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Leadership Candidates Discuss Future of Green Party at McGill University
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https://www.greenparty.ca/en/statement/2020-06-02/green-party-statement-regarding-dimitri-lascaris
Green Party statement regarding Dimitri Lascaris
June 02, 2020
OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada announced today that it has
reversed the decision to exclude Dimitri Lascaris from the party’s
leadership contest.
“The Leadership Contest Committee heard Mr. Lascaris’s appeal and is satisfied with his response to the concerns raised by the vetting committee,” said Green Party Interim Leader Jo-Ann Roberts. “We commend the committee for its meticulous work in bringing those issues to our attention.
“In a grassroots party dedicated to democratic principles, it was agreed this decision should be entrusted to our members when they vote for a new leader in October.”
# # #
For more information:
Rosie Emery
Press Secretary
613-562-4916 ext, 204
rosie.emery@greenparty.ca
“The Leadership Contest Committee heard Mr. Lascaris’s appeal and is satisfied with his response to the concerns raised by the vetting committee,” said Green Party Interim Leader Jo-Ann Roberts. “We commend the committee for its meticulous work in bringing those issues to our attention.
“In a grassroots party dedicated to democratic principles, it was agreed this decision should be entrusted to our members when they vote for a new leader in October.”
# # #
For more information:
Rosie Emery
Press Secretary
613-562-4916 ext, 204
rosie.emery@greenparty.ca
https://www.alextyrrell.ca/2020/06/03/alex-tyrrell-withdraws-from-green-party-of-canada-leadership-race/
Alex Tyrrell Withdraws From Green Party of Canada Leadership Race
Today I am announcing my withdrawal from the Green Party of Canada leadership race.
It’s a heartbreaking decision that I have come to after deep reflection and after consulting with my team.
Although many Green Party members are eager to renew the
party by moving beyond the personality cult, the unfortunate reality is
that the Elizabeth May era will continue for the foreseeable future.
I would like to thank the hundreds of people who have
supported, volunteered for and donated to my campaign over the past few
months. I had the privilege to meet with Green Party members in Ontario,
Alberta and BC before the COVID pandemic hit and I have met hundreds
more online since the confinement began.
When I decided to put my name forward for the federal
leadership, I did so under the assurance that Elizabeth May would not
intervene in the race. Although this held true for the first few weeks,
her intervention in the race has become more and more visible on social
media, behind the scenes and most recently when she launched a
fundraising tour with one of her preferred candidates.
At the same time that Ms. May has been intervening in the
race on a daily basis, she has consolidated power in the party by
presenting a slate of candidates – managed by her husband, for the
federal council elections. Although the federal council elections were
not very visible, received no media coverage, had limited voter turnout
and were not even given the importance of organized debates,
Ms. May has
told the membership that these internal elections are arguably more
significant than the leadership race. I chose to focus on the leadership
race and did not run a slate of candidates for federal council. This
turned out to be a mistake. I was not expecting Ms. May to consolidate
power in this fashion.
Over the past months and weeks Ms. May and her entourage
have made it amply clear to me that they will do everything in their
power to oppose my candidacy, my political agenda of moving the party to
the left and that they will fiercely undermine my leadership in the
event that I would win the federal leadership race.
In a CBC article published a few days ago, Ms. May’s
husband, who is now the party’s vice president, compared my criticisms
of their consolidation of power to, and I quote, “fecal matter,” before
adding that I “understand nothing about governance” and that I should
“return to study.” I view these comments as ageist, condescending,
paternalistic and outright disrespectful.
The level of disrespect shown to me by Ms. May, her
husband and their entourage has sent the message to their supporters
that it is ok to bully me, to send me hateful messages and to bend the
rules against my candidacy. This has led to a toxic atmosphere where my
supporters and I are attacked on a daily basis. All this in a party
that functions without a formal complaint process and where people are
not held accountable for their actions if those actions benefit Ms.
May’s agenda, grip on power or wishes.
I have never heard of an outgoing leader stacking the
party’s highest decision-making body with family members and political
allies at a time when they are supposedly stepping back from politics so
that the next generation can take over.
In addition to Ms. May’s intervention in the race, the
environment within the party is not favourable to democratic debate. I
do not understand how candidates who would like to represent the party
in the televised leaders debates for the next general election are
unwilling or unable to debate the way forward with Green Party
leadership candidates. Any legitimate and polite contrast or criticism
of other candidates in the race, their policies or lack thereof is met
with a barrage of negativity, insults and toxicity.
As the most experienced candidate in the race, having run
for the Green Party in 10 provincial elections and having debated with
many cabinet ministers, political opponents and other party leaders it
is clear that debate performances are one of my greatest strengths.
However, in an environment that is so strongly opposed to democratic
debate and especially points of view that question the current centrist
approach put forward by the party establishment, connections to (and
support from) Elizabeth May have become more important than ideas, the
ability to debate and the merits of any given candidate.
This race also falls during this massive and highly
unfortunate global pandemic. Before the pandemic hit, I had visited 4
provinces and had begun building significant support. My plan was to
spend 7 months on the road criss-crossing the country meeting with
members and activists while taking positions on issues of local and
national importance. I was the first candidate to hit the road but the
COVID crisis has made those plans impossible to complete. Although there
are ways to reach people online, it’s not the same. We are not able to
build the same kind of meaningful and long-lasting relationships that we
can build during face to face encounters.
To make matters even more difficult, the party has refused
to provide leadership candidates with a means of contacting the
membership online. In most leadership races candidates are provided with
a membership list which includes email addresses. In this leadership
race the party has refused to provide candidates with membership email
addresses and will only be scheduling two official debates.
I am exiting this race at a time when I have received more
media coverage than all of the other candidates combined. I am happy to
have been able to contribute to the debate. I am happy to have called
into question long-standing but ill-founded principles of the party such
as fiscal conservatism, the lack of party discipline and the party’s
centrist approach to Canadian politics which has failed over and over
again.
Some of my critics will point to the fact that much of the
media coverage surrounding my campaign has been controversy based. This
is a criticism which I somewhat agree with – however in an environment
which is so closed to political debates about the way forward and in the
absence of any kind of meaningful all-candidates debates, it is no
wonder that much of the media coverage has been focused on controversy.
This is a consequence of the lack of willingness of the party
establishment and some of the candidates to debate the issues.
Although many of the things that I have said so far are
negative, I remain hopeful that the Green Party of Canada will be able
to renew itself during this leadership race. It may be unlikely, but it
is not impossible. What I have realized over the past few weeks is that
with the level of opposition that I face from Elizabeth May and her
entourage that it will be impossible for me to unite the party. It would
have been possible if Ms. May was willing to step aside and let the
next generation take over but it is not the case at the moment and it is
unrealistic for me to become leader of the Green Party of Canada under
these circumstances.
I would also like to say a few words about diversity
within the party. It is no secret that the Green Party of Canada has
huge problems with racism, discrimination and exclusion of marginalized
communities within its ranks. In the last election the party presented
fewer candidates of colour than any other party – including the racist,
populist and ignorant party led by Maxime Bernier. This is a situation
which is wrong, embarrassing, immoral and that must be addressed.
In the last provincial election the Green Party of Quebec presented one of the most diverse, if not the
most diverse set of Green Party candidates in Canadian history. We went
from having 20% women candidates in the election before I took office
to 58% women candidates under my leadership in the 2018 provincial
election. We went from having very little diversity to a slate of
candidates which more actuarially reflects the diversity of the
province. We paved the way for candidates who wear turbans, hijabs and
kippahs to run for provincial office by forcing the government to change
rules that excluded them from participating in elections based on their
appearance.
What I have learnt about increasing diversity in politics
is that it’s not about quotas or tokenization. It’s about presenting
policies that are relevant to minority groups. It’s about denouncing
racism on a regular basis even when it makes some of the majority
community feel uncomfortable. It’s about marching with Black Lives
Matter. Its about supporting indigenous uprisings and direct action.
It’s about denouncing laws designed to discriminate against religious
minorities. It’s about being present to listen to and engage with
minority communities. The party’s current approach is based on quotas
and tokenization and will not succeed until policies are changed and the
party becomes vocal on these issues.
Although the Green Party of Quebec has more progressive
policies than the Federal Greens (and we have been criticized across the
country for shaking things up within the movement), I firmly believe
that the Green Party of Quebec should be a strong voice within the
Canadian green movement. We should be able to participate in
conventions, we should be able to have our voices heard and we should be
treated with respect. What we have experienced is the polar opposite.
Our progressive and principled stances on anti-oppression within our own
province have been repeatedly contradicted and undermined by our
federal counterparts. We have been sidelined on numerous occasions and
we have been blocked from participating in the internal democratic
structures of the Green Party of Canada. In 2017, the Green Party of
Canada went as far as to schedule their 2018 federal policy convention
for the day before Quebec’s fixed election date. They did this despite
our formal objections. This continuous marginalization of Quebec within
the federal green movement is counterproductive, immoral, undemocratic
and it needs to stop.
While many people are upset with the way I and other
progressives within the Green Party of Canada have been treated, I want
to be very clear; quitting the party is not the solution. A progressive
exodus from the federal party will only pave the way for more
centre-right policies which will be detrimental to the environmental and
social justice movements of this country. The Green Party of Canada is
an important voice in Canadian politics and we cannot allow it to be
compromised by centrist policies, special interest lobbies and
eco-capitalism. We must stay and fight for a progressive Green Party
which will uphold social justice rather than working against it by doing
things like reopening the abortion debate.
I look forward to working with the next leader of the
Green Party of Canada no matter who it is. I may choose to endorse a
candidate further along in the race but my decision has not yet been
made. I would like to support one or more progressive candidates. For
the moment, most of the candidates running have very limited platforms
and political commentary on the public record. I look forward to hearing
more from them and meeting with as many of them as possible. I am happy
to have contributed to the policy development of the party and of the
Canadian environmental movement through the publication of my version of
the Green New Deal. I hope that one or several of the other candidates
will be able to carry these policies forward.
As for myself, I plan on continuing to be a progressive
voice within the Canadian Green Movement while leading the Green Party
of Quebec to the next provincial election scheduled for October 2022. I
love my work in the Green Party of Quebec. I love the team that we have
put together and I love the environmental and social justice movements
of this province. Never before has the Green Party of Quebec been so
well represented and I look forward to continuing this important work.
The pandemic has created unprecedented opportunities for progressive
change in Quebec while we rebuild our society and rethink our collective
values.
I would like to thank everyone who has helped and
supported me through this campaign which has been all in all a great
experience. To our deputy leaders of the Green Party of Quebec, Alice
Secherese and Halimatou Bah, thank you for holding down the fort during
my absence and for contributing to the advancement of social justice and
environmental protection. To my official agent, Nicholas Lescabeau, to
my friends, family, supporters and to everyone who organized events for
me on the road – Vince Folito, Nicole Peltier, Preston Smith,
Constantine Kritsonis, Billy Crumplin, Evelyn Tanaka, Cassandra Romain,
Vanessa Scott, David Mills, Kathleen Somerville, Alain Joseph, Stephanie
Stevenson, chief Jessica Hill, Elder Raymond Robinson, Elder Marlene
Hale, Wissal El Allaoui, Tony Leah, Rebecca Ketch, Roberta Herod,
Corinne Mintz, Naiomi Hunter, Mary & Greg from Peterborough,
Gabrielle Bruser, Carmen Budilean and to the entire team at the Green
Party of Quebec and to everyone who supported me – thank you for giving
me this opportunity for which I will be forever grateful.
Thank you all so much for your involvement in my campaign. I look forward to working with all of you in the future!
https://www.alextyrrell.ca/2020/06/24/blog-alex-tyrrell-comments-on-the-first-green-party-leadership-debates/
Blog: Alex Tyrrell Comments on First Green Party Leadership Debates
This week Green Party of Canada
leadership candidates held their first televised debate on TVO moderated
by Steve Paikin. The 10 candidates debated a handfull of issues in a
fairly cordial debate.
It is safe to say that there was more agreement than disagreement but nevertheless there are substantial differences in both the policy and communications approaches of the candidates. Here are my thoughts on this first series of debates.
Addressing the ideological spectrum
All candidates were timid when it came to addressing if party should be defined as left wing. They either avoided the question or said the party should remain where it is now. Even left wing candidates shied away from advocating for a major shift in policy and focused instead on adjusting the messaging while insisting that the party is already left of center.
Andrew West was clearly the most conservative candidate in the debate and advocated repeatedly for “fiscal responsibility” while attacking the liberals for being what he considers to be big spenders and stated that as leader of the party he would refuse to support the idea of going into deficit to pay for the energy transition. He repeated several times that the objective should be winning and that in his opinion the only way to succeed in winning is to water down the party’s message and conform to centerist policies. At one point, eco-socialist candidate Dimitri Lascaris responded to Andrew West by declaring that “A country as wealthy as canada, that has a highly educated population, bountiful natural resources, fundamentally stable political and legal systems has the ability to invest to a far larger degree than we have up until now. You want to talk about fiscal responsibility? Is balancing the budget when you need to invest billions upon billions in a green transition fiscally responsible?
Frankly, I think that’s fiscally irresponsible. We need to make the necessary investments to minimize long term costs of this extraordinary damage to our society from the climate emergency and if we have to borrow money at rock bottom interest rates or interest free from the bank of canada. I support that 100%”. To which Andrew West replied “If we are not going to be fiscally responsible people will not vote for us.” This was the highlight of the debate and Dimitri Lascaris showed that he is well positioned to counter the ill founded arguments of the party’s right wing elements represented by Andrew West’s candidacy.
Defunding the Police
Candidates were asked their opinions on defunding or abolishing the police. All agreed that there is a need for significant police reform in order to address brutality and systemic racism. Annamie Paul surprised many when she equated defunding the police to their outright abolition, seemed unwilling to call for defunding and instead called for a use of force database. Amita Kuttner, who’s platform calls for the abolition of the police took a more nuanced approach concentrating instead on defunding and diverting funding to other social initiatives. Meryam Haddad assumed and repeated her previous calls for outright abolition of the police but did not provide a clear timeline beyond explaining that is a long term goal. She said that since the RCMP was founded to push indegenous peoples into reserves that it is fundamentally racist and therefore must be abolished.
Dylan Perevall-Maxwell ridiculed himself by stating that police should hand out $20 bills to people of color that they stop as a means of compensation and as a way to make police think twice about stopping a person of color. This ridiculous statement did a great deal of damage to his campaign by severely discrediting his understanding and approach to dealing with systemic racism. I wonder how many people of color would trade $20 for being placed in the stressful, degrading and dangerous position of being stopped by the police knowing that they are more likely to be charged with a crime, brutalised or even killed. Meryam Haddad, a person of colour herself was visibly discontent at Perceval-Maxwell’s statement and got the last word by calling it “super racist.”
Carbon Tax vs Cap and Trade
Although there was much talk about cap and trade vs carbon pricing there was very little conversation as to what the carbon tax rate should be. Experts have said that a $200 to $300 per tonne carbon tax rate is what is needed. Glen Murray, who was minister of environment in the Ontario government when that province joined the Quebec-California cap and trade system which boils down to a less than $20 per tonne carbon tax declared that “no one is going to get elected on a 300 dollar carbon tax” and that “cap and trade is more electable”. As leader of the Green Party of Quebec I have always been very critical of our cap and trade system that was implemented by a right wing anti environment premier (Jean Charest) and which has not succeeded in lowering emissions or generating significant revenues for the energy transition. I find that Glen Murray – an outsider to the party, having recently jumped ship from the liberals to run in the Geen Party leadership race has done virtually nothing to distance himself from many of the failed liberal policies that he helped implement. If he wants to be leader of the Green Party of Canada he is going to have to be willing to advocate for more radicle solutions than he has in the past. Until he proves that he is willing to think outside the Liberal box Greens should think twice before supporting his candidacy.
Speaking and presentation
Most of the candidates spoke very well and managed to get across their ideas in the limited time that was accorded to them. Amita Kuttner brings a fresh youth perspective to the leadership race, spoke eloquently about returning the party to it’s roots, building a movement and going beyond the perception of being a one issue party by addressing issues of social justice in a more outspoken manner. Dimitri Lascais showed that he is able to take on the right wing of the party using economic arguments and his vision of a strong government that is there to take care of the people and the environment while advocating for massive investments in green infrastructure. Judy Green spoke well and talked about going after big emitters and big changes rather than small incremental adjustments. David Merner spoke of the need to implement the Green New Deal but continued to play from the center and avoided taking concrete positions on policy matters. Courtney Howard, an emergency room doctor form the Yukon spoke well and brought a healthcare perspective to almost all of the questions raised which could be instrumental in building support for the party following our collective experience with COVID. Meryam Haddad defined herself as a socialist but stopped short of calling for a major policy overhaul focusing instead on how the “not left nor right” slogan was a mistake because in her view the party is already progressive. She also scored points by discrediting the environmental record of the NDP. Annamie Paul repeatedly spoke out of turn and spoke more about GHG reduction targets than how to get there. Glen Murray’s political stripes as a former liberal were on full display and many of his answers on climate related questions were based on boasting about his record in the Ontario government – a government that made negligible progress in the fight against climate change. Murray would be better off focusing on his achievements as a progressive mayor of Winnapeg rather than his disappointing tenure as an Ontario Liberal cabinet minister.
Andrew West made it clear that he is there to represent the party’s right wing but was unable or unwilling to defend his right wing policies themselves and continuously reverted back to the strategic argument that in order to win the party must moderate it’s message and position itself between the liberals and conservatives on the ideological spectrum. Dylan Perceval-Maxwell lost points for his comments about addressing systemic racism and departed from the usually seen political attire by foregoing the suit and wearing a black monopoly style top hat throughout the debate.
Conclusion
All in all the debate is well worth a watch. However, it is still early in the race and many more debates will need to be held if the membership is to get a clear portret of all 10 candidates in the race, what they stand for and how they will approach the federal leadership if elected by the membership this october.
It is safe to say that there was more agreement than disagreement but nevertheless there are substantial differences in both the policy and communications approaches of the candidates. Here are my thoughts on this first series of debates.
Addressing the ideological spectrum
All candidates were timid when it came to addressing if party should be defined as left wing. They either avoided the question or said the party should remain where it is now. Even left wing candidates shied away from advocating for a major shift in policy and focused instead on adjusting the messaging while insisting that the party is already left of center.
Andrew West was clearly the most conservative candidate in the debate and advocated repeatedly for “fiscal responsibility” while attacking the liberals for being what he considers to be big spenders and stated that as leader of the party he would refuse to support the idea of going into deficit to pay for the energy transition. He repeated several times that the objective should be winning and that in his opinion the only way to succeed in winning is to water down the party’s message and conform to centerist policies. At one point, eco-socialist candidate Dimitri Lascaris responded to Andrew West by declaring that “A country as wealthy as canada, that has a highly educated population, bountiful natural resources, fundamentally stable political and legal systems has the ability to invest to a far larger degree than we have up until now. You want to talk about fiscal responsibility? Is balancing the budget when you need to invest billions upon billions in a green transition fiscally responsible?
Frankly, I think that’s fiscally irresponsible. We need to make the necessary investments to minimize long term costs of this extraordinary damage to our society from the climate emergency and if we have to borrow money at rock bottom interest rates or interest free from the bank of canada. I support that 100%”. To which Andrew West replied “If we are not going to be fiscally responsible people will not vote for us.” This was the highlight of the debate and Dimitri Lascaris showed that he is well positioned to counter the ill founded arguments of the party’s right wing elements represented by Andrew West’s candidacy.
Defunding the Police
Candidates were asked their opinions on defunding or abolishing the police. All agreed that there is a need for significant police reform in order to address brutality and systemic racism. Annamie Paul surprised many when she equated defunding the police to their outright abolition, seemed unwilling to call for defunding and instead called for a use of force database. Amita Kuttner, who’s platform calls for the abolition of the police took a more nuanced approach concentrating instead on defunding and diverting funding to other social initiatives. Meryam Haddad assumed and repeated her previous calls for outright abolition of the police but did not provide a clear timeline beyond explaining that is a long term goal. She said that since the RCMP was founded to push indegenous peoples into reserves that it is fundamentally racist and therefore must be abolished.
Dylan Perevall-Maxwell ridiculed himself by stating that police should hand out $20 bills to people of color that they stop as a means of compensation and as a way to make police think twice about stopping a person of color. This ridiculous statement did a great deal of damage to his campaign by severely discrediting his understanding and approach to dealing with systemic racism. I wonder how many people of color would trade $20 for being placed in the stressful, degrading and dangerous position of being stopped by the police knowing that they are more likely to be charged with a crime, brutalised or even killed. Meryam Haddad, a person of colour herself was visibly discontent at Perceval-Maxwell’s statement and got the last word by calling it “super racist.”
Carbon Tax vs Cap and Trade
Although there was much talk about cap and trade vs carbon pricing there was very little conversation as to what the carbon tax rate should be. Experts have said that a $200 to $300 per tonne carbon tax rate is what is needed. Glen Murray, who was minister of environment in the Ontario government when that province joined the Quebec-California cap and trade system which boils down to a less than $20 per tonne carbon tax declared that “no one is going to get elected on a 300 dollar carbon tax” and that “cap and trade is more electable”. As leader of the Green Party of Quebec I have always been very critical of our cap and trade system that was implemented by a right wing anti environment premier (Jean Charest) and which has not succeeded in lowering emissions or generating significant revenues for the energy transition. I find that Glen Murray – an outsider to the party, having recently jumped ship from the liberals to run in the Geen Party leadership race has done virtually nothing to distance himself from many of the failed liberal policies that he helped implement. If he wants to be leader of the Green Party of Canada he is going to have to be willing to advocate for more radicle solutions than he has in the past. Until he proves that he is willing to think outside the Liberal box Greens should think twice before supporting his candidacy.
Speaking and presentation
Most of the candidates spoke very well and managed to get across their ideas in the limited time that was accorded to them. Amita Kuttner brings a fresh youth perspective to the leadership race, spoke eloquently about returning the party to it’s roots, building a movement and going beyond the perception of being a one issue party by addressing issues of social justice in a more outspoken manner. Dimitri Lascais showed that he is able to take on the right wing of the party using economic arguments and his vision of a strong government that is there to take care of the people and the environment while advocating for massive investments in green infrastructure. Judy Green spoke well and talked about going after big emitters and big changes rather than small incremental adjustments. David Merner spoke of the need to implement the Green New Deal but continued to play from the center and avoided taking concrete positions on policy matters. Courtney Howard, an emergency room doctor form the Yukon spoke well and brought a healthcare perspective to almost all of the questions raised which could be instrumental in building support for the party following our collective experience with COVID. Meryam Haddad defined herself as a socialist but stopped short of calling for a major policy overhaul focusing instead on how the “not left nor right” slogan was a mistake because in her view the party is already progressive. She also scored points by discrediting the environmental record of the NDP. Annamie Paul repeatedly spoke out of turn and spoke more about GHG reduction targets than how to get there. Glen Murray’s political stripes as a former liberal were on full display and many of his answers on climate related questions were based on boasting about his record in the Ontario government – a government that made negligible progress in the fight against climate change. Murray would be better off focusing on his achievements as a progressive mayor of Winnapeg rather than his disappointing tenure as an Ontario Liberal cabinet minister.
Andrew West made it clear that he is there to represent the party’s right wing but was unable or unwilling to defend his right wing policies themselves and continuously reverted back to the strategic argument that in order to win the party must moderate it’s message and position itself between the liberals and conservatives on the ideological spectrum. Dylan Perceval-Maxwell lost points for his comments about addressing systemic racism and departed from the usually seen political attire by foregoing the suit and wearing a black monopoly style top hat throughout the debate.
Conclusion
All in all the debate is well worth a watch. However, it is still early in the race and many more debates will need to be held if the membership is to get a clear portret of all 10 candidates in the race, what they stand for and how they will approach the federal leadership if elected by the membership this october.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa_ATdGAzWU&t=295s
Green Party of Canada Leadership Debate, Part 1
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Green Party leadership race officially launches today in P.E.I.
The 8-month contest includes a $50K entry fee
Today at a news conference in Charlottetown, P.E.I., the party released its contest rules, which include a $50,000 entry fee.
"We have structured this contest to cast a big net. We hope to capture the imagination of a wide and diverse set of contestants, new members and supporters," interim party leader Jo-Ann Roberts said in a news release.
So far, there are six candidates unofficially in the leadership race to replace B.C. MP Elizabeth May, including former Liberal David Merner and Quebec-based Julie Tremblay-Cloutier, who both have urged the party to keep the entrance fee as low as possible to attract more diverse candidates.
The last time the Greens had a leadership race in 2006, candidates paid a $1,000 fee. The party's provincial cousins, the B.C. Greens, are also looking for a new leader and contenders are expected to pay $16,000 to enter the race.
The bulk of the entrance fee, $40,000, is not due until July and is considerably less than the $300,000 Conservative leadership contenders are expected to pay.
"I don't believe it will be a barrier," Roberts said at Monday's news conference. "One of the skills a leader needs to have is the ability to raise funds."
Roberts also reminded reporters that Elections Canada allows candidates to borrow $25,000, and many members within the party have already stepped forward and said they are willing to also lend candidates money.
"This is a reasonable expectation and a reasonable amount of money," Roberts said.
Green Party of Canada interim leader Jo-Ann Roberts why a leadership candidate must be able to raise $50,000 0:38
Green Party 'for sale'
Quebec candidate Alex Tyrrell called the entrance fee "astronomically high" and said he's reconsidering his candidacy."By imposing these financial barriers to success, the party's federal council has essentially put the party up for sale. This runs counter to the Green Party's values of grassroots participatory democracy," Tyrell said on Facebook Monday afternoon. "We should be the party of the people, not of the 1 per cent."
While asking for donations for his campaign, Tyrrell also called on the party to lower the cost of admission to the race.
Bilingualism important, interim leader says
Leadership contestants must also collect 250 signatures, and some of those sign-ups must include young Greens and and members who live in five out of the six regions outlined in the party's constitution. Candidates have until June 3 to register, and the party's three-member leadership committee will vet all nominees.Bilingualism, Roberts also said, is not a requirement to run, but it should be.
"I think the time has arrived where the leader of a major party must speak both official languages," Roberts said.
"Personally it is a reason I am not seeking the leadership. While I speak French I do not speak it well enough to compete at the national level."
The party will be hosting two debates: one in English and another in French.
According to the party's rules, members can vote online, by mail-in ballots or in person at the party's convention, slated for Oct. 2 to 4 in Charlottetown.
Here is a list of candidates, in alphabetical order, who have declared they're running:
- Judy Green, a former candidate for the Greens in West-Nova, N.S.
- Constantine
Kritsonis, who served as the Ontario representative on the Green Party
Council, authored several of the party's policy positions and has been a
six-time candidate in the Toronto riding of York Centre.
- David Merner, a former candidate for the Greens in Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke, B.C., in 2019.
- Annamie Paul, a past candidate for the Greens in Toronto Centre in 2019.
- Julie Tremblay-Cloutier, a former candidate for the Greens in Mirabel, Que, in 2019.
- Alex Tyrrell, leader of the Green Party of Quebec.
Corrections
- A previous version of this story stated that candidate Alex Tyrrell was taking a leave of absence as leader of the Green Party of Quebec. In fact, he appointed two deputy leaders for the duration of the race.Feb 03, 2020 1:45 PM ET
Green Party leadership contender courts 'disgruntled' NDPers
Dimitri Lascaris wants disaffected new democrats and left-wing Liberals to find a new home in the Greens
Lascaris said many discontented New Democrats are
disappointed the party hasn't pursued more aggressive taxation policies
on the wealthy, outright opposed B.C.'s Coastal Gas Link pipeline and
condemned the use of force against Wet'suwet'en protesters and their
supporters.
Even though the NDP was one of the first to call for an independent investigation into the RCMP's handling of the Wet'suwet'en blockade, Lascaris said the party hasn't spoken out loudly enough.
"I think the NDP base is quite disgruntled," Lascaris said. "They don't feel that the NDP leadership reflects their values, and they are reluctant to come over to the Green Party because they have a perception that the Green Party is anti-labour."
Lascaris said he will be campaigning over the next six months on reforms aimed at increasing union membership, raising the minimum wage and pushing for rules that prevent the use of replacement workers during strikes through what's called anti-scab legislation.
"If we start to persuade the NDP (voter) base that we are actually pro-labour, I think we could see a huge shift from the NDP," Lascaris said.
Lascaris also said there are gains to be made from the left-wing of the Liberal party disillusioned with the party's action on climate change.
Lascaris ran unsuccessfully for the Greens in the 2015 federal election and served as a shadow cabinet minister without holding a seat in the House of Commons. After a career as a class-action lawyer, he's currently focused on activism and pro-bono work in Montreal.
Lascaris had faced controversy in the past for comments that he made in 2018 when he accused two Liberal MPs of being more devoted to Israel than the Canadian government. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a number of federal political leaders condemned Lascaris's comments as "anti-SemItic."
Lascaris, in a follow-up interview Sunday with CBC, said he stands by his 2018 comments. The leadership hopeful emphasized his criticism of the MPs had nothing to do with their race but entirely with their record of supporting human rights abuses against Palestinians.
The Green Party leadership race began in February and will end in the fall at the party's convention in Charlottetown Oct. 2 to 4.
Here is a list of candidates, in alphabetical order, who have declared they're running:
Even though the NDP was one of the first to call for an independent investigation into the RCMP's handling of the Wet'suwet'en blockade, Lascaris said the party hasn't spoken out loudly enough.
"I think the NDP base is quite disgruntled," Lascaris said. "They don't feel that the NDP leadership reflects their values, and they are reluctant to come over to the Green Party because they have a perception that the Green Party is anti-labour."
Lascaris said he will be campaigning over the next six months on reforms aimed at increasing union membership, raising the minimum wage and pushing for rules that prevent the use of replacement workers during strikes through what's called anti-scab legislation.
"If we start to persuade the NDP (voter) base that we are actually pro-labour, I think we could see a huge shift from the NDP," Lascaris said.
Lascaris also said there are gains to be made from the left-wing of the Liberal party disillusioned with the party's action on climate change.
Lascaris ran unsuccessfully for the Greens in the 2015 federal election and served as a shadow cabinet minister without holding a seat in the House of Commons. After a career as a class-action lawyer, he's currently focused on activism and pro-bono work in Montreal.
Cap on wealth
Although the 56 year-old doesn't shy away from the label eco-socialist, Lascaris said he prefers to be known for his policies. In addition to his pro-labour stance, Lascaris wants to increase income tax for wealthy Canadians, place a cap on the accumulation of wealth, end homelessness by declaring housing a human right and impose "dramatic reductions" in defence spending.Lascaris had faced controversy in the past for comments that he made in 2018 when he accused two Liberal MPs of being more devoted to Israel than the Canadian government. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a number of federal political leaders condemned Lascaris's comments as "anti-SemItic."
Lascaris, in a follow-up interview Sunday with CBC, said he stands by his 2018 comments. The leadership hopeful emphasized his criticism of the MPs had nothing to do with their race but entirely with their record of supporting human rights abuses against Palestinians.
The Green Party leadership race began in February and will end in the fall at the party's convention in Charlottetown Oct. 2 to 4.
Here is a list of candidates, in alphabetical order, who have declared they're running:
- Judy Green, a former candidate for the Greens in West-Nova, N.S.
- Amita Kuttner, a former candidate for the Greens in Burnaby North- Seymour, B.C.
- Lascaris, a former candidate for the Greens in London West, Ont.
- David Merner, a 2019 candidate for the Greens in Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke, B.C.
- Annamie Paul, a 2019 candidate for the Greens in Toronto Centre.
- Julie Tremblay-Cloutier, a 2019 candidate for the Greens in Mirabel, Que.
- Alex Tyrrell, leader of the Green Party of Quebec.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/elizabeth-may-ponders-future-green-party-support-bds-1.3713262
Elizabeth May ponders future after Green Party's support for Israeli boycott policy
May calls Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement 'polarizing' and says she opposes it
Elizabeth
May says she is questioning whether she can continue in her role as
leader of the Green Party, after its members voted in favour of a
resolution supporting sanctions against Israel, despite her own
opposition to it.
The Greens became Canada's first federal party to endorse the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement during the party's biennial convention in Ottawa over the weekend. Some Canadian Jewish groups denounced the Green Party for supporting a boycott policy against Israel. The House of Commons condemned the movement in February.
The Greens became Canada's first federal party to endorse the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement during the party's biennial convention in Ottawa over the weekend. Some Canadian Jewish groups denounced the Green Party for supporting a boycott policy against Israel. The House of Commons condemned the movement in February.
We had a very abbreviated debate and a very quick vote that left me breathless.
- Elizabeth May, MP Saanich-Gulf Islands"I'm struggling with the question of whether I should continue as leader or not, quite honestly," May told Rosemary Barton in an interview with The National.
"I'm quite certain most of our members don't support this policy, but weren't fully engaged in the consensus building process we normally would have had," she said.
"So if I can't find a way to bring that back and have the members review it with a consensus decision-making process, then I have to profoundly question whether I can continue as leader and that's obviously heart-breaking."
May added that a review could be possible if she stepped down as leader.
"One way to bring it forward is under our constitution if I step down, then we have to have a leadership convention sooner and they could deal with this issue," she said. "I mean there are other options that we are looking at that I'm trying to figure out if there's a way that… we can review this through some other mechanism."
"I don't have great answers for you now because I'm struggling with this," she said.
May had earlier said Tuesday morning in an interview with CBC Radio's On the Island she would take the next week off and "doing a lot of reflecting."
"It's only been since the convention that I've been wondering what's the best way to get this position reversed so that in the next election Green Party candidates across Canada are not facing a complete distraction of an issue," she told CBC's Khalil Akhtar.
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"We had a very abbreviated debate and a very quick vote that left me breathless, because we actually never really properly debated this motion. I oppose it entirely, but it carried on the floor, although not overwhelmingly."
The Green leader said while she doesn't "condemn" the members who put forward the motion — some of whom are "friends" — but she added "the process was inadequate for a resolution this controversial."
BDS 'a polarizing movement'
May told Barton she was disappointed in the minimal debate over supporting the boycott movement and that the party didn't "use our normal decision-making process in seeking consensus.""It doesn't mean that I don't want to be free to criticize what's happening in the Middle East and to support Palestinian rights, I just think it's a large-scale error for a party as credible as the Green Party to attach itself to a movement that is outside of us and attracts all kinds of people, some wonderful worthy people like the United Church and the Mennonites, and other people over whom we'll have no control but we'll be lumped in with them," said May.
May, who is the MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands, said she would continue to represent her constituents until the next federal election in 2019.
"If there's ever a place where I decide that being leader of the Green Party doesn't help me do the best job I can do for the constituents of Saanich-Gulf Islands then I know where my allegiance lies — and it's with Saanich-Gulf Islands."
May, who is a member of a special parliamentary committee tasked with proposing changes to Canada's electoral system, said she couldn't allow this issue to distract her from "promoting fair voting" or any other of her party's priorities.
"To what extent is this motion, so distracting and the fact that I oppose it, inconsistent with my role as leader? Those are the things I have to consider," she said.
May received 93.6 per cent support from party members during a leadership review in April.
https://dimitrilascaris.org/real-news-reports/
Real News Reports
(Note: Real News Reports are organized as follows: Canadian Politics; Financial Crisis; Climate Change; Refugee Crisis)BDS Town Hall with the Former Green Party of Canada Justice Critic
September 27, 2016
A panel discussion on the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement with Dimitri Lascaris, Constantine Kritsonis and Lia Tarachansky
Trudeau’s Liberals Adopt Harper Government’s Carbon Targets
September 21, 2016
Dimitri Lascaris says the transfer of Canadian taxpayer money to oil companies in the face of climate emergency casts doubt on the ability of the Liberal government to produce an adequate carbon pricing plan
The Crisis of the Left in Canada
August 31, 2016
Dimitri Lascaris explains that there is a vacuum on the Canadian left, and the first political party to fill it stands to make substantial gains with Canada’s electorate
Green Party of Canada Leader Reaffirms Leadership Following Row Over BDS
August 23, 2016
Dimitri Lascaris explains that a strong stand for Palestinian rights includes making Israel pay appropriate economic and political penalties for its clear breaches of international law
Green Party of Canada Challenges Israeli Apartheid
August 10, 2016
Green Party shadow cabinet member Dimitri Lascaris says the Green Party’s passage of the resolution in support BDS could embolden other Canadian parties to take on the occupation
Is Canada’s 6 Month Old Liberal Government Delivering ‘Real Change?’
May 12, 2016
Nora Loreto and Dimitri Lascaris tell The Real News that on climate, foreign affairs, and trade policies, Trudeau has opted for continuity over change
“Mr. Trudeau Goes to Washington”
March 9, 2016
Rick Salutin and Dimitri Lascaris examine what happens when political celebrities tackle climate change
Canadian Student Shot by Israeli Sniper in the West Bank
January 17, 2016
Dimitri Lascaris explains that the Trudeau government remains silent on the case of a Canadian Government-Funded PhD Student, Rehab Nazzal, who was shot by Israeli sniper in the West Bank without legal recourse against her attacker
Trudeau Pledge Tracker: Ignoring Executions and Proceeding with Saudi Arms Deal
January 2, 2016
Dimitri Lascaris says Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Stephane Dion met with Adel Al Jubeir, Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, and treated him as an important ally days before the Saudis carried out a raft of executions
Will Trudeau’s Pipeline Policy Change After Keystone?
November 9, 2015
As protestors staged sit-ins at Canada’s Prime Minister’s residence, Keystone XL Campaign Organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network’s Dallas Goldtooth and environmental activist Dimitri Lascaris discuss the grassroots strategies needed to keep the pressure on politicians
Trudeau Pledge Tracker: Cabinet is Fifty Percent Women
November 4, 2015
Dimitri Lascaris and Nora Loretto say new Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered on his pledge to appoint 50% women to his cabinet, but appointed a political conservative as his Minister of Finance
Rejecting Hard Right, Canadians Dump Harper
October 20, 2015
As Harper resigns as leader of the Conservative Party, how should progressive Canadians respond to the neo-liberal Liberal majority government? With Leo Panitch, Dimitri Lascaris, Nora Loreto and Paul Jay
Canadian Elections: Green Party Says It Would Challenge Costly Military Contracts
October 14, 2015
Dimitri Lascaris, Green Party Candidate for London-West, Ontario, says the Green Party wants to shift the role of the Canadian military to UN peacekeeping, poverty alleviation efforts, and disaster relief
Should Canadians Vote Strategically to Defeat Harper?
October 8, 2015
Amara Possian of Leadnow and Dimitri Lascaris of the Green Party, London-West, debate the consequences of strategic voting in the Canadian October 19th federal elections
No Dissension on Oil Exploration in the Leaders Debate in Canada
September 19, 2015
Writer Nora Loreto and Green Party candidate Dimitri Lascaris argue all leading parties overemphasize the link of jobs and oil expansion while organized labor takes them at their word
Is Canada’s “Patriot Act” a Political Ploy?
March 14, 2015
Dimitri Lascaris and Professor Leo Panitch discuss Canada’s Bill C-51 and other issues facing Canadians as elections loom
Is This What Voluntary Corporate Social Responsibility Looks Like?
December 2, 2014
Dimitri Lascaris on the case against Nevsun Resources, a Canadian mining company whose appalling labour record in Eritrea was brought to court by a consortium of Canadian Law firms
Canadian Securities Regulators Moving Ahead with US-Style No-Contest Settlements
May 22, 2014
Dimitri Lascaris: Canadian regulators are planning to implement no-contest practices that US judges are criticizing
Dimitri Lascaris
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools" – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Canadian Politics
I’m running to be the Leader of the Green Party of Canada
My goal is to unite progressives across Canada under the Green Party banner. To keep up with my campaign, please visit my campaign site at www.TeamDimitri.ca / www.ÉquipeDimitri.ca.For the latest posts to my personal blog, please scroll down. For some more detail about my campaign, continue reading this post.
I announced my campaign on March 11th:
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Campaign Announcement
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•Mar 11, 2020
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Shortly after my launch, the COVID-19 pandemic swept across Canada. In response, my team and I produced Dimitri Live, a live video series about issues surfaced by the pandemic, including mental health and addiction, domestic violence, the experiences of Indigenous people and Black Canadians, and the approach and experiences of Cuba. The sixth episode discussed how we can build a more caring society as we emerge from COVID-19.
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Dimitri Live: Building a Caring Society after COVID-19
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I’ve also called on our government to defend the rights of average Canadians by bailing out oil workers rather than oil executives, and by ensuring that all Canadians can pay for essentials during COVID-19.
My campaign has been endorsed by former party leader Joan Russow along with previous candidates and members of the party’s shadow cabinet.
To keep up with my campaign, please follow my campaign updates or keep up on my campaign website at www.TeamDimitri.ca / www.ÉquipeDimitri.ca.
I’ve Been Approved As A Candidate For The Leadership Of The Green Party Of Canada
This morning, I learned that my application to participate
in the Green Party of Canada leadership race has been accepted following
a successful appeal from a decision of a vetting committee.
My campaign team and I are overjoyed at this opportunity to fight for the values we hold dear: social and environmental justice, diversity, non-violence, and participatory democracy. We’re excited to be part of a diverse and dynamic field of candidates, and we look forward to continuing to collaborate with them during this race.
This process has proven that the Green Party does politics differently. Unlike the secretive vetting process used by other parties, I was given the identity of the vetting committee members and a list of their concerns. During my appeal, I was given the opportunity to submit a written statement, and to participate in a candid discussion with the appeal commitee.
I applaud the appeal committee’s decision to place its trust in party members. This outcome sends a strong message to progressives across this country that the Green Party is the home of grassroots democracy. I encourage everyone in this country who wants to be part of a progressive, democratic party to join the Green Party today.
I’d like to thank the many party members who spoke passionately about the need for a fair process. I am also grateful to my fellow candidates, who offered their support both publicly and privately. This party’s commitment to democracy and collaboration runs deep.
Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to my partner and two children, who were a source of strength for me during the appeal process.
From today our campaign moves forward, more ready than ever to champion the causes of social, environmental, and economic justice in Canada and around the world.
My campaign team and I are overjoyed at this opportunity to fight for the values we hold dear: social and environmental justice, diversity, non-violence, and participatory democracy. We’re excited to be part of a diverse and dynamic field of candidates, and we look forward to continuing to collaborate with them during this race.
This process has proven that the Green Party does politics differently. Unlike the secretive vetting process used by other parties, I was given the identity of the vetting committee members and a list of their concerns. During my appeal, I was given the opportunity to submit a written statement, and to participate in a candid discussion with the appeal commitee.
I applaud the appeal committee’s decision to place its trust in party members. This outcome sends a strong message to progressives across this country that the Green Party is the home of grassroots democracy. I encourage everyone in this country who wants to be part of a progressive, democratic party to join the Green Party today.
I’d like to thank the many party members who spoke passionately about the need for a fair process. I am also grateful to my fellow candidates, who offered their support both publicly and privately. This party’s commitment to democracy and collaboration runs deep.
Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to my partner and two children, who were a source of strength for me during the appeal process.
From today our campaign moves forward, more ready than ever to champion the causes of social, environmental, and economic justice in Canada and around the world.
https://dimitrilascaris.org/2019/05/14/elizabeth-may-misleads-canadian-jewish-news-smears-bds-supporters/
Elizabeth May Misleads Canadian Jewish News, Smears BDS Supporters
On May 6, 2019, Paul Manly of the Green Party of Canada won a historic byelection in the B.C. riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith. For the first time in over 35 years of existence, the Green Party will now have two MPs who both won their seats under the Green Party banner.The other Green MP is, of course, Green Party leader Elizabeth May.
Paul is the son of former NDP MP Jim Manly. In 2015, before joining the Green Party, Paul sought the NDP nomination in the same riding, but the NDP, then led by Tom Mulcair, shamefully blocked Paul’s nomination.
At the time, Paul revealed that the rejection of his candidacy was related to Israel/Palestine:
I was told verbally on the phone, that the
reason was in relation to what I said and did when my father was in
Israel. There was also concern that I was running to make Israel and
Palestine an election issue.
In 2012, Paul’s father Jim was arrested by Israeli authorities for trying to break peacefully through Israel’s inhumane blockade of Gaza. Jim was released a few days later.
The Zionist Lobby’s Attacks On Paul Manly Have Already Begun
In light of Paul’s history, it is all-too-predictable that the Zionist lobby began attacking Paul within days of his victory.On May 10, 2019, Canadian Jewish News (CJN) published an article entitled “Concerns Raised Over New Green MP’s Views On BDS.” The concerns, of course, were those of the usual pro-Israel suspects: the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), B’nai Brith Canada and the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre (FSWC).
Leading the charge was CIJA CEO Simon Fogel, who thundered that “The Green party has been co-opted by extreme activists who – in their obsessive campaign of prejudice against Israelis – threaten the party’s own credibility and relevance in Canadian politics.”
The CJN article is rife with hyperbole, falsehoods and distortions, but my purpose in writing this post is not to address the invective from the usual suspects. Rather, my purpose is to expose the misinformation emanating from Elizabeth May.
The CJN article reported that Elizabeth May gave a telephone interview to CJN staff reporter Paul Lungen. After that interview, Lungen attributed to Elizabeth May various statements that are false or, at a minimum, highly misleading.
May’s false and misleading statements are contained in the following passages from CJN‘s article.
In a telephone interview from
Ottawa, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May said the party repealed the
August 2016 pro-BDS resolution in December of that year. It spent
$100,000 and went to great lengths to reconvene a larger gathering of
the party, in order to do so.
“We have nothing to do with
BDS,” May said. “We repealed it. We are not a party that condones BDS.
We would never tolerate anybody in our party who violates our core
values, who are anti-Semitic.”
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Asked about Lascaris, May said he was no longer in the party. “I expelled Dimitri Lascaris,” she said.
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May pointed to Vision Green, the Green party’s platform on a number of issues, including the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.
In it, the party endorses
Israel’s right to exist, calls for an end to violence and says the Green
party will “Accurately label products so that consumers can
differentiate between products of Israel and those of disputed areas,”
and “Amend the Canada-Israel Free Trade pact to allow for product
differentiation.”
It also calls for “an end to
the collective siege of Gaza so that medical and humanitarian aid can be
provided,” and urges “Israel to stop expansion and the building of
illegal settlements beyond the 1967 borders.”
Before I unpack these falsehoods and misleading statements, it is important to recall the history of this matter.
The Green Party’s BDS Resolution
I had the privilege of working with Paul Manly in 2016, when I served briefly as Justice Critic in the Green Party shadow cabinet.(In the interests of full disclosure, I donated $400 to Paul’s recent electoral campaign.)
My seven months in the Green Party of Canada’s shadow cabinet were tumultuous, to put it mildly.
Shortly after Elizabeth May invited me to join shadow cabinet, I travelled to Israel and the West Bank for the fourth time in my life. There, I witnessed the daily oppression under which Palestinians are forced to live. Their current plight seemed to me to be worse than ever.
That experience left an indelible impression upon me, and moved me to bring forward a Green Party resolution calling for the party to support the use of boycotts, divestment and sanctions to bring an end to Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and to induce Israel to negotiate a just and sustainable two-state solution with the Palestinian people.
This was the full text of my proposed resolution:
Contrary to claims that were made at the time, my proposed resolution was not an endorsement of the BDS Movement.
In fact, the resolution made no reference to the BDS Movement. More
importantly, and as I explain more fully below, the BDS Movement has
three fundamental goals. My resolution addressed only one of those
goals: ending Israel’s occupation of and settlements in the Palestinian
territories of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza.After deciding to bring forward the BDS resolution, I soon learned that Elizabeth May was opposed to BDS. In good conscience, however, I could not withdraw the resolution after what I had seen in Palestine. I decided to persevere despite May’s opposition, expecting fully that I would lose in the end, but that I would at least draw attention to the immense suffering of Palestinians.
To my considerable surprise, at the party’s biannual convention in August 2016, a large majority of the members in attendance voted in favour of the resolution over the objections of Elizabeth May.
Within days of that unexpected victory for human rights, Elizabeth May threatened to resign as Green Party leader.
Under intense pressure, the party’s Federal Council hastily organized a special meeting of the party’s members, the primary purpose of which was, without doubt, to engineer a repeal of the BDS resolution.
I and the dozens of other Green Party members who had worked tirelessly to secure the resolution’s adoption decided to resist.
At that stage, the party was threatened by a divisive battle.
The New Green Party Resolution on Israel / Palestine
In order to avoid lasting damage to party unity, Paul Manly and another shadow cabinet member, Jo-Ann Roberts, were appointed to lead negotiations between those who wished to preserve the resolution and those who wished to secure its repeal. The objective was to find a compromise that everyone could live with. I was one of three shadow cabinet members who led the negotiations on behalf of those who wished to preserve the BDS resolution.Thanks in no small part to the admirable efforts of Paul and Jo-Ann, a compromise resolution was agreed to by the main negotiators in November 2016, a few weeks prior to the special meeting Federal Council had hastily called after Elizabeth May’s threat of resignation.
At the time that an agreement was reached, Paul and Jo-Ann issued this statement to Green Party members announcing the successful conclusion of the negotiations:
That statement to party members was unambiguous in declaring that the new resolution had Elizabeth May’s “full support.”
The new resolution was presented to the members at a special meeting held in Calgary in December 2016. It was adopted with the support of 84% of the members present at the special meeting. A month later, it was ratified by 91% of Green Party members who voted in an online vote.
Does the Green Party of Canada Now Support BDS?
It is true that the new resolution (the full text of which can be examined at the end of this article) omitted the dreaded acronym “BDS”, but it is equally true that the new resolution went much further than the original BDS resolution.First, the new resolution explicitly endorsed not one but all three of the goals of BDS Movement. Those goals are stated clearly on the website of the BDS Movement. They are stated to be as follows:
- Ending Israel’s occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall;
- Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and
- Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolution 194.
Resolution 194 was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in the 1940s. It provides that:
refugees wishing to return to their homes
and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at
the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for
the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage
to property which, under principles of international law or equity,
should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible.
It is thus clear that the Green Party’s new resolution on Israel / Palestine endorsed all three goals of the BDS Movement: the
right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland; full
equality for Palestinians living in Israel; and an end to the
settlements and the occupation of Palestinian Territories.The same is true of the tactics of the BDS Movement: the Green Party’s new resolution on Israel / Palestine endorsed the BDS Movement’s tactics of boycotts, divestment and sanctions, as is clear from this passage (among others):
Not only did the new resolution endorse in broad terms the three core
tactics of the BDS Movement, but it also did something else that the
original resolution did not do: it explicitly called for specific types
of sanctions to be imposed upon Israel, namely, an arms embargo and a
ban on the importation into Canada of products from Israel’s illegal
settlements.One other respect in which the new resolution surpassed the original is that the new resolution called on the Government of Canada to ask the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prioritize its investigation into charges of potential war crimes by members of the Israeli forces. The original resolution made no reference to the ICC or to the commission of war crimes by Israeli forces.
What Is A Movement?
At the end of the day, a movement is defined essentially by its goals and tactics.The Green Party’s new resolution on Israel / Palestine unequivocally embraced goals and tactics that are indistinguishable from those of the BDS Movement.
Elizabeth May is reported to have told the CJN that “We have nothing to do with BDS. We repealed it. We are not a party that condones BDS.”
Those claims are false, and undeniably so.
This is not the first time that the Green Party leadership has misled the public about the new resolution. From the moment that the new resolution was adopted in Calgary, the Green Party apparatus has issued statements that have deceived the media and the public about the true nature of the party’s support for BDS.
For example, within hours of the completion of the Calgary meeting, the party issued a press release – without my consent or foreknowledge – declaring that we had “rejected the goals of the BDS movement.” This was a gross falsehood about which I and others complained vigorously at the time. Those complaints led to a modification of the GPC’s statement about the new resolution, but not before the party’s original statement caused the media to issue false reports about the resolution, such as this one:
Finally, in her comments to the CJN, Elizabeth May
reportedly talked about statements made within Vision Green about Israel
and Palestine. It is important to understand that Vision Green is not
a comprehensive compilation of the member-approved policies of the
party, although it is certainly influenced by member-approved policies.
The leader of the party exercises vast control over the content of
Vision Green. In important respects – and this is certainly true with
regard to Israel and Palestine – Vision Green is akin to a marketing
document; it represents the leader’s preferred messaging rather than the
policies adopted by the members to whom the leader is purportedly
answerable.Are The Thousands of Greens Who Support BDS Anti-Semites?
The CJN article attributes to Elizabeth May the following comments:
We are not a party that condones BDS. We
would never tolerate anybody in our party who violates our core values,
who are anti-Semitic.
Assuming she spoke these words, Elizabeth May appears to have implied to the CJN that supporters of BDS – a movement endorsed by progressive Jewish groups around the world, including Independent Jewish Voices Canada and Jewish Voice for Peace – are anti-Semites.Not even the Canadian Parliament’s anti-BDS resolution, adopted in February 2016, went so far as to accuse BDS supporters of being anti-Semites.
Notably, Elizabeth May was absent from Parliament when the vote on Parliament’s anti-BDS resolution was held.
By contrast, current NDP leader Jagmeet Singh (whose unwillingness to endorse sanctions on Israel I have previously discussed) spoke vigorously against a similar resolution brought forward in Ontario’s legislature when he was an Ontario MPP.
Did Elizabeth May Expel Me From The Green Party Of Canada?
The CJN reported that Elizabeth May expelled me from the Green Party.
That too is false.In September 2016, Elizabeth May did expel me from the Green Party shadow cabinet after I refused her demand that I apologize to B.C. Green Party leader Andrew Weaver for responding critically to his attacks on BDS supporters.
May did not, however, expel me from the party, nor has she the authority to do so. Under the party’s by-laws, only the Federal Council or the membership can expel a member.
I remained a member of the Green Party until May 2017, at which time I voluntarily terminated my membership.
I did so because I could no longer support a party led by Elizabeth May.
What Did Elizabeth May Actually Say To The CJN?
As a visible supporter of the Palestinian cause, I have learned that pro-Israel media organizations like CJN have a distinct tendency to treat Palestinian solidarity activists unfairly, even viciously.That is why I refrained from commenting publicly on the CJN article before affording to Elizabeth May an opportunity to correct any misreporting of her comments by staff reporter Paul Lungen.
On May 11 (the day after the CJN article first appeared), I sent an email to Elizabeth May in which I forcefully complained of the falsehoods appearing in the CJN article.
Following my complaint to May, the Green Party sent this corrective letter to CJN:
In response to the Green Party’s letter, CJN has modified its statement about my status within the party. The modified May 10 article now tersely states:
As far as I can tell, there has been no other significant modification to the CJN article, and why would there be? The letter from the Green Party to CJN points to no other errors in reporting.And this raises a critical question: if Elizabeth May did not make the other comments that Paul Lungen has attributed to her, then why has she not attempted to correct those statements?
It’s Time To Stop Appeasing The Zionist Lobby
Quite apart from questions of principle and integrity, we Palestinian solidarity activists ought to be deeply concerned about Elizabeth May’s strategy.In a word, her strategy for dealing with the Zionist lobby is, and always has been, one of appeasement.
If the relentless attacks on Jeremy Corbyn have taught us anything, it is that the lobby is implacable. It will not tolerate even a hint of sympathy for Palestinians in our elected officials. And if an elected official or candidate for political office dares to broach the forbidden subject of sanctions on Israel, nothing will placate the lobby other than the utter destruction of that person’s reputation and credibility.
In the end, there is one and only one strategy that can succeed in defeating the Zionist lobby. That strategy is principled, peaceful and relentless resistance.
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The complete resolution on Israel / Palestine that was adopted by Green Party Members in December 2016 can be viewed here:
Measures to pressure the government of Israel to preserve the two-state solution: addendum to curren
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Dan Palmer
Attaché de presse | Press Secretary
Parti vert du Canada
cellulaire : (613) 614 4916
dan.palmer@greenparty.ca
March 21, 2016
(OTTAWA) – The Green Party of Canada is pleased to announce the
appointment of Dimitri Lascaris to Justice Critic in the Party’s
Shadow Cabinet.
"It's a privilege to work with Elizabeth May and the other members of
the Green Party's shadow cabinet,” said Mr. Lascaris. “As a practising
lawyer, I have come to understand that Canada's justice system is
inaccessible to most Canadians, and fails to meet the needs of all but
the wealthiest. As Justice Critic, I will strive to ensure that the
government improves access to justice for all Canadians. I will also
work for the repeal of Canada's widely condemned anti-terror law (Bill
C-51). As the Green Party has recognized from the outset, Bill C-51
has placed at grave risk our most fundamental civil liberties, and it
must not be permitted to stand."
Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada, said: “It’s an
honour to welcome a seasoned lawyer like Dimitri to our Shadow
Cabinet. He brings a keen understanding of the Canadian justice system
and a conviction to ensure the legal system works for everyone,
regardless of societal barriers. In the short-term, I look forward to
working with Dimitri on repealing the many privacy violations
permitted in Bill C-51. Welcome, Dimitri!”
Mr. Lascaris assumes the role effective immediately.
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For more information or to arrange an interview, contact:
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Dimitri In the News
Dimitri has been quoted extensively in the
media, including in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, the Toronto
Star, The Globe & Mail, La Presse, CBC News and CTV News. Below is
a selection of media reports in which he has been quoted.
Cannabis companies face a slew of lawsuits amid investor ireOttawa Citizen, February 18, 2020
Trudeau wraps trip, desperate to quell protests
RT America, February 17, 2020
Greens looking to grow as first leadership race in 14 years kicks off
The Hill Times, February 5, 2020
Race to replace Elizabeth May sees three candidates sidelined by $50,000 entry fee
National Post, February 3, 2020
Green Party’s leadership race rules, entry fee have some candidates balking
CTV News, February 3, 2020
Court rules on CannTrust class action conflict
Investment Executive, January 21, 2020
Israel s’invite chez les verts
Le Devoir, January 21, 2020
Les verts à la recherche d’un chef… et d’un renouveau
La Presse, December 22, 2019
La Presse, December 22, 2019
A Quebec businesswoman and disenchanted ex-Liberal enter the race to replace Elizabeth May
Toronto Star, December 2, 2019
Justin Trudeau’s Blackface is Far from the Worst of his OffencesToronto Star, December 2, 2019
Truthdig, September 24, 2019
Dimitri Lascaris, porte-parole en justice, Parti vert du Québec
Parti vert du Québec, March 2019
Roger Waters: Militarism is Exacerbating the Climate Crisis
Real News Network, September 24, 2019
Sanctions on Iran ‘have nothing to do with human rights‘Real News Network, September 24, 2019
RT America, November 6, 2018
Ruling on West Bank Settlement Wines Stirs Debate
Aljazeera, July 24, 2017
Sparks Fly at London City Hall as Protesters Clash During Anti-Islam Rally
Global News, July 22, 2017
Federal Court orders removal of ‘Product of Israel’ labels from West Bank wines
The Globe and Mail, July 21, 2019
Battle of the Battle: Palestinian Activists Uncork Fight Against Israeli Settlement Wines in Canada
The New Arab, July 18, 2017
Flip-Flop on West Bank Wine Decision Betrays Canadian Consumers
Huffington Post, July 14, 2017
Most Canadians Think Its “Reasonable” To Boycott Israel: Survey
Canada Talks Israel/Palestine, March 5, 2017
Canada Talks Israel/Palestine, March 5, 2017
Majority of Canadians Support Israel Boycott, Sanctions
The New Arab, March 3, 2017
The New Arab, March 3, 2017
80% of Canadians Back Israel Boycott – Poll
Electronic Intifada, March 2, 2017
Electronic Intifada, March 2, 2017
Poll: Canadians supportive of boycott and sanctions against Israel
Ricochet Media, March 2, 2017
Ricochet Media, March 2, 2017
Canadians at odds with their government on Israel
Rabble, February 17, 2017
Rabble, February 17, 2017
Interview with Dimitri Lascaris from the Green Party of Canada
CKUT Radio, December 15, 2016
Greens confirm support of BDS goals in most significant pro-Palestinian victory in Canadian political historyCKUT Radio, December 15, 2016
Rabble, December 7, 2016
Dimitri Lascaris speaks to the Green Party’s Consensus Resolution on Palestine and Israel in Calgary
December 3, 2016
Canada’s Indigenous Peoples Weigh In on Global Warming at COP22
Truthdig, November 22, 2016
Why I Was Fired by Elizabeth May
Ricochet Media, September 14, 2016
Palestinian Lives Matter
Aljazeera, August 25, 2016
Canadian Green Party Votes to Support Boycott of Israel
Haaretz, August 8, 2016
Vote to Support Israel Boycott Campaign Divides Green Party
Globe and Mail, August 7, 2016
Class Action Lawyer Gives Up The Law To Fight Climate Change With Green Party
Globe and Mail, March 21, 2016
Green Party of Canada Welcomes Dimitri Lascaris as Justice Critic
March 21, 2016
High-Flying Litigator Powering Down
London Free Press, January 18, 2016
Siskinds Partner Dimitri Lascaris Named Green Party Candidate in London West
AM980 News, September 1, 2016
Local Praise, Federal Criticism
London Free Press, March 28, 2016
Shareholders protest new forum bylaws in Canada
Globe and Mail, December 28, 2015
Dimitri Lascaris Reduces Class-Action Workload
National Post, December 21, 2015
University of Toronto Advised to Sell Coal, Oil Assets in its Funds
Toronto Star, December 16, 2015
Court approves $32.5 million settlement with Sino-Forest underwriters
Investment Executive, November 12, 2015
Londoners to Protest Harper’s TPP
Blackburn News, October 15, 2015
Should Canadians Vote Strategically to Defeat Harper?
The Real News Network, October 8, 2015
The Real News Network, October 8, 2015
As Conservative MP skips debates, London West becomes Liberal swing riding
National Observer, October 6, 2015
National Observer, October 6, 2015
Interview with Political Analyst Dimitri Lascaris
Dialogos Media, October 1, 2015
Dialogos Media, October 1, 2015
London West Riding debate
September 29, 2015
September 29, 2015
London West Candidates Square Off In Second Of Four AM980 Debates
AM980 News, September 29, 2015
AM980 News, September 29, 2015
Ed Holder, Tory Candidate, Called Out For Skipping Election Debates
Huffington Post, September 28, 2015
Huffington Post, September 28, 2015
London West Riding Full Debate at Oakridge Church
September 23, 2015
September 23, 2015
The View from Up North: Which are Ontario’s Best Regional Law Firms
Above the Law, September 9, 2015
London West Debate – Canadian Federal Elections 2015 – The Local CampaignAbove the Law, September 9, 2015
Rogers Television, September 1, 2015
Dimitri Lascaris: The Greek Crisis
AcTVism Munich, July 15, 2015
AcTVism Munich, July 15, 2015
Ontario proposal to pay corporate whistleblowers up to $1.5M inadequate: Lawyer
Toronto Star, June 9, 2015
Toronto Star, June 9, 2015
OSC’s proposed whistleblower policy is flawed because of limits on cash rewards, lawyer warns
National Post, June 9, 2015
National Post, June 9, 2015
Carriage decision fails to provide expected guidance
Law Times, June 1, 2015
Law Times, June 1, 2015
Will Ontario’s whistleblower program blow holes in internal compliance systems?
Canadian Lawyer Magazine, April 27, 2015
Canadian Lawyer Magazine, April 27, 2015
Top Court tosses suit against Montreal drag firm Thera
The Globe and Mail, April 17, 2015
The Globe and Mail, April 17, 2015
Ontario Securities Commission is testing mediation process to settle difficult cases
National Post, April 13, 2015
National Post, April 13, 2015
ASC files new charges against failed Poseidon Concepts
Calgary Herald, February 6, 2015
Calgary Herald, February 6, 2015
Banks Reach Settlement After Sino Stock Sale
Wall Street Journal, January 27, 2015
Wall Street Journal, January 27, 2015
What happens when a foreign investor holds Chinese Bonds that default
Bloomberg News, January 20, 2015
Bloomberg News, January 20, 2015
London law firm Siskinds has history of scoring big wins for little guy in high-stakes battles
London Free Press, January 4, 2015
London Free Press, January 4, 2015
Nevsun Denies Accusations of Human Rights Abuses at Eritrea Mine
Bloomberg News, November 21, 2014
Bloomberg News, November 21, 2014
Eritreans file lawsuit against Canadian mining company for slave labour and crimes against humanity
Canadian Centre for International Justice, November 20, 2014
Canadian Centre for International Justice, November 20, 2014
Canadian Bar Association undergoing major ‘rethink’
Law Times, November 17, 2014
Law Times, November 17, 2014
Canadian Beekeepers Sue Neonicotinoid Makers Bayer, Syngenta for C$450 million
Bloomberg News, September 8, 2014
Bloomberg News, September 8, 2014
On CBC’s Exchange with Amanda Lang, Dimitri Lascaris discusses the beekeeper class action
CBC News, September 5, 2014
CBC News, September 5, 2014
Beekeeper frustration led to class action on neonicotinoids
CBC News, September 5, 2014
CBC News, September 5, 2014
Canada’s Nevsun defends Eritrea mining after damning report
CTV News, September 4, 2014
CTV News, September 4, 2014
Bee Deaths at Centre of Lawsuit by Honey Producers
Toronto Star, September 3, 2014
Toronto Star, September 3, 2014
Penn West Board faces allegations of stock option manipulation
The Globe and Mail, June 3, 2014
The Globe and Mail, June 3, 2014
Livent decision could pave way for new suits against auditors
The Globe and Mail, April 7, 2014
The Globe and Mail, April 7, 2014
U of T Must Divest From Fossil Fuels, Student Groups Say
The Varsity, March 2014
University of Toronto Divestment Lecture by Dimitri LascarisThe Varsity, March 2014
March 24, 2014
OSC to allow no-contest settlements in some cases
The Globe and Mail, March 11, 2014
U of T group wants university to divest from fossil fuel industryThe Globe and Mail, March 11, 2014
Toronto MetroNews, January 31, 2014
London alarms raised over Quebec rail disaster
London Free Press, December 18, 2013
Bankruptcy protection can be silver lining for some securities class actions
National Post, November 20, 2013
Sorting out counsel fees in class action settlements
National Post, October 30, 2013
Canadian Business Magazine names Dimitri Lascaris As One of the “Power 50” of Canadian business
London Free Press, September 23, 2013
Supreme Court to rule on ‘market timing’ lawsuit
The Globe and Mail, September 11, 2013
Quebec Train Crash Taints Railroad CEO’s Legend Status
Bloomberg News, July 12, 2013
Class action lawsuit against Canadian retailer for Bangladesh victims difficult, but not impossible
The Globe and Mail, April 29, 2013
Ontario Court approves $117 million settlement with Sino-Forest auditors
The Globe and Mail, March 20, 2013
Class Actions: Their Day in Court
National Magazine, March 2013
National Magazine, March 2013
Gamblin’ Man: At the Tables, In the Court
London Free Press, March 1, 2013
London Free Press, March 1, 2013
OSC allegations against E&Y in Sino-Forest case could sharpen focus on gatekeepers
Canadian Lawyer Magazine, December 4, 2012
Canadian Lawyer Magazine, December 4, 2012
E&Y Settlement Sets Record for Auditors
The Globe and Mail, December 3, 2012
The Globe and Mail, December 3, 2012
OSC accuses Ernst & Young as firm settles Sino-Forest class action suit
National Post, December 3, 2012
National Post, December 3, 2012
High Class Action Awards Discourage Lawyers From Taking On Cases
National Post, November 29, 2012
National Post, November 29, 2012
Sino-Forest’s restructuring deal leaves shareholders cut out
National Post, October 2, 2012
Un recours collectif d’un milliard est autorisé contre SNC-LavalinNational Post, October 2, 2012
Le Devoir, September 20, 2012
Judge Certifies $1 Billion Class Action Against SNC-Lavalin
CBC News, September 20, 2012
The Top 25 Most Influential
Canadian Lawyer, August 6, 2012
Canadian Lawyer, August 6, 2012
Outcome of Look legal bills case could have wider ramifications: Lascaris
National Post, August 2, 2012
National Post, August 2, 2012
Libor to JP Morgan, Enron to Bernie Madoff: Counting the costs of a world of scandal
The Toronto Star, July 13, 2012
The Toronto Star, July 13, 2012
Fallout from LIBOR scandal likely to hit Canada’s financial industry
National Post, July 5, 2012
National Post, July 5, 2012
Dimitri Lascaris on the ‘travesty’ of dismissing the CIBC class action lawsuit
National Post, July 5, 2012
National Post, July 5, 2012
The risky business of investing in lawsuits
The Globe and Mail, June 26, 2012
SNC: le rôle du chef des finances remis en questionThe Globe and Mail, June 26, 2012
La Presse, April 12, 2012
SNC-Lavalin risque d’autres ennuis judiciaires
La Presse, March 17, 2012
Lawyers Are Looking To Canada For Shareholder Litigation
Wall Street Journal, February 27, 2012
Wall Street Journal, February 27, 2012
Class Actions: Taking up the low take-up rate for settlements
National Post, December 8, 2011
National Post, December 8, 2011
Siskinds and Sutts Storsberg square off in Armtec carriage motion
National Post, November 21, 2011
National Post, November 21, 2011
Pension funds sue Sino-Forest for $6.5 billion
Toronto Star, August 31, 2011
Toronto Star, August 31, 2011
Baffinland ex-shareholders launch suit
CBC News, April 20, 2011
CBC News, April 20, 2011
Investor Justice to the Max
Canadian Business, April 11, 2011
Whistleblower Debate: Speak Truth to PowerCanadian Business, April 11, 2011
Financial Post, March 4, 2011
BMO faces sanctions over FMF debacle
National Post, November 9, 2010
National Post, November 9, 2010
Ex-Card Shark Dimitri Lascaris Bets on Canadian Class Actions
American Lawyer, May 5, 2010
American Lawyer, May 5, 2010
Former Card Shark Now Fights For Shareholders
The Globe and Mail, May 4, 2010
The Globe and Mail, May 4, 2010
Investors may pay stiff price for Manulife’s pride
Toronto Star, June 23, 2009
Toronto Star, June 23, 2009
Ontario Law Firm Shoots for $550 Million Class Action Against AIG
American Lawyer, November 19, 2008
The U.S. Election: Barack’s Canucks, the sequelAmerican Lawyer, November 19, 2008
Ottawa Citizen, November 9, 2008
Dimitri Lascaris and Siskinds Leading the Way in Canada
Securities Docket, September 14, 2008
Securities Docket, September 14, 2008
The buck stops where?
Canadian Lawyer, January 11, 2008
Canadian Lawyer, January 11, 2008
Manipulation ‘serious problem’ – Canada rife with options backdating, lawyers conclude
National Post, September 19, 2007
RIM trips on offering options to employeesNational Post, September 19, 2007
The Globe and Mail, March 6, 2007
Investor confronts RIM on options probe
The Globe and Mail, December 6, 2006
RIM’s Review Causes Unrest
The Street, December 5, 2006
FMF’s Shareholders Garner C$28 Million Settlement
Law 360, November 29, 2006
FMF Saga Moves to Next Chapter
National Post, May 29, 2006
Supreme court to rule on mutual fund ‘market timing’ lawsuit
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The
future of a class-action lawsuit targeting mutual fund managers for a
"market timing" scheme that allegedly cost ordinary investors hundreds
of millions of dollars will be decided by the Supreme Court of Canada on
Thursday.
At issue is whether the
aggrieved investors had the right to launch a class action against the
mutual fund companies, even though the defendants had already settled
allegations over the issue with the Ontario Securities Commission and
agreed to pay back $205.6-million.
In
2010, Ontario Superior Court Justice Paul Perell initially refused to
give the class-action lawsuit a green light, siding with arguments from
the defendants who argued that the OSC proceedings were a "preferable
procedure" to a class action. But two subsequent appeal rulings sided
with the investors, who claim the compensation falls far short of their
real losses.
Some lawyers watching
for the decision say it could have major ramifications for the growing
area of securities class actions, since most such lawsuits by investors
seeking their money back are launched parallel to action by securities
regulators.
The market timing case
dates back to a 2003 OSC probe of five large mutual fund managers.
Market timing, which is legal, allows sophisticated investors to take
advantage of the way mutual funds are priced. Unlike stocks, the value
of a mutual fund is set just once a day, at 4 p.m. Eastern Time.
Traders
can use this fact to move in and out of funds based on, for example,
overseas market activity that has rendered the current pegged value of a
fund out of date.
In
settlements with the OSC in 2004 and 2005, AIC Ltd., CI Mutual Funds
Inc., Franklin Templeton Investments Ltd., AGF Investments Inc., and IG
Investment Management Ltd., acknowledged, without admitting civil
liability, that they had allowed certain investors to engage in market
timing in a way that harmed long-term investors, and agreed to pay
$205.6-million in compensation. In 2009, class actions on behalf of the
funds' unit-holders were launched against the fund managers, with
plaintiffs arguing that their losses from market-timing could be as high
as $800-million.
The current appeal
before the Supreme Court involves just two of the defendants, AIC and
CI Mutual Funds Inc., as the others have settled.
Lawyer
Brian Radnoff of Lerners LLP said that securities cases weren't the
only type of class actions that could be affected by the ruling. In
other class-action cases, he said, defence lawyers often argue that
regulators, not class-action plaintiffs, should be holding companies to
account for faulty or dangerous products, false advertising or
price-fixing schemes.
Mr. Radnoff,
who is not involved in the case, said he believed restoring the initial
decision barring the investors' class action would "significantly
reduce" the growing number of securities class actions filed in Ontario.
"It would be a significant problem, for investors and for these type of class actions," said Mr. Radnoff in an interview.
But
Dimitri Lascaris, a litigator who files many securities class actions
against companies on behalf of investors, but is not involved in this
case, disagrees.
Mr. Lascaris, a
partner with Siskinds LLP in London, Ont., says Canadian securities
regulators rarely seek to force defendants to actually pay back
investors. A ruling barring class actions in cases when the regulator
did so would have little effect, short of a "sea change" in enforcement
practices, he said.
"Historically,
rightly or wrongly, securities regulators have in very few instances
sought to recover compensation for investors," Mr. Lascaris explained.
"The market timing case is very unusual for that reason."
Lawyer
Andrew Gray of Torys LLP, who does defence work on class actions and
OSC cases but is not involved in this case, said he hoped the Supreme
Court would restore the initial ruling blocking the class action.
That
would encourage companies to settle allegations with securities
regulators more quickly and pay back investors, he said, rather than
worrying about their double exposure in a class-action: "If there was a
way to wrap up all of your issues with the regulator quickly, in some
cases that's probably net-net the best outcome for everyone."
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Sent: Monday, March 07, 2016 4:58 PM
To: dimitri.lascaris@siskinds.com
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Subject: Attn Dimitri Lascaris Perhaps we should talk ASAP? My # is 902 800 0369
http://www.votedimitri.ca/
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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 12:53:25 -0400
Subject: Attn Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson Re My contacts with Iceland
and my lawsuit in the Federal Court of Canada
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You Pirates must remember me now Birgitta Jónsdóttir? .
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and Birgitta Jónsdóttir of the Pirate Party have engaged in fierce
disputes this passing week, brewing grey silver as the Icelandic
saying goes. Mr. Gunnlaugson mocking the Pirates in his speeches,
accusing them of having no clear objective or vision and Mrs
Jónsdóttir in turn stating that she feels ashamed having him in the
PM´s office and is counting the days until he is out of office."
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cdhowe@cdhowe.org, desparois.sylviane@fcac.gc.ca, plee@stu.ca,
jonina.s.larusdottir@ivr.stjr.
fme@fme.is, info@landsbanki.is, sedlabanki@sedlabanki.is, tif@tif.is
Cc: rfowlo@comcast.net, jmullen@townofmilton.org, webo@xplornet.com,
t.j.burke@gnb.ca, oldmaison@yahoo.com, Dan Fitzgerald danf@danf.net,
"spinks08@hotmail.com" spinks08@hotmail.com, gypsy-blog
gypsy-blog@hotmail.com, "nb. premier" nb.premier@gmail.com, nbpolitico
nbpolitico@gmail.com>, "bruce.fitch" bruce.fitch@gnb.ca, "bruce.alec"
bruce.alec@gmail.com
I know that the Yankee law enforcement people are either as dumb as
posts or pure evil. There appears to be few exceptions. The ethical
Ms. Olson is my favourite klady today. Does anyone speaking or acting
in the best interests of the decent folks in Iceland understand my
sincerity and her Integrity YET?
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
http://www.althingi.is/altext/
Parliamentary career
Member of Althingi for the Reykjavík North Constituency 2009-2013
and for the Northeast Contstituency since 2013.
Earlier committees
Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee 2009-2013.
Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee's Working Group on
European Affairs 2010-2013.
Member of the Icelandic delegation to the EFTA and EEA
Parliamentary Committees 2009-2013.
Member of the EU-Iceland joint Parliamentary Committee 2010-2013.
Ministerial Career
Minister of Justice 2014.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Póstur FOR <postur@for.is>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 16:16:28 +0000
Subject: Re: Re My contacts with Iceland and my lawsuit in the Federal
Court of Canada
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið / Your request has been received
Kveðja / Best regards
Forsætisráðuneytið / Prime Minister's Office
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 12:14:52 -0400
Subject: Re My contacts with Iceland and my lawsuit in the Federal
Court of Canada
To: oddur.thorri.vidarsson@for.is, sigurdur.o.gudleifsson@for.is,
una.bjork.omarsdottir@for.is, sif.gudjonsdottir@for.is,
gudmundur.orn.gudjonsson@for.
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
https://eng.
Prime Minister's Office
Stjornarradshusinu vid Laekjartorg
101 Reykjavik - Iceland
Tel (+354) 545 8400
Fax (+354) 562 4014
E-Mail postur@for.is
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 09:49:29 -0400
Subject: Attn Michael Petrou Re War in the Middle East and my lawsuit
in Federal Court etc I just sent you a Tweet and I tried to your cell
(613 291-8505) with no voicemail service Now you have an email
To: michael.petrou@hotmail.com
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Good Day Sir
I am as seious as a heartattack and this link should at least prove to
the docket in Federal Court exists.
http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.
Below this note to you is a forward of an emial I sent on Friday night
with some attachments as well
I may call your home number later this morning. I believe this may be
your home phone number but I am reluctant to use it because I don't
wish to involve your family in my concerns.
Michael Petrou
3 Wigston Pvt
Ottawa, ON, K1Y 1K9
613-729-4529
I know it is Sunday morning and that you are a young man with a young
family so I will not try to take up too much of your precious family
time but your work and your recent job loss are speaking volumes to me
in that you just may be the writer I have been looking for for many
years.
I am rather busy researching and writing an important motion for the
Federal Court of Appeal that I must file ASAP and two other lawsuits
at the same time. However I would gladly pause and explain things to
you in grest detail. Rest assued that the PDF files hereto attached
are just the tip of a very malevolent Iceberg. Please notice the
General Counsel of BCE had her legal dept print my legal documents in
2004 and it took them 4 days or so to print them and five years later
CBC's legal dept want them as well. Trust that I have a lot more now.
----- Original Message -----
From: martine.turcotte@bell.ca
To: motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com
Cc: bcecomms@bce.ca ; W-Five@ctv.ca
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 9:28 AM
Subject: RE: I am curious
Mr. Amos, I confirm that I have received your documentation. There is
no need to send us a hard copy. As you have said yourself, the
documentation is very voluminous and after 3 days, we are still in the
process of printing it. I have asked one of my lawyers to review it
in my absence and report back to me upon my return in the office. We
will then provide you with a reply.
Martine Turcotte
Chief Legal Officer / Chef principal du service juridique
BCE Inc. / Bell Canada
1000 de La Gauchetière ouest, bureau 3700
Montréal (Qc) H3B 4Y7
Tel: (514) 870-4637
Fax: (514) 870-4877
email: martine.turcotte@bell.ca
Executive Assistant / Assistante à la haute direction: Diane Valade
Tel: (514) 870-4638
email: diane.valade@bell.ca
----- Original Message -----
From: Edith Cody-Rice <Edith.Cody-Rice@cbc.ca>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:53:07 -0500
Subject: Calls and E-mails to CBC
To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Cc: Rob Renaud <Rob.Renaud@cbc.ca>
Dear Mr. Amos:
CBC personnel have contacted me concerning your calls and e-mails to
them. As you are threatening legal action, would you kindly direct any
further calls or correspondence to me. Other CBC personnel will not
respond further to your correspondence or calls.
Edith Cody-Rice
Senior Legal Counsel
Premier Conseiller juridique
CBC/Radio-Canada
181 Queen Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1K9
Postal Address: P.O. Box 3220, Station C, Ottawa K1Y 1E4
Tel: (613) 288-6164
Cell: (613) 720-5185
Fax/ Télécopieur (613) 288-6279
IMPORTANT NOTICE
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whom it is addressed. Any unauthorized disclosure, copying, other
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avertir immédiatement et le supprimer en évitant de le lire, de le
copier ou de le transmettre à qui que ce soit.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
902 800 0369
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 22:08:49 -0400
Subject: Fwd: I call the Boyz and Girlz from Brazil and Iceland camped
in Ottawa, Washington and the Big Apple and the very strange EFF
people in San Francisco AGAIN These people tease me and deny the
obvious We both know WHY EH Birgitta?
To: securedrop@freedom.press, gopublic <gopublic@cbc.ca>,
Whistleblower <Whistleblower@ctv.ca>, whistle <whistle@fsa.gov.uk>,
whistleblower <whistleblower@finra.org>, WhistleblowerProtection
< WhistleblowerProtection@
< birgittaj@althingi.is>, "Biage.Carrese"
< Biage.Carrese@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: trevor@freedom.press
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 18:00:08 -0800
Subject: Autoreply: Out of office until Monday March 7th
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
I am currently traveling with little or no access to email until
Monday, March 7th.
If you have any time-sensitive SecureDrop questions, please email
securedrop@freedom.press.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Póstur FOR <postur@for.is>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 02:02:26 +0000
Subject: Re: I call the Boyz and Girlz from Brazil and Iceland camped
in Ottawa, Washington and the Big Apple and the very strange EFF
people in San Francisco AGAIN These people tease me and deny the
obvious We both know WHY EH Birgitta?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið / Your request has been received
Kveðja / Best regards
Forsætisráðuneytið / Prime Minister's Office
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Póstur IRR <postur@irr.is>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 02:02:27 +0000
Subject: Re: I call the Boyz and Girlz from Brazil and Iceland camped
in Ottawa, Washington and the Big Apple and the very strange EFF
people in San Francisco AGAIN These people tease me and deny the
obvious We both know WHY EH Birgitta?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið. / Your request has been received.
Kveðja / Best regards
Innanríkisráðuneytið / Ministry of the Interior
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 21:59:33 -0400
Subject: I call the Boyz and Girlz from Brazil and Iceland camped in
Ottawa, Washington and the Big Apple and the very strange EFF people
in San Francisco AGAIN These people tease me and deny the obvious We
both know WHY EH Birgitta?
To: presidencia@inpi.gov.br, inpipres@inpi.gov.br,
coutinho@inpi.gov.br, brasemb.ottawa@itamaraty.gov.
bethpp@inpi.gov.br, cindy <cindy@eff.org>, icemb.ottawa@utn.stjr.is,
"icecon.ny" <icecon.ny@utn.stjr.is>, cg.novayork@itamaraty.gov.br,
"Greta.Bossenmaier" <Greta.Bossenmaier@cse-cst.gc.
< bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Jonathan.Vance"
< Jonathan.Vance@forces.gc.ca>, icemb.wash@utn.stjr.is,
info@samaracanada.com, Michael.MacMillan@
raok@bennettjones.com, michael.roberts@asiapacific.ca
Lon.Povich@state.ma.us, petere.scott@bmo.com, kevin.lynch@bmo.com,
george.cooper@ukings.ca, postur@for.is, postur@irr.is,
grapevine@grapevine.is, postur@fjr.stjr.is, info@farris.com,
randerson@farris.com, danny@eff.org, pde@eff.org, dm@eff.org,
trevor@freedom.press, birgittaj <birgittaj@althingi.is>, birgittajoy
< birgittajoy@gmail.com>, company@semalt.com
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
http://www.iceland.is/iceland-
Embassy of Iceland Ottawa
360 Albert Street, Suite 710
Ottawa, ON K1R 7X7
Tel: +1 (613) 482 1944
Fax: +1 (613) 482 1945
icemb.ottawa@utn.stjr.is
Embassy of Iceland
Washington D.C.
House of Sweden, 2900 K Street N.W. #509
Washington DC 20007-1704
Tel.: +1 (202) 265 6653
Fax: +1 (202) 265 6656
icemb.wash@utn.stjr.is
Trade Section:
Icelandic Office
800 Third Avenue, 36th floor
New York, NY 10022
Tel: 1-212-593-2700
Fax: 1-212-593-6269
E-mail: icecon.ny@utn.stjr.is
Its been years since I called the Embassy of Iceland in Ottawa or the
wackos within EFF in San Franisco but I did email the profound liar
Cindy Cohen weeks before I talked to the Boyz from Brazil and her own
email response found way down below proves it for me EH Trevor? (Do
you dudes and Laura Poitrasr emember me now?)
https://www.eff.org/about/
https://freedom.press/about/
https://freedom.press/about/
Phone:
(415)-767-5566 ext. 10
I thought the Icelanders may have replaced the snotty people i talked
to years ago and perhaps somebody ethical may take and interest in my
lawsuit now before the Federal Court in Canada. No such luck they
still have the same bunch of nasty liars from six years ago and the
worst ones of all are Birgitta's Yankee lady lawyer pal Cindy Baby and
the women who work as diplomats for Iceland.
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson should go figure why that is and what I
am up to now after he reads the emails below REAL SLOW. If I have no
problem suing the Queen of England his people are very dumb to invite
me to sue his little country as well N'esy Mr Prime Minister Trudeau
"The Younger"
Sunday, 18 May 2014
Yo Birgitta Who is more of a crook Julian Assange, the gay lawyer Glen
Greenwald, the equally sneaky NDP lawyer David Eby in BC or your
mindless Prime Ministers of Iceland
http://thedavidamosrant.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: postur@for.is
Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 12:42:06 +0000
Subject: Re: Re Snowdon Assangethe DHS the RCM Pthe CBC, Brazil
Iceland, the Guardian Pierre Omidyar, Glen Greenwald and all the other
bigtime bullshitters
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið / Your request has been received
Kveðja / Best regards
Forsætisráðuneytið / Prime Minister's Office
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: postur@for.is
Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 02:03:05 +0000
Subject: Re: [Mogulegur Ruslpostur] Yo Birgitta Who is more of a crook
Julian Assange, the gay lawyer Glen Greenwald, the equally sneaky NDP
lawyer David Eby in BC or your mindless Prime Ministers of Iceland
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið / Your request has been received
Kveðja / Best regards
Forsætisráðuneytið / Prime Minister's Office
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: postur@irr.is
Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 02:03:06 +0000
Subject: Re: [Mogulegur Ruslpostur] Yo Birgitta Who is more of a crook
Julian Assange, the gay lawyer Glen Greenwald, the equally sneaky NDP
lawyer David Eby in BC or your mindless Prime Ministers of Iceland
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið. / Your request has been received.
Kveðja / Best regards
Innanríkisráðuneytið / Ministry of the Interior
From: Birgitta Jonsdottir
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 07:14:02 +0000
Subject: Re: Bon Soir Birgitta according to my records this is the
first email I ever sent you
To: David Amos
dear Dave
i have got your email and will read through the links as soon as i
find some time keep up the good fight in the meantime
thank you for bearing with me
i am literary drowning in requests to look into all sorts of matters
and at the same time working 150% work at the parliament and
the creation of a political movement and being a responsible parent:)
plus all the matters in relation to immi
with oceans of joy
birgitta
Better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are
not.
Andre Gide
Birgitta Jonsdottir
Birkimelur 8, 107 Reykjavik, Iceland, tel: 354 692 8884
http://this.is/birgitta – http://joyb.blogspot.com -
http://www.facebook.com/
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 01:58:58 -0300
>>> Subject: RE: The Reykjavík Grapevine Al Jazeera Iceland WikiLeaks
>>> and
>>> British Banksters etc
>>> To: grapevine@grapevine.is,
>>> Cc: editor@wikileaks.org,
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>>
>>> From: "Julian Assange)" editor@wikileaks.org
>>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 3:15 PM
>>> Subject: Al Jazeera on Iceland's plan for a press safe haven
>>>
>>> FYI: Al-Jazeera's take on Iceland's proposed media safe haven
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>>
>>> More info http://immi.is/
>>>
>>> Julian Assange Editor WikiLeaks http://wikileaks.org/
>>>
>>> From: "David Amos" david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>> To: "Julian Assange)" editor@wikileaks.org
>>> Cc: "Dan Fitzgerald" danf@danf.net; "Byrne. G" Byrne.G@parl.gc.ca
>>> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 8:35 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Al Jazeera on Iceland's new plan Thanx Here is
>>> something
>>> about Iceland and Banksters Al Jazeera would enjoy
>>>
>>> Checkout this old pdf file from 2005 at about page two or three
>>>
>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/
>>>
>>> Then read on and chuckle
>>>
>>> From: postur@fjr.stjr.is
>>> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009
>>> Subject: Re: RE: Iceland and Bankers etc I must ask the obvious
>>> question. Why have you people ignored me for three years?
>>> To: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>
>>> Dear David Amos
>>>
>>> Unfortunately there has been a considerable delay in responding to
>>> incoming letters due to heavy workload and many inquiries to our
>>> office.
>>>
>>> We appreciate the issue raised in your letter. We have set up a web
>>> site www.iceland.org where we have gathered various practical
>>> information regarding the economic crisis in Iceland.
>>>
>>> Greetings from the Ministry of Finance.
>>>
>>> Tilvísun í mál: FJR08100024
>>>
>>> From: postur@for.stjr.is
>>> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008
>>> Subject: Regarding your enquiry to the Prime Ministry of Iceland
>>> To: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>
>>> David Raymond Amos
>>>
>>> Your enquiry has been received by the Prime Ministry of Iceland and
>>> waits attendance.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008
>>> Subject: I just called to remind the Speaker, the Bankers and the
>>> Icelanders that I still exist EH Mrs Mrechant, Bob Rae and Iggy?
>>> To: Milliken.P@parl.gc.ca, sjs@althingi.is, emb.ottawa@mfa.is,
>>> rmellish@pattersonlaw.ca, irisbirgisdottir@yahoo.ca,
>>> marie@mariemorneau.com, dfranklin@franklinlegal.com,
>>> egilla@althingi.is, william.turner@exsultate.ca
>>> Cc: Rae.B@parl.gc.ca, Ignatieff.M@parl.gc.ca, lebrem@sen.parl.gc.ca,
>>> merchp@sen.parl.gc.ca, coolsa@sen.parl.gc.ca, olived@sen.parl.gc.ca
>>>
>>> All of you should review the documents and CD that came with this
>>> letter ASAP EH?
>>>
>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/
>>>
>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/
>>>
>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/
>>>
>>> Perhaps Geir Haarde and Steingrimur Sigfusson should call me back
>>>
>>> Veritas Vincit
>>> David Raymond Amos
Clearly even Time Warner knows where to read about Mean Old Me versus
Iceland and Madoff etc
So does the far from Honourable local boy Kevin Lynch and all his pals
The Honorable Kevin G. Lynch, P.C., O.C., Vice-Chair, BMO Financial
Group - D3 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Proud Canadians should read his words to Yankees in 2002
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/
FYI Kevin Lynch works for the Chinese too
http://www.cnoocltd.com/col/
https://www.bmo.com/home/
http://www.asiapacific.ca/
http://www.ukings.ca/
http://www.mapleleaffoods.com/
http://qslspolitics.blogspot.
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cg.novayork@itamaraty.gov.br,
I see the Boyz from Brazil surfing here there and everywhere since I
called them again in January so I call their Embassies in Ottawa again
and they laugh at me???
The Boyz from Brazil hanging their hats Washington should recall this
voicemail EH?
http://thedavidamosrant.
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Re Glen Greenwald and the Brazilian President Rousseff's indignant
tweets So Stevey Boy Harper your CSEC dudes and their NSA pals no
doubt know all about my conversation with the dudes from Brazil last
month Wheras the CBC and the Guardian etc want to know it all we
should share EH?
I can read the New YorkTimes just like everyone else. It ain't hard
telling that President, Dilma Rousseff could use a friend. Why she has
ignored me for years seems to tell me only one thing particilarly
after I had long talks with her Embassy in Washington in 2013 and in
Ottawa recently and had we discussed what I sent her government's
office within the UN byway of registered US Mail in August of 2005
(The documents hereto attached should prove that Icleand got the same
stuff Brazil did the year before byway of YOUR Embassy in Ottawa in
2006 EH Olaf or whatever your name truly is???)
Brazil’s President Rousseff, Facing Impeachment Effort, Is Deluged by
More Bad News By SIMON ROMEROMARCH 3, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/
RIO DE JANEIRO — Just when it seems things cannot get any worse for
Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, they do.
"An economic slowdown has become a brutal rout, with gross domestic
product shrinking 3.8 percent in 2015, the deepest plunge in 25 years,
according to government figures released Thursday."
I would have to say that if one ignores all the other issues about
political corruption the folks in Brazil at the very least could use
the services ao a whistleblower about the financial industry that is
the true cause of the economic hardshipt around the world. I offered
my help to Brazil first because they were the only ones in the UN to
ask for more info from me in 2005. After talking to the snobby dumb
bastard in Ottawa today who spoke for the people of Brazil I feel pity
for the ordinary folks in that country that pays his wages so that he
can live high off the hog in Canada with diplomatic immunity. I can't
help but wonder if Dilma Baby will even read this email but i know for
a fact I am seeing more folks from Bazil that any other country in the
world checking my work in the past month (excepting the USA and
Canada). Scroll down to see some proof of what I say is true
BTW Surfing in (Portuguese Brazil) is a bigtime tell and don't think
that you can hide your surfing byway of the punks in the Ukraine I
crossed paths with those not so clever geeks years ago. Many
governments us them. Notice soembody in Mexico whos surfs in
Portuguese used them today as well? DUHHH????
http://semalt.org/
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:27:22 -0400
Subject: Re Federal Court File # T-1557-15 I must say it rather hard
to talk to folks from Brazil as well EH
To: presidencia@inpi.gov.br, inpipres@inpi.gov.br,
coutinho@inpi.gov.br, brasemb.ottawa@itamaraty.gov.
bethpp@inpi.gov.br
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
http://www.wipo.int/members/
Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (INPI)
Web site address http://www.inpi.gov.br
Rua São Bento 1
CEP 20090-010
Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Brazil
Telephone (55 21) 3037-4000
450, Wilbrod Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 6M8 - Canada
Phone: (613) 237.1090
(613) 755.5160
Fax: (613) 237.6144
brasemb.ottawa@itamaraty.gov.
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From: "Chisholm, Jill" <Jill.Chisholm@justice.gc.ca>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:43:52 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Re Federal Court File # T-1557-15 For the
Public Record I just called the lawyers Duff Conacher and David Baker
and they paled dumb as usual
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Thank you for your message. I will be away from the office until
Monday, January 25, 2016 and will not be accessing email frequently
during this time. Should you require assistance please contact
Jacqueline Fenton at (902) 426-6996. Otherwise I will be pleased to
respond to your message upon my return.
---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:43:48 -0400
Subject: Re Federal Court File # T-1557-15 For the Public Record I
just called the lawyers Duff Conacher and David Baker and they paled
dumb as usual
To: duff@goodorg.ca, dbaker@bakerlaw.ca, "bill.pentney"
< bill.pentney@justice.gc.ca>, "jill.chisholm"
< jill.chisholm@justice.gc.ca>, "david.hansen"
< david.hansen@justice.gc.ca>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>, "Gilles.Moreau"
< Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
< dean.buzza@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Michael.Wernick"
< Michael.Wernick@pco-bcp.gc.ca
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Lets see if the Upper Canadian lawyers can understand an old voicemail
from Brazil and a Published email exchange EH Michael.Wernick???
http://thedavidamosrant.
Duff Conacher, LL.B.
Director, GoodOrg.ca Consulting
416-546-3443
duff@goodorg.ca
David Baker B.A., LL.B., LL.M., L.S.M.
email: dbaker@bakerlaw.ca
phone: 416 533-0040, ext. 222
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:57:07 -0400
Subject: Well Greta.Bossenmaier the latest boss of the CSE can never
deny that all of the "Five Eyes" are well aware of me now N'esy Pas
Elizabeth May?
To: WhistleblowerProtection@tigta.
Paul.Samyn@freepress.mb.ca, "george.osborne.mp"
< george.osborne.mp@parliament.
SpeakersOffice3@parliament.
"George.Soros" <George.Soros@
"stephen.harper.a1" <stephen.harper.a1@parl.gc.ca>
< elizabeth.may@parl.gc.ca>, "David.Coon" <David.Coon@gnb.ca>, gopublic
< gopublic@cbc.ca>, whistle <whistle@fsa.gov.uk>, washington field
< washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, whistleblower
< whistleblower@finra.org>, Whistleblower <Whistleblower@ctv.ca>,
crof@shaw.ca, "justin.ling" <justin.ling@vice.com>, editor@thetyee.ca,
Karine Fortin <info@ndp.ca>, "carolyn.bennett"
< carolyn.bennett@parl.gc.ca>, Doug@dougeyolfson.ca,
doug.eyolfson@parl.gc.ca, fpcity@freepress.mb.ca,
w.kinew@uwinnipeg.ca, "Paul.Lynch" <Paul.Lynch@edmontonpolice.ca>
"Marianne.Ryan" <Marianne.Ryan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
< sunrayzulu@shaw.ca>, dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca, "john.green"
< john.green@gnb.ca>, chiefape <chiefape@gmail.com>,
Catherine.Harrop@cbc.ca, "redmond.shannon" <redmond.shannon@cbc.ca>,
Joe Friday <Friday.Joe@psic-ispc.gc.ca>, loyalistlaw@gmail.com,
"steve.roberge" <steve.roberge@gnb.ca>, "robert.stoney"
< robert.stoney@gnb.ca>, "Leanne.Fitch" <Leanne.Fitch@fredericton.ca>,
tj@burkelaw.ca, "lou.lafleur" <lou.lafleur@fredericton.ca>,
jeddy@coxandpalmer.com, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre
< andre@jafaust.com>, "greg.byrne" <greg.byrne@gnb.ca>, paulzed@zed.ca,
smay@coxandpalmer.com, nbpc <nbpc@gnb.ca>, "Greta.Bossenmaier"
< Greta.Bossenmaier@cse-cst.gc.
< Jonathan.Vance@forces.gc.ca>, "jon.gerrard"
< jon.gerrard@leg.gov.mb.ca>, Karen.Kraushaar@tigta.treas.
"roger.l.brown" <roger.l.brown@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
< Wayne.Gallant@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
Cc: halifaxmedia@state.gov, ACS@state.gov, consularh@state.gov, David
Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Complaints@tigta.treas.gov, TIGTAcommunications
< TIGTAcommunications@tigta.
Afte all US Ambassador Bruce Heyman and US Consul General Steven
Giegerich cannot deny that the CBC and a former US Ambassador got
exactly the same pile of document from Mean Old Me just in time for my
birthday in July of 2002 CORRECT? Berfore Anyone tries to deny it
perhaps you should review page 14 of the pdf hereto attached then read
all the rest rather closely N'esy Pas?
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
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From: "Robb, Andrew (MP)" <Andrew.Robb.MP@aph.gov.au>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:34:24 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Re J. Russell George the US Treasury
Inspector General for Tax Administration and his response to Federal
Court File No: T-1557-15
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Thank you for taking the time to contact me.
This is an automatically generated reply so that you know that your
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As you will appreciate given the large number of emails received each
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and
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From: "J Key (MIN)" <J.Key@ministers.govt.nz>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:35:08 +0000
Subject: Thank you for your email
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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Please note that although email increases the speed of delivery, it
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From: "OSBORNE, George" <george.osborne.mp@parliament.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:34:35 +0000
Subject: Thank you for your e-mail
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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From: Elizabeth.May@parl.gc.ca
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:34:22 +0000
Subject: Thank you for contacting the Office of Elizabeth May, O.C., M.P
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
Thank you for contacting me. This response is to assure you that your
message has been received. I welcome and appreciate receiving comments
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--
Je vous remercie d'avoir communiqué avec moi. La présente réponse vous
confirme que votre message a été reçu. Les questions et les
commentaires des électeurs sont toujours les bienvenus.
Je reçois une correspondance (postale et électronique) beaucoup plus
abondante que le député type. Mon bureau a répondu à plus de 400 000
lettres en 2014. Tous les messages électroniques sont lus
régulièrement, mais, en raison de l'abondance des courriels reçus à
mon bureau, il se peut que je ne sois pas en mesure de répondre
personnellement à chacun d'entre eux.
Mes électeurs de Saanich-Gulf Islands passent en premier. Si vous êtes
un électeur, veuillez écrire à
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Pour m'aider à mieux vous servir, veillez à ce que votre courriel
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Je vous remercie encore d'avoir communiqué avec moi.
Elizabeth May, O.C.
Députée de Saanich-Gulf Islands
Chef du Parti vert du Canada
On 1/21/16, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
> Methinks I will give the latest US Consul General, Steven Giegerich,
> lin my neck of the woods a call this morning to see who has a bigger
> file on each other and ask him the obvious question about J. Russell
> George..
>
> Obviously I heard Giegerich say he was talking to the RCMP in Fat Fred
> City just before I appeared in Federal Court. I bet when he said that
> that both the CBC and the US State Dept was wondering if my name came
> up EH Ast Com Roger Brown?
>
> https://player.fm/series/
>
> Whereas J. Russell George has afmitted knowledge of my concerns in
> writing several times perhaps he should blow the whistle himself
> before I sue him personally.
>
> Hereto attached are some of documents that are now before Federal
> Court right now.
>
> The text of my filings can be found here.
>
> http://davidraymondamos3.
>
> Your lawyers will have to query the docket to see the CROWN's filing
> as they contain an amazing amount of desperate bullshit that I could
> not possibly scan.
>
> This was what was said in the past month before the court during oral
> arguments pertaining to Federal Court File no T-1557-15
>
> Dec 14th
> https://archive.org/details/
>
> Jan 11th
> https://archive.org/details/
>
>
> Meet the IG: J. Russell George this is what brags about himself
>
> https://www.treasury.gov/
>
> this is some of what I wrote about J. Russell George as his
> Conserative cohorts three years ago
>
> http://thedavidamosrant.
>
> Monday, 3 June 2013
> J. Russell George of the IRS versus Prez Obama
>
>
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/
>
> http://www.archive.org/
>
> http://qslspolitics.blogspot.
>
> http://www.checktheevidence.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 17:27:53 -0300
> Subject: Re Teddy Baby Olson was on Fox News today yapping about
> Presidential enemies list as he represents the crooks in Koch
> Industries??? If anyone should know about such things it is Olson
> after all he assisted Ashcroft and Bush against me
> To: pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, Office@tigta.treas.gov, RBauer@perkinscoie.com,
> mark.vespucci@ci.irs.gov, "Gilles.Moreau"
> < Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
> dboies@bsfllp.com, tolson@gibsondunn.com, bginsberg@pattonboggs.com,
> "ed.pilkington" <ed.pilkington@guardian.co.uk>
> < news@thetelegraph.com.au>, leader <leader@greenparty.ca>
> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> rtalach@ledroitbeckett.com, gregory.craig@skadden.com,
> Patrick.Fitzgerald@skadden.com
>
> Hey
>
> As Harper sits and bullshits his cohorts in the Council of Foreign
> Relations in the Big Apple today I bet he was listening to what was
> happening with Obama and the IRS and Holder and his DOJ minions
> in Washington.
>
> Hevery body and his dog knows Harper knew about my battles with the
> US Treasury and Justice Depts way back when he was the boss of the
> opposition in Canada's Parliament. Two simple files easily found on
> the Internet cannot be argued.
>
> http://qslspolitics.blogspot.
>
> http://www.archive.org/
>
> FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Office of Chief Counsel, Treasury.
> Inspector General for Tax Administration, (202) 622-4068.
>
> When Teddy bitches about polticians using the IRS to attack their
> enemies because he knows it true because he helped Bush the IRS
> against me when Obama was just a State Senator . The proof was when I sent
> him
> the documents that came along with the letter found on page 13 of this
> old file Teddy Baby Olson quit as Solicitor General.
>
> http://www.checktheevidence.
>
> Harper and every body else knows It was no coincidence that I sent the
> lawyers Olson as Solicitior General, Ferguson as the co chair of the
> Federal Reserve Bank, and J Strom Thurmond Jr the youngest US
> Attorney the same pile of documents on April Fools Day 2004.
>
> The sad but terrible truth is that legions of cops, lawyers polticians
> and bureaucrats in Canada and the USA knew about the US Secret Service
> coming to my home after dark on April Fools Day 2003 bearing false
> allegations of a presidential threat and threatening to use their
> implied right to use exta ordinary rendition against me as a non
> citizen less than two weeks after the needless War in Iraq began and
> no WMD were ever found.
>
> You can bet dimes to dollars i called some Yankee Inspector Generals
> (starting with 202 622 4068) and reminded them that I am still alive
> and kicking and reminding the world of their malicious incompetence
>
> Veritas Vincit
> David Raymond Amos
> 902 800 0369
>
> PS Below you can review some emails I sent you and your Yankee cohorts
> such asTeddy Baby Olson before Obama was reelected EH Harper? In truth
> I would rather settle in confidence with Obama then sue the Hell out
> of the CROWN and the Holy See Trust that the evil old Judge Bastarache
> has known why for a very long time.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Amos" <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> To: "Rob Talach" <rtalach@ledroitbeckett.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 10:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Attn Robert Talach and I should talk ASAP about my suing
> the Catholic Church Trust that Bastarache knows why
>
> The date stamp on about page 134 of this old file of mine should mean
> a lot to you
>
> http://www.checktheevidence.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Amos" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> To:
> Cc: "David Amos" <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 7:43 PM
> Subject: Fwd: Re the IRS Tom 330-592-1848
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 19:25:43 -0300
> Subject: Re the IRS
> To: tom.zawistowski@
> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Amos" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> To: <stephen.m.cutler@jpmorgan.com
> < newsonline@bbc.co.uk>; <ed.pilkington@guardian.co.uk>
> < Rupert.Murdoch@fox.com>
> Cc: "David Amos" <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> < Charles.O'Donnell@gnb.ca>;
> < john.barthelmes@dos.nh.gov>; <sbloch@bcounsel.com>; "oig" <oig@sec.gov>
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 1:42 AM
> Subject: Fwd: I just called about the IRS etc I bet the former Yankee
> Attorney Generals Mukasey, Gonzales and Ashcroft remember me EH Mr Bauer
> and
> Mr Harper?
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:47:12 -0400
> Subject: You people can't say that I did not call and try to tell you
> stuff about Bernard Madoff and his pals
> To: dsheehan@bakerlaw.com, dspelfogel@bakerlaw.com,
> rbernard@bakerlaw.com, roxanne.taylor@accenture.com,
> daniel.prince@accenture.com, gary.a.morgenstern@accenture.
> david.straube@accenture.com, gurdip.s.sahota@accenture.com,
> mc@whistleblowers.org, gkachroo@mccarter.com
> Cc: oig oig@sec.gov
>
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/
>
> FYI I called Andrew Kosloff of JP Morgan Chase (212-552-4672) and told
> him to remind his boss Stephen Cutler that i am still above ground and
> still Rasing Hell
>
> Veritas Vincit
> David Raymond Amos
>
> Just Dave
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 21:00:02 -0300
> Subject: Fwd: I just called about the IRS etc I bet the former Yankee
> Attorney Generals Mukasey, Gonzales and Ashcroft remember me EH Mr
> Bauer and Mr Harper?
> To: cmitchell@foley.com, media@truethevote.org,
> mbmukase@debevoise.com, argonzales@wallerlaw.com,
> info@ashcroftgroupllc.com, ap@theprestongroup.org,
> info@mikesullivanforsenate.com
> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> < RBauer@perkinscoie.com>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>
>
> Now this was beyond ridiculous
>
> https://www.
>
> http://www.truethevote.org/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Amos" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> To: <info@gomezforma.com>
> Cc: "David Amos" <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:24 PM
> Subject: I just called 617 249 4113 about Mr Gomez running for the Senate
>
>
> http://www.masslive.com/
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 21:00:02 -0300
> Subject: Fwd: I just called about the IRS etc I bet the former Yankee
> Attorney Generals Mukasey, Gonzales and Ashcroft remember me EH Mr
> Bauer and Mr Harper?
> To: cmitchell@foley.com, media@truethevote.org,
> mbmukase@debevoise.com, argonzales@wallerlaw.com,
> info@ashcroftgroupllc.com, ap@theprestongroup.org,
> info@mikesullivanforsenate.com
> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> < RBauer@perkinscoie.com>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>
>
> Now this was beyond ridiculous
>
> https://www.
>
> http://www.truethevote.org/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Amos" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> To: <georgiateapartypatriots@
> < debbie0040@yahoo.com>; <KHall@mcclatchydc.com>;
> Cc: "David Amos" <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 7:22 PM
> Subject: I just called about the IRS etc
>
>
> http://www.miamiherald.com/
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
>
> http://www.newsmax.com/US/tea-
>
> Atlanta Tea Party Patriots
> This is the group for all of Atlanta Tea Party Patriots. While all the
> metro Tea Party Patriots group fall under the Atlanta Tea Party, we
> encourage each respective county to have their own group so you can
> get to know your fellow Tea Party Patriots in your area.
>
> Local Coordinators:
> Julianne Thompson ~ georgiateapartypatriots@gmail.
> Debbie Dooley ~ debbie0040@yahoo.com
> Jenny Beth Martin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Amos" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> To: <v.tubin@uwinnipeg.ca>
> Cc: "David Amos" <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 6:53 PM
> Subject: Fwd: I just called AGAIN
>
>
> From: Dean Peachey <d.peachey@uwinnipeg.ca>
> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 16:51:45 -0500
> Subject: Re: I just called AGAIN (Out of office)
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> I will be working out of the country untiil Friday, May 24, with
> intermittent access to email, and may be delayed in responding to
> correspondence. If the matter is urgent, please contact Vanja Tubin
> at v.tubin@uwinnipeg.ca or 204-988-7105.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Amos" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> To: <duff@goodorg.ca>; <dbaker@bakerlaw.ca>; "Tom.Mann" <Tom.Mann@gnb.ca>;
>
> "allan.cutler"
> < allan.cutler@
> "Dion.Mario" <Dion.Mario@psic-ispc.gc.ca>; "toewsv1" <toewsv1@parl.gc.ca>
> Cc: "David Amos" <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> < Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>; <info@lift.to>
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 6:50 PM
> Subject: I just called AGAIN
>
>
> http://democracywatch.ca/
>
> Duff Conacher, LL.B.
> Director, GoodOrg.ca Consulting
> 416-546-3443
> duff@goodorg.ca
>
> David Baker B.A., LL.B., LL.M., L.S.M.
> email: dbaker@bakerlaw.ca
> phone: 416 533-0040, ext. 222
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Amos" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> To: <WMalley@perkinscoie.com>
> Cc: "David Amos" <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> < Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov>; "bob.paulson" <bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 5:43 PM
> Subject: I just called Mr Malley
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Amos" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> To: "justicedonedirtcheap.
> < justicedonedirtcheap.
> Cc: "David Amos" <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 5:34 PM
> Subject: Fwd: Re Teddy Baby Olson was on Fox News today yapping about
> Presidential enemies list as he represents the crooks in Koch
> Industries???
> If anyone should know about such things it is Olson after all he assisted
> Ashcroft and Bush against me
>
>
> From: Elizabeth May <leader@greenparty.ca>
> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 13:28:01 -0700
> Subject: Thank you for your message / Merci pour votre courriel Re: Re
> Teddy Baby Olson was on Fox News today yapping about Presidential
> enemies list as he represents the crooks in Koch Industries??? If
> anyone should know about such things it is Olson after all he assisted
> Ashcroft and Bush against me
> To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
>
> Thank you for your email. We will work to ensure that a response is
> sent to you as soon as possible.
>
> For invitations or meeting requests, please email ea@greenparty.ca.
> For media inquiries, please email media@greenparty.ca.
>
> Nous vous remercions d'avoir pris le temps de nous écrire. Nous ne
> ménagerons aucun effort pour vous transmettre notre réponse dans les
> meilleurs délais.
>
> Leader's Office Correspondence Team
> Équipe de correspondance du Bureau de la chef
>
> --
> Green Party of Canada
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *TIGTA Whistleblower Protection Ombudsman
> < WhistleblowerProtection@
> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:37:08 +0000
> Subject: RE: Hey Paul Samyn Re Federal Court File No: T-1557-15 I
> wonder after January 11th if the fancy dudes over in the UK or way
> same Queen N'esy Pas Stevey Boy harper?
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> Good morning,
>
> We have received your e-mail to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax
> Administration (TIGTA) Whistleblower Protection Ombudsman. This
> e-mail account and TIGTA’s Ombudsmen are available to Internal Revenue
> Service (IRS) employees and applicants as well as contractors who have
> been subjected to retaliation as a result of engaging in
> whistleblowing activities (i.e., efforts on your part to report fraud,
> waste, and abuse). Based upon the information in your e-mail, it does
> not appear that your inquiry falls within these parameters.
>
> Thank you.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Amos [mailto:motomaniac333@gmail.
> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 6:23 PM
> To: Paul.Samyn@freepress.mb.ca; george.osborne.mp;
> J.Key@ministers.govt.nz; SpeakersOffice3@parliament.
> Andrew.Robb.MP@aph.gov.au; George.Soros; stephen.harper.a1;
> elizabeth.may; David.Coon; gopublic; whistle; washington field; *TIGTA
> Whistleblower Protection Ombudsman; whistleblower; Whistleblower;
> crof@shaw.ca; justin.ling; editor@thetyee.ca; Karine Fortin;
> carolyn.bennett; Doug@dougeyolfson.ca; doug.eyolfson@parl.gc.ca;
> fpcity@freepress.mb.ca; w.kinew@uwinnipeg.ca; Paul.Lynch;
> Marianne.Ryan; sunrayzulu; dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca; john.green; chiefape;
> Catherine.Harrop@cbc.ca; redmond.shannon; Joe Friday;
> loyalistlaw@gmail.com; steve.roberge; robert.stoney; Leanne.Fitch;
> tj@burkelaw.ca; lou.lafleur; jeddy@coxandpalmer.com; oldmaison; andre;
> greg.byrne; paulzed@zed.ca; smay@coxandpalmer.com; nbpc
> Cc: David Amos; Greta.Bossenmaier; Jonathan.Vance; jon.gerrard
> Subject: Hey Paul Samyn Re Federal Court File No: T-1557-15 I wonder
> after January 11th if the fancy dudes over in the UK or way down under> will continue to ignore me as well??? After we share the same Queen
> N'esy Pas Stevey Boy harper?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 19:44:28 -0400
> Subject: Well at least Paul Samyn of the Free Press has finally
> admitted what the Free Press in Louis Riel's old stomping gronds has
> been ignoring for 11 years EH Justin Trudeau
> To: pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "justin.trudeau.a1"
> < justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca>
> "carolyn.bennett" <carolyn.bennett@parl.gc.ca>, Doug@dougeyolfson.ca,
> doug.eyolfson@parl.gc.ca, fpcity@freepress.mb.ca,
> w.kinew@uwinnipeg.ca, "Paul.Lynch" <Paul.Lynch@edmontonpolice.ca>
> "Marianne.Ryan" <Marianne.Ryan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
> "john.green" <john.green@gnb.ca>, chiefape <chiefape@gmail.com>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> < gopublic@cbc.ca>, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, radical
> < radical@radicalpress.com>, newsonline <newsonline@bbc.co.uk>,
> newsroom <newsroom@globeandmail.ca>, nmoore <nmoore@bellmedia.ca>,
> andre <andre@jafaust.com>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Samyn,Paul" <Paul.Samyn@freepress.mb.ca>
> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 23:40:17 +0000
> Subject: RE: Re Federal Court File No: T-1557-15 the CBC, the RCMP,
> their new boss Justin Trudeau and his Ministers of Justice and Defence
> etc cannot deny their knowledge of Paragraphs 81, 82, 83, 84, and 85
> now CORRECT G$?
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> David;
>
> We are in receipt of your emails as well as your voice mail messages.
> At this point, we will not be following up on this story.
> Paul
>
> Paul Samyn | Editor
>
> 204.697.7234 | 1355 Mountain Ave. | R2X 3B6
> winnipegfreepress.com | @paulsamyn
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Robert Stoney <loyalistlawoffice@yahoo.ca>
> Date: Tue, 05 01 2016 05:05:12
> Subject: Auto Response: Hey TJ Burke and Louie lafleur January 11th is
> coming fast Ya can't say that your buddies and the Police Commission
> ain't mentioned bigtime in my complaint N'esy Pas Stevey Boy Roberge?
> To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
> > I am currently experiencing difficulties with the following email
> accounts:
>
> robertstoney@yahoo.ca
>
> loyalistlawoffice@yahoo.ca
>
> If you have sent a message to either of these accounts, please re-send
> that message to:
>
> loyalistlaw@gmail.com
>
> Also, please update my contact information to reflect
> loyalistlaw@gmail.com as my primary email address, effective
> immediately.
>
> Thank you for your patience.
>
> //RMS//
>
> Robert Stoney
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Robb, Andrew (MP)" <Andrew.Robb.MP@aph.gov.au>
> Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 12:27:35 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: RE Nasty Trolls on the Internet & TPP So
> Prime Minister John Key and Minister Andrew Robb Should the FIVE EYES
> do their jobs for the benefit of the common man instead of messing
> with for yours N'esy Pas Justin Trudeau???
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> Thank you for taking the time to contact me.
>
> This is an automatically generated reply so that you know that your
> email has arrived.
>
> As you will appreciate given the large number of emails received each
> day, a reply cannot be sent immediately, nor can a reply be sent to
> every email received.
>
> I will however read your correspondence.
>
> I prioritise emails from my constituents and those relating to my
> trade, investment and tourism portfolio.
>
> If your email relates to my responsibilities as Minister for Trade and
> Investment, I will consider your correspondence and respond if
> appropriate.
>
> If your email is part of an automatically generated campaign, I will
> note your views.
>
> For those interested, there is a significant amount of useful facts
> regarding the China FTA and Trans Pacific Partnership on my
> Department’s website:
>
> http://dfat.gov.au/trade/
>
> and
>
> http://dfat.gov.au/trade/
>
>
> In the meantime, you may be interested in completing my community
> survey by clicking
> here<http://www.andrewrobb.
> may also be interested in visiting my
> website<http://www.andrewrobb.
> Facebook<https://www.facebook.
> Twitter<https://twitter.com/
> YouTube<https://www.youtube.
>
> Yours sincerely,
> ANDREW ROBB
> Minister for Trade & Investment
> Federal Member for Goldstein
>
> E: andrew.robb.mp@aph.gov.au<
>
> Electorate Office
> 368 Centre Road, Bentleigh VIC 3204
> P 03 9557 4644 F 03 9557 2906
>
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> Suite M1-22
> Parliament House
> Canberra ACT 2600
> P (02) 6277 7420 F (02) 6273 4128
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Speakers Office <SpeakersOffice3@parliament.
> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 22:18:52 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Trust that I don't mind being wrong about
> the choice of Speaker after listening to the Senate reform plans I say
> WOW just like Geoff Regan did when he commented that he was the first
> Speaker from the Maritimes in nearly 100 years
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> > On behalf of Rt Hon David Carter, Speaker of the House of
> Representatives, thank you for your email.
>
> Thank you for taking the time to write and please be assured that your
> comments will be read by Mr Speaker. However, there may be no further
> response to you.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Office of the Speaker
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "J Key (MIN)" <J.Key@ministers.govt.nz>
> Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 12:28:12 +0000
> Subject: Thank you for your email
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> On behalf of the Prime Minister, Rt Hon John Key, thank you for your
> email.
>
> Please note that although email increases the speed of delivery, it
> may not be possible to provide you with the rapid response users of
> email may anticipate.
>
> The fact that you have taken the time to write is appreciated. You
> can be assured that your views will be noted.
>
>
> Yours sincerely
> The Office of the Prime Minister
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Francis - WordPress.com" <court-orders@wordpress.com>
> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 17:57:43 -0800
> Subject: [#2468707]: Your recent message to WordPress.com
> To: David.Raymond.Amos@gmail.com
>
>> Feel free to scroll down until your conscience bothers you.
>>
>> https://baconfatreport.
>> [...]
>
> Hi David,
>
> The site in question has been removed from WordPress.com for violating
> our Terms of Service.
>
> Francis
> Community Guardian
> WordPress.com | Automattic
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 15:51:51 -0700
> Subject: Re: [#2468707]: Phone message from +19028000369 and your
> client Barry Winters' malevolent WordPress blog
> To: court-orders@wordpress.com, "washington.field"
> < washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, "gilles.moreau"
> < gilles.moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
> < Paul.Lynch@edmontonpolice.ca>
> < martin.gaudet@fredericton.ca>
> < justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca>
> "serge.rousselle" <serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>, "justmin@gov.ns.ca"
> < justmin@gov.ns.ca>, "rod.knecht" <rod.knecht@edmontonpolice.ca>
> pol7163 <pol7163@calgarypolice.ca>, Glen Canning
> < grcanning@gmail.com>, patrick_doran1 <patrick_doran1@hotmail.com>
> Cc: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, Barry Winters
> < sunrayzulu@shaw.ca>
>
> Thanks for responding to my calls
>
> Here ya go. Feel free to scroll down until your conscience bothers you.
>
> https://baconfatreport.
>
> You client is Barry Winters of Edmonton Alberta and his email address
> can be found in the Cc line of this email
>
> Perhaps you should confer with your lawyers. Obviously I sent the
> emails l directly to them one year apart and received no response.
> Scroll past your message to me and you will see my latest email to you
> people in its entirety.
>
> Trust that my family and I will sue your company in the USA someday.
> However i have every right to sue WordPress in Canada first
>
> FYI My family still lives in the Boston area and you people have been
> publishing libel, sexual harassment and death threats against them for
> way past too long. Trust that I saved every word.of this evil website
> of yours.
>
> Clearly both the FBI and the RCMP got the same email as well. I am not
> joking about this.
>
> Veritas Vincit
> David Raymond Amos
> 902 800 0369
>
> > On 12/28/15, Sal P. - WordPress.com <court-orders@wordpress.com> wrote:
>> Hi there David,
>>
>> Thanks for getting in touch.
>>
>> I'm not seeng any previous emails from the address you're currently
>> writing
>> from, but perhaps you used a different address in the message you
>> mentioned
>> sending last year?
>>
>> If you have a complaint about a WordPress.com blog, please provide
>> further
>> information. In order to correctly review an abuse report we need the
>> following info:
>>
>> * The complete and exact URL of the post, page, or comment content being
>> reported.
>> * Direct quotations or citations of text or other material appearing at
>> the
>> above URL.
>> * Explanation as to why the above content is being reported as a
>> violation
>> of our Terms of Service, and specifically, which term said content is
>> violating.
>>
>> Once we have all of the above information, we can proceed with reviewing
>> your complaint.
>>
>> If you have legal process you'd like to send us, you can attach it in a
>> reply to this message. Keep in mind that WordPress.com is located in the
>> United States. Per our policies, we will respond only in compliance with
>> US
>> law and in reply to valid US-issued legal process or orders.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Sal P. | Community Guardian | WordPress.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 18:22:05 -0400
> Subject: Re Federal Court File No: T-1557-15 Did you order Harper and
> the NDP to ignore me as well???
> To: Liberal / Assistance <nbd_cna@liberal.ca>, cmunroe@glgmlaw.com, pm
> < pm@pm.gc.ca>, "justin.trudeau.a1" <justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca>
> < mcu@justice.gc.ca>
> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>
> How about Dizzy Lizzy May and the Bloc?
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>> Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 16:57:43 -0400
> Subject: Re: WELL A COUPLE ETHICAL COMPUTERS AFFIRMED YOUR RECEIPT OF
> BARRY WINTERS LATEST PUBLISHED DEATH THREAT AGAINST ME WITHIN WORDRESS
> AS THE MINDLESS ZIONIST CELEBRATES THE BIRTH OF A MAN HE LOVES TO HATE
> To: press@eff.org, sunrayzulu <sunrayzulu@shaw.ca>, "Paul.Lynch"
> < Paul.Lynch@edmontonpolice.ca>
> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> < justmin@gov.ns.ca>, "david.fraser" <david.fraser@mcinnescooper.
> andrew <andrew@frankmagazine.ca>, andrewjdouglas
> < andrewjdouglas@gmail.com>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: EFF Press <press@eff.org>
> Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 12:56:10 -0800
> Subject: Out of Office
> To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
>
> Hello. EFF offices are closed through January 4. We may be able to
> answer some urgent requests, but please note: we may not be able to
> get back to you as much of the staff is traveling. Thank you and see
> you on January 4.
>
> On 12/25/15, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------->> From: Cindy Cohn <cindy@eff.org>
>> Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 12:52:55 -0800
>> Subject: EFF is closed until January 4, 2016
>> To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>
>> EFF is closed until January 4, 2016.
>>
>> I will be periodically checking my email over the holiday, however. If
>> this is an emergency, please resend with URGENT in the subject line.
>>
>> For media requests, please email press@eff.org.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Cindy
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>>> Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 16:52:44 -0400
>> Subject: WELL A COUPLE ETHICAL COMPUTERS AFFIRMED YOUR RECEIPT OF
>> BARRY WINTERS LATEST PUBLISHED DEATH THREAT AGAINST ME WITHIN WORDRESS
>> AS THE MINDLESS ZIONIST CELEBRATES THE BIRTH OF A MAN HE LOVES TO HATE
>> To: sunrayzulu <sunrayzulu@shaw.ca>, "Paul.Lynch"
>> < Paul.Lynch@edmontonpolice.ca>
>> premier <premier@gov.ab.ca>, "scott.mckeen"
>> < scott.mckeen@edmonton.ca>, "don.marshall" <don.marshall@edmonton.ca>,
>> Cindy Bruneau <Cindy.Bruneau@edmonton.ca>, teddyspalace@gmail.com,
>> customercare.other@hudsonsbay.
>> marks.customer.service@
>> DDrummond <DDrummond@google.com>, abusecomplaints@markmonitor.
>> levi.heath@btlaw.com, jonathan.boustani@btlaw.com, mcu
>> < mcu@justice.gc.ca>, "justin.trudeau.a1"
>> < justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca>
>> < cindy@eff.org>, grosloff@durietangri.com, jeff@lakeshorelaw.org,
>> jgratz@durietangri.com, sagnolucci@kvn.com, axr@kvn.com,
>> dmcgowan@durietangri.com, ddurie@durietangri.com, patrick_doran1
>> < patrick_doran1@hotmail.com>, pol7163 <pol7163@calgarypolice.ca>,
>> "rodney.wadden" <rodney.wadden@fredericton.ca>
>> < rod.knecht@edmontonpolice.ca>
>> < martin.gaudet@fredericton.ca>
>> < Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
>> < Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Paul.Collister"
>> < Paul.Collister@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>> < mark.vespucci@ci.irs.gov>, "trudeau.j" <trudeau.j@parl.gc.ca>, john
>> graham <john.graham@safeway.com>, bruce bowman
>> < bruce.bowman@sobeys.com>, karin mccaskill
>> < karin.mccaskill@sobeys.com>, press@automattic.com, gopublic
>> < gopublic@cbc.ca>, andre <andre@jafaust.com>, oldmaison
>> < oldmaison@yahoo.com>, newsroom <newsroom@globeandmail.ca>, newsonline
>> < newsonline@bbc.co.uk>, news-tips <news-tips@nytimes.com>, news
>> < news@dailygleaner.com>, news <news@hilltimes.com>, news
>> < news@kingscorecord.com>, "mclaughlin.heather"
>> < mclaughlin.heather@
>> < radical@radicalpress.com>, paul <paul@paulfromm.com>,
>> business.ethics@safeway.com, tpandos@bentallkennedy.com,
>> customerservice@bestbuycanada.
>> "ed.pilkington" <ed.pilkington@guardian.co.uk>
>> < Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>
>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>> < lois@loisjoysheplawy.com>, bluelightning 03
>> < bluelightning_03@hotmail.com>
>>
>> I DOUBLE DOG DARE ANYONE WITH EVEN AN INKLING OF ETHICS OR EMPATHY TO
>> SCROLL THROUGH BARRY WINTERS EVIL BLOG AND TRY NOT TO BE OFFENDED
>>
>> HERE IS ANOTHER DEATH THREAT JUST TO RUB IT IN
>>
>> https://baconfatreport.
>>
>> https://baconfatreport.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Cindy Bruneau <cindy.bruneau@edmonton.ca>
>> Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 12:39:22 -0800
>> Subject: Out of Office Re: Fwd: Perhaps you and the RCMP should review
>> these voicemails the documents and emails within the old pdf files
>> hereto attached before you quit N'esy Pas Mario Dion?
>> To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>
>> I am away from the office and will return on Tuesday December 29
>> 2015. If your matter is time sensitive please contact Corporate
>> Security Monitoring and dispatch centre at 780-496-8888, and ask to
>> speak to the Advisor on call.
>>
>> I will respond to your email when I return.
>>
>> Have a great day!
>> --
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Cindy Bruneau, CPP
>> Corporate Security Advisor
>> Law Branch
>> Corporate Services
>> 780-496-5156
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> “Corporate Security’s mission is to mitigate risks to
>>
>> corporate assets and to contribute to the improved
>>
>> livability of employees and the citizens of Edmonton”
>>
>> To report a security incident:
>>
>> Click here
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Genevieve Rosloff <GRosloff@durietangri.com>
>> Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 12:39:29 -0800
>> Subject: Out of Office: Perhaps you and the RCMP should review these
>> voicemails the documents and emails within the old pdf files hereto
>> attached before you quit N'esy Pas Mario Dion?
>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>
>> Genevieve Rosloff is no longer with Durie Tangri LLP. Please call
>> 415-362-6666 if you need assistance.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/25/15, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Merry Xmass Mr Baconfat
>>>
>>> Here is one Hell of an email even if I do say so myself
>>>
>>> Please enjoy like you did the last one after you teased me about my
>>> Twitter account
>>>
>>> https://baconfatreport.
>>>
>>> https://baconfatreport.
>>>
>>> You mentioned a lot of people and businesses in your Xmass blog so I
>>> took the liberty of informing them I read your comments about them as
>>> you sanction my demise again. I also included some old emails to many
>>> other people who know very well by now.
>>>
>>> Trust that I will sue someday soon just as you have begged me to do
>>> for many years. In the "Mean" time say Hoka Hey for me the RCMP, the
>>> EPS and to your racist family such as your evil Mother, Lori and
>>> Austin Ink and their "Outlaws". as well. Need I say shame on you all?
>>> You know that I ain't one bit religious but but at least I am not wo
>>> faced. Why in Hell do you Zionist oxymorons celebrate Christmas while
>>> puting down Christ all the god damned time?
>>>
>>> I must also ask why does your daughter Keltie Winters and her cohorts
>>> in the Today Centre abide with what you publish about many people and
>>> her family in particular?
>>>
>>> Veritas Vincit
>>> David Raymond Amos
>>> 902 800 0369
>>> >>> P.S. Glen Canning and the lawyers who represent WordPress and Sobeys
>>> etc really should study this entire email rather closely this time.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://baconfatreport.
>>>
>>> “Its Christmas in the City,” Pure Hell with the Outlaws, and Death to
>>> David Amos!
>>> by baconfatreport on December 22, 2015
>>>
>>> Dead Rehtaeh Parsons…She wasn’t raped but she really liked to fuck her
>>> best friend’s boyfriends. Happy Christmas Glen and Leah.
>>>
>
>
> --- On Sun, 12/13/15, YouTube <noreply@youtube.com> wrote:
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Amos [mailto:motomaniac333@gmail.
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 11:09 AM
>> To: Craig Munroe <cmunroe@glgmlaw.com>; nbd_cna@liberal.ca; pm
>> < pm@pm.gc.ca>; ljulien@liberal.ca; pmilliken <pmilliken@cswan.com>;
>> bdysart
>> < bdysart@smss.com>; bdysart <bdysart@stewartmckelvey.com>;
>> Braeden.Caley@vancouver.ca; robert.m.schuett@schuettlaw.
>> jda@nf.aibn.com; eclark@coxandpalmer.com; office@liberal.ns.ca;
>> president@lpco.ca; david@lpcm.ca; emerchant@merchantlaw.com
>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>> Karine
>> Fortin <info@ndp.ca>; stephen.harper <stephen.harper.a1@parl.gc.ca>
>> Subject: Re: Attn Dr. John Gillis Re Federal Court File No: T-1557-15
>> Trust
>> that I called and tried to reason with a lot of Liberals begore I am
>> before
>> the court again on Monday Jan 11th
>>
>> On 1/6/16, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> BTW the nice guys who talked to me and didn't dismiss me I put in the
>>> BCC line
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>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 19:32:00 -0400
>>> Subject: Re Federal Court File No: T-1557-15 the CBC, the RCMP, their
>>> new boss Justin Trudeau and his Ministers of Justice and Defence etc
>>> cannot deny their knowledge of Paragraphs 81, 82, 83, 84, and 85 now
>>> CORRECT G$?
>>> To: Paul.Samyn@freepress.mb.ca, "carolyn.bennett"
>>> < carolyn.bennett@parl.gc.ca>, Doug@dougeyolfson.ca,
>>> doug.eyolfson@parl.gc.ca, fpcity@freepress.mb.ca,
>>> w.kinew@uwinnipeg.ca, "Paul.Lynch" <Paul.Lynch@edmontonpolice.ca>
>>> "Marianne.Ryan" <Marianne.Ryan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
>>> "john.green" <john.green@gnb.ca>, chiefape <chiefape@gmail.com>>>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>>> < gopublic@cbc.ca>, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, radical
>>> < radical@radicalpress.com>, newsonline <newsonline@bbc.co.uk>,
>>> newsroom <newsroom@globeandmail.ca>, nmoore <nmoore@bellmedia.ca>,
>>> andre <andre@jafaust.com>
>>>
>>> http://davidraymondamos3.
>>> html
>>>
>>> David Raymond Amos Versus The Crown T-1557-15
>>>
>>> 81. The Plaintiff states that matters of harassment that the police
>>> refuse to investigate would have entered the realm of ridiculous in
>>> 2012 if the reasons behind the suicides of teenagers did not become
>>> well known by the corporate media. In the summer of 2012 a new member
>>> of the FPS who as a former member of the EPS had inspired a lawsuit
>>> for beating a client in Edmonton called the Plaintiff and accused him
>>> of something he could not do even if he wanted to while he was arguing
>>> many lawyers byway of emails about a matter concerning cyber stalking
>>> that was before the SCC. The member of the FPF accused the Plaintiff
>>> of calling the boss of Bullying Canada thirty times. At that time his
>>> MagicJack account had been hacked and although he could receive
>>> incoming calls, the Plaintiff could not call out to anyone. The
>>> Plaintiff freely sent the FPF his telephone logs sourced from
>>> MagicJack after his account restored without the Crown having to issue
>>> a warrant to see his telephone records. He asked the FPF and the RCMP
>>> where did the records of his phone calls to and from the FPF and the
>>> RCMP go if his account had not been hacked. The police never
>>> responded. Years later a Troll sent Dean Roger Ray a message through
>>> YouTube providing info about the Plaintiff’s MagicJack account with
>>> the correct password. Dean Roger Ray promptly posted two videos in
>>> YouTube clearly displaying the blatant violation of privacy likely to
>>> protect himself from the crime. The Plaintiff quickly pointed out the
>>> videos to the RCMP and they refused to investigate as usual. At about
>>> the same point in time the Plaintiff noticed that the CBC had
>>> published a record of a access to information requests. On the list of
>>> requests he saw his name along with several employees of CBC and the
>>> boss of Bullying Canada. The Plaintiff called the CBC to make
>>> inquiries about what he saw published on the Internet. CBC told him it
>>> was none of his business and advised him if he thought his rights had
>>> been offended to file a complaint. It appears the Plaintiff that
>>> employees of CBC like other questionable Crown Corporations such as
>>> the RCMP rely on their attorneys far too much to defend them from
>>> litigation they invite from citizens they purportedly serve. The
>>> employees of CBC named within the aforementioned and the CBC Legal
>>> Dept. are very familiar with the Plaintiff and of the Crown barring
>>> him from legislative properties while he running for public office.
>>>
>>> 82. The Plaintiff states that any politician or police officer should
>>> have seen enough of Barry Winter’s WordPress blog by June 22, 2015
>>> particularly after the very unnecessary demise of two men in Alberta
>>> because of the incompetence of the EPS. Barry Winters was blogging
>>> about the EPS using battering ram in order to execute a warrant for a
>>> 250 dollar bylaw offence at the same time Professor Kris Wells
>>> revealed in a televised interview that the EPS member who was killed
>>> was the one investigating the cyber harassment of him. It was obvious
>>> why the police and politicians ignored all the death threats, sexual
>>> harassment, cyberbullying and hate speech of a proud Zionist who
>>> claimed to be a former CF officer who now working for the Department
>>> of National Defence (DND). It is well known that no politician in
>>> Canada is allowed to sit in Parliament as a member of the major
>>> parties unless they support Israel. Since 2002 the Plaintiff made it
>>> well known that he does not support Israeli actions and was against
>>> the American plan to make war on Iraq. On Aril 1, 2003 within two
>>> weeks of the beginning of the War on Iraq, the US Secret Service
>>> threatened to practice extraordinary rendition because false
>>> allegations of a Presidential threat were made against him by an
>>> American court. However, the Americans and the Crown cannot deny that
>>> what he said in two courts on April 1, 2003 because he published the
>>> recordings of what was truly said as soon as he got the court tapes.
>>> The RCMP knows those words can still be heard on the Internet today.
>>> In 2009, the Plaintiff began to complain of Barry Winters about
>>> something far more important to Canada as nation because of Winters’
>>> bragging of being one of 24 CF officers who assisted the Americans in
>>> the planning the War on Iraq in 2002. In the Plaintiff’s humble
>>> opinion the mandate of the DND is Defence not Attack. He is not so
>>> naive to think that such plans of war do not occur but if Barry
>>> Winters was in fact one of the CF officers who did so then he broke
>>> his oath to the Crown the instant he bragged of it in his blog. If
>>> Winters was never an officer in the CF then he broke the law by
>>> impersonating an officer. The Plaintiff downloaded the emails of the
>>> Privy Council about Wikileaks. The bragging of Barry Winters should
>>> have been investigated in 2009 before CBC reported that documents
>>> released by WikiLeaks supported his information about Canadian
>>> involvement in the War on Iraq.
>>>
>>> 83. The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war
>>> in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation to
>>> allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over
>>> five years after he began his bragging:
>>>
>>> January 13, 2015
>>> This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate
>>>
>>> December 8, 2014
>>> Why Canada Stood Tall!
>>>
>>> Friday, October 3, 2014
>>> Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And
>>> Stupid Justin Trudeau
>>>
>>> Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide
>>> behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
>>>
>>> When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean Chretien
>>> actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second campaign
>>> in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or contrary to
>>> the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were
>>> involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There were
>>> significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the dearth
>>> of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for
>>> operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “last minute”
>>> Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its mind.
>>> The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not
>>> deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a
>>> Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins to
>>> redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was
>>> less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq. But
>>> alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister Chretien’s
>>> then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s
>>> incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic,
>>> professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle
>>> Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway
>>> campaign of 2006.
>>>
>>> What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that then
>>> Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the
>>> Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice, consent,
>>> support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament.
>>>
>>> What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and babbling
>>> chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment of
>>> less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by planners
>>> as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a
>>> deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make.
>>>
>>> The Canadian Government or The Crown unlike our amerkan cousins have
>>> the “constitutional authority” to commit the Canadian nation to war.
>>> That has been recently clearly articulated to the Canadian public by
>>> constitutional scholar Phillippe Legasse. What Parliament can do is
>>> remove “confidence” in The Crown’s Government in a “vote of
>>> non-confidence.” That could not happen to the Chretien Government
>>> regarding deployment to Afghanistan, and it won’t happen in this
>>> instance with the conservative majority in The Commons regarding a
>>> limited Canadian deployment to the Middle East.
>>>
>>> President George Bush was quite correct after 911 and the terror
>>> attacks in New York; that the Taliban “occupied” and “failed state”
>>> Afghanistan was the source of logistical support, command and control,
>>> and training for the Al Quaeda war of terror against the world. The
>>> initial defeat, and removal from control of Afghanistan was vital and
>>> essential for the security and tranquility of the developed world. An
>>> ISIS “caliphate,” in the Middle East, no matter how small, is a clear
>>> and present danger to the entire world. This “occupied state,”
>>> or“failed state” will prosecute an unending Islamic inspired war of
>>> terror against not only the “western world,” but Arab states
>>> “moderate” or not, as well. The security, safety, and tranquility of
>>> Canada and Canadians are just at risk now with the emergence of an
>>> ISIS“caliphate” no matter how large or small, as it was with the
>>> Taliban and Al Quaeda “marriage” in Afghanistan.
>>>
>>> One of the everlasting “legacies” of the “Trudeau the Elder’s dynasty
>>> was Canada and successive Liberal governments cowering behind the
>>> amerkan’s nuclear and conventional military shield, at the same time
>>> denigrating, insulting them, opposing them, and at the same time
>>> self-aggrandizing ourselves as “peace keepers,” and progenitors of
>>> “world peace.” Canada failed. The United States of Amerka, NATO, the
>>> G7 and or G20 will no longer permit that sort of sanctimonious
>>> behavior from Canada or its government any longer. And Prime Minister
>>> Stephen Harper, Foreign Minister John Baird , and Cabinet are fully
>>> cognizant of that reality. Even if some editorial boards, and pundits
>>> are not.
>>>
>>> Justin, Trudeau “the younger” is reprising the time “honoured” liberal
>>> mantra, and tradition of expecting the amerkans or the rest of the
>>> world to do “the heavy lifting.” Justin Trudeau and his “butt buddy”
>>> David Amos are telling Canadians that we can guarantee our security
>>> and safety by expecting other nations to fight for us. That Canada can
>>> and should attempt to guarantee Canadians safety by providing
>>> “humanitarian aid” somewhere, and call a sitting US president a “war
>>> criminal.” This morning Australia announced they too, were sending
>>> tactical aircraft to eliminate the menace of an ISIS “caliphate.”
>>>
>>> In one sense Prime Minister Harper is every bit the scoundrel Trudeau
>>> “the elder” and Jean ‘the crook” Chretien was. Just As Trudeau, and
>>> successive Liberal governments delighted in diminishing,
>>> marginalizing, under funding Canadian Forces, and sending Canadian
>>> military men and women to die with inadequate kit and modern
>>> equipment; so too is Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Canada’s F-18s are
>>> antiquated, poorly equipped, and ought to have been replaced five
>>> years ago. But alas, there won’t be single RCAF fighter jock that
>>> won’t go, or won’t want to go, to make Canada safe or safer.
>>>
>>> My Grandfather served this country. My father served this country. My
>>> Uncle served this country. And I have served this country. Justin
>>> Trudeau has not served Canada in any way. Thomas Mulcair has not
>>> served this country in any way. Liberals and so called social
>>> democrats haven’t served this country in any way. David Amos, and
>>> other drooling fools have not served this great nation in any way. Yet
>>> these fools are more than prepared to ensure their, our safety to
>>> other nations, and then criticize them for doing so.
>>>
>>> Canada must again, now, “do our bit” to guarantee our own security,
>>> and tranquility, but also that of the world. Canada has never before
>>> shirked its responsibility to its citizens and that of the world.
>>>
>>> Prime Minister Harper will not permit this country to do so now
>>>
>>> From: dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca
>>> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:17:17 -0400
>>> Subject: RE: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and
>>> the War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still
>>> alive
>>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>
>>> This is to confirm that the Minister of National Defence has received
>>> your email and it will be reviewed in due course. Please do not reply
>>> to this message: it is an automatic acknowledgement.
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:55:30 -0300
>>> Subject: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and the
>>> War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still alive
>>> To: DECPR@forces.gc.ca, Public.Affairs@socom.mil,
>>> Raymonde.Cleroux@mpcc-cppm.gc.
>>> william.elliott@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>> dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca, media@drdc-rddc.gc.ca, information@forces.gc.ca,
>>> milner@unb.ca, charters@unb.ca, lwindsor@unb.ca,
>>> sarah.weir@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca, birgir <birgir@althingi.is>, smari
>>> < smari@immi.is>, greg.weston@cbc.ca, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>,
>>> susan@blueskystrategygroup.com
>>> eugene@blueskystrategygroup.
>>> Cc: "Edith. Cody-Rice" <Edith.Cody-Rice@cbc.ca>, "terry.seguin"
>>> < terry.seguin@cbc.ca>, acampbell <acampbell@ctv.ca>, whistleblower
>>> < whistleblower@ctv.ca>
>>>
>>> I talked to Don Newman earlier this week before the beancounters David
>>> Dodge and Don Drummond now of Queen's gave their spin about Canada's
>>> Health Care system yesterday and Sheila Fraser yapped on and on on
>>> CAPAC during her last days in office as if she were oh so ethical.. To
>>> be fair to him I just called Greg Weston (613-288-6938) I suggested
>>> that he should at least Google SOUCOM and David Amos It would be wise
>>> if he check ALL of CBC's sources before he publishes something else
>>> about the DND EH Don Newman? Lets just say that the fact that your
>>> old CBC buddy, Tony Burman is now in charge of Al Jazeera English
>>> never impressed me. The fact that he set up a Canadian office is
>>> interesting though
>>>
>>> http://www.
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https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/dimitri-lascaris-wants-the-green-party-to-be-the-champion-of-canadas-left
Dimitri Lascaris wants the Green Party to be the champion of Canada’s left
Still, the Greens ultimately failed to sharpen their message and establish a firm foothold in the House of Commons. Several key issues served to derail the party’s prospects for broader appeal, and despite some late-campaign momentum that had many expecting a third-place finish, it ended up without any real leverage in a minority parliament.
Elizabeth May got bogged down in questions about her—and by extension, the party’s—official position on abortion, while Pierre Nantel, a high-profile candidate who quit the NDP to run for the Greens in a Montreal-area riding, courted controversy for doubling down on his sovereignist views.
Above all, however, it was the Green’s failure to distinguish itself as a bold progressive faction (on issues other than the environment) that proved its downfall. How could a party that ran with an unsophisticated and wide-eyed slogan of “Not Left. Not Right. Forward” break through to disgruntled voters on either side of the political spectrum?
Strangely, despite promising progressive policy measures including free tuition, cancellation of student debt, pharmacare and a “guaranteed liveable income,” the party’s now former leader concluded that, from the point of view of the Greens, “the whole idea of a left-right dichotomy is something of an anachronism.”
The Greens now find themselves again at a crossroads. May stepped down in November after 13 years at the helm, and the party’s leadership convention is slated to take place in Charlottetown in early October (if COVID-19 doesn’t move the date).
So far, there are six candidates vying to replace May: Annamie Paul, a lawyer and international affairs specialist from Toronto; Alex Tyrrell, the leader of the Green party in Quebec; Amita Kuttner of Burnaby, who holds a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics; David Merner, a lawyer, public servant and former Green Party candidate for Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke in 2019; Judy Green, a grandmother from Nova Scotia who has held positions with the Canadian Forces; and Dimitri Lascaris, a lawyer who ran for the Greens in London in 2015, and served as a shadow cabinet minister without holding a seat in the House of Commons.
Lascaris is intent to push the Green Party to the left, and to dispense with the notion that ideological camps on the right or the left have lost their meaning. Above all, though, he wants to give progressives a place to stake their long-term future, and give the majority of Canadians who hold progressive views a real voice in parliament.
Canadian Dimension spoke with Lascaris on Saturday, April 11.
Harrison Samphir: Right off the top: what do you think of how the Liberals have handled the pandemic so far?
Dimitri Lascaris: If you look at what we are doing as a snapshot of the current world in which we live, I’d say from a public health perspective we’re doing a pretty good job. The Liberals have taken limited resources during an unprecedented public health crisis and managed, primarily through strong spatial distancing measures, to keep the infection rate and the mortality rate down. If you compare us, for example, to our neighbours south of the border, and adjusting for population size, Canada has fared much better in terms of apparent infections and deaths. But we should also acknowledge that the risk of a pandemic has been known for years, and in my view there’s no excuse for the fact that a wealthy country like Canada does not have adequate quantities of protective equipment to deal with a crisis of this nature.
We don’t have an adequate supply of masks for frontline healthcare workers, and we don’t have a well thought-out plan to increase the hospitalization capacity in this country. There will come a time when we will have to analyze all of that, and ask ourselves the hard question about how much of this should have been anticipated and prepared for from a public health perspective, and I think that’s a discussion that must be had in order to avoid something like this happening again in the future. But I think right now, considering the resources available to the government, it’s done a pretty good job. From an economic perspective, I think its performance has been much less satisfactory.
HS: Let’s get into that. In your view, how have the government’s economic response measures fallen short?
DL: Well, my primary criticism is that there are millions of Canadians who are not covered by the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB). I have been advocating very strongly for making the CERB available to every single Canadian, and we shouldn’t have criteria which unfairly exclude any vulnerable citizen. These things should be universally available. I also think this type of income support should be permanent, that we should have a guaranteed basic income. There’s really no excuse for us not to have one. And I think the government has not dealt adequately with the question of rent for small businesses, and particularly residential renters.
I’ve been calling for months for a minimum three-month rent holiday, applicable to large landlords. We should also have an interest holiday in this country—and this is perhaps my biggest criticisms of the government. We have wildly profitable banks in Canada. They have been making money hand over fist, and they received support during the last financial crisis in various forms. There’s absolutely no reason why the government should not be mandating, through legislation, a minimum of a three-month interest holiday so that Canadians don’t have to pay any interest (and I’m talking about the forgiveness of interest, not deferment) on mortgage loans, consumer loans, credit card balances and student debt. It should be three months to begin with, and it can be revisited later. Up until now, the government has been saying that it’s been asking the banks to be nice to Canadians. You know, banks aren’t in the habit of being nice, frankly, to their customers—their primary and overwhelming objective is to make money, as much of it is possible, and enrich the executives and the shareholders, and they have proven this over a period of decades. Banks aren’t going to play nice. They have to be obliged, as a legal matter, to give Canadians who are desperately in need of relief from interest, the necessary help.
HS: Following up on that, how do you feel the opposition parties, notably the NDP, have responded? Has their response been adequate to hold the government to account during this time, and push for some of the economic measures you mentioned?
DL: I think overall the opposition parties have performed reasonably well, and my comment doesn’t simply apply to the NDP. It’s very difficult for opposition parties in the current climate to be critical, and I understand that, because there’s a natural tendency on the part of the citizenry to come together and look for unity from their leaders during a public health emergency. So the pandemic presents a difficult environment for any party to be critical, and I think you have to measure your words carefully. On the whole, however, I think the opposition parties collectively have done a reasonably good job in these trying circumstances.
One thing that I was very pleased to see was that the Green Party of Canada leadership, along with other opposition parties, strenuously opposed what was a vast overreach by the Trudeau government during the first economic aid legislation, where the Liberals were looking for parliament’s blessing for them to make—without virtually any oversight—taxing and spending decision for a period of two years. Opposition parties fought that, and the Liberals were forced to retreat, but it was a fight well worth having, and I was encouraged to see that the Green Party and other parties were willing to step up to the plate.
HS: Let’s turn to the Green Party itself. Why do you want to be its next leader?
DL: I first started thinking about this in November of last year, and did not make up my mind until the middle of February. So I took a good three months, and I consulted with dozens of people around the country whom I respect and who have similar values to my own. Some of those people are traditional supporters of the Green Party, some are traditional supporters of the NDP, some are further to the left of both parties, and some are independents. One of the things that I heard and that I learned during that process was the immense frustration progressive Canadians feel about the fact that they’re not really represented in parliament. And I think that’s true. It’s a view I’ve held myself for years, and I’ve been quite vocal about it. The NDP, which has never really been a radical party, certainly not in my lifetime—although it was further to the left for some years when I was growing up—moved very much to the centre under Tom Mulcair. I think Jagmeet Singh’s leadership has been slightly more progressive than Mulcair, but fundamentally, Singh has left the party firmly ensconced in the centre of the political spectrum.
The Green Party of Canada has explicitly positioned itself as a centrist party for the last ten or more years, going all the way back to the Jim Harris era. In fact, the Green Party’s slogan for the campaign during the 2019 election was: “Not Left. Not Right. Forward.” So there was an explicit effort by the party leadership to disassociate itself from the left. And so you have a stunning situation in parliament, despite an incredible number of people in this country who lean in a progressive direction, where there isn’t a single leader who truly represents the left. I think this is an opportunity for us to change that, and for us to give a voice to the millions of Canadians who feel they’re underrepresented in parliament, and begin to demand far more bold measures in terms of dealing with social injustice, improving our appalling foreign policy—which in virtually every way mimics that of the United States—and ending our systemic discrimination against Indigenous peoples and other marginalized groups including black Canadians.
We also need to deal with the question of militarism, and our extreme levels of defence spending. I think we should be having a debate about our membership in NATO—I think we should get out, and I’ve been very clear about that. I think a lot of Canadians feel that way and nobody is advocating for it, nobody will even discuss these things in parliament. When is the last time you heard a parliamentary debate about whether or not Canada should be in NATO? We can’t even talk about these issues in the current political environment, and I think that has to change.
DL: Well, perceptions are very interesting. I did a long interview on the Craig Needles Show in London about a week ago, and towards the end of the conversation, during which I said many of the same things I’ve said to you, Craig said “So you want to move the Green Party even further to the left?” He found that to be quite remarkable, you know, because he and a number of other people in the media landscape and on the right of the political spectrum already believe that the Green Party is a left wing party. I think there’s some truth to that—the party has long been a champion of universal basic income (UBI), taken bold positions on climate change, and is a big proponent of pharmacare. It’s also arguably the most vigorous defender of Indigenous rights in parliament, and by a significant margin. So if you compare the Green Party to the impoverished standards of politics in Canada today, I think you could fairly describe it, despite what the leadership may say, as a moderately left wing party.
But I think we can do much better, both in delivering our message and improving the content of our message. So for example, one thing that matters a great deal to me is inequality in this country. The Green Party of Canada did not advocate in the last election, and has tended to avoid advocating for sharp increases in the top marginal tax rate. For much of the post-World War II period—and this is rarely talked about by media personalities in this country, or by the business community—the top marginal tax rate in Canada and the United States, hardly a socialist country, was in excess of 90 percent, and for an even longer period it was in excess of 70 percent. Why isn’t anyone advocating for a minimum of a 70 percent top marginal tax rate, when we have exploding inequality in this country and fewer than 90 of the richest families owning as much wealth as three provinces combined, while tens of thousands live on the streets and millions live in poverty, including many children? So the party has not advocated for increases in the top marginal tax rate, and I think it should.
The party also has not been a vigorous defender of organized labour, and I’ve even heard some people say, people on the left who care deeply about the rights of workers, that the Green Party leadership is anti-labour. So I think we should be advocating for a series of reforms to defend the rights of organized labour in Canada, and we should be advocating for a much higher minimum wage in this country. There are a whole range of things that we should be talking about and we should be leading on that relate to the whole question of inequality and social justice. We should be talking about housing being a human right. There should not be one single Canadian who is homeless. There should be not one single Canadian living in poverty. We have the wealth as a county to ensure that that is possible.
So I think the party has put a lot of eggs into the environmental basket, and I certainly intend, if I am elected leader, to continue to be a tireless defender of the environment and a tireless advocate for the resolution of the climate emergency. But I think we need to broaden our scope and also talk about inequality and social injustice. That is, after all, one of our core values, it’s just not one that’s talked about a lot. Of the six core values we have, one of them is social justice. Another one is non-violence. So why as a party are we not advocating for a drastic decrease in military spending? That’s something we didn’t do in the last election. That’s something I would favour, and I’d even start a conversation about the complete demilitarization of this country. Why do we even have a standing army? These are important conversations I think we should be having.
HS: Would you describe yourself as an eco-socialist?
DL: I would, yes. But I’ve had a very interesting series of discussions ever since the press learned that I was thinking about running back in December. I was asked this question at the very outset, and I answered it honestly: I am an eco-socialist and I am proud to be one. But a significant percentage of the people within the Green Party expressed to me the view that highlighting that fact, and emphasizing that label of eco-socialist, may scare away a lot of voters. I don’t necessarily accept that, but I do think there is a lot of misunderstanding in Canada about what socialism is, and so what I’ve decided to do, when a journalist such as yourself asks me that question, I’m going to answer it honestly. But at the same time, I’m not going to lead with my eco-socialism, because I think that may engender some misunderstanding among those who don’t have quite a good handle on what that means. I’m going to lead with specific policies. And I think if you look at the sum total of the policies I’m advocating for, it absolutely is eco-socialism, but why not explain to people the policies first, and then they’ll understand what you mean when you respond to the question affirmatively and say Yes, I am an eco-socialist.
HS: Under your leadership, what will the Green Party do to foster a healthier relationship with the natural world, to fight climate change, and halt biodiversity loss?
HS: You just touched on this, but how will the Green Party help to achieve the goal of restoring or protecting 30 percent of land and freshwater by 2030, a promise that has been made by the Liberal government?
DL: Well I think we absolutely have to expand the protected areas in this country. It’s a difficult discussion to have, becuase North American society in general has grown very accustomed to having a meat-based diet. I think we need to be talking about the necessity of moving away from this dependency. Even if people are unwilling to give up meat altogether, they can certainly reduce substantially their consumption. This will enable us to commit less arable land to livestock. If we can reduce that reliance, we can restore a lot of the land that’s currently being used as pasture and farmland to a forested state, which will also help us to deal with the climate emergency and enhance biodiversity. So I think we need to be having a much more assertive conversation about the need to alter our diet as Canadians, and that’s something that many political parties, and indeed the environmental movement has been shy about.
HS: Under your leadership, will the Green Party be willing to impose stricter regulations on the natural resources sector, contrary to the current practice of industry self-regulation?
One thing I learned during my career as a class action lawyer is that self-regulation is an oxymoron. It’s a contradiction in terms. There’s no such thing as self-regulation. We’ve been hearing for years that it was under the Stephen Harper government and the Trudeau government, this concept of voluntary corporate social responsibility for Canada’s mining sector. The proof is in the pudding. This concept, which successive governments have relied upon, to “regulate” the mining industry, particularly in their foreign operations, has been completely ineffective. The mining industry continues to contribute to environmental degradation, and it continues to engage in human rights violations around the world. The only way to regulate any for-profit industry effectively is by having independent regulators who are highly trained. We need to shut the revolving door between regulators and industry, and we have to give regulators the enforcement power and resources necessary to ensure compliance. So I have a dramatically different vision of what regulation ought to look like than that of the other parties.
HS: Let’s shift now to foreign policy. You have been a longtime critic of Canadian foreign policy, in particular the longstanding support by both the Liberals and Conservatives for Israel, at the expense of Palestinian lives and self-determination. Do you endorse BDS. If so, why?
DL: Former Green Party leader Elizabeth May went to the West Bank in 2018 with other parliamentarians, and was given a view of the West Bank and the occupation which few parliamentarians, particularly Liberals and Conservatives have ever had, because they’re not interested in hearing from Palestinian voices, they just don’t care. And when Elizabeth May came back, she said that what is being done to the Palestinians in the West Bank is far worse than apartheid in South Africa. Now this is not just May’s view. This is my view. I’ve been to the West Bank four times over the course of 25 years, and I’ve seen the degradation of the living conditions and the rights of the Palestinians living under occupation. This is the view of Noam Chomsky, one of the most respected public intellectuals in the world today. This is the view of John Dugard, the former United Nations Special Rapporteur to the commission on “the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967”. He’s a South African human rights lawyer. There are many people who have come to understand that was is happening in the Occupied Territories is in fact far worse than apartheid.
What I’m saying is very simple: that we treat Israel the way we do any other violator of human rights, by imposing sanctions and restrictions on trade. I think that’s a very simple message that no conscientious Canadian should disagree with.
HS: How about Canada’s relationship with the United States? The Trudeau government has been very cooperative with the Trump administration, helping to sign the new NAFTA. I’d like you to talk about some of the false promises of free trade agreements and how the Green Party would approach the issue of globalization more broadly.
DL: If I was in a position of leadership, the first thing I would do is demand a renegotiation of NAFTA. Several things, amongst others, would need to be incorporated in the agreement for me, as leader of the party or leader of the government, to support it. The first thing we’d need to do is to get rid of investor state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms which allow corporations to sue governments for potentially massive sums whenever they threaten their profits in the public interest. I would make this a prerequisite for any trade agreement that Canada has. The countries with which we enter into these agreements must agree to have minimum levels of protections for workers, they have to have minimum levels of protection for the environment, and they need to have minimum levels of protection for human rights. Those would have to be embodies explicitly in any trade agreement our country signs on to, and there would have to be an enforcement mechanism attached, so that we would have the ability to impose tariffs or other protective measures in the event a government with which we’ve entered into a trade agreement does not respect its commitment to workers rights, human rights, and the environment. That would be absolutely essential.
I’ve been saying for years that successive governments have made our economy increasingly reliant upon the United States. And I think the chickens are coming home to roost, perhaps in a very big way. The Trump administration is doing a terrible job of handling the current public health crisis, and it is doing an atrocious job of handling the economic fallout. We are so tied to the United States economically, we are so interdependent, that even if our government succeeds in managing the COVID-19 pandemic from a public health and economic standpoint, we could be dragged down with the US economy. We could suffer tremendously due to this interdependence.
Our industry should be much more local, and our imports and exports should be much more diversified. We should be developing home-grown industries. We saw a little bit of this in Trudeau’s response to the pandemic, when he announced his government was going to give millions of dollars of funding to Canadian-based pharmaceutical companies to help them come up with a vaccine and treatment for COVID-19. This is something we should have been doing decades ago. We should have been investing in local industry, so that we’re not so heavily reliant upon the US, and particularly an administration led by Donald Trump. So we’re not truly independent, and that’s reflected in both our trade and foreign policy.
HS: How would your winning of the Green Party leadership affect the left in Canada?
DL: My primary concern is to win the hearts and minds of the traditional base of the Green Party of Canada. But the question has arisen, how are going to grow the party? So showing the NDP base that we are serious about defending the values that they hold dear is one way to do that. There are also millions of Canadians who do not vote. Last year, almost eight million eligible voters, in a country of 37 million people, did not even bother to vote. I’m troubled by people who don’t vote, but they have legitimate grievances. They say the electoral system has abandoned them, and that it’s a farce. They think they are legitimizing a broken system by casting a vote. There are millions of Canadians who feel the government has abandoned them and doesn’t care about them, and they are overwhelmingly marginalized folks. So that’s a huge potential source of support.
There’s also a left wing of the Liberal Party. I don’t think it controls the party, but it’s there, and it is very concerned with Trudeau’s failure to address the climate crisis, and I think that’s another potential source of support. So there are a lot of ways we can grow this party, and in order for us to do that, we need to demonstrate to those groups I just mentioned, that we’re the true voice of the left, we’re the true voice of equality, social justice and peace, and that the rest of the parties are pretenders. These folks who pretend to be serious about social justice, inequality, demilitarization and peace, we need to call them out, and we need to be better than them. I think we can grow this party dramatically if we can accomplish that.
HS: Finally, what would you say to left organizations like the Courage Coalition and Democratic Socialists of Canada?
DL: I’d say to them that, first of all, this is your chance to make a difference. Get involved in this race. There are going to be forces, forces of the status quo, neoliberals, people who advocate for regimes that I’ve been very critical of, that are going to oppose my leadership bid, and they’ve already started to do that. If the Courage Coalition, for example, is serious about seeing the rise of the left in electoral politics, when a candidate like me comes along—and not just me, anyone who says the things that I do and has an established record of saying them—we need to see those organizations get behind them. I need their support if I’m going to win this race. I need to the left to be unified behind me. If they do that, I promise one thing to them all: I will never betray my values. I would rather lose political office honourably and ethically than win it dishonourably and unethically. It doesn’t matter that much to me to be in power. I view power as a means to an end. And that is to make the world a more just and sustainable and peaceful place. If I can’t do that by being an elected official, then I have no interest in being one.
This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
Harrison Samphir is an editor, writer and policy analyst based in Toronto. His work has appeared in CBC, Jacobin, NOW Magazine, Huffington Post, rabble.ca, Ricochet, Truthout, and the Winnipeg Free Press, among others. In 2016, he completed an MA in International Relations at the University of Sussex. Harrison has served as Dimension’s web editor since 2014.
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Dimitri
is a lawyer, journalist, and activist based in Montreal, Quebec. After
graduating from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1991, he
began his law career at the Wall Street law firm of Sullivan &
Cromwell. In 2004 he joined Siskinds LLP, one of Canada’s leading class
action law firms. There, he co-founded and led Canada’s largest and most
accomplished team of securities class action lawyers, recovering more
than $450,000,000 for aggrieved investors.In 2016, Dimitri retired from Siskinds in order to devote himself to journalism, activism, and pro bono legal work. He has been a correspondent of The Real News Network, and has served on the Boards of numerous public-interest organizations, including The Unity Project for the Relief of Homelessness, Pro Bono Ontario, and Toronto350.
In Canada’s 2015 federal election, Dimitri ran for the Green Party of Canada (GPC) in the riding of London West. Subsequently, he served as Justice Critic in the Shadow Cabinet of the GPC and as Justice Critic in the Shadow Cabinet of the Green Party of Quebec.
To learn more, read Dimitri's Story.
Reem Bahdi
Professor Bahdi joined the University of Windsor Faculty of Law in 2002. Her current research focuses on two areas: the human rights dimensions of national security laws and policies in Canada, and access to justice in the Palestinian context. Professor Bahdi is Co-Director of KARAMAH, The Project on Judicial Independence and Human Dignity, a multi-million dollar initiative which aims to support access to justice in Palestine through research, continuing judicial education and directed civil society engagement. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice.
Professor Bahdi teaches Access to Justice and
Torts. She was awarded the Student Law Society Faculty Award for
exemplary teaching and dedication to Windsor Law in 2008 and the
University of Windsor Faculty Recognition Award in 2005. Professor Bahdi
served as Associate Dean of Windsor Law from 2012 - September 2015.
Atul Bahl
Atul Bahl is a lifelong educator in the Ontario public school system. He is a passionate progressive with a distinguished record of activism in social justice, organized labour and anti-racism. Atul served as President of the federal NDP riding association for Trinity-Spadina during Olivia Chow’s two terms as the MP for the riding. Atul has joined Dimitri’s campaign team to help unite progressives under Dimitri’s leadership of the Green Party.
Lisa Barrett
A mediator and arbitrator with two decades of experience, Lisa is a Board member for Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada, which campaigns for lawyers whose rights, freedoms or independence are threatened as a result of their human rights advocacy. Lisa is also a local co-ordinator for Code Pink Women for Peace, and former Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Director of Vancity Credit Union. Lisa is a past member of Shadow Cabinet and also ran as a Green Party candidate.Saul Bottcher
Saul is a democracy and human rights activist based in Brampton, Ontario. A member of the Green Party for 16 years, Saul was a candidate in 2015 in the riding of Brampton Centre. He has also been a frequent participant in the party's policy development process, collaborating with other members on a variety of human rights, democracy, and internal governance policies.
Karen Brill
Karen originally became involved with the Green Party when she was active on the Franklin River Blockade in Tasmania, Australia, during the early 80’s. Trained in Civil Disobedience, NVA and Consensus Decision Making, she led the orientation of new volunteers and was involved in several non-violent actions during the campaign. She is a current member of the Davenport Executive of the GPC.Karen started her career working in mental health and moved on to work and consult in the private and public sectors in leadership development and talent management. She holds a Master’s degree in Adult Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, an undergraduate degree in Social Work from McMaster University, and is trained in Organizational Relationship Systems. She has a proven track record of planning and implementing change initiatives for all levels in the organization, and a strong background in competency-based learning, strategy implementation, team development, and group facilitation.
Karen lives in Toronto where she has raised two sons. In her free time, she enjoys volunteering in her community with adults experiencing transition, as well as cycling, canoeing, swimming and running. Karen loves the arts and is learning to play the ukulele.
Isabella Crispino
Isabella is a student at the
University of Oxford, where she is studying global history and politics.
As the daughter of Italian-Canadian parents, Isabella grew up between
Montreal and Geneva, Switzerland and moved to England for her university
studies.
During her time at Oxford, she has
further developed her passion for human rights, environmental issues and
current affairs. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of a cultural and
literary journal, The Oxford Review of Books, has worked consistently
throughout her degree to raise money for refugee legal aid through
student charity, and has assisted the Oxford Climate Society in their
campaign to achieve carbon neutrality throughout the University.
Dr. Radhika Desai
Radhika Desai is Professor at the Department of Political Studies, and Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group, at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. She recently started her third term as President of the Society for Socialist Studies. Dr. Desai is the author of Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire (2013), and has written, edited, or co-edited seven other books, with four currently underway.Dr. Desai's work covers party politics, political and economic theory, nationalism, and British, US and Indian politics. Her approach is historical and based on political economy. In her 2013 work, Geopolitical Economy, she proposed a new approach to understanding world affairs which placed the economic role of nations centrally, and used a distinctive interpretation of the interrelated ideas of uneven and combined development, 'late development', and the developmental state as the key to explaining the dynamic of international relations of the modern capitalist world.
Dr. Desai was educated at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India, and at Queen's University at Kingston, Canada.
Alan Freeman
Alan Freeman was an economist at the Greater London Authority (UK) from 2000 to 2011, where he wrote Creativity, London's Core Business and was lead author for London: a Cultural Audit. He helped define the UK's system for measuring the cultural and creative industries. Alan was also lead researcher for The Living Wage: towards a Fairer London, which laid the statistical foundation for setting the Living Wage in the UK and in various other countries including New Zealand.Alan believes that creativity defines the human spirit, and he campaigns for an economy that ends resource-destructive modes of growth by prioritising creative production. Now retired, he lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba where, with Radhika Desai, he co-directs the Geopolitical Economy Research Group at the University of Manitoba. Alan served on the board of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra from 2012 till 2018 and serves on the boards of Manitobans for the Arts and Video Pool Manitoba.
Wendy Goldsmith
A social worker in London, Ontario for more than two decades, Wendy sailed with the Women's Boat to Gaza in 2016. She is an organizer for human rights in her community, nationally and internationally. Wendy is the proud mom of three amazing children and dreams of a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world for them and for all children.
Colin Griffiths
Colin Griffiths has been a member of the GPC for over 15 years. During the leadership contest in 2006, he was part of Elizabeth May’s team. He has been actively engaged in Green Party politics in several ridings, including Lanark / Mississippi Mills, Northumberland / Quinte West, Gatineau, Hull / Aylmer and lately Pontiac. As a member of their executives, he has been responsible for establishing and growing party memberships wherever he has volunteered. Several party policies have benefitted from Colin’s contributions. He has been a member of several federal committees, such as the constitution committee and was involved in the leadership review in 2016. In the 2015 election, Colin ran as the GPC candidate in Pontiac.Rowan Miller
As a first-time Green Party candidate in the 2019 election in the riding of Tobique—Mactaquac, Rowan achieved 14.1% popular support.Matthew Peloza
A CPA and CMA, Matthew is Budget and Forecast Manager at GoodLife Fitness, and a past candidate for the Green Party of Canada in 2015 and 2011.
Sheila Rea
From growing up on a farm, to small towns and big cities, Sheila has made her home in Nanaimo, BC. She joined the Green Party in 2015 and volunteered in Paul Manly’s Federal Campaign that same year.She has worked in the advertising industry with a major ad agency, as a small business entrepreneur and as a day trader where she learned much about the injustices in our economic and financial system and the failings of the political systems that support them. Sheila currently is a passionate and outspoken advocate for political action and policies that best serve the greater needs of society, the economy and the environment equally.
Rami Yahia
Rami Yahia is a Canadian activist with Palestinian background. He first became involved with social movements in 2014 through Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) Concordia. Following this, he became an executive of the Concordia Student Union, where he advocated on behalf of Concordia undergraduate students. Rami then became the Secretary General of the Association for the Voice of Education in Quebec (AVEQ), a provincial student association in Quebec. AVEQ’s mission was to offer a more democratic student union that was centered around Quebec universities in the regions outside of Montreal. AVEQ played a crucial role in developing Quebec’s law on sexual harassment on university campuses. Rami has experience in media communications and social media advertising, which he developed through his hot sauce start-up CustomHeats.
Special Advisor: Kike Ojo-Thompson
Kike is the founder of the Kojo Institute and a leader in equity consulting, directing organizations beyond 'diversity quotas' and buzzwords toward truly equitable cultures and outcomes.In order to resolve the crisis of systemic racism in Canada, Dimitri believes it is vital for the Green Party to engage with those who are on the frontlines of the struggle for racial justice and to seek guidance from both party members and experts from outside the party. That's why Dimitri has appointed Kike Ojo-Thompson as his campaign's anti-racism advisor.
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