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Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Jim Heaney
Jim Heaney has kept a quote from Carl Bernstein taped to the side of his computer terminal for most of his career that reads: “Journalism is not stenography, it is the best obtainable version of the truth.”
Those have been his words to work by, first at The Orlando Sentinel, then The Buffalo News, and now Investigative Post. He’s worked to embed that ethos into the DNA of the nonprofit investigative reporting center he founded in 2012.
Heaney, 69, is editor and executive director of Investigative Post. His reporting has been cited for excellence in about 25 journalism competitions over the course of his career. He was a finalist for the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for his series on slum housing in Buffalo.
His investigation of Buffalo’s misuse of federal block grant funds won Governing Magazine’s national reporting award in 2005. He and Steve Brown of WGRZ won an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2016 for their investigation into Buffalo’s poor track record of solving homicides. In 2019, he won the Nellie Bly Award for Investigative Reporting for uncovering corruption in the Buffalo Billion program.
While Heaney continues to report on a limited basis, he spends most of his time editing and fundraising.
Heaney was an investigative reporter with The News for 25 years before he left in August 2011 to undertake plans to launch Investigative Post. His investigative work and beat coverage at The News focused on government and urban and economic issues. Subjects of his major investigations included government corruption, city schools, housing discrimination and wasteful public spending. He was an early practitioner of computer-assisted reporting and the use of surveys to gauge the effectiveness of local elected officials.
“We have a lot of fine journalists at The News, but to my mind Jim was the point of the spear,” columnist Donn Esmonde said at a fete to honor Heaney upon his departure from the paper.
“His determination, to paraphrase Mencken, to afflict the powerful who needed afflicting, raised the performance bar in our newsroom. I know that Jim was an example and a mentor to younger reporters. For the rest of us, myself included, he was a journalistic conscience, a constant reminder to tell the story the way it needed to be told, to not let anyone off the hook,” Esmonde said.
Heaney was a leader in the Buffalo Newspaper Guild for more than 20 years. He served on eight negotiating teams and was a recipient of the union’s Outstanding Service Award in 2009.
Prior to joining The News in 1986, Heaney worked as a reporter and editor with The Orlando Sentinel, covering transportation, politics and local and state government. Before that he was publisher and editor of The First Amendment, a weekly paper he founded to serve Buffalo’s Kensington-Bailey neighborhood.
Heaney attended St. Bonaventure University and graduated from Medaille College in 1977 with a degree in media communications. He grew up in the Town of Tonawanda and is a 1973 graduate of Kenmore East High School.
He can be reached at jheaney@investigativepost.org. His Twitter handle is @jimheaney.
Geoff Kelly
Geoff Kelly joined Investigative Post in April 2019 after four years as editor and publisher of The Public, a weekly newspaper he co-founded, and 10 years as editor of Artvoice, another Western New York alt-weekly.
Kelly was also editor of Pulp, an alternative newsweekly in Pittsburgh, for two years.
A native Western New Yorker, Kelly, 55, was raised in East Aurora, graduated from Canisius High School and received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Middlebury College. He began his journalism career as a freelancer for Artvoice. (First cover story: “Get the Lead Out,” about the City of Buffalo’s federally funded, scandal-ridden and ineffectual lead hazard control program.) He was appointed the paper’s editor in January 2000.
Over the next two years, he co-wrote a series of articles about legacy radioactive wastes in Niagara County, covered toxic chemical exposure in the Hickory Woods housing subdivision in South Buffalo, and began to develop a beat covering city politics and government.
In April 2004, Kelly traveled to Iraq with a team of academics and journalists from Harper’s Magazine, Free Speech TV and Middle East Report. His reporting from Baghdad appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the Boston Phoenix and the Village Voice, among other publications. Later that year, Kelly moved to Doha, Qatar, where he freelanced for such publications as Arabies Trends and Qatar Today. He also served as senior media officer for the Qatar Foundation.
Upon returning to Buffalo and Artvoice in 2006, Kelly resumed writing about regional politics and government, with an emphasis on Buffalo’s City Hall, as well as environmental issues. He carried those interests to a new publication he co-founded in 2014, The Public.
His reporting duties with Investigative Post focus on local government and politics. He also produces PoliticalPost, a weekly email newsletter.
Geoff can be contacted at gkelly@investigativepost.org. His Twitter handle is @ghkelly1969.
J. Dale Shoemaker
A native of central Pennsylvania, J. Dale Shoemaker previously reported for The Sun News in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He worked for three years with PublicSource, a nonprofit news organization in Pittsburgh after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, where he served as managing editor of The Pitt News, the student newspaper which publishes daily. He also served a stint as reporter at the Newark Star-Ledger.
Shoemaker, 30, covers economic issues for Investigative Post, including economic development subsidies and major development projects, including the construction of a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills and the STAMP industrial park in Genesee County. The Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. is another topic of focus. Dale also manages Investigative Post’s social media accounts.
Readers can follow Shoemaker on Twitter at @JDale_Shoemaker and contact him via email at jdshoemaker@
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Stepping off the Trump treadmill: A CBC correspondent bids farewell to Washington
After 12 years in D.C., Alex Panetta reflects on the country he got to know — the one beyond the news
I got a journalism tip over drinks from a veteran Canadian correspondent when I first landed in Washington more than a decade ago — a formula for stories guaranteed to thrill audiences back home.
In summary? The more ridiculous Americans look, the better. Guns, rednecks, cultural stereotypes, I was told, if you've got that, you've got gold. Canadians eat that stuff up.
The exchange never left me. As I depart Washington a dozen years later, it's still on my mind, and not because it was inaccurate.
I'll confess, on occasion, I had my fun. A piece of personal trivia: I met Lauren Boebert years before she became famous as a rabble-rousing congresswoman. I popped into her restaurant near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains whose main news draw was that the waitresses all carried guns.
"It's not just the fried jalapeños packing heat," is how I began my Canadian Press story. "A spicy hamburger, here, comes with a side of handgun."
Lauren
Boebert, left, stands by the counter with a customer inside Shooters
Grill in Rifle, Colo., in April 2018. Boebert, who has since become a
member of the U.S. Congress, opened Shooters Grill in 2013, and it
became famous as a place where the wait staff carries guns. (Emily Kask/AFP via Getty Images)
Over time, though, that type of story got old. Like gorging on empty calories — briefly fun, ultimately unfulfilling.
Here I was, reporting from a nation that's won more Nobel Prizes than a string of runners-up combined. It's produced a staggering number of patents, thriving metropolises, inventions spanning the assembly line to the internet, not to mention the blues, jazz and rock 'n' roll.
Surely there were more useful tales from this place? Surely it's more than a backdrop for ego-stroking entertainment — a comedy to mock, a tragedy to pity.
To be fair, every country has its quirks, flaws and tragedies. But we'll talk politics in a second.
The America behind the camera
Let's start with an accurate stereotype. Anybody in our community of foreign correspondents can confirm it: Americans are easy to interview. Absent rare exceptions, they love to talk.
This can be jarring to a foreigner, especially if you come from a country with a culture rich in talking points and "No comment" responses.
But here, you stick a mic in someone's face, and before you know it, you're invited into the kitchen, you're having coffee, your notepad's suddenly filling up with their life story.
I'm thinking of all those people who spilled their lives out to me, a total stranger. People who've cried, even offered me hugs when I left.
I was blessed to criss-cross this country and talk to people thousands of kilometres apart — literally and figuratively. People who, if seated together, might barely last a minute chatting politics without arguing. But they shared a willingness to talk to me, and, by extension, to you.
They like Canadians, by the way; even now, the vast majority of Americans do. The feeling lately is not mutual. The news from Washington has Canadians aggrieved and angry.
There's plenty to be aggrieved about. Much of the news is disturbing lately. But the news is a finite window onto the world. Its lens captures tragedy, better than it does the countless cases of everyday decency. Like the 100-year-old woman I just met — on a sidewalk, protesting because she's worried about health care and education for future generations.
I stopped seeing the U.S. as a two-dimensional entity on a screen as it became the surroundings of my life, filled with people and places in three dimensions.
Panetta
met Elaine Newman, 100, in his D.C. neighbourhood. She told him she
attended the recent 'No Kings' protest against Trump primarily because
she was worried about quality education and health care for future
generations. (Alexander Panetta/CBC)
What I encountered was layer after layer, of story after story, and found it harder to tell. It's more work, and less fun, writing stories sprinkled with qualifiers — howevers and althoughs and not quites.
I'll pick a classic example of our national difference: health care. The canonical story is straightforward — it's public in Canada, private in the U.S., and that's how it goes.
The reality's messier. Nearly 40 per cent of Americans have public health care. In Canada, it's 72 per cent publicly funded. It's a notable difference, yes, but perhaps not Venus and Mars.
A decade-plus on the Trump treadmill
I recall a specific case of starting to see the world through American eyes. It was the day of the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, in 2022. I read a take from a European commentator who felt no sympathy for Americans — after all, he said, these people keep voting for this.
He saw the country as an entity. I saw my toddler. She mentioned a delightful teacher of hers during the ride home from daycare that day. I had just read about a teacher murdered while defending students, and I remember feeling my chest and throat flip upside-down in the car.
I was enraged when I read that commentator's casual slur. Reducing this place to an amoral monolith wasn't just cruel — it ignored this country's reality of constant debate, fierce fights and razor-thin politics, where a fraction of one per cent of the electorate shifting across three states can alter the course of history.
Now let's talk about Donald Trump. We can only avoid him for so long.
U.S.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before signing an executive
order in March. The relentless whiplash pace of his administration means
reporters are working 24/7 to chase a story that is forever shifting
under their feet. (The Associated Press)
Here's a snapshot of life covering this president. It's top of mind because it happened to unfold on June 4, while I was planning this piece. It all occurs within 22 minutes.
It's bathtime. I'm preparing the kids for bed. One, two, three major news stories land while I'm soaping, shampooing and towelling.
Here's my perspective as the White House emails a string of executive orders, as experienced through my smartwatch:
- 7:40 p.m. Ping! Trump bans travel from 12 countries.
- 7:45 p.m. Ping! Trump launches investigation into predecessor, hints he may invalidate past pardons, opening door to prosecuting enemies.
- 8:02 p.m. Ping! Foreign students banned from Harvard. In the time this happens, I field several demands for attention, and foil one plot to stuff cotton balls into the bath drain.
There's no time to cover any of them the next day. By then, Trump is at war with Elon Musk. A day later, a twist in a burgeoning constitutional crisis. And there's a tense standoff — masked immigration officers against protesters, escalating Trump's battle against the state of California, in which he eventually shatters generations of precedent by taking over the state National Guard.
Will Donald Trump and Elon Musk destroy each other? | About ThatBy the end of the month, he'd bombed Iran, threatened new tariffs, suspended trade talks with Canada, then un-suspended them.
It's a marathon. Except when you're about to reach the finish line, someone moves it another few dozen kilometres down the road.
Watching a political system fall apart
I thought it was over on Jan. 6, 2021. I stood among the crowd that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Trump's behalf.
Indelible memories of that day include riding on the Washington, D.C., metro, hearing Trump supporters speculate about a military execution for Vice-President Mike Pence.
One scene that stuck with me was rioters berating police for not joining them. A man in his 60s, standing in the street with a buddy, heckled officers: "What side are you on?"
Trump
supporters clash with law enforcement as people try to storm the U.S.
Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to disrupt the certification of the 2020
election results. Many scenes from that day will stick with CBC's
outgoing U.S. correspondent. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images)
This is the kind of scene that happens at the outset of a civil war in countless other places: Who are the police backing? What about the army?
It just doesn't happen across the river from the Pentagon. Not between the Capitol and the White House, on, of all places, Constitution Avenue.
So I briefly thought Trump was finished. That assessment was fleeting. I'd written before Jan. 6, and wrote again after, about him coming back.
How the siege on the U.S. Capitol unfoldedIt became obvious by 2023 that he could be president again, and I listed his plans for a second term. Most of what he's doing now was in the platform. His plans included a global trade war, which I started writing about more than a year ago. It's been more chaotic than expected, but it was coming.
After he won, I wrote that Trump would squeeze Canada on three fronts: trade, the border and military spending. And here we are.
I saw him nominated twice, inaugurated twice, come back from a shooting once, convicted once, and I spent so many hours seated behind him in a Manhattan courtroom that if you gave me a pen and a cocktail napkin, I could sketch from memory a patent application for that inimitable hairdo.
CBC's Alex Panetta was in the courtroom as the Trump verdict came in. Here's what he sawThe most important story is still unfolding. After his first-term near-overthrow of a constitutional republic, and his second-term stress-test on it, we're on the precipice of the previously unthinkable: the United States of America losing its ranking as a full-fledged democracy. I felt a disorienting melancholy as I typed those words in a story earlier this year.
Had I remained here through 2028, I'd have been covering Trump's story for 13 years.
A country of optimists loses faith
I'll never forget my first morning in Washington, in 2013. It was love at first sight.
On a morning walk north of Dupont Circle, I got John F. Kennedy's pollster on the phone for stories about the 50th anniversary of his death.
An elderly Lou Harris described how JFK had sent him on a secret mission to Canada, carrying a fake passport, to help Lester Pearson defeat John Diefenbaker. Foreign election interference? The Russians didn't invent it.
I received this oral history lesson while strolling about pastel-coloured Victorian rowhouses, and while it was almost December, it was as balmy as late summer, the trees still blazing red and yellow. I recall thinking, I'm never leaving here.
But now I am leaving. For a couple of years, at least. I'm going to get a master's in artificial intelligence policy, spend more time with my kids and join my wife on a diplomatic posting.
Tanks
move down Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., on June 14, 2025, as
part of a military parade, an unusual sight in an American city. Trump
angered many Americans when he insisted the 250th anniversary of the
U.S. army be marked with a military parade and held it on the same day
as his birthday. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)
I got advice when I arrived here; now I'm happy to give some. There are little tricks for finding news that affects Canada. The U.S. domestic story presents a separate challenge. One day, you'll cover Trump courting a constitutional crisis; the next, he'll do something outrageous, controversial, the cable networks will be all over it, but it might be legal, even popular, and it's your job to figure out which story matters.
Good luck!
Also: Never forget that Trump didn't emerge in a vacuum. He identified problems Americans had concluded their political class failed to solve. Survey after survey shows Americans gloomy about the state of their country, and Trump found a receptive audience.
How Trump pulled off his historic comeback winA famously optimistic people has lost faith in its institutions. That celebrated ingenuity? It's fallen behind China in patents per capita. Life expectancy? Down, too. Note that areas suffering the most opioid deaths swung most heavily to Trump.
Because it's more impactful hearing this from one of Trump's supporters, I'll quote Tucker Carlson: "Happy countries don't elect Donald Trump president. Desperate ones do."
Trump set the tone by launching his political career 10 years ago this month in a speech laced with bigotry.
He promised renewed greatness if America stood up to three forces, all foreign: illegal immigration, trade deals and military spending overseas.
I became increasingly convinced Trump would win again as the election approached last year. I visited a bellwether district in Pennsylvania, talking to less politically engaged voters — working-class folks in an overwhelmingly Latino area.
They were upset about inflation. They weren't reading mainstream news. And they certainly weren't following the specifics about just who had stalled Joe Biden's agenda; they blamed the party in power, the Democrats.
Trump managed to reach apolitical voters like these. Democrats haven't.
In
the 2024 election, Trump managed to reach Latino and working-class
voters concerned about inflation and fed up with the party in charge.
Here, supporters wait to hear Trump speak at a campaign event in Tucson,
Ariz., in September 2024. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)
The parts of the country that are politically engaged are hyper-polarized, and I got to report on the different poles.
I spent time with people on both sides of heated fights — the Canadian-connected Keystone XL oil pipeline; policing and crime; water rights; and migration. I've stood at the Mexican border, talking to families about their perilous journey. I've also walked that desert with members of a militia clutching AR-15s, and heard from locals fed up with illegal crossing.
I only experienced hostility once. In the runup to Jan. 6, outside a Trump rally, a supporter started swearing, pulling middle fingers, trying to rile up the crowd as reporters boarded the media bus, shouting: "Fake news! Hey everybody, it's the fake news bus!"
That was it. It's the only hostility I encountered in 12 years as a reporter in the U.S. I never encountered any as a Canadian — just one yappy guy at a hockey game.
CBC's
Washington correspondent driving to an illegal crossing point used by
migrants to make asylum claims at the Mexican border outside Yuma, Ariz.
(Jason Burles/CBC)
A story to remember
My favourite story involved a road trip. The country was reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccines were being distributed.
And I visited a place I called the fertile crescent of American song, a small sliver of geography that gave the world the blues, rock 'n' roll and country music.
A
billboard near Memphis advertising the reopening of Graceland in spring
2021. Panetta's favourite assignment was one that took him to Tennessee
as the country emerged from the COVID-19 lockdown. (Marie Morrissey/CBC)
The musical soil was sprouting back to life in a Mississippi blues joint, in Elvis Presley's first recording studio in nearby Memphis and on the Grand Ole Opry stage in Nashville.
It wasn't an entirely happy story — it rarely is. COVID wasn't over. But this was mostly joyful. It was about humans doing their thing again, in a language without borders.
It's an extraordinary country. I won't pretend I'm not worried about it. But I'm pulling for it.
Post-pandemic life: The party’s back in a U.S. region renowned for musicOh, wait, sorry. I'd planned to end my piece right there but just remembered something I feel compelled to add.
I am emphatically not rooting for the United States on one specific front: international ice hockey. In that domain, I crave its defeat, and that's exactly what happened as I watched February's Four Nations final from New Orleans.
A funny thing occurred, though. I received celebratory texts from American friends and neighbours. A couple said they were rooting for Canada — they didn't like our country being insulted, and wanted it to win.
I never put that in a news story. But I thought you should hear it. It's a big, complicated country, with people who defy clichés. You won't see them all on TV, but they're every bit as American. And they're still there.
United
States goaltender Connor Hellebuyck (37) makes a save against Canada's
Brayden Point (21) during the first period at the 4 Nations Face-Off
hockey tournament in Montreal in February. Many Americans told CBC's
reporter that they are rooting for Canadians despite their president's
strong words to the contrary. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press)
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Ottawa avoided a trade setback. But Trump could come for supply management next
PM would put supply management back on table if deal depended on it, says ambassador
Dreams do come true. U.S. President Donald Trump wished for Canada's tax on U.S. tech companies to disappear on Friday, and by Sunday, it had.
Mostly, there was a sense of surprise that the federal government would play such a valuable card this soon. The digital services tax (DST), which Ottawa was supposed to start collecting on Monday, was unpopular with the U.S. government and the tech giants it targeted — Meta and Amazon, for example — and, conveniently, was not especially liked by business groups at home.
By quashing it, Canadian negotiators paid a kind of toll on the road to a trade deal with the U.S. — in that it kept talks rolling. But the move could back Canada against the wall on the far thornier issue of supply management.
"I think we can expect that they will be coming after us on [supply management] as well, because it has been a longstanding irritant," said Fen Hampson, a professor of international affairs and a co-chair of the expert group on Canada-U.S. relations at Carleton University in Ottawa.
Trump has long objected to Canada's supply-managed dairy system, complaining about what he characterizes as high tariff rates on U.S. dairy exports to Canada (more on that later). He made it an issue leading up to the 2018 negotiation of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), but ultimately allowed that free trade deal to pass without addressing it.
Now, Trump is back to making a stink about our cheese. He claimed on Friday that Canada has charged U.S. farmers a 400 per cent tariff "for years" on dairy products.
How Canada’s dairy supply management system works — and why Trump hates it But when it comes to dairy, Trump's wish won't come true so easily, thanks to the recently passed Bill C-202, which forbids supply management from being used as a bargaining chip in trade negotiations.
The bill has been criticized because it potentially ties Ottawa's hands if the U.S. president issues an ultimatum aimed at Canadian dairy — by extension, threatening to disturb Parliament which has, since the federal election, mostly set aside partisan differences in the face of Trump's threats.
The added difficulty "has certainly registered with the White House," said Hampson.
'Tremendous' power
Down south, the scrapped DST was hailed as a victory. Trump's trade representative, Howard Lutnick, thanked Canada for removing it, calling it a "deal-breaker for any trade deal" with the United States, while White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said removing the tax paved the way to renew talks.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt seemed to gloat, saying that Carney "caved" to Trump's demands and that it was a mistake for Canada to promise the tax in the first place.
Canada and U.S. restarted negotiations Monday morning, Carney saysBut if there was any indication of what's next, it came from Pete Hoekstra. The U.S. ambassador to Canada, speaking on CBC's Power & Politics on Monday evening, said Carney would push Parliament to put supply management back on the table if a deal between the U.S. and Canada depended on it.
"I have a strong belief that if ... the prime minister and the president got to a trade agreement, and for whatever reason it included something that Parliament said 'You can't do that,' the prime minister probably could find a way to get Parliament to do [his] will," he said.
"Prime ministers and presidents, they've got a tremendous amount of power."
If Trump really wanted to put economic pressure on Canada, "he could try this exact same tactic and say, 'I'm going to walk away until supply management is gone,'" said Asa McKercher, the Steven K. Hudson Research Chair in Canada-U.S. Relations at the Mulroney Institute at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S.
Trump's numerous claims about Canada's supply managed dairy systems are frequently inaccurate. High tariff rates on U.S. dairy only apply if exports exceed set quotas, and the U.S. has never come close to exceeding them (one U.S. dairy lobbying organization argues that this is because of the "protectionist measures" imposed by Canada). Below the quotas, U.S. dairy products are tariff-free under CUSMA.
While Canada's dairy lobby welcomed C-202's passage, some agricultural industry leaders argue that it stifles their industries in favour of bolstering dairy, and gives the country little wiggle room should Trump come knocking for more concessions.
"I think the Carney government is now getting into a position where the rubber is really going to hit the road," said McKercher. "If you've given in on the digital tax, is that a concession that Mr. Trump will see as a concession and accept, or will Mr. Trump continue to push Canada and say, well, now what about supply management?"
Canada’s dairy supply management ‘not negotiable’ in trade war with U.S.: LeBlanc'Existential' issue for Liberals
He says this is "dangerous territory," for the minority Carney government, which needs the support of other parties to pass its agenda.
"If the current government looks like it's going to introduce a bill threatening supply management, this could create a lot of political headaches."
Bill C-202 was sponsored by Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet as a nod to the party's base in Quebec, where the dairy farming industry is heavily concentrated. The Conservatives are also looking to expand in the province while maintaining their rural base in Ontario.
"This is where the issue becomes existential for the political fortunes of Carney's Liberal government," said Hampson.
"So that's going to be a tough one. And I'm not sure there's really any way to square that circle if the Americans decide to go after us on it."
With three weeks left until the July 21 deadline for a new Canada-U.S. trade deal, it's possible that talks between Trump and Carney will reach the finish line, says Lori Turnbull, a professor of political science at Dalhousie University.
But with Trump upset about supply management, "it's a question of is this going to be enough for him for a little while? How long?"she said.
"Is there an opportunity right now in this short period of time ... where Trump feels like … a real free trade relationship and a new economic and security pact for Canada and the U.S. is in the Americans' interest, too?"
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With files from CBC News
Canada rescinds digital services tax to advance trade discussions with the United States
Ottawa says Carney, Trump will resume trade talks with a goal to get a deal by July 21
The federal government announced late Sunday evening it is rescinding the digital services tax, days after U.S. President Donald Trump demanded it gone and cut off Canada-U.S. trade negotiations.
In a press release, the federal government said it would rescind the tax "in anticipation of a mutually beneficial comprehensive trade arrangement with the United States."
"Prime Minister Carney and President Trump have agreed that parties will resume negotiations with a view towards agreeing on a deal by July 21, 2025," the press release added.
Finance Canada said the tax collection, set to begin Monday will be halted and Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne "will soon bring forward legislation to rescind the Digital Services Tax Act."
How much Canada's digital service tax will cost U.S. tech companiesIn a statement posted on social media late Sunday evening, Champagne said "Canada is engaged in complex negotiations on a new economic and security partnership with the U.S."
"Rescinding the DST will allow the negotiations to make vital progress and reinforce our work to create jobs and build prosperity for all Canadians," Champagne added.
CBC News has reached out to the White House for comment.
On Friday, Trump said he was ending all U.S. trade discussions with Canada because of the digital services tax, which would have had U.S. companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb pay three per cent on revenues from Canadian users.
The policy would have applied retroactively, leaving U.S. companies with a $2-billion US bill due at the end of the month.
These global digital firms are often able to skirt paying taxes in the countries where they operate, and the last Liberal government pitched the DST as a way to bring the tax code up to date and capture revenues earned in Canada by firms located abroad.
In the Oval Office on Friday afternoon, Trump said the U.S. has "such power over Canada," and that he was upset the country is following a taxation strategy similar to Europe's.
"It's not going to work out well for Canada. They were foolish to do it," he said of imposing the DST, which was passed into law last year with a delayed application.
On
Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump said he was ending all U.S. trade
discussions with Canada because of the digital services tax. (Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated Press)
Trump also complained about Canada's supply management system on Friday.
"We have just been informed that Canada, a very difficult Country to TRADE with, including the fact that they have charged our Farmers as much as 400% Tariffs, for years, on Dairy Products, has just announced that they are putting a Digital Services Tax on our American Technology Companies, which is a direct and blatant attack on our Country," Trump said in a social media post.
Those high tariffs on U.S. dairy only apply if exports exceed set quotas.
Below the quotas, the U.S. dairy products enter tariff-free because of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which also said almost all agricultural products traded between the two countries are free of tariffs.
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Texas’ border standoff with feds continues, despite U.S. Supreme Court order
Texas officers are still erecting border wire and some Republicans are
calling on Gov. Greg Abbott to defy the high court.
by Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune, and Davis Winkie, Military Times
Jan. 24, 2024
Notice the webcast and transcript is missing then checkout pages 1, 2, 3 and 13
https://www.banking.senate.gov
Full Committee Hearing
Review of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the
Mutual Fund Industry
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2003 Time: 02:00 PM
Topic
The Committee will meet in OPEN SESSION to conduct the second in a
series of hearings on the “Review of Current Investigations and
Regulatory Actions Regarding the Mutual Fund Industry.”
Witnesses
Witness Panel 1
Mr. Stephen M. Cutler
Director - Division of Enforcement
Securities and Exchange Commission
Cutler - November 20, 2003
Mr. Robert Glauber
Chairman and CEO
National Association of Securities Dealers
Glauber - November 20, 2003
Eliot Spitzer
Attorney General
State of New York
Spitzer - November 20, 2003
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Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 02:14:39 -0400
Subject: Fwd: ATTN Sidney Powell et al I just called your office in
Texas and many of your associates within the Dec 11th filings
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Subject: Fwd: ATTN Sidney Powell et al I just called your office in
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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:08:11 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: FWD ATTN Sidney Powell et al I just called
your office in Texas and many of your associates within the Dec 11th
filings
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Subject: Automatic reply: FWD ATTN Sidney Powell et al I just called
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Below is a true copy of my latest email It was sent today to Sidney
Powell byway of her webpage format The lawyers found below will get
regular email just like I have done with you people (I already called
them all and spoke to some and left messages with the rest)
Perhaps all you lawyers should check my work from years ago and call
me back ASAP???
https://www.scribd.com/doc/265
On 12/13/20, Pam Stavropoulos <pstavropoulos@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
> Thank you David!
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> Really appreciate wide dissemination of these concerns as you clearly
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> Pam S.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Raymond Amos <pstavropoulos@iprimus.com.au>
> Sent: Monday, 14 December 2020 2:16 PM
> To: pstavropoulos@iprimus.com.au
> Subject: Contact Form submission from
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> Sender's name: David Raymond Amos
> E-mail: David.Raymond.Amos333@gmail.co
> Phone: 506 434 8433
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> Message: ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos
> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 23:14:01 -0400
> Subject: ATTN Yanis Varoufakis and Pam Stavropoulos I just tweeted about
> your concerns about Julian Assange and global economy etc
> To: y.varoufakis@parliament.gr
> Cc: motomaniac333
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> Yanis Varoufakis
> Web Site:
> https://www.yanisvaroufakis.
> Email:
> y.varoufakis@parliament.gr
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> Athens / Tel. +30 2103707568 / Fax +30 2103707570.
>
> Check out the attachment for USA litigation over 18 years ago
>
>
> Please notice that the webcasts and transcripts of this hearing went
> missing not long before the economy crashed in 2008 Find the letter
> fom Spitzer to me on page 12 within the document I offer as
> "Integrity-Yea-Right" and ask yourself why Assaage has never metioned
> me In fact I bet that you folks won't either
>
> https://www.banking.senate.gov
>
> Review of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the
> Mutual Fund Industry
>
> Date: Thursday, November 20, 2003
>
> Witness Panel 1
>
> Mr. Stephen M. Cutler
> Director - Division of Enforcement
> Securities and Exchange Commission
> Cutler - November 20, 2003
> Mr. Robert Glauber
> Chairman and CEO
> National Association of Securities Dealers
> Glauber - November 20, 2003
> Eliot Spitzer
> Attorney General
> State of New York
> Spitzer - November 20, 2003
>
>
>
> Yanis Varoufakis
> @yanisvaroufakis
> ·
>
> Law and Disorder: The case of Julian Assange - DiEM25
> The conviction of Julian Assange would signify a new dystopian
> landscape in which all investigative journalism risks prosecution.
> diem25.org
>
> David Raymond Amos
> @DavidRaymondAm1
> ·
> 1h
> Perhaps you and I should have a long talk ASAP?
>
> FYI this old pdf file is the tip of the iceberg of things that Bolton
> and Assange have known about yours truly for many years
>
> https://www.scribd.com/doc/271
>
> David Raymond Amos
> @DavidRaymondAm1
> ·
> 41m
> The first link I offer in the blog Greece is among the many that
> received hundreds of documents byway of registered US Mail as I
> returned home to run for public office 6 more times while suing the
> Queen
>
>
> http://davidraymondamos3.blogs
>
> Notice Assange and Trumps lawyer's email before they became famous?
>
>
> http://thedavidamosrant.blogsp
>
> From: Birgitta Jonsdottir
> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 07:14:02 +0000
> Subject: Re: Bon Soir Birgitta according to my records this is the
> first email I ever sent you
> To: David Amos
>
> dear Dave
> i have got your email and will read through the links as soon as i
> find some time keep up the good fight in the meantime
>
> thank you for bearing with me
> i am literary drowning in requests to look into all sorts of matters
> and at the same time working 150% work at the parliament and
> the creation of a political movement and being a responsible parent:)
> plus all the matters in relation to immi
>
> with oceans of joy
> birgitta
>
> Better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are
> not.
>
> Andre Gide
>
> Birgitta Jonsdottir
> Birkimelur 8, 107 Reykjavik, Iceland, tel: 354 692 8884
> http://this.is/birgitta – http://joyb.blogspot.com -
> http://www.facebook.com/birgit
>
>>>> From: "Julian Assange)" editor@wikileaks.org
>>>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 3:15 PM
>>>> Subject: Al Jazeera on Iceland's plan for a press safe haven
>>>>
>>>> FYI: Al-Jazeera's take on Iceland's proposed media safe haven
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
>>>>
>>>> More info http://immi.is/
>>>>
>>>> Julian Assange Editor WikiLeaks http://wikileaks.org/
>>>>
>>>> From: "David Amos" david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>> To: "Julian Assange)" editor@wikileaks.org
>>>> Cc: "Dan Fitzgerald" danf@danf.net; "Byrne. G" Byrne.G@parl.gc.ca
>>>> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 8:35 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: Al Jazeera on Iceland's new plan Thanx Here is
>>>> something
>>>> about Iceland and Banksters Al Jazeera would enjoy
>>>>
>>>> Checkout this old pdf file from 2005 at about page two or three
>>>>
>>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/4304
>>>>
>>>> Then read on and chuckle
>>>>
>>>> From: postur@fjr.stjr.is
>>>> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009
>>>> Subject: Re: RE: Iceland and Bankers etc I must ask the obvious
>>>> question. Why have you people ignored me for three years?
>>>> To: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> Dear David Amos
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately there has been a considerable delay in responding to
>>>> incoming letters due to heavy workload and many inquiries to our
>>>> office.
>>>>
>>>> We appreciate the issue raised in your letter. We have set up a web
>>>> site www.iceland.org where we have gathered various practical
>>>> information regarding the economic crisis in Iceland.
>>>>
>>>> Greetings from the Ministry of Finance.
>>>>
>>>> Tilvísun í mál: FJR08100024
>>>>
>>>> From: postur@for.stjr.is
>>>> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008
>>>> Subject: Regarding your enquiry to the Prime Ministry of Iceland
>>>> To: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> David Raymond Amos
>>>>
>>>> Your enquiry has been received by the Prime Ministry of Iceland and
>>>> waits attendance.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008
>>>> Subject: I just called to remind the Speaker, the Bankers and the
>>>> Icelanders that I still exist EH Mrs Mrechant, Bob Rae and Iggy?
>>>> To: Milliken.P@parl.gc.ca, sjs@althingi.is, emb.ottawa@mfa.is,
>>>> rmellish@pattersonlaw.ca, irisbirgisdottir@yahoo.ca,
>>>> marie@mariemorneau.com, dfranklin@franklinlegal.com,
>>>> egilla@althingi.is, william.turner@exsultate.ca
>>>> Cc: Rae.B@parl.gc.ca, Ignatieff.M@parl.gc.ca, lebrem@sen.parl.gc.ca,
>>>> merchp@sen.parl.gc.ca, coolsa@sen.parl.gc.ca, olived@sen.parl.gc.ca
>>>>
>>>> All of you should review the documents and CD that came with this
>>>> letter ASAP EH?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/2718
>>>>
>>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/4304
>>>>
>>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/5352
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps Geir Haarde and Steingrimur Sigfusson should call me back
>>>>
>>>> Veritas Vincit
>>>> David Raymond Amos
>>>>
>>>> The Reykjavík Grapevine
>>>> Hafnarstræti 15
>>>> 101 Reykjavík
>>>> Iceland
>>>> grapevine@grapevine.is
>>>> +354-540-3600
>
> http://davidraymondamos3.blogs
>
> Wednesday, 2 August 2017
>
> Attn Andrey Dvornikov, tel. (+7) 499 244 32 54 RE Nikki Haley meeting
> with Vasily Nebeznya.Russia's new ambassador to the United Nations,
> This was the pdf file attached to the email found below
>
> https://www.scribd.com/documen
>
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: "MAY, Theresa" theresa.may.mp@parliament.uk
> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 12:12:24 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Attn Andrey Dvornikov, tel. (+7) 499 244 32
> 54 RE Nikki Haley meeting with Vasily Nebeznya.Russia's new ambassador
> to the United Nations,
> To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>
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> From: "Finance Public / Finance Publique (FIN)"
> fin.financepublic-financepubli
> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 12:12:16 +0000
> Subject: RE: Attn Andrey Dvornikov, tel. (+7) 499 244 32 54 RE Nikki
> Haley meeting with Vasily Nebeznya.Russia's new ambassador to the
> United Nations,
> To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
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> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: David Amos
> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:51:14 -0400
> Subject: RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President Donald J. Trump I
> just got off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen (646-853-0114) Why
> does he lie to me after all this time???
> To: president , mdcohen212@gmail.com, pm ,
> Pierre-Luc.Dusseault@parl.gc.c
> B.English@ministers.govt.nz, Malcolm.Turnbull.MP@aph.gov.au
> pminvites@pmc.gov.au, mayt@parliament.uk, press , "Andrew.Bailey" ,
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> "CNN.Viewer.Communications.Man
> Cc: David Amos , elizabeth.thompson@cbc.ca, "justin.ling@vice.com,
> elizabeththompson" , djtjr , "Bill.Morneau" , postur ,
> stephen.kimber@ukings.ca, "steve.murphy" , "Jacques.Poitras" ,
> oldmaison , andre
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> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: Michael Cohen
> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:15:14 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: RE FATCA ATTN Pierre-Luc.Dusseault I just
> called and left a message for you
> To: David Amos
>
> Effective January 20, 2017, I have accepted the role as personal
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> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: "Finance Public / Finance Publique (FIN)"
>
> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 22:05:00 +0000
> Subject: RE: Yo President Trump RE the Federal Court of Canada File No
> T-1557-15 lets see how the media people do with news that is NOT FAKE
> To: David Amos
>
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> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: Kevin Leahy
> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:38:43 -0400
> Subject: Re: RE The call from the Boston cop Robert Ridge (857 259
> 9083) on behalf of the VERY corrupt Yankee DA Rachael Rollins
> To: David Amos
>
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> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l’Ontario
> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:38:41 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: RE The call from the Boston cop Robert Ridge
> (857 259 9083) on behalf of the VERY corrupt Yankee DA Rachael Rollins
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>> ---------- Original message ----------
>> From: David Amos
>> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:15:59 -0400
>> Subject: Hey Ralph Goodale perhaps you and the RCMP should call the
>> Yankees Governor Charlie Baker, his lawyer Bob Ross, Rachael Rollins
>> and this cop Robert Ridge (857 259 9083) ASAP EH Mr Primme Minister
>> Trudeau the Younger and Donald Trump Jr?
>> To: pm@pm.gc.ca, Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca,
>> Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca, djtjr@trumporg.com,
>> Donald.J.Trump@donaldtrump.com
>> Frank.McKenna@td.com, barbara.massey@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>> Douglas.Johnson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>> washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>> gov.press@state.ma.us, bob.ross@state.ma.us, jfurey@nbpower.com,
>> jfetzer@d.umn.edu, Newsroom@globeandmail.com, sfine@globeandmail.com,
>> .Poitras@cbc.ca, steve.murphy@ctv.ca, David.Akin@globalnews.ca,
>> Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, news@kingscorecord.com,
>> news@dailygleaner.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com, jbosnitch@gmail.com,
>> andre@jafaust.com>
>> Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.co
>> wharrison@nbpower.com, David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca,
>> Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.c
>>
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Finance Public / Finance Publique (FIN)"
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:52:33 +0000
Subject: RE: RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President Donald J. Trump
I just got off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen (646-853-0114) Why
does he lie to me after all this time???
To: David Amos
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: Póstur FOR
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:51:41 +0000
Subject: Re: RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President Donald J. Trump
I just got off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen (646-853-0114) Why
does he lie to me after all this time???
To: David Amos
Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið / Your request has been received
Kveðja / Best regards
Forsætisráðuneytið / Prime Minister's Office
---------- Original message ----------
From: "B English (MIN)"
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:51:29 +0000
Subject: Automated response from the office of Hon Bill English
To: David Amos
Thank you for your email to the Prime Minister.
This is an automated response.
Please be assured that any matters you raise in your email will be
noted; however, not all messages will receive an individual response.
Yours sincerely
The Office of the Prime Minister
---------- Original message ----------
From: PmInvites
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:52:50 +0000
Subject: PM Invites
To: David Amos
Thank you for your invitation/meeting request to the Prime Minister,
the Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP.
Your invitation will be considered in light of the Prime Minister's
existing commitments.
We will be in touch with you as soon as possible to formally advise
the progress of your invitation/meeting request.
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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:51:35 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President
Donald J. Trump I just got off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen
(646-853-0114) Why does he lie to me after all this time???
To: David Amos
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:51:14 -0400
Subject: RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President Donald J. Trump I
just got off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen (646-853-0114) Why
does he lie to me after all this time???
To: president , mdcohen212@gmail.com, pm ,
Pierre-Luc.Dusseault@parl.gc.c
B.English@ministers.govt.nz, Malcolm.Turnbull.MP@aph.gov.au
pminvites@pmc.gov.au, mayt@parliament.uk, press , "Andrew.Bailey" ,
fin.financepublic-financepubli
"CNN.Viewer.Communications.Man
Cc: David Amos , elizabeth.thompson@cbc.ca, "justin.ling@vice.com,
elizabeththompson" , djtjr , "Bill.Morneau" , postur ,
stephen.kimber@ukings.ca, "steve.murphy" , "Jacques.Poitras" ,
oldmaison , andre
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:15:59 -0400
> Subject: Hey Ralph Goodale perhaps you and the RCMP should call the
> Yankees Governor Charlie Baker, his lawyer Bob Ross, Rachael Rollins
> and this cop Robert Ridge (857 259 9083) ASAP EH Mr Primme Minister
> Trudeau the Younger and Donald Trump Jr?
> To: pm@pm.gc.ca, Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca,
> Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca, djtjr@trumporg.com,
> Donald.J.Trump@donaldtrump.com
> Frank.McKenna@td.com, barbara.massey@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> Douglas.Johnson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
> washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> gov.press@state.ma.us, bob.ross@state.ma.us, jfurey@nbpower.com,
> jfetzer@d.umn.edu, Newsroom@globeandmail.com, sfine@globeandmail.com,
> .Poitras@cbc.ca, steve.murphy@ctv.ca, David.Akin@globalnews.ca,
> Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, news@kingscorecord.com,
> news@dailygleaner.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com, jbosnitch@gmail.com,
> andre@jafaust.com>
> Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.co
> wharrison@nbpower.com, David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca,
> Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.c
>
>>> From: Justice Website <JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca>
>>> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:21:11 +0000
>>> Subject: Emails to Department of Justice and Province of Nova Scotia
>>> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Mr. Amos,
>>> We acknowledge receipt of your recent emails to the Deputy Minister of
>>> Justice and lawyers within the Legal Services Division of the
>>> Department of Justice respecting a possible claim against the Province
>>> of Nova Scotia. Service of any documents respecting a legal claim
>>> against the Province of Nova Scotia may be served on the Attorney
>>> General at 1690 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS. Please note that we will
>>> not be responding to further emails on this matter.
>>>
>>> Department of Justice
>>>
>>> On 8/3/17, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If want something very serious to download and laugh at as well Please
>>>> Enjoy and share real wiretap tapes of the mob
>>>>
>>>> http://thedavidamosrant.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
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>> ---------- 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
>>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>
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“Personal prejudice and financial greed are the two great evils that
threaten courts of law, and once they get the upper hand they
immediately hamstring society, by destroying all justice.”
― Thomas More, Utopia.”
Michael McHale, Counsel
Michael McHale received a B.A. in Journalism and History from the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln with high distinction in 2009, and a
J.D. from the University of Nebraska College of Law with distinction
in 2012. Prior to joining TMS, Michael served as general counsel and
policy analyst for the Nebraska Catholic Conference, where he
testified before several committees of the Nebraska Legislature
defending the constitutionality of school vouchers, tax-credit
scholarships, and Nebraska’s parental consent statute for
abortion-seeking minors. From 2018 to 2019, he clerked for the
Honorable L. Steven Grasz on the United States Court of Appeals for
the Eighth Circuit.
Michael is a Blackstone Legal Fellow with Alliance Defending Freedom.
His writings on the
rights to life and religious freedom have appeared in the Witherspoon
Institute’s online journal, Public Discourse, along with the Omaha
World-Herald and the Lincoln Journal Star. He has also completed
pre-theology studies as a seminarian at St. Gregory the Great
Seminary, where he studied philosophy and natural law.
Biography of Michael McHale, Counsel
Biography of Christopher Ferrara, Special Counsel
Christopher Ferrara is a Roman Catholic attorney, pro-life activist,
and journalist. He founded the American Catholic Lawyers Association
in 1990. He joined the Thomas More Society in 2020, and concentrates
his legal work on pro-life defense, religious liberty cases, unjust
laws that attack Catholic institutions, and that infringe on parental
rights. Mr. Ferrara graduated from Fordham Law in 1977 and practices
out of a satellite office in the New York metropolitan area. Mr.
Ferrara is a widely published author on Catholic Church affairs. Mr.
Ferrara is married and has six children.
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Republicans sue to stop Wisconsin vote certification
By: The Associated Press November 25, 2020
MADISON, Wis. — Republicans filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking the
Wisconsin Supreme Court to block certification of the presidential
election results even as a recount over President-elect Joe Biden’s
win over President Donald Trump is ongoing.
The lawsuit echoes many of the same arguments Trump is making in
trying, unsuccessfully, to have tens of thousands of ballots
discounted during the recount. It also seeks to give the power to name
presidential electors to the Republican-controlled Legislature.
Wisconsin state law allows the political parties to pick electors,
which was done in October. Once the election results are certified,
which is scheduled to be done Dec. 1, those pre-determined electors
will cast their ballots for the winner on Dec. 14.
“The litigation filed this afternoon seeks to disenfranchise every
Wisconsinite who voted in this year’s presidential election,” said
Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul. “The Wisconsin Department of
Justice will ensure that Wisconsin’s presidential electors are
selected based on the will of the more than 3 million Wisconsin voters
who cast a ballot.”
The lawsuit also rehashes a claim that a federal court rejected in
September that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to “illegally
circumvent Wisconsin absentee voting laws” through grants awarded by a
nonprofit center he funds.
At least 10 cases have been filed across the country seeking to halt
certification in parts or all of key battleground states, including
lawsuits brought by the Trump campaign in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
So far none have been successful.
The Wisconsin lawsuit was filed by attorney Erick Kaardal, a former
Minnesota Republican Party official who also represented rapper Kanye
West in his unsuccessful lawsuit attempting to get on the ballot in
Wisconsin. Kaardal represents a conservative group called the
Wisconsin Voters Alliance and a host of Republican voters.
Kaardal also filed an unsuccessful federal lawsuit in Wisconsin that
attempted to block $6.3 million from being awarded to five heavily
Democratic cities from the nonprofit Center for Technology and Civic
Life, which is primarily funded by Zuckerberg and his wife. A judge
tossed the lawsuit that argued the money amounted to bribery to
bolster Democratic turnout in Green Bay, Kenosha, Madison, Milwaukee
and Racine.
Many of the same arguments alleging the money was illegally awarded
and therefore the election results should be nullified are being made
in the new lawsuit in state court.
Other claims mirror those by Trump’s campaign. Those claims allege
absentee ballots should not have been counted where election officials
filled in missing information on the certification envelope that
contains the ballot and that voters who identified as “indefinitely
confined” were lying to avoid the state’s photo ID law.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission advises clerks that they can fill
in missing information on the ballot envelopes, such as the address of
a witness. That’s been the practice for years, and it’s never been
challenged.
Biden won Wisconsin by 20,608 votes, but the lawsuit claims that more
than 156,000 ballots should be tossed out.
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Federal Court Says New York Governor Cuomo is Wrong to Limit Worship Services
Governor Cuomo and Mayor DeBlasio
(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is wrong to limit worship services yet
condone mass protests, according to a federal judge. After telling
Thomas More Society attorneys in a June 18, 2020 hearing that he was
“troubled by” the government’s responses, Senior U.S. District Judge
Gary L. Sharpe issued a preliminary injunction on June 26, 2020,
prohibiting Governor Cuomo, his Attorney General Letitia James, and
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio from ordering or enforcing COVID-19
prompted restrictions on outdoor religious worship gatherings.
Christopher Ferrara
“This decision is an important step toward inhibiting the suddenly
emerging trend of exercising absolute monarchy on pretext of public
health. What this kind of regime really meant in practice is freedom
for me, but not for thee,” said Thomas More Society Special Counsel
Christopher Ferrara.
Thomas More Society Special Counsel Christopher Ferrara remarked, “We
are pleased that Judge Sharpe was able to see through the sham of
Governor Cuomo’s ‘Social Distancing Protocol’ which went right out the
window as soon as he and Mayor de Blasio saw a mass protest movement
they favored taking to the streets by the thousands. Suddenly, the
limit on ‘mass gatherings’ was no longer necessary to ‘save lives.’
Yet they were continuing to ban high school graduations and other
outdoor gatherings exceeding a mere 25 people. This decision is an
important step toward inhibiting the suddenly emerging trend of
exercising absolute monarchy on pretext of public health. What this
kind of regime really meant in practice is freedom for me, but not for
thee.”
Sharpe’s order noted that, “it is not the judiciary’s role to second
guess the likes of Governor Cuomo or Mayor de Blasio when it comes to
decisions they make in such troubling times, that is, until those
decisions result in the curtailment of fundamental rights without
compelling justification.”
In awarding the injunction, the court noted that “nonessential
businesses” that enjoy a 50% capacity limitation are not justifiably
different than houses of worship.
Sharpe remarked that offices, retails stores, salons, and restaurants
– all now permitted to open at 50% capacity indoors – all involve the
congregation of people for a length of time. He stated, “These secular
businesses/activities threaten defendants’ interest in slowing the
spread of COVID-19 to a similar or greater degree than those of
plaintiffs’, and demonstrate that the 25% indoor capacity limitation
on houses of worship is underinclusive and triggers strict scrutiny
review.”
The judge pointed out, “Another case of individualized exemption seems
even more obvious.” Governor Cuomo has now specifically authorized
outdoor, in-person graduation ceremonies of no more than 150 people.
This is an express exemption from the ten- or twenty-five-person
outdoor limits that apply to other situations. Yet, “There is nothing
materially different about a graduation ceremony and a religious
gathering such that defendants’ justifications for a difference in
treatment can be found compelling.”
Sharpe took New York City to task, stating that de Blasio’s
simultaneous pro-protest/anti-religious gathering messages “clearly
undermine the legitimacy” of his argument that selective enforcement
of the challenged laws with respect to mass race protests is a matter
of public safety.
“Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio could have just as easily
discouraged protests, short of condemning their message, in the name
of public health and exercised discretion to suspend enforcement for
public safety reasons instead of encouraging what they knew was a
flagrant disregard of the outdoor limits and social distancing rules,”
wrote Sharpe. “They could have also been silent. But by acting as they
did, Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio sent a clear message that mass
protests are deserving of preferential treatment.”
As a result of the federal order, Governor Cuomo, Attorney General
James, and Mayor de Blasio are “enjoined and restrained from enforcing
any indoor gathering limitations” against the involved houses of
worship “greater than imposed for Phase 2 industries,” provided that
participants follow the prescribed social distancing. They are also
forbidden from “enforcing any limitation for outdoor gatherings
provided that participants in such gatherings follow social distancing
requirements as set forth in the applicable executive orders and
guidance.”
Cuomo, James, and de Blasio were sued by two Catholic priests from
upstate New York and a trio of Orthodox Jewish congregants from
Brooklyn for violations of their civil rights by prejudicial orders
and selective enforcement. The federal lawsuit, filed June 10, 2020,
in United States District Court for the Northern District of New York,
charged the governor, attorney general, and mayor with violating the
plaintiffs’ rights to free exercise of religion, freedom of speech,
assembly and expressive association, and due process, under the First
and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Governor Cuomo was
also accused of violating New York state law and the New York State
Constitution.
Ferrara explained the lawsuit: “In an unprecedented abuse of power,
Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio have exploited the COVID-19
pandemic to create, over the past three months, a veritable
dictatorship by means of a complex web of executive orders. The orders
have imposed and selectively enforced ‘social distancing’ under a
‘lockdown’ of virtually every aspect of life for New York state
residents on the pretext of ‘public health,’ but with numerous
exceptions. The permissible activities, not based on the science of
viral contagion, but rather determined according to personal value
judgments, have included mass demonstrations of thousands of people –
gatherings of which the governor and mayor have approved and the mayor
participated in. Cuomo and de Blasio, along with James, have enforced
the gubernatorial ‘lockdown’ by threat of criminal prosecution and
actual prosecution, including $1,000 fines for the recently created
offense of violating Cuomo’s ‘Social Distancing Protocol’.”
Ferrara added, “These mass protest gatherings, taking place during the
COVID-19 stay-at-home lockdown orders, have been not only allowed but
praised by both the governor of New York and mayor of New York City,
even though massive property damage and death have resulted. This,
when the government’s primary purpose is to protect the people it
governs.”
Read United States District Court for the Northern District of New
York Judge Gary L. Sharpe’s Memorandum-Decision and Order, issued June
26, 2020, in response to the Thomas More Society’s complaint, filed on
behalf of Rev. Steven Soos, Rev. Nicholas Stamos, Daniel Schonbrun,
Elchanan Perr, and Mayer Mayerfeld, in Rev. Steven Soos, et al v.
Andrew M. Cuomo, et al, here.
https://minnlawyer.com/2020/08
Minnesota churches join legal challenges to virus rules
By: The Associated Press August 14, 2020
Churches in Minnesota and California, backed by a conservative legal
group, filed lawsuits this week against the governors of their states
challenging restrictions imposed due to the coronavirus outbreak that
they contend are violations of religious liberty.
They’re the latest in a long series of legal challenges, many of them
in California, pitting clerics and houses of worship who believe they
should be exempt from certain restrictions on public gatherings
against governors who insist the measures are needed to rein in the
pandemic. Most of the suits have been rebuffed; some have succeeded.
In Minnesota, a lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court
challenging Gov. Tim Walz’s executive orders requiring 6-foot social
distancing and the wearing of face masks at worship services.
“Gov. Walz, a former teacher, gets an F in religious liberties,” said
Erick Kaardal, special counsel for the Thomas More Society. “Other
states, including Texas, Illinois and Ohio, have excluded churches
from COVID-19 mask mandates.”
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison reiterated his defense of
Walz’s order, saying it was legally and constitutionally sound.
Teddy Tschann, spokesperson for Walz, said the governor was within his
authority taking the action and added that all Walz’s actions have
been grounded in the desire to keep Minnesotans safe.
Walz had been embroiled in a battle with Roman Catholic and Lutheran
Church-Missouri Synod congregations across Minnesota over restrictions
he placed on gatherings of more than 10 people. He relented and said
they could hold services at 25% of capacity if certain conditions were
met after they made it clear they planned to defy the order.
Earlier this month a pastor in Palmetto, Florida, filed a suit
challenging Manatee County’s mask mandate. The Rev. Joel Tillis of
Suncoast Baptist Church said the order shouldn’t extend to houses of
worship because it hinders prayer.
The Thomas More Society, which specializes in litigation on religious
issues, filed a lawsuit Wednesday in California Superior Court against
Gov. Gavin Newsom and other officials. It seeks to prevent the
enforcement of “unconstitutional and onerous coronavirus pandemic
regulations” against Grace Community Church in the Los Angeles
neighborhood of Sun Valley.
The pastor, John MacArthur, has been holding services in recent weeks
attended by throngs of worshippers in defiance of state and county
limits on gatherings.
“We will obey God rather than men,” MacArthur said in a message to his
congregation. “He will be on our side.”
MacArthur was greeted with applause Sunday when he welcomed
worshippers to his church’s “peaceful protest.”
One of the two Thomas More lawyers representing MacArthur and his
church is Jenna Ellis, who also is a senior legal adviser to President
Donald Trump’s reelection campaign.
“California’s edicts demanding an indefinite shutdown have gone now
far past rational or reasonable and are firmly in the territory of
tyranny and discrimination,” Ellis said. “This isn’t about health.
It’s about blatantly targeting churches.”
The lawsuit contends that restrictions on large gatherings should not
be enforced at churches because they were not enforced on large
demonstrations against racism and police brutality.
Officials in California, where COVID-19 cases have been surging in
recent weeks, say strict restrictions remain necessary in Los Angeles
County and other counties that are on a state monitoring list for high
rates of new infections.
Los Angeles County filed a lawsuit against the church Thursday seeking
to have in-door, in-person worship services stopped. The lawsuit also
seeks to have the church comply with health order requirements,
including the use of face covers and physical distancing at outdoor
services.
Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s office referred a request for
comment to Newsom’s office, as the new lawsuit addresses the
governor’s executive order. Spokesmen for Newsom did not immediately
respond to a request for comment.
Across the country the vast majority of churches have cooperated with
health authorities and successfully protected their congregations. Yet
from the earliest phases of the pandemic, and continuing to this day,
some worship services and other religious activities have been
identified as sources of local outbreaks.
A few churches have been openly defiant, including one in California’s
Ventura County which held indoor worship services Sunday despite a
judge’s temporary restraining order.
Pastor Rob McCoy of Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Newbury Park had vowed
to continue in-person services even though the order cited “an
immediate threat to public health and safety.”
On Tuesday a different judge declined a county request to order the
immediate closure of the church, and scheduled a hearing for Aug. 21.
Earlier this year the U.S. Supreme Court upheld state COVID-19
restrictions on religious gatherings in a suit filed by South Bay
United Pentecostal Church in Chula Vista, California.
Religious plaintiffs have prevailed in some litigation, however. In
June a federal judge blocked New York state from enforcing
restrictions on indoor religious gatherings to 25% capacity when other
types of gatherings were limited to 50%.
The plaintiffs, represented by the Thomas More Society, were two
Catholic priests from Upstate New York and three Orthodox Jewish
congregants from Brooklyn. They argued that the restrictions violated
their First Amendment rights to practice their religion.
The society also claimed a victory in May when Illinois Gov. J.B.
Pritzker withdrew certain pandemic-related mandates on houses of
worship.
In the new Minnesota case, the plaintiffs were Protestant churches in
the towns of Alexandria, Buffalo and Crosby, along with their pastors.
“Our people are commanded to meet together in fellowship,” Eric
Anderson, pastor of Life Spring Church in Crosby, said at a news
conference Thursday. “They can’t fellowship with masks on their
faces.”
Kaardal, the Thomas Moore lawyer, argued that Walz’s executive order
usurped the legislature’s lawmaking powers.
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Anni L. Foster (#023643)
General Counsel
Office of Arizona Governor Douglas A. Ducey
1700 West Washington Street
Phoenix, Arizona 85007
Telephone: 602-542-4331
E-Mail: afoster@az.gov
Brett W. Johnson (#021527)
Colin P. Ahler (#023879)
Derek C. Flint (#034392)
Ian R. Joyce (#035806)
SNELL & WILMER L.L.P.
One Arizona Center
400 E. Van Buren, Suite 1900
Phoenix, Arizona 85004-2202
Telephone: 602.382.6000
Facsimile: 602.382.6070
E-Mail: bwjohnson@swlaw.com
cahler@swlaw.com
dflint@swlaw.com
ijoyce@swlaw.com
Attorneys for Defendant Douglas
Brian Kemp
Office of the Governor
206 Washington Street
Suite 203, State Capitol
Atlanta, GA 30334
Tel: (404) 656-1776
Email: governorsoffice@michigan.gov
Christopher M. Carr
Office of the Attorney General
40 Capitol Square, SW
Atlanta, GA 30334
Tel: (404) 458-3600
Email: ccarr@law.ga.gov
Gretchen Whitmer
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 30013
Lansing, MI 48909
Tel: 517-373-3400
Email: governorsoffice@michigan.gov
Dana Nessel
G. Mennen Williams Building
525 W. Ottawa Street
P.O. Box 30212
Lansing, MI 48909
Tel: 517-373-1110
Email: dnessel@michigan.gov
Ken Paxton
Attorney General of Texas
Brent Webster
First Assistant Attorney
General of Texas
Lawrence Joseph
Special Counsel to the
Attorney General of Texas
Office of the Attorney General
P.O. Box 12548 (MC 059)
Austin, TX 78711-2548
kenneth.paxton@oag.texas.gov
(512) 936-1414
Anthony S. Evers
Office of the Governor
115 East, State Capitol
Madison WI 53702
Tel: (414) 227-4344
Email: EversInfo@wisconsin.gov
Joshua L. Kaul
Wisconsin Department of Justice
17 West Main Street, P.O. Box 7857
Madison, WI 53707-7857
Tel: (608) 287-4202
Email: kauljl@doj.state.wi.us
Tom Wolf
Office of the Governor
508 Main Capitol Building
Harrisburg, PA 17120
Tel: 717-787-2500
Email: govcorrespcrm@pa.gov
Josh Shapiro
Office of Attorney General
Strawberry Square
Harrisburg, PA 17120
Tel.: 717.787.3391
Email: jshapiro@attorneygeneral.gov
Alexander Michael del Rey Kolodin,
AZ Bar No. 030826
Alexander.Kolodin@KolodinLaw.c
Christopher Viskovic,
AZ Bar No. 0358601
CViskovic@KolodinLaw.com
KOLODIN LAW GROUP PLLC
3443 N. Central Ave. Ste. 1009
Phoenix, AZ 85012
Telephone: (602) 730-2985
Facsimile: (602) 801-2539
Andrew Wilder
Director of Communications
Republican Majority Caucus
(602) 926-5299
awilder@azleg.gov
Representative Mark Finchem, LD-11
P.O. Box 69344
Oro Valley, AZ 85737
(520) 808-7340
MarkFinchem@me.com
Nancy K. Barto
5450 East. Deer Valley Dr.
#2196
Phoenix, Arizona 85054
602-926-5766 (office)
480-513-3750 (home)
602-370-8262 (direct)
NBarto@azleg.gov
Alexis E. Danneman (Bar No. 030478)
Sarah R. Gonski (Bar No. 032567)
PERKINS COIE LLP
2901 North Central Avenue, Suite 2000
Phoenix, Arizona 85012-2788
Telephone: (602) 351-8000
Facsimile: (602) 648-7000
ADanneman@perkinscoie.com
SGonski@perkinscoie.com
Marc E. Elias*
Bruce V. Spiva*
John Devaney*
John M. Geise**
PERKINS COIE LLP
700 Thirteenth Street NW, Suite 600
Washington, D.C. 20005-3960
Telephone: (202) 654-6200
Facsimile: (202) 654-6211
MElias@perkinscoie.com
BSpiva@perkinscoie.com
JDevaney@perkinscoie.com
JGeise@perkinscoie.com
Laura Hill*
PERKINS COIE LLP
1201 Third Avenue, Suite 4900
Seattle, WA 98101-3099
Telephone: (206) 359-3349
Facsimile: (206) 359-4349
LHill@perkinscoie.com
Roy Herrera (Bar No. 032901)
Daniel A. Arellano (Bar No. 032304)
BALLARD SPAHR LLP
1 East Washington Street, Suite 2300
Phoenix, Arizona 85004-2555
Telephone: 602.798.5400
Facsimile: 602.798.5595
HerreraR@ballardspahr.com
ArellanoD@ballardspahr.com
Senator Kelly Townsend:
a. Senator in the AZ legislature
b. Maricopa County
c. kellyjtownsend@yahoo.com
ALLISTER ADEL
MARICOPA COUNTY ATTORNEY
Thomas P. Liddy (019384)
Emily Craiger (021728)
Joseph I. Vigil (018677)
Joseph J. Branco (031474)
Joseph E. LaRue (031348)
Deputy County Attorneys
liddyt@mcao.maricopa.gov
craigere@mcao.maricopa.gov
vigilj@mcao.maricopa.gov
brancoj@mcao.maricopa.gov
laruej@mcao.maricopa.gov
CIVIL SERVICES DIVISION
225 West Madison Street
Phoenix, Arizona 85003
Telephone (602) 506-8541
Facsimile (602) 506-4317
ca-civilmailbox@mcao.maricopa.
Attorneys for Maricopa County Defendants
Roopali H. Desai (024295)
D. Andrew Gaona (028414)
Kristen Yost (034052)
COPPERSMITH BROCKELMAN PLC
2800 North Central Avenue, Suite 1900
Phoenix, AZ 85004
T: (602) 381-5478
rdesai@cblawyers.com
agaona@cblawyers.com
kyost@cblawyers.com
Justin A. Nelson (admitted pro hac vice)
SUSMAN GODFREY L.L.P.
1000 Louisiana, Suite 5100
Houston, TX 77002-5096
T: (713) 651-9366
jnelson@susmangodfrey.com
Stephen E. Morrissey (admitted pro hac vice)
SUSMAN GODFREY L.L.P.
1201 Third Avenue, Suite 3800
Seattle, WA 98101-3000
T: (206) 516-3880
smorrissey@susmangodfrey.com
Stephen Shackelford (admitted pro hac vice)
SUSMAN GODFREY L.L.P.
1301 Avenue of the Americas, 32nd Floor
New York, NY 10019-6023
T: (212) 336-8330
sshackelford@susmangodfrey.com
Davida Brook (admitted pro hac vice)
SUSMAN GODFREY L.L.P.
1900 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1400
Los Angeles, CA 90067
T: (310) 789-3100
dbrook@susmangodfrey.com
Michael C. Herron
Dartmouth College
Department of Government
6108 Silsby Hall
Hanover, NH 03755-3547
Homepage: http://www.dartmouth.edu/˜herr
Phone: +1 (603) 646-2693
Mobile: +1 (603) 359-9731
Email: michael.c.herron@dartmouth.edu
Jonathan Rodden
Stanford University
Department of Political Science
Encina Hall Central
616 Serra Street
Stanford, CA 94305
Phone: (650) 723-5219
Fax: (650) 723-1808
Email: jrodden@stanford.edu
STEPHEN DANIEL ANSOLABEHERE
Department of Government
Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
sda@gov.harvard.edu
Gary King
Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
GaryKing.org
Direct: (617) 500-7570
King@Harvard.edu
Assistant: (617) 495-9271
king-assist@iq.harvard.edu
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