Bilingual cities and towns in Quebec join forces to mount legal challenge to Bill 96
Mayors say they're concerned about their municipalities' futures
All of the cities and towns taking part in the challenge, including Côte Saint-Luc, Beaconsfield, Dorval, Kirkland, Montreal West and Westmount have bilingual status.
The Act respecting French, the official and common language of Quebec, amends several pieces of Quebec legislation, including the Charter of the French Language, making it more difficult to receive services in English.
The mayors say they are concerned about communications, illegal searches and seizures, government grants and the obligation, set out in the law, to discipline public employees who break the rules by working in English.
The challenge was filed in Superior Court.
Dale Roberts-Keats, mayor of Bonne-Espérance — a municipality on the Lower North Shore about 60 kilometres from the Labrador border with fewer than 700 residents — says the new law is unreasonable.
"It's absurd that for our municipality, where 99 per cent of the population has English as their language, we can't produce contracts with suppliers in our municipality in English," said Roberts-Keats at a news conference Wednesday.
"In our office, we're all English, so how are we going to make them understand a contract that's only in French? It is just ludicrous," she said.
"We have been fighting for the rights of our English population for decades, and it hasn't been easy at all and Bill 96 will only exacerbate that situation," said Roberts-Keats.
Alex Bottausci, mayor of Dollard-des-Ormeaux, a city of 48,200 residents in Montreal's West Island, took aim at Section 117 of the law, which he says allows the province to withhold subsidies to municipalities that don't follow Bill 96 rules.
"When you lose that grant money, you're talking about roads, infrastructure, construction," which also benefit francophone and allophone residents, Bottausci said.
Alex Bottausci, mayor of Dollard-des-Ormeaux, said withholding subisidies under the new language law will punish francophones in his city. (Charles Contant/CBC)
He added that by linking subsidies for municipalities to French protection laws, Quebec is "creating problems where there are no problems."
'Abusive' powers for language inspectors: Côte Saint-Luc mayor
Côte Saint-Luc's mayor underlined that the law gives inspectors from the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) — the province's language watchdog — heightened powers that contradict the Act respecting Access to Documents held by public bodies and the protection of personal information.
Section 117 allows OQLF inspectors to conduct search and seizures without warrant and without notice.
Under the law, inspectors are empowered to look at the information on public workers' smartphones and other intellectual property, which is "more than is allowed to the police in a criminal investigation," Brownstein said.
"These inspections are unlimited, uncontrolled and therefore, unreasonable and abusive," he said.
Brownstein invited all bilingual cities to clearly indicate that their respective city halls would provide English services "without question" and urged the government to use "positive strategies" to protect French, such as improving access to education, rather than adopting laws that are "punitive and conflict with democracy."
"It's simple to create a piece of legislation on top, but then when it gets to the lower levels [of government], all of a sudden that's when there is a disconnect.
Legal challenge 'creative,' human rights lawyer says
Human rights lawyer Pearl Eliadis called the municipalities' legal approach "more creative" because it doesn't mainly rely on challenging the province's pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian Constitution.
Human rights lawyer Pearl Eliadis said the challenge could reach the United Nations' Human Rights Committee. (McGill University)
"They're looking at the way at which the drafting is done and the definition of who is an English-speaker and who isn't, the way in which English-speaking municipalities are going to function," she said.
"The big question here is whether or not a Superior Court, an appellate court or even the Supreme Court of Canada will build some safeguard around the use of the notwithstanding clause."
She said she believes the case will eventually reach the Supreme Court and potentially the United Nations' Human Rights Committee.
Eric Girard, the minister responsible for relations with English-speaking Quebecers, said that the municipalities are "entitled to use legal procedures if they wish."
"We've been all along saying that we have a responsibility to promote and protect French. This is what we're doing," he told CBC Montreal's Daybreak Friday.
He also called concern over OQFL inspectors' ability to conduct searches without warrant and without notice "a dramatization" of their powers.
"What's
happening is that we have a transition period, we have a new law and
that people that need access to services will be served," he said.
"We certainly respect English-speaking people. They're part of Quebec. They're here."
Municipalities challenging Bill 96:
- Baie d'Urfé.
- Beaconsfield.
- Blanc-Sablon.
- Bonne-Espérance.
- Chichester.
- Côte Saint-Luc.
- Dollard-des-Ormeaux.
- Dorval.
- Havelock.
- Hope Town.
- Kazabazua.
- Kirkland.
- L'Isle-aux-Allumettes.
- Montréal-Ouest.
- Mulgrave-et-Derry.
- New Carlisle.
- Pointe-Claire.
- Senneville.
- Sheenboro.
- Shigawake.
- Stanbridge East.
- Wentworth.
- Westmount.
With files from John Ngala, Joanne Bayly and Mélissa François
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Quebec government defends Bill 96 despite rocky transition to French-only services
Honour system allows certain anglophones access to Montreal's English website
The abrupt application of new provisions in Quebec's Bill 96, which forces provincial and municipal bodies to limit English services, has been a rocky transition, but the minister responsible for French says an adjustment period will be necessary.
"Of course we will adjust in the next days and weeks, but it is important that cities communicate with citizens in French," said Jean-François Roberge on Friday, one day after the provisions went into effect.
He said some adjustments will likely be needed, but it's crucial that Quebec's standing as the only French-speaking jurisdiction in the Americas be respected.
Certain people still have the right to be served in English, such as the English-speaking community of Quebec (those who have met the requirements to attend English school) and immigrants who arrived less than six months ago.
Indigenous people and people who do not reside in Quebec are also exceptions.
Need to verify right to English service
"Both at the counter and on the telephone, we must verify by asking questions, that people who ask to be served in English really have the right to be served in English," said Roberge on Radio-Canada's Tout un matin.
"The government's role is not to make Quebec bilingual — it is to communicate in French with Quebecers."
And when people attest they are eligible for English service, that will be taken in good faith, he added.
These provisions mean that, since Thursday in Montreal, citizens who call 311, the city's information hotline, are directed to a voice message explaining the city's new communication obligations — and listing those who are entitled to English services.
On the city's website, a banner appears to indicate that the English version is reserved for those who have the right to be served in English.
During a media briefing, Mayor Valérie Plante clearly expressed her administration's position on the new rules.
"These are the directives of the Quebec government," she said. "It is clear that we are not the ones who are going to be the police and that has been clearly said to the government of Quebec."
City websites adjusted
Similar measures have been taken in other cities such as Laval and Gatineau. Other municipalities, such as Longueuil and Châteauguay, simply offer Google Translate as a way to obtain English services.
Finance Minister Eric Girard insists the law will be enforced with discernment while the government works to protect and promote French.
Pascal Bérubé, with the Parti québécois, said his party is against Bill 96 because it has no substantial impact on the effort to promote French. (Sylvain Roy Roussel/Radio-Canada)
"There will be a transition period," he said.
"But anyone who needs services in English will have access to them. This is especially true for health care, which is the most important service when needed. We guaranteed that Bill 96 would have no impact on access to health care."
The Liberal party's interim leader, Marc Tanguay, said he can understand why some people are laughing at the new measures.
"There's no efficiency there," said Tanguay.
Everyone agrees with the collective goal of enhancing the quality of French, Tanguay said, but the government should be working closely with municipal representatives to see how to improve services under the new regulations.
He said forcing, for example, Montreal to limit its English services only to specific people is not a step toward achieving the collective goal.
Ruba Ghazal, with Québec Solidaire, said the provisions in Bill 96 that limit English services to certain people are not practical to apply, which leaves the province in "this ridiculous situation."
She said the priority is to protect French in the workplace.
Pascal Bérubé, with the Parti Québécois, whose MNAs voted against Bill 96, said the measures are not essential because they don't make any difference.
It doesn't create the desire to live in or even learn French, he said. It doesn't promote French, he added.
"It gives the impression of doing something, but we are not in favour of this," Bérubé said.
with files from Radio-Canada
Quebec English speakers brace as major provisions of language law come into effect
'The next six months or one year will be crucial. Bill 96 will become much more concrete,' says McGill prof
Decades ago, when the bilingual enclave was still a town, it came up with an alternative to avoid alienating French or English speakers: Friendship Day, or Journée de l'amitié.
On the second Saturday of nearly every June since, practically everything in the community of 5,500 people revolves around its very own holiday. There are fireworks and a parade (although not since the pandemic), and an artisan fair inside the French-language elementary school, which stands across the street from its English-language equivalent.
To Borough Chair Claude Charron, Lennoxville has achieved a kind of enviable and unspoken harmony among its French and English-speaking residents, which are practically equal in proportion. Charron recently obtained bilingual status for Lennoxville under Bill 96, Quebec's new language law.
"There's a lot of respect. Everyone makes an effort," Charron said. "It happens naturally. It's not something that's forced."
Thursday, major provisions of the new law take effect across the province, ones that could have tangible effects on people's everyday lives by making it more difficult to receive services in English, and which have stoked anxiety in English-speaking and bilingual communities that a delicate balance they've reached could falter.
"The next six months or one year will be crucial because, now, Bill 96 will become much more concrete than it was before," said Daniel Béland, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal and the director of the school's Institute for the Study of Canada.
Quebec Immigration Minister Christine Frechette, left, presents new programs on immigration at a news conference, Thursday, May 25, 2023 at the legislature in Quebec City. Quebec Premier François Legault, centre, and Quebec Minister Responsible for Canadian Relations and the Canadian Francophonie Jean-Francois Roberge look on. (Karoline Boucher/The Canadian Press)
The provisions require employees of most front-facing government agencies to serve clients in French unless those clients have acquired English-language rights, are Indigenous or are new immigrants who arrived to the province within the last six months. The acquired rights include that an English speaker be allowed to be educated in English because of their family's anglophone history.
Are acquired rights enough?
Many drew a sigh of relief when Jean-François Roberge, the minister responsible for the French language, said government employees would count on the "good faith" of people seeking services in a language other than French, rather than require some kind of card or proof showing acquired rights.
But others worry the burden left on individual employees could create tensions.
"Without proper training and supervision, it can lead to conflict at the front line; for instance, either an overzealous employee or a disgruntled customer," said Eva Ludvig, president of the Quebec Community Groups Network.
"It's nebulous," she added.
Antoine Aylwin, a privacy lawyer at the Fasken firm in Montreal, is optimistic that people will come to mutual understandings.
"People will make mistakes. People will request rights that they don't have and will be frustrated. But overall, if people are able to put a little bit of water in their wine, then the biggest turmoil is behind us and not before us," Aylwin said referring to the uproar the law caused while it was being debated at the National Assembly last year, notably for its invoking of the notwithstanding clause to help protect it from constitutional challenges.
Tallying French-speaking employees
Alex Winnicki owns Satay Brothers restaurant in Montreal's Saint-Henri neighbourhood with his brother Mat. (Alison Northcott/CBC)
Another part of the law coming into effect, which received some controversy in the past month, is that businesses employing between five and 49 people will have to disclose the number of employees who cannot fluently communicate in French. The proportion of French speakers will have to be listed publicly on the province's business registry.
Alex Winnicki, who co-owns a Singaporean street food restaurant in Montreal's Saint-Henri neighbourhood called Satay Brothers, said that while the rule means yet another task for businesses amid Quebec's famously bureaucratic systems, it also feels symbolic.
"I think the whole policy is for the government to please the people that put them in power and is a shot at Montreal, specifically, because Montreal has a big anglophone population, but I don't think it's really going to help in the long run," said Winnicki, who was born to a Singaporean mother and Polish father, and was educated in French.
He owns the resto with his brother Mat and says all their employees can speak French. Winnicki joked that their restaurant's internal communications were all in Polish.
"It's just more paperwork, another stick in the wheel of owning a business in Quebec. And, potentially, one of our fears is that it's gonna make hiring people more difficult," Winnicki said, nodding to the provision requiring new immigrants to learn French within six months.
French proficiency for international students
Diana Oluvera attends an employment conference in Montreal for new immigrants to Quebec. (Alison Northcott/CBC)
In Montreal Wednesday, Diana Oluvera, an international student in business management at LaSalle College originally from Mexico City, visited a job fair for new immigrants.
Oluvera said that though her goal was to live in Quebec, she wanted to compare employment opportunities here with others in Ontario, in case she doesn't meet the new French proficiency requirement by the end of her program.
"It's not easy, at least for me, to learn french so quickly," Oluvera said, adding she'd put her name on a waiting list for French courses but that spaces are limited given the shortage of teachers.
Under a draft regulation the government put forth this month, international students enrolled in one-year intensive programs known as AECs will have to achieve a certain French proficiency before graduating. It's unclear, though, when or if the regulation will be put into effect.
"If I don't achieve the level of French [in time], I'll have to move to Ontario," Oluvera said.
WATCH | English speakers in Quebec worry about access
Other aspects of the law coming into effect Thursday are that adhesion contracts, such as signing up for a new cellphone or gym membership, must be in French, as well as a new platform for signing up to learn French called Francisation Québec that is launching.
There have also been worries among English speakers that despite government assurances, they could struggle to access health services.
A clause in the law says it does not alter the part of Quebec health care law enshrining health and social services in English for "English-speaking persons." There are also designated institutions that are required to give services in English.
Though speculation has abounded about how the law will affect people's lives — and social cohesion in the province — Béland says that will all finally be put to the test, starting today.
"The proof is in the pudding, right? So, the rubber hits the road and that's what we call policy implementation," he said.
With files from Alison Northcott, Steve Rukavina and Ainslie MacLellan
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House passes official languages bill to enshrine francophone immigration in law
Montreal Liberal MP votes against government's bill, citing impact on Quebec's English minority
Bill C-13 would modernize the Official Languages Act and recognize that French is the only official language in Canada that is under threat and needs protection within federal workplaces.
The bill passed third reading in the House of Commons Monday. Montreal Liberal MP Anthony Housefather, who has expressed concerns about the bill's effect on the minority English-speaking community in Quebec, was the only one to vote against it.
"This is really a historic day. It's a really important day for this legislation and an important day for our country," said Official Languages Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor following the vote in the House.
The bill, if it becomes law, would introduce immigration to the Official Languages Act for the first time and recognize its importance to the vitality of francophone minority communities outside Quebec.
The Liberal government says it believes this will help increase child care, education and health-care services in French across Canada in places where programs are affected by a lack of bilingual workers.
"Through this modernization we're talking about putting in place an immigration policy with indicators and targets to make sure that we reverse that decline," Petitpas Taylor said.
The bill also would require that all judges appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada be bilingual.
The bill would give more tools to the Commissioner of Official Languages.
It would also give people working in federally regulated private businesses in Quebec — or in official-language minority communities outside of Quebec — the ability to work in French and be served in French. However, that won't apply to the broadcasting sector.
Liberal campaign promise
Strengthening the Official Languages Act had been part of the Liberals' 2021 election platform.
A previous version of the legislation was introduced in 2021, but it never passed. Bill C-13 was later tabled in March 2022, and if it becomes law it will apply to all federal departments and institutions such as courts, post offices and Service Canada offices.
Petitpas Taylor has said it will also apply equally to all official-language minority communities in Canada, whether they are French-speaking people living in Manitoba, or English-speaking Quebecers.
Housefather broke away from the party line to vote against the bill on Monday. Quebec Liberal MP Sherry Romanado abstained from voting.
Montreal Liberal MP Anthony Housefather, who has expressed concerns about its effect on the minority English-speaking community in Quebec, was the only MP to vote against the bill. (Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press)
Throughout the committee's study phase, Housefather raised concerns because the bill's preamble cites the government of Quebec's Bill 96, which was adopted last May before the federal bill was drafted and requires all provincial businesses to operate in French.
That provincial law was passed using the notwithstanding clause, which allowed the government to temporarily override the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Warren Newman, senior general counsel in the federal Justice Department, told MPs during a committee study of the bill that the mention of Bill 96 will not limit services to English-speaking minorities.
"I don't see that federal services from federal institutions would be in any way compromised by the mere mention of the fact that the Charter of the French Language and other linguistic regimes are matters that the government recognizes as part of the overall context," Newman said during a March committee meeting.
Following the bill's passing in the House, Petitpas Taylor also took a moment to reassure English-speaking Canadians.
"I want to be very clear to anglophones listening to us today that C-13 in no way takes away any rights away from official minority communities, and that includes our anglophone communities in Quebec."
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He is a veteran legal strategist, a tenacious negotiator, and a seasoned litigator. Going on forty years of law practice, he has pleaded before the trial and appellate Courts of Québec, Ontario, the trial and appellate Federal Courts, the Supreme Court of Canada, the United States District Court and diverse administrative bodies. Mr. Bergman has represented clients before official committees of the Parliament of Canada and the National Assembly of Québec. He has steered and coordinated international litigation between several countries.
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Mr. Bergman graduated from Montreal’s McGill University Faculty of Law where he completed both the Civil Law program, Bachelor of Civil Law, in 1975, and the Common Law program in 1976, Bachelor of Laws. He is trained in both English common law and French civil law, which are not only the legal systems of Québec or English Canada, but are also the two principal legal systems in the rest of the world. He is a member of the Barreau du Québec (Bar of Québec), Law Society of Upper Canada, the Canadian Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the International Bar Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the Lord Reading Law Society.
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Bill 101 'constitutional curveball' puts Ottawa on the spot politically, experts say
MONTREAL -- One of Thursday’s updates to Quebec’s language laws puts federal lawmakers in a tight spot politically, experts say.
The update to Bill 101—a provincial law—includes a change to the Canadian constitution, a very unusual proposal that likely depends on getting Ottawa’s blessing.
But whether or not federal politicians give that blessing, a gauntlet has been thrown that they won’t easily be able to dodge, said lawyer Michael Bergman.
“This is going to put in our federal parties in a major predicament, because they’ve all agreed that French is in decline in Quebec,” he said Thursday.
“They will be hard-put to justify why French should not be the common language of Quebec. And it will take some courage for the federal leaders, each one of them, to say no.”
Quebec wants a new insertion into the constitution that would formally recognize, on a federal level, that Quebec is “a nation,” and that the common language of that nation, and province, is French.
“It theoretically is possible, if the federal parliament will agree to literally amend the constitution,” said Bergman.
“This bill is also, at least from a CAQ nationalist point of view, a brilliant piece of writing, because it puts the federal parties and the other provincial parties in a real bind,” he said.
“Because they’ve all agreed in advance that something has to be done.”
Aside from the constitutional change, the new bill includes several measures within the province's purview, including a strict cap on the number of spots at English-language CEGEPs, new demands on small Quebec businesses that include serving customers in French, and communicating more with immigrants in French.
It won’t be passed until the fall, after a long period of review, the government says.
A HOT-BUTTON SUBJECT, FEDERALLY
Protecting French has been on the radar of the federal government for more than two years, but it wasn’t always a political hot-button subject.
The Trudeau government began the latest review into language rights in 2019, and this winter it revealed the results of its review and a plan to modify the Official Languages Act.
But the issue seemed to get more political last summer, when the Conservative Party elected Erin O’Toole as its new leader, and O’Toole proceeded to forge a new relationship with Quebec’s premier, saying that issues of “Quebec identity” were “a priority” for him.
O’Toole also said that, if elected prime minister, he would support a different federal legal amendment that Quebec had suggested to strengthen French within the province.
About three months later, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was looking at various legislative options since he, too, was worried about French.
“I completely agree with the former premiers of Quebec and [with] Quebecers who are concerned by the decline of the French language, and I am as well,” Trudeau said.
Quebec’s provincial parties have generally also agreed that French needs bolstering, though they differ on how to achieve that.
Legault said he will send a letter to the other premiers and to Trudeau to explain the new bill.
Meanwhile, provincial minister Simon Jolin-Barrette suggested Thursday that Quebec has the right to unilaterally amend the section of the Constitution that outlines provinces’ legislative powers.
It's not quite that simple, but making the change isn’t outside the scope of possibility either, said Bergman. A given province can, without the other provinces, make amendments that affect only the province in question, though the federal government does generally need to sign off.
‘A CONSTITUTIONAL CURVEBALL’
So far, the federal government hasn’t commented on Thursday’s newly tabled bill, including the constitutional proposal, except to say they’re reviewing it.
The Prime Minister’s Office and the Conservative Party haven’t responded to requests for comment.
Federal Official Languages Minister Melanie Joly said the government will study the proposals carefully—while also noting that linguistic minorities in every province need to be considered, too.
"The situation of French in the country is special, and the government has the responsibility to protect and promote French not only outside Quebec, but within Quebec," she said.
"Our government intends to do its part while continuing to protect the right of linguistic minorities."
The Commissioner of Official Languages "can not speak to the intentions of the federal government with regards to" the proposed constitutional amendment," said a spokesperson for his office.
"However, he is currently analyzing the legislative measures proposed in Bill 96, including the impact they might have on the vitality of Québec’s anglophone community."
The move took many people by surprise, said Marlene Jennings, a former Liberal MP and now the head of a major group representing Quebec English speakers, the Quebec Community Groups’ Network.
The group “is taken aback” by the idea of the federal change, it said in a release.
“That’s a constitutional curveball we certainly were not expecting,” Jennings was quoted as saying.
“This is a fundamental shift in the Canada/Quebec relationship and one we believe is unconstitutional,” she added.
The bill adds up to “a closed-in, narrow vison of a Quebec that is increasingly distancing itself from the rest of Canada.”
Bergman said he considers the proposed bill a dramatic change and “an attempt to legally, socially, culturally re-engineer” the province.
“The CAQ government has gone where the Parti Québécois, since 1976, has feared to tread,” he said.
“The bill purports to make, to enforce, to provoke [that] French [become] not only the official language of Quebec, but the common language of work, play and the public space,” he said.
“All other languages would thus be rendered private.”
A ‘DUTY’ TO USE NOTWITHSTANDING CLAUSE: LEGAULT
The province’s use of the notwithstanding clause, or the “override clause,” underscores how much change the bill would bring, said Bergman.
That clause allows provinces to pass legislation that likely wouldn’t stand up to legal challenges over Canadian rights and freedoms—it shields the laws from those challenges.
It’s meant to be rarely used, only in very occasional scenarios when provinces need to assert their particular needs, but the CAQ government also recently used it to pass Bill 21.
“The use of the notwithstanding clause, like [with] Bill 21, is disturbing,” said Bergman.
“This bill is an attempt to basically negate individual freedom and liberty. It specifically says that the right to the French language and its use takes priority over every other right in the Quebec charter of rights and freedoms and the Canadian constitutional charter.”
While he believes that “in many respects the bill is probably not constitutional,” said Bergman, “government has reached for every available tool to make [sure] this legislation is adopted as is.”
Opposition parties had another take, with Quebec Solidaire and the Parti Québécois saying Thursday that the bill update had nothing extreme in it, and using the notwithstanding clause was just a way to create a tough appearance.
"The government used the notwithstanding clause as a strategy of communication to say that we are strong to protect the French," said Quebec Solidaire MNA Ruba Ghazal.
Legault defended the use of the notwithstanding clause, which he described as a "legitimate tool" to balance individual and collective rights.
"We not only have the right, but we have the duty to use the notwithstanding clause, especially when the very foundation of our existence as a French-speaking nation is in play."
--With files from The Canadian Press and CTV's Cindy Sherwin and Kelly Greig
Quebec byelection leaves Anglo voters with little choice
Language is on the minds of many voters, and many anglophones may spoil their ballots to show their dissatisfaction.
Andrew Caddell: Liberals rushing to help Quebec suppress English
If there is a holy trinity of Canadian politics, it is health care, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and official bilingualism. We are living in troubled times: as health care struggles on in the wake of the pandemic, the use of the notwithstanding clause by Quebec and Ontario is working to undermine the Charter.
And then there is bilingualism.
Bill C-13, the Trudeau government’s latest effort to renew the decades-old Official Languages Act, is a well-intended but potentially disastrous piece of legislation. In offering up an asymmetrical approach to linguistic communities in Canada, it legitimizes discrimination by supporting incentives to Francophones outside Quebec but denying them to the Anglophone minority in Quebec.
In a country where “fairness” is a foundational charter principle and the bedrock philosophy of most Canadians, the idea one group of people should be, in George Orwell’s words, “more equal than others,” should be anathema. And yet, that is what Official Languages Minister Ginette Petitpas-Taylor is proposing.
Bill C-13 is ostensibly based on a language White Paper and consultations of minority language communities a few years ago; however, it only recognized the needs of Francophones outside Quebec.
The prime minister may want to play Robin Hood, by taking from the rich Quebec Anglos and giving to Francophones in the rest of Canada. However, the cliché of the wealthy unilingual Anglo died decades ago, when they moved elsewhere. In study after study, it has been shown that Quebec Anglophones are poorer than Francophones.
According to the 2021 census, the English-speaking community of Quebec numbers 1.25 million people, only half of whose mother tongue is English. The rest of the so-called Anglo community are new Canadians, most of whom speak French fluently, but use English as their common language.
That said, there are about 250,000 Quebecers who do not speak French. The majority are the most vulnerable in society: the elderly, Black Quebecers, Indigenous peoples, the rural poor and recently arrived Asian immigrants.
Within these populations are citizens who have a right to services and opportunities from the Government of Canada, which has been the principle of bilingualism since the 1960s. The intent of the original Official Languages Act was not that everyone should be bilingual, as Pierre Trudeau reminded Canadians repeatedly, but that government services would be provided in both official languages.
With one stroke of a pen, his son’s government will eliminate that principle, and what were language rights of minority Anglophones will become privileges.
Bill C-13 has many flaws, but here are the most significant:
•It recognizes French as the sole official language of Quebec, when the Canadian Constitution ensures English as the language of the legislature and the courts;
•It uses Quebec’s Charter of the French Language, Bill 96, as the standard for federally regulated businesses in Quebec, which means banks, transport and communication companies will be subject to the Office Québécois de la Langue Française;
•It
creates a distinction between the rights and recourses afforded to
French minority communities and those for the English minority in
Quebec. While seeking to grow Francophone minority opportunities in
business and government, it suppresses them for Quebec Anglophones.
As a Francophile who has fought for Francophone minority rights in the rest of Canada all my adult life, whose children were educated in French in Ontario, and who works and lives in French, I applaud the efforts to defend the French language outside Quebec. And while French is not threatened in Quebec, it is in decline in the rest of Canada. However, punishing one minority community does nothing to promote the other.
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In the House of Commons Committee hearing briefs on the legislation, our group was snubbed, even though we represent thousands of Quebecers. Meanwhile, Impératif Français, a nationalist group that’s made its name by insulting Anglophones, was given ample time to present its biased viewpoint.
While Francophone minority groups have lined up to praise the bill, they should be careful what they wish for: the provincial backlash against this bill will more than likely undermine their efforts. Why should Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario or New Brunswick encourage French services when Quebec and the federal government treat Quebec’s English speakers with contempt?
The Trudeau government, looking to pick up seats by pandering to Quebec nationalists, is setting the stage for a national unity crisis because it has failed to meet Canadians’ expectations of fairness.
Meanwhile, Anglophone Quebecers are left wondering: who will speak for us?
Andrew
Caddell is the president of the Task Force on Linguistic Policy and a
Councillor in the historic Quebec village of Kamouraska.
Martin C. Barry
The Task Force on Linguistic Policy is facing a challenge meeting a fundraising goal to contest Quebec’s Bill 96 in the Supreme Court of Canada, but hopes to make up the difference through new pledges.
“It’s been somewhat disappointing – we haven’t gotten the kind of response that we would have liked to have seen,” says Andrew Caddell, president of the task force.
The TFLP was set up in 2021 by a group of English-speaking Quebecers in response to the CAQ government’s Bill 96 and Bill C-13, the federal government’s revision of the Official Languages Act.
Bill C-13 by spring
Bill 96 was passed into law by the Quebec National Assembly in June 2022, while it is expected Bill C-13 could be passed by the House of Commons in Ottawa by this spring. The TFLP hopes to represent English-speaking Quebecers who stand to be impacted by Bill 96, including:
General plaintiffs acting as public interest litigants on a constitutional question; businesspeople or corporations whose business and commercial affairs will be affected by Bill 96 and don’t have the capacity to comply with the new requirements for francization; businesses whose internal documents and software only use English and who would be liable to arbitrary search and seizure by the Office Québécois de la langue française.
The task force has chosen the Bergman law firm to act as its litigation counsel. The plan is to file a comprehensive lawsuit against Bill 96 in its entirety.
$100K needed, says Caddell
“We’re raised about $20,000 – which isn’t bad,” says Caddell. “But we need to raise about $100,000. And the only way we’re going to get that is if people understand that, you know, we can win. But this will be a long and fairly drawn-out battle.”
Among the Bill 96 cases the Task Force plans to contest before the courts, according to Caddell, are ones involving students impacted by new French language requirements at CEGEPS, recently-arrived Canadians who won’t be allowed to be served in English after six months, and people who do not have historic-Anglophone status, who won’t be entitled to service in English beginning in June, because even though they use English as their most frequently spoken language, their mother tongue is not English.
Preparation needed
Regarding the fundraising shortfall, Caddell said, “We’re really, really reaching out to say look, if we’re going to fight this law, which is going to explode on the English-speaking population of Quebec as of June 1, we have to be prepared for it, we have to be able to go to court.
“And although the notwithstanding clause is wrapped around this bill – well it is and it isn’t – the notwithstanding clause applies to only certain parts of the charter, it doesn’t apply to other parts of the charter or the constitution.” He maintains it only applies to sections 2 and sections 7 to 15 in the Canadian charter.
The rule of law
“So, for example, the right to have laws or information from the courts or from government provided to you in English, that’s in the constitution, that’s section 133. And therefore, that should be maintained. But this government doesn’t seem to think that the Canadian constitution either is worth much or exists, so we have to remind them of that.”
While Bill 96 was enacted by the National Assembly last year, provisions of the legislation are only being implemented gradually. “The way that the law was built was that there were certain parts of it which were going to come into effect on certain dates,” says Caddell.
“The law was passed a year ago, so that there are a couple of sections in the bill which say these sections will come into effect on a certain date within one year or two years of the passage of the signing into law of the bill.
Bill 96 info session March 8
“And in the meantime, public servants are drawing up regulations that will flow from those sections of the law. We don’t actually know what those regulations are going to be, because they won’t be published until such time as the new sections of the law will come into effect.”
Task force organizers will be holding an online legal info session on the Bill 96 issue with Bergman law firm associates on Wednesday March 8 from 7:30 to 9 pm. Registering for the event can be done on the the TFLP’s home page (https://protectourrights.ca).
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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). [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. 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[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. https://cifar.ca/contact-us/ https://nationalpost.com/news/ 'Too woke' Canadian academic star leaves top Cambridge university job amid intense criticism The most modern of debates were amplified with Toope's arrival: over freedom of speech, diversity, racism, colonialism, 'deplatforming', 'cancel culture' and more Author of the article: Adrian Humphreys Published Oct 01, 2021 Canadian Stephen Toope plunged into an ongoing culture war when he started as Cambridge University's vice-chancellor in 2017. Photo by Nick Saffell/University of Cambridge 286 Comments Considered a well-connected, academic star after his senior leadership of three of Canada’s top universities, Stephen Toope arrived at the University of Cambridge in England in 2017 as the first non-Briton ever to be named its vice-chancellor. That’s the revered institution’s top academic position, and Toope arrived as an outsider with an outsider’s mission: to edge the staid, orthodox, 800-year-old institution into the modern era. Last week, Toope announced he was stepping down as vice-chancellor, ending his tenure at the close of this academic year. He leaves with savage criticism, if not ringing in his ears directly, certainly trumpeted in the British press. Critics and columnists have been uncharacteristically moved by changes Toope envisioned for Cambridge, fuelled in good measure by conservative commentators and free speech campaigners, spiced by an arch British nod to him being — from of all places — Canada. Toope’s battles have not been confined to faculty lounges and student unions; they filled the ivory towers and swamped the public domain. There was not a woke cause that Toope did not try to import from his native Canada Douglas Murray in The Spectator The most modern of debates were amplified at Cambridge, and in the community because of what Cambridge represents: over freedom of speech, diversity, racism, the legacy of colonialism; the influence of Chinese government money on academic freedom; divestment from fossil fuels; “deplatforming” and “cancel culture.” Toope, complained Douglas Murray, a British author and associate editor of a conservative magazine, is just “too woke.” “Most observers have recognized that his tenure in the position has been absolutely lamentable,” said Murray in commentary for The Spectator. “You don’t really have to read between the lines to come to this conclusion: That he’s leaving because he’s no good at the job and everybody knows it." Toope, 63, said his reasons for leaving are much more personal. “The upheaval of COVID has led me to reassess my own years ahead from a personal perspective,” Toope said in a statement. “As an expat living far from home, being separated from my children and grandchildren by closed borders has been hard. Being near my own family and friends is more important than ever.” Although Toope declined an interview request, in a written statement he described his time at Cambridge as an “extraordinary experience,” although marred by the pandemic, which brought the school “its hardest years since World War II.” “I take a great deal of pride in our accomplishments, which were built together as a collegiate Cambridge community,” he said. Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Stephen Toope with the then-Chinese ambassador to the U.K. in 2017.Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Stephen Toope with the then-Chinese ambassador to the U.K. in 2017. Photo by Cambridge University The opportunity to serve as the school’s 346th vice-chancellor was irresistible. There are few more prestigious positions in the education realm. Founded in 1209, Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and the wealthiest in Europe. It has helped produce 121 Nobel laureates, 47 heads of state, and 14 British prime ministers. Its notable alumni and academics include Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Francis Bacon, Charles Darwin, Francis Crick and James Watson, Jane Goodall, Alan Turing, Stephen Hawking — and that’s just a few from the sciences. Toope has a rich pedigree by Canadian standards, meaning he worked hard and achieved much. He has degrees from Harvard, McGill, and Cambridge, where he completed his PhD in 1987. He was headhunted for the Cambridge post when he was director of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs. Before that he spent eight years as president and vice-chancellor of the University of British Columbia and five years as dean of law at McGill University, the youngest to hold that office. In between McGill and UBC, Toope was the founding president of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, a charity supporting research in the humanities and social sciences. Clues to his clashes at Cambridge can be found in his resume. Recommended from Editorial Universities like Cambridge “are not well run by people from other national university traditions,” one scholar said. “If you start pulling at a thread, the whole thing starts to unravel.” Canadian vice-chancellor at the heart of Cambridge free speech culture war Dr. Jordan Peterson sits down with the Toronto Sun on Thursday March 1, 2018. Jordan Peterson's Cambridge fellowship could proceed after policy change stresses 'tolerance' His areas of specialization are international law, human rights, international legal theory and international development. He worked on Canada’s Royal Commission on Aboriginal People, was a United Nations observer to the first post-apartheid South African election, and chair of the UN’s working group on enforced and involuntary disappearances. The search committee at Cambridge knew this. So, too, did Regent House, the school’s governing body, made up of 7,000 academics and senior administrators, that formally elected him. Toope gave a nod to the peculiarities of the time in his inaugural address to Cambridge, saying his appointment “coincided with the beginning of a period of profound unease,” and asked, “how do we guarantee that we are a fully inclusive university?” The stage seemed set for Toope to march into the front line of the culture war. If Toope has a solid grasp on the winds of change among progressive thinkers, he has met his opposition. In December, an updated Freedom of Speech Statement caused a ruckus and grabbed international headlines. In championing the change, Toope said the core value of freedom of speech required a caveat, “the need to maintain civility.” “The growth of social media and the rapid polarisation of our political sphere have demonstrated more than ever that debate in the absence of civility can be not only unproductive but hugely damaging,” Toope wrote. Many colleagues protested, complaining his guidelines curtailed freedom of speech and academic freedom. A movement called Campaign for Cambridge Freedoms, led by philosophy professor Arif Ahmed, opposed mandating that the school’s community be “respectful” of others’ views. Instead, by a large majority vote by Regent House, Toope’s guideline was changed to require only “tolerance of differing opinions.” A bogeyman for the anti-woke, angry brigade Two other changes to Toope’s policy were also forced by a vote, to guard against deplatforming. The amendments make it harder for the Cambridge administration to cancel a speaker, as happened to Canadian professor Jordan Peterson, whose offer of a visiting fellowship was rescinded in 2019 after protests, a move Toope supported. (After Toope announced his departure plan, Peterson tweeted that he would be speaking at Cambridge in November, and shared a newspaper headline: “Stephen Toope’s Cambridge has become a preposterous place.”) This summer Toope faced another retreat. The school announced a “Change the Culture” campaign to create and maintain “a safe, welcoming and inclusive community.” The plan included the Report+Support tool, an online site where students could anonymously report “the inappropriate behaviour of other students or staff.” Examples of inappropriate “micro-aggressions” in the materials included: “a change in body language when responding to those of a particular characteristic, for example, raising eyebrows when a black member of staff or student is speaking.” A wave of complaints and a legal challenge followed and Toope withdrew campaign material, saying it was “launched prematurely and without full scrutiny.” Toope’s backtrack, in turn, caused anger from some students, including gender equity group Loud and Clear, and the LGBT+ Campaign, which accused him of “appeasing reactionary ‘free speech’ advocates” to the detriment of minority groups. He took heat from both sides. The cover of a recent issue of The Spectator, a British weekly current affairs magazine, featured an illustration of a robed professor with his academic hat painted over with the flag of China, standing in front of Corpus Christi College, one of Cambridge’s oldest, most picturesque colleges, accompanying the headline: “How China bought Cambridge.” The cover of the July 10, 2021 issue of The Spectator appears to take a shot at Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Stephen Toope. The cover of the July 10, 2021 issue of The Spectator appears to take a shot at Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Stephen Toope. Photo by The Spectator It chronicled a wave of funding for Cambridge from China’s government and Chinese companies close to its ruling Communist party — and placed Toope at the heart of it. The optics were certainly there. One of Toope’s early public acts was to visit the Chinese embassy in London for discussions on greater cooperation. Critics complained the asymmetric relationship was inappropriate for an institution built on free academic inquiry. Murray, the conservative writer, has been a particular thorn in Toope’s side. Murray has been vocal and fierce, even personal and nasty, in denouncing reforms at Cambridge, encouraging alumni to withhold donations for as long as Toope is in office. He sniped in the Daily Telegraph that Toope was a “banal and ill-equipped Canadian lawyer,” and a “Dickensian-named character.” “There was not a woke cause that Toope did not try to import from his native Canada,” Murray wrote in a column, upon hearing of Toope’s announcement. Murray had predicted that internal and public criticisms of Toope’s reforms would soon lead to his departure. He seems to have what he wanted. Toope has some defenders. Columnist Simon Kelner, a former editor-in-chief of the Independent, said Toope was made “a bogeyman for the anti-woke, angry brigade” and is “a human touchpoint in the culture war that is being waged in academia.” Perhaps both assessments bare some truth. Perhaps much of the fuss came from Toope’s time and place. He steers a staid, orthodox institution through emotionally taut times, when the social zeitgeist is shifting quickly, and views are increasingly ossified and opponents implacable. On Friday, in Toope’s last address to the school opening its academic year, he admitted some missteps in how his reforms were unveiled, but remained defiant in his vision. “I will never apologize for seeking to make our university a better environment in which to work and to study,” he said. • Email: ahumphreys@postmedia.com | Twitter: AD_Humphreys ---------- Original message ---------- From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail. Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 00:22:00 -0300 Subject: I bet your buddy Stevey Boy Toope recalls Prime Minister Pitt The Elder said "The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown."N'esy Pas Mr Prime Minister Trudeau the Younger??? 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The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail—its roof may shake—the wind may blow through it—the storm may enter—the rain may enter—but the King of England cannot enter! speech, March 1763, in Lord Brougham Historical Sketches of Statesmen in the Time of George III First Series (1845) vol. 1 Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it. speech, House of Lords, 9 January 1770 William Pitt, Earl of Chatham 1708–78 British Whig statesman; Prime Minister, 1766–8 https://www.cbc.ca/news/ Saint John church shut down for non-compliance after Sunday service UNB law professor says province followed all the rules Mia Urquhart · CBC News · Posted: Oct 12, 2021 5:44 PM AT Philip Hutchings, pastor and founder of His Tabernacle Family Church in Saint John, posted a video that he says shows his associate pastor being arrested. (Facebook) The New Brunswick government has shut down a Saint John church it says violated the mandatory order governing religious gatherings. Officials with Public Safety visited 63 places of worship last weekend, Health Minister Dorothy Shephard said at Tuesday's COVID-19 briefing. Only one, His Tabernacle Family Church, was non-compliant. She said the investigation is continuing, and the case is before the courts. Shephard said the Saint John church was one of 600 inspections conducted around the province from Friday to Monday., the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. She said these included 279 retail stores, 118 restaurants, 137 licensed establishments, five indoor events, a recreational facility, a movie theatre and a gym. Shephard said officers found "near-total compliance." His Tabernacle Family Church was ticketed on Oct. 6, for failure to comply with provisions of the mandatory order." A large congregation gathered on Sunday at His Tabernacle Family Church, which was fined last week for failing to abide by the province's emergency order for the management of COVID-19. Churchgoers were seen to largely be unmasked and were not physically distancing. (Gary Moore/CBC) On Oct. 8, Philip James Hutchings, the church's pastor, was in court in Saint John and signed an order agreeing to "make all reasonable efforts to ensure compliance." On Sunday, several uniformed Public Safety officers attended the Rockland Road church, videotaped those in attendance and recorded licence plates. A post on Hutchings's Facebook page says his associate pastor was arrested. The post was accompanied by a video showing a man telling officers they couldn't enter the church. He was eventually led away by a uniformed officer. The man was later released with a promise to appear in court at a later time. An official letter was sent to Saint John Cornerstone Properties, which is listed as the owner of the property at 348 Rockland Rd., according to the Service New Brunswick website. The letter says that the building will "be closed to public access until it is determined that His Tabernacle Family Church is willing to comply with" the Mandatory order. Under the province's emergency order, churches have two options. They can choose between requiring proof of vaccination or holding services at 50 per cent capacity with physical distancing, contact tracing lists and no singing. Masks are mandatory with either option. On Sunday, the church appeared to have a tent set up outside to check the names of people arriving, but the vast majority of people entering and exiting the church were not wearing masks or physically distancing. The legislation states that peace officers have the power to enter and inspect any business or private dwelling to ensure compliance, and that preventing a peace officer from entering is an offence. Churches a source of COVID-19 transmission Premier Blaine Higgs has said churches have played a role in the growth of cases provincially. He said that's why the province stepped up restrictions for churches, after initially not doing so. During Tuesday's briefing, Shephard said she couldn't be specific about how many of the province's cases are related to faith-based gatherings. "But what I can say is that we do know that there was a significant number in the month of September that came from church gatherings," although she said the same could be said of any gathering. At a briefing last month, Public Health epidemiologist Mathieu Chalifoux said about 10 per cent of a "network" of 700 COVID-19 cases in New Brunswick in September were "related to worship-type events." Shephard said the vast majority of churches have complied with the rules, some even choosing to hold virtual gatherings. "I am deeply appreciative that nearly every religious leader and faith community in New Brunswick is doing the right thing by keeping their community and their province safe," said Shephard. "They are requiring proof of vaccination or having smaller, distanced mass gatherings, or they are taking their celebrations online temporarily. These are tough decisions but necessary ones, and I appreciate the leadership that is being shown." Pastor Philip Hutchings posted on Facebook on Sunday evening. (Facebook) A Sunday evening post by the pastor of His Tabernacle Family Church, meanwhile, seems to indicate that they found a way around the province's rules. "WE HAD A PACKED SERVICE TONIGHT & IT WAS POWERFUL!!! But I forgot to tell Public Safety that we changed locations … #TheKingdomAlwaysWins." What the law says The Emergency Measures Act gives the province the power to authorize such searches in an attempt to ensure compliance with the law, said Kerri Froc, an associate law professor at the University of New Brunswick. She said "the minister can authorize any person properly identified as authorized to enter any building or on any land without warning." "And if you obstruct any person in doing so, or they fail to comply with an emergency order, they can be subject to being charged with a provincial offence and there's some fines involved," explained Froc. She said there are a number of considerations, including whether the Emergency Order is constitutional, because ordinarily, a peace officer would need a warrant in order to enter and search. Examining all of those issues, and the manner in which the officers entered, Froc says the church has no legal basis to argue against the province's actions. She said the incident did not violate the Charter of Rights or New Brunswick's laws. "It's compliant with the statute, it's compliant with the order. So I don't think that the church here has any leg to stand on," said Froc. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mia Urquhart Mia Urquhart is a CBC reporter based in Saint John. She can be reached at mia.urquhart@cbc.ca. With files from Rachel Cave CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices https://www.rebelnews.com/new_ NB church pastor arrested, church ordered closed for COVID non-compliance Thanksgiving Sunday church services at His Tabernacle in New Brunswick were interrupted when authorities showed up to arrest the associate pastor, Cody Butler. By Sheila Gunn Reid October 11, 2021 NB church pastor arrested, church ordered closed for COVID non-compliance Facebook / Cory Raven After several days of harassment and the arrest of the associate pastor, His Tabernacle Family Church in Saint John was ordered shuttered by an order of the office of public safety under minister Dennis Landry. The church now faces fines of up to $20,400. The closure order locks the doors to the public until the church can be brought into compliance under section 3 of Preventative Measures - Public Health Act. Section 3 requires the church to enforce proof of vaccination to attend "indoor gatherings." Section 15 of the Mandatory Order, also cited in the closure notice, requires the church to allow for police or public health officers to enter the premises to check for compliance. Phil Hutchings, the founder and lead pastor of His Tabernacle Family Church Canada posted pictures to his personal Facebook page on Thanksgiving Monday morning showing New Brunswick public safety agents issuing a closure notice and affixing it to the doors of the church, with his text that noted: “THEY HAVE OFFICIALLY SHUT DOWN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES & COMMUNITY OUTREACHES & FEEDING PROGRAMS.” His Tabernacle is now a client of Fight The Fines, Rebel News' civil liberties project in partnership with the registered Canadian charity, the Democracy Fund, where the congregation is receiving legal help at no cost to them to fight their tickets and closure notice. Visit www.FightTheFines.com to donate. All donations qualify for a charitable tax receipt. All funds go directly to The Democracy Fund. Thanksgiving Sunday church services at His Tabernacle were interrupted when authorities showed up to arrest the associate pastor, Cody Butler. Video posted by Hutchings shows the pastor, dressed in a suit, being escorted out of the church by several officers to waiting police cars. Sunday evening, images posted to Facebook show police surveilling the church. Last week, authorities interrupted services to inspect for COVID compliance. Hutchings has also posted videos of the police visiting his home on multiple occasions, including once where authorities tried to force the lead pastor to appear in court later on the same afternoon. New Brunswick is in the middle of a so-called “circuit breaker” extreme lockdown in areas of “high transmission”. The government's last available data on the 132 new cases reported Oct 8 notes: “Of the new cases, 76 – or 58 per cent – are unvaccinated, 15 – or 12 per cent – are partially vaccinated, and 39– or 30 per cent – are fully vaccinated.” Though the Alberta Government has been particularly harsh in the treatment of pastors during the pandemic, the Maritimes are not far behind. The Weston Christian Fellowship Church is facing over $100,000 in fines to both congregants and the church as an entity after fines were issued over two Sundays in May after a check-stop style police operation was set up outside the church. Weston Christian Fellowship are also Fight The Fines Clients. Alberta pastors Tim Stephens, Art Pawlowski, Pawlowski's brother Dawid, and James Coates were all arrested for COVID non-compliance. Coates spent 35 days in jail, Stephens served over two weeks. The Pawlowski's spent 3 days and are facing 21 and more, respectively, for contempt of the court order that limited their church. Their sentence will be handed down by Justice Adam Germain on October 13 in Calgary. Rebel News, in partnership with the registered Canadian charity The Democracy Fund, has been helping the Pawlowskis since their first COVID fine for feeding the homeless. Visit www.SaveArtur.Com ---------- Original message ---------- From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail. Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 13:44:41 -0300 Subject: YO Phil Say Hey to Mikey Comeau and all his wannabe cop buddies for me will ya?? 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Phil Hutchings 2h · WELCOME TO 🇨🇦...WHERE THEY PADLOCK THE CHURCH ON THANKSGIVING. They came harassing me this morning at my home again...after the court told them not to return to our residence for any correspondence. Now Public Safety has issued closure of our church doors even after we complied. Church isn't just Sunday services. THEY HAVE OFFICIALLY SHUT DOWN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES & COMMUNITY OUTREACHES & FEEDING PROGRAMS. Contact their office today and demand justice & resignations. Excited to have Rebel News with us. May be an image of car and road May be an image of one or more people and outdoors No photo description available. May be an image of text that says '4:49 www2.gnb.ca Brunswick Done 分 GNB Contacts Français Departments Services Government New Brunswick Concts MIKE COMEAU Deputy Minister Deputy Minister and Deputy Attorney General (Deputy Head's Office) Justice Public Safety Contact Information Phone (506) 453-7412 Fax: (506) 453-3870 Email Mike.Comeau@gnb.ca Mailing Address Chancery Place P.O Box 6000 Fredericton, NB e3B 5H1 Canada Location 45°57'36. 1"N 66°38'18.3"W View larger map 105 N ST.ANNE'S ST. ANNE'S 102 Fredericton Boyce Gibs SOUT Picaroons Brewina Compa' 228 Comments WilliamnAmy Wilson Wow I am so sadend by this. Especially since the pastor in Moncton said they got church as an essential service this sadend my heart were praying for you all. God be with you bless you keep you protected and filled with his peace even in the midst of fetal stand in the JOY OF THE LORD and continue to do what God has called you to do. Listen to him. Our Father who loves you so dearly. Blessing ox David Raymond Amos Methinks you and Chucky's buddy Higgy and of course the lawyer Mikey Baby Comeau, Acting Deputy Chief Lunney, the corrupt ex member of the Fat Fred City Finest Mean Matt Myers and his many fellow mindless minions in Saint ohn have another email N'esy Pas? https://www.youtube.com/watch? With River Rat Mat Myers in charge of Public Safety? There could be HUGE trouble on Thanksgiving Day YOUTUBE.COM With River Rat Mat Myers in charge of Public Safety? There could be HUGE trouble on Thanksgiving Day Mel Arden Tyrants think that by locking a building they are stopping worship and prayer. Absolute idiots. They are are terrified of God Almighty and so they should be. Communists in USSR, China and so many other places try to run off God by closing the church buildings and the underground church just grows and grows. God wins. Meantime, we call the tyrants out at every opportunity. Count it all joy... David Raymond Amos Methinks the boys should say Hey to the Queen, the evil law Professor Stephen J Toope the 346th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and pray to St Augustine for mean old me N'esy Pas? https://www.youtube.com/watch? Searching for God within Oxford and Cambridge | James Orr & Nigel Biggar | The JBP Podcast - S4: E48 YOUTUBE.COM Searching for God within Oxford and Cambridge | James Orr & Nigel Biggar | The JBP Podcast - S4: E48 Searching for God within Oxford and Cambridge | James Orr & Nigel Biggar | The JBP Podcast - S4: E48 344,743 views Sep 27, 2021 Jordan B Peterson 4.13M subscribers This episode was recorded on June 2, 2021. In today's episode, Dr. Jordan, Dr. James Orr, and Dr. Nigel Biggar discuss how religion and culture affect your identity. They also discuss nationalism, human rights throughout history, ideology, and more. Want to know how your identity gives meaning to your life? Then this episode is for you. Dr. James Orr is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD from Cambridge and a BA in Classics from Balliol College, Oxford. James is the author of The Mind of God and the Works of Nature and teaches the philosophy of religion and ethics at Cambridge. He is a regular contributor to The Times Literary Supplement and The Critic Magazine. Dr. Nigel Biggar, an Anglican priest, is a moral and pastoral theology professor at Oxford, where he also directs the Mcdonald centre for theology, ethics, and public life. He is the author behind many books including, What's Wrong with Rights? Between Kin and Cosmopolis, In Defense of War, and Behaving in Public: How to do Christian Ethics in Public. Dr. Nigel Biggar: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ Profile: https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/ McDonald Centre website: https://www.mcdonaldcentre. Dr. James Orr: Profile: https://www.divinity.cam.ac. The Mind of God and Works of Nature: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind- Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature: https://www.routledge.com/Neo- [00:00] Dr. Jordan Peterson introduces both guests for this episode Dr. James Orr and Dr. Nigel Biggar. [3:00] The urgency of identity conversations and how to pursue the common good together. [8:00] Dr. Biggar's comments on identity-focused culture. [13:30] How our religious instinct drives us to adopt an identity. [16:00] Dr. Orr's ideas on nationalism and identity. [18:30] How the ideal structure of a monarchy in England builds nationalism. [21:00] What gets young people interested in religious identity? [25:00] How having one God unconsciously aligns our behavior. [27:30] Dr. Orr examines two different sides of expressing authenticity. [32:00] How the same story of truth is retold with new particulars. [36:00] Natural emergence and acknowledgement of human rights throughout history. 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[02:07:30] Closing comments. _____ Dr. Peterson has appeared on many popular podcasts and shows, including the Joe Rogan Experience, The Rubin Report, H3H3, and many more. Dr. Peterson's own podcast has focused mainly on his lecture series, covering lots of psychology and historical content. We hope you enjoy this episode and more to come from Dr. Peterson. _____ // SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Newsletter: https://linktr.ee/ Donations: https://www.jordanbpeterson. 2,426 Comments David Amos David Amos Methinks the boys should say Hey to the Queen, the evil law Professor Stephen J Toope the 346th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and pray to St Augustine for mean old me N'esy Pas? https://www.trudeaufoundation. Profile picture for user stephen.j.toope Professor Toope is vice-chancellor at the University of Cambridge. He has been the president of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/on- On freedom of speech | Vice-Chancellor’s blog The University of Cambridge has always recognised freedom of speech as a core value at the heart of its academic endeavour. The University is also a democratic institution, governed by its academic community, and guided through the various committees, including the University Council, to which authority is delegated. Those two basic principles are important to bear in mind as we navigate our way towards an updated Freedom of Speech Statement, designed to enshrine core values while recognising the need to maintain civility in debate, whether amongst staff, students and visitors or within these groups. Flourishing universities encourage robust debate, challenge accepted norms, scrutinise research findings and work together to discover solutions to global problems. But the growth of social media and the rapid polarisation of our political sphere have demonstrated more than ever that debate in the absence of civility can be not only unproductive but hugely damaging. For many decades, freedom of expression was an accepted norm at Cambridge, requiring no formal codification. I wish that were still the case. But the growth in recent years of legislation placing additional responsibilities on universities led us, in 2016, to reconfirm our commitment to freedom of speech in a single statement, while recognising new legal duties under the Prevent legislation that could have impinged on that freedom. It is this statement which is now being updated in light of a changing legal landscape. Concerns have been raised that the original statement did not sufficiently bolster freedom of speech. Some members of our academic community had questioned whether the balance between freedom of speech and legal duties was correctly and clearly enough expressed. A revised Statement attempting to clarify some of these issues was proposed earlier this year by our Committee on Prevent and Freedom of Speech, a group that includes academics and students. The new wording followed extensive debate within the Committee, and with members of the Council. An amended text was approved by the Council in March 2020 and was reported to the Regent House, the 7000-strong community of academics and members of the University which has the ultimate say on all significant decisions. As is their right, a number of members of the Regent House have proposed changes to the text put forward by the Council. Given the complexity of the issues, this was not a surprise. The proposed amendments are now subject to vigorous debate within the University, which has spilled over into the public domain. But many public reports have completely misrepresented the context, and misunderstood the process of what is actually going on. As I write, the amendments are open to a vote of the full Regent House and the Council will of course abide by its result, which will be announced on 9th December. As chair of the University Council, I cannot take sides in the debate but I can take satisfaction from the fact that this open, democratic process is occurring. The very existence of this discussion demonstrates to me that free speech is alive and well at Cambridge. Professor Stephen J Toope Vice-Chancellor Creative Commons License The text in this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Images, including our videos, are Copyright ©University of Cambridge and licensors/contributors as identified. All rights reserved. We make our image and video content available in a number of ways – as here, on our main website under its Terms and conditions, and on a range of channels including social media that permit your use and sharing of our content under their respective Terms. https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/ Statement about the Vice-Chancellor Professor Stephen J Toope, Vice-Chancellor On 20 September 2021 Professor Stephen J Toope notified the University Council of his decision to complete his term as the University of Cambridge’s Vice-Chancellor at the end of September 2022, after five years in office. The Vice-Chancellor said: “I take a great deal of pride in our accomplishments, which were built together as a collegiate Cambridge community. I am especially proud of our joint leadership across collegiate Cambridge to deliver on our dual mission of education and research through the unprecedented COVID crisis. We kept the University on track and safe during its hardest years since World War II.” The Vice-Chancellor continued: “But at the same time, the upheaval of COVID has led me to reassess my own years ahead from a personal perspective. As an expat living far from home, being separated from my children and grandchildren by closed borders has been hard. Being near my own family and friends is more important than ever. It remains of course an extraordinary experience to serve this great University as its Vice-Chancellor, and a tremendous honour to work with colleagues across the collegiate University and beyond – one that I am proud and enthusiastic to continue for another full year.” “Indeed, there is still much to do through our programme of recovery from the pandemic,” the Vice-Chancellor added. “I am fully committed to focusing on the priorities set by the University Council. The leadership transition next year will not detract from my commitment to the important work we have underway this year. The strength of our senior leadership and all our University community, the guidance of the Council, and the eventual choice of a highly able successor will allow me to pass the baton without missing a beat.” Under Professor Toope’s leadership, Cambridge established the first-ever Priorities Framework for the University, launched and embedded Cambridge Zero across the University, led the university sector by pushing towards a carbon-neutral endowment fund, widened student access and participation, made remarkable progress on an ambitious £500 million Student Support Initiative, and created a new Foundation Year. Mark Lewisohn, the Deputy Chair of the University Council, said: “The University Council is deeply grateful to Professor Toope who, as Vice-Chancellor and Chair of the Council, has had a profound impact on the University. Under his leadership, the University has become more transparent and more robust in its processes and has launched several new and exciting research and teaching initiatives. Stephen’s focus on sustainability, which has led to the creation of Cambridge Zero, will be an important part of his legacy, as will his efforts to make Cambridge more accessible to students from all backgrounds. We look forward to working with Professor Toope in the year ahead as we continue to make progress on our agreed priorities.” Lord Sainsbury of Turville, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, said: “I totally understand and fully respect Professor Toope’s decision, taken for the best of reasons, to complete his term of office in September 2022. I know this is not a decision he will have made lightly, but he can do it in the knowledge that he has left his mark on the University, and contributed to making it an even better place to study, work and undertake research. His leadership throughout the pandemic has been essential to getting Cambridge through the biggest crisis of our times, and I am grateful for his dedication and commitment over the past four years.” The process to recruit a new Vice-Chancellor will be underway shortly. Creative Commons License The text in this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Images, including our videos, are Copyright ©University of Cambridge and licensors/contributors as identified. All rights reserved. We make our image and video content available in a number of ways – as here, on our main website under its Terms and conditions, and on a range of channels including social media that permit your use and sharing of our content under their respective Terms. https://www.spectator.co.uk/ Cambridge deserves better than Stephen Toope 17 June 2021, 1:26pm Cambridge deserves better than Stephen Toope | The Spectator Stephen Toope (Credit: YouTube) Regular readers may be aware that in recent months I have been having a running-spat with a Canadian lawyer called Stephen Toope. I am rarely exercised by Canadian lawyers, but this particular one is the current Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, and he seems intent on running that crown jewel of an institution into the ground. Since taking over as Vice-Chancellor, Mr Toope has been responsible for a wide array of anti-free speech initiatives through which, as I recently remarked in the Daily Telegraph, he appears to want to transform Cambridge University into something like the Canadian bar association, but without the thrills, or the pay. Anyhow – our spat came to a head after Cambridge last month published its new guidance for informers. The purpose of this new initiative was to allow students and faculty to anonymously inform on each other and report 'micro-aggressions'. As I accurately wrote in the Telegraph, one of the examples of a micro-aggression offered by Cambridge's website for informers was a member of the university raising an eyebrow while any member of a minority was speaking. In the wake of the negative publicity, Toope had the website for informers taken down, claiming that it had gone off early, that the dog had eaten it, or some such lame excuse. Anyhow, to my great amusement, Mr Toope has finally found some friends at Cambridge, or at least some suckers-up willing to write a half-arsed defence of him. Thus this letter appeared in the letters pages of the paper at the weekend. Here is the text in full: Sir - Douglas Murray has twice made unwarranted and highly personal attacks on the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Professor Stephen J Toope (Comment, May 22 and June 8). As heads of the University’s six academic schools, we are independent of the central administration, but we cannot stand by as Professor Toope is subject to such gross misrepresentation. Cambridge is a democratic institution with roots stretching back 800 years. This means that no vice-chancellor can impose their will on the university, and all policy decisions proceed through an intricate and finely balanced committee structure. While we are sure generations of vice-chancellors have found this frustrating, it is a fact of life at Cambridge. Mr Murray makes the absurd suggestion that Professor Toope wants to limit free speech and push an agenda in which academics can be punished for raising an eyebrow at a student. The reality is more mundane. Errors were made during the launch of a campaign to introduce new policies and procedures covering conduct in the workplace. The campaign website was taken down as soon as the mistakes were spotted and the policy and procedures are now subject to further democratic scrutiny. Professor Toope is an eminent international lawyer and experienced university leader. He has made clear his commitment both to championing freedom of expression and to making the university a welcoming place for our students and staff, who hail from all over the world. The two aims are complementary, not incompatible. As a leader, he commands respect from across the University and as senior academics we offer him our unwavering support. Professor John Dennis, Head of the School of Technology Professor Tim Harper. Head of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences Professor Patrick Maxwell, Regius Professor of Physic and Head of the School of Clinical Medicine Professor Nigel Peake, Head of the School of the Physical Sciences Professor Anna Philpott, Head of the School of the Biological Sciences Professor Chris Young, Head of the School of Arts and Humanities I much enjoyed reading this attempt to defend Toope. Because if this is the best that the case for the defence has, then the defence is indeed what we used to call 'piss-poor'. Let me take these academics' points one at a time: First, they say that 'Cambridge is a democratic institution…with a finely balanced committee structure'. But if this is so, why was formal approval not sought from the General Board and Council of the university for all parts of this recent initiative? The reason that Toope himself gave for the website being taken down was that it had not received proper scrutiny. And if the structure of accountability at the university works so well, why did he not seek approval via the proper democratic mechanism? That would have been done by issuing a 'Publication' in the Cambridge Reporter, which would have to be followed by a 'Discussion' for scrutiny from Regent House before the final 'Grace' (that is, democratic authorisation) was formulated. These procedures may well be a 'frustrating fact of life' at Cambridge, and it is perfectly possible that VCs have had to suffer through them for centuries. But then why did Toope ignore them completely? Next the loyal Toopians (or Toopites) claim that my suggestion that Toope wants to limit free speech at Cambridge is 'absurd'. And they add that: 'The campaign website was taken down as soon as the mistakes were spotted, and the policy and procedures are now subject to further democratic scrutiny’. This is completely ill-informed, and rather surprising from academics of such distinction. For their edification, here is the timeline: Cambridge's campaign website went live on 17 May. The first Telegraph report on micro-aggressions material was published on 20 May. Yet the Vice Chancellor’s senior official overseeing the campaign (Pro Vice Chancellor Eilis Ferran) defended the campaign website in its entirety and in its original form in a letter to the Telegraph which was published on 24 May. It was only after this defence that a part of the website was taken down. So Ferran, on Toope's behalf (that's what the 'pro' bit is for), should have known about the disgraceful material because it was what she was responding to in her letter. The website to encourage snitches and informers in Cambridge University then went back up on 27 May. Only after that was the entire campaign website taken down – on 7 June, three weeks after it went live, and two weeks after concerns were expressed in public. All this for a campaign that had been in the works for more than two years. Was that not time enough for proper scrutiny by all the relevant university bodies? A further claim of the Toopians did make me laugh. They say: 'Professor Toope is an eminent international lawyer and experienced university leader’. Of course 'eminent' and 'experienced' are terms much open to eye-of-the-beholder-ism. But if Toope is so very eminent and experienced, why has he demonstrated such monumental incompetence, not least in the most basic tools of university governance? Toope permitted the ridiculous materials to be published. Toope failed to respect the democratic mechanisms of Cambridge by ignoring the need for approval from Regent House, the General Board, and the Council. And so, Toope has not only attempted to impose woke and other anti-free speech ideologies on Cambridge University, but he has done so via successive acts of extraordinary incompetence. Where exactly is the experience or eminence on display here? It goes on. For if Toope is such a very great lawyer, why did he permit what could amount to unlawful changes to the disciplinary regime for all students and staff at the university? Perhaps the eminent Canadian is simply ignorant of the fact that, for a full week, the university he presides over defined racism in a way that a court might have ruled, not just as unlawful, but as actually, in itself, an act of systemic discrimination against white students and staff on the basis of skin colour. The definition of racism with which the Cambridge 'Report + Support' begins says that ‘Racism...is a system of advantage that sets whiteness as the norm’. This definition – by suggesting that racism is a white phenomenon – would surely have fallen foul of section nine of the Equality Act, which Toope could have realised by reading the act. But perhaps it is too much to ask for him to have done so. The Toope-ites claim that Toope himself 'is committed to championing freedom of expression…As a leader, he commands respect from across the university and as senior academics we offer him our unwavering support.’ But that just reads like the effusions of a few sycophants. If Toope commands such respect and is such a champion of free speech, why did he lose three major votes on his statement on freedom of speech last year? And by some of the biggest margins recorded at Regent House since the Second World War. Finally, the Toopians claim that defending free expression and being a welcoming place to people from all over the world are 'complementary, not incompatible' aims. But putting aside for a moment why these dons think Cambridge was ever such an un-welcoming place, their assertion is clearly flat-out wrong. There plainly are contradictions between the two aims and it is stupid to suggest otherwise. In talking of making a 'welcome environment' and much more, the Toope-ians keep treading on the right to free speech of all members of the university. Only last month, they proposed measures that could regulate the facial movements of Cambridge professors and effectively forbid any challenge of anyone speaking if they are from a particular minority group. Say that men can't become women and you would absolutely discover the tension that the Toopians claim does not exist. The realm of academia really ought to be able to understand a contradiction such as this. Anyway, it is worth pointing out how inept the Toope-ites are. Perhaps Toope is glad to have finally found a handful of dons willing to stick up for him. But it is a worthy defence of him, because it is as poor as anything he might have written himself. If this is the best the case for the defence can do, then Toope is, at some point soon, going to be toast. Rarely has the top brass of any major university been in such total and utter disarray, where every time an academic is sent out to defend their Vice Chancellor they demonstrate, in turn, equal levels of Toope-ian incompetence. Perhaps it won't last much longer. And I hope that alumni are still withholding their donations for as long as Toope is in charge. It would be good if this crown jewel of an institution could once again be run by competent adults, who know about academic freedom, and know how to protect it. Update: Mr Jonathan Coad, a PR professional and media lawyer who specialises in crisis PR experience protecting top brand and corporate reputations, has been in touch on behalf of Professor Toope. He wishes to make it clear that while Professor Toope accepts that as Vice-Chancellor he must take ultimate responsibility for the decisions of others within the organisation, he in fact personally played no part at all in any decision involving the Report + Support tool or the guidance. We have updated the copy to reflect this. Written byDouglas Murray Douglas Murray is associate editor of The Spectator and author of The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity, among other books. https://www.spectator.co.uk/ Farewell to Cambridge’s disastrous Vice-Chancellor 20 September 2021, 3:30pm Cambridge deserves better than Stephen Toope | The Spectator Stephen Toope (Photo: Youtube) So farewell then, Stephen Toope. The undistinguished Canadian lawyer who has spent recent years trying to run Cambridge University into the ground has just sent an announcement to all faculty, alumni and students. In it he informs them that he has decided to step down from his position as Vice-Chancellor at the end of this academic year. The reason he gives is that he has decided to spend more time with his family. You do not have to read between the lines to realise that Toope is leaving because his brief tenure at Cambridge has been an unmitigated disaster, a fact that has become increasingly clear. Among the highlights of his career at Cambridge have been: Overseeing the trashing of academic freedom. During Toope’s tenure a mob of ill-informed students succeeded in getting a junior research fellow, Noah Carl, pushed out of his position because of an uninformed campaign claiming his research was ‘racist’. Later Toope defended the humiliating treatment of Prof. Jordan Peterson, who had a non-paying fellowship withdrawn based on an equally ill-informed campaign against him. Next the university put forward a new set of standards to be imposed on all academics and students at the university. This included the demand that all students and staff should ‘respect’ the opinions of others. A group of sharp-eyed academics noted where this would lead and ran a campaign to change the wording to an expectation that people should ‘tolerate’ other people’s opinions. When this went to a vote last December the university voted overwhelmingly, and humiliatingly, against the proposal. Yet Cambridge then introduced a new initiative that would encourage students and faculty to anonymously inform on each other if they felt that they had suffered a ‘micro-aggression’. The advice published online noted that an example of a micro-aggression would be any member of the university raising an eyebrow while any member of a minority was speaking. After I and others brought some negative publicity to this, Toope claimed that the advice had not been read to him before going out, that it had gone out early or that the dog had eaten it. A small number of academics (namely Profs John Dennis, Tim Harper, Patrick Maxwell, Nigel Peake, Anna Philpott and Chris Young) tried to rally to Toope’s defence, arguing that these attacks on free speech were no such thing. As I wrote here in The Spectator at the time, they got nearly all of their facts wrong in the process of defending someone who had got his own idea of academic freedom wrong. All the while there was not a woke cause that Toope did not try to import from his native Canada. For instance, in 2019 it was announced that Toope had appointed a committee to examine the university’s historical links to the slave trade. During the height of this ahistorical pandering exercise a bell was removed from one of Cambridge’s colleges because it was suspected of having possibly once been on a plantation. Strangely, as The Spectator also revealed in a recent cover piece, while all this was going on Toope led Cambridge deeper and deeper into a highly compromising relationship with the authorities in China. As Ian Williams wrote in July, one of Toope’s first trips on being appointed Vice-Chancellor in 2017 was to the Chinese Embassy in London, where he posed for photographs with the Ambassador. In the months and years since then, Toope worked on deepening the university’s relations with the authoritarian Communist regime, gaining funding from them and allowing this funding to influence the direction of research at the university. Williams concluded that the relationship was at best dictated not just by greed but by naivety. It is a generous interpretation. For a Vice-Chancellor to try to crack down on academic freedom at Cambridge while sucking up to one of the most authoritarian regimes on earth is more than naïve – it is sinister. There are many other things that could be said of Toope. But there will be time enough for that. In the meantime perhaps I could mention why this matters. I have occasionally been asked, over the last few years, why I have written about Toope so many times, both here and at the Telegraph. The reason is not just because Toope was clearly so magnificently ill-suited to the job he has now left early. Nor was it simply that I believe he is such a prime example of one of those undistinguished functionaries who falls ever-upwards by parroting and then pushing the latest on-brand dictates of the era. The reason is that – to steal a quote from Evelyn Waugh – watching Stephen Toope in charge of Cambridge University was like watching a Sèvres vase being balanced in the hands of a chimpanzee. He seemed to show no care as he teetered and careered around with it. He seemed, as he particularly showed in his ignominious last year, to have no care of whether or not he dropped and smashed the whole damn thing. And this is why Toope – and his fall from grace – matter. His rise seemed to demonstrate that there is only a benefit to be gained from trying to get ahead of the new authoritarianism. His fall demonstrates that there can be a cost to it as well. Written byDouglas Murray Douglas Murray is associate editor of The Spectator and author of The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity, among other books. https://www.facebook.com/phil. Phil Hutchings WE HAD A PACKED SERVICE TONIGHT & IT WAS POWERFUL!!! But I forgot to tell Public Safety that we changed locations 🤣 Side note...15 decisions for Christ today!🎉 #TheKingdomAlwaysWins 50 Comments Kay Waneta Good job! ---------- Original message ---------- From: "HisTabCanada@hotmail.com" <HisTabCanada@hotmail.com> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 05:40:27 +0000 Subject: Re: "As a church pastor and an attendee, I need to remember that the government is God's way of maintaining a public good" Round 2 EH Higgy?? To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail. Ty ty ---------- Original message ---------- From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail. Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 19:49:14 -0300 Subject: Re: "As a church pastor and an attendee, I need to remember that the government is God's way of maintaining a public good" Round 2 EH Higgy?? 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Phil Hutchings HERE WE ARE CANADA. A sad day in our nation. Do you really think this about COVID??!! Our church folks harassed coming in & coming out. And my associate Pastor arrested. WAKE UP 🇨🇦 CONTACT THE PREMIER! CONTACT THE GOVERNMENT! PRAY FOR 🇨🇦 223 Commets Gyps Syri All I am saying is it would be nice to actually see some police work being done. I mean there are so many pedophiles out there roaming free without a passport to f****** tell us that they're diddlers. RCMP you should feel ashamed of yourself what you went to school for what you did what you signed up for was to protect the people not to dictate them this is sad very sad this is what our tax dollars are going to wake the fuk up people this man has done nothing wrong. We are letting the government walk all over us we have a constitution we have a Charter of Rights why are we not realizing this and fighting back absolutely absurd RCMP your bastards or little pussies for giving in Marie Dee Premier Higgs is responsible for this. David Raymond Amos Check your email https://davidraymondamos3. https://davidraymondamos3. Saint John church fined for not complying with the emergency order DAVIDRAYMONDAMOS3.BLOGSPOT.COM Saint John church fined for not complying with the emergency order Peter Marshall God bless these Pastors and this church!! Praying and standing with you! Dave Russell Hmmm, is that rcmp, they still investigating themselves? Harassing good people, I see. David Raymond Amos Dave Russell Notice no handcuffs??? Those dude are not cops They are Higgy's very questionable "Peace" officers | |||||
Automatic reply: Our society. I wonder if Official Languages Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor went to the SANB party while being concerned about the loss of Anglophone Rights in Quebec
Petitpas Taylor, Ginette - M.P.<Ginette.PetitpasTaylor@parl.gc.ca> | Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 7:50 PM |
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> | |
(A message in English will follow) Bonjour, Je vous remercie d’avoir écrit. Bien que mon bureau reçoive un volume considérable de correspondance, en tant que députée, j’apprécie tous les commentaires, positifs ou négatifs, sur les questions d’actualité et mon équipe et moi-même suivons attentivement ce qui est dans l’esprit de mes électeurs. Toutefois, comme j’ai été élue pour servir les gens de Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, la priorité sera accordée à la correspondance provenant de ma circonscription. Par conséquent, si vous ne l’avez pas déjà fait, nous vous prions d’inclure votre adresse personnelle, votre code postal et votre numéro de téléphone dans les courriels, car cela nous aide à mieux répondre aux messages ou aux demandes de renseignements qui nécessitent un suivi. Si votre e-mail n'incluait pas votre numéro de téléphone et votre adresse résidentielle avec code postal, veuillez cliquer sur « répondre » pour fournir ces informations. Notez que je ne réponds généralement pas aux courriels qui sont envoyés à tous les députés ou aux courriels qui sont envoyés à d'autres individus et où je suis seulement en copie. De plus, si votre demande est liée à mon mandat de ministre des Langues officielles ou de ministre responsable de l’APECA, je vous invite à soumettre vos questions ou commentaires aux adresses de courriel suivantes, surveillées par mon unité de correspondance ministérielle :
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APÉCA: minister-ministre@acoa-apeca. Encore une fois, merci d’avoir pris le temps d’écrire. Cordialement, Ginette
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Hello, Thank you for writing. While our office receives a tremendous volume of correspondence, as a Member of Parliament, I appreciate all feedback, positive or negative, on the issues of the day and my team and I carefully track what is on the minds of my constituents. However, because I was elected to serve the people of Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, priority will be given to correspondence from my constituency. As such, if you haven`t already done so, we appreciate you including your home address, postal code and telephone number in emails, as it helps us better respond to messages or inquiries that require follow-up. If your email did not include your phone number and residential address with postal code, please hit “reply” to provide this information. Note that I generally do not reply to emails that are sent to all Members or emails that are sent to other individuals and in which I am only in CC. In addition, if your inquiry is related to my mandate as the Minister of Official Languages or Minister responsible for ACOA, I invite you to submit your questions/comments to the following email addresses monitored by my ministerial correspondence unit:
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minister-ministre@acoa-apeca. Once again, thank you for taking the time to write. Regards, Ginette
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Honorable Ginette Petitpas Taylor<ministredeslanguesofficielles-ministerofofficiallanguages@pch.gc.ca> | Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 7:53 PM |
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Merci d’avoir écrit à l’honorable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, ministre des Langues officielles et ministre responsable de l'Agence de promotion économique du Canada Atlantique. La ministre est ravie de prendre connaissance des commentaires de Canadiens et de Canadiennes sur des questions d’importance pour eux. Si votre courriel porte sur une demande de rencontre ou une invitation à une activité particulière, nous tenons à vous assurer que votre demande a été notée et qu’elle recevra toute l’attention voulue. ********************** Thank you for writing to the Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Official Languages and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. The Minister is pleased to hear from Canadians on subjects of importance to them. If your email relates to a meeting request or an invitation to a specific event, please be assured that your request has been noted and will be given every consideration. |
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Début du message réexpédié :De: Blanchet, Yves-François - Député <Yves-Francois.Blanchet@parl.gc.ca> Objet: Réponse automatique : Our society.Date: 18 juin 2023 11:11:59 UTC−3À: Roger Richard <rrichard@nb.aibn.com>(Ceci est une réponse automatique)(English follows)Bonjour,Nous avons bien reçu votre courriel et nous vous remercions d'avoir écrit à M. Yves-François Blanchet, député de Beloeil-Chambly et chef du Bloc Québécois.Comme nous avons un volume important de courriels, il nous est impossible de répondre à tous individuellement. Soyez assuré(e) que votre courriel recevra toute l'attention nécessaire.L'équipe du député Yves-François BlanchetChef du Bloc QuébécoisThank you for your email. We will read it as soon as we can.
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Good morning, Our society exist because we tell ourself make-believe stories. Make-believe stories are essentially lies. Some prefer to call them in a more palatable way: white lies. Contrary to all of us, Mr. David Amos talks only about truth. A truth that is, more often than not, way beyond my understanding. Yesterday, he called to make sure I knew where his «bail money» was stash! That makes me very sad. I cannot accept RCMP, lawyers, politicians, bankers, journalists or anyone else trying to silence him. We are living in a very sad world where money si king and is reasonable reason for our elites to make « white lies ». By the way Mrs. Norris, can you give an up-date on the criminal investigation concerning the burned cars the 17th of October 2013 in Rexton? I am enclosing a document explaining some of the things experienced by our community during that period of time so you may have some context. Cordially yours, Roger Richard
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Attn Pearl.Eliadis You should have shared my email with the cop who called me
David Amos<david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> | Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 9:56 PM |
To: Erika.Norris@rcmp-grc.gc.ca | |
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com> | |
Richibucto, November 7th, 2022 — On Tuesday, November 1st, the Crime Prevention Association of New Brunswick and the Department of Public Safety held their annual Crime Prevention Awards in Oromocto. These awards and certificates are awarded to individuals and groups who merit recognition for their contributions to community safety and crime prevention. Each year, an Awards Luncheon is held to induct nominees for the different award categories.
This year, four members of the RCMP Richibucto Detachment were recognized. CPO Jean Francois Leblanc, Cpl. Ricky LeBlond and Cst. Erika Norris received the Province of New Brunswick Certificate of Recognition. This certificate is presented to individuals, organizations or businesses who have made an outstanding contribution to the development, implementation, promotion and enhancement of crime prevention and safe communities.
The fourth member of the RCMP Richibucto Detachment to be recognized was Sgt. Maxime Babineau. He was awarded the Constable Leo ‘’Tyler’’ Francis Award. The CPANB established this award in memory of the late Constable Tyler Francis, an RCMP officer who demonstrated a high standard of dedication toward crime prevention. The award is presented to police officers or peace officers who have demonstrated significant personal and professional commitment to crime prevention initiatives in their community for at least five years.
The Kent Regional Service Commission is proud of the dedication and achievements of the RCMP officers of the Richibucto Detachment.
The Kent Regional Service Commission has been serving the public since 2013. The organization has two mandates: local planning and solid waste management, as well as several responsibilities for regional collaboration. Regional cooperation in policing is one of these additional responsibilities. Visit www.krsc.ca.
Town officials 'blindsided' by unexpected departure of Sackville’s community program officer
Loss of CPO position causes frustration, raises questions
Jean-François Leblanc, former community program officer with the Sackville RCMP detachment, was an avid supporter of MADD and helped revive the local chapter here in partnership with the Cumberland region. Here, LeBlanc, right, hands out MADD red ribbons in Sackville last year with the help of a police cadet from Oulton’s College.
SACKVILLE, N.B. — The unexpected departure of Sackville’s community program officer (CPO) last month has left town officials frustrated and with many unanswered questions over what exactly happened.
“We were blindsided by it,” said Mayor John Higham.
Jean-Francois LeBlanc, who has served as CPO in Sackville for the past three-and-a-half years, has moved on to another position elsewhere, a decision that seems to have been spurred by changes related to the ‘unionization’ of the RCMP.
Phil Handrahan, Sackville’s chief administrative officer, said very little information was provided to the town about these changes until staff and council started hearing “rumours” about LeBlanc leaving town. That’s when they decided to make a call to the provincial RCMP office in Fredericton.
“At that time, we were verbally advised that he would be moving on to another community and his anticipated start date would be December 23,” said Handrahan.
Last week, town staff received a bit more information about the rationale behind this staffing process and the RCMP has indicated it has been “complicated,” said Handrahan.
“It stems from the unionization of the RCMP and the “deeming” of employees, with the end result being that the CPO position in a Municipal Police Services Agreement was not deemed to be a protected position.”
Handrahan said the question still remains, however, as to why a CPO is a protected position under a Provincial Police Services Agreement (PPSA) but not a MPSA, of which Sackville falls under.
“Obviously this difference was a significant factor in understanding the decision by Jean-Francois to accept a different CPO position with another community, which has a PPSA.”
Handrahan said along with the frustration over the lack of communication from the provincial office, the town is disappointed in losing a quality employee like LeBlanc.
“JF was a valuable employee with the town and provided a strong and positive influence with those he worked with,” said Handrahan. “And we fully understand his decision and wish him all the best in the future.”
“This is something the town has paid for and we’ve gotten really good value for it. So to have this yanked away is troubling.”
-Coun. Bill Evans
Coun. Bill Evans, upon hearing the news prior to council’s meeting last month, also expressed his dismay over LeBlanc’s departure. Leblanc came on board as CPO in the summer of 2016, taking over for Amelie Jarvis Lavoie, who was first to take on the newly-minted position a year-and-a-half before that.
“Jean-Francois has been a real asset. He had big boots to fill when Amelie left and he did it admirably. So this is really frustrating,” said Evans.
Although the CPO is a position paid for by the town, using some of the extra funds the town began receiving a number of years ago as part of a federal subsidy toward policing costs, LeBlanc was an employee of the RCMP under the municipality’s contract.
Evans said he thinks Sackville may have been the only New Brunswick community to have had its own CPO, one that is not shared regionally as in most cases.
“This is something the town has paid for and we’ve gotten really good value for it,” he said. “So to have this yanked away is troubling.”
Program has 'done wonders'
CPOs are trained specifically to work in collaboration with the local police service and the community to deliver RCMP programs such as youth development, problem-oriented policing as well as awareness, educational and crime prevention programs.
LeBlanc and Jarvis Lavoie have been instrumental in establishing youth intervention and diversion programs, as well as connecting with community organizations and businesses to develop relations and build resources.
Mayor Higham said having a CPO work directly with local youth and community partners has “done wonders” for the individuals and families who have been impacted thanks to his efforts.
“The opportunities he’s given kids that may never have been given those opportunities . . . it’s been life changing for sure,” he said.
That’s why he said it’s been so frustrating to continue to be left out of conversations dealing with the Municipal Police Services Agreement. He said if town staff were able to get a seat at the table during the reviews of the MPSA, they could talk about how the quality of Sackville’s policing services has been enhanced by having a CPO in place as a preventative measure against criminal activity.
Handrahan said town staff is now working to find a way to reinstate the CPO position, although it may have to be under a different format than before.
“It may be a new day for the town of Sackville in terms of how we handle the CPO position within our workforce,” he said.
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Green MLA Kevin Arseneau says he'll put Kent North first
Kevin Arseneau says he was approached by Liberals and PCs but wasn't asked to cross the floor
Kent North's newest MLA, Kevin Arseneau, says he will represent the people of the riding before he represents Green Party interests.
"I have a problem with this tight, tight party line, where you have to — and I've heard horror stories from other politicians of how they use the party line to intimidate MLAs into taking certain decisions."
If I represent these people, I've got to feel, understand, experience what they're living.
- Kevin Arseneau, elected in Kent North
Arseneau said that's not the type of politics he wants to be a part of, and suggested he ran because the Green Party agrees.
"I really like the fact that, you know, I get to represent the people of Kent North before putting the interests of the party first."
Arseneau won the formerly Liberal seat with 4,056 votes, one of three wins for the Greens on Monday.
"During my campaign I wanted to understand — I have to represent some fishermen — if I wanted to understand what they were doing, I wanted to go on a boat for a whole day."
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Even though people cautioned him from spending too much time doing that, Arseneau said he felt he had to.
"If I represent these people, I've got to feel, understand, experience what they're living."
Arseneau described this as the on-the-ground way he plans to do his job as MLA.
Change wanted
As he campaigned door-to-door, Areseneau said, he was told over and over that people wanted a change.
"They told me they were fed up with this blue-red kind of always fighting together. And we see that they're continuing to do it."
He was referring to Premier Brian Gallant and Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs each expecting to govern after a close election left the PCs with one more seat than the Liberals.
"Both of them are wanting to grasp on power instead of just working together for the better of everyone."
Arseneau said he believes this is why so many voters were fed up.
I told them basically, we have met already with the Green caucus and we're converging today to meet in person and having a long work meeting about this.
- Kevin Arseneau
"This is what I was hearing at the door, and I was giving them a message a lot more positive."
The Green Party and People's Alliance will each have three seats in the legislature, which could give the Greens or the Alliance some unexpected influence.
Arseneau said his campaign included supporting all cultures and languages, and he wants to continue working the same way, rather than being like the People's Alliance, which he said is causing division.
"In the riding, we've stopped shale gas by coming all together," he said.
No rush for alliance
Arseneau said the Green Party is in no rush to form alliances with any other political party, he said.
Representatives of other parties have been in touch and want an answer right away, but the party is taking its time replying.
"We're going to take a little bit of time and talk about it and see what the different options are and try to chose the best option for my riding and for the people of New Brunswick as a whole."
Arseneau confirmed he was himself approached by other parties about possibly sitting down and talking with them or working with with them but said there were no invitations to cross the floor.
"I told them basically, we have met already with the Green caucus and we're converging today to meet in person and having a long work meeting about this."
When asked who the Green Party would likely form an alliance with, the new MLA said he wasn't sure, since the party has a trust and confidence problem with the Liberals and an ideology problem with the PCs.
With files from Information Morning
David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2018/11/kris-austin-shocked-by-green-mlas-nazi.html
Kris Austin 'shocked' by Green MLA's Nazi reference in rebuke of People's Alliance rhetoric
Kevin Arseneau says Austin's rhetoric is a disguised bid to undermine francophone rights
The leader of the People's Alliance says he was shocked to hear a Green Party MLA compare his rhetoric to Nazi propaganda during a speech in the legislature last Friday.
Kent North's Kevin Arseneau drew a parallel between Kris Austin's frequent use of the phrase "common sense" and a famous quotation by Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propaganda.
He suggested Austin has been invoking "common sense" to disguise an agenda to undermine francophone rights.
The Goebbels quotation says that with "sufficient repetition," people can be convinced "that a square is in fact a circle." It continues: "They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise."
"I'll tell you, I was shocked," Austin said Monday. "It's certainly some radical viewpoints coming from his way of thinking, no doubt about that."
"It was so far out there and so out in left field, I don't even know how to respond to it," Austin said.
'I wouldn't say it's a comparison'
Arseneau said he wasn't suggesting a parallel between Nazis and the Alliance."I wouldn't say it's a comparison," he said. "I would say it's an invitation to the parties to explain themselves, to provide clarity on the words 'common sense.'"
He said "some political discourse" in the province "is trying to make big, complex problems look like really easy stuff to fix by attacking minorities. It wasn't a comparison to what happened at all, but it was a strong quote."
Arseneau made the comments during the debate on the Progressive Conservative government's throne speech, which will be put to a vote this Friday.
Threats made against Arseneau
He posted on social media Monday that two threats had been made against him, and he told CBC News they may have been connected to the speech.Toutes menaces envers moi ou ma famille seront pris au sérieux et rapporté à la GRC
"I can't say that that was what the people were referring to but definitely everything happened after that," he said. One threat was on social media and the other was shouted by someone in a passing car.
He said he received many comments on social media about the speech. Some disagreed with him but were civil, "some were less civil but non-threatening," but two were definitely threats of assault, he said.
He posted Monday that any threats "will be treated seriously" and said the RCMP are investigating.
'Dangerous and totally unacceptable'
In his speech Friday, the first-term Green MLA referred to last week's ambulance announcement by the new Higgs government, where Austin was given a speaking spot at the lectern."While we must respect the right of both francophone and anglophone citizens to receive service in their language of choice," Austin said at the event, "we must not allow unnecessary language requirements to supersede common sense and the health and safety of all New Brunswickers."
Austin said Arseneau, a former student leader at the University of Moncton and a former president of the Acadian Society of New Brunswick, has been "a radical most of his life."
"They keep pointing the finger to us on the language tension, but you hear comments like this, official comments on the floor of the house. At the end of the day, who's inflaming the tensions here?"
But Arseneau said Austin's suggestion that bilingualism shouldn't be a job requirement for paramedics is what's inflammatory. "It's very radical to say we should not follow the Constitution," he said.
Throne speech calls for tolerance
The Alliance and the Greens each won three seats in September's election, giving both parties pivotal roles in passing legislation in the legislature. But they're diametrically opposed on many issues.Austin said Arseneau's speech will make that more difficult.
"Comments like that will only further isolate Mr. Arseneau from a lot of the decision-making within the workings of government. I don't know what his strategy was. I don't know what he was looking to accomplish, if he was just trying to drum up his base." Arseneau called on Austin to clarify what he means by "common sense."
"I think what his supporters are saying is that we shouldn't be paying for anything for francophones, we shouldn't be paying to help minorities to live their lives," he said.
"If that's the route they want to go down, that should be clarified, instead of hiding behind this general thing called 'common sense.'"
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Green MLA's motion aims to do away with daily Lord's Prayer
Higgs, Austin plan to stymie effort to stop legislature's daily Christian prayer
But it already looks like Kevin Arseneau's motion won't win the support of enough colleagues to pass.
Both Premier Blaine Higgs and People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin — whose parties together have a majority — say while they support individual religious rights, they consider the daily prayer a tradition rooted in the province's heritage.
"As long as I'm here in government, it's here to stay," Higgs said.
"I respect everyone's individual views and rights and freedoms and religion, but there are some traditions we have that I think are important to New Brunswick and important to our process, and we have to retain them."
A priest or minister normally recites the prayers, but the most recent priest in that role moved to a new posting last year. Several MLAs are taking turns leading the prayers until a replacement is found.
Arseneau, the MLA for Kent North, said he stays outside the chamber until the prayers conclude because he does not believe religion and government should mix.
"What concerns me is that we should try to be a lot more inclusive. No one should be forced into saying a prayer before going to work."
Vote needed
The prayer is part of the routine daily order of business in the standing rules of the legislature. It would take a vote by MLAs to remove it.Arseneau's motion, which he plans to introduce before the legislature's procedures committee, would replace the prayer with a moment of silence, which is the practice in Alberta.
Rogers said her faith is important to her and "to not acknowledge that there is a transcendent belief system in our country would be to not accept what is really a part of our culture."
But she also said she's "very aware that increasingly we have a diverse culture and a diversity of belief systems."
If there were MLAs of other faiths elected to the house, Rogers said, she'd support incorporating their prayers, but for now, no one has raised the subject with her.
"I would open this up for discussion if it became an issue."
'An affront' to historical roots
Austin, a former pastor, said his party will oppose the change, calling it "an affront" to the province's Judeo-Christian roots."We must be open to all religions," he said. "That's freedom and that's what our country is built on.
With that said, I don't think you have to sacrifice the historical roots of your country or your province to accommodate that."
"If we didn't evolve as a society, women still wouldn't be able to vote," he said.
All other provincial legislatures except Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador have Christian prayers. In Ottawa, the daily prayer in the House of Commons refers to "almighty God" but is not otherwise explicitly Christian.
2015 Supreme Court ruling
In 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a prayer at the beginning of city council meetings in Saguenay, Que., violated the Charter right to freedom of religion.The court said the state "must neither favour nor hinder any particular belief" and must provide "a neutral space" for all believers and non-believers.
But the ruling explicitly excluded provincial legislatures, which under British parliamentary tradition have the privilege to set their own internal rules independent from other branches of government.
In 2001, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that the province's human rights commission did not have jurisdiction over the legislature's prayer because of that privilege.
"As elected officials, we shouldn't be guided by one religion," said Memramcook-Tantramar MLA Megan Mitton, who said she also remains outside the chamber until the prayer is over.
Green Leader David Coon says while he might favour a different solution than Arseneau's, such as rotating prayers of different faiths, as happens in Ontario, he believes the current prayers must go.
"As everyone always says in the house, 'It's the people's house,'" Coon said. "Then prayer time needs to be reflective of the diversity of people in our province."
Commenting is now closed for this story.
David R. Amos
Methinks Mr Arseneau a former President of the Acadian Society who was once barred from the Legislative Properties has forgotten that he took an oath to Her Majesty the Queen who is the "Protector of the Faith of the Church of England" No doubt Mr Higgs trusts that she wants a prayer to her Lord to continue N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
Let us prey. That's what they mean.
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Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: "Let us prey"
YO Oh Ye of Little Faith in the corrupt system that has made his/her SANB buddies so fat, dumb and happy methinks i should expect nothing less from you N'esy Pas?
Dan Lee
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps:
I believe in God and prayers.........
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David R. Amos
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Dan Lee: I believe in neither god nor devil.
Dan Lee
Entirely your choice my friend
Craig O'Donnell
So the Green Party would rather waste time on a triviality such as this than the economic state of this province? And they'll be the first to complain about short sitting time of the legislature no doubt. Arsenault seems to be just another virtue signaler; no thanks, we've had enough of that from Ottawa.
David R. Amos
McKenzie King
It's difficult to think of a group of politicians believing in prayer. After all, the Bible tells us that God only hears the prayers of those who repent.
David R. Amos
Reply to @McKenzie King: YO Oh Ye who shares the name of a former Liberal Prime Minister Methinks you should know that a bible edited by King James tells us that Queen's Catholic God loves us all whether we believe in him or not N'esy Pas?
Al Clark
Reply to @David R. Amos: methunk you should know that higgy's brand of jeebus is the chrome chairs and rock band one, not Henry the eighth's. nosey paw?
David R. Amos
David Stairs
what level, some will stoop to, in order to get attention and votes..
David R. Amos
Kent North MLA says he's subject of harassment complaint
Kevin Arseneau said he 'calmly pushed' another MLA during confrontation
CBC News · Posted: Feb 15, 2020 1:02 PM AT
Green MLA Kevin Arseneau said another MLA approached him, verbally assaulted him and prevented him from leaving the room. (Radio-Canada)
Kent North MLA Kevin Arseneau said he decided to come forward as the subject of the complaint after it was reported in the media.
"I will not go into details because I respect the work that will be done under the Legislature's Respectful Workplace and Harassment Policy, but I would like to clarify certain points," Arseneau said in a press release.
Earlier this week, Daniel Guitard, the Speaker of the New Brunswick Legislature, confirmed that a harassment complaint was filed against an MLA, but would not elaborate.
The incident took place at a meeting of the legislative administration committee.
Arseneau said another MLA approached him, verbally assaulted him and prevented him from leaving the room.
"Despite my repeated requests to stop and let me leave, the person continued to verbally assault me," said Arseneau.
"To ensure my own safety, I calmly pushed the person out of my way so that I could leave the room."
Arseneau alleges the MLA continued to follow and verbally assault him until "other people intervened."
'I have the right to do my job'
The identity of the other MLA has not been disclosed.Arseneau said he doesn't regret what he did and said he felt threatened.
"I will stand up because I maintain that I have the right to do my job in a safe work environment," said Arseneau.
"That right also belongs to every man, woman and child. If you have ever found yourself in a situation of harassment, never hesitate to speak out against your harassers."
David Amos
My MY My Methinks the clowns are not so Happy Happy Happy in the backrooms of this circus N'esy Pas?
Toby Tolly
verbally assaulted....
David Amos
Roy Kirk
Perhaps a members should be required to wear bodycams?
David Amos
Joe Rootliek
We were not there, as a commenter below had indicated. So maybe even my own spiel on things are wrong.
Personally, in my opinion, light pushing is not a form of harassment- punching or kicking, yes. A good hard shove on a concrete floor or pave flooring, has to be looked at.
If he pushed the person, who was blocking (If, if he was blocking him), and the person was still standing, and he left, in my opinion, I see nothing wrong there.
David Amos
Michael Durant
if Arsenualt made any physical contact regardless of how light that is a criminal charge of assault. If he had anything in his hands such as a paper, the charge is assault with a weapon.
David Amos
Eddy Watts
Nothing about "gender"; if so, the story might become a story (it's not right now). I can go to 100s of hockey games and see this 10x a game.
David Amos
I don't know anything about this guy or situation beyond the above article, but this statement is meaningless in the context of the workplace if you don't have a job where these principles can actually be enforced. In enough workplace environments there isn't just a lack of will to enforce policies to protect the entire workforce, there is a deliberate culture of "if you don't like it leave."
And I have a government that is so inefficient that if I found myself in a similar situation at a job I'm qualified for and nothing was done about it, it would take my government two years to pay lip-service to the problem before telling me I couldn't possibly be right because I'm the wrong identity politics demographic to be right in that situation. I may be employing some hyperbole here but you see how you are privileged, right?
Consider yourself fortunate Mr. Arseneau
Consider yourself fortunate Mr. Arseneau.
was that translated correctly?
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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 > > 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? > > > Vertias Vincit > David Raymond Amos > 902 800 0369 > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Kulik, John" <john.kulik@mcinnescooper.com> > Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 17:37:49 +0000 > Subject: McInnes Cooper > To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, > "david.raymond.amos@gmail.com" <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > > Dear Mr. Amos: > > I am General Counsel for McInnes Cooper. If you need to communicate > with our firm, please do so through me. > > Thank you. > > John Kulik > [McInnes Cooper]<http://www. > > John Kulik Q.C. > Partner & General Counsel > McInnes Cooper > > tel +1 (902) 444 8571 | fax +1 (902) 425 6350 > > 1969 Upper Water Street > Suite 1300 > Purdy's Wharf Tower II Halifax, NS, B3J 2V1 > > asst Cathy Ohlhausen | +1 (902) 455 8215 > > > > Notice This communication, including any attachments, is confidential > and may be protected by solicitor/client privilege. It is intended > only for the person or persons to whom it is addressed. If you have > received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by e-mail or > telephone at McInnes Cooper's expense. Avis Les informations contenues > dans ce courriel, y compris toute(s) pièce(s) jointe(s), sont > confidentielles et peuvent faire l'objet d'un privilège avocat-client. > Les informations sont dirigées au(x) destinataire(s) seulement. Si > vous avez reçu ce courriel par erreur, veuillez en aviser l'expéditeur > par courriel ou par téléphone, aux frais de McInnes Cooper. > > > > 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 >>> >> > |
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https://davidraymondamos3. Thursday, 15 June 2023 Language politics take centre stage in Montreal federal byelection |
Language politics take centre stage in Montreal federal byelection
Some voters in NDG-Westmount say language bills like C-13 are the 'only' issue in Monday's byelection
On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Alex Montagano walked along Avenue King Edward in Montreal, knocking on doors to make his pitch.
Montagano is not a traditional federal election candidate. His campaign materials show him in a conductor's uniform — a nod to his passion for trains — and he stamps his fliers with a ticket punch.
He's running in Monday's Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount byelection under the banner of the Centrist Party of Canada, a party that has never elected a federal candidate.
But Montagano — or "Trainman," as he identifies himself to voters — said a vote for him is a protest vote, intended to send a message to the Liberal Party of Canada.
And while trains may be his passion, his political interests include language rights for English-speaking Quebecers — something he feels is under threat.
Alex 'Trainman' Montagano said he is running in the federal byelection to send a message to the Liberal government. (Alex Montagano)
"We're brought up with this idea, this concept that Canada was open, that it is a free society," he said.
"This idea of what Canada is is dying in Quebec. It's being attacked."
On a walk around the neighborhood, his cri de coeur resonates with residents. Many of them raised language as the issue that worries them the most, after recent pieces of provincial and federal legislation ratcheted up tensions in Quebec's English-speaking community.
"I think language is one of the biggest problems," said first-time voter Thomas Donnelly. "To get a job, you really have to be perfectly bilingual … It really makes it hard for people to feel included in this province."
C-13, Bill 96 and the Liberals
The riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount is considered to be a Liberal stronghold.
It's also the heartland of anglophone Montreal. According to census data, about 44 per cent of residents list English as their mother tongue.
It was held by Liberal member of Parliament Marc Garneau until he resigned last spring.
While the riding's boundaries have changed over time, the area has consistently elected Liberal candidates since the 1990s.
A campaign sign for Conservative candidate Mathew Kaminski in the riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount. (CBC News)
The Liberal candidate this time, Anna Gainey, is a former party president. Her father, Bob Gainey, played for the Montreal Canadiens and went on to become their general manager. She was not made available for an interview.
But in recent months, groups representing English-speaking Quebecers, including the Quebec Community Groups Network, have been expressing concern about a bill introduced by the federal Liberal government, C-13, which is a revamp of the Official Languages Act. The bill passed the Senate earlier this week.
The bill aims to strengthen French in Canada, inside and outside of Quebec.
But some groups representing English-speaking Quebecers have expressed concerns about the bill's repeated references to Quebec's French Language Charter — which some fear could be interpreted as a tacit endorsement of a recent tightening of provincial language laws in Quebec through Bill 96.
Bill 96 introduced an overhaul of language laws that includes a stricter definition of who qualifies for English-language services, increased powers for the province's language watchdog, a cap on the English-language colleges known as CEGEPs, and more.
"There's a definite worry," said Jonathan Pedneault, Green Party co-leader and candidate in the byelection.
"People feel like they are being treated as second class citizens and I understand that concern."
Concerns about tacit approval
It also invokes the notwithstanding clause — a section in the Charter of Rights that gives provincial governments the ability to override parts of the charter — to shield the law from court challenges.
All of this has left the English-speaking community on edge, said former senator and editor-in-chief of the Montreal Gazette Joan Fraser.
"We have been accustomed for a while to the notion that the Quebec government's policies tend not to be very helpful to us, but that the federal government gave us equal standing in law," she told CBC News.
"Now there's a sense, not unjustified, that the federal government is more interested in getting along with the Quebec government than protecting us."
But residents hoping to park their vote with another, non-Liberal party don't have a clear choice either.
C-13 passed through the House of Commons almost unanimously. Only Liberal MP Anthony Housefather voted against it.
WATCH: Liberal MP explains why he voted against his government's language bill
He said he's worried the references in a federal bill to Quebec's French Language Charter could undermine legal challenges to Bill 96, some of which are already underway.
"I'm not saying that there's a substantial risk or a huge risk, but I think there's a moderate risk. And I prefer not to take a moderate risk to my community's right to be served in English federally," he said.
Federal Minister of Official Languages Ginette Petitpas Taylor has said repeatedly that C-13 will not adversely affect English-speaking Quebecers.
Her ministry also pledged $2.5 million to support the community's arts and culture sector.
Despite the reassurance, voters like Doug Karpman said C-13 and Bill 96 are top of mind for many people in this byelection.
"I would say that's the only issue I've ever even heard discussed in the byelection," he said. "People are worried about their minority rights within the English community."
With files from Ainslie MacLellan and Sean Henry
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A Conversation with Alex Trainman Montagano, Candidate for NDG- Westmount, Montreal by-elections
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David Suzuki endorses Jonathan Pedneault in NDG Westmount
Canada's much loved host of "The Nature of Things," scientist and environmentalist, David Suzuki has called on voters in NDG Westmount to vote for Green Party deputy leader Jonathan Pedneault in the NDG-Westmount by-election, a significant endorsement as the campaign enters the home stretch. "I urge the voters of NDG-Westmount to vote for our climate and send Jonathan Pedneault to Ottawa as your MP.
"David Suzuki's endorsement comes at a time when the emergency of climate change is more evident than ever. Floods, forest fires, smoke, devastating storms and heat waves are overwhelming Canadians from coast to coast to coast," said leader Elizabeth May. "We need Jonathan Pedneault in Parliament. By-elections are a risk-free opportunity for voters to send a strong message. The voters of NDG Westmount have an amazing opportunity to make history."
"Whether in the polls or on the ground in the riding, we're seeing great enthusiasm and momentum for the Green Party's ideas and proposals. The support of a leading figure such as David Suzuki is part of this and reinforces the idea that our party is the only one that takes the climate crisis seriously," said Jonathan Pedneault. "With ten days to go before the vote, we feel that NDG-Westmount can go from red to green.
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Ottawa argues for reversal of decision that bilingual lieutenant-governor a must
Federal government says the lieutenant-governor is an 'individual,' not an institution
There is no constitutional requirement that New Brunswick's lieutenant-governor must be bilingual, the federal government argued Thursday in an appeal of a court ruling last year.
The New Brunswick Court of Appeal heard arguments from Ottawa on Thursday, asking the court to overrule an April 2022 decision that said a unilingual appointment violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Chief Justice Tracey DeWare ruled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's appointment of Brenda Murphy, who only speaks English, violated language rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The Acadian Society of New Brunswick launched the legal challenge after Murphy's appointment in 2019.
While language protections typically extend to institutions and not individuals, DeWare said in her decision that the lieutenant-governor fills a "peculiar and unique role."
Lawyers Gabriel Poliquin, left, and Érik Labelle Eastaugh, both representing the Acadian Society of New Brunswick, leaving the courthouse Thursday. (Alexandre Silberman/CBC)
The federal government filed an appeal of the ruling in May 2022.
Before the New Brunswick Court of Appeal on Thursday, Ottawa's arguments centred around interpretation of sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms that outline linguistic requirements. Justices Justice Kathleen Quigg, Marc Richard and Denise LeBlanc presided.
Ottawa says legal errors were made
Lawyer Bernard Letarte, representing the federal government, argued several legal errors were made in the ruling.
He said Article 58 of the Constitution Act of 1867, which outlines appointment of lieutenant-governors, does not include a condition of bilingualism or any other constraints on the power of the Governor General.
"If the creators of the Constitution would have wanted the lieutenant-governor to be bilingual, they would have done so expressly," he said.
LeTarte argued that given linguistic protections included in Article 133, which allow the use of English or French in Parliament and Quebec's legislature, the intention at the time was not to limit the lieutenant governor.
The Constitution Act of 1982 did not modify the guidelines for the position either, he said.
WATCH | CBC's Raechel Huizinga explains why Brenda Murphy's unilingualism has the federal government in court:
LeTarte said the ruling by DeWare results in a modification of the requirements of the lieutenant-governor, and in turn, a modification of the powers of the sitting Governor General. He said such a change would require a constitutional amendment, with consent from the provinces.\
"It affects the powers of the government general because it restrains his or her powers to choose a person at their discretion," LeTarte said.
If the view of the New Brunswick Acadian Society is accepted, he argued, the Governor General no longer has the same power because the pool of people eligible for appointment as lieutenant-governor becomes restricted.
Justice Richard interjected, adding that a bilingual requirement poses another challenge: How would the standards for bilingualism for a lieutenant governor be determined?
Distinguishing the role as an institution
Many of the arguments from the federal government were based on the sections of the charter that apply specifically to New Brunswick.
Section 16(2) declares that English and French have equal status "in all institutions of the legislature and government of New Brunswick," while Section 16.1(2) requires the legislature and government to "preserve and promote" the equality of English and French.
Section 20(2) guarantees the right of any New Brunswicker to communicate with or receive services from "any office of an institution of the legislature or government of New Brunswick" in English or French.
Chief Justice of New Brunswick Marc Richard added that a bilingual requirement poses another challenge: How would the standards for bilingualism for a lieutenant governor be determined? (CBC)
Lawyer Nadine Dupuis, also representing Ottawa, argued the lieutenant-governor as an institution and an office, provides equal status to English and French, and communicates in both languages.
"It is not a question of whether or not it is desirable for the lieutenant government to be bilingual," she said. "Yes, it is desirable. But it is a question of whether or not the Constitution requires it."
Dupuis said the federal government recognizes that charter language protections for New Brunswick apply to the lieutenant-governor as an "institution."
"Our position is that it is necessary to distinguish the lieutenant-governor, the institution, the office, from the person who occupies the role," she said.
There is nothing in the Constitution to indicate a person could be considered an institution, Dupuis argued, adding the fact that the lieutenant-government does not master French does not conflict with the requirements under Section 16(2) and 20(2).
Communication with citizens
Richard asked the federal government lawyers if it would be a problem if a citizen addresses a unilingual lieutenant-government and they respond in the language they speak.
Dupuis said Brenda Murphy currently operates bilingually, meeting her Charter obligations, by reading the speech from the throne in both languages.
The case of a citizen having a conversation with the lieutenant-governor is different, because it is not required, she said.
"There is no citizen in New Brunswick who has the constitutional right to communicate with the L-G," Dupuis said.
Richard asked if a conflict over equality in English in French could arise. He said Murphy could visit a school in Saint John, but she might not be able to do the same at a school in Shippagan.
"I think she'd be able to read a speech," Dupuis responded.
Richard then asked if it would be problematic to have a unilingual person, who could not pronounce a word of French.
"It would not be problematic," Dupuis said, "because the lieutenant-government would not be providing a service."
The lieutenant-governor is not constitutionally obligated to attend social functions and events to discuss with the public.
Bilingualism essential, Acadian Society says
Gabriel Poliquin, a lawyer representing the Acadian Society of New Brunswick, said the group's argument is centred on the "unique" role of the position.
The lieutenant-government cannot delegate powers to someone else, such as granting royal assent to legislation, or opening or dissolving the legislature, except in the case of absence or illness.
Poliquin said the principle of institutional bilingualism is that institutions need to adopt the necessary resources to meet their obligations, and that includes human resources, including requiring certain people to be bilingual
The lieutenant-governor, as a unilingual anglophone, cannot properly connect with all citizens of New Brunswick, he argued.
"When the lieutenant-governor goes to Dieppe to open a new francophone school, goes to Saint-Quentin to have tea at a seniors' home, or to Shippagan to welcome the start of the lobster or crab-fishing season, it may be an act of goodwill, but they can't be understood," he said. "She has no entry point to the culture and language."
Poliquin said the lieutenant-governor has a fundamental role to bring people together under the same banner, a duty which cannot be accomplished without the ability to communicate in both official languages.
The Acadian Society of New Brunswick has previously said it is not looking for Murphy to resign or be removed. Instead, it would like the federal government to amend its legislation to make clear future lieutenant-governors must be bilingual.
Political scientists have previously said the case would have implications for Governors General.
Lawyer Érik Labelle Eastaugh, also representing the Acadian Society, argued that with a unilingual anglophone, French is rarely used and is reduced to an inferior status. This violates the equality of status of English and French under the charter, he said.
"In the framework of institutional bilingualism, a request for service should not give the impression that one language is superior," he said.
Labelle Eastaugh said because the lieutenant-government frequently goes out into communities, the person in the role should be viewed as an institution New Brunswickers communicate with.
He also said the fact that the lieutenant-governor provides royal assent, the person who fills the role should be bilingual, because laws must be adopted in both official languages.
The Appeal Court will rule on the case at a later date.
Friday, 18 September 2015
David Raymond Amos Versus The Crown T-1557-15
153Alvin Avenue
Saturday, April 01, 2006
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You are being evicted for blogging?
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Methinks it is because of our little spit and chew EH Frenchie? Did ya notice the CT Yankee put back my work and a great deal more?
Give me a call at(506 434 1379) and try to call me a liar. I Double Dog Dare Yaa Too. Say Hey to your wannabe lawyer buddy Vaughn for me will ya.
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Way ahead of ya Frenchie I was already laughing at the joke
Verita Vincit
David Raymon Amos
August 24th, 2004
Lieutenant-Governor of
New Brunswick,
Herménégilde Chiasson
Old GovernmentHouse
51 Woodstock Road
Fredericton, NB E3B 9L8
Phone (506) 453-2505
Fax (506) 444-5280
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly,
Bev Harrison
Constituency Office: Hampton-Belleisle
Room: Unit 4, 46 Keirstead Avenue
Hampton, NB E5N 5A4
Phone (506) 832-6464
Fax (506) 832-6466
RE: Corruption
Sirs,
Please find enclosed exactly the same material served upon Premier Lord and Frank McKenna on the day after Canada Day and a copy of Brad Green’s response. I have also enclosed a letter to Senator Joe Day that was to be forwarded to the Arar Commission. The copy of wiretap tape numbered 139 is served upon you in confidence as the Queen’s representatives of in order that it may be properly investigated. I ask New Brunswick’s Lieutenant-Governor of, Herménégilde Chiasson to forward this material to the Governor General of Canada. I have already emailed her notice to expect this material and I will email her the text of this letter as well.
Whereas the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick stands adjourned until Tuesday, December 14, 2004, at 1 o'clock p.m, perhaps you fellas can find a little time to answer me before I sue the Queen in the USA. My questions are as follows: Why did Sergeant-at-Arms, Dan Bussieres and the Fredericton Police Dept. ask me to step outside the Legislature Building and then forever ban me from re-entering the premises on June 24th, 2004? What will you do with your newfound knowledge of crime?
It is only fair that I ask these questions. After all I am a Canadian Citizen and I do have the right to ask any question to those who represent me. Whether they are born to the position or elected or appointed or merely hired, they all must uphold the law and the public trust. The Queen of Canada, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, is the official Head of State and is represented in New Brunswick by the Lieutenant-Governor. Therefore, the Lieutenant-Governor is the nominal Head of State at the provincial level, empowered with the responsibility of representing the Queen in the province. Thus I have asked him the aforesaid questions before I leave the jurisdiction of New Brunswick.
The Ombudsman, Bernard Richard told me to take my matter up the Speaker of the House and thus far Mr. Harrison has ignored my phone calls and emails. Bev Harrison did have the opportunity to ask me any question he wished before he decided not to vote for me. It seems he would rather have the lawyer, Rob Moore speak for him in Parliament. I would not be surprised to learn that Bev Harrison was the same man I had spoken to months ago or that he had attended the debate in Hampton. I have no doubt that Mr Harrison knows exactly who I am and why I was in Fredericton that day. I am not a rebel just because I make inquiries and demand that people in public service uphold the law.
The problem is that on June 24th I was a candidate for the 38th Parliament. I was busy challenging those still in public service such as John Herron to do their jobs and uphold the law. I was merely in the legislative building looking for the Frenchman Charles Leblanc so he could witness me serve this material upon the lawyer, T J Burke next door. I had made certain that many politicians were made well aware of my concerns and allegations before coming home to run for a seat in the next Parliament. The local liberal, Leroy Armstrong was willing to debate me so I was giving this material to his liberal lawyer friends to review. Dan Bussieres offended me for political reasons not legal reasons. The Speaker of the House should not have allowed the Sergeant’s actions or at least responded to my inquiry. These must be irrefutable facts because after almost two months of asking everyone imaginable about the actions of the Sergeant-at-Arms, no one would even tell me his name let alone explain his actions, It appears that the Government of Canada would rather assist corrupt politicians within a country that had rebelled against the Queen than assist one of her subjects to escape their harassment.
I must return to the USA because I have been summoned to court to argue more false allegations made against me. Whereas my country is willing to throw me back into Ashcroft’s clutches, I must complain of the Crown. It seems the Yankees may have been right long ago when they refused to pay taxes without proper representation. Perhaps Canada should follow suit. We all know what has been said about the evils of longstanding governments. What say you sirs? Am I speaking sedition or common sense?
I have heard that Louis Riel once said that the French would take over Canada without firing a shot. Now many of the French wish to separate. Maybe true Canadians can reunite our country in the same fashion. There is no need of the cartridge box as long as we properly employ the soap box and ballot box. The tools of bloodless revolutions are the laws of the land. They are in the hands of people begging us for our vote every so often. Canada does not need to pay homage to a Queen who will not check the work of the people representing her and us. We need a new form of government. I agree with Louis Riel’s thinking when he proclaimed that the Metis were “loyal subjects of Her Majesty the Queen of England’. If we are rebels, we are rebels against the Company that sold us” Although he was labelled a rebel, Louis Riel was a Canadian patriot who did stop Western Canada from being absorbed by the USA. He was also elected to Parliament twice. He would abhor NFTA as much as I. The words in Riel’s diary are well worth heeding.
“O my God! Save me from the misfortune of getting involved with the United States. Let the United States protect us indirectly, spontaneously, through an act of Providence, but not through any commitment or agreement on our part.” Riel stated in his diary this as well: “God revealed to me that the government of the United States is going to become extraordinarily powerful.”
Cya’ll in Court:)
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail. Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 07:28:02 -0400 Subject: Fwd: Re Federal Court File No: T-1557-15 Did you order Harper and the NDP to ignore me as well??? 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Education Dalhousie Law School, LL.B., 2008 University of British Columbia, M.A., 2005 University of King’s College, B.A., 2003 Bar Admissions Ontario, 2009 >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> >> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 18:22:05 -0400 >> Subject: Re Federal Court File No: T-1557-15 Did you order Harper and >> the NDP to ignore me as well??? >> To: Liberal / Assistance <nbd_cna@liberal.ca>, cmunroe@glgmlaw.com, pm >> <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "justin.trudeau.a1" <justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca> >> <mcu@justice.gc.ca> >> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> >> >> How about Dizzy Lizzy May and the Bloc? >> >> On 1/6/16, Cmunroe (Liberal / Assistance) <nbd_cna@liberal.ca> wrote: >> >> ---------- Original message ---------- >> From: "Cmunroe (Liberal / Assistance)" <nbd_cna@liberal.ca> >> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 19:28:25 +0000 >> Subject: Re: Attn Dr. John Gillis Re Federal Court File No: T-1557-15 >> Trust that I called and tried to reason with a lot of Liberals begore >> I am before the cour... >> To: Motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com> >> >> RealChange.ca | DuVraiChangement.ca >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Cmunroe, Jan 6, 14:28 >> >> Hello all, >> >> I would ask that you please do not respond to this e-mail (in the >> event that you were inclined to do so.) >> >> Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. >> >> Regards, >> >> Craig Munroe >> (Party Legal and Constitutional Advisor) >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: David Amos [mailto:motomaniac333@gmail. >> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 11:09 AM >> To: Craig Munroe <cmunroe@glgmlaw.com>; nbd_cna@liberal.ca; pm >> <pm@pm.gc.ca>; ljulien@liberal.ca; pmilliken <pmilliken@cswan.com>; >> bdysart <bdysart@smss.com>; bdysart <bdysart@stewartmckelvey.com>; >> Braeden.Caley@vancouver.ca; robert.m.schuett@schuettlaw. >> jda@nf.aibn.com; eclark@coxandpalmer.com; office@liberal.ns.ca; >> president@lpco.ca; david@lpcm.ca; emerchant@merchantlaw.com >> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> >> Karine Fortin <info@ndp.ca>; stephen.harper >> <stephen.harper.a1@parl.gc.ca> >> Subject: Re: Attn Dr. John Gillis Re Federal Court File No: T-1557-15 >> Trust that I called and tried to reason with a lot of Liberals begore >> I am before the court again on Monday Jan 11th >> >> On 1/6/16, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote: >>> BTW the nice guys who talked to me and didn't dismiss me I put in the >>> BCC line >>> >>> Dr. John Gillis >>> P.O. 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Munroe, Partner >>> Email: cmunroe@glgmlaw.com >>> Phone: (604) 891-1176 >>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> >>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 19:32:00 -0400 >>> Subject: Re Federal Court File No: T-1557-15 the CBC, the RCMP, their >>> new boss Justin Trudeau and his Ministers of Justice and Defence etc >>> cannot deny their knowledge of Paragraphs 81, 82, 83, 84, and 85 now >>> CORRECT G$? >>> To: Paul.Samyn@freepress.mb.ca, "carolyn.bennett" >>> <carolyn.bennett@parl.gc.ca>, Doug@dougeyolfson.ca, >>> doug.eyolfson@parl.gc.ca, fpcity@freepress.mb.ca, >>> w.kinew@uwinnipeg.ca, "Paul.Lynch" <Paul.Lynch@edmontonpolice.ca> >>> "Marianne.Ryan" <Marianne.Ryan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca> >>> <sunrayzulu@shaw.ca>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>, dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca, >>> "john.green" <john.green@gnb.ca>, chiefape <chiefape@gmail.com> >>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> >>> <gopublic@cbc.ca>, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, radical >>> <radical@radicalpress.com>, newsonline <newsonline@bbc.co.uk>, >>> newsroom <newsroom@globeandmail.ca>, nmoore <nmoore@bellmedia.ca>, >>> andre <andre@jafaust.com> >>> >>> http://davidraymondamos3. >>> html >>> >>> David Raymond Amos Versus The Crown T-1557-15 >>> >>> 81. The Plaintiff states that matters of harassment that the police >>> refuse to investigate would have entered the realm of ridiculous in >>> 2012 if the reasons behind the suicides of teenagers did not become >>> well known by the corporate media. In the summer of 2012 a new member >>> of the FPS who as a former member of the EPS had inspired a lawsuit >>> for beating a client in Edmonton called the Plaintiff and accused him >>> of something he could not do even if he wanted to while he was arguing >>> many lawyers byway of emails about a matter concerning cyber stalking >>> that was before the SCC. The member of the FPF accused the Plaintiff >>> of calling the boss of Bullying Canada thirty times. At that time his >>> MagicJack account had been hacked and although he could receive >>> incoming calls, the Plaintiff could not call out to anyone. The >>> Plaintiff freely sent the FPF his telephone logs sourced from >>> MagicJack after his account restored without the Crown having to issue >>> a warrant to see his telephone records. He asked the FPF and the RCMP >>> where did the records of his phone calls to and from the FPF and the >>> RCMP go if his account had not been hacked. The police never >>> responded. Years later a Troll sent Dean Roger Ray a message through >>> YouTube providing info about the Plaintiff’s MagicJack account with >>> the correct password. Dean Roger Ray promptly posted two videos in >>> YouTube clearly displaying the blatant violation of privacy likely to >>> protect himself from the crime. The Plaintiff quickly pointed out the >>> videos to the RCMP and they refused to investigate as usual. At about >>> the same point in time the Plaintiff noticed that the CBC had >>> published a record of a access to information requests. On the list of >>> requests he saw his name along with several employees of CBC and the >>> boss of Bullying Canada. The Plaintiff called the CBC to make >>> inquiries about what he saw published on the Internet. CBC told him it >>> was none of his business and advised him if he thought his rights had >>> been offended to file a complaint. It appears the Plaintiff that >>> employees of CBC like other questionable Crown Corporations such as >>> the RCMP rely on their attorneys far too much to defend them from >>> litigation they invite from citizens they purportedly serve. The >>> employees of CBC named within the aforementioned and the CBC Legal >>> Dept. are very familiar with the Plaintiff and of the Crown barring >>> him from legislative properties while he running for public office. >>> >>> 82. The Plaintiff states that any politician or police officer should >>> have seen enough of Barry Winter’s WordPress blog by June 22, 2015 >>> particularly after the very unnecessary demise of two men in Alberta >>> because of the incompetence of the EPS. Barry Winters was blogging >>> about the EPS using battering ram in order to execute a warrant for a >>> 250 dollar bylaw offence at the same time Professor Kris Wells >>> revealed in a televised interview that the EPS member who was killed >>> was the one investigating the cyber harassment of him. It was obvious >>> why the police and politicians ignored all the death threats, sexual >>> harassment, cyberbullying and hate speech of a proud Zionist who >>> claimed to be a former CF officer who now working for the Department >>> of National Defence (DND). It is well known that no politician in >>> Canada is allowed to sit in Parliament as a member of the major >>> parties unless they support Israel. Since 2002 the Plaintiff made it >>> well known that he does not support Israeli actions and was against >>> the American plan to make war on Iraq. On Aril 1, 2003 within two >>> weeks of the beginning of the War on Iraq, the US Secret Service >>> threatened to practice extraordinary rendition because false >>> allegations of a Presidential threat were made against him by an >>> American court. However, the Americans and the Crown cannot deny that >>> what he said in two courts on April 1, 2003 because he published the >>> recordings of what was truly said as soon as he got the court tapes. >>> The RCMP knows those words can still be heard on the Internet today. >>> In 2009, the Plaintiff began to complain of Barry Winters about >>> something far more important to Canada as nation because of Winters’ >>> bragging of being one of 24 CF officers who assisted the Americans in >>> the planning the War on Iraq in 2002. In the Plaintiff’s humble >>> opinion the mandate of the DND is Defence not Attack. He is not so >>> naive to think that such plans of war do not occur but if Barry >>> Winters was in fact one of the CF officers who did so then he broke >>> his oath to the Crown the instant he bragged of it in his blog. If >>> Winters was never an officer in the CF then he broke the law by >>> impersonating an officer. The Plaintiff downloaded the emails of the >>> Privy Council about Wikileaks. The bragging of Barry Winters should >>> have been investigated in 2009 before CBC reported that documents >>> released by WikiLeaks supported his information about Canadian >>> involvement in the War on Iraq. >>> >>> 83. The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war >>> in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation to >>> allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over >>> five years after he began his bragging: >>> >>> January 13, 2015 >>> This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate >>> >>> December 8, 2014 >>> Why Canada Stood Tall! >>> >>> Friday, October 3, 2014 >>> Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And >>> Stupid Justin Trudeau >>> >>> Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide >>> behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts. >>> >>> When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean Chretien >>> actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second campaign >>> in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or contrary to >>> the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were >>> involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There were >>> significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the dearth >>> of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for >>> operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “last minute” >>> Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its mind. >>> The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not >>> deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a >>> Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins to >>> redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was >>> less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq. But >>> alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister Chretien’s >>> then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s >>> incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic, >>> professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle >>> Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway >>> campaign of 2006. >>> >>> What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that then >>> Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the >>> Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice, consent, >>> support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament. >>> >>> What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and babbling >>> chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment of >>> less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by planners >>> as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a >>> deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make. >>> >>> The Canadian Government or The Crown unlike our amerkan cousins have >>> the “constitutional authority” to commit the Canadian nation to war. >>> That has been recently clearly articulated to the Canadian public by >>> constitutional scholar Phillippe Legasse. What Parliament can do is >>> remove “confidence” in The Crown’s Government in a “vote of >>> non-confidence.” That could not happen to the Chretien Government >>> regarding deployment to Afghanistan, and it won’t happen in this >>> instance with the conservative majority in The Commons regarding a >>> limited Canadian deployment to the Middle East. >>> >>> President George Bush was quite correct after 911 and the terror >>> attacks in New York; that the Taliban “occupied” and “failed state” >>> Afghanistan was the source of logistical support, command and control, >>> and training for the Al Quaeda war of terror against the world. The >>> initial defeat, and removal from control of Afghanistan was vital and >>> essential for the security and tranquility of the developed world. An >>> ISIS “caliphate,” in the Middle East, no matter how small, is a clear >>> and present danger to the entire world. This “occupied state,” >>> or“failed state” will prosecute an unending Islamic inspired war of >>> terror against not only the “western world,” but Arab states >>> “moderate” or not, as well. The security, safety, and tranquility of >>> Canada and Canadians are just at risk now with the emergence of an >>> ISIS“caliphate” no matter how large or small, as it was with the >>> Taliban and Al Quaeda “marriage” in Afghanistan. >>> >>> One of the everlasting “legacies” of the “Trudeau the Elder’s dynasty >>> was Canada and successive Liberal governments cowering behind the >>> amerkan’s nuclear and conventional military shield, at the same time >>> denigrating, insulting them, opposing them, and at the same time >>> self-aggrandizing ourselves as “peace keepers,” and progenitors of >>> “world peace.” Canada failed. The United States of Amerka, NATO, the >>> G7 and or G20 will no longer permit that sort of sanctimonious >>> behavior from Canada or its government any longer. And Prime Minister >>> Stephen Harper, Foreign Minister John Baird , and Cabinet are fully >>> cognizant of that reality. Even if some editorial boards, and pundits >>> are not. >>> >>> Justin, Trudeau “the younger” is reprising the time “honoured” liberal >>> mantra, and tradition of expecting the amerkans or the rest of the >>> world to do “the heavy lifting.” Justin Trudeau and his “butt buddy” >>> David Amos are telling Canadians that we can guarantee our security >>> and safety by expecting other nations to fight for us. That Canada can >>> and should attempt to guarantee Canadians safety by providing >>> “humanitarian aid” somewhere, and call a sitting US president a “war >>> criminal.” This morning Australia announced they too, were sending >>> tactical aircraft to eliminate the menace of an ISIS “caliphate.” >>> >>> In one sense Prime Minister Harper is every bit the scoundrel Trudeau >>> “the elder” and Jean ‘the crook” Chretien was. Just As Trudeau, and >>> successive Liberal governments delighted in diminishing, >>> marginalizing, under funding Canadian Forces, and sending Canadian >>> military men and women to die with inadequate kit and modern >>> equipment; so too is Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Canada’s F-18s are >>> antiquated, poorly equipped, and ought to have been replaced five >>> years ago. But alas, there won’t be single RCAF fighter jock that >>> won’t go, or won’t want to go, to make Canada safe or safer. >>> >>> My Grandfather served this country. My father served this country. My >>> Uncle served this country. And I have served this country. Justin >>> Trudeau has not served Canada in any way. Thomas Mulcair has not >>> served this country in any way. Liberals and so called social >>> democrats haven’t served this country in any way. David Amos, and >>> other drooling fools have not served this great nation in any way. Yet >>> these fools are more than prepared to ensure their, our safety to >>> other nations, and then criticize them for doing so. >>> >>> Canada must again, now, “do our bit” to guarantee our own security, >>> and tranquility, but also that of the world. Canada has never before >>> shirked its responsibility to its citizens and that of the world. >>> >>> Prime Minister Harper will not permit this country to do so now >>> >>> From: dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca >>> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:17:17 -0400 >>> Subject: RE: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and >>> the War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still >>> alive >>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com >>> >>> This is to confirm that the Minister of National Defence has received >>> your email and it will be reviewed in due course. Please do not reply >>> to this message: it is an automatic acknowledgement. >>> >>> >>> ---------- Original message ---------- >>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> >>> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:55:30 -0300 >>> Subject: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and the >>> War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still alive >>> To: DECPR@forces.gc.ca, Public.Affairs@socom.mil, >>> Raymonde.Cleroux@mpcc-cppm.gc. >>> william.elliott@rcmp-grc.gc.ca >>> dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca, media@drdc-rddc.gc.ca, information@forces.gc.ca, >>> milner@unb.ca, charters@unb.ca, lwindsor@unb.ca, >>> sarah.weir@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca, birgir <birgir@althingi.is>, smari >>> <smari@immi.is>, greg.weston@cbc.ca, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, >>> susan@blueskystrategygroup.com >>> eugene@blueskystrategygroup. >>> Cc: "Edith. Cody-Rice" <Edith.Cody-Rice@cbc.ca>, "terry.seguin" >>> <terry.seguin@cbc.ca>, acampbell <acampbell@ctv.ca>, whistleblower >>> <whistleblower@ctv.ca> >>> >>> I talked to Don Newman earlier this week before the beancounters David >>> Dodge and Don Drummond now of Queen's gave their spin about Canada's >>> Health Care system yesterday and Sheila Fraser yapped on and on on >>> CAPAC during her last days in office as if she were oh so ethical.. To >>> be fair to him I just called Greg Weston (613-288-6938) I suggested >>> that he should at least Google SOUCOM and David Amos It would be wise >>> if he check ALL of CBC's sources before he publishes something else >>> about the DND EH Don Newman? Lets just say that the fact that your >>> old CBC buddy, Tony Burman is now in charge of Al Jazeera English >>> never impressed me. The fact that he set up a Canadian office is >>> interesting though >>> >>> http://www. >>> >>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/ >>> launch.html >>> >>> Anyone can call me back and stress test my integrity after they read >>> this simple pdf file. BTW what you Blue Sky dudes pubished about >>> Potash Corp and BHP is truly funny. Perhaps Stevey Boy Harper or Brad >>> Wall will fill ya in if you are to shy to call mean old me. >>> >>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/ >>> >>> The Governor General, the PMO and the PCO offices know that I am not a >>> shy political animal >>> >>> Veritas Vincit >>> David Raymond Amos >>> 902 800 0369 >>> >>> Enjoy Mr Weston >>> http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/ >>> ikileaks.html >>> >>> "But Lang, defence minister McCallum's chief of staff, says military >>> brass were not entirely forthcoming on the issue. For instance, he >>> says, even McCallum initially didn't know those soldiers were helping >>> to plan the invasion of Iraq up to the highest levels of command, >>> including a Canadian general. >>> >>> That general is Walt Natynczyk, now Canada's chief of defence staff, >>> who eight months after the invasion became deputy commander of 35,000 >>> U.S. soldiers and other allied forces in Iraq. Lang says Natynczyk was >>> also part of the team of mainly senior U.S. military brass that helped >>> prepare for the invasion from a mobile command in Kuwait." >>> >>> http://baconfat53.blogspot. >>> >>> "I remember years ago when the debate was on in Canada, about there >>> being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Our American 'friends" >>> demanded that Canada join into "the Coalition of the Willing. American >>> "veterans" and sportscasters loudly denounced Canada for NOT buying >>> into the US policy. >>> >>> At the time I was serving as a planner at NDHQ and with 24 other of my >>> colleagues we went to Tampa SOUCOM HQ to be involved in the planning >>> in the planning stages of the op....and to report to NDHQ, that would >>> report to the PMO upon the merits of the proposed operation. There was >>> never at anytime an existing target list of verified sites where there >>> were deployed WMD. >>> >>> Coalition assets were more than sufficient for the initial strike and >>> invasion phase but even at that point in the planning, we were >>> concerned about the number of "boots on the ground" for the occupation >>> (and end game) stage of an operation in Iraq. We were also concerned >>> about the American plans for occupation plans of Iraq because they at >>> that stage included no contingency for a handing over of civil >>> authority to a vetted Iraqi government and bureaucracy. >>> >>> There was no detailed plan for Iraq being "liberated" and returned to >>> its people...nor a thought to an eventual exit plan. This was contrary >>> to the lessons of Vietnam but also to current military thought, that >>> folks like Colin Powell and "Stuffy" Leighton and others elucidated >>> upon. "What's the mission" how long is the mission, what conditions >>> are to met before US troop can redeploy? Prime Minister Jean Chretien >>> and the PMO were even at the very preliminary planning stages wary of >>> Canadian involvement in an Iraq operation....History would prove them >>> correct. The political pressure being applied on the PMO from the >>> George W Bush administration was onerous >>> >>> American military assets were extremely overstretched, and Canadian >>> military assets even more so It was proposed by the PMO that Canadian >>> naval platforms would deploy to assist in naval quarantine operations >>> in the Gulf and that Canadian army assets would deploy in Afghanistan >>> thus permitting US army assets to redeploy for an Iraqi >>> operation....The PMO thought that "compromise would save Canadian >>> lives and liberal political capital.. and the priority of which >>> ....not necessarily in that order. " >>> >>> You can bet that I called these sneaky Yankees again today EH John >>> Adams? of the CSE within the DND? >>> >>> http://www.socom.mil/ >>> >>> >>> 84. The Plaintiff states that the RCMP is well aware that he went to >>> western Canada in 2104 at the invitation of a fellow Maritimer in >>> order to assist in his attempt to investigate the murders of many >>> people in Northern BC. The Plaintiff has good reasons to doubt his >>> fellow Maritimer’s motives. The fact that he did not tell the >>> Plaintiff until he had arrived in BC that he had invited a Neo Nazi he >>> knew the Plaintiff strongly disliked to the same protest that he was >>> staging in front of the court house in Prince George on August 21, >>> 2014. The Plaintiff was looking forward to meeting Lonnie Landrud so >>> he ignored the Neo Nazi. Several months after their one and only >>> meeting, Lonnie Landrud contacted the Plaintiff and asked him to >>> publish a statement of his on the Internet and to forward it to anyone >>> he wished. The Plaintiff obliged Landrud and did an investigation of >>> his own as well. He has informed the RCMP of his opinion of their >>> actions and has done nothing further except monitor the criminal >>> proceedings the Crown has placed against the Neo Nazi in BC and save >>> his videos and webpages and that of his associates. The words the >>> Plaintiff stated in public in Prince George BC on August 21, 2014 were >>> recorded by the Neo Nazi and published on the Internet and the RCMP >>> knows the Plaintiff stands by every word. For the public record the >>> Plaintiff truly believes what Lonnie Landrud told him despite the fact >>> that he does not trust his Neo Nazi associates. Therefore the >>> Plaintiff had no ethical dilemma whatsoever in publishing the >>> statement Lonnie Landrud mailed to him in a sincere effort to assist >>> Lonnie Landrud’s pursuit of justice. The Crown is well aware that >>> Plaintiff’s former lawyer, Barry Bachrach once had a leader of the >>> American Indian Movement for a client and that is why he ran against >>> the former Minister of Indian Affairs for his seat in the 39th >>> Parliament. >>> >>> 85. The Plaintiff states that while he was out west he visited >>> Edmonton AB several times and met many people. He visited the home of >>> Barry Winters and all his favourite haunts in the hope of meeting in >>> person the evil person who had been sexually harassing and threatening >>> to kill him and his children for many years. The Crown cannot deny >>> that Winters invited him many times. On June 13, 2015 Barry Winters >>> admitted the EPS warned him the Plaintiff was looking for him. >>> >>> On 12/21/15, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: "Rabson, Mia" <Mia.Rabson@freepress.mb.ca> >>>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 20:45:36 +0000 >>>> Subject: Automatic reply: Attn Wab Kinew >>>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> >>>> >>>> I will be out of the office until Monday, January 4. >>>> If you need immediate assistance please contact our city desk at 613 >>>> 697 7292 or fpcity@freepress.mb.ca. >>>> Happy Holidays! >>>> >>>> Mia Rabson >>>> Parliamentary Bureau Chief >>>> Winnipeg Free Press >>>> >>>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: "Sarra R. Deane" <s.deane@uwinnipeg.ca> >>>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 20:10:12 +0000 >>>> Subject: Automatic reply: Attn Wab Kinew >>>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> >>>> >>>> I will be out of the office until Thursday, Nov. 12th. I will >>>> respond to emails upon my return. Miigwech and all the best. >>>> >>>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> >>>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:45:29 -0400 >>>> Subject: Fwd: Attn Wab Kinew >>>> To: mia.rabson@freepress.mb.ca, Paul.Samyn@freepress.mb.ca, >>>> "carolyn.bennett" <carolyn.bennett@parl.gc.ca>, Doug@dougeyolfson.ca, >>>> doug.eyolfson@parl.gc.ca >>>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> >>>> >>>> http://www.winnipegfreepress. >>>> >>>> Peacemaker >>>> Group pushes for Truth and Reconciliation chairman to get Nobel Prize >>>> >>>> By: Mia Rabson >>>> Posted: 12/19/2015 3:00 AM | Last Modified: 12/19/2015 6:12 AM >>>> >>>> " Murray Sinclair already has an impressive resumé. >>>> >>>> He's the first aboriginal judge appointed to the bench in Manitoba, >>>> co-commissioner of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry and chairman of the >>>> Truth and Reconciliation Commission. >>>> >>>> But if a group of Canadians has its way, he will get one of the >>>> highest honours in the world to add to the list: Nobel Peace Prize >>>> recipient. >>>> >>>> "He and Phil Fontaine should share a Nobel Peace Prize," said Wab >>>> Kinew, associate vice-president for indigenous relations at the >>>> University of Winnipeg. >>>> >>>> Kinew said a group of people in Winnipeg, Toronto and Ottawa are >>>> collaborating to nominate the two men, who they believe are jointly >>>> responsible for giving back hope to Canada's indigenous people that >>>> hasn't existed in a long time. >>>> >>>> "They made it into something that is peace-building and >>>> nation-building," Kinew said. "It has really transformed our country." >>>> >>>> Mia Rabson, Ottawa Bureau Chief >>>> 613-369–4824 >>>> >>>> Paul >>>> Samyn, Editor >>>> 204–697–7295 >>>> >>>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> >>>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:05:01 -0400 >>>> Subject: Attn Wab Kinew >>>> To: w.kinew@uwinnipeg.ca, "Paul.Lynch" >>>> <Paul.Lynch@edmontonpolice.ca> >>>> <Marianne.Ryan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca> >>>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> >>>> >>>> https://baconfatreport. >>>> -to-know-anything-about- >>>> >>>> http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/about/ >>>> Vice-President, Indigenous Affairs >>>> >>>> Wab Kinew >>>> phone: 204.789.9931 >>>> email: w.kinew@uwinnipeg.ca >>>> Biography/Publications >>>> >>>> Executive Assistant >>>> >>>> Sarra Deane >>>> phone: 204.988.7121 >>>> email: s.deane@uwinnipeg.ca >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> --- Confidentiality Warning: This message and any attachments are >> confidential and subject to copyright. 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Attn Warren Newman Re Bill C-13 etc I just called Correct?
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Attn Warren Newman Re Bill C-13 etc I just called Correct?
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Warren J. Newman Called to the bar: 1984 (ON); 1985 (QC) Justice Canada Senior General Counsel Constitutional, Administrative & International Law Section 284 Wellington St. Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H8 Phone: 613-952-8091 Fax: 613-941-1937 Email: warren.newman@justice.gc.ca ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ministerial Correspondence Unit - Justice Canada <mcu@justice.gc.ca> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2023 14:29:52 +0000 Subject: Automatic Reply To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail. Thank you for writing to the Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. Due to the volume of correspondence addressed to the Minister, please note that there may be a delay in processing your email. Rest assured that your message will be carefully reviewed. We do not respond to correspondence that contains offensive language. ------------------- Merci d'avoir écrit à l'honorable David Lametti, ministre de la Justice et procureur général du Canada. En raison du volume de correspondance adressée au ministre, veuillez prendre note qu'il pourrait y avoir un retard dans le traitement de votre courriel. Nous tenons à vous assurer que votre message sera lu avec soin. Nous ne répondons pas à la correspondance contenant un langage offensant. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Honorable Ginette Petitpas Taylor <ministredeslanguesofficielles Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 22:53:02 +0000 Subject: Automatic reply: Our society. I wonder if Official Languages Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor went to the SANB party while being concerned about the loss of Anglophone Rights in Quebec To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail. Merci d’avoir écrit à l’honorable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, ministre des Langues officielles et ministre responsable de l'Agence de promotion économique du Canada Atlantique. La ministre est ravie de prendre connaissance des commentaires de Canadiens et de Canadiennes sur des questions d’importance pour eux. Si votre courriel porte sur une demande de rencontre ou une invitation à une activité particulière, nous tenons à vous assurer que votre demande a été notée et qu’elle recevra toute l’attention voulue. ********************** Thank you for writing to the Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Official Languages and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. The Minister is pleased to hear from Canadians on subjects of importance to them. If your email relates to a meeting request or an invitation to a specific event, please be assured that your request has been noted and will be given every consideration. House passes official languages bill to enshrine francophone immigration in law Mickey Djuric The Canadian Press Staff Contact Updated May 15, 2023 6:04 p.m. ADT Published May 15, 2023 4:55 p.m. ADT Share facebooktwitterreddit More share options OTTAWA - A bill that aims to enshrine a francophone immigration program into law is heading to the Senate after clearing the House of Commons. Bill C-13 would modernize the Official Languages Act and recognize that French is the only official language in Canada that is under threat and therefore must be protected within federal workplaces. The bill passed third reading in the House of Commons Monday with Montreal Liberal MP Anthony Housefather, who has expressed concerns about its effect on the minority English-speaking community in Quebec, being the only one to vote against it. RELATED STORIES Former Liberal MP Marc Garneau calls anglophone minority rights in Quebec 'a hill to die on' Liberal MP may not vote for party's language bill due to changes made by opposition Tom Mulcair: National unity is on the table as Parliament discusses Bill C-13 Law to protect French in Canada aims for more francophone migrants Tom Mulcair: When the Liberals fall out of favour, they fall hard Capital Dispatch: Sign up for in-depth political coverage of Parliament Hill "This is really a historic day. It's a really important day for this legislation and an important day for our country," said Official Languages Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor following the vote in the House. The bill, if it becomes law, would introduce immigration in the Official Languages Act for the first time, and recognize its importance to the vitality of francophone minority communities outside Quebec. The Liberal government believes this will help increase childcare, education and health-care services in French across Canada, where programs are affected by a lack of bilingual workers. "Through this modernization we're talking about putting in place an immigration policy with indicators and targets to make sure that we reverse that decline," Petitpas Taylor said. The bill would also require that all judges appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada are bilingual in order to improve access to justice and to ensure that future governments can't change the policy. The bill has been described by MPs as having more teeth, which they said was needed because "baby teeth are not forever teeth," as Conservative MP Joel Godin said during a committee meeting. The bill would give more tools to the Commissioner of Official Languages. It also would give people working in federally regulated private businesses in Quebec -- or in official-language minority communities outside of Quebec -- the ability to work in French and be served in French. However, that won't apply to the broadcasting sector. Strengthening the Official Languages Act had been part of the Liberals' 2021 election platform. A previous version of the legislation was introduced in 2021, but it never passed. Bill C-13 was later tabled in March 2022, and if it becomes law it will apply to all federal departments and institutions such as courts, post offices and Service Canada offices. Petitpas Taylor has said it will also apply equally to all official-language minority communities in Canada, whether they are French-speaking people living in Manitoba, or English-speaking Quebecers. Housefather broke away from the party line to vote against the bill on Monday and Quebec Liberal MP Sherry Romanado abstained from voting. Throughout the committee's study phase, Housefather raised concerns because the bill's preamble references the government of Quebec's Bill 96, which was adopted last May before the federal bill was drafted, and requires all provincial businesses to operate in French. That provincial law was passed using the notwithstanding clause, which allowed the government to temporarily override the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Warren Newman, senior general counsel in the federal Justice Department, told MPs during a committee study of the bill that the mention of Bill 96 will not limit services to English-speaking minorities. "I don't see that federal services from federal institutions would be in any way compromised by the mere mention of the fact that the Charter of the French Language and other linguistic regimes are matters that the government recognizes as part of the overall context," Newman said during a March committee meeting. Following the bill's passing in the House, Petitpas Taylor also took a moment to reassure English-speaking Canadians. "I want to be very clear to anglophones listening to us today that C-13 in no way takes away any rights away from official minority communities, and that includes our anglophone communities in Quebec." This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 15, 2023 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail. Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 19:52:56 -0300 Subject: Fwd: Our society. I wonder if Official Languages Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor went to the SANB party while being concerned about the loss of Anglophone Rights in Quebec To: ministredeslanguesofficielles- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail. Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 19:50:00 -0300 Subject: Re: Our society. I wonder if Official Languages Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor went to the SANB party while being concerned about the loss of Anglophone Rights in Quebec To: anthony.housefather@parl.gc.ca info@annagainey.ca, info@rights-law.net, mbrownstein@cotesaintluc.org, "Michael.Duheme" <Michael.Duheme@rcmp-grc.gc.ca morgan.russell@cifar.ca, "Boston.Mail" <Boston.Mail@ic.fbi.gov>, washington field <washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, jcarpay <jcarpay@jccf.ca>, "hugh.flemming" <hugh.flemming@gnb.ca>, kingpatrick278 <kingpatrick278@gmail.com>, communications@ kerri.froc@unb.ca, VCO.Enquiries@admin.cam.ac.uk, editor@spectator.co.uk, Erika.Norris@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Sdc.carson@gmail.com, contact@npdndgwest.ca, yves.gilbert@chp.ca, Editor@globalgreen.news, Jonathan.Pedneault@gpo.ca, Alex.Tyrrell@globalgreen.news, info@mathewkaminski.ca, arpan@arpankhanna.ca, cherylebaker@gpo.ca, contact@oxfordndp.ca, info@davidhilderley.ca, john.markus@chp.ca, wendymartinppc@gmail.com, johnturmel@yahoo.com, jbieman@postmedia.com, saira.peesker@cbc.ca, Newsroom <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>, "francis.scarpaleggia" <francis.scarpaleggia@parl.gc. <andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca>, "elizabeth.may" <elizabeth.may@parl.gc.ca>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "Katie.Telford" <Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca>, "Paul.Lynch" <Paul.Lynch@edmontonpolice.ca> <Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>, "David.Akin" <David.Akin@globalnews.ca>, michaelharris@ipolitics.ca, "Gerald.Butts" <Gerald.Butts@pmo-cpm.gc.ca>, markbonokoski@gmail.com, Yves-Francois.Blanchet@parl. "blaine.higgs" <blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, "Bill.Blair" <Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca>, "Marco.Mendicino" <Marco.Mendicino@parl.gc.ca>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>, jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca, justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca, ahumphreys@postmedia.com, nouvelle@acadienouvelle.com, Frederic Cammarano <frederic.cammarano@radio- Cc: rrichard <rrichard@nb.aibn.com>, motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, "Ginette.PetitpasTaylor" <Ginette.PetitpasTaylor@parl. "Melanie.Joly" <Melanie.Joly@parl.gc.ca>, mnb@bergmanlawyers.com, info@qcna.qc.ca, "Arseneau, Kevin (LEG)" <kevin.a.arseneau@gnb.ca>, sylvia.martin-laforge@qcgn.ca https://twitter.com/QCGN QCGN @QCGN · Jun 16 Happy golden anniversary to our sister organization in New Brunswick, @SAcadieNB which is gathering this weekend for its 50th Annual General Meeting and birthday celebrations! We wish you happy festivities and another half century of successful work on behalf of your community. Quote Tweet SANB @SAcadieNB · May 5 Invitation : la 50e AGA de la SANB aura lieu à Caraquet les 16 et 17 juin 2023. Tous les détails : https://sanb.ca/fr/ @alexdouce @ophorportu https://qcgn.ca/us/ Who We Are Founded in 1995, the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) is a not-for-profit organization linking English-language groups across Quebec. As a centre of evidence-based expertise and collective action, the QCGN identifies, explores and addresses strategic issues affecting the development and vitality of the English-speaking community of Quebec and encourages dialogue and collaboration among its member organizations, individuals, community groups, institutions and leaders. OUR VISION English-speaking Quebec is a recognized, respected, and diverse linguistic minority that is an integral contributor to the development of all aspects of Quebec and Canadian society. OUR MISSION The Quebec Community Groups Network provides leadership and representation through dialogue, public awareness and advocacy for English-speaking Quebecers and their diverse institutions, organizations, and communities. OUR VALUES Respect: Due regard for the feelings, wishes, rights, and traditions of others. Collaboration: Working together with other people or organizations to create or achieve common objectives. Equality: State of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities. Inclusion: Providing equal access to opportunities and resources for people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized. Diversity: Including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc. Equity: Being fair and impartial. Innovation: Practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services. QCGN PRINCIPLE WITH RESPECT TO OFFICIAL LANGUAGES QCGN respects French as the official language of Quebec. It supports the protection, support, and enhancement of the linguistic rights of Canadians to thrive in our two official languages. English-speaking Canadians living in Quebec represent one of the two official language minority communities in Canada with equality of status, rights, and privileges. RENEWAL The QCGN’s renewal process began in earnest in 2020. During this time, and in spite of the global pandemic, the QCGN moved through significant phases of renewal that have led to restating of the mission, vision, values, principle, and pillars, as well as proposed changes in governance, membership, and internal operations. In spring 2022, the Board of Directors established at Transition Committee to navigate the renewal of our organization with members, stakeholders, and management. In May 2022, QCGN’s members voted to approve significant elements of our renewal, notably by adopting amended By-laws of the Corporation. Over the balance of 2022 and into 2023, the QCGN will continue to introduce important changes to our governance and operations. This will include the adoption of new policies, the implementation of a new strategic plan, adjustments to governance and election processes, and, for the first time, the introduction of individual memberships. RENEWING QCGN’S STRATEGIC PLAN In parallel with our renewal, the QCGN embarked on a strategic planning process to determine the organization’s direction for the coming five years. The QCGN’s previous Strategic Plan was developed following a dialogue with members and stakeholders on how to best foster vitality in English-speaking Quebec. Three main issues were identified under the pillars of Society, Community, and Network: The need for an enabling environment which supports the development and vitality of English-speaking Quebec; The need for mutual support that will strengthen the institutional, political, and service infrastructures supporting English-speaking Quebec; and as well as, The need for organizations and groups to work co-operatively, providing mutual support and developing a community of practice. The designated Strategic Pillars guiding our new strategic plan are as follows: ADVOCACY & REPRESENTATION Acts as a non-partisan advocate for the rights and vitality of the English-speaking community at all levels for English-speaking Quebecers and their communities. COMMUNITY VITALITY Works to enhance the vitality and resiliency of the English-speaking communities in Quebec by developing and strengthening networks through dialogue, capacity building, partnering and joint action. ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP Organizes and operates to exemplary standards and maintains a value-based culture. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE QCGN For more than 25 years, the not-for-profit Quebec Community Groups Network has connected English-speaking groups across Quebec with each other and promoted and defended the rights of our English-language minority. QCGN traces its roots back to 1994 when the 15 Quebec-based regional and sectoral organizations that were funded under the federal Official Language Communities Program were brought together by Canadian Heritage to better manage program and funding priorities. A year later, that ad-hoc group founded the Quebec Community Groups Network. The QCGN has since grown to play a convening role for its members and become a crucial advocate for English-speaking Quebecers and the vitality of their communities. In delivering its mandate, the QCGN focuses on research, policy, and evidence-informed expertise to advocate for and promote collective action within Quebec’s English-speaking community. In 2020, the QCGN launched an ambitious renewal process with three main goals: to create a more open and democratic membership structure; to update governance; and to restructure our organization. Simultaneously, renewal focused on a new model for advocacy and community development including the establishment of Community Roundtables addressing key issues facing member and stakeholder groups. The face of the English-speaking community has changed over the years, with demographic shifts, growing challenges faced by our English institutions, and more regulatory and legislative limits on access to services in our own language. Throughout, the QCGN has evolved and adjusted to this changing landscape, rooted in its mission to advocate for, develop, and support the vitality of English-speaking Quebec. QCGN MILESTONES 1995 – The Quebec Community Groups Network is founded by groups receiving official-languages funding from Canadian Heritage. 2000 – The QCGN receives its first operational budget from the federal government, allowing it to establish a central office. 2005 – Following consultations throughout the province, the QCGN launches a Community Development Plan outlining strategies to revitalize English minority- language communities. 2006 – The QCGN is recognized by the Government of Canada and Canadian Heritage as the official representative and interlocutor of Quebec’s English-speaking community, one of Canada’s two national linguistic minority communities. 2009 – The QCGN celebrates its 15th anniversary, concurrent with the 40th anniversary of the Official Languages Act. The Network inaugurates the Sheila and Victor Goldbloom Distinguished Community Service Award, recognizing significant contributions by individuals to strengthening the English-speaking community. 2011 – 2012 – The QCGN launches a new Community Development Plan based on the results of province-wide consultations culminating with the Community Priority Setting Conference in March 2012. During the conference, more than 150 community leaders adopted a Declaration of Community Priorities. 2015 – The QCGN celebrates its 20th anniversary, inaugurating the Young Quebecer Leading the Way Award. 2016 – The QCGN launches the Community Innovation Fund, funded by the Government of Canada’s Social Development Partnerships Program – Children and Families Component. The program is designed to support social innovation to help address the needs of vulnerable English-speaking Quebecers. 2020 – The QCGN marks its 25th anniversary. The Network counts more than three dozen organizations among its members, all playing a pivotal role in promoting the vitality of English-speaking Quebec. 2021 – The QCGN establishes four standing community roundtables, focused on strategic areas for community development. The action plans they develop are intended to inform a new Community Development Plan for 2022-2027. 2022 – The QCGN Board of Directors and, subsequently, its members, adopt key proposals to usher in the organization’s renewal and rearticulate its commitment to advocacy as community development. https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/ Bill 101 'constitutional curveball' puts Ottawa on the spot politically, experts say Selena Ross Selena Ross CTVNewsMontreal.ca Digital Reporter @seleross Contact Published Thursday, May 13, 2021 10:10PM EDT MONTREAL -- One of Thursday’s updates to Quebec’s language laws puts federal lawmakers in a tight spot politically, experts say. The update to Bill 101—a provincial law—includes a change to the Canadian constitution, a very unusual proposal that likely depends on getting Ottawa’s blessing. But whether or not federal politicians give that blessing, a gauntlet has been thrown that they won’t easily be able to dodge, said lawyer Michael Bergman. Related Stories Quebec presents new language reform bill set to strengthen use of French What is the notwithstanding clause, again? Quebec language reform: Francophones who attended English CEGEPs say they deserve the right to choose Trudeau, 'concerned' about French in Quebec, signals he may be open to language law changes In Quebec visit O'Toole says he supports provincial autonomy, including ban on religious symbols “This is going to put in our federal parties in a major predicament, because they’ve all agreed that French is in decline in Quebec,” he said Thursday. “They will be hard-put to justify why French should not be the common language of Quebec. And it will take some courage for the federal leaders, each one of them, to say no.” Quebec wants a new insertion into the constitution that would formally recognize, on a federal level, that Quebec is “a nation,” and that the common language of that nation, and province, is French. “It theoretically is possible, if the federal parliament will agree to literally amend the constitution,” said Bergman. “This bill is also, at least from a CAQ nationalist point of view, a brilliant piece of writing, because it puts the federal parties and the other provincial parties in a real bind,” he said. “Because they’ve all agreed in advance that something has to be done.” Aside from the constitutional change, the new bill includes several measures within the province's purview, including a strict cap on the number of spots at English-language CEGEPs, new demands on small Quebec businesses that include serving customers in French, and communicating more with immigrants in French. It won’t be passed until the fall, after a long period of review, the government says. A HOT-BUTTON SUBJECT, FEDERALLY Protecting French has been on the radar of the federal government for more than two years, but it wasn’t always a political hot-button subject. The Trudeau government began the latest review into language rights in 2019, and this winter it revealed the results of its review and a plan to modify the Official Languages Act. But the issue seemed to get more political last summer, when the Conservative Party elected Erin O’Toole as its new leader, and O’Toole proceeded to forge a new relationship with Quebec’s premier, saying that issues of “Quebec identity” were “a priority” for him. O’Toole also said that, if elected prime minister, he would support a different federal legal amendment that Quebec had suggested to strengthen French within the province. About three months later, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was looking at various legislative options since he, too, was worried about French. “I completely agree with the former premiers of Quebec and [with] Quebecers who are concerned by the decline of the French language, and I am as well,” Trudeau said. Quebec’s provincial parties have generally also agreed that French needs bolstering, though they differ on how to achieve that. Legault said he will send a letter to the other premiers and to Trudeau to explain the new bill. Meanwhile, provincial minister Simon Jolin-Barrette suggested Thursday that Quebec has the right to unilaterally amend the section of the Constitution that outlines provinces’ legislative powers. It's not quite that simple, but making the change isn’t outside the scope of possibility either, said Bergman. A given province can, without the other provinces, make amendments that affect only the province in question, though the federal government does generally need to sign off. ‘A CONSTITUTIONAL CURVEBALL’ So far, the federal government hasn’t commented on Thursday’s newly tabled bill, including the constitutional proposal, except to say they’re reviewing it. The Prime Minister’s Office and the Conservative Party haven’t responded to requests for comment. Federal Official Languages Minister Melanie Joly said the government will study the proposals carefully—while also noting that linguistic minorities in every province need to be considered, too. "The situation of French in the country is special, and the government has the responsibility to protect and promote French not only outside Quebec, but within Quebec," she said. "Our government intends to do its part while continuing to protect the right of linguistic minorities." The Commissioner of Official Languages "can not speak to the intentions of the federal government with regards to" the proposed constitutional amendment," said a spokesperson for his office. "However, he is currently analyzing the legislative measures proposed in Bill 96, including the impact they might have on the vitality of Québec’s anglophone community." The move took many people by surprise, said Marlene Jennings, a former Liberal MP and now the head of a major group representing Quebec English speakers, the Quebec Community Groups’ Network. The group “is taken aback” by the idea of the federal change, it said in a release. “That’s a constitutional curveball we certainly were not expecting,” Jennings was quoted as saying. “This is a fundamental shift in the Canada/Quebec relationship and one we believe is unconstitutional,” she added. The bill adds up to “a closed-in, narrow vison of a Quebec that is increasingly distancing itself from the rest of Canada.” Bergman said he considers the proposed bill a dramatic change and “an attempt to legally, socially, culturally re-engineer” the province. “The CAQ government has gone where the Parti Québécois, since 1976, has feared to tread,” he said. “The bill purports to make, to enforce, to provoke [that] French [become] not only the official language of Quebec, but the common language of work, play and the public space,” he said. “All other languages would thus be rendered private.” A ‘DUTY’ TO USE NOTWITHSTANDING CLAUSE: LEGAULT The province’s use of the notwithstanding clause, or the “override clause,” underscores how much change the bill would bring, said Bergman. That clause allows provinces to pass legislation that likely wouldn’t stand up to legal challenges over Canadian rights and freedoms—it shields the laws from those challenges. It’s meant to be rarely used, only in very occasional scenarios when provinces need to assert their particular needs, but the CAQ government also recently used it to pass Bill 21. “The use of the notwithstanding clause, like [with] Bill 21, is disturbing,” said Bergman. “This bill is an attempt to basically negate individual freedom and liberty. It specifically says that the right to the French language and its use takes priority over every other right in the Quebec charter of rights and freedoms and the Canadian constitutional charter.” While he believes that “in many respects the bill is probably not constitutional,” said Bergman, “government has reached for every available tool to make [sure] this legislation is adopted as is.” Opposition parties had another take, with Quebec Solidaire and the Parti Québécois saying Thursday that the bill update had nothing extreme in it, and using the notwithstanding clause was just a way to create a tough appearance. "The government used the notwithstanding clause as a strategy of communication to say that we are strong to protect the French," said Quebec Solidaire MNA Ruba Ghazal. Legault defended the use of the notwithstanding clause, which he described as a "legitimate tool" to balance individual and collective rights. "We not only have the right, but we have the duty to use the notwithstanding clause, especially when the very foundation of our existence as a French-speaking nation is in play." --With files from The Canadian Press and CTV's Cindy Sherwin and Kelly Greig ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail. Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2023 18:15:33 -0300 Subject: Attn Pearl.Eliadis You should have shared my email with the cop who called me To: info@rights-law.net, mbrownstein@cotesaintluc.org, "Michael.Duheme" <Michael.Duheme@rcmp-grc.gc.ca <Marco.Mendicino@parl.gc.ca>, "kris.austin" <kris.austin@gnb.ca> Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com> On 6/17/23, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail. > https://www.cbc.ca/news/ > > Bilingual cities and towns in Quebec join forces to mount legal > challenge to Bill 96 > > Mayors say they're concerned about their municipalities' futures > Holly Cabrera · CBC News · Posted: Jun 08, 2023 5:00 AM ADT > > "Human rights lawyer Pearl Eliadis called the municipalities' legal > approach "more creative" because it doesn't mainly rely on challenging > the province's pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause of the > Canadian Constitution." > > https://www.rights-law.net/ > > Montreal, Quebec (Canada). Please call or email for courier delivery. > > @ info@rights-law.net > > Tel +1 514 344-5431 (office) > > Fax: +1 514 739-0308 > > Skype: Pearl.Eliadis > > > I believe Mitchell Brownstein should talk to the RCMP What say you? > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mitchell Brownstein <mbrownstein@cotesaintluc.org> > Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2023 19:03:47 +0000 > Subject: Re: Anna Gainey should remember this email EH Mr Housefather??? > To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail. > > David, > > I listened to you for 9 minutes on a Saturday, and you still have not > told me what you would like me to do? > > Mitch > > Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg > ______________________________ > From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail. > Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2023 2:37:51 PM > To: Mitchell Brownstein <mbrownstein@cotesaintluc.org> > Subject: Fwd: Anna Gainey should remember this email EH Mr Housefather??? > > https://davidraymondamos3. > > > Thursday, 15 June 2023 > > Language politics take centre stage in Montreal federal byelection > > > https://www.cbc.ca/news/ > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail. > Date: Mon, 29 May 2023 14:59:16 -0300 > Subject: Fwd Attn Adam Rodgers we just talked correct? > To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, paulpalango > <paulpalango@protonmail.com>, NightTimePodcast > <NightTimePodcast@gmail.com>, nsinvestigators > <nsinvestigators@gmail.com>, "Pineo, Robert" <rpineo@pattersonlaw.ca>, > adam@adamrodgers.ca > Cc: "Austin, Hon. Kris (JPS/JSP)" <Kris.Austin@gnb.ca>, "Comeau, Mike > (JPS/JSP)" <Mike.Comeau@gnb.ca>, "Désalliers, Judy (ECO/BCE)" > <Judy.Desalliers@gnb.ca>, "Brander, Heather (JPS/JSP)" > <Heather.Brander@gnb.ca>, "Johnston, Michael (JPS/JSP)" > <Michael.Johnston@gnb.ca>, "Oram, George (JPS/JSP)" > <George.Oram@gnb.ca>, "Wetmore, Ross (LEG)" <Ross.Wetmore@gnb.ca>, > "rob.moore" <rob.moore@parl.gc.ca>, "Williamson, John" > <john.williamson@parl.gc.ca>, "Robert. Jones" <Robert.Jones@cbc.ca>, > "Bobbi-Jean.MacKinnon" <Bobbi-Jean.MacKinnon@cbc.ca>, "Michael.Duheme" > <Michael.Duheme@rcmp-grc.gc.ca > <Marco.Mendicino@parl.gc.ca>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>, "Bill.Blair" > <Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca>, provincial.archives@gnb.ca, gazette@gnb.ca, > oldmaison@yahoo.com, "Coroner (JPS/JSP)" <Coroner@gnb.ca> > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> > Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 11:42:03 -0400 > Subject: Attn Adam Rodgers we just talked correct? > To: Adam@boudrotrodgers.com, "lyle.howe" <lyle.howe@eastlink.ca> > Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > <myson333@yahoo.com> > > https://boudrotrodgers.com/ > > > Adam Rodgers was called to the Nova Scotia Bar in 2005. Prior to > joining Boudrot Rodgers, Adam completed his articles with a major > Atlantic Canadian law firm in Halifax, before returning to Guysborough > to practice in his home area. Adam practices Commercial and Personal > Injury Litigation, Municipal Law, Criminal Defense, Divorce & Family > Law, as well as Real Estate and Corporate Commercial. > > Adam is active in sports, having played competitive fastpitch softball > on a local and national level. He volunteers as President of the > Strait Pirates Jr. B Hockey team, and is Past-President of the Strait > Area Chamber of Commerce. Adam is a past executive member of the Board > of Directors of the Mulgrave Road Theatre in Guysborough. > > Adam is the President of the Strait Area Barristers’ Society, and a > member of the Atlantic Provinces Trial Lawyers Association (APTLA) and > the American Association for Justice. > > You can follow Adam on Twitter @adamrodgersNS > > > ---------- 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 > > 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? > > > Vertias Vincit > David Raymond Amos > 902 800 0369 > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Kulik, John" <john.kulik@mcinnescooper.com> > Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 17:37:49 +0000 > Subject: McInnes Cooper > To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, > "david.raymond.amos@gmail.com" <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> > > Dear Mr. Amos: > > I am General Counsel for McInnes Cooper. If you need to communicate > with our firm, please do so through me. > > Thank you. > > John Kulik > [McInnes Cooper]<http://www. > > John Kulik Q.C. > Partner & General Counsel > McInnes Cooper > > tel +1 (902) 444 8571 | fax +1 (902) 425 6350 > > 1969 Upper Water Street > Suite 1300 > Purdy's Wharf Tower II Halifax, NS, B3J 2V1 > > asst Cathy Ohlhausen | +1 (902) 455 8215 > > > > Notice This communication, including any attachments, is confidential > and may be protected by solicitor/client privilege. It is intended > only for the person or persons to whom it is addressed. If you have > received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by e-mail or > telephone at McInnes Cooper's expense. Avis Les informations contenues > dans ce courriel, y compris toute(s) pièce(s) jointe(s), sont > confidentielles et peuvent faire l'objet d'un privilège avocat-client. > Les informations sont dirigées au(x) destinataire(s) seulement. Si > vous avez reçu ce courriel par erreur, veuillez en aviser l'expéditeur > par courriel ou par téléphone, aux frais de McInnes Cooper. > > > > 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 >>> >> > |
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