From: Premier of
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:51:30 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE: Unbelieveable I actually agree with these Doug Draper
and Jack Gibbons characters and what they opt to publish while I was at the NBEUB
hearing yesterday and yet they think i am not worth talking to just like the lawyers do?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:51:30 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE: Unbelieveable I actually agree with these Doug Draper
and Jack Gibbons characters and what they opt to publish while I was at the NBEUB
hearing yesterday and yet they think i am not worth talking to just like the lawyers do?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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the time to get in touch with me.
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:51:00 +0000
Subject: RE: Unbelieveable I actually agree with these Doug Draper and Jack Gibbons
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Patrick Brown's PC leadership bid could lead to 'political fratricide,' experts say
Opponents will have to change strategies to battle former leader, political observers say
CBC News Posted: Feb 17, 2018 10:55 AM ET
Patrick Brown speaks to reporters following a meeting at
the Conservative Party headquarters in Toronto on Friday. (Christopher
Katsarov/Canadian Press)
Patrick Brown's entry into the Ontario Progressive Conservative
leadership race could lead to ruthless infighting, leaving the party at
a disadvantage, experts say.
"This is a time when the party should be taking all its resources and throwing them at Kathleen Wynne," Jim Warren, a political strategist who has worked with the Ontario Liberals, said this week.
"Instead, they've got the guns pointed at each other and are about to have a 'shootout at the OK Corral.' You will see this real insider fighting — political fratricide, if you will — of the leaders turning on each other."
Brown entered the race on Friday, just weeks after he resigned in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct made by two women and first reported by CTV.
The other four leadership candidates, preparing for opponents with roughly similar political advantages, will now have to revise their game plan to focus on Brown. The former leader already has a base of support and extensive political experience.
"He's been the leader for the last two years. He has sold a lot of the memberships to the members now. Are they PC members or Patrick Brown members?" Warren said.
Either way, Brown's entry into the leadership race is a gift to the
Ontario Liberals, according to Jaime Watt, executive chair of the public
relations company Navigator and a long-time Conservative strategist.
"I think it harms all the candidates at an important time in Ontario's history," Watt said.
"If I were (Kathleen Wynne) I'd be running to the convenience store to buy a lottery ticket."
Brown registered as a candidate just before the 5 p.m deadline on Friday. He had previously launched an online campaign to discredit the allegations that led to his resignation Speaking to reporters outside PC headquarters, Brown said that he believed his name was cleared.
His entry into the race came hours after interim leader Vic Fedeli announced that Brown was kicked out of caucus, prompting questions about his eligibility to run. Party executives will review his candidacy bid and make a decision in coming days.
Nelson Wiseman, a political science professor at the University of Toronto, said the outcome of the executive review is uncertain at best.
"Although he's still a member of the party, the party could suggest he's not in good standing, which is one of the conditions you have to have to run," he told CBC Toronto.
But several PC candidates, at least one MPP and many party members have publicly expressed support for Brown, a sign that a grassroots movement could be mobilizing to bolster his bid.
"There is an awful lot of members I see on social media who think there was an injustice done to him — that he wasn't treated fairly by the party establishment and by the caucus members. So the grassroots members may very well turn on the party elites and try and send in Patrick Brown," he said.
The party membership will vote electronically for its next leader between March 2 and March 8, with results to be announced on March 10.
"This is a time when the party should be taking all its resources and throwing them at Kathleen Wynne," Jim Warren, a political strategist who has worked with the Ontario Liberals, said this week.
"Instead, they've got the guns pointed at each other and are about to have a 'shootout at the OK Corral.' You will see this real insider fighting — political fratricide, if you will — of the leaders turning on each other."
Brown entered the race on Friday, just weeks after he resigned in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct made by two women and first reported by CTV.
The other four leadership candidates, preparing for opponents with roughly similar political advantages, will now have to revise their game plan to focus on Brown. The former leader already has a base of support and extensive political experience.
"He's been the leader for the last two years. He has sold a lot of the memberships to the members now. Are they PC members or Patrick Brown members?" Warren said.
The candidates battling to lead the Ontario
PC party are, from left: Christine Elliott, Tanya Granic Allen, Doug
Ford and Caroline Mulroney. (The Canadian Press/Drafttanya.com)
"I think it harms all the candidates at an important time in Ontario's history," Watt said.
"If I were (Kathleen Wynne) I'd be running to the convenience store to buy a lottery ticket."
Brown registered as a candidate just before the 5 p.m deadline on Friday. He had previously launched an online campaign to discredit the allegations that led to his resignation Speaking to reporters outside PC headquarters, Brown said that he believed his name was cleared.
His entry into the race came hours after interim leader Vic Fedeli announced that Brown was kicked out of caucus, prompting questions about his eligibility to run. Party executives will review his candidacy bid and make a decision in coming days.
Nelson Wiseman, a political science professor at the University of Toronto, said the outcome of the executive review is uncertain at best.
"Although he's still a member of the party, the party could suggest he's not in good standing, which is one of the conditions you have to have to run," he told CBC Toronto.
But several PC candidates, at least one MPP and many party members have publicly expressed support for Brown, a sign that a grassroots movement could be mobilizing to bolster his bid.
"There is an awful lot of members I see on social media who think there was an injustice done to him — that he wasn't treated fairly by the party establishment and by the caucus members. So the grassroots members may very well turn on the party elites and try and send in Patrick Brown," he said.
The party membership will vote electronically for its next leader between March 2 and March 8, with results to be announced on March 10.
Ontario PC leadership candidates talk sex ed, tax cuts in 1st debate
Christine Elliott, Tanya Granic Allen, Doug Ford and Caroline Mulroney duel in Toronto debate
CBC News Posted: Feb 15, 2018 3:11 PM ET
The candidates battling to lead the Ontario PC party are,
from left: Christine Elliott, Tanya Granic Allen, Doug Ford and Caroline
Mulroney. (The Canadian Press/Drafttanya.com)
Caroline Mulroney, Doug Ford, Christine Elliott and Tanya Granic Allen went head to head on the issues, and got more heated as things went on.
The debate, one of two scheduled for this last-minute leadership race, was held at TVO's headquarters in Toronto.
Here are some of the highlights from the debate, and some early reaction to the candidates' plans.
Feb 15 2018 5:58 PM
Who won the debate?
29%
Caroline Mulroney
24%
Doug Ford
29%
Christine Elliott
18%
Tanya Granic Allen
---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:29:05 -0400
Subject: Unbelieveable I actually agree with these Doug Draper and Jack Gibbons
characters and what they opt to publish while I was at the NBEUB hearing yesterday
and yet they think i am not worth talking to just like the lawyers do?
To: jack@cleanairalliance.org, drapers@vaxxine.com, premier@ontario.ca,
doug <doug@fordnation.ca>, christine@christine2018.ca, info@fordforleader.ca,
ahorwath-qp@ndp.on.ca, Angela@cleanairalliance.org, rsvp@jakeskinner.ca, media@christine2018.ca, newsroom <newsroom@globeandmail.ca>, leblanc.daniel.m@gmail.com,
Dave.Young@nbeub.ca, twoolf@synapse-energy.com, rzarumba@ceadvisors.com, rdk@indecon.com, efinamore@valutechsolutions.
"Bill.Morneau" <Bill.Morneau@canada.ca>, paul.heroux@mcgill.ca, chris_r_31@hotmail.com, wharrison <wharrison@nbpower.com>, cstewart@stewartmckelvey.com
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> ,
"brian.gallant" <brian.gallant@gnb.ca>, "rick.doucet" <rick.doucet@gnb.ca>,
ecdesmond <ecdesmond@nbeub.ca>, "Furey, John" <jfurey@nbpower.com>,
sstoll <sstoll@airdberlis.com>, hsegal <hsegal@airdberlis.com>,
jtodd <jtodd@elenchus.ca>, ddale <ddale@thestar.ca>,
"darrow.macintyre" <darrow.macintyre@cbc.ca>
Go Figure EH Dougy Ford?
http://www.nbeub.ca/opt/M/
Matter No. 0375
Title NB Power 2018-2019 General Rate Application / Énergie NB
Demande générale de tarifs pour 2018-2019
Description Electricity
Summary IN THE MATTER OF an application by New Brunswick
Power Corporation for approval of the schedules of the rates
for the fiscal year commencing April 1, 2018.
Status Open
https://niagaraatlarge.com/
When Will The Light Come On?
Posted on February 13, 2018 by dougdraper | 2 Comments
Urge Ontario’s Party Leaders To Embrace a ‘Real Solution’ to Rising
Electricity Costs
A Call-Out from the Ontario Clean Air Alliance, a citizens advocacy
group in the province
Posted February 13th, 2018 on Niagara At Large
We are now just a few months away from a provincial election and we
know that rising electricity costs are sure to be a big issue on the
campaign trail. So why have none of the parties at Queen’s Park
embraced the real solution to lowering bills – buying power from
Quebec?
Quebec just signed a deal with Massachusetts to supply power at 3 to
5.5 cents per kWh. That’s less than one-third of the projected cost of
power from rebuilt reactors at the Darlington Nuclear Station. Yet our
leaders seem more interested in accounting tricks and finger pointing
than in grabbing Quebec’s sensational offer to make a similar deal
with Ontario.
Right now, all our leaders (and leadership candidates) seem to be
stumbling around in the dark on the electricity issue (with the
exception of the Green Party, which has called for a deal with
Quebec). To make a real difference for voters, they need to quickly
flip the switch from dangerous high cost nuclear to clean affordable
power from Quebec. Voters have had enough of non-solutions and the
blame game. Now it is time for real answers.
Please tell the leaders and leadership candidates that you want
answers, not empty promises.
Premier Kathleen Wynne: premier@ontario.ca
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath: ahorwath-qp@ndp.on.ca
PC Leadership candidate Christine Elliott: christine@christine2018.ca
PC Leadership candidate Doug Ford: info@fordforleader.ca
PC Leadership candidate Caroline Mulroney: christine@christine2018.ca
Thank you, Angela Bischoff, Director
P.S. We have sent the PC leadership candidates the following question:
“Should the Government of Ontario seek to negotiate a long-term
electricity supply contract with Hydro Quebec to lower our electricity
rates?” We’ll let you know what they have to say. Stay tuned.
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“A politician thinks of the next election. A leader thinks of the
next generation.” – Bernie Sanders
Jack Gibbons, Chair
Former Toronto Hydro Commissioner
(416) 260-2080, ext. 2
jack@cleanairalliance.org
Doug Draper
(905) 227-7951
32 Collier Rd N Thorold ON L2V 2X1
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Brown, Patrick" <patrick.brown@pc.ola.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 19:47:56 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Attn David Butt and Matthew Garrow I just called
from 902 800 0369
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Thank you very much for getting in touch. Due to the large volume of
mail that I receive, please allow time for a response. If it is a
pressing issue, please call my Queen’s Park office at 416-325-3855.
Otherwise, I will respond as soon as possible.
Regards,
Patrick Brown, MPP
Simcoe North
Leader of the Official Opposition
---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:22:57 -0400
Subject: Attn David Butt and Matthew Garrow I just called from 902 800 0369
To: dbutt@barristersatlaw.ca, matthew.garrow@bellmedia.ca,
"sylvie.gadoury" <sylvie.gadoury@radio-canada.
"ht.lacroix" <ht.lacroix@cbc.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
"patrick.brown" <patrick.brown@pc.ola.org>
Interesting news to say the least EH David Akin?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
'You lied. You defamed me': Patrick Brown blasts CTV News after sexual
misconduct accuser changes timeline
One of Brown's accusers now says she was wasn't underage at time of
alleged sexual misconduct
Amara McLaughlin · CBC News · Posted: Feb 14, 2018 2:45 PM ET |
"CTV 'stands by its reporting': spokesperson
Matthew Garrow, spokesperson for Bell Media, also responded to Brown's
Facebook post on Wednesday in an email to CBC News.
"CTV News continues to stand by its reporting," Garrow said.
"Patrick Brown's allegations regarding our reporting are false. As we
reported once again last night, the two women have reiterated their
allegations of sexual misconduct by Patrick Brown."
Matthew Garrow, Bell Media, 416-384-5258 or matthew.garrow@bellmedia.ca;
Mr Butt here is where I published the email I sent you last year
http://davidraymondamos3.
There rest of this email should bring you up to date
----- Original Message -----
From: martine.turcotte@bell.ca
To: motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com
Cc: bcecomms@bce.ca ; W-Five@ctv.ca
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 9:28 AM
Subject: RE: I am curious
Mr. Amos, I confirm that I have received your documentation. There is
no need to send us a hard copy. As you have said yourself, the
documentation is very voluminous and after 3 days, we are still in the
process of printing it. I have asked one of my lawyers to review it
in my absence and report back to me upon my return in the office. We
will then provide you with a reply.
Martine Turcotte
Chief Legal Officer / Chef principal du service juridique
BCE Inc. / Bell Canada
1000 de La Gauchetière ouest, bureau 3700
Montréal (Qc) H3B 4Y7
Tel: (514) 870-4637
Fax: (514) 870-4877
email: martine.turcotte@bell.ca
Executive Assistant / Assistante à la haute direction: Diane Valade
Tel: (514) 870-4638
email: diane.valade@bell.ca
-----Original Message-----
From: David Amos [mailto:motomaniac_02186@
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:12 AM
To: Turcotte, Martine (EX05453)
Cc: bcecomms@bce.ca; W-Five@ctv.ca
Subject: I am curious
Madam
I did not receive a response from you to the last email so I am
not certain if you received it. I must inform you that I will be
closing my briefcase in Yahoo for public view at the end of the week.
I have a great deal of material to add and I only wish certain parties
to view it. I opened it for you the other day as an act of good faith.
Mr. Pozen can check my work in the dockets of the various courts
around Boston they are a matter of Public Record my files are not. As
you can see by this and some following emails. I am very busy dealing
with criminal matters first before filing civil complaints in the USA.
As I told you when you called a lot has been happening. I have made a
lot of cops mad at me and I don't trust them a bit particularly after
the Police Commission is willing to check their work so i have been
busy watching my back and covering my butt. However that does not mean
that I have not thought about our conversation and was
curious about a few things.
I was glad to receive your call and impressed by the fact that
you were more than willing to receive the material and a copy of the
wiretap tape in particular. Your stated willingness to uphold the law
was a rare statement to me. However I was curious why you only
mentioned my voicemail to Mr. Pozen and not the email to your company
and the news program that it owns. Did they not inform you as well? If
they didn't I am not surprised because I have some other rather
interesting denials from the Media. the most interesting would have to
be from the PBS program called Frontline when I introduced its
producer Michael Sullivan to the US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan. Now
that is a story well worth W5 telling. Too bad they showed me their
ass. As a courtesy to you and a further act of good faith, I will not
forward this email to anyone else until after I return to the USA and
nothing has been resolved between BCE and I and I am compelled to
name it in my complaint. I would find it very hard to believe that
Mr, Pozen does not know everything he needs to know about me right
now.
I had also called a lawyer, Steven Skurka who had a week long
little special on CTV . I had tried to inform him that I knew my
rights his assistant hollered at me. You from speaking to me yourself
that I am not a rude character. I found it too funny to be treated
that way and I had resolved to serve him this stuff byway of the local
ATV Station that had presented his smiling talking head to me. That is
why I was telling you that you could get this stuff from the local ATV
station. I found it quite strange that you did not rely on them to
send it on to you. Thus I must make an extra copy to comply with your
request.
I know the date stamp on the forwarded email is incorrect but
that is because my old laptop goes to the first year in it when I boot
up and sometimes I am too busy or tired to bother changing it. However
MSN tracks it with the true date. Brad Smith and I have a bone to pick
as well and I have been checking his work rather closely since he
ignored my letter to him last year. His boss Bill Gates is gonna be
very angry and Brad Smith and Steve Balmer in the near future if I
have anything to do with it. If you do act ethically and immediately I
will settle with your company very cheaply in comparsion to the bottom
lines of my first two complaints. In fact I will be so impressed I
will immediatlely offer you a better job than the one you have now.
Please study the material I will provide you closely and ask me any
thing you wish.
I will do as I promised and send the material you requested as
soon as I can put it all together. Right now I am on the move and far
away from my printer. Is the following your correct address? Perhaps
you should consider sending someone to the my meeting with the Police
Commission in Fredericton next week in order to hear me speak of these
matters to law enforcement before I return to the USA. Once I do
return there I will serve the Mr. Pozen the material as promised and
call him to testify in my pending trial. The following emails should
explain some of my concerns to you. My wife will be in Canada next
week as well to pick up our kids. I will allow you to speak to her if
you wish. She has had a nervous breakdown over the legal crap and I do
have her Durable Power of Attorney pursuant to M.G.L. 201 B. Mr. Pozen
can ask Robert S. Creedon Jr. about that document. I argued it with
him before the entire Judicuary Commitee on Sept. 18th
2003.
I will call you in a minute to make certain that you get this and
the following emails.
David R. Amos
Martine Turcotte
1000 de la Gauchetiere Ouest
Floor 41
Montreal, Quebec H3B 58H Canada
Tel: (514) 870-4637
Fax: (514) 870-4877
----- Original Message -----
From: moto maniac
To: martine.turcotte@bell.ca
Cc: motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 2:48 PM
Subject: Thanks for asking
Martine Turcotte
1000 de la Gauchetiere Ouest
Floor 41
Montreal, Quebec H3B 58H Canada
Tel: (514) 870-4637
Fax: (514) 870-4877
Re: Robert C. Pozen and the rest of the fellas
Martine
I will send the material as you requested and I will send some
forwards of emails sent to others about these matters. The files
contained here are older. Much has happened since I came home and ran
for Parliament. I will return to the USA to begin litigation as soon
as the Canadian authorities assure me that I will not be harassed by
the DHS in the USA.
I have unlocked the files for you. This wicked stuff. Trust me I
am not smart enough to make this up and just dumb enough not to quit
defending our rights and interests. Feel free to ask me anything you
wish in order to stress test my ethics to the max.
I will settle with your company very cheaply if you simply tell
the truth to the Arar Commission and the Media interests that your
company controls do the same for the public benefit. The same holds
true for Mr. Pozen in America. All he has to do is go to Norfolk
Superior Court and start reading what is left of the dockets and then
act ethically immediately. Tell him to say hey to Francis Galvin,
Charles J. Kickham Jr. and J. Owen Todd for me.
Dave
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: David Amos
To: W-Five@ctv.ca
Cc: bcecomms@bce.ca ; oldmaison@yahoo.com
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 1980 4:07 PM
Subject: My turn to tell a tale.
I think is time to let a little something out of the bag for the
benefit of a few Maritimers who think they know something about the
Media.I did notify CBC, the Rogers crowd and Harry Steele's folks that
I knew a little bit about the Media and that I had written a book
about it. Problem is I need an editor and I believe I may have found
one.He comes in the form of a disenchanted newspaper man. But the
thing is I want to put it on the web for all to read for free so there
is no money in it for him. So I guess I wiil sue some big company with
a Prima Facia complaint and settle for a lesser amount out of court.
Lets just say I am looking hard at you dudes. I had zeroed in on the
Yankee media long ago and I am certain folks within the Ottawa Citizen
and Democracy Watch had checked my work(Hey Duff say hey to Dan for
me) I have crossed paths with many of Globemedia's people many times
for many reasons and I can easily prove it. What I haven't bothered
to tell them that I knew the reason Gobal etc never mentioned me was
Frank McKenna and the Irving influence because basically that was a no
brainer anyway.
However If Globemedia and all their cohorts didn't think I knew about
the influence Robert Pozen in Boston, you had best think again. then
give Mr. Spitzer, Mr. Galvin, Mr. Shelby and Mr. Donaldson a call and
drop my name along with Mr. Nesters and Mr. Koski's and tell them my
stuff is off to the Arar Commission I am heading back to the USA to
call Mr. Pozen and many folks he calls friends to court.
Perhaps in Ottawa Bill Rowe will truly speak for the common man after
all if the worm turns on his buddies. How do you people sleep at
night? What say you? Why not get honest with the world and I will
settle cheap? I will give one of your lawyers something real soon
before I serve Mr. Pozen his just due byway of this lawyer
Jeffrey N Carp
MFS Investment Management
500 Boylston Street
Boston MA 02116-3741
617-954-5747
Perhaps he should call Putnam investments or the Brookline Savings
bank and say hey to Mr Chapman and Mr Tripp for me. I just called Bob
Pozen at 617 954-5707 and introduced myself so that he can never say
that he never heard my name.
MFS set to agree to second settlement
By SINCLAIR STEWART
00:00 EST Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Sun Life Financial Inc.'s Boston-based mutual fund arm will agree to a
$50-million (U.S.) settlement today with U.S. regulators over
allegations the firm directed trading commissions to brokerages in
exchange for preferential treatment, according to people familiar with
the matter.
Sources said Massachusetts Financial Services Co. will announce a deal
with the Securities and Exchange Commission this morning that will
also include "compliance reforms," in addition to a token $1
disgorgement penalty.
Eric Morse, a spokesman for MFS, declined to comment. A spokesman for
the SEC refused to discuss any talks with the firm.
The embattled fund company is hoping this settlement will enable it to
move beyond the intense public and regulatory scrutiny it has endured
in the past several months.
In early February, MFS agreed to a $350-million settlement with the
SEC and New York State Attorney-General Eliot Spitzer for allegedly
permitting improper trades in some of its bigger funds. That figure
included $225-million in penalties and restitution to investors, along
with $125-million in fee reductions spread out over the next five
years.
The fallout within MFS, which manages about $140-billion in assets,
was also considerable. Its two highest-ranking officials -- chief
executive officer John Ballen and president Kevin Parke -- were each
fined and slapped with temporary suspensions by the SEC, leading to
their departures from the firm. Long-serving chairman Jeffrey Shames
also retired in the aftermath of MFS's problems, and was replaced by
Robert Pozen, formerly a senior executive at Fidelity Investments and
onetime associate general counsel at the SEC.
Mr. Pozen has been charged with cleaning up the mess, and tightening
the firm's internal controls.
He has already hired new legal and compliance officers, added
monitoring staff, and imposed a ban on so-called "soft dollar"
transactions. The firm also prohibited the practice of directing
trading fees to brokerages in exchange for being placed on a preferred
list of customers and receiving better visibility for its funds.
This latter arrangement, known in industry circles as "pay for play,"
is at the centre of MFS's pending settlement with the SEC. Sources
said the current settlement talks advanced fairly quickly because of
the voluntary compliance improvements MFS has undertaken.
In a recent interview with The Globe and Mail, Mr. Pozen attacked the
basis of the regulator's case as "very weak" and said it should have
raised this as a problem when it conducted audits of the company.
Nevertheless, he said he hoped to settle the matter quickly, in large
part to avoid a costly legal battle and prevent nervous investors from
pulling their money out of MFS funds. So far, the damage has been
contained to one major client, the Illinois Teachers Retirement
System, which fired MFS last month as lead manager on a $664-million
portfolio.
The SEC is investigating about a dozen other fund companies for
directed brokerage, although sources say MFS will settle individually,
rather than as part of a group.
Last fall, brokerage powerhouse Morgan Stanley agreed to pay
$50-million to settle charges it failed to tell investors it was
promoting funds with which the firm had a special arrangement. Morgan
Stanley had a "Partners Program" of 14 funds, including MFS, that paid
"substantial" fees in return for the brokerage steering their funds to
investors, the SEC claimed.
The regulator indicated a few months ago it would begin investigating
a number of fund companies for directing commissions, but did not say
which firms it would target.
Sun Life revealed in a filing that MFS was under investigation for
this practice just a couple of weeks after its first settlement with
the SEC and Mr. Spitzer. The news came as a surprise to most
observers, some of whom criticized the insurer's CEO, Donald Stewart,
for not disclosing this probe earlier.
MFS is hoping to recoup some of the $175-million it must repay
investors under the terms of the first settlement by suing firms and
individuals that engaged in market timing and late trading of its
funds. Market timing involves making frequent trades in and out of
funds in order to cash in on minor pricing discrepancies. It is not
illegal, but is usually prohibited by many fund companies, since the
quick trading can raise administrative costs and undermine returns to
investors.
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Subject: possble story
I am a Canadian Citizen who thus far, as a plaintiff, has two Lawsuits
in the US District Court of Massachucetts they are numbered 02-11686-
RGS and 02-11687-RGS. They were removed to that Court from the Norfolk
Superior Court by the US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan very improperly.
However they shall remain there because of my status as a Canandian
Citizen. Judge Sterns has not even held a Conference about the matters
because he likely does not want to hear the matter because I have
presented all Members of the Bar with their worst fear of a catch 22
problem. Accordinging to law he is late. I have complained of 47
defendants 34 of whom are State Defendants( the Attorney General, The
Commission of Judicial Conduct Board of Bar Overseers etc) and 3 are
Federal Treasury Agents. Some of the defendants are over two months
late in their answer to the Summons. The smallest suit amounts to 188
million dollars in the form of relief. There is a lot to these
matters and too much to briefly explain. But in a nutshell my wife's
Aunt, who is buried beside Rose Kennedy, left my wife some money. It
was stolen by her relatives in executing the estate. No news there.
But the crooks are very well connected politically and every part of
the old crony network in Boston covered for them. The crook and our
cousin, Charles J. Kickham Jr of the Kickham Law Office on Beacon St,
has been past President of Bar Associations. He has sat on the Board
of Governors of Harvard Law School etc. I have given much information
to many members of the press who have simply ignored some interesting
facts. What should be somewhat newsworthy is how far a wild colonial
boy has come in prosecuting Pro Se the most profund Yankee
carpetbaggers. My next two lawsuits Under title 18 are wickedly
righteous. I have left one copy of much information in Saint John New
Brunswick at a lawyer's Office, Mosher and Chedore 33 Charlotte St if
some one
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David R. Amos
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Canadian Media Deregulation Provides Insight Into FCC Proposal
Critics of consolidation say the integrity of the news is being
undermined by the effects of concentrated ownership
Editor's Note: This story has been updated to correct inaccuracies.
Please see the corrected version here.
The original version of this story (see below) posted on May 29, 2003
incorrectly stated that Canada's two national newspapers, The Globe
and Mail and the National Post, recently laid off their online
editorial staffs. According to globeandmail.com editor Angus Frame,
there have been no recent editorial layoffs at globeandmail.com; the
site's 18-person staff continues to write and edit stories that are
published exclusively online. The National Post did not have dedicated
online editorial staff, and did not have online editorial layoffs.
The story also failed to acknowledge that the country's largest
newspaper, the Toronto Star, also has a significant online operation.
The Federal Communications Commission is poised to unveil new media
ownership rules June 2 that some experts believe may change the face
of American journalism.
The new rules would allow media companies to own television stations
and newspapers in the same cities.
The FCC barred companies from owning newspapers and TV stations in the
same market in 1975, but big media owners like the Tribune Co., Knight
Ridder, MediaNews Group and the New York Times say it's time to lift
that ban.
They argue that cross-ownership makes for better journalism: Staffers
working for companies that own newspapers and TV stations in the same
market can work together to create richer, multimedia news reports
that can then run in the company's paper and on their stations and Web
sites.
Advocates say the synergies of convergence lead to cost savings,
increased advertising revenues and greater efficiencies.
Cross-ownership already exists in some markets: The FCC granted about
40 exemptions to the cross-ownership rule in cases where a company
already had television or radio stations and a newspaper in a single
city. The FCC also granted exemptions in larger markets after media
mergers produced cross-ownership situations.
'The concentration of ownership in a lot of major Canadian cities is
of interest for a lot reasons, but mainly because it provides too much
news coming through one pipeline.'
--Russ Mills, former publisher of the Ottawa Citizen
The Tribune Co., for example, owns television stations and newspapers
in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Miami.
How further media consolidation and convergence would play out if the
FCC does lift the ban on cross-ownership has been the subject of hot
debate in the weeks leading up to the commission's June 2 vote.
Experts familiar with the rapid consolidation of media in Canada say
the U.S. should look northward for some lessons on what loosening
cross-ownership restrictions could mean to journalism in the U.S.
In Canada, the deregulation of cross-media ownership occurred
gradually over the last 20 years. Within the past eight years, it has
led to massive consolidation of media companies.
Most of Canada's news media -- including newspapers and broadcast
stations in all of its major cities -- are in the hands of two media
giants: CanWest Global Communications Inc., and Bell Globemedia -- a
division of the country's largest telephone company, Bell Canada.
The rapid media consolidation in Canada has inspired an
often-acrimonious debate over whether Canadian journalists are able to
report objectively on social and political issues and whether the
country's corporate media has allowed business interests to undermine
the role of journalism in a modern democracy.
"Based on the experience in Canada, dropping restrictions on
cross-ownership certainly hasn't worked out well," said Russ Mills,
former publisher of the Ottawa Citizen in Canada's capital city, who
was fired by CanWest in a fight over editorial independence.
"The concentration of ownership in a lot of major Canadian cities is
of interest for a lot of reasons, but mainly because it provides too
much news coming through one pipeline," he said. "When companies use
ownership to control the news, and they do have the ability to do so,
it hurts everyone."
Though the two media conglomerates said cross-media consolidation
would improve online journalism, many media observers say online
journalism at local papers has gone downhill in the wake of
consolidation.
The country's two national newspapers, the National Post, half-owned
by CanWest, and The Globe and Mail, owned by Bell Canada's media wing,
Globemedia, have laid off the online reporters and editors at the two
papers that once produced copy separate from print editions.
The two papers, former online staffers said, were the only ones in
Canada that were doing something other than simply repurposing content
from newspaper pages into newspaper Web sites.
Executives at Bell Globemedia and CanWest have defended the cutbacks,
saying they were a result of cost-cutting efforts and consolidations
undertaken after spending billions of dollars to acquire newspaper and
broadcasting properties.
Consolidation accelerated in 1990s
Canada's restrictions on cross-media ownership were carved largely
from regulatory decisions on broadcasting licenses made since the
1950s by the Canadian Radio-Television Commission -- Canada's version
of the FCC.
By the mid-1980s, Canadian media experts say, exceptions to
cross-media ownership rules had eroded the cross-ownership ban to the
point that it was unenforcable and largely ignored.
By the mid-1990s, consolidation of Canadian media companies had
accelerated on the strength of dot.com economics. And in 2000,
CanWest, the second largest broadcaster in the country, announced a
$3.5-billion deal to purchase a majority of the nation's newspapers --
including papers in the nation's 12 largest cities.
Within weeks, Jean Monty, Bell Canada's CEO at the time, announced
that Canada's largest phone company had set its sights on owning both
content and the multimedia pipelines into consumers' homes.
The decision prompted Bell Globemedia to purchase the Globe and Mail
and the nation's largest TV network, CTV, in 2001.
Despite the rising consolidation of media outlets, the massive
purchases of newspapers by CanWest Global and Bell Globemedia took
many Canadian journalists and media-watchers by surprise.
CanWest and Bell executives convinced Canada's CRTC that convergence
was necessary to attract advertising revenue and reduce costs if
newspapers in many Canadian communities were to survive. And they
promised that resources from new revenues would be devoted to
improving the quality and reach of journalism through the Internet.
When questions about convergence arose during CRTC hearings on both
companies' broadcast licenses shortly after their newspaper purchases,
they promised regulators that they would separate management of
news-gathering operations by their television stations and newspapers.
Officials from the Canada National Newspaper Guild complained that
keeping management separate would not prevent companies from forcing
journalists to perform work for both newspapers and television, to the
detriment of journalistic independence.
Critics -- including journalism professors, journalists, newspaper and
broadcast union officials, and some government officials -- have
argued that the quality of journalism has gone down, not up, as a
result of convergence.
Joyce Smith, an assistant professor at Canada's Ryerson University,
teaches online journalism and worked on the online staff at the Globe
and Mail before those employees were laid off last year.
She said the one opportunity to see convergence succeed might have
been missed by Bell Globemedia in its efforts to cut costs to recoup
some of what it spent on media acquisitions.
"What I found interesting was that the actual idea of convergence
wasn't a hit with people working with just the newspaper or just
television," Smith said. "Where it really happened was with the online
news team. There were things the TV folks could clearly do much better
with the online newspaper. By pooling resources, it all did work much
better.
"But in the tradition of journalism," she said, "reporters were
asking, 'What does this mean for me? Does it mean that I have to file
stories to the Web and then do stand-ups in newsroom, while doing my
piece for the deadline at the end of the day?'
"Basically, (owners) wanted reporters to be one-man bands," Smith
said. "That has been played and replayed here. It made sense from a
business model, but journalists, especially those who have been around
for a while, went into newspapers and TV for a reason. Some are great
at doing both, but not everyone has the same aptitude. And no one has
the time in the day to do it all. Some of the expectations were
outrageous."
Canada reexamining changes
While U.S. media critics and media executives have been testifying
over the past few weeks in Senate hearings on the proposed changes in
the FCC's media ownership rules, Canada is busy reexamining what has
come of its own cross-media consolidations.
Two inquiries are underway by Canadian government officials to explore
the impact of cross-media ownership and consolidation on journalistic
integrity and media responsibility.
The Canadian Senate's Committee on Transport and Communication began
taking testimony at the end of April on those issues and is expected
to report its findings within the next year.
A House of Commons committee on Canadian heritage is expected to
release an 800-page report next month on its own yearlong
investigation into the impact of media concentration and political
efforts by corporations to ease restrictions on foreign ownership of
Canadian media.
But media-watchers, who have a ringside seat on Canada's great media
debate, say they are doubtful that government investigations will
produce any new regulation on media conglomerates.
"The horse is out of the barn," said Arnold Amber, director of the
National Newspaper Guild of Canada. "But the good news is that this
has at least inspired a vigorous national debate on press freedom and
responsibility."
Amber and other critics of media convergence said promises of more
stories and better information from combining print and broadcast news
staffs have largely failed in Canada.
"Bell Globemedia is talking about restructuring and selling off its
media wing," Amber said. "The failure of convergence to bring in
revenues was primarily responsible for the resignation of Bell
Canada's CEO, Jean Monty," who stepped down in April 2002.
Geoffrey Elliot, vice-president of corporate affairs for CanWest, said
that convergence has not led to revenues, or the reduced costs, the
company had hoped for.
But Elliot, and other supporters of cross-media ownership, argues that
all sides have benefited from consolidation.
"We are a family-owned business that saw an opportunity in which the
whole was greater than the sum of the parts," Elliot said. "We saw
substantial potential synergies on the sales side by putting
television and newspaper assets together, since they both serve
primarily advertising clients as sources of revenue, and serve a
combination of local and national markets."
Amber said the companies likely saw their primary financial advantages
from a convergence of back-office technologies -- combining
circulation, sales, printing and management operations.
But it was something else that brought issues to a head in Canada over
media consolidation and sharing newsroom resources: The loss of
diversity of voices within the Canadian media took on new importance,
observers say, after a series of events that led to accusations of
censorship and political bias by CanWest's owners.
In December 2001, CanWest -- which owns 11 major dailies and 22
smaller papers in Canada -- issued a directive to its newspaper
editors that they would be expected to run three editorials per week
that reflected the position of CanWest's owners on political or social
issues.
The decision was met with a spate of criticism -- especially when
editors were told that other local editorials were not to contradict
those from corporate headquarters.
A byline strike ensued at the Montreal Gazette, and inquiries by the
newspaper guild there led to findings that work by columnists and
cartoonists was spiked when it conflicted with opinions from corporate
headquarters.
Several journalists quit; some staffers published a protest Web site.
The furor finally boiled over into the public arena last June when
Russ Mills, the publisher of the Ottawa Citizen, was fired by CanWest
for running a series of stories and an editorial that outlined alleged
political and financial irregularities in the administration of
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien.
Elliot, the CanWest vice president, said the controversy arose because
Mills failed to let CanWest's owners know in advance of the series or
the editorial -- which called on Chretien, a friend of CanWest
patriarch Israel Asper, to resign.
Mills said he had not sought permission for either the investigative
series, or the editorial, because he believed in preserving "editorial
independence."
The problem, Mills said, was that the new owners were trying to
dictate local editorial policy from corporate headquarters.
Elliot described the concern over attempts at a national editorial
policy -- which has since been largely abandoned –- as a tempest
without substance.
He said CanWest's owners were "well within their rights to propose
national editorials," and that their actions were no different that
those of other newspaper ownership groups prior to media
consolidation.
"There has never been any effort to control what was published in news
stories," he said.
Since his firing, Mills has become an outspoken critic of media
consolidation in Canada, and he testified in April before the Canadian
Senate committee conducting media hearings. He was also awarded a
Neiman Fellowship at Harvard University and is the incoming dean of
the journalism program at Algonquin College in Ottawa.
Meanwhile, Mills' firing prompted a public opinion poll by Canada's
largest media union that found that the incident had caused the public
to lose confidence in the media's editorial independence.
The results, union officials said, showed that Canadians were
concerned about press freedom and wanted the government to look into
problems associated with media concentration.
Peter Murdock, then vice-president of the communications union, told
Canada Newswire that the poll "demonstrates that Canadians want their
journalists protected from the whims and prejudice of media barons. It
is a grim warning to media corporations and government that Canadians
believe that the very integrity of the news that feeds our democracy
is being undermined by the effects of concentrated media ownership."
It is clear that online journalism at Canada's newspapers has changed
dramatically under CanWest's corporate control.
The company replaced independent newspaper Web sites with a common
site, Canada.com, which allows consumers to access local news by
clicking on the community they are interested in.
Elliot said community news on the Web site comes from local newspapers
and television stations, and said that consolidating that information
on a single Web site provides consumers better access to local news
across the country -- as well as reduces costs.
Bruce MacCormack, former head of interactive media at CanWest, said
supplementing newspaper and television content with a common Web site
has made access to news more efficient and allowed the corporation to
serve consumers better.
"The consumers of online media … were also television viewers and
newspaper readers, and at different points in the day, different media
were the best way to reach those people," MacCormack said.
"Someone watching television in the evening could be told about
stories being developed for the next day's newspaper, which is read on
the commuter train as people go to work," he said. "Then, during
working hours, the Internet was the most effective way to get them up
to date on news, and tease them for television use at night."
"These were handoff mechanisms that worked to reach people, so
consumers and the public were able to access services in the most
appropriate media, for whatever method they could best be served."
CanWest recently filed testimony with the FCC to support the
relaxation of cross-media regulations in the U.S. That testimony
challenges media critics on their central objections to cross-media
ownership.
"Today's media market is the richest and most diverse in the history
of modern media," the document says. "Cross-ownership has strengthened
media companies and encouraged greater diversity and more sources of
information.
"Experience," it adds, "simply does not support the contention of some
opponents of cross-media ownership, that consumers would have access
to fewer point of view, or would see only repackaged versions of the
same content across multimedia platforms."
Smith, the Ryerson professor -- despite her criticisms of the handling
of online media opportunities in Canada -- said she sees differences
between media ownership consolidation in Canada and in the United
States.
"In the U.S., because of the size of the market, the chance of one or
two owners gobbling up everything, I think, would be less than in
Canada," she said. "But there is some caution in that.
"If you are thinking about journalists, there are wonderful things
about operating in a converged environment. It was really exciting
thinking we could potentially have video, and it may be good for news
consumers in the sense that (online video) will be a faster way of
converging types of media.
"But you get a lot of the same stuff. There is no alternative. You are
going to lose some (editorial) voices in the process."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/patrick-brown-blasts-ctv-news-1.4535358
'You lied. You defamed me': Patrick Brown blasts CTV News after sexual misconduct accuser changes timeline
One of Brown's accusers now says she was wasn't underage at time of alleged sexual misconduct
Patrick
Brown is blasting CTV News saying, "You lied. You defamed me," in a
Facebook post on Wednesday after the broadcaster reported one of the
women who accused him of sexual misconduct wasn't under the legal
drinking age at the time or in high school at the time of the alleged
incident.
Brown stepped down as leader of Ontario's Progressive Conservatives on Jan. 25, a day after he was accused of sexual misconduct by two women with the allegations dating back to when he was a federal MP. CTV News first reported the accusations in a report that did not name the two women who alleged the incidents occurred in his home in Barrie, Ont.
Since then, Brown has vowed to disprove the allegations.
CTV News published a story late Tuesday that changed the timeline of the alleged events. One of his accusers now says she was of legal drinking age and not in high school when Brown allegedly asked her to perform oral sex.
"CTV News fabricated a malicious and false report about me from two anonymous accusers," Brown wrote. "The significance of this changed story is monumental."
https://www.facebook.com/servingbarrie?fref=nf
CTV News fabricated a malicious and false report about me from two anonymous accusers. After a long three weeks, CTV News has now admitted that it got it wrong.
Initially, the reporter (and I use that term very loosely) claimed my first accuser was a high school student under legal drinking age. Running scared over its lousy reporting, CTV News now says my accuser was out of high school at the time and was of legal drinking age. Clearly concerned about the backlash it has been receiving as a result of its biased and false reporting, CTV News is trying to change its story and claims the incident happened one year later. The significance of this changed story is monumental.
CBC News has not independently verified the complainant's new versions of the alleged incident.
The unnamed woman, however, told CBC News in a statement through her lawyer, David Butt, on Wednesday: "I stand firmly by the truth of what I said about Patrick Brown's conduct involving me."
She said "collateral details," such as the timeline difference of a year from what she first recalled, "are not important."
The woman said she has experienced a barrage of comments on social media that were "demeaning, victim-blaming and woman-hating." As a result, the complainant said she will not be engaging in any more public discussion of the incident.
She did explain, however, the reason she came forward with the accusations against Brown is because she "wanted to help other women feel safe in coming forward themselves."
"The comments that I have been subjected to ignore altogether the abuse of power by an older sober man over a young intoxicated woman," the statement read.
Her lawyer echoed this in an interview with CBC News on Wednesday. Butt said while "collateral details" fade over time, the allegations of sexual misconduct remain an integral part of the core story.
"Ask anyone about an important event in their life, calendar dates are not printed on the bottom of those memories like they are on digital cameras," Butt said.
"We simply tend not to remember in terms of … dates and time. What we remember are key events in relation to more physical elements of our surroundings rather than the concept of time and date."
Matthew Garrow, spokesperson for Bell Media, also responded to Brown's Facebook post on Wednesday in an email to CBC News.
"CTV News continues to stand by its reporting," Garrow said.
"Patrick Brown's allegations regarding our reporting are false. As we reported once again last night, the two women have reiterated their allegations of sexual misconduct by Patrick Brown."
Brown also included a message to his accusers in his Facebook post, challenging them to go to police in Barrie, Ont., and try to have authorities press charges.
"If you truly stand by your allegations, then I urge you to contact Barrie police and have them lay charges. Barrie police can be reached at 705-725-7025. These types of allegations should be dealt with in a proper and fair forum," he said.
Butt told CBC News his client, one of the women, has no intention of going to police and doesn't intend to press charges.
"By daring my client to go to the police, Mr. Brown destroys the credibility of his self-proclaimed support for women who have suffered sexual mistreatment," he said in a statement.
"No one with a contemporary understanding of the dynamics of sexual victimization and its aftermath would be so insensitive and patriarchal as to try to dictate to a survivor what her healing path should be, much less goad her."
Brown told reporters last month the allegations against him are false and were difficult to hear.
"It's never OK for anyone to feel they have been a victim of sexual harassment or feel threatened in any way," he said.
"A safe and respectful society is what we expect and deserve, and no one knows that more than I do, I've got two younger sisters who are my best friends."
Brown, who had already strongly denied the allegations, said over the weekend in his first interview since resigning from his position that he's contemplating legal action to restore his reputation.
CBC News has reached out to Brown about his Facebook post, but hasn't received a response.
Patrick
Brown's resignation over allegations of sexual misconduct has left the
Ontario PC party scrambling to quickly select a new leader before the
provincial election in June. (CBC)
Brown's
resignation as leader of the Official Opposition triggered the Ontario
PC leadership contest months before the provincial election in June.
Christine Elliott, Caroline Mulroney and Doug Ford have all announced their intention to seek the party's leadership. Tory members will decided on the new face of the party on March 10.
While he is no longer head of the Ontario PCs, Brown remains the MPP for Simcoe North and is still officially a member of the PC caucus.
Brown stepped down as leader of Ontario's Progressive Conservatives on Jan. 25, a day after he was accused of sexual misconduct by two women with the allegations dating back to when he was a federal MP. CTV News first reported the accusations in a report that did not name the two women who alleged the incidents occurred in his home in Barrie, Ont.
Since then, Brown has vowed to disprove the allegations.
CTV News published a story late Tuesday that changed the timeline of the alleged events. One of his accusers now says she was of legal drinking age and not in high school when Brown allegedly asked her to perform oral sex.
"CTV News fabricated a malicious and false report about me from two anonymous accusers," Brown wrote. "The significance of this changed story is monumental."
https://www.facebook.com/servingbarrie?fref=nf
CTV News fabricated a malicious and false report about me from two anonymous accusers. After a long three weeks, CTV News has now admitted that it got it wrong.
Initially, the reporter (and I use that term very loosely) claimed my first accuser was a high school student under legal drinking age. Running scared over its lousy reporting, CTV News now says my accuser was out of high school at the time and was of legal drinking age. Clearly concerned about the backlash it has been receiving as a result of its biased and false reporting, CTV News is trying to change its story and claims the incident happened one year later. The significance of this changed story is monumental.
Not even having the decency to come clean and admit that they
recklessly published a poorly researched report, CTV is burying this new
fact, hiding it in the middle of an online story. In fact, CTV is
doubling down on its terrible reporting, digging a deeper hole for
itself, by featuring more of my accuser’s lies.
I can also tell you that CTV News did not disclose last night that their reporter, Glen McGregor, called an acquaintance of mine yesterday to ask him if he had driven my first accuser to my home - a claim that was made by her. He categorically told CTV that this was completely untrue.
I thought surely, CTV News would report on my acquaintance‘s evidence. I was wrong. CTV chose not to report the truth because the facts contradict their phony, made up narrative.
Here is my message to CTV News. You lied. You defamed me. I will not allow your brand of trashy journalism to hurt another person in this country.
And here is my message to my accusers – both of them. If you truly stand by your allegations, then I urge you to contact Barrie Police and have them lay charges, Barrie Police can be reached at 705-725-7025. These types of allegations should be dealt with in a proper and fair forum.
I will be telling my story tonight on Global News. Please watch.
Finally, and most humbly and sincerely, thank you to the dozens of candidates and caucus members, thousands of Ontario PC Party members and tens of thousands of Ontarians who have supported me and my family through this very difficult time.
This is not over.
I can also tell you that CTV News did not disclose last night that their reporter, Glen McGregor, called an acquaintance of mine yesterday to ask him if he had driven my first accuser to my home - a claim that was made by her. He categorically told CTV that this was completely untrue.
I thought surely, CTV News would report on my acquaintance‘s evidence. I was wrong. CTV chose not to report the truth because the facts contradict their phony, made up narrative.
Here is my message to CTV News. You lied. You defamed me. I will not allow your brand of trashy journalism to hurt another person in this country.
And here is my message to my accusers – both of them. If you truly stand by your allegations, then I urge you to contact Barrie Police and have them lay charges, Barrie Police can be reached at 705-725-7025. These types of allegations should be dealt with in a proper and fair forum.
I will be telling my story tonight on Global News. Please watch.
Finally, and most humbly and sincerely, thank you to the dozens of candidates and caucus members, thousands of Ontario PC Party members and tens of thousands of Ontarians who have supported me and my family through this very difficult time.
This is not over.
The unnamed woman, however, told CBC News in a statement through her lawyer, David Butt, on Wednesday: "I stand firmly by the truth of what I said about Patrick Brown's conduct involving me."
She said "collateral details," such as the timeline difference of a year from what she first recalled, "are not important."
The woman said she has experienced a barrage of comments on social media that were "demeaning, victim-blaming and woman-hating." As a result, the complainant said she will not be engaging in any more public discussion of the incident.
She did explain, however, the reason she came forward with the accusations against Brown is because she "wanted to help other women feel safe in coming forward themselves."
"The comments that I have been subjected to ignore altogether the abuse of power by an older sober man over a young intoxicated woman," the statement read.
Her lawyer echoed this in an interview with CBC News on Wednesday. Butt said while "collateral details" fade over time, the allegations of sexual misconduct remain an integral part of the core story.
"Ask anyone about an important event in their life, calendar dates are not printed on the bottom of those memories like they are on digital cameras," Butt said.
"We simply tend not to remember in terms of … dates and time. What we remember are key events in relation to more physical elements of our surroundings rather than the concept of time and date."
CTV 'stands by its reporting': spokesperson
Matthew Garrow, spokesperson for Bell Media, also responded to Brown's Facebook post on Wednesday in an email to CBC News.
"CTV News continues to stand by its reporting," Garrow said.
"Patrick Brown's allegations regarding our reporting are false. As we reported once again last night, the two women have reiterated their allegations of sexual misconduct by Patrick Brown."
Accusers challenged to press charges
Brown also included a message to his accusers in his Facebook post, challenging them to go to police in Barrie, Ont., and try to have authorities press charges.
"If you truly stand by your allegations, then I urge you to contact Barrie police and have them lay charges. Barrie police can be reached at 705-725-7025. These types of allegations should be dealt with in a proper and fair forum," he said.
Butt told CBC News his client, one of the women, has no intention of going to police and doesn't intend to press charges.
"By daring my client to go to the police, Mr. Brown destroys the credibility of his self-proclaimed support for women who have suffered sexual mistreatment," he said in a statement.
"No one with a contemporary understanding of the dynamics of sexual victimization and its aftermath would be so insensitive and patriarchal as to try to dictate to a survivor what her healing path should be, much less goad her."
By daring my client to go to the police, Mr. Brown destroys the credibility of his self-proclaimed support for women who have suffered sexual mistreatment.- David Butt, lawyer
Brown told reporters last month the allegations against him are false and were difficult to hear.
"It's never OK for anyone to feel they have been a victim of sexual harassment or feel threatened in any way," he said.
"A safe and respectful society is what we expect and deserve, and no one knows that more than I do, I've got two younger sisters who are my best friends."
Brown, who had already strongly denied the allegations, said over the weekend in his first interview since resigning from his position that he's contemplating legal action to restore his reputation.
CBC News has reached out to Brown about his Facebook post, but hasn't received a response.
Christine Elliott, Caroline Mulroney and Doug Ford have all announced their intention to seek the party's leadership. Tory members will decided on the new face of the party on March 10.
While he is no longer head of the Ontario PCs, Brown remains the MPP for Simcoe North and is still officially a member of the PC caucus.
With files from Meagan Fitzpatrick and Mike Crawley
---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 07:41:01 -0400
Subject: I must say that Sneaky Seguin's conversation with the lawyer
David Butt was kinda comical N'esy Pas Davey Baby Lutz, Premier
Gallant and Chucky Leblanc?
To: "terry.seguin" <terry.seguin@cbc.ca>, gopublic <gopublic@cbc.ca>,
"steve.murphy" <steve.murphy@ctv.ca>, nmoore <nmoore@bellmedia.ca>,
"macpherson.don" <macpherson.don@dailygleaner.
<oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre <andre@jafaust.com>,
alison.crawford@cbc.ca, garyamiller.gampc@gmail.com, fifth@cbc.ca,
info@alandgoldlaw.com, "ralph.goodale.a1"
<ralph.goodale.a1@parl.gc.ca>, "roger.l.brown"
<roger.l.brown@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
"Bill.Casey" <Bill.Casey@parl.gc.ca>, "jan.jensen"
<jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca>, wteed <wteed@coxandpalmer.com>,
"serge.rousselle" <serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>, premier <premier@gnb.ca>,
"Robert. Jones" <Robert.Jones@cbc.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
<mcu@justice.gc.ca>, dbutt@barristersatlaw.ca, david
<david@lutz.nb.ca>, "matthew.smith" <matthew.smith@lutz.nb.ca>,
"maria.powell" <maria.powell@lutz.nb.ca>
Jurors should have to provide reasons for verdict, Toronto lawyer argues
David Butt reacts to N.B. appeal court decision to overturn Dennis
Oland's conviction over judge's error
By Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon, CBC News Posted: Jan 16, 2017 2:52 PM AT
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
David B. Butt,
606-130 Spadina Ave.
Toronto, Ontario M5V 2L4
Phone: 416-361-9609
Fax: 416-361-9443
Email: dbutt@barristersatlaw.ca
I have no idea whatsoever if Oland's snobby lawyers sent anyone across
the street to pull a certain docket in Federal Court in Fat Fred City.
There was no need for them to do so anyway in light of all the files I
sent them and the cops byway of emails.
Furthermore I no longer care because what concerned me with their
actions was their client's freedom. However I presumed once Oland's
bail was determined I figured the upcoming hearing in the Supreme
Court would be a waste of the court's time so the matter would be set
aside. Nay not so said Mr Gold within Chucky's video and that proved
to be true.
http://
Monday, 24 October 2016
Oland's defence lawyer Alan Gold face the Media and Blogger!!!
https://youtu.be/i1UHRH58rkU
Posted by Charles Leblanc at 12:45 pm
I don't know if Oland's lawyers are aware of what Chucky's published
above but they cannot deny that I made them aware that I published my
email to them the week before but only AFTER Drapeau and cohorts made
their big decision in their client's favour.
The email below can be found within this blog.
http://davidraymondamos3.
Clearly Oland's lawyers know that I also contacted many other lawyers
and media people and everyone plays dumb EH?
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)" <Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:50:12 +0000
Subject: RE: I just heard on CBC what Justice Drapeau said to the
lawyer Alan Gold Perhaps Mr Gold should send someone to Federal Court
and pull docket no T-1557-15 ASAP N'esy Pas Serge Rouselle?
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, will be reviewed,
and a response will be forthcoming.
Once again, thank you for taking the time to write.
Merci d'avoir communiqué avec le premier ministre du Nouveau-Brunswick.
Soyez assuré que votre courriel a bien été reçu, qu'il sera examiné
et qu'une réponse vous sera acheminée.
Merci encore d'avoir pris de temps de nous écrire.
Sincerely, / Sincèrement,
Correspondence Manager / Gestionnaire de la correspondance
Office of the Premier / Cabinet du premier ministre
---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:48:30 -0400
Subject: I just heard on CBC what Justice Drapeau said to the lawyer
Alan Gold Perhaps Mr Gold should send someone to Federal Court and
pull docket no T-1557-15 ASAP N'esy Pas Serge Rouselle?
To: alison.crawford@cbc.ca, garyamiller.gampc@gmail.com, fifth@cbc.ca,
info@alandgoldlaw.com, "ralph.goodale.a1"
<ralph.goodale.a1@parl.gc.ca>, "roger.l.brown"
<roger.l.brown@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
"Bill.Casey" <Bill.Casey@parl.gc.ca>, "jan.jensen"
<jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca>, wteed <wteed@coxandpalmer.com>,
"serge.rousselle" <serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>, premier <premier@gnb.ca>,
"Robert. Jones" <Robert.Jones@cbc.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
<gopublic@cbc.ca>, "steve.murphy" <steve.murphy@ctv.ca>, nmoore
<nmoore@bellmedia.ca>, "macpherson.don"
<macpherson.don@dailygleaner.
andre <andre@jafaust.com>
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
Drapeau abruptly says he's not suggesting defence should have made
motion for directed verdict. Called for recess.
10:06 AM - 19 Oct 2016
Retweets
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/
Kevin Bissett, The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, September 13, 2016 12:30PM EDT
FREDERICTON -- Convicted murderer Dennis Oland's bid for bail at the
Supreme Court of Canada could set an important legal precedent
nationally, and several provinces are arguing such releases may not be
in the public interest.
Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia have filed motions for leave to
intervene in Oland's appeal to the top court.
Ontario's Attorney General says Canadians expect sentences for murder
and other serious crimes to be enforced, and bail should only be
considered when there are "very strong" grounds of appeal.
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SCOC to hear Oland's bail arguments in October
"It will be Ontario's position that reasonable members of the public
expect that sentences imposed for all crimes, but particularly for
more serious offences, will be enforced when handed down," wrote
Gregory Tweney, acting director of the Attorney General's criminal law
office.
Oland, 48, was sentenced in February to life in prison with no chance
of parole for 10 years, after being found guilty of second-degree
murder in death of his multimillionaire father, who was found
bludgeoned in his Saint John, N.B., office five years ago.
Richard Oland, 69, was discovered face down in a pool of blood on July
7, 2011. He had suffered 45 sharp and blunt force injuries to his
head, neck and hands. No murder weapon was ever found.
Dennis Oland is seeking release pending the appeal of his murder
conviction, but the request has already been denied by two lower
courts.
Nicole O'Byrne, an associate law professor at the University of New
Brunswick, said Tuesday the law surrounding bail pending appeal in
murder cases "has not been clearly defined" by the top court.
"It is likely that the Supreme Court of Canada granted leave in this
case because it is an opportunity for the court to provide guidance
for the country as a whole on the law of bail pending appeal," she
said, adding current jurisprudence comes from a series of lower court
rulings.
No one in New Brunswick has ever been granted bail after being
convicted of murder, and there have only been about three dozen such
cases in Canada.
O'Byrne said Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia hope to argue that
"it would be contrary to the public interest that a person convicted
by a judge of a serious crime such as murder should be allowed to live
in the community pending an appeal of the case."
O'Byrne said she expects the court will want to hear as many views
possible when it hears the appeal in Ottawa on Oct. 31.
In its affidavit, Ontario said the seriousness of an offence and the
length of sentence must be considered when considering bail pending
appeal.
British Columbia and Alberta also agree the seriousness of a case must
be considered.
"Where an appellant has been convicted of a serious offence (measured
by factors such as its objective gravity, the circumstances in which
it was committed, and the sentence imposed), he or she will be
required to demonstrate strong grounds of appeal to satisfy the public
confidence component," wrote lawyer Christine Rideout as an agent of
the Alberta Attorney General.
But Oland's lawyers say the provinces' positions merely mirror the New
Brunswick government's, and they should not be granted intervener
status.
"It is neither helpful to this Honourable Court nor fair to the
Appellant or the Respondent herein to be joined by a trio of
like-minded provincial counterparts to amplify its positions on this
appeal," wrote lawyers Alan Gold, Gary Miller and James McConnell.
Oland's lawyers don't oppose the application of the Criminal Lawyers'
Association of Ontario to intervene.
The bail appeal won't be heard until after the appeal of Oland's
conviction -- set for Oct. 18-21.
On 2/20/16, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alan D. Gold
> Called to the bar: 1973 (ON)
> Gold, Alan D., Professional Corporation
> Ste. 210
> 20 Adelaide St. E.
> Toronto, Ontario M5C 2T6
> Phone: 416-368-1726
> Fax: 416-368-6811
> Email: info@alandgoldlaw.com
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 01:05:01 -0400
> Subject: Hey TJ Burke and Louie lafleur January 11th is coming fast Ya
> can't say that your buddies and the Police Commission ain't mentioned
> bigtime in my complaint N'esy Pas Stevey Boy Roberge?
> To: tj@burkelaw.ca, "lou.lafleur" <lou.lafleur@fredericton.ca>,
> jeddy@coxandpalmer.com, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre
> <andre@jafaust.com>, sunrayzulu <sunrayzulu@shaw.ca>, "greg.byrne"
> <greg.byrne@gnb.ca>, paulzed@zed.ca, smay@coxandpalmer.com, nbpc
> <nbpc@gnb.ca>, ychoukri@wstephenson.com, "Paul.Harpelle"
> <Paul.Harpelle@gnb.ca>, "Michael.Quinn"
> <Michael.Quinn@electionsnb.ca>
> "Marc.Mayrand" <Marc.Mayrand@elections.ca>, "steve.roberge"
> <steve.roberge@gnb.ca>, Randy.Reilly@fredericton.ca, "Leanne.Fitch"
> <Leanne.Fitch@fredericton.ca>, "serge.rousselle"
> <serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>, "leanne.murray"
> <leanne.murray@mcinnescooper.
> <Paulette.Delaney-Smith@rcmp-
> <Stephen.Horsman@gnb.ca>, infomorningfredericton
> <infomorningfredericton@cbc.ca
> george.filliter@gnb.ca, "hugh.flemming" <hugh.flemming@gnb.ca>,
> national <national@mppac.ca>, "robert.stoney" <robert.stoney@gnb.ca>,
> "Jacques.Poitras" <Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>, "ht.lacroix"
> <ht.lacroix@cbc.ca>
> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> Catherine.Harrop@cbc.ca, "redmond.shannon" <redmond.shannon@cbc.ca>,
> Joe Friday <Friday.Joe@psic-ispc.gc.ca>, loyalistlawoffice
> <loyalistlawoffice@yahoo.ca>
>
> Like Hell the NBPC do not get my emails EH?
>
> On 12/30/15, David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Happy New Year and Please Enjoy :)
>
> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
>
>
> Stephen Horsman says Police Act to be modernized
> New Brunswick Police Commission is calling for 13 changes to the law
>
> By Jacques Poitras, CBC News Posted: Feb 27, 2015 6:42 AM AT
>
> Public Safety Minister Stephen Horsman says his department is working
> on changes to the Police Act that will modernize the oversight of
> municipal police officers and departments.
>
> Horsman says it’s too early to talk about specific changes, but he
> says officials will "look at the whole act, what needs to be updated,
> what needs to be modernized, to meet the needs of 2015, not the 1960s
> or 1970s."
>
> His comments come after the 2013-14 annual report by the New Brunswick
> Police Commission called for updates to the law.
>
> "We are of the opinion that the time has come to re-open the Police
> Act and to make changes that are necessary to ensure that police
> oversight is in step with current practices across the country," the
> report states.
>
> Horsman, a retired Fredericton city police officer, says the public’s
> expectations of transparency in law enforcement are higher than they
> were when the legislation was written.
>
> "Today, people are more inclined to question or to ask questions about
> their rights, especially dealing with police officers or police
> departments and I applaud them for that. They should be," he says.
> Police commission seeking 13 changes
>
> Steve Roberge, the police commission’s executive director, says the
> organization is looking for 13 changes.
>
> One would allow the commission to extend the time it has to
> investigate a complaint. The law says if it doesn’t complete an
> investigation within six months and send it to arbitration or a
> settlement conference, it loses jurisdiction.
>
> "The problem with that is that some investigations, for example for
> harassment, involve a lot of interviews and many employees and
> witnesses and they take a very long time," Roberge said.
>
> He’d like to see the law changed so that — like the legislation in
> British Columbia — it gives the commission the power to extend the
> time limit in certain cases.
>
> "It’s an issue of fairness, not only to the complainants to make sure
> we do a thorough investigation and not be pressed by time limits, but
> also to the … police officer who’s the subject of the complaint, to
> give them a thorough investigation and ensure we get all the facts
> properly," he says.
>
> Woodstock police
>
> The New Brunswick Police Commission received 64 complaints last year. (CBC)
>
> Another change would let the commission assign multiple investigators
> to complex complaints. At the moment, it can only assign one
> investigator per case.
>
> But some investigations require more people, Roberge says, and "we
> can’t do that under the act."
>
> The commission investigates complaints from the public about the
> conduct of municipal police officers.
>
> The RCMP has its own complaints process that covers its officers, who
> handle policing in areas of New Brunswick without municipal forces.
>
> The commission also has a role in ensuring adequate policing
> throughout the province and must be consulted if a municipality wants
> to cut the number of officers.
>
> The commission’s report also raises a concern that more police
> officers, who are the subject of complaints, are opting out of the
> settlement conference process.
>
> That process allows the complainant, the officer, and the officer’s
> chief of police to deal with the complaint informally, which takes
> less time and costs less money than a full arbitration hearing.
>
> "It’s an efficiency issue. A settlement conference is done locally and
> doesn’t require a lot of expenditures," Roberge said.
>
> It also means the process isn’t public, but Roberge says the
> complainant, the officer, and the officer’s manager are all in the
> settlement conference and know what happens.
>
> It’s the officer’s right to opt out of the settlement conference and
> Roberge says he doesn’t know why they’re doing that.
>
> Roberge says the commission handled a total of 56 files in 2013-14
> containing a total of 64 allegations. Half dealt with alleged abuse of
> authority, fewer than a quarter alleged discreditable conduct, and the
> rest made other allegations such as neglect of duty.
>
> Of the 64 allegations, 13 per cent were dismissed and four per cent
> were withdrawn, while 50 per cent were investigated and didn’t require
> further action.
>
> Sixteen per cent of the complaints were still unresolved at the end of
> 2013-2014 and 17 per cent went to arbitration.
>
> Of the cases that went to arbitration, one led to sanctions against a
> police officer, Roberge said.
>
> In that case, a Woodstock town police officer, Const. John Morrison,
> was suspended for a week without pay after an arbitrator found he had
> abused his authority while off duty.
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Police Commission / Commission de police
> <Commissiondepolice.
> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:39:10 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Sometimes less is more So heres a little
> Deja Vu for the CBC, CTV, the Irving newsrags, the Fat Fred City
> Finest & their lawyers, Chucky Leblanc and his fan club and his unamed
> lawyer before he is tried for assault
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>
> We are currently out of the office and will return on Monday, January 4th,
> 2016.
>
> Nous sommes présentement hors du bureau et nous serons de retour
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Don MacPherson <macpherson.don@dailygleaner.
> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 07:39:07 -0800
> Subject: Out of office Re: Sometimes less is more So heres a little
> Deja Vu for the CBC, CTV, the Irving newsrags, the Fat Fred City
> Finest & their lawyers, Chucky Leblanc and his fan club and his unamed
> lawyer before he is tried for assault
> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "LaBonte, Luc (OAG/CPG)" <Luc.LaBonte@gnb.ca>
> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:39:08 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Sometimes less is more So heres a little
> Deja Vu for the CBC, CTV, the Irving newsrags, the Fat Fred City
> Finest & their lawyers, Chucky Leblanc and his fan club and his unamed
> lawyer before he is tried for assault
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>
> I will out of the office until January 4, 2016. I will periodically
> check my e-mails, however, expect delays for responses. Should you
> have an emergency, please contact 506-453-2784.
>
> Je serai absent du bureau jusqu'au 4 janvier 2016. Je vérifirai mon
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> Si vous avez une urgence, s.v.p. veuillez contacter le 506-453-2784.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Green, John (DNR/MRN)" <John.Green@gnb.ca>
> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:39:08 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Sometimes less is more So heres a little
> Deja Vu for the CBC, CTV, the Irving newsrags, the Fat Fred City
> Finest & their lawyers, Chucky Leblanc and his fan club and his unamed
> lawyer before he is tried for assault
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>
> Je suis présentement hors du bureau et je serai de retour le lundi 4
> janvier. Pour de l'assistance immédiate veuillez téléphoner la
> receptioniste au 453-3826
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>
> Merci et Bonne journée.
> --------------------
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> Thank you and Have a nice day
>
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Go public <gopublic@cbc.ca>
> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 07:39:07 -0800
> Subject: Thank you Re: Sometimes less is more So heres a little Deja
> Vu for the CBC, CTV, the Irving newsrags, the Fat Fred City Finest &
> their lawyers, Chucky Leblanc and his fan club and his unamed lawyer
> before he is tried for assault
> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>
> Hi - and thanks so much for writing to Go Public.
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
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> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 10:39:07 -0500
> Subject: Out of Office: Sometimes less is more So heres a little Deja
> Vu for the CBC, CTV, the Irving newsrags, the Fat Fred City Finest &
> their lawyers, Chucky Leblanc and his fan club and his unamed lawyer
> before he is tried for assault
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>
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/patrick-brown-ontario-pc-leader-support-1.4531848
Support for Patrick Brown grows, but his future remains uncertain
Online petition exceeds 12,000 names, while at least 8 PC candidates speak out in his defence
The Ontario PC leadership contest is gearing up, and so is support for the man whose resignation triggered the race.
There's been an increase in public statements in defence of Patrick Brown, particularly in the wake of his first interview since resigning as leader on Jan. 25th and his weekend post on Facebook insisting he can disprove the sexual misconduct allegations against him.
The support for Brown is taking several forms:
- More than 12,000 people have attached their names to an online petition entitled "Justice for Patrick Brown," seeking his reinstatement as party leader.
- Dozens of women in Simcoe County — his home territory, north of Toronto — signed an open letter criticizing the allegations as coming from "anonymous, faceless shadows."
- At least eight nominated PC candidates in the upcoming provincial election have gone public, on Twitter, with support for Brown.
"Our leader, a true public servant, has been thrown aside, vilified, and destroyed by two anonymous accusations dating back years," says the open letter, made public Monday. "The Patrick Brown we grew to know and admire is one who has always advocated for equality and women's rights."
The letter was kick-started by Sandy McConkey, a councillor in Springwater Township, which is part of Brown's riding north of Barrie.
"We're livid by what has happened to Patrick Brown, said McConkey in a phone interview Monday with CBC News. "I just feel everyone deserves justice and due process when allegations are made against them.
"He was executed without a trial for sure," wrote Brampton candidate Amarjot Sandhu on Twitter.
- Brown blasts accusers in new Facebook post
- If Brown can clear his name, he can run for PCs, says Elliott
"I stand with Patrick Brown!" declared Thenusha Parani, whose nomination as the PC candidate in Scarborough Centre was overturned by party officials on Friday.
"I always believed Patrick," tweeted Mohammad Latif, the PC candidate for Windsor–Tecumseh.
CBC News has made repeated requests to speak with Brown but has received no response.
Brown is also officially still the party's candidate in the riding of Barrie–Oro Medonte–Springwater. Party officials have not indicated any plan to unseat him, while they have overturned the nominations of two PC candidates, in Scarborough Centre and Ottawa West–Nepean.
- PCs overturn 2 nominations dogged by controversy
- ANALYSIS | PC leadership race pits longtime politician vs. fresh face vs. maverick insurgent
Over the weekend, leadership candidate Christine Elliott opened the door to allowing Brown to be on the ballot under the PC banner for the June 7 provincial election, should she become the party leader.
"If he is able to clear his name by the time the election comes forward then I would have no problem with him running as a candidate," Elliott told a gathering of conservatives in Ottawa.
The other leadership candidates, Caroline Mulroney and Doug Ford have not given clear indications about whether they would overturn Brown's candidacy.
The three contenders will square off Thursday in a televised debate. Friday is the deadline for people to sign up as PC members to become eligible to vote for the new leader. The party will announce the winner on March 10.
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Mulroney, Ford follow well-worn path of outsiders and insurgents in leadership bids
The unlikely Ontario PC leadership bids of Caroline Mulroney and Doug Ford have historical precedents
o who will it be? The establishment choice, the fresh outsider or the maverick insurgent?
That's the decision members of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party face on March 10 — a choice between three very different registered candidates for the party's leadership.
Christine Elliott is the experienced establishment candidate. Before stepping out of politics in 2015 following her failed leadership bid in 2015, Elliott had been an MPP for almost a decade. This leadership campaign is her third.
Caroline Mulroney is the outsider. Though her family has a long history in Canadian conservatism — her father was prime minister from 1984 to 1993 — she is new to active involvement in the PC Party. This leadership campaign will be her first electoral test.
Doug Ford is the insurgent. Railing against the "elites" in both the premier's office and the PC party leadership, Ford is hoping to tap into populist anger within the party membership and recruit supporters of the so-called "Ford Nation."
Elliott's road to the party leadership is the one most candidates take. But both Mulroney and Ford are also treading paths well-worn by outsider and insurgent candidacies in the past — some of them successful, others less so.
It is common for leadership races to feature a few contestants who emerge out of political obscurity and fail to make any headway. It's less common for one of those contestants to have the name recognition of a Mulroney.
But even recognizable outsiders can have a tough time once they step into the ring.
Kevin O'Leary famously quit the Conservative leadership race after becoming its front-runner. A victory for O'Leary was still plausible when he withdrew, but the businessman and TV personality — who had no prior experience with the Conservative party — apparently found politics to be more challenging than he expected when he was watching it from the outside.
In 2017, Kevin O'Leary ran for the leadership of the federal Conservatives as an outsider. (Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press)
Belinda Stronach stuck it out to the end of the 2004 federal Conservative leadership campaign, losing to Stephen Harper.
And Michael Ignatieff — who, according to his memoirs, went from not seriously considering a political run to mounting a bid for the federal Liberal party leadership in a mere 18 months — was unable to win on his first attempt, was acclaimed to the leadership on his second try and in 2011 led the Liberals to their worst electoral result in party history.
Being an outsider, however, isn't always an obstacle. Wade MacLauchlan was an apolitical president of the University of Prince Edward Island when he was drafted to become premier in 2015.
In New Brunswick, Bernard Lord and Brian Gallant each had only a failed run for a provincial seat under their belts when they took over the PC and Liberal parties, respectively, and in short order became premiers.
Mulroney's biggest advantage may be that she combines the qualities of both an insider and an outsider.
While a relative newcomer to the Ontario PCs, her family history gives her credibility within the conservative movement. In a short leadership campaign, getting people to pay attention and take you seriously is half the battle.
As with outsiders, it's not uncommon for insurgent leadership candidates to find that the hurdles put up by the party are too difficult to overcome. Pat Stogran's short-lived NDP leadership campaign in 2017, during which the former veterans ombudsman criticized what he called "politics incorporated," is one recent example.
Other insurgents simply fail to sell their message. After campaigning against "elites" and in favour of screening immigrants for their embrace of "Canadian values," Kellie Leitch finished sixth in the 2017 Conservative leadership race. David Orchard failed twice to engineer a takeover of the federal PCs in 1998 and 2003 — campaigns which saw him stand opposed to some of the party's signature policies.
Kellie Leitch finished sixth in the 2017 federal Conservative leadership race. (Chris Wattie/Reuters)
Candidates
from the socialist wing of the NDP have failed repeatedly to dislodge
more moderate candidates in federal party leadership campaigns.
But insurgents do not need to attain power in order to have a profound influence on a party.
At the helm of the populist Reform Party of Canada, Preston Manning was able to help engineer the collapse of the federal PCs in 1993. Though he was out of politics by the time Reform's successor, the Canadian Alliance, merged with the PCs in 2003, he had a significant impact on what the modern Conservative party has become.
In the United States, Barry Goldwater's brand of conservatism transformed the Republican Party and laid the groundwork for the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. But it took Goldwater's landslide loss to Lyndon Johnson in 1964 for that transformation to happen.
Barry Goldwater was the Republican presidential nominee in 1964 and laid the groundwork for Ronald Reagan's victory in 1980. (Associated Press)
On
the other hand, there's the successful example of U.S. President Donald
Trump, an insurgent (and outsider) who defeated a series of Republican
establishment candidates in the 2016 primaries and then won the
presidency. His impact on the future of the Republican Party has yet to
be determined.
Ford's leadership campaign comes at a time when the Ontario PC membership is in open revolt — between those who wanted a leadership race and those who didn't; between those who owe their jobs to former leader Patrick Brown and those who don't; and between the members who supported winning and losing candidates in contested nomination battles across the province.
Ford might find himself at home in such an environment.
Outsider and insurgent candidacies might be more viable today than ever before. Over the last 20 years, parties have increasingly moved away from delegated conventions. This has given candidates the opportunity to mount leadership bids that don't require the acquiescence of the party establishment. If they can sign up enough members, they can take over a party.
That's how Jagmeet Singh, an Ontario MPP little known at the national level and with shallow networks within the federal NDP, orchestrated his victory last year.
Jagmeet
Singh won the federal NDP leadership in 2017 by signing up thousands of
new members who had little to no prior experience with the party. (Chris Young/Canadian Press)
It's
also how Brown, a low-profile backbench federal MP with thin support
from the provincial caucus, managed to win the last Ontario PC
leadership campaign in 2015.
But the month-long PC leadership race this year — only a few days remain for candidates to sign up members — gives little time to sign up new members attracted by an outsider, or for an insurgent to swamp the ranks of the established party base. Instead, the decision will be made largely by those pre-existing members.
Their choice won't simply affect the party's chances in the upcoming provincial election. It could also have a significant influence on the direction of the party for years to come.
That's the decision members of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party face on March 10 — a choice between three very different registered candidates for the party's leadership.
Christine Elliott is the experienced establishment candidate. Before stepping out of politics in 2015 following her failed leadership bid in 2015, Elliott had been an MPP for almost a decade. This leadership campaign is her third.
Caroline Mulroney is the outsider. Though her family has a long history in Canadian conservatism — her father was prime minister from 1984 to 1993 — she is new to active involvement in the PC Party. This leadership campaign will be her first electoral test.
Doug Ford is the insurgent. Railing against the "elites" in both the premier's office and the PC party leadership, Ford is hoping to tap into populist anger within the party membership and recruit supporters of the so-called "Ford Nation."
Elliott's road to the party leadership is the one most candidates take. But both Mulroney and Ford are also treading paths well-worn by outsider and insurgent candidacies in the past — some of them successful, others less so.
Outsiders aplenty, but having a name helps
It is common for leadership races to feature a few contestants who emerge out of political obscurity and fail to make any headway. It's less common for one of those contestants to have the name recognition of a Mulroney.
But even recognizable outsiders can have a tough time once they step into the ring.
Kevin O'Leary famously quit the Conservative leadership race after becoming its front-runner. A victory for O'Leary was still plausible when he withdrew, but the businessman and TV personality — who had no prior experience with the Conservative party — apparently found politics to be more challenging than he expected when he was watching it from the outside.
And Michael Ignatieff — who, according to his memoirs, went from not seriously considering a political run to mounting a bid for the federal Liberal party leadership in a mere 18 months — was unable to win on his first attempt, was acclaimed to the leadership on his second try and in 2011 led the Liberals to their worst electoral result in party history.
Being an outsider, however, isn't always an obstacle. Wade MacLauchlan was an apolitical president of the University of Prince Edward Island when he was drafted to become premier in 2015.
In New Brunswick, Bernard Lord and Brian Gallant each had only a failed run for a provincial seat under their belts when they took over the PC and Liberal parties, respectively, and in short order became premiers.
Mulroney's biggest advantage may be that she combines the qualities of both an insider and an outsider.
While a relative newcomer to the Ontario PCs, her family history gives her credibility within the conservative movement. In a short leadership campaign, getting people to pay attention and take you seriously is half the battle.
Insurgencies can take time
Getting attention is not a problem for Ford — as is often the case for insurgent candidates who run against a party's establishment and political orthodoxy.As with outsiders, it's not uncommon for insurgent leadership candidates to find that the hurdles put up by the party are too difficult to overcome. Pat Stogran's short-lived NDP leadership campaign in 2017, during which the former veterans ombudsman criticized what he called "politics incorporated," is one recent example.
Other insurgents simply fail to sell their message. After campaigning against "elites" and in favour of screening immigrants for their embrace of "Canadian values," Kellie Leitch finished sixth in the 2017 Conservative leadership race. David Orchard failed twice to engineer a takeover of the federal PCs in 1998 and 2003 — campaigns which saw him stand opposed to some of the party's signature policies.
But insurgents do not need to attain power in order to have a profound influence on a party.
At the helm of the populist Reform Party of Canada, Preston Manning was able to help engineer the collapse of the federal PCs in 1993. Though he was out of politics by the time Reform's successor, the Canadian Alliance, merged with the PCs in 2003, he had a significant impact on what the modern Conservative party has become.
In the United States, Barry Goldwater's brand of conservatism transformed the Republican Party and laid the groundwork for the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. But it took Goldwater's landslide loss to Lyndon Johnson in 1964 for that transformation to happen.
Ford's leadership campaign comes at a time when the Ontario PC membership is in open revolt — between those who wanted a leadership race and those who didn't; between those who owe their jobs to former leader Patrick Brown and those who don't; and between the members who supported winning and losing candidates in contested nomination battles across the province.
Ford might find himself at home in such an environment.
Letting the people, not the party, decide
Outsider and insurgent candidacies might be more viable today than ever before. Over the last 20 years, parties have increasingly moved away from delegated conventions. This has given candidates the opportunity to mount leadership bids that don't require the acquiescence of the party establishment. If they can sign up enough members, they can take over a party.
That's how Jagmeet Singh, an Ontario MPP little known at the national level and with shallow networks within the federal NDP, orchestrated his victory last year.
But the month-long PC leadership race this year — only a few days remain for candidates to sign up members — gives little time to sign up new members attracted by an outsider, or for an insurgent to swamp the ranks of the established party base. Instead, the decision will be made largely by those pre-existing members.
Their choice won't simply affect the party's chances in the upcoming provincial election. It could also have a significant influence on the direction of the party for years to come.
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If Patrick Brown can clear his name, he can run for Ontario PCs: Elliott
Brown stepped down as leader after allegations of sexual misconduct
Ontario
Progressive Conservative party leadership candidate Christine Elliott
says that if her predecessor can clear his name, he should be able to
run for the party in the next election.
Patrick Brown resigned as Ontario PC leader late last month after being accused of sexual misconduct in incidents dating back years. He denounced the allegations, which have not been verified by The Canadian Press, as "absolute lies" in an interview with Postmedia, adding that he's contemplating legal action.
Elliott was the final of the three PC leadership candidates to address the annual Manning Networking Conference, but the only one to be asked directly about Brown by the moderator, journalist Anthony Furey.
"I think it's important for Patrick to come forward to say his view of what happened," Elliott said during a question-and-answer session at an annual conference for conservatives in Ottawa.
"I know he is trying to clear his name, if he is able to clear his name by the time the election comes forward then I would have no problem with him running as a candidate. But that has to happen before, in my opinion, he should be able to run."
Elliott was also asked several more pointed policy and current events questions than her competitors — longtime municipal politician Doug Ford and relative political neophyte Caroline Mulroney.
Among them, whether as someone who was appointed by current Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne as the province's patient ombudsman, she's just part of the so-called Liberal swamp the Ontario PCs want to drain.
"Absolutely not," she said.
"I've always been a proud Progressive Conservative."
It's Elliott's third time trying for leadership of the PC Party; she lost to Brown in 2015 and to Tim Hudak in 2009.
A knock against her in the past had been her lack of political and leadership experience, but she said Saturday she has far more of both now than she did in the last leadership campaigns.
She said the key to her victory, and the party's at large come the provincial election, is to ensure everyone has a home in the Ontario PC Party.
That's Ford's goal too. He said Saturday he's confident he can translate a history of electoral success in Toronto into a win provincially, not just for leadership but for the Ontario PCs as a whole.
He cited his performance in Toronto's 2014 mayoral election — he raked in about 34 per cent of the vote, finishing second after John Tory. That, he suggested, bodes well for his potential to turn Toronto's typically left-leaning voters.
"We need those seats."
He'll win them not just on the backs of Ford Nation, the nickname given to the passionate supporters of Doug and his late brother Rob.
It's thanks to them that Fords have represented a suburban Toronto riding for years, and it's because of them he'll run no matter what in 2018, he said.
But attracting NDP and Liberal voters are also key, he said, as he claimed that much of the PC Party base comes from the left.
"Don't count out hardworking union people as being fiscally conservative," he said.
Patrick Brown resigned as Ontario PC leader late last month after being accused of sexual misconduct in incidents dating back years. He denounced the allegations, which have not been verified by The Canadian Press, as "absolute lies" in an interview with Postmedia, adding that he's contemplating legal action.
Elliott was the final of the three PC leadership candidates to address the annual Manning Networking Conference, but the only one to be asked directly about Brown by the moderator, journalist Anthony Furey.
"I think it's important for Patrick to come forward to say his view of what happened," Elliott said during a question-and-answer session at an annual conference for conservatives in Ottawa.
"I know he is trying to clear his name, if he is able to clear his name by the time the election comes forward then I would have no problem with him running as a candidate. But that has to happen before, in my opinion, he should be able to run."
Elliott was also asked several more pointed policy and current events questions than her competitors — longtime municipal politician Doug Ford and relative political neophyte Caroline Mulroney.
Among them, whether as someone who was appointed by current Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne as the province's patient ombudsman, she's just part of the so-called Liberal swamp the Ontario PCs want to drain.
"Absolutely not," she said.
"I've always been a proud Progressive Conservative."
It's Elliott's third time trying for leadership of the PC Party; she lost to Brown in 2015 and to Tim Hudak in 2009.
A knock against her in the past had been her lack of political and leadership experience, but she said Saturday she has far more of both now than she did in the last leadership campaigns.
She said the key to her victory, and the party's at large come the provincial election, is to ensure everyone has a home in the Ontario PC Party.
Toronto experience relevant, says Ford
That's Ford's goal too. He said Saturday he's confident he can translate a history of electoral success in Toronto into a win provincially, not just for leadership but for the Ontario PCs as a whole.
He cited his performance in Toronto's 2014 mayoral election — he raked in about 34 per cent of the vote, finishing second after John Tory. That, he suggested, bodes well for his potential to turn Toronto's typically left-leaning voters.
"We need those seats."
He'll win them not just on the backs of Ford Nation, the nickname given to the passionate supporters of Doug and his late brother Rob.
It's thanks to them that Fords have represented a suburban Toronto riding for years, and it's because of them he'll run no matter what in 2018, he said.
But attracting NDP and Liberal voters are also key, he said, as he claimed that much of the PC Party base comes from the left.
"Don't count out hardworking union people as being fiscally conservative," he said.
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Ontario PCs overturn two controversial nominations in Scarborough and Ottawa
Candidates Thenusha Parani, Karma Macgregor call on PC leadership candidates to put an end to review
The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario overturned controversial nominations for two candidates in Scarborough Centre and Ottawa West-Nepean on Friday amidst reports of alleged corruption.
In the wake of problems surrounding former PC leader Patrick Brown, officials with the Tories decided to throw out the results of contentious candidate elections after some long-time PC members urged the party to reopen nominations across Ontario.
Nominations for as many as six candidates, including Scarborough Centre candidate Thenusha Parani and Ottawa West-Nepean candidate Karma Macgregor, were in consideration to be overturned.
- PC members urge party to strip candidate of nomination
- Toronto police dispute PC candidate's claim of volunteer work with force
Parani was officially named as the candidate for Scarborough Centre after winning a June 26 nomination meeting, despite complaints that people who signed Parani's nomination papers were not eligible under the party's rules.
In July of 2017 Progressive Conservative members asked for Parani's nomination to be stripped because of alleged irregularities.
Toronto police officers even questioned Parani's history of extensive volunteer work she claims she did with the force.
Meanwhile, allegations of shady campaign tactics were made in the riding of Ottawa West-Nepean where Macgregor defeated Jeremy Roberts by a mere 15 votes at the nomination meeting in May of 2017.
Candidates push back
Prior to the decision, both Parani and Macgregor issued a joint statement fighting back against the push to overturn their nominations.
"We have learned today that there are actions being taken against a number of candidates by certain individuals based on rumours and innuendos," they said.
The rookie candidates said they have not been asked or given an opportunity to provide their point of view on the situation and find that more women are being targeted unfairly.
"We call on the leadership candidates Caroline Mulroney, Christine Elliot and Doug Ford, and interim leader Vic Fedeli, to put an end to this, so we can move forward collectively."
PC party members urge clean up
Retired Conservative Senator Marjory LeBreton told CBC News the party still had time to run a properly constituted riding nomination meeting.
LeBreton said she witnessed a nomination meeting that had very fraudulent activity in Ottawa West-Nepean on May 6, 2017.
"At the time I called for the party to take a look at it and declare the meeting void," she said.
- Clean-up 'corruption', allow new nominations, PC party members urge
- Investigate fake party memberships, Ottawa PCs urge
Brown, then leader, had appointed candidates who were nominated in controversial nomination meetings across the province despite calls for a review. He approved the nominations of Parani and Macgregor.
Several other Progressive Conservative party volunteers told CBC they saw evidence party executives allowed ballot stuffing and ineligible members to vote.
Since Brown resigned on Jan. 25 after allegations of sexual misconduct involving teenage girls surfaced, the PC party says it has started making moves to fix internal issues.
New nomination meetings are expected to be held prior to the provincial election on June 7.
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Vikram Singh drops his lawsuit against PC party over Hamilton nomination
Police investigation continues, but Singh says he accepts party can choose candidate it wants
A
Dundas lawyer who has fought the Ontario PC party in court over what he
says was a rigged nomination process has dropped his lawsuit.
In a joint statement with the party, Vikram Singh says he accepts that party leader Patrick Brown can choose whatever candidate he wants.
"I now accept that PC party officials, staff and volunteers were dedicated to achieving the fairest result for the Hamilton community, and can no longer maintain that there was any untoward behaviour on their part," Singh said.
"Furthermore, I acknowledge that the PC party's nomination rules and the Election Act (Ontario), when read together, give the leader of the PC party the authority to identify the candidates who may run under the PC party banner in a provincial election."
The case is still being investigated by Hamilton Police Service and the Public Prosecution Service of Canada
.
But dropping the suit ends an expensive months-long journey for Singh, who was vying for the Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas provincial PC nomination.
Singh, 31, says he had Brown's blessing to run for the nomination. But in May, he alleged, party officials intervened at the nomination meeting by stuffing ballot boxes and turning away voters, causing him to lose and Ben Levitt to win.
Singh asked the party to review the nomination. But in June, Brown certified more than 60 selected candidates, including Levitt. Singh and another failed candidate, Jeff Peller, applied for a judicial review.
In an affidavit, party president Rick Dykstra said Singh "inspired mistrust" and didn't fit the right demographic to win the election. Dykstra also said Brown can choose whatever candidate he wants regardless of the nomination process.
The party also worried about public perception if the Singh family's decades-old link the militant Sikh group Babbar Khalsa resurfaced.
Peller dropped his request for a judicial review in the fall. Singh's case, meanwhile, included a secretly-recorded phone conversation between himself and party brass. Earlier this week, a panel of appeal court judges ruled against the conversation being used as evidence.
It's not immediately clear if Singh will still owe the party about $180,000 in legal fees from that battle.
In the statement, Brown said he has "full confidence in our party officials and our process," and "am satisfied with our outcome in Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas."
In the fall, Hamilton police used a search warrant to obtain two cardboard boxes — one with ballots, one with credentials forms — from the May 7 nomination meeting for Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas (HWAD).
Police also examined a large volume of emails and two USB drives containing digital versions of those emails.
The party says it voluntarily handed over the materials to investigators at its lawyer's Bay Street office in Toronto on Oct. 27.
Ontario's Ministry of Attorney General has asked the federal prosecution office to handle the case, to avoid any appearance of political interference in any legal actions taken.
PC nomination battles brought friction in several ridings last year, including Flamborough-Glanbrook. Retired Conservative senator Marjory LeBreton also urged leader Patrick Brown to "do the right thing" when it comes to handling nominations.
Last year, Brown hired PricewaterhouseCoopers to oversee nominations.
"I welcome the continued involvement of all 200,000 members of our party," he said Wednesday.
In a joint statement with the party, Vikram Singh says he accepts that party leader Patrick Brown can choose whatever candidate he wants.
"I now accept that PC party officials, staff and volunteers were dedicated to achieving the fairest result for the Hamilton community, and can no longer maintain that there was any untoward behaviour on their part," Singh said.
"Furthermore, I acknowledge that the PC party's nomination rules and the Election Act (Ontario), when read together, give the leader of the PC party the authority to identify the candidates who may run under the PC party banner in a provincial election."
The case is still being investigated by Hamilton Police Service and the Public Prosecution Service of Canada
.
But dropping the suit ends an expensive months-long journey for Singh, who was vying for the Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas provincial PC nomination.
Singh, 31, says he had Brown's blessing to run for the nomination. But in May, he alleged, party officials intervened at the nomination meeting by stuffing ballot boxes and turning away voters, causing him to lose and Ben Levitt to win.
Singh asked the party to review the nomination. But in June, Brown certified more than 60 selected candidates, including Levitt. Singh and another failed candidate, Jeff Peller, applied for a judicial review.
In an affidavit, party president Rick Dykstra said Singh "inspired mistrust" and didn't fit the right demographic to win the election. Dykstra also said Brown can choose whatever candidate he wants regardless of the nomination process.
The party also worried about public perception if the Singh family's decades-old link the militant Sikh group Babbar Khalsa resurfaced.
Peller dropped his request for a judicial review in the fall. Singh's case, meanwhile, included a secretly-recorded phone conversation between himself and party brass. Earlier this week, a panel of appeal court judges ruled against the conversation being used as evidence.
It's not immediately clear if Singh will still owe the party about $180,000 in legal fees from that battle.
In the statement, Brown said he has "full confidence in our party officials and our process," and "am satisfied with our outcome in Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas."
In the fall, Hamilton police used a search warrant to obtain two cardboard boxes — one with ballots, one with credentials forms — from the May 7 nomination meeting for Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas (HWAD).
Police also examined a large volume of emails and two USB drives containing digital versions of those emails.
The party says it voluntarily handed over the materials to investigators at its lawyer's Bay Street office in Toronto on Oct. 27.
Ontario's Ministry of Attorney General has asked the federal prosecution office to handle the case, to avoid any appearance of political interference in any legal actions taken.
PC nomination battles brought friction in several ridings last year, including Flamborough-Glanbrook. Retired Conservative senator Marjory LeBreton also urged leader Patrick Brown to "do the right thing" when it comes to handling nominations.
Last year, Brown hired PricewaterhouseCoopers to oversee nominations.
"I welcome the continued involvement of all 200,000 members of our party," he said Wednesday.
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