Village mayor fights to give school on the chopping block a 2nd act

Small Tide Head School was voted to close after years of declining enrolment

Colin McPhail · CBC News · Posted: Mar 26, 2019 6:00 AM AT

The district education council has recommended Tide Head School for closure. Education Minister Dominic Cardy has yet to sign off, but it appears the tiny school's days are numbered. (Colin McPhail/CBC)

Tide Head School's days appear to be numbered. The tiny K-5 school in northern New Brunswick is expected to close this year, pending ministerial approval, after a unanimous district educational council vote in January.

It's always been a small community school, but enrolment plummeted in the past four years. Eight students attend Tide Head today.

Tide Head Mayor Randy Hunter knows it's a fait accompli.

The students will be reassigned in September to a school in Campbellton, about nine kilometres west, but Hunter is pushing to give the building a second act and raising questions about what should be done with closed schools in small or rural municipalities.

Wants building used

The mayor doesn't want Tide Head School to meet the same fate as the shuttered school in neighbouring Atholville. The former École Versant-Nord sits empty on prime property in the heart of the community.

"I would like to see the building used," Hunter said.

"We don't want that school sitting there, grass growing around it, not being maintained, becoming an eyesore for our municipality."

Anglophone School District North and the district education council reserved comment on the matter as they await Education Minister Dominic Cardy's decision. Under Policy 409, the guiding document to review and close schools, the minister must sign off on an education council's recommendation.

Planning to merge

The school was marked for closure as part of a plan to merge three regional schools into a new K-8 school in Campbellton. That project has since been delayed by the Progressive Conservative government.

Tide Head School had more than 100 students at its peak, but in the past decade enrolment hovered in the 40s before dropping to single digits last year. The school is staffed by the equivalent of 1½ full-time teachers and 3½ non-teaching employees.

Tide Head School sits on the main road through the small northern New Brunswick village. (Colin McPhail/CBC)

Once closed, ownership of the school shifts to the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, which then can offer it to other provincial departments or sell it to a non-profit organization or another government. Failing that, it could be sold publicly.

Losing the school would be a blow to the village, said Hunter, who wants Policy 409 to do a better job weighing the impact that closing a school has on the small or rural community it serves.

Repurposing the building, land

Hunter, a former educator now in his third term as mayor, offered suggestions to keep the building in use, including establishing an autism resource centre for the school district or moving the local alternative learning centre from its rented location in Campbellton to a permanent home in Tide Head.

"The building is not falling down," Hunter said. "Does it need tender love and care? Of course it does, like any building. But besides that it's fine."

Tide Head Mayor Randy Hunter wants to see the Tide Head School building, or at least the land, used after its likely closure later this year. (Colin McPhail/CBC)

Hunter said the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development hasn't responded to his proposals, but he said the government offered to hand over the building and the property to the municipality.

But that isn't ideal, he said. The village would lose out on tax revenue and be faced with either demolishing or renovating the building — costs the municipality can't afford, he said.

If the province knocked down the building, the village could then sell the property to be developed, Hunter said.

Hoping for new people

Tide Head has always been a suburb of sorts to Campbellton, but the village is becoming increasingly residential after several businesses closed.

The population dipped below 1,000 in the last census, and Hunter is keen on attracting people and economic development.

Repurposing Tide Head School or the land that it's on would help buck the recent trend.

"We'd like to see any positive development within the municipality, from housing through to small businesses," he said.

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David R.Amos
Methinks Dominic Cardy and his wife know why I tried to explain things to the Tide Head Mayor Randy Hunter just now and why I was not surprised that he would not listen to me N'esy Pas?

---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:42:46 -0400
Subject: Fwd: RE NB Mental Hospitals etc Why not ask Brad Green's
former assistant Chucky Murray and his blogging buddy Chucky Leblanc
about the document hereto attached?
To: viltide@nb.sympatico.ca, Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca,
blaine.higgs@gnb.ca, David.Coon@gnb.ca, denis.landry2@gnb.ca,
kris.austin@gnb.ca, andrea.anderson-mason@gnb.ca,
brian.gallant@gnb.ca, robert.mckee@gnb.ca>
Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com, Colin.McPhail@cbc.ca

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/tide-head-school-closure-policy-409-mayor-randy-hunter-1.5070564

Village mayor fights to give school on the chopping block a 2nd act
Small Tide Head School was voted to close after years of declining enrolment
Colin McPhail · CBC News · Posted: Mar 26, 2019 6:00 AM AT

Tide Head Village Office

6 Mountain St.
Tide Head, NB
Phone: (506) 789-6550
Fax: (506) 789-6553
Email: viltide@nb.sympatico.ca

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:07:11 -0400
Subject: RE NB Mental Hospitals etc Why not ask Brad Green's former
assistant Chucky Murray and his blogging buddy Chucky Leblanc about
the document hereto attached?
To: info@campbellton.org, normand.pelletier@dalhousie.ca

, lebrun@nb.aibn.com
Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com, Alysha.Elliott@gnb.ca,
hugh.flemming@gnb.ca, Dr.France.Desrosiers@vitalitenb.ca

On 3/25/19, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/restigouche-hospital-youth-centre-ombud-report-northern-mayors-1.5066125
>
> North-south tension rises as leaders fear losing troubled youth mental
> health centre
>
> Northern mayors say moving centre out of Campbellton would be major loss
> Colin McPhail · CBC News · Posted: Mar 25, 2019 6:00 AM AT
>
> https://healthstandards.org/board-directors/george-weber/
>
> https://healthstandards.org/executive-team/
> Health Standards Organization
> 1150 Cyrville Road
> Ottawa, ON, Canada
> K1J 7S9
>
> Phone
> +1 613-738-3800
>
> Leslee J. Thompson ext 222
>
> George Weber
> Board Chair
>
> George Weber has served as President and CEO of the Royal Ottawa
> Health Care Group, one of four standalone specialized mental health
> facilities in Ontario, since 2007.
>
> Over the previous 26 years, he has been the Chief Executive Officer of
> a number of national organizations, such as the Canadian Red Cross and
> Canadian Dental Association, as well as various international
> organizations, including the International Red Cross and Red Crescent
> Societies in Geneva, Switzerland.
>
> Throughout his career, he has been involved in health and humanitarian
> work from multiple dimensions, including dental accreditation. George
> holds a Master’s degree from McGill University and has completed the
> Advanced Management Program from the Graduate School of Business
> Administration, Harvard University, the International Program for
> Board Members from the Institute of Management Development in
> Lausanne, Switzerland and the Directors course sponsored by the
> Institute of Corporate Directors and the Rotman School of Management,
> University of Toronto.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 14:30:57 -0400
> Subject: YO Mr Higgs So much for the ethics of Ombud NB too After all
> he is the same politically appointed lawyer N'esy Pas?
> To: premier@gnb.ca, blaine.higgs@gnb.ca, oldmaison@yahoo.com,
> robert.gauvin@gnb.ca, hugh.flemming@gnb.ca,
> andrea.anderson-mason@gnb.ca, brian.gallant@gnb.ca,
> robert.mckee@gnb.ca, greg.byrne@gnb.ca, David.Coon@gnb.ca,
> Kevin.A.Arseneau@gnb.ca, megan.mitton@gnb.ca, kris.austin@gnb.ca,
> rick.desaulniers@gnb.ca, michelle.conroy@gnb.ca,
> bruce.northrup@gnb.ca, bruce.fitch@gnb.ca, mike.holland@gnb.ca, andre
> <andre@jafaust.com>, jbosnitch@gmail.com, Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca, Frank.McKenna@td.com,
> Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca, Newsroom@globeandmail.com,
> premier@ontario.ca, scott.moe@gov.sk.ca, andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca,
> maxime.bernier@parl.gc.ca, Mark.Blakely@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> martin.gaudet@fredericton.ca, Leanne.Fitch@fredericton.ca
> Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l’Ontario
> <Premier@ontario.ca>
> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:13:29 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: YO Mr Higgs So much for the ethics of your
> Acting Integrity Commissioner N'esy Pas?
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> Thank you for your email. Your thoughts, comments and input are greatly
> valued.
>
> You can be assured that all emails and letters are carefully read,
> reviewed and taken into consideration.
>
> There may be occasions when, given the issues you have raised and the
> need to address them effectively, we will forward a copy of your
> correspondence to the appropriate government official. Accordingly, a
> response may take several business days.
>
> Thanks again for your email.
> ______
>
> Merci pour votre courriel. Nous vous sommes très reconnaissants de
> nous avoir fait part de vos idées, commentaires et observations.
>
> Nous tenons à vous assurer que nous lisons attentivement et prenons en
> considération tous les courriels et lettres que nous recevons.
>
> Dans certains cas, nous transmettrons votre message au ministère
> responsable afin que les questions soulevées puissent être traitées de
> la manière la plus efficace possible. En conséquence, plusieurs jours
> ouvrables pourraient s’écouler avant que nous puissions vous répondre.
>
> Merci encore pour votre courriel.
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:13:26 -0400
> Subject: YO Mr Higgs So much for the ethics of your Acting Integrity
> Commissioner N'esy Pas?
> To: premier@gnb.ca, blaine.higgs@gnb.ca, oldmaison@yahoo.com,
> robert.gauvin@gnb.ca, hugh.flemming@gnb.ca,
> andrea.anderson-mason@gnb.ca, brian.gallant@gnb.ca,
> robert.mckee@gnb.ca, greg.byrne@gnb.ca, David.Coon@gnb.ca,
> Kevin.A.Arseneau@gnb.ca, megan.mitton@gnb.ca, kris.austin@gnb.ca,
> rick.desaulniers@gnb.ca, michelle.conroy@gnb.ca,
> bruce.northrup@gnb.ca, bruce.fitch@gnb.c, mike.holland@gnb.ca, andre
> andre@jafaust.com, jbosnitch@gmail.com
> Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com, Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca, Frank.McKenna@td.com,
> Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca, Newsroom@globeandmail.com,
> premier@ontario.ca, scott.moe@gov.sk.ca, andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca,
> maxime.bernier@parl.gc.ca, Mark.Blakely@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> martin.gaudet@fredericton.ca, Leanne.Fitch@fredericton.ca
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpOY5yzB9-8
>
> New Brunswick Ombudsman Charles Murray on report regarding The
> Restigouche Hostipal Centre!
> 119 views
> Charles Leblanc
> Published on Feb 8, 2019
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Murray, Charles (Ombud)" <Charles.Murray@gnb.ca>
> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:16:15 +0000
> Subject: You wished to speak with me
> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> I have the advantage, sir, of having read many of your emails over the
> years.
>
>
> As such, I do not think a phone conversation between us, and
> specifically one which you might mistakenly assume was in response to
> your threat of legal action against me, is likely to prove a
> productive use of either of our time.
>
>
> If there is some specific matter about which you wish to communicate
> with me, feel free to email me with the full details and it will be
> given due consideration.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Charles Murray
>
> Ombud NB
>
> Acting Integrity Commissioner
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 03:09:18 -0300
> Subject: So your buddy Charles Murray has my documents now N'esy Pas
> Chucky Baby?
> To: charles.murray@gnb.ca, Charles.McAllister@snb.ca, premier
> <premier@gov.ab.ca>, "hugh.flemming" <hugh.flemming@gnb.ca>, oldmaison
> <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre <andre@jafaust.com>, sallybrooks25
> <sallybrooks25@yahoo.ca>, blaine.higgs@gnb.ca, kim.macpherson@gnb.ca
> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, briangallant10
> <briangallant10@gmail.com>, execdirgen <execdirgen@nbliberal.ca>
>
> CBC
> 3 new watchdogs appointed
> Premier names child and youth advocate, official languages
> commissioner and ombudsman
> CBC News Posted: Jun 14, 2013 3:24 PM
>
>
> The new ombudsman is Charles Murray, a civil servant and former
> political assistant to one-time Tory MP Elsie Wayne and to former PC
> cabinet minister Brad Green.
>
> "I am confident that their experience and education will help them to
> carry out their respective duties effectively," said Premier David
> Alward.
>
> He said Murray's appointment is not political.
>
> YEA RIGHT DAVEY BABY
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbDs3NUo-Nk
>
> http://www.checktheevidence.com/pdf/2526023-DAMOSIntegrity-yea-right.-txt.pdf
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Evelyn Greene
> To: charles.mcallister@snb.ca ; blaine.higgs@gnb.ca ;
> kim.macpherson@gnb.ca ; david.raymond.amos@gmail.com ;
> david.alward@gnb.ca ; charles.murray@gnb.ca ; madeleine.dube@gnb.ca ;
> ken.ross@gnb.ca
> Cc: don.forestell@gnb.ca ; dhashey@coxandpalmer.com
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 6:32 PM
> Subject: RE: Ambulance New Brunswick Inc.
>
>
> Dear Mr. McAllister: Ambulance New Brunswick Inc. is also CROWN
> CORPORATION UNDER PART III OF THE PUBLIC LABOR RELATIONS ACT, AND WHY
> WOULD NOT NOT KNOW THAT. PLEASE ADVISE. ALSO, MS. RENEE LAFOREST
> DOES NOT GET BACK TO ME. DO YOU HAVE HER EMAIL. MY FRIEND SALLY AND
> I WENT THERE TODAY AND WAS TOLD THAT SHE WAS IN A MEETING. SO WHO
> MAKES THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE PUBLIC TO SEE THE BOOKS AS PER THE
> PUBLIC RIGHTS AS TAXPAYERS?
>
>
> EVELYN GREENE ALSO, THE LETTERS PATENT ARE NOT WITNESSED AS PER THE
> REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMPANY'S ACT. COULD YOU COMMENT ABOUT THAT.
> WHY WOULD IT HAVE GONE THRU YOUR OFFICE WITHOUT PROPER ATTENTION TO
> THE LAWYER SIGNING ON BEHALF OF THE CO. THAT ALL IS IN COMPLIANCE
> WHICH IT ISN'T. LOOK AT THE DOCUMENTS FOR MEDAVIE EMS AND NB EMS AND
> TELL ME IF THEY WERE WITNESSED PROPERLY?
>
> SEND THIS ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, INCLUDING DAVID HASHEY'S CLIENT,
> DONALD PETERS AND CHARLES MURRAY WHO BY WAY OF THE LEGISLATION ARE IN
> CONFLICT BY BEING ON THE BOARDS. PLEASE CONFIRM? I WANT TO KNOW HOW
> TO ACCESS THE BOOKS OF AMBULANCE N.B. INC. WHICH IS A PUBLIC
> CORPORATION WHICH IS PARTNERED WITH ANOTHER CO. N.B. EMS WHICH IS
> PARTNERED WITH MEDAVIE EMS MAKING THEM ALL SUBSIDIARIES AND ALL
> SHAREHOLDERS OF THE SUBSIDIARIES CAN GET LOAN GUARANTEES AND OTHER
> BENEFITS BUT WHY WAS THIS DEAL NOT PUT OUT FOR A COST ANALYSIS AND
> BIDDING AS PER THE RULES?
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Charles.McAllister@snb.ca
> To: evelyngreene@live.ca
> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:49:31 -0400
> Subject: Ambulance New Brunswick Inc.
>
>
> This is further to our discussion today.
>
>
>
> As indicated, this company is incorporated and subject to the
> Companies Act. You can access the Act at the following link:
>
> http://laws.gnb.ca/en/BrowseTitle
>
>
>
> The company’s head office location is as follows: Department of
> Health, 520 King Street, Fredericton. You had asked me exactly where
> at 520 King Street is the head office. An ANB official indicates it is
> at the fourth floor of 520 King Street –which is occupied as well by
> offices of the Dept of Health.
>
>
>
> You indicated you wish to attend and examined certain records of ANB.
> I have provided you with a contact name: Renee LaForest (phone number
> 453-3759). It is our understanding she is the secretary-treasurer of
> ANB.
>
>
>
> I have indicated under the Companies Act, the relevant provisions
> regarding access is as follows:
>
>
>
> BOOKS OF THE COMPANY
>
> 104The company shall cause books to be kept by the secretary, or by
> some other officer or agent specially charged with that duty, wherein
> shall be kept recorded
>
> (a)a copy of the letters patent incorporating the company, and any
> supplementary letters patent, and of all by-laws of the company;
>
> (b)the names alphabetically arranged of all persons who are or have
> been shareholders;
>
> (c)the address and calling of every such person while a shareholder,
> as far as can be ascertained;
>
> (d)the number of shares of stock held by each shareholder;
>
> (e)the amounts paid in and remaining unpaid respectively on the stock
> of each shareholder;
>
> (f)all transfers of stocks, with the date and other particulars of the
> transfer, and the date of the entry thereof;
>
> (g)the names, addresses and callings of all persons who are or have
> been directors of the company, with the several dates at which each
> became or ceased to be a director;
>
> (h)minutes of all meetings of shareholders, directors and executive
> committee.
>
> R.S., c.33, s.103.
>
> 105(1)A book called the register of transfers shall be provided, and
> in the book shall be entered the particulars of every transfer of
> shares in the capital of the company.
>
> 105(2)One or more branch registers of transfers may be kept at places
> appointed by the directors.
>
> 105(3)Every transfer made at a branch registry shall be forthwith
> reported to the head office of the company.
>
> R.S., c.33, s.104.
>
> 106(1)Such books, with the exception of the minute books of the
> directors and executive committee, shall, during reasonable business
> hours of every day except Sundays and holidays, be kept open at the
> head office of the company or at such place as may be authorized under
> subsection (2) or (3) of this section, for the inspection of
> shareholders and creditors of the company and their personal
> representatives, and of any judgment creditor of a shareholder.
>
> 106(2)The Lieutenant-Governor in Council upon cause being shown to him
> may by order designate some other office of the company in the
> Province as the place where its books may be kept for the purposes of
> subsection (1).
>
> 106(3)Where an agent with an established place of business in the
> Province is appointed by the company for the purpose of recording the
> transfer of its shares, the book, in which are recorded the
> particulars mentioned in paragraphs 104(b), (c), (d), (e) and (f), may
> be kept at the agent’s place of business in the Province where the
> register of transfers is kept.
>
> 106(4)Every such shareholder, creditor or personal representative or
> judgment creditor may make extracts therefrom.
>
>
>
> The definition section of the Act states as follows:
>
> “shareholder” means every subscriber to, or holder of, stock in the
> company, and includes every member of a company without share capital
> and the personal representatives of the shareholder;
>
>
>
> As discussed with you, you do not seem to fall within the scope of
> section 106(1) to entitle you to see the records of ANB that are
> mentioned in section 104 of the Act.
>
>
>
> You have expressed the view you are entitled to see the above records
> and perhaps other records, notwithstanding that you do not fall
> presently within s 106(1). To what extent you have other legal rights
> to see the above records (or other records), you will need to pursue
> that viewpoint with ANB, not with myself.
>
>
>
> Charles McAllister
>
> Director- Companies Act
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Evelyn Greene
> To: ndesrosiers@ccla.org ; david.raymond.amos@gmail.com ;
> lucie.dubois@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ; bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca ;
> sallybrooks25@yahoo.ca ; hubert.lacroix@cbc.ca ; andy.campbell@ctv.ca
> ; steve.murphy@ctv.ca ; w5@ctv.ca ; russomanno@wsgalaw.com ;
> kim.macpherson@gnb.ca ; heather.webb@gnb.ca ; david.alward@gnb.ca ;
> marie.claudeblais@gnb.ca ; madeleine.dube@gnb.ca ;
> charles.murray@gnb.ca
> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 8:53 PM
> Subject: FW: Disclosure still outstanding
>
>
> I am sending this to you folks as a beginning of some information you
> need to know. On May 13, 2011, the day I was beaten up by police at
> Ambulance New Brunswick on 24 Harold Doherty Dr., in Fredericton, I
> had originally agreed to meet with Charles LeBlanc for the first at
> the front of the Legislature. I had spoken with my MLA Brian
> MacDonald on the 12th and I made him aware that I was doing the
> interview due to him and others not looking into the corruption.
>
> On May 13, 2011, I later learned that Premier David Alward and Health
> Minister Madeleine Dube had gone to Moncton or St. John and I believe
> it was to open an ambulance or to do with something about a new part
> of the hospital. I sort of flagged this in mind because I thought
> this is convenient that they are both out of town when I got beaten.
>
> I had arranged a few days earlier to meet Charles LeBlanc however,
> that morning I wrote him an email and cancelled saying I was not well
> which was true as is in the police records when they charged me.
> However, the timeline to deliver the Right to Information was up that
> day and in the afternoon I forced myself to go downtown and serve
> them. I first went to Cox and Palmer Law Firm, then to the Court
> House to see Craig Carleton and then to the N.B. Police Commission and
> secretary/receptionist Julie Williams accepted the documents.
>
> Then I went to Ambulance N.B. where they seemingly were expecting me.
> I felt then as I do today that they were call by someone and were
> expecting me.
>
> 1. On the day of that Friday, May 13, 2011, I had an email from
> Charles LeBlanc saying all of a sudden his blog was shut down.
> However, as I reported at the time, I smelled a rat and I told Mr.
> LeBlanc this and later after that day I asked to do an interview in
> front of the Justice Bld. and Charles LeBlanc refused, saying he was
> interviewing Mayor Woodside at City Hall. Then there was this big ten
> minute or more interview on Charles' blog with the Mayor and the Mayor
> was saying things like, "When I pick you up in the winter and give you
> a drive ........ (this was to Charles). I smelled a rat then as I do
> not and I sent Charles a letter and copied all government heads saying
> he would make the perfect stooge for the mayor and others.
>
> Look at the next few emails, please.
>
> It was Sally Brooks who wanted me to meet with her and Charles LeBlanc
> at the coffee shop last week and I told Sally I did not trust him.
> She said he has ADHD and is harmless and that when he was in court he
> could hardly talk. I told her that this did not compute in my mind,
> because he can stand in front of the police station on another day and
> blurt the hell out of himself yelling things at the police and writing
> all this stuff on the blog. Sally said just come and see. That
> morning, Charles LeBlanc could hardly look me in the fact and I told
> Sally that and she said she noticed but she felt it was nothing. In
> fact, I gave him $10 for coffee and he took our picture and put it on
> the blog. Howevr, he wanted to only put things on the blog which was
> really Sally and My blog but he wanted to control what went in and
> out. For ex. he did not want to print anything about the letter I
> wrote the Police Commission and I copied other people, including David
> Amos who to this date, I have not yet met. However, David does speak
> the truth to my mind. He may be blunt, but he says it like it is. I
> told Sally I thought Charles and David were friends behind closed
> doors, but I have now changed that idea. For ex. at no time did
> Charles LeBlanc ever tell me about Andre Murray's plight with the same
> police officer who beat me, Cst. Nancy Rideout nor did he mention any
> of the facts, but knew my story. I just recently learned of Andre
> Murray and the common denomination we have in common: "police abuse".
>
> Please read the next few emails and see what you think. Then on
> Friday, Sally said she met with Charles at his house and she was late
> to meet me for lunch. She did not mention that they were walking on
> the street as has been written on our blog. However, Sally told me to
> just let Charles do the whole process of the blog and not send
> anything to him but brief comments as Charles is not well enough to
> understand my topics of police commission willfull blindness. I said
> okay, but she did not say they were together on the streets nor
> mention anything like that, just that she was late because of doing
> errands.
>
> Please remember that nothing about my story was ever written in the
> Brunswick Newspaper owned by irving and this is the case with Mr.
> Andre Murray. Why? Why would Jacques Poitras refuse to write
> anything and basically threw me out of the CBC a couple weeks ago,
> saying I wrote his boss, Hubert Lacroix. I asked Mr. Lacrois since
> that time if Mr. Poitras has any connection with the female crown
> prosecutor, Ms. Poitras in Bathurst, N.B.
>
> Then someone wrote recently that our finance minister, mr. Higgs used
> to work for Irvings.
>
> I have continually asked if Irving or his son, Kenneth, who up and
> left the Irvings shortly after my beating took place and went to
> Kinross Gold may have anything to do with Ambulance N.B. and the big
> contract its partner, Medavie EMS which is a private, for-profit co.
> that has common shares and because it is a private co., the
> shareholders do not need to be mentioned at corporate records due to
> N.B. legislative statute under Private Act and corporations. For ex.,
> Medavie EMS partnered with NB EMS and that too is partnered with
> Ambulance N.B. They won a lucrative bid for sending a fleet of
> ambulances from Canada to Trinidad for $90 million a year. Was it in
> our newspaper. I did not see it. Also, I have shared with many of
> you the corporate documents showing irregularities in the letters
> patent and the incorporation of Medavie EMS which is signed by a
> lawyer in Halifax who is with the law firm, Stewart McKelvey who
> represents Ambulance N.B. Inc. I wrote the Trinidad Government and I
> got hold of the paper from Trinidad, the TNT Mirror saying the
> Attorney General was concerned about irregularities in the contract
> and Medavie EMS had written asking what was the hold up. I then
> forwarded my story about getting beaten up at Ambulance NB Inc. and
> there was no investigation albeit I informed the Premier, David Alward
> and all other ministers. It is my understanding too that in order for
> a P3 partnership that EMS set up with Ambulance NB it is supposed to
> be okayed with the Cabinet. In fact the Minister has to sign off on
> it. However, it was signed by a different Minister, Jack Keir, on
> behalf of Minister Greg Byrne who Mr. Keir said was out of the country
> at the time. I asked the secretaries at Service NB who Jack Keir is
> and they did not know, but I later found out and called Mr. Keir. He
> told me he is no longer the minister and did not know what he was
> signing, saying he is a North shore, St. John New Brunswicker and not
> a lawyer. I have the documentation and it is questionable. I sent
> this information to Finance Minister Blaine Higgs and he did not
> respond. I went to see Kim MacPherson, our auditor general and she
> said she had no obligation to report it. She said she knew nothing
> about this P3 deal and she would not talk further, telling her
> secretary, Heather, to tell me she could not help me in my plight for
> justice and almost being beaten to death while wearing an implanted
> heart defibrillator and reported sick to the paramedic station. This
> is documented by others, not just me.
>
> Then I checked the records for Ambulance N.B. Inc. and find that the
> lawyer for the Minister of Health, Charles Murray is on the Board of
> Directors, as is Donald J. Peters the CEO of Horizon Health Network
> also known as Regional Health Authority B and is over the Dr. Everett
> Chalmers Hospital where my problems first stemmed. It is scary
> really.
>
> Pls. read on.
>
> Evelyn Greene
>
> Wait for the next few emails and then let me know what you think of
> all of this please, especially the Canadian Civil Liberties Assoc. who
> know I contacted them long ago about my plight and they said they
> could not help.
>
>
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:08:19 -0800
> From: sallybrooks25@yahoo.ca
> Subject: Re: Disclosure still outstanding
> To: evelyngreene@live.ca
>
>
>
>
> brilliant!
>
> This is really good, really concise and absolutely puts the pressure
> on. Well done Evelyn.
>
> STOP PRESS: LAXATIVE SALES BOTTOM OUT IN NEW BRUNSWICK!
> From: Evelyn Greene <evelyngreene@live.ca>
> To: christopher.lavigne@gnb.ca
> Cc: luc.labonte@gnb.ca; pierre.castonguay@gnb.ca;
> madeleine.dube@gnb.ca; justice.comments@gnb.ca;
> sallybrooks25@yahoo.ca; wishart.john@dailygleaner.com;
> wylie1@nb.sympatico.ca; mboudreau@stu.ca; w5@ctv.ca;
> hubert.lacroix@cbc.ca; jacques.poitras@cbc.ca; info@atlanticalarm.com;
> keith.ball@gnb.ca; kimthomas@ag.gov.tt
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 12:30:37 PM
> Subject: Disclosure still outstanding
>
>
>
> Mr. Lavigne:
>
> I still have not received confirmation that you went back to the
> police and Ambulance N.B. to obtain the rest of the answers to the
> questions you posed to them in your letter of Dec. 2011 about the CCTV
> evidence and the Audio evidence.
>
> (1) Surely you are not going to accept the perjured evidence of Robin
> O'Hara and go ahead now and subpoena the main information straight
> from Atlantic alarm and sound right off the original data base or
> where it is initially (originally) recorded? You need this according
> to the head of the company.
>
> (2) Where is the evidence of the 911 call from Ambulance N.B. to the
> police.
>
> (3) Did you get the statement from the Ambulance N.B. and the Police
> why the police were called in the first place when I was sitting
> quietly, and felt sick, and was no harm to myself or anyone else. Why
> was that called placed to the police and why did four police officers
> and four cars arrive when it was not even an emergency? Do you not
> see that my Charter rights were violated to a high (not low or
> moderate degree) ending up with me having bodily injury and no police
> report made out that I have seen, and as per the rules of the Police
> Act, when personal injury happenes to a person in custody?
>
> (4) Why did the police investigate themselves when I made a complaint
> of abuse against them to the Chief of Police? Who investigated this
> and where are their reports?
>
> (5) Where is the report of NCO Horseman when he took my complaints
> and my statement? What did he say?
>
> (6) I need the answers requested from David Banks, the dispatch head
> at the police station for all 911 calls.
>
> (7) Did you ask the police to explain the different dispatchers on
> the call and the questions posed to the crown about the video
> tampering evidence supplied by Ms. Brooks?
>
> (8) Judge Richards had said to prosecutor Rose Campbell that Greene
> needs a lawyer and she was looking into, but then a new Judge (Judge
> Jackson) came on the case and I told him about this but he did not
> look into it.
>
> (9) Where are the answers to the other questions you posed such as
> why Constable Rideout was on the phone while in the police car taking
> me to Headquarters and reporting that I was loud and out of control
> but this was not picked up on the audio of the call.
>
> (10)Why were the ambulance dispatched to 24 Doherty Drive for almost 8
> minutes after I was taken to headquarters? I need their reports as to
> why and what they were doing there? I have asked Fire Chief Toole who
> did not respond. You need to get this information even if it is by
> subpoena.
>
> (11) Where are the phone records of all calls made to Ambulance N.B.
> at 24 Harold Doherty Dr. on the 13th of May? Were any from Cox and
> Palmer or from the NB Police Commission or the Court House.
>
> (12) I sent you recent conflicting statements from representatives
> from Atlantic Alarm and Sound. The owner had obviously not
> anticipated that I would contact the service provider who obviously
> told the truth. What are you doing about that, if anything? And if
> nothing, why not, please explain?
> (
> (13) You have the capacity to send the CCTV video to the crime lab in
> Halifax (RCMP) so why has this not yet been done which would add their
> input to this matter? Are you not wanting to know the truth here Mr.
> Lavigne because it would most likely cost less than $500 and your are
> spending far more than that on continuing on with this bogus charge at
> great expense to the public purse and the court's time?
>
> (14). Much other evidence is sent to the crime lab for analyses so
> why is this case different? Please explain that.
>
> (15). The McNeil case was decided by the Supreme Court of Canada and
> that includes all disclosure must be given to the Defendant,
> regardless of privacy issues or anything else. Again what are you
> doing to get the original documentation of the CCTV video. The
> service co-ordinator said if one camera is not working, then the
> others take over. There are four cameras surrounding the paramedic
> door at Ambulance N.B. Paramedic Bay and clearly picked up other
> movement that day, but did have four minute splitting here and there.
> The pictures that do take are for the most part visible so it is not a
> case of the camera set low for visibility issues?
>
> (16) The expert from Outreach Productions wrote down that a police
> officer magically appears from no where on the CCTV camera? What did
> you learn about that?
>
> I need answers to these questions and I am asking once more to review
> my file in its entirety and have the times set so that the photocopies
> can be made at that time. I asked Simonne of the Prosecutor's office
> for copies and she said I would have to come back. When I came back,
> she had left for home early and when I picked up the documents early
> the next week, many of the documents I requested to be photocopies
> were not included. There was one email or report that had the word
> dizzy typed out like this "d-i-z-z-y". I suspect that was one of the
> officers or paramedics who reported I told them I felt dizzy that day
> which i did. Why would this be concealed now and
>
> (17) Have you now reviewed all of the evidence, including the CCTV
> video and audio and my doctor's notes and the notes I submitted
> regarding the officer who was let off a charge in Ont. as he has
> hypoglycemia which I have and is in the police reports?
>
> (18) You know that Cst. Rideout left my angina meds. (nitro) in my
> car with my purse and would not let me have it before going to
> headquarters and then $150 went missing out of my purse when it was
> returned so that I would not have the cash on hand to get my impounded
> car. I also had to call a taxi for a drive back across the river to
> where my car was impounded and for some reason their debit machines
> were not working.
>
> (19) I have a lifeline contract with Phillips Lifeline and I have
> told them of this issue. My lifeline box which is connected to the
> hospital has not worked for some time and lifeline calls me every
> night at 7 p.m. to ensure I am okay. If they do not hear form me,
> they call the ambulance. Not long ago, I did not hear the phone ring
> and they sent the ambulance and fire truck. I went to the door and
> said I did not hear the phone ring and I was listenening for it and
> told them I was okay. Phillips lifeline then called the paramedics
> and was told by the paramedics "that she (Greene) was not home. I
> asked Lifeline to document this information as it is just one part of
> the total picture of lies and corruption from Ambulance employeess.
> Your job, I believe, is to ask whey they lied to lifeline? It is
> documented so you could contact them directly.
>
> I look forward to receiving your response to this letter which I will
> drop off at the Crown's office next week in hard copy so that if you
> fail to address these questions, I will use them later for appeal
> purposes as is the case with all the documentation I asked for to date
> and did not receive. Also perphas you can ask why I have not been
> allowed a lawyer as per Judge Richards question about that to
> Prosecutor Rose Campbell?
>
> Evelyn Greene
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Amos" <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> To: <oldmaison@yahoo.com>; <T.J.Burke@gnb.ca>; <john.foran@gnb.ca>;
> <Wayne.STEEVES@gnb.ca>; <frederic.loiseau@fredericton.ca>;
> <tony.whalen@gnb.ca>
> Cc: <abel.leblanc@gnb.ca>; <jack.keir@gnb.ca>; <premier@gnb.ca>;
> <Jeannot.VOLPE@gnb.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 4:08 AM
> Subject: Hells Angels EH Chucky Leblanc? When was the last time you or
> the Irvings or the RCMP saw one ride a Panhead alone?
>
>
> Remember these old emails of yours Chucky Baby? Post this photo of my
> nasty arse I Double Dog Dare Ya to Frenchy. At least my baby boy's
> little arse is far more innocent looking than Shawny Baby Graham's
> black eye EH Frenchy?
>
> Small wonder that I didn't allow him anywhere near and of Cardinal
> Law's nasty Boyz in Beantown EH?
>
> You must I figured out by now that I hate diddlers and especiallly the
> ones who pretend to be oh so pious and above us all. By now you must
> at least understand one of the reasons I supported Byron Prior years
> ago in his quest for justice but I was always more concerned about
> about what he knows about Johnny Crosbie, the Haliburton dudes and our
> dead fish. But you don't know the first thing about that do ya? It
> must be because not one of your five brians knows how to read Nest Pas?
>
> HELL ANGELS FROM MONTREAL LOOKING FOR CHARLES LEBLANC????
> by Charles LeBlanc Saturday, Jun. 12, 2004 at 11:26 AM
>
> Thursday morning, I showed up at the Legislature to use the computer
> at the Library.
> I was told by security that two rough looking individuals walked
> through the doors and asked for a Charles Leblanc?
> They described the guys as rough looking and one of them had a long
> gray beard with a leather jacket!
> At first, I believe it was the Hell Angels coming down from Montreal
> for a hit on Charles.
>
> Hours later, I seen my bigot buddy Matthew Glenn and he was in front
> of the Legislature with his blowhorn.
> For you people who don't know the bigot? He's the one who started the
> Anglo Society. I seen him preaching to three young kids and of course
> I butt in and said - Hey Bigot??? Why don't you bigot go home?
>
> Minutes later, we were approached by two guys and they asked politely
> –Where can we locate a Charles LeBlanc???
> In a matter of seconds, the bigot quickly pointed at me. I said to
> myself - Ohhh?? Thanks a lot Bigot!!!
>
> At the end? It was a guy named David Amos and I guess that he's
> running at an independent in the riding of Fundy Royal. The guy have
> been living in the area of Boston and he's been following my updates
> on the internet. I'm telling you that the information highway is a
> great way to spread the message to the rest of the world!
>
> We talked for around 30 minutes and it was nice to see the bigot, me
> and David Amos together debating our own little concern issue. We all
> have our own issues and it's too bad that we cannot unite and fight
> but that's the way Canadians do things. They remind silent until the
> Government really pissed them all and go out and vote the party in
> power out of office.
>
> What did I tell you people in the past? Someone is
> going to crack up one of these days and I know for a
> fact the area targeted is going to be the Legislature.
>
> Two weeks later you wrote this Chucky
>
> "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!"
>
> After you continued to make fun of me throughout the summer of 2004
> amongst the other things I forwarded to you was an old joke about my
> drunken Irish Catholic in laws in Beantown. N'est Pas? It must have
> pissed you off as I tortured the Hell out of your buddy Bernie Richard
> the nasty Ombudsman too before my wife and I and a lawyer visited the
> Police Commission. In response you sent photos of your old soon to be
> dead dog comparing it to me. I laughed the photos were taken by your
> Fake Left friends and emailed to you. Your big Faux Pas was that you
> were so dumb you sent me their email address too. Thus in a wink of an
> eye I knew and had the proof of who was behind you and pulling your
> strings. Do they remember my conversations with them last year? I do.
> The question is did I record them as they made liars out of themselves.
> LOL EH? Stay tuned Frenchy.
>
> When you saw that I was falsely imprisoned in Boston on October 1st,
> 2004 you largely shut up and never responded to my emails over the
> course of the past four years because you knew what I did with them
> after that. As the old Joke goes many a true word is said in jest and
> you did not like other people reading your nonsense to me. Correct?
>
> Years after that old joke I sent you went around. The Yankees made a
> movie starring Jack Nicholson based on Whitey's life and times. It is
> entitled "The Departed". Perhaps the drunken Catholic in you should
> rent it sometime with your welfare dimes. Listen closely to what ol
> Jacky Boy says about your Church and their very corrupt doings.
>
> My Keith ancestors and I were not alone in our contempt towards your
> church EH? Did your Mama tell you that the Keiths came out of northern
> Germany to settle in Scotland in order to escape your nasty Popes and
> their cohorts? Do you understand that after the shit was settled in
> 1755 the Frenchmen in Canada who did not wish to be shipped out to
> other French holdings swore allegiance to the British Crown? What
> makes you dudes think that you can change the deal now especially in
> light of the fact every Indian demands that we hold up to all the
> other deals our ancestors made long before any of us were born? The
> Scottish part of you should shove that Acadian flag along with its
> flagpole up your French arse Chucky Baby. Is that clear or COR enough
> for you?
>
> To rub it in I will tell you that after my father died my Mama married
> Loyd Nickerson a member of the COR Party who was also the Chief
> Electoral Officer of New Brunswick. One big reason I ran in Fundy is
> that there are damn few French men registered to vote and not many
> Catholic churches in Kings County. I ain't a bigot. I love French
> Catholic women. Hell I was the first of my family that I know of who
> married a Catholic woman. It is their greedy Catholic brothers that I
> hate be they either French or Irish or whatever. I believe they call
> this shit conflict of colours Orange versus Green not biker bullshit
> as you claimed about me. I don't wear Biker colours I where the
> colours of My Clan and I have many friends. Quite possibly many more
> true French ones than you do. How can you have true friends at all if
> they can't trust you. Do your even believe yourself and your obvious
> Bullshit?
>
> How do you sleep at night knowing yourself as you do? Why do you
> make fun of a fellow Maritimer whose family was destroyed by the
> very people you pretend to complain about? Never forget I am from
> Dorchester Frenchy and Ivan Cormier (AKA the Beast) was on my paper
> route and I liked and admired him and his friends and their art
> particularly Killer Karl Krupp and the Cuban. Their Bullshit was flat
> out entertaining and not malicious at all. Yours definitely is
> malicious and not funny at all. No Class Bobby Bass had way more class
> in his worst fart than you do in your whole soul. I must say venting
> some of my venom towards you is definitely good for my savage soul. As
> a southern friend of mine would say when I was feeling mean years ago
> "Ya gots to get the poison out or ya die just don't spit out in my
> direction. Save it for somebody who deserves it."
>
> BTW, the man who sold me that old Panhead that your cop buddies in Fat
> Fred City stole from me last summer was a of French Cathlolic heritage
> out of Quebec. He was a really good friend of mine and I named my bike
> after him and his wife. His family moved from Quebec to Vermont about
> a hundred years ago when your greedy priests demanded that the poor
> folks build another big fancy church across the road from the one they
> just built. So they crossed the border, built a simple church and went
> about the pursuit of happiness in a country that is supposed to keep
> church and state separate and have only one official language. Go try
> your crybaby French welfare nonsense in New Hampshire or Vermont
> sometime Chucky and see if you come back in one piece. I would pay
> money I don't have to watch that circus tent unfold. The Pope's
> mission is to keep you dudes poor and dumb. Get it Frenchy? If not ask
> your hero Spinksy Baby to argue me as if I care what any of you think.
> I would argue him right after that chickenshit IDs himself and proves
> to me and everyone else that he is not Brent Taylor.
>
> I Double Dog Dare Ya to post this email in his blog. I am posting it
> deep in your buddy the Gypsy's blog before I post it in mine. That is
> if he has still maintained his integrity after all my stress tests
> last week. You dudes kissing the "The General Blogger" nasty arse was
> too much for me to stand. It was too funny that T. J Burke blocked my
> defence of your blatant stupidity N'est Pas?
>
> BTW one of my wife's cousins Robert T. Kickham you remember the evil
> ex banker who turned into the evil priest is still Cardinal O'Malley's
> secretary in Beantown as far as I know. Why don't you sing their
> priases on the Internet this Easter and ask that all the corrupt
> Catholics to pray that I be crucified by the RCMP soon? I must ask you
> Chucky why did you support diddlers for years and then suddenly turn
> coat and support Byron Prior's pursuit of justice after ignoring the
> fact that I introduced you two to each other four years ago?
>
> Veritas Vincit
> David Raymond Amos
>
> P.S. For the record Chucky this joke is still funny to me and my arse
> and my balls are as big as ever. Ain't it funny how time slips away
> and yet some things remain the same? Everybody knows I find you
> contemptible and why that is so. I do wish you a long life so that you
> can recall all your sins countless times with your five brains.
> However I must turn the page my personal history and go back to how I
> once was before I am dust once more. Life is too short to argue with
> liars for long or dance with ugly women so to speak. My Baby Boy turns
> 18 this year thus my job of raising him is largely done. He and his
> sisters are my best piece work. They all have the records of all my
> work including this email. (Obviously I sent it from one of my other
> email accounts to one of my son's for safe keeping before I save it
> digitally and print it as well.) Before long my son will be the Chief
> of our Clan and it will be his job to defend my integrity and my deeds
> for the benefit of my seed as I grin proudly from the grave. He is
> quite simply the best man I ever met and truly a man of his word.
> Never underestimate my darling daughters they are tigers in their own
> right and I raised them not to take shit from anyone. They may prove
> to be the most trouble for the unethical smiling bastards that are the
> powers that be right now.
>
> Between men I asked my son to piss on the graves of my enemies someday
> if I could not do so and he promised that he would. I would not ask my
> little Darlins to do such a thing out of respect to their gender. As
> part of my Blood Feud you made the list Chucky Baby. Your Mama will
> understand why I told my son that in order to pay proper respect to
> from Whence We Came he really should drink a lot of Keiths beer before
> he does so. Whereas neither of us like the taste of beer I will leave
> him to his own chosen poison as long as he enjoys the in and out of it all.
>
> As for me I plan to Rest in Peace in Dorchester someday happy in
> knowing the fact that I have left at least four very decent folk
> behind me on this planet. My skull like Yorick's of old will grin like
> Hell thinking about the fact that the prevailing winds will blow the
> smell of my rotting corpse towards your old stomping grounds where you
> no doubt will be buried without any children at all to visit your
> bones. If you do have kids or an ex wife or two I never read where you
> admitted it. Dudes like you and your fans such as Dean Roger Ray and
> the Depupty Dog Robert F. O'Meara are too selfish to make decent
> loving fathers anyway. If there truly is a Hell like in your dreams
> Chucky, I will look for you there. I suspect the Devil would promote
> me to Sergeant at Arms and give me a Black Rod as soon as I landed in
> order to cram it up your nasty French arse. I have no doubt its hard
> to get good help in Hell and Satan will need a lot of help pounding on
> all the evil priests, bankers, lawyers, cops, politicians and the
> liars like you who supported their malice in this wonderful old world.
> N'est Pas?
>
> Can one of your five brains tell that you have an ethical pigheaded
> Maritimer you hates you with a very justifiable passion Chucky Baby?
> Whereas your buddy Shawny Baby Graham enjoys jokes maybe he will enjoy
> this one since it is on you. It is not my joke and I give credit where
> credit is due. I hate it when you or your buddies Dean Roger Ray or
> the Yankee Stevey Boy Erickson steal my words and claim them as their
> own while you try to impeach my character at the same time. If anyone
> doubts that I am the first Chief of the Amos Clan who has every right
> and duty to defend it fiercely perhaps he should query the dockets of
> the US District Court in Concord New Hampshire if he knows how.
> Whereas everything in the Catholic's heaven and hell is down in three
> I file My Clan's declaration of Independence for the Keiths within
> three affidavits in three different matters. I do not file nuisance
> lawsuits as Yankee blogger hero claims. Danny Boy can post the photo
> of my nasty arse, my boy and my panhead on the Internet with my
> knowledge and assent and my blessings and thanx as well. However I
> still own the rights to it. I need it for my book about you Fake Left
> Creeps on Fat Fred city and elsewhere. It may be the only thing that I
> leave my kids that could be worth something someday. Maritimers do
> love juicy gossip N'est Pas?
>
> Veritas Vincit
> David Raymond Amos
>
> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 02:02:22 -0400
> From: Rollo Tomasi rollotomasi@COMCAST.NET
> Subject: Bingo-Playing Golden-Age Golden Glove Catholic Gang Members
> Lay Waste to Bay State
>
> Boston - First it was financial scandals, followed by Notre Dame
> football teams that really sucked, then pederast priests. Now it appears
> that bingo, the fourth and some would say most important pillar of the
> Roman Catholic Church, is on the verge of self-destruction.
>
> Yesterday members of the Boston Police Department SWAT team, two
> divisions of the Massachusetts National Guard and the US Army's elite
> Delta Force had to be called in to stop a riot that had broken out at the
> Whitey Bulger Memorial Senior Citizen Center at St. Bernadette's
> Cathedral in the so-called "Southie" section of Beantown.
>
> "Southie," populated mostly by unemployed drunk Irish immigrants,
> became well-known in the 1970s as a symbol of protest against racial
> integration, and according to statistics released by the US Census Bureau,
> contains the highest concentration of dim-witted white people in the world.
>
> Although details at this point are sketchy, it appears that the cause of
> the
> riot was dissatisfaction over new rules limiting bingo participants to one
> colostomy bag per person.
>
> "I know these old-timers can play bingo all night," said Seamus O'Connor,
> director of activities at the Bulger Center, "But, my god, seven colostomy
> bags?! C'mon, we all know they were smuggling in contraband and
> controlled substances. Heck, we even found one hastily discarded bag
> filled with two gallons of Curacao. I mean, give me a break. Who pisses
> blue anyway?"
>
> The Diocese of Boston officially denied any responsibility for the riot.
> John Cardinal O'Donnell, Archbishop of the Diocese, angrily attacked the
> press for what he termed "sloppy reporting by biased reporters who have
> been duped by Protestant agitprop."
>
> Cardinal O'Donnell assumed a defiant posture as he met with members of
> the press. "I'm sick and tired of all the anti-Irish prejudice in
> American society.
> You read the newspapers and you'd think that all we Irish do is drink,
> fight
> and whore around." O'Donnell then chugged a bottle of Guinness Stout,
> pinched his secretary on her posterior, made two fists with his hands and
> said,
> "And I'll lick any man who says otherwise."
> __
> by William Grim
> (c) Copyright 2002 Broken Newz
>
> Veritas Vincit
> David Raymond Amos
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: charlie leblanc
> To: David Amos
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 3:49 PM
> Subject: Re: Good Day Charlie say het to Andy for me
>
>
> merci
>
> David Amos <motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: smay@pattersonpalmer.ca ; johnduggan@legalaid.nf.ca ;
> oldmaison1@yahoo.ca ; wayne.STEEVES@gnb.ca ; Cadman.C@parl.gc.ca ;
> Cotler.I@parl.gc.ca ; Easter.W@parl.gc.ca ; Efford.J@parl.gc.ca ;
> Graham.B@parl.gc.ca ; 'Stephen Harper' ; Jack Layton ;
> MacAulay.L@parl.gc.ca ; McDonough.A@parl.gc.ca ; Parrish.C@parl.gc.ca
> ; Scott.A@parl.gc.ca ; Stoffer.P@parl.gc.ca ; Zed.P@parl.gc.ca ;
> info@cjc-ccm.gc.ca ; justice@gov.nl.ca ; Canadian Justice Review Board
> ; J. D. Kuntz ; webmaster@canadalawcourts.com ; Brent Taylor ;
> gbudden@buddenmorris.com ; frontline@wgbh.org
> Cc: info@pco-bcp.gc.ca ; strategis@ic.gc.ca ; JackMCOPA@aol.com ;
> user.cru@pol.state.ma.us ; plypd@four.net ; corp.website@sunlife.com ;
> martine.turcotte@bell.ca ; cynthia.merlini@dfait-maeci.gc.ca ;
> Stronach.B@parl.gc.ca ; Comartin.J@parl.gc.ca ; pm@pm.gc.ca ;
> jeff.mockler@gnb.ca ; diane.bourque@flsc.ca ; police@fredericton.ca
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 9:13 PM
> Subject: Good Day Charlie say het to Andy for me
>
>
> Hey Andy do ya remember this email I sent before the last I came
> home? I bet Charlie Leblanc don't just as the other LeBlanc dude
> didn't want to talk fishing and you didn't want to talk about
> soliciting. Since I have left the last thing you want to talk about is
> Indians EH? What is you dudes do other than suck Martin's arse?
>
> It seems the Frenchman who represents from Beauséjour, the area
> I was born in forgot the fact that both he and his wife are lawyers.
> Obviously I didn't. I also never forgot how Chréitian waltzed on down
> to Beauséjour years ago and his buddy Mulroney allowed him to have a
> seat without opposition except from a lady in CoR from Dorchester. You
> remember that place don't Charlie? I grew up just down the road from
> ya. What do you think will do the other LeBlanc Dude will do when he
> receives the same material you did last year? I don't trust Frenchmen
> who are lawyers do you? Ask the other Frenchman you admire Bernard
> Richard who is a lawyer from Shediac/Cape Pele area why that is. What
> do ya think should I stress test the new kid on the block, Victor
> Boudreau. I know he ain't a lawyer but never the less he is still a
> god damned Frenchman. I think most Frenchmen are just like you Charles
> LeBlanc. Greedy Bullshiters. However I really love the French ladies.
> So does that make me all bad? Am I pissing anybody off yet? Good.
> Trust nobody is half as mad as I am right now but at least I am still
> having fun. I am just giggling up a storm at the thought of how many
> people are cursing my name :)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: dwatch@web.net
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 11:32 PM
> Subject: Read real slow then forget what is politically correct.
>
> Deal with your own conscience. After that try to think of a good
> reason why I should not run for
> Parliament and at least speak my mind about the sad state of our affairs.
>
> You know who I am. If you don't, trust me, you are way behind the eight
> ball.
>
> Once I make my mark in the American Justice System and political
> process, I am coming home
> to stress test the ethics of many a lawyer/politician in my nativeland
> during the course of the next
> federal election. My question to all of you will be why did you wait
> for me to say something? Am I
> the only one paying any attention. Even Jesus got mad a time or two
> and tore up a temple when
> he saw all the money changing hands in a place that should not be
> concerned about such things.
> But forget about the money for a minute.
>
> What did he have to say about anyone that harmed a child?
> Rest assured I will remind you. Although Iain't religious, I must say
> that Jesus had more of sand
> than most men and he made some very good points about what is right
> and what is wrong. Can any
> of you even hold a candle to Byron? He has at least one friend that
> will back him up all the way
> down the line.
>
> I don't mind dying it is what I didn't do while I was living that will
> haunt me in in my grave. What is the
> golden rule these days? Is it truly a fact that he with the gold makes
> the rules. Do you think voters
> agree with that fact? What say you?
>
> Canadian Corruption
> Sexual Abuse & Political & Legal Conspiracy.
> RCMP Incompetence & Cover up.
> Priors Of Grand Bank NFLD Canada
>
> How do I get a corrupt legal system to investigate, charge and convict
> itself?
> After years of asking the Canadian Legal System to do its job, it's
> long past time to inform
> the public myself about this lack of action or justice.
>
> If T. Alex Hickman, Justice Minister, 1966 to 1979 also Health
> Minister 1968 to 1969 and
> Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland 1979 to 2000, 34 YEARS
> OF
> COMPLETE LEGAL SYSTEMS CONTROL,at 41 years of age, rapes and impregnates
> your younger sister Susan, at 12 years old, and in grade 8, what would you
> do?
> At 12 years old she was the youngest child ever,in Grand Bank,to have a
> baby.
>
> I am willing to take any tests and answer all questions regarding my
> entire life. All he has to
> do is take one blood test. It's time for him to stop manipulating our
> legal system and face the
> truth which I have been telling the legal System,and anyone else who
> would listen, all of my life.
> I didn't just awake one morning and decide to accuse the most powerful
> and most corrupt legal
> animal in this province. I have had, no childhood, no education, no
> family, no hometown, no
> self- esteem or self-respect and no past, present or future as a
> contributing person. By the time
> I was 14 years old I was responsible for 9 younger children, all of us
> abused and molested while
> our hometown either joined in, bothered us about our situation, or
> looked the other way and said
> we were all trouble. and so on.......till the end.
>
> If anyone wishes to have the complete police statement contact me at
> alltrue@roadrunner.nf.net or
> telephone 709-834-9822. If I cannot reply I have been arrested. Please
> contact pm@pm.gc.ca or
> paul@paulmartin.ca and tell him the Priors of Grand Bank NF require
> Justice immediately.
>
> Thank You for helping.END OF WEB SITE
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Correspondance Deputy Prime Minister/Vice premier ministre"
> dpm@pm.gc.ca
> To: davidamos@comcast.net
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 1:34 PM
> Subject: Regarding your e-mail
>
> If you wish to receive a response to your comments addressed to the
> Deputy Prime Minister
> and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, please
> include your return mailing
> address along with your original e-mail message.
>
> All official responses will be sent by regular mail.
>
> If you wish to send correspondence addressed to the Minister through
> the regular mail, please
> use the following mailing address:
>
> The Honourable A. Anne McLellan
> Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety
> and Emergency Preparedness
> 340 Laurier Avenue West
> Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0P8
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: Correspondance Deputy Prime Minister/Vice premier ministre
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 1:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Regarding your e-mail
>
> I already received Anne's response. Can't you people read what you wrote to
> me?
>
> Why else would I be so pissed off? I am who I say I am and that is as
> follows:
>
> David R. Amos
> 153 Alvin Ave,
> Milton, MA. 02186
> Phone 617 240-6698
>
> Now just exactly who are you Mr. Correspondence Deputy Prime Minister
> and are you a lawyer?
>
>
> Jan 3rd, 2004
>
>
>
> Mr. David R. Amos
>
>
>
> 153 Alvin Avenue
>
>
>
> Milton, MA 02186
>
>
>
> U.S.A.
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: alltrue@roadrunner.nf.net
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 2:03 PM
> Subject: Fw: Regarding your e-mail
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: tedcardwell@mail.gov.nf.ca
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 2:05 PM
> Subject: Fw: Regarding your e-mail
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Amos mailto:davidamos@comcast.net
> Sent: March 16, 2004 2:07 PM
> To: Wayne, Elsie - M.P.
> Subject: Fw: Regarding your e-mail
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Wayne, Elsie - M.P.
> To: David Amos
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 2:15 PM
> Subject: RE: Regarding your e-mail
>
> Thank you for the notice.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Amos mailto:davidamos@comcast.net
> Sent: March 22, 2004 3:28 PM
> To: Wayne, Elsie - M.P.
> Subject: Re: Regarding your e-mail
>
> No problem, Elsie. By the way my mom is a fan of yours. She told me
> you were quitting. Too bad if it is true.
>
> You are the first politician to respond to me. That fact alone wins my
> respect. Ask around Saint John about me
> in certain circles I am fairly well known. You may even know my
> sister, Nancy and her husband, Reid Chedore.
> Perhaps you crossed paths with my dad C. Max Amos he was a tax
> Supervisor for the Province years ago. And
> maybe even my mom's second husband, Lloyd Nickerson, from Fredericton.
> He was somewhat of a political person
> whereas my dad was not. (Lloyd was chief electoral officer for about
> twelve years and did run as a Conservative)
>
> If you wish to warm my mom's heart please give her a call and simply
> say that you appreciate her good words about
> you to her wild child Dalevid. She will get the joke. She is always
> confusing me with another brother. Her name is
> Anna and her number is 506 000 0000. Do with it what you will. Trust
> me I would love to see another out spoken
> Maritimer step up to the plate and speak of rights and wrongs. The
> sooner that I can go back to being just Papa the
> happier my little Clan will be. I would truly appreciate if someone
> would let my mom know that they are at least aware
> of my concerns whether they agree with me or not.
>
> Best Regards
> Dave
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Wayne, Elsie - M.P.
> To: David Amos
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 3:42 PM
> Subject: RE: Regarding your e-mail
>
> Dear Dave,
>
> I try to respond to as many people as I can. We do get a lot of email
> around here....
>
> I decided to retire because I truly miss my family. It's hard being on
> the road back and forth by yourself.
>
> It gets very lonely.
>
> God Bless,
> Elsie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: Wayne, Elsie - M.P.
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 5:08 PM
> Subject: Re: Regarding your e-mail
>
>
> Elsie, I like you more and more. If anyone understands about
> being forced to be away from his family its me.
> Give my mom a call. Her laugh alone will make your day. To hell with
> the smiling bastards in Ottawa their grins
> ain't genuine. Maritimers can still find some fun in a long hard day
> :) Come to think of it, maybe thats why the
> Upper Canadians think we are crazy.
>
> By the way I have managed to get a rather famous lawyer to
> speak on my wife's behalf down here while I run
> for Parliament uphome. But before I go I have been invited to go
> fishing with Martha Stewart's brother Frank in the
> Gulf of Mexico. My matters are about to bust wide open down here. That
> is why I have chosen this time to make
> an appearance uphome. Once I make the news down here I will step on
> the stump uphome.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Dave
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: robmoore@atrueconservative.ca
> To: davidamos@comcast.net
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 1:46 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: Regarding your e-mail
>
>
> David,
>
> Thanks for the e-mails. I will read them all and hear what you have to
> say.
>
> All the best.
>
> Rob
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: davidorchard@sasktel.net
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 1:15 PM
> Subject: Here is some proof that Harper knows I coming home
>
>
> Just so ya know David I am forwarding these emails to other
> politicians as well. But I didn't bother to call them because they
> are lawyers as well. Therefore I see no need to explain my actions to
> them. Plus the smart one's have a bad habit of trying to ignore me
> anyway. I t appears that standard operating procedure for them is to
> ignore. delay, deny and then try to settle. They are confused by
> someone that wants to argue law rather than go away with the gold.
> What should be interesting to both of us is whether or not they have a
> sudden fit of ethical behavior after they discover that an honest
> western farmer and wild but ethical maritime biker have been talking
> about them. Please notice that I am more than willing to help such a
> man as Byron Prior anyway I can. I just wish there were more men like
> him on this planet. Trust me the US Attorney backtracking in the
> Martha Stewart matter and prosecuting a Secret Service Agent is too
> funny to relate in this email.
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: rosent@math.toronto.edu
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 1:30 PM
> Subject: Fw: Here is some proof that Harper knows I coming home
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: jim.prentice@shaw.ca
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 3:41 PM
> Subject: Fw: Here is some proof that Harper knows I coming home
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: leblad@parl.gc.ca
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 5:03 PM
> Subject: You, the Harvard Crowd and I
>
>
> We are going to have lots to argue about very soon. But like any true
> Maritimer we should first discuss why the Fishing ain't worth a good
> God damn.
>
>
>
> March 18, 2004
> Ottawa, Ontario
> Prime Minister Paul Martin announced today the renewed mandate of the
> Task Force on Seasonal Work. The Task Force will evaluate the
> challenges born by seasonal industries while looking into the needs of
> workers and communities that depend on them and provide advice on
> areas for possible action in the future.
>
> “This government places great importance on hearing from those lives
> that are directly impacted by our policies, including our seasonal
> workers. Our Caucus has been extremely active in making the sector’s
> opinions known, and will continue to play an important role in further
> examining those views,” said Prime Minister Paul Martin.
>
> “We are facing particularly challenging times in one of our economy’s
> strongest sectors and I look forward to working in collaboration with
> Parliamentarians and all Canadians to find solutions.”
>
> The Task Force will examine;
>
> the specific needs of seasonal industries and workers in the area of
> skills development, life-long learning, and literacy;
>
>
> ways to promote greater economic diversity and stronger local
> economies, particularly in rural and remote communities across Canada;
>
>
> the support required to help seasonal work dependent communities to
> adapt to seize opportunities provided by the new knowledge-based
> global economy;
>
>
> ways of lowering barriers to regional and interprovincial labour mobility;
>
>
> how to align income support programs such as Employment Insurance and
> Provincial Social Assistance Programs to improve income support, while
> also promoting full, year-round participation in the labour force;
>
> ways of addressing the challenges and opportunities offered by
> temporary foreign workers;
>
> the potential role for government in encouraging new approaches to
> community development, i.e. the `social economy` ;
>
> an assessment of the opportunities and challenges specific to seasonal
> economies in promoting the safeguard of our natural environment;
>
> The Task Force will deliver its report to the Prime Minister by November
> 2004.
>
> Members of the Prime Minister`s Task Force on Seasonal Work include;
>
> Chair: Brent St. Denis, MP (Algoma-Manitoulin)
> Vice-Chair: The Honourable Pierrette Ringuette, Senator (New Brunswick)
> Members: The Honourable Libby Hubley, Senator (Prince Edward Island)
> The Honourable Lorna Milne, Senator (Ontario)
> Dominic Leblanc, MP (Beauséjour-Petitcodiac)
> Jeannot Castonguay, MP (Madawaska-Restigouche)
> Rick Laliberte, MP (Churchill River)
> Georges Farrah, MP (Bonaventure-Gaspé-Îles-de-la-Madeleine-Pabok)
> Nancy Karetak-Lindell, MP (Nunavut)
>
> Dominic LeBlanc was elected to the House of Commons in November
> 2000. Since then he has served on the Special Committee on Non-Medical
> Use of Drugs, and the Standing Committees on Fisheries and Oceans,
> Transport and Government Operations, National Defence and Veterans
> Affairs, and Public Accounts. He has also served as Parliamentary
> Secretary to the Minister of National Defence and was Chair of the
> Atlantic Caucus
>
> .
>
> Mr. LeBlanc received a B.A. in political science from the
> University of Toronto (Trinity College), his Bachelor of Laws from the
> University of New Brunswick, and then attended Harvard Law School,
> where he obtained his Masters of Law. Academic successes include the
> Dean's List at the University of New Brunswick's Faculty of Law, a
> scholarship from the New Brunswick Branch of the Canadian Bar
> Association, and the Graduating Average Prize from Trinity College at
> the University of Toronto.
>
> Prior to his election to the House of Commons, Mr. LeBlanc was a
> barrister and solicitor with Clark Drummie in Shediac and Moncton.
> From 1993-1996, Mr. LeBlanc was a Special Advisor to the Prime
> Minister of Canada.
>
>
>
> Mr. LeBlanc is married to Jolène Richard, a Moncton lawyer. They
> have one son, Selby.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Amos
> To: scotta@parl.gc.ca
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 5:55 PM
>
>
> Hey,
> Methinks you and I should have a long talk very soon about
> Maritimers and Solicitor Generals. Call Anne McLellan or Wayne Easter
> and mention my name if you haven't heard of it by now. Trust that no
> lawyer uphome will welcome my letters. They hate it when they are
> compelled to uphold the law and the Public Trust particularly at
> election time.
> David R. Amos
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> Charles LeBlanc
> 114 Brunswick Street
> Fredericton
> New Brunswick
>
>
> Charles LeBlanc
> 114 Brunswick Street
> Fredericton
> New Brunswick
>
> I have too many people on my list so I added
> another account! Some of you will received my updates
> from oldmaison1@yahoo.ca and others will be
> oldmaison@yahoo.com...It just takes me too long to
> send my update with only one account!
>
> Ok..yesterday, I phoned the editor of the Local
> paper and asked him where do I send the bill for my
> stomach Transplant? The Irvings?????
> This is what got me very upset-
>
> Daily Gleaner | Brent Taylor
> As published on page A8 on January 11, 2005
>
> Robichaud made an impact
> Brent Taylor
> REALITY CHECK
>
> This morning in Moncton Louis Robichaud was given his
> final farewell.
>
> He had not been well in recent weeks, but maybe not
> everybody knew that. Journalists knew, and had been
> preparing for some time. So, when the sad news finally
> came last Thursday, New Brunswick's media was ready to
> retell the story of the "father of modern New
> Brunswick."
>
> All of the papers had extensive coverage, as did the
> electronic media.
>
> In helping to prepare a little of that preliminary
> work myself, I spent quite a bit of time researching
> the career of Louis Robichaud. The more I found, the
> more fascinated I became. Being a resident of Quebec
> for the entire 10-year reign of Robichaud, I never saw
> in person the changes he brought to the province. AND
> IT GOES ON BLAH BLAH BLAH….
>
> For you people who’s not familiar with Brent
> Taylor?
>
> He’s a former MLA from the C.O.R. Party! I used
> to debate Acadian issues with these bigots for years
> in the letters to the editor!
>
> The C.O.R. Party was to the Acadian population
> like the KKK is to the Blacks! Brent Taylor ran for
> the Leadership of the C.O.R. Party in the early 90s
> while in Campbellton he made a very very very
> Anti-French speech!
>
> We all know that a leopard never changes it spots
> and it makes me sick to my stomach seeing this
> headline in the Daily Gleaner and of course I never
> read this BS anyway but there’s something that I
> found very interesting yesterday.
>
> Someone told me that Brent Taylor will run under
> the P.C. Banner during the next Provincial Election!
> Well? I’ll tell you one thing right now!!! If Bernard Lord
> allows that Bigot to run??? Well? I’m going to be front
> and center with this issue!
>
> The P.C Party shouldn’t associate themselves with
> a man like Brent Taylor. Mind you, I met and have some
> good friends from the C.O.R. Party!
>
> As a matter of fact, I had a good chat with Max
> White during the P.C. Annual meeting in Fredericton a
> few months ago!
>
> But I’ll never forget Brent Taylor speech and I’m
> very surprised that he has his own column in the
> Irving Papers??? Why is that now???
>
> The Telegraph Journal stop printing my letters
> but they allowed a bigot to spread his views? Why is
> that now? Who knows?
>
> I crashed their first annual convention in 1991
> when Danny Cameron held a news conference telling the
> Government of the day < Frank McKenna > to removed the
> Acadian flag from on top of the Legislature.
>
> My actions went across Canada. There were 1,000
> members at that convention and I am not afraid to
> speak out against hatred!!!
>
> I was very surprised to see J.K. Irving at Louis
> Robichaud Funeral yesterday!
>
> Of course, I always like J.K. anyway but it’s his
> son J.D that I don’t care for!
>
> Hey? Any Billionaire who supports Racism? There’s
> definitely something wrong with this Picture.
>
> I told J.D. himself that he had a very racist
> Supervisor working at Gulf Operators
>
>
> The Rise and Fall of the New Brunswick CoR Party, 1988-1995
> Geoffrey Martin
>
>
> At the time this article was written Geoffrey Martin was teaching at
> Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick
>
> This article traces the rise and fall of one of Canada's
> recently-formed populist, "New right" parties, the Confederation of
> Regions Party of New Brunswick. It shows how and why the party was
> formed and why it collapsed in the last provincial election. COR-NB
> was a programmatic party based on political protest, which advocated a
> libertarian ideology. The article argues that partisan realignment is
> possible in "traditional" areas like New Brunswick, but that the anger
> that led to the formation of the party eventually turned inward and
> destroyed the party's coherence.
>
> On September 11, 1995, the saga of the Confederation of Regions Party
> of New Brunswick (COR-NB) ended, when the party received 7% of the
> votes and no seats in the provincial election. This represented a
> major collapse of a party, which in the 1991 provincial election
> polled 87,256 votes (21% of the total), took 8 seats, and the position
> of Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly. As it turned out,
> COR-NB's success in 1991 took place in a "populist moment" in New
> Brunswick politics, in which a number of factors came together to
> enable a new party, which rejected "Official Bilingualism" and many of
> the basic principles of the political system, to achieve significant
> success in a province with almost no tradition of third-party
> activity. COR's collapse in the recent election shows that this
> populist moment has passed, along with the other factors that made for
> COR-NB's success. For the forseeable future New Brunswick politics has
> returned to its historic pattern of two-party competition among
> small-c conservative elites.
>
> The COR Party of New Brunswick
>
> COR-NB was formed in 1989, less than two years after the "McKenna
> sweep" of 1987, in which the Liberal Party under Frank McKenna won
> every single seat in the legislature. In the 1991 election, COR-NB won
> its seats in the South and Central parts of the province, and its
> support was also disproportionately in rural, sparsely populated
> areas. COR took advantage of the voters' underlying concern about
> bilingualism. It did this chiefly in the former heartland of the
> Progressive Conservative (PC) Party.
>
> There are five central points that describe the party's platform and
> principles.
>
> The party was, first of all, a programmatic party, not a brokerage
> party. It had a fixed programme which its activists were unwilling to
> compromise.
>
> Second, it was a protest party with roots in a single issue, that of
> "Official Bilingualism." The party was essentially an "ethnic party"
> representing a segment of English New Brunswick which was extremely
> dissatisfied, to the point of anger, over the direction of public
> policy in the province and the country.1
>
> Third, like Social Credit in Alberta, COR-NB was a populist party and
> it placed high priority on changing the system in addition to changing
> specific public policies. This populism was represented most
> significantly in the inversion of the political hierarcy: For COR
> activists, elected members were responsible to the Electorate first,
> then the Party, and only finally the Leader.
>
> Fourth, ideologically the party is "classical liberal" in the
> nineteenth century sense, which today is best referred to as
> libertarian.
>
> Fifth and finally, like Social Credit in the past, in class terms the
> COR Party is petty bourgeois and lower-middle class in its
> orientation.
>
> This final point is important and too often neglected, and is also
> relevant to other Canadian political experiments, especially the
> Reform Party of Canada. In its heyday the COR Party was dominated by
> middle-income and small-business people, professionals, and the
> self-employed. The middle class is the backbone of advanced industrial
> societies and pays more than its share of taxes and is most likely to
> feel put upon and unable to "get ahead." The party went beyond
> appealing only to "middle-income groups." It was also a reflection of
> those individuals who have an intermediate amount of control over
> their work, including professionals, small business people, and
> independent commodity producers, like farmers, woodlot owners, fishers
> and the self-employed in general. These characteristics are important
> because this class sometimes allies with the working class, sometimes
> with the middle class, and sometimes is alienated from both.
>
> Political parties based purely on the middle class and petty
> bourgeoisie are notoriously hard to hold together. As C. B. MacPherson
> notes, "the petite-bourgeoisie cannot be cohesive" in politics because
> the individualism of members of this class divides it and splinters it
> apart.2
>
> In electoral terms the COR Party was not a party of big business or
> the affluent, even if its programme, especially the provisions that
> weaken government, would seem to provide disproportionate benefits to
> large corporate interests. Yet high income groups and wealth holders
> appear to have stuck with the Liberals and PCs. This is symbolized by
> the close association of the powerful McCain family with the Liberal
> Party, and the fact that one of the McCain spouses, Margaret Norrie
> McCain, was appointed to a five-year term as the province's
> Lieutenant-Governor in 1994. The Irving interests, both individual and
> corporate, are harder to identify with certainty. The descendants of
> the founder of the Irving empire take little public role in partisan
> politics, seeming to prefer to influence the provincial government of
> the day regardless of its political stripe. Judging from the 1993
> federal election and the 1995 provincial election, the Irving
> preference runs towards the "old line" parties and not populist
> alternatives further to the right or the left. In the 1993 federal
> campaign, the Irving interests made financial contributions to both
> the PC and Liberal campaign funds, and not to Reform, the National
> Party or the NDP.3
>
> The Formation of the COR Party
>
> The McKenna Liberals completely dominated New Brunswick politics from
> 1987 to 1989, and New Brunswick was effectively a one-party province
> during that time. Yet the COR Party rose much faster, less than two
> years after the 1987 election, than is usually the case with third
> parties. First of all, this rapid rise is explained by the seriousness
> and longevity of New Brunswick's high unemployment and economic
> hardship over the last 25 years. The Progressive Conservative Party
> was wiped out in 1987 as a repudiation of Richard Hatfield, whose
> longevity in power and personal legal troubles turned the electorate
> against him. Further, the Progressive Conservative Party was slow to
> rebuild, and the leader it finally elected, Barbara Baird Filliter,
> was generally regarded as ineffective. The rapidity of the rise of
> COR-NB was also a response to the McKenna government's desire to
> increase bilingualism in the civil service, an effort which the
> government has since admitted it has not succeeded in achieving.
> Finally, for many activists and voters, federal and provincial
> politics are not separate, and one reason for the rise of the COR-NB
> was the activists' distaste for the Mulroney government, another
> handicap for the provincial PC Party.
>
> A neglected aspect of the rise of COR-NB was its genesis as a social
> movement called the New Brunswick Association of English-Speaking
> Canadians, usually shortened to the English Speaking Association
> (ESA). The ESA was formed in the early 1980s to oppose the extension
> of bilingualism in the provincial government, something that it was
> effective in preventing. The ESA was like a party-in-waiting with a
> membership and an agenda, so that activists were easy to mobilize once
> the decision to form a new party was taken in the late 1980s. By that
> time individuals involved in the organization began to question their
> effectiveness as a lobby group. "We brought our concerns to government
> but it just became frustrating because month after month we were
> bringing the same concerns, getting the same answers, and really not
> getting anywhere," said Arch Pafford, COR-NB's first president, first
> leader, and an ESA activist.4
>
> The ESA was a single-issue social movement and the COR Party inherited
> ESA activists and this issue. Perhaps because of its ties to the
> (now-defunct) federal COR Party, COR-NB quickly developed similar New
> Right policies, including opposition to the Meech Lake Accord and
> support for parliamentary reform, tax reform, privatization, and
> deregulation. While party activists claim the COR Party is not a
> one-issue party, the party, like the ESA before it, would never had
> been formed without Anglophone discontent over the perceived lack of
> jobs for Anglophones, and Official Bilingualism, two phenomena that
> COR-NB activists always linked together. As Sue Calhoun has written,
> "If someone is pushed about why they joined COR, the answer is,
> inevitably, because of language."5 Just as the ESA was a protest
> vehicle, the COR Party was a protest party because of its desire to
> overturn the status quo and because of its dependence on a single
> issue, that of language policy.
>
> The COR Party in Decline
>
> By the fall of 1993, two years after the party's breakthrough in the
> 1991 election, the COR Party was clearly in decline, manifested in the
> party's slide in public opinion polls as well as internal bickering.
> By 1994 the party consistently polled between 3-7% of decided voters
> in various polls (down from 21% in the 1991 election) and its
> membership had plunged from around 20,000 in 1991 to approximately
> 2500 by the end of 1994. To some extent the conditions for the decline
> of the party mirror the conditions under which it arose.
>
> In this section some of the reasons for the party's decline will be
> outlined, but we will concentrate on one of the root reasons for the
> party's problems, that of the incompatibility between the party's: a)
> populism; b) free market ideology, and; c) its role as a political
> party and Official Opposition in the existing system. In contrast to
> many members of the party, the argument presented here is that COR's
> problem was not just a matter of finding a new or better leader.
>
> The party ultimately collapsed because of the membership's approach to
> politics and because a section of the party was unwilling to conform
> to the existing party system.
>
> There are straight-forward reasons for the party's decline that should
> be delineated briefly. First, the departure of Brian Mulroney from
> national politics, and the collapse of the federal PCs in the 1993
> federal election, made it possible for small-c conservatives to return
> to the provincial PC Party. Second, the COR Party suffered a double
> blow from the Charlottetown Constitutional Accord referendum in 1992.
> Since the accord was defeated nationally, constitutional and language
> issues disappeared for a time from the political agenda, which hurt
> the COR Party's ability to grab public attention. Even the province's
> constitutionalization of Bill 88, which declared the equality of the
> Francophone and Anglophone communities in the province, and the 1994
> Québec election, did not excite widespread public attention. The
> second blow was that COR-NB led the anti-accord side in New Brunswick
> in 1992 and yet the pro-accord side won convincingly in the province,
> all of which undermined COR-NB's claim that it represented some kind
> of "silent majority."
>
> Third, the provincial PC Party gained new credibility in the last two
> years because of the effectiveness of its leader, Dennis Cochrane, who
> was elected to that position and to the Legislative Assembly in 1991.
> Even the sudden resignation of Mr. Cochrane in the spring of 1995, and
> his replacement by former Mulroney cabinet minister Bernard Valcourt,
> did not revive COR's fortune's. Fourth, Frank McKenna's Liberal
> government was rightward leaning during its second mandate (1991-95),
> given its attitudes toward individual and provincial self-reliance,
> cuts to social and health services, and its emphasis on job creation
> in the private sector. This also hurt the COR Party because like a
> competent brokerage politician, McKenna's rightward move undercut
> COR-NB support, and this left most opponents of the government in the
> centre (supporting the PCs) or to the left (supporting the NDP, led by
> Elizabeth Weir).
>
> All of these are important reasons for the decline of the party, but
> we should concentrate on another reason, the incompatibility of the
> party's self-identity and its role in the system. The party tried to
> combine populism and free market economics, two ideologies that are
> often in conflict because the interest of the "common man" is often in
> conflict with the interests of even small business, let alone the
> larger firms that dominate the New Brunswick political economy. Like
> the supporters of the United Farmers and Social Credit in Alberta,
> COR-NB members believed in the value of the individual and of free
> enterprise, even though the concentration of capital and high levels
> of unemployment are the result of the particular form of
> resource-based capitalism that exists in New Brunswick. The COR Party
> started as a "revolt against the system," though by 1993 the party
> increasingly internalized the system and so the revolt turned inward,
> with all of the venom once reserved only for the New Brunswick Society
> of Acadians and the established parties.
>
> As the economy and job situation in New Brunswick improved somewhat
> after the recession of the early 1990s, COR-NB lost momentum. (Instead
> of scapegoating Acadians as they did in the late 1980s, in 1995 New
> Brunswick Anglophones were more likely to feel aggrieved at the
> Liberal federal government for tightening the Unemployment Insurance
> rules in the 1994 budget, or for its gun control initiative of 1995.)
>
> There is a serious structural problem underlying these internal
> conflicts, in the form of an ideological conflict between Board
> control and caucus control of the party. As has been stated above, the
> party policy is that an elected member is responsible to the
> electorate first, the party second, and the leader last. Yet under its
> constitution the COR Party—and not the elected caucus—selected the
> leader and the Board of Directors could call a leadership convention,
> which inevitably gave the party control over the elected members.
>
> Greg Hargrove (MLA-York North) said in 1993 that the Board overstepped
> its authority in trying to dump then-leader Danny Cameron because the
> Board is answerable to the membership while the caucus is responsible
> to the electorate. By this line of reasoning, the membership can elect
> a leader but cannot remove a leader, which ultimately sounds like the
> "old-line parties" that the COR Party criticized. This suggests an
> inherent contradiction in the party's inversion of the
> "Leader-Party-Electorate" hierarchy, because elected members cannot be
> responsible to the electorate first given the party's power to remove
> the party leader by calling a leadership convention.
>
> Conclusion
>
> COR-NB was a right-of-centre protest party that picked up on the
> tendency of many New Brunswick Anglophones to blame their economic
> woes on Official Bilingualism, big government, and "special interest
> groups." The COR Party went into the vacuum left by the collapse of
> the provincial PCs, aided by the general weakness of political
> opposition in McKenna's first term and the unpopularity of the
> Mulroney government in the Atlantic region. The political culture of
> New Brunswick was, for a brief period, not as traditional as many
> observers claim, because a significant segment of the electorate
> proved that they were willing to try a political alternative to the
> two dominant parties. By making the COR Party the Official Opposition,
> the voters showed that they were prepared to forgo, both as
> individuals and as constituencies, the benefits of having a member on
> the government side of the house.
>
> The COR Party ultimately declined because of the contradiction between
> its anti-party populism and the realities of operating a political
> party in the existing party system. This essay also shows the risks of
> building a new party based on participatory and populist principles
> when it must function in a "democratic" political system that remains
> hierarchical and discourages active, meaningful, mass participation in
> the process of governing between elections. With the election of 1995,
> the voters have again accepted the elitist political system, in which
> a government is judged based on its results—the "bottom line"—and not
> on its style.
>
> The COR Party was formed by a delicate coalition of populists,
> anti-francophone activists, and traditional conservatives. This
> coalition has shattered, and it is unlikely that it will come back
> together in the near future. It may take a generation to rebuild it.
> There is some possibility that populism will make itself felt in the
> coming years, if people increasingly feel alienated from New
> Brunswick's McKenna government and from the Chrétien government in
> Ottawa. The key question is whether any political party can take
> advantage of this populist discontent without itself being consumed by
> its fires.
>
> Notes
>
> 1. More attention is paid to the issue of bilingualism as well as the
> ethnic basis of the party in another article by the same author,
> entitled "The New Brunswick COR Party as an `Ethnic Party'", Canadian
> Review of Studies in Nationalism, forthcoming, 1996, Vol. 23.
>
> 2. See C.B. MacPherson, Democracy in Alberta: Social Credit and the
> Party System, Second Edition, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
> 1962), pp. 224-226.
>
> 3. New Brunwick Telegraph Journal, October 4, 1994, p. 1.
>
> 4. Interview with Arch Pafford, Nordin, NB, August 20, 1993.
>
> 5. Sue Calhoun, "Getting to the Core of COR," New Maritimes, 1992,
> vol. 11, No. (2) November/December, p. 15.
>
>
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