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Scheer outlines 'vision for Canada' that includes national corridor for energy, telecom

May 26, 2019, 12:31 am
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Methinks if folks are taking this seriously then they do not understand the nature of a Circus N'esy Pas? 


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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/national-northern-corridor-1.5150036




Scheer outlines 'vision for Canada' that includes national corridor for energy, telecom



4007 Comments


Helen MacKinnon
anyone else hear harper whispering from that retaining wall behind andy? Or was it the oil lobbyists?  


David Amos 
Reply to @Helen MacKinnon: Who is Harper? 











Jeff Bourns
Blandy's vision of Canada, solely for the rich and corporations, all others are merely fodder for the first two. 


David Amos 
Reply to @Jeff Bourns: Who is Blandy? 














Steve Wilson
So we finally see the outline of the new Conservative environmental plan, it's the Doug Ford Plan, repeal, reverse and regress every environmental gain made under Liberal governments and take away all environmental rights to clean water, air and land currently belonging to Canadians and hand them over to any corporation that wants to make a cheap buck.

Scheerly he must be kidding. Meet the new Harper, same as the old Harper.  

  
David Amos 
Reply to @steve wilson: "Scheerly he must be kidding. Meet the new Harper, same as the old Harper."

Is Blandy and Harper the same dude? 














John Worley
He just lost 95% of BC . Now I see why Harper saw him only as the Speaker. 


David Amos 
Reply to @john worley: Methinks these Harper and Blandy dudes are irritating everyone N'esy Pas? 













Dwight Williams
Andrew Scheer has no realistic plan to confront climate change. We've kicked the can down the road as far as we can. We cannot afford a conservative government. Not now, maybe never. At least not as long as it effectively denies the reality of climate change for al intents and purposes.

It's really very black-and-white to me. 


David Amos  
Reply to @Dwight Williams: Methinks many agree that another liberal tax scheme is not going to change the climate N'esy Pas? 












Awistoyus Nahasthay
Yawn....what was that andy...did you say something?  


Jason Tremblay (JasonDiggy)
Reply to @Awistoyus Nahasthay:

And I didn't even see Harper's mouth move.


David Amos    
Reply to @Jason Tremblay (JasonDiggy): Who is the Harper dude?










Jim MacDougall
Who is this guy? 


David Amos  
Reply to @Jim MacDougall: "Who is this guy?"

I have been asking 










Eugene Packet
Everyone needs to sit back and take a very scheerious look at things. But alas Andy just doesn't have it in him to be a Prime Minister. Time for the conservatives to just move along 


David Amos 
Reply to @Eugene Packet: "Everyone needs to sit back and take a very scheerious look at things."

Methinks if you are taking this seriously then you do not understand the nature of a Circus N'esy Pas? 













Will Morgan
Scheer's energy corridor will rank as the most ridiculous proposal ever, even taking into account Trump's ocean to ocean wall. 


David Amos 
Reply to @will morgan: Welcome to the Circus 














Mark Gregory
So Scheer is against Bill C-69 which Kenney is okay with - should be interesting not to say amusing!


David Amos  
Reply to @Mark Gregory: YUP






Scheer steps back from his deficit promise — and denies Trudeau a weapon


 

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Cara Beaton
Scheer is only backing off because he saw the dismal polls putting support/approval forFords government behind the Ontario Liberals! Wow, how unpopular is that!
Guess he doesn't want to be seen supporting the unpopular Ford. But here's the thing, what he said is what he supports and it's out there. Can't take it back just because!  


Stew Gotz
Reply to @Cara Beaton:
...and you believe a fakke news poll that suggests that the Conservatives and Liberals are tied in Ontario even though the Liberals have fewer seats that a Dodge Caravan? I have swamp land in Florida for sale...if your interested?

   
David Amos
Reply to @Stew Gotz: Methinks we should ask if the gators in your swamp have a taste for federal or provincial politicians N'esy Pas?








Josh Miller
Scheer breaks his promises even before being elected. More promises will be broken,, stay tuned, 


David Amos 
Reply to @Josh Miller: "More promises will be broken"

Golly Gosh Josh Please Say You Were Only Fooling and That It Ain't So 









Daryl Dixon
Never trust a conservative. 


David Amos 
Reply to @daryl dixon: "Never trust a conservative."

Methinks you don't have many friends in Fundy Royal N'esy Pas?

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

"Fundy Royal voters have elected Conservatives all but 1 time in 28 elections over 101 years" 








James Holden
Conservatives continue to push the falsehood that they are the fiscally responsible party when statistics show quite the opposite. 

  
David Amos  
Reply to @James Holden: YUP 











Brian Lee
Scheernis all about the moment and the election. He doesn't have a plan, beyond being in power. 


Edward Peter
Reply to @Lloyd Jones: You do not vote for the Leader or Party you vote for the local Candidate, he they feed you BS pick somebody else, and tell them why you are changing. Voting for the Party opens you to foreign Hackers, etc.


David Amos    
Reply to @Edward Peter: "You do not vote for the Leader or Party you vote for the local Candidate"

Methinks its strange that most folks don't seem to get that fact until their MP gets booted from their beloved party N'es Pas? 

Herman Desroches
Day after day after day Scheer is proof that he and his minions have no concept on how to run a country. Trudeau may have some faults but they are minuscule in comparison to Scheer.  

Jack Richards
Reply to @Herman Desroches: Seriously.  
 

David Amos   
Reply to @Jack Richards: Welcome to the Circus 












Mar Pell
Scheer is already backtracking on his missing platform.
How can the cons ever even think of voting for that party. Federal and provincial. 


David Amos   
Reply to @Mar Pell: "Scheer is already backtracking on his missing platform."

Surprise Surprise Surprise 











Jennifer McIsaac
The Ford love affair looks like it is fading as the reality of budget balancing is looking a bit dangerous for Scheer given the growing anxiety about Ford and his buddies in Ontario.

Of course elect-ability is what it is all about not what is good policy or principles.

After incessantly criticising Trudeau for the deficits. Scheer has now flipped and sees that rushing to slash and burn to balance the budget may not be the great idea that it once seemed.
Well you cannot have it both ways and Scheer certainly looks as though he blows with the wind. As a possible future PM he certainly looks like just another populist after power, unable to define a sure set of policy objectives. Just not suitable to be Prime Minister. 


David Amos
Reply to @Jennifer McIsaac: "Scheer certainly looks as though he blows with the wind. As a possible future PM he certainly looks like just another populist after power"

YUP 











Larry Falk 
Thank the lord we have a leader like Justin and not Trump. 


David Amos
Reply to @Larry Falk: "Thank the lord we have a leader like Justin and not Trump."

Methinks many would agree that Trump is leading Trudeau around N'esy Pas? 










Jim S Powers
Scheer no costing platform on anything
that would be like walking into a store and it has zero price tags
until check out . then you get handed the bill 

  
David Amos
Reply to @Jim S Powers: "then you get handed the bill"

Methinks he does not want to spoil the surprise he hopes to spring on us N'esy Pas? 




https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/national-northern-corridor-1.5150036



Scheer outlines 'vision for Canada' that includes national corridor for energy, telecom

Conservative Leader would repeal Bill C-69, end ban on tanker traffic through northern B.C.





Stephen Hunt· CBC News·
Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer announces a vision for a national energy corridor on Saturday, May 25. (Nelly Aberola, Radio Canada)




On Saturday in Calgary, Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer laid out his party's vision for Canada's future resource development.

There were short-term fixes, but also a long-term pitch for a national energy corridor that Scheer said he believes Canadian premiers will embrace.

"I want to talk about a national corridor that would move Canadian oil, gas, electricity, telecommunications and potentially anything else that runs along the ground," he said.



Scheer compared his big idea to another big one from another century.
"I believe a national energy corridor can do for Canada what the railway did in the early days of Confederation," he said.

Pre-approved status


Without specifying geography, cost, or timeline, Scheer said he believes there's a will among different provinces to find a way to agree to create a route that will move Canada's natural resources across the country through an area where there will be a kind of pre-approved status that would provide the kind certainty that the private sector craves.
Obviously it's going to take a lot of work to find the right balance between Indigenous concerns and environmental concerns and any provincial issues- Andrew Scheer, Conservative Leader
That included increasing refining capacity in New Brunswick, exporting hydroelectricity in Quebec and Manitoba, and shipping oil and gas to tidewater and to eastern Canada from Alberta.

"I'm optimistic. I believe there's a recognition of the need for it," Scheer said.

"Obviously it's going to take a lot of work to find the right balance between Indigenous concerns and environmental concerns and any provincial issues. There may be a lot of private property concerns for any individuals who may be living along the proposed route.
"But if we don't start now, then it'll never happen," he added. "And what we've seen in the country in the last four years under this Liberal government is that our resources are becoming landlocked.They're not being able to be developed.

"Big projects aren't able to get done."

"I believe in the benefits of our natural resources — not just in their ability to create wealth, prosperity and opportunity, but their power to bring Canadians together from right across the country," he said.

6-point plan


In the short term, that vision was articulated as a six-point plan that would see a Conservative federal government, if elected:
  • Scrap the carbon tax.
  • Repeal Bill C-69, a bill to revamp environmental assessment of energy projects that Scheer calls the 'no more pipelines' bill.
  • End a ban on tanker traffic in northern B.C.
  • Ban foreign-funded advocacy groups from participating in the regulatory process.
  • Assert federal jurisdiction where necessary.
He also called for the continued development of renewable resources and spoke about the need to create opportunities for innovators to develop new clean energy technologies, but said that Canada has lost its energy sovereignty under the federal Liberals, and needs to reclaim it.

"Now we can pretend — as some do — that the world doesn't need oil and gas anymore," Scheer said. "But that's simply not true, and it sells Canada short."

"Let's not forget before Justin Trudeau became prime minister, we had three private companies willing to invest more than $30 billion to build three nation-building projects that would have created tens of thousands of jobs and generated billions in economic activity," he said.

"Those companies — Kinder Morgan, Enbridge and TransCanada — continue to invest in pipelines," he added. "Just not in Canada."

Watch: Andrew Scheer explains vision of national energy corridor


CBC News Calgary
 Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer on his plan for a national energy corridor 1:24

Clean energy part of plan


When asked by CBC's Helen Pike where clean energy fit into his vision, Scheer said Canada can be a world leader in creating clean technology.

"Obviously clean energy will be a big part of our environmental plan which we will be announcing in a few weeks. Around the world, Canada needs to lead the way and develop those world-class leading technologies — and use them to ensure that other countries can benefit from that to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions as well.

"What we do know is the advancements made in Canada's energy sector — especially here in Alberta — we've come so far, we've developed so many new technologies right here at home reducing the environmental impact of energy extraction here in Canada.

"We're going to continue to do that and continue to make investments and incentives for further development in investment and research and development in clean energy and in renewable energy."

Failing Canadians


In an emailed response, Vanessa Adams, the press secretary for Minister of Natural Resources Amarjeet Sohi, pointed out former prime minister Stephen Harper's failure at getting pipelines built.

"The Conservatives spent a decade failing our energy sector and failing Canadians," she wrote. "For 10 years they ignored Indigenous communities, environmental and local concerns. And for 10 years, they got nothing built to new markets.

"Andrew Scheer's plan is no better," she added. "He's making it up on the fly. And he will use the same outdated approach.

"Canadians won't be fooled. The result will be the same."

About the Author



Stephen Hunt
Digital Writer
Stephen Hunt is a digital writer at the CBC in Calgary. Email: stephen.hunt@cbc.ca
With files from Helen Pike and Nelly Aberola

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/scheer-trudeau-deficit-election-1.5148248

Scheer steps back from his deficit promise — and denies Trudeau a weapon

The Liberals were counting on tying Scheer to the Ford government's austerity. That's going to be harder now.





Aaron Wherry· CBC News·
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer speaks about his economic vision at an event hosted by the Canadian Club of Vancouver, in Vancouver, on Friday May 24, 2019. (Darryl Dyck/THE CANADIAN PRESS)


It's far too soon to measure the full extent of Justin Trudeau's political legacy, but he has now managed at least one truly remarkable achievement: he has persuaded the Conservative Party to admit that balancing the federal budget, even outside of a recession, is not absolutely necessary.
Trudeau might wish he hadn't been so successful.

In a speech to the Canadian Club of Vancouver on Friday, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said a government led by him would seek to "phase out" the current deficit in the "medium term"— five years, to be specific.



That new timeline is a significant departure from what Scheer promised when he was seeking the leadership of the party two years ago.

At that time, Scheer claimed that he would not be deterred by the skeptics.

"A lot of people think that a two-year target for a balanced budget is too aggressive. That it can't be done. I reject that," he said in a video posted to Twitter on March 27, 2017.

"I think it's very important to have an ambitious timeline to return this country back to balanced budgets. Because every year that we're in deficit, we're borrowing money from my children and spending it today."

The moral imperative


This was the moral imperative that the Conservatives attached to the deficit, to explain why it needed to be balanced without delay.

"If Justin Trudeau can rack up $30 billion deficits in just one year," Scheer concluded, "surely Conservatives can return Canada back to balanced budgets in two years."

Surely! But also, maybe our children will forgive us for waiting another three years.
Scheer's current argument is that it would be irresponsible to balance the budget too quickly.

This new position rests on the suggestion that the federal government's fiscal situation has somehow deteriorated over the last two years. But the official balance sheet actually hasn't changed much. If anything, the federal situation has improved.


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Andrew Scheer✔@AndrewScheer
I will balance the budget in 2 years. I will undo the fiscal damage that Justin Trudeau has done. Will you join me? http://www.andrewscheer.com/join 

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Five days before Scheer posted that video to Twitter, Finance Minister Bill Morneau tabled his third budget, with projections that cast forward as far as 2022. At that time, Morneau projected deficits of $23.4 billion, $21.7 billion and $18.8 billion for the fiscal years 2019-2020, 2020-2021 and 2021-2022.

In the most recent budget, tabled two months ago, Morneau projected deficits for those years of $19.8 billion, $19.7 billion and $14.8 billion. In 2022-2023, the deficit is expected to decline to $12.1 billion.

The next year (what would be the fourth year of a Scheer government), the deficit is projected to be $9.8 billion.

The more significant differences between 2017 and 2019 would seem to be political. For one thing, Doug Ford is premier of Ontario. For another, Scheer is preparing to campaign in a general election.

The Ford effect


The Ford government tabled its first budget in April and it has spent every week since trying to justify and explain its cuts to provincial services and programs. Ford campaigned on a promise that balancing the provincial budget would be easy and relatively painless. That turned out not to be the case. And now the pain is being felt by Ford's Progressive Conservatives, whose public support has plummeted.

Trudeau's Liberals were already associating Ford's actual austerity with Scheer's plans for the same, eagerly projecting what a two-year return to balance would look like. Scheer seems to have taken stock of all that and decided that sticking to his original timetable wasn't worth the trouble.


Ontario Premier Doug Ford's post-budget polling struggles made him a useful weapon in the Liberals' argument against the Scheer Conservatives - until Scheer softened his deficit pledge. (Collision Conference/YouTube)


Sidestepping the deficits the Harper government ran between 2008 and 2015, Scheer's Conservatives have spent much of the last four years lamenting the fact that the federal budget is not balanced. That was in keeping with both the theoretical tenets of conservatism and the political orthodoxy that has existed since the mid-1990s, which held that a balanced budget was the hallmark of a properly managed federal government.

Even if the parliamentary budget officer consistently found that federal finances were "sustainable" — and some economists shrugged at the numbers involved — the complaint persisted, in part because Trudeau himself had promised that the budget would be returned to balance by 2019.

The Conservatives have lambasted Trudeau for backtracking on that commitment. But now Scheer has abandoned his own promise.

The Liberals lose a talking point


Deficit hawks might decry the concession. But it's the Liberals who might be most disappointed. They were surely looking forward to running against a promise of more dramatic cuts.

The prime minister might find some solace in the fact that he seems to have succeeded in moving the conversation. In the fall of 2015, when he acknowledged that the Liberals would run a deficit, it was considered a bold and potentially ruinous admission. Nearly four years later, his Conservative opponent is having a hard time promising to balance the budget.
Even so, the debate is not entirely over. Absolutely projecting a balanced budget in five years will require some kind of projected cut. Scheer has already promised two tax breaks — removing the GST on home heating costs and making parental benefits tax free — and the Conservative platform presumably will include other commitments to reduce the amount of revenue the federal government takes in. That necessarily will put pressure on the party's projected balance sheet.

There will still be a debate here over the Liberal spending plan versus a Conservative proposal to spend something less. The Liberals will have to justify their spending, the Conservatives will have to explain what they won't spend. The example of Ford's government — which is also promising to balance the provincial budget over a five-year timeframe — will still be cited.

But the great debate over the absolute importance of balancing the federal budget is now a bit less pitched.

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Aaron Wherry has covered Parliament Hill since 2007 and has written for Maclean's, the National Post and the Globe and Mail.

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Joi Scientific gamble necessary to help cap carbon tax bill: NB Power

May 27, 2019, 5:28 pm
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Methinks nobody can deny that I told off the EUB and their many cohorts during the Public Session in Fat Fred City before the latest circus began N'esy Pas?






https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/05/joi-scientific-gamble-necessary-to-help.html
 






https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-joi-scientific-risk-iron-plant-emissions-carbon-tax-1.5149763


Joi Scientific gamble necessary to help cap carbon tax bill: NB Power




107 Comments




Al Clark
What comes out of the bull's anterior orifice.....


Marguerite Deschamps 
Reply to @Al Clark: you!
Bernard McIntyre 
Reply to @Al Clark: I guess some people can say what they want to while others can't . big brother is watching.
 
David Amos
Reply to @Bernard McIntyre: True












David Amos
Methinks it must be a slow "news" day because Murphy said this nonsense last Tuesday N'esy Pas?


Bernard McIntyre
Reply to @David Amos: Well come to the circus. Prohibited for saying the same the same as other people and not as bad as others,
David Amos 
Reply to @Bernard McIntyre: "Well come to the circus"

I should welcome you to the circus as well. I suspect that you must be aware I was barred as an intervener again but I went anyway in order to assist my friend Roger Richard. Furthermore nobody can deny that I told off the EUB and their many cohorts during the the Public Session in Fat Fred City before the latest circus began Anyone can download the questionable transcripts from the public records of the EUB Methinks its a small wonder that we can't get the recordings of the hearings like CBC can N'esy Pas?  
David Amos 
Reply to @David Amos: These documents can be sourced from the records of the 375 Matter Day 1 of the very long hearing was 02/07/2018

http://www.nbeub.ca/opt/M/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=560

02/09/2018 Hearing - Day 3

Page 601

VICE-CHAIRMAN: I was a bit surprised when I heard this morning and
yesterday that you are entering into a contract at the end of February
and is that with respect to the purchase of the smart meters?

MS. CLARK: That's correct.

VICE-CHAIRMAN: So how can you enter into a contract without the
firm approval of this Board, if we are going to approve or not the
AMI? How prudent is that?

MS. CLARK: So we are at the end stages of the contract in terms of
just the final terms and conditions, but we have been very clear that
we -- with the vendor -- and they recognize that, because we also have
Nova Scotia Power, who is part of our consortium, who also needs Board
approval. So should we not get -- this is conditional on EUB
approval. So should we not get EUB approval, the contract would not
proceed.

VICE-CHAIRMAN: Now there was discussion yesterday, I think it was
with Mr. Stoll regarding time of use and time based pricing, and so I
went through the evidence this morning, and in your main evidence, and
I think one of the objective of having the AMI going forward to a time
of use price structure -- rate structure. So am I understanding that
correctly?
David Amos 
Reply to @David Amos:

MS. CLARK: That is correct. And in the evidence, we did answer an
interrogatory on that and you will see that AMI is an enabler for time
varying rates in the Energy Smart NB Plan. And we did have time
varying rates included in our investment rationale. We took it out,
because we couldn't -- we couldn't pinpoint without more detail as to
what those time varying rates may be and the benefit of those, so we
took them out of the investment rationale at this point in time, but
certainly it's something that we are looking at in the future.

VICE-CHAIRMAN: So the fundamental question here is that the Board
should heard -- or hear Matter 357 before approving the AMI? So if we
don't approve time of use, that basically what will happen with your
AMI, I mean it's -- if we don't approve the time of use, which we are
going to hear next year, how can we proceed in approving the AMI
before we look at the rate structure?

MS. CLARK: As we have talked about in our investment rationale,
there are a number of other benefits to both the customer and to the
utility over and above time varying rates that we believe are
important for the utility and for the movement forward of our Energy
Smart New Brunswick plan. Many of those benefits accrue to the
customer. And many of those benefits accrue to the utility and
ultimately the customer. So even if we were not to move in the
direction of time varying rates, we believe that the investment
rationale supports the AMI installation based on the other investment
-- or based on the other benefits that it provides.  
Shawn McShane
Reply to @David Amos: There will be no benefit to the customer just as there is no benefit to the customer with NB Power CEO giving $13 million to his company in Florida.
David Amos 
Reply to @Shawn McShane: Methinks 122 million for smart meters is not chump change Furthermore nobody has seen the contract with Shediac yet N'esy Pas?















Joseph Vacher
This is such a joke - admit you made a terrible mistake, and move on


Shawn McShane
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: You pay NB Power bill too.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Shawn McShane: how do you know? I could be off the grid.

David Amos
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Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you are definitely off your rocker N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Why else would your comment go "Poof" before I could enjoy reading it?
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: Too Too Funny My reply is now gone even after I got several likes
















Paul Bourgoin
New Brunswick, when it comes to marketing the sale of our NB energy, the electricity should be non-negotiable for everybody so industry pays the same as other industries and home owners the same thing bringing an end to Political behind closed doors sweetheart deals. NB Power CEO and the board cannot secretly lower the established NB Power electricity prices.


David Amos 
Reply to @Paul Bourgoin: Methinks you missed the boat about the increases in the various rates for this year because the last day of the public hearing is tomorrow However you should pay close attention to the 357 Matter that many lawyers agree will be ongoing within the EUB for years N'esy Pas?















Shawn McShane
"Green technology" as in how green is your money when converted to United States Dollars at Gaëtan Thomas company in Florida...


David Amos  
Reply to @Shawn McShane: Methinks you should not forget the mininukes N'esy Pas?
















Roy Nichol
There's a new angle on greenwashing. We've done something imprudent, let's say we had to take the risk in the name of clean energy and climate change ... just do not mention there are plenty of proved clean energy sources that could be deployed with certainty that would actually produce energy today.

 
Mark (Junkman) George
Reply to @Roy Nicholl:
I am simply in awe. I would like to know how it feels to gamble $13 million? Has to be a bit of a "rush", doesn't it Gaëtan ?
David Amos   
Reply to @Mark (Junkman) George: Methinks the "rush" is over and Gaëtan is regretting it bigtime about now N'esy Pas?













Greg Miller
With degrees in science I have trouble buying this "new technology" although the process has been investigated for decades. I wish them every success; however, don't be fooled -- if this process is implemented successfully don't think for a moment that your electric bills will go down!


David Amos    
Reply to @Greg Miller: "if this process is implemented successfully don't think for a moment that your electric bills will go down"

I Wholeheartedly Agree Sir














Matthew Smith
good enough for me; I'll just go out and buy lottery tickets with the money for next month's power bill ...

David Amos    
Reply to @Matthew Smith: I had to prepay an estimated NB Power Bill for a couple months before they would take a chance with me and hook me up. Methinks its a rather huge insult that NB Power will gamble with our assets with Yankees while not trusting its own stakeholders N'esy Pas?













Mario Doucet
Quebec pays no carbon taxes.


John Pokiok
Reply to @Mario Doucet: that's because all of their power is produced by damming rivers and using water to produce power that's green renewable energy. They don't use coal oil or nuclear like NB.
 

David Amos   
Reply to @John Pokiok: True















John Pokiok
I wish they used $13 million and fix the musquavash power dam and put it back online that is clean hydro energy it would be lot better spent money than this.


David Amos  
Reply to @John Pokiok: Me Too

















Anne Bérubé
Paying carton tax on a fuel fill-up is going to have precisely no effect on emissions. Why on earth people still thinking it makes a difference? Gee, are you still going to work, grocery stores, malls, etc? Wake up people, there are other ways than giving your money to Justin Trudeau at the Gofundmycarbontax.ca!!! 


Marc Martin
Reply to @Anne Bérubé: Andrew Sheer said he would remove the tax but put in on industries which will increase anything anyways.


David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: Cry me another river















Al Clark
I remember this argument happening once before when GNB was dumping money into a clearly failed company to the tune of 80 million. A five year old could see what was going to result. Oh don't worry, it's just a LOAN many said. Then, the ultra predictable happened. The money mysteriously disappeared. Now , many years later, the star of the show is sitting at his old desk like a quarter billion didn't happen. Great work if you can get it. Hoot and holler all you want, it's a done deal. Deja vu.


Shawn McShane
Reply to @Al Clark: Welcome to the circus.


David Amos   
Reply to @Shawn McShane: Methinks you finally understand why I have been saying that for so long N'esy Pas?

















Daryl Doucette
" It would be costlier to do nothing". Could some one please explain how losing $ 13,000,000 is " costlier" than not losing $ 13,000,000 ?


David Amos   
Reply to @daryl doucette: Methinks the NB Power CFO Darren Murphy does not know how to give a straight answer and keep his job N'esy Pas?













David White
Anyone remember Theranos?


David Amos
Reply to @David White: Better yet does anyone remember my comments before the last election?

Here is one example about the iron plant mentioned in this article

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/maritime-iron-belledune-plant-gallant-1.4721336
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: "Maritime Iron CEO Greg McKenzie could not be reached for comment Friday."

However he bragged of this not long ago

"Maritime Iron Enters into LOI with Mi’gmaq Communities and MTI

Toronto, Ontario (April 25, 2019) – Maritime Iron Inc. (“Maritime Iron” or the “Company”) a privately-owned Canadian development company advancing a merchant pig iron production facility in New Brunswick, Canada, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Letter of Intent with the Mi’gmaq communities of Oinpegitjoig (Pabineau First Nation), Ugpi’ganjig (Eel River Bar) (the “First Nation Communities”) and Mi’gmawe’l Tplu’taqnn Inc (“MTI”).

The purpose of the Letter of Intent is to assist in the development of a framework for several agreements and understandings to be undertaken between the parties.

“Maritime Iron has continued to build a strong relationship with MTI and the Chief’s and Staff of the First Nation Communities. We have held numerous meetings over the past two years which has led us to this point.” said Greg McKenzie, Chairman and CEO of Maritime Iron. “Maritime Iron will continue to approach consultation with an open mind and conduct our business with integrity while dealing in good faith with First Nations. Maritime Iron’s approach to consultation is undertaken in a spirit of mutual respect and trust.”

The parties have agreed that the ‘Relationship, Engagement and Consultation Protocol’ signed by the Belledune Port Authority, First Nation Communities, and MTI on May 31, 2018 will guide and direct the activities of the parties. The Belledune Port Authority has delegated their authority under the protocol agreement to Maritime Iron." 

Joi Scientific gamble necessary to help cap carbon tax bill: NB Power

Utility's clean-energy venture seemingly at odds with proposed iron-ore plant




Jacques Poitras· CBC News·
NB Power paid $13 million to Florida-based Joi Scientific for the licensing fee for unproven clean-energy technology. (Michael Heenan/CBC)

NB Power has told the province's energy regulator that the utility's exposure to carbon pricing forces it to explore new technologies that carry financial risk, including an unproven process to convert seawater into hydrogen energy.

Utility officials told the Energy and Utilities Board that while it's possible NB Power will lose money in its partnership with Joi Scientific, it would be even costlier to do nothing.

But they were not able to answer questions about the financial health of the Florida start-up, which has received $13 million from NB Power.

"It is very early stages," chief financial officer Darren Murphy said during questioning by an EUB lawyer at a hearing last week. "I can't speak directly to that particular company."
Murphy described the $13-million payment to Joi — a licensing fee for what the company says is its zero-carbon-emissions technology — as "a small amount" that may help NB Power avoid a much larger carbon tax bill.

"We have got some significant challenges, one of those challenges being carbon and what is the implication to that," Murphy said, pegging the utility's future carbon price bill as $80-90 million per year if it doesn't cut emissions.

"We need to explore every opportunity to mitigate and minimize this carbon impact on the ratepayers of New Brunswick.



NB Power CFO Darren Murphy said the agreement with Joi was partly to mitigate the effect of carbon pricing on ratepayers. (Robert Jones/CBC)
But Murphy couldn't say whether Joi, which claims to have discovered a new method to extract energy from seawater, is financially viable.

Nor was Murphy able to say what kind of increase in greenhouse gas emissions would come from another initiative: a proposed iron-ore processing plant linked to the Belledune generating station.

"I know that there is some ongoing dialogue to try to appreciate the implications of a facility like that," Murphy said.

Maritime Iron Inc., has acknowledged that its plant would lead to more carbon dioxide emissions in the province.
That leaves NB Power in the position of pursuing one partnership that may increase emissions — while justifying another by pointing to the need to reduce them.

NB Power must find a new fuel source for its coal-powered Belledune generating station by 2030, when a federal coal phaseout takes effect. That forces it to look at new technologies, Murphy said.



Joi Scientific has kept its potentially groundbreaking but unproven technology a secret.
NB Power's $13-million licensing fee to Joi Scientific will give it exclusive rights to first use of the unproven technology, which the company has so far refused to describe publicly or submit for peer-reviewed studies.

The plan is to use the technology to partly power Belledune or a network of smaller generators.
If it works, NB Power can sell the rights to other power utilities and keep a share of the profits. Some energy experts and scientists say Joi's claims are too good to be true.

Recognizing the risk


Half of the $13-million licensing fee came from taxpayers through the province's Regional Development Corporation and half came from NB Power's own research and development budget.

Murphy said the utility recognizes that such spending "will not always turn out with a positive outcome and there will be some need to invest some amount of money that ultimately may not pan out."

He said that's why NB Power uses what it calls a "gating process" to "put boundaries around how much should you put at risk before deciding that this is not a venture that is going to play out."

 

NB Power CEO Gaëtan Thomas was given a seat on Joi's board of directors. (Jon Collicott/CBC)
NB Power CEO Gaëtan Thomas was given a seat on the Joi board of directors "so we could have greater insights as to the organization's operations, its viability, all those kinds of things," Murphy told the EUB.

Even so, he said he was not able to "speak directly" to Joi's financial health.

Hold judgment, asks Joi CEO


In a recent interview with CBC News, Joi CEO Traver Kennedy pointed to what he said was his long career in the software and clean-energy sector.

"I think that while there's often suspicion of corporations and corporate greed and corporate activity, the fact is, I think the track record of my career should speak somewhat to wanting to do good in the world and wanting to create value for people," he said.

"So in that sense, I would ask that people hold their judgment of me until we have gotten this to market."

Energy Minister Mike Holland said on a recent CBC New New Brunswick Political Panel podcast that he hopes the Joi project bears fruit, but he wants to "get to the bottom of" how the deal will work.
At last week's hearing, EUB lawyer Ellen Desmond asked Murphy why NB Power didn't leave the development of new technologies to private-sector investors, rather than putting ratepayers' money at risk.

"It would be nice if we could leave it to others to come up with solutions," Murphy answered. "The others don't have the risk NB Power has."

He said the utility "can't get out from under" that risk.



EUB lawyer Ellen Desmond questioned why NB Power didn't leave the development of new technologies to private-sector investors. (CBC)

When Desmond suggested that Nova Scotia Power is facing "similar risks," Murphy noted that province signed an offset agreement with the federal government that avoided the imposition of the federal carbon tax.

Rather than negotiate such a deal, the previous Liberal government of New Brunswick decided to adopt the federal carbon-pricing plan for industry.

The new Progressive Conservative government is now developing an alternative plan, but until Ottawa approves it, "we continue to carry that risk and need to be at least working away at trying to mitigate it," Murphy said.


Impact of iron plant unclear


The Maritime Iron plant was announced by then-premier Brian Gallant in June 2018, just weeks before the start of the provincial election campaign.

CBC News later revealed that Gallant's government had started shelling out $625,000 in taxpayer money in 2015-16 for "pre-feasibility studies" for the plant. The company received another $91,699 from the province in 2017-18.



Former premier Brian Gallant said in June 2018 the $1-billion plant in Belledune would create 1,000 short-term jobs and more than 200 permanent jobs. (Serge Bouchard/CBC)



Gallant and the company said at the time that while the iron plant would generate new emissions, using some of its gas byproduct at NB Power's Belledune plan would reduce its coal use and emissions.
But Murphy was unable to tell the EUB what the net emissions impacts would be. "Personally, I don't know what those are," he said.

He said ultimately Maritime Iron, not NB Power, "has a big responsibility to research and understand how their facility will be treated from an emissions perspective."

As opposition leader, Premier Blaine Higgs pointed to the Liberal subsidies for Maritime Iron to rebut Gallant's criticism that the PCs lacked a plan on emissions.

"I wouldn't be putting government money into one of the largest emitting plants possible," he said.

Last summer, the company said there would be more details of its emissions impact when it filed its environment impact assessment application. As of Friday, it has not registered for an assessment.

Maritime Iron CEO Greg McKenzie could not be reached for comment Friday.

About the Author


Jacques Poitras
Provincial Affairs reporter
Jacques Poitras has been CBC's provincial affairs reporter in New Brunswick since 2000. Raised in Moncton, he also produces the CBC political podcast Spin Reduxit. 



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Methinks even the spin doctors working for Mr Higgs must have got a giggle out of the exchange between ye old "Blogger General" and I N'esy Pas?


https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/05/higgs-rejects-charge-his-government.html






https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/blaine-higgs-premier-flooding-st-john-river-1.5150903





Higgs rejects charge his government isn't co-operating with Ottawa on flood work



 
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David Amos
Methinks everybody is playing politics with this issue including me but at least Karen Ludwig, Ross Wetmore and Bill Oliver know that I had a very legitimate beef about no access to and from my property in Kars N'esy Pas?


Josef Blow 
Reply to @David Amos: yawn ...

David Amos 

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Reply to @Josef Blow: Is it past your bedtime TJ?

Josef Blow  
Reply to @David Amos: TJ? Have we forgotten to take our stabilization treatment this evening O (self)Anointed One? The air in a Hoover vacuum has more substance, Dave.

David Amos  

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Reply to @Josef Blow: Methinks you are talking to yourself again N'esy Pas? 
 

David Amos   
Reply to @David Amos: Methinks even the spin doctors working for Mr Higgs must have got a giggle out of the exchange between ye old "Blogger General" and I N'esy Pas TJ?












Paul Bourgoin
Well ! ,Well !, it was going to happen sooner or later, but now it is here:
Higgs sounds just like President TRUMP : - (


Joseph Vacher 
Reply to @Paul Bourgoin: in what way? explain yourself

Paul Estey 
Reply to @Joseph Vacher: Yes, Mr Bourgoin please explain yourself....We cant continue to spend money we dont have

Lou Bell 
Reply to @Paul Bourgoin: Looks like the old " playing politics " claim backfired on DeCourcey !

Josef Blow 
Reply to @Joseph Vacher: Mr. Bourgoin will give you three guesses Joe … now, go slowly, think about it … not too fast, but try to draw the parallel between Big Don and Lil Blain … get it yet? He'll send you the crayolas if this proves to be too burdensome.

Marguerite Deschamps 
Reply to @Josef Blow: Alzheimer is setting in into old Lou.

Marc Martin  
Reply to @Paul Bourgoin: Exactly.

Marc Martin  
Reply to @Josef Blow: How much for a blow?

Josef Blow 
Reply to @Marc Martin: I won’t criticize your lack of cerebral matter if you stop ridiculing my name. Speaking of you and cerebral matter in the same sentence is oxymoronic.

Marc Martin 
Reply to @Josef Blow: There is only one word that describe a person like you * sciolist * Have a good now Mr. Blows.

David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you are fine one to joke of such things N'esy Pas?













Dan Lee
Its alive.........alive I tell ya 


David Amos
Reply to @Dan Lee: Methinks Mr Higgs was just having a snooze after his budget passed thanks to Krissy. Now that Matty jerked his chain the temporary premier just playing his part at the Circus before a long hot summer break and the next federal election is upon us N'esy Pas?














Joseph Vacher
What did you do last time Matt? Nothing....... 


David Amos
Reply to @Joseph Vacher: I was wondering the same thing













Colin Seeley
Barfable article. NB is broke. Even 50/50 sharing is unaffordable.

Another pre-election smear from the Liberalized media.


Josef Blow 
Reply to @Colin Seeley: What riding are you running in Col? NB needs a man like youse ...

David Amos 

Content disabled
Reply to @Josef Blow: Methinks you should run in Fundy Royal in October Then we can debate in real space and time N'esy Pas?

David Amos 
Reply to @Josef Blow: Oh My My Methinks that I was correct N'esy Pas?













Roland Godin
Wonderful, wonderful, the three headed friendly dragon(municipal, provincial, federal) each charging horrendous administrations fees, mostly used for political capital, dancing on each other’s projects, programmes and services and the tail end feeding from one financial source; yours et la mienne...et voilà.


David Amos  
Reply to @Roland Godin: Methinks plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose N'esy Pas?















Marc Martin
Isn't higgs the one that said the government should stop paying periquations to provinces ? Cluless party...


John Smith 
Reply to @Marc Martin: i think it was a suggestion it would harm the prov budgets of the folks that want to block a national energy strategy more then those who want one. if irving was smart he would just build a refinery in montreal they apparently have a disdain for tge maritimes and want to see everyone starve from newfoundland to new brunswick no industry permitted since confederation

David Amos  
Reply to @john smith: Methinks it high time New Brunswick had its on Constitution N'esy Pas?


Marc Martin
Reply to @john smith: Its well known that the oil sands CANNOT be processed in the Irving oil refinery, it would cost billions to convert it, billions from the Federal and provincial government that would procure little jobs to NB.



Fred Dee
People like DeCourcey should not be elected, yet alone re-elected. He is a mouth piece for Ottawa, not a mouth piece for the people of Fredericton!!! He is too bust trying to please Justin and get re-elected to look after the voters of Fredericton!!


David Amos  
Reply to @Fred Dee: I concur














John Smith
i think it was a suggestion it would harm the prov budgets of the folks that want to block a national energy strategy more then those who want one. if irving was smart he would just build a refinery in montreal they apparently have a disdain for tge maritimes and want to see everyone starve from newfoundland to new brunswick


David Amos   
Reply to @john smith: Methinks everybody knows that the Irving Clan would not fare very well in Quebec particularly after their recent game with Admiral Norman N'esy Pas?
















Paul Bourgoin
Premier Blaine Higgs says New Brunswick has been co-operating with the federal government But they (the federal government) don't listen to what I say, or do what I tell them to do!!


David Amos  
Reply to @Paul Bourgoin: Methinks you forgot the francophonie games nonsense or the fact that they didn't like Mr Higgs pulling out of the fancy four lane highway project in Dominic Leblanc's and Brian Gallant's neck of the woods N'esy Pas?
 
 
Marc Martin  
Reply to @Paul Bourgoin: Yeah that's pretty much it !!
 
 
Marc Martin 
Reply to @David Amos: Cry me a river....
 
 
David Amos 
Reply to @Marc Martin: Methinks you cry enough for both of us N'esy Pas?






Higgs rejects charge his government isn't co-operating with Ottawa on flood work

Federal government recently announced 4 flood mitigation projects in New Brunswick


Elizabeth Fraser· CBC News·

Keith McKay and Dee Branston use a canoe to carry food to a house on Jarvis Street in Fredericton on April 26. (Stephen MacGillivray/Canadian Press)


Premier Blaine Higgs says New Brunswick has been co-operating with the federal government on flood mitigation ever since water levels started to swell along the St. John River this spring.

Although he acknowledged a couple of areas where the two governments don't see eye to eye, Higgs said Monday that they have worked together closely in response to the flood.

"For me, it's more important to focus on the needs of those that have been impacted," Higgs said.

He was responding to Fredericton MP Matt DeCourcey, who expressed frustration last week with what he saw as the province's lack of interest in working with the federal government on flood remediation projects.

"The provincial government doesn't want to invest with us in important infrastructure for fear of having people like me re-elected," DeCourcey told CBC News.

DeCourcey said he reached out to Environment Minister Jeff Carr on May 16 to start the process of identifying and prioritizing infrastructure work that Ottawa has already agreed to fund, but he didn't get an answer.
After learning through "local media" that Carr considered DeCourcey's efforts a political gimmick, the Liberal MP said he decided to write an open letter to Progressive Conservative Premier Blaine Higgs.

But Higgs said it appears both DeCourcey and Carr thought the other was playing politics.

"I think they probably both share the thought that politics was being played here, but that's between the two of them," Higgs said in an interview with Information Morning Fredericton. "I'm not going to get involved with that."

When the flooding started this year, he said, his government contacted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office and requested military assistance right away.


Three weeks ago, Premier Blaine Higgs met with federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau to discuss support for New Brunswick residents affected by flooding (CBC)

"Within less than 48 hours I had a call from Prime Minister Trudeau offering whatever assistance was needed," he said.

"Once we knew, actually, that it was going to meet the thresholds of disaster relief, we were applying to the federal government. We took advantage of that during the flood."

Since then, he said, the province has also been doing an assessment of flood damage incurred this past spring.

CBC News asked for an interview with Carr but was told he wasn't available.

Higgs meets with Canada's finance minister


Three weeks ago, Higgs also met with federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau and discussed support for New Brunswick residents affected by flooding and financial help to fix roads and bridges. Higgs said they also discussed future mitigation projects.

On Friday, the federal government announced four New Brunswick flood mitigation projects worth more than $660,000 in federal funding.

Higgs said those projects have been in the works for the past "several weeks."

One of the projects includes more than $172,000 toward a risk assessment that will identify flood hazards, potential impacts and community and infrastructure vulnerabilities in Fredericton. The federal government will also fund the replacement of the Corbert Brook Culvert "to ensure a reliable potable water connection" in Fredericton for $640,000.



CBC News
Is flooding along the St. John River the new norm?
 For two years in a row, floodwater reached historic levels along the lower St. John River system. 1:27


Another $81,500 will go to flood mitigation in Saint John, and another $461,500 will fund flood-proofing upgrades of the Musquash Water Pumping Station in Saint John.

"The purpose was to let them know we had reached that threshold and we would be seeking funding."
Earlier this month, the Progressive Conservative government also increased the amount of advanced funding to property owners to $15,000 from $4,000 to allow residents to return home sooner.

Spending on infrastructure that needs fixing


Higgs did say DeCourcey could be getting confused with infrastructure projects the province has cancelled or postponed that don't have anything to do with flooding, such as a new building for the New Brunswick Museum.

"I said I would welcome funding for support for projects that we actually have to fix, like roads and bridges and things that are in bad shape that we need help on."

How the St. John River floods
 How high will the St. John River rise this spring, and does the Mactaquac Dam have anything to do with it? A New Brunswick flood, explained. 1:26

Higgs said the only areas where provincial and federal governments see significant debate is the federal carbon tax and spending money on things the province believes New Brunswickers don't need.

"We have money to spend on real infrastructure projects that we need to repair and replace," Higgs said. "And that's what I want to focus on and not raise more taxes to create a project that we don't need to have."

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NB Power's proposed rate increase is based on stale data, lawyer tells EUB

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Reply to @Bloody Macbeth: Methinks the old bard said Lady Macbeth doth protest too much N'esy Pas?


https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/05/nb-powers-proposed-rate-increase-is.html







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David Amos
Surprise Surprise Surprise  


David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: Go Figure

"Stoll and Black both suggested the EUB could set rates at any level it considered "fair and reasonable," while J.D. Irving Ltd. lawyer Christopher Stewart and NB Power lawyer John Furey both said notice would likely be required." 


David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: Enjoy

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

Matter 430

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

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

Page 115

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

MR. AMOS: First I guess I should thank you for your signature, sir. I am probably the only man that wanted to intervene that you barred twice thus far. At least this time I have your signature, that and Mr. Herron’s and Mr. Costello. Everybody knows I ran against Mr. Herron in the election of the 38th parliament. And his lawyer, another Queen’s Counsel, David Lutz never answered me. So I filed the very same documents that I served upon Mr. Herron and David Lutz in 2004. That said, at that time, I believe you were the lawyer for the Saint John utilities.
Anyway, Mr. Furey of NB Power, in his opposition to my intervening this time, didn’t think my whistle blowing efforts against KPMG amounted to anything, even though I gave you the proof I was conferring with Diane Lebouthiller, the Commissioner of Revenue Canada. Well if you don’t think a whistle blower who understands the malice of a law firm and an accounting firm has the right to intervene, who also owns property here and is a ratepayer, I don’t know who is. If you had said such things of Stephen Harper, he would consider it libel. So do I.  


David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: Continued

The other two fellows that signed, Mr. Herron and Mr. Costello are not lawyers. But Mr. Costello and Mr. Ewing both worked for Bell Aliant. If you looked at the documents I sent, I even had a request for information from their former lawyer for Bell back in 2004. It took them four days to print my files.
Anyway, when I first intervened in the 357 Matter, and you asked me why I intervened, I introduced myself. And I said every lawyer in the room knows who I am. And you do. And you did not stop me from intervening in the 357 Matter and I thank you for that. I am still an intervener in that Matter.
The next hearing they take -- or Mr. Furey takes documents from the 357 Matter, takes out certain documents, uses them against me and you barred me without one word in writing. I opposed you delaying the 357 Matter with a proper motion and you never answered that motion. When you barred me just before you were done, you never put anything in writing. So the last time I said, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. Now Mr. Furey filed a bunch of documents and then accused me of things I did not say from a transcript where I was never given a recording of it. I never threatened to kill anyone. Who are you people to say any different. That said, the last thing I said to you, Mr. Gorman, is do you understand the documents that are already on file. You wouldn’t answer me.  


David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: Continued

Mr. Herron, who I have debated in several debates, looked like a deer in the headlights. He wouldn’t say one word the whole time we were there. As I explained to you, this is a rate increase hearing. When -- the last meeting we had at the 357 Matter, none of you guys knew what to do because Mr. Gallant wanted to be Premier again. His people appointed you to be Chair again.
David ****, the -- who had lots to say about NB Power when he was just a guy, was now opposing Mr. Gallant’s promise to freeze rates for at least three years. Well Mr. Gallant isn’t Premier. However, a Cabinet Minister’s wife, you allowed to intervene halfway through a hearing. Interesting. Then as soon as Mr. Higgs becomes Premier, NB Power all of a sudden wants a rate increase. Ain’t that interesting. Where is the Green Party.
Now when I first intervened in the 357 Matter, you didn’t want my friend Gerald Bourque to intervene because he is a leader of a fledgling political party. He is still intervening. Gerald Bourque, my friend Roger Richard who I will back up till the cows come home and I all ran in the last provincial election. My friend Roger Richard clearly stated his issues were Smart Meters. You should still not allow Smart Meters until the 357 Matter is heard. I am still an intervener there.  


David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: Continued

I will address your libel against me in the proper venue. In my opinion that’s federal court. You are a Queen’s Counsel, you are probably aware that New Brunswick does not have a constitution. I filed the documents that proved that I was involved in a National Energy Board matter in Saint John while you were a counsellor for the Utilities. Mr. Morrison, who is hearing a trial of a friend of mine’s murder, Dick Oland, was NB Power’s lawyer at the National Energy Board hearing. Did not surprise me when Mr. Furey took out his boss’ documents from those days. He used to work for Brad Green. And yet inserts a judgment by Mr. Morrison of Patterson & Palmer about barring some woman to speak because she is frivolous and vexatious. I don’t know why you think because some woman is frivolous and vexatious that I am too. I am no less a man than you.
Now as far as these people in New Brunswick goes, I do speak on behalf of my fellow New Brunswicker. The average income, from what I read in CBC, of a New Brunswicker is about 31,000. I bet you there is not one soul in this room that makes over double that. From these -- most folks to make a salary of 31,000, it is comprised of a lot of people that make a lot less than 31,000 and then a lot of people that make a lot more, like the people in this room. But a lot of people are like me, seniors getting by on old Age pensions and Canada Pension or people working at Tim Hortons and trying to raise a couple of kids. And a lot of folks have to balance their heat bill versus their grocery bill or their pharma bill.


David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: Continued

And yet NB Power has got all kinds of money for their highest paid employee, a Yankee who makes like $750,000 to invest in mini nucs and try to peddle them around the world. Well the last thing I know about NB Power, its mandate, is to provide my fellow New Brunswickers reliable energy at a reasonable price. You make lots of electricity now, in fact, you sell it to other jurisdictions. I used to be in business. I would like to have $1.7 billion in sales, owed 5 billion. I think I would get out of debt pretty quick. You are supposed to have 20 percent equity before you invest in Mactaquac. Just from what I look at the books, what KPMG says we have for assets I think is what, 6.7 billion, book value nearly 5 billion. Well the difference between book value and what the assets are, you are already over 20 percent equity. There is no need for a price increase. There is no need to borrow money to invest in mini nucs for the benefit of a bunch of Yankees. I find all of this very aggravating. The reason that you bar me is because I sue lawyers and love to argue.
Mr. Gorman, you and I will meet in another court. In my humble opinion, you need a lawyer. Good evening.
CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Mr. Amos. All right. Next we will have Frank Jopp.
MR. JOPP: Good evening.
CHAIRMAN: Good evening.













 

Marguerite Deschamps
Have no fear, David Amos to the rescue!


Johnny Jakobs 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: wow! Someone that try's to hold NB Power accountable and you sarcastically mock him. Are you a housewive of Point Lepreau?? What's your issue??


Harold Benson  
Reply to @Johnny Jakobs: Exactly.

David Amos
Reply to @Johnny Jakobs: Thank You Kind Sir 
 

Marguerite Deschamps
I see that Davie is your hero now! 


Harold Benson 
Reply to @Johnny Jakobs: Keeps us well informed about the b s that goes on at that place.


Harold Benson  
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Dave knows more about the shenanigans that go on at NB power than anyone does. I listen to him on the subject before Gaytan or any of those guys.


Johnny Jakobs
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: lol... says the housewive of Point Lepreau. You obviously profit from NBPower.













Roy Kirk
If notice is require for the board to exercise its discretion in setting rate, then such notice should have been given as part of the board's original notice of hearing. But it seem to me that the requirement for such notice fetters the discretion of the board to set a rate that's fair based on the evidence it has seen during the hearing. The EUB should be able to vary nbp proposals up or down, not just down, And the fact of the hearing constitutes notice that a fair fate will be set.
Of course, given past practice in gerrymandering nbp rates to serve well-connected interests, it's understandable that such interests would like that to continue.


David Amos
Reply to @Roy Kirk: "The EUB should be able to vary nbp proposals up or down,"

Methinks the EUB proved that fact last year N'esy Pa?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-smart-metres-denied-1.4755023

"But the smart meter rejection was just the beginning of the bad news for NB Power.

The board also disallowed $8.7 million in costs NB Power had sought approval for in its application and ordered the utility to reduce its application for a 1.5 percent rate increase accordingly.

"The Board concludes that it is appropriate in this matter to apply the cost disallowances to reduce the requested average rate increase," read the decision.

That is likely to reduce the approved rate increase for customers this year to one percent, although it is up to NB Power to recalculate what the precise reduction will be and submit that back to the EUB next week for approval."













Roger Thompson
Maybe if the corporation was under competent management and instead of diverting monies from real progress into magic JOI beans the residence of New Brunswick would feel some comfort. Why do they not look at some real funding for solar subsidies for residential, put a REAL incentive to users reducing their demand of the grid and building a distributed system and self sufficient energy. We are quickly heading towards a cliff for energy demand and available resources. Put a real effort towards real progress, not some imaginary pot of gold. How many times must New Brunswick people be boondoggled by this corporation. Coleson Cove, Beldune, Point Lepreau refit, Orimulsion, NB Power is and always has been a New Brunswick Joke.


Johnny Jakobs
Reply to @Roger Thompson: Well said!


David Amos 
Reply to @Roger Thompson: "NB Power is and always has been a New Brunswick Joke"

Welcome to the Circus
















John Valcourt
These companies can manipulate any information they want to justify an increase. They all do it. But until this company stops wasting money on big fat bonuses and high wages, especially for a government owned company, or basically one that we own they shouldn't be raising rates.


David Amos  
Reply to @John Valcourt: "These companies can manipulate any information they want to justify an increase"

The lawyers do the same all day long in order to promote their client's interests. This Scott Stoll, a snobby lawyer from Toronto speaking for Saint John et al is a very good example. I wonder if he had bothered to read my document on file within the EUB. If Stoll had done so he would have noticed i was arguing a US Attorney and Yankee Attorney General and legions of Yankee lawyers before he was ever admitted to the Ontario Bar. Trust that early on within the EUB 357 Matter I made Stoll well aware of my concerns about his association with Hugh Segal as the Senior Strategic Advisor to his law firm. Need I say I was not surprised when Stoll asked the EUB to bar me form the hearings after Peter Van Loan a former Minister of Public Safety under Harper.became a new law firm partner of his? Trust that Stoll knows that he needs a lawyer to speak for him in short order or my name ain't "Just Dave"

Methinks folks should Google "Harper and Bankers" sometime N'esy Pas?












June Arnott
We sooo need someone to stand up to government and crown corporations. It is insane that there are BONUSES when the company is not making enough and in debt.


David Amos  
Reply to @June Arnott: Methink I should introduce you to my friend Roger Richard N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/eub-hearings-nb-power-smart-meters-1.4529640


David Amos  
Reply to @David Amos:
New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board
Commission de L’Energie et des Services Publics N.-B.

Matter 430

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

Held at the Delta Hotel, Saint John, N.B., on May 28th 2019.

Page 902

VICE-CHAIRMAN: So I guess we are done, Mr. Stewart, with you. Docteur Richard, est-ce que vous avez des arguments finals a présenté à la Commission?

DR. RICHARD: Oui.

VICE-CHAIRMAN: Peut-être - venir en avant ici. Est-ce que vous allez faire ça en français ou en anglais?

DR. RICHARD: En français. Je l’avais préparé en français.

VICE-CHAIRMAN: Okay. So, Mr. Furey, Dr. Richard is going to do this in French, so, I don’t know if you the -- your hearing --

MR. FUREY : We are getting them, Mr. Vice-Chair.

VICE-CHAIRMAN: Okay. Thank you. Peut-être attendre quelques instants, Docteur Richard. Unfortunately Mr. Furey, I don’t know which channel it is. It’s number one? Okay. You’re ready Mr. Furey? Docteur Richard? 


David Amos  
Reply to @David Amos: Continued 

DR. RICHARD: A Google Translation

Mr. President, dear fellow citizens.
It's nice to see people of all ages talking so enthusiastically about something that is essential to our modern life. I also notice that they are concerned about their health. This environment was only revealed to me during the 375 instance.
For a long time I have had concerns about decisions that are made without considering the effects on health, the environment and our financial situation.
It is important to realize that rapid advances in information technology and biotechnology are not being followed at the same pace by government health and environmental protection services. Dr. Héroux has clearly explained why it will take time for Health Canada to realize and manage the dangers of these new technologies.
As long as manufacturers are not governed by a strong government control system, they are going to put appliances on the market as it is currently approved, but not necessarily on what is reasonable for people and the environment. You have to know that there are places where people have decided to use an advanced metering infrastructure, AMI, which communicate using a wire and not Wi-Fi. They have made that choice for health reasons. For the moment, it is up to our small group to decide what is appropriate for our 750,000 citizens. 


David Amos  
Reply to @David Amos: Continued

I encourage you to wait in your purchases, a long pause. Please, contact independent persons. Last Friday, May 24, Mr. Todd told us that NB Power compares very well with other energy companies in the country even though we do not have the IMA.
NB Power does not have the mandate to charge for electricity on a variable basis over time, which is the main reason for the AMI. In addition, one of the decisions of the 375 instance was to refuse the AMI. Is not it a bit premature to do an AMI test in the city of Shediac? Our former Gallant Government bequeaths a curious heritage to this city.
When I talk about buying new technologies, I'm not talking just about the AMI, but about glyphosate herbicide and the blue light of street lights, LEDs. We must add the new mini-nuclear power plants with their toxic residues that will add to those of the Pointe-Lepreau generating station in addition to the costs necessary to eventually dismantle them. We must also talk about the new hydrogen production plants of the company Joi Scientific. For this last adventure, we have not yet had the presence of mind to design a plan to eliminate the bleach produced by this process but we get involved head first.
Hopefully, this period of reflection may allow us to realize that the reconstruction of the Mactaquac Dam is not for the good of the people. All of these projects create unnecessary challenges for our people, our environment and our finances.


David Amos   
Reply to @David Amos: Continued 

New Brunswick is well ahead of other jurisdictions because of our small size. Indeed, it is quite easy for us to change direction unlike a big province. In addition, it can delay the deployment of a technology without being noticed too much by anyone. In doing so, we have the opportunity to benefit from the experience of others. This way of doing things can save us a lot of headaches.
Our health system is already overused. Our environment is in a pitiful state. And what about the financial situation of Energy New Brunswick or the province? A small error of judgment can have a devastating effect.
During this time of reflection, pay our debt. Let's buy neighboring provinces electricity from hydroelectric dams to help us survive the coldest months of the year. This electricity, purchased from our neighbors, will prevent us from producing nuclear power or hydrocarbons. It is also a good plan for us to avoid the Ottawa carbon tax.
Finally, thank you for taking the time to listen to me. I also thank all the staff who manage these meetings. Especially secretaries, translators, stenographers.


David Amos   
Reply to @David Amos: Continued

VICE-CHAIRMAN: Merci, Docteur Richard.

MR. HERRON: Thank you, Mr President. Maybe it's a chance for me to practice my French a bit. I hope Mr. Richard can have a little patience with that. I have a question. This topic was a subject where we discussed before with Mr. Stewart and Mr. Furey at the same time. This question is about the costs of ice storms, wind and floods. Do you have a preference for - averaging 3 years, 4 years or 10 years? Do you have a position on this issue?

DR. RICHARD: I tend to think that - our average should be as fair as possible, so 3 years or 5 years.

MR. HERRON: Merci. Ça c’est tout.

VICE-CHAIRMAN: Monsieur Costello, est ce que vous avez des questions? Merci beaucoup. Vos arguments finals, Docteur Richard, sont bien apprécies. Merci.

CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Dr. Richard. We will adjourn for approximately an hour and come back as close to 1:00 as possible at which time we will hear submissions form Mr. Stoll and from Ms. Black and rebuttal. So we will adjourn until 1:00.















Alex Butt
To no surprise nb power is once again asking for more from residential rate payers. We are all just endless sources of money so Mr thomas & co can get rich and waste millions on magic cures.


June Arnott 
Reply to @Alex Butt: MORE BONUS MONEY FOR HIM


David Amos 
Reply to @June Arnott: YUP











Mike Miles
Wow, so you have 5 year old "sales" data and your trying to set a price today based off that data?? Honestly where do they get these people from? Not the business world I'll tell you that!


Harold Benson 
Reply to @Mike Miles: That 's exactly where they came from.......


Mike Miles 
Reply to @Harold Benson: I guess that the saddest part.


David Amos   
Reply to @Mike Miles: Methinks the Irving Clan and everybody else and his dog who has been in business knows that its a dog eat dog world and that he with the gold makes the rules N'esy Pas? 
 

Mike Miles
Reply to @David Amos: Methinks they are public companies, owned by (wait for it) US!!!! So privatize or give the owners a say, I think the board or at least CEO's for Crown Corps should be elected. Imagine, they would have to present a clear concrete plan for growth and management. Sure they may not listen, but then they are gone after their term. Not there to mess things up for decades.


David Amos 
Reply to @Mike Miles: Methinks you should download the documents from this hearing and checkout the deals NB Power is making with the publicly held Yankee company known as Emera N'esy Pas? 












Daryl Doucette
They need more money to invest in shady schemes....fill your pockets lads. Everyone else does.


David Amos 
Reply to @daryl doucette: Methinks many a true word is said in jest N'ey Pas? 
 
Daryl Doucette
Reply to @David Amos: oh yeah.


Bloody Macbeth 
Reply to @David Amos: Methinks N'esy Pas must of been word of the day on Pee-Wees Playhouse.


David Amos  
Reply to @Bloody Macbeth: Methinks the old bard said Lady Macbeth doth protest too much N'esy Pas? 











 
Brian Robertson
Just lock the rate increases to the rate of inflation.
This annual farse is such a waste of time. money and resources.


David Amos 
Reply to @Brian Robertson: "This annual farse is such a waste of time. money and resources."

I Wholeheartedly Agree Sir Methinks that is why the greedy lawyers illegally bar me from intervening and spoiling their games with our money N'esy Pas?
 

NB Power's proposed rate increase is based on stale data, lawyer tells EUB

Energy and Utilities Board is expected to decide on rates next month, with new rates taking effect July 1







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Scott Stoll, a lawyer representing municipal utilities in Saint John, Edmundston and Perth-Andover, told the hearing NB Power data didn't take into account the changes residential customers have made to reduce consumption. (Graham Thompson/CBC)
NB Power's case for raising rates on residential customers 2.9 per cent while other other customers get smaller increases is based on stale and unreliable data and should be rejected, the Energy and Utilities Board was told Tuesday.

The EUB concluded six days of hearings into NB Power's request for an average 2.5 per cent rate increase this year.

The proposed increase includes a 2.9 per cent hike for residential customers offset by lesser 1.7 per cent increases for others, including commercial, institutional and small industrial customers.





Scott Stoll, a lawyer representing municipal electric utilities in Saint John, Edmundston and Perth-Andover, told the hearing the "differential" was unfair to residential customers because the rationale behind it is untrustworthy.

"We have some fundamental basic issues of where we are," said Stoll.

"Given the level of comfort we have in the accuracy of the data, how can this board be assured it is fixing the real problem?"






On Tuesday, the Energy and Utilities Board concluded six days of hearings into NB Power's request for an average 2.5 per cent rate increase this year.

In previous hearings, the EUB has ruled customers should be paying rates high enough to cover at least 95 per cent of the costs they cause NB Power. The utility's current estimate is that residential customers pay only 93 per cent.

But Stoll argued the estimate is based on limited and unreliable five-year-old information that has not been adjusted to incorporate recent changes residential customers have made in their consumption patterns, including the installation of thousands of residential heat pumps across New Brunswick.

"Known errors are added on known errors," Stoll said. "Are we to have confidence that we have the appropriate remedy?"

The EUB has an entire hearing scheduled for later this year to sort through who should be paying what for electricity sold by NB Power.


Wants issue investigated


Stoll recommended giving every customer group the same 2.5 per cent rate increase now and re-evaluating whether residential customers should pay more after the issue is investigated more thoroughly.

Also questioning the size of the residential rate increase was Heather Black, the public intervener
She told the hearing if NB Power had used a different cost evaluation method and residential customers got credit for what they spend on water heater rentals, they would already be paying more than 95 per cent of their costs.

"I submit the board should consider adopting a method of applying differential rate increases that's less punishing to residential ratepayers," said Black.






Public intervener Heather Black questioned the size of the residential rate increase, which is higher than the proposed increase for industry. (Graham Thompson/CBC)


She endorsed a proposal that would see NB Power get an average increase of 2.5 per cent but with slightly less of that coming from residential and commercial customers than NB Power proposes and more coming from industrial, small industrial, wholesale and other customers.

"As a matter of fairness to residential ratepayers, who will be subject to a higher than average rate increase, in my view the board should consider applying its own judgment in setting differential rates to accomplish a more fair distribution of the burden," said Black.

Raymond Gorman, the EUB chair, asked whether the board could make a change that would impose higher rate increases on some customers than NB Power had asked for without first notifying those customers and giving them an opportunity to respond.

Stoll and Black both suggested the EUB could set rates at any level it considered "fair and reasonable," while J.D. Irving Ltd. lawyer Christopher Stewart and NB Power lawyer John Furey both said notice would likely be required.

A decision from the EUB is expected next month with new rates likely to take effect July 1.

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Charging Donald Trump with crime wasn't an option, Robert Mueller says

May 29, 2019, 10:43 am
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YO Zoe  Methinks if any one Trump's lawyers knew how to read page 2 of this old file they would have easily seen that I proved long ago that Mueller and I are far from done with our spit and chew N'esy Pas? 



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







https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dc-mueller-statement-1.5153877



 

Charging Donald Trump with crime wasn't an option, Robert Mueller says





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Zoe Mitchell
Kudos - well done - Trumpers are as usual spinning like a new machine....or don't even comprehend what just happened. There is only ONE conclusion after watching Mueller on TV just now - HE COULD NOT INDICITE A SITTING PRESIDENT. Get that through your empty noggins. 


David Amos
Reply to @Zoe Mitchell: Methinks if any one Trump's lawyers knew how to read page 2 of this old file they would have easily seen that I proved long ago that Mueller and I are far from done with our spit and chew N'esy Pas?

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




Charging Donald Trump with crime wasn't an option, Robert Mueller says

Mueller, who delivered his report in March, doesn't take questions from reporters

 
 
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Robert Mueller last month in Washington: House Democrats are trying to get the former FBI director, who oversaw the special counsel probe, to testify. (Cliff Owen/Associated Press)



Special counsel Robert Mueller said Wednesday charging the president of the United States with a crime was not an option his office could consider, given existing Justice Department guidelines that a sitting president cannot be indicted.

Mueller told a news conference he was speaking to the report as his time in the Justice Department would come to a close imminently and he would return to private life.

House Democrats have tried to arrange, so far without success, for Mueller to testify publicly. Mueller indicated that he was not open to testifying beyond what was said in the report and his statement.



THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. EARLIER STORY BELOW
Special counsel Robert Mueller is making his first public statement with respect to his nearly two-year long Russia investigation later this morning.

Mueller, a former FBI director, hasn't commented publicly since being appointed special counsel in May 2017 to investigate "any links and/or co-ordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; and any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation."

Since Mueller delivered his report in late March, it has been the subject of partisan dispute in Congress and at the White House.

President Donald Trump has claimed the report exonerates him and his campaign team of "collusion."
Mueller's report did not exonerate Trump on obstruction of justice charges.

In an upcoming book, Siege: Trump Under Fire, controversial author Michael Wolf has claimed Mueller's team drew up a three-page obstruction indictment for Trump but decided not to pursue it.

Wolff has cited documents he's seen, but a Mueller spokesperson, Peter Carr, told the Guardian newspaper on Wednesday that the documents as Wolff described "do not exist."
Mueller's report concluded that for the purposes of a successful criminal prosecution, it could not be established that Trump campaign associates conspired with Russian officials to sway the election.

With respect to a controversial June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower in New York attended by Russian individuals promising dirt on Hillary Clinton as well as Paul Manafort, Donald Trump Jr. and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, Mueller said "the government would unlikely be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the … meeting participants had general knowledge that their conduct was unlawful."

Attempts by Trump associates to lie about the meeting once it was publicly reported "may reflect an intention to avoid political consequences rather than any prior knowledge of illegality," he wrote.


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Why the Mueller report doesn't exonerate Trump for obstruction
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The Mueller Report identified a series of episodes involving Trump that the special counsel considered potential obstructions of justice. But Robert Mueller chose to not charge Trump with a crime. CBC's Washington correspondent Keith Boag walks us through the long-anticipated report. 23:03
 
 
As well, Mueller said it wasn't clear that the thing of value that was being offered to the Trump campaign rose to the level that made it a contravention of federal election law.

The report did say that members of the campaign "deleted relevant communications" that hindered the investigation.

As well, several Trump associates have been ensnared as a result of the investigation or ancillary probes, including former campaign manager Paul Manafort, Manafort's second-hand Rick Gates, former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen, and low-level foreign policy advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos. They were charged with various offences, with Manafort and Cohen currently in prison.

Attorney general criticized


Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, is said to have co-operated with the Mueller team. A federal judge has set a Friday deadline for the Justice Department to make public unredacted portions of the Mueller report that pertain to Flynn, plus transcripts of Flynn's calls with former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, and of a voicemail during which someone connected to Trump referenced Flynn's co-operation.

Dozens of Russian individuals and entities were also indicted in Mueller's probe, most related for intrusions of Democratic and Clinton campaign computer systems and for online and social media efforts to sow discord in the U.S. election. The report concluded those efforts largely favoured the Trump campaign over Clinton.


Many Democrats have slammed Attorney General William Barr, believing he has been acting more in President Donald Trump's interest than that of the nation. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press)

Democrats in Congress and a lone House Republican, Justin Amash of Michigan, have heavily criticized Trump's attorney general William Barr for a four-page summary he delivered on Mueller's report as well as for the number of redactions in the report.

Mueller, for his part, privately complained to Barr in a letter that the attorney general's summary did not adequately capture the investigation's findings. Barr has called Mueller's letter "snitty."

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Ultimately, the special counsel “recogniz[ed] that the President would not be interviewed voluntarily” and chose not to subpoena him because of concerns that the resulting “potentially lengthy constitutional litigation” would delay completion of the investigation.
Justin Amash✔@justinamash
Barr has so far successfully used his position to sell the president’s false narrative to the American people. This will continue if those who have read the report do not start pushing back on his misrepresentations and share the truth.
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The House Democrats have tried to arrange, so far without success, for Mueller to testify publicly.
While Trump first praised Mueller after Barr's summary was released, the president has more recently returned to a recurring theme, alleging without evidence that the Mueller team was a collection of "angry Democrats," with the origins of the Russia probe characterized by political bias.

Barr, currently travelling, was not present at Mueller's appearance.
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Relaxing bilingual rules for paramedics would violate charter, judge rules

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Methinks her former McInnes Cooper partners such as Justice Richard Bell, Lenny Hoyt and Franky Boy McKenna would think me crazy if I did not find a little fun with the appointments of Denise LeBlanc N'esy Pas?


https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/05/relaxing-bilingual-rules-for-paramedics.html






https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/judge-ruling-bilingual-paramedics-1.5153849





Relaxing bilingual rules for paramedics would violate charter, judge rules





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David Amos
Methinks her former McInnes Cooper law firm parteners such as Justice Richard Bell, Lenny Hoyt and Franky Boy McKenna would think me crazy if I did not find a little fun with the appointments of Denise LeBlanc. Nobody can deny that I had dealings with her associates when she was she was a member of the New Brunswick Securities Commission, a president of the Canadian Bar Association, chaired dispute panels under the Canadian Agreement on Internal Trade and a Tribunal Chairperson under the province's Mental Health Act, I doubt the liberal lawyers Dominic Leblanc, Brian Gallant, Serge Rouselle mentioned any of this to Jody Wilson Raybould N'esy Pas?


Josef Blow
Reply to @David Amos: Dave, start your own newspaper for god’s sake! You can make the front page everyday! You have far too much in common from a narcissistic perspective, with the orange-haired guy to be on here. 







John Valcourt
Then it is time to amend the offical languages act and the charter.


David Amos 
Reply to @John Valcourt: I concur










David Amos
A little Deja Vu N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/official-languages-act-review-1.5051487

Ottawa launches review of official-languages law 50 years after its introduction

"The federal government is launching a review of the Official Languages Act, saying it is time to modernize the decades-old law.

The 1969 law enshrined Canadians' right to receive federal services in English or French.

The last major reform of the law was in 1988 and there have been recent calls to update it again, including from a Senate committee that late last month said the act needs to be applied more effectively and consistently."


Mack Leigh:
Reply to @David Amos: And in that review they are only allowing the Francophones to have a voice and be heard... The rest of us are to shut-up and put up.... This is all about Power and Control with Language being the weapon of choice.. 


David Amos
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Methinks you may not know about the interesting letter I got from the liberal lawyer known as Minister Melanie Joly a couple of years ago but I did publish on the Internet just like I always do N'esy Pas? 










Lou Bell
The " McKenna Law . He and the SANB assured there would be no Anglophone rights in their way to get complete control of the Province. Mission accomplished.


Cleve Gallant  
Reply to @Lou Bell: Yup you’re absolutely right,It’s becoming ridiculous when a carpenter gets fired because he couldn’t speak french to his hammer,


Josef Blow
Reply to @Cleve Gallant: some folks don’t even know how little they know .
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Cleve Gallant 
Reply to @Josef Blow: And you’re a Prime example lol !!!

David Amos 
Reply to @Cleve Gallant: "And you’re a Prime example lol !!! "

I agree

Confucius said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge"" But Trolls pretending to be wiseguys don't know that N'esy Pas?














Jake Newman
time to use the notwithstanding clause


Daryl Doucette 
Reply to @Jake Newman: YES! 
 

Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @daryl doucette: you cannot invoke the notwithstanding clause in order to trump language rights. It can only override sections 2 and 7 to 15. Case closed !


David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: "It can only override sections 2 and 7 to 15. Case closed ! "

Methinks Bernie Lord, Serge Rouselle, Brian Gallant, Michel Doucet, Michel Carrier and all your other SANB leagel buddies need to review Federal Court File No T--1557-15 ASAP N'esy Pas?















Michael G. L. Geraldson
Paramedics typically work in teams of two. As long as one is bilingual wouldn't that suffice? The bilingual rides with the patient and the other drives the ambulance.


David Amos 
Reply to @Michael G. L. Geraldson: Methinks the SANB would never allow common sense to be applied to this issue N'esy Pas?

















Les Cooper
NB will never improve as long as it's bilingual.


Marguerite Deschamps 
Reply to @Les Cooper: Switzerland is doing quite well with four official languages.

Brian Robertson 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: What?
Aren't you going to bring up Belgium too.
The thing is, both Countries operate as a loose federation of seperate states. It's not the overlapped multilingual abomination that has been imposed upon New Brunswick.
Also, there is a factual need for working knowledge of multiple languages in Europe. Here in New Brunswick, as in Canada itself, the ONLY need for a working knowledge of French is one imposed by the Government; not the people.

Mack Leigh 
Reply to @Brian Robertson: Bravo Brian,,,, extremely well stated !!

Marguerite Deschamps  
Reply to @Brian Robertson: the more the world goes global (as it is), the more the knowledge of the French language is an asset. It is still an international language, to your dismay, that's a given.

David White 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Switzerland was formed by mutual agreement, Canada was won by the British fighting the French in the end.
Big difference in the cultural history.
That's the reason we still have this issue, this is in no way comparable to Switzerland.

Marguerite Deschamps 
Reply to @David White: the British didn't win. There was a treaty signed by two despot kings without consultation with the people, including First Nations who got along well with the French before the British came along. This country was built on compromises with the French and First Nations cooperating together in order to contain the US threat. Learn you history.

Rod McLeod 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Globally, Spanish and Mandarin come in ahead of french (french rarely does all that well on the global languages lists). As a working language, english leads for global infrastructures such as air travel.

Marguerite Deschamps  
Reply to @Rod McLeod: no argument about the English language, that's why I learned it and it served me well, as did the French and Spanish too, I might add. French is still a major international language, to your dismay, I know.

David White
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: If the British didn't win why do we have the Queen on our money?

David White
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: You keep telling yourself that, that's an ideal concept to the actuality. You can win economically, cultural, not just through military.

Mack Leigh 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: " Including First Nations who got along well with the French ",,,yeah,, and that was why Cardinal Richelieu made a decree to the French and I quote " Breed the Natives out ".... Your " knowledge " of history is extremely selective it seems.

Marguerite Deschamps 
Reply to @David White: the queen is like the pope and religion. It's all a smokescreen and totally useless just To control the masses and give them a purpose.

David Amos  

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Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: "the queen is like the pope and religion"

Yea Right Methinks its high time for you to take your meds and have a nap N'esy Pas?

David White 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Regardless, that still doesn't answer 'if the Brits didn't win why is she on our money' and also our token figure head for Parliament? Who do you think put her there? The French perhaps? :)

David White 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: I don't disagree about the smokescreen btw. but that doesn't change facts.

Larry Larson 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Yes they are and since you mentioned Switzerland, the country has 4 distinct regions. In Valais and other French speaking areas, the language of employment and day to day living is French. In Bern and most of northern Switzerland, the language of work is Swiss-German, there is a smaller are closer to Italy that functions in Italian and Romancsh is spoken in an even smaller area. By the way, should you choose to live and work in an area that speak Swiss-German then you are required to speak Swiss-German and the same for French. It is NOT a choice it is a must depending on the Majority language spoken in that area! So can we now transfer your statement to New Brunswick?

Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David White: it was forced on us, just like some say about the French language. By the way, there are no Whites hailing from Great Britain. They are of french origin who changed their name from LeBlanc to White in order to be able to get a job.

Marguerite Deschamps 
Reply to @Larry Larson: here we do it differently. New Nouveau-Brunswick is a small region of Canada where both offcial languages is a requirement.

Mack Leigh
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: What was changed to the benefit of one minority can and will be changed again....only this time for the benefit of everyone..

Cleve Gallant 
Reply to @Les Cooper: The french don’t care about N!B, They just want their own way,

Wallace Gouk 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Take a look at the stats. French is a dying language propped up only by politics.

Rj LeBlanc
Reply to @Les Cooper: Would you feel better if it was unilingual french?

Marguerite Deschamps 
Reply to @Mack Leigh: the pope, the cadinals and the monarchy, aka the malarkey, I put them all in the same pot, all despots controlling the masses. I'm sure, Richelieu must have said it. He was ruling France before the other despot, Louis XIV was old enough to take over. They were all in cahoots with tese blue blood tyrants of Europe. What gave them the power or right to seal the fate of North America?

Brian Robertson 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: The more the world globalizes, the less relevant French is becoming.
In a eurocentric world, France and it's language had an historical significance. On a global scale, the instances of French has plumeted, being displaced by the languages of far Mandarin, Tagalog, Arabic, etc.
I'm sure it is somewhat traumatic for anyobe whose language is in decline. But it happens, and the general public shouldn't be burdened with keeping it afloat.
















Wendy Staples
Call me a cynical old broad but I suspect this was part of the discussion that took place in 2014 when the Official Languages Act got manipulated behind closed doors by a minority group of this province. When other stakeholders asked to be in attendance to ensure equal voices were heard for both official linguistic communities they were told no, it would be too controversial......well the fall-out from those discriminating closed door meetings are beginning to surface. I would hope that whatever changes were made in the 2014 meetings get clawed back based on blatant discrimination ….. Mr. Higgs, let's see if you have the gravel to actually straighten this linguistic mess out!  


David Amos
Reply to @Wendy Staples: 'Call me a cynical old broad"

Your wish is my command

















Marguerite Deschamps
What is wrong with this province or country is that some refuse to learn the two official languages while many in the world can speak many, some up to 15 languages. It's either because of ineptness or pigheadedness due to a hatred of the French language. It it's the former, one can be excused. If it's the latter, then what does that makes him?


Les Cooper 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: There is no requirement to have a French language. It's as obsolete as mic mac.

David White 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: I think you are dead wrong on this view, it's hard to convince people to go out of their way to learn something that they perceive isn't useful or of value to them. Calling it 'hatred' is just fanning the flames. BTW I speak three languages and having lived in Europe and Asia, English has served me better than my French and Italian for most of my travels. I am in no way advocating anything against french, but to convince people to learn a language THEY feel they will hardly use is a difficult task. Also, most of Switzerland pretty much speaks English despite having 4 languages, I lived there.

Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David White: I am in Europe as I write and French is serving me quite well when English does not. How many times do I have to be the interpreter for my unilingual English friends?

David White 
Reply to @David White: Also when the world is after the 'American Dream' and infiltrated by its cultural Juggernaut that also doesn't help matters.

David White 
Reply to @Les Cooper: Mi'kmaw

David Amos 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: "How many times do I have to be the interpreter for my unilingual English friends?"

Methinks everybody knows that it would be beneath you to have English friends N'esy Pas?

Wallace Gouk 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: But we are not in Europe !

Marguerite Deschamps 
Reply to @David Amos: from my lifelong expérience, the ones with the superiority complex are not the one you try to make it appear.

Marguerite Deschamps 
Reply to @Wallace Gouk: but we are more and more heading towards globalization where French, Spanish and other major languages are an asset and where the kmowledge of French makes it easier to learn other Latin languages .

Daryl Doucette 
Reply to @daryl doucette: WOW that was the quickest one ever there Mr blow! 
 

David Amos
Reply to @daryl doucette: Methinks the Trolls can come and go like lightening sometimes N'esy Pas?






David Stairs
since when does Public Safety get over ruled in the interest of a language requirement...this issue is not being presented in the proper light...can you imagine if a Paramedic or a Law Enforcement officer refused to treat or help someone in dire straights because he or she could not speak their language..that is called neglect of duty...what is wrong with these judges and their lack of common sense...it is not the judges duty to fix the woes of society but to rule on Common Law and Common Sense... 


John O'Brien 
Reply to @David Stairs: most , if not all, of the judges in NB are deep in the pocket of SANB.There is no such thing as an independent court when it comes to language issues. I can still remember the case in Fredericton where a man was passed out drunk at the wheel of his car with it running. A mountie rousted the man and he replied in English , so the Mountie continued in English.
Being inebriated behind the wheel of a running vehicle is a clear violation of the law but the judge ( a

Marguerite Deschamps ... 
Reply to @John O'Brien: for one who has been following language cases in NB should be well aware that judges have upheld Anglophone rights as well when they were violated such as the McGraw case in Tracadie in 2012. McGraw got off the hook for the same reason. For one who's supposed to know, why did you overlook that one?

David Amos  
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: What of Federal Court File No T-1557-15?

Larry Larson
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: The only McGraws I know in Tracadie are French so what are you talking about?

Larry Larson: 
Reply to @Larry Larson:

Just now

Reply to @Larry Larson: Never mind, I just read the case! It should have been tossed, too, simply because the law is stewpid and being abused! When someone speaks to you in a language that you understand then your rights are NOT being violated!

Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Larry Larson: see, I told you so! Ken McGraw, sounds quite English to me!

David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you never read a thing N'esy Pas?

R. v McGraw (2007)
Year: 2007
Categories: Language rights and services to the public
Court: Court of Appeal of New Brunswick
Citation: 2007 NBCA 11
"the Court of Appeal upheld the decision rendered in the Court of Queen’s Bench to vacate the convictions, but set aside the verdicts of acquittal, ordered a new trial on both Notices of Prosecution and directed the trial judge to order their withdrawal pursuant to section 106(7) of the POPA, in the event that Mr. McGraw is called upon to answer the charges once again."
















Mack Leigh
If garbage like this continues I forecast an uprising in the not too distant future.....people are fed up with this garbage..


Marguerite Deschamps 
Reply to @Mack Leigh: are you advocating sedition? That's a crime in Canada.

Mack Leigh 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: What is a crime is apartheid-style governing of our province with one minority having full , unfettered control to the detriment of all others....that is the real crime.

Christopher Beliveau
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Right to free assembly, thats a right in Canada.

Marc Martin
Reply to @Mack Leigh: We are in control ?? Didn't Higgs and PANB just got voted in power ?
 
Marguerite Deschamps 
Reply to @Christopher Beliveau: definition of "uprising": an act of resistance or rebellion; a revolt.

Mack Leigh 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: If what is going on in NB regarding language isn't absolutely revolting then what is !


Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: "oat".

David Amos 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: "That's a crime in Canada."

So is libel

Marguerite Deschamps 
Reply to @David Amos: not if it's true!

David Amos 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Thats a moot point. In my humble opinion the truth is never libel. However methinks you need to study more law in order to argue a mere layman who loves to sue lawyers N'esy Pas?















Samual Johnston
it is hard to understand the logic - are they saying the government has to fill the positions with bilingual individuals no matter the cost? It can be done -- offer $250,000 salary and all sorts of bilinguals will stream in from around the world. Not real good for us tax payers though.


Marc Martin  
Reply to @Samual Johnston: The position were already being filled out by outside sources by the government but the Union and the English population where against it.

David Amos  
Reply to @Samual Johnston: What logic???














Nathan Simpson
So if you're driving up the road and come across someone who is badly injured/maybe dying in an accident and you only speak English. You get out to help and the person hurt only speaks French (or it could be the other way). What do you do?

Are we getting into an area where people are going to stop and think about maybe they are violating someone's chartered rights to language before helping them? Maybe being unable to communicate leads to unnecessary pain, opening the possibility of being sued or something.

And for the record I have stopped before in the past to help people who needed it without seeing who it was that I was helping, and will continue to do so in the future. 


Mack Leigh 
Reply to @Nathan Simpson: Also wonder about the " rights " of every other person in this province whose first language is neither English or French..... This whole forced official bilingualism garbage has gone from the sublime to the absolutely ridiculous....... NB should return to ONE official language only and that language should be the language of the majority... Enough of this apartheid governing...

Marc Martin 
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Why don't we make everything French ?

Joseph Vachier 
Reply to @Marc Martin: because its a useless dying language

Marguerite Deschamps 
Reply to @Joseph Vachier: you should travel more; hundreds of million speak French in the world. You just hate that language, admit it!

Les Cooper 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: they speak real french not Acadian half and half

Les Cooper 
Reply to @Marc Martin: LMAO

Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Les Cooper: I speak perfect French and an understood in that language wherever I go in the world.

David Amos 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks it strange that you can't make yourself understood in the forum N'ey Pas?

Mack Leigh
Reply to @David Amos: Let's make everything German... Let's make everything Irish Gaelic...Let's make everything Scottish Gaelic....Let's make everything Italian....Let's make everything ................. No wait, the language of the Majority which is comprised of all languages is.....English... Time to abolish Forced Official Bilingualism and return to one official language....the language of the majority...... English...

Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Mack Leigh: forget it. It will never happen.

David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks if Quebec had the cajones to finally spit from Canada it would happen overnight N'esy Pas?
















William Henry
So, nothing is better than something. Only in the SANB world. I assumed Madame LeBlanc was a graduate of the UdeM law school and guess what.........she is! How could I have known she was part of the UdeM mafia!!!!


Mike Steeves 
@Marc Martin: i think that people are just tired of the Pro-French Anti-English sentiment in our NB culture sir. Its not that any of us are against french, but to make it necessary to have everyone be fluently bilingual in a province where only 2 percent of the population identified as not being functional in English, is just way off base and to be frank, really stupid.

William Henry 
Reply to @Marc Martin: Actually you are wholly incorrect. All I'm looking for is someone who will make decisions based on reality not based on utopia. Nobody fundamentally disagrees with the need to communicate in many languages, not just English and French, however, we do live in reality of not having the human resources, not just in this profession, to do this. What strikes me is that groups like the UdeM mafia and the SANB vocally say it would be better to have no paramedic show up to a call than one that has to use technology to communicate. WOW. We know its not perfect, but its better than nothing.

William Henry
Reply to @Marc Martin: You are so bigoted on this issue you cant even accept that there are ideals and then there is reality. Im done with you!!

Marguerite Deschamps 
Reply to @William Henry: maybe you shuoshould be charged with contempt of court.

Alex Forbes 
Reply to @William Henry: Her entire biographic information is easily found:
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/government-of-canada-announces-judicial-appointment-in-the-province-of-new-brunswick-686284921.html


David Amos
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Reply to @William Henry: "Im done with you!! "

Methinks it was a small wonder that his comment went "Poof" N'esy Pas?











Daryl Doucette
Perhaps its time to get rid of official forced bilingualism here in New Brunswick.


Mike Steeves 
Reply to @daryl doucette: If you have a plan, lets hear it hahahhaa

Mack Leigh 
Reply to @daryl doucette: Yes !! Yes !! Yes !!

Daryl Doucette
Reply to @Marc Martin: Was there a referendum or vote that brought "Official Bilingualism " to NB? NO. FORCED upon us by corrupted politicians.

Josef Blow 
Reply to @daryl doucette: Poor you. How are YOU forced to speak the two official languages?

Marguerite Deschamps  
Reply to @Josef Blow: he's not forced to, just jealous that some can.

David Amos
Reply to @daryl doucette: "Was there a referendum or vote that brought "Official Bilingualism " to NB? NO. FORCED upon us by corrupted politicians."

BINGO







Relaxing bilingual rules for paramedics would violate charter, judge rules

Court of Queen's Bench Justice Denise LeBlanc quashes a 2018 ruling by labour arbitrator John McEvoy



Jacques Poitras· CBC News·

Court of Queen's Bench Justice Denise LeBlanc quashed a 2018 ruling by labour arbitrator John McEvoy. She ruled that Ambulance New Brunswick and the provincial government can't relax the bilingual hiring requirements. (CBC)


A judge has ruled that Ambulance New Brunswick and the provincial government can't relax the bilingual hiring requirements for paramedics because doing that would violate the Official Languages Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The decision by Court of Queen's Bench Justice Denise LeBlanc quashes a 2018 ruling by labour arbitrator John McEvoy.

McEvoy found ANB's practice of not filling permanent, full-time positions with unilingual paramedics violated the union contract because it gave preference to bilingual candidates with less seniority.

McEvoy suggested the province forgo hiring bilingual paramedics in areas of the province where there is less demand for second-language service. He suggested crews use a "language line" that would let a patient talk to a bilingual staffer over a radio system.
But in her decision, LeBlanc said previous legal precedents make clear that a radio or phone system does not meet the requirement for equal service in both languages.

The effect of implementing the McEvoy ruling "would be the denial of the right of citizens of New Brunswick to receive services of equal quality in the language of their choice anywhere in the province," she wrote.

And she said that the radio system "does not, in matters regarding official languages, constitute a service of equal quality."


Premier Blaine Higgs said he will respect the ruling. (CBC)


Premier Blaine Higgs said the decision is mostly irrelevant because his government decided not to implement McEvoy's decision and to find other ways to address idled ambulances and a lack of full-time work for unilingual paramedics.

"This decision is something that is related to our requirements as a bilingual province, and I'll respect the outcome of that," he said.

Ruling is 'nothing new'


Retired law professor Michel Doucet said the ruling was not a surprise because it's consistent with court rulings and legislation going back to 1969.

"It's nothing new," said Doucet, who represented Michel Carrier, the official languages commissioner, at the January hearing in the case.


Michel Doucet, a retired law professor, said the ruling was not surprising since it's consistent with past court rulings and legislation. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)

"It's just that the government has to put in place measures to ensure that citizens receive quality services in the language of their choice everywhere in the province of New Brunswick."

Greg McConaghy, the president of Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 4848, which represents paramedics, could not be reached for comment.

The union filed the grievance that led to the McEvoy ruling and had urged the court to uphold it.
"Please allow us time to review the decision and update you soon on what this all means," said a post on the union's Facebook page.

CUPE lawyer Glen Gallant said the union would evaluate whether to file an appeal.

 In the 36-page ruling, LeBlanc writes that  "regrettably," McEvoy's analysis "was made outside and with no consideration of the constitutional language regime particular to New Brunswick" or previous court decisions.


The Progressive Conservatives and the People's Alliance campaigned in 2018 on promises to address what they said were slow ambulance response times because many bilingual positions were not being filled. (CBC)

That includes Section 20 (2) of the charter, which says any member of the public "has the right to communicate with, and to receive available services from," the provincial government.

The question of bilingual paramedics became a campaign issue in last year's provincial election.
The Progressive Conservatives and the People's Alliance campaigned on promises to address what they said were slow response times because many bilingual positions were not being filled.

After the PCs took power, Health Minister Ted Flemming said the government would adopt some of McEvoy's ideas, such as relaxing the bilingual requirement in some areas of the province.
But a month later the government abandoned that approach. Instead it said it would offer the unilingual paramedics permanent, full-time positions and assign them to "float teams" to fill spots where no bilingual applicant is available.

At the same time, the province and ANB said they would continue to try to meet the legal obligation to designate at least one bilingual paramedic position on every two-person ambulance team.

Ruling vexes People's Alliance


People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin called the new ruling "unfortunate" and said if he were the premier, he would implement McEvoy's recommendations regardless.

"It's easy for the courts to sit and interpret the law," Austin said. "It's another thing for the government and the province to implement the practicalities of everyday service to the citizens."


People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin said the ruling was 'unfortunate' and he rejected the idea that a radio or phone translation system is unacceptable. (Radio-Canada)

Austin also rejected the finding that the radio line translation is unacceptable, citing simultaneous translation used in the legislature — though that translation is required by different sections of the law and the Constitution.

"We might have to look at the law," he said. "That's what we're here to do. We're here to make laws and change laws."

He said he would consider introducing a bill to amend the act and a resolution to amend the charter.
Green Leader David Coon said the ruling should settle the long-running debate about the legal requirement for bilingual ambulance service.

"It should resolve it, because the decision is clearly that we have to provide those services directly, by people," he said.

"The People's Alliance have got to give that up and deal with the reality of New Brunswick, which is that we are a bilingual province, where we provide services to New Brunswickers in both official languages."


Beaulac decision


LeBlanc's decision cites two decades of legal precedents stemming from the Supreme Court of Canada's 1999 Beaulac decision.

That landmark ruling said that language equality requires "equal access to services of equal quality" in both languages and is not an accommodation or compromise for a minority language group.

The ruling also said that governments can't ignore their language obligations over a "mere administrative inconvenience."


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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Federal government quietly offered a settlement to halt lawsuits over immigration program

May 30, 2019, 8:15 am
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Methinks the lawyers Lorne Waldman and Ahmed Hussen who is Canada's latest Minister in charge of Immigration know I have a HUGE bone to pick with them Anyone can review Federal Court File  T-1557-15 N'esy Pas? 


https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/05/federal-government-quietly-offered.html






https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/immigration-parent-sponsorship-legal-settlement-1.5154407



Federal government quietly offered a settlement to halt lawsuits over immigration program




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Jamie Gillis
Another swing and a miss on the immigration file by the "open and transparent" Trudeau Liberals. 


David Amos
Reply to @Jamie Gillis: Methinks Immigration lawyer Lorne Waldman and the lawyer who Canada's latest Minister in charge of Immigration know I have a HUGE bone to pick with them Anyone can review Federal Court File T-1557-15 N'esy Pas?  



Federal government quietly offered a settlement to halt lawsuits over immigration program

At least 70 applicants were given spots to sponsor parents, grandparents in return for dropping lawsuits

Kathleen Harris· CBC News·
The federal government made a legal settlement to stop litigation over its contentious online application process for family reunification. (Mark Blinch/Canadian Press)
The federal government made a secret settlement to quash two lawsuits that claimed its contentious online application process to reunite immigrant families was flawed and unfair, CBC News has learned.

To resolve the group litigation, the government awarded at least 70 coveted spots to applicants allowing them to sponsor their parents' or grandparents' immigration to Canada.

Legal actions were launched in Toronto and Vancouver after the widely criticized online application process went ahead on Jan. 28 — a process which left tens of thousands of people frustrated and furious because they couldn't access the form or fill it out fast enough.
The process opened at noon and closed less than nine minutes later.


A flurry of angry complaints erupted. Some said the sprint to file applications worked against those who couldn't fill them out quickly, such as people with disabilities or literacy issues, or those living in places with slow internet connections.
CBC News learned of the settlement through a legal source who was not directly involved in the lawsuits.

Lawyers who were involved in the settlement of the lawsuits, which included a non-disclosure agreement, declined to provide any details to CBC. There are no public court records on the settlement.

Immigration lawyer Mary Keyork said she was unaware of the legal settlement and called it "very unfair" to those who didn't know about the lawsuits, or couldn't afford to join them.

20,000 spots were available


"I think they're going to feel very disappointed and I think they're going to feel like they were cheated somehow," she said.

"As much as people who have means are entitled to go and get a lawyer and start procedures and fight for their rights ... when it happens personally to you, it's very painful, especially when you have people who have been trying to bring their parents here for many, many years."

This year, the federal government offered 20,000 spots for sponsoring parents or grandparents, and confirmed that more than 100,000 had attempted to access the online form to express interest.

A government official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the case, said the government opted to settle the legal challenges because the number of applicants was relatively small, because it included plaintiffs with disabilities and because a court proceeding could have suspended the entire set of applications.

Immigration lawyer Lorne Waldman — who said he also was unaware of the settlement — said the online application process was extremely problematic and opened up multiple grounds for legal challenges.
"Obviously, what the government's hope is ... that by settling it quickly and by keeping the matter secret, other people won't launch challenges as well," he said. "So they're trying to keep a cap on the number of people who will benefit from the legal challenge."

He said he expects that once people learn about the settlement, they'll seek similar concessions from Ottawa.

"When it's made public, it's basically an invitation to everybody else who didn't get a spot to commence an action and demand the same equal treatment," he said.

Waldman said the government ultimately must find a way to reform the program so that people are selected fairly, not arbitrarily.

Records from a federal court challenge filed in Toronto Feb. 12 by 13 applicants called the online registration process "so deeply flawed that thousands of interested parties, including the applicants ... were denied a reasonable opportunity to sponsor their parents for immigration to Canada."

'Arbitrary, unfair, unjust'


"The online registration process in both its design and implementation was arbitrary, capricious, procedurally unfair and unjust," the court document reads.

Dan Miller, the lawyer representing applicants seeking judicial review of the government's process, said he could not state if their case was related to the litigation. He would not discuss the matter except to say the case has been resolved.

The parent and grandparent sponsorship program has been plagued with problems for years.
The Liberal government moved to a first-come, first-served online application system this year after scrapping a controversial lottery system for reuniting immigrant families. The lottery system was contentious, with critics claiming it essentially gambled with peoples' lives.

The lottery process had replaced another first-in system which itself was unpopular because it led to a "mad rush" every January, with people lining up overnight at the doors of processing centres or paying placeholders to stand in line and deliver applications prepared by consultants or lawyers.



Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen's office says the government is reviewing the online application process for sponsoring parents and grandparents after a flood of complaints. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)


A statement from Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen's office said the online application process was brought in to ensure fairness and to safeguard against abuse, but added the system is now under review.

"We are continually monitoring all of our programs to find ways to improve them. It is too early to speculate on potential changes to next year's application process," the statement reads.

"Our government remains committed to family reunification, which is why we quadrupled the intake of parent and grandparent applications to 20,000 this year from 5,000 under the Conservatives."

Canadian citizens and permanent residents also can apply to bring their parents and grandparents to Canada for up to two years at a time with a 'super visa', which allows multiple entries for up to 10 years.

Under that program, applicants must show proof of private medical insurance and financial support.



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Francophones relieved court reaffirmed 'equal rights' to emergency services

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Methinks we should call this article and this comment section Round 2 for Justice Denise LeBlanc and her SANB buddies N'esy Pas?


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Francophones relieved court reaffirmed 'equal rights' to emergency services





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David Amos
Methinks we should call this article and this comment section Round 2 for Justice Denise LeBlanc and her SANB buddies N'esy Pas?


Marc Martin 
Reply to @David Amos: Are you sure you got the right Denise LeBlanc ?


David Amos 
Reply to @Marc Martin: Ask her


Marc Martin 
Reply to @David Amos: I just want to make sure, so you don't harass the wrong one...


David Amos 

Awaiting moderation
Reply to @Marc Martin: Methinks you know a well as I that these are a few decisions that her law firm was well aware of before she was ever appointed a provincial court judge by your SANB buddies N'esy Pas?

https://www.scribd.com/document/323631925/5-Decisions-That-Federal-Court-and-CanLII-Failed-to-Publish


David Amos  
Reply to @Marc Martin: WOW I am falsely accused of harassing judge and I can't reply? 


Marc Martin 
Reply to @David Amos: I doubt SANB has that kind of power, it doesn't even have power over the majority of the French population.


Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: Didn't you call a Marc Martin working for the provincial several time thinking it was me ? Didn't you sent emails to a Marc Martin that is in the SANB group thinking it was me ? I wanted to save you the embarrassment. 


Josef Blow
Reply to @David Amos: Please substantiate your assertion that Justice LeBlanc has SANB buddies with whom you insinuate there is some sort of collusion. Talk is not always cheap; sometimes people end up paying for their unbridled and unqualified commentaries.












Norman Young
The cultural elites win again.


David Amos   
Reply to @Norman Young: "Trudeau drove a hard bargain? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha...... "

Methinks I got a few licks in before I was blocked 3 times thus far within your most popular thread N'esy Pas?


David Amos  
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Reply to @Ryan Jason: "I hear you complain a lot, but I rarely hear you suggest a workable alternative to your complaints."

Methinks you should read at least one of my complaints before you judge me? (Just Google Federal Court File T-1557-15 to find the one I filed while runnng in the election of the 42nd Parliament in Fundy Royal) Furthermore its not my fault that you did not bother to read what I have been offering to the public since 2002 when I first sued 3 Yankee Treasury Agents, a Cardinal, an Attorney General and more lawyers than most folks can name. However you cannot deny the words of mine that you just quoted are on page 20 of this old file.

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

You should at least understand that clearly lots of powerful people have checked my work and nobody has dared to call me a liar yet N'esy Pas?
David Amos  
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Reply to @David Amos: Shame on CBC













Lou Bell
Methinks there needs to be full insight into the Commissioner of Official Languages and the Provincial Ombudsman, as there appears to be one sole purpose of the holders of both positions , and that is to solely promote the minority language of NB and nothing else , through laws put in place to completely stifle the majority by the SANB Liberals commencing 50 years ago and manipulated every couple of decades. Can anyone recall any promoting of the language spoken by the majority of NB'ers by either ? And take a look at who has been put in these manipulating positions . 


Marguerite Deschamps 
Reply to @Lou Bell: methinks you are making a lot of things up.


Lou Bell
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you know I'm right .


Marc Martin 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Yeah he is...In fact a lot of them are...


Lou Bell 
Reply to @Marc Martin: Hard to defend when you know I'm right .


Marguerite Deschamps 
Reply to @Lou Bell: no, I'm left; you're wrong !

Marc Martin
Reply to @Lou Bell: Your actually not right, and I am not arguing because as usual you make no sense.


Evelyn Gaudreau 
Reply to @Lou Bell: Maybe "the language spoken by the majority" doesn't really need any promoting.


Lou Bell  
Reply to @Lou Bell: In fact I know of one who they sung the praises of because of his integrity and whose campaign manager won the leasing rights for a building ., NOT EVEN BUILT , which was supposed to go under the tendering process. He promised another tenderer the winning bid on an upcoming tender if they laid off bidding on the one he wanted for his buddy .


Lou Bell  
Reply to @Evelyn Gaudreau: Well , when you have a declining population , many immigrants coming in , and all we hear from these people is the decline of THE MINORITY Language , and not the other , methinks there is undoubtedly a lean towards one group and one group only , don't you ?????


Marc Martin  
Reply to @Lou Bell: What does this have anything to do with language ?


Lou Bell
Reply to @Marc Martin: Without mentioning his name , it was the position he was in. It was to be one of being completely unbiased , and yet he was there , bias's and all.


Lou Bell
Reply to @Lou Bell: I suspect you may know who he is .You and Maggie .


Marc Martin
Reply to @Lou Bell: Your now talking like Davis....Do you have a case number file like he does ?? ..................


David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you are both emulating my expressions Perhaps I should feel flattered by my foes N'esy Pas?


Marc Martin 
Reply to @David Amos: We missed you Davis...


David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: Who is Davis?


Marguerite Deschamps  
Reply to @Lou Bell: nope, I have no clue who he is.


David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Yea Right


Marguerite Deschamps 
Reply to @David Amos: no Left

















Cheryl Wright
apparently I cant say ref***dum on here. so lets put it to a vote


Marc Martin 
Reply to @cheryl wright: You didn't vote last election ?


David Amos 
Reply to @cheryl wright: Not thats funny


David Amos 
Reply to @David Amos: I meant to write "now" but I was choking on my coffee
















Robert Buck
The Judge has ruled on this issue. Now what is the answer to how we fix this. We have to follow the law but it is the how. Do we change the law? Invoke the not withstanding clause? I know that would be a hot potato but something needs to be done so why not discuss this. Just because it is talked about does not mean that it would work. Do we really know the problem? Is it bilingual staff? Staffing in general? How is the new patient transfer system working? There needs to be a lot of discussion to solve this issue. People are saying electronic translators do not work. Would they be a stop gap measure until a proper solution? 


Marc Martin  
Reply to @Robert Buck: *Do we change the law* Cannot be changed. * Invoke the not withstanding clause* Not applicable under law languages. *o we really know the problem? Is it bilingual staff? Staffing in general? * Staffing there is an easy solution 1 bilingual per ambulance. By the way the government was hiring bilingual staff from other provinces until the union and some of the English population started to whine on this.


Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Robert Buck: you cannot trump language rights with the notwithstanding clause !


Mack Leigh 
Reply to @Robert Buck: And that judge's decision can be overruled... Laws can and will be changed.... this is far,,,far from over..and you can take that to the bank..


Marc Martin 
Reply to @Mack Leigh: It not supreme court rule.


Marc Martin  
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Its THE supreme court rule I mean...


David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: "you cannot trump language rights with the notwithstanding clause !"

Read Section 2 etc then call a lawyer


















John Valcourt
#LifeOverLanguage. Time to change that charter. I believe that the right to life is a higher value than language rights.


David Amos  
Reply to @John Valcourt: Me Too


Marc Martin  
Reply to @John Valcourt: No one says it does not, no life was lost because of language since its implementation.


Joseph Vacher 
Reply to @Marc Martin: when u have to wait unecessarily for an ambulance, yes it does


Marc Martin  
Reply to @Joseph Vacher: I am still waiting for your cases ?













Marc Martin  
And the law prevails all bigotry attempts.


David Amos   
Reply to @Marc Martin: Dream on


Marc Martin   
Reply to @David Amos: Who cares...


David Amos   
Reply to @Marc Martin: You do 
 

Marc Martin 
Reply to @David Amos: Cry me a river...  


David Amos 
Reply to @Marc Martin: Methinks you greedy francophone union dudes cry enough for all of us N'esy Pas?














Lou Bell
NB's Language Commissioner said he was thrilled at the ruling. Really , and most people recognize it, this position is basically of the Quebec Language Police and nothing more. They can give us all kinds of spin on the decline of all things Francophone , but nothing on Anglophones ! Immigration is having an influence of BOTH OFFICIAL languages , and yet D'Entremont /Carriere are the defenders of one sole language.Just as their SANB backers planned it ! And it appears their Francophone judges have joined them 


Lou Bell 
Reply to @Lou Bell: " basically an extension of ...... "


David Amos   
Reply to @Lou Bell: "NB's Language Commissioner said he was thrilled at the ruling."

Of course he would

Methinks Bernie Lord and every other lawyer in NB knows that dude was one of the lawyers whose actions within SNB caused the Law Society to be sued by First Canadian Title N'esy Pas?


















Joe Campbell
No matter how you look at this, it is the french against the English. This does not better the province in any way.


Marc Martin 
Reply to @Joe Campbell: Its not the French against the English, its the French defending acquired rights.


Joe Campbell 
Reply to @Marc Martin: Seems like the English have no rights! This province is nothing but a circus.


Marguerite Deschamps 
Reply to @Joe Campbell: no rights? Ya right!


Marc Martin 
Reply to @Joe Campbell: You don't have any rights ? Please tell me which ones ?


Joseph Vacher 
Reply to @Joe Campbell: sacrificing the health of the masses for the benefit of the few (or none)


Marc Martin
Reply to @Joseph Vacher: Who was sacrificed ?


Joseph Vacher 
Reply to @Marc Martin: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fatal-crash-ambulance-response-time-1.4252907


Marc Martin 
Reply to @Joseph Vacher: Ha I got you there, I knew the girl, the mom and the dad. This happened in Saint Quentin NB and it is not related to language, its because Medavie limit how many ambulance are on the road. Try again.


David Amos  
Reply to @Joe Campbell: "No matter how you look at this, it is the french against the English"

You know a well as I that it is not all French folks against all English folks.

Methinks ths paramedic nonsense is just SANB cronies versus old COR cronies Everybody knows this has been going on since Hatfield upset the PC supporters while PET was drafting the Charter in order to get reelected. Ambulances in New Brunswick were never an issue until the Irving Clan invested in the new company and Bernie Lord and his cronies stepped up to the plate to oversee the wicked games played with our money N'esy Pas?


Joe Campbell
Reply to @David Amos: I agree, it was for their own agenda. Had to make sure they had the votes.















Andrew Clarkson
I thought that the issue was that they could not find qualified bilingual paramedics to fill all the positions, ambulances were sitting unmanned. What orifice does Mr. Dow think these bilingual paramedics are going to be extracted from?


David Amos 
Reply to @Andrew Clarkson: Trust that Éric Dow doesn't care













Mary MacKenzie
Mindboggling. Language should not trump a life or death emergency.


Joseph Vacher 
Reply to @Mary MacKenzie: just dont tell that to a NB politician trying to get elected


David Amos  
Reply to @Joseph Vacher: Oh So True


David Amos  
Reply to @Mary MacKenzie: YUP


Marc Martin  
Reply to @Mary MacKenzie: It currently does not.














Buddy Best
If you are just off the boat from outer space and are qualified to treat and transport you have my vote. I don't care what language you speak or don't speak


David Amos   
Reply to @Buddy Best: Me Too 
 







Buddy Best
Sounds great to me. Language should always be at a higher qualification then any other priority. Human life is taken way too serious here. A uni-lingual response can hardly take presidence. Who needs to die before the stupidity of this is realized. Democracy is a farce.


David Amos
Reply to @Buddy Best: "Democracy is a farce"

Welcome to the Circus


Marguerite Deschamps  
Reply to @David Amos: here comes tne klown ! 
 
Marc Martin  
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: I tough he just arrived !! 














Joseph Vacher
congrats, the 2% win again


Marc Martin  
Reply to @Joseph Vacher: 33%


Andrew Clarkson 
Reply to @Marc Martin:
2% of 33%, the other 31% don't give the proverbial rats behind!


Marc Martin  
Reply to @Andrew Clarkson: In what most people say here the 31% cant speak English so which is it ? you cant have it both ways bud.


Mack Leigh
Reply to @Andrew Clarkson: Also the other 31% speak English... Once more the tail is wagging the dog in this god forsaken province ...... Welcome to the land of apartheid-style governing and the marginalization of the majority..


David Amos  
Reply to @Andrew Clarkson: True


Marc Martin  
Reply to @Mack Leigh: *Once more the tail is wagging the dog * Why would you call yourself that nasty name ??





Francophones relieved court reaffirmed 'equal rights' to emergency services

Court of Queen's Bench Justice ruled against easing bilingual hiring requirements for paramedics


Elizabeth Fraser· CBC News·


Court of Queen's Bench Justice Denise LeBlanc quashed a 2018 ruling by labour arbitrator John McEvoy that suggested the province relax bilingual hiring requirements at Ambulance New Brunswick. (Catherine Allard/Radio-Canada)

Members of New Brunswick's francophone community were relieved this week when a judge quashed a 2018 ruling that would relax bilingual hiring requirements for paramedics.

"It kind of reaffirms the fact that in New Brunswick, we are in a bilingual province,"Éric Dow of the Acadian Society of New Brunswick said Thursday.

"That means that the francophone and Acadian population has certain inalienable rights when it comes to health care, to education and especially to access to certain services."

Court of Queen's Bench Justice Denise LeBlanc ruled that Ambulance New Brunswick and the provincial government can't relax the bilingual hiring requirements for paramedics, since it would violate the Official Languages Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The decision quashes a 2018 ruling by labour arbitrator John McEvoy.

McEvoy found ANB's practice of not filling permanent, full-time positions with unilingual paramedics violated the union contract because it gave preference to bilingual candidates with less seniority.

McEvoy suggested the province forgo hiring bilingual paramedics in areas of the province where there is less demand for second-language service. He suggested crews use a "language line" that would let a patient talk to a bilingual staffer over a radio system.

First languages at the forefront


In emergency situations, Dow said, it's important to have at least one bilingual paramedic who can understand what francophone patients are trying to say.
"When it comes to emergency situations, a lot of times it's our first language that really comes to the forefront, even if you have certain abilities in your second language be it French or English," he said.
"In those kinds of emergency situations, sometimes it's really hard to make yourself understood in your second language."

The province had already abandoned the idea of relaxing the bilingual requirement, and Premier Blaine Higgs said Thursday that he accepted the court ruling.

But People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin called the ruling "unfortunate" and said if he were the premier, he would implement McEvoy's recommendations regardless.

French should be treated as 'equal citizens'


Dow called Austin's comments "disheartening" and said they were only serving "short-term political gains."

He said the francophones should be treated as equal citizens and receive equal services.

Some people have a hard time accepting the consequences of official bilingualism, Dow said, who feels a dialogue on the importance of this principle is worth having.

"What would be the consequences of scaling back these rights that the francophone minority has fought for through the years?" he said. "I think it would have very far-reaching, social consequences."
Dow also said it's important to recognize different languages and cultures in New Brunswick, including French, Wolastoqey, Miꞌkmaq and English.

"I don't think admitting that makes us any weaker, I think it only serves to make us stronger as a province," he said.

"When it comes to language being able to access certain services of equal quality, is something that everybody can get behind."

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CRA signs secret settlement with wealthy KPMG clients involved in offshore tax scheme




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Troy Bodi
For the rest of us they'll hound you for months for that $16 you owe them.  


David Amos
Reply to @Troy Bodi: Methinks the CRA and Harvey Cashore should review their emails N'esy Pas? 


Troy Bodi
Reply to @Jim Roth: Who cares which government is complicit. It shouldn't be happening period. 


David Amos
Reply to @Troy Bodi: Methinks the CRA and Harvey Cashore should have reviewed their emails by now particularly after I made a few calls as well N'esy Pas?



CRA signs secret settlement with wealthy KPMG clients involved in offshore tax scheme

Watchdog group accuses the Liberals of covering up the KPMG affair



Harvey Cashore· CBC News·


The Canada Revenue Agency has made an out-of-court settlement with wealthy KPMG clients caught using an offshore tax scheme that it previously said was 'intended to deceive' tax authorities. (CBC)

The Canada Revenue Agency has once again made a secret out-of-court settlement with wealthy KPMG clients caught using what the CRA itself had alleged was a "grossly negligent" offshore "sham" set up to avoid detection by tax authorities, CBC's The Fifth Estate and Radio-Canada's Enquête have learned.

This, despite the Liberal government's vow to crack down on high net-worth taxpayers who used the now-infamous Isle of Man scheme. The scheme orchestrated by accounting giant KPMG enabled clients to dodge tens of millions of dollars in taxes in Canada by making it look as if multimillionaires had given away their fortunes to anonymous overseas shell companies and get their investment income back as tax-free gifts.

KPMG is a global network of accounting and auditing firms headquartered out of the Netherlands and is one of the top firms in Canada.


"Tax cheats can no longer hide," National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier promised in 2017.

Now, tax court documents obtained by CBC News/Radio-Canada show two members of the Cooper family in Victoria, as well as the estate of the late patriarch Peter Cooper, reached an out-of-court settlement on May 24 over their involvement in the scheme.

Details of the settlement and even minutes of the meetings discussing it are under wraps. A CBC News/Radio-Canada reporter who showed up to one such meeting this spring was asked to leave.
Journalists discovered references to the final settlement agreement in tax court documents only by chance.

CRA cites privacy in keeping settlement details secret


The Canada Revenue Agency says strict privacy provisions of Canadian tax law make it difficult to disclose minutes describing individual taxpayer information.

The Isle of Man tax dodge had been active as far back as 1999 and, according to documents filed in court by the CRA in 2015, had "intended to deceive" federal regulators.

Still, significant details of the scheme remain a mystery, including the role played by the KPMG's senior executives. With no public trial, those details may continue to remain secret.

Toby Sanger, executive director of the advocacy group Canadians for Tax Fairness, says the CRA should never have agreed to settle the case.

"I think it's outrageous," he said. "We've had a lot of tough talk and promises from this minister about how they will crack down on tax evasion by the wealthy and corporations, but unfortunately we've seen no evidence of this so far."


National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier called out tax cheats in 2017 and stated her intention to clamp down on the KPMG scheme. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthlier said in an email statement to The Fifth Estate/Enquête that while she cannot comment on specific cases, she finds the lack of transparency about settlements brokered by her agency "problematic."

"I have instructed the CRA to review its processes to allow for more transparency with respect to the reasons for which a settlement is reached," she said.


KPMG took 15% cut of taxes dodged


One member of the Cooper family, Marshall Cooper, previously told The Fifth Estate that he was unaware of Canadian tax laws when he emigrated from South Africa in the mid-1990s and that it was KPMG that came up with the offshore tax plan.

Documents show KPMG planned to take a 15 per cent cut of the taxes dodged, including $300,000 from the Cooper family. Internal records show the scheme was marketed across the country, with successful KPMG sales agents and accountants referred to as product "champions."

In all, more than 20 wealthy families participated in the offshore scheme.

Two years ago, Lebouthillier issued a news release on her intention to clamp down on the KPMG scheme, publicly stating that those involved could even face criminal charges over possible "tax fraud."
"The case of KPMG is before the courts right now, and we continue to pursue action against KPMG," Lebouthillier said in 2017.

"We will see this to the end as Canadians have asked us to do."
She said at the time that her government took the matter "very seriously."

"Those who choose to participate in these schemes must face the consequences of their actions," she said.
Yet more than two years after that pledge, participants in the KPMG scheme, namely, members of the Cooper family, were offered a secret out-of-court settlement.

In her statement to The Fifth Estate/Enquête this week, Lebouthillier said the decision to settle was not hers to make and that she had instructed the CRA to review its settlements to "allow for more transparency."

'We will continue to make systemic changes': minister


To "ensure integrity of our tax system," Lebouthillier said, out-of-court settlements are made by the CRA and the Department of Justice "at arm's length" from the minister and the minister's office.

"Canadians deserve a fair and equitable tax system, and we will continue to make systemic changes within the CRA to make sure that this is the case," she said in her statement.
CBC News/Radio-Canada first revealed four years ago that KPMG, one of the largest accounting firms in Canada, with tens of millions in federal contracts, had for years been running a massive offshore tax dodge for wealthy clients it had kept hidden from federal investigators.

The Trudeau government's previous tough talk on the so-called KPMG sham had come after a document leaked to The Fifth Estate/Enquête showed the CRA itself had offered a secret "no penalties" amnesty in May 2015 to many of the other KPMG clients involved in the scheme.

The CRA offered to have them simply pay the back taxes owed — but with the condition they not tell the public about the offer.


Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed to do a 'better job of getting tax avoiders and tax frauders' in 2017. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press)


Stung by those revelations, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in 2017 that the government had learned a lesson from the KPMG affair and promised to do a "better job of getting tax avoiders and tax frauders."

Since then, the Liberal government vowed to make sure those kinds of offshore tax dodges were in the past.

In fact, it was concerns over future KPMG court cases that prompted the Liberal-dominated Commons finance committee to shut down its own investigation into the embattled accounting firm back in 2016.

Documents had already began to emerge detailing the extent to which KPMG was helping clients not only dodge taxes but also hide money from potential creditors, including circumventing the Canadian Divorce Act by "protecting" assets from ex-spouses.
Lawyers for KPMG had argued that the ongoing finance committee investigation could prejudice cases before the court.

Several KPMG executives had been named to testify in the spring of 2016, but Liberal MPs voted to shut down the inquiry, arguing that any more testimony and documents should be produced in court and not in Parliament.

Now, it appears that those future court cases cited as a reason for shutting down the investigation might never materialize.

The Fifth Estate and Enquête also later revealed that in June 2016, around the same time the Liberal MPs shut down their investigation into the accounting giant, a former senior KPMG executive was appointed to the Liberal Party's national board of directors.

"There is no reason why the finance committee shouldn't restart their hearings," Canadians for Tax Fairness's Sanger said.

Settlements offer 'substantial savings to the public'


Sanger said it all seems like a Liberal "coverup" to close down the KPMG investigation.

Canadians still do not know who were the key people at KPMG involved in running the investigation, for example, how high up it went within the organization, or all the names of the wealthy clients who participated.


Liberal MPs halted a parliamentary finance committee investigation in 2016 after KPMG argued the investigation could prejudice court cases. Now, it looks like those court cases might never happen. (CBC)

Max Weder, the lawyer for the wealthy Cooper family, said he "can't comment on the settlement."

Documents show the family paid virtually no tax over a span of eight years — and even obtained federal and provincial tax credits — despite receiving nearly $6 million from an offshore company worth $26 million that KPMG helped set up.

KPMG has always maintained the scheme was legal. The firm's lawyers claimed any money the Coopers received were gifts and therefore non-taxable. Nevertheless, KPMG now says it would not set up this type of offshore structure anymore.

For its part, the CRA said that the settlement was made in accordance with the law and is "supported by the facts of this particular case." The agency also said it "maximized revenue" by making a decision to settle out of court, instead of facing an uncertain ruling in tax court.

"There is generally substantial savings to the public and a benefit to the justice system when cases are resolved through a settlement," a CRA spokesperson said in a statement.



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Harvey Cashore
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Harvey Cashore is an investigative reporter with the CBC's weekly investigative program The Fifth Estate.
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offshore tax scheme
Watchdog group accuses the Liberals of covering up the KPMG affair
Harvey Cashore · CBC News · Posted: May 30, 2019 12:26 PM ET


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Troy Bodi
For the rest of us they'll hound you for months for that $16 you owe them.


David Amos
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their emails N'esy Pas?


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 Andre Lareau should have their lawyers talk to Wayne Easter ASAP EH?

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On 6/25/18, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> wrote:
> Trust that you people will find this email posted right here ASAP EH?
>
> http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2018/06/canada-revenue-agency-falling-behind-as.html
>
> Monday, 25 June 2018
>
> Canada Revenue Agency falling behind as uncollected taxes owed rise to
> $44 billion
> https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tax-debt-liberal-budget-collections-1.4715967
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: "MinFinance / FinanceMin (FIN)"
> <fin.minfinance-financemin.fin@canada.ca>
> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:48:25 +0000
> Subject: RE: Your various correspondence about abusive tax schemes -
> 2017-02631
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> The Department of Finance acknowledges receipt of your electronic
> correspondence. Please be assured that we appreciate receiving your
> comments.
>
> Le ministère des Finances accuse réception de votre correspondance
> électronique. Soyez assuré(e) que nous apprécions recevoir vos
> commentaires.
>
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: Green Party of Canada | Parti vert du Canada <info@greenparty.ca>
> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:48:45 +0000
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Your various correspondence about abusive tax
> schemes - 2017-02631
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> -- Please reply above this line --
>
>
> (Français à suivre)
>
> Thank you for contacting the Green Party of Canada. Due to the high
> volume of email we receive, we cannot guarantee that all inquiries
> will be answered. With our small team, we do our best to respond as
> staffing and resources permit.
>
> In the meantime, you might find the answer you're looking for in
> Vision Green [1], which lays out our plan to move Canada forward.
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:48:20 -0400
> Subject: Fwd: Your various correspondence about abusive tax schemes -
> 2017-02631
> To: Doug.Gaetz@cra-arc.gc.ca, "Diane.Lebouthillier"
> <Diane.Lebouthillier@cra-arc.gc.ca>, PABMINMAILG@cra-arc.gc.ca,
> "andrew.scheer"<andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca>, leader
> <leader@greenparty.ca>, lisa <lisa@daisygroup.ca>
> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, "Bill.Morneau"
> <Bill.Morneau@canada.ca>, "bill.pentney"<bill.pentney@justice.gc.ca>,
> "jan.jensen"<jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca>
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: Diane.Lebouthillier@parl.gc.ca
> Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 22:23:12 +0000
> Subject: Réponse automatique : YO Jean-Yves Duclos Re My Old Age
> pension etc Well May 24th came and went and I just called you (819 654
> 5546) and your Deputy Ms Levonian (819 9535603) about my right to to
> sue you and your minions in Federal Court
> To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
>
> Merci d'avoir écrit à l'honorable Diane Lebouthillier, députée de
> Gaspésie - Îles-de-la-Madeleine. Votre courriel recevra toute
> l'attention voulue.
>
> Thank you for writing to the Hon. Diane Lebouthillier, Member of
> Parliament for Gaspésie - îles-de-la-Madeleine. Please be assured that
> your correspondence will receive every consideration.
>
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: "Min.Mail / Courrier.Min (CRA/ARC)"<PABMINMAILG@cra-arc.gc.ca>
> Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 13:10:52 +0000
> Subject: Your various correspondence about abusive tax schemes - 2017-02631
> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com"<motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> Mr. David Raymond Amos
> motomaniac333@gmail.com
>
>
> Dear Mr. Amos:
>
> Thank you for your various correspondence about abusive tax schemes,
> and for your understanding regarding the delay of this response.
>
> This is an opportunity for me to address your concerns about the way
> the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) deals with aggressive tax planning,
> tax avoidance, and tax evasion by targeting individuals and groups
> that promote schemes intended to avoid payment of tax. It is also an
> opportunity for me to present the Government of Canada’s main
> strategies for ensuring fairness for all taxpayers.
>
> The CRA’s mission is to preserve the integrity of Canada’s tax system,
> and it is taking concrete and effective action to deal with abusive
> tax schemes. Through federal budget funding in 2016 and 2017, the
> government has committed close to $1 billion in cracking down on tax
> evasion and combatting tax avoidance at home and through the use of
> offshore transactions. This additional funding is expected to generate
> federal revenues of $2.6 billion over five years for Budget 2016, and
> $2.5 billion over five years for Budget 2017.
>
> More precisely, the CRA is cracking down on tax cheats by hiring more
> auditors, maintaining its underground economy specialist teams,
> increasing coverage of aggressive goods and service tax/harmonized
> sales tax planning, increasing coverage of multinational corporations
> and wealthy individuals, and taking targeted actions aimed at
> promoters of abusive tax schemes.
>
> On the offshore front, the CRA continues to develop tools to improve
> its focus on high‑risk taxpayers. It is also considering changes to
> its Voluntary Disclosures Program following the first set of program
> recommendations received from an independent Offshore Compliance
> Advisory Committee. In addition, the CRA is leading international
> projects to address the base erosion and profit shifting initiative of
> the G20 and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
> Development, and is collaborating with treaty partners to address the
> Panama Papers leaks.
>
> These actions are evidence of the government’s commitment to
> protecting tax fairness. The CRA has strengthened its intelligence and
> technical capacities for the early detection of abusive tax
> arrangements and deterrence of those who participate in them. To
> ensure compliance, it has increased the number of actions aimed at
> promoters who use illegal schemes. These measures include increased
> audits of such promoters, improved information gathering, criminal
> investigations where warranted, and better communication with
> taxpayers.
>
> To deter potential taxpayer involvement in these schemes, the CRA is
> increasing notifications and warnings through its communications
> products. It also seeks partnerships with tax preparers, accountants,
> and community groups so that they can become informed observers who
> can educate their clients.
>
> The CRA will assess penalties against promoters and other
> representatives who make false statements involving illegal tax
> schemes. The promotion of tax schemes to defraud the government can
> lead to criminal investigations, fingerprinting, criminal prosecution,
> court fines, and jail time.
>
> Between April 1, 2011, and March 31, 2016, the CRA’s criminal
> investigations resulted in the conviction of 42 Canadian taxpayers for
> tax evasion with links to money and assets held offshore. In total,
> the $34 million in evaded taxes resulted in court fines of $12 million
> and 734 months of jail time.
>
> When deciding to pursue compliance actions through the courts, the CRA
> consults the Department of Justice Canada to choose an appropriate
> solution. Complex tax-related litigation is costly and time consuming,
> and the outcome may be unsuccessful. All options to recover amounts
> owed are considered.
>
> More specifically, in relation to the KPMG Isle of Man tax avoidance
> scheme, publicly available court records show that it is through the
> CRA’s efforts that the scheme was discovered. The CRA identified many
> of the participants and continues to actively pursue the matter. The
> CRA has also identified at least 10 additional tax structures on the
> Isle of Man, and is auditing taxpayers in relation to these
> structures.
>
> To ensure tax fairness, the CRA commissioned an independent review in
> March 2016 to determine if it had acted appropriately concerning KPMG
> and its clients. In her review, Ms. Kimberley Brooks, Associate
> Professor and former Dean of the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie
> University, examined the CRA’s operational processes and decisions in
> relation to the KPMG offshore tax structure and its efforts to obtain
> the names of all taxpayers participating in the scheme. Following this
> review, the report, released on May 5, 2016, concluded that the CRA
> had acted appropriately in its management of the KPMG Isle of Man
> file. The report found that the series of compliance measures the CRA
> took were in accordance with its policies and procedures. It was
> concluded that the procedural actions taken on the KPMG file were
> appropriate given the facts of this particular case and were
> consistent with the treatment of taxpayers in similar situations. The
> report concluded that actions by CRA employees were in accordance with
> the CRA’s Code of Integrity and Professional Conduct. There was no
> evidence of inappropriate interaction between KPMG and the CRA
> employees involved in the case.
>
> Under the CRA’s Code of Integrity and Professional Conduct, all CRA
> employees are responsible for real, apparent, or potential conflicts
> of interests between their current duties and any subsequent
> employment outside of the CRA or the Public Service of Canada.
> Consequences and corrective measures play an important role in
> protecting the CRA’s integrity.
>
> The CRA takes misconduct very seriously. The consequences of
> misconduct depend on the gravity of the incident and its repercussions
> on trust both within and outside of the CRA. Misconduct can result in
> disciplinary measures up to dismissal.
>
> All forms of tax evasion are illegal. The CRA manages the Informant
> Leads Program, which handles leads received from the public regarding
> cases of tax evasion across the country. This program, which
> coordinates all the leads the CRA receives from informants, determines
> whether there has been any non-compliance with tax law and ensures
> that the information is examined and conveyed, if applicable, so that
> compliance measures are taken. This program does not offer any reward
> for tips received.
>
> The new Offshore Tax Informant Program (OTIP) has also been put in
> place. The OTIP offers financial compensation to individuals who
> provide information related to major cases of offshore tax evasion
> that lead to the collection of tax owing. As of December 31, 2016, the
> OTIP had received 963 calls and 407 written submissions from possible
> informants. Over 218 taxpayers are currently under audit based on
> information the CRA received through the OTIP.
>
> With a focus on the highest-risk sectors nationally and
> internationally and an increased ability to gather information, the
> CRA has the means to target taxpayers who try to hide their income.
> For example, since January 2015, the CRA has been collecting
> information on all international electronic funds transfers (EFTs) of
> $10,000 or more ending or originating in Canada. It is also adopting a
> proactive approach by focusing each year on four jurisdictions that
> raise suspicion. For the Isle of Man, the CRA audited 3,000 EFTs
> totalling $860 million over 12 months and involving approximately 800
> taxpayers. Based on these audits, the CRA communicated with
> approximately 350 individuals and 400 corporations and performed 60
> audits.
>
> In January 2017, I reaffirmed Canada’s important role as a leader for
> tax authorities around the world in detecting the structures used for
> aggressive tax planning and tax evasion. This is why Canada works
> daily with the Joint International Tax Shelter Information Centre
> (JITSIC), a network of tax administrations in over 35 countries. The
> CRA participates in two expert groups within the JITSIC and leads the
> working group on intermediaries and proponents. This ongoing
> collaboration is a key component of the CRA’s work to develop strong
> relationships with the international community, which will help it
> refine the world-class tax system that benefits all Canadians.
>
> The CRA is increasing its efforts and is seeing early signs of
> success. Last year, the CRA recovered just under $13 billion as a
> result of its audit activities on the domestic and offshore fronts.
> Two-thirds of these recoveries are the result of its audit efforts
> relating to large businesses and multinational companies.
>
> But there is still much to do, and additional improvements and
> investments are underway.
>
> Tax cheats are having a harder and harder time hiding. Taxpayers who
> choose to promote or participate in malicious and illegal tax
> strategies must face the consequences of their actions. Canadians
> expect nothing less. I invite you to read my most recent statement on
> this matter at canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/news/2017/03/
> statement_from_thehonourabledianelebouthillierministerofnational.
>
> Thank you for taking the time to write. I hope the information I have
> provided is helpful.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> The Honourable Diane Lebouthillier
> Minister of National Revenue
>
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Trudeau urges U.S. Democrats in Congress to pass new NAFTA

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My Reply to Norman Young "Methinks I should remind Trudeau and the Yankees about my opinion of NAFTA 15 years ago N'esy Pas?"

My Reply to Ryan Jason "Content disabled"  

Go Figure

https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/05/trudeau-urges-us-democrats-in-congress.html 

 





https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pence-vp-trudeau-nafta-trade-ratification-1.5155777




Trudeau urges U.S. Democrats in Congress to pass new NAFTA




 1947 Comments



Norman Young
 Trudeau drove a hard bargain? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha......


David Amos
Reply to @Norman Young: Methinks I should remind Trudeau and the Yankees about my opinion of NAFTA 15 years ago N'esy Pas?

The Unconventional Candidate

David Amos Isn’t Campaigning For Your Vote, But….

By Gisele McKnight

FUNDY—He has a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket, a chain on his wallet, a beard at least a foot long, 60 motorcycles and a cell phone that rings to the tune of "Yankee Doodle."

Meet the latest addition to the Fundy ballot—David Amos.

The independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife and two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from running for office in Canada.

One has only to be at least 18, a Canadian citizen and not be in jail to meet Elections Canada requirements.

When it came time to launch his political crusade, Amos chose his favourite place to do so—Fundy.

Amos, 52, is running for political office because of his dissatisfaction with politicians.

"I’ve become aware of much corruption involving our two countries," he said. "The only way to fix corruption is in the political forum."



David Amos

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Reply to @David Amos: Continued

The journey that eventually led Amos to politics began in Sussex in 1987. He woke up one morning disillusioned with life and decided he needed to change his life.

"I lost my faith in mankind," he said. "People go through that sometimes in midlife."

So Amos, who’d lived in Sussex since 1973, closed his Four Corners motorcycle shop, paid his bills and hit the road with Annie, his 1952 Panhead motorcycle.

"Annie and I rode around for awhile (three years, to be exact) experiencing the milk of human kindness," he said. "This is how you renew your faith in mankind – you help anyone you can, you never ask for anything, but you take what they offer."

For those three years, they offered food, a place to sleep, odd jobs and conversation all over North America.

Since he and Annie stopped wandering, he has married, fathered a son and a daughter and become a house-husband – Mr. Mom, as he calls himself.

He also describes himself in far more colourful terms—a motorcyclist rather than a biker, a "fun-loving, free-thinking, pig-headed individual," a "pissed-off Maritimer" rather than an activist, a proud Canadian and a "wild colonial boy."

Ironically, the man who is running for office has never voted in his life.

"But I have no right to criticize unless I offer my name," he said. "It’s alright to ***** in the kitchen, but can you walk the walk?"

Amos has no intention of actively campaigning.

"I didn’t appreciate it when they (politicians) pounded on my door interrupting my dinner," he said. "If people are interested, they can call me. I’m not going to drive my opinions down their throats."


David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: Continued

And he has no campaign budget, nor does he want one.

"I won’t take any donations," he said. "Just try to give me some. It’s not about money. It goes against what I’m fighting about.

What he’s fighting for is the discussion of issues – tainted blood, the exploitation of the Maritimes’ gas and oil reserves and NAFTA, to name a few.

"The political issues in the Maritimes involve the three Fs – fishing, farming and forestry, but they forget foreign issues," he said. "I’m death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say chuck it (NAFTA) out the window.

NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement which allows an easier flow of goods between Canada, the United States and Mexico.

Amos disagrees with the idea that a vote for him is a wasted vote.

"There are no wasted votes," he said. "I want people like me, especially young people, to pay attention and exercise their right. Don’t necessarily vote for me, but vote."

Although…if you’re going to vote anyway, Amos would be happy to have your X by his name.

"I want people to go into that voting booth, see my name, laugh and say, ‘what the hell.’


Ryan Jason
Reply to @David Amos: ""I’m death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say chuck it (NAFTA) out the window." And how would you arrange trade amongst differing nations instead? I hear you complain a lot, but I rarely hear you suggest a workable alternative to your complaints. This country does not need more people complaining without well thought out alternatives, otherwise you just cause trouble then you save.  


David Amos
Content disabled 
Reply to @Ryan Jason: "I hear you complain a lot, but I rarely hear you suggest a workable alternative to your complaints."

Methinks you should read at least one of my complaints before you judge me? (Just Google Federal Court File T-1557-15 to find the one I filed while runnng in the election of the 42nd Parliament in Fundy Royal) Furthermore its not my fault that you did not bother to read what I have been offering to the public since 2002 when I first sued 3 Yankee Treasury Agents, a Cardinal, an Attorney General and more lawyers than most folks can name. However you cannot deny the words of mine that you just quoted are on page 20 of this old file.

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

You should at least understand that clearly lots of powerful people have checked my work and nobody has dared to call me a liar yet N'esy Pas?


David Amos
Content disabled 
Reply to @Ryan Jason: "Content disabled" 


David Amos
Reply to @Ryan Jason: Methinks you will have to check Twitter to view my reply to you N'esy Pas?













Troy Bodi
I'll still be buying "Made in Canada" first every chance I get. 



David Amos
Reply to @Troy Bodi: Methinks the CRA and Harvey Cashore should review their emails by now N'esy Pas?



Trudeau urges U.S. Democrats in Congress to pass new NAFTA

Prime minister says new trade deal includes progressive provisions on environment, labour


Kathleen Harris· CBC News·


Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence in his office on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Thursday, May 30, 2019. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appealed to U.S. Democrats in Congress today to pass the new North American trade agreement, insisting the revised deal includes progressive provisions on issues like labour and the environment Democrats "care deeply about."

During a news conference in Ottawa after meeting with U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence, Trudeau said that while some Canadian Conservative politicians opposed such measures, his government saw them as "integral" to drafting a better deal.

"They are significant things that we look to the U.S. Democrats to understand are significant improvements and are issues that, like Canadian Liberals, they care deeply about," he said. "So we are confident that the work being done on ratification is possible because we made sure that, from multiple angles, this was a better deal for Americans, for Canadians and for Mexicans."


Democrats in Congress have expressed reservations about the deal — dubbed the U.S.-Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) by the Trump administration — saying it falls short on environmental protections, labour standards and the ability to enforce them in Mexico, the dispute resolution process and measures they fear could make drug prices more expensive.Pence said he came to Ottawa to make the case again for speedy ratification of the new deal, which he said represented a "historic opportunity" to strengthen economic ties between the three countries.

"Issues in D.C. can arise, but the American people should know, people in Canada should know, that our administration is absolutely committed to driving forward, to seeing the Congress of the United States approve the USMCA this summer, and we're grateful for the prime minister's efforts seeing ratification here in Canada," he said.

But the Trump administration's approach to the trade deal may be getting tangled up with efforts to stem the flow of asylum seekers crossing the United States' southern border. This evening, The Washington Post reported that Trump is planning to announce Friday that he'll hit Mexico with new tariffs if it doesn't crack down on migrants entering the United States — a threat that could put the new NAFTA deal in peril.

Mexico's new ambassador to Canada, Juan J. Gomez Camacho, told CBC News today that his government is waiting to see if Trump follows through.

"Mexico has worked closely with U.S. authorities to manage the migratory flow coming from Central America, always considering the human rights of migrants," he said. "We will wait and see the content of tomorrow's announcement."

Late this afternoon, The Post also reported that the White House has plans to trigger a process that would allow Trump to submit the trade deal to Congress within 30 days, a direct challenge to Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The Post reported the Trump administration's decision to send a draft "Statement of Administrative Action" (SAA) to Congress risks heightening tensions with Democrats, who have said they need more time to scrutinize the deal and propose changes. A source tells CBC News Canadian officials were told by their American counterparts today that the SAA would be sent to Congress.

PM drove a 'hard bargain' in talks


Earlier today, Pence said that Trudeau stayed firm throughout tough negotiations to reach a new trilateral trade deal between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico

"I want to assure the people of Canada that your prime minister drove a hard bargain, as did our president," he said before a closed-door meeting with Trudeau in his Parliament Hill office.

"But we believed it could be a win-win-win agreement and we think the USMCA, which will be the largest trade deal in the history of the U.S., will create jobs and opportunities in our country, it will support growth in Canada and Mexico and all across North America."

For Trudeau, who has taken heavy criticism from opposition MPs over how the negotiations were handled, Pence's expression of support was timely.
In the House of Commons Wednesday, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer accused Trudeau of bowing to President Donald Trump's demands and letting the U.S. dominate the trade talks.

'Historic humiliation'


"President Trump is in command and, thanks to the prime minister, Canada is a mere onlooker," he said. "Why is the prime minister so proud of this historic humiliation?"

Scheer's spokesman Brock Harrison accused Trudeau of backing down on dairy, autos, pharmaceuticals and Buy American provisions.

"The vice-president's graciousness aside, the fact is Justin Trudeau backed down on almost every front on NAFTA. President Trump's own economic adviser said 'Canada gave very generously,'" he said in an email. "The deal speaks for itself."

Legislation to ratify the new NAFTA was tabled in the House of Commons Wednesday, but MPs are running out of time before the parliamentary session ends and the parties kick into pre-election mode.

Trudeau and Pence also discussed the crisis in Venezuela and the growing number of states adopting anti-abortion laws. Trudeau repeated his concerns about what he called the "anti-choice" movement, while Pence said he is proud to be part of a "pro-life" administration. Pence said they exchanged views on the topic respectfully.

Pence said the pair also spoke "extensively" about the two Canadians detained in China, and pledged that Trump would raise the issue when he meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the upcoming G20 meeting in Osaka, Japan.

U.S. 'standing with Canada' on detainees in China


"We are in the midst of significant discussion over our trading relationship, but I can assure you in that context going forward we're going to continue to urge China to release the Canadian citizens even while we deal with the larger economic and structural issues between the U.S. and China," Pence said.

"We are standing with Canada in this effort. We respect and are grateful for the strong stand for the rule of law that Canada has taken with regard to the Huawei executive and we'll continue to engage on the issue."

Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were both detained in China late last year. The men, who were arrested not long after Canada arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at the request of the U.S., were accused of national security offences.


They were formally arrested earlier this month and accused of spying.

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Committee erupts after Tory MP tells Muslim witness he 'should be ashamed'

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Reply to Jeffrey Wayne: "Good point"

Perhaps

However methinks Mr Trudeau and Mr Scheer and their many minions are well aware of I how much I love the Circus N'esy Pas?


https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/05/committee-erupts-after-tory-mp-tells.html






https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ashamed-cooper-suri-committee-chaos-1.5156624


 


Committee erupts after Tory MP tells Muslim witness he 'should be ashamed'




1733 Comments


 

Jeffrey Wayne
The sad thing is that this is what we have come to accept from Conservatives.


Stephen George 
Reply to @Jeffrey Wayne:
Accept or expect?

Jeffrey Wayne
Reply to @Stephen George:

Thanks - noticed it afterward.

Stephen George 
Reply to @Jeffrey Wayne:
But both work as well.

Jeffrey Wayne
Reply to @Stephen George:
 
David Amos
Reply to @Jeffrey Wayne: "Good point"

Perhaps

However methinks Mr Trudeau and Mr Scheer and their many minions are well aware of I how much I love the Circus N'esy Pas?



Committee erupts after Tory MP tells Muslim witness he 'should be ashamed'

Conservative MP Michael Cooper read manifesto of accused New Zealand mosque shooter into committee record


Peter Zimonjic, David Cochrane· CBC News·

St. Albert-Edmonton MP Michael Cooper told a Muslim anti-racism activist from Alberta that he should be "ashamed" of comments he made before a Commons committee this week. (Mike Symington/CBC)



A parliamentary committee exploring online hate descended into chaos this week after a Conservative MP told a Muslim witness he should be "ashamed" after he drew a link between "conservative commentators" and the online history of mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette.

The eruption happened during Tuesday's committee hearing, when Conservative MP Michael Cooper took issue with how witness Faisal Khan Suri, the president of the Alberta Muslim Public Affairs Council, described the online history of Alexandre Bissonnette, the man sentenced to life in prison in February for shooting six people dead in a Quebec City mosque in January, 2017.

"The evidence from Bissonette's computer showed he repeatedly sought content about anti-immigrant, alt-right and conservative commentators, mass murderers, U.S. President Donald Trump, and about Muslims, immigrants living in Quebec," Suri said.


Suri went on to say that people like Robert Bowers — who is alleged to have killed 11 people in a synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh in October — and Brenton Tarrant, who is accused of shooting and killing 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in March, were similarly influenced by online hate coming from "alt-right online networks."


Suri told the committee that "online hate is a key factor in enforcing hate in all forms," including Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, and that more efforts should be made to study online hate and its effects in the offline world.

When it was his turn to ask Suri and other witnesses questions, Cooper laid into the Alberta anti-racism activist, accusing him of suggesting a link between "conservatism" and violent extremism.
"Mr. Suri, I take great umbrage with your defamatory comments to try to link conservatism with violent extremist attacks. They have no foundation, they're defamatory, and they diminish your credibility as a witness," Cooper said.

The Conservative MP then read into the record a passage from Tarrant's 74-page manifesto — which has been banned in New Zealand. In the passage, Tarrant is quoted as saying the social and political values of China are close to his own and that he rejects 'conservatism'.

Cooper did not mention Bissonnette's online history.

'You should be ashamed'


"I certainly wouldn't attempt to link Bernie Sanders to the individual who shot up Republican members of Congress and nearly fatally killed congressman [Stephen] Scalise," Cooper said. "So you should be ashamed."

Scalise and four others were shot in 2017 by James T. Hodgkinson, a Bernie Sanders supporter, who opposed conservatism in general and U.S. President Donald Trump in particular. Hodgkinson later died of wounds sustained in a shootout with police.


Audio: Listen to Cooper provoke the committee into protest. 


CBC News
Cooper tells Justice Committee witness he should be "ashamed"


 An exchange between Justice Committee witness Faisal Khan Suri of the Alberta Muslim Public Affairs Council and Alberta Conservative MP Michael Cooper. 3:16


Cooper was interrupted and the committee quickly fell apart, with both Liberal and NDP MPs exploding in protest.

NDP MP Tracey Ramsey objected to Cooper's accusations, telling committee chair Anthony Housefather that he can't allow a member of the committee to tell a witness he should be ashamed of himself.

"I think that's unacceptable," she said to Housefather. "You're putting [Suri] in a position of vulnerability to have to respond to these attacks. He didn't come here today to defend himself, he came here to present on behalf of his organization."

A partial retraction


The committee hearing was not preserved on video, but an audio recording of the proceedings on the parliamentary website captures the fracas beginning at 9:29 a.m.

Edmonton Centre Liberal MP Randy Boissonnault can be heard on the recording contradicting Cooper and trying to move the committee in-camera to address Cooper's comments.

Housefather swiftly took the committee behind closed doors, excusing the witnesses from the room while MPs discussed Cooper's comments. At 9:49 a.m. the committee resumed, with Cooper offering a partial retraction.

"While I certainly find the comments made by Mr. Suri to be deeply offensive and objectionable and vehemently disagree with them, I will withdraw saying that he should be ashamed," Cooper said.

"That was not unparliamentary, but I understand that it made some of the members of the committee uncomfortable. So in the spirit of moving forward I withdraw those specific comments, but certainly not the rest of what I said."

Cooper declined to be interviewed for this story.


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NB Power reviving vexed smart meter plan less than a year after EUB rejection

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Methinks Minister Mikey Holland's ears are burning right now or my name ain't "Just Dave" Anyone can Google "Harper and Bankers" if they don't get my jokes about the circus in Fredericton and Ottawa N'esy Pas? 


https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/05/nb-power-reviving-vexed-smart-meter.html






 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-smart-meter-application-eub-1.5156867




NB Power reviving vexed smart meter plan less than a year after EUB rejection


 

54 Comments  





Mark (Junkman) George
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Screwed enough money out of us to gamble $13 million, and now looking for more?


David Amos
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Reply to @Mark (Junkman) George: Methinks you can't say that I didn't warn you N'esy Pas? 



 


Mark (Junkman) George
Like hogs feeding at the trough............
The EUB beats those hogs away from the trough, but they are right back trying suck up some more out of us.


David Amos  
Reply to @Mark (Junkman) George: I see that you are back as well you after your first comment went "Poof"










David Amos 
Surprise Surprise Surprise


David Amos  
Reply to @David Amos: Methinks it was rather obvious that although NB Power and their EUB buddies ignored the concerns of my friend Roger Richard and I, they did not ignore the Irving Clan' wishes N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/eub-smart-meters-final-1.4554570

Originally, NB Power produced figures showing the acquisition of smart meters would cost it $122.7 million but generate benefits of only $121.4 million, an overall loss on the investment..

Tuesday, Furey revised those numbers significantly, recasting the project as a clear financial winner.

"There is this additional evidence NB Power has not identified all available benefits," he said.

"NB Power believes that the present value of potential benefits can now be stated to be $154 million."

Furey also took time to reject concerns that smart meters emit an unsafe level of radio frequency emissions.

"It would take years, years, years of exposure to an rf meter to equate to the rf exposure that a person would get from a 10-minute phone call on a cellphone," he said.

Closing arguments on the smart meter plan as well as NB Power's energy-efficiency proposals continue Wednesday morning.

Up first is J.D. Irving Ltd. lawyer Christopher Stewart, who already signalled he was unmoved by Furey's presentation and will be opposing the smart meter purchase.

"We submit that the application for the AMI [smart meter] program be denied," said Stewart shortly before the hearing was adjourned for the day.

"There is not sufficient evidence in the record to allow us, and more importantly you, to draw any other conclusion."















David Amos  
Methinks the EUB agrees with me in that the 357 Matter should be settled firsst before NB Power makes another stab and getting Smart Matters N'esy Pas?

These documents can be sourced from the records of the 375 Matter Day 1 of the very long hearing was 02/07/2018

http://www.nbeub.ca/opt/M/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=560

02/09/2018 Hearing - Day 3

Page 601

VICE-CHAIRMAN: I was a bit surprised when I heard this morning and
yesterday that you are entering into a contract at the end of February
and is that with respect to the purchase of the smart meters?

MS. CLARK: That's correct.

VICE-CHAIRMAN: So how can you enter into a contract without the
firm approval of this Board, if we are going to approve or not the
AMI? How prudent is that?

MS. CLARK: So we are at the end stages of the contract in terms of
just the final terms and conditions, but we have been very clear that
we -- with the vendor -- and they recognize that, because we also have
Nova Scotia Power, who is part of our consortium, who also needs Board
approval. So should we not get -- this is conditional on EUB
approval. So should we not get EUB approval, the contract would not
proceed.

VICE-CHAIRMAN: Now there was discussion yesterday, I think it was
with Mr. Stoll regarding time of use and time based pricing, and so I
went through the evidence this morning, and in your main evidence, and
I think one of the objective of having the AMI going forward to a time
of use price structure -- rate structure. So am I understanding that
correctly?  


David Amos  
Reply to @David Amos: Continued

MS. CLARK: That is correct. And in the evidence, we did answer an
interrogatory on that and you will see that AMI is an enabler for time
varying rates in the Energy Smart NB Plan. And we did have time
varying rates included in our investment rationale. We took it out,
because we couldn't -- we couldn't pinpoint without more detail as to
what those time varying rates may be and the benefit of those, so we
took them out of the investment rationale at this point in time, but
certainly it's something that we are looking at in the future.

VICE-CHAIRMAN: So the fundamental question here is that the Board
should heard -- or hear Matter 357 before approving the AMI? So if we
don't approve time of use, that basically what will happen with your
AMI, I mean it's -- if we don't approve the time of use, which we are
going to hear next year, how can we proceed in approving the AMI
before we look at the rate structure?

MS. CLARK: As we have talked about in our investment rationale,
there are a number of other benefits to both the customer and to the
utility over and above time varying rates that we believe are
important for the utility and for the movement forward of our Energy
Smart New Brunswick plan. Many of those benefits accrue to the
customer. And many of those benefits accrue to the utility and
ultimately the customer. So even if we were not to move in the
direction of time varying rates, we believe that the investment
rationale supports the AMI installation based on the other investment
-- or based on the other benefits that it provides.








Alex Butt
Yet another way for Mr thomas to make more money for himself and his merry band! When will NB wake up and force the government to put an end to this insanity!


David Amos   
Reply to @Alex Butt: Methinks Minister Mikey Holand has plans to his job on or about the 12th of NEVER N'esy Pas?














David Amos 
Methinks Minister Mikey Holland's ears are burning right now or my name ain't "Just Dave" Anyone can Google "Harper and Bankers" if they don't get my joke about the circuses in Fat Fred City and Ottawa N'esy Pas?  










Jonas Smith
I wouldn't trust NB Power to correctly cost out a grocery list, let alone believe them that they messed up the first time around.


David Amos   
Reply to @Jonas Smith: Me Too Furthermore they don't trust us We have to prepay a two month estimate of our upcoming bills before they will even hook us up.

Methinks should be a small wonder why their lawyers have had me illegally barred from the rate increase hearing thus far N'esy Pas?















Allan J Whitney
They will not stop until NB Power has been sold at ten cents on the dollar to a syndicate of their pals. This will probably happen soon after the coming Gaetan Thomas investment disaster.


David Amos    
Reply to @Allan J Whitney: Methinks the Yankees in Emera or the Brits in National Grid would buy NB Power in a heartbeat for KPMG's book value N'esy Pas?
















John Valcourt
NB Power should not be allowed to put these in where New Brunswickers DONT WANT THEM. That corporation is owned by the government which means it is owned by tax payers and we should have the say. This is just another way for them to charge more than we can afford for the electricity that we need. There is no way this will save New Brunswickers money. Corporations like this don't try to save us money, they try to bleed every last cent out of us. It has to stop NOW.


David Amos   

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Reply to @John Valcourt: A little Deja Vu for you

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/eub-hearings-nb-power-smart-meters-1.4529640

Opting out smart meter program could cost NB Power customers

Power customers in British Columbia, Quebec have faced fees for refusing the installation of smart meters
Robert Jones · CBC News · Posted: Feb 10, 2018 8:00 AM AT

"NB Power customers who do not want a smart meter installed on their home could be facing a stiff fee for that decision, but so far the utility is not saying how much it might be.

"It will be based on the principles of cost causation, but we have not gotten into the detail of what that fee would be at this point," said NB Power Senior Vice President of Operations Lori Clark at Energy and Utilities Board hearings on Friday."












Richard Dunn
There have been more than enough reasons to terminate, or not renew, the contract of Gaetan Thomas. NB Power may have a future, but not under his leadership. Please make the necessary changes now.


David Amos   
Reply to @Richard Dunn: Dream on
















Shawn Tabor
If this is agreed upon, it will be proof in the pudding, that something is very wrong at the top.


David Amos    
Reply to @Shawn Tabor: YUP 
 


Trevis L. Kingston
NB Power doesn't need smarter meters... but smarter management and plans.


David Amos   
Reply to @Trevis L. Kingston: Oh So True















Dave Ess
How are these idiots still in charge of the utility?

Their first application demonstrated that it would cost more than it would give.
Then they dump a pile of money into unproven scientific hype

Then they're entitled to do it all over again?

I might sound paranoid but I can't see how the new smart meter application won't just be a bunch of cooked numbers to show a "benefit" to the consumer but the reality will be increased rates and revenues to offset the the idiot decision to dump $13 million into cold fusion hype.  


David Amos   
Reply to @dave ess: "Their first application demonstrated that it would cost more than it would give. Then they dump a pile of money into unproven scientific hype

Then they're entitled to do it all over again?"

Methinks the record shows that the idiots signed a contract to buy a bunch of smart meters without having permission to do so N'ey Pas?


Danny Debdee 
Reply to @dave ess: it’s not cold fusion. they didn’t put 13 million into it, they put 6.5 from a research and development fund, which is exactly what it is for and government matched the other 6.5


Danny Debdee 
Reply to @David Amos: me don’t think so, me thinks most likely these idiots are a lot more informed about the pros and cons then yous, neyyyyy
 
 
Shawn McShane 
Reply to @Danny Debdee: Whether from NB Power or government it is $13 million of taxpayer money that went to a company where CEO of NB Power is listed as Director in SEC filings in the USA before he gave them the $13 million.














Roger Richard
«  During hearings in February 2018, NB Power tried to amend its calculations to boost the benefits of adopting the technology while NB Power president GaëtanThomas gave interviews urging its approval. »
It is worrisome that KPMG is the auditor of NB Power... https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cra-kmpg-settlement-taxes-1.5154610?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&fbclid=IwAR2ZnrhWe_JR6AmwAqt4VcO7BSDTnwmtQQVtZoTd30jtrbQzWQ27m0mBZPg


 
David Amos   
Reply to @Roger Richard: I Concur Kind Sir


David Amos
Reply to @Roger Richard: Here is a little Deja Vu for you and the folks to enjoy

Matter 430

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

Held at the Algonquin Hotel, St. Andrews, N.B., on May 21st 2019.

Page253

Q. - So Mr. Murphy, just so we are clear then, this annual filing that you are envisioning as part of your DSM deferral account process would not involve a prudency review of those expenses per se, would not ever involve an application to change the ten year deferral period -- or ten year amortization period, excuse me. If those two matters were to become before the Board, it would not be part of this annual compliance filing?

MR. MURPHY: That is correct.

MR. STEWART: Thank you. Those are my questions for this panel, Mr. Chair.

CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Mr. Stewart.

VICE-CHAIRMAN: Dr. Richard, avez-vous des questions pour ce panel ici?

DR. RICHARD: J’en aurai une.

VICE-CHAIRMAN: Donc, si vous voulez, peut-être prendre --tu peux prendre la place de M. Stewart?

DR. RICHARD: Je vais parler en anglais


David Amos 
Reply to @David Amos: Continued

VICE-CHAIRMAN: Mais, écoutez, c’est votre -- si vous voulez parler en française vous avez l’opportunité à faire aussi. Si oui, si vous allez parler en français, peut-être juste me l’indiquer que les personnes peuvent s’aller chercher les écouteurs pis vous écoutez en arrière.

MR. MURPHY: So to that end, perhaps there aren’t any translation devices at the --

VICE-CHAIRMAN: I just asked him, Mr. Murphy. I am not sure if he is going to ask questions in English or in French so --

DR. RICHARD: I will speak English.

VICE-CHAIRMAN: English, okay.

CROSS-EXAMINATION BY DR. RICHARD:

Q. - You have a document, Town of Shediac, Smart Grid Pilot Plan. How can I get that document?

MR. MURPHY: Could you direct me to the section of the evidence that you are referring to?

Q. - It is -- it would be in my question number -- I don’t remember the number. It is called Town of Shediac Smart Grid Pilot Plan. My question was --

CHAIRMAN: Excuse me, I think that might be Dr. Richard’s IR-5.

MR. FUREY: So Mr. Chair, while clearly I encourage the panel to respond to this question if they are able to, I do think that Ms. Langlais on Panel B is the witness who would be responsible for this type of documentation and perhaps Dr. Richard’s question would be better asked of Panel B.

CHAIRMAN: So Dr. Richard, Mr. Furey is indicating that the question you have asked, you know, would be better responded to by the next panel that will be up. Is that satisfactory to you to pose that question when Panel B is called?
 
 
David Amos 
Reply to @David Amos: Continued May 22nd 2019.

Page 469

VICE-CHAIRMAN: Dr. Richard, avez-vous des questions pour cette panel?

DR. RICHARD: Oui j’en aurais une ou deux.

VICE-CHAIRMAN: Est-ce que vous allez poser vos questions dans la langue Français ou dans la langue Anglais?

DR. RICHARD : En Anglais.

VICE-CHAIRMAN: En Anglais. Si vous voulez avancer, s’il vous plait.

CROSS-EXAMINATION BY DR. RICHARD:

Q. - Good afternoon. My first question I would like to have a copy of the document Town of Shediac Smart Grid Pilot Plan?

MS. LANGLAIS: So NB Power does not have a copy of that document to share. We did, since Mr. Richard asked the question yesterday and we were aware that he was looking for that, we did inquire with the Town of Shediac about providing that document and they said that he would need to inquire through the Town of Shediac to I guess obtain that document.

Q. - I already did and they said that I should ask NB Power.

CHAIRMAN: So perhaps you can qualify it for me -- clarify, sorry, your response. I don’t know if you are saying that you don’t have the document or that you can’t share the document. So does NB Power have a copy of that document?

MS. LANGLAIS: It’s my understanding that we do not have a copy of the document
 
 
David Amos 
Reply to @David Amos: Continued

Q. - My next question would be have you evaluate the cost of a smart meter that would be wired instead of using WiFi?

MR. CRONKHITE: Sorry, can you repeat your question, I just missed on the first part there?

Q. - You know the cost of the smart meter, we can have a smart meter that is functioning with WiFi, or we can have a smart meter that function being wired with a wire. Have you checked the cost of the wired smart meter?

MR. FUREY: So, Mr. Chair, I struggle to see how this is not anything than other than directly related to an AMI application. I am not sure I can find any link to the current application.

CHAIRMAN: Well, Mr. Furey, only to the extent that some of the expenditures here are in preparation for AMI and I think I will let Dr. Richard’s question at least as far as it has gone, he has asked a very simple question whether or not they have looked at a directly wired device versus a WiFi one. So I would direct the panel if they have a response to that to provide it?

MS. LANGLAIS: So NB Power would have conducted a request for proposal for AMI meters when we were looking at I guess upgrading to the next version of meter and the vendors would have proposed a solution for us, and in those proposals we would not have received anything that would have been I guess a wired meter and not a WiFi meter.
 
 
David Amos 
Reply to @David Amos: Continued

Q. - My next question would be related a little bit to undertaking number 1.

CHAIRMAN: Dr. Richard, I am just going to ask if you might pull that microphone a little bit closer, just not picking up your voice very well, thank you.

Q. - What are the new position for Information Technology Specialist? It is from undertaking number 1 of yesterday morning. And does it relate to smart meters?

MR. CRONKHITE: Sorry, could you repeat your question, please, now that we have the undertaking in front of us?

Q. - Yes. It’s from the undertaking number 1 that was done yesterday. In the response they say that one position is a new position for an Information Technology Specialist. I would like to know if that position is related to smart meters?

MR. CRONKHITE: As indicated in the response, there is two positions related to the AMI infrastructure and one related to Information Technology Specialist. So I do not draw a correlation between the two based on the response.

Q. - Then my other question was what is the Director of Business Development area doing, what is his job?

MR. CRONKHITE: So within my area I have business development and strategic planning. Largely a lot of those activities are within the strategic planning header. Business development activities are conducted within that area. As part of normal operations and as it relates to succession planning, we will have requirements for new staff. And in this particular case, it’s the result of succession planning I believe for retirement. 
 
 
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: Continued

Q. - And coming back to smart meter, can you provide me a reference where smart meter have reduced the demand in power in other jurisdiction?

MR. CRONKHITE: So that information more specifically I believe would be brought forward as part of the AMI business case in a later proceeding.

Q. - And to make sure, the permission to deploy AMI has to go through Matter 357, is it true?

MR. CRONKHITE: No, I don’t believe that Matter 357 has a direct correlation, or requirement or prerequisite as it relates to AMI infrastructure.

DR. RICHARD: Thank you.

CHAIRMAN: Okay. Just before we call upon the next person for cross-examination, I still want to sort of clarify this issue of the document that Dr. Richard requested with respect to the Town of Shediac.
And he has indicated to us that they told him he should ask NB Power. And the response of this panel is that to your knowledge you don’t have it. But I am going to ask -- and we are going to be back tomorrow -- that you just check and see if you have it. Now you may have it and feel that you are not able to reveal it for whatever reason. There may be some confidentiality issues with respect to it. But it seems strange if they would ask him -- or indicate that he should ask NB Power. I am not suggesting that this panel is aware of it but, you know, overnight perhaps you could check and see if it is a document -- Mr. Furey, perhaps I really should be directing my remarks to you?

MR. FUREY: We will make the appropriate inquiries, Mr. Chair, and report back on that issue.

CHAIRMAN: Okay. Thank you. Mr. Stoll?



NB Power reviving vexed smart meter plan less than a year after EUB rejection

Utility’s initial calculations last year showed costs of smart meters outweigh benefits 

  

Robert Jones· CBC News·



NB Power says it intends on submitting a fresh application for its $100-million plan to install smart meters across the province. (Radio-Canada)


NB Power is ready to take a second run at gaining permission to install smart meters with its 300,000 customers and the plan, which already foundered once at the Energy and Utilities Board, is stirring up controversy again.

"This will be no great surprise to the board, NB Power has indicated that it intends to bring a further application for approval of AMI — late summer, early fall as a rough time frame," said NB Power lawyer John Furey in addressing the EUB earlier this week.

AMI, which stands for Advanced Metering Infrastructure, is a collection of physical and digital upgrades to the electrical grid, including the installation of smart meters that will allow NB Power to collect individual consumption data electronically in real time from customers instead of once a month by a meter reader.




The utility said that will allow for all sorts of pricing and service innovations that the current electrical grid cannot deliver, like offering different electricity prices at different times of the day to match periods of low and high demand.


NB Power lawyer John Furey, left, said this week the utility will be submitting a new application to install more than 300,000 smart meters with its customers. A similar application was rejected by the EUB last July. (Graham Thompson/CBC)


The conversion is estimated to cost more than $100 million, an amount that requires EUB approval before NB Power can proceed.

Although it has not yet filed an application — or explained why the EUB would agree to a project it rejected less than a year ago — NB Power has already indicated it is planning around a positive decision on smart meters from the EUB by next January.
Based on that expected approval, it asked at this year's rate hearing for permission to spend $1.1 million in preparations for the program.

New Brunswick public intervenor Heather Black found that presumptuous and asked the EUB to reject the $1.1-million smart meter request when it sets NB Power's rates for the year next month.


New Brunswick public intervenor Heather Black asked the EUB to reject the $1.1-million proposal to begin preparing the smart meter program. (CBC)
 

"There is still no assurance that the approval (for smart meters) will be given at all, let alone whether it will be given by January 2020," said Black.

Fatal acknowledgement


NB Power's first attempt to win approval for its smart meter plan was rejected by the EUB last July. It ruled the utility had not presented a convincing case to justify the project's large expense.

"The Board is not satisfied of the prudence of the AMI (smart meter) capital project," read the EUB's 39-page decision.

"Consequently, it is not in the public interest. The fundamental reason behind this conclusion is the Board's finding that no positive business case was established in the evidence."


New Brunswick's Energy and Utilities Board at NB Power's rate hearing last week in St. Andrews. The board rejected an application by NB Power to install smart meters across the province last year but will soon be asked to rule on the matter again. (Graham Thompson/CBC)



NB Power's original business case showed the costs of smart meters would outweigh benefits by a little over $1 million, a misstep in the application that placed it in immediate trouble.

During hearings in February 2018, NB Power tried to amend its calculations to boost the benefits of adopting the technology while NB Power president GaëtanThomas gave interviews urging its approval.
But in its decision, the board was unconvinced by the rescue attempt and said all the evidence supported the original application's fatal acknowledgement that the cost of adopting smart meters would be higher than the benefits it would generate.

"The demonstrated benefits to ratepayers must outweigh the expected costs that ratepayers will bear," it ruled.

Some critics also argued the meters posed a health hazard because they communicate wirelessly, but the EUB said it could find no evidence of a risk to the public.

NB Power promised to prepare a stronger case for the meters and return to the EUB within 18 months but will likely have to apply by August at the latest to leave enough time for a January decision.

"We won't file until we are ready," said NB Power vice-president Darren Murphy. "If there is some reason we get delayed in that, we will wait until we are ready to file, but certainly we would like to see an application made this year."

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Less than 3 weeks before opening, nature centre loses all of its provincial funding

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Methinks Susan Purdy and I should have a long talk about Blaine Higgs and Rob Moore ASAP N'esy Pas?


https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/05/less-than-3-weeks-before-opening-nature.html





https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/cape-jourmain-nature-centre-confederation-bridge-funding-1.5156187



Less than 3 weeks before opening, nature centre loses all of its provincial funding





51 Comments




David Amos
Methinks Susan Purdy and I should have a long talk about Blaine Higgs and Rob Moore ASAP N'esy Pas?








Shawn McShane
Would have had $13 million in the bank if NB Power CEO Gaëtan Thomas didn't give it to his Joi company in Florida. Need to stop him giving $100 million to the meter company as well.


David Amos  
Reply to @Shawn McShane: What are you doing about it?









John Haigh
Interesting how Cape Jourimain Nature Centre is described as a tourist attraction even though it hasn't opened yet.


David Amos   
Reply to @John Haigh: It opened today










Richard Riel
Liberals or conservatives you get hit both ways . System is rigged for Corporate purposes.


David Amos    
Reply to @Richard Riel: BINGO














Richard Riel
Tories cuts services and keeps the taxes for themselves and their corporate friends. It's the conservative trademark.


Shawn McShane 
Reply to @Richard Riel: Like Atcon?
David Amos  
Reply to @Shawn McShane: Methinks we should not forget that the liberals run cover for the conservatives as well N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/shippagan-caisse-bailout-could-have-been-avoided-ag-1.941042

Shippagan caisse bailout could have been avoided: AG
CBC News · Posted: Jan 19, 2010

"New Brunswick's auditor-general has issued a damning report on the taxpayer-funded bailout of the Caisse populaire de Shippagan, blaming the former Progressive Conservative government for failing to properly regulate the northern financial institution.

Auditor General Mike Ferguson released the 53-page report on Tuesday that also said a handful of senior managers at the caisse populaire covered up financial problems.

The Liberal government bailed out the northern caisse populaire in 2007 with a $37-million grant and another $16.5-million in guarantees."


Colin Seeley
As a New Brunswicker I must pay a toll to get to Halifax or Charlottetown.

I also pay shadow tolls that apply to me but not to those drivers from NS or PEI. They get a free pass.

We need to toll our borders.


David Amos
Reply to @Colin Seeley: "We need to toll our borders. "

Methinks you know as well as I that your hero Mr Higgs and his minions called me crazy when I mentioned that N'esy Pas?












Joe Rootliek
New Brunswicks Debt Clock link:

http://www.debtclock.ca/provincial-debtclocks/new-brunswick/

Not saying they should have taken the funding away, just saying there are difficult choices to be made.

Maybe a toll could be placed ahead of the bridge, to provide the 50 000 dollars required. I am sure with the traffic from PEI to NB, ahead of the road, you would get a few hundred thousand cars in the summer, even if it was 50 Cents, you would get your money.


Marc Martin 
Reply to @Joe Rootliek: A toll would defenitly be a solution, people who travel trough NB to go to PEI or NS should pay a toll.
David Amos
Reply to @Joe Rootliek: Methinks everybody knows we already pay huge shadow tolls on the Trans Canada thanks to Bernie Lord The least the government can do is try to promote a little tourism without more tolls N'esy Pas?
Jeremy McKinnon 
Reply to @Marc Martin: Would that mean the NB side roads would be fixed? only been 10yrs of potholes 
 

Peter Shearer
Reply to @Marc Martin: people traveling thru the province make at least one stop for gas-then we get them at the pumps.


Marc Martin 
Reply to @Peter Shearer: People traveling trough the province are also responsible for the road conditions, why do we have to pay tolls to enter PEI or NS ?
Peter Shearer 
Reply to @Marc Martin: I don't pay any tolls in NS for the sake of a few minutes. The ferries were not free so why should the bridge which is so much more convenient. Anyway, isn't it going to be paid for in the next few years?
Shawn McShane 
Reply to @Marc Martin: :You don't pay a toll to enter PEI, you pay $50 to leave.
Vernon McPhee 
Reply to @Marc Martin: First of all there is no toll to enter either PEI or NS. There is a toll to leave PEI on the bridge. The toll portion of the TCH runs through the middle of the province (more or less) just north of Truro but can be avoided by adding 15 minutes or so by taking the old road through Wentworth valley.














Jeff Smith
If it's a good idea then private industry should pick up the rest.
 
Clive Gibbons
Reply to @Jeff Smith:

Like hospitals, schools, and roads, right? Cons love this kind of thing.
David Amos 
Reply to @Jeff Smith: Remember the "Picture Province" ? Well I must ask have you looked around lately or taken a Sunday drive down to Fundy Park from Sussex?

Methinks if you did then you would understand why the government must handle the tourism file because private industry has obviously destroyed this province with its assistance N'esy Pas? 
 












Marc Martin
Ah well this is what you get when you elect an CoRservative government cuts cuts and cuts...More to come !!!


Greg Miller 
Reply to @Marc Martin: Yes that right when they take over from a fiscally irresponsible LIBERAL GOVERNMENT!
Marc Martin  
Reply to @Greg Miller: I see...Is that why the CoRservative ran a deficit for 4 full year when Higgs was finance minister ?
David Amos 
Reply to @Marc Martin: Cry me a river
Marc Martin 
Reply to @David Amos: Please give me another case number, I need to be bored today....

















David Amos
Surprise Surprise Surprise I wonder if my cousin Megan Mitton even knows how close these spots are to Amos Point where my Forefather Adam Amos and his son Robert are buried.

Anyway whereas Madame Mitton never returned my calls or emails before the election and I doubt that she ever will methinks I have the right to say she can cry me a river now N'esy Pas?


David Amos 
Reply to @David Amos: Methinks Minister Mikey Holland's buddy Marc Belliveau within the Department of Natural Resources must remember being in the news about the area while I was preparing to run in the election of the 42nd Parliament and filing a lawsuit against the Crown N'esy Pas?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/cape-tormentine-residents-want-derelict-buildings-removed-1.3162988

"Marc Belliveau, with the Department of Natural Resources confirms his department owns the land. In an e-mail he wrote: "The buildings are in bad shape and unusable, but there has been some interest expressed in the property. It is too early to speak of definitive plans at this stage." 
Vernon McPhee
Reply to @David Amos: Nice to know that it is all about you, David. The people over in Cape Tormentine - Bayfield will be very appreciative of your attitude.
 
David Amos
Reply to @Vernon McPhee: i already talked to them and they thanked me for my empathy. Methinks you should learn such things N'esy Pas?


Vernon McPhee
Reply to @David Amos: Both of your posts above still indicate your desire (obsession) with inserting yourself into this story as you appear to do on a regular basis. 


David Amos
Reply to @Vernon McPhee: Who are you to judge me?




Less than 3 weeks before opening, nature centre loses all of its provincial funding

Cape Jourimain Nature Centre counted on $50,000 from province

Tori Weldon· CBC News·
Cape Jourimain Nature Centre, the last stop before the Confederation Bridge, opens Friday. (Cape Jourimain Nature Centre )
Cape Jourimain Nature Centre is the most recent tourist attraction along the southeastern edge of New Brunswick to face an uncertain future because of cuts to provincial funding.

The centre in Bayfield is the last stop in New Brunswick before the Confederation Bridge to Prince Edward Island.

It was built, in part, with a stimulus package given to help the community after heavy job losses when the Marine Atlantic ferry crossing was closed, and the bridge was opened in 1997.

Susan Purdy, the chair of the board of directors, said the centre only heard recently about the funding cut.

"We received a letter on May 13 indicating to us that the province was no longer going to contribute $50,000 to our operating costs."

Cape Jourimain Nature Centre is scheduled to open Friday.


Megan Mitton, the Green Party MLA for Memramcook-Tantramar, says the people of her riding feel abandoned after cuts to tourist destinations such as the information centre in Aulac this year. (CBC)


"At this late date, it's difficult," said Purdy.

She said the centre plans to employ its regular 22 seasonal employees, but their hours may be less than expected, and the centre's restaurant will not open this year.
"At the moment we are doing what we can to plan ahead, but if we get halfway through the season and our books are not balancing, then we're going to have to look where we can save money."

Green Party MLA Megan Mitton told the legislature that the spending cut follows other blows to tourism in her riding.

"The people of this region are feeling abandoned."

She said a plan to privatize the operation of Murray Beach Provincial Park has many residents in the area concerned, and the closest tourist information centre, in Aulac, was closed this year, she said.


The nature centre was established after the Confederation Bridge and the disappearance of the ferry service to P.E.I. put people out of work. (Gail Harding/CBC)


"The past government shut down the tourist bureau there, and now [the centre's] funding has been cut, putting it at risk," said Mitton, who represents Memramcook-Tantramar.

But Susan Purdy said the centre will put a push on for more donations.

"We've survived a lot of licks, we've decided to treat this one as another one."

The Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture would not make anyone available for an interview.

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No guarantee of funding for Cape Jourimain centre: N.B. spokesman

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Funding for the Cape Jourimain Nature Centre hadnever been planned to continue indefinitely, says a spokesman for the New Brunswick government.

CBC News learned Tuesday that dwindling federal and provincial funding is forcing the centre on the New Brunswick side of the Confederation Bridge to close early for the season, about six weeks earlier than in past years.

Park officials said their annual funding hasshrunk from $160,000 to $40,000 in two years.


The province is having discussions with park officials, said Brendan Langille, but he's not making any promises.

"We're going to continue to try to find a solution, but the fact remains that at this point we don't have a budget base in order to pay for the expenses at Cape Jourimain," Langille said. "At this point it's really trying to work out a solution to get the finances in order at the nature centre."

Langille said it was expected the park would be financially independent by now, and the province came up with the $40,000 grant this year as a gesture of good faith.

The federal government was expected to match that amount, but park officials said they've received nothing from Ottawa.

Paul Bogaard, president of the centre's board of directors, said they've been working on a business plan, but he said funding cutbacks exceed any financial gains the park has made.

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Agency working on long-term solutions for Cape Jourimain

CBC News·
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency is committed to keeping the Cape Jourimain nature centre open, a spokeswoman says.

The board that runs the centre on the New Brunswick side of the Confederation Bridge saysit hasto close six weeks early this year because of a lack of government funding. Both the federal agency andthe provincial government have provided funding since the centre opened.

But Patricia Field oftheagencysaid it wasn't an indefinite arrangement.


"Our investment has been designed to provide the centre with the foundation and the capacity within the organization to help them move towards self-sufficiency."

The provincial government had a similar arrangement with the centre.

This year, it came up with $40,000 in emergency funding to get the centre through another season.
Officials have said their annual funding has shrunk from $160,000 to the $40,000 from the provincial government.

Field saidACOAis working with the board on some long-term solutions, but couldn't provide details.

The centre, located on an island in a 675-hectare national wildlife area, includes a visitor information centre, a boutique, shuttle service to P.E.I., a restaurant and an interpretative centre. It hosts more than 95,000 visitors a year.

The centre is set to close Aug. 26

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MLAs approve symbolic motion siding with nursing home workers

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Methinks only the dead horse they were flogging was wise enough to ignore the circus in Fat Fred City yesterday yet the protests reminded some MLAs of June of 2004 when I was illegally barred from the Legislative properties N'esy Pas?






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MLAs approve symbolic motion siding with nursing home workers

MLAs pass motion calling on Higgs government to accept unaltered binding arbitration

Hadeel Ibrahim· CBC News·

Hundreds of nursing home workers and supporters gathered at the New Brunswick Legislature on Thursday afternoon. (Gabrielle Fahmy/CBC)



Not long after a CUPE demonstration at the legislature in support of nursing home workers and their fight for a new contract, MLAs approved a motion calling for binding arbitration — without conditions.

The vote was 25-21 for the motion by the Opposition Liberals, which also had the support of two People Alliance MLAs and three Greens. Progressive Conservatives made up the 21 votes against. 

The call for binding arbitration was the same demand demonstrators made earlier in the afternoon.


Glen Savoie, government house leader, said the non-binding motion might show the will of the majority but it's just symbolic.
"You may even say it's a bit of a PR stunt," he said.

"If it had any staying power or any ability to change policy it would, but it's a motion and it simply urges the government. That is the language and that it the tool that is."


Glen Savoie, Government House Leader, said the motion has no legislative impact, but 'urges the government.' (Radio-Canada)


The demonstrating workers and supporters said they wanted to keep the pressure on the government, which declared an impasse in negotiations two weeks ago — breaking off contract talks and provoking more calls for binding arbitration.

The government has said it will only support binding arbitration under the condition the arbitrator consider the wage increases already negotiated with its other unionized employees. The union has rejected this approach, saying it wouldn't amount to binding arbitration.


The voting


Before the voting on the main motion began, MLAs voted on amendments and sub-amendments proposed by other parties.

When the motion was first brought up in March, People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin proposed a sub-amendment that put parameters on the arbitration.

The amendment was in line with the kind of binding arbitration Premier Blaine Higgs was offering and CUPE was rejecting.

 
Demonstrators are calling for unaltered binding arbitration, but the province says it will only accept a modified form. (Gabrielle Fahmy/CBC)


People's Alliance MLAs Michelle Conroy and Rick DeSaulniers voted Thursday against their leader's sub-amendment, which was defeated 25-22.

The next vote was on a Green Party amendment calling on government to "fully fund" the result of the arbitration process. That amendment was defeated.

Austin abstained from voting on the main motion.

Busloads of demonstrators


On Thursday at least seven buses brought about 200 people to the legislature grounds early in the afternoon. Protesters carried noisemakers and signs, calling for unaltered binding arbitration and fair negotiations.

"The government refuses to deal with this in the only civil way that's left and that's untethered binding arbitration," said Daniel Legere, CUPE New Brunswick general vice-president.

This was the second demonstration held at the legislature since contract negotiations began breaking down.

About 4,000 nursing home workers, including licensed practical nurses, resident attendants and support service workers, have been trying to get a contract since 2016, seeking higher wages.
In early March, 90 per cent of the workers voted to strike, but were stopped from doing so by back-to-back court orders sought by the province and the New Brunswick Association of Nursing Homes.
A labour board decision allowed workers to strike by declaring the Essential Services Act unconstitutional. A Court of Queen's Bench justice is reviewing the board's decision and is expected to rule on July 5.

People at the rally chanted 'No justice, no peace.'

At the microphone, Sharon Teare, the president of the New Brunswick Council of Nursing Home Unions, said, "We will not rest until justice is served."

"Our hearts are aching and our backs are broken. And we cannot continue to work like that."


CBC News
Union workers and their supporters hold rally demanding binding arbitration
 About 200 nursing home workers and supporters demonstrated outside the legislature Thursday, carrying noisemakers and signs and calling for binding arbitration and fair negotiations. 1:01

With files from Gabrielle Fahmy and Jacques Poitras

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Joe Campbell
Here we go backs are broken!


Heather Michon 
Reply to @Joe Campbell: And you'd know I suppose because you've spent time in a nursing home.

Joe Campbell 
Reply to @Heather Michon: I am well aware of the nursing homes. I am only going by what CUPE stated a few months ago that each patient in the nursing home only gets 6 min of care. Well doing the math with say 20 patients on a wing at 6 minutes equals 120 minutes in total time. An eight hour shift is 480 minutes. That leaves you with 360 minutes. So what do you do with that time?

Marc Martin 
Reply to @Joe Campbell: You do realize that not all the patients are at the same place ?? Come one Joe your usually better then this.

Joe Campbell 
Reply to @Marc Martin: Your right, another beating a dead horse scenario.

Joe Campbell 
Reply to @Joe Campbell: Consider that my last comment on this topic.

Johnny Horton 
Reply to @Marc Martin: umm, yes they are at the same place. A shift for a nursing Khmer worker is in ONE nursing home.

David Amos
Reply to @Joe Campbell: "Consider that my last comment on this topic."

No doubt the dead horse agrees thats wise 

 
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Reply to Angus Campbell: Methinks many folks would agree that Mr Trump does not think that deep and that he just wants his wall tis all N'esy Pas?   


https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/06/tariff-threat-against-mexico-confirms.html 
 




https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/trump-mexico-tariffs-1.5157253



Tariff threat against Mexico confirms a deal's not a deal with Trump: Don Pittis

Critics say new border threats a warning that America's word cannot be trusted



Don Pittis· CBC News·


U.S. President Donald Trump addresses U.S.-Mexico border and immigration issues at a fundraiser earlier this year. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)


Everyone knows individual politicians sometimes fail to keep their word, and like the rest of us, investors seldom count on those promises until they see the commitments fulfilled.

But when an entire country gives its word, businesses generally assume they can count on it. Not so in the era of U.S. President Donald Trump.

On Thursday, Trump announced via Twitter that his administration will impose tariffs on Mexico if it fails to stop migrants from crossing into the U.S. The next day, he tweeted more conditions that seemed to reopen NAFTA negotiations that were settled last September.

Critics say it shows that with Trump in charge, the U.S. is a nation that cannot be trusted. And that makes a difference.




Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrump
In order not to pay Tariffs, if they start rising, companies will leave Mexico, which has taken 30% of our Auto Industry, and come back home to the USA. Mexico must take back their country from the drug lords and cartels. The Tariff is about stopping drugs as well as illegals!

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On Friday, markets demonstrated how destabilizing that failure of trust can be. It has become a cliche of economic analysis to say that business hates uncertainty. Oil plunged, currencies gyrated, and the Dow Jones index fell more than 350 points.
But such an abrupt and unforeseen change of course could signal much more than just a one-time market shock.

"How do you plan for anything in this environment, whether in the U.S. or abroad?" Derek Holt, vice-president at Scotiabank Economics, said in a Friday morning note as markets began to tumble.

Non-reliable entity?


While Trump's trustworthiness was worrying markets, the Chinese government was announcing — with unintended irony, one presumes — a plan to designate certain foreign institutions and individuals as "non-reliable entities."

In a counterblow to U.S. attacks on telecommunications giant Huawei and other Chinese tech companies, Beijing announced what analysts are describing as China's own corporate blacklist.

According to the state-controlled Global Times, the "non-reliable entity list" would include "foreign entities, individuals and companies that block and shut the supply chain, or take discriminatory measures over non-commercial reasons."

It would be fair to wonder whether Beijing was implying one of those entities is in the White House.


Immigration activists burn a pinata depicting Trump and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in April. (Jose Cabezas/Reuters)


If it went into effect, an across-the-board tariff on Mexican imports would raise prices for consumers and businesses across the United States. Canadians would not be off the hook, because in theory, goods and parts imported tax-free from Mexico and incorporated into Canadian exports would also face partial tariffs once sold to U.S. customers.

Of course, such details can only be guessed at when a politician like Trump seems to be making up policy on the fly.

Sneaking suspicion


Considering the devastating potential of such trade-disrupting tariffs, the fact that U.S. markets only fell by slightly more than one per cent on Friday is a hint that not everyone is taking Trump at his word.

The idea that the Mexican president could wave a magic wand and stop asylum seekers from crossing at any point along his country's massive border with the U.S. — something the U.S., with all its technology and border guards, has failed to do — is beyond belief.


It may be impossible for Mexico to prevent people like these Honduran migrants from crossing into the U.S. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)


There is also a sneaking suspicion that Trump's tariff threat, which grabbed headlines across North America, intentionally came just as the U.S. president was once again facing damaging news coverage about Russian election interference.

"My net bias remains to retain some degree of faith that sundry checks and balances on Trump will exert themselves while counselling avoidance of a tendency to overreact, but the damage is nevertheless being done to market and business confidence in the interim," said Holt.

Besides concerns over the effect of tariffs on prices and trade routes, the sudden announcement seems to send a chill over what until Thursday had been seen as a warming of relations between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico over continental free trade.
Following the U.S.'s recent withdrawal of tariffs on aluminum and steel from its two closest trade partners, it appeared the three countries might be close to ratifying the NAFTA 2.0 deal negotiated last year.

In fact, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland seemed to suggest on Friday that the meeting of minds between the three countries is still happening, in spite of Trump's recent threat against Mexico.

"The Mexican president has said today, speaking for Mexico, that Mexico intends to move ahead with its ratification process," she said in Parliament.

'How can you trust Trump?'


That, too, seems to presuppose Trump's latest threat is a flash in the pan. But businesses deciding whether to proceed with new investments that depend on the deal's final conclusion may be right to be wary.

Other wild Trump statements written off as self-interested or diversionary rants have ended up sticking and becoming administration policy. Many analysts at the time scoffed when Trump declared NAFTA the worst trade deal ever, threatened to ditch the Iran nuclear deal and promised to build a wall along the U.S.'s southern border.
Chris Krueger, managing director of the Cowen Washington Research Group, which provides trade and market analysis, said Trump's latest attack on Mexican trade, if not withdrawn, could kill the new NAFTA trade process and further disrupt negotiations with China.

The question Krueger asked must be echoing in Beijing, Brussels, Mexico City and Ottawa: "How can you trust Trump to honour deals?"

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Don Pittis was a forest firefighter, and a ranger in Canada's High Arctic islands. After moving into journalism, he was principal business reporter for Radio Television Hong Kong before the handover to China. He has produced and reported for the CBC in Saskatchewan and Toronto and the BBC in London. He is currently senior producer at CBC's business unit.
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Angus Campbell
This is nothing more than a diversion to fire up his illiterate base because Mueller has countered his argument that he was exonerated. 

David Amos
Reply to @Angus Campbell: Methinks many folks would agree that Mr Trump does not think that deep and that he just wants his wall tis all N'esy Pas?   
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Roger Melanson dodges questions about unilingual commissionaire

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Roger Melanson dodges questions about unilingual commissionaire

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Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Danny Boy Bussieres I wonder if your pals
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Subject: Yo Danny Boy Bussieres I wonder if your pals Roger
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Roger Melanson dodges questions about unilingual commissionaire

Roger Melanson wouldn't answer questions about events leading to Wayne
Grant losing some work hours
CBC News · Posted: Nov 13, 2015 6:18 PM AT

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David Amos
Here is something Melanson and the Corps of Commissionaires or Wayne
Grant and his buddy Chucky Leblanc will not tell you. I have a
complaint in Federal Court right now *court file numbe T-1557-15) It
is about my being BARRED from Legislative properties while seeking a
seat in Parliament. The CBC, the RCMP, the Commissionaires and all
their cops pals know that the barring document is written in ENGLISH
ONLY just like the one barring Chucky Leblanc certainly is. However my
document is signed by the Sergeant at Arms and Chucky's is not. Anyone
can see what Chucky and his many buddies in the CBC, the Council of
Canadians and the QSLS wackos published about Chucky's nonsense.years
ago. Anyone notice everytime he is arrested on Legislative property
the Crown always drops the charges after I make a few calls and send
some emails?????

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/blogger-banned-from-legislature-grounds-1.599537

https://oldmaison.wordpress.com/2006/06/20/my-last-few-minutes-in-the-new-brunswick-legislature-with-dan-bussieres/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fredericton-police-arrest-well-known-n-b-blogger-on-legislature-grounds-1.809584

http://justiceinthe21stcentury.blogspot.ca/2012/02/charles-leblanc-banned-from-legislature.html

GO FIGURE why Brian Gallant and his pal Chucky Leblanc are nervous
these day the QSLS dudes think they know the score N'esy Pas???

http://qslspolitics.blogspot.ca/2008/06/david-amos-vs-fat-fred-citys-finest.html


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Methinks the evil French dudes Danny Boy  Bussieres, Roger Melanson, Chucky Leblanc, the RCMP  and  the Corps of Commissionaires should remember this comment of mine in CBC now N'esy Pas?


https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/06/roger-melanson-dodges-questions-about.html  

 




https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/commissionaire-bilingualism-melanson-1.3318537

Roger Melanson dodges questions about unilingual commissionaire

Roger Melanson wouldn't answer questions about events leading to Wayne Grant losing some work hours


CBC News·

Cabinet minister Roger Melanson addressed reporters on Friday. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)


The provincial cabinet minister responsible for government buildings has refused to discuss how his department handled the case of unilingual commissionaire Wayne Grant.
Roger Melanson told reporters on Friday that the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure insists that the Corps of Commissionaires meets the requirements of the Official Languages Act. But he wouldn't respond to evidence that his officials played a direct role in the events leading to Grant losing some of his work hours.

"We've never instructed," he said. "We've outsourced this service and we renewed the agreement in 2013 … We don't get involved in an H.R. issue like this. What we do get involved in, is that the laws of New Brunswick are respected."
When commissionaires greet people, they're required to greet people in a bilingual fashion.- Roger Melanson
Earlier this month, a senior manager with the Corps of Commissionaires told CBC News that Grant's hours were scaled back as a result of discussions with Melanson's department.

Grant was filling in at Chancery Place when he was unable to provide service in French to Official Languages Commissioner Katherine d'Entremont, who responded by launching an investigation into how provincial building security services comply with bilingualism requirements.

But Corps chief executive officer for New Brunswick and PEI,  Peter Kramers, said Grant's hours were cut after the province decided, during discussions of the Chancery incident, that his regular posting at the Centennial Building should have a higher bilingualism requirement.

"We were following the client request," Kramers said on Nov. 6.

Commissionare Wayne Grant says his hours were cut back after the province received a language complaint. (CBC)

And a June 16 email from the Corps to one of Melanson's officials, obtained through a Right to Information request, shows the government signed off on posting Grant to Chancery for a few days, even though he was unilingual.

"We do have a limited number of bilingual pers[onnel], however we could have supplied if asked," said the email to Gary Lynch, the executive director of facilities management at the department.

Kramers confirmed to CBC News that "the client was consulted before Commissionaire Grant was temporarily assigned to the Chancery reception desk."

But Melanson would not comment on any of that information on Friday.

He repeated several times that the Corps is a third-party contractor that has to obey the language law, but that makes its own staffing decisions.

"There's an agreement with them, plus there's a defined way of doing things," he said.

"When commissionaires greet people, they're required to greet people in a bilingual fashion. The Corps of Commissionaires needs to make their decisions based on the laws that exist in New Brunswick."

He repeatedly did not respond to specific questions about the June 16 email, and the change to bilingualism requirements at the Centennial Building.

"We never told the Corps of Commissionaires who has to do the job," he said. "We said the job has to be done according to the law."



CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
 



38 Comments


Coaster_nb
Got to love politicians. Totally dodge the question because they don't have the approved answer provided by advisers.....  

David Amos
Here is something Melanson and the Corps of Commissionaires or Wayne Grant and his buddy Chucky Leblanc will not tell you. I have a complaint in Federal Court right now *court file numbe T-1557-15) It is about my being BARRED from Legislative properties while seeking a seat in Parliament. The CBC, the RCMP, the Commissionaires and all their cops pals know that the barring document is written in ENGLISH ONLY just like the one barring Chucky Leblanc certainly is. However my document is signed by the Sergeant at Arms and Chucky's is not. Anyone can see what Chucky and his many buddies in the CBC, the Council of Canadians and the QSLS wackos published about Chucky's nonsense.years ago. Anyone notice everytime he is arrested on Legislative property the Crown always drops the charges after I make a few calls and send some emails?????

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/blogger-banned-from-legislature-grounds-1.599537

https://oldmaison.wordpress.com/2006/06/20/my-last-few-minutes-in-the-new-brunswick-legislature-with-dan-bussieres/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fredericton-police-arrest-well-known-n-b-blogger-on-legislature-grounds-1.809584

http://justiceinthe21stcentury.blogspot.ca/2012/02/charles-leblanc-banned-from-legislature.html

GO FIGURE why Brian Gallant and his pal Chucky Leblanc are nervous these day the QSLS dudes think they know the score N'esy Pas???

http://qslspolitics.blogspot.ca/2008/06/david-amos-vs-fat-fred-citys-finest.html 

Chiac Only
Just obey the language law and if you can't then you will lose your job, not my problem,  

Yamaha
This from a Liberal government who promised openness. About the only thing open is Rogers mouth so he can put his foot in.  

Myview
This provinces government elite Are an absolutely disgusting embarrassment, the official languages act is a complete and utter screw up!  

Fundy Coast
The majority are starting to feel threatened by legislated bilingualism and things like the "active offer" which is literally an unwanted language. It is time to put an end to the sense of "entitlement" the francophones have for their artificially created fake language "rights" that were foisted on the people. All for one and one for all, time to make English the one and only official language that treats ALL minorities with the respect and equality they deserve.  

Sheeple
I hope I get lucky and get expelled from this province because I can only speak English. and get sent to a southern state. The only difference is I wouldn't come back here I have never seen such a backward place. Maybe I would stay down there and my decendants would come back in a few hundred years and want everything they lost back Read my lips You lost the war get over it and try to speak the universal language which is English.  
 
Brad MacDonald 
What year is it anyway? Kill her position altogether! Finally reunite the people of New Brunswick instead of this deliberate and constant effort to segregate us. This isn't even about language anymore...actually, it never was!
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Methinks much to Scheer's chagrin Mikey Cooper and Bernie Valcourt are doing Canadians a favour this weekend by proving just how evil the Conservatives truly are N'esy Pas? 


https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/06/defence-without-being-defensive-scheer.html 

 





https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/scheer-racism-deficits-liberals-trudeau-1.5157989




'Defence without being defensive': Scheer tries to blunt attack lines on racism, deficits



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Friedrich Hohenstaufen
Canadians have seen through the far right, xenophobic Conservative Party and are not interested.


David Amos
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Reply to @Friedrich Hohenstaufen: Methinks much to Scheer's chagrin Mikey Cooper and Bernie Valcourt are doing Canadians a favour this weekend by proving just how evil the Conservatives truly are N'esy Pas?





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Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2019 12:16:36 -0400
Subject: Attn Faisal Khan Suri I just called
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"Randy.Boissonnault"<Randy.Boissonnault@parl.gc.ca>, "andrew.scheer"
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/scheer-michael-cooper-justice-committee-kicked-out-christchurch-1.5159082

Scheer strips Tory MP of committee role after confrontation with Muslim witness

Michael Cooper had quoted manifesto of accused New Zealand mosque shooter
David Cochrane · CBC News · Posted: Jun 01, 2019 9:29 PM ET

The eruption happened during Tuesday's committee hearing, when Cooper
took issue with how Suri, the president of the Alberta Muslim Public
Affairs Council, described the online history of Bissonnette, the man
sentenced to life in prison in February for shooting six people dead
in a Quebec City mosque in January, 2017.

"The evidence from Bissonette's computer showed he repeatedly sought
content about anti-immigrant, alt-right and conservative commentators,
mass murderers, U.S. President Donald Trump, and about Muslims,
immigrants living in Quebec," Suri said.

Suri went on to say that people like Robert Bowers — who is alleged to
have killed 11 people in a synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh in October
— and Brenton Tarrant, who is accused of shooting and killing 51
people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in March, were
similarly influenced by online hate coming from "alt-right online
networks."

Suri told the committee that "online hate is a key factor in enforcing
hate in all forms," including Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, and that
more efforts should be made to study online hate and its effects in
the offline world.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/downing-el-hallak-racism-excessive-force-disciplinary-hearing-investigation-1.5156639

Edmonton constable facing discipline should be taken off streets,
rights groups say

Const. Nathan Downing is accused of arresting a witness two weeks
before she was set to testify against him
Andrea Huncar · CBC News · Posted: May 31, 2019 6:00 AM MT


Human rights groups are calling for an Edmonton constable accused of
assault and racism to be removed from patrol duties after more
allegations emerged during his disciplinary hearing this week.

The National Council of Canadian Muslims, the Alberta Muslim Public
Affairs Council and Hate Free Yeg say Const. Nathan Downing should be
reassigned to non-patrol duty while an investigation looks at his
recent arrest of a witness who testified against him at a disciplinary
hearing, the organizations said Friday in a joint news release.

"Having a police officer in an on-patrol role who is facing these
allegations undermines the sense of trust and safety for community
members, and as such, we support the call by black and Muslim
communities to remove Constable Downing from patrol duties while the
investigation is ongoing," wrote Abdul Malik with Hate Free Yeg.

"Because of the nature of the allegations that have been brought
forward at this time, immediate action is needed," said Faisal Khan
Suri, AMPAC president.


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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2019 10:35:35 -0400
Subject: A Deja Vu for Brian Hodgson and his very corrupt RCMP cohorts
To: brian.hodgson@assembly.ab.ca, dale.drummond@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
"Gilles.Blinn"<Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Gilles.Moreau"
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dale DRUMMOND <dale.drummond@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 08:36:34 -0500
Subject: Mr. Amos...
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com

Hello David,

Just wanted to check in with you and see how your holidays went? I
haven't had an email from you in a couple of days. Are you still in
Fort McMurray?

I'm extending an invite to you to come sit down with Cpl KING and Myself.

-D



RCMP Deputy Commissioner Marianne Ryan cell # 780 217 0779
ALERT-CEO RCMP Inspector Charmaine Bulger cell 780 509 3010
Brian Hodgson Sergeant-at-Arms cell # 780 668 7879

The RCMP bragged of working with the DHS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQTXse2Zcok


Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams
Published on Apr 22, 2014
Fort McMurray...A Fort McMurray Public School District a teacher's
assistant has been arrested and charged with a range of child
exploitation offences following an Alberta Law Enforcement Response
Teams (ALERT) investigation.

Russell Hancock, 35, was arrested on April 18th by ALERT's Northern
Alberta Child Exploitation (ICE) team with the assistance of Wood
Buffalo Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU) and Wood
Buffalo RCMP detachment members.
mike.lokken@albertaicenorth.ca 780-907-8638

Insp. Stephane St-Jacques  613-993-9953

Supt. Lesley Bain, by email or at 250 561 3102

S/Sgt Mark Hancock 780-788-8220

Lee Anne Deans 780-788-8202

Sgt. Alain Leblanc 902-222-0154




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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 12:35:12 -0700
Subject: Attt Brian Hodgson Sergeant-at-Arms cell # 780 668 7879 I
called you as you requested You would not pick up So I left you a
voicemail suggesting that you talk to the RCMP then finally answer me
in writng
To: brian.hodgson@assembly.ab.ca, "Don.scott"<Don.scott@gov.ab.ca>,
premier <premier@gov.ab.ca>, "joe.anglin"<joe.anglin@assembly.ab.ca>,
"Raj.Sherman"<Raj.Sherman@assembly.ab.ca>, Rachel Notley
<Rachel.Notley@assembly.ab.ca>, "Charmaine.Bulger"
<Charmaine.Bulger@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Marianne.Ryan"
<Marianne.Ryan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "dale.drummond"
<dale.drummond@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Bob.Couture"
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<David.Yurdiga.c1a@parl.gc.ca>, premier <premier@gnb.ca>, PREMIER
<PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, premier <premier@leg.gov.mb.ca>, premier
<premier@gov.sk.ca>, premier <premier@ontario.ca>, premier
<premier@gov.bc.ca>, "dan. bussieres"<dan.bussieres@gnb.ca>,
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 01:16:47 -0700
Subject: Fwd: Fw: Your Telephone Call to Ft McMurray Constituency
Office Monday 15th December 2014
To: kandice.perry@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, brian.hodgson@assembly.ab.ca,
"Don.scott"<Don.scott@gov.ab.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>

From: Brian Hodgson
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 3:57 PM
To: mailto:david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Subject: Your Telephone Call to Ft McMurray Constituency Office Monday
15th December 2014

David,

Please ring me regarding the captioned.

Many thanks.

Brian

Brian Hodgson
Sergeant-at-Arms & Director,
Visitor, Ceremonial and Security Services

Legislative Assembly of Alberta

412 Legislature Building

10800-97 Avenue NW

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

T5K 2B6

Tel: (780) 422-9259

Fax: (780) 415-5829

https://baconfatreport.wordpress.com/2014/12/14/the-rantings-of-violent-david-amos/

The Rantings of Violent David Amos!
by baconfatreport on December 14, 2014

David Amos e mailed myself and the Edmonton Police Service to tell
them that it appeared Mayor Iveson and Chief of Police Rod Knecht
would be pleased that David Amos and myself would “kill each other,”
come Monday morning. Now little David Amos isn’t a threat to anyone.
First of all David Amos, and his siblings are the product of drunken
incestuous sexual congress. David Amos has the attention span of a
gnat. Little David is dyslexic, and devoid of the requisite mental and
financial capacity to rise to the purchase of an air fare and actually
find Edmonton Alberta on the best day he ever had.

David Amos is so pathetic he had his brother Dale Amos come to
Edmonton, late last summer video my apartment building, go to my local
bar, masturbate outside our window, and claim, “he was gonna get me!”
David Amos lives in Halifax, in maritime kanada that’s sort of
behavior is considered normal.

Here is an example of what he calls his work!

From: David Amos
>> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:33:55 -0300
>> Subject: Attn Don Marshall we just talked. Meet Barry Winters and Dean
>> Roger Ray and my friends Robin Reid and Werner Bock
>> To: don.marshall@edmonton.ca, Barry Winters , dean
>> Ray
>> Cc: webo , Robin Reid
>>
>> Good Day Sir
>>
>> As I said I was grateful for your call but very confused as to why you
>> were playing dumb and yet in the end only wanted to know my
>> whereabouts at the moment. Trust that even the RCMP and the FBI are
>> confused about that most of the time for good reason. As you will soon
>> see it is for good reason I might add.
>>
>> Clearly I got back to you as soon as I checked you out to see if you
>> were for real. Your name was not on the roster with the other lawyers
>> that I called yesterday. thus i felt you were just another corrupt cop
>> playing me and picking my brain especially when you did not wish to
>> look on the Internet to verify what i was saying was true. I am
>> certain you would understand why I was confused as to why you would
>> know the number to call me but not bother to read my emails first.
>> Hard telling not knowing but perhaps the other lawyers etc did not
>> give my emails to you because they are quite simply pure hell in a
>> handbasket for any lawyer or cop to receive to say the least.
>>
>> Please check my work closely and do your job. I am certain we can
>> settle for chump change out of court and public view as long as a
>> little justice is finally served upon some bad acting characters ASAP.
>>
>> This what happened to Robin Reid in your city years ago. that “Barry
>> Winters” supports his malicious slander with. As a witness to a crime
>> Alberta locks her up to shut her up and fails to properly prosecute a
>> killer? Go figure?
>>
>> http://

David Amos wants “chump change” but alas David Amos is a chump!

https://baconfatreport.wordpress.com/2014/12/14/come-monday-itll-be-all-right-come-monday-ill-be-holding-you-tight/

Come Monday It’ll Be All Right. Come Monday I’ll Be Holding You Tight
by baconfatreport on December 14, 2014

There’s a very old Jimmy Buffet song That goes. “Come Monday, it’ll be
all right, come Monday I’ll be holding you tight!” My old and “dear
friend” David Amos sent this to myself and the Edmonton Police
Service.

Yo Mr Baconfat I just called and tried to explain your blog to Dave
Lazzarino (780-721-5357) Staff Sgt. Bill Clark (780)886-7478 and a
very nasty Cst Leaman of the EPS and they quite simply didn’t give a
damn December 13, 2014 2:05 PM

From:
David Amos

To: sunrayzulu; david lazzarino; Dave.Donley; bill clark; dave.loken;
scott.macrae; Mike.Lokken; greg.preston; mike lokken; Glen Canning;
Show more…Jonathan.Denis; justmin; stephen.horsman; oldmaison; pamela
roth; lgunter; joshua.skurnik; Tony Simioni
Cc: David Amos; don.iveson; Maurice Brodeuri; brad doucette;
admin@epaboard.ca; tim cleveley and a cast of thousands

It certainly appears to me that the cops hope one of us will kill the other EH?

We shall see about that come Monday morning if that is true EH Mayor
Iveson and Tony Simioni? END QUOTE

It seems that yesterday my “old and dear friend” David Amos has again
been “burning up the phone lines” from his “home” in Halifax to the
Edmonton Police Service to complain again for the one thousandth time
ad nauseam about, this humble blog! Now my “old and dear friend” David
Amos of Halifax has been whining, carping, complaining, commiserating,
wailing and gnashing his teeth complaining about me, my “nasty wife,”
my blog, and “nasty Naz” the man that owns our favourite pub Teddy’s.
It seems rather “off” that someone would call the publican who owns
your local and favourite tavern to whine about you, but it’s a free
country, right!

My “dear friend” David Amos has sent quite literally hundreds of
thousands of spam e mailings in mass orgasmic ejaculations to
politicians, police authorities, commanding officers of Canadian
Forces units, SEAL TEAM Six, the FBI. the US Marshall’s Service, Prime
Minister Harper, the CEO of the company that employs my wife, the
President of these United States of Amerka Barak Hussein Obama, and a
cast of thousands more, all complaining about me, my “nasty wife,” and
this humble blog. I am sooo proud!

I would admonish my “old and dear friend,” little David Amos of
Halifax. That if he doesn’t enjoy the humble offerings on this blog
for oh so many, many years, to refrain from habitually visiting the
blog, and reading it. It seems to me, “my old and dear friend” David
Amos’ many thousands cyberspace victims of his relentless trolling and
spam would also encourage him to cease and desist befouling their e
mail boxes, and wasting their time with insanely ranting, and
unpleasant telephone calls.

It seems in some quarters of the EPS that my “old and dear friend”
David Amos has or may have become unhinged. He has made what, some are
now calling threats, and discrete inquires about my and my wife’s
well-being, and safety were made late last evening. Let me reassure
all in cyberspace and the Edmonton Police Service that my “old and
dear friend,” David Amos is no more unhinged now, than he’s ever been.

Late last Summer David had his brother Dale come to Edmonton from Ft.
Mac Murray to conduct surveillance on our home, take video pictures
which he posted in cyberspace, and claim he was “a gonna get me, not
now but soon.” My “old and dear friend” has threatened me for many
years with “coming to Edmonton, and giving me the shit kicking I so
richly deserve.” Little David has also promised that “he, his brother
Dale, and his nephew were coming to get myself, and Pat Doran of
Calgary.

My “old and dear friend” little David Amos has threatened to “deal
with me with his Dan Wesson Gun that shoots real good,” in e mails
over the years. Now that indeed is impossible because there’s no way
the RCMP would permit one as unhinged, as David Amos to have firearms.
That indeed begs the question: Is my “old and dear friend” David Amos
and his “family” on any agency’s watch list anywhere?

So David Amos and his brother Dale Amos are no more a threat, or clear
and present danger to myself or anyone than they’ve ever been. My “old
and dear friend” has not now or ever been able to rise to the purchase
of a ticket on “the hound” or an air fare, even find Edmonton Alberta
on the best day he ever had. So all this folderol is nothing more
insidious, than more of “my old and dear friend” David Amos’ insane
pathetic bombast. Much like how David Amos has threatened all his
cyberspace “friends” with litigation for so many years.

So to the Edmonton Police Service, who I doubt actually read this
humble blog, “come Monday I’ll be all right.” And I really don’t think
Chief Knecht and Tony Simioni are “suppurating syphilitic warts…

Naw, of course I do!

What’s that delightfully stupid expression you say to everyone David?
“C’yall in court!”

https://baconfatreport.wordpress.com/2014/12/14/you-liked-the-first-time-david-why-not-again/

You Liked It The First Time David, Why Not Again
by baconfatreport on December 14, 2014

Saturday, July 26, 2014
IDF Must Keep Killing HAMAS and the “palestinians” They Hide Behind!

“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.” It is not in the best
interests, safety of Eretz Yisrael, its people or all the Jews of the
Diaspora to cease the war against HAMAS. So called “palestinians” are
being killed entirely because HAMAS uses them as human shields, or
what they call shahids. Eretz Yisrael must finish off HAMAS
notwithstanding the vexation of John Kerry or President monkey boy
Obama. Gaza must be rid of HAMAS and de-militarized before
hostilities can cease. HAMAS’ tunnels must be destroyed. Moshavniks
and Kibbutzniks in southern Israel now know HAMAs with its tunnels
planned and attempted to massacre them. The government of Eretz
Yisrael must protect its people, save their lives and kill of the
military wing of HAMAS.

The “world” permitted the extermination of six million Jews not so
long ago. The Secretary General of the Arab League in 1948 called for
a “war of great slaughter, and extermination of the Jews,” when the
United Nations terminated the British Mandate in Palestine, and
attempted to create the first “two state solution.” The Trans Arab
Nation obviously rejected that idea, then and now. The “world” didn’t
and doesn’t care. Monkey boy Barak Hussein Obama and his cock sucker
John Kerry doesn’t care about Jews, or Jewish lives, or citizens of
Eretz Yisrael. Hell, even Calgary’s Muslim Mayor Naheed Nenshi or his
anti-Semite chief police Ric Hansen don’t give a fuck about the lives,
safety and property of the “damned Jews” of Calgary.

No one cares about Jewish lives anywhere on the planet save the
government and the fighting Jews of Eretz Yisrael. Hence, that is why
IDF must, for the continued survival of Jews everywhere finish the
job, and kill off HAMAS, not withstanding the loud and anti-Semitic
vexation of “diplomats” in Europe and the Arab World. The United
Nations organization UNRW actually hides rockets and munitions for
HAMAS. They have been caught.

There is nothing new here. The world, “kristian” and Muslim has been
killing Jews for millennia. The “world” and amerka is permitting Arabs
to do the same now. The only thing that’s different is, these Jews
fight. These Jews will NOT climb aboard the “cattle cars.” Israelis to
the chagrin of Monkey boy Obama and John Kerry will not be
exterminated quietly.

That is why IDF must resume hostilities after this humanitarian pause,
and ensure their own safety, and the safety of this “bolt hole” for
all the Jews on the planet.

Kill em all and let Hashem sort em out! Not withstanding “the world”
we want to live!

-----Original Message-----
From: David Amos
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 10:40 PM
To: PREM Premier ; info@electfredhorne.ca ; robin reid ;
Edmonton.Rutherford@assembly.ab.ca ; brian.hodgson@assembly.ab.ca ;
rickmil@telus.net ; allan.hayman@shaw.ca ; kkleiss@edmontonjournal.com
Cc: danielle ; kyle.mcleod@wildrose.ca ; david.tonner2010@gmail.com ;
michael@michaelwalters.ca ; MelanieSamaroden@AlbertaNDP.ca
Subject: Perhaps Freddy Horne needs to learn how to read Furthermore
Brian Hodgson should inform him NOT to use that email address EH
Permier Redford?

http://www.fredhorne.ca/

So does Freddy have trouble dealing with simple truths? If so please
sue me. It will save a Proud Maritimer the cost of filing against
Alberta. I promise I won't file a motion to dismiss but look out for
one hell of a counterclaim. (Ask former Premier Danny Williams about
such things)

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Alberta+election+2012+Riding+Profile+Edmonton+Rutherford/6419116/story.html

http://www.changealberta.ca/viewridinginformation.aspx?cons=Edmonton-Rutherford

http://albertandp.ca/melanie/about

http://www.michaelwalters.ca/about

http://evergreenparty.ca/davidtonner.pdf

http://www.kylemcleod.ca/news

http://www.assembly.ab.ca/lao/lao-sarg.htm

http://www.assembly.ab.ca/net/index.aspx?p=mla_contact&rnumber=40

Contact Information for Edmonton-Rutherford

An Alberta provincial election has been called and with the
dissolution of the 27th Legislature there are no Members of the
Legislative Assembly until the results of the general election become
official. Following the election, biographical information of
returning and newly-elected Members will be posted as it becomes
available. During the election period, constituency offices will
remain open to serve the public.

Constituency Offices

Constituency Office
308 Saddleback Road
Edmonton, AB
Canada T6J 4R7
Phone: (780) 414-1311
Fax: (780) 414-1314
edmonton.rutherford@assembly.ab.ca


>  From: Edmonton.Rutherford@assembly.ab.ca
> To: zorroboy2009@hotmail.com
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:45:19 -0600
> Subject: RE: Getting things right puts me why ahead of you and your lawyer
> buddies and Tommy Boy Lukaszuk too EH Mr Baconfat?
>
>
>
> PLEASE – Take this email address OFF your spam list or we will be contacting
> the Sargeant at Arms to report these abusive messages.


> From: robin reid [mailto:zorroboy2009@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 4:54 AM
> To: accountin@capp.ca; acp@ainc-inac.gc.ca; admin@taxpayer.com;
> admin@turnervalley.ca; aimggc@worldnet.att.net;
> allsaintsparish@livingwholly.org; amyrae4@hotmail.com;
> andrer@sen.parl.gc.ca; anguswd@sen.parl.gc.ca; andy.knight@ualberta.ca;
> creeyellowlegs@knet.ca; cs.communications@gov.ab.ca; dallar@sen.parl.gc.ca;
> damirault@bankofcanada.ca; dan.mcfadyen@ercb.ca;
> danielle@wildrosealliance.ca; David Amos; david.raymond.amos@gmail.com;
> david johnston GOV GENERAL; dbrazeau@justice.gc.ca; dominic;
> do-not-reply@royal.gsx.gov.uk; dorothy.brazeau@justice.gc.ca;
> dproud@ucalgary.ca; Edmonton Glenora; Edmonton Meadowlark; Edmonton
> Riverview; Edmonton Rutherford; education@cmpa.org; harper1@shaw.ca;
> health.minister@gov.ab.ca; health.ahinform@gov.ab.ca; health;
> immigration.info@gov.ab.ca; info@bobrae.ca; info@greenparty.ca;
> info@justin.ca; info@liberal.ca; info@no-tar-sands.org; info@trc.ca;
> info@wildrosealliance.ca; info; inquiries@cibcmellon.com;
> internshipsdemocratic@banking.senate.gov; ir3n3peace@gmail.com; RedDeer
> North; jimsisson@inac.gc.ca; jspottedbear@yahoo.com; justice;
> kasey@kainaigovernment.org; kevin_annett@hotmail.com; maggie491@hotmail.com;
> Marilyn; okotokschamber@telus.net; people stand up; pm@pm.gc.ca;
> premier@gov.ab.ca; premier@gov.sk.ca; press@royalcollection.org.uk; Rob Hay;
> shirley.bond.mla@leg.bc.ca; toewsv1@parl.gc.ca; votedavedowling@hotmail.com;
> whitefeathers1@msn.com; willow_ss@yahoo.ca
> Subject: FW: Getting things right puts me why ahead of you and your lawyer
> buddies and Tommy Boy Lukaszuk too EH Mr Baconfat?
>  To All Concerned,
>
> You cannot kill the truth.  Shame on you for what you have done to myself,
> David Amos and his family. Countless other
> children, woman and men. Your game of godly governments hidden human rights
> abuse is very WRONG.
>
> " POVERTY IS THE MOTHER OF CRIME " MA, ROMAN.
>
> REMEMBER IT'S ALL INDIAN LIFE, LANDS, WATER AND AIR THAT AS GODLY GOVERNMENT
> YOU THIEVED AND KILLED
> FOR, THEN THE CORRUPT CHIEFS FOLLOWED AND LEFT THAIR OWN IN POVERTY, 3RD
> WORLD CONDITIONS RIGHT
> HERE IN CANADA UNDER THE SUPREMACY OF GOD, ON AND OFF THE RESERVATIONS (
> CONCENTRATION CAMPS CREATED
> UNDER THE SUPREMACY OF GOD. )   HOW IS THIS RIGHT????????
>
> YOUR WHOLE DESIGN IS RESIDENTIAL, HMMMMM
>
> ARE YOU ALL PROUD FOR YOUR KILLING GAME ON LIFE????????
> ARE YOU PROUD YOU HAVE LEFT CHILDREN IN HARMS WAY WITH YOUR CONDONED
> PEDOPHILE LAIR?
>
> LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ALL
>
> THANK YOU
> ROBIN REID
> RED NATIONS
> PPOF
>
>
>
>  > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:06:50 -0300
>> Subject: Getting things right puts me why ahead of you and your lawyer
>> buddies and Tommy Boy Lukaszuk too EH Mr Baconfat?
>> From: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>> To: sunrayzulu@shaw.ca; avi.perry@yahoo.com
>> CC: zorroboy2009@hotmail.com; Duncan.Babchuk@rcmp-grc.gc.ca;
>> mayor@porthardy.ca; mayor@st-albert.net; vacman@telus.net;
>> matthew.dykstra@sunmedia.ca; ezra.levant@sunmedia.ca; pm@pm.gc.ca;
>> Bob.Paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca; Wayne.Lang@rcmp-grc.gc.ca;
>> jacques.boucher@rcmp-grc.gc.ca; toewsv1@parl.gc.ca; john.green@gnb.ca;
>> chiefape@gmail.com; evelyngreene@live.ca; ndesrosiers@ccla.org;
>> adeshman@ccla.org; Ivan.court@saintjohn.ca; mel.norton@saintjohn.ca;
>> woodsideb@fredericton.ca; MacKnightb@fredericton.ca;
>> deanr0032@hotmail.com; Randy.McGinnis@rcmp-grc.gc.ca; premier@gov.ab.ca;
>> samperrier@hotmail.com; occupyfredericton@gmail.com; mhayes@stu.ca;
>> thepurplevioletpress@gmail.com; rchedore@mosherchedore.ca;
>> bmosher@mosherchedore.ca; WEAREFREDUP@gmail.com; brother.chao@gmail.com;
>> sallybrooks25@yahoo.ca; Mordaith@gmail.com; advocacycollective@yahoo.com;
>> investor.relations@sjrb.ca; Barry.Shaw@forces.gc.ca;
>> internet.abuse@sjrb.ca; Mackay.P@forces.gc.ca; Nicholson.R@parl.gc.ca;
>> campaign@peterrodd.ca; MulcaT@parl.gc.ca; bob.rae@rogers.blackberry.net;
>> oldmaison@yahoo.com; greyfeather.farm@gmail.com; jays@athabascau.ca;
>> alvinf@athabascau.ca; gurston.dacks@ualberta.ca; legacy@compusmart.ab.ca;
>> Elder@ucalgary.ca; DRPCalgary@shaw.ca; bfphipps@shaw.ca;
>> ChangeAlbertaEdmonton@yahoo.ca; ChangeAlbertaCalgary@yahoo.ca;
>> stanknowlton@ndp.ca; Tom@sindlinger.ca
>>
>> If you and Petey Baby Mackay wish to recall I am a son of the Keith Clan.
>>
>> Here is the BOOK that PROVES it.
>>
>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/2619648/from-whence-i-came
>>
>> It pays to have a REAL name N'esy Pas?
>>
>> Notice the lawyer Reid Chedore mentioned in the Book of Keiths as well
>> because he married my sister?
>>
>> Notice Reid Chedore's signature on an affadavit when i sued Cardinal
>> Bernard Francis Law, tre US Treasury Agents and and host of Yankee
>> Lawyers and Judges etc?
>>
>> Here
>>
>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/2619437/CROSS-BORDER-
>>
>> or Here
>>
>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/2619437/CROSS-BORDER-
>>
>> MacKay can ask his lawyer buddy Brian Mosher to refresh his memory and
>> start on page 134 and confirm Chedore's signature on page 142
>>
>> You are the liar not I Mr Baconfat and you don't even have the balls
>> to have a name as youlibel women and children in a effort to impeach
>> my chracter. Anyone with a lick of common sense can see why a
>> mindlless JDL spin doctor attacked us after it was known I was
>> involved in the Madoff matter.
>>
>> Remember when you were pretending to be this guy and trying to steal
>> his thunder?
>>
>> http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Heritage/FSCNS/Scots_NS/Sct_Military/IM_McCulloch.html
>>
>> Rmember when you stole Avi Perry work and claimed it as own???
>>
>> You political punks should never forget that I am Canadian citizen
>> ONLY and that my rights were secured by many forefathers LONG before
>> Canada had its own British Consitution. Lukaszuk (born in Poland),
>> MacKay (born not that far down the road from me) and even you (not
>> sure which bitch bore you or where) are all younger than I. Thus I the
>> right to be addressed as Sir or Mr Amos by the likes of you. Plus you
>> are certainly no friends of mine to presume to call me by the long
>> dead Jewish King's name. Stick to TRUE HISTORY and use a decent
>> prophet's name when addressing mean old me.
>>
>> I ain't religious but YOU and you lawyer pals proved ol Amos'
>> reasoning in spades
>>
>> EH Mr Baconfat???
>>
>> Amos 5:10
>>
>> http://bible.cc/amos/5-10.htm
>>
>> King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
>> They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that
>> speaketh uprightly.
>>
>> New International Version (©1984)
>>
>> you hate the one who reproves in court and despise him who tells the
>> truth.
>>
>> GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
>> Israel, you hate anyone who speaks out against injustice. You are
>> disgusted by anyone who speaks the truth
>>
>>
>> Looks like another son of the Keiths agrees with mean old me EH sonny?
>>
>> Veritas Vincit (The Clans motto dummy)
>> David Raymond Amos
>> 902 800 0369
>>
>> Ex-Canadian Forces officer says attacking Iran would be historic mistake
>>
>>
>> By Carlito Pablo, March 30, 2012
>> As the war drums beat louder and the West and Israel continue to tread
>> down a path leading to hostilities with Iran, a former Canadian
>> soldier who has seen the ugly face of war cites a truism as one
>> argument for peace.
>>
>> It’s easier to start a war than to end it, according to Rollie Keith.
>> The Fraser Valley resident is no Sunday warrior.
>>
>> As a paratroop officer and a tank officer, he spent about 35 years in
>> the Canadian military. Under the United Nations flag, he has been in
>> places like the Suez Canal and the Sinai Desert. He did two tours in
>> Cairo and Jerusalem. He was in Lebanon in 1975 before the start of the
>> civil war there.
>>
>> The retired Canadian military captain also tells it like it is. That
>> was the reason he stepped down as the B.C. NDP candidate in
>> Chilliwack-Kent in the election campaign of 2005. He had previously
>> testified for the defence of former Yugoslavian president Slobodan
>> Milosevic that as an observer on the ground, he had seen no evidence
>> of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, which was the justification made for
>> the NATO bombings of Yugoslavia. He felt the pressure to withdraw his
>> candidacy when then NDP leader Carole James said that she disagreed
>> with Keith.
>>
>> The Straight recently talked with Keith by phone about how he looks at
>> the unfolding situation involving Iran.
>>
>> “I hope there’s not a war but we’re on the slippery slope in my
>> estimation,” Keith said. “And whether it can be avoided or not, I
>> think, is the big question. But then where would it go?”
>>
>> Although Canada doesn’t have a lot of interest directly in the Middle
>> East, according to Keith, the consequences of the destabilization of
>> the global economy as a likely result of a war involving Iran would
>> also be felt here.
>>
>> “Prime Minister [Stephen] Harper I think would be inclined to at least
>> have a nominal support of any American policy,” he said. “Look at how
>> he...has endorsed Israeli attacks on Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.”
>>
>> Keith can’t imagine how a war against Iran can be a winnable one.
>>
>> But Keith’s view of conflicts in the world certainly transcends his
>> military background. He’s into history as well as the dynamics of
>> geopolitics.
>>
>> “I’m a student of World War II and its consequences and I think it can
>> be misinterpreted but I think two of the major mistakes coming out of
>> World War II were the creation of the State of Israel and the State of
>> Pakistan,” he said. “Because the destabilization over the last half
>> century, a great deal of it has come because of those states
>> disrupting the regions that they were established in.”
>>
>> Keith was interviewed before the March 24 leadership convention of the
>> federal NDP. In that interview, he was told that one of the
>> candidates, Quebec MP Thomas Mulcair, had previously declared that he
>> supports Israel in all circumstances. Mulcair is now the new NDP
>> leader.
>>
>> “A homeland for Jews is one thing but a theocratic state for the Jews,
>> which has become a bully in the neighbourhood, should never have been
>> allowed to happen,” Keith said.
>>
>>
>> On 4/10/12, BARRY WINTERS <sunrayzulu@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> > That's about right David! How's that pediphile homeless thing going
>> > David?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>> > Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 7:12 am
>> > Subject: Below is just a few messages I got from Tommy Boy Lukaszuk's
>> > tough
>> > talking pal 3 months ago when the PC's were High in the polls
>> > To: BARRY WINTERS <sunrayzulu@shaw.ca>
>> > Cc: robin reid <zorroboy2009@hotmail.com>, "Duncan.Babchuk"
>> > <Duncan.Babchuk@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, mayor <mayor@porthardy.ca>, mayor
>> > <mayor@st-albert.net>, vacman <vacman@telus.net>, "matthew.dykstra"
>> > <matthew.dykstra@sunmedia.ca>, "ezra.levant"<ezra.levant@sunmedia.ca>,
>> > pm
>> > <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "Bob.Paulson"<Bob.Paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Wayne.Lang"
>> > <Wayne.Lang@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "jacques.boucher"
>> > <jacques.boucher@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, toewsv1 <toewsv1@parl.gc.ca>,
>> > "john.green"
>> > <john.green@gnb.ca>, chiefape <chiefape@gmail.com>, evelyngreene
>> > <evelyngreene@live.ca>, "ndesrosiers@ccla.org"<ndesrosiers@ccla.org>,
>> > adeshman <adeshman@ccla.org>, "Ivan. court"<Ivan.court@saintjohn.ca>,
>> > "mel.norton"<mel.norton@saintjohn.ca>, woodsideb
>> > <woodsideb@fredericton.ca>, MacKnightb <MacKnightb@fredericton.ca>, dean
>> > Ray
>> > <deanr0032@hotmail.com>, "Randy.McGinnis"
>> > <Randy.McGinnis@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
>> > PREM Premier <premier@gov.ab.ca>, Sam Perrier <samperrier@hotmail.com>,
>> > occupyfredericton <occupyfredericton@gmail.com>, mhayes
>> > <mhayes@stu.ca>,
>> > thepurplevioletpress <thepurplevioletpress@gmail.com>, rchedore
>> > <rchedore@mosherchedore.ca>, bmosher <bmosher@mosherchedore.ca>, We are
>> > Fred
>> > up <WEAREFREDUP@gmail.com>, Arthur Taylor <brother.chao@gmail.com>,
>> > "sallybrooks25@yahoo.ca"<sallybrooks25@yahoo.ca>, Mordaith@gmail.com,
>> > advocacycollective <advocacycollective@yahoo.com>, "investor.relations"
>> > <investor.relations@sjrb.ca>, "Barry.Shaw"<Barry.Shaw@forces.gc.ca>,
>> > "internet.abuse"<internet.abuse@sjrb.ca>, "Mackay.P"
>> > <Mackay.P@forces.gc.ca>, "Nicholson. R"<Nicholson.R@parl.gc.ca>,
>> > campaign
>> > <campaign@peterrodd.ca>, MulcaT <MulcaT@parl.gc.ca>, "bob.rae"
>> > <bob.rae@rogers.blackberry.net>, "oldmaison@yahoo.com"
>> > <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, Esther and Phil <greyfeather.farm@gmail.com>,
>> > jays@athabascau.ca, alvinf@athabascau.ca, gurston.dacks@ualberta.ca,
>> > legacy@compusmart.ab.ca, Elder@ucalgary.ca, DRPCalgary@shaw.ca,
>> > bfphipps@shaw.ca, ChangeAlbertaEdmonton@yahoo.ca,
>> > ChangeAlbertaCalgary@yahoo.ca, stanknowlton@ndp.ca, Tom@sindlinger.ca
>> >
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: BARRY WINTERS
>> >> To: David Amos
>> >> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 8:49 PM
>> >> Subject: Re: FYI Mr Baconfat The Meatheads, all other cops, the
>> >> politicians and their bureaucrats work for the Citizens of Canada
>> >>
>> >> You and Little Rob fucked with Tommy and me for years... Now its my
>> >> turn, Little Rob is done. Now its time for her to assume her "physical
>> >> and mental human rights" and get a job, move to BC or starve.
>> >>
>> >> She has NO friends anywhere
>> >>
>> >> Cheers
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: BARRY WINTERS
>> >> To: David Amos
>> >> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 8:46 PM
>> >> Subject: Re: FYI Mr Baconfat The Meatheads, all other cops, the
>> >> politicians and their bureaucrats work for the Citizens of Canada
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Hey Scumbag!
>> >>
>> >> Funny you talk about " friends" Does that include Werner Bock who
>> >> threw you off his farm?
>> >>
>> >> The Military Police legally have no obligation to respond to you at
>> >> all. The MPs work for DND and you are a civilian. But then again the
>> >> MPs already told you that, I hear.
>> >>
>> >> Unlike you I am finnacially comfortable, and modestly well connected,
>> >> I served under Gabby Ashkenazi, but more inportantly I hold
>> >> office in
>> >> both the Conservative Party of Canada and the Progressive Conservative
>> >> Party in Canada.
>> >>
>> >> You outed a young man named Tommy from the League of
>> >> resason? I have
>> >> contacts in the PM's constituency office in Calgary.
>> >>
>> >> Little Rob is about to be outed as well. I guess what is good
>> >> for the
>> >> goose is indeed good for the gander.
>> >>
>> >> You once said you "will finish the fight" You my pedophile criminal
>> >> friend have been whupped for sometime
>> >> But then again intellectually speaking you are the
>> >> proverbial "knife
>> >> to a gunfight"
>> >>
>> >> Alas, what do you expect from an uneducated, semiliterate child
>> >> molester with syphilis?
>> >>
>> >> Mazel Tov Scumbag
>> >>
>> >> PS ...leaving for Calgary tomorrow for a federal Conservative
>> >> fundraiser tomorrow night, should be real interseting in more ways
>> >> than one.
>> >>
>> >> Hint: The PMs staff in Calgary remember Little Rob very well.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers asshole
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: BARRY WINTERS
>> >> To: David Amos
>> >> Cc: Barry.Shaw ; Ken.Zielke ; premier@gov.ns.ca ; premier ;
>> >> premier ;
>> >> premier ; oldmaison@yahoo.com ; We are Fred up ; Edmonton Castledowns
>> >> ; PREM Premier ; robin reid ; danielle ; LIEPERT ;
>> >> calgary.fishcreek ;
>> >> calgary.varsity ; calgarygrit
>> >> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 1:23 PM
>> >> Subject: Re: Yo Thomas Lukzsuk Methinks your Masonic butt buddy Mr
>> >> Baconfat has been drunk all night AGAIN EHHH???
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Yo Davey Baby:
>> >>
>> >> You ingnorant, insane, uninformed asshole. Latest environic
>> >> polls show
>> >> PC support in Alberta ate 54 % .
>> >>
>> >> You need to remember this: "It is far better to keep your mouth shut,
>> >> and be thought an idiot...than to write something and remove all
>> >> doubt"
>> >>
>> >> To all addressees: David Amos is a convicted pedophile and
>> >> registeredsex offender.
>> >>
>> >> On 4/10/12, BARRY WINTERS <sunrayzulu@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > W T F ! STOP THE SPAM STOP THE
>> >> SPAM STOP THE SPAM STOP THE SPAM
>> >> >
>> >> > JUMP JUMP JUMP JUMP
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > ----- Original Message -----
>> >> > From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>> >> > Date: Monday, April 9, 2012 7:45 pm
>> >> > Subject: So Vic Toews are you and your underlings in the RCMP
>> >> prepared to
>> >> > argue the file hereto attached?
>> >> > To: BARRY WINTERS <sunrayzulu@shaw.ca>, "Duncan.Babchuk"
>> >> > <Duncan.Babchuk@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, mayor
>> >> <mayor@porthardy.ca>, mayor
>> >> > <mayor@st-albert.net>, vacman <vacman@telus.net>,
>> >> "matthew.dykstra"> <matthew.dykstra@sunmedia.ca>
>> >> > Cc: robin reid <zorroboy2009@hotmail.com>, "ezra.levant"
>> >> > <ezra.levant@sunmedia.ca>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "Bob.Paulson"
>> >> > <Bob.Paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Wayne.Lang"
>> >> <Wayne.Lang@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
>> >> > "jacques.boucher"<jacques.boucher@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, toewsv1
>> >> > <toewsv1@parl.gc.ca>, "john.green"<john.green@gnb.ca>,
>> >> chiefape> <chiefape@gmail.com>, evelyngreene
>> >> <evelyngreene@live.ca>,> "ndesrosiers@ccla.org"
>> >> <ndesrosiers@ccla.org>, adeshman <adeshman@ccla.org>,
>> >> > "Ivan. court"<Ivan.court@saintjohn.ca>, "mel.norton"
>> >> > <mel.norton@saintjohn.ca>, woodsideb
>> >> <woodsideb@fredericton.ca>, MacKnightb
>> >> > <MacKnightb@fredericton.ca>, dean Ray <deanr0032@hotmail.com>,
>> >> > "Randy.McGinnis"<Randy.McGinnis@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, PREM Premier
>> >> > <premier@gov.ab.ca>, Sam Perrier
>> >> <samperrier@hotmail.com>, occupyfredericton
>> >> > <occupyfredericton@gmail.com>, mhayes <mhayes@stu.ca>,
>> >> thepurplevioletpress> <thepurplevioletpress@gmail.com>,
>> >> rchedore <rchedore@mosherchedore.ca>,
>> >> > bmosher <bmosher@mosherchedore.ca>, We are Fred up
>> >> <WEAREFREDUP@gmail.com>,> Arthur Taylor
>> >> <brother.chao@gmail.com>, "sallybrooks25@yahoo.ca"
>> >> > <sallybrooks25@yahoo.ca>, Mordaith@gmail.com, advocacycollective
>> >> > <advocacycollective@yahoo.com>, "investor.relations"
>> >> > <investor.relations@sjrb.ca>, "Barry.Shaw"
>> >> <Barry.Shaw@forces.gc.ca>,> "internet.abuse"
>> >> <internet.abuse@sjrb.ca>, "Mackay.P"
>> >> > <Mackay.P@forces.gc.ca>, "Nicholson. R"
>> >> <Nicholson.R@parl.gc.ca>, campaign
>> >> > <campaign@peterrodd.ca>, MulcaT <MulcaT@parl.gc.ca>, "bob.rae"
>> >> > <bob.rae@rogers.blackberry.net>, "oldmaison@yahoo.com"
>> >> > <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, Esther and Phil
>> >> <greyfeather.farm@gmail.com>,> jays@athabascau.ca,
>> >> alvinf@athabascau.ca, gurston.dacks@ualberta.ca,
>> >> > legacy@compusmart.ab.ca, Elder@ucalgary.ca, DRPCalgary@shaw.ca,
>> >> > bfphipps@shaw.ca, ChangeAlbertaEdmonton@yahoo.ca,
>> >> > ChangeAlbertaCalgary@yahoo.ca, stanknowlton@ndp.ca,
>> >> Tom@sindlinger.ca>
>> >> >> You bastard's can never say that I didn't do what Landslide Annie
>> >> >> suggested MANY TIMES CORRECT?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq9WozWEyAI
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Hell just one YOUTUBE told the tale but there were many more
>> >> of mine
>> >> >> when Harper broke his own law and had his buddy the
>> >> >> Governor General
>> >> >> drop the writ in 2008.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> As you know Harper stopped me from running just scaring all the
>> >> >> Chartered Accountants away from me.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> However I got the last laugh when Harper begged his buddy to
>> >> prorogue>> parliament because he put his foot in his
>> >> piehole bigtime
>> >> >> and pissed
>> >> >> off Dion, Duceppe and Layton. There were three stooges who
>> >> made out
>> >> >> bigtime over that election. Corporal Kevin Jackson became an
>> >> Inspector>> overnight and the lawyer Ted Tax became a judge in a
>> >> heartbeat>> just to
>> >> >> shut them up. Hell even the evil PEI Dwarf Duffy got to be Senator
>> >> >> over that ridiculous election EH?
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> From: Shaw Internet Abuse <abuse-nonverbose@sjrb.ca>
>> >> >> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 19:00:03 -0600
>> >> >> Subject: RE: Reid Chedore and the RCMP should study Recent YOUTUBE
>> >> >> shite from Alberta during the election created by Dean Roger
>> >> Ray in
>> >> >> Sylvan Lake EH Sgt Duncan Bachuk?
>> >> >> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
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>> >> >>
>> >> >> On 4/9/12, David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >> > While one serious sick pervert attacks one daughter as his
>> >> >> butt buddy
>> >> >> > attacks the other?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Wouldn't any proud father be justifiably pissed off?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > What say you Vicky Toews? Has the cat named Harper with the
>> >> Cheshire>> > grin got your tongue? Or do your RCMP minions only
>> >> work for corrupt
>> >> >> > neo cons such as Tommy Boy Lukaszuk???
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > More importantly the lawyer Chedore and the RCMP and legions
>> >> >> of others
>> >> >> > know I have been complaining of the cyber stalking, sexual
>> >> >> harrassment> and death threats against my minor children since
>> >> >> 2007. However now
>> >> >> > that they are all adults they need lawyers instead of a father.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > From: BARRY WINTERS <sunrayzulu@shaw.ca>
>> >> >> > Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:31:59 -0600
>> >> >> > Subject: Re: A little Youtube Deja Vu for Mr Baconfat and his
>> >> >> Canadian> buddies Chucky Leblanc, Dana Durnford, Dean Roger Ray
>> >> >> Byron Prior,
>> >> >> > Werner Bock and Alex Hunter
>> >> >> > To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Did the antibiotics clear up the clap Laura got from me?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > NOW CHECK THIS OUT MR CHEDORE
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfVtJjCRnh0
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=tfVtJjCRnh0
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Grace Amos might be Mrtrolicious
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > 15:00
>> >> >> > Added: 1 week ago
>> >> >> > From: Teslabrotherhood7
>> >> >> > Views: 52
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > All Comments (12)
>> >> >> > Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
>> >> >> > Her voice its very calming, relaxing , seemingly angelic.
>> >> >> > Thank you for uploading this great stuff.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > WeaponizedNLP 1 week ago in playlist Uploaded videos
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Looking over my old David Raymond Amos files he connects to
>> >> >> cps! Child
>> >> >> > protection services in Canada and the states connects to Ewen
>> >> >> > Camerons work which was banned from the states and
>> >> continued in
>> >> >> > canada.
>> >> >> > Teslabrotherhood7 1 week ago
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > David Raymond Amos your even linked to silencing people
>> >> >> when they
>> >> >> > were drugging kids with attention deficit disorder. They
>> >> would grab
>> >> >> > welfare kids whos parents were on assistance and give them
>> >> a nasty
>> >> >> > letter that their child is being monitored. Then they would
>> >> >> prescribe> drugs made by Ewen Cameron. What was that drug
>> >> >> ritalin and some other
>> >> >> > dangerous drug.
>> >> >> > Teslabrotherhood7 1 week ago
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Did you really think I was clueless Amos?
>> >> >> > Teslabrotherhood7 1 week ago
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > oops forgot to put hells angels in the tags brb.
>> >> >> > Teslabrotherhood7 1 week ago
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > David Amos's kid uploads a video and even mentions a
>> >> >> friend who
>> >> >> > contacts her in the hideaway. She has this video on a channel
>> >> >> she used
>> >> >> > to stalk me. Amos you taught her well I should of added when
>> >> >> you were
>> >> >> > in the interview bragging how you use to work for RCMP as
>> >> a shill
>> >> >> > ratting on Hells Angels.
>> >> >> > Teslabrotherhood7 1 week ago
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Grace I am sure Canadian tire franchise is mighty proud
>> >> >> of your daddys
>> >> >> > work.
>> >> >> > Teslabrotherhood7 1 week ago
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > David Raymond Amos was also key in silencing farmers
>> >> >> who were
>> >> >> > exposed to a urainium mine and their cattle were dieing.
>> >> >> > Teslabrotherhood7 1 week ago
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > David Raymond Amos was an agent who went after Byron
>> >> >> pryor to shut
>> >> >> > him up. David Raymond Amos also fought Anonymous trolls
>> >> >> stearing me
>> >> >> > onto makaelectric then Montagraph. I decided to embarrass him
>> >> >> showing> i was the better agent for the task and destroyed
>> >> >> Montagraph and
>> >> >> > makaelectric for them.
>> >> >> > Teslabrotherhood7 1 week ago
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > The voice is a bit different but in both videos there is a
>> >> >> mention of
>> >> >> > woods and isolation. I think the area is Chapman one of
>> >> Amos safe
>> >> >> > houses.
>> >> >> > Teslabrotherhood7 1 week ago
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > If I am right Vonhelton was being hacked! lol you have
>> >> >> a David Amos
>> >> >> > infection.
>> >> >> > Teslabrotherhood7 1 week ago
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > On 4/9/12, BARRY WINTERS <sunrayzulu@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> >> >> >> Oh dear! More fucked up shite from our "friend" the pedophile
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> >> >> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>> >> >> >> Date: Monday, April 9, 2012 2:01 pm
>> >> >> >> Subject: A little Youtube Deja Vu for Mr Baconfat and his
>> >> Canadian>> >> buddies
>> >> >> >> Chucky Leblanc, Dana Durnford, Dean Roger Ray Byron Prior,
>> >> >> Werner Bock
>> >> >> >> and
>> >> >> >> Alex Hunter
>> >> >> >> To: BARRY WINTERS <sunrayzulu@shaw.ca>
>> >> >> >> Cc: robin reid <zorroboy2009@hotmail.com>,
>> >> dykstra@sunmedia.ca,>> >> "ezra.levant"
>> >> <ezra.levant@sunmedia.ca>, pm
>> >> >> <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "Bob.Paulson"
>> >> >> >> <Bob.Paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Wayne.Lang"
>> >> >> <Wayne.Lang@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
>> >> >> >> "jacques.boucher"<jacques.boucher@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, toewsv1
>> >> >> >> <toewsv1@parl.gc.ca>, "john.green"<john.green@gnb.ca>,
>> >> >> chiefape>> <chiefape@gmail.com>, evelyngreene
>> >> >> <evelyngreene@live.ca>,>> "ndesrosiers@ccla.org"
>> >> >> <ndesrosiers@ccla.org>, adeshman
>> >> >> >> <adeshman@ccla.org>,
>> >> >> >> "Ivan. court"<Ivan.court@saintjohn.ca>, "mel.norton"
>> >> >> >> <mel.norton@saintjohn.ca>, woodsideb
>> >> >> <woodsideb@fredericton.ca>,>> MacKnightb
>> >> >> >> <MacKnightb@fredericton.ca>, dean Ray
>> >> >> <deanr0032@hotmail.com>,>> "Randy.McGinnis"
>> >> >> <Randy.McGinnis@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, PREM Premier
>> >> >> >> <premier@gov.ab.ca>, Sam Perrier <samperrier@hotmail.com>,
>> >> >> >> occupyfredericton
>> >> >> >> <occupyfredericton@gmail.com>, mhayes <mhayes@stu.ca>,
>> >> >> >> thepurplevioletpress
>> >> >> >> <thepurplevioletpress@gmail.com>, rchedore
>> >> >> <rchedore@mosherchedore.ca>,>> bmosher
>> >> >> <bmosher@mosherchedore.ca>, We are Fred up
>> >> >> >> <WEAREFREDUP@gmail.com>,
>> >> >> >> Arthur Taylor <brother.chao@gmail.com>,
>> >> "sallybrooks25@yahoo.ca">> >> <sallybrooks25@yahoo.ca>,
>> >> Mordaith@gmail.com, advocacycollective
>> >> >> >> <advocacycollective@yahoo.com>, "Duncan.Babchuk"
>> >> >> >> <Duncan.Babchuk@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "investor.relations"
>> >> >> >> <investor.relations@sjrb.ca>, "Barry.Shaw"
>> >> >> <Barry.Shaw@forces.gc.ca>,>> "internet.abuse"
>> >> >> <internet.abuse@sjrb.ca>, "Mackay.P"
>> >> >> >> <Mackay.P@forces.gc.ca>, "Nicholson. R"
>> >> >> <Nicholson.R@parl.gc.ca>,>> campaign
>> >> >> >> <campaign@peterrodd.ca>, MulcaT <MulcaT@parl.gc.ca>,
>> >> >> "bob.rae">> <bob.rae@rogers.blackberry.net>,
>> >> "oldmaison@yahoo.com">> >> <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, Esther and Phil
>> >> >> <greyfeather.farm@gmail.com>,>> jays@athabascau.ca,
>> >> >> alvinf@athabascau.ca, gurston.dacks@ualberta.ca,
>> >> >> >> legacy@compusmart.ab.ca, Elder@ucalgary.ca, DRPCalgary@shaw.ca,
>> >> >> >> bfphipps@shaw.ca, ChangeAlbertaEdmonton@yahoo.ca,
>> >> >> >> ChangeAlbertaCalgary@yahoo.ca, stanknowlton@ndp.ca,
>> >> >> Tom@sindlinger.ca>>
>> >> >> >>> BTW Robin did you know how Tommy Boy Lukaszuk got his
>> >> start in
>> >> >> >>> politicking?
>> >> >> >>> Injured Worker Advocates Inc.
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Go figure eh?
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=YKA1HEGYoew
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> On 4/9/12, BARRY WINTERS <sunrayzulu@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> >> >> >>> >
>> >> >> >>> > Hey David! Get us all off your e mail list! We all
>> >> think you
>> >> >> >>> are NUTS!
>> >> >> >>> >
>> >> >> >>> > A new blog entry you will just love ....More political "hate
>> >> >> >>> filled filth!
>> >> >> >>> > LOL LOL
>> >> >> >>> >
>> >> >> >>> > "c'yall in court" asshole!
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> WorkSafeBC Sucks - Family
>> >> >> >>> 3:48
>> >> >> >>> Added: 3 years ago
>> >> >> >>> From: canobswitch
>> >> >> >>> Views: 596
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Sort by time | Sort by thread (beta)
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> All Comments (21)
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> When you are pushed do you not push or do we cower under the
>> >> >> opression>>> of WorkSafe B.C.?? We all have stories true life
>> >> >> stories these are
>> >> >> >>> not fantasies dreamed up from opiates or pain killers. We got
>> >> >> >>> hurt WCB
>> >> >> >>> is supposed to help. Ive sent letters to the Van.Sun and
>> >> >> Abbotsford>>> times hope they look at all this soon!!! FIGHT ON
>> >> >> PEOPLE WE WILL
>> >> >> >>> PREVAIL...DO NOT GIVE UP!!!
>> >> >> >>> 212nails 1 year ago
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Maybe I didn't make myself clear. My husband was fighting
>> >> >> >>> WCB for 8
>> >> >> >>> years and in the end won it, but it went to every review board
>> >> >> >>> possible and cost a ton of money. I know how angry you
>> >> can get,
>> >> >> >>> I see
>> >> >> >>> what goes on and how they try to work everything to their
>> >> >> advantage>>> and leave you out in the cold. They don't care
>> >> >> about the working
>> >> >> >>> people I agree. I''ve seen it first hand, I just don't think
>> >> >> it should
>> >> >> >>> this video should of been made with little ears around. I
>> >> didn't>> >>> disagree with the video.
>> >> >> >>> kcats17 2 years ago
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Werner and I are reading a saving every word Diddling Dana
>> >> >> >>> Durnford we
>> >> >> >>> should eview what I allowed you to post in my Youtube and
>> >> >> why I said
>> >> >> >>> BULLSHIT immediately You RCMP shill need to learn new tricks
>> >> >> EH puppy?
>> >> >> >>> DontCensorDanaPlease has made a comment on Robin Reid of
>> >> >> Alberta was
>> >> >> >>> falsely imprisoned by the RCMP and their Nasty Neocon pals:
>> >> >> >>> its okay amos,,,my friends and i don,t need to post on ur
>> >> >> videos,,,or>>> even on utube for that matter,,,to get the truth
>> >> >> out about u,,
>> >> >> >>> DavidRaymondAmos 2 years ago
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> continued
>> >> >> >>> (I must say it interesting the bullsit was edited by Youtube
>> >> >> >>> while my
>> >> >> >>> upset friend is cursing up a storm)
>> >> >> >>> barry winters has the right idea,,,he has inspired me to
>> >> >> take a
>> >> >> >>> different path,,,since u want to be a censoring little
>> >> >> hypocritical>>> bitch and not allow my posts anymore,,,i have to
>> >> >> do this
>> >> >> >>> another way
>> >> >> >>> but that,s fine,,,no more contact on ur utube but don,t
>> >> >> worry i have
>> >> >> >>> gone nowhere,,,as u know i hide from nobody and now u
>> >> force me
>> >> >> >>> to up
>> >> >> >>> the ante wimp,,best wishes
>> >> >> >>> DavidRaymondAmos in reply to DavidRaymondAmos (Show the
>> >> comment)>> >>> 2 years ago
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> I have been fighting this war for over half my life and
>> >> >> >>> know of what
>> >> >> >>> you speak. sledneck go into the mountains tie a sled to your
>> >> >> >>> neck and
>> >> >> >>> proceed down,Kcats you are just another typical
>> >> dull,dense slow
>> >> >> >>> witted head in the sand canadian who would prefer that
>> >> >> canadas dirty
>> >> >> >>> little secrets are kept quiet .TEACH YOUR KIDS THE SICK
>> >> >> TRUTH ABOUT
>> >> >> >>> THIS CORRUPT COUNTRY AND MAYBE THEY WILL HAVE A FIGHTING CHANCE
>> >> >> >>> compcamp76
>> >> >> >>> compcamp76 3 years ago
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Druggies. Fucking losers. Leave Canada
>> >> >> >>> slednecks17 3 years ago
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Amen lady. I heard you and my heart goes you to you all.
>> >>  You
>> >> >> >>> tell it
>> >> >> >>> straight from the heart. There NOTHING wrong with that. Your
>> >> >> >>> kids are
>> >> >> >>> entitled to know the truth and your honest opinion. To
>> >> Hell with
>> >> >> >>> family that do not understand the meaning of the word
>> >> >> empathy. What
>> >> >> >>> goes around comes around. Teach your children to care for
>> >> >> each other
>> >> >> >>> by caring for each other. In my humble opinion you should
>> >> >> ignore the
>> >> >> >>> folks that don't care but chase the bastards in
>> >> governement. who
>> >> >> >>> purportedly work for us.
>> >> >> >>> DavidRaymondAmos 3 years ago
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Dean To what purpose I do not know. David Rayond
>> >> Amos is
>> >> >> >>> a paid
>> >> >> >>> confidential informant of the RCMP, and has a sealed
>> >> >> criminal record
>> >> >> >>> re child molestation.
>> >> >> >>> imbackteslacoils2001 in reply to DavidRaymondAmos (Show the
>> >> >> >>> comment) 2
>> >> >> >>> years ago
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Speak of the devil and you are sure to apearr EH Dirty
>> >> >> >>> Dicky Dean aka
>> >> >> >>> Dean Roger Ray? Say Hoka Hey to your butt buddies in the RCMP
>> >> >> >>> and of
>> >> >> >>> course Depupty Dog Robert F. O'Meara, the Diddler Dana
>> >> >> Durnford, Barry
>> >> >> >>> Winters and of course the nasty Newfy Byron Prior. I will enjoy
>> >> >> >>> crossin paths with you in the real world someday.
>> >> >> >>> In the "Mean" time Enjoy
>> >> >> >>> archive (DOT) org/details/JimTalkshow
>> >> >> >>> Veritas Vincit
>> >> >> >>> Dvid Raymond Amos
>> >> >> >>> DavidRaymondAmos in reply to imbackteslacoils2001 (Show the
>> >> >> >>> comment) 2
>> >> >> >>> years ago
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Barry Winters is a high profile assassin he kills bikers
>> >> so the
>> >> >> >>> knights templar can regain control of their evil minions. He
>> >> >> >>> gave me
>> >> >> >>> all the intel on you so the national security lose interest
>> >> >> make some
>> >> >> >>> distance and then byby David Raymond Amos!
>> >> >> >>> imbackteslacoils2001 in reply to DavidRaymondAmos (Show the
>> >> >> >>> comment) 2
>> >> >> >>> years ago
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> DavidRaymondAmos about the real world I am more
>> >> interested in
>> >> >> >>> Robinson than I am some unintelligent pedophile!
>> >> >> >>> imbackteslacoils2001 in reply to DavidRaymondAmos (Show the
>> >> >> >>> comment) 2
>> >> >> >>> years ago
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> I have no children for you to diddle?
>> >> >> >>> imbackteslacoils2001 in reply to DavidRaymondAmos (Show the
>> >> >> >>> comment) 2
>> >> >> >>> years ago
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> David you have computer skills go to "iron pigs"
>> >> >> website cross
>> >> >> >>> reference the emails with freemasonry and Knights Templar.
>> >> >> then look
>> >> >> >>> up Hells Angels and Iron pigs. Of course if Barry Winters does
>> >> >> >>> not do
>> >> >> >>> the job I am stirring things up for you elsewhere!
>> >> >> >>> imbackteslacoils2001 in reply to DavidRaymondAmos (Show the
>> >> >> >>> comment) 2 years ago
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Tell your malicious nonsense to your fellow diddlers or your
>> >> >> >>> pals in
>> >> >> >>> the RCMP Dirty Dicky Dean. Do you really think that I am
>> >> >> afraid of
>> >> >> >>> Barry Baby Winters or anyone else? If so then you Neo Nazi
>> >> >> skinheads>>> have another thought coming. that is if your vacant
>> >> >> minds can absorp
>> >> >> >>> such truthful information. Perhaps you should start packing
>> >> >> >>> again EH
>> >> >> >>> Deany Baby? Many people don't like what your butt buddies
>> >> >> Baconfat53>>> is writing in his evil little blog and the Diddler
>> >> >> Dana Durford blew
>> >> >> >>> his cover too
>> >> >> >>> DavidRaymondAmos in reply to imbackteslacoils2001 (Show the
>> >> >> >>> comment) 2
>> >> >> >>> years ago
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Do a search of David Raymond Amos he looks schozophrenic
>> >> >> but he is
>> >> >> >>> not he works for disinfo agents. He worked to destroy Byron
>> >> >> >>> Prior and
>> >> >> >>> others. Now that he is dead you tell everyone he was one of
>> >> >> the bad
>> >> >> >>> guys...byronpriordotcom
>> >> >> >>> imbackteslacoils2001 in reply to DavidRaymondAmos (Show the
>> >> >> >>> comment) 2
>> >> >> >>> years ago
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> What planet do the RCMP get their shinhead shills from
>> >> Dirty Dicky
>> >> >> >>> Dean? Perhaps you dudes should inform the nasty Newfy Byron
>> >> >> >>> Prior that
>> >> >> >>> he is dead. I believe he is entitled to know too . N'esy Pas?
>> >> >> >>> DavidRaymondAmos in reply to imbackteslacoils2001 (Show the
>> >> >> >>> comment) 2
>> >> >> >>> years ago
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> You sound extremely upset...and maybe you have every right
>> >> >> to be
>> >> >> >>> upset...but I think you should take a good look at this
>> >> >> video and
>> >> >> >>> realize the little ears that are listening to you as you
>> >> >> blurt out
>> >> >> >>> swear words left right and centre. That is not fair. Maybe
>> >> >> they are
>> >> >> >>> used to it, but they shouldn't be! Shame on you!
>> >> >> >>> kcats17 3 years ago
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Someone has trouble feeding their family and you complain
>> >> >> about the
>> >> >> >>> language. I am thinking your world is not so perfect!
>> >> >> >>> imbackteslacoils2001 in reply to kcats17 (Show the
>> >> comment) 2
>> >> >> >>> years ago
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> I think she has a really good point.
>> >> >> >>> They've been pushed to the breaking point and r trying to
>> >> >> help others
>> >> >> >>> not go through the same thing.
>> >> >> >>> How long would it take yiu to lose it in front of your
>> >> children??>> >>> The point here is that each and every one of us
>> >> can have
>> >> >> this happen
>> >> >> >>> to them at any time and at least these people are brave
>> >> >> enough to
>> >> >> >>> stand up and speak out while everyone cowers in fear of the
>> >> >> >>> consequences, maintains Hippocritical false pretence, etc.
>> >> >> >>> If you know an injured worker HELP THEM! !
>> >> >> >>> Jokertattooo in reply to kcats17 (Show the comment) 2
>> >> years ago
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >>














---------- Original message ----------
From: Pamela Palmater <ppalmater@politics.ryerson.ca>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2019 23:55:10 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Faisal Khan Suri would not listen to me so
perhaps his political friends or the cops can explain my concerns
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

Kwe, Tansi, She:kon, Hello;

I will be in and out of the office/province on business and research
travel over the coming weeks and may not be able to get to your email
right away.

It may be helpful to send a reminder if your matter is urgent and/or
put the nature of the request in the subject heading.

Welal'in, Ekosi, Nia:wen, Thank you.

Pam

Dr. Pamela D. Palmater
Chair in Indigenous Governance
Ryerson University



---------- Original message ----------
From: "Fine, Sean"<SFine@globeandmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2019 23:55:10 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Faisal Khan Suri would not listen to me so
perhaps his political friends or the cops can explain my concerns
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>


 ?I am in a place far removed from reality, from June 1 to June 8. On
my return, I promise to be kinder.



---------- Original message ----------
From: Iqra.Khalid@parl.gc.ca
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2019 17:52:56 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Faisal Khan Suri would not listen to me so
perhaps his political friends or the cops can explain my concerns
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com

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Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2019 23:55:11 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Faisal Khan Suri would not listen to me so
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To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2019 19:55:00 -0400
Subject: Fwd: Faisal Khan Suri would not listen to me so perhaps his
political friends or the cops can explain my concerns
To: jorge.barrera@cbc.ca, "carolyn.bennett"
<carolyn.bennett@parl.gc.ca>, ppalmater
<ppalmater@politics.ryerson.ca>, "Alaina.Lockhart"
<Alaina.Lockhart@parl.gc.ca>, "Matt.DeCourcey"
<Matt.DeCourcey@parl.gc.ca>, "Katie.Telford"
<Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>, "David.Akin"
<David.Akin@globalnews.ca>, "steve.murphy"<steve.murphy@ctv.ca>,
Newsroom <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>, news <news@kingscorecord.com>,
"Wayne.Long"<Wayne.Long@parl.gc.ca>, "wayne.easter"
<wayne.easter@parl.gc.ca>, "Seamus.ORegan"<Seamus.ORegan@parl.gc.ca>,
sfine <sfine@globeandmail.com>, "Stephen.Horsman"
<Stephen.Horsman@gnb.ca>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2019 13:55:48 -0400
Subject: Re: Faisal Khan Suri would not listen to me so perhaps his
political friends or the cops can explain my concerns
To: Anthony.Housefather@parl.gc.ca, Tracey.Ramsey@parl.gc.ca,
"jagmeet.singh"<jagmeet.singh@parl.gc.ca>,
Michael.Barrett@parl.gc.ca, Ali.Ehsassi@parl.gc.ca, "Colin.Fraser"
<Colin.Fraser@parl.gc.ca>, "dave.mackenzie"
<dave.mackenzie@parl.gc.ca>, Iqra.Khalid@parl.gc.ca,
Arif.Virani@parl.gc.ca, Ron.McKinnon@parl.gc.ca, "Karen.Ludwig"
<Karen.Ludwig@parl.gc.ca>, votejohnw <votejohnw@gmail.com>,
"Dominic.Cardy"<Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca>, admin@ampac.ca,
"Michael.Cooper"<Michael.Cooper@parl.gc.ca>, "Randy.Boissonnault"
<Randy.Boissonnault@parl.gc.ca>, "andrew.scheer"
<andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "william.amos"
<william.amos@gmail.com>, "Matt.DeCourcey"
<Matt.DeCourcey@parl.gc.ca>, sheppardmargo <sheppardmargo@gmail.com>,
andre <andre@jafaust.com>, "Furey, John"<jfurey@nbpower.com>,
wharrison <wharrison@nbpower.com>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>, president@ampac.ca

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Randy.Boissonnault@parl.gc.ca
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2019 17:52:56 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Faisal Khan Suri would not listen to me so
perhaps his political friends or the cops can explain my concerns
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com

Hello,

Thank you for writing to my office.  I value hearing from Edmonton
Centre constituents and stakeholders. Your email will be read. My team
and I will be happy to respond.

This email is an automatic response to let you know that your
correspondence has been received. Please do not reply.

As we prioritize responding first to residents of Edmonton Centre,
please provide your postal code, if you have not done so already.

Should you need it, this link will help you confirm who your Member of
Parliament is: https://bit.ly/1BgbGyd.

I will reply as soon as possible whether your issue pertains to you
personally or if you have written to me on a matter related to my
LGBTQ2 responsibilities or other legislative duties.

If another government department or Member of Parliament can better
address your inquiry, we will forward your email to the appropriate
office and invite them to respond to you.

Thank you again for writing to me.

Kind regards,

Randy Boissonnault
Member of Parliament for Edmonton Centre
Special Advisor to the Prime Minister on LGBTQ2 Issues

E-mail: randy.boissonnault@parl.gc.ca<mailto:randy.boissonnault@parl.gc.ca>
Website: http://rboissonnault.liberal.ca/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/R.Boissonnault
Twitter and Instagram: @R_Boissonnault

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


Bonjour,

Merci d'avoir ?crit ? mon bureau. J'appr?cie lire les ?lecteurs et les
intervenants d'Edmonton-Centre. Votre courriel sera lu et mon ?quipe
et moi serons heureux d'y r?pondre.

Ce courriel est une r?ponse automatique pour vous faire savoir que
votre correspondance a bien ?t? re?ue. S'il vous pla?t ne r?pondez
pas.

?tant donn? que nous donnons priorit? aux r?sidents d'Edmonton-Centre,
s'il-vous-pla?t veuillez nous fournir votre code postal si vous ne
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Randy Boissonnault
D?put? d'Edmonton-Centre
Conseiller sp?cial du premier ministre sur les enjeux LGBTQ2


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On 6/2/19, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original message ----------
>> From: "Hon.Ralph.Goodale  (PS/SP)"<Hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca>
>> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:50:29 +0000
>> Subject: Automatic reply: The Honourable Thomas Albert Cromwell can
>> never deny that I tried to inform him of what the RCMP, the CBC and
>> his latest client Jody Wilson-Raybould knows Correct Mr Butts?
>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>
>> Merci d'avoir ?crit ? l'honorable Ralph Goodale, ministre de la
>> S?curit? publique et de la Protection civile.
>> En raison d'une augmentation importante du volume de la correspondance
>> adress?e au ministre, veuillez prendre note qu'il pourrait y avoir un
>> retard dans le traitement de votre courriel. Soyez assur? que votre
>> message sera examin? avec attention.
>> Merci!
>> L'Unit? de la correspondance minist?rielle
>> S?curit? publique Canada
>> *********
>>
>> Thank you for writing to the Honourable Ralph Goodale, Minister of
>> Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness.
>> Due to the significant increase in the volume of correspondence
>> addressed to the Minister, please note there could be a delay in
>> processing your email. Rest assured that your message will be
>> carefully reviewed.
>> Thank you!
>> Ministerial Correspondence Unit
>> Public Safety Canada
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Randy.Boissonnault@parl.gc.ca
>> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 15:57:12 +0000
>> Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Minister Qualtrough RE "Litigation Lmbo"
>> Please enjoy an email that you and your fellow members of the PCO
>> ignored for way past too long
>> To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Thank you for writing to my office.  I value hearing from Edmonton
>> Centre constituents and stakeholders. Your email will be read. My team
>> and I will be happy to respond.
>>
>> This email is an automatic response to let you know that your
>> correspondence has been received. Please do not reply.
>>
>> As we prioritize responding first to residents of Edmonton Centre,
>> please provide your postal code, if you have not done so already.
>>
>> Should you need it, this link will help you confirm who your Member of
>> Parliament is: https://bit.ly/1BgbGyd.
>>
>> I will reply as soon as possible whether your issue pertains to you
>> personally or if you have written to me on a matter related to my
>> LGBTQ2 responsibilities or other legislative duties.
>>
>> If another government department or Member of Parliament can better
>> address your inquiry, we will forward your email to the appropriate
>> office and invite them to respond to you.
>>
>> Thank you again for writing to me.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Randy Boissonnault
>> Member of Parliament for Edmonton Centre
>> Special Advisor to the Prime Minister on LGBTQ2 Issues
>>
>> E-mail:
>> randy.boissonnault@parl.gc.ca<mailto:randy.boissonnault@parl.gc.ca>
>> Website: http://rboissonnault.liberal.ca/
>> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/R.Boissonnault
>> Twitter and Instagram: @R_Boissonnault
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Bonjour,
>>
>> Merci d'avoir ?crit ? mon bureau. J'appr?cie lire les ?lecteurs et les
>> intervenants d'Edmonton-Centre. Votre courriel sera lu et mon ?quipe
>> et moi serons heureux d'y r?pondre.
>>
>> Ce courriel est une r?ponse automatique pour vous faire savoir que
>> votre correspondance a bien ?t? re?ue. S'il vous pla?t ne r?pondez
>> pas.
>>
>> ?tant donn? que nous donnons priorit? aux r?sidents d'Edmonton-Centre,
>> s'il-vous-pla?t veuillez nous fournir votre code postal si vous ne
>> l'avez pas d?j? fait.
>>
>> Au besoin, le lien suivant vous aidera ? confirmer qui est votre
>> d?put?: https://bit.ly/1CyAl50 .
>>
>> Je vous r?pondrai d?s que possible si votre enjeux vous concerne
>> personnellement ou si vous m'avez ?crit sur une question li?e ? mes
>> responsabilit?s sur les enjeux LGBTQ2 ou ? d'autres t?ches
>> l?gislatives.
>>
>> Si un autre service gouvernemental ou un autre membre du Parlement est
>> dans une meilleure position pour r?pondre ? votre demande, nous
>> transmettrons votre courriel au bureau appropri? et  les inviterons ?
>> vous r?pondre.
>>
>> Merci encore de m'avoir ?crit.
>>
>> Cordialement,
>>
>> Randy Boissonnault
>> D?put? d'Edmonton-Centre
>> Conseiller sp?cial du premier ministre sur les enjeux LGBTQ2
>>
>>
>> E-mail:
>> randy.boissonnault@parl.gc.ca<mailto:randy.boissonnault@parl.gc.ca>
>> Site internet: http://rboissonnault.liberal.ca/
>> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/R.Boissonnault
>> Twitter et Instagram: @R_Boissonnault
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Michael Cohen <mcohen@trumporg.com>
>> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 05:54:40 +0000
>> Subject: Automatic reply: ATTN Blair Armitage You acted as the Usher
>> of the Black Rod twice while Kevin Vickers was the Sergeant-at-Arms
>> Hence you and the RCMP must know why I sued the Queen Correct?
>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>
>> Effective January 20, 2017, I have accepted the role as personal
>> counsel to President Donald J. Trump. All future emails should be
>> directed to mdcohen212@gmail.com and all future calls should be
>> directed to 646-853-0114.
>> ________________________________
>> This communication is from The Trump Organization or an affiliate
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>> Nothing in this communication is intended to operate as an electronic
>> signature under applicable law.
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Justice Website <JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca>
>> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:21:11 +0000
>> Subject: Emails to Department of Justice and Province of Nova Scotia
>> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com"<motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>
>> Mr. Amos,
>> We acknowledge receipt of your recent emails to the Deputy Minister of
>> Justice and lawyers within the Legal Services Division of the
>> Department of Justice respecting a possible claim against the Province
>> of Nova Scotia.  Service of any documents respecting a legal claim
>> against the Province of Nova Scotia may be served on the Attorney
>> General at 1690 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS.  Please note that we will
>> not be responding to further emails on this matter.
>>
>> Department of Justice
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "Eidt, David (OAG/CPG)"<David.Eidt@gnb.ca>
>> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 00:33:21 +0000
>> Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Mr Lutz howcome your buddy the clerk
>> would not file this motion and properly witnessed affidavit and why
>> did she take all four copies?
>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>
>> I will be out of the office until Monday, March 13, 2017. I will have
>> little to no access to email. Please dial 453-2222 for assistance.
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Marc Richard <MRichard@lawsociety-barreau.nb.ca>
>> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:16:46 +0000
>> Subject: Automatic reply: RE: The New Brunswick Real Estate
>> Association and their deliberate ignorance for the bankster's benefit
>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>
>> I will be out of the office until  August 15, 2016. Je serai absent du
>> bureau jusqu'au 15 août 2016.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:32:09 -0400
>>> Subject: Attn Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
>>> To: coi@gnb.ca
>>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>
>>> Good Day Sir
>>>
>>> After I heard you speak on CBC I called your office again and managed
>>> to speak to one of your staff for the first time
>>>
>>> Please find attached the documents I promised to send to the lady who
>>> answered the phone this morning. Please notice that not after the Sgt
>>> at Arms took the documents destined to your office his pal Tanker
>>> Malley barred me in writing with an "English" only document.
>>>
>>> These are the hearings and the dockets in Federal Court that I
>>> suggested that you study closely.
>>>
>>> This is the docket in Federal Court
>>>
>>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=T-1557-15&select_court=T
>>>
>>> These are digital recordings of  the last three hearings
>>>
>>> Dec 14th https://archive.org/details/BahHumbug
>>>
>>> January 11th, 2016 https://archive.org/details/Jan11th2015
>>>
>>> April 3rd, 2017
>>>
>>> https://archive.org/details/April32017JusticeLeblancHearing
>>>
>>>
>>> This is the docket in the Federal Court of Appeal
>>>
>>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=A-48-16&select_court=All
>>>
>>>
>>> The only hearing thus far
>>>
>>> May 24th, 2017
>>>
>>> https://archive.org/details/May24thHoedown
>>>
>>>
>>> This Judge understnds the meaning of the word Integrity
>>>
>>> Date: 20151223
>>>
>>> Docket: T-1557-15
>>>
>>> Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 23, 2015
>>>
>>> PRESENT:        The Honourable Mr. Justice Bell
>>>
>>> BETWEEN:
>>>
>>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>>>
>>> Plaintiff
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>>>
>>> Defendant
>>>
>>> ORDER
>>>
>>> (Delivered orally from the Bench in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on
>>> December 14, 2015)
>>>
>>> The Plaintiff seeks an appeal de novo, by way of motion pursuant to
>>> the Federal Courts Rules (SOR/98-106), from an Order made on November
>>> 12, 2015, in which Prothonotary Morneau struck the Statement of Claim
>>> in its entirety.
>>>
>>> At the outset of the hearing, the Plaintiff brought to my attention a
>>> letter dated September 10, 2004, which he sent to me, in my then
>>> capacity as Past President of the New Brunswick Branch of the Canadian
>>> Bar Association, and the then President of the Branch, Kathleen Quigg,
>>> (now a Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal).  In that letter
>>> he stated:
>>>
>>> As for your past President, Mr. Bell, may I suggest that you check the
>>> work of Frank McKenna before I sue your entire law firm including you.
>>> You are your brother’s keeper.
>>>
>>> Frank McKenna is the former Premier of New Brunswick and a former
>>> colleague of mine at the law firm of McInnes Cooper. In addition to
>>> expressing an intention to sue me, the Plaintiff refers to a number of
>>> people in his Motion Record who he appears to contend may be witnesses
>>> or potential parties to be added. Those individuals who are known to
>>> me personally, include, but are not limited to the former Prime
>>> Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper; former
>>> Attorney General of Canada and now a Justice of the Manitoba Court of
>>> Queen’s Bench, Vic Toews; former member of Parliament Rob Moore;
>>> former Director of Policing Services, the late Grant Garneau; former
>>> Chief of the Fredericton Police Force, Barry McKnight; former Staff
>>> Sergeant Danny Copp; my former colleagues on the New Brunswick Court
>>> of Appeal, Justices Bradley V. Green and Kathleen Quigg, and, retired
>>> Assistant Commissioner Wayne Lang of the Royal Canadian Mounted
>>> Police.
>>>
>>> In the circumstances, given the threat in 2004 to sue me in my
>>> personal capacity and my past and present relationship with many
>>> potential witnesses and/or potential parties to the litigation, I am
>>> of the view there would be a reasonable apprehension of bias should I
>>> hear this motion. See Justice de Grandpré’s dissenting judgment in
>>> Committee for Justice and Liberty et al v National Energy Board et al,
>>> [1978] 1 SCR 369 at p 394 for the applicable test regarding
>>> allegations of bias. In the circumstances, although neither party has
>>> requested I recuse myself, I consider it appropriate that I do so.
>>>
>>>
>>> AS A RESULT OF MY RECUSAL, THIS COURT ORDERS that the Administrator of
>>> the Court schedule another date for the hearing of the motion.  There
>>> is no order as to costs.
>>>
>>> “B. Richard Bell”
>>> Judge
>>>
>>>
>>> Below after the CBC article about your concerns (I made one comment
>>> already) you will find the text of just two of many emails I had sent
>>> to your office over the years since I first visited it in 2006.
>>>
>>>  I noticed that on July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the  the Court
>>> Martial Appeal Court of Canada  Perhaps you should scroll to the
>>> bottom of this email ASAP and read the entire Paragraph 83  of my
>>> lawsuit now before the Federal Court of Canada?
>>>
>>> "FYI This is the text of the lawsuit that should interest Trudeau the
>>> most
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>> From: justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca
>>> Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:18 PM
>>> Subject: Réponse automatique : RE My complaint against the CROWN in
>>> Federal Court Attn David Hansen and Peter MacKay If you planning to
>>> submit a motion for a publication ban on my complaint trust that you
>>> dudes are way past too late
>>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>
>>> Veuillez noter que j'ai changé de courriel. Vous pouvez me rejoindre à
>>> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>>>
>>> Pour rejoindre le bureau de M. Trudeau veuillez envoyer un courriel à
>>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>>>
>>> Please note that I changed email address, you can reach me at
>>> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>>>
>>> To reach the office of Mr. Trudeau please send an email to
>>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Merci ,
>>>
>>>
>>> http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2015/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
>>>
>>>
>>> 83.  The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war
>>> in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation to
>>> allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over
>>> five years after he began his bragging:
>>>
>>> January 13, 2015
>>> This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate
>>>
>>> December 8, 2014
>>> Why Canada Stood Tall!
>>>
>>> Friday, October 3, 2014
>>> Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And
>>> Stupid Justin Trudeau
>>>
>>> Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide
>>> behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
>>>
>>> When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean Chretien
>>> actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second campaign
>>> in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or contrary to
>>> the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were
>>> involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There were
>>> significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the dearth
>>> of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for
>>> operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “last minute”
>>> Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its mind.
>>> The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not
>>> deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a
>>> Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins to
>>> redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was
>>> less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq. But
>>> alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister Chretien’s
>>> then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s
>>> incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic,
>>> professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle
>>> Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway
>>> campaign of 2006.
>>>
>>> What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that then
>>> Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the
>>> Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice, consent,
>>> support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament.
>>>
>>> What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and babbling
>>> chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment of
>>> less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by planners
>>> as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a
>>> deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make.
>>>
>>> The Canadian Government or The Crown unlike our amerkan cousins have
>>> the “constitutional authority” to commit the Canadian nation to war.
>>> That has been recently clearly articulated to the Canadian public by
>>> constitutional scholar Phillippe Legasse. What Parliament can do is
>>> remove “confidence” in The Crown’s Government in a “vote of
>>> non-confidence.” That could not happen to the Chretien Government
>>> regarding deployment to Afghanistan, and it won’t happen in this
>>> instance with the conservative majority in The Commons regarding a
>>> limited Canadian deployment to the Middle East.
>>>
>>> President George Bush was quite correct after 911 and the terror
>>> attacks in New York; that the Taliban “occupied” and “failed state”
>>> Afghanistan was the source of logistical support, command and control,
>>> and training for the Al Quaeda war of terror against the world. The
>>> initial defeat, and removal from control of Afghanistan was vital and
>>>
>>> P.S. Whereas this CBC article is about your opinion of the actions of
>>> the latest Minister Of Health trust that Mr Boudreau and the CBC have
>>> had my files for many years and the last thing they are is ethical.
>>> Ask his friends Mr Murphy and the RCMP if you don't believe me.
>>>
>>> Subject:
>>> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:02:35 -0400
>>> From: "Murphy, Michael B. \(DH/MS\)"MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca
>>> To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>>
>>> January 30, 2007
>>>
>>> WITHOUT PREJUDICE
>>>
>>> Mr. David Amos
>>>
>>> Dear Mr. Amos:
>>>
>>> This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29,
>>> 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP.
>>>
>>> Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have
>>> taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve
>>> Graham of the RCMP “J” Division in Fredericton.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Honourable Michael B. Murphy
>>> Minister of Health
>>>
>>> CM/cb
>>>
>>>
>>> Warren McBeath warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote:
>>>
>>> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500
>>> From: "Warren McBeath"warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>> To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca,
>>> nada.sarkis@gnb.ca, wally.stiles@gnb.ca, dwatch@web.net,
>>> motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>> CC: ottawa@chuckstrahl.com, riding@chuckstrahl.com,John.Foran@gnb.ca,
>>> Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,"Bev BUSSON"bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>>> "Paul Dube"PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>> Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has
>>> forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have not
>>>
>>> Dear Mr. Amos,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off
>>> over the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured I
>>> was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
>>>
>>> As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our position
>>> is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
>>> testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the
>>> Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
>>> services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
>>> instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
>>>
>>> As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
>>> imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear
>>> that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada
>>> the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment
>>> and policing in Petitcodiac, NB.
>>>
>>> It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on
>>> December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
>>>
>>>  Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Warren McBeath, Cpl.
>>> GRC Caledonia RCMP
>>> Traffic Services NCO
>>> Ph: (506) 387-2222
>>> Fax: (506) 387-4622
>>> E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
>>> Office of the Integrity Commissioner
>>> Edgecombe House, 736 King Street
>>> Fredericton, N.B. CANADA E3B 5H1
>>> tel.: 506-457-7890
>>> fax: 506-444-5224
>>> e-mail:coi@gnb.ca
>>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/3/17, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If want something very serious to download and laugh at as well Please
>>> Enjoy and share real wiretap tapes of the mob
>>>
>>> http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2013/10/re-glen-greenwald-and-braz
>>> ilian.html
>>>
>>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/06/09/nsa-leak-guardian.html
>>>>
>>>> As the CBC etc yap about Yankee wiretaps and whistleblowers I must
>>>> ask them the obvious question AIN'T THEY FORGETTING SOMETHING????
>>>>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vugUalUO8YY
>>>>
>>>> What the hell does the media think my Yankee lawyer served upon the
>>>> USDOJ right after I ran for and seat in the 39th Parliament baseball
>>>> cards?
>>>>
>>>> http://archive.org/details/ITriedToExplainItToAllMaritimersInEarly200
>>>> 6
>>>>
>>>> http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/2006/05/wiretap-tapes-impeach-bush.html
>>>>
>>>> http://www.archive.org/details/PoliceSurveilanceWiretapTape139
>>>>
>>>> http://archive.org/details/Part1WiretapTape143
>>>>
>>>> FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006
>>>> Senator Arlen Specter
>>>> United States Senate
>>>> Committee on the Judiciary
>>>> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
>>>> Washington, DC 20510
>>>>
>>>> Dear Mr. Specter:
>>>>
>>>> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
>>>> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters
>>>> raised in the attached letter.
>>>>
>>>> Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wire tap
>>>> tapes.
>>>>
>>>> I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this previously.
>>>>
>>>> Very truly yours,
>>>> Barry A. Bachrach
>>>> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
>>>> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
>>>> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/11/federal-court-of-appeal-finally-makes.html
>>
>>
>> Sunday, 19 November 2017
>> Federal Court of Appeal Finally Makes The BIG Decision And Publishes
>> It Now The Crooks Cannot Take Back Ticket To Try Put My Matter Before
>> The Supreme Court
>>
>> https://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fca-caf/decisions/en/item/236679/index.do
>>
>>
>> Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
>>
>> Amos v. Canada
>> Court (s) Database
>>
>> Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
>> Date
>>
>> 2017-10-30
>> Neutral citation
>>
>> 2017 FCA 213
>> File numbers
>>
>> A-48-16
>> Date: 20171030
>>
>> Docket: A-48-16
>> Citation: 2017 FCA 213
>> CORAM:
>>
>> WEBB J.A.
>> NEAR J.A.
>> GLEASON J.A.
>>
>>
>> BETWEEN:
>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>> Respondent on the cross-appeal
>> (and formally Appellant)
>> and
>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>> Appellant on the cross-appeal
>> (and formerly Respondent)
>> Heard at Fredericton, New Brunswick, on May 24, 2017.
>> Judgment delivered at Ottawa, Ontario, on October 30, 2017.
>> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY:
>>
>> THE COURT
>>
>>
>>
>> Date: 20171030
>>
>> Docket: A-48-16
>> Citation: 2017 FCA 213
>> CORAM:
>>
>> WEBB J.A.
>> NEAR J.A.
>> GLEASON J.A.
>>
>>
>> BETWEEN:
>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>> Respondent on the cross-appeal
>> (and formally Appellant)
>> and
>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>> Appellant on the cross-appeal
>> (and formerly Respondent)
>> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY THE COURT
>>
>> I.                    Introduction
>>
>> [1]               On September 16, 2015, David Raymond Amos (Mr. Amos)
>> filed a 53-page Statement of Claim (the Claim) in Federal Court
>> against Her Majesty the Queen (the Crown). Mr. Amos claims $11 million
>> in damages and a public apology from the Prime Minister and Provincial
>> Premiers for being illegally barred from accessing parliamentary
>> properties and seeks a declaration from the Minister of Public Safety
>> that the Canadian Government will no longer allow the Royal Canadian
>> Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Forces to harass him and his clan
>> (Claim at para. 96).
>>
>> [2]               On November 12, 2015 (Docket T-1557-15), by way of a
>> motion brought by the Crown, a prothonotary of the Federal Court (the
>> Prothonotary) struck the Claim in its entirety, without leave to
>> amend, on the basis that it was plain and obvious that the Claim
>> disclosed no reasonable claim, the Claim was fundamentally vexatious,
>> and the Claim could not be salvaged by way of further amendment (the
>> Prothontary’s Order).
>>
>>
>> [3]               On January 25, 2016 (2016 FC 93), by way of Mr.
>> Amos’ appeal from the Prothonotary’s Order, a judge of the Federal
>> Court (the Judge), reviewing the matter de novo, struck all of Mr.
>> Amos’ claims for relief with the exception of the claim for damages
>> for being barred by the RCMP from the New Brunswick legislature in
>> 2004 (the Federal Court Judgment).
>>
>>
>> [4]               Mr. Amos appealed and the Crown cross-appealed the
>> Federal Court Judgment. Further to the issuance of a Notice of Status
>> Review, Mr. Amos’ appeal was dismissed for delay on December 19, 2016.
>> As such, the only matter before this Court is the Crown’s
>> cross-appeal.
>>
>>
>> II.                 Preliminary Matter
>>
>> [5]               Mr. Amos, in his memorandum of fact and law in
>> relation to the cross-appeal that was filed with this Court on March
>> 6, 2017, indicated that several judges of this Court, including two of
>> the judges of this panel, had a conflict of interest in this appeal.
>> This was the first time that he identified the judges whom he believed
>> had a conflict of interest in a document that was filed with this
>> Court. In his notice of appeal he had alluded to a conflict with
>> several judges but did not name those judges.
>>
>> [6]               Mr. Amos was of the view that he did not have to
>> identify the judges in any document filed with this Court because he
>> had identified the judges in various documents that had been filed
>> with the Federal Court. In his view the Federal Court and the Federal
>> Court of Appeal are the same court and therefore any document filed in
>> the Federal Court would be filed in this Court. This view is based on
>> subsections 5(4) and 5.1(4) of the Federal Courts Act, R.S.C., 1985,
>> c. F-7:
>>
>>
>> 5(4) Every judge of the Federal Court is, by virtue of his or her
>> office, a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal and has all the
>> jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court of
>> Appeal.
>> […]
>>
>> 5(4) Les juges de la Cour fédérale sont d’office juges de la Cour
>> d’appel fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que
>> les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale.
>> […]
>> 5.1(4) Every judge of the Federal Court of Appeal is, by virtue of
>> that office, a judge of the Federal Court and has all the
>> jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court.
>>
>> 5.1(4) Les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale sont d’office juges de la
>> Cour fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que les
>> juges de la Cour fédérale.
>>
>>
>> [7]               However, these subsections only provide that the
>> judges of the Federal Court are also judges of this Court (and vice
>> versa). It does not mean that there is only one court. If the Federal
>> Court and this Court were one Court, there would be no need for this
>> section.
>> [8]               Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act provide
>> that:
>> 3 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court
>> — Appeal Division is continued under the name “Federal Court of
>> Appeal” in English and “Cour d’appel fédérale” in French. It is
>> continued as an additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and
>> for Canada, for the better administration of the laws of Canada and as
>> a superior court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.
>>
>> 3 La Section d’appel, aussi appelée la Cour d’appel ou la Cour d’appel
>> fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée « Cour d’appel fédérale » en
>> français et « Federal Court of Appeal » en anglais. Elle est maintenue
>> à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et d’amirauté du
>> Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit canadien, et
>> continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant compétence en
>> matière civile et pénale.
>> 4 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court
>> — Trial Division is continued under the name “Federal Court” in
>> English and “Cour fédérale” in French. It is continued as an
>> additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and for Canada, for
>> the better administration of the laws of Canada and as a superior
>> court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.
>>
>> 4 La section de la Cour fédérale du Canada, appelée la Section de
>> première instance de la Cour fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée «
>> Cour fédérale » en français et « Federal Court » en anglais. Elle est
>> maintenue à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et
>> d’amirauté du Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit
>> canadien, et continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant
>> compétence en matière civile et pénale.
>>
>>
>> [9]               Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act create
>> two separate courts – this Court (section 3) and the Federal Court
>> (section 4). If, as Mr. Amos suggests, documents filed in the Federal
>> Court were automatically also filed in this Court, then there would no
>> need for the parties to prepare and file appeal books as required by
>> Rules 343 to 345 of the Federal Courts Rules, SOR/98-106 in relation
>> to any appeal from a decision of the Federal Court. The requirement to
>> file an appeal book with this Court in relation to an appeal from a
>> decision of the Federal Court makes it clear that the only documents
>> that will be before this Court are the documents that are part of that
>> appeal book.
>>
>>
>> [10]           Therefore, the memorandum of fact and law filed on
>> March 6, 2017 is the first document, filed with this Court, in which
>> Mr. Amos identified the particular judges that he submits have a
>> conflict in any matter related to him.
>>
>>
>> [11]           On April 3, 2017, Mr. Amos attempted to bring a motion
>> before the Federal Court seeking an order “affirming or denying the
>> conflict of interest he has” with a number of judges of the Federal
>> Court. A judge of the Federal Court issued a direction noting that if
>> Mr. Amos was seeking this order in relation to judges of the Federal
>> Court of Appeal, it was beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal Court.
>> Mr. Amos raised the Federal Court motion at the hearing of this
>> cross-appeal. The Federal Court motion is not a motion before this
>> Court and, as such, the submissions filed before the Federal Court
>> will not be entertained. As well, since this was a motion brought
>> before the Federal Court (and not this Court), any documents filed in
>> relation to that motion are not part of the record of this Court.
>>
>>
>> [12]           During the hearing of the appeal Mr. Amos alleged that
>> the third member of this panel also had a conflict of interest and
>> submitted some documents that, in his view, supported his claim of a
>> conflict. Mr. Amos, following the hearing of his appeal, was also
>> afforded the opportunity to provide a brief summary of the conflict
>> that he was alleging and to file additional documents that, in his
>> view, supported his allegations. Mr. Amos submitted several pages of
>> documents in relation to the alleged conflicts. He organized the
>> documents by submitting a copy of the biography of the particular
>> judge and then, immediately following that biography, by including
>> copies of the documents that, in his view, supported his claim that
>> such judge had a conflict.
>>
>>
>> [13]           The nature of the alleged conflict of Justice Webb is
>> that before he was appointed as a Judge of the Tax Court of Canada in
>> 2006, he was a partner with the law firm Patterson Law, and before
>> that with Patterson Palmer in Nova Scotia. Mr. Amos submitted that he
>> had a number of disputes with Patterson Palmer and Patterson Law and
>> therefore Justice Webb has a conflict simply because he was a partner
>> of these firms. Mr. Amos is not alleging that Justice Webb was
>> personally involved in or had any knowledge of any matter in which Mr.
>> Amos was involved with Justice Webb’s former law firm – only that he
>> was a member of such firm.
>>
>>
>> [14]           During his oral submissions at the hearing of his
>> appeal Mr. Amos, in relation to the alleged conflict for Justice Webb,
>> focused on dealings between himself and a particular lawyer at
>> Patterson Law. However, none of the documents submitted by Mr. Amos at
>> the hearing or subsequently related to any dealings with this
>> particular lawyer nor is it clear when Mr. Amos was dealing with this
>> lawyer. In particular, it is far from clear whether such dealings were
>> after the time that Justice Webb was appointed as a Judge of the Tax
>> Court of Canada over 10 years ago.
>>
>>
>> [15]           The documents that he submitted in relation to the
>> alleged conflict for Justice Webb largely relate to dealings between
>> Byron Prior and the St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador office of
>> Patterson Palmer, which is not in the same province where Justice Webb
>> practiced law. The only document that indicates any dealing between
>> Mr. Amos and Patterson Palmer is a copy of an affidavit of Stephen May
>> who was a partner in the St. John’s NL office of Patterson Palmer. The
>> affidavit is dated January 24, 2005 and refers to a number of e-mails
>> that were sent by Mr. Amos to Stephen May. Mr. Amos also included a
>> letter that is addressed to four individuals, one of whom is John
>> Crosbie who was counsel to the St. John’s NL office of Patterson
>> Palmer. The letter is dated September 2, 2004 and is addressed to
>> “John Crosbie, c/o Greg G. Byrne, Suite 502, 570 Queen Street,
>> Fredericton, NB E3B 5E3”. In this letter Mr. Amos alludes to a
>> possible lawsuit against Patterson Palmer.
>> [16]           Mr. Amos’ position is that simply because Justice Webb
>> was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer, he now has a conflict. In Wewaykum
>> Indian Band v. Her Majesty the Queen, 2003 SCC 45, [2003] 2 S.C.R.
>> 259, the Supreme Court of Canada noted that disqualification of a
>> judge is to be determined based on whether there is a reasonable
>> apprehension of bias:
>> 60        In Canadian law, one standard has now emerged as the
>> criterion for disqualification. The criterion, as expressed by de
>> Grandpré J. in Committee for Justice and Liberty v. National Energy
>> Board, …[[1978] 1 S.C.R. 369, 68 D.L.R. (3d) 716], at p. 394, is the
>> reasonable apprehension of bias:
>> … the apprehension of bias must be a reasonable one, held by
>> reasonable and right minded persons, applying themselves to the
>> question and obtaining thereon the required information. In the words
>> of the Court of Appeal, that test is "what would an informed person,
>> viewing the matter realistically and practically -- and having thought
>> the matter through -- conclude. Would he think that it is more likely
>> than not that [the decision-maker], whether consciously or
>> unconsciously, would not decide fairly."
>>
>> [17]           The issue to be determined is whether an informed
>> person, viewing the matter realistically and practically, and having
>> thought the matter through, would conclude that Mr. Amos’ allegations
>> give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias. As this Court has
>> previously remarked, “there is a strong presumption that judges will
>> administer justice impartially” and this presumption will not be
>> rebutted in the absence of “convincing evidence” of bias (Collins v.
>> Canada, 2011 FCA 140 at para. 7, [2011] 4 C.T.C. 157 [Collins]. See
>> also R. v. S. (R.D.), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 484 at para. 32, 151 D.L.R.
>> (4th) 193).
>>
>> [18]           The Ontario Court of Appeal in Rando Drugs Ltd. v.
>> Scott, 2007 ONCA 553, 86 O.R. (3d) 653 (leave to appeal to the Supreme
>> Court of Canada refused, 32285 (August 1, 2007)), addressed the
>> particular issue of whether a judge is disqualified from hearing a
>> case simply because he had been a member of a law firm that was
>> involved in the litigation that was now before that judge. The Ontario
>> Court of Appeal determined that the judge was not disqualified if the
>> judge had no involvement with the person or the matter when he was a
>> lawyer. The Ontario Court of Appeal also explained that the rules for
>> determining whether a judge is disqualified are different from the
>> rules to determine whether a lawyer has a conflict:
>> 27        Thus, disqualification is not the natural corollary to a
>> finding that a trial judge has had some involvement in a case over
>> which he or she is now presiding. Where the judge had no involvement,
>> as here, it cannot be said that the judge is disqualified.
>>
>>
>> 28        The point can rightly be made that had Mr. Patterson been
>> asked to represent the appellant as counsel before his appointment to
>> the bench, the conflict rules would likely have prevented him from
>> taking the case because his firm had formerly represented one of the
>> defendants in the case. Thus, it is argued how is it that as a trial
>> judge Patterson J. can hear the case? This issue was considered by the
>> Court of Appeal (Civil Division) in Locabail (U.K.) Ltd. v. Bayfield
>> Properties Ltd., [2000] Q.B. 451. The court held, at para. 58, that
>> there is no inflexible rule governing the disqualification of a judge
>> and that, "[e]verything depends on the circumstances."
>>
>>
>> 29        It seems to me that what appears at first sight to be an
>> inconsistency in application of rules can be explained by the
>> different contexts and in particular, the strong presumption of
>> judicial impartiality that applies in the context of disqualification
>> of a judge. There is no such presumption in cases of allegations of
>> conflict of interest against a lawyer because of a firm's previous
>> involvement in the case. To the contrary, as explained by Sopinka J.
>> in MacDonald Estate v. Martin (1990), 77 D.L.R. (4th) 249 (S.C.C.),
>> for sound policy reasons there is a presumption of a disqualifying
>> interest that can rarely be overcome. In particular, a conclusory
>> statement from the lawyer that he or she had no confidential
>> information about the case will never be sufficient. The case is the
>> opposite where the allegation of bias is made against a trial judge.
>> His or her statement that he or she knew nothing about the case and
>> had no involvement in it will ordinarily be accepted at face value
>> unless there is good reason to doubt it: see Locabail, at para. 19.
>>
>>
>> 30        That brings me then to consider the particular circumstances
>> of this case and whether there are serious grounds to find a
>> disqualifying conflict of interest in this case. In my view, there are
>> two significant factors that justify the trial judge's decision not to
>> recuse himself. The first is his statement, which all parties accept,
>> that he knew nothing of the case when it was in his former firm and
>> that he had nothing to do with it. The second is the long passage of
>> time. As was said in Wewaykum, at para. 85:
>>             To us, one significant factor stands out, and must inform
>> the perspective of the reasonable person assessing the impact of this
>> involvement on Binnie J.'s impartiality in the appeals. That factor is
>> the passage of time. Most arguments for disqualification rest on
>> circumstances that are either contemporaneous to the decision-making,
>> or that occurred within a short time prior to the decision-making.
>> 31        There are other factors that inform the issue. The Wilson
>> Walker firm no longer acted for any of the parties by the time of
>> trial. More importantly, at the time of the motion, Patterson J. had
>> been a judge for six years and thus had not had a relationship with
>> his former firm for a considerable period of time.
>>
>>
>> 32        In my view, a reasonable person, viewing the matter
>> realistically would conclude that the trial judge could deal fairly
>> and impartially with this case. I take this view principally because
>> of the long passage of time and the trial judge's lack of involvement
>> in or knowledge of the case when the Wilson Walker firm had carriage.
>> In these circumstances it cannot be reasonably contended that the
>> trial judge could not remain impartial in the case. The mere fact that
>> his name appears on the letterhead of some correspondence from over a
>> decade ago would not lead a reasonable person to believe that he would
>> either consciously or unconsciously favour his former firm's former
>> client. It is simply not realistic to think that a judge would throw
>> off his mantle of impartiality, ignore his oath of office and favour a
>> client - about whom he knew nothing - of a firm that he left six years
>> earlier and that no longer acts for the client, in a case involving
>> events from over a decade ago.
>> (emphasis added)
>>
>> [19]           Justice Webb had no involvement with any matter
>> involving Mr. Amos while he was a member of Patterson Palmer or
>> Patterson Law, nor does Mr. Amos suggest that he did. Mr. Amos made it
>> clear during the hearing of this matter that the only reason for the
>> alleged conflict for Justice Webb was that he was a member of
>> Patterson Law and Patterson Palmer. This is simply not enough for
>> Justice Webb to be disqualified. Any involvement of Mr. Amos with
>> Patterson Law while Justice Webb was a member of that firm would have
>> had to occur over 10 years ago and even longer for the time when he
>> was a member of Patterson Palmer. In addition to the lack of any
>> involvement on his part with any matter or dispute that Mr. Amos had
>> with Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer (which in and of itself is
>> sufficient to dispose of this matter), the length of time since
>> Justice Webb was a member of Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer would
>> also result in the same finding – that there is no conflict in Justice
>> Webb hearing this appeal.
>>
>> [20]           Similarly in R. v. Bagot, 2000 MBCA 30, 145 Man. R.
>> (2d) 260, the Manitoba Court of Appeal found that there was no
>> reasonable apprehension of bias when a judge, who had been a member of
>> the law firm that had been retained by the accused, had no involvement
>> with the accused while he was a lawyer with that firm.
>>
>> [21]           In Del Zotto v. Minister of National Revenue, [2000] 4
>> F.C. 321, 257 N.R. 96, this court did find that there would be a
>> reasonable apprehension of bias where a judge, who while he was a
>> lawyer, had recorded time on a matter involving the same person who
>> was before that judge. However, this case can be distinguished as
>> Justice Webb did not have any time recorded on any files involving Mr.
>> Amos while he was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer or Patterson Law.
>>
>> [22]           Mr. Amos also included with his submissions a CD. He
>> stated in his affidavit dated June 26, 2017 that there is a “true copy
>> of an American police surveillance wiretap entitled 139” on this CD.
>> He has also indicated that he has “provided a true copy of the CD
>> entitled 139 to many American and Canadian law enforcement authorities
>> and not one of the police forces or officers of the court are willing
>> to investigate it”. Since he has indicated that this is an “American
>> police surveillance wiretap”, this is a matter for the American law
>> enforcement authorities and cannot create, as Mr. Amos suggests, a
>> conflict of interest for any judge to whom he provides a copy.
>>
>> [23]           As a result, there is no conflict or reasonable
>> apprehension of bias for Justice Webb and therefore, no reason for him
>> to recuse himself.
>>
>> [24]           Mr. Amos alleged that Justice Near’s past professional
>> experience with the government created a “quasi-conflict” in deciding
>> the cross-appeal. Mr. Amos provided no details and Justice Near
>> confirmed that he had no prior knowledge of the matters alleged in the
>> Claim. Justice Near sees no reason to recuse himself.
>>
>> [25]           Insofar as it is possible to glean the basis for Mr.
>> Amos’ allegations against Justice Gleason, it appears that he alleges
>> that she is incapable of hearing this appeal because he says he wrote
>> a letter to Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien in 2004. At that time,
>> both Justice Gleason and Mr. Mulroney were partners in the law firm
>> Ogilvy Renault, LLP. The letter in question, which is rude and angry,
>> begins with “Hey you two Evil Old Smiling Bastards” and “Re: me suing
>> you and your little dogs too”. There is no indication that the letter
>> was ever responded to or that a law suit was ever commenced by Mr.
>> Amos against Mr. Mulroney. In the circumstances, there is no reason
>> for Justice Gleason to recuse herself as the letter in question does
>> not give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias.
>>
>>
>> III.               Issue
>>
>> [26]           The issue on the cross-appeal is as follows: Did the
>> Judge err in setting aside the Prothonotary’s Order striking the Claim
>> in its entirety without leave to amend and in determining that Mr.
>> Amos’ allegation that the RCMP barred him from the New Brunswick
>> legislature in 2004 was capable of supporting a cause of action?
>>
>> IV.              Analysis
>>
>> A.                 Standard of Review
>>
>> [27]           Following the Judge’s decision to set aside the
>> Prothonotary’s Order, this Court revisited the standard of review to
>> be applied to discretionary decisions of prothonotaries and decisions
>> made by judges on appeals of prothonotaries’ decisions in Hospira
>> Healthcare Corp. v. Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, 2016 FCA 215,
>> 402 D.L.R. (4th) 497 [Hospira]. In Hospira, a five-member panel of
>> this Court replaced the Aqua-Gem standard of review with that
>> articulated in Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 235
>> [Housen]. As a result, it is no longer appropriate for the Federal
>> Court to conduct a de novo review of a discretionary order made by a
>> prothonotary in regard to questions vital to the final issue of the
>> case. Rather, a Federal Court judge can only intervene on appeal if
>> the prothonotary made an error of law or a palpable and overriding
>> error in determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and
>> law (Hospira at para. 79). Further, this Court can only interfere with
>> a Federal Court judge’s review of a prothonotary’s discretionary order
>> if the judge made an error of law or palpable and overriding error in
>> determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and law
>> (Hospira at paras. 82-83).
>>
>> [28]           In the case at bar, the Judge substituted his own
>> assessment of Mr. Amos’ Claim for that of the Prothonotary. This Court
>> must look to the Prothonotary’s Order to determine whether the Judge
>> erred in law or made a palpable and overriding error in choosing to
>> interfere.
>>
>>
>> B.                 Did the Judge err in interfering with the
>> Prothonotary’s Order?
>>
>> [29]           The Prothontoary’s Order accepted the following
>> paragraphs from the Crown’s submissions as the basis for striking the
>> Claim in its entirety without leave to amend:
>>
>> 17.       Within the 96 paragraph Statement of Claim, the Plaintiff
>> addresses his complaint in paragraphs 14-24, inclusive. All but four
>> of those paragraphs are dedicated to an incident that occurred in 2006
>> in and around the legislature in New Brunswick. The jurisdiction of
>> the Federal Court does not extend to Her Majesty the Queen in right of
>> the Provinces. In any event, the Plaintiff hasn’t named the Province
>> or provincial actors as parties to this action. The incident alleged
>> does not give rise to a justiciable cause of action in this Court.
>> (…)
>>
>>
>> 21.       The few paragraphs that directly address the Defendant
>> provide no details as to the individuals involved or the location of
>> the alleged incidents or other details sufficient to allow the
>> Defendant to respond. As a result, it is difficult or impossible to
>> determine the causes of action the Plaintiff is attempting to advance.
>> A generous reading of the Statement of Claim allows the Defendant to
>> only speculate as to the true and/or intended cause of action. At
>> best, the Plaintiff’s action may possibly be summarized as: he
>> suspects he is barred from the House of Commons.
>> [footnotes omitted].
>>
>>
>> [30]           The Judge determined that he could not strike the Claim
>> on the same jurisdictional basis as the Prothonotary. The Judge noted
>> that the Federal Court has jurisdiction over claims based on the
>> liability of Federal Crown servants like the RCMP and that the actors
>> who barred Mr. Amos from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004
>> included the RCMP (Federal Court Judgment at para. 23). In considering
>> the viability of these allegations de novo, the Judge identified
>> paragraph 14 of the Claim as containing “some precision” as it
>> identifies the date of the event and a RCMP officer acting as
>> Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant Governor (Federal Court Judgment at
>> para. 27).
>>
>>
>> [31]           The Judge noted that the 2004 event could support a
>> cause of action in the tort of misfeasance in public office and
>> identified the elements of the tort as excerpted from Meigs v. Canada,
>> 2013 FC 389, 431 F.T.R. 111:
>>
>>
>> [13]      As in both the cases of Odhavji Estate v Woodhouse, 2003 SCC
>> 69 [Odhavji] and Lewis v Canada, 2012 FC 1514 [Lewis], I must
>> determine whether the plaintiffs’ statement of claim pleads each
>> element of the alleged tort of misfeasance in public office:
>>
>> a) The public officer must have engaged in deliberate and unlawful
>> conduct in his or her capacity as public officer;
>>
>> b) The public officer must have been aware both that his or her
>> conduct was unlawful and that it was likely to harm the plaintiff; and
>>
>> c) There must be an element of bad faith or dishonesty by the public
>> officer and knowledge of harm alone is insufficient to conclude that a
>> public officer acted in bad faith or dishonestly.
>> Odhavji, above, at paras 23, 24 and 28
>> (Federal Court Judgment at para. 28).
>>
>> [32]           The Judge determined that Mr. Amos disclosed sufficient
>> material facts to meet the elements of the tort of misfeasance in
>> public office because the actors, who barred him from the New
>> Brunswick legislature in 2004, including the RCMP, did so for
>> “political reasons” (Federal Court Judgment at para. 29).
>>
>> [33]           This Court’s discussion of the sufficiency of pleadings
>> in Merchant Law Group v. Canada (Revenue Agency), 2010 FCA 184, 321
>> D.L.R (4th) 301 is particularly apt:
>>
>> …When pleading bad faith or abuse of power, it is not enough to
>> assert, baldly, conclusory phrases such as “deliberately or
>> negligently,” “callous disregard,” or “by fraud and theft did steal”.
>> “The bare assertion of a conclusion upon which the court is called
>> upon to pronounce is not an allegation of material fact”. Making bald,
>> conclusory allegations without any evidentiary foundation is an abuse
>> of process…
>>
>> To this, I would add that the tort of misfeasance in public office
>> requires a particular state of mind of a public officer in carrying
>> out the impunged action, i.e., deliberate conduct which the public
>> officer knows to be inconsistent with the obligations of his or her
>> office. For this tort, particularization of the allegations is
>> mandatory. Rule 181 specifically requires particularization of
>> allegations of “breach of trust,” “wilful default,” “state of mind of
>> a person,” “malice” or “fraudulent intention.”
>> (at paras. 34-35, citations omitted).
>>
>> [34]           Applying the Housen standard of review to the
>> Prothonotary’s Order, we are of the view that the Judge interfered
>> absent a legal or palpable and overriding error.
>>
>> [35]           The Prothonotary determined that Mr. Amos’ Claim
>> disclosed no reasonable claim and was fundamentally vexatious on the
>> basis of jurisdictional concerns and the absence of material facts to
>> ground a cause of action. Paragraph 14 of the Claim, which addresses
>> the 2004 event, pleads no material facts as to how the RCMP officer
>> engaged in deliberate and unlawful conduct, knew that his or her
>> conduct was unlawful and likely to harm Mr. Amos, and acted in bad
>> faith. While the Claim alleges elsewhere that Mr. Amos was barred from
>> the New Brunswick legislature for political and/or malicious reasons,
>> these allegations are not particularized and are directed against
>> non-federal actors, such as the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Legislative
>> Assembly of New Brunswick and the Fredericton Police Force. As such,
>> the Judge erred in determining that Mr. Amos’ allegation that the RCMP
>> barred him from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004 was capable of
>> supporting a cause of action.
>>
>> [36]           In our view, the Claim is made up entirely of bare
>> allegations, devoid of any detail, such that it discloses no
>> reasonable cause of action within the jurisdiction of the Federal
>> Courts. Therefore, the Judge erred in interfering to set aside the
>> Prothonotary’s Order striking the claim in its entirety. Further, we
>> find that the Prothonotary made no error in denying leave to amend.
>> The deficiencies in Mr. Amos’ pleadings are so extensive such that
>> amendment could not cure them (see Collins at para. 26).
>>
>> V.                 Conclusion
>> [37]           For the foregoing reasons, we would allow the Crown’s
>> cross-appeal, with costs, setting aside the Federal Court Judgment,
>> dated January 25, 2016 and restoring the Prothonotary’s Order, dated
>> November 12, 2015, which struck Mr. Amos’ Claim in its entirety
>> without leave to amend.
>> "Wyman W. Webb"
>> J.A.
>> "David G. Near"
>> J.A.
>> "Mary J.L. Gleason"
>> J.A.
>>
>>
>>
>> FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL
>> NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD
>>
>> A CROSS-APPEAL FROM AN ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE SOUTHCOTT DATED
>> JANUARY 25, 2016; DOCKET NUMBER T-1557-15.
>> DOCKET:
>>
>> A-48-16
>>
>>
>>
>> STYLE OF CAUSE:
>>
>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>>
>>
>>
>> PLACE OF HEARING:
>>
>> Fredericton,
>> New Brunswick
>>
>> DATE OF HEARING:
>>
>> May 24, 2017
>>
>> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY:
>>
>> WEBB J.A.
>> NEAR J.A.
>> GLEASON J.A.
>>
>> DATED:
>>
>> October 30, 2017
>>
>> APPEARANCES:
>> David Raymond Amos
>>
>>
>> For The Appellant / respondent on cross-appeal
>> (on his own behalf)
>>
>> Jan Jensen
>>
>>
>> For The Respondent / appELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL
>>
>> SOLICITORS OF RECORD:
>> Nathalie G. Drouin
>> Deputy Attorney General of Canada
>>
>> For The Respondent / APPELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL
>>
>



'Defence without being defensive': Scheer tries to blunt attack lines on racism, deficits

Scheer moves to rob the Liberals of their best rhetorical weapons - but there's still Doug Ford






David Cochrane· CBC News·
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer rises during question period in the House of Commons, Monday, May 27, 2019 in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/THE CANADIAN PRESS)







On Tuesday, in a banquet hall in North York, Andrew Scheer used a speech on immigration policy to do something no other leader of a mainstream party will have to do during this election cycle: stand in front of the TV cameras and assure the country his party isn't racist.

"I find the notion that one's race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation would make them in any way superior to anybody else absolutely repugnant," Scheer told the crowd at the party-organized event. "And if there's anyone who disagrees with that, there's the door."

The Liberals have been loudly suggesting that the door Scheer pointed to is a revolving one between the Conservative Party and extremists. So this was something Scheer had to do.




One Conservative insider described the approach as, "a little bit of defence without being defensive."
("Hey, it got the Raptors to the finals," he added.)

The idea was to speak directly to a Liberal attack line, though that rebuttal was weakened when — on the same day Scheer was delivering his speech — a Conservative MP quoted New Zealand's worst mass killer to attack a Muslim witness's credibility before the Commons standing committee on justice and human rights.
Scheer's immigration speech followed the same strategy he employed in rolling back his earlier promise to balance the federal budget within two years, by pushing the timeline out to five years.

The Liberals have been warning Canadians of the dire consequences of the cuts that would be needed to wipe out the deficit in just two years. So Scheer is trying to take two Liberal lines of attack — extremism and austerity — off the table.

"They are trying to replay the last campaign," the Conservative insider said. "Which they are not going to be able to do."

Scheer cheekily blamed Justin Trudeau for forcing him to change his balanced budget promise, insisting the nation's finances after four Liberal budgets are so bad there's no way to responsibly eliminate the deficit in the near term.

The real blame, however, likely rests with Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

The Ford effect


Ford's poll numbers have dropped to stomach-flu levels of popularity in the months since his first budget. His cost-cutting agenda has enraged mayors, unions, teachers and parents of children with autism. Ford's federal cousins are worried about being caught in the blast radius of public outrage in what will be the upcoming election's key battleground.

The blowback to the Ford budget shows that, for federal Conservatives, the recent turnover in provincial legislatures cuts both ways.

Conservative or conservative-leaning governments now hold power from Alberta to Prince Edward Island — something that encourages federal Conservatives to see themselves riding a wave.  But being so closely associated with a conflict-prone government like Ford's carries some risk.




Ontario Premier Doug Ford, right, and Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer acknowledge the crowd while on stage at the Conservative national convention in Halifax on Thursday, August 23, 2018. (Darren Calabrese/Canadian Press)
 

"I think the positives outweigh the potential negatives," the Conservative insider said. "As long as the message gets out, it's going to be okay."

That message, writ large, is that conservative-leaning voters can limit the damage a Trudeau-led government can do to the country by limiting the prime minister to one term. It seems clear that there is a growing audience for that message.

Wooing the 'Blue Liberals'


The SNC Lavalin controversy and a series of self-inflicted wounds have wiped out the Liberals' former lead in the polls. The Conservatives are running TV ads (in heavy rotation during the Raptors' run to the finals) that seek to reinforce voters' growing doubts about Trudeau.

Their primary targets are the so-called Blue Liberals — voters who have supported the governing party but are less comfortable than the prime minister and Finance Minister Bill Morneau are with serial multi-billion-dollar deficits.
Many Conservatives feel the leftward shift of the Liberals under Trudeau has orphaned the bulk of those Blue Liberals. The change in Scheer's balanced budget promise is meant to tell those voters he takes the deficit more seriously than Trudeau does, but won't be reckless about getting rid of it.

If Scheer can woo the Blue Liberals while progressive voters continue to splinter between the Liberals, the NDP and the Greens, it widens his path to power.

The Conservatives are flush with cash. They already have close to 300 candidates nominated and knocking on doors.

Ontario is target-rich for them — especially the GTA. Their Quebec slate of candidates has been bolstered by former mayors. The Prairies are a traditional stronghold and there is nowhere for them to go but up in the Atlantic provinces.

A majority or nothing?


But the vote splits in British Columbia are so fluid and volatile right now that no party can bank on a safe landing.

Conservative insiders concede that simply winning the most seats likely wouldn't be enough to put them in a position to govern — not without a majority, which is something that no party can bank on five months out.

There's a sense that the Greens, and whatever remains of the New Democrats after October, will swallow hard and support the Liberals rather than hand the unused keys of 24 Sussex Drive to Scheer.

So the wooing continues. The TV ad attacks, and the daily assault of question period, work to amplify Canadians' doubts about Trudeau. Policy speeches and policy shifts work to mitigate their doubts about Scheer.

The path to the most seats is widest for the Conservatives. Scheer likely needs to widen it some more to get where he wants to go.

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Scheer strips Tory MP of committee role after confrontation with Muslim witness

Michael Cooper had quoted manifesto of accused New Zealand mosque shooter

David Cochrane· CBC News·

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has stripped MP Michael Cooper of his spot on the House of Commons justice committee as punishment for Cooper's angry confrontation with a Muslim witness in hearings dedicated to online hate.

Earlier this week, Cooper told Faisal Khan Suri he should be "ashamed" after he drew a link between "conservative commentators" and the online history of mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette.
Cooper also quoted from the manifesto of the man accused of the mass killings in Christchurch, New Zealand in an attempt to discredit Suri's testimony.




"I have spoken with Michael Cooper about comments he made at the Justice Committee earlier this week. Having taken the time to review the incident, I have informed him that he will no longer sit on the Justice committee as a consequence," Scheer posted on Twitter.

"Reading the name and quoting the words of the Christchurch shooter, especially when directed at a Muslim witness during a parliamentary hearing, is insensitive and unacceptable. Mr. Cooper has apologized. I accept his apology and I consider the matter closed."

While he has been removed from the committee, Scheer's office confirmed that Cooper will keep his role as deputy justice critic.




Andrew Scheer✔@AndrewScheer
 ·
I have spoken with Michael Cooper about comments he made at the Justice committee earlier this week. Having taken the time to review the incident, I have informed him that he will no longer sit on the Justice committee as a consequence. (1/2)


Andrew Scheer✔@AndrewScheer
Reading the name and quoting the words of the Christchurch shooter, especially when directed at a Muslim witness during a parliamentary hearing, is insensitive and unacceptable. Mr. Cooper has apologized. I accept his apology and I consider the matter closed. (2/2)

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Cooper, who represents the riding of St. Albert-Edmonton, declined CBC's requests for an interview. Cooper tweeted a link to the original CBC story after it was posted online. That tweet has since been deleted.

On Saturday, Cooper tweeted a statement in which he said quoting the alleged Christchurch shooter was "a mistake" caused by a misunderstanding of Suri's comments.

"I absolutely should not have quoted these words nor named the perpetrator," he said in the statement




Michael Cooper, MP✔@Cooper4SAE
Read my statement and apology for my comments at the Justice committee earlier this week:

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The eruption happened during Tuesday's committee hearing, when Cooper took issue with how Suri, the president of the Alberta Muslim Public Affairs Council, described the online history of Bissonnette, the man sentenced to life in prison in February for shooting six people dead in a Quebec City mosque in January, 2017.

"The evidence from Bissonette's computer showed he repeatedly sought content about anti-immigrant, alt-right and conservative commentators, mass murderers, U.S. President Donald Trump, and about Muslims, immigrants living in Quebec," Suri said.

Suri went on to say that people like Robert Bowers — who is alleged to have killed 11 people in a synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh in October — and Brenton Tarrant, who is accused of shooting and killing 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in March, were similarly influenced by online hate coming from "alt-right online networks."

Suri told the committee that "online hate is a key factor in enforcing hate in all forms," including Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, and that more efforts should be made to study online hate and its effects in the offline world.


Listen: Cooper tells justice committee witness he should be 'ashamed'


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Cooper tells Justice Committee witness he should be "ashamed"


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An exchange between Justice Committee witness Faisal Khan Suri of the Alberta Muslim Public Affairs Council and Alberta Conservative MP Michael Cooper. 3:16
When it was his turn to ask Suri and other witnesses questions, Cooper laid into the Alberta anti-racism activist, accusing him of suggesting a link between "conservatism" and violent extremism.

"Mr. Suri, I take great umbrage with your defamatory comments to try to link conservatism with violent extremist attacks. They have no foundation, they're defamatory, and they diminish your credibility as a witness," Cooper said.

The Conservative MP then read into the record a passage from Tarrant's 74-page manifesto — which has been banned in New Zealand. In the passage, Tarrant is quoted as saying the social and political values of China are close to his own and that he rejects "conservatism."

Cooper did not mention Bissonnette's online history.

'You should be ashamed'


"I certainly wouldn't attempt to link Bernie Sanders to the individual who shot up Republican members of Congress and nearly fatally killed congressman [Stephen] Scalise," Cooper said. "So you should be ashamed."

Scalise and four others were shot in 2017 by James T. Hodgkinson, a Bernie Sanders supporter, who opposed conservatism in general and U.S. President Donald Trump in particular. Hodgkinson later died of wounds sustained in a shootout with police.
Cooper was interrupted and the committee quickly fell apart, with both Liberal and NDP MPs exploding in protest.

NDP MP Tracey Ramsey objected to Cooper's accusations, telling committee chair Anthony Housefather that he can't allow a member of the committee to tell a witness he should be ashamed of himself.

"I think that's unacceptable," she said to Housefather. "You're putting [Suri] in a position of vulnerability to have to respond to these attacks. He didn't come here today to defend himself, he came here to present on behalf of his organization."

A partial retraction


The committee hearing was not preserved on video, but an audio recording of the proceedings on the parliamentary website captures the fracas beginning at 9:29 a.m.

Edmonton Centre Liberal MP Randy Boissonnault can be heard on the recording contradicting Cooper and trying to move the committee in-camera to address Cooper's comments.

Housefather swiftly took the committee behind closed doors, excusing the witnesses from the room while MPs discussed Cooper's comments. At 9:49 a.m. the committee resumed, with Cooper offering a partial retraction.

"While I certainly find the comments made by Mr. Suri to be deeply offensive and objectionable and vehemently disagree with them, I will withdraw saying that he should be ashamed," Cooper said.

"That was not unparliamentary, but I understand that it made some of the members of the committee uncomfortable. So in the spirit of moving forward I withdraw those specific comments, but certainly not the rest of what I said."
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Former Harper-era minister doubles down on calling MMIWG inquiry report 'propagandist'

Conservative party distanced itself from former Aboriginal affairs minister Bernard Valcourt on Sunday





Jorge Barrera· CBC News·
Former Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt blasts National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls report over 'genocide' finding. (CBC)



 
A former federal Aboriginal affairs minister under the Stephen Harper government is doubling down on his social media claim that the finding of "genocide" by the National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and girls was "propagandist."

Bernard Valcourt, who was Aboriginal affairs minister from 2013 until the defeat of the Harper government in the fall of 2015, blasted the inquiry's conclusion that the thousands of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls were victims of a wider "Canadian genocide" inflicted on Indigenous people.

"How far do those activists will go? What has been the cost to Canadians for this propagandist report? What have we learned that we did not already know?" said Valcourt, who now lives in Edmundston, N.B., in a tweet posted on Friday evening.



"Who feels better in Canada among First Nations for that thunderous silly conclusion that all we wanted was to kill them all?"

Valcourt faced an immediate backlash on Twitter that continued into Sunday. That included reaction from leading Indigenous voices like Cindy Blacksock, who heads the First Nation Child and Family Caring Society, and Pam Palmater, chair of Indigenous governance at Ryerson University in Toronto. 


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The thousands of Indigenous women and girls who were murdered or disappeared across the country in recent decades are victims of a “Canadian genocide,” says the final report of the national inquiry...
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Bernard Valcourt@BernardValcourt
How far do those activists will go? What has been the cost to Canadians for this propagandist report? What have we learned that we did not already know? Who feels better in Canada among First Nations for that thunderous silly conclusion that all we wanted was to kill them all?

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Valcourt remained unbowed during a Sunday morning interview with CBC News.

"I take offence to Canada being accused of genocide. My comprehension of genocide is measured by what genocide really is," said Valcourt. "I don't think it serves any purpose to call the action of the government genocide because it was not genocide."

Valcourt said "First Nations got a bad rap from colonialism that has given birth to this country."
But he said that using the word genocide "won't solve anything."

The national inquiry said the evidence it gathered led it to conclude that missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls were the victims of a "Canadian genocide."



Bernard Valcourt@BernardValcourt
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Replying to @CBCNews @JorgeBarrera
How far do those activists will go? What has been the cost to Canadians for this propagandist report? What have we learned that we did not already know? Who feels better in Canada among First Nations for that thunderous silly conclusion that all we wanted was to kill them all?


Cindy Blackstock✔@cblackst
Dear Sir, The CDN Human Rights Tribunal found that the services INAC delivered under your tenure as Minister were racially discriminatory negatively impacting over 165,000 First Nations children. Instead of implementing documented solutions - you fought it. What did you learn? pic.twitter.com/62Uti26SNi

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The inquiry said the genocide was "empowered by colonial structures" such as the Indian Act legislation, which was enacted in 1876, the Indian residential school system, the Sixties Scoop, the forced sterilization of Indigenous women and the child welfare system, which it called a "tool of genocide."

The inquiry, which cites contemporary scholarship on genocide to support its finding, said it would be publishing a supplementary report on the legal definition of genocide and its application to Canada and posting it on its website at a later date. 


Pam Palmater✔@Pam_Palmater
Where was your outrage and denial against @SenSincmurr Truth and Reconciliation Report which found that in its dealings with Indigenous peoples Canada is guilty of cultural, physical and biological Are you saying Indigenous WOMEN are less credible?
 
Bernard Valcourt@BernardValcourt
Replying to @CBCNews @JorgeBarrera
How far do those activists will go? What has been the cost to Canadians for this propagandist report? What have we learned that we did not already know? Who feels better in Canada among First Nations for that thunderous silly conclusion that all we wanted was to kill them all?
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The report also criticized Valcourt for claiming while he was minister that 70 per cent of homicides of Indigenous women were caused by Indigenous men. The report said the RCMP data used by Valcourt to make the claim was flawed and inaccurate.

The Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg also now deems the treatment of Indigenous peoples in Canada as a genocide.
Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett weighed in against Valcourt on Sunday with a tweet blasting the former minister and calling on Conservative leader Andrew Scheer to denounce him.

"Distressing to see @BernardValcourt displaying such ignorance," tweeted Bennett. "@AndrewScheer needs to denounce him & ask him to join Senator (Lynn) Beyak on the cultural sensitivity that seems to be necessary for all Conservatives."





Carolyn Bennett✔@Carolyn_Bennett
Distressing to see @BernardValcourt displaying such ignorance. @AndrewScheer needs to denounce him & ask him to join Senator Beyak on the cultural sensitivity that seems to be necessary for all Conservatives.

Bernard Valcourt@BernardValcourt
Replying to @CBCNews @JorgeBarrera
How far do those activists will go? What has been the cost to Canadians for this propagandist report? What have we learned that we did not already know? Who feels better in Canada among First Nations for that thunderous silly conclusion that all we wanted was to kill them all?
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Sen. Lynn Beyak was recently suspended from the Senate and kicked out of the Conservative caucus for refusing to pull down racist letters against Indigenous people on her website.
"It's difficult to imagine how someone who once held the job as minister of Aboriginal affairs could be so ignorant and insensitive," said Bennett in a statement sent to CBC News. "To dismiss this vitally important report as propaganda without even having read it demonstrates the kinds of attitudes that have lead to this national tragedy."

The Conservative party distanced itself Sunday from Valcourt.

"Mr. Valcourt does not speak for the Conservative party of Canada with these unacceptable comments," said Conservative MP Cathy McLeod, the shadow minister on the Indigenous affairs file, in a tweeted statement.




Perry Bellegarde✔@perrybellegarde
Thank you @Cathy_McLeod for speaking out. First Nations look forward to your continued support.
Cathy McLeod MP✔@Cathy_McLeod
Mr. Valcourt does not speak for the Conservative Party of Canada with these unacceptable comments. The first move of our interim leader @RonaAmbrose was to endorse the #MMIWG& @AndrewScheer has been supportive. Tomorrow is an important day with the release. https://twitter.com/bernardvalcourt/status/1134572772007579648 …
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McLeod's statement said that former interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose endorsed the inquiry and current leader Scheer has also supported it.

Ry Moran, executive director of National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation in Winnipeg, which is the archival repository for historical records on residential schools, also blasted Valcourt on Twitter.

Moran pointed out how the former minister remained seated during a standing ovation at a 2015 ceremony where the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released its calls to action and specifically called for a national inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls.




Ry Moran, the director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, criticized former Aboriginal affairs minister Bernard Valcourt. (Twitter/Canadian Geographic Society)


"There is a very troubling pattern of not listening to women when their needs are being expressed and when they are seeking justice for the very serious and terrible things that have been done to women over the years," said Moran.

"The harder we look at Canadian history, the bleaker it gets," said Moran.

Valcourt remained unrepentant for refusing to join the standing ovation in support of the TRC's call for an inquiry.

"When they called the inquiry and everyone stood up to applaud, what was I going to do, play the game? To be a hypocrite? I'm not," said Valcourt in the interview.

"I stand for what I believe and I did not believe that this was going to accomplish anything positive and I think I'm proven right."

Valcourt said the inquiry's report and his critics are playing "identity politics" and they have a right to their own opinion as he does to his.

"Identity politics is alive and well with the left and the ultra-left and this is something the government of Justin Trudeau is pursuing," he said.

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Reply to Ryan Tasker: I disagree Methinks in light of recent events it should be obvious that more Independent MPs seated in Parliament would be the ticket to stop the nonsense N'esy Pas?


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Minority governments another sign that Canada is in the midst of a political upheaval



 
4150 (the tally was 4188 hours before closing) Comments  
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David Amos 
I wonder if any parliamentarian will ever mention their knowledge of my lawsuit against the Queen (Federal Court File No. T-1557-15). Methinks the latest related decision within the Federal Court of Appeal should concern all of them immensely before I put before the Supreme Court before the next election. Trust that all their party leaders know all about it. Anyone can Google their names and mine to verify what I say is true N'esy Pas? 





 


Kevan Cleverbridge (Hill 70
Getting rid of the current government should be Canadians top priority,we can't afford them any longer.  


Ryan Tasker
Reply to @Kevan Cleverbridge (Hill 70): Liberal... Conservative... NDP... they're all useless and ineffective. We need new blood running this country... Green blood.  


David Amos
Reply to @Ryan Tasker: I disagree Methinks in light of recent events it should be obvious that more Independent MPs seated in Parliament would be the ticket to stop the nonsense N'esy Pas? 


David Amos
Reply to @david mccaig: Methinks voting for an Independent may be wise it you happen have one to vote for in October N'esy Pas?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cFOKT6TlSE


David Amos
Reply to @Kevin Delaney: "A razor thin minority with JWR and Philpot both elected as independents would work nicely. It would even be nicer if JT had to face those two back as sitting members."

I concur 
 

Henrik Reggin
Reply to @Kevan Cleverbridge (Hill 70): 128 up votes, 56 down, 6pm est, June 3. This will most likely change with the magic of cbc and unifor.


David Amos
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Reply to @Henrik Reggin: Methinks of that we should have no doubt N'esy Pas? 
 

David Amos
Content disabled 
Reply to @Henrik Reggin: Seems that one is not permitted to agree with you


David Amos
Reply to @Kevan Cleverbridge (Hill 70): Methinks what we truly can't afford is attempting to pacify Mr Trump a good buddy of Mr Harper Matters would only get worse if Mr Scheer gets the job his old boss held for way past too long N'esy Pas?










Steve Timmins
Self entitled people like Justin do not make good leaders. They are incapable of leading by example because they simply feel like they are better than others and deserve the spoils. 


Hamish lawrence
Reply to @Steve Timmins:
The liberal party is a power seeking machine. Trudeau was selected for his shallow voter appeal. The conservatives went through a restructuring period. The Liberals should face the same. Then they might realize that they are servants of the people first.


Gorden Feist
Reply to @Hamish lawrence: "The conservatives went through a restructuring period. "

And then they decided they were perfect as is and therefore there was no need to change.  


Lawrence Vickers
Reply to @Steve Timmins: Thank-you for your donation says it all! 


David Amos
Reply to @Gorden Feist: Methinks thou doth jest too much N'esy Pas?


David Amos
Reply to @Lawrence Vickers: Oh So True 













Kent Worthy
I'm voting Conservative this fall. 


Mar Pell
Reply to @Kent Worthy: I will be in the only logic and intelligent corner - liberal.  


David Amos
Reply to @Kent Worthy: "I'm voting Conservative this fall."

Methinks the polls today say that the majority of folks will not N'esy Pas?  


David Amos
Reply to @Mar Pell: Methinks logic would command that I should vote for myself as an Independent for the first time that I will be allowed to do so in many years N'esy Pas?

Supreme Court of Canada guarantees voting rights for expats
Kathleen Harris · CBC News · Posted: Jan 11, 2019 4:00 AM ET

'The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that expats have the right to vote in federal elections no matter how long they have lived outside the country.

In a 5-2 decision, a majority of justices said the infringement to charter rights is not justified.

Writing for the majority, chief justice Richard Wagner said voting is a "fundamental political right, and the right to vote is a core tenet of our democracy." 


Kent Worthy
Reply to @David Amos:

Keep thinking.
And it's n'est-ce-pas". So you said will not, is not.







Michael Walsh
To suggest it is a global movement of disruption is an inaccurate way of describing what is happening around the world. Neoliberal policies have failed working and middle class people. The political parties that have traditionally represented their needs have abandoned them in favour of big money interests. People are seeking alternatives because they are starting to process this betrayal. I say starting because the awakening is incremental. There are some who still believe the mainstream narrative but there are growing number of people who have dismissed the neoliberal promise as rubbish. They look at their lives and realize they are worst off than their parents. They realize they have to work multiple jobs to survive. They realize they may never own a house. They also realize that the media are partly responsible for maintaining the narrative. They are angry and rightfully so.


David Amos
Reply to @Michael Walsh: "They are angry and rightfully so."

True However it is not just the liberals who are to blame. Methinks Harper and the Bush Clan proved that to be a fact years ago. That why we got with the two fancy dudes catching up over beer in Ottawa on Friday. Now Trump (the dude who don't drink) and his cohorts continue to prove just how bad conservatives can truly be on a daily basis N'esy Pas?














Lloyd Browen
What I find to be very revealing is that liberal supporters are constantly fabricating all sorts of nonsense in their desperate efforts to make scheer look bad.

CPC supporters, on the other hand, have plenty of TRUTH to say about trudeau which proves he's totally incompetent, dishonets, and yes, BAD.

One (liberal) spouts fabrications, the other (CPC) spouts truth.

THAT is why the CPC will win in October.


Ivan Nano
Reply to @Lloyd Browen: Scheer needs no ones help to look bad. All you need to do is 'look'


David Amos 
Reply to @Ivan Nano: YUP 












Ron Smith 
Come October 2019 Justin can start the ultimate in long holidays. 


Jennifer McIsaac
Reply to @Ron Smith: 
Just as long as we don't get Scheer and his gang of misanthropes as a majority. 


David Amos
Reply to @Jennifer McIsaac: I agree 













Alex Reti
Minority government not so bad - so long as it ain't Trudeau's.


David Amos 
Reply to @alex reti: Methinks everybody wants a minority government no matter what colour the leader's coat is N'esy Pas?














Mark Axworthy
4 years ago, Canada was a big ol' happy family, SOMEONE pitted us against each other and tore us apart...  


Kevin Delaney
Reply to @Mark Axworthy:
Ah to have such fond lapses of memory re King Steve. How wonderfully forgetful.


David Amos  
Reply to @Kevin Delaney: Methinks not everyone agrees with his version of our history N'esy Pas?




Minority governments another sign that Canada is in the midst of a political upheaval

 

There have never been more minority governments in Canada than there are now — the fall vote could add another



Éric Grenier· CBC News·


Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves after participating in an armchair discussion at the Open Government Partnership Global Summit in Ottawa on Wednesday, May 29, 2019. Polls now point to the election of a minority federal government in the fall. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press)

Canadians can't seem to make up their minds lately, with more minority governments in power across the country than ever before — and another one potentially on its way in October's federal election.

It's partly the result of people moving away from their traditional voting patterns and being increasingly open to new options. It's a trend more than a few candidates are counting on this fall.

Establishment parties are struggling around the globe. In recent elections to the European Parliament — the largest democratic exercise in the world after India's elections — the two groupings of parties that always have held sway lost their combined majority for the first time.

That anti-establishment vote splintered in different directions. Far-right populists, Greens and pro-EU liberals all made gains at the expense of the centre-right European People's Party and the centre-left Socialists & Democrats.

In the United Kingdom, one recent poll gave no party even a quarter of the vote. Labour and the Conservatives, the only two parties that have governed the country since the end of the First World War, were tied for third behind the Liberal Democrats and Nigel Farage's upstart Brexit Party, which just finished first in the U.K. in those European elections.

More minority governments than ever before


Provincial legislatures in Canada are also looking more kaleidoscopic. Breakthroughs by the Greens led to minority governments in British Columbia in 2017 and in Prince Edward Island earlier this year. In New Brunswick, the Greens were joined by the populist People's Alliance in contributing to a hung legislature in 2018.

In Newfoundland and Labrador, wins by two Independents and three candidates for the NDP — a party that has never formed government in the province — helped reduce the incumbent Liberals to just 20 seats in the 40-seat House of Assembly.


Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage arrives at the party's HQ, prior to an event to mark the gains his party made in the European Elections, in London, Monday, May 27, 2019. (Vudi Xhymshiti/The Associated Press)

That makes four minority governments across the country, more than have ever existed in Canada's provinces at the same time. It surpasses the record of three minority provincial governments that was met just three times in the past: in 1920-22, 1943-45 and 1971-72.

Judging by national polls, Canadians appear prepared to prevent any party from securing a majority government in October's federal election as well.

Votes for non-traditional parties hit a new high


According to the CBC's Canada Poll Tracker, an aggregation of all publicly available polling data, nearly 14 per cent of Canadians are prepared to vote for parties or candidates that have never formed either a government or an Official Opposition. If that trend holds in the October vote, it would result in the lowest combined score for the Liberals, Conservatives, New Democrats and Bloc Québécois (and their predecessor parties) since 1945.

Most of that vote is currently going to the Greens, who stand at just under 10 per cent in the polls. The rest is split between the People's Party, other small parties and Independent candidates.

Two Independent candidates in particular have contributed to the fall in support for one of the establishment parties. It was after the SNC-Lavalin affair, and the subsequent caucus departures of Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott, that the Liberals saw their support plummet.

The two former cabinet ministers announced this week they'd run as Independents, calling for a movement of more "independent partisans" across the country.

That isn't a new idea, by the way. It echoes the movement that caused Canada's first period of minority rule.

Voting for something different


After the cataclysm of the First World War, the state of politics around the world was in flux. That phenomenon extended to Canada, where new parties began to win seats and form governments across the country.

Most successful were the Progressives and Farmers' parties. The United Farmers of Ontario stormed to power in 1919 with a minority government, propped up by Labour members who themselves made their first breakthrough. The next year, Farmer and Labour candidates made inroads in provincial elections in Manitoba and New Brunswick, resulting in minority governments in those two provinces as well. The United Farmers secured a majority government in Alberta in 1921.

The federal expression of this movement, the Progressive Party, finished second in the 1921 election, resulting in the country's first minority government. But the Progressives didn't see themselves as a traditional party and declined the opportunity to form the Official Opposition. The party believed in freeing their MPs from the overbearing control of a centralized leadership — a view that was shared by the Farmers' parties at the provincial levels.

The problem with this approach soon became clear, as a lack of unity made it difficult to hold the parties together. The United Farmers of Ontario went down to defeat in 1923 and the federal Progressive Party was splintered and significantly reduced by 1925, descending into irrelevance by the 1930s.


An early photo of the leaders of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, with its first leader, J.S. Woodsworth standing in the middle. From left to right, future NDP leader Tommy Douglas, Angus MacInnis, A.A. Heaps, M.J. Coldwell (who led the party into the 1945 election), Grace MacInnis and Grant MacNeill. (Yousuf Karsh fonds/National Archives of Canada)

The next series of minority governments also coincided with a time when voters were coming unglued from their old voting habits.

In the midst of the Second World War (armed conflicts have a tendency to shake up domestic politics) the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (the CCF, forerunner of the NDP) surged in the polls. In 1943, a Gallup survey had the CCF narrowly ahead in a three-way national race, following on provincial breakthroughs in B.C. and Manitoba in 1941 that prevented any party from winning a majority.

The Ontario CCF made a significant breakthrough in the 1943 provincial election and came within four seats of forming government. In 1944, the party formed its first provincial government — a majority — in Saskatchewan under Tommy Douglas.

These breakthroughs had an impact on the federal scene. Liberal Leader W.L. Mackenzie King fell just short of a majority in 1945 as the CCF and Social Credit made inroads in the West and Quebecers voted for Independent Liberals and Bloc populaire candidates who opposed conscription.


A global moment of disruption?


While minority governments coincided in Ottawa and a number of provincial capitals in the 1920s, and at the time of the federal elections of 1945 and 1972, there were also moments when national splits didn't filter down to the provinces. There were no provincial minority governments when John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson presided over federal minorities in the 1960s.

The Paul Martin and Stephen Harper minority government periods from 2004 to 2011 saw only a single minority provincial government at any one time.

But the number of incumbent governments that have gone down to defeat over the last four years is higher than it's been since the Great Depression. At the same time, Canada has set a new record for the number of minority governments.

It might suggest the country is experiencing a moment of political disruption — one that could bode well for non-traditional parties and independent candidates this fall. In that, Canada isn't alone.


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Éric Grenier is a senior writer and the CBC's polls analyst. He was the founder of ThreeHundredEight.com and has written for The Globe and Mail, Huffington Post Canada, The Hill Times, Le Devoir, and L’actualité.
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Province renews AIM's operating permit for another 6 months

In the latest renewal, AIM must shut down operations if an explosion exceeds a sound level of 104 decibels

 
 
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American Iron and Metal must down operations if an explosion exceeds a sound level of 104 decibels. (Julia Wright, CBC)


The province is again renewing approval for American Iron and Metal to continue operating on the Saint John waterfront for another six months.

The renewed approval is effective June 1 and will expire December 1.

In the latest renewal, AIM must shut down operations if an explosion exceeds a sound level of 104 decibels. Under the previous approval to operate, the company had to shut down operations when an explosion exceeded the 109-decibel level.



When an explosion exceeds the agreed upon decibel level, the company cannot restart its operations without first receiving approval from the government.
Residents in the west side waterfront area have complained about dust, noise and explosions over the past several years, leading the scrap metal recycling company to be placed on a 90-day probation last December.

Minister of Environment and Local Government Jeff Carr said he thinks there have been only a few minor explosions since the province's last renewal with the company on March 1. He said the fact that they were minor explosions is "encouraging."

"It shows that I think there have been improvements made," he said. "It shows that the company is taking us serious."

A news release from the Department of Environment and Local Government on Friday said AIM must "continue work on monitoring and mitigating issues of public concern including noise, dust, explosions and surface water runoff."



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Mark (Junkman) George
In the end it always comes down to "the money", now doesn't it?
Though really, recycling junk vehicles is a dirty, noisy, operation. It requires two things, energy, and easy transportation. I do not know how this so called "problem" can be solved. The dirt and noise aren't going to simply go away because someone wants it to. 
 
 
David Amos
Reply to @Mark (Junkman) George: Well put
 
 
Mark (Junkman) George
Reply to @David Amos: 
It doesn't get any plainer........ we all like shiny new cars, the old ones have to go somewhere........ we have to either bury them, or recycle them, this is what recycling looks like.
So, even if moved, it will end up somewhere, and in that somewhere someone will take exception to it.
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
John Pokiok
Got to love saint john they beg for new business to set the shop but when the business does they whine about it constantly. The best way to describe saint john is a city that craves change but without actually changing anything.  
 
 
David Amos
Reply to @John Pokiok: YUP 
 
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Saint John wind energy project will deeply undercut NB Power rates


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Methinks NB Power talks out of both sides of its mouth about wind energy They certainly sing a different tune to the Yankees in Massachusetts byway of their buddies in Emera N'esy Pas?


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Saint John wind energy project will deeply undercut NB Power rates




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David Amos
I talked to Mikey Holland when we were running in the last election and sent him emails as well. Months later I talked to the NB Power spokesperson Marc Belliveau before I was barred from the latest EUB hearing about another rate increase. I cut short the conversation with Belliveau the instant he insulted me then sent him and his new boss Mikey Holland emails instead. Methinks everybody knows the reason I did so was because Belliveau claimed that he knew all about me My question should be who told Belliveau what about me N'esy Pas? 



David Amos
I wonder if Ray Robinson or the NB Power dudes or anyone else can recall what folks were saying about NB Power just 6 months ago as Mr Higgs became Premier and his Deputy Mr Gauvin was thinking about quitting over what their lawyer pal Ted Flemming was saying about language issues within our Health Care System?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/gauvin-questions-future-pcs-1.4956691

Methinks we should be far more concerned about NB Power wanting to put us another 120 million or so in debt over not so smart meters while NB Power continues to write huge cheques to the the Irvring Clan and their cohorts N'esy Pas?





David Amos
Methinks much to NB Power's chagrin my position has not changed particularly after their lawyers had their EUB buddies illegally bar me from another rate increase hearing N'esy Pas?





David Amos
Methinks the lawyers working for Ray Robinson and the NB Power dudes may enjoy a little Deja Vu about now Nesy Pas?

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Colin Seeley
https://www.conservationcouncil.ca/en/who-pollutes-our-climate-the-most-in-new-brunswick/

One can only imagine he hue and cry if power were imported from Quebec or Muskrat to supply NB of electric needs.

Shutting down polluting power plants should be considered.


David Amos 
Reply to @Colin Seeley: Methinks everybody knows that your hero Mr Higgs, his Irving Clan buddies and the NB Power dudes don't care what the Green Meanies say about anything N'esy Pas?













Neil MacLean
Mr Robinson has a utility background and therefore surely understands that the cost of power is determined from the overall system, and not just from part of the system. It isn't reasonable to have Saint John Energy acting as both a generating utility to itself, and as a distribution utility for NB Power where they pay no appropriate charge for the cost of backup power to their SJ Energy generation. A huge part of the cost of wind power is the cost of having immediately ready backup power to deal with changes in the wind. Mr. Robinson may have fooled some politicians and board members and citizens of Saint John as to the reasonableness of his actions but it does not serve the interests of the province to have a power system where there is not strong overall operational coordination and at the same time fair allocation of total costs. Incidentally since Mr. Robinson assumed his position, operations within Saint John Energy have not been as sharp as under his predecessors. Specifically there are now customers experiencing outages of some length who formerly would only see very occasional brief flickers of the lights during years and years of service. This isn't just climate change. It appears Mr Robinson does not favour so much the automatic switching of sections of distribution feeders to be fed from a different substation when their link to their normal substation is broken. Keeping the lights on with smart operations isn't as newsworthy as wind power. Still, service is generally good because of the inherent advantages of greater median customer density (than NB Power). But it could be better with less debt and less news. Proper co-ordination of generation developments in the province are critically important to assure the most reasonable overall cost.


Fred Brewer 
Reply to @Neil MacLean:
With all due respect, I think you missed this part of the article:
"and Saint John Energy will continue to pay significant demand charges to NB Power, in excess of $20 million per year, to reserve generation capacity for itself for when the wind doesn't blow."

Roy Kirk 
Reply to @Fred Brewer: If I recall correctly, those demand charges are founded on an assumption as to the variability of the load. If the load becomes substantially more variable the demand charges will likely have to increase to capture the costs.

David Amos  
Reply to @Neil MacLean: Oh My My Don't I love the Circus














Chuck Michaels
"... NB Power has expressed concern at its last two rate hearings about having too much wind on its system already..."

The only excessive wind I see here is coming from the direction of Energie NB Power... I would *happily^ go with an all-wind independent provider - bonus if the cost was lower!


David Amos 
Reply to @Chuck Michaels: Methinks a lot of folks who care about their power bills should ask Minister Mikey Holland and their MLA why I was barred from the last two rate hearings within the EUB Trust that Mr Jones will never tell you N'esy Pas?













David Amos
Methinks NB Power talks out of both sides of its mouth about wind energy They certainly sing a different tune to the Yankees in Massachusetts byway of their buddies in Emera N'esy Pas?


David Amos 
Reply to @David Amos: Methinks the people who don't like what i post no doubt work for NB Power N'esy Pas?


Marguerite Deschamps 
Reply to @David Amos: and you think everyone else loves you?


David Amos 
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks everybody knows why I am honoured by the fact that you don't N'esy Pas? 











Dan Lee:
More excuses not to run wind farms......what is wrong with them........


Harold Benson 
Reply to @Dan Lee: You'd find out if you had one in your back yard.


David Amos  
Reply to @Harold Benson: Methinks Sam should have informed you that nobody cares about anything until it is in their backyard N'esy Pas?











Murray Brown
NB Power prefers to rely on 'magical' sources of energy produced with a 'secret' process that nobody understands, and sold to them by shady business partners in Florida under investigation for securities fraud. But this windmill stuff may have a future with Saint John Energy.


David Amos 
Reply to @Murray Brown: Nobody cares about windmills in SainT John.

Methinks that this article is just fluff while Mr Jones continues to ignore far more important issues with NB Power. The 357 Matter within the EUB is a good example N'esy Pas?

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Saint John wind energy project will deeply undercut NB Power rates

Saint John Energy assessing bids for cheap wind power that represent 'dramatic reduction in costs,' says CEO



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NB Power has told the Energy and Utilities board it is already dealing with as much wind energy as it can handle and has not yet decided if it will lease space on its transmission system to Saint John Energy for its project. (Michael Heenan/CBC)




Saint John Energy has received bids on a proposed city wind farm that will provide electricity so cheaply the utility plans to proceed with the project even if NB Power does not allow the use of its transmission infrastructure to move the energy.

"NB Power cannot stop the project from moving forward," said Saint John Energy CEO Ray Robinson.

"We can do this within our own means."




Saint John Energy is one of NB Power's largest customers but has been working on a project to generate some of its own electricity by constructing a small wind farm on the western edge of the city.
The plan calls for the installation and operation of up to 10 wind turbines by 2022 on hills overlooking the Bay of Fundy, not far from NB Power's Coleson Cove oil-fired generating station.

Saint John Energy wants to tie the farm into nearby transmission infrastructure owned by NB Power that serves Coleson Cove and then move it into the city's distribution system from there, but the two utilities have not yet been able to come to an agreement on that issue. 

Too much wind?


NB Power has expressed concern at its last two rate hearings about having too much wind on its system already and has so far been non-committal about working with Saint John Energy on its plan.

NB Power spokesperson Marc Belliveau said the utility currently manages and balances the unpredictable output of more than 100 windmills in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and northern Maine with more coming online soon and needs to assess what else, if anything, it can take on.

"NB Power is currently studying the issue in order to better understand these costs and to ensure that the right price signals are allocated to all project developers in order to ensure that the most economically efficient projects are integrated into the system on behalf of all New Brunswickers," wrote Belliveau in an email to CBC News about the Saint John Energy project.

Saint John Energy is expected to select a developer for its wind farm this summer from a shortlist of companies who responded to a request for proposals that went out last winter. The particulars of the proposals received are not known, but Robinson said they include prices for electricity similar to those recently announced in western Canada.

Late last year, Saskatchewan accepted a bid on a wind farm development for an "all in" price of 4.2 cents per kilowatt hour, including transmission costs. In 2017, Alberta accepted a bid of 3.7 cents per kilowatt hour after holding an open auction for wind energy.

 
Saint John Energy wants to develop a wind farm overlooking the Bay of Fundy near NB Power's Coleson Cove generating station, pictured above, and use NB Power transmission wires to move the electricity into the city. (Matthew Bingley/CBC)

That's as much as 45 per cent cheaper than the 6.7 cents Saint John Energy currently pays NB Power for electricity —not including separate electrical "demand" charges. That's more than enough to finance construction of its own infrastructure to connect a wind farm to the distribution system if NB Power declines to help. 

"These are very credible proposals from credible developers and yes it's a dramatic reduction in costs and it is in that order of magnitude we've all seen out west," said Robinson about the bids Saint John Energy has received.  

The city utility believes it can generate up to 140 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually from 10 windmills —  as much as 16 per cent of what it currently buys from NB Power.  

That could provide the utility up to $3 million per year in savings on its power bill. Saint John Energy's preference is to pay NB Power a fee to use its transmission system for the development, but it will not be deterred if the answer is no or the price NB Power eventually proposes is too high. 

Robinson equated NB Power's transmission lines to a toll highway and said Saint John Energy will happily use it unless its cheaper to build its own thoroughfare.

"Are we permitted to access the highway and, if we are, what's the toll rate," he said. "The scenario where we do it on our own — we can do it."

Swings in production


NB Power is less enthusiastic about wind energy — and supporting Saint John Energy's project — because of the difficulty managing the huge swings in output wind produces.

At its rate hearing last month, NB Power's senior system planning engineer, Darren Clark, described how large high-pressure systems sometimes settle over the province and kill all wind everywhere at the same time.  

At other times, he said, wind blows strongly when demand for electricity is low, forcing NB Power under terms of its contracts with wind farm owners to pay for power it cannot resell.

"If it's windy, there is wind (power). If it's not, then there is not," said Clark. "It's a reliability and a capacity (issue)."

Because wind energy can drop away to nothing from time to time, NB Power needs to have enough generating capacity to operate as though the province had no windmills at all.

NB Power vice-president Keith Cronkhite said in 2017 between Christmas and New Year the province was hit with a windless cold snap that drove wind production almost to nothing, just as it was needed the most.   

Saint John Energy CEO Ray Robinson says the municipal utility received bids on a proposed city wind farm that will provide electricity so cheaply the utility plans to proceed even if NB Power won't help. (CBC)


"With an installed capacity of approximately 300 megawatts of wind on the system we were generating six megawatts of wind during those peak days," said Cronkhite. "We need to have, and are required to have backup for when those events occur."

NB Power estimated it costs one cent per kilowatt hour for it to manage swings in wind production and to have alternative generating resources standing by to deal with them.

Although NB Power will not be involved in the Saint John Energy wind purchase — it will have to deal with the rising and falling production of the wind farm by filling in gaps in Saint John Energy's supply like it does for all wind projects.

Robinson does not see that as a serious problem for NB Power. 

The Saint John project will reduce overall demand on NB Power's system — which is a corporate goal of the provincial utility — and Saint John Energy will continue to pay significant demand charges to NB Power, in excess of $20 million per year, to reserve generation capacity for itself for when the wind doesn't blow.

Robinson said NB Power's recent purchase of the Bayside natural gas generating station in Saint John should also help it better cope with the peaks and valleys of its wind power responsibilities because natural gas generators are more easily ramped up and down than oil and coal plants.

Either way, Robinson said Saint John Energy is committed to its wind project whether NB Power approves or not.

"I'm an advocate of getting more renewables on the system," said Robinson.

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NB Power CEO's salary tops provincial government list

 

Province releases annual listing of government salaries


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








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

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

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





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

The province's utility employed more than 1,140 workers receiving at least $100,000 — that includes eight employees that make at least $250,000.
Besides the utility, New Brunswick's two health networks and the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development employed the highest numbers of $100,000-and-up earners.

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

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


Horizon CEO Karen McGrath was among the top earning public-sector employees in New Brunswick for the year ending March 31, 2018. (CBC)
 
Horizon CEO Karen McGrath was one bracket lower, earning between $250,000 and $274,999.

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

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

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

Here are the highest salaries and the pay for some other notable officials:
$550,000-$574,999
  • Gaëtan Thomas, CEO (NB Power)
$325,000-$349,999
  • Pierre W. Arseneault, provincial court judge (Justice)
$300,000-$324,999
  • Ronald J. LeBlanc, provincial court judge (Justice)
  • Mark P. Cormier (NB Power)
  • Michael Fairweather (NB Power)
  • Ron R. Ferguson (NB Power)
$275,000-$299,999
  • Jennifer Russell Wylie, chief medical officer of health (Health)
  • Na-Koshie Lamptey, regional medical officer of health (Health)
  • Yves Leger, regional medical officer of health (Health)
  • Cristin Muecke, deputy chief medical officer of health (Health)
  • Marian Paquet, regional medical officer of health (Health)
  • Yvette, Finn, provincial court judge (Justice)
  • Edouard Hendriks, vice-president of medical, academic and research affairs (Horizon)
  • Brian Harriman, CEO (NB Liquor)
  • Keith Cronkhite, senior vice-president business development and strategic planning (NB Power)
  • Brian McCullum (NB Power)
  • Darren Murphy, chief financial officer (NB Power)
  • Mark Power, Point Lepreau station director (NB Power)
  • France Desrosiers, CEO (Vitalité)
  • Gilles Lanteigne, vice-president of medical, services, training and research (Vitalité)
$250,000-$274,999
  • Isaac Sobol, regional medical officer of health (Health)
  • Karen Ann McGrath, CEO (Horizon)
  • Stephen Lund, CEO (Opportunities New Brunswick)
  • Martin Robichaud, medical director (Vitalité)
$200,000-$224,999
  • Jean Finn, deputy minister of energy and resource development (Energy)
  • Jacques Pinet, New Brunswick Jobs Board CEO (general)
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Le Parti populaire du Canada présente son candidat en Gaspésie

ÉLECTIONS FÉDÉRALES 2019

Éric Hébert
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Éric Hébert accompagné du chef du PPC, Maxime Bernier.

Le Parti populaire du Canada de Maxime Bernier a profité d'un passage à Québec pour présenter une partie de son équipe dont Éric Hébert, qui convoite le siège de député dans la circonscription Gaspésie-Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine.

Gaspésien d'adoption, Éric Hébert est un géologue de formation. Il possède un doctorat en ressources minérales de l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Ce dernier a décidé de s'installer en Gaspésie après ses études, tout d'abord à Saint-Alphonse puis à Murdochville ensuite, où il habite toujours. « Mon métier m'amène à voyager partout au Canada. Actuellement, je travaille dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest. J'ai mes revenus ailleurs mais je les dépense ici en Gaspésie», raconte-t-il.
Le candidat ne cache pas son intérêt pour tout ce qui touche à l'environnement. Selon lui, contrairement à ce qui est véhiculé, il existe plusieurs solutions pour lutter contre les problèmes actuels et le Parti populaire du Canada est l'endroit idéal pour faire cheminer ces idées. « J'ai choisi l'équipe de Maxime Bernier en raison de sa flexibilité. Il favorise les débats et les idées et encourage la liberté individuelle de s'exprimer. Il n'impose pas une ligne de parti. »
Évacuer le discours de gauche
Éric Hébert croit qu'il est temps que la population entende un autre discours que celui véhiculé par la gauche. « Actuellement, on parle de taxes sur le carbone, de restreindre les libertés des gens et d'imposer des limites. Je prône davantage une approche où l'environnement n'est pas un frein à l'économie. Il faut considérer l'environnement comme une ressource et non comme un fardeau», ajoute-t-il.
Sur la question du pipeline, Éric Hébert estime qu'on fait fausse route en démonisant le pétrole de l'Alberta. « Lorsqu'on importe du pétrole d'outre-mer, il n'y a aucune norme environnementale contrairement aux entreprises d'Amérique du Nord qui investissent beaucoup d'argent pour proposer des technologies plus vertes qui réduisent les gaz à effet de serre.»
Sur un plan plus local, il estime que l'exploitation pétrolière en Gaspésie est un non-enjeu puisque les entreprises sont loin de la coupe aux lèvres. « Traditionnellement, en exploration minière, trouver un gisement, c'est comme gagner la loterie. Ce n'est pas demain qu'on verra un puits fonctionnel donc il ne faut pas partir en peur avec le pétrole en Gaspésie. »
Quant au développement économique, le candidat prône une non-intervention de l'État tout en évoquant que les méthodes gauchistes radicales viennent restreindre le marché. « Pensons à la pêche. Il y a moyen de cohabiter intelligemment avec la faune marine au lieu de simplement imposer des interdictions pour certaines périodes. On peut poursuivre la pêche sans nuire aux espèces marines.»
Éric Hébert sera d'ailleurs sur le terrain à temps plein à la fin de l'été pour aller à la rencontre des gens. « Je mise sur des rencontres de qualité. Au lieu de faire du porte-à-porte à coups de trente secondes, je préfère m'assoir avec des groupes de citoyens et échanger avec eux. Par la suite, libre à eux de voter ou non pour moi et de partager ma vision avec d'autres électeurs. »
Le portrait est donc pratiquement complet en Gaspésie et aux Îles pour les élections du 21 octobre prochain. La députée sortante, Diane Lebouthillier sollicitera un deuxième mandat pour le Parti libéral alors que Jean-Pierre Pigeon tentera à nouveau sa chance avec le Parti conservateur du Canada. Quant au maire de Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis, il portera les couleurs du Bloc québécois. Avec l'annonce de la candidature d'Éric Hébert, il ne manque plus que le candidat néo-démocrate à rejoindre la ligne de départ.

 The People's Party of Canada Maxime Bernier took advantage of a visit to Quebec to present a part of his team including Eric Hébert, who coveted the seat of MP in the Gaspé-Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine riding.

Adopted Gaspesian Éric Hébert is a geologist by training. He holds a PhD in mineral resources from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. The latter decided to settle in the Gaspé after his studies, first in Saint-Alphonse then in Murdochville then, where he still lives. "My job leads me to travel across Canada. Currently, I work in the Northwest Territories. I have my income elsewhere but I spend it here in Gaspésie, "he says.

The candidate does not hide his interest in everything related to the environment. According to him, contrary to what is conveyed, there are several solutions to fight against the current problems and the People's Party of Canada is the ideal place to make these ideas progress. "I chose Maxime Bernier's team because of its flexibility. It promotes debate and ideas and encourages individual freedom to express oneself. It does not impose a party line. "

Evacuate leftist discourse

Éric Hébert believes that it is time for the population to hear another speech than that conveyed by the left. "Currently, we are talking about carbon taxes, restricting people's freedoms and imposing limits. I advocate more of an approach where the environment is not a brake on the economy. We must consider the environment as a resource and not a burden, "he adds.

On the question of the pipeline, Éric Hébert believes that we are on the wrong track by demonizing Alberta's oil. "When you import oil from overseas, there are no environmental standards, unlike companies in North America that invest a lot of money to offer greener technologies that reduce greenhouse gases. "

On a more local level, he believes that oil exploitation in Gaspésie is a non-issue since companies are far from cutting lip. "Traditionally, in mineral exploration, finding a deposit is like winning the lottery. It is not tomorrow that we will see a functional well so we must not go scared with oil in Gaspésie. "

As for economic development, the candidate advocates non-intervention by the state while suggesting that radical leftist methods are restricting the market. "Let's think about fishing. It is possible to cohabit intelligently with the marine fauna instead of simply imposing prohibitions for certain periods. We can continue fishing without harming marine species. "

Éric Hébert will be on the field full time at the end of the summer to meet people. "I bet on quality meetings. Instead of going door-to-door in thirty seconds, I prefer to sit down with citizen groups and talk to them. Afterwards, free to vote for them and share my vision with other voters. "

The portrait is almost complete in Gaspésie and the Islands for the elections of October 21st. The outgoing MP Diane Lebouthillier will seek a second term for the Liberal Party while Jean-Pierre Pigeon will again try his luck with the Conservative Party of Canada. As for the mayor of Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis, he will wear the colors of the Bloc Québécois. With the announcement of Éric Hébert's candidacy, all that's missing is the NDP candidate to join the starting line.
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