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MCC Day 26 – A(n Overdue) Shift to Truro, & Accommodation Decision Drama
MCC Day 27 – Participants’ Boycott Continues, and Local District Commander Testifies (by Video)
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Former head of Colchester RCMP testifies at mass shooting public inquiry
Staff Sgt. Al Carroll, now retired, was district commander of RCMP in Bible Hill
Staff Sgt. Al Carroll first found out about a situation in Portapique, N.S., when his son, who was also a police officer, called him at home to give him a heads up.
At that time, Const. Jordan Carroll was working in Cumberland County and helped block off part of Highway 2 west of the entrance to the subdivision where the violence started.
That evening, a gunman attacked neighbours, killing 13 people before driving away in a decommissioned police car he'd designed to look like an actual RCMP cruiser. The following morning Gabriel Wortman killed nine more people: acquaintances and strangers, including a pregnant woman and an RCMP officer.
The senior Carroll answered questions Thursday via Zoom after the commission granted an accommodation. In its decision, the commission didn't explain the exact reasons for the him appearing virtually, but said it considers private health information.
The National Police Federation and Canada's attorney general had requested that Carroll appear in person, but said he should only answer questions posed by the inquiry's lawyers.
The commission decided he will still have to answer questions posed by lawyers for families of the victims, though some are boycotting proceedings in response to the decision that two other senior officers will be allowed to testify in pre-recorded sessions and won't face any cross-examination.
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Carroll was just shy of 40 years of service with the Mounties that spring and as detachment commander his role was predominantly administrative — overseeing the detachment's staff of 34 officers — but the night of April 18, 2020, he put on his uniform and headed to the office to help.
In the early hours, Carroll helped with positioning officers in the Portapique area and efforts to close off exits.
Commission counsel Roger Burrill asked about a radio broadcast at 10:48 p.m. from Const. Vicki Colford where she explained a woman whose husband the gunman had injured told her about a possible back way out of the subdivision.
Twenty-two people died on April 18 and 19, 2020. Top row from left: Gina Goulet, Dawn Gulenchyn, Jolene Oliver, Frank Gulenchyn, Sean McLeod, Alanna Jenkins. Second row: John Zahl, Lisa McCully, Joey Webber, Heidi Stevenson, Heather O'Brien and Jamie Blair. Third row from top: Kristen Beaton, Lillian Campbell, Joanne Thomas, Peter Bond, Tom Bagley and Greg Blair. Bottom row: Emily Tuck, Joy Bond, Corrie Ellison and Aaron Tuck. (CBC)
She said: "Millbrook, if you guys want to have a look at the map, we're being told there's a road, kind of a road that someone could come out, before here. Ah, if they know the roads well." Only later would police determine the gunman drove out a private road along a blueberry field.
Carroll said the audio played during the public inquiry proceedings was the first time he heard the communication. He said the radio transmission could have occurred when he was on the phone.
That night he moved to a makeshift command centre set up in Great Village, N.S., and worked closely with fellow staff sergeants Steve Halliday and Addie MacCallum. He worked into the next morning.
The 'blueberry field road' north of Cobequid Court in Portapique, N.S., looking north toward Brown Loop. This is the road the gunman is believed to have used to leave the subdivision. (Mass Casualty Commission )
Drawing on maps while planning response
During Thursday morning's questions, Burrill also asked about the information Carroll was using while planning how to contain Portapique. Carroll said MacCallum consulted what he believed was Google Earth and they reviewed the topography of Portapique, including the blueberry field to the east of the main entrance.
"It looks like just a big field, just a big open field ... we're not seeing an egress point in that area," he testified. "We looked at what we had to look at. It showed nothing we could determine was an active roadway."
The commanders working out of the fire hall in Great Village, N.S., were consulting maps and had printed versions pinned to the walls. (Mass Casualty Commission)
MacCallum previously told the commission he wasn't satisfied with the view on Google and felt it was out of date, "making roads where there's no roads." But he couldn't log into an RCMP satellite imagery program that night. Carroll said he had not been trained on that program as he planned to retire in May 2020.
Carroll said they were also relying on staff at the RCMP's Operational Communications Centre, where dispatchers worked and Staff Sgt. Brian Rehill was overseeing the response, because they had access to the RCMP program and could review it to look for egress points.
He and MacCallum also knew the area well and they took down a large map that had been hung on a wall of the detachment to use as a reference point, Carroll said.
Questions about command structure
Burrill also asked Carroll about Sgt. Andy O'Brien's role. As a non-commissioned officer in the Bible Hill detachment, O'Brien ran the day-to-day operations of the detachment.
Carroll testified he offered to help the night of April 18, after O'Brien told him he'd had a couple glasses of wine and though he wasn't intoxicated, wouldn't be going to the scene out of concern someone might spell the alcohol on his breath.
Carroll said he was later surprised to hear O'Brien's voice on the radio since he didn't realize he had a portable one at home, but he didn't have any concerns about O'Brien's ability to function.
At one point, O'Brien got on the radio and said he didn't want a second team on the ground in Portapique, N.S., to "avoid having anyone else in the crossfire."
"I thought Andy was just helping us out, monitoring and passing on information as need be to the rest of us," Carroll said in response to questions about the command role O'Brien had at that time.
Burrill said O'Brien's comment sounded more like providing directions to the front-line officers, to which Carroll replied O'Brien was concerned about safety and was pointing out danger.
But he did concede "it may have been a breach of command structure."
O'Brien and Rehill are both scheduled to testify next week, but will only be questioned by commission counsel next week in pre-taped video interviews, with the chance for other lawyers to submit questions.
Family members protest
As Carroll began testifying virtually, about 20 people gathered to protest outside the Truro hotel where the inquiry was being held.
Family members and friends of the victims, as well as supporters of the families, are upset about the accommodations being made for Carroll and two other key RCMP officers involved in the shooting response.
People gather signs for a protest in Truro outside the inquiry into the N.S. mass shooting of 2020 on May 26, 2022. Victims' families say they are upset with the commission's decision to limit how key RCMP members are testifying. (Haley Ryan/CBC)
"If the officers that were in charge those two days can't get on the stand and defend their decisions that they made, then there's something wrong with this whole process," Charlene Bagley, whose father Tom Bagley was killed in the mass shooting, told reporters.
"If they are not going to allow them to get up and speak the only truth that there is, then why are we taking part in this? Why has $26.5 million dollars been put towards this, for causing more trauma to the public and to the families?"
The group quietly marched on the sidewalk throughout the morning, holding signs that said "the truth hurts" and "don't hide behind the badge" as drivers honked in support.
The commission has said the accommodations are to help people with health or privacy concerns give their best evidence in a "trauma-informed" way.
Charlene Bagley, daughter of one of the victims of the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia, speaks with reporters in Truro outside the inquiry into the shootings on May 26, 2022. (Haley Ryan/CBC)
But Bagley said it feels like the commission is not really thinking of the trauma of the other people involved — just the officers.
"That's all it seems to be. So their trauma seems to trump everyone else's. Not OK with that."
Some signs also called on Nova Scotia's premier to weigh in, reading "Houston we have a problem."
Premier Tim Houston told reporters in New Glasgow on Thursday that he listens carefully whenever the victims' families raise issues about the inquiry.
When asked about whether Houston could work with the federal government to ensure these concerns are being met, the premier said that the inquiry is an independent process and "we have to be respectful of that."
However, Houston said he's optimistic the commission is also receiving the message and will take the steps necessary to ease the concerns from families, Nova Scotians and politicians "all equally."
"Hopefully, we can find a way to get this back on track. The inquiry is really important that we get to the answers, so we just need everyone to have the confidence that everyone has the same goal," Houston said.
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RCMP officer speaks of 'regrets' that have haunted him since mass shooting
Staff Sgt. Bruce Briers says key details were lost in the 'firehose' of information during rampage
Staff Sgt. Bruce Briers caught his breath and wiped away tears while testifying in Truro, N.S., Wednesday at the public inquiry into the April 2020 mass shooting.
On Sunday, April 19, Briers oversaw the RCMP's dispatch centre during the final four hours of the rampage. He testified he was processing a massive amount of information and sometimes had three phones ringing at once.
Briers said he did not realize anyone had mentioned the distinctive piece of equipment on the front of the gunman's replica cruiser until he read transcripts of radio communications much later.
"I didn't hear it either time … I wish … this is one of those regrets. If that had of been pointed out, told to me, then we could've done an all-radio broadcast to give members a heads up," said Briers.
Having that information would have allowed an officer who drove by the shooter on Highway 4 to identify him in advance and decide how to respond, Briers said. Cpl. Rodney Peterson only recognized the killer after their vehicles passed.
"And from that point forward, we don't know how things could have changed. Because it only takes one difference. I have to live with that. And I've lived with that for two plus years," Briers said.
Twenty-two people died on April 18 and 19, 2020. Top row from left: Gina Goulet, Dawn Gulenchyn, Jolene Oliver, Frank Gulenchyn, Sean McLeod, Alanna Jenkins. Second row: John Zahl, Lisa McCully, Joey Webber, Heidi Stevenson, Heather O'Brien and Jamie Blair. Third row from top: Kristen Beaton, Lillian Campbell, Joanne Thomas, Peter Bond, Tom Bagley and Greg Blair. Bottom row: Emily Tuck, Joy Bond, Corrie Ellison and Aaron Tuck. (CBC)
By the time Peterson turned around, he'd lost sight of the replica cruiser. The Mounties didn't catch up to the gunman again for more than an hour and a half, during which time five more people were murdered.
In April 2020, Nova Scotia RCMP only had four vehicles with push bars. Three were SUVs and one was a Taurus based in Kingston, N.S., in the Annapolis Valley. Briers said the force could have pulled any of those vehicles off the road, had they been on it.
'Firehose' of information
Briers said he was faced with a "firehose" of information flying at him after he started his regular shift as risk manager. In the hectic hours that followed, he co-ordinated bringing in additional officers and tried to keep track of what was happening on the ground, all while managing and monitoring communications coming through via email, texts, his cellphone and desk phone, the police radio and various computer programs.
Briers's role was to supervise dispatchers and convey information to the critical incident commanders who were at another site.
Commission counsel Anna Mancini questions Staff Sgt. Bruce Briers, right, a risk manager with the RCMP, as commissioners Leanne Fitch, Michael MacDonald, chair, and Kim Stanton, left to right, observe on Wednesday. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
He testified he shared information he felt was important with the command team and left decisions such as bringing in extra officers and whether to issue a media release up to them since he didn't know what other factors and intelligence they had to take into account.
One of Briers's tasks was to bring Mounties from other areas to set up road blocks and check points to try to contain the gunman based on his last known location. That involved calling supervisors in other parts of the province and figuring out positioning.
"This is a very big area so I knew I needed more people," he testified. "It was multitasking to the nth degree.... You're trying to catch up to an individual that knows what they're planning on doing and we don't have a clue."
Reflections on how things went
Briers said looking back in hindsight, he wished he had brought extra officers and someone to help him process all the information earlier.
"I didn't know what I didn't know," he said.
Briers said the RCMP has made changes since the mass shooting to allow for a second risk manager to be called in during a major event.
The officer working out of the operations communications centre provides assistance with all complaints coming in to the RCMP and a second person could oversee if there was an unrelated emergency in another part of the province.
The gunman's replica RCMP cruiser that was used in the Nova Scotia mass shooting was created with a decommissioned 2017 Ford Taurus. Briers says he did not hear officers mention the vehicle had a push bar on April 19, 2020. (Mass Casualty Commission)
While some lawyers who represent the families of victims boycotted Wednesday's proceedings, those who stayed asked Briers about information that fell through the cracks.
Briers said one thing that would have really helped police was to know about the gunman's activities and behaviour in advance. He said he was troubled by the amount of information people who knew the gunman had and didn't share until after the rampage.
"For people to know he had a marked car and not tell anybody. That's huge," Briers said.
He said he could appreciate that people close to the gunman might have been fearful, but he says during the response, police could only do so much.
Shift started at 7 a.m.
Briers said he first learned of a situation in Portapique, N.S., when he was driving to his Sunday shift around 6 a.m.
His overnight counterpart, Staff Sgt. Brian Rehill, called at that time to pass along the "Coles notes" of what happened — that multiple people were dead, several buildings were burning and that the tactical team was in the community trying to find the suspect, Gabriel Wortman, or his remains.
By dawn, 13 people in the tiny community along the Cobequid Bay had been murdered, but police had not discovered all of them and did not yet realize the shooter had escaped the night before.
That Sunday morning the gunman drove his replica cruiser to Wentworth, N.S., and killed nine more people: acquaintances and strangers he passed on the road, including a pregnant woman and an RCMP officer. Police didn't realize he was on the move until a second batch of 911 calls flooded in.
Replica cruiser ID'd during 1st hour of shift
Within half an hour of arriving, Briers requested an additional search of vehicles linked to Berkshire Broman Corp., since he heard one of the vehicles located at the gunman's properties was registered to it. It turned out the replica cruiser was one of three decommissioned cruisers the shooter registered under the company.
But Briers needed assistance to get that information because he didn't have direct access to one of the two databases in the province, an issue he said he'd been raising for years.
"It wouldn't have changed Portapique, but it's just the more information you have, the quicker you can get it yourself," Briers said when he spoke to staff with the Mass Casualty Commission on Nov. 18, 2021.
A photograph of the gunman's replica RCMP cruiser at his Portapique warehouse, taken December 2019. Police in Halifax received photos from family members of the gunman's spouse early on April 19. (Mass Casualty Commission)
Halifax police also contacted him about the replica cruiser after the sister of Lisa Banfield, the gunman's spouse, showed them a photo.
Meanwhile, investigators in Great Village, N.S., were interviewing Banfield in the back of an ambulance. She shared details about the cruiser and explained her sister might be a target.
When Briers first inquired about the cruiser at 7:29 a.m., Staff Sgt. Al Carroll, who was working out of the fire hall in Great Village, told him that tactical officers determined that the car was burned at the scene.
But shortly before 8 a.m., the tactical team confirmed the damaged car didn't have the "silent patrolman"— a divider between the front and back seats — or light bar linked to the fake cruiser, and passed that information on to Staff Sgt. Jeff West, who was overseeing the whole response out of the command post in the fire hall.
Within minutes, Briers had updated Halifax police and the RCMP had sent out a notice to be on the lookout to police agencies across the province.
Carroll is slated to testify via Zoom on Thursday. In April 2020, he was the district commander of the RCMP in Colchester County, but has since retired.
Wednesday marked the first time hearings were held in Truro. The commission said locations are changing due to a combination of factors, including the availability of venues and the space required to comply with public health guidelines. Proceedings will return to the Halifax Convention Centre on June 1.
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2 key RCMP officers won't testify live at public inquiry into N.S. mass shooting
A third officer will testify via Zoom this week
The officers— through their union and the federal government — had asked for alternative ways to testify before the commission examining the mass killings on April 18 and 19, 2020.
The National Police Federation (NPF) and Canada's attorney general had requested that Sgt. Andy O'Brien and Staff Sgt. Brian Rehill provide their evidence by sworn affidavit, and that Staff Sgt. Al Carroll testify in person but only have commission counsel ask questions.
The Mass Casualty Commission leading the inquiry released its response to these requests on Tuesday, ruling that Rehill and O'Brien will testify via pre-recorded video interviews on May 30 and 31.
Only lawyers for the commission, or the commissioners themselves, will ask the officers direct questions. Lawyers for the victims' families can submit questions.
Carroll will testify live on Thursday via Zoom, and can be questioned by all lawyers.
The mass shooting was obviously traumatizing and difficult for anyone who was involved, Michael Scott, a lawyer with Patterson Law, told CBC's Mainstreet recently.
Scott's firm represents more than a dozen families of the shooting victims.
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Scott said their clients' concern is that the inquiry's accommodation process isn't being used in good faith — rather to "obstruct" witness evidence and insulate the RCMP and other agencies from embarrassing information.
"That obviously in our view is entirely contrary to why we're here. We're here to get to the truth, whether it's comfortable or uncomfortable," Scott said.
The inquiry has already heard that Rehill, who was the risk manager on duty at the Operational Communications Centre (OCC) in Bible Hill the night of April 18, 2020, was in charge for the first few hours of the mass shooting until Staff Sgt. Jeff West took over as critical incident commander after 1 a.m. on April 19.
Rehill was in constant contact with 911 dispatchers, spoke directly with witnesses like Kate MacDonald who had been shot at by the gunman, and made the very first decisions on setting up containment and where the first responding officers should go.
O'Brien was the operations non-commissioned officer (Ops NCO) for Colchester County at the time, and helped co-ordinate the early response from home.
Twenty-two people died on April 18 and 19, 2020. Top row from left: Gina Goulet, Dawn Gulenchyn, Jolene Oliver, Frank Gulenchyn, Sean McLeod, Alanna Jenkins. Second row: John Zahl, Lisa McCully, Joey Webber, Heidi Stevenson, Heather O'Brien and Jamie Blair. Third row from top: Kristen Beaton, Lillian Campbell, Joanne Thomas, Peter Bond, Tom Bagley and Greg Blair. Bottom row: Emily Tuck, Joy Bond, Corrie Ellison and Aaron Tuck. (CBC)
Carroll worked alongside fellow staff sergeants Addie MacCallum and Steve Halliday in the Bible Hill detachment late on April 18 before they moved to the makeshift command post in Great Village in the early hours of April 19.
Video interviews strike an 'appropriate balance'
"We have settled on what we believe is the appropriate balance that allows the public to hear and understand this evidence in a meaningful way while minimizing potential harm to the witnesses," reads the decision from the Mass Casualty Commission.
Given the health information of the officers, which is private, the commission lawyers said allowing them to testify "in a way that reduces the stress and time pressure that arises from giving oral evidence in live proceedings" will facilitate their answers and provide "better evidence."
Scott said that the mechanism for requesting accommodations isn't unusual: in court cases, witnesses might have the option of testifying behind a screen or with a support person.
But, he said the requests made by the attorney general and NPF on behalf of these officers are really restrictions.
Michael Scott is a lawyer with Patterson Law, a firm representing more than a dozen families of Portapique victims. (CBC)
While Scott said participant counsel like he and his Patterson colleagues "technically" have a say in the accommodations process and can submit their comments about certain requests, they have no idea why each one was requested so it's hard to say whether or not they're reasonable.
Scott said the setup approved for Rehill and O'Brien, where the officers are only questioned by commission lawyers with submissions from family participants, is not acceptable.
"If that's the way we're going to handle those witnesses there's really no point in calling them at all," Scott said.
"The evidence isn't tested … it's largely a not very fruitful process."
He added that this approach, when compared with the hours spent on technical witnesses and evidence of other people who didn't hold command positions, undercuts the inquiry's credibility.
Scott said while he knew going into the inquiry that the material would be difficult, he would "not have ever expected" that the greatest challenges would be trying to carry out the job he was asked to do, such as fighting to hear from witnesses.
When asked about the officers' accommodation decision, a spokesperson for the NPF said Tuesday that the union "won't be making any public comment about legal matters."
The inquiry resumes Wednesday in Truro.
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RCMP officer in charge explains why he dismissed marked car evidence in N.S. shooting
Retired staff sergeant Steve Halliday spoke before the inquiry Tuesday
Steve Halliday, a retired staff sergeant, testified Tuesday at the inquiry examining the shootings that he was able to quickly discount that theory, and instead believed the vehicle connected to the gunman was in fact a decommissioned or old RCMP car.
Halliday is one of a number of officers who have testified at the inquiry that they didn't imagine during the early hours of the rampage that the vehicle being driven by Gabriel Wortman, who killed 22 people on April 18-19, 2020, was nearly identical to a real police cruiser.
He also outlined what he knew of the emergency alert system, and what information led him and other officers to conclude the gunman remained in the community of Portapique, N.S., hours after the shooting began, when in fact he had escaped and would resume killing people the next morning.
A new document released Tuesday by the commission conducting the inquiry details the RCMP command structure and decisions over the 13 hours the gunman was active, and lays out what each officer did and when.
At 10:35 p.m. on April 18, risk manager Staff Sgt. Brian Rehill called Halliday at home to tell him about a likely active shooter situation in Portapique, where multiple people had died, fires were set around the community and a police car was possibly involved.
As the risk manager on duty at the Operational Communications Centre in Bible Hill, N.S., Rehill had been in charge of the unfolding incident from the moment victim Jamie Blair called 911 at 10:01 p.m. She said her husband, Greg, had been shot by Wortman, a neighbour. She also said there had been an "RCMP car" in their yard.
She herself was then shot and killed by the gunman.
Halliday said Tuesday that Rehill told him Dave Lilly, a now-retired RCMP sergeant, had been brought up as being possibly connected since he owned property near Portapique.
"My first thought was 'uh-oh,'" Halliday told the inquiry, adding he was worried Lilly had his marked cruiser with him in Portapique and had done something "heinous" in the community.
"I was really concerned that this could be the case," Halliday said.
According to the inquiry documents, at 10:55 p.m. Halliday called Lilly directly. Lilly was at his cottage, which wasn't in Portapique, and it became clear he wasn't involved in the active shooter situation.
A photo of the gunman's decommissioned 2017 Ford Taurus that he made into a replica cruiser. (Mass Casualty Commission)
Halliday said once he realized Lilly wasn't involved, the idea of the marked cruiser morphed to a decommissioned or older model of police car. He said from his experience, when people are caught up in traumatic situations their information can be "wrongly worded or misinterpreted."
"That factored into my thought process at that time," Halliday said.
When asked further about this issue by lawyers representing victims' families, Halliday said the idea of a decommissioned car with some old reflective markings left behind made the most sense. To conclude that someone had created a mock RCMP car, which the gunman actually used, "wasn't realistic to me."
The inquiry has also heard that the first three officers who searched for the gunman in Portapique didn't imagine they were looking for someone in a fully marked police car that looked nearly identical to their own.
Halliday retired in January 2021 after 30 years with the Mounties in various roles. He had been an instructor for courses like immediate action rapid deployment, and had been in "numerous" critical incidents over the years through his work as a crisis negotiator.
He did not have critical incident commander training.
Halliday brings in other officers
After the first call from Rehill, Halliday took over and brought in the rest of the command team. He called Staff Sgt. Jeff West at 10:42 p.m. to bring him in as the critical incident commander and get him to mobilize his team "as quickly as he could."
At that time, he would have passed on the information to West that a marked police car was possibly involved, Halliday said Tuesday. Halliday also called Staff Sgt. Addie MacCallum and told him he'd need him to handle containment and identify a perimeter.
MacCallum and Staff Sgt. Al Carroll were first to arrive at Bible Hill detachment and began to "prepare and muster resources" for the incident, including assessing maps of the Portapique area, constructing a profile of the gunman and helping call out for other resources.
Just after 11:30 p.m., Halliday joined the two other officers at Bible Hill and decided to have Rehill continue controlling resources on the ground as "ad hoc incident commander."
After spending the first few hours at the Bible Hill detachment, Halliday, MacCallum and Carroll moved to the Great Village command post to join West and other officers. Halliday arrived just after 2 a.m.
The 'blueberry field road' north of Cobequid Court in Portapique, looking north toward Brown Loop. (Mass Casualty Commission )
Andrew MacDonald, a Portapique resident who had been shot and injured by the gunman, was interviewed by Const. Jeff MacFarlane around 5 a.m. He told the officer the gunman's car had "coloured" vinyl decals like a police cruiser, and there was "potentially" another way to get out of Portapique through a path that came out near a church on Highway 2.
MacDonald's account was passed on to Halliday by Cpl. Gerard Rose-Berthiaume about an hour later. According Halliday's notes, Rose-Berthiaume told him the gunman had driven a Ford Taurus back into Portapique after shooting MacDonald near the entrance to the community. There is no mention of MacDonald's description of police decals on the vehicle.
The notes also say Rose-Berthiaume indicated "there was no other way out" of the community. That information later proved wrong, as the gunman likely used an old back road to leave Portapique. When asked about that Tuesday, Halliday said he could only form opinions based on multiple details he knew at the time.
Halliday said by that point of the morning, and after learning early on that Lilly wasn't involved, the marked police car information had long been "dispelled."
He said police knew about three Ford Taurus cars the gunman owned, all decommissioned police vehicles. Officers believed two were burning in Portapique while a third was in Dartmouth, N.S., which meant all were accounted for.
Police only later realized there was a fourth, which the gunman was driving. It was unregistered and made to look like an RCMP cruiser.
The remains of the gunman's Portapique property and burnt shell of a car, taken in May 2020. (Steve Lawrence/CBC)
Halliday said the main impression he took from Rose-Berthiaume was that the gunman "was trapped" in Portapique as long as he was still driving a car — "so that to me was important information, because it enhanced, you know, my belief that the suspect was probably still down in that area."
Other cues that the gunman was still in the area had come in throughout the night from the initial team on the ground as well as the emergency response team, Halliday said. Those included what sounded like gunshots into the early hours of April 19 and flashlights in the woods of both Portapique and the nearby community of Five Houses.
Halliday became emotional when talking about what those first three officers — constables Stuart Beselt, Aaron Patton and Adam Merchant — dealt with on the ground.
He said they were some of the "bravest people" he'd ever met, who risked their lives to help a community in a situation their immediate action rapid deployment training wouldn't have prepared them to address.
That training is based upon finding and stopping an active shooter in a well-lit, clearly defined area, Halliday said, and came out of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting. Portapique was more like a "bush-tracking event," he said, where members on the ground didn't even have night-vision goggles.
"When you have an event like this that no one has ever been faced with before, that there has to be opportunities to look and assess what we can improve on, what we can learn, to provide our members with the best opportunity for success," Halliday said.
Rehill issued first containment directions
The commission has suggested the shooter left Portapique not long after the shootings via a private back road — called blueberry field road by locals — then continued on Brown Loop Road to Highway 2 between 10:41 p.m. and 10:45 p.m.
Between 10:44 to 10:46 p.m., Rehill issued the first directions to set up a containment perimeter beyond the intersection of Portapique Beach Road and Highway 2, including roadblocks in the surrounding area.
However, the inquiry has already heard it wasn't until midnight that officers were stationed on Highway 2 east of Portapique Beach Road. In the first hour and a half of the police response, two containment points were set up further west of Portapique Beach Road.
A pair of officers moved to Brown Loop, to which the blueberry field road connects, at 5 a.m.
Command believed back road impassable by car
Halliday spoke Tuesday about the containment in those first few hours. He said judging from maps they examined at the Bible Hill detachment and Carroll's "local knowledge," there was only one way in or out of Portapique by car — the main entrance of Portapique Beach Road.
"I was satisfied that based on the information I had at that time that our containment was set up in such a manner that anybody who was escaping, you know, in a vehicle, would be intercepted," Halliday said.
However, once he had access to better satellite maps at the command post in Great Village, Halliday said around 4:30 a.m. he noticed a line along the blueberry field that seemed to connect to Brown Loop Road.
Halliday recalled he brought this up to Carroll and MacCallum as a possible exit route. All three agreed "no one could get out there in a car," although perhaps it could be travelled on by foot or in an ATV.
Just to "err on the side of caution," Halliday said they decided to move up the roadblock of two members further east up to the Brown Loop Road.
"To be safe rather than sorry … let's move somebody up," Halliday told the inquiry.
Halliday not told of Colford broadcast
Sandra McCulloch of Patterson Law, whose firm represents many victims' families, asked Halliday about whether he'd heard a broadcast about a possible side road around 10:48 p.m. from Const. Vicki Colford, who'd just interviewed Kate MacDonald.
"We're being told there's a road, kind of a road that someone could come out, before here," Colford radioed.
Halliday said he was still making calls at home and not on the radio by that point, and said no one ever relayed that information to him at the time.
When McCulloch asked whether this detail would have impacted how he assessed the maps of Portapique he was looking at while at the Bible Hill detachment, Halliday said "certainly any information would have come under consideration."
The inquiry has already heard that MacCallum had issues trying to bring up the force's Pictometry program, which is based on satellite imaging, in the first hour of the mass shooting so the officers in Bible Hill turned to Google Maps standard view and paper maps.
McCulloch pointed to an inquiry report showing a view of Portapique with the Pictometry system, which Halliday said looked quite similar to the satellite mapping he looked at hours later. When asked if this would have been helpful to have in the first hours when containment was set up, Halliday agreed.
Alert not in 'playbook'
The inquiry documents show that Halliday spoke with a staff member at the provincial Emergency Management Office just after 6 a.m. about setting up the Onslow fire hall as a comfort centre for Portapique evacuees.
Halliday said Tuesday that he didn't discuss the possibility of sending an emergency alert through EMO, which at that time was the only agency with the Alert Ready system in the province.
The inquiry heard last week that at the time of the shooting, alerts could be sent to all Nova Scotia cell phones on 4G networks, as well as TV and radio stations. EMO staff made presentations on the alert system to RCMP multiple times in the years before the tragedy, and offered them the ability to send alerts on their own, but that was turned down.
Halliday said Tuesday he was "unfamiliar" with the alert system being used for policing in the province.
"It simply wasn't in our playbook," he said.
The RCMP and Halifax Regional Police can now issue their own alerts.
Roadblocks brought up
The inquiry also heard about Halliday's radio broadcast just before 11 a.m. on April 19, directing another member to look at closing Highway 2 southbound. This would have come right after Const. Heidi Stevenson was shot and killed by the gunman after he crashed his cruiser into hers in Shubenacadie.
Before that, Halliday said there had been some discussions around roadblocks or whether they should create checkpoints strategically along certain areas.
However, he said the decision was made not to do this as it "posed increased risk to the public" by creating a bigger target for the gunman where people were stuck sitting in a line of cars.
After Stevenson was shot and the net was "tightening down" on the gunman's location, Halliday said roadblocks seemed appropriate because they finally knew where he was within a smaller area.
Tara Miller, who represents relatives of victims Aaron Tuck and Kristen Beaton, asked Halliday about why exactly more roadblocks weren't set up in the Truro area on April 19 to prevent the gunman moving from the northern part of Nova Scotia to the south.
She noted by the time police knew the gunman was active again around 9:30 a.m. on April 19, when the call came in about victim Lillian Campbell in Wentworth, the gunman's partner Lisa Banfield had told police she was worried he would head to her sister's home in Dartmouth to hurt her.
Halliday said within a short time after Campbell's death, the gunman knocked on the door of a couple's home in nearby Glenholme and multiple RCMP officers as well as the emergency response team surrounded that area.
"It was my belief that individual was going to be dealt with at that home," Halliday said, so that was the focus.
But Miller suggested it is the job of police to look at the "global picture," and keep in mind all information about where the gunman might head next — to which Halliday agreed.
Two more RCMP commanding officers involved in the mass shooting response will testify before the inquiry on Wednesday.
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Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2022 19:16:50 -0400
Subject: RE Lawyers, cops, polticians and journalists etc playig dumb
about my calls and emails about Federal and provincial governments
plan to hold public inquiry into Nova Scotia mass shootings
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> Subject: RE Families of Shooting Victims Disappointed by “Independent
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> Families of Shooting Victims Disappointed by “Independent Review”
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> The “Independent Review” announced by Ministers Furey and Blair is
> wholly insufficient to meet the objectives of providing full and
> transparent answers to the families and the public, identifying
> deficiencies in responses, and providing meaningful lessons to be
> learned to avoid similar future tragedies.
>
> The choices of commissioners, and in particular Former Chief Justice
> Michael MacDonald, were thoughtful and appropriate for an inquiry.
> Former Chief Justice MacDonald is of the highest rank in judicial
> capabilities and is of unassailable integrity. That said, any
> decision- maker can only render decisions based on the information and
> evidence presented to them.
>
> The announced “independent review” model, to be conducted in a
> so-called “non- traumatic” and “restorative” way, will prejudice the
> panel by restricting the evidence and information being presented.
>
> In a public inquiry setting, such as was employed in the Marshall and
> Westray public inquiries, interested parties had the opportunity to
> question the witnesses. It is a very well- held maxim in our common
> law legal tradition, that cross-examination is the most effective
> truth-finding mechanism available. Without proper and thorough
> questioning, the panel will be left with incomplete and untested
> evidence upon which to base its decision. This is completely contrary
> to our Canadian notions of fair and transparent justice.
>
> Most disappointingly, Ministers Furey and Blair have hidden behind
> their contrived notion of a “trauma-free” process to exclude the full
> participation of the families under the guise of protecting them from
> further trauma. This is not how the families wish to be treated.
> Minister Furey has spoken with the families, so he must know that they
> want to participate, not to be “protected” by an incomplete process.
>
> The families want a full and transparent public inquiry. Why will
> Minister Furey not give them this? Why will he not give the citizens
> of Nova Scotia this? “We are all in this together” has been the slogan
> throughout 2020 - the families simply want us all, the public, to be
> in this together now to figure out a better tomorrow for families and
> the Province.
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N.S. Mass Casualty Commission to announce participants in Portapique probe
Chris Lambie · Posted: April 30, 2021, 4:43 p.m.
Investigators want to hear from anyone who can shed light on the
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'I have no idea who to trust anymore': card raises independence
questions about Nova Scotia's Mass Casualty Commission
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'We have got to have someplace to put our trust': High expectations
for the Mass Casualty Commission
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Heidi Petracek
CTV News Atlantic Reporter
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CANADALAND
#372 The RCMP’s Portapique Narrative Is Falling Apart
Frank Magazine publisher Andrew Douglas and reporter Paul Palango
discuss their bombshell story, and what the RCMP may still be hiding
about Gabriel Wortman.
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David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Replying to @DavidRayAmos
Methinks lots of folks may enjoy what Peter Mac Issac and his cohorts
said while the RCMP and a lot of LIEbranos were stuttering and
doubletalking bigtime N'esy Pas?
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Citizens Rise Against Corruption in Trudeau Government
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Subject: Re: RE The "Strike back: Demand an inquiry Event." Methinks
it interesting that Martha Paynter is supported by the Pierre Elliott
Trudeau Foundation N'esy Pas?
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A lot of info to chew on - every now and then we win one - Today we
won a partial victory when the provincial liberals threw the federal
liberals under the bus forcing their hand . Now the spin will be to
get a judge they can control.
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Nova Scotia Shooter Behind The Scenes with Paul Palango a former
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RCMP, the most recent being Dispersing the Fog, Inside the Secret
World of Ottawa and the RCMP. His work on the Nova Scotia massacre has
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Most families of people killed in N.S. mass shooting boycott public hearings
Lawyers representing most families say they should be able to question top Mounties directly
Families of N.S. shooting victims boycott public inquiry
Commissioners leading the inquiry into Nova Scotia's mass shooting faced a far emptier room than usual Wednesday, as most of the lawyers for victims' families boycotted public proceedings over the inability to directly question two key Mounties.
Nick Beaton, whose pregnant wife, Kristen Beaton, was killed in the April 2020 massacre, is one of more than a dozen family members represented by Patterson Law during the inquiry.
He and the other family members instructed their lawyers to not show up for the public hearings Wednesday and Thursday in Truro, N.S., as well as two days of testimony scheduled for next week.
"We kind of banded together. Silence sometimes is the loudest, and that's the approach we took today," Beaton told reporters in Truro alongside Patterson lawyers Rob Pineo and Sandra McCulloch.
The boycott is related to the Mass Casualty Commission's recent decision to allow RCMP Staff Sgt. Brian Rehill, Sgt. Andy O'Brien, and Staff Sgt. Al Carroll accommodations while testifying.
Lawyers for Patterson Law, Rob Pineo, left, and Sandra McCulloch, centre, speak with reporters in Truro alongside one of their clients, Nick Beaton, on May 25, 2022. (Robert Short/CBC)
Rehill and O'Brien will only be questioned by commission counsel in pre-taped video interviews, with the chance for other lawyers to submit questions. Carroll will testify Thursday via Zoom, and can be questioned by all lawyers.
"They're sitting us in the corner, we're sitting on our hands and we're on mute. We have no voice," Beaton said. "You're not going to gag us. You're not going to shut me up. I'm not stopping."
After fighting for a public inquiry to be held instead of a review, Beaton said he feels like that's exactly what the proceedings have turned into.
Nick Beaton, whose pregnant wife, Kristen Beaton, was killed during the mass shootings in April 2020, speaks with reporters in Truro on May 25, 2022. (Rob Short/CBC)
Although the commission has the power to subpoena people to testify, Beaton said they're not using it enough — and when they do so, the evidence is often given behind closed doors or with other conditions attached.
Pineo said when the inquiry began, families were told their questions would be asked and answered, "and that is simply not happening."
"We really feel that this process has been set up to thwart any effort to get their own questions answered by their own lawyers," Pineo said.
In a release, Pineo said the boycott sends a "clear message that they will not be associated with this restricted fact-finding process for such critical evidence."
Tara Miller, who represents a family member of Kristen Beaton, told CBC News her clients are "deeply disappointed" and she will also be boycotting the proceedings.
Families "have been waiting for a very long time to hear questions in their own words, or their counsel's words, answered by these key decision makers," said Miller.
Scott McLeod speaks with reporters on May 25, 2022, in Truro outside the public inquiry into the massacre. McLeod's brother, Sean McLeod, was killed in the mass shootings in April 2020. (Robert Short/CBC)
A few family members did appear in person to watch the hearings Wednesday, including Scott McLeod, whose brother, Sean McLeod, was killed in the mass shooting.
Scott McLeod said he supports the other families who are participating in the boycott and agrees with their position, but wanted to be in the crowd for the commissioners to see him.
"I'm one of the family members that wants information," he said. "But this show of nobody showing up is good because now they're seeing that people are getting frustrated with something."
McLeod said that at this point, he's hoping for an investigation or some accountability based on what the commission has discovered already, including that RCMP officers fired at a civilian outside the Onslow fire hall.
2 Mounties co-ordinated early response
Rehill was the risk manager working out of the RCMP's Operational Communications Centre when the first 911 calls came in from Portapique, N.S. In addition to monitoring those calls and overseeing the dispatchers, he made the very first decisions on setting up containment and where the first responding officers should go.
O'Brien was the operations non-commissioned officer for Colchester County at the time, meaning he was in charge of the daily operations of the Bible Hill RCMP detachment. On April 18, he helped co-ordinate the early response from home and communicated with officers on the ground.
The National Police Federation (NPF) and Canada's attorney general had requested that O'Brien and Rehill provide their evidence by sworn affidavit, and that Carroll testify in person but only have commission counsel ask questions.
Carroll, who was the district commander in April 2020, was part of the team of commanding officers and worked out of the Great Village fire hall overnight.
Commission granted accommodations
The Mass Casualty Commission leading the inquiry released its response to the accomodation requests on Tuesday, ruling that Rehill and O'Brien will testify via pre-recorded video interviews on May 30 and 31.
Only lawyers for the commission, or the commissioners themselves, will ask the officers direct questions. Lawyers for the victims' families can submit questions in advance.
Twenty-two people died on April 18 and 19, 2020. Top row from left: Gina Goulet, Dawn Gulenchyn, Jolene Oliver, Frank Gulenchyn, Sean McLeod, Alanna Jenkins. Second row: John Zahl, Lisa McCully, Joey Webber, Heidi Stevenson, Heather O'Brien and Jamie Blair. Third row from top: Kristen Beaton, Lillian Campbell, Joanne Thomas, Peter Bond, Tom Bagley and Greg Blair. Bottom row: Emily Tuck, Joy Bond, Corrie Ellison and Aaron Tuck. (CBC)
"That's not a suitable replacement for meaningful participation," said Joshua Bryson, who represents the families of Joy and Peter Bond.
He said while the inquiry is not a trial, he thinks the commission should have considered that criminal proceedings have long supported witnesses who've experienced trauma, such as letting them give evidence evidence behind screens, that don't prevent cross-examination.
Lawyer Joshua Bryson represents the families of Joy and Peter Bond. He said while commission counsel represent the public interest, his role is to bring up issues of particular importance to the families. (CBC)
Bryson said he'd like to ask Rehill many questions, including about the consideration given to information radioed from a Mountie at the scene about a back exit in Portapique and what, if any, efforts were made prior to 5 a.m. to block off the road it connected to.
But while he attended proceedings Wednesday, he also plans to boycott the pre-recorded testimony.
"We feel that if we're going to be marginalized to this extent, there's really not much point in us being here to participate," Bryson told reporters in Truro.
McCulloch of Patterson Law said Wednesday it's important to find out what exactly Rehill and O'Brien did with the information they learned during the initial Portapique response, who they shared it with, and what decisions were made by anybody as a result.
Commission counsel Roger Burrill, left, questions Jeff West and Kevin Surette, right, retired RCMP staff sergeants who were critical incident commanders, as they provide testimony dealing with command post, operational communications centre and command decisions on May 18. Other Mounties requested not to testify live in person. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)
"We don't have the ability to dig into those issues for our clients. We come with a unique perspective and being kept out of the room ... is not a full examination of the evidence," McCulloch said.
Miller said she doesn't oppose all accommodations, but said it is inappropriate for the commission's lawyers to ask both the initial questions and then followups, which would normally be asked by other lawyers through cross-examination.
The commissioners, lawyers for the commission and for participants, as well as members of the media, can attend the testimony. The sessions will be recorded and later shared with the public.
Lawyers representing the families of Lillian Campbell, Gina Goulet, Jolene Oliver, Emily and Aaron Tuck said they will attend. Const. Heidi Stevenson's family is not participating in the inquiry.
Mounties' health factored into decision
The commission's decision said it took into account the officers' health information, which is private, and "settled on what we believe is the appropriate balance that allows the public to hear and understand this evidence in a meaningful way while minimizing potential harm to the witnesses."
It said the NPF and the Department of Justice provided the commission with some of the witnesses' health information, which was then shared confidentially with lawyers for families participating in the inquiry. But since it's considered sensitive personal information, the commission did not release the details.
Commissioners decide on accommodations
Chief commissioner Michael MacDonald called the decision not to participate "unfortunate" and said the commission "would have valued their input as we have on every other day of proceedings."
He said the purpose of accommodations is to allow the commission to hear from people with "wellness concerns or privacy issues."
He said the pre-recorded testimony will allow the inquiry "to get the best evidence while giving us the flexibility to provide ample breaks and the availability of supports."
The inquiry's rules state that anyone who is subpoenaed as a witness may submit a request for things such as additional breaks, having a support person with them or submitting an affidavit instead of live testimony.
Michael MacDonald, chair, flanked by fellow commissioners Leanne Fitch, left, and Kim Stanton, at inquiry proceedings on March 9, 2022. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)
MacDonald said it's up to the commissioners to decide whether to grant a request and to what extent.
"Accommodations are designed to help the commission in the public interest gather and hear critical information. Accommodations are not designed to get in the way of that," he said, adding that lawyers for participants will still be able to ask witnesses questions, unless there is "a compelling reason to take a different approach."
Emily Hill, counsel for the commission, said in an interview with CBC News on Wednesday that they have not received any other accommodation requests. She said any witness can ask for one and they will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Hearings in Truro for first time
Three other witnesses also requested accommodations. The commissioners denied one of the requests and decided to allow two witnesses to testify on a panel. The decision did not disclose the names of these witnesses.
Another Mountie, Staff Sgt. Bruce Briers, who was risk manager at RCMP dispatch centre morning of April 19, testified in person in Truro, the first day hearings are being held in Colchester County.
Miller said many families had planned to attend the proceedings in Truro in person, not only because of the location but because of the roles Rehill and O'Brien played in the early hours of the police response.
Although Pineo said the timing of the boycott is unfortunate because many of their clients also planned to attend the Truro hearings, the witness testimony will now be a "sanitized version" of their evidence.
"Our clients don't want to be used as pawns," Pineo said. "Their counsel sitting there and lending legitimacy to the process as if we're in agreement with how this commission is being run ... our clients aren't in agreement with that and neither are we."
Minister meets with families
Federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino sat down Wednesday with family members of victims. He told CBC Radio's Mainstreet Halifax that families hadn't met with a federal government representative since the beginning of the inquiry in late February.
"I felt a personal obligation to interact face to face in person with some of the families," said Mendicino.
"It was very clear to me that there's still a lot of pain, indescribable pain that is being felt, that there's indescribable agony and that they still very much feel the trauma of these awful events that occurred."
When asked about the accommodations made for RCMP officers, Mendicino said he understands the "anxieties and concerns" of families. However, he stressed independence of the commission is crucial to preventing such a tragedy from happening again.
"This is why it's important that we have empowered through the law, the commissioners, to get to the bottom of it. And those powers are broad in scope, and they do provide the tools that are necessary to search out the truth," he said.
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Victims’ families: ‘trauma informed’ inquiry has ‘further traumatized’ us
A poster at the roadside memorial in Portapique commemorates the 22 people killed in the mass shooting that began there on April 18, 2020. Photo: Joan Baxter
Family members of the victims of the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020 have instructed their lawyers to boycott the next four days of the proceedings of the Mass Casualty Commission.
The boycott is in response to a decision issued by the commissioners yesterday that grants “accommodation requests” for three RCMP officers who are to testify.
Staff Sergeant Al Carroll, who is scheduled to testify tomorrow, will appear via Zoom, and not in person, and he will not be cross-examined directly by the families’ lawyers.
Sergeant Andy O’Brien and Staff Sergeant Brian Rehill will be questioned next Monday and Tuesday separately via Zoom but not in public — their interviews will be recorded and posted to the website later. As with Carroll, O’Brien and Rehill will not be cross-examined directly by the families’ lawyers.
You can read the commissioners’ decision here.
At the start of today’s proceedings, Chief Commissioner Michael MacDonald said that granting the witness accommodations won’t prevent the gathering of information. Participants’ lawyers can still ask questions, just they’ll be filtered through the commission’s lawyers. And, said MacDonald, the testimony of all witnesses will be shared with the public. “A trauma-informed approach does not prevent someone from testifying but leads to getting the best evidence,” said MacDonald.
That’s not good enough for the victims’ families.
Patterson Law, which represents the majority of victims’ families, issued this statement:
Patterson Law has been instructed by its clients, those participants “Most Affected”, to not attend the Mass Casualty Commission Hearings on May 25, 26, 30 and 31, 2022. Our clients are disheartened and further traumatized by the Commissioners’ decision to not allow their own lawyers to be present and participate in the questioning of whom they view to be amongst the most crucial RCMP “in command” members, S/Sgt Brian Rehill and Sgt. Andy O’ Brien.
Our clients firmly oppose the Commissioner’s decision and take this action to send a clear message that they will not be associated with this restricted fact-finding process for such critical evidence.
The statement is signed by lawyers Robert Pineo, Sandra McCulloch, and Michael Scott.
“We’re disappointed,” said lawyer Josh Bryson in an interview with the Halifax Examiner. Bryson represents the family of Joy and Peter Bond. “For us, we feel [the commissioners’ decision] marginalizes our participation in these two key witnesses, Staff Sgt. OBrien and Risk Manager Rehill, the first decision maker.
“We have different roles from that of the Commission counsel,” continued Bryson. “They are representing the public interest. We have clients, those who are the most affected and we are there to flush out issues that are very important to the families. Unfortunately we can’t do that. Yes we can submit questions in advance but that’s not a suitable replacement for meaningful participation”
Asked what he wanted to ask Rehill about, Bryson said there are “several areas. Let’s talk about the initial 911 call. There was some speculation about it being a mental health call. Did you actually listen to that call? What if any direction did you give on containment? Did you turn your mind to Cst. Colford’s radio transmission at 10:48 that there is another way out of Portapique? Those are just a few examples but there are lots of things we want to flush out.”
“I have instructions from the Bond family I won’t be here next week for these two witnesses; I won’t be participating,” said Bryson. “We feel if we are going to be marginalized to this extent there’s really not much point to being here.”
Scott McLeod, the brother of victim Sean McLeod, is self-represented and has been granted “ participant status” at the inquiry. (Sean McLeod’s two daughters are represented by Patterson Law.) McLeod grew up in Bible Hill but now lives in Moncton; he attends every commission proceeding in person so the commissioners can see his face and understand that real people were hurt.
McLeod feels the Inquiry is mostly “for show.” He called it “smoke and mirrors” and wondered aloud if the commissioners’ decision is designed “to protect someone or something.”
McLeod wants the commission to call Lisa Banfield and Peter Griffon as witnesses.
He supports the boycott by lawyers because he feels the veteran RCMP members have adequate training to handle the stress of the proceedings and that they are no more traumatized than families who lost loved ones.
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Suspended lawyer keeping public up-to-date on Mass Casualty proceedings
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Desmond inquiry lawyer Adam Rodgers given one-year suspension for
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Rodgers has asked that the suspension be delayed until the fatality
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Laura Fraser · CBC News · Posted: Mar 23, 2021 9:40 AM AT
Suspended lawyer keeping public up-to-date on Mass Casualty proceedings
With a year hiatus from his law practice, Adam Rodgers is taking the time to try and help Nova Scotians hold the commission investigating April 2020’s mass shooting rampage accountable.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/desmond-inquiry-s2-d17-1.5960150
Desmond inquiry lawyer Adam Rodgers given one-year suspension for professional misconduct
Rodgers has asked that the suspension be delayed until the fatality inquiry has ended
The lawyer representing Lionel Desmond's estate at the fatality inquiry probing the circumstances leading up to the veteran killing his family and himself has received a one-year suspension after being found guilty of professional misconduct connected to the collapse of his old law firm.
Adam Rodgers had been facing potential disbarment at the request of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society, but in a decision released Tuesday a disciplinary panel instead called for one-year suspension, beginning on July 1.
That, however, would interfere with the fatality inquiry, a process that is still ongoing more than four years after Desmond shot his wife, Shanna, his mother, Brenda, his daughter, Aaliyah, and then himself at a home in Upper Big Tracadie, N.S.
"The Desmond family is very upset by this," Rodgers said in an interview Tuesday. "There's a risk that the inquiry will be disrupted after being delayed, and after the amount of effort that went into having it called and established in the first place, they would be very upset if their lawyer was not able to represent them."
Rodgers said he has already made a request to the disciplinary panel to change the start date of his suspension in order for him to finish the inquiry first.
He had indicated earlier this winter that he would appeal the decision if he were to be disbarred. He said in an interview Tuesday that he would not likely appeal the suspension as long as the panel granted his request to finish his work with the fatality inquiry.
The Boudrot Rogers law firm in Port Hawkesbury shut down in October 2018. At that point, Rodgers is alleged to have learned that his law partner, Jason Boudrot, had been stealing from clients' trust accounts.
Although Rodgers was found guilty of professional misconduct, the disciplinary panel said it did not believe that he had stolen any of his clients' funds himself or helped his law partner to do so.
In the written decision from January, however, the panel suggested he was negligent — as he should have been aware of what was happening "and thereby failed to preserve and protect clients' property."
Rodgers must also pay for the costs of the investigation and the disciplinary against him, which amount to $12,000. He must repay at least $4,000 of that before he can return to practice after his suspension.
He said he plans to return to his practice after the suspension has lifted, noting his concerns for his clients during his absence. Rodgers said many of his clients are marginalized.
"This is going to have a big impact on them and all the people I represent," he said. "It's a difficult thing for this area, for access to justice, and for my clients in particular."
After his previous firm had to declare bankruptcy, Rodgers started a new firm in Antigonish.
The barristers' society reached a settlement agreement with Boudrot in September 2019. While he did not admit guilt, Boudrot agreed to be disbarred.
The RCMP has launched an investigation into Boudrot, but has not laid any charges.
Testimony at the Desmond inquiry
The Lionel Desmond inquiry continued this week with testimony from a New Brunswick firearms officer who was involved in reviewing the veteran's gun licence after he failed to disclose that he had post-traumatic stress disorder.
Joe Roper, a former area firearms officer in New Brunswick, testified Tuesday that he became involved in the review of Desmond's licence in 2014 when a call to one of his references mentioned that the Afghanistan veteran had PTSD.
But despite that omission — and an attempt at suicide a year later — Desmond got that licence back, passing two separate firearms reviews at different times.
The CBC's Laura Fraser was liveblogging the inquiry:
In each case, doctors signed off on the reviews, including his Canadian Forces psychiatrist, Dr. Vinod Joshi, in 2014 and two years later, Dr. Paul Smith, a family doctor in New Brunswick who was treating Desmond with medical marijuana.
Roper testified he did not know when reviewing the case in early 2016 that Desmond had a new psychiatrist and psychologist, both of whom were recommending him for in-patient psychiatric treatment at Ste. Anne's Hospital in Montreal.
Lionel Desmond is shown here in this family photo, with his mother, Brenda, left, and daughter, Aaliyah, right. (Submitted by Cassandra Desmond)
When asked by the judge whether that information would have changed the outcome of the review, Roper acknowledged it would have.
Judge Warren Zimmer said he could ask similar "obvious" questions but he presumed the answers were equally clear. Zimmer has, in the past, noted how decisions concerning Desmond's well-being were hampered by the bureaucracy of him seeing different health-care professionals who worked for different public institutions.
The fact that their collective data about Desmond — and his more than five years of psychiatric treatment and symptoms — was not available in one place is an issue the judge is expected to make recommendations about in his final report to prevent future deaths of this kind.
Roper also told the judge he felt it would be useful to educate doctors about the weight that firearms officers, who grant gun acquisition licences, give to a physician's assessment of a person's mental illness.
At the time of Desmond's two reviews, the form sent to doctors had little more than two boxes in which a doctor indicated "yes" or "no" for their recommendation.
The area firearms officer said he altered the forms he sent out, indicating that comments were required, but most doctors didn't fill them out.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mass-casualty-commission-cost-breakdown-1.6461465
N.S. mass shooting inquiry breaks down how it spent $25.6M so far
About 42% has gone to salary and benefits for 68 commission staff
The highest proportion of the expenses — about 42 per cent — went toward salaries and benefits for the Mass Casualty Commission's staff of 68 people. This also encompasses the per diems of the three commissioners.
The people working for the commission range from lawyers, investigators, policy and research officers to the communications team, mental health specialists and community liaisons.
Renting the venues for the public proceedings and the services associated with putting them on accounted for a quarter of the costs, about $7 million.
That covers security, catering and the costs associated with making the hearings available to the public: live streaming, translation, transcription services, as well as interpretation. The commission said copy editing, managing documents and subject area advice also falls into this category.
Commission counsel Anna Mancini questions retired RCMP Staff. Sgt. Steve Halliday, right, as he provides testimony about the RCMP's command post, operational communications centre and command decisions at the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry on May 17. Commissioners Leanne Fitch, Michael MacDonald, chair, and Kim Stanton, left to right, look on. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)
Nearly three-quarters of the 62 individuals and groups participating in the inquiry have received contributions toward their legal costs to the tune of about $2.5 million total. The orders-in-council setting out the terms of the inquiry state that funding be provided to participants who would not otherwise be able to take part.
The commission said it has spent about $1.8 million on meeting rooms and office space, which is paid for until November of this year. Another approximately $1.8 million has gone toward preparing reports, the inquiry's website, printing and designs costs.
The commission has covered $1.6 million in travel expenses for staff, commissioners and participants. That includes covering the cost of internet and cellphones for them.
Earlier this month, CBC News reported the costs had climbed past $20 million, but at that point, information on the federal government's portion of the shared costs was not yet available. Before public hearings started in February, the Nova Scotia government and Ottawa said they spent a combined $13 million.
On Friday afternoon, the commission posted its updated expenditures that show how much was spent at the end of the fiscal year that ended March 31, 2022.
The costs are shared between the federal and provincial governments. Both levels of government signed orders setting out the commission's work in October 2020. A final report is due in November of this year.
Twenty-two people died on April 18 and 19, 2020. Top row from left: Gina Goulet, Dawn Gulenchyn, Jolene Oliver, Frank Gulenchyn, Sean McLeod, Alanna Jenkins. Second row: John Zahl, Lisa McCully, Joey Webber, Heidi Stevenson, Heather O'Brien and Jamie Blair. Third row from top: Kristen Beaton, Lillian Campbell, Joanne Thomas, Peter Bond, Tom Bagley and Greg Blair. Bottom row: Emily Tuck, Joy Bond, Corrie Ellison and Aaron Tuck. (CBC)
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the Nova Scotia Mass Shooting - Jordan, Paul, and Adam live book launch at On Paper Books in Sydney
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Former RCMP officers weigh in on N.S. Mass Casualty Commission testimony
As a former undercover RCMP officer and depot instructor, Calvin Lawrence has a blunt assessment of the RCMP response to Nova Scotia’s April 2020 massacre.
“Any police officer should know, we may have mass incidents,” he says in an interview from Kingston, ON.
“What has struck me is the non-preparedness of the RCMP in the province in relation to mass incidents, especially after Mayerthorpe, and after Moncton.”
At the Mass Casualty Commission this week, former staff sergeants in charge at the time described not having key information about Gabriel Wortman’s replica police cruiser or his escape route out of Portapique until it was too late to stop more murders.
Lawrence says much of what he heard comes down to one thing.
“False assumptions,” says Lawrence. “False assumptions with his vehicle; false assumptions that when the police were called over the years that nothing was going to happen; false assumptions that he killed himself.”
Lawrence says lack of knowledge about a call and “relaxing too soon,” also stand out to him when looking at what happened.
“There is a start where there’s confusion,” says Lawrence. “But the better prepared you are, the more quickly you can respond to these mass incidents, and they’re going to happen, and they’re going to happen again.”
Inquiry documents outline how the description of the gunman's vehicle changed as it passed through police lines of communication — from the fully “decked and labeled” police car described in the first 911 call by Jamie Blair — to an "old white police car” as written in the RCMP’s first BOLO (Be On the Lookout) issued to police throughout the province at 1:07 a.m. that Sunday morning.
“Some of those things are basic tenets that need to be followed through,” says CTV public safety analyst Chris Lewis, who’s also a former head of the Ontario Provincial Police.
While Lewis says he recognizes that the tragedy was unprecedented, he says any mistakes must be diagnosed and fixed for the future.
“And I’m certainly not afraid to say in their defense that this was the biggest, in number of deaths, injuries, crime scenes, that anyone’s ever faced in policing in Canada,” he adds. “But people need to know who’s in charge, who needs to know what, and to make sure those things get communicated.”
“In the middle of an operation, a key piece of information that gets missed, that can lead to injury and death and really hurts public and officer safety,” says Lewis.
“No one could have ever been prepared for the scenario that unfolded,” says Steve Mills, a 31-year veteran of the RCMP who served with the force’s Special Emergency Response Team (a precursor to ERT) and as a critical incident commander.
Mills says some of the issues brought up in officer testimony this week are familiar based on his experience.
“There are always challenges,” he says. “I started in 1977 and there was radio communication problems back then, there’s radio communication problems now.”
“It’s technology, just when you need it, it fails, that’s just the way technology goes sometimes. And we probably have one of the best radio systems in North America and there are still problems.”
He says lessons have already been learned by the Nova Scotia RCMP, which made all emergency response team members (ERT) full-time after the tragedy to beef up resources.
“That’s something that’s been talked about for 30 years or more,” says Mills. “The ERT team has come light years from when I was there, the equipment, the training, it’s amazing.”
The RCMP also added the ATAK GPS mapping and tracking for ERT, police dog, tactical and medical support members, although Mills says that would be a “great” tool for all the boots on the ground.
“But it's money, it's funding, that has to be put in place before any of that equipment can be purchased,” he adds.
Correction
The caption of the image on this story originally named “Sean McLeod” as “Sean McLean”. The caption has since been corrected.
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When Calvin Lawrence joined the Halifax City Police in 1969, he thought he knew what to expect. There was growing tension in the city between the black community and the police, and Calvin believed that as a black police officer he would be able to make a difference.
But what he didn't know was that he was embarking on a life-long career in which he would consistently be the target of racist behaviour — from his co-workers and his superiors, and from police organizations as a whole. Calvin describes how he was the target of racial slurs, mocked for being black, pigeonholed into roles, and denied advancement because he was not white. After 36 years in law enforcement, Calvin retired early from the police, suffering from clinical depression and with a settlement from the RCMP after winning a Human Rights complaint.
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Calvin Lawrence's story lays bare the key failures of Canadian police organizations that operate on the basis that only white Canadians are entitled to the rights promised to all by the rule of law and the Canadian Charter of Rights.
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Patrick Hunter: The Ottawa Police Report on traffic stops
By Patrick Hunter
Wednesday November 02 2016
By PATRICK HUNTER
There is a problem with the Ottawa Police Service. Well, to be fair, there are problems with all police services and much of it has to do with race. With the Ottawa Police Service, there have been more than a few incidents which call into question their behaviour.
In one situation there was a young Black woman who was, as it turned out, wrongly arrested and considerably mistreated while in their custody. A suit against that police service has apparently been settled out of court.
Currently, another woman is suing the service for similar treatment in which she was apparently stripped and left naked in a cell.
Then there is the death of Abdirahman Abdi following a confrontation with members of the Ottawa Police Service.
And, another officer, a sergeant, no less, has been charged for posting racist comments about the death of an Inuk artist.
There is an old saying that where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Based on the above, it does not mean that the Ottawa police are racist. It does mean however that, like most institutions like this, there is an element of conduct that may be racially motivated and is significant enough to uproot.
Last week, researchers from York University released a report on race data and traffic stops collected by the Ottawa Police between 2013 and 2015. The report was undertaken as part of a settlement between the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) and the Ottawa Police Service. In 2005, Chad Aiken was pulled over by an Ottawa Police officer while driving his mother’s Mercedes-Benz. That led to a lawsuit of which this study was part of the settlement.
So, the researchers’ findings show that Middle Easterners and Black people faced disproportionately higher incidents of traffic stops based on their “respective driver population” in Ottawa. The identification of the driver is based on the officer’s perception of their race or ethnicity. I take this to mean that while there were high incidents of traffic stops particularly among these groups, it wasn’t overboard.
To skip to the punchline, the researchers found that they could not confirm that there is racial profiling in the service without further, more detailed research. I guess it’s like when you catch a fish that is below the legal limits you are expected to throw that fish back.
During the collecting period, there were about 82,000 traffic stops of which about 80,000, or 97 per cent, were for “provincial or municipal offenses”. These stops did not show any disproportional manner for racialized groups. But then they note that the “criminal offences” reason was used disproportionately for five of the six racial groups (Indigenous groups was too low to draw a conclusion) when compared to White stops. Similarly, they point out that the “suspicious activities” reason was used disproportionately for racialized groups.
Am I really drawing a wrong conclusion here that the latter two reasons fall very clearly into a pattern of racial profiling; that “criminal offences” and “suspicious activities” and especially the latter, are regular catch phrasing to cover police stops?
Well, let’s look a bit further. Under the heading of outcomes of traffic stops, the researchers found that all race groups received “similar proportions of charges and warnings after traffic stops”. However, they also found that racialized groups “experienced disproportionately high incidences of ‘final (no action)’ outcomes”. In other words, no charges were laid, and I presume no warnings given. Are these part of the “suspicious activities” stops; like too expensive a car for a Black person?
I can fully understand that researchers have to abide by the results to what their statistics point. For the rest of us, racialized groups and Indigenous peoples, we see that these results fall into a set pattern that we have come to know and identify as racial profiling.
Charles Bordeleau, the Ottawa chief of police, notes in a release: “We are committed to working with the community and our members to better understand the information and develop an action plan that contributes to our bias-neutral policing efforts”.
I am reminded of then Chief Julian Fantino’s reaction to the Toronto Star’s racial profiling investigation in 2002. He and other police executives were at pains in trying to redefine the problem from “racial profiling” to “bias policing” (or bias-free policing). “Bias-neutral policing” is new coinage for me.
There was no indication of commitment from the chief or the Board chair that the data collection would continue or that additional research, as suggested by the researchers, would be undertaken. Only that community engagement between the service and community will continue. I hope the Ottawa community will ensure that this report isn’t swept aside.
Email: patrick.hunter11@gmail.com / Twitter: @pghntr
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Racist behaviour is not limited to stopping individuals. The interaction between officers and citizens should be professional and fair. I just did a presentation at Ottawa U. I demonstrated how tone, pitch, and, cadence, and body language could be more abuse than the stop itself.
The problem I have wth this study is that neither the police or the black community ever says what should be done as a result of study. There is “there is more work to be done “. “We will continue to monitor”. Are usually the key phrases. This is code for nothing going to be done.
In reality is black people are having more encounters with the police; a significant part of white society will say that there is more criminal behaviour. Black people will say we are being singled out for harassment. The police will say all these studies will pass in time. Nothing will change.
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 12:06:21 -0300
Subject: Fwd: Re The coverup of the the actions of the Fredericton
Police Force, the RCMP and Manoj Bhargava against me
To: mike@valentlegal.ca
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
https://valentlegal.ca/class-
University New Brunswick Class Action
Overview
Valent Legal has commenced a class action lawsuit against the
University of New Brunswick and Dr. Manoj Bhargava on behalf of a
group of students who accessed mental health services through the UNB
Student Health Centre and allege to have been subjected to sexual
assault perpetrated by Dr. Bhargava.
The Class Action alleges the University of New Brunswick, and its
employees, were negligent by failing to properly protect the students
accessing their health care services. The Class Action further alleges
Dr. Bhargava was medically negligent by subjecting the student class
members to sexual assault.
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 09:06:58 -0300
Subject: Re The coverup of the the actions of the Fredericton Police
Force, the RCMP and Manoj Bhargava against me
To: erika.hachey@mosshacheylaw.com
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Erika R. Hachey
Called to the bar: 2013 (NB)
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"Referring complaints to police
Schollenberg said the college involved the police recently, after
suspending Bhargava.
"It became apparent that there may be more to this," he said.
He said the college asked some of the 18 complainants if they were
interested in speaking to the police and passed on their information
to the Fredericton Police Force if they said yes.
Fredericton psychiatrist suspended by College of Physicians and Surgeons
Alycia Bartlette, spokesperson for the Fredericton Police Force, would
not confirm whether the police are investigating Bhargava.
"In general, we would not confirm whether a specific individual was
the subject of a police investigation until such time as charges are
laid in court, or there are operational reasons otherwise," she said
in an email."
>>> From: "Ross, Ken (DH/MS)"<ken.ross@gnb.ca>
>>> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 08:43:31 -0300
>>> Subject: Re: Hey Ken Who is Mental Health's and the Hospital in
>>> Fredericton's lawyers?
>>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>
>>> Got your messages Dave. I am in Toronto for meetings and will be back
>>> in the office Friday. I will ask Barb Whitenect to follow up with you
>>> in the interim. Yes Herby picked up ypur bike a while back.
>>>
>>> Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld
>>>
>>>
>>> --- On Wed, 7/9/08, David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Hey Ken Who is Mental Health's and the Hospital in
>>> Fredericton's lawyers?
>>> To: ken.ross@gnb.ca, Barbara.Whitenect@gnb.ca, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca
>>> Cc: rosaire.santerre@gnb.ca, Marc.Pitre@gnb.ca, David.Eidt@gnb.ca,
>>> oldmaison@yahoo.com, Judy.Cyr@gnb.ca, t.j.burke@gnb.ca,
>>> police@fredericton.ca, Carrie.Levesque@gnb.ca, anne.elgee@gnb.ca,
>>> danny.copp@fredericton.ca, jacques.boucher@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>> Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 3:03 AM
>>>
>>> KENNETH ROSS, Assistant Deputy Minister
>>> Addictions and Mental Health Services / Health
>>> Contact Information
>>> Phone: (506) 457-4800
>>> Fax: (506) 453-5243
>>>
>>> BARBARA WHITENECT, Director
>>> Addictions and Mental Health Services / Health
>>> Contact Information
>>> Phone: (506) 444-4442
>>> Fax: (506) 453-8711
>>> EMail Address: Barbara.Whitenect@gnb.ca
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry to involve you but lets just say that I am really really pissed
>>> off for very justifiable reasons.
>>>
>>> This should prove to some folks that at least I know how to read.
>>>
>>> http://www.ahsc.health.nb.ca/
>>>
>>> I have no doubt whatsoever that you would more pissed than I am if
>>> the malicious bullshit that happened to me last weekend had happened
>>> to you.
>>>
>>> I will try to call you in business hours but I suspect in the end I
>>> will wind up arguing this dude in court in short order. (On a lighter
>>> note did Herby pick up my bike?)
>>>
>>> David Eidt
>>> Legal Services
>>> Office of the Attorney General
>>> Tel: (506) 453-3964
>>> Fax: (506) 453-3275
>>> david.eidt@gnb.ca
>>>
>>> Best Regards
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>>> These emails and the bullshit from the news last year should to all
>>> that I am as serious as a heart attack and far from mentally unstabe
>>> but the cops have proven themselves to be monumental liars many times
>>>
>>> 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 n
>>>
>>> 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 and the
>>> US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment 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
>>>
>>> charles leblanc oldmaison@yahoo.com wrote:
>>>
>>> Where are ya living now???? Since the media seem to ignore ya? I'll
>>> sit down for a debate with a recorder for the blog...Now? Don't get
>>> all exicted and send this all over the world.....lol
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>> From: David Amos motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>> To: brad.woodside@fredericton.ca; whalen@fredericton.ca;
>>> david.kelly@fredericton.ca; cathy.maclaggan@fredericton.ca
>>> stephen.kelly@fredericton.ca; tom.jellinek@fredericton.ca;
>>> scott.mcconaghy@fredericton.ca
>>> walter.brown@fredericton.ca; norah.davidson@fredericton.ca;
>>> mike.obrien@fredericton.ca; bruce.grandy@fredericton.ca;
>>> dan.keenan@fredericton.ca; jeff.mockler@gnb.ca;
>>> mrichard@lawsociety-barreau.
>>> jlmockler@mpor.ca; scotta@parl.gc.ca; michael.bray@gnb.ca;
>>> jack.e.mackay@gnb.ca
>>> Cc: news@dailygleaner.com; kcarmichael@bloomberg.net;
>>> oldmaison@yahoo.com; advocacycollective@yahoo.com;
>>> Easter.W@parl.gc.ca; Comartin.J@parl.gc.ca; cityadmin@fredericton.ca;
>>> info@gg.ca; bmosher@mosherchedore.ca; rchedore@mosherchedore.ca;
>>> police@fredericton.ca; chebert@thestar.ca; Stoffer.P@parl.gc.ca;
>>> Stronach.B@parl.gc.ca; Matthews.B@parl.gc.ca; alltrue@nl.rogers.com;
>>> Harper.S@parl.gc.ca; Layton.J@parl.gc.ca; Dryden.K@parl.gc.ca;
>>> Duceppe.G@parl.gc.ca
>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:37:04 PM
>>> Subject: I promised one of the Fat Fred City cop Randy Reilly that I
>>> would try to make him famous
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/
>>>
>>> A man is only as good as his word EH? To bad priests, bankers,
>>> politicians, lawyers and cops can't claim the same N'est Pas
>>>
>>> http://actionlyme.org/FBI_
>>>
>>> FEDERAL EXPRESS February 7, 2006
>>>
>>> Senator Arlen Specter
>>> United States Senate
>>> Committee on the Judiciary
>>> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
>>> Washington, DC 20510
>>>
>>> Dear Mr. Specter:
>>>
>>> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
>>> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters
>>> raised in the attached letter. Mr. Amos has represented to me that
>>> these are illegal FBI wire tap tapes. I believe Mr. Amos has been in
>>> contact with you about this previously.
>>>
>>> Very truly yours,
>>> Barry A. Bachrach
>>> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
>>> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
>>> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://davidamos.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>> Paulette Delaney-Smith Paulette.Delaney-Smith@rcmp-
>>> David,
>>>
>>> I received your voice mail, I have been transferred to another unit
>>> and I am unaware of who is dealing with your complaints at this time.
>>>
>>> Paulette Delaney-Smith, Cpl.
>>> RCMPolice "J" DIvision HQ
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://gypsy-blog.blogspot.
>>>
>>> Threat against Burke taken seriously
>>>
>>> By STEPHEN LLEWELLYN
>>> dgleg@nb.aibn.com
>>> Published Thursday May 24th, 2007
>>> Appeared on page A1
>>> An RCMP security detail has been guarding Justice Minister and
>>> Attorney General T.J. Burke because of threats made against him
>>> recently.
>>>
>>> Burke, the Liberal MLA for Fredericton-Fort Nashwaaksis, wouldn't
>>> explain the nature of the threats.
>>>
>>> "I have had a particular individual or individuals who have made
>>> specific overtures about causing harm towards me," he told reporters
>>> Wednesday.
>>>
>>> "The RCMP has provided security to me recently by accompanying me to a
>>> couple of public functions where the individual is known to reside or
>>> have family members in the area," said Burke. "It is nice to have
>>> some
>>> added protection and that added comfort."
>>>
>>> The RCMP provides protection to the premier and MLAs with its VIP
>>> security
>>> unit.
>>>
>>> Burke didn't say when the threat was made but it's believed to have
>>> been in recent weeks.
>>>
>>> "When a threat is posed to you and it is a credible threat, you have
>>> to be cautious about where you go and who you are around," he said.
>>> "But again, I am more concerned about my family as opposed to my own
>>> personal safety."
>>>
>>> Burke said he doesn't feel any differently and he has not changed his
>>> pattern of activity.
>>>
>>> "It doesn't bother me one bit," he said. "It makes my wife
>>> feel awful nervous."
>>>
>>> Burke served in an elite American military unit before becoming a
>>> lawyer and going into politics in New Brunswick.
>>>
>>> "(I) have taken my own precautions and what I have to do to ensure my
>>> family's safety," he said. "I am a very cautious person in
>>> general due
>>> to my background and training.
>>>
>>> "I am comfortable with defending myself or my family if it ever had to
>>> happen."
>>>
>>> Burke said it is not uncommon for politicians to have security concerns.
>>>
>>> "We do live unfortunately in an age and in a society now where threats
>>> have to be taken pretty seriously," he said.
>>>
>>> Since the terrorism attacks in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001,
>>> security in New Brunswick has been
>>> beefed up.
>>>
>>> Metal detectors were recently installed in the legislature and all
>>> visitors are screened.
>>>
>>> The position of attorney general is often referred to as the
>>> province's "top cop."
>>>
>>> Burke said sometimes people do not differentiate between his role as
>>> the manager of the justice system and the individual who actually
>>> prosecutes them.
>>>
>>> "With the job sometimes comes threats," he said. "I have had
>>> numerous
>>> threats since Day 1 in office."
>>>
>>> Burke said he hopes his First Nations heritage has nothing to do with
>>> it.
>>>
>>> "I think it is more of an issue where people get fixated on a matter
>>> and they believe you are personally responsible for assigning them
>>> their punishment or their sanction," he said.
>>>
>>> Is the threat from someone who was recently incarcerated?
>>>
>>> "I probably shouldn't answer that," he replied.
>>>
>>> Reporters asked when the threat would be over.
>>>
>>> "I don't think a threat ever passes once it has been made," said
>>> Burke. "You have to consider the credibility of the source."
>>>
>>> Bruce Fitch, former justice minister in the Conservative government,
>>> said "every now and again there would be e-mails that were not
>>> complimentary."
>>>
>>> "I did have a meeting with the RCMP who are in charge of the security
>>> of the MLAs and ministers," said Fitch.
>>>
>>> "They look at each and every situation."
>>>
>>> Fitch said he never had bodyguards assigned to him although former
>>> premier Bernard Lord and former health minister Elvy Robichaud did
>>> have extra security staff assigned on occasion.
>>>
>>> He said if any MLA felt threatened, he or she would discuss it with the
>>> RCMP.
>>
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Bhargava, Manoj
CPSO#: 65230
Summary
Former Name: No Former Name
Gender: Male
Languages Spoken: English, Hindi
Education: University of Toronto, 1992
Practice Information
Toronto ON M9V 0A9
Phone: (416) 741-9271
Fax: (416) 745-9146 Electoral District: 10
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| Hospital | Location |
|---|---|
| William Osler - Peel Memorial Centre,for Integrated Health and Wellness | Brampton |
| William Osler Health Centre Etobicoke General Site | Toronto |
| William Osler Health Centre-Brampton Civic Hospital | Brampton |
Specialties
| Specialty | Issued On | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Orthopedic Surgery | Effective:30 Jun 2000 | RCPSC Specialist |
Terms and Conditions
(1) Dr. MANOJ BHARGAVA may practise only in the areas of medicine in which Dr. BHARGAVA is educated and experienced.
Postgraduate Training
Please note: This information may not be a complete record of postgraduate training.University of Toronto, 15 Jun 1992 to 14 Jun 1993
Other - Rotating Internship
Registration History
| Action | Issue Date |
|---|---|
| First certificate of registration issued: Postgraduate Education Certificate | Effective: 15 Jun 1992 |
| Transfer of class of registration to: Independent Practice Certificate | Effective: 15 Jun 1993 |
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All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.
Here’s all the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020
April 2020 was a difficult time in Nova Scotia. A strange new virus was loose in the world, and no one knew what would happen. Nova Scotia was under lockdown — restaurants and bars were closed, schools were online, health orders prohibited people from gathering socially, and the disease had entered the Northwood retirement home. People were frightened, uncertain.
And then hell descended on the province.
On Saturday night, April 18, a man went on a rampage in Portapique, a small, idyllic community on the shores of the Minas Basin. He murdered 13 people, injured two more, and burned several homes, including his own.
But the public didn’t learn the extent of the murders until the next day, when the horrific killing spree continued in an unfathomable fashion. The murderer emerged from an overnight hiding spot and — driving a replica RCMP cruiser — created a 100-kilometre trail of death and terror across the province, leaving nine more victims: a couple and their neighbour on Hunter Road, a woman out for her morning walk in Wentworth, two women driving in their cars on Plains Road in Debert, a cop and helpful passerby at the the Shubenacadie cloverleaf, a woman in her house on Highway 224. Finally, the killer himself was killed by police at the Enfield Big Stop.
There were immediately questions: Why wasn’t the public alerted about the danger? How was it possible for the killer to have an exact replica of a police car? Why did two police officers shoot up a volunteer fire hall? Were there warning signs that were ignored? How did the police response go so wrong? And more.
The Halifax Examiner was on the story immediately. Our entire team told the stories of the victims, the background events, the mishaps and mistakes. We’ve been on the story ever since. The Examiner has spent tens of thousands of dollars as part of a coalition of media outlets that has gone to court to get sealed search warrant documents related to the murders released. And we’re now reporting on the public inquiry into the murders and the trove of new documents that are being released.
As an easy reference, all of our reporting is collected below, and will be added to as new articles are published.
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137. “I have to live with that, and I’ve lived with that for two-plus years”: emotional testimony about RCMP mistakes during the mass murders (May 26, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
136. Victims’ families: ‘trauma informed’ inquiry has ‘further traumatized’ us (May 25, 2022, by Jennifer Henderson)
135. The clock is ticking down on the mass casualty commission (May 22, 2022, by Stephen Kimber)
134. RCMP Chief Supt. Chris Leather is being investigated concerning decision to not alert the public about the mass murderer’s fake police car (May 17, 2022,by Jennifer Henderson
133. There’s no meaning in mass murder (Morning File, May 16, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
132. Tech issues bedevilled the RCMP response to the mass murders of 2020 (May 16, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
131. After the mass murders of April 2020, Truro police chief Dave MacNeil stood up to RCMP “fixers” (Morning File, May 13, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
130. RCMP officers privately warned their loved ones that a killer was on the loose, but didn’t warn the broader public (May 12, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
129. Years before the mass murders of April 2020, police were offered access to the province’s emergency alert system but turned it down (May 10, 2022, by Jennifer Henderson)
128. ‘Frantic panic’: it was the RCMP, and not the public, who panicked during the mass murders (Morning File, May 9, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
127. Two cops who attended to the shooting of Heather O’Brien contradict each other (Morning File, May 6, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
126. Yesterday, the Mass Casualty Commission made public two statements James Banfield gave to police (News items #2 and 3, Morning File, April 29, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
125. The RCMP didn’t tell the public about the mass murderer’s fake police car because they didn’t want to create a ‘frantic panic’ (April 27, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
124. Lisa McCully was ‘creeped out’ by a neighbour in Portapique; then he killed her (April 27, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
123. “I didn’t know he was the devil”: women recall their experiences with the mass murderer (April 25, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
122. It’s been 2 years since the mass murders, and we still haven’t collectively mourned (Morning File, April 19, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
121. As and after Gina Goulet was murdered, RCMP made repeated mistakes pursuing the killer (April 13, 2022, by Jennifer Henderson and Tim Bousquet)
120. Cst. Heidi Stevenson wanted the public to be warned about the killer driving a fake police car; RCMP higher-ups said no (April 11, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
119. Dave Westlake doesn’t have malice towards the two RCMP cops who shot at him, but he wonders how they missed (April 11, 2022, by Jennifer Henderson)
118. Relying on junk science, the RCMP made a terrible decision during the mass murders (Morning File, April 8, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
117. Here’s how Cst. Craig Hubley killed the mass murderer (April 5, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
116. Nick Beaton has every right to be angry, but… (April 4, 2022, by Stephen Kimber)
115. A Tragedy of Errors: how RCMP mistakes, missteps, and miscommunications failed to contain a mass murderer (April 3, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
114. “I’m going to blow his fucking head off”: A Glenholme couple’s close call with a mass murderer (March 31, 2022, by Jennifer Henderson)
A memorial for Alanna Jenkins, Sean McLeod, and Tom Bagley on Hunter Road. Photo: Joan Baxter.
113. The RCMP didn’t warn the public a mass murderer was on the loose, but people on Hunter Road figured it out themselves (March 30, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
112. First 3 cops at Portapique testify at public inquiry (March 28, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
111. Cheating and beating: the tragic lead-up to the Portapique massacre (March 22, 2022, by Jennifer Henderson)
110. “If he had come to my house that night in a police car, I would have opened my door and welcomed him in, and I would probably have been dead” (March 14, 2022, by Jennifer Henderson)
109. “I wasn’t surprised,” said Chris Wortman after his nephew killed 22 people (March 11, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
108. Lisa Banfield and cops who responded to Portapique will testify under oath at the mass murder inquiry (March 10, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
107. Two kids were hanging out, listening to music, when they saw the man who had just killed 13 people in Portapique (March 9, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
106. ‘A couple of glasses of wine,’ poor communications, and indecision about alerting the public were factors in RCMP command decisions after Portapique shootings (March 8, 2022, by Jennifer Henderson)
105. Inquiry documents detail shoot-up of Onslow Fire Hall (March 4, 2022, by Jennifer Henderson)
104. The mass murder inquiry has a crisis of legitimacy (Morning File, March 4, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
The Elks Lodge in Houlton, Maine. Photo: Tim Bousquet
103. The Maine connection: the Houlton Elks Lodge, the call that precipitated the murder spree, and how the killer obtained his guns (March 4, 2022, by Jennifer Henderson)
102. Mass murder inquiry: here’s what the victims’ families want to question cops about (March 3, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
101. “I don’t know who has command”: RCMP confusion on the ground in Portapique (March 1, 2022, by Jennifer Henderson)
100. Night of Hell: here’s what happened in Portapique on April 18, 2020 (February 28, 2022, by Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson)
99. The first day of the mass murder inquiry was dominated by a condescending and offensive panel on mental health (February 23, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
98. The inquiry into the Nova Scotia mass murders begins today; here are some of the questions we have (February 22, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
97. Families’ statement (February 16, 2022, by Tim Bousquet)
96. Mass Casualty Commission’s public hearings are moved back four months (October 14, 2021, by Jennifer Henderson)
95. Mass Casualty Commission’s recommendations will not be binding on government (October 4, 2021, by Jennifer Henderson)
94. Lisa Banfield wants part of mass murderer’s estate (September 28, 2021, by Tim Bousquet)
93. “An apology would be nice and I would like to know what happened”: people suffering from the Nova Scotia mass murders speak to commission (September 27, 2021, by Jennifer Henderson)
92. Mass Casualty Commission schedules Open Houses for public input (September 10, 2021, by Jennifer Henderson)
91. Mass murderer intended to kill five more people, says RCMP (June 17, 2021, by Tim Bousquet)
90. Lawsuit alleges police failures during Nova Scotia’s mass murder (June 17, 2021, by Jennifer Henderson)
89. “People grieve differently:” How Nova Scotians remember (Morning File, April 19, 2021, by Suzanne Rent)
88. A “Conversation About Femicide” connects domestic violence to mass murders (April 16, 2021, by Yvette d’Entremont)
87. Killer’s spouse says she hid in a tree cavity the night of the mass murder (March 9, 2021, by Tim Bousquet)
86. SIRT says ballistics report confirmed officers fired just five shots outside Onslow Fire Hall (March 3, 2021, by Jennifer Henderson)
85. The cops who shot up the Onslow Fire Hall committed no crime, rules SIRT (March 3, 2021, by Tim Bousquet)
84. New details emerge on what happened just prior to the mass murderer’s rampage (Morning File, February 12, 2021, by Tim Bousquet)
The Portapique sign on Highway 2 was adorned with a NS tartan sash following the mass shooting that began there on April 18, 2020. Photo: Joan Baxter
83. Lisa Banfield seeks to keep court records sealed (Morning File, February 9, 2021, item by Tim Bousquet)
82. It sure feels like a whole lot of nothing is happening with the mass murder inquiry and investigation (Morning File, January 25, 2021, by Tim Bousquet)
81. Three times in the last year, violent men have been driving look-alike police cars (Morning File, January 22, 2021, by Tim Bousquet)
80. After the Nova Scotia mass murderer bought property on Portland Street, the houses next door burned down (December 28, 2020, by Zane Woodford)
79. Police found $705,000 in cash at killer’s property in Portapique (December 16, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
78. Mark Furey isn’t in a conflict, Donald Trump won by a landslide, and other tales from the alternate universe (December 13, 2020, by Stephen Kimber)
77. The RCMP repeatedly shows a reckless disregard for public safety (Morning File, December 11, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
76. New information is revealed about the weapons used by the mass murderer, and it appears he was heading to the city to kill someone else (December 9, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
75. Commonlaw spouse of killer, and two others, charged with supplying ammo used in mass murders (December 4, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
74. 3 big stories the Examiner is covering extensively: the pandemic, the mass murders, and the lobster fishery (Morning File, November 24, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
Portapique Church Hall. Photo: Joan Baxter
73. In the hours after the mass murders, someone gave “erroneous” information to police (November 16, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
72. Reports from inquiry into Nova Scotia mass shooting due in 2022, third commissioner announced (October 22, 2020, by Zane Woodford)
71. We “drove the back roads”: On Saturday, April 18, the mass murderer and his common-law spouse travelled around the province, looking at various locations. Just hours later, those sites were associated with the murderer’s rampage.” (September 23, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
70. Financial expert: newly released documents show mass murderer was not an RCMP informant (September 21, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
69. Tim Houston says Mark Furey has a conflict of interest in the mass murder inquiry (September 10, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
68. What does it mean to be “Nova Scotia Strong”? (September 9, 2020, by Philip Moscovitch)
67. The mass murderer’s connection to a drug dealer (August 21, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
66. The RCMP kept secret information any TV watcher could’ve predicted (August 13, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
65. February 12 was a strange day for the man who two months later would murder 22 people (August 10, 2020, by Paul Palango)
64. Michael Bryant has deleted his dickish tweet about Atlantic Canada and replaced it with a dickish apology (Morning File, August 6, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
63. The RCMP’s statement about the mass murder investigation is an exercise in obfuscation (August 4, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
62. Nova Scotia RCMP release long statement denying mass shooting details unsealed this week (July 30, 2020, by Zane Woodford)
61. Celebrating the inquiry: ‘This was because of the families, our determination, our drive, and the Nova Scotians, the Bluenosers’ (July 29, 2020, by Yvette d’Entremont)
60. Federal and provincial governments to hold public inquiry into Nova Scotia mass shootings (July 28, 2020, by Zane Woodford and Yvette d’Entremont)
59. Witness told police that mass murderer “builds fires and burns bodies, is a sexual predator, and supplies drugs in Portapique and Economy” (July 27, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
58. Protesters decry ‘shocking and paternalistic’ decision to hold review, not inquiry into Nova Scotia mass shooting (July 27, 2020, by Yvette d’Entremont)
57. Portapique: how to (maybe) turn a rickety review into a transparent public inquiry (July 26, 2020, by Stephen Kimber)
56. Public anger mounts at decision not to hold a full public inquiry into the April mass murders (July 24, 2020, by Yvette d’Entremont)
55. Not having a public inquiry into the mass murders is a disservice to victims’ families, the public, and common sense (Morning File, July 24, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
54. “No public inquiry into mass murders: ‘They keep saying they don’t want to dig stuff up and hurt the families more than they have already been hurt. But a public inquiry is the one and only thing we are asking for and I think we deserve that.’” (July 23, 2020, by Tim Bousquet, Yvette d’Entremont, and Jennifer Henderson)
Family and friends of the 22 victims killed during April’s mass shooting held a peaceful march in Bible Hill on Wednesday morning to draw attention to their demands for a public inquiry. Photo: Yvette d’Entremont
53. 300 family members and friends of mass murder victims march and demand public inquiry (July 22, 2020, by Yvette d’Entremont)
52. “An epic failure”: The first duty of police is to preserve life; through the Nova Scotia massacre, the RCMP saved no one (July 18, 2020, by Paul Palango)
51. Shelter workers also call for public inquiry into mass murder (July 16, 2020, by Yvette d’Entremont)
50. Son of mass murder victim calls for public inquiry (July 16, 2020, by Jennifer Henderson)
49. Petition calls for mass murder inquiry with “feminist lens” (July 14, 2020, by Jennifer Henderson)
48. Why we need a full public inquiry into the Nova Scotia massacre (July 13, 2020, by Paul Palango)
47. Bill Casey: the RCMP is “more interested in real estate than public safety” (July 7, 2020, by Jennifer Henderson)
46. From cop to survivor: Cary Ryan is a survivor of domestic abuse. She’s also a former cop who says she was harassed in the workplace because of her mental illness. Now, she studies how cops respond to domestic violence. (July 7, 2020, by Suzanne Rent)
45. Cabinet roundup: Northwood review, mass shooting inquiry, schools, Liscombe Lodge, and Northern Pulp (July 3, 2020, by Jennifer Henderson)
44. “Body parts still in the automobile” of mass murder victim when RCMP released the car to the victim’s family, claims lawsuit (June 17, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
43. “A political act of opportunism”: Conservatives go hard right on gun laws (June 17, 2020, by Joan Baxter)
A poster at the roadside memorial in Portapique commemorates the 22 people killed in the mass shooting that began there on April 18, 2020. Photo: Joan Baxter
42. Nova Scotians to determine questions and guide research into mass shooting: New program aims to ‘find answers and healing’ in the aftermath of tragedy by seeking community input” (June 16, 2020, by Yvette d’Entremont)
41. Mass murderer left a will directing that his remains be placed in the Portapique Cemetery (June 12, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
40. Portapique Cemetery: we won’t accept the body of the mass murderer (June 12, 2020, by Jennifer Henderson)
39. Bill Casey: the shooting of the Onslow fire hall reflects a broader RCMP communications failure (June 9, 2020, by Jennifer Henderson)
38. Gunning for change: doctors in the gun control debate in Canada (June 8, 2020, by Joan Baxter)
37. Colchester councillor: change in RCMP policing model left information gap on shooter (June 5, 2020, by Jennifer Henderson and Joan Baxter)
36. RCMP Rural Policing: Strangers in a Hurry, Policing Strangers (June 5, 2020, by Chris Murphy)
35. Inquiry into mass shooting will be announced soon (June 5, 2020, by Jennifer Henderson)
34. Mass shooting lawsuit amended; victims’ families call for public inquiry (June 2, 2020, by Jennifer Henderson)
33. Nova Scotia massacre: Did the RCMP “risk it out” one time too many? (May 30, 2020, by Paul Palango)
32. RCMP’s rural policing is an ongoing disaster, say Colchester County councillors (May 28, 2020 by Paul Palango)
31. Opposition critics on the Advisory Council on the Status of Women call for an inquiry into mass murder, but McNeil government demurs (May 27, 2020, by Joan Baxter and Jennifer Henderson)
30. Premier McNeil: A message from my grandmother about the RCMP (May 27, 2020, by Paul Palango)
29. Here’s what the RCMP doesn’t want you to know about the mass murder investigation (May 25, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
28. Mark Furey and the RCMP’s secret army of Smurfs (May 25, 2020, by Paul Palango)
27. Dear Mr. Premier: I know you’re busy but… (May 24, 2020, by Stephen Kimber)
26. Cracks are forming in the RCMP cone of silence (May 21, 2020, by Paul Palango)
25. This is why the Halifax Examiner keeps going to court (May 20, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
The fake police car. Photo: Mass Casualty Commission
24. Court document provides new info on mass murder (May 19, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
23. Lots of people knew about the mass murderer’s destructive behaviour, and did nothing (May 19, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
22. “Canada is an ‘after-the-fact country’: Could a red flag law have helped prevent the mass shootings in Nova Scotia or help reduce gun violence in Canada? Or do such laws give cover to the failure of policing agencies to act under the authority they already have?” (May 18, 2020, by Joan Baxter)
21. “He was a psychopath”: A former resident of Portapique says she called the RCMP to tell them the future gunman assaulted his domestic partner and that he had illegal weapons. The police took no action.” (May 12, 2020, by Joan Baxter)
20. Trigger Warning: The ban on assault-style weapons comes in the wake of the Nova Scotia shootings, but it is just one cautious step in a decades-long debate over gun control (May 8, 2020, by Joan Baxter)
19. Source: Halifax police held back response to mass murderer (May 4, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
18. The mass murder isn’t “senseless” in a culture that excuses the violence of white men (May 1, 2020, by El Jones)
17. There’s free psychological help for people in distress about the mass murders (April 28, 2020, by Yvette d’Entremont)
16. Murderer escaped Portapique within 10 minutes of police arriving (April 28, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
15. What to do if you think you’re being stopped by a fake cop (Morning File, April 27, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
Emily Tuck playing her fiddle for the Nova Scotia Kitchen Party for COVID-19. Screenshot from Facebook video.
14. “There’s some fiddle for ya”: A Portapique love story (April 26, 2020 by Tim Bousquet)
13. Male violence: “A pandemic in its own right” (April 26, 2020, by Suzanne Rent)
12. Portapique tragedy: We need a full public inquiry (April 26, 2020, by Stephen Kimber)
11. A memorial trail of grief and love: Nova Scotians mourn the victims of last week’s tragedy (April 26, 2020, by Joan Baxter)
Photo: Joan Baxter.
10. The killer was on Hunter Road for nearly three hours (April 25, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
9. 13 hours of terror: tracking a mass murderer’s rampage through Nova Scotia (April 25, 2020, by Erica Butler, Tim Bousquet, Jennifer Henderson, Joan Baxter, and Yvette d’Entremont)
8. How to heal with furry companions: Like humans, pets can experience trauma and grief, but they and their owners can recover together. (April 23, 2020, by Suzanne Rent)
7. The anatomy of failure: How and why the emergency alert system was not activated when a mass murderer was roaming around Nova Scotia (April 22, 2020, by Tim Bousquet, Jennifer Henderson, Joan Baxter, and Yvette d’Entremont)
6. These are the 22 people murdered in Nova Scotia on April 18-19, 2020 (April 22, 2020 by Erica Butler, Joan Baxter, Jennifer Henderson, Tim Bousquet, Philip Moscovitch, Yvette d’Entremont, Linda Pannozzo, and El Jones)
5. “There’s a person down there with a gun”: first responder audio from the beginning of the murder spree (April 22, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
4. There are 22 victims in the weekend murder spree (April 21, 2021, by Tim Bousquet)
3. A time for grief (April 21, 2021, by Yvette d’Entremont)
2. RCMP investigator: There are “in excess of 19 victims” in Nova Scotia’s mass murder rampage (April 20, by Tim Bousquet)
1. Too much pain: Here are 15 victims in yesterday’s mass killing (Morning File, April 20, 2020, by Tim Bousquet)
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Uncover: Dead Wrong
In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.
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Dave Moore’s work could have cleared Glen Assoun of murder; here’s how and why the RCMP destroyed it
Dave Moore. Photo: Facebook
The RCMP’s spin on the Glen Assoun wrongful conviction makes no sense. That is the view of two former RCMP officers who are familiar with the case.
It is now established that in 2004, the RCMP deleted information on a computer database that would have made the case that serial killer Michael McGray — not Glen Assoun — killed Brenda Way in 1995. As a result, Assoun spent another 10 years in prison.
The computer database is called the Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS). (For a detailed explanation of ViCLAS, click here.) Starting in about 2001, ViCLAS analyst Dave Moore was searching for other murders that McGray may have committed, besides the six he had already been charged with. It’s that investigation that brought him to the Way murder, and to the information he put into the ViCLAS database.
Specifically, Moore tells the Halifax Examiner that he made 369 entries related to McGray into the ViCLAS database.
In 2004, however, that information was deleted.
But that wasn’t the only information Moore had related to his McGray investigation.
Moore says he made paper backups of each of the 369 entries. Additionally, he did considerable field work, and had 10 notebooks — one notebook for each of 10 witnesses he interviewed in the Assoun case.
Moore also had gigantic flow charts on his office wall. “I had a 5 ft x 4 ft chart on Assoun,” he tells the Examiner. “Over the top was an onion skin of the same size. The onion skin overlay was a timeline of when [McGray] was in any particular place in North America, based on the cashing of his welfare cheques.”
And in a recorded interview obtained by the Examiner, in 2014 Moore told Justice Department lawyer Mark Green that he had collected psychiatric reports and prison records on McGray.
All that information was collected in boxes in Moore’s ViCLAS office, in the Sunnyside Tower in Bedford. But in March 2004, when Moore returned from a short vacation, he found all his entries into the ViCLAS system had been deleted and all the paper records — the paper backups of the ViCLAS entries, the notebooks, the flowcharts, the prison reports, etc. — had been removed from his office. Most of that information is missing to this day, and presumed destroyed.
“All that critical evidence was locked in a four-tier file cabinet,” Moore tells the Examiner. “My office door also had a lock on it and I worked alone in my office. When I returned from holidays, my locks were busted off my cabinet.”
Karen Broydell, a ViCLAS analyst who was working in the same Bedford office tower when the information was deleted and removed, remembers it well.
“I know for a fact the materials were taken from the Bedford office when Dave was on vacation,” Broydell tells the Examiner.
Broydell said she worked in a separate office, but would come to Moore’s office to discuss work issues. She was quite familiar with the flowcharts and with Moore’s work on the McGray file.
“And that was gone when he returned from vacation. I remember distinctly the day he came back to work. We all walked in. And he was livid when he came back to work and understandably so because he had worked on this file quite intensely for a period of time and nobody wants their work tampered with. In particular missing.
“And this happened not during office hours because I would have been there and a number of other of my contemporaries work at the same time.”
A few days later, Moore was transferred out of ViCLAS and to the RCMP’s gambling investigative unit, a transfer he considers a demotion.
The Halifax Examiner, the CBC, and the Canadian Press went to court to get court documents related to the Assoun case unsealed, and on July 12, Supreme Court Justice James Chipman ruled in our favour. Only then did we learn of the deletion of the ViCLAS documents and the destruction of the paper documents.
The same day, the RCMP released a statement, which reads:
Today the Nova Scotia Supreme Court lifted a sealing order related to Justice Canada’s Criminal Conviction Review Group’s preliminary assessment of Glen Assoun’s second-degree murder conviction in the 1995 homicide of Ms. Brenda Way. This has resulted in an RCMP Nova Scotia Administrative Review being made public.
In 2014, a then serving member of the RCMP alleged that his analysis and material related to the homicide of Ms. Brenda Way were missing and had been intentionally destroyed. Given the seriousness of the allegations, the Nova Scotia RCMP immediately began an administrative review to determine what occurred.
The review was conducted by the Officer in Charge of Major Crime at the time who was an expert in ViCLAS analysis. The administrative review was extensive and found that ViCLAS worksheets had been deleted in 2004 when employees of the ViCLAS unit were asked to review a number of analyses completed from 2001-2003 for quality control purposes. The deletions were contrary to policy and shouldn’t have happened. They were not done, however, with malicious intent.
In full transparency, the RCMP provided the administrative review to the Criminal Conviction Review Group, the results of which factored in its preliminary assessment.
But the RCMP statement only addresses the deletion of the ViCLAS entries, and not the destruction of Moore’s paper evidence.
I read the RCMP statement to Broydell over the phone.
“Why would you be deleting for quality control purposes?” she responds. “That’s really, really peculiar… That doesn’t add up, in my opinion. When you’re building a database, you’re doing your quality control prior to doing your final entry on the system. So the objective is to get as large and as diverse a database as possible in order to do your queries.
“It does not make sense to me why you would go in and arbitrarily start deleting things for quality control purposes,” she continues. “That just does not add up. In the training I had for ViCLAS, that was — you didn’t delete anything. It was put in there into the system and left there because you never know, 20 years down the road some character you’ve added would be a benefit. So why would you arbitrarily delete them? It doesn’t make sense.“
Both Broydell and another ViCLAS analyst — Gilles Blinn, who worked in Fredericton when Broydell and Moore were working in Bedford — tell the Examiner that deleting the ViCLAS files would take some work.
“There’s not a button you push and suddenly it’s all gone,” says Blinn.
Both Blinn and Broydell confirm Moore’s claim that only supervisors — not the analysts — could delete information.
“No one at my level and Dave’s level would have had that ability to do so,” says Broydell. “And it is line by line. You can’t just go in and delete entire files. It doesn’t work that way. So it’s an arduous process.
“You know, you’re working on a national database,” continues Broydell. “So you can’t just arbitrarily go in and delete things just for the sake of doing so.”
Moore tells me that it would have taken several days, working straight through, to delete the 369 files he put on ViCLAS. Did that sound right to Broydell?
“It would take a considerable amount of time, that’s for sure,” she responds. “How much you would accomplish in a day, I don’t know — I’ve never been part of that process — but it would definitely be a time-consuming process.
No support from Moore’s superiors
The question remains: why would someone delete the ViCLAS files and destroy Moore’s paper evidence?
“He didn’t have the support of his superiors,” says Blinn.
Blinn recalls a case he worked on in New Brunswick — a cold case involving the corpse of a woman found on Gilbert’s Island near Fredericton. The woman remained unidentified for over a decade until Blinn, in part using the ViCLAS database, identified her as Donna Joe, an indigenous woman who had never been reported missing.
“I just said, ‘can I work on this?'” says Blinn. “And my superiors said, ‘sure, go ahead.'”
Moore didn’t have that kind of support, and his attempts to independently investigate in the field were resented by his superiors, says Blinn.
Blinn remembers that Moore was working on the McGray case because Moore had asked Blinn to independently run queries on McGray, as a check against Moore’s work. “It all checked out, no issues,” says Blinn.
“We worked for a very unusual individual named Dick Hutchings,” says Broydell. “And [Hutchings] basically had an issue with Dave and myself and other people in the office because — to me, from my perspective to be an effective analyst you have to think outside of the box and if you don’t do that you’re not going to capture the demographic and the material that you need in order to have a successful analysis. And Dick was very much opposed to that form of thinking.
“And Dave is a very intelligent man — he’s very much out of the box [and] he’s effective at the same time. And this would irritate Dick to no end — like he would become very agitated with all of us, if you’ve questioned him on anything. And he was just very annoyed with the process.
“He basically ruled the office, or tried to rule the office as best he could, with an iron fist.”
Broydell says she did not see Hutchings or anyone else delete the ViCLAS files or remove Moore’s evidence. She can’t express an opinion about that.
“Frankly, had I known what was going to happen, I would have made every effort to stop it because Dave was onto something when it came to Glen Assoun being accused of this,” says Broydell. “And to me, [Moore] nailed it way back in 2001. However there was — the personalities involved there — and I’m not sure why this happened, other than it would be a control of, basically putting Dave back in the box where Dick wanted him to be.”
Who deleted the ViCLAS files?
The “Administrative Review” of the deletion of the ViCLAS files was conducted by RCMP Inspector Larry Wilson, the Officer in Charge of Major Crimes in Halifax. Wilson conducted the review in response to Justice Department lawyer Mark Green’s 2014 investigation of the Assoun case.
According to Green’s assessment of Assoun’s case, “[i]n March 2004, Sgt. Hutchings, not confident in Moore’s work, ordered a review of all his cases. Although Hutchings does not recall ordering this review, Wilson indicated that there are notes on some of the files confirming this was the case. This review of Moore’s work was also confirmed by other ViCLAS analysts. The analysts involved in the review of Moore’s work in 2004 were interviewed as part of the current [i.e., Green’s 2014] investigation and confirmed that Hutchings did not tell them to delete Moore’s files.”
But it appears that Wilson’s review missed most of Moore’s ViCLAS entries that had been deleted. To begin, the person charged with analyzing the deletions — a Cpl. Desrosiers — found evidence of 233 files that had been entered by Moore, not the 369 Moore tells the Examiner he had entered. Even then, Desrosiers reviewed only a sample of those entries.
In any event, Wilson’s administrative review identifies the people who conducted the review of Moore’s work that was ordered by Hutchings in 2004 as Cst. Mike Waghorn, Sgt. Kevin Tellenback, Cpl. Tom Aucoin, Cst. Debbie Burstall, and Sgt. Ken Bradley.
Wilson’s review names one person who appears to have deleted at least some of Moore’s files, but that name is redacted, both in the copy of the review obtained by the Examiner on July 12 and in the copy obtained by Green in 2014.
A redacted copy of the Administrative Review of the deletion of Moore’s ViCLAS files.
Green continues:
Wilson stated that he has a good idea as to who deleted the files based on the file review itself as well as comments by some of the analysts who were interviewed. Wilson was not prepared to say who that was during our interview. The name of the individual suspected of deleting Moore’s files has been deleted from Wilson’s written report along with the names of the other ViCLAS analysts. The individual suspected does not recall the file review and denies deleting any of Moore’s Work Sheets. Wilson said that he does not know why the person took the action they did. Some analysts said they were concerned about Work Sheets being deleted and brought this to the attention of Sgt. Hutchings. Hutchings has no recollection of this. Wilson also stated that contrary to Moore’s belief, he does not think either Sgt. Hutchings or Sgt. Bradley deleted any of Moore’s files.
Understand that Green, the Justice Department lawyer, was interviewing Wilson about the administrative review because the ViCLAS information never made it to Glen Assoun’s lawyer — and therefore could not be used to establish Assoun’s innocence of the murder of Brenda Way. For Wilson to withhold the name of the person responsible for deleting the files is, well, remarkable.
Wilson said he didn’t believe that either Hutchings or Bradley deleted the files, but he refused to say who did… so how much faith should we put in that statement?
And what about Sgt. Ken Bradley?
Bradley was a Halifax Regional Police Department investigator on assignment to the ViCLAS unit. Nine years before Moore’s files were deleted, in 1995, Bradley was the forensic ident investigator working on… the Brenda Way murder.
“There was some peculiar things happening in ViCLAS — really, really odd,” says Broydell. “And in particular when you’ve got HRP members working within there. Ken [Bradley] would have known about Dave’s investigation on the Brenda Way murder. So — I don’t know what was said or what was done specifically but the end results, I’m not impressed by. The fact that somebody spent a lengthy period of their adult life in prison for a crime that they didn’t commit. And in today’s society there’s no need for that because the whole objective behind ViCLAS is to hone in and get the person who’s responsible, not just arbitrarily select someone over here because they have a criminal background or you don’t like the colour of their hair.
“I worked in the RCMP for 38 and a half years,” continues Broydell. “And along my path of service, ViCLAS was one of the most disappointing areas I’ve ever worked in. And what happened in Dave’s situation — and it could have been Mike or me or anybody, had we investigated that file. And it’s wrong. Wrong on so many levels.”
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https://www.blueline.ca/staff-sgt-giles-blinn-retires-from-rcmp-in-fredericton-5414/
Staff Sgt. Giles Blinn retires from RCMP in Fredericton
Staff Sgt. Giles Blinn is retiring from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Fredericton, N.B., after 31 years.
May 1, 2018 By Renée Francoeur
He worked in general duty, highway patrol and as a criminal interdiction officer, labour representative and violent crimes analyst.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/rcmp-officers-impact-mass-shootings-1.5842000
N.S. Mounties facing 'big morale challenges' in year marked by trauma, criticism
Union says RCMP decision not to comment further on mass shooting 'difficult' for front-line officers
The union representing RCMP officers in Nova Scotia says its members are finding it challenging that the force has stopped releasing information about the April mass shooting, especially as they continue to struggle with the personal toll of responding to the killing of 22 people, including their colleague Const. Heidi Stevenson.
On April 18 and 19, a gunman travelled nearly 200 kilometres through rural communities shooting strangers, neighbours and acquaintances while masquerading as a Mountie.
Families of the victims are now suing the RCMP and have questioned whether the force did enough to stop the killer and warn of the danger. They've also been critical of the amount of information they've received about their loved ones' deaths. CBC News and other media organizations have gone to court to unseal search warrant documents in the case.
The last press conference about the attacks was June 4 and in recent months, the RCMP has repeatedly declined interviews about its investigation. In response to media requests, it has sent the same statement reiterating its commitment to accountability, transparency and participating in the public inquiry, which it describes as "the most appropriate and unbiased opportunity" to provide the facts about what happened.
Brian Sauvé, president of the National Police Federation, said he wouldn't second-guess the force's decision to stop releasing information, but acknowledged front-line officers are finding it hard.
"Our members want closure. Our members want ... to essentially be vindicated in their actions," said Sauvé, whose group represents approximately 1,060 RCMP officers stationed in Nova Scotia.
"I'll say that because from what I've seen, heard, read, those on the ground — and I'm not talking about command decisions, I'm talking about those on the ground who've responded to this incident — acted and worked in an extremely heroic manner with the resources available to them.
"For membership not to hear the RCMP support, that is challenging to them. And to wait for an inquiry to have their day and their say is difficult."
RCMP Supt. Darren Campbell shows a map tracking the gunman's movements during the rampage on April 18 and 19 during an April 24 press conference. Part of the RCMP’s justification for not providing additional comments about the mass shooting has been their ongoing investigation into where the shooter’s guns came from and whether he acted alone. (CBC)
Members not allowed to speak with media
The mass casualty commission has started its work and a final report is expected in November 2022.
Meanwhile, the police investigation — which includes looking at where the shooter obtained his weapons and whether he had help — continues. Two weeks ago, the RCMP announced three people, including the gunman's spouse, her brother and brother-in-law, face a charge related to allegedly providing the gunman with ammunition. The Mounties have not answered questions or provided any information beyond a press release.
Individuals members of the RCMP are not permitted to speak to the media and could face disciplinary actions by doing so. Several officers declined to speak to CBC about their experiences in recent months, with some citing the possible repercussions.
Gilles Blinn, who retired from the RCMP in New Brunswick in 2018, said he's frequently in touch with former colleagues in Nova Scotia who are struggling with criticism of their actions during the mass shooting and who are frustrated that they can't defend themselves.
"They're far removed from all the decisions that are made at headquarters in Halifax and headquarters in Ottawa. They have no say in what's going on ... it's like they're gagged," Blinn said.
"They feel like they're not supported at the top. And any manager knows this, that if your people aren't happy under you, you have bad morale…. I think the morale is very low in Nova Scotia currently due to the fact that no one is speaking out on their behalf."
Two RCMP officers observe a moment of silence to honour Const. Heidi Stevenson and the other 21 victims of the mass killings at a checkpoint on Portapique Road in Portapique, N.S., on Friday, April 24, 2020. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
Blinn spent 31 years with the RCMP, including eight on the staff organization that preceded the union. For many years, the former staff sergeant originally from Digby County answered media calls. He'd like to see the RCMP provide more information that could clear up questions about how officers responded to one of the country's worst mass killings in modern history.
"You don't want to hamper your investigation. You don't want to hamper your upcoming coroner's inquest or anything else that's going on. And you have to be very diplomatic into what you're going to say. But there are things that I believe that they could say to satisfy all parties involved," he said.
Blinn's son was one of the officers who responded in Portapique on April 18, though he stressed he couldn't speak to his son's experience and didn't know exactly what happened that night or the following morning.
During his time as an RCMP staff sergeant, Gilles Blinn conducted media interviews on behalf of the force. He retired in 2018 after 31 years. (Submitted by Gilles Blinn)
But many of the people he knows are also grappling with the horror of what unfolded, Blinn said. Overall, he said Mounties don't feel supported by their leadership or the public.
"I know of some that turn to liquor. I know of some that were so traumatized that they've retired," he said.
"The effects don't happen right away, for some members it'll take years.... The trauma of seeing all this death and destruction and the agony of the victims' families, which is what never goes away. You know, seeing their loved ones pick up the pieces after someone's been killed. And trust me, I've been there many times, so you never forget it."
Police block the highway in Debert, N.S., on Sunday, April 19, 2020. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
'I'm seeing burnout'
The RCMP offered employees the option of taking leave in the wake of the shootings. The force said some members took time off but would not disclose how many as it involves private health information.
Some employees are performing modified duties and others are on different types of leave, Cpl. Lisa Croteau said in an email. The RCMP employs about 1,450 people in the province, though not all are members of the union.
CBC has confirmed some officers remain off work, in part, because they're dealing with the psychological impact of responding.
Sauvé said across the board, members have been hurting alongside their communities in a year that has been particularly challenging for policing. He said COVID-19 has meant fewer officers are being trained to fill vacancies, recruitment remains low, and the union is starting collective bargaining after nearly four years without a raise.
On top of that, protests against policing and police brutality in the U.S. and Canada have prompted widespread criticism of the profession.
The fact that officers have taken time to deal with trauma is positive, the union president said, as it signals an understanding that it's OK to admit to needing help.
"We don't have to, you know, suck it up and soldier on any longer.... the RCMP, as well as Canadians, are starting to realize that trauma affects everybody differently and recovery from traumatic events can take longer for some than it can for others," said Sauvé.
"They had to respond to the incident. They've had to deal with the aftermath and the investigations of that incident, at the same time grieving the loss of one of their colleagues as well as some of their friends."
Children sign a Canadian flag at an impromptu memorial in front of the RCMP detachment on April 20, 2020, in Enfield, N.S. It was the home detachment of slain RCMP constable Heidi Stevenson, who was one of 22 people killed during Sunday's shooting rampage. (Tim Krochak/Getty Images)
The union said close to 100 officers travelled to Nova Scotia to help investigate the shootings and backfill officers who took time off in the months since the tragedy.
But even still, he said the force is facing "big morale challenges" exacerbated by COVID-19 and staffing stretched to the limit. Sauvé said many officers have been denied vacation time due to operational requirements and have been working "day in and day out."
"I'm seeing burnout. I am worried about it," said Sauvé.
Thirteen Deadly Hours: The Nova Scotia Shooting
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http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2018/02/methinks-lawyers-who-oversee-cbc-should.html
Thursday, 1 February 2018
Methinks the lawyers who oversee the CBC should review their own unofficial memos before CBC spills the beans on their buddies in the RCMP N'esy Pas Hubby Lacroix and Minister Joly?
How many times has CBC checked my work since I talked to the snobby Sophia Harris in 2002 and sent her Hard Copy as requested or since their Senior Legal Counsel Edith Cody Rice sent me an email in 2009 and we talked?Methinks their many lawyers should check page 14 of this file before CBC or anyone else tries to call me liar again N'esy Pas?
https://www.scribd.com/doc/
After listening and reading the news about the RCMP today and my calls to CBC and the RCMP again after sending this email and one other found below methinks their "investigators" should FINALLY check my work very closely ASAP EH?
---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 09:35:52 -0400
Subject: RE Unofficial RCMP 'sissy' memo
To: dave.seglins@cbc.ca, rachel.houlihan@cbc.ca,
Harold.Pfleiderer@rcmp-grc.gc.
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>,
ethics-ethique <ethics-ethique@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
"Liliana.Longo"<Liliana.Longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
"hon.ralph.goodale"<hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca>
http://www.cbc.ca/news/
Unofficial RCMP 'sissy' memo a sign of toxic work environment, women say
Mounties need house-cleaning and better training, say women involved
in harassment class action
By Rachel Houlihan, Dave Seglins, CBC News Posted: Feb 01, 2018 4:00 AM E
Contact information
Sgt. Harold Pfleiderer
RCMP Media Relations
613-796-8268 cellphone
Sgt. Penny Hermann
RCMP "O" Division Media Relations
PHONE # 416-992-4409
(Scroll down to view the rest of the email above)
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 09:43:44 -0400
Subject: Re: RE Unofficial RCMP 'sissy' memo
To: dave.seglins@cbc.ca, rachel.houlihan@cbc.ca,
Harold.Pfleiderer@rcmp-grc.gc.
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
<ethics-ethique@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
<Liliana.Longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
<hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca>
---------- Original message ----------
From: Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 23:05:45 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Mr Fertuck Don't bother your colleagues not
one of them called me back. Obviously the best people to explain my
concerns to you would be your bosses Ministers Navdeep Bains, Kirsty
Duncan and Bardish Chagger
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 19:05:18 -0400
Subject: Mr Fertuck Don't bother your colleagues not one of them
called me back. Obviously the best people to explain my concerns to
you would be your bosses Ministers Navdeep Bains, Kirsty Duncan and
Bardish Chagger
To: stephen.fertuck@canada.ca, "Kent.Hehr"<Kent.Hehr@parl.gc.ca>,
"Hunter.Tootoo"<Hunter.Tootoo@parl.gc.ca>, "Navdeep.Bains"
<Navdeep.Bains@parl.gc.ca>, kirsty.duncan@parl.gc.ca, "Chagger,
Bardish - M.P. :HoC"<bardish.chagger@parl.gc.ca>, Mike Tessier
<tessiermike@shaw.ca>, "Michael.Wernick"
<Michael.Wernick@pco-bcp.gc.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, "Jody.Wilson-Raybould"
<Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.
<Hon.Dominic.LeBlanc@canada.ca>, "hon.ralph.goodale"
<hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca>
I they are too busy perhaps Ministers Dominic Leblanc, Ralph
Goodale,and Jody.Wilson-Raybould or their boss Prime Minister Trudeau
"The Younger' and his assistants or possibly Michael Wernick, Kent
Hehr or Hunter.Tootoo can explain my concerns about beer and the
Supreme Court amongst many other things that caused me to run for
public office against their political parties five times and why I
finally sued the Crown.
I know for certain the sneaky lawyer Howie Anglin and his buddy Mikey
Tessier never will.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
902 800 0369
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From: "Fertuck, Stephen (IC)"<stephen.fertuck@canada.ca>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 21:31:36 +0000
Subject: RE: Need I say that I am tired of being called a liar by
drunken fools and mindless bureaucrats? Best check my work ASAP as
Nasty Little Mikey Tessier suggested months ago
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Hi David,
Thanks for leaving a phone message yesterday on my voicemail.
Please let me know if there's a specific question that you'd like to pose.
I'm out of the office February 1-5, but would appreciate receiving any
query in writing so that I can better direct one of my colleagues on
how to respond.
Regards, Stephen
Stephen Fertuck
Director, Internal Trade
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada / Government of Canada
Stephen.Fertuck@canada.ca / Tel: 343-291-2606
Directeur, commerce intérieur
Innovation, Sciences et Développement économique Canada / Gouvernment du Canada
Stephen.Fertuck@canada.ca / Tel: 343-291-2606
-----Original Message-----
From: David Amos [mailto:motomaniac333@gmail.
Sent: January-30-18 2:24 PM
To: Fertuck, Stephen (IC); andrew.hashey@gnb.ca;
marie-andree.marquis@economie.
J.Andrew.MacDonald@novascotia.
rsquires@gov.nl.ca; richard.caine@ontario.ca; tami.reynolds@gov.mb.ca;
arla.cameron@gov.sk.ca; lorraine.andras@gov.ab.ca;
matthew.carnaghan@gov.bc.ca; barbara.dunlop@gov.yk.ca;
alexandrea_malakoe@gov.nt.ca; Mackay, G (Ext.)
Cc: David Amos; pcaron@ait-aci.ca; pfortier@ait-aci.ca;
kdewar@ait-aci.ca; mmacces-nimi@ait-aci.ca; Mike Tessier;
serge.rousselle; premier
Subject: Need I say that I am tired of being called a liar by drunken
fools and mindless bureaucrats? Best check my work ASAP as Nasty
Little Mikey Tessier suggested months ago
Need I remind the Justice Dept that I am about to make an application to
the Supreme Court because of this wicked decision? Please enjoy
http://davidraymondamos3.
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.
Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:35:46 -0400
> Subject: Fwd: Re RCMP class action lawsuits about the cops harassing
> each other Perhaps I should Intervene EH Bill Pentney?
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, gopublic
> <gopublic@cbc.ca>, "steve.murphy"<steve.murphy@ctv.ca>, Craig Munroe
> <cmunroe@glgmlaw.com>, "Stephen.Horsman"<Stephen.Horsman@gnb.ca>,
> Ezra , Brian Ruhe <brian@brianruhe.ca>, radical
> <radical@radicalpress.com>, premier <premier@gnb.ca>, "David.Coon"
> <David.Coon@gnb.ca>, david <david@lutz.nb.ca>, "blaine.higgs"
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> <leanne.murray@mcinnescooper.
> <Leanne.Fitch@fredericton.ca>
> Cc: "Dale.Morgan"<Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Gilles.Blinn"
> <Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Gilles.Moreau"
> <Gilles.Moreau@forces.gc.ca>, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre
> <andre@jafaust.com>, "brian.gallant"<brian.gallant@gnb.ca>,
> briangallant10 <briangallant10@gmail.com>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: Ministerial Correspondence Unit - Justice Canada <mcu@justice.gc.ca>
> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 19:30:51 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Re RCMP class action lawsuits about the cops
> harassing each other Perhaps I should Intervene EH Bill Pentney?
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> Thank you for writing to the Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister
> of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.
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>
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> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:30:48 -0400
> Subject: Re RCMP class action lawsuits about the cops harassing each
> other Perhaps I should Intervene EH Bill Pentney?
> To: wjk@kimorr.ca, cetter@powerlaw.ca, gina.scarcella@justice.gc.ca,
> Victoria.Yankou@justice.gc.ca, susanne.pereira@justice.gc.ca,
> "bill.pentney"<bill.pentney@justice.gc.ca>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>,
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https://www.blueline.ca/rcmp-bid-to-be-more-transparent-a-work-in-progress-media-experts-say/
RCMP bid to be more transparent a work in progress, media experts say
May 1, 2020 By The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — The fervent and sometimes frustrating quest for details of a Nova Scotia gunman’s deadly rampage has rekindled concerns about the RCMP’s traditional reticence concerning major criminal probes.
More than a decade after the national police force embarked on a modernization drive, media advocates and journalism professors say the RCMP has not yet evolved into the forthcoming and transparent institution Canadians need and deserve.
The police initially said the Nova Scotia suspect had been taken into custody, and only later did a senior unnamed source confirm he had been dead for several hours, and that citizens and an RCMP officer had been killed.
Information on the calibre and types of guns the RCMP seized was kept under wraps for days, and questions about their origins remain unanswered.
The Mounties’ approach to media relations stems from an outlook that has been ingrained over many decades, said journalist and author Stephen Kimber, who teaches at the University of King’s College at Dalhousie University in Halifax.
“There’s a military mindset that the RCMP operate under, which is very much top-down and need-to-know,” he said. “And if they decide you don’t need to know, you don’t need to know.”
Following a particularly difficult period marked by controversy and scandal, a government-commissioned report by Toronto lawyer David Brown concluded in 2007 the RCMP suffered from a “horribly broken” culture and management structure.
A council on reform implementation urged force managers to see communication as a positive opportunity to reach out to those they serve, rather than as a challenge or threat.
“The RCMP must improve its ability to anticipate communication opportunities and requirements and to react quickly and effectively where unforeseen events occur,” the council said. “We understand the difficulties of doing this, but fast action or reaction is one of the fundamental requirements of successful communications, and we think more can still be done.”
Media advocates and educators see little tangible progress.
The Canadian Association of Journalists awarded the RCMP its 2017 Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy in the category of law enforcement agencies.
More recently, the association pressed the RCMP over continued access to an exclusion zone in Wet’suwet’en nation territory so media could report fairly on tensions over the Coastal GasLink project in northern British Columbia.
The Mounties are “very inconsistent” in their dealings with the media, said association president Karyn Pugliese.
“I wouldn’t say that they’re always terrible, but we have so many examples of when they have been terrible that this becomes a problem.”
Members of the public don’t have a chance to ask RCMP officers for crucial information, she said. “They rely on us to do that for them.”
Pugliese cited a lack of information about internal disciplinary measures against Mounties who step out of bounds. Nor has the force been very forthcoming about how it is addressing sexism and racism within its ranks, she said.
“We don’t know how they’re solving these problems, and that’s an important matter of public interest.”
The Mounties display “a very high-handed manner” in their approach to determining what is public information and seem to treat this as “some kind of battle or brinkmanship with the news media,” said Lisa Taylor, a former lawyer and CBC reporter who teaches journalism law and ethics at Ryerson University.
“They appear to have lost sight that the journalists asking questions are mere surrogates for the public and this is a matter of public accountability.”
Linda Duxbury, a professor of management at Carleton University’s business school, excuses any lapses immediately after the Nova Scotia murders as the miscues of a shell-shocked force.
“Sometimes they are not forthcoming, but in this case, I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt because the situation was so horrendous,” said Duxbury, who has done consulting work for the RCMP and currently assists other police forces.
Duxbury says it is too early to tell whether the Mounties have made sufficient strides towards transparency.
For its part, the RCMP says decisions on whether or not to release specific information is made by the lead investigators and assessed on a case-by-case basis.
“With certain investigations, especially those that impact so heavily on communities, investigators make every effort to provide regular updates and make themselves available to the media to answers what questions they can at the time,” said Catherine Fortin, a spokeswoman for the force.
“There are many reasons why information could be withheld at various stages of an investigation.”
For instance, the force might decline to discuss details at the request of a victim’s family or shield information that could compromise the investigation if disclosed, she said.
“It could relate to investigative tools and techniques which we don’t generally make public outside of court. Investigations are a process, where information and different pieces of the puzzle come in throughout various phases and are not usually known all at once.”
There may be valid investigative reasons for the RCMP to choose not to disclose a fact, Taylor said.
“But it could just as likely be because the facts are not going to be favourable to the RCMP, or because they think journalists are asking the wrong questions,” she said.
“Rumours and conspiracy theories will absolutely flourish in the absence of reliable information.”
Kimber sees a need for the RCMP to practise openness by default, sharing everything with the public that the force possibly can and withholding information only when truly justifiable.
“But I think at a larger level we really need to have some way of stepping back and saying, ‘Is this the police force that we want today? And what do we need to change it, to make it into that force?”
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Fredericton psychiatrist suspended by College of Physicians and Surgeons
Five complaints sent to college about Manoj Bhargava's conduct with patients
A Fredericton psychiatrist was suspended by the College of Physicians and Surgeons on Tuesday after the college received several complaints about him that alleged misconduct toward patients.
Dr. Manoj Bhargava works at Fredericton Addiction and Mental Health, which is part of Horizon Health, and part time at the Student Health Centre at the University of New Brunswick.
Alison Larade began seeing Bhargava as a first-year student at St. Thomas University.
"It definitely was very traumatizing," she said Tuesday.
Allegations that Bhargava has mistreated patients at the Student Health Centre were shared on Instagram and Facebook late last week.
Alison Larade began seeing Bhargava as a first-year student. (Alison Larade)
After seeing an anonymous post on the Instagram account @accountabilityatunb Larade decided to share her own story.
"It was very emotional and I came to the conclusion that I wanted to speak out," she said.
Larade said that among other things, the psychiatrist performed physical exams and ask her to remove her bra while he used a stethoscope, saying it could interfere with the results. He said he then groped her breasts. Looking back, she felt she had been "groomed" to accept the behaviour.
Dr. Ed Schollenberg, registrar with the College of Physicians and Surgeons, said that since Thursday the college has received five complaints about Bhargava.
"It looks like this is a more widespread problem than you would see if you had just one complaint. ... Some of these are people who are no longer at UNB, they've moved on and they've heard about this and they're sending their concerns in.
"It's a little troubling in terms of potential magnitude."
Schollenberg said the complaints all describe alleged "improper touching."
"It also seems he was examining everybody in the same way, or at least all the patients we heard from were being examined in the same way."
The College of Physicians and Surgeons continues to investigate the allegations.
Bhargava has been working part time at the health centre operated by the University of New Brunswick. (Maria Jose Burgos/CBC)
More allegations are popping up at @accountabilityatunb.
"There are so many of us who went to him in our most vulnerable state seeking help, almost as our last option, to see a psychiatrist, and to get some form of mental health treatment," Larade said. "And to see that he's taken advantage of so many vulnerable people, and it wasn't just me, is completely heartbreaking."
Larade said she's been speaking and connecting with other women who say they had similar experiences with Bhargava.
She said she has made formal complaints to St. Thomas University, where she is still a student, and the University of New Brunswick.
The universities share the health centre, which UNB operates.
"UNB is not doing enough," said Larade. "I've reached out to the president multiple times … asking the president to speak with him and he's refused."
Larade called for more support from the school's administration.
St. Thomas said it has called on UNB to do a formal investigation into the matter on Monday.
Jeffrey Carleton, associate vice-president, said he still hasn't heard back.
"We just want to make sure there's an adequate response in relation to allegations and if it's alleged misconduct that there be a formal investigation done alongside with what the College of Physicians and Surgeons are doing," Carleton said.
In an emailed statement Tuesday afternoon UNB said it is not able to provide details at this time but it is actively working to address concerns. CBC News was told no one from the school was available for an interview.
Larade said she has also made a formal complaint with the police.
Fredericton doctor suspended as movement on campus sexual assault makes it way across the province
Please note this story pertains to sexual violence. The South East Sexual Assault Crisis Centre has a 24/7 crisis phone line available at 1-844-853-0811.
A movement started by graduating Mount Allison student Michelle Roy to call attention to sexual violence on campus and the lack of effective response by the university, is reaching across the province.
Students and community members at UNB gathered for a protest last Friday, and have also been sharing stories and solidarity online via social media.
The Instagram account accountabilityatUNB has posted many such stories, including several from anonymous survivors who describe being assaulted by a doctor at the UNB Students Health Clinic.
On Tuesday, the New Brunswick College of Physicians suspended Dr. Manoj Bhargava after receiving five complaints in less than a week, all describing improper physical examinations by the psychiatrist.
Dr. Ed Schollenberg, registrar with the college, told CBC’s Lauren Bird that the complaints all described similar examinations.
Schollengerg told CBC the reports are “troubling in terms of potential magnitude,” noting that some complaints came from people no longer at UNB, who heard about the protests over handling of sexual assaults and decided to send in their concerns.
The CBC said UNB had not responded to their request for an interview.
In the UNB paper the Brunswickan, Taylor Chalker reports that UNB’s response to online and in person protests so far has been to state they do not tolerate sexual violence, and to point to protocols already in place.
Please note that the South East Sexual Assault Crisis Centre has a 24/7 crisis phone line available at 1-844-853-0811.
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Although he retired from the OPP on March 31st, 2014, he continues to lecture on leadership and policing issues, across North America. He is currently the Public Safety Analyst for the CTV Television Network, appearing regularly on Canadian television and talk-radio stations to comment about ongoing policing and public safety issues around the world.
Commissioner Lewis, Commander of the Order of Merit of the Police Forces, is also a graduate of the FBI’s National Academy Program and the FBI’s National Executive Institute. He has written numerous articles and authored a book on leadership, entitled: “Never Stop on a Hill”. The profits from which are entirely committed to Special Olympics Ontario. Click here to find out more about it on Amazon.ca.
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As Commissioner, he oversaw front-line policing, traffic and marine operations, emergency response and specialized and multi-jurisdictional investigations throughout the Province of Ontario, delivered through over 9,000 OPP personnel.
After joining the OPP in 1978, Commissioner Lewis amassed a wealth of operational policing experience, particularly in front-line service delivery, various investigative disciplines and tactical operations.
From 2007 until his appointment as Commissioner, Lewis served as Deputy Commissioner of Field Operations.
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He was the founding Scientific Director of Frayme, an international knowledge translation platform focusing on integrated youth mental health care and the founding Executive Director of the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health.
Dr. Manion is still involved in research on mental health promotion, systems of care, youth depression and suicide. He has a particular interest in and provides consultation services on meaningful youth engagement and how services are organized to best meet the mental health needs of youth. He is a committed advocate for child and youth mental health both In Canada and internationally.
Dr. Manion is co-founder of Youth Net/ Réseau Ado, a bilingual community-based mental health promotion program with satellites across Canada. Ian is the father of five grown children. He is a person with lived experience who served as a spokesperson for the Bell “Let’s Talk” campaign in 2018.
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Cumberland council votes in favour of review after concerns with RCMP raised
Mayor says decision on whether to move away from RCMP could be made by January
Cumberland currently pays $4.8 million for 27 RCMP officers, and councillors are concerned about the amount of vacancies and backfill.
"We question a lot about the number we actually have in place," said Mayor Murray Scott.
The decision to officially launch a review means a committee of four councillors and four citizen representatives will be set up in May.
A report by the chief administrative officer listed the objectives of the review committee. They include the hours of service, and financial issues including the payment for vacancies and the allocation of resources to detachments.
After hearing from the RCMP and the public, Scott said there could be a call for alternate police proposals in October.
He said he believes there are "other opportunities" and hopes to hear from the Amherst Police Department, the municipal force in the county's largest town.
"They provide a tremendous service to the community, and there may be others that respond" to a request for proposals, said Scott.
Scott expects a final decision will be made by January 2023. But any change the municipality requests has to be approved by the minister of justice. A representative from the department will be a non-voting member of the review committee.
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We clearly need a new vision for the food we consume — one that
prioritizes resilience, accessibility, transparency and ecology. We
have the right to know where our food comes from, who produced it and
how it affects the planet. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau
has a mandate that talks about fighting climate change, stopping
biodiversity loss and building resilience, but there is clearly some
internal resistance to change.
---------- Original message ----------
From: Tilly Pillay <tpillay@nsbs.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 16:57:54 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: After reading the news this weekend about
Nova Scotia LIEbranos I did the lawyers Tilly Pillay and Adam Rodgers
a favour told their assistants I would be publishing these emails etc
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
I am out of the office on vacation until November 8. If your matter is
urgent, please contact my assistant, Anne Broughm, at
abroughm@nsbs.org or 902 422 1491. Thank you.
Tilly
---------- Original message ----------
From: Kennedy.Stewart@parl.gc.ca
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 16:57:55 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: After reading the news this weekend about
Nova Scotia LIEbranos I did the lawyers Tilly Pillay and Adam Rodgers
a favour told their assistants I would be publishing these emails etc
To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Many thanks for your message. Your concerns are important to me. If
your matter is urgent, an invitation or an immigration matter please
forward it to burnabysouth.A1@parl.gc.ca or
burnabysouth.C1@parl.gc.ca. This email is no longer being monitored.
The House of Commons of Canada provides for the continuation of
services to the constituents of a Member of Parliament whose seat has
become vacant. The party Whip supervises the staff retained under
these circumstances.
Following the resignation of the Member for the constituency of
Burnaby South, Mr. Kennedy Stewart, the constituency office will
continue to provide services to constituents.
You can reach the Burnaby South constituency office by telephone at
(604) 291-8863 or by mail at the following address: 4940 Kingsway,
Burnaby BC.
Office Hours:
Tuesday - Thursday: 10am - 12pm & 1pm - 4pm
Friday 10am - 12pm
---------- Original message ----------
From: Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l’Ontario <Premier@ontario.ca>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 16:57:51 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: After reading the news this weekend about
Nova Scotia LIEbranos I did the lawyers Tilly Pillay and Adam Rodgers
a favour told their assistants I would be publishing these emails etc
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Thank you for your email. Your thoughts, comments and input are greatly valued.
You can be assured that all emails and letters are carefully read,
reviewed and taken into consideration.
There may be occasions when, given the issues you have raised and the
need to address them effectively, we will forward a copy of your
correspondence to the appropriate government official. Accordingly, a
response may take several business days.
Thanks again for your email.
______
Merci pour votre courriel. Nous vous sommes très reconnaissants de
nous avoir fait part de vos idées, commentaires et observations.
Nous tenons à vous assurer que nous lisons attentivement et prenons en
considération tous les courriels et lettres que nous recevons.
Dans certains cas, nous transmettrons votre message au ministère
responsable afin que les questions soulevées puissent être traitées de
la manière la plus efficace possible. En conséquence, plusieurs jours
ouvrables pourraient s’écouler avant que nous puissions vous répondre.
Merci encore pour votre courriel.
---------- Original message ----------
From: Birgitta Jonsdottir <birgitta@this.is>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 09:11:44 -0800
Subject: e-mail overload Re: Fwd: After reading the news this weekend
about Nova Scotia LIEbranos I did the lawyers Tilly Pillay and Adam
Rodgers a favour told their assistants I would be publishing these
emails etc
To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Thank you for writing to me. I get so many emails that it is
impossible for me to even read them all. If you have an urgent matter
to discuss. Please put Priority in the subject. Please refrain from
sending email to multitude of email addresses you might have for me.
Only send one email with priority in the subject. It means I will read
it and will do my very best to reply asap :)
---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 12:57:43 -0400
Subject: After reading the news this weekend about Nova Scotia
LIEbranos I did the lawyers Tilly Pillay and Adam Rodgers a favour
told their assistants I would be publishing these emails etc
To: "Dominic.Cardy"<Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca>, "kris.austin"
<kris.austin@gnb.ca>, "David.Coon"<David.Coon@gnb.ca>, "Mitton, Megan
(LEG)"<megan.mitton@gnb.ca>, "Arseneau, Kevin (LEG)"
<Kevin.A.Arseneau@gnb.ca>, "robert.gauvin"<robert.gauvin@gnb.ca>,
"Furey, John"<jfurey@nbpower.com>, wharrison <wharrison@nbpower.com>,
premier <premier@gnb.ca>, "terry.seguin"<terry.seguin@cbc.ca>,
"Alex.Johnston"<Alex.Johnston@cbc.ca>, "darrow.macintyre"
<darrow.macintyre@cbc.ca>, Hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca,
"Pierre.Paul-Hus.a1"<Pierre.Paul-Hus.a1@parl.gc.ca>,
"pierre.poilievre.a1"<pierre.poilievre.a1@parl.gc.
pierre.paul-hus@parl.gc.ca,
ps.publicsafetymcu-
<ralph.goodale@parl.gc.ca>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>,
"Jody.Wilson-Raybould"<Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.
"clare.barry"<clare.barry@justice.gc.ca>, "david.hansen"
<david.hansen@justice.gc.ca>, Newsroom <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>,
"Dale.Morgan"<Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "david.eidt"
<david.eidt@gnb.ca>, "serge.rousselle"<serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>,
"brian.gallant"<brian.gallant@gnb.ca>, "blaine.higgs"
<blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, lorri.warner@justice.gc.ca, "jan.jensen"
<jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca>, "Nathalie.Drouin"
<Nathalie.Drouin@justice.gc.ca>, "bill.pentney"
<bill.pentney@justice.gc.ca>, "andrew.baumberg"
<andrew.baumberg@fct-cf.gc.ca>, "Norman.Sabourin"
<Norman.Sabourin@cjc-ccm.gc.ca>, "Gib.vanErt"<Gib.vanErt@scc-csc.ca>,
"marc.giroux"<marc.giroux@fja-cmf.gc.ca>, "Brenda.Lucki"
<Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Liliana.Longo"
<Liliana.Longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, washington field
<washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, "Boston.Mail"<Boston.Mail@ic.fbi.gov>,
english@rcinet.ca, "kennedy.stewart"<kennedy.stewart@parl.gc.ca>,
pvanloan@airdberlis.com, nicola.diiorio@bcf.ca, "Nicola.DiIorio"
<Nicola.DiIorio@parl.gc.ca>, "Catherine.Tait"<Catherine.Tait@cbc.ca>,
"sylvie.gadoury"<sylvie.gadoury@radio-canada.
<Sophia.Harris@cbc.ca>, PREMIER <PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, premier
<premier@ontario.ca>, premier <premier@gov.ab.ca>, Office of the
Premier <scott.moe@gov.sk.ca>, "David.Raymond.Amos"
<David.Raymond.Amos@gmail.com>, "Jack.Keir"<Jack.Keir@gnb.ca>,
oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, "greg.byrne"<greg.byrne@gnb.ca>,
"len.hoyt"<len.hoyt@mcinnescooper.com>, "david.young"
<david.young@mcinnescooper.com>, "macpherson.don"
<macpherson.don@dailygleaner.
<David.Akin@globalnews.ca>, "steve.murphy"<steve.murphy@ctv.ca>,
news919 <news919@rogers.com>, sfine <sfine@globeandmail.com>, news
<news@hilltimes.com>, news <news@kingscorecord.com>, newstips
<newstips@cnn.com>
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, tpillay@nsbs.org,
Adam@boudrotrodgers.com, "lyle.howe"<lyle.howe@eastlink.ca>,
jason@boudrotrodgers.com
Monday, 5 November 2018
After reading the news this weekend about Nova Scotia LIEbranos I did
the lawyers Tilly Pillay and Adam Rodgers a favour told their
assistants I would be publishing these emails etc
Tilly Pillay is not in her office this week and things went as far as
they always do whenever I call or email her very questionable Law
Society Here hoping Adam Rodgers finally acts with some semblance of
Integrity. However after all this time I am not betting on it.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 18:22:05 -0400
Subject: Re Federal Court File No: T-1557-15 Did you order Harper and
the NDP to ignore me as well???
To: Liberal / Assistance <nbd_cna@liberal.ca>, cmunroe@glgmlaw.com, pm
<pm@pm.gc.ca>, "justin.trudeau.a1"<justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca>, mcu
<mcu@justice.gc.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
How about Dizzy Lizzy May and the Bloc?
On 1/6/16, Cmunroe (Liberal / Assistance) <nbd_cna@liberal.ca> wrote:
> RealChange.ca | DuVraiChangement.ca
>
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Cmunroe, Jan 6, 14:28
>
> Hello all,
>
> I would ask that you please do not respond to this e-mail (in the event that
> you were inclined to do so.)
>
> Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
>
> Regards,
>
> Craig Munroe
> (Party Legal and Constitutional Advisor)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Amos [mailto:motomaniac333@gmail.
> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 11:09 AM
> To: Craig Munroe <cmunroe@glgmlaw.com>; nbd_cna@liberal.ca; pm
> <pm@pm.gc.ca>; ljulien@liberal.ca; pmilliken <pmilliken@cswan.com>; bdysart
> <bdysart@smss.com>; bdysart <bdysart@stewartmckelvey.com>;
> Braeden.Caley@vancouver.ca; robert.m.schuett@schuettlaw.
> jda@nf.aibn.com; eclark@coxandpalmer.com; office@liberal.ns.ca;
> president@lpco.ca; david@lpcm.ca; emerchant@merchantlaw.com
> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>; assistance@liberal.ca; Karine
> Fortin <info@ndp.ca>; stephen.harper <stephen.harper.a1@parl.gc.ca>
> Subject: Re: Attn Dr. John Gillis Re Federal Court File No: T-1557-15 Trust
> that I called and tried to reason with a lot of Liberals begore I am before
> the court again on Monday Jan 11th
>
> On 1/6/16, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>> BTW the nice guys who talked to me and didn't dismiss me I put in the
>> BCC line
>>
>> Dr. John Gillis
>> P.O. Box 723
>> 5151 George Street, Suite 1400
>> Halifax, Nova Scotia
>> Canada B3J 2T3
>> Tel: (902) 429-1993
>> Email: office@liberal.ns.ca
>>
>> John Allan, President
>> Liberal Party of Newfoundland & Labrador
>> T: (709) 685-1230
>> jda@nf.aibn.com
>>
>>
>> Braeden Caley
>> Office of the Mayor, City of Vancouver
>> 604-809-9951
>> Braeden.Caley@vancouver.ca,
>>
>>
>> Britt Dysart QC
>> Suite 600, Frederick Square
>> 77 Westmorland Street
>> P.O. Box 730
>> Fredericton, NB, Canada
>> E3B 5B4
>>
>> P 506.443.0153
>> F 506.443.9948
>>
>>
>> Evatt F. A. Merchant
>> Merchant Law Group LLP
>> First Nations Bank Bldg.
>> 501-224 4th Ave. S.
>> Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7K 5M5
>> Phone: 306-653-7777
>> Email: emerchant@merchantlaw.com
>>
>>
>> Ewan W. Clark
>> Montague
>> Phone: (902) 838-5275
>> Fax: (902) 838-3440
>> eclark@coxandpalmer.com
>>
>> Robert M. Schuett
>> #200, 602 11th Avenue SW
>> Calgary Alberta T2R 1J8
>> Phone: (403) 705-1261
>> Fax: (403) 705-1265
>> robert.m.schuett@schuettlaw.
>>
>>
>> http://www.liberal.ca/
>>
>> Who are we?
>>
>> We are volunteers from across the country who care passionately about
>> Canada’s future and promoting Liberal values. We are community
>> leaders, parents, and professionals who volunteer our time in this
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>> the Party in matters both fiduciary, and strategic. We meet regularly
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>> such a distinct and talented group of individuals. Please don’t
>> hesitate to reach out to us at nbd_cna@liberal.ca.
>> Anna Gainey
>>
>> President, Liberal Party of Canada
>>
>> T @annamgainey
>> Leader Justin Trudeau
>> National President Anna Gainey
>> Acting National Director Christina Topp
>> National Vice-President (English) Chris MacInnes
>> National Vice-President (French) Marie Tremblay
>> National Policy Chair Maryanne Kampouris
>> National Membership Secretary Leanne Bourassa
>> Past National President Mike Crawley
>> President, Liberal Party of Newfoundland & Labrador John Allan
>> President, Liberal Party of Prince Edward Island Ewan Clark
>> President, Nova Scotia Liberal Party John Gillis
>> President, New Brunswick Liberal Association Britt Dysart
>> President, Liberal Party of Canada (Québec) Linda Julien
>> President, Liberal Party of Canada (Ontario) Tyler Banham
>> President, Liberal Party of Canada (Manitoba) Sachit Mehra
>> President, Liberal Party of Canada (Saskatchewan) Evatt Merchant
>> President, Liberal Party of Canada (Alberta) Robbie Schuett
>> President, Liberal Party of Canada (British Columbia) Braeden
>> Caley
>> President, Federal Liberal Association of Yukon Blake Rogers
>> President, Liberal Party of Canada (Northwest Territories) Rosanna
>> Nicol
>> President, Federal Liberal Association of Nunavut Michel Potvin
>> Caucus Representative Francis Scarpaleggia
>> Co-Chair, Aboriginal Peoples’ Commission (Female) Caitlin Tolley
>> Co-Chair, Aboriginal Peoples’ Commission (Male) Kevin Seesequasis
>> President, National Women’s Liberal Commission Carlene Variyan
>> President, Young Liberals of Canada Justin Kaiser
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>> Co-Chair, Senior Liberals’ Commission (English) Kenneth D. Halliday
>> Chair, Council of Presidents Veena Bhullar
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>> Chief Revenue Officer Stephen Bronfman
>> CEO, Federal Liberal Agency of Canada Mike Eizenga
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>> Constitutional and Legal Adviser (English) Craig Munroe
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>>
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>> Email: cmunroe@glgmlaw.com
>> Phone: (604) 891-1176
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 19:32:00 -0400
>> Subject: Re Federal Court File No: T-1557-15 the CBC, the RCMP, their
>> new boss Justin Trudeau and his Ministers of Justice and Defence etc
>> cannot deny their knowledge of Paragraphs 81, 82, 83, 84, and 85 now
>> CORRECT G$?
>> To: Paul.Samyn@freepress.mb.ca, "carolyn.bennett"
>> <carolyn.bennett@parl.gc.ca>, Doug@dougeyolfson.ca,
>> doug.eyolfson@parl.gc.ca, fpcity@freepress.mb.ca,
>> w.kinew@uwinnipeg.ca, "Paul.Lynch"<Paul.Lynch@edmontonpolice.ca>,
>> "Marianne.Ryan"<Marianne.Ryan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, sunrayzulu
>> <sunrayzulu@shaw.ca>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>, dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca,
>> "john.green"<john.green@gnb.ca>, chiefape <chiefape@gmail.com>
>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, gopublic
>> <gopublic@cbc.ca>, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, radical
>> <radical@radicalpress.com>, newsonline <newsonline@bbc.co.uk>,
>> newsroom <newsroom@globeandmail.ca>, nmoore <nmoore@bellmedia.ca>,
>> andre <andre@jafaust.com>
>>
>> http://davidraymondamos3.
>> html
>>
>> David Raymond Amos Versus The Crown T-1557-15
>>
>> 81. The Plaintiff states that matters of harassment that the police
>> refuse to investigate would have entered the realm of ridiculous in
>> 2012 if the reasons behind the suicides of teenagers did not become
>> well known by the corporate media. In the summer of 2012 a new member
>> of the FPS who as a former member of the EPS had inspired a lawsuit
>> for beating a client in Edmonton called the Plaintiff and accused him
>> of something he could not do even if he wanted to while he was arguing
>> many lawyers byway of emails about a matter concerning cyber stalking
>> that was before the SCC. The member of the FPF accused the Plaintiff
>> of calling the boss of Bullying Canada thirty times. At that time his
>> MagicJack account had been hacked and although he could receive
>> incoming calls, the Plaintiff could not call out to anyone. The
>> Plaintiff freely sent the FPF his telephone logs sourced from
>> MagicJack after his account restored without the Crown having to issue
>> a warrant to see his telephone records. He asked the FPF and the RCMP
>> where did the records of his phone calls to and from the FPF and the
>> RCMP go if his account had not been hacked. The police never
>> responded. Years later a Troll sent Dean Roger Ray a message through
>> YouTube providing info about the Plaintiff’s MagicJack account with
>> the correct password. Dean Roger Ray promptly posted two videos in
>> YouTube clearly displaying the blatant violation of privacy likely to
>> protect himself from the crime. The Plaintiff quickly pointed out the
>> videos to the RCMP and they refused to investigate as usual. At about
>> the same point in time the Plaintiff noticed that the CBC had
>> published a record of a access to information requests. On the list of
>> requests he saw his name along with several employees of CBC and the
>> boss of Bullying Canada. The Plaintiff called the CBC to make
>> inquiries about what he saw published on the Internet. CBC told him it
>> was none of his business and advised him if he thought his rights had
>> been offended to file a complaint. It appears the Plaintiff that
>> employees of CBC like other questionable Crown Corporations such as
>> the RCMP rely on their attorneys far too much to defend them from
>> litigation they invite from citizens they purportedly serve. The
>> employees of CBC named within the aforementioned and the CBC Legal
>> Dept. are very familiar with the Plaintiff and of the Crown barring
>> him from legislative properties while he running for public office.
>>
>> 82. The Plaintiff states that any politician or police officer should
>> have seen enough of Barry Winter’s WordPress blog by June 22, 2015
>> particularly after the very unnecessary demise of two men in Alberta
>> because of the incompetence of the EPS. Barry Winters was blogging
>> about the EPS using battering ram in order to execute a warrant for a
>> 250 dollar bylaw offence at the same time Professor Kris Wells
>> revealed in a televised interview that the EPS member who was killed
>> was the one investigating the cyber harassment of him. It was obvious
>> why the police and politicians ignored all the death threats, sexual
>> harassment, cyberbullying and hate speech of a proud Zionist who
>> claimed to be a former CF officer who now working for the Department
>> of National Defence (DND). It is well known that no politician in
>> Canada is allowed to sit in Parliament as a member of the major
>> parties unless they support Israel. Since 2002 the Plaintiff made it
>> well known that he does not support Israeli actions and was against
>> the American plan to make war on Iraq. On Aril 1, 2003 within two
>> weeks of the beginning of the War on Iraq, the US Secret Service
>> threatened to practice extraordinary rendition because false
>> allegations of a Presidential threat were made against him by an
>> American court. However, the Americans and the Crown cannot deny that
>> what he said in two courts on April 1, 2003 because he published the
>> recordings of what was truly said as soon as he got the court tapes.
>> The RCMP knows those words can still be heard on the Internet today.
>> In 2009, the Plaintiff began to complain of Barry Winters about
>> something far more important to Canada as nation because of Winters’
>> bragging of being one of 24 CF officers who assisted the Americans in
>> the planning the War on Iraq in 2002. In the Plaintiff’s humble
>> opinion the mandate of the DND is Defence not Attack. He is not so
>> naive to think that such plans of war do not occur but if Barry
>> Winters was in fact one of the CF officers who did so then he broke
>> his oath to the Crown the instant he bragged of it in his blog. If
>> Winters was never an officer in the CF then he broke the law by
>> impersonating an officer. The Plaintiff downloaded the emails of the
>> Privy Council about Wikileaks. The bragging of Barry Winters should
>> have been investigated in 2009 before CBC reported that documents
>> released by WikiLeaks supported his information about Canadian
>> involvement in the War on Iraq.
>>
>> 83. The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war
>> in Iraq again 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
>> essential for the security and tranquility of the developed world. An
>> ISIS “caliphate,” in the Middle East, no matter how small, is a clear
>> and present danger to the entire world. This “occupied state,”
>> or“failed state” will prosecute an unending Islamic inspired war of
>> terror against not only the “western world,” but Arab states
>> “moderate” or not, as well. The security, safety, and tranquility of
>> Canada and Canadians are just at risk now with the emergence of an
>> ISIS“caliphate” no matter how large or small, as it was with the
>> Taliban and Al Quaeda “marriage” in Afghanistan.
>>
>> One of the everlasting “legacies” of the “Trudeau the Elder’s dynasty
>> was Canada and successive Liberal governments cowering behind the
>> amerkan’s nuclear and conventional military shield, at the same time
>> denigrating, insulting them, opposing them, and at the same time
>> self-aggrandizing ourselves as “peace keepers,” and progenitors of
>> “world peace.” Canada failed. The United States of Amerka, NATO, the
>> G7 and or G20 will no longer permit that sort of sanctimonious
>> behavior from Canada or its government any longer. And Prime Minister
>> Stephen Harper, Foreign Minister John Baird , and Cabinet are fully
>> cognizant of that reality. Even if some editorial boards, and pundits
>> are not.
>>
>> Justin, Trudeau “the younger” is reprising the time “honoured” liberal
>> mantra, and tradition of expecting the amerkans or the rest of the
>> world to do “the heavy lifting.” Justin Trudeau and his “butt buddy”
>> David Amos are telling Canadians that we can guarantee our security
>> and safety by expecting other nations to fight for us. That Canada can
>> and should attempt to guarantee Canadians safety by providing
>> “humanitarian aid” somewhere, and call a sitting US president a “war
>> criminal.” This morning Australia announced they too, were sending
>> tactical aircraft to eliminate the menace of an ISIS “caliphate.”
>>
>> In one sense Prime Minister Harper is every bit the scoundrel Trudeau
>> “the elder” and Jean ‘the crook” Chretien was. Just As Trudeau, and
>> successive Liberal governments delighted in diminishing,
>> marginalizing, under funding Canadian Forces, and sending Canadian
>> military men and women to die with inadequate kit and modern
>> equipment; so too is Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Canada’s F-18s are
>> antiquated, poorly equipped, and ought to have been replaced five
>> years ago. But alas, there won’t be single RCAF fighter jock that
>> won’t go, or won’t want to go, to make Canada safe or safer.
>>
>> My Grandfather served this country. My father served this country. My
>> Uncle served this country. And I have served this country. Justin
>> Trudeau has not served Canada in any way. Thomas Mulcair has not
>> served this country in any way. Liberals and so called social
>> democrats haven’t served this country in any way. David Amos, and
>> other drooling fools have not served this great nation in any way. Yet
>> these fools are more than prepared to ensure their, our safety to
>> other nations, and then criticize them for doing so.
>>
>> Canada must again, now, “do our bit” to guarantee our own security,
>> and tranquility, but also that of the world. Canada has never before
>> shirked its responsibility to its citizens and that of the world.
>>
>> Prime Minister Harper will not permit this country to do so now
>>
>> From: dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca
>> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:17:17 -0400
>> Subject: RE: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and
>> the War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still
>> alive
>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>
>> This is to confirm that the Minister of National Defence has received
>> your email and it will be reviewed in due course. Please do not reply
>> to this message: it is an automatic acknowledgement.
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original message ----------
>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:55:30 -0300
>> Subject: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and the
>> War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still alive
>> To: DECPR@forces.gc.ca, Public.Affairs@socom.mil,
>> Raymonde.Cleroux@mpcc-cppm.gc.
>> william.elliott@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, stoffp1 <stoffp1@parl.gc.ca>,
>> dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca, media@drdc-rddc.gc.ca, information@forces.gc.ca,
>> milner@unb.ca, charters@unb.ca, lwindsor@unb.ca,
>> sarah.weir@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca, birgir <birgir@althingi.is>, smari
>> <smari@immi.is>, greg.weston@cbc.ca, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>,
>> susan@blueskystrategygroup.com, Don@blueskystrategygroup.com,
>> eugene@blueskystrategygroup.
>> Cc: "Edith. Cody-Rice"<Edith.Cody-Rice@cbc.ca>, "terry.seguin"
>> <terry.seguin@cbc.ca>, acampbell <acampbell@ctv.ca>, whistleblower
>> <whistleblower@ctv.ca>
>>
>> I talked to Don Newman earlier this week before the beancounters David
>> Dodge and Don Drummond now of Queen's gave their spin about Canada's
>> Health Care system yesterday and Sheila Fraser yapped on and on on
>> CAPAC during her last days in office as if she were oh so ethical.. To
>> be fair to him I just called Greg Weston (613-288-6938) I suggested
>> that he should at least Google SOUCOM and David Amos It would be wise
>> if he check ALL of CBC's sources before he publishes something else
>> about the DND EH Don Newman? Lets just say that the fact that your
>> old CBC buddy, Tony Burman is now in charge of Al Jazeera English
>> never impressed me. The fact that he set up a Canadian office is
>> interesting though
>>
>> http://www.
>>
>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/
>> launch.html
>>
>> Anyone can call me back and stress test my integrity after they read
>> this simple pdf file. BTW what you Blue Sky dudes pubished about
>> Potash Corp and BHP is truly funny. Perhaps Stevey Boy Harper or Brad
>> Wall will fill ya in if you are to shy to call mean old me.
>>
>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/
>>
>> The Governor General, the PMO and the PCO offices know that I am not a
>> shy political animal
>>
>> Veritas Vincit
>> David Raymond Amos
>> 902 800 0369
>>
>> Enjoy Mr Weston
>> http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/
>> ikileaks.html
>>
>> "But Lang, defence minister McCallum's chief of staff, says military
>> brass were not entirely forthcoming on the issue. For instance, he
>> says, even McCallum initially didn't know those soldiers were helping
>> to plan the invasion of Iraq up to the highest levels of command,
>> including a Canadian general.
>>
>> That general is Walt Natynczyk, now Canada's chief of defence staff,
>> who eight months after the invasion became deputy commander of 35,000
>> U.S. soldiers and other allied forces in Iraq. Lang says Natynczyk was
>> also part of the team of mainly senior U.S. military brass that helped
>> prepare for the invasion from a mobile command in Kuwait."
>>
>> http://baconfat53.blogspot.
>>
>> "I remember years ago when the debate was on in Canada, about there
>> being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Our American 'friends"
>> demanded that Canada join into "the Coalition of the Willing. American
>> "veterans" and sportscasters loudly denounced Canada for NOT buying
>> into the US policy.
>>
>> At the time I was serving as a planner at NDHQ and with 24 other of my
>> colleagues we went to Tampa SOUCOM HQ to be involved in the planning
>> in the planning stages of the op....and to report to NDHQ, that would
>> report to the PMO upon the merits of the proposed operation. There was
>> never at anytime an existing target list of verified sites where there
>> were deployed WMD.
>>
>> Coalition assets were more than sufficient for the initial strike and
>> invasion phase but even at that point in the planning, we were
>> concerned about the number of "boots on the ground" for the occupation
>> (and end game) stage of an operation in Iraq. We were also concerned
>> about the American plans for occupation plans of Iraq because they at
>> that stage included no contingency for a handing over of civil
>> authority to a vetted Iraqi government and bureaucracy.
>>
>> There was no detailed plan for Iraq being "liberated" and returned to
>> its people...nor a thought to an eventual exit plan. This was contrary
>> to the lessons of Vietnam but also to current military thought, that
>> folks like Colin Powell and "Stuffy" Leighton and others elucidated
>> upon. "What's the mission" how long is the mission, what conditions
>> are to met before US troop can redeploy? Prime Minister Jean Chretien
>> and the PMO were even at the very preliminary planning stages wary of
>> Canadian involvement in an Iraq operation....History would prove them
>> correct. The political pressure being applied on the PMO from the
>> George W Bush administration was onerous
>>
>> American military assets were extremely overstretched, and Canadian
>> military assets even more so It was proposed by the PMO that Canadian
>> naval platforms would deploy to assist in naval quarantine operations
>> in the Gulf and that Canadian army assets would deploy in Afghanistan
>> thus permitting US army assets to redeploy for an Iraqi
>> operation....The PMO thought that "compromise would save Canadian
>> lives and liberal political capital.. and the priority of which
>> ....not necessarily in that order. "
>>
>> You can bet that I called these sneaky Yankees again today EH John
>> Adams? of the CSE within the DND?
>>
>> http://www.socom.mil/
>>
>>
>> 84. The Plaintiff states that the RCMP is well aware that he went to
>> western Canada in 2104 at the invitation of a fellow Maritimer in
>> order to assist in his attempt to investigate the murders of many
>> people in Northern BC. The Plaintiff has good reasons to doubt his
>> fellow Maritimer’s motives. The fact that he did not tell the
>> Plaintiff until he had arrived in BC that he had invited a Neo Nazi he
>> knew the Plaintiff strongly disliked to the same protest that he was
>> staging in front of the court house in Prince George on August 21,
>> 2014. The Plaintiff was looking forward to meeting Lonnie Landrud so
>> he ignored the Neo Nazi. Several months after their one and only
>> meeting, Lonnie Landrud contacted the Plaintiff and asked him to
>> publish a statement of his on the Internet and to forward it to anyone
>> he wished. The Plaintiff obliged Landrud and did an investigation of
>> his own as well. He has informed the RCMP of his opinion of their
>> actions and has done nothing further except monitor the criminal
>> proceedings the Crown has placed against the Neo Nazi in BC and save
>> his videos and webpages and that of his associates. The words the
>> Plaintiff stated in public in Prince George BC on August 21, 2014 were
>> recorded by the Neo Nazi and published on the Internet and the RCMP
>> knows the Plaintiff stands by every word. For the public record the
>> Plaintiff truly believes what Lonnie Landrud told him despite the fact
>> that he does not trust his Neo Nazi associates. Therefore the
>> Plaintiff had no ethical dilemma whatsoever in publishing the
>> statement Lonnie Landrud mailed to him in a sincere effort to assist
>> Lonnie Landrud’s pursuit of justice. The Crown is well aware that
>> Plaintiff’s former lawyer, Barry Bachrach once had a leader of the
>> American Indian Movement for a client and that is why he ran against
>> the former Minister of Indian Affairs for his seat in the 39th
>> Parliament.
>>
>> 85. The Plaintiff states that while he was out west he visited
>> Edmonton AB several times and met many people. He visited the home of
>> Barry Winters and all his favourite haunts in the hope of meeting in
>> person the evil person who had been sexually harassing and threatening
>> to kill him and his children for many years. The Crown cannot deny
>> that Winters invited him many times. On June 13, 2015 Barry Winters
>> admitted the EPS warned him the Plaintiff was looking for him.
>>
>> On 12/21/15, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: "Rabson, Mia"<Mia.Rabson@freepress.mb.ca>
>>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 20:45:36 +0000
>>> Subject: Automatic reply: Attn Wab Kinew
>>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> I will be out of the office until Monday, January 4.
>>> If you need immediate assistance please contact our city desk at 613
>>> 697 7292 or fpcity@freepress.mb.ca.
>>> Happy Holidays!
>>>
>>> Mia Rabson
>>> Parliamentary Bureau Chief
>>> Winnipeg Free Press
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: "Sarra R. Deane"<s.deane@uwinnipeg.ca>
>>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 20:10:12 +0000
>>> Subject: Automatic reply: Attn Wab Kinew
>>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> I will be out of the office until Thursday, Nov. 12th. I will
>>> respond to emails upon my return. Miigwech and all the best.
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:45:29 -0400
>>> Subject: Fwd: Attn Wab Kinew
>>> To: mia.rabson@freepress.mb.ca, Paul.Samyn@freepress.mb.ca,
>>> "carolyn.bennett"<carolyn.bennett@parl.gc.ca>, Doug@dougeyolfson.ca,
>>> doug.eyolfson@parl.gc.ca
>>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> http://www.winnipegfreepress.
>>>
>>> Peacemaker
>>> Group pushes for Truth and Reconciliation chairman to get Nobel Prize
>>>
>>> By: Mia Rabson
>>> Posted: 12/19/2015 3:00 AM | Last Modified: 12/19/2015 6:12 AM
>>>
>>> " Murray Sinclair already has an impressive resumé.
>>>
>>> He's the first aboriginal judge appointed to the bench in Manitoba,
>>> co-commissioner of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry and chairman of the
>>> Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
>>>
>>> But if a group of Canadians has its way, he will get one of the
>>> highest honours in the world to add to the list: Nobel Peace Prize
>>> recipient.
>>>
>>> "He and Phil Fontaine should share a Nobel Peace Prize," said Wab
>>> Kinew, associate vice-president for indigenous relations at the
>>> University of Winnipeg.
>>>
>>> Kinew said a group of people in Winnipeg, Toronto and Ottawa are
>>> collaborating to nominate the two men, who they believe are jointly
>>> responsible for giving back hope to Canada's indigenous people that
>>> hasn't existed in a long time.
>>>
>>> "They made it into something that is peace-building and
>>> nation-building," Kinew said. "It has really transformed our country."
>>>
>>> Mia Rabson, Ottawa Bureau Chief
>>> 613-369–4824
>>>
>>> Paul
>>> Samyn, Editor
>>> 204–697–7295
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:05:01 -0400
>>> Subject: Attn Wab Kinew
>>> To: w.kinew@uwinnipeg.ca, "Paul.Lynch"
>>> <Paul.Lynch@edmontonpolice.ca>, "Marianne.Ryan"
>>> <Marianne.Ryan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
>>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> https://baconfatreport.
>>> -to-know-anything-about-injuns/
>>>
>>> http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/about/
>>> Vice-President, Indigenous Affairs
>>>
>>> Wab Kinew
>>> phone: 204.789.9931
>>> email: w.kinew@uwinnipeg.ca
>>> Biography/Publications
>>>
>>> Executive Assistant
>>>
>>> Sarra Deane
>>> phone: 204.988.7121
>>> email: s.deane@uwinnipeg.ca
>>>
>>
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Tom practices in the area of civil litigation focusing on corporate/commercial litigation, securities litigation, product liability defence and class action defence. His clients include major corporations, banks, law firms, religious institutions and individuals.
He has provided litigation advice and representation to major corporations in Canada, the United States and Europe. He regularly accepts referrals from major national law firms.
He has appeared at all levels of Court in Nova Scotia and has represented clients in matters in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, including the Divisional Court, the Supreme Court of British Columbia, the New Brunswick Court of Queen’s Bench, the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Federal Court of Canada, and the Supreme Court of Canada.
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A trial lawyer for over 25 years, primarily representing individuals in divorce and family law cases, Jane has appeared in all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada.
Although she regularly advocates in court for her clients, Jane is well aware of the value in out of court settlements. She has successfully saved the majority of her clients from the financial and emotional cost of trial.
Jane holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Acadia University, where she graduated as a University Scholar in 1984. She earned her law degree from Dalhousie University in 1987 after receiving the top awards in Evidence and Professional Responsibility. Following law school, Jane articled at the Toronto head office of Canada’s largest law firm, McCarthy Tétrault, and was called to both the Ontario and Nova Scotia bars in 1990.
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October 2012 and September 2013 in our quest to promote the
improvement of members’ conditions of employment and work while
maintaining their welfare and dignity. At present we have 90 open
files which we are actively pursuing on behalf of our members.
How successful have we been?
“As an RCMP officer who worked at a large Municipal Detachment, my
worst nightmare happened a few years ago. I was wrongly accused of a
criminal offence. The matter was investigated by an outside police
force. In my opinion the investigation was sub-standard and less than
honest. When I contacted the local SRR of “J” Division, then Sgt.
Gilles Blinn, he immediately initiated moral support knowing the
circumstances.
The following three years were the hardest in our lives. Not only
psychologically and emotionally but also financially. The financial
hardship was beyond explanation. The situation was very hard on my
wife, my daughters as well as my extended family not to mention
co-workers, community, friends and myself.
We suffered through a very long and protracted court trial which
totally exonerated me.
Our first action after the trial was to initiate a legal suit against
that police force who did a horrible and malicious investigation
against me. All legal opinions were that it would take years, money
and there would be only discipline to the investigators without
financial reimbursement as I was found clearly not guilty.
I requested a reimbursement of my legal fees at public expense from
the Federal Government which took a few years to respond back only to
deny my request.
Then Legal Fund Representatives from “J” Division, S/Sgt. Gilles Blinn
and the “J” Division Legal Fund Board immediately initiated the
process to have my legal fees covered. This consisted of a review of
my case to the Legal Fund National Executive.
Thinking that it would take several months or years we were very
anxious over the process. However just a few weeks later I received
the news that my request for reimbursement was accepted and I did
receive the cheque for the total amount of my legal fees a short time
later. Now we can begin the healing process after all those years of
what I would describe as a living hell.
As my case clearly shows the RCMP policies/training did not protect me
from criminal
prosecution and the jeopardy with respect to having to disburse
thousands of dollars out
of my own pocket to fight a frivolous and vexatious prosecution.
On behalf of myself and my family, I wanted to express my sincere
appreciation as well as a heartfelt “thank you” to the Mounted Police
Members’ Legal Fund for relieving our anxiety and financial pressure.
In closing, I want to strongly encourage members to support the Legal
Fund and join immediately if you are not a member. Any one member can
be placed in a position such as I found myself. You never know what
can happen to you!
Sgt. Al Boulianne
Because of privacy concerns and court ordered non-publication of
details we do not publish many of the comments we receive. We however
certainly like it when members show their appreciation and support.
Girl made sexual advances, Mountie testifies
A Moncton RCMP officer facing charges of sexually exploiting a teenaged girl says the girl made advances on him, but he rejected them.
Cpl. Al Boulianne, charged with two counts of sexual exploitation while in a position of trust, gave the Court of Queen's Bench his version of one of the alleged incidents of impropriety during a ride in his police vehicle in 2004.
Boulianne, who was the head of the Codiac RCMP detachment's traffic enforcement section, said the complainant, 15 years old at the time, leaned over and tried to kiss him.
He said he pushed away the girl, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, but then she warned him not to tell her father or she would paint Boulianne as the one who had initiated the kiss.
On another occasion, the complainant grabbed his crotch and tried to unzip his pants, he testified. She also massaged his neck and shoulders and said he was driving her crazy, he said.
"I'm a hugging-type person, but nothing sexual. I looked to her like my daughter," said Boulianne, who has been suspended with pay since 2007 when the allegations against him surfaced.
He said he now regrets allowing the complainant to visit his house after the first incident. He should have banished her from his house, he said, as the complainant looked on, occasionally crying during his testimony.
Boulianne described the complainant, who was a friend of his daughter's, as a troubled girl who had just moved to Moncton, missed her former friends and had a troubled relationship with her parents.
He said out of Christian compassion, he and his wife began treating the complainant as their own daughter, but the complainant responded inappropriately to that kindness.
He said she even began dressing like his wife and dyed her hair to look like hers.
On Monday, the complainant told the court Boulianne had sexually abused her during the time she was babysitting his children, but she only told her story to authorities after being pressured to do so by a boyfriend.
At the time of the alleged incidents, she had blamed herself for everything that had happened, she said.
Final arguments in the case will be heard Thursday.
Mistrial discussed in Mountie's sexual exploitation case
A judge has adjourned until Dec. 8 his decision in the case of a Moncton RCMP officer charged with sexually exploiting a teenaged girl.
During closing arugments on Thursday, Justice George Rideout of the Court of Queen's Bench asked the Crown prosecutor if he was seeking a mistrial.
Prosecutor Bill Richards had argued that Cpl. Al Boulianne's testimony contravened the judge's earlier ruling that the complainant's previous sexual history couldn't be entered as evidence.
Richards told the judge he was not seeking a mistrial "because I know you'll take it into account."
Boulianne, who was the head of the Codiac RCMP detachment's traffic enforcement section, is charged with two counts of sexual exploitation while in a position of trust.
The complainant, who was 15 years old at the time of the alleged incidents in 2004, cannot be identified under a publication ban.
Attacks testimony
Boulianne has been suspended with pay since 2007 when the allegations against him surfaced. He told the court the girl was the one who made sexual advances and that he spurned them.
The prosecutor described Boulianne's testimony as a "slash and burn character assassination" of the complainant. He pointed to Boulianne's assertion that the girl had been into drugs, alcohol and sex since she was 12.
Defence lawyer James Letcher argued the complainant's stories did not add up and that she didn't act like an abused person because she had bragged to a friend that she was involved with an older man who had a wife and children
Letcher also suggested the complainant's motivations for going to the authorities were clouded by her "turbulent and troubling life at the time."
The court heard that the girl's boyfriend was threatening to leave her unless she filed a complaint and that she had recently found out she was pregnant by that boyfriend.
The prosecutor argued that the fact Boulianne didn't tell his wife or his superiors what was going on constituted an inconsistency in his story. "He's a police officer trained in evidence and preserving the crime scene," said Richards.
He also pointed out that Boulianne had shredded a ride-along waiver signed by the complainant, which coincided with one of the alleged incidents.
N.B. Mountie facing two counts of sexual exploitation
A New Brunswick RCMP officer has been charged with two counts of sexual exploitation while in a position of trust.
The charges stem from alleged incidents four years ago.
Cpl. Al Boulianne, who headed the Codiac detachment's traffic division in the Moncton area, has been suspended with pay since the allegations surfaced last fall.
The case is still under investigation, said Cpl. Sandra Christopher.
"In the meantime, he has been suspended with pay and anything further will have to wait to see the outcome of the charges," Christopher said.
A preliminary hearing date will be set when the case returns to court Aug. 18.
Mountie's prosecution unfair: defence lawyer
An RCMP officer on trial in Moncton on charges of sexually exploiting a teenaged girl is being unfairly prosecuted, his lawyer says.
Cpl. Al Boulianne is charged with two counts of sexual exploitation while in a position of trust. The complainant is now aged 20 — she was 15 when the alleged incidents occurred — but her name cannot be made public because of a publication ban.
Boulianne led the Codiac RCMP detachment's traffic division until he was suspended with pay when the allegations surfaced in 2003.
James Letcher, Boulianne's lawyer, told the Court of Queen's Bench in Moncton that the investigation into Boulianne was not fair.
"This is a narrow, one-[dimensional], tunnel-vision investigation" Letcher said in court.
Letcher's charge came on Tuesday, as he questioned Annie St. Jacques, a Crown prosecutor who was involved with the case.
She had corroborated testimony from another prosecutor about a conversation involving Boulianne. They both remembered that Boulianne had stormed out of their office after the lawyers laughed at his suggestion that younger women might be attracted to older men.
Letcher tried to ask St. Jacques whether her work had ever been called unprofessional.
The judge disallowed that line of questioning, prompting Letcher to tell the court he felt his client has been unfairly prosecuted.
Complainant testified Monday
On Monday, the complainant took the stand to discuss the allegations that surfaced when she was 15. She maintained her account that Boulianne had abused her during the time she was babysitting his children.
But under cross-examination, she revealed she only told her story to authorities after being pressured to do so by a boyfriend.
She also said she had socialized with the Boulianne family several times after the incidents, and that she had once even called him for spiritual guidance during a time when she was depressed.
She broke down in tears several times on the witness stand and said that at the time of the alleged incidents, she blamed herself for everything that had happened.
Mountie found not guilty of sexual exploitation
RCMP Cpl. Al Boulianne has been found not guilty on two counts of sexual exploitation while in a position of trust.
Court of Queen's Bench Justice George Rideout handed down the decision on Tuesday afternoon in the Moncton, N.B., courtroom.
The complainant, who was 15 years old at the time of the alleged incidents in 2004, cannot be identified because of a publication ban.
She looked shocked as the verdict was read and looked straight ahead.
At the same time, Boulianne cried and his wife rushed over to embrace him. As the couple left court, Boulianne told reporters that he was happy the ordeal was over.
"It was over two years of hell for my family, myself, my church and everybody so we're so happy now that it's all over. We're happy," he said. "Thank you very much. Now we're gonna have a nice Christmas."
Boulianne, who headed the Codiac detachment's traffic division in the Moncton area, has been suspended with pay since the allegations surfaced in 2007.
Earlier in the trial, Boulianne told the court the girl was the one who made sexual advances and that he had spurned them.
In rendering his decision, Rideout said the two sides offered contradictory stories, and in the end he could not find any evidence to corroborate the complainant's side. The Crown prosecutor has 30 days to decide on whether to appeal the decision.
Boulianne now faces an internal RCMP investigation into his conduct.
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