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 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/cumberland-north-election-liberal-pc-ndp-independent-1.6135024

 

Cumberland North pits high-profile Independent vs. former 7-term MP

Newcomers for the PCs and NDP, meanwhile, hope to shake things up in border district

As Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin speaks with a visitor to her downtown Amherst campaign headquarters, phones are ringing in the background.

Volunteers are busy talking with potential voters and offering rides to the polls for those who need them. It's what you'd expect at this point in a provincial election and it looks a lot like it did four years ago when Smith-McCrossin ran her first campaign — until you look at her campaign materials.

While she won as a Tory in 2017, Smith-McCrossin's bid to return to Province House is happening under the banner of Independent. She was kicked out of the PC caucus a few weeks ahead of the election call for her part in a blockade that shut down the Trans-Canada Highway and a refusal to apologize.

She was unsure if she'd run again, but Smith-McCrossin said it was her husband and members of the community that convinced her to reoffer.

"At the end of the day, I believe I can still represent the people of Cumberland North — maybe even stronger as an Independent," she said in a recent interview.

Giving the region a voice

There are enough Smith-McCrossin lawn signs in the district to suggest more than a few people agree with her.

Smith-McCrossin said the inability to travel freely between the border community and neighbouring New Brunswick when COVID-19 cases were low, along with long-standing frustrations about the Cobequid Pass toll system, have created a sense of unfairness in Cumberland County.


Signs showcase the candidates for Cumberland North in the ongoing provincial election. (Mark Crosby/CBC)

"They have felt separated from Nova Scotia for a long time," she said. "That needs to change."

Bill Casey also wants to change it, but he hopes to do so as a member of government.

The veteran politician came out of retirement after seven terms in Ottawa to take a run at provincial office for the Liberals. Casey was on hand early in the campaign when Liberal Leader Iain Rankin arrived in Amherst with a promise to remove the tolls for Nova Scotia passenger vehicles this October.

Tapping into green energy potential

They were greeted by a hostile crowd that, while appreciative of Casey's past service, wasn't much interested in what Rankin had to say.

Casey said he understands people's frustrations, and that's all the more reason to send someone to Province House who can ensure "equal treatment."

"That [Nova Scotia-New Brunswick] border affects our employees, our employment, our businesses, our families. And Halifax, I don't think, has ever understood that we have to deal with that in Cumberland County," he said.

"They make regulations and policies and they don't understand that we have a different situation than every other county in Nova Scotia."


Four people are vying to be the Cumberland North district's next representative at the legislature. The CBC's Michael Gorman tells us about them, and what makes this race one to watch. 9:30

Along with border and toll issues, Casey said he's focused on capitalizing on the area's green energy potential and wants to see the area become a hydrogen hub using the power of the Bay of Fundy.

A focus on health care

While some people see this as a two-person race, David Wightman and Lauren Skabar are hoping to change that.

Running for the Progressive Conservatives, Wightman has had some catching up to do because of his late entry into the campaign. Election materials were late arriving, and while Smith-McCrossin and Casey signs pepper the district, Wightman only recently started putting his up.

But he's hoping a platform that focuses on health care, along with community anger directed at the Liberals, will hold him in good stead.

"I think the Liberals have had their turn to try and fix things, and I think they've only gotten worse," he said, pointing to the growing wait list of people looking for a family doctor.

While he expresses interest in working on a variety of issues, Wightman said health care is top of mind for him as a stroke survivor and because his wife went through treatment for cancer. There are aspects of the system unique to that region that Wightman hopes to address. 

"One of the things I'd like to see is a better approach to how to get people to medical appointments that are travelling back and forth across the [New Brunswick] border," he said.

A time to unite

Skabar is the NDP candidate. Her father, Brian, was elected in the district in 2009 as part of the NDP's surge to power, but she said politics was in her blood long before that.

Health care for the area is a major issue, said Skabar, given routine emergency department closures at community sites and difficulties getting enough nurses and doctors to the region.

"Until we start incentivizing health-care professionals coming to places like Cumberland North and our smaller communities, we aren't going to see any improvements," she said.

Skabar is as aware as anyone of the divisiveness that can come from the geography of the area, but she feels the NDP has a plan that can overcome that and help people across the province.

"Just because we're separated from the folks in Halifax doesn't mean we need to be working against them," she said.

"I think it's really important to unite with the people around the province who are experiencing the same issues that we're experiencing in Cumberland North so that we can work together to find something that works for all of us."


 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/iain-rankin-driving-record-require-candidates-declare-criminal-conviction-1.6095202

 

Rankin says he'll consider making candidates declare criminal convictions

The statement comes in the wake of questions about the premier's impaired driving record

Facing continued questions about his impaired driving record, Nova Scotia Premier Iain Rankin said Thursday he will consider whether Liberal caucus members should publicly declare if they have criminal convictions.

In Saskatchewan, both major parties declare criminal convictions of candidates, though it is not a legal requirement.

Rankin said he would draw on that province's experience in making a decision.

"I'm not against that as an idea, so I will think about that and look at what the process is and how Saskatchewan went through that," Rankin told reporters.

The premier said he is not aware if any other members of the Liberal caucus have a criminal record.

Rankin disclosed publicly Monday at a COVID-19 briefing that he was convicted of impaired driving in 2003 when he was 20. The admission was prompted by a media inquiry.

Second incident

He also said he was charged in a second incident in 2005.

Court records show police said Rankin failed two breathalyzer tests after the white Subaru he was driving crashed and flipped into a ditch on Kearney Lake Road in Halifax in July 2005.

He was initially found guilty and faced 14 days jail time. The conviction was later overturned on appeal.

Rankin has repeatedly refused to answer whether he was drunk during the second incident.

"I've laid out the facts and outcomes of court decisions, and it's a matter of the public record," he said.

"Rehashing some of those facts is not going to change anything. I wish I could go back in time, but what I think is important is what I've learned and I'm a different person today than I was in my early 20s and I'm moving forward."

Drank more than he should

On Thursday, Rankin said he "drank too much" when he was in his early 20s.

"I did frequent bars until late at night and I've since moved on," he said. "I lead a professional career that I think is inappropriate to be intoxicated while you're working, and I certainly don't do that. I do enjoy a beer or two going out to a pub and I don't abuse alcohol."

Rankin said his friends, the Liberal Party and former premier and party leader Stephen McNeil were all informed about the impaired driving cases.

He said that information was disclosed and vetted by the party when he ran and won the leadership earlier this year.

"I did disclose that I both had a criminal record with the 2003 conviction, and then I had an interaction with the 2005 incident that was dismissed in court," said Rankin.

'Poor judgment'

With a provincial election expected this summer, opponents say Rankin has not been forthcoming.

"The premier misled Nova Scotians regarding his second arrest ... and downplayed the severity of it. It speaks to poor judgment and weak leadership," the Progressive Conservative Party said in a statement Thursday attributed to campaign co-chairs Tara Miller and Cameron MacKeen.

The party said none of its caucus or nominated candidates have criminal records.

"Publicly releasing caucus or candidate criminal records is not something we have discussed, but can look into," the statement added.

NDP Leader Gary Burrill said Rankin should have disclosed everything publicly after he became premier in February.

"I would have thought good judgment would have led him to make this disclosure and to not try to minimize it in any way, not to say it was many years ago, or I've moved on, or I was found innocent of X or Y, but simply to assume full responsibility ... and to be completely straightforward about it," Burrill told reporters Thursday.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/cumberland-north-election-liberal-pc-ndp-independent-1.6135024

Cumberland North pits high-profile Independent vs. former 7-term MP

Newcomers for the PCs and NDP, meanwhile, hope to shake things up in
border district
Michael Gorman · CBC News · Posted: Aug 10, 2021 6:00 AM AT

While some people see this as a two-person race, David Wightman and
Lauren Skabar are hoping to change that.

Running for the Progressive Conservatives, Wightman has had some
catching up to do because of his late entry into the campaign.
Election materials were late arriving, and while Smith-McCrossin and
Casey signs pepper the district, Wightman only recently started
putting his up.

But he's hoping a platform that focuses on health care, along with
community anger directed at the Liberals, will hold him in good stead.

"I think the Liberals have had their turn to try and fix things, and I
think they've only gotten worse," he said, pointing to the growing
wait list of people looking for a family doctor.

While he expresses interest in working on a variety of issues,
Wightman said health care is top of mind for him as a stroke survivor
and because his wife went through treatment for cancer. There are
aspects of the system unique to that region that Wightman hopes to
address.

"One of the things I'd like to see is a better approach to how to get
people to medical appointments that are travelling back and forth
across the [New Brunswick] border," he said.
A time to unite

Skabar is the NDP candidate. Her father, Brian, was elected in the
district in 2009 as part of the NDP's surge to power, but she said
politics was in her blood long before that.

Health care for the area is a major issue, said Skabar, given routine
emergency department closures at community sites and difficulties
getting enough nurses and doctors to the region.

"Until we start incentivizing health-care professionals coming to
places like Cumberland North and our smaller communities, we aren't
going to see any improvements," she said.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-vaccine-passport-scotiapass-pandemic-liberal-1.6134638

Nova Scotia Liberals promise vaccine passport system if re-elected

ScotiaPass would be voluntary for individuals, businesses and other
organizations
Jean Laroche · CBC News · Posted: Aug 09, 2021 12:15 PM AT

"Both Houston and Burrill were critical of Rankin dropping this idea
in the midst of an election campaign.

"I don't think it indicates the kind of grasp and soundness that we
would look to see from a party that seeks to govern the province,"
said Burrill.

Houston said: "I'll just speak bluntly, our campaign is going very
well and he's concerned heading into the last week of the campaign."

 

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/iain-rankin-impaired-driving-charges-july-7-1.6093043

 

Premier Rankin dodges drunk driving questions, court records detail 2005 crash

Halifax officer who arrested Rankin in 2005 testified he smelled of alcohol and had bar stamp on hand

Nova Scotia Premier Iain Rankin repeatedly dodged questions from reporters Wednesday about whether he was drunk when he flipped his car and was arrested and charged for impaired driving in 2005.

"As I said Monday, I want to reiterate that I'm very, very sorry for my actions as someone that was very young," he said at a news conference Wednesday. "It's regrettable that I have to relive that experience right now."

Rankin disclosed publicly Monday at a COVID-19 briefing that he was convicted of impaired driving in 2003, when he was 20. He also said he was charged in a second incident in 2005. He said in that case he was found "innocent," although court records note he was initially found guilty but the conviction was later overturned on appeal. 

Court records offer more details of what happened around 6 a.m. on July 25, 2005, when the white Subaru Rankin was driving took a hard turn around a bend on Kearney Lake Road in Halifax and flipped into a ditch.

At Rankin's 2006 trial, witness James Pentecost, a construction worker, testified he saw the crash. It was light out, and the road was clear and dry at the time, he said. He was talking to a 911 operator when a man emerged from the passenger side of the wrecked Subaru appearing "groggy."

Pentecost said it was hard to tell whether the driver was impaired or in shock, but he said he could smell alcohol on the man's breath. "It was noticeable," he said.

The details come from documents that were released to CBC Wednesday afternoon by the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. The documents were requested Monday evening, several hours after Rankin addressed the two sets of impaired driving charges.

The court was not able to make the documents available all day Tuesday.

Rankin was found guilty of impaired driving following the 2006 trial. He was sentenced to 14 days of jail time, although it's not clear if he served any time behind bars. The conviction was later overturned on appeal. The charge was dismissed on retrial.

A bar stamp on his hand

Rankin's disclosure on Monday was the first time the 38-year-old premier had divulged the impaired driving charges in a public forum, although he said it was well known among family and friends. Rankin said he had previously disclosed the charges to the Liberal Party and to former premier Stephen McNeil.

In testimony at Rankin's 2006 trial, Pentecost said the driver of the crashed Subaru claimed there was a deer in the road, and he had swerved to avoid it. Pentecost, who had been approaching from the opposite direction, said he had not seen a deer.

Const. Bridgette Dunlap, then a 14-year veteran of the Halifax Regional Police, responded to the scene on Kearney Lake Road where she said she found Rankin being treated in an ambulance by a paramedic.

"He was thick tongued and … he was slurring at times," Dunlap testified.

She said he had a bar stamp on his right hand and smelled of alcohol.

"I had asked him if he had been out last night and was he drinking," Dunlap said.

At that point during her testimony, Rankin's defence lawyer, Stan MacDonald, interrupted to contest the relevance of Dunlap's conversation with Rankin. After the interruption, Dunlap did not say how Rankin responded.

Once Rankin was cleared by the paramedic, Dunlap arrested him, read him his rights and a breathalyzer demand, and brought him to the back of her police vehicle. Dunlap said Rankin said he understood his rights, and he wanted to speak to a lawyer.

Rankin was taken to the police station in downtown Halifax and given two breathalyzer tests. According to Dunlap, the first reading was 0.115 and the second was 0.15 — almost twice the legal limit.

At trial, police submitted a photocopy of the document that showed the breathalyzer results, who took the test and who administered it, but because it wasn't the original, the judge threw it out as evidence. The judge found Rankin guilty of a charge of impaired driving, but acquitted him on a second charge of driving with a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit.

Rankin's 'innocent' claim

On Monday, Rankin said he disclosed the 2003 and 2005 incidents after questions were raised from within his office. Those questions originated from allnovascotia.com reporter Brian Flinn, who had requested an interview with the premier earlier Monday.

Rankin pleaded guilty to the 2003 charge, was fined $1,200 and had his licence suspended for a year.

On Monday, Rankin said he'd been found "innocent" in the 2005 case. When asked about that characterization on Wednesday, he said, "Well, we have a court of law that determines the outcome in this province."

Courts do not declare innocence.

"I make no excuses for the kind of lifestyle that I lived when I was in my early 20s, so I want to be clear about that," he said. "I regret that alcohol was a big part of my life in my early 20s. I've moved on and I've lived a more safe lifestyle since in my 30s."

He divulged that he will become a father for the first time in November.


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 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/iain-rankin-impaired-driving-david-rodenhiser-opinion-1.6092420

 

N.S. premier's mea culpa over impaired driving more about damage control than real contrition

Iain Rankin is by no means the first politician forced to clear cadavers from a closet after a reporter calls

Premier Iain Rankin's confession Monday regarding his old impaired driving charges was more about damage control than public contrition.

Surely he and his advisers would have planned for this day. Yet they came up with a response that was gratingly less than forthright — both in how he did it and what he said.

Making his mea culpa at the beginning of Monday's COVID-19 briefing was all about media management. Those are tightly controlled events at which reporters are restricted to two questions each. None of the reporters attending would have had any background on the story. So most stuck to what they were sent there to do and asked questions about COVID cases and vaccinations.

Rankin faced only four questions about his impaired driving charges. His attempt to limit questions succeeded, but doing so has prolonged the story as reporters pursue followups that could have been wrapped up in a "one-and-done" scrum.

Moreover, the script Rankin read from Monday was designed to diminish his transgressions, not atone for them.

"I make no excuses for my behaviour," he said. "I was wrong and I made a bad decision. I'm very, very sorry for my actions half a lifetime ago."

Note he says "a bad decision." Singular. Just one. So he's remorseful for the 2003 impaired driving charge that he was convicted on, but he wants Nova Scotians to discount his 2005 charges, asserting that he was "eventually found to be innocent" of them.

But there is no "innocent" verdict in Canadian courts. In the 2005 case, the trial judge threw out a charge that Rankin was over the legal limit on a technicality — police couldn't produce the original breathalyzer reports showing Rankin blew 115 and 150.  However, the judge determined there was enough witness evidence to convict Rankin of impaired driving. On appeal, that conviction was set aside because the trial judge made factual errors, including misnaming one of the police officers who testified.

The appeal judge ordered a new trial. The Crown chose not to proceed. This is not the same thing as being innocent of plowing your car into the ditch and blowing nearly twice the legal limit.

But, hey, guilty, not guilty, or innocent, that was all "half a lifetime ago."

Rankin was also less than completely honest about the timing of his confession, stating: "I was never asked by any media source."

WATCH | Premier Iain Rankin addresses impaired driving charges:

In fact, Brian Flinn of the online media outlet allNovaScotia had contacted Rankin's office earlier in the day and asked to speak to the premier about the impaired driving charges. Flinn had received an anonymous plain brown envelope containing court documents related to the 2005 case. Flinn hadn't had the opportunity to ask Rankin directly only because the premier hadn't responded to his request for an interview. Another technicality, at best. 

Rankin is by no means the first Nova Scotia politician to have clear cadavers from a closet after a reporter calls. In 1999, Robert Chisholm's campaign to become premier was hobbled after an anonymous tip revealed he had been convicted of drunk driving in the 1970s at the age of 19. The conviction wasn't so much the problem; it was that he hadn't revealed it a couple of days earlier in a "20 questions" feature that I'd written for The Daily News. I'd asked each of the three party leaders if they had ever broken a law.

Two years later, when Darrell Dexter decided to run for the NDP leadership, he was much more proactive in going public with an impaired driving conviction he received at the age of 19. His campaign didn't suffer for it, and he went on to become premier. 

Similarly, Nova Scotians didn't hold it against Jane Purves, then education minister in John Hamm's government, when she disclosed in 2000 that she had been addicted to intravenous drugs in her 20s. That story began as a tip given to me during a party. Years later, I learned the tip was a plant and I'd been set up by political operatives to get the story out in a controlled fashion. After I interviewed Purves for my "scoop," she issued a news release and held a press conference to go public, using me as the foil who had dug up a tragic piece of her past. (Purves later became editor of The Daily News and was one of the best bosses I ever worked for.)

The lesson here is that Nova Scotians forgive politicians for the mistakes of their youth when they're candid about them, and they mistrust politicians when they aren't. 

For Rankin, his impaired driving charges alone probably aren't enough to hurt him in the pending election. But his failure to be entirely forthright in addressing them builds on a troubling pattern on more pertinent issues. 

He's never fully explained to Nova Scotians things like his apparent inability to get New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs on the phone to co-ordinate border reopenings, or why his government gutted the Biodiversity Act in response to a disinformation campaign mounted by Forest Nova Scotia. We still don't know why charges haven't been brought against the Ontario visitors and their local hosts who held the gathering that sparked Nova Scotia's deadly and expensive third wave of COVID.

These are things that will matter when Nova Scotians go to the polls. And Rankin won't be able to simply declare himself innocent, regardless of technicalities.


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 Learn more at www.nspower.ca. Media contact: David Rodenhiser. Nova Scotia Power. (902) 233-6015 david.rodenhiser@nspower.ca.

 

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From: David Amos <maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:34:04 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Mr Spurr here is the reason that I told you the story about
the RCMP, CTV, CBC, Youtube, BCE and Alliant
To: robert.hanf@emera.com, "James.Spurr" <James.Spurr@emera.com>,
"david.rodenhiser" <david.rodenhiser@nspower.ca>
Cc: maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca, shelley.black@enbridge.com,
info@northerngateway.ca, info@pipeupagainstenbridge.ca,
jolan@forestethics.org, info@cupe.bc.ca, info@pacificwild.org,
Jessica.Wilson@greenpeace.org

I did try hard to talk to you last fall. Ask David Rodenhiser. That
said I think you Emera dudes are crazy not to at least try to settle
with me before I decided to raise the stakes in your wicked game.
Please don't think me dumb I saw you checking me out whilst we talked
and I could tell that you believed every word I said.

FYI the reason I was so pissed off was a few days earlier a host of
very corrupt cops in seven cars pounced my son and I at 2:30 in the
morning right after the David Alward and the PCs won their big
mandate. As you can see I have reloaded some of my old videos that
were maliciously deleted just as the writ was dropped. Surf through
and you will see your face Mr Spurr You seemed like an ok guy on the
phone but so did the former Attorney General Mikey Murphy before he
and his pals sent all the corrupt cops to attack me. If nothing you
should deny that we talked on the 6th and that quite some time before
I opted to upload a video about you Ermera dudes again and reintroduce
myself to big talking activists in BC.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MaritimeMalaise

 
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From: Redden, Zeda
To: David Amos
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 12:43 AM
Subject: Out of Office AutoReply: Yo George Cope I am still very
curious if the lawyers Fred Crooks and Maritine Turcotte have learned
the meaning of the word INTEGRITY yet?


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> 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 n
>
> 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 and
> the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment
> 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

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Amos" <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
To: <george.cope@bell.ca>; "acampbell" <acampbell@ctv.ca>;
<alyson.queen@bellaliant.ca>; <zeda.redden@bellaliant.ca>;
<karen.sheriff@bellaliant.ca>; <fred.crooks@bellaliant.ca>;
<sasha.irving@emera.com>; <James.Spurr@emera.com>
Cc: <martine.turcotte@bell.ca>; "rick.hancox"
<rick.hancox@nbsc-cvmnb.ca>; <bce@computershare.com>;
<david.rodenhiser@nspower.ca>; "Bernard.LeBlanc"
<Bernard.LeBlanc@gnb.ca>; "kelly. lamrock" <kelly.lamrock@gnb.ca>;
"Bernard. Theriault" <Bernard.Theriault@gnb.ca>;
<oldmaison@yahoo.com>; "securities" <securities@sec.state.ma.us>;
"terry.seguin" <terry.seguin@cbc.ca>; "Edith. Cody-Rice"
<Edith.Cody-Rice@cbc.ca>; "oig" <oig@sec.gov>; "krisaustin"
<krisaustin@panb.org>; <David.ALWARD@gnb.ca>;
<ddexter@ns.sympatico.ca>; "peacocrs" <peacocrs@gov.ns.ca>;
"brigdit.leger" <brigdit.leger@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>; "lapoinjr"
<lapoinjr@gov.ns.ca>; "Wayne.Lang" <Wayne.Lang@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 12:42 AM
Subject: Yo George Cope I am still very curious if the lawyers Fred
Crooks and Maritine Turcotte have learned the meaning of the word
INTEGRITY yet?


----- Original Message -----
From: martine.turcotte@bell.ca
To: motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com
Cc: bcecomms@bce.ca ; W-Five@ctv.ca
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 10:28 AM
Subject: RE: I am curious

Mr. Amos,

I confirm that I have received your documentation.

There is no need to send us a hard copy. As you have said yourself,
the documentation is very voluminous and after 3 days, we are still in
the process of printing it.

I have asked one of my lawyers to review it in my absence and report
back to me upon my return in the office. We will then provide you with
a reply.


Martine Turcotte
Chief Legal Officer / Chef principal du service juridique
BCE Inc. / Bell Canada
1000 de La Gauchetière ouest, bureau 3700
Montréal (Qc) H3B 4Y7

Tel: (514) 870-4637
Fax: (514) 870-4877
email: martine.turcotte@bell.ca


Executive Assistant / Assistante à la haute direction: Diane Valade

Tel: (514) 870-4638

email: diane.valade@bell.ca



-----Original Message-----
From: David Amos mailto:motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:12 AM
To: Turcotte, Martine (EX05453)
Cc: bcecomms@bce.ca; W-Five@ctv.ca
Subject: I am curious

Madam

I did not receive a response from you to the last email so I am not
certain if you received it. I must inform you that I will be closing
my briefcase in Yahoo for public view at the end of the week. I have a
great deal of material to add and I only wish certain parties to view
it. I opened it for you the other day as an act of good faith. Mr.
Pozen can check my work in the dockets of the various courts around
Boston they are a matter of Public Record my files are not. As you can
see by this and some following emails. I am very busy dealing with
criminal matters first before filing civil complaints in the USA. As I
told you when you called a lot has been happening. I have made a lot
of cops mad at me and I don't trust them a bit particularly after the
Police Commission is willing to check their work so i have been busy
watching my back and covering my butt. However that does not mean that
I have not thought about our conversation and was curious about a few
things.

I was glad to receive your call and impressed by the fact that you
were more than willing to receive the material and a copy of the
wiretap tape in particular. Your stated willingness to uphold the law
was a rare statement to me. However I was curious why you only
mentioned my voicemail to Mr. Pozen and not the email to your company
and the news program that it owns. Did they not inform you as well? If
they didn't I am not surprised because I have some other rather
interesting denials from the Media. the most interesting would have to
be from the PBS program called Frontline when I introduced its
producer Michael Sullivan to the US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan. Now
that is a story well worth W5 telling. Too bad they showed me their
ass. As a courtesy to you and a further act of good faith, I will not
forward this email to anyone else until after I return to the USA and
nothing has been resolved between BCE and I and I am compelled to name
it in my complaint. I would find it very hard to believe that Mr,
Pozen does not know everything he needs to know about me right now.

I had also called a lawyer, Steven Skurka who had a week long little
special on CTV . I had tried to inform him that I knew my rights his
assistant hollered at me. You from speaking to me yourself that I am
not a rude character. I found it too funny to be treated that way and
I had resolved to serve him this stuff byway of the local ATV Station
that had presented his smiling talking head to me. That is why I was
telling you that you could get this stuff from the local ATV station.
I found it quite strange that you did not rely on them to send it on
to you. Thus I must make an extra copy to comply with your request.

I know the date stamp on the forwarded email is incorrect but that is
because my old laptop goes to the first year in it when I boot up and
sometimes I am too busy or tired to bother changing it. However MSN
tracks it with the true date. Brad Smith and I have a bone to pick as
well and I have been checking his work rather closely since he ignored
my letter to him last year. His boss Bill Gates is gonna be very angry
and Brad Smith and Steve Balmer in the near future if I have anything
to do with it. If you do act ethically and immediately I will settle
with your company very cheaply in comparsion to the bottom lines of my
first two complaints. In fact I will be so impressed I will
immediatlely offer you a better job than the one you have now. Please
study the material I will provide you closely and ask me any thing you
wish.

I will do as I promised and send the material you requested as soon as
I can put it all together. Right now I am on the move and far away
from my printer. Is the following your correct address? Perhaps you
should consider sending someone to the my meeting with the Police
Commission in Fredericton next week in order to hear me speak of these
matters to law enforcement before I return to the USA. Once I do
return there I will serve the Mr. Pozen the material as promised and
call him to testify in my pending trial. The following emails should
explain some of my concerns to you. My wife will be in Canada next
week as well to pick up our kids. I will allow you to speak to her if
you wish. She has had a nervous breakdown over the legal crap and I do
have her Durable Power of Attorney pursuant to M.G.L. 201 B. Mr. Pozen
can ask Robert S. Creedon Jr. about that document. I argued it with
him before the entire Judicuary Commitee on Sept. 18th 2003.

I will call you in a minute to make certain that you get this and the
following emails.

David R. Amos

Martine Turcotte

1000 de la Gauchetiere Ouest
Floor 41
Montreal, Quebec H3B 58H Canada
Tel: (514) 870-4637
Fax: (514) 870-4877

For the Record I gave the Irving "Rag called the Gleaner" in Fat Fred
City and the CBC dudes in Toronto copies of the following lawsuits in
the USA in 2002 long before I gave some material to Bellglobemedia
byway of their W-Five yo yos. Clearly nobody knows how to read if they
don't think I ain't sued folks before EH?

Ask W-Five or their lawyers if I am a liar or not. Better yet ask
Stevey Boy Murphy or Andy Campbell in Fat Fred City if they dare to
chaleenge the truth. If all else fails and you bloggers seek counsel
you can trust why not ask Chucky Leblanc or your "Blogger General"
T.J. Burke he received the same documents on June 24th, 2004 the day
Danny boy Busierres and the Fat Fred City Finest attempted to banish
me from the LEG but it ain't worked out to well for them yet EH Chucky
Leblanc? However chucky was quick to report that I was banished the
following day and ain't said apeep about it since. Who to you think
told him not to talk about it? Kelly lamrock, T.J. Burke. the Irvings
or all three?

FYI W-Five took an interest in my matters at about the same time
Chretien's underling was calling Bush a moron.(I oftern call myself an
oxymoron Methinks somebody has been studing my words EH?) I supported
Chretein's underling's thinking in two affidavits demanding judgements
by default filed in the following dockets on December 12th, 2002.

The following day Cardinal Law (Methinks that is why chucky hates me
so) quit Beantown and ran off to the Holy See. Years later he helped
pick the latest Pope(a former Hitler Youth who is making his bones
with the croooked little Georgey Boy Bush Jr. right now in the USA.)

Never Forget the Queen is the protector of the Faith of the Church of
England . She would not allow her family's assests to be stolen and
given to the catholic Church. Why should I act any different?

----- Original Message -----
From: W-FIVE Viewer Mail
To: David Amos
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 3:03 PM
Subject: RE: possble story


Dear Mr. Amos,

I would like to thank you for your email to W-FIVE, sorry for the
delay in responding.

We review every email and story idea that we receive here at W-FIVE
and give it serious consideration. Your email has been forwarded to
our executive and senior producer for review. If we are interested in
pursuing your idea further, you will be contacted by one of our
researchers.

Thanks again for your input. Your interest in our program is much
appreciated.

Sincerely,

Lisa-Marie

Production Coordinator

W-FIVE

-----Original Message-----
From: a friend of David Amos' email account
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:28 PM
To: W-FIVE@ctv.ca
Subject: possble story


I am a Canadian Citizen who thus far, as a plaintiff, has two Lawsuits
in the US District Court of Massachucetts they are numbered 02-11686-
RGS and 02-11687-RGS.

They were removed to that Court from the Norfolk Superior Court by the
US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan very improperly. However they shall
remain there because of my status as a Canandian Citizen. Judge Sterns
has not even held a Conference about the matters because he likely
does not want to hear the matter because I have presented all Members
of the Bar with their worst fear of a catch 22 problem.

Accordinging to law he is late. I have complained of 47 defendants 34
of whom are State Defendants( the Attorney General, The Commission of
Judicial Conduct Board of Bar Overseers etc) and 3 are Federal
Treasury Agents. Some of the defendants are over two months late in
their answer to the Summons.

The smallest suit amounts to 188 million dollars in the form of
relief. There is a lot to these matters and too much to briefly
explain. But in a nutshell my wife's Aunt, who is buried beside Rose
Kennedy, left my wife some money. It was stolen by her relatives in
executing the estate. No news there. But the crooks are very well
connected politically and every part of the old crony network in
Boston covered for them.

The crook and our cousin, Charles J. Kickham Jr of the Kickham Law
Office on Beacon St, has been past President of Bar Associations. He
has sat on the Board of Governors of Harvard Law School etc. I have
given much information to many members of the press who have simply
ignored some interesting facts.

What should be somewhat newsworthy is how far a wild colonial boy has
come in prosecuting Pro Se the most profund Yankee carpetbaggers. My
next two lawsuits Under title 18 are wickedly righteous. I have left
one copy of much information in Saint John New Brunswick at a lawyer's
Office, Mosher and Chedore 33 Charlotte St if some one wishes to view
them. I can be reached at this Cell number 506 434- 1379

David R. Amos

https://service.halifaxchamber.com/directory/1/contact.jsp?CustomerID=112565

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/a-man-called-cope/article1482122/

http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/an-insider%E2%80%99s-perspective-on-george-cope-ceo-of-bell-canada-bce-with-simon-avery-of-the-globe-and-mail/

http://www.bce.ca/en/aboutbce/executiveteams/bellcanada/cope/

http://www.bce.ca/en/aboutbce/executiveteams/bellcanada/turcotte/

 

 

---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 21:30:48 -0300
Subject: Yo Premier Iain Rankin tell your buddy Big Bad Billy Casey to
check out my old Chevy in the photo hereto attached Trust that it is
is still registered in Nova Scotia along with my Harleys etc
To: PREMIER <PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, "blaine.higgs" <blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>,
JUSTMIN@novascotia.ca, Naomi.Shelton@novascotia.ca,
gary.burrill@nsndp.ca, larry.duchesne@nsndp.ca,
lauren.skabar@nsndp.ca, feedback@nsndp.ca,
campaign.manager@greenpartyns.ca, info@atlanticaparty.ca,
provincial.admin@greenpartyns.ca, matthew.piggott@greenparty.ca, mcu
<mcu@justice.gc.ca>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "Katie.Telford"
<Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca>, "Ian.Shugart"
<Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca>, "Kevin.leahy"
<Kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Michael.Gorman"
<Michael.Gorman@cbc.ca>, "steve.murphy" <steve.murphy@ctv.ca>,
electivandrouin@gmail.com, trainorgreenpartyns@gmail.com,
anthony.edmonds@greenpartyns.ca, doug@doug4kingsnorth.ca,
krista.grear@greenpartyns.ca
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, office@liberal.ns.ca

 

Deja Vu Anyone?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vugUalUO8YY



RCMP Sussex New Brunswick

2,384 views
Apr 5, 2013
42 subscribers
 
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 
 
 
CLEARLY THE RCMP/GRC AND THE KPMG PALS DO NOT KNOW HOW TO READ LET ALONE COUNT BEANS EH? 
 
 
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 n 
 
 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 and the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment 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



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Premier <PREMIER@novascotia.ca>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 23:59:54 +0000
Subject: Thank you for your email to Premier Rankin
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

Thank you for your email to Premier Rankin. This is an automatic
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Justice Minister <JUSTMIN@novascotia.ca>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 23:59:59 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Premier Iain Rankin and his buddy
Big Bad Billy Casey who uses an old Chevy just like mine to promote
himself should sit up and pay attention N'esy Pas Mr Prime Minister
Trudeau The Younger?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

Thank you for your email to the Minister of Justice. Please be assured
that it has been received by the Department. Your email will be
reviewed and addressed accordingly. Thank you.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 23:59:42 +0000
Subject: Automatic Reply
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

Thank you for writing to the Honourable David Lametti, Minister of
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Due to the volume of correspondence addressed to the Minister, please
note that there may be a delay in processing your email. Rest assured
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-------------------

Merci d'avoir écrit à l'honorable David Lametti, ministre de la
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En raison du volume de correspondance adressée au ministre, veuillez
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avec soin.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Higgs, Premier Blaine (PO/CPM)" <Blaine.Higgs@gnb.ca>
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2021 00:05:01 +0000
Subject: RE: Methinks Premier Iain Rankin and his buddy Big Bad Billy
Casey who uses an old Chevy just like mine to promote himself should
sit up and pay attention N'esy Pas Mr Prime Minister Trudeau The Younger?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

Hello,

Thank you for taking the time to write.

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 ---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 20:59:38 -0300
Subject: Methinks Premier Iain Rankin and his buddy Big Bad Billy
Casey who uses an old Chevy just like mine to promote himself should
sit up and pay attention N'esy Pas Mr Prime Minister Trudeau The Younger?
To: PREMIER <PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, "blaine.higgs" <blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>,
JUSTMIN@novascotia.ca, Naomi.Shelton@novascotia.ca,
gary.burrill@nsndp.ca, larry.duchesne@nsndp.ca,
lauren.skabar@nsndp.ca, feedback@nsndp.ca,
campaign.manager@greenpartyns.ca, info@atlanticaparty.ca,
provincial.admin@greenpartyns.ca, matthew.piggott@greenparty.ca, mcu
<mcu@justice.gc.ca>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "Katie.Telford"
<Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca>, "Ian.Shugart"
<Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca>, "Kevin.leahy"
<Kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Michael.Gorman"
<Michael.Gorman@cbc.ca>, "steve.murphy" <steve.murphy@ctv.ca>,
electivandrouin@gmail.com, trainorgreenpartyns@gmail.com,
anthony.edmonds@greenpartyns.ca, doug@doug4kingsnorth.ca,
krista.grear@greenpartyns.ca
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Nova Scotia Liberal Party
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Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3J 1M5

Tel: (902) 429-1993
Fax: (902) 423-1624

Email: office@liberal.ns.ca

 

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-election-liberal-iain-rankin-cobequid-tolls-1.6109796

 

Rankin promises to nix Cobequid tolls, gets cool reception in Amherst

Liberals made the same promise in 2017 election but didn't follow through

The welcome mat wasn't exactly rolled out for Nova Scotia Liberal Leader Iain Rankin as he arrived Tuesday in Amherst, N.S., for a campaign stop. 

Rankin was in town to announce plans to remove tolls from the Cobequid Pass for passenger vehicles with Nova Scotia plates by Oct. 1, if his party is re-elected.

But a group of about 15 protesters angry over public health restrictions made it challenging for Rankin to announce his plan.

The protesters say restrictions put in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic have cut them off from the rest of the province and neighbouring communities in New Brunswick.

Some of them waved signs in support of Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin, the Independent candidate for Cumberland North. She was kicked out of the Tory caucus for her part in protests that shut down Highway 104 last month. 


Supporters of Independent candidate Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin protested a Liberal party campaign event Tuesday in Amherst. Thomas Everett, in sunglasses, holds a sign reading, 'Elizabeth for Premier.' (Robert Short/CBC)

Thomas Everett, an Amherst resident who attended the protest, said removing the tolls now won't be enough to sway voters. 

"Cumberland County only matters when it comes to votes," he said. 

"When all the [COVID] cases were going on in Halifax and there were no cases in Amherst, we were locked down just the same way Halifax was, to appease Halifax residents."

Locals already avoid the tolls

Everett said locals who don't want to pay the tolls already drive through the Wentworth Valley on the old highway to avoid them. 

While the tolls will come off for passenger vehicles with Nova Scotia plates, they'll remain in place for commercial vehicles and cars from out of province. 

Rankin said that's to help pay for continued maintenance of the highway and to construct new rest stops and maintenance sheds along the Cobequid Pass.

The Liberals also promised to remove the tolls during the 2017 election. Rankin said the promise was to do so once the bonds were paid off, something he said would happen this September. Previously, the Liberals suggested the tolls would be gone by as soon as 2019, but that did not happen.

The Liberal leader, who moved indoors to take questions from reporters, said he wasn't surprised by his reception outside a local hotel next to Highway 104, where people hollered and waved signs behind him as he made his announcement. 

"Lives were disrupted in the pandemic and I think in Cumberland more so than any other region of the province," he said.

"So I appreciate the frustration. At the same time, I hope that they can recognize that we were really trying to look out for the safety of all Nova Scotians, including themselves, and we had to make tough decisions. That's what managing a crisis like a pandemic is all about."

Rankin campaigned Tuesday with local candidate Bill Casey, a longtime member of Parliament who came out of retirement to run in this election.


Casey, the Liberal candidate for Cumberland North, stands in front of a campaign-branded vintage truck in his riding. (Robert Short/CBC)

Casey said there are people in Cumberland County who are frustrated and feel like a political afterthought, but he wasn't sure some of the protesters who greeted him and Rankin were representative of the region.

"I understand them but I don't think they're well founded in some ways and in some ways I do," he told reporters. 

"Cumberland County was affected by the closures of the border more than any other county. We're the only county in Nova Scotia that borders on another province and every day we're affected by New Brunswick regulations and Nova Scotia regulations. We're the only county that has to deal with that."

Casey said it shouldn't be forgotten that Nova Scotia's response to the COVID-19 pandemic was among the best in the world.

Tories, NDP respond

The leaders of the Tories and NDP, meanwhile, criticized the Liberals for trying to make the same promise two elections in a row. 

Tory Leader Tim Houston, whose party is still searching for a candidate, said his party would remove all tolls from the Cobequid Pass right away if they form government.

NDP Leader Gary Burrill said his party would remove all tolls from the highway as soon as the debt is paid off. 


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Gorman is a reporter in Nova Scotia whose coverage areas include Province House, rural communities, and health care. Contact him with story ideas at michael.gorman@cbc.ca

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https://electionsnovascotia.ca/41ProvincialGeneralElection

 Writs of election have been issued for the 41st Provincial General
Election in Nova Scotia. Election day will be Tuesday, August 17,
2021.

Elections Nova Scotia is an independent, non-partisan agency that is
responsible for the administration of the Elections Act. Its mandate
is to conduct Provincial General Elections and by-elections; ensure
compliance with the provincial electoral law including the political
financing regime; establish and maintain election-related information
including the Nova Scotia Register of Electors; seek advice and
conduct studies related to electoral processes; and, conduct electoral
education processes.

Naomi Shelton
Director, Policy and Communications
Elections Nova Scotia
202 Brownlow Ave, Ste 505,
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia,
B3B 1T5, Canada
902-424-3275
Naomi.Shelton@novascotia.ca

https://twitter.com/NaomiRShelton/with_replies?lang=en

In Nova Scotia, we currently have five registered political parties. These are:

Atlantica Party Association of Nova Scotia
Website: www.atlanticaparty.ca/

Green Party of Nova Scotia
Website: www.greenpartyns.ca

Nova Scotia Liberal Party
Website: www.liberal.ns.ca

Nova Scotia New Democratic Party
Website: www.nsndp.ca

Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia
Website: www.pcparty.ns.ca

https://www.atlanticaparty.ca/News/details/jonathan-dean-returns-as-leader-of-ns-atlantica-party

Jonathan Dean Returns as Leader of NS Atlantica Party
Atlantica
11/20/2020
Announcements

The Atlantica Party is returning to Nova Scotia’s political landscape
with former leader Jonathan Dean at the helm. Dean, who co-founded the
Atlantica Party in 2006, resigned as leader two years ago after
growing discord within the Party executive over Atlantica’s direction,
prompting him to step away entirely.

“I was not going to lead a boring party,” said Dean, a long-time
investment researcher who opened his own consulting practice after
leaving the Party.

“I’ve always believed the Atlantica Party should stay true to its
transformative core vision of smaller, more transparent and more
democratic government with greater accountability to citizens,” he
said. “From the very beginning, all of our policies were guided by
those principles.”

With a new executive in place, the Party conducted a membership survey
in June. Dean said many Nova Scotians value the Party’s direction, but
have been disappointed by the sense that “government commitments begin
and end with election campaigns.”

“Right now, we have a provincial government that campaigned on
transparency then effectively shut down any democratic accountability
by cancelling legislature committee meetings for six months during a
global pandemic,” he said. “To say some voters are disillusioned with
politicians right now is an understatement.”

Dean said they are working to build on the momentum from the last
provincial election when the Party had the best results in its
history. He said the goal is to present Nova Scotians with “a common
sense alternative” the next time they go to the polls. This includes a
pro-market approach to business, and a greater emphasis on democracy
and good decision-making.

Party president Darryl Skeard said there is a lot of excitement around
Dean’s return, and that plans are underway for a virtual annual
general meeting designed to unite both new and long-time party
members.

“It’s a new era, but with Jonathan returning as leader, it’s also a
re-commitment to our roots,” said Skeard.  “Jonathan has the vision,
experience and solid integrity we need.”

To arrange an interview with Jonathan Dean, please contact:

info@atlanticaparty.ca
For more information on the Atlantica Party, policy briefs, or to get
involved, visit atlanticaparty.ca, facebook.com/AtlanticaPartyNS/ and
twitter.com/AtlanticaParty.


https://greenpartyns.ca/thomas-trappenberg-stepping-down-as-leader-of-ns-green-party/

Thomas Trappenberg Stepping Down as Leader of NS Green Party

2021-04-30 By Krista Grear Leave a Comment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Halifax 04/26/2021

(Halifax)Dr. Thomas Trappenberg has announced that he is stepping down
as leader of the Green Party of Nova Scotia. He has been leader of the
GPNS since 2016 and has run several times as a Green Party candidate
both provincially and federally since 2006.

Dr. Trappenberg took on the leadership of GPNS, with Deputy Leader
Jessica Alexander at a time when the party was at risk of dissolving.
Since that time the party has stabilized and grown significantly. “I
feel the party now has a firm foundation. I am proud of the successes
we have had over the past five years. We have been a strong voice for
the environment, standing up for our forests, our oceans and social
justice,” he said.

“We are a grassroots party and our members have indicated that they
are ready for new leadership,” he added. As part of the Annual General
Meeting of the GPNS held on April 25, the majority of members voted in
favour of holding a leadership contest.

This recommendation will now go to the GPNS Executive for decisions on
next steps. Deputy Leader, Jessica Alexander, will be acting Interim
Leader until that time.

The Past President of the GPNS, Ashley Morton said, “The Green Party
of Nova Scotia thanks Dr. Trappenberg for his leadership and thousands
of hours of labour for the party. He is unquestionably leaving it in
better shape upon his departure than when he took on the leadership
role.”

For more information contact:

Ashley Morton, 902-999-7017


Election to be called today – Open call for Candidates

2021-07-17 By Matthew Piggott Leave a Comment

It’s time for a provincial election! It is widely expected that an
election will be called today (July 17th) with an anticipated election
day of August 17th, 2021.

The Green Party of Nova Scotia aims to give every Nova Scotian the
opportunity to vote for the candidate of their choice. If you are
excited for change, want to take on a new challenge, or simply provide
a new choice for you and your community then this may be the
opportunity for you.

All interested candidates who have been a resident of Nova Scotia for
at least 6 months are encouraged to apply here: Green Party of Nova
Scotia Candidate Application Form

If you are approved the deadline to register with Elections Nova
Scotia could be as early as July 28th, 2021 at 2pm.

The Green Party will be offering an exciting team of candidates and
will be announcing those candidates in their confirmed ridings soon.
At this time we are searching for additional candidates on Cape Breton
Island and on the South Shore between Digby and Queens Counties.

For more information please contact campaign.manager@greenpartyns.ca
or provincial.admin@greenpartyns.ca

https://www.greenparty.ca/en/content/federal-council-nova-scotia-matthew-piggott

Matthew Piggott
Federal Council - Nova Scotia
matthew.piggott@greenparty.ca

I first got involved with the Green Party in 2003. This is my
political home. Whether we agree or disagree, all who have worked with
me know I'm here for Green values and building long term
relationships.

Over the last 18 years I've held countless volunteer roles, mostly at
the local EDA and campaign level, and with many provincial Green
parties. I have twice held staff roles with the GPC.

These values guide my involvement: Safe spaces are a non-negotiable
requirement. Kindness and being reasonable should guide decisions.
Commitment to diversity and anti-oppression are not up for debate and
will help grow the party. Accountability should be aligned with
influence. On doit etre une partie billangue pour etre une vraie
partie national. Providing space for emotional safety goes a long way
towards doing the grueling work of building a national political
party. And most importantly, political parties must run on trust (or
else they don't work).

This next federal council needs to get back to basics. It is
impossible to run a national party without functioning processes and
party institutions. If something is missing we need to build it, and
it's the role of Council to set the policy/procedures and then let the
work be done. I'm stepping up at this moment to do that work.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
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Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 17:38:42 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: MLA Weekly Update and Decision Announcement
(Case Ref: ES3077) Methinks Premier Iain Rankin is far more than
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Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 14:38:10 -0300
Subject: Re: MLA Weekly Update and Decision Announcement (Case Ref:
ES3077) Methinks Premier Iain Rankin is far more than merely welcome
N'esy Pas Higgy?
To: mla@esmithmccrossinmla.com, "Mike.Comeau" <Mike.Comeau@gnb.ca>,
"Mitton, Megan (LEG)" <megan.mitton@gnb.ca>, "blaine.higgs"
<blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, premier <premier@ontario.ca>, Office of the
Premier <scott.moe@gov.sk.ca>, PREMIER <PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>,
michelle.stevens@novascotia.ca

, heather.fairbairn@novascotia.ca,
elizabeth.macdonald@novascotia.ca, Gary.Andrea@novascotia.ca,
dkogon@amherst.ca, jmacdonald@amherst.ca, darrell.cole@amherstnews.ca,
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<JUSTMIN@novascotia.ca>, "Brenda.Lucki" <Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
"barbara.massey" <barbara.massey@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "barb.whitenect"
<barb.whitenect@gnb.ca>, "Boston.Mail" <Boston.Mail@ic.fbi.gov>,
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From: Justice Minister <JUSTMIN@novascotia.ca>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 17:19:07 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: MLA Weekly Update and Decision Announcement
(Case Ref: ES3077) Methinks Iain Rankin and Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin
cannot read but I certainly can N'esy Pas Higgy?
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Higgs, Premier Blaine (PO/CPM)" <Blaine.Higgs@gnb.ca>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 17:21:14 +0000
Subject: RE: MLA Weekly Update and Decision Announcement (Case Ref:
ES3077) Methinks Iain Rankin and Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin cannot read
but I certainly can N'esy Pas Higgy?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
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Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 17:18:56 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: MLA Weekly Update and Decision Announcement
(Case Ref: ES3077) Methinks Iain Rankin and Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin
cannot read but I certainly can N'esy Pas Higgy?
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 14:52:40 -0300
Subject: Re MLA Weekly Update and Decision Announcement (Case Ref:
ES3077) I just called again
To: PREMIER <PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>
Cc: assistant <assistant@esmithmccrossinmla.com>, motomaniac333
<motomaniac333@gmail.com>


Media Contact:

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Contact Elizabeth
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EMAIL assistant@esmithmccrossinmla.com


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: mla@esmithmccrossinmla.com
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:31:17 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: MLA Weekly Update and Decision Announcement (Case Ref: ES3077)
To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com


Dear David Amos

MLA Weekly Update&nbsp;

Date Tuesday July 6th, 2021

My Mission as MLA for Cumberland North

Serve the people&nbsp;
Build Unity &amp; Trust&nbsp;
Influence Legislation &amp; public policy
For the greater good.&nbsp;
Educate and Build Capacity
Promote the people and area,&nbsp;
Build a world-class health care system&nbsp;
And improve population health.

I have some news to share to start the week.

I don&rsquo;t know when Iain Rankin is going to call the next election.

But I do know this.

When Iain Rankin calls the election, I will be running as an
Independent candidate for re-election as MLA for Cumberland North.

You, the good people of Cumberland North know me.

You know I will always put your priorities first.

I will always fight for you.

No apologies.

Running as an Independent outside of party politics isn&rsquo;t easy.

If the people of Cumberland North continue to stand by me, I will
continue to fight for you.

For better health care.

For regional co-operation to keep our borders open.

For getting rid of the Cobequid Pass tolls.

For supporting local food and the farmers who make it happen.

I&rsquo;m the only candidate in Cumberland North who doesn&rsquo;t
have to answer to a party leader in Halifax.

I&rsquo;m not a career politician.&nbsp;&nbsp;I&rsquo;m a registered
nurse.&nbsp;&nbsp;I have owned and operated my own
businesses.&nbsp;&nbsp;I have put people to work and met a payroll.

Above all, I&rsquo;m a fighter who doesn&rsquo;t back down.

With your support, let&rsquo;s put the people of Cumberland North first.&nbsp;

I learned at a young age to stand my ground and I am not about to
change now.&nbsp;


Last Week in Politics&nbsp;

Last week my staff and I worked with constituents on many matters of
importance such as lack of family physicians, housing, roads, Covid
rules and restrictions, NS NB Border, addictions and mental health and
more.&nbsp;

I continue to work with Municipal partners on various projects
throughout Cumberland North,&nbsp;


This Week In Politics

Local
This week I will be meeting with constituents to continue to work on
ongoing projects for family physician recruitment and addictions and
mental illness recovery projects.&nbsp;

National
The Borders are opening between Canada and US this week for fully
vaccinated persons.&nbsp;
We also see the toll of the wild fires in British Colombia.
Heartbreaking to see the devastation and deaths from the deadly
fires.&nbsp;


Pandemic Update&nbsp;

Vaccine

Vaccination for the Covid-19 virus continues to be the main tool we
have to prevent illness and death. If you require assistance to book
your Covid19 vaccine please call my office and my staff can provide
you with some help. Our office phone number is 902-661-2288.&nbsp;

NS has only 26.1 % of the population with 2nd doses of vaccine while
NB has 39.6% of the population vaccinated with 2nd doses. NB also
vaccinates persons with medical conditions that deems them high risk
but our NS government refuses.&nbsp;

Nova Scotia&nbsp;

NS has 53 active cases of Covid19 as of Monday morning with 3 new
cases being identified on Sunday. No one in ICU in the entire province
and only 3 people in hospital.&nbsp;

https://novascotia.ca/coronavirus/data/


New Brunswick&nbsp;

NB has 21 active cases of Covid-19 as of Monday morning with only 1
new case identified on Sunday. NB has no one in ICU and 4 persons on
hospital with Covid infections.&nbsp;

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/8eeb9a2052d641c996dba5de8f25a8aa



Birthdays

Monday Ashleigh Coffin and Sheila Rushton
Tuesday Laura Wells
Wednesday Mal MacDonald
Thursday Kittee Baxter and Carl LeBlanc
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Obituaries

Hermina &quot;Mini&quot; Porter

https://www.jonesfamilyfuneralcentre.ca/obituaries/154949


Margaret Ann Myles

https://www.arbormemorial.ca/campbells/obituaries/margaret-ann-myles/68221/

Nova Scotia Starts Here ~ Cumberland&nbsp;

Several months ago I started this campaign emphasizing the importance
of Cumberland County. Nova Scotia does start in Cumberland. Cumberland
is the Gateway for the Atlantic Cooridor and on average 50 million
dollars worth of goods travel through our Gateway. We may only have 3%
of the population of NS but we provide critical infrastructure for NS,
the Maritimes, Canada and the entire Eastern Seaboard.&nbsp;

Never underestimate your value as citizens of Cumberland. We are
important and we will stand for our area of the province. It&rsquo;s
time for Cumberland to receive the respect we deserve and we will grow
and become all that we are meant to be.&nbsp;

Have a great week, take care of yourselves and take care of one another.&nbsp;

Take care,&nbsp;
Elizabeth&nbsp;
&nbsp;

Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin MBA, BScN
Cumberland North MLA&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Live everyday to the fullest and love as much as humanly possible.



>>>>
>>>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>>>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>>> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:15:59 -0400
>>>>> Subject: Hey Ralph Goodale perhaps you and the RCMP should call the
>>>>> Yankees Governor Charlie Baker, his lawyer Bob Ross, Rachael Rollins
>>>>> and this cop Robert Ridge (857 259 9083) ASAP EH Mr Primme Minister
>>>>> Trudeau the Younger and Donald Trump Jr?
>>>>> To: pm@pm.gc.ca, Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca,
>>>>> Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca, djtjr@trumporg.com,
>>>>> Donald.J.Trump@donaldtrump.com, JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca,
>>>>> Frank.McKenna@td.com, barbara.massey@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>>>>> Douglas.Johnson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, sandra.lofaro@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>>>>> washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>>>>> gov.press@state.ma.us, bob.ross@state.ma.us, jfurey@nbpower.com,
>>>>> jfetzer@d.umn.edu, Newsroom@globeandmail.com, sfine@globeandmail.com,
>>>>> .Poitras@cbc.ca, steve.murphy@ctv.ca, David.Akin@globalnews.ca,
>>>>> Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, news@kingscorecord.com,
>>>>> news@dailygleaner.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com, jbosnitch@gmail.com,
>>>>> andre@jafaust.com>
>>>>> Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com, DJT@trumporg.com
>>>>> wharrison@nbpower.com, David.Lametti@parl.gc.camcu@justice.gc.ca,
>>>>> Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca, hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>>> From: "Murray, Charles (Ombud)" <Charles.Murray@gnb.ca>
>>>>>> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:16:15 +0000
>>>>>> Subject: You wished to speak with me
>>>>>> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have the advantage, sir, of having read many of your emails over
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> years.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As such, I do not think a phone conversation between us, and
>>>>>> specifically one which you might mistakenly assume was in response to
>>>>>> your threat of legal action against me, is likely to prove a
>>>>>> productive use of either of our time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If there is some specific matter about which you wish to communicate
>>>>>> with me, feel free to email me with the full details and it will be
>>>>>> given due consideration.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Charles Murray
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ombud NB
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Acting Integrity Commissioner
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> From: Justice Website <JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca>
>>>>>>> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:21:11 +0000
>>>>>>> Subject: Emails to Department of Justice and Province of Nova Scotia
>>>>>>> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mr. Amos,
>>>>>>> We acknowledge receipt of your recent emails to the Deputy Minister
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>> Justice and lawyers within the Legal Services Division of the
>>>>>>> Department of Justice respecting a possible claim against the
>>>>>>> Province
>>>>>>> of Nova Scotia.  Service of any documents respecting a legal claim
>>>>>>> against the Province of Nova Scotia may be served on the Attorney
>>>>>>> General at 1690 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS.  Please note that we
>>>>>>> will
>>>>>>> not be responding to further emails on this matter.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Department of Justice
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 8/3/17, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If want something very serious to download and laugh at as well
>>>>>>>> Please
>>>>>>>> Enjoy and share real wiretap tapes of the mob
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2013/10/re-glen-greenwald-and-braz
>>>>>>>> ilian.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://archive.org/details/ITriedToExplainItToAllMaritimersInEarly200
>>>>>>>>> 6
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ---------- 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 ----------
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/11/federal-court-of-appeal-finally-makes.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sunday, 19 November 2017
>>>>>>> Federal Court of Appeal Finally Makes The BIG Decision And Publishes
>>>>>>> It Now The Crooks Cannot Take Back Ticket To Try Put My Matter
>>>>>>> Before
>>>>>>> The Supreme Court
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fca-caf/decisions/en/item/236679/index.do
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Amos v. Canada
>>>>>>> Court (s) Database
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
>>>>>>> Date
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2017-10-30
>>>>>>> Neutral citation
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2017 FCA 213
>>>>>>> File numbers
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A-48-16
>>>>>>> Date: 20171030
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Docket: A-48-16
>>>>>>> Citation: 2017 FCA 213
>>>>>>> CORAM:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> WEBB J.A.
>>>>>>> NEAR J.A.
>>>>>>> GLEASON J.A.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> BETWEEN:
>>>>>>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>>>>>>> Respondent on the cross-appeal
>>>>>>> (and formally Appellant)
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>>>>>>> Appellant on the cross-appeal
>>>>>>> (and formerly Respondent)
>>>>>>> Heard at Fredericton, New Brunswick, on May 24, 2017.
>>>>>>> Judgment delivered at Ottawa, Ontario, on October 30, 2017.
>>>>>>> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> THE COURT
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Date: 20171030
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Docket: A-48-16
>>>>>>> Citation: 2017 FCA 213
>>>>>>> CORAM:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> WEBB J.A.
>>>>>>> NEAR J.A.
>>>>>>> GLEASON J.A.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> BETWEEN:
>>>>>>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>>>>>>> Respondent on the cross-appeal
>>>>>>> (and formally Appellant)
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>>>>>>> Appellant on the cross-appeal
>>>>>>> (and formerly Respondent)
>>>>>>> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY THE COURT
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I.                    Introduction
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [1]               On September 16, 2015, David Raymond Amos (Mr.
>>>>>>> Amos)
>>>>>>> filed a 53-page Statement of Claim (the Claim) in Federal Court
>>>>>>> against Her Majesty the Queen (the Crown). Mr. Amos claims $11
>>>>>>> million
>>>>>>> in damages and a public apology from the Prime Minister and
>>>>>>> Provincial
>>>>>>> Premiers for being illegally barred from accessing parliamentary
>>>>>>> properties and seeks a declaration from the Minister of Public
>>>>>>> Safety
>>>>>>> that the Canadian Government will no longer allow the Royal Canadian
>>>>>>> Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Forces to harass him and his clan
>>>>>>> (Claim at para. 96).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [2]               On November 12, 2015 (Docket T-1557-15), by way of
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> motion brought by the Crown, a prothonotary of the Federal Court
>>>>>>> (the
>>>>>>> Prothonotary) struck the Claim in its entirety, without leave to
>>>>>>> amend, on the basis that it was plain and obvious that the Claim
>>>>>>> disclosed no reasonable claim, the Claim was fundamentally
>>>>>>> vexatious,
>>>>>>> and the Claim could not be salvaged by way of further amendment (the
>>>>>>> Prothontary’s Order).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [3]               On January 25, 2016 (2016 FC 93), by way of Mr.
>>>>>>> Amos’ appeal from the Prothonotary’s Order, a judge of the Federal
>>>>>>> Court (the Judge), reviewing the matter de novo, struck all of Mr.
>>>>>>> Amos’ claims for relief with the exception of the claim for damages
>>>>>>> for being barred by the RCMP from the New Brunswick legislature in
>>>>>>> 2004 (the Federal Court Judgment).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [4]               Mr. Amos appealed and the Crown cross-appealed the
>>>>>>> Federal Court Judgment. Further to the issuance of a Notice of
>>>>>>> Status
>>>>>>> Review, Mr. Amos’ appeal was dismissed for delay on December 19,
>>>>>>> 2016.
>>>>>>> As such, the only matter before this Court is the Crown’s
>>>>>>> cross-appeal.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> II.                 Preliminary Matter
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [5]               Mr. Amos, in his memorandum of fact and law in
>>>>>>> relation to the cross-appeal that was filed with this Court on March
>>>>>>> 6, 2017, indicated that several judges of this Court, including two
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>> the judges of this panel, had a conflict of interest in this appeal.
>>>>>>> This was the first time that he identified the judges whom he
>>>>>>> believed
>>>>>>> had a conflict of interest in a document that was filed with this
>>>>>>> Court. In his notice of appeal he had alluded to a conflict with
>>>>>>> several judges but did not name those judges.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [6]               Mr. Amos was of the view that he did not have to
>>>>>>> identify the judges in any document filed with this Court because he
>>>>>>> had identified the judges in various documents that had been filed
>>>>>>> with the Federal Court. In his view the Federal Court and the
>>>>>>> Federal
>>>>>>> Court of Appeal are the same court and therefore any document filed
>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>> the Federal Court would be filed in this Court. This view is based
>>>>>>> on
>>>>>>> subsections 5(4) and 5.1(4) of the Federal Courts Act, R.S.C., 1985,
>>>>>>> c. F-7:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 5(4) Every judge of the Federal Court is, by virtue of his or her
>>>>>>> office, a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal and has all the
>>>>>>> jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court of
>>>>>>> Appeal.
>>>>>>> […]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 5(4) Les juges de la Cour fédérale sont d’office juges de la Cour
>>>>>>> d’appel fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que
>>>>>>> les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale.
>>>>>>> […]
>>>>>>> 5.1(4) Every judge of the Federal Court of Appeal is, by virtue of
>>>>>>> that office, a judge of the Federal Court and has all the
>>>>>>> jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 5.1(4) Les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale sont d’office juges de
>>>>>>> la
>>>>>>> Cour fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que
>>>>>>> les
>>>>>>> juges de la Cour fédérale.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [7]               However, these subsections only provide that the
>>>>>>> judges of the Federal Court are also judges of this Court (and vice
>>>>>>> versa). It does not mean that there is only one court. If the
>>>>>>> Federal
>>>>>>> Court and this Court were one Court, there would be no need for this
>>>>>>> section.
>>>>>>> [8]               Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act provide
>>>>>>> that:
>>>>>>> 3 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal
>>>>>>> Court
>>>>>>> — Appeal Division is continued under the name “Federal Court of
>>>>>>> Appeal” in English and “Cour d’appel fédérale” in French. It is
>>>>>>> continued as an additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and
>>>>>>> for Canada, for the better administration of the laws of Canada and
>>>>>>> as
>>>>>>> a superior court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 3 La Section d’appel, aussi appelée la Cour d’appel ou la Cour
>>>>>>> d’appel
>>>>>>> fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée « Cour d’appel fédérale » en
>>>>>>> français et « Federal Court of Appeal » en anglais. Elle est
>>>>>>> maintenue
>>>>>>> à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et d’amirauté du
>>>>>>> Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit canadien, et
>>>>>>> continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant compétence en
>>>>>>> matière civile et pénale.
>>>>>>> 4 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal
>>>>>>> Court
>>>>>>> — Trial Division is continued under the name “Federal Court” in
>>>>>>> English and “Cour fédérale” in French. It is continued as an
>>>>>>> additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and for Canada, for
>>>>>>> the better administration of the laws of Canada and as a superior
>>>>>>> court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 4 La section de la Cour fédérale du Canada, appelée la Section de
>>>>>>> première instance de la Cour fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée «
>>>>>>> Cour fédérale » en français et « Federal Court » en anglais. Elle
>>>>>>> est
>>>>>>> maintenue à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et
>>>>>>> d’amirauté du Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit
>>>>>>> canadien, et continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant
>>>>>>> compétence en matière civile et pénale.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [9]               Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act create
>>>>>>> two separate courts – this Court (section 3) and the Federal Court
>>>>>>> (section 4). If, as Mr. Amos suggests, documents filed in the
>>>>>>> Federal
>>>>>>> Court were automatically also filed in this Court, then there would
>>>>>>> no
>>>>>>> need for the parties to prepare and file appeal books as required by
>>>>>>> Rules 343 to 345 of the Federal Courts Rules, SOR/98-106 in relation
>>>>>>> to any appeal from a decision of the Federal Court. The requirement
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> file an appeal book with this Court in relation to an appeal from a
>>>>>>> decision of the Federal Court makes it clear that the only documents
>>>>>>> that will be before this Court are the documents that are part of
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> appeal book.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [10]           Therefore, the memorandum of fact and law filed on
>>>>>>> March 6, 2017 is the first document, filed with this Court, in which
>>>>>>> Mr. Amos identified the particular judges that he submits have a
>>>>>>> conflict in any matter related to him.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [11]           On April 3, 2017, Mr. Amos attempted to bring a
>>>>>>> motion
>>>>>>> before the Federal Court seeking an order “affirming or denying the
>>>>>>> conflict of interest he has” with a number of judges of the Federal
>>>>>>> Court. A judge of the Federal Court issued a direction noting that
>>>>>>> if
>>>>>>> Mr. Amos was seeking this order in relation to judges of the Federal
>>>>>>> Court of Appeal, it was beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal
>>>>>>> Court.
>>>>>>> Mr. Amos raised the Federal Court motion at the hearing of this
>>>>>>> cross-appeal. The Federal Court motion is not a motion before this
>>>>>>> Court and, as such, the submissions filed before the Federal Court
>>>>>>> will not be entertained. As well, since this was a motion brought
>>>>>>> before the Federal Court (and not this Court), any documents filed
>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>> relation to that motion are not part of the record of this Court.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [12]           During the hearing of the appeal Mr. Amos alleged
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> the third member of this panel also had a conflict of interest and
>>>>>>> submitted some documents that, in his view, supported his claim of a
>>>>>>> conflict. Mr. Amos, following the hearing of his appeal, was also
>>>>>>> afforded the opportunity to provide a brief summary of the conflict
>>>>>>> that he was alleging and to file additional documents that, in his
>>>>>>> view, supported his allegations. Mr. Amos submitted several pages of
>>>>>>> documents in relation to the alleged conflicts. He organized the
>>>>>>> documents by submitting a copy of the biography of the particular
>>>>>>> judge and then, immediately following that biography, by including
>>>>>>> copies of the documents that, in his view, supported his claim that
>>>>>>> such judge had a conflict.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [13]           The nature of the alleged conflict of Justice Webb is
>>>>>>> that before he was appointed as a Judge of the Tax Court of Canada
>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>> 2006, he was a partner with the law firm Patterson Law, and before
>>>>>>> that with Patterson Palmer in Nova Scotia. Mr. Amos submitted that
>>>>>>> he
>>>>>>> had a number of disputes with Patterson Palmer and Patterson Law and
>>>>>>> therefore Justice Webb has a conflict simply because he was a
>>>>>>> partner
>>>>>>> of these firms. Mr. Amos is not alleging that Justice Webb was
>>>>>>> personally involved in or had any knowledge of any matter in which
>>>>>>> Mr.
>>>>>>> Amos was involved with Justice Webb’s former law firm – only that he
>>>>>>> was a member of such firm.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [14]           During his oral submissions at the hearing of his
>>>>>>> appeal Mr. Amos, in relation to the alleged conflict for Justice
>>>>>>> Webb,
>>>>>>> focused on dealings between himself and a particular lawyer at
>>>>>>> Patterson Law. However, none of the documents submitted by Mr. Amos
>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>> the hearing or subsequently related to any dealings with this
>>>>>>> particular lawyer nor is it clear when Mr. Amos was dealing with
>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>> lawyer. In particular, it is far from clear whether such dealings
>>>>>>> were
>>>>>>> after the time that Justice Webb was appointed as a Judge of the Tax
>>>>>>> Court of Canada over 10 years ago.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [15]           The documents that he submitted in relation to the
>>>>>>> alleged conflict for Justice Webb largely relate to dealings between
>>>>>>> Byron Prior and the St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador office of
>>>>>>> Patterson Palmer, which is not in the same province where Justice
>>>>>>> Webb
>>>>>>> practiced law. The only document that indicates any dealing between
>>>>>>> Mr. Amos and Patterson Palmer is a copy of an affidavit of Stephen
>>>>>>> May
>>>>>>> who was a partner in the St. John’s NL office of Patterson Palmer.
>>>>>>> The
>>>>>>> affidavit is dated January 24, 2005 and refers to a number of
>>>>>>> e-mails
>>>>>>> that were sent by Mr. Amos to Stephen May. Mr. Amos also included a
>>>>>>> letter that is addressed to four individuals, one of whom is John
>>>>>>> Crosbie who was counsel to the St. John’s NL office of Patterson
>>>>>>> Palmer. The letter is dated September 2, 2004 and is addressed to
>>>>>>> “John Crosbie, c/o Greg G. Byrne, Suite 502, 570 Queen Street,
>>>>>>> Fredericton, NB E3B 5E3”. In this letter Mr. Amos alludes to a
>>>>>>> possible lawsuit against Patterson Palmer.
>>>>>>> [16]           Mr. Amos’ position is that simply because Justice
>>>>>>> Webb
>>>>>>> was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer, he now has a conflict. In
>>>>>>> Wewaykum
>>>>>>> Indian Band v. Her Majesty the Queen, 2003 SCC 45, [2003] 2 S.C.R.
>>>>>>> 259, the Supreme Court of Canada noted that disqualification of a
>>>>>>> judge is to be determined based on whether there is a reasonable
>>>>>>> apprehension of bias:
>>>>>>> 60        In Canadian law, one standard has now emerged as the
>>>>>>> criterion for disqualification. The criterion, as expressed by de
>>>>>>> Grandpré J. in Committee for Justice and Liberty v. National Energy
>>>>>>> Board, …[[1978] 1 S.C.R. 369, 68 D.L.R. (3d) 716], at p. 394, is the
>>>>>>> reasonable apprehension of bias:
>>>>>>> … the apprehension of bias must be a reasonable one, held by
>>>>>>> reasonable and right minded persons, applying themselves to the
>>>>>>> question and obtaining thereon the required information. In the
>>>>>>> words
>>>>>>> of the Court of Appeal, that test is "what would an informed person,
>>>>>>> viewing the matter realistically and practically -- and having
>>>>>>> thought
>>>>>>> the matter through -- conclude. Would he think that it is more
>>>>>>> likely
>>>>>>> than not that [the decision-maker], whether consciously or
>>>>>>> unconsciously, would not decide fairly."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [17]           The issue to be determined is whether an informed
>>>>>>> person, viewing the matter realistically and practically, and having
>>>>>>> thought the matter through, would conclude that Mr. Amos’
>>>>>>> allegations
>>>>>>> give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias. As this Court has
>>>>>>> previously remarked, “there is a strong presumption that judges will
>>>>>>> administer justice impartially” and this presumption will not be
>>>>>>> rebutted in the absence of “convincing evidence” of bias (Collins v.
>>>>>>> Canada, 2011 FCA 140 at para. 7, [2011] 4 C.T.C. 157 [Collins]. See
>>>>>>> also R. v. S. (R.D.), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 484 at para. 32, 151 D.L.R.
>>>>>>> (4th) 193).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [18]           The Ontario Court of Appeal in Rando Drugs Ltd. v.
>>>>>>> Scott, 2007 ONCA 553, 86 O.R. (3d) 653 (leave to appeal to the
>>>>>>> Supreme
>>>>>>> Court of Canada refused, 32285 (August 1, 2007)), addressed the
>>>>>>> particular issue of whether a judge is disqualified from hearing a
>>>>>>> case simply because he had been a member of a law firm that was
>>>>>>> involved in the litigation that was now before that judge. The
>>>>>>> Ontario
>>>>>>> Court of Appeal determined that the judge was not disqualified if
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> judge had no involvement with the person or the matter when he was a
>>>>>>> lawyer. The Ontario Court of Appeal also explained that the rules
>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>> determining whether a judge is disqualified are different from the
>>>>>>> rules to determine whether a lawyer has a conflict:
>>>>>>> 27        Thus, disqualification is not the natural corollary to a
>>>>>>> finding that a trial judge has had some involvement in a case over
>>>>>>> which he or she is now presiding. Where the judge had no
>>>>>>> involvement,
>>>>>>> as here, it cannot be said that the judge is disqualified.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 28        The point can rightly be made that had Mr. Patterson been
>>>>>>> asked to represent the appellant as counsel before his appointment
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> the bench, the conflict rules would likely have prevented him from
>>>>>>> taking the case because his firm had formerly represented one of the
>>>>>>> defendants in the case. Thus, it is argued how is it that as a trial
>>>>>>> judge Patterson J. can hear the case? This issue was considered by
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> Court of Appeal (Civil Division) in Locabail (U.K.) Ltd. v. Bayfield
>>>>>>> Properties Ltd., [2000] Q.B. 451. The court held, at para. 58, that
>>>>>>> there is no inflexible rule governing the disqualification of a
>>>>>>> judge
>>>>>>> and that, "[e]verything depends on the circumstances."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 29        It seems to me that what appears at first sight to be an
>>>>>>> inconsistency in application of rules can be explained by the
>>>>>>> different contexts and in particular, the strong presumption of
>>>>>>> judicial impartiality that applies in the context of
>>>>>>> disqualification
>>>>>>> of a judge. There is no such presumption in cases of allegations of
>>>>>>> conflict of interest against a lawyer because of a firm's previous
>>>>>>> involvement in the case. To the contrary, as explained by Sopinka J.
>>>>>>> in MacDonald Estate v. Martin (1990), 77 D.L.R. (4th) 249 (S.C.C.),
>>>>>>> for sound policy reasons there is a presumption of a disqualifying
>>>>>>> interest that can rarely be overcome. In particular, a conclusory
>>>>>>> statement from the lawyer that he or she had no confidential
>>>>>>> information about the case will never be sufficient. The case is the
>>>>>>> opposite where the allegation of bias is made against a trial judge.
>>>>>>> His or her statement that he or she knew nothing about the case and
>>>>>>> had no involvement in it will ordinarily be accepted at face value
>>>>>>> unless there is good reason to doubt it: see Locabail, at para. 19.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 30        That brings me then to consider the particular
>>>>>>> circumstances
>>>>>>> of this case and whether there are serious grounds to find a
>>>>>>> disqualifying conflict of interest in this case. In my view, there
>>>>>>> are
>>>>>>> two significant factors that justify the trial judge's decision not
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> recuse himself. The first is his statement, which all parties
>>>>>>> accept,
>>>>>>> that he knew nothing of the case when it was in his former firm and
>>>>>>> that he had nothing to do with it. The second is the long passage of
>>>>>>> time. As was said in Wewaykum, at para. 85:
>>>>>>>             To us, one significant factor stands out, and must
>>>>>>> inform
>>>>>>> the perspective of the reasonable person assessing the impact of
>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>> involvement on Binnie J.'s impartiality in the appeals. That factor
>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>> the passage of time. Most arguments for disqualification rest on
>>>>>>> circumstances that are either contemporaneous to the
>>>>>>> decision-making,
>>>>>>> or that occurred within a short time prior to the decision-making.
>>>>>>> 31        There are other factors that inform the issue. The Wilson
>>>>>>> Walker firm no longer acted for any of the parties by the time of
>>>>>>> trial. More importantly, at the time of the motion, Patterson J. had
>>>>>>> been a judge for six years and thus had not had a relationship with
>>>>>>> his former firm for a considerable period of time.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 32        In my view, a reasonable person, viewing the matter
>>>>>>> realistically would conclude that the trial judge could deal fairly
>>>>>>> and impartially with this case. I take this view principally because
>>>>>>> of the long passage of time and the trial judge's lack of
>>>>>>> involvement
>>>>>>> in or knowledge of the case when the Wilson Walker firm had
>>>>>>> carriage.
>>>>>>> In these circumstances it cannot be reasonably contended that the
>>>>>>> trial judge could not remain impartial in the case. The mere fact
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> his name appears on the letterhead of some correspondence from over
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> decade ago would not lead a reasonable person to believe that he
>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>> either consciously or unconsciously favour his former firm's former
>>>>>>> client. It is simply not realistic to think that a judge would throw
>>>>>>> off his mantle of impartiality, ignore his oath of office and favour
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> client - about whom he knew nothing - of a firm that he left six
>>>>>>> years
>>>>>>> earlier and that no longer acts for the client, in a case involving
>>>>>>> events from over a decade ago.
>>>>>>> (emphasis added)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [19]           Justice Webb had no involvement with any matter
>>>>>>> involving Mr. Amos while he was a member of Patterson Palmer or
>>>>>>> Patterson Law, nor does Mr. Amos suggest that he did. Mr. Amos made
>>>>>>> it
>>>>>>> clear during the hearing of this matter that the only reason for the
>>>>>>> alleged conflict for Justice Webb was that he was a member of
>>>>>>> Patterson Law and Patterson Palmer. This is simply not enough for
>>>>>>> Justice Webb to be disqualified. Any involvement of Mr. Amos with
>>>>>>> Patterson Law while Justice Webb was a member of that firm would
>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>> had to occur over 10 years ago and even longer for the time when he
>>>>>>> was a member of Patterson Palmer. In addition to the lack of any
>>>>>>> involvement on his part with any matter or dispute that Mr. Amos had
>>>>>>> with Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer (which in and of itself is
>>>>>>> sufficient to dispose of this matter), the length of time since
>>>>>>> Justice Webb was a member of Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer would
>>>>>>> also result in the same finding – that there is no conflict in
>>>>>>> Justice
>>>>>>> Webb hearing this appeal.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [20]           Similarly in R. v. Bagot, 2000 MBCA 30, 145 Man. R.
>>>>>>> (2d) 260, the Manitoba Court of Appeal found that there was no
>>>>>>> reasonable apprehension of bias when a judge, who had been a member
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>> the law firm that had been retained by the accused, had no
>>>>>>> involvement
>>>>>>> with the accused while he was a lawyer with that firm.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [21]           In Del Zotto v. Minister of National Revenue, [2000]
>>>>>>> 4
>>>>>>> F.C. 321, 257 N.R. 96, this court did find that there would be a
>>>>>>> reasonable apprehension of bias where a judge, who while he was a
>>>>>>> lawyer, had recorded time on a matter involving the same person who
>>>>>>> was before that judge. However, this case can be distinguished as
>>>>>>> Justice Webb did not have any time recorded on any files involving
>>>>>>> Mr.
>>>>>>> Amos while he was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer or Patterson Law.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [22]           Mr. Amos also included with his submissions a CD. He
>>>>>>> stated in his affidavit dated June 26, 2017 that there is a “true
>>>>>>> copy
>>>>>>> of an American police surveillance wiretap entitled 139” on this CD.
>>>>>>> He has also indicated that he has “provided a true copy of the CD
>>>>>>> entitled 139 to many American and Canadian law enforcement
>>>>>>> authorities
>>>>>>> and not one of the police forces or officers of the court are
>>>>>>> willing
>>>>>>> to investigate it”. Since he has indicated that this is an “American
>>>>>>> police surveillance wiretap”, this is a matter for the American law
>>>>>>> enforcement authorities and cannot create, as Mr. Amos suggests, a
>>>>>>> conflict of interest for any judge to whom he provides a copy.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [23]           As a result, there is no conflict or reasonable
>>>>>>> apprehension of bias for Justice Webb and therefore, no reason for
>>>>>>> him
>>>>>>> to recuse himself.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [24]           Mr. Amos alleged that Justice Near’s past
>>>>>>> professional
>>>>>>> experience with the government created a “quasi-conflict” in
>>>>>>> deciding
>>>>>>> the cross-appeal. Mr. Amos provided no details and Justice Near
>>>>>>> confirmed that he had no prior knowledge of the matters alleged in
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> Claim. Justice Near sees no reason to recuse himself.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [25]           Insofar as it is possible to glean the basis for Mr.
>>>>>>> Amos’ allegations against Justice Gleason, it appears that he
>>>>>>> alleges
>>>>>>> that she is incapable of hearing this appeal because he says he
>>>>>>> wrote
>>>>>>> a letter to Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien in 2004. At that time,
>>>>>>> both Justice Gleason and Mr. Mulroney were partners in the law firm
>>>>>>> Ogilvy Renault, LLP. The letter in question, which is rude and
>>>>>>> angry,
>>>>>>> begins with “Hey you two Evil Old Smiling Bastards” and “Re: me
>>>>>>> suing
>>>>>>> you and your little dogs too”. There is no indication that the
>>>>>>> letter
>>>>>>> was ever responded to or that a law suit was ever commenced by Mr.
>>>>>>> Amos against Mr. Mulroney. In the circumstances, there is no reason
>>>>>>> for Justice Gleason to recuse herself as the letter in question does
>>>>>>> not give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> III.               Issue
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [26]           The issue on the cross-appeal is as follows: Did the
>>>>>>> Judge err in setting aside the Prothonotary’s Order striking the
>>>>>>> Claim
>>>>>>> in its entirety without leave to amend and in determining that Mr.
>>>>>>> Amos’ allegation that the RCMP barred him from the New Brunswick
>>>>>>> legislature in 2004 was capable of supporting a cause of action?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> IV.              Analysis
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A.                 Standard of Review
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [27]           Following the Judge’s decision to set aside the
>>>>>>> Prothonotary’s Order, this Court revisited the standard of review to
>>>>>>> be applied to discretionary decisions of prothonotaries and
>>>>>>> decisions
>>>>>>> made by judges on appeals of prothonotaries’ decisions in Hospira
>>>>>>> Healthcare Corp. v. Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, 2016 FCA 215,
>>>>>>> 402 D.L.R. (4th) 497 [Hospira]. In Hospira, a five-member panel of
>>>>>>> this Court replaced the Aqua-Gem standard of review with that
>>>>>>> articulated in Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33, [2002] 2 S.C.R.
>>>>>>> 235
>>>>>>> [Housen]. As a result, it is no longer appropriate for the Federal
>>>>>>> Court to conduct a de novo review of a discretionary order made by a
>>>>>>> prothonotary in regard to questions vital to the final issue of the
>>>>>>> case. Rather, a Federal Court judge can only intervene on appeal if
>>>>>>> the prothonotary made an error of law or a palpable and overriding
>>>>>>> error in determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> law (Hospira at para. 79). Further, this Court can only interfere
>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>> a Federal Court judge’s review of a prothonotary’s discretionary
>>>>>>> order
>>>>>>> if the judge made an error of law or palpable and overriding error
>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>> determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and law
>>>>>>> (Hospira at paras. 82-83).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [28]           In the case at bar, the Judge substituted his own
>>>>>>> assessment of Mr. Amos’ Claim for that of the Prothonotary. This
>>>>>>> Court
>>>>>>> must look to the Prothonotary’s Order to determine whether the Judge
>>>>>>> erred in law or made a palpable and overriding error in choosing to
>>>>>>> interfere.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> B.                 Did the Judge err in interfering with the
>>>>>>> Prothonotary’s Order?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [29]           The Prothontoary’s Order accepted the following
>>>>>>> paragraphs from the Crown’s submissions as the basis for striking
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> Claim in its entirety without leave to amend:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 17.       Within the 96 paragraph Statement of Claim, the Plaintiff
>>>>>>> addresses his complaint in paragraphs 14-24, inclusive. All but four
>>>>>>> of those paragraphs are dedicated to an incident that occurred in
>>>>>>> 2006
>>>>>>> in and around the legislature in New Brunswick. The jurisdiction of
>>>>>>> the Federal Court does not extend to Her Majesty the Queen in right
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>> the Provinces. In any event, the Plaintiff hasn’t named the Province
>>>>>>> or provincial actors as parties to this action. The incident alleged
>>>>>>> does not give rise to a justiciable cause of action in this Court.
>>>>>>> (…)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 21.       The few paragraphs that directly address the Defendant
>>>>>>> provide no details as to the individuals involved or the location of
>>>>>>> the alleged incidents or other details sufficient to allow the
>>>>>>> Defendant to respond. As a result, it is difficult or impossible to
>>>>>>> determine the causes of action the Plaintiff is attempting to
>>>>>>> advance.
>>>>>>> A generous reading of the Statement of Claim allows the Defendant to
>>>>>>> only speculate as to the true and/or intended cause of action. At
>>>>>>> best, the Plaintiff’s action may possibly be summarized as: he
>>>>>>> suspects he is barred from the House of Commons.
>>>>>>> [footnotes omitted].
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [30]           The Judge determined that he could not strike the
>>>>>>> Claim
>>>>>>> on the same jurisdictional basis as the Prothonotary. The Judge
>>>>>>> noted
>>>>>>> that the Federal Court has jurisdiction over claims based on the
>>>>>>> liability of Federal Crown servants like the RCMP and that the
>>>>>>> actors
>>>>>>> who barred Mr. Amos from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004
>>>>>>> included the RCMP (Federal Court Judgment at para. 23). In
>>>>>>> considering
>>>>>>> the viability of these allegations de novo, the Judge identified
>>>>>>> paragraph 14 of the Claim as containing “some precision” as it
>>>>>>> identifies the date of the event and a RCMP officer acting as
>>>>>>> Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant Governor (Federal Court Judgment at
>>>>>>> para. 27).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [31]           The Judge noted that the 2004 event could support a
>>>>>>> cause of action in the tort of misfeasance in public office and
>>>>>>> identified the elements of the tort as excerpted from Meigs v.
>>>>>>> Canada,
>>>>>>> 2013 FC 389, 431 F.T.R. 111:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [13]      As in both the cases of Odhavji Estate v Woodhouse, 2003
>>>>>>> SCC
>>>>>>> 69 [Odhavji] and Lewis v Canada, 2012 FC 1514 [Lewis], I must
>>>>>>> determine whether the plaintiffs’ statement of claim pleads each
>>>>>>> element of the alleged tort of misfeasance in public office:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> a) The public officer must have engaged in deliberate and unlawful
>>>>>>> conduct in his or her capacity as public officer;
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> b) The public officer must have been aware both that his or her
>>>>>>> conduct was unlawful and that it was likely to harm the plaintiff;
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> c) There must be an element of bad faith or dishonesty by the public
>>>>>>> officer and knowledge of harm alone is insufficient to conclude that
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> public officer acted in bad faith or dishonestly.
>>>>>>> Odhavji, above, at paras 23, 24 and 28
>>>>>>> (Federal Court Judgment at para. 28).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [32]           The Judge determined that Mr. Amos disclosed
>>>>>>> sufficient
>>>>>>> material facts to meet the elements of the tort of misfeasance in
>>>>>>> public office because the actors, who barred him from the New
>>>>>>> Brunswick legislature in 2004, including the RCMP, did so for
>>>>>>> “political reasons” (Federal Court Judgment at para. 29).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [33]           This Court’s discussion of the sufficiency of
>>>>>>> pleadings
>>>>>>> in Merchant Law Group v. Canada (Revenue Agency), 2010 FCA 184, 321
>>>>>>> D.L.R (4th) 301 is particularly apt:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> …When pleading bad faith or abuse of power, it is not enough to
>>>>>>> assert, baldly, conclusory phrases such as “deliberately or
>>>>>>> negligently,” “callous disregard,” or “by fraud and theft did
>>>>>>> steal”.
>>>>>>> “The bare assertion of a conclusion upon which the court is called
>>>>>>> upon to pronounce is not an allegation of material fact”. Making
>>>>>>> bald,
>>>>>>> conclusory allegations without any evidentiary foundation is an
>>>>>>> abuse
>>>>>>> of process…
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> To this, I would add that the tort of misfeasance in public office
>>>>>>> requires a particular state of mind of a public officer in carrying
>>>>>>> out the impunged action, i.e., deliberate conduct which the public
>>>>>>> officer knows to be inconsistent with the obligations of his or her
>>>>>>> office. For this tort, particularization of the allegations is
>>>>>>> mandatory. Rule 181 specifically requires particularization of
>>>>>>> allegations of “breach of trust,” “wilful default,” “state of mind
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>> a person,” “malice” or “fraudulent intention.”
>>>>>>> (at paras. 34-35, citations omitted).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [34]           Applying the Housen standard of review to the
>>>>>>> Prothonotary’s Order, we are of the view that the Judge interfered
>>>>>>> absent a legal or palpable and overriding error.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [35]           The Prothonotary determined that Mr. Amos’ Claim
>>>>>>> disclosed no reasonable claim and was fundamentally vexatious on the
>>>>>>> basis of jurisdictional concerns and the absence of material facts
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> ground a cause of action. Paragraph 14 of the Claim, which addresses
>>>>>>> the 2004 event, pleads no material facts as to how the RCMP officer
>>>>>>> engaged in deliberate and unlawful conduct, knew that his or her
>>>>>>> conduct was unlawful and likely to harm Mr. Amos, and acted in bad
>>>>>>> faith. While the Claim alleges elsewhere that Mr. Amos was barred
>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>> the New Brunswick legislature for political and/or malicious
>>>>>>> reasons,
>>>>>>> these allegations are not particularized and are directed against
>>>>>>> non-federal actors, such as the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Legislative
>>>>>>> Assembly of New Brunswick and the Fredericton Police Force. As such,
>>>>>>> the Judge erred in determining that Mr. Amos’ allegation that the
>>>>>>> RCMP
>>>>>>> barred him from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004 was capable of
>>>>>>> supporting a cause of action.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [36]           In our view, the Claim is made up entirely of bare
>>>>>>> allegations, devoid of any detail, such that it discloses no
>>>>>>> reasonable cause of action within the jurisdiction of the Federal
>>>>>>> Courts. Therefore, the Judge erred in interfering to set aside the
>>>>>>> Prothonotary’s Order striking the claim in its entirety. Further, we
>>>>>>> find that the Prothonotary made no error in denying leave to amend.
>>>>>>> The deficiencies in Mr. Amos’ pleadings are so extensive such that
>>>>>>> amendment could not cure them (see Collins at para. 26).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> V.                 Conclusion
>>>>>>> [37]           For the foregoing reasons, we would allow the Crown’s
>>>>>>> cross-appeal, with costs, setting aside the Federal Court Judgment,
>>>>>>> dated January 25, 2016 and restoring the Prothonotary’s Order, dated
>>>>>>> November 12, 2015, which struck Mr. Amos’ Claim in its entirety
>>>>>>> without leave to amend.
>>>>>>> "Wyman W. Webb"
>>>>>>> J.A.
>>>>>>> "David G. Near"
>>>>>>> J.A.
>>>>>>> "Mary J.L. Gleason"
>>>>>>> J.A.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL
>>>>>>> NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A CROSS-APPEAL FROM AN ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE SOUTHCOTT
>>>>>>> DATED
>>>>>>> JANUARY 25, 2016; DOCKET NUMBER T-1557-15.
>>>>>>> DOCKET:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A-48-16
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> STYLE OF CAUSE:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> PLACE OF HEARING:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fredericton,
>>>>>>> New Brunswick
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> DATE OF HEARING:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> May 24, 2017
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> WEBB J.A.
>>>>>>> NEAR J.A.
>>>>>>> GLEASON J.A.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> DATED:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> October 30, 2017
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> APPEARANCES:
>>>>>>> David Raymond Amos
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For The Appellant / respondent on cross-appeal
>>>>>>> (on his own behalf)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jan Jensen
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For The Respondent / appELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> SOLICITORS OF RECORD:
>>>>>>> Nathalie G. Drouin
>>>>>>> Deputy Attorney General of Canada
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For The Respondent / APPELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>>> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 19:01:11 -0700 (PDT)
>>>> From: "David Amos" motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>>> Subject: Now everybody and his dog knows TJ Burke and his cop buddies
>>>> allegations against me are false and you had the proof all along EH
>>>> Chucky?
>>>> To: oldmaison@yahoo.com, nbombud@gnb.ca, dan.bussieres@gnb.ca,
>>>> jacques_poitras@cbc.ca, news@dailygleaner.com,
>>>> kcarmichael@bloomberg.net, advocacycollective@yahoo.com,
>>>> Easter.W@parl.gc.ca, Comartin.J@parl.gc.ca, cityadmin@fredericton.ca,
>>>> info@gg.ca, bmosher@mosherchedore.ca, rchedore@mosherchedore.ca,
>>>> police@fredericton.ca, chebert@thestar.ca, Stoffer.P@parl.gc.ca,
>>>> Stronach.B@parl.gc.ca, Matthews.B@parl.gc.ca, alltrue@nl.rogers.com,
>>>> Harper.S@parl.gc.ca, Layton.J@parl.gc.ca, Dryden.K@parl.gc.ca,
>>>> Duceppe.G@parl.gc.ca
>>>> CC: dgleg@nb.aibn.com, brad.woodside@fredericton.ca,
>>>> whalen@fredericton.ca, david.kelly@fredericton.ca,
>>>> cathy.maclaggan@fredericton.ca, stephen.kelly@fredericton.ca,
>>>> tom.jellinek@fredericton.ca, scott.mcconaghy@fredericton.ca,
>>>> marilyn.kerton@fredericton.ca, walter.brown@fredericton.ca,
>>>> norah.davidson@fredericton.ca, mike.obrien@fredericton.ca,
>>>> bruce.grandy@fredericton.ca, dan.keenan@fredericton.ca,
>>>> jeff.mockler@gnb.ca, mrichard@lawsociety-barreau.nb.ca,
>>>> cynthia.merlini@dfait-maeci.gc.ca, jlmockler@mpor.ca,
>>>> scotta@parl.gc.ca, michael.bray@gnb.ca, jack.e.mackay@gnb.ca
>>>> http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2007/05/24/nb-burkethreat.html
>>>>
>>>> http://www.canadaeast.com/ce2/docroot/article.php?articleID=149018
>>>>
>>>> http://oldmaison.blogspot.com/2007/05/tj-burke-walking-around-with-rcmp.html
>>>>
>>>> http://oldmaison.blogspot.com/2006/06/fapo-has-meeting-about-panhanding.html
>>>>
>>>> http://oldmaison.blogspot.com/2007/05/hats-off-to-cbc-reporter-jacques.html
>>>>
>>>> http://maritimes.indymedia.org/mail.php?id=9856
>>>>
>>>> Methinks your liberal pals just made a major faux pas N'est Pas?
>>>> Scroll down Frenchie and go down?.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Threat against Burke taken seriously
>>>>
>>>> By STEPHEN LLEWELLYN
>>>> dgleg@nb.aibn.com
>>>> Published Thursday May 24th, 2007
>>>> Appeared on page A1
>>>> An RCMP security detail has been guarding Justice Minister and
>>>> Attorney General T.J. Burke because of threats made against him
>>>> recently.
>>>>
>>>> Burke, the Liberal MLA for Fredericton-Fort Nashwaaksis, wouldn't
>>>> explain the nature of the threats.
>>>>
>>>> "I have had a particular individual or individuals who have made
>>>> specific overtures about causing harm towards me," he told reporters
>>>> Wednesday.
>>>>
>>>> "The RCMP has provided security to me recently by accompanying me to a
>>>> couple of public functions where the individual is known to reside or
>>>> have family members in the area," said Burke. "It is nice to have some
>>>> added protection and that added comfort."
>>>>
>>>> The RCMP provides protection to the premier and MLAs with its VIP
>>>> security
>>>> unit.
>>>>
>>>> Burke didn't say when the threat was made but it's believed to have
>>>> been in recent weeks.
>>>>
>>>> "When a threat is posed to you and it is a credible threat, you have
>>>> to be cautious about where you go and who you are around," he said.
>>>> "But again, I am more concerned about my family as opposed to my own
>>>> personal safety."
>>>>
>>>> Burke said he doesn't feel any differently and he has not changed his
>>>> pattern of activity.
>>>>
>>>> "It doesn't bother me one bit," he said. "It makes my wife feel awful
>>>> nervous."
>>>>
>>>> Burke served in an elite American military unit before becoming a
>>>> lawyer and going into politics in New Brunswick.
>>>>
>>>> "(I) have taken my own precautions and what I have to do to ensure my
>>>> family's safety," he said. "I am a very cautious person in general due
>>>> to my background and training.
>>>>
>>>> "I am comfortable with defending myself or my family if it ever had to
>>>> happen."
>>>>
>>>> Burke said it is not uncommon for politicians to have security
>>>> concerns.
>>>>
>>>> "We do live unfortunately in an age and in a society now where threats
>>>> have to be taken pretty seriously," he said.
>>>>
>>>> Since the terrorism attacks in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001,
>>>> security in New Brunswick has been
>>>> beefed up.
>>>>
>>>> Metal detectors were recently installed in the legislature and all
>>>> visitors are screened.
>>>>
>>>> The position of attorney general is often referred to as the
>>>> province's "top cop."
>>>>
>>>> Burke said sometimes people do not differentiate between his role as
>>>> the manager of the justice system and the individual who actually
>>>> prosecutes them.
>>>>
>>>> "With the job sometimes comes threats," he said. "I have had numerous
>>>> threats since Day 1 in office."
>>>>
>>>> Burke said he hopes his First Nations heritage has nothing to do with
>>>> it.
>>>>
>>>> "I think it is more of an issue where people get fixated on a matter
>>>> and they believe you are personally responsible for assigning them
>>>> their punishment or their sanction," he said.
>>>>
>>>> Is the threat from someone who was recently incarcerated?
>>>>
>>>> "I probably shouldn't answer that," he replied.
>>>>
>>>> Reporters asked when the threat would be over.
>>>>
>>>> "I don't think a threat ever passes once it has been made," said
>>>> Burke. "You have to consider the credibility of the source."
>>>>
>>>> Bruce Fitch, former justice minister in the Conservative government,
>>>> said "every now and again there would be e-mails that were not
>>>> complimentary."
>>>>
>>>> "I did have a meeting with the RCMP who are in charge of the security
>>>> of the MLAs and ministers," said Fitch.
>>>>
>>>> "They look at each and every situation."
>>>>
>>>> Fitch said he never had bodyguards assigned to him although former
>>>> premier Bernard Lord and former health minister Elvy Robichaud did
>>>> have extra security staff assigned on occasion.
>>>>
>>>> He said if any MLA felt threatened, he or she would discuss it with the
>>>> RCMP.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.archive.org/details/SecTreasuryDeptEtc
>>>>
>>>> Small World EH Chucky Leblanc?
>>>>
>>>> "Lafleur, Lou" lou.lafleur@fredericton.ca wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From: "Lafleur, Lou" lou.lafleur@fredericton.ca
>>>> To: "'motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com'" motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com,
>>>> "Lafleur, Lou" lou.lafleur@fredericton.ca
>>>> Subject: Fredericton Police Force
>>>> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:21:13 -0300
>>>>
>>>> Dear Mr. Amos
>>>>
>>>> My Name is Lou LaFleur and I am a Detective with the Fredericton
>>>> Police Major Crime Unit. I would like to talk to you regarding files
>>>> that I am investigating and that you are alleged to have involvement
>>>> in.
>>>>
>>>> Please call me at your earliest convenience and leave a message and a
>>>> phone number on my secure and confidential line if I am not in my
>>>> office.
>>>>
>>>> yours truly,
>>>> Cpl. Lou LaFleur
>>>> Fredericton Police Force
>>>> 311 Queen St.
>>>> Fredericton, NB
>>>> 506-460-2332
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> This electronic mail, including any attachments, is confidential and
>>>> is for the sole use of the intended recipient and may be privileged.
>>>> Any unauthorized distribution, copying, disclosure or review is
>>>> prohibited. Neither communication over the Internet nor disclosure to
>>>> anyone other than the intended recipient constitutes waiver of
>>>> privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately
>>>> notify the sender and then delete this communication and any
>>>> attachments from your computer system and records without saving or
>>>> forwarding it. Thank you.
>>>>
>>>
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