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Methinks the most relevant statement Harper's buddy MacKay has ever said at the circus is "Stay tuned" N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2020/01/peter-mackay-set-to-enter-conservative.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stephen-harper-resigns-conservative-fund-1.5428237
Stephen Harper resigns from Conservative Fund board as leadership race heats up
· CBC News · Posted: Jan 15, 2020 3:22 PM ET
Former prime minister Stephen Harper has quit the board of the Conservative Party of Canada Fund. (Jose Luis Magana/The Canadian Press/AP)
Former prime minister Stephen Harper
has resigned from the board of the Conservative Fund Canada, the
financial arm of the national party, just as the party's leadership race
begins in earnest.
A spokesperson for the party confirmed Harper has stepped back from the position, one he assumed after his party's 2015 electoral defeat. Maclean's magazine was first to report the development Wednesday.
"The fund thanks former prime minister Harper for his tireless work on the board, and wishes him well. His contributions, support and wise counsel to the board over the past many years has been appreciated," said Cory Hann, a spokesperson for the party.
The board, composed of other senior Conservative operatives such as former Sen. Irving Gerstein (a self-described "proud party bagman") and Ontario Sen. Linda Frum, helps raise funds and sets the budget for the party and its leader.
Frum, who was appointed to the Senate by the former prime minister, told CBC News Wednesday she is still a member of the board.
Harper loyalists in the party declined to comment on his departure Wednesday.
Maclean's magazine columnist Paul Wells reported Wednesday that Harper stepped back from an official party role so he could be more actively involved in the upcoming leadership race.
The magazine, citing an unnamed source, said prospective leadership candidate Jean Charest sought Harper's endorsement in a December phone call but the former prime minister refused to give it.
Harper told Charest, a former leader of the now-defunct Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, that "the party is no longer the party [you] led," the magazine reported. The more moderate PC Party merged with the conservative Canadian Alliance in 2003.
Speaking to CBC's Power & Politics today, Wells said Harper's decision to leave the board was "accelerated" as it became increasingly clear Charest is readying a run for the leadership.
"It's pretty clear that Stephen Harper does not want Jean Charest to be the leader. As a long-time senior Conservative said to me, 'Harper is quitting the fund board so he can block Charest.' That wasn't my language, that was volunteered to me by one of my sources," Wells said.
"Harper cannot himself announce, 'I block thee, Jean Charest.' All he can do is speak his mind, say what he thinks and use his considerable clout within the party to rally opinion. Charest gets to decide if he wants to run against those headwinds."
The Conservative Fund has been a source of controversy in recent weeks.
A
source close to the board told CBC News in December that board members
were blindsided by a report that party funds had been used to send the
children of outgoing Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer to private
school.
The fund was in the process of looking into the matter when Scheer abruptly quit his post as permanent leader. The fund's decision to probe the spending and Scheer's resignation were "not viewed as coincidental," the source said.
Dustin Van Vugt left his job as executive director of the party during the fracas over who knew what about the spending. Van Vugt, who brokered the tuition deal with Scheer, has since been replaced by Jamie Girard.
The news of Harper's resignation comes on the day former senior Conservative cabinet minister Peter MacKay announced he'd join the race to replace Scheer as leader. It is not yet known if Harper is prepared to endorse one of the candidates vying for the top job.
A spokesperson for the party confirmed Harper has stepped back from the position, one he assumed after his party's 2015 electoral defeat. Maclean's magazine was first to report the development Wednesday.
"The fund thanks former prime minister Harper for his tireless work on the board, and wishes him well. His contributions, support and wise counsel to the board over the past many years has been appreciated," said Cory Hann, a spokesperson for the party.
The board, composed of other senior Conservative operatives such as former Sen. Irving Gerstein (a self-described "proud party bagman") and Ontario Sen. Linda Frum, helps raise funds and sets the budget for the party and its leader.
Frum, who was appointed to the Senate by the former prime minister, told CBC News Wednesday she is still a member of the board.
Harper loyalists in the party declined to comment on his departure Wednesday.
Maclean's magazine columnist Paul Wells reported Wednesday that Harper stepped back from an official party role so he could be more actively involved in the upcoming leadership race.
The magazine, citing an unnamed source, said prospective leadership candidate Jean Charest sought Harper's endorsement in a December phone call but the former prime minister refused to give it.
Harper told Charest, a former leader of the now-defunct Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, that "the party is no longer the party [you] led," the magazine reported. The more moderate PC Party merged with the conservative Canadian Alliance in 2003.
Speaking to CBC's Power & Politics today, Wells said Harper's decision to leave the board was "accelerated" as it became increasingly clear Charest is readying a run for the leadership.
"It's pretty clear that Stephen Harper does not want Jean Charest to be the leader. As a long-time senior Conservative said to me, 'Harper is quitting the fund board so he can block Charest.' That wasn't my language, that was volunteered to me by one of my sources," Wells said.
"Harper cannot himself announce, 'I block thee, Jean Charest.' All he can do is speak his mind, say what he thinks and use his considerable clout within the party to rally opinion. Charest gets to decide if he wants to run against those headwinds."
The Conservative Fund has been a source of controversy in recent weeks.
The fund was in the process of looking into the matter when Scheer abruptly quit his post as permanent leader. The fund's decision to probe the spending and Scheer's resignation were "not viewed as coincidental," the source said.
Dustin Van Vugt left his job as executive director of the party during the fracas over who knew what about the spending. Van Vugt, who brokered the tuition deal with Scheer, has since been replaced by Jamie Girard.
The news of Harper's resignation comes on the day former senior Conservative cabinet minister Peter MacKay announced he'd join the race to replace Scheer as leader. It is not yet known if Harper is prepared to endorse one of the candidates vying for the top job.
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David Raymond Amos
Hmmm
"The news of Harper's resignation comes on the day former senior Conservative cabinet minister Peter MacKay announced he'd join the race to replace Scheer as leader. It is not yet known if Harper is prepared to endorse one of the candidates vying for the top job."
Methinks the most relevant statement Harper's buddy MacKay has ever said at the circus is "Stay tuned" N'esy Pas?
Jack Hill
Harper simply got caught with his hand in Andy's cookie jar.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Jack Hill: Methinks you have bassackwards Andy got caught in Harper's cookie jar N'esy Pas?
"A source close to the board told CBC News in December that board members were blindsided by a report that party funds had been used to send the children of outgoing Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer to private school.
The fund was in the process of looking into the matter when Scheer abruptly quit his post as permanent leader. The fund's decision to probe the spending and Scheer's resignation were "not viewed as coincidental," the source said.
Dustin Van Vugt left his job as executive director of the party during the fracas over who knew what about the spending. Van Vugt, who brokered the tuition deal with Scheer, has since been replaced by Jamie Girard."
"A source close to the board told CBC News in December that board members were blindsided by a report that party funds had been used to send the children of outgoing Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer to private school.
The fund was in the process of looking into the matter when Scheer abruptly quit his post as permanent leader. The fund's decision to probe the spending and Scheer's resignation were "not viewed as coincidental," the source said.
Dustin Van Vugt left his job as executive director of the party during the fracas over who knew what about the spending. Van Vugt, who brokered the tuition deal with Scheer, has since been replaced by Jamie Girard."
Ken Harper
Just google the water box thingy answer.That's who i running this great country. Spin that Oh and Harper never painted his face black for fun
Loran Hayden
Reply to @Ken Harper: you have a problem with thingies? Everyone has used a thingy now and then.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Ken Harper:
Methinks your cousin Mr Harper should Google Federal Court File No.
T-1557-15. Not many folks sue Her Majesty the Queen while one is the
Prime Minister N'esy Pas?
Moira Wilkinson
Ask David Orchard what he thinks of Stephen Harper
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Moira Wilkinson : Better yet ask him what he thinks of the Maritime lawyers MacKay and Mosher
Diann Duthie
Reply to @Moira Wilkinson :
And Peter Mackay......who gave us Harper.
John Douglas
Worst PM Ever
Mike Davidson
Content disabled
Charles Farley
Reply to @john douglas:
I agree. Trudeau is the worst PM ever.
I agree. Trudeau is the worst PM ever.
John Douglas
Reply to @Charles Farley:
Tds
Tds
John Arnold
Reply to @john douglas: Nobody has been a worst PM than Trudeau.
Roosevelt Smith
Reply to @John Arnold: history disagrees with you
James Blatchford
Reply to @Mike
Davidson: throwing shade like a professional there, Mike. Well done,
have an extra olive tonight in your martini.
Patrick Anglin
Reply to @john
douglas: Unless you are a Yank looking to use /canada at our expense or
really rich and like those tax breaks. Every time Cons give the rich
fewer taxes ,it shifts more of the tax burden to the working and poor,
Lou Walker
Reply to @Charles Farley:
Weak.
Weak.
Percy Thrillington
Reply to @john douglas: You’re 100% correct, and 0% incorrect.
Tom Martin
Reply to @john douglas: Definately in my life time and I have been around for a long time. The worst for sure.
Lorraine Karuse
Reply to @john
douglas: He Rewarded Duffy and Wallin from CTV with Plum jobs for the
rest of their lives. He poored the Seniors. He chose BOC from a
Conservative family(Pat Carney's son) who Said there is NO inflation
even when Oil prices were at a RECORD Level - thus denying Seniors
Pension increases AND because there were no interest increases, they
didn't earn very minimum on their savings. I heard many Seniors went
into debt, or invested in risky stock mkt, or sold their assets to cover
their costs because EVERY year the Expenses increased while their
pensions are basically stuck at 2006 level(may be $100 increase since).
He was going to increase public pension eligibility age to 67 while
himself probably collecting Pension
Jack Adam
Reply to @john
douglas: Can't agree more. Roll back environmental protection, destroy
DFO libraries and throw their contents into dumpsters, defund the inland
waters research centre then kick open the doors to destroy a world
class facility, fire the majority of DFO biologists, cut back on health
insurers for food industry, attack elections Canada, and the list goes
on. Pond scum really. Good riddance to bad garbage
Rembrandt
Garland
Reply to @john douglas: I'd say Trudeau and Harper cross the finish line of worst PM
in a dead heat.
in a dead heat.
Richard
Sharp
Reply to @john douglas:
This is too funny. Harper, Scheer, MacKay, other retreads.... all in self-destruction mode, reaching back years. And we are being asked to support them going forward?
This is too funny. Harper, Scheer, MacKay, other retreads.... all in self-destruction mode, reaching back years. And we are being asked to support them going forward?
Jon Smythe
Reply to @Mike
Davidson: Sorry, Mike, you kind of undercut your rather smug comment by
having to clarify that you are "normal" for thinking that Harper was the
"best PM".
Mike Trahan
Reply to @Rembrandt
Garland: I'd say your political ignorance is on full display, Harper
gutted environmental laws, intentionally damaged Canada's democracy,
added 168billion to the national debt.
Justin Trudeau is a centrist, Stephen Harper is a fascist, you not knowing the differences says a lot about you
Justin Trudeau is a centrist, Stephen Harper is a fascist, you not knowing the differences says a lot about you
Richard
Sharp
Reply to @john douglas:
Harper was a mean-spirited, self-serving prevaricator who attacked decent Canadians who dared to criticize him like they were criminals. May no one like him ever become PM again.
Harper was a mean-spirited, self-serving prevaricator who attacked decent Canadians who dared to criticize him like they were criminals. May no one like him ever become PM again.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Richard
Sharp: Methinks you should ask yourself why the RCMP falsely arrested me
in 2008 before Harper had the writ dropped N'esy Pas?
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @john
douglas: Methinks Maxime Bernier would not disagree that his old buddy
Harper had a plan for his party if perchance they lost the election in
2015. If anyone wishes to recall 3 stooges in particular McKay, Moore
and Baird did not run in the election of the 42nd Parliament. Hence they
suffer from no embarrassment of prior defeat if they were to reenter
the fray later. By the same token Ambrose did not run in the election of
the 43rd Parliament. Harper kept his seat for quite while after his
defeat.I have no doubt it was so he could continue to rule in the
backrooms while Ambrose acted as interim leader. Now McKay and possibly
Ambrose reappear to save the us all from Trudeau The Younger and his
cohorts Ya just gotta love the circus N'esy Pas?
Tony Walters
One wonders, how long will it take to wash the Harper smell of that party?
Drew Dangerfield
Reply to @Tony Walters: Can't be done.
Tony Walters
Reply to @Drew
Dangerfield: Then the real Conservatives should either split and form
their own party or kick the Reformers to the curb.
Drew
Dangerfield
Reply to @Tony Walters: Agree - we need a true federal Progressive Conservative party again.
Lou Walker
Reply to @Tony Walters:
You cannot get rid of the stench of skunk.
You cannot get rid of the stench of skunk.
Art Rowe
Reply to @Drew Dangerfield:
I agree, the smell of Diefenbaker and the Arrow disaster still lingers so this will too.
I agree, the smell of Diefenbaker and the Arrow disaster still lingers so this will too.
Lorraine Karuse
Reply to @Lou Walker: Best comment ever!!!
Ben Smith
Reply to @Tony Walters:
3 elections.
3 elections.
Richard
Sharp
Reply to @Tony Walters:
At least ten years. That is in Canada's best interests by an measure.
At least ten years. That is in Canada's best interests by an measure.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Tony Walters: Methinks they expect the scent of Harper to be gone sometime around the 12th of Never N'esy Pas?
Skip Smith
Harper can then pull Conservative strings a little more discreetly.
Keith Laughton
Content disabled So he obviously came back with a vengeance
Michael Trebych
Reply to @Skip Smith: Exactly. Just follow the stench of corruption...
Bill Dixon
Reply to @Keith Laughton: Newsflash: Harper was in bed with SNC-L when he was in the PM's office, too.
Lorraine Karuse
Reply to @Skip Smith: Or Run himself. They think HE is the Chosen one.
John Oaktree
Reply to @Keith Laughton:
Why did the Conservatives put VAdm Norman in such a bad situation by not following protocol??
Why did the Conservatives put VAdm Norman in such a bad situation by not following protocol??
Keith Laughton
Reply to @Bill Dixon:
"Bill Dixon
5 hours ago
Reply to @Keith Laughton: Newsflash: Harper was in bed with SNC-L when he was in the PM's office, too."
Newsflash - the bribery started under Chretien (2001), was investigated and charges laid under Harper (2011-2015) while Trudeau responded to lobbying to try and keep SNC-Lavalin out of court.
Funny how actual facts disagree with your assertion.
Regards,
"Bill Dixon
5 hours ago
Reply to @Keith Laughton: Newsflash: Harper was in bed with SNC-L when he was in the PM's office, too."
Newsflash - the bribery started under Chretien (2001), was investigated and charges laid under Harper (2011-2015) while Trudeau responded to lobbying to try and keep SNC-Lavalin out of court.
Funny how actual facts disagree with your assertion.
Regards,
Keith Laughton
Reply to @John Oaktree:
"John Oaktree
1 hour ago
Reply to @Keith Laughton:
Why did the Conservatives put VAdm Norman in such a bad situation by not following protocol??"
What protocol did they not follow?
The Conservative government made a public decision in 2015 and directed the Department of National Defence on a procurement path, which the Trudeau government eventually followed.
That is the process followed by both Conservative and Liberal Government across my 36 year military career that included 10 years in military procurement (under PMs Mulroney, Chretien, Martin and Harper).
As an aside the same protocol was followed in Mr Trudeau directing the military purchase used F-18s from Australia, after Bombardier corporate bonuses outweighed supposed national security requirements eliminating the sole source Superhornet buy.
The difference is that the Military, according to the Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force. did not have a requirement for the used F-18s.
Regards,
"John Oaktree
1 hour ago
Reply to @Keith Laughton:
Why did the Conservatives put VAdm Norman in such a bad situation by not following protocol??"
What protocol did they not follow?
The Conservative government made a public decision in 2015 and directed the Department of National Defence on a procurement path, which the Trudeau government eventually followed.
That is the process followed by both Conservative and Liberal Government across my 36 year military career that included 10 years in military procurement (under PMs Mulroney, Chretien, Martin and Harper).
As an aside the same protocol was followed in Mr Trudeau directing the military purchase used F-18s from Australia, after Bombardier corporate bonuses outweighed supposed national security requirements eliminating the sole source Superhornet buy.
The difference is that the Military, according to the Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force. did not have a requirement for the used F-18s.
Regards,
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Skip Smith: NOPE
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Methinks Alex Nuttall and Michael Diamond are reading my emails and Tweets then checking out my blog about their new boss to see what they missed N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2020/01/peter-mackay-set-to-enter-conservative.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mackay-tweets-leadership-1.5427544
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Peter MacKay set to enter the Conservative leadership race today
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I never heard of Marilyn Gladu so I called her to explain why MacKay made my day but her assistant was too busy to check my Twitter account to verify what I was saying was true so I told her to enjoy my email
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2020/01/peter-mackay-set-to-enter-conservative.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mackay-tweets-leadership-1.5427544
David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
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Methinks everybody knows why MacKay just made my day Trudeau The Younger cannot deny that Petey Baby answered this lawsuit while Harper was still the boss N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2015/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mackay-tweets-leadership-1.5427544
Peter MacKay set to enter the Conservative leadership race today
MacKay's leadership run has been in the rumour mill for months
· CBC News · Posted: Jan 15, 2020 12:11 PM ET
Peter MacKay shakes hands with Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer during a campaign stop in Little Harbour, N.S., October 17, 2019. MacKay, a former cabinet minister in the Harper government, is announcing he's running for the Conservative Party leadership today. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)
Peter MacKay will confirm that he is jumping into the Conservative leadership with a tweet later today, CBC News has confirmed.
MacKay is expected to formally launch his campaign late next week.
The tweet will publicly confirm work that has been going on behind the scenes for some time. MacKay has recruited former Conservative MP Alex Nuttall as his campaign manager. Nuttall was an organizer for Maxime Bernier during the Conservative leadership race in 2017.
Michael Diamond, who ran Ontario Premier Doug Ford's PC leadership campaign in 2018, will be MacKay's director of communications.
MacKay will be running to lead the party he helped to create. He took the reins of the Progressive Conservative Party and quickly merged it with Stephen Harper's Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party in 2003.
And he may well wind up running against a former political mentor, Jean Charest. The ex-premier of Quebec, who led the federal Progressive Conservative party from 1993 to 1998, is said to be considering a run at the Conservative leadership.
MacKay and MP Marilyn Gladu are the only Conservatives to date to publicly signal leadership runs. Gladu is the only caucus member to declare so far, but her colleagues Erin O'Toole and Pierre Poilievre are widely expected to announce soon.
Charest is reportedly close to a decision on a possible leadership run, as is MP Michael Chong, who ran in 2017. Former Conservative interim leader Rona Ambrose is said to be still actively considering a run.
More to come ...
MacKay joins Marilyn Gladu as the second Conservative to formally signal they are entering the race.
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David Raymond Amos
"Stay tuned"
Methinks that is the most relevant statement Petey has ever said at the circus N'esy Pas?
David Raymond Amos
Methinks Alex Nuttall and Michael Diamond are reading my emails and Tweets then checking out my blog about their new boss to see what they missed N'esy Pas?
Neil Austen
Mackay is about one of the worst of the bunch, and majority are bad to begin with. Apart from MacKay's backward views on women and his misappropriation of Military helicopters to use as as his own private vacation transportation vehicle, he also abandoned Harper to fend for himself when it was clear that Harper was a sinking ship. You know what they say about rats and sinking ships. Loyalty, integrity and honesty means nothing to these Conservatives.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Neil Austen: Methinks the same can be said of all political gangs N'esy Pas?
Derrick Cameron
We desperately need a leader with intelligence, experience and polish that as Prime Minister can command respect at home and abroad, so currently lacking. A number on the CPC potential roster appear to be so qualified. May the best leader win. Canada so needs it now.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Derrick Cameron: Thanks for the chuckle
Jack Hill
Reply to @Derrick Cameron:
Unfortunately, until you shed your social conservative and religious zealot baggage, no soup for you.
Unfortunately, until you shed your social conservative and religious zealot baggage, no soup for you.
Steven Scott
I'm wondering if poor petey will as devastated when he fails to win a seat as he was when belinda crossed the floor to join the Liberals LOL, time will tell .....
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Steven Scott: Dream on
George Rooney
Peter, on the canvas trail: "I'm running because of all the graft and corruption in politics these days."
Prospective voter: "And you're going to clean it up?"
Peter: "Heck, no! I want in on it!"
David Raymond Amos
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Reply to @George
Rooney: Methinks many conservative folks must find it interesting what
peoplekind are permitted to publish while they watch many legit comments
go "Poof" N'esy Pas?
David Raymond Amos
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Methinks Alex Nuttall and Michael Diamond have read and saved every comment about their new boss N'esy Pas?
John Adams
Good luck, Mr Prime Minister decimate!!!
John Adams
Reply to @John Adams: designate....darn auto correct!!!
Robert Borden
Reply to @John Adams: you were closer the first time.
David
Raymond Amos
Reply to @John Adams: Methinks its strange that the censors didn't correct it for you N'esy Pas?
Al Freeman:
How does MacKay feel about people with no real claim to fame inheriting wealth and position? (remove tongue from cheek)
David Raymond Amos
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Reply to @Al Freeman:
Methinks the funny part of your comment is that you presume that lawyer
in particular has feelings N'esy Pas?
Wes Ballantine
Bring out your dead....Bring out your dead.....
Remember that scene from Monty P and the Holy Grail?
Danny Tanker
Reply to @Wes Ballantine:
It appears they have lots to donate and yes, I certainly do remember that skit, pure comedy gold.
It appears they have lots to donate and yes, I certainly do remember that skit, pure comedy gold.
Wes Ballantine
Reply to @Danny Tanker: Its like a zombie movie...
Loran Hayden
Reply to @Wes Ballantine: MacKay screaming from the wagon, 'I'm not dead yet!!'
David
Raymond Amos
Reply to @Wes
Ballantine: Methinks Maxime Bernier would not disagree that his old
buddy Harper had a plan for his party if perchance they lost the
election in 2015. If anyone wishes to recall 3 stooges in particular
McKay, Moore and Baird did not run in the election of the 42nd
Parliament. Hence they suffer from no embarrassment of prior defeat if
they were to reenter the fray later. By the same token Ambrose did not
run in the election of the 43rd Parliament. Harper kept his seat for
quite while after his defeat.I have no doubt it was so he could continue
to rule in the backrooms while Ambrose acted as interim leader. Now
McKay and possibly Ambrose reappear to save the us all from Trudeau The
Younger and his cohorts Ya just gotta love the circus N'esy Pas?
Angela Kung
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Judas returns in a helicopter this time.
Michael Trebych
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Reply to @Angela Kung: LOLOLOL!!
Reply to @Angela Kung: LOLOLOL!!
Aaron Morris
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Reply to @Angela Kung:
If that is his greatest fault then I think he's doing ok. We'll have to wait and see how progressive the Conservatives can get. It does seem apparent that some of the more anachronistic policies are on their way out. The CHP can have those voters who are alienated.
If that is his greatest fault then I think he's doing ok. We'll have to wait and see how progressive the Conservatives can get. It does seem apparent that some of the more anachronistic policies are on their way out. The CHP can have those voters who are alienated.
Benjamin Dover
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Reply to @Angela Kung:
You should watch your language! That's the next Prime Minister you're talking about!
Reply to @Angela Kung:
You should watch your language! That's the next Prime Minister you're talking about!
Don Cheer
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Reply to @Benjamin Dover:
Ok, so conservatives will watch their language in regards to our current Prime Minister?
I thought Pete retired to spend more time with his young family, I guess they grew up pretty fast in 5 years, well tough since 2 of them were born after he retired and one is only 18 months old... So much for the excuse of time with family when an opportunist sees opportunity...
Ok, so conservatives will watch their language in regards to our current Prime Minister?
I thought Pete retired to spend more time with his young family, I guess they grew up pretty fast in 5 years, well tough since 2 of them were born after he retired and one is only 18 months old... So much for the excuse of time with family when an opportunist sees opportunity...
Angela Kung
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Reply to @Benjamin Dover:
Next Prime Minister of where?
Reply to @Benjamin Dover:
Next Prime Minister of where?
David
Raymond Amos
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Reply to @Angela Kung: Methinks you and I opbviously share the same opinion of MacKay N'esy Pas?
Reply to @Angela Kung: Methinks you and I opbviously share the same opinion of MacKay N'esy Pas?
David Sampson
But will intelligent "progressive" conservatives ever forgive Peter for giving away a once proud national political institution to a horde of western based reform fundamentalists?
Eugene Peabody
Reply to @David
Sampson: Not only can former PC members not trust him but Canadians
cannot also.When a man.s word is no good ,he is the same.
Anne Clarke
Reply to @David Sampson: they will do anything to win right?
Frank Paul
Reply to @David Sampson: Nope.
Neil Denman
Reply to @David Sampson:
I have those feelings too: I have a hard time forgiving that. But, at least there are signs that the next leader may be a PCer rather than a Reformer. Peter Mackay, Jean Charest...I'm no fan of either, but it's a step away from Harper and Scheer.
I have those feelings too: I have a hard time forgiving that. But, at least there are signs that the next leader may be a PCer rather than a Reformer. Peter Mackay, Jean Charest...I'm no fan of either, but it's a step away from Harper and Scheer.
David
Raymond Amos
Reply to @David Sampson: Methinks everybody knows why MacKay just made my day N'esy Pas?
David Allan
Reply to @Neil Denman:
"I have those feelings too: I have a hard time forgiving that. But, at least there are signs that the next leader may be a PCer rather than a Reformer."
He's a reformer now. He solidly demonstrated so with his last 9 years in Parliament.
Or is he just an opportunist who doesn't really care aside from his quest for personal power?
"I have those feelings too: I have a hard time forgiving that. But, at least there are signs that the next leader may be a PCer rather than a Reformer."
He's a reformer now. He solidly demonstrated so with his last 9 years in Parliament.
Or is he just an opportunist who doesn't really care aside from his quest for personal power?
Sean Cronin
Reply to @David Sampson:
I will. It's ancient history now.
I will. It's ancient history now.
Art Rowe
Reply to @David Sampson:
Like there was ever a doubt he would run?
Like there was ever a doubt he would run?
David
Raymond Amos
Reply to @David
Raymond Amos: Methinks its comical that even Trudeau The Younger cannot
deny that Petey Baby answered my lawsuit in Federal Court while Harper
was still the boss N'esy Pas?
Craig Hall
Reply to @David Sampson: Nobody cares except the Liberals. And David Orchard.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Craig Hall: I still do
David Linkletter
Reply to @Frank Paul: cough robo calls to name but one
David
Raymond Amos
Reply to @Craig Hall:
BTW I remember talking to David Orchard in early 2004 about what went
down and explained to him why I was preparing to run for a seat in the
38th Parliament Furthermore I put proof of our contact in a email which
can still be found on the Internet to this very day
David
Raymond Amos
Reply to @Craig Hall:
By the same token I never heard of Marilyn Gladu until I read this
article so I called her to explain why MacKay made my day but her
assistant was too busy to check my Twitter account to verify what I was
saying was true so I told her to enjoy my email
Dave Comeau
Reply to @David Sampson: He has more of a chance of winning than Scheer ever did.
Dave Comeau
Reply to @David
Sampson: He has more of a chance of winning than Scheer ever did. At
least he is closer to a Red Tory than a Reform zealot.
Mia Stalling
Reply to @Neil Denman:
is it? Peter sits on the left hand side of Harper with little PP on the right
is it? Peter sits on the left hand side of Harper with little PP on the right
Karen King
Reply to @Dave Comeau:
who already has a trail of scandal.
who already has a trail of scandal.
Sean Cronin
Reply to @Sandy
Gillis: "Sure, you tell yourself that. Announce it loud and proud to the
whole country. Then you can blame staffers..."
You sound angry.
You sound angry.
Tom Jones
Reply to @David Sampson:
He will be a perfect Con leader. Why I still remember when he sat in that fake F-35 cockpit to tell Canadians about Harper's purchase of 65 jets in 2012.....
He will be a perfect Con leader. Why I still remember when he sat in that fake F-35 cockpit to tell Canadians about Harper's purchase of 65 jets in 2012.....
Sandy Gillis
Reply to @Sean Cronin:
I actually am pretty angry that MacKay sold out the PCs for a cabinet post and left us without a real alternative to the Liberal party. A parliamentary democracy doesn't work well without the threat of losing their jobs over poor performance and corruption. The CPC is such a disaster on every single file of consequence, there is no other real option than to plug our collective noses and vote the Liberals, problems and all, back in, lest we get stuck with far worse.
I actually am pretty angry that MacKay sold out the PCs for a cabinet post and left us without a real alternative to the Liberal party. A parliamentary democracy doesn't work well without the threat of losing their jobs over poor performance and corruption. The CPC is such a disaster on every single file of consequence, there is no other real option than to plug our collective noses and vote the Liberals, problems and all, back in, lest we get stuck with far worse.
Brian Sexsmith
Reply to @David Sampson:
No.
No.
Sean Cronin
Reply to @Sandy Gillis:
If you're trying to say that Trudeau is the lesser of two evils, I'm afraid I don't follow you. Bitterness isn't going to get anyone ahead. The parties are what they are and we need a leader who isn't absolutely gaffe-prone both personally and on the international stage to deal with TODAY'S problems.
If you're trying to say that Trudeau is the lesser of two evils, I'm afraid I don't follow you. Bitterness isn't going to get anyone ahead. The parties are what they are and we need a leader who isn't absolutely gaffe-prone both personally and on the international stage to deal with TODAY'S problems.
Neil Turv
Reply to @David Sampson:
The people who got over their juvenile sour grapes about the merger 10 years ago when it became apparent all the doom and gloom about the merger wasn't going to happen.
I remember very clearly being guaranteed that immigration would disappear, gay rights rolled back and abortions made illegal when the parties merged.
Unsurprisingly none of that came to pass, and 20 years later there are still people pretending the PC party in the 90's was a paragon of right wing tolerance and inclusivity, when the policies of that party were decidedly more restrictive than the Conservative party today.
But again, I don't hold grudges for 20 years especially when my initial fears proved unfounded, so I can't really relate.
The people who got over their juvenile sour grapes about the merger 10 years ago when it became apparent all the doom and gloom about the merger wasn't going to happen.
I remember very clearly being guaranteed that immigration would disappear, gay rights rolled back and abortions made illegal when the parties merged.
Unsurprisingly none of that came to pass, and 20 years later there are still people pretending the PC party in the 90's was a paragon of right wing tolerance and inclusivity, when the policies of that party were decidedly more restrictive than the Conservative party today.
But again, I don't hold grudges for 20 years especially when my initial fears proved unfounded, so I can't really relate.
Sandy Gillis
Reply to @Sean Cronin:
Good thing we didn't vote for the CPC then, because they didn't offer any solutions for today's problems.
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time. The CPC plan was a joke and an insult to Canadians.
The CPC attacked the Liberals for buying a pipeline, then came out with the genius idea of building an even bigger one at taxpayer expense as a gift to their friends.
The CPC has yet to meet a country in the Middle East they weren't eager to bomb. They call it heavy lifting.
The CPC constantly attacked our own country during the NAFTA renegotiations. Their puppet master said we should have just rolled over instead.
Scheer left the door wide open for his MPs to vote away the constitutional rights of Canadians in the interest of religious privilege.
The CPC demonizes refugee claimants and demands that our border "be defended". They can never describe what that means no matter how often they're asked.
Even the CPC fiscal plan was a joke. It included a massive revenue cut/tax gift to industry, which was supposed to be made up from "new revenue streams". Want to know what those are? So do I, the CPC could never tell us.
The only thing the CPC is capable of is whining. They have absolutely no productive policy ideas.
Good thing we didn't vote for the CPC then, because they didn't offer any solutions for today's problems.
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time. The CPC plan was a joke and an insult to Canadians.
The CPC attacked the Liberals for buying a pipeline, then came out with the genius idea of building an even bigger one at taxpayer expense as a gift to their friends.
The CPC has yet to meet a country in the Middle East they weren't eager to bomb. They call it heavy lifting.
The CPC constantly attacked our own country during the NAFTA renegotiations. Their puppet master said we should have just rolled over instead.
Scheer left the door wide open for his MPs to vote away the constitutional rights of Canadians in the interest of religious privilege.
The CPC demonizes refugee claimants and demands that our border "be defended". They can never describe what that means no matter how often they're asked.
Even the CPC fiscal plan was a joke. It included a massive revenue cut/tax gift to industry, which was supposed to be made up from "new revenue streams". Want to know what those are? So do I, the CPC could never tell us.
The only thing the CPC is capable of is whining. They have absolutely no productive policy ideas.
Rob Lehtisaari
Reply to @David Sampson:
No law firm wanted him as a partner...
Who can blame them with Peter's record of breaching contracts, as he did with David Orchard to secure the leadership of the party he killed--to hand over that brand name for his own Minister-ships from the fledgling party of Preston Manning.
No law firm wanted him as a partner...
Who can blame them with Peter's record of breaching contracts, as he did with David Orchard to secure the leadership of the party he killed--to hand over that brand name for his own Minister-ships from the fledgling party of Preston Manning.
John Atkins
Reply to @Neil Turv: A reformer doesn't change it's spots. They just try to disguise them.
Len Evans
Reply to @David Sampson: The Conservatives might be confused about the concept of reduce, re-use, recycle...
Paul Squires
Reply to @David Sampson: Never!
Mark Courneyea
Reply to @Sean
Cronin: " ...and we need a leader who isn't absolutely gaffe-prone both
personally and on the international stage"
You're referring to Peter MacKay?!?!
...excuse me while I clean up after snorting my breakfast...
Yeah, that's a good one - "Peter MacKay".... "gaffe"....yeah, I'm still chuckling - thanks for that one!
You're referring to Peter MacKay?!?!
...excuse me while I clean up after snorting my breakfast...
Yeah, that's a good one - "Peter MacKay".... "gaffe"....yeah, I'm still chuckling - thanks for that one!
Mike Trahan
Reply to @Craig Hall: That would be a majority of Canadians
James Holden
Reply to @David Sampson:
Once a sell out.......
Once a sell out.......
Mark Thomas
Reply to @David
Sampson: Mulroney basically finished off the old PC party. The
conservative movement didn't recover until Harper and MacKay reached a
detente under the CPC banner. Perhaps it was a marriage of convenience.
My guess is that if MacKay is elected to lead the CPC, it will be
transformed into something closer to the old PC party than to Harper's
Reform Party.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @David Sampson: Methinks some folks may find it interesting that you did not bother to respond to any of us However often times the wisest guy in the room merely poses an important question then sits back and listens to others offer their two bits worth on the topic N'esy Pas?
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Rob
Lehtisaari: Methinks MacKay and his partners in the Baker McKenzie
chuckled at your comment as much as I did N'esy Pas?
John McLane
The Conservatives are not a federal party since they have been taken over by the reformers. They are a special interest party controlled by Alberta oil. And after seeing what big oil and the conservatives of Alberta have done to there province of boom and bust I do not want to see them anyware near ottawa, thank you!
Stan Stainton
Reply to @John McLane:
WELL SAID & TRULY
WELL SAID & TRULY
David
Raymond Amos
Reply to @John
McLane: Methinks there was a lawsuit out of the gate about the legality
of what MacKay did when the conservative parties first merged N'esy Pas?
Edward (E) Merij
Reply to @John McLane:
And who are the Liberals? If you suggest that the Cons are a "special interest" party controlled by Alberta, how do you not see the Libs as a "special interest" party controlled by Quebec and Toronto?
Brian Cohen
Reply to @Edward (E) Merij:
Let’s see:BC
MAN
ONT
PQ
NB
NS
PEI
NFLD
Hardly “special interest group”
Let’s see:BC
MAN
ONT
PQ
NB
NS
PEI
NFLD
Hardly “special interest group”
Mike Dowden
Reply to @Edward (E)
Merij: I am always a little amazed people use this talking point.
Somewhere near 70% of Canada's population lives in ON and QC...and
roughly half in 'Toronto and QC'...of course they (primarily) decide
elections. Whereas the reformers truely are a special interest, regional
party...still following harper's firewall agenda while beholden to
O&G money to keep them going.
Jim Lau
Reply to @John
McLane: PC won the popular vote last election, hardly special interest.
When the Dems got the popular vote in the US last election all the
lefties proclaimed they should be the winners? Such is the nature of
hypocrisy.
John Oaktree
Reply to @Jim Lau:
Sure - I compare apples to elephants all the time.
First - Canada and America have two different electoral systems. The POTUS is supposed to be elected by popular vote whereas the PM is just an MP who happens to be leader of the Party with the most seats in the House of Commons.
Hillary won the popular vote but since a voter in Pennisylvania has their vote count as 2 and people in California have their vote counted as less than a half a vote, Trump is appointed winner by the Electoral College...
The Liberals won more seats than the Conservatives.
You know - when people complain about Trump "the right" always tells "the left" to shut-up and sit down since Trump won an election and yet, they are unwilling to accept that Trudeau won an election too. This is a true example of hypocrisy...
Sure - I compare apples to elephants all the time.
First - Canada and America have two different electoral systems. The POTUS is supposed to be elected by popular vote whereas the PM is just an MP who happens to be leader of the Party with the most seats in the House of Commons.
Hillary won the popular vote but since a voter in Pennisylvania has their vote count as 2 and people in California have their vote counted as less than a half a vote, Trump is appointed winner by the Electoral College...
The Liberals won more seats than the Conservatives.
You know - when people complain about Trump "the right" always tells "the left" to shut-up and sit down since Trump won an election and yet, they are unwilling to accept that Trudeau won an election too. This is a true example of hypocrisy...
Jon Smythe
Reply to @Jim Lau: Two points for you to chew on:
First: outside of AB and SK the Reformacons lost by 8% in the rest of Canada. So 85% of Canada got the winner they preferred under our current electoral system.
and
Second: nobody wanted to work with the Cons so even if we had proportional representation and the Cons had four seats more than the Liberals they still would not have formed govt because there would have been a Liberal led coalition. So again, a clear majority of Canadians got the govt that they preferred.
As for the nauseating mess in the US, don't even make comparisons, although, unfortunately, the Reformacon party is heading in the Republican direction and that is scary.
First: outside of AB and SK the Reformacons lost by 8% in the rest of Canada. So 85% of Canada got the winner they preferred under our current electoral system.
and
Second: nobody wanted to work with the Cons so even if we had proportional representation and the Cons had four seats more than the Liberals they still would not have formed govt because there would have been a Liberal led coalition. So again, a clear majority of Canadians got the govt that they preferred.
As for the nauseating mess in the US, don't even make comparisons, although, unfortunately, the Reformacon party is heading in the Republican direction and that is scary.
Tony Walters
Reply to @Jim Lau: "PC won the popular vote last election"
No, they didn't. They failed to get the majority of voters to side with them. Therefore, they did not win the popular vote, therefore, we have a minority government, who got the most seats, and three other parties who wouldn't dream of forming a coalition with the Conservatives. It's over, buddy. Get used to it.
No, they didn't. They failed to get the majority of voters to side with them. Therefore, they did not win the popular vote, therefore, we have a minority government, who got the most seats, and three other parties who wouldn't dream of forming a coalition with the Conservatives. It's over, buddy. Get used to it.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Jon Smythe: Methinks lawyers such MacKay understand Reformacons in the Maritimes better than liberals do Trust that nobody dares to deny the reasons why I ran against his buddy Rob Moore in Fundy Royal 3 times with no false illusions about ever being elected N'esy Pas?
Lon Chaney (Alonzo Hastings Chaney)
This dude sold the cons to the reformacons....
Jim Taylor
Reply to @Lon Chaney (Alonzo Hastings Chaney):
MacKay sold out Canadian Tories, period!
MacKay sold out Canadian Tories, period!
Sean Cronin
Reply to @Lon Chaney (Alonzo Hastings Chaney):
Ancient history.
Ancient history.
Gary Sachs
Reply to @Sean Cronin:
But still relevant. Don't turn those pages too quickly, they'll only get turned back.
Like the "blackface" business Conservative posters always mention.
But still relevant. Don't turn those pages too quickly, they'll only get turned back.
Like the "blackface" business Conservative posters always mention.
David
Raymond Amos
Reply to @Gary Sachs: I Wholeheartedly Agree Sir
Reply to @Sean Cronin:
a leopard does not change it's spots
Sean
Cronin
Reply to @Karen King:
If you guys say so. I assume you have your membership and will be voting for someone you think can do a better job.
If you guys say so. I assume you have your membership and will be voting for someone you think can do a better job.
Jon Smythe
Reply to @Sean Cronin: Canadians just did vote for someone who will do a better job.
David
Raymond Amos
Reply to @Sean
Cronin: Methinks ethical conservatives should ask the former Attorney
General MacKay about his answer to my lawsuit (Federal Court File No.
T-1557-15) when Prime Minister Harper was his leader and Scheer still
spoke for the Queen N'esy Pas?
Bert Van
Wasn’t it Mac Kay and Toews Who muzzled the RCMP in 2012 and made it impossible for them to speak to MPs without ministerial approval. This is what you get if you vote for this secretive, closed door crew
Angela Kung
Reply to @Bert van:
As I said before, MacKay has a lot of baggage.
As I said before, MacKay has a lot of baggage.
Ian Vader
Reply to @Bert van: at least hes not a good ball on the world stage
Andre Legault
Reply to @Angela Kung: mostly 7nser his eyes
Bert Van
Reply to @Ian Vader: You better do some checking, it’s an insidious bunch
Andre Legault
Reply to @Bert van: goofball
Bert Van
Reply to @Andre Legault: Yes Mac Kay certainly is.
David
Raymond Amos
Reply to @Bert van: Methinks many would agree that sneaky lawyer is worse than a mere goofball N'esy Pas? Brian Cohen
MacKay is how we got into this mess in the first place.
He sold out the Progressive Conservatives to the Reformacons.
What we really need is for the re-birth if the PC Party of Canada.
The CPC has become the Regressive Conservatives and cannot win again in Canada.
Albert Voyager
Reply to @Brian
Cohen: I completely agree that we need the PC's back again but barring
that, the Conservatives should be looking to people like Michael Chong
so they have centre and centre-right appeal (blue-liberal &
red-tory) instead of staying far right and looking to the past with
people like MacKay.
Jon Smythe
Reply to @Albert
Voyager: If Michael Chong won he would have to purge the party, but I
doubt that that would happen and, frankly, I doubt that he could even if
he wanted to. Harper has his claws in there, and in there deep.....a
nasty, scary, man.
Marcel Stanford
Reply to @Brian Cohen: That's what Mad Max is a
ll about.
David
Raymond Amos
Reply to @Brian
Cohen: Methinks it awful comical that you make fun of me while you
constantly complain of MacKay and his cohorts Now its my turn to laugh
at you N'esy Pas?
Ray Boychuk
Wow tough times for conservatives...
David
Raymond Amos
Reply to @Ray Boychuk: Methinks many would agree that they certainly deserve it N'esy Pas?
Ken MacDonald
Peter, you'll never get a single vote from Atlantic Canada. Ever. They remember you all too well.
Ken MacDonald
Reply to @Ken MacDonald: They didn't even elect his hand picked favorite singing cowboy!
David
Raymond Amos
Reply to @Ken MacDonald: Dream on
Rob Smith
Mackay is hanging around with Doug Ford's group, that'll sink the Cons in Ontario for sure!
Karen King
Reply to @Rob Smith:
so maybe we should hope he gets elected and we can ensure the cons never get any power??
so maybe we should hope he gets elected and we can ensure the cons never get any power??
David
Raymond Amos
Reply to @Karen King: Well put
Marcus Garvey
Same old, same old.
Just a different subset of Harper’s cabinet ministers.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Marcus Garvey: YUP
Rob Smith
Mackay is a self-serving politician who sold out his own party to advance his own career at the trough.
Wilson Rose
Reply to @Rob Smith: He should do well.
David
Raymond Amos
Reply to @Wilson Rose: Methinks many a true word is said in jest N'esy Pas?
George Simmons
Vote Cons out!
Willi Toews
Reply to @George Simmons: -1
Gary Sachs
Reply to @George Simmons:
George, where have you been? The Libs are in office, so we can't "Vote Cons out!" You'll have to wait (a really long time, by the looks of it) until they are voted in before you launch you campaign!
George, where have you been? The Libs are in office, so we can't "Vote Cons out!" You'll have to wait (a really long time, by the looks of it) until they are voted in before you launch you campaign!
David
Raymond Amos
Reply to @Gary Sachs:
Methinks Trudeau the Younger has a minority mandate Hence the worm
could turn on your beloved liberals in a heartbeat N'esy Pas?
Joe Smith
I hope the Conservatives pick this guy. That would guarantee another 4 years for Justin
David Raymond Amos
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Joe smith: Methinks its time to back away from the pipe and try having a nap without strange dreams N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/marilyn-gladu-conservative-leadership-1.5420743
MP Marilyn Gladu is running for the Conservative leadership
Ontario MP says she wants to offer Conservatives something other than the "same-old, same-old"
· CBC News · Posted: Jan 09, 2020 1:18 PM ET
Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu says she's running for the party leadership. (Chris Rands/CBC News)
Ontario MP Marilyn Gladu is running for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada, CBC News has learned.
"I'm ready to lead and I can bring the party together. I can bring a winning strategy. And that's what we need," Gladu told CBC News in an exclusive interview.
She's the first caucus member — and the only woman so far — to declare her intention to run.
"We need somebody that's going to bring a better balance of fiscal responsibility and social compassion," she said. "I'm looking at all the people running and it's all the same-old, same-old."
Gladu said she'll be able to come up with the $300,000 entry fee and collect the 3,000 signatures from party members required to put her on the ballot.
"I have the money, I have the backing, I have a campaign manager," she said. "I have folks to do communications, policy and strategy. I've got a travel coordinator. I've got a chair in every province of the country. So we're ready to go."
Gladu, 57, is a second-term MP for Sarnia-Lambton. She was a professional chemical engineer for over three decades.
"I'm the kind of strong dynamic leader that has 32 years of global business experience and as an engineer I tend to solve complex problems. We certainly have lots of those in government," she said.
Gladu said her background in chemical engineering taught her to take a "science-based approach" to problems. Asked how she would approach climate policy as Conservative leader, she said she would allow provinces to decide if they want to ditch the current carbon tax.
Gladu also said she would come up with a better climate plan than the one outgoing Conservative leader Andrew Scheer presented in last October's election.
"The provinces have jurisdiction to decide if that's something that they would like to have. I think there are better ways of getting the [emissions] reduction but we all need to work together in order to achieve those Paris targets and to help the rest of the world," she said. "[The carbon tax] not a very good mechanism and certainly it would be punishing to see that go higher."
Gladu said that her climate plan would take more of a "regulatory and incentivized approach" than the Liberal government's current carbon pricing plan.
"Clearly we need to do more here at home. We're not going to make our existing Paris targets with the existing plan. So we've really got to focus on the top three, which are major industrial emitters and transportation and buildings," she said.
Gladu is currently the Official Opposition health critic and vice chair of the Commons standing committee on health. In 2017 she successfully got a private member's bill passed to ensure better access to quality palliative care across Canada. She said she's pleased the Liberal government is putting a framework together for palliative care and moving forward with some funding.
But Gladu said she doesn't think Canadians need a universal pharmacare plan because most already have drug plans of their own in place.
"You know the $15 to $40 billion that the Liberals and NDP want to spend for people? There's less than two per cent of Canadians that don't have a plan today," she said.
Gladu said her ability to work with people across party lines is one of her main assets. In 2016, based on a secret ballot vote of MPs, Maclean's magazine named Gladu the "most collegial parliamentarian" of the year.
"It's incredibly important for the country ... to get good outcomes. But that skill set is something that you need wherever there's [a] diversity of views," she said. "Even within our own Conservative Party, there's a wide range of people in the blue tent. And so, being able to hear them and work together to come up with a strong plan to win is going to be key."
Some voices within the party have blamed Scheer's reluctance to explain his views on the issues of abortion and same-sex marriage in part for the party's disappointing performance in the last federal election.
Gladu said she thinks those issues have been settled in the minds of Canadians and she would be happy to walk in Toronto's Pride Parade, which is happening the same weekend as the June 27 leadership convention.
She said she is fluent in French. "I worked for Dow [Chemical] in Quebec for ten years and five years with Worley Parsons," she said. "So back and forth travelling through there with all the clients, I picked up a lot of French. And since I've been here in Parliament I've had a French tutor to help me learn parliamentary jargon."
Gladu
has two grown daughters and a remarkable range of non-political
hobbies: she has a black belt in Taekwondo, is an amateur stand-up
comedian and sings in a band.
The only other potential female candidate being talked about right now is former interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose. She is expected to make her intentions known next week.
Gladu said the prospect of being the only woman in the race doesn't rattle her.
"It's important to have a female in the race. But I would tell you that I'm used to being the only one," she said. "I was in engineering and when I started I think there were 13 per cent women, so I was always the only woman there. And I would say I hold my own very well."
In the 2017 Conservative leadership race, only two of the 14 candidates were women: Lisa Raitt and Kellie Leitch.
"I'm ready to lead and I can bring the party together. I can bring a winning strategy. And that's what we need," Gladu told CBC News in an exclusive interview.
She's the first caucus member — and the only woman so far — to declare her intention to run.
"We need somebody that's going to bring a better balance of fiscal responsibility and social compassion," she said. "I'm looking at all the people running and it's all the same-old, same-old."
Gladu said she'll be able to come up with the $300,000 entry fee and collect the 3,000 signatures from party members required to put her on the ballot.
"I have the money, I have the backing, I have a campaign manager," she said. "I have folks to do communications, policy and strategy. I've got a travel coordinator. I've got a chair in every province of the country. So we're ready to go."
Gladu on the carbon tax
Gladu, 57, is a second-term MP for Sarnia-Lambton. She was a professional chemical engineer for over three decades.
"I'm the kind of strong dynamic leader that has 32 years of global business experience and as an engineer I tend to solve complex problems. We certainly have lots of those in government," she said.
Gladu said her background in chemical engineering taught her to take a "science-based approach" to problems. Asked how she would approach climate policy as Conservative leader, she said she would allow provinces to decide if they want to ditch the current carbon tax.
Gladu also said she would come up with a better climate plan than the one outgoing Conservative leader Andrew Scheer presented in last October's election.
"The provinces have jurisdiction to decide if that's something that they would like to have. I think there are better ways of getting the [emissions] reduction but we all need to work together in order to achieve those Paris targets and to help the rest of the world," she said. "[The carbon tax] not a very good mechanism and certainly it would be punishing to see that go higher."
Gladu said that her climate plan would take more of a "regulatory and incentivized approach" than the Liberal government's current carbon pricing plan.
"Clearly we need to do more here at home. We're not going to make our existing Paris targets with the existing plan. So we've really got to focus on the top three, which are major industrial emitters and transportation and buildings," she said.
Gladu on pharmacare
Gladu is currently the Official Opposition health critic and vice chair of the Commons standing committee on health. In 2017 she successfully got a private member's bill passed to ensure better access to quality palliative care across Canada. She said she's pleased the Liberal government is putting a framework together for palliative care and moving forward with some funding.
But Gladu said she doesn't think Canadians need a universal pharmacare plan because most already have drug plans of their own in place.
"You know the $15 to $40 billion that the Liberals and NDP want to spend for people? There's less than two per cent of Canadians that don't have a plan today," she said.
Gladu on getting along with people
Gladu said her ability to work with people across party lines is one of her main assets. In 2016, based on a secret ballot vote of MPs, Maclean's magazine named Gladu the "most collegial parliamentarian" of the year.
"It's incredibly important for the country ... to get good outcomes. But that skill set is something that you need wherever there's [a] diversity of views," she said. "Even within our own Conservative Party, there's a wide range of people in the blue tent. And so, being able to hear them and work together to come up with a strong plan to win is going to be key."
Some voices within the party have blamed Scheer's reluctance to explain his views on the issues of abortion and same-sex marriage in part for the party's disappointing performance in the last federal election.
Gladu said she thinks those issues have been settled in the minds of Canadians and she would be happy to walk in Toronto's Pride Parade, which is happening the same weekend as the June 27 leadership convention.
She said she is fluent in French. "I worked for Dow [Chemical] in Quebec for ten years and five years with Worley Parsons," she said. "So back and forth travelling through there with all the clients, I picked up a lot of French. And since I've been here in Parliament I've had a French tutor to help me learn parliamentary jargon."
The only other potential female candidate being talked about right now is former interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose. She is expected to make her intentions known next week.
Gladu said the prospect of being the only woman in the race doesn't rattle her.
"It's important to have a female in the race. But I would tell you that I'm used to being the only one," she said. "I was in engineering and when I started I think there were 13 per cent women, so I was always the only woman there. And I would say I hold my own very well."
In the 2017 Conservative leadership race, only two of the 14 candidates were women: Lisa Raitt and Kellie Leitch.
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> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 18:18:40 -0400
> Subject: Methinks David Lametti should go back to law school too N'esy
> Pas Pierre Poilievre?
> To: David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca, Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.
> pierre.poilievre@parl.gc.ca,mc
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> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 15:44:16 -0400
> Subject: Jagmeet Singh says that maybe Jay Shin should go back to law
> school??? Too Too Funny Indeed EH Karen Wang and Laura-Lynn Tyler
> Thompson?
> To: info@jayshin.ca, jay@lonsdalelaw.ca, karenwang@liberal.ca,
> lauralynnlive@gmail.com
> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
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> Jagmeet Singh on Tory opponent: 'Maybe he should go back to law school'
> Conservative candidate Jay Shin said Singh was 'keeping criminals out
> of jail' during his days as a criminal defence lawyer
> Kelvin Gawley Burnaby Now January 13, 2019 10:27 AM
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> Now if Mr Shin scrolls down he will know some of what the fancy NDP
> lawyer has known for quite sometime
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>> ---------- 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
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>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.
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>> These are digital recordings of the last three hearings
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>> Dec 14th https://archive.org/details/
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>> April 3rd, 2017
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>>
>>
>> This is the docket in the Federal Court of Appeal
>>
>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.
>>
>>
>> The only hearing thus far
>>
>> May 24th, 2017
>>
>> https://archive.org/details/
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>> 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.
>> ilian.html
>>
>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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/
>>> 6
>>>
>>> http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/
>>>
>>> http://www.archive.org/
>>>
>>> http://archive.org/details/
>>>
>>> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
>
> Amos v. Canada
> Court (s) Database
>
> Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
> Date
>
> 2017-10-30
> Neutral citation
>
> 2017 FCA 213
> File numbers
>
> A-48-16
> Date: 20171030
>
> Docket: A-48-16
> Citation: 2017 FCA 213
> CORAM:
>
> WEBB J.A.
> NEAR J.A.
> GLEASON J.A.
>
>
> BETWEEN:
> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
> Respondent on the cross-appeal
> (and formally Appellant)
> and
> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
> Appellant on the cross-appeal
> (and formerly Respondent)
> Heard at Fredericton, New Brunswick, on May 24, 2017.
> Judgment delivered at Ottawa, Ontario, on October 30, 2017.
> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY:
>
> THE COURT
>
>
>
> Date: 20171030
>
> Docket: A-48-16
> Citation: 2017 FCA 213
> CORAM:
>
> WEBB J.A.
> NEAR J.A.
> GLEASON J.A.
>
>
> BETWEEN:
> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
> Respondent on the cross-appeal
> (and formally Appellant)
> and
> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
> Appellant on the cross-appeal
> (and formerly Respondent)
> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY THE COURT
>
> I. Introduction
>
> [1] On September 16, 2015, David Raymond Amos (Mr. Amos)
> filed a 53-page Statement of Claim (the Claim) in Federal Court
> against Her Majesty the Queen (the Crown). Mr. Amos claims $11 million
> in damages and a public apology from the Prime Minister and Provincial
> Premiers for being illegally barred from accessing parliamentary
> properties and seeks a declaration from the Minister of Public Safety
> that the Canadian Government will no longer allow the Royal Canadian
> Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Forces to harass him and his clan
> (Claim at para. 96).
>
> [2] On November 12, 2015 (Docket T-1557-15), by way of a
> motion brought by the Crown, a prothonotary of the Federal Court (the
> Prothonotary) struck the Claim in its entirety, without leave to
> amend, on the basis that it was plain and obvious that the Claim
> disclosed no reasonable claim, the Claim was fundamentally vexatious,
> and the Claim could not be salvaged by way of further amendment (the
> Prothontary’s Order).
>
>
> [3] On January 25, 2016 (2016 FC 93), by way of Mr.
> Amos’ appeal from the Prothonotary’s Order, a judge of the Federal
> Court (the Judge), reviewing the matter de novo, struck all of Mr.
> Amos’ claims for relief with the exception of the claim for damages
> for being barred by the RCMP from the New Brunswick legislature in
> 2004 (the Federal Court Judgment).
>
>
> [4] Mr. Amos appealed and the Crown cross-appealed the
> Federal Court Judgment. Further to the issuance of a Notice of Status
> Review, Mr. Amos’ appeal was dismissed for delay on December 19, 2016.
> As such, the only matter before this Court is the Crown’s
> cross-appeal.
>
>
> II. Preliminary Matter
>
> [5] Mr. Amos, in his memorandum of fact and law in
> relation to the cross-appeal that was filed with this Court on March
> 6, 2017, indicated that several judges of this Court, including two of
> the judges of this panel, had a conflict of interest in this appeal.
> This was the first time that he identified the judges whom he believed
> had a conflict of interest in a document that was filed with this
> Court. In his notice of appeal he had alluded to a conflict with
> several judges but did not name those judges.
>
> [6] Mr. Amos was of the view that he did not have to
> identify the judges in any document filed with this Court because he
> had identified the judges in various documents that had been filed
> with the Federal Court. In his view the Federal Court and the Federal
> Court of Appeal are the same court and therefore any document filed in
> the Federal Court would be filed in this Court. This view is based on
> subsections 5(4) and 5.1(4) of the Federal Courts Act, R.S.C., 1985,
> c. F-7:
>
>
> 5(4) Every judge of the Federal Court is, by virtue of his or her
> office, a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal and has all the
> jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court of
> Appeal.
> […]
>
> 5(4) Les juges de la Cour fédérale sont d’office juges de la Cour
> d’appel fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que
> les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale.
> […]
> 5.1(4) Every judge of the Federal Court of Appeal is, by virtue of
> that office, a judge of the Federal Court and has all the
> jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court.
>
> 5.1(4) Les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale sont d’office juges de la
> Cour fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que les
> juges de la Cour fédérale.
>
>
> [7] However, these subsections only provide that the
> judges of the Federal Court are also judges of this Court (and vice
> versa). It does not mean that there is only one court. If the Federal
> Court and this Court were one Court, there would be no need for this
> section.
> [8] Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act provide that:
> 3 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court
> — Appeal Division is continued under the name “Federal Court of
> Appeal” in English and “Cour d’appel fédérale” in French. It is
> continued as an additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and
> for Canada, for the better administration of the laws of Canada and as
> a superior court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.
>
> 3 La Section d’appel, aussi appelée la Cour d’appel ou la Cour d’appel
> fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée « Cour d’appel fédérale » en
> français et « Federal Court of Appeal » en anglais. Elle est maintenue
> à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et d’amirauté du
> Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit canadien, et
> continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant compétence en
> matière civile et pénale.
> 4 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court
> — Trial Division is continued under the name “Federal Court” in
> English and “Cour fédérale” in French. It is continued as an
> additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and for Canada, for
> the better administration of the laws of Canada and as a superior
> court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.
>
> 4 La section de la Cour fédérale du Canada, appelée la Section de
> première instance de la Cour fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée «
> Cour fédérale » en français et « Federal Court » en anglais. Elle est
> maintenue à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et
> d’amirauté du Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit
> canadien, et continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant
> compétence en matière civile et pénale.
>
>
> [9] Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act create
> two separate courts – this Court (section 3) and the Federal Court
> (section 4). If, as Mr. Amos suggests, documents filed in the Federal
> Court were automatically also filed in this Court, then there would no
> need for the parties to prepare and file appeal books as required by
> Rules 343 to 345 of the Federal Courts Rules, SOR/98-106 in relation
> to any appeal from a decision of the Federal Court. The requirement to
> file an appeal book with this Court in relation to an appeal from a
> decision of the Federal Court makes it clear that the only documents
> that will be before this Court are the documents that are part of that
> appeal book.
>
>
> [10] Therefore, the memorandum of fact and law filed on
> March 6, 2017 is the first document, filed with this Court, in which
> Mr. Amos identified the particular judges that he submits have a
> conflict in any matter related to him.
>
>
> [11] On April 3, 2017, Mr. Amos attempted to bring a motion
> before the Federal Court seeking an order “affirming or denying the
> conflict of interest he has” with a number of judges of the Federal
> Court. A judge of the Federal Court issued a direction noting that if
> Mr. Amos was seeking this order in relation to judges of the Federal
> Court of Appeal, it was beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal Court.
> Mr. Amos raised the Federal Court motion at the hearing of this
> cross-appeal. The Federal Court motion is not a motion before this
> Court and, as such, the submissions filed before the Federal Court
> will not be entertained. As well, since this was a motion brought
> before the Federal Court (and not this Court), any documents filed in
> relation to that motion are not part of the record of this Court.
>
>
> [12] During the hearing of the appeal Mr. Amos alleged that
> the third member of this panel also had a conflict of interest and
> submitted some documents that, in his view, supported his claim of a
> conflict. Mr. Amos, following the hearing of his appeal, was also
> afforded the opportunity to provide a brief summary of the conflict
> that he was alleging and to file additional documents that, in his
> view, supported his allegations. Mr. Amos submitted several pages of
> documents in relation to the alleged conflicts. He organized the
> documents by submitting a copy of the biography of the particular
> judge and then, immediately following that biography, by including
> copies of the documents that, in his view, supported his claim that
> such judge had a conflict.
>
>
> [13] The nature of the alleged conflict of Justice Webb is
> that before he was appointed as a Judge of the Tax Court of Canada in
> 2006, he was a partner with the law firm Patterson Law, and before
> that with Patterson Palmer in Nova Scotia. Mr. Amos submitted that he
> had a number of disputes with Patterson Palmer and Patterson Law and
> therefore Justice Webb has a conflict simply because he was a partner
> of these firms. Mr. Amos is not alleging that Justice Webb was
> personally involved in or had any knowledge of any matter in which Mr.
> Amos was involved with Justice Webb’s former law firm – only that he
> was a member of such firm.
>
>
> [14] During his oral submissions at the hearing of his
> appeal Mr. Amos, in relation to the alleged conflict for Justice Webb,
> focused on dealings between himself and a particular lawyer at
> Patterson Law. However, none of the documents submitted by Mr. Amos at
> the hearing or subsequently related to any dealings with this
> particular lawyer nor is it clear when Mr. Amos was dealing with this
> lawyer. In particular, it is far from clear whether such dealings were
> after the time that Justice Webb was appointed as a Judge of the Tax
> Court of Canada over 10 years ago.
>
>
> [15] The documents that he submitted in relation to the
> alleged conflict for Justice Webb largely relate to dealings between
> Byron Prior and the St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador office of
> Patterson Palmer, which is not in the same province where Justice Webb
> practiced law. The only document that indicates any dealing between
> Mr. Amos and Patterson Palmer is a copy of an affidavit of Stephen May
> who was a partner in the St. John’s NL office of Patterson Palmer. The
> affidavit is dated January 24, 2005 and refers to a number of e-mails
> that were sent by Mr. Amos to Stephen May. Mr. Amos also included a
> letter that is addressed to four individuals, one of whom is John
> Crosbie who was counsel to the St. John’s NL office of Patterson
> Palmer. The letter is dated September 2, 2004 and is addressed to
> “John Crosbie, c/o Greg G. Byrne, Suite 502, 570 Queen Street,
> Fredericton, NB E3B 5E3”. In this letter Mr. Amos alludes to a
> possible lawsuit against Patterson Palmer.
> [16] Mr. Amos’ position is that simply because Justice Webb
> was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer, he now has a conflict. In Wewaykum
> Indian Band v. Her Majesty the Queen, 2003 SCC 45, [2003] 2 S.C.R.
> 259, the Supreme Court of Canada noted that disqualification of a
> judge is to be determined based on whether there is a reasonable
> apprehension of bias:
> 60 In Canadian law, one standard has now emerged as the
> criterion for disqualification. The criterion, as expressed by de
> Grandpré J. in Committee for Justice and Liberty v. National Energy
> Board, …[[1978] 1 S.C.R. 369, 68 D.L.R. (3d) 716], at p. 394, is the
> reasonable apprehension of bias:
> … the apprehension of bias must be a reasonable one, held by
> reasonable and right minded persons, applying themselves to the
> question and obtaining thereon the required information. In the words
> of the Court of Appeal, that test is "what would an informed person,
> viewing the matter realistically and practically -- and having thought
> the matter through -- conclude. Would he think that it is more likely
> than not that [the decision-maker], whether consciously or
> unconsciously, would not decide fairly."
>
> [17] The issue to be determined is whether an informed
> person, viewing the matter realistically and practically, and having
> thought the matter through, would conclude that Mr. Amos’ allegations
> give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias. As this Court has
> previously remarked, “there is a strong presumption that judges will
> administer justice impartially” and this presumption will not be
> rebutted in the absence of “convincing evidence” of bias (Collins v.
> Canada, 2011 FCA 140 at para. 7, [2011] 4 C.T.C. 157 [Collins]. See
> also R. v. S. (R.D.), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 484 at para. 32, 151 D.L.R.
> (4th) 193).
>
> [18] The Ontario Court of Appeal in Rando Drugs Ltd. v.
> Scott, 2007 ONCA 553, 86 O.R. (3d) 653 (leave to appeal to the Supreme
> Court of Canada refused, 32285 (August 1, 2007)), addressed the
> particular issue of whether a judge is disqualified from hearing a
> case simply because he had been a member of a law firm that was
> involved in the litigation that was now before that judge. The Ontario
> Court of Appeal determined that the judge was not disqualified if the
> judge had no involvement with the person or the matter when he was a
> lawyer. The Ontario Court of Appeal also explained that the rules for
> determining whether a judge is disqualified are different from the
> rules to determine whether a lawyer has a conflict:
> 27 Thus, disqualification is not the natural corollary to a
> finding that a trial judge has had some involvement in a case over
> which he or she is now presiding. Where the judge had no involvement,
> as here, it cannot be said that the judge is disqualified.
>
>
> 28 The point can rightly be made that had Mr. Patterson been
> asked to represent the appellant as counsel before his appointment to
> the bench, the conflict rules would likely have prevented him from
> taking the case because his firm had formerly represented one of the
> defendants in the case. Thus, it is argued how is it that as a trial
> judge Patterson J. can hear the case? This issue was considered by the
> Court of Appeal (Civil Division) in Locabail (U.K.) Ltd. v. Bayfield
> Properties Ltd., [2000] Q.B. 451. The court held, at para. 58, that
> there is no inflexible rule governing the disqualification of a judge
> and that, "[e]verything depends on the circumstances."
>
>
> 29 It seems to me that what appears at first sight to be an
> inconsistency in application of rules can be explained by the
> different contexts and in particular, the strong presumption of
> judicial impartiality that applies in the context of disqualification
> of a judge. There is no such presumption in cases of allegations of
> conflict of interest against a lawyer because of a firm's previous
> involvement in the case. To the contrary, as explained by Sopinka J.
> in MacDonald Estate v. Martin (1990), 77 D.L.R. (4th) 249 (S.C.C.),
> for sound policy reasons there is a presumption of a disqualifying
> interest that can rarely be overcome. In particular, a conclusory
> statement from the lawyer that he or she had no confidential
> information about the case will never be sufficient. The case is the
> opposite where the allegation of bias is made against a trial judge.
> His or her statement that he or she knew nothing about the case and
> had no involvement in it will ordinarily be accepted at face value
> unless there is good reason to doubt it: see Locabail, at para. 19.
>
>
> 30 That brings me then to consider the particular circumstances
> of this case and whether there are serious grounds to find a
> disqualifying conflict of interest in this case. In my view, there are
> two significant factors that justify the trial judge's decision not to
> recuse himself. The first is his statement, which all parties accept,
> that he knew nothing of the case when it was in his former firm and
> that he had nothing to do with it. The second is the long passage of
> time. As was said in Wewaykum, at para. 85:
> To us, one significant factor stands out, and must inform
> the perspective of the reasonable person assessing the impact of this
> involvement on Binnie J.'s impartiality in the appeals. That factor is
> the passage of time. Most arguments for disqualification rest on
> circumstances that are either contemporaneous to the decision-making,
> or that occurred within a short time prior to the decision-making.
> 31 There are other factors that inform the issue. The Wilson
> Walker firm no longer acted for any of the parties by the time of
> trial. More importantly, at the time of the motion, Patterson J. had
> been a judge for six years and thus had not had a relationship with
> his former firm for a considerable period of time.
>
>
> 32 In my view, a reasonable person, viewing the matter
> realistically would conclude that the trial judge could deal fairly
> and impartially with this case. I take this view principally because
> of the long passage of time and the trial judge's lack of involvement
> in or knowledge of the case when the Wilson Walker firm had carriage.
> In these circumstances it cannot be reasonably contended that the
> trial judge could not remain impartial in the case. The mere fact that
> his name appears on the letterhead of some correspondence from over a
> decade ago would not lead a reasonable person to believe that he would
> either consciously or unconsciously favour his former firm's former
> client. It is simply not realistic to think that a judge would throw
> off his mantle of impartiality, ignore his oath of office and favour a
> client - about whom he knew nothing - of a firm that he left six years
> earlier and that no longer acts for the client, in a case involving
> events from over a decade ago.
> (emphasis added)
>
> [19] Justice Webb had no involvement with any matter
> involving Mr. Amos while he was a member of Patterson Palmer or
> Patterson Law, nor does Mr. Amos suggest that he did. Mr. Amos made it
> clear during the hearing of this matter that the only reason for the
> alleged conflict for Justice Webb was that he was a member of
> Patterson Law and Patterson Palmer. This is simply not enough for
> Justice Webb to be disqualified. Any involvement of Mr. Amos with
> Patterson Law while Justice Webb was a member of that firm would have
> had to occur over 10 years ago and even longer for the time when he
> was a member of Patterson Palmer. In addition to the lack of any
> involvement on his part with any matter or dispute that Mr. Amos had
> with Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer (which in and of itself is
> sufficient to dispose of this matter), the length of time since
> Justice Webb was a member of Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer would
> also result in the same finding – that there is no conflict in Justice
> Webb hearing this appeal.
>
> [20] Similarly in R. v. Bagot, 2000 MBCA 30, 145 Man. R.
> (2d) 260, the Manitoba Court of Appeal found that there was no
> reasonable apprehension of bias when a judge, who had been a member of
> the law firm that had been retained by the accused, had no involvement
> with the accused while he was a lawyer with that firm.
>
> [21] In Del Zotto v. Minister of National Revenue, [2000] 4
> F.C. 321, 257 N.R. 96, this court did find that there would be a
> reasonable apprehension of bias where a judge, who while he was a
> lawyer, had recorded time on a matter involving the same person who
> was before that judge. However, this case can be distinguished as
> Justice Webb did not have any time recorded on any files involving Mr.
> Amos while he was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer or Patterson Law.
>
> [22] Mr. Amos also included with his submissions a CD. He
> stated in his affidavit dated June 26, 2017 that there is a “true copy
> of an American police surveillance wiretap entitled 139” on this CD.
> He has also indicated that he has “provided a true copy of the CD
> entitled 139 to many American and Canadian law enforcement authorities
> and not one of the police forces or officers of the court are willing
> to investigate it”. Since he has indicated that this is an “American
> police surveillance wiretap”, this is a matter for the American law
> enforcement authorities and cannot create, as Mr. Amos suggests, a
> conflict of interest for any judge to whom he provides a copy.
>
> [23] As a result, there is no conflict or reasonable
> apprehension of bias for Justice Webb and therefore, no reason for him
> to recuse himself.
>
> [24] Mr. Amos alleged that Justice Near’s past professional
> experience with the government created a “quasi-conflict” in deciding
> the cross-appeal. Mr. Amos provided no details and Justice Near
> confirmed that he had no prior knowledge of the matters alleged in the
> Claim. Justice Near sees no reason to recuse himself.
>
> [25] Insofar as it is possible to glean the basis for Mr.
> Amos’ allegations against Justice Gleason, it appears that he alleges
> that she is incapable of hearing this appeal because he says he wrote
> a letter to Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien in 2004. At that time,
> both Justice Gleason and Mr. Mulroney were partners in the law firm
> Ogilvy Renault, LLP. The letter in question, which is rude and angry,
> begins with “Hey you two Evil Old Smiling Bastards” and “Re: me suing
> you and your little dogs too”. There is no indication that the letter
> was ever responded to or that a law suit was ever commenced by Mr.
> Amos against Mr. Mulroney. In the circumstances, there is no reason
> for Justice Gleason to recuse herself as the letter in question does
> not give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias.
>
>
> III. Issue
>
> [26] The issue on the cross-appeal is as follows: Did the
> Judge err in setting aside the Prothonotary’s Order striking the Claim
> in its entirety without leave to amend and in determining that Mr.
> Amos’ allegation that the RCMP barred him from the New Brunswick
> legislature in 2004 was capable of supporting a cause of action?
>
> IV. Analysis
>
> A. Standard of Review
>
> [27] Following the Judge’s decision to set aside the
> Prothonotary’s Order, this Court revisited the standard of review to
> be applied to discretionary decisions of prothonotaries and decisions
> made by judges on appeals of prothonotaries’ decisions in Hospira
> Healthcare Corp. v. Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, 2016 FCA 215,
> 402 D.L.R. (4th) 497 [Hospira]. In Hospira, a five-member panel of
> this Court replaced the Aqua-Gem standard of review with that
> articulated in Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 235
> [Housen]. As a result, it is no longer appropriate for the Federal
> Court to conduct a de novo review of a discretionary order made by a
> prothonotary in regard to questions vital to the final issue of the
> case. Rather, a Federal Court judge can only intervene on appeal if
> the prothonotary made an error of law or a palpable and overriding
> error in determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and
> law (Hospira at para. 79). Further, this Court can only interfere with
> a Federal Court judge’s review of a prothonotary’s discretionary order
> if the judge made an error of law or palpable and overriding error in
> determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and law
> (Hospira at paras. 82-83).
>
> [28] In the case at bar, the Judge substituted his own
> assessment of Mr. Amos’ Claim for that of the Prothonotary. This Court
> must look to the Prothonotary’s Order to determine whether the Judge
> erred in law or made a palpable and overriding error in choosing to
> interfere.
>
>
> B. Did the Judge err in interfering with the
> Prothonotary’s Order?
>
> [29] The Prothontoary’s Order accepted the following
> paragraphs from the Crown’s submissions as the basis for striking the
> Claim in its entirety without leave to amend:
>
> 17. Within the 96 paragraph Statement of Claim, the Plaintiff
> addresses his complaint in paragraphs 14-24, inclusive. All but four
> of those paragraphs are dedicated to an incident that occurred in 2006
> in and around the legislature in New Brunswick. The jurisdiction of
> the Federal Court does not extend to Her Majesty the Queen in right of
> the Provinces. In any event, the Plaintiff hasn’t named the Province
> or provincial actors as parties to this action. The incident alleged
> does not give rise to a justiciable cause of action in this Court.
> (…)
>
>
> 21. The few paragraphs that directly address the Defendant
> provide no details as to the individuals involved or the location of
> the alleged incidents or other details sufficient to allow the
> Defendant to respond. As a result, it is difficult or impossible to
> determine the causes of action the Plaintiff is attempting to advance.
> A generous reading of the Statement of Claim allows the Defendant to
> only speculate as to the true and/or intended cause of action. At
> best, the Plaintiff’s action may possibly be summarized as: he
> suspects he is barred from the House of Commons.
> [footnotes omitted].
>
>
> [30] The Judge determined that he could not strike the Claim
> on the same jurisdictional basis as the Prothonotary. The Judge noted
> that the Federal Court has jurisdiction over claims based on the
> liability of Federal Crown servants like the RCMP and that the actors
> who barred Mr. Amos from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004
> included the RCMP (Federal Court Judgment at para. 23). In considering
> the viability of these allegations de novo, the Judge identified
> paragraph 14 of the Claim as containing “some precision” as it
> identifies the date of the event and a RCMP officer acting as
> Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant Governor (Federal Court Judgment at
> para. 27).
>
>
> [31] The Judge noted that the 2004 event could support a
> cause of action in the tort of misfeasance in public office and
> identified the elements of the tort as excerpted from Meigs v. Canada,
> 2013 FC 389, 431 F.T.R. 111:
>
>
> [13] As in both the cases of Odhavji Estate v Woodhouse, 2003 SCC
> 69 [Odhavji] and Lewis v Canada, 2012 FC 1514 [Lewis], I must
> determine whether the plaintiffs’ statement of claim pleads each
> element of the alleged tort of misfeasance in public office:
>
> a) The public officer must have engaged in deliberate and unlawful
> conduct in his or her capacity as public officer;
>
> b) The public officer must have been aware both that his or her
> conduct was unlawful and that it was likely to harm the plaintiff; and
>
> c) There must be an element of bad faith or dishonesty by the public
> officer and knowledge of harm alone is insufficient to conclude that a
> public officer acted in bad faith or dishonestly.
> Odhavji, above, at paras 23, 24 and 28
> (Federal Court Judgment at para. 28).
>
> [32] The Judge determined that Mr. Amos disclosed sufficient
> material facts to meet the elements of the tort of misfeasance in
> public office because the actors, who barred him from the New
> Brunswick legislature in 2004, including the RCMP, did so for
> “political reasons” (Federal Court Judgment at para. 29).
>
> [33] This Court’s discussion of the sufficiency of pleadings
> in Merchant Law Group v. Canada (Revenue Agency), 2010 FCA 184, 321
> D.L.R (4th) 301 is particularly apt:
>
> …When pleading bad faith or abuse of power, it is not enough to
> assert, baldly, conclusory phrases such as “deliberately or
> negligently,” “callous disregard,” or “by fraud and theft did steal”.
> “The bare assertion of a conclusion upon which the court is called
> upon to pronounce is not an allegation of material fact”. Making bald,
> conclusory allegations without any evidentiary foundation is an abuse
> of process…
>
> To this, I would add that the tort of misfeasance in public office
> requires a particular state of mind of a public officer in carrying
> out the impunged action, i.e., deliberate conduct which the public
> officer knows to be inconsistent with the obligations of his or her
> office. For this tort, particularization of the allegations is
> mandatory. Rule 181 specifically requires particularization of
> allegations of “breach of trust,” “wilful default,” “state of mind of
> a person,” “malice” or “fraudulent intention.”
> (at paras. 34-35, citations omitted).
>
> [34] Applying the Housen standard of review to the
> Prothonotary’s Order, we are of the view that the Judge interfered
> absent a legal or palpable and overriding error.
>
> [35] The Prothonotary determined that Mr. Amos’ Claim
> disclosed no reasonable claim and was fundamentally vexatious on the
> basis of jurisdictional concerns and the absence of material facts to
> ground a cause of action. Paragraph 14 of the Claim, which addresses
> the 2004 event, pleads no material facts as to how the RCMP officer
> engaged in deliberate and unlawful conduct, knew that his or her
> conduct was unlawful and likely to harm Mr. Amos, and acted in bad
> faith. While the Claim alleges elsewhere that Mr. Amos was barred from
> the New Brunswick legislature for political and/or malicious reasons,
> these allegations are not particularized and are directed against
> non-federal actors, such as the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Legislative
> Assembly of New Brunswick and the Fredericton Police Force. As such,
> the Judge erred in determining that Mr. Amos’ allegation that the RCMP
> barred him from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004 was capable of
> supporting a cause of action.
>
> [36] In our view, the Claim is made up entirely of bare
> allegations, devoid of any detail, such that it discloses no
> reasonable cause of action within the jurisdiction of the Federal
> Courts. Therefore, the Judge erred in interfering to set aside the
> Prothonotary’s Order striking the claim in its entirety. Further, we
> find that the Prothonotary made no error in denying leave to amend.
> The deficiencies in Mr. Amos’ pleadings are so extensive such that
> amendment could not cure them (see Collins at para. 26).
>
> V. Conclusion
> [37] For the foregoing reasons, we would allow the Crown’s
> cross-appeal, with costs, setting aside the Federal Court Judgment,
> dated January 25, 2016 and restoring the Prothonotary’s Order, dated
> November 12, 2015, which struck Mr. Amos’ Claim in its entirety
> without leave to amend.
> "Wyman W. Webb"
> J.A.
> "David G. Near"
> J.A.
> "Mary J.L. Gleason"
> J.A.
>
>
>
> FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL
> NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD
>
> A CROSS-APPEAL FROM AN ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE SOUTHCOTT DATED
> JANUARY 25, 2016; DOCKET NUMBER T-1557-15.
> DOCKET:
>
> A-48-16
>
>
>
> STYLE OF CAUSE:
>
> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>
>
>
> PLACE OF HEARING:
>
> Fredericton,
> New Brunswick
>
> DATE OF HEARING:
>
> May 24, 2017
>
> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY:
>
> WEBB J.A.
> NEAR J.A.
> GLEASON J.A.
>
> DATED:
>
> October 30, 2017
>
> APPEARANCES:
> David Raymond Amos
>
>
> For The Appellant / respondent on cross-appeal
> (on his own behalf)
>
> Jan Jensen
>
>
> For The Respondent / appELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL
>
> SOLICITORS OF RECORD:
> Nathalie G. Drouin
> Deputy Attorney General of Canada
>
> For The Respondent / APPELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL
>
>
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> Ontario contacts
>
> Paul Murphy 416-952-8105
> Jelica Zdero 416-952-9883
>
>
> Prairies (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Northwest Territories) contacts
>
> TJ Madigan 587-475-3816
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>
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> Gurm Kundan 604-666-0457
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Min.Mail / Courrier.Min (CRA/ARC)" <PABMINMAILG@cra-arc.gc.ca>
> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 18:43:30 +0000
> Subject: KPMG
> To:
>
> Dear Taxpayer:
>
> Thank you for your correspondence regarding the KPMG case, which
> attracted media attention. Thank you also for your understanding
> regarding the delay of this response.
>
> As Minister of National Revenue, my goal is to make sure the Canada
> Revenue Agency (CRA) offers services that are fair, helpful, and easy
> to use. This continues to be my priority and my focus as I devote my
> efforts to delivering tangible results to taxpayers.
>
> Although I cannot comment on a specific case, I can give you the
> following general information. Settlements are concluded independently
> from the Minister of National Revenue and the Minister's Office to
> ensure the integrity of the tax system. They involve an independent
> process within the CRA, in collaboration with the Department of
> Justice.
>
> In tax disputes, there is limited flexibility on settlement amounts
> because CRA tax disputes are subject to the legal principles set out
> in the Income Tax Act. The CRA is bound by the principles of tax law
> and the rules arising from Canadian tax legislation. For example, when
> a tax dispute involves an amount of $50,000, the taxpayer and the CRA
> can agree on a lesser amount only if the determination of this amount
> is based in law.
>
> Settlements can also resolve tax issues that are not before the Court.
> These settlements are carried out through an agreement called "minutes
> of settlement," which is signed by a CRA official and the taxpayer.
> Because this agreement is not public, taxpayers may see the use of
> settlements as a lack of transparency. This is why I have asked the
> CRA to review its procedures to find ways it can ensure greater
> transparency regarding why it enters into settlements. Taxpayers
> expect the tax system to be fair and equitable, and the CRA works
> continuously to make sure that it is.
>
> The CRA remains committed to combatting tax evasion and aggressive tax
> avoidance. Individuals who participate in illegal tax strategies must
> face the consequences of their actions, and taxpayers expect nothing
> less.
>
> I appreciate the opportunity to respond to your concerns and trust the
> information I have provided is helpful.
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
>
>
>
> The Honourable Diane Lebouthillier
> Minister of National Revenue
>
>
>
>
> http://davidraymondamos3.
>
>
>
> Thursday, 30 May 2019
>
> CRA signs secret settlement with wealthy KPMG clients involved in
> offshore tax scheme
>
>
> https://twitter.com/
>
>
> David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
> Replying to @DavidRayAmos @Kathryn98967631 and 48 others
> Methinks the CRA and Harvey Cashore should review their emails N'esy Pas?
>
>
> https://davidraymondamos3.
>
>
> #cdnpoli #nbpoli
>
>
> https://www.cbc.ca/news/
>
>
>
> CRA signs secret settlement with wealthy KPMG clients involved in
> offshore tax scheme
>
>
>
>
>
> 2142 Comments
> Commenting is now closed for this story.
>
>
>
>
> David Amos
> Methinks the Feds and KPMG or all theri lawyers and beancounters will
> never explain how their actions generated this file long ago N'esy
> Pas?
>
> https://www.scribd.com/doc/
>
>
>
>
> David Amos
> Methinks my fellow taxpayers should Google the following sometime soon
> then pick up the phone and call their MP N'esy Pas?
>
> Diane Lebouthillier David Amos KPMG
>
>
>
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>
>
> Troy Bodi
> For the rest of us they'll hound you for months for that $16 you owe them.
>
>
> David Amos
> Reply to @Troy Bodi: Methinks the CRA and Harvey Cashore should review
> their emails N'esy Pas?
>
>
> Troy Bodi
> Reply to @Jim Roth: Who cares which government is complicit. It
> shouldn't be happening period.
>
>
> David Amos
> Reply to @Troy Bodi: Methinks the CRA and Harvey Cashore should have
> reviewed their emails by now particularly after I made a few calls as
> well N'esy Pas?
>
>
> Mo Bennett
> Reply to @David Amos: this is what happens when you put a former
> social worker in charge of money.
>
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> Richard Dekkar
> No surprise, especially when you consider the head of KPMG’s public
> sector practice was the chief fundraiser for the Liberals.
>
>
> David Amos
> Reply to @Richard Dekkar: Methinks my fellow taxpayers should Google
> the following sometime soon then pick up the phone and call their MP
> N'esy Pas?
>
> Diane Lebouthillier David Amos KPMG
>
>
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>
>
> Lily O'Loughlin
> Once again the wealthy get away with not paying their fair share of
> taxes, but CRA is very quick to track down anybody who owes them $50.
>
>
> Michael Philips
> Reply to @Lily O'Loughlin: I know of an elderly Lady who owed the CRA
> past taxes.
> If she paid the taxes she could not buy her medicine, the CRA rep
> told her to pay the tax bill .
>
>
> Bill Dixon
> Reply to @Lily O'Loughlin: A buddy of mine is an investigator and
> auditor with the CRA.
>
> Years ago, they brought in a performance criterion based on the
> number of closed files, as opposed to the value of recovered taxes. My
> guess is that CRA leaders wanted to be able to brag about how many
> files and investigations are successfully closed (e.g., "We
> successfully recover tax in 97% of cases!", as opposed to "In the 97%
> of cases we close, we recover 9% of money owed to the Govt of
> Canada... because unfortunately the 3% of files we don't close are
> whales that are worth 93% of the money owed... Oops.") [- this is a
> purely fictitious scenario I just made up, but you see my point]
>
> He's always been involved in investigating large criminal tax dodges
> that take years to unravel and bring to a close. Consequently, he was
> always been ranked quite low in year-end reviews, relative to his
> colleagues who follow up on very small files and small amounts owed.
>
> In his words, that system in CRA incentivizes auditors to vigorously
> chase small fish and files, and ignore the big files and large amounts
> that are exclusively the result of the illicit behaviour of the rich
> and the accountants they employ to avoid paying tax
>
>
> Sebastian Scheele
> Reply to @Bill Dixon: That is also easier for the CRA, to harass the
> small fish that does not have the means to fight back... :(
>
>
> Sour PJ
> Reply to @Bill Dixon: WOW...
>
>
> David Amos
> Reply to @Sebastian Scheele: "That is also easier for the CRA, to
> harass the small fish that does not have the means to fight back... :(
> "
>
> True but sometimes there are small fish with very sharp teeth that
> can make the boss of the taxman have a panic attack and quit his fancy
> job. Methinks the other little fish should Google my name along with
> KPMG, CRA and IRS N'esy Pas?
>
>
> David Amos
> Reply to @Bill Dixon: "In his words, that system in CRA incentivizes
> auditors to vigorously chase small fish and files, and ignore the big
> files and large amounts that are exclusively the result of the illicit
> behaviour of the rich and the accountants they employ to avoid paying
> tax."
>
> BINGO
>
> FYI The snobby accountants the rich employ call themelves
> "Gatekeepers" and are always attached to powerful law firm just like
> KPMG beancounters are,
>
> Surf the net and you will see that I am a whistleblower against them
> all. Try Googling "Harper and Bankers'
>
>
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>
>
> Ed Riley
> WOW just WOW
> This Liberal government sure loves secret out of court deals.
> Second one reported JUST TODAY.
> Oct. can't come soon enough !!!!
>
>
> David Amos
> Reply to @Ed Riley: "Oct. can't come soon enough !!!! "
>
> I concur
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Greg Crompton
> And the hits just keep on coming. Why isn't this on the first page?
>
>
> David Amos
>
>
> Reply to @Greg Crompton: "Why isn't this on the first page?"
>
> Methinks whereas the circus has been so busy lately this is
> considered a sideshow N'esy Pas?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> CRA signs secret settlement with wealthy KPMG clients involved in
> offshore tax scheme
>
> Watchdog group accuses the Liberals of covering up the KPMG affair
>
>
>
>
> Harvey Cashore · CBC News · Posted: May 30, 2019 12:26 PM ET
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> The Canada Revenue Agency has made an out-of-court settlement with
> wealthy KPMG clients caught using an offshore tax scheme that it
> previously said was 'intended to deceive' tax authorities. (CBC)
>
>
> The Canada Revenue Agency has once again made a secret out-of-court
> settlement with wealthy KPMG clients caught using what the CRA itself
> had alleged was a "grossly negligent" offshore "sham" set up to avoid
> detection by tax authorities, CBC's The Fifth Estate and
> Radio-Canada's Enquête have learned.
>
> This, despite the Liberal government's vow to crack down on high
> net-worth taxpayers who used the now-infamous Isle of Man scheme. The
> scheme orchestrated by accounting giant KPMG enabled clients to dodge
> tens of millions of dollars in taxes in Canada by making it look as if
> multimillionaires had given away their fortunes to anonymous overseas
> shell companies and get their investment income back as tax-free
> gifts.
>
> KPMG is a global network of accounting and auditing firms
> headquartered out of the Netherlands and is one of the top firms in
> Canada.
>
>
>
>
>
> "Tax cheats can no longer hide," National Revenue Minister Diane
> Lebouthillier promised in 2017.
>
> Now, tax court documents obtained by CBC News/Radio-Canada show two
> members of the Cooper family in Victoria, as well as the estate of the
> late patriarch Peter Cooper, reached an out-of-court settlement on May
> 24 over their involvement in the scheme.
>
> Details of the settlement and even minutes of the meetings discussing
> it are under wraps. A CBC News/Radio-Canada reporter who showed up to
> one such meeting this spring was asked to leave.
> Journalists discovered references to the final settlement agreement
> in tax court documents only by chance.
>
>
> CRA cites privacy in keeping settlement details secret
>
> The Canada Revenue Agency says strict privacy provisions of Canadian
> tax law make it difficult to disclose minutes describing individual
> taxpayer information.
>
> The Isle of Man tax dodge had been active as far back as 1999 and,
> according to documents filed in court by the CRA in 2015, had
> "intended to deceive" federal regulators.
>
> Still, significant details of the scheme remain a mystery, including
> the role played by the KPMG's senior executives. With no public trial,
> those details may continue to remain secret.
>
> Toby Sanger, executive director of the advocacy group Canadians for
> Tax Fairness, says the CRA should never have agreed to settle the
> case.
>
> "I think it's outrageous," he said. "We've had a lot of tough talk
> and promises from this minister about how they will crack down on tax
> evasion by the wealthy and corporations, but unfortunately we've seen
> no evidence of this so far."
>
>
>
> National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier called out tax cheats in
> 2017 and stated her intention to clamp down on the KPMG scheme.
> (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)
>
>
>
>
>
> Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthlier said in an email statement to The
> Fifth Estate/Enquête that while she cannot comment on specific cases,
> she finds the lack of transparency about settlements brokered by her
> agency "problematic."
>
> "I have instructed the CRA to review its processes to allow for more
> transparency with respect to the reasons for which a settlement is
> reached," she said.
>
>
>
> KPMG took 15% cut of taxes dodged
>
> One member of the Cooper family, Marshall Cooper, previously told The
> Fifth Estate that he was unaware of Canadian tax laws when he
> emigrated from South Africa in the mid-1990s and that it was KPMG that
> came up with the offshore tax plan.
>
> Documents show KPMG planned to take a 15 per cent cut of the taxes
> dodged, including $300,000 from the Cooper family. Internal records
> show the scheme was marketed across the country, with successful KPMG
> sales agents and accountants referred to as product "champions."
>
> In all, more than 20 wealthy families participated in the offshore scheme.
>
> Two years ago, Lebouthillier issued a news release on her intention
> to clamp down on the KPMG scheme, publicly stating that those involved
> could even face criminal charges over possible "tax fraud."
>
>
> •
> Exclusive
> KPMG tax 'sham' used by at least 25 wealthy Canadians, document says
> •Tax cheats in KPMG Isle of Man avoidance scheme could face criminal
> charges: minister
> "The case of KPMG is before the courts right now, and we continue to
> pursue action against KPMG," Lebouthillier said in 2017.
>
> "We will see this to the end as Canadians have asked us to do."
> She said at the time that her government took the matter "very seriously."
>
> "Those who choose to participate in these schemes must face the
> consequences of their actions," she said.
> Yet more than two years after that pledge, participants in the KPMG
> scheme, namely, members of the Cooper family, were offered a secret
> out-of-court settlement.
>
> In her statement to The Fifth Estate/Enquête this week, Lebouthillier
> said the decision to settle was not hers to make and that she had
> instructed the CRA to review its settlements to "allow for more
> transparency."
>
>
> 'We will continue to make systemic changes': minister
>
> To "ensure integrity of our tax system," Lebouthillier said,
> out-of-court settlements are made by the CRA and the Department of
> Justice "at arm's length" from the minister and the minister's office.
>
> "Canadians deserve a fair and equitable tax system, and we will
> continue to make systemic changes within the CRA to make sure that
> this is the case," she said in her statement.
>
>
> •
> CBC Investigates
> Canada Revenue offered amnesty to wealthy KPMG clients in offshore tax
> 'sham'
> •How Canada got into bed with tax havens
> CBC News/Radio-Canada first revealed four years ago that KPMG, one of
> the largest accounting firms in Canada, with tens of millions in
> federal contracts, had for years been running a massive offshore tax
> dodge for wealthy clients it had kept hidden from federal
> investigators.
>
> The Trudeau government's previous tough talk on the so-called KPMG
> sham had come after a document leaked to The Fifth Estate/Enquête
> showed the CRA itself had offered a secret "no penalties" amnesty in
> May 2015 to many of the other KPMG clients involved in the scheme.
>
> The CRA offered to have them simply pay the back taxes owed — but
> with the condition they not tell the public about the offer.
>
>
>
> Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed to do a 'better job of getting tax
> avoiders and tax frauders' in 2017. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian
> Press)
>
>
> Stung by those revelations, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in
> 2017 that the government had learned a lesson from the KPMG affair and
> promised to do a "better job of getting tax avoiders and tax
> frauders."
>
> Since then, the Liberal government vowed to make sure those kinds of
> offshore tax dodges were in the past.
>
> In fact, it was concerns over future KPMG court cases that prompted
> the Liberal-dominated Commons finance committee to shut down its own
> investigation into the embattled accounting firm back in 2016.
>
> Documents had already began to emerge detailing the extent to which
> KPMG was helping clients not only dodge taxes but also hide money from
> potential creditors, including circumventing the Canadian Divorce Act
> by "protecting" assets from ex-spouses.
>
>
> •
> CBC Investigates
> KPMG promoted hiding money from wealthy clients' ex-spouses in offshore
> 'sham'
> Lawyers for KPMG had argued that the ongoing finance committee
> investigation could prejudice cases before the court.
>
> Several KPMG executives had been named to testify in the spring of
> 2016, but Liberal MPs voted to shut down the inquiry, arguing that any
> more testimony and documents should be produced in court and not in
> Parliament.
>
> Now, it appears that those future court cases cited as a reason for
> shutting down the investigation might never materialize.
>
> The Fifth Estate and Enquête also later revealed that in June 2016,
> around the same time the Liberal MPs shut down their investigation
> into the accounting giant, a former senior KPMG executive was
> appointed to the Liberal Party's national board of directors.
>
> "There is no reason why the finance committee shouldn't restart their
> hearings," Canadians for Tax Fairness's Sanger said.
>
>
> Settlements offer 'substantial savings to the public'
>
> Sanger said it all seems like a Liberal "coverup" to close down the
> KPMG investigation.
>
> Canadians still do not know who were the key people at KPMG involved
> in running the investigation, for example, how high up it went within
> the organization, or all the names of the wealthy clients who
> participated.
>
>
>
> Liberal MPs halted a parliamentary finance committee investigation in
> 2016 after KPMG argued the investigation could prejudice court cases.
> Now, it looks like those court cases might never happen. (CBC)
>
>
>
>
>
> Max Weder, the lawyer for the wealthy Cooper family, said he "can't
> comment on the settlement."
>
> Documents show the family paid virtually no tax over a span of eight
> years — and even obtained federal and provincial tax credits — despite
> receiving nearly $6 million from an offshore company worth $26 million
> that KPMG helped set up.
>
> KPMG has always maintained the scheme was legal. The firm's lawyers
> claimed any money the Coopers received were gifts and therefore
> non-taxable. Nevertheless, KPMG now says it would not set up this type
> of offshore structure anymore.
>
> For its part, the CRA said that the settlement was made in accordance
> with the law and is "supported by the facts of this particular case."
> The agency also said it "maximized revenue" by making a decision to
> settle out of court, instead of facing an uncertain ruling in tax
> court.
>
> "There is generally substantial savings to the public and a benefit
> to the justice system when cases are resolved through a settlement," a
> CRA spokesperson said in a statement.
>
>
>
>
> Please send confidential tips on this story to Harvey.Cashore@cbc.ca
> or call 416-526-4704. Follow @harveycashore on Twitter.
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> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: Diane.Lebouthillier@parl.gc.ca
> Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 18:31:53 +0000
> Subject: Réponse automatique : Methinks that CBC can never deny that
> it loves to ignore abusive tax schemes for years N'esy Pas Sylvie
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> Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 14:31:30 -0400
> Subject: Methinks that CBC can never deny that it loves to ignore
> abusive tax schemes for years
> N'esy Pas Sylvie Gadoury, Diane Lebouthillier, Dominic Cardy and
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> CRA signs secret settlement with wealthy KPMG clients involved in
> offshore tax scheme
> Watchdog group accuses the Liberals of covering up the KPMG affair
> Harvey Cashore · CBC News · Posted: May 30, 2019 12:26 PM ET
>
>
> 369 Comments
>
> Troy Bodi
> For the rest of us they'll hound you for months for that $16 you owe them.
>
>
> David Amos
> Reply to @Troy Bodi: Methinks the CRA and Harvey Cashore should review
> their emails N'esy Pas?
>
>
> https://www.taxfairness.ca/en/
>
> Toby Sanger, Executive Director
> office@taxfairness.ca
> Mobile: 613 720 6955
>
> Sasha Caldera, Program Manager, Beneficial Ownership Project
> sasha.caldera@taxfairness.ca
> Mobile: 647-861-6425
>
> Erika Beauchesne, Communications Coordinator
> erika.beauchesne@taxfairness.
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 10:21:52 -0400
> Subject: Well so much for YOUR ethics and that of, the CBC, the RCMP,
> KPMG and the Tax Man et al Nesy Pas Billy Morneau?
> To: office@taxfairness.ca, "wayne.easter" <wayne.easter@parl.gc.ca>,
> atlantic.director@taxpayer.com
> "Bill.Morneau" <Bill.Morneau@canada.ca>,
> WhistleblowerProtection@tigta.
> fin.minfinance-financemin.fin@
> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
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> Andre Lareau should have their lawyers talk to Wayne Easter ASAP EH?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 09:44:46 -0400
> Subject: Re: Well I watched the Fifth Estate about KPMG and the Tax
> Man et al Perhaps CBC, Dennis Howlett and Andre Lareau should have
> their lawyers talk to Wayne Easter ASAP EH?
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> <MulcaT@parl.gc.ca>, "charlie.angus" <charlie.angus@parl.gc.ca>,
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>
> On 6/25/18, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>> Trust that you people will find this email posted right here ASAP EH?
>>
>> http://davidraymondamos3.
>>
>> Monday, 25 June 2018
>>
>> Canada Revenue Agency falling behind as uncollected taxes owed rise to
>> $44 billion
>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original message ----------
>> From: "MinFinance / FinanceMin (FIN)"
>> <fin.minfinance-financemin.
>> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:48:25 +0000
>> Subject: RE: Your various correspondence about abusive tax schemes -
>> 2017-02631
>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>
>> The Department of Finance acknowledges receipt of your electronic
>> correspondence. Please be assured that we appreciate receiving your
>> comments.
>>
>> Le ministère des Finances accuse réception de votre correspondance
>> électronique. Soyez assuré(e) que nous apprécions recevoir vos
>> commentaires.
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original message ----------
>> From: Green Party of Canada | Parti vert du Canada <info@greenparty.ca>
>> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:48:45 +0000
>> Subject: Re: Fwd: Your various correspondence about abusive tax
>> schemes - 2017-02631
>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>
>> -- Please reply above this line --
>>
>>
>> (Français à suivre)
>>
>> Thank you for contacting the Green Party of Canada. Due to the high
>> volume of email we receive, we cannot guarantee that all inquiries
>> will be answered. With our small team, we do our best to respond as
>> staffing and resources permit.
>>
>> In the meantime, you might find the answer you're looking for in
>> Vision Green [1], which lays out our plan to move Canada forward.
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original message ----------
>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 16:48:20 -0400
>> Subject: Fwd: Your various correspondence about abusive tax schemes -
>> 2017-02631
>> To: Doug.Gaetz@cra-arc.gc.ca, "Diane.Lebouthillier"
>> <Diane.Lebouthillier@cra-arc.
>> "andrew.scheer" <andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca>, leader
>> <leader@greenparty.ca>, lisa <lisa@daisygroup.ca>
>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>> <Bill.Morneau@canada.ca>, "bill.pentney" <bill.pentney@justice.gc.ca>,
>> "jan.jensen" <jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original message ----------
>> From: Diane.Lebouthillier@parl.gc.ca
>> Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 22:23:12 +0000
>> Subject: Réponse automatique : YO Jean-Yves Duclos Re My Old Age
>> pension etc Well May 24th came and went and I just called you (819 654
>> 5546) and your Deputy Ms Levonian (819 9535603) about my right to to
>> sue you and your minions in Federal Court
>> To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>
>> Merci d'avoir écrit à l'honorable Diane Lebouthillier, députée de
>> Gaspésie - Îles-de-la-Madeleine. Votre courriel recevra toute
>> l'attention voulue.
>>
>> Thank you for writing to the Hon. Diane Lebouthillier, Member of
>> Parliament for Gaspésie - îles-de-la-Madeleine. Please be assured that
>> your correspondence will receive every consideration.
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original message ----------
>> From: "Min.Mail / Courrier.Min (CRA/ARC)" <PABMINMAILG@cra-arc.gc.ca>
>> Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 13:10:52 +0000
>> Subject: Your various correspondence about abusive tax schemes -
>> 2017-02631
>> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>
>> Mr. David Raymond Amos
>> motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>
>>
>> Dear Mr. Amos:
>>
>> Thank you for your various correspondence about abusive tax schemes,
>> and for your understanding regarding the delay of this response.
>>
>> This is an opportunity for me to address your concerns about the way
>> the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) deals with aggressive tax planning,
>> tax avoidance, and tax evasion by targeting individuals and groups
>> that promote schemes intended to avoid payment of tax. It is also an
>> opportunity for me to present the Government of Canada’s main
>> strategies for ensuring fairness for all taxpayers.
>>
>> The CRA’s mission is to preserve the integrity of Canada’s tax system,
>> and it is taking concrete and effective action to deal with abusive
>> tax schemes. Through federal budget funding in 2016 and 2017, the
>> government has committed close to $1 billion in cracking down on tax
>> evasion and combatting tax avoidance at home and through the use of
>> offshore transactions. This additional funding is expected to generate
>> federal revenues of $2.6 billion over five years for Budget 2016, and
>> $2.5 billion over five years for Budget 2017.
>>
>> More precisely, the CRA is cracking down on tax cheats by hiring more
>> auditors, maintaining its underground economy specialist teams,
>> increasing coverage of aggressive goods and service tax/harmonized
>> sales tax planning, increasing coverage of multinational corporations
>> and wealthy individuals, and taking targeted actions aimed at
>> promoters of abusive tax schemes.
>>
>> On the offshore front, the CRA continues to develop tools to improve
>> its focus on high‑risk taxpayers. It is also considering changes to
>> its Voluntary Disclosures Program following the first set of program
>> recommendations received from an independent Offshore Compliance
>> Advisory Committee. In addition, the CRA is leading international
>> projects to address the base erosion and profit shifting initiative of
>> the G20 and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
>> Development, and is collaborating with treaty partners to address the
>> Panama Papers leaks.
>>
>> These actions are evidence of the government’s commitment to
>> protecting tax fairness. The CRA has strengthened its intelligence and
>> technical capacities for the early detection of abusive tax
>> arrangements and deterrence of those who participate in them. To
>> ensure compliance, it has increased the number of actions aimed at
>> promoters who use illegal schemes. These measures include increased
>> audits of such promoters, improved information gathering, criminal
>> investigations where warranted, and better communication with
>> taxpayers.
>>
>> To deter potential taxpayer involvement in these schemes, the CRA is
>> increasing notifications and warnings through its communications
>> products. It also seeks partnerships with tax preparers, accountants,
>> and community groups so that they can become informed observers who
>> can educate their clients.
>>
>> The CRA will assess penalties against promoters and other
>> representatives who make false statements involving illegal tax
>> schemes. The promotion of tax schemes to defraud the government can
>> lead to criminal investigations, fingerprinting, criminal prosecution,
>> court fines, and jail time.
>>
>> Between April 1, 2011, and March 31, 2016, the CRA’s criminal
>> investigations resulted in the conviction of 42 Canadian taxpayers for
>> tax evasion with links to money and assets held offshore. In total,
>> the $34 million in evaded taxes resulted in court fines of $12 million
>> and 734 months of jail time.
>>
>> When deciding to pursue compliance actions through the courts, the CRA
>> consults the Department of Justice Canada to choose an appropriate
>> solution. Complex tax-related litigation is costly and time consuming,
>> and the outcome may be unsuccessful. All options to recover amounts
>> owed are considered.
>>
>> More specifically, in relation to the KPMG Isle of Man tax avoidance
>> scheme, publicly available court records show that it is through the
>> CRA’s efforts that the scheme was discovered. The CRA identified many
>> of the participants and continues to actively pursue the matter. The
>> CRA has also identified at least 10 additional tax structures on the
>> Isle of Man, and is auditing taxpayers in relation to these
>> structures.
>>
>> To ensure tax fairness, the CRA commissioned an independent review in
>> March 2016 to determine if it had acted appropriately concerning KPMG
>> and its clients. In her review, Ms. Kimberley Brooks, Associate
>> Professor and former Dean of the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie
>> University, examined the CRA’s operational processes and decisions in
>> relation to the KPMG offshore tax structure and its efforts to obtain
>> the names of all taxpayers participating in the scheme. Following this
>> review, the report, released on May 5, 2016, concluded that the CRA
>> had acted appropriately in its management of the KPMG Isle of Man
>> file. The report found that the series of compliance measures the CRA
>> took were in accordance with its policies and procedures. It was
>> concluded that the procedural actions taken on the KPMG file were
>> appropriate given the facts of this particular case and were
>> consistent with the treatment of taxpayers in similar situations. The
>> report concluded that actions by CRA employees were in accordance with
>> the CRA’s Code of Integrity and Professional Conduct. There was no
>> evidence of inappropriate interaction between KPMG and the CRA
>> employees involved in the case.
>>
>> Under the CRA’s Code of Integrity and Professional Conduct, all CRA
>> employees are responsible for real, apparent, or potential conflicts
>> of interests between their current duties and any subsequent
>> employment outside of the CRA or the Public Service of Canada.
>> Consequences and corrective measures play an important role in
>> protecting the CRA’s integrity.
>>
>> The CRA takes misconduct very seriously. The consequences of
>> misconduct depend on the gravity of the incident and its repercussions
>> on trust both within and outside of the CRA. Misconduct can result in
>> disciplinary measures up to dismissal.
>>
>> All forms of tax evasion are illegal. The CRA manages the Informant
>> Leads Program, which handles leads received from the public regarding
>> cases of tax evasion across the country. This program, which
>> coordinates all the leads the CRA receives from informants, determines
>> whether there has been any non-compliance with tax law and ensures
>> that the information is examined and conveyed, if applicable, so that
>> compliance measures are taken. This program does not offer any reward
>> for tips received.
>>
>> The new Offshore Tax Informant Program (OTIP) has also been put in
>> place. The OTIP offers financial compensation to individuals who
>> provide information related to major cases of offshore tax evasion
>> that lead to the collection of tax owing. As of December 31, 2016, the
>> OTIP had received 963 calls and 407 written submissions from possible
>> informants. Over 218 taxpayers are currently under audit based on
>> information the CRA received through the OTIP.
>>
>> With a focus on the highest-risk sectors nationally and
>> internationally and an increased ability to gather information, the
>> CRA has the means to target taxpayers who try to hide their income.
>> For example, since January 2015, the CRA has been collecting
>> information on all international electronic funds transfers (EFTs) of
>> $10,000 or more ending or originating in Canada. It is also adopting a
>> proactive approach by focusing each year on four jurisdictions that
>> raise suspicion. For the Isle of Man, the CRA audited 3,000 EFTs
>> totalling $860 million over 12 months and involving approximately 800
>> taxpayers. Based on these audits, the CRA communicated with
>> approximately 350 individuals and 400 corporations and performed 60
>> audits.
>>
>> In January 2017, I reaffirmed Canada’s important role as a leader for
>> tax authorities around the world in detecting the structures used for
>> aggressive tax planning and tax evasion. This is why Canada works
>> daily with the Joint International Tax Shelter Information Centre
>> (JITSIC), a network of tax administrations in over 35 countries. The
>> CRA participates in two expert groups within the JITSIC and leads the
>> working group on intermediaries and proponents. This ongoing
>> collaboration is a key component of the CRA’s work to develop strong
>> relationships with the international community, which will help it
>> refine the world-class tax system that benefits all Canadians.
>>
>> The CRA is increasing its efforts and is seeing early signs of
>> success. Last year, the CRA recovered just under $13 billion as a
>> result of its audit activities on the domestic and offshore fronts.
>> Two-thirds of these recoveries are the result of its audit efforts
>> relating to large businesses and multinational companies.
>>
>> But there is still much to do, and additional improvements and
>> investments are underway.
>>
>> Tax cheats are having a harder and harder time hiding. Taxpayers who
>> choose to promote or participate in malicious and illegal tax
>> strategies must face the consequences of their actions. Canadians
>> expect nothing less. I invite you to read my most recent statement on
>> this matter at canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/
>> statement_from_
>>
>> Thank you for taking the time to write. I hope the information I have
>> provided is helpful.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> The Honourable Diane Lebouthillier
>> Minister of National Revenue
>>
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