Why do so many new judges have personal connections to Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc?
The
federal Liberals promised to appoint new judges based on merit. But
recent judicial appointees have had significant personal connections to
senior New Brunswick Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc. The CBC's Robert Jones
has been looking at this story. 8:52
Federal
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc, a New Brunswick MP,
is connected to five of the six most recent judicial appointments in
the province. (Matt Smith/Canadian Press)
Federal Liberals have been promising to appoint the "most
meritorious jurists" to judicial vacancies across Canada, but most
candidates winning judicial appointments in New Brunswick over the last
year have had something else going for them — personal connections to
senior Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc.
Five of the last six federal
appointments announced in New Brunswick include Leblanc's neighbour,
a LeBlanc family relation and three lawyers who helped retire debts from
his unsuccessful 2008 leadership bid. LeBlanc is currently minister of
intergovernmental affairs, northern affairs and internal trade.
Erin
Crandall, a professor at Acadia University who has written extensively
on the politics of judicial appointments in Canada, said patronage is
still a significant force in provinces like New Brunswick, despite
reforms to curb its use in the selection of judges.
"It's more prominent in smaller provinces," Crandall said.
Erin Crandall, a professor at Acadia University, says patronage is still
a significant force in provinces like New Brunswick. (Acadia
University)
"It's
less of an issue today than it was, for example, five decades ago, when
it was much more blatant. But we can still see that it certainly does
happen."
5 appointments
In the latest judicial
appointments in New Brunswick announced last month, federal Justice
Minister David Lametti named Moncton lawyer Robert M. Dysart and Saint
John lawyer Arthur T. Doyle to the trial division of the Court of
Queen's Bench.
Moncton
lawyer Robert Dysart was named to the trial division of Court of
Queen's Bench in June. He is a regular donor to the Liberal Party,
according to Elections Canada records. (CBC)
Saint John lawyer Arthur Doyle was appointed to the trial division of the Court of Queen's Bench in June. (Cox & Palmer)
The
two were also among a group of 50 donors who gave money in 2009 to help
LeBlanc retire about $31,000 in debts from his unsuccessful 2008
federal Liberal leadership campaign, according to records filed with
Elections Canada.
Also helping with that leadership debt was lawyer Charles LeBlond and businessman Jacques Pinet, both from Moncton.
Charles LeBlond was appointed a judge of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal in March. (Michel Nogue/Radio-Canada)
LeBlond won an appointment to be a judge on the Court of Appeal in March.
Pinet
is married to Justice Tracey Deware. She was named chief justice of
New Brunswick's Court of Queen's Bench trial division by Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau in early June.
Court
of Queen's Bench Chief Justice Tracey DeWare at her swearing-in
ceremony with New Brunswick Court of Appeal Chief Justice Marc Richard. (Submitted by Tracey DeWare)
DeWare
herself was a Conservative Party donor and originally appointed to the
bench in 2012 by the Conservative government of Stephen Harper. But she
and Pinet are also neighbours of LeBlanc.
In 2013, they bought a
seaside property in Grande-Digue from LeBlanc next to his own
summerhouse. Property records show they paid $430,000.
Moncton
family lawyer Marie-Claude Belanger-Richard, who is married to Liberal
MP Dominic LeBlanc's brother-in-law, was picked to fill a judicial
vacancy in Saint John. (Veritas Law)
In
a fifth appointment last year, Moncton family lawyer Marie-Claude
Belanger-Richard was picked to fill a judicial vacancy in Saint John.
She is married to LeBlanc's brother-in-law.
Belanger-Richard is
the only one of the five justices who responded to attempts to contact
them about the string of appointments and their connection to LeBlanc.
Through a court clerk, she declined to comment.
LeBlanc's office referred questions about the judicial appointments to Lametti.
Lametti's
office declined an interview request, but his press secretary, Rachel
Rappaport, issued a statement denying favouritism and political
patronage in any of the New Brunswick appointments.
"All judicial
appointments are made on the basis of merit," Rappaport wrote. "As with
all Canadian citizens, judicial candidates are free to engage personally
in political activities. The appointments process neither disqualifies
nor privileges an applicant on the basis of political association."
Patronage prominent in province
Several
academic studies have shown New Brunswick has traditionally owned one
of Canada's most patronage-tinged judiciaries and little has changed in
recent years, despite Liberal promises to inject more merit into the
selection system.
A 2010 study that looked at 856 judicial
appointments in Canada over a 15-year period found "major" political
connections were involved in New Brunswick appointments nearly 77 per
cent of the time — double the national average and more than five times
the rate politically connected people won federal judgeships in
provinces such as British Columbia and Ontario.
Lori Hausegger, director of Canadian Studies at Boise State University in Idaho, was one of the lead academics on that study.
Lori
Hausegger, director of Canadian Studies at Boise State University,
worked on a 2010 study that found major political connections were
involved in New Brunswick judicial appointments nearly 77 per cent of
the time. (Boise State University)
She
said the problem with judges appointed because of political connections
is not their qualifications — all potential federal judges in Canada
are vetted for competence by independent panels — it's the possibility
they use connections to take spots from better candidates.
"The
problem is whether or not that [connected] person is different from the
other ones that they didn't pick in terms of their decision-making,"
said Hausegger. "There is not a lot of transparency in the system. We
don't actually know a lot in terms of how the minister is finally
choosing."
Likely several applications for a vacancy
Canada's
Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs will not say
how many lawyers applied for the judicial positions in New Brunswick
that were eventually awarded to those connected to LeBlanc, although it
is likely there were several.
Across the country last year, it reports 257 qualified lawyers were considered for 79 vacancies.
The
commissioner will also not reveal if any of the unsuccessful candidates
in New Brunswick scored higher than the winning candidates on
assessments of their ability and qualifications to be a judge.
"Assessment
results are confidential and solely for the minister's use," Philippe
Lacasse, executive director of judicial appointments for the
commissioner, said in an email to CBC News.
"In fact, candidates themselves are not informed of the results of their assessment."
Former
justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould promised in 2016 that
improvements would be made in judicial appointments based on
transparency, merit and diversity. (Ben Nelms/CBC)
In
2016, Jody Wilson-Raybould, the justice minister at the time, promised
major improvements in the quality of how judges are selected in Canada.
"We
are committed to ensuring that we make substantive and thoughtful
appointments to the judiciary, based on the principles of openness
transparency merit and diversity," Wilson-Raybould told Parliament in
May 2016.
Since 2017, there have been 10 federal judicial
appointments or elevations in New Brunswick. In addition to the five
most recent connected to LeBlanc, at least three other appointees were
past political donors to the Liberal Party.
Robert
Jones has been a reporter and producer with CBC New Brunswick since
1990. His investigative reports on petroleum pricing in New Brunswick
won several regional and national awards and led to the adoption of
price regulation in 2006.
David R. Amos Reply to @Dave Davidson : Whatabout Why I can't reply to anyon in this thread?
David R. Amos Reply to @Mack Leigh: Methinks the lady professors must have read my emails by now N'esy Pas?
William Bruce This, ladies and gentlemen, is how the LPC rolls.
No wonder 70-plus percent of Canadians don't trust them.
Richard Sharp Reply to @William Bruce:
Actually the latest Nanos poll, still unannounced, confirms what Nanos
reported last week with the Libs pulling even with the Cons. This week,
the Libs have pulled ahead 35 to 32 (per cent)
Harper organizer appointed to bench
CBC News · Posted: Jun 27, 2006 3:05 PM AT
"New Brunswick lawyer Richard Bellhas been appointed to sit as a judge
in the Court of Queen's Bench in Moncton, in Prime Minister Stephen
Harper's first round of judicial appointments.
Bell,a lawyer in Fredericton, is a former New Brunswick co-chair of Harper's political campaigns.
The federal Tories announced the appointment in Ottawa on Tuesday.
Bell has been a lawyer for26 years and is bilingual.He alsohas an interesting political history.
A formerfederal Liberal,in 1997 he lost a controversial nomination race in the riding of Tobique-Mactaquac.
He switched to the Canadian Alliance, which later merged to become the Conservative Party of Canada.
Bell co-chaired Harper's campaign for the leadership of the new party in 2004.
He also co-chaired the party's election campaigns in New Brunswick in 2004 and 2006."
James
Risdon Ten
years or so ago, I was out of work. The most common bit of advice I got
was to go see my local politician. Everyone in northern New Brunswick
knows that the way to get a job here is to cozy up to the politicians
because nepotism is the main way to get a good-paying job.
I didn't go that route. I went back to school and got another college diploma and set up my own business.
During that time, one of my old resumes landed me a job in government by
a manager who was hiring three people. In the interview, that manager
admitted to me that two of those three people had gotten their jobs
through connections and had circumvented the normal hiring process. I
was the only person to be offered the job based on merit. The department
was rife with nepotism. I took a pass and completed my education
instead.
I've lived all over Canada and I have never seen the level of nepotism anywhere else that exists in New Brunswick.
So, no, I'm not at all surprised by this news story. It's not the exception. It's the unwritten rule.
Mark Hammer
Reply to @James
Risdon: We lived in New Brunswick for 3 years, during which time I had
the pleasure of regularly lunching with (Conservative, now retired)
Speaker of the Senate Noel Kinsella, and the other faculty members of
the university I was teaching at, and overhearing all the chit-chat. It
seemed everybody in that province knew, or was related to, everyone
else.
Several coworkers in the federal government thought they might study the
risk of nepotism in public service hiring, and made the mistake of
selecting Trois-Rivieres as their sample, learning in the process that a
substantial share of federal employees across all departments there
shared the same family name.
An American colleague conducted a number of focus groups on nepotism in
U.S. federal hiring. Much to his surprise, he found that while his
respondents were annoyed at HOW people came into the organization, after
working with them for a while, begrudgingly acknowledged that those
individuals were valuable additions.
So, while one should always strive to reduce it, sometimes you can't
avoid nepotism, sometimes you can't tell if it IS nepotism, and
sometimes nepotism, as unsavoury as it is, is not contrary to merit.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mark Hammer: Methinks you likely heard Noel Kinsella curse my name a few times N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Reply
to @James Risdon: Methinks you know as well as I that nepotism is
everywhere and it is not illegal and even if it were the Attorney
General's would never prosecute themselves or be found guilty by the
judges they appointed Furthermore what lawyer would dare to argue them
N'esy Pas?
Mack Leigh And
do we honestly believe that decisions made by these individuals would
be based on the " facts " and not the Liberal Parties " Agenda " ?? Come
on folks, open your eyes !!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mack Leigh: "Come on folks, open your eyes !!"
Why bother if you can't read the replies to your comments?
David Mccaig
Reply to @Mack Leigh:
COME ON FOLKS open your eyes, as if anything would be different or has been different under these cons in power.
James Risdon Reply to @david mccaig: And there you have it. That's exactly the kind of reasoning that leads to this nepotism.
Those who support nepotism tend to see it as a way of building loyal
teams of people who share the same vision and who can therefore work
together effectively by reducing conflict.
The sad thing is that this is actually true ... to a point.
Without the natural diversity of viewpoints that tends to arise when
people are hired on the basis of merit, teams based on nepotism become
echo chambers for those in power. These teams are so limited in their
worldview that they create their own troubles by refusing to consider
other points of view which may greatly benefit them and help them
achieve their objectives. The result of such teams is often a grandiose
plan with fatal flaws that others outside the group would have
immediately spotted.
It's tough but the left needs to learn to listen to the right and the
right needs to do the same with the left. True diversity is not about
skin colour and gender. It is about considering and respecting other
viewpoints.
David Mccaig
Reply to @James Risdon:
"AS IF the government in power are to appoint people to positions of
influence that are trying to undermine their positions of power."
THAT'S THE REALITY OF POLITICS , always has been always will be. Get over it.
David R. Amos
Reply to @James Risdon: I agree Methinks amazing things never cease N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @david mccaig: "Get over it."
Nay not I
David R. Amos Reply
to @James Risdon: Yea Right Did you listen to my point of view during
the last provincial election that we both ran in? You know as well as I
that your Politcal Party leader has watched me argue Liberal and
Conservative appointed judges in Federal Court He has enjoyed watching
me argue the liberal appointed cronies during 3 EUB Hearings thus far.
One of the EUB Commissioners i none other than John Herron the turncoat
dude I ran against in 2004 Methinks every lawyer and politician in New
Brunswick knows that N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Surprise Surprise Surprise
Mark
(Junkman) George
Reply to @David R. Amos:
Not really.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mark
(Junkman) George: Methinks you may know that if you go to my blog you
can read the Globe and Mail article from 2015 N'esy Pas?
Donald Smith Why am I not surprised to see this. But honestly, is it really any different with any other political party ?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Donald Smith: Check Harper's work
William Bruce I need to have a shower after reading this article....
David R. Amos
Reply to @William Bruce: Me Too
Jack R. Kimball: Liberals - Nepotism
David R. AmosReply to @Jack R. Kimball: Methinks Nepotism.is a common term justifiably applied to all political parties N'esy Pas?
April Wong This surprised you? Welcome to Canada. Your democratic government hard at work for its donors!
David R. Amos Reply to @April Wong: Methinks many a true word is said in jest N'esy Pas?
David Kirby This is the Liberals it is there way of being
David Magner (YYC) Reply to @david kirby:
... same goes for the Cons. Time to try a third party federally.
David R. Amos Reply to @David Magner (YYC): Methinks its high time to rid ourselves of all political parties N'esy Pas?
Capilano P. Dunbar This
certainly validates JWR and her contention of undue interference. It’s
shocking and shows far from running a government that is more open
transparent and less partisan Justin Trudeau is a hyper-partisan
individual who places the Liberal party as his highest priority and
greatest loyalty!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Capilano P. Dunbar: Methinks everybody knows that lawyer played the wicked game just like all the rest N'esy Pas?
Murray Brown This
story that displays obvious back room politics as normal, will never
make it to the national portion of this website and frankly.... I'm
surprised it's appeared regionally. But thank you Robert Jones for
actually doing some 'investigative' journalism. Mentioning Judy will
send this regional story to the dustbin of the CBC vault, but your
efforts are appreciated.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Murray Brown: Too Too Funny
David R. Amos Reply to @Murray Brown: You are correct this is just merely decent local gossip
Methinks many political pundits understand i I giggle to myself every
time I crossed paths with Mr Jones Ihave been leading him and hi cohort
down the garden path of good and Evil since 2002 while they continue to
ignore me N'esy Pas?
Mack Leigh
What a corrupt province we live in !! NB where it is not what you know , but who you - - - - !!!!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Methinks its the same all over the world N'esy Pas?
David Peters
"...only
one of the five justices who responded to attempts to contact them
about the string of appointments and their connection to Dominic
LeBlanc. Through a court clerk she declined to comment."
Blatant corruption, imo.
Elections and short term limits for Judges, Police Chiefs, Crown Prosecutors and City Managers would end this fiasco.
David R. Amos
Reply to @David Peters: Nope
Lenny Griever
You politicians are a lovely lot!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Lenny Griever: YUP
Robert
Brannen "Since
2017, there have been 10 federal judicial appointments or elevations in
New Brunswick. In addition to the five most recent connected to Dominic
LeBlanc, at least three other appointees were past political donors to
the Liberal Party." -- CBC story.
____________________________________
A moot point, as any lawyer hoping to be raised to the judiciary will
be donating to any party with the chance of holding power; as is the
case of most businesses hoping to curry favour from government.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Robert
Brannen: Methinks folks should review the Globe and Mail article in 2015
about how Harper appointed a legion of politically vetted judges.
Methinks wo Judges who are bigtime Harper pals I encountered in Federal
Court immediately after the election of the 42nd Parliament will never
forget me. One was the former RCMP lawyer Richard Bell who was Harper's
campaign manager in NB for the elections of the 38th and 39th Parliament
and Richard Southcott Irving Ship Building's former General Counsel and
they were much in the news until the liberals paid off Admiral Norman
N'esy Pas?
Josephgallant Oh No! say it isn't so, not in newbrunsick, but then again,they are not all from moncton
David R. Amos
Reply to @josephgallant: Methinks our circus is a traveling roadshow N'esy Pas?
Larry LeBlanc Ok
folks...move along, just a fender bender, nothing to see here. Careful
not to slip, the road is a bit greasy from the oil spill.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Larry LeBlanc: Methinks you jest just enough about your distant cousin N'esy Pas?
Larry LeBlanc
Reply to @David R. Amos: Sarcasm eludes you David...Loch N'esy Pas
David R. Amos
Reply to @Larry LeBlanc: Methinks I struck a nerve N'esy Pas?
Greg Williams I
remember reading a "similar" type article a few years back commenting
on how many of Peter McKay's friends ended up Boarding the Judicial
Patronage Train!
Donald Craig
Reply to @Greg Williams: and it turned out that MacKay didnt appoint any of them. it was just NDP spin.
Donald Craig Reply
to @David R. Amos: Im not sure what a relevance a CBC link has.
amazingly I read the truth about this in the Globe & Mail.
Richard Sharp The
Cons' war room must be going snake. Nanos last week and today has the
Libs pulling even and now ahead by three points, 35% to 32%. I'm
almost teary eyed.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Richard Sharp: Me Too cause i a dying laughing at you and the circus
Gord Gundersen Reply
to @Richard Sharp: CBC poll tracker has the Conservative @35%, Libs
@30%, which as Eric likes to say is an average of all ms polls.
Donald Craig
Reply to @Richard
Sharp: lol seems ironic that at the same time the CBC poll has Cons
virtually tied with Libs among visible minorities. LOL the landslide is a
certainty. and teary eyed? you will need the largest crying towel ever
made.
Richard Sharp The
Trudeau Libs promised and delivered on new merit-based and transparent
government appointments, and have delivered. For the Senate, the
Supreme Court and judiciary and senior executives in the public service.
Lyle Middaugh
Reply to @Richard Sharp:
Wink wink
Gary Reid Reply to @Richard Sharp: That is just plain false.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Gary Reid: He knows it
Richard Sharp
CBC,
the National Post, Post Media/Sun News, Rogers and other anti-Trudeau
media take note. The Trudeau Libs have pulled back ahead of the Cons:
Reply to @Richard Sharp: take note. I cant stop laughing.
Richard Sharp
Reply to @donald craig:
Forty-nine of the top 50 English newspapers endorsed Harper in 2011 and
the same thing in 2015. They are bought and paid for by right wing
billionaires and corporations, which are also into social media
manipulation big time. Still, they lose.
Donald Craig
Reply to @Richard
Sharp: I cant stop laughing. nothing you say or have ever said is going
to stop the coming October landslide. nothing.
David R. Amos
Reply to @donald craig: Nor I
Richard Sharp Watching CBC Newsworld on this issue. Only anti-Trudeau folks over and over. CBC is a total disgrace.
Kristy Kent
Reply to @Richard Sharp: LOL, even the CBC can't take it any more
David Semple
Reply to @Richard Sharp: It's a growing group.......deal with it.
Rick Woodcock
Reply to @Richard Sharp: The sand must be pretty deep where you are at.
Freddie Philpott
Reply to @Richard
Sharp: But you are here, Richard. JT's biggest cheerleader. So it isn't
"Only anti-Trudeau folks over and over".
Shawn Gall
Reply to @Richard
Sharp: Same as during the last election. But, now the tables have
turned. How does it feel? I had no idea JT would melt down this
quickly.
David R. Amos Reply to @Richard Sharp: Methinks its wicked fun watching the clowns cry as the worm turns at the circus N'esy Pas?
Richard Sharp Can't say beans on this disgusting excuse of a national broadcaster's website.
Al Kennedy
Reply to @Richard Sharp:
Think it may be their efforts to stop fake news?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Richard Sharp: Cry me a river
Marguerite Deschamps As if the CONservatives do not appoint their own. Does Vic Toews ring a bell?
David Semple Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Wasn't the current government supposed to be different?
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Try and stay on point: The CURRENT government is doing this NOW.
You don't get a pass because 'the other guys did it first'.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David Semple: Cons were the worst, always have, always will be.
David Semple
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: The current group promised to be better and different.
Seems like they told a little white one.....
Freddie Philpott
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: LOL! Wilful blindness on your part is a terrible thing, isn't it.
Freddie Philpott
Reply to @David Semple: Seems like the libs always do that and so many are gullible enough to believe them.
Donald Craig
Reply to @Freddie Philpott: I dont think that she will "see" your point.
Shawn Gall
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: When Harper did these things, social media went insane. Now
that JT does them, it's acceptable. His gov't was supposed to be
different and all gov'ts need to live by the same standard. Pretty
rational and fair point of view, don't you think?
MacKay was appointed attorney general and justice minister in 2013. Since then, he's made provincial Supreme Court justices of:
Josh Arnold, a friend who served as best man at MacKay's 2012 wedding.
He was also a regular financial donor to the Central Nova Progressive
Conservative Association from 2008 to 2010.
Cindy Cormier, Arnold's wife and a friend of MacKay's.
James Chipman, a past president of the Conservative Party's Halifax West
riding association and regular donor to the Central Nova Conservative
Association from 2008 to 2010.
Ted Scanlan, a past president of the Central Nova riding association and
a former campaign manager for Elmer MacKay, Peter MacKay's father.
Jeffrey Hunt, former executive vice-president of the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Association.
LouAnn Chiasson, a colleague of MacKay's at the Dalhousie Law School
David R. Amos Reply
to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you SANB dudes should continue to
cry a river cuz its fun to watch at the circus N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @David Semple: "Seems like they told a little white one"
Methinks they told a lot of big fat ones N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @David Semple: "You don't get a pass because 'the other guys did it first""
I concur.
Andrew De Viseer Reply
to @Marguerite Deschamps: No one is denying that, This article is about
calling out the hyprocritical stance the liberals are taking.
Andrew De Viseer
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: well at least 6 of 9 is a better ration than 5/6 haha
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From: David Amos Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 06:03:47 -0400 Subject: Re: Attn Erin Crandall and Lori Hausegger YO Chucky Lebanc Dominic Methinks the lady professors and the SANB dudes in his riding must have read my emails by now N'esy Pas? To: oldmaison@yahoo.com, andre@jafaust.com, jbosnitch@gmail.com, Kevin.A.Arseneau@gnb.ca, erin.crandall@acadiau.ca, lorihausegger@boisestate.edu, sfine@globeandmail.com, Newsroom@globeandmail.com, Robert.Jones@cbc.ca, David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca, jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca, Norman.Sabourin@cjc-ccm.gc.ca, marc.giroux@fja-cmf.gc.ca Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com, dominic.leblanc.c1@parl.gc.ca, dominic.leblanc@nb.aibn.com, dominic.leblanc@parl.gc.ca, dleblanc@globeandmail.com, Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca, Jane.Philpott@parl.gc.ca, Erin.Weir@parl.gc.ca, tony.clement@parl.gc.ca, Hunter.Tootoo@parl.gc.ca, andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca, maxime.bernier@parl.gc.ca, Mark.Blakely@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Methinks it was an interesting Yap Session you had with the arsehole you can't name correctly who is the former SANB President. BTW that arsehole is the dude who was barred from the Legilature for speaking from the gallery not me. It High Tme that you et your bullshit stories straight EH Chucky Baby?
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Obviously you talked to Judge Richard Bell not long after you came to the circus in Federal Court N'esy Pas?
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David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos Replying to @DavidRayAmos @alllibertynews and 49 others Methinks we have nobody to blame but ourselves because we keep reelecting the same crooks N'esy Pas?
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Mo Bennett what else wood you expect from a politician?
David R. Amos Reply to @mo bennett: YO MO Check the most liked comments and enjoy
Mack Leigh Equal opportunity here in NB ?? Nope, not by a long shot...nepotism and patronage reign supreme !!! No wonder NB is in the toilet !!!
Greg Miller Reply to @Mack Leigh: And it's been a long time since it was FLUSHED!
David R. Amos Content disabled Reply to @Mack Leigh: Methinks we have nobody to blame but ourselves because we keep reelecting the same crooks N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Content disabled Reply to @Mack Leigh: "Content disabled"
Oh My My
Mike Banton Reply to @Mack Leigh: The NERVE of Liberals to act Like Conservatives, I tell ya!
David R. Amos Reply to @Dave Davidson : Whatabout Why I can't reply to anyon in this thread?
David R. Amos Reply to @Mack Leigh: Methinks the lady professors must have read my emails by now N'esy Pas?
William Bruce This, ladies and gentlemen, is how the LPC rolls. No wonder 70-plus percent of Canadians don't trust them.
Richard Sharp Reply to @William Bruce:
Actually the latest Nanos poll, still unannounced, confirms what Nanos reported last week with the Libs pulling even with the Cons. This week, the Libs have pulled ahead 35 to 32 (per cent)
http://blog.338canada.com/
David R. Amos Reply to @Richard Sharp: Methinks you love pounding on that dumb drum to the same old tune N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Reply to @William Bruce: Methinks you forgot the Conservatives roll in exactly the same fashion N'esy Pas?
Harper organizer appointed to bench CBC News · Posted: Jun 27, 2006 3:05 PM AT
"New Brunswick lawyer Richard Bellhas been appointed to sit as a judge in the Court of Queen's Bench in Moncton, in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's first round of judicial appointments.
Bell,a lawyer in Fredericton, is a former New Brunswick co-chair of Harper's political campaigns.
The federal Tories announced the appointment in Ottawa on Tuesday.
Bell has been a lawyer for26 years and is bilingual.He alsohas an interesting political history.
A formerfederal Liberal,in 1997 he lost a controversial nomination race in the riding of Tobique-Mactaquac.
He switched to the Canadian Alliance, which later merged to become the Conservative Party of Canada.
Bell co-chaired Harper's campaign for the leadership of the new party in 2004.
He also co-chaired the party's election campaigns in New Brunswick in 2004 and 2006."
James Risdon Ten years or so ago, I was out of work. The most common bit of advice I got was to go see my local politician. Everyone in northern New Brunswick knows that the way to get a job here is to cozy up to the politicians because nepotism is the main way to get a good-paying job.
I didn't go that route. I went back to school and got another college diploma and set up my own business.
During that time, one of my old resumes landed me a job in government by a manager who was hiring three people. In the interview, that manager admitted to me that two of those three people had gotten their jobs through connections and had circumvented the normal hiring process. I was the only person to be offered the job based on merit. The department was rife with nepotism. I took a pass and completed my education instead.
I've lived all over Canada and I have never seen the level of nepotism anywhere else that exists in New Brunswick.
So, no, I'm not at all surprised by this news story. It's not the exception. It's the unwritten rule.
Mark Hammer Reply to @James Risdon: We lived in New Brunswick for 3 years, during which time I had the pleasure of regularly lunching with (Conservative, now retired) Speaker of the Senate Noel Kinsella, and the other faculty members of the university I was teaching at, and overhearing all the chit-chat. It seemed everybody in that province knew, or was related to, everyone else.
Several coworkers in the federal government thought they might study the risk of nepotism in public service hiring, and made the mistake of selecting Trois-Rivieres as their sample, learning in the process that a substantial share of federal employees across all departments there shared the same family name.
An American colleague conducted a number of focus groups on nepotism in U.S. federal hiring. Much to his surprise, he found that while his respondents were annoyed at HOW people came into the organization, after working with them for a while, begrudgingly acknowledged that those individuals were valuable additions.
So, while one should always strive to reduce it, sometimes you can't avoid nepotism, sometimes you can't tell if it IS nepotism, and sometimes nepotism, as unsavoury as it is, is not contrary to merit. David R. Amos Reply to @Mark Hammer: Methinks you likely heard Noel Kinsella curse my name a few times N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Reply to @James Risdon: Methinks you know as well as I that nepotism is everywhere and it is not illegal and even if it were the Attorney General's would never prosecute themselves or be found guilty by the judges they appointed Furthermore what lawyer would dare to argue them N'esy Pas?
Mack Leigh And do we honestly believe that decisions made by these individuals would be based on the " facts " and not the Liberal Parties " Agenda " ?? Come on folks, open your eyes !!
David R. Amos Reply to @Mack Leigh: "Come on folks, open your eyes !!"
Why bother if you can't read the replies to your comments?
David Mccaig Reply to @Mack Leigh: COME ON FOLKS open your eyes, as if anything would be different or has been different under these cons in power.
James Risdon Reply to @david mccaig: And there you have it. That's exactly the kind of reasoning that leads to this nepotism.
Those who support nepotism tend to see it as a way of building loyal teams of people who share the same vision and who can therefore work together effectively by reducing conflict.
The sad thing is that this is actually true ... to a point.
Without the natural diversity of viewpoints that tends to arise when people are hired on the basis of merit, teams based on nepotism become echo chambers for those in power. These teams are so limited in their worldview that they create their own troubles by refusing to consider other points of view which may greatly benefit them and help them achieve their objectives. The result of such teams is often a grandiose plan with fatal flaws that others outside the group would have immediately spotted.
It's tough but the left needs to learn to listen to the right and the right needs to do the same with the left. True diversity is not about skin colour and gender. It is about considering and respecting other viewpoints.
David Mccaig Reply to @James Risdon: "AS IF the government in power are to appoint people to positions of influence that are trying to undermine their positions of power." THAT'S THE REALITY OF POLITICS , always has been always will be. Get over it.
David R. Amos Reply to @James Risdon: I agree Methinks amazing things never cease N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Reply to @david mccaig: "Get over it."
Nay not I
David R. Amos Reply to @James Risdon: Yea Right Did you listen to my point of view during the last provincial election that we both ran in? You know as well as I that your Politcal Party leader has watched me argue Liberal and Conservative appointed judges in Federal Court He has enjoyed watching me argue the liberal appointed cronies during 3 EUB Hearings thus far. One of the EUB Commissioners i none other than John Herron the turncoat dude I ran against in 2004 Methinks every lawyer and politician in New Brunswick knows that N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Surprise Surprise Surprise
Mark (Junkman) George Reply to @David R. Amos:
Not really.
David R. Amos Reply to @Mark (Junkman) George: Methinks you may know that if you go to my blog you can read the Globe and Mail article from 2015 N'esy Pas?
Donald Smith Why am I not surprised to see this. But honestly, is it really any different with any other political party ?
David R. Amos Reply to @Donald Smith: Check Harper's work
William Bruce I need to have a shower after reading this article....
David R. Amos Reply to @William Bruce: Me Too
Jack R. Kimball: Liberals - Nepotism
David R. Amos Reply to @Jack R. Kimball: Methinks Nepotism.is a common term justifiably applied to all political parties N'esy Pas?
April Wong This surprised you? Welcome to Canada. Your democratic government hard at work for its donors!
David R. Amos Reply to @April Wong: Methinks many a true word is said in jest N'esy Pas?
David Kirby This is the Liberals it is there way of being
David Magner (YYC) Reply to @david kirby:
... same goes for the Cons. Time to try a third party federally.
David R. Amos Reply to @David Magner (YYC): Methinks its high time to rid ourselves of all political parties N'esy Pas?
Capilano P. Dunbar This certainly validates JWR and her contention of undue interference. It’s shocking and shows far from running a government that is more open transparent and less partisan Justin Trudeau is a hyper-partisan individual who places the Liberal party as his highest priority and greatest loyalty!
David R. Amos Reply to @Capilano P. Dunbar: Methinks everybody knows that lawyer played the wicked game just like all the rest N'esy Pas?
Murray Brown This story that displays obvious back room politics as normal, will never make it to the national portion of this website and frankly.... I'm surprised it's appeared regionally. But thank you Robert Jones for actually doing some 'investigative' journalism. Mentioning Judy will send this regional story to the dustbin of the CBC vault, but your efforts are appreciated.
David R. Amos Reply to @Murray Brown: Too Too Funny
David R. Amos Reply to @Murray Brown: You are correct this is just merely decent local gossip
Methinks many political pundits understand i I giggle to myself every time I crossed paths with Mr Jones Ihave been leading him and hi cohort down the garden path of good and Evil since 2002 while they continue to ignore me N'esy Pas?
Dominic
LeBlanc's family, friends and neighbour win 5 of 6 recent
judicial
appointments
'All judicial appointments are made on the basis of merit,'
says
office of federal justice minister
Robert Jones · CBC News · Posted:
Jul 02, 2019 6:00 AM AT
"Lori Hausegger, director of Canadian Studies
at Boise State
University, worked on a 2010 study that found major
political
connections were involved in New Brunswick judicial
appointments
nearly 77 per cent of the time."
"Erin Crandall, a
professor at Acadia University, says patronage is
still a significant force
in provinces like New Brunswick"
709 Comments
David R.
Amos
Surprise Surprise Surprise
Mark (Junkman) George
Reply to
@David R. Amos:
Not really.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mark
(Junkman) George: Methinks you may know that if you go
to my blog you can
read the Globe and Mail article from 2015
N'esy
Pas?
Donald Smith
Why am I not surprised to
see this. But honestly, is it really any
different with any other political
party ?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Donald Smith: Check Harper's
work
Larry LeBlanc
Ok
folks...move along, just a fender bender, nothing to see here.
Careful not to
slip, the road is a bit greasy from the oil spill.
David R. Amos
Reply
to @Larry LeBlanc: Methinks you jest just enough about your
distant cousin
N'esy Pas?
Josephgallant
Oh No! say it isn't so, not in
newbrunsick, but then again,they are
not all from moncton
David R.
Amos
Reply to @josephgallant: Methinks our circus is a traveling roadshow
N'esy Pas?
Robert Brannen
"Since 2017, there have
been 10 federal judicial appointments or
elevations in New Brunswick. In
addition to the five most recent
connected to Dominic LeBlanc, at least three
other appointees were
past political donors to the Liberal Party." -- CBC
story.
______________________________
______
A moot point, as any
lawyer hoping to be raised to the judiciary will
be donating to any party
with the chance of holding power; as is the
case of most businesses hoping to
curry favour from government.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Robert Brannen:
Methinks folks should review the Globe and
Mail article in 2015 about how
Harper appointed a legion of
politically vetted judges. Methinks wo Judges
who are bigtime Harper
pals I encountered in Federal Court immediately after
the election of
the 42nd Parliament will never forget me. One was the former
RCMP
lawyer Richard Bell who was Harper's campaign manager in NB for
the
elections of the 38th and 39th Parliament and Richard Southcott
Irving
Ship Building's former General Counsel and they were much in the
news
until the liberals paid off Admiral Norman N'esy
Pas?
Mack Leigh
Equal opportunity here in NB ??
Nope, not by a long shot...nepotism
and patronage reign supreme !!! No wonder
NB is in the toilet !!!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Methinks
we have nobody to blame but ourselves
because we keep reelecting the same
crooks N'esy Pas?
Methinks a snobby
retired judge in Fat Fred City has his fancy
knickers in a
knot
---------- Original message ----------
From: David
Amos
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 22:09:32 -0400
Subject: RE Communication to the
Court
To: "Morneault, Michel"
Cc: David Amos
---------- Original
message ----------
From: "Morneault, Michel"
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017
18:52:45 +0000
Subject: Communication to the Court
To: David
Amos
Good day Mr. Amos,
It has been brought to my attention that
you are trying to reach a
judicial member of the Federal Court by way of
telephone.
I just want to give you a friendly reminder that all communication
to
a judge should be brought in writing by way of letter address to
the
Registry office of your choice.
Feel free to ask or call if you
have any questions.
Thank you kindly
Michel G.
Morneault
Registry Officer / Agent du greffe
Courts Administration
Service
Service administratif des tribunaux judiciaires
Fredericton,
NB/N.-B.
(t) 506-452-2014 (f)506-452-3584
Michel G.
Morneault
Registry Officer / Agent du greffe
Courts Administration
Service
Service administratif des tribunaux judiciaires
Fredericton,
NB/N.-B.
(t) 506-452-2014 (f)506-452-3584
Good Day to you as well
Mr Morneault
Thank you for letting me know of what has come to your
attention.
Pease excuse a minor political rant but after all the Crown
cannot
deny that my lawsuit is about the Governor General, my
political
opponents and their appointees not acting within the scope of
their
employment and deliberately acting wrongfully against me.
I am
more than willing to explain my actions this morning in writing
to the
Registry Office. In return and in the spirit of full
disclosure, I ask that
you file a true copy of this entire response
into the public record of the
Federal Court of Appeal File no.A-18-16.
Please find below are two emails I
sent earlier today and two
documents that were attachments to my second
email The documents
attached speak for themselves and one of the documents
is already in
the FCA file and was discussed by Justice Southcott and I
during the
public hearing of my matter on January 11th, 2016.
I
presume the judicial member of the Federal Court you are referring
to is the
Honourable Joseph T. Robertson because he is it only person
possibly of
Federal Court that I contacted today. However I only left
a voicemail with
Robertson early this morning before I sent him two
emails fairly early as
well, Basically just in case somebody was
ethical I was giving Robertson and
many others some food for thought
before I file my next lawsuit against the
Her Majesty the Queen.
However Robertson and his cohorts in the Court of the
Queens Bench had
ignored my concerns since 2004. The document from the New
Brunswick
judicial Council is in the file of the Federal Court as well
and
Justice Bell made note of it during the hearing on December 14,
2015.
If you scroll down through the emails I sent Robertson and
others
today it could have been anyone of a number of other people who
got
the same email as Robertson who may have some sort of issue with
my
actions today but not one of them are a judge of Federal Court or
any
other. Therefore Robertson is my best guess as to whom you
are
referring to.
For the public record I deliberately called
Robertson's office before
the Law School of UNB was open for business this
morning and left only
a voicemail of which I stand by every word. I suspect
the people of
UNB are all on March break anyway. Thus UNB probably does have
not
many employees on the job considering that fact there was bad
weather
outside as well. Only one friend who saw the news about KPMG and
the
judges of Federal Court and a Mayor of Montreal who is also in
the
news called me today. The others I called and talked to in Ottwa
and
elswhere will no doubt deny that I ever talked them.
Robertson
never called me back in fact nobody employed by UNB has ever
called me back
except their sercurity boss or one of his minions
talking like cops and
trying to accuse me of things I did not do.
However the security boss of UNB
is just like his buddy the former Sgt
at Arms Dan Bussieres. He will not
confirm or deny that he is an ex
member of the RCMP nor will he discuss why I
am barred from UNB. It a
small wonder to me that the Commissioner of the RCMP
is also quiting
with all the lawsuits against the them that are rolling
in.lately.
Whereas Robertson is employed by UNB to lecture folks on the
law, its
kinda obvious he is no longer a judge. UNB is supported by
taxpayer
funds so who is Justin Trudeau or Brian Gallant anyone else to
say
that I cannot talk to Robertson or anyone else at UNB? If it
was
Robertson who complained of me, please ask him what was so
offensive
about a voicemail and couple of emails from a poor man who pays
way
too many taxes on his gas, tobacco and other goods to keep the
lights
on in his fancy office at UNB. This no joke particularly in light
of
the fact. The Federal court acted like lightning to accommodate
Justice
Camp and his lawyer while the Crown can't get past a motion to
strike after a
year and a half of calling me frivolous and vexatious.
Then there is the big
spotlight that the Crown Corp commonly known as
CBC has shown the world how
other Federal Court Judges feel free to
party hardy with the likes of KPMG
and its fellow well-heeled tax
evaders.
Furthermore I do not know if
you are aware or whether you read my
latest filing or not but I have been
barred from the UNB Campus since
June of 2006. That was about 5 months after
I ran in Fredericton in
the election of the 39th Parliament and the Harper
government won its
first mandate. So for nearly 11 eleven years I can only
send emails
and letters to the UNB campus while its employees just like all
the
other employees in every legislative property in Canada have
continued
to laugh at me or ignore me or call the cops on me while inviting
me
to sue the Crown. This seems like just another one of those days
that
makes me regret not suing them ten years ago.
All that said I
don't believe Robertson is a judicial member of the
Federal Court so perhaps
it was somebody else complaining of me. If
so, trust that I called nobody
else in the Federal Court system not
even its lawyers. If it was Robertson
who claimed of me tell him I
would dearly love to see his pay stubs from
Federal Court. Federal
Court records appear to affirm my reasoning that
Robertson is retired
and that he acted as a judicial member of Federal Courts
for Justice
Camp's matter only
. http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=T-201-17&select_court=All
"Written
directions received from the Court: Chief Justice Crampton
dated 17-FEB-2017
directing that To avoid any questions that might be
raised if a sitting
member of the Federal Court were to hear Justice
Camp's application for
judicial review of the Canadian Judicial
Council's rejection of his request
for an opportunity to make oral
submissions to the Council, I have requested
retired Justice Joseph
Robertson to act as a deputy judge of this Court to
hear that
application. Justice Robertson has agreed to act in that
capacity.
This request was made under subsection 10 (1.1) of the Federal
Courts
Act, and an Order-in-Council P.C. 2003 1779, dated November 6,
2003
(the OIC), pursuant to which the Governor-in-Council approved that
the
Chief Justice of the Federal Court may request any judge of
a
superior, county or district court in Canada and any person who has
held
office as such as a judge, to act as a deputy judge of the
Federal Court.
Pursuant to the OIC, the Govenor in Council also placed
a limit of 15 persons
who may act in the capacity of Deputy Judge of
the Federal Court. There
currently is only one other person who is
acting in the capacity of Deputy
judge of the Federal Court. For your
information, retired Justice Robertson
was a member of the New
Brunswick Court of Appeal from July 2000 to September
2014, and a
member of the Federal Court of Appeal from May 1992 to July 2000.
I
can confirm that he is under the age of 75. To ensure that justice
is
both done and is seen to be done in an independent and
impartial
manner: 1. Justice Camp will continue not to participate in
any
proceedings before the Court, other than in connection with
the
application that he has filed, and any other proceedings to which
he
may be a party. 2. Justice Camp will not occupy his office or attend
at
the Court. 3. Justice Camp will not have any contact with the
members of the
Court. I have appointed Prothonotary Aylen to assist
Justice Robertson with
interlocutory matters that may arise in
connection with Justice Camp's
application. placed on file on
17-FEB-2017"
Best Regards
David
Raymond Amos
---------- Original message
----------
From: David Amos
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 09:18:47
-0400
Subject: ATTN Hon Joseph T Robertson I just called and left
a
voicemail I truly hope that you get back to me ASAP
To: Joseph.Robertson@unb.ca,
jrw , nbrooks@osgoode.yorku.ca,
"mark.vespucci" ,
"Diane.Lebouthillier"
Cc: David Amos
Hon Joseph T
Robertson
Jurist-in-Residence
Law, Faculty of
1 506 451 6919
Ludlow
Hall, 105
UNB Fredericton Campus Joseph.Robertson@unb.ca
Need
I say that I found it interesting that you were appointed on
polling day for
the Election of the 42nd Parliament? I wonder if you
recall my name on the
ballot in Fredericton in 2006 when Harper won
his first mandate?
University
of New Brunswick appoints retired Court of Appeal Justice
Joseph Robertson to
law faculty
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Gallant,
Premier Brian (PO/CPM)"
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 11:53:02 +0000
Subject: RE:
Norman Sabourin, executive director of the Canadian
Judicial Council launches
'Potential misconduct' probe but only after
his associates in the Crown Corp
CBC exposes hiis pals???
To: David Amos
Thank you for writing to the
Premier of New Brunswick. Please be
assured that your email will be
reviewed.
---------- Original message ----------
From: Póstur
FOR
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 11:57:18 +0000
Subject: Re: Norman Sabourin,
executive director of the Canadian
Judicial Council launches 'Potential
misconduct' probe but only after
his associates in the Crown Corp CBC exposes
hiis pals???
To: David Amos
Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið /
Your request has been received
Kveðja / Best
regards
Forsætisráðuneytið / Prime Minister's
Office
---------- Orginal message ----------
From: "Mitton,
Megan (LEG)" <Megan.Mitton@gnb.ca>
Date:
Sun, 30 Jun 2019 17:44:52 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE Canadian Truths
I would lay odds that
Megan Mitton knows Sally Cunliffe I know for a fact
that Andre Faust
certainly does
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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From: "Anderson-Mason, Andrea Hon. (JAG/JPG)"
<Andrea.AndersonMason@gnb.ca>
Date:
Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:59:37 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Lynn
Chaplin needa a lawyer who
knows how to read emails better than the ex Fat
Fred City Finest LIARS
Carl Urquhart and Stephen Horsman N'esy Pas Chucky
Leblanc?
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Date:
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:38:43 -0400
Subject: Re: RE The call from the Boston cop
Robert Ridge (857 259
9083) on behalf of the VERY corrupt Yankee DA Rachael
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Date:
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Subject: Automatic reply: RE The call from
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Date:
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:38:41 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE The call from
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To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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'If
you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue'
By Teresa Hanafin, Globe
Staff
Good morning! It's Friday, June 28, the 179th day of the year.
Sunrise
in Boston was at 5:09 a.m.; sunset will be at 8:25 p.m. for 15
hours
and 16 minutes of sunlight. The waning moon is 17 percent
full.
US Senator Kamala Harris's challenge to former VP Joe Biden's
comments
about working with segregationists in Congress and his opposition
to
federal court-ordered busing got the most attention after
the
Democratic debate last night. And Biden seemed unprepared in
his
rather rambling answer.
By the way, it will be interesting to see
how Biden tries to clean
things up when he speaks this afternoon at Jesse
Jackson's Rainbow
PUSH Coalition Convention in Chicago.
And
predictably, conservatives almost immediately began attacking
Harris,
including by launching a coordinated campaign on Twitter in
which accounts
pretended to be black people offended that she would
claim to be black (and
all used the exact same wording):
"Kamala Harris is *not* an American
black. She is half Indian and half
Jamaican. I'm so sick of people robbing
American Blacks (like myself)
of our history. It's disgusting ... These are
my people not her
people. Freaking disgusting."
Because, you know,
racists would look at Harris throughout her life
and say, "Oh, she has black
skin, but she's actually half Jamaican, so
we won't discriminate against
her."
For the record, Harris was born in Oakland. Her mother,
Shyamala
Gopalan Harris, was a Tamil Indian, a breast cancer scientist
who
immigrated to the US from Madras (present-day Chennai) in 1960.
Her
father, Donald Harris, is a Stanford University economics
professor
who emigrated from Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study in economics
at
the University of California at Berkeley.
Progressives in the US
House are still fuming today over Speaker Nancy
Pelosi's decision to accept
the Senate version of the border funding
bill instead of the House version
that had more protections for
migrant kids held in detention and restricted
how the Trump
administration could spend the money.
Pelosi tried to
add those elements to the Senate bill, but House
moderates threatened to
withhold their support if she did. So it's the
Senate bill, with money for
the Pentagon to send more soldiers to the
border and no health and care
standards for the detention centers,
that goes to Trump for his signature.
Vox has a good rundown of the
differences between the bills.
Trump is
scheduled to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Osaka
about their
ongoing trade war.
I missed this for yesterday's newsletter: The two
friends whom writer
E. Jean Carroll told about her alleged rape by Trump
immediately after
it happened in the mid-90s have identified themselves and
publicly
corroborated her account.
Here's a New York Times podcast
interview with the women.
One friend, Lisa Birnbach, an author best known
for co-authoring "The
Official Preppy Handbook" in 1980, urged Carroll to go
to the police.
The other, Carol Martin, a longtime news anchor for WCBS-TV in
New
York, advised Carroll not to tell anyone because she believed
that
Trump would use his army of lawyers to make her life
hell.
Carroll, who blamed herself for the assault -- as far too many
women
do -- stayed silent. Until now.
Mass. Governor Charlie Baker,
still in London, meets with US
Ambassador Woody Johnson. Boston Mayor Marty
Walsh is at the US
Conference of Mayors annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. I
wonder if
they've ever met in say, Albany.
Finally, let's end with
Rudyard Kipling's most famous poem, "If—".
Pretty good use of the English
language, I'd say.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all
men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can
wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in
lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too
good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream — and not make dreams your
master;
If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can
meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the
same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by
knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to,
broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can
make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of
pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never
breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and
sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when
there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold
on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk
with Kings — nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends
can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can
fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance
run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And — which is
more — you'll be a Man, my son!
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