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From: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)"
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 13:17:27 +0000
Subject: RE: Oh My My The Plot Thickens as CBC talks of Quebec and Snow Plows Now?
To: David Amos
Thank you for writing to the Premier of New Brunswick. Please be assured that your email has been received and it will be reviewed. If a response is requested, it will be forthcoming.
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From: David Amos
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 09:17:01 -0400
Subject: Oh My My The Plot Thickens as CBC talks of Quebec and Snow Plows Now?
To: Judy.Wagner@gnb.ca, "Roger.L.Melanson"
Cc: David Amos
Now I understand one of the reasons why Roger Melanson was looking at
mean old me rather hard on Monday night in Moncton N'esy Pas Premier
Gallant.
You can bet I will try to talk to this fella ASAP EH?
Andre Tremblay
President & Board Member
Les Produits Metalliques A T Inc,
160 Rue Savard
Matane, QC
G4W 0B4
Phone: (418) 566-6772
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/snowplow-manufacturing-contract-with-quebec-company-cancelled-1.3123106
Craig Manufacturing, of Hartland, N.B. was
recently passed over for the government snowplow-manufacturing contract
over a $1,600 bid differential. (Shane Fowler/CBC)
Leaked email showed bid from Craig Manufacturing, of Hartland, N.B.,
was only $1,600 more
CBC News Posted: Jun 22, 2015 3:22 PM AT
The New Brunswick government has cancelled its snowplow-manufacturing
contract with a Quebec company.
Transportation Minister Roger Melanson made the announcement on Monday.
Snowplow manufacturing
Craig Manufacturing, of Hartland, N.B. was recently passed over for
the government snowplow-manufacturing contract over a $1,600 bid
differential. (Shane Fowler/CBC)
It comes on the heels of news that the contract, worth about $500,000,
was awarded to Les Produits Métalliques AT inc., even though its bid
was only $1,600 less than a Hartland, N.B., company, Craig
Manufacturing.
"We didn't make a mistake," Melanson said. "We are looking at making
improvements."
A review of the contract has been ordered, he said.
"There is a process in place. It was close, but our focus is New
Brunswick jobs."
In a copy of the tender obtained by CBC News, the wording of the
contract calls into question the need to award the contract to the
lowest bidder:
"The Province of New Brunswick reserves the right to apply
Provincial or regional preferences, consider local content in the
evaluation of bids and/or refuse to consider bids from vendors from
other jurisdictions when it is considered to be in the best interests
of the Province," the contract reads.
André Tremblay, president of Les Produits Métalliques, says the
company has already started building the snowplows and contends the
contract can't be cancelled.
'Our lawyers will see what we can do on this. To give the order
and cancel the order, I certainly have things on my side.'
- André Tremblay, Les Produits Métalliques
"The tender was filed. The lowest bidder met the specs," he said.
"Our lawyers will see what we can do on this. To give the order and
cancel the order, I certainly have things on my side."
The finance minister says he has yet to speak to Tremblay, but
maintains the contract is cancelled, effective Monday.
Melanson says he doesn't know what repercussions may come from
cancelling the deal, but knows the deal will be reviewed.
"I couldn't tell you what, if any, action will be taken," he said.
"I've actually looked into this quite a bit deeper, and made the
decision to cancel the contract. And we are going to do a complete
review of this process."
The contract covers the building of 27 plows and 30 plow wings.
In an email leaked to CBC News last week, Ben Craig, an owner of Craig
Manufacturing, explained to his employees that he was at a loss as to
why the government was sending the work elsewhere.
"It's just very crushing to be let down like this by your home
province," Craig wrote.
The company fully expected the extra $1,600 on its bid to be offset by
the cost of travel that inspectors would have to incur travelling to
Quebec, Craig wrote.
He also wrote the slightly higher price tag would be a minimal
deterrent to keeping money and jobs in the province.
Both Craig Manufacturing and Les Produits Métalliques have had
contracts with the New Brunswick government for years.
312 Comments
Oracle
Watch for the law suits
because of this idiotic move. The policy should be to shop local first.
To try and save $1600 they are now going to lose us lord knows how
much.
NB-eh
@Really?
What about the reputation of the province for insisting on shop local, while NB firms take jobs outside NB?
Craig is an active member of NSRBA and has sales agents living in Quebec. Why is that okay? But it's wrong to hire outside NB?
What about the reputation of the province for insisting on shop local, while NB firms take jobs outside NB?
Craig is an active member of NSRBA and has sales agents living in Quebec. Why is that okay? But it's wrong to hire outside NB?
Sutarmekeg
@NB-eh How to get maximum
benefit to the people of NB should be rule 1 of the decision making
process. The people of NB are literally the only reason the government
of NB exists.
Retiring in 2016!
These clowns could not run the Merry Go Round at the circus!
Now there will be a secret settlement with the Quebec company to avoid a lawsuit which will cost us much more than the initial $1,600.
For the love of God can someone save us from this incompetence!
Now there will be a secret settlement with the Quebec company to avoid a lawsuit which will cost us much more than the initial $1,600.
For the love of God can someone save us from this incompetence!
Botched snowplow deal still without government review
Treasury Board President Roger Melanson says Jobs Board is reviewing how government doles out contracts
By Shane Fowler, CBC News
Posted: Nov 24, 2016 7:00 AM AT
A year-and-a-half later and there is still no review from
government on a botched tender for new snowplows. (CBC)
With some snow already falling on New Brunswick roads, the
provincial government has yet to find the time to complete a review into
a snowplow controversy that's a year-and-a-half-old.
In June 2015, a review into a botched tendering deal worth around $500,000 for the construction of 27 new snowplows and 30 snowplow wings was promised.
A Quebec manufacturing company, Les Produits Métalliques, outbid New Brunswick's Craig Manufacturing by $1,600.
Public backlash against the Gallant government for sending jobs out of province to save a few hundred dollars saw the contract abruptly cancelled.
At the time Roger Melanson, who was the transportation minister, promised a review of the tendering process in order to make improvements and possibly prevent a similar situation from happening again.
A year-and-a-half later and there is still no sign of a review.
CBC News asked Melanson, who is now Treasury Board President and the minister responsible for the Jobs Board, about the review.
Melanson said in an email the the Jobs Board is doing a "thorough review" of how government contracts are awarded.
"This review is ongoing and we look forward to seeing what recommendations the Jobs Board brings forward in terms of procurement practices," he said.
Melanson did not state when a review was expected to be completed.
A Right to Information request filed by CBC News for any information about a jobs board review into procurement following the failed deal has turned up no evidence of any such review.
A letter from Judy Wagner, the secretary to cabinet and deputy minister of the Executive Council Office, stated that "the Executive Council Office failed to retrieve any information relevant to this request."
Following the cancellation of the snowplow tender CBC News spoke with André Tremblay, president of Quebec's Les Produits Métalliques.
At the time he said he was speaking with his lawyers about potentially suing the New Brunswick government for backing out of the $500,000 contract.
So far neither he, nor the company has filed court documents in relation to that contract.
http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2016/11/re-section-300-of-criminal-code-and-my.html
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From: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)" <Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:45:36 +0000
Subject: RE: RE Section 300 of the Criminal Code and my next lawsuit
perhaps the evil little Dean Roger Ray of Sylvan Lake AB should find a
lawyer to consult with the RCMP or CBC or Columbia University or
Radical Press or his fellow welfare bums Byron Prior and...
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Thank you for writing to the Premier of New Brunswick. Please be
assured that your email has been received and it will be reviewed. If
a response is requested, it will be forthcoming.
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Nouveau-Brunswick. Soyez assuré(e) que votre courriel a bien été
reçu, qu’il sera examiné et qu’une réponse vous parviendra à sa
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 07:52:59 -0400
Subject: Re Justice Clendening's decision about The New Brunswick
Police Commission's actions versus Federal Cout File # T-1557-15 &
Federal Court of Appeal file # A-48-16 and my next round of lawsuits
To: jlemesurier@stewartmckelvey.
"alan.white" <alan.white@cbc.ca>, "Bobbi-Jean.MacKinnon"
<Bobbi-Jean.MacKinnon@cbc.ca>, nbpc <nbpc@gnb.ca>, "steve.roberge"
<steve.roberge@gnb.ca>, "Gilles.Blinn" <Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre <andre@jafaust.com>,
"Leanne.Fitch" <Leanne.Fitch@fredericton.ca>, "leanne.murray"
<leanne.murray@mcinnescooper.
"Davidc.Coon" <Davidc.Coon@gmail.com>, "denis.landry2"
<denis.landry2@gnb.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
The dismissal of Fredericton Police Force Const. Jeff Smiley for
alleged misconduct has been quashed by a Court of Queen's Bench judge.
Smiley was fired nearly a year ago after an arbitrator found him guilty of four counts of breaching the professional conduct standards of police officers, including domestic violence and firearms-related offences.
But Justice Judy Clendening ruled on Friday Smiley's dismissal was unreasonable.
The New Brunswick Police Commission "will be meeting next week with legal counsel to examine our next steps," executive director Steve Roberge said in an email to CBC News.
Chief Leanne Fitch, who had filed the misconduct complaint against Smiley, resulting in the commission's arbitration hearing, could not be reached for comment.
"Unfortunately the chief is out of town until early next week, and I am unable to comment on her behalf," spokeswoman Alycia Bartlett said in an email.
The case dates back to February 2014, when Smiley was arrested by
fellow officers on an allegation of off-duty domestic assaults against
his common-law spouse, Kimberly Burnett.
A criminal assault charge against Smiley was dismissed in October 2014 over a jurisdictional issue, as the assaults in question were alleged to have occurred in Nova Scotia, not New Brunswick.
He was charged with breaching an undertaking to turn his firearms over to authorities, but was found not guilty in December 2014.
The chief then filed a complaint with the New Brunswick Police Commission about Smiley's conduct.
Smiley was accused of:
A four-day hearing was held last November. Arbitrator Cedric Haines found Smiley guilty in December of all four counts and issued the order that he be dismissed.
The chief had issued a statement at that time, saying the decision sent an important message "that police officers are not above the law and the due process and procedural fairness is critical to maintaining trust and respect in, and for the policing profession."
The head of the provincial police commission had said the case set a new precedent. Although other officers had faced hearings for domestic violence, none of them had ever been ordered dismissed, Roberge had said.
Smiley subsequently filed an application for a judicial review. The case was argued in June, but Clendening had reserved her decision until Friday.
In June 2015, a review into a botched tendering deal worth around $500,000 for the construction of 27 new snowplows and 30 snowplow wings was promised.
A Quebec manufacturing company, Les Produits Métalliques, outbid New Brunswick's Craig Manufacturing by $1,600.
- Snowplow-manufacturing contract with Quebec company cancelled
- Snowplow contract cancellation consequences still unknown
Public backlash against the Gallant government for sending jobs out of province to save a few hundred dollars saw the contract abruptly cancelled.
At the time Roger Melanson, who was the transportation minister, promised a review of the tendering process in order to make improvements and possibly prevent a similar situation from happening again.
A year-and-a-half later and there is still no sign of a review.
Government response
Treasury Board President Roger Melanson said the Jobs Board is reviewing how contracts are awarded. (CBC)
Melanson said in an email the the Jobs Board is doing a "thorough review" of how government contracts are awarded.
"This review is ongoing and we look forward to seeing what recommendations the Jobs Board brings forward in terms of procurement practices," he said.
Melanson did not state when a review was expected to be completed.
A Right to Information request filed by CBC News for any information about a jobs board review into procurement following the failed deal has turned up no evidence of any such review.
A letter from Judy Wagner, the secretary to cabinet and deputy minister of the Executive Council Office, stated that "the Executive Council Office failed to retrieve any information relevant to this request."
Following the cancellation of the snowplow tender CBC News spoke with André Tremblay, president of Quebec's Les Produits Métalliques.
At the time he said he was speaking with his lawyers about potentially suing the New Brunswick government for backing out of the $500,000 contract.
So far neither he, nor the company has filed court documents in relation to that contract.
http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2016/11/re-section-300-of-criminal-code-and-my.html
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From: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)" <Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:45:36 +0000
Subject: RE: RE Section 300 of the Criminal Code and my next lawsuit
perhaps the evil little Dean Roger Ray of Sylvan Lake AB should find a
lawyer to consult with the RCMP or CBC or Columbia University or
Radical Press or his fellow welfare bums Byron Prior and...
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Thank you for writing to the Premier of New Brunswick. Please be
assured that your email has been received and it will be reviewed. If
a response is requested, it will be forthcoming.
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Nouveau-Brunswick. Soyez assuré(e) que votre courriel a bien été
reçu, qu’il sera examiné et qu’une réponse vous parviendra à sa
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 07:52:59 -0400
Subject: Re Justice Clendening's decision about The New Brunswick
Police Commission's actions versus Federal Cout File # T-1557-15 &
Federal Court of Appeal file # A-48-16 and my next round of lawsuits
To: jlemesurier@stewartmckelvey.
"alan.white" <alan.white@cbc.ca>, "Bobbi-Jean.MacKinnon"
<Bobbi-Jean.MacKinnon@cbc.ca>, nbpc <nbpc@gnb.ca>, "steve.roberge"
<steve.roberge@gnb.ca>, "Gilles.Blinn" <Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre <andre@jafaust.com>,
"Leanne.Fitch" <Leanne.Fitch@fredericton.ca>, "leanne.murray"
<leanne.murray@mcinnescooper.
"Davidc.Coon" <Davidc.Coon@gmail.com>, "denis.landry2"
<denis.landry2@gnb.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
,
nmoore
<nmoore@bellmedia.ca>, "macpherson.don"
<macpherson.don@dailygleaner.
<serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>, briangallant10 <briangallant10@gmail.com>,
premier <premier@gnb.ca>
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
<nmoore@bellmedia.ca>, "macpherson.don"
<macpherson.don@dailygleaner.
<serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>, briangallant10 <briangallant10@gmail.com>,
premier <premier@gnb.ca>
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
Const. Jeff Smiley's dismissal from Fredericton Police Force quashed by judge
Court of Queen's Bench Justice Judy Clendening ruled arbitrator's decision to fire Smiley was unreasonable
By Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon, CBC News
Posted: Nov 18, 2016 8:14 PM AT
Const. Jeff Smiley, who was fired from the Fredericton
Police Force last December over alleged misconduct, could soon be back
on the job. (Catherine Harrop/CBC)
Smiley was fired nearly a year ago after an arbitrator found him guilty of four counts of breaching the professional conduct standards of police officers, including domestic violence and firearms-related offences.
But Justice Judy Clendening ruled on Friday Smiley's dismissal was unreasonable.
The New Brunswick Police Commission "will be meeting next week with legal counsel to examine our next steps," executive director Steve Roberge said in an email to CBC News.
Chief Leanne Fitch, who had filed the misconduct complaint against Smiley, resulting in the commission's arbitration hearing, could not be reached for comment.
"Unfortunately the chief is out of town until early next week, and I am unable to comment on her behalf," spokeswoman Alycia Bartlett said in an email.
Firing was viewed as precedent setting
Fredericton Police Chief Leanne Fitch, who
had filed the misconduct complaint against Smiley, had said his
dismissal sent an important message 'that police officers are not above
the law.' (CBC)
A criminal assault charge against Smiley was dismissed in October 2014 over a jurisdictional issue, as the assaults in question were alleged to have occurred in Nova Scotia, not New Brunswick.
He was charged with breaching an undertaking to turn his firearms over to authorities, but was found not guilty in December 2014.
The chief then filed a complaint with the New Brunswick Police Commission about Smiley's conduct.
Smiley was accused of:
- Discreditable conduct by committing domestic violence.
- Counselling a fellow officer not to disclose he had firearms in his possession.
- Improper care of firearms.
- Failing to turn in firearms.
A four-day hearing was held last November. Arbitrator Cedric Haines found Smiley guilty in December of all four counts and issued the order that he be dismissed.
The chief had issued a statement at that time, saying the decision sent an important message "that police officers are not above the law and the due process and procedural fairness is critical to maintaining trust and respect in, and for the policing profession."
The head of the provincial police commission had said the case set a new precedent. Although other officers had faced hearings for domestic violence, none of them had ever been ordered dismissed, Roberge had said.
Smiley subsequently filed an application for a judicial review. The case was argued in June, but Clendening had reserved her decision until Friday.
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