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HMMM

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-march-25-2018-1.4589621/more-canadians-are-acting-as-their-own-lawyer-because-they-don-t-have-a-choice-1.4589633

More Canadians are acting as their own lawyer because they don't have a choice
CBC Radio • in an hour

A new program at the Windsor law school supports those who
self-represent. (Shutterstock)
Listen20:13

It is a trend most Canadian judges and lawyers do not like: a growing
number of Canadians are representing themselves in court. Some hire a
lawyer then find the legal fees are unaffordable. Others opt to argue
their own case from the beginning.
This is happening not just in small claims courts, where
self-representation is the norm, but in higher courts, where legal
procedures and protocols are challenging for a lay person.

The National Self-Represented Litigants Project (NSRLP) offers help.
It is an innovative program at the University of Windsor and the
brainchild of Julie Macfarlane. She is a Distinguished Professor in
the Faculty of Law and has been spearheading this support network for
almost five years.

Julie Macfarlane of the National Self-Represented Litigants Project
says Canadians are representing themselves in greater numbers because
they simply cannot afford to pay high legal fees. (Mike Kovalski)She
tells The Sunday Edition's Michael Enright that those inside the legal
system have long seen people who represent themselves as "aberrant" or
"those crazy people who think they should be lawyers." Many lawyers
have asked her "why I was bothering to talk to these people who
dragged their plastic bags behind them into court."

The reality, she says, is that people don't have a choice. Canadians
are representing themselves in greater numbers because they cannot
afford to pay high legal fees.

"They are everybody, they are you and they are me," she says. "I don't
think that either of us would probably be able to go on paying at the
rate that it would require to pay a lawyer, at $500-plus an hour for a
piece of protracted litigation."

At least half the people in family courts across the country arrive
without lawyers. In Toronto, the figure is closer to 80 per cent.
Appeals courts are reporting around 30 per cent self-represented
litigants, and in civil courts the figure is between 30 and 40 per
cent.

Legal aid only helps the very, very poorest people. And in Ontario,
the eligibility level is actually set below the level of welfare. -
Julie Macfarlane

"These are people, quite often, with a high level of education.
They're intelligent. They're committed to doing it and figuring it
out, so we do see some fairly extraordinary victories." At the same
time, Macfarlane says, "they are often subject to some of the
litigation tactics that lawyers are much more familiar with." Often
these tactics cause self-represented litigants to lose their cases.

"What is really challenging for people representing themselves isn't
the stuff we teach people at law school, the substantive law,"
Macfarlane adds. "It's the procedure." Judges have discretion in how
rigidly procedures are applied and, most often, this is where
self-represented litigants get tripped up.

This is an area where the NSRLP is helping Canadians. They cannot
offer legal advice or act as counsel, but their coaches can help them
through the process by guiding people through court procedures and
being "someone who's in their corner." They also keep a national
inventory of lawyers who charge affordable fees, and produce resources
to help Canadians navigate the court system, such as how to access
written court transcripts.

Macfarlane says we need to make sure judges across the country are
equipped to support those representing themselves. (Shutterstock )

Macfarlane acknowledges some judges are doing an outstanding job in
helping people who represent themselves in court, by taking the time
to explain procedure and making sure someone isn't disadvantaged, "but
it's not something that is consistent across the country," Macfarlane
says. The Supreme Court of Canada acknowledged this in a recent
ruling, in which it said courts may not treat a self-represented
litigant in the same way in which they treat a lawyer.

"Judges need to come to the bench now with a different sensibility
about what their job is," Macfarlane says. "We really need to take
seriously how we re-equip the judiciary."

The NSRLP is encouraging the "unbundling" of legal services, where
instead of working on a retainer and controlling an entire file,
lawyers would contract to take on only particular tasks, such as legal
coaching, reviewing an application form for divorce or preparing for a
case management conference.

Judges need to come to the bench now with a different sensibility
about what their job is.- Julie Macfarlane



---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:51:09 -0400
Subject: Re: PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT OF THIS E-MAIL - Federal Court
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"jan.jensen"<jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca>, "Nathalie.Drouin"
<Nathalie.Drouin@justice.gc.ca>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>
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I got it However as you no doubt know I have some very serious
questions about it

David Raymond Amos
902 800 0369

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Federal Court of Appeal

Dear Sir/Madam:
Please find attached a copy of the corrections, rendered by the Court
( Webb, Near, and Gleason J.J.A )

If you require a copy of the above-noted correction, please advise and
one will be forwarded to you by regular mail.

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http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/11/federal-court-of-appeal-finally-makes.html

Sunday, 19 November 2017
Federal Court of Appeal Finally Makes The BIG Decision And Publishes
It Now The Crooks Cannot Take Back Ticket To Try Put My Matter Before
The Supreme Court

https://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fca-caf/decisions/en/item/236679/index.do


Federal Court of Appeal Decisions

Amos v. Canada
Court (s) Database

Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
Date

2017-10-30
Neutral citation

2017 FCA 213
File numbers

A-48-16
Date: 20171030

Docket: A-48-16
Citation: 2017 FCA 213
CORAM:

WEBB J.A.
NEAR J.A.
GLEASON J.A.


BETWEEN:
DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
Respondent on the cross-appeal
(and formally Appellant)
and
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
Appellant on the cross-appeal
(and formerly Respondent)
Heard at Fredericton, New Brunswick, on May 24, 2017.
Judgment delivered at Ottawa, Ontario, on October 30, 2017.
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY:

THE COURT



Date: 20171030

Docket: A-48-16
Citation: 2017 FCA 213
CORAM:

WEBB J.A.
NEAR J.A.
GLEASON J.A.


BETWEEN:
DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
Respondent on the cross-appeal
(and formally Appellant)
and
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
Appellant on the cross-appeal
(and formerly Respondent)
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY THE COURT

I.                    Introduction

[1]               On September 16, 2015, David Raymond Amos (Mr. Amos)
filed a 53-page Statement of Claim (the Claim) in Federal Court
against Her Majesty the Queen (the Crown). Mr. Amos claims $11 million
in damages and a public apology from the Prime Minister and Provincial
Premiers for being illegally barred from accessing parliamentary
properties and seeks a declaration from the Minister of Public Safety
that the Canadian Government will no longer allow the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Forces to harass him and his clan
(Claim at para. 96).

[2]               On November 12, 2015 (Docket T-1557-15), by way of a
motion brought by the Crown, a prothonotary of the Federal Court (the
Prothonotary) struck the Claim in its entirety, without leave to
amend, on the basis that it was plain and obvious that the Claim
disclosed no reasonable claim, the Claim was fundamentally vexatious,
and the Claim could not be salvaged by way of further amendment (the
Prothontary’s Order).


[3]               On January 25, 2016 (2016 FC 93), by way of Mr.
Amos’ appeal from the Prothonotary’s Order, a judge of the Federal
Court (the Judge), reviewing the matter de novo, struck all of Mr.
Amos’ claims for relief with the exception of the claim for damages
for being barred by the RCMP from the New Brunswick legislature in
2004 (the Federal Court Judgment).


[4]               Mr. Amos appealed and the Crown cross-appealed the
Federal Court Judgment. Further to the issuance of a Notice of Status
Review, Mr. Amos’ appeal was dismissed for delay on December 19, 2016.
As such, the only matter before this Court is the Crown’s
cross-appeal.


II.                 Preliminary Matter

[5]               Mr. Amos, in his memorandum of fact and law in
relation to the cross-appeal that was filed with this Court on March
6, 2017, indicated that several judges of this Court, including two of
the judges of this panel, had a conflict of interest in this appeal.
This was the first time that he identified the judges whom he believed
had a conflict of interest in a document that was filed with this
Court. In his notice of appeal he had alluded to a conflict with
several judges but did not name those judges.

[6]               Mr. Amos was of the view that he did not have to
identify the judges in any document filed with this Court because he
had identified the judges in various documents that had been filed
with the Federal Court. In his view the Federal Court and the Federal
Court of Appeal are the same court and therefore any document filed in
the Federal Court would be filed in this Court. This view is based on
subsections 5(4) and 5.1(4) of the Federal Courts Act, R.S.C., 1985,
c. F-7:


5(4) Every judge of the Federal Court is, by virtue of his or her
office, a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal and has all the
jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court of
Appeal.
[…]

5(4) Les juges de la Cour fédérale sont d’office juges de la Cour
d’appel fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que
les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale.
[…]
5.1(4) Every judge of the Federal Court of Appeal is, by virtue of
that office, a judge of the Federal Court and has all the
jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court.

5.1(4) Les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale sont d’office juges de la
Cour fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que les
juges de la Cour fédérale.


[7]               However, these subsections only provide that the
judges of the Federal Court are also judges of this Court (and vice
versa). It does not mean that there is only one court. If the Federal
Court and this Court were one Court, there would be no need for this
section.
[8]               Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act provide that:
3 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court
— Appeal Division is continued under the name “Federal Court of
Appeal” in English and “Cour d’appel fédérale” in French. It is
continued as an additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and
for Canada, for the better administration of the laws of Canada and as
a superior court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.

3 La Section d’appel, aussi appelée la Cour d’appel ou la Cour d’appel
fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée « Cour d’appel fédérale » en
français et « Federal Court of Appeal » en anglais. Elle est maintenue
à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et d’amirauté du
Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit canadien, et
continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant compétence en
matière civile et pénale.
4 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court
— Trial Division is continued under the name “Federal Court” in
English and “Cour fédérale” in French. It is continued as an
additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and for Canada, for
the better administration of the laws of Canada and as a superior
court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.

4 La section de la Cour fédérale du Canada, appelée la Section de
première instance de la Cour fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée «
Cour fédérale » en français et « Federal Court » en anglais. Elle est
maintenue à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et
d’amirauté du Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit
canadien, et continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant
compétence en matière civile et pénale.


[9]               Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act create
two separate courts – this Court (section 3) and the Federal Court
(section 4). If, as Mr. Amos suggests, documents filed in the Federal
Court were automatically also filed in this Court, then there would no
need for the parties to prepare and file appeal books as required by
Rules 343 to 345 of the Federal Courts Rules, SOR/98-106 in relation
to any appeal from a decision of the Federal Court. The requirement to
file an appeal book with this Court in relation to an appeal from a
decision of the Federal Court makes it clear that the only documents
that will be before this Court are the documents that are part of that
appeal book.


[10]           Therefore, the memorandum of fact and law filed on
March 6, 2017 is the first document, filed with this Court, in which
Mr. Amos identified the particular judges that he submits have a
conflict in any matter related to him.


[11]           On April 3, 2017, Mr. Amos attempted to bring a motion
before the Federal Court seeking an order “affirming or denying the
conflict of interest he has” with a number of judges of the Federal
Court. A judge of the Federal Court issued a direction noting that if
Mr. Amos was seeking this order in relation to judges of the Federal
Court of Appeal, it was beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal Court.
Mr. Amos raised the Federal Court motion at the hearing of this
cross-appeal. The Federal Court motion is not a motion before this
Court and, as such, the submissions filed before the Federal Court
will not be entertained. As well, since this was a motion brought
before the Federal Court (and not this Court), any documents filed in
relation to that motion are not part of the record of this Court.


[12]           During the hearing of the appeal Mr. Amos alleged that
the third member of this panel also had a conflict of interest and
submitted some documents that, in his view, supported his claim of a
conflict. Mr. Amos, following the hearing of his appeal, was also
afforded the opportunity to provide a brief summary of the conflict
that he was alleging and to file additional documents that, in his
view, supported his allegations. Mr. Amos submitted several pages of
documents in relation to the alleged conflicts. He organized the
documents by submitting a copy of the biography of the particular
judge and then, immediately following that biography, by including
copies of the documents that, in his view, supported his claim that
such judge had a conflict.


[13]           The nature of the alleged conflict of Justice Webb is
that before he was appointed as a Judge of the Tax Court of Canada in
2006, he was a partner with the law firm Patterson Law, and before
that with Patterson Palmer in Nova Scotia. Mr. Amos submitted that he
had a number of disputes with Patterson Palmer and Patterson Law and
therefore Justice Webb has a conflict simply because he was a partner
of these firms. Mr. Amos is not alleging that Justice Webb was
personally involved in or had any knowledge of any matter in which Mr.
Amos was involved with Justice Webb’s former law firm – only that he
was a member of such firm.


[14]           During his oral submissions at the hearing of his
appeal Mr. Amos, in relation to the alleged conflict for Justice Webb,
focused on dealings between himself and a particular lawyer at
Patterson Law. However, none of the documents submitted by Mr. Amos at
the hearing or subsequently related to any dealings with this
particular lawyer nor is it clear when Mr. Amos was dealing with this
lawyer. In particular, it is far from clear whether such dealings were
after the time that Justice Webb was appointed as a Judge of the Tax
Court of Canada over 10 years ago.


[15]           The documents that he submitted in relation to the
alleged conflict for Justice Webb largely relate to dealings between
Byron Prior and the St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador office of
Patterson Palmer, which is not in the same province where Justice Webb
practiced law. The only document that indicates any dealing between
Mr. Amos and Patterson Palmer is a copy of an affidavit of Stephen May
who was a partner in the St. John’s NL office of Patterson Palmer. The
affidavit is dated January 24, 2005 and refers to a number of e-mails
that were sent by Mr. Amos to Stephen May. Mr. Amos also included a
letter that is addressed to four individuals, one of whom is John
Crosbie who was counsel to the St. John’s NL office of Patterson
Palmer. The letter is dated September 2, 2004 and is addressed to
“John Crosbie, c/o Greg G. Byrne, Suite 502, 570 Queen Street,
Fredericton, NB E3B 5E3”. In this letter Mr. Amos alludes to a
possible lawsuit against Patterson Palmer.
[16]           Mr. Amos’ position is that simply because Justice Webb
was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer, he now has a conflict. In Wewaykum
Indian Band v. Her Majesty the Queen, 2003 SCC 45, [2003] 2 S.C.R.
259, the Supreme Court of Canada noted that disqualification of a
judge is to be determined based on whether there is a reasonable
apprehension of bias:
60        In Canadian law, one standard has now emerged as the
criterion for disqualification. The criterion, as expressed by de
Grandpré J. in Committee for Justice and Liberty v. National Energy
Board, …[[1978] 1 S.C.R. 369, 68 D.L.R. (3d) 716], at p. 394, is the
reasonable apprehension of bias:
… the apprehension of bias must be a reasonable one, held by
reasonable and right minded persons, applying themselves to the
question and obtaining thereon the required information. In the words
of the Court of Appeal, that test is "what would an informed person,
viewing the matter realistically and practically -- and having thought
the matter through -- conclude. Would he think that it is more likely
than not that [the decision-maker], whether consciously or
unconsciously, would not decide fairly."

[17]           The issue to be determined is whether an informed
person, viewing the matter realistically and practically, and having
thought the matter through, would conclude that Mr. Amos’ allegations
give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias. As this Court has
previously remarked, “there is a strong presumption that judges will
administer justice impartially” and this presumption will not be
rebutted in the absence of “convincing evidence” of bias (Collins v.
Canada, 2011 FCA 140 at para. 7, [2011] 4 C.T.C. 157 [Collins]. See
also R. v. S. (R.D.), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 484 at para. 32, 151 D.L.R.
(4th) 193).

[18]           The Ontario Court of Appeal in Rando Drugs Ltd. v.
Scott, 2007 ONCA 553, 86 O.R. (3d) 653 (leave to appeal to the Supreme
Court of Canada refused, 32285 (August 1, 2007)), addressed the
particular issue of whether a judge is disqualified from hearing a
case simply because he had been a member of a law firm that was
involved in the litigation that was now before that judge. The Ontario
Court of Appeal determined that the judge was not disqualified if the
judge had no involvement with the person or the matter when he was a
lawyer. The Ontario Court of Appeal also explained that the rules for
determining whether a judge is disqualified are different from the
rules to determine whether a lawyer has a conflict:
27        Thus, disqualification is not the natural corollary to a
finding that a trial judge has had some involvement in a case over
which he or she is now presiding. Where the judge had no involvement,
as here, it cannot be said that the judge is disqualified.


28        The point can rightly be made that had Mr. Patterson been
asked to represent the appellant as counsel before his appointment to
the bench, the conflict rules would likely have prevented him from
taking the case because his firm had formerly represented one of the
defendants in the case. Thus, it is argued how is it that as a trial
judge Patterson J. can hear the case? This issue was considered by the
Court of Appeal (Civil Division) in Locabail (U.K.) Ltd. v. Bayfield
Properties Ltd., [2000] Q.B. 451. The court held, at para. 58, that
there is no inflexible rule governing the disqualification of a judge
and that, "[e]verything depends on the circumstances."


29        It seems to me that what appears at first sight to be an
inconsistency in application of rules can be explained by the
different contexts and in particular, the strong presumption of
judicial impartiality that applies in the context of disqualification
of a judge. There is no such presumption in cases of allegations of
conflict of interest against a lawyer because of a firm's previous
involvement in the case. To the contrary, as explained by Sopinka J.
in MacDonald Estate v. Martin (1990), 77 D.L.R. (4th) 249 (S.C.C.),
for sound policy reasons there is a presumption of a disqualifying
interest that can rarely be overcome. In particular, a conclusory
statement from the lawyer that he or she had no confidential
information about the case will never be sufficient. The case is the
opposite where the allegation of bias is made against a trial judge.
His or her statement that he or she knew nothing about the case and
had no involvement in it will ordinarily be accepted at face value
unless there is good reason to doubt it: see Locabail, at para. 19.


30        That brings me then to consider the particular circumstances
of this case and whether there are serious grounds to find a
disqualifying conflict of interest in this case. In my view, there are
two significant factors that justify the trial judge's decision not to
recuse himself. The first is his statement, which all parties accept,
that he knew nothing of the case when it was in his former firm and
that he had nothing to do with it. The second is the long passage of
time. As was said in Wewaykum, at para. 85:
            To us, one significant factor stands out, and must inform
the perspective of the reasonable person assessing the impact of this
involvement on Binnie J.'s impartiality in the appeals. That factor is
the passage of time. Most arguments for disqualification rest on
circumstances that are either contemporaneous to the decision-making,
or that occurred within a short time prior to the decision-making.
31        There are other factors that inform the issue. The Wilson
Walker firm no longer acted for any of the parties by the time of
trial. More importantly, at the time of the motion, Patterson J. had
been a judge for six years and thus had not had a relationship with
his former firm for a considerable period of time.


32        In my view, a reasonable person, viewing the matter
realistically would conclude that the trial judge could deal fairly
and impartially with this case. I take this view principally because
of the long passage of time and the trial judge's lack of involvement
in or knowledge of the case when the Wilson Walker firm had carriage.
In these circumstances it cannot be reasonably contended that the
trial judge could not remain impartial in the case. The mere fact that
his name appears on the letterhead of some correspondence from over a
decade ago would not lead a reasonable person to believe that he would
either consciously or unconsciously favour his former firm's former
client. It is simply not realistic to think that a judge would throw
off his mantle of impartiality, ignore his oath of office and favour a
client - about whom he knew nothing - of a firm that he left six years
earlier and that no longer acts for the client, in a case involving
events from over a decade ago.
(emphasis added)

[19]           Justice Webb had no involvement with any matter
involving Mr. Amos while he was a member of Patterson Palmer or
Patterson Law, nor does Mr. Amos suggest that he did. Mr. Amos made it
clear during the hearing of this matter that the only reason for the
alleged conflict for Justice Webb was that he was a member of
Patterson Law and Patterson Palmer. This is simply not enough for
Justice Webb to be disqualified. Any involvement of Mr. Amos with
Patterson Law while Justice Webb was a member of that firm would have
had to occur over 10 years ago and even longer for the time when he
was a member of Patterson Palmer. In addition to the lack of any
involvement on his part with any matter or dispute that Mr. Amos had
with Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer (which in and of itself is
sufficient to dispose of this matter), the length of time since
Justice Webb was a member of Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer would
also result in the same finding – that there is no conflict in Justice
Webb hearing this appeal.

[20]           Similarly in R. v. Bagot, 2000 MBCA 30, 145 Man. R.
(2d) 260, the Manitoba Court of Appeal found that there was no
reasonable apprehension of bias when a judge, who had been a member of
the law firm that had been retained by the accused, had no involvement
with the accused while he was a lawyer with that firm.

[21]           In Del Zotto v. Minister of National Revenue, [2000] 4
F.C. 321, 257 N.R. 96, this court did find that there would be a
reasonable apprehension of bias where a judge, who while he was a
lawyer, had recorded time on a matter involving the same person who
was before that judge. However, this case can be distinguished as
Justice Webb did not have any time recorded on any files involving Mr.
Amos while he was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer or Patterson Law.

[22]           Mr. Amos also included with his submissions a CD. He
stated in his affidavit dated June 26, 2017 that there is a “true copy
of an American police surveillance wiretap entitled 139” on this CD.
He has also indicated that he has “provided a true copy of the CD
entitled 139 to many American and Canadian law enforcement authorities
and not one of the police forces or officers of the court are willing
to investigate it”. Since he has indicated that this is an “American
police surveillance wiretap”, this is a matter for the American law
enforcement authorities and cannot create, as Mr. Amos suggests, a
conflict of interest for any judge to whom he provides a copy.

[23]           As a result, there is no conflict or reasonable
apprehension of bias for Justice Webb and therefore, no reason for him
to recuse himself.

[24]           Mr. Amos alleged that Justice Near’s past professional
experience with the government created a “quasi-conflict” in deciding
the cross-appeal. Mr. Amos provided no details and Justice Near
confirmed that he had no prior knowledge of the matters alleged in the
Claim. Justice Near sees no reason to recuse himself.

[25]           Insofar as it is possible to glean the basis for Mr.
Amos’ allegations against Justice Gleason, it appears that he alleges
that she is incapable of hearing this appeal because he says he wrote
a letter to Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien in 2004. At that time,
both Justice Gleason and Mr. Mulroney were partners in the law firm
Ogilvy Renault, LLP. The letter in question, which is rude and angry,
begins with “Hey you two Evil Old Smiling Bastards” and “Re: me suing
you and your little dogs too”. There is no indication that the letter
was ever responded to or that a law suit was ever commenced by Mr.
Amos against Mr. Mulroney. In the circumstances, there is no reason
for Justice Gleason to recuse herself as the letter in question does
not give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias.


III.               Issue

[26]           The issue on the cross-appeal is as follows: Did the
Judge err in setting aside the Prothonotary’s Order striking the Claim
in its entirety without leave to amend and in determining that Mr.
Amos’ allegation that the RCMP barred him from the New Brunswick
legislature in 2004 was capable of supporting a cause of action?

IV.              Analysis

A.                 Standard of Review

[27]           Following the Judge’s decision to set aside the
Prothonotary’s Order, this Court revisited the standard of review to
be applied to discretionary decisions of prothonotaries and decisions
made by judges on appeals of prothonotaries’ decisions in Hospira
Healthcare Corp. v. Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, 2016 FCA 215,
402 D.L.R. (4th) 497 [Hospira]. In Hospira, a five-member panel of
this Court replaced the Aqua-Gem standard of review with that
articulated in Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 235
[Housen]. As a result, it is no longer appropriate for the Federal
Court to conduct a de novo review of a discretionary order made by a
prothonotary in regard to questions vital to the final issue of the
case. Rather, a Federal Court judge can only intervene on appeal if
the prothonotary made an error of law or a palpable and overriding
error in determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and
law (Hospira at para. 79). Further, this Court can only interfere with
a Federal Court judge’s review of a prothonotary’s discretionary order
if the judge made an error of law or palpable and overriding error in
determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and law
(Hospira at paras. 82-83).

[28]           In the case at bar, the Judge substituted his own
assessment of Mr. Amos’ Claim for that of the Prothonotary. This Court
must look to the Prothonotary’s Order to determine whether the Judge
erred in law or made a palpable and overriding error in choosing to
interfere.


B.                 Did the Judge err in interfering with the
Prothonotary’s Order?

[29]           The Prothontoary’s Order accepted the following
paragraphs from the Crown’s submissions as the basis for striking the
Claim in its entirety without leave to amend:

17.       Within the 96 paragraph Statement of Claim, the Plaintiff
addresses his complaint in paragraphs 14-24, inclusive. All but four
of those paragraphs are dedicated to an incident that occurred in 2006
in and around the legislature in New Brunswick. The jurisdiction of
the Federal Court does not extend to Her Majesty the Queen in right of
the Provinces. In any event, the Plaintiff hasn’t named the Province
or provincial actors as parties to this action. The incident alleged
does not give rise to a justiciable cause of action in this Court.
(…)


21.       The few paragraphs that directly address the Defendant
provide no details as to the individuals involved or the location of
the alleged incidents or other details sufficient to allow the
Defendant to respond. As a result, it is difficult or impossible to
determine the causes of action the Plaintiff is attempting to advance.
A generous reading of the Statement of Claim allows the Defendant to
only speculate as to the true and/or intended cause of action. At
best, the Plaintiff’s action may possibly be summarized as: he
suspects he is barred from the House of Commons.
[footnotes omitted].


[30]           The Judge determined that he could not strike the Claim
on the same jurisdictional basis as the Prothonotary. The Judge noted
that the Federal Court has jurisdiction over claims based on the
liability of Federal Crown servants like the RCMP and that the actors
who barred Mr. Amos from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004
included the RCMP (Federal Court Judgment at para. 23). In considering
the viability of these allegations de novo, the Judge identified
paragraph 14 of the Claim as containing “some precision” as it
identifies the date of the event and a RCMP officer acting as
Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant Governor (Federal Court Judgment at
para. 27).


[31]           The Judge noted that the 2004 event could support a
cause of action in the tort of misfeasance in public office and
identified the elements of the tort as excerpted from Meigs v. Canada,
2013 FC 389, 431 F.T.R. 111:


[13]      As in both the cases of Odhavji Estate v Woodhouse, 2003 SCC
69 [Odhavji] and Lewis v Canada, 2012 FC 1514 [Lewis], I must
determine whether the plaintiffs’ statement of claim pleads each
element of the alleged tort of misfeasance in public office:

a) The public officer must have engaged in deliberate and unlawful
conduct in his or her capacity as public officer;

b) The public officer must have been aware both that his or her
conduct was unlawful and that it was likely to harm the plaintiff; and

c) There must be an element of bad faith or dishonesty by the public
officer and knowledge of harm alone is insufficient to conclude that a
public officer acted in bad faith or dishonestly.
Odhavji, above, at paras 23, 24 and 28
(Federal Court Judgment at para. 28).

[32]           The Judge determined that Mr. Amos disclosed sufficient
material facts to meet the elements of the tort of misfeasance in
public office because the actors, who barred him from the New
Brunswick legislature in 2004, including the RCMP, did so for
“political reasons” (Federal Court Judgment at para. 29).

[33]           This Court’s discussion of the sufficiency of pleadings
in Merchant Law Group v. Canada (Revenue Agency), 2010 FCA 184, 321
D.L.R (4th) 301 is particularly apt:

…When pleading bad faith or abuse of power, it is not enough to
assert, baldly, conclusory phrases such as “deliberately or
negligently,” “callous disregard,” or “by fraud and theft did steal”.
“The bare assertion of a conclusion upon which the court is called
upon to pronounce is not an allegation of material fact”. Making bald,
conclusory allegations without any evidentiary foundation is an abuse
of process…

To this, I would add that the tort of misfeasance in public office
requires a particular state of mind of a public officer in carrying
out the impunged action, i.e., deliberate conduct which the public
officer knows to be inconsistent with the obligations of his or her
office. For this tort, particularization of the allegations is
mandatory. Rule 181 specifically requires particularization of
allegations of “breach of trust,” “wilful default,” “state of mind of
a person,” “malice” or “fraudulent intention.”
(at paras. 34-35, citations omitted).

[34]           Applying the Housen standard of review to the
Prothonotary’s Order, we are of the view that the Judge interfered
absent a legal or palpable and overriding error.

[35]           The Prothonotary determined that Mr. Amos’ Claim
disclosed no reasonable claim and was fundamentally vexatious on the
basis of jurisdictional concerns and the absence of material facts to
ground a cause of action. Paragraph 14 of the Claim, which addresses
the 2004 event, pleads no material facts as to how the RCMP officer
engaged in deliberate and unlawful conduct, knew that his or her
conduct was unlawful and likely to harm Mr. Amos, and acted in bad
faith. While the Claim alleges elsewhere that Mr. Amos was barred from
the New Brunswick legislature for political and/or malicious reasons,
these allegations are not particularized and are directed against
non-federal actors, such as the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Legislative
Assembly of New Brunswick and the Fredericton Police Force. As such,
the Judge erred in determining that Mr. Amos’ allegation that the RCMP
barred him from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004 was capable of
supporting a cause of action.

[36]           In our view, the Claim is made up entirely of bare
allegations, devoid of any detail, such that it discloses no
reasonable cause of action within the jurisdiction of the Federal
Courts. Therefore, the Judge erred in interfering to set aside the
Prothonotary’s Order striking the claim in its entirety. Further, we
find that the Prothonotary made no error in denying leave to amend.
The deficiencies in Mr. Amos’ pleadings are so extensive such that
amendment could not cure them (see Collins at para. 26).

V.                 Conclusion
[37]           For the foregoing reasons, we would allow the Crown’s
cross-appeal, with costs, setting aside the Federal Court Judgment,
dated January 25, 2016 and restoring the Prothonotary’s Order, dated
November 12, 2015, which struck Mr. Amos’ Claim in its entirety
without leave to amend.
"Wyman W. Webb"
J.A.
"David G. Near"
J.A.
"Mary J.L. Gleason"
J.A.



FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL
NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD

A CROSS-APPEAL FROM AN ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE SOUTHCOTT DATED
JANUARY 25, 2016; DOCKET NUMBER T-1557-15.
DOCKET:

A-48-16



STYLE OF CAUSE:

DAVID RAYMOND AMOS v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN



PLACE OF HEARING:

Fredericton,
New Brunswick

DATE OF HEARING:

May 24, 2017

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY:

WEBB J.A.
NEAR J.A.
GLEASON J.A.

DATED:

October 30, 2017





APPEARANCES:
David Raymond Amos


For The Appellant / respondent on cross-appeal
(on his own behalf)

Jan Jensen


For The Respondent / appELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL

SOLICITORS OF RECORD:
Nathalie G. Drouin
Deputy Attorney General of Canada

For The Respondent / APPELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL

---------- Original message ----------
From: "MinFinance / FinanceMin (FIN)"<fin.minfinance-financemin.fin@canada.ca>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 21:28:41 +0000
Subject: RE: Yo Norman Sabourin why is it that nothing you people do
surprises me anymore?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

The Department of Finance acknowledges receipt of your electronic
correspondence. Please be assured that we appreciate receiving your
comments.

Le ministère des Finances accuse réception de votre correspondance
électronique. Soyez assuré(e) que nous apprécions recevoir vos
commentaires.


---------- Original message ----------
From:  David Amos<motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 5:28 PM
Subject: Yo Norman Sabourin why is it that nothing you people do
surprises me anymore?   Inbox
To: "Norman.Sabourin"<Norman.Sabourin@cjc-ccm.gc.ca>, "marc.giroux"
<marc.giroux@fja-cmf.gc.ca>, Philippe.Joly@cie.parl.gc.ca,
"mary.dawson"<mary.dawson@cie.parl.gc.ca>,
Blair.Armitage@sen.parl.gc.ca, geoff.regan@parl.gc.ca
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, mcu
<mcu@justice.gc.ca>, Sean.Kavanagh@cbc.ca, gopublic <gopublic@cbc.ca>
Bcc: David Amos <myson333@yahoo.com>, "Bill.Morneau"
<Bill.Morneau@canada.ca>, rrichard <rrichard@nb.aibn.com>, Gerald
Bourque <kisspartyofnb@gmail.com>, barbara.kincaid@scc-csc.ca

http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/11/att-norman-sabourin-please-review-cover.html

Tuesday, 28 November 2017
YO Norman Sabourin Please review the cover letter that came with many
documents I sent you and explain why you have never responded to me

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "MinFinance / FinanceMin (FIN)"<fin.minfinance-financemin.fin@canada.ca>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 20:18:20 +0000
Subject: RE: ATT Norman Sabourin Please review the cover letter that
came with many documents I sent you and explain why you have never
responded to me
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

The Department of Finance acknowledges receipt of your electronic
correspondence. Please be assured that we appreciate receiving your
comments.

Le ministère des Finances accuse réception de votre correspondance
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commentaires.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:16:48 -0400
Subject: ATT Norman Sabourin Please review the cover letter that came
with many documents I sent you and explain why you have never
responded to me
To: "Norman.Sabourin"<Norman.Sabourin@cjc-ccm.gc.ca>, "marc.giroux"
<marc.giroux@fja-cmf.gc.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>

Gib van Ert
Executive Legal Officer:
Supreme Court of Canada
Supreme Court Bldg.
301 Wellington St.
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0J1
Phone: 613-996-9296
Fax: 613-952-3092

---------- Original message ----------
From: "MinFinance / FinanceMin (FIN)"<fin.minfinance-financemin.fin@canada.ca
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 00:14:35 +000
Subject: RE: Here ya go folks please enjoy the hearing today in
Federal Court and the notes I read from as I argued the Queen's sneaky
little minions who think they are above the law and the rest of us as well
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com

The Department of Finance acknowledges receipt of your electronic
correspondence. Please be assured that we appreciate receiving your
comments.

Le ministère des Finances accuse réception de votre correspondance
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---------- Original message ----------
From: NATALIA OLIVEIRA JOHNSTON natalia.johnston@cbc.ca
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 17:13:10 -0700
Subject: Out of office Re: Here ya go folks please enjoy the hearing
today in Federal Court and the notes I read from as I argued the
Queen's sneaky little minions who think they are above the law and the
rest of us as well
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com

Please note that I'm on annual leave and will return on May 29.

If your matter is urgent, please contact the reception line at 416-205-3216.

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April 3rd

https://archive.org/details/April32017JusticeLeblancHearing


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 00:10:57 -0400
Subject: Yo Norman Sabourin do you think the Canadian Judicial Council
or the Supreme Court of Canada will ever read the documents I sent you
byway of registered US Mail in August off 2005?
To: maritime_malaise <maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>, david
<david@lutz.nb.ca>, "matthew.smith"<matthew.smith@lutz.nb.ca>,
"maria.powell"<maria.powell@lutz.nb.ca>, "michael.bray"
<michael.bray@fosterandcompany.com>, "serge.rousselle"
<serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>, "david.eidt"<david.eidt@gnb.ca>,
"kirk.macdonald"<kirk.macdonald@gnb.ca>, David Amos
<david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, mrichard
<mrichard@lawsociety-barreau.nb.ca>, "hugh.flemming"
<hugh.flemming@gnb.ca>, "george.oram"<george.oram@gnb.ca>, mcu
<mcu@justice.gc.ca>, Craig Munroe <cmunroe@glgmlaw.com>, pm
<pm@pm.gc.ca>
Cc: motomaniac02186 <motomaniac02186@yahoo.com>, "Norman.Sabourin"
<Norman.Sabourin@cjc-ccm.gc.ca>, "marc.giroux"
<marc.giroux@fja-cmf.gc.ca>

Better yet How about the documents hereto attached?


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)"<Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 11:53:02 +0000
Subject: RE: Norman Sabourin, executive director of the Canadian
Judicial Council launches 'Potential misconduct' probe but only after
his associates in the Crown Corp CBC exposes hiis pals???
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

Thank you for writing to the Premier of New Brunswick.  Please be
assured  that your email will be reviewed.

Nous vous remercions d’avoir communiqué avec le premier ministre du
Nouveau-Brunswick.  Soyez assuré(e) que votre  courriel sera examiné.

http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2016/09/re-justice-camp-malicious-nonsense.html


July 31st, 2005

Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin,
C/o Norman Sabourin General Counsel and
Andrew Grant and Renée Maria Tremblay
Canadian Judicial Council
150 Metcalfe Street,
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0W8

Shirley Heafey Chair of Commission
for Public Complaints against the RCMP
P.O. Box 3423 Station "D"
Ottawa, ON K1P 6L4

                                 RE: Rampant Public Corruption

 Hey,

      Pursuant to my recent phone calls to Norman Sabourin and various
underlings of Shirley Heafey within the Commission for Public
Complaints against the RCMP over the years plus my many faxes and
emails please find enclosed exactly the same material received by
every Attorney General in Canada over the past year. The CD which is a
copy of a police surveillance wiretap tape # 139 is served upon you as
officers of the court in order that it may be properly investigated.
As you can see I have enclosed a copy of a letter sent to the latest
Attorney General Mr. Wally Opal in BC. Perhaps he should take a little
trip to Surrey and ask your office some hard questions. Perhaps the
ghost of my fellow Independent politician, Chuck Cadman may wish to
answer few questions now as well. Hard telling not knowing.

      I will not bother you with the details of what I am sending to
you byway of the certified US Mail because I will be serving identical
material to many other Canadian Authorities in hand and tell them I
gave this stuff to you first and enclose a copy of this letter. All
that is important to me right now is that I secure proof that this
mail was sent before I make my way back home to the Maritimes. However
I will say I am also enclosing a great deal more material than what
Allan Rock had received in the UN. Some of it is in fact the same
material the two maritime lawyers, Rob Moore and Franky Boy McKenna in
particular received, while I was up home running for Parliament last
year. Things have changed greatly in the past year so I have also
included a few recent items to spice thing up for you. I am tired of
trying to convince people employed in law enforcement to uphold the
law. So all I will say for now is deal will your own conscience and be
careful how you respond to this letter. If you do not respond. Rest
assured I will do my best to sue you some day. Ignorance is no excuse
to the law or me.

Veritas Vincit
David R. Amos
153 Alvin Ave
Milton, MA. 02186

Label/Receipt Number: ED71 7170 484U S
Detailed Results:


Delivered Abroad, August 11, 2005, 6:49 am, CANADA
Out of Foreign Customs, August 08, 2005, 2:37 pm, CANADA
Into Foreign Customs, August 04, 2005, 1:52 pm, CANADA
Arrived Abroad, August 04, 2005, 1:52 pm, CANADA
International Dispatch, August 03, 2005, 8:32 am, KENNEDY AMC
Enroute, August 03, 2005, 8:30 am, JAMAICA, NY 11499
Acceptance, August 02, 2005, 10:40 am, QUINCY, MA 02169



http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/03/yo-bobby-paulson-i-wonder-if-you-or.html

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

Good Day Mr. Amos,

Please find attached a self-explanatory letter.

Regards,

Philippe Joly
Enquêteur principal / Senior investigator
Commissariat aux conflits d'intérêts et à l'éthique / Office of the
Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner
Parlement du Canada / Parliament of Canada
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Téléphone : 613-996-6012   Télécopieur / Fax : 613-995-7308
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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Armitage, Blair"<Blair.Armitage@sen.parl.gc.ca>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 18:31:24 +0000
Subject: RE: RE My concerns about the severe lack of ethics within the
Senate and elsewhere I am calling our "Ethics Watchdogs" again right
now
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

Sir,

I am in receipt of your email.

Is there anything you are asking me to do with it in my official
capacity? The attached files do not appear to address issues for which
I have any responsibility.

Regards,

Blair Armitage
Principal Clerk /Greffier Principal
Committees Directorate/Direction des comités
Senate of Canada/Sénat du Canada
Blair.Armitage@sen.parl.gc.ca


---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 14:17:44 -0400
Subject: Fwd: RE My concerns about the severe lack of ethics within
the Senate and elsewhere I am calling our "Ethics Watchdogs" again
right now
To: don.meredith@sen.parl.gc.ca, blair.armitage@sen.parl.gc.ca,
Paul.Tasker@cbc.ca
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:59:11 -0400
Subject: Fwd: RE My concerns about the severe lack of ethics within
the Senate and elsewhere I am calling our "Ethics Watchdogs" again
right now
To: "peter.harder"<peter.harder@sen.parl.gc.ca>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 12:00:06 -0400
Subject: Fwd: RE My concerns about the severe lack of ethics within
the Senate and elsewhere I am calling our "Ethics Watchdogs" again
right now
To: blair.armitage@sen.parl.gc.ca, Paul.Tasker@cbc.ca,
peter.harder@sen.parl.gc.ca
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/peter-harder-office-budget-800-thousand-1.3535847

Trudeau's Senate leader asks for $800K office budget
Prime minister to name 20 more senators by the fall, Peter Harder
tells Senate committee By John Paul Tasker, CBC News Posted: Apr 14,
2016 3:39 PM ET|


 Peter Harder   -  Independent

Province: Ontario
Senatorial Designation: Ottawa
Appointed on the advice of:
Justin Trudeau (Lib.)
Telephone: 613-995-0222  or 1-800-267-7362
Fax: 613-995-0207
Email: peter.harder@sen.parl.gc.ca


The Leader of the Government in the Senate and the Leader of the
Opposition in the Senate are members ex officio in addition to the
number of appointed members, of the Committee of Selection and all
select committees of the Senate.

http://www.goc411.ca/en/128818/Blair-Armitage

Blair Armitage
Blair Armitage works as Principal Clerk for Senate of Canada.
Blair can be reached at 613-996-5588

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: CIEC-CCIE@parl.gc.ca
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 12:47:55 +0000
Subject: Message Receipt from CIEC / Accusé de réception du CCIE
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com

Un message français suit.

This reply has been automatically generated to acknowledge successful
receipt of your email.

The Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner
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Subject: Automatic reply: Re Federal Court file no T-1557-15 Yo mary
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/toews-justice-conflict-of-interest-judge-1.4426451

Judicial council won't pursue inquiry into conflict of interest
allegation against Vic Toews
'No further action is required,' Canadian Judicial Council says after review
By Sean Kavanagh, CBC News Posted: Nov 30, 2017 11:16 AM CT


The Canadian Judicial Council has completed its review of the conduct
of Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench Justice Vic Toews and says it won't
be investigating complaints against him further.

The council said Thursday that two complaints were reviewed by Justice
Christopher Hinkson, chief justice of the Supreme Court of British
Columbia, who found nothing that would warrant Toews' removal.

"Chief Justice Hinkson notes that the [federal ethics] commissioner
did not make any findings that put into question the integrity, good
faith or credibility of Justice Toews," the council said in a media
release.

"Upon a full review of all the relevant information, Chief Justice
Hinkson found an absence of any information that would suggest an
attempt to mislead or reveal conduct incompatible with the duties of
judicial office."

The review was launched following a complaint received in relation to
a report by the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner.

In April, ​Canada's ethics commissioner found the former Conservative
cabinet minister breached conflict of interest rules by doing
consulting work for two Manitoba First Nations after he left office.

Mary Dawson's report last spring said Toews advised a First Nations
group he had once fought in court when he was Treasury Board president
in the former federal Conservative government.

Dawson's report said Toews "acted for or on behalf of a party that was
seeking relief against a decision in which he had been involved as a
minister of the Crown."

The report said Toews also broke the rules requiring a two-year
cooling off period for providing consultancy services to the Norway
House Cree Nation through a company owned by his wife.​

    Former cabinet minister-turned-Manitoba judge broke conflict of
interest rules, commissioner finds
    Vic Toews met with Peguis lawyer about Kapyong settlement: Court documents

Toews challenged the decision of the commissioner in court, but
dropped the case recently.

    Former cabinet minister Vic Toews challenges conflict ruling in
Federal Court
    Manitoba Judge Vic Toews drops court challenge of ethics commissioner ruling

National advocacy organization Democracy Watch filed a complaint
against Toews with the Canadian Judicial Council after his alleged
conflict interest was raised.

"The actions that were under scrutiny by the commissioner were not
ones that raised issues for the Canadian Judicial Council," Norman
Sabourin of the CJC said Thursday. "I am of the view that there was a
thorough review because it's an issue that was in the public domain
and it deserved a thorough review, which is what the council did."

Toews' lawyer said Thursday he is happy the matter is finished.

"I thought the [ethics] commissioner's process was badly, badly flawed
and unfair, and so I'm happy that everything's over," Robert Tapper
said.

With files from The Canadian Press and Meagan Ketcheson