Monday, 16 December 2024

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigns from Trudeau's cabinet

Some Liberal MPs repeat calls for Trudeau to quit after Freeland debacle — but he still has defenders

'He's delusional if he thinks we can continue like this,' says Liberal MP Wayne Long

Some Liberal MPs said Tuesday Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can't carry on as party leader after the humiliation of Chrystia Freeland's public resignation from cabinet and another bruising byelection loss in B.C.

The calls for Trudeau to resign are coming from some of the same people who have said he should go in the past.

But some MPs who previously were on the fence — or even defended the prime minister in the past — are now coming forward to say it's time to turn the page on the Trudeau era.

Trudeau told disaffected MPs at a caucus meeting last night that he'd heard their concerns and would take time to think about his future. He's said that in the past, only to later decide to stay on to fight another day.

But the Liberals' byelection loss in B.C. last night might leave Trudeau with less room to manoeuvre.

The Conservative candidate won the seat by some 50 percentage points over the Liberal challenger — an embarrassing result, given the Liberals won that seat in the last general election.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a Laurier Club Holiday Party event in Gatineau, Que., on Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a Laurier Club Holiday Party event in Gatineau, Que., on Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (Spencer Colby/Canadian Press)

One of the MPs now being more vocal about his desire for change at the top is B.C. Liberal MP Ken Hardie. He said Tuesday he "regrettably" believes the prime minister must resign and make room for another leader to take the party in a different direction.

Hardie said that while he was prepared to give Trudeau more time to try and restore his standing among Canadians, that just hasn't happened and it's time to go.

"The prime minister has not moved the needle," Hardie told the CBC News Network.

Hardie said the government has put forward some strong policies in recent months to address the challenges of our time, but they aren't resonating with Canadians because so many of them are just fed up with Trudeau.

"The Canadian people have been telling us for some time — the street has been talking to us — and they are saying this leader cannot be supported," he said.

"The prime minister just doesn't have the confidence of the Canadian people. The prime minister should resign and somebody new should take the party and the country forward."

WATCH | Surrey Liberal MP says Trudeau should step down 
 

Surrey Liberal MP says Trudeau should step down

A growing number of people in the Liberal party are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign as leader. And Surrey’s Feetwood-Port Kelis MP Ken Hardie added his voice to their ranks when asked by CBC’s Gloria Makarenko if the PM should step down.

Hardie follows Ontario MP Francis Drouin, who — after Freeland's shock resignation on Monday — said that Trudeau must step down. Drouin previously asked disaffected MPs to drop their efforts to push out the prime minister.

New Brunswick MP Wayne Long has been leading the charge against Trudeau within caucus for months.

He said that, by his count, somewhere between 40 and 50 of the 153 sitting Liberal MPs want Trudeau to resign immediately, and there are more who think he should go but are keeping their opinions quiet. He said about 50 MPs are professed Trudeau loyalists who think he shouldn't go anywhere.

Trudeau is 'living in a false reality,' says Liberal

More importantly, Long said, most Canadians are done with Trudeau and he should read the writing on the wall.

If he stays on, the party is headed for an electoral disaster, he said, pointing to polls that suggest the Liberals have the support of about 20 per cent of Canadians.

"The prime minister is living in a false reality. He's delusional if he thinks we can continue like this. It's unfair to us MPs, it's unfair to the ministers and most importantly it's unfair to the country. We need to move on with a new direction and we need to reboot," Long told reporters on Parliament Hill.

"One in five Canadians are supporting us right now ... I don't know what more anybody would have to see to know it's time to move on. Those that are advising him, those that are surrounding him, are doing him a disservice."

WATCH | People in Freeland's Toronto riding say they support her resignation from cabinet 
 

People in Freeland's Toronto riding say they support her resignation from cabinet

People who spoke to CBC News in Chrystia Freeland's riding of University-Rosedale in Toronto say they were surprised to hear that she'd resigned from cabinet, but that it was the right move to make.

The remaining Trudeau defenders say the prime minister deserves to stay on even if it has been a tumultuous time for the party.

"I have confidence in the prime minister. He's a strong leader, he's focused on delivering for Canadians," said Ontario MP Yasir Naqvi.

Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said the main focus should be on preparing Canada for expected tariff fight with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump, who has vowed to slap a levy on all goods coming into the U.S. shortly after he takes office in the new year.

B.C. MP Joyce Murray, who served in Trudeau's cabinet before being shuffled out, said MPs should still be loyal to Trudeau.

"I think all of us should be loyal to the prime minister because he has done exactly what he laid out that he would do on behalf of Canadians over the last nine years," she told reporters.

Ontario MP James Maloney agreed, saying Trudeau has "done a remarkable job, continues to do a remarkable job. He has my confidence."

Other past Trudeau defenders were more muted than usual.

Ontario MP Judy Sgro, who has served in Parliament for 25 years, said Trudeau is "a smart man."

"If he feels he needs to make a decision in a different direction, that will be his decision to make and he will make it an appropriate time," she said.

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John Paul Tasker

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J.P. Tasker is a journalist in CBC's parliamentary bureau who reports for digital, radio and television. He is also a regular panellist on CBC News Network's Power & Politics. He covers the Conservative Party, Canada-U.S. relations, Crown-Indigenous affairs, climate change, health policy and the Senate. You can send story ideas and tips to J.P. at jp.tasker@cbc.ca

 
 

Trump trash talks Freeland in blast from her political past

Message underscores key moment in Freeland's nine-year cabinet career. Dealing with him

A day that rattled Canadian politics ended the exact same way Chrystia Freeland spent a defining chapter of her political career: Getting trash-talked by Donald Trump. 

That blast from Freeland's past came in a social media post from Trump late Monday, in a comment on her departure from Canada's federal cabinet. 

The post from the U.S. president-elect underscored their past tussling over trade and other issues. In the message, Trump continued his running troll of Canada, likening it to an American state, then adding a personalized insult of a former interlocutor who once frustrated him. 

"The Great State of Canada is stunned as the Finance Minister resigns, or was fired, from her position by Governor Justin Trudeau," Trump posted on his site, Truth Social. 

"Her behavior was totally toxic, and not at all conducive to making deals which are good for the very unhappy citizens of Canada. She will not be missed!!!"

The post drew new international attention to the eye-popping political drama unfolding in Canada. To date, it has not been a top news item in the U.S., which is busy with a gusher of its own political news related to the presidential transition. 

It did rekindle memories of how Freeland spent key moments in her nine-year career in the federal cabinet; U.S. affairs were central to it.

WATCH | Freeland reacts to previous Trump jab: 
 

Feds ‘determined’ to defend Canada’s national interest, Freeland says after another Trump jab

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump referred to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as ‘Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada’ in a social media post on Tuesday. That sparked a question to Chrystia Freeland, deputy prime minister and finance minister, about how to negotiate with a leader who doesn’t seem to be taking Canada seriously.

Freeland was named international trade minister as her first cabinet position, then was elevated to foreign minister to deal with Trump in 2017, becoming the lead minister on cross-border issues.

In frequent trips to the U.S., Freeland won plaudits from American liberals. She even received awards from Trump's U.S. critics who celebrated her as a defender of the liberal international order.

Freeland emphasized that by sharing books with her negotiating interlocutors about human progress and the dangers of sliding back into nationalism.

This elicited eyerolls – or worse – in Trump's Washington.

Trump himself took a public dig at her, late in the NAFTA renegotiation: "We don't like their representative very much," Trump said in late 2018.

Yet the new trade deal was finalized a few days later. Freeland played a central role, occasionally frustrating her American interlocutors, before landing the deal.

Trudeau and Freeland with stormy sky in background overlooking US Capitol Freeland led Canada-U.S. files during the first Trump administration, which included this trip to Washington with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to get support for the new NAFTA from the new Democratic leaders in Congress in 2019. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Scenes from the Freeland-U.S. trade talks

The U.S. trade czar, Robert Lighthizer, blew up in different meetings over leaks from her side to Canadian reporters during the negotiations.

His deputy, C.J. Mahoney, snapped at Freeland in another session when, with a self-imposed U.S. deadline looming, she kept running out the clock.

In meetings, Freeland had ticked through Canada's concerns with the proposed pact, one after another, occasionally reading notes scribbled in ink across her hand. 

At one point, she voiced worry about one specific clause of the pact's environmental chapter, related to anti-whaling provisions. She wondered whether Canada's Inuit had an exemption to that.

With the U.S. facing a tight congressional timeline, Mahoney lost his patience and wondered whether she was prepared to sacrifice a multibillion-dollar trade deal over a whale-hunting exemption.

In his memoir, Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner lamented that Freeland would spend sessions refusing to make substantive decisions, then walk outside to hold press conferences, "uttering platitudes."

The Americans grew so annoyed they announced an agreement with Mexico and said they were prepared to move ahead without Canada; Canadian officials, meanwhile, described Freeland's acts as a deliberate delay strategy, to press the U.S. up against its declared deadline.

Professional and friendly

With the pact concluded, Lighthizer eventually flew to Toronto to dine at Freeland's house, with her family. In his memoirs, Lighthizer referred to their up-and-down relationship and insisted it wasn't as bad as reported.

"[Freeland] is a plucky Rhodes scholar and former journalist who once found her way onto a KGB watch list when reporting in the former Soviet Union," Lighthizer wrote in his book, No Trade Is Free

"Much would later be written about the personal dynamics between the three of us, which, contrary to press accounts and the expectations of some, were always professional and at times quite friendly."

But he conceded the early negotiations, in 2018, were bumpy. Lighthizer said he made clear he was committed to a substantive reshaping of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and it wasn't clear the Canadians grasped that.

x Freeland is welcomed by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer as she arrives at the U.S. Trade Representative's office for talks on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement on trade, in November, 2019, in Washington. (Patrick Semansky/The Associated Press)

Ultimately, the pact was reached, with some changes the U.S. sought, including the addition of one element of long-term uncertainty: the deal must be renegotiated every decade or so, or it will expire. This was a U.S. objective, forcing the countries into a state of near-constant negotiation, which the U.S. believed would be to its benefit. 

New negotiations are set to start as early as 2026. This time, Freeland won't be involved. But in her resignation note Monday, she alluded to more immediate challenges with the U.S.

She said Trudeau had offered her a role overseeing Canada-U.S. relations, without any department responding to her. She viewed it as a demotion and resigned on the day she was to deliver a budget update.

Freeland added that she opposed new fiscal measures that would unnecessarily deplete Canada's finances in case of a potential economic emergency: Tariff threats from Trump.  

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alexander Panetta is a Washington-based correspondent for CBC News who has covered American politics and Canada-U.S. issues since 2013. He previously worked in Ottawa, Quebec City and internationally, reporting on politics, conflict, disaster and the Montreal Expos.

 
 
 

Where does Justin Trudeau go without Chrystia Freeland?

No minister is truly irreplaceable — but Freeland came closer than most

Back in 2018 — after her star turn as the minister who took on Donald Trump — Chrystia Freeland was, in Justin Trudeau's words, "exactly the right person to do what she's doing."

"Quite frankly, there probably isn't a day that goes by where I don't thank my lucky stars for having been able to convince her to leave her great job in New York to run in an uncertain byelection where I couldn't even guarantee she was going to win the nomination, and then come to sit with the third party in the House," Trudeau told me back then.

"Because she was the kind of person I knew Canada needed serving within Parliament and hopefully serving within government."

An acclaimed journalist and author, Freeland was the first star candidate recruited to the Liberal Party by Trudeau and his team in 2013. She became an early proof point for his leadership. And her writing on economic inequality lined up perfectly with the "middle class" message that would be central to the Trudeau Liberals in 2015.

When the first crisis of Trudeau's time in office arrived in November 2016 — the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States — she was elevated to foreign affairs minister and put front and centre in the response.

After a weakened prime minister limped out of the 2019 election, Freeland was elevated to deputy prime minister — the first cabinet minister to hold that title in more than a decade — and was asked to lead the government's outreach to the provinces, including the western provinces that had turned decidedly against Trudeau. 

When the prime minister and his first finance minister, Bill Morneau, began to see things differently in 2020, Freeland was put in charge of fiscal policy and tasked with helping guide the federal government out of a once-in-a-century pandemic; her signature accomplishment became a new child care program. And when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Freeland, the daughter of a Ukrainian mother, fronted one of the Trudeau government's most significant foreign policy efforts on behalf of its ally.

No cabinet minister is ever truly irreplaceable and any number of individuals who have served alongside Trudeau would say that they came to office with impressive resumes and did important things while they were there. But aside from Trudeau himself, no minister has been more central to this government than Freeland. 

As a result, her resignation on Monday morning dealt a shattering blow to Trudeau's government. It will be very hard for the prime minister to put the pieces back together again.

Another minister parts on bad terms

On its own, Freeland's resignation from cabinet — at any time, for whatever reason — would have been a significant loss. But her stunning exit came just hours before she was to deliver the fall economic statement (the second-most important day of the year for a finance minister).

It was conveyed via a stinging public letter to the prime minister. And it landed just a month before the start of another Trump presidency, one already threatening to be even more challenging than the first.

Add all of that up and it suggests the prime minister catastrophically mishandled the minister for whom he once thanked his lucky stars.

Independent MP Jody Wilson-Raybould said masks should be mandatory for MPs and staff when indoors. She wears her in the chamber and only takes it off when speaking. Jody Wilson-Raybould's messy departure from cabinet turned out to be part of a trend. (Cole Burston/The Canadian Press)

It is particularly unfortunate for Trudeau that Freeland is not the first minister to leave on bad terms. Going back to Jody Wilson-Raybould's calamitous exit in 2019, multiple ministers have now departed cabinet and have subsequently aired their grievances with his management — including Freeland's immediate predecessor as finance minister.

Some of that might be put down to Liberal Party culture, or the sorts of accomplished individuals Trudeau recruited and appointed. These are not lifelong partisans or ideologues, the sorts of politicians who might be inclined to swallow their complaints for the sake of the party or the cause.

But cabinet resignations have become a glaring trend for this government over the last nine years. And these interpersonal breakdowns suggest a strange dichotomy with a prime minister who is otherwise able and willing to deal with the public.

Whatever Freeland's shortcomings as a political communicator — and she did struggle to win the rhetorical fight over economic and fiscal issues — she came to politics as a writer. And that talent was on display in her parting missive.

WATCH: Time for Justin Trudeau to call it quits?   
 

Does Justin Trudeau need to heed calls to step down?

Calls are mounting for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down following the departure of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland. Former Liberal MP Gordie Hogg, former Conservative MP Dianne Watts and former NDP MP Nathan Cullen discuss the Liberal Party's next move with BC Today host Michelle Eliot.

Like a political journalist recounting the latest intrigue, she elegantly recounted her meeting with the prime minister and her reasons for stepping aside. She framed the moment in terms of the "grave challenge" facing the country. She called on the government to keep its "fiscal powder dry" and eschew "costly political gimmicks" — apparently a reference to the government's pledge to send $250 cheques to 18 million people next spring.

Most of all, she suggested the government had a choice to make — about how it responds to Trump and perhaps also how it handles its last months in office.

"Inevitably, our time in government will come to an end," she wrote. "But how we deal with the threat our country currently faces will define us for a generation, and perhaps longer. Canada will win if we are strong, smart and united."

If Freeland was interested in running for leader of the Liberal Party, this would be a heck of a way to launch her campaign. But of course, there is no such leadership race to run in. Not yet.

Things keep getting worse for Trudeau

It was possible to believe Trudeau's time as leader of the Liberal Party was coming to an end when the party lost a formerly safe seat in a Toronto byelection in June. But Trudeau persisted. He persisted after the Liberals lost a formerly safe seat in a Montreal byelection in September. And he persisted after a couple dozen Liberal MPs called for his resignation in October.

There is something to be said for persistence. But matters have only continued to get worse for Trudeau.

This is not the first time a finance minister and prime minister have fallen out. A week ago, Conservative MP Michael Chong was taunting Freeland with the name of John Turner, who left Pierre Trudeau's cabinet in 1975.  But in form, substance and timing, there may be no precedent for Freeland's remarkable departure on Monday — or no precedents that bode well for Trudeau.

An unpopular prime minister, already facing an uphill struggle to win re-election, has been abandoned by his most important minister — on the eve of a major fiscal policy statement, with a singularly disruptive U.S. president bearing down on the country.

Freeland is surely correct that Canada should aim to be strong, smart and united right now. It's not obvious that any of those adjectives describe the Trudeau government.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Aaron Wherry

Senior writer

Aaron Wherry has covered Parliament Hill since 2007 and has written for Maclean's, the National Post and the Globe and Mail. He is the author of Promise & Peril, a book about Justin Trudeau's years in power.

 
 
 
 

Trudeau taps Dominic LeBlanc to serve as finance minister after Chrystia Freeland's shock resignation

Freeland's abrupt departure prompts a political crisis for Trudeau

Liberal caucus meeting underway after Freeland resigns

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigned from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet on Monday morning, saying in an open letter that in recent weeks she and Trudeau have been at odds over the 'best path forward for Canada.'

The latest:

  • Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc has been sworn in as Canada's new finance minister after Chrystia Freeland's shock resignation.
  • Despite the drama, fall economic statement was tabled — showing a big deficit of more than $60B
  • Freeland says PM told her Friday he no longer wanted her to serve as finance minister.
  • Rather than accept a job change, Freeland resigned Monday.
  • In letter to Trudeau announcing her resignation, Freeland denounced Trudeau's "costly political gimmicks."
  • Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Trudeau must call an election right away.
  • NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says Trudeau must resign.
  • NDP House leader Peter Julian tells CBC News the party will vote non-confidence in the Liberal government if Trudeau stays on into the new year.
  • At least seven Liberal MPs, including a former cabinet minister, publicly say Trudeau must resign.

Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc was sworn in as finance minister following Chrystia Freeland's shocking decision to resign Monday — an apparent attempt by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to deploy a close confidant as he struggles to shore up his shaky government and restore some stability.

LeBlanc, who has been friends with the prime minister since childhood, is one of Trudeau's most trusted lieutenants.

The New Brunswick MP and cabinet minister recently joined Trudeau for dinner with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. He had been tasked with drafting the government's billion-dollar border plan to appease American concerns about drugs and migrants coming into the U.S. from Canada.

Speaking to reporters after taking on his new role, LeBlanc said he will temporarily retain his public safety and intergovernmental affairs duties while also serving as finance minister — an enormous workload.

Despite serious questions about Trudeau's future given what transpired today with Freeland, LeBlanc said the prime minister is focused on tackling persistent affordability and cost of living concerns — and dealing with the incoming Trump administration.

But the most immediate challenge for Trudeau is to appease an increasingly restless Liberal caucus and backbench MPs who want someone else in the top job.

Trudeau is expected to face those MPs later tonight. Some of them are expected to tell him he should resign after mismanaging his relationship with Freeland.

Liberal MP Wayne Long, who was part of an earlier effort to oust Trudeau, said roughly a third of the 153 sitting Liberal MPs want the prime minister to go right away, while another third are on the fence and the remaining third are professed Trudeau loyalists.

Long said Trudeau must resign right away and trigger a leadership election to replace him.

"He's messing with his legacy and it's time to move on," Long told CBC News. "Canadians are screaming, caucus is vocal — it's just time, come on."

Freeland said earlier today she was resigning from Trudeau's cabinet — just hours before she was set to deliver the government's fall economic statement.

It's a disastrous development for the government that throws its economic agenda into a tailspin and leaves a huge gap on Trudeau's front bench at a time when Liberal Party support has collapsed in the polls.

Freeland's jaw-dropping move to leave just before tabling the economic statement is unprecedented. The statement is supposed to be the government's fiscal road map at a time of great uncertainty, as Canada stares down Trump's tariff threat.

In a letter to Trudeau that was subsequently posted to her social media account, the outgoing deputy prime minister said she had no choice but to resign after Trudeau approached her Friday about moving her to another cabinet role — minister without a portfolio with some responsibility for the Canada-U.S. relationship.

"On Friday, you told me you no longer want me to serve as your finance minister and offered me another position in the cabinet," Freeland wrote, addressing Trudeau. "Upon reflection, I have concluded that the only honest and viable path is for me to resign from the cabinet."

Freeland also took a jab at Trudeau's handling of the country's economy, denouncing what she called the government's "costly political gimmicks" and imploring him to work collaboratively with the country's premiers to take on Trump's tariffs.

She conceded that she and Trudeau have been "at odds" in recent weeks.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland hold a press conference in Ottawa on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland are seen holding a press conference in Ottawa on Oct. 6, 2021. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)

A senior government official told CBC News that Freeland's announcement was not expected today.

Just last week, at an event celebrating women in politics, Trudeau said he's a "proud feminist" and cited his appointment of Canada's first female finance minister.

"I've touted the adage 'Add women, change politics,' which to us is more than just words," he said.

Two days later, Trudeau would ask Freeland to leave that post, effectively pushing out the most senior woman in government.

The resignation derailed the fall economic statement and left officials at a media lockup scrambling to figure out what to do after the person who was set to present the statement abruptly quit.

After an hours-long delay, the embargoed reading for reporters went ahead and the document was quietly tabled in Parliament without the usual pageantry.

The statement revealed Canada's finances are in worse shape than expected. The deficit for 2023-24 came in at $61.9 billion — billions more than the roughly $40 billion Freeland had promised it would be.

Tumultuous time for Trudeau

This is just the latest challenge for Trudeau, who has endured a very tumultuous six months.

The party lost two federal byelections in formerly rock-solid Liberal ridings in Toronto and Montreal this summer.

He also faced a caucus revolt earlier this fall, when about 25 of his own MPs wrote to Trudeau demanding he resign to save the party from electoral ruin.

Trudeau has brushed off those blows and repeatedly said he will hold on to lead the party into the next campaign.

Freeland's departure renews questions about his viability as leader and his decision-making.

Carlene Variyan, a former senior Liberal staffer, said it's mind-boggling that Trudeau would try to shuffle Freeland out of her finance role just days before she was set to deliver the economic statement.

"There's a level of delusion there that is hard to comprehend," Variyan said. "In what universe?"

Variyan said if Trudeau had lost confidence in Freeland, there was a better "playbook" to follow than trying to dump her so close to a big moment for the government.

'I don't see a way out'

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said the government is "spiralling out of control right before our eyes." He said Freeland's departure comes "at the very worst time," as Canada grapples with a series of economic challenges.

Poilievre said Freeland, who was recruited by Trudeau to run for the Liberals in 2013, "knows him better than anyone and she knows he's out of control."

"Everything is spiralling out of control. We simply cannot go on like this and it is up to Jagmeet Singh now to make that realization," Poilievre said, calling on the NDP leader to help him bring down the government in a non-confidence vote.

WATCH | Poilievre calls for vote on fall economic statement: 
 

Poilievre calls for vote on the fall economic statement after Freeland leaves cabinet

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, speaking after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's surprise resignation from cabinet, called on the Liberals to introduce the fall economic statement and allow for an up-or-down vote in the House.

Poilievre said Canadians must go to the polls as soon as possible, even if it means disrupting the Christmas holidays.

NDP Leader Singh said Trudeau must resign, telling reporters, "Justin Trudeau has to go."

Asked if he would bring down the government at the earliest opportunity, he said, "All options are on the table. All options."

Speaking later to CBC's Power & Politics, MP Peter Julian, the NDP House leader, said the party will vote non-confidence in the government if Trudeau stays on as leader into the new year.

He said if this "Liberal debacle" continues into February or March, the NDP will pull its support for the government once and for all.

The House of Commons is expected to rise for its six-week Christmas break on Tuesday.

WATCH | 'Trudeau's government is over' says Blanchet after Freeland quits cabinet: 
 

‘Trudeau’s government is over’ says Blanchet after Freeland quits cabinet

Following the resignation of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland from cabinet, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet says that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should go to the Governor General ‘and ask for the dissolution of the Parliament’ by the beginning of 2025 at the latest.

Liberal Ontario MP Francis Drouin said Freeland's resignation means Trudeau himself needs to step down and let someone else take over.

"I think he needs to go," Drouin told Radio-Canada. "I've been a great defender but I don't see how we move forward."

Liberal MP for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell Francis Drouin speaks with reporters before attending caucus, Wednesday, February 8, 2023 in Ottawa.          Liberal MP for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell Francis Drouin speaks with reporters before attending caucus on Wednesday, February 8, 2023 in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

Drouin's shift on this issue is significant because he previously told disaffected Liberal MPs to drop their plan to push Trudeau out, and to rally behind him to take on Poilievre.

Freeland's departure shows Trudeau has lost control of the government's agenda, Drouin said.

"I don't see how this helps. I don't see a way out."

MPs call on Trudeau to resign

Six other sitting Liberal MPs — René Arseneault, Anthony Housefather, Wayne Long, Patrick Weiler, Helena Jaczek and Chad Collins — also said Trudeau must resign.

Jaczek, who served as public services procurement minister under Trudeau before he shuffled her out in 2023, said Trudeau's move to push Freeland out of the job was distasteful.

"Let's put it this way — firing the minister of finance who has served you extremely well is not what I'd call a trustworthy move," she told reporters.

Asked if Trudeau should resign, Jaczek said yes.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland stands next to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as she speaks to employees during a visit to a Toronto Transit Commission yard in Toronto, on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland stands next to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as she speaks to employees during a visit to a Toronto Transit Commission yard in Toronto, on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press)

"I signed a letter with 23 MPs from across Canada asking the PM to step down and begin a formal process to replace him. Today, I publicly reiterate my request that the prime minister step down and initiate a leadership process to take our country in a new direction," Collins said in a social media post.

Jody Wilson-Raybould, a former Liberal cabinet minister who left government under circumstances similar to Freeland's departure, said it's untenable for Trudeau to stay on at this point.

"When the general is losing his most loyal soldiers on the eve of a tariff war, the country desperately needs a new general," she said. "It's time, it's long past time to go."

Freeland sounds alarm over Trump tariff threat

In her letter to Trudeau, Freeland said that Canada "faces a grave challenge" and cited Trump's threat to impose a punishing 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods.

"That means keeping our fiscal powder dry today, so we have the reserves we may need for a coming tariff war," Freeland wrote.

She signalled that she doesn't think the economic path Canada is on under Trudeau's leadership is a prudent one.

"That means eschewing costly political gimmicks, which we can ill afford and which make Canadians doubt that we recognize the gravity of the moment."

Freeland did not specify in her letter what she meant by "costly political gimmicks."

It could be a thinly veiled swipe at Trudeau's plan to freeze the GST/HST for two months on some goods and send $250 cheques to all working people sometime in the new year.

The finance minister also urged Trudeau to work "in good faith and humility" with provincial and territorial premiers to build a "true Team Canada response."

"Inevitably, our time in government will come to an end. But how we deal with the threat our country currently faces will define us for a generation, and perhaps longer. Canada will win if we are strong, smart, and united," Freeland said.

While stepping back from cabinet, Freeland told Trudeau she would stay on as Liberal MP and plans to run again under the party banner in the next federal election.

The finance minister's resignation came moments after Housing Minister Sean Fraser announced he won't seek re-election. Fraser said he wanted to spend more time with his family.

WATCH | Sean Fraser reacts to Chrystia Freeland's surprise resignation:
 

Sean Fraser reacts after Chrystia Freeland says she's leaving cabinet

Outgoing Housing Minister Sean Fraser was asked Monday about his colleague Chrystia Freeland’s social media post, in which Freeland said she will no longer serve in cabinet after being asked to leave her post as finance minister.

Six cabinet ministers have told Trudeau in recent weeks they are not running again in the next election.

MP Randy Boissonnault, Trudeau's former employment minister, resigned amid scandal over his Indigenous ancestry claims and business dealings.

Those departures, combined with Freeland's resignation, means there are now eight cabinet spots that need to be filled in short order.

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Read Chrystia Freeland's letter of resignation from Trudeau's cabinet

Freeland released the letter just hours before she was set to deliver the fall economic statement

In what's shaping up to be a seismic moment in Canadian politics, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced Monday she's resigning from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet. She publicized her resignation letter just hours before she was set to deliver the government's fall economic statement.

Here's the text of her letter.

Dear Prime Minister,

It has been the honour of my life to serve in government, working for Canada and Canadians. We have accomplished a lot together.

On Friday, you told me you no longer want me to serve as your Finance Minister and offered me another position in the cabinet.

Upon reflection, I have concluded that the only honest and viable path is for me to resign from the cabinet.

To be effective, a Minister must speak on behalf of the Prime Minister and with his full confidence. In making your decision, you made clear that I no longer credibly enjoy that confidence and possess the authority that comes with it.

For the past number of weeks, you and I have found ourselves at odds about the best path forward for Canada.

Our country today faces a grave challenge. The incoming administration in the United States is pursuing a policy of aggressive economic nationalism, including a threat of 25 per cent tariffs.

We need to take that threat extremely seriously. That means keeping our fiscal powder dry today, so we have the reserves we may need for a coming tariff war. That means eschewing costly political gimmicks, which we can ill afford and which make Canadians doubt that we recognize the gravity of the moment.

That means pushing back against 'America First' economic nationalism with a determined effort to fight for capital and investment and the jobs they bring. That means working in good faith and humility with the premiers of the provinces and territories of our great and diverse country, and building a true Team Canada response.

I know Canadians would recognize and respect such an approach. They know when we are working for them, and they equally know when we are focused on ourselves. Inevitably, our time in government will come to an end. But how we deal with the threat our country currently faces will define us for a generation, and perhaps longer. Canada will win if we are strong, smart, and united.

It is this conviction which has driven my strenuous efforts this fall to manage our spending in ways that will give us the flexibility we will need to meet the serious challenges presented by the United States.

I will always be grateful for the chance to have served in government and I will always be proud of our government's work for Canada and Canadians.

I look forward to continuing to work with my colleagues as a Liberal Member of Parliament, and I am committed to running again for my seat in Toronto in the next federal election.

With gratitude,

The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, P.C., M.P.

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Trudeau faces frustrated MPs after Chrystia Freeland's shock resignation

Freeland's abrupt departure prompts a political crisis for Trudeau

Chrystia Freeland, who today stepped down as finance minister and deputy prime minister, arrives for a national caucus meeting, in Ottawa, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024.
Chrystia Freeland, who stepped down as finance minister and deputy prime minister on Monday, arrives for a national caucus meeting in Ottawa. (Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press)

The latest:

  • At caucus meeting, some Liberal MPs tell PM he has to step down after Chrystia Freeland's shock resignation.
  • Trudeau says he will take time to reflect on caucus concerns, sources say.
  • At least seven Liberal MPs, including a former cabinet minister, publicly say Trudeau must resign.
  • Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc has been sworn in as Canada's new finance minister.
  • Despite the drama, fall economic statement was tabled — showing a big deficit of more than $60B.
  • Freeland says PM told her Friday he no longer wanted her to serve as finance minister.
  • Rather than accept a job change, Freeland resigned Monday.
  • In letter to Trudeau announcing her resignation, Freeland denounced Trudeau's "costly political gimmicks."
  • Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Trudeau must call an election right away.
  • NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says Trudeau must resign.
  • NDP House leader Peter Julian tells CBC News the party will vote non-confidence in the Liberal government if Trudeau stays on into the new year.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced frustrated MPs at a hastily arranged caucus meeting late Monday following Chrystia Freeland's shocking decision to resign from cabinet just before she was to deliver the government's much-anticipated fall economic statement.

About 15 MPs took to the microphone to address Trudeau at that meeting, according to one Liberal MP who was in the room.

Most of the speakers said he has to step down after mismanaging his once-crucial relationship with Freeland, the outgoing deputy prime minister, the MP said.

Liberal sources told CBC News that Trudeau said he heard their concerns and would take time over the next few days to reflect on his future.

Trudeau said much the same thing after nearly two dozen MPs called on him to leave earlier this fall. He ended up rejecting those calls to leave the next day.

But this time, sources said, Trudeau hasn't decided what to do.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, walks with his new Finance Minister, Dominic LeBlanc to a national caucus meeting, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024 in Ottawa.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, walks with his new Finance Minister, Dominic LeBlanc to a national caucus meeting on Monday in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

"I can say we're not united. There's still a number of our members who think we need a change in leadership and I'm one of them," Liberal Ontario MP Chad Collins told reporters after the caucus meeting.

The best way to stop what he called Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's "Make Canada Great Again" agenda is to push Trudeau out, Collins said.

"I think the only path forward for us is to choose a new leader and present a new plan to Canadians with a different vision," he said.

Trudeau's only public comments on Monday came during a holiday party for Liberal donors. The prime minister said it had "not been an easy day" but otherwise didn't discuss Freeland's resignation or the caucus meeting.

Dominic LeBlanc was sworn in as finance minister following abrupt Freeland's departure — an apparent attempt by Trudeau to deploy a close confidant as he struggles to shore up his shaky government and restore some stability.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in a signing after Dominic LeBlanc, not shown, was sworn in as Finance Minister at a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in a signing after Dominic LeBlanc, not shown, was sworn in as finance minister Monday at a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)

LeBlanc, who has been friends with the prime minister since childhood, is one of Trudeau's most trusted lieutenants.

The New Brunswick MP and cabinet minister recently joined Trudeau for dinner with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. He had been tasked with drafting the government's billion-dollar border plan to appease American concerns about drugs and migrants coming into the U.S. from Canada.

Speaking to reporters after taking on his new role, LeBlanc said he will temporarily retain his public safety and intergovernmental affairs duties while also serving as finance minister — an enormous workload.

Despite serious questions about Trudeau's future given what transpired today with Freeland, LeBlanc said the prime minister is focused on tackling persistent affordability and cost of living concerns — and dealing with the incoming Trump administration.

But the most immediate challenge for Trudeau is to appease an increasingly restless Liberal caucus and backbench MPs who want someone else in the top job.

Liberal MP Wayne Long, who was part of an earlier effort to oust Trudeau, said roughly a third of the 153 sitting Liberal MPs want the prime minister to go right away, while another third are on the fence and the remaining third are professed Trudeau loyalists.

Long said Trudeau must resign right away and trigger a leadership election to replace him.

"He's messing with his legacy and it's time to move on," Long told CBC News. "Canadians are screaming, caucus is vocal — it's just time, come on."

Freeland's resignation is a disastrous development for the government. It throws its economic agenda into a tailspin and leaves a huge gap on Trudeau's front bench at a time when Liberal Party support has collapsed in the polls.

Freeland's jaw-dropping move to leave just before tabling the economic statement is unprecedented. The statement is supposed to be the government's fiscal road map at a time of great uncertainty, as Canada stares down Trump's tariff threat.

In a letter to Trudeau that was subsequently posted to her social media account, the outgoing deputy prime minister said she had no choice but to resign after Trudeau approached her Friday about moving her to another cabinet role — minister without a portfolio with some responsibility for the Canada-U.S. relationship.

"On Friday, you told me you no longer want me to serve as your finance minister and offered me another position in the cabinet," Freeland wrote, addressing Trudeau. "Upon reflection, I have concluded that the only honest and viable path is for me to resign from the cabinet."

Freeland also took a jab at Trudeau's handling of the country's economy, denouncing what she called the government's "costly political gimmicks" and imploring him to work collaboratively with the country's premiers to take on Trump's tariffs.

She conceded that she and Trudeau have been "at odds" in recent weeks.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland hold a press conference in Ottawa on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland are seen holding a press conference in Ottawa on Oct. 6, 2021. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)

A senior government official told CBC News that Freeland's announcement was not expected today.

Just last week, at an event celebrating women in politics, Trudeau said he's a "proud feminist" and cited his appointment of Canada's first female finance minister.

"I've touted the adage, 'Add women, change politics,' which to us is more than just words," he said.

Two days later, Trudeau would ask Freeland to leave that post, effectively pushing out the most senior woman in government.

The resignation derailed the fall economic statement and left officials at a media lockup scrambling to figure out what to do after the person who was set to present the statement abruptly quit.

After an hours-long delay, the embargoed reading for reporters went ahead and the document was quietly tabled in Parliament without the usual pageantry.

The statement revealed Canada's finances are in worse shape than expected. The deficit for 2023-24 came in at $61.9 billion — billions more than the roughly $40 billion Freeland had promised it would be.

Tumultuous time for Trudeau

This is just the latest challenge for Trudeau, who has endured a very tumultuous six months.

The party lost two federal byelections in formerly rock-solid Liberal ridings in Toronto and Montreal this summer.

He also faced a caucus revolt earlier this fall, when about 25 of his own MPs wrote to Trudeau demanding he resign to save the party from electoral ruin.

Trudeau has brushed off those blows and repeatedly has said he will hold on to lead the party into the next campaign.

Freeland's departure renews questions about his viability as leader and his decision-making.

Carlene Variyan, a former senior Liberal staffer, said it's mind-boggling that Trudeau would try to shuffle Freeland out of her finance role just days before she was set to deliver the economic statement.

"There's a level of delusion there that is hard to comprehend," Variyan said. "In what universe?"

Variyan said if Trudeau had lost confidence in Freeland, there was a better "playbook" to follow than trying to dump her so close to a big moment for the government.

'I don't see a way out'

Poilievre said the government is "spiralling out of control right before our eyes." He said Freeland's departure comes "at the very worst time," as Canada grapples with a series of economic challenges.

Poilievre said Freeland, who was recruited by Trudeau to run for the Liberals in 2013, "knows him better than anyone and she knows he's out of control."

"Everything is spiralling out of control. We simply cannot go on like this and it is up to Jagmeet Singh now to make that realization," Poilievre said, calling on the NDP leader to help him bring down the government in a non-confidence vote.

WATCH | Poilievre calls for vote on fall economic statement: 

Poilievre calls for vote on the fall economic statement after Freeland leaves cabinet

17 hours ago
Duration 0:31
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, speaking after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's surprise resignation from cabinet, called on the Liberals to introduce the fall economic statement and allow for an up-or-down vote in the House.

Poilievre said Canadians must go to the polls as soon as possible, even if it means disrupting the Christmas holidays.

NDP Leader Singh said Trudeau must resign, telling reporters, "Justin Trudeau has to go."

Asked if he would bring down the government at the earliest opportunity, he said, "All options are on the table. All options."

Speaking later to CBC's Power & Politics, MP Peter Julian, the NDP House leader, said the party will vote non-confidence in the government if Trudeau stays on as leader into the new year.

He said if this "Liberal debacle" continues into February or March, the NDP will pull its support for the government once and for all.

The House of Commons is expected to rise for its six-week Christmas break on Tuesday.

WATCH | 'Trudeau's government is over' says Blanchet after Freeland quits cabinet: 

‘Trudeau’s government is over’ says Blanchet after Freeland quits cabinet

16 hours ago
Duration 1:01
Following the resignation of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland from cabinet, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet says that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should go to the Governor General ‘and ask for the dissolution of the Parliament’ by the beginning of 2025 at the latest.

Liberal Ontario MP Francis Drouin said Freeland's resignation means Trudeau himself needs to step down and let someone else take over.

"I think he needs to go," Drouin told Radio-Canada. "I've been a great defender but I don't see how we move forward."

Liberal MP for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell Francis Drouin speaks with reporters before attending caucus, Wednesday, February 8, 2023 in Ottawa.
Francis Drouin, Liberal MP for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, speaks with reporters before attending caucus on Feb. 8, 2023, in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

Drouin's shift on this issue is significant because he previously told disaffected Liberal MPs to drop their plan to push Trudeau out, and to rally behind him to take on Poilievre.

Freeland's departure shows Trudeau has lost control of the government's agenda, Drouin said.

"I don't see how this helps. I don't see a way out."

MPs call on Trudeau to resign

Six other sitting Liberal MPs — René Arseneault, Anthony Housefather, Wayne Long, Patrick Weiler, Helena Jaczek and Chad Collins — also said Trudeau must resign.

Jaczek, who served as public services procurement minister under Trudeau before he shuffled her out in 2023, said Trudeau's move to push Freeland out of the job was distasteful.

"Let's put it this way — firing the minister of finance who has served you extremely well is not what I'd call a trustworthy move," she told reporters.

Asked if Trudeau should resign, Jaczek said yes.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland stands next to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as she speaks to employees during a visit to a Toronto Transit Commission yard in Toronto, on Wednesday, July 17, 2024.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland stands next to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as she speaks to employees during a visit to a Toronto Transit Commission yard in Toronto, on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press)

Jody Wilson-Raybould, a former Liberal cabinet minister who left government under circumstances similar to Freeland's departure, said it's untenable for Trudeau to stay on at this point.

"When the general is losing his most loyal soldiers on the eve of a tariff war, the country desperately needs a new general," she said. "It's time, it's long past time to go."

Freeland sounds alarm over Trump tariff threat

In her letter to Trudeau, Freeland said that Canada "faces a grave challenge" and cited Trump's threat to impose a punishing 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods.

"That means keeping our fiscal powder dry today, so we have the reserves we may need for a coming tariff war," Freeland wrote.

She signalled that she doesn't think the economic path Canada is on under Trudeau's leadership is a prudent one.

"That means eschewing costly political gimmicks, which we can ill afford and which make Canadians doubt that we recognize the gravity of the moment."

Freeland did not specify in her letter what she meant by "costly political gimmicks."

It could be a thinly veiled swipe at Trudeau's plan to freeze the GST/HST for two months on some goods and send $250 cheques to all working people sometime in the new year.

The finance minister also urged Trudeau to work "in good faith and humility" with provincial and territorial premiers to build a "true Team Canada response."

"Inevitably, our time in government will come to an end. But how we deal with the threat our country currently faces will define us for a generation, and perhaps longer. Canada will win if we are strong, smart, and united," Freeland said.

While stepping back from cabinet, Freeland told Trudeau she would stay on as Liberal MP and plans to run again under the party banner in the next federal election.

The finance minister's resignation came moments after Housing Minister Sean Fraser announced he won't seek re-election. Fraser said he wanted to spend more time with his family.

WATCH | Sean Fraser reacts to Chrystia Freeland's surprise resignation:

Sean Fraser reacts after Chrystia Freeland says she's leaving cabinet

21 hours ago
Duration 1:32
Outgoing Housing Minister Sean Fraser was asked Monday about his colleague Chrystia Freeland’s social media post, in which Freeland said she will no longer serve in cabinet after being asked to leave her post as finance minister.

Six cabinet ministers have told Trudeau in recent weeks they are not running again in the next election.

MP Randy Boissonnault, Trudeau's former employment minister, resigned amid scandal over his Indigenous ancestry claims and business dealings.

Those departures, combined with Freeland's resignation, means there are now eight cabinet spots that need to be filled in short order.

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Senior reporter

J.P. Tasker is a journalist in CBC's parliamentary bureau who reports for digital, radio and television. He is also a regular panellist on CBC News Network's Power & Politics. He covers the Conservative Party, Canada-U.S. relations, Crown-Indigenous affairs, climate change, health policy and the Senate. You can send story ideas and tips to J.P. at jp.tasker@cbc.ca

 
 
 
 

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigns from Trudeau's cabinet

Federal government is expected to deliver fall economic statement later today

Freeland resigns from cabinet ahead of fall economic statement

The latest:

  • Freeland says PM told her Friday he no longer wanted her to serve as finance minister
  • She will stay on as Liberal MP
  • No word on who will deliver fall economic statement

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced Monday morning that she is resigning from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet, hours before the federal government is expected to deliver the fall economic statement.

"On Friday, you told me you no longer want me to serve as your Finance Minister and offered me another position in the Cabinet," Freeland wrote in a letter addressed to Trudeau that was posted on her social media account.

"Upon reflection, I have concluded that the only honest and viable path is for me to resign from the Cabinet," Freeland added.

It's not clear what Freeland's resignation will mean for the federal government's fall economic statement, which is expected to be delivered later today. 

A senior federal government source told CBC News that Freeland's announcement was not expected today. It's not clear who will present the fall economic statement.

In her letter, Freeland said that Canada "faces a grave challenge" and referenced U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's threat to impose a punishing 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods.

"That means keeping our fiscal powder dry today, so we have the reserves we may need for a coming tariff war," Freeland wrote. "That means eschewing costly political gimmicks, which we can ill afford and which make Canadians doubt that we recognize the gravity of the moment."

Freeland did not specify in her letter what "costly political gimmicks" means.

The finance minister's resignation came moments after Housing Minister Sean Fraser announced he won't seek re-election. Fraser said he wanted to spend more time with his family.

WATCH | Sean Fraser reacts to Chrystia Freeland's surprise resignation:
 

Sean Fraser reacts after Chrystia Freeland says she's leaving cabinet

Outgoing Housing Minister Sean Fraser was asked Monday about his colleague Chrystia Freeland’s social media post, in which Freeland said she will no longer serve in cabinet after being asked to leave her post as finance minister.

When asked about Freeland's resignation, Fraser said that he considers her "a friend, and that friendship will continue long after my time in politics."

"My sense is that she's been an excellent team member to work alongside," Fraser added.

The finance minister also urged working "in good faith and humility" with provincial and territorial premiers to build a "true Team Canada response."

"I know Canadians would recognize and respect such an approach," Freeland wrote. "They know when we are working for them, and they equally know when we are focused on ourselves.

"Inevitably, our time in government will come to an end," Freeland went on. "But how we deal with the threat our country currently faces will define us for a generation, and perhaps longer. Canada will win if we are strong, smart, and united."

All 13 of Canada's premiers are currently in Toronto for a meeting of the Council of the Federation, chaired by Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

Freeland wrote that she "will always be grateful" for the chance to serve in government and "will always be proud" of the Liberal government's work for Canada and Canadians.

More to come.

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Benjamin Lopez Steven is a reporter and associate producer for CBC Politics. He was also a 2024 Joan Donaldson Scholar and a graduate of Carleton University. You can reach him at benjamin.steven@cbc.ca or find him on Twitter at @bensteven_s.

 
 

Government releases economic statement today as Freeland faces heavy pressure over deficit

Few expect the finance minister to keep her promise to maintain the 2023-24 deficit at or below $40.1B

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland leaves the Prime Minister's Office in the West Block of Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland leaves the Prime Minister's Office in the West Block of Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)

UPDATE: Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced Monday morning that she is resigning from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet. Read the latest about Freeland's resignation here.

The federal government unveils its long-awaited fall economic statement today — putting to rest weeks of speculation about a higher-than-projected deficit and the potential failure of other fiscal "anchors" Ottawa claimed would keep its budget on track.

Just last spring, in her Budget 2024 speech, Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland laid out three "fiscal guideposts" she said would demonstrate the government's continuing commitment to fiscal responsibility. The first was a promise to keep the 2023-24 deficit at or below $40.1 billion.

Last week, Freeland would no longer commit to meeting that target.

"I chose my words with care, because it is important to be clear with Canadians. It is important to be clear with capital markets," she said at the time.

The Globe and Mail reported recently that the government has sold its remaining Air Canada shares and that the profit it made could help it keep the deficit in check. Still, most experts seem to believe the federal government will miss its deficit target.

WATCH: Freeland talks deficit, debt-to-GDP ratio 

Freeland highlighting debt-to-GDP ratio, not offering details on whether deficit will exceed target

6 days ago
Duration 1:22
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, when asked Tuesday whether the deficit would stay at or below $40.1 billion, did not offer a specific figure and emphasized that the federal government’s fiscal anchor is a declining debt-to-GDP ratio.

Jock Finlayson, a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute and chief economist for the Independent Contractors and Business Association, said he expects a revised deficit $10 to $15 billion higher than the one projected last spring.

"We've seen a serial slippage in meeting budget targets ever since the worst of the Covid crisis passed," he said.

Another government promise — to keep deficits below one per cent of GDP in 2026-27 and in future years — is also up in the air in the wake of more recent big-ticket federal spending commitments to child care, dental care and pharmacare.

But a senior government official insists the only fiscal guardrail that really matters is a declining debt-to-GDP ratio, which Freeland also promised last spring to maintain. A declining ratio means the federal debt, as a share of the size of the economy itself, continues to go down.

"The other guardrails are important, but that's the one," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the update.

Last week, the finance minister said she still expects to meet the 42.1 per cent debt-to-GDP ratio projected for the 2023-24 fiscal year.

"You can't pick and choose fiscal anchors as you go, and renege on a commitment you made only a year ago," said Robert Asselin, senior vice president at the Business Council of Canada.

"The fact of the matter is this government is losing control of public finances and Canadians are noticing."

Today's fiscal update comes as trouble looms for Canada's most important trading relationship. U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 25 per cent tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico that could cripple the economy.

That threat has Canada and the provinces and territories scrambling to put into place measures — potentially costly ones — to address Trump's stated concerns about border security, migrants and illegal drugs.

The senior government official cautioned that the fiscal update will not be a direct reply to Trump's threat.

Multiple men and women smile for a photo at a table Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dined with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump in Florida late last month. On Trudeau's left is Howard Lutnick, Trump's nominee for commerce secretary. (@DaveMcCormickPA/X)

"To focus on tariffs is to focus too narrowly," the source said, adding the government believes Trump's ultimate goal is to get companies to move to the U.S., or to at least move their investments there.

"He wants capital to go into the U.S. We have to get our ducks in a row, be robustly ready to fight capital being sucked into the U.S. ... to boost economic growth and keep capital here."

Finlayson said he wishes the federal government was more worried about what he calls a "complete stagnation of Canadian productivity" and less concerned with surface-level measures like what he calls a "gimmicky" GST holiday.

"We're painting the porches and planting the flowers out in the garden in front of the nice little house, while the underlying foundations of it are being chewed away by termites," he said.

Canada's productivity problem

Finlayson said there are two ways to grow an economy in the long term. One is to increase the number of people in the labour force — something Canada has relied heavily on immigration to achieve. The other way is to boost the value of what is being made by increasing productivity — an area where Finlayson argues Canada is failing.

"Dealing with these big challenges is not politically easy because it doesn't lead to quick wins. Standing up and talking about productivity is a good way to empty a room of people," he said.

While the government might say this year's fiscal update is not a response to Trump's threats, it could contain measures meant to do exactly that.

While the full details of Ottawa's promised plan to strengthen border security — which could include new legislation and up to $1 billion in new spending — are not expected to be outlined in the fiscal update, it could offer some hints at a strategy. It also might include language indicating the government's openness to accelerating its timeline for increasing military spending to two per cent of GDP and meeting the NATO target.

Overall, Canadians should not expect any major U-turns, said the senior government source.

"We have the same focus — housing, affordability and economic growth," the source said.

Last week, Freeland announced two measures to be included in the update — one which aims to make it easier for homeowners to add secondary suites to their homes, and another to enhance an existing scientific research tax incentive program.

Those hoping that the update will include the promised $250 rebate cheques for working Canadians who earned less than $150,000 in 2023 will likely be disappointed. Sources told Radio-Canada they will not be included in the update.

None of the opposition parties is indicating support for the measure as originally proposed, and the minority Liberal government can't get the measure passed without the support of at least one other party.

"We need a dance partner and no one wants to work with us on the cheques," said the government official.

The fall fiscal update is coming late this year — just five days before the end of fall. The government blames the late release on the Conservatives' ongoing filibuster in the House of Commons over a question of privilege — but critics have accused Freeland of wanting to delay the release of bad economic numbers. Others have suggested Trump's election threw the finance department off-track.

"Did we rejig because of the Canada-U.S. situation? Yes," said the government official. "But the lateness was mostly about where and how we could present the economic statement, considering the state of things in the House of Commons right now."

That deadlock in Parliament puts in doubt the government's ability to actually follow through on the plans outlined in today's fiscal update.

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Sean Fraser to leave federal cabinet as PMO pushes to add Mark Carney

Cabinet shuffle could happen as soon as Wednesday, sources say

Housing Minister Sean Fraser will announce on Monday that he will not seek re-election in his Nova Scotia riding and will leave the federal cabinet during the next shuffle, CBC News has learned.

Sources say that cabinet shuffle could happen as soon as Wednesday.

The push to change Justin Trudeau's inner circle before the Christmas holidays comes as the prime minister and his senior advisers mount yet another effort to convince former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney to join the cabinet, according to multiple high-level Liberal sources.

The ongoing attempts to convince Carney to join cabinet were first reported by the Globe and Mail. Liberal sources tell CBC News that Carney has been more open to the idea than in the past, but it is still not a done deal.

But as they try to add Carney, the Prime Minister's Office is also preparing to lose Fraser — widely seen as one of the Liberals' best communicators — who has been handling the politically important housing file.

Sources say Fraser is leaving for family reasons, something he has commented on publicly before. The time and travel required by his portfolio makes it difficult to spend time in his rural Nova Scotia riding with his wife, eight-year-old daughter and three-year-old son.

Fraser's decision is unrelated to the push to add Carney to cabinet, sources say.

WATCH | Poilievre, Fraser trade shots over their housing plans:
 

Poilievre, Fraser trade shots over their housing plans

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Housing Minister Sean Fraser had an increasingly heated exchange in question period Tuesday, which started with Poilievre asking about his own promise to remove the GST on new homes sold for less than $1 million. The two men went on to call each other arrogant and incompetent.

Fraser has represented the riding of Central Nova in the House of Commons since 2015. His departure compounds the need for Trudeau to add new blood to his cabinet.

He already has to replace ministers who do not plan to seek re-election – including Minister of National Revenue Marie-Claude Bibeau; Carla Qualtrough, the minister of sport; Filomena Tassi, the minister responsible for economic development for southern Ontario; and Minister of Northern Affairs Dan Vandal.

Trudeau also has to find a full-time replacement for former Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault, who resigned from cabinet last month amid allegations about his business dealings and criticism of his shifting claims about his Indigenous ancestry.

Since Boissonnault's departure, Ginette Petitpas Taylor has added the employment portfolio to her duties as veterans affairs minister. She joined Anita Anand as a minister with two portfolios. Anand has been pulling double duty as president of the Treasury Board and transport minister ever since Pablo Rodriguez left cabinet and caucus to pursue the Quebec Liberal leadership.

Those openings — and the possibility that even more cabinet ministers may still decide not to seek re-election — provide ample opportunity for Trudeau to add new blood to the cabinet, including the long-courted Carney.

In September, Carney agreed to chair a Liberal Party task force on economic growth ahead of the next federal election. But while Carney's name has been linked to joining Trudeau's cabinet — or even running to succeed the prime minister as Liberal leader — he has to this point rejected those overtures.

 Mark Carney, who has served as the governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, speaks at the Sustainable Finance conference, Thursday Nov. 28, 2024.Mark Carney, who has served as governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, speaks at the Sustainable Finance conference in Ottawa on Nov. 28. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

There have also been conversations with Carney and other prominent Canadians about establishing a U.S.-Canada council to deal with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump.

Although it is not required for a cabinet member to have a seat in Parliament, there have also been conversations with Carney about where he could run if and when needed.

Whether the cabinet includes Carney or not, multiple Liberal sources say there is a push to shake up the departments, with Wednesday as the target date. But the sources all caution that if the pieces don't fall into place, it could be pushed off until early January.

There is an urgency to refresh the cabinet not only to replace the retiring ministers, but also to reorient the focus of the government to respond to the challenges presented by Trump's return to the White House next month.

Trump has caused a political and economic frenzy with his threat of 25 per cent tariffs if Ottawa doesn't take what he considers to be appropriate steps to better secure the Canada-U.S. border against fentanyl and human trafficking.

He says he wants to see meaningful action by his inauguration on Jan. 20. The senior ranks of the Trudeau government acknowledge they need to have their full team in place and prepared by then to confront whatever comes next from the returning Trump administration.

That team won't include Fraser, who will speak publicly about his future on Monday. There has been speculation he might eventually consider a move to provincial politics.

The Nova Scotia Liberal Party was reduced to just two seats and third-party status in the provincial election on Nov. 26. Leader Zach Churchill stepped down after a judicial recount confirmed that he lost his riding in southwest Nova Scotia.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Cochrane is host of Power & Politics, Canada's premier daily political show, airing 5 to 7 p.m. ET weekdays on CBC News Network. David joined the parliamentary bureau as a senior reporter in 2016. Since then, he has reported from 11 countries across four continents. David played a leading role in CBC's 2019 and 2021 federal election coverage. Before Ottawa, David spent nearly two decades covering politics in his beloved Newfoundland and Labrador, where he hosted the RTDNA award winning political show On Point with David Cochrane.

With files from John Paul Tasker and Kate McKenna

 
 
 RE Taking a look at it To save you some time first things first This is the text of my latest lawsuit (Hopefully 3 more will follow soon)

David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 1:09 PM
To: whatsupcanadian@gmail.com
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Bcc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
---------- Original message ----------
From: "editor@canucklaw.ca" <editor@canucklaw.ca>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 06:04:52 -0700
Subject: re: Attn Lisa Bildy I called and left a voicemail telling you
to  expect this email about Leslyn Lewis versus the other lawyers in
the Not So  Good Old Boys Club
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

Taking a look at it

---------- Original message ----------
From: Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 21:48:08 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE The "Strike back: Demand an inquiry
Event." Methinks it interesting that Martha Paynter is supported by
the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation N'esy Pas?
To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com

Thank you very much for reaching out to the Office of the Hon. Bill
Blair, Member of Parliament for Scarborough Southwest.

Please be advised that as a health and safety precaution, our
constituency office will not be holding in-person meetings until
further notice. We will continue to provide service during our regular
office hours, both over the phone and via email.

Due to the high volume of emails and calls we are receiving, our
office prioritizes requests on the basis of urgency and in relation to
our role in serving the constituents of Scarborough Southwest. If you
are not a constituent of Scarborough Southwest, please reach out to
your local of Member of Parliament for assistance. To find your local
MP, visit: https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

Moreover, at this time, we ask that you please only call our office if
your case is extremely urgent. We are experiencing an extremely high
volume of calls, and will better be able to serve you through email.

Should you have any questions related to COVID-19, please see:
www.canada.ca/coronavirus<http://www.canada.ca/coronavirus>

Thank you again for your message, and we will get back to you as soon
as possible.

Best,


MP Staff to the Hon. Bill Blair
Parliament Hill: 613-995-0284
Constituency Office: 416-261-8613
bill.blair@parl.gc.ca<mailto:bill.blair@parl.gc.ca>

**
Merci beaucoup d'avoir pris contact avec le bureau de l'Honorable Bill
Blair, D?put? de Scarborough-Sud-Ouest.

Veuillez noter que par mesure de pr?caution en mati?re de sant? et de
s?curit?, notre bureau de circonscription ne tiendra pas de r?unions
en personne jusqu'? nouvel ordre. Nous continuerons ? fournir des
services pendant nos heures de bureau habituelles, tant par t?l?phone
que par courrier ?lectronique.

En raison du volume ?lev? de courriels que nous recevons, notre bureau
classe les demandes par ordre de priorit? en fonction de leur urgence
et de notre r?le dans le service aux ?lecteurs de Scarborough
Sud-Ouest. Si vous n'?tes pas un ?lecteur de Scarborough Sud-Ouest,
veuillez contacter votre d?put? local pour obtenir de l'aide. Pour
trouver votre d?put? local, visitez le
site:https://www.noscommunes.ca/members/fr

En outre, nous vous demandons de ne t?l?phoner ? notre bureau que si
votre cas est extr?mement urgent. Nous recevons un volume d'appels
extr?mement ?lev? et nous serons mieux ? m?me de vous servir par
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Si vous avez des questions concernant COVID-19, veuillez consulter le
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Merci encore pour votre message, et nous vous r?pondrons d?s que possible.

Cordialement,

Personnel du D?put? de l'Honorable Bill Blair
Colline du Parlement : 613-995-0284
Bureau de Circonscription : 416-261-8613
bill.blair@parl.gc.ca<mailto:bill.blair@parl.gc.ca>
< mailto:bill.blair@parl.gc.ca>


After backlash, governments agree to hold public inquiry into Nova
Scotia shooting
By Alexander Quon & Elizabeth McSheffrey Global News
Posted July 28, 2020 10:42 am

WATCH: The federal government is now proceeding with a public inquiry
into the Nova Scotia massacre that left 22 innocent people dead in
April. Elizabeth McSheffrey looks at why Ottawa is changing paths now,
and what the inquiry has the power to do.

The decision to hold a review into the mass killing in April that
resulted in the deaths of 22 people in Nova Scotia took three months
to arrange. In less than a week the decision has been undone after a
massive wave of public backlash.

Federal Public Safety Minister Bill Blair announced on Tuesday a
public inquiry will be held into the mass shooting that began in
Portapique, N.S. on April 18 and came to an end nearly 100 km away, 13
hours later.

“The Government of Canada is now proceeding with a full Public
Inquiry, under the authority of the Inquiries Act,” said Blair in a
statement.


---------- Original message ----------
From: Allan Carroll <allan.carroll@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 18:14:09 -0400
Subject: Re: Trust that Murray Segal's appointment to whitewash the
Rehteah Parsons matter did not surprise me after the meail I sent this
weekend (AOL)
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

I will be AOL commencing  July 27, 2013  and returning on August 13,
2013.  Cpl David Baldwin of Amherst Det will be assuming my duties
during my absence. Should you require immediate assistance, please
contact the main Amherst office number at 902-667-3859.

For inquiries about the Crisis Negotiation Team, please contact
Sgt.Royce MacRae at 902-720-5426 (w) or 902-471-8776 (c)



---------- Original message ----------
From: "Fitch, Leanne" <leanne.fitch@fredericton.ca>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 14:05:24 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Re Federal Court file no T-1557-15 Now this
is interesting As soon as Brad Wall got reelected as Premier he began
blocking my email Go Figure EH David Drummond???
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

Due to a very high volume of incoming email to this account there is
an unusual backlog of pending responses. Your query may not be repleid
to in a timely fashion. If you require a formal response please send
your query in writing to my attention c/o Fredericton Police Force,
311 Queen St, Fredericton, NB E3B 1B1 or phone (506) 460-2300.

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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Hon.Ralph.Goodale  (PS/SP)" <Hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 16:39:00 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks this afternoon Harjit Sajjan and
his minions should go to Federal Court pull my file (T-1557-15) from
the docket then read statement 83 real slow N'esy Pas?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

Merci d'avoir ?crit ? l'honorable Ralph Goodale, ministre de la
S?curit? publique et de la Protection civile.
En raison d'une augmentation importante du volume de la correspondance
adress?e au ministre, veuillez prendre note qu'il pourrait y avoir un
retard dans le traitement de votre courriel. Soyez assur? que votre
message sera examin? avec attention.
Merci!
L'Unit? de la correspondance minist?rielle
S?curit? publique Canada
*********

Thank you for writing to the Honourable Ralph Goodale, Minister of
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness.
Due to the significant increase in the volume of correspondence
addressed to the Minister, please note there could be a delay in
processing your email. Rest assured that your message will be
carefully reviewed.
Thank you!
Ministerial Correspondence Unit
Public Safety Canada





---------- Original message ----------
From: "Fitch, Leanne" <leanne.fitch@fredericton.ca>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 16:38:59 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks this afternoon Harjit Sajjan and
his minions should go to Federal Court pull my file (T-1557-15) from
the docket then read statement 83 real slow N'esy Pas?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>


Due to a very high volume of incoming email to this account there is
an unusual backlog of pending responses. Your message may not be
responded to in a timely fashion. If you require a formal response
please send your query in writing to my attention c/o Fredericton
Police Force, 311 Queen St, Fredericton, NB E3B 1B1 or phone (506)
460-2300. If this is an emergency related to public safety please call
911.

En raison du grand nombre de courriels que reçoit cette messagerie, il
se peut qu’une réponse tarde un peu à venir. Si vous avez besoin d'une
réponse officielle, veuillez envoyer votre demande par écrit à mon
attention aux soins (a/s) de la Force policière de Fredericton 311,
rue Queen, Fredericton, NB   E3B 1B1, ou composer le 506 460-2300.
S'il s'agit d'une urgence de sécurité publique, faites le 911.


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https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2015/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html


Friday, 18 September 2015
David Raymond Amos Versus The Crown T-1557-15



                      Court File No. T-1557-15

FEDERAL COURT

BETWEEN:
DAVID RAYMOND AMOS

                           Plaintiff
and

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN

                           Defendant

STATEMENT OF CLAIM

The Parties

1.      HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crown) is Elizabeth II, the Queen of
England, the Protector of the Faith of the Church of England, the
longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom and one of the
wealthiest persons in the world. Canada pays homage to the Queen
because she remained the Head of State and the Chief Executive Officer
of Canada after the Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) 1982, c. 11 came into force
on April 17, 1982. The standing of the Queen in Canada was explained
within the 2002 Annual Report FORM 18-K filed by Canada with the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). It states as
follows:

     “The executive power of the federal Government is vested in the
Queen, represented by the Governor General, whose powers are exercised
on the advice of the federal Cabinet, which is responsible to the
House of Commons. The legislative branch at the federal level,
Parliament, consists of the Crown, the Senate and the House of
Commons.”

     “The executive power in each province is vested in the Lieutenant
Governor, appointed by the Governor General on the advice of the
federal Cabinet. The Lieutenant Governor’s powers are exercised on the
advice of the provincial cabinet, which is responsible to the
legislative assembly. Each provincial legislature is composed of a
Lieutenant Governor and a legislative assembly made up of members
elected for a period of five years.”

2.      Her Majesty the Queen is the named defendant pursuant to
sections 23(1) and 36 of the Crown Liability and Proceedings Act. Some
of the state actors whose duties and actions are at issue in this
action are the Prime Minister, Premiers, Governor General, Lieutenant
Governors, members of the Canadian Forces (CF), and Royal Canadian
Mounted Police (RCMP), federal and provincial Ministers of Public
Safety, Ministers of Justice, Ministers of Finance, Speakers, Clerks,
Sergeants-at-Arms and any other person acting as Aide-de-Camp
providing security within and around the House of Commons, the
legislative assemblies or acting as security for other federal,
provincial and municipal properties.

3.      Her Majesty the Queen’s servants the RCMP whose mandate is to
serve and protect Canadian citizens and assist in the security of
parliamentary properties and the protection of public officials should
not deny a correspondence from a former Deputy Prime Minister who was
appointed to be Canada’s first Minister of Public Safety in order to
oversee the RCMP and their cohorts. The letter that helped to raise
the ire of a fellow Canadian citizen who had never voted in his life
to run for public office four times thus far is quoted as follows:

  “Mr. David R. Amos
            Jan 3rd, 2004
153Alvin Avenue
   Milton, MA U.S.A. 02186

                Dear Mr. Amos

      Thank you for your letter of November 19th, 2003, addressed to
                my predecessor, the Honourble Wayne Easter, regarding
your safety.
                I apologize for the delay in responding.

      If you have any concerns about your personal safety, I can only
               suggest that you contact the police of local
jurisdiction. In addition, any
               evidence of criminal activity should be brought to
their attention since the
               police are in the best position to evaluate the
information and take action
               as deemed appropriate.

       I trust that this information is satisfactory.

                                                              Yours sincerely

 A. Anne McLellan”

4.      DAVID RAYMOND AMOS (Plaintiff), a Canadian Citizen and the
first Chief of the Amos Clan, was born in Sackville, New Brunswick
(NB) on July 17th, 1952.

5.      The Plaintiff claims standing in this action as a citizen
whose human rights and democratic interests are to be protected by due
performance of the obligations of Canada’s public officials who are
either elected or appointed and all servants of the Crown whose
mandate is to secure the public safety, protect public interests and
to uphold and enforce the rule of law. The Crown affirms his right to
seek relief for offences to his rights under section 24(1) of the
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Charter). Paragraphs 6 to 13
explain the delay in bringing this action before Federal Court and
paragraphs 25 to 88 explain this matter.

6.      The Plaintiff states that pursuant to the democratic rights
found in Section 3 of the Charter he was a candidate in the elections
of the membership of the 38th and 39th Parliaments in the House of
Commons and a candidate in the elections of the memberships of the
legislative assemblies in Nova Scotia (NS) and NB in 2006.

7.      The Plaintiff states that if he is successful in finding a
Chartered Accountant to audit his records as per the rules of
Elections Canada, he will attempt to become a candidate in the
election of the membership of the 42nd Parliament.

8.      The Plaintiff states that beginning in January of 2002, he
made many members of the RCMP and many members of the corporate media
including employees of a Crown Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation (CBC) well aware of the reason why he planned to return to
Canada and become a candidate in the next federal election. In May of
2004, all members seated in the 37th Parliament before the writ was
dropped for the election of the 38th Parliament and several members of
the legislative assemblies of NB and Newfoundland and Labrador (NL)
knew the reason is the ongoing rampant public corruption. Evidence of
the Plaintiff’s concerns can be found within his documents that the
Office of the Governor General acknowledged were in its possession ten
years ago before the Speech from the Throne in 2004. The Governor
General’s letter is as follows:


  “September 11th, 2004
          Dear Mr. Amos,

           On behalf of Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne
Clarkson,
           I acknowledge receipt of two sets of documents and CD
regarding corruption,
           one received from you directly, and the other forwarded to
us by the Office of
           the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick.

                       I regret to inform you that the Governor
General cannot intervene in
           matters that are the responsibility of elected officials
and courts of Justice of
           Canada. You already contacted the various provincial
authorities regarding
           your concerns, and these were the appropriate steps to take.

                                                  Yours sincerely.
                                                              Renee
Blanchet
                                                              Office
of the Secretary
                                                              to the
Governor General”

9.      The Plaintiff states that the documents contain proof that the
Crown by way of the RCMP and the Minister of Public Safety/Deputy
Prime Minister knew that he was the whistleblower offering his
assistance to Maher Arar and his lawyers in the USA. The Governor
General acknowledged his concerns about the subject of this complaint
and affirmed that the proper provincial authorities were contacted but
ignored the Plaintiff’s faxes and email to the RCMP and the Solicitor
General in November of 2003 and his tracked US Mail to the Solicitor
General and the Commissioner of the RCMP by way of the Department of
Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) in December of 2003
and the response he received from the Minister of Public Safety/Deputy
Prime Minister in early 2004. One document was irrefutable proof that
there was no need whatsoever to create a Commission of Inquiry into
Maher Arar concerns at about the same point in time. That document is
a letter from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office
Inspector General (OIG complaint no. C04-01448) admitting contact with
his office on November 21, 2003 within days of the Plaintiff talking
to the office of Canada’s Solicitor General while he met with the US
Attorney General and one day after the former Attorney General of New
York (NY) and the former General Counsel of the SEC testified at a
public hearing before the US Senate Banking Committee about
investigations of the mutual fund industry.

10.  The Plaintiff states that another document that the Plaintiff
received during the election of the 39th Parliament further supported
the fact he was a whistleblower about financial crimes. In December of
2006 a member of the RCMP was ethical enough to admit that he
understood the Plaintiff’s concerns and forwarded his response to the
acting Commissioner of the RCMP and others including a NB Cabinet
Minister Michael B. Murphy QC. The Crown is well aware that any member
sitting in the last days of the 37th Parliament through to the end of
the 41st Parliament could have stood in the House of Commons and asked
the Speaker if the Crown was aware of the Plaintiff’s actions. All
parliamentarians should have wondered why his concerns and that of Mr.
Arar’s were not heard by a committee within the House of Commons in
early 2004. Instead, the Crown created an expensive Commission to
delay the Arar matter while he sued the governments of Canada and the
USA and his wife ran in the election of the 38th Parliament. In 2007,
Arar received a $10-million settlement from the Crown and the Prime
Minister gave him an official apology yet the US government has never
admitted fault. A month after the writ was dropped for the election of
the 42nd Parliament and CBC is reporting Syrian concerns constantly,
Mr. Arar’s lawyer announced that the RCMP will attempt to extradite a
Syrian intelligence officer because it had laid a charge in absentia
and a Canada-wide warrant and Interpol notice were issued. The
Plaintiff considers such news to be politicking practiced by the
Minister of Public Safety. He noticed the usually outspoken Mr. Arar
made no comment but his politically active wife had lots to say on
CBC. Meanwhile, the RCMP continues to bar a fellow citizen from
parliamentary properties because he exercised the same democratic
rights after he had offered his support to Arar by way of his American
lawyers. The aforementioned letter about financial crimes was from the
Inspector General for Tax Administration in the US Department of the
Treasury. Mr Arar’s lawyers, the RCMP, the Canadian Revenue Agency and
the US Internal Revenue Service still refuse to even admit TIGTA
complaint no. 071-0512-0055-C exists. However, the Commissioner of
Federal Court, the Queen’s Privy Council Office and other agencies
were made well aware of it before the Speech from the Throne in 2006.

11.  The Plaintiff states that from June 24, 2004 until the day he
signed this complaint he has diligently tried to resolve the breach of
his rights under the Charter that are the subject of this complaint
with any public official in Canada whom he believed had the mandate or
the ability to request that the Crown investigate and correct the
malicious actions and inactions of the RCMP, Sergeants-at-Arms and
Aides-de-Camp in all jurisdictions. Until June 16, 2006 the Plaintiff
did not have irrefutable proof to support this complaint. Time did not
permit him to address it immediately in Federal Court in 2006 because
his slate was full. For instance on June 16, 2006 while dealing with
deeply troubling private family matters, he was running against the
Attorney General for his seat in the NS provincial election while
arguing members of the RCMP about strange calls he got from someone in
Ottawa who claimed the Department of Public Safety as her client,
dealing with many liberal party members who were about to witness in
Moncton NB the first debate of all those who wished to become their
new leader, assisting a farmer in his attempt to get some authority to
properly investigate the demise of his cattle and discussing with
members of the Saint John NB City Council the actions of a sergeant in
the Saint John Police Force who was calling friends of the Plaintiff
and claiming that he was drug dealing member of a bike gang that they
should stay away from while he was preparing to intervene in pipeline
matter that was about to heard by the National Energy Board in Saint
John .

12.  The Plaintiff states that in April of 2007 he wrote a complaint
about this matter and returned to the Capital District of NB in order
to file it and argue the Crown before the Federal Court if it did not
wish to settle. A clerk of this court informed him that his complaint
was not composed correctly, so he began to rewrite this complaint.
However, as soon as it was known what the Plaintiff was about to file
he was subject to further police harassment and his family began to
suffer from constant slander, sexual harassment and death threats on
the Internet and on the telephone that continues to this very day
while the RCMP, the FBI and many other law enforcement authorities
continue to ignored the obvious evidence of cybercrime practiced
against many people including his minor children.

13.  The Plaintiff states that the Crown’s only response has been
further harassment by the RCMP including false arrest and imprisonment
and theft of his property by the Fredericton Police Force supported by
other law enforcement authorities in Canada and the USA. The Governor
General has had the Plaintiff’s documents for over ten years to study.
The Crown now has one of the complaints that the RCMP has been
delaying since 2003. It is as follows:

The Complaint

14.  The Plaintiff states that on June 24, 2004 during the election of
the membership of the 38th Parliament the Crown breached his right to
peaceful assembly and association under Section 2(c) and (d) of the
Charter. The Sergeant-at-Arms of the Legislative Assembly of NB (a
former member of the RCMP) supported by the Fredericton Police Force
(FPF), the Corps of Commissionaires (COC) and at least one RCMP
officer acting as Aide-de-Camp to the NB Lieutenant Governor barred
the Plaintiff under threat of arrest from the legislative properties
in NB.

15.  The Plaintiff states that whereas the Crown refused to put
anything in writing to either confirm or deny that he was in fact
barred from the legislative properties in NB, he returned to the
public property whenever he deemed it necessary to do so as he ran for
public office three more times. For example, when the Plaintiff was a
candidate in the election of the 39th Parliament for the riding of
Fredericton, he was asked to come into the legislative building of NB
to record a live interview for an Atlantic Television (ATV) news cast
shortly before polling day. On that occasion, the Sergeant-at-Arms and
his Aides-de-Camp did not attempt to bar the Plaintiff from access to
legislative property quite possibly because they did not wish their
actions to be recorded by ATV. However, the Crown made matters worse
in short order. CBC barred the Plaintiff from an all-candidates’
debate on the University of New Brunswick (UNB) campus and on polling
day two District Returning Officers on the UNB campus after viewing
identification threatened to have the Plaintiff arrested stating that
they did not believe he was on the ballot.

16.  The Plaintiff states that the NB Sergeant-at-Arms continued with
his threat of arrest after the election 39th Parliament. In response,
the Plaintiff challenged the Sergeant-at-Arms to either put his threat
in writing or arrest him so he could at least argue the Crown about
the offences against his rights under the Charter.

17.  The Plaintiff states that on June 16th, 2006 he was on a sidewalk
on Queen Street in Fredericton NB waiting for a friend who was meeting
with the Premier of NB and others inside the legislative assembly
building. Within minutes of his arrival the Sergeant-at-Arms and two
members of the FPF marched out of the building and served a signed
document barring him from public places overseen by the Crown because
some unnamed parties found him in ”Contempt of the House”. The
Sergeant-at-Arms then ordered the Plaintiff off legislative property.
When the Plaintiff pointed out that he was not on legislative property
but on a sidewalk on Queen Street, the Sergeant-at-Arms claimed that
his jurisdiction extended to the middle of the street. The two members
of the FPF identified themselves and agreed that if the Plaintiff did
not cross the street they would arrest him.

18.  The Plaintiff states that after he crossed Queen Street he took a
photograph of the Sergeant-at-Arms and the FPF marching back into the
building to prove date and time of their malice. He sent a photograph
of their barring notice to many people particularly liberal party
members gathering in Moncton, NB that day to hear a debate by those
who wished to replace the former Prime Minister as their party leader.
It was important to do so because a liberal mandate created the
Charter in 1982 compelling all New Brunswickers including the
Sergeant-at-Arms and the police to abide the law within Canada’s only
bilingual province. Any citizen or public official who understands the
Charter and received a copy of the barring notice should have noticed
the Crown had barred a citizen from the legislative properties in NB
in only one official language. No police officer or politician or
Language Commissioner at either a federal or provincial level ever
responded to any inquiry about that fact. The Sergeant-at-Arms of NB
did acknowledge the receipt of a copy of his barring notice years
later but he did so in French only.

19.  The Plaintiff states that the NB Sergeant-at-Arms and his cohorts
in the FPF, RCMP and the COC are well aware that as soon as the
Plaintiff’s friend came out of legislative building on June 16, 2006,
he was given the barring notice to take back inside in order to
inquire about it and the reasons behind it. The COC are clearly named
at the bottom of the document yet the Commissionaires and all the
politicians he encountered that day claimed that they were not allowed
to discuss the barring notice and never would ever since. The
Plaintiff finds that the police, politicians and bureaucrats etc. are
maintaining their oath to the Crown rather than uphold the law and
Sections 2(c) (d), 16(2), 18(2) and 20(2) of the Charter and are
relying on the Crown’s legal counsel to stop him from seeking relief.

20.  The Plaintiff states that the RCMP and the members of the FPF who
harassed the Plaintiff in September of 2006 while he was a candidate
in the NB provincial election would not explain why the NB
Sergeant-at-Arms and the COC had barred him with a document written in
English only or why it was not published in the Royal Gazette. Members
of the FPF who violated the Plaintiff’s privacy trying to read an
email that he was composing on a laptop within his car parked on
private property refused to explain why they thought they had the
right do so as they attempted to interrogate him without a warrant or
due process of law. Members of the FPF refused to take the same
documents the RCMP had so that their major crimes unit could finally
investigate after they demanded that the Plaintiff identify himself so
they could check for warrants for his arrest. The FPF would not
discuss what they would do if he returned to the UNB campus or if he
parked a vehicle and put money in a parking meter on the side of Queen
Street claimed by the Sergeant-at-Arms. In February of 2007 after a
Cabinet Minister of NB acknowledged his concerns with the RCMP, his
children took pictures of the Plaintiff standing on the legislative
property and the Sergeant-at-Arms and the FPF did nothing that day.
However, the police harassment got worse afterwards. The FPF tried to
call him a criminal while the Plaintiff waited for answers before he
argued the Crown in court about his property that the FPF had
illegally seized. The text of two emails that the Crown and the FPF
sent in 2007 are as follows:

              “Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:02:35 -0400
               From: "Murphy, Michael B. \(DH/MS\)" MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca
               To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
               Subject:

                   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”

                                                       AND

                “From: “Lafleur, Lou” lou.lafleur@fredericton.ca
                  To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com,
                  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

21.  The Plaintiff states that by September of 2007, he was told by
police officers and others that he was barred from the town of
Woodstock, the House of Commons, the National Capital District
including Rideau Hall and the University of Ottawa, the Capital
District of NB including the Lieutenant Governor’s residence and the
University of NB, all other legislative properties in Canada and that
a photograph of him was posted inside the NB legislative building, the
Fredericton airport and at least one mining property guarded by the
Corps of Commissionaires.

22.  The Plaintiff states that on or about September 13, 2007 during a
conversation with the office of the Speaker of the House of Commons he
was referred to the Sergeant-at-Arms in order to find out if the
Plaintiff was truly barred from the House of Commons and if he had
been sent an answer to the documentation the Speaker and the
government of Iceland received in May of 2006. The Sergeant-at-Arms
was apparently well aware of his concerns because he said he knew the
Plaintiff from a past life and quickly hung up the telephone. The
Sergeant-at-Arms never did answer the Plaintiff and ignored all his
contacts ever since.

23.  The Plaintiff states that the odd response from Sergeant-at-Arms
of the House of Commons caused him to research how they knew each
other. The public record states that in June of 2005 the RCMP officer
acting as Aide-de-Camp to the NB Lieutenant Governor retired and
joined the House of Commons as Director of Security Operations. On
September 1, 2006, he became the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of
Commons. Therefore, because of all three of his positions from June of
2004 to December of 2014, the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons
must have agreed and seconded his fellow Sergeant-at-Arms in NB and
his threats to arrest Plaintiff if he reappeared on parliamentary
property.

24.  The Plaintiff states that with regards to this complaint about
being illegally barred from parliamentary properties, the most recent
contact from the Crown was the three members of the RCMP who harassed
the Plaintiff at 1:30 AM on December 16, 2014 not long after he had
received an email from a former CSIS agent who is the current
Sergeant-at-Arms of the legislative assembly of Alberta.

The Facts of this Matter

25.  The Plaintiff states that on June 24, 2004 within minutes of his
being barred, the Sergeant-at-Arms, two members of the FPF and one
Commissionaire witnessed him deliver a large number of documents to
the attention of two lawyers in the office of the opposition next
door. He suspects that the Sergeant-at-Arms read at least the cover
letter when his documents were in his care because to support his
right to bar a citizen in front two members of the FPF he falsely
accused the Plaintiff of attempting to serve documents while in the
legislative building.

26.  The Plaintiff states that within the hour of being barred, the
Plaintiff visited the headquarters of the FPF and attempted to meet
with its Chief in order to discuss the false allegations and the
threat of arrest. Whereas a Corporal denied access to his Chief, the
Plaintiff contacted the City Solicitor of Fredericton because he knew
him personally in younger days. After waiting one week for someone to
get back to him, the Plaintiff visited the constituency office of the
Premier and the law office of a former Premier of NB and gave them
many documents with the same cover letter addressing his concern about
being barred from the legislative properties amongst other issues. One
month later the Attorney General of NB sent an answer similar to what
the Deputy Prime Minister sent eight months earlier telling him to
take up his concerns with the police and ignored the issue of a
citizen being barred and threatened by the police. A lawyer acting as
the NB Ombudsman did not wish deal with the government on his behalf
suggested that the Plaintiff take up his concerns with the New
Brunswick Police Commission (NBPC) and introduced them. The Plaintiff,
his wife and a lawyer met with the NBPC. The NBPC acknowledged the
complaint and asked the FPF to investigate their questionable actions.
In the eleven years since the NBPC never responded and the Plaintiff
knows why. The NBPC and Governor General have many of his documents
and one is a letter to the Commissioner of the RCMP. The Plaintiff is
well aware the Chair of the NBPC in 2004 was also the Chief Coroner
whom he testified before on July 15, 1982 and he clearly informed the
Crown he assisted in a successful civil lawsuit against the RCMP about
a wrongful death.

27.  The Plaintiff states that the Sergeant-at-Arms, two
Commissionaires, a librarian, and two members of the FPF knew that the
Plaintiff was in legislative assembly on June 24, 2004 looking for the
“blogger” Charles Leblanc.  While the Plaintiff was waiting for
Charles Leblanc to arrive that day he exercised his democratic right
to witness the proceedings of the Legislative Assembly from the
gallery.

28.  The Plaintiff states that apparently a friend of the Crown put a
new spin on this matter the following day. The Crown’s corporate media
has never said anything about the Crown’s malicious actions barring
him it has had lots to say about the barring the blogger Charles
Leblanc two years later and it has made the arrests and prosecutions
of him well known. On June 25, 2004 Charles Leblanc a well-known
friend of the MLAs, the Sergeant-at-Arms, the Commissionaires, the
RCMP and the Fredericton Police Force falsely reported in the social
media that the Plaintiff had been “shown the door” claiming that he
had attempted to interrupt the proceedings in the Legislature by
speaking from the gallery. The Crown knows if that were true it would
have been recorded in the legislative records. The words of Charles
Leblanc an important witness to be called to testify as to what he
knows about this matter are as follows

       “IS ELVY ROBICHAID SEEING THE LIGHT????
        by Charles LeBlanc Friday, Jun. 25, 2004 at 10:56 AM
        Fredericton updates from Charles

 “There’s always undercovers cops around but only when the House is in
session.  As God as my witness I hope nothing happens but it’s just a
matter of time till someone is push over the edge. I guess a guy name
David Amos was shown the door yesterday at the Legislature. This guy
is running as an Independent candidate in the riding of Fundy Royal. I
met the guy over the net and he has a beef with our political
bureaucrats. I admire people fighting for what they believe in but you
can’t get carried away. I guess in this case? He wanted to speak from
the Gallery and that’s a big faux pas!”

29.  The Plaintiff states that he was not surprised that for the
benefit of his political opponents, servants of the Crown would
practice such malice against a citizen seeking public office. Three
weeks before the Plaintiff was barred in 2004 Elections Canada’s
lawyers waited until the very last minute to admit that section 3 of
the Charter existed and that it affirmed his right to run as an
Independent.

30.  The Plaintiff states that he has studied the actions of
journalists, politicians and their lawyers for many years and has
argued many. He has no doubt that during the time of a federal
election the Crown would not have barred any member of a wealthy well
known political party from any parliamentary property in Canada
without dealing with a Charter argument in court and a host of
journalists almost immediately. With that in mind the Plaintiff
gathered the evidence to support this claim and waited until the CBC
reported that the Prime Minister had asked the Governor General to
drop a writ. Now history tells us all that the writ has been dropped
early in order for the Prime Minister to cause the most expensive and
one of the longest federal elections in the history of Canada on a
date mandated by a law that his wealthy political party created for
its benefit. Now that the stock markets are in a turmoil again the
Office of the Inspector General of the SEC is acknowledging the
Plaintiff’s emails but only after they were made aware that he
received an ethical answer from a global organization that oversees
auditors. Recent events have proven to the Plaintiff that it is
important that he file this action in Federal Court as soon as
possible in order see if the Harer government wishes to continue
barring him from parliamentary property before polling day.

31.  The Plaintiff states that during the election of the 38th
Parliament not one of the employees of the CBC denied the fact that it
had acted in a deliberate partisan fashion and ignored the Crown
Corporation’s mandate. CBC reported that there were five candidates on
the ballot in Fundy but failed to name the Plaintiff in their website
or on the television and the radio. Nothing surprised the Plaintiff
about the actions of the CBC but they should not have laughed at him
when he pointed out other citizens should be afforded equal
opportunity to hear of him.

32.  The Plaintiff states that many politicians knew that the CBC had
hard copy of two lawsuits of his since 2002 and their journalists had
been laughing at him for two years. It was a profound mistake for CBC
to ignore his candidacy now that he did as he promised in a statement
of one lawsuit and was running for public office in Canada. As CBC
continued serving the interests of the politicians who provided the
funding sourced from the Canadian taxpayer other citizens noticed that
the CBC was ignoring his candidacy. One journalist who had laughed at
him called back and tried to make a deal after the Plaintiff had
called the Ombudsman for CBC complaining of him and his associates
only to be laughed at some more and invited to sue CBC. CBC continued
to ignore the Plaintiff even though the popular former CBC reporter
Mike Duffy was now employed by their largest corporate competitor, CTV
and they claimed Fundy was a riding to watch and at least three
newspapers and even the CBC’s blogger friend Charles Leblanc had
chosen to put his strange spin the actions and words of the Plaintiff
while calling him a Hells Angel. However, the aforementioned CBC
journalist did not keep his job very long after his boss and three
directors of CBC received the very same documents and CD that the
Plaintiff’s political opponents had in their possession. (The former
CBC journalist did get a job with the government of NB and has
continued with his obvious malice ever since)

33.  The Plaintiff states that the CBC would not have ignored its
mandate and the standing of a candidate if he or she were a member of
the Liberal Party or the newly merged Conservative parties or the Bloc
Quebecois Party or the Green Party or the New Democratic Party without
expecting to deal with legions of lawyers. CBC had no legal right
whatsoever to ignore the Plaintiff merely because he was an
Independent. In fact the mandate of CBC as a publicly owned
broadcaster dictates that he must not be ignored whether he be a
member of a powerful political party or not. With regards to this
complaint, on June 24, 2004 there were many journalists inside the
legislative properties of NB not just CBC. They published nothing
about the Plaintiff of his running for public office or his being
barred or even after their blogger friend, Charles Leblanc certainly
did.

34.  The Plaintiff states that in June of 2006 Charles Leblanc was
also barred from the same legislative properties but not the Public
Documents Building on the UNB campus. More importantly the
Sergeant-at-Arms was clever enough not to sign or date the English
only document this time. Thus Charles Leblanc who usually demands
things in French from the government when he is in trouble was never
barred at all. The CBC immediately reported the barring of Charles
Leblanc falsely claiming that the Sergeant-at-Arms had signed the
Barring Notice. CBC wrote the Sergeant-at-Arms admitted that he had
barred about six others but did not disclose as to who they were. CBC
did not ask who who the other citizens were because they knew they
would have to name the Plaintiff as well. Many people have protested
the barring of Charles Leblanc and a petition to have it revoked was
placed in the public record of the legislative assembly to no avail.
In 2006 Charles Leblanc was arrested in Saint John and in 2011 in
Fredericton. In 2009 and 2012 the FPF arrested their blogging friend
Charles Leblanc on the legislative properties. The CBC reported each
time but failed to follow up and investigate and report why the Crown
refused to charge Charles Leblanc in both instances. The CBC knows
that as soon as the Plaintiff contacted the politicians and police to
remind them that he would appreciate being called to testify at
Charles Leblanc’s trial as a hostile but ethical witness about the
barring actions of the Crown it would never go forward with the
charges. Leblanc was arrested by the FPF two other times in recent
years and he is on trial right now. The CBC knows the Plaintiff has
talked to members of the RCMP, the FPF, the Saint John Police Force,
the Miramichi Police Force and the Edmundston Police Force who were
investigating Leblanc for various reasons since 2006. The police
usually denied knowing who the Plaintiff was as they refused to answer
his emails. The Plaintiff knows the reason why Charles Leblanc was
barred from legislative property. He agrees with the Crown doing so
but it failed to allow the nasty blogger the right to due process of
law just like it did with and several others. He has never understood
why the Crown has not charged Leblanc under sections 300 and 319 of
the Criminal Code in lieu of arresting him for protesting too loudly
or possible child porn or trespass or punching an equally nasty poetic
beggar.

35.  The Plaintiff states that by the end of November of 2004 a lawyer
in the employ of the Attorney General of NB had answered him in
writing and the FPF, two lawyers, the Mayor and a city councilor of
Fredericton had some very serious email exchanges with the Plaintiff.
The only responses to the Plaintiff about the breach of his right to
peaceful assembly came from the (NBPC) on September 14, 2004
acknowledging his complaint (File no 2110-04-11) and two letters byway
of email from the FPF. On September 30, 2004 a Staff Sergeant of the
FPF wrote that he was in possession of the complaint and requested
evidence to support the Plaintiff’s statement that he had been barred
from the legislative properties for “political reasons not legal
reasons” The Plaintiff responded and suggested that the FPF listen to
the tape of the interview he had with the NBPC and study all the
evidence he gave to the NBPC in the presence of a lawyer as a witness.
The Staff Sergeant responded on October 29, 2004 stating that he had
detailed reports from fellow members of the FPF and he had interviewed
the Sergeant-at-Arms. He claimed that his fellow police officers acted
appropriately and he would inform the Chief of the FPF that he did not
have sufficient cause under the Police Act to investigate the
complaint the Plaintiff registered with the NBPC against the FPF. The
Plaintiff pointed out that the conflict of interest but grateful the
FPF acknowledged the incident. The Mayor of Fredericton found no
humour in that fact and sent the Plaintiff many emails within minutes
no doubt in an effort to overload his email account. In 2003 the
Plaintiff had demanded the Crown investigate the actions of RCMP now
the RCMP should do the same with the Crown because that para-military
police force has jurisdiction everywhere in Canada including all
public and private property controlled by the Crown even military
bases. The words of the Sergeant-at-Arms, Commissionaires and police
were witnessed by only the Plaintiff. A legal action about their
offences against his rights under the Charter would boil down to their
word against his. Evidence was required because he was outnumbered and
attacked by people the Crown employed to understand the law. It was
doubtful they would act ethically and until June 16, 2006 the Crown
refused to put anything in writing to prove this claim about the fact
that the Plaintiff is barred from parliamentary properties.

36.  The Plaintiff states that the Crown is aware that far greater
offences have been practiced within the Capital District of NB by the
FPF and the RCMP against the Plaintiff. Many servants of the Crown
have challenged him to seek relief in a Canadian provincial court. The
Plaintiff will not oblige Crown attorneys of thier desires he will
file in a court of a country at a time he chooses. Time is on the
Plaintiff’s side even though he getting old and was finally allowed to
collect his Canada Pension. His children and grandchildren are still
very young. Whatever was done against the Plaintiff was done against
his Clan as well. All of the Plaintiff’s heirs are Canadian citizens
and two of them are American citizens as well. The Crown, INTERPOL and
the American law enforcement authorities cannot deny that there is no
statute of limitations on certain crimes. The problem the Plaintiff is
finding an ethical journalist to report about the legal actions that
he and the Crown have already been involved in since 1982.

37.  The Plaintiff states that in October of 2004 if the Staff
Sergeant of the FPF had listened to the tape of his interview with the
NBPC and studied the documents they have in their possession he would
not have been so quick to dismiss the Plaintiff and his concerns in
such a fashion. Their many lawyers hardly ever allow corrupt police
officers to admit that the Plaintiff exists or put their malice
towards him in writing. The Plaintiff had explained to the NBPC what
transpired on June 24th, 2004. To explain briefly the police should
have known instantly the Sergeant-at-Arms actions were for political
reasons as soon as he turned in the guest pass and picked up his
documents as he stepped outside the building. While the Plaintiff was
inside the legislative building he spoke to only three employees two
Commissionaires and the librarian. He did not interfere with the
proceedings in the House as he watched the MLAs and their assistants
from the gallery, some of whom he knew personally. He did notice
political pundits in the building. One Cabinet Minister’s assistant
had been following him for a couple of days. His political foes wanted
him off the property immediately but they knew that he was not shy of
litigation if the Crown attempted to place a malicious charge against
him. Therefore they elected the Sergeant-at-Arms to try bully the
Plaintiff.

38.  The Plaintiff states that he satisfied himself as to the reasons
behind the blatant malice once he asked Sergeant-at-Arms and the
police three questions as follows:

(1)     The Plaintiff first asked was why he was being barred from the
legislative property. The Sergeant-at-Arms falsely claimed in front of
the police that the Plaintiff had tried to serve documents on somebody
inside the parliamentary building. The Commissionaires and police knew
that was untrue because they all witnessed the fact that the Plaintiff
had left all the documents in his possession with the Commissionaire
at the entrance before he was allowed into the building and they all
watched him pick up the same documents as he turned in a visitor’s
pass after he was asked to step outside of the building.

(2)     The second question was to the police to see if they agreed to
the false claim of the Sergeant-at-Arms and if they would identify
themselves. After the Sergeant-at-Arms said something quickly in
French and both police officers stated that they agreed with him but
only one would state his name and rank.

(3)     The Plaintiff then asked the Sergeant-at-Arms and the police
if they thought they had jurisdiction over him. They all said yes but
refused to take any documents from the Plaintiff just as the Deputy
Prime Minister suggested.

39.  The Plaintiff states that three people who were mentioned during
the aforesaid meeting with the NBPC were Charles Leblanc, Byron Prior
and the most wanted American gangster Whitey Bulger. All three were
well aware of the Plaintiff and his actions. More importantly the NBPC
were made well aware of the RCMP’s knowledge of his possession of many
American police surveillance wiretap tapes. The NBPC were shown the
very same tapes that he had promised to give to the Suffolk County
District Attorney in the Dorchester District Court of Boston
Massachusetts before a hearing to discuss an illegal summons to answer
a malicious unsigned criminal complaint (Docket no. 0407CR004623).
When the Plaintiff did so he was falsely imprisoned under the charges
of “other”.

40.  The Plaintiff states that an NBPC Commissioner did ask if they
should take the original wiretap tapes. The Plaintiff said no and that
the RCMP already had some but the NBPC could make copies of the ones
before them. The NBPC declined and said they did not have jurisdiction
over the RCMP and that they only wished to investigate why the FPF had
threatened to arrest him on June 24th, 2004.

41.  The Plaintiff states that read a few legal actions involving the
NBPC. He truly believes that NBPC has a mandate to oversee the actions
of the RCMP in the employ of municipalities and the government of NB.
On April 12, 2013 an employee denied that the NBPC it has any concerns
with the RCMP, so he forwarded the NBPC a judgment with an important
statement. Whenever he called the NBPC afterwards she did not allow
him to speak to anyone and denied receiving any emails even though
several were published on the Internet. The judgment pertains to
Miramichi Agricultural Exhibition Association Ltd. v. Chatham (Town)
1995 CanLII 3862 (NB QB). The statement reads as follows:

“Section 20 of the Police Act authorizes the Police Commission to
assess the adequacy of each police force and the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police and determine whether each municipality and the
Province is discharging its responsibility for the maintenance of an
adequate level of policing.”

42.  The Plaintiff states that in 2014 a confidential letter from the
lawyer who is now the chair of the NBPC was published by Charles
Leblanc. Within the aforesaid letter by a lawyer who was an officer in
the Canadian Forces when the Plaintiff was illegally barred in 2004
explained why he and some other unnamed lawyers claimed that the Chief
of the FPF and the NBPC did not have jurisdiction over the legislative
properties in order to investigate the wrongs of the members of FPF
under the Police Act. The lawyers claimed that whereas the police were
acting under the orders of the Sergeant-at-Arms the immunity afforded
them by parliamentary privilege would be undermined if the Chief of
the FPF and the NBPC upheld the law and the Charter.

43.  The Plaintiff states that as soon as he read the aforesaid letter
he had a deeper understanding as to why the NBPC and the FPF had
ignored his concerns for ten years and have refused to answer hard
copy or an email or even come to the phone or return a call for ten
years. He did manage to talk the lawyer who wrote the letter. The
lawyer just like another lawyer who was the Chair of the NBPC since
2004 was offended that the Plaintiff would dare to call his law office
instead of the NBPC. They both knew the reason was because every time
he called the NBPC, the Commissioners and their executive directors
were never available. They definitely did not return calls or answer
emails from the Plaintiff. The assistant who had denied receiving any
emails during his last conversation with her in May of 2015 said that
NBPC was never going to talk to him again. It appears the NBPC believe
that parliamentary privileges extend to them as well. Whether or not
that is true the NBPC must agree that the RCMP have no civilian
oversight whatsoever and that it is the only police force that has
jurisdiction to investigate the actions of the Crown on parliamentary
properties, the Canadian Forces and their semi-retired cohorts within
the Corps of Commissionaires. It appears to the Plaintiff that the
NBPC will not investigate the RCMP and in return the RCMP will not
investigate them. However, they do report to the Crown and the Crown
answers to the citizens it purportedly serves and protects.

44.  The Plaintiff states that claimed parliamentary privileges of
public officials are not above the rule of law just because some
unnamed lawyers deem it to be so. Some of the privileges
parliamentarians lay claim to cannot be found in the Constitution or
any other Act. They are implied by longstanding parliamentary
traditions and seldom challenged in a court of law.

45.  The Plaintiff states that claimed parliamentary privileges must
not be exercised secretly by the Crown against a citizen of an open
and just democracy because he visited parliamentary properties while
exercising his rights under the Charter and attempting to unseat its
political friends. He vividly recalls the last encounter with the
Sergeant-at-Arms that caused the Crown to create a “Barring Notice”.

46.  The Plaintiff states that on or about March 24th, 2006 he went to
the Office of the Conflict of Interest Commissioner of NB to give him
the same documents he had promised the Commissioner of Federal
Judicial Affairs, the Clerk of the Privy Council, Independent MP Andre
Arthur, Independent MLA Tanker O’Malley and many others. The
Commissionaire guarding door would not allow him in the building or
take the documents. The Sergeant-at-Arms must have been notified
because he was soon to appear and threatened to have the Plaintiff
arrested again. He asked why this time. The Sergeant-at-Arms said he
had already been warned to stay off legislative property. The
Plaintiff pointed out the fact that he was not on the legislative
property across the street but if the Crown wished to press false
charges against him the police should be called then he would look
forward to arguing the Sergeant-at-Arms in a court of law. The
Sergeant-at-Arms claimed that they were standing on parliamentary
property but did not call the police.

47.  The Plaintiff states that he then informed the Sergeant-at-Arms
if he thought he had a legal right to bar a citizen from parliamentary
properties he should have the Crown put the reasons to do so in
writing just like the NBPC had demanded of him when he complained of
the Sergeant-at-Arms and the FPF about their malevolent actions
against him two years before. There was no response from the
Sergeant-at-Arms to that simple statement.

48.  The Plaintiff states that he then asked the Sergeant-at-Arms in
front of witnesses if he still thought he had jurisdiction over him on
King Street and the response was yes. So the Plaintiff gave him the
documents and a CD destined for the Conflict of Interest Commissioner
and demanded an answer in writing. The Sergeant-at-Arms took the
documents but refused to sign a receipt for them. He tried to take
picture but the Sergeant-at-Arms crossed King Street and around the
corner too quickly. The Plaintiff received no answer from Conflict of
Interest Commissioner about his concerns. He called and emailed a copy
of the cover letter to the Commissioner’s office to see if it received
his documents and was ignored. The Commissionaire watching that day
knows who took the documents.

49.  The Plaintiff states that whereas there was no federal oversight
of the securities exchange business and no civilian oversight of the
RCMP, he took his concerns to the highest officials of each province
who represented their governments and the Crown. By the end of July in
2005, he emailed and called the offices of the Premiers and Lieutenant
Governors eight provinces. The Premier of Alberta did speak to the
Plaintiff after he staged a parade on Wall Street in order to promote
his province and that conversation did not go well. In early August
2005 he met the Alberta Premier’s challenge and included all provinces
in their argument. The Premiers and Lieutenant Governors received by
way of their Attorney General hard copy of many documents and a CD
similar to those acknowledged by the Governor General and the
Lieutenant Governors of NB and NL in 2004. They were sent by
registered US mail (signature required). Since that time not one
Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General or Premier has responded to the
Plaintiff other than the occasional insulting email. Over the past ten
years the offices of the Attorney Generals for Nova Scotia, Manitoba,
Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and Newfoundland admitted on
the telephone that his documents are in their files. However, not one
would person was willing to explain why and who had determined his
communication and evidence did not deserve an answer. The offices of
the Attorney Generals for Canada, Ontario, Quebec and Prince Edward
Island denied having anything from the Plaintiff. Those offices could
not explain how registered mail sent signature required to their boss
could get lost. Ten years later several provinces are attempting to
join with the other provinces to oversee the securities exchange
business through one corporation. The Crown must admit that corruption
can be the only reason why all the Attorney Generals in Canada would
continue to ignore a Canadian whistleblower’s documents that employees
and Inspector Generals of the US Treasury Dept. and agents of the
Crown in the United Kingdom have acknowledged beginning in January of
2002. All of the Attorney Generals of Canada should have noticed that
the Plaintiff was capable of creating and arguing lawsuits against the
Attorney General of Massachusetts and embarrassing the US Attorney
when he attempted to make the complaints illegally evaporate “Ex
Parte”. This complaint proves this statement is true.

50.  The Plaintiff states that he has had many conversations with many
Canadian law enforcement authorities etc. about his documentation etc.
and he was usually the one to make first contact. However, in 2008 he
was rather surprised when the office of the Auditor General of Canada
called him on their own accord not long after he had received a
response from the Commission of Public Sector Integrity to a complaint
he made in 2007. The person who called was very elusive about the
reason the Auditor General was contacting him but he gathered from the
brief conversation someone was talking to the Commission of Public
Sector Integrity. So he called the lawyer who just sent him the very
strange response to see if she had changed her mind. She recognized
the Plaintiff voice even though it had been six months since they had
talked and asked him to hold the line. Thus the Plaintiff surmised she
was expecting his call. Apparently she was because the Plaintiff was
surprised once again when a man who would not identify himself came on
the line claiming to be corporate security and threatened to have him
arrested if the Plaintiff ever called their Commission again. The
Plaintiff was not surprised to hear in late 2010 that the Auditor
General had been auditing the Commission of Public Sector Integrity.
The Plaintiff contacted the person in charge of the Freedom of
Information to see if the Auditor General had his complaint. He was
not surprised to see the Office of Auditor General claim that they did
not have his file. What surprised him was the fact that Auditor
General dared to deny it in writing.

51.  The Plaintiff states that the Crown is well aware that the last
responses that he received from the Office of the Auditor General, the
Privy Council Office, the Commission of Public Complaints Against the
RCMP, the Commission of Public Sector Integrity and actions of the
RCMP against the Plaintiff in 2014 and 2015 have caused him quit
looking for ethical conduct to come from anyone employed in the public
service of Canada. In March of 2015 byway of an ethical lawyer in
British Columbia the Plaintiff, the Commissioner of the RCMP and his
legal department that whereas the RCMP has refused to investigate
itself then it should at least stop harassing his family and wait to
this lawsuit and his next one.

52.  The Plaintiff states that from July of 1982 until July of 2008
the wrongful actions of the Crown and its cohorts against him were
usually covert and very difficult to prove because it typically
involved the word of the several police officers against his alone.
The Crown should have noticed that amongst the documents that the
Plaintiff provided it in 2004 there are two documents from the
Attorney General of NY. One document was labeled “Re corruption”
(reference no. 04/000233). The Plaintiff forwarded the Attorney
General of Canada amongst others emails containing his recent
communications in 2015 with the Attorney General of NY about that
file. The Crown should be aware that the Attorney General of NY in
2004 became the Governor of NY and that he was arrested by the FBI in
2008 while he was outside of his jurisdiction in the US Capital but
never prosecuted for any offence. The RCMP falsely arrested the
Plaintiff when he returned to the Capital District of NB shortly
afterwards. The RCMP practiced their wrongs on private property
without a warrant or due process of law and never placed any charges
against the Plaintiff as well. The downturn of the stock market in NY
within months of both arrests caused a major worldwide recession. On
October 8, 2008 the Plaintiff finally received an answer from the
Prime Minister of Iceland whose Canadian Ambassador received exactly
the same documents the Speaker in the House of Commons received in May
of 2006 that his Sergeant-At- Arms refused to answer. In December of
2008 Bernie Madoff was arrested by the FBI in NY and by March of 2008
the US Attorney in NY and the SEC in Washington admitted in writing
that the Plaintiff was involved in the Madoff matter and that his
documents had been filed under seal and against the Plaintiff’s
wishes. On September 8, 2015, the Office of the Inspector General of
the SEC sent the Plaintiff and email suggesting that the Plaintiff
file a new complaint within their website. The Plaintiff was quick to
inform the SEC and many law enforcement authorities in Canada of his
indignation as the news broke about the possible criminal actions of
KPMG, the very auditors he was complaining of with regards to his
family’s interests and the Madoff matter. The Plaintiff as usual has
been ignored as of this date. However the Plaintiff has noticed a
sudden upturn in visits to websites where his words and work are
published. It is no coincidence.

53.  The Plaintiff states that the Crown cannot deny that the Arar
matter proved that the Canadian and American law enforcement
authorities have had an agreement to share their questionable
information and that Canadians do suffer from their unconfirmed
suspicions. The very same law enforcement authorities attacked a
whistleblower when he gave them irrefutable evidence to cause an
investigation of their wrongs. A recent judgment of the Supreme Court
of Canada (SCC), Wakeling v United States of America, 2014 SCC 72,
allows the RCMP to share their surveillance wiretap tapes of Canadian
citizens with Americans. However, the RCMP and the FBI etc. do not
wish to deal with American wiretap tapes of a mob that definitely
practices its crimes across many borders. The lawyer working for the
Plaintiff’s wife in a sincere effort to see justice served sent
several of the original wiretap tapes to a US Senator who was a chair
of the US Judiciary Committee after polling day for the election of
the 39th Parliament. The lawyer did so on or about day the Governor
General witnessed the first Conservative Cabinet Ministers of the
current Canadian government swear an oath to the Crown. The Plaintiff
sent proof of this statement to many members of the 39th Parliament
before a confidence vote on its first budget. An opposition member
acknowledged it but ignored it and only answered in a fashion that his
opinions about sending the Canadian Forces into combat agreed with the
Plaintiff’s.

54.  The Plaintiff states that the Crown is well aware that until July
15th, 1982 the Plaintiff held a great respect for her servants in the
RCMP. The Crown cannot deny that he explained the reasons for his
change of mind with regards to the RCMP in his communications to the
Commissioner of the RCMP, the FBI, the US Treasury Department and the
Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT)
amongst many others byway of fax and certified US Mail in November and
December of 2003. As the Plaintiff stated in paragraph 3 his ire was
raised when the Deputy Prime Minister chose to acknowledge his
concerns only after he received acknowledgment of a complaint on file
with the US Department of Homeland Security.

55.  The Plaintiff states that he knew in September of 2004 that the
Crown and the Americans were never going to uphold the law in regards
to his concerns as he saw his tracked US Mail to DFAIT being forwarded
elsewhere and his tracked mail to the RCMP evaporated from the Canada
Post records. Furthermore his home phone line was cut right after
Byron Prior notified him he was being much harassed and his American
lawyer Barry Bachrach called to say that recent actions of the FBI and
others had frightened him and that for the benefit of his family he
was staying away from the Plaintiff and not going to court with on
October 1, 2004. The Plaintiff expecting foul play prepared his wife
to notify his Septs who held his Durable Power of Attorney and to
visit Josie Maguire, the same person in the Canadian Consulate in
Boston whom he sent his documents to on December 16, 2003. On October
1, 2004 a judge acted ethically and recused himself after witnessing
the Plaintiff sign an affidavit and file it in the docket of the court
along with hundreds of supporting documents proving the malicious
prosecution by a layman clerk with no mandate to create a criminal
prosecution. On September 3, 2003, the Plaintiff gave the police
surveillance wiretap tapes that he had shown to the NBPC to the
Suffolk County District Attorney before he stood before a sub
municipal court to demand that it prove jurisdiction to hear a
criminal prosecution involving a prison term and what right did a
clerk have to summon a Canadian citizen across an international border
to answer unknown criminal charges after the Boston Police would not
discuss anything with him and the District Attorney claimed in writing
that they were not involved in the matter. The court then changed its
plan and he was called before another judge who read the affidavit and
immediately sent the Plaintiff to jail held under the charges of
“other” in solitary confinement with no chance of bail. The actions of
the Plaintiff’s wife in Boston and his Septs in Canada caused a member
of the RCMP and Josie Maguire to meet with him inside the American
jail to advise him that they could not help him and because he must
obey the laws of other countries he visits and then gave him an
amazing document signed by a judge that had been faxed to them by the
very clerk who had him falsely imprisoned.

56.  The Plaintiff states that in response he thanked the Crown’s
representatives in the USA for the proof of malice and showed them a
faxed copy of the letter from the Governor General dated September 11,
2004 that he had received just before his home phone line was cut. He
informed them that perhaps the Crown should expect a few lawsuits
against it in Canada and the USA then dismissed them.

57.  The Plaintiff states that the Crown and the Americans have always
demanded that the Plaintiff keep his interactions in confidence with
the RCMP, the FBI, the US Treasury Dept. and other secretive law
enforcement authorities. The Plaintiff as a whistleblower about
financial crimes proved that he did keep his concerns with the federal
agents in Canada and the USA in confidence until Canada Day 2002 when
he began filing his exhibits supporting two lawsuits in an American
court. He continued to keep in confidence with the FBI the fact that
he was in possession of hundreds of police surveillance wiretap tapes
until April 1, 2003 when the US Secret Service and the Milton Police
Department appeared at his door in the middle of the night with false
allegations of a presidential threat and threatening extraordinary
rendition because the Plaintiff was a foreign national just like Maher
Arar. The Plaintiff called the RCMP headquarters the following day to
inquire if they were informed about the visit the night before by the
Secret Service. Some lady who claimed she was a lawyer said the RCMP
knew all about the Plaintiff. She hung the phone when she was asked if
the RCMP had listened to the police surveillance wiretap tapes he had
given to the FBI. The conversation with the RCMP lawyer caused the
Plaintiff to begin sharing a true copy of only one wiretap tape with
hundreds of members of the bar and other law enforcement authorities
in Canada and the USA. He has received an incredible number of
incompetent responses. He only sent a few of the responses with the
Crown thus far. There are many more.

58.  The Plaintiff states that it is important to inform the Federal
Court what is on the CD that the Governor General’s office
acknowledged having two copies of in paragraph 8. It is a true copy of
an American police surveillance wiretap tape.

59.  The Plaintiff states that in his opinion he sees no harm in it
being heard in public in Federal Court. He published copies of it in
two American Internet domains in 2008 after the RCMP falsely arrested
him and attempted to have him certified as mentally ill. The actions
of the RCMP caused the Crown to have the problem the American’s have
had since 2004 when they tried the same malicious trick rather than
uphold the law. The problem is that the Plaintiff’s health has no
bearing on irrefutable hard evidence. He should not be in possession
of police surveillance wiretap tapes that offend the civil rights of
many American citizens. With regards to this complaint about being
illegally barred from parliamentary properties, the plaintiff must
point out that the Commissioner of the RCMP and the Minister of Public
Safety knew of the American police surveillance wiretap tapes in 2003.
Furthermore in 2004 the RCMP and a catholic priest had several
original wiretap tapes and the FPF, the NBPC, many members of the bar
and public officials received a true copy of CDs the Governor General
acknowledged before the Plaintiff was falsely imprisoned in the USA.
The aforesaid problem is getting worse because every day more people
around the world are aware of the wiretap tapes and two of the tapes
have been downloaded a number of times by unknown parties. The
Plaintiff cannot take them back even if he wanted to. The public has
always taken far more interest about what is recorded on the wiretap
tapes than his whistleblowing efforts about financial crimes but that
could change anytime. Sooner or later someone will recognize who the
people recorded on the tapes are and it may generate many lawsuits in
the USA without involving the Plaintiff but has many more he has yet
to reveal. The Plaintiff still has a number of wiretap tapes in his
possession and several were stolen by the FPF along with his
motorcycle. Other tapes are scattered about in Canada and the USA with
people he trusts far more than any member of the RCMP or the FBI.
Others tapes are hidden. Many of the wiretap tapes were no longer in
the Plaintiff’s possession for over ten years. He made certain no one
gave him any idea as to where most of the wiretap tapes are hidden but
he secured the proof of the wiretap tapes he had given to the RCMP and
various law enforcement authorities placed in the public record of
American courts and that his former lawyer sent to a US Senator.

60.  The Plaintiff states that before he left the USA, the Plaintiff
made the people he trusts far more than any other Yankee promise that
the tapes would surface if his American family were in jeopardy. It
was no longer safe for a family to live with its father in the USA or
Canada, too many corrupt law enforcement authorities and lawyers
working for mobsters knew he had the wiretap tapes. It was not his
fault that his family lost their interests because of the illegal
actions of family lawyers and their friends within the justice system.
The Plaintiff did the best he could in his Clan’s defence of their
homes and interests. He will die with a clear conscience about that
fact. However, he knew if his Clan suffered in any fashion because of
his actions trying to compel the RCMP and FBI to act ethically it
would be his fault because he knew the federal agents in Canada and
the USA were infinitely corrupt since 1982 when they began to call him
a drug dealer etc.

61.  The Plaintiff states that he and his wife agree that they should
have moved to Canada as they planned when they wed in 1991 but it was
a common decision to stay put in the USA. Simply put, the wiretap
tapes that put his Clan in jeopardy also offered the only way that a
proud but bankrupt father could protect his Clan in his forced absence
from the people he loves far more than life itself. Eleven years later
quite a number of the Yankee mobsters and their lawyers are now dead
or imprisoned. More importantly, the Plaintiff’s children are now
adults and live separately. The Plaintiff sees no need to keep any of
the wiretap tapes in confidence anymore. After the election of the
42nd Parliament, he will begin publishing more wiretap tapes in the
public domain. He will copyright them and consider them a form of
entertainment about true history of the mob and offer them for sale.
Any settlement of any future lawsuit about his knowledge of financial
crimes and his Clan’s stolen assets will be for their benefit and that
of their children. Their lawyers will need their father’s records in
order to assist them to that end. The Crown must understand that this
complaint is one many actions that are part of his records. The
wiretap tapes insure that there will be no statute of limitations.
With regards to this complaint, the Plaintiff reminds the Crown of
paragraph 48 and the Sergeant-at-Arms took a CD and documents.

62.  The Plaintiff states that the Clerk of Federal Court in the
Capital District of NB for reasons he will never understand mailed the
documents back to him instead of mailing them to the Commissioner of
Federal Judicial Affairs who was expecting them. So the Plaintiff
called that Commissioner’s office and then emailed a digital copy of
the cover letter and the clerk’s response and was ignored as well.

63.  The Plaintiff states that with regards to this complaint the
Crown should obey Section 18(2) of the Charter and serve the document
in two official languages. The “Barring Notice” should state who, when
and why he was found to be in “Contempt of the House”. The Crown
should not try to intimidate a citizen with a threat of arrest for an
implied breach of a contract about trespass on public property not
agreed to by him. The Crown should have published a proper “Barring
Notice” in the Royal Gazette so that all Canadians could read it
before attempting to arrest and charge any citizen for exercising his
right to freedom of assembly in and around the most important public
properties of all Canada.

64.  The Plaintiff states that in 2004 during his research of the
Crown barring citizens from parliamentary property, he found mention
of Louis Riel being barred from the House of Commons despite the fact
he had been democratically elected to the membership therein. However,
the Plaintiff could not find anything within the Charter or the
Constitution Act, 1967 or the Parliament of Canada Act, or the
Criminal Code about how the Crown could take such an action against a
citizen who had not been charged and found guilty with breaking an
applicable law first. He recorded his opinion of the Crown barring
citizens within the cover letters accompanying the documents sent to
the Governor General, the Prime Minister, a Canadian Senator, the Arar
Inquiry, the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, the Premier, Attorney
General, Speaker of the House and Lieutenant Governor of NB, and the
Premier and Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) and
many others. All the public officials ignored the subject of barring.

65.  The Plaintiff states that in the summer of 2004 Byron Prior a
Canadian citizen told the Plaintiff that he too was barred under
threat of arrest from the legislative building of NL. Many
parliamentarians knew that the Plaintiff supported Byron Prior’s
pursuit of justice but he did not share his support of two newly
merged federal Conservative parties. In return Byron Prior did not
support his candidacy in the election of the 38th Parliament. They
remained friends until April of 2005. They did not consider Byron
Prior’s barring a coincidence so they decided to include Byron Prior
in the Plaintiff’s matters in order to show their support of each
other’s concerns about justice for their families. The Plaintiff has
monitored Byron Prior’s actions ever since although they are no longer
friends. Byron Prior enjoyed receiving a copy of one response in
particular and he and his associates used copies of some the
Plaintiff’s documents within at least five legal actions.

66.  The Plaintiff states that the response from the Lieutenant
Governor of NL is contrary to the opinions of the Deputy Prime
Minister of Canada and the Attorney General of NB. Clearly he believed
that the Attorney General of his province had the power to have crimes
investigated. The text of the letter Crown’s vice regal representative
in NL is as follows:
                                        GOVERNMENT  HOUSE
                                      Newfoundland and Labrador

                      “September 10th, 2004

     Dear Mr. Amos:

    The Lieutenant Governor has asked me to acknowledge receipt of
your letter dated 2 September, addressed directly to him, the
Honourable Danny Williams, the Honourable John Crosbie and Mr. Brian
Furey. He has asked me to tell you that he has neither the authority
nor the responsibility over matters such as those raised in your
letter and the associated material.

     Accordingly at his instructions, I have sent the material to the
Honourable Thomas Marshall, QC, the Attorney General and Minister of
Justice for Newfoundland and Labrador, with the request that he take
whatever further action he considers necessary and appropriate to deal
with it.

                                                Sincerely yours,

Leona Harvey

Secretary to Lieutenant Governor”

67.  The Plaintiff states that in 2004 the 37th Parliament and many
others in NB and NL were informed that he knew of Byron Prior and
Charles Leblanc and that he supported their pursuit of justice byway
of the social media. He called his fellow Maritimers after reading
their words about politicians and listened to the reasons why they
were collecting social assistance and could not afford computers. They
did not care about his concerns with politicians but he believed them
and offered his assistance by giving them computers. The Plaintiff
asked that they publish the truth about his actions and to serve
politicians copies of his documents. Leblanc publicly insulted the
Plaintiff after receiving his computer and stole documents he promised
to give to the Attorney General of NB and gave them to his activist
friends instead. Leblanc was asked why behaved in such a fashion and
he wrote back that he thought he was being funny and stated that he
was not a sheriff then sent an email asking if the Plaintiff was a
fair comparison to his dog. That email convinced the Plaintiff that
Leblanc was a Conservative insider because he had apparently read a
letter sent to the Attorney General. It did not take the Plaintiff
long to figure out who his activist friends were because Leblanc had
forwarded their email address along with pictures of his dog. Prior
was difficult to deal with but he was true to his word. It was he who
delivered the documents to the parties named in paragraph 53. In 2005
Prior was sued for libel within his website. The Plaintiff wrote his
defence and counterclaim and it remained on the Internet until 2010.
Prior’s one website had more visitors than all the blogs of Leblanc
until late 2006 when the New York Times reported that a judge found
Leblanc not guilty in a criminal trial and considered him to be a
legitimate journalist. As the readership of his blog soared, Leblanc
and all politicians became much better friends. In 2007 the Irving
media empire complained of the Plaintiff and Leblanc to Google and
Yahoo. In response the Plaintiff’s blog, two email accounts and all
his legal documents stored within Yahoo’s domain were deleted.
Leblanc’s blog was deleted then restored. The FPF arrested Leblanc
again in 2012. The Plaintiff reminded the Crown of a judgment of Byron
Prior finding Section 301 of the Criminal Code unconstitutional and
law professors came to Leblanc’s aid. The Plaintiff caused Leblanc’s
“other personality” blog to be deleted not the FPF.

68.  The Plaintiff states that the Crown is well aware of three legal
actions against Byron Prior. One action is a civil lawsuit for libel
filed in Supreme Court of NL in January of 2005 against Byron Prior by
a MP and that a publication ban was placed on the matter immediately.
Two are criminal prosecutions of Byron Prior for libel. One
prosecution under section 301 of the Criminal Code was found to be
unconstitutional in 2008. The Plaintiff was falsely imprisoned by the
RCMP in a mental ward of a hospital after he spread the word that the
Crown had lost. The Plaintiff does not know the judgment in the second
trial under section 300. He does know that in 2009 Byron Prior filed
some of the Plaintiff’s documents in the docket before he was
imprisoned in a mental hospital until early 2010.

69.  The Plaintiff states that it was not logical that Crown
considered Byron Prior’s actions on the legislative properties in NL
criminal. The Crown was arresting and prosecuting him in NL while the
RCMP were issuing him permits to do exactly the same thing in front of
the House of Commons for months at a time from the spring of 2006 to
at least the spring 2011. The Crown prosecutes and defends all
criminal actions at a provincial and federal level. If the Crown was
sincere in its prosecution of Byron Prior it should have arrested him
on the grounds of the House of Commons in the spring of 2006. Instead
the Crown had the RCMP and a lawyer whom the Plaintiff ran against in
the election of the 38th Parliament investigate Byron Prior’s concerns
at the request of his MP (Later appointed a Senator) and the Minister
of Justice (Who his left seat in the 41st Parliament midterm as
Minister of Public Safety and was appointed to be a judge).

70.  The Plaintiff states that with regards to this complaint he knows
for certain that because of his association with Byron Prior in early
2004 the Crown has had a conflict of interest that affects the
interests of nearly all the federal and provincial political parties
of Canada. The Crown is well aware that a law firm of a former Premier
and a MP of NL represented Byron Prior in the past. The Prime Minister
and his current Attorney General are well aware the Plaintiff
published copies of letters from them to Byron Prior as they sat in
opposition of the 37th Parliament.

71.  The Plaintiff states that in his opinion banning the publication
of legal documents after a public official sues a citizen for libel or
when the Crown decides to prosecute the same citizen twice for libel
does not serve the public interest and raises many questions about the
actions of the Crown. Whereas the Plaintiff truly believes such
actions only serve to protect the Crown and public officials from
being embarrassed by their words and deeds since 2002 he has published
on the Internet every document involving him that he has deemed
necessary to expose the public corruption just like Byron Prior did
beginning in 2002. That was how Byron Prior discovered the Plaintiff
and contacted him in early 2004 and the Plaintiff discovered and
contacted Charles Leblanc in Fredericton NB and later introduced them
to Werner Bock of NB and his concerns. The Plaintiff believes that is
why the Crown bars and imprisons its opponents who are adept with the
social media. Corporate media protects privacy and never mentions the
malice because like Louis Riel the Crown has deemed the poor souls to
be mentally ill.

72.  The Plaintiff states that in early 2006 Saga Books of Calgary,
Alberta published a book about Byron Prior and the MP whom the
Plaintiff ran against in 2004 and hopefully again in 2014 had
researched Byron Prior’s matters. His report to the Minister of
Justice in late 2006 has not been made public. More importantly the
lawyer who has been the MP representing Fundy Royal for the past
eleven years and that the former Minister of Public Safety
acknowledged an email from the Plaintiff about Byron Prior that
contained the entire text of his website before the writ was dropped
for the election of the 38th Parliament. The aforesaid email exchange
has been published in the Internet for eleven years. Everything on the
Internet published by Byron Prior beginning in 2002 has been removed.
The last comments of Byron Prior that the Plaintiff could find
published on the Internet was within a few videos a “Freeman”
character named Max published within the YouTube domain. It was an
interview of Byron Prior as he was protesting on the grounds of the
House of Commons the day after the Prime Minister was found in
“Contempt of Parliament” and his most contemptuous minority mandate
became a matter of history. His majority mandate is history and the
Plaintiff seeks relief.

73.  The Plaintiff states that he did see a comment posted in a public
Facebook of one of Byron Prior’s many associates in British Colombia
claiming that Byron Prior had been arrested in Ottawa in 2012 as had
several other of his associates across Canada for various reasons
during 2012. The whereabouts of Byron Prior are not known to the
Plaintiff but he does know that Charles Leblanc lives one block up the
same street as the Federal Court in Fredericton is located. Leblanc is
being prosecuted by the Crown and suing the FPF at the same time. It
is unlikely he would move far from the city soon. If the Crown wishes
to argue this complaint Byron Prior and Charles Leblanc should be
summoned to testify about what they know of this matter and of their
being illegally barred from parliament properties as well. Failing
that the Plaintiff has collected a large amount of documentation
including documents, videos and webpages etc. He can provide byway of
digital media much evidence for the Crown to review about the concerns
of Byron Prior and Charles Leblanc and their association with the
Plaintiff and many others.

74.  The Plaintiff states that in June of 2009 while Byron Prior was
before the court a supporter of his, Robin Reid informed the Plaintiff
that she was barred from the legislative properties of Alberta and
while visiting a constituency office of a MP she had been arrested by
the RCMP and assaulted in a locked cell of a hospital in the St Albert
area of Alberta. Her arrest was after her visits to the constituency
offices of the Prime Minister and an Edmonton MLA. Ms. Reid forwarded
her emails to and from the Prime Minister’s office, the RCMP, a former
Premier and the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms and asked the Plaintiff
to support her. The Plaintiff introduced himself to all the
aforementioned parties in order to assist Robin Reid and they were
ignored for years. In 2012 the Plaintiff discovered he could no longer
assist Ms. Reid because she agreed with the actions of Neo Nazis who
supported Byron Prior and Werner Bock. The RCMP and many other law
enforcement authorities in Canada and the USA are well aware of the
reasons why the Plaintiff is not associated with such people in any
fashion other than to attack them with his written words. Neo Nazis
are not worthy of further mention in this complaint against the Crown
but their Zionist foe, Barry Winters is.

75.  The Plaintiff states that the RCMP is well aware of the libel,
sexual harassment, and death threats practiced against his family that
have been published on the Internet since 2005 by fans (Trolls) who
supported Byron Prior. Four Trolls who live in Alberta are Barry
Winters, Dean Roger Ray, Eddy Achtem and Patrick Doran They have many
“Anonymous” cohorts throughout Canada, the USA and the United Kingdom.
The actions of these Trolls created an important example of
cyberbullying. Law enforcement officials have ignored these Trolls
because of the Plaintiff’s standing as a whistleblower exposing
corruption within the justice system. The Plaintiff is aware that
several people complained about their actions over the years. In fact
the mother of Dean Roger Ray recently her indignation in Barry
Winter’s blog. Complaints about Barry Winters can be seen on the
Internet by Glen Canning and Professor Kris Wells, two politically
well-connected people who complain of cyberbullying often. Proof the
Edmonton Police Force (EPS), RCMP, FBI and police in the UK have been
ignoring the Plaintiff’s complaints about these Trolls can also viewed
on the Internet. The Plaintiff fought fire with fire but did so in a
legal fashion and kept the police fully informed of his actions. The
Plaintiff was successful in causing numerous egregious videos and
several blogs to be taken down after doing his best to find out who
the “Anonymous” people were and reporting them. He saved all the blogs
and videos published about his family before the malice was removed
from public view. Three Trolls who continue to attack his family and
others are Dean Roger Ray, Barry Winters and one government employee.
A member of the legal dept. of Edmonton tried to claim that the
Plaintiff was Barry Winters then complained to the EPS about the
Plaintiff’s questions about her incompetence. Professor Kris Wells,
who was associated with the Police Commission of Edmonton and Glen
Canning, who lost his daughter to cyberbullying, said nothing. They
were content that the Plaintiff managed to convince Google’s lawyers
to remove one of Barry Winters’s blogs on October 23, 2014 and say
nothing about his blog within WordPress that the Troll uses to
continue his libel of them and their friends. Instead Glen Canning
slandered the Plaintiff within Twitter after Kris Wells sent the
Plaintiff an email stating his lawyer had advised him to ignore Barry
Winters and his blogs.

76.  The Plaintiff states that since the fall of 2014 he has given up
on the notion that any police officer or Glen Canning and Professor
Kris Wells would ever act with any semblance of integrity. All their
actions appear to be for the purposes of self-promotion and personal
gain. Canning and Wells received the same emails that were sent to
politicians and law enforcement authorities and only Barry Winters
responded to all and disputed the Plaintiff’s words. The EPS in June
of 2015 informed the Plaintiff that they intend to prosecute Barry
Winters for sending “False Messages” instead of prosecuting for his
published malice under Sections 300 and 319 of the Criminal Code. That
fact must be true because since June the Plaintiff has not received
any emails from Barry Winters and within his blog he has slandered the
EPS and often mentions the topic of “False Messages”. In the meantime
Canning and Wells ignore the Plaintiff’s common concerns while
continuing to profess of their abundant knowledge of bullying to
university students and anyone else who will listen to them
particularly members of the corporate media. The Plaintiff saves every
word of Canning and Wells that they cause to be published on the topic
cyberbullying and plans to file them as his exhibits to support a
lawsuit to seek relief from the cyberbullying of his Clan. He
considers the blogs of Barry Winters and the videos of his associates
that remain published on the Internet to be important evidence of
cyberbullying that the Crown will be arguing within a provincial court
of his choice after the election of the 42nd Parliament. Therefore
other than remind the Crown and others that he is recording the work
of the Trolls, he has not reported their malice to Google and
WordPress anymore because the RCMP should have done so long ago.

77.  The Plaintiff states that in June of 2015 when a member of the
EPS called him four times with an anonymous telephone number asking
him to stop emailing public officials about Barry Winters’s blog and
to file a formal complaint. The Plaintiff was offended by the
anonymous talk of “False Messages”. He refused and stated that if the
questionable public officials found his emails quoting the blog of
Barry Winters upsetting then the EPS and the RCMP should uphold the
law and do something about it in order to protect their reputations.

78.  The Plaintiff states that until the EPS member clearly identified
himself with his badge number in the fourth phone call and sent a
follow up email to back up his words, the Plaintiff could not know for
certain that a Troll or the EPS had been calling him. The Plaintiff
has a record of two fraudulent calls to him during the same period of
time, one using an RCMP phone number and the other used the phone
number of Dana Durnford, a well-known Troll and friend of Byron Prior.
The Plaintiff returned the calls. Dana Durnford in a predictable
fashion denied knowing him and hung up but the Plaintiff did discuss
the malice of Trolls with an ethical member of the RCMP. The RCMP and
the FBI know that anyone can access several websites based in the USA
and engage their free services to harass people with. The RCMP know
that some programs allow cyberbullies to pretend to be anyone by
having their telephone numbers (including that of the RCMP or the EPS)
appear on their victims’ phone display. The Crown knows commercial
programs assist in political deceit. Recently, it sent a former
assistant of the MP the Plaintiff ran against Fundy-Royal in 2004 to
jail because of robo calls.

79.  The Plaintiff states that he has clearly explained his intentions
to sue the EPS and the RCMP many times because they have been ignoring
his complaints for eight years. It was obvious to him what the EPS was
trying to do with him in June was trick. The RCMP has been trying to
pull the same trick on the Plaintiff since 2003. The Crown knows that
if the EPS managed to secure a complaint with the Plaintiff’s
signature then it would delay his lawsuit because the EPS could claim
that his complaint under investigation and that the EPS could say
nothing about it until the matter had concluded. The Plaintiff
informed the EPS that anyone could use an anonymous phone number and
claim to be anyone if it wished to talk then it should do so from an
identifiable telephone line or put it in writing just like he does. In
fact the Plaintiff’s family have been getting anonymous calls for many
years and the police claimed they could do nothing because the
malicious calls came through the Internet. The RCMP would have acted
ethically if the families of public officials were subject to the
harassment his Clan has suffered instead of assisting in the illegal
barring from the parliamentary properties of Canada.

80.  The Plaintiff states that the subject of the Crown and Internet
harassment became incredibly worse in 2007 long before the demise of
two Canadian teenagers caused new cyber laws to be created and
promptly ignored. In 2008 while the Plaintiff’s family and friends
were being much harassed within many YouTube Channels by Trolls, the
RCMP in NB created a YouTube channel of its own to use as tool to
catch a local arsonist. As soon as the Plaintiff made a comment about
eleven incidents of arson on his friend’s farm in the same area the
Plaintiff and his friend were attacked by many Troll’s within the
Crown’s domain within YouTube and the RCMP only laughed at the obvious
malice that they were publishing for a year without attempting to
moderate the comments. In early 2009 the comments within the RCMP
YouTube channel change greatly with the arrest and imprisonment of
members of the Tingley family pertaining to charges of “Organized
Crime”. The libel continued until Werner Bock printed all the comments
within the RCMP YouTube channel and delivered hard copy of it in hand
to a local office of the RCMP.  Once the Plaintiff had a conversation
with a member of the RCMP in Moncton NB who was investigating Bock’s
complaint, the RCMP took down their video with all the comments and
said nothing further about it. The Plaintiff did manage to save most
of the comments digitally before they were deleted by the Trolls and
the RCMP. Years later the Crown stayed the “Organized Crime” charges
against the Tingleys and a publication ban was placed on their
concerns about malicious prosecution. The matter was put before the
Supreme Court of Canada Rodney Tingley, et al. v. Her Majesty the
Queen SCC Docket no. 34107 and the Plaintiff had no idea of any
outcome. However in late 2014 he did speak with some of the Tingleys
and they admitted to knowing about him and his common concerns with
the RCMP. One Tingley stated that their lawyers have advised them not
to speak to him because of the publication ban. The same holds true
with his former friend Werner Bock and Hank Temper another German who
moved to NB to farm. They had trouble with the RCMP acting against
them. A search on the Internet with their names and the Plaintiff’s
easily proves his assistance but they will never acknowledge it as
they attack the Crown, Bock byway of social media and Tepper byway of
lawsuit.

81.  The Plaintiff states that matters of harassment that the police
refuse to investigate would have entered the realm of ridiculous in
2012 if the reasons behind the suicides of teenagers did not become
well known by the corporate media. In the summer of 2012 a new member
of the FPS who as a former member of the EPS had inspired a lawsuit
for beating a client in Edmonton called the Plaintiff and accused him
of something he could not do even if he wanted to while he was arguing
many lawyers byway of emails about a matter concerning cyber stalking
that was before the SCC.  The member of the FPF accused the Plaintiff
of calling the boss of Bullying Canada thirty times. At that time his
MagicJack account had been hacked and although he could receive
incoming calls, the Plaintiff could not call out to anyone. The
Plaintiff freely sent the FPF his telephone logs sourced from
MagicJack after his account restored without the Crown having to issue
a warrant to see his telephone records. He asked the FPF and the RCMP
where did the records of his phone calls to and from the FPF and the
RCMP go if his account had not been hacked. The police never
responded. Years later a Troll sent Dean Roger Ray a message through
YouTube providing info about the Plaintiff’s MagicJack account with
the correct password. Dean Roger Ray promptly posted two videos in
YouTube clearly displaying the blatant violation of privacy likely to
protect himself from the crime. The Plaintiff quickly pointed out the
videos to the RCMP and they refused to investigate as usual. At about
the same point in time the Plaintiff noticed that the CBC had
published a record of a access to information requests. On the list of
requests he saw his name along with several employees of CBC and the
boss of Bullying Canada. The Plaintiff called the CBC to make
inquiries about what he saw published on the Internet. CBC told him it
was none of his business and advised him if he thought his rights had
been offended to file a complaint. It appears the Plaintiff that
employees of CBC like other questionable Crown Corporations such as
the RCMP rely on their attorneys far too much to defend them from
litigation they invite from citizens they purportedly serve. The
employees of CBC named within the aforementioned and the CBC Legal
Dept. are very familiar with the Plaintiff and of the Crown barring
him from legislative properties while he running for public office.

82.  The Plaintiff states that any politician or police officer should
have seen enough of Barry Winter’s WordPress blog by June 22, 2015
particularly after the very unnecessary demise of two men in Alberta
because of the incompetence of the EPS. Barry Winters was blogging
about the EPS using battering ram in order to execute a warrant for a
250 dollar bylaw offence at the same time Professor Kris Wells
revealed in a televised interview that the EPS member who was killed
was the one investigating the cyber harassment of him. It was obvious
why the police and politicians ignored all the death threats, sexual
harassment, cyberbullying and hate speech of a proud Zionist who
claimed to be a former CF officer who now working for the Department
of National Defence (DND). It is well known that no politician in
Canada is allowed to sit in Parliament as a member of the major
parties unless they support Israel. Since 2002 the Plaintiff made it
well known that he does not support Israeli actions and was against
the American plan to make war on Iraq. On Aril 1, 2003 within two
weeks of the beginning of the War on Iraq, the US Secret Service
threatened to practice extraordinary rendition because false
allegations of a Presidential threat were made against him by an
American court. However, the Americans and the Crown cannot deny that
what he said in two courts on April 1, 2003 because he published the
recordings of what was truly said as soon as he got the court tapes.
The RCMP knows those words can still be heard on the Internet today.
In 2009, the Plaintiff began to complain of Barry Winters about
something far more important to Canada as nation because of Winters’
bragging of being one of 24 CF officers who assisted the Americans in
the planning the War on Iraq in 2002. In the Plaintiff’s humble
opinion the mandate of the DND is Defence not Attack. He is not so
naive to think that such plans of war do not occur but if Barry
Winters was in fact one of the CF officers who did so then he broke
his oath to the Crown the instant he bragged of it in his blog. If
Winters was never an officer in the CF then he broke the law by
impersonating an officer. The Plaintiff downloaded the emails of the
Privy Council about Wikileaks. The bragging of Barry Winters should
have been investigated in 2009 before CBC reported that documents
released by WikiLeaks supported his information about Canadian
involvement in the War on Iraq.

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
essential for the security and tranquility of the developed world. An
ISIS “caliphate,” in the Middle East, no matter how small, is a clear
and present danger to the entire world. This “occupied state,”
or“failed state” will prosecute an unending Islamic inspired war of
terror against not only the “western world,” but Arab states
“moderate” or not, as well. The security, safety, and tranquility of
Canada and Canadians are just at risk now with the emergence of an
ISIS“caliphate” no matter how large or small, as it was with the
Taliban and Al Quaeda “marriage” in Afghanistan.

One of the everlasting “legacies” of the “Trudeau the Elder’s dynasty
was Canada and successive Liberal governments cowering behind the
amerkan’s nuclear and conventional military shield, at the same time
denigrating, insulting them, opposing them, and at the same time
self-aggrandizing ourselves as “peace keepers,” and progenitors of
“world peace.” Canada failed. The United States of Amerka, NATO, the
G7 and or G20 will no longer permit that sort of sanctimonious
behavior from Canada or its government any longer. And Prime Minister
Stephen Harper, Foreign Minister John Baird , and Cabinet are fully
cognizant of that reality. Even if some editorial boards, and pundits
are not.

Justin, Trudeau “the younger” is reprising the time “honoured” liberal
mantra, and tradition of expecting the amerkans or the rest of the
world to do “the heavy lifting.” Justin Trudeau and his “butt buddy”
David Amos are telling Canadians that we can guarantee our security
and safety by expecting other nations to fight for us. That Canada can
and should attempt to guarantee Canadians safety by providing
“humanitarian aid” somewhere, and call a sitting US president a “war
criminal.” This morning Australia announced they too, were sending
tactical aircraft to eliminate the menace of an ISIS “caliphate.”

In one sense Prime Minister Harper is every bit the scoundrel Trudeau
“the elder” and Jean ‘the crook” Chretien was. Just As Trudeau, and
successive Liberal governments delighted in diminishing,
marginalizing, under funding Canadian Forces, and sending Canadian
military men and women to die with inadequate kit and modern
equipment; so too is Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Canada’s F-18s are
antiquated, poorly equipped, and ought to have been replaced five
years ago. But alas, there won’t be single RCAF fighter jock that
won’t go, or won’t want to go, to make Canada safe or safer.

My Grandfather served this country. My father served this country. My
Uncle served this country. And I have served this country. Justin
Trudeau has not served Canada in any way. Thomas Mulcair has not
served this country in any way. Liberals and so called social
democrats haven’t served this country in any way. David Amos, and
other drooling fools have not served this great nation in any way. Yet
these fools are more than prepared to ensure their, our safety to
other nations, and then criticize them for doing so.

Canada must again, now, “do our bit” to guarantee our own security,
and tranquility, but also that of the world. Canada has never before
shirked its responsibility to its citizens and that of the world.

Prime Minister Harper will not permit this country to do so now

From: dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:17:17 -0400
Subject: RE: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and
the War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still
alive
To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com

This is to confirm that the Minister of National Defence has received
your email and it will be reviewed in due course. Please do not reply
to this message: it is an automatic acknowledgement.

>>>>
---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:55:30 -0300
Subject: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and the
War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still alive
To: DECPR@forces.gc.ca, Public.Affairs@socom.mil,
Raymonde.Cleroux@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca, john.adams@cse-cst.gc.ca,
william.elliott@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, stoffp1 <stoffp1@parl.gc.ca>,
dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca, media@drdc-rddc.gc.ca, information@forces.gc.ca,
milner@unb.ca, charters@unb.ca, lwindsor@unb.ca,
sarah.weir@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca, birgir <birgir@althingi.is>, smari
<smari@immi.is>, greg.weston@cbc.ca, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>,
susan@blueskystrategygroup.com, Don@blueskystrategygroup.com,
eugene@blueskystrategygroup.com, americas@aljazeera.net
Cc: "Edith. Cody-Rice" <Edith.Cody-Rice@cbc.ca>, "terry.seguin"
<terry.seguin@cbc.ca>, acampbell <acampbell@ctv.ca>, whistleblower
<whistleblower@ctv.ca>

I talked to Don Newman earlier this week before the beancounters David
Dodge and Don Drummond now of Queen's gave their spin about Canada's
Health Care system yesterday and Sheila Fraser yapped on and on on
CAPAC during her last days in office as if she were oh so ethical.. To
be fair to him I just called Greg Weston (613-288-6938) I suggested
that he should at least Google SOUCOM and David Amos It would be wise
if he check ALL of CBC's sources before he publishes something else
about the DND EH Don Newman? Lets just say that the fact  that  your
old CBC buddy, Tony Burman is now in charge of Al Jazeera English
never impressed me. The fact that he set up a Canadian office is
interesting though

http://www.blueskystrategygroup.com/index.php/team/don-newman/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/media/story/2010/05/04/al-jazeera-english-launch.html

Anyone can call me back and stress test my integrity after they read
this simple pdf file. BTW what you Blue Sky dudes pubished about
Potash Corp and BHP is truly funny. Perhaps Stevey Boy Harper or Brad
Wall will fill ya in if you are to shy to call mean old me.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/Integrity-Yea-Right

The Governor General, the PMO and the PCO offices know that I am not a
shy political animal

Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
902 800 0369

Enjoy Mr Weston
http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/news/story/2011/05/15/weston-iraq-invasion-wikileaks.html

"But Lang, defence minister McCallum's chief of staff, says military
brass were not entirely forthcoming on the issue. For instance, he
says, even McCallum initially didn't know those soldiers were helping
to plan the invasion of Iraq up to the highest levels of command,
including a Canadian general.

That general is Walt Natynczyk, now Canada's chief of defence staff,
who eight months after the invasion became deputy commander of 35,000
U.S. soldiers and other allied forces in Iraq. Lang says Natynczyk was
also part of the team of mainly senior U.S. military brass that helped
prepare for the invasion from a mobile command in Kuwait."

http://baconfat53.blogspot.com/2010/06/canada-and-united-states.html

"I remember years ago when the debate was on in Canada, about there
being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Our American 'friends"
demanded that Canada join into "the Coalition of the Willing. American
"veterans" and sportscasters loudly denounced Canada for NOT buying
into the US policy.

At the time I was serving as a planner at NDHQ and with 24 other of my
colleagues we went to Tampa SOUCOM HQ to be involved in the planning
in the planning stages of the op....and to report to NDHQ, that would
report to the PMO upon the merits of the proposed operation. There was
never at anytime an existing target list of verified sites where there
were deployed WMD.

Coalition assets were more than sufficient for the initial strike and
invasion phase but even at that point in the planning, we were
concerned about the number of "boots on the ground" for the occupation
(and end game) stage of an operation in Iraq. We were also concerned
about the American plans for occupation plans of Iraq because they at
that stage included no contingency for a handing over of civil
authority to a vetted Iraqi government and bureaucracy.

There was no detailed plan for Iraq being "liberated" and returned to
its people...nor a thought to an eventual exit plan. This was contrary
to the lessons of Vietnam but also to current military thought, that
folks like Colin Powell and "Stuffy" Leighton and others elucidated
upon. "What's the mission" how long is the mission, what conditions
are to met before US troop can redeploy?  Prime Minister Jean Chretien
and the PMO were even at the very preliminary planning stages wary of
Canadian involvement in an Iraq operation....History would prove them
correct. The political pressure being applied on the PMO from the
George W Bush administration was onerous

American military assets were extremely overstretched, and Canadian
military assets even more so It was proposed by the PMO that Canadian
naval platforms would deploy to assist in naval quarantine operations
in the Gulf and that Canadian army assets would deploy in Afghanistan
thus permitting US army assets to redeploy for an Iraqi
operation....The PMO thought that "compromise would save Canadian
lives and liberal political capital.. and the priority of which
....not necessarily in that order. "

You can bet that I called these sneaky Yankees again today EH John
Adams? of the CSE within the DND?

http://www.socom.mil/SOCOMHome/Pages/ContactUSSOCOM.aspx


84.  The Plaintiff states that the RCMP is well aware that he went to
western Canada in 2104 at the invitation of a fellow Maritimer in
order to assist in his attempt to investigate the murders of many
people in Northern BC. The Plaintiff has good reasons to doubt his
fellow Maritimer’s motives. The fact that he did not tell the
Plaintiff until he had arrived in BC that he had invited a Neo Nazi he
knew the Plaintiff strongly disliked to the same protest that he was
staging in front of the court house in Prince George on August 21,
2014. The Plaintiff was looking forward to meeting Lonnie Landrud so
he ignored the Neo Nazi. Several months after their one and only
meeting, Lonnie Landrud contacted the Plaintiff and asked him to
publish a statement of his on the Internet and to forward it to anyone
he wished. The Plaintiff obliged Landrud and did an investigation of
his own as well. He has informed the RCMP of his opinion of their
actions and has done nothing further except monitor the criminal
proceedings the Crown has placed against the Neo Nazi in BC and save
his videos and webpages and that of his associates. The words the
Plaintiff stated in public in Prince George BC on August 21, 2014 were
recorded by the Neo Nazi and published on the Internet and the RCMP
knows the Plaintiff stands by every word. For the public record the
Plaintiff truly believes what Lonnie Landrud told him despite the fact
that he does not trust his Neo Nazi associates. Therefore the
Plaintiff had no ethical dilemma whatsoever in publishing the
statement Lonnie Landrud mailed to him in a sincere effort to assist
Lonnie Landrud’s pursuit of justice. The Crown is well aware that
Plaintiff’s former lawyer, Barry Bachrach once had a leader of the
American Indian Movement for a client and that is why he ran against
the former Minister of Indian Affairs for his seat in the 39th
Parliament.

85.  The Plaintiff states that while he was out west he visited
Edmonton AB several times and met many people. He visited the home of
Barry Winters and all his favourite haunts in the hope of meeting in
person the evil person who had been sexually harassing and threatening
to kill him and his children for many years. The Crown cannot deny
that Winters invited him many times. On June 13, 2015 Barry Winters
admitted the EPS warned him the Plaintiff was looking for him.

86.  The Plaintiff states that on December 15th, 2014 the Crown in
Alberta contacted him byway of an email account he seldom uses since
his last communications with the Sergeant-at-Arms and Robin Reid. The
Sergeant-at-Arms wanted to know about a contact he had that day with
the constituency office of a recently appointed Cabinet Minister. All
the other statements in this complaint should prove that the Plaintiff
knew why a political lawyer from NB was ignoring a new constituent’s
contacts all summer after answering a message in Twitter promising to
meet with him. It was obvious to the Plaintiff that as soon as the
lawyer was a Cabinet Minister he was attempting to use his influence
to intimidate the Plaintiff byway of the Sergeant-at-Arms like his
political associates in NB did in 2004.

87.  The Plaintiff states that before he had a chance to respond to
the email from the Sergeant-at-Arms of Alberta, three members of the
RCMP members in plain clothes were pounding on the basement entrance
of a condo at 1:30 AM. They did not identify themselves as being the
police as they attempted to harass the Plaintiff on private property
in the middle of the night without a warrant. The Plaintiff was twice
the age of the oldest one and considered them to be tough talking kids
who were trying to enter a home in the middle of the night so as he
closed the door he told them he was calling the cops. They hollered on
the other side of the door that they were the cops as the Plaintiff
called their headquarters and was immediately patched through to them.
The Plaintiff refused their request when RCMP tried to con him into
coming outside in freezing temperatures in the middle of the night so
they could supposedly speak with him instead of saying what they
needed to say over the telephone. If what the RCMP was saying was
remotely true then they should have identified themselves and asked
for him instead of someone else when he answered the door. The
Plaintiff’s response to the RCMP’s trickery was that it was best that
they communicate in writing and that he would be contacting their
lawyers in the morning. The Crown received its very justifiable
responses and the law was not upheld. The Plaintiff was ignored as the
RCMP continued to harass his family deep into the New Year as he
headed for the BC coast then back to the Maritimes to run for public
office again.

88.  The Plaintiff states that in regards to this complaint the
actions and inactions of the Sergeant-at-Arms and the RCMP in Alberta
affirmed to the Plaintiff that he is still barred under threat of
arrest from all parliamentary properties in Canada because they did
not deny it. The RCMP does not have the integrity to talk to or email
him about anything because they know he tries to record everything
just like they do. Instead of acting ethically the standard operating
procedure of the RCMP since 2004 is to intimidate his friends and
family in a malicious effort to impeach his character and separate
them. That is the reason the Plaintiff stays away from most people
most of the time. The actions of the RCMP towards the Plaintiff and
many others and his experiences in the USA served to convince him that
the Crown acts just like corrupt Americans. In order to cover up
wrongs it would prefer to injure and imprison ethical citizens in
mental wards rather than uphold the law or argue them publicly in a
court of law. In 2002 the Plaintiff explained why he would seek public
office in Canada to American lawyers he was suing within statements of
a lawsuit about legal malpractice. Now he is doing the same to
Canadian lawyers in the employ of the government whose wages are once
again being paid by his fellow taxpayer. As the Plaintiff prepares to
deal with a predicable motion to dismiss and a motion for a
publication ban to delay and conceal this matter before polling day
perhaps the lawyers working for the Crown should study the Plaintiff’s
work found within documents in the Governor General’s office. Trust
that he will look forward to talking to the first lawyer to answer
this complaint because it has been years since he could get any lawyer
in Canada to discuss anything with him. There is no ethical dilemma to
be found in this statement, the Crown counsels should just do their
job according to the law of the land, seek the documents in the
possession of the lawyer who is the Governor General of Canada and let
the political cards fall where they may. In closing the Plaintiff must
remind the Crown that two members of the Canadian Forces acting as
security for the Highland Games held on the grounds of the Lieutenant
Governor’s residence in NB approached the Chief of the Amos Clan
claiming that an unnamed party found him “overbearing”. He gave them a
copy of the Governors General’s letter and freely left the
parliamentary property.

Jurisdiction and Venue

89.  The Plaintiff states that Federal Court has jurisdiction in this
claim against the Crown pursuant to section 17 (1) of the Federal
Courts Act and he proposes that this action be tried at Fredericton,
New Brunswick.

90.  The Plaintiff prays that the Federal Court does not strike this
complaint against the Crown. It is not without merit nor is it abusing
of the process of this Court. This claim is definitely not frivolous
or vexatious or immaterial or redundant.

91.  The Plaintiff states he is not a lawyer or studied law at any law
school. This is a Pro Se complaint composed by him to the best of his
ability as a layman after studying Canadian laws on his own for ten
years. He is compelled to act Pro Se because not one lawyer of the
many whom he has approached in Canada and the USA over the course of
the past fifteen years would assist him in any complaint that would
impeach the character of an auditor or a fellow member of the bar or
embarrass a justice system in which they practice law for a fee.
However, many lawyers have been paid from the Plaintiff’s interests as
they worked diligently to cover up many wrongs practiced against his
family for many years. The Plaintiff considers two of the most
offensive to him are the lawyers who are the current Governor General
and Attorney General of Canada. The Plaintiff is acting upon a
suggestion of a former Governor General after diligently attempting to
settle this matter with all the Attorney Generals of Canada and the
RCMP for twelve years.

92.  The Plaintiff states that must restate the simple truth of this
matter. It still is as he explained to the NBPC in 2004. The
Sergeant-at-Arms in NB illegally barred the Plaintiff for political
reasons. His actions as a whistleblower the RCMP and the liberal
federal government were the reasons. The Plaintiff met former Premiers
Bernard Lord and David Alward (Consular in Boston) On October 3, 2006,
Premier Lord studied the “Barring Notice” after being thanked for
putting the Crown’s malice in writing. Alward and a RCMP member heard
Lord claim he knew nothing about it and suggest that the Plaintiff sue
the Sergeant-at-Arms.

93.   The Plaintiff states that on October 3, 2006 he quickly proved
what the political lawyer Bernard Lord had claimed in front of his
former Cabinet Minister was not true by presenting him with a document
signed by his former Attorney General. Bernard Lord quickly responded
that the Plaintiff should sue him too. The former Premier had nothing
further to say when he was shown a copy of the Plaintiff’s cover
letter that came with the documents and CD given to his constituency
office in Moncton NB in early July of 2004. The Plaintiff complained
of Premier Lord expelling him from the legislature building for
political reasons not legal within the first paragraph of the
aforesaid cover letter. The Attorney General had answered the
Plaintiff on the Crown’s behalf after admitting he had received the
documents given to Premier Lord and another former Premier Frank
McKenna the year before his was appointed to be the Canadian
Ambassador to the USA.

94.  The Plaintiff states that on October 30, 2006, after he had read
the news and discussed Justice Dennis O’Connor’s report on the Arar
matter with many people that he knew Wayne Easter and Commissioner
Giuliano Zacardelli were profound liars he received a call from Sgt.
Vaillancourt of J Division of the RCMP. The Plaintiff refused to make
a deal with the RCMP and his reasons were published on the Internet
for years. Wayne Easter’s words quoted by CBC were the reason the RCMP
called. They are as follows:

“Wayne Easter, the former solicitor-general who presided during the
Arar ordeal, appeared to contradict earlier testimony from RCMP head
Giuliano Zacardelli today when he answered questions at a commons
committee. Responding to Justice Dennis O’Connor’s report on the Arar
case at the public safety and national security committee, Easter said
he was never told the RCMP had passed on false information to the
United States and was never told the RCMP tried to correct it, as
claimed by Zacardelli.

“I was not informed that the RCMP had provided inaccurate information
to the U.S.,” Easter told the MPs.”

95.  The Plaintiff states that whereas the Prime Minister apologized
to Maher Arar on behalf of Canada and made $10-million settlement
after the government wasted several years and squandered an incredible
amount of taxpayer funds on legal fees generating Justice Dennis
O’Connor’s report, the Plaintiff deserves at least the same sort of
settlement in this matter.

96.  The Plaintiff states that whereas he has been barred from access
to parliamentary properties for a period of eleven years and that the
aforesaid properties include ten provinces and the Nation’s Capital
District the apologies and amount he seeks in settlement is very
reasonable and certainly justified.

The plaintiff therefore asks this court for the following relief:

(a)    A public apology by the Prime Minister and each Premier for the
illegal barring of a citizen from access to parliamentary properties.

(b)   A declaration signed by the Minister of Public Safety and
witnessed by the Governor General stating that the Canadian government
will no longer allow the RCMP and the Canadian Forces to harass the
Plaintiff and his Clan.

(c)    A settlement of eleven million dollars ($11,000,000.00) in the
form of relief and punitive damages for being barred from eleven
parliamentary properties for eleven years.

(d)   Costs to the Plaintiff in bringing this matter before the court

Dated at Fredericton, NB the 15th day of September 2015


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Plaintiff  David Raymond Amos
P.O. Box 234
Apohaqui, NB, E5P 3G2
Telephone no.: (902) 800-0369
Fax no.: (506) 432-6089
Email : David.Raymond.Amos@gmail.com
 
 
 
 

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