Thursday 7 March 2019

Public Prosecution Service sends provocative tweet about 'political influence'

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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 23:32:08 +0000
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As soon as I read this nonsense I called Kathleen Roussel, the director of public prosecutions and two of her lawyers. I reminded them of the email I sent weeks ago then sent it AGAIN


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Public Prosecution Service sends provocative tweet about 'political influence'


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David Amos
David Amos
Trust as soon as I read this nonsense I called Kathleen Roussel, the director of public prosecutions and two of her lawyers immediately and reminded them of the email I sent them week ago



Steve Vaughan
Steve Vaughan
@David Amos Who are you?

David Amos
David Amos




Public Prosecution Service sends provocative tweet about 'political influence'


The Public Prosecution Service of Canada sent out an attention-grabbing message about prosecutorial independence today. (Peter Scobie/CBC)


The Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) — the independent body that prosecutes federal offences and has played a role in the SNC-Lavalin affair — sent a tweet this morning saying its lawyers must be free to do their jobs without "political influence."

The tweet comes one day after the prime minister's former principal secretary, Gerry Butts, and Michael Wernick, the most senior bureaucrat in the country, testified before the Commons justice committee that they did not inappropriately pressure former attorney-general Jody Wilson-Raybould to negotiate a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with the Quebec engineering firm after the PPSC refused to do just that.

Wilson-Raybould testified that she felt political motivations — namely, the Liberal Party's electoral fortunes in Quebec — were behind the push to secure a DPA for the large Quebec corporation.




A spokesperson for the PPSC said today the tweet was not related to the SNC-Lavalin affair.

Kathleen Roussel, the director of public prosecutions and the head of the PPSC, decided not to pursue a DPA for SNC-Lavalin and to proceed to a criminal trial on fraud and bribery charges. The Prime Minister's Office was concerned by this course of action, fearing a guilty verdict for the firm could lead to financial ruin and massive job losses. Wilson-Raybould has said she should have been free to make a final decision without interference.

The tweet was sent shortly after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau himself expressed regret over how the whole affair has unfolded.

Prosecutorial independence is key to our mandate. Our prosecutors must be objective, independent and dispassionate, as well as free from improper influence—including political influence. http://ow.ly/hNc450mDBSx 



While the Twitter account for the prosecution service was first created in January 2019, it only posted its first message on the social media platform yesterday.

"The PPSC twitter account launched this week; a number of pre-written tweets explaining a little about the PPSC and its work are scheduled over the coming weeks," Nathalie Houle, a spokesperson for the PPSC, said in an emailed statement to CBC News.

The spokesperson said the tweet is not related to the SNC-Lavalin controversy and there is no pressing concern about the independence of prosecution in Canada.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said today that, while he agrees with the sentiment expressed in the PPSC's tweet, it's "very troubling" that federal prosecutors felt the need to issue a statement like that amid the SNC-Lavalin uproar.


While I completely agree with the @PPSC_SPPC, it is very troubling that Justin Trudeau’s actions and attempts at interference have made such a statement necessary. Justin Trudeau has endangered the rule of law in Canada and must resign.




The office was created by the former Conservative government in 2006 to separate federal prosecutors from the other public servants who carry out legal and legislative work at the Department of Justice, and to further distance its functions from politicians in the wake of the sponsorship scandal.

The service was designed to "strengthen ... institutional independence and ultimate ministerial accountability," the PPSC website reads.

"On one hand, it was intended to enhance integrity in government by statutorily ensuring independence of the prosecution decision-making function from inappropriate political control, direction and influence. It enshrines in legislation the quasi-constitutional principle of independence of the prosecution function from the partisan political process."

While the service is independent, the attorney general is still responsible for its actions and has the power to intervene in legal proceedings and "assume conduct of a prosecution." To guard against interference and prevent abuse, these interventions must be made public.

For example, if Wilson-Raybould had pursued a DPA with SNC-Lavalin over the initial objections of the PPSC, she would have had to draft a document stating that for publication in the Canada Gazette, the official newspaper of the government of Canada where new acts, regulations and proclamations are published.

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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 17:54:46 -0400
Subject: Fwd: RE Federal Court File No T-1557-15 and Dumb Fed Tweets
ATTN John Macfarlane I just caled you and your boss Kathleen Roussel
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 17:39:32 -0400
Subject: Re: RE Federal Court File No T-1557-15 and Dumb Fed Tweets
ATTN John Macfarlane I just caled you and your boss Kathleen Roussel
AGAIN
To: Paul.Shuttle@pco-bcp.gc.ca, Michael.Duheme@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
Michael.Wernick@pco-bcp.gc.ca, Gerald.Butts@pmo-cpm.gc.ca,
Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca, andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca,
maxime.bernier@parl.gc.ca, Mark.Blakely@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Gilles.Moreau@forces.gc.ca,
Jonathan.Vance@forces.gc.ca,
Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, info@ndp.ca, Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca,
cmainville@hhllp.ca, David.Antonyshyn@ppsc-sppc.gc.ca,
john.tasker@cbc.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com, Nathalie.Drouin@justice.gc.ca,
David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca, jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca,
clare.barry@justice.gc.ca, bmercier@ppsc-sppc.gc.ca,
john.macfarlane@ppsc-sppc.gc.ca, kathleen.roussel@ppsc-sppc.gc.ca


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David Amos
Trust as soon as I read this nonsense I called Kathleen Roussel, the
director of public prosecutions and two of her lawyers immediately and
reminded them of the email I sent them week ago


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Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 01:09:24 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE Federal Court File No T-1557-15 and my
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Michael.Wernick Paul Shuttle, Daniel Jean, Malcolm Brown and legio...
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On 2/16/19, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/02/pco-lawyer-asked-prosecutor-if-there.html
>
>
>
> https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-norman-cabinet-leak-trial-prosecution-1.5021156
>
> "As he spoke, Justice Perkins-McVey flipped through the censored
> version of the meeting notes and asked, "What about comments from Paul
> Shuttle, like, 'Is there a way to engineer the issues at stake?'"
>
> The Crown did file an uncensored version with the courts on Friday.
>
> MacFarlane insisted the meetings were meant to identify a potential
> witness who could speak to the issue of cabinet confidences. Norman is
> accused of leaking cabinet secrets related to a $668 million
> shipbuilding deal to lease a supply ship for the navy in 2015.
>
> The judge seemed skeptical of that explanation."
>
>
> Henri Bianchi
> Exactly how does one "engineer" the legal issues in judicial proceedings?
>
> Unless there is a proper explanation this stinks.
>
>
> David Amos
> @Henri Bianchi Methinks everybody knows that my documents filed in the
> docket of the Federal Court of Canada easily prove that the PCO lawyer
> Paul Shuttle has been engineering the legal issues in judicial
> proceedings against me for years The strange part is that Admiral
> Norman's lawyers know it as well N'esy Pas?
>
>
>
>
>
> Don Cameron
> If the top lawyer at the Privy Council Office asked federal
> prosecutors if it was possible to "engineer the issues at stake" in
> the criminal case against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, that seems like
> the very definition of 'political interference'.
>
> What on earth is wrong with this Prime Minister's PCO and PMO?
> The buck stops with Trudeau.
>
> John Nelson
> @Don Cameron Arrogance is the main problem. Plus the prime minister
> actually believes his own nonsense. Well, actually I'm not sure the PM
> knows or believes anything. He's just a talking (empty) head for his
> handlers.
>
> David Amos
> @Don Cameron "The buck stops with Trudeau."
>
> That is true but the PCO lawyer Paul Shuttle and his latest boss knows
> the ball started rolling between the RCMP, the PMO and the PCO and I
> in 1982 when Trudeau The Elder was the Prime Minister
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 18:53:29 -0400
> Subject: RE Federal Court File No T-1557-15 and my many calls and
> emails about my concerns about the lack of Integrity of the RCMP,
> Justin Trudeau, Ralph Goodale, Frank McKenna, Michael.Wernick Paul
> Shuttle, Daniel Jean, Malcolm Brown and legions of others
> To: "Michael.Wernick" <Michael.Wernick@pco-bcp.gc.ca>,
> Paul.Shuttle@pco-bcp.gc.ca, Daniel.Jean@pco-bcp.gc.ca, "Malcolm.Brown"
> <Malcolm.Brown@ps-sp.gc.ca>, scott.bardsley@canada.ca,
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> WPS-PIO@winnipeg.ca, manuelle.oudar@cnesst.gouv.qc.ca,
> "hon.ralph.goodale" <hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca>, "Frank.McKenna"
> <Frank.McKenna@td.com>, jkee <jkee@google.com>
> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, "Norman.Sabourin"
> <Norman.Sabourin@cjc-ccm.gc.ca>, "marc.giroux"
> <marc.giroux@fja-cmf.gc.ca>, "Bill.Morneau" <Bill.Morneau@canada.ca>,
> "bill.pentney" <bill.pentney@justice.gc.ca>, "brian.hodgson"
> <brian.hodgson@assembly.ab.ca>, danielle.antoniuk@assembly.ab.ca,
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> "Gilles.Moreau" <Gilles.Moreau@forces.gc.ca>
>
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> Devon Clunis as close as I could get to him was here
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> http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/11/to-be-perfectly-frank-everybody-and-his.html
>
> Wednesday, 22 November 2017
> To be Perfectly Frank Everybody and His Dog Knows That Its a
> Monumental LIEbrano Joke On Us All to have the Bankster Franky Boy
> McKenna And Corrupt Ex Cops Pick The Next Boss of the RCMP
>
> http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/government-of-canada-announces-committee-members-involved-in-the-selection-of-new-rcmp-commissioner-659069513.html
>
> Government of Canada announces committee members involved in the
> selection of new RCMP Commissioner
>
> News provided by
> Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada
> Nov 21, 2017, 09:40 ET
>
> OTTAWA, Nov. 20, 2017 /CNW/ - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
> is a vital component of both our public safety and our national
> security. Moreover, it is an institution that embodies the best of
> what Canada and Canadians aspire to be – upstanding, loyal and
> committed to the pursuit of justice.
>
> This past summer, the Honourable Ralph Goodale, Minister of Public
> Safety and Emergency Preparedness, named Mr. Frank McKenna as Chair of
> the Selection Committee to select a new RCMP Commissioner. The
> Committee is an independent, non-partisan body whose mandate it is to
> develop and recommend a list of highly qualified candidates for the
> Minister's consideration, based upon which he will make his
> recommendation to the Prime Minister.
>
> Today, Minister Goodale announced the remaining members of the
> Selection Committee:
>
>     Daniel Jean – National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the
> Prime Minister, Privy Council Office
>     Malcolm Brown – Deputy Minister, Public Safety Canada
>     Gina Wilson – Deputy Minister, Status of Women Canada
>     Beverley Busson – former Interim Commissioner, RCMP
>     Marianne Ryan – former Deputy Commissioner, RCMP
>     Tammy Cook-Searson – Chief, Lac La Ronge First Nation Indian Band
>     Devon Clunis – former Chief, Winnipeg Police Service
>     Barbara Byers –  former Secretary-Treasurer, Canadian Labour Congress
>     Manuelle Oudar – Chair of the Board of Directors and Chief
> Executive Officer, Board of Workplace Standards, Equity, Health and
> Safety (CNESST)
>
> The Minister announced that the search firm Boyden Ottawa has been
> engaged to support the Committee and also made public the Selection
> Committee's Terms of Reference which were reviewed by Committee
> members.
>
> Applications are being reviewed and highly qualified applicants who
> best meet the selection criteria will be invited to an interview and
> further assessments.
>
> Quote
> "I look forward to receiving the list of outstanding individuals the
> Selection Committee will propose for the position of RCMP
> Commissioner. This is an essential position in helping ensure public
> safety and national security, and the Prime Minister and I are
> determined to move deliberately to fill it."
>
> -  The Honourable Ralph Goodale, Minister of Public Safety and
> Emergency Preparedness
>
> Facts
>
>     On February 25, 2016, the Government of Canada announced a new,
> more rigorous approach to Governor in Council appointments, which
> supports open, transparent and merit-based selection processes that
> are open to all Canadians.
>     To this end, selection committees are established to assess and
> recommend candidates for appointment to various Governor in Council
> positions.
>     Selection committee membership is based on two considerations: who
> is responsible for making the appointment recommendation, and who can
> bring a perspective on the needs of the organization.
>
> Related Product
>
>     Terms of Reference: Selection Committee for the Position of
> Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
>
> Associated Links
>
>     An update on the process for selecting the new Commissioner of the
> Royal Canadian Mounted Police
>     Governor in Council appointments
>     Current Opportunity: Commissioner, Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
> Appointment Opportunity
>
>
> SOURCE Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada
> For further information: Scott Bardsley, Office of the Minister of
> Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, 613-998-5681; Media
> Relations, Public Safety Canada, 613-991-0657,
> media@ps-sp.gc.ca
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: Scott.Bardsley@parl.gc.ca
> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 15:30:38 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Re The CBC and Federal Court File no T-1557-15
> FYI I just called Steven Webb in Saint John and he denied the fact
> that CBC is supposed to be non paristan
> To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
>
> Please resend your message to scott.bardsley@canada.ca as my primary
> work account has changed.
>
> Scott
>
> ***
>
> SVP envoyer votre message ? scott.bardsley@canada.ca
> Mon compte de bureau a chang?.
>
> Scott
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 13:19:55 -0400
> Subject: RE Federal Court File No T-1557-15 Need I say that Bob Kerr
> was not wise to call me and make LIAR out of himself???
> To: jean.mongeau@radio-canada.ca, sandra.hammond@cbc.ca,
> "hon.melanie.joly" <hon.melanie.joly@canada.ca>, andrea.laton@cbc.ca,
> julie.bruk@cbc.ca
> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, oldmaison
> <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, "steve.murphy" <steve.murphy@ctv.ca>, nmoore
> <nmoore@bellmedia.ca>, "jeremy.keefe" <jeremy.keefe@globalnews.ca>,
> jbosnitch <jbosnitch@gmail.com>, andre <andre@jafaust.com>
>
> Jean Mongeau
> General Manager & Chief Revenue Officer
> Email: jean.mongeau@radio-canada.ca
> Phone: (514) 597-4281
>
> Sandra Hammond
> Senior Director, Revenue Optimization & Strategic Operations
> Email: sandra.hammond@cbc.ca
> Phone: (416) 205-7215
>
> Andrea Laton
> Director, Strategic Operations
> Email: andrea.laton@cbc.ca
> Phone: (416) 205-3957
> Fax: (416) 205-2497
>
> Julie Bruk
> Director of Finance
> Email: julie.bruk@cbc.ca
> Phone: (416) 205-7298
> Fax: 416-205-2126
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michael Cohen mcohen@trumporg.com
> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:15:14 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: RE FATCA ATTN Pierre-Luc.Dusseault I just
> called and left a message for you
> To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>
> Effective January 20, 2017, I have accepted the role as personal
> counsel to President Donald J. Trump. All future emails should be
> directed to mdcohen212@gmail.com and all future calls should be
> directed to 646-853-0114.
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> electronic signature under applicable law.
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Liliana (Legal Services) Longo" <Liliana.Longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 11:28:36 -0400
> Subject: Re: Attn Suzelle Bazinet.(613-995-5117) I just earlier
> Whereas I was not allowed to speak to you today its best that we
> confer in writng anyway (Away from the office/absente du bureau)
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> I will be away from the office June 26 to 28, 2017.  In my absence,
> Barbara Massey will be acting and she can be reached at  (613) 843-6394.
>
> Je serai absente du bureau du 26 au 28 juin 2017.  En mon absence,
> Barbara Massey sera interimaire et peut être rejointe au (613) 843-6394.
>
> Thank you / Merci
> Liliana
>
>
> Liliana Longo, Q.C., c.r.
> Senior General Counsel / Avocate générale principale
> RCMP Legal Services / Services juridiques GRC
> 73 Leikin Drive / 73 Promenade Leikin
> M8, 2nd Floor / M8, 2ième étage
> Mailstop #69 / Arrêt Postal #69
> Ottawa, Ontario
> K1A 0R2
> Tel: (613) 843-4451
> Fax: (613) 825-7489
> liliana.longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>
> Sandra Lofaro
> Executive Assistant /
> Adjointe exécutive
> (613)843-3540
> sandra.lofaro@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Patrick Bouchard <patrick.bouchard@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:44:18 -0400
> Subject: Re: Fwd: RE A legal state known as "functus" Perhaps you,
> Governor General Johnston and Commissioner Paulson and many members of
> the RCMP should review pages 1 and 4 one document ASAP EH Minister
> Goodale? (AOL)
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> I will be AOL until July 6th 2017.
>
> I will not have access to Groupwise.
>
> I may be reached at my personal e-mail thebouchards15@gmail.com
> depending on data coverage.
>
> *********************************************************
>
> Je vais être en vacances jusqu'au 6 Juillet 2017.
>
> Je n'aurais pas accès a mon GroupWise.
>
> Il est possible que je vérifies mon courriel personnel
> thebouchards15@gmail.com de temps à autre.
>
> Cpl.Patrick Bouchard
> RSC 5 RCMP-GRC
> Sunny-Corner Detachment
> English/Français
> Off: 506-836-6015
> Cell : 506-424-0071
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Washington Field" <washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>,
> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2016 5:13 PM
> To: "David Amos" <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>,
> Subject: RE: Attn Cst Paul Lynch RE Federal Court File no T-1557-15
> and your continued support of Barry Winters and his malevolent cohorts
> for one year since you first contacted me.
>
> The FBI Washington Field Office is in receipt of your emails. It is
> unclear as to what your complaint is. In order for us to properly
> assess your complaint, you will need to provide the following details:
> - Your name and contact information
> - Full Details about the fraud/crime and a time line of events
> - Any bio-data you have on the subject (address, email address, name, etc…)
> - Any supporting/collaborating evidence you might have about the
> crime/subject
> Upon providing the above information, the FBI, depending on the
> circumstances, may work with other federal and local agencies to
> ensure that the fraud or crime is investigated.
> Please also be advised that  the Washington Field Office FBI is
> responsible for investigating federal violations in the Washington
> D.C. metropolitan area, to include areas of Northern Virginia.  The
> FBI has 56 field offices throughout the United States, with multiple
> satellite Resident Agencies covering rural areas related to these 56
> field offices.  If you know which state the crime/subject came from,
> please know that the complaint will be forwarded to that State’s FBI
> Field Office. Attached is a link with the contact information for each
> Field Office: http://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field/listing_by_state
>
>
> Thank you for your communication.
>
>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:32:09 -0400
>> Subject: Attn Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
>> To: coi@gnb.ca
>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>
>> Good Day Sir
>>
>> After I heard you speak on CBC I called your office again and managed
>> to speak to one of your staff for the first time
>>
>> Please find attached the documents I promised to send to the lady who
>> answered the phone this morning. Please notice that not after the Sgt
>> at Arms took the documents destined to your office his pal Tanker
>> Malley barred me in writing with an "English" only document.
>>
>> These are the hearings and the dockets in Federal Court that I
>> suggested that you study closely.
>>
>> This is the docket in Federal Court
>>
>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=T-1557-15&select_court=T
>>
>> These are digital recordings of  the last three hearings
>>
>> Dec 14th https://archive.org/details/BahHumbug
>>
>> January 11th, 2016 https://archive.org/details/Jan11th2015
>>
>> April 3rd, 2017
>>
>> https://archive.org/details/April32017JusticeLeblancHearing
>>
>>
>> This is the docket in the Federal Court of Appeal
>>
>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=A-48-16&select_court=All
>>
>>
>> The only hearing thus far
>>
>> May 24th, 2017
>>
>> https://archive.org/details/May24thHoedown
>>
>>
>> This Judge understnds the meaning of the word Integrity
>>
>> Date: 20151223
>>
>> Docket: T-1557-15
>>
>> Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 23, 2015
>>
>> PRESENT:        The Honourable Mr. Justice Bell
>>
>> BETWEEN:
>>
>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>>
>> Plaintiff
>>
>> and
>>
>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>>
>> Defendant
>>
>> ORDER
>>
>> (Delivered orally from the Bench in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on
>> December 14, 2015)
>>
>> The Plaintiff seeks an appeal de novo, by way of motion pursuant to
>> the Federal Courts Rules (SOR/98-106), from an Order made on November
>> 12, 2015, in which Prothonotary Morneau struck the Statement of Claim
>> in its entirety.
>>
>> At the outset of the hearing, the Plaintiff brought to my attention a
>> letter dated September 10, 2004, which he sent to me, in my then
>> capacity as Past President of the New Brunswick Branch of the Canadian
>> Bar Association, and the then President of the Branch, Kathleen Quigg,
>> (now a Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal).  In that letter
>> he stated:
>>
>> As for your past President, Mr. Bell, may I suggest that you check the
>> work of Frank McKenna before I sue your entire law firm including you.
>> You are your brother’s keeper.
>>
>> Frank McKenna is the former Premier of New Brunswick and a former
>> colleague of mine at the law firm of McInnes Cooper. In addition to
>> expressing an intention to sue me, the Plaintiff refers to a number of
>> people in his Motion Record who he appears to contend may be witnesses
>> or potential parties to be added. Those individuals who are known to
>> me personally, include, but are not limited to the former Prime
>> Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper; former
>> Attorney General of Canada and now a Justice of the Manitoba Court of
>> Queen’s Bench, Vic Toews; former member of Parliament Rob Moore;
>> former Director of Policing Services, the late Grant Garneau; former
>> Chief of the Fredericton Police Force, Barry McKnight; former Staff
>> Sergeant Danny Copp; my former colleagues on the New Brunswick Court
>> of Appeal, Justices Bradley V. Green and Kathleen Quigg, and, retired
>> Assistant Commissioner Wayne Lang of the Royal Canadian Mounted
>> Police.
>>
>> In the circumstances, given the threat in 2004 to sue me in my
>> personal capacity and my past and present relationship with many
>> potential witnesses and/or potential parties to the litigation, I am
>> of the view there would be a reasonable apprehension of bias should I
>> hear this motion. See Justice de Grandpré’s dissenting judgment in
>> Committee for Justice and Liberty et al v National Energy Board et al,
>> [1978] 1 SCR 369 at p 394 for the applicable test regarding
>> allegations of bias. In the circumstances, although neither party has
>> requested I recuse myself, I consider it appropriate that I do so.
>>
>>
>> AS A RESULT OF MY RECUSAL, THIS COURT ORDERS that the Administrator of
>> the Court schedule another date for the hearing of the motion.  There
>> is no order as to costs.
>>
>> “B. Richard Bell”
>> Judge
>>
>>
>> Below after the CBC article about your concerns (I made one comment
>> already) you will find the text of just two of many emails I had sent
>> to your office over the years since I first visited it in 2006.
>>
>>  I noticed that on July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the  the Court
>> Martial Appeal Court of Canada  Perhaps you should scroll to the
>> bottom of this email ASAP and read the entire Paragraph 83  of my
>> lawsuit now before the Federal Court of Canada?
>>
>> "FYI This is the text of the lawsuit that should interest Trudeau the
>> most
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original message ----------
>> From: justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca
>> Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:18 PM
>> Subject: Réponse automatique : RE My complaint against the CROWN in
>> Federal Court Attn David Hansen and Peter MacKay If you planning to
>> submit a motion for a publication ban on my complaint trust that you
>> dudes are way past too late
>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>
>> Veuillez noter que j'ai changé de courriel. Vous pouvez me rejoindre à
>> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>>
>> Pour rejoindre le bureau de M. Trudeau veuillez envoyer un courriel à
>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>>
>> Please note that I changed email address, you can reach me at
>> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>>
>> To reach the office of Mr. Trudeau please send an email to
>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Merci ,
>>
>>
>> http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2015/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
>>
>>
>> 83.  The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war
>> in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation to
>> allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over
>> five years after he began his bragging:
>>
>> January 13, 2015
>> This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate
>>
>> December 8, 2014
>> Why Canada Stood Tall!
>>
>> Friday, October 3, 2014
>> Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And
>> Stupid Justin Trudeau
>>
>> Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide
>> behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
>>
>> When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean Chretien
>> actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second campaign
>> in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or contrary to
>> the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were
>> involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There were
>> significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the dearth
>> of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for
>> operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “last minute”
>> Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its mind.
>> The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not
>> deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a
>> Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins to
>> redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was
>> less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq. But
>> alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister Chretien’s
>> then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s
>> incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic,
>> professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle
>> Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway
>> campaign of 2006.
>>
>> What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that then
>> Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the
>> Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice, consent,
>> support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament.
>>
>> What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and babbling
>> chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment of
>> less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by planners
>> as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a
>> deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make.
>>
>> The Canadian Government or The Crown unlike our amerkan cousins have
>> the “constitutional authority” to commit the Canadian nation to war.
>> That has been recently clearly articulated to the Canadian public by
>> constitutional scholar Phillippe Legasse. What Parliament can do is
>> remove “confidence” in The Crown’s Government in a “vote of
>> non-confidence.” That could not happen to the Chretien Government
>> regarding deployment to Afghanistan, and it won’t happen in this
>> instance with the conservative majority in The Commons regarding a
>> limited Canadian deployment to the Middle East.
>>
>> President George Bush was quite correct after 911 and the terror
>> attacks in New York; that the Taliban “occupied” and “failed state”
>> Afghanistan was the source of logistical support, command and control,
>> and training for the Al Quaeda war of terror against the world. The
>> initial defeat, and removal from control of Afghanistan was vital and
>>
>> P.S. Whereas this CBC article is about your opinion of the actions of
>> the latest Minister Of Health trust that Mr Boudreau and the CBC have
>> had my files for many years and the last thing they are is ethical.
>> Ask his friends Mr Murphy and the RCMP if you don't believe me.
>>
>> Subject:
>> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:02:35 -0400
>> From: "Murphy, Michael B. \(DH/MS\)" MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca
>> To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>
>> January 30, 2007
>>
>> WITHOUT PREJUDICE
>>
>> Mr. David Amos
>>
>> Dear Mr. Amos:
>>
>> This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29,
>> 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP.
>>
>> Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have
>> taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve
>> Graham of the RCMP “J” Division in Fredericton.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Honourable Michael B. Murphy
>> Minister of Health
>>
>> CM/cb
>>
>>
>> Warren McBeath warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote:
>>
>> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500
>> From: "Warren McBeath" warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>> To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca,
>> nada.sarkis@gnb.ca, wally.stiles@gnb.ca, dwatch@web.net,
>> motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>> CC: ottawa@chuckstrahl.com, riding@chuckstrahl.com,John.Foran@gnb.ca,
>> Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,"Bev BUSSON" bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>> "Paul Dube" PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>> Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has
>> forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have not
>>
>> Dear Mr. Amos,
>>
>> Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off
>> over the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured I
>> was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
>>
>> As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our position
>> is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
>> testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the
>> Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
>> services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
>> instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
>>
>> As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
>> imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear
>> that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada
>> the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment
>> and policing in Petitcodiac, NB.
>>
>> It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on
>> December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
>>
>>  Sincerely,
>>
>> Warren McBeath, Cpl.
>> GRC Caledonia RCMP
>> Traffic Services NCO
>> Ph: (506) 387-2222
>> Fax: (506) 387-4622
>> E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>
>>
>>
>> Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
>> Office of the Integrity Commissioner
>> Edgecombe House, 736 King Street
>> Fredericton, N.B. CANADA E3B 5H1
>> tel.: 506-457-7890
>> fax: 506-444-5224
>> e-mail:coi@gnb.ca
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:35 AM
>> Subject: RE My complaint against the CROWN in Federal Court Attn David
>> Hansen and Peter MacKay If you planning to submit a motion for a
>> publication ban on my complaint trust that you dudes are way past too
>> late
>> To: David.Hansen@justice.gc.ca, "peter.mackay"
>> <peter.mackay@justice.gc.ca>,
>> "peacock.kurt" <peacock.kurt@telegraphjournal.com>, "mclaughlin.heather"
>> <
>> mclaughlin.heather@dailygleaner.com>, "david.akin"
>> <david.akin@sunmedia.ca>,
>> "robert.frater" <robert.frater@justice.gc.ca>,
>> paul.riley@ppsc-sppc.gc.ca,
>> greg@gregdelbigio.com, joyce.dewitt-vanoosten@gov.bc.ca,
>> joan.barrett@ontario.ca, jean-vincent.lacroix@gouv.qc.ca,
>> peter.rogers@mcinnescooper.com, mfeder@mccarthy.ca, mjamal@osler.com
>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, gopublic
>> <gopublic@cbc.ca>,
>> Whistleblower <Whistleblower@ctv.ca>
>>
>>
>> https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/14439/index.do
>>
>> http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/WebDocuments-DocumentsWeb/35072/FM030_Respondent_Attorney-General-of-Canada-on-Behalf-of-the-United-States-of-America.pdf
>>
>> http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2013/10/re-glen-greenwald-and-brazilian.html
>>
>> I repeat what the Hell do I do with the Yankee wiretapes taps sell
>> them on Ebay or listen to them and argue them with you dudes in
>> Feferal Court?
>>
>> Petey Baby loses all parliamentary privelges in less than a month but
>> he still supposed to be an ethical officer of the Court CORRECT?
>>
>> Veritas Vincit
>> David Raymond Amos
>> 902 800 0369
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:10:14 -0400
>> Subject: Yo Mr Bauer say hey to your client Obama and his buddies in
>> the USDOJ for me will ya?
>> To: RBauer <RBauer@perkinscoie.com>, sshimshak@paulweiss.com,
>> cspada@lswlaw.com, msmith <msmith@svlaw.com>, bginsberg
>> <bginsberg@pattonboggs.com>, "gregory.craig"
>> <gregory.craig@skadden.com>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "bob.paulson"
>> <bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "bob.rae"
>> <bob.rae@rogers.blackberry.net>, MulcaT <MulcaT@parl.gc.ca>, leader
>> <leader@greenparty.ca>
>> Cc: alevine@cooley.com, David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>,
>> michael.rothfeld@wsj.com, remery@ecbalaw.com
>>
>> QSLS Politics
>> By Location Visit Detail
>> Visit 29,419
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>> IP Address 149.101.1.# (US Dept of Justice)
>> ISP US Dept of Justice
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>> Country : United States (Facts)
>> State : District of Columbia
>> City : Washington
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>> Visit Number 29,419
>>
>> http://qslspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/03/david-amos-to-wendy-olsen-on.html
>>
>>
>> Could ya tell I am investigating your pension plan bigtime? Its
>> because no member of the RCMP I have ever encountered has earned it yet
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:36:04 -0400
>> Subject: This is a brief as I can make my concerns Randy
>> To: randyedmunds <randyedmunds@gov.nl.ca>
>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>>
>> In a nutshell my concerns about the actions of the Investment Industry
>> affect the interests of every person in every district of every
>> country not just the USA and Canada. I was offering to help you with
>> Emera because my work with them and Danny Williams is well known and
>> some of it is over eight years old and in the PUBLIC Record.
>>
>> All you have to do is stand in the Legislature and ask the MInister of
>> Justice why I have been invited to sue Newfoundland by the
>> Conservatives
>>
>>
>> Obviously I am the guy the USDOJ and the SEC would not name who is the
>> link to Madoff and Putnam Investments
>>
>> Here is why
>>
>> http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=90f8e691-9065-4f8c-a465-72722b47e7f2
>>
>> Notice the transcripts and webcasts of the hearing of the US Senate
>> Banking Commitee are still missing? Mr Emory should at least notice
>> Eliot Spitzer and the Dates around November 20th, 2003 in the
>> following file
>>
>> http://www.checktheevidence.com/pdf/2526023-DAMOSIntegrity-yea-right.-txt.pdf
>>
>> http://occupywallst.org/users/DavidRaymondAmos/
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "Hansen, David" <David.Hansen@justice.gc.ca>
>> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 19:28:44 +0000
>> Subject: RE: I just called again Mr Hansen
>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>
>> Hello Mr. Amos,
>>
>> I manage the Justice Canada civil litigation section in the Atlantic
>> region.  We are only responsible for litigating existing civil
>> litigation files in which the Attorney General of Canada is a named
>> defendant or plaintiff.  If you are a plaintiff or defendant in an
>> existing civil litigation matter in the Atlantic region in which
>> Attorney General of Canada is a named defendant or plaintiff please
>> provide the court file number, the names of the parties in the action
>> and your question.  I am not the appropriate contact for other
>> matters.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> David A. Hansen
>> Regional Director | Directeur régional
>> General Counsel |Avocat général
>> Civil Litigation and Advisory | Contentieux des affaires civiles et
>> services de consultation
>> Department of Justice | Ministère de la Justice
>> Suite 1400 – Duke Tower | Pièce 1400 – Tour Duke
>> 5251 Duke Street | 5251 rue Duke
>> Halifax, Nova Scotia | Halifax, Nouvelle- Écosse
>> B3J 1P3
>> david.hansen@justice.gc.ca
>> Telephone | Téléphone (902) 426-3261 / Facsimile | Télécopieur (902)
>> 426-2329
>> This e-mail is confidential and may be protected by solicitor-client
>> privilege. Unauthorized distribution or disclosure is prohibited. If
>> you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us and delete
>> this entire e-mail.
>> Before printing think about the Environment
>> Thinking Green, please do not print this e-mail unless necessary.
>> Pensez vert, svp imprimez que si nécessaire.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:23:24 -0300
>>> Subject: ATTN FBI Special Agent Richard Deslauriers Have you talked to
>>> your buddies Fred Wyshak and Brian Kelly about the wiretap tapes YET?
>>> To: boston@ic.fbi.gov, washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, "bob.paulson"
>>> <bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Kevin.leahy"
>>> <Kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, Brian.Kelly@usdoj.gov,
>>> us.marshals@usdoj.gov, Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov, jcarney
>>> <jcarney@carneybassil.com>, bbachrach@bachrachlaw.net
>>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, birgittaj
>>> <birgittaj@althingi.is>, shmurphy@globe.com, Red Ice Creations
>>> <redicecreations@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> FBI Boston
>>> One Center Plaza
>>> Suite 600
>>> Boston, MA 02108
>>> Phone: (617) 742-5533
>>> Fax: (617) 223-6327
>>> E-mail: Boston@ic.fbi.gov
>>>
>>> Hours
>>> Although we operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, our normal
>>> "walk-in" business hours are from 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday
>>> through Friday. If you need to speak with a FBI representative at any
>>> time other than during normal business hours, please telephone our
>>> office at (617) 742-5533.
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:20:20 -0300
>>> Subject: Yo Fred Wyshak and Brian Kelly your buddy Whitey's trial is
>>> finally underway now correct? What the hell do I do with the wiretap
>>> tapes Sell them on Ebay?
>>> To: Brian.Kelly@usdoj.gov, us.marshals@usdoj.gov,
>>> Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov, jcarney <jcarney@carneybassil.com>,
>>> bbachrach@bachrachlaw.net, michael wolfheart
>>> <wolfheartlodge@live.com>, jonathan.albano@bingham.com,
>>> shmurphy@globe.com, mvalencia@globe.com
>>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, oldmaison
>>> <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, PATRICK.MURPHY@dhs.gov, rounappletree@aol.com
>>>
>>> http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/06/05/james-whitey-bulger-jury-selection-process-enters-second-day/KjS80ofyMMM5IkByK74bkK/story.html
>>>
>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/06/09/nsa-leak-guardian.html
>>>
>>> As the CBC etc yap about Yankee wiretaps and whistleblowers I must ask
>>> them the obvious question AIN'T THEY FORGETTING SOMETHING????
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vugUalUO8YY
>>>
>>> What the hell does the media think my Yankee lawyer served upon the
>>> USDOJ right after I ran for and seat in the 39th Parliament baseball
>>> cards?
>>>
>>> http://www.archive.org/details/FedsUsTreasuryDeptRcmpEtc
>>>
>>> http://archive.org/details/ITriedToExplainItToAllMaritimersInEarly2006
>>>
>>> http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/2006/05/wiretap-tapes-impeach-bush.html
>>>
>>> http://www.archive.org/details/PoliceSurveilanceWiretapTape139
>>>
>>> http://archive.org/details/Part1WiretapTape143
>>>
>>> FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006
>>> Senator Arlen Specter
>>> United States Senate
>>> Committee on the Judiciary
>>> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
>>> Washington, DC 20510
>>>
>>> Dear Mr. Specter:
>>>
>>> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
>>> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters
>>> raised in the attached letter.
>>>
>>> Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wire tap
>>> tapes.
>>>
>>> I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this previously.
>>>
>>> Very truly yours,
>>> Barry A. Bachrach
>>> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
>>> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
>>> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "David Amos" <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>>> To: "Rob Talach" <rtalach@ledroitbeckett.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 10:59 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Attn Robert Talach and I should talk ASAP about my suing
>>> the Catholic Church Trust that Bastarache knows why
>>>
>>> The date stamp on about page 134 of this old file of mine should mean
>>> a lot to you
>>>
>>> http://www.checktheevidence.com/pdf/2619437-CROSS-BORDER-txt-.pdf
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:37:08 -0400
>>> Subject: To Hell with the KILLER COP Gilles Moreau What say you NOW
>>> Bernadine Chapman??
>>> To: Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, phil.giles@statcan.ca,
>>> maritme_malaise@yahoo.ca, Jennifer.Nixon@ps-sp.gc.ca,
>>> bartman.heidi@psic-ispc.gc.ca, Yves.J.Marineau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>>> david.paradiso@erc-cee.gc.ca, desaulniea@smtp.gc.ca,
>>> denise.brennan@tbs-sct.gc.ca, anne.murtha@vac-acc.gc.ca, webo
>>> <webo@xplornet.com>, julie.dickson@osfi-bsif.gc.ca,
>>> rod.giles@osfi-bsif.gc.ca, flaherty.j@parl.gc.ca, toewsv1
>>> <toewsv1@parl.gc.ca>, "Nycole.Turmel" <Nycole.Turmel@parl.gc.ca>,
>>> Clemet1 <Clemet1@parl.gc.ca>, maritime_malaise
>>> <maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>, oig <oig@sec.gov>, whistleblower
>>> <whistleblower@finra.org>, whistle <whistle@fsa.gov.uk>, david
>>> <david@fairwhistleblower.ca>
>>> Cc: j.kroes@interpol.int, David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>,
>>> bernadine.chapman@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, "justin.trudeau.a1"
>>> <justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca>, "Juanita.Peddle"
>>> <Juanita.Peddle@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>,
>>> "Wayne.Lang" <Wayne.Lang@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Robert.Trevors"
>>> <Robert.Trevors@gnb.ca>, "ian.fahie" <ian.fahie@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
>>>
>>> http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/nb/news-nouvelles/media-medias-eng.htm
>>>
>>> http://nb.rcmpvet.ca/Newsletters/VetsReview/nlnov06.pdf
>>>
>>> From: Gilles Moreau <Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
>>> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:03:22 -0500
>>> Subject: Re: Lets ee if the really nasty Newfy Lawyer Danny Boy
>>> Millions will explain this email to you or your boss Vic Toews EH
>>> Constable Peddle???
>>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Please cease and desist from using my name in your emails.
>>>
>>> Gilles Moreau, Chief Superintendent, CHRP and ACC
>>> Director General
>>> HR Transformation
>>> 73 Leikin Drive, M5-2-502
>>> Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R2
>>>
>>> Tel 613-843-6039
>>> Cel 613-818-6947
>>>
>>> Gilles Moreau, surintendant principal, CRHA et ACC
>>> Directeur général de la Transformation des ressources humaines
>>> 73 Leikin, pièce M5-2-502
>>> Ottawa, ON K1A 0R2
>>>
>>> tél 613-843-6039
>>> cel 613-818-6947
>>> gilles.moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>
>


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Canadian Politics Aren’t Cute. They’re Corrupt.

The scandal surrounding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shows just how cozy the country’s elite really is.

By Jen Gerson
Ms. Gerson is a Canadian political journalist.
 
Justin Trudeau, prime minister of Canada, with his former principal secretary, Gerald Butts, last year.CreditCreditJustin Tang/Associated Press
CALGARY, Alberta — There is a particularly quaint element to Canada — our smallness, our politeness, our insularity — that makes many people, including many Canadians, assume the best about our country and ourselves. As if these qualities make us inherently purer than other, more populous countries.

It’s true that Canadians are a trusting, generous lot who generally believe in the greater good, institutions and the rule of law. Consequently, the country is prone to imagining itself more bound by a mythology of its own goodness than it actually is. But there’s a darker side to Canada’s smallness. Our tiny network of political, business and intellectual elite is insular and concentrated.

The scandal now enveloping Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — a bilingual, feminist, pro-multicultural liberal who embodies much of what we like to celebrate in our national character — should put an end to this.

At its heart, the SNC-Lavalin scandal that threatens Mr. Trudeau’s leadership is about political interference in our judicial system. The Globe and Mail first reported in early February that last fall, the prime minister and his office pressured Jody Wilson-Raybould, then the justice minister and attorney general, to seek a Deferred Prosecution Agreement, which is equivalent to a plea bargain, for SNC-Lavalin, a politically well-connected civil engineering firm based in Montreal.

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SNC-Lavalin has been at the center of corruption scandals for decades. (In 2013, the World Bank debarred the company and more than 100 of its affiliates for 10 years, single-handedly putting Canada at the top of the bank’s corruption list.) In this latest scandal, the company faces criminal charges for bribing Libyan officials, including Muammar el-Qaddafi’s son, with millions of dollars to secure contracts in Libya.

The Deferred Prosecution Agreement would permit SNC-Lavalin to avoid criminal prosecution, allowing it to continue to bid for domestic government contracts. Without this, the company might face existential peril.

The only person in Mr. Trudeau’s cabinet who seemed to push back was Ms. Wilson-Raybould. In January, she was put in charge of the veterans affairs ministry, effectively a demotion.

Last week, she went public, speaking before a House of Commons committee about the pressure she’d been under to cut a deal with SNC-Lavalin. For hours, she delivered extensive testimony, citing notes and texts, detailing inappropriate levels of political interference in a criminal proceeding.

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Her account was impossible to reconcile with Mr. Trudeau’s previous flat denials. The prime minister and his defenders have come across as weak and dishonest, more interested in protecting a Quebec-based corporation than in the independence of the judiciary. His government is now in chaos. On Monday, one of his key cabinet ministers, Jane Philpott, resigned, saying she had “lost confidence in how the government has dealt with this matter and in how it has responded to the issues raised.”

Mr. Trudeau came to power in 2015 on the promise of a new, revitalized Liberal Party, removed from the stale old boys’ club of yore. The party, though it imagines itself as representing the quintessential ideals of Canadiana, has a long track record of corruption and chicanery, particularly in Quebec.
With an electoral base in the country’s most heavily populated regions, like Quebec, the Liberals have enjoyed many decades in power. It is not without merit that they are referred to, derisively, as Canada’s Natural Governing Party.

Power brings with it certain habits. This is true everywhere, but in a democratic country with a population the size of California spread across a gigantic landmass, influence runs in a geographic network that we describe in shorthand as the Laurentian Elite, after the St. Lawrence River that runs through eastern Canada. Mr. Trudeau, the son of former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, is very much a creature of this elite.

And so is SNC-Lavalin. Not just any company gets its calls taken by the prime minister’s office. Founded in 1911, SNC-Lavalin is a crown jewel in the Quebec corporate firmament. The company’s lobbyists have long ties in both Conservative and Liberal governments. Its lawyers include a former Supreme Court justice. A retired senior federal official is on its board. One of its corporate directors also sits on the board of the Trudeau Foundation. Quebec’s public pension funds own about 20 percent of SNC-Lavalin’s shares.

The decision about SNC-Lavalin’s case was being made in the lead-up to Quebec’s Oct. 1 provincial election — and that was apparently on the prime minister’s mind. According to Ms. Wilson-Raybould’s testimony, senior staff members from Mr. Trudeau’s office said the company was threatening to relocate to London if it did not get the plea deal. One such staffer, she said, told her “if they don’t get a D.P.A., they will leave Montreal, and it’s the Quebec election right now, so we can’t have that happen.”

Ms. Wilson-Raybould recounted a conversation with Mr. Trudeau: “At that point the prime minister jumped in, stressing that there is an election in Quebec and that ‘I am an M.P. in Quebec — the member for Papineau,’” she said. When she asked if he was trying to override her independence as attorney general, she said, the prime minister replied, “‘No, no, no, we just need to find a solution.’ ”

Ms. Wilson-Raybould was the first First Nations person to be appointed justice minister. She is a member of Parliament from Vancouver, British Columbia, to boot. By virtue of this background, she is not someone who has been historically well represented in the cozy corridors of Canadian power. Why should she care about SNC-Lavalin? Why would she stake her independence and her reputation on the company’s survival?

It’s no coincidence that she was replaced at the justice ministry by David Lametti, a member of Parliament from Montreal who even now has not ruled out saving SNC-Lavalin with a Deferred Prosecution Agreement. The rule of law is a very grand Canadian virtue until, it seems, it proves to be a barrier to Liberal electoral prospects in Quebec. It is a small country, after all.
Jen Gerson (@JenGerson), a contributing editor to Maclean’s magazine who writes regularly for the CBC and The Walrus, is a co-host of the Canadian politics podcast “Oppo.”
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Correction: 
An earlier version of this article used an erroneous comparison to describe Canada's land area. Canada is a little more than half the size of Russia; it does not have the same area.
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Oh, Trudeau.

Charm will not extricate Canada’s Justin Trudeau from a spreading political mess. Only honest answers will.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada is embroiled in a scandal involving accusations of back-room deal-making and bullying tactics, all to support a Canadian company accused of bribing the Libyan government.CreditCreditJason Alden/Bloomberg
Justin Trudeau came to office in 2015 by the high road, exuding charm, confidence, integrity and an openness to change. He filled his cabinet with women and minorities, opened Canada’s doors to immigrants and posed for endless selfies with adoring crowds. But in politics the fresher the face, the more obvious the blemishes.

With seven months to go before Canada’s next national election, the prime minister is embroiled in a political scandal that his charm cannot wipe away. Two members of his cabinet, both prominent women, have resigned, as has his closest adviser, and unless he can convince the public — and do so soon — that he really did nothing wrong in trying to head off the criminal prosecution of a big Montreal-based company, the damage will only get more serious.

The crisis unfolded after The Globe and Mail newspaper reported on Feb. 7 that Jody Wilson-Raybould, Mr. Trudeau’s former justice minister and attorney general, had come under improper pressure from the prime minister’s office to reach a negotiated settlement with a multinational engineering firm, SNC-Lavalin, instead of prosecuting it on criminal charges it faces over its business dealings in Libya. Conviction would bar it from government contracts for a decade.

The case centers on accusations that SNC-Lavalin paid 47.7 million Canadian dollars in bribes to officials in Libya to win contracts there, and defrauded the Libyan government and its agencies of 129.8 million Canadian dollars. Libya at the time was led by the dictator Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

In the fallout that followed, Ms. Wilson-Raybould resigned from the cabinet, and in testimony to a parliamentary committee last week she described how Mr. Trudeau and his staff had pressed her not to prosecute the firm, citing the company’s threat to slash thousands of jobs or leave Canada entirely. Mr. Trudeau reportedly told her that the loss of those jobs would hurt the ruling Liberal Party in future elections. Of course, companies facing litigation, taxation or other costs of doing business often make such threats.

Then on Monday another high-profile government minister, Jane Philpott, abruptly resigned as president of the Treasury Board, saying she had lost confidence in the Trudeau government’s handling of the affair. “I must abide by my core values, my ethical responsibilities and constitutional obligations,” Ms. Philpott said in a letter to the prime minister. “There can be a cost to acting on one’s principles, but there is a bigger cost to abandoning them.”

All along, Mr. Trudeau has denied doing anything wrong. He acknowledges that he spoke to Ms. Wilson-Raybould about the SNC-Lavalin case but argues that the discussions were well within the bounds of the rules. His defenders note that charges were not dropped against the company and that a prime minister should show concern about the potential loss of 9,000 jobs. The issue, moreover, was never about dropping charges, but about allowing the firm to pay a fine instead of facing a criminal prosecution.

Looked at from south of the Canadian border, the entire matter may seem trivial alongside any of the many accusations levied at President Trump, or of the pressures routinely applied by politicians on behalf of powerful companies.

But in Canada, the tangled SNC-Lavalin affair is unavoidably measured against the expectations Mr. Trudeau raised and the standards he set. For him to be accused by two prominent women from his team of violating the high ethical bar he himself set is a major blow, at the least to his brand.

Mr. Trudeau is not likely to be compelled to resign over the issue. But the degree of political damage he sustains, and how the scandal affects the October elections, depend on whether he can convince Canadians, in an open venue and in detail, that he did no wrong.


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