David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Methinks its interesting an article on the same topic garnered 2220 recorded comments Yet this news offered to Maritmers has a tally of less than 100 thus far much to the relief of the LIEbranos N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/07/trudeau-defends-judicial-appointments.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/dominic-leblanc-judicial-appointment-justin-trudeau-1.5200176
Trudeau defends judicial appointments with personal connections to Dominic LeBlanc
92 Comments
David R. Amos
Methinks one of the most telling things about this news item is that an article offered to all of Canada on the very same topic garnered 2220 recorded comments and yet this bit of news about the lawyer Mr Dion playing dumb offered to my fellow Maritmers will be hard pressed to break a tally of 100 It certainly proves that apathy rules the day in New Brunswick much to the chagrin of Duff Conacher N'esy Pas?
David Smith
Reply to @David R. Amos: Are is it guilt from the maritimers? .... The Liberals did sweep the region, N'est ce pas?
David R. Amos
Methinks I should give the lady a call as well N'esy Pas?
June 29, 2017
We are pleased to announce that Cathy Lahey, QC, partner in our Saint John office, has been appointed to the Department of Justice’s Judicial Advisory Committee (“JAC”) in New Brunswick for a two-year term.
This comes as part of an announcement from The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, who appointed members in five provincial jurisdictions, adding to the existing complement of JACs.
JACs are independent bodies which were formed as part of a new process, announced in October 2016, to assess federal judicial applicants and provide the Minister of Justice with lists of high-calibre candidates who represent the diversity of Canada.
Cathy joins Twila Reid, partner in our St. John’s office, who was appointed to the JAC in Newfoundland and Labrador earlier this year
David R. Amos
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Reply to @David R. Amos: Methinks everybody knows that I was not surprised when the lady lawyer played dumb N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Methinks the sneaky lawyer Duff Conacher must have noticed how many Leblanc's have sat on the Bench in Provincial Court overseen by Dominic's wife since 2017 N'esy Pas?
The Honorable Judge Jolène Richard
Chief Judge
Appointed Judge of the Provincial Court on November 13, 2008
Appointed Chief Judge of the Provincial Court on June 2, 2017
The Honourable Chief Judge Jolène Richard, the first female to occupy the post of Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of New Brunswick was appointed on June 2, 2017.
Chief Judge Richard, the daughter of Guy Richard, former Chief Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Queen's Bench was appointed a Provincial Court Judge on November 13, 2008. She had a large litigation practice with the biggest law firm in Atlantic Canada, Stewart McKelvey. She practiced for 15 years and was a partner in the Moncton office.
The Honorable Judge Denise A. LeBlanc
Appointed Judge of the Provincial Court on January 27, 2016
OTTAWA, June 22, 2018
The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointment under the new judicial application process announced on October 20, 2016. The new process emphasizes transparency, merit, and diversity, and will continue to ensure the appointment of jurists who meet the highest standards of excellence and integrity.
The Honourable Denise LeBlanc, a judge of the Provincial Court of New Brunswick, is appointed a judge of the Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick, Trial Division.
The Honorable Judge Natalie H. LeBlanc
Appointed Judge of the Provincial Court on June 1, 2017
The Honorable Judge Ronald LeBlanc
Appointed Supernumerary status on April 3, 2017
The Honorable Judge Donald J. LeBlanc
Appointed Supernumerary status on April 30, 2015
David R. Amos
Methinks every political lawyer in Canada knows why the following is incredibly comical to me N'esy Pas?
"Duff Conacher with the group Democracy Watch said the selection process is not transparent, and he's sent a 10-page letter to Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion."
Shawala Gouk
Reply to @David R. Amos: and if he signed off with N'esy Pas it won't get read either LOL
David R. Amos
Reply to @Shawala
Gouk: Methinks legions of lawyers are well aware that I got several
replies in hard copy from Mr Dion's offices over the years as well as
couple of emails from that mindless lawyer personally as well. N'esy
Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Shawala Gouk: Methinks anyone can Google Duff Conacher David Amos N'esy Pas?
Maude Windsor
this action of liberal party selection of judges and other posts to comitees such as parole board, EU committee, ....including the senior members (EX levels) of federal public service......
all are appointments approved by Trudeau and PMO.....in small population of new brunswick
these appointments make a big statement.....and affects the way all new brunswickers vote(note the many many elections that were decided by federal appointments)...the trudeau government also uses the french language rules as a political tool to aid in these appointments also. wake up new brunswick...vote for your future
Shawala Gouk
Mr. Trudeau may experience transparency and honesty somewhat differently that the average narcissist.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Shawala Gouk: Methinks it takes one to know one N'esy Pas?
Shawala Gouk
Trudeau defends corruption ! Quelle surprise LOL.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Shawala Gouk: Methinks you do too N'esy Pas?
Marty Forsythe
Judges being picked because of political influence has been going on with every Judge being selected, how naive are you people. Go down the list of all Judges and you will find the same no matter what political stripe. The only time Judge Brad Green was in a court room was when he started sitting on the bench how was he selected and so on check it out nothing new here
Shawala Gouk
Reply to @Marty Forsythe: Does that make it right ?
David R. Amos
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marty Forsythe: Methinks you should enjoy finding a letter from Brad Green to me within this old file N'esy Pas?
https://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/integrity-yea-right
https://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/integrity-yea-right
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David R. Amos: Brad Green, that's a Harper CONservative appointment, n'est-ce pas?
Lou Bell
Invite to a 4.5 star Assumption Life SANB retreat. Anyone surprised. They need to have a meeting somewhere.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Lou Bell: so obsessed by the SANB, aren't you?
David R. Amos
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you two should seriously consider dating N'esy Pas?
Marguerite
Deschamps
Reply to @David R. Amos: es-tu jaloux, mon p'tit chou?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: Nope Methinks everybody knows I love French ladies not evil
people who pretend to be N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you are a dude and I know Lou is a woman Hence you two are wicked match N'esy Pas?
Matt Steele
Of course Justin Trudeau supports the political hiring of Judges as Trudeau himself interfered with the Canadian Justice system when he wanted the CRIMINAL CHARGES against his friends with SNC Lavalin dropped ; and then he threw his two best females Cabinet Ministers out of the Liberal party when they raised concerns about it . Those five Judicial appointments should be rescinded until this matter can be fully investigated , and rectified . It is hard to believe that this level of political interference in our Justice system can be happening in Canada in 2019 ; and it seems to be totally out of control . Oct. cannot come fast enough !
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Matt Steele: as if this is new and only done by the Liberals. Tell it to Stephen Harper and Peter MacKay!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/peter-mackay-s-friends-colleagues-make-up-6-of-9-judge-appointees-1.2956696
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/peter-mackay-s-friends-colleagues-make-up-6-of-9-judge-appointees-1.2956696
Michael Dome
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: sunny ways...
Jake Devries
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: but but but Harperrrrrrr
Robert Buck
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: just goes to show there is no difference in these parties.
David R. Amos
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: "Tell it to Stephen Harper and Peter MacKay!"
Methinks you know as well as I that MacKay answered my lawsuit before polling day in 2015 and that Trudeau and his cohorts have been supporting Harper's malice against me ever since Atleast 15 decisions in Federal court cannot be easily overlooked by the Supreme Court N'esy Pas?
Robert Tuckett-Reddy
When you have no ethics as this PM have proven over and over again what do you expect? He has no respect for the rule of law only his close friends, family ties and liberal contributors. The law in this country is no longer blind or unbiased. It reeks of political interference!!!
Eugene Peabody
Reply to @Robert
Tuckett-Reddy: My you have such a short memory of what the Harper
government did.A very over the top view does not mean it is true.
DON MOFFATT
Reply to @Eugene Peabody: This article is not about Harper.
Anne
Bérubé
Reply to @Eugene
Peabody: Typical liberalism, when you cannot come up with an explanation
why this is patronage appointments, you accuse a past PM. How low can
you go.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Anne
Bérubé: it's been going on for as far back as Confederation, no matter
the party in power. Who are you trying to kid here?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Anne
Bérubé: why do you think the elusive Higgs Bozon halted all government
projects up north if it's not because they did not vote for his pathetic
government?
David R. Amos
Reply to @DON MOFFATT: "This article is not about Harper."
Methinks Harper and his cohorts should be included because the legion of judges they appointed during his mandates are still playing Harper's wicked game today N'esy Pas?
Methinks Harper and his cohorts should be included because the legion of judges they appointed during his mandates are still playing Harper's wicked game today N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Surprise Surprise Surprise
Harold Benson
Reply to @David R. Amos: I bet you aren't .
David R. Amos
Reply to @Harold Benson: Neither is Mark (Junkman) George:
David R. Amos
Reply
to @Harold Benson: Methinks Sam must have noticed that the very strange
SANB dude Marguerite Deschamps and Lady Lou of the PANB ain't one bit
surprised either N'esy Pas? Mark (Junkman) George
Surprise, surprise, surprise.............
With an election looming how could it be any different?
Draw your own conclusions folks and show your approval with your vote.
Eugene Peabody
Reply to @Mark
(Junkman) George: My life and that of my relatives has improved under
this government so I will factor that into my decision .This story is a
non issue because the system works well and will not change under any
government.
DON
MOFFATT
Reply to @Eugene
Peabody: Most Canadians have suffered through a new carbon tax and loss
of tax credits for fitness, arts and education under this regime. I
cannot thik of one thing that has improved in my life under Justin
Trudeau.
Anne Bérubé
Reply to @Eugene
Peabody: You must be a true and faithful liberal till death sets you
apart...I, for the life of me, understand that your increase in income
tax, as well as other taxes of all kinds have increased, no credits
whatsoever as they were all eliminated has made your financial situation
better. Unless you make over $200,000 a year and is a donor to the
liberal party?
Anne Bérubé
Reply to @DON
MOFFATT: Completely agree, less and it is just the beginning. This is
the Maritimes for you, liberal till the end.
Mark (Junkman) George
Reply to @Eugene Peabody:
Who you vote for is between you and your God, there is no need to justify your choices, poor or otherwise, to anybody.
Myself, I find it hard to vote for someone "WHO COULDN'T BE BOTHERED" TO KEEP HALF OF HIS ELECTION PROMISES.
Who you vote for is between you and your God, there is no need to justify your choices, poor or otherwise, to anybody.
Myself, I find it hard to vote for someone "WHO COULDN'T BE BOTHERED" TO KEEP HALF OF HIS ELECTION PROMISES.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mark (Junkman) George: "I find it hard to vote for someone"
I always promise to raise Hell but not enough folk seem to care
Raising a Little Hell- Lively Debate Provokes Crowd
By Erin Hatfield June 18th, 2004
"If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it? If your world is all screwed up, rearrange it."
The 1979 Trooper song Raise a Little Hell blared on the speakers at the 8th Hussars Sports Center Friday evening as people filed in to watch the Fundy candidates debate the issues. It was an accurate, if unofficial, theme song for the debate.
The crowd of over 200 spectators was dwarfed by the huge arena, but as they chose their seats, it was clear the battle lines were drawn. Supporters of Conservative candidate Rob Moore naturally took the blue chairs on the right of the rink floor while John Herron's Liberalswent left. There were splashes of orange, supporters of NDP Pat Hanratty, mixed throughout. Perhaps the loudest applause came from a row towards the back, where supporters of independent candidate David Amos sat."
I always promise to raise Hell but not enough folk seem to care
Raising a Little Hell- Lively Debate Provokes Crowd
By Erin Hatfield June 18th, 2004
"If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it? If your world is all screwed up, rearrange it."
The 1979 Trooper song Raise a Little Hell blared on the speakers at the 8th Hussars Sports Center Friday evening as people filed in to watch the Fundy candidates debate the issues. It was an accurate, if unofficial, theme song for the debate.
The crowd of over 200 spectators was dwarfed by the huge arena, but as they chose their seats, it was clear the battle lines were drawn. Supporters of Conservative candidate Rob Moore naturally took the blue chairs on the right of the rink floor while John Herron's Liberalswent left. There were splashes of orange, supporters of NDP Pat Hanratty, mixed throughout. Perhaps the loudest applause came from a row towards the back, where supporters of independent candidate David Amos sat."
Marguerite Deschamps
The devil is raising hell. Who would have thought?
Trudeau defends judicial appointments with personal connections to Dominic LeBlanc
Democracy Watch calls for investigation into whether federal cabinet minister influenced 5 appointments
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the five judicial selections were part of a 'transparent appointment system.' (CBC)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on
Thursday defended a string of recent judicial appointments in New
Brunswick that involved people with personal connections to Beauséjour
Liberal MP and cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc — even as a call was
made for the federal conflict of interest and ethics commissioner to
investigate the matter.
"We are fully confident that the process — the transparent merit-based process that we've put in place is the right one and we stand by it," Trudeau told reporters when asked directly if he would be reviewing recent appointments in New Brunswick.
Earlier this week, it was reported that three lawyers who were past contributors to LeBlanc's Beauséjour riding association and also helped retire debts from his 2008 leadership bid all won federal appointments to sit as judges in the last year, as did a fourth lawyer married to LeBlanc's brother-in-law.
In a fifth appointment last month, Justice Tracey Deware was elevated to the position of chief justice of New Brunswick's trial division.
According to LeBlanc's filings with the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, Pinet also paid for LeBlanc to spend three days in 2014 at New Brunswick's Ledges Lodge, which advertises itself as the only 4.5 star hunting and fishing retreat on the Miramichi River.
According to the declaration, Pinet was acting in his then role as vice-president of Moncton's Assumption Life, and LeBlanc attended the lodge as part of an "annual trip with local business leaders and other elected officials."
At a news conference in Montreal, Trudeau said the five selections were part of a "transparent appointment system," although much about how the choices were made is unknown.
The Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs will not say how many New Brunswick lawyers applied for the judgeships or whether any unsuccessful candidates scored higher on independent assessments of their abilities to sit on the bench than the ones who were chosen.
In Canada, all candidates for federal judicial appointments are required to submit an application and agree to an assessment by provincial or sub provincial judicial advisory committees.
New
Brunswick evaluations for recent appointments were headed by senior New
Brunswick Appeal Court Justice Margaret Larlee and included six other
committee members made up of lawyers and members of the public.
The committees grade applicants as either recommended, highly recommended or unable to recommend, but none of that information is available, even in redacted form.
"In order to ensure and protect the privacy of candidates and the confidentiality of them having applied to become judges, statistics are provided on a national basis only," Lacasse wrote in an email to CBC News.
"A provincial or regional breakdown could allow analysis of the data which may lead to identifying individual candidates."
In Ottawa, Duff Conacher with the group Democracy Watch said the selection process is not transparent, and he's sent a 10-page letter to Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion.
In the letter, released to the media, Conacher asked for an investigation into whether LeBlanc participated in the "decision-making processes" of the five appointments.
The minister's office has not commented on the appointments.
LeBlanc, who holds three cabinet portfolios, including Intergovernmental Affairs, did file a declaration of recusal with the conflict of interest and ethics commissioner over the appointment of one of the five judges.
Marie-Claude Belanger-Richard is married to LeBlanc's brother-in-law and according to LeBlanc's declaration, he withdrew from cabinet consideration of her appointment shortly before it was approved.
Belanger-Richard's appointment was announced publicly three days later.
There were no recusals filed in relation to the other four appointments, but it is not clear LeBlanc voted on any of them. LeBlanc has been battling cancer and in April this year announced he had been taking treatments and would be stepping away from cabinet duties temporarily to focus on his health.
The four remaining judicial
appointments connected to LeBlanc occurred between March and June this
year, near the period his health problems flared up.
Still, Conacher said the relationship of the successful candidates to LeBlanc requires investigation under provisions of Canada's Conflict of Interest Act.
CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices "We are fully confident that the process — the transparent merit-based process that we've put in place is the right one and we stand by it," Trudeau told reporters when asked directly if he would be reviewing recent appointments in New Brunswick.
Earlier this week, it was reported that three lawyers who were past contributors to LeBlanc's Beauséjour riding association and also helped retire debts from his 2008 leadership bid all won federal appointments to sit as judges in the last year, as did a fourth lawyer married to LeBlanc's brother-in-law.
In a fifth appointment last month, Justice Tracey Deware was elevated to the position of chief justice of New Brunswick's trial division.
Three
lawyers who were past contributors to Dominic LeBlanc's Beauséjour
riding association and also helped retire debts from his 2008 leadership
bid all won federal appointments to sit as judges in the last year, as
did a fourth lawyer married to LeBlanc's brother-in-law. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
She
and her husband, Jacques Pinet, bought property from LeBlanc in 2013
and moved next door to his summer house in Grande-Digue. Pinet has also
donated to LeBlanc's riding association, and he gave money to help
retire his 2008 leadership debts.According to LeBlanc's filings with the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, Pinet also paid for LeBlanc to spend three days in 2014 at New Brunswick's Ledges Lodge, which advertises itself as the only 4.5 star hunting and fishing retreat on the Miramichi River.
According to the declaration, Pinet was acting in his then role as vice-president of Moncton's Assumption Life, and LeBlanc attended the lodge as part of an "annual trip with local business leaders and other elected officials."
'Transparent appointments'
At a news conference in Montreal, Trudeau said the five selections were part of a "transparent appointment system," although much about how the choices were made is unknown.
The Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs will not say how many New Brunswick lawyers applied for the judgeships or whether any unsuccessful candidates scored higher on independent assessments of their abilities to sit on the bench than the ones who were chosen.
In Canada, all candidates for federal judicial appointments are required to submit an application and agree to an assessment by provincial or sub provincial judicial advisory committees.
The committees grade applicants as either recommended, highly recommended or unable to recommend, but none of that information is available, even in redacted form.
Court
of Queen's Bench Chief Justice Tracey DeWare is pictured here at her
swearing-in ceremony with New Brunswick Court of Appeal Chief Justice
Marc Richard. (Submitted by Tracey DeWare)
According
to Philippe Lacasse, executive director for judicial appointments in
the commissioner's office, secrecy is required to protect judicial
applicants."In order to ensure and protect the privacy of candidates and the confidentiality of them having applied to become judges, statistics are provided on a national basis only," Lacasse wrote in an email to CBC News.
"A provincial or regional breakdown could allow analysis of the data which may lead to identifying individual candidates."
Call for investigation
In Ottawa, Duff Conacher with the group Democracy Watch said the selection process is not transparent, and he's sent a 10-page letter to Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion.
In the letter, released to the media, Conacher asked for an investigation into whether LeBlanc participated in the "decision-making processes" of the five appointments.
The minister's office has not commented on the appointments.
LeBlanc, who holds three cabinet portfolios, including Intergovernmental Affairs, did file a declaration of recusal with the conflict of interest and ethics commissioner over the appointment of one of the five judges.
Marie-Claude Belanger-Richard is married to LeBlanc's brother-in-law and according to LeBlanc's declaration, he withdrew from cabinet consideration of her appointment shortly before it was approved.
Moncton
family lawyer Marie-Claude Belanger-Richard, who is married to Dominic
LeBlanc's brother-in-law, was picked to fill a judicial vacancy in Saint
John. (Veritas Law)
"In order to
avoid any opportunity to provide preferential treatment or to further
the private interests of my relative Ms. Marie-Claude Belanger Richard, I
recused myself on November 6, 2018, from all discussions, decisions,
debates or votes relating to judicial appointments," reads LeBlanc's
declaration.Belanger-Richard's appointment was announced publicly three days later.
There were no recusals filed in relation to the other four appointments, but it is not clear LeBlanc voted on any of them. LeBlanc has been battling cancer and in April this year announced he had been taking treatments and would be stepping away from cabinet duties temporarily to focus on his health.
Still, Conacher said the relationship of the successful candidates to LeBlanc requires investigation under provisions of Canada's Conflict of Interest Act.
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 10:55:28 -0400
Subject: Jamie Irving's lawyer Cathy Lahey QC cannot deny that I am a man of my
word and gave her a call Then gave up on her integrity the instant she played dumb
N'esy Pas Madame Lahey?
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