herménégilde Chiasson to forward this material to the Governor General of Canada. I have already emailed her notice to expect this material and I will email her the text of this letter as well.
Whereas the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick stands adjourned until Tuesday, December 14, 2004, at 1 o'clock p.m, perhaps you fellas can find a little time to answer me before I sue the Queen in the USA. My questions are as follows: Why did Sergeant-at-Arms, Dan Bussieres and the Fredericton Police Dept. ask me to step outside the Legislature Building and then forever ban me from re-entering the premises on June 24th, 2004? What will you do with your newfound knowledge of crime?
It is only fair that I ask these questions. After all I am a Canadian Citizen and I do have the right to ask any question to those who represent me. Whether they are born to the position or elected or appointed or merely hired, they all must uphold the law and the public trust. The Queen of Canada, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, is the official Head of State and is represented in New Brunswick by the Lieutenant-Governor. Therefore, the Lieutenant-Governor is the nominal Head of State at the provincial level, empowered with the responsibility of representing the Queen in the province. Thus I have asked him the aforesaid questions before I leave the jurisdiction of New Brunswick.
The Ombudsman, Bernard Richard told me to take my matter up the Speaker of the House and thus far Mr. Harrison has ignored my phone calls and emails. Bev Harrison did have the opportunity to ask me any question he wished before he decided not to vote for me. It seems he would rather have the lawyer, Rob Moore speak for him in Parliament. I would not be surprised to learn that Bev Harrison was the same man I had spoken to months ago or that he had attended the debate in Hampton. I have no doubt that Mr Harrison knows exactly who I am and why I was in Fredericton that day. I am not a rebel just because I make inquiries and demand that people in public service uphold the law.
The problem is that on June 24th I was a candidate for the 38th Parliament. I was busy challenging those still in public service such as John Herron to do their jobs and uphold the law. I was merely in the legislative building looking for the Frenchman Charles Leblanc so he could witness me serve this material upon the lawyer, T J Burke next door. I had made certain that many politicians were made well aware of my concerns and allegations before coming home to run for a seat in the next Parliament. The local liberal, Leroy Armstrong was willing to debate me so I was giving this material to his liberal lawyer friends to review. Dan Bussieres offended me for political reasons not legal reasons. The Speaker of the House should not have allowed the Sergeant’s actions or at least responded to my inquiry. These must be irrefutable facts because after almost two months of asking everyone imaginable about the actions of the Sergeant-at-Arms, no one would even tell me his name let alone explain his actions, It appears that the Government of Canada would rather assist corrupt politicians within a country that had rebelled against the Queen than assist one of her subjects to escape their harassment.
I must return to the USA because I have been summoned to court to argue more false allegations made against me. Whereas my country is willing to throw me back into Ashcroft’s clutches, I must complain of the Crown. It seems the Yankees may have been right long ago when they refused to pay taxes without proper representation. Perhaps Canada should follow suit. We all know what has been said about the evils of longstanding governments. What say you sirs? Am I speaking sedition or common sense?
I have heard that Louis Riel once said that the French would take over Canada without firing a shot. Now many of the French wish to separate. Maybe true Canadians can reunite our country in the same fashion. There is no need of the cartridge box as long as we properly employ the soap box and ballot box. The tools of bloodless revolutions are the laws of the land. They are in the hands of people begging us for our vote every so often. Canada does not need to pay homage to a Queen who will not check the work of the people representing her and us. We need a new form of government. I agree with Louis Riel’s thinking when he proclaimed that the Metis were “loyal subjects of Her Majesty the Queen of England’. If we are rebels, we are rebels against the Company that sold us” Although he was labelled a rebel, Louis Riel was a Canadian patriot who did stop Western Canada from being absorbed by the USA. He was also elected to Parliament twice. He would abhor NFTA as much as I. The words in Riel’s diary are well worth heeding.
“O my God! Save me from the misfortune of getting involved with the United States. Let the United States protect us indirectly, spontaneously, through an act of Providence, but not through any commitment or agreement on our part.” Riel stated in his diary this as well: “God revealed to me that the government of the United States is going to become extraordinarily powerful.”

Cya’ll in Court:)
David R. Amos
153 Alvin Ave.
Milton. MA. 02186; 10:20 PM
Anonymous said...: This letter really put Lizzy Weir's panties in a knot. Chucky's buddy Bernie Richard answered me immediately but she never did. When I got out of jail and jumped bail in the USA one year later and started demanding answers from the NDP she was not long taking a job from Bernie Lord and leaving her party in the toilet. Bernie Richard di the same thing years ago to save Lord nasty little minority. The problem is the liberals are no better ask the not so good Dr. Doherty if he wishes to argue me in public about it. In order to argue him and the pretty woman Bernie Lord had his eyes on I tried to run in Bernie's snap election in Saint John Harbour because in my opinion I caused Lizzy to quit and run off. I knew I would never be elected but the decent folks who always voted NDP deserved to know the score and my opinion of the LNG scene is worth listening to. However the not so non partison Anne Hollies and her yo yo underling Paddy Addison illegally refused me for the benefit of Bernie Lord.The Irvings and the Spanish dudes who have lost their popularity in other countries want to put such a dangerous thing right int the damned harbour and the crooked Mayor suppots it? What planet is he from I must ask. People with no names call me crazy. Well in retort I say if the politicians are sane then I am glad I am nuts.
However before they put me away anyone can have this letter and Bernie Richard's very dumb answer. I would not be surprised if this blog turns into a pumpkin by midnight EH Chucky? However if you leave it up I will post sometime a very wicked Cinderella Affadavit by Newfy Johnny Crosbie's law firm of Patterson Palmer that will explain why the liberal President in NB Greg Byrne has now gone solo.

August 24th, 2004

NDP Leader Elizabeth Weir
Constituency Office
39 King Square North
Saint John, NB E2L 1E6

Bernard Richard
Office of the Ombudsman
767 Brunswick Street
Fredericton, NB E3B 1H8

Re: Corruption

Sir and Madam,
Please find enclosed exactly the same material served upon New Brunswick’s Lieutenant-Governor, Hermenegilde Chiasson and many others today. The copy of wiretap tape numbered 139 is served upon you in confidence as officers of the court in order that it may be properly investigated.
There is no need to be long winded with you two people. I can prove contact with each of you and your associates many times. I know that you are expecting this material and why I am providing it to you for your review. Not only will I be mentioning your names today to the Police Commission but your names can be found in various places within my documents. I feel that you are entitled to review the material and I am entitled to expect you to act ethically and with integrity as would befit an officer of the court. What you will do with your newfound knowledge of crime? Please send your response to this letter to the address below. I can no longer linger in New Brunswick and wait for politicians to find the time to uphold the Public Trust.

Cya’ll in Court:)
David R, Amos
153 Alvin Ave.
Milton, MA. 02186

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, David R. Amos, of 153 Alvin Ave. Milton, MA. on August 25th, 2004, I delivered the enclosed material to the Office of the Ombudsman, Bernard Richard at 767 Brunswick Street, Fredericton, NB E3B 1H8. Whereas the Provincial office building at 710 Queen St. is no longer assessable to the public, I will provide these documents to Elizabeth Weir’s Constituency Office at 39 King Square North Saint John, NB E2L 1E6 as soon as possible.

David R, Amos; 10:57 PM
Charles LeBlancsaid...: Some people sent me private emails asking me- Who the hell is that nut???

Well? As I said earlier in the day.

No swearing or smears and everything should be ok.

I can delete this particular blog in seconds but we'll keep it here.

So far so good....

Try to be nice....; 11:18 PM
Anonymous said...: One no named dude lamented that I go on and on and I admit that that is true. On ther other hand earlier another fella ask for more and lamented that I was too slow posting. Rest assured I know most Maritimers do not give a damn about legal crap or politics. I fit in that boat as well it is just that the smiling bastards attacked me and my little clan and I must defend myself the best way I know how. I figure fire with fire so to speak so I went fiercely political and did not care about being elected. I just wanted to make my issues public for the benefit of my family first and foremost and the awful truth only hurts crooks. Most folks would find this crap boring yet lawyers and politicians like old women are gossips big time. They climb to the top pulling on the balls of others to get there. Trust that many would find this an interesting read. There is a lot to tell after being blocked in most places for years and I am trying hard to stay local to Fredericton only simply because that is the audience the Chucky draws. If the dude don't like to read my stuff click to another of Chucky's mindless blogs and look a pictures that take a long time to look at in dial up.
For ethical lawyers (if there is such athing) benefit here is something that will help explain the news today in a very funny light. McAllister answered me but Miller did not. Miller's (David Hache's too)law firm is merging with the rest of Patterson Palmer's outfit so it appears I have now crossed paths with the same bunch of bastards at least four times in various matters. Merging makes a firm more powerful but it also opens the door to the need to defend the bad actions of your many partners. Everybody knows you can't trust lawyer the that Patterson and palmer in Halifax went with Franky Boy McKenna's buddies i all to funny to me. The dudes in Turo are the only smart ones in the bunch. They said to hell with them all. Maybe I will give then a call. If you cannnot find an honest lawyer your might as well hire the wisest one EH? As i said Byron Priors complaint will prove to the Maritimes why. Look him up on the web or in front of Parliament next week.

August 24th, 2004

Gary A. Miller
371 Queen St. Suite 400,
Fredericton, NB E3B 4Y9

George A. McAllister
212 Queen St.
Fredericton, NB E3B 1A8

RE: Corruption
Sirs,
Please find enclosed exactly the same material served upon New Brunswick’s Lieutenant-Governor Hermenegilde Chiasson and many others. The copy of wiretap tape numbered 139 is served upon you in confidence as officers of the court in order that it may be properly investigated.
Months ago I contacted you, Mr. McAllister by phone and informed you that I wholeheartedly agreed with your standing that Insurance companies were making the consumers cover their losses in the stock market. Brad Green and Premier Lord played Ms. Weir and the Commission like a fiddle and were merely doing their part to assist the interests of the Insurance Companies at the expense of the public trust. Although you were happy to hear that your opinions had been read and understood, you definitely did not want my evidence supporting your claims. Pursuant to my last statement to you, Mr. McAllister I have now proved to you that I am a man of my word and I now expect you to obey the Code of Conduct that you must obey in order to practice law for a fee.
Mr. Miller, the same holds true for you. Within these documents you will find the name of a lawyer you know very well, David Lutz. I find this man to be a very poor example of an officer of the court and I don’t mind telling the world my opinion of him. Please read my letter to him and let me know as to whether or not you stand with him and against me. If anyone were to ask me, Mr. Lutz is a man in need of legal aid and has no right to charge others for his malicious assistance. Will you spring to his defence when I file a complaint against him? Whether you fellas like it or not I have now made you witnesses to my sad complaints before I returned to the USA.
If I survive the malicious prosecution that I am looking forward to in Boston next month, I will return to litigate in New Brunswick. There is no middle ground for any lawyer to stand on in this battle within two corrupt justice systems. All that I have demanded from any lawyer is simple ethical conduct. Why is that too much to ask for?
I have read your various spit and chews with Brad Green and I must admit I find them to be quite comical from my position as a layman in the catbird seat. Rest assured that I will endeavour to make my opinions widely known. Sue me if you wish. In fact I double dog dare ya to. Bring this material to court so that the jury can have something to read while we argue truth, justice and the Maritimes kowtowing to the American Way.
Cya’ll in Court:)
David R, Amos
153 Alvin Ave.
Milton, MA. 02186; 11:26 PM
Anonymous said...: Even if you do delete it Chucky you know for a fact that I already saved it. With luck I will be showing you a printed copy of it in court someday. I will ask you many questions in public not private emails about what the hell you know about this crap. Why you lied about me called me names and didn't give Brad Green my material as you promised spoke volumes to me about your integrity. Don't even try to argue me about my manners. I know how to behave myself it is you who does not.; 11:32 PM
Anonymous said...: 2005 01 T 0010

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
TRIAL DIVISION

BETWEEN:
WILLIAM MATTHEWS PLAINTIFF
AND:
BYRON PRIOR DEFENDANT

AND BETWEEN:
BYRON PRIOR DEFENDANT/PLAINTIFF
BY COUNTERCLAIM

AND: WILLIAM MATTHEWS PLAINTIFF/FIRST DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM

AND: T. ALEX HICKMAN SECOND DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM

AND: THOMAS MARSHALL THIRD DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM

AND: DANNY WILLIAMS FOURTH DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM

AND: EDWARD M. ROBERTS FIFTH DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM

AND: JOHN CROSBIE SIXTH DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM

AND: PATTERSON PALMER SEVENTH DEFENDANT
BY COUNTERCLAIM
SUMMARY OF CURRENT DOCUMENTCourt File Number(s):2005 01 T 0010Date of Filing of Document:25 January 2005Name of Filing Party or Person:Stephen J. MayApplication to which Document being filed relates:Amended Application of the Plaintiff/Defendant by Counterclaim to maintain an Order restricting publication, to strike portions of the Statement of Defence, strike the Counterclaim in it’s entirety, and to refer this proceeding to case management.Statement of purpose in filing:To maintain an Order restricting publication, to strike portions of the Statement of Defence, strike the Counterclaim in its entirety and refer this proceeding to case management.
A F F I D A V I T

I, Stephen J. May, of the City of St. John’s, in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Barrister and Solicitor, make oath and say as follows:

THAT I am a Partner in the St. John’s office of PATTERSON PALMER solicitors for William Matthews, the Member of Parliament for Random-Burin-St. George’s in the Parliament of Canada.

THAT Mr. Matthews originally retained Mr. Edward Roberts, Q.C. on or about 30 April 2002 after Mr. Byron Prior, the Defendant/Plaintiff by Counterclaim, had made allegations against Mr. Matthews in a publication called “My Inheritance - The truth - Not Fiction: A Town with a Secret”. In that publication, the allegation was made that Mr. Matthews had had sex with a girl who had been prostituted by her mother. That girl was alleged to have been Mr. Prior’s sister.

THAT upon being retained, Mr. Edward Roberts wrote a letter to Mr. Prior. That letter to Mr. Prior is attached as Exhibit “1" to my Affidavit.

THAT subsequent to Mr. Roberts’ letter to Mr. Prior, Mr. Roberts received a 1 May 2002 e-mail from Mr. Prior. That e-mail is attached as Exhibit “2".

THAT subsequent to Mr. Roberts receipt of the e-mail, Mr. Prior swore an Affidavit acknowledging that what had been said in that publication was false. That Affidavit is attached as Exhibit “3" to my Affidavit. Following Mr. Roberts’ receipt of that Affidavit, Mr. Matthews advised that he was satisfied not to pursue the matter any further and our firm closed our file.

THAT on or about 25 October 2004, I was retained by Mr. Matthews following his gaining knowledge that a web site, made a series of allegations against him relating to my having sex with a girl of approximately 12 years old through to an approximate age of 15 years old. It also accused him of being a father of one of her children and accused him of having raped that girl. Upon checking the web site I saw that Byron Prior, the Defendant, had been identified as the author of the material on the site.

THAT Mr. Matthews instructed me to write Mr. Prior, to remind him of the fact that the allegations had been admitted to being false through a 16 May 2002 Affidavit to advise him of Mr. Matthews’ intentions to commence legal proceedings if the comments were not removed from the web site. A copy of my letter to Mr. Prior is attached as Exhibit “4" to this Affidavit.

THAT I attach as Exhibit “5" a transcript from a 5 November 2004 voicemail left by David Amos, identified in the voicemail as a friend of Mr. Prior.

THAT I attach as Exhibit “6" a portion of a 6 November 2004 e-mail from Mr. Amos.

THAT until I received his voicemail and e-mail, I had never heard of Mr. Amos.

THAT Mr. Amos has continued to send me e-mail since his 5 November e-mail. Including his 6 November 2004 e-mail, I have received a total of 15 e-mails as of 23 January 2005. All do not address Mr. Matthews’ claim or my involvement as Mr. Matthews’ solicitor. I attach as Exhibit “7" a portion of a 12 January 2005 e-mail that Mr. Amos sent to me but originally came to my attention through Ms. Lois Skanes whose firm had received a copy. This e-mail followed the service of the Statement of Claim on 11 January 2005 on Mr. Prior. I also attach as Exhibit “8" a copy of a 19 January 2005 e-mail from Mr. Amos.

THAT I attach as Exhibit “9" a copy of a 22 November 2004 letter addressed to me from Edward Roberts, the Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador covering a 2 September 2004 letter from Mr. Amos addressed to John Crosbie, Edward Roberts, in his capacity as Lieutenant Governor, Danny Williams, in his capacity as Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, and Brian F. Furey, President of the Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador. I requested a copy of this letter from Government House after asking Mr. Roberts if he had received any correspondence from Mr. Amos during his previous representation of Mr. Matthews. He advised me that he received a letter since becoming Lieutenant Governor, portions of which involved his representation of Mr. Matthews. Mr. Roberts’ letter also covered his reply to Mr. Amos.

THAT I attach as Exhibit “10" an e-mail from Mr. Amos received on Sunday, 23 January 2005.

THAT I swear this Affidavit in support of the Application to strike Mr. Prior’s counterclaim.

SWORN to before me at
St. John’s, Province of Newfoundland
and Labrador this 24th day of
January, 2005.

Signed by Della Hart STEPHEN J. MAY Signature
STAMP
DELLA HART
A Commissioner for Oaths in and for
the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
My commission expires on December 31, 2009.; 11:43 PM
Anonymous said...: Dear Mr. Amos,

On behalf of Ms. McLellan I would like to thank you for your email message concerning the current federal election. I regret that the volume of messages prevented me from responding sooner.

Your message has been brought to Ms. McLellan`s attention, as she is always pleased to receive comments, both positive and negative.

Again, thank you for bringing this matter to Ms. McLellan`s attention.

Sincerely,
Kirsten Odynski
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; 11:47 PM
Anonymous said...: Hey Mr. Costello
Need I say I was not impressed by you yesterday. At least you confessed that you knew who I was but so much for a jealous defense of your client’s interests. EH? That said there is no need to send you hard copy of my material. Your associates within McInnes Cooper already have enough to review and confer with you about.
Perhaps you should call the dudes or ladies (: Tell them how I chuck rocks will ya? from Patterson Palmer in Halifax that merged with your firm or better yet Lenny Hoyt and Franky Boy McKenna. In my humble opinion your little buddy Franky Boy as Canadian Ambassador should have tried to stop NB Power’s malicious lawsuit against Venezeula in the USA before it picked up steam. But what do I know. EH? I think the dudes from Venezeula were wise to bring the issues back to the Maritimes and into the Irvings’ lap. I think it was a hoot that they employed your firm to do so. What say you? Whereas you do not wish to speak to me I will speak to these dudes about you, Embassy of Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, 32 Range Rd Ottawa Ontario K1N 8J4, Phone: 613 235-5151 and then send them what I sent Allan Rock Franky Boy Mckenna and the FBI almost one year ago. Perhaps you should call some of your friends mentioned below that I served my stuff upon yesterday after I talked to you and ask them what the Hell I am up to if you don’t already know.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

P.S. the following was an interesting article to come out in the local paper just as Humpty Dumpty had the Governor Gerneral drop the Writ on the last election. It certainly seems to me that the Irving’s and Bernie Lord were trying hard to help Stevey Boy Harper’s government and John Wallace get elected in order to protect their own selfish interests. EH? If he won’t tell ya then ask me why Franky Boy does not want to be the liberal leader right now. I Double Dog Dare Ya. As I said in closing yesterday you have my number but maybe the dudes from Venezeula lost it so here it is again 506 434 1379. Your problem is do I want to talk to you now. Whilst I am talking to your clients about your incompetance I will explain to them why I am preparing to sue your whole god damned law firm.

November 25, 2005
Liberal leader ‘jeopardizing’ NB Power’s chances in lawsuit over failed Orimulsion deal: Tory MLA
New Brunswickers should question whether Liberal Leader Shawn Graham is fighting for them or for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, says a Tory MLA. Jody Carr, MLA for Oromocto-Gagetown, made the stinging indictment against Mr.Graham Thursday during a heated committee hearing where the Liberal leader took repeated swipes at David Hay, NB Power’s president and chief executive officer, for failing to answer legal questions regarding the utility’s Orimulsion lawsuit. Mr. Graham questioned some of the tactics being advanced by NB Power’s legal staff and demanded to know how much the power corporation budgeted for the legal battle against the Venezuelan government and its state-owned oil company.
Mr. Carr said the Liberal leader crossed the line in Thursday’s committee hearing and could endanger NB Power’s lawsuit. “The issue is complicated and it shows the issue is far over his head to what he can comprehend,” Mr. Carr said in an interview later."He was in effect working on the side of the Venezuelan government by jeopardizing the court proceedings."He was jeopardizing the chances of government and NB Power recouping the $2.2 billion in savings and therefore, in essence, that put him on the other side.” NB Power restarted its lawsuit on Sept. 1, when it filed a statement of claim looking for $2.2 billion in financial damages, which equates to the price difference between purchasing heavy fuel oil to burn at the Coleson Cove Generation Station and Orimulsion, a cheap water-and-bitumen mixture patented by Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA).
NB Power has hired Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales to quarterback the lawsuits filed in Fredericton and New York along with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP to serve as their U.S. counsel. Mr. Hay estimated that the corporation has already spent as much as $600,000 on legal bills relating to the Orimulsion lawsuit.The Liberal leader grew increasingly frustrated when Mr. Hay stonewalled his attempt to get a firm answer on NB Power’s budget for Orimulsion-related legal fees. “For the life of me I can’t understand how it could jeopardize the court proceedings in saying how much we are thinking this court challenge may cost,” Mr. Graham said.Throughout the committee session, Mr. Hay assured the Liberal leader that the power corporation was evaluating the risk-reward ratio at each legal “fork in the road.” Mr. Hay said he cannot disclose any details that could tip the utility’s legal hand considering the Venezuelans are keeping a close eye on the proceedings."We are dealing with people with extremely deep pockets. And if you go to a poker game “... and you say, I have my $1,000 here or whatever it is you are playing with, that gives an advantage to the other side,” Mr. Hay said.
Mr. Carr also accused Mr. Graham of misleading Saint John residents about the Orimulsion costs during the recent byelection campaign in Saint John Harbour. Mr. Carr said he found it disconcerting that Liberal campaign signs said the Conservative government lost $2.2 billion through the bungled Orimulsion fuel deal but now Mr. Graham admits the money was a “potential loss of savings.”
- Daniel McHardie - Canadaeast News Service Source: Telegraph-Journal | page A5 on Nov. 25, 2005; 11:57 PM
Anonymous said...: From: “Steve Erickson”
To: motomaniac
Subject: from Steve Erickson from Masschusetts
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:26:32 +0000

Mr. David Amos,
we talked about 2 years ago. My cell that we talked on is [Boston area code cellphone # snipped]

Much has happened good for me since then.

Are you in Canada, in Parliment, or are you still in the Boston area?

-Steve Erickson

Does this stuff answer your question Stevey Baby? I read what you said of me within your long winded Blogs. I told you the truth years ago and now I will tell you a little bit more. To me you are just another greedy sneaky Yankee now. But to be fair to you I must admit that we have our share of bull___ing bloggers and crooked politicians in the Maritimes as well One of them is a Frenchie named Charlie Leblanc and another named Bernie Lord. Please allow me to introduce them and some of their cohorts to you. Their emails are wittin and his Blog and yours is below. How dare you bastards imply that I am a one percenter in order to promote yourselves.

http://oldmaison.blogspot.com/2006/03/very-first-day-at-new-brunswick.html

This is obvious Bull__ supported by Charlie Leblanc for his old buddy the malevolent Sergreant at Arms Danny Boy Bussieres were talking two years ago. Now that he has lost his trusted staus he files a human rights compalint after he laughed at my false imprisonment in a Yankee jail?

Original article is at http://maritimes.indymedia.org/news/2004/06/7980.php Print comments.
IS ELVY ROBICHAID SEEING THE LIGHT????
by Charles LeBlanc Friday, Jun. 25, 2004 at 10:56 AM
Fredericton

updates from Charles

I got a few late stories that I want to bring up.
They had a protest at the Legislature on Wednesday
and I would say about 400 people showed up. I made my
own little investigation in the crowd and I soon found
out that many people from the Northern Part of the
Province knew about my protest.
These Acadians read about my protest in L’Acadie
Nouvelle! A few weeks earlier, I found out that the
English Population from the Miramichi area didn’t know
about my fight so this shows me that it’s so important
to have the media covering your issues.
During the protest, I felt like I was in a police
state. There were cops are over the place. I
approached three of them and said - My God? We need
violence, bricks going through windows, people being
shot and tear gas!!!
This is the only way that the Government will
listen.
One cop said - If I have to use my gun? I know
exactly where my first bullet is going to go!! Pretty
scary…lol….
Speaking of violence?
That guy from the Sackville area who went to
Toronto with his vehicle full of guns! Very scary
Stuff!!!
What did I tell you people in the past? Someone is
going to crack up one of these days and I know for a
fact the area targeted is going to be the Legislature.

There’s always undercovers cops around but only
when the House is in session.
As God as my witness I hope nothing happens but
it’s just a matter of time till someone is push over
the edge.
I guess a guy name David Amos was shown the door
yesterday at the Legislature. This guy is running as
an Independent candidate in the riding of Fundy Royal.
I met the guy over the net and he has a beef with our
political bureaucrats.
I admire people fighting for what they believe in
but you can’t get carried away. I guess in this case?
He wanted to speak from the Gallery and that’s a big
faux pas!; 12:04 AM
Anonymous said...: After Stevey Boy Harper gets sworn in I will call Washington to see if Spectre got the wiretap tapes and then start forwarding this email everywhere. In an ethical effort to impeach Bush and his lapdog Harper myself.
What did Lamrock, Burke, Murphy, McGuinley and you think of the copy of # 139? Scared the shit out of you EH? Whereas you little local liberal lawyers would not help me unseat Premier Lord and stop Stevey Boy Harper in h9s tracks i will through in the same lawsuits with him. It is hard to get good help these days. The word integrity does not fit in the job discription of a lawyer or a Parliamentian. EH?
The fact that Emerson just crossed the floor and the Dastardly Dave Dingwall story broke yesterday kinda sends your wicked little party down the tubes EH? From my point of view it looks good on you dudes. Say Hey to Franky Boy McKenna for me will ya? I hope to argue you all very soon in court.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

FEDERAL EXPRESS February 7, 2006
Senator Arlen Specter
United States Senate
Committee on the Judiciary
224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

Dear Mr. Specter:

I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters raised in the attached letter. Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wiretap tapes. I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this previously.

Very truly yours,
Barry A. Bachrach
Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003

David Amos wrote

To Whom it may concern
I know Petey Baby MacKay don't love me so there is no sense in wasting my dime calling him. Hell he has refused to answer my letters or call me back even after Belinda Baby dumped him, so I do not expect him to do the right thing as Minister of Foreign Affairs other than to accept nasty little Franky Boy McKenna's resignation ASAP. Tell me is Franky Boy entitled to severance pay like his fellow Malawyer ritime buddy Dingwall is? Whereas the liberals Wayne Easter and Landslide Annie refused to protect my dumb arse over the years in their capacity as Solicitor General/Minister of Public Safety. I guess I should be fair and allow it Mr. Day's to try to act ethically on my behalf for a day or so, before I sue the Crown. EH?
Rest assured that I ain't holding my breath waiting for Mr. Day to call me back. Like many of the rest of you Stockwell Day has known of my troubles ever since Harper was elected as his latest boss in 2004 when he sat in the 37th Parliament
In the meantime in answer to Andrew Kyrstal's very dumb question on the radio just now.,methinks I should inform the NHL dudes that are being prosecuted by corrupt Yankees how I can help them.I know Andrew Kystral and all the Rogers dudes never will. What the New Jersey Dudes are up to right now is merely a case of the big bad pot calling a minor little kettle black to me and Andrew Kyrtal knows it too. Just like the Lord Conrad Black versus FitzGerald matter in Chicago everybody is trying to play dumb and it was to funny that Peter C. Newman apologized after I sent his lawyers some of my stuff..
Tell me something honestly if any you can find it in your soul to do so. Do you really think that the Conservatives thought that I didn't notice that Mulroney's right hand man Dereck Burney set up your Cabinet or that Michael Fortier was not a partner in his law firm?
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos; 12:12 AM
Anonymous said...: As a little reward Frenchie Here is the reason Franky Boy McKenna, Allan Rock, John Manley, and Brian Tobin will not run for leader of the liberal party.
Call them and ask them or the FBI to sse if they wish to call me a liar. Better yet call the Yankee Senators Arlen Spevter or Russ Feingold. Nitey night Chucky. The clock clicked past midnight and the blog has not turned into a pumpkin yet. I am impressed with your your Newfound sense of integrity but quit the wise cracks and try to say something about this crap I have posted that really matters. Will ya? A polite argument in public in front of many witnesses would be nice.

May 11th, 2005

Ambassador: H.E. Mr. Allan Rock
One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
885 Second Avenue , 14th Floor
New York , NY 10017

Ambassador Franky McKenna
Canadian Embassy
501 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20001

Assistant Director Louis M. Reigel III
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001

Special Agent David Price
FBI Minneapolis
Suite 1100
111 Washington Avenue, South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401-2176

RE: Rampant Public Corruption in Canada and the USA
Hey,
Now that Paul Martin has finally set the date for his confidence vote, methinks its time to pack my bags and head for home. I must raise some serious political hell in the Maritimes before the Commonwealth of Massachusetts does its worst to bankrupt my wife and put my kids on the street before I can expose the rampant public corruption. This is also a very good day to prove within the USA that we are well aware of each other and of my concerns and allegations in order to stress test the integrity of the US Mail. It and the Canada Post have failed me big time in recent years particularly just before the Yankees falsely imprisoned me last year for the benefit of George W. Bush, John Kerry and Paul Martin to name a few. I have no doubt whatsoever each of you dudes know more about me than I do about you. However that does not mean that I have not studied each of you a lot more than the ordinary layman. Just so we are clear, I have no respect for any of you. I know that all of you are as crooked as Chief Mearn, his cops and the lawyers who are coming into our home tomorrow without a warrant. This mail should prove your malice and willingness to support crime and public corruption.
Pursuant to my many emails, phone calls and faxes etc., you will find enclosed as promised exactly the same material I served upon the Solicitor Generals Teddy Olson and landslide Annie McLellan last year before I ran for Parliament last year. The CD of the copy of wiretap tape # 139 is served upon you as officers of the court and FBI Agents in order that it may be properly investigated. Franky got this stuff and more last year. The FBI got even more the year before. Perhaps they should go find the original tapes that the Suffolk County District Attorney and Special Agent in Charge Ken Kaiser have been playing dumb about for far too long. This material was good enough to impeach George W. Bush last year and cause many people to quit or lose their jobs. It is every bit as valuable today and you all know it. Ask the many people whose names can be found within these documents or Franky Boy or Claude Richer, Allan Rock’s lawyer buddy in the RCMP about this stuff before you call me a liar. As you all know I am out of jail on bail pending my upcoming criminal trial in front of a jury of my peers. I have the right to remain silent in the USA. I will employ different rights in Canada and say a lot.
What I choose to say while stumping for a seat in Parliament in Canada is of my concern not yours. If you dudes do your jobs here and I act ethically and legally up home with luck the world will be far better off in short order. I have already checked the rules with the people working for Elections Canada. We agree it is perfectly legal for an innocent man to run for Parliament while being prosecuted with false charges in the wrong jurisdiction and venue in the USA. Everybody knows I can secure my personal freedom quicker in a political forum in Canada rather than argue crooked judges in the USA. They have already imprisoned me on bull**** charges without even reading me my rights or telling me why I was in jail. The crooks are not going to have a sudden fit of ethical behavior now without it becoming a matter of political will. We all know it is high time for a change, the sooner the better for the Maritimes as well as the rest of the world. What better politician to argue with than a right wing lawyer named Rob Moore?
As you all no doubt know I have been talking to many people within the UN and have sent many much of my stuff. You all must have laughed as hard as I did when the Cubans were afraid to talk about my stuff. I must agree with George Bush about one thing. The UN is certainly in need of an overhaul. Yet we all know that nasty dudes like Maurice Strong’s buddy, Paul A. Volcker, the Former North American Chairman of the Trilateral Commission and Karl Rove’s puppet, John Bolton are just going to make matters worse. The same holds true with the turncoat Robert C. Pozen. He now offers advice to Bush on how to fix Social Security simply because I sent him running for cover with my Putnam Investment concerns and the malevolent media control of Global Corporations. Feel free to argue me or act ethically. You choose. I don’t care. Franky Boy knows he is way past too late. I am just rubbing his nose it before I talk a lot about him and his failure to uphold the public trust in our old stomping grounds up home. I can’t help but wonder how he explained his “Harper is a lapdog for Bush” dogma to Karl Rove and his nasty cohorts. I suspect it was an allowed comment from an insider of the Carlyle Group. Don’t you? We all know Stephen Harper would never fit in that group. He is as dumb as a post. All of his successes playing at politicking have just been a matter of luck and playing on the PC and Liberal scandals. Harper is kinda scary to me. He has a truly awful agenda in store for all Canadians like evil old T. Alex Hickman and Johnny Crosbie did for our Newfys.
Sometimes less is more. So in conclusion I will just quote former Inspector General of the DHS Clark Kent Irwin and simply say it would have benefited all if he had taken his own advice way back in November of 2003 when he had an important job.
POGO: “Any advice for your fellow public servants?”
Irwin: “Well, just do your job and let the political chips fall where they may. Unless you’re willing to do that, it seems to me you shouldn’t take the job in the first place.” What say you?

Cya’ll in Court:)
David R. Amos
153 Alvin Ave.
Milton MA. 02186

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Anonymous said...: So charlie what papers did he ask you to deliver to brad Green?

And why didn't you complete the task?; 9:26 AM
Anonymous said...: Hey David Amos you complain about Chucky's pictures. He posts many pictures of himself so you fall in love with him. He really likes you.

Chucky really needs you.; 9:58 AM
Anonymous said...: I am impressed with Chucky's newfound sense of ethics the blog still stands this morning. If anyone would like to view the material and listen to a copy of a wiretap tape that Chucky and his buddy Vaughn are so afraid of all they have to do is call me and meet me in public somewhere before I leave Fredericton. I am sitting in town right now and trying to write my first complaint to file in Federal Court ASAP. Here is my cell number again 506 434 1379
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos; 10:44 AM
Anonymous said...: Methinks Mr Amos is a wacko; 12:22 PM
Anonymous said...: Mr. Amos is in good company with Charlie though. They will get along fine. They seem to have a lot in common.; 12:39 PM
Anonymous said...: Methinks too but Mr. Amos is in good company with Charlie though. They will get along fine. They seem to have a lot in common.; 12:39 PM
Anonymous said...: Oh ye critics with no names why not pick up the phone tomorrow and call your Ombudsman and Chucky's buddy Bernie Richard mention my name and ask him whether or not he received this email on August 11th, 2004 at 3.11 pm two weeks before he met my family in his office. Then if you grow up and get a name and an emaiul address watch me prove to you I am no friend of Charles Leblanc

Hey Bernard
Thanks for your response though. I didn't believe you on the phone the instant that you tried to make an issue about not receiving the email to Wayne Steeves. I figured that you were covering for Brad Green because that would mean that you knew the CISNB was involved. I laughed when you repeated it in the email. Do you think me dumb?The Fredericton PD guard the legislature correct? Ask Sgt. Kelly or Chief Carlisle if they had jurisdiction over me when they threw me out. The Crown always has jurisdiction over a Canadian citizen particularly when he is on native soil. I figured out it was Dan that threw mw out. He should have taken the stuff in the yard just as soon as he affirmed that he and the cops had jurisdiction over me as he ordered me away from the legislative building. They did watch me go into 710 Queen St to serve TJ Burke and come out without the stuff. They know I did it. Over Two hundred people watched me serve Leroy.Armstrong once he stuck his nose in my affairs. Anne McLellan and Brad Green both suggested that I give this stuff to cops that claim jurisdiction. Go argue Bruce Noble. .I don't need any luck Uncle Franky has been dead for two months even though no one has notified my wife I know it. Watch me turn the worm on the Secret Service, the FBI and the RCMP
There is no way you could have known about Connie Fogal without getting Wayne Steeves' email as well. He should have sent the CISNB out to do their job by now. Obviously that is not the case. Maybe Elizabeth Weir will have more luck making you understand. As for me I simply don't trust you. I will be calling you to court. We can argue about integrity and jurisdiction there. In the mean time perhaps you should go find Leroy Armstrong or T J Burke or Brad Green or Premier Lord or Bruce Noble and ask to see the documents and the copy of the wiretape tape I sent them before I compel you to argue about them with me. There is another fella running around Fredericton with the same stuff. His name is Vaughn Barnett. If the politicians won't talk to you, maybe he will. his number is 457-4559 But he is likely out in the front yard protesting something. I don't trust him either because he and Charles Leblanc are buddies and I know he is a liar.

Cya'll in Court
David R. Amos; 1:21 PM
Anonymous said...: I still can't understand what this guy is trying to say. His posts/letters or whatever are WAYYYYYY too long! I still have no idea what his beef is or who it's with.; 2:52 PM
Anonymous said...: I sent the email I promised I would to Chucky and many of his buddies. I will forward it on to anyone else. All you have to do is ask. Again my email address motomaniac_02186 (at) yahoo.com

Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos; 2:59 PM
Anonymous said...: My beef is what all politicians talk about but do nothing about because they are the ones who practice it. In a nutshell it is called Public Corruption Get it? If not so be it. I have said enough for now.
Dave; 3:03 PM
Anonymous said...: All I know is that David and Chucky make great friends. They are heavenly made couple. They think alike and behave alike.
Only difference is that David rights a little better English when Chucky sucks.; 3:27 PM
Charles LeBlancsaid...: rights???????; 4:03 PM
Anonymous said...: Ok "writes" smart a**.; 4:55 PM
Anonymous said...: Charlie you've been leaving comments since someone above asked you what papers you were supposed to deliver to brad green for this guy?
and #2 why didn't you complete the task?; 6:03 PM
Anonymous said...: Thanks for asking that question again but rest assured Chucky will never answer it?
Dave; 7:25 PM
Anonymous said...: > HELL ANGELS FROM MONTREAL LOOKING FOR CHARLES
> LEBLANC????
> by Charles LeBlanc Saturday, Jun. 12, 2004 at 11:26
> AM
> oldmaison@yahoo.com Fredericton
> Thursday morning, I showed up at the Legislature to
> use the computer at the Library.
> I was told by security that two rough looking
> individuals walked through the doors and asked for a
> Charles Leblanc?
> They described the guys as rough looking and one of
> them had a long gray beard with a leather jacket!
> At first, I believe it was the Hell Angels coming
> down from Montreal for a hit on Charles.
> Hours later, I seen my bigot buddy Matthew Glenn and
> he was in front of the Legislature with his
> blowhorn.
> For you people who don’t know the bigot? He’s the
> one who started the Anglo Society. I seen him
> preaching to three young kids and of course I butt
> in and said - Hey Bigot??? Why don’t you bigot go
> home?
> Minutes later, we were approached by two guys and
> they asked politely –Where can we locate a Charles
> LeBlanc???
> In a matter of seconds, the bigot quickly pointed at
> me.
> I said to myself - Ohhh?? Thanks a lot Bigot!!!
> At the end? It was a guy named David Amos and I
> guess that he’s running at an independent in the
> riding of Fundy Royal. The guy have been living in
> the area of Boston and he's been following my
> updates on the internet. I'm telling you that the
> information highway is a great way to spread the
> message to the rest of the world!
> We talked for around 30 minutes and it was nice to
> see the bigot, me and David Amos together debating
> our own little concern issue. We all have our own
> issues and it’s too bad that we cannot unite and
> fight but that’s the way Canadians do things.
> They remind silent until the Government really
> pissed them all and go out and vote the party in
> power out of office; 7:40 PM
Anonymous said...: From: charles leblanc
Subject: Re: This is David Amos
To: moto maniac

I don't know what you're talking about but I gace your
info to Vaughn...Maybe he can explain to me what your
papers are all about...lol

--- moto maniac wrote:

> Hey Charles
> I just found out a simple truth about you. You
> are a liar. Not only did you not give my stuff to
> Brad Green as you promised. You did not give it to
> the man from Minto that you enjoy calling a bigot. I
> just had a little talk with him and he affrimed what
> I had suspected about you and denied receiving the
> documents etc. from you as you claimed.
> Perhaps you should get honest and give the
> stuff to Vaughn Barnett. (I just called him 506
> 457-4559 and left him a message to assure him that I
> am sincere and this is not spam I have not been to
> Fredericton lately but I plan to come soon if you
> don't give him the documents and CD I will) I am
> certain he will understand them and know what to do
> with them. Rest assured that I will tell him you
> have them. (In fact I just did didn't I) You can
> explain your own actions to your friends. I
> understand you well enough already.
> I always suspected that you were all about
> Charles LeBlanc and in the self promotion game. But
> I thought you may at least be ethical. Turns out you
> are just a liar and a chickenshit like all the rest.
> By the way I did figure out who threw me out of the
> legislature it was a french fella by the name of
> Dan. I have no idea why he would claim that his name
> was Jean Claude but it does explain to me why he did
> not show me his ID. I ain't no Hells Angel as you
> and the fellas in the legislature like to claim that
> I am. However I am a plenty pissed off boy from
> Dorchester who just had another French asshole show
> me his ass. Ask me why I am not surprised? Don't you
> think I asked around about you? Never forget you
> were raised just up the road from me. I told you
> that out of the gate when I first called you from
> Boston. Remember? That should have been a little
> clue to you. You should have done the same before
> slandering me and adding to the offense by proving
> to me that you are a liar. I
> gave you the benefit of my doubt but you proved for
> me once more first impressions are seldom wrong. I
> have now thrown you in the same boat with your
> frienf the Sergeant at Arms(Even that has acquired a
> french spelling for an English Queen) I don't hate
> french folks but I do find french bullshit very
> contemptable. I have many Cajun friends that share
> the same opinion about french Canadians. In fact I
> was the first Canadian that a lot of them ever met
> that they actually saw eye to eye with. We quickly
> put the english/french stuff in the proper corner
> and went on with our pursuit of happiness We just
> laughed at your snotty attitudes about culture.
> everybody knows it ain't about that at all. It is
> about money and power as usual. Wave all the flags
> you want, you can't fool me. I am too stupid. What
> you and all my other fellow maritmers seem to be
> overlooking is that while we can't see the forest
> for the trees because of our petty squabbles, the
> evil Global dudes have been raping our
> forest primeval. They playing us like a fiddle
> while you dance their jig out of your own self
> interest. Do you want a job in the media or do you
> wish to be like Michael Moore and become famous
> byway of notoriety? Do you really think anyone in
> the media owned by the rich and powerful takes you
> seriously? Can anyone take you seriously once they
> find you to be a liar? At least I do what I say and
> say what I mean. What say you now Chucky Baby?
> Better yet wait until I turn up and say it to me in
> front of your friends. Premier Lord know I love to
> argue with Frenchmen we can talk about it on his
> front lawn. You buddy Dan and the CISNB can listen
> in.
> The following are your words about me. I find
> that you are so full of yourself it is ridculous
> particularly in light of the fact that I consider
> you to be full of shit. Watch how easily I prove
> that fact about you the next time I am in
> Fredericton. Which maybe sooner that you think. Rest
> arrured I will be telling your friends what I think
> of you. Feel free to argue with me. It should prove
> interesting to see who they believe.
> David R.
> Amos
> 506
> 434-1379; 7:44 PM
Anonymous said...: Vaughn did you get my material as Leblanc claims? You are the third guy he says he gave it to. If not I know I will be the last. I have had enough of him and his funny ways at my expense. He whined and complained that he had no computer so I gave him one. But he failed to even say Thanks. Now the liar wants people to buy him a Bull Horn so he can bother more people with his Bullshit. Well Fredericton has already met a real legal and social activist and i did it all without a whisper or any press coverage. Soon Ottawa will receive the same stuff and much much more before I return to the USA to argue the bastards pulling the strings up here in our old houses. The folks working there seem to care more what language the liars are speaking in rather than what they are actually saying. Charles LeBlanc spoke with a forked tongue when he claimed his Scottish heritage. He made my blood boil and my ancestors bones rattle when he went on and on about his roots. First the frenchy wants his flag on the government houses then he wants to wave it wearing our kilts? I am of the Keith Clan and founded my own. My ancestors were fine and noble warriors. Read their motto on the beer bottle Chucky and tell me if you believe it or not. Rest assured I do. Neither my Septs nor I would accept such a man as Charles Leblanc as a trusted friend.; 7:45 PM
Anonymous said...: David,

Yes, Charles gave me the material - although I must admit that I was not able to make much sense of it. Because of that, and because it appears to be out of my area of expertise, I doubt that I can help you very much. Also, unfortunately, your clash with Charles, and your low opinion of him (which I feel is unwarranted) has created a conflict of interests, as Charles is a friend of mine and a fellow activist. Since I doubt I can assist you much anyway, perhaps that doesn't matter. In any event, good luck with your cause.

Vaughn; 7:47 PM
Anonymous said...: Chucky finally met his match in David Amos. Chucky deserves it. He messes with good people. Someone is speaking out.; 8:09 PM
Charles LeBlancsaid...: I must admit that you have lots of guts to condenm me in my blog site.

Anyway? I tried to read those papers and I can honestly say that I don't uderstand what your battle is all about?

I never told you that I would give those papers to any MLA's. Why the hell do I want to be involded in your issues anyway.

I got enough on my own plate.

Ok...you got a little blog because a good supporter of this blog asked me to let you post your views.

Don't blow it!!!!

Is you wish to smear and used bad words? I'll delete the whole blog.

Try to be nice. Not too many websites allowso you to post your views so be nice in here.....

Watch the language....is not??? Well? Why don't you start a new blog????

Is easy to do.....

I really don't understand your point of view.

All the activists are trying to bring important issues to the public and you wish to condenm the same people.

Why burn all those bridges?

Oh well c'est la vie.....; 8:46 PM
Anonymous said...: Lets get this straight Chucky so there is no misunderstanding. You only allowed my words to stand this time around because other people read them and asked you to? Hmmm some ethics EH?

As for guts not only is my belly bigger than you my balls are as big as basketballs compared to yours. I ain't afraid of Count Peter Hans Klovenbach so why would I be afraid of you? You and your wannbe lawyer friend know full well I have been trying to impeach George W. Bush byway of the courts since 2002. Long before that nonsense in Iraq began. You hate me because if you had even glanced at the papers you just confessed you read then you know I sued Cardinal Law and caused him to quit his job on Dec 13th, 2002. It had nothing to do with child abuse like the media claims. It was merely filthy lucre that is all. Well my wife's cousin the exbanker turned priest Robert T. Kickham is still around around and cooking the books for the brand new Cardinal in Beantown. You know the dude in named O'Malley.

Furthmore Chucky you offer no argument to anything I state other than lie about not promising to serve Brad Green or falsely claiming that the computer I gave you was no good? The best you can is make jokes or critize my choice of words whilst I point out your serious lack of integrity?

In my law books it is not illegal to have poor manners or use the words I have employed thus far(as of yet anyway) I believe it falls under something that can be found in the Charter

However to slander someone and tell ouright lies about them for one's own gain is more than offensive. I have been falsely imprisoned because of the perjury of people like you who choose to support public corruption for their own gain. Methinks I should seek relief in court in fredericton particularly when I can prove it. Furthermore you know you have told several lies within the very blog.

I will wager if I posted something that you can never refute this blog will evporate immediately. Perhaps I should seal its fate and let your friends wonder why you erased me so quickly after I busted you in front of everybody. Never fear though I saved this blog in its entirety already. However you really should check you email and press print on the tif file that I just sent you and yoy hard copy of the proof that I keep wonderful records. Some of your buddies and adversaries may be reading it already. At the end of the day you may realize that I just may turn out to be the honest man that you ever met.; 9:11 PM
Charles LeBlancsaid...: I give up....I'm just going to continue bloggling away.....Bonne Chance...; 9:27 PM
Anonymous said...: Don't you think you should hire a lawyer too? That last email was hell in a hand basket wasn't it? Why not call Cleveland Allaby (your know Tanker's lawyer) he hates both Bernie Lord and me but he won't demand any sort of apology from me. Hell he won't even whisper my name. Just maybe Cleveland Allaby will help Vaughn and you to understand my material and then ask you two dudes why you didn't call the RCMP years ago. Yea I know I am pipe dreaming. Honest cops and lawyers don't exist. That is pure Hollywood all the way and a long long way from the Maritimes EH? Ask my Newfy buddy Byron Prior how bad things really are around here. I Double Dog Dare Ya too Chucky.
Que Sera Sera and
Cya'll in Court
David Raymond Amos; 9:42 PM
Anonymous said...: Chucky giving advice to David Amos to not burn bridges? That is funny. Chucky is good at burning bridges himself. He has no bridge left to burn. How can give advice to others to not do the same.; 8:04 AM
Anonymous said...: Subject: Fwd: Sue me Eddy Baby I double Dog Dare Ya I telling Lord Black on you

Everybody loves a mystery. A lot of folks were no doubt wondering why the big talking old fart named Petey Newman apologized to Lord Conrad Black not long after he and Mikey Levine laughed off his lawsuit at the big party in Toronto. Didn't it seem strange to anyone that the Tory's law firm wrote the crooked old Lord a fat cheque as well? It seems that the Torys, a dude named Mr. Moate, Levine, Greenspan, Newman and I may be the only ones to know the true reason why and I am the only one who will tell the tale. Here is your clue see if you can figure it out. I know of two Maritimers who will never have a hope in hell of figuring it out because they do not have two clues between them and if the did they would not know what to do with them. One dude everybody calls Tanker and the other I call Frenchie. They know who they are do you
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos; 11:02 AM
Anonymous said...: Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 06:36:11 -0800 (PST)
From: David Amos
To: Eddy Greenspan
Subject: Sue me Eddy Baby I double Dog Dare Ya I telling Lord Black on you

Say hey to your buddies the old fart Peter C. Newman and and the corrupt Yankee FitzGerald for me will ya?

"Edward L. Greenspan, Q.C." wrote:

Subject: RE: Since Susan Prosnitz and her boss Fynn would not answer Hard Copy
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:10:13 -0500
From: "Edward L. Greenspan, Q.C." To: "David Amos"

Please delete my name from your emails

Greenspan, White
144 King Street East
Toronto, Ontario M5C 1G8
Tel: 416-366-3961
Fax: 416-366-7994; 11:11 AM
Anonymous said...: Subject: RE: Sue me Eddy Baby I double Dog Dare Ya I telling Lord Black on you

"Cleveland J. Allaby" wrote:

Please do not email, write, copy or send anything to me in the future.; 11:14 AM
Anonymous said...: Bingo You Mr. Cleveland Allaby win the cake baked by Bernie Lord.

Cya'll in Court . Thanks for finally responding to me. Your timing is perfect. One hour before or so before the 39th Parliament begins and just in time before I polish off my first complaint to file in Federal court in Fredericton. Was it done so quickly after I blogged my letter to you in Chucky LeBlanc's web page? Did the gossip about my blogging in his website reach you first thing this morning? In my book you are as dumb as the Frenchie is. Wise or dumb I will call you as a witness to testify in Federal Court before I get around to suing you. Perhaps your lawyer and I should talk now. Hostile or not you will make an important witness not only on because of your lawsuits concernining Native Aboriginal matters (Remember Barry Bachrach represents me in the USA right now) but more importantly because Bernie Lord paid you a lot of money years ago to study the Justice Dept. (Wasn't it 112,000 grand or so?)
Obviously Cleveland you are no wiser than Eddy Greenspan. Clearly you think your status as a well known lawyer allows you not only to ignore and not uphold the law but break it if you wish. Should you have contacted the RCMP as soon as you listened the the CD I provided you with. Guess what I told them you got it already. My next calls are to the General Counsel of the SIRC and the old lawyer who represent the following folks. He has played dumb with me for way past to long.

THE CANADIAN CIVIL LIBERTIES ASSOCIATION
A. ALAN BOROVOY, GENERAL COUNSEL
Suite 200, 394 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1X4
phone: 416-363-0321
fax: 416-861-1291

Cleveland did you really think your email will scare me off? Look how fast I bounced it back and forwarded it to many others. When a man has been diligently attempting to impeach George W. Bush for over three years despite the attacks from crooked Feds etc nothing scares him anymore. A threat of litigation coming from the email box of a lawyer into mine is like manna from heaven to me. Didn't I slam Eddy Greenspan the same way? Man you are dumb if you though that I would not do the same thing with you. You just proved for me that every body else got my email and hard copy too. you asgin the same question I asked you on February 23rd. Whois your god damned lawyer maybe I know him already. If not tell him he has a fool for a client. Will ya?

Tell me honestly, Cleveland if you can find it in your your soul to do so. Why Didn't you sue Bernie Lord as you threatened to do particularly after you and I talked the day before I gave my material to your buddy Tom Young and the New Brunswick Securities Commission? I heard of no apology from him and I laughed when I saw Tanker being trundled down to the Speakers chair arm in arm with two crooks. I figured another backroom deal went down and Tanker needed a smarter lawyer because I had heard nothing from you and I made certain that you knew the score with Hard Copy of my material before that shit went down. Something definitely smells rotten in New Brunswick EH?
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

The question still remains who is the April Fool and will Chucky evict me for Blogging?

chucky leblanc wrote:

You can add this note to all the millions of other
notes but I feel that I have to send ya this note.

We allowed you to have your own little blog. I believe
it's a good way for you to spread your message.

I'm still trying to figure out exactly what the
message is???...lol

Anyway, there's no need to condenm the people who are
activists like Vaugh.

I believe it attracts new visitors that search the
names you mention.

But once that blog is delete? It's too fini.

I too had problems at the Legislature and it's in
front of the Human Rights Commission.

It takes time.....

All I'm asking is that you try to be nice and don't
condenm people like Vaugh who an activist also.

Just try to be nice.....

Lets try to spread our message in a nice way!

What do you think???; 11:20 AM
Anonymous said...: What, specifically, are all these people being sued for? You rant and rave and nobody can make heads or tails out of what you are talking about.

We know you ran for office. We know that you try to impeach Bush (and anybody who does that certainly gets good marks from me!) We know that for some reason they held you in jail? Is that correct?

I'm assuming its under the new terrorism laws, since you say they wouldn't let you see evidence. That also is not surprising the way the US is functioning.

But what are all the lawsuits about? There is something about wiretap evidence that for some reason you are sending to canadian politicians and lawyers..why is that?

What exactly are all these law firms doing? If they are crooked, then specifically what evidence do you have? That lawyers are crooks also doesn't surprise most people, I"m mostly surprised we continue to elect so many of them.

But if you could explain point by point what the grievances are against these people, then people may understand. Perhaps you don't care and just want to let off steam, that's fine too, that's what blogs are for. However, many people would like to know what you are suing these people for?; 12:37 PM
Anonymous said...: Good day to ye with no name. thanks for the question. Methinks by your questions you must be Vaughn.I stated the reason for my first lawsuit clearly live on CTV news to that Murphy character at suppertime just before I was allowed to debate Andy Scot in Oromocto.
My first lawsuit will be to seek relief for the offense against my rights under the Charter because I was falsely imprisoned without being charged, held without bail and it was all done without even being read my rights. Then I was denied my right to a trial after met the Canadian Consulate in jailand came screaming out. I had tried to remove the matter to the proper jurisdiction and venue in order to prove the malicious prosecution to no avail. the bastarsds in the USA will never give a jury of my peers and Federal Court in Canada does not employ a jury. Thus I must make my issues well known locally before I file so that the Judges will not dismiss my complaints so easily as they have done in the past. Give me a call if you are not Vaughn and I will meet you show you the evidence.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
P.S. My next posting is quite a rant. I explain things in greater detail to say the least but my manners are slipping fast. It will be the maximum stress test of Chucky's newfound sense of ethics.; 1:17 PM
Anonymous said...: So you are suing the canadian government for being held in jail in the US? Is that right, or were you held in Canada? How does that even work?

Why go on a lengthy rant to 'test' Charles? Take a break if your manners are slipping. Having your messages deleted on the last place your story can be told hardly seems helpful.

"Then I was denied my right to a trial after met the Canadian Consulate in jailand came screaming out"

That makes no sense whatsoever. People don't need long rants, they need clarity. You are suing the canadian government because they refused to help you while in US custody, is that correct?; 1:43 PM
Anonymous said...: Bingo. Vaughn; 1:57 PM
Anonymous said...: Wouldn't it be funny if you are not Vaughn but actually Clevelans Allaby or Bras Green or Jeff Mockler or beter yet David Lutz or Vaughn's buddy Brucy Baby Noble. that can't be though because Vaughn must be Chucky's only legal minded friend; 2:00 PM
Anonymous said...: I am typing to fast because I am upt to something far more important right now involving J. Division. Mean old Zach's old stomping grounds.; 2:03 PM
Anonymous said...: You know what? I am am gonna take you advice and take a break from Chucky's little sideshow and go downtown to see what condition my condition is in Fredericton. I will be the ugly guy grinning and smoking a lot but not saying a damned think. From now on i want everything i say recorded. One must do such things when one sues the Crown.
EH Vaughn?; 2:09 PM
Anonymous said...: Well, that makes some sense anyway. So how are these New Brunswick lawyers involved? Are you saying that none of them will represent you or what? You are sending them this wiretap evidence for what reason? If it's federal court why are you even in New Brunswick, all the lawyers in this province are idiots and irving lackeys. Why not go to Toronto where there are at least some civil liberties lawyers.

The trouble is, I don't know of any legal grounds that 'forces' the canadian government to intervene in a foreign country's legal system. If somebody plants coke on you in columbia and you get caught, then plead with canada to help you out, you'll be out of luck.

Under the charter canadians have fewer rights than americans. Our 'terror laws' are the mirror image of the US's, but never even had moranda rights or anything ike that. In Canada, you are simply f&&&&& if you cross the state, as any native, environmentalist, protestor, or civil rights attorney will tell you.

I don't know of a single case where somebody successfully sued, even David Milgaard was given a settlement since it was dragging out so long. Natives have tried suing for years.

However, it's easy to talk from the outside. But if Ernst Zundel couldn't sue for being held for almost a decade with no charges against him in Canada, I don't see how far a lawsuit against Canada for not intervening in a foreign country will go.; 2:15 PM
Anonymous said...: Civil rights? Where do you think you ar?? Lok at th e blog. A woman can't panhandel to make life a little bettre. Boarding house residents can't do anything. This was a joke, but if that owner wanted to, he could toss Charles for just that reason. Hell, owners could show up at their apartments and tell them they want a blowjob, any body who said no would be told to get out. Welcome to New Brunswick.; 2:53 PM
Anonymous said...: I am back in more ways than one.
It is half past quitting time and all the corrupt politicians are out getting drunk or laid or both. Tis time for bloggers to come out and play maybe with luck what the smiling bastards read in the morning will give a few of them a stroke and Lord can call some more snap by elections EH?
"Welcome to New Brunswick?" Jeez I was born and raised here i have lived here for over forty years of my life. I am older than Chucky and lived just down the road from where he was brought up in Dorchester NB. I went to High School and UNB in Fredericton when most of the snots that are screwing us did. Why do you think I am so pissed off? You don't think I know the score. If someone claims that I am a Yankee again I think I may hunt them down. If because a man lives somewhere else for awhile makes him a man of that place then how come a Newfy is always a Newfy everywhere he goes.
Here is a God's moment for Chucky:
Wht did God tell the Newfys?
Play dumb til I get back Will ya?
that joke seems to hold true here to. since I left the room nothing further was said. How come. cat got you tongue chucky or could it be the emails I sent ya?
Love and Kisses
Dave; 6:52 PM
Anonymous said...: Can ya tell I am fishing?
If you speak of the devil he is sure to appear particularly when you jerk his chain and piss him off.
Dave again; 6:55 PM
Anonymous said...: Nobody called you a yankee, but starting threatening people is sure to get you deleted, as well as guaranteeing no court in the country will give you the time of day except to prosecute. As was said, there is virtually zero chance of suing the government for your claim. At least Charles is being constructive and taking it to the human rights people and doing his part to get more rights for new brunswickers. But good luck getting to court.; 7:25 PM
Anonymous said...: I see that you are watching Vaughn. Spoken just like a lawyer you wish to be. "Hunt you down" is an expression. But it brought you out of the woods didn't it. Perhaps you should read your next email real slow. Before I go I must ask you are you trying to intimadate me by making false allegations against me?
Love and Kisses
Dave
(hows that for nice Chucky?); 7:34 PM
Anonymous said...: "As was said, there is virtually zero chance of suing the government for your claim."
Hmm maybe I will ask Vaughn under oath in court someday why he has formed that opinion of my pending lawsuit. Clearly he knows more of my matters than what I or Chucky have given him. I am still human don't you know. Fredericton does not have the only courts in this old World. I except them crooked judges here to try hard to dismiss my matters. Why to you think I am raising hell first. If anyone should understand what I am up to it is an actvist.
Love and Kisses
Dave; 7:48 PM
Anonymous said...: You certainly ain't Bruce Noble because he represents the Fredericton PD if you choose to send them to hassle me. He already know I have a few bones to pick with him in court. I would welcome more false charges. Here is the obvious question. Are you Chucky's buddy Vaughn or are you not? If not who are you?
Love and Kisses
Dave; 7:53 PM
Anonymous said...: Thirty minutes have passed and still no comment. Come on now the email was not all that long Vaughn.
Love and Kisses
Dave; 8:02 PM
Anonymous said...: I have noticed that Chucky hit counter has picked up a little speed. His count is starting to appraoch Byron Prior's website. Here it is if anybody cares. I know I do. Byron is human too and he has been far more offended than Chucky ever was.

http://maxpages.com/sexualabuse

I was bored waiting and check to see if it clicked over a big milestone for him.

80 grand was how many viewers he had when the MP Billy Matthews intmadted him into taking it down.

Chucky is appraoching that number for the first time. this is Byron second kick at the can of worms of injustice.

Love and Kisses
Dave; 8:10 PM
Anonymous said...: Tick tick tick Methinks when the count get to 100 I will evict myself before I get the bum's rush. It is getting kinda boring here anyway. I wil just safe the posts and go about my evening knowing nobody will miss me here.
Hell I was even being kinda sorta nice:)
Love and Kisses
Dave; 8:16 PM
Anonymous said...: Your silence is deafening Vaughn i must be coorect at you or are you to busy trying to revive Chucky with mouth to mouth. Did I give you two too much information in the last email and it overloaded you little minds? What gives Chuckys other blogs barely have any comments at all he can't be that busy. I will leave the comment after 99 for Chucky to fill in or delete. He always likes to have the last word. EH? I will post this look for a comment and then be gone to leave you to wonder when and where we will cross paths again.
Love and Kisses
Dave; 8:38 PM
Anonymous said...: Now I don't even make sense to myself. I will consider myself evicted and save the blog in its entirety to argue about later.
Cya'll in court or in Hell.
C'est la meme chose n'est pas?
Bon nuit ma petite chou chous.
(Aren't I nice)

Veritias Vincit
(check the Keiths beer bottle)
David Raymond Amos; 8:48 PM
Anonymous said...: I don't know who Vaughn is, I was interested in the story because I couldn't decide whether you were crazy or just very angry. I still don't know.

I know there are constructive uses for anger, Charles has accomplished quite a bit with his. I'd hate to see ANYBODY spend all that time and energy in a fruitless cause such as trying to sue the government. The mention of being an 'activist' was heartening. Charles has been an activist and he and Tim Smith have almost single handedly got the rights of tenants on the map, and soon an injustice there 'may' be rectified, one that is a hundred years overdue.

Yet he and Tim accomplished it in less than two months, albeit with the help of a byelection.

Being imprisoned in the states is no crime in my book, their entire federal system is an illegal entity. Manlin Chee has been a public defender for over twenty years, won many awards, and now sits in jail because she sat on a panel that argued against the patriot act. While Canada isn't MUCH better, it is SOME better.

But like I said, the courts will give no recourse, as the courts have clearly stated that Canada's own terrorist act does not infringe on civil liberties. Anybody who thinks highly of civil liberties in Canada just needs to remember Oka, or Quebec, where thousands of french were rounded up without charge just so Trudeau could pretend to be macho.

There are lots of organizations that are attacking these things, and personally I think its a shame that those who have virtually identical claims against the government can't seem to get along. If there were a dozen Charles Leblanc's in the province we could literally turn the province upside down. YOu seem to have the passion, but maybe a little too much, as often you are incomprehensible. That's unfortunate because those who are victims of the aggression of the state are those whose stories most deserve to be heard.

Just a recommendation, but when you mentioned all those lawyers then you definitely got my interest. These guys work in a shroud of secrecy and somebody with the guts to air their dirty laundry would definitely accomplish more good with political activism than with lawsuits. Courts were designed to put undesirables in jail, not mete out justice. Hell, New Brunswick doesn't even allow class action lawsuits!

I don't always agree with Charles, and often his views and how he states them make me cringe, but I'm glad that he does what he does, and NB is a province that NEEDS more 'activism'. I'd just suggest doing it in a way that's guaranteed to get the most results. But that's just my opinion-not Vaughns.; 10:50 PM
Anonymous said...: What planet in cyber space are you from oh yet with noname who claims not to be Vaughn? The first thing you should do when you touch down on mother earth is get a name. Then learn to read BEFORE you write. I ain't no god damned activist. GET IT? However I am a very fierce political animal. GET IT? I am just a very pissed off Maritimer with way bigger balls than you.

Some activist you are with only half a mind to say something like this to me. Go to jail sometime in Yankee Doodleland and then come back home and tell me that crap again.
"Being imprisoned in the states is no crime in my book,"

After you figure out the nonsense that you just wrote in support of a liar. Why not get an email account and a telephone too and learn how to use them BEFORE you attack a man who understands more about what you are yapping about than you could ever dream. I have no doubt that you are clever and you may be well on your way to being just another lawyer but you cannot learn to be ethical in any law school. You must be born with the genes. It seems that you and Chucky are a couple bricks shy of that load.

On the other hand in reading some of your words about what Chucky has done I think you may be the political science student at the homeless shelter that the lady that was on Tom Young's show spoke of when I called her afterwards. Either way I don't care. i don't want to know you.
Ask you buddy Chucky sometime to share his emails from me with you if you are truly are not his buddy Vaughn. Better yet go on a mission with your mouse and go through Chuckys many blogs and figure out who he is for yourself. Then ask Vaughn if you can view the hard copy of the material he admited having BEFORE I was falsely imprisoned in 2004. Activists have a lot to learn about listening to folks before there is trouble. It seems they allow things to happen just so they can protest about it later. I was challenging the FBI etc and arguing crooked US Attorneys about other matters in Federal Court in Boston months before that nonsense in Iraq began. whereas you seem to have a love of lucre Vaughn should tell ya that in two matters I was awarded judgements by default for 32 million bucks and I laughed and told them to shove it up their arse because the judgement came from the wrong court. It is all about jurisdiction venue and justice. I cannot demand integrity of others without proving my own first. When the crooked lawyers filed motions to remove the defaults and file their answers late I did not oppose them. It so shocked the hell out of the Yankee bastards they were not long sending the Secret Service to try to take a man away who would rather argue the awful truth than take a pay off.
In my book false imprisonment is definite illegal and when I look at your writing and Chuckys I cannot forget what I was taught. There are NO degrees of honesty either you are or your are NOT. Go kiss Chucky good night. Will ya? I have had enough of both of you oh ye who may be Vaughn. I so not feel sorry that I do not believe you.(Damned for a little Damned for at lot)
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos; 11:57 PM
Anonymous said...: One last ting before I sign off that I forgot to say. Yankee lawyers swear an oath before the Bar before they are allowed to practice law for a fee. Part of it goes something like this. "I will not delay or deny any man for lucre or malice" the politicians and lawyers I am arguing ignore their oath for lucre which far easier to understand than the malice you and Chucky wish against me. i tried to help Chucky and even gave him a computer because he whined that he did not have one. The only thing I asked in return was for him to go to Brad Green's office and give him a pile of documents and one CD in an unsealed envelope so that every one could see that there was nothing harmful inside.The liar claimed many things and slammed me six ways to Sunday while blocking my protests. I was getting even on April fools and draging him into a place where most lawyer fear to go. An ethical argument in public view. Like Tom Young on the radio he keep threatening to press the delete button when things were not going his way. Charles Leblanc is all about Charles LeBlanc no less no more.
Veritas Vincit; 12:13 AM

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Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Jody Wilson-Raybould accused the Prime Minister's Office of pressuring her to get a deferred prosecution agreement for SNC-Lavalin (Justin Tang/Canadian Press )

While both federal cabinet ministers from New Brunswick say they have "full confidence" in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, two Liberal MPs in the province are expressing some reservations in the wake of the SNC-Lavalin controversy.

New Brunswick Southwest MP Karen Ludwig said Wednesday she wants to see the ethics commissioner's report before making up her mind about how Trudeau handled things — especially because she's not in cabinet and wasn't privy to those discussions.

Ludwig said she stands by the work of the Liberal government but is still absorbing information about how it dealt with SNC-Lavalin.

"I think it's really important to listen to the witnesses that are still coming before the justice committee but also the work of the ethics commissioner," she said in an interview with CBC's Harry Forestell.

New Brunswick Southwest MP Karen Ludwig says she'll continue to focus on local, riding-based issues while the ethics commissioner investigates the SNC-Lavalin affair. (CBC)

"I think that's a significant position that hardly anyone is actually talking about. The ethics commissioner is a non-partisan role ... Let's hear what the ethics commissioner has to say."
Saint-John Rothesay MP Wayne Long has twice called for an independent investigation, most recently after former Jane Philpott's resignation as chair of the Treasury Board.

2 resignations

Philpott's resignation came after former justice minister and attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould accused the Prime Minister's Office of political interference related to a criminal corruption investigation against Quebec-based engineering giant SNC-Lavalin. Wilson-Raybould also resigned from cabinet.

Wilson-Raybould has testified to the House of Commons justice committee that 11 people working for the prime minister met with her over the course of several months, "hounding" her in an effort to get a deferred prosecution agreement for the company. She said on multiple occasions, Quebec jobs and the election were brought up.

Saint-John Rothesay MP Wayne Long has twice called for an independent investigation into the SNC-Lavalin affair. (CBC)

Philpott resigned Monday, saying she had lost confidence in the Trudeau government. She and Wilson-Raybould are still in the Liberal caucus.

Prior to Wilson-Raybould's testimony, Trudeau's former top adviser Gerald Butts resigned.

He testified before the justice committee Wednesday, challenging Wilson-Raybould's version of events. The committee also heard from clerk of the privy council Michael Wernick, who denied making "veiled threats," as well as deputy justice minister Nathalie Drouin.

An ethics investigation

Nicole O'Byrne, associate professor of law at the University of New Brunswick, said an ethics commissioner's report will likely not touch the most contentious parts of the SNC-Lavalin affair — specifically the possible allegations of obstruction of justice.

"To be blunt, we're well past the scope of what the ethics commissioner can inquire into," O'Byrne said.

'I made no threats': Key moments from the Privy Council clerk's testimony on the SNC-Lavalin affair

3 Nova Scotia Liberals MPs defend Trudeau amid SNC-Lavalin affair

A public inquiry

O'Byrne said Butts's testimony wasn't provided under oath, so the committee can't uncover the truth to the extent a public inquiry can.

"[A public inquiry] can have quite a large scope and you can have the kind of evidence you need to get at the truth here," she said.

Long broke ranks earlier and voted with the opposition for a motion to launched a public inquiry into the allegations. The motion was defeated.

Federal Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc says he has full confidence in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. (Matt Smith/Canadian Press)

Before Wilson-Raybould's testimony, Long told reporters he'd met with the party whip.

"The government's never happy when MPs stand different from the flow of government, but I'm always going to stand up and do what I think is right," he said.

He said he's a "party guy."

"But I'm also going to be an MP that stands up when I think I need to."

Cabinet confidence

Both New Brunswick ministers are standing by Trudeau. Dominic LeBlanc, the minister of intergovernmental and northern affairs, said he has "full confidence in the prime minister."

Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor tweeted "I have full confidence in Justin Trudeau and our government."

Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor says she stands by the Prime Minister. (CBC News)

LeBlanc, the MP for Beausejour, and Petitpas Taylor, the MP for Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, joined the 31 other cabinet ministers in assuring the public that they stand behind Trudeau.

Backbencher influence

J.P. Lewis, associate professor of political science at the University of New Brunswick Saint John, said it could be difficult to say how findings from an ethics commissioner's report would affect the politics

He said cabinet members are the government, so it's important for them to align on supporting Trudeau.

Backbenchers have more freedom, he said, but also possibly less influence.

Key moments from Gerald Butts's SNC-Lavalin testimony

'Nothing inappropriate': Butts says SNC-Lavalin scandal blew up only after cabinet shuffle

"If backbenchers en masse are getting upset with a leader with a position that the government is taking or the party is taking it's easy for there to be pressure," he said, pointing to when Tom Mulcair was pushed out of the NDP.

"We don't have any evidence that it's anywhere close to this going on with this current government," he said. "Theoretically, I mean that can happen from within but it doesn't appear that we're close to that."

With files from News at 6

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---------- Original message ----------
From: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 16:41:07 -0400
Subject: Seems that everybody wants to forget my calls about the
appointment of Mario Dion to be Canada's Conflict of Interest and
Ethics Commissioner
To: ETHI@parl.gc.ca, cullen1@parl.gc.ca, Bob.Zimmer@parl.gc.ca,
Nathaniel.Erskine-Smith@parl.gc.ca, Frank.Baylis@parl.gc.ca,
Emmanuel.Dubourg@parl.gc.ca, Mona.Fortier@parl.gc.ca,
Jacques.Gourde@parl.gc.ca, Peter.Kent@parl.gc.ca,
Joyce.Murray@parl.gc.ca, Michel.Picard@parl.gc.ca,
Raj.Saini@parl.gc.ca, Bill.Morneau@canada.ca, pm@pm.gc.ca,
Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca, Catherine.McKenna@parl.gc.ca,
Bardish.Chagger@parl.gc.ca, jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca,
Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca, Jane.Philpott@parl.gc.ca,
judy.sgro@parl.gc.ca, Karen.Ludwig@parl.gc.ca, Wayne.Long@parl.gc.ca,
wayne.easter@parl.gc.ca, Alaina.Lockhart@parl.gc.ca,
Ginette.PetitpasTaylor@parl.gc.ca, hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca,
hon.melanie.joly@canada.ca, Hon.Chrystia.Freeland@canada.ca,
.fahie@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, ian.hanamansing@cbc.ca,
Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca, Paul.Shuttle@pco-bcp.gc.ca,
Matt.DeCourcey.c1@parl.gc.ca, sfine@globeandmail.com,
Newsroom@globeandmail.com, news@kingscorecord.com, news919@rogers.com
Cc: motomaniac333@gmail.com, Mario.Dion@cie.parl.gc.ca,
heather.bradley@parl.gc.ca

---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 13:05:28 -0400
Subject: Re My call about the appointment of Mario Dion to be Canada's
Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner
To: ETHI@parl.gc.ca, cullen1@parl.gc.ca, Bob.Zimmer@parl.gc.ca,
Nathaniel.Erskine-Smith@parl.gc.ca, Frank.Baylis@parl.gc.ca,
Emmanuel.Dubourg@parl.gc.ca, Mona.Fortier@parl.gc.ca,
Jacques.Gourde@parl.gc.ca, Peter.Kent@parl.gc.ca,
Joyce.Murray@parl.gc.ca, Michel.Picard@parl.gc.ca,
Raj.Saini@parl.gc.ca, mary.dawson@cie.parl.gc.ca
Cc: David.Raymond.Amos@gmail.com,

Bill.Morneau@canada.ca, Gerald.Butts@pmo-cpm.gc.ca, pm@pm.gc.ca,
Bardish.Chagger@parl.gc.ca

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mario-dion-ethics-commissioner-1.4443365

Mario Dion nominated as new federal ethics watchdog
If approved, former public sector integrity commissioner would replace
Mary Dawson
By John Paul Tasker, CBC News Posted: Dec 11, 2017 3:24 PM ET

---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 14:41:02 -0400
Subject: RE: My December 15, 2016 email Best check your records again sir
To: Philippe.Joly@cie.parl.gc.ca, maxime.bernier@parl.gc.ca,
Matt.DeCourcey@parl.gc.ca, Alaina.Lockhart.c1@parl.gc.ca,
matthew.smith@lutz.nb.ca, maria.powell@lutz.nb.ca, david@lutz.nb.ca,
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, pm@pm.gc.ca,
Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca, Gerald.Butts@pmo-cpm.gc.ca,
MulcaT@parl.gc.ca, rona.ambrose@parl.gc.ca,
stephane.dion@parl.gc.ca, Bill.Morneau@canada.ca,
mcu@justice.gc.ca, Melanie.Joly@parl.gc.ca,
heather.bradley@parl.gc.ca, bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Philippe.Joly@cie.parl.gc.ca
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 16:53:18 +0000
Subject: Your December 15, 2016 email
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com

Good Day Mr. Amos,

Please find attached a self-explanatory letter.

Regards,

Philippe Joly
Enquêteur principal / Senior investigator
Commissariat aux conflits d'intérêts et à l'éthique / Office of the
Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner
Parlement du Canada / Parliament of Canada
66 rue Slater, 22e étage, Ottawa (Ontario) K1A 0A6
Téléphone : 613-996-6012 Télécopieur / Fax : 613-995-7308
Courriel / Email :
philippe.joly@cie.parl.gc.ca<mailto:philippe.joly@cie.parl.gc.ca>

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E-mail: ETHI@parl.gc.ca
Website: http://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/ETHI

These old emails to the OGGO can be found within this blog

http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/12/the-liebranos-big-joke-this-week-was.html

---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 22:17:49 -0400
Subject: Fwd: Attn Christine Elliott as soon as I saw that Paul
Godfrey and Derek Burney were behind the lawyer Patrick Brown I
understood the game Did You?
To: kganley@mcgownjohnson.com, premier@gov.ab.ca, pm@pm.gc.ca,
peter.mackay@justice.gc.ca, MulcaT@parl.gc.ca, Barry Winters
sunrayzulu@shaw.ca, Glen Canning grcanning@gmail.com,
michael@frankmagazine.ca, blake@frankmagazine.ca,
comment@contrarian.ca, andrew@frankmagazine.ca, justmin@gov.ns.ca,
andrewjdouglas@gmail.com, patrick_doran1@hotmail.com,
chiefape@gmail.com, john.green@gnb.ca, steve.murphy@ctv.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, ht.lacroix@cbc.ca, GlenMuise1000@gmail.com,
bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, steven.blaney.a1@parl.gc.ca

You received a new 0:12 minutes voicemail message, on
Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 04:55:27 PM in mailbox 9028000369
from 6139953708.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 13:13:06 -0400
Subject: RE The OGGO Committee and Commissioner Joe Friday I will be
calling some of your offices shortly to inform you of an important
response to this document from his office in Feb/08
To: greg.kerr@parl.gc.ca, Mark.Adler@parl.gc.ca, Wai.Young@parl.gc.ca,
chris.warkentin@parl.gc.ca, Tarik.Brahmi@parl.gc.ca,
Mathieu.Ravignat@parl.gc.ca, eddieorrell@bellaliant.com,
chuck@chuckporter.ca, JamieBaillie@gov.ns.ca,
PREMIER@gov.ns.ca, Newsroom@globeandmail.com, acampbell@ctv.ca,
Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca, steve.murphy@ctv.ca,
bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, roger.l.brown@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
premier@gov.ab.ca, premier@gnb.ca, premier@gov.pe.ca,
premier@leg.gov.mb.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, Clemet1@parl.gc.ca, MulcaT@parl.gc.ca,
Karine Fortin info@ndp.ca

Hey

Whereas political people pretend that they don't read my pdf files I
will offer them a photo of the response and read it to them over the
phone if they wish

Need I say why I retweeted this?

https://twitter.com/MRavignat

Mathieu Ravignat @MRavignat · Mar 12
The interim Public Sector Integrity Commissioner refused to appear at
OGGO today, what a lack of transparency from the government!

Lets just say say I downloaded and saved then watched these webcasts
several times with great interest after I watched the webcast of April
28th. After my recent conversations with the OGGO clerk and several
others I suspect that you all know why by now.

http://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Parlvu/ContentEntityDetailView.aspx?contententityid=12671&date=20150301&lang=en

http://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Parlvu/ContentEntityDetailView.aspx?contententityid=12726&date=20150301&lang=en

Everybody knows that I have been calling Joe Friday and his many
cohorts liars for years and saved the proof of what I say is true
Correct? Check this out before you dare to disagree.

http://www.checktheevidence.com/pdf/David%20R%20Amos%20-%20lots%20of%20e-mails.pdf

Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
902 800 0369

http://www.parl.gc.ca/CommitteeBusiness/CommitteeMembership.aspx?IncMem=1&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=41&Ses=2&Cmte=OGGO

Greg Kerr
Hill Office Telephone: 613-995-5711
Constituency Office Telephone: 902-742-6808

Mark Adler
Hill Office Telephone: 613-941-6339
Constituency Office Telephone: 416-638-3700

Wai Young
Hill Office Telephone: 613-995-7052
Constituency Office Telephone: 604-775-5323

Chris Warkentin
Hill Office Telephone: 613-992-5685
Constituency Office Telephone: 780-538-1677

Tarik Brahmi
Hill Office Telephone: 613-992-5296
Constituency Office Telephone: 450-357-9100

Mathieu Ravignat
Hill Office Telephone: 613-995-3950
Constituency Office Telephone: 819-648-2003

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Elliott-co, Christine"christine.elliottco@pc.ola.org
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 17:00:31 +0000
Subject: RE: RE I just called Pat Martin and Brad Butt about
Commissioner Joe Friday and his testimony before the OGGO Committee on
April 28th
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

Mr. Amos. I am writing to acknowledge receipt of the 2 emails that
you have forwarded to Ms. Elliott's office. I will bring them to her
attention at the earliest opportunity.

Constituency Staff
Office of Christine Elliott
MPP, Whitby-Oshawa

-----Original Message-----
From: David Amos [mailto:motomaniac333@gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 9:32 AM
To: Elliott-co, Christine; christine@christineelliott.ca;
derek.burney@nortonrosefulbright.com; christina.blizzard@sunmedia.ca;
premier; pm; premier; premier; PREMIER; premier; premier; premier;
premier; premier
Cc: David Amos
Subject: Fwd: RE I just called Pat Martin and Brad Butt about
Commissioner Joe Friday and his testimony before the OGGO Committee on
April 28th

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 17:26:48 -0400
Subject: I just called Pat Martin and Brad Butt about Commissioner Joe
Friday and his testimony before the OGGO Committee on April 28th
To: pm@pm.gc.ca,
Lampron.Raynald@psic-ispc.gc.ca,Friday.Joe@psic-ispc.gc.ca,
lachapelle.edith@psic-ispc.gc.ca, brad.butt@parl.gc.ca,
pat.martin@parl.gc.ca, OGGO@parl.gc.ca, manon.hardy@chrc-ccdp.ca,
Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, David.Coon@gnb.ca, Stephen.Horsman@gnb.ca

http://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/PARLVU/ContentEntityDetailView.aspx?contententityid=12872&date=20150401&lang=en

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 13:01:14 -0700
Subject: Mr Lampron can ya tell I hate it when people call me a liar?
Furthermore why would you ignore an email from your boss?
To: Lampron.Raynald@psic-ispc.gc.ca,
Dion.Mario@psic-ispc.gc.ca, Friday.Joe@psic-ispc.gc.ca,
bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
Clemet1@parl.gc.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, Randall.Garrison.c1@parl.gc.ca

---------- Original message ----------
From: Mario Dion Dion.Mario@psic-ispc.gc.ca
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 06:05:25 -0500
Subject: Re: Fwd: Yo Mario Dion it been over a year since your last
response and 7 years since I talked to the evil lawyer Manon Hardy so
tell me another one will ya?
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com, manon.hardy@chrc-ccdp.ca,
Clemet1@parl.gc.ca, Errington.john@forces.gc.ca,
Christine.Salt@forces.gc.ca, Mackap@parl.gc.ca, bourdap@halifax.ca,
Helen.Banulescu@crcc-ccetp.gc.ca, peter.dauphinee@gmail.com,
Lachapelle.Edith@psic-ispc.gc.ca, upriverwatch@gmail.com,
donald.bowser@smu.ca, kedgwickriver@gmail.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com,
COCMoncton@gmail.com, Davidc.Coon@gmail.com,
stephen.horsman@nbliberal.ca, forest@conservationcouncil.ca,
water@ccnbaction.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, Lampron.Raynald@psic-ispc.gc.ca,
Friday.Joe@psic-ispc.gc.ca

I will ask my staff to verify your status and someone will get back to
you. I would appreciate it however if you could be a little bit more
polite when drafting emails adressed to me.

----- Original Message -----
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
To: Mario Dion; manon.hardy@chrc-ccdp.ca; Clemet1@parl.gc.ca;
Errington.john@forces.gc.ca; Christine.Salt@forces.gc.ca;
Mackap@parl.gc.ca; bourdap@halifax.ca;
Helen.Banulescu@crcc-ccetp.gc.ca; Edith Lachapelle;
peter.dauphinee@gmail.com; upriverwatch@gmail.com;
donald.bowser@smu.ca; kedgwickriver@gmail.com; oldmaison@yahoo.com,
COCMoncton@gmail.com; Davidc.Coon@gmail.com;
stephen.horsman@nbliberal.ca; forest@conservationcouncil.ca;
water@ccnbaction.ca
Cc: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Sent: Wed Nov 12 22:23:59 2014
Subject: Fwd: Yo Mario Dion it been over a year since your last
response and 7 years
since I talked to the evil lawyer Manon Hardy so tell me another one will ya?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 20:18:03 -0700
Subject: Yo Mario Dion it been over a year since your last response
and 7 years since I talked to the evil lawyer Manon Hardy so tell me
another one will ya?
To: Dion.Mario@psic-ispc.gc.ca, manon.hardy@chrc-ccdp.ca,
Clemet1@parl.gc.ca, Errington.john@forces.gc.ca,
Christine.Salt@forces.gc.ca, Mackap@parl.gc.ca,
lachapelle.edith@psic-ispc.gc.ca, jessica.hume@sunmedia.ca,
Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca, acampbell@ctv.ca,
Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, leader@greenparty.ca.
stoffp1@parl.gc.ca, james.goodman@forces.gc.ca,
louis-philippe.rouillard@forces.gc.ca, maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca,
Helen.Banulescu@cpc-cpp.gc.ca,
barbara.hayduk@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, bourdap@halifax.ca, justmin@gov.ns.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca, pm@pm.gc.ca,
alan.white@cbc.ca

Wednesday, 11 September 2013 YEA RIGHT Tell me another Mario Dion I
have been waiting to you crooks in Public Sector Integrity to act
honestly since 2004

http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2013/06/fwd-privacy-czar-to-probe-canadian.html

Check the last page of thi file before your people call me a liar again

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

Better yet ask the crooked lawyer Manon Hardy where she his all the
documents and CD I sent your office in 2007

http://www.psic-ispc.gc.ca/about_apropos/menu-eng.aspx

From: Mario Dion Dion.Mario@psic-ispc.gc.ca
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:23:07 -0400
Subject: Out of Office: Re High Water AB, McBride BC and Fat Fred City NB
Clearly Landslide Annie McLellan, the RCMP and the CROWN do not know
common law is for common folks too EH?
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com

I will be away from the office until September 15th inclusively. In
case of emergency, please contact Monique Halloran at (613) 941-6400.

Je serai absent du bureau jusqu'au 15 septembre inclusivement. En cas
d'urgence, veuillez communiquer avec Monique Halloran au (613)
941-6400.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:23:15 -0400
Subject: WOW
To: Errington.john@forces.gc.ca, Christine.Salt@forces.gc.ca, Mackap@parl.gc.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, sunrayzulu@shaw.ca

http://www.army.gc.ca/iaol/143000440000292/143000440000293/index-Eng.html

http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/people/members/John_MacDonell/

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:00:39 -0400
Subject: Ms Lachapelle and her boss crook Mario Dion should understand by now
that I hate it when corrupt bureaucrats all me a liar
To: lachapelle.edith@psic-ispc.gc.ca, jessica.hume@sunmedia.ca,
Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca, acampbell@ctv.ca,
Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, leader@greenparty.ca, stoffp1@parl.gc.ca
Cc: maxnews@astral.com, criminal.division@usdoj.gov,
david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, campaigns@democracywatch.ca,
calgary.mountainview@assembly.ab.ca

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Amos"david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
To: lachapelle.edith@psic-ispc.gc.ca; Janet.MacLean@international.gc.ca;
Maggie.Trudel-Maggiore@dfo-mpo.gc.ca; Neil.Yeates@cic.gc.ca;
elisabeth.nadeau@ps-sp.gc.ca; tpulcine@privcom.gc.ca;
dgrandmaitre@gg.ca; Mackap@parl.gc.ca
Cc: louis-philippe.rouillard@forces.gc.ca; maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca;
Helen.Banulescu@cpc-cpp.gc.ca; barbara.hayduk@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 12:43 PM
Subject: Fwd: UNESCO should ask many of their associates about this
email starting
with former Governor General Ms Jean and the ex CBC dude Don Newman

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 16:29:00 -0300
Subject: UNESCO should ask many of their associates about this email
starting with
former Governor General Ms Jean and the ex CBC dude Don Newman
To: David.Walden@unesco.ca, bairdj@parl.gc.ca, Mackap@parl.gc.ca,
Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca, Frank.McKenna@td.com, oldmaision@yahoo.com,
webo@xplornet.com, drcarley@gmail.com, <generalportal55@hotmail.com>,
nickysbirdy@yahoo.ca, ahunter100@shaw.ca, batleycraig@yahoo.ca
Cc: LaytoJ@parl.gc.ca, leader@greenparty.ca, mourama@parl.gc.ca,
rick.skinner@dhs.gov, maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 14:47:21 -0300
Subject: Fwd: 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: greg.weston@cbc.ca, Don@blueskystrategygroup.com,
info@pco-bcp.gc.ca, info@gg.ca, sweet_rob@hotmail.com,
maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca, tracy@jatam.org, birgittajoy@gmail.com
Cc: alan.white@cbc.ca, Wayne.Lang@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, oldmaison@yahoo.com,
danfour@myginch.com

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:17:17 -0400
Subject: RE: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and
the War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still alive
To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com

This is to confirm that the Minister of National Defence has received
your email and it will be reviewed in due course. Please do not reply
to this message: it is an automatic acknowledgement.

Le ministre de la Défense nationale accuse réception de votre
courriel. Celui-ci sera examiné en temps opportun. Veuillez ne pas
répondre à ce courriel puisque la présente est une réponse
automatique.

Clearly I corrected some of my spelling before I forwarded this email to others

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:55:30 -0300
Subject: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and the
War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still alive
To: DECPR@forces.gc.ca, Public.Affairs@socom.mil,
Raymonde.Cleroux@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca, john.adams@cse-cst.gc.ca,
william.elliott@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, stoffp1@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@althingi.is, smari@immi.is,
greg.weston@cbc.ca, pm@pm.gc.ca, susan@blueskystrategygroup.com,
Don@blueskystrategygroup.com, eugene@blueskystrategygroup.com,
americas@aljazeera.net
Cc: Edith.Cody-Rice@cbc.ca, terry.seguin@cbc.ca, acampbell@ctv.ca,
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 Caree system yesterday and Sheila Fraser yapped on and on on
CAPAC during her last days in office as if she were oh so
elthical.. To be fair to him I just called Greg Weston (613-288-6938)
I suggested that he should at least Google SOUCOM and David Amos It
would be wise if he check ALL of CBC's sources before he publishes
something else about the DND EH Don Newman? Lets just say that the fact that
your old CBC buddy, Tony Burman is now in charge of Al Jazeera English
never impressed me. The fact that he set up a Canadian office is
interesting though

http://www.blueskystrategygroup.com/index.php/team/don-newman/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/media/story/2010/05/04/al-jazeera-english-launch.html

Anyone can call me back and stress test my integrity after they read
this simple pdf file. BTW what you Blue Sky dudes published about
Potash Corp and BHP is truly funny. Perhaps Stevey Boy Harper or Brad
Wall will fill ya in if you are to shy to call mean old me.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/Integrity-Yea-Right

The Governor General, the PMO and the PCO offices know that I am not
a shy political animal

Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
902 800 0369

Enjoy Mr Weston

http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/news/story/2011/05/15/weston-iraq-invasion-wikileaks.html

"But Lang, defence minister McCallum's chief of staff, says military
brass were not entirely forthcoming on the issue. For instance, he
says, even McCallum initially didn't know those soldiers were helping
to plan the invasion of Iraq up to the highest levels of command,
including a Canadian general.

That general is Walt Natynczyk, now Canada's chief of defence staff,
who eight months after the invasion became deputy commander of 35,000
U.S. soldiers and other allied forces in Iraq. Lang says Natynczyk was
also part of the team of mainly senior U.S. military brass that helped
prepare for the invasion from a mobile command in Kuwait."

http://baconfat53.blogspot.com/2010/06/canada-and-united-states.html

"I remember years ago when the debate was on in Canada, about there
being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Our American 'friends"
demanded that Canada join into "the Coalition of the Willing. American
"veterans" and sportscasters loudly denounced Canada for NOT buying
into the US policy.

At the time I was serving as a planner at NDHQ and with 24 other of my
colleagues we went to Tampa SOUCOM HQ to be involved in the planning
in the planning stages of the op....and to report to NDHQ, that would
report to the PMO upon the merits of the proposed operation.There was
never at anytime an existing target list of verified sites where there
were deployed WMD.

Coalition assets were more than sufficient for the initial strike and
invasion phase but even at that point in the planning, we were
concerned about the number of "boots on the ground" for the occupation
(and end game) stage of an operation in Iraq. We were also concerned
about the American plans for occupation plans of Iraq because they at
that stage included no contingency for a handing over of civil
authority to a vetted Iraqi government and bureaucracy.

There was no detailed plan for Iraq being "liberated" and returned to
its people...nor a thought to an eventual exit plan. This was contrary
to the lessons of Vietnam but also to current military thought, that
folks like Colin Powell and "Stuffy" Leighton and others elucidated
upon."What's the mission" how long is the mission, what conditions are
to met before US troop can redeploy?

Prime Minister Jean Chretien and the PMO were even at the very
preliminary planning stages wary of Canadian involvement in an Iraq
operation....History would prove them correct. The political pressure
being applied on the PMO from the George W Bush administration was
onerous

American military assets were extremely overstretched, and Canadian
military assets even more so It was proposed by the PMO that Canadian
naval platforms would deploy to assist in naval quarantine operations
in the Gulf and that Canadian army assets would deploy in Afghanistan
thus permitting US army assets to redeploy for an Iraqi
operation....The PMO thought that "compromise would save Canadian
lives and liberal political capital.. and the priority of which
....not necessarily in that order. "

You can bet that I called these sneaky Yankees again today EH John
Adams? of the CSE within the DND?

http://www.socom.mil/SOCOMHome/Pages/ContactUSSOCOM.aspx

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 20:42:46 -0300
Subject: Fwd: Response to your calls of April 9 and May 12, 2010
To: Raymonde.Cleroux@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca, Barry Winters sunrayzulu@shaw.ca,
robin reid zorroboy2009@hotmail.com, dean Ray deanr0032@hotmail.com,
dean@law.ualberta.ca, Richard Harris injusticecoalition@hotmail.com,
oldmaison@yahoo.com, danadurf@hotmail.com, Edith.Cody-Rice@cbc.ca,
terry.seguin@cbc.ca, john.adams@cse-cst.gc.ca,
william.elliott@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
Mackap@parl.gc.ca, toewsv1@mts.net
Cc: Harper.S@parl.gc.ca, IgnatM@parl.gc.ca, LaytoJ@parl.gc.ca,
Duceppe.G@parl.gc.ca, Frank.McKenna@td.com,
jack.macdougall@greenparty.ca, fundytides@gmail.com,
panb@bellaliant.net, carlbainbridge@panb.org, guergh@parl.gc.ca,
Arthur.A@parl.gc.ca, dthomas@mta.ca

Thanx for the response but you must be joking. My complaint was that
your chickenshit Military Police refused to investigate and thought my
troubles were funny. GET IT? However the sad but terrible part is I
know that you are not joking. If it were not for men such as David
Thomas speaking up in the Town where I was born i would not be a very
proud Canadian today.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2010/05/14/nb-mount-allison-university-heather-reisman-609.html?ref=rss

Check out this blog from two years agoo. Howcome the CROWN CORP known
as the CBC does not show us a tally like that as they tell us who got
killed on our behalf on a regular basis? Notice Heather Reisman's name?

http://qslspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/06/netherlands-prime-minister-visits.html

Now Google mine and Bernie Madoff. Here is a shortcut

http://www.google.ca/search?q=bernie+madoff+david+amos&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&redir_esc=&ei=Qd7tS9beD8KC8gar2dX9Cg

Then Go Figure why I am pissed as I watch zionists threaten my family
and pound on the drums for war as their financial backers get awards
in my nativeland and attend Biliderberger meetings with none other
than the corrupt bankster Frank MacKenna and John Adams the boss of
the CSE?

Your lawyers can trust that the link I provide below are to a very
serious pdf file and that it is no joke. FYI if you bother to look you
will see that the Governor General as Commander in Chief of our Armed
Forces has already admitted to receiving two sets of the hard copy of
some of my documents and two CDs from me already and suggested that I
take my concerns to court long before we started losing people
overseas at quite a rate. Trust that legions of CROWN attorneys
already have their fancy knickers in a knot.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/Integrity-Yea-Right

Need I say that to me your Commission is just another bunch of
chickenshit bureaucrats like all the rest? So please allow me to
introduce you to the evil bastard himself He is purportedly Barry K.
Winters if not at least that is his email address.

I must say I find it interesting the the Russians care more about my
battles with a zionist than the very people in my native land who
employ him. Interesting EH Mr Harper and Iggy?

No need to enlist me into the Privy Council and swear me to secrecy,
It is not National Security I am concerned about it is the security
and well being of my family. I am gonna do my best to make sure the
Russians, Chinese and Iranians know EVERYTHING that you and the
Yankees know about my concerns as a whistle-blower about financial
crimes etc. Why not if your employee can brag about planning wars and
advocating the murder of my family talking about what I know of
banksters etc is small potatoes EH Franky Boy McKenna, Jacky Boy
MacDougall and of course your pal Arty Baby Mackay?

Just Dave
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That said I must ask Raymonde Cléroux the obvious question after what
you witnessed in "Barry K' Winters" blog howcome your did not call the
RCMP if not the Military Police yourself? Scroll down and try to
figure out a proper answer as to whether or not the evil zionist broke
an oath or two as it pertains to Canada's plans to make war with Iraq
in 2002.

http://baconfat53.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-does-amerika-truther-movment-god.html
(I inserted the text below)

And within the info many of my YOUTUBES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-y5femNycE

BTW the RCMP and the Edmonton PD have refused to do anything so rest
assured I will take care of the evil bastard myself in an ethical and
rather stylish fashion. As I said NOBODY sexually harasses and
threatens to kill my children. However I will file a lawsuit against
the CROWN to cover my butt before I kick his. Perhaps you should
worry about your pocketbook in the "Mean" time.

Perhaps your lawyers should review the CROWN Liabilty Act as if
pertains to the CSE and the DND then study every word of that
zionist's malicious blog to see if I am wrong about why the
commissioner of the Human Rights Commission would not defend her own
reputation.. No matter how secretive the CSE and the RCMP may be at
least you admitted to the knowledge of the death threats and sexual
harassment of my children after I have been complaining of your
associate for over a year. Tell me why I don't sue you dudes
personally starting with Colonel Pearson and his idiot assistant Lt
Col Tony Weber who think everything is too funny and don't wish their
military police to bother to act within the scope of their employment
just like you would not EH?

Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:31:32 -0300
Subject: Re: Yo Corey W. Joyce Then introduce me to YOUR lawyer ASAP
To: DECPR@forces.gc.ca, pm@pm.gc.ca, john.adams@cse-cst.gc.ca,
IgnatM@parl.gc.ca, LaytoJ@parl.gc.ca
Cc: robin reid zorroboy2009@hotmail.com, Barry Winters
sunrayzulu@shaw.ca, john.logan@gnb.ca

On 8/23/10, DECPR@forces.gc.ca DECPR@forces.gc.ca wrote:
> Please cease and desist any and all communications with this address. Your
> communications thus far have been inflamatory and constitute harassment.
>
>
>>Corey W. Joyce
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Amos [mailto:david.raymond.amos@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, 23, August, 2010 11:10 AM
> To: +DECPR@ADM(PA)@Ottawa-Hull; Barry Winters; ndpaocal@nucleus.com;
> Ken.Zielke
> Cc: Mackap; IgnatM; john.adams; robin reid; tony; Robert. Jones; Eidt, David
> (OAG/CPG); PATRICK. MURPHY; rick. skinner
> Subject: Yo Corey W. Joyce
>
> Then perhaps you should not read YOUR ASSOCIATE'S words EH pussy?
>
> *http://baconfat53.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: DECPR@forces.gc.ca
> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:55:01 -0400
> Subject: RE: Attn Corey Joyce how about an answer in WRITING just like I
> demanded on the phone Just now
> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>
> Your e-mail has been forwarded for action/response by another directorate.
>
> This e-mail constitutes all the response you will get from this office and I
> respectfully advise you not to contact me again. Your tone and language
> were insulting and I will not converse with you when you speak to me with a
> complete lack of respect and with vulgar language.
>
>
>>Corey W. Joyce
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Amos [mailto:david.raymond.amos@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, 23, August, 2010 10:54 AM
> To: +DECPR@ADM(PA)@Ottawa-Hull; Edith. Cody-Rice; IgnatM;
> ndpaoatlantic@ns.aliantzinc.ca
> Cc: Mackap; john.adams
> Subject: Attn Corey Joyce how about an answer in WRITING just like I
> demanded on the phone Just now
>
> National Defence Headquarters
> MGen George R. Pearkes Bldg, 15NT
> 101 Colonel By Drive
> Ottawa, ON Canada K1A 0K2
>
> (613) 996-9266
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:17:00 -0300
> Subject: Re: FW: Response to your calls of April 9 and May 12, 2010
> To: sarah.weir@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca, Mackap@parl.gc.ca,
> john.adams@cse-cst.gc.ca, commission@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca,
> media@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca, Ken.Zielke@gov.ab.ca, peter.teasdale@gov.ab.ca,
> william.elliott@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, mike.mcdonell@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
> Cc: robin reid zorroboy2009@hotmail.com, tony tony@peoplestandup.ca,
> PATRICK.MURPHY@dhs.gov, rick.skinner@dhs.gov,
> oldmaison@yahoo.com, Barry Winters sunrayzulu@shaw.ca
>
> Thanx for the SECOND Response but you bureaucrat really should learn to read
> don't ya think?
>
> On 8/23/10, Weir, Sarah sarah.weir@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca wrote:
>> Good morning Mr. Amos,
>>
>> Following your phone call of August 19, 2010, please note that we did
>> reply to your previous messages by e-mail (see below). Unfortunately
>> your complaint is not pertaining to the conduct of Military Police
>> members in the performance of policing duty or function.
>>
>> As mentioned below, if your complaint pertains to a life threatening
>> matter, please contact your local police force.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Raymonde Cléroux
>>
>> Registrar
>>
>> From: Cleroux, Raymonde
>> Sent: May 14, 2010 11:51 AM
>> To: 'david.raymond.amos@gmail.com'
>> Subject: Response to your calls of April 9 and May 12, 2010
>>
>> Good morning Mr. Amos,
>>
>> The following is further to your telephone calls of April 9 and May
>> 12, 2010.
>>
>> The mandate of the Military Police Complaints Commission is triggered
>> when a complaint is made pertaining to the conduct of Military Police
>> members in the performance of a policing duty or function as
>> prescribed in the Complaints About the Conduct of Members of the Military
>> Police Regulations.
>>
>> Based on a review of the information you provided, it would appear
>> that you do not have a complaint against a Military Police member. As
>> such, it would seem that your complaint does not fall within the
>> Complaints Commission's mandate.
>>
>> However if your complaint pertains to a life threatening matter, we
>> suggest that you contact your local police force.
>>
>> For further information on the Military Police Complaints Commission
>> or to learn more about its mandate, please visit the Commission website
>> at: **www.mpcc-cppm.qc.ca<**http://**www.mpcc-cppm.qc.ca/> .
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Raymonde Cléroux
>>
>> Registrar / Greffière
>>
>> Military Police Complaints Commission
>>
>> Commission d'examen des plaintes concernant
>>
>> la police militaire
>>
>>
>
>

From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:14:50 -0300
Subject: Lt-Col. Tony Weber can't say I didn't warn him that Mr Baconfat's blog
would embarrass him EH MacKay?
To: dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca, media@drdc-rddc.gc.ca,
information@forces.gc.ca, milner@unb.ca, charters@unb.ca,
lwindsor@unb.ca, Tim.RICHARDSON@gnb.ca,
info@gg.ca, stoffp1@parl.gc.ca, info@pco-bcp.gc.ca, jwilson@unb.ca,
tracy@jatam.org, mptacek@unb.ca, staples.michael@dailygleaner.com,
jonesr@cbc.ca
Cc: Barry Winters sunrayzulu@shaw.ca, dean Ray deanr0032@hotmail.com,
oldmaison@yahoo.com, Richard Harris injusticecoalition@hotmail.com,
danadurf@hotmail.com, bert.hudon@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
PATRICK.MURPHY@dhs.gov, rick.skinner@dhs.gov

http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/search/article/940651

Interesting document Weber's boss wrote EH DRs Windsor and Charters?

www.cfc.forces.gc.ca/papers/amsc/amsc7/pearson.doc

http://baconfat53.blogspot.com/2010/04/some-where-in-streets-and-alleys.html

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Barry Winters sunrayzulu@shaw.ca
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:25:13 -0600
Subject: Re: Yo Iggy Methinks Harper will read this email on a bad
day. Perhaps you should to EH? After all it is largely addressed to
you.
To: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com

April 10, 2010
Some where in the streets and alleys tonight
Some where in the alleys of New Brunswick and Calgary are two uneducated
bums, another day closer to their demise. They are homeless, shiftless,
uneducated, loud, obnoxious and insane ...for these "people" death now is
better than another day of life...they have made nothing of their
lives...and are nothing but a burden to their families, "friends" and
the....tax payer.

David Amos is reduced now to the status of bum, wandering about asking people
for spare change, and scouring the streets for cigarette butts to smoke.
When he gets some change he does this sort of thing.

I managed to talk to a Lieutenant-Colonel Tony Weber is Acting Base Commander
of Base Gagetown 506 422 2000 ext 1410. He and one of his Sgt Majors even
looked at Barry Winter's blog for me

We seemed to get along as we discussed their vague knowledge of politicians,
Afghanistan, other officers they claimed to have never heard of, the CSE, our
missing emails and the words within Barry Winters blog. the Lt Col truly
seemed like an ok dude.

But the instant he said that Barry Winters malicious words were of no
embarrassment to him I got pissed all over again. Imagine if such shit had
been published by a former officer about him or his family? I bet he
would have sued his bosses long ago if winters had not be locked
up immediately.

Anyway I told the Lt Col that I would see him in courtand hung up on the
snobby bastard and split before the RCMP attempted to corner me in another
phone booth like they did for another one of Harper's former Minister Greggy
Baby Thompson's evil minions two years ago. Small wonder he is quitting
politics EH IGGY?

Oh Dear....how far has the "real deal" the "ethical whistle blower" has
fallen.
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Brett Hol:
I hope the people that created this hoax are held accountable for wasting everybody’s time.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Brett Hol: Methinks Billy Barr, Mean Mr Mueller and clueless Comey should be very worried lawyers if perchance "The Donald" finally reads my tweets N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Brett Hol: "I hope the people that created this hoax are held accountable for wasting everybody’s time."

Imagine if one of Trump's lawyers took an hour or so the check out this old file Methinks the first 20 pages should make Mr Mueller and many other Yankees sit up and pay attention N'esy Pas?

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

Pat Smith
What's funny is Fox News has been the most objective/balanced network the last two years, no matter what you think of them. They hire Liberals (Shep Smith, Donna Brazile, etc) and allow them a platform, while the other networks, including CBC, are just echo chambers of groupthink.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Pat Smith: "the other networks, including CBC, are just echo chambers of groupthink."

I agree but Fox is no better

Chris Evanyshyn
It’s official!
700 days later we finally know for certain.
Hillary lost on her own

David R. Amos
Reply to @Chris Evanyshyn: "Hillary lost on her own"

Methinks everybody knew that out of the gate it just took over two years for the Fake Left to see the FBI put it in writing tis all N'esy Pas?

don franco
The Mueller Report is serving to vindicate Trump's assertions that there was no collusion & that he won the presidency fairly. It is obvious the Democrats are losing the blame game and if they continue spinning rhetorical mush rather than outlining practical platforms they will be re-gifting the presidency to Trump in the forthcoming election.

David R. Amos
Reply to @don franco: Methinks many would agree that Trump was every bit as surprised as Clinton was on election night N'esy Pas?

Pat Smith
Not what CBC and its fanboys told us the last 2 years.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Pat Smith: "Not what CBC and its fanboys told us the last 2 years."

Go figure why I am not surprised

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

Steve Timmins
I can't stand Trump but he was right. This was a complete witch hunt

David R. Amos
Reply to @Steve Timmins: "I can't stand Trump but he was right. This was a complete witch hunt"

I Wholeheartedly Agree Sir

James McDonell
When are they going to investigate the Clinton/Obama foundation?

David R. Amos
Reply to @James McDonell: "When are they going to investigate the Clinton/Obama foundation?"

Methinks its a safe bet that its slated for the 12th of Never N'esy Pas?

Pat Smith
"I investigated Trump for two years and all I got was this lousy T-shirt"

paul pinnisson
Reply to @Paul Kersey: Obama right? Treason at it's best.

David R. Amos
Reply to @paul pinnisson: Oh So True Methinks it was Obama's and Clinton's actions that created the swell of support for Trump and Bernie because folks had had enough of the rampant corruption However Trump never kept his promises N'esy Pas?

Pat Smith
Canadian MSM and the left will go down in history books with the Inquisition, Salem witch trials and McCarthyism. Congratulations guys, lol!!!

David R. Amos
Reply to @Pat Smith: "Congratulations guys, lol!!!"

Methinks that your may agree that this is all just a Circus and that Trump and Trudeau et al merely the latest of a long line of ringmasters tis al N;esy Pas?

Steve Cowell
I think Mr. Mueller is having a little chuckle this weekend, at the expense of all those who think the fact that no Trumps were charged means that the inquiry has exonerated them.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Steve Cowell: "I think Mr. Mueller is having a little chuckle this weekend"

Methinks that is the last thing Mr. Mueller He knows as well as "The Donald" that the fat lady ain't sung yet N'esy Pas?

Mueller found no evidence Trump campaign co-ordinated with Russia, says attorney general

Report also 'does not exonerate' Trump of obstructing justice, says William Barr

The Associated Press· Posted: Mar 24, 2019 12:36 AM ET | Last Updated: an hour ago

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Special counsel Robert Mueller did not find evidence that U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign "conspired or co-ordinated" with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election but reached no conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice, Attorney General William Barr declared Sunday. That brought a hearty claim of vindication from Trump but set the stage for new rounds of political and legal fighting.

Trump, pleasure tinged with resentment after two years of investigations, declared "complete and total exoneration. "It's a shame that our country has had to go through this. To be honest, it's a shame that your president has had to go through this," he said.

But Democrats demanded to see the full Mueller report and insisted that even the summary by the president's attorney general hardly put him in the clear.

Mueller's conclusions, summarized by Barr in a four-page letter to Congress, represented a victory for Trump on a key question that has hung over his presidency from the start: Did his campaign work with Russia to defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton? That was further good news for the president on top of the Justice Department's earlier announcement that Mueller had wrapped his investigation without new indictments.

It could deflate the hopes of Democrats in Congress and on the 2020 campaign trail that incriminating findings from Mueller would hobble the president.

But while Mueller was categorical in ruling out criminal collusion, he was far more circumspect on presidential obstruction of justice. Despite Trump's claim of total exoneration, Mueller did not draw a conclusion one way or the other on whether he sought to stifle the Russia investigation through his actions including the firing of former FBI director James Comey.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr leaves his home in McLean, Va., on Sunday. Barr has released a few details of Mueller's report. (Sait Serkan Gurbuz/Associated Press)

According to Barr's summary, Mueller set out "evidence on both sides of the question" and stated that "while this report does not conclude the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."

Yet Barr, who was nominated by Trump in December, and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller in May 2017 and oversaw much of his work, went further in Trump's favor.

Barr said he and Rosenstein had determined that Mueller's evidence was insufficient to prove in court that Trump had committed obstruction of justice to hamper the probe. Barr has previously voiced a broad view of presidential powers, and in an unsolicited memo last June he cast doubt on whether the president could have obstructed justice through acts — like firing his FBI director — that he was legally empowered to take.

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Barr said their decision was based on the evidence uncovered by Mueller and not affected by Justice Department legal opinions that say a sitting president cannot be indicted.

Mueller's team examined a series of actions by the president in the last two years to determine if he intended obstruction. Those include his firing of Comey one week before Mueller's appointment, his public and private haranguing of then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia investigation because of his work on the campaign, his request of Comey to end an
investigation into Michael Flynn, the White House's first national security adviser, and his drafting of an incomplete explanation about his oldest son's meeting with a Russian lawyer during the campaign.

'Raises as many questions as it answers'

Sunday's summary — and its suggestion that Mueller may have found evidence in support of obstruction — sets up a fight between Barr and Democrats, who called for the special counsel's full report to be released and vowed to press on with their own investigations.

"Attorney General Barr's letter raises as many questions as it answers," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement.

"Given Mr. Barr's public record of bias against the special counsel's inquiry, he is not a neutral observer and is not in a position to make objective determinations about the report," they said. Trump's own claim of complete exoneration "directly contradicts the words of Mr. Mueller and is not to be taken with any degree of credibility," they added.

A copy of a letter from Attorney General William Barr advising Congress of the principal conclusions reached by Mueller is seen Sunday. (Jon Elswick/Associated Press)

Trump was at his Florida estate when lawmakers received the report. Barr's chief of staff called Emmet Flood, the lead White House lawyer on the investigation, to brief him on the findings shortly before he sent it to Congress. Mueller submitted his report to Barr instead of directly to Congress and the public because, unlike independent counsels such as Ken Starr in the case of President Bill Clinton, his investigation operated under the close supervision of the Justice Department.

Mueller's investigation ensnared nearly three dozen people, senior Trump campaign operatives among them. The probe illuminated Russia's assault on the American political system, painted the Trump campaign as eager to exploit the release of hacked Democratic emails to hurt Hillary Clinton and exposed lies by Trump aides aimed at covering up their Russia-related contacts.

Thirty-four people, including six Trump aides and advisers, were charged in the investigation.

Twenty-five are Russians accused of election interference either through hacking into Democratic accounts or orchestrating a social media campaign to spread disinformation on the Internet. Though Mueller did not find evidence that anyone associated with the Trump campaign coordinated with the Russian government, Barr's summary notes "multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign."

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In light of the very concerning discrepancies and final decision making at the Justice Department following the Special Counsel report, where Mueller did not exonerate the President, we will be calling Attorney General Barr in to testify before @HouseJudiciary in the near future.

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That's a likely reference not only to a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting at which Donald Trump. Jr. expected to receive damaging information on Clinton from a Kremlin-connected lawyer, as well as a conversation in London months earlier at which Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos was told Russia had "dirt" on Clinton in the form of thousands of stolen emails.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, said Congress needs to hear from Barr about his decision and see "all the underlying evidence." He said on Twitter, "DOJ owes the public more than just a brief synopsis and decision not to go any further in their work."

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What happens when Mueller files his report — and why Trump critics won't like it

Barr said that Mueller "thoroughly" investigated the question of whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia's election interference, issuing more than 2,800 subpoenas, obtaining nearly 500 search warrants and interviewing 500 witnesses. Trump answered some questions in writing, but Mueller was not able to interview him in person.

Barr said Mueller also catalogued the president's actions including "many" that took place in "public view," a possible nod to Trump's public attacks on investigators and witnesses.

In the letter, Barr said he concluded that none of Trump's actions constituted a federal crime that prosecutors could prove in court.

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Trudeau rejected Wilson-Raybould's conservative pick for high court, CP sources say

March 25, 2019, 3:14 pm

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Methinks Jody Wilson-Raybould's latest whistle-blower just opened up a huge can of worms N'esy Pas?

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Trudeau rejected Wilson-Raybould's conservative pick for high court, CP sources say

Wilson-Raybould said she's 'not at liberty to comment' on discussions with Trudeau over Supreme Court nominees

Joan Bryden· The Canadian Press· Posted: Mar 25, 2019 3:00 PM ET

Former Justice minister and attorney general of Canada, Jodie Wilson-Raybould and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau were apparently att odds over the former minister's unusual pick to lead the Supreme Court of Canada according to a report by the Canadian Press. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

Jody Wilson-Raybould recommended in 2017 that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau nominate a conservative Manitoba judge to be chief justice of the Supreme Court, even though he wasn't a sitting member of the top court and had been a vocal critic of its activism on Charter of Rights issues, The Canadian Press has learned.

Well-placed sources say the former justice minister's choice for chief justice was a moment of "significant disagreement" with Trudeau, who has touted the Liberals as "the party of the charter" and whose late father, Pierre Trudeau, spearheaded the drive to enshrine the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the Constitution in 1982.

The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss internal discussions about a Supreme Court appointment, which are typically considered highly confidential.

For her part, Wilson-Raybould said Monday "there was no conflict between the PM and myself."

In an email, she characterized the matter as part of the normal process of appointing a Supreme Court justice, which involves "typically CONFIDENTIAL conversations and communications — back and forths between the PM and the AG (attorney general) on potential candidates for appointment."

She said she's "not at liberty to comment" on the "veracity" of what the sources said occurred, adding,
"Commentary/reporting in this regard with respect to a SCC appointment(s) could compromise the integrity of the appointments process and potentially sitting justices."

Opposition MPs turn to ethics committee to probe SNC-Lavalin affair

Special adviser to Trudeau on splitting attorney general-justice minister role promises impartiality

'Put up or shut up': Liberal MP challenges Philpott and Wilson-Raybould over SNC-Lavalin

The issue suggests Trudeau may have had reasons unrelated to the SNC-Lavalin affair for moving Wilson-Raybould out of the prestigious Justice portfolio earlier this year — a cabinet shuffle that touched off a full-blown political crisis for the governing Liberals.

Wilson-Raybould has said she believes she was moved to Veterans Affairs as punishment for refusing to intervene to stop a criminal prosecution of the Montreal engineering giant on bribery charges related to contracts in Libya. Trudeau has denied the SNC matter had anything to do with the decision.

She resigned a month later amid allegations she was improperly pressured by the Prime Minister's Office to interfere in the SNC-Lavalin case, triggering a furor that has engulfed the Trudeau government ever since.

The issue, the sources say, arose after Beverley McLachlin announced in June 2017 her decision to retire that December after 28 years on the high court, including 17 as chief justice.

Her retirement meant the government would have to choose a new chief justice and find another bilingual judge from western or northern Canada to sit on the nine-member bench.

Not since Wilfrid Laurier

Trudeau created an independent, non-partisan advisory board, headed by former Conservative prime minister Kim Campbell, to identify qualified candidates to fill the western/northern vacancy and submit a short list of three to five names for consideration.

According to the sources, one of the names on the eventual list was Glenn Joyal, who had been appointed in 2011 by former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper as chief justice of Manitoba's Court of Queen's Bench.

Wilson-Raybould then sent Trudeau a 60-plus-page memo arguing that Joyal should not only be added to the top court but should be named chief justice as well.

Only once before in Canadian history — in 1906, when Sir Wilfrid Laurier appointed his justice minister to the top judicial job — has a prime minister chosen a chief justice who was not already sitting on the Supreme Court.

Joyal criticized charter interpetation by SCOC

Wilson-Raybould's pick puzzled Trudeau but he became disturbed after doing some research into Joyal's views on the charter, the sources said.

Joyal had criticized the judiciary for broadly interpreting charter rights and expanding them to apply to things not explicitly mentioned in the charter or, in his view, intended by provincial premiers when they agreed to enshrine a charter in the Constitution.

The Supreme Court's liberal interpretation has led to things like legalization of same-sex marriage, the right of women to choose to have an abortion and the legalization of medical assistance in dying, among other things — developments Trudeau has celebrated.

In a January 2017 speech to the Canadian Constitution Foundation's Law and Freedom Conference, Joyal echoed conservative arguments that the top court has usurped the supremacy of elected legislatures to determine social policy.

Charter reduces influence of legislators: Joyal

The charter, Joyal argued, was the result of a compromise between Pierre Trudeau and premiers, most of whom had originally opposed inclusion of a charter in the Constitution. The compromise was intended to maintain a balance between the judiciary and the legislative branch of government, with provisions allowing governments to limit or override rights altogether in some circumstances.

Since then, judicial interpretation of the charter has ignored the intentions of the drafters and "led without question to a level of judicial potency that was not anticipated back in 1982," Joyal said in the speech, a video of which is available on the foundation's website. That, in turn, has resulted in a "less potent and less influential legislative branch that seldom has the final word."

"With the 'constitutionalizing' of more and more political and social issues into fundamental rights, the Canadian judiciary has all but removed those issues, in a fairly permanent way, from the realm of future civic engagement and future political debate," he said.

Joyal was particularly critical of the Supreme Court's interpretation of section 7 of the charter — the section which guarantees everyone the right to life, liberty and security of the person and under which the top court struck down Canada's abortion law and the prohibition on medically assisted death.

Wilson-Raybould to provide emails, texts and written statement on SNC-Lavalin affair

Philpott and Wilson-Raybould can speak freely on SNC-Lavalin in Commons, says former House law clerk

Trudeau defends actions as Philpott asks if Wilson-Raybould was sidelined over SNC-Lavalin

The court's liberal interpretation of that section "has become, particularly in recent years, the single most fertile source for the discovery of new rights and the de facto constitutionalization of political and social issues," he said.

Trudeau rejected Wilson-Raybould's advice. He ended up appointing Sheilah Martin, a judge on the appeal courts of Alberta, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, to fill the vacant western Canadian seat on the bench. Sitting Supreme Court Justice Richard Wagner was elevated to the role of chief justice.

Wilson-Raybould's advocacy of Joyal for the top judicial job may not come as a total surprise to some Liberals, who've privately noted what they consider her conservative, restrictive approach to charter rights in a number of bills, including those dealing with assisted dying, impaired driving and genetic discrimination.

Jane Philpott, as health minister at the time, was jointly responsible with Wilson-Raybould for the assisted dying legislation. She quit the cabinet earlier this month in solidarity with Wilson-Raybould, saying she no longer had confidence in the government's handling of the SNC-Lavalin affair.

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Kevan Cleverbridge
Trudeau Liberal insiders trying desperately to change the narrative. Canadians can see through this.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Kevan Cleverbridge (Hill 70): Methinks Jody Wilson-Raybould's latest whistle-blower just opened up a huge can of worms. Many politicians know that right after I encountered three questionable Justices in the Federal Court of Appeal in may of 2017 Justices Beverley McLachlin and Derek Green quit the bench and Barry Winters was arrested in Edmonton. Everybody knows I spoke about all of them during the hearing.

To make matters worse Wilson-Raybould then appointed her Deputy Minister Bill Pentney, John Laskin and Sally Gomery to the bench. No doubt Wilson-Raybould's whistle-blower knows that I was arguing Pentney and his many minions and that I mentioned the legal actions of Gomery and Laskin and how we had crossed paths . There are no coincidences N'esy Pas?

Quick facts
In 2017, the Minister of Justice made 100 appointments and elevations – the most a Minister of Justice has made in one year in at least two decades. Of these appointees, half are women, four are Indigenous, and 16 have self-identified as a member of a visible minority population, LGBTQ2, or a person with a disability.

John Nelson
So it seems that Ms. Wilson-Raybould's choice was a thoughtful person not overwhelmed by his own ego. No wonder he was rejected as a Supreme Court judge.

David R. Amos
Reply to @John Nelson: Methinks many would agree that the people most overwhelmed by their egos are Justin and Jody N'esy Pas?

Michael Dome
What is it the Liberals want us to believe now?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Michael Dome: "What is it the Liberals want us to believe now?"

Methinks that they wish folks to believe that they are still Canada's Natural Governing Party N'esy Pas?

Robert Anderson
"The issue suggests Trudeau may have had reasons unrelated to the SNC-Lavalin affair for moving Wilson-Raybould out of the prestigious Justice portfolio earlier this year"

Correction:

The issue suggests Trudeau may have had reasons IN ADDITION to the SNC-Lavalin affair for moving Wilson-Raybould out of the prestigious Justice portfolio earlier this year

David R. Amos
Reply to @Robert Anderson: Methinks Jody's whistle-blower knows that she protected Justin from my litigation sine he appointed her. Anyone can Google Federal Court File No. T-1557-15 N'esy Pas?

Gord Gundersen
Nice Op-ed Katie, but it still does not explain Justin changing his story four times.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Gord Gundersen: "Nice Op-ed Katie, but it still does not explain Justin changing his story four times. "

Methinks even Justin can't do that N'esy Pas?

Bill Mickey
Are people going to demand the CBC's source, the way they demanded the G & M's source for the SNC debacle?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Bill Mickey: I just gave them a big scoop and they have yet to allow it to be posted

David R. Amos
Reply to @David R. Amos: BINGO it has appeared

Michael Dome
This is Liberals doing this to Liberals. They literally are attacking themselves and want people to vote for them...

David R. Amos
Reply to @Michael Dome: Welcome to the Circus

Bill Micke
She said/he said, it's immaterial now. The LPC is imploding before our very eyes.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Bill Mickey: YUP

Molly Earl
SNC is just a giant smoke screen. JWR wanted things to been done her way or no way.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Molly Earl: Methinks they deserve each other N'esy Pas?

Dave MacDonald
Still comes down to if Trudeau did nothing wrong why is trying to stop the truth from coming out .

David R. Amos
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Reply to @Dave MacDonald: Methinks Trudeau is just doing what Mr Butts and his other puppet masters are telling im to do N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos
Reply to @David R. Amos: Oh My My isn't that a rather telling thing?

Lori Cameron
How convenient that this info just happened to appear in the news,deflecting away from snc lavalin. Who put this out to discredit Ms. Raybould Wilson? Who would gain from this?

Myke Letki
Reply to @Lori Cameron: I wonder........

David R. Amos
Reply to @Myke Letki: I will give you three guesses and the first two won't count

Dwight Williams
So I have to seriously wonder....

Is the overwhelming support of JWR from conservatives because she is actually a neocon in red sheeps clothing? Her recommendation of a judge who disagrees with just about every progressive position in western democracies sure indicates it to me.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Dwight Williams: "Is the overwhelming support of JWR from conservatives because she is actually a neocon in red sheeps clothing?"

Methinks they are just fan the flames to put themselves in a better light because not long ago they were demanding that Justin fire Jody N'esy Pas?

Christopher Mills
It really seems like the government is trying to bait JWR at every turn. MPs telling her to just speak up in the HOC, knowing it's illegal...and now this leaked information on an issue they know JWR can't speak to or defend herself on, because it's confidential. Thankfully, she has not taken any of the bait so far. The Liberals continue to underestimate the intelligence of everyone outside their party.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Christopher Mills: Methinks many would agree that it the Tag Team of Jane and Jody who the ones playing games byway of the media N'esy Pas?

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Retiring Chief Justice David Smith reflects on 26-year career

March 25, 2019, 3:43 pm

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Methinks we should be grateful that Justice David Smith reminded us of the incompetence of David Lutz N'esy Pas?

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Retiring Chief Justice David Smith reflects on 26-year career

Smith appointed to the bench in 1993 and named chief justice of the Court of Queen's Bench five years later

Jacques Poitras· CBC News· Posted: Mar 25, 2019 5:30 AM AT

David Smith, recently retired chief justice of the Court of Queen's Bench, said the most difficult case of his career was the sentencing hearing for Moncton police killer Justin Bourque. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)

David Smith says it was the most difficult case he ever heard in 26 years as a judge: the sentencing hearing for Moncton police killer Justin Bourque.

And it was a case that made history when Smith, the chief justice of the Court of Queen's Bench, handed down the most severe criminal sentence in Canada since the abolition of the death penalty: three consecutive life sentences with no chance of parole for 75 years.

"There were three police officers," Smith said in an interview in his office the day before he retired from the court. "Police officers put their lives on the line for us. I felt each one of them, their loss, deserved a life sentence. That was my feeling on it."

Justin Bourque gets 5 life sentences, no chance of parole for 75 years

Smith used a new federal law, passed in 2011, that allowed consecutive, rather than concurrent, sentences in cases involving multiple murders.

Bourque killed constables Douglas James Larche, Dave Joseph Ross and Fabrice Georges Gevaudan in June 2014. He wounded two other officers.

Bourque pleaded guilty, sparing the families of the officers a long trial.

But the two-day sentencing hearing went through a detailed timeline of the killings — an experience Smith says he will never forget.

"I found it the most difficult case I've done in my career," Smith said. "It was so emotional. Normally you don't get that much emotion in a case. … It was devastating listening to it."

Court of Queen's Bench Chief Justice David Smith presiding over the sentencing of Justin Bourque in 2014. (Andrew Robson for CBC)

Smith was appointed to the bench in 1993 and was named chief justice of the Court of Queen's Bench five years later.

The Moncton native retired March 20 when he turned 75, the mandatory retirement age for judges. He said the Bourque case is the one "that's going to live with me the rest of my life."

In the wake of the sentencing, some legal experts questioned whether Bourque's lawyer, David Lutz, gave him a full defence.

Lutz agreed to a statement of facts calling the killings "one of the most heinous crimes in Canadian history." After the sentencing, he declared Smith "had no choice" but to impose the 75-year sentence and did not file an appeal.

Smith wouldn't comment on Lutz's handling of the case, but said he wasn't surprised there had been no appeal.

He said Bourque had Lutz's advice and understood the ramifications of his guilty plea. "I think he was resigned to what was happening," he said.

A Quebec lawyer later said she would take on the appeal, but she was appointed a judge in 2016 and had to drop the case.

Judicature Act battle

Smith also used his retirement to make a final comment on his public battle with the previous Liberal government of Brian Gallant over changes to the Judicature Act.

The 2017 amendments took away Smith's power to unilaterally transfer judges on the Court of Queen's Bench, something he complained publicly would erode the independence of the courts.

Higgs waffles on reversing veto power over judge transfers

Judge transfer request could reignite fight over judicial independence

"It pretty well is obvious that it targeted me and didn't allow me to move judges when they wished to be moved," Smith told CBC News last week.

He said given the province offered different rationales for the change at different times, "I think it had to be — I'm speculating — a political motive rather than for the good of the court."

But he would not comment on Progressive Conservative allegations that the Liberals wanted to keep some judicial vacancies open so that lawyers close to Gallant and federal cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc could be appointed to fill them.

"It's all pure speculation," Smith said.

Liberals still haven't answered months-old judge transfer request

Chief Justice David Smith 'surprised' by Liberal bill to curb his powers

During the public controversy, CBC News obtained correspondence that showed two of Smith's colleagues — then-New Brunswick Chief Justice Ernest Drapeau and fellow Court of Queen's Bench justice George Rideout — were at odds with him over the issue.

But Smith said his relationship with most of his fellow judges "was generally very good" as the public debate played out.

"The court was supportive in general, because they knew I always [transfer a judge] only at the request of the judge and always for the benefit of the court."

In last year's election, Progressive Conservative MLA Ted Flemming promised that a PC government would repeal the change, though that hasn't happened yet.

Cameras and courthouses

Smith also weighed in on the PC government's decision to cancel a planned new courthouse for Fredericton that would replace the existing 1930 building.

"It does need replacing. I don't think there's any doubt about that," Smith said, though he added it should happen "when we can afford it."

He wouldn't call the need urgent, but said it should happen within the current government's mandate.
Smith said modern courthouses, including those in Moncton and Saint John, have much-needed security features including separate entrances for the public, prisoners and judges, "so we never meet. It's a very secure system."

Earlier this year, Smith said the Fredericton courthouse lacks much-needed security features that modern courthouses in Saint John and Moncton have. (CBC)

The former chief justice also said he thinks the courts should be more open to the public, including by livestreaming proceedings via video cameras.

Cameras already record trials and hearings for internal use and "it would seem to me it should be a fairly easy thing to stream those … so if you want to tune in to see what's happening in Courtroom Number 12, you should be able to do that."

Smith warned that "most of it's like watching paint dry — it's not very entertaining," but said he believes in transparency. Family court trials might not be livestreamed, but "anything that's open to the public should be able to be broadcast."

A new settlement process

Smith said the biggest change he saw during his more than quarter-century as a judge was the advent of settlement conferences, something he pioneered in New Brunswick.

To deal with a backlog of cases, Smith began nudging parties in civil cases to agree to settlement conferences, overseen by judges, to sort out an agreement and avoid a lengthy trial.

The agreements are turned into binding court orders that are not subject to appeal.

At first, many judges believed that overseeing such discussions went beyond their role, but now almost all recognize it's a way to make the courts more efficient.

"It's such a time-saver and a money-saver," he said. "It gives a certainty that going to court doesn't."

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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David R. Amos
Methinks we should be grateful that Justice David Smith reminded us of the incompetence of David Lutz N'esy Pas?

Mary Lou Winn
The Family Man that pressed the button, to start the mill, that destroyed and continues to, how many Families in New-Nouveau Brunswick?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Mary Lou Winn: Methinks you are referring to the questionable Yankee draft dodger Mr Lutz N'esy Pas?

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Lawyer and Trump critic Michael Avenatti charged with extortion, bank and wire fraud

March 25, 2019, 4:22 pm

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Methinks the US Justice Dept is beginning to serve real meat and potatoes after promoting nothingburgers or so long N'esy Pas?

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Lawyer and Trump critic Michael Avenatti charged with extortion, bank and wire fraud

Prosecutors say Avenatti went after Nike in 'an old-fashioned shakedown'

The Associated Press· Posted: Mar 25, 2019 1:48 PM ET

U.S. prosecutors have charged attorney Michael Avenatti with extortion, wire and bank fraud. (Kamil Krzaczynski/Reuters)

U.S. prosecutors on two coasts have charged Trump critic and attorney Michael Avenatti with extortion and bank and wire fraud.

A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles said Avenatti was arrested Monday in New York. While the two cases are separate and unrelated, the prosecutors in New York and Los Angeles say they did co-ordinate the arrest today.

In New York, Avenatti was accused of threatening to use his ability to get publicity to harm Nike. Calling it "an old-fashioned shakedown," prosecutors say he tried to extort more than $20 million US from the company.

In the California case, Avenatti's arrest was pursuant to a criminal complaint alleging he embezzled a client's money in order to pay his own expenses and debts — as well as those of his coffee business and law firm — and also defrauded a bank by using phony tax returns to obtain millions of dollars in loans. A felony complaint charges him with wire and bank fraud.

U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna told reporters in L.A. that the case filed in Los Angeles on Friday and unsealed Monday paints "an ugly picture of lawless conduct and greed."

The case alleges in part that Avenatti collected a $1.6 million US settlement for a client and used it for his own interests.

If convicted on the bank and wire fraud, Avenatti could face up to 50 years in prison.

Nike charges

New York prosecutors said Avenatti and an unnamed co-conspirator met with Nike's attorneys on March 19 and said they had a client, a former amateur athletic coach, who had evidence that Nike employees had paid bribes to top high school players to convince them to play for Nike-sponsored teams.

A former executive at Nike rival Adidas was recently convicted in federal court in Manhattan of taking part in a similar scheme.

Avenatti told Nike that he would go public unless it paid his client $1.5 million US and hired him to conduct an internal investigation for between $15 million and $25 million US, according to the complaint. Prosecutors in New York said Avenatti also offered to accept a $22.5 million payment to resolve the client's claims and "buy Avenatti's silence."

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In a March 20 follow-up call with Nike's lawyers, Avenatti said that if his demands were not met, "I'll go take ten billion dollars off your client's market cap… I'm not f-cking around," according to the complaint.

Nike did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The charges were revealed shortly after Avenatti said on Twitter that he would hold a news conference on Tuesday to reveal "a major high school/college basketball scandal" that reached "the highest levels of Nike."

Michael Avenatti✔@MichaelAvenatti

Tmrw at 11 am ET, we will be holding a press conference to disclose a major high school/college basketball scandal perpetrated by @Nike that we have uncovered. This criminal conduct reaches the highest levels of Nike and involves some of the biggest names in college basketball.

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The charges carry a potential penalty of 47 years in prison.

The court papers said the alleged co-conspirator, who was not identified in court papers, is also an attorney licensed to practise in California. They said the client is a coach of an amateur athletic union (AAU) men's basketball program in California. The complaint said the AAU program coached by the Avenatti client was sponsored by Nike for $72,000 US annually.

Stormy Daniels reacts

Avenatti represented Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, in a lawsuit to break a confidentiality agreement to speak about her alleged affair with Trump.

Daniels tweeted she was saddened by the news of Avenatti's arrest, but not surprised.

Stormy Daniels✔@StormyDaniels
My statement regarding my former attorney Mr. Avenatti..

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The arrest of a prominent Trump critic came a day after the U.S. attorney general released a summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's findings clearing the president's campaign of conspiring with Russia in the 2016 U.S. election.

The prosecutors in both cases said the timing had nothing to do with the Mueller report.

Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., reacted with glee to the news on Twitter, bashing out a series of tweets, including: "#MAGA - Michael Avenatti Getting Arrested!!!"

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Mark Deckard
Does this mean he won't be getting a show on CNN?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Mark Deckard: Methinks he better call Saul N'esy Pas?

Bill Edward Goate
Trump's week just keeps getting better and better....and it's only Monday.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Bill Edward Goate: Methinks the US Justice Dept is being to serve real meat and potatoes after promoting nothing burgers or so long N'esy Pas?

Fred Thiolla
It was pretty obvious this guy was not exactly a class act from the start, just the media was latching on to anyone who made Trump look bad. Which isnt exactly difficult or something that he requires help with.

David R. Amos
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Reply to @Fred Thiolla: Methinks everyone knew the scoop on this dude out of the gate but would rather see him embarrass Trump than expose the truth about a sneaky lawyer N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos
Reply to @David R. Amos: Does the truth hurt?

Steve Timmins
I'm amazed how gullible so many people were with this Ambulance chaser. Hatred is blind I suppose.

David R. Amos

Reply to @Steve Timmins: Methinks a lot of people know that he didn't fool me anyone can Google his name and mine N'esy Pas?

Frank Goodwood
But CNN loved what he had to say about Trump! The Left is going to have a very bad week.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Frank Goodwood: YUP

Paul Aumuller
Oh no! CNN's favorite lawyer. Will they now ask their payment of fees back? I see certain individuals suing Avenatti for his defamation.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Paul Aumuller: Welcome to the Circus

Steve Timmins
LOL It can't be good in the anti-Trump camp.
One piece of advice. Relax and stop identifying with partisan politics. It's not healthy.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Steve Timmins: "Relax and stop identifying with partisan politics. It's not healthy."

Methinks I must wholeheartedly agree with you again N'esy Pas?

Pat Smith
Rough 24 hours for CBC.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Pat Smith: YUP

Juan Podrido
Like the saying goes, 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Juan Podrido: Oh So True

Bob Mccown
Gee, who could've seen this coming. Everyone but the media and the Democrats...just like the Russian collusion hoax.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Bob Mccown: I agree

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At this point, the Philpott/Wilson-Raybould end game is obvious

March 26, 2019, 5:55 am

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At this point, the Philpott/Wilson-Raybould end game is obvious — destroy Trudeau: Neil Macdonald

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Cecil Row
If we heard the truth,we wouldn’t need to read uninformed opinion articles such as this

David R. Amos
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At this point, the Philpott/Wilson-Raybould end game is obvious — destroy Trudeau: Neil Macdonald

Ex-ministers seen as defenders of democracy rather than politicians — despite a most politician-like attack

Neil Macdonald· CBC News· Posted: Mar 25, 2019 6:59 PM ET

Ex-cabinet ministers Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott remain in the Liberal caucus, despite their attacks on Justin Trudeau.

Perhaps Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott are acting entirely on principle, laying their bodies across the tracks to protect our democracy and rule of law. Perhaps.

That's their story, anyway. And it's a good one, too, no denying that. A politician cannot buy the kind of hagiography Philpott has enjoyed since she quit Justin Trudeau's cabinet in solidarity with Wilson-Raybould, who is herself now portrayed as single-handedly protecting the justice system's integrity from attacks by crude ward heelers in the PMO. A fellow political columnist suggested last week that Philpott should resign as a Liberal because she is so immensely competent, so strong, and so principled that her fellow party members simply aren't worthy of being in caucus with her.

Mmm-hmm.

In any case, Philpott and Wilson-Raybould are politicians who are being treated as though they aren't politicians, which is every politician's lustiest dream.

Certainly, the two of them have co-ordinated a most politician-like attack on their party leader. I've been in this dodge 43 years now, and I have never seen such exquisite destruction and perfectly timed execution.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, continues to be dogged by questions about his decision to move Wilson-Raybould from the Justice file to Veterans Affairs, and her subsequent resignation from cabinet. (Canadian Press)

And deflection. I assume there is an end game here, and I assume we will see it sooner or later, and I have my own notions about what it is, having once watched Brian Mulroney publicly pretend loyalty to Joe Clark while his operatives worked to bring down Clark's shaky Tory leadership, at one point distributing ABC (Anybody But Clark) buttons, which were to be worn inside the jacket lapel, invisible, but available to be flashed to those in the know. In 1983, Mulroney became leader.

Or having watched, from the media perch above the Commons, Liberal MPs working as operatives for the then-unelected Jean Chrétien in the late '80s, moving from desk to desk, working other members of caucus, as John Turner, the leader they were betraying, sat in his chair a few rows ahead, seemingly oblivious to what was going on just behind him. Chrétien became party leader in 1990.

Or even, that same year, having watched an angry Lucien Bouchard, convinced Quebec had once again been humiliated by the perfidious Anglos, storm out of Brian Mulroney's government, sputtering that a leader's word must be "as straight as the sword of the king,'' as he walked away.

Of those three players, Bouchard was the closest to doing any of it on principle, but even he had an end game. He established and led the Bloc Québécois, creating another political pole in Ottawa, then became premier of Quebec.

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Philpott, though, explicitly denies any leadership ambition, or even any ambition to bring down her leader, and so does Wilson-Raybould, and for some reason, most of the parliamentary press gallery seems to be taking them at their word.

Instead of treating the Philpott/Wilson-Raybould moves as a power play, which is pretty clearly what they are, reporters have been swept along in the blast waves the duo created with their resignations and declarations. And please, let's stipulate that they are indeed a duo, not two ingenues who never imagined their principled actions would cause this sort of uproar.

Just last week, Philpott reluctantly and with a heavy heart granted Maclean's an exclusive interview, in which she said there is a lot more still to come in this scandal, despite the Trudeau PMO's attempts to suppress it. She couldn't, of course, say what is coming, because cabinet privilege prevents her from talking about a Jan. 6 discussion with the prime minister, just that the discussion was far more significant than previously reported, and that there is a lot more to the story.

Also, she just wants to make her party better, which is sort of what people who want to get rid of the leader always say.

If the Maclean's interview was intended as a bellows for an already superheated story, it worked. For weeks, reporters in Ottawa have been diving into the weeds, competing for the most incremental scrap.

On Friday, the main headline on the National Newswatch political aggregator was a CBC interview in which a former Commons law clerk declared that the parliamentary privilege Philpott enjoys as an MP frees her to say whatever she likes about her Jan. 6 chat with Trudeau, as long as she says it in the Commons or while sitting on a Commons committee.

Wilson-Raybould testifies before the Commons justice committee about the SNC-Lavalin affair on Feb. 27. Wilson-Raybould says she has more information to share. (Lars Hagberg/AFP/Getty Images)

Other journalists have observed that the order-in-council Trudeau created to allow Wilson-Raybould and other cabinet confidants to talk about her time as attorney general would apply to Philpott's Jan. 6 discussion, because Wilson-Raybould was still attorney general at that time.

And Trudeau himself seems to have clearly said Philpott and Wilson-Raybould are free to add whatever they wish to the public record concerning Wilson-Raybould's time as attorney general and her cabinet demotion in January. He's spoken about it publicly, and Gerald Butts, Trudeau's former principal secretary, testified in detail about it before the Commons justice committee.

Both ex-ministers, though, say they nonetheless remain constrained by honour and principle. They are not free to reveal misbehaviour by Trudeau and his aides, only to say it exists and tease future revelations. Wilson-Raybould followed up Philpott's interview by declaring she has more facts and evidence for the committee, and will be providing some of it in writing.

The simplest explanation is best

So, let's strop up Occam's razor and apply its austere logic to all this.

Might it simply be that Philpott and Wilson-Raybould are being coy because they want to inflict maximum damage on Trudeau from within his own caucus, which they know is the most effective place to do it? Might they intend to push for a leadership review after this fall's election, or, even better, before it?

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Trudeau has haplessly insisted that Philpott's and Wilson-Raybould's torpedoes are just proof that the Liberals tolerate a diversity of views in their ranks.

Right. Sorry, but that sounds a lot like the line John Turner peddled when his own MPs were busy knifing him in the back: open party, grassroots discussion, lots of room for dissent, blah, blah, blah.

Realistic advice

An old acquaintance who worked in Liberal backrooms a generation ago says he doesn't believe Philpott or Wilson-Raybould are ambitious. This whole thing, he thinks, is a "cascade of dominoes" resulting from principled acts, the purity of which gives the story such sting. There may be no end game, he said, simultaneously conceding that if there isn't, it's a first.

I found Sheila Copps's old-school advice to Trudeau more realistic: They're dangerous. Get rid of them.

At the very least, Wilson-Raybould and Philpott are now objective allies of the Opposition, and any sensible leader would treat them as such. Jean Chrétien absolutely would. Andrew Scheer too, I'd bet.

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Neil Macdonald is an opinion columnist for CBC News, based in Ottawa. Prior to that he was the CBC's Washington correspondent for 12 years, and before that he spent five years reporting from the Middle East. He also had a previous career in newspapers, and speaks English and French fluently, and some Arabic.

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Tariffs raise 'serious questions' about NAFTA ratification, Freeland says

March 26, 2019, 7:03 am

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Methinks the "The Powers That Be " north and south of the 49th must realize that my opinion of Freeland before she won Bob Rae's seat in 2013 has not changed for blatantly obvious reasons N'esy Pas?

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Tariffs raise 'serious questions' about NAFTA ratification, Freeland says

839 Comments

Charly Vaughan
Don't sign the deal while steel and aluminum tarrifs are there. Just say no.
I'd much rather see Canada walk way from the new deal than put up with this abuse of power.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Charly Vaughan: Me too

Dale Sullivan
Ms. Freeland is correct. Neither Mexico or Canada should ratify the agreement as long as there are tariffs on our steel and aluminum. Why would we?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Dale Sullivan: "Why would we?"

Why do we need NAFTA at all?

Bill Nest
"In order to move ahead with that deal, I think Canadians feel the right thing is, there should be no 232 tariffs or retaliatory tariffs between our two countries. That was what I expressed clearly to Ambassador Lighthizer."
That's right! Canada is behind ya all the way.

Ashley Zacharias
Reply to @Pat Mosiuk:
So I take that to mean you'd rather support Trump than Canada.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Ashley Zacharias: Methinks if anyone wishes to recall I have been complaining of NAFTA since I first ran for Parliament in 2004 Now we have the perfect opportunity to get out of it and make it all Trump's fault because it is N'esy Pas?

Patrick Kennedy
Hang tough Ms Freeland! Don't budge an inch. Trump is all high over his fake victory on the Mueller report and is in hyper bossy mode now.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Patrick Kennedy: "Trump is all high over his fake victory on the Mueller report and is in hyper bossy mode now."

Methinks many would agree that the victory was not fake N'esy Pas?

Rex Yuan
In the face of a negotiated new Nafta deal, the persistent refusal by Trump to rescind the tariffs is really a test to see if Canada and Mexico can continue to be bullied. That's bully's typical tactic. When Kim of North Korea stood firm and fight back, we already know what happened since - respect from the bully. For Canada's long term self respect in the international community, all Canadians, particularly PM Trudeau and Minister Freeland, must continue to demand Trump rescinding ...

David R. Amos
Reply to @Rex Yuan: Methinks Trump fails to understand that it is a great big world and that the Yankee petrodollar could become worthless overnight. The sad part is our looney is hooked at the hip to it. We should be very careful making any deals with Yankees just like Louis Riel advised long ago before the Crown hung him N'esy Pas?

Paul O'Donovan
Agreed. We should not sign unti the disgrace lifts the illegal tariffs

David R. Amos
Reply to @Paul O'Donovan: "Agreed. We should not sign unti the disgrace lifts"

Methinks I could agree to that because the disgrace is slated to go away on the 12th of Never N'esy Pas?

rhea smeltzer
Freeland is to be commended once again. She knows her stuff.

David R. Amos
Reply to @rhea smeltzer: NOPE

giuseppe nero
Good thing the Libs are in. The Brown-Nose party would sign anything...like Mulroney did

David R. Amos
Reply to @giuseppe nero: YUP

david kirby
Serious questions need to be asked about Freeland

David R. Amos
Reply to @david kirby: "Serious questions need to be asked about Freeland"
Methinks "The Powers That Be " must recall that I questioned Freeland's motives out of the gate before she ever won Bob Rae's seat in 2013. Obviously my opinion of her has not changed N'esy Pas?

Fred Engle
Don't sign the deal until the tariffs are lifted. Period.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Fred Engle: Don't sign the deal PERIOD

Tariffs raise 'serious questions' about NAFTA ratification, Freeland says

U.S. Court of International Trade rules use of national security tariffs allowed, but appeal likely

Janyce McGregor· CBC News· Posted: Mar 25, 2019 5:22 PM ET

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland speaks to media following a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Jan. 29, 2019. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

Chrystia Freeland left a meeting with United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer Monday sounding like a minister in no hurry to ratify the revised North American trade deal while American steel and aluminum tariffs still apply to Canada–U.S. trade.

"The existence of these tariffs for many Canadians raises some serious questions about NAFTA ratification," the foreign affairs minister told reporters gathered on the sidewalk outside the USTR's Washington offices.

"In order to move ahead with that deal, I think Canadians feel the right thing is, there should be no 232 tariffs or retaliatory tariffs between our two countries. That was what I expressed clearly to Ambassador Lighthizer."

Freeland paused — and appeared to be choosing her words carefully — before saying that steel tariffs were the central topic of her discussion with Lighthizer.

"These tariffs are completely unacceptable to Canada," she said, repeating the words "illegal,""unjustified" and "absurd" several times in describing them.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, tours EVRAZ Regina, a steel company in the Saskatchewan capital on March 14, 2018. (Michael Bell/Canadian Press)

Canada, the U.S. and Mexico signed their revised trade agreement on Nov. 30 after a bruising period of negotiation.

America's two NAFTA partners originally were exempt from its 25 per cent steel and 10 per cent aluminum tariffs when they were first imposed last spring through President Donald Trump's highly unusual use of the Section 232 "national security" power.

But by July, Canadian and Mexican exports faced the extra costs as well. Both countries responded with retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports worth equivalent dollar values.

By design, the retaliatory tariffs have been damaging to many U.S. industries and sectors, including its farm sector — all part of a political strategy to convince the Trump administration to lift its punishing levies.

Canada hasn't tabled a NAFTA bill

During the NAFTA talks, Trump boasted about his administration's use of "section 232" [of the Trade Expansion Act] tariffs as leverage to get a better deal. The taxing power was meant originally to protect American industries from national security threats, but Trump's office has interpreted that broadly to include imports that compete with a domestic industry it considers essential.

Freeland said the continued existence of the tariffs makes "even less sense now" that NAFTA has been renegotiated.

"I have heard from a lot of Canadians that they would be really troubled by Canada moving forward while these tariffs are still in place," she said.

The talks Monday included a discussion of NAFTA's ratification processes in all three countries, she said.

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Canada tabled the text of the revised NAFTA agreement in the House of Commons on Dec.12. Parliamentary convention requires 21 full sitting days of the House before implementation legislation can be introduced. So the Canadian government could have introduced a NAFTA bill by now.

While the federal cabinet ratifies trade treaties, it does so only after implementation legislation has passed in Parliament, readying Canadian laws and regulations to comply with the new terms.

Canada has only a short time window to pass its implementation bill into law before Parliament rises for the summer, and before the federal election campaign scheduled for the fall. Similar implementation bills for other trade treaties have taken longer than the nine scheduled sitting weeks left between now and the end of June.

U.S. officials have suggested Canada and Mexico accept quotas on their steel and aluminum exports as a means to resolve the impasse. By setting the tariff-free threshold high enough — so the thinking goes — an agreed-upon level of NAFTA trade would no longer face extra costs, while U.S. producers would continue to be protected from any unexpected surges in North American supply.

On Monday, Mexico's Deputy Economy Minister Luz Maria de la Mora told reporters her government is opposed to quotas. Ottawa also has been unwilling to accept limits on its tariff-free trade in steel and aluminum.

Mexico's statement Monday would appear to signal a common front between Canada and Mexico aimed at getting the tariffs lifted without conditions.

National security tariffs constitutional: court

On Monday, the U.S. Court of International Trade upheld as constitutional the Trump administration's use of "national security" provisions to levy tariffs on steel and aluminum.

The plaintiff in that case, the American Institute for International Steel — an industry umbrella group sharply critical of Trump's trade tactics — immediately announced plans to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court. It said it was heartened by the fact that the court recognized that the section 232 tariffs "seem to invite the President to regulate commerce by way of means reserved for Congress."
While the tariffs are costly for businesses and consumers across North American supply chains and throughout the continent, they are also lucrative for federal treasuries.

In last week's federal budget, officials estimated gross revenues from Canada's retaliatory tariffs, from their start last July to the end of the 2018-19 fiscal year, at over $1 billion.

Freeland met with Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat who frequently has expressed skepticism about the value of free trade deals. (Aaron Josefczyk/Reuters)

Later Monday, Freeland's schedule included meetings with Senator Sherrod Brown, the senior Democrat from Ohio who frequently has expressed skepticism about the value of free trade deals. He's suggested NAFTA is likely to stall in the current Congress and said he personally cannot support it without revisions to strengthen its labour protections.

Freeland also met with Representative Earl Blumenauer, the Democratic chair of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on trade. His committee is set to begin scrutinizing the text of the revised agreement Tuesday; Blumenauer also said that he has reservations about the labour provisions and environmental protections.

The chair is among those calling for a change to the deal's longer protection periods for certain pharmaceuticals — something Democrats argue will increase drug costs for Americans.

Blumenauer told CNBC Monday that, despite the Trump administration's wish to ratify the agreement quickly, Congressional timelines are "fluid" and House Democrats are not bound by "artificial deadlines."

Freeland said she wouldn't make any predictions about how U.S. lawmakers will behave, but added she's heard from many American legislators who share Canada's view that the tariffs are bad for both countries.

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Fredericton council moving forward with potential pay increase

March 26, 2019, 7:31 am

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Fredericton council moving forward with potential pay increase

Council will consider increasing their own pay because of new tax laws which have them earning less

Philip Drost· CBC News· Posted: Mar 26, 2019 8:00 AM AT

“We don’t know per say how much that affects each councillor ... but it is a significant," said Greg Ericson, chair of the city finance committee. (Gary Moore/CBC)

Fredericton city council is moving forward with its examination of a pay hike for city councillors.
Council voted last night to have city staff draft a bylaw that would see councillors' salary go up.

Greg Ericson, chair of the city's finance and administration committee, said this is to make up for recent changes to tax law, taking away non-taxable allowances.

Councillors will now consider whether to approve the pay hike or not.

"There's lots to consider. I look at the tax load our citizens have. Will the amount of pay that we increase be a burden?" said Ericson.

"I also look at how other councils that are comparator group have treated with the issue, and then you know to be honest I am looking at the adequacy for work done."

Follows Saint John move

Previously, one-third of the mayor and councillors' salaries had been tax-free, but changes in federal tax rules have made it so that's no longer the case.

In November, Saint John council voted to increase their pay by about 10 per cent to make up for income lost from the tax changes.

If approved, the salary for councillors would go up by $3,229.33, for the deputy mayor it would go up $4,036.69, and for the mayor, his pay would rise by $8,683.

Ericson worries a lower pay would make it more difficult to get qualified people to run for council.
"I think it's an important consideration," said Ericson, who said he would reconsider running for council again if it didn't go through.

"Insufficient pay is always on the list of problems that people reflect on when they're asked why they don't get involved in municipal politics."

City staff will now draft up a bylaw, which will come before council.

There the public will be able to make their opinions on the matter heard before council finally votes on the increase.

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Philip Drost is a reporter with CBC New Brunswick.

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David R. Amos
Methinks they just figured out that they need the money because I am gonna sue them about the theft of my of my Harley etc N'esy Pas?

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Village mayor fights to give school on the chopping block a 2nd act

March 26, 2019, 8:18 am

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Methinks Dominic Cardy and his wife know why I tried to explain things to the Tide Head Mayor Randy Hunter just now and why I was not surprised that he would not listen to me N'esy Pas?

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Village mayor fights to give school on the chopping block a 2nd act

Small Tide Head School was voted to close after years of declining enrolment

Colin McPhail· CBC News· Posted: Mar 26, 2019 6:00 AM AT

The district education council has recommended Tide Head School for closure. Education Minister Dominic Cardy has yet to sign off, but it appears the tiny school's days are numbered. (Colin McPhail/CBC)

Tide Head School's days appear to be numbered. The tiny K-5 school in northern New Brunswick is expected to close this year, pending ministerial approval, after a unanimous district educational council vote in January.

It's always been a small community school, but enrolment plummeted in the past four years. Eight students attend Tide Head today.

Tide Head Mayor Randy Hunter knows it's a fait accompli.

The students will be reassigned in September to a school in Campbellton, about nine kilometres west, but Hunter is pushing to give the building a second act and raising questions about what should be done with closed schools in small or rural municipalities.

Wants building used

The mayor doesn't want Tide Head School to meet the same fate as the shuttered school in neighbouring Atholville. The former École Versant-Nord sits empty on prime property in the heart of the community.

"I would like to see the building used," Hunter said.

"We don't want that school sitting there, grass growing around it, not being maintained, becoming an eyesore for our municipality."

Anglophone School District North and the district education council reserved comment on the matter as they await Education Minister Dominic Cardy's decision. Under Policy 409, the guiding document to review and close schools, the minister must sign off on an education council's recommendation.

Planning to merge

The school was marked for closure as part of a plan to merge three regional schools into a new K-8 school in Campbellton. That project has since been delayed by the Progressive Conservative government.

Tide Head School had more than 100 students at its peak, but in the past decade enrolment hovered in the 40s before dropping to single digits last year. The school is staffed by the equivalent of 1½ full-time teachers and 3½ non-teaching employees.

Tide Head School sits on the main road through the small northern New Brunswick village. (Colin McPhail/CBC)

Once closed, ownership of the school shifts to the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, which then can offer it to other provincial departments or sell it to a non-profit organization or another government. Failing that, it could be sold publicly.

Losing the school would be a blow to the village, said Hunter, who wants Policy 409 to do a better job weighing the impact that closing a school has on the small or rural community it serves.

Repurposing the building, land

Hunter, a former educator now in his third term as mayor, offered suggestions to keep the building in use, including establishing an autism resource centre for the school district or moving the local alternative learning centre from its rented location in Campbellton to a permanent home in Tide Head.

"The building is not falling down," Hunter said. "Does it need tender love and care? Of course it does, like any building. But besides that it's fine."

Tide Head Mayor Randy Hunter wants to see the Tide Head School building, or at least the land, used after its likely closure later this year. (Colin McPhail/CBC)

Hunter said the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development hasn't responded to his proposals, but he said the government offered to hand over the building and the property to the municipality.

But that isn't ideal, he said. The village would lose out on tax revenue and be faced with either demolishing or renovating the building — costs the municipality can't afford, he said.

If the province knocked down the building, the village could then sell the property to be developed, Hunter said.

Hoping for new people

Tide Head has always been a suburb of sorts to Campbellton, but the village is becoming increasingly residential after several businesses closed.

The population dipped below 1,000 in the last census, and Hunter is keen on attracting people and economic development.

Repurposing Tide Head School or the land that it's on would help buck the recent trend.

"We'd like to see any positive development within the municipality, from housing through to small businesses," he said.

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3 Comments

David R.Amos
Methinks Dominic Cardy and his wife know why I tried to explain things to the Tide Head Mayor Randy Hunter just now and why I was not surprised that he would not listen to me N'esy Pas?

---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:42:46 -0400
Subject: Fwd: RE NB Mental Hospitals etc Why not ask Brad Green's
former assistant Chucky Murray and his blogging buddy Chucky Leblanc
about the document hereto attached?
To: viltide@nb.sympatico.ca, Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca,
blaine.higgs@gnb.ca, David.Coon@gnb.ca, denis.landry2@gnb.ca,
kris.austin@gnb.ca, andrea.anderson-mason@gnb.ca,
brian.gallant@gnb.ca, robert.mckee@gnb.ca>
Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com, Colin.McPhail@cbc.ca

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/tide-head-school-closure-policy-409-mayor-randy-hunter-1.5070564

Village mayor fights to give school on the chopping block a 2nd act
Small Tide Head School was voted to close after years of declining enrolment
Colin McPhail · CBC News · Posted: Mar 26, 2019 6:00 AM AT

Tide Head Village Office

6 Mountain St.
Tide Head, NB
Phone: (506) 789-6550
Fax: (506) 789-6553
Email: viltide@nb.sympatico.ca

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:07:11 -0400
Subject: RE NB Mental Hospitals etc Why not ask Brad Green's former
assistant Chucky Murray and his blogging buddy Chucky Leblanc about
the document hereto attached?
To: info@campbellton.org, normand.pelletier@dalhousie.ca

, lebrun@nb.aibn.com
Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com, Alysha.Elliott@gnb.ca,
hugh.flemming@gnb.ca, Dr.France.Desrosiers@vitalitenb.ca

On 3/25/19, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/restigouche-hospital-youth-centre-ombud-report-northern-mayors-1.5066125
>
> North-south tension rises as leaders fear losing troubled youth mental
> health centre
>
> Northern mayors say moving centre out of Campbellton would be major loss
> Colin McPhail · CBC News · Posted: Mar 25, 2019 6:00 AM AT
>
> https://healthstandards.org/board-directors/george-weber/
>
> https://healthstandards.org/executive-team/
> Health Standards Organization
> 1150 Cyrville Road
> Ottawa, ON, Canada
> K1J 7S9
>
> Phone
> +1 613-738-3800
>
> Leslee J. Thompson ext 222
>
> George Weber
> Board Chair
>
> George Weber has served as President and CEO of the Royal Ottawa
> Health Care Group, one of four standalone specialized mental health
> facilities in Ontario, since 2007.
>
> Over the previous 26 years, he has been the Chief Executive Officer of
> a number of national organizations, such as the Canadian Red Cross and
> Canadian Dental Association, as well as various international
> organizations, including the International Red Cross and Red Crescent
> Societies in Geneva, Switzerland.
>
> Throughout his career, he has been involved in health and humanitarian
> work from multiple dimensions, including dental accreditation. George
> holds a Master’s degree from McGill University and has completed the
> Advanced Management Program from the Graduate School of Business
> Administration, Harvard University, the International Program for
> Board Members from the Institute of Management Development in
> Lausanne, Switzerland and the Directors course sponsored by the
> Institute of Corporate Directors and the Rotman School of Management,
> University of Toronto.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 14:30:57 -0400
> Subject: YO Mr Higgs So much for the ethics of Ombud NB too After all
> he is the same politically appointed lawyer N'esy Pas?
> To: premier@gnb.ca, blaine.higgs@gnb.ca, oldmaison@yahoo.com,
> robert.gauvin@gnb.ca, hugh.flemming@gnb.ca,
> andrea.anderson-mason@gnb.ca, brian.gallant@gnb.ca,
> robert.mckee@gnb.ca, greg.byrne@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,
> bruce.northrup@gnb.ca, bruce.fitch@gnb.ca, mike.holland@gnb.ca, andre
> <andre@jafaust.com>, jbosnitch@gmail.com, Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca, Frank.McKenna@td.com,
> Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca, Newsroom@globeandmail.com,
> premier@ontario.ca, scott.moe@gov.sk.ca, andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca,
> maxime.bernier@parl.gc.ca, Mark.Blakely@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> martin.gaudet@fredericton.ca, Leanne.Fitch@fredericton.ca
> Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l’Ontario
> <Premier@ontario.ca>
> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:13:29 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: YO Mr Higgs So much for the ethics of your
> Acting Integrity Commissioner N'esy Pas?
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> Thank you for your email. Your thoughts, comments and input are greatly
> valued.
>
> You can be assured that all emails and letters are carefully read,
> reviewed and taken into consideration.
>
> There may be occasions when, given the issues you have raised and the
> need to address them effectively, we will forward a copy of your
> correspondence to the appropriate government official. Accordingly, a
> response may take several business days.
>
> Thanks again for your email.
> ______
>
> Merci pour votre courriel. Nous vous sommes très reconnaissants de
> nous avoir fait part de vos idées, commentaires et observations.
>
> Nous tenons à vous assurer que nous lisons attentivement et prenons en
> considération tous les courriels et lettres que nous recevons.
>
> Dans certains cas, nous transmettrons votre message au ministère
> responsable afin que les questions soulevées puissent être traitées de
> la manière la plus efficace possible. En conséquence, plusieurs jours
> ouvrables pourraient s’écouler avant que nous puissions vous répondre.
>
> Merci encore pour votre courriel.
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:13:26 -0400
> Subject: YO Mr Higgs So much for the ethics of your Acting Integrity
> Commissioner N'esy Pas?
> To: premier@gnb.ca, blaine.higgs@gnb.ca, oldmaison@yahoo.com,
> robert.gauvin@gnb.ca, hugh.flemming@gnb.ca,
> andrea.anderson-mason@gnb.ca, brian.gallant@gnb.ca,
> robert.mckee@gnb.ca, greg.byrne@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,
> bruce.northrup@gnb.ca, bruce.fitch@gnb.c, mike.holland@gnb.ca, andre
> andre@jafaust.com, jbosnitch@gmail.com
> Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com, Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca, Frank.McKenna@td.com,
> Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca, Newsroom@globeandmail.com,
> premier@ontario.ca, scott.moe@gov.sk.ca, andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca,
> maxime.bernier@parl.gc.ca, Mark.Blakely@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> martin.gaudet@fredericton.ca, Leanne.Fitch@fredericton.ca
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpOY5yzB9-8
>
> New Brunswick Ombudsman Charles Murray on report regarding The
> Restigouche Hostipal Centre!
> 119 views
> Charles Leblanc
> Published on Feb 8, 2019
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Murray, Charles (Ombud)"<Charles.Murray@gnb.ca>
> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:16:15 +0000
> Subject: You wished to speak with me
> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com"<motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> I have the advantage, sir, of having read many of your emails over the
> years.
>
>
> As such, I do not think a phone conversation between us, and
> specifically one which you might mistakenly assume was in response to
> your threat of legal action against me, is likely to prove a
> productive use of either of our time.
>
>
> If there is some specific matter about which you wish to communicate
> with me, feel free to email me with the full details and it will be
> given due consideration.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Charles Murray
>
> Ombud NB
>
> Acting Integrity Commissioner
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 03:09:18 -0300
> Subject: So your buddy Charles Murray has my documents now N'esy Pas
> Chucky Baby?
> To: charles.murray@gnb.ca, Charles.McAllister@snb.ca, premier
> <premier@gov.ab.ca>, "hugh.flemming"<hugh.flemming@gnb.ca>, oldmaison
> <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre <andre@jafaust.com>, sallybrooks25
> <sallybrooks25@yahoo.ca>, blaine.higgs@gnb.ca, kim.macpherson@gnb.ca
> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, briangallant10
> <briangallant10@gmail.com>, execdirgen <execdirgen@nbliberal.ca>
>
> CBC
> 3 new watchdogs appointed
> Premier names child and youth advocate, official languages
> commissioner and ombudsman
> CBC News Posted: Jun 14, 2013 3:24 PM
>
>
> The new ombudsman is Charles Murray, a civil servant and former
> political assistant to one-time Tory MP Elsie Wayne and to former PC
> cabinet minister Brad Green.
>
> "I am confident that their experience and education will help them to
> carry out their respective duties effectively," said Premier David
> Alward.
>
> He said Murray's appointment is not political.
>
> YEA RIGHT DAVEY BABY
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbDs3NUo-Nk
>
> http://www.checktheevidence.com/pdf/2526023-DAMOSIntegrity-yea-right.-txt.pdf
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Evelyn Greene
> To: charles.mcallister@snb.ca ; blaine.higgs@gnb.ca ;
> kim.macpherson@gnb.ca ; david.raymond.amos@gmail.com ;
> david.alward@gnb.ca ; charles.murray@gnb.ca ; madeleine.dube@gnb.ca ;
> ken.ross@gnb.ca
> Cc: don.forestell@gnb.ca ; dhashey@coxandpalmer.com
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 6:32 PM
> Subject: RE: Ambulance New Brunswick Inc.
>
>
> Dear Mr. McAllister: Ambulance New Brunswick Inc. is also CROWN
> CORPORATION UNDER PART III OF THE PUBLIC LABOR RELATIONS ACT, AND WHY
> WOULD NOT NOT KNOW THAT. PLEASE ADVISE. ALSO, MS. RENEE LAFOREST
> DOES NOT GET BACK TO ME. DO YOU HAVE HER EMAIL. MY FRIEND SALLY AND
> I WENT THERE TODAY AND WAS TOLD THAT SHE WAS IN A MEETING. SO WHO
> MAKES THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE PUBLIC TO SEE THE BOOKS AS PER THE
> PUBLIC RIGHTS AS TAXPAYERS?
>
>
> EVELYN GREENE ALSO, THE LETTERS PATENT ARE NOT WITNESSED AS PER THE
> REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMPANY'S ACT. COULD YOU COMMENT ABOUT THAT.
> WHY WOULD IT HAVE GONE THRU YOUR OFFICE WITHOUT PROPER ATTENTION TO
> THE LAWYER SIGNING ON BEHALF OF THE CO. THAT ALL IS IN COMPLIANCE
> WHICH IT ISN'T. LOOK AT THE DOCUMENTS FOR MEDAVIE EMS AND NB EMS AND
> TELL ME IF THEY WERE WITNESSED PROPERLY?
>
> SEND THIS ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, INCLUDING DAVID HASHEY'S CLIENT,
> DONALD PETERS AND CHARLES MURRAY WHO BY WAY OF THE LEGISLATION ARE IN
> CONFLICT BY BEING ON THE BOARDS. PLEASE CONFIRM? I WANT TO KNOW HOW
> TO ACCESS THE BOOKS OF AMBULANCE N.B. INC. WHICH IS A PUBLIC
> CORPORATION WHICH IS PARTNERED WITH ANOTHER CO. N.B. EMS WHICH IS
> PARTNERED WITH MEDAVIE EMS MAKING THEM ALL SUBSIDIARIES AND ALL
> SHAREHOLDERS OF THE SUBSIDIARIES CAN GET LOAN GUARANTEES AND OTHER
> BENEFITS BUT WHY WAS THIS DEAL NOT PUT OUT FOR A COST ANALYSIS AND
> BIDDING AS PER THE RULES?
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Charles.McAllister@snb.ca
> To: evelyngreene@live.ca
> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:49:31 -0400
> Subject: Ambulance New Brunswick Inc.
>
>
> This is further to our discussion today.
>
>
>
> As indicated, this company is incorporated and subject to the
> Companies Act. You can access the Act at the following link:
>
> http://laws.gnb.ca/en/BrowseTitle
>
>
>
> The company’s head office location is as follows: Department of
> Health, 520 King Street, Fredericton. You had asked me exactly where
> at 520 King Street is the head office. An ANB official indicates it is
> at the fourth floor of 520 King Street –which is occupied as well by
> offices of the Dept of Health.
>
>
>
> You indicated you wish to attend and examined certain records of ANB.
> I have provided you with a contact name: Renee LaForest (phone number
> 453-3759). It is our understanding she is the secretary-treasurer of
> ANB.
>
>
>
> I have indicated under the Companies Act, the relevant provisions
> regarding access is as follows:
>
>
>
> BOOKS OF THE COMPANY
>
> 104The company shall cause books to be kept by the secretary, or by
> some other officer or agent specially charged with that duty, wherein
> shall be kept recorded
>
> (a)a copy of the letters patent incorporating the company, and any
> supplementary letters patent, and of all by-laws of the company;
>
> (b)the names alphabetically arranged of all persons who are or have
> been shareholders;
>
> (c)the address and calling of every such person while a shareholder,
> as far as can be ascertained;
>
> (d)the number of shares of stock held by each shareholder;
>
> (e)the amounts paid in and remaining unpaid respectively on the stock
> of each shareholder;
>
> (f)all transfers of stocks, with the date and other particulars of the
> transfer, and the date of the entry thereof;
>
> (g)the names, addresses and callings of all persons who are or have
> been directors of the company, with the several dates at which each
> became or ceased to be a director;
>
> (h)minutes of all meetings of shareholders, directors and executive
> committee.
>
> R.S., c.33, s.103.
>
> 105(1)A book called the register of transfers shall be provided, and
> in the book shall be entered the particulars of every transfer of
> shares in the capital of the company.
>
> 105(2)One or more branch registers of transfers may be kept at places
> appointed by the directors.
>
> 105(3)Every transfer made at a branch registry shall be forthwith
> reported to the head office of the company.
>
> R.S., c.33, s.104.
>
> 106(1)Such books, with the exception of the minute books of the
> directors and executive committee, shall, during reasonable business
> hours of every day except Sundays and holidays, be kept open at the
> head office of the company or at such place as may be authorized under
> subsection (2) or (3) of this section, for the inspection of
> shareholders and creditors of the company and their personal
> representatives, and of any judgment creditor of a shareholder.
>
> 106(2)The Lieutenant-Governor in Council upon cause being shown to him
> may by order designate some other office of the company in the
> Province as the place where its books may be kept for the purposes of
> subsection (1).
>
> 106(3)Where an agent with an established place of business in the
> Province is appointed by the company for the purpose of recording the
> transfer of its shares, the book, in which are recorded the
> particulars mentioned in paragraphs 104(b), (c), (d), (e) and (f), may
> be kept at the agent’s place of business in the Province where the
> register of transfers is kept.
>
> 106(4)Every such shareholder, creditor or personal representative or
> judgment creditor may make extracts therefrom.
>
>
>
> The definition section of the Act states as follows:
>
> “shareholder” means every subscriber to, or holder of, stock in the
> company, and includes every member of a company without share capital
> and the personal representatives of the shareholder;
>
>
>
> As discussed with you, you do not seem to fall within the scope of
> section 106(1) to entitle you to see the records of ANB that are
> mentioned in section 104 of the Act.
>
>
>
> You have expressed the view you are entitled to see the above records
> and perhaps other records, notwithstanding that you do not fall
> presently within s 106(1). To what extent you have other legal rights
> to see the above records (or other records), you will need to pursue
> that viewpoint with ANB, not with myself.
>
>
>
> Charles McAllister
>
> Director- Companies Act
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Evelyn Greene
> To: ndesrosiers@ccla.org ; david.raymond.amos@gmail.com ;
> lucie.dubois@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ; bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ;
> sallybrooks25@yahoo.ca ; hubert.lacroix@cbc.ca ; andy.campbell@ctv.ca
> ; steve.murphy@ctv.ca ; w5@ctv.ca ; russomanno@wsgalaw.com ;
> kim.macpherson@gnb.ca ; heather.webb@gnb.ca ; david.alward@gnb.ca ;
> marie.claudeblais@gnb.ca ; madeleine.dube@gnb.ca ;
> charles.murray@gnb.ca
> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 8:53 PM
> Subject: FW: Disclosure still outstanding
>
>
> I am sending this to you folks as a beginning of some information you
> need to know. On May 13, 2011, the day I was beaten up by police at
> Ambulance New Brunswick on 24 Harold Doherty Dr., in Fredericton, I
> had originally agreed to meet with Charles LeBlanc for the first at
> the front of the Legislature. I had spoken with my MLA Brian
> MacDonald on the 12th and I made him aware that I was doing the
> interview due to him and others not looking into the corruption.
>
> On May 13, 2011, I later learned that Premier David Alward and Health
> Minister Madeleine Dube had gone to Moncton or St. John and I believe
> it was to open an ambulance or to do with something about a new part
> of the hospital. I sort of flagged this in mind because I thought
> this is convenient that they are both out of town when I got beaten.
>
> I had arranged a few days earlier to meet Charles LeBlanc however,
> that morning I wrote him an email and cancelled saying I was not well
> which was true as is in the police records when they charged me.
> However, the timeline to deliver the Right to Information was up that
> day and in the afternoon I forced myself to go downtown and serve
> them. I first went to Cox and Palmer Law Firm, then to the Court
> House to see Craig Carleton and then to the N.B. Police Commission and
> secretary/receptionist Julie Williams accepted the documents.
>
> Then I went to Ambulance N.B. where they seemingly were expecting me.
> I felt then as I do today that they were call by someone and were
> expecting me.
>
> 1. On the day of that Friday, May 13, 2011, I had an email from
> Charles LeBlanc saying all of a sudden his blog was shut down.
> However, as I reported at the time, I smelled a rat and I told Mr.
> LeBlanc this and later after that day I asked to do an interview in
> front of the Justice Bld. and Charles LeBlanc refused, saying he was
> interviewing Mayor Woodside at City Hall. Then there was this big ten
> minute or more interview on Charles' blog with the Mayor and the Mayor
> was saying things like, "When I pick you up in the winter and give you
> a drive ........ (this was to Charles). I smelled a rat then as I do
> not and I sent Charles a letter and copied all government heads saying
> he would make the perfect stooge for the mayor and others.
>
> Look at the next few emails, please.
>
> It was Sally Brooks who wanted me to meet with her and Charles LeBlanc
> at the coffee shop last week and I told Sally I did not trust him.
> She said he has ADHD and is harmless and that when he was in court he
> could hardly talk. I told her that this did not compute in my mind,
> because he can stand in front of the police station on another day and
> blurt the hell out of himself yelling things at the police and writing
> all this stuff on the blog. Sally said just come and see. That
> morning, Charles LeBlanc could hardly look me in the fact and I told
> Sally that and she said she noticed but she felt it was nothing. In
> fact, I gave him $10 for coffee and he took our picture and put it on
> the blog. Howevr, he wanted to only put things on the blog which was
> really Sally and My blog but he wanted to control what went in and
> out. For ex. he did not want to print anything about the letter I
> wrote the Police Commission and I copied other people, including David
> Amos who to this date, I have not yet met. However, David does speak
> the truth to my mind. He may be blunt, but he says it like it is. I
> told Sally I thought Charles and David were friends behind closed
> doors, but I have now changed that idea. For ex. at no time did
> Charles LeBlanc ever tell me about Andre Murray's plight with the same
> police officer who beat me, Cst. Nancy Rideout nor did he mention any
> of the facts, but knew my story. I just recently learned of Andre
> Murray and the common denomination we have in common: "police abuse".
>
> Please read the next few emails and see what you think. Then on
> Friday, Sally said she met with Charles at his house and she was late
> to meet me for lunch. She did not mention that they were walking on
> the street as has been written on our blog. However, Sally told me to
> just let Charles do the whole process of the blog and not send
> anything to him but brief comments as Charles is not well enough to
> understand my topics of police commission willfull blindness. I said
> okay, but she did not say they were together on the streets nor
> mention anything like that, just that she was late because of doing
> errands.
>
> Please remember that nothing about my story was ever written in the
> Brunswick Newspaper owned by irving and this is the case with Mr.
> Andre Murray. Why? Why would Jacques Poitras refuse to write
> anything and basically threw me out of the CBC a couple weeks ago,
> saying I wrote his boss, Hubert Lacroix. I asked Mr. Lacrois since
> that time if Mr. Poitras has any connection with the female crown
> prosecutor, Ms. Poitras in Bathurst, N.B.
>
> Then someone wrote recently that our finance minister, mr. Higgs used
> to work for Irvings.
>
> I have continually asked if Irving or his son, Kenneth, who up and
> left the Irvings shortly after my beating took place and went to
> Kinross Gold may have anything to do with Ambulance N.B. and the big
> contract its partner, Medavie EMS which is a private, for-profit co.
> that has common shares and because it is a private co., the
> shareholders do not need to be mentioned at corporate records due to
> N.B. legislative statute under Private Act and corporations. For ex.,
> Medavie EMS partnered with NB EMS and that too is partnered with
> Ambulance N.B. They won a lucrative bid for sending a fleet of
> ambulances from Canada to Trinidad for $90 million a year. Was it in
> our newspaper. I did not see it. Also, I have shared with many of
> you the corporate documents showing irregularities in the letters
> patent and the incorporation of Medavie EMS which is signed by a
> lawyer in Halifax who is with the law firm, Stewart McKelvey who
> represents Ambulance N.B. Inc. I wrote the Trinidad Government and I
> got hold of the paper from Trinidad, the TNT Mirror saying the
> Attorney General was concerned about irregularities in the contract
> and Medavie EMS had written asking what was the hold up. I then
> forwarded my story about getting beaten up at Ambulance NB Inc. and
> there was no investigation albeit I informed the Premier, David Alward
> and all other ministers. It is my understanding too that in order for
> a P3 partnership that EMS set up with Ambulance NB it is supposed to
> be okayed with the Cabinet. In fact the Minister has to sign off on
> it. However, it was signed by a different Minister, Jack Keir, on
> behalf of Minister Greg Byrne who Mr. Keir said was out of the country
> at the time. I asked the secretaries at Service NB who Jack Keir is
> and they did not know, but I later found out and called Mr. Keir. He
> told me he is no longer the minister and did not know what he was
> signing, saying he is a North shore, St. John New Brunswicker and not
> a lawyer. I have the documentation and it is questionable. I sent
> this information to Finance Minister Blaine Higgs and he did not
> respond. I went to see Kim MacPherson, our auditor general and she
> said she had no obligation to report it. She said she knew nothing
> about this P3 deal and she would not talk further, telling her
> secretary, Heather, to tell me she could not help me in my plight for
> justice and almost being beaten to death while wearing an implanted
> heart defibrillator and reported sick to the paramedic station. This
> is documented by others, not just me.
>
> Then I checked the records for Ambulance N.B. Inc. and find that the
> lawyer for the Minister of Health, Charles Murray is on the Board of
> Directors, as is Donald J. Peters the CEO of Horizon Health Network
> also known as Regional Health Authority B and is over the Dr. Everett
> Chalmers Hospital where my problems first stemmed. It is scary
> really.
>
> Pls. read on.
>
> Evelyn Greene
>
> Wait for the next few emails and then let me know what you think of
> all of this please, especially the Canadian Civil Liberties Assoc. who
> know I contacted them long ago about my plight and they said they
> could not help.
>
>
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:08:19 -0800
> From: sallybrooks25@yahoo.ca
> Subject: Re: Disclosure still outstanding
> To: evelyngreene@live.ca
>
>
>
>
> brilliant!
>
> This is really good, really concise and absolutely puts the pressure
> on. Well done Evelyn.
>
> STOP PRESS: LAXATIVE SALES BOTTOM OUT IN NEW BRUNSWICK!
> From: Evelyn Greene <evelyngreene@live.ca>
> To: christopher.lavigne@gnb.ca
> Cc: luc.labonte@gnb.ca; pierre.castonguay@gnb.ca;
> madeleine.dube@gnb.ca; justice.comments@gnb.ca;
> sallybrooks25@yahoo.ca; wishart.john@dailygleaner.com;
> wylie1@nb.sympatico.ca; mboudreau@stu.ca; w5@ctv.ca;
> hubert.lacroix@cbc.ca; jacques.poitras@cbc.ca; info@atlanticalarm.com;
> keith.ball@gnb.ca; kimthomas@ag.gov.tt
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 12:30:37 PM
> Subject: Disclosure still outstanding
>
>
>
> Mr. Lavigne:
>
> I still have not received confirmation that you went back to the
> police and Ambulance N.B. to obtain the rest of the answers to the
> questions you posed to them in your letter of Dec. 2011 about the CCTV
> evidence and the Audio evidence.
>
> (1) Surely you are not going to accept the perjured evidence of Robin
> O'Hara and go ahead now and subpoena the main information straight
> from Atlantic alarm and sound right off the original data base or
> where it is initially (originally) recorded? You need this according
> to the head of the company.
>
> (2) Where is the evidence of the 911 call from Ambulance N.B. to the
> police.
>
> (3) Did you get the statement from the Ambulance N.B. and the Police
> why the police were called in the first place when I was sitting
> quietly, and felt sick, and was no harm to myself or anyone else. Why
> was that called placed to the police and why did four police officers
> and four cars arrive when it was not even an emergency? Do you not
> see that my Charter rights were violated to a high (not low or
> moderate degree) ending up with me having bodily injury and no police
> report made out that I have seen, and as per the rules of the Police
> Act, when personal injury happenes to a person in custody?
>
> (4) Why did the police investigate themselves when I made a complaint
> of abuse against them to the Chief of Police? Who investigated this
> and where are their reports?
>
> (5) Where is the report of NCO Horseman when he took my complaints
> and my statement? What did he say?
>
> (6) I need the answers requested from David Banks, the dispatch head
> at the police station for all 911 calls.
>
> (7) Did you ask the police to explain the different dispatchers on
> the call and the questions posed to the crown about the video
> tampering evidence supplied by Ms. Brooks?
>
> (8) Judge Richards had said to prosecutor Rose Campbell that Greene
> needs a lawyer and she was looking into, but then a new Judge (Judge
> Jackson) came on the case and I told him about this but he did not
> look into it.
>
> (9) Where are the answers to the other questions you posed such as
> why Constable Rideout was on the phone while in the police car taking
> me to Headquarters and reporting that I was loud and out of control
> but this was not picked up on the audio of the call.
>
> (10)Why were the ambulance dispatched to 24 Doherty Drive for almost 8
> minutes after I was taken to headquarters? I need their reports as to
> why and what they were doing there? I have asked Fire Chief Toole who
> did not respond. You need to get this information even if it is by
> subpoena.
>
> (11) Where are the phone records of all calls made to Ambulance N.B.
> at 24 Harold Doherty Dr. on the 13th of May? Were any from Cox and
> Palmer or from the NB Police Commission or the Court House.
>
> (12) I sent you recent conflicting statements from representatives
> from Atlantic Alarm and Sound. The owner had obviously not
> anticipated that I would contact the service provider who obviously
> told the truth. What are you doing about that, if anything? And if
> nothing, why not, please explain?
> (
> (13) You have the capacity to send the CCTV video to the crime lab in
> Halifax (RCMP) so why has this not yet been done which would add their
> input to this matter? Are you not wanting to know the truth here Mr.
> Lavigne because it would most likely cost less than $500 and your are
> spending far more than that on continuing on with this bogus charge at
> great expense to the public purse and the court's time?
>
> (14). Much other evidence is sent to the crime lab for analyses so
> why is this case different? Please explain that.
>
> (15). The McNeil case was decided by the Supreme Court of Canada and
> that includes all disclosure must be given to the Defendant,
> regardless of privacy issues or anything else. Again what are you
> doing to get the original documentation of the CCTV video. The
> service co-ordinator said if one camera is not working, then the
> others take over. There are four cameras surrounding the paramedic
> door at Ambulance N.B. Paramedic Bay and clearly picked up other
> movement that day, but did have four minute splitting here and there.
> The pictures that do take are for the most part visible so it is not a
> case of the camera set low for visibility issues?
>
> (16) The expert from Outreach Productions wrote down that a police
> officer magically appears from no where on the CCTV camera? What did
> you learn about that?
>
> I need answers to these questions and I am asking once more to review
> my file in its entirety and have the times set so that the photocopies
> can be made at that time. I asked Simonne of the Prosecutor's office
> for copies and she said I would have to come back. When I came back,
> she had left for home early and when I picked up the documents early
> the next week, many of the documents I requested to be photocopies
> were not included. There was one email or report that had the word
> dizzy typed out like this "d-i-z-z-y". I suspect that was one of the
> officers or paramedics who reported I told them I felt dizzy that day
> which i did. Why would this be concealed now and
>
> (17) Have you now reviewed all of the evidence, including the CCTV
> video and audio and my doctor's notes and the notes I submitted
> regarding the officer who was let off a charge in Ont. as he has
> hypoglycemia which I have and is in the police reports?
>
> (18) You know that Cst. Rideout left my angina meds. (nitro) in my
> car with my purse and would not let me have it before going to
> headquarters and then $150 went missing out of my purse when it was
> returned so that I would not have the cash on hand to get my impounded
> car. I also had to call a taxi for a drive back across the river to
> where my car was impounded and for some reason their debit machines
> were not working.
>
> (19) I have a lifeline contract with Phillips Lifeline and I have
> told them of this issue. My lifeline box which is connected to the
> hospital has not worked for some time and lifeline calls me every
> night at 7 p.m. to ensure I am okay. If they do not hear form me,
> they call the ambulance. Not long ago, I did not hear the phone ring
> and they sent the ambulance and fire truck. I went to the door and
> said I did not hear the phone ring and I was listenening for it and
> told them I was okay. Phillips lifeline then called the paramedics
> and was told by the paramedics "that she (Greene) was not home. I
> asked Lifeline to document this information as it is just one part of
> the total picture of lies and corruption from Ambulance employeess.
> Your job, I believe, is to ask whey they lied to lifeline? It is
> documented so you could contact them directly.
>
> I look forward to receiving your response to this letter which I will
> drop off at the Crown's office next week in hard copy so that if you
> fail to address these questions, I will use them later for appeal
> purposes as is the case with all the documentation I asked for to date
> and did not receive. Also perphas you can ask why I have not been
> allowed a lawyer as per Judge Richards question about that to
> Prosecutor Rose Campbell?
>
> Evelyn Greene
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Amos"<david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> To: <oldmaison@yahoo.com>; <T.J.Burke@gnb.ca>; <john.foran@gnb.ca>;
> <Wayne.STEEVES@gnb.ca>; <frederic.loiseau@fredericton.ca>;
> <tony.whalen@gnb.ca>
> Cc: <abel.leblanc@gnb.ca>; <jack.keir@gnb.ca>; <premier@gnb.ca>;
> <Jeannot.VOLPE@gnb.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 4:08 AM
> Subject: Hells Angels EH Chucky Leblanc? When was the last time you or
> the Irvings or the RCMP saw one ride a Panhead alone?
>
>
> Remember these old emails of yours Chucky Baby? Post this photo of my
> nasty arse I Double Dog Dare Ya to Frenchy. At least my baby boy's
> little arse is far more innocent looking than Shawny Baby Graham's
> black eye EH Frenchy?
>
> Small wonder that I didn't allow him anywhere near and of Cardinal
> Law's nasty Boyz in Beantown EH?
>
> You must I figured out by now that I hate diddlers and especiallly the
> ones who pretend to be oh so pious and above us all. By now you must
> at least understand one of the reasons I supported Byron Prior years
> ago in his quest for justice but I was always more concerned about
> about what he knows about Johnny Crosbie, the Haliburton dudes and our
> dead fish. But you don't know the first thing about that do ya? It
> must be because not one of your five brians knows how to read Nest Pas?
>
> HELL ANGELS FROM MONTREAL LOOKING FOR CHARLES LEBLANC????
> by Charles LeBlanc Saturday, Jun. 12, 2004 at 11:26 AM
>
> Thursday morning, I showed up at the Legislature to use the computer
> at the Library.
> I was told by security that two rough looking individuals walked
> through the doors and asked for a Charles Leblanc?
> They described the guys as rough looking and one of them had a long
> gray beard with a leather jacket!
> At first, I believe it was the Hell Angels coming down from Montreal
> for a hit on Charles.
>
> Hours later, I seen my bigot buddy Matthew Glenn and he was in front
> of the Legislature with his blowhorn.
> For you people who don't know the bigot? He's the one who started the
> Anglo Society. I seen him preaching to three young kids and of course
> I butt in and said - Hey Bigot??? Why don't you bigot go home?
>
> Minutes later, we were approached by two guys and they asked politely
> –Where can we locate a Charles LeBlanc???
> In a matter of seconds, the bigot quickly pointed at me. I said to
> myself - Ohhh?? Thanks a lot Bigot!!!
>
> At the end? It was a guy named David Amos and I guess that he's
> running at an independent in the riding of Fundy Royal. The guy have
> been living in the area of Boston and he's been following my updates
> on the internet. I'm telling you that the information highway is a
> great way to spread the message to the rest of the world!
>
> We talked for around 30 minutes and it was nice to see the bigot, me
> and David Amos together debating our own little concern issue. We all
> have our own issues and it's too bad that we cannot unite and fight
> but that's the way Canadians do things. They remind silent until the
> Government really pissed them all and go out and vote the party in
> power out of office.
>
> What did I tell you people in the past? Someone is
> going to crack up one of these days and I know for a
> fact the area targeted is going to be the Legislature.
>
> Two weeks later you wrote this Chucky
>
> "There's always undercovers cops around but only when the House is in
> session. As God as my witness I hope nothing happens but it's just a
> matter of time till someone is push over the edge.
>
> I guess a guy name David Amos was shown the door yesterday at the
> Legislature. This guy is running as an Independent candidate in the
> riding of Fundy Royal. I met the guy over the net and he has a beef
> with our political bureaucrats. I admire people fighting for what they
> believe in but you can't get carried away.
>
> I guess in this case? He wanted to speak from the Gallery and that's a
> big faux pas!"
>
> After you continued to make fun of me throughout the summer of 2004
> amongst the other things I forwarded to you was an old joke about my
> drunken Irish Catholic in laws in Beantown. N'est Pas? It must have
> pissed you off as I tortured the Hell out of your buddy Bernie Richard
> the nasty Ombudsman too before my wife and I and a lawyer visited the
> Police Commission. In response you sent photos of your old soon to be
> dead dog comparing it to me. I laughed the photos were taken by your
> Fake Left friends and emailed to you. Your big Faux Pas was that you
> were so dumb you sent me their email address too. Thus in a wink of an
> eye I knew and had the proof of who was behind you and pulling your
> strings. Do they remember my conversations with them last year? I do.
> The question is did I record them as they made liars out of themselves.
> LOL EH? Stay tuned Frenchy.
>
> When you saw that I was falsely imprisoned in Boston on October 1st,
> 2004 you largely shut up and never responded to my emails over the
> course of the past four years because you knew what I did with them
> after that. As the old Joke goes many a true word is said in jest and
> you did not like other people reading your nonsense to me. Correct?
>
> Years after that old joke I sent you went around. The Yankees made a
> movie starring Jack Nicholson based on Whitey's life and times. It is
> entitled "The Departed". Perhaps the drunken Catholic in you should
> rent it sometime with your welfare dimes. Listen closely to what ol
> Jacky Boy says about your Church and their very corrupt doings.
>
> My Keith ancestors and I were not alone in our contempt towards your
> church EH? Did your Mama tell you that the Keiths came out of northern
> Germany to settle in Scotland in order to escape your nasty Popes and
> their cohorts? Do you understand that after the shit was settled in
> 1755 the Frenchmen in Canada who did not wish to be shipped out to
> other French holdings swore allegiance to the British Crown? What
> makes you dudes think that you can change the deal now especially in
> light of the fact every Indian demands that we hold up to all the
> other deals our ancestors made long before any of us were born? The
> Scottish part of you should shove that Acadian flag along with its
> flagpole up your French arse Chucky Baby. Is that clear or COR enough
> for you?
>
> To rub it in I will tell you that after my father died my Mama married
> Loyd Nickerson a member of the COR Party who was also the Chief
> Electoral Officer of New Brunswick. One big reason I ran in Fundy is
> that there are damn few French men registered to vote and not many
> Catholic churches in Kings County. I ain't a bigot. I love French
> Catholic women. Hell I was the first of my family that I know of who
> married a Catholic woman. It is their greedy Catholic brothers that I
> hate be they either French or Irish or whatever. I believe they call
> this shit conflict of colours Orange versus Green not biker bullshit
> as you claimed about me. I don't wear Biker colours I where the
> colours of My Clan and I have many friends. Quite possibly many more
> true French ones than you do. How can you have true friends at all if
> they can't trust you. Do your even believe yourself and your obvious
> Bullshit?
>
> How do you sleep at night knowing yourself as you do? Why do you
> make fun of a fellow Maritimer whose family was destroyed by the
> very people you pretend to complain about? Never forget I am from
> Dorchester Frenchy and Ivan Cormier (AKA the Beast) was on my paper
> route and I liked and admired him and his friends and their art
> particularly Killer Karl Krupp and the Cuban. Their Bullshit was flat
> out entertaining and not malicious at all. Yours definitely is
> malicious and not funny at all. No Class Bobby Bass had way more class
> in his worst fart than you do in your whole soul. I must say venting
> some of my venom towards you is definitely good for my savage soul. As
> a southern friend of mine would say when I was feeling mean years ago
> "Ya gots to get the poison out or ya die just don't spit out in my
> direction. Save it for somebody who deserves it."
>
> BTW, the man who sold me that old Panhead that your cop buddies in Fat
> Fred City stole from me last summer was a of French Cathlolic heritage
> out of Quebec. He was a really good friend of mine and I named my bike
> after him and his wife. His family moved from Quebec to Vermont about
> a hundred years ago when your greedy priests demanded that the poor
> folks build another big fancy church across the road from the one they
> just built. So they crossed the border, built a simple church and went
> about the pursuit of happiness in a country that is supposed to keep
> church and state separate and have only one official language. Go try
> your crybaby French welfare nonsense in New Hampshire or Vermont
> sometime Chucky and see if you come back in one piece. I would pay
> money I don't have to watch that circus tent unfold. The Pope's
> mission is to keep you dudes poor and dumb. Get it Frenchy? If not ask
> your hero Spinksy Baby to argue me as if I care what any of you think.
> I would argue him right after that chickenshit IDs himself and proves
> to me and everyone else that he is not Brent Taylor.
>
> I Double Dog Dare Ya to post this email in his blog. I am posting it
> deep in your buddy the Gypsy's blog before I post it in mine. That is
> if he has still maintained his integrity after all my stress tests
> last week. You dudes kissing the "The General Blogger" nasty arse was
> too much for me to stand. It was too funny that T. J Burke blocked my
> defence of your blatant stupidity N'est Pas?
>
> BTW one of my wife's cousins Robert T. Kickham you remember the evil
> ex banker who turned into the evil priest is still Cardinal O'Malley's
> secretary in Beantown as far as I know. Why don't you sing their
> priases on the Internet this Easter and ask that all the corrupt
> Catholics to pray that I be crucified by the RCMP soon? I must ask you
> Chucky why did you support diddlers for years and then suddenly turn
> coat and support Byron Prior's pursuit of justice after ignoring the
> fact that I introduced you two to each other four years ago?
>
> Veritas Vincit
> David Raymond Amos
>
> P.S. For the record Chucky this joke is still funny to me and my arse
> and my balls are as big as ever. Ain't it funny how time slips away
> and yet some things remain the same? Everybody knows I find you
> contemptible and why that is so. I do wish you a long life so that you
> can recall all your sins countless times with your five brains.
> However I must turn the page my personal history and go back to how I
> once was before I am dust once more. Life is too short to argue with
> liars for long or dance with ugly women so to speak. My Baby Boy turns
> 18 this year thus my job of raising him is largely done. He and his
> sisters are my best piece work. They all have the records of all my
> work including this email. (Obviously I sent it from one of my other
> email accounts to one of my son's for safe keeping before I save it
> digitally and print it as well.) Before long my son will be the Chief
> of our Clan and it will be his job to defend my integrity and my deeds
> for the benefit of my seed as I grin proudly from the grave. He is
> quite simply the best man I ever met and truly a man of his word.
> Never underestimate my darling daughters they are tigers in their own
> right and I raised them not to take shit from anyone. They may prove
> to be the most trouble for the unethical smiling bastards that are the
> powers that be right now.
>
> Between men I asked my son to piss on the graves of my enemies someday
> if I could not do so and he promised that he would. I would not ask my
> little Darlins to do such a thing out of respect to their gender. As
> part of my Blood Feud you made the list Chucky Baby. Your Mama will
> understand why I told my son that in order to pay proper respect to
> from Whence We Came he really should drink a lot of Keiths beer before
> he does so. Whereas neither of us like the taste of beer I will leave
> him to his own chosen poison as long as he enjoys the in and out of it all.
>
> As for me I plan to Rest in Peace in Dorchester someday happy in
> knowing the fact that I have left at least four very decent folk
> behind me on this planet. My skull like Yorick's of old will grin like
> Hell thinking about the fact that the prevailing winds will blow the
> smell of my rotting corpse towards your old stomping grounds where you
> no doubt will be buried without any children at all to visit your
> bones. If you do have kids or an ex wife or two I never read where you
> admitted it. Dudes like you and your fans such as Dean Roger Ray and
> the Depupty Dog Robert F. O'Meara are too selfish to make decent
> loving fathers anyway. If there truly is a Hell like in your dreams
> Chucky, I will look for you there. I suspect the Devil would promote
> me to Sergeant at Arms and give me a Black Rod as soon as I landed in
> order to cram it up your nasty French arse. I have no doubt its hard
> to get good help in Hell and Satan will need a lot of help pounding on
> all the evil priests, bankers, lawyers, cops, politicians and the
> liars like you who supported their malice in this wonderful old world.
> N'est Pas?
>
> Can one of your five brains tell that you have an ethical pigheaded
> Maritimer you hates you with a very justifiable passion Chucky Baby?
> Whereas your buddy Shawny Baby Graham enjoys jokes maybe he will enjoy
> this one since it is on you. It is not my joke and I give credit where
> credit is due. I hate it when you or your buddies Dean Roger Ray or
> the Yankee Stevey Boy Erickson steal my words and claim them as their
> own while you try to impeach my character at the same time. If anyone
> doubts that I am the first Chief of the Amos Clan who has every right
> and duty to defend it fiercely perhaps he should query the dockets of
> the US District Court in Concord New Hampshire if he knows how.
> Whereas everything in the Catholic's heaven and hell is down in three
> I file My Clan's declaration of Independence for the Keiths within
> three affidavits in three different matters. I do not file nuisance
> lawsuits as Yankee blogger hero claims. Danny Boy can post the photo
> of my nasty arse, my boy and my panhead on the Internet with my
> knowledge and assent and my blessings and thanx as well. However I
> still own the rights to it. I need it for my book about you Fake Left
> Creeps on Fat Fred city and elsewhere. It may be the only thing that I
> leave my kids that could be worth something someday. Maritimers do
> love juicy gossip N'est Pas?
>
> Veritas Vincit
> David Raymond Amos
>
> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 02:02:22 -0400
> From: Rollo Tomasi rollotomasi@COMCAST.NET
> Subject: Bingo-Playing Golden-Age Golden Glove Catholic Gang Members
> Lay Waste to Bay State
>
> Boston - First it was financial scandals, followed by Notre Dame
> football teams that really sucked, then pederast priests. Now it appears
> that bingo, the fourth and some would say most important pillar of the
> Roman Catholic Church, is on the verge of self-destruction.
>
> Yesterday members of the Boston Police Department SWAT team, two
> divisions of the Massachusetts National Guard and the US Army's elite
> Delta Force had to be called in to stop a riot that had broken out at the
> Whitey Bulger Memorial Senior Citizen Center at St. Bernadette's
> Cathedral in the so-called "Southie" section of Beantown.
>
> "Southie," populated mostly by unemployed drunk Irish immigrants,
> became well-known in the 1970s as a symbol of protest against racial
> integration, and according to statistics released by the US Census Bureau,
> contains the highest concentration of dim-witted white people in the world.
>
> Although details at this point are sketchy, it appears that the cause of
> the
> riot was dissatisfaction over new rules limiting bingo participants to one
> colostomy bag per person.
>
> "I know these old-timers can play bingo all night," said Seamus O'Connor,
> director of activities at the Bulger Center, "But, my god, seven colostomy
> bags?! C'mon, we all know they were smuggling in contraband and
> controlled substances. Heck, we even found one hastily discarded bag
> filled with two gallons of Curacao. I mean, give me a break. Who pisses
> blue anyway?"
>
> The Diocese of Boston officially denied any responsibility for the riot.
> John Cardinal O'Donnell, Archbishop of the Diocese, angrily attacked the
> press for what he termed "sloppy reporting by biased reporters who have
> been duped by Protestant agitprop."
>
> Cardinal O'Donnell assumed a defiant posture as he met with members of
> the press. "I'm sick and tired of all the anti-Irish prejudice in
> American society.
> You read the newspapers and you'd think that all we Irish do is drink,
> fight
> and whore around." O'Donnell then chugged a bottle of Guinness Stout,
> pinched his secretary on her posterior, made two fists with his hands and
> said,
> "And I'll lick any man who says otherwise."
> __
> by William Grim
> (c) Copyright 2002 Broken Newz
>
> Veritas Vincit
> David Raymond Amos
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: charlie leblanc
> To: David Amos
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 3:49 PM
> Subject: Re: Good Day Charlie say het to Andy for me
>
>
> merci
>
> David Amos <motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: smay@pattersonpalmer.ca ; johnduggan@legalaid.nf.ca ;
> oldmaison1@yahoo.ca ; wayne.STEEVES@gnb.ca ; Cadman.C@parl.gc.ca ;
> Cotler.I@parl.gc.ca ; Easter.W@parl.gc.ca ; Efford.J@parl.gc.ca ;
> Graham.B@parl.gc.ca ; 'Stephen Harper' ; Jack Layton ;
> MacAulay.L@parl.gc.ca ; McDonough.A@parl.gc.ca ; Parrish.C@parl.gc.ca
> ; Scott.A@parl.gc.ca ; Stoffer.P@parl.gc.ca ; Zed.P@parl.gc.ca ;
> info@cjc-ccm.gc.ca ; justice@gov.nl.ca ; Canadian Justice Review Board
> ; J. D. Kuntz ; webmaster@canadalawcourts.com ; Brent Taylor ;
> gbudden@buddenmorris.com ; frontline@wgbh.org
> Cc: info@pco-bcp.gc.ca ; strategis@ic.gc.ca ; JackMCOPA@aol.com ;
> user.cru@pol.state.ma.us ; plypd@four.net ; corp.website@sunlife.com ;
> martine.turcotte@bell.ca ; cynthia.merlini@dfait-maeci.gc.ca ;
> Stronach.B@parl.gc.ca ; Comartin.J@parl.gc.ca ; pm@pm.gc.ca ;
> jeff.mockler@gnb.ca ; diane.bourque@flsc.ca ; police@fredericton.ca
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 9:13 PM
> Subject: Good Day Charlie say het to Andy for me
>
>
> Hey Andy do ya remember this email I sent before the last I came
> home? I bet Charlie Leblanc don't just as the other LeBlanc dude
> didn't want to talk fishing and you didn't want to talk about
> soliciting. Since I have left the last thing you want to talk about is
> Indians EH? What is you dudes do other than suck Martin's arse?
>
> It seems the Frenchman who represents from Beauséjour, the area
> I was born in forgot the fact that both he and his wife are lawyers.
> Obviously I didn't. I also never forgot how Chréitian waltzed on down
> to Beauséjour years ago and his buddy Mulroney allowed him to have a
> seat without opposition except from a lady in CoR from Dorchester. You
> remember that place don't Charlie? I grew up just down the road from
> ya. What do you think will do the other LeBlanc Dude will do when he
> receives the same material you did last year? I don't trust Frenchmen
> who are lawyers do you? Ask the other Frenchman you admire Bernard
> Richard who is a lawyer from Shediac/Cape Pele area why that is. What
> do ya think should I stress test the new kid on the block, Victor
> Boudreau. I know he ain't a lawyer but never the less he is still a
> god damned Frenchman. I think most Frenchmen are just like you Charles
> LeBlanc. Greedy Bullshiters. However I really love the French ladies.
> So does that make me all bad? Am I pissing anybody off yet? Good.
> Trust nobody is half as mad as I am right now but at least I am still
> having fun. I am just giggling up a storm at the thought of how many
> people are cursing my name :)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: dwatch@web.net
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 11:32 PM
> Subject: Read real slow then forget what is politically correct.
>
> Deal with your own conscience. After that try to think of a good
> reason why I should not run for
> Parliament and at least speak my mind about the sad state of our affairs.
>
> You know who I am. If you don't, trust me, you are way behind the eight
> ball.
>
> Once I make my mark in the American Justice System and political
> process, I am coming home
> to stress test the ethics of many a lawyer/politician in my nativeland
> during the course of the next
> federal election. My question to all of you will be why did you wait
> for me to say something? Am I
> the only one paying any attention. Even Jesus got mad a time or two
> and tore up a temple when
> he saw all the money changing hands in a place that should not be
> concerned about such things.
> But forget about the money for a minute.
>
> What did he have to say about anyone that harmed a child?
> Rest assured I will remind you. Although Iain't religious, I must say
> that Jesus had more of sand
> than most men and he made some very good points about what is right
> and what is wrong. Can any
> of you even hold a candle to Byron? He has at least one friend that
> will back him up all the way
> down the line.
>
> I don't mind dying it is what I didn't do while I was living that will
> haunt me in in my grave. What is the
> golden rule these days? Is it truly a fact that he with the gold makes
> the rules. Do you think voters
> agree with that fact? What say you?
>
> Canadian Corruption
> Sexual Abuse & Political & Legal Conspiracy.
> RCMP Incompetence & Cover up.
> Priors Of Grand Bank NFLD Canada
>
> How do I get a corrupt legal system to investigate, charge and convict
> itself?
> After years of asking the Canadian Legal System to do its job, it's
> long past time to inform
> the public myself about this lack of action or justice.
>
> If T. Alex Hickman, Justice Minister, 1966 to 1979 also Health
> Minister 1968 to 1969 and
> Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland 1979 to 2000, 34 YEARS
> OF
> COMPLETE LEGAL SYSTEMS CONTROL,at 41 years of age, rapes and impregnates
> your younger sister Susan, at 12 years old, and in grade 8, what would you
> do?
> At 12 years old she was the youngest child ever,in Grand Bank,to have a
> baby.
>
> I am willing to take any tests and answer all questions regarding my
> entire life. All he has to
> do is take one blood test. It's time for him to stop manipulating our
> legal system and face the
> truth which I have been telling the legal System,and anyone else who
> would listen, all of my life.
> I didn't just awake one morning and decide to accuse the most powerful
> and most corrupt legal
> animal in this province. I have had, no childhood, no education, no
> family, no hometown, no
> self- esteem or self-respect and no past, present or future as a
> contributing person. By the time
> I was 14 years old I was responsible for 9 younger children, all of us
> abused and molested while
> our hometown either joined in, bothered us about our situation, or
> looked the other way and said
> we were all trouble. and so on.......till the end.
>
> If anyone wishes to have the complete police statement contact me at
> alltrue@roadrunner.nf.net or
> telephone 709-834-9822. If I cannot reply I have been arrested. Please
> contact pm@pm.gc.ca or
> paul@paulmartin.ca and tell him the Priors of Grand Bank NF require
> Justice immediately.
>
> Thank You for helping.END OF WEB SITE
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Correspondance Deputy Prime Minister/Vice premier ministre"
> dpm@pm.gc.ca
> To: davidamos@comcast.net
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 1:34 PM
> Subject: Regarding your e-mail
>
> If you wish to receive a response to your comments addressed to the
> Deputy Prime Minister
> and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, please
> include your return mailing
> address along with your original e-mail message.
>
> All official responses will be sent by regular mail.
>
> If you wish to send correspondence addressed to the Minister through
> the regular mail, please
> use the following mailing address:
>
> The Honourable A. Anne McLellan
> Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety
> and Emergency Preparedness
> 340 Laurier Avenue West
> Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0P8
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: Correspondance Deputy Prime Minister/Vice premier ministre
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 1:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Regarding your e-mail
>
> I already received Anne's response. Can't you people read what you wrote to
> me?
>
> Why else would I be so pissed off? I am who I say I am and that is as
> follows:
>
> David R. Amos
> 153 Alvin Ave,
> Milton, MA. 02186
> Phone 617 240-6698
>
> Now just exactly who are you Mr. Correspondence Deputy Prime Minister
> and are you a lawyer?
>
>
> Jan 3rd, 2004
>
>
>
> Mr. David R. Amos
>
>
>
> 153 Alvin Avenue
>
>
>
> Milton, MA 02186
>
>
>
> U.S.A.
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: alltrue@roadrunner.nf.net
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 2:03 PM
> Subject: Fw: Regarding your e-mail
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: tedcardwell@mail.gov.nf.ca
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 2:05 PM
> Subject: Fw: Regarding your e-mail
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Amos mailto:davidamos@comcast.net
> Sent: March 16, 2004 2:07 PM
> To: Wayne, Elsie - M.P.
> Subject: Fw: Regarding your e-mail
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Wayne, Elsie - M.P.
> To: David Amos
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 2:15 PM
> Subject: RE: Regarding your e-mail
>
> Thank you for the notice.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Amos mailto:davidamos@comcast.net
> Sent: March 22, 2004 3:28 PM
> To: Wayne, Elsie - M.P.
> Subject: Re: Regarding your e-mail
>
> No problem, Elsie. By the way my mom is a fan of yours. She told me
> you were quitting. Too bad if it is true.
>
> You are the first politician to respond to me. That fact alone wins my
> respect. Ask around Saint John about me
> in certain circles I am fairly well known. You may even know my
> sister, Nancy and her husband, Reid Chedore.
> Perhaps you crossed paths with my dad C. Max Amos he was a tax
> Supervisor for the Province years ago. And
> maybe even my mom's second husband, Lloyd Nickerson, from Fredericton.
> He was somewhat of a political person
> whereas my dad was not. (Lloyd was chief electoral officer for about
> twelve years and did run as a Conservative)
>
> If you wish to warm my mom's heart please give her a call and simply
> say that you appreciate her good words about
> you to her wild child Dalevid. She will get the joke. She is always
> confusing me with another brother. Her name is
> Anna and her number is 506 000 0000. Do with it what you will. Trust
> me I would love to see another out spoken
> Maritimer step up to the plate and speak of rights and wrongs. The
> sooner that I can go back to being just Papa the
> happier my little Clan will be. I would truly appreciate if someone
> would let my mom know that they are at least aware
> of my concerns whether they agree with me or not.
>
> Best Regards
> Dave
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Wayne, Elsie - M.P.
> To: David Amos
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 3:42 PM
> Subject: RE: Regarding your e-mail
>
> Dear Dave,
>
> I try to respond to as many people as I can. We do get a lot of email
> around here....
>
> I decided to retire because I truly miss my family. It's hard being on
> the road back and forth by yourself.
>
> It gets very lonely.
>
> God Bless,
> Elsie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: Wayne, Elsie - M.P.
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 5:08 PM
> Subject: Re: Regarding your e-mail
>
>
> Elsie, I like you more and more. If anyone understands about
> being forced to be away from his family its me.
> Give my mom a call. Her laugh alone will make your day. To hell with
> the smiling bastards in Ottawa their grins
> ain't genuine. Maritimers can still find some fun in a long hard day
> :) Come to think of it, maybe thats why the
> Upper Canadians think we are crazy.
>
> By the way I have managed to get a rather famous lawyer to
> speak on my wife's behalf down here while I run
> for Parliament uphome. But before I go I have been invited to go
> fishing with Martha Stewart's brother Frank in the
> Gulf of Mexico. My matters are about to bust wide open down here. That
> is why I have chosen this time to make
> an appearance uphome. Once I make the news down here I will step on
> the stump uphome.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Dave
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: robmoore@atrueconservative.ca
> To: davidamos@comcast.net
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 1:46 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: Regarding your e-mail
>
>
> David,
>
> Thanks for the e-mails. I will read them all and hear what you have to
> say.
>
> All the best.
>
> Rob
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: davidorchard@sasktel.net
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 1:15 PM
> Subject: Here is some proof that Harper knows I coming home
>
>
> Just so ya know David I am forwarding these emails to other
> politicians as well. But I didn't bother to call them because they
> are lawyers as well. Therefore I see no need to explain my actions to
> them. Plus the smart one's have a bad habit of trying to ignore me
> anyway. I t appears that standard operating procedure for them is to
> ignore. delay, deny and then try to settle. They are confused by
> someone that wants to argue law rather than go away with the gold.
> What should be interesting to both of us is whether or not they have a
> sudden fit of ethical behavior after they discover that an honest
> western farmer and wild but ethical maritime biker have been talking
> about them. Please notice that I am more than willing to help such a
> man as Byron Prior anyway I can. I just wish there were more men like
> him on this planet. Trust me the US Attorney backtracking in the
> Martha Stewart matter and prosecuting a Secret Service Agent is too
> funny to relate in this email.
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: rosent@math.toronto.edu
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 1:30 PM
> Subject: Fw: Here is some proof that Harper knows I coming home
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: jim.prentice@shaw.ca
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 3:41 PM
> Subject: Fw: Here is some proof that Harper knows I coming home
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: leblad@parl.gc.ca
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 5:03 PM
> Subject: You, the Harvard Crowd and I
>
>
> We are going to have lots to argue about very soon. But like any true
> Maritimer we should first discuss why the Fishing ain't worth a good
> God damn.
>
>
>
> March 18, 2004
> Ottawa, Ontario
> Prime Minister Paul Martin announced today the renewed mandate of the
> Task Force on Seasonal Work. The Task Force will evaluate the
> challenges born by seasonal industries while looking into the needs of
> workers and communities that depend on them and provide advice on
> areas for possible action in the future.
>
> “This government places great importance on hearing from those lives
> that are directly impacted by our policies, including our seasonal
> workers. Our Caucus has been extremely active in making the sector’s
> opinions known, and will continue to play an important role in further
> examining those views,” said Prime Minister Paul Martin.
>
> “We are facing particularly challenging times in one of our economy’s
> strongest sectors and I look forward to working in collaboration with
> Parliamentarians and all Canadians to find solutions.”
>
> The Task Force will examine;
>
> the specific needs of seasonal industries and workers in the area of
> skills development, life-long learning, and literacy;
>
>
> ways to promote greater economic diversity and stronger local
> economies, particularly in rural and remote communities across Canada;
>
>
> the support required to help seasonal work dependent communities to
> adapt to seize opportunities provided by the new knowledge-based
> global economy;
>
>
> ways of lowering barriers to regional and interprovincial labour mobility;
>
>
> how to align income support programs such as Employment Insurance and
> Provincial Social Assistance Programs to improve income support, while
> also promoting full, year-round participation in the labour force;
>
> ways of addressing the challenges and opportunities offered by
> temporary foreign workers;
>
> the potential role for government in encouraging new approaches to
> community development, i.e. the `social economy` ;
>
> an assessment of the opportunities and challenges specific to seasonal
> economies in promoting the safeguard of our natural environment;
>
> The Task Force will deliver its report to the Prime Minister by November
> 2004.
>
> Members of the Prime Minister`s Task Force on Seasonal Work include;
>
> Chair: Brent St. Denis, MP (Algoma-Manitoulin)
> Vice-Chair: The Honourable Pierrette Ringuette, Senator (New Brunswick)
> Members: The Honourable Libby Hubley, Senator (Prince Edward Island)
> The Honourable Lorna Milne, Senator (Ontario)
> Dominic Leblanc, MP (Beauséjour-Petitcodiac)
> Jeannot Castonguay, MP (Madawaska-Restigouche)
> Rick Laliberte, MP (Churchill River)
> Georges Farrah, MP (Bonaventure-Gaspé-Îles-de-la-Madeleine-Pabok)
> Nancy Karetak-Lindell, MP (Nunavut)
>
> Dominic LeBlanc was elected to the House of Commons in November
> 2000. Since then he has served on the Special Committee on Non-Medical
> Use of Drugs, and the Standing Committees on Fisheries and Oceans,
> Transport and Government Operations, National Defence and Veterans
> Affairs, and Public Accounts. He has also served as Parliamentary
> Secretary to the Minister of National Defence and was Chair of the
> Atlantic Caucus
>
> .
>
> Mr. LeBlanc received a B.A. in political science from the
> University of Toronto (Trinity College), his Bachelor of Laws from the
> University of New Brunswick, and then attended Harvard Law School,
> where he obtained his Masters of Law. Academic successes include the
> Dean's List at the University of New Brunswick's Faculty of Law, a
> scholarship from the New Brunswick Branch of the Canadian Bar
> Association, and the Graduating Average Prize from Trinity College at
> the University of Toronto.
>
> Prior to his election to the House of Commons, Mr. LeBlanc was a
> barrister and solicitor with Clark Drummie in Shediac and Moncton.
> From 1993-1996, Mr. LeBlanc was a Special Advisor to the Prime
> Minister of Canada.
>
>
>
> Mr. LeBlanc is married to Jolène Richard, a Moncton lawyer. They
> have one son, Selby.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: scotta@parl.gc.ca
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 5:55 PM
>
>
> Hey,
> Methinks you and I should have a long talk very soon about
> Maritimers and Solicitor Generals. Call Anne McLellan or Wayne Easter
> and mention my name if you haven't heard of it by now. Trust that no
> lawyer uphome will welcome my letters. They hate it when they are
> compelled to uphold the law and the Public Trust particularly at
> election time.
> David R. Amos
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> Charles LeBlanc
> 114 Brunswick Street
> Fredericton
> New Brunswick
>
>
> Charles LeBlanc
> 114 Brunswick Street
> Fredericton
> New Brunswick
>
> I have too many people on my list so I added
> another account! Some of you will received my updates
> from oldmaison1@yahoo.ca and others will be
> oldmaison@yahoo.com...It just takes me too long to
> send my update with only one account!
>
> Ok..yesterday, I phoned the editor of the Local
> paper and asked him where do I send the bill for my
> stomach Transplant? The Irvings?????
> This is what got me very upset-
>
> Daily Gleaner | Brent Taylor
> As published on page A8 on January 11, 2005
>
> Robichaud made an impact
> Brent Taylor
> REALITY CHECK
>
> This morning in Moncton Louis Robichaud was given his
> final farewell.
>
> He had not been well in recent weeks, but maybe not
> everybody knew that. Journalists knew, and had been
> preparing for some time. So, when the sad news finally
> came last Thursday, New Brunswick's media was ready to
> retell the story of the "father of modern New
> Brunswick."
>
> All of the papers had extensive coverage, as did the
> electronic media.
>
> In helping to prepare a little of that preliminary
> work myself, I spent quite a bit of time researching
> the career of Louis Robichaud. The more I found, the
> more fascinated I became. Being a resident of Quebec
> for the entire 10-year reign of Robichaud, I never saw
> in person the changes he brought to the province. AND
> IT GOES ON BLAH BLAH BLAH….
>
> For you people who’s not familiar with Brent
> Taylor?
>
> He’s a former MLA from the C.O.R. Party! I used
> to debate Acadian issues with these bigots for years
> in the letters to the editor!
>
> The C.O.R. Party was to the Acadian population
> like the KKK is to the Blacks! Brent Taylor ran for
> the Leadership of the C.O.R. Party in the early 90s
> while in Campbellton he made a very very very
> Anti-French speech!
>
> We all know that a leopard never changes it spots
> and it makes me sick to my stomach seeing this
> headline in the Daily Gleaner and of course I never
> read this BS anyway but there’s something that I
> found very interesting yesterday.
>
> Someone told me that Brent Taylor will run under
> the P.C. Banner during the next Provincial Election!
> Well? I’ll tell you one thing right now!!! If Bernard Lord
> allows that Bigot to run??? Well? I’m going to be front
> and center with this issue!
>
> The P.C Party shouldn’t associate themselves with
> a man like Brent Taylor. Mind you, I met and have some
> good friends from the C.O.R. Party!
>
> As a matter of fact, I had a good chat with Max
> White during the P.C. Annual meeting in Fredericton a
> few months ago!
>
> But I’ll never forget Brent Taylor speech and I’m
> very surprised that he has his own column in the
> Irving Papers??? Why is that now???
>
> The Telegraph Journal stop printing my letters
> but they allowed a bigot to spread his views? Why is
> that now? Who knows?
>
> I crashed their first annual convention in 1991
> when Danny Cameron held a news conference telling the
> Government of the day < Frank McKenna > to removed the
> Acadian flag from on top of the Legislature.
>
> My actions went across Canada. There were 1,000
> members at that convention and I am not afraid to
> speak out against hatred!!!
>
> I was very surprised to see J.K. Irving at Louis
> Robichaud Funeral yesterday!
>
> Of course, I always like J.K. anyway but it’s his
> son J.D that I don’t care for!
>
> Hey? Any Billionaire who supports Racism? There’s
> definitely something wrong with this Picture.
>
> I told J.D. himself that he had a very racist
> Supervisor working at Gulf Operators
>
>
> The Rise and Fall of the New Brunswick CoR Party, 1988-1995
> Geoffrey Martin
>
>
> At the time this article was written Geoffrey Martin was teaching at
> Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick
>
> This article traces the rise and fall of one of Canada's
> recently-formed populist, "New right" parties, the Confederation of
> Regions Party of New Brunswick. It shows how and why the party was
> formed and why it collapsed in the last provincial election. COR-NB
> was a programmatic party based on political protest, which advocated a
> libertarian ideology. The article argues that partisan realignment is
> possible in "traditional" areas like New Brunswick, but that the anger
> that led to the formation of the party eventually turned inward and
> destroyed the party's coherence.
>
> On September 11, 1995, the saga of the Confederation of Regions Party
> of New Brunswick (COR-NB) ended, when the party received 7% of the
> votes and no seats in the provincial election. This represented a
> major collapse of a party, which in the 1991 provincial election
> polled 87,256 votes (21% of the total), took 8 seats, and the position
> of Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly. As it turned out,
> COR-NB's success in 1991 took place in a "populist moment" in New
> Brunswick politics, in which a number of factors came together to
> enable a new party, which rejected "Official Bilingualism" and many of
> the basic principles of the political system, to achieve significant
> success in a province with almost no tradition of third-party
> activity. COR's collapse in the recent election shows that this
> populist moment has passed, along with the other factors that made for
> COR-NB's success. For the forseeable future New Brunswick politics has
> returned to its historic pattern of two-party competition among
> small-c conservative elites.
>
> The COR Party of New Brunswick
>
> COR-NB was formed in 1989, less than two years after the "McKenna
> sweep" of 1987, in which the Liberal Party under Frank McKenna won
> every single seat in the legislature. In the 1991 election, COR-NB won
> its seats in the South and Central parts of the province, and its
> support was also disproportionately in rural, sparsely populated
> areas. COR took advantage of the voters' underlying concern about
> bilingualism. It did this chiefly in the former heartland of the
> Progressive Conservative (PC) Party.
>
> There are five central points that describe the party's platform and
> principles.
>
> The party was, first of all, a programmatic party, not a brokerage
> party. It had a fixed programme which its activists were unwilling to
> compromise.
>
> Second, it was a protest party with roots in a single issue, that of
> "Official Bilingualism." The party was essentially an "ethnic party"
> representing a segment of English New Brunswick which was extremely
> dissatisfied, to the point of anger, over the direction of public
> policy in the province and the country.1
>
> Third, like Social Credit in Alberta, COR-NB was a populist party and
> it placed high priority on changing the system in addition to changing
> specific public policies. This populism was represented most
> significantly in the inversion of the political hierarcy: For COR
> activists, elected members were responsible to the Electorate first,
> then the Party, and only finally the Leader.
>
> Fourth, ideologically the party is "classical liberal" in the
> nineteenth century sense, which today is best referred to as
> libertarian.
>
> Fifth and finally, like Social Credit in the past, in class terms the
> COR Party is petty bourgeois and lower-middle class in its
> orientation.
>
> This final point is important and too often neglected, and is also
> relevant to other Canadian political experiments, especially the
> Reform Party of Canada. In its heyday the COR Party was dominated by
> middle-income and small-business people, professionals, and the
> self-employed. The middle class is the backbone of advanced industrial
> societies and pays more than its share of taxes and is most likely to
> feel put upon and unable to "get ahead." The party went beyond
> appealing only to "middle-income groups." It was also a reflection of
> those individuals who have an intermediate amount of control over
> their work, including professionals, small business people, and
> independent commodity producers, like farmers, woodlot owners, fishers
> and the self-employed in general. These characteristics are important
> because this class sometimes allies with the working class, sometimes
> with the middle class, and sometimes is alienated from both.
>
> Political parties based purely on the middle class and petty
> bourgeoisie are notoriously hard to hold together. As C. B. MacPherson
> notes, "the petite-bourgeoisie cannot be cohesive" in politics because
> the individualism of members of this class divides it and splinters it
> apart.2
>
> In electoral terms the COR Party was not a party of big business or
> the affluent, even if its programme, especially the provisions that
> weaken government, would seem to provide disproportionate benefits to
> large corporate interests. Yet high income groups and wealth holders
> appear to have stuck with the Liberals and PCs. This is symbolized by
> the close association of the powerful McCain family with the Liberal
> Party, and the fact that one of the McCain spouses, Margaret Norrie
> McCain, was appointed to a five-year term as the province's
> Lieutenant-Governor in 1994. The Irving interests, both individual and
> corporate, are harder to identify with certainty. The descendants of
> the founder of the Irving empire take little public role in partisan
> politics, seeming to prefer to influence the provincial government of
> the day regardless of its political stripe. Judging from the 1993
> federal election and the 1995 provincial election, the Irving
> preference runs towards the "old line" parties and not populist
> alternatives further to the right or the left. In the 1993 federal
> campaign, the Irving interests made financial contributions to both
> the PC and Liberal campaign funds, and not to Reform, the National
> Party or the NDP.3
>
> The Formation of the COR Party
>
> The McKenna Liberals completely dominated New Brunswick politics from
> 1987 to 1989, and New Brunswick was effectively a one-party province
> during that time. Yet the COR Party rose much faster, less than two
> years after the 1987 election, than is usually the case with third
> parties. First of all, this rapid rise is explained by the seriousness
> and longevity of New Brunswick's high unemployment and economic
> hardship over the last 25 years. The Progressive Conservative Party
> was wiped out in 1987 as a repudiation of Richard Hatfield, whose
> longevity in power and personal legal troubles turned the electorate
> against him. Further, the Progressive Conservative Party was slow to
> rebuild, and the leader it finally elected, Barbara Baird Filliter,
> was generally regarded as ineffective. The rapidity of the rise of
> COR-NB was also a response to the McKenna government's desire to
> increase bilingualism in the civil service, an effort which the
> government has since admitted it has not succeeded in achieving.
> Finally, for many activists and voters, federal and provincial
> politics are not separate, and one reason for the rise of the COR-NB
> was the activists' distaste for the Mulroney government, another
> handicap for the provincial PC Party.
>
> A neglected aspect of the rise of COR-NB was its genesis as a social
> movement called the New Brunswick Association of English-Speaking
> Canadians, usually shortened to the English Speaking Association
> (ESA). The ESA was formed in the early 1980s to oppose the extension
> of bilingualism in the provincial government, something that it was
> effective in preventing. The ESA was like a party-in-waiting with a
> membership and an agenda, so that activists were easy to mobilize once
> the decision to form a new party was taken in the late 1980s. By that
> time individuals involved in the organization began to question their
> effectiveness as a lobby group. "We brought our concerns to government
> but it just became frustrating because month after month we were
> bringing the same concerns, getting the same answers, and really not
> getting anywhere," said Arch Pafford, COR-NB's first president, first
> leader, and an ESA activist.4
>
> The ESA was a single-issue social movement and the COR Party inherited
> ESA activists and this issue. Perhaps because of its ties to the
> (now-defunct) federal COR Party, COR-NB quickly developed similar New
> Right policies, including opposition to the Meech Lake Accord and
> support for parliamentary reform, tax reform, privatization, and
> deregulation. While party activists claim the COR Party is not a
> one-issue party, the party, like the ESA before it, would never had
> been formed without Anglophone discontent over the perceived lack of
> jobs for Anglophones, and Official Bilingualism, two phenomena that
> COR-NB activists always linked together. As Sue Calhoun has written,
> "If someone is pushed about why they joined COR, the answer is,
> inevitably, because of language."5 Just as the ESA was a protest
> vehicle, the COR Party was a protest party because of its desire to
> overturn the status quo and because of its dependence on a single
> issue, that of language policy.
>
> The COR Party in Decline
>
> By the fall of 1993, two years after the party's breakthrough in the
> 1991 election, the COR Party was clearly in decline, manifested in the
> party's slide in public opinion polls as well as internal bickering.
> By 1994 the party consistently polled between 3-7% of decided voters
> in various polls (down from 21% in the 1991 election) and its
> membership had plunged from around 20,000 in 1991 to approximately
> 2500 by the end of 1994. To some extent the conditions for the decline
> of the party mirror the conditions under which it arose.
>
> In this section some of the reasons for the party's decline will be
> outlined, but we will concentrate on one of the root reasons for the
> party's problems, that of the incompatibility between the party's: a)
> populism; b) free market ideology, and; c) its role as a political
> party and Official Opposition in the existing system. In contrast to
> many members of the party, the argument presented here is that COR's
> problem was not just a matter of finding a new or better leader.
>
> The party ultimately collapsed because of the membership's approach to
> politics and because a section of the party was unwilling to conform
> to the existing party system.
>
> There are straight-forward reasons for the party's decline that should
> be delineated briefly. First, the departure of Brian Mulroney from
> national politics, and the collapse of the federal PCs in the 1993
> federal election, made it possible for small-c conservatives to return
> to the provincial PC Party. Second, the COR Party suffered a double
> blow from the Charlottetown Constitutional Accord referendum in 1992.
> Since the accord was defeated nationally, constitutional and language
> issues disappeared for a time from the political agenda, which hurt
> the COR Party's ability to grab public attention. Even the province's
> constitutionalization of Bill 88, which declared the equality of the
> Francophone and Anglophone communities in the province, and the 1994
> Québec election, did not excite widespread public attention. The
> second blow was that COR-NB led the anti-accord side in New Brunswick
> in 1992 and yet the pro-accord side won convincingly in the province,
> all of which undermined COR-NB's claim that it represented some kind
> of "silent majority."
>
> Third, the provincial PC Party gained new credibility in the last two
> years because of the effectiveness of its leader, Dennis Cochrane, who
> was elected to that position and to the Legislative Assembly in 1991.
> Even the sudden resignation of Mr. Cochrane in the spring of 1995, and
> his replacement by former Mulroney cabinet minister Bernard Valcourt,
> did not revive COR's fortune's. Fourth, Frank McKenna's Liberal
> government was rightward leaning during its second mandate (1991-95),
> given its attitudes toward individual and provincial self-reliance,
> cuts to social and health services, and its emphasis on job creation
> in the private sector. This also hurt the COR Party because like a
> competent brokerage politician, McKenna's rightward move undercut
> COR-NB support, and this left most opponents of the government in the
> centre (supporting the PCs) or to the left (supporting the NDP, led by
> Elizabeth Weir).
>
> All of these are important reasons for the decline of the party, but
> we should concentrate on another reason, the incompatibility of the
> party's self-identity and its role in the system. The party tried to
> combine populism and free market economics, two ideologies that are
> often in conflict because the interest of the "common man" is often in
> conflict with the interests of even small business, let alone the
> larger firms that dominate the New Brunswick political economy. Like
> the supporters of the United Farmers and Social Credit in Alberta,
> COR-NB members believed in the value of the individual and of free
> enterprise, even though the concentration of capital and high levels
> of unemployment are the result of the particular form of
> resource-based capitalism that exists in New Brunswick. The COR Party
> started as a "revolt against the system," though by 1993 the party
> increasingly internalized the system and so the revolt turned inward,
> with all of the venom once reserved only for the New Brunswick Society
> of Acadians and the established parties.
>
> As the economy and job situation in New Brunswick improved somewhat
> after the recession of the early 1990s, COR-NB lost momentum. (Instead
> of scapegoating Acadians as they did in the late 1980s, in 1995 New
> Brunswick Anglophones were more likely to feel aggrieved at the
> Liberal federal government for tightening the Unemployment Insurance
> rules in the 1994 budget, or for its gun control initiative of 1995.)
>
> There is a serious structural problem underlying these internal
> conflicts, in the form of an ideological conflict between Board
> control and caucus control of the party. As has been stated above, the
> party policy is that an elected member is responsible to the
> electorate first, the party second, and the leader last. Yet under its
> constitution the COR Party—and not the elected caucus—selected the
> leader and the Board of Directors could call a leadership convention,
> which inevitably gave the party control over the elected members.
>
> Greg Hargrove (MLA-York North) said in 1993 that the Board overstepped
> its authority in trying to dump then-leader Danny Cameron because the
> Board is answerable to the membership while the caucus is responsible
> to the electorate. By this line of reasoning, the membership can elect
> a leader but cannot remove a leader, which ultimately sounds like the
> "old-line parties" that the COR Party criticized. This suggests an
> inherent contradiction in the party's inversion of the
> "Leader-Party-Electorate" hierarchy, because elected members cannot be
> responsible to the electorate first given the party's power to remove
> the party leader by calling a leadership convention.
>
> Conclusion
>
> COR-NB was a right-of-centre protest party that picked up on the
> tendency of many New Brunswick Anglophones to blame their economic
> woes on Official Bilingualism, big government, and "special interest
> groups." The COR Party went into the vacuum left by the collapse of
> the provincial PCs, aided by the general weakness of political
> opposition in McKenna's first term and the unpopularity of the
> Mulroney government in the Atlantic region. The political culture of
> New Brunswick was, for a brief period, not as traditional as many
> observers claim, because a significant segment of the electorate
> proved that they were willing to try a political alternative to the
> two dominant parties. By making the COR Party the Official Opposition,
> the voters showed that they were prepared to forgo, both as
> individuals and as constituencies, the benefits of having a member on
> the government side of the house.
>
> The COR Party ultimately declined because of the contradiction between
> its anti-party populism and the realities of operating a political
> party in the existing party system. This essay also shows the risks of
> building a new party based on participatory and populist principles
> when it must function in a "democratic" political system that remains
> hierarchical and discourages active, meaningful, mass participation in
> the process of governing between elections. With the election of 1995,
> the voters have again accepted the elitist political system, in which
> a government is judged based on its results—the "bottom line"—and not
> on its style.
>
> The COR Party was formed by a delicate coalition of populists,
> anti-francophone activists, and traditional conservatives. This
> coalition has shattered, and it is unlikely that it will come back
> together in the near future. It may take a generation to rebuild it.
> There is some possibility that populism will make itself felt in the
> coming years, if people increasingly feel alienated from New
> Brunswick's McKenna government and from the Chrétien government in
> Ottawa. The key question is whether any political party can take
> advantage of this populist discontent without itself being consumed by
> its fires.
>
> Notes
>
> 1. More attention is paid to the issue of bilingualism as well as the
> ethnic basis of the party in another article by the same author,
> entitled "The New Brunswick COR Party as an `Ethnic Party'", Canadian
> Review of Studies in Nationalism, forthcoming, 1996, Vol. 23.
>
> 2. See C.B. MacPherson, Democracy in Alberta: Social Credit and the
> Party System, Second Edition, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
> 1962), pp. 224-226.
>
> 3. New Brunwick Telegraph Journal, October 4, 1994, p. 1.
>
> 4. Interview with Arch Pafford, Nordin, NB, August 20, 1993.
>
> 5. Sue Calhoun, "Getting to the Core of COR," New Maritimes, 1992,
> vol. 11, No. (2) November/December, p. 15.
>
>
>
> From: "MacPherson, Don"<macpherson.don@dailygleaner.com>
> Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 07:29:42 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Ms Blatchford please allow me to introduce
> you to Google's lawyer David Drummond and Mr Baconfat's buddies in the
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> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
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Methinks the former Attorney Jody Wilson-Raybould and her fellow Liberals were very foolish indeed not to settle with me on December 14th, 2015 N'esy Pas?

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Hamish lawrence
It must take a lot of practice to say that with a straight face

David R. Amos
Reply to @Hamish lawrence: "It must take a lot of practice to say that with a straight face"

Methinks many politicians will understand why I post this with a straight face because as soon a I read this article I picked up the phone and had a conversation with two of Peter Kent's assistants N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Richard Sharp: "Philpott will be booted from the caucus with a day or two"

So you say Methinks I should say that Erskine-Smith's assistant Andy picked a very bad day to make fun of me over the phone N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Nahla Kalifa: "The heart of darkness crosses all political lines."

Oh So True Methinks what powers the engine that takes the evil heart of darkness everywhere is simple human greed and it can't be stopped because the rails are greased by fear and apathy N'esy Pas?

Robert Campbell
I guess we all should get FOOL tattooed on our foreheads. Its not conservatives that want answers its Canadians

David R. Amos
Reply to @Robert Campbell: Methinks whereas April Fools Day fast approaches the the former Attorney Jody Wilson-Raybould and her fellow Liberals were very foolish indeed not to settle with me on December 14th, 2015 N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Richard Sharp: "The issues have been explored. The undue interference charge debunked. A DPA long overdue "

Yea Right

Richard Dekka
Its the same sense of unity he has created across Canada - united against him.

But remember, he does experience things differently.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Richard Dekkar: Methinks Mr Prime Minister Trudeau The Younger makes that fact blatantly obvious to all with each passing day N'esy Pas?

James Paul
The Liberals may or may not be united, but the voters are well into the process of uniting against them.

David R. Amos
Reply to @James Paul: Methinks the Liberals brought this upon themselves or no reason that peoplekind will never understand N'esy Pas?

Robert Campbell
When is this dog and pony show going to end. I am at the point I don't even like to hear his voice anymore and I voted for him?!!

David R. Amos
Reply to @Robert Campbell: "When is this dog and pony show going to end"

Methinks you should relax and enjoy the Circus then vote accordingly in October N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Derek Golota: Methinks Mr Campbell was already duly informed N'esy Pas?

Pam Sutton
Hahahaha, the 905 GTA region is turning blue because of you Trudeau, bye bye!

David R. Amos
Reply to @Pam Sutton: Methinks from here to October is an eternity for Mr Prime Minister Trudeau The Younger, Premier Ford and Independent politicians such as I. Nobody can deny that the fat lady won't sing about who gets the mandate to oversee the 43rd Parliament until polling day but that fact won't stop me from filing a few very justifiable lawsuits in the "Mean" Time N'esy Pas?

Bill Edward Goate
"Trudeau insists Liberal team 'stronger, more united than ever before"

That's the same thing celebrities usually say about their marriage two weeks before they file for divorce.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Bill Edward Goate: Oh So True

Davee Foster
Trudeau certainly experiences things differently.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Davee Foster: YUP

Derek Golota
Reply to @Davee Foster: ..must be legal pot thing.

David R. Amos

Reply to @Derek Golota: Nope Methinks he was born with it in his DNA Some shrinks call it narcissism but Maritimers such I simply say he is full of himself N'esy Pas?

Jacob Schmee
Did Katie Telford tell you to say that Justin? Will this statement be followed by some Katie Telford Op-eds from 600 million dollar "friendly journalists"? Not only Conservatives want to know but all Canadians.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Jacob Schmeel: Methinks legions of loyal liberals are waiting with bated breath for wise words from Katie Telford However as for me I am just another dude who abides and merely enjoys the Circus with each passing day til we vote again N'esy Pas?

Kim Walters
"Pay no attention to the fire behind me...."

David R. Amos
Reply to @Kim Walters: Well put

David R. Amos
Reply to @Lance Campeau: Methinks he does Everybody knows that they are all crooks no matter what colour their political coat is That is why so many folks don't bother to vote N'esy Pas?

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Liberals block new SNC-Lavalin ethics probe as Trudeau insists his team is 'more united than ever'

Prime minister downplays caucus divisions over SNC-Lavalin affair

Kathleen Harris· CBC News· Posted: Mar 26, 2019 11:48 AM ET

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Liberal caucus is more united than ever, despite divisions over the government's handling of the SNC-Lavalin affair. (Patrick Doyle/Reuters)

Liberal MPs have voted down an opposition motion to launch a Commons ethics committee probe into the SNC-Lavalin affair.

Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, who broke with party ranks to vote in favour of an NDP motion calling for a public inquiry into the SNC-Lavalin matter, said he opposes an ethics committee hearing at this time because it is "premature."

He pointed out that the justice committee is still awaiting a written submission, texts and emails from former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould, the Liberal MP whose allegations of political interference in her work as attorney general touched off the scandal which has dominated federal politics for weeks.

"To me, it makes far more sense to see what is said in that statement, to see how justice reacts to that and whether they think any of that new information is something worth reconsidering their previous decision to close off their study," Erskine-Smith said.

Apart from Erskine-Smith, no other Liberal members spoke during the committee meeting. He said the Liberal members met before the meeting began and decided he would speak for the group.
Frustrated Conservatives called the vote further evidence of a government effort to sweep a scandal under the rug.

"Liberals had a chance to put their votes where their mouths were, and instead they decided to vote for another coverup," said Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre.

Conservative MP and ethics critic Peter Kent had drafted a motion to launch an inquiry, call former cabinet ministers Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott to testify by April 5 and formally request that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau broaden a waiver to allow them to speak freely.

The move came after Liberal MPs used their majority on the Commons justice committee to shut down an inquiry, despite the opposition's request to recall Wilson-Raybould to testify a second time.

That sparked accusations of a coverup and prompted the Conservatives to stage a 31-hour voting marathon in the Commons in protest.

Earlier today, Trudeau downplayed the split in the Liberal caucus over the SNC-Lavalin affair when asked if he faces civil war in the ranks, and said that the Conservatives' voting marathon ended up being a team-building exercise.

"Because of the tremendous opportunity to vote as a team for 30 hours last week, where we watched the Conservatives voting against everything from support for women's programs to support for our veterans to support for our military, our team has come out stronger and more united than ever before," he told reporters in Winnipeg today.

'Put up or shut up'

"I am incredibly proud of the Liberal Party, that we are focused on the things that really matter to Canadians."

Two cabinet ministers, Trudeau's principal secretary and the clerk of the Privy Council have resigned in the wake of allegations of inappropriate political interference in the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin, a Quebec-based global engineering and construction firm.

Some Liberal MPs have accused their colleagues Wilson-Raybould and Philpott of dragging out the SNC-Lavalin affair. Liberal MP Judy Sgro said last week they should "put up or shut up" by using their parliamentary privilege to air any remaining grievances in the House of Commons.

Wilson-Raybould has said she believes she was demoted from the justice ministry to Veterans Affairs for refusing to pursue a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) for SNC-Lavalin that would have halted its criminal prosecution on bribery charges related to contracts in Libya. Trudeau has denied her claims.

Raybould resigned from cabinet last month. Philpott resigned as Treasury Board president earlier this month, saying she had lost confidence in the government's handling the SNC-Lavalin matter.

Trudeau won't budge on Wilson-Raybould waiver as Scheer accuses PM of peddling 'excuses'

Opposition MPs turn to ethics committee to probe SNC-Lavalin affair

Kent argued it's time for the ethics committee to search for answers.

"After Liberals on justice prematurely shut down their incomplete study, it became entirely appropriate for ethics to create a study of our own, to provide a safe and civil forum for Ms. Wilson-Raybould and Ms. Philpott to address unanswered issues and speak to events and conversations beyond the narrow waiver offered initially by the prime minister," he told CBC News.

NDP MP Daniel Blaikie had said it would be a "shame" if the other Liberal MPs voted against an SNC-Lavalin committee probe without putting anything on the official record to explain their decisions.

"That would be a shameful spectacle, to walk out of here without indicating on the record as to why it is that they would vote against this motion," he said.

Ethics commissioner probe underway

Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion's office is also carrying out an investigation.
Erskine-Smith said that probe undermines the argument for an ethics committee study. Dion is scheduled to appear before the committee in early May and can answer questions at that time, he said.

While other Liberals have suggested Wilson-Raybould and Philpott could simply tell their stories in the House of Commons, Erskine-Smith said they should not be forced to turn to parliamentary immunity.
He said he believes the waiver should cover any evidence relevant to the SNC-Lavalin matter.

"If there's any conversation, any evidence that Ms. Wilson-Raybould or Ms. Philpott need to give with respect to this issue of allegations of unnecessary interference, regardless of the time period, I think that evidence should be permitted," he said.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said today's developments support the argument for a public inquiry.

"What's clearer than ever is, with a Liberal majority on the committees, the committees are unable to hear from witnesses, to get to the truth that Canadians so rightfully deserve," he said. "And that's why, more than ever, our call for a public inquiry is the path forward."

Liberal MP Karen McCrimmon said the ongoing "frenzy" is serving certain "political purposes" — she didn't say whose — but it's not serving the interests of Canadians. She conceded it is damaging the Liberal caucus.

"Teams are really fragile things. They take an awful lot of effort to build and to maintain," she said.

"The trust inside a team is absolutely key. So yeah, it's taken a bit of a hit, because these disagreements were taken outside of the party to air publicly."

Trudeau rejected Wilson-Raybould's conservative pick for high court, CP sources say

Trudeau's caucus troubles aren't quite limited to the SNC-Lavalin fallout. Last week, Ontario MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes quit the Liberal caucus and opted to sit as an Independent after the Globe and Mail published an interview in which she said Trudeau became hostile towards her after she told him she would not seek re-election.

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As ethics committee meets on SNC-Lavalin, Trudeau insists Liberal team 'more united than ever'

Prime minister downplays caucus divisions over SNC-Lavalin affair

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Opposition MPs on the House of Common's ethics committee want to hear from former Liberal cabinet ministers Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott. 0:00

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is downplaying the split in the Liberal caucus over the SNC-Lavalin affair, insisting his team is strong and united.

"I am incredibly proud of the Liberal Party, that we are focused on the things that really matter to Canadians," Trudeau said today after an event in Winnipeg.

Two cabinet ministers, Trudeau's principal secretary and the clerk of the Privy Council have resigned in the wake of allegations of inappropriate political interference in the criminal prosecution of the Quebec-based global engineering and construction firm.

Some Liberal MPs have accused their colleagues Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott of dragging out the SNC-Lavalin affair. Liberal MP Judy Sgro said last week they should "put up or shut up" by using their parliamentary privilege to air any remaining grievances in the House of Commons.

Wilson-Raybould has said she believes she was demoted from the justice ministry to Veterans Affairs for refusing to pursue a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) for SNC-Lavalin that would have halted its criminal prosecution on bribery charges related to contracts in Libya. Trudeau has denied her claims.

Raybould resigned from cabinet last month. Philpott resigned as Treasury Board president earlier this month, saying she had lost confidence in the government's handling the SNC-Lavalin matter.

No civil war

But today, when asked if he faces civil war in the ranks, Trudeau insisted his team remains solidly intact.

"Because of the tremendous opportunity to vote as a team for 30 hours last week, where we watched the Conservatives voting against everything from support for women's programs to support for our veterans to support for our military, our team has come out stronger and more united than ever before," he told reporters in Winnipeg.

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PM Justin Trudeau responds to a question about Liberal party unity within his caucus after weeks of disruption by the SNC-Lavalin affair. 0:34

Trudeau's remarks come as MPs on the Commons ethics committee prepare to vote on whether to hold hearings into the SNC-Lavalin affair. The committee began its meeting at 1 p.m. ET and CBCNews.ca is carrying it live.

Conservative MP and ethics critic Peter Kent has drafted a motion to launch an inquiry, call Wilson-Raybould and Philpott to testify by April 5 and formally request that Trudeau broaden a waiver to allow them to speak freely.

The move comes after Liberal MPs used their majority on the Commons justice committee to shut down an inquiry, despite the opposition's request to recall Wilson-Raybould to testify a second time.

That sparked accusations of a coverup and prompted the Conservatives to stage a 31-hour voting marathon in the Commons in protest.

Trudeau won't budge on Wilson-Raybould waiver as Scheer accuses PM of peddling 'excuses'

Opposition MPs turn to ethics committee to probe SNC-Lavalin affair

Kent said it's now time for the ethics committee to search for answers.

"After Liberals on justice prematurely shut down their incomplete study, it became entirely appropriate for ethics to create a study of our own, to provide a safe and civil forum for Ms. Wilson-Raybould and Ms. Philpott to address unanswered issues and speak to events and conversations beyond the narrow waiver offered initially by the prime minister," he told CBC News.

Ethics probe 'premature'

Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, who broke party ranks to vote in favour of an NDP motion to call a public inquiry into the SNC-Lavalin matter, said he opposes an ethics committee hearing at this time because it is "premature." The justice committee is awaiting a written submission, texts and emails from Wilson-Raybould.

"To me, it makes far more sense to see what is said in that statement, to see how justice reacts to that and whether they think any of that new information is something worth reconsidering their previous decision to close off their study," he said.

Apart from Erskine-Smith, Liberal members have remained largely silent during the first portion of today's committee meeting. NDP MP Daniel Blaikie said it would be a "shame" if the other Liberal MPs voted against an SNC-Lavalin committee probe without putting anything on the official record to explain their decisions.

"That would be a shameful spectacle, to walk out of here without indicating on the record as to why it is that they would vote against this motion," he said.

Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion's office is also carrying out an investigation. Kent said that probe will be "very narrow" due to the limits of the Conflict of Interest Act, while the Conservative motion would lead to a "much broader study of ethical issues in the PM's ongoing corruption scandal."

Liberal MP Karen McCrimmon said the ongoing "frenzy" is serving certain "political purposes" — she didn't say whose — but it's not serving the interests of Canadians. She conceded it is damaging the Liberal caucus.

"Teams are really fragile things. They take an awful lot of effort to build and to maintain," she said.

"The trust inside a team is absolutely key. So yeah, it's taken a bit of a hit, because these disagreements were taken outside of the party to air publicly."

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Methinks the plot has thickened nicely further proving the Liberals were very foolish not to settle with me on December 14th, 2015 The fact our Master of War McCallum is a player is rather ironic N'esy Pas?

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Andrew Hebda (NS)
In the US, it is all about trade and money. It always has been. The more powerful the lobby group, the more intense the pressure on foreign government... If that approach was used in other countries (and it occasionally is) it is called Abuse of Power. Under this President, the US is not friend of Canada

David R. Amos
Reply to @Andrew Hebda (NS): "Under this President, the US is not friend of Canada"

Methinks the Ghost of Louis Riel would appreciate my informing you that the USA was never a friend to Canada N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Richard Sharp: "The security concerns are another red herring."

Methinks amazing things never cease You actually posted the truth for a change N'esy Pas?

Steven Arsenault
Reply to @David R. Amos:

You did get how annoying that is eh? I seek to rattle as well sometimes but this is just something else...... we used to call it like nails on a chalk board.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Steven Arsenault: Trust that I don't care what rattles your chains

Methinks the plot has thickened nicely further proving the Liberals were very foolish not to settle with me on December 14th, 2015 The fact our Master of War McCallum is a player is rather ironic N'esy Pas?

David Sampson
The actions by China, in apparent retaliation, amount to bullying which is offensive in every form. It’s now a contest who poses the greater risk to Canada, China or Trump!

David R. Amos
Reply to @David Sampson: "It’s now a contest who poses the greater risk to Canada, China or Trump!"

David R. Amos
Reply to @Richard Sharp: "We perhaps should have forewarned her not to get on the plane to Vancouver."

Methinks many would agree that would have been a major faux pas N'esy Pas?

Steven Arsenault
Reply to @David R. Amos:

Seek help.

Stu Wozniak
Reply to @Steven Arsenault: Hethinks not needed.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Stu Wozniak: True

Methinks a wise dude must abide as he reads your two bits worth N'esy Pas?

Neil Gregory
The fact that Trump has stated that he is willing to interfere is the Judicial process means that she will NOT get a fair trial, and the, extradition, should therefore be cancelled.

Robert Paul
Reply to @Neil Gregory: I agree 100% Let her go, Trudeau!

David R. Amos
Reply to @Robert Paul: Me Too

Don King
Trump and the US. With friends like these, who needs enemies?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Don King: Exactly

Gilles Lafreniere
Canada is used as a pawn in the commercial war that the US wages at it's chinese opponent. Canada should get out of this position by refusing to extradite this person and by sending her back to China.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Gilles Lafreniere: Methinks "The Powers that Be" and Meng's lawyers know that I have saying that for some time now and putting it in writing as well N'ey Pas?

Claire Bensen
Absolutely a no win situation for Canada

David R. Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @Claire Bensen: Methinks everybody but Trudeau The Younger and his minions knew that out of the gate and he fired the former Master of War McCallum for stating the obvious N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos
Content disabledReply to @David R. Amos: Methinks some folks may find it strange that comment was erased after standing for so many hours N'esy Pas?

John Sollows
We cannot avoid buying American nor Chinese, but we can boycott when we have a choice.

in the long run, that is how we will reduce our vulnerability to both these bullies.

David R. Amos
Reply to @John Sollows: "We cannot avoid buying American nor Chinese, but we can boycott when we have a choice."

I Wholeheartedly Agree Sir

Linus Smythson
China- We are not going to play by the rules.
US- We are not going to play by the rules.
Canada- Let's see here, the rule book says.....

David R. Amos
Reply to @Linus Smythson: Well put

Arthur Robeson
Another incompetent fiasco by the Trudeau government.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Arthur Robeson: "Another incompetent fiasco by the Trudeau government."

YUP

Stefan Pozzi
But Justin Trudeau says Canada is a rule of law country where political interference doesn't influence decisions whether to prosecute or not.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Stefan Pozzi: Methinks if that were remotely true then Mr Prime Minister Trudeau The Younger would not have allowed his former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould and her many minions to attack my lawsuit that I filed when Harper had his job (Federal Court File No T-1557-15) N'esy Pas?

Justice Canada studied Trump's comments on Huawei extradition, documents show

U.S. president told Reuters he's willing to intervene in case to further interests with China

Katie Simpson, Philip Ling· CBC News· Posted: Mar 27, 2019 4:00 AM ET

U.S. President Donald Trump's comments about the Huawei extradition are included in a high level Justice Department analysis of the legal case. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)

U.S. President Donald Trump's comment about his willingness to intervene in the court case against a Huawei executive was part of the Canadian Justice Department's legal analysis of the extradition case against Meng Wanzhou.

The analysis, under the heading 'President Trump's statement to Reuters that he may intervene in the extradition,' is part of a legal synopsis for the Department of Justice obtained by CBC News through an access to information request.

CBC News requested all government legal analyses of available options in the case against Meng, who was arrested by Canadian authorities in Vancouver on December 1 at the request of the United States.

Analysis
If Huawei were a security risk, how would we find out?

Everything you need to know about Huawei, Meng Wanzhou and her possible extradition

American authorities accuse Meng of bank fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy as part of their larger legal case against telecommunications giant Huawei.

Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, who is out on bail and remains under partial house arrest after she was detained Dec. 1 at the behest of American authorities, arrives back at her home after a court appearance in Vancouver, on March 6, 2019. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press)

In an exclusive interview with Reuters on December 11, Trump was asked if he would be willing to intervene in the case.

"Whatever's good for this country, I would do," he said.

"If I think it's good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever made, which is a very important thing, what's good for national security, I would certainly intervene if I thought it was necessary."

That comment infuriated official Ottawa; Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland personally raised her frustration over Trump's statement with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speak to reporters during a news conference at the State Department in Washington last December. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/The Associated Press)

China has tried to pressure the Canadian government to intervene, demanding that Meng be released immediately.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has argued repeatedly that Canada is a rule of law country and that there will be no political interference in the case.

Trudeau fired his ambassador to China, John McCallum, after he twice waded into the legal saga publicly. McCallum argued that Meng has a strong case to fight extradition and pointed to President Trump's comments as evidence.

Of the 123 pages in the document, only six were not fully redacted.

The section on Trump's remark is partly redacted and includes comments by U.S. Assistant Attorney General John Demers, who testified on Capitol Hill the day after the Reuters interview was published.

"Asst. A.G. Demers testified that if Ms. Meng is extradited to the U.S., the criminal case will proceed," the document reads.

"He further testified, 'We [the U.S. Dept. of Justice] follow the facts and we vindicate violations of U.S. law. That's what we're doing when we bring those cases, and I think it's very important for other countries to understand that we are not a tool of trade when we bring the cases.'"

An argument for shutting down Meng's case?

Vancouver-based immigration lawyer Richard Kurland said he is not surprised to see Trump's comments included in the federal analysis, given their shocking nature.

"Presidents don't discuss active extradition cases, period," he told CBC News.

"If President Trump thought it important enough to raise the Canadian extradition case in the context of American-China trade negotiations, saying he may intervene if it assists China, that's telling. And it's been captured now in writing, in a high-level government document.

"The defence counsel may well have the improper purpose-abusive process defence to strike down, shut down, this Huawei extradition case quickly."

The document goes on to outline basic facts about how the extradition process works and when a minister can intervene, and lists some statistics.

Since 2008, it says, Canada has extradited 577 people to the United States and just 100 people to all other countries combined.

According to the analysis, 21 of those extradited were Chinese nationals; nine of those Chinese nationals were sent to the U.S.

"The Minister must refuse extradition if it would be unjust or oppressive or if the request was made for an improper purpose (e.g. on grounds of race, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, political opinion etc.)," the document states.

The document also confirms Canadian ministers have stepped in to stop the extradition of individuals in the past.

"Since 1993 (the earliest date for which we have statistics), the Minister of Justice has discharged persons sought for extradition in 13 cases," the document says.

Although the document does not provide case specifics, it says that "of those 13 cases, 10 were extradition requests from the United States.

"This is the only power under the Act which is expressly exercisable only by the minister."

Michael Spavor, left, and former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig, right. (Associated Press/International Crisis Group/Canadian Press)

Two Canadians — former diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor — were detained in December by Beijing and remain in custody — actions widely seen as retaliation for Meng's arrest.
Although neither man has been charged, Chinese officials allege both were involved in espionage.

China also recently banned the purchase of canola seed from certain Canadian exporters, claiming the product is tainted.

Ottawa says there is no science to back up that claim and is looking at sending a high-level delegation from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to China to try to resolve the issue.

While there is no direct evidence the canola ban is related to the diplomatic dispute, at least one company involved says it believes it was targeted due to diplomatic tensions.

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Methinks many would agree that the best part of this Circus is that it proves the saying I used against Barry Winters of Edmonton (Google him sometime) I repeat "Evil is Evil Even Unto Itself" N'esy Pas?

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'Left with fines, charges and shame': Calgary political insider alleges voter fraud in UCP leadership campaign

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Naomi Forbes
Has there ever been an honest politician?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Naomi Forbes: "Has there ever been an honest politician?"

R.B. Bennett and Confucius come to my mind immediately

Dennis Brady
Are Albertans really such gullible fools they're willing to vote for Conservative slime?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Dennis Brady: Methinks the folks are far from gullible fools but many have been much offended by the NDP N'esy Pas?

Cy Coulterman
Why is it so difficult for the Conservatives to try to have a single election without cheating?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Cy Coulterman: "Why is it so difficult for the Conservatives to try to have a single election without cheating?"

Methinks many would agree that they can't helps themselves its in their political party's DNA The best part of this Circus is that it proves the saying I used against Barry Winters of Edmonton (Google him sometime) and that evil dude was dedicated supporter of Jason Kenney et al

I repeat "Evil is Evil Even Unto Itself" N'esy Pas?

Ken Stephens
Reply to @Cy Coulterman:
It is what their playbook dictates. Their supporters don't care, why should they? goes the reasoning.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Ken Stephens: "It is what their playbook dictates."

True

Jennifer McIsaac
And the federal Conservatives call the Liberals unethical?

How come Scheer is not criticising the UCP and Kenney?

Presumably it is OK if you are in the same ideological group but not if you are Liberal.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Jennifer McIsaac: "How come Scheer is not criticising the UCP and Kenney?"

Relax its all just part of the Circus

James Holden
Conservatives will do anything to get their hands on power.

David R. Amos
Reply to @James Holden: "Conservatives will do anything to get their hands on power."

Methinks the liberals cannot deny that I have proven many times that all the other political parties are no better After all Trudeau did support Harper's Bill C-51 N'esy Pas?

Drew Farrell
Four more years for the NDP!

David R. Amos
Reply to @Drew Farrell: "Four more years for the NDP!"

Methinks if the Conservatives keep shooting themselves in the foot while it is in their mouths you may get your wish N'esy Pas?

Barry Martini
Doesn't everyone already know Kenney is a sleazeball?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Barry Martini: Methinks the problem is that they know it but don't care when apathy rules the day N'esy Pas?

Dawn MacNeill
It would be shocking to see Albertans put this new shady/questionable party at the helm and watch the province go backwards. They were smart enough to send the other bunch packing so it would be sad to see them hand it back to them. Good Luck Albertan.s

David R. Amos
Reply to @Dawn MacNeill: "Good Luck Albertans"

I will second that remark

Timmy Paleo
Didn't expect better of the UCP

David R. Amos
Reply to @Timmy Paleo Wai: Nor I

Dustin Carey
Another Conservative, another election scandal.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Dustin Carey: "Another Conservative, another election scandal"

YUP.

Molly Earl
Does anyone actually believe after returning to Alberta and destroying not one but two political parties, Kenney wouldn’t do whatever it took to get the brass ring. The last thing he would want was Brian Jean winning the leadership. If it meant using subordinates in a nefarious fashion, so be it. If this was the effort to get to this point, actual governing will be downright awful.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Molly Earl: Well Put I Wholeheartedly Agree

Al Freeman
Whether it's freezing minimum wage, legislating against unions, attacking pensions, undermining public education and healthcare or rigging nominations, Conservatism is all about tilting the playing field. Jason Kenney has given us just one more example of what makes these people tick.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Al Freeman: "Jason Kenney has given us just one more example of what makes these people tick."

YUP

'Left with fines, charges and shame': Calgary political insider alleges voter fraud in UCP leadership campaign

Controversy erupts in midst of election campaign with Jason Kenney’s UCP leading in recent polls

Drew Anderson, Carolyn Dunn, Allison Dempster, Bryan Labby, Audrey Neveu· CBC News· Posted: Mar 27, 2019 5:30 AM MT

Happy Mann is facing fines for donating money that was not his to the 'kamikaze' UCP leadership campaign of Jeff Callaway. (CBC)

Alberta's election commissioner has ruled that Hardyal Mann made irregular political contributions, and the Calgary political operative alleges the existence of a plan to commit voter fraud in order to secure the election of Jason Kenney as United Conservative Party leader — a controversy that's erupting in the midst of a provincial election.

Hardyal (Happy) Mann does not dispute the commissioner's finding in relation to irregular donations. But he says in a March 24 formal response to the commissioner obtained by CBC News that he "trusted Mr. Jason Kenney, his campaign team, and their judgment" and that he never thought they would "risk breaking any laws."

"Mr. Kenney and his associates, who were equal participants, will assume high elected seats in our government," he wrote.

"However, those of us who did the work for them are left with fines, charges and shame. That is not fair."

The controversy is erupting in the midst of a provincial election, with Albertans set to vote on April 16, and Kenney's UCP leading by a wide margin in recent polls.

A cache of leaked documents obtained by CBC News show Jason Kenney’s campaign for UCP leadership collaborated with the campaign of his supposed political opponent, Jeff Callaway, left, to discredit Brian Jean. (Jason Kenney campaign)

A letter obtained by CBC News that was sent to Mann outlining the findings of commissioner Lorne Gibson's investigation says Mann — a power broker in Calgary's Indo-Canadian community — admitted to being at a breakfast meeting with Kenney in June 2017 in the lead-up to the United Conservative Party's leadership vote.

The letter says the future party leader promised support for Mann's "own political goals" if Mann joined the Kenney team.

It was an offer he accepted.

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The commissioner's letter goes on to say Mann admitted to being at a July 2017 meeting attended by Kenney and others tied to the campaign.

The document says Mann told the commissioner that both "the finances for Jeff Callaway's campaign and voter fraud were identified as tactics that would be employed."

Irregular contributions to Callaway campaign

The election commissioner found Mann contributed a total of $9,000 to the Callaway campaign that was not his own, agreeing to attach names to contribution forms that had pre-filled amounts of $3,000 for himself and two others.

Alberta election rules prevent someone from donating money that is not their own.

The commissioner said Mann admitted the funds were not his and that none of the money had moved through his accounts, "reluctantly" providing bank statements and documentation as proof.

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Mann stressed in his response to the commissioner that neither he nor any of the people tied to him were given money to donate to the Callaway campaign. He simply consented to their names being used on the donation forms.

"These transactions were handled only by the select group of people who originally organized the kamikaze campaign and were responsible for handling the financing," he wrote.

The 'kamikaze' campaign

The investigation by the commissioner relates to the financing of Callaway's so-called kamikaze UCP leadership campaign. It's alleged Callaway ran for the purpose of targeting Kenney's top rival, former Wildrose leader Brian Jean, with a plan to step down before the vote in October 2017 and throw his support behind Kenney.

So far, the commissioner has fined or sent letters of reprimand to five people for donating money to the Callaway campaign that was not their own. Mann would make six.

Kenney has strenuously denied any involvement in the alleged plot, saying it's normal for leadership campaigns to be in contact. He has said he first heard of Callaway dropping out of the race the night before it happened.

Prab Gill resigned from the United Conservative Party caucus and now sits as an independent MLA. (CBC)

Documents obtained by CBC News show there was deep co-operation between the two campaigns, with high-ranking Kenney officials providing resources, including strategic political direction, media and debate talking points, speeches, videos and attack advertisements.

Kenney, Callaway campaigns collaborated to attack Brian Jean during UCP leadership race, leaked documents show

Alberta's deputy chief electoral officer, Drew Westwater, said he is not allowed to comment on specific cases. But he confirmed to CBC News that, under provincial election law, videos and advertisements "would be considered a valued contribution" and must be disclosed.

Among the Kenney officials revealed in those documents obtained by CBC News was Matt Wolf, Kenney's current deputy chief of staff. Cam Davies, who was the communications manager for Callaway was involved in the email chains, and Shuvaloy Majumdar, who works for former prime minister Stephen Harper's consulting firm, was also copied on one.

Also in those documents was an email in August 2017 that showed Callaway already planned to drop out of the race, something he denies.

Jeff Callaway campaign may have breached election law with services from Kenney campaign: political scientist

On March 18, Maclean's reported on a $60,000 payment from a corporate entity into the bank account of Davies. Davies alleges in that story that the money was then distributed to the campaign through other donors.

CBC has not independently verified Maclean's allegations.

An email obtained by CBC News shows the RCMP have been called in to investigate the allegations of irregular political contributions to the Callaway campaign.

RCMP media relations spokesperson Fraser Logan has said the police policy is not to confirm an investigation is being conducted unless charges are laid.

Allegations of voter fraud

Central to Mann's allegations of voter fraud is the question of why or whether fake emails were attached to membership forms in the lead-up to the UCP leadership vote on Oct. 28, 2017.

"When I fill the forms in, for a few of the people I know, particularly, that there was no email addresses on those forms and then emails appeared on their membership list," he said in an interview with CBC News on March 25.

"Then who put those emails there?" he continued.

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It's a question that Mann says he can't answer.
Kenney has faced allegations that his campaign used VPNs — which block the identity of a computer — in order to vote multiple times from the same computer in the leadership race.

In a letter sent to the RCMP, former UCP caucus member Prab Gill accused the Kenney campaign of using fake email addresses in order to receive the PINs needed to cast a vote and then voting en masse for Kenney.

CBC News has not independently verified Gill's allegations.

Email domains purchased prior to vote

CBC News searched for historical registration data using DomainTools and confirmed that dozens of email addresses attached to UCP members were all purchased by anonymous sources in the lead-up to the UCP leadership vote, between Sept. 20 and Oct. 13, 2017.

Many of those emails, with domains like link3mail.com and jaringmail.com, all link back to the same web host.

It is not known who bought those email addresses.

Former Wildrose Party leader Brian Jean was Kenney’s main competition in the race. (CBC)

Mann also questions who paid for memberships. Under UCP rules, a membership must be purchased by the individual or an immediate family member.

The Alberta Election Act does not prohibit parties from paying for memberships, but they are required to disclose the expense. Those individual disclosures are not made public.

UCP responds

CBC News asked the UCP to respond to Mann's allegations.

"The Jason Kenney leadership campaign followed all of the rules of the 2017 UCP Leadership Contest," reads an emailed statement from UCP Executive Director Janice Harrington.

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"While some are focused on allegations from disgraced and discredited individuals like Happy Mann and ballot stuffer Prab Gill, we are going to remain focused on the priorities of Albertans — creating jobs and getting Albertans back to work."

'They had much more to lose than me'

The election commissioner said Mann should have known the consequences of his actions. He was a UCP nomination candidate in Calgary-Falconridge before he was disqualified after it was alleged his team was involved in the assault of a local reporter.

Mann, in his response to the commissioner, again says he trusted Kenney and his team.

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"My understanding of the rules governing election financing was limited. I knew what we were doing was tricky, but I never even assumed that these people would risk breaking any laws. After all, they had much more to lose than me."

Other fines

The election commissioner says he is considering an administrative penalty for the three contributions to the Callaway campaign, which means Mann could be fined up to $30,000.

It would be the latest in a series of fines levelled against UCP members for their roles in the Callaway campaign.

Karen Brown and Darcy McAllister have both been fined for donating money "with funds given or furnished by another person."

Callaway’s campaign communications manager, Cameron Davies, told CBC News that both campaigns had decided in advance when Callaway would quit the race. (Supplied by Cameron Davies)

Maja McAllister and David Ruiz were both issued letters of reprimand by the election commissioner for the same offence.

Davies has been fined a total of $15,000 for obstruction of an investigation. He has said he will appeal the fines.

About the Author

Drew Anderson, Carolyn Dunn, Allison Dempster, Bryan Labby, Audrey Neveu

This team from CBC Calgary has been investigating allegations of wrongdoing in the UCP leadership campaign. Tips and correspondence can be sent in confidence to: drew.anderson@cbc.ca,

carolyn.dunn@cbc.ca, allison.dempster@cbc.ca, bryan.labby@cbc.ca, audrey.neveu@radio-canada.ca

With files from Charles Rusnell and Jennie Russell

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