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Jessica Zita
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Toronto, Ontario
(416) 526-8826
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ_ZdIsaScUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ_ZdIsaScUJessica Zita is an associate at Lockyer Zaduk Zeeh. She practices criminal, constitutional, and public law. Jessica has represented clients at all trial and appellate levels in the country, including at the Court of Appeal for Ontario, where she regularly appears, and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Jessica has acted as counsel in numerous jury trials. She has successfully defended clients charged with offences ranging from armed robbery to first degree murder. She has also assisted individuals facing disciplinary action before the Law Society of Ontario and the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers. She also maintains a Prison Law practice where she helps clients navigate the correctional system. She conducts many parole hearings each year, and most recently secured release for a client serving a life sentence for murder. As a proud advocate against wrongful convictions, Jessica also works with her clients to prepare ministerial review applications in pursuit of exoneration.
Jessica has appeared as appellate counsel on over 50 reported matters. Her cases have had groundbreaking impact on the protection of an accused person’s rights before the criminal justice system. In a recent appeal, Jessica and Mr. Lockyer successfully fought against the state’s efforts to shift the burden of proof onto the accused in sexual assault cases. In doing so, Jessica and Mr. Lockyer ensured that persons charged with sexual assault offences are afforded the same protections under the law as all other accused persons.
In addition to her private practice, Jessica acts as Duty Counsel at the Ontario Court of Appeal through its prestigious Pro Bono Inmate Assistance Program. In 2021, Jessica was invited to participate as counsel in the Mass Casualty Commission, an Inquiry formed by the Federal government in response to the Nova Scotia shootings from April 2020.
Jessica received her Juris Doctor at Osgoode Hall Law School and her Honours Bachelor of Arts Degree at the University of Toronto. During law school, Jessica was a judicial extern at the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal. She is also an alumna of Osgoode’s Criminal Law Intensive Program, and a recipient of the Wendy Babcock Social Justice Award and the Legal and Literary Society’s Student Honour Award.
Jessica’s legal commentary has been featured on the CBC, Law Times, the former Advocate Daily, and published in The Lawyer’s Daily. She is a prior editor for the textbook Criminal Procedure in Canada, and from 2017-2021, was an annual contributor to the Supreme Court Law Review. Jessica has also guest lectured at the University of Calgary, Simon Fraser University, and Osgoode Hall. She has been recognized as a Top Lawyer in Toronto in the area of criminal law by Post City Magazine.
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> James
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> Subject: Is Lockyer sending the Ghost of the Hurricane to Nova Scotia just
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>
> https://davidraymondamos3.
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>
> Thursday, 14 July 2022
>
> Spouse of N.S. mass shooter shows how deadly rampage began in video
> re-enactment
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
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> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 17:25:48 -0700
> Subject: Out of office reply Re: Methinks folks should tune in and listen to
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> The Lockyer Factor By Paul Palango
> July 20, 2022
>
>
> FRANK MAGAZINE JULY 20, 2022
>
> THE LOCKYER FACTOR
>
> by Paul Palango
>
> If you haven’t already noticed, something truly strange happened on
> the road to finding the truth about what actually happened before,
> during and after the Nova Scotia massacres of April 18 and 19, 2020.
>
> Lisa Banfield and her $1,200-an-hour lawyer, James Lockyer, appear to
> have been controlling the show from the very beginning. The Lockyer
> factor as a not-so-hidden influencer on the news is important to
> address.
>
> On April 19, 2020, just hours after Lisa Banfield arrived at the door
> of Leon Joudrey, she contacted lawyer Kevin von Bargen in Toronto to
> seek advice and help. The lawyer, a friend of Wortman and Banfield,
> put her onto James Lockyer.
>
> From that moment forward, her every word has been treated as gospel.
> By the RCMP, by the Mass Casualty Commission, and by the compliant
> media. Even those who believe her to have been a victim of domestic
> violence at the hands of Gabriel Wortman (and she clearly was), but
> also believe she might know more than she’s letting on — and that what
> she knows might be important to the inquiry’s purported fact-finding
> mission — have been dismissed as cranks and conspiracists.
>
> According to financial documents released by the inquiry after Lisa
> Banfield’s dramatic “testimony” on July 15, Banfield reported earnings
> of $15,288 one recent year.
>
> That would cover a day, plus HST, of Lockyer’s valuable time.
>
> He has been on the clock for 27 months or so, his fees covered by
> taxpayers through the Mass Casualty Commission.
>
> Banfield’s finances, such as they are, would have been a juicy subject
> for any curious lawyer, but she wasn’t allowed to be cross examined.
> Too traumatic, remember.
>
> Questions abound.
>
RCMP were 'careless and calculated' in charging partner of N.S. mass shooter: lawyer
Lisa Banfield's lawyer tells inquiry her client's rights were violated by police
The RCMP were "careless and calculated" in their decision to charge the partner of the Nova Scotia mass shooter through an investigation where police deceived her and violated her rights, her lawyer says.
Jessica Zita, a lawyer representing Lisa Banfield, gave a final oral submission before the Mass Casualty Commission on Thursday in Truro, N.S. The commission is leading the inquiry into the April 2020 massacre where 22 people were killed by Gabriel Wortman, Banfield's longtime partner.
Zita said Banfield, who has told police and the commission multiple times about the years of physical and emotional abuse she suffered from the gunman, had no idea the RCMP officers speaking with her in the months after the shooting were "plotting" to charge her.
"The police have to know that this is inappropriate action on their part and inappropriate conduct to betray the trust of a victim of domestic violence," said Zita, an associate with Toronto-based Lockyer Zaduk Zeeh.
"The police conduct was … outdated, ill-informed and out of touch."
Lawyer
Jessica Zita, representing Lisa Banfield, addresses the Mass Casualty
Commission inquiry into the mass murders in rural Nova Scotia on April
18-19, 2020, in Truro, N.S., on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan)
In December 2020, Banfield was charged with providing the gunman with ammunition. At the time, police said Banfield, her brother James Banfield, and brother-in-law Brian Brewster, who were also charged, did not know how the ammunition would be used. All three have since had their charges resolved through restorative justice.
The charges were not only unnecessary, Zita said, but harmful and re-victimized Banfield eight months after the horrifying shootings.
She added the RCMP's actions need to be addressed by the commission in its final report next year because it led to a "dreadful deception" of Banfield and her lawyers, which breached the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms when she was "unsuspectingly fully co-operating" with police.
A main example is the actions of RCMP Sgt. Greg Vardy, who was one of the first officers to interview Banfield on April 20, 2020, and was "kind and attentive" to her, Zita said.
Banfield,
left, stands with RCMP Cpl. Gerry Rose-Berthiaume near the remains of
the gunman's warehouse in Portapique in October 2020, during a
re-enactment of the events that took place months earlier on April 18,
2020. (Mass Casualty Commission)
Banfield felt so comfortable with the Mounties that she agreed to take officers on her first visit back to Portapique in October 2020, which the RCMP filmed. During that visit, Banfield recreated her movements on the night of April 18, but Zita said police did not let her sisters walk with her, and there were no other qualified mental health or trauma experts on hand.
While Banfield thought this visit would bring her some closure, Vardy and other investigators had an "agenda," Zita said, as police were gathering information all along to charge her. This process was never shared with Banfield or her lawyer, James Lockyer, despite his request the police alert him if they began such an investigation, Zita said.
For police to come face to face with Banfield's vulnerability, and "feign sensitivity to further an ulterior motive is manipulative, and dare I say it's abusive," Zita said.
"The police were operating in extremes. This was an investigation that could be described as both careless and calculated," said Zita.
Twenty-two
people died on April 18 and 19, 2020. Top row from left: Gina Goulet,
Dawn Gulenchyn, Jolene Oliver, Frank Gulenchyn, Sean McLeod, Alanna
Jenkins. Second row: John Zahl, Lisa McCully, Joey Webber, Heidi
Stevenson, Heather O'Brien and Jamie Blair. Third row from top: Kristen
Beaton, Lillian Campbell, Joanne Thomas, Peter Bond, Tom Bagley and Greg
Blair. Bottom row: Emily Tuck, Joy Bond, Corrie Ellison and Aaron Tuck.
(CBC)
"Worst of all, this can do nothing but discourage victims of domestic violence from coming forward to the police. Why would they, how could they, if it means being investigated themselves?"
The Nova Scotia RCMP has told CBC News that Banfield was not under investigation at the time of the re-enactment filming.
However, an interview Banfield gave to RCMP soon after the shooting on April 28, 2020, is labelled a "cautioned" statement. Cautions are delivered by police when they are questioning someone suspected of a crime, to make sure their answers are admissible in court.
RCMP had also obtained search warrants for James Banfield and Brewster in the spring of 2020.
Zita said the dynamics of gender-based and domestic violence lie at the core of the mass shooting. If police had properly investigated earlier reports of the gunman's violence, including in 2013 that he'd assaulted Banfield in front of neighbours, things might have turned out differently.
Zita said "investigating domestic violence should always be akin to investigating a potential homicide," and called for police to update their training and policies to better recognize various forms of intimate partner violence.
A lawyer for a coalition of women's organizations said Thursday the gunman showed a pattern of gender-based violence against people like his ex-wife and vulnerable patients at his denture clinic.
Erin
Breen, representing Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF),
Avalon Sexual Assault Centre and Women’s Wellness Within, addresses the
Mass Casualty Commission inquiry into the mass murders in rural Nova
Scotia on April 18/19, 2020, in Truro, N.S., on Thursday, Sept. 22,
2022. (The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan)
Erin Breen, representing the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), Avalon Sexual Assault Centre and Women's Wellness Within, said during her final submission that data clearly shows most men who carry out mass killings have committed gender-based violence in the past.
"It is therefore at our own peril that we as a society cling to uninformed biases and stereotypes to dismiss gender-based violence as a private matter that does not affect us personally," Breen said.
Breen also highlighted other interactions with government authorities and organizations where she said screening failures happened.
Citing various documents already released through the commission or some yet to be tabled, Breen said the gunman's Nexus application to the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) in March 2015 was approved without the border service having the full picture.
Nexus passes are designed to speed up crossings for low-risk, pre-approved travellers across the Canada-United States border, Breen said, and the inquiry has heard the gunman smuggled firearms through a Maine-New Brunswick land crossing.
However, on June 2, 2010, the Halifax Regional Police added the gunman's name to the Canadian Police Information Centre database as being of "firearms interest to police" or FIP, which expired in June 2015. It was entered based on a report the gunman had illegal weapons and wanted to kill his parents.
Although CBSA would have checked the Canadian Police Information Centre database for the gunman's name when he applied for a Nexus pass, Breen said a new letter from a federal Justice Department lawyer confirms the agency didn't have access to FIP information — the category that held "the lone, tangible red flag that the perpetrator was not low risk."
"I think any member of the public would be highly concerned about this," Breen said.
Breen said this practice is under review, according to the federal Justice Department. She urged the commission to recommend CBSA have access to all relevant Canadian Police Information Centre systems, including FIP, when assessing Nexus applications.
In 2015, the border agents also wouldn't have had access to FIP information, but that has since been remedied, Breen said.
She also said the Denturist Licensing Board of Nova Scotia's policy requiring their members report any criminal convictions gave the gunman a loophole. In 2001, he was charged with assaulting a teenage boy, but given a conditional discharge.
Halifax
police on scene at the Atlantic Denture Clinic in downtown Dartmouth on
April 20, 2020, which was owned by the Nova Scotia mass shooter. (Craig Paisley/CBC)
The board received at least eight complaints about the gunman between 1998 and 2020, including three from women who described abusive behaviour and one who was subject to sexually explicit comments during her treatment.
Breen said it's concerning the province paid the gunman for dental services of patients on employment support and income assistance, despite the complaints and a licence suspension in 2007. A recent report to the commission also said the gunman preyed on vulnerable and Black women, and exchanged dental work for sex.
She asked the commission to recommend that the province enhance its screening of government-funded professionals providing services to vulnerable people.
The commission will continue to hear final oral submissions from lawyers and participants in the inquiry through Thursday and Friday.
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 22:59:21 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Is Lockyer sending the Ghost of the
Hurricane to Nova Scotia just as a real one is bearing down on us???
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
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If your matter is urgent, please contact Kathy Doyle at
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The Lockyer Factor By Paul Palango
July 20, 2022
FRANK MAGAZINE JULY 20, 2022
THE LOCKYER FACTOR
by Paul Palango
If you haven’t already noticed, something truly strange happened on
the road to finding the truth about what actually happened before,
during and after the Nova Scotia massacres of April 18 and 19, 2020.
Lisa Banfield and her $1,200-an-hour lawyer, James Lockyer, appear to
have been controlling the show from the very beginning. The Lockyer
factor as a not-so-hidden influencer on the news is important to
address.
On April 19, 2020, just hours after Lisa Banfield arrived at the door
of Leon Joudrey, she contacted lawyer Kevin von Bargen in Toronto to
seek advice and help. The lawyer, a friend of Wortman and Banfield,
put her onto James Lockyer.
From that moment forward, her every word has been treated as gospel.
By the RCMP, by the Mass Casualty Commission, and by the compliant
media. Even those who believe her to have been a victim of domestic
violence at the hands of Gabriel Wortman (and she clearly was), but
also believe she might know more than she’s letting on — and that what
she knows might be important to the inquiry’s purported fact-finding
mission — have been dismissed as cranks and conspiracists.
According to financial documents released by the inquiry after Lisa
Banfield’s dramatic “testimony” on July 15, Banfield reported earnings
of $15,288 one recent year.
That would cover a day, plus HST, of Lockyer’s valuable time.
He has been on the clock for 27 months or so, his fees covered by
taxpayers through the Mass Casualty Commission.
Banfield’s finances, such as they are, would have been a juicy subject
for any curious lawyer, but she wasn’t allowed to be cross examined.
Too traumatic, remember.
Questions abound.
Why did Banfield hire an esteemed criminal lawyer? Did no one let her
in on her status as a victim?
Lockyer seems like an exotic choice. He made his name from the early
‘90s onward representing men wrongly convicted of murder, such as
Stephen Truscott, David Milgaard, Robert Baltovich and Guy Paul Morin.
Morin was falsely accused of killing 9-year-old Christine Jessop in
Queensville, Ontario, near Toronto.
I was the city editor at the Globe and Mail then. I was intimately
involved in the story which was being covered by one of our reporters,
Kirk Makin. I even at one point had a meeting with Makin and Morin’s
mother, who protested his innocence. At the time I was wrongly unmoved
and skeptical of her story, but Makin persisted in digging into it and
worked closely with Lockyer. Morin was eventually exonerated. Kudos to
all. I hope I got smarter after that.
Lockyer, who lived a block away from me in Toronto, went on to become
a champion of the wrongly convicted and started the Innocence Project
to work on their behalf. Among his many clients was Rubin (Hurricane)
Carter, the former boxer who was wrongly convicted of three murders in
Paterson, NJ and was the inspiration for the 1976 Bob Dylan epic
Hurricane.
In recent years, Lockyer and his Innocence Project became involved in
the case of Nova Scotia’s Glenn Assoun, who was wrongly convicted in
1999 of murdering Brenda Way in Dartmouth four years earlier.
Lockyer worked along with lawyers Sean MacDonald and Phil Campbell to
have Assoun’s conviction overturned after he had spent 17 years in
prison. In the final years of that campaign an activist reporter named
Tim Bousquet took on the Assoun case and wrote about it extensively
for years, channeling and publicizing what the lawyers and their
investigators had uncovered. To his credit Bousquet uncovered some
things on his own.
Perhaps the biggest revelation in the Assoun case was that the RCMP
had destroyed evidence and had mislead the courts about Assoun.
Bousquet joined with the CBC in 2020 and produced a radio series, Dead
Wrong, about the case. As Canadians should know well by now, both the
federal and Nova Scotia governments ignored what the Mounties were
caught doing.
Fast forward to the Nova Scotia massacres and the news coverage of it.
As I wrote in my recent book, 22 Murders: Investigating the Massacres,
Cover-up and Obstacles to Justice In Nova Scotia, I had a brief fling
with Bousquet and his on-line newspaper, The Halifax Examiner, in
2020.
After publishing an opening salvo in Maclean’s magazine in May 2020, I
couldn’t find anyone else interested in my reporting, which challenged
the official narrative. Maclean’s writer Stephen Maher introduced me
to Bousquet. I knew nothing about either him or the Halifax Examiner.
Over the next several weeks, Bousquet published five of my pieces and
I was pleasantly surprised to find that the Examiner punched well
above its weight. Its stories were being picked up and read across the
country. Although I had never met the gruff and the usually
difficult-to-reach Bousquet, I thought we had a mutual interest in
keeping the story alive as the mainstream media was losing interest in
it and were moving on. At first blush, Bousquet seemed like a true,
objective journalist determined to find the truth. Hell, I was even
prepared to work for nothing, just to get the story out.
“I have to pay you, man,” he insisted in one phone call.
I felt badly taking money from him. I had no idea what his company’s
financial situation might be, and I didn’t want to break the bank. He
said he could pay me $300 or so per story and asked me to submit an
invoice, which I did.
Soon afterward, a cheque for $1500 arrived. I cashed it and then my
wife Sharonand I sent him $500 each in after tax money as a donation.
Like I said, I didn’t want to be a drag on the Examiner.
Once we made the donations, Bousquet all but ghosted me. He was always
too busy to take my calls or field my pitches. I couldn’t tell if I
was being cancelled or had been conned.
I began to replay events in my head and the one thing that leapt out
to me was Bousquet’s defensive and even dismissive reaction to two
threads I thought were important and newsworthy which I wanted to
write about.
One was the politically sensitive issue of writing objectively about
all the women in the story. There were female victims who had slept
with Wortman, which I though was contextually important in
understanding the larger story. Bousquet had made it clear that he
wasn’t eager for me to write about that. (Be trauma informed!-ed.)
There was also the fact that female police officers were at the
intersection of almost every major event that terrible weekend. The
commanding officer was Leona (Lee) Bergerman. Chief Superintendent
Janis Graywas in charge of the RCMP in Halifax County. Inspector
Dustine Rodierran the communications centre. It was a long list that
will continue to grow.
I believe in equal pay for work of equal value but that comes with
equal accountability for all. I am gender neutral when evaluating
performance.
But it didn’t take psychic powers to detect that gender politics was a
big issue with Bousquet – his target market, as it were.
I really wanted to write about Banfield. My preliminary research
strongly suggested to me her story was riddled with weakness and
inconsistency, but nobody in the mainstream media would tackle it.
Hell, for months her name wasn’t even published anywhere outside the
pages of Frank magazine.
Bousquet’s position was that Banfield was a victim of domestic
violence and that her story, via vague, second-hand and untested RCMP
statements, was to be believed. No questions asked.
“You’re going to need something really big to convince me otherwise,”
Bousquet said in one of our brief conversations.
Afterward, I did have one face-to-face meeting with him in Halifax. He
actually sat in the back seat of our car because Sharon was in the
front. We met up because I wanted to tell him about sensitive leads I
had which, if pursued, would show that the RCMP had the ability to
manipulate its records and destroy evidence in its PROs reporting
system.
Considering his involvement in the Assoun case, where that very issue
was at the heart of Assoun’s exoneration, I thought Bousquet would be
eager to pursue the story.
As I looked at him in the rearview mirror, I could sense his
discomfort and lack of interest. So could Sharon who was sitting
beside me.
“That was weird,” she said.
Bousquet got out of the car, walked away and disappeared me for good.
It was all so inexplicable. If this was the new journalism that I was
experiencing, there was something terribly wrong with it. I couldn’t
believe that a journalist like Bousquet who aspired to be a
truthteller felt compelled to distill every word or nuance through a
political filter first or even something more nefarious.
Later, while writing for Frank Magazine, I broke story after story
about the case. Incontrovertible documents showing that the RCMP was
destroying evidence in the Wortman case. The Pictou County Public
Safety channel recordings showing for the first time what the RCMP was
doing on the ground during the early morning hours of April 19. The
911 tapes. The Enfield Big Stop videos. That Lisa Banfield lied in
small claims court on two different occasions.
Bousquet either ignored or ridiculed most of those stories in the
Halifax Examiner or on his Twitter feed, as if I were making the
stories up.
For the most part throughout 2021, the Halifax Examiner didn’t even
bother covering the larger story. There was no discernible legwork or
energy being expended on it. And regarding the stories he did publish,
I began to see a pattern. Naïve readers might have thought that he was
digging for new stories when in fact the Examiner was merely mining
court documents and uncritically reporting what resided therein. It
was all stenography, straight from the mouths of the RCMP and the MCC.
Time and time again, “new” stories would be published which were
essentially no different from previous ones but all with the same
theme: as Ray Daviesof the Kinks put it in his masterpiece Sunny
Afternoon: “Tales of drunkenness and cruelty.”
The Monster and the Maiden stories, as I called them, reinforced in
readers' minds that Banfield was a helpless victim controlled by a
demonic Wortman, a narrative that, upon reflection, seemed to
perfectly suit Lockyer’s strategy.
For 27 months the RCMP and the Mass Casualty Commission played along,
sheltering Banfield as part of their “trauma-informed” mandate, even
though there was plenty to be skeptical about her story.
Banfield was beside Wortman for 19 years during which he committed
crime after crime. She was reportedly the last person to be with
Wortman and her incredible, hoary tale of escape should have been
enough to raise suspicions about her.
From the moment she knocked on Leon Joudrey’s door she has been
treated as a victim, which to this day astounds law enforcement
experts and others who have monitored the case. Many observers,
including but not limited to lawyers representing the families of the
victims, have serious questions about how Banfield spent the overnight
hours of April 18/19. Not helping matters is that she doesn’t appear
to have been subjected to any level of normal criminal investigation
or evidence gathering. Her clothing wasn’t tested. There were no
gunshot residue tests. She wasn’t subjected to a polygraph or any
other credible investigative procedure.
Enter James Lockyer of the Innocence Project.
The puppetification of Tim Bousquet
As we moved closer to July 15, the day that Banfield would be
“testifying” at the MCC, it is also important to consider what
Bousquet and his minions were doing at the Halifax Examiner.
In the weeks and days leading up to Banfield’s appearance, the
Examiner’s reporting and Bousquet’s Twitter commentary began to take
on an illogical, more contemptuous and even hostile approach to anyone
who refused to buy into the RCMP and Banfield’s official version of
events.
In a series of hilariously one-sided diatribes, Bousquet lashed out at
Banfield’s critics whom he wouldn’t name. Some (likely us) were
“bad-faith actors.” He decried the “witchification” of Banfield.
He tweeted: “And just to repeat for the 1000th time: I’ve read
transcripts of interviews with dozens of people. I’ve read three
years’ of emails between Banfield and GW. I’ve read her Notes app.
There is ZERO evidence that she had any prior knowledge (of) GW’s
intent to kill people…. The notion that she is ‘complicit’ is pulled
out of people’s diarrhetic asses and plain old-fashioned misogyny.”
Oh, misogyny, that old woke slimeball to be hurled at any male who
dare be critical of any female.
One can’t help but sense the deft hand of a clever and experienced
defence lawyer running up the back of Bousquet’s shirt. That makes
sense.
Look at what has transpired on Lockyer’s watch.
Since April 2020, the RCMP and the federal and provincial governments
have wrapped themselves in a single, vague and inappropriate platitude
– trauma informed.
The original selling point was that this approach would prevent the
surviving family members from being further traumatized by the ongoing
“investigation” into the massacres.
What actually happened is much more sinister.
Lisa Banfield was coddled and protected the entire time not only by
the authorities but also by Lockyer’s friends in the mass media. The
wily old fox had the opportunity to mainline his thoughts into the
Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the CBC, CTV and Global News who
unquestioningly lapped it up.
At the MCC, Banfield wasn’t allowed to be cross examined because, as
Mr. Lockyer so eloquently explained, cross examination would just lead
to more conspiracy theories.
That’s rich.
The search for the truth will only confuse matters -- it’s better for
everyone that Banfield spin a much-rehearsed tale without challenge.
That’s clearly a $1,200-an-hour lawyer speaking.
The whole world has gone topsy-turvy. The Mass Casualty Commission,
the federal and provincial governments, the RCMP and Lisa Banfield are
now aligned on one side of the argument.
Meanwhile, the re-traumatized families find themselves agreeing with
this magazine and other skeptics and critics.
The final irony is that the Halifax Examiner bills itself as being
“independent” and “adversarial.” It seems to be neither these days.
In the end, Tim Bousquet’s approach to covering the Nova Scotia
Massacres is, to use his words: “Dead Wrong.”
paulpalango@protonmail.com
Paul Palango is author of the best selling book 22 Murders:
Investigating the massacres, cover-up and obstacles to justice in Nova
Scotia (Random House).
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Frank Magazine
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