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Subject: Automatic reply: I just called Nurses Association of New
Brunswick and they played dumb so perhaps Michel Carrier and his SANB
lawyer pals can explain why I called N'esy Pas Serge Rouselle?
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 10:32:32 -0400
Subject: Fwd: I just called Nurses Association of New Brunswick and
they played dumb so perhaps Michel Carrier and his SANB lawyer pals
can explain why I called N'esy Pas Serge Rouselle?
To: premier <premier@gnb.ca>, premier <premier@ontario.ca>,
"blaine.higgs" <blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, "hugh.flemming"
<hugh.flemming@gnb.ca>, robert.gauvin@gnb.ca, "bruce.northrup"
<bruce.northrup@gnb.ca>, Kevin.A.Arseneau@gnb.ca, megan.mitton@gnb.ca,
jwhitehead@nanb.nb.ca, ejohnston@cna-aiic.ca, execdir@npls.ca,
president@nanb.nb.ca, oldmaison@yahoo.com, andre <andre@jafaust.com>,
"robert.mckee" <robert.mckee@gnb.ca>, "PETER.MACKAY"
<PETER.MACKAY@bakermckenzie.com>, Norman Traversy
<traversy.n@gmail.com>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "Katie.Telford"
<Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca>
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>,
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Nathalie Sturgeon <sturgeon.nathalie@brunswicknews.com>,
"steve.murphy" <steve.murphy@ctv.ca>, "Robert. Jones"
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‏ @DavidRayAmos
Replying to @DavidRayAmos @FloryGoncalves and 49 othersMethinks CBC et al may enjoy a little Deja Vu about Clinic 554 before the last election I ran in while clearly stating that I am PRO LIFE N'esy Pas?

https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/10/trudeau-vows-to-ensure-new-brunswick.html

#cdnpoli #nbpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/clinic-554-transgender-health-care-new-brunswick-1.5485648

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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:21:47 -0400
Subject: I just called Nurses Association of New Brunswick and they
played dumb so perhaps Michel Carrier and his SANB lawyer pals can
explain why I called N'esy Pas Serge Rouselle?
To: "serge.rousselle" <serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>, "Michel.Carrier"
<Michel.Carrier@gnb.ca>, president@nanb.nb.ca, ljanes@nanb.nb.ca,
jwhitehead@nanb.nb.ca, peter.lindfield@carlisleinstitute.org,
"hugh.flemming" <hugh.flemming@gnb.ca>, "andrea.anderson-mason"
<andrea.anderson-mason@gnb.ca>, "brian.gallant"

<brian.gallant@gnb.ca>, "David.Coon" <David.Coon@gnb.ca>,
"blaine.higgs" <blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, "kris.austin"
<kris.austin@gnb.ca>, kristar@frederictonchamber.ca, "Tim.RICHARDSON"
<Tim.RICHARDSON@gnb.ca>, "Mitton, Megan (LEG)" <megan.mitton@gnb.ca>,
"Arseneau, Kevin (LEG)" <Kevin.A.Arseneau@gnb.ca>, "robert.mckee"
<robert.mckee@gnb.ca>, "robert.gauvin" <robert.gauvin@gnb.ca>,
"rick.desaulniers" <rick.desaulniers@gnb.ca>, "michelle.conroy"
<michelle.conroy@gnb.ca>, "Dominic.Cardy" <Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca>,
"Hon.Dominic.LeBlanc" <Hon.Dominic.LeBlanc@canada.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, oldmaison
<oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre <andre@jafaust.com>

You folks can always talk to Chucky Leblanc and his new buddy Krista
Ross it seems that they know everybody and everything N'esy Pas?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMA45Ht5MK0

CEO of the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce Krista Ross sits down to
educate Blogger!!!
Charles Leblanc
Published on Jan 16, 2019

https://twitter.com/DavidRayAmos/with_replies

‏ @DavidRayAmos
Replying to @DavidRayAmos @FloryGoncalves and 49 others
Methinks its should be a small wonder to many political pundits why I was on the phone first thing this morning and sending a wonderfully wicked email at the end of the day N'esy Pas?

https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/10/trudeau-vows-to-ensure-new-brunswick.html

#cdnpoli #nbpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/abortion-new-brunswick-trudeau-1.5321045

Canadian Nurses Association to host community town hall in Fredericton ahead of 2019 federal election

Ottawa, September 30, 2019 — On Tuesday, October 1st, the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) — along with the Nurses Association of New Brunswick and the Association of New Brunswick Licensed Practical Nurses — is hosting an election Town hall: Better access to health care. The town hall will be a thought-provoking discussion about health and health care with the federal candidates from Fredericton: the Greens’ Jenica Atwin, Liberal Matt DeCourcey, Conservative Andrea Johnson, and the NDP’s Mackenzie Thomason.

What:		Town hall: Better access to health care
When:		October 1st, 2019
Where:		Fredericton Inn, Bicentennial Room 1315 Regent St., Fredericton, NB

Program highlights

6 p.m.	Doors open
6:30 p.m.	Moderated panel begins
7:50 p.m.	Audience Q&A
8:20 p.m.	Closing remarks

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The Canadian Nurses Association
The Canadian Nurses Association is the national and global professional voice of Canadian nursing, representing 135,000 nurses in all 13 jurisdictions across Canada. CNA advances the practice and profession of nursing to improve health outcomes and strengthen Canada’s publicly funded, not-for-profit health system.
The Nurses Association of New Brunswick
The Nurses Association of New Brunswick represents 8,600 registered nurses (RNs) and nurse practitioners (NPs), the largest group of health professionals in the province. It is mandated by the Nurses Act to regulate RNs & NPs to ensure the provision of safe, competent and ethical care in the interest of the public.
The Association of New Brunswick Licensed Practical Nurses
The Association of New Brunswick Licensed Practical Nurses was first created in 1965 as the Association of New Brunswick Registered Nursing Assistants (ANBRNA). They became the regulatory body in 1977 when the Registered Nursing Assistant Act was proclaimed. In 2002, the Licensed Practical Nurse Act was proclaimed and RNAs became LPNs.
For more information, please contact:
Eve Johnston
Media and Communications Coordinator
Canadian Nurses Association
Tel: 613-237-2159, ext. 114
Cell: 613-282-7859
Email: ejohnston@cna-aiic.ca
Jennifer Whitehead
Manager, Communications and Government Relations
Tel: 506-459-2852
Email: jwhite@nanb.nb.ca
JoAnne Graham
Executive Director, ANBLPN
Tel: 506-453-0747
Email: execdir@npls.ca
- See more at: https://www.mycna.ca/en/home/news-room/advisories/2019/canadian-nurses-association-to-host-community-town-hall-in-fredericton-ahead-of-2019-federal-election#sthash.utYCpPbB.dpuf

https://www.mycna.ca/en/home/news-room/advisories/2019/canadian-nurses-association-to-host-community-town-hall-in-fredericton-ahead-of-2019-federal-election

Canadian Nurses Association to host community town hall in Fredericton ahead of 2019 federal election

What:		Town hall: Better access to health care
When:		October 1st, 2019
Where:		Fredericton Inn, Bicentennial Room 1315 Regent St., Fredericton, NB

Program highlights

6 p.m.	Doors open
6:30 p.m.	Moderated panel begins
7:50 p.m.	Audience Q&A
8:20 p.m.	Closing remarks

The Canadian Nurses Association

The Canadian Nurses Association is the national and global professional voice of Canadian nursing, representing 135,000 nurses in all 13 jurisdictions across Canada. CNA advances the practice and profession of nursing to improve health outcomes and strengthen Canada’s publicly funded, not-for-profit health system.

The Nurses Association of New Brunswick

The Nurses Association of New Brunswick represents 8,600 registered nurses (RNs) and nurse practitioners (NPs), the largest group of health professionals in the province. It is mandated by the Nurses Act to regulate RNs & NPs to ensure the provision of safe, competent and ethical care in the interest of the public.

The Association of New Brunswick Licensed Practical Nurses

The Association of New Brunswick Licensed Practical Nurses was first created in 1965 as the Association of New Brunswick Registered Nursing Assistants (ANBRNA). They became the regulatory body in 1977 when the Registered Nursing Assistant Act was proclaimed. In 2002, the Licensed Practical Nurse Act was proclaimed and RNAs became LPNs.

- See more at: https://www.mycna.ca/en/home/news-room/advisories/2019/canadian-nurses-association-to-host-community-town-hall-in-fredericton-ahead-of-2019-federal-election#sthash.utYCpPbB.dpuf

For more information, please contact:

Eve Johnston
Media and Communications Coordinator
Canadian Nurses Association
Tel: 613-237-2159, ext. 114
Cell: 613-282-7859
Email: ejohnston@cna-aiic.ca

Jennifer Whitehead
Manager, Communications and Government Relations
Tel: 506-459-2852
Email: jwhite@nanb.nb.ca

JoAnne Graham
Executive Director, ANBLPN
Tel: 506-453-0747
Email: execdir@npls.ca

For more information, please contact:
Eve Johnston
Media and Communications Coordinator
Canadian Nurses Association
Tel: 613-237-2159, ext. 114
Cell: 613-282-7859
Email: ejohnston@cna-aiic.ca
Jennifer Whitehead
Manager, Communications and Government Relations
Tel: 506-459-2852
Email: jwhite@nanb.nb.ca
JoAnne Graham
Executive Director, ANBLPN
Tel: 506-453-0747
Email: execdir@npls.ca
- See more at: https://www.mycna.ca/en/home/news-room/advisories/2019/canadian-nurses-association-to-host-community-town-hall-in-fredericton-ahead-of-2019-federal-election#sthash.utYCpPbB.dpuf

Trudeau vows to 'ensure' New Brunswick funds abortions at private clinics

Pledge comes as Fredericton clinic announces impending closure because of lack of medicare coverage

Jacques Poitras · CBC News · Posted: Oct 15, 2019 3:18 PM AT

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau makes a campaign stop in Fredericton on Tuesday. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau waded into New Brunswick's abortion access debate Tuesday, vowing to force the provincial government to fund the procedure in a private Fredericton clinic now on the verge of closing.

Attempting to draw a contrast with his Conservative rival, Trudeau said that if he wins next week's election he will "ensure" that abortions at Clinic 554 are funded by New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative government.

"We will ensure that the New Brunswick government allows access, paid-for access, to clinics that offer abortion services outside of hospitals," he said, choosing his words carefully during a campaign stop at a private home not far from the clinic.

"I will sit down with Premier [Blaine] Higgs, if re-elected, and let him know that we will use all tools at our disposal, including tools that exist under the Canada Health Act."

Last week, the clinic announced that it will soon close and the building is for sale. Its medical director blamed a financial shortfall on the province's refusal to fund abortions at the facility. The clinic also offers other services funded by medicare.

Trudeau's tough new comments on abortion dovetail with his attempts to persuade progressive voters to support his Liberals instead of the Greens or the NDP. He warned several times that splitting the progressive vote would elect a Conservative government.

A Fredericton abortion clinic's plan to close becomes federal election issue

Abortion clinic in Fredericton for sale, set to close without medicare funding

"A Liberal government will always defend women's rights, including when challenged by Conservative premiers," Trudeau said. "That's something we know Andrew Scheer will not do."

But Trudeau was forced to defend his tougher tone when he was asked why he went easier on the previous provincial Liberal government of Brian Gallant.

Higgs's PC government has adopted precisely the same policy approach as Gallant did: to fund abortions in some, but not all, provincial hospitals. Three hospitals now offer the service.

Asked Tuesday why he didn't challenge Gallant on that policy, Trudeau insisted that "we did. We encouraged premier Gallant to expand access to abortion services, and there were steps made."

In fact, Gallant took those steps in fall 2014, a year before Trudeau was elected prime minister.

Gallant's government repealed a regulation that required women to get approval from two doctors for a medicare-funded hospital abortion.

Reminded of that timeline, Trudeau claimed he and Gallant "had very clear conversations when I was leader," before the 2015 election that put him in power.

Clinic 554 in Fredericton is one of only four surgical abortion sites in New Brunswick and the only one in the capital. (Mike Heenan/CBC)

Provincial Liberals argued that Gallant's elimination of the two-doctor rule was enough to bring the province in line with the Canada Health Act.

"Any insured service which is currently covered by medicare has to happen in a hospital," then-health minister Victor Boudreau said in November 2014. "We do not provide funding for any procedures performed in a private clinic."

That's the same position the Higgs government is taking now.

"The Province of New Brunswick's position on abortions remains unchanged from that of the previous government," said spokesperson Bruce Macfarlane in a statement.

"Abortions are available in publicly-funded hospitals in New Brunswick. The Government of New Brunswick does not fund private health-care services."

It would have been nice to see during the Gallant [Liberal] government as well.

- Jenica Atwin, Fredericton Green Party candidate

Abortions funded by medicare are now provided at three hospitals in New Brunswick: two in Moncton — the Moncton Hospital and the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre — and the Chaleur Regional Hospital in Bathurst.

Women who can't travel to those hospitals, who have passed the gestational limit of 13 weeks and six days for a medicare-funded hospital abortion, or who go to Clinic 554 for other reasons, must pay up to $850 for the procedure. The clinic performs abortions up to 16 weeks.

Act stipulates 'reasonable' access

In July, federal Health Minister Ginette Petitpas-Taylor, a New Brunswick MP, said in a letter to her provincial counterparts that refusing to fund abortions in clinics violated the Canada Health Act.

But successive provincial Liberal and PC governments have argued the act does not give Ottawa the power to dictate exactly how or where abortion services are offered.

The legislation says there must be "reasonable" access to publicly-funded services, without financial or other barriers.

"The Canada Health Act doesn't say where you must do it," said Dr. Russ King, a former provincial Liberal health minister who attended Trudeau's campaign event. "It supports the fact that there should be certain services.

"Provinces have always had the ability, in my opinion, to determine what were necessary services and what weren't. The provinces made those choices."

The Fredericton clinic was opened in 1994 by Dr. Henry Morgentaler. It closed in 2014 and reopened the following year under new management. In addition to abortions, the clinic offers family medicine services with a focus on transgender and LGBTQ care.

'Times have changed'

King, who was health minister in the Frank McKenna government that opposed the clinic's opening, said "times have changed," and he now believes a private clinic has a role in offering abortion services if demographics require it.

"If we need it and the public [system] doesn't provide it, I think as long as it comes up to a certain standard, they should be supported."

Last week, federal Green Party Leader Elizabeth May joined a Fredericton rally to support the clinic and challenged other federal leaders to take a position on the issue.

In the French-language leaders' debate last Thursday night, Trudeau said he was "concerned by the decision of the [Progressive] Conservative government in New Brunswick, which is taking a step backwards for women's rights."

But Tuesday's promise to "ensure" clinic abortions were funded by medicare represented a firmer commitment.

About 150 people rallied outside the health minister's office in Fredericton last Friday in support of Clinic 554. (Shane Fowler/CBC)

Fredericton Green Party candidate Jenica Atwin welcomed Trudeau's tougher line but wondered why he hadn't adopted it when Gallant was premier.

"It is interesting that he hasn't brought it up before, but support is support," she said. "I want to see Clinic 554 stay open ... so I appreciate that he's now stepping forward. It would have been nice to see during the Gallant government as well."

She brushed off Trudeau's claim that a vote for other left-of-centre parties would split the vote and let the Conservatives win.

She said progressive voters disappointed by the federal Liberals know from provincial Green victories in Fredericton that they're not wasting their vote if they support her.

"Now, they're willing to bet on a horse that they know is going to come through on those promises."

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David Raymond Amos
Methinks its should be a small wonder to many political pundits why I was on the phone first thing this morning and sending a wonderfully wicked email at the end of the day N'esy Pas?

Brian Cohen

Reply to @David Raymond Amos:
Methinks no one knows what the bleep you're talking about.

Ben Haroldson

Reply to @Brian Cohen: Start a party man....

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Brian Cohen: The people I talked to and emailed certainly do

David Raymond Amos
Good night cruel world I have to get up early to encounter one of Trudeau's minions at a High School. She was lucky enough to warm a seat in Fundy Royal for Trudeau The Younger for 4 years but Rob Moore and his fans say no more. Methinks even though the lady is pro abortion her buddy the lawyer as national director of his church and my other political foes consider her to be a good liberal and do not like my speaking up in defense of our unborn during debates even though lots of folks agree with me N'esy Pas?

Tim Biddiscombe
Reply to @David Raymond Amos: The world is cruel to you?

Tim Biddiscombe

Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Goodbye Mr. Nessy Pas..

Tim Biddiscombe

Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Better luck in the next election ;)

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Tim Biddiscombe: This election is not over plus I doubt I will ever run again Methinks 7 times is enough to prove my point in Federal Courts on both sides of the medicine line N'esy Pas?

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Tim Biddiscombe: "The world is cruel to you?"

Methinks you have no clue as to who I am and at this point I no longer care but I trust that you know that I have made you rather infamous in certain circles Anyone can Google your name and mine N'esy Pas?

Mandel Rooney

Reply to @David Raymond Amos:
Yeah, you're the guy who's best showing was 1.07% of the vote in Fundy Royal in 2003 (358 whole votes). N'esy Pas and better luck next time Gandalf.

Brian Cohen

Reply to @David Raymond Amos:
Pro-choice does not in any possible way equal "pro-abortion".
That you cannot or most likely will not see a difference speaks volumes about you.
N'est pas

Dan Cordona
Maybe the funds for the NB abortion clinics truedo is talking about would come from George Soros.

Tim Biddiscombe

Reply to @Dan Cordona: Soros is an American ..he is unlikely to give Canada anything.

Tim Biddiscombe

Reply to @Dan Cordona: What nonsense..

Dan Cordona

Reply to @Tim Biddiscombe: "chuckle" no... not to Canada..... He's a promoter of things sort of....

Tim Biddiscombe

Reply to @Dan Cordona: In US, yes. I have seen him promote nothing in Canada. Ever hear of the Koch Bros?

Dan Cordona

Reply to @Tim Biddiscombe: Yes, the Koch bros too. But Soros is more powerful. It's suspected or surmised that he sponsors the mass migration worldwide to create disorder in hopes to achieve a new order.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Tim Biddiscombe: Who do you think is funding Antifa movement Santa Claus?

David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Dan Cordona: Who do you think was behind Occupy Wallstreet or Maher Arar or Assange or Iggy the Tooth Fairy?

Tim Biddiscombe

Reply to @David Raymond Amos: I didnt know antifa was active in Canada..

Tim Biddiscombe

Harper paid off Maher Arar with $10.5m

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Tim Biddiscombe: So what your point? Methinks that does not negate the fact Arar used the Soros lawyers in CCR. Perhaps you should FINALLY read the lawsuit I file when Harper was the PM N'esy Pas?

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Tim Biddiscombe: "I didnt know antifa was active in Canada."

Yea Right.

Tim Biddiscombe

Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Me thinks you got hardly any votes when you ran, Nessy Pas?

Tim Biddiscombe

Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Show me where there was in Canada pls ..I'll wait.

Tim Biddiscombe

Reply to @David Raymond Amos: I see you ran away heh heh

Bernie Heather McIntyre

Reply to @Tim Biddiscombe: Have you not watched the news at Bernier's rally and the Syrian restaurant closure about the owners son?

Dave Corbin
The issue in Atlantic Canada is the crisis in healthcare, namely access to healthcare of which abortion services is a very small fraction. He comes across as having no clue what Atlantic Canada is experiencing. Dump Trudeau!

Tim Biddiscombe

Reply to @Dave Corbin: Yet he swept every riding in Atlantic Canada a few years ago..

Tim Biddiscombe

Reply to @Dave Corbin: And actually, the issue in Atlantic Canada is jobs ..always has been.

Dave Corbin

Reply to @Tim Biddiscombe:
ya, Trudeau fooled a lot but no more. Liberal Gallant fooled a lot too and he's out now

Tim Biddiscombe

Reply to @Dave Corbin: What did he fo ol you on, Dave?

Tim Biddiscombe

Reply to @Dave Corbin: Dave?

Tim Biddiscombe

Reply to @Dave Corbin: Nice of you to give yourself a like.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Dave Corbin: Methinks desperate liberal post desperate things in the middle of the night I am quit reading his nonsense and hitting the sack like a suspect you already did N'esy Pas?

Tim Biddiscombe

Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Me thinks you should run again and have your ego put in check, Nessy Pas?

Wallace Gouk
I'm not a fan of abortion however I don't believe as a man, I should have any say in the matter.
But ...... Trudeau "vowing to force the provincial government to fund the procedure" shows just how extreme this man is. He will FORCE provinces to do things his way. I'm beginning to understand his admiration of China.

Tim Biddiscombe

Reply to @Wallace Gouk: What makes you think he admires China, Wallace?

Tim Biddiscombe

Reply to @Wallace Gouk: And the actual quote was "We will ensure that the New Brunswick government allows access, paid-for access, to clinics that offer abortion services outside of hospitals," ..I see nothing about forcing anyone to do anything.

Wallace Gouk

Reply to @Tim Biddiscombe: Suggest you re-read the very first paragraph of the story.

Tim Biddiscombe

Reply to @Wallace Gouk: "We will ensure that the New Brunswick government allows access, paid-for access, to clinics that offer abortion services outside of hospitals" Show us where he will force anyone ..the offer is to pay for it.

Tim Biddiscombe

Reply to @Wallace Gouk: My quote IS from the first paragraph..

Wallace Gouk

Reply to @Tim Biddiscombe: You can search youtube "china trudeau admires" and watch it for yourself

Wallace Gouk

Reply to @Tim Biddiscombe: Must be a different story. My quote is also from the first paragraph. You sounded reasonable so I replied in kind. Now I see I was wasting my time.

Tim Biddiscombe

Reply to @Wallace Gouk: I did ..and he said no such thing.

Tim Biddiscombe

Reply to @Wallace Gouk: My quote is from the first paragraph as well.. whats your point?

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Tim Biddiscombe: Methinks you are foolish to play dumb everybody knows this N'esy Pas?

Justin Trudeau's 'foolish' China remarks spark anger
'It seems to be that he's not well-informed,' Asian-Canadian says of Liberal leader
CBC News · Posted: Nov 09, 2013 7:16 PM ET

"A round table of people from China, Taiwan, Tibet and Korea — all of whom say they suffered at the hands of China's dictatorship — said they were insulted by Trudeau's remarks, made on Thursday at a women's event.

The Liberal leader was asked which nation he admired most. He responded: "There's a level of admiration I actually have for China. Their basic dictatorship is actually allowing them to turn their economy around on a dime."

Tim Biddiscombe
Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Me thinks you got wiped out in the last election, Nessy Pas?

Eddy Watts
I'm not a women.....and if the Conservative (ie Reform party) win this election, I feel a great deal of sadness for their gender, as the Cons will try to take back the women's right to choose what she does with her body.

Aaron Lane
Reply to @eddy watts:
Complete nonsense. No party is going to reopen the abortion issue, and Scheer has always said he will oppose any backbench attempt to reopen it. And the ability to get pregnant has nothing to do with “gender”. It has to do with physiological sex.

Brian Cohen

Reply to @Aaron Lane:
No Scheer finally said he would not re-open the issue but has always said he would NOT prevent others from bringing it up

Aaron Lane

Reply to @Brian Cohen:
No party leader should dictate what individual MPs are allowed to bring forward as Private Members Bills. Elected legislators must be allowed to legislate as they see fit, and they should be accountable to their electors and not to party leaders. But Scheer has said that he and his cabinet will vote against any such backbench efforts to raise abortion.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Brian Cohen: Methinks everybody in Fundy Royal knows that I am bringing the rights of the unborn up every chance I get during my debates in Fundy Royal N'esy Pas?

Wallace Gouk

Reply to @David Raymond Amos: "N'esy Pas?" You're kidding with the fake french and a new fake name ! right? How come only Alt-Lefters are allowed fake names on CBC.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Wallace Gouk: Methinks you should Google "Fundy Royal Debate" then come to one and say your BS to my face N'esy Pas?

Joc McTavish
2-tier health care. Trudeau's Canada.

Al Clark

Reply to @Joc McTavish: Confused much? Check with manning harper and sheer co.

Eddy Watts

Reply to @Joc McTavish: Wow!!!! Talk about spin. It is the Reform/Conservatives who tried and will again try to ensure that the wealthy "get to the front of the line". Imagine the Conservatives looking out for the rights of middle Class Canada.....NEVER. Scheer's plan as it was under Harper? Help the wealthy corporates fill their pockets with tax cuts...........While increasing taxes for the middle class earner. Only under the Trudeau has the middle class seen a tax cut over the last 18 years.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Al Clark: Methinks you are fine one to talk of being confused after teasing me about my Harley on behalf of your cop buddies you claim to have voted for me N'esy Pas?

Al Clark

Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Davey you misread my post earlier. I would have loved to vote for you .....

Al Clark

Reply to @David Raymond Amos: ....but I had to hold my nose and vote for the ONE party that can vanquish your fat little friend robbie, scheer, harper,.......

Al Clark

Reply to @David Raymond Amos: .... and manning/belzibub.

Al Clark

Reply to @David Raymond Amos: ....That panhead biz was just cos of something funny I read. I occasionally play a narc, but my bro and cuz are cops (ret) if that helps.

Aaron Lane

Reply to @eddy watts:
Completely false. Harper increased the Basic Personal Amount twice. Scheer is promising to lower tax rates for the lowest tax bracket. The Harper government increased health transfers to the provinces by 6% each and every year, and lowered total federal taxes to their lowest level in over 50 years. Under Trudeau, there was an income tax rate cut for those earning more than the median income, and even that cut was more than offset by increases in other taxes and elimination of tax deductions and credits.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Al Clark: I see nothing funny about being falsely imprisoned twice by your heros

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Aaron Lane: Methinks folks should Google the following before polling day N'esy Pas?

Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier CRA KPMG David Raymond Amos

Thomas Collins
Justin is oddly obsessed with doing away with babies....

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Thomas Collins: Methinks that he has made painfully obvious to all N'esy Pas?

Brian Cohen

Reply to @Thomas Collins:
Babies aren't involved in abortions.
"doing away with babies" is called infanticide

Brian Cohen

Reply to @David Raymond Amos:
Upholding Canada's charter of rights and freedoms when it comes to women's rights??
Yes, yes he is

Aaron Lane

Reply to @Brian Cohen:
Dr. Henry Morgentaler disagreed with you. He said, “We don’t abort babies. We want to abort foetuses before they become babies... Around 24 weeks, I have ethical problems doing that.” But in Canada abortions are legal and accessible for any reason or no reason at all, right up to the moment of birth.

Samual Johnston

Reply to @Thomas Collins: I don’t like JT but that is a tad much.

Aaron Lane

Reply to @Brian Cohen:
And abortion in Canada is not a “woman’s right”. The Supreme Court did not link abortion to freedom from discrimination based on sex. It linked accessible abortion to the right to security of the person, in Section 7 of the Charter. The justices also unanimously called on parliament to pass a new abortion law with restrictions on abortion increasing with gestational age. And the Supreme Court has never rules that abortion must be publicly funded.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Brian Cohen: Methinks you don't have the first clue as to why I sued the Queen when Harper was the the PM N'esy Pas?

Brian Cohen
Reply to @Aaron Lane:
omg.
The term you're looking for is "viable" which doesn't occur till around the 24 week gestation period.
As for late term abortions, you are completely wrong.
In Canada, no doctor can perform an abortion on a fetus past this 24 week period unless the life of the woman is at dire risk and even then, can only perform the abortion at the expressed permission of the woman. According to the Canadian Medical Association, late term abortions make up less than one half of one percent of all abortions in Canada with ALL of the other 99.6% occurring before 24 weeks and the vast majority of those before 8 weeks gestation when the organism is still only an embryo.

Brian Cohen
Reply to @David Raymond Amos:
Methinks you lost whatever your ridiculous case was against the Queen.
N'esy pas is gibberish in both official languages.

Umadhay Keven
Because gender selection is important.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Umadhay Keven: In some cultures it is but not ours

Charles Harper

Reply to @Umadhay Keven:
Glad somebody was allowed to say that.

Umadhay Keven

Reply to @David Raymond Amos: You know this how? Are there stats showing which gender is more often aborted?

Charles Harper

Reply to @David Raymond Amos:
Haven't you heard...Canada is multi cultural.
Are you seriously suggesting it isn't happening here?

Charles Harper

Reply to @Umadhay Keven:
Yes.
Check out The South China Daily News and the Times of India.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @charles harper: Come to the Hampton debate this Thursday night and ask me that question in person in public I Double Dog Dare Ya To

Brian Cohen

Reply to @David Raymond Amos:
Why?
So you can avoid all facts and go on another emotionally charged, but factually nonsensical rant??
Gee, wouldn't want to miss that .....

Mark Williams
Trudeau should spend a little time discussing the virtues of pro-life.

Rosemary Hughes

Reply to @mark williams: Because.......?

Mark Williams

Reply to @Rosemary Hughes:

"Because.......?"

It's obvious.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @mark williams: Methinks Trudeau should have a long talk with his Pope and the new Canadian Cardinal someday and ask them why I sued their old buddy Cardinal Bernard Law in Beantown in 2002 N'esy Pas?

Mark Williams

Reply to @David Raymond Amos:
Good luck with that suit.

Ratzinger was in it up to neck as well, and John was no sweetheart either, he knew damn well what was going on and didn't lift a finger to help.

Brian Cohen

Reply to @mark williams:
Nope, anti-choice is the opposite of upholding women's rights

Brian Cohen

Reply to @David Raymond Amos:
Why would the opinion of two celebrate old men have any bearing on a woman's right to choose?

Mark Williams

Reply to @Brian Cohen:
Who mentioned anti-choice?

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Brian Cohen: Ask the Catholic dude you adore named Justin

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @mark williams: I won it in 2003

Brian Cohen
Reply to @mark williams:
you did; pro-life is more aptly named anti-choice.

Brian Cohen

Reply to @David Raymond Amos:
Why would I give a damn about anyone's religious beliefs??
They are irrelevant to the rights of Canadians.

Mark Williams

Reply to @Brian Cohen:
Sorry, you don't get to define the term.

Jonathan Smith
I have to believe this empty scare tactic will lose Trudeau more votes.
So blatantly desperate.
Is there a sudden epidemic of unwanted pregnancies rolling across the country?

Rosemary Hughes

Reply to @Jonathan Smith: The problem is lack of access. No woman should have to travel to another province to get access to a legal service because the province refuses to fund that service based on partisan, subjective ideology.

Ned Ven

Reply to @Rosemary Hughes: no one in NB has to travel out of province.

Ned Ven

Reply to @Rosemary Hughes: if you read the article the premier is just restating the funding will only be provided to public health centres not private ones. There is no denial of service.

Jonathan Smith

Reply to @Rosemary Hughes:
You dislike facts, and love rhetoric.

Anne Bérubé

Reply to @Jonathan Smith: And all the while I thought that pharmacies all carry birth control for all taste and purses.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Anne Bérubé: Me Too

Brian Cohen

Reply to @Anne Bérubé:
Apparently you're not aware that NONE of those options are 100% effective.

Fred Dee

Reply to @Jonathan Smith: maybe there are many unwanted pregnancies,,, caused by JUSTIN!! not that he would think his experience was bad!!

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Brian Cohen: Obviously true because you walk among us

Brian Cohen

Reply to @David Raymond Amos:
Wow, what wit.
that you keep losing elections is not a shocker to anyone other than yourself

Terry Tibbs
As Canadian voters are still waiting for Mr Trudeau to keep his election promises made in 2015, I would respectfully suggest to not hold your breath.

David Raymond Amos

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Reply to @Terry Tibbs: I would offer a comment but methinks you think I am as dumb as a post N'esy Pas?

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Interesting Methinks its time to give up replying to Mr Tibbs N'esy Pas?

Keith Rodgers
Why wood he do that.....Obviously he wants to fund not wanted babies with our Tax money and why New Brunswick.....He should be here in North Battleford SK because Babies are having Babies

Terry Tibbs

Reply to @keith rodgers:
Are you suggesting the "wood" is in someones head?

Keith Rodgers

Reply to @Terry Tibbs:
If you corner an efty...First they will call you a luiar, if that doesnt work they will make pppersonal attacks, if that doesnt work, they will then Invoke Due Process.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @keith rodgers: Methinks you jest just enough N'esy Pas?

Fred Dee
Funny how Justin said nothing when the Liberals were in charge in NB!!!

John Chow

Reply to @Fred Dee:
He also said nothing about it for the psst four years.

Norman Albert

Reply to @John Chow: Except to say if your pro life you are not welcome in the liberal Party. Good enough for me. I won't vote Liberal again.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Norman Albert: I never did and never will because liberals took away my right to vote

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-warning-conservative-cuts-1.5320944

Trudeau digs for NDP, Green votes, issues dire warning about 'Conservative cuts'

Liberal leader says voting for his party is the only way to prevent a Conservative government

Kathleen Harris · CBC News · Posted: Oct 15, 2019 11:17 AM ET |

Federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau exits the campaign jet to thank local volunteers before departing Vancouver, B.C. on Saturday October 12, 2019. (Frank Gunn/THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau aimed a pitch at NDP and Green voters today, warning darkly that a Conservative government would mean deep spending cuts, a lack of action on climate change and weak support for abortion services — and arguing that voting Liberal is the only way to prevent it.

"In terms of the NDP and the Greens, remember this: If you want progressive action, you need a progressive government, not a progressive opposition," Trudeau said during a campaign stop in Fredericton.

"Voting Liberal is the only way to stop Conservative cuts. Liberals know that the way to grow the economy is by investing in people and we have the record to prove it."

Questioned by journalists after his statement, Trudeau was asked bluntly if the current Liberal strategy is to drive votes away from the NDP and Greens by whipping up fear among Canadians.

"We have been very positive in the approach that we take and we will remain so," he said. "I'm looking for a strong mandate to continue to invest in Canadians and I will be sharp in the policy differences between us and the Conservatives."

POLL TRACKER
NDP continues to gain as Liberals, Conservatives remain deadlocked

Where the party leaders are on Day 35 of the federal election campaign

A warning about the consequences of voting New Democrat or Green has emerged as a keynote theme of Trudeau's recent public statements, as the Liberals and Conservatives have lapsed into a polling deadlock. Over the weekend, Trudeau argued that the government of Stephen Harper cut spending on culture and veterans and retreated from action on climate change because the NDP and Bloc Québécois were strong at the time.

Today, Trudeau claimed that electing a Conservative government would return Canada to a time when wages were flat, job creation was stalled and "ambition was nowhere to be found."

Access to abortion services

Asked about an abortion clinic in Fredericton that's under threat of closure due to a lack of funding, Trudeau said if he's re-elected he would meet with New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative Premier Blaine Higgs to discuss the province's obligation to fund abortion clinics. He said he would use all the tools at the government's disposal under the Canada Health Act.

"A Liberal government, a Liberal prime minister, will always stand up to provinces who want to limit women's rights to choose, something that the Conservatives, particularly under Andrew Scheer, will not do," he said.

Trudeau also said he is best positioned to push back against Conservative premiers such as Alberta's Jason Kenney and Ontario's Doug Ford, "who don't want to act on climate change."

During a campaign event in Toronto, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh insisted the choice for Canadians is not just between the Liberals and the Conservatives.

'Don't vote out of fear'

"You are not stuck with two choices. No one owns your vote. You are free to choose what you want. Don't vote out of fear, vote for hope," he said.

In Quebec City, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer repeated his message that a Conservative majority is needed to prevent a Liberal-NDP coalition that would lead to tax hikes and runaway spending.

"There is now a clear choice between our party and an NDP-Liberal coalition which will raise taxes, kill jobs, drive out investment, cancel big projects. I know Canadians don't want that to happen and that's why I'm very optimistic for October 21," he said.

Trudeau would not entertain the possibility of forming a coalition government with the NDP when asked about it repeatedly on the weekend. Instead, he said the Liberals' focus is on electing a progressive government to stop Conservative cuts.

Singh said Sunday that he would consider a coalition with the Liberals in a minority situation, but stepped back from that idea the following day, insisting his focus is on getting as many New Democrat MPs elected as possible.

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David Raymond Amos
I am back from an all candidates meeting with the students of the largest High School in Fundy Royal. I was made to feel welcome and I had a good time indeed. Need I say I especially liked it when a member of Mad Max 's PPC party running in Fundy Royal attended even though he was not invited? The fact that he slandered me and invited me to sue slandered me and invited me to sue him in front of many witness was icing on the cake.

For the record after participating in 7 elections today was the first time I was ever invited to a school. It was easily the largest crowd I spoke before during an election. Methinks my fun loving politicking confused my foes who only managed to bore the young folks by reading from their party play books. However when I spoke I saw many a smart phone recording my words. Perhaps from a small spark there may burst a mighty flame in YouTube before the debate in Hampton tomorrow night. We all know how much teenagers love to challenge their parent's reasoning so I have no doubt my name will come up a few supper tables tonight. At the very least my political foes can't deny that they got a little pay back the day after they laughed as I was denied the right to debate on them over the Crown's airwaves paid for by our tax funds N'esy Pas?

Benjamin Dover
In 2015 people in the riding of Victoria said "don't vote Green because a vote for the Greens is a vote for the CPC". And look what happened.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Benjamin Dover: Methinks they obviously helped to run Harper out of Dodge but Victoria is a long way from the Maritimes We so called defeatists booted Harper out every riding downeast N'esy Pas?

John Clark
Earth is in a circular, orbital concentric path around the sun. Concentric because we are pulled out of whack by Jupiter's Gravity. We are 66 years away from a circular orbit, moving away from the sun for the next 5000 years before we start our journey of 5000 years back to circular. Yet, rather than cooling off we are heating up!
The Global Heating lines up with the use of coal, a 19th-century technology. The plan was to eliminate coal-burning to correct, not turn back the heating. The Arctic tundra is turning into muskeg. This has 2 times more carbon dioxide stored than does our present atmosphere, think here of cascade. Carbon dioxide is being absorbed by the oceans. This turns into carbolic acid. We all know that acidic water prevents the birth of females and species die out. Beyond the guppy experience, it is our food chain.
Speaking of the food chain the carbolic acid is killing reefs around the world. It is also killing Phytoplankton, the basis of the food chain for animals including humans. Greenland is calving millions of tonnes of freshwater and ice which, is migrating towards the equator with the earth's spin changing the makeup of the Ocean. The Antarctic is calving large pieces. All this will push the ocean levels up. If the whole ice pack in Antarctic slides oceans will rise 3 feet!
Climate heating is marked by extreme weather which we see now on a daily basis.

The oceans have absorbed much of the carbon dioxide which turns into carbolic acid. Fish do not produce females in acidic water! It is killing coral around the world. Watch the Atlantic fisheries tumble for no apparent reasons. Scheer does not have a climate heating plan!

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @John Clark: Interesting

Robert Greening
American Andy & Trump...the vivid image is a scorcher...NO THANKS!!

American Andy and his American campaign resembles the Republican Party who claimed that if Herbert Hoover won there would be “a chicken in every pot" and "more money in your pocket"

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Robert Greening: Methinks the chickens are now smoking pot N'esy Pas?

Tommy James

Vote Conservative to keep Canada Strong and Free

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Tommy James: Methinks the old hippy in me felt some good karma today. The fact that Trudeau the Younger would land in New Brunswick just before I debate Harper 2.0's Shadow Cabinet Minister for the Maritimes in Hampton can't be all bad. He did the same in 2015 and the lawyer Rob Moore lost his seat in Fundy Royal N'esy Pas?

Nav Saloojee

Reply to @Tommy James:
One issue is first and foremost in this election. Climate change.
Only one party will do nothing about this. If you care about the environment, you can not vote Conservative

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Nav Saloojee: Methinks Trudeau's carbon tax scheme has certainly helped to sink his boat N'esy Pas?

Adrian Williams

The same tired pathetic arguments from Trudeau. Can’t wait to see the liberals lose.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Adrian Williams: Methinks the Fat Lady ain't sung yet and Mr Scheer is still a Yankee N'esy Pas?

Aaron Barton

justin, the king of fear and division.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Aaron Barton: Methinks in the this wicked game Mr Scheer and his cohorts are pretty good at playing those cards too N'esy Pas?

April Wong

Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Methinks people are getting tired of your schtick David

Greg Lang

other than cuts, how are we going to pay our bills? The energy sector has been pretty much wiped off the map so there goes the profits for Canada.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Greg Lang: Methinks they are relying on our good credit with the banksters N'esy Pas?

Richard Ade

Irresponsible leader, consoling people with borrowed money and conveniently forgetting to mention the growing interest that is accumulating on all the borrowed money. Supporting Trudeau is like building a house of cards, any slight wind will bring everything crashing down.

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Richard Ade: Methinks Mr Trump will be the most responsible for the next stock market crash N'esy Pas?

Aaron Jensen

With a credibility problem the size of Trudeau's, who even listens to him anymore?

David Raymond Amos

Reply to @Aaron Jensen: I do that what I come to circus for so methinks it would make no sense to ignore one ofhe ringmaster and all the clowns N'esy Pas?

Canadian Nurses Association to host community town hall in Fredericton ahead of 2019 federal election

What:		Town hall: Better access to health care
When:		October 1st, 2019
Where:		Fredericton Inn, Bicentennial Room 1315 Regent St., Fredericton, NB

Program highlights

6 p.m.	Doors open
6:30 p.m.	Moderated panel begins
7:50 p.m.	Audience Q&A
8:20 p.m.	Closing remarks

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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:21:47 -0400
Subject: I just called Nurses Association of New Brunswick and they
played dumb so perhaps Michel Carrier and his SANB lawyer pals can
explain why I called N'esy Pas Serge Rouselle?
To: "serge.rousselle" <serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>, "Michel.Carrier"
<Michel.Carrier@gnb.ca>, president@nanb.nb.ca, ljanes@nanb.nb.ca,
jwhitehead@nanb.nb.ca, peter.lindfield@carlisleinstitute.org,
"hugh.flemming" <hugh.flemming@gnb.ca>, "andrea.anderson-mason"
<andrea.anderson-mason@gnb.ca>

, "brian.gallant"
<brian.gallant@gnb.ca>, "David.Coon" <David.Coon@gnb.ca>,
"blaine.higgs" <blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, "kris.austin"
<kris.austin@gnb.ca>, kristar@frederictonchamber.ca, "Tim.RICHARDSON"
<Tim.RICHARDSON@gnb.ca>, "Mitton, Megan (LEG)" <megan.mitton@gnb.ca>,
"Arseneau, Kevin (LEG)" <Kevin.A.Arseneau@gnb.ca>, "robert.mckee"
<robert.mckee@gnb.ca>, "robert.gauvin" <robert.gauvin@gnb.ca>,
"rick.desaulniers" <rick.desaulniers@gnb.ca>, "michelle.conroy"
<michelle.conroy@gnb.ca>, "Dominic.Cardy" <Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca>,
"Hon.Dominic.LeBlanc" <Hon.Dominic.LeBlanc@canada.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, oldmaison
<oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre <andre@jafaust.com>

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You folks can always talk to Chucky Leblanc and his new buddy Krista
Ross it seems that they know everybody and everything N'esy Pas?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMA45Ht5MK0

CEO of the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce Krista Ross sits down to
educate Blogger!!!
Charles Leblanc
Published on Jan 16, 2019

Nurses Association of New Brunswick
165 Regent Street
Fredericton NB
Canada E3B 7B4

Phone: 506-458-8731

Jennifer Whitehead
Manager, Communications and Government Relations
jwhitehead@nanb.nb.ca
506-459-2852 (ext 852)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nurses-association-withdraws-lawsuit-language-commissioner-1.4981862

Nurses withdraw lawsuit against language commissioner over licensing exam

Nurses group was angry with commissioner's report on failure rate by
francophone nurses

CBC News · Posted: Jan 17, 2019 12:29 PM AT

The pass rate by francophone nursing graduates plunged after a new
licensing exam was adopted. (iStock)

The New Brunswick Nurses Association is withdrawing a lawsuit launched
last August against the commissioner of official languages after a
stinging report on the exam nurses take to get a licence.

The licensing body was challenging the commissioner's findings that it
broke the Official Languages Act by adopting an exam that put
francophone students at a disadvantage.

Nurses association sues language commissioner over nursing exam report
Watchdog says nursing exam puts francophone students at a disadvantage

The exam, developed from the American NCLX-RN licensing test, saw
University of Moncton nursing students with the highest failure rate
in the country.

After the exam was introduced in 2015, the school's success rate
dropped to 32 per cent from 91 per cent.

Former languages commissioner Katherine d'Entremont found there was a
lack of preparation material, such as practice tests, in French and
that the translation was weak, likely because it was done by people
who were not qualified translators.
The former commissioner of official languages said the lack of
preparatory materials and practice exams in French was a major factor
in the high failure rates. (CBC)

After discussions between the two parties, the nurses association
decided to withdraw the lawsuit from Fredericton Court of Queen's
Bench this week.

D-Entremont has retired, and the interim commissioner, Michel Carrier,
said the office would decline to comment on the reasons why the
lawsuit was dropped. The nurses association said it declined comment
for the time being.

The association is still being sued by the Acadian Society of New
Brunswick and the student federation at the University of Moncton, who
took it to court last May over the failure rate.

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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

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Eidt, David (OAG/CPG)" <David.Eidt@gnb.ca>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 00:33:21 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Mr Lutz howcome your buddy the clerk
would not file this motion and properly witnessed affidavit and why
did she take all four copies?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

I will be out of the office until Monday, March 13, 2017. I will have
little to no access to email. Please dial 453-2222 for assistance.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Marc Richard <MRichard@lawsociety-barreau.nb.ca>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:16:46 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE: The New Brunswick Real Estate
Association and their deliberate ignorance for the bankster's benefit
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

I will be out of the office until August 15, 2016. Je serai absent du
bureau jusqu'au 15 août 2016.

> ---------- 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
>

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
>>
>

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-APPEA

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