From: David Amos<david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, May 28, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: YO Andrea Anderson-Mason You are welcome However methinks you and the former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould are way past too late to act ethical N'esy Pas?
To: Gregory Marquis <gmarquis@unb.ca>
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From: Gregory Marquis <gmarquis@unb.ca>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 15:05:27 +0000
Subject: Re: YO Paul Mazerolle Never mind the crooks who write the
laws when are you people in UNB finally gonna uphold the laws?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.c
Hi
Got your email and message. I have no control over what other
professors do and vice versa. And neither does the President.
Greg Marquis
Professor
Department of History and Politics
University of New Brunswick Saint John
P.O. Box 5050
Saint John, NB, E2L 4L5
506 648-5638
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From: Gregory Marquis <gmarquis@unb.ca>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 15:16:19 +0000
Subject: Re: YO Andrea Anderson-Mason You are welcome However methinks
you and the former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould are way past
too late to act ethical N'esy Pas?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.c
Hi
That is a bit outside of my area.
Greg Marquis
Professor
Department of History and Politics
University of New Brunswick Saint John
P.O. Box 5050
Saint John, NB, E2L 4L5
506 648-5638
Maritime Noon with Bob Murphy
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
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.
Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,"Bev BUSSON"bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
"Paul Dube"PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has
forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have not
Dear Mr. Amos,
Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off
over the holidays and>> was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our
position is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the
Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear
that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada
the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment
and policing in Petitcodiac, NB.
It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on
December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
Sincerely,
Warren McBeath, Cpl.
GRC Caledonia RCMP
Traffic Services NCO
Ph: (506) 387-2222
Fax: (506) 387-4622
E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Wednesday 6 September 2023
Kris Austin on tour to market crime-reduction plan to N.B. officials
Kris Austin on tour to market crime-reduction plan to N.B. officials
Government wouldn't share details about the tour, the stops, or whether the meetings are public
Kris Austin was in Miramichi recently for the first of 12 stops to market his "safer communities action plan."
Department of Public Safety spokesperson Allan Dearing said Austin was unavailable last week for an interview about the meetings. CBC News later asked Dearing for any information about the meetings but he did not respond.
However, parts of Austin's presentation were shared on Facebook by Miramichi MLA Michelle Conroy.
"We had a great turnout of officers, medics and first responders last night at the Crime Reduction meeting in Newcastle with Minister Kris Austin, Deputy Minister Mike Comeau and the team from [the Department] of Public Safety," said Conroy, in her online post.
"This was their first meeting of 12 across the province for discussions on what is being done and what more can be done to reduce crime in NB."
Miramichi
MLA Michelle Conroy shared part of a presentation given in her riding
by Public Safety Minister Kris Austin pertaining to crime in the
province. (Radio-Canada)
CBC News also requested an interview with Conroy about the meeting, but did not receive a response.
Compassionate Intervention Act to be proposed
As part of her post, Conroy shared pictures of slides from the presentation.
One of them, titled "Safer Communities Action Plan Items," showed a table with a series of strategic priorities along with timelines for implementing them.
The priorities were split into four categories around added law enforcement, increased partnerships, modernizing legislation and optimizing the criminal justice system.
Conroy
shared a photo online of a presentation slide showing crime and police
statistics for New Brunswick, which were shared at a meeting hosted by
Public Safety Minister Kris Austin. (Michelle Conroy/Facebook)
Some of the priorities have been previously shared by the province, including the plan to hire 80 more RCMP officers, as well as equipping peace officers with carbines and Tasers.
Other priorities hadn't been publicly shared before, such as a plan to propose a "Compassionate Intervention Act" by the end of October.
A
slide from a presentation given by Public Safety Minister Kris Austin
hints at his government's plan to reduce crime in the province. (Michelle Conroy/Facebook)
Other items not revealed before included a "trespass proposal," a "security guard proposal," the creation of a central New Brunswick correctional centre, as well as a "specialized policing model."
Conroy also posted a photo showing a slide titled "Crime Rate and Policing Trends," which showed statistics on New Brunswick's crime rate, its rate of police officers per 100,000 people and the rate of crimes solved, compared to the national average.
Tour comes amid dissatisfaction with police services
Austin's tour is the latest in his government's tough-on-crime approach, which has taken particular aim at stamping out illegal drugs by going after alleged dealers.
It's also happening amid dissatisfaction with policing services in the province — particularly the Mounties, who provide policing to the City of Moncton and to smaller municipalities not covered by a municipal police force.
High-profile acts of vigilante justice in the past year have shone a spotlight on that dissatisfaction, with Saint Andrews Mayor Brad Henderson saying in July that public confidence in police in his community was "at an all-time low."
A positive perspective
Jeffrey Sheasgreen, a Miramichi River Valley councillor, has a more positive perspective on the crime and policing situation in his newly formed municipality, which is just west of Miramichi.
He attended the meeting in Miramichi last week and said he was pleased with what he heard.
"I think the RCMP, and all all our peace officers and stuff, are doing a great job and, you know, I think the plan going forward is good," Sheasgreen said.
"If we're employing more people, more officers, then of course that's going to help us, right? It's going to get a better feeling from people in the public when they see more police officers on the go all the time."
Sheasgreen said Austin also discussed plans to provide more assistance to places like Harvest House Miramichi, which offer help for those facing addiction and homelessness.
Last spring, the provincial government announced it was spending $32.6 million to hire 80 more RCMP officers and increase police visibility.
The province also announced it was increasing its funding for various addiction and mental health supports by $5.1 million and was putting $3.7 million toward reducing the rates of inmates re-offending.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The RCMP at 150: What Next?
By Greg Marquis
2023 marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of the North-West Mounted Police, the predecessor to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Despite its strategic plan, Vision 150 and Beyond, the future of the RCMP, for decades a positive symbol of English Canadian nationalism and part of Canada’s international brand, is not assured. Even in its historic birthplace, Saskatchewan and Alberta, provincial politicians recently have called for its removal from provincial policing. Phrases such as ‘RCMP in crisis,’ and ‘RCMP at crossroads’ are common in journalism and political discourse. Compared to past anniversaries, commemorations of the history of the NWMP-RCMP have been all but absent. Journalists, politicians, academics, lawyers and activists- and a new national RCMP union-have been offering solutions for a host of problems associated with the world-famous organization. This blog post suggests a change that has been largely absent in the discussion to date: rebranding.
NWMP in London, Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, 1897
By the 20th century the public image of the Mounted Police was largely the creation of popular culture in the form of memoirs, historical writing, newspaper and magazine articles, dime novels, radio programs, comic strips, Hollywood movies and television [1] Despite the mythic nature of the organization’s early history, the survival of the NWMP was neither expected nor guaranteed and the creation of the RCMP as more of a national, as opposed to a regional force owed more to conservative fears of labour and political unrest after the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike than fears of crime. And the expansion of the new federal force into provincial contract policing, where most of its members work at present, was largely because provinces were in financial crisis during the Great Depression or found the funding formula to their advantage. The public image of the force stressed its discipline, efficiency and crime fighting capabilities, but starting in the 1970s academics and some journalists began to uncover its conservatism and hostility towards popular movements.
In 1919 the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Act was amended to rename the existing force the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and to absorb an older federal enforcement body, the Dominion Police. Earlier in the year, the jurisdiction of the RNWMP had been extended to cover all of Canada., but the new RCMP had a modest start in the Maritime provinces. By 1925, when the Mounted Police totaled nearly 1,000 all ranks, less than 3% of the force was stationed in the Maritimes. By 1932, when it took over provincial (rural) policing in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island as well as the Customs Preventive Service, one Mountie in five was posted in nearly 80 detachments in the region. One important Mounted Police task in the 1930s and 1940s was enforcing liquor laws during the transition from prohibition to provincial alcohol control. Further expansion came in 1949 after Newfoundland and Labrador joined Canada, but the absorption of the British Columbia Provincial Police in 1950 and population increases in the rural Western provinces (and the growth of RCMP municipal policing contracts in British Columbia) meant that only a minority the force would be deployed to Atlantic Canada. Yet within the region, outside of urban communities, the Mounted Police remained a major institution and in towns and cities it has been involved in drug and other federal investigations. Federal policing also involves responding to organized and financial crime. According to its 2019 report, the RCMP is responsible for 70% of New Brunswick’s population, and “97% of its landmass.”[2] Although technically housing provincial police, the detachment buildings of the RCMP in small communities such as Neguac, N.B., New Minas, N.S., Souris, PEI and Baie Verte, Newfoundland and Labrador, are important symbols of the federal government in the region. Other than a post office, they are often the only federal building in a community.
Provincial governments and some small municipalities, despite periodic complaints about costs, accountability and levels of service, continued to renew contracts with the RCMP. Under current Police Service Agreements, the federal government covers 30% of the cost of provincial policing. For municipalities under 15,000, federal taxpayers provide the same percentage but for those with greater populations, like Moncton, Dieppe and Riverview, N.B (policed by the Codiac detachment) municipalities pay 90%.[3] In 2032, contracts with eight provinces, three territories and dozens of municipalities are scheduled to expire. This raises the question: what will the RCMP look like in ten years? Recently, a number of municipalities in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia have expressed frustration with RCMP services and the media had reported acts of vigilante justice, supposedly justified by the unwillingness or inability of the Mounties to deter crime in small towns and rural communities. In addition, vacancy rates in RCMP detachments in the region (and especially Newfoundland and Labrador and PEI) persist, despite a pay hike necessitated by the first collective agreement for the recently certified RCMP union, the National Police Federation.[4]
Rural Maritime municipalities and small towns are not the only jurisdictions questioning the appropriateness of contracting police services with the federal force. Elected officials in British Columbia and Alberta have explored the possibility of returning to the past model of provincial constabularies. Ontario and Quebec have been operating provincial police services for decades. Although the future of the RCMP has not been so uncertain since the 1920s, Mike Duheme, its current commissioner who was appointed in 2023 after the resignation of the first permanent female commissioner, Brenda Lucki, has stated that he wants to not only modernize institutional culture, but also expand the size of the organization, which now sits at 19,000 officers and 11,000 civilian employees.[5] Yet at present, the force is under its authorized strength and has been forced to adjust some of its paramilitary policies, such as the traditional rule that new recruits could not be posted to their home province.
Aided by a sympathetic press, a public raised on romantic, nationalist history and politicians who were loath to criticize the RCMP in public, the force enjoyed wide support in English Canada. As it expanded in the post-1945 era, the institution burnished its image as an effective crime-fighting machine that also protected Canada’s national security during the Cold War. Even the revelations in the late 1970s and early 1980s of dirty tricks and illegal activities targeting Quebec separatists and leftists across Canada did little to diminish the RCMP’s approval ratings outside Quebec. And support for removing security and intelligence duties to a civilian agency, which was accomplished in 1984, was not universal. In short, despite the appearance of more vocal critics in the 1960s, the RCMP benefited from a halo effect. This in large part explains why it has weathered short-term controversies such as the drug prosecution of New Brunswick premier Richard Hatfield in 1985, its response to the anti-shale gas fracking protests in New Brunswick in 2013, or the factors that led to the murder of three Mounties and the wounding of two others in Moncton a year later. [6]
In the last two decades calls for change, or even the abolition of the RCMP, have become more frequent. Starting in 2007 a number of official inquiries revealed an institutional culture characterized by bullying, harassment, misogyny, racism, homophobia, hostility to outside criticism and resistance to change. Successful class action suits were launched by female members and civilian employees and victims of the “LGBT purge” starting in the late 1950s. In 2019 the RCMP issued an apology for its role in supporting Canada’s system of residential schools which for more than a century attempted to erase indigenous culture. Although the force is more diverse than many other Canadian police services, its relationship with indigenous individuals and communities is far from ideal. Since the 1970s, in a stark demonstration of race-based policing, it has been gathering intelligence on indigenous activists and land defenders like they are threats to national security. Yet, as part of the legacy of colonialism, indigenous communities in the Maritimes, where there are no First Nations police services, are dependent on RCMP for basic policing. Levels of trust and satisfaction in these situations are not high.[7] There are also concerns about RCMP use of deadly force and the effectiveness of its public complaints process. Indigenous leaders in New Brunswick were especially concerned in 2020 after a Mountie shot and killed Rodney Levi, a member of the Metepenagiag First Nation. This incident followed the death of Chantal Moore, a young indigenous woman, at the hands of a municipal police officer in Edmundston, N.B. Although the problem has not been studied as closely in Atlantic Canada as in other regions, Indigenous people appear to be victims of both over policing and under policing.[8]
In 2020 the federal government announced a review of the contract system, which some experts contended was hindering the RCMP in carrying out its core mission – federal policing. Things took a dramatic and urgent turn with the mass casualty event of that year, when an individual driving a replica RCMP vehicle murdered 22 Nova Scotians, 13 of them in the small community of Portapique. One of the victims was a Mounted Police officer, but victims’ families and others were unhappy with not only how the RCMP responded to the incident, but also its actions and statements in the immediate aftermath. Many believed that the failure of the force to issue an emergency alert in April 2020 contributed to the deaths of several people. The final report of the Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission concurred that the RCMP in Nova Scotia had failed to protect the public. The report included a recommendation for a comprehensive external review of the force, questioned its suitability for rural policing and criticized the traditional paramilitary training of cadets at the force’s Regina Depot. One hundred and fifty years after the creation of the NWMP, and just over a century after the formation of the RCMP, its future as currently constituted and deployed is uncertain. Some are calling for its abolition; others are suggesting that it be divested of contract policing, and for indigenous communities, municipalities and provinces to create their own services. There are also calls to make the RCMP more accountable to the public and to institute a truly independent civilian complaints process.[9]
If the RCMP survives, possibly as a smaller organization, and hopefully a more accountable one, in the interest of true reform and reconciliation there should also be serious consideration of a name change. This not without precedent- the NWMP was renamed the Royal North-West Mounted Police in 1904 in recognition of the contributions of its members and ex members to furthering British Imperialism, namely fighting in the South African War. And a new name (with connection to the frontier era) was devised in 1920. All three names date from a controversial period in Canada’s past, when nation and Empire building meant the subjugation and control of indigenous people in the West and the expansion of predatory British Imperialism over the black majority in South Africa.
The names of police services change from time to time, such as when there is an amalgamation. Glasgow maintained its own constabulary for decades until it became part of a regional service in 1975. In 2013, the eight regional police services in Scotland were merged to create the Police Service of Scotland. The RCMP is not being amalgamated-if anything it is likely to shrink in size in the future as municipalities and provinces create their own police services. A better precedent is police reform in Northern Ireland, where for decades much of the Roman Catholic minority viewed the Royal Ulster Constabulary as a blunt tool for Protestant rule. After sectarian violence heated up in the late 1960s, more than 300 members of the force would be killed. Much of the peace process in Northern Ireland which began in the 1980s hinged on police reform, which involved re-inventing the police service. By 2001, the RUC, in an attempt to move it away from its sectarian, militarized past, was renamed the Police Service of Northern Ireland. The name change was part of a broader strategy of building legitimacy. Although police reform in Northern Ireland has not been totally successful, a 2021-22 survey suggested relatively high levels of public confidence. Of course, reform involved much more than a change of name, uniform, and symbols. [10]
There are parallels here with ongoing efforts in Canada to effect reconciliation by renaming schools and other public institutions and even streets that are associated with dark chapters of the past. The name Royal Canadian Mounted Police is anachronistic and privileges connections with the British monarchy-another institution that many Canadians view as out of date. It is also linked to colonialism and Imperialism. A new name, in addition to new approaches to training and organizational culture, would lessen associations with the institution’s problematic past. The Regina Depot and RCMP Museum (now the Heritage Centre), for example, are located on property where Métis leader Louis Riel was executed in 1885. RCMP recruits have not been trained to look after and ride horses since the early 1960s, the same time that officers stopped carrying riding crops. Modernizing the police service’s name, symbols, terminology and possibly even its famous red serge dress uniform and Stetson hat, could help break down the gulf between the police and public, one that is bound to be exacerbated by the recent advent of a RCMP union, the National Police Federation, whose leadership has been voicing “thin blue line” rhetoric that appears to clash with a more accountable and less militarized policing model. But rebranding by itself will not succeed in advancing policing based on respect and human rights unless RCMP culture can change from within, with rank-and-file support.
[1] Michael Dawson, The Mountie from Dime Novel to Disney (Between the Lines Press, 1998).
[2] RCMP Annual Report New Brunswick 2019: https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/nb/2019-annual-report.
[3] RCMP, “Contract Policing,” August 30, 2013: https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ccaps-spcca/contract-eng.htm.
[4] Ryan Tumilty, “Exclusive data reveal RCMP failing to fulfill provincial policing contracts across Canada,” National Post, July 21, 2023.
[5] Richard Raycraft, “New top Mountie pledges ‘change and growth’ at RCMP as he assumes command,” CBC News, May 25, 2023.
[6] Greg Marquis “The 2017 Moncton Canada Labour Code Trial and the Future of the RCMP,” Journal of NewBrunswick Studies, 11 (Fall 2019): 9-30; “Canada First Celebrity Drug Trial: R v. Hatfield, 1985,” Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 55, (2) (Summer 2021): 337-61
[7] Examining Police Policies and Practices in Mi’kma’ki – Pathways to Positive Policing Relationships. Public Safety Canada (2020): https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/rvw-plc-prctcs-stf/rvw-plc-prctcs-stf-en.pdf.
[8] J Robert Larmer, “The Highway Runs East: Poverty, Policing, and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women of Nova Scotia”, Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies, Volume 27, (2018): 89-126.
[9]Turning the Tide Together: Final Report of the Mass Casualty Commission Executive Summaryand Recommendations (Halifax: 2023): https://masscasualtycommission.ca/final-report/
[10] Findings from the 2021-2022 Northern Ireland Policing Plan Telephone Survey – Published 12 May 2022, Northern Ireland Policing Board, May 12, 2022: https://www.nipolicingboard.org.uk/news-centre/findings-2021-2022-northern-ireland-policing-plan-telephone-survey-published-12-may.
How Mountie mythology helped create a romantic vision of Canada
"The Mounties Always Get Their Land (Part 1)" now available
The Mountie is one of Canada's most enduring symbols. Found on souvenirs from key chains to clothing, our national police force are icons to the rest of the world — which makes The Secret Life of Canada wonder: how did that happen?
In part one of The Mounties Always Get Their Land, Leah and Falen look for the roots of a romanticized story and dive into early Hollywood to find the answer.
Then, with the help of Dr. Winona Wheeler, they investigate the
foundations of the North-West Mounted Police, the deep history of law
enforcement in the Canadian West and how early policing days created a
complex relationship with Indigenous people that, for better or worse,
continues on to this day.
Part one.
Listen for:
- An interview with Dr. Winona Wheeler, an associate professor of Indigenous Studies from the University of Saskatchewan, on the early history of the North-West Mounted Police.
- How Canada's first police force, The Dominion Police got started.
- Why Canada used the policing model from Ireland, and how Great Britain's use of India's police force also inspired young Canada as a prototype.
- A very brief history of Cypress Hill and how the massacre that happened there became catalyst in the solidifying the North-West Mounted police.
- How John A. Macdonald wanted to use the North-West Mounted police as law enforcers, and treaty negotiators — which meant dispossessing Indigenous people of their land.
- Why the vast Canadian West, or modern day Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories, became a focus for the police and Canadian government and how genocidal tactics were used to debilitate First Nations and Métis people.
- The role of Cree leaders like Chief Big Bear, Poundmaker, Little Pine, Lucky Man and the signing of Treaty Six.
- The police role in banning Indigenous meetings, feasts and ceremonies like the Sun Dance and Potlatch.
- Why early novels and Hollywood movies adopted the Canadian Mountie as a protagonist, and what Victorian nostalgia had to do with it.
Key References
- Dr. Winona Wheeler, Professor of Indigenous Studies University of Saskatchewan
- "Indigenous Genocide in Saskatchewan." Article By Robert Alexander Innes. Website: Shekon Neechie.
- "An Unauthorized History of the RCMP." Book by Caroline Brown and Lorne Brown.
- Poundmaker Cree Nation, Website
- Manitoba Metis Nation, Website
- "Police Brutality In Canada: A Symptom Of Structural Racism And Colonial Violence." Yellowhead Institute Article by Krista Stelkia.
- "The Mountie: From Dime Novel to Disney." Book by Michael Dawson
- "The History of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police." Website
- "Clearing the Plains: disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Aboriginal life." Book by James W. Daschuk
- Treaty Six, Treaty Research Report. Government of Canada by John Leonard Taylor
- "Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People." Book by by Michel Hogue
- "The Cypress Hills: The Land and Its People." Book by Brian Hubner and Walter Hildebrandt
- "The 'Irish model' and nineteenth‐century Canadian policing." Article by Greg Marquis
- "House of Commons Debates, Official Report, Volume 12." 1882, Canada House of Commons
Greg Marquis
UNB Research Scholar (2018-20)
PhD
Hazen Hall 325A
Saint John
Other titles
Professor, History Advisor
Greg Marquis received a BA (Honours) from St. Francis Xavier University in 1980 and an MA from the University of New Brunswick in 1982. He obtained a PhD from Queen's University in 1987 where his dissertation was on the history of the Toronto police force.
He taught at several Canadian universities before moving to the University of New Brunswick Saint John in 1999, where he specializes in Canadian history and criminal justice history. Professor Marquis has developed a number of courses in the area of law and society, including the history of homicide and capital punishment, the social history of crime, the history of the justice system, the history of policing, the history of alcohol, drugs and tobacco and the history of family law and policy. Together with Professor Michael Boudreau (St. Thomas University Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice), he maintains the site Crime and Punishment in New Brunswick.
Professor Marquis is on the editorial board of Acadiensis and the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs. He has also been active with community organizations such as Vital Signs Saint John, the New Brunswick Historical Society, the New Brunswick Black History Society and the Atlantic Coastal Action Plan Saint John.
In addition to criminal justice history, his research interests include urban history and urban policy, the history of popular culture and the history of alcohol and drugs.
Refereed books
In Armageddon's Shadow: The Civil War and Canada's Maritime Provinces (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000), issued in paperback with new preface and additional illustrations.
In Armageddon's Shadow: The Civil War and Canada's Maritime Provinces (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998).
Policing Canada's Century: A History of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (Toronto: Osgoode Society/University of Toronto Press, 1993).
Non-refereed books
John Lennon, Yoko Ono and the Year That Canada Was Cool (Toronto: Lorimer, 2020).
Truth & Honour: The Oland Family Murder Case That Shocked Canada (Nimbus: Halifax, 2019).
Truth & Honour: The Death of Richard Oland and the Trial of Dennis Oland, expanded paperback edition (Halifax: Nimbus, 2017).
Truth & Honour: The Death of Richard Oland and the Trial of Dennis Oland (Halifax: Nimbus, 2016).
The Vigilant Eye: Policing Canada from 1867 to 9/11 (Halifax: Fernwood, 2016).
Recent refereed articles and book chapters
Canada Celebrity First Drug Trial: R v. Hatfield, 1985,"Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 55, (2) (Summer 2021): 337-61
“Loyalists in the Attic: Saint John as a Loyalist City in 1883 and 1933,” in Gwendolyn Davies, Peter Larocque and Christl Verdyun eds. Saint John: The Creative City: Arts, Science and Literature 1867-1967 (Halifax: Formac, 2018): 76-83.
“Framing the Boy Problem: the 1902 Willie Doherty Murder,” Urban History Review, Vol. 47. Nos. 1-2 (Fall-Spring 2018-19): 27-38
“The 2017 Moncton Canada Labour Code Trial and the Future of the RCMP,” Journal of New Brunswick Studies, 11 (Fall 2019): 9-30
With Chantal Richard, Bonnie Huskins and Denis Bourque, “National Symbols and Commemorations: Analysing the Loyalist Centennial and the Conventions national acadiennes in the 1880s,” in Celebrating Canada: Commemorations, Anniversaries and National Symbols, Vol. 2, ed. by M. Hayday and R. Blake (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018): 26-51
“Growth Fantasies: Setting the Urban Agenda in Saint John, New Brunswick, 1960-1976,” (Research note), Acadiensis, XLVI (1) (Winter/Spring 2017): 122-44
“Death Hunt: The Mounties Meet the Conspiracy Thriller,” in Steven Kohm, SoniaBookman and Pauline Greenhill eds. Screening Justice: Canadian Crime Films, Culture and Society (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2016): 164-81
“A War within a War: Canadian Reactions to D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation,” Histoire sociale/Social History, XLVII (94) (June 2014): 421-42
With Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, "Gender, Spirits and Beer: Representing Female and Male Bodies in Canadian Alcohol Ads, 1930s-1970s," in J. Nichols and P. Gentile eds., Contests and Contestations: Bodies and Nations in Canadian History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013): 203-25
“Constructing an Urban Drug Ecology in 1970s Canada,” Urban History Review, XLI (2) (Spring 2013): 27-40
“’Incriminating Conditions of the Body’: The Breathalyzer and the Reframing of Alcohol and Deviance in Late 20th Century Canada,” Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, v. 26 (1) (Winter 2012): 46-68
"The Folk Music of Anglophone New Brunswick: Old-Time and Country Music in the 20th-Century,” Journal of New Brunswick Studies, Issue 3 (2012): 57-68
"Multilevel Governance and Public Policy in Saint John, New Brunswick," in Robert Young and Martin Horack eds., Sites of Governance: Multilevel Governance and Policy Making in Canada's Big Cities (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012): 136-61
"From Beverage to Drug: Alcohol and Other Drugs in 1960s and 1970s Canada," in Edgar-Andre Montigny ed., The Real Dope: Social, Legal and Historical Perspectives on the Use and Regulation of Drugs in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011): 219-41
"The 'Irish' Model and Nineteenth Century Canadian Policing," in Georgina Sinclair, ed. Globalizing British Policing (London: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2011): 99-124
"Confederation's Casualties: The 'Maritimer' as a Problem in 1960's Toronto,"Acadiensis, XXXIX (1) (Winter-Spring 2010): 83-107.
"Uneven Renaissance: Urban Development in Saint John, 1955-1976,"Journal of New Brunswick Studies, I (2010) [online journal]
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Crime and Punishment
This site is dedicated to the history of crime and punishment in New Brunswick, from the time of earliest European settlement until recent decades.
Crime and Punishment was created by:
- Prof. Greg Marquis, Department of History and Politics, UNB Saint John
- Prof. Michael Boudreau, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, St. Thomas University.
Special thanks to:
- UNBSJ Dean of Arts
- Harold Wright, Saint John historian
- Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
- Early Canadiana Online
- Jack Zhang
- Dan Wang
Closing Date: April 30, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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Standard Work Hours: Mon - Fri | 8:15 am - 4:30 pm | 36.25 hours per week
Salary Range: $42,400- $52,997 per annum.
YOUR FOCUS
Reporting to the History Chairperson, this position is responsible for carrying out the functions associated with editing and publishing a scholarly history journal.
- Managing the journal's circulation and fulfilment systems.
- Managing the peer assessment process (tracking submissions and obtaining assessors).
- Copyediting and proofing pieces that appear in the journal.
- Coordinating input from authors and working collaboratively with the academic (co-)editor(s)
- Handling the journal's finances in conjunction with the Editorial Board's treasurer.
- Handling the journal's correspondence.
- Planning and implementing marketing and promotion strategies.
- Completing grant applications.
- Producing journal issues in a timely fashion.
WHAT YOU BRING
- Undergraduate degree (History, Arts Administration, or other relevant field)
- 3 years administrative or managerial experience, in an academic or literary publishing context.
- Production and design skills relevant to print and online publication.
- A graduate degree in a relevant field would be considered an asset.
- Ability to understand and communicate in French would be an asset as Acadiensis is a bilingual journal.
- Strong computer skills and a demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, especially in Word and Excel.
Additional Strengths
- The ability to use and edit social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Drupal) would be an asset.
- The ability to operate and modify (if needed) the OJS and Submittable submission systems, and to use database and accounting software would be an asset.
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, in English.
- Analytical thinking skills and organizational skills.
- Ability to work in and foster a collaborative team environment.
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We thank all who apply; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
That is a bit outside of my area.
Greg Marquis
Professor
Department of History and Politics
University of New Brunswick Saint John
P.O. Box 5050
Saint John, NB, E2L 4L5
506 648-5638
Truth & Honour: The Oland Family Murder Case That Shocked Canada (Nimbus 2019)
https://www.audible.ca/search?
Truth & Honour: The Death of Richard Oland and the Trial of Dennis Oland revised paperback ed. (Nimbus 2017).
Truth & Honour: The Death of Richard Oland and the Trial of Dennis Oland (Nimbus, 2016):
The Vigilant Eye: Policing Canada from 1867 to 9/11 (Fernwood, 2016):fernwoodpublishing.ca/
Crime and Punishment in New Brunswick website:
www.unb.ca/saintjohn/arts/
From: David Amos<david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 11:22 AM
Subject: Just so everybody knows Dick Oland was a friend of mine and the Crown, his son's lawyers and the Saint John Cops know that I have been looking into his murder for years
To: <president@unb.ca>, <gmarquis@unb.ca>, <nobyrne@unb.ca>, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, steve.murphy <steve.murphy@ctv.ca>, Newsroom <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>, Jacques.Poitras <Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>, <Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, <cblatchford@postmedia.com>, <Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca>, <Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>, <Beverley.Busson@sen.parl.gc.ca>, <Frank.McKenna@td.com>, <Nathalie.Drouin@justice.gc.ca>, <David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca>, <rfife@globeandmail.com>, <investors@snclavalin.com>, <hannelie.stockenstrom@snclavalin.com>, <charles.nieto@snclavalin.com>, <Hartland.Paterson@snclavalin.com>, <PETER.MACKAY@bakermckenzie.com>, <pierre.poilievre.a3@parl.gc.ca>, <michael.chong.a1@parl.gc.ca>, <David.Lametti.a1@parl.gc.ca>
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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 15:15:08 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: YO Andrea Anderson-Mason You are welcome
However methinks you and the former Attorney General Jody
Wilson-Raybould are way past too late to act ethical N'esy Pas?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.c
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From: Gregory Marquis <gmarquis@unb.ca>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 15:05:27 +0000
Subject: Re: YO Paul Mazerolle Never mind the crooks who write the
laws when are you people in UNB finally gonna uphold the laws?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.c
Hi
Got your email and message. I have no control over what other
professors do and vice versa. And neither does the President.
Greg Marquis
Professor
Department of History and Politics
University of New Brunswick Saint John
P.O. Box 5050
Saint John, NB, E2L 4L5
506 648-5638
Truth & Honour: The Oland Family Murder Case That Shocked Canada (Nimbus 2019)
https://www.audible.ca/search?
Truth & Honour: The Death of Richard Oland and the Trial of Dennis
Oland revised paperback ed. (Nimbus 2017).
Truth & Honour: The Death of Richard Oland and the Trial of Dennis
Oland (Nimbus, 2016):
The Vigilant Eye: Policing Canada from 1867 to 9/11 (Fernwood,
2016):fernwoodpublishing.ca/bo
Crime and Punishment in New Brunswick website:
www.unb.ca/saintjohn/arts/proj
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From: Gregory Marquis <gmarquis@unb.ca>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 15:16:19 +0000
Subject: Re: YO Andrea Anderson-Mason You are welcome However methinks
you and the former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould are way past
too late to act ethical N'esy Pas?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.c
Hi
That is a bit outside of my area.
Greg Marquis
Professor
Department of History and Politics
University of New Brunswick Saint John
P.O. Box 5050
Saint John, NB, E2L 4L5
506 648-5638
Truth & Honour: The Oland Family Murder Case That Shocked Canada (Nimbus 2019)
https://www.audible.ca/search?
Truth & Honour: The Death of Richard Oland and the Trial of Dennis
Oland revised paperback ed. (Nimbus 2017).
Truth & Honour: The Death of Richard Oland and the Trial of Dennis
Oland (Nimbus, 2016):
The Vigilant Eye: Policing Canada from 1867 to 9/11 (Fernwood,
2016):fernwoodpublishing.ca/bo
Crime and Punishment in New Brunswick website:
www.unb.ca/saintjohn/arts/proj
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Subject: YO Andrea Anderson-Mason You are welcome However methinks you
and the former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould are way past too
late to act ethical N'esy Pas?
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From: "Anderson-Mason, Andrea Hon. (JAG/JPG)"<Andrea.AndersonMason@gnb.ca>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 14:50:49 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: YO Paul Mazerolle Never mind the crooks who
write the laws when are you people in UNB finally gonna uphold the
laws?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.c
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada
UNB profs object to way new president is being hired
Secrecy leads to concerns about due diligence, but board of governors
cites need for confidentiality
CBC News · Posted: Jan 23, 2019 3:37 PM AT | Last Updated: January 23, 2019
Greg Marquis, a professor at the University of New Brunswick in Saint
John and a member of the senate, is concerned there wasn't as much
consultation with the university community as in the past for the
hiring of its next president. (UNB/Twitter)
Some professors at the University of New Brunswick don't like the way
the institution has gone about finding a replacement for retiring
president Eddy Campbell.
"It doesn't show due diligence and it doesn't really speak to real
consultation," said Greg Marquis, a history professor at the UNB Saint
John campus and a member of the senate on the Saint John campus.
Someone has just been chosen by members of the board of governors and
senates, but the name has to go to the premier as well and hasn't been
made public.
Marquis and some of his colleagues are not pleased there was no chance
for the broad university community to meet with proposed candidates in
a town hall type of setting, where they would have had a chance to
hear a presentation and ask questions.
"It seemed to be a very narrow consultation process and somewhat
secretive," he said. "It's like there's a hidden world operating
within the university to select these candidates and I don't think
that's right."
Marquis also doesn't like the decision to keep the names of candidates
under wraps.
"I can't even talk to the chair of my department about who the
candidate is, why they were selected, and what the selection process
was," said Marquis.
Larry Hachey, chair of the UNB board of governors, said the committee
tasked with hiring a new president consulted inside and outside the
UNB community in both Saint John and Fredericton about potential
candidates. (UNB)
"So that's very frustrating and strange for us to be working in that
type of environment."
UNB board of governors chair Larry Hachey acknowledged the school has
a tradition of having two or more candidates appear before the
university community to talk about what they'd like to do as president
but said it's not required under the UNB Act and no longer practical.
It seems like kind of a weird thing to have in a modern society.
- Greg Marquis, UNB Saint John professor
"That's something from at least 20 years ago and what's happened is
the landscape has changed."
"For example, let's say a potential candidate is a female and that
female may have a husband who's working," Hachey said. "Then it gets
known in the public she may be transferring, which may affect his
employment. Or vice versa.
"If we have two or three top candidates and two of the three decide
I'm not going to let my name stand if you're going to release it …
that's something we have to take into consideration."
Put UNB community first, profs say
That's not a good enough reason, according to the Association of
University of New Brunswick Teachers.
It issued a statement last week after members expressed concerns about
the search process.
"Privacy concerns of any candidate … should not outweigh the interests
of the UNB community," the association said on its website.
Eddy Campbell's five-year contract as president of UNB expires in July. (CBC)
"Any candidate recommended by the [joint nominating committee] should
make a public presentation prior to the joint meeting of senates and
the board.
"Sufficient time should be allowed after the presentation for senators
to consult with their colleagues."
Hachey said that town hall process could be brought back in the
future, depending on the privacy needs of the candidates.
But he is confident the person proposed by the joint nominating
committee was properly vetted, and he is comfortable with the amount
of consultation that took place.
"UNB has the most onerous hiring process in the country," he said
"With most universities the actual [hiring] committee is tasked with
hiring the president itself … at UNB we add on an extra layer of
bringing in our senates and boards to vote on the recommendation of
the committee."
Senate, board endorse name
That happened Tuesday night, said Hachey, and it resulted in a strong
endorsement.
He said a nominee has now been submitted to the premier and cabinet
and he hopes to get final approval from the lieutenant-governor soon,
possibly this week.
That last part of the process doesn't sit well with Marquis either.
"It seems like kind of a weird thing to have in a modern society," he said.
CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
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From: Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l’Ontario <Premier@ontario.ca>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 14:52:06 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: YO Paul Mazerolle Never mind the crooks who
write the laws when are you people in UNB finally gonna uphold the
laws?
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From: Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.c
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 01:24:19 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE SNC-Lavalin Trudeau and the OECD Attn Don
Houle, Denis Jasmin, William McNamara and Stephen LeDrew pursuant to
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Subject: Automatic reply: RE SNC-Lavalin Trudeau and the OECD Attn Don
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 21:24:10 -0400
Subject: RE SNC-Lavalin Trudeau and the OECD Attn Don Houle, Denis
Jasmin, William McNamara and Stephen LeDrew pursuant to my calls you
will find this email at the bottom of my blog about you dudes
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 12:05:00 -0400
Subject: YO Pierre Poilievre RE SNC-Lavalin I just called again and
managed to speak to Craig Patrick Hilimoniuk but he didn't have much
time for me just like David Lametti's people
To: pierre.poilievre.a3@parl.gc.ca
David.Lametti.a1@parl.gc.ca, Jody.Wilson-Raybould.a1@parl.g
maxime.bernier@parl.gc.ca, andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca,
charlie.angus@parl.gc.ca, Amarjeet.Sohi.a1@parl.gc.ca,
hannelie.stockenstrom@snclaval
Hartland.Paterson@snclavalin.c
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mcu@justice.gc.ca, JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca
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SNC-Lavalin lawyer Iacobucci urged to resign as Trudeau's Trans Mountain envoy
By Alastair Sharp in News, Energy, Politics | March 5th 2019
'Not a shrinking violet'
The UBCIC's Wilson said Iacobucci would ideally step down from his
role leading the Trans Mountain expansion consultations, but should at
least choose to remove himself from one of the files.
“I think he’s embroiled in SNC and that he should stay over there but
step down from the Trans Mountain pipeline one,” she said. “I would
prefer him to step down from that one (the Trans Mountain pipeline)
but maybe the majority of Canadians would prefer him out of SNC, I
don’t know.”
“He made a mess over there, we don’t want him to make a mess over here.”
Wilson said the government's handling of both files showed a startling
lack of transparency.
“With SNC, we don’t know what was said to Minister Jody
Wilson-Raybould or in the thousands of lobby meetings between SNC and
the government," she said. "We also don’t know how Trans Mountain was
handled in the inner core of the prime minister’s office and the
various ministries involved, especially now that they are owners of
the pipeline.”
She pointed out the SNC-Lavalin could clearly benefit from
construction and engineering contracts if Trans Mountain gets built.
SNC-Lavalin employs about 9,000 people across Canada who work on
projects in a variety of sectors, including oil, gas and pipelines.
A spokesman for SNC-Lavalin declined to comment when asked about
Iacobucci's dual roles. Iacobucci didn't respond to a request for
comment.
In May 2018, Canada’s elections watchdog laid charges against a former
SNC executive, accusing him of orchestrating illegal federal political
donations the company made, mostly to Liberal groups, as well as to
Conservatives, more than a decade ago.
During an emergency debate about the SNC-Lavalin scandal on Feb. 28,
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May stood in the House of Commons to muse
about Iacobucci's role in two key files it is juggling.
"Frank Iacobucci is not a shrinking violet. He is playing an
interesting role here. I wonder if my friend finds it's curious in any
way that SNC-Lavalin's lawyer was the choice of the prime minister to
run the Indigenous consulations in the repairing of the flawed
consultations on the Kinder Morgan pipeline," she said, during an
exchange in the Commons with Conservative MP Michael Barrett, who
represents the Ontario riding of Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands.
"And he is still playing that role, while he is also SNC-Lavalin's
lawyer."
Barrett responded by saying that nothing surprises him at this point.
Hartland Paterson
Executive Vice President & General Counsel:
Called to the bar: 1987 (QC)
Charles Nieto
Senior Legal Counsel:
Called to the bar: 1995 (QC)
SNC-Lavalin Inc.
455 boul. René-Lévesque o.
Montréal, Québec H2Z 1Z3
Phone: 514-393-8000 Ext: 522668
Fax: 514-866-5057
Email: charles.nieto@snclavalin.com
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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 22:48:08 -0400
Subject: ATTN Anthony Housefather Your boss Trudeau cannot stop your
friend Jody Wilson-Raybould talking about Re Federal Court File No
T-1557-15 Correct?
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politi
Wilson-Raybould says PMO restricting her ability to 'speak freely' at
Justice committee Wednesday
Former attorney general has been granted broad waiver on cabinet
confidence, solicitor-client privilege
Kathleen Harris · CBC News · Posted: Feb 26, 2019 10:59 AM ET
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 14:02:14 -0400
Subject: Re: ATTN Murray Rankin and David Lametti Re Federal Court
File No T-1557-15 I just called again Correct?
To: "Murray.Rankin"<Murray.Rankin@parl.gc.ca>, "Jody.Wilson-Raybould"
<Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.
<maxime.bernier@parl.gc.ca>, "andrew.scheer"
<andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca>, "bruce.northrup"<bruce.northrup@gnb.ca>,
"Brenda.Lucki"<Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Alaina.Lockhart"
<Alaina.Lockhart@parl.gc.ca>, "David.Lametti"
<David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca>, washington field
<washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, "Dale.Morgan"
<Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.c
"Nathalie.Drouin"<Nathalie.Drouin@justice.gc.ca
<nathan.cullen@parl.gc.ca>, "charlie.angus"<charlie.angus@parl.gc.ca>
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From: Murray.Rankin@parl.gc.ca
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 18:00:50 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: ATTN Murray Rankin and David Lametti Re
Federal Court File No T-1557-15 I just called again Correct?
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
For British Columbia media inquiries please email Krystal at
Murray.Rankin.C1@parl.gc.ca
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UFCW 232
On 2/26/19, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://murrayrankin.ndp.ca/ndp
>
>
> NDP calls for investigation into former Attorney General’s firing
>
> February 8th, 2019 - 4:06pm
>
> NDP Critic for Justice Murray Rankin made the following statement:
>
> “Canadians have a right to question whether this Prime Minister fired
> Canada’s first Indigenous Justice Minister for ‘speaking truth to
> power’.
>
> The government has denied the Prime Minister or his backroom advisors
> fired Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould because she refused to yield to
> pressure in the SNC-Lavalin matter.
>
> Canadians have to be assured the independence of the justice system
> has not been compromised. In these circumstances, Canadians cannot be
> expected to take the Prime Minister’s word for it.
>
> As Vice Chair of the Justice Committee, I have joined with MP Michael
> Cooper in calling for the former Attorney General, the current Justice
> Minister, and high-ranking officials in the Prime Minister’s Office to
> appear before the Justice Committee as soon as possible.
>
> My NDP colleagues, Nathan Cullen and Charlie Angus, have also written
> to the Ethics Commissioner to ensure an investigation by that office
> is undertaken.
>
> The integrity of our justice system may well be at issue. The Liberal
> government must allow the Justice Committee to do its work on behalf
> of Canadians and clear the air at this critical time.”
>
>
>
> – 30 –
>
>
>
> For more information, please contact:
>
> NDP Media Centre: 613-222-2351 or media@ndp.ca
>
>
>
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> From: Ministerial Correspondence Unit - Justice Canada <mcu@justice.gc.ca>
> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:35:05 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: RE FATCA, the CRA and the IRS YO Donald J.
> Trump Jr. why does your ex lawyer Mr Cohen and the Canadain FEDS
> continue lie after all this time???
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
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> Merci d'avoir écrit à l'honorable David Lametti, ministre de la
> Justice et procureur général du Canada.
>
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---------- Original message ----------
From: "LSD / DSJ (JUS/JUS)"<BPIB-DGPAA@justice.gc.ca>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 19:25:31 +0000
Subject: RE: YO Pierre Poilievre I just called and tried to reason
with David Lametti's minions and got nowhere fast Surprise Surprise
Surprise N'esy Pas Petev Baby Mackay?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:25:26 -0400
Subject: Fwd: YO Pierre Poilievre I just called and tried to reason
with David Lametti's minions and got nowhere fast Surprise Surprise
Surprise N'esy Pas Petev Baby Mackay?
To: Support@viafoura.com, darrow.macintyre@cbc.ca,
carrie@viafoura.com, allison@viafoura.com
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, LPMD-DGPD@justice.gc.ca,
Mark.Blakely@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:00:58 -0400
Subject: YO Pierre Poilievre I just called and tried to reason with
David Lametti's minions and got nowhere fast Surprise Surprise
Surprise N'esy Pas Petev Baby Mackay?
To: pierre.poilievre@parl.gc.ca, olad-dlo@justice.gc.ca,
David.Lametti.a1@parl.gc.ca, maxime.bernier@parl.gc.ca,
andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca, charlie.angus@parl.gc.ca,
PETER.MACKAY@bakermckenzie.com
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, scott.bardsley@canada.ca,
scott.brison@parl.gc.ca, scott.macrae@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Beverley.Busson@sen.parl.gc.ca
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From: Ministerial Correspondence Unit - Justice Canada <mcu@justice.gc.ca>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 17:58:23 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: C'yall in Court
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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From: Ministerial Correspondence Unit - Justice Canada <mcu@justice.gc.ca>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 22:18:45 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks David Lametti should go back to law
school too N'esy Pas Pierre Poilievre?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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From: Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.c
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 22:18:49 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks David Lametti should go back to law
school too N'esy Pas Pierre Poilievre?
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
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From: michael.chong@parl.gc.ca
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 22:18:49 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks David Lametti should go back to law
school too N'esy Pas Pierre Poilievre?
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 18:18:40 -0400
Subject: Methinks David Lametti should go back to law school too N'esy
Pas Pierre Poilievre?
To: David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca, Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.c
pierre.poilievre@parl.gc.ca,mc
michael.chong@parl.gc.ca, Michael.Wernick@pco-bcp.gc.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, Newsroom@globeandmail.com,
Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca, serge.rousselle@gnb.ca
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 15:44:16 -0400
Subject: Jagmeet Singh says that maybe Jay Shin should go back to law
school??? Too Too Funny Indeed EH Karen Wang and Laura-Lynn Tyler
Thompson?
To: info@jayshin.ca, jay@lonsdalelaw.ca, karenwang@liberal.ca,
lauralynnlive@gmail.com
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
jmaclellan@burnabynow.com, kgawley@burnabynow.com
Jagmeet Singh on Tory opponent: 'Maybe he should go back to law school'
Conservative candidate Jay Shin said Singh was 'keeping criminals out
of jail' during his days as a criminal defence lawyer
Kelvin Gawley Burnaby Now January 13, 2019 10:27 AM
Julie MacLellan
Assistant editor, and newsroom tip line
jmaclellan@burnabynow.com
Phone: 604 444 3020
Kelvin Gawley
kgawley@burnabynow.com
Phone: 604 444 3024
Jay Shin
Direct: 604-980-5089
Email: jay@lonsdalelaw.ca
By phone: 604-628-0508
By e-mail: info@jayshin.ca
Karen Wang
604.531.1178
karenwang@liberal.ca
Now if Mr Shin scrolls down he will know some of what the fancy NDP
lawyer has known for quite sometime
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From: "Singh - QP, Jagmeet"<JSingh-QP@ndp.on.ca>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 16:39:35 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Re Federal Court File # T-1557-15 and the
upcoming hearing on May 24th I called a lot of your people before High
Noon today Correct Ralph Goodale and Deputy Minister Malcolm Brown?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
For immediate assistance please contact our Brampton office at
905-799-3939 or jsingh-co@ndp.on.ca
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From: Kennedy.Stewart@parl.gc.ca
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 18:18:35 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Attn Minister Ralph Goodale and Pierre
Paul-Hus Trust that I look forward to arguing the fact that fhe Crown
filed my Sept 4th email to you and your buddies
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
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From: Michael Cohen <mcohen@trumporg.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 05:54:40 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: ATTN Blair Armitage You acted as the Usher
of the Black Rod twice while Kevin Vickers was the Sergeant-at-Arms
Hence you and the RCMP must know why I sued the Queen Correct?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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From: Justice Website <JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:21:11 +0000
Subject: Emails to Department of Justice and Province of Nova Scotia
To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com"<motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Mr. Amos,
We acknowledge receipt of your recent emails to the Deputy Minister of
Justice and lawyers within the Legal Services Division of the
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From: "Eidt, David (OAG/CPG)"<David.Eidt@gnb.ca>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 00:33:21 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Mr Lutz howcome your buddy the clerk
would not file this motion and properly witnessed affidavit and why
did she take all four copies?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
I will be out of the office until Monday, March 13, 2017. I will have
little to no access to email. Please dial 453-2222 for assistance.
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From: Marc Richard <MRichard@lawsociety-barreau.n
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:16:46 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE: The New Brunswick Real Estate
Association and their deliberate ignorance for the bankster's benefit
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
I will be out of the office until August 15, 2016. Je serai absent du
bureau jusqu'au 15 août 2016.
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:32:09 -0400
> Subject: Attn Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
> To: coi@gnb.ca
> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>
> Good Day Sir
>
> After I heard you speak on CBC I called your office again and managed
> to speak to one of your staff for the first time
>
> Please find attached the documents I promised to send to the lady who
> answered the phone this morning. Please notice that not after the Sgt
> at Arms took the documents destined to your office his pal Tanker
> Malley barred me in writing with an "English" only document.
>
> These are the hearings and the dockets in Federal Court that I
> suggested that you study closely.
>
> This is the docket in Federal Court
>
> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.
>
> These are digital recordings of the last three hearings
>
> Dec 14th https://archive.org/details/Ba
>
> January 11th, 2016 https://archive.org/details/Ja
>
> April 3rd, 2017
>
> https://archive.org/details/Ap
>
>
> This is the docket in the Federal Court of Appeal
>
> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.
>
>
> The only hearing thus far
>
> May 24th, 2017
>
> https://archive.org/details/Ma
>
>
> This Judge understnds the meaning of the word Integrity
>
> Date: 20151223
>
> Docket: T-1557-15
>
> Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 23, 2015
>
> PRESENT: The Honourable Mr. Justice Bell
>
> BETWEEN:
>
> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>
> Plaintiff
>
> and
>
> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>
> Defendant
>
> ORDER
>
> (Delivered orally from the Bench in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on
> December 14, 2015)
>
> The Plaintiff seeks an appeal de novo, by way of motion pursuant to
> the Federal Courts Rules (SOR/98-106), from an Order made on November
> 12, 2015, in which Prothonotary Morneau struck the Statement of Claim
> in its entirety.
>
> At the outset of the hearing, the Plaintiff brought to my attention a
> letter dated September 10, 2004, which he sent to me, in my then
> capacity as Past President of the New Brunswick Branch of the Canadian
> Bar Association, and the then President of the Branch, Kathleen Quigg,
> (now a Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal). In that letter
> he stated:
>
> As for your past President, Mr. Bell, may I suggest that you check the
> work of Frank McKenna before I sue your entire law firm including you.
> You are your brother’s keeper.
>
> Frank McKenna is the former Premier of New Brunswick and a former
> colleague of mine at the law firm of McInnes Cooper. In addition to
> expressing an intention to sue me, the Plaintiff refers to a number of
> people in his Motion Record who he appears to contend may be witnesses
> or potential parties to be added. Those individuals who are known to
> me personally, include, but are not limited to the former Prime
> Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper; former
> Attorney General of Canada and now a Justice of the Manitoba Court of
> Queen’s Bench, Vic Toews; former member of Parliament Rob Moore;
> former Director of Policing Services, the late Grant Garneau; former
> Chief of the Fredericton Police Force, Barry McKnight; former Staff
> Sergeant Danny Copp; my former colleagues on the New Brunswick Court
> of Appeal, Justices Bradley V. Green and Kathleen Quigg, and, retired
> Assistant Commissioner Wayne Lang of the Royal Canadian Mounted
> Police.
>
> In the circumstances, given the threat in 2004 to sue me in my
> personal capacity and my past and present relationship with many
> potential witnesses and/or potential parties to the litigation, I am
> of the view there would be a reasonable apprehension of bias should I
> hear this motion. See Justice de Grandpré’s dissenting judgment in
> Committee for Justice and Liberty et al v National Energy Board et al,
> [1978] 1 SCR 369 at p 394 for the applicable test regarding
> allegations of bias. In the circumstances, although neither party has
> requested I recuse myself, I consider it appropriate that I do so.
>
>
> AS A RESULT OF MY RECUSAL, THIS COURT ORDERS that the Administrator of
> the Court schedule another date for the hearing of the motion. There
> is no order as to costs.
>
> “B. Richard Bell”
> Judge
>
>
> Below after the CBC article about your concerns (I made one comment
> already) you will find the text of just two of many emails I had sent
> to your office over the years since I first visited it in 2006.
>
> I noticed that on July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the the Court
> Martial Appeal Court of Canada Perhaps you should scroll to the
> bottom of this email ASAP and read the entire Paragraph 83 of my
> lawsuit now before the Federal Court of Canada?
>
> "FYI This is the text of the lawsuit that should interest Trudeau the most
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca
> Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:18 PM
> Subject: Réponse automatique : RE My complaint against the CROWN in
> Federal Court Attn David Hansen and Peter MacKay If you planning to
> submit a motion for a publication ban on my complaint trust that you
> dudes are way past too late
> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>
> Veuillez noter que j'ai changé de courriel. Vous pouvez me rejoindre à
> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>
> Pour rejoindre le bureau de M. Trudeau veuillez envoyer un courriel à
> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>
> Please note that I changed email address, you can reach me at
> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>
> To reach the office of Mr. Trudeau please send an email to
> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>
> Thank you,
>
> Merci ,
>
>
> http://davidraymondamos3.blogs
>
>
> 83. The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war
> in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation to
> allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over
> five years after he began his bragging:
>
> January 13, 2015
> This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate
>
> December 8, 2014
> Why Canada Stood Tall!
>
> Friday, October 3, 2014
> Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And
> Stupid Justin Trudeau
>
> Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide
> behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
>
> When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean Chretien
> actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second campaign
> in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or contrary to
> the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were
> involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There were
> significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the dearth
> of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for
> operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “last minute”
> Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its mind.
> The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not
> deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a
> Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins to
> redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was
> less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq. But
> alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister Chretien’s
> then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s
> incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic,
> professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle
> Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway
> campaign of 2006.
>
> What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that then
> Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the
> Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice, consent,
> support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament.
>
> What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and babbling
> chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment of
> less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by planners
> as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a
> deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make.
>
> The Canadian Government or The Crown unlike our amerkan cousins have
> the “constitutional authority” to commit the Canadian nation to war.
> That has been recently clearly articulated to the Canadian public by
> constitutional scholar Phillippe Legasse. What Parliament can do is
> remove “confidence” in The Crown’s Government in a “vote of
> non-confidence.” That could not happen to the Chretien Government
> regarding deployment to Afghanistan, and it won’t happen in this
> instance with the conservative majority in The Commons regarding a
> limited Canadian deployment to the Middle East.
>
> President George Bush was quite correct after 911 and the terror
> attacks in New York; that the Taliban “occupied” and “failed state”
> Afghanistan was the source of logistical support, command and control,
> and training for the Al Quaeda war of terror against the world. The
> initial defeat, and removal from control of Afghanistan was vital and
>
> P.S. Whereas this CBC article is about your opinion of the actions of
> the latest Minister Of Health trust that Mr Boudreau and the CBC have
> had my files for many years and the last thing they are is ethical.
> Ask his friends Mr Murphy and the RCMP if you don't believe me.
>
> Subject:
> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:02:35 -0400
> From: "Murphy, Michael B. \(DH/MS\)"MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca
> To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>
> January 30, 2007
>
> WITHOUT PREJUDICE
>
> Mr. David Amos
>
> Dear Mr. Amos:
>
> This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29,
> 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP.
>
> Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have
> taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve
> Graham of the RCMP “J” Division in Fredericton.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Honourable Michael B. Murphy
> Minister of Health
>
> CM/cb
>
>
> Warren McBeath warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote:
>
> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500
> From: "Warren McBeath"warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
> To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca,
> nada.sarkis@gnb.ca, wally.stiles@gnb.ca, dwatch@web.net,
> motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
> CC: ottawa@chuckstrahl.com, riding@chuckstrahl.com,John.Fo
> Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,"Bev BUSSON"bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> "Paul Dube"PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
> Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has
> forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have not
>
> Dear Mr. Amos,
>
> Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off
> over the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured I
> was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
>
> As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our position
> is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
> testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the
> Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
> services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
> instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
>
> As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
> imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear
> that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada
> the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment
> and policing in Petitcodiac, NB.
>
> It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on
> December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Warren McBeath, Cpl.
> GRC Caledonia RCMP
> Traffic Services NCO
> Ph: (506) 387-2222
> Fax: (506) 387-4622
> E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>
>
>
> Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
> Office of the Integrity Commissioner
> Edgecombe House, 736 King Street
> Fredericton, N.B. CANADA E3B 5H1
> tel.: 506-457-7890
> fax: 506-444-5224
> e-mail:coi@gnb.ca
>
On 8/3/17, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
> If want something very serious to download and laugh at as well Please
> Enjoy and share real wiretap tapes of the mob
>
> http://thedavidamosrant.blogsp
> ilian.html
>
>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/s
>>
>> As the CBC etc yap about Yankee wiretaps and whistleblowers I must
>> ask them the obvious question AIN'T THEY FORGETTING SOMETHING????
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
>>
>> What the hell does the media think my Yankee lawyer served upon the
>> USDOJ right after I ran for and seat in the 39th Parliament baseball
>> cards?
>>
>> http://archive.org/details/ITr
>> 6
>>
>> http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/2
>>
>> http://www.archive.org/details
>>
>> http://archive.org/details/Par
>>
>> FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006
>> Senator Arlen Specter
>> United States Senate
>> Committee on the Judiciary
>> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
>> Washington, DC 20510
>>
>> Dear Mr. Specter:
>>
>> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
>> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters
>> raised in the attached letter.
>>
>> Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wire tap tapes.
>>
>> I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this previously.
>>
>> Very truly yours,
>> Barry A. Bachrach
>> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
>> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
>> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
>>
>
http://davidraymondamos3.blogs
Sunday, 19 November 2017
Federal Court of Appeal Finally Makes The BIG Decision And Publishes
It Now The Crooks Cannot Take Back Ticket To Try Put My Matter Before
The Supreme Court
https://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca
Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
Amos v. Canada
Court (s) Database
Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
Date
2017-10-30
Neutral citation
2017 FCA 213
File numbers
A-48-16
Date: 20171030
Docket: A-48-16
Citation: 2017 FCA 213
CORAM:
WEBB J.A.
NEAR J.A.
GLEASON J.A.
BETWEEN:
DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
Respondent on the cross-appeal
(and formally Appellant)
and
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
Appellant on the cross-appeal
(and formerly Respondent)
Heard at Fredericton, New Brunswick, on May 24, 2017.
Judgment delivered at Ottawa, Ontario, on October 30, 2017.
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY:
THE COURT
Date: 20171030
Docket: A-48-16
Citation: 2017 FCA 213
CORAM:
WEBB J.A.
NEAR J.A.
GLEASON J.A.
BETWEEN:
DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
Respondent on the cross-appeal
(and formally Appellant)
and
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
Appellant on the cross-appeal
(and formerly Respondent)
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY THE COURT
I. Introduction
[1] On September 16, 2015, David Raymond Amos (Mr. Amos)
filed a 53-page Statement of Claim (the Claim) in Federal Court
against Her Majesty the Queen (the Crown). Mr. Amos claims $11 million
in damages and a public apology from the Prime Minister and Provincial
Premiers for being illegally barred from accessing parliamentary
properties and seeks a declaration from the Minister of Public Safety
that the Canadian Government will no longer allow the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Forces to harass him and his clan
(Claim at para. 96).
[2] On November 12, 2015 (Docket T-1557-15), by way of a
motion brought by the Crown, a prothonotary of the Federal Court (the
Prothonotary) struck the Claim in its entirety, without leave to
amend, on the basis that it was plain and obvious that the Claim
disclosed no reasonable claim, the Claim was fundamentally vexatious,
and the Claim could not be salvaged by way of further amendment (the
Prothontary’s Order).
[3] On January 25, 2016 (2016 FC 93), by way of Mr.
Amos’ appeal from the Prothonotary’s Order, a judge of the Federal
Court (the Judge), reviewing the matter de novo, struck all of Mr.
Amos’ claims for relief with the exception of the claim for damages
for being barred by the RCMP from the New Brunswick legislature in
2004 (the Federal Court Judgment).
[4] Mr. Amos appealed and the Crown cross-appealed the
Federal Court Judgment. Further to the issuance of a Notice of Status
Review, Mr. Amos’ appeal was dismissed for delay on December 19, 2016.
As such, the only matter before this Court is the Crown’s
cross-appeal.
II. Preliminary Matter
[5] Mr. Amos, in his memorandum of fact and law in
relation to the cross-appeal that was filed with this Court on March
6, 2017, indicated that several judges of this Court, including two of
the judges of this panel, had a conflict of interest in this appeal.
This was the first time that he identified the judges whom he believed
had a conflict of interest in a document that was filed with this
Court. In his notice of appeal he had alluded to a conflict with
several judges but did not name those judges.
[6] Mr. Amos was of the view that he did not have to
identify the judges in any document filed with this Court because he
had identified the judges in various documents that had been filed
with the Federal Court. In his view the Federal Court and the Federal
Court of Appeal are the same court and therefore any document filed in
the Federal Court would be filed in this Court. This view is based on
subsections 5(4) and 5.1(4) of the Federal Courts Act, R.S.C., 1985,
c. F-7:
5(4) Every judge of the Federal Court is, by virtue of his or her
office, a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal and has all the
jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court of
Appeal.
[…]
5(4) Les juges de la Cour fédérale sont d’office juges de la Cour
d’appel fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que
les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale.
[…]
5.1(4) Every judge of the Federal Court of Appeal is, by virtue of
that office, a judge of the Federal Court and has all the
jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court.
5.1(4) Les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale sont d’office juges de la
Cour fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que les
juges de la Cour fédérale.
[7] However, these subsections only provide that the
judges of the Federal Court are also judges of this Court (and vice
versa). It does not mean that there is only one court. If the Federal
Court and this Court were one Court, there would be no need for this
section.
[8] Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act provide that:
3 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court
— Appeal Division is continued under the name “Federal Court of
Appeal” in English and “Cour d’appel fédérale” in French. It is
continued as an additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and
for Canada, for the better administration of the laws of Canada and as
a superior court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.
3 La Section d’appel, aussi appelée la Cour d’appel ou la Cour d’appel
fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée « Cour d’appel fédérale » en
français et « Federal Court of Appeal » en anglais. Elle est maintenue
à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et d’amirauté du
Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit canadien, et
continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant compétence en
matière civile et pénale.
4 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court
— Trial Division is continued under the name “Federal Court” in
English and “Cour fédérale” in French. It is continued as an
additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and for Canada, for
the better administration of the laws of Canada and as a superior
court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.
4 La section de la Cour fédérale du Canada, appelée la Section de
première instance de la Cour fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée «
Cour fédérale » en français et « Federal Court » en anglais. Elle est
maintenue à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et
d’amirauté du Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit
canadien, et continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant
compétence en matière civile et pénale.
[9] Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act create
two separate courts – this Court (section 3) and the Federal Court
(section 4). If, as Mr. Amos suggests, documents filed in the Federal
Court were automatically also filed in this Court, then there would no
need for the parties to prepare and file appeal books as required by
Rules 343 to 345 of the Federal Courts Rules, SOR/98-106 in relation
to any appeal from a decision of the Federal Court. The requirement to
file an appeal book with this Court in relation to an appeal from a
decision of the Federal Court makes it clear that the only documents
that will be before this Court are the documents that are part of that
appeal book.
[10] Therefore, the memorandum of fact and law filed on
March 6, 2017 is the first document, filed with this Court, in which
Mr. Amos identified the particular judges that he submits have a
conflict in any matter related to him.
[11] On April 3, 2017, Mr. Amos attempted to bring a motion
before the Federal Court seeking an order “affirming or denying the
conflict of interest he has” with a number of judges of the Federal
Court. A judge of the Federal Court issued a direction noting that if
Mr. Amos was seeking this order in relation to judges of the Federal
Court of Appeal, it was beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal Court.
Mr. Amos raised the Federal Court motion at the hearing of this
cross-appeal. The Federal Court motion is not a motion before this
Court and, as such, the submissions filed before the Federal Court
will not be entertained. As well, since this was a motion brought
before the Federal Court (and not this Court), any documents filed in
relation to that motion are not part of the record of this Court.
[12] During the hearing of the appeal Mr. Amos alleged that
the third member of this panel also had a conflict of interest and
submitted some documents that, in his view, supported his claim of a
conflict. Mr. Amos, following the hearing of his appeal, was also
afforded the opportunity to provide a brief summary of the conflict
that he was alleging and to file additional documents that, in his
view, supported his allegations. Mr. Amos submitted several pages of
documents in relation to the alleged conflicts. He organized the
documents by submitting a copy of the biography of the particular
judge and then, immediately following that biography, by including
copies of the documents that, in his view, supported his claim that
such judge had a conflict.
[13] The nature of the alleged conflict of Justice Webb is
that before he was appointed as a Judge of the Tax Court of Canada in
2006, he was a partner with the law firm Patterson Law, and before
that with Patterson Palmer in Nova Scotia. Mr. Amos submitted that he
had a number of disputes with Patterson Palmer and Patterson Law and
therefore Justice Webb has a conflict simply because he was a partner
of these firms. Mr. Amos is not alleging that Justice Webb was
personally involved in or had any knowledge of any matter in which Mr.
Amos was involved with Justice Webb’s former law firm – only that he
was a member of such firm.
[14] During his oral submissions at the hearing of his
appeal Mr. Amos, in relation to the alleged conflict for Justice Webb,
focused on dealings between himself and a particular lawyer at
Patterson Law. However, none of the documents submitted by Mr. Amos at
the hearing or subsequently related to any dealings with this
particular lawyer nor is it clear when Mr. Amos was dealing with this
lawyer. In particular, it is far from clear whether such dealings were
after the time that Justice Webb was appointed as a Judge of the Tax
Court of Canada over 10 years ago.
[15] The documents that he submitted in relation to the
alleged conflict for Justice Webb largely relate to dealings between
Byron Prior and the St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador office of
Patterson Palmer, which is not in the same province where Justice Webb
practiced law. The only document that indicates any dealing between
Mr. Amos and Patterson Palmer is a copy of an affidavit of Stephen May
who was a partner in the St. John’s NL office of Patterson Palmer. The
affidavit is dated January 24, 2005 and refers to a number of e-mails
that were sent by Mr. Amos to Stephen May. Mr. Amos also included a
letter that is addressed to four individuals, one of whom is John
Crosbie who was counsel to the St. John’s NL office of Patterson
Palmer. The letter is dated September 2, 2004 and is addressed to
“John Crosbie, c/o Greg G. Byrne, Suite 502, 570 Queen Street,
Fredericton, NB E3B 5E3”. In this letter Mr. Amos alludes to a
possible lawsuit against Patterson Palmer.
[16] Mr. Amos’ position is that simply because Justice Webb
was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer, he now has a conflict. In Wewaykum
Indian Band v. Her Majesty the Queen, 2003 SCC 45, [2003] 2 S.C.R.
259, the Supreme Court of Canada noted that disqualification of a
judge is to be determined based on whether there is a reasonable
apprehension of bias:
60 In Canadian law, one standard has now emerged as the
criterion for disqualification. The criterion, as expressed by de
Grandpré J. in Committee for Justice and Liberty v. National Energy
Board, …[[1978] 1 S.C.R. 369, 68 D.L.R. (3d) 716], at p. 394, is the
reasonable apprehension of bias:
… the apprehension of bias must be a reasonable one, held by
reasonable and right minded persons, applying themselves to the
question and obtaining thereon the required information. In the words
of the Court of Appeal, that test is "what would an informed person,
viewing the matter realistically and practically -- and having thought
the matter through -- conclude. Would he think that it is more likely
than not that [the decision-maker], whether consciously or
unconsciously, would not decide fairly."
[17] The issue to be determined is whether an informed
person, viewing the matter realistically and practically, and having
thought the matter through, would conclude that Mr. Amos’ allegations
give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias. As this Court has
previously remarked, “there is a strong presumption that judges will
administer justice impartially” and this presumption will not be
rebutted in the absence of “convincing evidence” of bias (Collins v.
Canada, 2011 FCA 140 at para. 7, [2011] 4 C.T.C. 157 [Collins]. See
also R. v. S. (R.D.), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 484 at para. 32, 151 D.L.R.
(4th) 193).
[18] The Ontario Court of Appeal in Rando Drugs Ltd. v.
Scott, 2007 ONCA 553, 86 O.R. (3d) 653 (leave to appeal to the Supreme
Court of Canada refused, 32285 (August 1, 2007)), addressed the
particular issue of whether a judge is disqualified from hearing a
case simply because he had been a member of a law firm that was
involved in the litigation that was now before that judge. The Ontario
Court of Appeal determined that the judge was not disqualified if the
judge had no involvement with the person or the matter when he was a
lawyer. The Ontario Court of Appeal also explained that the rules for
determining whether a judge is disqualified are different from the
rules to determine whether a lawyer has a conflict:
27 Thus, disqualification is not the natural corollary to a
finding that a trial judge has had some involvement in a case over
which he or she is now presiding. Where the judge had no involvement,
as here, it cannot be said that the judge is disqualified.
28 The point can rightly be made that had Mr. Patterson been
asked to represent the appellant as counsel before his appointment to
the bench, the conflict rules would likely have prevented him from
taking the case because his firm had formerly represented one of the
defendants in the case. Thus, it is argued how is it that as a trial
judge Patterson J. can hear the case? This issue was considered by the
Court of Appeal (Civil Division) in Locabail (U.K.) Ltd. v. Bayfield
Properties Ltd., [2000] Q.B. 451. The court held, at para. 58, that
there is no inflexible rule governing the disqualification of a judge
and that, "[e]verything depends on the circumstances."
29 It seems to me that what appears at first sight to be an
inconsistency in application of rules can be explained by the
different contexts and in particular, the strong presumption of
judicial impartiality that applies in the context of disqualification
of a judge. There is no such presumption in cases of allegations of
conflict of interest against a lawyer because of a firm's previous
involvement in the case. To the contrary, as explained by Sopinka J.
in MacDonald Estate v. Martin (1990), 77 D.L.R. (4th) 249 (S.C.C.),
for sound policy reasons there is a presumption of a disqualifying
interest that can rarely be overcome. In particular, a conclusory
statement from the lawyer that he or she had no confidential
information about the case will never be sufficient. The case is the
opposite where the allegation of bias is made against a trial judge.
His or her statement that he or she knew nothing about the case and
had no involvement in it will ordinarily be accepted at face value
unless there is good reason to doubt it: see Locabail, at para. 19.
30 That brings me then to consider the particular circumstances
of this case and whether there are serious grounds to find a
disqualifying conflict of interest in this case. In my view, there are
two significant factors that justify the trial judge's decision not to
recuse himself. The first is his statement, which all parties accept,
that he knew nothing of the case when it was in his former firm and
that he had nothing to do with it. The second is the long passage of
time. As was said in Wewaykum, at para. 85:
To us, one significant factor stands out, and must inform
the perspective of the reasonable person assessing the impact of this
involvement on Binnie J.'s impartiality in the appeals. That factor is
the passage of time. Most arguments for disqualification rest on
circumstances that are either contemporaneous to the decision-making,
or that occurred within a short time prior to the decision-making.
31 There are other factors that inform the issue. The Wilson
Walker firm no longer acted for any of the parties by the time of
trial. More importantly, at the time of the motion, Patterson J. had
been a judge for six years and thus had not had a relationship with
his former firm for a considerable period of time.
32 In my view, a reasonable person, viewing the matter
realistically would conclude that the trial judge could deal fairly
and impartially with this case. I take this view principally because
of the long passage of time and the trial judge's lack of involvement
in or knowledge of the case when the Wilson Walker firm had carriage.
In these circumstances it cannot be reasonably contended that the
trial judge could not remain impartial in the case. The mere fact that
his name appears on the letterhead of some correspondence from over a
decade ago would not lead a reasonable person to believe that he would
either consciously or unconsciously favour his former firm's former
client. It is simply not realistic to think that a judge would throw
off his mantle of impartiality, ignore his oath of office and favour a
client - about whom he knew nothing - of a firm that he left six years
earlier and that no longer acts for the client, in a case involving
events from over a decade ago.
(emphasis added)
[19] Justice Webb had no involvement with any matter
involving Mr. Amos while he was a member of Patterson Palmer or
Patterson Law, nor does Mr. Amos suggest that he did. Mr. Amos made it
clear during the hearing of this matter that the only reason for the
alleged conflict for Justice Webb was that he was a member of
Patterson Law and Patterson Palmer. This is simply not enough for
Justice Webb to be disqualified. Any involvement of Mr. Amos with
Patterson Law while Justice Webb was a member of that firm would have
had to occur over 10 years ago and even longer for the time when he
was a member of Patterson Palmer. In addition to the lack of any
involvement on his part with any matter or dispute that Mr. Amos had
with Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer (which in and of itself is
sufficient to dispose of this matter), the length of time since
Justice Webb was a member of Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer would
also result in the same finding – that there is no conflict in Justice
Webb hearing this appeal.
[20] Similarly in R. v. Bagot, 2000 MBCA 30, 145 Man. R.
(2d) 260, the Manitoba Court of Appeal found that there was no
reasonable apprehension of bias when a judge, who had been a member of
the law firm that had been retained by the accused, had no involvement
with the accused while he was a lawyer with that firm.
[21] In Del Zotto v. Minister of National Revenue, [2000] 4
F.C. 321, 257 N.R. 96, this court did find that there would be a
reasonable apprehension of bias where a judge, who while he was a
lawyer, had recorded time on a matter involving the same person who
was before that judge. However, this case can be distinguished as
Justice Webb did not have any time recorded on any files involving Mr.
Amos while he was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer or Patterson Law.
[22] Mr. Amos also included with his submissions a CD. He
stated in his affidavit dated June 26, 2017 that there is a “true copy
of an American police surveillance wiretap entitled 139” on this CD.
He has also indicated that he has “provided a true copy of the CD
entitled 139 to many American and Canadian law enforcement authorities
and not one of the police forces or officers of the court are willing
to investigate it”. Since he has indicated that this is an “American
police surveillance wiretap”, this is a matter for the American law
enforcement authorities and cannot create, as Mr. Amos suggests, a
conflict of interest for any judge to whom he provides a copy.
[23] As a result, there is no conflict or reasonable
apprehension of bias for Justice Webb and therefore, no reason for him
to recuse himself.
[24] Mr. Amos alleged that Justice Near’s past professional
experience with the government created a “quasi-conflict” in deciding
the cross-appeal. Mr. Amos provided no details and Justice Near
confirmed that he had no prior knowledge of the matters alleged in the
Claim. Justice Near sees no reason to recuse himself.
[25] Insofar as it is possible to glean the basis for Mr.
Amos’ allegations against Justice Gleason, it appears that he alleges
that she is incapable of hearing this appeal because he says he wrote
a letter to Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien in 2004. At that time,
both Justice Gleason and Mr. Mulroney were partners in the law firm
Ogilvy Renault, LLP. The letter in question, which is rude and angry,
begins with “Hey you two Evil Old Smiling Bastards” and “Re: me suing
you and your little dogs too”. There is no indication that the letter
was ever responded to or that a law suit was ever commenced by Mr.
Amos against Mr. Mulroney. In the circumstances, there is no reason
for Justice Gleason to recuse herself as the letter in question does
not give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias.
III. Issue
[26] The issue on the cross-appeal is as follows: Did the
Judge err in setting aside the Prothonotary’s Order striking the Claim
in its entirety without leave to amend and in determining that Mr.
Amos’ allegation that the RCMP barred him from the New Brunswick
legislature in 2004 was capable of supporting a cause of action?
IV. Analysis
A. Standard of Review
[27] Following the Judge’s decision to set aside the
Prothonotary’s Order, this Court revisited the standard of review to
be applied to discretionary decisions of prothonotaries and decisions
made by judges on appeals of prothonotaries’ decisions in Hospira
Healthcare Corp. v. Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, 2016 FCA 215,
402 D.L.R. (4th) 497 [Hospira]. In Hospira, a five-member panel of
this Court replaced the Aqua-Gem standard of review with that
articulated in Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 235
[Housen]. As a result, it is no longer appropriate for the Federal
Court to conduct a de novo review of a discretionary order made by a
prothonotary in regard to questions vital to the final issue of the
case. Rather, a Federal Court judge can only intervene on appeal if
the prothonotary made an error of law or a palpable and overriding
error in determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and
law (Hospira at para. 79). Further, this Court can only interfere with
a Federal Court judge’s review of a prothonotary’s discretionary order
if the judge made an error of law or palpable and overriding error in
determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and law
(Hospira at paras. 82-83).
[28] In the case at bar, the Judge substituted his own
assessment of Mr. Amos’ Claim for that of the Prothonotary. This Court
must look to the Prothonotary’s Order to determine whether the Judge
erred in law or made a palpable and overriding error in choosing to
interfere.
B. Did the Judge err in interfering with the
Prothonotary’s Order?
[29] The Prothontoary’s Order accepted the following
paragraphs from the Crown’s submissions as the basis for striking the
Claim in its entirety without leave to amend:
17. Within the 96 paragraph Statement of Claim, the Plaintiff
addresses his complaint in paragraphs 14-24, inclusive. All but four
of those paragraphs are dedicated to an incident that occurred in 2006
in and around the legislature in New Brunswick. The jurisdiction of
the Federal Court does not extend to Her Majesty the Queen in right of
the Provinces. In any event, the Plaintiff hasn’t named the Province
or provincial actors as parties to this action. The incident alleged
does not give rise to a justiciable cause of action in this Court.
(…)
21. The few paragraphs that directly address the Defendant
provide no details as to the individuals involved or the location of
the alleged incidents or other details sufficient to allow the
Defendant to respond. As a result, it is difficult or impossible to
determine the causes of action the Plaintiff is attempting to advance.
A generous reading of the Statement of Claim allows the Defendant to
only speculate as to the true and/or intended cause of action. At
best, the Plaintiff’s action may possibly be summarized as: he
suspects he is barred from the House of Commons.
[footnotes omitted].
[30] The Judge determined that he could not strike the Claim
on the same jurisdictional basis as the Prothonotary. The Judge noted
that the Federal Court has jurisdiction over claims based on the
liability of Federal Crown servants like the RCMP and that the actors
who barred Mr. Amos from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004
included the RCMP (Federal Court Judgment at para. 23). In considering
the viability of these allegations de novo, the Judge identified
paragraph 14 of the Claim as containing “some precision” as it
identifies the date of the event and a RCMP officer acting as
Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant Governor (Federal Court Judgment at
para. 27).
[31] The Judge noted that the 2004 event could support a
cause of action in the tort of misfeasance in public office and
identified the elements of the tort as excerpted from Meigs v. Canada,
2013 FC 389, 431 F.T.R. 111:
[13] As in both the cases of Odhavji Estate v Woodhouse, 2003 SCC
69 [Odhavji] and Lewis v Canada, 2012 FC 1514 [Lewis], I must
determine whether the plaintiffs’ statement of claim pleads each
element of the alleged tort of misfeasance in public office:
a) The public officer must have engaged in deliberate and unlawful
conduct in his or her capacity as public officer;
b) The public officer must have been aware both that his or her
conduct was unlawful and that it was likely to harm the plaintiff; and
c) There must be an element of bad faith or dishonesty by the public
officer and knowledge of harm alone is insufficient to conclude that a
public officer acted in bad faith or dishonestly.
Odhavji, above, at paras 23, 24 and 28
(Federal Court Judgment at para. 28).
[32] The Judge determined that Mr. Amos disclosed sufficient
material facts to meet the elements of the tort of misfeasance in
public office because the actors, who barred him from the New
Brunswick legislature in 2004, including the RCMP, did so for
“political reasons” (Federal Court Judgment at para. 29).
[33] This Court’s discussion of the sufficiency of pleadings
in Merchant Law Group v. Canada (Revenue Agency), 2010 FCA 184, 321
D.L.R (4th) 301 is particularly apt:
…When pleading bad faith or abuse of power, it is not enough to
assert, baldly, conclusory phrases such as “deliberately or
negligently,” “callous disregard,” or “by fraud and theft did steal”.
“The bare assertion of a conclusion upon which the court is called
upon to pronounce is not an allegation of material fact”. Making bald,
conclusory allegations without any evidentiary foundation is an abuse
of process…
To this, I would add that the tort of misfeasance in public office
requires a particular state of mind of a public officer in carrying
out the impunged action, i.e., deliberate conduct which the public
officer knows to be inconsistent with the obligations of his or her
office. For this tort, particularization of the allegations is
mandatory. Rule 181 specifically requires particularization of
allegations of “breach of trust,” “wilful default,” “state of mind of
a person,” “malice” or “fraudulent intention.”
(at paras. 34-35, citations omitted).
[34] Applying the Housen standard of review to the
Prothonotary’s Order, we are of the view that the Judge interfered
absent a legal or palpable and overriding error.
[35] The Prothonotary determined that Mr. Amos’ Claim
disclosed no reasonable claim and was fundamentally vexatious on the
basis of jurisdictional concerns and the absence of material facts to
ground a cause of action. Paragraph 14 of the Claim, which addresses
the 2004 event, pleads no material facts as to how the RCMP officer
engaged in deliberate and unlawful conduct, knew that his or her
conduct was unlawful and likely to harm Mr. Amos, and acted in bad
faith. While the Claim alleges elsewhere that Mr. Amos was barred from
the New Brunswick legislature for political and/or malicious reasons,
these allegations are not particularized and are directed against
non-federal actors, such as the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Legislative
Assembly of New Brunswick and the Fredericton Police Force. As such,
the Judge erred in determining that Mr. Amos’ allegation that the RCMP
barred him from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004 was capable of
supporting a cause of action.
[36] In our view, the Claim is made up entirely of bare
allegations, devoid of any detail, such that it discloses no
reasonable cause of action within the jurisdiction of the Federal
Courts. Therefore, the Judge erred in interfering to set aside the
Prothonotary’s Order striking the claim in its entirety. Further, we
find that the Prothonotary made no error in denying leave to amend.
The deficiencies in Mr. Amos’ pleadings are so extensive such that
amendment could not cure them (see Collins at para. 26).
V. Conclusion
[37] For the foregoing reasons, we would allow the Crown’s
cross-appeal, with costs, setting aside the Federal Court Judgment,
dated January 25, 2016 and restoring the Prothonotary’s Order, dated
November 12, 2015, which struck Mr. Amos’ Claim in its entirety
without leave to amend.
"Wyman W. Webb"
J.A.
"David G. Near"
J.A.
"Mary J.L. Gleason"
J.A.
FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL
NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD
A CROSS-APPEAL FROM AN ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE SOUTHCOTT DATED
JANUARY 25, 2016; DOCKET NUMBER T-1557-15.
DOCKET:
A-48-16
STYLE OF CAUSE:
DAVID RAYMOND AMOS v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
PLACE OF HEARING:
Fredericton,
New Brunswick
DATE OF HEARING:
May 24, 2017
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY:
WEBB J.A.
NEAR J.A.
GLEASON J.A.
DATED:
October 30, 2017
APPEARANCES:
David Raymond Amos
For The Appellant / respondent on cross-appeal
(on his own behalf)
Jan Jensen
For The Respondent / appELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL
SOLICITORS OF RECORD:
Nathalie G. Drouin
Deputy Attorney General of Canada
For The Respondent / APPELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL
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
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.
Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,"Bev BUSSON"bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
"Paul Dube"PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has
forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have not
Dear Mr. Amos,
Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off
over the holidays and>> was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our
position is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the
Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear
that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada
the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment
and policing in Petitcodiac, NB.
It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on
December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
Sincerely,
Warren McBeath, Cpl.
GRC Caledonia RCMP
Traffic Services NCO
Ph: (506) 387-2222
Fax: (506) 387-4622
E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
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