Thursday 22 September 2022

MCC - DAY 78 - RESCHEDULED LISA BANFIELD 'S LAWYER, LEAF, FEMINISTS, NPF, RCMP VETS COVER OPS & GUNS

https://twitter.com/DavidRaymondAm1/status/1572943684295086080

 

Heading to Truro, NS today to make closing submissions before the @NSMassCasualty tomorrow. 

A live stream of the proceedings can be viewed here:


Out of the gate @lil_grey_cells you mention Jessica Zita's tweet Hence you must have read my reply and Lockyer's email response me that was sent to everyone including you before she spoke at the MCC CORRECT? @RCMPNS @CBCNews @ns_justice @JusticeCanadaEN
 

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

 

MCC - DAY 78 - RESCHEDULED LISA BANFIELD 'S LAWYER, LEAF, FEMINISTS, NPF, RCMP VETS COVER OPS & GUNS

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Streamed live on Sep 22, 2022
 
In my experience, lawyers do not mass email, especially people they do not know from Adam.
 
 
On 9/22/22, James Lockyer <jlockyer@lzzdefence.ca> wrote: 
> Spooky indeed!! 
> > James
 
Methinks Its Too Too Funny Seamus is tweeting and advising his fans to send emails to lawyers, politicians and journalists just like I have always done N'esy Pas? @RobMoore_CPC @JakestewartNB @JohnWilliamson_@RickPerkinsMP @skimber @RCMPNS 

Enjoy

davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2022/09/mcc-da

 

BTW Your butt buddy Bobby Baby should inform the mindless Yankee Troll that I merely cut and pasted his words about Banfield and the MCC from the CBC comment section verbatim. The nasty comment about Wortman and me was particularly Spooky Indeed EH?

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Subject: Réponse automatique : RE Little Grey Cells loves your comment Trust that the CBC, the RCMP and Frank Magazine et al will hate this email 
To: david.raymond.amos

 

 

https://lzzdefence.ca/team-members/jessica-zita/ 

 
 

Jessica Zita

Associate

Toronto, Ontario

(416) 526-8826

jessica@lzzdefence.ca

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ_ZdIsaScUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ_ZdIsaScU

Jessica Zita is an associate at Lockyer Zaduk Zeeh. She practices criminal, constitutional, and public law. Jessica has represented clients at all trial and appellate levels in the country, including at the Court of Appeal for Ontario, where she regularly appears, and the Supreme Court of Canada.

Jessica has acted as counsel in numerous jury trials. She has successfully defended clients charged with offences ranging from armed robbery to first degree murder. She has also assisted individuals facing disciplinary action before the Law Society of Ontario and the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers. She also maintains a Prison Law practice where she helps clients navigate the correctional system. She conducts many parole hearings each year, and most recently secured release for a client serving a life sentence for murder. As a proud advocate against wrongful convictions, Jessica also works with her clients to prepare ministerial review applications in pursuit of exoneration.

Jessica has appeared as appellate counsel on over 50 reported matters. Her cases have had groundbreaking impact on the protection of an accused person’s rights before the criminal justice system. In a recent appeal, Jessica and Mr. Lockyer successfully fought against the state’s efforts to shift the burden of proof onto the accused in sexual assault cases. In doing so, Jessica and Mr. Lockyer ensured that persons charged with sexual assault offences are afforded the same protections under the law as all other accused persons.

In addition to her private practice, Jessica acts as Duty Counsel at the Ontario Court of Appeal through its prestigious Pro Bono Inmate Assistance Program. In 2021, Jessica was invited to participate as counsel in the Mass Casualty Commission, an Inquiry formed by the Federal government in response to the Nova Scotia shootings from April 2020.

Jessica received her Juris Doctor at Osgoode Hall Law School and her Honours Bachelor of Arts Degree at the University of Toronto. During law school, Jessica was a judicial extern at the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal.  She is also an alumna of Osgoode’s Criminal Law Intensive Program, and a recipient of the Wendy Babcock Social Justice Award and the Legal and Literary Society’s Student Honour Award.

Jessica’s legal commentary has been featured on the CBC, Law Times, the former Advocate Daily, and published in The Lawyer’s Daily. She is a prior editor for the textbook Criminal Procedure in Canada, and from 2017-2021, was an annual contributor to the Supreme Court Law Review. Jessica has also guest lectured at the University of Calgary, Simon Fraser University, and Osgoode Hall. She has been recognized as a Top Lawyer in Toronto in the area of criminal law by Post City Magazine.

Call to the Bar
Ontario 2017  
 
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 09:50:22 -0300
Subject: Methinks my email put a scare into Jessica Zita N'esy Pas?
To: James Lockyer <jlockyer@lzzdefence.ca>
Cc: "megan.mitton@gnb.ca" <megan.mitton@gnb.ca>,
"dominic.leblanc.c1@parl.gc.ca" <dominic.leblanc.c1@parl.gc.ca>,
"james.lockyer@umoncton.ca" <james.lockyer@umoncton.ca>,
"ernie.steeves@gnb.ca" <ernie.steeves@gnb.ca>,
"Ginette.PetitpasTaylor@parl.gc.ca"
<Ginette.PetitpasTaylor@parl.gc.ca>, "Mark.Blakely"
<Mark.Blakely@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Marco.Mendicino"
<Marco.Mendicino@parl.gc.ca>, "Mike.Comeau" <Mike.Comeau@gnb.ca>,
"Tori.Weldon@cbc.ca" <Tori.Weldon@cbc.ca>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>,
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On 9/22/22, James Lockyer <jlockyer@lzzdefence.ca> wrote:
> Spooky indeed!!
>
> James
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 6:59 PM
> To: James Lockyer <jlockyer@lzzdefence.ca>; megan.mitton@gnb.ca;
> dominic.leblanc.c1@parl.gc.ca; james.lockyer@umoncton.ca;
> ernie.steeves@gnb.ca; Ginette.PetitpasTaylor@parl.gc.ca; Mark.Blakely
> <Mark.Blakely@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>; Marco.Mendicino <Marco.Mendicino@parl.gc.ca>;
> Mike.Comeau <Mike.Comeau@gnb.ca>; Tori.Weldon@cbc.ca; mcu
> <mcu@justice.gc.ca>; Seamus.ORegan@parl.gc.ca; Newsroom@globeandmail.com;
> infoam@fredericton.cbc.ca; briangallant10@gmail.com;
> MRichard@lawsociety-barreau.nb.ca; David.Akin@globalnews.ca;
> charles.murray@gnb.ca; oldmaison@yahoo.com; greg.byrne <greg.byrne@gnb.ca>;
> McCulloch, Sandra <smcculloch@pattersonlaw.ca>; Pineo, Robert
> <rpineo@pattersonlaw.ca>; fin.minfinance-financemin.fin
> <fin.minfinance-financemin.fin@canada.ca>; Sean.Fraser
> <Sean.Fraser@parl.gc.ca>; PREMIER <PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>; blaine.higgs
> <blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>; Louis.Leger <Louis.Leger@gnb.ca>; mary.wilson
> <mary.wilson@gnb.ca>; washington field <washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>;
> Brenda.Lucki <Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>; Bill.Hogan <Bill.Hogan@gnb.ca>;
> Bill.Blair <Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca>; barb.whitenect <barb.whitenect@gnb.ca>;
> Moiz.Karimjee <Moiz.Karimjee@ontario.ca>; Michelle.Boutin
> <Michelle.Boutin@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>; andrew <andrew@frankmagazine.ca>;
> Kevin.leahy <Kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>; andrewjdouglas
> <andrewjdouglas@gmail.com>; darren.campbell
> <darren.campbell@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>; Michael.Gorman <Michael.Gorman@cbc.ca>;
> michael.macdonald <michael.macdonald@thecanadianpress.com>; Rhonda.Brown
> <Rhonda.Brown@globalnews.ca>; sheilagunnreid <sheilagunnreid@gmail.com>;
> jesse <jesse@jessebrown.ca>; jesse <jesse@viafoura.com>;
> publiced@thestar.ca; newsroom@therecord.com; stevemckinley@thestar.ca;
> paulpalango <paulpalango@protonmail.com>; NightTimePodcast
> <NightTimePodcast@gmail.com>; nsinvestigators <nsinvestigators@gmail.com>
> Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>; Jessica Zita
> <jessica@lzzdefence.ca>
> Subject: Is Lockyer sending the Ghost of the Hurricane to Nova Scotia just
> as a real one is bearing down on us???
>
> https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2022/07/spouse-of-ns-mass-shooter-shows-how.html
>
>
> Thursday, 14 July 2022
>
> Spouse of N.S. mass shooter shows how deadly rampage began in video
> re-enactment
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: MICHAEL GORMAN <michael.gorman@cbc.ca>
> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 17:25:48 -0700
> Subject: Out of office reply Re: Methinks folks should tune in and listen to
> Paul Palango and his all knowing pumpkin before the show goes "Poof" N'esy
> Pas?
> To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com
>
> Thanks for your email. I'll be away until July 18, 2022. I'll reply to your
> message when I'm back in the office. If you need to speak to a reporter
> sooner, please contact cbcns@cbc.ca.
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> --
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>
>
> The Lockyer Factor By Paul Palango
> July 20, 2022
>
>
> FRANK MAGAZINE JULY 20, 2022
>
> THE LOCKYER FACTOR
>
> by Paul Palango
>
> If you haven’t already noticed, something truly strange happened on
> the road to finding the truth about what actually happened before,
> during and after the Nova Scotia massacres of April 18 and 19, 2020.
>
> Lisa Banfield and her $1,200-an-hour lawyer, James Lockyer, appear to
> have been controlling the show from the very beginning. The Lockyer
> factor as a not-so-hidden influencer on the news is important to
> address.
>
> On April 19, 2020, just hours after Lisa Banfield arrived at the door
> of Leon Joudrey, she contacted lawyer Kevin von Bargen in Toronto to
> seek advice and help. The lawyer, a friend of Wortman and Banfield,
> put her onto James Lockyer.
>
> From that moment forward, her every word has been treated as gospel.
> By the RCMP, by the Mass Casualty Commission, and by the compliant
> media. Even those who believe her to have been a victim of domestic
> violence at the hands of Gabriel Wortman (and she clearly was), but
> also believe she might know more than she’s letting on — and that what
> she knows might be important to the inquiry’s purported fact-finding
> mission — have been dismissed as cranks and conspiracists.
>
> According to financial documents released by the inquiry after Lisa
> Banfield’s dramatic “testimony” on July 15, Banfield reported earnings
> of $15,288 one recent year.
>
> That would cover a day, plus HST, of Lockyer’s valuable time.
>
> He has been on the clock for 27 months or so, his fees covered by
> taxpayers through the Mass Casualty Commission.
>
> Banfield’s finances, such as they are, would have been a juicy subject
> for any curious lawyer, but she wasn’t allowed to be cross examined.
> Too traumatic, remember.
>
> Questions abound.
>

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/rcmp-were-careless-and-calculated-in-charging-partner-of-n-s-mass-shooter-lawyer-1.6591309 

 

RCMP were 'careless and calculated' in charging partner of N.S. mass shooter: lawyer

Lisa Banfield's lawyer tells inquiry her client's rights were violated by police

The RCMP were "careless and calculated" in their decision to charge the partner of the Nova Scotia mass shooter through an investigation where police deceived her and violated her rights, her lawyer says.

Jessica Zita, a lawyer representing Lisa Banfield, gave a final oral submission before the Mass Casualty Commission on Thursday in Truro, N.S. The commission is leading the inquiry into the April 2020 massacre where 22 people were killed by Gabriel Wortman, Banfield's longtime partner. 

Zita said Banfield, who has told police and the commission multiple times about the years of physical and emotional abuse she suffered from the gunman, had no idea the RCMP officers speaking with her in the months after the shooting were "plotting" to charge her.

"The police have to know that this is inappropriate action on their part and inappropriate conduct to betray the trust of a victim of domestic violence," said Zita, an associate with Toronto-based Lockyer Zaduk Zeeh.

"The police conduct was … outdated, ill-informed and out of touch."

Lawyer Jessica Zita, representing Lisa Banfield, addresses the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry into the mass murders in rural Nova Scotia on April 18-19, 2020, in Truro, N.S., on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan)

In December 2020, Banfield was charged with providing the gunman with ammunition. At the time, police said Banfield, her brother James Banfield, and brother-in-law Brian Brewster, who were also charged, did not know how the ammunition would be used. All three have since had their charges resolved through restorative justice.

The charges were not only unnecessary, Zita said, but harmful and re-victimized Banfield eight months after the horrifying shootings. 

She added the RCMP's actions need to be addressed by the commission in its final report next year because it led to a "dreadful deception" of Banfield and her lawyers, which breached the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms when she was "unsuspectingly fully co-operating" with police.

A main example is the actions of RCMP Sgt. Greg Vardy, who was one of the first officers to interview Banfield on April 20, 2020, and was "kind and attentive" to her, Zita said.

Banfield, left, stands with RCMP Cpl. Gerry Rose-Berthiaume near the remains of the gunman's warehouse in Portapique in October 2020, during a re-enactment of the events that took place months earlier on April 18, 2020. (Mass Casualty Commission)

Banfield felt so comfortable with the Mounties that she agreed to take officers on her first visit back to Portapique in October 2020, which the RCMP filmed. During that visit, Banfield recreated her movements on the night of April 18, but Zita said police did not let her sisters walk with her, and there were no other qualified mental health or trauma experts on hand.

While Banfield thought this visit would bring her some closure, Vardy and other investigators had an "agenda," Zita said, as police were gathering information all along to charge her. This process was never shared with Banfield or her lawyer, James Lockyer, despite his request the police alert him if they began such an investigation, Zita said.

For police to come face to face with Banfield's vulnerability, and "feign sensitivity to further an ulterior motive is manipulative, and dare I say it's abusive," Zita said.

"The police were operating in extremes. This was an investigation that could be described as both careless and calculated," said Zita.

Twenty-two people died on April 18 and 19, 2020. Top row from left: Gina Goulet, Dawn Gulenchyn, Jolene Oliver, Frank Gulenchyn, Sean McLeod, Alanna Jenkins. Second row: John Zahl, Lisa McCully, Joey Webber, Heidi Stevenson, Heather O'Brien and Jamie Blair. Third row from top: Kristen Beaton, Lillian Campbell, Joanne Thomas, Peter Bond, Tom Bagley and Greg Blair. Bottom row: Emily Tuck, Joy Bond, Corrie Ellison and Aaron Tuck. (CBC)

"Worst of all, this can do nothing but discourage victims of domestic violence from coming forward to the police. Why would they, how could they, if it means being investigated themselves?"

The Nova Scotia RCMP has told CBC News that Banfield was not under investigation at the time of the re-enactment filming.

However, an interview Banfield gave to RCMP soon after the shooting on April 28, 2020, is labelled a "cautioned" statement. Cautions are delivered by police when they are questioning someone suspected of a crime, to make sure their answers are admissible in court.

RCMP had also obtained search warrants for James Banfield and Brewster in the spring of 2020. 

Zita said the dynamics of gender-based and domestic violence lie at the core of the mass shooting. If police had properly investigated earlier reports of the gunman's violence, including in 2013 that he'd assaulted Banfield in front of neighbours, things might have turned out differently.

Zita said "investigating domestic violence should always be akin to investigating a potential homicide," and called for police to update their training and policies to better recognize various forms of intimate partner violence.

A lawyer for a coalition of women's organizations said Thursday the gunman showed a pattern of gender-based violence against people like his ex-wife and vulnerable patients at his denture clinic.

Erin Breen, representing Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), Avalon Sexual Assault Centre and Women’s Wellness Within, addresses the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry into the mass murders in rural Nova Scotia on April 18/19, 2020, in Truro, N.S., on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan)

Erin Breen, representing the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), Avalon Sexual Assault Centre and Women's Wellness Within, said during her final submission that data clearly shows most men who carry out mass killings have committed gender-based violence in the past.

"It is therefore at our own peril that we as a society cling to uninformed biases and stereotypes to dismiss gender-based violence as a private matter that does not affect us personally," Breen said.

Breen also highlighted other interactions with government authorities and organizations where she said screening failures happened.

Citing various documents already released through the commission or some yet to be tabled, Breen said the gunman's Nexus application to the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) in March 2015 was approved without the border service having the full picture.

Nexus passes are designed to speed up crossings for low-risk, pre-approved travellers across the Canada-United States border, Breen said, and the inquiry has heard the gunman smuggled firearms through a Maine-New Brunswick land crossing.

However, on June 2, 2010, the Halifax Regional Police added the gunman's name to the Canadian Police Information Centre database as being of "firearms interest to police" or FIP, which expired in June 2015. It was entered based on a report the gunman had illegal weapons and wanted to kill his parents.

Although CBSA would have checked the Canadian Police Information Centre database for the gunman's name when he applied for a Nexus pass, Breen said a new letter from a federal Justice Department lawyer confirms the agency didn't have access to FIP information — the category that held "the lone, tangible red flag that the perpetrator was not low risk."

"I think any member of the public would be highly concerned about this," Breen said.

Breen said this practice is under review, according to the federal Justice Department. She urged the commission to recommend CBSA have access to all relevant Canadian Police Information Centre systems, including FIP, when assessing Nexus applications.

In 2015, the border agents also wouldn't have had access to FIP information, but that has since been remedied, Breen said. 

She also said the Denturist Licensing Board of Nova Scotia's policy requiring their members report any criminal convictions gave the gunman a loophole. In 2001, he was charged with assaulting a teenage boy, but given a conditional discharge.

Halifax police on scene at the Atlantic Denture Clinic in downtown Dartmouth on April 20, 2020, which was owned by the Nova Scotia mass shooter. (Craig Paisley/CBC)

The board received at least eight complaints about the gunman between 1998 and 2020, including three from women who described abusive behaviour and one who was subject to sexually explicit comments during her treatment.

Breen said it's concerning the province paid the gunman for dental services of patients on employment support and income assistance, despite the complaints and a licence suspension in 2007. A recent report to the commission also said the gunman preyed on vulnerable and Black women, and exchanged dental work for sex.

She asked the commission to recommend that the province enhance its screening of government-funded professionals providing services to vulnerable people.

The commission will continue to hear final oral submissions from lawyers and participants in the inquiry through Thursday and Friday.

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MCC Day 74 - Final Submissions From L. Banfield, Women's Groups, Truro Police, and Firearms Groups

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The second last day of proceedings from the Mass Casualty Commission featured closing submissions and recommendations from Lisa Banfield's lawyer Jessica Zita, as well as those from LEAF/Avalon Sexual Assault Centre, Feminists Against Femicide, the RCMP Veterans Association of NS, the Truro Police, as well as firearms advocacy and opposition groups. 
 
Ms. Zita spoke about how Ms. Banfield (who, it appeared, was not present) was revictimized by the deceptive manner in which she was treated by the RCMP. She urged the MCC to accept what Ms. Banfield has claimed, and to agree that Ms. Banfield bore no responsibility for anything that her spouse did (despite, she did not add, her knowledge of him having a replica police car, illegal guns, and deteriorating mental health). 
 
Erin Breen rightly identified cross-border smuggling as a central issue, and noted how Wortman obtained a Nexus pass despite having a firearms complaint on the national police database at the time he applied for it. 
 
Neither Brian Carter for the RCMP Veterans nor Charles Thompson for the Truro Police explicitly called for the removal of the RCMP from NS, but that conclusion flowed naturally from both presentations. The Truro Police are hopeful that new RCMP leadership in NS is reason for optimism. 
 
The MCC will be back (weather depending) tomorrow for the final submissions by the BC Civil Liberties Association, the NS Dept. of Justice, National Police Federation, and the Federal Dept. of Justice. 
 
Banfield knew about Wortman’s replica police car, knew he had multiple firearms, told him not to apply for a firearms license, and bought him ammunition. Banfield knew how Wortman smuggled firearms across the US border. She also said she ran Wortman’s entire denturist practice, and did everything everything except place the dentures in the patients mouth. She would be a good person to talk to if there were any indications of illegal activity with Wortman’s practice.
 
Roheryn100
Banfield STILL refuses to accept the reality of what has happened. I don't think she could live with herself if she did. She is acting in self-defense.
 
She knows soo much more. It's terrible how she has been treated to not have to deal with this





 
 
NS citizen
The RCMP has an internal coercive control policy to remove a husband or wife against their will, even if both parties claim there was no domestic dispute if a third hand party makes a report. They have for at least ten years. The mass casualty commission participants pushing to make into law, internal RCMP policy shows a collaborative effort between the two. It's as simple as that. It ought to make everyone fairly suspicious of this whole process that participants are pushing for laws to match pre-existing internal RCMP policy which would increase the power of the police at the expense of civilian's charter rights. Giving more power to the police that are responsible for the largest police failure, that doesn't make sense to anyone who is thinking objectively and honestly. Edit: and it's funny, that they think removing a man's wife from his house with a coercive control law would stop mass murder instead of cause it. That ignores the idea of an evolved architecture of the human mind in which men respond aggressively to slights to status and reputation, it's one of those mindblind theories that denies human nature.
 
 
 
 
 
they ingaged with Tara!!!!
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Good point. That was the only time they interacted at all with any presenter.
 
 @Adam Rodgers  Madame Long embarrassed the Hell out them too
 
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 @David Amos  Her statement was detailed, pointed and very professional...Very impressive!
 
 
 


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MCC - DAY 78 - RESCHEDULED LISA BANFIELD 'S LAWYER, LEAF, FEMINISTS, NPF, RCMP VETS COVER OPS & GUNS

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SHAME ON YOU SEAMUS
 
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Why would you say that? You obviously have an issue with some thing, which is fine but it sounds like its getting to you very badly. He has done good, bringing light to hard angles, certain subjects, and is supportive of many awesome people on here. He is good. You should be thanking him. And be more respectful to people...
 
 @Wildstar Productions  I am sure you have been told before
 
Wildstar Productions
 @David Amos  I am sure of many things. What makes you so sure, sir?
 
Wildstar Productions
 @David Amos  I am sure of so many things. What makes you so sure, my good sir? And, by the way, still wondering why you said that...
 
 @David Amos  they don't sound quite right; those four words in a sentence. With capitals and no punctuation; no emoji. No explanation. You must have been joking then
 
 @Wildstar Productions  I do know you are some snobby dude who claims to be Paul Wildstar from Shoreline, Washington who also does not know if his nasty arse is punched or bored
 
Wildstar Productions
 @David Amos  Oh I see... I didn't know we were fighting. You were hating and I walked right into it. I see you've done your homework. Except you missed some very big points. Got a few answers wrong but I'm not tripping my friend.
 
 @David Amos  I was just wonderin' what you were talking about. You seemed like you had something important to say. Anyone can call out Crybaby Names. That's not special. Sorry to have bothered you.
 
Wildstar Productions
 @David Amos  Snooby? Arsie? I'm extremely nasty but I've never heard of an Arse. Yes, you are right: I don't know if my arsie is punched. It might be bored, I'm not sure.
 
 @David Amos  How did we get to be such close friends, Mr Amos? You've said many things today. I thought you wanted someone to hear you. I was listening and...
 
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I have thought much about what you wrote David Amos, if that is even your name. I do wonder what is wrong with you. For you to write what you did in all caps is completely offside for what Seamus was trying to do today. This channel thru LGC has dedicated thousands of hours, literally in pursuit of truth and justice for Tara. For you to butt in and demand he respond to you immediately is beyond the pale. Today was about Tara it was not about you. So the shame should be on you. You should apologize for what you did. You won't but you should.
 
 @robert thomas  SHAME ON YOU TOO BOBBY BABY TRUST THAT THE RCMP AND EVERYBODY ELSE THEIR DOG KNOW THAT I ONLY COMMENT IN MY REAL NAME
 
 @robert thomas  "Once Banfield is done with the MCC she should go into business as a survival expert from her experience living in the woods without shoes on 18th to 19th , in LuLemons, no coat in near freezing temperatures. She'd make a killing... "

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 @David Amos  It's ok if you're angry and it's ok if you see me as your enemy (which I'm not). I asked you a question because you might have had a good point or insight but now I can see you don't. Instead, you resort to name-calling and verbal attacks without provocation.
 
 @David Amos  Yeah, so? We all know that Lisa's story isn't exactly accurate so why would you take that road to fantasy? Even if it was said with sarcasm, it's an irrelevant point.
 
 @robert thomas  I agree with you Mr. Thomas. You said exactly what needs to be said.
 
 @David Amos  I didn't expect to come across such hatred on a page dedicated to making things better. Wortman would be proud of your actions...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
David Amos
Deja Vu??? 
Starting at 3 hours 44 minutes  
 
Becca A​ Any connection to this UN stuff and Hillary Clinton or the Clinton’s by any chance  
 
5Eyes is not watching ​MSM and Sarson's crew ignored Butlin until April 20 2020 when then used it to stage Brenda and Lisa 
 
 robert thomas​ yup the domestic violence is being committed by those in charge at MCC trying to pay off the families in exchange for their silence for RCMP misdeeds 
 
 robert thomas​Tim Douchequet  
 
5Eyes is not watching ​I bet Sarson and MacDonald book is published through Lucifer Trust Publishing House aka UN Satanic book house  
 
Oh Dear Wow 
 
 Little Grey Cells ​https://archive.ph/HsKoz  
 
David Amos​ For the Public Record I did not buy Palango's book but my neighbour did give me a copy of it. I have not read it yet in its entirety. However I have checked out certain portions of it closely  
 
Tony K​Seamus please tell us who arranged the house cleaning? so we can put this to bed.  
 
David Amos​ I suspect you are humming that tune because Trudeau the Younger was singing it before the Queens funeral Correct???  
 
robert thomas​ Who is Cheryl Blakie 
 
 Oh Dear @robert thomas She is my sister  
 
David Amos​ Justin Trudeau blasted for singing 'Bohemian Rhapsody' days before Queen’s funeral robert thomas​ what!  
 
Oh Dear Muted  
 
 
 Invasionone​ Yes Dave, it’s a tribute to our Glorious Leader 
 
 robert thomas​I'm getting confused again  
 
Invasionone​ Did Tim think he said “her mother individual”? Or just barely paying attention  
 
Invasionone​ And it was around that time that Tim complained how such hard work it was to be tweeting   
 
5Eyes is not watching ​does Bent keep a weegee board in his desk  
 
nikki lewis​ Is Cheryl the contact at servicemaster or the person that arranged it?  
 
Oh Dear Arron was a friend of mine. @robert thomas  
 
Tony K​ He was tweeting on many days while attending the MCC.  
 
CaperGal ​I refuse to read any of Tim's tweets 
 
 nikki lewis​ I didnt know that @Oh Dear , i'm sorry   
 
Oh Dear No Cheryl ask if she could get hire someone to clean the house before the family member went. They told her that it had already been arranged to be cleaned  
 
5Eyes is not watching ​Tara isn't Ottawa approved so naturally Tim would abide by his pay masters wishes just like Rebel Media  
 
robert thomas​ okay thanks @Oh Dear you have probably heard this a million times but I am deeply sorry for your loss..  
 
Tony K​ Believe He was showing how they determine who is the NOK in order of priority so they do not have to call numerous members.  
 
robert thomas​ So do we know who arranged the cleaning. Was it the Skipper nikki lewis​thanks for clarifying oh dear 
 
 5Eyes is not watching ​I guarantee dashcams, GPS, CELLEBRITE gets conveniently not mentioned in MSM, or the MCC transcript 
 
 Invasionone​ What are Stanton and Fitch writing?  
 
Oh Dear He took real deep breath after saying her name.  
 
Tony K​ He likely was told that Hupman was going to interrupt her if she mentioned sister in-law or neice.  
 
5Eyes is not watching ​@Invasionone most likely writing down their lunch and dinner orders but appearing to look " busy professionals"  
 
Tony K​ Hupman interrupts once actual name was mentioned and not relationship. 
 
 5Eyes is not watching ​@Little Grey Cells did Tara have to submit her written statement prior to speaking Jaime ​I'm glad she asked them how they can live with themselves.  
 
Oh Dear 100% @Jaime 
 
David Amos​ Oh Dear "Arron was a friend of mine" If true then we should discuss pages 126 to 132 of Palango's book Oh DearI have not read PP book David Amos​ Nor I but I have read portions of it obviously  
 
Oh Dear are you on Discord @David Amos  
 
David Amos ​"Oh Dear are you on Discord" Nope but my phone number that at the bottom of this lawsuit T-1557-15 Federal Court https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2015/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html  
 
DELETED THEN THINGS WENT DOWNHILL BIGTIME AFTER THAT CORRECT SEAMUS???
 
David Amos ​Page 127 Palango claims that AaronTuck was an associate of the Outlaws if true the then is no way the Hells Angels would led him 10 grand but perhaps Wortman did  
 
NS Bluenose​We’re with you Seamus much more important  
 
Oh Dear I am personally not aware of any association to outlaws @David Amos but I had not seen Aaron for over 19 years.  
 
David Amos ​I bet Wortman fixed Tucks teeth as well  
 
robert thomas​ Why are they doing this? Is it just because Tara won't play ball or is there something else?  
 
Ken Triol​@Robert I wondered why too  
 
Becca A​ David , Google says the club the tuck has on his fb are allies of hells angels. Not sure which one is right  
 
David Amos ​Wortman wanted Tucks property so he was running a game on him as a pretend friend and Tuck wised up  
 
Peter Byke r​@robert, Liability concerns, same as their stubbornness regarding 22 vs 23 victims, IMO cheers, bud  
 
nikki lewis​ Tara wont back down and settle, they are afraid of her robert thomas​ There is something else going on here folks. Something is not adding up.  
 
NS Bluenose​ They all seem to know who she was when they threatened her. 
 
 Ken Triol​ @Robert sometimes the elite smaller groups of the special forces in any alphabet agency they assume that associates are more aware of information than they actually are so they harass intimidate etc  
 
Ken Triol​ my wife's ex-husband was in the special forces and they can be very brutal under those circumstances my wife and I believe this is happening to Tara  
 
 
 
 
 
I was hoping to watch the stream with the live chat. Will it be available today Sheamus, if so I’ll wait a little longer. God Bless You Sheamus, The families and especially the 23
 
Trust that I saved it
 
I was actually asking Sheamus
 
Starting at 3 hours 44 minutes  
 
Becca A​ Any connection to this UN stuff and Hillary Clinton or the Clinton’s by any chance  
 
5Eyes is not watching ​MSM and Sarson's crew ignored Butlin until April 20 2020 when then used it to stage Brenda and Lisa 
 
 robert thomas​ yup the domestic violence is being committed by those in charge at MCC trying to pay off the families in exchange for their silence for RCMP misdeeds 
 
 robert thomas​Tim Douchequet  
 
5Eyes is not watching ​I bet Sarson and MacDonald book is published through Lucifer Trust Publishing House aka UN Satanic book house  
 
Oh Dear Wow 
 
 Little Grey Cells ​https://archive.ph/HsKoz  
 
David Amos​ For the Public Record I did not buy Palango's book but my neighbour did give me a copy of it. I have not read it yet in its entirety. However I have checked out certain portions of it closely  
 
Tony K​Seamus please tell us who arranged the house cleaning? so we can put this to bed.  
 
David Amos​ I suspect you are humming that tune because Trudeau the Younger was singing it before the Queens funeral Correct???  
 
robert thomas​ Who is Cheryl Blakie 
 
 Oh Dear @robert thomas She is my sister  
 
David Amos​ Justin Trudeau blasted for singing 'Bohemian Rhapsody' days before Queen’s funeral robert thomas​ what!  
 
Oh Dear Muted  
 
 
 Invasionone​ Yes Dave, it’s a tribute to our Glorious Leader 
 
 robert thomas​I'm getting confused again  
 
Invasionone​ Did Tim think he said “her mother individual”? Or just barely paying attention  
 
Invasionone​ And it was around that time that Tim complained how such hard work it was to be tweeting   
 
5Eyes is not watching ​does Bent keep a weegee board in his desk  
 
nikki lewis​ Is Cheryl the contact at servicemaster or the person that arranged it?  
 
Oh Dear Arron was a friend of mine. @robert thomas  
 
Tony K​ He was tweeting on many days while attending the MCC.  
 
CaperGal ​I refuse to read any of Tim's tweets 
 
 nikki lewis​ I didnt know that @Oh Dear , i'm sorry   
 
Oh Dear No Cheryl ask if she could get hire someone to clean the house before the family member went. They told her that it had already been arranged to be cleaned  
 
5Eyes is not watching ​Tara isn't Ottawa approved so naturally Tim would abide by his pay masters wishes just like Rebel Media  
 
robert thomas​ okay thanks @Oh Dear you have probably heard this a million times but I am deeply sorry for your loss..  
 
Tony K​ Believe He was showing how they determine who is the NOK in order of priority so they do not have to call numerous members.  
 
robert thomas​ So do we know who arranged the cleaning. Was it the Skipper nikki lewis​thanks for clarifying oh dear 
 
 5Eyes is not watching ​I guarantee dashcams, GPS, CELLEBRITE gets conveniently not mentioned in MSM, or the MCC transcript 
 
 Invasionone​ What are Stanton and Fitch writing?  
 
Oh Dear He took real deep breath after saying her name.  
 
Tony K​ He likely was told that Hupman was going to interrupt her if she mentioned sister in-law or neice.  
 
5Eyes is not watching ​@Invasionone most likely writing down their lunch and dinner orders but appearing to look " busy professionals"  
 
Tony K​ Hupman interrupts once actual name was mentioned and not relationship. 
 
 5Eyes is not watching ​@Little Grey Cells did Tara have to submit her written statement prior to speaking Jaime ​I'm glad she asked them how they can live with themselves.  
 
Oh Dear 100% @Jaime 
 
David Amos​ Oh Dear "Arron was a friend of mine" If true then we should discuss pages 126 to 132 of Palango's book Oh DearI have not read PP book David Amos​ Nor I but I have read portions of it obviously  
 
Oh Dear are you on Discord @David Amos  
 
David Amos​"Oh Dear are you on Discord" Nope but my phone number that at the bottom of this lawsuit T-1557-15 Federal Court https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2015/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html  
 
DELETED THEN THINGS WENT DOWNHILL BIGTIME AFTER THAT CORRECT SEAMUS???
 
David Amos ​Page 127 Palango claims that AaronTuck was an associate of the Outlaws if true the then is no way the Hells Angels would led him 10 grand but perhaps Wortman did  
 
NS Bluenose​We’re with you Seamus much more important  
 
Oh Dear I am personally not aware of any association to outlaws @David Amos but I had not seen Aaron for over 19 years.  
 
David Amos ​I bet Wortman fixed Tucks teeth as well  
 
robert thomas​ Why are they doing this? Is it just because Tara won't play ball or is there something else?  
 
Ken Triol​@Robert I wondered why too  
 
Becca A​ David , Google says the club the tuck has on his fb are allies of hells angels. Not sure which one is right  
 
David Amos ​Wortman wanted Tucks property so he was running a game on him as a pretend friend and Tuck wised up  
 
Peter Byke r​@robert, Liability concerns, same as their stubbornness regarding 22 vs 23 victims, IMO cheers, bud  
 
nikki lewis​ Tara wont back down and settle, they are afraid of her robert thomas​ There is something else going on here folks. Something is not adding up.  
 
NS Bluenose​ They all seem to know who she was when they threatened her. 
 
 Ken Triol​ @Robert sometimes the elite smaller groups of the special forces in any alphabet agency they assume that associates are more aware of information than they actually are so they harass intimidate etc  
 
Ken Triol​ my wife's ex-husband was in the special forces and they can be very brutal under those circumstances my wife and I believe this is happening to Tara  

David Amos
HMMM ANOTHER COMMENT GOES "POOF" SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE




 
They were very respectful towards Lisa, why couldn’t they give Tara respect? She doesn’t deserve the abuse she has taken due to her family been murdered. Stop and treat Tara with respect.
 
I concur
 
Wildstar Productions  
 
 
 
Joanne Willoughby
Lb’s lawyer didn’t say anything to the families, sorry for your loss maybe would have been nice!
 

 

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David AmosSeamus and many others just got a email from Jamey Baby Lockyer Correct???
NS citizenre education and coercive persuasive to unfreeze our current beliefs and refreeze new ones
GLenn Bhard to believe we pay for this irrelevant crap
Little Grey CellsSgt Jeanne
Truth InAllStanton fully engaged looking to her left.
robert thomasgoo so far
Linda MacDonaldYou are so right Glenn
Peter Lamb[message retracted]
InvasiononeJiminy Christmas
Sarah Ghere we go...
Little Grey CellsHow about another trip on our dollar? How is the book deal?
What TheHeckNSWe need a coalition
Mizz Foxx*hissssssss* 🐍
Peter Lambsgt sarson....SHAME
NS citizenthe Chinese method to persuade captured Americans, persuasion to remake the individual compliant.
Tony KCannot even keep the few speakers in correct order.
robert thomasso now there are distinctions about torture too! State and non-state WTF!
5Eyes is not watching 🤪McDonald's group should rebrand to The Group That Willingly Ignores 4000 sexual abuse cases inside the RCMP
Julia Rock@lgc that comm number is 64757
Truth InAllUgh
Glowwatcherblame rural Nova Scotia
CON-CANSo they developed a feminist lense when there wasn't one
Little Grey CellsWHO REACHED OUT TO YOU? OTTAWA ? IMT/H-STRONG II ?
NS citizenit's a collectivist lens
InvasiononeI love Big Brother! Can’t wait to see you all at todays 2 minutes of hate!
5Eyes is not watching 🤪note her use of Develop not research feminist lense
NS citizenhere's the attack on the public-private distinction again
CON-CANWhat about torture of women by the rcmp?
NS citizenwhat research? LOL
Chris LeeIf you look hard enough for something you will find it
robert thomasKarla Holmolka
Little Grey CellsWhat comm Julia? I keep missing it
Glowwatcherand various females aided him getting ammo and making illegal incomes
CON-CANSo, women are victims and need your help??? NO
NS citizenevery place in the world, so it's not culture, it's BIOLOGY, it's UNIVERSAL
Peter LambRIP...Tom, Rip Aaron, Rip Frank Rip Joey
Julia Rock64757 you asked earlier. I don’t remember the subject matter. A Lb correspondence of some sort. I could go back and check it.
CON-CANI fucking hate feminists.
YESSI🤢
NS citizenthey go on about something being universal and then say it's caused from cultural particulars, they contradict themselves
robert thomasGood men help and Protect women and children
Linda MTake your place in the responsibility lineup. Why do you hate yourself?
CON-CAN@Peter Lamb YES
What TheHeckNSSeamus, maybe you should do a poll about how many people in here were abused? Men or Women
Linda MacDonaldOf course they included it! It’s everything but the Truth! Shame on you all
Tony KSafe place is under a tree in the woods I guess.
Glowwatcher100% peter lamb
Little Grey CellsNON-STAATE
Chris LeeViolence is violence and it's everywhere. Since I dunno....forever!!!
David AmosMethinks my email put a scare into Jessica Zita N'esy Pas?
YESSIyou torture us right now ma'am
Glowwatcherffs
Truth InAllBrenda lied .



---------- Original message ----------
From: James Lockyer <jlockyer@lzzdefence.ca>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 11:56:12 +0000
Subject: RE: Is Lockyer sending the Ghost of the Hurricane to Nova Scotia
just as a real one is bearing down on us???
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Spooky indeed!!

James

 

 

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The Lockyer Factor By Paul Palango
July 20, 2022


FRANK MAGAZINE JULY 20, 2022

THE LOCKYER FACTOR

by Paul Palango

If you haven’t already noticed, something truly strange happened on
the road to finding the truth about what actually happened before,
during and after the Nova Scotia massacres of April 18 and 19, 2020.

Lisa Banfield and her $1,200-an-hour lawyer, James Lockyer, appear to
have been controlling the show from the very beginning. The Lockyer
factor as a not-so-hidden influencer on the news is important to
address.

On April 19, 2020, just hours after Lisa Banfield arrived at the door
of Leon Joudrey, she contacted lawyer Kevin von Bargen in Toronto to
seek advice and help. The lawyer, a friend of Wortman and Banfield,
put her onto James Lockyer.

From that moment forward, her every word has been treated as gospel.
By the RCMP, by the Mass Casualty Commission, and by the compliant
media. Even those who believe her to have been a victim of domestic
violence at the hands of Gabriel Wortman (and she clearly was), but
also believe she might know more than she’s letting on — and that what
she knows might be important to the inquiry’s purported fact-finding
mission — have been dismissed as cranks and conspiracists.

According to financial documents released by the inquiry after Lisa
Banfield’s dramatic “testimony” on July 15, Banfield reported earnings
of $15,288 one recent year.

That would cover a day, plus HST, of Lockyer’s valuable time.

He has been on the clock for 27 months or so, his fees covered by
taxpayers through the Mass Casualty Commission.

Banfield’s finances, such as they are, would have been a juicy subject
for any curious lawyer, but she wasn’t allowed to be cross examined.
Too traumatic, remember.

Questions abound.

Why did Banfield hire an esteemed criminal lawyer? Did no one let her
in on her status as a victim?

Lockyer seems like an exotic choice. He made his name from the early
‘90s onward representing men wrongly convicted of murder, such as
Stephen Truscott, David Milgaard, Robert Baltovich and Guy Paul Morin.
Morin was falsely accused of killing 9-year-old Christine Jessop in
Queensville, Ontario, near Toronto.

I was the city editor at the Globe and Mail then. I was intimately
involved in the story which was being covered by one of our reporters,
Kirk Makin. I even at one point had a meeting with Makin and Morin’s
mother, who protested his innocence. At the time I was wrongly unmoved
and skeptical of her story, but Makin persisted in digging into it and
worked closely with Lockyer. Morin was eventually exonerated. Kudos to
all. I hope I got smarter after that.

Lockyer, who lived a block away from me in Toronto, went on to become
a champion of the wrongly convicted and started the Innocence Project
to work on their behalf. Among his many clients was Rubin (Hurricane)
Carter, the former boxer who was wrongly convicted of three murders in
Paterson, NJ and was the inspiration for the 1976 Bob Dylan epic
Hurricane.

In recent years, Lockyer and his Innocence Project became involved in
the case of Nova Scotia’s Glenn Assoun, who was wrongly convicted in
1999 of murdering Brenda Way in Dartmouth four years earlier.

Lockyer worked along with lawyers Sean MacDonald and Phil Campbell to
have Assoun’s conviction overturned after he had spent 17 years in
prison. In the final years of that campaign an activist reporter named
Tim Bousquet took on the Assoun case and wrote about it extensively
for years, channeling and publicizing what the lawyers and their
investigators had uncovered. To his credit Bousquet uncovered some
things on his own.

Perhaps the biggest revelation in the Assoun case was that the RCMP
had destroyed evidence and had mislead the courts about Assoun.

Bousquet joined with the CBC in 2020 and produced a radio series, Dead
Wrong, about the case. As Canadians should know well by now, both the
federal and Nova Scotia governments ignored what the Mounties were
caught doing.

Fast forward to the Nova Scotia massacres and the news coverage of it.

As I wrote in my recent book, 22 Murders: Investigating the Massacres,
Cover-up and Obstacles to Justice In Nova Scotia, I had a brief fling
with Bousquet and his on-line newspaper, The Halifax Examiner, in
2020.

After publishing an opening salvo in Maclean’s magazine in May 2020, I
couldn’t find anyone else interested in my reporting, which challenged
the official narrative. Maclean’s writer Stephen Maher introduced me
to Bousquet. I knew nothing about either him or the Halifax Examiner.

Over the next several weeks, Bousquet published five of my pieces and
I was pleasantly surprised to find that the Examiner punched well
above its weight. Its stories were being picked up and read across the
country. Although I had never met the gruff and the usually
difficult-to-reach Bousquet, I thought we had a mutual interest in
keeping the story alive as the mainstream media was losing interest in
it and were moving on. At first blush, Bousquet seemed like a true,
objective journalist determined to find the truth. Hell, I was even
prepared to work for nothing, just to get the story out.

“I have to pay you, man,” he insisted in one phone call.

I felt badly taking money from him. I had no idea what his company’s
financial situation might be, and I didn’t want to break the bank. He
said he could pay me $300 or so per story and asked me to submit an
invoice, which I did.

Soon afterward, a cheque for $1500 arrived. I cashed it and then my
wife Sharonand I sent him $500 each in after tax money as a donation.
Like I said, I didn’t want to be a drag on the Examiner.

Once we made the donations, Bousquet all but ghosted me. He was always
too busy to take my calls or field my pitches. I couldn’t tell if I
was being cancelled or had been conned.

I began to replay events in my head and the one thing that leapt out
to me was Bousquet’s defensive and even dismissive reaction to two
threads I thought were important and newsworthy which I wanted to
write about.

One was the politically sensitive issue of writing objectively about
all the women in the story. There were female victims who had slept
with Wortman, which I though was contextually important in
understanding the larger story. Bousquet had made it clear that he
wasn’t eager for me to write about that. (Be trauma informed!-ed.)

There was also the fact that female police officers were at the
intersection of almost every major event that terrible weekend. The
commanding officer was Leona (Lee) Bergerman. Chief Superintendent
Janis Graywas in charge of the RCMP in Halifax County. Inspector
Dustine Rodierran the communications centre. It was a long list that
will continue to grow.

I believe in equal pay for work of equal value but that comes with
equal accountability for all. I am gender neutral when evaluating
performance.

But it didn’t take psychic powers to detect that gender politics was a
big issue with Bousquet – his target market, as it were.

I really wanted to write about Banfield. My preliminary research
strongly suggested to me her story was riddled with weakness and
inconsistency, but nobody in the mainstream media would tackle it.
Hell, for months her name wasn’t even published anywhere outside the
pages of Frank magazine.

Bousquet’s position was that Banfield was a victim of domestic
violence and that her story, via vague, second-hand and untested RCMP
statements, was to be believed. No questions asked.

“You’re going to need something really big to convince me otherwise,”
Bousquet said in one of our brief conversations.

Afterward, I did have one face-to-face meeting with him in Halifax. He
actually sat in the back seat of our car because Sharon was in the
front. We met up because I wanted to tell him about sensitive leads I
had which, if pursued, would show that the RCMP had the ability to
manipulate its records and destroy evidence in its PROs reporting
system.

Considering his involvement in the Assoun case, where that very issue
was at the heart of Assoun’s exoneration, I thought Bousquet would be
eager to pursue the story.

As I looked at him in the rearview mirror, I could sense his
discomfort and lack of interest. So could Sharon who was sitting
beside me.

“That was weird,” she said.

Bousquet got out of the car, walked away and disappeared me for good.

It was all so inexplicable. If this was the new journalism that I was
experiencing, there was something terribly wrong with it. I couldn’t
believe that a journalist like Bousquet who aspired to be a
truthteller felt compelled to distill every word or nuance through a
political filter first or even something more nefarious.

Later, while writing for Frank Magazine, I broke story after story
about the case. Incontrovertible documents showing that the RCMP was
destroying evidence in the Wortman case. The Pictou County Public
Safety channel recordings showing for the first time what the RCMP was
doing on the ground during the early morning hours of April 19. The
911 tapes. The Enfield Big Stop videos. That Lisa Banfield lied in
small claims court on two different occasions.

Bousquet either ignored or ridiculed most of those stories in the
Halifax Examiner or on his Twitter feed, as if I were making the
stories up.

For the most part throughout 2021, the Halifax Examiner didn’t even
bother covering the larger story. There was no discernible legwork or
energy being expended on it. And regarding the stories he did publish,
I began to see a pattern. Naïve readers might have thought that he was
digging for new stories when in fact the Examiner was merely mining
court documents and uncritically reporting what resided therein. It
was all stenography, straight from the mouths of the RCMP and the MCC.

Time and time again, “new” stories would be published which were
essentially no different from previous ones but all with the same
theme: as Ray Daviesof the Kinks put it in his masterpiece Sunny
Afternoon: “Tales of drunkenness and cruelty.”

The Monster and the Maiden stories, as I called them, reinforced in
readers' minds that Banfield was a helpless victim controlled by a
demonic Wortman, a narrative that, upon reflection, seemed to
perfectly suit Lockyer’s strategy.

For 27 months the RCMP and the Mass Casualty Commission played along,
sheltering Banfield as part of their “trauma-informed” mandate, even
though there was plenty to be skeptical about her story.

Banfield was beside Wortman for 19 years during which he committed
crime after crime. She was reportedly the last person to be with
Wortman and her incredible, hoary tale of escape should have been
enough to raise suspicions about her.

From the moment she knocked on Leon Joudrey’s door she has been
treated as a victim, which to this day astounds law enforcement
experts and others who have monitored the case. Many observers,
including but not limited to lawyers representing the families of the
victims, have serious questions about how Banfield spent the overnight
hours of April 18/19. Not helping matters is that she doesn’t appear
to have been subjected to any level of normal criminal investigation
or evidence gathering. Her clothing wasn’t tested. There were no
gunshot residue tests. She wasn’t subjected to a polygraph or any
other credible investigative procedure.


Enter James Lockyer of the Innocence Project.


The puppetification of Tim Bousquet

As we moved closer to July 15, the day that Banfield would be
“testifying” at the MCC, it is also important to consider what
Bousquet and his minions were doing at the Halifax Examiner.

In the weeks and days leading up to Banfield’s appearance, the
Examiner’s reporting and Bousquet’s Twitter commentary began to take
on an illogical, more contemptuous and even hostile approach to anyone
who refused to buy into the RCMP and Banfield’s official version of
events.

In a series of hilariously one-sided diatribes, Bousquet lashed out at
Banfield’s critics whom he wouldn’t name. Some (likely us) were
“bad-faith actors.” He decried the “witchification” of Banfield.

He tweeted: “And just to repeat for the 1000th time: I’ve read
transcripts of interviews with dozens of people. I’ve read three
years’ of emails between Banfield and GW. I’ve read her Notes app.
There is ZERO evidence that she had any prior knowledge (of) GW’s
intent to kill people…. The notion that she is ‘complicit’ is pulled
out of people’s diarrhetic asses and plain old-fashioned misogyny.”

Oh, misogyny, that old woke slimeball to be hurled at any male who
dare be critical of any female.

One can’t help but sense the deft hand of a clever and experienced
defence lawyer running up the back of Bousquet’s shirt. That makes
sense.

Look at what has transpired on Lockyer’s watch.

Since April 2020, the RCMP and the federal and provincial governments
have wrapped themselves in a single, vague and inappropriate platitude
– trauma informed.

The original selling point was that this approach would prevent the
surviving family members from being further traumatized by the ongoing
“investigation” into the massacres.

What actually happened is much more sinister.

Lisa Banfield was coddled and protected the entire time not only by
the authorities but also by Lockyer’s friends in the mass media. The
wily old fox had the opportunity to mainline his thoughts into the
Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the CBC, CTV and Global News who
unquestioningly lapped it up.

At the MCC, Banfield wasn’t allowed to be cross examined because, as
Mr. Lockyer so eloquently explained, cross examination would just lead
to more conspiracy theories.

That’s rich.

The search for the truth will only confuse matters -- it’s better for
everyone that Banfield spin a much-rehearsed tale without challenge.
That’s clearly a $1,200-an-hour lawyer speaking.

The whole world has gone topsy-turvy. The Mass Casualty Commission,
the federal and provincial governments, the RCMP and Lisa Banfield are
now aligned on one side of the argument.

Meanwhile, the re-traumatized families find themselves agreeing with
this magazine and other skeptics and critics.

The final irony is that the Halifax Examiner bills itself as being
“independent” and “adversarial.” It seems to be neither these days.

In the end, Tim Bousquet’s approach to covering the Nova Scotia
Massacres is, to use his words: “Dead Wrong.”

paulpalango@protonmail.com

Paul Palango is author of the best selling book 22 Murders:
Investigating the massacres, cover-up and obstacles to justice in Nova
Scotia (Random House).

--

Andrew Douglas
Frank Magazine
phone: (902) 420-1668
fax: (902) 423-0281
cell: (902) 221-0386
andrew@frankmagazine.ca
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