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Subject: Fwd: Michael Cohen should write another book and mention Canada before Trump gets sworn in
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Automatic reply: RE FATCA ATTN Pierre-Luc.Dusseault I just called and
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G'Day/Bonjour,
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From: "Morris, Pat (OPP)" <Pat.Morris@opp.ca>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 14:01:57 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Rohan Kumar Pall and his pals
should not be surprised by Robert Bernier and his fellow Ottawa cops
trying to play dumb todasyu N'esy Pas Frank Au?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
CAUTION -- EXTERNAL E-MAIL - Do not click links or open attachments in
unexpected emails.
?Hello, from October 24h to October 26th, I will be working out of the
office and unable to receive or return messages most of the time.
Acting Supt. Kirsten Clarke will be acting for me in POIB. I will
return on October 27th.
Thank you
Pat Morris
Superintendent
Bureau Commander
Provincial Operations Intelligence Bureau
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:02:25 -0400
Subject: DEJA VU or what? Fwd: RE FATCA ATTN Pierre-Luc.Dusseault I
just called and left a message for you
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Canadians should be told if their banking info shared with IRS, says MP
Canada Revenue Agency says banks should tell their clients
By Elizabeth Thompson, CBC News Posted: Mar 17, 2017 5:00 AM ET
The Canada Revenue Agency should notify Canadian residents when their
bank account information is being shared with the U.S. Internal
Revenue Service, says the NDP's revenue critic.
Pierre-Luc Dusseault says informing Canadian residents their
information is being sent to the IRS could prevent others from landing
in the same predicament as Jeffrey Pomerantz, a Vancouver area man
facing a $1.1-million lawsuit for failing to file a form reporting his
bank accounts outside the U.S.
Dusseault said there could be more lawsuits because of the "large
number" of files regarding Canadian bank accounts being transferred
under an intergovernmental agreement between the U.S. and Canada.
The deal was negotiated in the wake of the U.S. adopting the Foreign
Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).
"I would emphasize again the need for the CRA to notify Canadian
taxpayers when they transfer their files to the IRS, a foreign
government department," said Dusseault. "This notification may avoid
that kind of situation."
Department hits Vancouver-area man with $1.1M lawsuit over bank form
Transfer of banking records of Canadian residents to U.S. taxman doubles
Canada's Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has already recommended
that Canadian residents be notified when their bank account
information is transferred, Dusseault pointed out.
In September 2016, the CRA shared information about 315,160 bank
accounts — double the number it shared a year earlier in the first
year of the agreement.
However, Revenue Minister Diane LeBouthillier's office said it is the
responsibility of individual banks to let clients know if information
about their bank accounts might be transferred.
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Pierre-Luc Dusseault, NDP MP for Sherbrooke, says the transfer of
information about banking records could lead to more Canadian
residents being pursued by U.S. authorities. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian
Press)
"The legislation implementing the Canada-U.S. Intergovernmental
Agreement (IGA) requires that Canadian financial institutions
communicate with account holders of pre-existing accounts if there is
information suggesting that they are a U.S. citizen or resident (e.g.,
their client file contains a U.S. contact address or phone number,)"
said spokesperson Chloé Luciani-Girouard.
"These clients would therefore be on notice that their information may
be exchanged with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service."
CRA will respond to requests
While the government has no plans to inform people whose bank account
information has been shared, those who want to know can contact their
financial institution or the CRA, Luciani-Girouard said.
"The CRA will respond to any request to confirm whether information
relating to a particular individual or entity has been reported and
provided to the U.S. under FATCA. To date, fewer than 10 such requests
have been received by the CRA," she added.
Tax law has more Americans living abroad renouncing citizenship, lawyer says
The information-sharing agreement was in the spotlight Thursday
following a CBC report that Pomerantz, a dual Canadian-U.S. citizen,
is being sued by the U.S. Justice Department for $860,300 US in civil
penalties, late payment penalties and interest.
While Pomerantz filed income tax returns to both Canada and the U.S.,
the Justice Department said he failed to file a Foreign Bank and
Financial Accounts report to the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes
Enforcement Network (FinCEN) for three tax years.
During those years, Pomerantz had accounts with the Canadian Imperial
Bank of Commerce and in Switzerland with Sal Oppenheim JR & Cie, in
addition to a corporation in the Turks and Caicos Islands, the U.S.
Justice Department said in its lawsuit.
In a separate case, Pomerantz is challenging an audit by the IRS.
Court challenge
Lynne Swanson, part of a group challenging the bank account
information sharing agreement in Federal Court, said the Pomerantz
case is an example of how the bank account information agreement can
make some Canadian residents vulnerable.
IRS-Political Groups
The CRA transferred 315,160 Canadian bank records to the IRS in
September 2016. (Susan Walsh/Associated Press)
"I don't think they should be transferring any information. Period.
Full stop," she said.
"If they are transferring it, of course, they should be telling people
that they have transferred it and what they have transferred. But I
don't think they should be transferring anything."
Elizabeth Thompson can be reached at elizabeth.thompson@cbc.ca
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David Raymond Amos
Gee I wonder if Elizabeth Thompson or Diane LeBouthillier and
Pierre-Luc Dusseault bothered to read the email i sent them and many
others on St Valentine's Day?
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:15:04 -0400
Subject: RE FATCA ATTN Pierre-Luc.Dusseault I just called and left a
message for you
To: Pierre-Luc.Dusseault@parl.gc.
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elizabeth.thompson@cbc.ca, "ht.lacroix" <ht.lacroix@cbc.ca>,
"hon.melanie.joly" <hon.melanie.joly@canada.ca>
Trust that Trump, CBC and everybody else knows that I speak and act
Pro Se particularly when dealing with the Evil Tax Man
https://twitter.com/
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Date: Mon, Dec 2, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Subject: Automatic reply: Michael Cohen should write another book and mention Canada before Trump gets sworn in
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From: Michael Cohen <mcohen@trumporg.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 23:49:05 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Bill Morneau before Trump causes the
markets to crash Methinks I should remind folks of the Bank of Canadas
long lost mandate, Harper's Bankster bail out 10 years ago and Trudeau
The Younger's recent Bankster Bail-In plan
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From: "Office, Press" <Press@bankofengland.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:23:31 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Bill Morneau before Trump causes the
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From: "MinFinance / FinanceMin (FIN)" <fin.minfinance-financemin.fin
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 20:27:12 +0000
Subject: RE: I just called Re Trump versus Canadian Dairy Farmers
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Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 13:27:09 -0700
Subject: Merci / Thank you Re: I just called Re Trump versus Canadian
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Trump insists Fidel Castro could be Justin Trudeau's father: 'Communist just like Castro'
'He swears that he isn’t, but how the hell would he know! Castro had good hair, the 'father' didn’t'
In his upcoming book, Save America, former U.S. president Donald Trump insists that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could be the son of Communist Leader Fidel Castro.
“Justin Trudeau and I got along very well, but there were natural differences in that he is very Liberal, and I, to put it mildly, am not,” Trump writes in an excerpt obtained by the Daily Mail.
“It will be very interesting to see how (their relationship progresses) in the future, but first, I have to get there (back to the White House),” Trump continues, adding, “His mother was beautiful and wild. In the 1970s, she would go ‘clubbing’ with the Rolling Stones, but she was also somehow associated with Fidel Castro. She said he was ‘the sexiest man I’ve ever met,’ and a lot of people say that Justin is his son.”
Trump concedes that Trudeau is aware of the longstanding rumour, but writes: “He swears that he isn’t, but how the hell would he know! Castro had good hair, the ‘father’ didn’t, Justin has good hair, and has become a Communist just like Castro.”
Earlier this month in an interview with video game streamer Adin Ross, Trump floated the theory that Trudeau was the son of the late Cuban revolutionary leader.
“He’s turned very liberal, actually they say he’s the son of Fidel Castro, and could be,” Trump told Ross in a video that has been viewed more than 2.5 million times. “Anything’s possible in this world, you know?”
Trump said that he and Trudeau got along “very well,” but hinted that he is well aware that the Liberal Leader is headed for political annihilation amid his sagging popularity amongst Canadians.
“He seems to be going very progressive and the people of Canada are not liking it,” the Republican presidential candidate added in his interview with Ross. “If they had a good conservative person – which maybe they do, maybe they don’t, I don’t know – but somebody that’s a strong conservative would win in Canada. Canada is very unhappy about the way they’ve been treated as people, but I got along with him well.”
Back in 2022, Joe Rogan suggested Trudeau should take a 23andMe DNA test to confirm that he’s not the child of Castro.
During a segment on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Rogan told comedian Sam Tripoli that the similarities between Trudeau and Castro were “wild.”
The rumour was first circulated when Castro’s son, Fidelito, committed suicide in 2018. Several sites, the Associated Press noted, reported that Fidelito left a goodbye note that referenced Trudeau as his half-brother.
A theory that Castro was Trudeau’s dad was also shared after the communist leader’s death in 2016.
The Canadian government denied the reports and AP’s fact-check revealed that it was more than four years after Justin’s birth that his mother Margaret made her much-publicized first trip to Cuba and met Fidel in 1976.
But during a segment of his podcast two summers ago, Rogan revisited the rumour in his chat with Tripoli “just for funsies.”
“Let’s Google, look at the two of them together,” Rogan began. “There’s multiple photos. That’s wild. That’s f***ing wild,” he continued as he looked through the images. “Oh my God, look at the top one … that is wild.”
Rogan then jokingly suggested Trudeau take a DNA test to confirm the late Pierre Elliott Trudeau was really his dad.
“Hey bro, you need a 23andMe right away, sir. It’s wild how close he looks … If I was the father, I’d be f***ing suspicious as s***.”
Trudeau had a rocky relationship with Trump during his tenure as president. Back in 2019, following a NATO meeting in London, Trump hit out at Trudeau after the prime minister was caught on a hot mic with then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron making fun of the president’s tardiness at a Buckingham Palace reception.
“He was late because he takes a 40-minute press conference off the top,” Trudeau said. “I watched his team’s jaws drop on the floor.”
Afterwards, Trump called Trudeau “two-faced.”
“Honestly with Trudeau he’s a nice guy, but the truth is I called him out on the fact he’s not paying 2% (in defence spending) and I guess he’s not happy about it,” Trump said.
A year prior, following a G7 summit in Quebec, Trump called Trudeau “very dishonest & weak” after the Canadian leader threatened to escalate a trade war between the two countries.
Elsewhere, Trump referred to Trudeau as a “far-left lunatic” following Ottawa’s harsh response to the “Freedom Convoy” protests that crippled the nation’s capital back in 2022.
“The Freedom Convoy is peacefully protesting the harsh policies of far-left lunatic Justin Trudeau who has destroyed Canada with insane COVID mandates,” said Trump in a statement.
Trump added that his social media site Truth Social would welcome Freedom Convoy supporters.
“Facebook is cancelling the accounts of Freedom Convoy USA, and GoFundMe is denying access to funds that belong to the Freedom Convoy. This is unacceptable and extremely dangerous in any country that values free expression,” he said.
Trump's hush-money case sentencing put on hold
Sentencing was to take place next week. Instead, Trump side allowed to file motion to dismiss
A New York judge on Friday granted Donald Trump permission to seek dismissal of the criminal case in which he was convicted in May of 34 felony counts involving hush money paid to a porn star in light of his victory in the Nov. 5 presidential election.
New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan formally delayed the sentencing of Trump, which had been scheduled to take place next Tuesday. Prosecutors with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office this week asked Merchan to consider deferring all proceedings in the case until after Trump, 78, finishes his four-year presidential term that begins on Jan. 20.
Lawyers for Trump, a Republican, have argued that the case must be dismissed because having it loom over him while he is president would cause "unconstitutional impediments" to his ability to govern. Bragg's office said it would argue against dismissal, but agreed that Trump deserves time to make his case through written motions.
Merchan on Friday set a Dec. 2 deadline for Trump to file his motion to dismiss, and gave prosecutors until Dec. 9 to respond. The judge did not set a new date for sentencing or indicate how long proceedings would remain on hold. Merchan also did not indicate when he would rule on Trump's motion to dismiss.
Manhattan
District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks to the media on May 30 after a
jury found Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying
business records. Bragg and his team could see their efforts come to
naught, given Trump's return to the White House. (Seth Wenig/The Associated Press)
Representatives for Trump's campaign and for Bragg's office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The case stemmed from a $130,000 US payment, made by Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, for her silence before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she has said she had a decade earlier with Trump.
Trump denies the affair.
A Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records to cover up his reimbursement of Cohen. It was the first time a U.S. president — former or sitting — had been convicted of or charged with a criminal offence.
Trump pleaded not guilty in the case, which he has sought to portray as a politically motivated attempt by Bragg, a Democrat, to interfere with his campaign.
Trump last week nominated his defence lawyers in the hush-money case, Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, to serve senior roles at the Justice Department during his administration.
Trump faced four criminal indictments for months while running for president.
The case accusing Trump of hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate had been seen as the most legally clear-cut of the four indictments against him, given evidence including testimony of aides and a former lawyer, but the judge dismissed the case in a ruling questioning the legality of appointing special counsel Jack Smith.
Smith appealed that ruling, but last week asked for a pause on the appeal given Trump's Nov. 5 election win. Smith's team had already secured a similar pause in another federal case involving Trump efforts to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election.
Trump and several associates were indicted in a racketeering case in Georgia over similar 2020 election actions in that state. The outstanding cases have been in limbo, as some defendants sought to disqualify the prosecuting attorney.
The Supreme Court ruling on immunity this year also could complicate some of the cases.
As president, Trump would have no power to shut down the New York or Georgia cases because they were filed in state courts.
With files from CBC News and the Associated Press
Judge dismisses election interference case against Donald Trump at prosecutors' request
Separately, an appeal sought in a case involving Trump and classified documents has been abandoned
Special counsel Jack Smith moved to abandon two criminal cases against U.S. president-elect Donald Trump on Monday, acknowledging that Trump's return to the White House will preclude attempts to federally prosecute him for retaining classified documents or trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
The decision was inevitable, since longstanding U.S. Justice Department policy says sitting presidents cannot face criminal prosecution. Yet it was still a momentous finale to an unprecedented chapter in political and law enforcement history, as federal officials attempted to hold accountable a former president while he was simultaneously running for another term.
Trump emerges indisputably victorious, having successfully delayed the investigations through legal manoeuvres and then winning re-election despite indictments that described his actions as a threat to the country's constitutional foundations.
"I persevered, against all odds, and WON," Trump exulted in a post on Truth Social, his social media website.
He also said that "these cases, like all of the other cases I have been forced to go through, are empty and lawless, and should never have been brought."
The judge in the election case granted prosecutors' dismissal request. A decision in the documents case was still pending on Monday evening.
Special
counsel Jack Smith speaks in August 2023 about the indictment of Trump.
Smith's decision to dismiss the criminal charges and to abandon the
classified documents case against Trump represented the end of the
federal effort against him following his election victory earlier this
month. (Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated Press)
Constitution requires dismissal, prosecutors say
The outcome makes it clear that, when it comes to a president and criminal accusations, nothing supersedes the voters' own verdict. In court filings, Smith's team emphasized that the move to end their prosecutions was not a reflection of the merit of the cases but a recognition of the legal shield that surrounds any commander in chief.
"That prohibition is categorical and does not turn on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the Government's proof, or the merits of the prosecution, which the Government stands fully behind," prosecutors said in one of their filings.
They wrote that Trump's return to the White House "sets at odds two fundamental and compelling national interests: on the one hand, the Constitution's requirement that the President must not be unduly encumbered in fulfilling his weighty responsibilities… and on the other hand, the Nation's commitment to the rule of law."
In this situation, "the Constitution requires that this case be dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated," they concluded.
Smith's team said it was leaving intact charges against two co-defendants in the classified documents case — Trump valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira — because "no principle of temporary immunity applies to them."
'Political weaponization'
Steven Cheung, Trump's incoming White House communications director, said Americans "want an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and we look forward to uniting our country."
Trump has long described the investigations as politically motivated, and had vowed to fire Smith as soon as he takes office in January. Now he will start his second term free from criminal scrutiny by the government that he will lead.
The 2020 election case brought last year was once seen as one of the most serious legal threats facing Trump as he tried to reclaim the White House. He was indicted for plotting to overturn his defeat to Joe Biden in 2020, an effort that climaxed with his supporters' violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
But it quickly stalled amid legal battles over Trump's sweeping claims of immunity from prosecution for his actions while he was in the White House.
The U.S. Supreme Court in July ruled for the first time that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, and sent the case back to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to determine which allegations in the indictment, if any, could proceed to trial.
The case was just beginning to pick up steam again in the trial court in the weeks leading up to this year's election. Smith's team in October filed a lengthy brief laying out new evidence they planned to use against Trump at trial, accusing him of "resorting to crimes" in an increasingly desperate effort to overturn the will of voters after he lost to Biden.
In dismissing the case, Chutkan acknowledged prosecutors' request to do so "without prejudice," raising the possibility that they could try to bring charges against Trump when his term is over. She wrote that is "consistent with the Government's understanding that the immunity afforded to a sitting President is temporary, expiring when they leave office."
But such a move may be barred by the statute of limitations, and Trump may also try to pardon himself while in office. The immunity afforded to a sitting president is temporary, expiring when they leave office.
The separate case involving classified documents had been widely seen as legally clear cut, especially because the conduct in question occurred after Trump left the White House and lost the powers of the presidency.
The indictment included dozens of felony counts accusing him of illegally hoarding classified records from his presidency at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., and obstructing federal efforts to get them back. He has pleaded not guilty and denied wrongdoing.
The case quickly became snarled by delays, with U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon slow to issue rulings — which favoured Trump's strategy of pushing off deadlines in all his criminal cases — while also entertaining defence motions and arguments that experts said other judges would have dispensed with without hearings.
In May, she indefinitely cancelled the trial date amid a series of unresolved legal issues before dismissing the case outright two months later. Smith's team appealed the decision, but now has given up that effort.
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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:51:14 -0400
Subject: RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President Donald J. Trump I just got off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen (646-853-0114) Why does he lie to me after all this time???
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Subject: RE: Yo President Trump RE the Federal Court of Canada File No
T-1557-15 lets see how the media people do with news that is NOT FAKE
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Transfer of Canadian banking records to U.S. tax agency doubled last year
Documents for thousands of Canadian residents transferred under
controversial FATCA legislation
By Elizabeth Thompson, CBC News Posted: Jan 29, 2017 5:00 AM ET
Banking records of more than 315,000 Canadian residents were turned
over to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service last year under a
controversial information sharing deal, CBC News has learned.
That is double the number transferred in the deal's first year.
The Canada Revenue Agency transmitted 315,160 banking records to the
IRS on Sept. 28, 2016 — a 104 per cent increase over the 154,667
records the agency sent in September 2015.
Lisa Damien, spokeswoman for the CRA, attributed the increase to the
fact it was the second year for the Canada-U.S. information sharing
deal that was sparked by the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
(FATCA).
"The exchange in September 2015 was based on accounts identified by
financial institutions at the time," she said. "The number of reported
accounts was expected to increase in 2016, because the financial
institutions have had more time to complete their due diligence and
identify other reportable accounts."
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Prior to coming to power, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau opposed the
agreement to share banking records of Canadian residents with the IRS.
He has since changed his position. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
The transmission of banking records of Canadian residents is the
result of an agreement worked out in 2014 between Canada and the U.S.
after the American government adopted FATCA. The U.S. tax compliance
act requires financial institutions around the world to reveal
information about bank accounts in a bid to crack down on tax evasion
by U.S. taxpayers with foreign accounts.
Dual citizens, long-term visitors affected
The deal requires financial institutions to share the banking records
of those considered to be "U.S. persons" for tax purposes — regardless
of whether they are U.S. citizens.
Among the people who can be considered by the IRS as "U.S. persons"
are Canadians born in the U.S., dual citizens or even those who spend
more than a certain number of days in the United States each year.
Former prime minister Stephen Harper's government argued that given
the penalties the U.S. was threatening to impose, it had no choice but
to negotiate the information sharing deal. The former government said
it was able to exempt some types of accounts from the information
transfer.
CRA
The Canada Revenue Agency transfers banking records of people believed
to be 'U.S. persons' to the IRS. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
The Canada Revenue Agency triggered controversy after it transferred
the first batch of Canadian banking records to the IRS in September
2015 in the midst of the election campaign, without waiting for an
assessment by Canada's privacy commissioner or the outcome of a legal
challenge to the agreement's constitutionality.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Treasury Board President Scott Brison
and Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale have dropped calls to scrap
the deal, which they had made before the Liberals came to power.
Watchdog wants proactive notification
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has raised concerns about the
information sharing, questioning whether financial institutions are
reporting more accounts than necessary. Under the agreement, financial
institutions only have to report accounts belonging to those believed
to be U.S. persons if they contain more than $50,000.
Therrien has also suggested the CRA proactively notify individuals
that their financial records had been shared with the IRS. However,
the CRA has been reluctant to agree to Therrien's suggestion.
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Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has questioned whether the CRA is
transmitting more banking records to the IRS than is necessary.
(Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)
NDP revenue critic Pierre-Luc Dusseault said the increase in the
number of files transferred was "surprising," and he questioned
whether financial institutions are only sharing records of accounts
worth more than $50,000.
"I don't see how there would be 150,000 more accounts reportable to
the IRS in one year. It is something I will look into."
Dusseault said the CRA should notify every Canadian resident whose
banking records are shared with the IRS.
Lynne Swanson, of the Alliance for the Defence of Canadian
Sovereignty, which is challenging the information sharing agreement in
Federal Court, said she has no idea why the number of banking records
shared with the IRS doubled.
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NDP revenue critic Pierre-Luc Dusseault says the CRA should notify
every Canadian resident whose banking records are shared with the IRS.
(Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)
"It still seems low in comparison to the number of Canadians that are
affected by this," she said. "It is estimated that a million Canadians
are affected by this."
Hopes for repeal
Swanson hopes that U.S. President Donald Trump, or Congress — which is
now controlled by the Republican Party — will scrap FATCA. The
Republican platform pledged to do away with the information collecting
legislation.
"FATCA not only allows 'unreasonable search and seizures' but also
threatens the ability of overseas Americans to lead normal lives," the
platform reads. "We call for its repeal and for a change to
residency-based taxation for U.S. citizens overseas."
Swanson's group is also hoping the Federal Court of Canada will
intervene, although a date has not yet been set for a hearing.
"A foreign government is essentially telling the Canadian government
how Canadian citizens and Canadian residents should be treated. It is
a violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms."
Elizabeth Thompson can be reached at elizabeth.thompson@cbc.ca
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Biden's poor debate performance renews questions about Trump, Trudeau and Canada's future
A second Trump presidency could be a boon for Trudeau's political fortunes: observers
U.S. President Joe Biden's uneven — and at times incoherent — debate performance Thursday reportedly has triggered panic in Democratic circles as it could result in an insurmountable lead for Donald Trump and a Republican victory in November's vote.
It also has observers on this side of the border wondering what a second Trump presidency could mean for Canada and how political leaders here will handle the sometimes volatile former president if he wins again.
Polls suggest Trump was already leading Biden before Thursday's debate in the six battleground states that are expected to decide the presidential election — Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Some voters have simply shrugged off Trump's criminal conviction and his association with the Jan. 6 siege on Capitol Hill.
This
combination of photos shows Republican presidential candidate former
President Donald Trump, left, and President Joe Biden during a
presidential debate hosted by CNN, Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. (Gerald Herbert/The Associated Press)
Like the Toronto-St. Paul's voters who backed a Conservative in the long-time Liberal stronghold due to frustration with the current state of affairs, some Americans have turned away from Biden as the country grapples with inflation and surging home prices.
The ongoing influx of migrants at the southern border has also been a sore spot for some U.S. voters.
Biden's debate performance Thursday did nothing to silence critics who maintain he's too old and infirm to lead the most powerful country on Earth.
A second Trump presidency could be very consequential for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his own political future.
Trudeau has presented himself as a defender of the rules-based international order — a sort of foil to the isolationist "America First" Trump and his disdain for multilateral institutions like NATO.
In a 2016 speech before Parliament, former U.S. president Barack Obama famously praised Trudeau as the leader to carry the torch of liberalism at a time when anti-democratic forces were supposedly on the march.
There's some hope in pro-Trudeau circles that a chaotic Trump presidency could make Canadians sour on Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. The Liberals have repeatedly tried to brand Poilievre as Trump-like figure because of his embrace of populist politics.
Some Liberals think that if Canadians recoil at a second Trump victory, they could choose Trudeau in the 2025 general election as a steady hand on the tiller during a period of uncertainty.
Dan Arnold, a former staffer in the Prime Minister's Office who led the Trudeau Liberals' research program during their 2015, 2019, and 2021 election victories, said a second Trump presidency could consume news headlines and reverse Canadians' current appetite for change.
"I think you could make the argument that, if the world is moving in a direction that is very scary, that is very populist, that is very right-wing, we don't want Canada to move in that same direction," he said in an interview.
"And maybe you need a bit of a counterweight in Canada to what's going on in the U.S. So I think that's something that, you know, potentially, that could be something Canadians think about if Trump gets elected."
But Arnold said a Trump presidency could be a double-edged sword.
"There's also a threat there, too. Maybe people will think, 'Hey, Poilievre and Trump will get along a lot better than Trudeau and Trump.' Trump doesn't seem to like Trudeau very much so maybe it's not so good for the Liberals," he said.
In fact, a new poll released Friday by Abacus Data suggests Canadians think Poilievre would be better than Trudeau at handling a second Trump presidency.
Roughly 44 per cent of Canadians surveyed by Abacus said they believe Poilievre would be better placed to deal with Trump, while 30 per cent chose Trudeau.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre arrives to Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
"Perhaps most concerning in this poll is how Poilievre performs against Trudeau on the key policy areas. He's well ahead on the cost of living, housing and managing the economy. He also has a 14-point lead when it comes to who best Canadians think can deal with another possible President Trump," said Abacus Data CEO David Coletto in a media statement.
In an interview with CBC News, Coletto said it will be difficult for Trudeau to recover from the Liberals' stinging defeat in the Toronto-St. Paul's byelection — a seat the party has held for more than 30 years.
The desire for change is strong and Canadians have turned against Trudeau, he said.
But he also said "external events" could "force voters to, you know, evaluate Trudeau differently."
"I think the pandemic, for example, did that with a lot of political leaders. It was a crisis that forced us to look at our leaders in different ways. And maybe Trump's election is that," he said.
"I think Liberals are hoping that might be — which is a weird thing to say — they're hoping for Trump. I don't think they want Trump to win. But politically, it might be the only kind of thing that does it."
U.S.
President Donald Trump, right, extends his hand to Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau during a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House on
Feb. 13, 2017, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Trump and Trudeau have had a fractious relationship.
While Trudeau and his government successfully renegotiated NAFTA and saved Canada's most important trade agreement from ruin, it was a battle to get signatures on the dotted line.
Trump called Trudeau "two-faced" after the prime minister was heard on a hot mic mocking Trump's long-winded press conference following a NATO meeting.
After Trudeau said Canada would not be pushed around by Trump and would vigorously defend the country's interests in the face of U.S. tariffs, Trump blasted the prime minister on social media, calling him "very dishonest & weak," and torpedoed the leaders' communique after the G7 meeting in Charlevoix, Que.
John Bolton, Trump's former national security adviser, relayed in his book how Trump didn't like Trudeau and told his aides to attack the prime minister on the U.S. Sunday morning political shows.
Later, after losing the presidency, Trump aligned himself with the anti-mandate protesters who staged the trucker convoy that shut down much of downtown Ottawa.
"The Freedom Convoy is peacefully protesting the harsh policies of far left lunatic Justin Trudeau who has destroyed Canada with insane Covid mandates," Trump said.
Trudeau, while more diplomatic in his criticisms of Trump, has indicated he's no fan of the former president.
Speaking to reporters in January, Trudeau said Trump "represents a certain amount of unpredictability."
Facing the possibility of a second Trump presidency, Trudeau has said International Trade Minister Mary Ng and Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne will collaborate with industry groups and civil society organizations to draw up a plan on cross-border relations.
A Trump presidency threatens co-ordinated North American climate action and the federal government's industrial policy of heavily subsidizing electric vehicle (EV) assembly — a policy that essentially mimics Biden's Inflation Reduction Act.
The strongly pro-oil-and-gas Trump could try to revive the Keystone XL pipeline, or something like it — a potentially positive development for Alberta and Canada's natural resource exports but a setback for environmentalists on both sides of the border.
Trump's aversion to free trade and full-throated embrace of Buy American policies — policies Biden himself has also supported — are also a source of concern for Canada.
"Canada-U.S. relations are fundamental for the prosperity, well-being of Canadians. We know this is an important election year for the U.S.," Trudeau said at his most recent cabinet retreat.
"We know there's always challenges whenever there's an American election."
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With files from the CBC's Ashley Burke
Joe Biden pardons son Hunter of gun, tax convictions, despite promise he wouldn't do so
President-elect Donald Trump called the pardon an abuse and miscarriage of justice
U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday night pardoned his son, Hunter, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions and reversing his past promises not to use the extraordinary powers of the presidency for the benefit of his family.
The Democratic president had previously said he would not pardon his son nor commute his sentence after his convictions in the two cases in Delaware and California.
The move comes weeks before Hunter Biden was set to receive his punishment after his trial conviction in the gun case and guilty plea on tax charges, and less than two months before president-elect Donald Trump is set to return to the White House.
It caps a long-running legal saga for the president's son, who publicly disclosed he was under federal investigation in December 2020 — a month after Joe Biden's 2020 victory — and casts a pall over the elder Biden's legacy.
Biden, who time and again pledged to Americans that he would restore norms and respect for the rule of law after Trump's first term in office, ultimately used his position to help his son, breaking his public pledge to Americans that he would do no such thing.
In a statement released Sunday evening, Biden said, "I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice."
The president's sweeping pardon covers not just those offences, but also any other "offences against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024."
In June, Biden categorically ruled out a pardon or commutation for his son, telling reporters as his son faced trial in the Delaware gun case, "I abide by the jury decision. I will do that and I will not pardon him."
As recently as Nov. 8, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre ruled out a pardon or clemency for the younger Biden, saying, "We've been asked that question multiple times. Our answer stands, which is no."
'Hunter was singled out,' president says
The elder Biden has publicly stood by his only living son as Hunter descended into serious drug addiction and threw his family life into turmoil before getting back on track in recent years. The president's political rivals have long used Hunter Biden's myriad mistakes as a political cudgel against his father: In one hearing, lawmakers displayed photos of the drug-addled president's son half-naked in a seedy hotel.
House Republicans also sought to use the younger Biden's years of questionable overseas business ventures in a since-abandoned attempt to impeach his father, who has long denied involvement in his son's dealings or benefiting from them in any way.
"The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election," Biden said. "No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son."
"I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision," Biden added, saying he made the decision this weekend.
The president had spent the Thanksgiving holiday in Nantucket, Mass., with Hunter and his family, and was set to depart for Angola later Sunday on what may be his last foreign trip as president before leaving office on Jan. 20, 2025.
President Joe Biden with his son Hunter Biden and his grandson Beau walk in downtown Nantucket, Mass., on Friday. (Jose Luis Magana/The Associated Press)
Legal troubles
Hunter was convicted in June in federal court in Delaware of three felonies for purchasing a gun in 2018 when, prosecutors said, he lied on a federal form by claiming he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs.
He was set to stand trial in September in the California case accusing him of failing to pay at least $1.4 million US in taxes. But he agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanour and felony charges in a surprise move hours after jury selection was set to begin.
David Weiss, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Delaware who negotiated the plea deal, was subsequently named a special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland to have more autonomy over the prosecution of the president's son.
Hunter Biden said he was pleading guilty in that case to spare his family more pain and embarrassment after the gun trial aired salacious details about his struggles with a crack cocaine addiction.
The tax charges carry up to 17 years behind bars, and the gun charges are punishable by up to 25 years in prison — though federal sentencing guidelines were expected to call for far less time, and it was possible he would avoid prison time entirely.
Hunter Biden was supposed to be sentenced this month in the two federal cases, which the special counsel brought after a plea deal with prosecutors that likely would have spared him prison time fell apart under scrutiny by a judge. Under the original deal, he was supposed to plead guilty to misdemeanour tax offences and would have avoided prosecution in the gun case as long as he stayed out of trouble for two years.
But the plea hearing quickly unravelled last year when the judge raised concerns about unusual aspects of the deal. The younger Biden was subsequently indicted in the two cases.
Hunter Biden's legal team this weekend released a 52-page white paper titled, The Political Prosecutions of Hunter Biden, describing the president's son as a "surrogate to attack and injure his father, both as a candidate in 2020 and later as president."
The younger Biden's lawyers have long argued that prosecutors bowed to political pressure to indict the president's son amid heavy criticism by Trump and other Republicans of what they called the "sweetheart" plea deal.
Trump criticizes pardon
Rep. James Comer, one of the Republican chairs leading congressional investigations into Biden's family, blasted the president's pardon, saying that the evidence against Hunter was "just the tip of the iceberg.""It's unfortunate that, rather than come clean about their decades of wrongdoing, President Biden and his family continue to do everything they can to avoid accountability," Comer said on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter.
Biden is hardly the first president to deploy his pardon powers to benefit those close to him.
In his final weeks in office, Trump pardoned Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in law, Jared Kushner, as well as multiple allies convicted in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Trump this week announced plans to nominate the elder Kushner to be the U.S. envoy to France in his next administration.
Trump, who has pledged to dramatically overhaul and install loyalists across the Justice Department after he was prosecuted for his role in trying to subvert the 2020 presidential election, said in a social media post on Sunday that Hunter Biden's pardon was "such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice."
"Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years?" Trump asked, referring to those convicted in the violent Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.
'Mistakes during the darkest days'
Hunter Biden said in an emailed statement that he will never take for granted the relief granted to him and vowed to devote the life he has rebuilt "to helping those who are still sick and suffering."
"I have admitted and taken responsibility for my mistakes during the darkest days of my addiction — mistakes that have been exploited to publicly humiliate and shame me and my family for political sport," the younger Biden said.
Hunter Biden's legal team filed Sunday night in both Los Angeles and Delaware asking the judges handling his gun and tax cases to immediately dismiss them, citing the pardon.
A spokesperson for Weiss, the special counsel who brought the cases, did not respond to messages seeking comment Sunday night.
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