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Charitable sector struggling to stay afloat: Imagine Canada on the CBC Power & Politics
Our CEO Bruce MacDonald spoke with the CBC Vassy Kapelos about the unprecedented challenges charities are facing due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The interview addresses the urgent need for support from the government.
"It's pretty dramatic," MacDonald told Power & Politics host Vassy Kapelos. "Most charities in this country are being profoundly affected by drops in revenues, by a need to change and adapt their services, by not having access to volunteers, many of whom delivered those services."
In early May, Imagine Canada will be releasing data from a recent sector survey on the impact of COVID-19. Preliminary results show that over 70% of organizations are reporting a decline in revenues, and that the impact is much more significant than the 2008-2009 economic collapse.
To be well positioned for recovery when the time comes, Imagine Canada is asking the federal government for a Sector Resilience Grant program.
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Watch the full interview below, and read the CBC article here.
Charities and nonprofits struggling to stay afloat during pandemic, says Imagine Canada
Feds say they will continue to work with the charitable sector
· CBC News · Posted: Apr 28, 2020 7:44 PM ET
The charitable sector is still struggling to stay afloat in the pandemic climate, despite having been covered by the federal wage subsidy and last week's announcement of a dedicated $350 million fund, says a national organization representing charities.
In fact, said Imagine Canada president Bruce MacDonald, the sector needs a total of $10 billion in support from government to survive the pandemic.
Charities are facing a cash crunch; many are being hit with increased demand while their revenue sources are drying up. Imagine Canada's initial projections indicate the COVID-19 pandemic will reduce charities' revenues by between $9 billion and $15 billion, and lead to more than 100,000 layoffs.
"It's pretty dramatic," MacDonald told Power & Politics host Vassy Kapelos. "Most charities in this country are being profoundly affected by drops in revenues, by a need to change and adapt their services, by not having access to volunteers, many of whom delivered those services."
Overall, the sector contributes 8.5 per cent of Canada's GDP and employs 2.4 million people, he added.
Low on cash, no collateral
"Most charities don't have reserves, or if they do, they're very small and they don't usually have access to bank loans because most don't own buildings. They don't have collateral that they can use," said MacDonald.
Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled the Emergency Community Support Fund, which gives $350 million in emergency grants to groups and national charities that help seniors, the homeless and others made more vulnerable by the pandemic.
The money will support services such as volunteer-based home delivery of groceries and medications, transportation and aid to vulnerable Canadians in accessing government benefits.
The funds will support community groups through national organizations such as United Way Canada, the Canadian Red Cross and the Community Foundations of Canada.
The need for needs-based grants
Charities can also qualify for the wage subsidy, which will pay up to 75 per cent of an employee's wages for up to 12 weeks, retroactive from March 14 to June 6, as long as there has been a drop in revenue of at least 30 per cent.
It's all welcome support, said MacDonald, but it's not enough to stabilize the sector — which is why he's asking the government to make up the multi-billion dollar gap through needs-based grants.
When asked about more funding, a spokesperson for Children, Families and Social Development Minister Ahmed Hussen said in an emailed statement on April 27 that the government will continue to work with the sector.
"Canadian charities and the nonprofit sector play an essential role in supporting Canadians during COVID-19 and we are here to support them," said Jessica Eritou, outlining measures already announced, such as the wage subsidy.
"We will continue to work with these organizations to ensure they have the support they need to support Canadians."
Jobs at risk
Some YMCAs may qualify for the $350 million emergency fund due to services they're running, said YMCA Canada president Peter Dinsdale — but stabilizing its finances would cost about $90 million for six months.
YMCA laid off 20,000 staff nationally, said Dinsdale. Some of those people are now being rehired on the wage subsidy — but not all of them are coming back full time, he said.
"When you have the wage subsidy, but you have next to no revenue, the ability to keep your facilities there long term is very much in doubt," he said.
When asked if there was a risk of YMCAs shutting down after the pandemic, Dinsdale said it's possible.
"There is a risk in some locations that will be the case," he said, adding that's why they're turning to the government for support.
Hitting a wall
Dawna Morey is executive director of The Lending Cupboard Society of Alberta, which loans out medical equipment. She said that while demand is down, the requests they get tend to be critical.
Her fiscal year ends June 30 and she said she is about $60,000 short in fundraising and donation efforts. The annual operating budget is about $500,000, and about two-thirds of that comes from grants and fundraising.
Without more support, Morey said, her organization will only be able to stay open for a few months.
"We wouldn't be able to pay the staff, we wouldn't be able to pay the rent after a few months," she said.
Morey said she's cut back on services where she can and has applied for the wage subsidy, which she supports. She hasn't replaced a departing marketing staff member — which cut costs but also reduced her organization's fundraising ability.
Halifax-based Brigadoon Village gets about two-thirds of its operating revenue from donors, said executive director David Graham. It pays for camp holidays for children with disabilities.
The wage subsidy means it doesn't have to lay off any full time staff, but finances are still tight — in part because the organization owns and operates its own facility.
Most of its spring program was cancelled due to the pandemic, although parts continued virtually. The summer program is still up in the air.
"Financially, we have seen significant impact on the dollars coming in the door to support our operations," he said. "With the loss of our spring program, that's a significant amount of money that would have helped to support the summer program that's now gone."
Watch the full interview
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, the nonprofit sector quickly mobilized to advocate on behalf of our organizations, employees, missions, and communities during the dual health and economic crises we’re experiencing. Here, we’ve collected advocacy resources, information, and tools to help the sector work together for the supports we need in order to continue serving communities.
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After working as a manager and marketing executive for the Agropur Dairy Cooperative, she founded and directed The Compello Institute of Language, a language training school in Miramichi. She then became Executive Director of the Dieppe Arts and Culture Centre and 21inc. Before joining Dialogue NB, Ms. Duguay-Lemay was Marketing Advisor at National Bank.
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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Jensen, Jan" <jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:23:45 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE FATCA, the CRA and the IRS YO Donald J.
Trump Jr. why does your ex lawyer Mr Cohen and the Canadain FEDS
continue lie after all this time???
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
I will be away from the office and not returning until January 24,
2019. If you require immediate assistance, please contact my
assistant at (902) 407 7461.
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 13:34:57 -0400
Subject: Fwd: RE FATCA, the CRA and the IRS YO Donald J. Trump Jr. why does
your ex lawyer Mr Cohen and the Canadain FEDS continue lie after all this time???
To: Daniel.Therrien@priv.gc.ca, kate.wilson@priv.gc.ca,
"anne-julie.perrault" <anne-julie.perrault@radio-
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:23:36 -0400
Subject: RE FATCA, the CRA and the IRS YO Donald J. Trump Jr. why does your
ex lawyer Mr Cohen and the Canadain FEDS continue lie after all this time???
To: fin.minfinance-financemin.fin@
< djtjr@trumporg.com>, elizabeth.thompson@cbc.ca,
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< elizabeththompson@ipolitics.
< president@whitehouse.gov>, mdcohen212@gmail.com, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>,
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1.6 million Canadian banking records shared with IRS
CRA now transferring 600,000 banking records per year under
controversial information sharing agreement
Elizabeth Thompson · CBC News · Posted: Jan 23, 2019 4:00 AM ET
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has received information on 1.6
million Canadian bank accounts over four years from the Canada Revenue
Agency. (Susan Walsh/Associated Press)
The Canadian government has shared more than 1.6 million Canadian
banking records with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service since the start
of a controversial information-sharing agreement in 2014, CBC News has
learned.
In 2016 and again in 2017, the Canada Revenue Agency provided the IRS
with information on 600,000 Canadian bank accounts each year. That's a
sharp increase from the 300,000 records shared in 2015 and the 150,000
records shared in 2014, the year the sharing began.
However, that doesn't necessarily correspond to the number of people
affected. Some people may have more than one bank account, while some
joint accounts could have more than one account holder — including
people who don't hold U.S. citizenship.
Among the items of Canadian bank account information being shared with
the U.S. are the names and addresses of account holders, account
numbers, account balances or values, and information about certain
payments such as interest, dividends, other income and proceeds of
disposition.
The information transfer is the result of a controversial information
sharing agreement between Canada and the U.S. negotiated in the wake
of the American government's adoption of the Foreign Account Tax
Compliance Act (FATCA). The act, adopted in a bid to curb offshore tax
evasion, obliges foreign financial institutions to report information
about accounts held by people who could be subject to U.S. taxes.
The Canadian government argued that negotiating the
information-sharing agreement would be better than forcing Canadian
banks to deal directly with the IRS. Under the agreement, Canadian
financial institutions send information on accounts held by clients
with U.S. indicia (such as the account-holder being born in the United
States) to the CRA; once a year, the CRA then forwards the information
to the IRS.
Under the intergovernmental agreement, Canadian financial institutions
transfer information on bank accounts held by people who could be
subject to U.S. taxes to the CRA.
In return, the IRS is supposed to send the CRA information about U.S.
bank accounts held by Canadians. The CRA, however, has repeatedly
refused to reveal how many records, if any, it has received from the
IRS as a result of the agreement.
Nor does the CRA automatically notify Canadian account holders when
their information is transferred to the U.S., said CRA spokesman
Etienne Biram.
"There is no legislative requirement to disclose this information," he
wrote. "However, if requested by a taxpayer, the CRA will confirm
whether information relating to a particular individual or entity has
been reported and provided to the United States of America under
FATCA."
The CRA said the increase in the number of records transferred from
one year to the next was expected because certain financial accounts
did not have to be reported during the first two years of the
agreement.
The revelation that 1.6 million records have been shared with the U.S
comes as the Federal Court of Canada prepares to hear a constitutional
challenge of the information-sharing agreement next week in Vancouver.
Those challenging the agreement argue that it violates sections 7, 8
and 15 of Canada's Charter of Rights, which protect Canadians from
violations of their right to life, liberty and security, unreasonable
search and seizure and discrimination against those who hold U.S. as
well as Canadian citizenship.
In its submission to the court, the plaintiffs argue that some of the
people whose banking records have been shared with the IRS may not be
subject to U.S. taxes.
Conservative Revenue Critic Pat Kelly says the information sharing
agreement could help the IRS target Canadian residents who could be
subject to the repatriation tax signed into law by U.S. President
Donald Trump in 2017. (Christian Diotte/House of Commons)
The government, however, presents the information-sharing agreement as
the lesser of available evils and an attempt to mitigate the potential
impact of FATCA, which included a potential 30 per cent withholding
tax on institutions that didn't comply.
"There were potentially severe consequences to the Canadian financial
sector, its customers and investors, and to the Canadian economy as a
whole if Canadian financial institutions were unable or unwilling to
comply with FATCA," wrote the government in its submission to the
court.
"Canada sought to avoid those consequences and at the same time obtain
less burdensome compliance rules for Canadian financial institutions
and their customers, and additional information from the United States
for Canadian tax compliance purposes."
The government argues the deal doesn't violate any charter rights —
and that even if it does, it is a reasonable limit on those rights
given what was at stake. It also points out that close to 100
countries have negotiated similar deals with the U.S. in the wake of
FATCA.
NDP Revenue Critic Pierre-Luc Dusseault says the CRA should advise
Canadian residents when their banking information is shared with the
IRS. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)
Stephen Kish is a member of the Alliance for the Defence of Canadian
Sovereignty, which mounted the legal challenge. He questioned how many
of those records should have been shared.
"It's a huge number of accounts. What our lawyers are trying to find
out is how many of those accounts were those of Canadian citizens, how
many of those accounts were, in fact, U.S. persons, how many of those
accounts should not have been sent because they didn't achieve the
correct account balance."
Conservative Revenue Critic Pat Kelly said sharing banking records
with the IRS has increased the number of Canadian residents at risk of
being hit by the repatriation tax signed into law by U.S. President
Donald Trump in December 2017. The tax has hit thousands of Canadian
residents with U.S. or dual citizenship and a company incorporated in
Canada.
"The information sharing agreement ... helps facilitate giving the IRS
a target list in Canada," he said. "The Canadian government has to
respect Canadians' privacy and be aware of all of these consequences."
NDP Revenue Critic Pierre-Luc Dusseault said the CRA should
proactively notify Canadian bank account holders when information
about their accounts is transferred to the U.S.
"The CRA should do its job of informing their citizens, the taxpayers
of Canada that they are taking their personal banking information and
transferring it to a foreign country. This is the bare minimum and it
shows again the lack of transparency of this government."
Elizabeth Thompson can be reached at elizabeth.thompson@cbc.ca
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From: "MinFinance / FinanceMin (FIN)" <fin.minfinance-financemin.
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:52:33 +0000
Subject: RE: RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President Donald J. Trump
I just got off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen (646-853-0114) Why
does he lie to me after all this time???
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
The Department of Finance acknowledges receipt of your electronic
correspondence. Please be assured that we appreciate receiving your
comments.
Le ministère des Finances accuse réception de votre correspondance
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:51:14 -0400
Subject: RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President Donald J. Trump I
just got off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen (646-853-0114) Why
does he lie to me after all this time???
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< pm@pm.gc.ca>, Pierre-Luc.Dusseault@parl.gc.
< MulcaT@parl.gc.ca>, Jean-Yves.Duclos@parl.gc.ca,
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---------- Original message ----------
From: Michael Cohen <mcohen@trumporg.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:15:14 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE FATCA ATTN Pierre-Luc.Dusseault I just
called and left a message for you
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Effective January 20, 2017, I have accepted the role as personal
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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Finance Public / Finance Publique (FIN)"
< fin.financepublic-
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 22:05:00 +0000
Subject: RE: Yo President Trump RE the Federal Court of Canada File No
T-1557-15 lets see how the media people do with news that is NOT FAKE
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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correspondence. Please be assured that we appreciate receiving your
comments.
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From: "Joly, Mélanie (PCH)" <hon.melanie.joly@canada.ca>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:16:17 +0000
Subject: Accusé de réception / Acknowledge Receipt
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Merci d'avoir écrit à l'honorable Mélanie Joly, ministre du Patrimoine canadien.
La ministre est toujours heureuse de prendre connaissance des
commentaires de Canadiens sur des questions d'importance pour eux.
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From: "Hancox, Rick (FCNB)" <rick.hancox@fcnb.ca>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:15:22 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE FATCA ATTN Pierre-Luc.Dusseault I just
called and left a message for you
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G'Day/Bonjour,
Thanks for your e-mail. I am out of the office until 24 February. If
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From: "B English (MIN)" <B.English@ministers.govt.nz>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 04:46:16 +0000
Subject: Automated response from the office of Hon Bill English
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 15:48:00 +0000
Subject: Merci / Thank you
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
Bonjour,
Nous vous remercions d'avoir communiqué avec le bureau de Jean-Yves
Duclos, député de Québec et Ministre de la Famille, des Enfants et du
Développement social.
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:44:27 -0400
Subject: Fwd: Hey Elizabeth Tompson RE your concrens about the PCO and
the TPP We talked once again yesterday and as usual you were too busy
to listen to me but I also called many of your associates in the
Parliamentry Press Galllery and some did listen to me Correct?
To: gerry@marinerpartners.com, "Stephen.Horsman"
< Stephen.Horsman@gnb.ca>, customerservice@schiffradio.
curtis@marinerpartners.com, "rick.hancox" <rick.hancox@nbsc-cvmnb.ca>,
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< bruce.fitch@gnb.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 10:13:15 -0400
Subject: Hey Elizabeth Tompson RE your concerns about the PCO and the
TPP We talked once again yesterday and as usual you were too busy to
listen to me but I also called many of your associates in the
Parliamentry Press Galllery and some did listen to me Correct?
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newsroom@theguardian.pe.ca, Bob.Kerr@cbc.ca,
Susan.J.Collins@bhpbilliton.
bruce.northrup@gnb.ca, Andrew.Robb.MP@aph.gov.au, gopublic
< gopublic@cbc.ca>, "marylou.babineau"
< marylou.babineau@greenparty.
ritzg <ritzg@parl.gc.ca>, ritzg <ritzg@sasktel.net>,
mgeist@uottawa.ca, birgittaj <birgittaj@althingi.is>, birgittajoy
< birgittajoy@gmail.com>
Here is a little proof to support what I said on the phone.
A debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
and a lawsuit
https://www.scribd.com/doc/
https://www.scribd.com/doc/
FYI During my debates in Fundy Royal I made certain that Rob Moore
and his boss Harper and the Libranos knew within the emails found
below that I was not talking through my hat with reference to the TPP
false promises dairy farmers and my concerns about the Internet
As you journalists well know I made good on my promise to sue the
CROWN while running for a seat in Parliament one last time. As usual
CBC and most of the other very unethical "journlists" ignored the
obvious except Rogers TV and the local reporters employed by the
Irving billionaires
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Clearly Jesse Brown and his buddy Mean Mikey Geist were yapping about
the TPP before you revealed the PCO's point of view about Harper's
false promise. More importantly to Mean Old Me both those very snobby
and very unethical Upper Canadian spin doctors well aware I knew the
very sneaky Julian Assange long BEFORE he and Birgitta Jonsdotir made
Wikileaks. Hell I have been dicing with the bast Geist for over ten
years since he stuck his nose in Byron Prior's matters (Another matter
no journalist will report about) Anyone can scroll down or just Google
"Michael Geist" "David Amos" or "Julian Assange" "David Amos" to see
the proof of what I say is true.
http://canadalandshow.com/
Katie Jensen • October 12, 2015
Show notes:
University of Ottawa's Michael Geist breaks down the TPP
(Trans-Pacific Partnership), a proposed trade agreement that Stephen
Harper has been toiling over in secret for the last five years - an
agreement that will have huge impacts on Canada's internet freedom and
copyright issues.
Michael Geist's Twitter: @mgeist
I am a law professor at the University of Ottawa where I hold the
Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law. My current
contact information is included below:
Address: University of Ottawa
Faculty of Law
Common Law Section
57 Louis Pasteur
Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5
Canada
Phone: (613) 562-5800 extension 3319
Fax: 613-562-5124
E-mail: mgeist@uottawa.ca
Full text of the TPP leak
http://ipolitics.ca/2015/10/
Harper lacks authorities for promised $4.3B TPP farm compensation, PCO admits
By Elizabeth Thompson | Oct 13, 2015 4:20 am | 1 comment |
http://www.cbc.ca/news/
Privy Council Office tracks party promises to prepare for government transition
Senior public servants log and analyze every election promise on a
daily basis to prep briefing books
By Dean Beeby, CBC News Posted: Oct 14, 2015 5:00 AM ET|
http://www.cbc.ca/news/
Liberals, NDP decline PCO offer of confidential briefing on TPP trade deal
Offer to view trade deal just before election rejected as 'political ploy'
CBC News Posted: Oct 15, 2015 5:11 PM ET|
"Mulcair said Trade Minister Ed Fast broke a promise to make all
details of the accord public ahead of election day.
"Instead of openness and transparency, Canadians are learning details
through leaked information and the government's own self-serving
promotional efforts. That's not acceptable," Mulcair said.
The Privy Council Office is the department that provides non-partisan
support to the prime minister and cabinet. The Conservative campaign
told CBC News the government asked the PCO to offer the briefing to
the opposition parties.
But in a separate letter released Thursday, Liberal candidate John
McCallum accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper of continuing a "lack
of transparency" over the deal's details.
"Despite a commitment by the minister of international trade, Mr. Ed
Fast, to release the text of the agreement so all Canadians can judge
it on its merits before election day, media reports this week state
that the details will remain secret," McCallum wrote.
"It is troubling that with just four days remaining until election
day, you continue to refuse to release the text of the agreement for
Canadians to see."
McCallum noted that a previous briefing attended by party
representatives on Oct. 4 "provided no actual details beyond the
limited information already released publicly."
"It is simply not possible to conduct a meaningful, in-depth analysis
of the 1,500-plus page agreement in 90 minutes," he wrote.
I am included in briefing. I was only leader to participate in the 1st
#TPP briefing. #GPC #elxn42 @CanadianGreens @Politicolnews @PnPCBC
— @ElizabethMay
Conservative campaign spokesman Kory Teneycke told CBC News the
Liberals initially agreed to attend the Friday briefing, while the NDP
declined. Teneycke said the briefing was to be based on the chapter
summaries, since the final text does not exist yet.
A Liberal campaign spokesman referred CBC News to McCallum's letter,
but said any suggestion the party had accepted the offer of the
briefing was false."
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From: "Robb, Andrew (MP)" <Andrew.Robb.MP@aph.gov.au>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 03:51:41 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE TPP Trust that LOTS of Farmers in New
Brunswick and many Yankees, Icelanders and New Zealanders know exactly
who I am EH John Key. Birgitta Jonsdottir, Wayne Easter and Rob
Nicholson?
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
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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:
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and
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 23:47:53 -0400
Subject: Fwd: RE TPP Trust that LOTS of Farmers in New Brunswick and
many Yankees, Icelanders and New Zealanders know exactly who I am EH
John Key. Birgitta Jonsdottir, Wayne Easter and Rob Nicholson?
To: t.groser@ministers.govt.nz, m.mccully@ministers.govt.nz,
t.mcclay@ministers.govt.nz, reception@liberal.pe.ca, birgittaj
< birgittaj@althingi.is>, jamie_macphail@hotmail.com, nichor
< nichor@parl.gc.ca>, MMcalvanah@ustr.eop.gov,
Andrew.Robb.MP@aph.gov.au, "peter.mackay"
< peter.mackay@justice.gc.ca>, "rob.moore.a1" <rob.moore.a1@parl.gc.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>,
sally.gomery@
Timothy_Reif@ustr.eop.gov, Michael_Froman@ustr.eop.gov,
public.div@asean.org, sflynn@wcl.american.edu
https://www.whitehouse.gov/
https://ustr.gov/about-us/
http://www.international.gc.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
http://thedavidamosrant.
http://infojustice.org/
http://www.liberal.ca/
Riding President
Jamie MacPhail
jamie_macphail@hotmail.com
reception@liberal.pe.ca
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From: "J Key (MIN)" <J.Key@ministers.govt.nz>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 01:38:56 +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
________________________________
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 21:38:42 -0400
Subject: RE TPP Trust that LOTS of Dairy Farmers in New Brunswick and
many Yankee, Icelanders and New Zealanders know exactly who I am EH
John Key. Birgitta Jonsdottir, Wayne Easter and Rob Nicholson?
To: J.Key@ministers.govt.nz
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
https://www.facebook.com/
Birgitta Jonsdottir
September 23 at 10:52am ·
Transparency Tim: show us the text
The TPP Internet Censorship Plan is coming
We need you to tell your Trade Minister today: don't let the
Trans-Pacific Partnership destroy our laws and censor the Internet.
stopthesecrecy.net
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Gary Bonn
Gary Bonn Thank you Birgitta Jonsdottir
1 · September 24 at 5:30am
http://thedavidamosrant.
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/
>>> 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
>>>
>>> The Reykjavík Grapevine
>>> Hafnarstræti 15
>>> 101 Reykjavík
>>> Iceland
>>> grapevine@grapevine.is
>>> +354-540-3600
>>
>>
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 21:21:42 -0400
Subject: FWD LOTS of Dairy Farmers in New Brunswick know exactly who I
am ask Wayne Easter why EH Rob Moore?
To: nbmilk@nbmilk.org, weekesj@bennettjones.com,
mclellana@bennettjones.com, votefast2015@gmail.com,
info@karenmccrimmon.ca, info@marthahallfindlay.ca
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
https://mobile.twitter.com/
Wayne Easter @WayneEaster 15h
Heartwarming y'day on campaign trail as several non-farm households
stated "concerned for dairy farmers"(due 2 TPP)Support 4 fellow
citizens
http://wayneeaster.parl.
Conservative Government Must be Transparent with Canadians during TPP Talks
Posted on July 16, 2012
CHARLOTTETOWN— Liberal International Trade critic Wayne Easter made
the following statement today on Canada’s Trans-Pacific Partnership
(TPP) negotiations:
“According to a recent report, the US will be seeking ‘new market
access’ from Canada in the TPP negotiations. The report noted that a
major component of negotiations would be Canada’s supply management
system.
It is imperative that this Conservative government be completely
transparent on their TPP negotiations, especially in regards to what
Canada is conceding in order to be accepted into this partnership.
Canadian dairy and poultry producers depend on the supply management
system, just as Canadian consumers rely on its stable pricing, and
they all deserve assurance that their livelihoods and food safety will
not be compromised in these negotiations.”
http://www.ctvnews.ca/
"Saputo said some dairy farmers have good reason to be worried if
there are dramatic changes to Canada's protective supply management
system, as demanded by some of the 12 countries involved in
negotiating the trade deal. But he said other farmers are efficient,
can compete with anybody in the world and flourish in an unregulated
system.
The abolition of Canada's dairy supply management system would
threaten 4,500 to 6,000 farms and up to 24,000 direct jobs across the
country, according to a study released last week commissioned by dairy
co-operative and Saputo rival Agropur.
Up to 40 per cent of Canada's milk production would be at risk, said
the 56-page report from Boston Consulting Group."
http://www.ctvnews.ca/
"Fast used more guarded language on dairy. Of that, he said: "There's
still lots of work to be done."
The Canadian government faces domestic pressure from dairy-producing
provinces, who are not at the negotiating table but have provincial
representatives in Atlanta pushing against any opening to foreign milk
and cheese.
Canada isn't the only country with domestic pressure: the American
delegation has received a public letter from influential lawmakers
urging it to walk away unless it can secure certain gains for American
businesses.
But the biggest U.S. business lobby is urging a deal now.
It says the decade-long TPP project could be destroyed by domestic
politics if it doesn't happen immediately, with elections in Canada,
then the U.S., Japan and Peru next year and governments under pressure
to protect individual sectors.
"If we miss this opportunity I believe we may lose it forever," said
Tami Overby, vice-president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
"We have the Canadian election. No one knows what that outcome's going
to be. We also get closer to the U.S. 2016 (presidential race) -- that
gets harder. So from my perspective nothing gets better. But the risk
increases, and in some cases quite significantly as time goes by."
As if to underscore her point, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair announced Friday
that he wouldn't consider himself bound to ratify any deal reached
during the election campaign.
Overby encouraged all countries to put some of the proverbial water in
their wine.
For Canada, that wine comes with a little more foreign cheese.
She said New Zealand hasn't asked for much. But it helped spearhead
the TPP project years ago, with its one major demand being access to
dairy markets.
Other Canadian industries are thrilled at the prospect of a deal.
The head of Canada's pro-free-market agriculture group said he expects
a nine-per-cent increase in canola exports alone, with big gains for
other industries including pork, beef and barley.
"We're extremely optimistic for our sector," said Brian Innes of the
Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance, and vice-president of the Canola
Council.
"We face significant trade barriers, this is the most ambitious deal
in decades, and it could have a major impact on our ability to
export."
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:15:04 -0400
Subject: RE FATCA ATTN Pierre-Luc.Dusseault I just called and left a
message for you
To: Pierre-Luc.Dusseault@parl.gc.
"Diane.Lebouthillier" <Diane.Lebouthillier@cra-arc.
"mark.vespucci" <mark.vespucci@ci.irs.gov>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>,
curtis <curtis@marinerpartners.com>, "rick.hancox"
< rick.hancox@nbsc-cvmnb.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, djtjr
< djtjr@trumporg.com>, mcohen <mcohen@trumporg.com>,
elizabeth.thompson@cbc.ca, "ht.lacroix" <ht.lacroix@cbc.ca>,
"hon.melanie.joly" <hon.melanie.joly@canada.ca>
Trust that Trump, CBC and everybody else knows that I speak and act
Pro Se particularly when dealing with the Evil Tax Man
https://twitter.com/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/
Transfer of Canadian banking records to U.S. tax agency doubled last year
Documents for thousands of Canadian residents transferred under
controversial FATCA legislation
By Elizabeth Thompson, CBC News Posted: Jan 29, 2017 5:00 AM ET
Banking records of more than 315,000 Canadian residents were turned
over to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service last year under a
controversial information sharing deal, CBC News has learned.
That is double the number transferred in the deal's first year.
The Canada Revenue Agency transmitted 315,160 banking records to the
IRS on Sept. 28, 2016 — a 104 per cent increase over the 154,667
records the agency sent in September 2015.
Lisa Damien, spokeswoman for the CRA, attributed the increase to the
fact it was the second year for the Canada-U.S. information sharing
deal that was sparked by the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
(FATCA).
"The exchange in September 2015 was based on accounts identified by
financial institutions at the time," she said. "The number of reported
accounts was expected to increase in 2016, because the financial
institutions have had more time to complete their due diligence and
identify other reportable accounts."
Trudeau Nuclear Summit 20160331
Prior to coming to power, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau opposed the
agreement to share banking records of Canadian residents with the IRS.
He has since changed his position. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
The transmission of banking records of Canadian residents is the
result of an agreement worked out in 2014 between Canada and the U.S.
after the American government adopted FATCA. The U.S. tax compliance
act requires financial institutions around the world to reveal
information about bank accounts in a bid to crack down on tax evasion
by U.S. taxpayers with foreign accounts.
Dual citizens, long-term visitors affected
The deal requires financial institutions to share the banking records
of those considered to be "U.S. persons" for tax purposes — regardless
of whether they are U.S. citizens.
Among the people who can be considered by the IRS as "U.S. persons"
are Canadians born in the U.S., dual citizens or even those who spend
more than a certain number of days in the United States each year.
Former prime minister Stephen Harper's government argued that given
the penalties the U.S. was threatening to impose, it had no choice but
to negotiate the information sharing deal. The former government said
it was able to exempt some types of accounts from the information
transfer.
CRA
The Canada Revenue Agency transfers banking records of people believed
to be 'U.S. persons' to the IRS. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
The Canada Revenue Agency triggered controversy after it transferred
the first batch of Canadian banking records to the IRS in September
2015 in the midst of the election campaign, without waiting for an
assessment by Canada's privacy commissioner or the outcome of a legal
challenge to the agreement's constitutionality.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Treasury Board President Scott Brison
and Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale have dropped calls to scrap
the deal, which they had made before the Liberals came to power.
Watchdog wants proactive notification
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has raised concerns about the
information sharing, questioning whether financial institutions are
reporting more accounts than necessary. Under the agreement, financial
institutions only have to report accounts belonging to those believed
to be U.S. persons if they contain more than $50,000.
Therrien has also suggested the CRA proactively notify individuals
that their financial records had been shared with the IRS. However,
the CRA has been reluctant to agree to Therrien's suggestion.
Racial Profiling 20160107
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has questioned whether the CRA is
transmitting more banking records to the IRS than is necessary.
(Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)
NDP revenue critic Pierre-Luc Dusseault said the increase in the
number of files transferred was "surprising," and he questioned
whether financial institutions are only sharing records of accounts
worth more than $50,000.
"I don't see how there would be 150,000 more accounts reportable to
the IRS in one year. It is something I will look into."
Dusseault said the CRA should notify every Canadian resident whose
banking records are shared with the IRS.
Lynne Swanson, of the Alliance for the Defence of Canadian
Sovereignty, which is challenging the information sharing agreement in
Federal Court, said she has no idea why the number of banking records
shared with the IRS doubled.
Youngest MP 20110519
NDP revenue critic Pierre-Luc Dusseault says the CRA should notify
every Canadian resident whose banking records are shared with the IRS.
(Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)
"It still seems low in comparison to the number of Canadians that are
affected by this," she said. "It is estimated that a million Canadians
are affected by this."
Hopes for repeal
Swanson hopes that U.S. President Donald Trump, or Congress — which is
now controlled by the Republican Party — will scrap FATCA. The
Republican platform pledged to do away with the information collecting
legislation.
"FATCA not only allows 'unreasonable search and seizures' but also
threatens the ability of overseas Americans to lead normal lives," the
platform reads. "We call for its repeal and for a change to
residency-based taxation for U.S. citizens overseas."
Swanson's group is also hoping the Federal Court of Canada will
intervene, although a date has not yet been set for a hearing.
"A foreign government is essentially telling the Canadian government
how Canadian citizens and Canadian residents should be treated. It is
a violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms."
Elizabeth Thompson can be reached at elizabeth.thompson@cbc.ca
Friday, 18 January 2019
Civilian RCMP watchdog could change culture if right people involved, prof says
From: Premier <PREMIER@novascotia.ca>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:07:34 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Attn Michael Boudreau I just called RE RCMP oversight
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>Thank you for your email to Premier McNeil.
This is an automatic confirmation your email has been received.
Warmest Regards,
Premier's Correspondence Team
---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 10:07:26 -0400
Subject: Attn Michael Boudreau I just called RE RCMP oversight
To: mboudreau@stu.ca, Don.Allen@unb.ca, warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
Beverley.Busson@sen.parl.gc.ca, Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
Liliana.Longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca,
Frank.McKenna@td.com, carl.urquhart@gnb.ca, oldmaison@yahoo.com,
andre@jafaust.com, steve.murphy@ctv.ca, David.Akin@globalnews.ca,
news@kingscorecord.com, Newsroom@globeandmail.com,
brian.gallant@gnb.ca, clare.barry@justice.gc.ca,
jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca, Nathalie.Drouin@justice.gc.ca,
Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, dale.drummond@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
Mark.Blakely@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
Gilles.Cote@gnb.ca, maxime.bernier@parl.gc.ca,
andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca, Bill.Casey@parl.gc.ca,
Alaina.Lockhart@parl.gc.ca, wayne.easter@parl.gc.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, Elizabeth.Fraser@cbc.ca,
jp.lewis@unb.ca, sfdumville@assembly.pe.ca, premier@gov.pe.ca,
premier@gnb.ca, PREMIER@gov.ns.ca, andrea.anderson-mason@gnb.ca
RCMP Sussex New Brunswick
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David Amos
Published on Apr 4, 2013
January 30, 2007
WITHOUT PREJUDICE
Mr. David Amos
Dear Mr. Amos:
This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29,
2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP.
Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have
taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve
Graham of the RCMP °J" Division in Fredericton.
Sincerely,
Honourable Michael B. Murphy
Minister of Health
CM/cb
CLEARLY THE RCMP/GRC AND THE KPMG PALS DO NOT KNOW
HOW TO READ LET ALONE COUNT BEANS EH?
Warren McBeath warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote:
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500
From: "Warren McBeath" warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca,
nada.sarkis@gnb.ca, wally.stiles@gnb.ca, dwatch@web.net,
motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
CC: ottawa@chuckstrahl.com, riding@chuckstrahl.com,
John.Foran@gnb.ca, Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,
"Bev BUSSON" bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
"Paul Dube" PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has
forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have n
Dear Mr. Amos,
Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off
over the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured I
was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our position
is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the
Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear
that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada and
the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment
policing in Petitcodiac, NB.
It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on
December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
Sincerely,
Warren McBeath, Cpl.
GRC Caledonia RCMP
Traffic Services NCO
Ph: (506) 387-2222
Fax: (506) 387-4622
E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
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Civilian RCMP watchdog could change culture if right people involved, prof says
Michael Boudreau says he's 'cautiously optimistic' about promised
oversight committee
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Friday, 18 January 2019
Civilian RCMP watchdog could change culture if right people involved, prof says
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David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Replying to @DavidRayAmos @Kathryn98967631 and 49 others
Methinks Michael Boudreau sure knows how to jerk an old dog's chain N'esy Pas?
#nbpoli #cdnpoli #Trump #Trudeau #FBI #RCMP
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
Civilian RCMP watchdog could change culture if right people involved, prof says
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David R. Amos
Methinks Michael Boudreau sure knows how to jerk an old dog's chain N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Content disabled.
@David R. Amos Methinks Michael Boudreau and many other professors
employed by STU, UNB, Mount A and UMoncton etc are well aware as to
why the RCMP falsely arrested and assaulted me in 2008 N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
@David R. Amos Why is it that I am not surprised again?
David R. Amos
Methinks Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale will likely enlist his
buddy Frank McKenna to pick the committee just like he did in hiring
the latest RCMP Commissioner N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
David R. Amos
"Michael Boudreau, a criminology professor in Fredericton, welcomed
the step, although he is concerned the civilians will be former
Mounties.
"Depending on who those former Mounties are that would be a step
backwards," said Boudreau.
But he hopes the government will choose committee members who have
been advocates for women in the RCMP and maybe even a "whistle blower"
attuned to what's been happening in the force."
Methinks if anyone bothers to read my lawsuit they would understand
that I am a bigtime "whistle blower" who is definitely attuned to
what's been happening in the force. since 1982 N'esy Pas?
Jay Oak
@David R. Amos I've been wanting to ask you this for a while: you keep
ending your posts with "n'Esy pas?"
What on Earth does that mean?
David R. Amos
@Jay Oak Chiac for "is it not?"
David R. Amos
@Jay Oak If you were raised in Dorchester NB area you would understand
in a heartbeat what I mean by it
Rod McLeod
I'm skeptical of a watch dog group that can only make suggestions. All
I see here are 13 favors being cashed in. Any mention of their
salaries?
David R. Amos
@Rod McLeod Trust that I don't the RCMP any favours and I would watch
the watch dogs for free
David R. Amos
Content disabled
@Rod McLeod Go Figure why I don't owe anyone any favours
https://www.scribd.com/doc/
David R. Amos
Content disabled.
@David R. Amos "Content disabled".Surprise Surprise Surprise
David R. Amos
@Rod McLeod Go Figure why I don't owe anyone any favours
https://www.scribd.com/doc/
Fangming Shi
RCMP has long been an irony to Canada instead of a pride, due to its
culture being rotten worse and worse. That could probably explain why
we've often heard its officers die or misbehave on duty obviously due
to incompetence. I was encouraged when knew that in 2007 Stephen
Harper sent William Elliot to head the force hoping an outside strong
police manager could change its culture. But disappointed to many,
little was changed since then and Mr.Elliot left the post in 2011 even
without a reason. Afterward the things inside the force have probably
got backwards even a couple of its good insiders have tried leading it
out of the scandal-filled trap. So from these facts I am very
cautiously positive looking at this new watchdog's ability to make
change. Anyway, it's a long due step that should have been taken after
William Elliot. I believe that it's in sheer interest of Canada that
strong and continuous efforts should be made to overhaul our top
safety insurer, not a showy guard.
David R. Amos
@Fangming Shi Methinks its rather amazing that Harper and his lawyer
buddy Elliot fooled anyone but you just proved it to be so N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
@David R. Amos CBC says
https://www.cbc.ca/news2/
"In his last six months in office, former prime minister Paul Martin
made Elliott his national security adviser.
Elliot was a senior bureaucrat in Public Safety when he briefed
Zaccardelli before the then commissioner gave testimony in the Maher
Arar case in September 2006.
Zaccardelli resigned in December 2006, a day after he told a Commons
committee that he had "made a mistake" in earlier testimony."
David Peters
Elections and short term limits for committee seats would help shed
some light on this file.
David R. Amos
@David Peters Methinks you should finally read the file I provide
below N'esy Pas?
David Peters
@David R. Amos
Which part are you referring to?
Imo, there is no excuse why our justice system is so far removed from
real transparency. Elections with short term limits for Judges, Crown
Prosecutors and Police Chiefs would add much needed transparency,
building in a real check and balance.
Why not let the voter watch the watchers?
David R. Amos
@David Peters Methinks you must at least understand that I am the
whistle-blower against the RCMP who sued the Crown while running in
the election of the 42nd Parliament N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
@David Peters FYI Just Google CBC Fundy Royal to see what you see
Here is one link
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 19:25:31 +0000
Subject: RE: YO Pierre Poilievre I just called and tried to reason
with David Lametti's minions and got nowhere fast Surprise Surprise
Surprise N'esy Pas Petev Baby Mackay?
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:25:26 -0400
Subject: Fwd: YO Pierre Poilievre I just called and tried to reason
with David Lametti's minions and got nowhere fast Surprise Surprise
Surprise N'esy Pas Petev Baby Mackay?
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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:00:58 -0400
Subject: YO Pierre Poilievre I just called and tried to reason with
David Lametti's minions and got nowhere fast Surprise Surprise
Surprise N'esy Pas Petev Baby Mackay?
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Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks the very sneaky SANB wants another
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:11:33 -0400
Subject: Fwd: Methinks the very sneaky SANB wants another ASAP Nesy
Pas Mr Higgs?
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mathieu.wade@umoncton.ca, eric.forgues@umoncton.ca,
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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:58:11 -0400
Subject: Methinks the very sneaky SANB wants another ASAP Nesy Pas Mr Higgs?
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political representative of New Brunswick’s Acadian and Francophone
community. It is dedicated to the defense and promotion of the rights
and interests of the province’s Acadian and Francophone population.
The SANB is comprised of a democratically elected board. The president
of the SANB is its official spokesperson. The SANB has a broad focus
and its core values are openness, transparency and inclusion. The SANB
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insofar as it has the mandate to foster collaboration between
different organizations within the Acadian civil society.
The SANB deals with local issues that have a direct impact on the
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hard fought and remain fragile. Citizen mobilization and participatory
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agenda harnesses the energy of engaged individuals that contribute to
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different concerted activities.
Institutional bilingualism is an entrenched right in New Brunswick, as
is the constitutionally guaranteed equality of both linguistic
communities. Consequently, the SANB believes that Francophone
institutions should be governed for and by Acadians and that public
funds dedicated to this effect are the catalyst that enable not only
greater equality, but more importantly, the rectification of
historical wrongs. Linguistic duality, and more importantly
institutional duality, are of the utmost importance in not only the
preservation but also the holistic development of the Acadian
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only in its ability to participate as equal partners, but also in its
ability to insure the sustainability of its rural areas, its coasts
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and celebrated; where pay equity is normal and youth have limitless
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du Canada). The work accomplished at these tables helps the SANB
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From: Nadine Duguay-Lemay <nadine.duguay@dialoguenb.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 16:59:10 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Facing a divided province, a non-profit
strives for 'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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From: "Gallant, Brian (LEG)" <Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 16:59:17 +0000
Subject: RE: Facing a divided province, a non-profit strives for
'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Thank you for writing to the Leader of the Official Opposition of New
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From: "Mitton, Megan (LEG)" <Megan.Mitton@gnb.ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 16:59:18 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Facing a divided province, a non-profit
strives for 'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Je suis hors du bureau pour le temps de fêtes. Je serai de retour
lundi, le 7 janvier. Je vous répondrai dès que possible. Bonnes fêtes
à vous et à votre famille! ----- I am out of the office for the
holidays and will be back on Monday, January 7. I wil respond as soon
as possible. Happy holidays to you and your family.
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:37:38 -0400
Subject: I just called correct Mr Eckstein and Ms Walen?
To: carl.urquhart@gnb.ca, barb.whitenect@gnb.ca, Mike.Comeau@gnb.ca,
andrew.easton@gnb.ca, Stephen.Horsman@gnb.ca, steve.roberge@gnb.ca,
steve.murphy@ctv.ca, oldmaison@yahoo.com, andre@jafaust.com,
tj@burkelaw.ca, kelly@lamrockslaw.com, nbpc@gnb.ca,
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<washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, "brian.gallant" <brian.gallant@gnb.ca>
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, "andrea.anderson-mason"
<andrea.anderson-mason@gnb.ca>, "Jody.Wilson-Raybould"
<Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.
"hon.ralph.goodale" <hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca>, "Brenda.Lucki"
<Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Liliana.Longo"
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"Gib.vanErt" <Gib.vanErt@scc-csc.ca>
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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 05:54:40 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: ATTN Blair Armitage You acted as the Usher
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Hence you and the RCMP must know why I sued the Queen Correct?
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:21:11 +0000
Subject: Emails to Department of Justice and Province of Nova Scotia
To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Mr. Amos,
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From: "Eidt, David (OAG/CPG)" <David.Eidt@gnb.ca>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 00:33:21 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Mr Lutz howcome your buddy the clerk
would not file this motion and properly witnessed affidavit and why
did she take all four copies?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
I will be out of the office until Monday, March 13, 2017. I will have
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From: Marc Richard <MRichard@lawsociety-barreau.
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:16:46 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE: The New Brunswick Real Estate
Association and their deliberate ignorance for the bankster's benefit
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
I will be out of the office until August 15, 2016. Je serai absent du
bureau jusqu'au 15 août 2016.
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:32:09 -0400
> Subject: Attn Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
> To: coi@gnb.ca
> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>
> Good Day Sir
>
> After I heard you speak on CBC I called your office again and managed
> to speak to one of your staff for the first time
>
> Please find attached the documents I promised to send to the lady who
> answered the phone this morning. Please notice that not after the Sgt
> at Arms took the documents destined to your office his pal Tanker
> Malley barred me in writing with an "English" only document.
>
> These are the hearings and the dockets in Federal Court that I
> suggested that you study closely.
>
> This is the docket in Federal Court
>
> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.
>
> These are digital recordings of the last three hearings
>
> Dec 14th https://archive.org/details/
>
> January 11th, 2016 https://archive.org/details/
>
> April 3rd, 2017
>
> https://archive.org/details/
>
>
> This is the docket in the Federal Court of Appeal
>
> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.
>
>
> The only hearing thus far
>
> May 24th, 2017
>
> https://archive.org/details/
>
>
> This Judge understnds the meaning of the word Integrity
>
> Date: 20151223
>
> Docket: T-1557-15
>
> Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 23, 2015
>
> PRESENT: The Honourable Mr. Justice Bell
>
> BETWEEN:
>
> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>
> Plaintiff
>
> and
>
> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>
> Defendant
>
> ORDER
>
> (Delivered orally from the Bench in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on
> December 14, 2015)
>
> The Plaintiff seeks an appeal de novo, by way of motion pursuant to
> the Federal Courts Rules (SOR/98-106), from an Order made on November
> 12, 2015, in which Prothonotary Morneau struck the Statement of Claim
> in its entirety.
>
> At the outset of the hearing, the Plaintiff brought to my attention a
> letter dated September 10, 2004, which he sent to me, in my then
> capacity as Past President of the New Brunswick Branch of the Canadian
> Bar Association, and the then President of the Branch, Kathleen Quigg,
> (now a Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal). In that letter
> he stated:
>
> As for your past President, Mr. Bell, may I suggest that you check the
> work of Frank McKenna before I sue your entire law firm including you.
> You are your brother’s keeper.
>
> Frank McKenna is the former Premier of New Brunswick and a former
> colleague of mine at the law firm of McInnes Cooper. In addition to
> expressing an intention to sue me, the Plaintiff refers to a number of
> people in his Motion Record who he appears to contend may be witnesses
> or potential parties to be added. Those individuals who are known to
> me personally, include, but are not limited to the former Prime
> Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper; former
> Attorney General of Canada and now a Justice of the Manitoba Court of
> Queen’s Bench, Vic Toews; former member of Parliament Rob Moore;
> former Director of Policing Services, the late Grant Garneau; former
> Chief of the Fredericton Police Force, Barry McKnight; former Staff
> Sergeant Danny Copp; my former colleagues on the New Brunswick Court
> of Appeal, Justices Bradley V. Green and Kathleen Quigg, and, retired
> Assistant Commissioner Wayne Lang of the Royal Canadian Mounted
> Police.
>
> In the circumstances, given the threat in 2004 to sue me in my
> personal capacity and my past and present relationship with many
> potential witnesses and/or potential parties to the litigation, I am
> of the view there would be a reasonable apprehension of bias should I
> hear this motion. See Justice de Grandpré’s dissenting judgment in
> Committee for Justice and Liberty et al v National Energy Board et al,
> [1978] 1 SCR 369 at p 394 for the applicable test regarding
> allegations of bias. In the circumstances, although neither party has
> requested I recuse myself, I consider it appropriate that I do so.
>
>
> AS A RESULT OF MY RECUSAL, THIS COURT ORDERS that the Administrator of
> the Court schedule another date for the hearing of the motion. There
> is no order as to costs.
>
> “B. Richard Bell”
> Judge
>
>
> Below after the CBC article about your concerns (I made one comment
> already) you will find the text of just two of many emails I had sent
> to your office over the years since I first visited it in 2006.
>
> I noticed that on July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the the Court
> Martial Appeal Court of Canada Perhaps you should scroll to the
> bottom of this email ASAP and read the entire Paragraph 83 of my
> lawsuit now before the Federal Court of Canada?
>
> "FYI This is the text of the lawsuit that should interest Trudeau the most
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca
> Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:18 PM
> Subject: Réponse automatique : RE My complaint against the CROWN in
> Federal Court Attn David Hansen and Peter MacKay If you planning to
> submit a motion for a publication ban on my complaint trust that you
> dudes are way past too late
> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>
> Veuillez noter que j'ai changé de courriel. Vous pouvez me rejoindre à
> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>
> Pour rejoindre le bureau de M. Trudeau veuillez envoyer un courriel à
> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>
> Please note that I changed email address, you can reach me at
> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>
> To reach the office of Mr. Trudeau please send an email to
> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>
> Thank you,
>
> Merci ,
>
>
> http://davidraymondamos3.
>
>
> 83. The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war
> in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation to
> allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over
> five years after he began his bragging:
>
> January 13, 2015
> This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate
>
> December 8, 2014
> Why Canada Stood Tall!
>
> Friday, October 3, 2014
> Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And
> Stupid Justin Trudeau
>
> Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide
> behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
>
> When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean Chretien
> actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second campaign
> in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or contrary to
> the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were
> involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There were
> significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the dearth
> of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for
> operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “last minute”
> Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its mind.
> The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not
> deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a
> Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins to
> redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was
> less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq. But
> alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister Chretien’s
> then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s
> incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic,
> professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle
> Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway
> campaign of 2006.
>
> What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that then
> Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the
> Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice, consent,
> support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament.
>
> What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and babbling
> chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment of
> less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by planners
> as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a
> deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make.
>
> The Canadian Government or The Crown unlike our amerkan cousins have
> the “constitutional authority” to commit the Canadian nation to war.
> That has been recently clearly articulated to the Canadian public by
> constitutional scholar Phillippe Legasse. What Parliament can do is
> remove “confidence” in The Crown’s Government in a “vote of
> non-confidence.” That could not happen to the Chretien Government
> regarding deployment to Afghanistan, and it won’t happen in this
> instance with the conservative majority in The Commons regarding a
> limited Canadian deployment to the Middle East.
>
> President George Bush was quite correct after 911 and the terror
> attacks in New York; that the Taliban “occupied” and “failed state”
> Afghanistan was the source of logistical support, command and control,
> and training for the Al Quaeda war of terror against the world. The
> initial defeat, and removal from control of Afghanistan was vital and
>
> P.S. Whereas this CBC article is about your opinion of the actions of
> the latest Minister Of Health trust that Mr Boudreau and the CBC have
> had my files for many years and the last thing they are is ethical.
> Ask his friends Mr Murphy and the RCMP if you don't believe me.
>
> Subject:
> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:02:35 -0400
> From: "Murphy, Michael B. \(DH/MS\)" MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca
> To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>
> January 30, 2007
>
> WITHOUT PREJUDICE
>
> Mr. David Amos
>
> Dear Mr. Amos:
>
> This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29,
> 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP.
>
> Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have
> taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve
> Graham of the RCMP “J” Division in Fredericton.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Honourable Michael B. Murphy
> Minister of Health
>
> CM/cb
>
>
> Warren McBeath warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote:
>
> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500
> From: "Warren McBeath" warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
> To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca,
> nada.sarkis@gnb.ca, wally.stiles@gnb.ca, dwatch@web.net,
> motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
> CC: ottawa@chuckstrahl.com, riding@chuckstrahl.com,John.
> Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,"Bev BUSSON" bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> "Paul Dube" PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
> Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has
> forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have not
>
> Dear Mr. Amos,
>
> Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off
> over the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured I
> was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
>
> As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our position
> is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
> testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the
> Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
> services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
> instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
>
> As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
> imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear
> that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada
> the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment
> and policing in Petitcodiac, NB.
>
> It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on
> December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Warren McBeath, Cpl.
> GRC Caledonia RCMP
> Traffic Services NCO
> Ph: (506) 387-2222
> Fax: (506) 387-4622
> E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>
>
>
> Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
> Office of the Integrity Commissioner
> Edgecombe House, 736 King Street
> Fredericton, N.B. CANADA E3B 5H1
> tel.: 506-457-7890
> fax: 506-444-5224
> e-mail:coi@gnb.ca
>
On 8/3/17, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
> If want something very serious to download and laugh at as well Please
> Enjoy and share real wiretap tapes of the mob
>
> http://thedavidamosrant.
> ilian.html
>
>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/
>>
>> As the CBC etc yap about Yankee wiretaps and whistleblowers I must
>> ask them the obvious question AIN'T THEY FORGETTING SOMETHING????
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>
>> What the hell does the media think my Yankee lawyer served upon the
>> USDOJ right after I ran for and seat in the 39th Parliament baseball
>> cards?
>>
>> http://archive.org/details/
>> 6
>>
>> http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/
>>
>> http://www.archive.org/
>>
>> http://archive.org/details/
>>
>> FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006
>> Senator Arlen Specter
>> United States Senate
>> Committee on the Judiciary
>> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
>> Washington, DC 20510
>>
>> Dear Mr. Specter:
>>
>> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
>> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters
>> raised in the attached letter.
>>
>> Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wire tap tapes.
>>
>> I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this previously.
>>
>> Very truly yours,
>> Barry A. Bachrach
>> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
>> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
>> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
>>
>
http://davidraymondamos3.
Sunday, 19 November 2017
Federal Court of Appeal Finally Makes The BIG Decision And Publishes
It Now The Crooks Cannot Take Back Ticket To Try Put My Matter Before
The Supreme Court
https://decisions.fct-cf.gc.
Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
Amos v. Canada
Court (s) Database
Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
Date
2017-10-30
Neutral citation
2017 FCA 213
File numbers
A-48-16
Date: 20171030
Docket: A-48-16
Citation: 2017 FCA 213
CORAM:
WEBB J.A.
NEAR J.A.
GLEASON J.A.
BETWEEN:
DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
Respondent on the cross-appeal
(and formally Appellant)
and
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
Appellant on the cross-appeal
(and formerly Respondent)
Heard at Fredericton, New Brunswick, on May 24, 2017.
Judgment delivered at Ottawa, Ontario, on October 30, 2017.
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY:
THE COURT
Date: 20171030
Docket: A-48-16
Citation: 2017 FCA 213
CORAM:
WEBB J.A.
NEAR J.A.
GLEASON J.A.
BETWEEN:
DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
Respondent on the cross-appeal
(and formally Appellant)
and
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
Appellant on the cross-appeal
(and formerly Respondent)
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY THE COURT
I. Introduction
[1] On September 16, 2015, David Raymond Amos (Mr. Amos)
filed a 53-page Statement of Claim (the Claim) in Federal Court
against Her Majesty the Queen (the Crown). Mr. Amos claims $11 million
in damages and a public apology from the Prime Minister and Provincial
Premiers for being illegally barred from accessing parliamentary
properties and seeks a declaration from the Minister of Public Safety
that the Canadian Government will no longer allow the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Forces to harass him and his clan
(Claim at para. 96).
[2] On November 12, 2015 (Docket T-1557-15), by way of a
motion brought by the Crown, a prothonotary of the Federal Court (the
Prothonotary) struck the Claim in its entirety, without leave to
amend, on the basis that it was plain and obvious that the Claim
disclosed no reasonable claim, the Claim was fundamentally vexatious,
and the Claim could not be salvaged by way of further amendment (the
Prothontary’s Order).
[3] On January 25, 2016 (2016 FC 93), by way of Mr.
Amos’ appeal from the Prothonotary’s Order, a judge of the Federal
Court (the Judge), reviewing the matter de novo, struck all of Mr.
Amos’ claims for relief with the exception of the claim for damages
for being barred by the RCMP from the New Brunswick legislature in
2004 (the Federal Court Judgment).
[4] Mr. Amos appealed and the Crown cross-appealed the
Federal Court Judgment. Further to the issuance of a Notice of Status
Review, Mr. Amos’ appeal was dismissed for delay on December 19, 2016.
As such, the only matter before this Court is the Crown’s
cross-appeal.
II. Preliminary Matter
[5] Mr. Amos, in his memorandum of fact and law in
relation to the cross-appeal that was filed with this Court on March
6, 2017, indicated that several judges of this Court, including two of
the judges of this panel, had a conflict of interest in this appeal.
This was the first time that he identified the judges whom he believed
had a conflict of interest in a document that was filed with this
Court. In his notice of appeal he had alluded to a conflict with
several judges but did not name those judges.
[6] Mr. Amos was of the view that he did not have to
identify the judges in any document filed with this Court because he
had identified the judges in various documents that had been filed
with the Federal Court. In his view the Federal Court and the Federal
Court of Appeal are the same court and therefore any document filed in
the Federal Court would be filed in this Court. This view is based on
subsections 5(4) and 5.1(4) of the Federal Courts Act, R.S.C., 1985,
c. F-7:
5(4) Every judge of the Federal Court is, by virtue of his or her
office, a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal and has all the
jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court of
Appeal.
[…]
5(4) Les juges de la Cour fédérale sont d’office juges de la Cour
d’appel fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que
les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale.
[…]
5.1(4) Every judge of the Federal Court of Appeal is, by virtue of
that office, a judge of the Federal Court and has all the
jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court.
5.1(4) Les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale sont d’office juges de la
Cour fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que les
juges de la Cour fédérale.
[7] However, these subsections only provide that the
judges of the Federal Court are also judges of this Court (and vice
versa). It does not mean that there is only one court. If the Federal
Court and this Court were one Court, there would be no need for this
section.
[8] Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act provide that:
3 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court
— Appeal Division is continued under the name “Federal Court of
Appeal” in English and “Cour d’appel fédérale” in French. It is
continued as an additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and
for Canada, for the better administration of the laws of Canada and as
a superior court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.
3 La Section d’appel, aussi appelée la Cour d’appel ou la Cour d’appel
fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée « Cour d’appel fédérale » en
français et « Federal Court of Appeal » en anglais. Elle est maintenue
à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et d’amirauté du
Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit canadien, et
continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant compétence en
matière civile et pénale.
4 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court
— Trial Division is continued under the name “Federal Court” in
English and “Cour fédérale” in French. It is continued as an
additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and for Canada, for
the better administration of the laws of Canada and as a superior
court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.
4 La section de la Cour fédérale du Canada, appelée la Section de
première instance de la Cour fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée «
Cour fédérale » en français et « Federal Court » en anglais. Elle est
maintenue à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et
d’amirauté du Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit
canadien, et continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant
compétence en matière civile et pénale.
[9] Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act create
two separate courts – this Court (section 3) and the Federal Court
(section 4). If, as Mr. Amos suggests, documents filed in the Federal
Court were automatically also filed in this Court, then there would no
need for the parties to prepare and file appeal books as required by
Rules 343 to 345 of the Federal Courts Rules, SOR/98-106 in relation
to any appeal from a decision of the Federal Court. The requirement to
file an appeal book with this Court in relation to an appeal from a
decision of the Federal Court makes it clear that the only documents
that will be before this Court are the documents that are part of that
appeal book.
[10] Therefore, the memorandum of fact and law filed on
March 6, 2017 is the first document, filed with this Court, in which
Mr. Amos identified the particular judges that he submits have a
conflict in any matter related to him.
[11] On April 3, 2017, Mr. Amos attempted to bring a motion
before the Federal Court seeking an order “affirming or denying the
conflict of interest he has” with a number of judges of the Federal
Court. A judge of the Federal Court issued a direction noting that if
Mr. Amos was seeking this order in relation to judges of the Federal
Court of Appeal, it was beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal Court.
Mr. Amos raised the Federal Court motion at the hearing of this
cross-appeal. The Federal Court motion is not a motion before this
Court and, as such, the submissions filed before the Federal Court
will not be entertained. As well, since this was a motion brought
before the Federal Court (and not this Court), any documents filed in
relation to that motion are not part of the record of this Court.
[12] During the hearing of the appeal Mr. Amos alleged that
the third member of this panel also had a conflict of interest and
submitted some documents that, in his view, supported his claim of a
conflict. Mr. Amos, following the hearing of his appeal, was also
afforded the opportunity to provide a brief summary of the conflict
that he was alleging and to file additional documents that, in his
view, supported his allegations. Mr. Amos submitted several pages of
documents in relation to the alleged conflicts. He organized the
documents by submitting a copy of the biography of the particular
judge and then, immediately following that biography, by including
copies of the documents that, in his view, supported his claim that
such judge had a conflict.
[13] The nature of the alleged conflict of Justice Webb is
that before he was appointed as a Judge of the Tax Court of Canada in
2006, he was a partner with the law firm Patterson Law, and before
that with Patterson Palmer in Nova Scotia. Mr. Amos submitted that he
had a number of disputes with Patterson Palmer and Patterson Law and
therefore Justice Webb has a conflict simply because he was a partner
of these firms. Mr. Amos is not alleging that Justice Webb was
personally involved in or had any knowledge of any matter in which Mr.
Amos was involved with Justice Webb’s former law firm – only that he
was a member of such firm.
[14] During his oral submissions at the hearing of his
appeal Mr. Amos, in relation to the alleged conflict for Justice Webb,
focused on dealings between himself and a particular lawyer at
Patterson Law. However, none of the documents submitted by Mr. Amos at
the hearing or subsequently related to any dealings with this
particular lawyer nor is it clear when Mr. Amos was dealing with this
lawyer. In particular, it is far from clear whether such dealings were
after the time that Justice Webb was appointed as a Judge of the Tax
Court of Canada over 10 years ago.
[15] The documents that he submitted in relation to the
alleged conflict for Justice Webb largely relate to dealings between
Byron Prior and the St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador office of
Patterson Palmer, which is not in the same province where Justice Webb
practiced law. The only document that indicates any dealing between
Mr. Amos and Patterson Palmer is a copy of an affidavit of Stephen May
who was a partner in the St. John’s NL office of Patterson Palmer. The
affidavit is dated January 24, 2005 and refers to a number of e-mails
that were sent by Mr. Amos to Stephen May. Mr. Amos also included a
letter that is addressed to four individuals, one of whom is John
Crosbie who was counsel to the St. John’s NL office of Patterson
Palmer. The letter is dated September 2, 2004 and is addressed to
“John Crosbie, c/o Greg G. Byrne, Suite 502, 570 Queen Street,
Fredericton, NB E3B 5E3”. In this letter Mr. Amos alludes to a
possible lawsuit against Patterson Palmer.
[16] Mr. Amos’ position is that simply because Justice Webb
was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer, he now has a conflict. In Wewaykum
Indian Band v. Her Majesty the Queen, 2003 SCC 45, [2003] 2 S.C.R.
259, the Supreme Court of Canada noted that disqualification of a
judge is to be determined based on whether there is a reasonable
apprehension of bias:
60 In Canadian law, one standard has now emerged as the
criterion for disqualification. The criterion, as expressed by de
Grandpré J. in Committee for Justice and Liberty v. National Energy
Board, …[[1978] 1 S.C.R. 369, 68 D.L.R. (3d) 716], at p. 394, is the
reasonable apprehension of bias:
… the apprehension of bias must be a reasonable one, held by
reasonable and right minded persons, applying themselves to the
question and obtaining thereon the required information. In the words
of the Court of Appeal, that test is "what would an informed person,
viewing the matter realistically and practically -- and having thought
the matter through -- conclude. Would he think that it is more likely
than not that [the decision-maker], whether consciously or
unconsciously, would not decide fairly."
[17] The issue to be determined is whether an informed
person, viewing the matter realistically and practically, and having
thought the matter through, would conclude that Mr. Amos’ allegations
give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias. As this Court has
previously remarked, “there is a strong presumption that judges will
administer justice impartially” and this presumption will not be
rebutted in the absence of “convincing evidence” of bias (Collins v.
Canada, 2011 FCA 140 at para. 7, [2011] 4 C.T.C. 157 [Collins]. See
also R. v. S. (R.D.), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 484 at para. 32, 151 D.L.R.
(4th) 193).
[18] The Ontario Court of Appeal in Rando Drugs Ltd. v.
Scott, 2007 ONCA 553, 86 O.R. (3d) 653 (leave to appeal to the Supreme
Court of Canada refused, 32285 (August 1, 2007)), addressed the
particular issue of whether a judge is disqualified from hearing a
case simply because he had been a member of a law firm that was
involved in the litigation that was now before that judge. The Ontario
Court of Appeal determined that the judge was not disqualified if the
judge had no involvement with the person or the matter when he was a
lawyer. The Ontario Court of Appeal also explained that the rules for
determining whether a judge is disqualified are different from the
rules to determine whether a lawyer has a conflict:
27 Thus, disqualification is not the natural corollary to a
finding that a trial judge has had some involvement in a case over
which he or she is now presiding. Where the judge had no involvement,
as here, it cannot be said that the judge is disqualified.
28 The point can rightly be made that had Mr. Patterson been
asked to represent the appellant as counsel before his appointment to
the bench, the conflict rules would likely have prevented him from
taking the case because his firm had formerly represented one of the
defendants in the case. Thus, it is argued how is it that as a trial
judge Patterson J. can hear the case? This issue was considered by the
Court of Appeal (Civil Division) in Locabail (U.K.) Ltd. v. Bayfield
Properties Ltd., [2000] Q.B. 451. The court held, at para. 58, that
there is no inflexible rule governing the disqualification of a judge
and that, "[e]verything depends on the circumstances."
29 It seems to me that what appears at first sight to be an
inconsistency in application of rules can be explained by the
different contexts and in particular, the strong presumption of
judicial impartiality that applies in the context of disqualification
of a judge. There is no such presumption in cases of allegations of
conflict of interest against a lawyer because of a firm's previous
involvement in the case. To the contrary, as explained by Sopinka J.
in MacDonald Estate v. Martin (1990), 77 D.L.R. (4th) 249 (S.C.C.),
for sound policy reasons there is a presumption of a disqualifying
interest that can rarely be overcome. In particular, a conclusory
statement from the lawyer that he or she had no confidential
information about the case will never be sufficient. The case is the
opposite where the allegation of bias is made against a trial judge.
His or her statement that he or she knew nothing about the case and
had no involvement in it will ordinarily be accepted at face value
unless there is good reason to doubt it: see Locabail, at para. 19.
30 That brings me then to consider the particular circumstances
of this case and whether there are serious grounds to find a
disqualifying conflict of interest in this case. In my view, there are
two significant factors that justify the trial judge's decision not to
recuse himself. The first is his statement, which all parties accept,
that he knew nothing of the case when it was in his former firm and
that he had nothing to do with it. The second is the long passage of
time. As was said in Wewaykum, at para. 85:
To us, one significant factor stands out, and must inform
the perspective of the reasonable person assessing the impact of this
involvement on Binnie J.'s impartiality in the appeals. That factor is
the passage of time. Most arguments for disqualification rest on
circumstances that are either contemporaneous to the decision-making,
or that occurred within a short time prior to the decision-making.
31 There are other factors that inform the issue. The Wilson
Walker firm no longer acted for any of the parties by the time of
trial. More importantly, at the time of the motion, Patterson J. had
been a judge for six years and thus had not had a relationship with
his former firm for a considerable period of time.
32 In my view, a reasonable person, viewing the matter
realistically would conclude that the trial judge could deal fairly
and impartially with this case. I take this view principally because
of the long passage of time and the trial judge's lack of involvement
in or knowledge of the case when the Wilson Walker firm had carriage.
In these circumstances it cannot be reasonably contended that the
trial judge could not remain impartial in the case. The mere fact that
his name appears on the letterhead of some correspondence from over a
decade ago would not lead a reasonable person to believe that he would
either consciously or unconsciously favour his former firm's former
client. It is simply not realistic to think that a judge would throw
off his mantle of impartiality, ignore his oath of office and favour a
client - about whom he knew nothing - of a firm that he left six years
earlier and that no longer acts for the client, in a case involving
events from over a decade ago.
(emphasis added)
[19] Justice Webb had no involvement with any matter
involving Mr. Amos while he was a member of Patterson Palmer or
Patterson Law, nor does Mr. Amos suggest that he did. Mr. Amos made it
clear during the hearing of this matter that the only reason for the
alleged conflict for Justice Webb was that he was a member of
Patterson Law and Patterson Palmer. This is simply not enough for
Justice Webb to be disqualified. Any involvement of Mr. Amos with
Patterson Law while Justice Webb was a member of that firm would have
had to occur over 10 years ago and even longer for the time when he
was a member of Patterson Palmer. In addition to the lack of any
involvement on his part with any matter or dispute that Mr. Amos had
with Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer (which in and of itself is
sufficient to dispose of this matter), the length of time since
Justice Webb was a member of Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer would
also result in the same finding – that there is no conflict in Justice
Webb hearing this appeal.
[20] Similarly in R. v. Bagot, 2000 MBCA 30, 145 Man. R.
(2d) 260, the Manitoba Court of Appeal found that there was no
reasonable apprehension of bias when a judge, who had been a member of
the law firm that had been retained by the accused, had no involvement
with the accused while he was a lawyer with that firm.
[21] In Del Zotto v. Minister of National Revenue, [2000] 4
F.C. 321, 257 N.R. 96, this court did find that there would be a
reasonable apprehension of bias where a judge, who while he was a
lawyer, had recorded time on a matter involving the same person who
was before that judge. However, this case can be distinguished as
Justice Webb did not have any time recorded on any files involving Mr.
Amos while he was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer or Patterson Law.
[22] Mr. Amos also included with his submissions a CD. He
stated in his affidavit dated June 26, 2017 that there is a “true copy
of an American police surveillance wiretap entitled 139” on this CD.
He has also indicated that he has “provided a true copy of the CD
entitled 139 to many American and Canadian law enforcement authorities
and not one of the police forces or officers of the court are willing
to investigate it”. Since he has indicated that this is an “American
police surveillance wiretap”, this is a matter for the American law
enforcement authorities and cannot create, as Mr. Amos suggests, a
conflict of interest for any judge to whom he provides a copy.
[23] As a result, there is no conflict or reasonable
apprehension of bias for Justice Webb and therefore, no reason for him
to recuse himself.
[24] Mr. Amos alleged that Justice Near’s past professional
experience with the government created a “quasi-conflict” in deciding
the cross-appeal. Mr. Amos provided no details and Justice Near
confirmed that he had no prior knowledge of the matters alleged in the
Claim. Justice Near sees no reason to recuse himself.
[25] Insofar as it is possible to glean the basis for Mr.
Amos’ allegations against Justice Gleason, it appears that he alleges
that she is incapable of hearing this appeal because he says he wrote
a letter to Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien in 2004. At that time,
both Justice Gleason and Mr. Mulroney were partners in the law firm
Ogilvy Renault, LLP. The letter in question, which is rude and angry,
begins with “Hey you two Evil Old Smiling Bastards” and “Re: me suing
you and your little dogs too”. There is no indication that the letter
was ever responded to or that a law suit was ever commenced by Mr.
Amos against Mr. Mulroney. In the circumstances, there is no reason
for Justice Gleason to recuse herself as the letter in question does
not give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias.
III. Issue
[26] The issue on the cross-appeal is as follows: Did the
Judge err in setting aside the Prothonotary’s Order striking the Claim
in its entirety without leave to amend and in determining that Mr.
Amos’ allegation that the RCMP barred him from the New Brunswick
legislature in 2004 was capable of supporting a cause of action?
IV. Analysis
A. Standard of Review
[27] Following the Judge’s decision to set aside the
Prothonotary’s Order, this Court revisited the standard of review to
be applied to discretionary decisions of prothonotaries and decisions
made by judges on appeals of prothonotaries’ decisions in Hospira
Healthcare Corp. v. Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, 2016 FCA 215,
402 D.L.R. (4th) 497 [Hospira]. In Hospira, a five-member panel of
this Court replaced the Aqua-Gem standard of review with that
articulated in Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 235
[Housen]. As a result, it is no longer appropriate for the Federal
Court to conduct a de novo review of a discretionary order made by a
prothonotary in regard to questions vital to the final issue of the
case. Rather, a Federal Court judge can only intervene on appeal if
the prothonotary made an error of law or a palpable and overriding
error in determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and
law (Hospira at para. 79). Further, this Court can only interfere with
a Federal Court judge’s review of a prothonotary’s discretionary order
if the judge made an error of law or palpable and overriding error in
determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and law
(Hospira at paras. 82-83).
[28] In the case at bar, the Judge substituted his own
assessment of Mr. Amos’ Claim for that of the Prothonotary. This Court
must look to the Prothonotary’s Order to determine whether the Judge
erred in law or made a palpable and overriding error in choosing to
interfere.
B. Did the Judge err in interfering with the
Prothonotary’s Order?
[29] The Prothontoary’s Order accepted the following
paragraphs from the Crown’s submissions as the basis for striking the
Claim in its entirety without leave to amend:
17. Within the 96 paragraph Statement of Claim, the Plaintiff
addresses his complaint in paragraphs 14-24, inclusive. All but four
of those paragraphs are dedicated to an incident that occurred in 2006
in and around the legislature in New Brunswick. The jurisdiction of
the Federal Court does not extend to Her Majesty the Queen in right of
the Provinces. In any event, the Plaintiff hasn’t named the Province
or provincial actors as parties to this action. The incident alleged
does not give rise to a justiciable cause of action in this Court.
(…)
21. The few paragraphs that directly address the Defendant
provide no details as to the individuals involved or the location of
the alleged incidents or other details sufficient to allow the
Defendant to respond. As a result, it is difficult or impossible to
determine the causes of action the Plaintiff is attempting to advance.
A generous reading of the Statement of Claim allows the Defendant to
only speculate as to the true and/or intended cause of action. At
best, the Plaintiff’s action may possibly be summarized as: he
suspects he is barred from the House of Commons.
[footnotes omitted].
[30] The Judge determined that he could not strike the Claim
on the same jurisdictional basis as the Prothonotary. The Judge noted
that the Federal Court has jurisdiction over claims based on the
liability of Federal Crown servants like the RCMP and that the actors
who barred Mr. Amos from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004
included the RCMP (Federal Court Judgment at para. 23). In considering
the viability of these allegations de novo, the Judge identified
paragraph 14 of the Claim as containing “some precision” as it
identifies the date of the event and a RCMP officer acting as
Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant Governor (Federal Court Judgment at
para. 27).
[31] The Judge noted that the 2004 event could support a
cause of action in the tort of misfeasance in public office and
identified the elements of the tort as excerpted from Meigs v. Canada,
2013 FC 389, 431 F.T.R. 111:
[13] As in both the cases of Odhavji Estate v Woodhouse, 2003 SCC
69 [Odhavji] and Lewis v Canada, 2012 FC 1514 [Lewis], I must
determine whether the plaintiffs’ statement of claim pleads each
element of the alleged tort of misfeasance in public office:
a) The public officer must have engaged in deliberate and unlawful
conduct in his or her capacity as public officer;
b) The public officer must have been aware both that his or her
conduct was unlawful and that it was likely to harm the plaintiff; and
c) There must be an element of bad faith or dishonesty by the public
officer and knowledge of harm alone is insufficient to conclude that a
public officer acted in bad faith or dishonestly.
Odhavji, above, at paras 23, 24 and 28
(Federal Court Judgment at para. 28).
[32] The Judge determined that Mr. Amos disclosed sufficient
material facts to meet the elements of the tort of misfeasance in
public office because the actors, who barred him from the New
Brunswick legislature in 2004, including the RCMP, did so for
“political reasons” (Federal Court Judgment at para. 29).
[33] This Court’s discussion of the sufficiency of pleadings
in Merchant Law Group v. Canada (Revenue Agency), 2010 FCA 184, 321
D.L.R (4th) 301 is particularly apt:
…When pleading bad faith or abuse of power, it is not enough to
assert, baldly, conclusory phrases such as “deliberately or
negligently,” “callous disregard,” or “by fraud and theft did steal”.
“The bare assertion of a conclusion upon which the court is called
upon to pronounce is not an allegation of material fact”. Making bald,
conclusory allegations without any evidentiary foundation is an abuse
of process…
To this, I would add that the tort of misfeasance in public office
requires a particular state of mind of a public officer in carrying
out the impunged action, i.e., deliberate conduct which the public
officer knows to be inconsistent with the obligations of his or her
office. For this tort, particularization of the allegations is
mandatory. Rule 181 specifically requires particularization of
allegations of “breach of trust,” “wilful default,” “state of mind of
a person,” “malice” or “fraudulent intention.”
(at paras. 34-35, citations omitted).
[34] Applying the Housen standard of review to the
Prothonotary’s Order, we are of the view that the Judge interfered
absent a legal or palpable and overriding error.
[35] The Prothonotary determined that Mr. Amos’ Claim
disclosed no reasonable claim and was fundamentally vexatious on the
basis of jurisdictional concerns and the absence of material facts to
ground a cause of action. Paragraph 14 of the Claim, which addresses
the 2004 event, pleads no material facts as to how the RCMP officer
engaged in deliberate and unlawful conduct, knew that his or her
conduct was unlawful and likely to harm Mr. Amos, and acted in bad
faith. While the Claim alleges elsewhere that Mr. Amos was barred from
the New Brunswick legislature for political and/or malicious reasons,
these allegations are not particularized and are directed against
non-federal actors, such as the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Legislative
Assembly of New Brunswick and the Fredericton Police Force. As such,
the Judge erred in determining that Mr. Amos’ allegation that the RCMP
barred him from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004 was capable of
supporting a cause of action.
[36] In our view, the Claim is made up entirely of bare
allegations, devoid of any detail, such that it discloses no
reasonable cause of action within the jurisdiction of the Federal
Courts. Therefore, the Judge erred in interfering to set aside the
Prothonotary’s Order striking the claim in its entirety. Further, we
find that the Prothonotary made no error in denying leave to amend.
The deficiencies in Mr. Amos’ pleadings are so extensive such that
amendment could not cure them (see Collins at para. 26).
V. Conclusion
[37] For the foregoing reasons, we would allow the Crown’s
cross-appeal, with costs, setting aside the Federal Court Judgment,
dated January 25, 2016 and restoring the Prothonotary’s Order, dated
November 12, 2015, which struck Mr. Amos’ Claim in its entirety
without leave to amend.
"Wyman W. Webb"
J.A.
"David G. Near"
J.A.
"Mary J.L. Gleason"
J.A.
FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL
NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD
A CROSS-APPEAL FROM AN ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE SOUTHCOTT DATED
JANUARY 25, 2016; DOCKET NUMBER T-1557-15.
DOCKET:
A-48-16
STYLE OF CAUSE:
DAVID RAYMOND AMOS v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
PLACE OF HEARING:
Fredericton,
New Brunswick
DATE OF HEARING:
May 24, 2017
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY:
WEBB J.A.
NEAR J.A.
GLEASON J.A.
DATED:
October 30, 2017
APPEARANCES:
David Raymond Amos
For The Appellant / respondent on cross-appeal
(on his own behalf)
Jan Jensen
For The Respondent / APPELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL
SOLICITORS OF RECORD:
Nathalie G. Drouin
Deputy Attorney General of Canada
For The Respondent / APPELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL
http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/01/i-would-lay-odds-that-brian-gallant-and.html
Wednesday, 9 January 2019
I would lay odds that Brian Gallant and his SANB lawyer buddies Michel Carrier and Michel Doucet are relieved that CBC does not offer a comment section today N'esy Pas?
David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 11:30:50 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: YO Brian Gallant I would lay odds that your
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To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Thank you for your email. I will be away from Jan 6, 2019 and Jan
21, 2019. I will have limited access to my emails during this
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 07:30:09 -0400
Subject: YO Brian Gallant I would lay odds that your SANB lawyer
buddies Michel Carrier and Michel Doucet are relieved that CBC does
not offer a comment section today N'esy Pas?
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Bill.Morneau@canada.ca, Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca,
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JUSTMIN@novascotia.ca, Larry.Tremblay@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Liliana.Longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
ethics-ethique@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, complaints@officiallanguages.
complaints@cpc-cpp.gc.ca, manon.hardy@priv.gc.ca
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
Language commissioner wins right to intervene in paramedic hiring case
Judicial review coming up of arbitrator's recommendation not to require bilingual hires in some areas
A judge has ruled that Michel Carrier's lawyers will be allowed to make arguments and present evidence during a judicial review scheduled for Jan. 24.
It's the first time a New Brunswick language commissioner has been granted intervener status in a case before the courts.
"I am of the view that the Court could benefit from the arguments to be provided by the commissioner in the resolution of the issues between the parties," Justice Denise LeBlanc of the Court of Queen's Bench wrote in her Jan. 3 decision.
Carrier's lawyer, Michel Doucet, argued during a hearing last month that the commissioner had valuable insights to offer the court on how the Official Languages Act is interpreted.
Carrier said in a statement last month that recommended changes to the bilingual hiring requirements for paramedics "compromise the respect of New Brunswickers' language rights" and should not be implemented.
The McEvoy ruling
The judicial review will examine a ruling last year by labour arbitrator John McEvoy. He found Ambulance New Brunswick was not complying with seniority clauses in its contract with the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 4848.
McEvoy said Ambulance New Brunswick's use of temporary unilingual hires when it couldn't find bilingual paramedics, and the regular reposting of those vacancies, was interfering with seniority rights.
He suggested a regional-based hiring system that would not require bilingual paramedics in areas of the province where there is less demand for second-language service.
The Higgs government announced in December that it was directing Ambulance New Brunswick to implement the McEvoy decision, even before the judicial review is heard.
Higgs would not say in an interview last month whether the province's lawyers would argue during the review that McEvoy's ruling complied with or violated the language law.
He said they'd be seeking "to get an interpretation" of how the law is applied.
The province's lawyers didn't take a position on whether Carrier should be able to intervene. CUPE 4848 opposed it, arguing the case is "a private matter" between the union and the province.
Carrier's intervention in the paramedic case is the second time in recent months that an arm's-length legislative watchdog has gone to court.
Last fall, then-integrity commissioner Alexandre Deschênes filed the first-ever appeal by a commissioner in a right-to-information case.
After Deschênes filed the case, the province relented and gave the woman the report.
From: Nadine Duguay-Lemay <nadine.duguay@dialoguenb.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 14:54:09 +0000
Subject: RE: YO Brian Gallant I would lay odds that your SANB lawyer
buddies Michel Carrier and Michel Doucet are relieved that CBC does
not offer a comment section today N'esy Pas?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Cc: Beatrice Ramade <Beatrice.Ramade@dialoguenb.
Good morning Mr. Amos,
I apologize for the delay in responding. I have been away since
December 24th and returning only today, as was confirmed by our
Executive Assistant, Beatrice.
I would love to connect with you; Would you prefer meeting in person
or have a phone conversation ? If you can kindly indicate your
availability in coming days/weeks, it would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Nadine Duguay-Lemay
Chief Executive Officer
Dialogue NB
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Subject: YO Brian Gallant I would lay odds that your SANB lawyer
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not offer a comment section today N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
Language commissioner wins right to intervene in paramedic hiring case
Judicial review coming up of arbitrator's recommendation not to
require bilingual hires in some areas Jacques Poitras · CBC News ·
Posted: Jan 08, 2019 3:31 PM AT
Official Languages Commissioner Michel Carrier will be able to
intervene in a contentious court case involving Ambulance New
Brunswick's bilingual hiring practices (CBC)
New Brunswick's official languages commissioner has been given a legal
green light to intervene in a contentious court case involving
Ambulance New Brunswick's bilingual hiring practices.
A judge has ruled that Michel Carrier's lawyers will be allowed to
make arguments and present evidence during a judicial review scheduled
for Jan. 24.
It's the first time a New Brunswick language commissioner has been
granted intervener status in a case before the courts.
"I am of the view that the Court could benefit from the arguments to
be provided by the commissioner in the resolution of the issues
between the parties," Justice Denise LeBlanc of the Court of Queen's
Bench wrote in her Jan. 3 decision.
Weakened bilingual requirements for paramedics violates languages
act, says commissioner
Flemming's rhetoric on bilingual paramedics doesn't reflect
province's position, says Higgs
Carrier's lawyer, Michel Doucet, argued during a hearing last month
that the commissioner had valuable insights to offer the court on how
the Official Languages Act is interpreted.
Carrier said in a statement last month that recommended changes to the
bilingual hiring requirements for paramedics "compromise the respect
of New Brunswickers' language rights" and should not be implemented.
The McEvoy ruling
The judicial review will examine a ruling last year by labour
arbitrator John McEvoy. He found Ambulance New Brunswick was not
complying with seniority clauses in its contract with the Canadian
Union of Public Employees Local 4848.
McEvoy said Ambulance New Brunswick's use of temporary unilingual
hires when it couldn't find bilingual paramedics, and the regular
reposting of those vacancies, was interfering with seniority rights.
He suggested a regional-based hiring system that would not require
bilingual paramedics in areas of the province where there is less
demand for second-language service.
A map of where the McEvoy decision could be applied. The black areas
are where there's less demand for English services, and the grey areas
are where there's less demand for French services. (Province of New
Brunswick)
The previous Liberal government asked for a judicial review of the
decision because its recommendations appear to violate the legal
requirement for equal service in both languages in every part of the
province.
The Higgs government announced in December that it was directing
Ambulance New Brunswick to implement the McEvoy decision, even before
the judicial review is heard.
Tories loosen bilingual hiring requirements for paramedics in certain areas
Higgs would not say in an interview last month whether the province's
lawyers would argue during the review that McEvoy's ruling complied
with or violated the language law.
He said they'd be seeking "to get an interpretation" of how the law is applied.
The province's lawyers didn't take a position on whether Carrier
should be able to intervene. CUPE 4848 opposed it, arguing the case is
"a private matter" between the union and the province.
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs wants to implement the McEvoy
decision before the judicial review is heard. (CBC)
Carrier's lawyer Michel Doucet responded that McEvoy's labour ruling
"went beyond the scope of the private matter" and waded into an
interpretation of the Official Languages Act that would affect the
rights of New Brunswickers.
Carrier's intervention in the paramedic case is the second time in
recent months that an arm's-length legislative watchdog has gone to
court.
Last fall, then-integrity commissioner Alexandre Deschênes filed the
first-ever appeal by a commissioner in a right-to-information case.
The never-before-used power allowed him to challenge the province's
refusal to provide a New Brunswick woman with an investigator's report
on her use of an income-assistance program.
After Deschênes filed the case, the province relented and gave the
woman the report.
CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
---------- Original message ----------
From: Roger Richard <rrichard@nb.aibn.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 19:01:04 -0400
Subject: Re: Facing a divided province, a non-profit strives for 'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Big time!
> Le 8 janv. 2019 à 17:31, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Methinks Dialogue NB and all the politcal parties must have known that
> there were at least two Independent Candidates running in the last
> election as well One is English and one is French. We the best of
> friends and bilingualism is definitely not our number one concern.
>
---------- Oiginal message ----------
From: Beatrice Ramade <Beatrice.Ramade@dialoguenb.
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 19:04:59 +0000
Subject: RE: Facing a divided province, a non-profit strives for
'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Cc: Nadine Duguay-Lemay <nadine.duguay@dialoguenb.org>
Hi David,
Sorry for my belated message.
I wanted to thank you to have written to Dialogue NB and inform you
that our CEO will contact you when she returns.
Regards,
Béatrice Ramade
Executive Assistant / Adjointe de direction
Beatrice.ramade@dialoguenb.org
---------- Original message ----------
From: Beatrice Ramade <Beatrice.Ramade@dialoguenb.
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 17:25:01 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Facing a divided province, a non-profit
strives for 'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Please note that I will be on vacation from December 21st afternoon
and returning on January 3rd, 2019. Dialogue NB offices are also
closed from December 24th until January 3rd.
Happy Holidays!
Je suis en vacances du 21 décembre en après midi jusqu'au 2 janvier
2019 inclus. Les bureaux de Dialogue NB seront fermés du 24 décembre
au 2 janvier 2019 inclus.
Joyeuses fêtes!
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Fitch, Leanne" <leanne.fitch@fredericton.ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 17:25:01 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Facing a divided province, a non-profit
strives for 'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Out of office. Season's greetings, Merry Christmas and Happy New
Year. Je serail hors du bureau. Bonnes Fetes, joyeux Noel et bonne
annee
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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Beaudin, Ashley (LEG)" <Ashley.Beaudin@gnb.ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 17:25:06 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Facing a divided province, a non-profit
strives for 'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
I will be out of the office starting Wednesday, December 19th until
Wednesday, December 26th. If you need immediate assistance during my
absence, please contact JP Raiche at JP.Raiche@gnb.ca. Otherwise I
will respond to your emails as soon as possible upon my return.
Thank you,
Ashley
--
Je serai hors du bureau du mercredi 19 décembre jusqu'au mercredi 26
décembre. Si vous avez besoin de l'aide immédiate pendant mon absence,
veuillez contacter JP Raiche à l'adresse JP.Raiche@gnb.ca. Sinon, je
répondrai à vos courriels dès que possible à mon retour.
Merci,
Ashley
---------- Original message ----------
From: Manon Hardy <Manon.Hardy@priv.gc.ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 17:37:37 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Facing a divided province, a non-profit
strives for 'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Je vous remercie pour votre message. Veuillez noter qu'? partir du 12
nov. 2018, je travaillerai au minist?re de la Justice du Canada.
Veuillez communiquer avec Ewelina Frackowiak ou Julia Barss pour
toute assistance.
*****
Thank you for your message. Please note that starting on Nov. 12,
2018, I will be joining the Department of Justice of Canada. Please
contact Ewelina Frackowiak or Julia Barss for assistance.
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Barry, Clare" <Clare.Barry@justice.gc.ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 17:37:23 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Facing a divided province, a non-profit
strives for 'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Je serai absente du bureau entre le 27 decembre et le 2 janvier. Dans
mon absence, veuillez contactez Sam Boorman ou Melissa Chan dans le
bureau regional.
I will be away from the office from December 27, 2018 to January 2,
2019. In my absence, kindly contact Sam Boorman or Melissa Chan of the
Atlantic Regional Office.
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Jensen, Jan" <jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 17:37:23 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Facing a divided province, a non-profit
strives for 'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
I will be away from the office and not returning until Tuesday
December 27th, 2018. If you require immediate assistance, please
contact my assistant at (902) 407 7461.
---------- Original message ----------
From: Justice Minister <JUSTMIN@novascotia.ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 17:37:27 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Facing a divided province, a non-profit
strives for 'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Thank you for your email to the Minister of Justice. Please be assured
that it has been received by the Department. Your email will be
reviewed and addressed accordingly. Thank you.
---------- Original message ----------
From: Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 17:37:57 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Facing a divided province, a non-profit
strives for 'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
Please be advised that the Constituency Office of Bill Blair will be
closed from December 24th to January 1st. The office will re-open on
January 2nd, 2019. During this time I will have limited access to
email.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and all the best for 2019.
Sincerely,
Jessica Bozzo
---------- Original message ----------
From: Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 17:25:01 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Facing a divided province, a non-profit
strives for 'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
Thank you for writing to the Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Member
of Parliament for Vancouver Granville.
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directly to the Department of Justice at
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Thank you
-------------------
Merci d'?crire ? l'honorable Jody Wilson-Raybould, d?put?e de
Vancouver Granville.
Le pr?sent message vise ? vous informer que nous avons re?u votre
courriel. En raison d'une augmentation importante du volume de
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---------- Original message ----------
From: Matt.DeCourcey@parl.gc.ca
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 17:25:01 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Facing a divided province, a non-profit
strives for 'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
Thank you for emailing the office of Matt DeCourcey, MP. Please be
advised that the office is closed for the holiday season until January
3rd, at which time all emails will be reviewed. In the event of an
emergency, please leave a voicemail at 506-452-4110. Thank you and
Happy Holidays.
Merci d'avoir envoy? un courriel au bureau du d?put? Matt DeCourcey.
Veuillez noter que le bureau est ferm? pour la p?riode des F?tes
jusqu'au 3 janvier, quand tous les courriels seront examin?s. En cas
d'urgence, veuillez laisser un message sur la boite vocal au
506-452-4110. Merci et Joyeuses F?tes.
---------- Original message ----------
From: Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l’Ontario <Premier@ontario.ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 17:24:59 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Facing a divided province, a non-profit
strives for 'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Thank you for your email. Your thoughts, comments and input are greatly valued.
You can be assured that all emails and letters are carefully read,
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There may be occasions when, given the issues you have raised and the
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response may take several business days.
Thanks again for your email.
______
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nous avoir fait part de vos idées, commentaires et observations.
Nous tenons à vous assurer que nous lisons attentivement et prenons en
considération tous les courriels et lettres que nous recevons.
Dans certains cas, nous transmettrons votre message au ministère
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la manière la plus efficace possible. En conséquence, plusieurs jours
ouvrables pourraient s’écouler avant que nous puissions vous répondre.
Merci encore pour votre courriel.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Sent: 24 décembre 2018 13:25
To: ashley.beaudin@gnb.ca; Beatrice Ramade
< Beatrice.Ramade@dialoguenb.
jacques.j.leblanc@gnb.ca; greg.thompson2@gnb.ca; hugh.flemming@gnb.ca;
jake.stewart@gnb.ca; Hamish.Wright@gnb.ca; carl.davies@gnb.ca;
hance.colburne@cbc.ca; don.darling@saintjohn.ca; gerry.lowe@gnb.ca;
Frank.McKenna@td.com; robert.mckee@gnb.ca; Alex.Johnston@cbc.ca;
jesse@viafoura.com; sylvie.gadoury@radio-canada.ca; pm@pm.gc.ca;
Gerald.Butts@pmo-cpm.gc.ca; maxime.bernier@parl.gc.ca;
andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca; premier@ontario.ca; brian.gallant@gnb.ca;
premier@gnb.ca; Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.
hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca; Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca;
washington.field@ic.fbi.gov; Boston.Mail@ic.fbi.gov;
mdcohen212@gmail.com; djtjr@trumporg.com
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>;
martin.gaudet@fredericton.ca; Leanne.Fitch@fredericton.ca;
Matt.DeCourcey <Matt.DeCourcey@parl.gc.ca>; Alaina.Lockhart
< Alaina.Lockhart@parl.gc.ca>; Wayne.Long <Wayne.Long@parl.gc.ca>;
Karen.Ludwig <Karen.Ludwig@parl.gc.ca>; Ginette.PetitpasTaylor
< Ginette.PetitpasTaylor@parl.
Subject: Fwd: Facing a divided province, a non-profit strives for
'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
---------- Original message ----------
From: Nadine Duguay-Lemay <nadine.duguay@dialoguenb.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 16:59:10 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Facing a divided province, a non-profit
strives for 'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Please note that I will be on vacation from December 21st afternoon
and returning on January 14th 2019. Dialogue NB offices are also
closed from December 24th until January 3rd. Please leave me a
message or contact Beatrice Ramade on January 3rd at 1-866-224-4040 or
beatrice.ramade@dialoguenb.org. Joyeuses fêtes!
Je suis présentement en vacances du 21 décembre en après midi jusqu'au
14 janvier 2019. Les bureaux de Dialogue NB seront fermés du 24
décembre au 3 janvier 2019. Merci de me laisser un message ou de
contacter Béatrice Ramade après le 3 janvier au 1-866-224-4040 ou via
courriel à beatrice.ramade@dialoguenb.org
Happy Holidays!
-----Original Message-----
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Sent: 24 décembre 2018 13:25
To: ashley.beaudin@gnb.ca; Beatrice Ramade
< Beatrice.Ramade@dialoguenb.
jacques.j.leblanc@gnb.ca; greg.thompson2@gnb.ca; hugh.flemming@gnb.ca;
jake.stewart@gnb.ca; Hamish.Wright@gnb.ca; carl.davies@gnb.ca;
hance.colburne@cbc.ca; don.darling@saintjohn.ca; gerry.lowe@gnb.ca;
Frank.McKenna@td.com; robert.mckee@gnb.ca; Alex.Johnston@cbc.ca;
jesse@viafoura.com; sylvie.gadoury@radio-canada.ca; pm@pm.gc.ca;
Gerald.Butts@pmo-cpm.gc.ca; maxime.bernier@parl.gc.ca;
andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca; premier@ontario.ca; brian.gallant@gnb.ca;
premier@gnb.ca; Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.
hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca; Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca;
washington.field@ic.fbi.gov; Boston.Mail@ic.fbi.gov;
mdcohen212@gmail.com; djtjr@trumporg.com
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>;
martin.gaudet@fredericton.ca; Leanne.Fitch@fredericton.ca;
Matt.DeCourcey <Matt.DeCourcey@parl.gc.ca>; Alaina.Lockhart
< Alaina.Lockhart@parl.gc.ca>; Wayne.Long <Wayne.Long@parl.gc.ca>;
Karen.Ludwig <Karen.Ludwig@parl.gc.ca>; Ginette.PetitpasTaylor
< Ginette.PetitpasTaylor@parl.
Subject: Fwd: Facing a divided province, a non-profit strives for
'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
---------- Original message ----------
From: Nadine Duguay-Lemay <nadine.duguay@dialoguenb.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 16:59:10 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Facing a divided province, a non-profit
strives for 'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Please note that I will be on vacation from December 21st afternoon
and returning on January 14th 2019. Dialogue NB offices are also
closed from December 24th until January 3rd. Please leave me a
message or contact Beatrice Ramade on January 3rd at 1-866-224-4040 or
beatrice.ramade@dialoguenb.org. Joyeuses fêtes!
Je suis présentement en vacances du 21 décembre en après midi jusqu'au
14 janvier 2019. Les bureaux de Dialogue NB seront fermés du 24
décembre au 3 janvier 2019. Merci de me laisser un message ou de
contacter Béatrice Ramade après le 3 janvier au 1-866-224-4040 ou via
courriel à beatrice.ramade@dialoguenb.org
Happy Holidays!
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Gallant, Brian (LEG)" <Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 16:59:17 +0000
Subject: RE: Facing a divided province, a non-profit strives for
'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Thank you for writing to the Leader of the Official Opposition of New
Brunswick. Please be assured that your e-mail will be reviewed.
If this is a media request, please forward your e-mail to
ashley.beaudin@gnb.ca<mailto:m
---
Nous vous remercions d’avoir communiqué avec le chef de l’opposition
officielle du Nouveau-Brunswick. Soyez assuré(e) que votre courriel
sera examiné.
Si ceci est une demande médiatique, prière de la transmettre à
ashley.beaudin@gnb.ca<mailto:m
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Mitton, Megan (LEG)" <Megan.Mitton@gnb.ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 16:59:18 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Facing a divided province, a non-profit
strives for 'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Je suis hors du bureau pour le temps de fêtes. Je serai de retour
lundi, le 7 janvier. Je vous répondrai dès que possible. Bonnes fêtes
à vous et à votre famille! ----- I am out of the office for the
holidays and will be back on Monday, January 7. I wil respond as soon
as possible. Happy holidays to you and your family.
---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 12:59:05 -0400
Subject: Facing a divided province, a non-profit strives for 'social
cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
To: blaine.higgs@gnb.ca, robert.gauvin@gnb.ca, Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca,
Ernie.Steeves@gnb.ca, Sherry.Wilson@gnb.ca, mary.wilson@gnb.ca,
carl.urquhart@gnb.ca, Catherine.Tait@cbc.ca, brian.gallant@gnb.ca,
greg.byrne@gnb.ca, Jack.Keir@gnb.ca, nick.brown@gnb.ca,
steve.murphy@ctv.ca, Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca, darrow.macintyre@cbc.ca,
kris.austin@gnb.ca, michelle.conroy@gnb.ca, rick.desaulniers@gnb.ca,
David.Coon@gnb.ca, Kevin.A.Arseneau@gnb.ca, megan.mitton@gnb.ca,
sutherland.marie@
denis.landry2@gnb.ca, oldmaison@yahoo.com, andre@jafaust.com,
COCMoncton@gmail.com, markandcaroline markandcaroline@gmail.com,
Mark.Blakely@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
Gilles.Cote@gnb.ca, dan.bussieres@gnb.ca, Robert.Jones@cbc.ca,
nick.moore@bellmedia.ca, David.Akin@globalnews.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, info@dialoguenb.org,
nadine.duguay@dialoguenb.org, Newsroom@globeandmail.com,
news@kingscorecord.com, bruce.northrup@gnb.ca, bruce.fitch@gnb.ca,
mike.holland@gnb.ca, jeff.carr@gnb.ca>, Ross.Wetmore@gnb.ca,
BrianThomasMacdonald@gmail.com, briangallant@nbliberal.ca,
Brian.kenny@gnb.ca, serge.rousselle@gnb.ca, serge.gauvin@snb.ca,
"alan.roy" alan.roy@snb.ca, Michel.Carrier@gnb.ca,
claude.poirier@snb.ca, Hon.Dominic.LeBlanc@canada.ca
https://davidraymondamos3.
Methinks if Dialogue NB has been reading the CBC Comment Sections for
the past year they would know that they have been ignoring their
original mandate far too long N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
Methinks Dialogue NB and all the politcal parties must have known that
there were at least two Independent Candidates running in the last
election as well One is English and one is French. We the best of
friends and bilingualism is definitely not our number one concern.
https://www.dialoguenb.org/
Dialogue NB offers support to political parties in the aftermath of
provincial election
By Nadine Duguay|September 27th, 2018|Uncategorized|0 Comments
Election results reveal urgent need to change the provincial
conversation toward social cohesion
Moncton, September 27, 2018
Dialogue New Brunswick is reaching out to all four political parties
that won seats in the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly on Monday to
help them find ways to overcome the divisiveness that was expressed at
the polls and find a path toward greater social cohesion.
« The election results send a clear signal that it’s time to change
the conversation in New Brunswick », says Nadine Duguay, CEO of
Dialogue New Brunswick. « There is an urgent need to find ways to talk
to each other and build greater understanding, trust and cooperation
if we are to grow and prosper together as a province. Dialogue NB is
here to help. »
In June of this year, Dialogue New Brunswick announced it was taking
the mantle of social cohesion. Its new slogan « One New Brunswick,
together » became the rallying cry for the organization that vowed to
champion and celebrate social cohesion across civil society by
identifying ways to promote understanding, respect and harmony among
all in an increasingly diverse province. In the few months since, key
actions have included launching programs to provide leadership and
support to New Brunswickers from all communities, cultural backgrounds
and walks of life so they can identify what they share in order to
work better together to create the conditions that will allow each
person living in the province to feel valued, heard and that they
belong. Dialogue NB is now offering political parties and other
organizations to join in this mission.
The organization mandated five Experts in Residence with helping guide
the conversation, including Stephany Peterson, a PhD candidate at the
University of New Brunswick. « Dialogue NB is ready with boots on the
ground to be of service to our government and fellow New Brunswickers.
We have heard the call of our province, and we are ready, willing and
able to mobilize to respond. Rather than dwell in the fear of
uncertainty and scurry to rely on the familiar, let us instead embrace
this situation to see what role identity factors have played for this
political landscape, and map a new course in the context of social
cohesion to effect change.» says Ms. Peterson.
« The election results will embolden those of us who believe in our
province’s potential », says sociologist Mathieu Wade, also Dialogue
Expert in Residence. « We have to embrace this unchartered territory
and see it as an opportunity to reshape our provincial conversation.
New Brunswickers are demanding it. »
About Dialogue NB
Dialogue is a non-profit organization, led by a volunteer board of
directors, with a mandate to help the Province of New Brunswick be a
more socially cohesive community. The organization develops programs
and initiatives to help inspire communities and individuals to live
together in greater harmony – respecting all people as valued members
of society.
Resident experts are available for interviews. For more information,
please contact:
Nadine Duguay Lemay
Chef Executive Officer
nadine.duguay@dialoguenb.org
506-850-1457
Dialogue New Brunswick
202-735 Main Street
Moncton
New Brunswick E1C 1E5
Phone: 506-852-4494
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Facing a divided province, a non-profit strives for 'social cohesion' in New Brunswick ??? YEA RIGHT
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Facing a divided province, a non-profit strives for 'social cohesion' in New Brunswick
Dialogue NB throws out English-French communication mandate in favour of broader 'social cohesion'
Dialogue New Brunswick actually isn't even talking about language anymore.
It still wants to listen, if that's what New Brunswickers want to talk about, but it's "trying to change the conversation," said new CEO Nadine Duguay-Lemay.
The hope is that by expanding its horizons and being even more inclusive, all the barriers New Brunswickers see between each other will eventually come down.
To understand the starting point and how Dialogue is trying to change the game, Duguay-Lemay pointed to a recent community forum she facilitated in Miramichi
Eight weeks had gone by since a contentious provincial election that saw predominantly francophone northern New Brunswick vote Liberal and predominantly anglophone southern New Brunswick vote Progressive Conservative, plus the rise of the Greens and People's Alliance — a party that wants to change some of the ways official bilingualism is implemented.
"There were people who had some serious comments about how they feel threatened and where they stand. But it was good to hear from both sides," said Guy Richard, a bilingual member of the francophone community in Miramichi who was invited to the event through the Chamber of Commerce.
Richard recalled one woman who spoke out about having fought for her rights as a francophone for a long time, and being frightened by the prospect of a lower level of service.
Then, he said, an English speaker stood up and sympathized with the woman, explaining that in recent years he had found it increasingly difficult to find a job as a person without French language skills. He said he couldn't imagine what it would be like to endure such a situation for 30 or 40 years, as she had, Richard recounted.
'Safe space' needed
Duguay-Lemay said that type of acknowledgement goes a long way to make a person feel heard and like they can trust the other person.
"As anywhere right now in the world, people crave having honest and open discussions," said Duguay-Lemay in an interview in late November.
"We're trying to create that safe space where people will feel that Dialogue NB is that voice that will be there, that's neutral, that listens to them."
It's a bit of a "pivot," to borrow her term, from the group's original mandate.
Born out of linguistic division
Dialogue NB was established in 1990 by leaders in the public, private and non-profit sectors, including Acadian author Antonine Maillet.
At the time, support was growing for the Confederation of Regions party, which was promising to repeal the Official Languages Act — "which, ironically, is very reflective as to what we're seeing again today," said Duguay-Lemay.
"That's the vision," said Duguay-Lemay.
Some may say they have a long way to go.
Dugay-Lemay agreed there is much work to be done, but she also said it's not as bad as you might think.
Consultations reveal image problems
When she took over as CEO last February, Duguay-Lemay said her first order of business was to try to get a sense of what people knew about Dialogue NB, if anything.
She did 200 individual consultations with New Brunswickers "from all walks of life."
While many people may remember seeing commercials for Dialogue NB, generally depicting scenes of francophones and anglophones trying to communicate with each other, 95 per cent of the people she interviewed could not identify a single program or initiative that the group offered.
"That speaks a lot about the branding of an organization that's 29 years old," she said.
Two-thirds of the people she talked to thought its mandate was to promote bilingualism.
Unfortunately, that binary framework may have actually had an opposite effect.
"What I have found is as soon as you talk about two, what am I inviting people to do? — Is compare."
The original mandate was also problematic because it left a lot of people out of the conversation.
"First Nations, for instance, were saying, 'We feel excluded. What about us?'" she said.
"We can no longer have a discourse in New Brunswick, in the world, in Canada, in the era of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report and not be inclusive. Nor can we ignore our newcomers," said Duguay-Lemay.
"New Brunswick is more than just its francophone and anglophone communities. There are ... 15 First Nation communities representative of 30,000 Indigenous people. Newcomers now represent four per cent of our demographics and that's going to keep going upward."
Targeting disenfranchised groups
At their annual general meeting in June, Dialogue NB's board of directors agreed to a much broader focus that includes all cultural groups, all ages, all abilities, all sexual orientations.
And the goal they now pursue is social cohesion — a concept measured by things like how connected people feel to society, how much they trust each other, their willingness to collaborate, and having common goals.
"Nobody argues with that. Nobody."
In these terms, she said, New Brunswick actually looks pretty good.
Across language groups, genders, and ages, New Brunswick is "fairly socially cohesive," compared to other places around the world.
The population segments that do need some attention, however, are those with special needs, the LGBTQ community, people with low incomes and Indigenous communities, she said.
"We know what we need to do. If we have an actual strategy and we can create a space, common spaces, virtual or physical for people to understand one another much better and enlarge it that it's not just our two linguistic communities ... we will move those data points very significantly," she said.
Duguay-Lemay hopes to eventually put out an annual report card, the way the New Brunswick Health Council does, so people can see any progress in the "data points."
"Rather than 10,000 of everything that goes wrong, we can say, 'Well, you know what New Brunswick? This is where we're at and, hence, this is where we should focus,'" she said.
"We're not ignorant and we're not being naive about the statistics, but we won't achieve it by ... pulling each other apart.
"And we won't achieve it by arguing on Facebook platforms."
She could say that with some certainty because she had regularly made a point of reading the often nasty comments under articles that have to do with language and minorities.
Peace by crafting?
One of the ways Dialogue NB is trying to raise the level of civil discourse is through a new youth program. It invited young people with ideas for social cohesion projects to submit them last August.
Valérie Foulem, 26, saw an ad on Facebook and was pleasantly surprised to find out Dialogue NB existed.
Foulem's idea is to create an arts and cultural centre in the Bathurst area. It would include a studio space and room for artisans to display and sell what they make.
"There's a lot of beautiful arts and music and culture here, that we don't have as much of a space to explore," Foulem said.
"We have slices of the community can meet in places, but nowhere for everybody to gather."
Foulem said she is on the autism spectrum and works as a social worker and counsellor, and she hopes make it a little easier for "creatives," such as herself, to find their way in the Chaleur region.
"If you're a crafty, nerdy, creative kid, you tend to have a little bit more trouble feeling like you belong," she said. "You kind of feel like you're a little left out because sometimes we think a little bit differently than other people — not in a bad way — just in, like, a fun, eccentric way."
Foulem said she thinks an arts and cultural centre could foster social cohesion on other levels as well.
"If you work on something next to someone — and it can be as simple as two people doing the dishes together — that keeps the conversation flowing because you're doing something with your hands. You have something to kind of fill the silence, like, 'I'm just going to really concentrate on this.'"
Foulem envisions people from various linguistic and cultural groups and all strata of society getting to know each other a little better as they work on projects in such a maker space.
Left 'cushy' job to pursue passion
It might seem far-fetched or overly simplistic to think that New Brunswick could bridge its linguistic divide by doing arts and crafts, but Duguay-Lemay thinks many small efforts along these lines can ultimately make a significant difference.
"Some people call me naive because I'm optimistic. I go through ups and downs every day. But I choose to have hope for this province," she said.
Her passion for the work could explain why she left a "very cushy" and "very comfortable" job in the banking industry to lead a non-profit that's "on very shaky ground," given the province's economic and political situation.
"I care about the future of my province."
Duguay-Lemay describes herself as a "citizen of the world" and a "self-made person." She grew up in Tracadie, where her dad was a carpenter and her mom ran her own hairdressing business.
"She showed me determination."
Duguay-Lemay has lived away and come home again. She speaks three languages fluently — French, English and Spanish — and worked in the non-profit sector for several years before entering the corporate world.
And she has taken some strong corporate principles back with her into the non-profit realm.
She's trying to distance Dialogue NB from government, for example. Moving its office from Fredericton to Moncton was part of that.
She wants to find new sources of revenue — 90 per cent of its budget currently comes from the province — but hasn't quite figured out how to do that yet.
"I'm good, but I'm not that good."
She also has a healthy obsession with data and evidence-based decision making.
To justify her optimism, for example, she points to the 50,000 views of Dialogue NB's "Manifesto For Togetherness" video, the doubling of their social media followers (about 2,700 now on Facebook), and the 50 communities that have pledged to work on social cohesion projects.
Dialogue NB has received some international affirmation as well. It was recently accepted into an accelerator program through +Acumen, an educational organization that works for social change. It will work with other non-profits from around the world during a six-week program starting in January, trying to commercialize and develop the export potential of its communities program.
"People think we're on to something," she said.
"This is bold of us, but we have the vision that New Brunswick can become a champion, a worldwide champion with respect to social cohesion.
"We need vision. We haven't been visionary enough in my opinion in the last decade."
"I'll give it my best. Hopefully, we're being relevant to New Brunswickers."
About the Author
Dialogue NB's bold new vision
Tensions sociales : Dialogue NB propose son aide
Ça veut
dire justement de mettre le cap sur la cohésion sociale,
explique-t-elle. C’est de trouver les points communs que nous avons et
sans avoir une critique sur ce qu’on a observé dans les derniers jours.Je peux
vous dire que notre boîte courriel et nos médias sociaux ont été inondés
de messages de gens qui faisaient appel à nos services et qui disaient
que s’il y a un temps pour le dialogue, le voilà. C’est pour ça que nous
répondons à l’appel, souligne Mme Duguay-Lemay.À lire aussi :
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Nos experts
en résidence, il y en a cinq, sont prêts à travailler avec eux, à
essayer d’apporter ce sentiment de collaboration. Qu’importe ce qui va
se passer, les chiffres ne sont pas en faveur d’un parti ou de l’autre.
C’est un gouvernement minoritaire, il va falloir qu’il y ait du dialogue
d’une façon ou d’une autre, affirme Nadine Duguay-Lemay.Dialogue is a non-profit organization, led by a volunteer board of directors, with a mandate to help the Province of New Brunswick be a more socially cohesive community. The organization develops programs and initiatives to help inspire communities and individuals to live together in greater harmony – respecting all people as valued members of society.
Chef Executive Officer
nadine.duguay@dialoguenb.org
506-850-1457
Nadine Duguay-Lemay
Chief Executive Officer
Her personal and professional background is characterized by her strong community and social involvement and her desire to create a more inclusive and tolerant society.
She is known for her visionary spirit and her remarkable skills as a leader, unifier and strategist. A skilled communicator, she can speak French, English and Spanish.
Nadine Duguay-Lemay has acquired a wide variety of experience in the public, private and community sectors. She loves to share her expertise by acting as a mentor for various programs in the community.
After working as a manager and marketing executive for the Agropur Dairy Cooperative, she founded and directed The Compello Institute of Language, a language training school in Miramichi. She then became Executive Director of the Dieppe Arts and Culture Centre and 21inc. Before joining Dialogue NB, Nadine Duguay-Lemay was Director, Regional marketing at National Bank.
Nadine Duguay-Lemay’s career has taken an atypical course through language instruction, entrepreneurship, management and leadership development.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the Université de Moncton and a certificate in contemporary management. She is a graduate of NBCC St. Andrews where she completed a diploma in international business. She is also a Certified International Trade Practicioner and holds diplomas in international trade from the Forum for International Trade Training.
A tireless volunteer, Nadine was a delegate and current chair of the New Brunswick Committee for the Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference. She is also known for having established numerous community networks, including the Women of Miramichi Entrepreneurial Network,
Miramichi Young Professional & Involved Entrepreneurs Network (MYPIE) and Rotary Resurgo, of which she remains an active member.
Contact:
nadine.duguay@dialoguenb.org
Cell: (506) 850-1457
Lyne Paquet
Chief Financial Officer
As a member with experience in financial management within our group at Dialogue New Brunswick, Lyne Paquet uses her expert skills in accounting to manage our organization’s finances in a professional manner.
Her career path is characterized by her commitment to the Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour.
Originally from northwestern New Brunswick, Ms. Paquet graduated from the Université de Moncton with a Bachelor of Business Administration.
Good with numbers, she has held various positions within the Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour as a budget manager, Director of Financial Services, Director General of Departmental Services, and as Senior Director of Finance.
Her career path continued in 1979 until 1988, when she worked at the Centre communautaire Sainte-Anne in Fredericton, where she held the positions of Assistant Director and Acting Director General.
Lyne Paquet has more than 37 years of experience in financial management, allowing her accounting expertise to radiate within the Dialogue New Brunswick organization.
Beatrice Fournier RAMADE
Executive Assistant
From the moment she and her family arrived in New Brunswick in 2012, she put her administrative and organizational skills to use at different local compagnies and she invested herself in the immigrants’ community in Greater Moncton.
Eric Melanson
Communications Coordinator
St Stephen
Fredericton
Bathurst
Edmundston
Fredericton
Memramcook
Miramichi
Moncton
Moncton
We acknowledge the support of all who have helped lay the foundation and continue our work throughout the years.
Those who have served on our board include:
Volpé, Gilles (Fredericton) 1994
White, Mélanie 1994
Carrier, Michel (Fredericton) 1995
Cyr, Georges (Edmundston) 1995
Coughlan, Joe (Saint John) 1995
Lajoie, Claudette (Pointe-Verte) 1995
Marcoux, Jeannette (Dieppe) 1995
Myers, Richard (Fredericton) 1995
Palmer, Emily (Sussex) 1995
Wellige, Rainer (Cap-Pelé) 1995
Clark, Emily (Woodstock) 1996
Doherty, Mary (Saint John) 1996
Fleming, Berkeley (Sackville) 1996
McKibbon, Clarence 1997
Bouffard, Viviane 1998
Haché, Patrick (Moncton) 1998
O’Regan, Karla 1998
Soucie, Anne (Edmundston) 1998
Carleton, Gail (Dalhousie) 1999
King, John (Rothesay) 1999
Guérette, Christianne (Fredericton) 2000
Batt-Melanson, Laura (Fredericton) 2000
Allain, Edouard (New Maryland) 2001
Bonnell, Don (Saint John) 2001
Dobson, Jodi (Fredericton) 2001
Keith, Greg (Picadilly) 2001
LeBlanc, Alban (Moncton) 2001
Williams, Joni Patricia (Miramichi) 2001
Duguay, Chantal (Campbellton) 2002
Godin, Sylvain (Petit-Rocher) 2002
Haché , Serge (Shippagan) 2002
Liette Clément(Bathurst) 2002
Long, Beatrice (Grand Falls) 2002
Snow, Odette (Moncton) 2002
Washburn, Jane C. (Hampton) 2002
Furlong, Dennis (Dalhousie) 2003
Macleod, Ken (Moncton) 2003
Spangenberg, Rolf (Rothesay) 2003
Paulin, Father J. Stanislas (Miramichi) 2004
Thériault, Lauréat (Edmundston) 2004
Irving, Sandra (Saint John) 2005
McKay, Kimberly (Fredericton) 2005
Barrett Smith, Sharron (Woodstock) 2007
Cain,Kelly (Fredericton) 2007
Fancy, Alex (Sackville) 2007
Papadopoulos, Janine (Fredericton) 2008
Sullivan, Ryan (Fredericton) 2008
Chouinard, Yves (Campbellton) 2010
Charest, Léo-Paul (Edmundston) 2015
Chiasson, Paul-Émile (Saint John) 2015
Jenkins, Cyndi (Fredericton) 2015
Whitehead, Jennifer (Fredericton) 2015
Choptiany, Stan (St. Andrews) 2016
Farn, Calla (Connell) 2016
Raymond, Lyne (Campbellton) 2017
Tarjan, Roxanne (Saint John) 2017
Horgan, Christianne Vachon (Saint John)
Thériault , Camille (Caraquet)
The Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference was created to broaden the perspectives of future leaders in business, unions and public administration so that their decisions are based on a practical understanding of the influence of their organizations on the general welfare of the community.
The mission of the Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference is to:
- Improve decision-making abilities among young leaders likely to occupy high level positions in the near future;
- Facilitate a more progressive era of interaction between leaders from business, labour, government and the broader community; and
- Broaden understanding of Canada.
Mandate
Members of the Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference come
from different regions of Canada, different perspectives and different
careers. All members share one thing in common: they are high potential
individuals expected to achieve senior leadership positions in their
organizations and communities.
The Canadian leadership conferences began in 1983 as a means to help build Canada. They involve a unique process of examination, debate and discovery designed to broaden perspectives and enhance the leadership qualities of members.
The Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference is designed to pack the most intense experiences of life in Canadian industry and community into a unique two-week event.
Members
Members typically are managers and officials drawn from business,
labour, professional and government positions as well as from academia,
community and voluntary groups, and the cultural sector. They will have
acquired considerable knowledge and experience and an appreciation of
the economic and social conditions impacting on their community and
Canada as a whole.
Members are also expected to have a capacity for leadership; to be able to contribute to the effective working of a group; to have strong interpersonal skills; to be able to undertake the program travel schedule, and to have a genuine interest in the overall theme and topics of the Conference.
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Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette
Before becoming Governor General, Julie Payette was an astronaut, engineer, scientific broadcaster and corporate director.
From 1992 to 2013, Ms. Payette worked as an astronaut and flew two missions in space. She also served many years as CAPCOM (Capsule Communicator) at NASA’s Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, and was Chief Astronaut for the Canadian Space Agency.
She is well respected for her work in developing policies to promote science and technology. From 2011 to 2013, she worked as a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and was appointed scientific authority for Quebec in the United States. Between July 2013 and October 2016, she served as Chief Operating Officer of the Montréal Science Centre.
Ms. Payette is active in multiple facets of the community. She has produced several scientific outreach short programs on Radio-Canada and is a member of McGill University’s Faculty of Engineering Advisory Board. She has served on the boards of the Montréal Science Centre Foundation, Robotique FIRST Québec, Drug Free Kids Canada, and the Montreal Bach Festival. She has long served on the board of Own The Podium, a granting organization dedicated to high performance sport in Canada, and was recently appointed to the International Olympic Committee Women in Sport Commission. She has served as a director of Développement Aéroport Saint-Hubert de Longueuil and of the National Bank of Canada.
Ms. Payette is a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec and a fellow of the International Academy of Astronautics. She obtained an International Baccalaureate from the United World College of the Atlantic in the United Kingdom, a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from McGill University and a Master of Applied Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto. In addition, Ms. Payette can converse in six languages, holds a commercial pilot license and is an administratrice de sociétés certifiée (ASC is equivalent to the Institute of Corporate Directors, Director [ICD.D] designation).
The recipient of many distinctions and 28 honorary doctorates, Ms. Payette was first invested into the Order of Canada in 2010, and is a Knight of the Ordre national du Québec.
Kathleen Taylor, Conference Chair
Kathleen (Katie) Taylor is Chair of the Board of Royal Bank of Canada. She has served on the Board since 2001, where she has chaired the Human Resources and Corporate Governance Committees, and served on the Audit and Risk Committees.
Ms. Taylor is a distinguished business executive with extensive community involvement. She is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts and is Chair of the Sick Kids Foundation and a Trustee of the Sick Kids Hospital of Toronto. She is also Vice Chair of The Adecco Group (based in Zurich) and a Director of Air Canada and of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
Ms. Taylor holds an MBA and an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the Schulich School of Business, a law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of Toronto. Her many accolades for business achievement include the Schulich School of Business Award for Outstanding Executive Leadership and the inaugural Medal for Career Achievement from the Hennick Centre for Business and Law at York University.
She has been inducted into the Canadian Marketing Hall of Legends and was named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women by the Women’s Executive Network (WXN) in 2011, 2014 and 2016. In 2016, Ms. Taylor was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
Ian Shugart, Vice Chair, Government
Ian Shugart became Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet on April 19, 2019.
Prior to joining the Privy Council Office, he was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from May 2016 to April 2019.
From July 2010 to May 2016, Mr.
Shugart was Deputy Minister of Employment and Social Development Canada
and chairperson of the Canada Employment Insurance Commission.
Before that, he served as Deputy Minister of the Environment and Associate Deputy Minister of the Environment.
Prior to joining Environment Canada, Mr. Shugart held several senior positions in the Health Portfolio, including:
• Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Policy Branch, Health Canada (1999-2006)
• Visiting Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Protection Branch, Health Canada (1997-1999)
• Executive Director, Medical Research Council (1993-1997)
While working at Health Canada, Mr. Shugart also served as chair of the Global Health Security Action Group and the Health Task Force of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, and as a director on the World Health Organization’s executive board.
Prior to this, Mr. Shugart served as Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet for Social Policy and Programs in the Federal-Provincial Relations Office of the Privy Council Office. He spent several years on Parliament Hill in senior advisory roles to the Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, the Minister of National Health and Welfare and the Leader of the Opposition.
He is a graduate in political economy from Trinity College at the University of Toronto.
Roberta L. Jamieson, Vice Chair, Community
Roberta L. Jamieson is a Mohawk woman from the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory in Ontario, where she still resides. In November of 2004, she was appointed CEO and President of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation.
In February 2012, the Foundation changed its name to Indspire and incorporated its new tag line, “Indigenous education, Canada’s future.”
Under Roberta’s leadership, Indspire is flourishing. Bursary and scholarship funding has dramatically increased to over $49 million to 14,000 students, more than doubling since Roberta’s 2004 appointment.
She has extended Indspire’s career conferences to all regions of Canada. Roberta is leading the development of the Indspire Institute, an online laboratory of learning focused on increasing high school completion rates and K-12 success.
Roberta has enjoyed a distinguished career of “firsts.” She was the first First Nations woman to earn a law degree; the first non-parliamentarian appointed an ex-officio member of a House of Commons Committee; the first woman Ombudsman of Ontario; and in December 2001, she was the first woman elected Chief of the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory.
Roberta was also Commissioner of the Indian Commission of Ontario and for ten years, Ombudsman of Ontario.
She has earned numerous awards, including the National Aboriginal Achievement Award
(Law and Justice 1998), the Indigenous Bar Association’s highest award,
Indigenous Peoples Council Award (IPC) and 22 honorary degrees. She has
been named three times to the Women’s Executive Network’s Top 100 list.
She is an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Hassan Yussuf, Vice Chair, Labour
Hassan Yussuff was re-elected for a second term as President of the Canadian Labour Congress in May 2017. He was first elected to the position in May 2014, becoming the first person of colour to lead Canada’s union movement.
Since his election in 2014, Hassan has led Canada’s unions to a number of significant victories. It was under his leadership, for example, that the CLC launched an unprecedented and innovative digital and community-based campaign that put labour’s issues front and centre in the 2015 federal election, and helped defeat the Conservatives.
At the heart of the CLC’s federal election campaign was the call for a stronger Canada Pension Plan, a struggle that has been Hassan’s passion for almost a decade. After the election, the CLC redoubled its retirement security campaign efforts, while Hassan worked with the new federal government and with provincial and territorial leaders to gain their support. That campaign and lobby work led to victory in November 2016 with the tabling of Bill C-26, legislation that expanded the CPP for the first time in its history.
Making workplaces and public spaces safer has been another key priority for Hassan. He was exposed to asbestos as a mechanic in his early working life, and as a union activist learned that asbestos-related diseases are the number one cause of workplace-related deaths in Canada. As CLC President, Hassan campaigned hard for a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a ban we won in December 2016.
As well as his work in Canada, Hassan is a prominent international activist. In 2016, he was elected for a second term as president of the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas, an organization uniting 56 national organizations representing more than 60 million workers in 23 countries.
Determined to build a better world for future generations, Hassan is committed to the fight against climate change and to ensuring a just and fair transition for the workers and communities affected by the evolution to a green economy.
The CLC is the voice of Canada’s labour movement, representing 3.3 million workers.
David Black
David was elected president of MoveUP in 2011. He previously served as MoveUP’s vice-president for the ICBC group, starting in 2005. Prior to that, David sat on the MoveUP executive board since he was appointed by the executive council in 2001. He was also elected as the COPE-SEPB National President in June of 2016.
David first became a member of
MoveUP working at ICBC Head Office in 1995. His current workplace of
record is the ICBC 5th and Cambie Claims Centre in Vancouver. In
addition to MoveUP committees, David also sits on the BC Federation of
Labour Political Action Committee and Canadian Labour Congress Canada
Council. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Sustainable
Communities Initiative and a former delegate to the Vancouver and
District
Labour Council.
David is also a former member of the Board of Directors for the United Way of the Lower Mainlandand in 2012 was awarded the Joe Morris Labour Community Service Award by that organization. In the past David has sat on the board of directors for both the Vancouver Foundation and the Margaret Mitchell Fund for Women.
Nathalie Bondil
Art historian Nathalie Bondil is the Director General and Chief Curator of the MMFA since 2007. Her original multidisciplinary exhibitions are successfully exported internationally (35 cities in ten years). Under her leadership, attendance has doubled over the last ten years (1.3 million visitors in 2017, making it the 8th most visited art museum in North America and 49th in the world) while surface has increased by 30 % with the opening of two buildings: The Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion for Quebec and Canadian Art (2011), and The Michal and Renata Horstein Pavilion for Peace (2016). Au urban agora, the MMFA features a professional concert hall presenting 150 concerts annually and a Cinema. The Stéphan Crétier and Stéphany Maillery Wing for World Cultures and Togetherness will open in 2019.
The author of a Manifesto for a Humanist Museum, Nathalie Bondil has tripled the educational spaces with the opening of the Michel de la Chenelière International Atelier for Education and Art Therapy (2016), one of the largest in a North American art museum. A Pioneer in community-based programming, the MMFA collaborates with over 450 partners (schools, universities, associations, hospitals and medical research institutes…). It launched the Art & Health Committee chaired by Quebec’s Chief Scientist and several pilot projects: eating disorders, autism, Alzheimer… and the very first medical prescriptions in 2018.
Vice-Chair of the Canada Council for the Arts, Nathalie Bondil was awarded two honourary doctorates (McGill University and Université de Montréal) and appointed Member of the Order of Canada, Officer of the Ordre national du Québec, and Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic.
Assunta Di Lorenzo
Ms. Assunta Di Lorenzo was appointed Secretary to the Governor General and Herald Chancellor of Canada in January 2018. She received her commission as Deputy of the Governor General on January 23, 2018.
Ms. Di Lorenzo was born in Montreal, Quebec, to Italian parents, where she grew up with her sister and two brothers. She was awarded a scholarship to the United World College – Lester B. Pearson of the Pacific, in Victoria, British Columbia, where she earned an International Baccalaureate. She then pursued her studies in political science at McGill University and in law at the University of Ottawa. She later obtained an advanced management certificate and an executive development certificate from McGill University. Ms. Di Lorenzo is a member of the Law Society of Ontario as well as of the Barreau du Québec.
Ms. Di Lorenzo is a corporate lawyer and businesswoman with extensive experience in leading teams and providing strategic advice to heads of organizations, be it governmental, public or private, both locally and internationally. She practised law with some of Canada’s largest and most prominent law firms, starting the first ten years of her career as a securities and mergers and acquisitions lawyer with Stikeman Elliott and Ogilvy Renault (now Norton Rose Fulbright). Later, she became a partner of the law firms Fraser Milner Casgrain (now Dentons) and of McMillan, where she provided advice on corporate governance and regulatory issues.
Ms. Di Lorenzo also spent more than twenty years as an executive of private and public entities. First, she was First Vice-President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer of TAL Global Asset Management, the then investment management arm of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
She then held executive positions with federal and provincial governmental organizations: first, as First Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP), a federal Crown corporation investing pension fund assets worldwide and, until most recently, as Corporate Secretary and Executive Director, Corporate and Legal Affairs, of the Réseau de transport métropolitain (formerly, l’Agence métropolitaine de transport), a provincial public transit government agency providing rail and bus services to the greater Montreal area.
Ms. Di Lorenzo served as board member of the Montreal Sacré-Coeur Hospital Foundation for numerous years and is an alumna of Catalyst WomenOnBoard.
Ms. Di Lorenzo enjoys playing golf with her son who is studying law at the University of Montreal. Her interests include music, history and travel. She is fluent in English, French, Italian and Spanish, and she can also speak some Polish.
John Elvidge
John is Deputy City Clerk for the City of Toronto. He is responsible for the City’s governance and legislative processes, by-laws, public appointments and registry services.
John’s professional interests include democratic renewal and citizen engagement. His municipal career includes posts in culture, intergovernmental relations, strategic planning and corporate policy. Before joining the public service, John worked as an arts administrator. He contributes his time as an official and technical committee member for swimming in Ontario.
John was a member of the 2008 Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference and served as Chair of the Toronto Committee for the 2012 Conference and Chair of the Ontario Regional Committee in 2015.
Stuart Forman
As CGI’s Global Chief Information Officer, Mr. Forman is responsible for guiding the company’s enterprise IS/IT strategy, setting global standards and policies, and driving value through increased quality, shared services and global delivery. Mr. Forman leads a global team focused on supporting CGI’s business units in achieving high-quality, high-value delivery for our clients.
Prior to this role, Mr. Forman held the position of Regional Chief Information Officer focused on CGI’s North American operations. He also was responsible for leading the transformation of CGI’s internal infrastructure delivery team, resulting in improved services, reduced duplication and cost, and the optimization of processes and models for the delivery of these services within CGI.
Mr. Forman began his career at Bell Canada/BCE in the early 1990s where he was responsible for business and systems analysis and consultation services related to the organization’s financial systems, processes and procedures. With more than 20 years with CGI and the BCE family, Mr. Forman has held leadership positions in ERP systems implementation and support, systems integration, systems analysis and development, project management, human resources, process engineering, financial systems analysis, facilities management, business planning and quality systems implementation and support.
Daniel Goldberg
Biography to follow
Kathy Kinloch
Kathy Kinloch is President of the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), Canada’s premier polytechnic institution, a position she has held since January 2014.
Kathy is recognized for leading organizational renewal in complex environments. Through a number of senior leadership and executive roles, she has spearheaded change initiatives in the post-secondary as well as government and health care sectors.
At BCIT, she is focusing on broadening and deepening partnerships with business, industry, and community here in BC, across Canada, and globally.
Acknowledgements of Kathy’s accomplishments include Top 100 Public Sector Leaders, WXN ranking of Canada’s Top 100 Women for the past three years, Most Influential Women in Business – BC Business magazine, Influential Women in Business Awards – Business in Vancouver magazine, Top 50 Power List –Vancouver Magazine, Woman of Distinction – YWCA Metro Vancouver, and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Royal Roads University.
Kathy’s board positions include Business Council of BC, Polytechnics Canada, Surrey Hospital and Outpatient Centre Foundation, and Telus Corporation. She is also a member of the Business Council of Canada’s Business Higher Education Roundtable.
Aluki Kotierk
Aluki Kotierk is the president of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., an Inuit organization that ensures that promises made under the Nunavut Agreement are carried out. Previously she worked at the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Pauktuutit and Nunavut Sivuniksavut. She has also worked for the Government of Nunavut as deputy minister in several departments.
Lili-Anna Pereša
Lili-Anna Pereša, C.Q., President and Executive Director, Centraide of Greater Montreal
Lili-Anna Pereša is an engineer and a graduate of the École Polytechnique de Montréal (1987). Since 2013, she has been the president and executive director of Centraide of Greater Montreal, which supports a wide network of community agencies that fight social exclusion and poverty.
From 2009 to 2012, Ms. Pereša led ONE DROP, which manages a project providing access to safe water in Burkina Faso. Prior to that, she directed community and humanitarian organizations, including les petits frères des Pauvres, the YWCA of Montréal and Amnesty International France.
She had her first experience as a volunteer aid worker at the age of 25 when she taught with the World University Service of Canada in Malawi. Following that, she was a management consultant to Oxfam-Québec’s Burkina Secours in Burkina Faso. In 1994, Ms. Pereša joined CARE Austria as head of the Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina Mission, during the armed conflict that was affecting the region at that time. She also supported women’s entrepreneurship efforts with the Bureau d’Appui aux Micro Entreprises (BAME) in Bobo-Dioulasso in 1995.
Ms. Pereša holds a graduate degree in management from McGill University and a master’s degree in political science—with specialization in international co-operation and humanitarian aid—from the Sorbonne in Paris.
Ms. Pereša’s involvement in humanitarian aid has earned her various distinctions, including the title of Chevalière from the Ordre national du Québec, an honorary doctorate from the Université de Montréal, and an Engineers Canada fellowship.
Ms. Peresa is a member of the Independent Advisory Board for Supreme Court of Canada Judicial Appointments. She is currently a board member of the Domaine Forget and of the Mobile Giving Foundation Canada, and was also a board member of the École Polytechnique de Montréal.
Cory Royal
Cory has an eclectic mix of community involvement and professional development.
Cory attended the 1991 Conference and has since served as Alberta Chair, Chair, Program Chair, Membership Chair and Organizing Committee Member for the last six conferences, including the 1998 Duke of Edinburgh’s Commonwealth Study Conference. She currently sits on the Conference Board of Directors.
Cory has been active in the community since first volunteering for the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary. During her four-board term with the Canadian Paraplegic Association, she spent one day working while confined to a wheel chair.
As Chair of the Calgary Grey Cup Committee for five years, she has ridden horses into numerous downtown hotels, and as a committee member of the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, she has flipped her share of complimentary pancakes, all topped with a smile.
Cory’s work career began in the banking sector with Scotiabank in Ottawa and later for Telesat Canada. She became involved in the oil and gas industry after her transfer to Calgary and currently works as President for privately-run Guardian Protective Clothing. She continues to enjoy tennis and golf and is very happy that all three of her boys have carried on the family passion for volleyball.
Linda Silas
Linda Silas has been the President of the 200,000-strong Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU) since 2003 and is the foremost advocate on behalf of nurses in Canada.
Linda has fine-tuned her skills as a union leader at the local, provincial, national and international levels over the course of two decades. Starting her tenure as a full-time labour activist as the single mom of a 13-month-old son has shaped Linda in a very distinctive way.
Linda has earned a reputation for being a caring listener who is focused and solution-oriented in everything she does.
Linda champions greater understanding and action on the social determinants of health and key policies that will enhance socio-economic equity, including a national pharmacare program and justice for Indigenous communities.
Linda was previously the President of the New Brunswick Nurses Union (NBNU) for 10 years.
Linda is a graduate of l’Université de Moncton, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and has practiced in in ICU, emergency, and labour & delivery.
Martin Thibodeau
Martin Thibodeau is responsible for carrying out RBC Royal Bank’s strategic objectives and managing business priorities in British Columbia.
Mr. Thibodeau joined RBC Royal Bank in 1989 and has worked in most regions of Canada. Most recently he held senior management positions as Regional President (Quebec), Regional Vice President, Eastern New Brunswick and P.E.I.; Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer, Quebec Headquarters; Regional Vice-President, Commercial Financial Services, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and North Ontario; and Vice-President, Canadian Banking, National Office, Toronto.
Recently, he became a member of the Young President Organization (YPO).
A native of Joliette, Mr. Thibodeau has a bachelor’s degree in business management from Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières and an MBA from Université du Québec à Montréal. He also holds the Fellow, Institute of Canadian Bankers designation.
Mr. Thibodeau is actively involved with community service, including sitting on the board of Canadian Cancer Research Society and serving as honorary president of the Canadian Red Cross 2013 gala fundraising event in Quebec. He is an Associate of the Asper School of Business in Manitoba, on the board of directors of Manitoba’s Bilingual Trade Agency (ANIM) and the St. Boniface Hospital, and served as chair of the board of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.
Victor Thomas
Victor Thomas is Vice-President, Prairie Region, of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, responsible for Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. He also works part-time as Strategic Advisor to the President at the University of Regina. Victor has a Masters of Administration in Leadership from the University of Regina, a Chartered Director designation from McMaster University and the reciprocal designation of Administrateur de Sociétés Certifié from Laval University. Over the past 15 years, he has held various leadership roles including Chair of the Regina & District Chamber of Commerce, Vice-Chair of SaskEnergy, and Chair of the Banff Forum. Victor currently serves as Vice-Chair of Saskatchewan’s Innovation Place, member of the Rideau Hall Foundation Board and chairs its Innovation Council. Victor is an alumnus of the 2012 Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference.
Daniel Watson
Daniel Watson is a proud public servant who is passionate about the role that public institutions play in shaping Canada and the lives of Canadians. His appointment at Crown-Indigenous Relations and Indigenous Affairs is his fifth appointment as a Deputy Minister, having been Deputy Minister (and previously Associate Deputy Minister) of Western Economic Diversification, Chief Human Resources Officer for the Government of Canada and Chief Executive Officer, Parks Canada.
Much of his career has focused on work with Indigenous peoples and issues, having been the Senior Assistant Deputy Minister for Policy and Strategic Direction at the former Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Director General of the Aboriginal Justice Directorate at the federal Department of Justice, and Director of Aboriginal and Territorial Relations at INAC’s Northwest Territories Regional Office. With the Government of British Columbia, he was Director of Treaty Implementation and Settlement Legislation where he led the development of the Nisga’a Final Agreement Act (British Columbia) among other major initiatives and, with the Government of Saskatchewan where he was responsible for first negotiations between provincial Department of Education and what was then the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations.
In the context of these positions, he played key roles in the negotiation of modern treaties, specific claims and many other agreements and processes. He was also the lead for several key legislative initiatives, litigation files and alternative justice programs. He has worked with Inuit, Métis and First Nation governments, communities and entities in every jurisdiction across Canada, and has lived in British Columbia, Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec.
Beyond this experience, Daniel has significant background in economic development and innovation issues, federal-provincial-territorial relations, labour relations and human resources issues, and cultural and ecological heritage matters. He has represented Canada on numerous issues at forums around the world and has represented the federal government in several national federal-provincial-territorial forums.
Daniel is a pilot, sang for a time with the Regina Philharmonic Choir, has taught firearms safety and hunting courses, and has represented Canada in French, English and Spanish. His record for riding a Harley-Davidson from Ottawa to Edmonton is 46 hours and 10 minutes, one he intends never to repeat or beat.
Gina Wilson
Gina Wilson was appointed Deputy Minister of Public Safety Canada effective May 6, 2019.
Gina Wilson is Algonquin and began her career in her First Nation community of Kitigan-Zibi as Executive Director of Health and Social Services and as Director of the Wanaki Treatment Centre. Ms. Wilson was a Senior Manager with the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), a national Aboriginal organization representing First Nation communities in Canada when she joined the Federal Government in 1996 and for five years served as Director General, Aboriginal Affairs at Correctional Service Canada. In 2003, she became Director General at Human Resources Skills Development Canada, before moving to the Privy Council Office (PCO) in 2005 as Director General of Engagement, where she organized a First Ministers’ Meeting.
Ms. Wilson was appointed in 2006 as Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM) with Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada and was a partner in the implementation of a settlement agreement for approximately 80,000 survivors of Indian Residential Schools in Canada. Her office oversaw the co-ordination of events leading to the Prime Minister’s historic Apology on June 11, 2008. She then was named Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Regional Operations, at Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) and was responsible for the implementation of operations and programming in seven regions. She was also a participant in the Advanced Leadership Program (ALP) in 2009.
Ms. Wilson was Assistant Deputy Minister of Emergency Management and Regional Operations at Public Safety Canada in 2011-2013, where she lead a national emergency management system and strategies to reduce and mitigate disasters in Canada and then was Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Treaties and Aboriginal Government at Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada focused on reconciling Aboriginal and Crown interests through the negotiation and implementation of modern treaties.
Ms. Wilson was then appointed as Associate Deputy Minister at Employment and Social Development Canada in March, 2014 where she served the Minister of State for Seniors and the Minister of State for Social Development, while tackling departmental efforts to reduce the backlog at the Social Security Tribunal. In addition, Ms. Wilson led initiatives such as “Job Bank/Job Match” – a national website to match employers and job seekers and several additional corporate and workplace initiatives. From 2015 to 2017, she was Associate Deputy Minister of Public Safety Canada where she focused her efforts on transforming the department to a healthy and caring workplace, and led files such as cannabis legislation, firearms and criminal justice reform. Ms. Wilson was appointed as Deputy Minister for Women and Gender Equality, formerly Status of Women Canada, on May 23, 2017.
Sean Wiltshire
Sean Wiltshire hails from Newfoundland, but is rarely there, as an award-winning diversity expert and international speaker. Sean has been working with businesses, crown corporations, governments, and communities to help them diversify their workforce and be more innovative. From St. John’s to Bombay, from Vancouver to Kathmandu Sean has been helping audiences see diversity as part of a business solution.
Professionally, for the last 26 years Sean has been the Chief Executive Officer of Avalon Employment Inc (AEI). – An employment agency for individuals with disabilities. Sean has also build a large social enterprise that does over $5 Million Dollars a year in payroll for other not for profits and local businesses.
Sean is a past President of the Provincial Regional Economic Development Association and was a member of the Ministerial Committee on Regional Renewal for the Government of Newfoundland & Labrador.
Sean has also been a member of two Federal Ministerial Advisory Committees; is an Alumnus of The Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference (2000), and currently is a member of the National Executive Board.
In 2017 Sean was at the United Nations in Vienna; Austria to accept the “Zero Project Award” as part of the team From York University working on employment and diversity issues in South East Asia.
Sean’s commitment and vision has been celebrated with numerous awards and accolades, including being named one of Atlantic Canada’s Top 50 CEO’s by Atlantic Business Magazine, and nominated for the Top 40 Under 40 in Canada.
As well as being the inaugural recipient of the Canadian Association of Supported Employment’s “Wiltshire Award of Excellence in Supported Employment”; an award named in his honour.
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