Methinks the awful truth is that NB Power had to wait for Mr Higgs to assume power in order to give them the ok to apply for another rate increase N'esy Pas?
Roger Richard Thank you Mr. Amos for your work. You are showing us the importance to take care of business: our business.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Roger Richard: Methinks you work every bit as hard a I so the gratitude goes both ways. Perhaps some folks will figure out that we were not joking in May or last year either although I was barred both times you kept on trucking. I just sat back and glared at them while whispering in your ear now and then N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Methinks folks should read the public documents and ask the EUB chairperson Raymond Gorman and his cohorts why they barred me from this hearing too However I am still active within the 357 matter and still very much against their constant rate hikes and plans for smart meters so they can really put it to us N'esy Pas?''
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.
BEFORE: Raymond P Gorman, Q.C. - Chair John Patrick Herron - Panel Member Michael Costello - Panel Member Patrick Ervin - Panel Member
NB Energy and Utilities Board - Counsel - Ms. Ellen Desmond, Q.C. - Staff - David Young John Lawton Michael Dickie Chief Clerk - Kathleen Mitchell
Transcript Page 121
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.
David R. Amos WOW the delays and blockage of posts are truly amazing EH?
David R. Amos Methinks with about 15 minutes left until this comment section closes forever I should not be surprised that other than one comment each from two of my friends all I hear is crickets in response to my replies to other people words posted on Canada Day. Apathy rules the day in all the circuses in NB and the rest of Canada Hence we get the governments we deserve N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Methinks folks should come to the the next public hearings of the 357 Matter if that truly care about their power bills N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos FYI on October 12th 2018 NB Power and the liberal appointed EUB board and its newly reappointed chair Mr Gorman had no idea what to do because they did not know who was gonna be the next Premier so they decided to hire some fancy Yankee consultants and delay the 357 matter some more. I would like to tell ya some more but I can't because of Chatham House Rules etc.
Al Clark Sounds like they're typing their application on a seawater powered computer that keeps failing. Oh well..... ;-)
David R. Amos
Reply to @Al Clark: Nope Methinks they had to wait until the Conservative tide game in because Gallant had promised to freeze the power rates during the last election N'esy Pas?
Ray Bungay Quote from this story: "Black also called on the EUB to disallow NB Power's request for $1.1 million in funds to prepare for the adoption of smart meters since the EUB rejected NB Power's smart meter plan last year and has not yet approved a new plan"
Smart Meter Health Effects In nearly every community around the world where wireless smart meters have been installed, a percentage of residents complain of health effects that started after installation. The residents often did not know that smart meters had been installed. The most common symptoms are: Headaches Insomnia Fatigue Tinnitus Heart arrhythmia/palpitations Decreased immune function Irritability Decreased cognitive function
David R. Amos
Reply to @Ray Bungay: Methinks you forgot our right to privacy N'esy Pas?
Quote from another story
Your Wi-Fi router could be used to watch you breathe and monitor your heartbeat Radar-like technology can see through walls to track movement CBC Radio · Posted: Jun 21, 2019 3:00 PM ET
Ray Bungay If they can't file a rate increase application in a timely fashion, then can they run the utility right? Maybe those at the top of NBP should seriously think about resigning their positions?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Ray Bungay: "If they can't file a rate increase application in a timely fashion, then can they run the utility right?"
Methinks the Green Party Leader can answer all your question N'esy Pas?
On Oct 12th in CBC the dude who can't be naned said "if NB Power is waiting to find out who will be governing the province before applying for new rates, it shouldn't."
"To me, they should be continuing on as required if they are looking for a change in power rates. They should go forward," he said
David R. Amos
Reply to @David R. Amos: FYI On October 12th, 2018 my friend Roger Richard was permitted to Intervene in the long delayed EUB 357 Matter right after Dominic Cardy's wife was allowed to standing. .
NB Power could escape Liberal-promised rate freeze thanks to unlikely source
Green Leader David Coon has long history of battling NB Power initiatives Robert Jones · CBC News · Posted: Oct 12, 2018 6:00 AM AT
"NB Power has been conspicuously silent on what it plans to do with power rates going forward since Liberals first promised a freeze to voters in late August.
It has a longstanding plan to increase rates by two per cent per year or more to retire $1 billion in debt and cope with carbon taxes if they come.
In each of the last two years, the utility has submitted its annual rate application to the Energy and Utilities Board during the first week of October, but this year it has already let that date pass with no word of its intention."
Shawn Tabor For years and years, this sense of entitlement has existed, almost like it was considered normal in NBEPC. But this is also alive and well and maybe growing in other departments. Could this be why their is 5-7 billion dollar dept. I Agree, Audit this company. Then again, more money wasted and nobody held accountable. What a Circle, or should I say Circus
David R. Amos
Reply to @Shawn Tabor: Are you home?
Shawn Tabor
Reply to @David R. Amos: Nope.
Shawn Tabor
Reply to @Shawn Tabor: Later this week
Fred Brewer They can't file their paperwork on time? Why am I not surprised.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Fred Brewer: Methinks the awful truth is that NB Power had to wait for Mr Higgs to assume power in order to give them the ok to apply for another rate increase Clearly it has upset the all liberal EUB board particularly Mr Gorman the liberal buddy who was rehired and reappointed chair in the last days of the Gallant mandate N'esy Pas?
Brian Robertson This is beyond insulting. The arrogance of a public utility to come back to the trough for a rate increase that exceeds the rate of inflation is bad enough. But to bring back their proposal for smart meters, after them being rejected last year is a tangible example of just how out of touch they are. It's time to take some punitive action in hope of getting the message accross.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Brian Robertson: Methinks folks should quit ignoring me N'esy Pas?
Brian Robertson
Reply to @David R. Amos: Maybe if you dropped the 'methinks' schtick' you would gather more support.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Brian Robertson: Methinks you know as well as I apathy rules the day Hence I never did look for any sort of support whatsoever as an Independent politician within six elections thus far. However I would to think that after all these years some people like you who complain so much in CBC on a daily basis just like I do would learn to think for yourselves and checkout what I have been harping about instead of merely ragging about my choice of words as I make fun of this ridiculous circus N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Brian Robertson: Why is it I am not surprised by your reply?
David R. Amos
Reply to @David R. Amos: Methinks you know as well as I apathy rules the day Hence I never did look for any sort of support whatsoever as an Independent politician within six elections thus far. However I would to think that after all these years some people like you who complain so much in CBC on a daily basis just like I do would learn to think for yourselves and checkout what I have been harping about instead of merely ragging about my choice of words as I make fun of this ridiculous circus N'esy Pas?
Connie Roy I do not use 700 Kwts /month and my bill is over $100.00 No air conditioning in New Brunswick , it is too cold. There should not be any increase, due to the NEW carbon tax add on. Left arm needs to talk to right arm. NB Power is gauging its customers at 100%. Will have to change the party that is elected again next election. One that can put a handle on NBPower.
David R. Amos
Reply to @connie roy: Methinks folks forgot the the Green Party demanded that Gallant take back his promise to freeze the rate and as soon as Mr Higgs got the reigns of power NB Power filed thier application. Go Figure whose side any of the political parties are on. Other that keeping the Irving Clan Happy Happy Happy with questionable corporate welfare cheques from NB Power we are all getting the shaft N'esy Pas?
Mark (Junkman) George "NB Power estimated it would lose nearly $600,000 per week in revenue for every week the rate increase was delayed past April 1."
How does one lose something they haven't got? I wish I could feel bad about it, but somehow I can't. The reality is NB Hydro will get it, one way, or another, count on it.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mark (Junkman) George: "How does one lose something they haven't got?"
Methinks you should ask KPMG the questionable beancounter who purportedly checks their books N'esy Pas?
Roy Kirk NBP needs a smart rate design more than it needs 'smart' meters: Classification by load profile, lower service charges and an appropriate energy rates. As it is now, with the same rate for customers regardless of their heating source, you have oil, wood, and NG heating customers subsidizing those using electric heat.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Roy Kirk: NB Power needs to be audited ASAP
Paul Bourgoin When industry pays their fair share of their energy consumed rather then receiving Bonus Subsidies from elected Political Allies?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Paul Bourgoin: Talk to Mr Higgs about those cheques
DON MOFFATT University used to teach Manage By Objectives. NB Power managers use Management by Incompetence.
Greg Miller
Reply to @DON MOFFATT: And the thing is--INCOMPETENCE GETS REWARDED!!!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Greg Miller: YUP
David Peters How about an exposè into the massive wealth transfer that is the 'green' energy transition.
David R. Amos
Reply to @David Peters: Dream on
Albert Wade Presently I have the heat on!
Dianne MacPherson
Reply to @Albert Wade: Where's your sweater ???
David R. Amos
Reply to @Albert Wade: Tut Tut Tut You are supposed to wait for the proposed seasonal rate hikes.
Reply to @Mike Robichaud: "Let's start by cutting the fat in the "Public" agency"
Methinks Minister Cardy's former CUPE buddies would never allow such a thing N'esy Pas?
Marc Bourque When will these increases ever stop!! Oh ya dont we have to foot the bill, for some shady scheme out of Florida......
Debi Mcdonald
Reply to @Marc Bourque: Is the shady dealings being reviewed or better still investigating how wee NB Power had that much money to put into this scheme ...Instead of passing increases onto the taxpayer of NB, maybe NB Power and leadership should be looking within their own little private world of the rich power utility. 10 million wow. .
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marc Bourque: "When will these increases ever stop!!"
Methinks the plan is on or about the 12th of Never or whenever Hell freezes over whichever comes first N'esy Pas?
NB Power has watched both of its target start dates for a rate increase come and go. (Michael Heenan/CBC)
Running air conditioners in New Brunswick this month will cost the same as last month thanks to power rates in the province not increasing today as NB Power had hoped.
The utility has asked permission to raise its rates an average of 2.5 per cent, including 2.9 per cent on residential customers. It originally wanted them in place for April 1 or, as a secondary target, July 1.
However, the application was made so late to the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board both of those start dates have been missed, something EUB chairperson Raymond Gorman warned about as he opened hearings on the application earlier this year.
"The Board is concerned about the timing of this hearing," Gorman said.
"The current application was filed more than three months after it ideally should have been. As a result, any rates approved by the Board will come into effect long after the intended implementation date."
That next likely window for an increase would be Aug. 1, the same date NB Power had its increases take effect last year.
The current rate request went through a full hearing in the spring that ended May 28, but there were a number of controversial issues and the EUB has still not reached a decision on whether it will approve all, part or none of the increase NB Power applied for.
A lawyer for New Brunswick municipal utilities and public intervenor Heather Black both criticized the 2.9 per cent proposed increase on residential customers as too high and asked it to be scaled back.
Black also called on the EUB to disallow NB Power's request for $1.1 million in funds to prepare for the adoption of smart meters since the EUB rejected NB Power's smart meter plan last year and has not yet approved a new plan,
"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.
David R. Amos Reply to @Dave Davidson : Whatabout Why I can't reply to anyon in this thread?
William Bruce This, ladies and gentlemen, is how the LPC rolls. No wonder 70-plus percent of Canadians don't trust them.
Richard Sharp Reply to @William Bruce:
Actually the latest Nanos poll, still unannounced, confirms what Nanos reported last week with the Libs pulling even with the Cons. This week, the Libs have pulled ahead 35 to 32 (per cent)
David R. Amos Reply to @Richard Sharp: Methinks you love pounding on that dumb drum to the same old tune N'esy Pas?
James Risdon Ten years or so ago, I was out of work. The most common bit of advice I got was to go see my local politician. Everyone in northern New Brunswick knows that the way to get a job here is to cozy up to the politicians because nepotism is the main way to get a good-paying job.
I didn't go that route. I went back to school and got another college diploma and set up my own business.
During that time, one of my old resumes landed me a job in government by a manager who was hiring three people. In the interview, that manager admitted to me that two of those three people had gotten their jobs through connections and had circumvented the normal hiring process. I was the only person to be offered the job based on merit. The department was rife with nepotism. I took a pass and completed my education instead.
I've lived all over Canada and I have never seen the level of nepotism anywhere else that exists in New Brunswick.
So, no, I'm not at all surprised by this news story. It's not the exception. It's the unwritten rule.
Mark Hammer
Reply to @James Risdon: We lived in New Brunswick for 3 years, during which time I had the pleasure of regularly lunching with (Conservative, now retired) Speaker of the Senate Noel Kinsella, and the other faculty members of the university I was teaching at, and overhearing all the chit-chat. It seemed everybody in that province knew, or was related to, everyone else.
Several coworkers in the federal government thought they might study the risk of nepotism in public service hiring, and made the mistake of selecting Trois-Rivieres as their sample, learning in the process that a substantial share of federal employees across all departments there shared the same family name.
An American colleague conducted a number of focus groups on nepotism in U.S. federal hiring. Much to his surprise, he found that while his respondents were annoyed at HOW people came into the organization, after working with them for a while, begrudgingly acknowledged that those individuals were valuable additions.
So, while one should always strive to reduce it, sometimes you can't avoid nepotism, sometimes you can't tell if it IS nepotism, and sometimes nepotism, as unsavoury as it is, is not contrary to merit.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mark Hammer: Methinks you likely heard Noel Kinsella curse my name a few times N'esy Pas?
Mack Leigh And do we honestly believe that decisions made by these individuals would be based on the " facts " and not the Liberal Parties " Agenda " ?? Come on folks, open your eyes !!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mack Leigh: "Come on folks, open your eyes !!"
Why bother if you can't read the replies to your comments?
David Mccaig
Reply to @Mack Leigh: COME ON FOLKS open your eyes, as if anything would be different or has been different under these cons in power.
James Risdon Reply to @david mccaig: And there you have it. That's exactly the kind of reasoning that leads to this nepotism.
Those who support nepotism tend to see it as a way of building loyal teams of people who share the same vision and who can therefore work together effectively by reducing conflict.
The sad thing is that this is actually true ... to a point.
Without the natural diversity of viewpoints that tends to arise when people are hired on the basis of merit, teams based on nepotism become echo chambers for those in power. These teams are so limited in their worldview that they create their own troubles by refusing to consider other points of view which may greatly benefit them and help them achieve their objectives. The result of such teams is often a grandiose plan with fatal flaws that others outside the group would have immediately spotted.
It's tough but the left needs to learn to listen to the right and the right needs to do the same with the left. True diversity is not about skin colour and gender. It is about considering and respecting other viewpoints.
David Mccaig
Reply to @James Risdon: "AS IF the government in power are to appoint people to positions of influence that are trying to undermine their positions of power." THAT'S THE REALITY OF POLITICS , always has been always will be. Get over it.
David R. Amos
Reply to @James Risdon: I agree Methinks amazing things never cease N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @david mccaig: "Get over it."
Nay not I
David R. Amos Surprise Surprise Surprise
Mark (Junkman) George
Reply to @David R. Amos:
Not really.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mark (Junkman) George: Methinks you may know that if you go to my blog you can read the Globe and Mail article from 2015 N'esy Pas?
Donald Smith Why am I not surprised to see this. But honestly, is it really any different with any other political party ?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Donald Smith: Check Harper's work
William Bruce I need to have a shower after reading this article....
David R. Amos
Reply to @William Bruce: Me Too
Jack R. Kimball: Liberals - Nepotism
David R. AmosReply to @Jack R. Kimball: Methinks Nepotism.is a common term justifiably applied to all political parties N'esy Pas?
April Wong This surprised you? Welcome to Canada. Your democratic government hard at work for its donors!
David R. Amos Reply to @April Wong: Methinks many a true word is said in jest N'esy Pas?
David Kirby This is the Liberals it is there way of being
David Magner (YYC) Reply to @david kirby:
... same goes for the Cons. Time to try a third party federally.
David R. Amos Reply to @David Magner (YYC): Methinks its high time to rid ourselves of all political parties N'esy Pas?
Capilano P. Dunbar This certainly validates JWR and her contention of undue interference. It’s shocking and shows far from running a government that is more open transparent and less partisan Justin Trudeau is a hyper-partisan individual who places the Liberal party as his highest priority and greatest loyalty!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Capilano P. Dunbar: Methinks everybody knows that lawyer played the wicked game just like all the rest N'esy Pas?
Murray Brown This story that displays obvious back room politics as normal, will never make it to the national portion of this website and frankly.... I'm surprised it's appeared regionally. But thank you Robert Jones for actually doing some 'investigative' journalism. Mentioning Judy will send this regional story to the dustbin of the CBC vault, but your efforts are appreciated.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Murray Brown: Too Too Funny
Mack Leigh
What a corrupt province we live in !! NB where it is not what you know , but who you - - - - !!!!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Methinks its the same all over the world N'esy Pas?
David Peters
"...only one of the five justices who responded to attempts to contact them about the string of appointments and their connection to Dominic LeBlanc. Through a court clerk she declined to comment."
Blatant corruption, imo.
Elections and short term limits for Judges, Police Chiefs, Crown Prosecutors and City Managers would end this fiasco.
David R. Amos
Reply to @David Peters: Nope
Lenny Griever
You politicians are a lovely lot!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Lenny Griever: YUP
Robert Brannen "Since 2017, there have been 10 federal judicial appointments or elevations in New Brunswick. In addition to the five most recent connected to Dominic LeBlanc, at least three other appointees were past political donors to the Liberal Party." -- CBC story. ____________________________________
A moot point, as any lawyer hoping to be raised to the judiciary will be donating to any party with the chance of holding power; as is the case of most businesses hoping to curry favour from government.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Robert Brannen: Methinks folks should review the Globe and Mail article in 2015 about how Harper appointed a legion of politically vetted judges. Methinks wo Judges who are bigtime Harper pals I encountered in Federal Court immediately after the election of the 42nd Parliament will never forget me. One was the former RCMP lawyer Richard Bell who was Harper's campaign manager in NB for the elections of the 38th and 39th Parliament and Richard Southcott Irving Ship Building's former General Counsel and they were much in the news until the liberals paid off Admiral Norman N'esy Pas?
Josephgallant Oh No! say it isn't so, not in newbrunsick, but then again,they are not all from moncton
David R. Amos
Reply to @josephgallant: Methinks our circus is a traveling roadshow N'esy Pas?
Larry LeBlanc Ok folks...move along, just a fender bender, nothing to see here. Careful not to slip, the road is a bit greasy from the oil spill.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Larry LeBlanc: Methinks you jest just enough about your distant cousin N'esy Pas?
Larry LeBlanc
Reply to @David R. Amos: Sarcasm eludes you David...Loch N'esy Pas
David R. Amos
Reply to @Larry LeBlanc: Methinks I struck a nerve N'esy Pas?
Greg Williams I remember reading a "similar" type article a few years back commenting on how many of Peter McKay's friends ended up Boarding the Judicial Patronage Train!
Donald Craig
Reply to @Greg Williams: and it turned out that MacKay didnt appoint any of them. it was just NDP spin.
Richard Sharp The Cons' war room must be going snake. Nanos last week and today has the Libs pulling even and now ahead by three points, 35% to 32%. I'm almost teary eyed.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Richard Sharp: Me Too cause i a dying laughing at you and the circus
Gord Gundersen Reply to @Richard Sharp: CBC poll tracker has the Conservative @35%, Libs @30%, which as Eric likes to say is an average of all ms polls.
Donald Craig
Reply to @Richard Sharp: lol seems ironic that at the same time the CBC poll has Cons virtually tied with Libs among visible minorities. LOL the landslide is a certainty. and teary eyed? you will need the largest crying towel ever made.
Richard Sharp The Trudeau Libs promised and delivered on new merit-based and transparent government appointments, and have delivered. For the Senate, the Supreme Court and judiciary and senior executives in the public service.
Lyle Middaugh
Reply to @Richard Sharp: Wink wink
Gary Reid Reply to @Richard Sharp: That is just plain false.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Gary Reid: He knows it
Richard Sharp
CBC, the National Post, Post Media/Sun News, Rogers and other anti-Trudeau media take note. The Trudeau Libs have pulled back ahead of the Cons:
Reply to @Richard Sharp: take note. I cant stop laughing.
Richard Sharp
Reply to @donald craig:
Forty-nine of the top 50 English newspapers endorsed Harper in 2011 and the same thing in 2015. They are bought and paid for by right wing billionaires and corporations, which are also into social media manipulation big time. Still, they lose.
Donald Craig
Reply to @Richard Sharp: I cant stop laughing. nothing you say or have ever said is going to stop the coming October landslide. nothing.
David R. Amos
Reply to @donald craig: Nor I
Richard Sharp Watching CBC Newsworld on this issue. Only anti-Trudeau folks over and over. CBC is a total disgrace.
Kristy Kent
Reply to @Richard Sharp: LOL, even the CBC can't take it any more
David Semple
Reply to @Richard Sharp: It's a growing group.......deal with it.
Rick Woodcock
Reply to @Richard Sharp: The sand must be pretty deep where you are at.
Freddie Philpott
Reply to @Richard Sharp: But you are here, Richard. JT's biggest cheerleader. So it isn't "Only anti-Trudeau folks over and over".
Shawn Gall
Reply to @Richard Sharp: Same as during the last election. But, now the tables have turned. How does it feel? I had no idea JT would melt down this quickly.
David R. Amos Reply to @Richard Sharp: Methinks its wicked fun watching the clowns cry as the worm turns at the circus N'esy Pas?
Richard Sharp Can't say beans on this disgusting excuse of a national broadcaster's website.
Al Kennedy
Reply to @Richard Sharp: Think it may be their efforts to stop fake news?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Richard Sharp: Cry me a river
Marguerite Deschamps As if the CONservatives do not appoint their own. Does Vic Toews ring a bell?
David R. Amos Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you SANB dudes should continue to cry a river cuz its fun to watch at the circus N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @David Semple: "Seems like they told a little white one"
Methinks they told a lot of big fat ones N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @David Semple: "You don't get a pass because 'the other guys did it first""
Federal Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc, a New Brunswick MP, is connected to five of the six most recent judicial appointments in the province. (Matt Smith/Canadian Press)
Federal Liberals have been promising to appoint the "most meritorious jurists" to judicial vacancies across Canada, but most candidates winning judicial appointments in New Brunswick over the last year have had something else going for them — personal connections to senior Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc.
Five of the last six federal appointments announced in New Brunswick include Leblanc's neighbour, a LeBlanc family relation and three lawyers who helped retire debts from his unsuccessful 2008 leadership bid. LeBlanc is currently minister of intergovernmental affairs, northern affairs and internal trade.
Erin Crandall, a professor at Acadia University who has written extensively on the politics of judicial appointments in Canada, said patronage is still a significant force in provinces like New Brunswick, despite reforms to curb its use in the selection of judges.
"It's more prominent in smaller provinces," Crandall said.
Erin Crandall, a professor at Acadia University, says patronage is still a significant force in provinces like New Brunswick. (Acadia University)
"It's less of an issue today than it was, for example, five decades ago, when it was much more blatant. But we can still see that it certainly does happen."
5 appointments
In the latest judicial appointments in New Brunswick announced last month, federal Justice Minister David Lametti named Moncton lawyer Robert M. Dysart and Saint John lawyer Arthur T. Doyle to the trial division of the Court of Queen's Bench.
Moncton lawyer Robert Dysart was named to the trial division of Court of Queen's Bench in June. He is a regular donor to the Liberal Party, according to Elections Canada records. (CBC)
According to financial records on file with Elections Canada, both men have been regular donors to the Liberal Party, including to LeBlanc's Beauséjour riding association, even though in Doyle's case he lives 100 kilometres away.
Saint John lawyer Arthur Doyle was appointed to the trial division of the Court of Queen's Bench in June. (Cox & Palmer)
The two were also among a group of 50 donors who gave money in 2009 to help LeBlanc retire about $31,000 in debts from his unsuccessful 2008 federal Liberal leadership campaign, according to records filed with Elections Canada.
Also helping with that leadership debt was lawyer Charles LeBlond and businessman Jacques Pinet, both from Moncton.
Charles LeBlond was appointed a judge of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal in March. (Michel Nogue/Radio-Canada)
LeBlond won an appointment to be a judge on the Court of Appeal in March.
Pinet is married to Justice Tracey Deware. She was named chief justice of New Brunswick's Court of Queen's Bench trial division by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in early June.
Court of Queen's Bench Chief Justice Tracey DeWare at her swearing-in ceremony with New Brunswick Court of Appeal Chief Justice Marc Richard. (Submitted by Tracey DeWare)
DeWare herself was a Conservative Party donor and originally appointed to the bench in 2012 by the Conservative government of Stephen Harper. But she and Pinet are also neighbours of LeBlanc.
In 2013, they bought a seaside property in Grande-Digue from LeBlanc next to his own summerhouse. Property records show they paid $430,000.
Moncton family lawyer Marie-Claude Belanger-Richard, who is married to Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc's brother-in-law, was picked to fill a judicial vacancy in Saint John. (Veritas Law)
In a fifth appointment last year, Moncton family lawyer Marie-Claude Belanger-Richard was picked to fill a judicial vacancy in Saint John. She is married to LeBlanc's brother-in-law.
Belanger-Richard is the only one of the five justices who responded to attempts to contact them about the string of appointments and their connection to LeBlanc. Through a court clerk, she declined to comment.
LeBlanc's office referred questions about the judicial appointments to Lametti.
Lametti's office declined an interview request, but his press secretary, Rachel Rappaport, issued a statement denying favouritism and political patronage in any of the New Brunswick appointments.
"All judicial appointments are made on the basis of merit," Rappaport wrote. "As with all Canadian citizens, judicial candidates are free to engage personally in political activities. The appointments process neither disqualifies nor privileges an applicant on the basis of political association."
Patronage prominent in province
Several academic studies have shown New Brunswick has traditionally owned one of Canada's most patronage-tinged judiciaries and little has changed in recent years, despite Liberal promises to inject more merit into the selection system.
A 2010 study that looked at 856 judicial appointments in Canada over a 15-year period found "major" political connections were involved in New Brunswick appointments nearly 77 per cent of the time — double the national average and more than five times the rate politically connected people won federal judgeships in provinces such as British Columbia and Ontario.
Lori Hausegger, director of Canadian Studies at Boise State University in Idaho, was one of the lead academics on that study.
Lori Hausegger, director of Canadian Studies at Boise State University, worked on a 2010 study that found major political connections were involved in New Brunswick judicial appointments nearly 77 per cent of the time. (Boise State University)
She said the problem with judges appointed because of political connections is not their qualifications — all potential federal judges in Canada are vetted for competence by independent panels — it's the possibility they use connections to take spots from better candidates.
"The problem is whether or not that [connected] person is different from the other ones that they didn't pick in terms of their decision-making," said Hausegger. "There is not a lot of transparency in the system. We don't actually know a lot in terms of how the minister is finally choosing."
Likely several applications for a vacancy
Canada's Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs will not say how many lawyers applied for the judicial positions in New Brunswick that were eventually awarded to those connected to LeBlanc, although it is likely there were several.
Across the country last year, it reports 257 qualified lawyers were considered for 79 vacancies.
The commissioner will also not reveal if any of the unsuccessful candidates in New Brunswick scored higher than the winning candidates on assessments of their ability and qualifications to be a judge.
"Assessment results are confidential and solely for the minister's use," Philippe Lacasse, executive director of judicial appointments for the commissioner, said in an email to CBC News.
"In fact, candidates themselves are not informed of the results of their assessment."
Former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould promised in 2016 that improvements would be made in judicial appointments based on transparency, merit and diversity. (Ben Nelms/CBC)
In 2016, Jody Wilson-Raybould, the justice minister at the time, promised major improvements in the quality of how judges are selected in Canada.
"We are committed to ensuring that we make substantive and thoughtful appointments to the judiciary, based on the principles of openness transparency merit and diversity," Wilson-Raybould told Parliament in May 2016.
Since 2017, there have been 10 federal judicial appointments or elevations in New Brunswick. In addition to the five most recent connected to LeBlanc, at least three other appointees were past political donors to the Liberal Party.
Robert Jones has been a reporter and producer with CBC New Brunswick since 1990. His investigative reports on petroleum pricing in New Brunswick won several regional and national awards and led to the adoption of price regulation in 2006.
Dominic LeBlanc's family, friends and neighbour win 5 of 6 recent judicial appointments 'All judicial appointments are made on the basis of merit,' says office of federal justice minister Robert Jones · CBC News · Posted: Jul 02, 2019 6:00 AM AT
"Lori Hausegger, director of Canadian Studies at Boise State University, worked on a 2010 study that found major political connections were involved in New Brunswick judicial appointments nearly 77 per cent of the time."
"Erin Crandall, a professor at Acadia University, says patronage is still a significant force in provinces like New Brunswick"
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David R. Amos Surprise Surprise Surprise
Mark (Junkman) George Reply to @David R. Amos:
Not really.
David R. Amos Reply to @Mark (Junkman) George: Methinks you may know that if you go to my blog you can read the Globe and Mail article from 2015 N'esy Pas?
Donald Smith Why am I not surprised to see this. But honestly, is it really any different with any other political party ?
David R. Amos Reply to @Donald Smith: Check Harper's work
Larry LeBlanc Ok folks...move along, just a fender bender, nothing to see here. Careful not to slip, the road is a bit greasy from the oil spill.
David R. Amos Reply to @Larry LeBlanc: Methinks you jest just enough about your distant cousin N'esy Pas?
Josephgallant Oh No! say it isn't so, not in newbrunsick, but then again,they are not all from moncton
David R. Amos Reply to @josephgallant: Methinks our circus is a traveling roadshow N'esy Pas?
Robert Brannen "Since 2017, there have been 10 federal judicial appointments or elevations in New Brunswick. In addition to the five most recent connected to Dominic LeBlanc, at least three other appointees were past political donors to the Liberal Party." -- CBC story. ______________________________
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A moot point, as any lawyer hoping to be raised to the judiciary will be donating to any party with the chance of holding power; as is the case of most businesses hoping to curry favour from government.
David R. Amos Reply to @Robert Brannen: Methinks folks should review the Globe and Mail article in 2015 about how Harper appointed a legion of politically vetted judges. Methinks wo Judges who are bigtime Harper pals I encountered in Federal Court immediately after the election of the 42nd Parliament will never forget me. One was the former RCMP lawyer Richard Bell who was Harper's campaign manager in NB for the elections of the 38th and 39th Parliament and Richard Southcott Irving Ship Building's former General Counsel and they were much in the news until the liberals paid off Admiral Norman N'esy Pas?
Mack Leigh Equal opportunity here in NB ?? Nope, not by a long shot...nepotism and patronage reign supreme !!! No wonder NB is in the toilet !!!
David R. Amos Reply to @Mack Leigh: Methinks we have nobody to blame but ourselves because we keep reelecting the same crooks N'esy Pas?
Methinks a snobby retired judge in Fat Fred City has his fancy knickers in a knot
---------- Original message ---------- From: David Amos Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 22:09:32 -0400 Subject: RE Communication to the Court To: "Morneault, Michel" Cc: David Amos
---------- Original message ---------- From: "Morneault, Michel" Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 18:52:45 +0000 Subject: Communication to the Court To: David Amos
Good day Mr. Amos,
It has been brought to my attention that you are trying to reach a judicial member of the Federal Court by way of telephone. I just want to give you a friendly reminder that all communication to a judge should be brought in writing by way of letter address to the Registry office of your choice.
Feel free to ask or call if you have any questions.
Thank you kindly
Michel G. Morneault Registry Officer / Agent du greffe Courts Administration Service Service administratif des tribunaux judiciaires Fredericton, NB/N.-B. (t) 506-452-2014 (f)506-452-3584
Michel G. Morneault Registry Officer / Agent du greffe Courts Administration Service Service administratif des tribunaux judiciaires Fredericton, NB/N.-B. (t) 506-452-2014 (f)506-452-3584
Good Day to you as well Mr Morneault
Thank you for letting me know of what has come to your attention. Pease excuse a minor political rant but after all the Crown cannot deny that my lawsuit is about the Governor General, my political opponents and their appointees not acting within the scope of their employment and deliberately acting wrongfully against me.
I am more than willing to explain my actions this morning in writing to the Registry Office. In return and in the spirit of full disclosure, I ask that you file a true copy of this entire response into the public record of the Federal Court of Appeal File no.A-18-16. Please find below are two emails I sent earlier today and two documents that were attachments to my second email The documents attached speak for themselves and one of the documents is already in the FCA file and was discussed by Justice Southcott and I during the public hearing of my matter on January 11th, 2016.
I presume the judicial member of the Federal Court you are referring to is the Honourable Joseph T. Robertson because he is it only person possibly of Federal Court that I contacted today. However I only left a voicemail with Robertson early this morning before I sent him two emails fairly early as well, Basically just in case somebody was ethical I was giving Robertson and many others some food for thought before I file my next lawsuit against the Her Majesty the Queen. However Robertson and his cohorts in the Court of the Queens Bench had ignored my concerns since 2004. The document from the New Brunswick judicial Council is in the file of the Federal Court as well and Justice Bell made note of it during the hearing on December 14, 2015.
If you scroll down through the emails I sent Robertson and others today it could have been anyone of a number of other people who got the same email as Robertson who may have some sort of issue with my actions today but not one of them are a judge of Federal Court or any other. Therefore Robertson is my best guess as to whom you are referring to.
For the public record I deliberately called Robertson's office before the Law School of UNB was open for business this morning and left only a voicemail of which I stand by every word. I suspect the people of UNB are all on March break anyway. Thus UNB probably does have not many employees on the job considering that fact there was bad weather outside as well. Only one friend who saw the news about KPMG and the judges of Federal Court and a Mayor of Montreal who is also in the news called me today. The others I called and talked to in Ottwa and elswhere will no doubt deny that I ever talked them.
Robertson never called me back in fact nobody employed by UNB has ever called me back except their sercurity boss or one of his minions talking like cops and trying to accuse me of things I did not do. However the security boss of UNB is just like his buddy the former Sgt at Arms Dan Bussieres. He will not confirm or deny that he is an ex member of the RCMP nor will he discuss why I am barred from UNB. It a small wonder to me that the Commissioner of the RCMP is also quiting with all the lawsuits against the them that are rolling in.lately.
Whereas Robertson is employed by UNB to lecture folks on the law, its kinda obvious he is no longer a judge. UNB is supported by taxpayer funds so who is Justin Trudeau or Brian Gallant anyone else to say that I cannot talk to Robertson or anyone else at UNB? If it was Robertson who complained of me, please ask him what was so offensive about a voicemail and couple of emails from a poor man who pays way too many taxes on his gas, tobacco and other goods to keep the lights on in his fancy office at UNB. This no joke particularly in light of the fact. The Federal court acted like lightning to accommodate Justice Camp and his lawyer while the Crown can't get past a motion to strike after a year and a half of calling me frivolous and vexatious. Then there is the big spotlight that the Crown Corp commonly known as CBC has shown the world how other Federal Court Judges feel free to party hardy with the likes of KPMG and its fellow well-heeled tax evaders.
Furthermore I do not know if you are aware or whether you read my latest filing or not but I have been barred from the UNB Campus since June of 2006. That was about 5 months after I ran in Fredericton in the election of the 39th Parliament and the Harper government won its first mandate. So for nearly 11 eleven years I can only send emails and letters to the UNB campus while its employees just like all the other employees in every legislative property in Canada have continued to laugh at me or ignore me or call the cops on me while inviting me to sue the Crown. This seems like just another one of those days that makes me regret not suing them ten years ago.
All that said I don't believe Robertson is a judicial member of the Federal Court so perhaps it was somebody else complaining of me. If so, trust that I called nobody else in the Federal Court system not even its lawyers. If it was Robertson who claimed of me tell him I would dearly love to see his pay stubs from Federal Court. Federal Court records appear to affirm my reasoning that Robertson is retired and that he acted as a judicial member of Federal Courts for Justice Camp's matter only . http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=T-201-17&select_court=All
"Written directions received from the Court: Chief Justice Crampton dated 17-FEB-2017 directing that To avoid any questions that might be raised if a sitting member of the Federal Court were to hear Justice Camp's application for judicial review of the Canadian Judicial Council's rejection of his request for an opportunity to make oral submissions to the Council, I have requested retired Justice Joseph Robertson to act as a deputy judge of this Court to hear that application. Justice Robertson has agreed to act in that capacity. This request was made under subsection 10 (1.1) of the Federal Courts Act, and an Order-in-Council P.C. 2003 1779, dated November 6, 2003 (the OIC), pursuant to which the Governor-in-Council approved that the Chief Justice of the Federal Court may request any judge of a superior, county or district court in Canada and any person who has held office as such as a judge, to act as a deputy judge of the Federal Court. Pursuant to the OIC, the Govenor in Council also placed a limit of 15 persons who may act in the capacity of Deputy Judge of the Federal Court. There currently is only one other person who is acting in the capacity of Deputy judge of the Federal Court. For your information, retired Justice Robertson was a member of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal from July 2000 to September 2014, and a member of the Federal Court of Appeal from May 1992 to July 2000. I can confirm that he is under the age of 75. To ensure that justice is both done and is seen to be done in an independent and impartial manner: 1. Justice Camp will continue not to participate in any proceedings before the Court, other than in connection with the application that he has filed, and any other proceedings to which he may be a party. 2. Justice Camp will not occupy his office or attend at the Court. 3. Justice Camp will not have any contact with the members of the Court. I have appointed Prothonotary Aylen to assist Justice Robertson with interlocutory matters that may arise in connection with Justice Camp's application. placed on file on 17-FEB-2017"
Best Regards David Raymond Amos
---------- Original message ---------- From: David Amos Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 09:18:47 -0400 Subject: ATTN Hon Joseph T Robertson I just called and left a voicemail I truly hope that you get back to me ASAP To: Joseph.Robertson@unb.ca, jrw , nbrooks@osgoode.yorku.ca, "mark.vespucci" , "Diane.Lebouthillier" Cc: David Amos
Hon Joseph T Robertson Jurist-in-Residence Law, Faculty of 1 506 451 6919 Ludlow Hall, 105 UNB Fredericton Campus Joseph.Robertson@unb.ca
Need I say that I found it interesting that you were appointed on polling day for the Election of the 42nd Parliament? I wonder if you recall my name on the ballot in Fredericton in 2006 when Harper won his first mandate?
University of New Brunswick appoints retired Court of Appeal Justice Joseph Robertson to law faculty
---------- Original message ---------- From: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)" Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 11:53:02 +0000 Subject: RE: Norman Sabourin, executive director of the Canadian Judicial Council launches 'Potential misconduct' probe but only after his associates in the Crown Corp CBC exposes hiis pals??? To: David Amos
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---------- Orginal message ---------- From: "Mitton, Megan (LEG)"<Megan.Mitton@gnb.ca> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 17:44:52 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: RE Canadian Truths I would lay odds that Megan Mitton knows Sally Cunliffe I know for a fact that Andre Faust certainly does To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Anderson-Mason, Andrea Hon. (JAG/JPG)"<Andrea.AndersonMason@gnb.ca> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:59:37 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Lynn Chaplin needa a lawyer who knows how to read emails better than the ex Fat Fred City Finest LIARS Carl Urquhart and Stephen Horsman N'esy Pas Chucky Leblanc? To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
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---------- Original message ---------- From: Kevin Leahy <kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:38:43 -0400 Subject: Re: RE The call from the Boston cop Robert Ridge (857 259 9083) on behalf of the VERY corrupt Yankee DA Rachael Rollins To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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---------- Original message ---------- From: Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l’Ontario <Premier@ontario.ca> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:38:41 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: RE The call from the Boston cop Robert Ridge (857 259 9083) on behalf of the VERY corrupt Yankee DA Rachael Rollins To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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'If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue'
By Teresa Hanafin, Globe Staff
Good morning! It's Friday, June 28, the 179th day of the year. Sunrise in Boston was at 5:09 a.m.; sunset will be at 8:25 p.m. for 15 hours and 16 minutes of sunlight. The waning moon is 17 percent full.
US Senator Kamala Harris's challenge to former VP Joe Biden's comments about working with segregationists in Congress and his opposition to federal court-ordered busing got the most attention after the Democratic debate last night. And Biden seemed unprepared in his rather rambling answer.
By the way, it will be interesting to see how Biden tries to clean things up when he speaks this afternoon at Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition Convention in Chicago.
And predictably, conservatives almost immediately began attacking Harris, including by launching a coordinated campaign on Twitter in which accounts pretended to be black people offended that she would claim to be black (and all used the exact same wording):
"Kamala Harris is *not* an American black. She is half Indian and half Jamaican. I'm so sick of people robbing American Blacks (like myself) of our history. It's disgusting ... These are my people not her people. Freaking disgusting."
Because, you know, racists would look at Harris throughout her life and say, "Oh, she has black skin, but she's actually half Jamaican, so we won't discriminate against her."
For the record, Harris was born in Oakland. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, was a Tamil Indian, a breast cancer scientist who immigrated to the US from Madras (present-day Chennai) in 1960. Her father, Donald Harris, is a Stanford University economics professor who emigrated from Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study in economics at the University of California at Berkeley.
Progressives in the US House are still fuming today over Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to accept the Senate version of the border funding bill instead of the House version that had more protections for migrant kids held in detention and restricted how the Trump administration could spend the money.
Pelosi tried to add those elements to the Senate bill, but House moderates threatened to withhold their support if she did. So it's the Senate bill, with money for the Pentagon to send more soldiers to the border and no health and care standards for the detention centers, that goes to Trump for his signature. Vox has a good rundown of the differences between the bills.
Trump is scheduled to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Osaka about their ongoing trade war.
I missed this for yesterday's newsletter: The two friends whom writer E. Jean Carroll told about her alleged rape by Trump immediately after it happened in the mid-90s have identified themselves and publicly corroborated her account.
Here's a New York Times podcast interview with the women.
One friend, Lisa Birnbach, an author best known for co-authoring "The Official Preppy Handbook" in 1980, urged Carroll to go to the police. The other, Carol Martin, a longtime news anchor for WCBS-TV in New York, advised Carroll not to tell anyone because she believed that Trump would use his army of lawyers to make her life hell.
Carroll, who blamed herself for the assault -- as far too many women do -- stayed silent. Until now.
Mass. Governor Charlie Baker, still in London, meets with US Ambassador Woody Johnson. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is at the US Conference of Mayors annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. I wonder if they've ever met in say, Albany.
Finally, let's end with Rudyard Kipling's most famous poem, "If—". Pretty good use of the English language, I'd say.
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream — and not make dreams your master; If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And — which is more — you'll be a Man, my son!
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 12:14:34 -0400 > Subject: RE The call from the Boston cop Robert Ridge (857 259 9083) > on behalf of the VERY corrupt Yankee DA Rachael Rollins > To: internalaffairs@pd.boston.gov, mediarelations@pd.boston.gov, > Robert.Ridge@pd.boston.gov, N.Decosta-Klipa@boston.com, > John.Conroy@pd.boston.gov > Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>, "Dale.Morgan" > <Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Boston.Mail"<Boston.Mail@ic.fbi.gov>, > news-tips <news-tips@nytimes.com>, Newsroom > <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>, "darrow.macintyre" > <darrow.macintyre@cbc.ca> > > https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2019/04/08/charlie-baker-rachael-rollins > > How a policy dispute between Charlie Baker and Rachael Rollins > suddenly turned personal > "We are allowed to disagree with each other, but what you are not > going to do is disrespect this office." > > > "Gov. Charlie Baker and Rachael Rollins have purportedly hit the > “reset button,” but the Suffolk Country district attorney still thinks > there’s something “funny” about the way she — the first woman to hold > the Boston-area prosecutor job — has been treated. > > The two elected officials clashed over the weekend, after Baker’s top > public safety official sent Rollins a letter last week asking her to > revise some of her new policies — including not prosecuting certain > misdemeanor crimes. In a press conference Friday, the Democratic > district attorney shot back at the Republican administration, > suggesting that “not everyone gets the benefit of the Baker family,” > alluding to groping allegations against the governor’s son last year." > > https://bpdnews.com/news/2019/1/4/recent-promotions-two-members-of-the-bpd-receive-promotions-during-ceremony-at-bpd-headquartersnbsp > > The men and women of the BPD would like to congratulate John Conroy on > his promotion from Sergeant Detective to Lieutenant and Robert Ridge > on his rating of Sergeant Detective. We wish them the best of luck in > their new chapters with the BPD. > > ---------- Original message ---------- > From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:15:59 -0400 > Subject: Hey Ralph Goodale perhaps you and the RCMP should call the > Yankees Governor Charlie Baker, his lawyer Bob Ross, Rachael Rollins > and this cop Robert Ridge (857 259 9083) ASAP EH Mr Primme Minister > Trudeau the Younger and Donald Trump Jr? > To: pm@pm.gc.ca, Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca, > Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca, djtjr@trumporg.com, > Donald.J.Trump@donaldtrump.com, JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca, > Frank.McKenna@td.com, barbara.massey@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, > Douglas.Johnson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, sandra.lofaro@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, > washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, > gov.press@state.ma.us, bob.ross@state.ma.us, jfurey@nbpower.com, > jfetzer@d.umn.edu, Newsroom@globeandmail.com, sfine@globeandmail.com, > .Poitras@cbc.ca, steve.murphy@ctv.ca, David.Akin@globalnews.ca, > Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, news@kingscorecord.com, > news@dailygleaner.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com, jbosnitch@gmail.com, > andre@jafaust.com> > Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com, DJT@trumporg.com > wharrison@nbpower.com, David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca, > Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca, hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca > >>> 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 >>> >>> 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 >>>>> >>>> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Newsroom <newsroom@globeandmail.com> > Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:09:31 +0000 > Subject: Automatic reply: Perhpas your buddy Ralph Goodale should > cantact the Yankee Governor Charlie Baker and finally have the > warrants for my arrest erased EH Franky Boy McKenna? > To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > > Thank you for contacting The Globe and Mail. > > If your matter pertains to newspaper delivery or you require technical > support, please contact our Customer Service department at > 1-800-387-5400 or send an email to customerservice@globeandmail.com > > If you are reporting a factual error please forward your email to > publiceditor@globeandmail.com<mailto:publiceditor@globeandmail.com> > > Letters to the Editor can be sent to letters@globeandmail.com > > This is the correct email address for requests for news coverage and > press releases. > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 13:09:12 -0400 > Subject: Perhpas your buddy Ralph Goodale should cantact the Yankee > Governor Charlie Baker and finally have the warrants for my arrest > erased EH Franky Boy McKenna? > To: "Frank.McKenna"<Frank.McKenna@td.com>, > barbara.massey@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Douglas.Johnson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, > sandra.lofaro@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, washington field > <washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, "Brenda.Lucki" > <Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, gov.press@state.ma.us, > bob.ross@state.ma.us, "Furey, John"<jfurey@nbpower.com>, jfetzer > <jfetzer@d.umn.edu>, Newsroom <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>, sfine > <sfine@globeandmail.com>, "Jacques.Poitras"<Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>, > "steve.murphy"<steve.murphy@ctv.ca>, "David.Akin" > <David.Akin@globalnews.ca>, "Dale.Morgan" > <Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, news <news@kingscorecord.com>, news > <news@dailygleaner.com>, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, jbosnitch > <jbosnitch@gmail.com>, andre <andre@jafaust.com> > Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>, wharrison > <wharrison@nbpower.com>, "David.Lametti"<David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca>, > mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>, "Jody.Wilson-Raybould" > <Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca>, "hon.ralph.goodale" > <hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca> > > Brendan Moss, Press Secretary, Governor's Office > (617) 725-4025 > gov.press@state.ma.us > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Hon.Ralph.Goodale (PS/SP)"<Hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca> > Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:03:41 +0000 > Subject: Automatic reply: Attn Barbara Massey I just called AGAIN > 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 > > > > > On 6/26/19, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote: >> http://www.goc411.ca/en/95200/Barbara-Massey >> >> Barbara Massey >> Barbara Massey works as Executive Director and Senior General Counsel >> for Justice Canada. >> Barbara can be reached at 613-843-6394 >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: "Liliana (Legal Services) Longo"<Liliana.Longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca> >> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 11:28:36 -0400 >> Subject: Re: Attn Suzelle Bazinet.(613-995-5117) I just earlier >> Whereas I was not allowed to speak to you today its best that we >> confer in writng anyway (Away from the office/absente du bureau) >> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> >> >> I will be away from the office June 26 to 28, 2017. In my absence, >> Barbara Massey will be acting and she can be reached at (613) 843-6394. >> >> Je serai absente du bureau du 26 au 28 juin 2017. En mon absence, >> Barbara Massey sera interimaire et peut être rejointe au (613) 843-6394. >> >> Thank you / Merci >> Liliana >> >> >> Liliana Longo, Q.C., c.r. >> Senior General Counsel / Avocate générale principale >> RCMP Legal Services / Services juridiques GRC >> 73 Leikin Drive / 73 Promenade Leikin >> M8, 2nd Floor / M8, 2ième étage >> Mailstop #69 / Arrêt Postal #69 >> Ottawa, Ontario >> K1A 0R2 >> Tel: (613) 843-4451 >> Fax: (613) 825-7489 >> liliana.longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca >> >> Sandra Lofaro >> Executive Assistant / >> Adjointe exécutive >> (613)843-3540 >> sandra.lofaro@rcmp-grc.gc.ca >> >>>>> David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> 06/27/17 11:28 >>> >> >> Good Day >> >> Please view attachments >> >> Before I file my next lawsuit please explain why my documents which >> included a letter to you and an unsigned draft of a motion that you >> did not want me to file that I sent you in confidence as per your >> request were filed in the Public Record then argued by the Crown and >> even quoted from by Judges of the Federal Court of Appeal? >> >> Whereas the clerks of Federal Court are reluctant to file my brief >> and its exhibits Jan Jensen should at very least give his copy to his >> associate Paul Adams ASAP.EH? >> >> This is Canada Post's tracking history of my documents >> >> Tracking Number PG399580893CA >> >> FREDERICTON, NB >> HALIFAX, NS >> Accepted >> >> Out for delivery >> Date received 2017/06/26 >> Current date 2017/06/27 >> Expected delivery 2017/06/27 >> Delivery details >> ServiceXpresspost >> >> Expected delivery is 2017/06/27 >> >> Perhaps somebody should start acting ethically before the lawyers Bill >> Pentney and John Laskin take a seat on the bench N'esy Pas Mr Prime >> Minister Trudeau "The Younger" ???? Better yet have your lawyers even >> bothered to read paragraph 83 of my first lawsuit yet? >> >> Veritas Vincit >> David Raymond Amos >> 902 800 0369 >> >> Elizabeth Caverly Director: >> Courts Administration Service >> 1720-1801 Hollis St. >> Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 3N4 >> Phone: 902-426-9619 >> Fax: 902-426-5514 >> Email: elizabeth.caverly@cas-satj.gc.ca >> >> >> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=A-48-16&select_court=All >> >> PROCEEDINGS QUERIES >> Recorded entry(ies) for A-48-16 >> >> Court number information Court Number : A-48-16 >> Style of Cause : DAVID RAYMOND AMOS v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN >> Proceeding Category : Appeals Nature : Appeal (S.27 - Interloc.) - >> Others >> Type of Action : Non-Action >> >> >> 70 records found for court number A-48-16 Doc Date Filed Office >> Recorded Entry Summary >> >> - 2017-06-26 Fredericton Memorandum to file from Catharine M. Wilson >> dated 26-JUN-2017 On June 26, 2017, the Appellant/Respondent on >> Cross-Appeal submitted a post hearing brief per the direction of Webb, >> J.A., dated 08-JUN-2017, which is being sent to the FCA for direction >> as the document was submitted late and exceeds the number of pages. >> placed on file. >> >> - 2017-06-08 Ottawa Acknowledgment of Receipt received from both >> parties by email with respect to the Directions dated June 8, 2017 >> placed on file on 08-JUN-2017 >> >> - 2017-06-08 Ottawa Written directions of the Court: The Honourable >> Mr. Justice Webb dated 08-JUN-2017 directing "Please advise the >> parties that Mr. Amos has the right to submit a brief summary (not to >> exceed 5 pages) to explain the exact conflict that, in his view, >> arises in this matter with any of the judges assigned to this appeal >> and to submit any additional documents that are relevant to this >> issue. This summary and documents are to be submitted on or before >> June 23, 2017. [...]" received on 08-JUN-2017 Confirmed in writing to >> the party(ies) >> >> - 2017-05-26 Fredericton Letter from the respondent to Appellant, >> provided by Appellant (copy of the letter) dated 26-MAY-2017 The >> Respondent mentions they want communication from Appellant in written >> letters by mail only, from now on. received on 26-MAY-2017 >> >> - 2017-05-24 Fredericton Request received from MR >> - 2017-05-24 Fredericton Request received from Appellant for CD audio >> of the hearing on 24-MAY-2017 for transcript. Tarriff: $15 paid placed >> on file on 24-MAY-2017 >> >> - 2017-05-24 Fredericton This matter comes on for hearing on >> 24-MAY-2017 at Fredericton before The Honourable Mr. Justice Webb The >> Honourable Mr. Justice Near The Honourable Madam Justice Gleason >> Appearances: David Raymond Amos (self-litigant) 902-800-0369 for the >> appellant Jan Jensen 902-426-8177 for the respondent Language of >> Hearing: E Court Usher: Jason Kennedy Duration: on 24-MAY-2017 from >> 14:03 to 15:58 Courtroom : Courtroom No. 1 - Fredericton Court >> Registrar Michel Morneault Total duration: 1h55min Before the Court: >> Cross-appeal Result: reserved Comments: DARS Z005130 was used for the >> recording of the hearing Minutes of Hearing entered in Vol. 222 >> page(s) 411 - 413 Abstract of Hearing placed on file >> >> 33 2017-04-24 Fredericton Affidavit of David Raymond Amos on behalf of >> Appellant/Respondent on cross-appeal sworn on 24-APR-2017 confirming >> service of doc.32 on Respondent/Appellant on cross-appeal by >> Xpresspost on 24-APR-2017 filed on 24-APR-2017 >> >> 32 2017-04-24 Fredericton Book of Authorities with copy on DVD >> consisting of 1 volume(s) on behalf of Appellant/Respondent on >> cross-appeal Filed on 24-APR-2017 3 copy(ies) for the Court stored in >> Ottawa One copy placed in Annex >> >> 31 2017-04-20 Halifax Solicitor's certificate of service on behalf of >> Jan Jensen confirming service of doc #30 upon Appellant by courier on >> 20-APR-2017 filed on 20-APR-2017 >> >> 30 2017-04-20 Halifax Book of Authorities consisting of 1 volume(s) on >> behalf of HMQ (cross-appeal) Filed on 20-APR-2017 3 copy(ies) for the >> Court stored in Ottawa >> >> >> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: "Liliana (Legal Services) Longo"<Liliana.Longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca> >> Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 12:44:06 -0400 >> Subject: Re: Yo Mr Jensen see attached file I see that you corrupt >> FEDS are on the attack bigtime as of May 24th N'esy Pas? (Away from >> the office/absente du bureau) >> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> >> >> I will be away from the office until June 2, 2017. In my absence, >> Barbara Massey will be acting and she can be reached at (613) >> 843-6394. >> >> Je serai absente du bureau jusqu'au 2 juin 2017. En mon absence, >> Barbara Massey sera interimaire et peut être rejointe au (613) >> 843-6394. >> >> Thank you / Merci >> Liliana >> >> >> Liliana Longo, Q.C., c.r. >> Senior General Counsel / Avocate générale principale >> RCMP Legal Services / Services juridiques GRC >> 73 Leikin Drive / 73 Promenade Leikin >> M8, 2nd Floor / M8, 2ième étage >> Mailstop #69 / Arrêt Postal #69 >> Ottawa, Ontario >> K1A 0R2 >> Tel: (613) 843-4451 >> Fax: (613) 825-7489 >> liliana.longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca >> >> Sharon Dickson >> Executive Assistant / >> Adjointe exécutive >> (613)843-3540 >> Sharon.Dickson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Murray, Charles (Ombud)"<Charles.Murray@gnb.ca> > Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:16:15 +0000 > Subject: You wished to speak with me > To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com"<motomaniac333@gmail.com> > > I have the advantage, sir, of having read many of your emails over the > years. > > > As such, I do not think a phone conversation between us, and > specifically one which you might mistakenly assume was in response to > your threat of legal action against me, is likely to prove a > productive use of either of our time. > > > If there is some specific matter about which you wish to communicate > with me, feel free to email me with the full details and it will be > given due consideration. > > > Sincerely, > > > Charles Murray > > Ombud NB > > Acting Integrity Commissioner > > > > >>>> >>>> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:48:58 -0400 (EDT) >>>> From: "David Raymond Amos"davidramos333@yahoo.ca >>>> Subject: I already know that you are as crooked as Hell Mr Leger. I am >>>> fishing for an honest cop not another corrupt bureaucrat. i am just >>>> proving that you know the truth Get it? >>>> To: Marc.Leger@gnb.ca >>>> CC: Day.S@parl.gc.ca, John.Foran@gnb.ca, pat.bonner@saintjohn.ca, >>>> lou.lafleur@fredericton.ca, infoam@fredericton.cbc.ca, >>>> infomorning@moncton.cbc.ca, infomorning@halifax.cbc.ca, >>>> webo@xplornet.com, Stephane.vaillancourt@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, >>>> alltrue@nl.rogers.com, samperrier@hotmail.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com, >>>> Scott.A@parl.gc.ca, amerrino@gmail.com, deanr0032@hotmail.com, >>>> wickedwanda3@adelphia.net, rfowlo@comcast.net, Harper.S@parl.gc.ca, >>>> bmulroney@ogilvyrenault.com, pcollin@cpa-acp.ca, Dion.S@parl.gc.ca, >>>> Dryden.K@parl.gc.ca, Layton.J@parl.gc.ca, Duceppe.G@parl.gc.ca, >>>> Casey.B@parl.gc.ca, leader@greenparty.ca >>>> >>>> Subject: Mr. Amos >>>> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 11:41:22 -0300 >>>> From: "Leger, Marc (DPS/MSP)"Marc.Leger@gnb.ca >>>> To: "David Raymond Amos"davidramos333@yahoo.ca >>>> David Amos, >>>> >>>> I am not able to address your concerns. >>>> >>>> Your calls and emails are not welcome and I would like you to stop >>>> communicating with me by phone and email >>>> >>>> Marc Léger >>>> Deputy Minister / Sous-ministre >>>> Public Safety / Sécurité publique >>>> (506) 453-7412 marc.leger@gnb.ca >>>> Working together to build a safer New Brunswick / Travaillons ensemble >>>> pour bâtir un Nouveau-Brunswick plus sûr >>>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: Brian Gallant <briangallant10@gmail.com> >>> Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 06:01:57 -0700 >>> Subject: Merci / Thank you Re: Fwd: I just called Alan Roy again about >>> my right to health care, my missing 1965 Harley, the Yankee Wiretaps >>> tapes in its saddlebag and Federal Court and his assistant played dumb >>> as usual >>> To: motomaniac333@gmail.com >>> >>> (Français à suivre) >>> >>> If your email is pertaining to the Government of New Brunswick, please >>> email me at brian.gallant@gnb.ca >>> >>> If your matter is urgent, please email Greg Byrne at greg.byrne@gnb.ca >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> Si votre courriel s'addresse au Gouvernement du Nouveau-Brunswick, >>> svp m'envoyez un courriel à brian.gallant@gnb.ca >>> >>> Pour les urgences, veuillez contacter Greg Byrne à greg.byrne@gnb.ca >>> >>> Merci. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> >>> Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 10:42:09 -0400 >>> Subject: Attn Marc Richard and John McNair I just called AGAIN Say hey >>> to my Brother in Law W. S. Reid CHEDORE and his brother of the law >>> David Lutz QC for me will ya? >>> To: MRichard@lawsociety-barreau.nb.ca, John.McNair@snb.ca, >>> "serge.rousselle"<serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>, Erin.Hardy@snb.ca, >>> David.Eidt@gnb.ca >>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> >>> >>> >>>> ---------- 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 >>>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> >>> http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/11/federal-court-of-appeal-finally-makes.html >>> >>> >>> Sunday, 19 November 2017 >>> Federal Court of Appeal Finally Makes The BIG Decision And Publishes >>> It Now The Crooks Cannot Take Back Ticket To Try Put My Matter Before >>> The Supreme Court >>> >>> https://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fca-caf/decisions/en/item/236679/index.do >>> >>> >>> Federal Court of Appeal Decisions >>> >>> Amos v. Canada >>> Court (s) Database >>> >>> Federal Court of Appeal Decisions >>> Date >>> >>> 2017-10-30 >>> Neutral citation >>> >>> 2017 FCA 213 >>> File numbers >>> >>> A-48-16 >>> Date: 20171030 >>> >>> Docket: A-48-16 >>> Citation: 2017 FCA 213 >>> CORAM: >>> >>> WEBB J.A. >>> NEAR J.A. >>> GLEASON J.A. >>> >>> >>> BETWEEN: >>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS >>> Respondent on the cross-appeal >>> (and formally Appellant) >>> and >>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN >>> Appellant on the cross-appeal >>> (and formerly Respondent) >>> Heard at Fredericton, New Brunswick, on May 24, 2017. >>> Judgment delivered at Ottawa, Ontario, on October 30, 2017. >>> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY: >>> >>> THE COURT >>> >>> >>> >>> Date: 20171030 >>> >>> Docket: A-48-16 >>> Citation: 2017 FCA 213 >>> CORAM: >>> >>> WEBB J.A. >>> NEAR J.A. >>> GLEASON J.A. >>> >>> >>> BETWEEN: >>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS >>> Respondent on the cross-appeal >>> (and formally Appellant) >>> and >>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN >>> Appellant on the cross-appeal >>> (and formerly Respondent) >>> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY THE COURT >>> >>> I. Introduction >>> >>> [1] On September 16, 2015, David Raymond Amos (Mr. Amos) >>> filed a 53-page Statement of Claim (the Claim) in Federal Court >>> against Her Majesty the Queen (the Crown). Mr. Amos claims $11 million >>> in damages and a public apology from the Prime Minister and Provincial >>> Premiers for being illegally barred from accessing parliamentary >>> properties and seeks a declaration from the Minister of Public Safety >>> that the Canadian Government will no longer allow the Royal Canadian >>> Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Forces to harass him and his clan >>> (Claim at para. 96). >>> >>> [2] On November 12, 2015 (Docket T-1557-15), by way of a >>> motion brought by the Crown, a prothonotary of the Federal Court (the >>> Prothonotary) struck the Claim in its entirety, without leave to >>> amend, on the basis that it was plain and obvious that the Claim >>> disclosed no reasonable claim, the Claim was fundamentally vexatious, >>> and the Claim could not be salvaged by way of further amendment (the >>> Prothontary’s Order). >>> >>> >>> [3] On January 25, 2016 (2016 FC 93), by way of Mr. >>> Amos’ appeal from the Prothonotary’s Order, a judge of the Federal >>> Court (the Judge), reviewing the matter de novo, struck all of Mr. >>> Amos’ claims for relief with the exception of the claim for damages >>> for being barred by the RCMP from the New Brunswick legislature in >>> 2004 (the Federal Court Judgment). >>> >>> >>> [4] Mr. Amos appealed and the Crown cross-appealed the >>> Federal Court Judgment. Further to the issuance of a Notice of Status >>> Review, Mr. Amos’ appeal was dismissed for delay on December 19, 2016. >>> As such, the only matter before this Court is the Crown’s >>> cross-appeal. >>> >>> >>> II. Preliminary Matter >>> >>> [5] Mr. Amos, in his memorandum of fact and law in >>> relation to the cross-appeal that was filed with this Court on March >>> 6, 2017, indicated that several judges of this Court, including two of >>> the judges of this panel, had a conflict of interest in this appeal. >>> This was the first time that he identified the judges whom he believed >>> had a conflict of interest in a document that was filed with this >>> Court. In his notice of appeal he had alluded to a conflict with >>> several judges but did not name those judges. >>> >>> [6] Mr. Amos was of the view that he did not have to >>> identify the judges in any document filed with this Court because he >>> had identified the judges in various documents that had been filed >>> with the Federal Court. In his view the Federal Court and the Federal >>> Court of Appeal are the same court and therefore any document filed in >>> the Federal Court would be filed in this Court. This view is based on >>> subsections 5(4) and 5.1(4) of the Federal Courts Act, R.S.C., 1985, >>> c. F-7: >>> >>> >>> 5(4) Every judge of the Federal Court is, by virtue of his or her >>> office, a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal and has all the >>> jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court of >>> Appeal. >>> […] >>> >>> 5(4) Les juges de la Cour fédérale sont d’office juges de la Cour >>> d’appel fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que >>> les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale. >>> […] >>> 5.1(4) Every judge of the Federal Court of Appeal is, by virtue of >>> that office, a judge of the Federal Court and has all the >>> jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court. >>> >>> 5.1(4) Les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale sont d’office juges de la >>> Cour fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que les >>> juges de la Cour fédérale. >>> >>> >>> [7] However, these subsections only provide that the >>> judges of the Federal Court are also judges of this Court (and vice >>> versa). It does not mean that there is only one court. If the Federal >>> Court and this Court were one Court, there would be no need for this >>> section. >>> [8] Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act provide >>> that: >>> 3 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court >>> — Appeal Division is continued under the name “Federal Court of >>> Appeal” in English and “Cour d’appel fédérale” in French. It is >>> continued as an additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and >>> for Canada, for the better administration of the laws of Canada and as >>> a superior court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction. >>> >>> 3 La Section d’appel, aussi appelée la Cour d’appel ou la Cour d’appel >>> fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée « Cour d’appel fédérale » en >>> français et « Federal Court of Appeal » en anglais. Elle est maintenue >>> à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et d’amirauté du >>> Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit canadien, et >>> continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant compétence en >>> matière civile et pénale. >>> 4 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court >>> — Trial Division is continued under the name “Federal Court” in >>> English and “Cour fédérale” in French. It is continued as an >>> additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and for Canada, for >>> the better administration of the laws of Canada and as a superior >>> court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction. >>> >>> 4 La section de la Cour fédérale du Canada, appelée la Section de >>> première instance de la Cour fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée « >>> Cour fédérale » en français et « Federal Court » en anglais. Elle est >>> maintenue à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et >>> d’amirauté du Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit >>> canadien, et continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant >>> compétence en matière civile et pénale. >>> >>> >>> [9] Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act create >>> two separate courts – this Court (section 3) and the Federal Court >>> (section 4). If, as Mr. Amos suggests, documents filed in the Federal >>> Court were automatically also filed in this Court, then there would no >>> need for the parties to prepare and file appeal books as required by >>> Rules 343 to 345 of the Federal Courts Rules, SOR/98-106 in relation >>> to any appeal from a decision of the Federal Court. The requirement to >>> file an appeal book with this Court in relation to an appeal from a >>> decision of the Federal Court makes it clear that the only documents >>> that will be before this Court are the documents that are part of that >>> appeal book. >>> >>> >>> [10] Therefore, the memorandum of fact and law filed on >>> March 6, 2017 is the first document, filed with this Court, in which >>> Mr. Amos identified the particular judges that he submits have a >>> conflict in any matter related to him. >>> >>> >>> [11] On April 3, 2017, Mr. Amos attempted to bring a motion >>> before the Federal Court seeking an order “affirming or denying the >>> conflict of interest he has” with a number of judges of the Federal >>> Court. A judge of the Federal Court issued a direction noting that if >>> Mr. Amos was seeking this order in relation to judges of the Federal >>> Court of Appeal, it was beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal Court. >>> Mr. Amos raised the Federal Court motion at the hearing of this >>> cross-appeal. The Federal Court motion is not a motion before this >>> Court and, as such, the submissions filed before the Federal Court >>> will not be entertained. As well, since this was a motion brought >>> before the Federal Court (and not this Court), any documents filed in >>> relation to that motion are not part of the record of this Court. >>> >>> >>> [12] During the hearing of the appeal Mr. Amos alleged that >>> the third member of this panel also had a conflict of interest and >>> submitted some documents that, in his view, supported his claim of a >>> conflict. Mr. Amos, following the hearing of his appeal, was also >>> afforded the opportunity to provide a brief summary of the conflict >>> that he was alleging and to file additional documents that, in his >>> view, supported his allegations. Mr. Amos submitted several pages of >>> documents in relation to the alleged conflicts. He organized the >>> documents by submitting a copy of the biography of the particular >>> judge and then, immediately following that biography, by including >>> copies of the documents that, in his view, supported his claim that >>> such judge had a conflict. >>> >>> >>> [13] The nature of the alleged conflict of Justice Webb is >>> that before he was appointed as a Judge of the Tax Court of Canada in >>> 2006, he was a partner with the law firm Patterson Law, and before >>> that with Patterson Palmer in Nova Scotia. Mr. Amos submitted that he >>> had a number of disputes with Patterson Palmer and Patterson Law and >>> therefore Justice Webb has a conflict simply because he was a partner >>> of these firms. Mr. Amos is not alleging that Justice Webb was >>> personally involved in or had any knowledge of any matter in which Mr. >>> Amos was involved with Justice Webb’s former law firm – only that he >>> was a member of such firm. >>> >>> >>> [14] During his oral submissions at the hearing of his >>> appeal Mr. Amos, in relation to the alleged conflict for Justice Webb, >>> focused on dealings between himself and a particular lawyer at >>> Patterson Law. However, none of the documents submitted by Mr. Amos at >>> the hearing or subsequently related to any dealings with this >>> particular lawyer nor is it clear when Mr. Amos was dealing with this >>> lawyer. In particular, it is far from clear whether such dealings were >>> after the time that Justice Webb was appointed as a Judge of the Tax >>> Court of Canada over 10 years ago. >>> >>> >>> [15] The documents that he submitted in relation to the >>> alleged conflict for Justice Webb largely relate to dealings between >>> Byron Prior and the St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador office of >>> Patterson Palmer, which is not in the same province where Justice Webb >>> practiced law. The only document that indicates any dealing between >>> Mr. Amos and Patterson Palmer is a copy of an affidavit of Stephen May >>> who was a partner in the St. John’s NL office of Patterson Palmer. The >>> affidavit is dated January 24, 2005 and refers to a number of e-mails >>> that were sent by Mr. Amos to Stephen May. Mr. Amos also included a >>> letter that is addressed to four individuals, one of whom is John >>> Crosbie who was counsel to the St. John’s NL office of Patterson >>> Palmer. The letter is dated September 2, 2004 and is addressed to >>> “John Crosbie, c/o Greg G. Byrne, Suite 502, 570 Queen Street, >>> Fredericton, NB E3B 5E3”. In this letter Mr. Amos alludes to a >>> possible lawsuit against Patterson Palmer. >>> [16] Mr. Amos’ position is that simply because Justice Webb >>> was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer, he now has a conflict. In Wewaykum >>> Indian Band v. Her Majesty the Queen, 2003 SCC 45, [2003] 2 S.C.R. >>> 259, the Supreme Court of Canada noted that disqualification of a >>> judge is to be determined based on whether there is a reasonable >>> apprehension of bias: >>> 60 In Canadian law, one standard has now emerged as the >>> criterion for disqualification. The criterion, as expressed by de >>> Grandpré J. in Committee for Justice and Liberty v. National Energy >>> Board, …[[1978] 1 S.C.R. 369, 68 D.L.R. (3d) 716], at p. 394, is the >>> reasonable apprehension of bias: >>> … the apprehension of bias must be a reasonable one, held by >>> reasonable and right minded persons, applying themselves to the >>> question and obtaining thereon the required information. In the words >>> of the Court of Appeal, that test is "what would an informed person, >>> viewing the matter realistically and practically -- and having thought >>> the matter through -- conclude. Would he think that it is more likely >>> than not that [the decision-maker], whether consciously or >>> unconsciously, would not decide fairly." >>> >>> [17] The issue to be determined is whether an informed >>> person, viewing the matter realistically and practically, and having >>> thought the matter through, would conclude that Mr. Amos’ allegations >>> give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias. As this Court has >>> previously remarked, “there is a strong presumption that judges will >>> administer justice impartially” and this presumption will not be >>> rebutted in the absence of “convincing evidence” of bias (Collins v. >>> Canada, 2011 FCA 140 at para. 7, [2011] 4 C.T.C. 157 [Collins]. See >>> also R. v. S. (R.D.), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 484 at para. 32, 151 D.L.R. >>> (4th) 193). >>> >>> [18] The Ontario Court of Appeal in Rando Drugs Ltd. v. >>> Scott, 2007 ONCA 553, 86 O.R. (3d) 653 (leave to appeal to the Supreme >>> Court of Canada refused, 32285 (August 1, 2007)), addressed the >>> particular issue of whether a judge is disqualified from hearing a >>> case simply because he had been a member of a law firm that was >>> involved in the litigation that was now before that judge. The Ontario >>> Court of Appeal determined that the judge was not disqualified if the >>> judge had no involvement with the person or the matter when he was a >>> lawyer. The Ontario Court of Appeal also explained that the rules for >>> determining whether a judge is disqualified are different from the >>> rules to determine whether a lawyer has a conflict: >>> 27 Thus, disqualification is not the natural corollary to a >>> finding that a trial judge has had some involvement in a case over >>> which he or she is now presiding. Where the judge had no involvement, >>> as here, it cannot be said that the judge is disqualified. >>> >>> >>> 28 The point can rightly be made that had Mr. Patterson been >>> asked to represent the appellant as counsel before his appointment to >>> the bench, the conflict rules would likely have prevented him from >>> taking the case because his firm had formerly represented one of the >>> defendants in the case. Thus, it is argued how is it that as a trial >>> judge Patterson J. can hear the case? This issue was considered by the >>> Court of Appeal (Civil Division) in Locabail (U.K.) Ltd. v. Bayfield >>> Properties Ltd., [2000] Q.B. 451. The court held, at para. 58, that >>> there is no inflexible rule governing the disqualification of a judge >>> and that, "[e]verything depends on the circumstances." >>> >>> >>> 29 It seems to me that what appears at first sight to be an >>> inconsistency in application of rules can be explained by the >>> different contexts and in particular, the strong presumption of >>> judicial impartiality that applies in the context of disqualification >>> of a judge. There is no such presumption in cases of allegations of >>> conflict of interest against a lawyer because of a firm's previous >>> involvement in the case. To the contrary, as explained by Sopinka J. >>> in MacDonald Estate v. Martin (1990), 77 D.L.R. (4th) 249 (S.C.C.), >>> for sound policy reasons there is a presumption of a disqualifying >>> interest that can rarely be overcome. In particular, a conclusory >>> statement from the lawyer that he or she had no confidential >>> information about the case will never be sufficient. The case is the >>> opposite where the allegation of bias is made against a trial judge. >>> His or her statement that he or she knew nothing about the case and >>> had no involvement in it will ordinarily be accepted at face value >>> unless there is good reason to doubt it: see Locabail, at para. 19. >>> >>> >>> 30 That brings me then to consider the particular circumstances >>> of this case and whether there are serious grounds to find a >>> disqualifying conflict of interest in this case. In my view, there are >>> two significant factors that justify the trial judge's decision not to >>> recuse himself. The first is his statement, which all parties accept, >>> that he knew nothing of the case when it was in his former firm and >>> that he had nothing to do with it. The second is the long passage of >>> time. As was said in Wewaykum, at para. 85: >>> To us, one significant factor stands out, and must inform >>> the perspective of the reasonable person assessing the impact of this >>> involvement on Binnie J.'s impartiality in the appeals. That factor is >>> the passage of time. Most arguments for disqualification rest on >>> circumstances that are either contemporaneous to the decision-making, >>> or that occurred within a short time prior to the decision-making. >>> 31 There are other factors that inform the issue. The Wilson >>> Walker firm no longer acted for any of the parties by the time of >>> trial. More importantly, at the time of the motion, Patterson J. had >>> been a judge for six years and thus had not had a relationship with >>> his former firm for a considerable period of time. >>> >>> >>> 32 In my view, a reasonable person, viewing the matter >>> realistically would conclude that the trial judge could deal fairly >>> and impartially with this case. I take this view principally because >>> of the long passage of time and the trial judge's lack of involvement >>> in or knowledge of the case when the Wilson Walker firm had carriage. >>> In these circumstances it cannot be reasonably contended that the >>> trial judge could not remain impartial in the case. The mere fact that >>> his name appears on the letterhead of some correspondence from over a >>> decade ago would not lead a reasonable person to believe that he would >>> either consciously or unconsciously favour his former firm's former >>> client. It is simply not realistic to think that a judge would throw >>> off his mantle of impartiality, ignore his oath of office and favour a >>> client - about whom he knew nothing - of a firm that he left six years >>> earlier and that no longer acts for the client, in a case involving >>> events from over a decade ago. >>> (emphasis added) >>> >>> [19] Justice Webb had no involvement with any matter >>> involving Mr. Amos while he was a member of Patterson Palmer or >>> Patterson Law, nor does Mr. Amos suggest that he did. Mr. Amos made it >>> clear during the hearing of this matter that the only reason for the >>> alleged conflict for Justice Webb was that he was a member of >>> Patterson Law and Patterson Palmer. This is simply not enough for >>> Justice Webb to be disqualified. Any involvement of Mr. Amos with >>> Patterson Law while Justice Webb was a member of that firm would have >>> had to occur over 10 years ago and even longer for the time when he >>> was a member of Patterson Palmer. In addition to the lack of any >>> involvement on his part with any matter or dispute that Mr. Amos had >>> with Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer (which in and of itself is >>> sufficient to dispose of this matter), the length of time since >>> Justice Webb was a member of Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer would >>> also result in the same finding – that there is no conflict in Justice >>> Webb hearing this appeal. >>> >>> [20] Similarly in R. v. Bagot, 2000 MBCA 30, 145 Man. R. >>> (2d) 260, the Manitoba Court of Appeal found that there was no >>> reasonable apprehension of bias when a judge, who had been a member of >>> the law firm that had been retained by the accused, had no involvement >>> with the accused while he was a lawyer with that firm. >>> >>> [21] In Del Zotto v. Minister of National Revenue, [2000] 4 >>> F.C. 321, 257 N.R. 96, this court did find that there would be a >>> reasonable apprehension of bias where a judge, who while he was a >>> lawyer, had recorded time on a matter involving the same person who >>> was before that judge. However, this case can be distinguished as >>> Justice Webb did not have any time recorded on any files involving Mr. >>> Amos while he was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer or Patterson Law. >>> >>> [22] Mr. Amos also included with his submissions a CD. He >>> stated in his affidavit dated June 26, 2017 that there is a “true copy >>> of an American police surveillance wiretap entitled 139” on this CD. >>> He has also indicated that he has “provided a true copy of the CD >>> entitled 139 to many American and Canadian law enforcement authorities >>> and not one of the police forces or officers of the court are willing >>> to investigate it”. Since he has indicated that this is an “American >>> police surveillance wiretap”, this is a matter for the American law >>> enforcement authorities and cannot create, as Mr. Amos suggests, a >>> conflict of interest for any judge to whom he provides a copy. >>> >>> [23] As a result, there is no conflict or reasonable >>> apprehension of bias for Justice Webb and therefore, no reason for him >>> to recuse himself. >>> >>> [24] Mr. Amos alleged that Justice Near’s past professional >>> experience with the government created a “quasi-conflict” in deciding >>> the cross-appeal. Mr. Amos provided no details and Justice Near >>> confirmed that he had no prior knowledge of the matters alleged in the >>> Claim. Justice Near sees no reason to recuse himself. >>> >>> [25] Insofar as it is possible to glean the basis for Mr. >>> Amos’ allegations against Justice Gleason, it appears that he alleges >>> that she is incapable of hearing this appeal because he says he wrote >>> a letter to Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien in 2004. At that time, >>> both Justice Gleason and Mr. Mulroney were partners in the law firm >>> Ogilvy Renault, LLP. The letter in question, which is rude and angry, >>> begins with “Hey you two Evil Old Smiling Bastards” and “Re: me suing >>> you and your little dogs too”. There is no indication that the letter >>> was ever responded to or that a law suit was ever commenced by Mr. >>> Amos against Mr. Mulroney. In the circumstances, there is no reason >>> for Justice Gleason to recuse herself as the letter in question does >>> not give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias. >>> >>> >>> III. Issue >>> >>> [26] The issue on the cross-appeal is as follows: Did the >>> Judge err in setting aside the Prothonotary’s Order striking the Claim >>> in its entirety without leave to amend and in determining that Mr. >>> Amos’ allegation that the RCMP barred him from the New Brunswick >>> legislature in 2004 was capable of supporting a cause of action? >>> >>> IV. Analysis >>> >>> A. Standard of Review >>> >>> [27] Following the Judge’s decision to set aside the >>> Prothonotary’s Order, this Court revisited the standard of review to >>> be applied to discretionary decisions of prothonotaries and decisions >>> made by judges on appeals of prothonotaries’ decisions in Hospira >>> Healthcare Corp. v. Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, 2016 FCA 215, >>> 402 D.L.R. (4th) 497 [Hospira]. In Hospira, a five-member panel of >>> this Court replaced the Aqua-Gem standard of review with that >>> articulated in Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 235 >>> [Housen]. As a result, it is no longer appropriate for the Federal >>> Court to conduct a de novo review of a discretionary order made by a >>> prothonotary in regard to questions vital to the final issue of the >>> case. Rather, a Federal Court judge can only intervene on appeal if >>> the prothonotary made an error of law or a palpable and overriding >>> error in determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and >>> law (Hospira at para. 79). Further, this Court can only interfere with >>> a Federal Court judge’s review of a prothonotary’s discretionary order >>> if the judge made an error of law or palpable and overriding error in >>> determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and law >>> (Hospira at paras. 82-83). >>> >>> [28] In the case at bar, the Judge substituted his own >>> assessment of Mr. Amos’ Claim for that of the Prothonotary. This Court >>> must look to the Prothonotary’s Order to determine whether the Judge >>> erred in law or made a palpable and overriding error in choosing to >>> interfere. >>> >>> >>> B. Did the Judge err in interfering with the >>> Prothonotary’s Order? >>> >>> [29] The Prothontoary’s Order accepted the following >>> paragraphs from the Crown’s submissions as the basis for striking the >>> Claim in its entirety without leave to amend: >>> >>> 17. Within the 96 paragraph Statement of Claim, the Plaintiff >>> addresses his complaint in paragraphs 14-24, inclusive. All but four >>> of those paragraphs are dedicated to an incident that occurred in 2006 >>> in and around the legislature in New Brunswick. The jurisdiction of >>> the Federal Court does not extend to Her Majesty the Queen in right of >>> the Provinces. In any event, the Plaintiff hasn’t named the Province >>> or provincial actors as parties to this action. The incident alleged >>> does not give rise to a justiciable cause of action in this Court. >>> (…) >>> >>> >>> 21. The few paragraphs that directly address the Defendant >>> provide no details as to the individuals involved or the location of >>> the alleged incidents or other details sufficient to allow the >>> Defendant to respond. As a result, it is difficult or impossible to >>> determine the causes of action the Plaintiff is attempting to advance. >>> A generous reading of the Statement of Claim allows the Defendant to >>> only speculate as to the true and/or intended cause of action. At >>> best, the Plaintiff’s action may possibly be summarized as: he >>> suspects he is barred from the House of Commons. >>> [footnotes omitted]. >>> >>> >>> [30] The Judge determined that he could not strike the Claim >>> on the same jurisdictional basis as the Prothonotary. The Judge noted >>> that the Federal Court has jurisdiction over claims based on the >>> liability of Federal Crown servants like the RCMP and that the actors >>> who barred Mr. Amos from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004 >>> included the RCMP (Federal Court Judgment at para. 23). In considering >>> the viability of these allegations de novo, the Judge identified >>> paragraph 14 of the Claim as containing “some precision” as it >>> identifies the date of the event and a RCMP officer acting as >>> Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant Governor (Federal Court Judgment at >>> para. 27). >>> >>> >>> [31] The Judge noted that the 2004 event could support a >>> cause of action in the tort of misfeasance in public office and >>> identified the elements of the tort as excerpted from Meigs v. Canada, >>> 2013 FC 389, 431 F.T.R. 111: >>> >>> >>> [13] As in both the cases of Odhavji Estate v Woodhouse, 2003 SCC >>> 69 [Odhavji] and Lewis v Canada, 2012 FC 1514 [Lewis], I must >>> determine whether the plaintiffs’ statement of claim pleads each >>> element of the alleged tort of misfeasance in public office: >>> >>> a) The public officer must have engaged in deliberate and unlawful >>> conduct in his or her capacity as public officer; >>> >>> b) The public officer must have been aware both that his or her >>> conduct was unlawful and that it was likely to harm the plaintiff; and >>> >>> c) There must be an element of bad faith or dishonesty by the public >>> officer and knowledge of harm alone is insufficient to conclude that a >>> public officer acted in bad faith or dishonestly. >>> Odhavji, above, at paras 23, 24 and 28 >>> (Federal Court Judgment at para. 28). >>> >>> [32] The Judge determined that Mr. Amos disclosed sufficient >>> material facts to meet the elements of the tort of misfeasance in >>> public office because the actors, who barred him from the New >>> Brunswick legislature in 2004, including the RCMP, did so for >>> “political reasons” (Federal Court Judgment at para. 29). >>> >>> [33] This Court’s discussion of the sufficiency of pleadings >>> in Merchant Law Group v. Canada (Revenue Agency), 2010 FCA 184, 321 >>> D.L.R (4th) 301 is particularly apt: >>> >>> …When pleading bad faith or abuse of power, it is not enough to >>> assert, baldly, conclusory phrases such as “deliberately or >>> negligently,” “callous disregard,” or “by fraud and theft did steal”. >>> “The bare assertion of a conclusion upon which the court is called >>> upon to pronounce is not an allegation of material fact”. Making bald, >>> conclusory allegations without any evidentiary foundation is an abuse >>> of process… >>> >>> To this, I would add that the tort of misfeasance in public office >>> requires a particular state of mind of a public officer in carrying >>> out the impunged action, i.e., deliberate conduct which the public >>> officer knows to be inconsistent with the obligations of his or her >>> office. For this tort, particularization of the allegations is >>> mandatory. Rule 181 specifically requires particularization of >>> allegations of “breach of trust,” “wilful default,” “state of mind of >>> a person,” “malice” or “fraudulent intention.” >>> (at paras. 34-35, citations omitted). >>> >>> [34] Applying the Housen standard of review to the >>> Prothonotary’s Order, we are of the view that the Judge interfered >>> absent a legal or palpable and overriding error. >>> >>> [35] The Prothonotary determined that Mr. Amos’ Claim >>> disclosed no reasonable claim and was fundamentally vexatious on the >>> basis of jurisdictional concerns and the absence of material facts to >>> ground a cause of action. Paragraph 14 of the Claim, which addresses >>> the 2004 event, pleads no material facts as to how the RCMP officer >>> engaged in deliberate and unlawful conduct, knew that his or her >>> conduct was unlawful and likely to harm Mr. Amos, and acted in bad >>> faith. While the Claim alleges elsewhere that Mr. Amos was barred from >>> the New Brunswick legislature for political and/or malicious reasons, >>> these allegations are not particularized and are directed against >>> non-federal actors, such as the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Legislative >>> Assembly of New Brunswick and the Fredericton Police Force. As such, >>> the Judge erred in determining that Mr. Amos’ allegation that the RCMP >>> barred him from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004 was capable of >>> supporting a cause of action. >>> >>> [36] In our view, the Claim is made up entirely of bare >>> allegations, devoid of any detail, such that it discloses no >>> reasonable cause of action within the jurisdiction of the Federal >>> Courts. Therefore, the Judge erred in interfering to set aside the >>> Prothonotary’s Order striking the claim in its entirety. Further, we >>> find that the Prothonotary made no error in denying leave to amend. >>> The deficiencies in Mr. Amos’ pleadings are so extensive such that >>> amendment could not cure them (see Collins at para. 26). >>> >>> V. Conclusion >>> [37] For the foregoing reasons, we would allow the Crown’s >>> cross-appeal, with costs, setting aside the Federal Court Judgment, >>> dated January 25, 2016 and restoring the Prothonotary’s Order, dated >>> November 12, 2015, which struck Mr. Amos’ Claim in its entirety >>> without leave to amend. >>> "Wyman W. Webb" >>> J.A. >>> "David G. Near" >>> J.A. >>> "Mary J.L. Gleason" >>> J.A. >>> >>> >>> >>> FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL >>> NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD >>> >>> A CROSS-APPEAL FROM AN ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE SOUTHCOTT DATED >>> JANUARY 25, 2016; DOCKET NUMBER T-1557-15. >>> DOCKET: >>> >>> A-48-16 >>> >>> >>> >>> STYLE OF CAUSE: >>> >>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN >>> >>> >>> >>> PLACE OF HEARING: >>> >>> Fredericton, >>> New Brunswick >>> >>> DATE OF HEARING: >>> >>> May 24, 2017 >>> >>> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY: >>> >>> WEBB J.A. >>> NEAR J.A. >>> GLEASON J.A. >>> >>> DATED: >>> >>> October 30, 2017 >>> >>> APPEARANCES: >>> David Raymond Amos >>> >>> >>> For The Appellant / respondent on cross-appeal >>> (on his own behalf) >>> >>> Jan Jensen >>> >>> >>> For The Respondent / appELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL >>> >>> SOLICITORS OF RECORD: >>> Nathalie G. Drouin >>> Deputy Attorney General of Canada >>> >>> For The Respondent / APPELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL >>> >>>
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Methinks I should talk to the folks in Quebec and try to explain to them how they are being played like a fiddle by the crybabies in the SANB N'esy Pas?
Acadian society joins Ontario, Quebec groups to promote minority language rights
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David R. Amos
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Bon Soir Cruel World
David R. Amos
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Methinks the true tally of this comment section no doubt tells quite a tale I can only imagine who else was blocked and why N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
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Methinks I should talk to the folks in Quebec and try to explain to them how they are being played like a fiddle by the crybabies in the SANB N'esy Pas?
Jared Henderson yes because teaming up with Quebec will stop primary english speakers from worrying...what could go wrong lmao...je ne sais pas si je veut vraiment commencer avec ceci...but SANB is an extremely shortsighted association with regards to calming fears of the majority in NB
Marguerite Deschamps Reply to @Jared Henderson: vous ne parlez pas pour la majorité. Parlez pour vous-même !
David R. Amos
Reply to @Jared Henderson: "what could go wrong lmao"
Methinks everybody knows why I have been laughing all day long N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks its time for your nap N'esy Pas?
Brian Robertson
New Brunswick has much more important issues concerning ALL New Brunswickers. This very vocal group has had more than its share of attention and should be satisfied with what they have.
Dan Lee
Reply to @Brian Robertson: Because you said so?.....my tax dollars.....you are not their spokesman.........
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Dan Lee: "you are not their spokesman"
Methinks you are flogging a dead horse trying to reason with that snobby dude N'esy Pas?
Daryl Doucette
" A small but vocal group of English speakers has treated Official Bilingualism with suspicion".....now why would they ( those "english speakers") be like that? Would it be that they are 67.7% of the population, they pay 67.7 % of the taxes here in NB, and they are angry that they and their children are basically excluded from many government and other jobs, promotions, etc simply because 95% of them do not speak the language of the minority?
David R. Amos
Reply to @daryl doucette: "A small but vocal group of English speakers has treated Official Bilingualism with suspicion"'esy Pas?
Methinks I resemble that remark N'esy Pas?
Joe Campbell
English the language of minority?
Josef Blow
Reply to @Joe Campbell: In NB, English is the language of the majority of citizens. Such is also the case for the entirety of the country. In the province of Quebec, English-speaking citizens form the minority of the population.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Joe Campbell: Methinks many dudes of the Campbell Clan doth jest too much N'esy Pas?
Matt Steele
No doubt the SANB main concern is that the SANB controlled Liberal party is no longer in power , and the Francophonie Games SCAM was exposed ; with funding from both sources now cut off . The SANB complains non stop about Anglophones , but they love those Anglophone handouts with Quebec currently receiving around 13 BILLION ; more than all the other provinces combined .
Josef Blow
Reply to @Matt Steele: How do you figure that the Liberal Party is controlled by the SANB? Do you have any evidence in support of your assertion ?
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Matt Steele: Cry me a river
Lou Bell
And what does it say about the Liberals and their SANB base ?? Better check out who ran the last government Bobby ! They cowtowed to their SANB base and paid for it ! And with all the dirt that has come out since , they haven't a clue where to turn. There was only one linguistic group that benefited , he knows it and we all know it. !
Josef Blow
Reply to @Lou Bell: Please explain this statement relating to the Liberal government and their SANB base. You repeat the same statement and you have yet to factually establish a link.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Lou Bell: Methinks you two deserve each other N'esy Pas?
DON MOFFATT
The reason there is only one francophone MLA in Government is because the francophone population did not vote for the PCs.
Maude Windsor
Reply to @DON MOFFATT: Ha, Ha....of course not the liberals give acadians etc many promises telling them they are special and whatever the francophones want a liberal government will supply $$$. conservatives think that government should not be able to manipulate voters to get welfare, & other socialist democratic governments. i keep hoping francophones can smarten up and vote conservative---or anyone but trudeau's government.....
Josef Blow
eply to @maude windsor: I would hope that the anglophone community and the francophone community are both comprised of level-headed and reasonable citizens.Trudeau is a federal politician.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @maude windsor: Me Too
Daryl Doucette
The " tactic" of labeling some one who disagrees with your opinion as " hateful" is getting old.....
Josef Blow
Reply to @daryl doucette: Who has accused anyone of being hateful?
Daryl Doucette
Reply to @Josef Blow: Scroll back a few lines....Marc Martin used that word.
David R. Amos
Reply to @daryl doucette: Very old indeed
Joe Gallant
We don't have to agree on anything to be kind to one another. There are too many of these groups out there that like to spread fear and hate. La majorité des français ou Acadien s'accord bien avec tous genres de gens et seule qui ne veule pas c'est eux qui font partie de ces groupes. The majority of french speaking or Acadiens get along with everyone and ones that don't are more than likely involved in these types of groups.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Joe Gallant: I Wholeheartedly Agree Sir
Maude Windsor
students of english heritage, even if the are schooled bilingual french...and they graduate grade 12 still do not speak french well enough to even apply for federal public service jobs. the french language is used by politicians at all levels as a political ploy. in fact, just why is french an official language? why is not Cree, Ukranian,German,Arabic, vietnamese, mandarin,korean noted as official languages? for sure there are more people outside of quebec speaking these languages than the french language of all dialetcs....it is very wrong for the french language outside of quebec be promoted by our tax dollars (if people want this french service they should pay for it)....canada is an english speaking country...in all areas except quebec that in 1759+ orders were for quebecers french language needed protection by British troops etc. canada cannot afford all the little programs etc that eminate from french language services. costs of french language will build us 50 new navy frigates...or/and F35s so we can protect canada in the west and north coasts.
Josef Blow
Reply to @maude windsor: If you were to read the relevant history as it relates to the decision to recognize two official languages in Canada, you would find the necessary answers to your questions. It would also be helpful if you were to provide the evidence for your many claims as to the ability of immersion graduates and the costs associated with bilingualism. Otherwise, your assertions can only be regarded as opinions, not facts.
Marc Martin
Reply to @maude windsor: *and they graduate grade 12 still do not speak French well enough to even apply for federal public service jobs* You point is invalid as there is more bilingual English people in the Federal government then there is French ones. *in fact, just why is french an official language? why is not Cree, Ukranian,German,Arabic, vietnamese, mandarin,korean noted as official languages?* Because the country was founded by englis hand French people, what do they teach you in schools..ishhh. And this is why the French is so protected across Canada, just re-read your own comments.
David R. Amos
Reply to @maude windsor: YO Maude Methinks you are wise to ignore the two dudes teasing you N'esy Pas?
Michel Forgeron
Reply to @maude windsor I'm sure you're right in some cases. But my English speaking son-in-law was a Grade 12 French Immersion graduate and is now a federal public servant, having been so for some years.
Jake Quinlan
Does Mr. Melanson believe Quebec should be officially bilingual? You know, that law of Canada, the social contract?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Jake Quinlan: Methinks Mr higgs and Mr Gauvin and everybody else and his dog everybody knows that Mr. Melanson is just playing games in order to keep the SANB in the media so that they don't become too irrelevant by October N'esy Pas?
Stephanie Haslam
Do we not have a social contract with our paramedics, as well, or are they excluded?
Marc Martin
Reply to @Stephanie Haslam: What does this have to do with paramedics ?
Stephanie Haslam
Reply to @Marc Martin: "Because let's be clear here that the language law of Canada, the same as the one in New Brunswick, [is] a social contract between two communities." I am referring to the statement made by M. Melanson.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Stephanie Haslam: Methinks Mr Melanson and his buddy Mr Martin are mad at me because of my emails N'esy Pas?
Stephanie Haslam
Here are some of the proposed amendments to the OLA (Google Translated from the SANB website): "The addition of accountability mechanisms with teeth, such as the creation of an official languages administrative tribunal and the strengthening of the role of the Commissioner of Official Languages; Broadening the scope of the rights and obligations provided by the Act, including the obligation for Supreme Court justices to be bilingual, the inclusion in any transfer of funds to provinces and territories of clauses requiring them measures to support official languages, and the federal government's obligation to adopt immigration policies that promote linguistic duality." Now, some of the proposed changes may be good-- I don't know; however, is it not a matter of respect to include the people affected by these changes in this very important discussion? One has only to look at the closed door meetings on the OLA, held during 2012 in New Brunswick, to see that changes made without consultation are not good. There should be funding made available to see how these changes will affect those who are not bilingual. The symposiums held by Mme. Joly, across Canada, should have been open to anyone with questions.http://sanb.ca/la-sanb-appuie-la-fcfa-dans-sa-proposition-de-projet-de-loi-pour-moderniser-la-loi-sur-les-langues-officielles/
David R. Amos
Reply to @Stephanie Haslam: FYI Madame Joly just thanked me for my email about this article
Stephanie Haslam
This was a sage statement, made by a former privacy commissioner, and it is pivotal to the discussion of respect: " If New Brunswickers want access to an intelligent language debate, they should have it, she said. "Well, I haven't been able to read much of the pulse of the population, but I suspect that people would find that kind of odd, that's something that affects us all," said Bertrand. "I think something as important to New Brunswick as bilingualism should be out in the open. That should be a public debate." (2012) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/privacy-official-disappointed-by-info-disclosure-f-1.1182435 I wish that advice had been passed on to Melanie Joly, as she embarked upon her tour of symposiums with regards to the modernization of the Official Languages Act.
When you leave an entire side out of a discussion (how, in fact, is that a discussion?) and then make changes, you must expect feedback. If there is one thing unilinguals should be lobbying for, it is full inclusion and representation in any senate or legislative committee on bilingualism (and there are committees on this issue, and we are excluded from the discussion), as well as funding for a legal team to examine the ramifications of changes to the OLA.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Stephanie Haslam: The problem is they don't allow hate groups...
Natalie Pugh
Reply to @Marc Martin: When the sanb supports things like forcing a war veteran to be humiliated and demoted to sit in a parking lot because he never had to speak French in his life to live, work in NB, or when our ambulance's are sitting in the bays because there are not enough French speaking EMT,s but plenty of unilingual English EMT's waiting to be hired or when senior healthcare workers are kept from promotions because of the small possibility someone may demand French services, or when the two education systems are so disproportionally funded, or when the EMT program at the French NBCC is completely free but not the English program or when NB is way over taxed and families are struggling like never before? The minority group, supported by the sanb refuses to show leniency and continue with more and more unsustainable demands. Who, I ask is the "hate group"
Stephanie Haslam
Reply to @Marc Martin: "Let's see! The Standing Committee on Official Languages recommends that anglophones in Quebec be invited to the Ministerial Conference on the Canadian Francophonie. It's a complete aberration! The Conference is devoted to FRANCOPHONIE. I am beside myself !" Real comment, Google translated.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Natalie Pugh: *When the sanb supports things like forcing a war veteran to be humiliated and demoted to sit in a parking lot because he never had to speak French in his life to live* The Vet worked for a private company, the province requested a bilingual person and they got an unilingual one to give bilingual services, please stick to real facts. **or when our ambulance's are sitting in the bays because there are not enough French speaking EMT** That is not true and has been confirmed by Unions and Mediavie. **or when the two education systems are so disproportionally funded** Is that why the English population of NB has 73% of the schools for 68% of the population ? disproportionally funded ? Really I agree. ***the EMT program at the French NBCC is completely free but not the English program or when NB *** Got one of my friends son who got accepted, NO free courses are offered, hatred group ? When you make false statement like these , you are considerated a hate group....
Jared Henderson
Reply to @Marc Martin: oh grow up Marc...not all disagreement is hate...stop...just stop
Lou Bell
Reply to @Marc Martin: Fact is , he lost his job because of the actions of a H8er who had no business doing it .
Daryl Doucette
Reply to @Lou Bell: gee I wonder how she is doing these days?
Al Clark
Reply to @Lou Bell: Fact is, he lost his job because you'd have to be a little bit simple to place a unilingual person as reception in a gov't building of an officially bilingual province.
Barry Odonnell
Reply to @Marc Martin: I guess true Karma would be you or a family member needing an ambulance and none being available because they did not have a french speaking paramedic available. Or in this case would you swallow your pride and allow an anglophone to save your life?
Al Clark
Reply to @daryl doucette: She's probably doing great now that she doesn't have to deal with COR every day!
Daryl Doucette
Reply to @Al Clark: the majority are a little bit simple to have let this bilingualism thing get to the point where it is today.
Al Clark
Reply to @daryl doucette: the majority don't really care about what offends COR
David R. Amos
Reply to @Stephanie Haslam: Well put
Mack Leigh
From the actions of the SANB over the past several decades you can be certain of one thing and that this signing of the MOU will lead to the furthering of the SANB's agenda of forced frenchification, forced official bilingualism, forced segregation, forced preferential funding for Francophones only , forced apartheid-style governing and the continued marginalization of all......all....non-francophones...
Natalie Pugh
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Absolutely 100%!
Al Clark
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Forced frenchification! LOL!
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Al Clark: Methinks a lot of folks fail to see your humour n'esy Pas?
Lou Bell
This is the same group of people who implied ALL immigrants to NB should be French speaking and will learn English after arrival.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Lou Bell: Cry me a river
Lou Bell
What more would one expect from a group who decided to minimalize the report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women that suggested there may have been Genocide ,by suggesting they too were exposed to the same. It's always " all about them ". And they wonder why they have no credibility.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Lou Bell: Hey Lou Did Ya miss me?
Mack Leigh
Control the dialogue. Control the comments and freedom of speech.. Then you can control the outcome...
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Mack Leigh: Methinks I live with that obvious malice on a daily basis N'esy Pas?
George Smith
Isn't it time the Majority had some language rights too?
David R. Amos
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Reply to @George Smith: Methinks the majority of folks in New Brunswick wholeheartedly agree with you N'ey Pas?
Mack Leigh
Let us try democracy when making any changes to the OLA and " Official " Bilingualism next time around... Any changes made thus far was done with the input and consultation of groups such as the SANB while leaving out representatives from English Language Rights groups entirely.. Any changes to date have benefited one group and one group only.... Francophones. What more "rights " or " promotion " are groups like the SANB after ? They bend the will of politicians with one threat, demand or bullying tactic. They receive the lion's share of all , all funding both federally and in NB provincially... The majority of all..all government jobs both federally and in NB posted as being " bilingual required ".... So the question begs to be asked ......Exactly what more are they after ?? What more do they want ? When will anything ever be " enough ".. In my opinion that will be once they have full control of Canada and its' coffers.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Mack Leigh: Methinks the PANB should finally speak up N'esy Pas?
Mario Doucet
This stinks worse than Parlee Beach
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mario Doucet: YUP
Acadian society joins Ontario, Quebec groups to promote minority language rights
Recent political developments provoked groups to sign memorandum of understanding
Robert Melanson, president of the New Brunswick Acadian Society, said a memorandum of understanding signed Tuesday sends a message that minority language groups are united and are paying attention. (CBC)
Acadian rights advocates have joined minority language groups in Ontario and Quebec in an effort to better protect minority language groups in anticipation of October's federal election.
The New Brunswick Acadian Society signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday with the Francophone Assembly of Ontario, which advocates for French language rights in Ontario, and the Quebec Community Groups Network, which advocates for English language rights in Quebec.
Robert Melanson, the Acadian society president, said recent blows to minority language rights brought about the memorandum.
He cited the Quebec government's decision to make three Montreal English schools French, cuts to francophone government services in Ontario, and last year's New Brunswick provincial election.
The ultimate winners of that election, the Progressive Conservatives, have only one MLA who is francophone.
At the same time, the People's Alliance of New Brunswick made a breakthrough with the election of three members.
Alliance supporters have been accused of being anti-bilingual, although the party says it isn't. The party has, however, taken stands against duality in the provision of some health and education services.
Setting a tone
"For a while, there was a lot of linguistic tension," said Melanson.
Melanson said the MOU isn't targeted at any proposed federal initiative, since the election is months away and political parties haven't released their platforms.
He said the MOU is supposed to send a message that minority language groups are united and are paying attention.
"I think that this move will probably set a certain tone," said Melanson. "And to break stereotypes that says that … we cannot and never can work with the other linguistic group."
A news release from the three groups indicates that combined, they represent 2.4 million people, or almost 90 per cent of official language minority groups in the three provinces.
Good for more than francophones
Melanson said collaboration among the groups is important, especially in New Brunswick, where a small but vocal group of English speakers has treated official bilingualism with suspicion.
Melanson said he hopes joining forces with the Quebec Community Groups Network will show New Brunswick anglophones that minority language rights don't just benefit French speakers.
"I think that we have to show that every linguistic group has something to gain out of that social contract," said Melanson.
"Because let's be clear here that the language law of Canada, the same as the one in New Brunswick, [is] a social contract between two communities."
Acadian society joins Ontario, Quebec groups to promote minority language rights
Recent political developments provoked groups to sign memorandum of understanding Jordan Gill · CBC News · Posted: Jul 02, 2019 4:44 PM AT
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David R. Amos Content disabled Methinks I should talk to the folks in Quebec and try to explain to them how they are being played like a fiddle by the crybabies in the SANB N'esy Pas?
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'If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue'
By Teresa Hanafin, Globe Staff
Good morning! It's Friday, June 28, the 179th day of the year. Sunrise in Boston was at 5:09 a.m.; sunset will be at 8:25 p.m. for 15 hours and 16 minutes of sunlight. The waning moon is 17 percent full.
US Senator Kamala Harris's challenge to former VP Joe Biden's comments about working with segregationists in Congress and his opposition to federal court-ordered busing got the most attention after the Democratic debate last night. And Biden seemed unprepared in his rather rambling answer.
By the way, it will be interesting to see how Biden tries to clean things up when he speaks this afternoon at Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition Convention in Chicago.
And predictably, conservatives almost immediately began attacking Harris, including by launching a coordinated campaign on Twitter in which accounts pretended to be black people offended that she would claim to be black (and all used the exact same wording):
"Kamala Harris is *not* an American black. She is half Indian and half Jamaican. I'm so sick of people robbing American Blacks (like myself) of our history. It's disgusting ... These are my people not her people. Freaking disgusting."
Because, you know, racists would look at Harris throughout her life and say, "Oh, she has black skin, but she's actually half Jamaican, so we won't discriminate against her."
For the record, Harris was born in Oakland. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, was a Tamil Indian, a breast cancer scientist who immigrated to the US from Madras (present-day Chennai) in 1960. Her father, Donald Harris, is a Stanford University economics professor who emigrated from Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study in economics at the University of California at Berkeley.
Progressives in the US House are still fuming today over Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to accept the Senate version of the border funding bill instead of the House version that had more protections for migrant kids held in detention and restricted how the Trump administration could spend the money.
Pelosi tried to add those elements to the Senate bill, but House moderates threatened to withhold their support if she did. So it's the Senate bill, with money for the Pentagon to send more soldiers to the border and no health and care standards for the detention centers, that goes to Trump for his signature. Vox has a good rundown of the differences between the bills.
Trump is scheduled to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Osaka about their ongoing trade war.
I missed this for yesterday's newsletter: The two friends whom writer E. Jean Carroll told about her alleged rape by Trump immediately after it happened in the mid-90s have identified themselves and publicly corroborated her account.
Here's a New York Times podcast interview with the women.
One friend, Lisa Birnbach, an author best known for co-authoring "The Official Preppy Handbook" in 1980, urged Carroll to go to the police. The other, Carol Martin, a longtime news anchor for WCBS-TV in New York, advised Carroll not to tell anyone because she believed that Trump would use his army of lawyers to make her life hell.
Carroll, who blamed herself for the assault -- as far too many women do -- stayed silent. Until now.
Mass. Governor Charlie Baker, still in London, meets with US Ambassador Woody Johnson. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is at the US Conference of Mayors annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. I wonder if they've ever met in say, Albany.
Finally, let's end with Rudyard Kipling's most famous poem, "If—". Pretty good use of the English language, I'd say.
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream — and not make dreams your master; If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And — which is more — you'll be a Man, my son!
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 12:14:34 -0400 > Subject: RE The call from the Boston cop Robert Ridge (857 259 9083) > on behalf of the VERY corrupt Yankee DA Rachael Rollins > To: internalaffairs@pd.boston.gov, mediarelations@pd.boston.gov, > Robert.Ridge@pd.boston.gov, N.Decosta-Klipa@boston.com, > John.Conroy@pd.boston.gov > Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>, "Dale.Morgan" > <Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Boston.Mail"<Boston.Mail@ic.fbi.gov>, > news-tips <news-tips@nytimes.com>, Newsroom > <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>, "darrow.macintyre" > <darrow.macintyre@cbc.ca> > > https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2019/04/08/charlie-baker-rachael-rollins > > How a policy dispute between Charlie Baker and Rachael Rollins > suddenly turned personal > "We are allowed to disagree with each other, but what you are not > going to do is disrespect this office." > > > "Gov. Charlie Baker and Rachael Rollins have purportedly hit the > “reset button,” but the Suffolk Country district attorney still thinks > there’s something “funny” about the way she — the first woman to hold > the Boston-area prosecutor job — has been treated. > > The two elected officials clashed over the weekend, after Baker’s top > public safety official sent Rollins a letter last week asking her to > revise some of her new policies — including not prosecuting certain > misdemeanor crimes. In a press conference Friday, the Democratic > district attorney shot back at the Republican administration, > suggesting that “not everyone gets the benefit of the Baker family,” > alluding to groping allegations against the governor’s son last year." > > https://bpdnews.com/news/2019/1/4/recent-promotions-two-members-of-the-bpd-receive-promotions-during-ceremony-at-bpd-headquartersnbsp > > The men and women of the BPD would like to congratulate John Conroy on > his promotion from Sergeant Detective to Lieutenant and Robert Ridge > on his rating of Sergeant Detective. We wish them the best of luck in > their new chapters with the BPD. > > ---------- Original message ---------- > From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:15:59 -0400 > Subject: Hey Ralph Goodale perhaps you and the RCMP should call the > Yankees Governor Charlie Baker, his lawyer Bob Ross, Rachael Rollins > and this cop Robert Ridge (857 259 9083) ASAP EH Mr Primme Minister > Trudeau the Younger and Donald Trump Jr? > To: pm@pm.gc.ca, Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca, > Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca, djtjr@trumporg.com, > Donald.J.Trump@donaldtrump.com, JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca, > Frank.McKenna@td.com, barbara.massey@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, > Douglas.Johnson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, sandra.lofaro@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, > washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, > gov.press@state.ma.us, bob.ross@state.ma.us, jfurey@nbpower.com, > jfetzer@d.umn.edu, Newsroom@globeandmail.com, sfine@globeandmail.com, > .Poitras@cbc.ca, steve.murphy@ctv.ca, David.Akin@globalnews.ca, > Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, news@kingscorecord.com, > news@dailygleaner.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com, jbosnitch@gmail.com, > andre@jafaust.com> > Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com, DJT@trumporg.com > wharrison@nbpower.com, David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca, > Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca, hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca > >>> 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 >>> >>> 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 >>>>> >>>> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Newsroom <newsroom@globeandmail.com> > Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:09:31 +0000 > Subject: Automatic reply: Perhpas your buddy Ralph Goodale should > cantact the Yankee Governor Charlie Baker and finally have the > warrants for my arrest erased EH Franky Boy McKenna? > To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > > Thank you for contacting The Globe and Mail. > > If your matter pertains to newspaper delivery or you require technical > support, please contact our Customer Service department at > 1-800-387-5400 or send an email to customerservice@globeandmail.com > > If you are reporting a factual error please forward your email to > publiceditor@globeandmail.com<mailto:publiceditor@globeandmail.com> > > Letters to the Editor can be sent to letters@globeandmail.com > > This is the correct email address for requests for news coverage and > press releases. > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 13:09:12 -0400 > Subject: Perhpas your buddy Ralph Goodale should cantact the Yankee > Governor Charlie Baker and finally have the warrants for my arrest > erased EH Franky Boy McKenna? > To: "Frank.McKenna"<Frank.McKenna@td.com>, > barbara.massey@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Douglas.Johnson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, > sandra.lofaro@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, washington field > <washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, "Brenda.Lucki" > <Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, gov.press@state.ma.us, > bob.ross@state.ma.us, "Furey, John"<jfurey@nbpower.com>, jfetzer > <jfetzer@d.umn.edu>, Newsroom <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>, sfine > <sfine@globeandmail.com>, "Jacques.Poitras"<Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>, > "steve.murphy"<steve.murphy@ctv.ca>, "David.Akin" > <David.Akin@globalnews.ca>, "Dale.Morgan" > <Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, news <news@kingscorecord.com>, news > <news@dailygleaner.com>, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, jbosnitch > <jbosnitch@gmail.com>, andre <andre@jafaust.com> > Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>, wharrison > <wharrison@nbpower.com>, "David.Lametti"<David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca>, > mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>, "Jody.Wilson-Raybould" > <Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca>, "hon.ralph.goodale" > <hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca> > > Brendan Moss, Press Secretary, Governor's Office > (617) 725-4025 > gov.press@state.ma.us > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Hon.Ralph.Goodale (PS/SP)"<Hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca> > Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:03:41 +0000 > Subject: Automatic reply: Attn Barbara Massey I just called AGAIN > 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 > > > > > On 6/26/19, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote: >> http://www.goc411.ca/en/95200/Barbara-Massey >> >> Barbara Massey >> Barbara Massey works as Executive Director and Senior General Counsel >> for Justice Canada. >> Barbara can be reached at 613-843-6394 >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: "Liliana (Legal Services) Longo"<Liliana.Longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca> >> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 11:28:36 -0400 >> Subject: Re: Attn Suzelle Bazinet.(613-995-5117) I just earlier >> Whereas I was not allowed to speak to you today its best that we >> confer in writng anyway (Away from the office/absente du bureau) >> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> >> >> I will be away from the office June 26 to 28, 2017. In my absence, >> Barbara Massey will be acting and she can be reached at (613) 843-6394. >> >> Je serai absente du bureau du 26 au 28 juin 2017. En mon absence, >> Barbara Massey sera interimaire et peut être rejointe au (613) 843-6394. >> >> Thank you / Merci >> Liliana >> >> >> Liliana Longo, Q.C., c.r. >> Senior General Counsel / Avocate générale principale >> RCMP Legal Services / Services juridiques GRC >> 73 Leikin Drive / 73 Promenade Leikin >> M8, 2nd Floor / M8, 2ième étage >> Mailstop #69 / Arrêt Postal #69 >> Ottawa, Ontario >> K1A 0R2 >> Tel: (613) 843-4451 >> Fax: (613) 825-7489 >> liliana.longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca >> >> Sandra Lofaro >> Executive Assistant / >> Adjointe exécutive >> (613)843-3540 >> sandra.lofaro@rcmp-grc.gc.ca >> >>>>> David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> 06/27/17 11:28 >>> >> >> Good Day >> >> Please view attachments >> >> Before I file my next lawsuit please explain why my documents which >> included a letter to you and an unsigned draft of a motion that you >> did not want me to file that I sent you in confidence as per your >> request were filed in the Public Record then argued by the Crown and >> even quoted from by Judges of the Federal Court of Appeal? >> >> Whereas the clerks of Federal Court are reluctant to file my brief >> and its exhibits Jan Jensen should at very least give his copy to his >> associate Paul Adams ASAP.EH? >> >> This is Canada Post's tracking history of my documents >> >> Tracking Number PG399580893CA >> >> FREDERICTON, NB >> HALIFAX, NS >> Accepted >> >> Out for delivery >> Date received 2017/06/26 >> Current date 2017/06/27 >> Expected delivery 2017/06/27 >> Delivery details >> ServiceXpresspost >> >> Expected delivery is 2017/06/27 >> >> Perhaps somebody should start acting ethically before the lawyers Bill >> Pentney and John Laskin take a seat on the bench N'esy Pas Mr Prime >> Minister Trudeau "The Younger" ???? Better yet have your lawyers even >> bothered to read paragraph 83 of my first lawsuit yet? >> >> Veritas Vincit >> David Raymond Amos >> 902 800 0369 >> >> Elizabeth Caverly Director: >> Courts Administration Service >> 1720-1801 Hollis St. >> Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 3N4 >> Phone: 902-426-9619 >> Fax: 902-426-5514 >> Email: elizabeth.caverly@cas-satj.gc.ca >> >> >> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=A-48-16&select_court=All >> >> PROCEEDINGS QUERIES >> Recorded entry(ies) for A-48-16 >> >> Court number information Court Number : A-48-16 >> Style of Cause : DAVID RAYMOND AMOS v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN >> Proceeding Category : Appeals Nature : Appeal (S.27 - Interloc.) - >> Others >> Type of Action : Non-Action >> >> >> 70 records found for court number A-48-16 Doc Date Filed Office >> Recorded Entry Summary >> >> - 2017-06-26 Fredericton Memorandum to file from Catharine M. Wilson >> dated 26-JUN-2017 On June 26, 2017, the Appellant/Respondent on >> Cross-Appeal submitted a post hearing brief per the direction of Webb, >> J.A., dated 08-JUN-2017, which is being sent to the FCA for direction >> as the document was submitted late and exceeds the number of pages. >> placed on file. >> >> - 2017-06-08 Ottawa Acknowledgment of Receipt received from both >> parties by email with respect to the Directions dated June 8, 2017 >> placed on file on 08-JUN-2017 >> >> - 2017-06-08 Ottawa Written directions of the Court: The Honourable >> Mr. Justice Webb dated 08-JUN-2017 directing "Please advise the >> parties that Mr. Amos has the right to submit a brief summary (not to >> exceed 5 pages) to explain the exact conflict that, in his view, >> arises in this matter with any of the judges assigned to this appeal >> and to submit any additional documents that are relevant to this >> issue. This summary and documents are to be submitted on or before >> June 23, 2017. [...]" received on 08-JUN-2017 Confirmed in writing to >> the party(ies) >> >> - 2017-05-26 Fredericton Letter from the respondent to Appellant, >> provided by Appellant (copy of the letter) dated 26-MAY-2017 The >> Respondent mentions they want communication from Appellant in written >> letters by mail only, from now on. received on 26-MAY-2017 >> >> - 2017-05-24 Fredericton Request received from MR >> - 2017-05-24 Fredericton Request received from Appellant for CD audio >> of the hearing on 24-MAY-2017 for transcript. Tarriff: $15 paid placed >> on file on 24-MAY-2017 >> >> - 2017-05-24 Fredericton This matter comes on for hearing on >> 24-MAY-2017 at Fredericton before The Honourable Mr. Justice Webb The >> Honourable Mr. Justice Near The Honourable Madam Justice Gleason >> Appearances: David Raymond Amos (self-litigant) 902-800-0369 for the >> appellant Jan Jensen 902-426-8177 for the respondent Language of >> Hearing: E Court Usher: Jason Kennedy Duration: on 24-MAY-2017 from >> 14:03 to 15:58 Courtroom : Courtroom No. 1 - Fredericton Court >> Registrar Michel Morneault Total duration: 1h55min Before the Court: >> Cross-appeal Result: reserved Comments: DARS Z005130 was used for the >> recording of the hearing Minutes of Hearing entered in Vol. 222 >> page(s) 411 - 413 Abstract of Hearing placed on file >> >> 33 2017-04-24 Fredericton Affidavit of David Raymond Amos on behalf of >> Appellant/Respondent on cross-appeal sworn on 24-APR-2017 confirming >> service of doc.32 on Respondent/Appellant on cross-appeal by >> Xpresspost on 24-APR-2017 filed on 24-APR-2017 >> >> 32 2017-04-24 Fredericton Book of Authorities with copy on DVD >> consisting of 1 volume(s) on behalf of Appellant/Respondent on >> cross-appeal Filed on 24-APR-2017 3 copy(ies) for the Court stored in >> Ottawa One copy placed in Annex >> >> 31 2017-04-20 Halifax Solicitor's certificate of service on behalf of >> Jan Jensen confirming service of doc #30 upon Appellant by courier on >> 20-APR-2017 filed on 20-APR-2017 >> >> 30 2017-04-20 Halifax Book of Authorities consisting of 1 volume(s) on >> behalf of HMQ (cross-appeal) Filed on 20-APR-2017 3 copy(ies) for the >> Court stored in Ottawa >> >> >> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: "Liliana (Legal Services) Longo"<Liliana.Longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca> >> Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 12:44:06 -0400 >> Subject: Re: Yo Mr Jensen see attached file I see that you corrupt >> FEDS are on the attack bigtime as of May 24th N'esy Pas? (Away from >> the office/absente du bureau) >> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> >> >> I will be away from the office until June 2, 2017. In my absence, >> Barbara Massey will be acting and she can be reached at (613) >> 843-6394. >> >> Je serai absente du bureau jusqu'au 2 juin 2017. En mon absence, >> Barbara Massey sera interimaire et peut être rejointe au (613) >> 843-6394. >> >> Thank you / Merci >> Liliana >> >> >> Liliana Longo, Q.C., c.r. >> Senior General Counsel / Avocate générale principale >> RCMP Legal Services / Services juridiques GRC >> 73 Leikin Drive / 73 Promenade Leikin >> M8, 2nd Floor / M8, 2ième étage >> Mailstop #69 / Arrêt Postal #69 >> Ottawa, Ontario >> K1A 0R2 >> Tel: (613) 843-4451 >> Fax: (613) 825-7489 >> liliana.longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca >> >> Sharon Dickson >> Executive Assistant / >> Adjointe exécutive >> (613)843-3540 >> Sharon.Dickson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Murray, Charles (Ombud)"<Charles.Murray@gnb.ca> > Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:16:15 +0000 > Subject: You wished to speak with me > To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com"<motomaniac333@gmail.com> > > I have the advantage, sir, of having read many of your emails over the > years. > > > As such, I do not think a phone conversation between us, and > specifically one which you might mistakenly assume was in response to > your threat of legal action against me, is likely to prove a > productive use of either of our time. > > > If there is some specific matter about which you wish to communicate > with me, feel free to email me with the full details and it will be > given due consideration. > > > Sincerely, > > > Charles Murray > > Ombud NB > > Acting Integrity Commissioner > > > > >>>> >>>> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:48:58 -0400 (EDT) >>>> From: "David Raymond Amos"davidramos333@yahoo.ca >>>> Subject: I already know that you are as crooked as Hell Mr Leger. I am >>>> fishing for an honest cop not another corrupt bureaucrat. i am just >>>> proving that you know the truth Get it? >>>> To: Marc.Leger@gnb.ca >>>> CC: Day.S@parl.gc.ca, John.Foran@gnb.ca, pat.bonner@saintjohn.ca, >>>> lou.lafleur@fredericton.ca, infoam@fredericton.cbc.ca, >>>> infomorning@moncton.cbc.ca, infomorning@halifax.cbc.ca, >>>> webo@xplornet.com, Stephane.vaillancourt@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, >>>> alltrue@nl.rogers.com, samperrier@hotmail.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com, >>>> Scott.A@parl.gc.ca, amerrino@gmail.com, deanr0032@hotmail.com, >>>> wickedwanda3@adelphia.net, rfowlo@comcast.net, Harper.S@parl.gc.ca, >>>> bmulroney@ogilvyrenault.com, pcollin@cpa-acp.ca, Dion.S@parl.gc.ca, >>>> Dryden.K@parl.gc.ca, Layton.J@parl.gc.ca, Duceppe.G@parl.gc.ca, >>>> Casey.B@parl.gc.ca, leader@greenparty.ca >>>> >>>> Subject: Mr. Amos >>>> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 11:41:22 -0300 >>>> From: "Leger, Marc (DPS/MSP)"Marc.Leger@gnb.ca >>>> To: "David Raymond Amos"davidramos333@yahoo.ca >>>> David Amos, >>>> >>>> I am not able to address your concerns. >>>> >>>> Your calls and emails are not welcome and I would like you to stop >>>> communicating with me by phone and email >>>> >>>> Marc Léger >>>> Deputy Minister / Sous-ministre >>>> Public Safety / Sécurité publique >>>> (506) 453-7412 marc.leger@gnb.ca >>>> Working together to build a safer New Brunswick / Travaillons ensemble >>>> pour bâtir un Nouveau-Brunswick plus sûr >>>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: Brian Gallant <briangallant10@gmail.com> >>> Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 06:01:57 -0700 >>> Subject: Merci / Thank you Re: Fwd: I just called Alan Roy again about >>> my right to health care, my missing 1965 Harley, the Yankee Wiretaps >>> tapes in its saddlebag and Federal Court and his assistant played dumb >>> as usual >>> To: motomaniac333@gmail.com >>> >>> (Français à suivre) >>> >>> If your email is pertaining to the Government of New Brunswick, please >>> email me at brian.gallant@gnb.ca >>> >>> If your matter is urgent, please email Greg Byrne at greg.byrne@gnb.ca >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> Si votre courriel s'addresse au Gouvernement du Nouveau-Brunswick, >>> svp m'envoyez un courriel à brian.gallant@gnb.ca >>> >>> Pour les urgences, veuillez contacter Greg Byrne à greg.byrne@gnb.ca >>> >>> Merci. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> >>> Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 10:42:09 -0400 >>> Subject: Attn Marc Richard and John McNair I just called AGAIN Say hey >>> to my Brother in Law W. S. Reid CHEDORE and his brother of the law >>> David Lutz QC for me will ya? >>> To: MRichard@lawsociety-barreau.nb.ca, John.McNair@snb.ca, >>> "serge.rousselle"<serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>, Erin.Hardy@snb.ca, >>> David.Eidt@gnb.ca >>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> >>> >>> >>>> ---------- 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 >>>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >
Imagine if it was your child or a gay dude or a father who worshiped some other god than the Christian one? Methinks you liberals would be greatly offended then N'esy Pas?
Cartoonist set to replace de Adder quits, says he 'wouldn't wish this on anyone'
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David R. Amos Surprise Surprise Surprise
George Halbert McKinney The comments here seem to be warming up for the Federal election. Maximize outrage / content. On EVERY side.
David R. Amos
Reply to @George Halbert McKinney: Welcome to the Circus
Brent Grywinski Who wants to work for a business when you make a editorial cartoon that will upset the powers that be and you are canned immediately afterwards?
Glen Williams
Reply to @Brent Grywinski: You are wrong. It was in poor taste to incorporate a dead father and child into the cartoon. It was disgusting. Perhaps when you die a cartoon can be done of you dead in your casket with the casket open and a drink in your hand and someone put a cigarette in your mouth.
Harold Benson
Reply to @Glen Williams: Male cow feces.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Glen Williams: "You are wrong. It was in poor taste to incorporate a dead father and child into the cartoon. It was disgusting"
I Wholeheartedly Agree Sir
Harold Benson Reply to @David R. Amos: But, when the power pees you off, what can you do but yell.
Harold Benson
Reply to @David R. Amos: See ya.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Harold Benson: Methinks Sam forgot to tell you about Federal Court File No T-1557-15 N'esy Pas?
Thomas Thompson
Reply to @Glen Williams: It was a powerful political statement, which is the purpose and goal of most editorial cartoons. Nothing at all to do with taste, good, poor, or otherwise.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Thomas Thompson: Imagine if it was your child or a gay dude or a father who worshiped some other god than the Christian one? Methinks you liberals would be greatly offended then N'esy Pas?
Glen Williams Reply to @Thomas Thompson: Disagree. It was with a dead child and father in it. Disgusting.
Dave Moyer Reply to @Glen Williams: So what do you think of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Dave Moyer: Methinks you should as yourself why Swift published it anonymously N'esy Pas?
Noel Fowles
Reply to @David R. Amos: why don't you give up on the "N'esy Pas" It has become juvenile and trite.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Noel Fowles: Cry me a river
David R. Amo
Reply to @Noel Fowles: Methinks if CBC can block my indignation of a dude making a cartoon about the tragic demise of a father and child I should at least be permitted to have fun with my Chiac N'esy Pas?
Dan Burli A cartoonist is exactly what a stand up comedian is. You can't censor them. You cringe, laugh or whatever move on. There is no politically correct jokes or caricatures. I'm sure after the Trump one he would have done one to meditate the outradgeous one.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Dan Burli: Methinks you can also not employ a nasty stand up comedian in your venue if you don't wish to N'esy Pas?
Greg Smith So far in one month BNI has blocked reports of just how little carbon tax they'll pay compared to NB taxpayers, and now muzzled a political cartoonist known for his critique of Trump. Is it any surprise that the wealthy oligarchs are looking after their own ilk? I bet the Irvings and Trumps use the same network of accountants in the Cayman Islands.
David R. Amos Reply to @Greg Smith: Methinks everybody knows the Irving Clan has been known to employ KPMG N'esy Pas?
Al Clark LOL this has already shaken irvnews' foundations so much that they've issued TWO explanations when they normally just ignore the news and hope it goes away, like the Hogan lawsuit and the TFW village in Chipman. Now things get hotter! I love it!!!!!
David R. Amos Reply to @Al Clark: "Now things get hotter! I love it!!!!!"
Me Too Methinks its interesting that I would agree with you N'esy Pas?
Eileen Kinley The fact that BNI contacted Perry a few weeks before axing de Adder does not mean de Adder's Trump cartoons were not a factor. From one of the earlier articles:
On Twitter, de Adder also said that every Trump cartoon he submitted for the past year was axed.
It *is* shameful that people on social media lashed out at Perry, to the point where he decided not to take the job. Having said that, given that BNI insisted on running his cartoon when he asked them not to he may be better off in the end.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Eileen Kinley: Well put
Stephen Gillis BNI sounds like a pretty sketchy organization from all this.
John Gerrits
Reply to @Stephen Gillis: BNI(Irving)....New Brunswick......what's good for Irving is good for NB.....1 in the same.
David R. Amos
Reply to @John Gerrits: Methinks if you wanted to jerk an old dog's chain to hear him growl consider yourself a raging success However i will wager that was just a joke N'esy Pas?
David Sampson The Irvings need to attend to what they do best, bleed the system and pursue greed in all it's industrial colorful manners. They know absolutely nothing about journalism except they excise the power to control it if we ascend to their ignorance. Maybe it's time to intervene and stop fringe right wing industrialists from participation in media ownership!
David R. Amos Reply to @David Sampson: Methinks the Yankees have some pretty good laws that put a stop to monopolies Perhaps we should adopt a few N'esy Pas?
Fred Brewer I admire and respect Mr. Perry for withdrawing his acceptance of the BNI job. Having said that, and after viewing his first cartoon, I am beginning to see why BNI hired him in the first place. That's a very pro oil & gas cartoon if there ever was one.
David R. Amos Reply to @Fred Brewer: "I am beginning to see why BNI hired him in the first place. That's a very pro oil & gas cartoon if there ever was one."
Me too
Richard McDonell Two thoughts: First, being from the far side of the country, I know nothing of BNI, but so far they seem to be jerks. Second: I really think the world was a better place before "social media." It seems to be a platform for internally ugly people to spout their hatred and drivel from a position of relative anonymity.
David R. Amos Reply to @Richard McDonell: "I really think the world was a better place before "social media"
Methinks a as a long suffering blogger before there ever was such at thing I obviously strongly disagree as is my right particularly in light of the fact that the Irving Clan killed my first blog with Google in 2008 N'esy Pas?
BTW I cut my teeth raising political hell with Yankees within Yahoo Geo Cities and many Internet forums way back in the 1990's long before i ran for a seat in Parliament in 2004 or Google filed their IPO
Shawn McShane Deer biologist who spent years working for the government of New Brunswick who said plunging deer populations in the province are part of a larger crisis in New Brunswick’s forests...just got fired...in this place.
Coincidence?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Shawn McShane: Nope
Andy Macphail Brunswick News has turfed a lot of good journalism people over the years.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Andy Macphail: Please name just one
James Risdon Greg, You can't let the tin foil hat segment of the social media world dictate your life. It's your life and they're your cartoons and so it's your decision.
A lot of people on social media - and in a lot of media columns and websites these days - talk trash and say things they'd never have the guts to repeat to the face of the person they are attacking. In my view, such people are cowards and have no moral right to dictate how anyone will live his or her life.
Whatever you decide to do, Greg, I wish you well.
JJ Carrier
Reply to @James Risdon: Read the previous article when Perry was called out by that freaky looking fellow cartoonist as a lightweight...When you were part of our local media James, if you remember, in your Chaleur-Restigouche years we sometimes disagreed on coverage in our respective media but we 'pooled' at bigger events and rarely attacked each other in print or in person in such an unprofessional manner when we didn't see eye to eye...You sink or swim together...In the Bennett, Port of Belledune, Biker Wars, 2003 Canada Winter Games, and Belledune coverage, which were big files we always showed respect to each other from Gaspe to Miramichi...Methinks this cartoonist needs to apologize to Greg...Also, him saying de Adder is the best? Not as long as Terry Mosher is alive..
James Risdon
Reply to @JJ Carrier: That's just one guy's opinion. It's not a big deal. Yes, back in the day journalists did show some sort of professional respect to one another. Even when they disagreed in private, in editorial story meetings or over a beer at the pub, they'd at least be civil to one another in public. Those days, alas, seem to be gone. These days, all bets are off, it seems.
I've been called everything from "a legend" and "the best journalist in New Brunswick" to stuff so negative and nasty that I can't repeat it here because I'm sure it wouldn't be tolerated. Let's just say not everyone is a fan. Far from it.
And that's okay.
We're all just doing the best we can, learning from our mistakes and moving forward. There will almost always be someone better than us - and someone all too ready to remind us of that fact. That's a good thing.
By accepting that we're not the best, we can also accept that there are things we can learn to become better.
Twenty years ago or so, I won journalism awards. Since then, I've learnt to build news websites, consulted on editorial projects for news organizations, learnt how to make videos, managed public meetings, overseen a trade show, handled e-commerce, set up a business, freelanced for a newspaper chain that didn't even exist back in the day, written and voiced over radio ads, hosted a cable TV show, run for public office - albeit unsuccessfully so far - three times, managed social media for a municipality, built a website for a local business - and taught myself to play the guitar and a bit of other stuff too.
The more I learn and the more I do, the more I realize I'm not the best and that I still have a lot to learn.
Greg Perry should hang in there. Right now, he's his own worst critic.
David R. Amos
Reply to @James Risdon: "Let's just say not everyone is a fan. Far from it"
Methinks that is true N'esy Pas?
James Risdon
Reply to @David R. Amos: Everything I say is true. I am an incorrigibly honest straight shooter.
David R. Amos
Reply to @James Risdon: So you say and I am just chopped liver correct?
James Risdon
Reply to @David R. Amos: I've never made any claims about you being liver, chopped or otherwise. ;-)
David R. Amos
Reply to @James Risdon: I am not laughing
James Risdon
Reply to @David R. Amos: Well, you should. Laughter is, after all, the best medicine. Unless one has an actual, serious medical condition. Then, medicine is the best medicine.
David R. Amos
Reply to @James Risdon: Tell that to the cops who assaulted me and see if they will laugh with you?
Jonathan Lemon BNI's handling of this is a PR disaster.
James Risdon
Reply to @Jonathan Lemon: Not necessarily. For one thing, it's not over yet. They still have time to turn this around. And, secondly, they've got everyone talking about their newspapers and curious to see the editorial cartoons. That's a lot of free publicity.
David R. Amos
Reply to @James Risdon: Yea Right Methinks you are hustling for a job N'esy Pas?
James Risdon: You know, most of you are forgetting a very important thing. U.S. President Donald Trump doesn't care about you.
He doesn't care about your views on the Irvings. He doesn't care about Brunswick News. And he certainly doesn't care if Michael de Adder produces yet another cartoon in the media mocking him.
Trump probably couldn't even find New Brunswick on the map, much less care what all of you and de Adder think of him.
He's the president of the United States of America, one of the world's super-powers. Last year, the United States had a gross domestic product of $20.5 TRILLION U.S. dollars. That's 10 times the economy of our entire country.
New Brunswick is very small potatoes in this bigger scheme of things.
It would be ridiculous for the Irvings to think Trump would somehow be so incensed by one editorial cartoon in their papers in our tiny province that he would take any sort of action against their business interests.
Whatever happened between de Adder and Brunswick News almost certainly has nothing to do with Trump. To believe otherwise is to think the Irvings are paranoid and Trump is an overly-sensitive childish brat.
They're not. And, whatever his other failings, Trump is not either.
David R. Amos
Reply to @James Risdon: Methinks your political party leader should have told you to Google the folllowing N'esy Pas?
Trump Cohen Amos NAFTA TPP FATCA
David R. Amos Reply to @James Risdon: "I don't have a political party leader"
Did the KISS Party grow tired of you too?.
James Risdon Reply to @David R. Amos: Not to the best of my knowledge. As soundly defeated as I was in the last election, I did, after all, get the most votes of any of the KISS candidates. But the KISS party no longer exists. So, my statement still holds. I have no party leader. Not that it would be relevant to this conversation anyways. It's not like KISS had a direct line to the White House or was being backed by the Irvings.
Harold Benson
Reply to @James Risdon: i'll bet you vote libby
James Risdon
Reply to @Harold Benson: Oh?
David R. Amos
Reply to @James Risdon: "I did, after all, get the most votes of any of the KISS candidates"
Methinks if you measure a dude's integrity by the number of votes they get then Trump and Trudeau should be your heroes and I am just chopped liver N'esy Pas?
Cartoonist set to replace de Adder quits, says he 'wouldn't wish this on anyone'
Greg Perry says social media backlash has 'destroyed' his character and cartoons
A cartoon by Greg Perry appeared in Wednesday's newspapers even though he says he asked Brunswick News not to use any of his work anymore. (Greg Perry/Brunswick News Inc.)
The cartoonist who was set to replace Michael de Adder at Brunswick News Inc. says he no longer wants to work for the company and asked that his cartoons be kept off the editorial pages of its newspapers.
In a statement to CBC News, Greg Perry said the social media backlash after BNI parted ways with de Adder, then used his name in statements about the decision, has taken a toll.
"I don't use social media, but person/persons who do have used it to essentially destroy my character and my cartoon work.
"All this over a job that pays the same per month as a job at a grocery chain. I wouldn't wish this on anyone."
The Halifax-based de Adder was let go last week, just days after his cartoon depicting U.S. President Donald Trump playing golf next to the bodies of two dead migrants went viral.
His supporters on social media took up de Adder's cause, accusing BNI of dropping the cartoonist for business reasons having to do with the Irving interests that own BNI not wanting to antagonize Trump.
In a statement, BNI has said that letting de Adder go was not related to the Trump cartoon.
"The decision to bring back reader favourite Greg Perry was made long before this cartoon, and negotiations had been ongoing for weeks," said the newspaper chain, which owns all three English-language dailies in the province and almost all of the weeklies.
BNI called before Trump cartoon
Perry's statement on Wednesday confirmed that BNI made its offer weeks before de Adder posted his Trump cartoon. He said a BNI representative contacted him at the beginning of June to ask him to start working for the newspapers again. He previously worked alongside de Adder, but was let go two years ago.
Perry, who lives in Vancouver, said he didn't accept the offer immediately but weighed his options during the next two weeks. He finally accepted the offer "at the urging of some friends and family members," he said.
On Friday, he was asked to provide cartoons he'd already drawn in case de Adder decided he didn't want to work the two-week departure agreement.
Then "several critical events" took place over the long weekend, Perry said. These included a social media backlash after de Adder tweeted that he was let go from Brunswick News after 17 years.
Halifax-based Michael de Adder announced on Friday that Brunswick News Inc. would no longer be using his cartoons. (Mairin Prentiss/CBC)
Perry said the resulting social media outrage, and the "the resulting attacks on me after BNI used my name in a clarification story etc. — caused me to change my mind" about accepting the offer.
He said he informed BNI that "it would be best if they found someone else to draw cartoons."
The chain "insisted on running the cartoons I'd provided way back on Friday, despite my asking them not to," said Perry, whose work also appears in the Toronto Star.
Perry said he has not drawn any cartoons specifically for BNI since he accepted, then rejected, the company's offer.
Jamie Irving's appearance at trial postponed for medical reasons
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David R. Amos Methinks Irving's ex newsrag employees can be quite bitter N'esy Pas?
Harold Benson A panic attack no doubt.
David R. Amos Reply to @Harold Benson: Methinks he can't handle 3 Surprises in a row N'esy Pas?
Lou Bell I cannot tell a l i e
David R. Amos Reply to @Lou Bell: You just did
Murray Brown Can you imagine a member of the Irving family actually testifying under oath? That will never happen. There will be no Irving taking any stand at any trial... The case will be resolved before that happens.
James Risdon Reply to @Murray Brown: No-one is above the law.
Roland Stewart Reply to @James Risdon: You just wake up out of a coma lol. Not being sarcastic just not sure if you are serious.
Layton Bennett Reply to @James Risdon: I take you don't live in New Brunswick.
James Risdon Reply to @Layton Bennett: I do live in New Brunswick. Wonderful place.
JJ Carrier Reply to @Roland Stewart: No one is above the law...Conspiracy addicts like you should know by now even Frank Branch was caught...
Harold Benson Reply to @James Risdon: Dream on.
David R. Amos Reply to @James Risdon: "No-one is above the law."
Yea Right
David R. Amos Reply to @Murray Brown: Good Point Sir
JJ Carrier Reply to @JJ Carrier: And for $400 Roland on Bathurst Jeopardy, tell me why I mentioned Frank Branch...I know James can answer this...
David R. Amos Reply to @JJ Carrier: You snobby dudes would have no clue that I talked to Frank Branch and he gave me the name of the prosecutor they were bringing down from Quebec to deal with him Then I called and emailed the dude and he never came did he? Do tell did you ever wondered how Branch's lawyer got out of trouble or how young Oland managed t get another trial or why his former lawyer backed away?
Buddy Best Reply to @Murray Brown: So there is no chance this is a coaching session? Never had much trust in anyone called Irving or associated to them in any way. wonder Why?
Buddy Best Reply to @James Risdon: "No-one is above the law. " LOL Is that your attempt at sarcasm or humor? The Law is bought and sold like bananas.
David R. Amos Reply to @Buddy Best: Methinks you need to relax and enjoy the circus N'esy Pas?
James Risdon Jamie Irving probably seems rich beyond the dreams of avarice to many of us regular folks and his family does have a longstanding track record of tough business dealings but the man is still a fellow human being.
If he's sick, it behooves us as decent human beings to treat him with compassion and dignity and, if we are people of faith, to pray for his speedy recovery.
David R. Amos Reply to @James Risdon: Yea Right tell us another one
Daryl Doucette I'm not quite grasping what really happened here. A " connected " person got invited to " Larrys Gulch" for a fishing trip. Big deal. The muckie mucks do that all the time. That's one of the perks of rubbing shoulders with the big boys.
Al Clark Reply to @daryl doucette: Thanks for letting us know?
Daryl Doucette Reply to @Al Clark: Enlighten me with your take on this monsewer clark si vous plait
Al Clark Reply to @daryl doucette: I read the articles. There's nothing stopping you from doing the same.... ...
David R. Amos Reply to @Al Clark: You can read? WOW
Methinks many would never have thunk it N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Reply to @daryl doucette: "I'm not quite grasping what really happened here"
Checkout CanadaLand back then
David R. Amos Reply to @daryl doucette:
"BNI’s internal investigation immediately follows inquiries made by CANADLAND to current and former employees.
An email from an Irving
Irving empire scion Jamie Irving, who oversees the family’s newspaper monopoly and rarely replies to media inquiries, provided comment to CANADALAND.
Asked about the status of the three editors, Guy’s alleged meeting with government officials, the paper chain’s knowledge of the meeting and its failure to report on it, Irving tells CANADALAND that “the matters you raise are under active investigation and an internal process is in play regarding some employees.”
Irving also confirmed that Editor-in-Chief Brethour is leading the internal investigation.
Larry’s Gulch: Powerful Men & Secret Salmon
Larry’s Gulch, a secluded government-owned fishing retreat, has been shrouded in secrecy and controversy. For decades it has provided seclusion for private summits between powerful men, as in 2002 when then Premier Bernard Lord hosted Brian Mulroney, George H.W. Bush and Pierre Karl Péladeau. It is also rented out for public and private events, and used by government departments for routine meetings.
According to a November 12, 2012 Telegraph-Journal editorial, Larry’s Gulch is a place where “advice is sought, strategies are devised, and new relationships are forged between representatives of government and potential investors.
David R. Amos Reply to @David R. Amos:
"In fact, in 2012 and 2013, the Irving’s Brunswick News papers mounted an aggressive campaign against the government for refusing to release the list of guests it brought to the taxpayer funded resort. Between November 2012 and July 2013, BNI’s three lead papers applied steady pressure, publishing no less than 10 stories on the subject.
But all that came to a screeching halt in late 2013 when, sources tell CANADALAND, Telegraph-Journal reporter Shawn Berry learned that among the government guests at the resort was his Brunswick News superior, Managing Editor Murray Guy.
Though Shawn Berry informed his editors about what he discovered, BNI never reported it and the editorializing and reporting on the Larry’s Gulch guest list stopped. At the time, John Wishart was the Editor-in-Chief of Brunswick News.
Roughly a year after the incident, Shawn Berry left BNI. He is now a spokesperson for New Brunswick premier Brian Gallant. He did not reply to requests for comment."
David R. Amos Reply to @daryl doucette: Guess who gave Jesse Baby the tip about Bernard Lord hosting Brian Mulroney and George H.W. Bush?
Fred Brewer Aww come on. Are we really expected to believe that?
David R. Amos Reply to @Fred Brewer: Of course
JJ Carrier My sources within BNI say it's mental health related...Considering he once fired me for going blind, I will take the high road and say get well soon...Then quit...That is all...
James Risdon Reply to @JJ Carrier: Is Jamie having mental health issues for real?
JJ Carrier Reply to @James Risdon: He always has...Considering I have worked for three of the Irvings running the press side, he has always had problems compared to the other big two as his personality and attitudes towards BNI are obviously erratic and off-kilter...Former employees of the company, who are not on gag order, can attest that, most days, he really has/had no focus in running the company...By my count, this is the seventh major public scandal BNI has been in since he came in in the mid-2000s...Two this week alone...Harpergate, Plagergate, the Weekly Purges, etc etc...
JJ Carrier Reply to @James Risdon: Any presentation by Jamie on the stand would, dare I say, expose much...
David R. Amos Reply to @JJ Carrier: Methinks if I were Jamie I would sue you I be you would love that N'esy Pas?
Jamie Irving's appearance at trial postponed for medical reasons
Brunswick News VP was supposed to testify Thursday in wrongful dismissal suit of former managing editor
CBC News·
Jamie Irving, Brunswick News vice-president, had been expected to testify Thursday but instead will be in court July 16. (Jamie Irving/Google Plus)
Testimony from Brunswick News vice-president Jamie Irving in a wrongful dismissal lawsuit has been postponed due to a medical condition.
Former Times & Transcript managing editor Al Hogan is suing the newspaper company for wrongful dismissal in relation to his 2015 firing, which came after an internal investigation over a controversial trip involving one of his employees.
In court in Moncton Thursday, Court of Queen's Bench Justice Denise LeBlanc said she had received an affidavit from Dr. Bruce Campbell that said Irving should rest for a period of at least four weeks, after which, his medical condition should be re-evaluated.
No information was given in court about the medical condition.
Speaking via teleconference, Catherine Lahey, Irving's lawyer, said her client's preference was to get the matter resolved before the end of those four weeks.
Irving's testimony has been rescheduled to July 16, with the next day set aside for closing arguments.
The weeklong trial heard from Hogan, as well as a former senior adviser to then-premier David Alward, and former editors-in-chief at the paper.
The controversy is centered around Murray Guy, then assistant managing editor, accepting a free trip to the provincial government fishing lodge Larry's Gulch, and attempts to have documents altered to conceal his visit after the fact.
Guy's name appeared on a guest list for the lodge obtained by one of the company's reporters through a right-to-information request.
Testimony revealed Hogan deleted parts of an email he was asked to submit to the company, that suggested removing Guy's name from the official guest list.
Hogan said he wasn't trying to have Guy's name removed, only the reference to where he worked, because he had permission to go to the lodge as a private citizen, not as a representative of the newspaper.
He said the 2015 investigation was "a sham" and the company "intentionally manipulated" the findings to fire him to achieve "an underlying objective to concentrate editorial control over its publications in its corporate directors, including Irving," according to the statement of claim.
David R. Amos "Redmond also created a private Facebook Group — called Friends of "Rod Cumberland" Too Too Funny Methinks Chucky Leblanc and certain politicians will enjoy the email I just sent them Perhaps things will get lively inside the "Private" Facebook Group ce soir N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @David R. Amos: I was the first to comment and now I may be the last. All heard in the "mean" time in here is crickets while I read folks complaining about this that and the other thing as usual. Methinks I should take some of the summer off just like my political foes do and wait for the writ to drop in September if not before N'esy Pas?
Terrance Thomase Mom always told me, don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Stanley Beemish
Reply to @Terrance Thomasen: Engraved in the door of the company store. Keep them meek, the timid and weak.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Stanley Beemish: Methinks that simple rule works like a charm N'esy Pas?
Mac Isaac I don't and won't pretend, as some do, that I have the scientific knowledge or expertise to judge whether or not Mr. Cumberland should have been let go, but I strongly suspect that he was a casualty of his own hubris, in thinking that his educated opinion was more important than the opinions (educated or not) of those who decide things like his ongoing employment. The one inadvertent thing that I think IS happening when such firings occur and are publicized is that people, hence voters, become more aware of what is happening, and has been happening, in the forests of New Brunswick. Forestry companies should take note!
David R. Amos Reply to @Mac Isaac: "I strongly suspect that he was a casualty of his own hubris"
BINGO
Steve Jobs So the WHO says it's probably carcinogenic and Health Canada says it's probably not.... So who's lying? (Hint - It's probably not the one governed by multiple countries who have no financial ties or incentives to protect Monsanto....)
David R. Amos Reply to @Steve Jobs: Methinks the real Steve Jobs encountered some sort of carcinogenic substance N'esy Pas?
Kyle Woodman All the other Forestry companies in NB must just love Irving. Irving shoulders all the blame for practices that are used by every large forestry company in NB. Irving is an NB company. I guess people don't care if foreign owned companies do the same thing in our province. NB is full of Hypocrites. Company Licence Area (ha)
AV Cell Inc. (India) 1 Upsalquitch 421,350
Fornebu Lumber Company Inc. 2 Nepisiguit 257,024 (NB) 3 Lower Miramichi 310,599 4 Upper Miramichi 381,293 DNR - Kent License (NB) 5 Kent 70,815 J.D. Irving Ltd. (NB) 6 Queens-Charlotte 622,332 7 Fundy 424,308 AV Nackawic Inc. (India) 8 York 257,605 Twin Rivers Paper Company 9 Carleton 130,896 (US) 10 Restigouche-Tobique 396,283
Steve Jobs
Reply to @Kyle Woodman: No one cares which company is doing the bad things - It's just easier to point to the big companies because everyone knows their names..
Colin Seeley
Reply to @Steve Jobs:
Consider yourself pointed.
Colin Seeley
Reply to @Kyle Woodman:
Excellent post. But the paid anarchies and “ ists “ will pay no heed.
They are never in doubt and always wrong.
Candy Parker
Reply to @Kyle Woodman: Irving is actually a Bermudian company who happens to operate in New Brunswick Canada.
Stanley Beemish
Reply to @Candy Parker: Thanks Candy, good point. And I believe that Twin Rivers is Canadian as they are owned by Brookfield Asset Management.
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @Stanley Beemish: Twin Rivers was acquired by Atlas Holdings and Blue Wolf Capital both US investment Firms. JDI is Headquartered in Saint John NB. The Bermuda stuff has more to do with the wealth they acquire from running the company and how they avoid personal / inheritance taxes. They pay corporate taxes in NB despite what all the parrots tell you. I'm no Irving lover but this irrational hatred is a little ridiculous. CORPORATIONS are interested in profits, whether you like it or not, is irrelevant. Corporations by definition will do all they can to maximize profits. That's the whole point. They are not non-profit organizations. People should take more issue with the politicians that create the policies than the corporations that take advantage of them. Quit voting for corporate shills if you want things to change
David R. Amos
Reply to @Stanley Beemish: Methinks The Honourable Frank J. McKenna, P.C., O.C., O.N.B. should be able to answer your quandaryabout dealing with the Yankee in Atlas Holdings and Blue Wolf Capital N'esy Pas?
Travis Micheal Davis The disinformation runs deep in this comment section and the article itself.
Harold Benson
Reply to @Travis Micheal Davis: Yes, you need to become informed.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Travis Micheal Davis: Methinks you should pick up the phone and call me Trust that i will send you down the right path if you truly seek the truth N'esy Pas?
Alexander Forbes What the Irvings want the Irvings get...
David R. Amos
Reply to @Alexander Forbes: Methinks that goes without saying N'esy Pas?
Kyle Woodman It's kind of funny because there is more roundup used on potatoes in this province than all the forestry and NB power combined.
Keep eating those chips and fries though folks. It's also in the cereal that you eat in the morning, the bread you make your sandwich with and corn you have for supper. There is residue in baby food even. But who wants to talk about that.
Greg Miller
Reply to @Kyle Woodman: Yes, it's OK to have toxic residue in your food but heaven forbid you want to spot-spray your lawn!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Greg Miller: And your point is?
Tessie Quinn This from a province with the highest rates of cancer. The new owner of Monsanto and Roundup is paying out thousands of $$$ to persons who have sued the company for being the cause of their cancer. The provincial government says it is reducing the amount of spray. No amount of glyphosate is safe . Even the WHO has come out against this chemical. This chemical is killing people.
Greg Miller
Reply to @tessie quinn: Just curious--does New Brunswick have the highest rate of cancer in Canada? I'm interested--do you have a reference? Thanks.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Greg Miller: Methinks you should ask the Minister of Health the dude who has the same name as the centre where Cumberland once worked N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Surprise Surprise Surprise
David R. Amos
Reply to @David R. Amos: Methinks these snobby people must remember laughing at me over 5 year ago Now its my turn to laugh at them N'esy Pas?
Fired college instructor's views on glyphosate at root of dismissal, says former colleague
Rod Cumberland was fired from the Maritime College of Forest Technology on June 20
CBC News·
Rod Cumberland was fired from the Maritime College of Forest Technology on June 20. (CBC)
Rod Cumberland, a well-known wildlife biologist, has been fired from his teaching post at the Maritime College of Forest Technology in Fredericton.
A letter from the college outlined multiple reasons for his dismissal on June 20, but a former employee believes Cumberland's outspokenness against glyphosate, a controversial herbicide used by the New Brunswick forest industry, was a factor.
"All I know is I was there and now I'm not, and that's probably the most factual thing I can say right now," Cumberland told CBC News.
Among the accusations against Cumberland listed in the letter are that he prevented students from attending his class because they were late, insisted that they remove their hats in class, and made disparaging remarks in the community about the college, its director and some fellow instructors.
The letter also said he engaged "in communication and a course of conduct, both at MCFT and in the community at large, that constitutes harassment and has caused embarrassment and damage to the reputation of MCFT."
CBC News New Brunswick
Fired forestry college instructor said he stuck to the facts on glyphosate
Wildlife biologist Rod Cumberland says he always stressed looking at all the science in his classes at the Maritime College ofFore st Technology in Fredericton. 1:34
Cumberland said he was surprised by the decision to fire him and is unclear on the college's reasoning.
"It doesn't make sense when you look at it on the surface," he said.
The deer biologist and competitive lumberjack has spent 29 years working for the provincial Department of Natural Resources and the Fredericton-based ranger school.
After leaving government, he began publicly discussing the effects of the herbicide glyphosate on New Brunswick's forests and, in particular, the deer population.
I knew that Rod was vulnerable.- Gerald Redmond, college's former executive director
The college, originally called the Maritime Forest Ranger School, was established as a co-operative venture of the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia governments and forest industries, according to the college's website.
Its Fredericton campus is on the grounds of the Hugh John Flemming Forestry Centre, also a co-operative venture of government agencies, educational institutions and industry associations.
Deterring students
The dismissal letter said Cumberland undermined the content of a vegetation management seminar approved by the college.
Cumberland said he was accused of deterring students from attending the seminar, adding that was never the case.
Cumberland, pictured splitting wood at his home, has been outspoken about the impact of glyphosate on New Brunswick's forests and deer population. (CBC)
"I encouraged them to look at all the science," he said, "and encouraged them to even critique me.
Look at what I'm saying, see if it's true or not. I think that's a wise thing to do [for] anything in life. Get all the facts before you make a decision."
Gerald Redmond, the college's former executive director who retired in 2017, said he was pressured during his tenure to reprimand Cumberland.
He said Cumberland's outspokenness against glyphosate is probably the "real reason" why he was fired.
"I knew that Rod was vulnerable," said Redmond, who hired Cumberland twice — once in government and again at the college.
Gerald Redmond believes the 'real reason' for Cumberland's dismissal was his outspokenness on glyphosate. (CBC)
"Because even when I was the executive director, I felt pressure from the board of governors in several instances, to try to sanction Rod for his outspokenness on the glyphosate herbicide."
Redmond said the forest industry does not like what Cumberland says on the issue. He said he should be reinstated.
Statement from the board
The college's board of governors responded to an interview request with a statement Wednesday afternoon that said it will not comment on personnel issues, while reaffirming support for current executive director Tim Marshall.
The board also said it's aware of Redmond's views, saying he "was not involved in the decision in question nor was he privy to the information that led to the decision."
Green Party Leader David Coon said the Department of Post-secondary Education, Training and Labour should launch an internal inquiry into the matter and make the results public.
He said it's another instance in which an institution is not standing up to the "powers that be"— meaning government and the forestry sector, he said. It's not the first time that action has been taken against a scientist who has been outspoken about forestry industry practices, he said.
Green Party Leader David Coon said the province should investigate Cumberland's dismissal from the Maritime College of Forest Technology, which has a Fredericton campus at the Hugh John Flemming Forestry Centre. (CBC)
"It's clear to me that his dissent is the problem," Coon said.
Redmond also created a private Facebook Group — called Friends of "Rod Cumberland"— in support of his former colleague. Many graduates posted to the group, calling the firing "outrageous" and questioning the real reasons behind it.
The posts said Cumberland was a teacher who promoted a good work ethic, discipline and punctuality and that he was an ethical, thoughtful and caring instructor.
'Court cases being won'
Cumberland said modern, independent studies on glyphosate are producing more evidence that the product can be harmful to animals, including humans. In 2015, the World Health Organization classified the herbicide as "probably carcinogenic to humans."
"There are court cases being won all across North American right now based on a lot of evidence, and I think that evidence speaks for itself," he said.
Bayer, which purchased glyphosate-producer Monsanto, was ordered by a Californian jury in May to pay $2 billion in damages to a couple who alleged the herbicide gave them cancer.
Plaintiffs in two other Californian cases were awarded tens of millions of dollars in damages. The company disputes the allegations that the product can be linked to cancer and is appealing the decisions.
The product is banned in several areas across the globe, including on Crown land in Quebec.
Some residents have complained about the use of glyphyosate on New Brunswick trees. (CBC)
In Canada, separate class-action lawsuits against Bayer and Monsanto have been launched in Saskatchewan and Quebec.
Fired college instructor's views on glyphosate at root of dismissal, says former colleague
Rod Cumberland was fired from the Maritime College of Forest Technology on June 20 CBC News · Posted: Jul 03, 2019 7:48 PM AT
Seems that I just did N'esy Pas?
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rod Cumberland <rcumberland@mcft.ca> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 15:56:09 -0300 Subject: RE: Yo Chucky Baby Methinks that your buddies the IRVINGS and even the Feds are nervous now that your pal Charles Thériault has met my challenge and seeks public office Surprise Surprise N'esy Pas??? To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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Roderick E. Cumberland BScF, Certified Wildlife Biologist
Wildlife Instructor Maritime College of Forest Technology 1350 Regent Street Fredericton NB Canada E3C 2G6 Office: 506 458 0678 Cell: 506 470 4728 Fax: 506 458 0679 rcumberland@mcft.ca
-----Original Message----- From: David Amos [mailto:motomaniac333@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 2:16 PM To: rcumberland@mcft.ca Cc: David Amos Subject: Fwd: Yo Chucky Baby Methinks that your buddies the IRVINGS and even the Feds are nervous now that your pal Charles Thériault has met my challenge and seeks public office Surprise Surprise N'esy Pas???
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 12:02:48 -0300 Subject: Fwd: David Coon of the Green Meanies Roberta Clowater, Graham Forbes, Kent Hardy, and all their pals on CBC should ask Chucky Leblanc's Indian pals to say Hoka Hey to his buddies the Irvings, SWN, Alward and Gallant on behalf of John and Jane Doe N'esy Pas? To: gredmond@mcft.ca Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:39:58 -0300 Subject: Fwd: David Coon of the Green Meanies Roberta Clowater, Graham Forbes, Kent Hardy, and all their pals on CBC should ask Chucky Leblanc's Indian pals to say Hoka Hey to his buddies the Irvings, SWN, Alward and Gallant on behalf of John and Jane Doe N'esy Pas? To: forbes@unb.ca, briangallant10 <briangallant10@gmail.com>, "bruce.northrup"<bruce.northrup@gnb.ca>, brian.gallant@gnb.ca, "terry.seguin"<terry.seguin@cbc.ca> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Graham Forbes, PhD
Joint appointment with Biology
Areas of expertise
Wildlife ecology Park management Conservation biology Research interests
The research conducted by myself and with my graduate students typically relates to acquiring information that can be used by resource managers in maintaining wildlife or biodiversity. Our work focuses on mammals, birds, and herpetofauna. We often work with management agencies such as Parks Canada (national parks), provincial departments of natural resources and wildlife, and industry. As Director of the New Brunswick Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, I assist provincial wildlife managers with some of their research questions. My area of personal interest is in meso-carnivore ecology.
Greater Fundy ecosystem project Contact information
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Amos"<motomaniac333@gmail.com> To: <mjs837@nyu.edu> Cc: "David Amos"<david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 9:49 PM Subject: Re Fracking wars Mr Slade Trust that there is a lot more to this than what Chucky or the protesters or the RCMP or the politicians will tell you
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This is good stuff. Thank you very much. Just email me at my hotmail account, I'll get it just the same.
I believe Willi (A bit of a nut) and Maxime and his wife (they mean what they say) are harmless two bit players who genuinely care about the environment. The proof of the pudding is they stand in line and are willing to be arrested
The local masters of disaster orchestring things behind the scenes are the very greedy little Indian lawyers TJ Burke and Pam Palmater, the Green meanies funded by Tides etc David Coon, local leader of Green Party the Council of Canadians Council of Canadians Maude Barlow and the strange anarchists of the Occupy crowd funded by George Soros
You already met one of the biggest shit disturbers that runs with David Coon Maude Barlow and Dizzy Lizzy May Her name is Pamela Ross she got her friends to block you twice thus far.
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:56:53 -0300 Subject: Re: Do you recognize these names? To: Joshua Skurnik <joshua.skurnik@sunmedia.ca>
Cook
On 10/28/13, Joshua Skurnik <joshua.skurnik@sunmedia.ca> wrote: > Thank you very much. Do you know which ones are administrators of Shale > Gas > Alerts NB, the Facebook group? > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Oct 28, 2013, at 11:48 PM, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 10/28/13, Joshua Skurnik <joshua.skurnik@sunmedia.ca> wrote: >>> Loraine Clair Don't know her >>> >>> Jim Pictou Warrior General >>> >>> Seven Bernard Warrior >>> >>> Jason Okay Warrior >>> >>> Greg Cook Bullshitting writer from Saint John >>> >>> Wilhelmina ('Will') Nolan Nice skinny black/indina lady they call granny >>> >>> Melanie Elward Don't know her >>> >>> Ann Pohl Old woman loves to argue >>> >>> Rachel Dalgle Don't know her but she maybe that little french girl that >>> was arrested in June >>> >>> Suzanne Patles Young warrior with big mouth from Cape Breton >>> >>> I know that Pictou and Okay are part of the six who had bail hearings. >>> What about the others? >>> >>> Josh >>> P.S I died laughing watching you talk to Amy Sock >>> >>> JOSHUA SKURNIK | MOBILE JOURNALIST >>> >>> t 604.322.2360 | c (604).649.3011 | joshua.skurnik@sunmedia.ca >>> >>> 24 West 2nd Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1B3 >>> www.sunnewsnetwork.ca Sun News Network is Canada's home for Hard News >>> and >>> Straight Talk. Sun News Network is a division of Quebecor Media Inc. >>> >>> >
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Is Halifax "media co-op""reporter a real journalist or a propagandist, or perhaps a RCMP rat? Injin "war chief" John Levi is in jail tonight, no doubt some inmate's "fuck buddy." Yet ersatz journalist Miles Howe who claims to be with "big chief" John Levi was not charged.
No one actually reads or takes seriously the Halifax media co-op because it is not "media," but merely the shill for "activist causes", NGO's, and social agencies, in short a propaganda organ, akin to Isvestia or Pravda. Here in Alberta the "media co-op," doesn't exist, I wonder why?
"By their fruits ye shall know them." Elsipogtog "war chief," and the minute number of Indian "activists" have assaulted innocent work crews, burned seismic vehicles, sawed old growth trees to block roads, blockaded public thoroughfares, and have committee other violent, criminal, and legally defined terrorist acts. And these Indian animals try to pass all this off as "peaceful protest," or "cultural rituals."
Preston Manning said many years ago, "if you turn on porch light, you will no doubt attract some bugs. Very few if any decent, or white people are attending these "native protests."
But there is always an exception. Social welfare parasite, emotionally disturbed convicted criminal and self described "journalist" Charles Leblanc will, as he says; "will be there." Charles Leblanc "will be there" at the "protests in Kent County this Saturday morning. He will be there not because of any great "journalist" type motives, but merely because there will be a free "pot luck lunch" served. Whenever there is a "free lunch," involved you can count on our "citizen journalist," and self described "activist" Charles Leblanc elbowing everyone to get at the free food. "Potlucks" are where everyone contributes to dinner of lunch. You can count on Charles Leblanc to contribute absolutely nothing, as he is wont to do his entire misspent life. Even his parents had to ban him from the family home, because Charles was still mooching off them in his twenties.
Again, "by their fruits ye shall know them." Many of our so called "peaceful protesters have extensive criminal records, are addicts indulging their addictions around the "sacred fire" in the "sacred camp," and drinking "sacred firewater."
None of these "native warriors," or "peacekeepers' or concerned about Mother Earth are educated, employed, or are in manner successful individuals. Their goal is to prevent jobs, employment, success, enhance education of children and an escape from that New Brunswick "cultural" traditions....pogey and equalization.
These animals and folks like Charles Leblanc do NOT care about "Mother Earth," as much as they care about being fat, idle, ignorant and on the dole.
So today, whilst Miles Howe, Charles Leblanc and the rest of the little Indian boys, and squaws dine heartily on food purchase by social welfare...consider this? Who are the rats amongst you? So Wendall Nicholas, how does the new "peacekeeper T shirt fit? Be careful not to slop firewater on it!
Pocohontas Amy Sock, baby! How about a nice half and half for thirty bucks? That would make "mother Earth" really happy, if not clapped and dosed up Posted by Seren at 9:47 AM
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Amos"<motomaniac333@gmail.com> To: "hmc"<hmc@mediacoop.ca> Cc: "David Amos"<david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 6:46 AM Subject: Fwd Perhaps the wise old Indian Billy Lewis will ask me someday why I was laughing at the fact that two Newfys John Warr and his buddy/boss Roger Brown of J Division in RCMP are the ones in charge of the fracking battles with the "War Chief" John Levi
After watching the circus unfold for a couple of weeks and reading what the lawyer Amy Sock had to say I figured that it was High Time to give the Warrior Chief John Levi a ring to see if anyone had even mentioned my concerns and my ofers of assistance against the RCMP to him.
Need I say that I was not surprised that John Levi like old Billy Lewis did not have the faintest notion as to who I was? To be fair I never heard of either of them until this month. However a simple search on the Internet will easily prove that most of their purported enemies and many of their supposed pals have known exactly who I am for many years. More importantlyy he has had many people around him lately who have been recieving the same emails as the RCMP. Top of the list would be the NDP, David Coon's Green Meanies, the Council of Canadians, the Sierra Club and of course Chucky Leblanc and his media pals in the the CBC CTV and the IRVING crowd.
While waiting for a call back from John Levi I pasted together a couple of important emails I sent to John Warr beginning late last year hen I learned he in charge of the jurisdiction where I was born and raised and ran for a seat in Parliament while I was a friend and supporter of the nasty Newfy Byron Prior. Just like Chucky Leblanc, Barry Bachrach, Werner Bock, Mary Ann Hennen, Alex Hunter and several other the Newfy Byron Prior stabbed me in the back after he thought he made a deal to his advantage with some corrupt politicians. Seems that people never learn that cops, lawyers, politicians, bankers, bureaucrats and priests talk of ethical conduct but they are in fact the last people to be trusted.
It has been a couple of hours since I called John Levi. He told me he was in a meeting with a bunch of his supporters and that he would call me back. I suggested that he mention my name to his friends and see if any of them admitted to knowing of me. Almost instantly I noticed two hits to the most relevant blog about John Levi's doings. Methinks there are no coincidences. I will not bother him anymore and merely give him the benefit of my doubts. I truly hope that Levi calls me back. However I am not betting on it. People so seldom do.
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Whether John Levi ever calls me back or not at least like old Billy Lewis and the nasty Roger Augustine he now knows that I exist and that amongst our common foes today are two cops from the "Rock" John Warr and his boss Roger Brown. A funny part of our converstion to me was that John Levi said he knew who Leonard Peltier was but did not know Billy Lewis. Levi's answer was he was new to this stuff? Yet Billy Lewis claimed he was at the sacred fire in New Brunswick very recently. Perhaps Levi did not understand me I don't know. I do know for sure Billy Lewis never called me back and Angela Giles suddenly took a vacation. Go Figure. These are just some of their many words that I have read. I bet these people must have read a few of mine sent directly to them after calling them as well.
"Where is the media?" asks Angela Giles, Atlantic regional organizer with the Council of Canadians. "And how is this democracy? The New Brunswick government has not been given the mandate to move ahead with shale gas development. The RCMP are paid with public money and then are assigned to protect private interests over the interests of the people... This is not right."
Billy Lewis, Mi'kmaq elder, also visited and prayed at the Sacred Fire in Elsipogtog yesterday. "This is Indigenous land and there is a duty to consult Mi'kmaq and Maliseet, and they weren't consulted. These actions affect the land, the treaties and all of us."
Perhaps the RCMP and anyone else who understands that politicians and lawyers are monumental liars and is truly interested in justice should scrolll down
Clearly on May 31st of this year I reminded the two Newfy RCMP bosses that I knew they were they were in my old stomping grounds and I was paying attention as I remindded them about my dongs with their old buddy Byron Prior.
You can bet I made many calls and sent many emails before and after thirty some people have needlessly gotten themselves arrested..I suspected that John Warr is the unamed boss in the Irish Town Community Hall. At least no corrupt cop has denied it yet. Trust that the RCMP and legions of others in many countries know my issues with public corruption, the RCMP, banksters and the Greasey Gassy Oily guys go way back in time. The RCMP attacked me LONG before John Levi and his little band of fellow "native warriors" decided to seize a Stantec truck that is used in SWN Resources' shale gas work . At first I thought it comical that John Levi wold pick a fight like that then allow the local RCMP to take the truck and park it at their local cop shop so they could surround it there. However who am I to judge? Nobody has the balls to even say my name. Levi's actions did make the National News byway of a little Pow Wow with the other questionable CROWN Corp known as the CBC and the very next day they had quite a sizable fan club..On the otherhand I have no fans at all who are willing admit in public that I even exist. Yet there are lots of evil trolls on the Internet who are more that willing to harrass slander and threaten my family and I for the benefit of the RCMP and their political puppetmasters and their corporate sponsors etc. Of that I have no doubt.
If the RCMP would harass litterly hundreds of their own members and even kill citizens that they puportedly serve and protect why it is unbelievable to think they would attack a whistleblower trying hard to expose their many wrongs?
If you doubt me ask John Warr and Roger Brown about Byron Prior and I and laugh as watch the play dumb or run away from you. FYI What I was trying to telll John Levi on the phone is that all any anti fracking protester has to do to make the CROWN stay the charges against them is to simply serve some of my documents on the RCMP. I was telling many others to watch Werner Bock and his UFO arguments with the CROWN this week. I suspect that pigheaded old farmer and newborn Nazi supporter would rather lose his farm than admit I was correct about Byron Prior and their many political friends. Where will his pals be if Bock gets his nasty arse locked up as nut just like it has happened twice before?
Trust that I will never come to his defense again but I may sue the CROWN about my cattle. Section 444 is stilll on the books CORRECT?
Anyway all of this political bullsit about natural resources reminds me of the actions of AIM and the FBI in Pine Ridge back in the 1970s. Many people wound up MURDERED including a AN ETHICAL Mic Mac lady and now at least one of her daughters is a member of the RCMP. Go figure why I wonder what Anna Mae's daughter thinks as her fellow cops attack her Mother's people in our Native Land instead of the US of A EH?
Politically speaking Harper and everybody else want to forget what I said about NaTural Gas, Natural Resources and NAFTA etc when I ran for Parliament in the the area in 2004.
Perhaps the RCMP should study a LOTof documents and perpare to argue me while ordinary folks review an IRVING News Rag trying to make fun of my concerns in 2004 N'esy Pas?
David Amos asked me to contact you. I met him last June after he became an independent (not representing any political party) candidate in our federal election that was held June 28. He was a candidate in our constituency of Fundy (now called Fundy-Royal).
I wrote a profile story about him, as I did all other candidates. That story appeared in the Kings County Record June 22. A second story, written by one of my reporters, appeared on the same date, which was a report on the candidates' debate held June 18.
As I recall David Amos came last of four candidates in the election. The winner got 14,997 votes, while Amos got 358.
I have attached the two stories that appeared, as well as a photo taken by reporter Erin Hatfield during the debate. I couldn't find the photo that ran, but this one is very similar.
A1-debate A1-amos,David for MP 24.doc debate 2.JPG
Gisele McKnight editor Kings County Record Sussex, New Brunswick Canada 506-433-1070
Raising a Little Hell- Lively Debate Provokes Crowd
By Erin Hatfield
"If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it? If your world is all screwed up, rearrange it."
The 1979 Trooper song Raise a Little Hell blared on the speakers at the 8th Hussars Sports Center Friday evening as people filed in to watch the Fundy candidates debate the issues. It was an accurate, if unofficial, theme song for the debate.
The crowd of over 200 spectators was dwarfed by the huge arena, but as they chose their seats, it was clear the battle lines were drawn. Supporters of Conservative candidate Rob Moore naturally took the blue chairs on the right of the rink floor while John Herron's Liberalswent left. There were splashes of orange, supporters of NDP Pat Hanratty, mixed throughout. Perhaps the loudest applause came from a row towards the back, where supporters of independent candidate David Amos sat."
Cutline - David Amos, independent candidate in Fundy, with some of his favourite possessions--motorcycles.
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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."
"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."
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."
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Bruce Northrup unveils new forestry plan Annual allowable cut for softwood lumber remains the same CBC News Posted: Mar 30, 2012 9:44 AM AT
Natural Resources Minister Bruce Northrup is holding the line on the annual allowable cut for softwood lumber in the provincial government's new forestry policy.
Northrup made the long-awaited announcement today in Fredericton.
The annual allowable cut for softwood, such as spruce, fir and jack pine, is 3.27 million cubic metres, which is the same annual allowable cut as in the 2007-2012 management plan.
Northrup said the department's projections show the annual allowable cut for softwood lumber can be maintained at the existing level.
"All our information indicates there will be a rapidly growing wood supply beginning around 2030 as these managed stands mature,'' Northrup said.
"Until then, we are confident there will be enough wood to at least maintain the softwood AAC at the present level and that is our objective.''
Meanwhile, the Department of Natural Resources is cutting the annual allowable cut for hardwood to 1.41 million cubic metres from 1.77 million cubic metres in the 2007-2012 plan. The 21 per cent reduction will ensure a sustainable hardwood supply in the future, according to the department.
"It would be in no one's interest to harvest hardwood species at a level that would require an even larger AAC reduction in the future, the natural resources minister said.
"This reduction is necessary and, at the same time, it represents an opportunity for the province's private woodlot sector to sell more wood into the marketplace, which is a top priority for our government.''
Northrup said his forest management plan is "balanced." He said it would help support the environment and maintain jobs in the industry.
"It strikes the best balance possible while preserving jobs in rural and northern New Brunswick, where forestry remains a major employer and a $2.7-billion industry," he said.
The forest management plan also outlined how:
the amount of forested Crown land designated as protected natural areas is increased to eight per cent. 28 per cent of Crown forest is designated as "conservation forest." "non-clearcut harvesting measures" would be implemented. The management plan starts in April 2012 and continues until March 31, 2022. The 10-year plan is double the normal length of the previous forest management plans.
Northrup said the recommendation for a longer management plan came from a government-appointed management plan.
"The Crown Land Task Force on timber objectives recommended we move to a 10-year planning cycle in order to provide greater certainty on allocation levels as well as commitments to conservation measures,'' Northrup said.
The natural resources minister said the longer plan will give more predictability for the forest industry.
The Alward government hired two task forces to study Crown land and private land task force.
Environmental support David Coon, left, said Natural Resources Minister Bruce Northrup's forest management strategy is an improvement. (CBC) Northrup's plan received some cautious praise from the province's largest environmental group.
David Coon, the executive director of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, said he has concerns with the forest management strategy, but said it is a vast improvement.
"The plan they released today is far better than what the industry was lobbying for and it is far better than what the Liberals had proposed when they were they government, he said.
"But it is moving in the wrong direction for most New Brunswickers who say their number one priority areas are to protect water and to protect wildlife."
Coon said he's concerned about a reduction of deer wintering areas and the size of buffer zones around water courses.
The forest, which is set aside for habitat zones and watercourse buffers, will be reduced to 28 per cent from 30.5 per cent, Coon said.
Industry concerns Robert Fawcett, the director of forestry relations for J.D. Irving Ltd., said the forest management plan will mean two mills will remain closed. (CBC) Several forest operations in the province have closed in recent months because in the uncertainty of the industry.
Robert Fawcett, the director of forestry relations for J.D. Irving Ltd., said its Clair and Deersdale mills will remain closed. He blamed the extended closure on cost uncertainty in the government's plan.
He said the company is "really concerned" about the impact on its employees and the communities where its mills operate.
"For us at the moment, our mill capital expansions are put on hold, Fawcett said.
"We are not going to be able to invest in our facilities today until we hear a more certain number in terms of the wood that is going to be available for those facilities."
The closure of the Deersdale mill near Juniper put more than 70 people out of work in October.
Another 73 people were put out of work in September when J.D. Irving closed its mill in Clair.
The forest industry had been lobbying to make sure the annual allowable cut was not reduced.
Last June, J.D. Irving Ltd. organized a petition campaign aimed at provincial politicians that said hundreds of jobs were at stake if the provincial government reduces allowable cuts of some types of trees by 25 per cent.
Fawcett said J.D. Irving Ltd. is very concerned about the new standards that are being put in place, which will make it more expensive to cut trees in the province.
"We need to be very concerned about the implementation about these new standards that DNR is putting in place by April 1. These new standards will increase the cost of harvesting wood significantly," he said.
The new standards will mean younger and smaller trees will be cut, Fawcett said, which will increase the cost to log, transport and then process the trees.
Miramichi mill has plenty of wood, Irving says J.Dr. Irving Ltd. spokeswoman says company is not to blame for mill shutdown By Jacques Poitras, CBC News Posted: Jul 23, 2013 6:50 AM AT
J.D. Irving Ltd. is forcefully rejecting suggestions that a shift of some Crown wood to their Chipman mill is to blame for the looming shutdown of a Miramichi sawmill.
Irving spokesperson Mary Keith says Miramichi Lumber Products has plenty of its own allocation on Crown lands that it hasn't used.
Miramichi Lumber CFO Hal Raper previously told CBC News that the licensee operating the public forests in the Miramichi area, Fornebu, was allowing saw logs to go to JDI, depriving the local mill of that wood.
The Miramichi Lumber Products mill announced on Friday it was closing because of a shortage of Crown wood. (CBC) That prompted a strongly-worded statement from Keith, who called the suggestion "absolutely false."
"Our company has in fact been working with Miramichi Lumber Products to buy their wood chips and send saw logs to their mill," said Keith. "The allocations are a matter of public record and we are fully compliant."
She said Miramichi Lumber "have never harvested the full amount allocated to them" in any of the last four years.
The company has not operated year-round in any of the last four years, which may explain why it hasn't used all of its allocation.
Forestry firms eye $1B in spending, J.D. Irving Ltd. says Miramichi Lumber Products mill shuts down again Miramichi Lumber said last week it would shut down this Friday, laying off 110 people, because it's only been able to secure 40 per cent of its allocation of wood from publicly-owned forest land.
"Everybody wants more wood," Raper said on Monday. "I think the government has to decide what their priority is and who they're going to support."
Raper said Fornebu was able to send logs to Irving because the province wasn't enforcing usage standards, which set out how much of the tree can be used for saw logs and how much for stud logs.
'All the allocated users are getting their allocation today as the government dictates.'--Fornebu CEO Kevin Jewett For the second straight day, the Department of Natural Resources has not made anyone available to respond to Raper's comments or to clarify the complex rules surrounding the use of Crown land.
Fornebu CEO Kevin Jewett also rejected Raper's allegations, saying Miramichi Lumber is free to cut the wood it needs.
"All the allocated users are getting their allocation today as the government dictates," he said. "So J.D. Irving is getting the wood they have the right to take, and MLPI, Hal Raper's mill, has been given access to the wood that they have the right to take."
Miramichi Mayor Gerry Cormier told CBC News that cabinet minister Robert Trevors, a Miramichi-area MLA, has promised a fix that will keep Miramichi Lumber running for four to five weeks.
But Cormier could not say where the wood supply will come from. "You'd have to ask the minister."
Irving demand for wood supply Mary Keith, a J.D. Irving Ltd. vice-president, said the company is not receiving more wood than it should be from Crown licence. (CBC) Raper's comments came as J.D. Irving Ltd. continued its ongoing push to get the province to commit to increasing the Crown wood supply for industry over a longer term.
Last year, Natural Resources Minister Bruce Northrup announced he was keeping the annual allowable softwood cut at the same level. He also doubled the normal management plan from five years to 10, to give companies more predictability.
Irving says that's an improvement, but it doesn't go far enough. Keith said it doesn't provide "the long-term certainty of wood supply to warrant hundreds of millions of dollars of investment.
"We need to know the government is interested and is working to grow the wood supply."
Keith says JDI is one of several forestry companies prepared to invest a total of almost $1 billion in its facilities, but only if the wood supply is secure. She said that would include a major upgrade to the company's Saint John pulp mill.
"We need a longer-term view and a longer-term determination of what the timber objectives, what the timber supply is going to be, so we can go forward with investments," Keith said.
Green Party Leader David Coon criticized Irving's "unrelenting demand" for more wood, pointing to the looming closure of Miramichi Lumber as a casualty of the company's constant push for growth.
"It's not a question of wood supply," Coon said. "It's a question of competition for the wood between the big guys and the independents."
Leader of the Green Party David Coon explains to Blogger of the Crisis in the Miramichi lumber Market!!!!
Here's the News Release from Liberal MLA Bill Fraser!!
July 22, 2013
Hon. David Alward Premier - Province of New Brunswick PO Box 6000 Fredericton, NB E3B 5H1
RE: Miramichi Lumber Crown Allocation
Dear Mr. Premier,
After meeting with officials and employees from Miramichi Lumber on Thursday and Friday of last week, I feel it necessary to ask for your immediate intervention into the dire situation they are facing regarding their crown wood allocation. It is my understanding that the licensee, Fornebu, is not following DNR's utilization standard for saw log allocation.
The employees were notified on Wednesday that the mill would be closing effective this Friday July 26th, until the saw log allocation is enforced to the level that will allow the mill to operate. Mr. Premier, that is more than 110 employees facing unemployment in an area that has already been hit hard by job loss.
Mr. Premier, in 2010 after you were elected Premier of New Brunswick, you came to Miramichi and said "we have been saying for a long time that the Miramichi wood basket must remain in Miramichi for economic development and job creation. And from day 1 of forming a government we will be completely focused on this with and for the residents of the Miramichi and for the private wood lot owners as well, who must play a part in the future of the region" (as reported in Miramichi Leader).
The Miramichi region once had several mills operating, each with adequate access to crown wood and thus, thousands of jobs were sustained. Today we have two mills operating in Miramichi; Arbec and Miramichi Lumber, with one facing a closure.
I am at a loss to understand how you can justify the comments you made in 2010 when now, the actions of your government completely contradict your previous position and will in turn force the mill to shut down. It is your government that cannot find enough crown wood in the Miramichi wood basket to sustain these operations.
From discussions I have had with stakeholders in the industry, I understand that there is more than enough wood in the Miramichi wood basket to supply the needs of Arbec, Miramichi Lumber and the former plywood mill in Nelson who I have been told are also experiencing difficulty in obtaining enough crown wood to allow them to re-open (under new ownership).
The Miramichi region has been hit extremely hard and, Mr. Premier, we simply cannot afford to lose one more job. I am urging you to immediately intervene in this very serious situation to prevent these 110 + employees from unemployment, and leaving our Province in order to provide for their families.
If there is anything I can do to assist you in this effort, please, do not hesitate to ask. I am more than willing to work together on this matter to see a resolution that will save jobs and sustain the operations of the Miramichi Lumber Mill.
Sincerely,
Bill Fraser, MLA - Miramichi Bay Du Vin Official Opposition House Leader Critic - Department of Transportation & Infrastructure / Government Services
Fornebu mill in N.B. receives $2.5 M provincial loan July 04, 2011 By: Telegraph-Journal
A $2.5 million loan for Fornebu Lumber was approved on June 16, not long before the province announced it would buy Fornebu parent Umoe Solar's Miramichi assets.
The loan is listed on the same order-in-council (OIC) document that authorized the government to buy Umoe Solar's assets, although the two do not otherwise appear linked.
Business New Brunswick spokeswoman Marie-Josee Groulx said the loan was not linked to negotiations that eventually saw the Umoe purchase price reduced from $17 million to $10.8 million.
"It's just on the same OIC," said Groulx, who stated she'd been told by Economic Development Minister Paul Robichaud. "We treat them as two separate entities. Fornebu is its own operating thing, and Umoe was its own case file."
The loan will go toward the Bathurst sawmill owned by Fornebu since taking over all of UPM-Kymmene's former New Brunswick properties, including the Miramichi site. It is for a period of six years, and Groulx said the money would be used for a new biomass boiler for the plant, which currently uses more expensive propane for heat.
The OIC also authorizes the government to buy up the assets at the site of Umoe Solar's formerly planned polysilicon plant, for a price of up to $17 million.
That deal was made in 2009 by the former Liberal government, to come into effect if Umoe Solar had not gone ahead with its planned plant by January 2011.
Groulx said at the time of the OIC, June 16, the final deal to knock the price down to $10.8 million hadn't been finalized.
"At that point, we were still on the hook for up to $17 million, as part of the original agreement, but they were able to negotiate downwards," she said.
Although Umoe Solar is no more, Fornebu continues to manage the enormous Crown License 3 formerly managed by UPM.
Miramichi - Bay du Vin MLA Bill Fraser, who was part of the Liberal government that made the $17 million purchase deal, said Fornebu's control of the license was linked to creating jobs in Miramichi.
Now that the planned polysilicon plant is no longer a go, he said, Fornebu's management of the license should be revoked. He said the Natural Resources Department should take over managing the license, with Fornebu remaining as a sublicensee.
"If Fornebu is creating jobs, and I believe they are, and opportunities in the Miramichi region, and I believe they are, I think that they should continue to use that wood at that site," he said. "But ... they shouldn't be running the entire allocation. That should be immediately taken away."
Fraser said he was not made aware of the $17 million purchase deal at the time it was made in 2009, saying that would have been a cabinet decision.
He argued the polysilicon plant project failed due to global factors beyond anyone's control, though he said the failure of the NB Power deal made matters worse.
He criticized Robichaud for slamming the $17 million purchase agreement as a "bad deal" for taxpayers.
"I'm very disappointed in Paul Robichaud, you know, criticizing everything we've done to help the Miramichi."
Department of Natural Resources (DNR) spokeswoman Anne Bull Monteith said Fornebu has been the manager of the license since 2009. It is next up for review in March 2012 and does not expire until 2022.
When asked about whether Fornebu could have its license revoked, Monteith would only say that was not being considered.
Please notice that I added two more pdf files to this email that all our surving past and present Prime Ministers and Governor Generals are well aware of but you may not have seen them.
Remember our conversation and the four emails I sent you one month before the writ was dropped? It was at about the same time a couple of my enemies in BC Splitting the Sky and Dougy Baby Christie dropped dead. They were followed up not long afterwards by none other than Rotten Ralphy Klein? Does it make me an evil person to be happy that I out lived some of my foes? You should not deny that Rotten Ralphy's Attorney General got the same letter and the same a pile of documents and a CD that all the Canadian Attorney General's received except the Quebecers who turned the Registered US Mail back 10 times but it was NEVER returned to the USA. Methinks the RCMP or their pals in CSIS stole my mail just like they have done before and since. Its rough being a whistleblower. N'esy Pas Mr. Chretien and Mr. Cutler?
Now to be fair here is one all the lawyers working for the Yankees Al Gore, Prez Obama and George Soros should review before Birgitta Jonsdotter and her Wikileaks buddies finally read it..
Yea I know I am pipe dreaming. I doubt things will change in my lifetime but what is life with fine dreams? History has proven the Sheeple always get the governments they deserve when apathy rules the day. However once they start losing their shirts and have no cake to eat there is always hell to pay and do roll on occasion. Anyone paying attention can see that the stock market is at an artificial high created by the greedy Banksters NOT the economy. Obviously it has nowhere to go but down. Look out when it does. Even old folks who support Harper and Cummins get pissed when they lose another big chunk of their precious pensions. But to hell with us old folks our days taking advantage of this wonderful old old are winding down anyway. What is far worse to me is that methinks the "Powers that Be" may let loose the Dogs of War once again at about the same time the economy crashes. I am not the only soul predicting this but I have been rather outspoken about this since 2002 when the greedy Yankees attacked my little Clan. Te public record of my affairs speaks for itself. If my reasoning is correct all of our children's future will become truly dire indeed. Shame on all you greedy smiling bastards if what I believe comes true. Trust that I will hate being correct but to deny the obvious would make me as foolish as you people.
Pipedream or not the rest of this email is a nightmare for any unethical lawyer or cop to read or ignore.
Unlike a lawyer or a poltiician I have always trusted my conscience, my logic and my strange gut feelings.just like the honest cops in the movies do. Thus far the senses I was born with have not failed me. So I must confess the I have not lost my faith in my fellow common man yet even though I hold much contempt towarss many low men in high places. My doubts are justifiable but I still have hope especially after watching the black guy named Charles talk about taking a break from munching on his MacDonald's and playing his part help to save three long lost girls in the USA It is guys like him that assure me that we common folk are not all evil people like the wealthy ones amongst us usually are. Charles should run for Congress I suspect he would win by a landslide if a self serving Independent can beat BC's Attorney General in the last election/ If the sneaky lawyer David Eby beats Christy Clark in her own riding it will only serve to further prove my point. Need I say I love how the political parties in BC are creating their own Independent opponents? Too too funny. Seems that they are bringing about "change" byway of their malicious incompetence.
History as I said earlier has proven the worm always turns on the smiling bastards. With any luck at all it may happen soon in BC. I know I have done my part to try to bring about change in BC since 2004. I still have so many irons in the fire in so many places to singe some fancy political arses with that it is quite simply unbelievable. For instance with regards to this email pipelines in your neck of the woods I know everyone of you checked out the letters hereto attached but did nothing . Curipusity is a hell of a thing but you are all afraid of Harper Correct? I doubt many of you greedy people know about Lenny Hoyt, Emera and Enbridge or Mr. Jones, his Director Derek Burney within TransCanada versus Mean Old Me. Trust that it would take me only minutes to explain it to anyone with two clues between their ears. In fact I have done so to quite few and still they say and do nothing. Hell the dumb Green Meanies in Canada have understood me since 2004 and still don't care about the shit that went down between Danny Boy Williams and I even after he sues some of them. Go figure?
Methinks folks should stop listening to greedy lawyers EH? What say you Mr. Plant? If you recall our conversation on March 15th you demanded I wrap things up in a couple of minutes and I promptly did so within 30 seconds or so then I called your friend Elisabeth Graff and her bosses as well. After all your Law Firm has had Hard Copy of my material for nearly a year before you quit politicking as an Attorney General Then Wall Eyed Wally Opal gladly took your job and in turn got his arse kicked out of office by an incredibly stupid Independent whom I talked to as well CORRECT Ms Huntington a former RCMP Security person and Acting-Chief of Staff to the Solicitor General of Canada? What I did not bother telling you Mr. Plant was the the reason I called on lots of people the Ides of March. Scroll down and you will see I caught Harper's minions checking my work that day. Plus I know for a fact the CSE and the RCMP listen to all my calls so why not give them an earful then prove to many others I am paying attention too?
Believe it or not not everybody is a afraid of Mr. Harper and many are tired of his antics. I heard through the grapevine that I have gotten some fans amongst the Feds and that maybe someone may use my documents to blow the whistle. Heres hoping that is true. The sooner I get my old Harley back and return to being "Just Dave" I am sure many politicians and lawyers will breath a sigh of relief. Methinks the CROWN and I should write an MOU ASAP and then assist me in asking the the Yankees to settle with as well. What say Mr. Plant? Do you know an old liberal lawyer in YOUR law firm capable of writing a letter to the Prime Minister and making a deal with fellow devil on behalf of a Canadian citizen that they purportedly serve? I do they got this email too and my letter hereto attached. Four of the documents are from the Canadian government one is from a very big cheese and only one is mine Correct?
If no no lawyer takes my side rest assured the Green Meanies South of the 49th heavily financed by George Soros/Swartz are about to be enlightened much to the chagrin of Harper and Prez Obama and of course my wife's evil Catholic cousins and their old Yankee buddy John Kerry the current Secretary of the Sad State of Affairs in the US of A.
Such is the way of the world and the life and times of a fierce but ethical political animal. As long as I maintain my Integrity I and tell the truth all day long to anyone I choose to then sit back and watch the "Powers That Be" squirm. Sooner or later somebody will grow some balls and simply say my name in a Parliament or a Congress or in the corporate media. The love of money dictates it. Of that I have no doubt.
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Elisabeth Graff Solicitor Called to the bar: 2008 (BC) Justice (BC), Min. of Abor. Law - Environ., Resource & Abor. Law Group PO Box 9220, Stn. Prov. Govt Victoria, British Columbia V8W 9J1 Phone: 250-356-1155 Ext: Fax: 250-356-8939 Email: elisabeth.graff@gov.bc.ca
I believe that only propaganda exists these days. The other two terms are merely myths that bullshitters use to jusify greedy wordsmiths who try to wax poetic for whomever will pay them the most. If all else fails the corporations hire the cheapest help they can get for local events and just cut and paste and print and pay some other dude for the fancy words to elp sell their newsrag. Original thought and common sense evaporated with veritical intigration or whatever the evil corporate bastards wish to call these days.
Perhaps some clever Indian in BC will ask me why I ran against Andy Scott when he was the Minister of Indian Affairs EH John Duncan? I see folks in your neck of the woods checking my work alot lately. No doubt some of it is because of the upcoming election and the doings between me and the Wally Opal and the RCMP back in 2005. However there is the doings between the NEB and I in 2006 but that bullshit only involves mere matters of money and the environment. YOU cannot deny that the Minister of Indian Affairs has had Hard Copy of my concerns since 2004 and THAT involves the Captial Crime known and MURDER. YOUR head office is in Amherst Nova Scotia which well within MY stomping gounds. Thus that is where I will serve you the summons in order to bring the RCMP and your lawyers to Federal Court CORRECT Minister Duncan? Perhaps you should call the RCMP in Amherst Nova Scotia and ask them about the documents and CD I served on them with a witness who has my Durable Power of Attorney in August of 2012 in order to bring everything up to date.
FYI its mostly the same materail that Wally Opal and the lawyer Shirley Heafey as the Commissioer of Public Complaints Against the RCMP received byway of registered US Mail (signature required) in 2005
Methinks its interesting an article on the same topic garnered 2220 recorded comments Yet this news offered to Maritmers has a tally of less than 100 thus far much to the relief of the LIEbranos N'esy Pas?
Trudeau defends judicial appointments with personal connections to Dominic LeBlanc
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David R. Amos Methinks one of the most telling things about this news item is that an article offered to all of Canada on the very same topic garnered 2220 recorded comments and yet this bit of news about the lawyer Mr Dion playing dumb offered to my fellow Maritmers will be hard pressed to break a tally of 100 It certainly proves that apathy rules the day in New Brunswick much to the chagrin of Duff Conacher N'esy Pas?
David Smith Reply to @David R. Amos: Are is it guilt from the maritimers? .... The Liberals did sweep the region, N'est ce pas?
David R. Amos Methinks I should give the lady a call as well N'esy Pas?
June 29, 2017
We are pleased to announce that Cathy Lahey, QC, partner in our Saint John office, has been appointed to the Department of Justice’s Judicial Advisory Committee (“JAC”) in New Brunswick for a two-year term.
This comes as part of an announcement from The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, who appointed members in five provincial jurisdictions, adding to the existing complement of JACs.
JACs are independent bodies which were formed as part of a new process, announced in October 2016, to assess federal judicial applicants and provide the Minister of Justice with lists of high-calibre candidates who represent the diversity of Canada.
Cathy joins Twila Reid, partner in our St. John’s office, who was appointed to the JAC in Newfoundland and Labrador earlier this year
David R. Amos Content disabled Reply to @David R. Amos: Methinks everybody knows that I was not surprised when the lady lawyer played dumb N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Methinks the sneaky lawyer Duff Conacher must have noticed how many Leblanc's have sat on the Bench in Provincial Court overseen by Dominic's wife since 2017 N'esy Pas?
The Honorable Judge Jolène Richard Chief Judge Appointed Judge of the Provincial Court on November 13, 2008 Appointed Chief Judge of the Provincial Court on June 2, 2017
The Honourable Chief Judge Jolène Richard, the first female to occupy the post of Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of New Brunswick was appointed on June 2, 2017.
Chief Judge Richard, the daughter of Guy Richard, former Chief Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Queen's Bench was appointed a Provincial Court Judge on November 13, 2008. She had a large litigation practice with the biggest law firm in Atlantic Canada, Stewart McKelvey. She practiced for 15 years and was a partner in the Moncton office.
The Honorable Judge Denise A. LeBlanc Appointed Judge of the Provincial Court on January 27, 2016
OTTAWA, June 22, 2018 The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointment under the new judicial application process announced on October 20, 2016. The new process emphasizes transparency, merit, and diversity, and will continue to ensure the appointment of jurists who meet the highest standards of excellence and integrity.
The Honourable Denise LeBlanc, a judge of the Provincial Court of New Brunswick, is appointed a judge of the Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick, Trial Division.
The Honorable Judge Natalie H. LeBlanc Appointed Judge of the Provincial Court on June 1, 2017
The Honorable Judge Ronald LeBlanc
Appointed Supernumerary status on April 3, 2017
The Honorable Judge Donald J. LeBlanc Appointed Supernumerary status on April 30, 2015
David R. Amos Methinks every political lawyer in Canada knows why the following is incredibly comical to me N'esy Pas?
"Duff Conacher with the group Democracy Watch said the selection process is not transparent, and he's sent a 10-page letter to Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion."
Shawala Gouk
Reply to @David R. Amos: and if he signed off with N'esy Pas it won't get read either LOL
David R. Amos
Reply to @Shawala Gouk: Methinks legions of lawyers are well aware that I got several replies in hard copy from Mr Dion's offices over the years as well as couple of emails from that mindless lawyer personally as well. N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Shawala Gouk: Methinks anyone can Google Duff Conacher David Amos N'esy Pas?
Maude Windsor this action of liberal party selection of judges and other posts to comitees such as parole board, EU committee, ....including the senior members (EX levels) of federal public service...... all are appointments approved by Trudeau and PMO.....in small population of new brunswick these appointments make a big statement.....and affects the way all new brunswickers vote(note the many many elections that were decided by federal appointments)...the trudeau government also uses the french language rules as a political tool to aid in these appointments also. wake up new brunswick...vote for your future ...
Shawala Gouk
Mr. Trudeau may experience transparency and honesty somewhat differently that the average narcissist.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Shawala Gouk: Methinks it takes one to know one N'esy Pas?
Shawala Gouk Trudeau defends corruption ! Quelle surprise LOL.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Shawala Gouk: Methinks you do too N'esy Pas?
Marty Forsythe Judges being picked because of political influence has been going on with every Judge being selected, how naive are you people. Go down the list of all Judges and you will find the same no matter what political stripe. The only time Judge Brad Green was in a court room was when he started sitting on the bench how was he selected and so on check it out nothing new here.
Shawala Gouk
Reply to @Marty Forsythe: Does that make it right ?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marty Forsythe: Methinks you should enjoy finding a letter from Brad Green to me within this old file N'esy Pas?
Reply to @David R. Amos: Brad Green, that's a Harper CONservative appointment, n'est-ce pas?
Lou Bell Invite to a 4.5 star Assumption Life SANB retreat. Anyone surprised. They need to have a meeting somewhere.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Lou Bell: so obsessed by the SANB, aren't you?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you two should seriously consider dating N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David R. Amos: es-tu jaloux, mon p'tit chou?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Nope Methinks everybody knows I love French ladies not evil people who pretend to be N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you are a dude and I know Lou is a woman Hence you two are wicked match N'esy Pas?
Matt Steele Of course Justin Trudeau supports the political hiring of Judges as Trudeau himself interfered with the Canadian Justice system when he wanted the CRIMINAL CHARGES against his friends with SNC Lavalin dropped ; and then he threw his two best females Cabinet Ministers out of the Liberal party when they raised concerns about it . Those five Judicial appointments should be rescinded until this matter can be fully investigated , and rectified . It is hard to believe that this level of political interference in our Justice system can be happening in Canada in 2019 ; and it seems to be totally out of control . Oct. cannot come fast enough !
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: but but but Harperrrrrrr
Robert Buck
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: just goes to show there is no difference in these parties.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: "Tell it to Stephen Harper and Peter MacKay!"
Methinks you know as well as I that MacKay answered my lawsuit before polling day in 2015 and that Trudeau and his cohorts have been supporting Harper's malice against me ever since Atleast 15 decisions in Federal court cannot be easily overlooked by the Supreme Court N'esy Pas?
Robert Tuckett-Reddy When you have no ethics as this PM have proven over and over again what do you expect? He has no respect for the rule of law only his close friends, family ties and liberal contributors. The law in this country is no longer blind or unbiased. It reeks of political interference!!!
Eugene Peabody
Reply to @Robert Tuckett-Reddy: My you have such a short memory of what the Harper government did.A very over the top view does not mean it is true.
DON MOFFATT
Reply to @Eugene Peabody: This article is not about Harper.
Anne Bérubé
Reply to @Eugene Peabody: Typical liberalism, when you cannot come up with an explanation why this is patronage appointments, you accuse a past PM. How low can you go.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Anne Bérubé: it's been going on for as far back as Confederation, no matter the party in power. Who are you trying to kid here?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Anne Bérubé: why do you think the elusive Higgs Bozon halted all government projects up north if it's not because they did not vote for his pathetic government?
David R. Amos
Reply to @DON MOFFATT: "This article is not about Harper."
Methinks Harper and his cohorts should be included because the legion of judges they appointed during his mandates are still playing Harper's wicked game today N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Surprise Surprise Surprise
Harold Benson
Reply to @David R. Amos: I bet you aren't .
David R. Amos
Reply to @Harold Benson: Neither is Mark (Junkman) George:
David R. Amos
Reply to @Harold Benson: Methinks Sam must have noticed that the very strange SANB dude Marguerite Deschamps and Lady Lou of the PANB ain't one bit surprised either N'esy Pas?
Mark (Junkman) George Surprise, surprise, surprise............. With an election looming how could it be any different? Draw your own conclusions folks and show your approval with your vote.
Eugene Peabody
Reply to @Mark (Junkman) George: My life and that of my relatives has improved under this government so I will factor that into my decision .This story is a non issue because the system works well and will not change under any government.
DON MOFFATT
Reply to @Eugene Peabody: Most Canadians have suffered through a new carbon tax and loss of tax credits for fitness, arts and education under this regime. I cannot thik of one thing that has improved in my life under Justin Trudeau.
Anne Bérubé
Reply to @Eugene Peabody: You must be a true and faithful liberal till death sets you apart...I, for the life of me, understand that your increase in income tax, as well as other taxes of all kinds have increased, no credits whatsoever as they were all eliminated has made your financial situation better. Unless you make over $200,000 a year and is a donor to the liberal party?
Anne Bérubé
Reply to @DON MOFFATT: Completely agree, less and it is just the beginning. This is the Maritimes for you, liberal till the end.
Mark (Junkman) George
Reply to @Eugene Peabody:
Who you vote for is between you and your God, there is no need to justify your choices, poor or otherwise, to anybody. Myself, I find it hard to vote for someone "WHO COULDN'T BE BOTHERED" TO KEEP HALF OF HIS ELECTION PROMISES.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mark (Junkman) George: "I find it hard to vote for someone"
I always promise to raise Hell but not enough folk seem to care
Raising a Little Hell- Lively Debate Provokes Crowd By Erin Hatfield June 18th, 2004
"If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it? If your world is all screwed up, rearrange it."
The 1979 Trooper song Raise a Little Hell blared on the speakers at the 8th Hussars Sports Center Friday evening as people filed in to watch the Fundy candidates debate the issues. It was an accurate, if unofficial, theme song for the debate.
The crowd of over 200 spectators was dwarfed by the huge arena, but as they chose their seats, it was clear the battle lines were drawn. Supporters of Conservative candidate Rob Moore naturally took the blue chairs on the right of the rink floor while John Herron's Liberalswent left. There were splashes of orange, supporters of NDP Pat Hanratty, mixed throughout. Perhaps the loudest applause came from a row towards the back, where supporters of independent candidate David Amos sat."
Marguerite Deschamps
The devil is raising hell. Who would have thought?
Trudeau defends judicial appointments with personal connections to Dominic LeBlanc
Democracy Watch calls for investigation into whether federal cabinet minister influenced 5 appointments
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the five judicial selections were part of a 'transparent appointment system.' (CBC)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday defended a string of recent judicial appointments in New Brunswick that involved people with personal connections to Beauséjour Liberal MP and cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc — even as a call was made for the federal conflict of interest and ethics commissioner to investigate the matter.
"We are fully confident that the process — the transparent merit-based process that we've put in place is the right one and we stand by it," Trudeau told reporters when asked directly if he would be reviewing recent appointments in New Brunswick.
Earlier this week, it was reported that three lawyers who were past contributors to LeBlanc's Beauséjour riding association and also helped retire debts from his 2008 leadership bid all won federal appointments to sit as judges in the last year, as did a fourth lawyer married to LeBlanc's brother-in-law.
In a fifth appointment last month, Justice Tracey Deware was elevated to the position of chief justice of New Brunswick's trial division.
Three lawyers who were past contributors to Dominic LeBlanc's Beauséjour riding association and also helped retire debts from his 2008 leadership bid all won federal appointments to sit as judges in the last year, as did a fourth lawyer married to LeBlanc's brother-in-law. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
She and her husband, Jacques Pinet, bought property from LeBlanc in 2013 and moved next door to his summer house in Grande-Digue. Pinet has also donated to LeBlanc's riding association, and he gave money to help retire his 2008 leadership debts.
According to LeBlanc's filings with the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, Pinet also paid for LeBlanc to spend three days in 2014 at New Brunswick's Ledges Lodge, which advertises itself as the only 4.5 star hunting and fishing retreat on the Miramichi River.
According to the declaration, Pinet was acting in his then role as vice-president of Moncton's Assumption Life, and LeBlanc attended the lodge as part of an "annual trip with local business leaders and other elected officials."
'Transparent appointments'
At a news conference in Montreal, Trudeau said the five selections were part of a "transparent appointment system," although much about how the choices were made is unknown.
The Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs will not say how many New Brunswick lawyers applied for the judgeships or whether any unsuccessful candidates scored higher on independent assessments of their abilities to sit on the bench than the ones who were chosen.
In Canada, all candidates for federal judicial appointments are required to submit an application and agree to an assessment by provincial or sub provincial judicial advisory committees.
New Brunswick evaluations for recent appointments were headed by senior New Brunswick Appeal Court Justice Margaret Larlee and included six other committee members made up of lawyers and members of the public.
The committees grade applicants as either recommended, highly recommended or unable to recommend, but none of that information is available, even in redacted form.
Court of Queen's Bench Chief Justice Tracey DeWare is pictured here at her swearing-in ceremony with New Brunswick Court of Appeal Chief Justice Marc Richard. (Submitted by Tracey DeWare)
According to Philippe Lacasse, executive director for judicial appointments in the commissioner's office, secrecy is required to protect judicial applicants.
"In order to ensure and protect the privacy of candidates and the confidentiality of them having applied to become judges, statistics are provided on a national basis only," Lacasse wrote in an email to CBC News.
"A provincial or regional breakdown could allow analysis of the data which may lead to identifying individual candidates."
Call for investigation
In Ottawa, Duff Conacher with the group Democracy Watch said the selection process is not transparent, and he's sent a 10-page letter to Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion.
In the letter, released to the media, Conacher asked for an investigation into whether LeBlanc participated in the "decision-making processes" of the five appointments.
The minister's office has not commented on the appointments.
LeBlanc, who holds three cabinet portfolios, including Intergovernmental Affairs, did file a declaration of recusal with the conflict of interest and ethics commissioner over the appointment of one of the five judges.
Marie-Claude Belanger-Richard is married to LeBlanc's brother-in-law and according to LeBlanc's declaration, he withdrew from cabinet consideration of her appointment shortly before it was approved.
Moncton family lawyer Marie-Claude Belanger-Richard, who is married to Dominic LeBlanc's brother-in-law, was picked to fill a judicial vacancy in Saint John. (Veritas Law)
"In order to avoid any opportunity to provide preferential treatment or to further the private interests of my relative Ms. Marie-Claude Belanger Richard, I recused myself on November 6, 2018, from all discussions, decisions, debates or votes relating to judicial appointments," reads LeBlanc's declaration.
Belanger-Richard's appointment was announced publicly three days later.
There were no recusals filed in relation to the other four appointments, but it is not clear LeBlanc voted on any of them. LeBlanc has been battling cancer and in April this year announced he had been taking treatments and would be stepping away from cabinet duties temporarily to focus on his health.
The four remaining judicial appointments connected to LeBlanc occurred between March and June this year, near the period his health problems flared up.
Still, Conacher said the relationship of the successful candidates to LeBlanc requires investigation under provisions of Canada's Conflict of Interest Act.
Yo Terrance Thomasen Rather than folks having to deal with evil Encyclopedia Dramatica if you check my Tweets you will see I offer a better link for them to study
Mike Bravener has been singing and performing as an Elvis Presley impersonator at the invitation of the town of Eastport, Maine, for the last 15 years. (Shane Fowler/CBC News)
Several Canadian musicians and performers faced intense scrutiny and questioning at the U.S.-Canada border Thursday, despite an invitation by a Maine town to celebrate Canada Day, the Fourth of July, and the relationship between both countries.
Some performers were even turned away.
They included Mike Bravener, who has put on his Elvis wig and flashy matching costume to travel to Eastport, Maine, at the town's request, for the last 15 years.
This year, after arriving at the crossing from St. Stephen to Calais, Maine, he was detained and questioned for more than an hour.
"It was unnerving for sure," said Bravener, a Presley impersonator from Fredericton. "[It's] sad, because of the people and friends I have in Eastport and them not knowing. Them all being down there on the waterfront expecting Elvis to show up."
This year, Bravener was barred from entering the U.S. because of the honorarium the town gives him for his time and travel. (Shane Fowler/CBC)
When he was denied entry into the United States, he said, the point of contention with U.S. officials was the $500 honorarium the town of 1,300 gives him for travel and his performance.
Bravener said U.S. customs officials were friendly and understanding, but he was questioned repeatedly about the nature of his visit to Eastport, a coastal community about 45 kilometres south of Calais.
He was eventually told his explanation for collecting the payment was inadequate, and he needed proper paperwork and forms — which he didn't have and didn't know were required.
Cross country celebration
Bravener was invited by Eastport in a letter he received in June, much as he has been for years. The event celebrates both Canadian and U.S. holidays.
Bravener says several other musicians were detained at the St. Stephen-Calais border crossing as they tried to make it to the Eastport Fourth of July festivities. (CBC)
"It's a four-day celebration beginning with Canada Day events together with our neighbours from Deer Island, New Brunswick, and neighboring communities, ending with a spectacular fireworks display over the bay between the U.S. and Canada," says the letter of invitation from the Eastport Fourth of July committee.
"Our committee would like to invite you to participate in our celebration with your very popular Elvis performance."
CBC News made attempts to contact the organizers of the event but has not yet received a reply.
Not the only one
Despite attending the Eastport parade for the last 30 years, several musicians in the 22-member Saint Mary's Band from Saint John were also detained and questioned.
"I think what the American customs and border guards were trying to do was flush out people who were trying to make money, personally," said executive Michael Richard, a trumpet player.
Richard said he witnessed other Canadian musicians being asked to get out of their vehicles for questioning.
Members of the Saint Mary's Band from Saint John were detained and questioned about the honorarium the band receives. Unlike Bravener, the players were not prohibited from entering the U.S. (Facebook)
"There was a pipe and drum band coming from Fredericton to play in the parade," Richard said. "And they had a similar situation of verification of volunteering. And that's effectively what we're doing."
Richard said his band also receives an honorarium from Eastport, but the players were allowed to enter the U.S.
CBC News asked U.S. Customs and Border Protection if policies applying to New Brunswick musicians and performers had changed in recent years.
Spokesperson Micheal McCarthy wrote in an email: "I am prohibited by privacy laws from discussing an individual traveler's circumstances."
But he said anyone travelling into the country to be a "paid performer" would need a valid P-visa, a temporary visa issued to athletes and musicians so they can legally perform for payment in the U.S.
Blames border politics
Bravener said that last year he was questioned about his participation in the Eastport festivities but had been able to cross the border.
He blames U.S. border politics inflamed by President Donald Trump for his rejection and the scrutiny of other artists.
Bravener has been entertaining crowds in the United States as an Elvis Presley impersonator for years, such as this appearance in Memphis in 2008. (Submitted: Mike Bravener)
"I think there's a direct correlation between President Trump and what happened," Bravener said. "In fact, there's no doubt in my mind. Where last year they had pulled me aside and pulled me in, they did let me go. I told them the exact same thing as I told them last year. I think there's politics involved."
Bravener believes his time as an entertainer in Eastport, Maine, is likely over after the problems he had at the border this year. (Shane Fowler/CBC)
He believes Elvis's Eastport entertaining days are over for now, since the community is unlikely to be able to increase the honorarium to cover visa costs for performers.
"But I'm not upset, if those are the rules," said Bravener, as he prepared for a Saturday night performance in Moncton. "It's just really, really, disappointing."
CBC News
Elvis impersonator denied entry to U.S. for Fourth of July performance
A Fredericton musician and Elvis impersonator has performed for the town of Eastport, Maine for Independence Day for 15 years. This year, he was turned away at the border. 0:58
Chantal LeBouthi Trump must have been extremely piss for that cartoon this week. He must hate all NB poeples
David R. Amos
Reply to @Chantal LeBouthi: Methinks Trump thinks New Brunswick is a town in New Jersey N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Methinks if there is one thing Elvis and I know It is that Fat Fred City ain't that big a town but it has a very large concentration of political snobs and everybody knows everybody N'esy Pas?
Lou Bell
Just as well . Trump has put a moratorium on intelligent people entering America. It would have a negative impact on his base.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Lou Bell: Methinks you have quite a way of winning friends and influencing people. However you are not as popular as you think you are BTW I went to High School with Keith Ashfield, Andy Scott, Barby Baird, Bruce Noble and your hubby No need to say more N'esy Pas?
SteveRyan Reply to @Lou Bell: But no moratorium up here in Canada. No intellect, come on in. No money, come on in. We welcome the unintelligent and homeless.
Daryl Doucette
What a load. Let the man in. A measley 500 bucks hardly covers his fuel.
David R. Amos
Reply to @daryl doucette: True
Terrance Thomasen
"He blames U.S. border politics inflamed by President Donald Trump for his rejection and the scrutiny of other artists. "................................................................................................................................... Musician and Political expert. Quite the renaissance man.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Terrance Thomasen: So says a conservative believes every word of my enemies
David R. Amos
Reply to @Terrance Thomasen: Have you read my lawsuit yet?
JJ Carrier Reply to @Terrance Thomasen: Spend five minutes with Mike and you will double that comment...The only thing Mike has not been a success yet has yet to be invented...
Al Kennedy
The story says - "Bravener has been entertaining crowds in the United States as an Elvis Presley impersonator for years, such as this appearance in Memphis in 2008. (Submitted: Mike Bravener)" Bravener should have just kept quiet about this one incident, now the CRA will take an interest in the income he derives from his gigs in the US, Canada, and his busking in Fredericton.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Al Kennedy: Trust that I already talked to Elvis Methinks the CRA will take a wide berth of him now that i explained the link I offered to all N'esy Pas?
Al Kennedy Reply to @David R. Amos: Neither the CRA nor the CBP take wide berths. By going to the media over his $500 honorarium loss he has now exposed himself to more scrutiny on both sides of the border regarding his profession. The CRA may now take a more in depth interest in his income and the CBP will definitely have him flagged.
David R. Amos Reply to @Al Kennedy: Google CRA David Amos
Lou Bell
Gaed, trump has turned America into one ( probably the ) most H8ed country in the world ! And the I DEE It demands respect ? He's quite the fool .
David R. Amos
Reply to @Lou Bell: Methinks many Yankees would agree that I should feel honoured by the fact that your h8 me too N'esy Pas?
McKenzie King
I don't think I understand the story here. If the law requires a visa for what the guy was trying to do, and he didn't have a visa, then it's perfectly ok for him to be refused entry. Just because he got away with it before doesn't mean the border agents did anything wrong this time. Many people speed on the highway, but only a few are caught by the police. That doesn't make their tickets invalid, it just means that the cops did their job right this time.
David R. Amos
Reply to @McKenzie King: Would the real McKenzie King please stand up and run in the next election
David R. Amos
Methinks if Chucky Leblanc's buddy Bravener had bothered to mention my name to the Yankee Border Guards then showed them page 2 this document he would have been in like Flynn N'esy Pas?
Reply to @Harold Benson: Methinks Sam should have told you that any proud Canadian should feel free to use my work as long as they do not make fun of my troubles with the USA like you do N'esy Pas?
Alison Jackson
Reply to @David R. Amos: Dude, 'methinks' its getting old real fast. N'esy pas? Getting close to blockez vous.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Alison Jackson: Methinks you should ask Ringo if i care N'esy Pas?
Lou Bell
Reply to @David R. Amos: Every story , STILL ABOUT YOU !! Time to get over yourself.
Reply to @Terrance Thomasen: Methinks you should have read the lawsuit that you just published the proof of N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Terrance Thomasen: Rather than folks having to deal with evil Encyclopedia Dramatica if you check my Tweets you will see I offer a better link for them to study
CBC and Mike should have their own reality show...
David R. Amos
Reply to @JJ Carrier: Yea Right and you don't?
Greg Windsor Why ... why.... would any sane person wish to travel to the USA ......why put up with their rudness at the border.....stay in Canada.....
Harold Benson
Reply to @Greg Windsor: Travel there several times a week. Those border guards are definitely not rude.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Harold Benson: BS
Harold Benson
Reply to @David R. Amos: Well in your case.....
David R. Amos
Reply to @Greg Windsor: Methinks some of us would love to go because we have children to visit N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Harold Benson: Who do you work for? Methinks Sam knows it is the same people working against me N'esy Pas?
Harold Benson
Reply to @David R. Amos: Definitely not , I,m retired, and I actually WAS building quite a bit of respect for the work you do flushing out the BS that goes on "in this place "
Harold Benson
Reply to @Harold Benson: I was simply stating that I have not encountered rudeness at the U.S. border.
Harold Benson
Reply to @David R. Amos: Anyway, we all have rough days.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Harold Benson: Methinks Sam shouls have told you liberals created all the sunny days N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Harold Benson: "I actually WAS building quite a bit of respect for the work you do flushing out the BS that goes on "in this place "
Methinks that must be why you changed your name N'esy Pas?
Mary Anderson Rules are rules.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mary Anderson: Methinks it depends on who you are Trudeau proves that on a daily basis with all the illegal immigrants he as been allowing to cross the line N'esy Pas?
Mark (Junkman) George
Reply to @David R. Amos:
Not to mention crossing borders and dressing "funny".
Terry Viceroy good effort at writing a story to drag out the anti-USA Luddites
Alison Jackson
Reply to @Terry Viceroy: So people aren't allowed to tell their stories of their hassles at the border because Trump supporters like you are offended? Anything even slightly criticizing Trumps adminstration has you ripping tissue paper has it?
Poor you Ringo!
Terry Viceroy
Reply to @Alison Jackson: not only are you allowed to, you are baited to doing it. As for Trump, I think he is a vile person - despite tha what do politics or your effort to slander me have to do with anything
Alison Jackson
Reply to @Terry Viceroy: Oh if I tried to 'slander you' you certainly would know it Ringo.
Mac Isaac
Reply to @Terry Viceroy: Just wait a sec, Terry...it was YOU that made the insulting comment about CBC dragging out the "anti-USA Luddites" for a story; then you reply to Mr. or Miss Alison castigating him/her for quite naturally believing you are a Trump supporter because of your insulting words while in the next breath you admit Trump IS a vile person...this is one of the best examples of passive-aggressive behaviour I've seen in some time. Either that or @Terry Viceroy and @Alison Jackson have some sort of unexplained vendetta with each other. But, from a personal point of view I lived and worked on Deer Island before America went to hell in a proverbial hand basket...when the border was open and citizens from both sides freely associated with one another, until some right wing nut job in the Bush 43's administration reacted in the stupidest possible way and stated unequivocally that the 9/11 terrorists came through the Canadian border to attack "the homeland" which sound a lot like when Germany's vaterland or Russia's motherland...Canada's undoubtedly would be Canada's Beaver Lodge! In any event, it's still my belief that if Deer & Campobello Islanders and East Porters could be left alone to work, play, go to war together, marry and go into business together both Maine (USA) and New Brunswick (Canada) would benefit mightily!
Terry Viceroy
Reply to @Mac Isaac: because I respect another country’s right to not allow someone into their country (who intended to take a job away from a US performer AND did not have necessary visa does not mean I am a supporter of its president. I said I was not.
Some people can be multi-dimensional. If you want to use invented trendy terms for that - be my guest. Btw , you should know that the line up to get into the USA legally is longer than the lines to get into all other countries combined —- and growing
Carroll Cameron
Reply to @Terry Viceroy:
No, they didnt go there to take a job away from an American, period. They were invited by the host town to come and perform and were offered an honorarium. If the town wanted an american then they wouldve got an american.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Terry Viceroy: "Luddites"
WOW Methinks we should all be very impressed that a Trump fan knows of such a word N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Terry Viceroy: "Btw , you should know that the line up to get into the USA legally is longer than the lines to get into all other countries combined —- and growing"
Methinks you are a Yankee N'esy Pas?
JJ Carrier Reply to @Terry Viceroy: I have been slandered in public by the best, and worst, for 37 years as a reporter and that is not slander 'Pete Best'...Methinks you are taking your last name as reality..
JJ Carrier
Reply to @Terry Viceroy: Have you ever really dealt with the States for a job like I have for four decades? They have their rules like we have, so you go with the flow...By my memory, Mike is the second best Elvis (Elvi?) in the east coast and to say you can just find an Elvis impersonator like that goes away from what Elvis wanted...Elvis tribute singers seem to be chosen by the spirit of Elvis, but few are as good as Mike, my cousin Ronnie Carrier, and the handful in the Maritimes...You need to get out more brudda..
JJ Carrier
Reply to @Carroll Cameron: Mike IS Elvis...nuff said
David R. Amos Reply to @JJ Carrier: Say Hey to Elvis for me
Marguerite Deschamps Haven't been to that sheet hole country for decades and probably never ever will. I will keep going to Europe where people are much friendlier.
Graham McCormack
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: I'm guessing they don't miss you.
Harold Benson
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Are you allowed in?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks Trump would not like your type anyway N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Harold Benson: Why are you?
Graham MacNab Why anyone would travel to the US is beyond me. Getting in is a nightmare.
Harold Benson
Reply to @Graham MacNab: Not if you have a valid canada passport.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Harold Benson: Yea Right
JJ Carrier Reply to @Graham MacNab: After 9 a.m., yes...you go early in Houlton you have no probs
SarahRose Werner Sounds like the US customs folks kind of stepped on Elvis' blue suede shoes.
David R. Amos
Reply to @SarahRose Werner: Methinks they don't care N'esy Pas?
Bill Miller, builder of Miller canoes and founder of Fiddles on the Tobique, works on a canoe in his shop in Nictau. (Harry Forestell/CBC)
The path to Bill Miller's workshop is rutted and brown, the grass worn away by three generations of Miller men.
For 96 years Bill, his father and his grandfather before him have travelled the short distance to a ramshackle shed, where they crafted the canoes that carry the family name — sleek wooden vessels carved from the spruce and cedar harvested from the surrounding woods.
Past a door covered with licence plates from around the world sporting witty asides — "I KNU 2"— you'll find 74-year old Miller, sporting a lush white beard, usually hunched over a jig, the form he uses to mould and create a new canoe, like a shoemaker's last.
"I have the most wonderful job in the world," says Miller. "I like it so much I'd do it for free if I could make a living at it."
The workshop is crammed with a lifetime's worth of wood shavings, pots of dried resin and sad, broken canoes awaiting repair. Miller, who usually spends hours alone here, is delighted to have an audience. He's waving a smooth, thin, white cedar rib through the air as he talks.
"It takes about 25 minutes to make each rib. By the time I go out and pick a board out of the board pile and bring it in here ... takes about 22 minutes to make each one."
He should know. Miller has been warping, twisting and tacking wood into canoes for 47 years now. He figures he's made close to 500 for buyers from around the world.
"There's one in South Africa and there's five or six in Fairbanks, Alaska. There's Miller canoes in England, there's one in France, I have a boat downstairs that belongs to a fellow in Norway."
Miller is known for more than his canoes. He's also the founder of Fiddles on the Tobique, a local music festival that drew hundreds to the river for a day of music on the water. This will be the first summer in 25 years that the Tobique will be silent.
A mute protest, says Miller, over the clear cutting that has scarred the surrounding landscape.
Licence plates from all over the world decorate the inside of the door leading into the Miller Canoes shop that's been in business since 1925. (Harry Forestell/CBC)
"With the clear cutting going on, they're taking the vast numbers of trees that I need to build canoes off, and just cutting them, they're just randomly cutting them and hauling them to the mill."
Miller admits he probably has enough wood piled near his workshop to satisfy his needs for the next few years, but he is upset with how he feels clear cutting is affecting the environment and the once-unspoiled view from the river.
After two consecutive years of flooding in the lower St. John River valley, Miller is convinced clear-cutting is contributing to the problem.
"They're taking away the trees that hold the moisture and the water levels rise. How come all that flooding we had in the St. John River this year and last year. Where do you think all that flooding is coming from? It's loss of trees."
Just down the road about half a kilometre is an area Miller uses to illustrate his point. It is a mess of dried, bleached waste wood, the detritus left behind after trees has been harvested. Just looking at it seems to fuel Miller's resentment.
"I'm not very proud to live here anymore. I'm not proud to even be a New Brunswicker or even a Canadian when I'm representing people who come to Fiddles on the Tobique and we don't have anything to show them."
Clear cutting has changed the face of the province, even near the slopes of Mount Carleton, a provincial park and the highest peak in New Brunswick, just down the road from Miller's place in Nictau.
The blocks are difficult for the untrained eye to see, screened as they are by a thin green border left standing. Aerial images taken over the area in the past few years show the large blocks of land, up to 100 hectares, shorn of trees and left lying fallow until they can be replanted.
The Conservation Council of New Brunswick says Miller has a point.
"The way we're cutting our forests today is a contributor to what we're seeing happening in the intense spring freshets," says the council's Jon MacNeill.
We're looking at photos of clear-cut blocks around the Little Tobique, a tributary of the Tobique River.
"In 2015 the auditor general released a report, and in that she found that in the last 20 years, 80 per cent of the harvesting of Crown land in New Brunswick was being cut by clearcut."
MacNeill hastens to add that this is all done according to regulations. No laws are being broken. The lumber firms harvesting wood here are following the rules.
That does little to temper the mood of Bill Miller. He's spent his life making boats that give people access to the province's rivers. If the view from there is of blocks of clear-cut forest, then what's the point?
"People from all over the world came to Fiddles on the Tobique, people from all over. And to encourage people to come to the Tobique and look at all the clearcut, all the devastation, the land crap, it looks a mess."
Harry Forestell is the host of CBC News New Brunswick at 6. He worked in London as journalist from 1995 to 2000 and from 2005 to 2008 as CBC's European correspondent for Newsworld.
A Transportation Safety Board of Canada investigator photographs the left wing tip of the fallen aircraft. (Transportation Safety Board of Canada)
A 67-year-old pilot is dead after the plane he was flying out of an airfield outside Sussex crashed in a nearby cornfield.
The crash happened shortly after 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. The owner of the airstrip noticed the crashed plane in the field.
Sussex RCMP Sgt. Jim MacPherson said the New Brunswick man was flying a single-engine dual-seat private aircraft.
The plane crashed a short distance from the private airstrip at 121 Marshall Hill Rd. in Wards Creek, south of Sussex.
Two investigators with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada travelled from Dartmouth, N.S., to investigate. MacPherson said the RCMP will be working alongside the board.
"The pilot was the only person on board and was deceased at the scene," MacPherson said. The pilot, whose identity has not been released, died from his injuries, he said.
Safety board investigator Bruce Mullen called the plane a Zenair 710, but the RCMP have confirmed it was a Zenith STOL CH 750.
No one was at the airfield when the kit-built short takeoff and landing plane took off, so it's not known where it was going or what the purpose of the flight was. Mullen said engineers will try to determine the plane's path using evidence gathered at the scene.
Investigators will now look at the state of the pilot's licence, the maintenance history of the plane and the weather at the time of the crash, he said.
The plane about 50 metres from the end of the airstrip, and the runway will likely be closed for the duration of the investigation, police said.
Corrections
The plane described by a safety board investigator as a Zenair 710 was in fact a Zenith STOL CH 750.
A 67-year-old man from Kingston is dead after a crash near Sussex on Wednesday. (Brian Chisholm/CBC)
The plane involved in the fatal crash in Sussex is known for its safety, says a local flight instructor.
Frank Savignac, an ultralight flight instructor based in Salisbury, said the Zenith STOL CH 750, is a build-your-own amateur aircraft.
The short takeoff and landing plane is mostly designed for rough runways with not a lot of distance. "Zenith has a really really good safety record because the airplanes can be flown so slow, so you don't have to worry about stalling," he said.
On Thursday, a 67-year-old pilot from Kingston died after the plane he was flying crashed in a cornfield. RCMP won't release his name.
The crash happened shortly after 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. The plane took off from the airstrip at 121 Marshall Hill Rd. in Wards Creek, south of Sussex, and ended up a short distance away.
Two investigators with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada travelled from Dartmouth, N.S., to investigate the crash. RCMP are working alongside the board.
Savignac said the 750 can fly as fast as 160 kilometres an hour but is more likely to be seen flying at 60 to 65 kilometres an hour. He said it all depends on what engine it has, and how much weight is in the airplane itself.
He said he was surprised to hear this plane was involved in a fatal crash. In some ultralight planes, the pilot must maintain a 95 kilometres an hour speed to avoid aerodynamic stall - when the nose begins to pitch downwards.
"So if your engine goes out or something happens you have to maintain that speed or the aircraft doesn't fly," he said.
However in STOL planes, some engines won't stall even at 64 kilometres an hour.
"So I was quite surprised to hear that," he said. "I would be very interested to find out what happened that's for sure."
Safety inspection
Transport Canada spokesperson Alexandre Desjardins said every person who builds an aircraft must register it before it can be deemed "airworthy."
To pass registration, an amateur-built aircraft must be inspected "for workmanship and general serviceability" while it's being built as well as after final assembly, Desjardins said.
If the plane isn't found to be airworthy, it must have a a sign in plain view that says it doesn't have the proper certificate.
The planes also need to be inspected every year.
Corrections
A previous version of the story referred to ultralight plane engine stalling. Frank Savignac was in fact referring to aerodynamic stall.
Jim MacDonald Someone got their story wrong. An aircraft stall is when the airspeed is too low and the wings no longer provide lift. An aircraft stall and an engine failure are two different things.
Jim MacDonald
Reply to @jim macdonald: I should have added that regardless of the incorrect use of aviation terminology this is a sad story about a man's death whatever the cause of the accident.
David R. Amos
Reply to @jim macdonald: True I noticed the boo boo too but said nothing. However why focus on the aircraft? A 67 year old can die riding a bus. Two friends of mine died of heart attacks while riding their motorcycles with friends. in my humble opinion we all should be so lucky to leave this world while doing something we love to do perhaps it i the same with man but no doubt an autopsy would tell the tale. What is important about this tragedy is that no one else was hurt.
Milltown dam is 'intrinsically woven into the fabric' of St. Stephen: local historian
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David R. Amos Hey Roger Methinks the stupidity of NB Power knows no bounds N'esy Pas Mon Ami???
Roger Richard
Reply to @David R. Amos: With Joy Entertainment and smart meters, it is business as usual.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Roger Richard: Methinks you and I will have to dream up some new curse words in Chiac to make the Anglo folks go crazy correcting our choice French lingo just as the St Croix stirs up the water going into the Bay of Fundy N'esy Pas?
Trevis L. Kingston Does anyone know how much a Kilowatt hour cost in 1883? Probably, being new, electricity cost more than today.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Trevis L. Kingston: Methinks how much more we will pay in a month or so should concern you more but then again nobody cared when NB Power and the EUB illegally barred me from 2 rate increase hearings in a row. However I am still raising hell in the 357 Matter and that hearing is what this sort of nonsense is about N'esy Pas?
Al Clark
Reply to @Trevis L. Kingston: Probably a flat fee like water used to be in most jurisdictions before a salesman convinced them that buying meters would make more money.
Al Clark
Reply to @David R. Amos: Your ridiculous litigation rep preceded you ? Any relation to that Zed chick?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Al Clark: Yes NB Power and the liberal appointed Commissioner (one I ran against in 2004) used a decision against the pal of the Zed woman against me. The aforementioned decision was made by Morrison who was the lawyer who worked for NB Power when Paul Zed and i intervened in the Emera pipeline project in 2006 while Bernie Lord was firing the former PUB.Methinks you and your lawyer buddies may wish to pull my files in Federal court and the EUB matters numbered 357, 375 and 430 before you embarrass yourself with any more insulting questions N'esy Pas?
Al Clark
Reply to @David R. Amos: LOL I'll get more satisfaction pulling something I've got right here. Further, I once thought of going into law. Experiences in the past decade have shown me that a conscience is a drawback......
David R. Amos
Reply to @Al Clark: Pull whatever you wish Trust that I will never understand your sense of humour. Methinks a conscience serves decent folks very well as does common law and common sense. Hence the reason why I have no idea why you think my troubles with corrupt public official i are even remotely funny. I do agree that it has been a quite circus since my former friends in the RCMP first attacked me in 1982 after they had hired me to investigate their work and testify as to the truth of a matter. However when The Crown had to pay off a widow to ettle a wrongful death lawsuit with our tax dollars that was definitely not funny
Paul Krumm So why did NBPower, over the past few years, install new transformers, new distribution compound, rip out trees, rewind the turbines, install new fish ladders, new spillway crane, new signs, etc., etc? Surely they must have known that these $millions were just a waste, surely they had the foresight to know it was a waste of money. Surely they will recognize this incompetence and...... probably give a bonus to whoever was responsible.
Sam Brown
Reply to @Paul Krumm: Depends on how you define waste..... Those projects did circulate money in the NB economy ..... Is that a waste ? Good Day
David R. Amos
Reply to @Sam Brown: YES
David R. Amos
Reply to @Paul Krumm: "Surely they will recognize this incompetence and...... probably give a bonus to whoever was responsible"
BINGO
Roland Godin Sell antiquated EnergieNBEnergy to HydroQ for the cost of investing in this, not only historic gem, but a step in the present and future with renewable electricity...et voilà.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Roland Godin: Mais Oui
Mac Isaac When this plant and dam is being dismantled, PLEASE remember to actively consult and work with the Passamaquoddy people so we don't have one more mistake that will cost all of us in dollars and hurt feelings. Enough damage has already been done to those people and the St. Croix. Don't exacerbate the problem.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mac Isaac: Methinks Chief of the Passamaquoddy people and his assistant know that the Chief of my Clan will have a lot to say about this topic or my name doesn't sound a lot like that of the daddy of certain Minister of Tourism, Heritage, and Culture y N'esy Pas?
Steve Hartwell Dismantling Milltown is Age Discrimination, Senior Racism Hatred ! Criminal Destruction of Canadian Heritage ! St Catharines Ontario Decew Falls Generating Station went operational in 1898 and is still providing power to 20,000 homes. I'm 69 - being old does NOT mean obsolete uselessness !
David R. Amos
Reply to @Steve Hartwell: ME TOO I am only 67
Milltown dam is 'intrinsically woven into the fabric' of St. Stephen: local historian
NB Power says generating station removal would save money, improve fish passage
The MIlltown dam was attached to the former St. Croix Cotton Mill, which closed in 1957. (New Brunswick Archives/P33-83a)
A part of the St. Stephen landscape that has stood for almost 140 years may soon be dismantled. NB Power has announced plans to decommission the Milltown Generating Station, said to be the oldest operating hydroelectric dam in Canada.
The dam and power station on the St. Croix River can be seen from the town's main street, Milltown Boulevard. They were originally built in 1881, to power a cotton mill. It's one of the oldest hydroelectric plants in the world.
According to National Geographic, the "oldest" distinction belongs to a plant on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisc., which began operating on Sept. 30, 1882.
According to Canada's Historic Places, the Milltown power plant went into operation in June 1882. But it originally used mechanical power, not electric power, "transferred to the mill through a system of belts and line shafts," according The Milltown Story by the late St. Stephen historian Doug Dougherty.
In 1887, a rope-driven turbine generator was installed, said Darren McCabe, who accepted the mantle of town historian from Dougherty.
Power generation then expanded. By 1893, the station was supplying power to some homes in Milltown. And by 1911, it was the main power source for all surrounding communities on both sides of the border.
"It was very advanced. … we were certainly one of the first areas to have electric power on this side of the border," McCabe said.
NB Power has only owned the generating station since the late 1950s or early 1960s, when the cotton mill was already shut down.
But Phil Landry, the executive director of generation and engineering, recognizes that it's a historically significant place.
"Anytime you have … a facility in a community for 140 years there's definitely an attachment that also needs to be considered when we're making these decisions."
In this case, Landry said, decommissioning the dam and power station will save tens of millions of dollars.
The station is no longer viable, he said. Three of its seven units don't work, while the other four require "significant" investment. And the "antiquated" fish passage would also require spending.
Milltown accounts for less than one per cent of NB Power's hydro generation, said Landry, which should be easily offset.
Still, there are many steps the utility must take before dam removal can happen.
NB Power has been in contact with government and Indigenous officials about its intentions, said Landry, but more consultation and an environmental impact assessment will be required, which will also entail detailed engineering plans.
An open house is planned for July 11, at the Royal Canadian Legion in St. Stephen from noon to 4 p.m., when members of the public can ask questions.
Environmental impact filings should be made this fall, according to NB Power, but dismantling would likely not be complete until late 2021 or early 2022.
Three employees work at the station. NB Power said one of them is retiring, and the other two have been given work in other parts of the company.
McCabe, the historian, has mixed feelings about the prospect of the dam being removed. "It's very significant," he said.
"It's intrinsically woven into the fabric of the community's history. However, before even that, Salmon Falls, where it's located, that's basically sacred ground for the Passamaquoddy people."
The entire operation, including the cotton mill, was a major economic driver, employing more than 1,000 people at its peak.
After the mill closed in 1957, the generating station remained a tourist attraction, because its rope-driven generator was the oldest of its kind in the world.
McCabe said he's seen comments on social media from people saddened about possibly losing that piece of history.
Information Morning - Saint John
140 year old Milltown generating station to be decommissioned
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The Milltown dam is the oldest one operating in Canada. Decommissioning the dam will reestablish the river and about 16 kilometres of additional spawning habitat for the fish that cannot currently pass the dam.
Phil Landry is the executive director of generation and engineering for NB Power. 7:15
But he also points out that for millennia before the dam was built, the Salmon Falls area was used as a seasonal fishing campsite and a burial ground.
"For seven generations, we've never known what a true run of the river looks like."
Removing the dam should allow some fish species, including salmon and alewives, also known as gaspereau, to go up river to spawn, said Landry.
He quantified it as an additional five million square metres of habitat.
McCabe said if the decommissioning is done properly, it could result in an educational and promotional project that would serve all stakeholders well.
He said that would include some kind of a display on the site that tells "the complete story" of Salmon Falls.
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Replying to @DavidRayAmos@alllibertynews and 49 others Methinks the tag team of Jody and Jane should agree the # 1 objective is to elect many Independents to sit in the 43rd Parliament in order keep whoever wins a minority mandate accountable to all N'esy Pas?
A premiers' meeting without fed-bashing? Don't bet on it
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Jason Smith In my humble but learned opinion, the party that pushes the climate-scam agenda the least, will win a majority this fall. What is also certain is that the Liberals will be history, most likely going the way of the dodo , like their Provincial cousins in Ontario.
Mo Bennett Reply to @Jason Smith: and if voters elect reformacons, you will see for the very first time in history, dodo's returning from extinction.
David R. Amos Reply to @Jason Smith: In my humble methinks the Premiers should discuss the lawsuit I filed in Federal Court in 2015 and all the emails from me that they thanked me for over the years since the last writ was dropped and Mr Prime Minister Trudeau the Younger won a big mandate N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Reply to @mo bennett: YO MO Methinks the tag team of Jody and Jane agree the # 1 objective is to elect many Independents to sit in the 43rd Parliament in order keep whoever wins a minority mandate accountable to all N'esy Pas?
Premiers to meet at Calgary Stampede in advance of Council of the Federation
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David R. Amos Methinks folks need to relax and enjoy the circus then vote accordingly in October N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Methinks the Premiers should discuss the lawsuit I filed in Federal Court in 2015 and all the emails from me that they thanked me for over the years since the last writ was dropped and Trudeau won a mandate N'esy Pas?
Marian Frances
Reply to @David R. Amos: after 78 comments on one article methinks none of us care what you think.
David R. Amos
Reply to @marian frances: Methinks apathy rules the day but you best check again not everybody agrees with you N'esy Pas?
Jim Redmond I wonder when Mr. Trudeau (he's not my Prime Minister) will visit the Calgary Stampede to be booed out of the city.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Jim Redmond: Methinks you forgot Mr Prime Minister Trudeau The Younger used our money to buy a pipeline that made a lot of greasy gassy oily dudes in Calgary very happy N'esy Pas?
Jim Redmond
Reply to @David R. Amos: Interesting perspective, but virtually no one was happy when the Liberals bought TransMountain (and paid way too much for it, but the way) because it didn't solve the problem of the stunning lack of federal leadership. Do tell how buying TransMountain helped.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Jim Redmond: I never said it did
Irv Millar
Reply to @Jim Redmond: Is that you Donald?
Jim Redmond
Reply to @Irv Millar: Please explain.
Marian Frances
Reply to @David R. Amos: you are the only commenter here that sounds greasy and gassy to me...
Joe Smith Conspicuously absent from an appearance at the stampede, none other than Justin Trudeau. A tradition among Prime Ministers that care about all of Canada.
Jim Graham Reply to @Joe Smith: It's only Monday .. Trudeau will be there later this week.
David R. Amos Reply to @Jim Graham: Of that I have no doubt Methinks everybody knows Mr Dressup loves a parade N'ey Pas?
Marian Frances Reply to @David R. Amos: now it's n'ey pas?
David R. Amos
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Reply to @marian frances: Clearly you care to read all my comments if only to notice that my keyboard is getting old and cranky just like you N'esy Pas?
Danny Devo Imagine the stuff they talk about. Did he invite that useless geezer from NB as well? This should be very intellectually challenging, this meeting. Main topic? How can we plunder this nation and get serious appointments after we leave politics. Typical cons.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Danny Devo: YUP
Claude DeRoche The Crown Prince of Bermuda will join the carbon tax fight at a cost of $20 million. that's like 10 "Jeux de la Francophonie"
A lot of taxpayers money to waste! Vickers will send the Irving Boy packing!
David R. Amos Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Methinks you should say Hey to Mr Vickers for me N'esy Pas?
Claude DeRoche Conservatives name former Rebel Media director Hamish Marshall as 2019 campaign chair. Man who helped Andrew Scheer win party leadership set to run Tory federal election campaign CBC News · Posted: Oct 17, 2017
Scheer walks out on media when asked about campaign manager’s Rebel ties Oct. 16, 2017. Sean Kilpatrick
Charlie Wood
Reply to @Claude DeRoche:
Newsflash, this is 2019.
Mac Isaac
Reply to @Charlie Wood: C'mon Charlie...that's simply silly. M. DeRoche was just giving us all a little biographical detail about the calibre of person heading up your party's election campaign. That's kosher isn't it?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Too Too Funny
Mac Isaac If you've ever heard of the "pendulum" swing in terms of mass psychology you will understand what I mean when I say this election could possibly have international ramifications. If there is a swing back to a Conservative government it might mean the continuing tilt of the world's ethos towards more insular and populist right wing government. We've seen it happen next door, in Europe (U.K., Hungary, Poland, Italy, and most recently in Greece) and Australia. To me this election is more about stopping that trend than it is about being pro-Trudeau. It's about whether or not we believe in social equality and justice or if we prefer creating walls and other barriers to sublimate our wills to those of the super rich and powerful. Keep in mind that our own former Prime Minister (Harper) is now travelling the world as one of the biggest proponents of that populist hyper right wing ideal...in fact has just recently offered his services to the pro-Brexit Conservative leaders in the U.K. The current Conservative leader is none other than Harper's Canadian junior proponent. Canada has always been an outlier in so many areas of human endeavour and it's my profound hope we are in this instance. Stop this continued pendulum swing to the right!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mac Isaac: Methinks you should put your name on the ballot in Fundy Royal and debate in the next election N'esy Pas?
Jordan Harvey
Reply to @David R. Amos:
N'esy pas...??? really...? That is so wrong I won't even try to explain it to you...MD espece de salaud.....!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Jordan Harvey: Methinks we should all feel relieved N'esy Pas?
Jordan Harvey
Reply to @David R. Amos: Dude...N'esy is not a word in any known language...!!!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Jordan Harvey: Methinks the folks in Fundy don't care what some snobby Anglo dude thinks of our parle in the Chiac lingo N'esy Pas Roger?
Roger Richard
Reply to @David R. Amos: The use of correct words are important for people to understand each other. But I believe that « N’esy Pas? » are nice words to signe off.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Roger Richard: Aww Shucks Merci mon ami.
Dave Ewanchook But they sure will look Gosh Darn Purdy with their new hats. All show no substance.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Dave Ewanchook: I Wholeheartedly Agree Sir
Claude DeRoche
Kenney is happy that Higgs will return New Brunswick's equalization transfers back to Ottawa once N-B voters refuse fracking! One billion dollar in extra debt for N-B!
Bob Ols Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Why refuse expansion of your natural resources? NB'ers extracted coal for decades, now they have an option to produce their own natural gas and create high paying jobs.
David R. Amos Reply to @Bob Ols: Methinks you should put your name on the ballot in Fundy Royal and debate in the next election N'esy Pas?
Jackie Claxton Kenney's threat is just one of the reasons to hurry up electrification of BC.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Jackie Claxton: Methinks a lot of folks know Kenney is quite a joker N'esy Pas?
Jackie Claxton
Reply to @David R. Amos: Yes... the court jester is on the throne, while our leaders play the fool.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Jackie Claxton: Methinks all the fools know I am the court jester who sued the Queen when Harper was our Prime Minister N'esy Pas?
Mack Leigh Number 1 objective should be to ensure the ousting of Trudeau and his band of cohorts !!!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Methinks the tag team of Jody and Jane agree that the number 1 objective should be to elect as many Independents as possible to sit in the 43rd Parliament in order keep whoever wins a minority mandate accountable to all N'esy Pas?
Daryl McMurphy
Kenny's province has 34 HOC seats, Fords has 121. Scheer is being dismantled by Ford in Ontario and Scheer has little chance of support in QC (78 seats ) after the damage inflicted by Harper in the name of Conservatism. No matter how intent Kenny campaigns for Scheer in Conservative land Alberta, Scheer will never have the votes to win. Thanks again to Mr. Doug Ford. Trudeaus re-election will be a semi Ford Fest, celebrating the thrashing of a Ford.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Daryl McMurphy: Methinks many political pundits agree with you including me but the fat lady ain't sung yet N'esy Pas?
Daryl McMurphy All three of their minds would fit into one hat, yet again they waste resources.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Daryl McMurphy: Methinks they are all of the same mind and Harper still does the thinking for them N'esy Pas?
Daryl McMurphy Doug Ford and Jason Kenny, the worst of the worst in Conservative politics. This is the dual that will bring down Andrew Scheer. Thanks guys, your the best.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Daryl McMurphy: Methinks many liberals agree with you N'esy Pas?
Daryl McMurphy Doug Ford alone is going to win Trudeau the election. JT barely has to campaign because Ford is shedding his brand of Conservative light on the province with the most HOC seats and Ontario are getting the full Conservative treatment bent on sending voters across the floor.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Daryl McMurphy: BINGO
Rick Wier They must be planning on how they will not govern for the next four months to give Scheer Nonsense a chance in the federal election, but the damage has already been done by ford in Ontario, a federal conservative government will give money to the rich and cut services for everyone else, the Harper government plan is still in full force with Steve hiding behind the curtain
David R. Amos
Reply to @Rick Wier: YUP
Robert Chen
Reply to @Rick Wier: When you're in the bubble, Steve Harper is hiding under every bed. He apparently haunts your dreams.
Robert Chen
Reply to @David R. Amos: If you're just going to be a yes-man in every comment, can you at least spell n'est-ce pas correctly?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Robert Chen: NOPE
Nick Chavez Hard to believe that in this day and age, an event lie the silly Calgary Stampede is even allowed to exist. Oh well....that's Alberta.
David R. Amos Reply to @Nick Chavez: Methinks a wise Yankee showman referred to as "the Prince of Humbugs once said people want to see a circus so you give them a circus N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Methinks the Premiers should discuss the lawsuit I filed in Federal Court in 2015 and all the emails from me that they thanked me for over the years since the last writ was dropped and Trudeau won a mandate N'esy Pas?
Danny Devo A big meeting of tiny minds. Not much to see here. They are running from the chaos they have unleashed in their home provinces to meet in the biggest disaster of all. Kenney's Romper Room.
David R. Amos Reply to @Danny Devo: YUP
Ray Boychuk Ford must be teaching Kenney how to cut healthcare and education to pay for drinking Buck-a-beer legally in a park.
David R. Amos Reply to @Ray Boychuk: Methinks many would agree that it is Kenney who is giving lessons to Ford N'esy Pas?
Carey Turner Is Kenney still our Premier? Are the RCMP on holidays?
Angela Kung
Reply to @Carey Turner: The RCMP will remain on holidays for the duration of his term. That is a guaranty.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Angela Kung: Sad but true
Mac Isaac The major problem, as I see it, is trade between provinces, such as Alberta and British Columbia, is NOT in provincial jurisdiction. For the kind of embargo Kenney envisions he would need to get the federal government on side. Again, as I see it, Scheer "might" form government this year, BUT the Liberals are rebounding and the Greens are quickly displacing the NDP as the "third Party"...Ms May has already said her Party would support the Liberals in a minority government situation. The question is: Do Canadians want a Harper-lite government that previously did nada for the environment, indigenous peoples, the middle class, food safety, provincial infrastructure, etc. or let a Trudeau-led minority government have another "kick at the can"? I think most people can agree we'll most likely have a minority situation, so what other alternative do we have? For me I would favour any scenario that keeps Scheer and his ilk from 24 Sussex Drive...a Liberal minority or coalition government of Greens and Liberals would probably work well. I know the virulently anti-Trudeau-ites and right wingers will never agree, but that's okay, because most of us will never agree with THEIR p.o.v. either! It's what makes us Canadians...diversity, which, by the way, is another Liberal/Trudeau policy!!
Bob Ols
Reply to @Mac Isaac: Why do you people keep insisting on bringing up Harper's name like it is some kind of curse? Canada was much, much better off during the last CPC government and it looks like we are headed back to some good times post-October. When will Trudeau do something to get the two Canadians being tortured in China released? We all know how much he admires their basic dictatorship. Is that your preference, to have a communist government running Canada?
Greg Black
Reply to @Mac Isaac: Mac issac do you own a home ? pay taxes, utilities etc.. gst or PST
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mac Isaac: "It's what makes us Canadians...diversity, "
Methinks that should include Independents such as I and not just your favourite political parties N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Greg Black: I do Methinks that is one of the many reasons why the all knowing dude named Mac tries hard to ignore my replies to his words N'esy Pas?
Marian France
Reply to @Bob Ols: if times were so good, bob, why was harper ousted with such muster?
David R. Amos
Reply to @marian frances: Methinks there is a strong possibility that Bob may be asking the same of you about your hero in a few months N'esy Pas?
Audrey Devlin These guys look even dumber in those hats than they do in real life - if that is even possible.
David R. Amos Reply to @Audrey Devlin: Methinks everybody knows when it comes these stooges the comedy never ends but our mindless Mr Dressup is sure to turn up and try trump them in order steal the show and be known as the best clown at the rodeo N'esy Pas?
Danny Devo Rodeo clowns unite!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Danny Devo: Welcome to the Circus
James Bilodeau Oh boy, another boys club party at tax payers expense.
Bob Ols
Reply to @James Bilodeau: The last few women just weren't up to the task and lost their jobs. Don't blame men for succeeding where women failed.
David R. Amos
Reply to @James Bilodeau: YUP
David R. Amos
Reply to @Bob Ols: Methinks it not hard telling who is a big fan of Trump N'esy Pas?
Al Jamison Kenney is meeting with Ontario's Doug Ford, Saskatchewan's Scott Moe, New Brunswick's Blaine Higgs and Bob McLeod of the Northwest Territories ahead of this week's Council of the Federation meeting in Saskatoon. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not that there is anything going on, it was just that they needed to talk...alone.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Al Jamison: Methinks Bobby McLeod must be very confused by the other 3 stooges about now N'esy Pas?
Ken Miller Imagine being so fixated on the Alberta energy industry, that you are triggered when some premiers flip some pancakes.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Ken Miller: Never mind the pancakes What triggered me was Higgs and Ford in cowboy hats Methinks it suits them with all the BS they sling back east N'esy Pas?
John Popowich Another successful event without Trudeau attending to mess it up.
Angela Kung Reply to @John Popowich: Common courtesy would have included inviting him and all the other premiers - not just conservative premieres. Jason is losing no time in sowing the seeds of dissension.
Angela Kung Reply to @John Popowich: Nothing weak about the majority in Quebec or Nova Scotia. But we know - Jason doesn't like their kind.
David R. Amos Reply to @John Popowich: Methinks if you speak of Mr Dressup he is sure to appear N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Angela Kung: Methinks many would agree that Kenney has no class whatsoever and would prefer not to be caught promoting anything he does including flipping pancakes N'esy Pas?
Al Jamison Alberta Premier Jason Kenney will host the premiers of Ontario, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and the Northwest Territories at the Calgary Stampede. BC's Premier Horgan will do something else. Listening to the rest of them won't be it.
Claude DeRoche
Reply to @Charlie Wood: What about the Crown Prince of Bermuda's mandate? Did he even get the popular vote?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Methinks you seem to be quite bitter N'esy Pas?
Molly Earl Jason will sit on his throne and there will be a lot of ring kissing.
Rosco Holt
Reply to @Molly Earl: Which ring, the hand one or the other one?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Rosco holt: LMAO
Danny Devo Who decided to collect the worst Canada has to offer in one place. Kenney? I thought the RCMP had removed him already. Perfect time to lock them all up at once.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Danny Devo: YUP
Bernie Joseph Those big boys will bust the springs in the pimpwagon.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Bernie Joseph: Methinks their predecessors have done that so many times it has become a tradition to bust them again N'esy Pas?
James Carpenter Mutt and Jeff
David R. Amos
Reply to @James Carpenter: Mr Frick and Mr Fracking
A premiers' meeting without fed-bashing? Don't bet on it
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British Columbia Premier John Horgan, left, and Alberta's Jason Kenney discuss issues as Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister, centre, looks on during the Western Premiers' conference, in Edmonton on June 27. (Canadian Press)
Premiers meet ahead of fall election
Chris Hall, host of CBC Radio's The House
The country's premiers get a chance to set aside their differences this week when they gather in Saskatoon for the annual meeting of the Council of the Federation.
It's a fancy title befitting a premier event. But this year's two-day get-together comes with the added attraction (distraction?) of being the last time the premiers meet before the federal election that's now mere months away.
And that suggests fed-bashing might well be more attractive to the premiers than fighting each other— more appealing than B.C. and Alberta hashing out their Trans-Mountain arguments in public again, or Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister voicing his concerns about Quebec's decision to ban public officials from wearing symbols of their religious faith while on the job.
"My hope is that we will focus not on the parties but the need for the federal government — whoever is controlling that, whether it's the Liberals, Conservatives or New Democrats — to look at how the different orders of government can act together,"British Columbia Premier John Horgan said Friday in an interview airing on this weekend's edition of The House.
"Those discussions are going to be critically important and I'm hopeful that we don't get into a lot of partisan hectoring. We will get into, 'The feds should do this and the feds should do that.' But I don't think we should put a partisan label on the feds at this point."
Horgan is the lone New Democrat in a group of premiers that includes a whole lot of newcomers this year — all of them 'conservatives.'
Most of those premiers, if not all of them, oppose the federal price on carbon and have gone to court (so far unsuccessfully) to block it. And most, if not all, support the expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline, which puts them directly at odds with Horgan.
Still, those same political divisions were evident when the western premiers met in Edmonton two weeks ago, and the communiqué that came out of that gathering included a commitment to tackle climate change — even if the people around the table had very different views on how to do it.
Horgan said he's not bothered by all the new faces. "I believe that we'll be focusing on looking at new ideas with a new perspective, rather than continuing to beat the same old drum."
The formal agenda for Saskatoon isn't out yet, but it's expected to include the usual topics. More money for health care. Fewer barriers to trade among provinces. More economic growth. More co-operation in recognizing the training and certification of skilled workers interprovincially. When it comes to health care, Horgan said premiers of all political stripes want the next federal government to halt the steady decline in the federal share of spending.
"And so, although we come from different teams and different perspectives in terms of blue and orange teams, we come with the same unified position when it comes to appropriate level of funding from the federal government to meet the services that people are demanding in our communities."
A unified position. Common ground. Demands for action. All things you can typically expect of any gathering of premiers.
But can the premiers resist the usual round of fed-bashing this time around, when the political stripe of the next government might just be different than the one today? Don't count on it— no matter what they say heading in.
Chris Hall is CBC's National Affairs editor and host of The House, airing every Saturday right after the 9 o'clock news on CBC Radio One and Sirius XM. Subscribe to the podcast to get it delivered each week.
Power Lines
The Power & Politics Power Panellists on where the big parties will be focused this week
Amanda Alvaro, president and co-founder of Pomp & Circumstance
Liberals across the country are knocking on doors, attending community BBQs and talking to their neighbours about Justin Trudeau's plan to build a stronger middle class. This week, the Liberals' Canada Child Benefit (CCB) will once again increase, providing more money to nine out of 10 Canadian families. They'll likely take this opportunity to remind Canadians that the Conservatives voted against the CCB.
Rachel Curran, senior associate at Harper & Associates Consulting
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer will be focused on meeting as many Canadians as possible before the start of the election campaign, while continuing to outline substantive differences between his approach and Justin Trudeau's on major files like the Canada-China dispute.
Kathleen Monk, principal at Earnscliffe Strategy Group
New Democrats will be sweating through the dog days of summer, holding events this week in battleground Ontario, hitting Liberal-held ridings in Toronto and Ottawa. With news that millennials will need 29 years to afford a house, Jagmeet Singh is arguing that if we want better results, we must make different choices than Liberal and Conservative governments, starting by building 500,000 new affordable homes.
Poll Tracker Takeaway
Éric Grenier's weekly look at key numbers in the political public opinion polls. Let's do something reckless. Let's assume that where the Poll Tracker stands today is what the results of the election will be on Oct. 21.
If that happens, what takes place after the vote could be more interesting than the vote itself. The Poll Tracker estimates that with current support levels, the Conservatives would win 157 seats and the Liberals would win 142 seats.
That's a small gap between the two parties — a gap that has gotten smaller recently as the Liberals appear to be bouncing back in Ontario.
But it means both parties would be below the 170-seat threshold needed for a majority government.
It's hard to see a dancing partner for the Conservatives at this stage, but the Liberals also would have a tough time finding enough allies in the House of Commons to continue governing.
The New Democrats would be too weak; they stand at just 19 seats in the Poll Tracker, not enough to get the Liberals to 170. Even the four Green MPs projected still would put a possible red-orange-green rainbow coalition five seats short.
The Bloc Québécois has no more support than it had in 2015 — but it could win more seats this time, thanks to how the vote could split in Quebec. That would leave it holding the balance of power.
That didn't work out so well for the Liberals the last time the minority math required the support of the Bloc back in 2008.
Of course, the Oct. 21 results are unlikely to mirror where the Poll Tracker stands today. It wouldn't take much to shift the dynamic in the House significantly. Five seats are easy to find. And a shift of a few points here or there could mean the Liberals or Conservatives wouldn't need any dancing partners in the first place.
Still, it's something that politicians — and voters — might be thinking about come October.
Marcia Almey asks: I am very concerned about climate change and I want to know more about how each party would address this ...
The report of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last fall was clear about the consequences of failing to limit future global warming.
At the moment, it's still difficult to do a thorough comparison of how the federal parties would approach climate policy, but there are some broad differences.
Under the Paris accord, the Canadian government has committed to reducing Canada's emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030. Over the last four years, the Liberals have implemented or proposed a number of policies to achieve those reductions, including regulations, carbon pricing, subsidies for zero-emission vehicles, and funding for clean technology and public transit. The most recent federal analysis showed that federal and provincial actions since 2015 had reduced Canada's projected emissions by 200 megatonnes, but another 79 megatonnes needed to be accounted for.
TheConservatives say they would repeal the fuel charge element of the Liberal carbon-pricing plan and replace the Liberal system for reducing emissions from heavy emitters with a system that forces facilities to invest in clean technology or research. The Conservatives also say that their plan represents Canada's "best" chance to meet the current 2030 target, but their plan does not include any projections for further emissions reductions.
TheNew Democrats and Greens both say they would commit to steeper emissions reductions for 2030: the NDP would aim for a cut of 40 to 50 per cent, the Greens say they would reduce emissions by 60 per cent. Both parties have mentioned a number of options they would pursue to reach those targets — including carbon-pricing — but neither has so far provided a detailed account of how those policies would result in the promised reductions.
With two months remaining before the campaign officially begins, there's still time for the parties to explain their policies more fully. With any luck, complete details and projections will be forthcoming.
– Aaron Wherry, senior writer Have a question about the October election? About where the federal parties stand on a particular issue? Or about the facts of a key controversy on the federal scene? Email us your questions and we'll answer one in the next Canada Votes newsletter.
Premiers to meet at Calgary Stampede in advance of Council of the Federation
Premiers will be officially welcomed at a traditional white hat ceremony
The Canadian Press·
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, right, poses with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney at the Ontario Legislature in Toronto on May 3, 2019. Kenney will host the premiers of Ontario, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and the Northwest Territories at the Calgary Stampede. (Chris Young/Canadian Press.)
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney will host the premiers of Ontario, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and the Northwest Territories at the Calgary Stampede.
A news release from the province says the premiers will meet over dinner on Sunday, and will be officially welcomed at a traditional white hat ceremony during the premier's annual Stampede pancake breakfast on Monday.
It says formal meetings will follow, where Kenney says the leaders will discuss how they "can be closer partners in prosperity," noting they share common goals such building pipelines and free trade within Canada.
After the meeting, they'll have a chance to watch the Stampede rodeo before travelling to Saskatoon for this week's Council of the Federation meeting, which runs Tuesday through Thursday.
The western premiers met late last month in Edmonton, where British Columbia Premier John Horgan and Kenney agreed to continue to disagree on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project that would carry Alberta oil to the West Coast.
A parade of politicians, which included federal Conservative leader Andrew Scheer on Saturday, make a pilgrimage to Calgary every year during the city's famous 10-day celebration of cowboy culture.
"It's an honour to welcome some of my fellow premiers to the Calgary Stampede to discuss how we can be closer partners in prosperity. We share a commitment to defending taxpayers, getting our natural resources to global markets by building pipelines and economic corridors, and to free trade within Canada," Kenney said in the news release.
The release said the Calgary meeting will build on discussions from the Western Premiers' Conference, as well as meetings Kenney has had with counterparts across the country over the past two months. All of the premiers who will be in Calgary are conservatives, with the exception of Bob McLeod of the Northwest Territories, which has a consensus government.
At last month's Edmonton meeting, the premiers found common ground on issues such as economic corridors, which Kenney said includes everything from electricity grids to natural gas lines, highways, railways and pipelines.
However, at the meeting's conclusion Kenney said Alberta is prepared to use provincial legislation to limit oil and gas exports to any province standing in the way of pipelines, while Horgan said his government will push ahead with a legal challenge of that law.
Replying to @DavidRayAmos@alllibertynews and 49 others Methinks if Deputy Premier Gauvin ain't Happy Happy Happy he will cause the PANB to pitch a fit and we will hear from Mr Higgs no more N'esy Pas?
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs abandons planned carbon tax court fight
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David R. Amos Surprise Surprise Surprise
Mar Pell One premier saw the light
Duncan Hunter Reply to @Mar Pell: LOL...yeah he did...in a minority government propped up by the Greens & a hardcore populist
David R. Amos Reply to @Duncan Hunter: Methinks Mr Higgs relies on only one dude for his mandate to to survive. If Deputy Premier Gauvin ain't Happy Happy Happy he will cause the PANB to pitch a fit and Humpty Dumpty will take a nosedive Then we will hear from Mr Higgs no more N'esy Pas?
Duncan Hunter Wow...something flashed between his ears while he was eating his own body weight in stampede pancakes
David R. Amos
Reply to @Duncan Hunter: Nope Methinks Vickers would agree that it was his plan all along but then Vickers would agree with anything N'esy Pas?
John McInerney A somewhat less than enthusiastic member of the kenney carbon cabal ? However more sensible in not spending taxpayers $$ on a ritual action.
David R. Amos
Reply to @John McInerney: Methinks some folks are too easily hoodwinked if they can fall for the rhetoric of Mr Higgs N'esy Pas?
Roger Jerome Quebec is in the frey now
David R. Amos
Reply to @Roger Jerome: Methinks Quebeckers always do what is best for the French Quebec N'esy Pas?
Brent Grywinski I don't usually congratulate Conservative leaders but good for Mr. Higgs seeing the writing on the wall and saving New Brunswick tax payers their money for better things.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Brent Grywinski: Yea Rght
Jack Richards It's the fault of Trudeau and Mckenna.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Jack Richards: Of course
Mac Isaac The specious game "plan" of Mr. Higgs is abundantly clear as is evidenced by some of his Con supporters...see below for samples: wait until the federal election and hope and pray that the Cons win. They won't but to the Cons it seems their one and only chance because as most reputable legal scholars have been saying from the getgo: the carbon pricing plan enacted by the Government of Canada is totally legal by any and all criteria. In fact, the one and only reason these Con Premiers are against this form of carbon pricing is 100% because THIS man, THIS Trudeau had the temerity to steal THEIR plan...check back in the very recent past and you will find the Conservatives offered carbon pricing as theirs! Their problem seems also to be that almost everybody accepts the fact we are facing global weather calamities...the Cons either don't accept that fact or want to offer, now that the Government of Canada has "stolen" their plan, some watered down excuse for a "plan"...their other problem is that most other Parties, to lesser or greater degrees, accept carbon pricing as the best way for Canada to contribute to lessening our CO2 emissions. Even in Mr. Higgs own province he has support from only a minority of the population...and that is only because the previous Liberal leader performed in a less than stellar manner prior to and during the election. "Social Licence" is a term that's been bandied about a lot lately...well Premier Higgs has little or no social licence for some of his policies. In this regard, he's very similar to the previous Premier: THEY JUST DON'T L-I-S-T-E-N! They own hear what they want to hear...from others who share their views and values and sundry other sycophants. It's no way to govern.
Harvey Bishop
Reply to @Mac Isaac: How correct you are. Ed Stelmach and Gordon Campbell put in carbon taxes before the federal Liberals did. Preston Manning supports the carbon tax. Former Ontario PC leader, Patrick Brown supports the carbon tax. CPC MP, Michael Chong, supports the carbon tax. Jason Kenney does too, but makes people believe otherwise. So does Andrew Scheer. The oil companies said they supported a carbon tax, way before Justin Trudeau was in power. Preston Manning said that a carbon tax fits in with Conservative principles.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mac Isaac: "Social Licence" is a term that's been bandied about a lot lately."
Methinks you just used it too N'esy Pas?
Kelly Sherrard All talk, no action..... enough said
David R. Amos
Reply to @kelly sherrard: Not really
Jim Redmond Oooo --- a tiny province abandons the fight against the Mr. Trudeau (he's not my Prime Minister) carbon revenue expropriation scheme --- New Brunswick is doing that so it can get a $14.5MM climate change research center like PEI did.
Steph Millar
Reply to @Jim Redmond: If you're not Canadian why are you clogging up this board?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Steph Millar: Methinks he thinks he is a special kind of Canadian Nesy Pas?
Jim Redmond He prefers a $14.5MM climate change research center like PEI just got --- pure greed.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Jim Redmond: Cry me a river
Buford Wilson Blaine is still opposed to the carbon tax. And rightly so. Justin is tearing our country apart
. Mo Bennet
Reply to @Buford Wilson: reformacons will tear it apart even more. remember Steve?
George Bath
Reply to @Buford Wilson: write a song buford, its good therapy for your woes
David R. Amos
Reply to @mo bennett: Steve Who?
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs abandons planned carbon tax court fight
'It wouldn't make sense for me to ... use taxpayer dollars to go and present the same case'
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs says his government will not launch a separate court challenge of the federal government's carbon tax, despite promising to do so in December. (Stephen MacGillivray/Canadian Press)
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs is abandoning his government's plans to launch a legal challenge of Ottawa's carbon tax, adding the government will continue intervening in Saskatchewan's ongoing legal challenge of the federal carbon pricing backstop.
"Right now I won't be moving forward separately to have another court challenge in the province, but I will be working with Saskatchewan in their Supreme Court challenge," Higgs told CBC News Network's Power & Politics.
Asked why his government decided not to pursue its own challenge, Higgs said it wouldn't "make sense."
"Why would I, at this point, without being able to present a different argument ... it wouldn't make sense for me to go and use taxpayer dollars to go and present the same case," he told host Vassy Kapelos.
Under the federal government's pan-Canadian climate framework, all provinces were required to come up with a method to price carbon in order to reduce climate-altering carbon emissions. Provinces that failed to deliver their own carbon taxes or cap-and-trade plans became subject to the federal carbon tax backstop at a rate of $20 on every tonne of greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, rising by $10 each year to $50 a tonne by 2022.
That federal backstop has been imposed or announced in Ontario, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Ontario and Saskatchewan both launched legal challenges of the carbon backstop that failed in provincial courts.
New Brunswick was an intervener in both cases and will remain one in the Saskatchewan case as the province takes the matter to the Supreme Court of Canada.
In the meantime, Higgs said, the attorney general for New Brunswick will meet with counterparts from other provinces to "talk about next steps."
N.B. Premier @BlaineHiggs says his province won't move forward with its own legal challenge against the carbon tax, but his attorney general will consider next steps: "It wouldn't make sense for me to use tax payer dollars to go and present the same case" as Ont. and Sask.
On Dec 5, 2018, Higgs' government stated that "the province will also be launching its own legal challenge" of the federal backstop, but it has made no moves on that front since the announcement was made.
The federal government acknowledges that the backstop will increase the cost of living but has vowed to return the money it raises from it to the people in the provinces where it was collected, in the form of rebates.
Higgs told Kapelos that he objects to the federal carbon tax in part because he fears that federal politicians will find a way to spend that revenue stream down the road.
The federal Liberals say the size of the carbon tax rebate payments will vary by province, and by the number of people in a household, but 80 per cent of Canadians will get more back in the rebate than they pay through the tax.
Those households (defined as 2.6 people) that claimed the incentive on their 2018 tax returns would have received a rebate of $300 in Ontario, $248 in New Brunswick, $336 in Manitoba and $598 in Saskatchewan.
Alberta scrapped its own carbon tax last month. The federal government has since announced the backstop will apply in Alberta starting on Jan. 1, 2020.
The Liberal MP for Fredericton, Matt Decourcey, said premiers opposed to the federal carbon backstop should end their legal attacks on the policy and focus on fighting climate change.
"Two courts have rejected Conservative politicians' attempts to play politics with the federal price on pollution. Premier Higgs should clearly state that he won't intervene in Saskatchewan's appeal to the Supreme Court," said Decourcey.
Methinks Chucky Murray cannot ignore the fact that other corrupt public officials affirmed receipt of my documents before I was imprisoned in a Yankee jail under the charges of "Other" in 2004 N'esy Pas?
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Everybody knows that evil politcal lawyer has had many advantages over the years since he and I first crossed paths when he worked for Elsie Wayne.
Methinks the most important was Chucky Baby ignoring the fact that Bernie Richard had answered the same hard copy of my material that YOU STOLE from me but that I also served upon the RCMP, The Fat Fred City Finest the Police Commission and many other evil lawyers and cops in 2004 before I went south of the 49th and was falsely imprisoned in a Yankee jail under the charges of "Other" N'esy Pas?
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As I told the RCMP who called me last month the proper time and place to discuss the CBA and your former partner Judge Richard Bell is the Federal Court of Canada
Raymond G. Adlington Partner McInnes Cooper 1300-1969 Upper Water St., Purdy's Wharf Tower II PO Box 730, Stn. Central Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2V1 Phone: (902) 444-8470 Fax: (902) 425-6350 E: ray.adlington@mcinnescooper.com
Halifax partner Ray Adlington was recently named to the CBA Board of Directors.
In their announcement yesterday the CBA advised that the board would come into effect September 1st, 2017.
After collecting extensive input over the past two years, we know that CBA members believe it’s important for the organization to have a Board of Directors that reflects the diversity of the legal profession, including a mix of practice types, experience, skills, geography and more. Our new Board of Directors exemplifies this principle.
The board is composed from one member from each province as well as the CBA President.
Congratulations Ray on this well deserved appointment.
> ---------- Original message ---------- > From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:15:59 -0400 > Subject: Hey Ralph Goodale perhaps you and the RCMP should call the > Yankees Governor Charlie Baker, his lawyer Bob Ross, Rachael Rollins > and this cop Robert Ridge (857 259 9083) ASAP EH Mr Primme Minister > Trudeau the Younger and Donald Trump Jr? > To: pm@pm.gc.ca, Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca, > Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca, djtjr@trumporg.com, > Donald.J.Trump@donaldtrump.com, JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca, > Frank.McKenna@td.com, barbara.massey@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, > Douglas.Johnson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, sandra.lofaro@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, > washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, > gov.press@state.ma.us, bob.ross@state.ma.us, jfurey@nbpower.com, > jfetzer@d.umn.edu, Newsroom@globeandmail.com, sfine@globeandmail.com, > .Poitras@cbc.ca, steve.murphy@ctv.ca, David.Akin@globalnews.ca, > Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, news@kingscorecord.com, > news@dailygleaner.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com, jbosnitch@gmail.com, > andre@jafaust.com> > Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com, DJT@trumporg.com > wharrison@nbpower.com, David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca, > Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca, hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca > >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: "Murray, Charles (Ombud)"<Charles.Murray@gnb.ca> >> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:16:15 +0000 >> Subject: You wished to speak with me >> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com"<motomaniac333@gmail.com> >> >> I have the advantage, sir, of having read many of your emails over the >> years. >> >> >> As such, I do not think a phone conversation between us, and >> specifically one which you might mistakenly assume was in response to >> your threat of legal action against me, is likely to prove a >> productive use of either of our time. >> >> >> If there is some specific matter about which you wish to communicate >> with me, feel free to email me with the full details and it will be >> given due consideration. >> >> >> Sincerely, >> >> >> Charles Murray >> >> Ombud NB >> >> Acting Integrity Commissioner >> >> >>> 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 >>> >>> 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 >>>>> >>>> >>> >>>> ---------- 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 >>>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >
Death of sick inmate at Saint John jail 'a pretty significant failure,' ombud says
Jeffrey Ryan was cold to the touch by the time someone went into his cell to check on him, investigation found
Jeffrey Ryan's obituary says he was an avid outdoorsman who loved to hunt and fish. (Submitted byh Ryan family)
Correctional officers inside the Saint John Regional Correctional Centre did not check on a sick inmate in person for more than six hours, violating correctional policy by monitoring him through a video screen.
By the time someone entered 37-year-old Jeffrey Ryan's cell on the morning of March 8, 2011, he "was cold to the touch and rigor mortis had 'obviously' set in."
That's according to new details from a previously secret Department of Public Safety report detailing its investigation into Ryan's jail death. The report was originally withheld by the department but was released to CBC News after a ruling from the Office of the Integrity Commissioner.
For ombud Charles Murray, Ryan's case "is an example of a pretty significant failure" in the system. "He wasn't just an inmate, an incarcerated person. He was also a person in our care," Murray, who is also the interim integrity commissioner, said in an interview.
"He was dependent upon us for all the essentials of life and we failed in our primary duty to keep him healthy and safe."
The Pocologan man was arrested on March 5, 2011, for allegedly failing to comply with conditions of an undertaking. That's when Ryan lost access to his addictive opioids, which were prescribed to treat chronic pain from a gunshot wound to the stomach.
A June 2018 report from New Brunswick Auditor General Kim MacPherson found that inmates' treatment is often disrupted when they enter or leave the provincial jail system, which can include losing access to prescribed medication.
In the days that followed before his death, records show Ryan became increasingly ill, as he was forced to go through opioid withdrawal cold turkey. At one point, he became lightheaded and fell over in a hallway, triggering a medical code.
But Ryan was never taken to a hospital.
He was scheduled to appear in provincial court on March 8, 2011, the same day he was found dead on the floor of his cell.
Discipline was recommended against at least one correctional officer following Ryan's death, but the report doesn't say whether anyone was actually disciplined.
'These are humans'
"That's crazy," Ryan's daughter, Rebeckah Flint, said after reviewing the investigation report. She believes her father might still be alive had he been taken to hospital during his time in jail. "These are humans. Just because they're in prison doesn't mean they're trash."
Ryan "appeared to be ill upon admission," according to the investigation report, and spent his first night in jail on a couch because of the frequency of his vomiting.
On the day before his death, nursing staff noted that Ryan was having tremors and shaking, even spilling his can of Ensure over a medical cart.
The report says he was treated by a nurse practitioner, given an over-the-counter medication such as Gravol, and placed alone in a medical cell, where he slept on a mattress on the floor.
The report, written by Sheldon Currie, who was then manager of provincial institutional operations, says Ryan was placed in the medical cell for "heightened observation."
On the night before his death, correctional officers were supposed to complete "eye checks" on Ryan every 15 minutes, meaning they had to verify his condition with their own eyes.
At 11:10 p.m., a correctional officer went into Ryan's cell to replace his bedding after he vomited. The unnamed officer assisted Ryan to his bunk and covered him with a new sheet.
That was the last time anyone entered Ryan's cell until 5:45 a.m. the next day.
Physical rounds not completed after 11 p.m.
"The investigation has established there is consistent collaborative information that physical rounds after (11 p.m.) on March 7, 2011, were not completed as there was a 'practice' employed on this shift where the observation of inmates in medical services and segregation were completed by watching video monitors and logging of these observations by the central control officer," the report says.
That practice violates a policy on supervision of inmates who require "special observation," though Currie found "no purposeful neglect" was apparent.
No one noticed anything was wrong until approximately 5:43 a.m., the report shows.
A new correctional officer took over the video monitoring post at 5 a.m. That person noticed that Ryan had been "sleeping on his stomach facing the wall" and hadn't moved since they arrived at their post. Even then, an emergency response was "not immediate," according to the report.
"Video evidence leaves the viewer with the impression CO [name redacted] appeared hesitant to actually confirm signs of life, i.e., pulse, respirations, body temperature upon entering the cell, seconds passed before [redacted] was able to compose himself and could eventually be seen touching Mr. Ryan, [albeit] very briefly initially."
Another correctional officer arrived and they "appear to stand by awaiting instruction."
It wasn't until a third correctional officer arrived and "took control" that someone took Ryan's pulse and discovered rigor mortis had already set in. CPR was never performed.
"At the point at which an actual physical check was made, he had been deceased for some time," Murray said.
"A more rigorous schedule of proper physical checks would have revealed that much earlier, even perhaps in time for an intervention, a medical intervention which might have saved his life. We'll never know, of course."
Government declines interview
Currie recommended "corrective actions" be considered against an unnamed correctional officer "for the wilful authorization of 'practices' that contravene standard policy and procedures."
He also recommended "formal constructive direction" be given to two unnamed correctional officers "on the importance of readiness within a correctional environment and the offering of immediate assistance upon the discovery of someone in medical distress."
No one from the Department of Public Safety was made available for an interview about Ryan's death.
In an emailed statement, spokesperson Shawn Berry said "all of the recommendations that required action by the Department of Public Safety were addressed" in the Ryan case, but he didn't provide details.
Ryan's death was investigated by Saint John police and the coroner, who determined he died from "natural causes," Berry wrote. The full coroner's report has never been made public.
No access to treatment
An ongoing CBC News investigation has found that inmates routinely complain of being denied their prescription medication, even when the medication has been prescribed to treat serious mental health issues.
That was echoed in last year's report from the auditor general, which described a patchwork system of care that often sees inmates leaving jail sicker than when they came in. MacPherson compared some of what she found in New Brunswick's jail system to "stuff you would see in a developing country."
The government also declined an interview about its progress in implementing MacPherson's recommended changes, saying only that government "continues to work on addressing and implementing the recommendations."
Ryan's death represents the failure of the "guard mentality" inside New Brunswick's jails, according to Murray.
He's been advocating correctional officers take more of a "caretaker mentality" with inmates, something he said requires a culture change.
"It takes time and there's always resistance from the former culture," Murray said.
"So I think we should give credit for the improvement that has been made but also recognize we still have a long way to go."
He pointed to the recent hiring of a patient advocate for inmates as a sign of that change.
The person's goal is to focus on inmates' health and to make sure sick prisoners are treated as patients, Murray said.
Getting justice
Eight years after her father's death, Flint still has questions about why no one took him to a hospital. She's determined to get the government to release a video that shows Ryan's final hours inside that medical cell. CBC News was refused access to the video.
"He went to jail because he was driving without a license and he died in there," Flint said. "That's insane."
For Flint, it's about getting justice for her son, who will never meet his grandfather.
She's also doing it for her late grandfather, Nelson Ryan, who died in February 2017 without getting answers about what happened to his son.
The two were best friends and for years after the death of his son, Flint said, her grandfather would lie in bed and call out for him.
"To get some sort of justice would, for me, be amazing because that was his [Nelson Ryan's] dying wish," Flint said.
In 2016, Nelson Ryan told CBC News he wanted to hire a lawyer to get answers about his son's death. But he couldn't afford the fees.
"I think he'd be very proud and if my dad was still here, he'd be telling me, 'Go forward with it, keep pushing,'" Flint said.
Ryan's obituary described him as a "hands-on type of guy who worked as a clam harvester." He was also an avid outdoorsman, who loved fishing and hunting.
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Replying to @DavidRayAmos@alllibertynews and 49 others Methinks I should be astounded to read Leanne Fitch's Tweet after the comment I made about her my Harley and the Queen yesterday but I am not Everybody knows I love a circus N'esy Pas?
Only woman on Fredericton council sometimes feels 'run over by a truck'
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David R. Amos Methinks we are suffering from Deja Vu N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Methinks I should be astounded to read Leanne Fitch's Tweet after the comment I made about her yesterday but I am not Everybody knows I love a circus N'esy Pas? "On Twitter, Fredericton's former police chief Leanne Fitch said she was proud of Rogers for speaking out. Fitch said accountability for misogyny is long overdue at city council"
Bob Steele The best evidence for the type of sexism that Rogers describes can be found in half the comments below - despicable!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Bob Steele: And in the other half???
Jim Redmond Ugh, not again.
Emilien Forest
Reply to @Jim Redmond: Ugh, not again, ...again.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Emilien Forest: Again methinks the ladies are playing politics. When I heard a voicemail recording of Minister Cardy's wife played by CBC this morning I knew this little circus was far from over. Sure enough a few hours after yesterday's comment section closed a new article appears Surprise Surprise Surprise N'esy Pas?
Mark Curran Female police chief calls Fredericton gov misogynistic.? You had the top job lady?!! No wonder it was a mess all the time
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mark Curran: Methinks it interesting that CBC allows to you post such a statement after so many of mine went "Poof" N'esy Pas?
Johnny Horton I once worked in an all female but me office. I’m well aware of how much eye rolling can go on when a lone male speaks...
James Risdon
Reply to @Johnny Horton: Yeah, I know what you mean. I've worked in both all-male and all-female environments. Now, the work crews that were all-male did have a lot of vulgarity and disrespectful language about women. But, then again, so did the all-female workplaces. I remember one workplace where some of the female employees would gossip and criticize one of the other women, saying she looked like a stripper, and then a few days later would exchange all the details about the intimate relations they had enjoyed with men in one-night stands while at the office. Men and women, it seems are truly equal in their level of disgusting depravity.
David R. Amos
Reply to @James Risdon: Methinks anyone with two clues between their ears know that misandry and misogyny are as old as peoplekind If they did not you just proved it for them N'esy Pas?
James Risdon It's politics. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
The number of women on council is a function of how many women offer themselves up as candidates during the elections and who the good people of Fredericton elect. It is certainly not up to a city councillor to start disrespecting the mandate of her fellow councillors just because she has a problem with their gender. They were elected just like her and have every right to be there.
When people start interfering with the democratic process just to fulfill and ideological position and to gain attention for themselves, we the voters should be very afraid.
David R. Amos
Reply to @James Risdon: Methinks the lady doth protest too much However to be fair she was elected and you and I were not N'esy Pas?
Gabriel Boucher The comment section here just shows how ignorant some men are when it comes to patriarchy. Qualifications means nothing nowadays and hasn't meant anything for a long time before that. It's all about connections, and the only connections available right now are straight white males who doesn't want anything to do with women or any other minority groups. That's patriarchy for you folks. Wake up and smell the roses, because it's still happening everywhere in 2019 right here in NB. I'm expecting a lot of thumbs down with this comment from straight men. Let's see how many ignorant people there are, shall we?
James Risdon Reply to @dave ess: Well, I can't speak for all of us "old men" - I missed the last meeting of our Patriarchy And World Domination R Us Club - but I can say that I have a university degree, two college diplomas, a sales course certificate and a certificate of military service with an honourable discharge. I speak two languages, have built about half a dozen fully-responsive, SEO'd websites, and have won awards of excellence from professional associations in my industry and two other awards from the president of one of the international companies where I worked for proposals which boosted operational efficiencies. Outside of work, I've founded and managed sports teams, sat on boards, been a bit of an activist for specific environmental initiatives. I like loving, Christian women, puppies, guitars, and craft beers as well as good steaks and spirited conversations with loyal friends. My favourite colour is green. Jesus is my Lord and Saviour. Amen. ;-)
David R. Amos Reply to @James Risdon: Methinks many would agree that you ain't as special as you think you are N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Content disabled Methinks I should be astounded to read Leanne Fitch's Tweet after the comment I made about her yesterday but I am not Everybody knows I love a circus N'esy Pas?
Jim Redmond When I saw the headline, I said to myself "ugh, not again" --- then that was in the article --- funny. Anyway, if she can't take politics, she might want to consider another vocation --- politics is tough and it has nothing to do with what gender you are.
David R. Amos
Content disabled Reply to @Jim Redmond: Methinks the ladies are playing politics. When I heard a voicemail recording of Minister Cardy's wife played by CBC this morning I knew this little circus was far from over. Sure enough a few hours after yesterday's comment section closed a new article appears Surprise Surprise Surprise N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Reply to @Jim Redmond: Methinks something went "Poof" N'esy Pas?
Jared Henderson In this comment section: males complaining about a woman talking about potential problems around misogyny, and not realizing the irony.
James Risdon Reply to @Jared Henderson: I can vouch for that. Politics is indeed a dirty game. When I ran for the mayoralty of the City of Bathurst a few years back, I was the only candidate whose signs were stolen during the night. Not defaced or vandalized. These people yanked entire signs driven well into the ground with a sledgehammer, out of the dirt and carried them off. The local police said it was the only such type of election interference in the city that year. In coffee shops and workplaces, whisper campaigns were undertaken to undermine my position on the issues. It was learning experience for sure. I can see how many people who go into politics would get more than a little disgusted by the experience. I sort of knew what to expect going in and even I found it difficult. You run for office because you want to make a difference and improve your community but a lot of people will tar and feather you and do everything they can to ruin your reputation so that their candidate will beat you.
David R. Amos
Reply to @James Risdon: I am shocked to learn this
Lou Bel Perhaps the question should be asked of other women why they're not running. Always easy to blame the male gender , and yet if changed is the goal perhaps it's where you're not looking.
Candy Parker Reply to @Lou Bell: They are not running for the very reason Kate is speaking out - no one deserves to be disrespected or "eye rolled" at in any setting
Marc Bourque
Reply to @Candy Parker: so she says. Did you witness this or are taking her at her word?
Mark Curran
Reply to @Candy Parker: Allegedly.
Travis Micheal Davis
Reply to @Candy Parker: sure they do; if they deserve it... eye roll
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Candy Parker:
I’m sure as a male Charles Leblanc has gotten lots of eye rolls from councillors,
Mark Curran
Reply to @Candy Parker: Women make difference choices in life and dont share her aspirations to be supreme ruler of Fredericton.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Candy Parker:
Let me guess, a woman has never eye rolled at a man before,
David R. Amos
Reply to @Lou Bell: YO Lourdes Methinks the obvious question is you don't you run? You seem to think you know so much about everything and laugh at the six times I have run thus far N'esy Pas?
Josef Blow Reply to @David R. Amos: No one should laugh at anyone who has the courage to run. Which is not to say that some people who run actually deserve popular support. Positions and personalities are, after all, sometimes laughable.
Fredericton's lone female councillor calls out city hall for proposed all-male committee
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McKenzie King So if she's the lone female, does that mean she wants to serve on every committee??? This doesn't seem fair to the other councillors, or to the people who would probably want the best qualified people on each committee. If she doesn't want to serve on every committee, why is she complaining about this one???
Evan Day
Reply to @McKenzie King: It isn't a committee of councillors. And even if you were correct, you're assuming she wouldn't be the best qualified. You should try reading the article.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Evan Day: Methinks we can't be certain a liberal ghost can read N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @David R. Amos: Tut Tut Tut
Marilyn Carr cant wait to vote out Mike O. he has been a disappointment since his 1st week on the job ...announcing he was going to make Fredericton a sanctuary city....he will never get my vote for destroying Fredericton's trees ect.
Graham McCormack
Reply to @Marilyn Carr: Love these comments, they tell a lot about people.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Graham McCormack: Me Too
Michel Jones
Reply to @David R. Amos: N'esy Pas !!
Murray Brown The question is... Are any of them qualified to make development decisions in that area of the city, or any area? They already accepted a harebrained design concept from a Toronto firm for the downtown core. That turned into a complete disaster. The master plan called for buildings being built in a floodplain and cutting off the river view from public Library... Seriously... Check out that 'master' plan and see how messed up it is... They approved it. That should disqualify them all from working on any planning committees.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Murray Brown: "The question is... Are any of them qualified to make development decisions in that area of the city, or any area?"
NOPE
Emilien Forest Best qualified only, regardless of what you look like.
Rose Michaud
Reply to @Emilien Forest: "Rogers said there were several qualified female candidates". Obviously they were either dismissed or overlooked. By men.
Emilien Forest
Reply to @Rose Michaud: Those chosen should be done by the appropriate methods and not by the opinion of one bitter individual.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Rose Michaud:
Did you miss where the poster said BEST qualified. You have a list of conditions, experiences etc, you rank them, select the best. It’s rare a tie will happen with a good point system.
Rose Michaud
Reply to @Johnny Horton: I actually put my name in for 3 years in a row for a committee. I actually have tons of experience relevant to the committee. Not once was I contacted. Guess what, only men were added, most developers that would have a conflict of interest. That is typical of the selection process in Fredericton. If there's nothing wrong with this process then how come no women ever get pick? It's worth checking in to.
Emilien Forest
Reply to @Rose Michaud: I guess you not as good as you think you are. Throwing your hat in the ring does not make you BEST qualified.
Rose Michaud
Reply to @Emilien Forest: HA! I'm being dismissed and you haven't even seen my qualifications. Remember these are volunteer committees, not jobs. And I know the persons who did get on the committees, they were developers and friends of city workers. I'm believe that the yes, the most qualified should be picked . BUT THIS IS NOT THE CASE IN FREDERICTON. Hard to believe? No it isn't.
Emilien Forest
Reply to @Rose Michaud: I really don't care what you say are qualified to do, you proved nothing. I'm certain a lot of people feel the same way. BUT THIS IS THE CASE IN FREDERICTON. Hard to believe? No it isn't.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Emilien Forest: I Wholeheartedly Agree
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Rose Michaud: Cry me a river
Mac Isaac
Reply to @Rose Michaud: If what you assert is correct, then I have to agree. Even if were to know you and disliked you, fair's fair and you are making valid points. If you actually do have "...tons of experience relevant to the committee." you at least should be given some feedback...at the very least.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Mac Isaac:
We already have too many government workers imsgine if we needed to hire tens of thousands more to respond to every applicant for a committee or job and inform them of some feedback of why they didn’t make it.
David R. Amos
Reply to @David R. Amos: Hmmm
Rose Michaud This is typical for Fredericton. The committees and council are are ignorant and dismissive towards women. I know from personal experience. I made the unfortunate choice to speak up regarding some concerns I had with a development (not trying to stop it, but just bringing forth some issues). I got an eye roll from one committee member and a huff from another. And then two Councillors explained away the issues using incorrect information. End of story, no one was listening to me. I was dismissed. Had I been listened to if I was a man, probably. Other in attendance saw the spectacle and had the same comments. I was professional when I appeared and was prepared. They were ignorant. It's so bad that the developer didn't even show up to the committee meeting, knowing it was going to be approved.
Emilien Forest
Reply to @Rose Michaud: The only thing you achieved in doing on this forum is demonstrate that you are a misandrist.
Fred Dee
Reply to @Rose Michaud: we need the best people.... what gender is of little importance. I would rather have 5 women if they were the best choice,,, I am tired of this "inclusive" need... get the BEST people for the job!!!!!
David R. Amos Reply to @Emilien Forest: I concur
Doug James I would rather have 20 like minded individuals than a thousand with diverse viewpoints. I could get things done with the 20 while the thousand would still be trying to figure out where their navel is. Get the best people for the job and quit virtue signalling.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Doug James: Methinks many would agree that diverse viewpoints are the only way to go in a Just Democracy N'ey Pas?
Doug James
Reply to @David R. Amos: I think that the best get the job and the rest should appreciate that. A technical board for construction would not be helped by a goat herd from Lithuania even though it increases the diversity.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Doug James: Methinks we should be shocked that a former Green Party candidate would think so ill of a herd of goats in light all the pigs at the trough consuming taxpayer funds while their Irving overseers mow down what is left of our forests N'esy Pas?
Archie Levesque So in future elections we will make it easy. 1. Mandatory voting for all of age people. 2. Require - by law - for all genders, races and languages to be represented in the make-up of any of the 3 levels of government.
Alexandre Hilton
Reply to @Archie Levesque: I'm not sure if you are joking or not, but both of your recommendations are absolutely horrible, and also a clear violation of the Charter of Rights
David R. Amos
Reply to @Alexandre Hilton: Not really
Fred Dee I want the best people…. gender should not matter!!!!!
would she be upset if 5 females were selected??
Mac Isaac
Reply to @Fred Dee: More importantly Fred...would YOU?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mac Isaac: How about YOU?
Mac Isaac When I first read the story's headline I thought the representation was just council members. After reading the article I immediately saw Councillor's Rogers point, BUT there also isn't representation from other groups, such as actual stakeholders from NBEX, First Nations groups, etc. In this day and age every representative body, when forming study groups, MUST before issuing any notices, consider "Does this group actually include those who will potentially be most affected by its decisions?"
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mac Isaac: Oh My My Thats a pretty big "MUST" Methinks you think that you do know it all N'esy Pas?
Shawn Hickey Why does sex & race always come up? It's very possible they were the 5 best choices.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Shawn Hickey: Go Figure
Marc Bourque awwwwww poor thing!What an outrage...;)
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Marc Bourque: I would feel for her but I can't reach I am too busy trying to stop laughing and get up off the floor.
David R. Amos
Reply to @David R. Amos: Wow
Joseph Vacher if 20% of the applicants were female, i would understand wanting 20% representation. This is not the case
David R. Amos
Reply to @Joseph Vacher: Methinks there should be no relationship The decision should be based on merit only N'esy Pas?
Mark Curran another day. another victim.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Mark Curran: Methinks Kate knows where the Fat Fred City Finest has my old Harley and the wiretap tapes stashed N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @David R. Amos: Oh dear
Gil Murray Since she is the person raising "sour grapes" I would agree, it probably is. She typically only gets involved in her personal projects (the "arts", playhouse, etc). I think she wants to raise her profile in time to take a run at the mayor. While I am no fan of his, I shudder to think what would happen if she took over.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Gil Murray: "I shudder to think what would happen if she took over."
Nay not I Methinks Fat Fred City gets the governments it deserves Trust that not just Chucky The Blogger" truly enjoys the circus it offers Nesy Pas?
David R. Amos Reply to @David R. Amos: Oh my my
Greg Miller Oh- Hum!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Greg Miller: Methinks you should pay attention the circus today is just beginning N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Methinks nobody should be surprised by this nonsense 2015 was four very long years ago N'esy Pas?
George Smith K. Rogers is right to bring this up. Any civic body has to represent the public at large. That's a given these days. But the old boys clubs still hang on in politics and in general.
David R. Amos
Reply to @George Smith: Methinks you know as well as I that one of the Police Chiefs of Fat Fred City Finest who stole my old Harley was a woman N'esy Pas?
Lou Bell
Reply to @David R. Amos: Who are you again ? No one seems to have a clue who you are !
David R. Amos
Reply to @Lou Bell: George knows me and so do you
Wayne Mac Arthur Would this person expect that all committees should be built around herself in order to have balance ?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Wayne Mac Arthur: Methinks a wannabe mayor hopes that all committees will answer to her and the Queen (another woman) someday N'esy Pas?
Greg Windsor Oh no !!! This is terrible, I do not think that I will be able to sleep tonight....
David R. Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @Greg Windsor: Methinks I am gonna cry all night after viewing how many of my word went "Poof" Its a cruel world N'esy Pas?
Ben Haroldson Litigate I say,.......litigate.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Ben Haroldson: Methinks there a boatloads of lady lawyers who could use the work N'esy Pas?
Jef Cronkhite I just don't get how the exhibition is a gender matter? This is about the Ex grounds, I just can't get how gender factors in?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Jef Cronkhite: It doesn't
Only woman on Fredericton council sometimes feels 'run over by a truck'
Need for more women on council has become contentious issue, Kate Rogers says
Fredericton Coun. Kate Rogers says some members of council roll their eyes when she raises gender issues. (Maria Jose Burgos/CBC)
Fredericton's only female councillor says the need for gender diversity on council has become a real struggle and point of contention.
"There are times that it feels toxic," Coun. Kate Rogers said in an interview Wednesday. "There are times when I leave there that I feel sort of run over by a truck."
Council voted down the proposal after Rogers said there were several qualified female candidates who could have been nominated, herself included.
"Enough is enough, we have got to do better."
Council a 'foreign space'
Rogers has been on council for seven years, including two as deputy mayor.
She said gender diversity on council is something she's been pushing since she was first elected.
"One of my issues at council from the beginning was what a foreign space it felt [like], how foreign it felt to me," said Rogers, who represents Ward 11 in Fredericton.
We just haven't moved the needle.- Coun. Kate Rogers
"I say this as a well-educated, middle-class, Fredericton-born white woman. And that space felt foreign to me when I first entered it."
She said some councillors have been disrespectful, an attitude she believes has increased over the past couple of years.
CBC News New Brunswick
Disrespect toward women common at Fredericton council, female councillor says
Fredericton's only female councillor says some of her all-male colleagues are disrespectful toward women and reluctant to bring more gender diversity.
"It's gotten to the point that some colleagues just roll their eyes," Rogers said. "I've had a few, 'Ugh, not again.'
"To me that's disrespectful. That should never happen around a council chamber."
Although some councillors are empathetic about the lack of women on council, she said others "stare straight ahead and don't really respond" when the issue is brought up.
But there have been times where her leadership has been questioned, particularly when she has managed committee meetings.
Rogers, who has sat on many boards in Fredericton, including the Playhouse, said she often tries to generate discussion at council committee meetings but meets resistance.
"I'm the one that gets called out if they don't quite like the way that I'm handling it."
Rogers, who has sat on many boards in Fredericton, said she often tries to generate discussion at council committee meetings but often meets resistance. (Maria Jose Burgos/CBC)
She said this is something Mayor Mike O'Brien shouldn't let happen in the first place.
While she has addressed her concerns to the mayor, she said the behaviour of some of her fellow councillors hasn't been addressed.
"We know that it goes unseen in society and it goes unseen around the council table as well," she said.
'This is 2019'
O'Brien said he has always tried to maintain decorum and respect on council and in committee meetings.
He hasn't noticed anything personally at council, but this could be part of the problem, he said.
"If I'm a member of council and Coun. Rogers does not feel comfortable or respected, then we're all in this together," he said.
O'Brien said he appreciates Rogers coming forward and will try to get better at recognizing gender discrimination.
"This is 2019 … and we can all do better on that," he said.
Alone at the table
"When you're not hearing other voices come to your defence, then those who are inclined to disagree with you feel a little bit more empowered to be more vocal in their dissent," she said.
Rogers says it's time council and different committees receive gender-sensitivity training to generate gender parity. (Maria Jose Burgos/CBC)
While she appreciates the work of the men on council and in various committees, she said women would bring a different perspective.
"Clearly, there's something that we're doing so that more women aren't coming to the table. … Why aren't women coming? We need to change our practices."
On Twitter earlier this week, Coun. Greg Ericson said the city should cut the number of wards in half and elect two councillors of different genders for each ward.
@seguincbc@K8inFred@ZamboniSavant@FrederictonDLC South Africa legislated gender equity in governance structures from the top to the bottom post apartheid. @CityFredGov should legislate a solution: cut the # of wards in half & elect 2 Councillors of non-identical genders / ward
Rogers hasn't received a response from fellow councillors since she spoke out at Monday night's meeting. But she has received a lot of positive feedback from the public, including Fredericton's former police chief Leanne Fitch.
On Twitter, Fitch said she was proud of Rogers for speaking out.
"Accountability for misogyny at [the City of Fredericton] is long overdue. I've seen it, felt it, experienced it."
On Twitter, Fredericton's former police chief Leanne Fitch said she was proud of Rogersfor speaking out. Fitch said accountability for misogyny is long overdue at city council. (Maria Jose Burgos/CBC)
Rogers is grateful Fitch felt comfortable coming forward on this issue.
"To have other women within the organization feel that they are in a position, where they can speak forward to give credence to my work means so much," Rogers said.
Proud of Councillor Rogers for speaking out. Accountability for misogyny @CityFredGov is long over due. I’ve seen it, felt it, experienced it. @K8inFred@CBCNB
O'Brien, who has worked alongside the police chief, said he was troubled by Fitch's tweet and said it's an issue that needs to be dealt with.
"Even if you don't notice if a particular councillor, especially a woman, or say the female police chief, feels that they're not being valued or being talked down to, and the rest of the group doesn't notice that, well then that is a problem," O'Brien said.
"And we have to address that."
Over the years, Rogers said professionals have come in to advise councillors on roads, bus routes and remuneration.
She said it's time, council and different committees receive gender-sensitivity training to generate gender parity at city hall.
At Monday night's city council meeting, Coun. Kate Rogers expressed concern over an all-male nominee list for a new land development committee that would oversee possible development at the city's exhibition grounds. (Gary Moore/CBC)
Concerns over diversity has delayed the appointment of five city representatives to a committee that would look into possible development at the New Brunswick Exhibition grounds in Fredericton.
City council was set to vote on the appointments Monday night for the new NBEX land development committee, with a recommendation from staff to approve the appointments.
But a plea from Coun. Kate Rogers led councillors to vote down the proposal.
Rogers said there were several qualified female candidates who could have been nominated, herself included, but she was concerned to see an all-male nominee list.
"They are, as I already said, good candidates," said Rogers, who is the city's only female councillor.
"But when I look at the candidates, when I look at the list that we did receive … there are some women who put their names forth, who also have very strong credentials. And I think that it's incumbent on us, in this day and age, to try to reflect at the very least gender diversity."
Committee formed for possible land development
The NBEX land development committee was formed after years of conflict between the city and the Fredericton Exhibition Ltd.
In 2017 the city started discussions to push the NBEX into a new location and away from the current grounds, so it could be developed into a residential area.
That was opposed by NBEX, which eventually brought the city to court before dropping the case last fall.
I feel that they hear me, but I don't know whether or not they're listening.- Coun. Kate Rogers
Coun. Eric Price, one of the nominees for the city's five committee members, said he was not aware there was an issue with representation.
"I appreciate Kate's points as well and they're very valid points," Price told city council.
"I had no idea about all those things that you just talked about, so thank you for enlightening me on that."
The rest of the nominee list includes Deputy Mayor Steven Hicks, Fredericton's Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Jeff Trail, Shawn Bilerman and Trevor Hanson.
'Some of them don't want to hear it'
Rogers said this isn't the first time she's bought up issues regarding women's representation to her male counterparts. "I feel that they hear me, but I don't know whether or not they're listening," said Rogers after Monday night's council meeting.
"Some of them don't want to hear it. Some of them have been disrespectful when I have raised it.
Others have come to me and said, 'We know it's a problem. We don't have the slightest idea what to do to make a change.'"
Fredericton Mayor Mike O'Brien has the final say on the list of nominees presented to council. O'Brien said while it is his purview, he instructed staff to choose the nominees.
"I left that to staff," he told council.
"That's not to put any onus on staff … but the staff made the recommendation and I signed the report."
Women represent greater community
Meanwhile at a council-in-committee meeting that took place earlier Monday, a visiting mayor from Port St. John's, South Africa, lightly chastised the city for only having one female councillor.
"When we saw the picture of the council members, as a female mayor, I had an issue," said Nomvuzo Mlombile-Cingo, who was visiting the city along with a group of South African mayors on a cultural exchange.
Now what?
Rogers said her objections were not "sour grapes."
The city councillor said she would support any decision the council made, but that it's important to have a more diverse council and city committees.
"What is right is that we have more women represented on our council to reflect our community, to reflect the parity that exists in our community," she said.
The matter has returned to city staff. No timetable was announced for the introduction of new nominees.
CBC News has asked the city for the full list of candidates for the committee but has not yet received that list.
Replying to @DavidRayAmos@alllibertynews and 49 others Methinks McCallum knows why I called David Vigneault, and mentioned that CSIS should recall what went down between Steve Harper, Jack Hooper and I back in June of 2004 N'esy Pas?
Replying to @DavidRayAmos@alllibertynews and 49 others Methinks a lot of folks who love say their two bits worth about the circus the LIEBranos and their Conservative cohorts are offering us daily are no doubt just as disappointed as I that there is no comment section yet N'esy Pas?
John McCallum puts Liberals on the defensive again with advice to China
Ex-ambassador does not speak for the government, Chrystia Freeland says
CBC News·
Freeland says ex-Canadian ambassador to China doesn't speak for Ottawa
Following recent comments from John McCallum, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says the former ambassador to China does not speak on the federal government's behalf.
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is crying foul over the latest comments by Ottawa's former ambassador to China, as the government tries to distance itself from those remarks.
John McCallum, jettisoned as ambassador in January amid rising diplomatic tensions between Canada and China, cautioned Beijing in an interview not to further escalate the crisis ahead of the federal election in October.
"Anything that is more negative against Canada will help the Conservatives, [who] are much less friendly to China than the Liberals," McCallum was reported as saying to the South China Morning Post, in a story published Wednesday.
McCallum appeared to be speaking about the potential for more punitive measures that would affect Canadian exports. China has suspended imports of Canadian canola, pork and beef after the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver in December at the behest of American officials. "This problem will pass," McCallum was quoted as saying. "It's important for Canadian business people not just to come to China but to come often … especially when the going is tough."
McCallum was let go from his post after remarks he made regarding the high-profile Meng extradition case. The longtime Liberal publicly opined that Meng, daughter of the founder of the Chinese telecom giant, had a strong case in fighting extradition to the U.S.
Inviting China to interfere: Scheer
He also stated that any deal to spare Meng from prosecution in the U.S. should include the release of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, Canadians detained in China.
Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland took exception to her former colleague's comments Thursday while speaking to reporters at an event in London.
"Mr. McCallum does not speak in the name of the Canadian government," said Freeland. "I think it is inappropriate for any Canadian to be advising any foreign government in ways it ought or ought not to behave to secure any particular election outcome in Canada."
Scheer was unmoved by the fact that McCallum was no longer speaking in an official capacity. "Justin Trudeau still has not disavowed John McCallum's invitation for the Chinese government to interfere in the upcoming election," the Conservative leader said in a social media post. "The only conclusion to come to is that electing Justin Trudeau would be good for China, but bad for Canada."
Replying to @DavidRayAmos@alllibertynews and 49 others Methinks a snobby Fed and his nasty lawyers etc have raised quite a stink in my old hometown Dorchester New Brunswick N'esy Pas?
Fire marshal slams doors shut on Dorchester jail turned Airbnb
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David R. Amos
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Methinks my evil political foe Carl Urquhart the Minister of Justice and Public Safety and his lawyers are gonna have fun explaining my email to his minions and the Mayor and Council of my old home town. Everybody knows that ex cop has been trying to have me jailed for years and he did manage to have the RCMP falsely arrest me and assault me just over 11 very long year ago N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Methinks Geoffrey Downey cannot deny that his boss Carl Urquhart the Minister of Justice and Public Safety and his lawyers know me quite well N'esy Pas?
Brian Cohen Does this place meet fire regulations for a hotel??
A simple question.
If yes, then this should be resolved quickly.
If no, fix it or sell it, but stop whining about it. Hotels have these codes to protect not only the guests but also the hotel owners
David R. Amos
Reply to @Brian Cohen: What hotel?
David R. AmosContent disabled Reply to @Brian Cohen: I don't know Dr Sebastien Cohen personally but perhaps you do. Methinks will ask him in writing to talk to Dr Manoj Bhargava and Dr Zlatco Banic. Somebody should decide who is crazy and who is corrupt. Everybody knows I have the proof of Carl Urquhart and his buddy Greg Thompson having me falsely arrested by the RCMP and locked up their looney bin before the economy took a nosedive in 2008. Anyone can Google our names or simply checkout YouTube N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Reply to @David R. Amos: Why is it I am not surprised?
David R. Amos Reply to @Brian Cohen: Methinks CBC should pay better attention to what is published within their domain N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Reply to @David R. Amos: Methinks you can be a redundant a you wish to be with your attempt at a tricky question The fact is CBC clearly states that the Dorchester jail is now merely an Airbnb N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Methinks CBC used our taxpayer funds to pay a reporter to stay in this jail not that long ago N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Methinks inquiring minds would like to know the name of the fire marshal and the name of the lawyers suing Mr Steele about his goats on behalf of the Town of Dorchester N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Methinks everybody in Dorchester loves a circus N'esy Pas?
Jim Thomas Don't forget what happened in Winnipeg last week - "an incident that led dozens of people to be treated in hospital" for carbon monoxide poisoning that could have killed them. Fortunately, the hotel was in compliance with regulations for smoke and CO2 detectors, and "passed its most recent carbon-monoxide detector inspection, in 2017" according to CBC reports.
David R. Amos
Content disabled Reply to @Jim Thomas: Methinks if you could read all my replies you would not be so bored N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Reply to @David R. Amos: Oh My My Methinks its interesting one cannot reply to this dude N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Jim Thomas: If you are still bored trust that it is not my fault
Zapata Rigoreto Simple story. Building does not meet fire code regulations for its use. Ask any business how this works. Simple solution is to adhere to the regulations (like everyone else). Why does everyone think they should get a free ride? It's a hotel now. Fire regulations are there to protect the public from shady operators.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Zapata Rigoreto: If true then why does CBC block my comments?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Zapata Rigoreto: Methinks CBC has already proven that this story is not as simple as it seems N'esy Pas?
Mark (Junkman) George Reply to @David R. Amos:
Having seen the inside of a jail cell, or three, over the years it's hard to imagine the quantity of flammable materials in the entire building? I will give you that very likely there are wood beams in the floors, and roof, but short of flooding the building with gasoline and lighting it, I can't imagine that building EVER simply burning down.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mark (Junkman) George: I concur However I vividly recall the night the Court House that once stood in front of it burning down very quickly.. It looked like the movie "Gone With The Wind" The scary part was my Father was inside the building passing my brother and I his paperwork out his office window while the fire raged above him.
Brian Taylor First the goats, and now this. Obviously there's more going on here than meets the eye.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Brian Taylor: YUP
David R. Amos Reply to @Brian Taylor: Methinks Minister Jeff Carr, the MLA Megan Mitton and the MP Dominc Leblanc wish to forget that the prison system the current Mayor works for used to have a HUGE farm within the Village of Dorchester until Steve Harper decided to shut it down in 2010. However the former mayor Mel Goodland certainly has not Perhaps Mr Steele should ask him about what is the harm in possessing 3 goats N'esy Pas?
Terrance Thomasen I can rent a no power log cabin without any emergency services nearby but I can't stay here. Somethings wrong with the picture
David R. Amos
Reply to @Terrance Thomasen: Methinks it will be pretty comical picture when the Mayor winds up with egg on his face N'esy Pas?
Joseph Cluster Easy fix: Just hire the said guest as a construction worker like the second requirement stated. There's something amiss to this story, why is the general public restricted from occupancy of this building.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Joseph Cluster: Methinks a really big missing issue is why the Dorchester Town Council deemed that it had to waste taxpayer funds to hire a lawyer to sue this man simply because he owns 3 goats N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Methinks whereas the Village of Dorchester.have failed to get Bill's goats with a ridiculous lawsuit they have dreamed up anther way to harass him N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @David R. Amos: Go Figure
"Mayor Jerome Bear declined to comment on the lawsuit while it's before the courts.
“I am so disappointed that a small village of 400 people is suing me for three goats,” Steele said. “It’s the most ridiculous headline you could see anywhere.”
Until his court date on May 6, Steele has been presented with two options: pay $1,500 to apply for an amendment to the zoning bylaw or move to an existing agricultural operation."
David R. Amos
Reply to @David R. Amos: I knew i smelled a snobby Fed
"In addition to being recognized for the Aboriginal Role Model Initiative, he is also a recognized leader in his community. To name a few of his accomplishments, he has worked as a volunteer firefighter, is the President of the Westmorland Chapter of Crimestoppers (a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to the promotion of crime prevention), has been a member of the Municipal Council and is currently the Mayor of the Village of Dorchester."
Sandra Wood-Szauter
Reply to @David R. Amos: That's precisely what I thought. This is nonsense. I've heard nothing but positive comments about lodging at the Dorchester Jail. This feels a bit shady.
Jimmy Vee Looks like a secure place to grow pot
David R. Amos
Reply to @jimmy vee: What is your point?
Roger Bernstein Bro stop being a baby, if it’s a viable business take a loan and make it safe, if it’s not move on. Everyone wants to cry to the media for help these days.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Roger Bernstein: Methinks you would do the same if you were being harassed by the local government N'esy Pas?
Tony Chamberlain
Reply to @David R. Amos: Maybe he should follow the law like everyone else.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Tony Chamberlain: Methinks you have a stake in this nonsense N'esy Pas?
Roland Stewart ol ok for construction workers to be at risk but not the general public.
SarahRose Werner
Reply to @Roland Stewart: Construction workers don't generally sleep on the work site. If a fire broke out, they would already be awake. They would presumably notice the fire and exit the site quickly.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Roland Stewart: Methinks a very dumb bureaucrat wrote that nonsense for the benefit of his buddy the Mayor N'esy Pas?
Brian Cohen Reply to @David R. Amos: So does this building meet safety codes for a hotel or not?
Methinks you skipped that part. n’esy pas is gibberish in both official languages
David R. Amos
Reply to @Brian Cohen: So you say but I was raised in Dorchester which is is on the Bay of Fundy and everybody knows exactly who I am and what I mean. Methinks not many people with your last name live in New Brunswick and I don't know any but I bet the shrink Dr Cohen who works for GNB would at least confirm that I certainly don't speak gibberish N'esy Pas?
Brian Cohen Reply to @David R. Amos: So people in Dorchester know who you are. Lucky them.
Does this place meet fire regulations or a hotel?? Yes or no? If no, people knowing who you are isn’t going to change it.
N’esy pas is still gibberish in both official languages
Tracy Amos Reply to @David R. Amos: My last name is the same as yours and I also grew up in Dorchester. Methinks this guy loves playing the victim. The whole goat issue could have been fixed from the get go by applying for an amendment but he felt he was too special for that. He started a go fund me page to get help to fix the jail roof (which is also unsafe) but had enough to buy the house across the street? If he put his money on fixing things for his business and doing things the right way instead of screaming "discrimination" he might not see so many road blocks. N'esy pas??
Brian Cohen
Reply to @David R. Amos: So people in Dorchester know who you are. Lucky them.
Does this place meet fire regulations or a hotel?? Yes or no? If no, people knowing who you are isn’t going to change it.
N’esy pas is still gibberish in both official languages
David R. Amos
Reply to @Tracy Amos: Interesting to hear another point of view but are we of the same Clan? Methinks the obvious question should be who is your Father because I certainly don't know you yet I definitely know Wayne Feindel the dude who suddenly quit the Council last month which is rather interesting too N'esy Pas?
Cam Randal Will government officials (fire marshals) be checking for fire alarm and sprinkler systems in all properties listed on Airbnb? This seems like a waste of taxpayer's money. Really, how many private homes have alarms and sprinkler systems? Many homes might not even have a working fire alarm.
Renting rooms on Airbnb is like buying stuff on kijiji, and the government should keep their noses out of private homes and businesses.
Tony Chamberlain
Reply to @Cam Randal: I think you do not have a understanding of what a fire alarm is. The building had a commercial fire alarm which the fire marshal probably been in there before to check on the building.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Tony Chamberlain: Yea Right
Tony Chamberlain
Reply to @David R. Amos: And you know better do you work in Sprinklers and fire alarms? I do.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Tony Chamberlain: Nope Methinks everybody in Dorchester and the government knows who I am If not they should feel free to use Google N'esy Pas?
Tony Chamberlain
And knowing who you are matters to anyone ?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Tony Chamberlain: Methinks you should ask your buddy the Attorney General of New Brunswick N'esy Pas? Check out this old file around page 20 or so.
Tony Chamberlain Johnny it is because the building contains a comercial fire alarm system with sprinkler it must be in working order even if the building is closed and no one is in the building. A lot of these other places fly under the radar because they never had a fire alarm or sprinkler system in the building.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Tony Chamberlain: Yea Right
David R. Amos
Reply to @David R. Amos: Oh My My
David R. Amos
Reply to @David R. Amos: Methinks I struck a nerve N'esy Pas?
SarahRose Werner "I didn't build this place, it's been a jail for 150 years" - 150 years ago the building codes were a lot different than they are now. People renting space in the building have a right to be sure that it meets *current* codes.
Tony Chamberlain
Reply to @SarahRose Werner: Unfortunately older buildings are grandfathered under the code. If the building gets major renovations then the building must be brought up to the current fire code. If the occupancy changes from a jail to a hotel then the fire alarm requirements might have to change depending on what is currently in the building.
SarahRose Werner
Reply to @Tony Chamberlain: "If the occupancy changes from a jail to a hotel" - That's my point. The change in use should have ended the grandfathering.
David R. Amos
Reply to @SarahRose Werner: Cry me a river
Tony Chamberlain Anytime you have a building with a fire alarm and a sprinkler system it must be inspected on a yearly basis. The fire alarm must be working with monitoring to a call center to notify the fire department of a fire to have occupancy. Home smokes for house holds do not count!. This is why he cannot have it rented.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Tony Chamberlain: You do go on and on and on Methinks folks should smell something fishy about your motives N'esy Pas?
Tony Chamberlain
Reply to @David R. Amos: Maybe I actually know how this stuff works.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Tony Chamberlain: Me Too
Johnny Jakobs You own nothing. The government controls everything. How many other Airbnb or Bed & Breakfasts dont have a fire suppression system? If the publicly funded fire marshal wont comment(transparency)... than it's fair to assume the government is trying to control its citizens.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Johnny Jakobs: Methinks it something personal between Steele and the snobby Mayor Perhaps that is why he named one of goats Deputy Mayor N'esy Pas?
June Arnott Sounds fishy. I think they need a non partisan fire marshal to check this out. We all know how the “mayor” has anterior motives here. Sketchy. CBC, keep digging. There is a great story to expose here.
Tony Chamberlain
Reply to @June Arnott: Seems legit to me fire alarm system and sprinkler system isn't working. The fire marshal will do the same for any building in the province.
Reply to @June Arnott: I Wholeheartedly Agree particularly in light of the fact that I was born and raised in the area and that jail was on my paper route way back in the sixties when my Father worked in the old Court House in front of it as the County Administrator
June Arnott Reply to @Tony Chamberlain: are you a friend of the mayors??
Lorne Allen I saw that coming when i first heard of the conversion. Lot of hate for airbnb so if you have any deficiencies you are bound to get reported by rival innkeepers or nearby residents. Fire Marshall should have posted a sign barring minors and informing adults of the risk: my safety is my business not the government's.
SarahRose Werner
Reply to @Lorne Allen: Not seeing my tax dollars wasted is my business. This includes tax dollars spent to pay firefighters to put out fires at buildings that aren't up to code and tax dollars spent on providing medical care for people injured in such fires.
David R. Amos
Reply to @SarahRose Werner: Yea Right
David R. Amos Reply to @SarahRose Werner: Methinks if the Mayor and Council were legit they would not have to waste tax dollars hiring a lawyer to sue Mr Steele over his goats N'esy Pas?
Fire marshal slams doors shut on Dorchester jail turned Airbnb
Order says no one from the public can stay in former jail that owner turned into a business
An order issued Friday by a fire marshal calls for no one from the general public to enter the former Dorchester jail. (Bill Steele/Facebook)
A fire marshal's order has slammed the doors shut on a former jail turned Airbnb in southeastern New Brunswick.
Bill Steele, who owns the 15-cell former jail in Dorchester, said he doesn't plan to leave the building where he lives.
"I am absolutely not leaving this place," Steele said Friday. "They're going to have to drag me out of here … I'm going to barricade myself in here."
A copy of the order Steele posted on Facebook dated July 12 says the building can't be used for sleeping accommodations or as a place of assembly. It restricts occupancy to construction crews. The order doesn't explicitly say why it was issued.
The order points to two sections of the Fire Prevention Act related to filing plans for converting buildings with the fire marshal for review. It also points to a section on fire hazards in sleeping accommodations or places of assembly.
Steele said in an interview the fire alarm and sprinkler system don't work. He said the building does have working smoke detectors.
"I didn't build this place, it's been a jail for 150 years," Steele said. "They want the fire sprinkler system back on now and all this stuff."
Bill Steele, who purchased the former Dorchester jail in 2017 and has rented out cells on Airbnb, says the fire marshal has ordered the building closed to the public. (Tori Weldon/CBC)
The fire marshal who signed the order declined to comment Friday afternoon.
Geoffrey Downey, a spokesperson for the Department of Public Safety, said in an emailed statement that the Office of the Fire Marshal can inspect places of assembly or accommodation to ensure compliance with applicable codes and standards.
"When an inspection reveals non-compliance that risks the safety of occupants in the event of fire, an order may be issued limiting occupancy until compliance is achieved," Downey said.
"In all such cases, the building owner is provided specifics as to what is required to achieve compliance."
The former jail was built in the 1800s and was the site of the province's last double hanging. (Submitted/Bill Steele)
Steele purchased the former jail in the Village of Dorchester, south of Moncton, for $150,000 in 2017.
The two-storey brick building was built in the early 1800s. It was the site of New Brunswick's last double hanging in 1936. The jail closed more than 20 years ago.
Soon after purchasing the property, Steele began renting cells on the website Airbnb for $34 per night.
The two-metre by three-metre cell inside the former jail that Steele rented on Airbnb. (Brett Ruskin/CBC)
He's cancelled Airbnb bookings for the next month including those of people expected to stay Friday evening. He worries it will cripple his business.
In 2017, Steele told CBC News the building still had its original features, including a gym and yard surrounded by a chain-link fence.
"It's all original," he said of the fixtures that include the stone blocks separating the cells, steel doors, and windows.
Village lawsuit gets the goat of B&B owner in Dorchester
CTV Atlantic Published Thursday, February 14, 2019 2:46PM AST
The man who runs the Dorchester Jail Airbnb is facing a lengthy lawsuit after refusing to give up his goats.
The village says owning the animals violates a zoning bylaw and that the goats have to go -- but new documentation may help him keep his furry friends.
Bill Steele says he was shocked when he received 500 pages of court documents from the Village of Dorchester.
In the winter time, Steele’s goats are pretty much out of sight, that's because he built a personalized barn from an RV.
“I was extremely upset,” Steele said. “I started crying. I couldn’t believe that they’d be taking these extreme measures.”
The court documents show all of Steele’s social media posts and include a USB filled with evidence of the goats on his property.
“They're saying that I’m running a farm,” Steele said. “That I have an agricultural operation and that I’m not in compliance with the commercial zoning of my property.”
In the winter time, Steele’s goats are pretty much out of sight, that's because he built a personalized barn from an RV. That's where Rhea, Deputy Mayor and Princess reside when it's cold.
The village is also asking the courts to not allow Steele to own any animal in the future.
With the loss of his son, and a recent heart attack, Steele says his goats offer emotional support and he now has a doctor's note he hopes will back him up.
“I now have a document that gives me permission to have the goats as emotional support animals,” Steele said.
Steele plans to present the Horizon Health letter to the CAO of the village and before the judge in May. Mayor Jerome Bear declined to comment on the lawsuit while it's before the courts.
“I am so disappointed that a small village of 400 people is suing me for three goats,” Steele said. “It’s the most ridiculous headline you could see anywhere.”
Until his court date on May 6, Steele has been presented with two options: pay $1,500 to apply for an amendment to the zoning bylaw or move to an existing agricultural operation.
His hope, however, is that the village will recognize his goats are more than just pets.
Bureaucrats order Dorchester Jail B&B owner to get rid of his goats
Published Thursday, July 12, 2018 4:53PM ADT
Bill Steele runs the Dorchester Jail BnB and thought some goats in prison attire would be an added attraction.
But Steele recently got a letter telling him the goats have got to go.
“It basically said I had to get rid of the goats by July 20,” Steele said. “I was in violation of the zoning of my area. They are not permitted. There's no animals, including lions, allowed in Dorchester. I'm glad they specified that.”
“I was in violation of the zoning of my area," said Bill Steele. "They are not permitted. There's no animals, including lions, allowed in Dorchester. I'm glad they specified that.”
Bill Steele brought in three goats to provide an added attraction at his Dorchester Jail BnB.
Some bureaucrats have ordered these goats to be released from jail.
The Southeast Regional Service Commission in Sackville, N.B., says keeping farm animals is an "agricultural activity” that is not permitted in the village centre zone.
Rhea, Princess, and Deputy Mayor may be dressed like previous occupants of the jail but they're not considered a household pet.
“They say traditional farm animals are not allowed as pets and stuff like that,” Steele said. “Well, let's make something clear; I'm not a traditional person. I don't live in a traditional house. I live in a jail.”
The service commission has given Steele three options:
Apply to amend the zoning by-law;
Remove the animals from the property and house them on land zoned for agricultural uses; or,
Move them outside village limits.
He has until July 20 to make a decision.
Since Steele received the letter saying he couldn't keep the goats, he's had the community rally behind him. They started a Facebook page -- which already has 1,700 members -- just for the goats. They say they're going to do whatever it takes to keep them, even if that means a petition.
"Why a guy can’t have a couple of goats over the course of a summer to promote a business in a community that is starving for business, it's hard to understand,” said goat supporter Howard Carr.
As for the deadline?
“I guess they come back on the 20th and see that I still have my goats, and that place writes a letter to the village office and then the village will have to take legal action against me,” Steele said.
But Steele says he's not worried about the worst-case scenario and doesn't plan to break the goats out of jail anytime soon.
'I'm tired of playing house': Ontario garbage worker plans to retire to defunct N.B. jail
THE CANADIAN PRESS Published Monday, March 27, 2017 2:44PM ADT
DORCHESTER, N.B. -- A retired Ontario garbage worker has decided to spend his retirement in jail. Bill Steele of Oshawa, Ont., recently bought a defunct New Brunswick jail with a history of hangings. The 50-year-old man plans to sell his house and take up residence at the old Dorchester gaol -- listed for $159,900 -- which was decommissioned more than 20 years ago and features 15 original jail cells.
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Bill Steele poses in a selfie in front of a former jail in Dorchester, N.B. in this undated handout photo. (THE CANADIAN PRESS / HO - Bill Steele)
A former jail is shown in Dorchester, N.B. in this undated handout photo. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Bill Steele)
Steele said he's always had a passion for collecting antiques and "morbid stuff," and wanted to retire somewhere unconventional, near where his father grew up in Pictou, N.S.
"Everybody lives in a house and I'm tired of playing house," said Steele in an interview.
"One person who lived in Toronto -- Billy Jamieson -- he had a collection of shrunken heads and he lived in a really cool loft, and that really inspired me to live somewhere unusual with my collections."
Steele said he may start a museum in part of the historic building, where two infamous convicted murderers -- 19-year-old Arthur Bannister and his 20-year-old brother Daniel -- were hanged. The brothers had killed a 30-year-old woodsman during the abduction of his infant daughter, who also died.
An article published in The New York Times at the time said on Sept. 24, 1936, the brothers walked silently to the gallows, "where they stood back-to-back as the nooses were placed over their heads."
"Both were pronounced dead at 2:27 a.m. Their bodies were cut down and placed together in a single pine coffin covered with black cloth. The same ropes used for the execution lowered the coffin into a grave in the prison yard," the article reported.
Steele said he's eager to research the history of his new home, and hopes to find the Bannister brothers' final resting place.
"I'm not going to disturb them, of course, but I'll look for a marker or something," said Steele. "I know they were bad guys but they're still human and I'd at least like to recognize where their grave is."
The 1,200 square metre building features a brick facade with many rectangular energy-efficient windows, which replaced the jail's original windows. It includes an apartment where the previous owner, Andrew Partridge, once lived.
Partridge bought the former jail "on a whim" about 17 years ago. He said initially he had no idea what he was going to do with the property, but eventually he started up a gym inside one section of the building.
He said he's held many parties and family gatherings there.
"I knew that it was time for me to move on and I've come to grips with that," said Partridge in a phone interview. "I don't have any regrets but certainly there are memories being left behind."
Steele said he's already been contacted by a family member of a former inmate. He said one woman whose son struggles with PTSD wanted them to visit the jail before he changed anything.
"I told them, absolutely. Do whatever you want to do, if it's going to help you," he said.
Steele said he also hopes the jail and his life in Dorchester will be somewhat of a fresh start, as he is grieving the loss of his 25-year-old son to heart failure.
"I sent him a message saying 'Hey, look what dad's got. I'm ready to buy this. Get better. Don't worry about anything and just get better for us.' He never read that message and passed away," said Steele.
A jail in Dorchester has been sold to an entrepreneur from Ontario hoping to transform it into a bed and breakfast. Guests will stay in real jail cells. CBC's Brett Ruskin stays the night. 1:38
When I checked in to the jail, I was shown the room where I would spend the night, handed a key and told "a lot" of people had been killed in the building.
"And probably more than we know about," said Bill Steele, owner of the jail in Dorchester, N.B.
A cell like this one will cost roughly $34 per night when the old jail in Dorchester, N.B., opens as a bed and breakfast. (Brett Ruskin/CBC)
Steele and I were on the top floor of the two-storey brick building built in the early 1800s. He bought it in March and took possession of it this month. Steele paid between $100,000 and $150,000 for the property — but that's not what he wanted to talk about.
"That's where they hung the noose," he said, pointing at the ceiling. "And they dropped down through to the first floor through a trap door where you're standing."
I took a step to the left.
The worst of New Brunswick's criminals were hanged through that trap door from the time the jail opened until the mid-20th century. A new linoleum floor covers the door now — but just knowing it was there was enough.
Reminders of the past
The jail was filled with these reminders of the past. Steele's plan is to preserve and share them.
He wants to turn the Dorchester jail into a bed and breakfast and has listed it on the online hospitality site Airbnb. Steele says he's received hundreds of inquiries.
Before he swung open the barred doors, I asked to stay a night. The CBC paid $34 and I was given my pick of the six two-metre-by-three-metre cells.
The cells where guests can stay are two metres by three metres. (Brett Ruskin/CBC)
The black bars were rough to the touch and paint was peeling from the wall. The air in the cell was musty and cool.
It didn't smell, considering there was an old toilet in there. Calling it a toilet is, perhaps, an insult to modern plumbing. It was a bowl, recessed into a short wooden box, with a hinged lid.
Steele said it was decorative and that I should use the bathroom facilities with running water upstairs.
Later on, I made the mistake of trying to close the lid on the old toilet. Not only was the wood oily, but there was also something green on it. It was firm, sticky and coated my fingers with a gooey, mint-smelling substance.
I rushed out to my vehicle for a palm-sized amount of hand sanitizer — a luxury unavailable to the former residents of the jail.
I still don't know what the green stuff was.
The main hallway in the Dorchester jail leads to the cells where paying guests will sleep. (Brett Ruskin/CBC)
To help him learn more about the jail, Steele invited Joyce Barker for a visit.
Barker, whose father was the jail guard in the 1940s and '50s, had lived in the jail for years. She didn't think it was an odd place to live while she was there, but she can't figure out why anyone today would pay to stay in a cell overnight.
"They're crazy," Barker said.
"I don't know why they'd want to do it. But if that winds their watch, then OK."
Joyce Barker lived in the jail during the 1940s and 1950s. (Brett Ruskin/CBC)
She also said she had no doubt there was paranormal activity in the jail, which has been the scene of a killing, at least one suicide and dozens of hangings.
"Sure it's haunted," Barker said. "We don't know who they are, but the rocking chair has rocked in the living room when we lived here."
'I see you'
Although it had been a warm day, the temperature overnight dropped both outside and inside. I was happy I'd brought a sleeping bag — at Steele's recommendation — because even though he brought me a heater, there was still a slight chill in the air.
The jail was quiet and dark, and I felt like I was in a stone cavern at the centre of the village.
I fell asleep staring at penciled drawings on the wall. There was a hand, with an eye drawn into the palm. "I see you," it said next to the hand.
An image remains on the wall inside a cell in the Dorchester jail. (Brett Ruskin/CBC)
Overall, the discomfort from the bed, the cold and the claustrophobia were mostly offset by the uniqueness of waking up to sunlight streaming in between jail cell bars.
Steele said he has received requests to stay at the jail from across the country. It officially opened to guests this week.
Wi-Fi throughout the jail offers remarkably fast internet access. (Brett Ruskin/CBC)
Bill Steele says he will offer overnight visitors an experience close to what prisoners might have had. (Submitted/Bill Steele)
For $34 a night, guests will get a private room, a comfortable bed, a guided tour and an experience of a lifetime, one New Brunswick Airbnb ad says.
Except, the night won't be spent in a hotel, but at the notorious Dorchester jail.
"You'll be able to enjoy the village, spend the night find the history behind the actual building and the area and you'll have a great time," retiree Bill Steele said, who bought the unique piece of property in March.
"I don't think there's anywhere else in the world to sleep in a death row cell."
Guests won't be getting a luxurious hotel stay but a 'bare bones" experience of what it was like for former Dorchester inmates to sleep in jail.
"It's just like you're camping," he said. "Bring something to sleep in." Steele said the experience could be a family affair.
"You can bring your parents, you can bring your kids, you can bring anybody you want and spend a night in there and experience something you just can't go around and experience."
Appeal of history
According to a local historical group, the jail was built in 1800. (CBC)
Steele said the biggest appeal for people to stay overnight at the jail is learning about the building's history, which includes New Brunswick's last double hanging, in 1936.
The Bannister brothers of Berry Mills, 17-year-old Arthur and 20-year-old Daniel, were convicted of murder during a botched kidnapping attempt that left three members of a family dead. The brothers were hanged at 1 a.m. and buried together in a pine box behind the jail.
The grave was not marked, but Steele said he plans to find it and mark it.
"I think everybody kind of deserves that."
The jail building was built in 1800 and closed 20 years ago. The last execution in the province was in 1957.
Much like it was in old days
Bill Steele becomes the official owner of the old jail in Dorchester on June 1. (Submitted/Bill Steele)
"It's all original," Steele said.
"It's rustic and it's just the way it was when people were there even in the '30s." But no guest need worry about being locked in a cell, Steele said.
With a beautiful view from every cell, the building has its original fixtures, including the stone blocks separating the cells, steel doors, and windows that allows the natural light to shine through.
Inquiries already
Bill Steele says he is ready to leave city life behind to live in Dorchester. (Submitted/Bill Steele)
Steele said he is looking for memorabilia and historical photos related to the jail to showcase. Since buying the property, Steele has been nicknamed the "Jail guy," and people are already calling in hopes of experiencing what he's offering.
This is an opportunity to maybe take some quiet time for yourself and have a good sleep and think about things.- Bill Steele, owner of former jail
"I think we're going to be extremely busy," he said.
But Steele promised his guests will have a very good night's sleep in the cells, which offer a great opportunity to slow down and relax.
"I think a lot of people did a lot of thinking in those cells, so I think this is an opportunity to maybe take some quiet time for yourself and have a good sleep and think about things."
The jail has 10 bedrooms, which will have lighting, eight bathroom facilities, a gym and Wi-Fi. Steele gets the jail keys June 1 and will be booking guests soon thereafter.
Bill Steele says he is ready to leave city life behind to live in Dorchester, N.B. (Submitted/Bill Steele)
New retiree Bill Steele says he was looking for a unique piece of real estate and he found it — in a decommissioned jail for sale in Dorchester, N.B.
"I was looking for something strange and unusual," the Toronto man said.
Steele said he was impressed by the building, which contains 15 cells, a gym, a yard surrounded by chain-link fence topped by coiled barbed wire, and an apartment where the previous owner once lived.
He bought it. The closing date is June 1.
Former owner Andrew Partridge had the building on the market for two years. The last asking price was $159,000.
Steele said the building has a colourful past. It was built in 1800 when Dorchester, was a bustling centre of shipbuilding, and closed for good about 20 years ago.
Steele takes ownership of the former jail on June 1. (Submitted/Bill Steele)
"Something I'm looking forward to investigating further is the history of the Bannister brothers that were hung there," Steele said.
He's has also been contacted by some former inmates who've asked if they can revisit the building. "You know, kind of get rid of some of the demons."
He said he feels a responsibility to be compassionate about the requests.
He also likes the surrounding community that he's already begun to explore.
"The view is amazing. I love the community that it's in, that it was in the downtown part of Dorchester. I was just in awe."
New start
Steele said he was looking for a change of pace after 29 years of working as a transfer station operator for the city of Toronto.
"I decided to retire and cash out my pension. I've had enough, I'm 50 years old and you know, I'm not getting any younger, I feel great, I've never felt better so now's the time."
He has been grieving the recent loss of his 25-year-old son, Billy, to heart failure. The purchase of a retirement property and relocating to the East Coast was something he had planned to surprise his son with.
An antique dealer on the side and a self-described collector of unconventional items, Steele said he might open a shop or an inn of some sort. Friends and relatives are interested in visiting him once he moves into the former Dorchester lockup.
"I might even set up a curiosity museum," he said.
"It's going to be quite the adventure arriving there. I've gotten lots of messages from complete strangers welcoming me and offering to help me out. I really feel I picked the right place, absolutely."
Bill Steele says the decommissioned jail has lots of possibilities. (Submitted/Bill Steele)
Anyone in the market for an out-of-commission jail? Andy Partridge is putting his 15-cell property up for sale. Take the tour. 1:15
For sale: The old Dorchester count
Anyone in the market for an out-of-commission jail need look no further than the village of Dorchester,
where Andy Partridge is putting his 15-cell property up for salPartridge said it was an impulse buy
when he put in a bid 16 years ago upon hearing the property was up for sale. As the only bidder, he won.
The idea was it would be an investment property.
"I have a gym upstairs."
According to a local historical group, the jail was built in 1800. Partridge says it was the 'site of the last double hanging that happened in Canada.' (CBC)
Partridge said the jail was in operation until about 20 years ago and the cell walls still have artwork from former inmates.
One elaborate pencil drawing shows cartoon cat Garfield with his owner John behind bars.
"I had rented out some of these cells for storage, secure storage as you can see and in the upper part it was my apartment for about four years."
Built in 1800
The old Dorchester county jail features 15 cells, solitary confinement, a gym and a yard complete with coiled barbed wire. (CBC)
A local historical group said the jail was built in 1800 when Dorchester was a bustling centre of the the ship-building industry. Partridge said the jail used to feature public gallows outside, but it was moved indoors.
"I was told that this area was used to house the inmates on death row, the ropes came down through the from ceiling and that was the end."
"There were many people hung here."
While Partridge doesn't live in the building anymore, he isn't squeamish about the jail's gruesome history.
"It was just a roof over my head."
"The quarters upstairs are really quite comfortable."
Exercising in former jail's gym
Jail House Enterprise is Partridge's gym. He also rents out storage space in the cells, calling it, 'secure storage, as you can see.'
Sue Briggs has a membership at the former jail's gym and she doesn't mind exercising just metres from what used to be southeastern New Brunswick's death row.
From the treadmill, she said, "It doesn't bother me a bit, it's got everything I need."
Sitting in the middle of town, behind the village office which was also the former court house, the yard features a cement court and basket ball net, surrounded by a chain link fenced topped with coiled barbed wire.
The unusual property has been on the market for two years. Partridge said he's reduced the price twice and is now asking $159,000, but is in no hurry to sell. He said he'll wait until the right buyer comes along.
"My main goal was to have something here that would benefit the community and ideally the new buyer, it would be awesome if they thought the same."
Partridge said he's looking to sell the former jail as part of his retirement plan. But looking back over the last 16 years he said if he could do it all over again, 'I'd have bid on it, It's been an interesting occupation."
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David Raymond Amos@DavidRayAmos Replying to @DavidRayAmos@alllibertynews and 49 others Methinks everybody knows why I called the Media Relations Department of National Defence (613-996-2353) immediately after I read this news statement # 83 of my lawsuit said enough N'esy Pas?
The armed forces, under the leadership of Gen. Jonathan Vance, the country's top soldier, have sought to address harassment in their ranks through Operation Honour, a mission to eliminate harmful and inappropriate sexual behaviour. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press)
The federal government has agreed to set aside $900 million to settle class-action lawsuits from Armed Forces members and Department of National Defence employees who allege rampant sexual misconduct in the military.
"While not admitting liability, the government of Canada has agreed to a settlement," reads a notice of the settlement.
Of the $900 million set aside, $800 million will cover current and former members of the Armed Forces and $100 million will go to Department of National Defence employees who experienced sexual harassment, sexual assault or discrimination based on sex, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation on the job.
"We're a government that takes sexual misconduct extremely seriously," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters in Victoria. "No one should feel unsafe in their place of work, in their communities.
"There was a lot of negotiation and discussion with both the people concerned and their representatives and we were pleased that we got a settlement that was acceptable to the people involved."
Class members will be eligible for compensation between $5,000 and $55,000 depending on what happened to them.
Members who experienced "exceptional harm" and who were previously denied benefits in respect of that harm could be eligible for up to $155,000.
"Payment amounts will also depend on how many class members submit claims," said the government in its release.
"Our government takes all allegations of sexual misconduct seriously. No one should feel unsafe at work," said Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan in a statement. "We know it takes a lot of courage to come forward and share difficult and painful experiences and press for change."
Sajjan said the Forces "will continue to learn from these survivors as we take steps to achieve lasting and positive change."
Settling lawsuits
The Federal Court still has to hold a hearing in mid-September to decide if the proposed settlement is reasonable and then, if so, certify it.
Government lawyers had previously sought to stop the class-action lawsuit and faced backlash after telling a court the government does not "owe a private law duty of care to individual members within the CAF to provide a safe and harassment-free work environment, or to create policies to prevent sexual harassment or sexual assault."
Last year Trudeau said that language was "of concern", and soon after the federal government moved to settle the lawsuits.
Gen. Jonathan Vance, the country's top soldier, has made stamping out harassment a priority. Operation Honour, one of his signature initiatives, aims to address a longstanding culture of sexual misconduct in the Canadian military.
The military also launched a sexual-misconduct response centre, which has fielded hundreds of complaints and conducted investigations into allegations of impropriety since it was established in 2016.
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David Raymond Amos@DavidRayAmos Replying to @DavidRayAmos@alllibertynews and 49 others Methinks Mr Scheer and my fellow Maritimers Mr Butts and Madame McLellan know why I called the PCO and the PMO on Friday after I got a wicked email N'esy Pas?
Debi Mcdonald Did he ever really leave ? Or just disappear to avoid any questions ? Maybe wernick and the rest of the crowd will show up to.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @debi mcdonald: Methinks Mr Scheer and my fellow Maritimers Mr Butts and Madame McLellan know why I called the PCO and the PMO on Friday after I got a wicked email N'esy Pas?
Richard Sharp Reply to @Lee McEachern:
I can never call out another poster like you just did to me.
David R. Amos
Reply to @debi mcdonald: 'Or just disappear to avoid any questions ?"
Methinks like that happen all the time just like my first comment N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Richard Sharp: Methinks we got fair warning last week N'esy Pas?
Forget 'positive politics.' Expect a steady stream of Liberal bile until election day
A tour of senior PMO Twitter accounts is the best place to see where Liberal priorities are these days Andrew MacDougall · for CBC News Opinion · Posted: Jul 14, 2019 4:00 AM ET
Mike Trahan Reply to @David R. Amos: The Harper conservative party are the only Canadian party to practice character assassination, they have nothing to offer Canada but hate a divisive politics.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mike Trahan: Methinks you should ask my fellow Maritimers Gerry Butts and Rob Moore why I ran as an Independent six times thus far N'esy Pas?
Steve Richards How can the puppet-master return, if he never really left? A vote for JT is a vote for Butts.
David R. Amos Reply to @Steve Richards: "How can the puppet-master return, if he never really left?"
BINGO
Rick Guthrie What arrogance.
David R. Amos Reply to @Rick Guthrie: Welcome to the Circus
William Joseph Westcott Did anyone really think that GB would stay away from the trough? I swear to god the masses really should give their head a shake
David R. Amos
Reply to @William Joseph Westcott: Relax and enjoy the circus. Trust that Mr Butts knows I will be back as well. Methinks anyone can Google the following N'esy Pas?
Fundy Royal campaign targets middle class with focus on jobs
Mike Trahan Reply to @David R. Amos: If you do not know French don't abuse it
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mike Trahan: Methinks you forgot to ask me if I cared what you thought of my Chiac N'esy Pas?
Buford Wilson He was known as justin's brain. The PM is lost and bewildered without him.
Irv Miller Reply to @Buford Wilson: Washington hot today?
Kevin Delaney
Reply to @Buford Wilson: Thank Heavens Andy has a secure back channel to Steve.
Jake Devries
Reply to @Kevin Delaney: awww yes, the good old old days of PMSH when we had an adult and statesman as PM, unlike Mr Dressup and his team of virtue signallers...
David R. Amos Reply to @Buford Wilson: Methinks he certainly was not Trudeau The Younger's conscience or he would not be back N'esy Pas?
Sian Maccauley Reply to @Buford Wilson:
The PM - can't bear saying that - is lost all the time, with or without Gerry.
Richard Sharp
Reply to @Buford Wilson:
Trudeau is on top of all issues. He shows it every day with his THOUSANDS of media availabilities and taking questions from Canadians at public events, unvetted, unscripted. Harper was the opposite, a control freak. You don't know what you are talking about.
Aaron Morris
Reply to @Richard Sharp:
So all you need for proof that Justin is great is that he shows up in front of the people he has bribed with billions?
What a low bar for success you have.
Mike Trahan
Reply to @Aaron Morris: Unlike you Aaron, Richard is telling the truth
Aaron Morris
Reply to @Mike Trahan:
Yes, Richard is rehashing a few successful points from last election cycle. The same points GB used to pull the wool over so many canadians’ eyes by tricking them with form over substance.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mike Trahan: Yea Right
Edward Andrews Not afraid of an SNC rehash because they buried the first time around. Whatever the character of Trudeau is well known, the ineffectiveness of his policies well known, the divisiveness and, to use his words "unneighbourly" conduct he has show through out his time as our senior elected employee are all enough for me to happily send him packing in Oct with a vote against the Liberals. If the Conservatives want this they'd better start attacking policies and talking about their views and plans.
Alex Keith Reply to @Mark Wood: Citizens in all provinces except Ontario and Quebec dislike Trudeau. Is that good enough for you
John Francis Reply to @Alex Keith: Quebec and Ontario tend to win the elections..... Anyway, there are people disgusted by Andrew Scheer from coast to coast, when they aren't rolling on the floor laughing at him.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Alex Keith: Me thinks Mr Butts' problem is that his buddy Trudeau The Younger not all that popular in Ontario and Quebec either N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @John Francis: Oh So True
Dawn Lee Oh look, the guy who cares very deeply about his country and climate change is back. Why did he leave again?
David R. Amos Reply to @Dawn Lee: Methinks it was politically correct for Mr Butts to fall on his sword at the time but he trusts that the liberals have a short memory as to why N'esy Pas?
Elias Eliot I was driving along highway 97 just west of Cambridge s few days ago and a sign said: "Let's make Trudeau a drama teacher again"!
David R. Amos Reply to @Elias Eliot: Methinks everybody agrees he makes a most excellent Mr Dressup N'esy Pas?
Robert Campbell Why is lame duck still making decisions and spending our money. Hes only got 95 days to play prime minister. Hope they can cancel all these checks he's promising.
Richard Riel
Reply to @Robert Campbell: Imagine being a senior on a fixed income or working on a pressured low minimum salary and seeing all those taxes flying out the window
David R. Amos
Reply to @Robert Campbell: Dream On
David R. Amos
Reply to @Richard Riel: I don't have to imagine it.
Methinks I have made Mr Butts and his buddy Mr Prime Minister Trudeau The Younger well aware that I am one of legions of old folks getting by on CPP and the Old Age stipend who were no doubt not impressed with moving expenses Mr Butts and Madame Telford N'esy Pas?
Stephen David
The arrogance of this bunch is truly nauseating.....Canadians will send them all packing in October
James Holden
Reply to @Stephen David: Arrogance is a Conservative trademark.
Stephen David
Reply to @James Holden:
Sadly for you nobody agrees with you.
Joan Tyne
Reply to @James Holden: Would you please provide some proof of said Con arrogance? I have seen it countless times and ways via t2, butts, McKenna, etc.....it streams out of the lib caucus mouths. they have little to no respect for the taxpayer and what they are doing to the future of this great country. it's all about what looks good thru the camera lenses. your total disdain for the conservative party is well noted - none of them are perfect. not one of them but at least be honest and admit that the t2/butts/telford cabal of control is one of the worst to lead this country.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Stephen David: Methinks you need to learn to speak for yourself N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Stephen David: Methinks the same holds true for you nobody will know until the votes are tallied and the Fat Lady sings the score in October N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Joan Tyne: Methinks a lot of my fellow Maritimers still recalled Mr Harper calling us defeatists long before he lost every seat in the Maritimes in 2015 N'esy Pas?
Stephen David
Reply to @David R. Amos:
Methinks you is a weirdo N'est-ce Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Stephen David: Methinks I have the right to believe that you are not very witty N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Stephen David: Methinks your hero Mr Scheer and my fellow Maritimers Mr Butts and Madame McLellan know why I called the PCO and the PMO on Friday after I got an wicked email but you would have no clue unless you read my emails N'esy Pas?
Butts returns - and Trudeau's putting the band back together for October
His participation suggests the Liberals aren't all that worried about rehashing the SNC-Lavalin affair
Katie Telford, left, and Gerald Butts look on as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers his opening remarks during the meeting of First Ministers in Ottawa on Dec. 9, 2016. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press )
Among the 60 people who gathered at a downtown Ottawa hotel for a day and a half this month to discuss the Liberal government's campaign for re-election was Gerry Butts, the senior adviser and close friend of Justin Trudeau who left the Prime Minister's Office five months ago in the midst of Trudeau's painful spring.
In February, Butts stepped away because his presence — and the suggestion that he was somehow involved in inappropriately pressuring the former attorney general — threatened to be a drag on the government's ability to pursue its mandate. From the outside, Butts was able to mount his own defence against Jody Wilson-Raybould's accusations.
The return of Butts (who was widely credited with helping to define the Trudeau Liberal message and narrative in the first place) might reassure Liberals who valued his contribution to the 2015 campaign and the first three-and-a-half years of the Trudeau government. His return is also a significant part of the Liberal band getting back together in the hopes of recording a follow-up to their smashing breakthrough in 2015 — even though this re-election bid is bound to be a very different challenge.
Butts's exact role in the campaign is unclear. Speaking to the Huffington Post in May, Butts indicated he was looking toward the private sector. He also acknowledged that he would be readily available to any Liberal who came calling and suggested that his own enthusiasm for the mission hadn't dimmed.
The new-old Liberal crew
"It's no secret that I have a lot of friends who are still actively involved, whom I care about very deeply, and I care about my country very deeply," Butts said. "And I think that what is happening and how we're experiencing it in Canada, we're at a really important moment, in particular on the issues that I care most about, like climate change. We're at a turning point and it's important for people who care about those issues to get involved and try and make positive change happen."
Trudeau is more closely associated with Butts than he is with any other single adviser. But since he launched his quest for the federal Liberal leadership in 2012, Trudeau has gradually accumulated a slate of long-serving aides who will accompany him into the 2019 campaign.
In the beginning there was Butts, a friend to Trudeau since university, and Katie Telford, a friend of Butts's from their time together as senior figures in Dalton McGuinty's government. Telford got to know Trudeau when she was running Gerard Kennedy's campaign for the Liberal leadership in 2006, which Trudeau had endorsed. Telford became Trudeau's chief of staff after the 2015 election and formed an inseparable duo with Butts.
Tom Pitfield, a childhood friend of Trudeau's (Pitfield's father, Michael, was clerk of the Privy Council under Pierre Trudeau), was enlisted to begin building Trudeau's digital operation. Mike McNair, who had worked with Telford in Stéphane Dion's office, was recruited to help with policy.
After Trudeau won the Liberal leadership, he convinced Kate Purchase, director of media relations for interim Liberal leader Bob Rae, to stay on to oversee communications. Jeremy Broadhurst, Rae's chief of staff, became national director of the Liberal Party, then a deputy to Butts and Telford, then chief of staff to Chrystia Freeland when the Trudeau government was reorienting itself to deal with Donald Trump. In May, Broadhurst was appointed Liberal campaign director, a title held by Telford in 2015.
Suzanne Cowan, who oversaw advertising in 2015, is now the party president. Brian Clow, who led the rapid response team in 2015 and later helmed a special unit in the PMO dedicated to Canada-U.S. relations, likely will take on a similar task again this fall. Cyrus Reporter, Trudeau's chief of staff during the two years in opposition and then a senior adviser in the PMO for two years, will return to play a role. John Zerucelli, who managed Trudeau's travel operations in 2015 and then for another two years in the PMO, is returning to oversee Trudeau's tour.
The pros and cons of experience
Ben Chin, an adviser in Trudeau's office who is also expected to fill a senior role in the campaign this fall, was not involved in 2015, but he was in attendance at the weekend retreat in the summer of 2012 when the nascent Trudeau campaign began to take shape.
That an incumbent campaign would return to the same people who helped it win power is not entirely unusual; Jean Chrétien's re-election team in 1997 bore a strong resemblance to the team that helped build the Liberal victory in 1993. In theory, an experienced team should offer Trudeau an advantage against Conservative and NDP leaders facing their first federal campaigns.
Still, Butts's involvement might offer a handy excuse for the Liberals' political opponents to re-litigate the SNC-Lavalin affair, at least for a news cycle or two. The ethics commissioner's report on the affair is expected to be released sometime before the official campaign begins, which likely will revive the story regardless. Butts and Trudeau have maintained that Butts did nothing wrong. As long as the ethics commissioner agrees, they might not have to revisit those assurances.
Among the attendees at the Liberal retreat this month were the national campaign co-chairs, including Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains (Dominic LeBlanc, another co-chair, is being treated for cancer and did not attend) and a few officials who already had taken leave from their senior roles in ministers' offices to join Broadhurst at the Liberal Party's headquarters in Ottawa.
According to a source, the meetings focused particularly on the campaign's field and digital operations. The Liberals' digital game could be enhanced by whatever Pitfield learned while assisting provincial and international campaigns over the last four years.
But the participants also discussed how much has changed since 2015.
The faces around the backrooms of the Liberal campaign might be similar, but the field is certainly different in 2019. In July 2015, the Liberals were polling in third place, the New Democrats were leading and the Greens were barely seen as a factor.
Maxime Bernier was a minor minister in Stephen Harper's cabinet. "Misinformation" and "foreign interference" had not yet entered the political lexicon. "Populism" was a quaint notion. And Trudeau now has a record in office, with all the good and bad that entails.
All of this remains to play out. But regardless of the outcome, Trudeau will go with the team that helped get him here in the first place.
Forget 'positive politics.' Expect a steady stream of Liberal bile until election day
A tour of senior PMO Twitter accounts is the best place to see where Liberal priorities are these days
Andrew MacDougall· for CBC News Opinion· Posted: Jul 14, 2019 4:00 AM ET
The Liberals have moved to conversion therapy as the next front in the culture war. After having turned down an opportunity to legislate against the practice in the spring session, the Liberals are now saying Scheer can't be trusted to do the right thing. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press)
If the past few months of Canadian politics have taught us anything, it's that bile works. Weeks of Liberal caterwauling about abortion and hidden agendas have put Prime Minister Justin Trudeau back on top of the polls.
Desperate times brought desperate measures and they have, in turn, brought relief. There was a point in April, you'll recall, when the Trudeau government was desperate for something – anything — other than SNC-Lavalin to talk about. Day after day, week after week, month after month, the conversation had revolved around former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould, Prime Minister Trudeau, and their interactions over the ethically compromised engineering company. And to deleterious effect: the Liberals were sinking in the polls and Trudeau's approvals were taking a beating.
Moreover, no channel change seemed to be working. A report citing the coming climate apocalypse was leaked. The absence of an Andrew Scheer climate plan was noted. Repeatedly. A frustrated Trudeau then drummed Wilson-Raybould and former Treasury Board President Jane Philpott, who was also embroiled in the scandal, out of caucus. And still the Liberals bled.
Even worse, the breach of trust case involving Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, who was accused of leaking confidential cabinet information, then stepped to the fore, once again casting Trudeau and his office in a dubious light. The prime minister who promised transparency failed to meet his own bar.
The public was regaled with tales of meetings between the country's top soldier and Trudeau's top foot soldiers at which, for some reason, no notes were taken. The government was also refusing to turn over material to Norman's defence. It looked bad and smelled worse.
Enter the abortion brigade.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in town to talk trade? Let's talk abortion instead. Some anti-abortionist who's buried so deeply on the opposition backbench he'll never be able to find a cabinet, let alone serve in one, says he's sad about abortion on demand? Evidence of a plot! Is Conservative leader Andrew Scheer reciting how a government led by him won't reopen the abortion debate? Well, down is the new up, you rube, so run before they take your uterus away and lock it.
The recent brouhaha over the anti-abortion movie Unplanned, which will screen at some Canadian theatres this week, is but the latest front in the multi-pronged Liberal assault on an imaginary Gilead. Here, Tourism Minister Mélanie Joly was sent to savage Quebec entrepreneur and cinema chain owner Vincenzo Guzzo for allowing the film to be screened. Guzzo's true sin? Being a Conservative donor, which Joly made sure to note, making his chain's business decision proof — to Liberal eyes, anyway — of the impending Conservative assault on women's rights.
What makes this all so depressing is this crop of Liberals was supposed to be different. They were supposed to believe in evidence. They were supposed to be positive. What the abortion routine shows is they are neither of these things. In fact, they're the opposite; Trudeau's Liberals are cynical and divisive. Now, I wouldn't like the prospect of access to safe and legal abortion being taken away any more than the average Liberal. But here's the thing: access to abortion, while uneven, isn't under threat in Canada. And you know how I know that? Trudeau has had four years to buttress access to abortion and has done the square root of nothing.
How can the purported party of evidence look at the nearly 10 years of Harper government and still detect signs of serious life in the anti-abortion movement? How is portraying Scheer's assurances as lies not corrosive to people's perceptions of public life? More to the point, are Canadians – Conservatives included — no longer allowed to express anti-abortion sentiment? Or are the Liberals now the arbiters of acceptable speech, too?
This is to complain about politics, I know. But the reason so many people are disappointed in politics at the moment is because they feel their leaders are untrustworthy. Repeating a pack of lies to evade a beating in the polls might work in the short term, but it does more long-term damage.
Not that the Liberals appear concerned. They're now on to conversion therapy — which attempts to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity — as the next front in the culture war.
Having turned down an opportunity to legislate against the practice in the spring session, the Liberals are now saying Scheer can't be trusted to do the right thing, even after Scheer said he is against forcing anyone into a therapy against their will. And instead of calling the Liberals out on their hysteria and hypocrisy, the media are gleefully writing the attack up, torqued headlines and all.
The Prime Minister's Office isn't even trying to hide their desperation now, so convinced are they that it's working. Trudeau's director of communications, for example, lobbed an untruth bomb into the first ministers' meeting this week, tweeting that former Prime Minister Stephen Harper had "frozen" health care spending, a claim that is as far from the truth as anything out of U.S. President Donald Trump's mouth. And to think: these are the very same people who want you to trust their monitoring of social media for truthfulness during the upcoming election.
When he was Prime Minister, Stephen Harper refused to meet with Premiers. His government froze funding for services like health care, childcare, & housing. He refused to work with provinces on climate change. His ministers disrespected Indigenous governments & communities. https://twitter.com/TheTorontoSun/status/1148352362815393792 …
A tour of seniorPMO Twitter accounts is undoubtedly the best place to see where Liberal priorities are these days. You will find lots of conversion therapy, a heaping helping of abortion, and lots of partisan campaign photos. What you won't find is an equal dollop of concern for the two Canadians abducted in China, a looming global trade war, lack of movement on the NAFTA ratification, or the current fiscal position of the government, which will hamper any response to a downturn. In other words, it's all politics all the time. Canadians can expect a steady stream of Liberal bile from here until election day.
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Andrew MacDougall is a Canadian-British national based in London who writes about politics and current affairs. He was previously director of communications for former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper.
Shane Banks, who lives next door, became concerned last spring when the campground expanded and he noticed the septic installations didn't extend, too. (CBC)
CBC News has learned the province is investigating Strang's Shore Camping, a private trailer park in Murray Beach.
The province won't respond to questions about what is under investigation, but the probe comes after residents wrote to the Department of Environment before Christmas, asking if they could get a copy of environmental studies carried out before the campsite opened about five years ago.
It turns out the department had no record of any environmental impact assessment associated with the project.
Murray Beach, which can be found along the Northumberland Strait near the Confederation Bridge, started making headlines in December, after Health Minister Victor Boudreau highlighted its poor water quality in an interview.
"There are some days in the summer where Murray Beach, the results are worse than Parlee Beach," Boudreau said on Information Morning Moncton in reference to the water quality tests for fecal bacteria . "So what does that tell us?''
Growing concerns from residents
Shane Banks, who lives right next door to the campsite, said he and his wife started becoming concerned last spring, when they noticed it expanding, with no work being been done to extend the septic drain field.
"It doesn't seem to me as though there is enough leaching system in place," said Banks, who operates a similar septic system on his property, as no one in the area is hooked up to municipal sewage. Banks and other neighbours started testing their drinking water, because of concerns their well water might be getting contaminated.
He wonders if the campsite's septic installations are sufficient, and whether contaminants could be seeping into the ground and impacting his well water.
He believes the same thing could be happening to the water at the beach, and worries there is no consequence to developers not abiding by the rules.
"There doesn't seem to be any checks or balances in place, for us out here in the rural setting anyway," he said.
"It's like the Wild West out here. You put a development and hope for the best."
Too much development?
In his recent comments about Murray Beach, Boudreau said water quality was a separate issue from development. This came after he was asked whether he was the right person to make decisions on water quality, given his stake in a proposed mega–campground in Shediac.
"These issues [development] are not in Murray Beach, so it tells me there's a broader problem," he said at the time.
"Mr. Boudreau is incorrect in this statement as there is a large seasonal campground just east of the provincial park providing services to in excess of 150 recreational vehicles," wrote other cottage owners, Brent and Sandy Conrad, in their email to the Department of Environment in December.
"More and more developments of this type are popping up in that area," they said.
"I'm not against development," said Banks. "I mean gee, we'd like to have the jobs, we'd like to have people coming in and using the area, but at the expense of losing your drinking water or contaminating the beach?"
Clean environment act violated
The Department of Environment has indicated it has no record of the owners of Strang's Shore Camping undergoing an environmental impact assessment registration and review.
Since 1987, the clean environment act dictates all major recreational or tourism developments in New Brunswick should register for an EIA, to help the province determine whether the project can go ahead.
Marc André Chiasson, a communications officer for the department, said a campground of close to or more than 100 units, and requiring its own water supply and sewage treatment, as is the case here, would be considered a major project.
It is not clear why the campground did not undergo the assessment, or why it has taken until now to open an investigation.
CBC News tried several times to contact the owners but did not receive a response.
Hollie Lake lives down the road from Murray Beach. She doesn't understand why there were no signs posted indicating water quality.
Beachgoers are concerned they were not told of high levels of fecal bacteria at Murray Beach when they swam there this summer.
Testing at the provincial park revealed the water remained open to swimming on at least 26 days when it should have been closed under federal guidelines, and no signs were posted to let swimmers know.
On June 15, fecal streptococci levels above federal norms were detected at the west and east ends of Murray Beach. The water was not tested again until June 20.
Then on July 26, fecal streptococci level were found again to exceed federal norms for safe swimming, and remained elevated during the next two testings, on Aug. 3 and Aug. 16. The department of tourism has declined providing test results after Aug. 16, saying results were still being compiled.
'It makes me mad'
Hollie Lake lives a kilometre down the road from Murray Beach and has been swimming there for the past 30 years.
She was shocked to learn of the pollution problem.
''It makes me mad,'' said Lake. ''We should be informed of what's going on in our waters. There are lots of kids at this beach in the summer time. It's a busy beach.''
Mellissa Creighton lives in Charlottetown. She was unaware of issues with water quality when she went camping at Murray Beach this summer with her children.
''Being from the island I didn't give it any thought at all,'' said Creighton. ''Because there seems to be no issue with the water quality on the Strait side here.''
''I really was upset. These are my children and they're swimming in the water. The beach was quite busy that day. And I had no idea.''
Not like this in P.E.I.
Creighton said it's not the fact there was an issue with water quality that worries her the most, it's not being notified.
''At least to know there had been an issue and they were keeping an eye on it would be reassuring in itself,'' said Creighton.
Creighton said the lack of signage in New Brunswick is a stark contrast to the way P.E.I. beaches are managed.
''There's lots of signage there. Water quality, temperature, the date as to when it was taken. The beaches are very important to the tourism here in P.E.I.''
Creighton said while some in New Brunswick may have heard of poor water quality, those visiting from out of province are left even more in the dark.
''If you've got a place that's basically drawing the tourists in from far and away, you can't assume that they're actually aware of the situation unless you have signage right there,'' said Creighton.
'System not perfect'
Acting chief medical officer of health Dr. Jennifer Russell said because there are no signs at Murray Beach, in the past guests entering the park were given pamphlets.
''The Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health recognizes that the current system is not perfect,'' said Russell.
But beachgoers CBC spoke to said they did not receive pamphlets informing them of water quality this summer.