Assembly of First Nations opens annual general assembly in Fredericton
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"Content disabled" So much for free speech in CBC as a Cabinet Minister gives a big Speech in Fat Fred City after Trudeau The Younger changed her mandate in his attempt at a second mandate for himself N'esy Pas?
Latest Sisson Mine approval leaves First Nations, conservation groups uneasy
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David Amos
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"Content disabled" Yea Right
So much for free speech in CBC just before a Cabinet Minister gives a
big Speech in Fat Fred City a week after Mr Prime Minister Trudeau The
Younger changed her mandate before his attempt at a second mandate for
himself N'esy Pas?
On July 15, 2019, legislation dissolving Indigenous and Northern Affairs
Canada and formally establishing the mandates of 2 new departments,
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs (CIRNAC) and Indigenous
Services Canada (ISC), came into effect. CIRNAC and ISC will continue to
work seamlessly together to ensure there are no interruptions to
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names and numbers remain the same. The two websites will be updated
accordingly in the next few months.
David Amos
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There are no
coincidences Methinks Mr Perley wants to tease the "Powers that Be" who
are meeting in Fat Fred City for the next 3 days N'esy Pas?
Gary Barratt everything is uneasy . show us the money !
David Amos
Reply to @Gary Barratt: BINGO
Ben Haroldson from the pic, it looks like he has help in that fight.
David Amos
Reply to @Ben Haroldson: Methinks we all should be so lucky N'esy Pas?
Ray Bungay The
area of NB near Stanley, is pristine and I would feel comfortable
drinking the water in any of the brooks out there. I worry about a major
breach from spring flooding or like a major rainfall we had in parts of
NB this weekend. I lived through a major pollution of Muggah's Creek in
Sydney and the Sydney Tar Ponds from the coking and steel making days
that cost tax payers close to $500 Million.
Including the Mount Polley mine tailings failure another in Brazil left
not only deaths in Brazil but the land was rendered useless.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vale-sa-disaster-ahome/brazilian-mine-tragedy-will-not-be-the-last-tailings-dam-disaster-andy-home-idUSKCN1Q405J
More study needs to be done on this and hopefully a Billion dollar bond is posted for a remote possibility of a breach.
David Amos
Reply to @Ray Bungay: Dream on
Kyle Woodman Good
article Mr. Perley. I don't see this project getting a shovel in the
ground anytime soon. Seems like they're still moving forward but it's
very much a speculation play. Don't give Northcliffe any taxpayer money
and it will never see the light of day.
David Amos Reply to @Kyle Woodman: I heard that too
Samual Johnston I’d
like to see the communities give back all the money they accepted when
the approval was granted. Do that then preach to us about the
traditional gathering grounds.
David Amos
Reply to @Samual Johnston: I concur
Lou Bell
Have
they finished k il l in g the maple trees up there looking to
illegally cut Birdseye Maple ? So much for " protecting the land and
it's resources "
.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Lou Bell: it is not illegal in their case!
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: it sure is illegal - governments afraid to confront them.
Lou Bell
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: It's ILLEGAL to cut Birdseye Maple in NB for everyone. They
went around notching and k il li ing the Maples looking for the
Birdseye. Get your facts straight.
David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks many would agree that you and Lou deserve each other N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Samual Johnston: I agree
CeeJay Shaw This is a strategic tungsten mine. Key word STRATEGIC. This means that NATO needs / wants the ore and nothing will stop it now.
David Amos
Reply to @CeeJay Shaw: Methinks the Fat Lady ain't sung on this issue yet N'esy Pas?
Mario Doucet Just forget it, too many fingers in the pie.
David Amos
Reply to @Mario Doucet: Methinks that is just one of the many reasons why we should enjoy this circus N'esy Pas?
Suzanne Mason A
well written, documented and informative article on the proposed Sisson
Mine. Bravo Logan Perley. I echo concern for the long term negative
impacts of this project on the environment, the wildlife, the water and
the land.
David Amos
Reply to @Suzanne Mason: So you say
Archie Levesque Your environmentally friendly Liberal governments in action
David Amos
Reply to @Archie Levesque: YUP
David Amos I
wonder if Carolyn Bennett study my file in the docket of Federal Court
while she is in Fat Fred City? Methinks many Chiefs and media dudes and
even Jake Stewart know why I ran against her predecessor Andy Scott many
moons ago N'esy Pas?
"Carolyn Bennett, minister of Crown-Indigenous relations and northern
affairs, is in attendance and reflected on what she sees as positive
strides in Indigenous relations and steps toward self-determination for
First Nations.
In her remarks before the afternoon talks, Bennett said Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau has made it clear that Indigenous Rights "are not
optional."
The minister said the relationship between the Canadian government and
Indigenous people is now based on "recognition of rights, respect,
co-operation and partnership."
"Delegates that rose to provide comments and questions, however,
disputed the minister's remarks. The roughly dozen individuals that
spoke described a disconnect between Bennett's words and their reality.
Words like "reconciliation" have no meaning if Ottawa isn't practising what it preaches, they said.
"You might say good words, but when it comes down to the bureaucrats,
we're not seeing it," Chief Elaine Johnston of Serpent River First
Nation in Ontario told Bennett.
Progress toward self-determination is hampered by federal negotiators
and Department of Justice officials who aren't embracing pledges of
respect and rights recognition made by Bennett's department, they said."
Latest Sisson Mine approval leaves First Nations, conservation groups uneasy
Tailings pond for proposed mine north of Fredericton requires damming two fish-bearing brooks
Nick
Polchies of Woodstock First Nation isn't ready to give up his
opposition to the Sisson Mine, despite the project's approval by two
levels of government. (Logan Perley/CBC)
For two years, Nick Polchies of Woodstock First Nation and his
dog Arizona have been waking up in the woods, on land that someday — and
for centuries to come — could be a toxic tailings pond.
Polchies initially went to the site, about 80 kilometres northwest of Fredericton, to help the Wolastoqi grandmothers already camping out there to protest the proposed Sisson Mine.
Northcliff Resources
Ltd., a Vancouver-based company, says its open-pit tungsten and
molybdenum mine would create 500 jobs during construction and 300 jobs
for the 27 years it is expected to operate.
The
$579-million mine near the community of Napadogan would also have a
storage pond for toxic waste that would last for many years after the
mine is abandoned. The waste facility would require the damming of two
fish-bearing brooks.
Polchies's
resolve to fight the project only deepened when the mine and the
tailings pond proposed for the unceded Wolastoqey land got approval this
summer from Environment and Climate Change Canada.
"Basically,
my mind kind of went to an old meme," said the frustrated Polchies.
"It's like 'how many times must we teach you this lesson, old man?' Like
it's not going to happen, we're not going to allow it to happen."
The proposed mine project includes a tailings pond and ore processing plant, covering 12.5 square kilometres of Crown land. (Northcliff Resources Ltd
First Nations and environmental groups have been concerned about the
mining project since it was first proposed in 2011. And despite being
consulted as the proposal moved through the approval process, they still
believe it's a mistake.
"It's unfortunate but the economic
arguments in favour of large mining projects almost always outweigh the
environmental damages that projects like the Sisson Mine will do," said
Lois Corbett, executive director of the Conservation Council of New
Brunswick.
The federal approval published July 10 came with
amendments to the regulations covering metal and diamond mining
effluent. Under the revised regulations, Bird Brook and West Branch
Napadogan Brook would be lost and included in the tailings pond.
Endangered American eel and Atlantic salmon are present in both brooks,
which run into the Nashwaak River, then to the St. John River, or
Wolastoq.
Two years later, six Wolastoqey communities — St. Mary's, Woodstock, Oromocto, Tobique, Kingsclear and Madawaska — signed an "accommodation" agreement with the province, a multi-million dollar deal giving them a share of provincial revenue generated by the mine.
The
bands said their position on the mine hadn't changed but they had no
choice but to sign the accommodation agreement. If they didn't sign,
they'd lose a tax agreement with the province, which provides them with own-source revenue.
Archeological
surveying done since the mine was proposed has uncovered artifacts near
the ore body, including an 8,500-year-old spear point.
Other
artifacts that were documented and sealed disappeared from the same
site. A traditional longhouse has since been constructed there and has
been used for ceremonies.
Two brooks to vanish
Even
the federal Environment Department's own assessment of the project,
produced in 2017, found the mine would have adverse effects on the
environment and the Wolastoqiyik's traditional use of the land and
water. But the government decided that with mitigation, the adverse
effects could be justified.
Northcliff has not said when it
wants to go ahead with the Sisson Mine. Tungsten is at its lowest price
since 2010, while molybdenum is only slowly gaining value.
After the recent federal approval of the mine, the Wolastoqey Nation in New Brunswick chiefs reiterated their opposition.
Marieka
Chaplin, executive director of the Nashwaak Watershed Association, says
her grassroots group is opposed to the destruction of fish-bearing
streams. (Matthew Bingley/CBC)
First
Nations and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans were consulted on
the fish habitat compensation plan for the project needed before mine
waste can be deposited in the two fish-bearing brooks.
But the
chiefs said in a news release that despite being part of the engagement
process, they weren't notified the two brooks would not be protected by
effluent regulations.
Eye-opening moment
Polchies
said he didn't know anything about the mine project until a
provincial Department of Natural Resources agent first talked to him
about it several years ago.
"He pointed out a little distance
and said, It's going to expand from here to here, roughly that would be
about the size of that dam, it's going to be all tailings, toxic
water,'" Polchies said. "And that's pretty much when I knew I had to
switch places."
Marieka Chaplin, executive director of the
Nashwaak Watershed Association, which has been involved in the
consultation from the early stages, said there are many things about the
tailings pond that are concerning.
"We're concerned about the
impact the project would have on our rivers and waterways," Chaplin
said. "And obviously as a grassroots watershed organization, we're just
simply opposed to the destruction of fish-bearing streams because that's
one of the main things that we're trying to restore and conserve."
Lois
Corbett, executive director of the Conservation Council of New
Brunswick, says the dam for the Sisson Mine's tailings storage facility
will be twice as high as the Mactaquac Dam and 16 times as long. (Jon Collicott/CBC)
Chaplin said her group has been a part of the consultation process but still doesn't know what the detailed financial plan is.
"We're very curious to know what it would cost to treat and store the
mine's tailings, for example. We're concerned about seepage from the
mine's tailings there."
It's
unfortunate but the economic arguments in favour of large mining
projects almost always outweigh the environmental damages that projects
like the Sisson Mine will do
- Lois Corbett, Conservation Council of New Brunswick
Despite the federal approval, the project is still subject to 40 legally binding conditions attached to the provincial approval.
They
include collaborating with post-secondary institutions for training
programs, an emergency preparedness and response program, consulting
with First Nations to determine the impact on animals of importance, and
a water management plan.
"The project owners can crow and say
that it's a significant milestone," Corbett said of the federal
approval, "but there's a whole heck of a lot more hills that have to be
overcome before we'll see a shovel in the ground."
Economic argument wins
Although
many people wrote to oppose the mine project, especially the dumping of
waste into two brooks, Corbett said she wasn't surprised Northcliff has
won approval from government.
"This is a economic depressed
area, so this is an easy place to do a foolio on the government and …
decision-makers. And I think that we need to end that era being taken
advantage of."
"It's unfortunate but the economic arguments in
favour of large mining projects almost always outweigh the environmental
damages that projects like the Sisson Mine will do."
Contents
from the Mount Polley Mine tailings pond spill down the Hazeltine Creek
into Quesnel Lake near the town of Likely, B.C., in this photo from
Aug. 5, 2014. The dam for the pond that stored toxic waste broke,
causing a wide water-use ban in the area. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press
Despite industry's advantage, Corbett said, First Nations and
environmental groups were still able get $954,000 set aside for the fish
habitat compensation plan, up from the $83,000 initially proposed.
"That got jacked up to almost a million dollars, so it is better now,"
she said. "But from an ecological perspective, what the compensation
package is doing is actually taking down one culvert and one dam, and
restoring alewife in the Nashwaak, which is an admirable goal but it is
not replacing Atlantic salmon nor American eel.
"So that it's kind of a switcheroo."
"Heck of a big dam"
Corbett said that the dam that will hold back the proposed tailings pond at Sisson will be larger than the Mactaquac Dam.
The tailings storage facility will be roughly 3½ kilometres by 2½ kilometres and up to 90 metres high.
"So that's one heck of a big dam," she said.
The tailings storage facility will be built from earth and rock with a geosynthetic liner.
The Mount Polley mine disaster in 2014 was a wakeup call about the regulation of the mining industry, Corbett said.
In
2014, a tailings pond for the Mount Polley copper and gold open-pit
mine in British Columbia breached and flooded toxic water and mine waste
into the nearby lakes and streams. Charges have not been laid against
the mining company responsible for the breach.
"We
were freaking out about a dam, approved federally and provincially,
that collapsed and wiped out lakes and fisheries," Corbett said.
Representatives
of Northcliff Resources Ltd. and the New Brunswick Department of
Environment and Local Government were contacted but would not be
interviewed.
Nick Polchies is confident the protest camp at the
proposed site will remain for as necessary, or when the project
is called off.
"It's a fight and I refuse to stand down" Polchies says.
Logan
Perley is a Wolastoqey journalist from Tobique First Nation and a
summer intern at CBC New Brunswick. You can email him at
logan.perley@cbc.ca or follow him on Twitter @LoganPerley.
St. Mary's chief takes diversion route following sexual assault charge
Chief Alan (Chicky) Polchies is facing one count of sexual assault and one count of assault
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Chief
Allan (Chicky) Polchies Jr. said in a statement Monday he accepted the
Crown's offer of enrolling the adult diversion program. (Ed Hunter/CBC)
On
the day before the Assembly of First Nations' annual general assembly
officially was set to begin in Fredericton, the chief of St. Mary's
First Nation was busy rallying support to keep his name on the agenda
amid a sexual-assault charge.
The lawyer for Chief Allan
(Chicky) Polchies said his client was removed from the opening
ceremonies by the First Nations Assembly executive council because of
their zero tolerance policy toward sexual assault allegations.
Polchies
is facing one count of sexual assault and one count of assault, both
alleged to have taken place in Fredericton around March 2.
CBC
News could not confirm whether Polchies's involvement in the three-day
event has been diminished in light of the charges. The assembly did not
respond to an interview request.
Polchies,
who met with fellow chiefs from New Brunswick on Monday, issued a
statement saying he will go through the post-charge diversion program.
If completed, the diversion program allows charges to be withdrawn.
"An
allegation has been made against me by a member of our community which I
would normally take to court to prove my innocence due to my belief of
the lack of evidence required to obtain a conviction," Polchies said in
the statement.
"However, the offer of post charge diversion was made to me by the Crown Prosecutor's office which I have fully accepted."
The
adult diversion program was designed as an alternative to the court
system "by holding eligible adults accountable for their actions at the
community level while also linking them with required interventions to
prevent future offending," states Public Safety Canada.
The
Assembly of First Nations annual general assembly begins Tuesday with a
pipe ceremony at St. Mary's First Nation, a reserve located within the
city of Fredericton.
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The Assembly of First Nations will open its 40th annual general assembly in the Fredericton region on Tuesday.
First
Nation leaders from across Canada are in the New Brunswick capital for
the three-day event, a chance to discuss Indigenous issues and the
challenges facing Canada and its relationship with First Nations.
Chief
Elaine Johnston of Serpent River First Nation in Ontario was among the
droves of delegates who arrived and registered for the conference
Monday.
"It's
an opportunity for all the First Nation leaders to network and also
talk about the future directions that we'd like to work on," Johnston
said.
She said she's keen to discuss how newly passed federal
legislation to overhaul the Indigenous child welfare system, known as
Bill C-92, will affect her community.
An exchange of water ceremony took place early Tuesday morning in Fredericton. (Catherine Harrop/CBC)
The oft-criticized legislation is
listed among the issues for the afternoon discussion and resolutions
session. The assembly will also discuss the environment and climate
change; housing, water and emergency management; and the new Indigenous
languages legislation, among other topics.
A
pipe ceremony at 6 a.m. AT on St. Mary's First Nation opened the
general assembly, followed by an exchange of water ceremony, where
six participants travelled by canoe along the St. John River to give
thanks to the body of water. About 60 people, including chiefs and
members of the public, were in attendance.
This
week's annual general assembly of the Assembly of First Nations in
Fredericton was marked by a flag raising ceremony at city hall on
Monday. The flag for the traditional Wolastoqey territory was raised. (Ed Hunter/CBC)
The
opening ceremonies and official welcome will run from 9 to 11 a.m. at
the Fredericton Convention Centre, home to most of the proceedings.
Carolyn
Bennett, minister of Crown-Indigenous relations and northern affairs,
will address the assembly at 1 p.m. before the discussion session
begins.
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Cordialement,
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Députée de Toronto-St. Paul's
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 15:39:54 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Re Federal Court File No T-1557-15 I called
Office of the Honourable Carolyn Bennett before she gives her big
speech in Fat Fred City today
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Latest Sisson Mine approval leaves First Nations, conservation groups uneasy
Tailings pond for proposed mine north of Fredericton requires damming
two fish-bearing brooks
Logan Perley · CBC News · Posted: Jul 22, 2019 7:41 PM AT
David Amos
I wonder if Carolyn Bennett study my file in the docket of Federal
Court while she is in Fat Fred City? Methinks many Chiefs and media
dudes and even Jake Stewart know why I ran against her predecessor
Andy Scott many moons ago N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Content disabled
"Content disabled" Yea Right
So much for free speech in CBC just before a Cabinet Minister gives a
big Speech in Fat Fred City a week after Mr Prime Minister Trudeau The
Younger changed her mandate before his attempt at a second mandate for
himself N'esy Pas?
On July 15, 2019, legislation dissolving Indigenous and Northern
Affairs Canada and formally establishing the mandates of 2 new
departments, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs (CIRNAC)
and Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), came into effect. CIRNAC and ISC
will continue to work seamlessly together to ensure there are no
interruptions to inquiries, delivery of services or relationships with
partners. Contact names and numbers remain the same. The two websites
will be updated accordingly in the next few months.
David Amos
Content disabled
There are no coincidences Methinks Mr Perley wants to tease the
"Powers that Be" who are meeting in Fat Fred City for the next 3 days
N'esy Pas?
New Brunswick capital hosts 3-day conference
CBC News · Posted: Jul 23, 2019 5:00 AM AT | Last Updated: an hour ago
LIVE
CBC News
The Assembly of First Nations hosts its 40th annual general assembly
in Fredericton LIVE
00:00 Live
Up to 2,000 delegates are expected to gather under the theme
Celebrating Successes and Giving Thanks. 0:00
The Assembly of First Nations will open its 40th annual general
assembly in the Fredericton region on Tuesday.
First Nation leaders from across Canada are in the New Brunswick
capital for the three-day event, a chance to discuss Indigenous issues
and the challenges facing Canada and its relationship with First
Nations.
Chief Elaine Johnston of Serpent River First Nation in Ontario was
among the droves of delegates who arrived and registered for the
conference Monday.
"It's an opportunity for all the First Nation leaders to network and
also talk about the future directions that we'd like to work on,"
Johnston said.
She said she's keen to discuss how newly passed federal legislation to
overhaul the Indigenous child welfare system, known as Bill C-92, will
affect her community.
An exchange of water ceremony took place early Tuesday morning in
Fredericton. (Catherine Harrop/CBC)
The oft-criticized legislation is listed among the issues for the
afternoon discussion and resolutions session. The assembly will also
discuss the environment and climate change; housing, water and
emergency management; and the new Indigenous languages legislation,
among other topics.
Indigenous people don't want to be excluded from snow crab
fishery, national chief says
A pipe ceremony at 6 a.m. AT on St. Mary's First Nation opened the
general assembly, followed by an exchange of water ceremony, where six
participants travelled by canoe along the St. John River to give
thanks to the body of water. About 60 people, including chiefs and
members of the public, were in attendance.
This week's annual general assembly of the Assembly of First Nations
in Fredericton was marked by a flag raising ceremony at city hall on
Monday. The flag for the traditional Wolastoqey territory was raised.
(Ed Hunter/CBC)
The opening ceremonies and official welcome will run from 9 to 11 a.m.
at the Fredericton Convention Centre, home to most of the proceedings.
Carolyn Bennett, minister of Crown-Indigenous relations and northern
affairs, will address the assembly at 1 p.m. before the discussion
session begins.
On July 15, 2019, legislation dissolving Indigenous and Northern
Affairs Canada and formally establishing the mandates of 2 new
departments, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs (CIRNAC)
and Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), came into effect. CIRNAC and ISC
will continue to work seamlessly together to ensure there are no
interruptions to inquiries, delivery of services or relationships with
partners. Contact names and numbers remain the same. The two websites
will be updated accordingly in the next few months.
Minister Bennett to participate in the Assembly of First Nations' 40th
Annual General Assembly
From: Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
Media advisory
Fredericton, New Brunswick – Please be advised that the Honourable
Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, will deliver
remarks at the Assembly of First Nations' Annual General Assembly.
Date: July 23, 2019
Time: 1 p.m. (ADT)
Where:
Fredericton Convention Centre
670 Queen Street
Fredericton, New Brunswick
E3B 1C2
Contacts
For more information:
Matthew Dillon-Leitch
Director of Communications
Office of the Honourable Carolyn Bennett
819-997-0002
St. Mary's NB chief takes diversion route following sexual assault charg
Chief Alan “Chicky” Polchies is facing one count of sexual assault and
one count of assault
CBC News · Posted: Jul 22, 2019 9:37 PM AT
Chief Allan (Chicky) Polchies Jr. said in a statement Monday he
accepted the Crown's offer of enrolling the adult diversion program.
(Ed Hunter/CBC)
On the day before the Assembly of First Nations' annual general
assembly officially was set to begin in Fredericton, the chief of St.
Mary's First Nation was busy rallying support to keep his name on the
agenda amid a sexual-assault charge.
The lawyer for Chief Allan "Chicky" Polchies said his client was
removed from the opening ceremonies by the First Nations Assembly
executive council because of their zero tolerance policy toward sexual
assault allegations.
Polchies is facing one count of sexual assault and one count of
assault, both alleged to have taken place in Fredericton around March
2.
CBC News could not confirm whether Polchies's involvement in the
three-day event has been diminished in light of the charges. The
assembly did not respond to an interview request.
St. Mary's First Nation chief faces charges of assault, sexual assault
Polchies, who met with fellow chiefs from New Brunswick on Monday,
issued a statement saying he will go through the post-charge diversion
program. If completed, the diversion program allows charges to be
withdrawn.
"An allegation has been made against me by a member of our community
which I would normally take to court to prove my innocence due to my
belief of the lack of evidence required to obtain a conviction,"
Polchies said in the statement.
"However, the offer of post charge diversion was made to me by the
Crown Prosecutor's office which I have fully accepted."
The adult diversion program was designed as an alternative to the
court system "by holding eligible adults accountable for their actions
at the community level while also linking them with required
interventions to prevent future offending," states Public Safety
Canada.
The Assembly of First Nations annual general assembly begins Tuesday
with a pipe ceremony at St. Mary's First Nation, a reserve located
within the city of Fredericton.
With files from Catherine Harrop
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From: TJ Burke <tj@burkelaw.ca>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 08:44:57 -0700
Subject: Out of Office Reply Re: YO Carl Urquhart the RCMP, the Fat
Fred City Finest and everybody I have been arguing in Federal Court
know that your blogging buddy Chucky Leblanc knows exactly who Mikey
Comeau is N'esy Pas?
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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:06:06 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks everybody knows why I called the
Media Relations Department of National Defence (613-996-2353)
immediately after I read this news statement # 83 of my lawsuit said
enough N'esy Pas?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
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From: "Hon.Ralph.Goodale (PS/SP)" <Hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:05:58 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks everybody knows why I called the
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To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
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From: "Eidt, David (JAG/JPG)" <David.Eidt@gnb.ca>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:05:54 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks everybody knows why I called the
Media Relations Department of National Defence (613-996-2353)
immediately after I read this news statement # 83 of my lawsuit said
enough N'esy Pas?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
I am out of the office until Tuesday afternoon, July 23. For
immediate assistance, please dial (506) 453-2222.
Je suis absent du bureau jusqu'au 23 Juillet. Si vous avez besoin de
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From: Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l’Ontario <Premier@ontario.ca>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:05:59 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks everybody knows why I called the
Media Relations Department of National Defence (613-996-2353)
immediately after I read this news statement # 83 of my lawsuit said
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Replying to @DavidRayAmos @alllibertynews and 49 others
Methinks everybody knows why I called the Media Relations Department
of National Defence (613-996-2353) immediately after I read this news
statement # 83 of my lawsuit said enough N'esy Pas?
Ottawa sets aside $900M to settle sexual misconduct lawsuits against
Canadian Armed Forces
Class members will be eligible for compensation between $5,000 and $55,000
This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29,
2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP.
Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have
taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve
Graham of the RCMP "J" Division in Fredericton.
Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off over
the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured I was not
ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our position
is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the
Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear
that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada and
theUS. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment policing
in Petitcodiac, NB.
It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on
December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
Say Hoka Hey to your snotty hubby the latest publisher of the Kings
County Record. wiil ya?
Perhaps he and you buddies in Kings county should review what
his/Irvings paper wrote about me four god damned years ago. You will
find that article within a blog of chucky Leblanc's that he had Goggle
delete. It is within an email that his editor sent to a reporter and I
in the USA before I ran for a seat in Parliament again. Never forget
my words are legally published int the USA according to its
Consitution. Scotty editor sent her email to me in the USA and to a
fellow reporter too. Whereas you are just a criminal lawer in New
Brunswick I doubt that you have a licence to argue civil lawsuits in
the USA. Perhaps you should find a lawyer now EH Ms. Menard? Why not
ask the Irving's new sorta son in law who replaced Paul Zed (the
lawyer in New York or whereever) to take me on?
Veritas vincit
David Raymond amos
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
First the Irving's Rags write this about the doings between T.J. Burke
and I last year. have my blog and emails killed then sing your praises
about your legal Bullshit next year? Have alook for yourself lady
Just Dave
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Where are ya living now???? Since the media seem to ignore ya? I'll
sit down for a debate with a recorder for the blog...Now? Don't get
all exicted and send this all over the world.....lol
Methinks your liberal pals just made a major faux pas N'est Pas?
Scroll down Frenchie and go down?.
Threat against Burke taken seriously
By STEPHEN LLEWELLYN dgleg@nb.aibn.com
Published Thursday May 24th, 2007
Appeared on page A1
An RCMP security detail has been guarding Justice Minister and
Attorney General T.J. Burke because of threats made against him
recently.
Burke, the Liberal MLA for Fredericton-Fort Nashwaaksis, wouldn't
explain the nature of the threats.
"I have had a particular individual or individuals who have made
specific overtures about causing harm towards me," he told reporters
Wednesday.
"The RCMP has provided security to me recently by accompanying me to a
couple of public functions where the individual is known to reside or
have family members in the area," said Burke. "It is nice to have some
added protection and that added comfort."
The RCMP provides protection to the premier and MLAs with its VIP security unit.
Burke didn't say when the threat was made but it's believed to have
been in recent weeks.
"When a threat is posed to you and it is a credible threat, you have
to be cautious about where you go and who you are around," he said.
"But again, I am more concerned about my family as opposed to my own
personal safety."
Burke said he doesn't feel any differently and he has not changed his
pattern of activity.
"It doesn't bother me one bit," he said. "It makes my wife feel awful nervous."
Burke served in an elite American military unit before becoming a
lawyer and going into politics in New Brunswick.
"(I) have taken my own precautions and what I have to do to ensure my
family's safety," he said. "I am a very cautious person in general due
to my background and training.
"I am comfortable with defending myself or my family if it ever had to happen."
Burke said it is not uncommon for politicians to have security concerns.
"We do live unfortunately in an age and in a society now where threats
have to be taken pretty seriously," he said.
Since the terrorism attacks in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001,
security in New Brunswick has been
beefed up.
Metal detectors were recently installed in the legislature and all
visitors are screened.
The position of attorney general is often referred to as the
province's "top cop."
Burke said sometimes people do not differentiate between his role as
the manager of the justice system and the individual who actually
prosecutes them.
"With the job sometimes comes threats," he said. "I have had numerous
threats since Day 1 in office."
Burke said he hopes his First Nations heritage has nothing to do with it.
"I think it is more of an issue where people get fixated on a matter
and they believe you are personally responsible for assigning them
their punishment or their sanction," he said.
Is the threat from someone who was recently incarcerated?
"I probably shouldn't answer that," he replied.
Reporters asked when the threat would be over.
"I don't think a threat ever passes once it has been made," said
Burke. "You have to consider the credibility of the source."
Bruce Fitch, former justice minister in the Conservative government,
said "every now and again there would be e-mails that were not
complimentary."
"I did have a meeting with the RCMP who are in charge of the security
of the MLAs and ministers," said Fitch.
"They look at each and every situation."
Fitch said he never had bodyguards assigned to him although former
premier Bernard Lord and former health minister Elvy Robichaud did
have extra security staff assigned on occasion.
He said if any MLA felt threatened, he or she would discuss it with the RCMP.
My Name is Lou LaFleur and I am a Detective with the Fredericton
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that I am investigating and that you are alleged to have involvement
in.
Please call me at your earliest convenience and leave a message and a
phone number on my secure and confidential line if I am not in my
office.
yours truly,
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Fredericton Police Force
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Fredericton, NB
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Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:38:43 -0400
Subject: Re: RE The call from the Boston cop Robert Ridge (857 259
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To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:38:41 +0000
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As I told the RCMP who called me last month the proper time and place
to discuss the CBA and your former partner Judge Richard Bell is the
Federal Court of Canada
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Halifax partner Ray Adlington was recently named to the CBA Board of Directors.
In their announcement yesterday the CBA advised that the board would
come into effect September 1st, 2017.
After collecting extensive input over the past two years, we know
that CBA members believe it’s important for the organization to have a
Board of Directors that reflects the diversity of the legal
profession, including a mix of practice types, experience, skills,
geography and more.
Our new Board of Directors exemplifies this principle.
The board is composed from one member from each province as well as
the CBA President.
Congratulations Ray on this well deserved appointment.
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:15:59 -0400
> Subject: Hey Ralph Goodale perhaps you and the RCMP should call the
> Yankees Governor Charlie Baker, his lawyer Bob Ross, Rachael Rollins
> and this cop Robert Ridge (857 259 9083) ASAP EH Mr Primme Minister
> Trudeau the Younger and Donald Trump Jr?
> To: pm@pm.gc.ca, Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca,
> Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca, djtjr@trumporg.com,
> Donald.J.Trump@donaldtrump.com, JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca,
> Frank.McKenna@td.com, barbara.massey@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> Douglas.Johnson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, sandra.lofaro@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> gov.press@state.ma.us, bob.ross@state.ma.us, jfurey@nbpower.com,
> jfetzer@d.umn.edu, Newsroom@globeandmail.com, sfine@globeandmail.com,
> .Poitras@cbc.ca, steve.murphy@ctv.ca, David.Akin@globalnews.ca,
> Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, news@kingscorecord.com,
> news@dailygleaner.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com, jbosnitch@gmail.com,
> andre@jafaust.com>
> Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com, DJT@trumporg.com
> wharrison@nbpower.com, David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca,
> Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca, hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca
>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "Murray, Charles (Ombud)" <Charles.Murray@gnb.ca>
>> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:16:15 +0000
>> Subject: You wished to speak with me
>> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>
>> I have the advantage, sir, of having read many of your emails over the
>> years.
>>
>>
>> As such, I do not think a phone conversation between us, and
>> specifically one which you might mistakenly assume was in response to
>> your threat of legal action against me, is likely to prove a
>> productive use of either of our time.
>>
>>
>> If there is some specific matter about which you wish to communicate
>> with me, feel free to email me with the full details and it will be
>> given due consideration.
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>>
>> Charles Murray
>>
>> Ombud NB
>>
>> Acting Integrity Commissioner
>>
>>
>>> From: Justice Website <JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca>
>>> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:21:11 +0000
>>> Subject: Emails to Department of Justice and Province of Nova Scotia
>>> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Mr. Amos,
>>> We acknowledge receipt of your recent emails to the Deputy Minister of
>>> Justice and lawyers within the Legal Services Division of the
>>> Department of Justice respecting a possible claim against the Province
>>> of Nova Scotia. Service of any documents respecting a legal claim
>>> against the Province of Nova Scotia may be served on the Attorney
>>> General at 1690 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS. Please note that we will
>>> not be responding to further emails on this matter.
>>>
>>> Department of Justice
>>>
>>> On 8/3/17, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If want something very serious to download and laugh at as well Please
>>>> Enjoy and share real wiretap tapes of the mob
>>>>
>>>> http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2013/10/re-glen-greenwald-and-braz
>>>> ilian.html
>>>>
>>>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/06/09/nsa-leak-guardian.html
>>>>>
>>>>> As the CBC etc yap about Yankee wiretaps and whistleblowers I must
>>>>> ask them the obvious question AIN'T THEY FORGETTING SOMETHING????
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vugUalUO8YY
>>>>>
>>>>> What the hell does the media think my Yankee lawyer served upon the
>>>>> USDOJ right after I ran for and seat in the 39th Parliament baseball
>>>>> cards?
>>>>>
>>>>> http://archive.org/details/ITriedToExplainItToAllMaritimersInEarly200
>>>>> 6
>>>>>
>>>>> http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/2006/05/wiretap-tapes-impeach-bush.html
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.archive.org/details/PoliceSurveilanceWiretapTape139
>>>>>
>>>>> http://archive.org/details/Part1WiretapTape143
>>>>>
>>>>> FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006
>>>>> Senator Arlen Specter
>>>>> United States Senate
>>>>> Committee on the Judiciary
>>>>> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
>>>>> Washington, DC 20510
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear Mr. Specter:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
>>>>> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters
>>>>> raised in the attached letter.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wire tap
>>>>> tapes.
>>>>>
>>>>> I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this previously.
>>>>>
>>>>> Very truly yours,
>>>>> Barry A. Bachrach
>>>>> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
>>>>> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
>>>>> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>>> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:32:09 -0400
>>>> Subject: Attn Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
>>>> To: coi@gnb.ca
>>>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> Good Day Sir
>>>>
>>>> After I heard you speak on CBC I called your office again and managed
>>>> to speak to one of your staff for the first time
>>>>
>>>> Please find attached the documents I promised to send to the lady who
>>>> answered the phone this morning. Please notice that not after the Sgt
>>>> at Arms took the documents destined to your office his pal Tanker
>>>> Malley barred me in writing with an "English" only document.
>>>>
>>>> These are the hearings and the dockets in Federal Court that I
>>>> suggested that you study closely.
>>>>
>>>> This is the docket in Federal Court
>>>>
>>>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=T-1557-15&select_court=T
>>>>
>>>> These are digital recordings of the last three hearings
>>>>
>>>> Dec 14th https://archive.org/details/BahHumbug
>>>>
>>>> January 11th, 2016 https://archive.org/details/Jan11th2015
>>>>
>>>> April 3rd, 2017
>>>>
>>>> https://archive.org/details/April32017JusticeLeblancHearing
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is the docket in the Federal Court of Appeal
>>>>
>>>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_info_e.php?court_no=A-48-16&select_court=All
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The only hearing thus far
>>>>
>>>> May 24th, 2017
>>>>
>>>> https://archive.org/details/May24thHoedown
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This Judge understnds the meaning of the word Integrity
>>>>
>>>> Date: 20151223
>>>>
>>>> Docket: T-1557-15
>>>>
>>>> Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 23, 2015
>>>>
>>>> PRESENT: The Honourable Mr. Justice Bell
>>>>
>>>> BETWEEN:
>>>>
>>>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>>>>
>>>> Plaintiff
>>>>
>>>> and
>>>>
>>>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>>>>
>>>> Defendant
>>>>
>>>> ORDER
>>>>
>>>> (Delivered orally from the Bench in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on
>>>> December 14, 2015)
>>>>
>>>> The Plaintiff seeks an appeal de novo, by way of motion pursuant to
>>>> the Federal Courts Rules (SOR/98-106), from an Order made on November
>>>> 12, 2015, in which Prothonotary Morneau struck the Statement of Claim
>>>> in its entirety.
>>>>
>>>> At the outset of the hearing, the Plaintiff brought to my attention a
>>>> letter dated September 10, 2004, which he sent to me, in my then
>>>> capacity as Past President of the New Brunswick Branch of the Canadian
>>>> Bar Association, and the then President of the Branch, Kathleen Quigg,
>>>> (now a Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal). In that letter
>>>> he stated:
>>>>
>>>> As for your past President, Mr. Bell, may I suggest that you check the
>>>> work of Frank McKenna before I sue your entire law firm including you.
>>>> You are your brother’s keeper.
>>>>
>>>> Frank McKenna is the former Premier of New Brunswick and a former
>>>> colleague of mine at the law firm of McInnes Cooper. In addition to
>>>> expressing an intention to sue me, the Plaintiff refers to a number of
>>>> people in his Motion Record who he appears to contend may be witnesses
>>>> or potential parties to be added. Those individuals who are known to
>>>> me personally, include, but are not limited to the former Prime
>>>> Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper; former
>>>> Attorney General of Canada and now a Justice of the Manitoba Court of
>>>> Queen’s Bench, Vic Toews; former member of Parliament Rob Moore;
>>>> former Director of Policing Services, the late Grant Garneau; former
>>>> Chief of the Fredericton Police Force, Barry McKnight; former Staff
>>>> Sergeant Danny Copp; my former colleagues on the New Brunswick Court
>>>> of Appeal, Justices Bradley V. Green and Kathleen Quigg, and, retired
>>>> Assistant Commissioner Wayne Lang of the Royal Canadian Mounted
>>>> Police.
>>>>
>>>> In the circumstances, given the threat in 2004 to sue me in my
>>>> personal capacity and my past and present relationship with many
>>>> potential witnesses and/or potential parties to the litigation, I am
>>>> of the view there would be a reasonable apprehension of bias should I
>>>> hear this motion. See Justice de Grandpré’s dissenting judgment in
>>>> Committee for Justice and Liberty et al v National Energy Board et al,
>>>> [1978] 1 SCR 369 at p 394 for the applicable test regarding
>>>> allegations of bias. In the circumstances, although neither party has
>>>> requested I recuse myself, I consider it appropriate that I do so.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> AS A RESULT OF MY RECUSAL, THIS COURT ORDERS that the Administrator of
>>>> the Court schedule another date for the hearing of the motion. There
>>>> is no order as to costs.
>>>>
>>>> “B. Richard Bell”
>>>> Judge
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Below after the CBC article about your concerns (I made one comment
>>>> already) you will find the text of just two of many emails I had sent
>>>> to your office over the years since I first visited it in 2006.
>>>>
>>>> I noticed that on July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the the Court
>>>> Martial Appeal Court of Canada Perhaps you should scroll to the
>>>> bottom of this email ASAP and read the entire Paragraph 83 of my
>>>> lawsuit now before the Federal Court of Canada?
>>>>
>>>> "FYI This is the text of the lawsuit that should interest Trudeau the
>>>> most
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>>> From: justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca
>>>> Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:18 PM
>>>> Subject: Réponse automatique : RE My complaint against the CROWN in
>>>> Federal Court Attn David Hansen and Peter MacKay If you planning to
>>>> submit a motion for a publication ban on my complaint trust that you
>>>> dudes are way past too late
>>>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> Veuillez noter que j'ai changé de courriel. Vous pouvez me rejoindre à
>>>> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>>>>
>>>> Pour rejoindre le bureau de M. Trudeau veuillez envoyer un courriel à
>>>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>>>>
>>>> Please note that I changed email address, you can reach me at
>>>> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>>>>
>>>> To reach the office of Mr. Trudeau please send an email to
>>>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>>
>>>> Merci ,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2015/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 83. The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war
>>>> in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation to
>>>> allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over
>>>> five years after he began his bragging:
>>>>
>>>> January 13, 2015
>>>> This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate
>>>>
>>>> December 8, 2014
>>>> Why Canada Stood Tall!
>>>>
>>>> Friday, October 3, 2014
>>>> Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And
>>>> Stupid Justin Trudeau
>>>>
>>>> Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide
>>>> behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
>>>>
>>>> When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean Chretien
>>>> actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second campaign
>>>> in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or contrary to
>>>> the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were
>>>> involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There were
>>>> significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the dearth
>>>> of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for
>>>> operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “last minute”
>>>> Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its mind.
>>>> The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not
>>>> deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a
>>>> Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins to
>>>> redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was
>>>> less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq. But
>>>> alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister Chretien’s
>>>> then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s
>>>> incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic,
>>>> professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle
>>>> Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway
>>>> campaign of 2006.
>>>>
>>>> What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that then
>>>> Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the
>>>> Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice, consent,
>>>> support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament.
>>>>
>>>> What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and babbling
>>>> chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment of
>>>> less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by planners
>>>> as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a
>>>> deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make.
>>>>
>>>> The Canadian Government or The Crown unlike our amerkan cousins have
>>>> the “constitutional authority” to commit the Canadian nation to war.
>>>> That has been recently clearly articulated to the Canadian public by
>>>> constitutional scholar Phillippe Legasse. What Parliament can do is
>>>> remove “confidence” in The Crown’s Government in a “vote of
>>>> non-confidence.” That could not happen to the Chretien Government
>>>> regarding deployment to Afghanistan, and it won’t happen in this
>>>> instance with the conservative majority in The Commons regarding a
>>>> limited Canadian deployment to the Middle East.
>>>>
>>>> President George Bush was quite correct after 911 and the terror
>>>> attacks in New York; that the Taliban “occupied” and “failed state”
>>>> Afghanistan was the source of logistical support, command and control,
>>>> and training for the Al Quaeda war of terror against the world. The
>>>> initial defeat, and removal from control of Afghanistan was vital and
>>>>
>>>> P.S. Whereas this CBC article is about your opinion of the actions of
>>>> the latest Minister Of Health trust that Mr Boudreau and the CBC have
>>>> had my files for many years and the last thing they are is ethical.
>>>> Ask his friends Mr Murphy and the RCMP if you don't believe me.
>>>>
>>>> Subject:
>>>> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:02:35 -0400
>>>> From: "Murphy, Michael B. \(DH/MS\)" MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca
>>>> To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>>>
>>>> January 30, 2007
>>>>
>>>> WITHOUT PREJUDICE
>>>>
>>>> Mr. David Amos
>>>>
>>>> Dear Mr. Amos:
>>>>
>>>> This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29,
>>>> 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP.
>>>>
>>>> Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have
>>>> taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve
>>>> Graham of the RCMP “J” Division in Fredericton.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>
>>>> Honourable Michael B. Murphy
>>>> Minister of Health
>>>>
>>>> CM/cb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Warren McBeath warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500
>>>> From: "Warren McBeath" warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>> To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca,
>>>> nada.sarkis@gnb.ca, wally.stiles@gnb.ca, dwatch@web.net,
>>>> motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>>> CC: ottawa@chuckstrahl.com, riding@chuckstrahl.com,John.Foran@gnb.ca,
>>>> Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,"Bev BUSSON" bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>>>> "Paul Dube" PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>> Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has
>>>> forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have not
>>>>
>>>> Dear Mr. Amos,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off
>>>> over the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured I
>>>> was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
>>>>
>>>> As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our position
>>>> is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
>>>> testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the
>>>> Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
>>>> services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
>>>> instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
>>>>
>>>> As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
>>>> imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear
>>>> that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada
>>>> the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment
>>>> and policing in Petitcodiac, NB.
>>>>
>>>> It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on
>>>> December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>
>>>> Warren McBeath, Cpl.
>>>> GRC Caledonia RCMP
>>>> Traffic Services NCO
>>>> Ph: (506) 387-2222
>>>> Fax: (506) 387-4622
>>>> E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
>>>> Office of the Integrity Commissioner
>>>> Edgecombe House, 736 King Street
>>>> Fredericton, N.B. CANADA E3B 5H1
>>>> tel.: 506-457-7890
>>>> fax: 506-444-5224
>>>> e-mail:coi@gnb.ca
>>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>
>>> http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/11/federal-court-of-appeal-finally-makes.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Sunday, 19 November 2017
>>> Federal Court of Appeal Finally Makes The BIG Decision And Publishes
>>> It Now The Crooks Cannot Take Back Ticket To Try Put My Matter Before
>>> The Supreme Court
>>>
>>> https://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fca-caf/decisions/en/item/236679/index.do
>>>
>>>
>>> Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
>>>
>>> Amos v. Canada
>>> Court (s) Database
>>>
>>> Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
>>> Date
>>>
>>> 2017-10-30
>>> Neutral citation
>>>
>>> 2017 FCA 213
>>> File numbers
>>>
>>> A-48-16
>>> Date: 20171030
>>>
>>> Docket: A-48-16
>>> Citation: 2017 FCA 213
>>> CORAM:
>>>
>>> WEBB J.A.
>>> NEAR J.A.
>>> GLEASON J.A.
>>>
>>>
>>> BETWEEN:
>>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>>> Respondent on the cross-appeal
>>> (and formally Appellant)
>>> and
>>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>>> Appellant on the cross-appeal
>>> (and formerly Respondent)
>>> Heard at Fredericton, New Brunswick, on May 24, 2017.
>>> Judgment delivered at Ottawa, Ontario, on October 30, 2017.
>>> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY:
>>>
>>> THE COURT
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Date: 20171030
>>>
>>> Docket: A-48-16
>>> Citation: 2017 FCA 213
>>> CORAM:
>>>
>>> WEBB J.A.
>>> NEAR J.A.
>>> GLEASON J.A.
>>>
>>>
>>> BETWEEN:
>>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>>> Respondent on the cross-appeal
>>> (and formally Appellant)
>>> and
>>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>>> Appellant on the cross-appeal
>>> (and formerly Respondent)
>>> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY THE COURT
>>>
>>> I. Introduction
>>>
>>> [1] On September 16, 2015, David Raymond Amos (Mr. Amos)
>>> filed a 53-page Statement of Claim (the Claim) in Federal Court
>>> against Her Majesty the Queen (the Crown). Mr. Amos claims $11 million
>>> in damages and a public apology from the Prime Minister and Provincial
>>> Premiers for being illegally barred from accessing parliamentary
>>> properties and seeks a declaration from the Minister of Public Safety
>>> that the Canadian Government will no longer allow the Royal Canadian
>>> Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Forces to harass him and his clan
>>> (Claim at para. 96).
>>>
>>> [2] On November 12, 2015 (Docket T-1557-15), by way of a
>>> motion brought by the Crown, a prothonotary of the Federal Court (the
>>> Prothonotary) struck the Claim in its entirety, without leave to
>>> amend, on the basis that it was plain and obvious that the Claim
>>> disclosed no reasonable claim, the Claim was fundamentally vexatious,
>>> and the Claim could not be salvaged by way of further amendment (the
>>> Prothontary’s Order).
>>>
>>>
>>> [3] On January 25, 2016 (2016 FC 93), by way of Mr.
>>> Amos’ appeal from the Prothonotary’s Order, a judge of the Federal
>>> Court (the Judge), reviewing the matter de novo, struck all of Mr.
>>> Amos’ claims for relief with the exception of the claim for damages
>>> for being barred by the RCMP from the New Brunswick legislature in
>>> 2004 (the Federal Court Judgment).
>>>
>>>
>>> [4] Mr. Amos appealed and the Crown cross-appealed the
>>> Federal Court Judgment. Further to the issuance of a Notice of Status
>>> Review, Mr. Amos’ appeal was dismissed for delay on December 19, 2016.
>>> As such, the only matter before this Court is the Crown’s
>>> cross-appeal.
>>>
>>>
>>> II. Preliminary Matter
>>>
>>> [5] Mr. Amos, in his memorandum of fact and law in
>>> relation to the cross-appeal that was filed with this Court on March
>>> 6, 2017, indicated that several judges of this Court, including two of
>>> the judges of this panel, had a conflict of interest in this appeal.
>>> This was the first time that he identified the judges whom he believed
>>> had a conflict of interest in a document that was filed with this
>>> Court. In his notice of appeal he had alluded to a conflict with
>>> several judges but did not name those judges.
>>>
>>> [6] Mr. Amos was of the view that he did not have to
>>> identify the judges in any document filed with this Court because he
>>> had identified the judges in various documents that had been filed
>>> with the Federal Court. In his view the Federal Court and the Federal
>>> Court of Appeal are the same court and therefore any document filed in
>>> the Federal Court would be filed in this Court. This view is based on
>>> subsections 5(4) and 5.1(4) of the Federal Courts Act, R.S.C., 1985,
>>> c. F-7:
>>>
>>>
>>> 5(4) Every judge of the Federal Court is, by virtue of his or her
>>> office, a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal and has all the
>>> jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court of
>>> Appeal.
>>> […]
>>>
>>> 5(4) Les juges de la Cour fédérale sont d’office juges de la Cour
>>> d’appel fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que
>>> les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale.
>>> […]
>>> 5.1(4) Every judge of the Federal Court of Appeal is, by virtue of
>>> that office, a judge of the Federal Court and has all the
>>> jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court.
>>>
>>> 5.1(4) Les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale sont d’office juges de la
>>> Cour fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que les
>>> juges de la Cour fédérale.
>>>
>>>
>>> [7] However, these subsections only provide that the
>>> judges of the Federal Court are also judges of this Court (and vice
>>> versa). It does not mean that there is only one court. If the Federal
>>> Court and this Court were one Court, there would be no need for this
>>> section.
>>> [8] Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act provide
>>> that:
>>> 3 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court
>>> — Appeal Division is continued under the name “Federal Court of
>>> Appeal” in English and “Cour d’appel fédérale” in French. It is
>>> continued as an additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and
>>> for Canada, for the better administration of the laws of Canada and as
>>> a superior court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.
>>>
>>> 3 La Section d’appel, aussi appelée la Cour d’appel ou la Cour d’appel
>>> fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée « Cour d’appel fédérale » en
>>> français et « Federal Court of Appeal » en anglais. Elle est maintenue
>>> à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et d’amirauté du
>>> Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit canadien, et
>>> continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant compétence en
>>> matière civile et pénale.
>>> 4 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court
>>> — Trial Division is continued under the name “Federal Court” in
>>> English and “Cour fédérale” in French. It is continued as an
>>> additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and for Canada, for
>>> the better administration of the laws of Canada and as a superior
>>> court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.
>>>
>>> 4 La section de la Cour fédérale du Canada, appelée la Section de
>>> première instance de la Cour fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée «
>>> Cour fédérale » en français et « Federal Court » en anglais. Elle est
>>> maintenue à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et
>>> d’amirauté du Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit
>>> canadien, et continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant
>>> compétence en matière civile et pénale.
>>>
>>>
>>> [9] Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act create
>>> two separate courts – this Court (section 3) and the Federal Court
>>> (section 4). If, as Mr. Amos suggests, documents filed in the Federal
>>> Court were automatically also filed in this Court, then there would no
>>> need for the parties to prepare and file appeal books as required by
>>> Rules 343 to 345 of the Federal Courts Rules, SOR/98-106 in relation
>>> to any appeal from a decision of the Federal Court. The requirement to
>>> file an appeal book with this Court in relation to an appeal from a
>>> decision of the Federal Court makes it clear that the only documents
>>> that will be before this Court are the documents that are part of that
>>> appeal book.
>>>
>>>
>>> [10] Therefore, the memorandum of fact and law filed on
>>> March 6, 2017 is the first document, filed with this Court, in which
>>> Mr. Amos identified the particular judges that he submits have a
>>> conflict in any matter related to him.
>>>
>>>
>>> [11] On April 3, 2017, Mr. Amos attempted to bring a motion
>>> before the Federal Court seeking an order “affirming or denying the
>>> conflict of interest he has” with a number of judges of the Federal
>>> Court. A judge of the Federal Court issued a direction noting that if
>>> Mr. Amos was seeking this order in relation to judges of the Federal
>>> Court of Appeal, it was beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal Court.
>>> Mr. Amos raised the Federal Court motion at the hearing of this
>>> cross-appeal. The Federal Court motion is not a motion before this
>>> Court and, as such, the submissions filed before the Federal Court
>>> will not be entertained. As well, since this was a motion brought
>>> before the Federal Court (and not this Court), any documents filed in
>>> relation to that motion are not part of the record of this Court.
>>>
>>>
>>> [12] During the hearing of the appeal Mr. Amos alleged that
>>> the third member of this panel also had a conflict of interest and
>>> submitted some documents that, in his view, supported his claim of a
>>> conflict. Mr. Amos, following the hearing of his appeal, was also
>>> afforded the opportunity to provide a brief summary of the conflict
>>> that he was alleging and to file additional documents that, in his
>>> view, supported his allegations. Mr. Amos submitted several pages of
>>> documents in relation to the alleged conflicts. He organized the
>>> documents by submitting a copy of the biography of the particular
>>> judge and then, immediately following that biography, by including
>>> copies of the documents that, in his view, supported his claim that
>>> such judge had a conflict.
>>>
>>>
>>> [13] The nature of the alleged conflict of Justice Webb is
>>> that before he was appointed as a Judge of the Tax Court of Canada in
>>> 2006, he was a partner with the law firm Patterson Law, and before
>>> that with Patterson Palmer in Nova Scotia. Mr. Amos submitted that he
>>> had a number of disputes with Patterson Palmer and Patterson Law and
>>> therefore Justice Webb has a conflict simply because he was a partner
>>> of these firms. Mr. Amos is not alleging that Justice Webb was
>>> personally involved in or had any knowledge of any matter in which Mr.
>>> Amos was involved with Justice Webb’s former law firm – only that he
>>> was a member of such firm.
>>>
>>>
>>> [14] During his oral submissions at the hearing of his
>>> appeal Mr. Amos, in relation to the alleged conflict for Justice Webb,
>>> focused on dealings between himself and a particular lawyer at
>>> Patterson Law. However, none of the documents submitted by Mr. Amos at
>>> the hearing or subsequently related to any dealings with this
>>> particular lawyer nor is it clear when Mr. Amos was dealing with this
>>> lawyer. In particular, it is far from clear whether such dealings were
>>> after the time that Justice Webb was appointed as a Judge of the Tax
>>> Court of Canada over 10 years ago.
>>>
>>>
>>> [15] The documents that he submitted in relation to the
>>> alleged conflict for Justice Webb largely relate to dealings between
>>> Byron Prior and the St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador office of
>>> Patterson Palmer, which is not in the same province where Justice Webb
>>> practiced law. The only document that indicates any dealing between
>>> Mr. Amos and Patterson Palmer is a copy of an affidavit of Stephen May
>>> who was a partner in the St. John’s NL office of Patterson Palmer. The
>>> affidavit is dated January 24, 2005 and refers to a number of e-mails
>>> that were sent by Mr. Amos to Stephen May. Mr. Amos also included a
>>> letter that is addressed to four individuals, one of whom is John
>>> Crosbie who was counsel to the St. John’s NL office of Patterson
>>> Palmer. The letter is dated September 2, 2004 and is addressed to
>>> “John Crosbie, c/o Greg G. Byrne, Suite 502, 570 Queen Street,
>>> Fredericton, NB E3B 5E3”. In this letter Mr. Amos alludes to a
>>> possible lawsuit against Patterson Palmer.
>>> [16] Mr. Amos’ position is that simply because Justice Webb
>>> was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer, he now has a conflict. In Wewaykum
>>> Indian Band v. Her Majesty the Queen, 2003 SCC 45, [2003] 2 S.C.R.
>>> 259, the Supreme Court of Canada noted that disqualification of a
>>> judge is to be determined based on whether there is a reasonable
>>> apprehension of bias:
>>> 60 In Canadian law, one standard has now emerged as the
>>> criterion for disqualification. The criterion, as expressed by de
>>> Grandpré J. in Committee for Justice and Liberty v. National Energy
>>> Board, …[[1978] 1 S.C.R. 369, 68 D.L.R. (3d) 716], at p. 394, is the
>>> reasonable apprehension of bias:
>>> … the apprehension of bias must be a reasonable one, held by
>>> reasonable and right minded persons, applying themselves to the
>>> question and obtaining thereon the required information. In the words
>>> of the Court of Appeal, that test is "what would an informed person,
>>> viewing the matter realistically and practically -- and having thought
>>> the matter through -- conclude. Would he think that it is more likely
>>> than not that [the decision-maker], whether consciously or
>>> unconsciously, would not decide fairly."
>>>
>>> [17] The issue to be determined is whether an informed
>>> person, viewing the matter realistically and practically, and having
>>> thought the matter through, would conclude that Mr. Amos’ allegations
>>> give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias. As this Court has
>>> previously remarked, “there is a strong presumption that judges will
>>> administer justice impartially” and this presumption will not be
>>> rebutted in the absence of “convincing evidence” of bias (Collins v.
>>> Canada, 2011 FCA 140 at para. 7, [2011] 4 C.T.C. 157 [Collins]. See
>>> also R. v. S. (R.D.), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 484 at para. 32, 151 D.L.R.
>>> (4th) 193).
>>>
>>> [18] The Ontario Court of Appeal in Rando Drugs Ltd. v.
>>> Scott, 2007 ONCA 553, 86 O.R. (3d) 653 (leave to appeal to the Supreme
>>> Court of Canada refused, 32285 (August 1, 2007)), addressed the
>>> particular issue of whether a judge is disqualified from hearing a
>>> case simply because he had been a member of a law firm that was
>>> involved in the litigation that was now before that judge. The Ontario
>>> Court of Appeal determined that the judge was not disqualified if the
>>> judge had no involvement with the person or the matter when he was a
>>> lawyer. The Ontario Court of Appeal also explained that the rules for
>>> determining whether a judge is disqualified are different from the
>>> rules to determine whether a lawyer has a conflict:
>>> 27 Thus, disqualification is not the natural corollary to a
>>> finding that a trial judge has had some involvement in a case over
>>> which he or she is now presiding. Where the judge had no involvement,
>>> as here, it cannot be said that the judge is disqualified.
>>>
>>>
>>> 28 The point can rightly be made that had Mr. Patterson been
>>> asked to represent the appellant as counsel before his appointment to
>>> the bench, the conflict rules would likely have prevented him from
>>> taking the case because his firm had formerly represented one of the
>>> defendants in the case. Thus, it is argued how is it that as a trial
>>> judge Patterson J. can hear the case? This issue was considered by the
>>> Court of Appeal (Civil Division) in Locabail (U.K.) Ltd. v. Bayfield
>>> Properties Ltd., [2000] Q.B. 451. The court held, at para. 58, that
>>> there is no inflexible rule governing the disqualification of a judge
>>> and that, "[e]verything depends on the circumstances."
>>>
>>>
>>> 29 It seems to me that what appears at first sight to be an
>>> inconsistency in application of rules can be explained by the
>>> different contexts and in particular, the strong presumption of
>>> judicial impartiality that applies in the context of disqualification
>>> of a judge. There is no such presumption in cases of allegations of
>>> conflict of interest against a lawyer because of a firm's previous
>>> involvement in the case. To the contrary, as explained by Sopinka J.
>>> in MacDonald Estate v. Martin (1990), 77 D.L.R. (4th) 249 (S.C.C.),
>>> for sound policy reasons there is a presumption of a disqualifying
>>> interest that can rarely be overcome. In particular, a conclusory
>>> statement from the lawyer that he or she had no confidential
>>> information about the case will never be sufficient. The case is the
>>> opposite where the allegation of bias is made against a trial judge.
>>> His or her statement that he or she knew nothing about the case and
>>> had no involvement in it will ordinarily be accepted at face value
>>> unless there is good reason to doubt it: see Locabail, at para. 19.
>>>
>>>
>>> 30 That brings me then to consider the particular circumstances
>>> of this case and whether there are serious grounds to find a
>>> disqualifying conflict of interest in this case. In my view, there are
>>> two significant factors that justify the trial judge's decision not to
>>> recuse himself. The first is his statement, which all parties accept,
>>> that he knew nothing of the case when it was in his former firm and
>>> that he had nothing to do with it. The second is the long passage of
>>> time. As was said in Wewaykum, at para. 85:
>>> To us, one significant factor stands out, and must inform
>>> the perspective of the reasonable person assessing the impact of this
>>> involvement on Binnie J.'s impartiality in the appeals. That factor is
>>> the passage of time. Most arguments for disqualification rest on
>>> circumstances that are either contemporaneous to the decision-making,
>>> or that occurred within a short time prior to the decision-making.
>>> 31 There are other factors that inform the issue. The Wilson
>>> Walker firm no longer acted for any of the parties by the time of
>>> trial. More importantly, at the time of the motion, Patterson J. had
>>> been a judge for six years and thus had not had a relationship with
>>> his former firm for a considerable period of time.
>>>
>>>
>>> 32 In my view, a reasonable person, viewing the matter
>>> realistically would conclude that the trial judge could deal fairly
>>> and impartially with this case. I take this view principally because
>>> of the long passage of time and the trial judge's lack of involvement
>>> in or knowledge of the case when the Wilson Walker firm had carriage.
>>> In these circumstances it cannot be reasonably contended that the
>>> trial judge could not remain impartial in the case. The mere fact that
>>> his name appears on the letterhead of some correspondence from over a
>>> decade ago would not lead a reasonable person to believe that he would
>>> either consciously or unconsciously favour his former firm's former
>>> client. It is simply not realistic to think that a judge would throw
>>> off his mantle of impartiality, ignore his oath of office and favour a
>>> client - about whom he knew nothing - of a firm that he left six years
>>> earlier and that no longer acts for the client, in a case involving
>>> events from over a decade ago.
>>> (emphasis added)
>>>
>>> [19] Justice Webb had no involvement with any matter
>>> involving Mr. Amos while he was a member of Patterson Palmer or
>>> Patterson Law, nor does Mr. Amos suggest that he did. Mr. Amos made it
>>> clear during the hearing of this matter that the only reason for the
>>> alleged conflict for Justice Webb was that he was a member of
>>> Patterson Law and Patterson Palmer. This is simply not enough for
>>> Justice Webb to be disqualified. Any involvement of Mr. Amos with
>>> Patterson Law while Justice Webb was a member of that firm would have
>>> had to occur over 10 years ago and even longer for the time when he
>>> was a member of Patterson Palmer. In addition to the lack of any
>>> involvement on his part with any matter or dispute that Mr. Amos had
>>> with Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer (which in and of itself is
>>> sufficient to dispose of this matter), the length of time since
>>> Justice Webb was a member of Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer would
>>> also result in the same finding – that there is no conflict in Justice
>>> Webb hearing this appeal.
>>>
>>> [20] Similarly in R. v. Bagot, 2000 MBCA 30, 145 Man. R.
>>> (2d) 260, the Manitoba Court of Appeal found that there was no
>>> reasonable apprehension of bias when a judge, who had been a member of
>>> the law firm that had been retained by the accused, had no involvement
>>> with the accused while he was a lawyer with that firm.
>>>
>>> [21] In Del Zotto v. Minister of National Revenue, [2000] 4
>>> F.C. 321, 257 N.R. 96, this court did find that there would be a
>>> reasonable apprehension of bias where a judge, who while he was a
>>> lawyer, had recorded time on a matter involving the same person who
>>> was before that judge. However, this case can be distinguished as
>>> Justice Webb did not have any time recorded on any files involving Mr.
>>> Amos while he was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer or Patterson Law.
>>>
>>> [22] Mr. Amos also included with his submissions a CD. He
>>> stated in his affidavit dated June 26, 2017 that there is a “true copy
>>> of an American police surveillance wiretap entitled 139” on this CD.
>>> He has also indicated that he has “provided a true copy of the CD
>>> entitled 139 to many American and Canadian law enforcement authorities
>>> and not one of the police forces or officers of the court are willing
>>> to investigate it”. Since he has indicated that this is an “American
>>> police surveillance wiretap”, this is a matter for the American law
>>> enforcement authorities and cannot create, as Mr. Amos suggests, a
>>> conflict of interest for any judge to whom he provides a copy.
>>>
>>> [23] As a result, there is no conflict or reasonable
>>> apprehension of bias for Justice Webb and therefore, no reason for him
>>> to recuse himself.
>>>
>>> [24] Mr. Amos alleged that Justice Near’s past professional
>>> experience with the government created a “quasi-conflict” in deciding
>>> the cross-appeal. Mr. Amos provided no details and Justice Near
>>> confirmed that he had no prior knowledge of the matters alleged in the
>>> Claim. Justice Near sees no reason to recuse himself.
>>>
>>> [25] Insofar as it is possible to glean the basis for Mr.
>>> Amos’ allegations against Justice Gleason, it appears that he alleges
>>> that she is incapable of hearing this appeal because he says he wrote
>>> a letter to Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien in 2004. At that time,
>>> both Justice Gleason and Mr. Mulroney were partners in the law firm
>>> Ogilvy Renault, LLP. The letter in question, which is rude and angry,
>>> begins with “Hey you two Evil Old Smiling Bastards” and “Re: me suing
>>> you and your little dogs too”. There is no indication that the letter
>>> was ever responded to or that a law suit was ever commenced by Mr.
>>> Amos against Mr. Mulroney. In the circumstances, there is no reason
>>> for Justice Gleason to recuse herself as the letter in question does
>>> not give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias.
>>>
>>>
>>> III. Issue
>>>
>>> [26] The issue on the cross-appeal is as follows: Did the
>>> Judge err in setting aside the Prothonotary’s Order striking the Claim
>>> in its entirety without leave to amend and in determining that Mr.
>>> Amos’ allegation that the RCMP barred him from the New Brunswick
>>> legislature in 2004 was capable of supporting a cause of action?
>>>
>>> IV. Analysis
>>>
>>> A. Standard of Review
>>>
>>> [27] Following the Judge’s decision to set aside the
>>> Prothonotary’s Order, this Court revisited the standard of review to
>>> be applied to discretionary decisions of prothonotaries and decisions
>>> made by judges on appeals of prothonotaries’ decisions in Hospira
>>> Healthcare Corp. v. Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, 2016 FCA 215,
>>> 402 D.L.R. (4th) 497 [Hospira]. In Hospira, a five-member panel of
>>> this Court replaced the Aqua-Gem standard of review with that
>>> articulated in Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 235
>>> [Housen]. As a result, it is no longer appropriate for the Federal
>>> Court to conduct a de novo review of a discretionary order made by a
>>> prothonotary in regard to questions vital to the final issue of the
>>> case. Rather, a Federal Court judge can only intervene on appeal if
>>> the prothonotary made an error of law or a palpable and overriding
>>> error in determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and
>>> law (Hospira at para. 79). Further, this Court can only interfere with
>>> a Federal Court judge’s review of a prothonotary’s discretionary order
>>> if the judge made an error of law or palpable and overriding error in
>>> determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and law
>>> (Hospira at paras. 82-83).
>>>
>>> [28] In the case at bar, the Judge substituted his own
>>> assessment of Mr. Amos’ Claim for that of the Prothonotary. This Court
>>> must look to the Prothonotary’s Order to determine whether the Judge
>>> erred in law or made a palpable and overriding error in choosing to
>>> interfere.
>>>
>>>
>>> B. Did the Judge err in interfering with the
>>> Prothonotary’s Order?
>>>
>>> [29] The Prothontoary’s Order accepted the following
>>> paragraphs from the Crown’s submissions as the basis for striking the
>>> Claim in its entirety without leave to amend:
>>>
>>> 17. Within the 96 paragraph Statement of Claim, the Plaintiff
>>> addresses his complaint in paragraphs 14-24, inclusive. All but four
>>> of those paragraphs are dedicated to an incident that occurred in 2006
>>> in and around the legislature in New Brunswick. The jurisdiction of
>>> the Federal Court does not extend to Her Majesty the Queen in right of
>>> the Provinces. In any event, the Plaintiff hasn’t named the Province
>>> or provincial actors as parties to this action. The incident alleged
>>> does not give rise to a justiciable cause of action in this Court.
>>> (…)
>>>
>>>
>>> 21. The few paragraphs that directly address the Defendant
>>> provide no details as to the individuals involved or the location of
>>> the alleged incidents or other details sufficient to allow the
>>> Defendant to respond. As a result, it is difficult or impossible to
>>> determine the causes of action the Plaintiff is attempting to advance.
>>> A generous reading of the Statement of Claim allows the Defendant to
>>> only speculate as to the true and/or intended cause of action. At
>>> best, the Plaintiff’s action may possibly be summarized as: he
>>> suspects he is barred from the House of Commons.
>>> [footnotes omitted].
>>>
>>>
>>> [30] The Judge determined that he could not strike the Claim
>>> on the same jurisdictional basis as the Prothonotary. The Judge noted
>>> that the Federal Court has jurisdiction over claims based on the
>>> liability of Federal Crown servants like the RCMP and that the actors
>>> who barred Mr. Amos from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004
>>> included the RCMP (Federal Court Judgment at para. 23). In considering
>>> the viability of these allegations de novo, the Judge identified
>>> paragraph 14 of the Claim as containing “some precision” as it
>>> identifies the date of the event and a RCMP officer acting as
>>> Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant Governor (Federal Court Judgment at
>>> para. 27).
>>>
>>>
>>> [31] The Judge noted that the 2004 event could support a
>>> cause of action in the tort of misfeasance in public office and
>>> identified the elements of the tort as excerpted from Meigs v. Canada,
>>> 2013 FC 389, 431 F.T.R. 111:
>>>
>>>
>>> [13] As in both the cases of Odhavji Estate v Woodhouse, 2003 SCC
>>> 69 [Odhavji] and Lewis v Canada, 2012 FC 1514 [Lewis], I must
>>> determine whether the plaintiffs’ statement of claim pleads each
>>> element of the alleged tort of misfeasance in public office:
>>>
>>> a) The public officer must have engaged in deliberate and unlawful
>>> conduct in his or her capacity as public officer;
>>>
>>> b) The public officer must have been aware both that his or her
>>> conduct was unlawful and that it was likely to harm the plaintiff; and
>>>
>>> c) There must be an element of bad faith or dishonesty by the public
>>> officer and knowledge of harm alone is insufficient to conclude that a
>>> public officer acted in bad faith or dishonestly.
>>> Odhavji, above, at paras 23, 24 and 28
>>> (Federal Court Judgment at para. 28).
>>>
>>> [32] The Judge determined that Mr. Amos disclosed sufficient
>>> material facts to meet the elements of the tort of misfeasance in
>>> public office because the actors, who barred him from the New
>>> Brunswick legislature in 2004, including the RCMP, did so for
>>> “political reasons” (Federal Court Judgment at para. 29).
>>>
>>> [33] This Court’s discussion of the sufficiency of pleadings
>>> in Merchant Law Group v. Canada (Revenue Agency), 2010 FCA 184, 321
>>> D.L.R (4th) 301 is particularly apt:
>>>
>>> …When pleading bad faith or abuse of power, it is not enough to
>>> assert, baldly, conclusory phrases such as “deliberately or
>>> negligently,” “callous disregard,” or “by fraud and theft did steal”.
>>> “The bare assertion of a conclusion upon which the court is called
>>> upon to pronounce is not an allegation of material fact”. Making bald,
>>> conclusory allegations without any evidentiary foundation is an abuse
>>> of process…
>>>
>>> To this, I would add that the tort of misfeasance in public office
>>> requires a particular state of mind of a public officer in carrying
>>> out the impunged action, i.e., deliberate conduct which the public
>>> officer knows to be inconsistent with the obligations of his or her
>>> office. For this tort, particularization of the allegations is
>>> mandatory. Rule 181 specifically requires particularization of
>>> allegations of “breach of trust,” “wilful default,” “state of mind of
>>> a person,” “malice” or “fraudulent intention.”
>>> (at paras. 34-35, citations omitted).
>>>
>>> [34] Applying the Housen standard of review to the
>>> Prothonotary’s Order, we are of the view that the Judge interfered
>>> absent a legal or palpable and overriding error.
>>>
>>> [35] The Prothonotary determined that Mr. Amos’ Claim
>>> disclosed no reasonable claim and was fundamentally vexatious on the
>>> basis of jurisdictional concerns and the absence of material facts to
>>> ground a cause of action. Paragraph 14 of the Claim, which addresses
>>> the 2004 event, pleads no material facts as to how the RCMP officer
>>> engaged in deliberate and unlawful conduct, knew that his or her
>>> conduct was unlawful and likely to harm Mr. Amos, and acted in bad
>>> faith. While the Claim alleges elsewhere that Mr. Amos was barred from
>>> the New Brunswick legislature for political and/or malicious reasons,
>>> these allegations are not particularized and are directed against
>>> non-federal actors, such as the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Legislative
>>> Assembly of New Brunswick and the Fredericton Police Force. As such,
>>> the Judge erred in determining that Mr. Amos’ allegation that the RCMP
>>> barred him from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004 was capable of
>>> supporting a cause of action.
>>>
>>> [36] In our view, the Claim is made up entirely of bare
>>> allegations, devoid of any detail, such that it discloses no
>>> reasonable cause of action within the jurisdiction of the Federal
>>> Courts. Therefore, the Judge erred in interfering to set aside the
>>> Prothonotary’s Order striking the claim in its entirety. Further, we
>>> find that the Prothonotary made no error in denying leave to amend.
>>> The deficiencies in Mr. Amos’ pleadings are so extensive such that
>>> amendment could not cure them (see Collins at para. 26).
>>>
>>> V. Conclusion
>>> [37] For the foregoing reasons, we would allow the Crown’s
>>> cross-appeal, with costs, setting aside the Federal Court Judgment,
>>> dated January 25, 2016 and restoring the Prothonotary’s Order, dated
>>> November 12, 2015, which struck Mr. Amos’ Claim in its entirety
>>> without leave to amend.
>>> "Wyman W. Webb"
>>> J.A.
>>> "David G. Near"
>>> J.A.
>>> "Mary J.L. Gleason"
>>> J.A.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL
>>> NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD
>>>
>>> A CROSS-APPEAL FROM AN ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE SOUTHCOTT DATED
>>> JANUARY 25, 2016; DOCKET NUMBER T-1557-15.
>>> DOCKET:
>>>
>>> A-48-16
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> STYLE OF CAUSE:
>>>
>>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> PLACE OF HEARING:
>>>
>>> Fredericton,
>>> New Brunswick
>>>
>>> DATE OF HEARING:
>>>
>>> May 24, 2017
>>>
>>> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY:
>>>
>>> WEBB J.A.
>>> NEAR J.A.
>>> GLEASON J.A.
>>>
>>> DATED:
>>>
>>> October 30, 2017
>>>
>>> APPEARANCES:
>>> David Raymond Amos
>>>
>>>
>>> For The Appellant / respondent on cross-appeal
>>> (on his own behalf)
>>>
>>> Jan Jensen
>>>
>>>
>>> For The Respondent / appELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL
>>>
>>> SOLICITORS OF RECORD:
>>> Nathalie G. Drouin
>>> Deputy Attorney General of Canada
>>>
>>> For The Respondent / APPELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL
>>>
>>>
>
The 40th annual general assembly of
the Assembly of First Nations opened in Fredericton on Tuesday. The
three-day gathering of chiefs from across the country commenced with
traditional ceremonies in the morning, followed by an official welcome
and plenary session at the Fredericton Convention Centre.
CBC News was there to capture the key moments.
National
Chief Perry Bellegarde, New Brunswick regional Chief Roger Augustine
and St. Mary's First Nation Chief Allan Polchies canoed across the
Wolastoq, also known as the St. John River, in traditional Wolastoqey
birchbark canoes to open the Assembly of First Nation's 40th annual
general assembly.
The
three chiefs started in St. Mary's at the old powwow grounds and
paddled across to the greenery at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, where a
small village of vendors has been set up.
The Sisters of the Drum group welcomed the three chiefs to the south side of the river singing Wolastoqey songs.
The
chiefs were accompanied by the Brooks family from Sitansisk (St. Mary's
First Nation) who make the birchbark canoes and helped with the
restoration of the Grandfather Ukwiten (canoe), which is on display in
the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.
As
part of the ceremony, the chiefs offered tobacco to the Wolastoq. The
river is significant to the Wolastoqiyk and means "the beautiful and
bountiful river." All of the six Wolastoqey communities in New Brunswick
are along the Wolastoq.
The two birchbark canoes were used last year when the Wolastoq Grand Council did a ceremony to reclaim the name of the Wolastoq.
Polchies,
Augustine and Bellegarde stand and watch as the Sisters of the Drum
sing and elder Maggie Paul does a water ceremony to welcome all the
assembly delegates and pray for those who don't have clean drinking
water.
Pictured
are two members of the Sisters of the Drum group, who sang the
"Wolastoq Song" as part of the ceremony. It's a song about the river
that was written by Gwen Bear.
The
Brooks family took part in the water ceremony. Water was poured into
small cups and given to the people in attendance to pray on.
Bellegarde thanks elder Paul for the water ceremony and welcoming him to the territory of the Wolastoqiyik.
Tobacco
is a sacred medicine to many Indigenous nations and is used for prayer.
It is placed on the drums because they are used to help people heal
through song.
After
the ceremony was completed, the chiefs and those in attendance made
their way to the Fredericton Convention Centre where the assembly was
set to begin. The chiefs were welcomed in the door by the Chief Harold
Sappier Memorial Elementary School drum group from Sitansisk.
Bellegarde carried the Assembly of First Nations banner for the grand entry of the assembly's opening ceremonies.
Rosalie Labillois, newly elected AFN Youth Council co-chair, is pictured preparing to walk in for the grand entry.
The
Muskrat Singers sang an honour song and a flag song to welcome in the
grand entry parade. Muskrat Singers member Percy Sacobie designed the
40th annual assembly's official poster, which is on display at the
Beaverbrook Art Gallery.
Carolyn
Bennett, minister of Crown–Indigenous relations and northern affairs
Canada, was in attendance and spoke later in the day.
New
Brunswick Aboriginal Affairs Minister Jake Stewart followed Bennett in
the grand entry and also spoke during the opening remarks.
"We need to invest in education and reviving languages" Stewart said during his opening remarks.
Wolastoqey elder Imelda Perley gave the opening prayer following the grand entry
"We
are in the year of Indigenous languages," Bellegarde said. "We need to
do more and push for a decade of Indigenous languages around the world."
Logan
Perley is a Wolastoqey journalist from Tobique First Nation and a
summer intern at CBC New Brunswick. You can email him at
logan.perley@cbc.ca or follow him on Twitter @LoganPerley.
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