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Testing the political water in Canada’s most reliable bellwether riding
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Bernier Finishes New Brunswick Tour In Moncton
People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier speaks to a crowd in Moncton (Photo via RL)
People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier concluded the New Brunswick segment of the Mad Max 2021 Election Tour on Sunday with two events in Moncton.
The Party Leader, accompanied by local PPC candidates, spoke to supporters during a rally in Moncton’s Riverfront Park.
“When tyranny becomes the law, revolution becomes our duty… We are starting a freedom and commonsense revolution”, said Bernier, adding the country will see a “huge purple wave” when Canadians head to the polls on September 20.
He continued to voice his criticism on how the Canadian Government has managed the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Do you want more and more of the same? More lockdowns? More mask mandates? And more vaccine passports?” Bernier asked a crowd of over 100 people.
In an interview after his second event in Moncton, Bernier acknowledged the notion that the PPC platform and policies can be overshadowed by the party’s opinions on the pandemic.
“It is disappointing that the media are not speaking about our platform on immigration, on pipelines, on all the other subjects,” said Bernier.
After not securing a seat in the 2019 Federal Election, the former Tory cabinet minister hopes September 20 will bring more recognition for the PPC party.
“A win is to increase our percentage of the vote and have some candidates elected. We are a new party, and I believe we can achieve that, we can be in Ottawa, and Canadians can be sure they will have a voice there,” Bernier said.
Bernier indicated in a social media post on Sunday, that although he would have liked to travel to other regions in Atlantic Canada, the “despots” that govern Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador are preventing him from visiting.
All three provinces require unvaccinated Canadians travelling from outside Atlantic Canada to self-isolate upon arrival.
He told supporters in Moncton that a trip to Nova Scotia could happen in the days leading up to the election, despite the possibility of being arrested for failing to self-isolate.
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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 01:17:54 +0000
Subject: RE: Maryam Monsef, Chanté White, Ezzy Levant and Trudeau The
Younger can trust the fact that the Taliban are no brothers of mine
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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 22:10:55 -0300
Subject: Maryam Monsef, Chanté White, Ezzy Levant and Trudeau The
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Maryam Monsef and he cohorts should g to the 28 minute mark of this
debate to recall what I said about the war in her homeland 6 very long
years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Fundy Royal, New Brunswick Debate – Federal Elections 2015 - The Local Campaign,
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Oct 2, 2015
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Federal debate in Fundy Royal, New Brunswick riding featuring
candidates Rob Moore, Stephanie Coburn, Alaina Lockhart, Jennifer
McKenzie and David Amos.
Rob Moore - Conservative
Stephanie Coburn - Green Party
Alaina Lockhart - Liberal
Jennifer McKenzie - New Democratic Party
David Amos - Independent
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'Words that I deeply regret': Maryam Monsef apologizes for accusations
against MPs
Minister said Thursday that MPs 'did not complete the hard work we had
expected them to'
Kathleen Harris · CBC News · Posted: Dec 02, 2016 12:29 PM ET
https://globalnews.ca/video/
Peterborough Green Party Candidate asking Maryam Monsef to suspend
election campaign
The battle to win the vote for the Peterborough Kawartha riding is
getting interesting.
The Green Party candidate is calling for the incumbent Liberal
candidate and current Federal Minister for Women and Gender Equality
to suspend her campaign.
Tricia Mason has the story…
https://superu.net/video/
Our brothers” the Taliban and Canada's media elite
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(FREE for a limited time during the election campaign)
Ezra Levant looks at the recent remark from Liberal Minister of Women
and Gender Equality Maryam Monsef, in which she referred to the
Taliban as “our brothers” and comments made in defence of this
statement from the Globe and Mail's Mark MacKinnon, the outlet's
senior international correspondent. What does this say about Canada's
media elite?
FULL REPORT: https://rebelne.ws/3mEHNtG
Peterborough—Kawartha
2021 Canadian federal election
The 2021 general election will be held on September 20.
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Bob Bowers
Conservative Michelle Ferreri
New Democratic Joy Lachica
People's Paul Lawton
Liberal Maryam Monsef
Green Chanté White
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Replying to @KawarthaVandonk and @PtboPolice
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https://www.mykawartha.com/
Peterborough election candidate arrested after 'safety issues' at high school
Independent candidate Robert Bowers was arrested and fined for
trespassing at an all-candidates debate held Oct. 10 at Adam Scott.
Todd Vandonk
Peterborough This Week
Thursday, October 17, 2019
https://www.mykawartha.com/
Bob Bowers: A familiar road
The sixth in a series of profiles of the local candidates for federal
election Jan. 23.
Mike Lacey
Peterborough This Week
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
The most experienced candidate on the local federal election campaign
trail is the relatively unknown Bob Bowers.
The independent has been a candidate now in five elections. Still,
it's safe to say that come Jan. 23, Mr. Bowers won't be this area's
new MP.
Although he too knows it's unlikely he will win this election, Mr.
Bowers believes that will have nothing to do with his message but
rather the system.
Even if he had $5,000 to $6,000 to spend on the campaign, he would
make a big impact, he explains.
But, he notes, he has just one person working with him. More people
being involved would likely lead to more votes cast his way.
"But you're going to be surprised with how many votes I get this
time...I'll get 300 to 400 votes minimum," he predicts.
Mr. Bowers is a man who has seen it all. Born and raised in
Peterborough, he is the second youngest of six children, all of whom
are still very close.
"Our parents were very poor and we had to struggle," he says.
He found enjoyment on the sports field where he excelled at football
and baseball.
School was another arena where he did well. He attended the University
of Western Ontario but, during his first year of studies, was plagued
by health problems.
At the age of 23, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent time
in a psychiatric hospital.
His problems continued to mount. After he left the hospital, he was
convicted of robbing an East City store, although he still pleads his
innocence in that matter.
After spending two years in a penitentiary in Kingston, he went back
to school and finished university, graduating with a degree in
geography.
He then enrolled in Teachers' College but his illness prevented him
from finishing, he says.
Mr. Bowers married and had a daughter with his wife. However, after
five years of marriage, the couple divorced, although they remained
friends.
His health problems grew worse more than a decade ago when he was
diagnosed with Parkinson's.
It was his experiences working through the system that pushed him into
this life. For more than 30 years, he has railed against government
bureaucracy and the lack of improvement in fixing society's ills.
His political philosophy is simple - accountability from all involved
in government. His ideas, such as mandatory voting, come not from his
own imagination but plans in place in other countries.
"I don't want to change the system, per se...I want accountability,"
he explains.
Now a veteran campaigner, he has heard everything from local
candidates over the years.
Asked if this current crop of candidates is any different from those
previous, he isn't sure.
"They've very informed but do they really mean what they say?" he wonders.
Headlines newsletter
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October 7th, 2016 / 5:10 p.m.
Hamish Wright As an Individual
Thank you.
My name is Hamish. I've worked with Student Vote for four years. I've
represented New Brunswick at national debating championships three
times, where I've argued about proportional representation. I'm
originally Australian and I'm 18 years old, so as a young Australian
person, I consider myself an eminently qualified witness, for the
amount of time it's come up.
My first point is about a referendum. If we are going to change the
fundamental way we elect members of Parliament, then the citizens of
this country must decide how that takes place.
Before I go into my point, I'm a paid employee of the New Brunswick
NDP, but I speak for myself, as a private citizen, as you might well
tell.
I believe that we must have a referendum. Why is that? I've heard some
elitist arguments here today about how people are uninformed and can't
make that decision. Let me tell you something. You are all here
because citizens of this country elected you, and if you concede to
the argument that Canadian citizens are uninformed about the way they
vote, then you have no mandate. I don't think that's true. I think you
all have a mandate. I think Matt DeCourcey got a clear mandate from
the people of Fredericton. I think you have a mandate to decide
things.
What I say is that a referendum is not doomed to fail. A referendum
has been confirmed twice in New Zealand, in 1994 and 2011. It passed
in B.C. Unfortunately, due to an arbitrary threshold, it didn't work.
So if we're going to change the way we vote, it must be approved, in
principle, by the citizens of this country.
To quote Frank Underwood, I don't like the way the table is set, so
let's flip over the table. What do I mean by this? We're concentrating
on a House that isn't broken. First past the post elects people. It
shows a clear mandate switch between the Conservatives and the
Liberals, for example, in the last election. It allows for effective
decision-making.
What is broken in democracy in Canada? It's one word: Senate.
The Senate is broken. We do not elect senators. The Senate can veto
any democratically elected law by the House of Commons. I have a
consensus solution for you. We can have proportional representation.
We can have effective decision-making. Why not make the Senate the
proportional body that represents the provinces and represents the
points of view of the citizens of this country?
There's a reason why the Liberals can afford to get rid of Atlantic
Canada's Supreme Court seat. There's a reason why they can afford to
ignore Atlantic Canada. That's because the provinces are inadequately
represented in our federal government, and that's why we must have an
elected Senate.
Thank you.
October 7th, 2016 / 5:20 p.m.
Jonathan Richardson As an Individual
Hi, everyone. Thank you for letting me speak today.
I am before you today to speak in favour of proportional
representation, simply because it is proportional and because I like
evidence-based decision-making.
In the last election, the party that is in power now got 39% of the
vote and ended up with 55% of the seats. These kinds of distortions
feed cynicism and disengagement, and create frustrated voters.
Outside of politics, I manage a women's addiction and rehabilitation
centre. Before I came here today, I went up to the women and asked,
“Who here votes?” Only one woman out of the entire bunch voted, and
the reason the remainder of them don't vote is that they don't believe
their vote counts.
Our system is alienating people. The voter turnout is falling and it
has been for decades. In 2008, it hit an all-time low at 58% of
voters. In 2015, we reached 68%, and we thought that was a big cause
for celebration. Guess what? With five more points, we would still not
even reach the threshold of the eighties.
Proportional-representation-based systems help generate better voter
turnout across the world. Of course reforming the voting system will
not fix everything. No single reform is going to fix all our
democratic ills, but implementing proportional representation will
provide the tools for a fair, representative, and engaging electoral
system that citizens can use to improve our country and all our lives.
I call on you to seize this moment and give citizens the tools of a
voting system based on mixed member proportional representation.
October 7th, 2016 / 5:15 p.m.
Margo Sheppard As an Individual
Thank you, Mr. Chair and panellists.
My name is Margo Sheppard. In 2015, I had a life-sized Stephen Harper
dummy in my living room, for a month. Right there.
Why? It was as part of a Leadnow.ca campaign to defeat the Harper
Conservatives. The dummy came with me to various public events. It was
loaned to me by PSAC, the union, which has a Moncton office.
I mention this because it is an example of the extremes to which a
normally well-adjusted and sane person will go to get rid of the
first-past-the-post system. Not only was the dummy a symbol of an
oppressive government, it was also a symbol of a broken electoral
system—and it really creeped out my kids and pets.
In seriousness, I want the system to change, to become more
representative of the will of the people and to become fairer. In my
book, that's mixed member proportional representation.
The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, promised no more first past the
post. Please make good on this promise. No more dummies.
Thank you.
October 7th, 2016 / 5 p.m.
Stephanie Coburn As an Individual
First of all, thank you for coming to the best-kept secret in the
country. I think we have the most beautiful province in the country,
and hardly anybody knows about it. Now that you've seen it in its
glory, you can all come back sometime.
The first thing I want to say is that I am a citizen. I am not a
stakeholder, nor am I a client of the government. I'm a citizen and I
get to vote and I would like my vote to count. To me, counting would
mean that if a party gets 39% of the vote, they get 39% of the seats.
If they only get 39% of the seats, they wouldn't be a majority
government.
I don't have any empirical evidence to prove that a coalition
government would be more effective and produce better legislation. I
just have a feeling, being a person who seeks co-operation instead of
confrontation and really doesn't like the political partisanship that
gets in the way of intelligent discussion and good decision-making,
that the better the intention of the people around the table is toward
coming to common decisions and approaching something intelligently
rather than with partisanship, then the better the decision-making
we'd have at the end of it all.
That's what we're looking for. We're looking for really intelligent
people to be thoughtfully thinking about the entire country. You're
the government of the entire country. You have regional interests, but
you're supposed to be looking at the health of the entire polis here
in Canada. Partisanship really gets in the way of that, I find.
I have been a candidate four times, twice provincially and twice
federally. The most dispiriting thing that happens is when I go to a
door and somebody says, “Why would I vote? My vote doesn't count.”
Thank you very much.
3:20 p.m.
Assistant Professor, Department of History and Politics, University of
New Brunswick Saint John, As an Individual
J.P. Lewis
Having reviewed presentations to the committee from the beginning of
the summer, and taking stock that you have heard plenty of empirically
supported arguments for and against certain electoral systems and
approaches to electoral reform, I thought it would be helpful to focus
on one of the committee's four principles that I have done research
on, and that's engagement—more specifically, the role of Elections
Canada in civic education policy as related to engagement.
My two main points are that in light of impending electoral reform,
Elections Canada should have a role in promoting engagement, and that
this role should be emboldened by collaboration with non-governmental
agencies. My review of testimony to the committee revealed that both
these points have been topics addressed by many of the committee
witnesses.
Departing Elections Canada Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand
discussed the role of Elections Canada in introducing a new electoral
system to the Canadian public. Mayrand noted that, “An extensive
public education campaign would be needed to ensure that Canadians
understand the new system....”
Australian Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers recounted the Australian
Electoral Commission's successful civic education campaign based on
principles of comprehensiveness and inclusiveness.
Political scientists Henry Milner and Jonathan Rose both raised the
importance of civic education for elections. Professor Milner noted
that while education policy is a provincial matter, he would like to
see a greater effort in civic education at both the provincial and
federal levels of government. Professor Rose reminded the committee of
Ontario's experience with electoral reform and the $6 million devoted
to educating the voters during the province's 2007 electoral reform
referendum.
Representatives from civic participation and education
non-governmental agencies were also supportive of more national
efforts in civic education policy. Maryantonett Flumian, from the
Institute on Governance, argued that Elections Canada “should be
institutionally positioned to play a leadership role” in civic
education strategy.
Jane Hilderman from Samara noted, “...there are very few resources for
nationwide efforts in Canada in civic education, nor is it clear who
among government departments or agencies should be responsible for
delivering on this goal.”
Today I'll talk about clarifying that role and focus on civic
education and elections, with special attention to two points: the
role of electoral management bodies, such as Elections Canada, in
civic education; and the place of Elections Canada in the civic
education policy network in Canada. I will support both points with
evidence from research I've published.
My first point concerns the role of electoral management bodies such
as Elections Canada in civic education. I argue that based on policy
precedent at the provincial level and general institutional support
across Canada, there's a case to be made for a civic education role
for electoral management bodies, going beyond the responsibility of
simply providing answers on “how to vote” and suggesting answers to
the question of “Why vote?”
You may remember that in 2014 the federal Conservative government
introduced legislation, Bill C-23, that raised questions on the role
of electoral management bodies and what type of information they
should provide voters. While most Canadians expect electoral
management bodies such as Elections Canada or their provincial
equivalent to provide information on “how to vote”, in recent years,
due to dramatic declining voter turnout, electoral management bodies
have expanded their mandates and roles to provide education on the
question of “Why vote?”
One of the benefits of a federal state such as Canada is that it
provides examples of policies found in the so-called “policy
laboratories” at the provincial level of government. Examining the
description of CEO duties in provincial elections acts reveals that
seven of the 10 provinces have specific mention of an educational,
outreach, or awareness role of the CEO. Based on the research I
completed for the article, I argue that, yes, electoral management
bodies should be engaged in both “how to vote” and “Why vote?”
campaigns. My position is based on three central claims: one, the
modesty of the current programs; two, the affordability of the current
programs; and three, the consistency in policy path followed by
electoral management bodies across the country.
While considering the role of electoral management bodies in Canada in
civic education, it should be clearly noted that the majority of civic
education policies and programs undertaken by electoral management
bodies are often in partnership with other policy actors. Groups such
as CIVIX, Samara, and Apathy is Boring have all been prominent in
spreading the message of combatting voter apathy.
This brings me to my second point and the case for why Elections
Canada can take a leading role in the Canadian civic education policy
network. For another article I was a co-author of, we found that out
of a policy community of 53 civic education policy actors on questions
of trust, influence, and reliance, Elections Canada was the highest
ranked institution. The group of policy actors included the Library of
Parliament, the federal Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration,
Canadian Heritage, all provincial departments of heritage and culture
and all provincial departments of education, all provincial elections
agencies, and 10 prominent non-governmental organizations.
To return to comments by previous witnesses to this committee, I would
like to draw attention to my colleague from the University of Toronto,
Peter Loewen's, point that, “...the functioning of Canadian democracy
has not been sufficiently appreciated.” I agree with Professor Loewen,
and I believe Elections Canada should continue to play a part in
addressing this appreciation gap regardless of the electoral system
selected, playing a leading national policy role in answering the
questions of “how to vote” and “Why vote?”
Thank you.
8 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Thank you very much.
Mr. David Amos, the floor is yours.
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David Amos As an Individual
Mr. Chair, I ran for public office five times against your party. That
said, I ran against Mr. DeCourcey's boss right here in Fredericton in
the election for the 39th Parliament.
I was not aware of this committee meeting in Fredericton today until I
heard Mr. DeCourcey speaking on CBC this morning. I don't pretend to
know something I don't, but I'm a quick study. I thought I had paid my
dues to sit on the panel. I notified the clerks in a timely fashion,
but I received no response. At least I get another minute and a half.
The previous speaker answered the $64,000 question: 338. I can name
every premier in the country. Governor Maggie Hassan is my governor in
New Hampshire. The people there who sit in the house get paid $100 a
year plus per diem expenses. I think that's the way to run a
government. There are lots of seats in the house for a very small
state.
My understanding of this hearing is that you have to report to Mr.
Trudeau by December 1, because he said during the election that if he
were elected Prime Minister, the 42nd Parliament, which I also ran in,
would be the last first-past-the-post election. You don't have much
time, so my suggestion to the clerks today, which I published and sent
to the Prime Minister of Iceland and his Attorney General, was to do
what Iceland does. Just cut and paste their rules. They have no first
past the post. They have a pending election.
A former friend of mine, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, founded a party there,
for which there is no leader. It is the Pirate Party. It's high in the
polls right now with no leader. That's interesting. I tweeted this.
You folks said that you follow tweets, so you should have seen what I
tweeted before I came here this evening.
That said, as a Canadian, I propose something else. Number one, my
understanding of the Constitution and what I read about law.... There
was a constitutional expert named Edgar Schmidt who sued the
government. He was the man who was supposed to vet bills for Peter
MacKay to make sure they were constitutionally correct. He did not
argue the charter. He argued Mr. Diefenbaker's Bill of Rights.
In 2002 I read a document filed by a former deputy minister of
finance, Kevin Lynch, who later became Mr. Harper's clerk of the Privy
Council. Now he's on an independent board of the Chinese oil company
that bought Nexen. As deputy minister of finance, he reported to the
American Securities and Exchange Commission on behalf of the
corporation known as Canada. It is a very interesting document that I
saved and forwarded to you folks. It says that he was in a quandary
about whether the charter was in effect.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Could it be in relation to a particular voting system?
David Amos
According to Mr. Lynch, because of the failure of the Meech Lake and
Charlottetown accords, he was in a quandary as to whether the charter
was in effect. I know that the Supreme Court argues it on a daily
basis. That charter, created by Mr. Trudeau and Mr. Chrétien, his
attorney general at the time, gave me the right to run for public
office and vote as a Canadian citizen. However, in the 1990s, Mr.
Chrétien came out with a law, and because I am a permanent American
resident, I can't vote. Yet the charter says I can.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
That's a—
David Amos
That said, that's been argued in court. In 2000, Mr. Chrétien came out
with a law that said I couldn't vote. Right? He also took away my
social insurance number.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
I don't know about the case—
David Amos
No, he did.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
But I don't know about the case.
David Amos
I did prove, after I argued with Elections Canada's lawyers in
2004.... You might have taken away my right to vote, but you can't
stop me from running for public office, and I proved it five times.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Given that you're an experienced candidate—
David Amos
Very experienced.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
—does that experience provide you with a particular insight on the
voting systems we're looking at?
David Amos
In Mr. Trudeau's words, he has to come up with a plan and no more
first past the post. My suggestion to you, in my contact today, is to
cut and paste Iceland's rules.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
What kind of system does Iceland have?
David Amos
It's just what you need, just what Mr. Trudeau is ordering now. It's
proportional elections.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Is it MMP, or is it just...?
David Amos
I tweeted you the beginner's book for Iceland.
T
he Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Okay, we'll look at Iceland.
We're just checking on the kind of system they have, but I appreciate
the input, especially from a candidate, from somebody who has run many
times.
But we do have—
David Amos
I have two other points, because I don't think you can pull this off.
I don't think it will happen.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Well, I'm hoping we do.
David Amos
Here is my suggestion. You guys are going north.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Yes.
David Amos
Look how parliamentarians are elected in the Northwest Territories.
There is no party, and I like that.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
That's true. We were just up in Yellowknife, in fact, and we learned
all about that. That's why it's good for us to be travelling the
country.
But, sir, I—
David Amos
I have one more suggestion.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
One more.
David Amos
Mr. Harper changed the Canada Elections Act and I still couldn't vote.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Yes, I was in the House when that happened.
David Amos
Anyway, that said, when you alter the Canada Elections Act, make it....
The biggest problem we have is, look at the vast majority of people
who, like me, have never voted in their life. Apathy rules the day.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Except that you've put us on to an idea about Iceland—
David Amos
Let me finish.
I suggest that you make voting mandatory, such as Australia does. Make
it that if you don't vote, it costs you money, just like if you don't
report to Statistics Canada.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Well, we're talking about that. That is part of our mandate, to look
at mandatory voting and online voting.
You already had your last suggestion.
David Amos
Put in the line, “none of the above”, and if “none of the above” wins—
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
That's right, we've heard that, too.
David Amos
Well, I haven't.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
We've heard that in our testimony.
David Amos
You and I will be talking again, trust me on that one, by way of writing.
You answered my emails, Ma'am.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Thank you very much, sir.
Now we'll hear from Julie Maitland.
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Conservatives hold narrow lead over Liberals
The Conservatives have a narrow lead over the Liberals, as their support has increased over the first two weeks of the campaign. However, the Liberals remain slightly favoured to win the most seats due to how the two parties' support breaks down across the country. The New Democrats are making gains but are still well back in third, while the Bloc Québécois is stabilizing. The Greens are dropping, putting them in fifth place behind the People's Party, which stands at four per cent.
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Conservatives try to contain MP's outlandish online claims
Liberal candidate allowed to run for re-election despite past claims of inappropriate behaviour
Raj Saini denies making unwanted sexual advances or inappropriate comments to young Liberal staffers
WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing.
The Liberal Party has given southwestern Ontario candidate Raj Saini the green light to seek re-election for his third term as an MP despite a series of allegations of inappropriate behaviour toward young female staffers that spanned his six years in office, CBC News has learned.
Seven sources with knowledge of the claims described four different cases where Saini allegedly made unwanted sexual advances or inappropriate comments. Saini said he has never acted inappropriately toward staff.
A former senior staffer who filed a Canadian Human Rights Commission complaint against Saini last year alleging unwelcome advances and harassing behaviour said it's upsetting the party is allowing Saini to campaign again under the Liberal banner in Kitchener Centre. The staffer said her experience in Saini's office contributed to her mental distress, and she eventually tried to take her own life in his office in March 2020.
"That's pretty devastating to me, knowing what I have gone through and that I've raised concerns over the last more than year and a half," said the former senior staffer. "It's disturbing to me.... It's also concerning to me that it could continue to happen to other people."
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has maintained he has a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to harassment in the workplace, and that he has led a feminist government. But his party also allowed MP Marwan Tabbara to run in the 2019 federal election despite a party investigation into allegations of sexual harassment made against him in the previous mandate. Tabbara later left caucus after police charged him with break and enter, assault and criminal harassment in an unrelated case last year. Tabbara's next court appearance is scheduled for tomorrow.
Candidates in the election had until Monday to officially register with Elections Canada. Saini submitted his nomination on Friday and posted a photo on Facebook.
Saini is campaigning to be re-elected for the third time as MP in the Ontario riding of Kitchener Centre. (Facebook/Raj Saini)
Senior member of government raised concerns during Saini's 1st term
The complaints against Saini date back to the Liberals' holiday party in December 2015, which more than 2,000 people attended including Liberal MPs, staff and supporters at the Shaw Convention Centre in downtown Ottawa.
CBC News agreed not to name the sources with direct knowledge of the allegations because they weren't authorized to speak publicly about the matter or were concerned about career reprisals.
Four female staffers reported to a senior Liberal staffer that Saini, along with his friend and mentee, Tabbara, were acting inappropriately with young female staffers at the holiday party, including "touching" or being "handsy," according to multiple sources.
That information was shared with a senior member of the government who brought the concerns to the Prime Minister's Office and Justin Trudeau's chief of staff, Katie Telford, sources said. Both Tabbara and Saini remained in caucus.
The Liberal Party told CBC News in a statement "it has no record or knowledge of the matter." Tabbara's office declined to comment.
According to multiple sources, Saini later followed another junior Liberal staffer around at several functions and asked for her phone number.
In a third case, a female employee felt so uneasy with Saini calling her to his Ottawa office late at night, in some cases around 10 p.m., she brought an employee with her from another MP's office so she wasn't alone with him, according to another source. The Liberal Party also said it had no knowledge of this matter.
The Liberal Party approved Marwan Tabbara to run in the 2019 election despite an internal investigation into misconduct. (Twitter/KSH Liberals)
'I remember feeling incredibly stressed out'
A fourth case involved the former senior staffer who wrote to Saini to say she was going to take her own life in his office by overdosing on pills in March 2020, according to a written complaint to the human rights commission. She said Saini alerted mental health services, and paramedics were sent to his office to attend to her. She was admitted to hospital.
"I remember being incredibly stressed out, feeling completely helpless," the former senior staffer said. "I felt like he had shown he could do pretty much anything he wanted to do to me. I felt like there was nowhere for me to turn."
On more than one occasion, she said, Saini put his hand on her thigh while they were in the car together and said the end destination of their drive was up to her.
When the staffer asked for help with an issue at the office, Saini said he would help her if she was good for two weeks and then he winked at her, she said.
She also claims he had outbursts where he'd be yelling and push her up against a wall by the shoulders.
"In
January of 2020, the MP screamed at me to burn my campaign T-shirt
because I had voted at a riding association meeting to hear a candidate
from an opposition party speak on environmental matters," the former
senior staffer wrote in her complaint to the human rights commission.
"The MP gave me a 20-minute verbally abusive lecture about loyalty,
while repeatedly slamming his hands on his desk.
"The MP
regularly treats me as his servant, expecting me to receive his verbal
abuse and aggressions while keeping quiet. Raj Saini's attitude
towards women stems from the 1800s."
The source said the human rights commission said it doesn't have jurisdiction over members of Parliament so could not address her case, she said.
Saini passed case to police
Saini said he has only been made aware of this one allegation at his office and provided the file to police.
The staffer sent a series of text messages and emails to Saini demanding an apology or else she would sue, file an HR complaint or go public with her claims, according to a letter written by a House of Commons lawyer. Saini contacted the House of Commons' legal team and police, who warned the senior staffer, who was on sick leave after the suicide attempt, to stop contacting Saini.
Saini denies the former staffer's allegations, and said he takes the health and safety of his staff "extremely seriously."
"After concerns were raised by the House of Commons regarding my
personal safety and the safety of my staff ... the police, in this
instance, took action to mediate the situation and ensure the safety of
everyone involved," Saini wrote in a statement to CBC News.
"Protecting my staff and ensuring they are respected is not something I take lightly."
He said he couldn't talk about specifics of the case due to privacy concerns.
Retired politician says woman was 'stellar employee'
CBC News spoke to the former staffer's past employer, a retired provincial politician, who said she was the ideal hire. "The time she worked for me, she was a stellar employee," said the former Liberal politician. "She was responsible, always professional and someone I could count on."
The former senior staffer said she raised concerns about Saini with human resources, several Liberal MPs and Liberal Party staff, but says they they didn't make her case a priority.
She said she didn't trust that the process was impartial and wasn't comfortable with the options presented to her, which included mediation with Saini, she said.
Saini said that upon learning the staffer did not move forward with the formal complaint process, he "insisted an independent third party" review his office. CBC News has not been provided a copy of the review that was conducted by the House of Commons. The complainant and some former employees were not asked to participate.
"The outcome of that review, which was completed in June 2020, found that nothing arose regarding concerns of harassment in the office," Saini said.
In response to the CBC's questions Monday, the Liberal Party referred to its "respectful workplace policy," which states a complaint must be substantiated. If it is, the outcome range from non-disciplinary measures such as additional training or an apology or mediation, or corrective or disciplinary measures such as a warning, reprimand, suspension or termination."
Internal liberal survey flagged concerns
Sources said the Liberals conducted an internal survey in 2018 that flagged concerns about the number of people who experienced some form of harassment or pay inequality between male and female workers. The survey also found issues with how the Liberals handled sexual harassment.
Multiple junior staffers wrote in the survey last year that the Prime Minister's Office should "fire" Brett Thalmann, who is listed as the PMO's executive director of planning, administration and people.
His role includes signing off on hirings across the PMO and the ministers' offices and working closely with Telford, according to the sources.
Chiefs of staff for Liberal MPs were asked to meet with their employees in May, where they heard that some junior employees did not trust the party's reporting system, said sources. Some staff said they were concerned the process wasn't confidential or impartial, multiple sources said. Some staff also raised concerns people were not being disciplined for their actions and that the system wasn't set up to help victims.
Thalmann, Telford and those tasked with human resources then spoke to staff about how the PMO deals with HR complaints on a case by case basis, and explained that there is a process outside of the office that looks into complaints, and a hotline available to staff. Many had not ever heard of the hotline, according to sources.
Liberals say party responded to 'honest feedback'
As he announced his party's mental health policy in Ottawa on Tuesday, Trudeau was asked why he's allowing Saini to run again and whether he believes his male candidate rather than female staffers.
"Mr. Saini has shared the processes," said Trudeau. "There have been rigorous processes undertaken that he has shared the details of. We know that it is extremely important to take any allegation seriously, which we certainly have, and we always will because everyone deserves a safe workplace."
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In a statement, the Liberals said the survey was sent to about 1,000 staff and they were "pleased to receive honest feedback about workplace culture on Parliament Hill."
"This feedback has shown a marked improvement in the percentage of staff who are aware of the policies, resources at their disposal, and how to report incidents," the statement says. "To protect people's privacy, the surveys were kept anonymous."
In response to feedback, the party said it put in place a series of training sessions and seminars about mental health and wellness, and increased awareness of resources available through meetings, posters and emails. More staff were hired and a new human resources position was created.
The party also said it moved forward in 2017 to legislate protection for harassment and violence in federally regulated workplaces and included political offices. The party also has a training program to help ensure election campaigns are safe.
"We continue to work to ensure the Hill is a respectful and positive work environment for everyone," the party's statement says.
If you're experiencing suicidal thoughts or having a mental health crisis, help is available. For an emergency or crisis situation, call 911.
If you are thinking of suicide or know someone who is, help is available nationwide by calling the Canada Suicide Prevention Service toll-free at 1-833-456-4566, 24 hours a day, or texting 45645. (The text service is available from 4 p.m. to midnight Eastern time).
You can also text CONNECT to 686868 and get immediate support from a crisis responder through the Crisis Text Line, powered by Kids Help Phone.
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With files from Kristen Everson
Vancouver Liberal candidate flipped dozens of homes for profit, records show
Liberal platform on housing cites flipping as a source of rising housing prices
According to British Columbia's assessment records, Taleeb Noormohamed has sold 41 properties since 2005 — 21 of them after less than a year of ownership — making $4.9 million in the process.
The news was first reported by NEWS 1130 in Vancouver.
The Liberal Party platform on housing, which was released last week, proposes an "anti-flipping tax" on residential properties that will require that such properties be held for at least a year. That means 21 of the properties Noormohamed sold would have been subject to the proposed tax.
"This will reduce speculative demand in the marketplace and help to cool excessive price growth," the platform reads.
While Noormohamed's real estate dealings are completely legal, his past actions appear to be at odds with the Liberal platform on flipping.
Candidate says he's 'fully committed' to housing affordability
A staff member from Noormohamed's campaign said that Noormohamed is unavailable for an interview. In a statement, Noormohamed confirmed that he had been involved in flipping, but he affirmed his commitment to the Liberal platform on housing affordability.
"I am fully
committed to making housing more affordable across Canada, and right
here at home in Vancouver Granville," the statements reads. "Last week,
Prime Minister Trudeau announced the most ambitious plan of any party to
make housing more affordable – and I will work hard to make that plan a
reality."
"While I have had business activities improving
homes, I have been consistent in my support for measures to make
housing more affordable and, as the MP for Vancouver Granville, it will
remain a priority."
Noormohamed is currently the CEO of jane.com, an online retailer, according to the website. He has also worked as a government official, according to the bio on his campaign site.
He ran against Jody Wilson-Raybould in 2019, after she got kicked out of the Liberal Party and ran as an independent. She won that election but is not running again.
Deja Vu Anyone???
Liberals allowed MP Marwan Tabbara to run in 2019 despite sexual harassment investigation
Allegations include unwanted touching and lewd comments aimed at female staffer
Member of Parliament Marwan Tabbara — who had a court hearing today on assault and criminal harassment charges — was approved to run for the Liberals in the 2019 federal election despite a party investigation into allegations of sexual harassment made against him during his last mandate, CBC News has learned.
The Liberals looked into detailed allegations of misconduct made against the Kitchener South-Hespeler MP that included inappropriate touching and unwelcome sexual comments directed at a female staffer, according to sources with knowledge of the allegations. The allegations date back to the 2015 election campaign, the source said.
The sources who spoke to CBC News requested anonymity, citing the risk of being blacklisted within Liberal circles and it negatively impacting their careers.
CBC News has confirmed the party's internal investigation determined that some of the allegations were substantiated, but has not been able to learn whether Tabbara faced any consequences.
Despite Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's zero-tolerance policy on sexual misconduct in the workplace, the party approved Tabbara as a Liberal candidate last year.
The decision to clear Tabbara to run as a Liberal took the party's Greenlight Committee more than six months to make — an unusually long period of time for an incumbent, according to a government source with knowledge of the investigation.
Tabbara, the past chair of the Commons committee on international human rights, stepped away from the Liberal caucus two weeks ago but is still working as an MP. He left the caucus after CBC and Global reported on his arrest by Guelph Police on April 10 for a different incident.
He has a scheduled court date in Guelph today for two counts of assault, one count of "break and enter and commit an indictable offence" and one count of criminal harassment.
Party alerted about allegations several times over 5 years
Guelph police have defended their decision to not publicize the charges against Tabbara. Prime Minister Trudeau said he and his office only learned about the criminal charges the day the news stories aired on June 5.
Despite Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's stated zero-tolerance policy on misconduct in the workplace, MP Marwan Tabbara was approved to run in the 2019 federal election even though he had been investigated for allegations of sexual harassment. (Facebook)
The Liberal Party may not have been warned about the criminal charges — but it did know about the misconduct allegations dating back to 2015.
Claims about inappropriate behaviour involving Tabbara and a female staffer were reported to the Liberal party multiple times over the past five years, according to a source. Senior decision makers in both the Trudeau government and the Liberal Party knew about the claims. One of the individuals who was aware of the allegations is now working at the Prime Minister's office.
But the party did not take the alleged misconduct seriously until recently, said the source. The source argues the prime minister's staff members are not reporting sexual harassment up the chain and are failing to meet his stated zero-tolerance policy on this kind of misconduct.
Lengthy wait to clear Tabbara as candidate
The investigation of the allegations likely played a role in the long delay in approving Tabbara to run as a Liberal in the 2019 election.
Applications for all potential candidates had to be submitted in October 2018 and Tabbara's wasn't completed until roughly six to eight months later, according to a government source. The process usually doesn't take that long, especially when it's an incumbent who already has been vetted in the past.
The Greenlight Committee's work includes conducting police checks and credit checks, calling numerous references and speaking to people on Parliament Hill. The committee also combs through a potential candidate's social media accounts for red flags.
MP Marwan Tabbara canvassing during the 2019 federal election. (Facebook)
CBC News has sent a list of questions to Tabbara about the allegations. His office has not answered any of CBC's questions for the past two weeks.
"No comment," wrote Peter Maloney, Tabbara's executive assistant, on June 11 and 18.
The Liberal Party also hasn't been forthcoming about the past investigation, citing privacy reasons.
Trudeau was pressed for answers by reporters at a press conference today in Chelsea, Quebec. He said he is continually informed of investigations into allegations against members of his party — but he wouldn't say exactly when he was told about Tabbara's case, or why Tabbara was approved to run in the last election.
"Whenever there are allegations against members of the Liberal Party, part of the process is for the leader to be informed," he said. "At the same time, the process that kicks in is a rigorous process that has been established to ensure that every single allegation or complaint around misconduct is appropriately dealt with, that there are conclusions and next steps and recommendations that are fulfilled."
Trudeau said he couldn't comment on the case because it's confidential.
"We take every single case extremely seriously," he said.
Watch: Trudeau on Tabbara allegations
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Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland called the charges both "disappointing and troubling" today but said confidentiality concerns limited what she could say about the case.
"Let me be very clear that our government and I, personally, take the reality of sexual harassment very, very seriously," the minister said. "We're a feminist government. We know how important these issues are."
The deputy minister said the claims were being investigated closely.
Watch: Freeland reacts to Tabbara allegations
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Liberal Party workplace policy
Senior party communications director Braeden Caley said the party has a "Respectful Workplace policy" in place for all candidates, staff and volunteers to prevent harassment in the workplace and on the campaign trail.
"In line with the Respectful Workplace policy, the party does not confirm or comment on the specifics of complaints out of respect for the confidentiality, privacy and safety of those involved," said Caley in a statement to CBC News. "Based on extensive consultation with experts and with the aim of ensuring that individuals always feel safe coming forward with their stories, it is not the Liberal Party's place to breach that confidentiality."
He added that everyone in a democracy should feel safe and respected.
"The Liberal Party of Canada takes this responsibility very seriously," said Caley.
Before
his election, Tabbara worked in construction and as a line supervisor
at a Frito-Lay plant. He immigrated to Canada from Lebanon as a child to
flee that country's civil war. (Facebook)
The Liberals' workplace policy states that allegations of harassment can be informally resolved. If a formal complaint is submitted, the party's national director can launch an investigation; both parties are interviewed and are allowed to submit and rebut evidence, and both parties receive the results in writing.
If claims are substantiated, consequences can include disciplinary measures such as a warning, suspension or termination, according to the policy. There are also non-disciplinary options available — an apology, mediation or additional training.
The Liberals said the party also launched a new, online training program ahead of the 2019 election on what constitutes harassment, how to create a safe campaign environment and report incidents. Caley called it a "first of its kind for a Canadian political party."
The party, Tabbara's office and the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) have not confirmed the existence of an investigation into Tabbara. The PMO referred CBC News to a statement written by the Liberal Party.
Tabbara will be back in a Guelph courtroom at the end of August for his criminal charges.
On a Friday morning audio call, Ontario Court of Justice Judge Lorelei Amlin adjourned the matter until Aug. 28. Tabbara's voice was not heard on the call.
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Dropping a candidate can cost a party support, but the impact is small
In 2015, parties did slightly worse in ridings where they had to replace a candidate
Party leaders are asking themselves that question a lot lately, as old social media posts are dredged up about some of their candidates.
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says that, on condition of an apology and acceptance of responsibility for what they've said in the past, he would stand by Conservative candidates with a history of racist or homophobic comments.
For Green Leader Elizabeth May, a spate of controversies over the positions of her candidates on abortion and Quebec independence have led her to launch a re-vetting of the names her party plans to put on ballots across the country.
And it's likely to only get worse, as parties continue to dig into the social media histories of their rivals.
But the local impact of forcing a party to drop a candidate is not very strong — suggesting these efforts have a broader aim of knocking a leader off message and derailing the carefully laid plans of campaign managers.
An analysis of the performance of candidates who were last-minute replacements in the 2015 federal election campaign suggests that dropping a candidate from the ballot only has a marginal impact on the results that party will get in a riding.
There were 13 candidates who were replaced over the course of the last campaign, five each by the Conservatives and Liberals and three by the New Democrats. The Liberal candidates were all in British Columbia and Alberta, while the Conservatives were in Ontario and Quebec. The NDP lost one candidate in Manitoba and two in Atlantic Canada.
Replacement candidates did worse in 2015
By comparing the results in each of the ridings where a candidate was replaced to those in the rest of the region where that party's candidates were not replaced, we get an idea of how these replacements performed.
On average, parties did 3.2 percentage points worse in ridings where they replaced a candidate compared with other ridings in the same region where they did not.
In the B.C. riding of South Surrey-White Rock, for example, the Liberals dropped a candidate over comments related to pregnancy and marijuana use. Her replacement improved on the Liberals' 2011 score in the riding by 22 points. But other Liberal candidates in the Fraser Valley and southern Lower Mainland experienced an average gain of 27 points.
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While that is one case, it is a pattern that was repeated over nine of the 13 ridings in which a candidate was replaced. In only three ridings did the replacement do better than other candidates in the region, but only by a marginal amount of about a point or two. Most of the under-achieving replacements did between three and seven points worse than their neighbouring colleagues.
Did this have an impact on the outcome of the election? Probably not. Only in South Surrey-White Rock was the margin narrow enough that the loss of the original candidate might have cost the party a victory. But there were 47 ridings across Canada decided by 3.2 percentage points or less — suggesting that a last-minute loss of a candidate in any of these ridings could have made the difference.
Why replacing a candidate can hurt
There are several reasons why the loss of a local candidate could have a negative impact — it reflects badly on the party and erases much of the work that might have been done by that candidate in the riding before the writs were dropped. A replacement might come in with less name recognition and the party's local organization could be disrupted.
But the marginal gains to be made by forcing a local candidate to be replaced might be over-shadowed by the wider impacts on the campaign. Instead of talking about climate change, May was forced to spend her first campaign days answering questions on abortion and Quebec sovereignty.
Instead of hammering home the Conservatives' message on affordability, Scheer has had to dismiss as distractions the latest controversies dug up by the Liberal opposition research team.
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Dock Currie said he agreed to withdraw candidacy because of comments he made on social media 2 years ago
Currie announced his candidacy last week after Gina Myhill-Jones, a community support worker and resident of 100 Mile House, pulled herself out of the race at the beginning of August.
In a statement, Currie said the decision was related to comments he made on social media two years ago while he was a graduate student.
"The comments I made then were flippant and aggressive and do not reflect who I am today, nor do I stand by them in the form in which they were made, and I understand completely that they would be an unnecessary and unwarranted distraction from the vital message and campaign of the NDP across the country," said Currie in his statement.
Brothers and sisters in the fight for the interests of working class Canadian families, First Nations peoples, LGBTQ2S peoples, and marginalized peoples, it is with a heavy heart that I write to you to inform you that I have been asked to, and have agreed to, withdraw my candidacy for NDP MP for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo.
I am incredibly disappointed that I won't be able to be the voice to offer a social democratic alternative to the Liberals and Conservatives in the riding of Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo. I am not stepping down for personal reasons. Rather, I have been asked to step down as a result of problematic social media engagement two years ago, made in a context in which I was a graduate student without any designs on public life. The comments I made then were flippant and aggressive, and do not reflect who I am today, nor do I stand by them in the form in which they were made, and I understand completely that they would be an unnecessary and unwarranted distraction from the vital message and campaign of the NDP across the country.
I absolutely support, endorse, and believe in the NDP's New Deal for People and Power to Change policy documents. We live in a moment of crisis, and the only party with policy prescriptions that both resonate with everyday Canadians and can address the massive disparities and contradictions in wealth, housing, healthcare and reconciliation is Canada's New Democratic Party. I am truly and deeply sorry to my friends, neighbours, colleagues, fellow party members, and citizens across Canada that I cannot and will not be the champion for these policies, as much as I wanted to and want to be.
I want also to make clear that while I regret and apologize for the comments I made to two pro-pipeline activists two years ago, and understand how they would be a needless distraction to the party and national campaign, I nonetheless disagree with both the content and process of the decision that prevents me from championing these policies that I deeply and passionately believe in. The run-up to this campaign has been marked by questions around the nature, purpose, and procedures of candidate vetting, in all parties, and how social media plays a role in who can, and cannot, take part in political life. If all those who advance the interests of the wealthy and powerful need do to stymie and sabotage a campaign or candidate is to unearth an uncouth statement, or make a political party answer for any out of context social media engagement, then that is exactly what they will do, and become better at doing.
With that said, as the Ontario Labour activist Sid Ryan has already noted, the issue of candidate vetting, what it consists of, and who makes decisions concerning it "will need to be addressed in a serious way following the election [but] meanwhile, we have work to do to elect Jagmeet Singh and his team of candidates." With this I wholeheartedly agree. There will be plenty of time for analysis and questions after the election campaign has ended, as we survey the political scene that we will have to live with for several years.
Right now, I encourage all Canadians across the country to get involved with the campaigns of all the great local candidates for the NDP, inspiring individuals who passionately advocate for policies that will materially better the lives of the communities we live in, and get them into Parliament. I am incredibly sorry that I will not be among them.
I am humbled, grateful, and inspired by the local Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo labour activists, campaign volunteers, and electoral district association members who put their trust in me, and it will forever sit uncomfortably with me that I could not be their candidate.
In love and solidarity always,
Dock Currie
But he also said he doesn't agree his past social media comments should affect his candidacy today.
"I want also to make clear that while I regret and apologize for the comments I made to two pro-pipeline activists two years ago and understand how they would be a needless distraction to the party and national campaign, I, nonetheless, disagree with both the content and process of the decision that prevents me from championing these policies that I deeply and passionately believe in."
'High standards'
The party has "high standards" when it comes to choosing candidates, Glen Sanford, the B.C. director of the federal NDP, told Daybreak Kamloops' Jenifer Norwell.
"[Currie] had unfortunately engaged in some inappropriate social media activity that I think he agreed with us would be a distraction to the campaign," said Sanford.
"Some information did come to light after after his vetting was approved, and we talked with him about it and he agreed to step down."
Sanford described the post in question as being "a little aggressive."
"I think that social media has created an interesting political environment and that one of the things that's really true is that people often say at some point in their lives things that they might regret later on," he said.
"We're going to have a very busy couple of days while we get a candidate for this election, and so obviously it's not an ideal situation, but I think that by the time people vote ... we'll be out there with a strong candidate."
With files from Jenifer Norwell and Daybreak Kamloops
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Dominic Cardy says your children are not yours!!!? 😡
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Great way to kickoff the Mad Maxime NB tour! We had Education minister
Dominic Cardy walk by and a fiery exchange ensued where he ended up
saying that YOUR children are in fact not yours and property of the
province. Credit to Nicholas Pereira for checking him on that
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Maxime Bernier, party supporters, get into heated exchange with N.B.
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Updated August 28, 2021 5:18 pm
Dominic Cardy was part of a heated exchanged in Saint John with
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Education Minister Dominic Cardy was involved in a heated exchange
with People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier and his supporters
on Friday in Saint John, N.B..
In the exchange, Cardy can be seen speaking in French to Bernier and
then walks away. He is then yelled at and sworn at for his policies
around masking and vaccination for children in the province.
“They are not the states children,” shouted Saint John-Rothesay PPC
candidate Nicholas Pereira. “That is absolutely against everything
…You are a piece of s***.”
“He doesn’t even have children,” yelled another, who is off-camera.
“You are absolutely disgracing parental rights. You are a human rights
violator,” Pereira said.
Cardy said he had a meeting in Saint John and was leaving with a
friend to meet up with his girlfriend and his colleague before leaving
for the weekend when the exchange happened.
“I figured I’ve been given the luck over my life to stand up to
bullies and political extremists in a bunch of different countries,
I’m not going to stop here at home,” Cardy said in an interview.
Cardy said he is OK following the exchange, with found him clapping
back, with “what I’m looking forward to is watching your political
collective be utterly annihilated in the election coming up in the
next few weeks.”
When asked why not just walk away?
His answer was simple.
“Confronting them, I think, is an important part of being an elected
official in 2021, in a democratic country,” he said. “If we’re going
to be serious about defending what we’ve got then you’ve got to stand
up and speak for it. They’re too used to be able to intimidate people
by filming them and swearing at them all the things that are a part of
their pretty limited repertoire of political persuasion tools.”
“They don’t work on me.”
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Peterborough Green Party Candidate asking Maryam Monsef to suspend
election campaign
The battle to win the vote for the Peterborough Kawartha riding is
getting interesting.
The Green Party candidate is calling for the incumbent Liberal
candidate and current Federal Minister for Women and Gender Equality
to suspend her campaign.
Tricia Mason has the story…
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Our brothers” the Taliban and Canada's media elite
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Taliban as “our brothers” and comments made in defence of this
statement from the Globe and Mail's Mark MacKinnon, the outlet's
senior international correspondent. What does this say about Canada's
media elite?
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Peterborough—Kawartha
2021 Canadian federal election
The 2021 general election will be held on September 20.
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Independent Bob Bowers
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Peterborough election candidate arrested after 'safety issues' at high school
Independent candidate Robert Bowers was arrested and fined for
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Bob Bowers: A familiar road
The sixth in a series of profiles of the local candidates for federal
election Jan. 23.
Mike Lacey
Peterborough This Week
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
The most experienced candidate on the local federal election campaign
trail is the relatively unknown Bob Bowers.
The independent has been a candidate now in five elections. Still,
it's safe to say that come Jan. 23, Mr. Bowers won't be this area's
new MP.
Although he too knows it's unlikely he will win this election, Mr.
Bowers believes that will have nothing to do with his message but
rather the system.
Even if he had $5,000 to $6,000 to spend on the campaign, he would
make a big impact, he explains.
But, he notes, he has just one person working with him. More people
being involved would likely lead to more votes cast his way.
"But you're going to be surprised with how many votes I get this
time...I'll get 300 to 400 votes minimum," he predicts.
Mr. Bowers is a man who has seen it all. Born and raised in
Peterborough, he is the second youngest of six children, all of whom
are still very close.
"Our parents were very poor and we had to struggle," he says.
He found enjoyment on the sports field where he excelled at football
and baseball.
School was another arena where he did well. He attended the University
of Western Ontario but, during his first year of studies, was plagued
by health problems.
At the age of 23, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent time
in a psychiatric hospital.
His problems continued to mount. After he left the hospital, he was
convicted of robbing an East City store, although he still pleads his
innocence in that matter.
After spending two years in a penitentiary in Kingston, he went back
to school and finished university, graduating with a degree in
geography.
He then enrolled in Teachers' College but his illness prevented him
from finishing, he says.
Mr. Bowers married and had a daughter with his wife. However, after
five years of marriage, the couple divorced, although they remained
friends.
His health problems grew worse more than a decade ago when he was
diagnosed with Parkinson's.
It was his experiences working through the system that pushed him into
this life. For more than 30 years, he has railed against government
bureaucracy and the lack of improvement in fixing society's ills.
His political philosophy is simple - accountability from all involved
in government. His ideas, such as mandatory voting, come not from his
own imagination but plans in place in other countries.
"I don't want to change the system, per se...I want accountability,"
he explains.
Now a veteran campaigner, he has heard everything from local
candidates over the years.
Asked if this current crop of candidates is any different from those
previous, he isn't sure.
"They've very informed but do they really mean what they say?" he wonders.
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Mike Lacey is Managing Editor for the Durham Region of Torstar. He can
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October 7th, 2016 / 5:10 p.m.
Hamish Wright As an Individual
Thank you.
My name is Hamish. I've worked with Student Vote for four years. I've
represented New Brunswick at national debating championships three
times, where I've argued about proportional representation. I'm
originally Australian and I'm 18 years old, so as a young Australian
person, I consider myself an eminently qualified witness, for the
amount of time it's come up.
My first point is about a referendum. If we are going to change the
fundamental way we elect members of Parliament, then the citizens of
this country must decide how that takes place.
Before I go into my point, I'm a paid employee of the New Brunswick
NDP, but I speak for myself, as a private citizen, as you might well
tell.
I believe that we must have a referendum. Why is that? I've heard some
elitist arguments here today about how people are uninformed and can't
make that decision. Let me tell you something. You are all here
because citizens of this country elected you, and if you concede to
the argument that Canadian citizens are uninformed about the way they
vote, then you have no mandate. I don't think that's true. I think you
all have a mandate. I think Matt DeCourcey got a clear mandate from
the people of Fredericton. I think you have a mandate to decide
things.
What I say is that a referendum is not doomed to fail. A referendum
has been confirmed twice in New Zealand, in 1994 and 2011. It passed
in B.C. Unfortunately, due to an arbitrary threshold, it didn't work.
So if we're going to change the way we vote, it must be approved, in
principle, by the citizens of this country.
To quote Frank Underwood, I don't like the way the table is set, so
let's flip over the table. What do I mean by this? We're concentrating
on a House that isn't broken. First past the post elects people. It
shows a clear mandate switch between the Conservatives and the
Liberals, for example, in the last election. It allows for effective
decision-making.
What is broken in democracy in Canada? It's one word: Senate.
The Senate is broken. We do not elect senators. The Senate can veto
any democratically elected law by the House of Commons. I have a
consensus solution for you. We can have proportional representation.
We can have effective decision-making. Why not make the Senate the
proportional body that represents the provinces and represents the
points of view of the citizens of this country?
There's a reason why the Liberals can afford to get rid of Atlantic
Canada's Supreme Court seat. There's a reason why they can afford to
ignore Atlantic Canada. That's because the provinces are inadequately
represented in our federal government, and that's why we must have an
elected Senate.
Thank you.
October 7th, 2016 / 5:20 p.m.
Jonathan Richardson As an Individual
Hi, everyone. Thank you for letting me speak today.
I am before you today to speak in favour of proportional
representation, simply because it is proportional and because I like
evidence-based decision-making.
In the last election, the party that is in power now got 39% of the
vote and ended up with 55% of the seats. These kinds of distortions
feed cynicism and disengagement, and create frustrated voters.
Outside of politics, I manage a women's addiction and rehabilitation
centre. Before I came here today, I went up to the women and asked,
“Who here votes?” Only one woman out of the entire bunch voted, and
the reason the remainder of them don't vote is that they don't believe
their vote counts.
Our system is alienating people. The voter turnout is falling and it
has been for decades. In 2008, it hit an all-time low at 58% of
voters. In 2015, we reached 68%, and we thought that was a big cause
for celebration. Guess what? With five more points, we would still not
even reach the threshold of the eighties.
Proportional-representation-
turnout across the world. Of course reforming the voting system will
not fix everything. No single reform is going to fix all our
democratic ills, but implementing proportional representation will
provide the tools for a fair, representative, and engaging electoral
system that citizens can use to improve our country and all our lives.
I call on you to seize this moment and give citizens the tools of a
voting system based on mixed member proportional representation.
October 7th, 2016 / 5:15 p.m.
Margo Sheppard As an Individual
Thank you, Mr. Chair and panellists.
My name is Margo Sheppard. In 2015, I had a life-sized Stephen Harper
dummy in my living room, for a month. Right there.
Why? It was as part of a Leadnow.ca campaign to defeat the Harper
Conservatives. The dummy came with me to various public events. It was
loaned to me by PSAC, the union, which has a Moncton office.
I mention this because it is an example of the extremes to which a
normally well-adjusted and sane person will go to get rid of the
first-past-the-post system. Not only was the dummy a symbol of an
oppressive government, it was also a symbol of a broken electoral
system—and it really creeped out my kids and pets.
In seriousness, I want the system to change, to become more
representative of the will of the people and to become fairer. In my
book, that's mixed member proportional representation.
The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, promised no more first past the
post. Please make good on this promise. No more dummies.
Thank you.
October 7th, 2016 / 5 p.m.
Stephanie Coburn As an Individual
First of all, thank you for coming to the best-kept secret in the
country. I think we have the most beautiful province in the country,
and hardly anybody knows about it. Now that you've seen it in its
glory, you can all come back sometime.
The first thing I want to say is that I am a citizen. I am not a
stakeholder, nor am I a client of the government. I'm a citizen and I
get to vote and I would like my vote to count. To me, counting would
mean that if a party gets 39% of the vote, they get 39% of the seats.
If they only get 39% of the seats, they wouldn't be a majority
government.
I don't have any empirical evidence to prove that a coalition
government would be more effective and produce better legislation. I
just have a feeling, being a person who seeks co-operation instead of
confrontation and really doesn't like the political partisanship that
gets in the way of intelligent discussion and good decision-making,
that the better the intention of the people around the table is toward
coming to common decisions and approaching something intelligently
rather than with partisanship, then the better the decision-making
we'd have at the end of it all.
That's what we're looking for. We're looking for really intelligent
people to be thoughtfully thinking about the entire country. You're
the government of the entire country. You have regional interests, but
you're supposed to be looking at the health of the entire polis here
in Canada. Partisanship really gets in the way of that, I find.
I have been a candidate four times, twice provincially and twice
federally. The most dispiriting thing that happens is when I go to a
door and somebody says, “Why would I vote? My vote doesn't count.”
Thank you very much.
3:20 p.m.
Assistant Professor, Department of History and Politics, University of
New Brunswick Saint John, As an Individual
J.P. Lewis
Having reviewed presentations to the committee from the beginning of
the summer, and taking stock that you have heard plenty of empirically
supported arguments for and against certain electoral systems and
approaches to electoral reform, I thought it would be helpful to focus
on one of the committee's four principles that I have done research
on, and that's engagement—more specifically, the role of Elections
Canada in civic education policy as related to engagement.
My two main points are that in light of impending electoral reform,
Elections Canada should have a role in promoting engagement, and that
this role should be emboldened by collaboration with non-governmental
agencies. My review of testimony to the committee revealed that both
these points have been topics addressed by many of the committee
witnesses.
Departing Elections Canada Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand
discussed the role of Elections Canada in introducing a new electoral
system to the Canadian public. Mayrand noted that, “An extensive
public education campaign would be needed to ensure that Canadians
understand the new system....”
Australian Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers recounted the Australian
Electoral Commission's successful civic education campaign based on
principles of comprehensiveness and inclusiveness.
Political scientists Henry Milner and Jonathan Rose both raised the
importance of civic education for elections. Professor Milner noted
that while education policy is a provincial matter, he would like to
see a greater effort in civic education at both the provincial and
federal levels of government. Professor Rose reminded the committee of
Ontario's experience with electoral reform and the $6 million devoted
to educating the voters during the province's 2007 electoral reform
referendum.
Representatives from civic participation and education
non-governmental agencies were also supportive of more national
efforts in civic education policy. Maryantonett Flumian, from the
Institute on Governance, argued that Elections Canada “should be
institutionally positioned to play a leadership role” in civic
education strategy.
Jane Hilderman from Samara noted, “...there are very few resources for
nationwide efforts in Canada in civic education, nor is it clear who
among government departments or agencies should be responsible for
delivering on this goal.”
Today I'll talk about clarifying that role and focus on civic
education and elections, with special attention to two points: the
role of electoral management bodies, such as Elections Canada, in
civic education; and the place of Elections Canada in the civic
education policy network in Canada. I will support both points with
evidence from research I've published.
My first point concerns the role of electoral management bodies such
as Elections Canada in civic education. I argue that based on policy
precedent at the provincial level and general institutional support
across Canada, there's a case to be made for a civic education role
for electoral management bodies, going beyond the responsibility of
simply providing answers on “how to vote” and suggesting answers to
the question of “Why vote?”
You may remember that in 2014 the federal Conservative government
introduced legislation, Bill C-23, that raised questions on the role
of electoral management bodies and what type of information they
should provide voters. While most Canadians expect electoral
management bodies such as Elections Canada or their provincial
equivalent to provide information on “how to vote”, in recent years,
due to dramatic declining voter turnout, electoral management bodies
have expanded their mandates and roles to provide education on the
question of “Why vote?”
One of the benefits of a federal state such as Canada is that it
provides examples of policies found in the so-called “policy
laboratories” at the provincial level of government. Examining the
description of CEO duties in provincial elections acts reveals that
seven of the 10 provinces have specific mention of an educational,
outreach, or awareness role of the CEO. Based on the research I
completed for the article, I argue that, yes, electoral management
bodies should be engaged in both “how to vote” and “Why vote?”
campaigns. My position is based on three central claims: one, the
modesty of the current programs; two, the affordability of the current
programs; and three, the consistency in policy path followed by
electoral management bodies across the country.
While considering the role of electoral management bodies in Canada in
civic education, it should be clearly noted that the majority of civic
education policies and programs undertaken by electoral management
bodies are often in partnership with other policy actors. Groups such
as CIVIX, Samara, and Apathy is Boring have all been prominent in
spreading the message of combatting voter apathy.
This brings me to my second point and the case for why Elections
Canada can take a leading role in the Canadian civic education policy
network. For another article I was a co-author of, we found that out
of a policy community of 53 civic education policy actors on questions
of trust, influence, and reliance, Elections Canada was the highest
ranked institution. The group of policy actors included the Library of
Parliament, the federal Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration,
Canadian Heritage, all provincial departments of heritage and culture
and all provincial departments of education, all provincial elections
agencies, and 10 prominent non-governmental organizations.
To return to comments by previous witnesses to this committee, I would
like to draw attention to my colleague from the University of Toronto,
Peter Loewen's, point that, “...the functioning of Canadian democracy
has not been sufficiently appreciated.” I agree with Professor Loewen,
and I believe Elections Canada should continue to play a part in
addressing this appreciation gap regardless of the electoral system
selected, playing a leading national policy role in answering the
questions of “how to vote” and “Why vote?”
Thank you.
8 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Thank you very much.
Mr. David Amos, the floor is yours.
Links & Sharing
As spoken
October 7th, 2016 / 8 p.m.
David Amos As an Individual
Mr. Chair, I ran for public office five times against your party. That
said, I ran against Mr. DeCourcey's boss right here in Fredericton in
the election for the 39th Parliament.
I was not aware of this committee meeting in Fredericton today until I
heard Mr. DeCourcey speaking on CBC this morning. I don't pretend to
know something I don't, but I'm a quick study. I thought I had paid my
dues to sit on the panel. I notified the clerks in a timely fashion,
but I received no response. At least I get another minute and a half.
The previous speaker answered the $64,000 question: 338. I can name
every premier in the country. Governor Maggie Hassan is my governor in
New Hampshire. The people there who sit in the house get paid $100 a
year plus per diem expenses. I think that's the way to run a
government. There are lots of seats in the house for a very small
state.
My understanding of this hearing is that you have to report to Mr.
Trudeau by December 1, because he said during the election that if he
were elected Prime Minister, the 42nd Parliament, which I also ran in,
would be the last first-past-the-post election. You don't have much
time, so my suggestion to the clerks today, which I published and sent
to the Prime Minister of Iceland and his Attorney General, was to do
what Iceland does. Just cut and paste their rules. They have no first
past the post. They have a pending election.
A former friend of mine, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, founded a party there,
for which there is no leader. It is the Pirate Party. It's high in the
polls right now with no leader. That's interesting. I tweeted this.
You folks said that you follow tweets, so you should have seen what I
tweeted before I came here this evening.
That said, as a Canadian, I propose something else. Number one, my
understanding of the Constitution and what I read about law.... There
was a constitutional expert named Edgar Schmidt who sued the
government. He was the man who was supposed to vet bills for Peter
MacKay to make sure they were constitutionally correct. He did not
argue the charter. He argued Mr. Diefenbaker's Bill of Rights.
In 2002 I read a document filed by a former deputy minister of
finance, Kevin Lynch, who later became Mr. Harper's clerk of the Privy
Council. Now he's on an independent board of the Chinese oil company
that bought Nexen. As deputy minister of finance, he reported to the
American Securities and Exchange Commission on behalf of the
corporation known as Canada. It is a very interesting document that I
saved and forwarded to you folks. It says that he was in a quandary
about whether the charter was in effect.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Could it be in relation to a particular voting system?
David Amos
According to Mr. Lynch, because of the failure of the Meech Lake and
Charlottetown accords, he was in a quandary as to whether the charter
was in effect. I know that the Supreme Court argues it on a daily
basis. That charter, created by Mr. Trudeau and Mr. Chrétien, his
attorney general at the time, gave me the right to run for public
office and vote as a Canadian citizen. However, in the 1990s, Mr.
Chrétien came out with a law, and because I am a permanent American
resident, I can't vote. Yet the charter says I can.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
That's a—
David Amos
That said, that's been argued in court. In 2000, Mr. Chrétien came out
with a law that said I couldn't vote. Right? He also took away my
social insurance number.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
I don't know about the case—
David Amos
No, he did.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
But I don't know about the case.
David Amos
I did prove, after I argued with Elections Canada's lawyers in
2004.... You might have taken away my right to vote, but you can't
stop me from running for public office, and I proved it five times.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Given that you're an experienced candidate—
David Amos
Very experienced.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
—does that experience provide you with a particular insight on the
voting systems we're looking at?
David Amos
In Mr. Trudeau's words, he has to come up with a plan and no more
first past the post. My suggestion to you, in my contact today, is to
cut and paste Iceland's rules.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
What kind of system does Iceland have?
David Amos
It's just what you need, just what Mr. Trudeau is ordering now. It's
proportional elections.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Is it MMP, or is it just...?
David Amos
I tweeted you the beginner's book for Iceland.
T
he Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Okay, we'll look at Iceland.
We're just checking on the kind of system they have, but I appreciate
the input, especially from a candidate, from somebody who has run many
times.
But we do have—
David Amos
I have two other points, because I don't think you can pull this off.
I don't think it will happen.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Well, I'm hoping we do.
David Amos
Here is my suggestion. You guys are going north.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Yes.
David Amos
Look how parliamentarians are elected in the Northwest Territories.
There is no party, and I like that.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
That's true. We were just up in Yellowknife, in fact, and we learned
all about that. That's why it's good for us to be travelling the
country.
But, sir, I—
David Amos
I have one more suggestion.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
One more.
David Amos
Mr. Harper changed the Canada Elections Act and I still couldn't vote.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Yes, I was in the House when that happened.
David Amos
Anyway, that said, when you alter the Canada Elections Act, make it....
The biggest problem we have is, look at the vast majority of people
who, like me, have never voted in their life. Apathy rules the day.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Except that you've put us on to an idea about Iceland—
David Amos
Let me finish.
I suggest that you make voting mandatory, such as Australia does. Make
it that if you don't vote, it costs you money, just like if you don't
report to Statistics Canada.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Well, we're talking about that. That is part of our mandate, to look
at mandatory voting and online voting.
You already had your last suggestion.
David Amos
Put in the line, “none of the above”, and if “none of the above” wins—
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
That's right, we've heard that, too.
David Amos
Well, I haven't.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
We've heard that in our testimony.
David Amos
You and I will be talking again, trust me on that one, by way of writing.
You answered my emails, Ma'am.
The Chair Francis Scarpaleggia
Thank you very much, sir.
Now we'll hear from Julie Maitland.
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Tuesday, 17 August 2021
Methinks Trudeau The Younger and his CBC minions underestimate the
fury of upset Maritimers Nesy Pas?
The LIEbranos did not show much respect towards their provincial
betheran seeking another mandate by dropping a frederal writ just
before their polling day. That faux pas may cost them dearly
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
Nova Scotians head to polls today as provincial election race tightens
Liberals seeking 3rd straight majority, but campaign has stumbled at times
Michael Gorman · CBC News · Posted: Aug 17, 2021 5:00 AM AT
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Monday, 16 August 2021
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NDP gets help from democracy expert
CBC News · Posted: Jan 09, 2006 4:23 PM AT
An international expert on democracy has flown all the way from Egypt
to help NDP candidate John Carty campaign in Fredericton.
Dominic Cardy is with a group called The National Democratic
Institute. Its members include such people as former U.S. President
Jimmy Carter. The group's mission is to teach democratic values and
spread democracy around the world.
Cardy has taught about democracy in Algeria, Bangladesh, and Cambodia
during the past few years. When he heard his friend John Carty was
running for office back in his home town of Fredericton, he hopped on
a plane.
"It was a strange experience," Cardy said. "One evening I was watching
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down over Fredericton airport as I came into land."
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and independent David Amos. The riding has sent Scott to Ottawa for
the last four elections, despite the best efforts of the other
parties.
Cardy says he doesn't care how tough the race his – he just wants
people to participate in the process. "People have forgotten how
incredibly precious these gifts that our ancestors fought for are and
were just giving them away. It makes me furious when I talk to people
and people just say 'ah there's no point in voting.'"
After election day, Dominic Cardy is flying back home to his wife in
Kathmandu, Nepal. He hopes to leave behind a new Member of Parliament
for Fredericton, his friend John Carty for the NDP.
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Fundy Royal campaign targets middle class with focus on jobs
Fundy Royal voters have elected Conservatives all but 1 time in 28
elections over 101 years
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Four candidats are running in the federal riding of Fundy-Royal. Green
candidate Stephanie Coburn, NDP candidate Jennifer McKenzie, Liberal
candidate Alaina Lockhart and Conservative candidate Rob Moore.
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Election soon, or election later? For Trudeau, it's a gamble either way
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 23:02:43 -0300
Subject: Fwd: RE Navdeep Bains National Campaign Co-Chair Liberal
Party of Canada
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info@ramandeepbrar.ca, info@jermainechambers.ca,
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 21:32:53 -0300
Subject: RE Navdeep Bains National Campaign Co-Chair Liberal Party of Canada
To: joel.wittnebel@thepointer.com, iqwindergaheer.lib@gmail.com,
natasha.oneill@thepointer.com, paudel.bijay20@gmail.com
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
https://davidraymondamos3.
https://thepointer.com/
https://thepointer.com/
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 17:04:33 -0300
Subject: Mr Sanderson I called you and Mr MacDonald and left a
messages about Wayne Easter and Bankers etc Correct?
To: jody@jodysanderson.ca, Erin.OToole@parl.gc.ca,
hmacdonald1346@gmail.com, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "steve.murphy"
<steve.murphy@ctv.ca>, Newsroom <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>
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<wayne.easter@parl.gc.ca>, anna.keenan@greenparty.ca,
craig.nash@ndp.ca, premier <premier@ontario.ca>, premier
<premier@gov.ab.ca>, Office of the Premier <scott.moe@gov.sk.ca>,
PREMIER <PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, premier <premier@gov.bc.ca>, premier
<premier@leg.gov.mb.ca>, premier <premier@gov.pe.ca>, "blaine.higgs"
<blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, premier <premier@gov.yk.ca>, premier
<premier@gov.nl.ca>, "Ian.Shugart" <Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca>,
"Kevin.leahy" <Kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
This the file I mentioned
https://www.scribd.com/doc/
Here is an old blog containing the text of an important letter 15 years ago
http://davidamos.blogspot.com/
https://www.scribd.com/doc/
Scroll down for more info about Banking and lawsuits etc
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
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A champion for a better future in Malpeque
Heath MacDonald and Justin Trudeau are the only team with a real plan
to grow our economy, protect people’s health, protect a clean
environment, and make life better for families right here in our
community.
While Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives are focused on going backward with
cuts to vital services that families rely on, Liberals will keep
moving forward with bold action to create good new jobs, invest in the
middle class and the most vulnerable, and ensure that everyone has a
real and fair chance at success.
Together, we can elect a dedicated Liberal Member of Parliament to
work with Justin Trudeau to build a better future for everyone.
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Heath MacDonald is the MLA for District 16, Cornwall-Meadowbank,
currently seeking the nomination for the Liberal Party of Canada in
the Federal riding of Malpeque, PEI.
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A proven leader with a collaborative mindset and commitment to
excellence in everything he undertakes, Jody is running to help
rebuild and strengthen the economy and community of Malpeque.
Born on Prince Edward Island, Jody grew up on the Sanderson family
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Wayne Easter should be able to explain why the webcast and transcript
are still missing and Trudeau should be able to explain my lawsuit
https://www.banking.senate.
Full Committee Hearing
Review of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the
Mutual Fund Industry
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2003
Witness Panel 1
Mr. Stephen M. Cutler
Director - Division of Enforcement
Securities and Exchange Commission
Mr. Robert Glauber
Chairman and CEO
National Association of Securities Dealers
Eliot Spitzer
Attorney General
State of New York
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 21:30:48 -0300
Subject: Yo Premier Iain Rankin tell your buddy Big Bad Billy Casey to
check out my old Chevy in the photo hereto attached Trust that it is
is still registered in Nova Scotia along with my Harleys etc
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JUSTMIN@novascotia.ca, Naomi.Shelton@novascotia.ca,
gary.burrill@nsndp.ca, larry.duchesne@nsndp.ca,
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<mcu@justice.gc.ca>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "Katie.Telford"
<Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca>, "Ian.Shugart"
<Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca>, "Kevin.leahy"
<Kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Michael.Gorman"
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Deja Vu Anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
---------- Original message ----------
From: Justice Minister <JUSTMIN@novascotia.ca>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:35:48 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Premier Iain Rankin tell your buddy Big
Bad Billy Casey to check out my old Chevy in the photo hereto attached
Trust that it is is still registered in Nova Scotia along with my
Harleys etc
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
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: Premier <PREMIER@novascotia.ca>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:35:48 +0000
Subject: Thank you for your email to Premier Rankin
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Higgs, Premier Blaine (PO/CPM)" <Blaine.Higgs@gnb.ca>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:40:58 +0000
Subject: RE: Yo Premier Iain Rankin tell your buddy Big Bad Billy
Casey to check out my old Chevy in the photo hereto attached Trust
that it is is still registered in Nova Scotia along with my Harleys
etc
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
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Thank you for taking the time to write.
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:35:28 -0300
Subject: RE: Yo Premier Iain Rankin tell your buddy Big Bad Billy
Casey to check out my old Chevy in the photo hereto attached Trust
that it is is still registered in Nova Scotia along with my Harleys
etc
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<office@liberal.ns.ca>, PREMIER <PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, "blaine.higgs"
<blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, JUSTMIN@novascotia.ca,
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Tory Rushton
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MLA Cumberland South
July 14, 2018 - Present
Cumbland South
June 19, 2018 - Present
Former Electrician at Oxford Frozen Foods
Oxford, Nova Scotia
Former Fire Chief/Fire Inspector at Town of Oxford
Oxford, Nova Scotia
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David Wightman
Cumberland North
David is a retired programs officer with Corrections Services Canada,
a former teacher and most recently worked as a volunteer announcer at
CFTA, Tantramar FM. He is also a long-time volunteer with Scouts
Canada and various fire departments, including Leicester and Amherst.
David and his wife Dale live in Amherst.
David's priorities for Cumberland North include:
Improving access to healthcare, mental healthcare, long-term care
and ambulance services
Helping our rural economy thrive by improving infrastructure such
as Internet service and road repairs
Increasing educational opportunities for all levels of student abilities
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Cumberland North pits high-profile Independent vs. former 7-term MP
Newcomers for the PCs and NDP, meanwhile, hope to shake things up in
border district
Michael Gorman · CBC News · Posted: Aug 10, 2021 6:00 AM AT
While some people see this as a two-person race, David Wightman and
Lauren Skabar are hoping to change that.
Running for the Progressive Conservatives, Wightman has had some
catching up to do because of his late entry into the campaign.
Election materials were late arriving, and while Smith-McCrossin and
Casey signs pepper the district, Wightman only recently started
putting his up.
But he's hoping a platform that focuses on health care, along with
community anger directed at the Liberals, will hold him in good stead.
"I think the Liberals have had their turn to try and fix things, and I
think they've only gotten worse," he said, pointing to the growing
wait list of people looking for a family doctor.
While he expresses interest in working on a variety of issues,
Wightman said health care is top of mind for him as a stroke survivor
and because his wife went through treatment for cancer. There are
aspects of the system unique to that region that Wightman hopes to
address.
"One of the things I'd like to see is a better approach to how to get
people to medical appointments that are travelling back and forth
across the [New Brunswick] border," he said.
A time to unite
Skabar is the NDP candidate. Her father, Brian, was elected in the
district in 2009 as part of the NDP's surge to power, but she said
politics was in her blood long before that.
Health care for the area is a major issue, said Skabar, given routine
emergency department closures at community sites and difficulties
getting enough nurses and doctors to the region.
"Until we start incentivizing health-care professionals coming to
places like Cumberland North and our smaller communities, we aren't
going to see any improvements," she said.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
Nova Scotia Liberals promise vaccine passport system if re-elected
ScotiaPass would be voluntary for individuals, businesses and other
organizations
Jean Laroche · CBC News · Posted: Aug 09, 2021 12:15 PM AT
"Both Houston and Burrill were critical of Rankin dropping this idea
in the midst of an election campaign.
"I don't think it indicates the kind of grasp and soundness that we
would look to see from a party that seeks to govern the province,"
said Burrill.
Houston said: "I'll just speak bluntly, our campaign is going very
well and he's concerned heading into the last week of the campaign."
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> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 17:38:42 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: MLA Weekly Update and Decision Announcement
> (Case Ref: ES3077) Methinks Premier Iain Rankin is far more than
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 14:38:10 -0300
> Subject: Re: MLA Weekly Update and Decision Announcement (Case Ref:
> ES3077) Methinks Premier Iain Rankin is far more than merely welcome
> N'esy Pas Higgy?
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Justice Minister <JUSTMIN@novascotia.ca>
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 17:19:07 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: MLA Weekly Update and Decision Announcement
> (Case Ref: ES3077) Methinks Iain Rankin and Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin
> cannot read but I certainly can N'esy Pas Higgy?
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>
> Thank you for your email to the Minister of Justice. Please be assured
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> reviewed and addressed accordingly. Thank you.
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Premier <PREMIER@novascotia.ca>
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 17:19:03 +0000
> Subject: Thank you for your email to Premier Rankin
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>
> Thank you for your email to Premier Rankin. This is an automatic
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Higgs, Premier Blaine (PO/CPM)" <Blaine.Higgs@gnb.ca>
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 17:21:14 +0000
> Subject: RE: MLA Weekly Update and Decision Announcement (Case Ref:
> ES3077) Methinks Iain Rankin and Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin cannot read
> but I certainly can N'esy Pas Higgy?
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>
> Hello,
>
> Thank you for taking the time to write.
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> From: Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l’Ontario
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> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 17:18:56 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: MLA Weekly Update and Decision Announcement
> (Case Ref: ES3077) Methinks Iain Rankin and Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin
> cannot read but I certainly can N'esy Pas Higgy?
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
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> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 14:52:40 -0300
> Subject: Re MLA Weekly Update and Decision Announcement (Case Ref:
> ES3077) I just called again
> To: PREMIER <PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>
> Cc: assistant <assistant@esmithmccrossinmla.
> <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
>
> Media Contact:
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: mla@esmithmccrossinmla.com
> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:31:17 +0000 (UTC)
> Subject: MLA Weekly Update and Decision Announcement (Case Ref: ES3077)
> To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>
>
> Dear David Amos
>
> MLA Weekly Update
>
> Date Tuesday July 6th, 2021
>
> My Mission as MLA for Cumberland North
>
> Serve the people
> Build Unity & Trust
> Influence Legislation & public policy
> For the greater good.
> Educate and Build Capacity
> Promote the people and area,
> Build a world-class health care system
> And improve population health.
>
> I have some news to share to start the week.
>
> I don’t know when Iain Rankin is going to call the next election.
>
> But I do know this.
>
> When Iain Rankin calls the election, I will be running as an
> Independent candidate for re-election as MLA for Cumberland North.
>
> You, the good people of Cumberland North know me.
>
> You know I will always put your priorities first.
>
> I will always fight for you.
>
> No apologies.
>
> Running as an Independent outside of party politics isn’t easy.
>
> If the people of Cumberland North continue to stand by me, I will
> continue to fight for you.
>
> For better health care.
>
> For regional co-operation to keep our borders open.
>
> For getting rid of the Cobequid Pass tolls.
>
> For supporting local food and the farmers who make it happen.
>
> I’m the only candidate in Cumberland North who doesn’t
> have to answer to a party leader in Halifax.
>
> I’m not a career politician. I&
> nurse. I have owned and operated my own
> businesses. I have put people to work and met a payroll.
>
> Above all, I’m a fighter who doesn’t back down.
>
> With your support, let’s put the people of Cumberland North
> first.
>
> I learned at a young age to stand my ground and I am not about to
> change now.
>
>
> Last Week in Politics
>
> Last week my staff and I worked with constituents on many matters of
> importance such as lack of family physicians, housing, roads, Covid
> rules and restrictions, NS NB Border, addictions and mental health and
> more.
>
> I continue to work with Municipal partners on various projects
> throughout Cumberland North,
>
>
> This Week In Politics
>
> Local
> This week I will be meeting with constituents to continue to work on
> ongoing projects for family physician recruitment and addictions and
> mental illness recovery projects.
>
> National
> The Borders are opening between Canada and US this week for fully
> vaccinated persons.
> We also see the toll of the wild fires in British Colombia.
> Heartbreaking to see the devastation and deaths from the deadly
> fires.
>
>
> Pandemic Update
>
> Vaccine
>
> Vaccination for the Covid-19 virus continues to be the main tool we
> have to prevent illness and death. If you require assistance to book
> your Covid19 vaccine please call my office and my staff can provide
> you with some help. Our office phone number is 902-661-2288.
>
> NS has only 26.1 % of the population with 2nd doses of vaccine while
> NB has 39.6% of the population vaccinated with 2nd doses. NB also
> vaccinates persons with medical conditions that deems them high risk
> but our NS government refuses.
>
> Nova Scotia
>
> NS has 53 active cases of Covid19 as of Monday morning with 3 new
> cases being identified on Sunday. No one in ICU in the entire province
> and only 3 people in hospital.
>
> https://novascotia.ca/
>
>
> New Brunswick
>
> NB has 21 active cases of Covid-19 as of Monday morning with only 1
> new case identified on Sunday. NB has no one in ICU and 4 persons on
> hospital with Covid infections.
>
> https://experience.arcgis.com/
>
>
>
> Birthdays
>
> Monday Ashleigh Coffin and Sheila Rushton
> Tuesday Laura Wells
> Wednesday Mal MacDonald
> Thursday Kittee Baxter and Carl LeBlanc
> Friday Chuck MacInnis
> Saturday Krista Cormier and Adrian VanVulpen
>
> Obituaries
>
> Hermina "Mini" Porter
>
> https://www.
>
>
> Margaret Ann Myles
>
> https://www.arbormemorial.ca/
>
> Nova Scotia Starts Here ~ Cumberland
>
> Several months ago I started this campaign emphasizing the importance
> of Cumberland County. Nova Scotia does start in Cumberland. Cumberland
> is the Gateway for the Atlantic Cooridor and on average 50 million
> dollars worth of goods travel through our Gateway. We may only have 3%
> of the population of NS but we provide critical infrastructure for NS,
> the Maritimes, Canada and the entire Eastern Seaboard.
>
> Never underestimate your value as citizens of Cumberland. We are
> important and we will stand for our area of the province. It’s
> time for Cumberland to receive the respect we deserve and we will grow
> and become all that we are meant to be.
>
> Have a great week, take care of yourselves and take care of one
> another.
>
> Take care,
> Elizabeth
>
>
> Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin MBA, BScN
> Cumberland North MLA
>
> Live everyday to the fullest and love as much as humanly possible.
>
>
>
>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>>>>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>>>> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:15:59 -0400
>>>>>> Subject: Hey Ralph Goodale perhaps you and the RCMP should call the
>>>>>> Yankees Governor Charlie Baker, his lawyer Bob Ross, Rachael Rollins
>>>>>> and this cop Robert Ridge (857 259 9083) ASAP EH Mr Primme Minister
>>>>>> Trudeau the Younger and Donald Trump Jr?
>>>>>> To: pm@pm.gc.ca, Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca,
>>>>>> Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca, djtjr@trumporg.com,
>>>>>> Donald.J.Trump@donaldtrump.com
>>>>>> Frank.McKenna@td.com, barbara.massey@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>>>>>> Douglas.Johnson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>>>> washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>>>>>> gov.press@state.ma.us, bob.ross@state.ma.us, jfurey@nbpower.com,
>>>>>> jfetzer@d.umn.edu, Newsroom@globeandmail.com, sfine@globeandmail.com,
>>>>>> .Poitras@cbc.ca, steve.murphy@ctv.ca, David.Akin@globalnews.ca,
>>>>>> Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, news@kingscorecord.com,
>>>>>> news@dailygleaner.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com, jbosnitch@gmail.com,
>>>>>> andre@jafaust.com>
>>>>>> Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>>>>>> wharrison@nbpower.com, David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca,
>>>>>> Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>>>> From: "Murray, Charles (Ombud)" <Charles.Murray@gnb.ca>
>>>>>>> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:16:15 +0000
>>>>>>> Subject: You wished to speak with me
>>>>>>> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have the advantage, sir, of having read many of your emails over
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> years.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As such, I do not think a phone conversation between us, and
>>>>>>> specifically one which you might mistakenly assume was in response
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> your threat of legal action against me, is likely to prove a
>>>>>>> productive use of either of our time.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If there is some specific matter about which you wish to communicate
>>>>>>> with me, feel free to email me with the full details and it will be
>>>>>>> given due consideration.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Charles Murray
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ombud NB
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Acting Integrity Commissioner
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> From: Justice Website <JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca>
>>>>>>>> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:21:11 +0000
>>>>>>>> Subject: Emails to Department of Justice and Province of Nova
>>>>>>>> Scotia
>>>>>>>> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Mr. Amos,
>>>>>>>> We acknowledge receipt of your recent emails to the Deputy Minister
>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> Justice and lawyers within the Legal Services Division of the
>>>>>>>> Department of Justice respecting a possible claim against the
>>>>>>>> Province
>>>>>>>> of Nova Scotia. Service of any documents respecting a legal claim
>>>>>>>> against the Province of Nova Scotia may be served on the Attorney
>>>>>>>> General at 1690 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS. Please note that we
>>>>>>>> will
>>>>>>>> not be responding to further emails on this matter.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Department of Justice
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 8/3/17, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If want something very serious to download and laugh at as well
>>>>>>>>> Please
>>>>>>>>> Enjoy and share real wiretap tapes of the mob
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://thedavidamosrant.
>>>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ---------- 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
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>>>> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 19:01:11 -0700 (PDT)
>>>>> From: "David Amos" motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>>>> Subject: Now everybody and his dog knows TJ Burke and his cop buddies
>>>>> allegations against me are false and you had the proof all along EH
>>>>> Chucky?
>>>>> To: oldmaison@yahoo.com, nbombud@gnb.ca, dan.bussieres@gnb.ca,
>>>>> jacques_poitras@cbc.ca, news@dailygleaner.com,
>>>>> kcarmichael@bloomberg.net, advocacycollective@yahoo.com,
>>>>> Easter.W@parl.gc.ca, Comartin.J@parl.gc.ca, cityadmin@fredericton.ca,
>>>>> info@gg.ca, bmosher@mosherchedore.ca, rchedore@mosherchedore.ca,
>>>>> police@fredericton.ca, chebert@thestar.ca, Stoffer.P@parl.gc.ca,
>>>>> Stronach.B@parl.gc.ca, Matthews.B@parl.gc.ca, alltrue@nl.rogers.com,
>>>>> Harper.S@parl.gc.ca, Layton.J@parl.gc.ca, Dryden.K@parl.gc.ca,
>>>>> Duceppe.G@parl.gc.ca
>>>>> CC: dgleg@nb.aibn.com, brad.woodside@fredericton.ca,
>>>>> whalen@fredericton.ca, david.kelly@fredericton.ca,
>>>>> cathy.maclaggan@fredericton.ca
>>>>> tom.jellinek@fredericton.ca, scott.mcconaghy@fredericton.ca
>>>>> marilyn.kerton@fredericton.ca, walter.brown@fredericton.ca,
>>>>> norah.davidson@fredericton.ca, mike.obrien@fredericton.ca,
>>>>> bruce.grandy@fredericton.ca, dan.keenan@fredericton.ca,
>>>>> jeff.mockler@gnb.ca, mrichard@lawsociety-barreau.
>>>>> cynthia.merlini@dfait-maeci.
>>>>> scotta@parl.gc.ca, michael.bray@gnb.ca, jack.e.mackay@gnb.ca
>>>>> http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.canadaeast.com/ce2/
>>>>>
>>>>> http://oldmaison.blogspot.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> http://oldmaison.blogspot.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> http://oldmaison.blogspot.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> http://maritimes.indymedia.
>>>>>
>>>>> Methinks your liberal pals just made a major faux pas N'est Pas?
>>>>> Scroll down Frenchie and go down?.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Threat against Burke taken seriously
>>>>>
>>>>> By STEPHEN LLEWELLYN
>>>>> dgleg@nb.aibn.com
>>>>> Published Thursday May 24th, 2007
>>>>> Appeared on page A1
>>>>> An RCMP security detail has been guarding Justice Minister and
>>>>> Attorney General T.J. Burke because of threats made against him
>>>>> recently.
>>>>>
>>>>> Burke, the Liberal MLA for Fredericton-Fort Nashwaaksis, wouldn't
>>>>> explain the nature of the threats.
>>>>>
>>>>> "I have had a particular individual or individuals who have made
>>>>> specific overtures about causing harm towards me," he told reporters
>>>>> Wednesday.
>>>>>
>>>>> "The RCMP has provided security to me recently by accompanying me to a
>>>>> couple of public functions where the individual is known to reside or
>>>>> have family members in the area," said Burke. "It is nice to have some
>>>>> added protection and that added comfort."
>>>>>
>>>>> The RCMP provides protection to the premier and MLAs with its VIP
>>>>> security
>>>>> unit.
>>>>>
>>>>> Burke didn't say when the threat was made but it's believed to have
>>>>> been in recent weeks.
>>>>>
>>>>> "When a threat is posed to you and it is a credible threat, you have
>>>>> to be cautious about where you go and who you are around," he said.
>>>>> "But again, I am more concerned about my family as opposed to my own
>>>>> personal safety."
>>>>>
>>>>> Burke said he doesn't feel any differently and he has not changed his
>>>>> pattern of activity.
>>>>>
>>>>> "It doesn't bother me one bit," he said. "It makes my wife feel awful
>>>>> nervous."
>>>>>
>>>>> Burke served in an elite American military unit before becoming a
>>>>> lawyer and going into politics in New Brunswick.
>>>>>
>>>>> "(I) have taken my own precautions and what I have to do to ensure my
>>>>> family's safety," he said. "I am a very cautious person in general due
>>>>> to my background and training.
>>>>>
>>>>> "I am comfortable with defending myself or my family if it ever had to
>>>>> happen."
>>>>>
>>>>> Burke said it is not uncommon for politicians to have security
>>>>> concerns.
>>>>>
>>>>> "We do live unfortunately in an age and in a society now where threats
>>>>> have to be taken pretty seriously," he said.
>>>>>
>>>>> Since the terrorism attacks in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001,
>>>>> security in New Brunswick has been
>>>>> beefed up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Metal detectors were recently installed in the legislature and all
>>>>> visitors are screened.
>>>>>
>>>>> The position of attorney general is often referred to as the
>>>>> province's "top cop."
>>>>>
>>>>> Burke said sometimes people do not differentiate between his role as
>>>>> the manager of the justice system and the individual who actually
>>>>> prosecutes them.
>>>>>
>>>>> "With the job sometimes comes threats," he said. "I have had numerous
>>>>> threats since Day 1 in office."
>>>>>
>>>>> Burke said he hopes his First Nations heritage has nothing to do with
>>>>> it.
>>>>>
>>>>> "I think it is more of an issue where people get fixated on a matter
>>>>> and they believe you are personally responsible for assigning them
>>>>> their punishment or their sanction," he said.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is the threat from someone who was recently incarcerated?
>>>>>
>>>>> "I probably shouldn't answer that," he replied.
>>>>>
>>>>> Reporters asked when the threat would be over.
>>>>>
>>>>> "I don't think a threat ever passes once it has been made," said
>>>>> Burke. "You have to consider the credibility of the source."
>>>>>
>>>>> Bruce Fitch, former justice minister in the Conservative government,
>>>>> said "every now and again there would be e-mails that were not
>>>>> complimentary."
>>>>>
>>>>> "I did have a meeting with the RCMP who are in charge of the security
>>>>> of the MLAs and ministers," said Fitch.
>>>>>
>>>>> "They look at each and every situation."
>>>>>
>>>>> Fitch said he never had bodyguards assigned to him although former
>>>>> premier Bernard Lord and former health minister Elvy Robichaud did
>>>>> have extra security staff assigned on occasion.
>>>>>
>>>>> He said if any MLA felt threatened, he or she would discuss it with
>>>>> the
>>>>> RCMP.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.archive.org/
>>>>>
>>>>> Small World EH Chucky Leblanc?
>>>>>
>>>>> "Lafleur, Lou" lou.lafleur@fredericton.ca wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> From: "Lafleur, Lou" lou.lafleur@fredericton.ca
>>>>> To: "'motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com'" motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com,
>>>>> "Lafleur, Lou" lou.lafleur@fredericton.ca
>>>>> Subject: Fredericton Police Force
>>>>> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:21:13 -0300
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear Mr. Amos
>>>>>
>>>>> My Name is Lou LaFleur and I am a Detective with the Fredericton
>>>>> Police Major Crime Unit. I would like to talk to you regarding files
>>>>> that I am investigating and that you are alleged to have involvement
>>>>> in.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please call me at your earliest convenience and leave a message and a
>>>>> phone number on my secure and confidential line if I am not in my
>>>>> office.
>>>>>
>>>>> yours truly,
>>>>> Cpl. Lou LaFleur
>>>>> Fredericton Police Force
>>>>> 311 Queen St.
>>>>> Fredericton, NB
>>>>> 506-460-2332
>>>>> ______________________________
>>>>> This electronic mail, including any attachments, is confidential and
>>>>> is for the sole use of the intended recipient and may be privileged.
>>>>> Any unauthorized distribution, copying, disclosure or review is
>>>>> prohibited. Neither communication over the Internet nor disclosure to
>>>>> anyone other than the intended recipient constitutes waiver of
>>>>> privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately
>>>>> notify the sender and then delete this communication and any
>>>>> attachments from your computer system and records without saving or
>>>>> forwarding it. Thank you.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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