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A Saint John-born Trump supporter wants to power a data centre in Lorneville, New Brunswick. The community is fighting back
Credit: Save Lorneville Facebook group
Residents of Lorneville, N.B. had just a week’s notice to attend a public open house to learn more about a proposed data centre in an expanded area of an industrial park near their community. The notice came in the form of a letter delivered to residents’ homes on Oct. 29.
When the public session happened on Nov. 5, about 100 residents, including Adam Wilkins and his partner, Leah Alexander, attended.*
Also at the public session were Nathan Ough, president and CEO and co-founder of Texas-based VoltaGrid, and Joseph Shovlin, co-founder of Calgary-based Beacon AI. The two companies are proposing to build an AI data centre on 120 hectares of land in Spruce Lake Industrial Park, which is located across Highway 1 from Lorneville.
The meeting was advertised as a drop-in session where residents could learn about the data centre proposal. But Wilkins, Alexander, and other Lorneville residents took control of the meeting, rearranging chairs in the room to create a town-hall style meeting. Residents asked Ough and Shovlin lots of questions about the proposal.
A video of the meeting is on YouTube.
While Ough lives and works in Texas, he was born and raised in Saint John. He told the audience about his plans for the data centre, and more.
“If this ship is going to go, I want to make sure that capital and that investment happens in this community,” Ough said during the meeting. “I made a promise to my family, and my dad, who’s sitting back there, that some day, I would come home.”
The residents of Lorneville aren’t buying it, though. Lorneville residents have been fighting for their community for a long time. This proposal for a data centre is the latest in the battle.
Lorneville, which is west of Saint John, amalgamated with the city in 1967. In the 1970s, the province expropriated about 3,200 hectares of land from Lorneville to build the Coleson Cove Generating Station. A new city dump was built in Lorneville in the 1980s.
Now, 400 hectares of land that includes mature forests and wetlands will be the new site of the expanded industrial park. The residents of Lorneville have been fighting the rezoning of that land for the expansion for more than a year now. The industrial park expansion means industry will be just 150 metres from homes. Lorneville residents worry what that means for their community, including how being so close to industry will affect their wells.
In June, Katelin Belliveau at CBC New Brunswick reported that scientists from Mount Allison University found a 400-year-old spruce on that land. The forest in Lorneville is considered to be the third oldest in the province.
The land that will be rezoned is a natural buffer between the homes of Lorneville residents and the old dump that was opened in the 1980s that continues to leak runoff.
Lorneville has been fighting rezoning since 2024
I interviewed Wilkins on Nov. 14, the week after that public-session-turned-town-
Wilkins is from New Brunswick and lives in Lorneville. He said residents have concerns about the data centre, specifically how much water it will use and where power it needs will come from. But Wilkins said residents didn’t get the answers to their questions at that Nov. 5 town hall.
Wilkins described the meeting like the episode of the Simpsons “Marge vs. the Monorail” and compared Ough to the fast-talking salesman, Lyle Lanley.
“[Ough] sucked up a lot of air in the room and was the salesman and the showman,” Wilkins said. “He even had the same colour jacket [as Lanley].”
Lorneville has been documenting its fight in a Facebook group called Save Lorneville, which they created in July 2024.
It was that month, Wilkins said, when Lorneville residents got unmarked envelopes in their mailboxes with letters announcing that the City of Saint John wanted to rezone 647 hectares of land for possible heavy industrial use. The letter said residents were invited to a public meeting scheduled for two weeks later.
Lorneville residents attended that meeting on July 17, 2024. And just how they did at the Nov. 5 meeting for the data centre, they rearranged a public information session into a town hall.
But Saint John City council voted in favour of the rezoning during a third and final reading in July this year. The province approved the environmental impact assessment in September.
Wilkins said the community filed a judicial review of the decision and had a hearing earlier this month. Bruce Wark of The New Wark Times wrote about that review here.
“We’ve been fundraising because it’s not going to be cheap,” Wilkins said.
‘That’s no great confidence-instilling notion for us’
Wilkins said there were rumours about a possible data centre circulating at other meetings and in the community. But he said the community officially learned about the data centre proposal on Oct. 29 when they received those notices delivered to their doors.
On the Save Lorneville Facebook page, residents have shared posts and news stories about communities elsewhere and the environmental issues around those data centres.
Nadia Partners, a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Calgary, launched Beacon AI in 2023. Beacon AI hasn’t built any data centres yet, although it has six proposals for data centres in Alberta.
VoltaGrid is proposing to supply the power for the data centre in Lorneville. Ough said the data centre will need 380 megawatts of power and Volta will provide 190 megawatts of that power via a gas-fired plant on the data centre site.
The other 190 megawatts will come from NB Power’s grid starting in 2028.
In November 2023, New Brunswick banned NB Power from selling electricity to new cryptocurrency mining companies. HIVE Blockchain, a cryptocurrency company in New Brunswick that got in before that ban, uses 40 megawatts of power.
“This [data centre] is 190 megawatts,” Wilkins said. “No one knows if NB Power is going to allow them to have the 190. I would think they’d already have to have that arrangement in place, or they wouldn’t have got this far with things.”
Wilkins said Ough and Shovlin couldn’t respond to questions about how much water the data centre will use. Wilkins said it sounds as though the companies will use a closed-loop system that may use less water than other AI data centres, but Ough and Shovlin couldn’t be more specific.
“That’s no great confidence-instilling notion for us,” Wilkins said.
Spruce Lake, which is across the road from Lorneville, is used only for industry now. New Brunswick, like Nova Scotia, experienced months of drought this year. Wilkins said he’s never seen local lakes so low.
“They’ve said they can supply enough water, but I’m assuming all the other municipalities in the States and all these other places that have had issues with data centres have also said they can supply the water,” Wilkins said.
“If they can’t answer how much water they require, I don’t know how the city can say how much water they can use.”
As for what customers the AI data centre will serve, Wilkins said Ough and Shovlin dropped big names like Meta and Oracle.
Ough says data centre will be ‘gargantuan economic driver‘
Residents
of Lorneville and area gathered on Nov. 5 to hear a presentation from
BeaconAI and VoltaGrid about an AI data centre in Spruce Lake Industrial
Park. Credit: Save Lorneville Facebook groupNipun Tiwari with CBC New Brunswick was at that town hall and wrote this story. Tiwari wrote:
Ough spoke to reporters and to the community about common criticisms about data centres, including their drain on power grids and that they don’t meaningfully provide long-term, permanent jobs beyond construction.
He said the project will be a “gargantuan economic driver” that would bring over 200 permanent, full-time jobs.
It will be fueled by an on-site, natural-gas generating system. This, according to Ough, “will generate about half of the power consumption of the data centre, really mitigating any grid disruption risks.” He also said the facility will consume nearly zero water.
Residents said this doesn’t square with the promise that came with expansion: that it would only be open to non-emitting projects. Ough said the plant would use what he called a “reactive catalyst” that would essentially eliminate pollutants.
“We’re committing to 98 per cent emissions abatement on the site, which would be the cleanest burning natural gas power plant in Canada,” he said.
Ough is ‘the rare Canadian to voice support for Trump’
Nathan Ough, president and CEO of Volta Grid. Credit: Volta Grid
On Nov. 14, I emailed Ough at VoltaGrid to request an interview to talk about the data centre. I haven’t heard back, however, there’s been a lot reported about Ough and his work.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Ough graduated from the University of New Brunswick (UNB) and holds a bachelor of business administration in finance and economics.
From 2006 to 2009, he completed three co-op placements as a financial analyst with Irving Oil. He then spent almost two years at Macquarie Group in Calgary working as an investment banker.
He was the founder and vice-president of Certarus Ltd., a natural gas firm based in Houston, TX from 2011 to 2020. He co-founded VoltaGrid in 2020.
This story by Benoît Morenne in the Wall Street Journal published in April details much of Ough’s background and ambitions. In fact, the headline sums it up: “Meet the Canadian Fossil-Fuels CEO Who Wants to Power Trump’s America.”
The tone of Ough’s words and the details of his ambitions in Morenne’s article are certainly the opposite of what he had to say at the town hall in Lorneville: that he wanted to support the community and move home to New Brunswick.
From the story:
Ough, 37 years old, is the rare Canadian to voice support for Trump, who has all but incinerated the U.S.-Canada friendship. He says the president’s embrace of fossil fuels, his cutting red tape for data-center development, and his focus on bringing industries back to the U.S. are all boons for VoltaGrid.
“Trump gets up there and says, ‘drill, baby, drill’ and ‘data center,’” said Ough, who is VoltaGrid’s chief executive. “Those are literally the intersection of our entire existence.”
While VoltaGrid mostly services the oil patch, it has entered the data-center market with a bang. It recently reached a deal to deploy more than 1 gigawatt of power across developer Vantage Data Centers’s North American campuses—about as much as San Francisco uses. It also has had discussions with Oracle about potentially electrifying its data centers, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Ough is a self-described nerd who, as a child, collected extension cords from all over the world. A little-known name inside the energy industry just a few years ago, he now plays matchmaker between Big Tech and Big Oil. He cultivates relationships with Trump allies and makes frequent appearances on conservative media channels—some which have compared him with Elon Musk.
Morenne writes that Ough doesn’t consider himself a “raging conservative.” Still, Ough donated $111,000 to the Republican National Committee, and as of the April publication date of the article, had plans to travel to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
“I just want to build s—in America,” Ough told Morenne.
‘We’re going to undermine our targets to cut carbon emissions’
Green Party Leader David Coon. Credit: Stephen MacGillivray/New Brunswick Legislature
David Coon, the leader of the Green Party in New Brunswick, was also at that Nov. 5 town hall with Lorneville residents.
I interviewed Coon on Nov. 17 to learn more about his and the party’s concerns about the AI data centre. Coon said the biggest concern is the “extraordinary demand” for electricity on the provincial grid.
Ough has said Volta will generate 190 megawatts for the project and get the other 190 megawatts it needs from NB Power’s grid. Coon said NB Power “doesn’t have 190 megawatts to spare.”
“When you have these big, new demands for electricity…it can drive up power rates because it requires new generation to be built,” Coon said. “And, of course, with that new generation, it’s carbon-based, and we’re going to undermine our targets to cut carbon emissions in the province.”
Coon said Volta and Beacon AI still need permits and assessments to go ahead. He said it’s unclear if NB Power can provide the 190 megawatts. However, the utility is planning on building a natural gas plant in Tantramar.
“It’s intended to come online the same time the AI data centre is supposed to come online,” Coon said.
Cloe Logan at National Observer wrote about that project here. Residents and environmental advocates are concerned about how that project will affect migratory birds and other wildlife.
“We shouldn’t be building more carbon-based power generation,” Coon said. “That’s just going to make the climate crisis worse.”
In this story on Nov. 12, Jacques Poitras at CBC New Brunswick reported that Ough wrote in an email that there’s “zero link” between the proposed data centre and the proposed gas plant for Tantramar. From Poitras’ story:
Ough also told CBC News Monday that because the data centre would have its own power generation, it should not be seen as a “demand hog,” but as a project that could contribute electricity back onto the grid during periods of peak demand.
Such data centres “are amazing assets for the grid.”
‘We’re a tiny utility. It’s not like we’re Ontario’
Coon said the Green Party is concerned about the power demands not only of this AI data centre, but others that may follow.
“NB Power and the province, through the terms of the Electricity Act, don’t seem to have yet, at least not publicly, done any thinking of how do you make decisions about who gets prioritized for new power,” Coon said.
“We’re a tiny utility. It’s not like we’re Ontario. We’re a small utility, so when you add something massive and new that’s not incremental in terms of demand on the grid… this is a jump in demand, massive.”
Coon said Quebec has brought in legislation that says any power user over a certain amount of usage has to apply for access to power. That’s Bill 69, which was introduced in the Quebec legislature this summer.
“That gives Quebec the ability who to prioritize,” Coon said. “We need something like that.”
The Alberta government, meanwhile, will allow AI data centres to bring their own power with them. As Rukhsar Ali with CBC Alberta reported last week, the province is already out of power for two data centres near Edmonton.
Ali reports that the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) has a list of 37 data centre proposals in its queue that can either bring their own power or wait for the provincial grid to catch up.
“A few provinces have been grappling with how to deal when AI data centres come to town with their huge demand for electricity,” Coon said.
“This is way more than any single pulp mill or sawmill. It’s on a scale that’s not in keeping with any conventional industrial development that might come along.”
Coon said the proposal is a surprise given that jurisdictions such as British Columbia and Quebec have cheaper power rates than New Brunswick.
“My feeling is there are discussions that have happened under the surface and deals in the making that haven’t emerged or broken the surface yet,” Coon said.
Coon said New Brunswick’s Lobbyist Registration Act doesn’t require the Minister responsible for Opportunities New Brunswick Luke Randall or Premier Susan Holt’s office to register.
“We can’t see whom is lobbying who on this at all,” Coon said.
‘We have to do both things in a responsible way’
Minister of Justice and Attorney General Sean Fraser was the keynote speaker at an event hosted by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce on Nov. 10. Fraser, who is also the minister for ACOA, spoke about the federal budget, which includes $1 billion to build “sovereign” public AI infrastructure in Canada.
The federal budget was passed on Nov. 17.
I wrote this story about Fraser’s conversation at the chamber event and his answer to my question about the spending on AI during a media scrum held when the event wrapped up. From the story:
Fraser said there is change happening in technology whether governments recognize it or not, and it’s up to the government to manage those changes responsibly and to protect Canadians’ data and interests.
“We made a decision to ensure the infrastructure we support is sovereign in nature, that it’s Canadian controlled,” Fraser said. “Left to its own devices, we’re going to see data centres, we’re going to see AI, but deployed by businesses and countries that do not have the best interests of Canadians at heart.”
I also asked Fraser about Canadians who are concerned about the environmental impacts of AI-related data centres, including on water and energy sources, and what those Canadians can do.
Here’s what Fraser said.
We obviously need to make sure people have the basics. In fact, the budget also includes significant investments to deal with the cost of infrastructure at a local level. We don’t necessarily have to choose between one or another, but we have to do both things in a responsible way.
If people do have concerns about the significant power consumption of AI data centres, they should be talking about how we can generate more electricity in a renewable way. We should also be having a conversation in how we go about doing that to ensure we do it in a way that creates economic opportunities for people who live in our communities.
Fraser said anyone who has concerns about AI data centres can always contact their MP, MLA, or local councillors.
“It’s why we’re here,” Fraser said.
Fraser and his colleagues at every order of government may have more to answer for, though.
On Wednesday, The Breach published this article by Jim Thomas about what Prime Minster Mark Carney’s government must do when the AI bubble bursts.
The first sign of a pin poking the bubble is that on the weekend, Peter Thiel sold off all his personal investments in Nvidia. That’s the firm whose microchips make generative AI possible.
Thomas writes that Carney’s government must not bail out the tech giants when the AI bubble bursts, but rather protect working-class Canadians, you know, like the people of Lorneville.
Thomas writes:
Ignoring this looming financial threat and the already catastrophic strain on energy, water, and social trust is no longer an option. The first order of the day must be an urgent national mobilization to assess, insulate, and protect our country from the now-towering likelihood of a collapse, however soon or long it takes.
To move from denial to defence, the government must immediately introduce and fight for legislation that insulates our pensions, public funds, and public services from this systemic risk, convening the Bank of Canada and pension managers to prepare for an AI-driven economic crash.
Concurrently, the government must start a national assessment, launching a comprehensive evaluation across the five key areas of fragility: finance, economy, environment, democracy, and psychological well-being. Ottawa should also immediately implement a spending and infrastructure pause, halting the approval of new AI data centres and stopping new departmental spending on AI until the assessment’s recommendations are delivered.
‘We’re dealing with a goldrush mentality’
I asked Coon about “digital sovereignty” and the federal government’s $1 billion spending to build AI infrastructure given that many AI data centres, including the one proposed for Lorneville, have connections to the United States.
Coon said he’s spoken about this in the New Brunswick legislature, noting that the proposed gas plant for Tantramar also has U.S. connections.
“When we’re trying to distance ourselves from our economic dependence on the U.S., why would we make ourselves dependent on electricity generation by a U.S. company using U.S. gas. It doesn’t make any sense,” Coon said.
“You could argue the same question around these AI data centres.”
Coon said he and the Green Party continue to work on the power consumption for the AI data centres because it has implications for the power rates of everyone in New Brunswick, as well as for carbon emissions.
“If you look at all these companies, a lot of them are very young and they’re popping up all over the place to try and cash in on what may be a bubble that will burst,” Coon said.
“Right now, we’re dealing with a goldrush mentality and that’s left provincial governments with their pants down, not prepared for that in terms of all the dimensions [and] the issues that need to be addressed.”
‘I know the dealings are already done’
Adams Wilkins said it’s not sovereign to have Canadian data stored by an American company, even if the data centre is on Canadian soil.
“The data centre can be viewed as a shell and what’s inside — for computers and systems and all of that — is based on the customer. If it’s a U.S-based company, pick them, Microsoft, Meta… they’ll dictate what they want,” Wilkins said.
“If it’s a Canadian company but all the investors are American, is that Canadian?”
Wilkins said he doesn’t know all the motivations behind the building of AI data centres, but sees how people are jumping on the bandwagon. He said no one in Lorneville will benefit. Wilkins said he also wonders about the effects the noise, light, and pollution will have on Lorneville.
“When it comes down to it, how many people from our little village will actually be employed there and benefit, compared to hundreds of acres of mature forest and old growth forest…nothing is going to outweigh that.”
The Atlantic Canada Climate Network (ACCN) is putting its support behind Lorneville and its residents, too. It has created this petition asking New Brunswick to halt the conversion of Lorneville into a heavy industrial use park.
The ACCN also has this petition urging the province to designate 870 acres in Lorneville for conservation.
Wilkins said he’d like to take Ough and Shovlin on a hike through the land where the data centre will be located. Members of Save Lorneville took New Brunswick’s Minister of Natural Resources John Herron on a hike through the community’s forest in July, before the community knew about the data centre.
Wilkins said he also wants to get more information on the power and water usage and what the data centre will do to the community.
Save Lorneville still has the judicial review about the rezoning, and Wilkins said he and other residents will continue to meet with environmental groups to learn all they can.
“I know the dealings are already done,” Wilkins said. “These things don’t happen without years of planning and backroom deals…everyone is tied to this big system. It’s just optics.”
*A previous version of this story had an incorrect surname for Leah Alexander.
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N.B. Power needs gas plant approval before April 2, or the deal may be off
‘Urgent shortage’ of turbines gives U.S. company incentive to cancel agreement, and get paid more elsewhere
N.B.
Power will bring its 500MW gas plant deal before the Energy and
Utilities board in February, about one month earlier than originally
planned. (CBC News)N.B. Power is warning that the U.S. company it hired to build and run a billion-dollar gas plant could walk away in April — a move that would set the project back years, and possibly lead to power shortages in the province.
N.B. Power’s top financial officer said that ProEnergy has an ‘economic incentive’ to abandon the Tantramar gas plant deal if a regulatory deadline is not met.
In a statement submitted to the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board, N.B. Power Chief Financial Officer Justin Urquhart asked the board to help the utility meet a deadline in its contract with ProEnergy by moving up the hearing on the project.
The hearing is now scheduled for Feb. 9 to 13, 2026.
Cancellation could mean energy shortfalls, says N.B. Power
The contract with ProEnergy was signed on July 2, 2025, and includes a condition that gives N.B. Power nine months – until April 2, 2026 – to get Energy and Utilities Board approval.
Otherwise, ProEnergy has the right to pull out of the deal. That would leave N.B. Power back at square one in its procurement process, and facing higher costs and years-long delays, if the utility tries again to build a similar project.
N.B. Power has warned the gas plant is needed to prevent a power capacity shortage it predicts could come by winter 2028. In an email, utility spokesperson Elizabeth Fraser said the gas plant is the “most optimal solution,” to tackle the potential shortage.
The
Brotman Generating Station in Rosharon, Texas, has similar components
and layout as the proposed project that ProEnergy would build in
Tantramar. The EUB will hear arguments for and against the project in a
hearing Feb. 9 to 13, 2026. (Submitted by ProEnergy)“If we were to start over, ... it's likely we wouldn't be able to deliver a solution until 2031, leaving the potential for generation shortfalls between 2028-2032,” Fraser wrote.
Tantramar MLA Megan Mitton, whose riding is home to the proposed site for the gas plant, said she wants N.B. Power to consider other solutions.
“I actually would like for this contract to fall through,” said Mitton. “And N.B. Power can pursue a different pathway– renewable energy and storage and energy efficiency–and really throw everything at that.”
N.B. Power asked for extension
Urquhart said the utility tried to negotiate a deadline extension with ProEnergy, but the company drove too hard a bargain, with commercial terms “not acceptable to N.B. Power.”
Urquhart said there’s an “urgent shortage” of combustion turbine engines like the ones ProEnergy plans to install and run in rural Tantramar. That means new projects could face “at least a 20 per cent increase in costs as compared to projects already in the production queue.” He also warned that new projects could see a “lead time of approximately 5 to 6 years or more.”
“Economic leverage has shifted entirely to suppliers,” wrote Urquhart, “with project cancellations becoming opportunities to repurpose units at higher prices.”
Attempt to avoid review contributed to delay
The time crunch N.B. Power is currently facing is in part a result of one of its early decisions, said Mitton.
“One of the reasons that they're running out of time is that they tried to avoid going to the [board] in the first place,” said Mitton.
Tantramar
MLA Megan Mitton said she'd like to see the agreement with ProEnergy
fall through, and for N.B. Power to pursue a 'different pathway' to
energy security. (Michel Corriveau / Radio Canada)Shortly after signing its contract with ProEnergy in July, N.B. Power asked the board to exempt the agreement from review, arguing it was actually not in the jurisdiction of the board.
Nearly three months later in mid-October, that argument was rejected by the board, and N.B. Power was left to begin the review process with its regulator.
Site change already contributed to cost increase
The total cost of the 25-year agreement with ProEnergy is unknown, but is already higher than N.B. Power originally anticipated, according to new evidence the utility has submitted to the Energy and Utilities board.
“The negotiating process took longer than was assumed,” reads the N.B. Power document, citing the change in proposed locations for the plant, and discussions over the scope of the work.
N.B. Power originally told reporters it was working on a site in the Scoudouc Industrial Park for the ten turbine gas plant, but then changed its mind in February 2025 in favour of Centre Village, in rural Tantramar.
The “protracted negotiations led to cost increases due to supply chain pressures on aeroderivative combustion turbine units,” reads the N.B. Power document.
P.E.I. utility and ‘third party’ also affected
A potential cancellation of N.B. Power’s contract with ProEnergy could cause issues for others related to the project.
In its filings, N.B. Power said it is negotiating a deal with a third party in the Maritimes to buy 100MW of generating capacity in addition to the original 400MW the utility said it needs from the new gas plant.
N.B.
Power Vice President Brad Coady testified before the public accounts
committee of the New Brunswick legislature on October 10, 2025. (Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick webcam)It also says the “expansion opportunity” will reduce overall costs for N.B. Power ratepayers, because it can charge the third party a premium for the extra power.
It’s not clear who the third party is, and N.B. Power said it has yet to sign a proposed 10-year agreement for the 100MW expansion.
According to documents filed by P.E.I.’s Maritime Electric, the Island utility is not looking to expand the electricity it imports from New Brunswick, but it is hoping to piggyback on the deal N.B. Power is striking with ProEnergy.
Maritime Electric is seeking permission from its regulator to spend $334 million to install two of the U.S. company’s aeroderivative gas turbines on the Island.
In Nova Scotia, the new independent body responsible for managing the province’s grid has issued a request for expressions of interest for “fast acting natural gas generation”. In an emailed statement, the grid operator said it can’t confirm whether it is also pursuing agreements to buy additional power from N.B. Power.
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A Saint John-born Trump supporter wants to power a data centre in Lorneville, New Brunswick. The community is fighting back
Credit: Save Lorneville Facebook groupResidents of Lorneville, N.B. had just a week’s notice to attend a public open house to learn more about a proposed data centre in an expanded area of an industrial park near their community. The notice came in the form of a letter delivered to residents’ homes on Oct. 29.
When the public session happened on Nov. 5, about 100 residents, including Adam Wilkins and his partner, Leah Alexander, attended.*
Also at the public session were Nathan Ough, president and CEO and co-founder of Texas-based VoltaGrid, and Joseph Shovlin, co-founder of Calgary-based Beacon AI. The two companies are proposing to build an AI data centre on 120 hectares of land in Spruce Lake Industrial Park, which is located across Highway 1 from Lorneville.
The meeting was advertised as a drop-in session where residents could learn about the data centre proposal. But Wilkins, Alexander, and other Lorneville residents took control of the meeting, rearranging chairs in the room to create a town-hall style meeting. Residents asked Ough and Shovlin lots of questions about the proposal.
A video of the meeting is on YouTube.
While Ough lives and works in Texas, he was born and raised in Saint John. He told the audience about his plans for the data centre, and more.
“If this ship is going to go, I want to make sure that capital and that investment happens in this community,” Ough said during the meeting. “I made a promise to my family, and my dad, who’s sitting back there, that some day, I would come home.”
The residents of Lorneville aren’t buying it, though. Lorneville residents have been fighting for their community for a long time. This proposal for a data centre is the latest in the battle.
Lorneville, which is west of Saint John, amalgamated with the city in 1967. In the 1970s, the province expropriated about 3,200 hectares of land from Lorneville to build the Coleson Cove Generating Station. A new city dump was built in Lorneville in the 1980s.
Now, 400 hectares of land that includes mature forests and wetlands will be the new site of the expanded industrial park. The residents of Lorneville have been fighting the rezoning of that land for the expansion for more than a year now. The industrial park expansion means industry will be just 150 metres from homes. Lorneville residents worry what that means for their community, including how being so close to industry will affect their wells.
In June, Katelin Belliveau at CBC New Brunswick reported that scientists from Mount Allison University found a 400-year-old spruce on that land. The forest in Lorneville is considered to be the third oldest in the province.
The land that will be rezoned is a natural buffer between the homes of Lorneville residents and the old dump that was opened in the 1980s that continues to leak runoff.
Lorneville has been fighting rezoning since 2024
I interviewed Wilkins on Nov. 14, the week after that public-session-turned-town-
Wilkins is from New Brunswick and lives in Lorneville. He said residents have concerns about the data centre, specifically how much water it will use and where power it needs will come from. But Wilkins said residents didn’t get the answers to their questions at that Nov. 5 town hall.
Wilkins described the meeting like the episode of the Simpsons “Marge vs. the Monorail” and compared Ough to the fast-talking salesman, Lyle Lanley.
“[Ough] sucked up a lot of air in the room and was the salesman and the showman,” Wilkins said. “He even had the same colour jacket [as Lanley].”
Lorneville has been documenting its fight in a Facebook group called Save Lorneville, which they created in July 2024.
It was that month, Wilkins said, when Lorneville residents got unmarked envelopes in their mailboxes with letters announcing that the City of Saint John wanted to rezone 647 hectares of land for possible heavy industrial use. The letter said residents were invited to a public meeting scheduled for two weeks later.
Lorneville residents attended that meeting on July 17, 2024. And just how they did at the Nov. 5 meeting for the data centre, they rearranged a public information session into a town hall.
But Saint John City council voted in favour of the rezoning during a third and final reading in July this year. The province approved the environmental impact assessment in September.
Wilkins said the community filed a judicial review of the decision and had a hearing earlier this month. Bruce Wark of The New Wark Times wrote about that review here.
“We’ve been fundraising because it’s not going to be cheap,” Wilkins said.
‘That’s no great confidence-instilling notion for us’
Wilkins said there were rumours about a possible data centre circulating at other meetings and in the community. But he said the community officially learned about the data centre proposal on Oct. 29 when they received those notices delivered to their doors.
On the Save Lorneville Facebook page, residents have shared posts and news stories about communities elsewhere and the environmental issues around those data centres.
Nadia Partners, a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Calgary, launched Beacon AI in 2023. Beacon AI hasn’t built any data centres yet, although it has six proposals for data centres in Alberta.
VoltaGrid is proposing to supply the power for the data centre in Lorneville. Ough said the data centre will need 380 megawatts of power and Volta will provide 190 megawatts of that power via a gas-fired plant on the data centre site.
The other 190 megawatts will come from NB Power’s grid starting in 2028.
In November 2023, New Brunswick banned NB Power from selling electricity to new cryptocurrency mining companies. HIVE Blockchain, a cryptocurrency company in New Brunswick that got in before that ban, uses 40 megawatts of power.
“This [data centre] is 190 megawatts,” Wilkins said. “No one knows if NB Power is going to allow them to have the 190. I would think they’d already have to have that arrangement in place, or they wouldn’t have got this far with things.”
Wilkins said Ough and Shovlin couldn’t respond to questions about how much water the data centre will use. Wilkins said it sounds as though the companies will use a closed-loop system that may use less water than other AI data centres, but Ough and Shovlin couldn’t be more specific.
“That’s no great confidence-instilling notion for us,” Wilkins said.
Spruce Lake, which is across the road from Lorneville, is used only for industry now. New Brunswick, like Nova Scotia, experienced months of drought this year. Wilkins said he’s never seen local lakes so low.
“They’ve said they can supply enough water, but I’m assuming all the other municipalities in the States and all these other places that have had issues with data centres have also said they can supply the water,” Wilkins said.
“If they can’t answer how much water they require, I don’t know how the city can say how much water they can use.”
As for what customers the AI data centre will serve, Wilkins said Ough and Shovlin dropped big names like Meta and Oracle.
Ough says data centre will be ‘gargantuan economic driver‘
Residents
of Lorneville and area gathered on Nov. 5 to hear a presentation from
BeaconAI and VoltaGrid about an AI data centre in Spruce Lake Industrial
Park. Credit: Save Lorneville Facebook groupNipun Tiwari with CBC New Brunswick was at that town hall and wrote this story. Tiwari wrote:
Ough spoke to reporters and to the community about common criticisms about data centres, including their drain on power grids and that they don’t meaningfully provide long-term, permanent jobs beyond construction.
He said the project will be a “gargantuan economic driver” that would bring over 200 permanent, full-time jobs.
It will be fueled by an on-site, natural-gas generating system. This, according to Ough, “will generate about half of the power consumption of the data centre, really mitigating any grid disruption risks.” He also said the facility will consume nearly zero water.
Residents said this doesn’t square with the promise that came with expansion: that it would only be open to non-emitting projects. Ough said the plant would use what he called a “reactive catalyst” that would essentially eliminate pollutants.
“We’re committing to 98 per cent emissions abatement on the site, which would be the cleanest burning natural gas power plant in Canada,” he said.
Ough is ‘the rare Canadian to voice support for Trump’
Nathan Ough, president and CEO of Volta Grid. Credit: Volta Grid
On Nov. 14, I emailed Ough at VoltaGrid to request an interview to talk about the data centre. I haven’t heard back, however, there’s been a lot reported about Ough and his work.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Ough graduated from the University of New Brunswick (UNB) and holds a bachelor of business administration in finance and economics.
From 2006 to 2009, he completed three co-op placements as a financial analyst with Irving Oil. He then spent almost two years at Macquarie Group in Calgary working as an investment banker.
He was the founder and vice-president of Certarus Ltd., a natural gas firm based in Houston, TX from 2011 to 2020. He co-founded VoltaGrid in 2020.
This story by Benoît Morenne in the Wall Street Journal published in April details much of Ough’s background and ambitions. In fact, the headline sums it up: “Meet the Canadian Fossil-Fuels CEO Who Wants to Power Trump’s America.”
The tone of Ough’s words and the details of his ambitions in Morenne’s article are certainly the opposite of what he had to say at the town hall in Lorneville: that he wanted to support the community and move home to New Brunswick.
From the story:
Ough, 37 years old, is the rare Canadian to voice support for Trump, who has all but incinerated the U.S.-Canada friendship. He says the president’s embrace of fossil fuels, his cutting red tape for data-center development, and his focus on bringing industries back to the U.S. are all boons for VoltaGrid.
“Trump gets up there and says, ‘drill, baby, drill’ and ‘data center,’” said Ough, who is VoltaGrid’s chief executive. “Those are literally the intersection of our entire existence.”
While VoltaGrid mostly services the oil patch, it has entered the data-center market with a bang. It recently reached a deal to deploy more than 1 gigawatt of power across developer Vantage Data Centers’s North American campuses—about as much as San Francisco uses. It also has had discussions with Oracle about potentially electrifying its data centers, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Ough is a self-described nerd who, as a child, collected extension cords from all over the world. A little-known name inside the energy industry just a few years ago, he now plays matchmaker between Big Tech and Big Oil. He cultivates relationships with Trump allies and makes frequent appearances on conservative media channels—some which have compared him with Elon Musk.
Morenne writes that Ough doesn’t consider himself a “raging conservative.” Still, Ough donated $111,000 to the Republican National Committee, and as of the April publication date of the article, had plans to travel to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
“I just want to build s—in America,” Ough told Morenne.
‘We’re going to undermine our targets to cut carbon emissions’
Green Party Leader David Coon. Credit: Stephen MacGillivray/New Brunswick Legislature
David Coon, the leader of the Green Party in New Brunswick, was also at that Nov. 5 town hall with Lorneville residents.
I interviewed Coon on Nov. 17 to learn more about his and the party’s concerns about the AI data centre. Coon said the biggest concern is the “extraordinary demand” for electricity on the provincial grid.
Ough has said Volta will generate 190 megawatts for the project and get the other 190 megawatts it needs from NB Power’s grid. Coon said NB Power “doesn’t have 190 megawatts to spare.”
“When you have these big, new demands for electricity…it can drive up power rates because it requires new generation to be built,” Coon said. “And, of course, with that new generation, it’s carbon-based, and we’re going to undermine our targets to cut carbon emissions in the province.”
Coon said Volta and Beacon AI still need permits and assessments to go ahead. He said it’s unclear if NB Power can provide the 190 megawatts. However, the utility is planning on building a natural gas plant in Tantramar.
“It’s intended to come online the same time the AI data centre is supposed to come online,” Coon said.
Cloe Logan at National Observer wrote about that project here. Residents and environmental advocates are concerned about how that project will affect migratory birds and other wildlife.
“We shouldn’t be building more carbon-based power generation,” Coon said. “That’s just going to make the climate crisis worse.”
In this story on Nov. 12, Jacques Poitras at CBC New Brunswick reported that Ough wrote in an email that there’s “zero link” between the proposed data centre and the proposed gas plant for Tantramar. From Poitras’ story:
Ough also told CBC News Monday that because the data centre would have its own power generation, it should not be seen as a “demand hog,” but as a project that could contribute electricity back onto the grid during periods of peak demand.
Such data centres “are amazing assets for the grid.”
‘We’re a tiny utility. It’s not like we’re Ontario’
Coon said the Green Party is concerned about the power demands not only of this AI data centre, but others that may follow.
“NB Power and the province, through the terms of the Electricity Act, don’t seem to have yet, at least not publicly, done any thinking of how do you make decisions about who gets prioritized for new power,” Coon said.
“We’re a tiny utility. It’s not like we’re Ontario. We’re a small utility, so when you add something massive and new that’s not incremental in terms of demand on the grid… this is a jump in demand, massive.”
Coon said Quebec has brought in legislation that says any power user over a certain amount of usage has to apply for access to power. That’s Bill 69, which was introduced in the Quebec legislature this summer.
“That gives Quebec the ability who to prioritize,” Coon said. “We need something like that.”
The Alberta government, meanwhile, will allow AI data centres to bring their own power with them. As Rukhsar Ali with CBC Alberta reported last week, the province is already out of power for two data centres near Edmonton.
Ali reports that the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) has a list of 37 data centre proposals in its queue that can either bring their own power or wait for the provincial grid to catch up.
“A few provinces have been grappling with how to deal when AI data centres come to town with their huge demand for electricity,” Coon said.
“This is way more than any single pulp mill or sawmill. It’s on a scale that’s not in keeping with any conventional industrial development that might come along.”
Coon said the proposal is a surprise given that jurisdictions such as British Columbia and Quebec have cheaper power rates than New Brunswick.
“My feeling is there are discussions that have happened under the surface and deals in the making that haven’t emerged or broken the surface yet,” Coon said.
Coon said New Brunswick’s Lobbyist Registration Act doesn’t require the Minister responsible for Opportunities New Brunswick Luke Randall or Premier Susan Holt’s office to register.
“We can’t see whom is lobbying who on this at all,” Coon said.
‘We have to do both things in a responsible way’
Minister of Justice and Attorney General Sean Fraser was the keynote speaker at an event hosted by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce on Nov. 10. Fraser, who is also the minister for ACOA, spoke about the federal budget, which includes $1 billion to build “sovereign” public AI infrastructure in Canada.
The federal budget was passed on Nov. 17.
I wrote this story about Fraser’s conversation at the chamber event and his answer to my question about the spending on AI during a media scrum held when the event wrapped up. From the story:
Fraser said there is change happening in technology whether governments recognize it or not, and it’s up to the government to manage those changes responsibly and to protect Canadians’ data and interests.
“We made a decision to ensure the infrastructure we support is sovereign in nature, that it’s Canadian controlled,” Fraser said. “Left to its own devices, we’re going to see data centres, we’re going to see AI, but deployed by businesses and countries that do not have the best interests of Canadians at heart.”
I also asked Fraser about Canadians who are concerned about the environmental impacts of AI-related data centres, including on water and energy sources, and what those Canadians can do.
Here’s what Fraser said.
We obviously need to make sure people have the basics. In fact, the budget also includes significant investments to deal with the cost of infrastructure at a local level. We don’t necessarily have to choose between one or another, but we have to do both things in a responsible way.
If people do have concerns about the significant power consumption of AI data centres, they should be talking about how we can generate more electricity in a renewable way. We should also be having a conversation in how we go about doing that to ensure we do it in a way that creates economic opportunities for people who live in our communities.
Fraser said anyone who has concerns about AI data centres can always contact their MP, MLA, or local councillors.
“It’s why we’re here,” Fraser said.
Fraser and his colleagues at every order of government may have more to answer for, though.
On Wednesday, The Breach published this article by Jim Thomas about what Prime Minster Mark Carney’s government must do when the AI bubble bursts.
The first sign of a pin poking the bubble is that on the weekend, Peter Thiel sold off all his personal investments in Nvidia. That’s the firm whose microchips make generative AI possible.
Thomas writes that Carney’s government must not bail out the tech giants when the AI bubble bursts, but rather protect working-class Canadians, you know, like the people of Lorneville.
Thomas writes:
Ignoring this looming financial threat and the already catastrophic strain on energy, water, and social trust is no longer an option. The first order of the day must be an urgent national mobilization to assess, insulate, and protect our country from the now-towering likelihood of a collapse, however soon or long it takes.
To move from denial to defence, the government must immediately introduce and fight for legislation that insulates our pensions, public funds, and public services from this systemic risk, convening the Bank of Canada and pension managers to prepare for an AI-driven economic crash.
Concurrently, the government must start a national assessment, launching a comprehensive evaluation across the five key areas of fragility: finance, economy, environment, democracy, and psychological well-being. Ottawa should also immediately implement a spending and infrastructure pause, halting the approval of new AI data centres and stopping new departmental spending on AI until the assessment’s recommendations are delivered.
‘We’re dealing with a goldrush mentality’
I asked Coon about “digital sovereignty” and the federal government’s $1 billion spending to build AI infrastructure given that many AI data centres, including the one proposed for Lorneville, have connections to the United States.
Coon said he’s spoken about this in the New Brunswick legislature, noting that the proposed gas plant for Tantramar also has U.S. connections.
“When we’re trying to distance ourselves from our economic dependence on the U.S., why would we make ourselves dependent on electricity generation by a U.S. company using U.S. gas. It doesn’t make any sense,” Coon said.
“You could argue the same question around these AI data centres.”
Coon said he and the Green Party continue to work on the power consumption for the AI data centres because it has implications for the power rates of everyone in New Brunswick, as well as for carbon emissions.
“If you look at all these companies, a lot of them are very young and they’re popping up all over the place to try and cash in on what may be a bubble that will burst,” Coon said.
“Right now, we’re dealing with a goldrush mentality and that’s left provincial governments with their pants down, not prepared for that in terms of all the dimensions [and] the issues that need to be addressed.”
‘I know the dealings are already done’
Adams Wilkins said it’s not sovereign to have Canadian data stored by an American company, even if the data centre is on Canadian soil.
“The data centre can be viewed as a shell and what’s inside — for computers and systems and all of that — is based on the customer. If it’s a U.S-based company, pick them, Microsoft, Meta… they’ll dictate what they want,” Wilkins said.
“If it’s a Canadian company but all the investors are American, is that Canadian?”
Wilkins said he doesn’t know all the motivations behind the building of AI data centres, but sees how people are jumping on the bandwagon. He said no one in Lorneville will benefit. Wilkins said he also wonders about the effects the noise, light, and pollution will have on Lorneville.
“When it comes down to it, how many people from our little village will actually be employed there and benefit, compared to hundreds of acres of mature forest and old growth forest…nothing is going to outweigh that.”
The Atlantic Canada Climate Network (ACCN) is putting its support behind Lorneville and its residents, too. It has created this petition asking New Brunswick to halt the conversion of Lorneville into a heavy industrial use park.
The ACCN also has this petition urging the province to designate 870 acres in Lorneville for conservation.
Wilkins said he’d like to take Ough and Shovlin on a hike through the land where the data centre will be located. Members of Save Lorneville took New Brunswick’s Minister of Natural Resources John Herron on a hike through the community’s forest in July, before the community knew about the data centre.
Wilkins said he also wants to get more information on the power and water usage and what the data centre will do to the community.
Save Lorneville still has the judicial review about the rezoning, and Wilkins said he and other residents will continue to meet with environmental groups to learn all they can.
“I know the dealings are already done,” Wilkins said. “These things don’t happen without years of planning and backroom deals…everyone is tied to this big system. It’s just optics.”
*A previous version of this story had an incorrect surname for Leah Alexander.
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I have received no response WHY???On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> wrote: Fundy Royal campaign targets middle class with focus on jobs
Fundy Royal voters have elected Conservatives all but 1 time in 28 elections over 101 years
CBC News · Posted: Oct 17, 2015 6:00 AM ADT100 CommentsComment by David Amos.
I must Say I am rather impressed at CBC's sudden fit of Integrity to allow my posts to stand the test of time for a few hours at least. (: Rest assured that I have been saving digital snapshots just in case they delete and block me as usual :)
In return here is an old scoop about CTV that CBC and everybody else and his dog has been ignoring for 11 very long years after I ran in the election of the 38th Parliament against the aptly named lawyer Rob Moore.
http://thedavidamosrant.
blogspot.ca/2013/08/re-bce- and-jean-pierre-blais-of-crtc. html ----- Original Message -----
From: martine.turcotte@bell.ca
To: motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com
Cc: bcecomms@bce.ca ; W-Five@ctv.ca
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 9:28 AM
Subject: RE: I am curious
Mr. Amos, I confirm that I have received your documentation. There is
no need to send us a hard copy. As you have said yourself, the
documentation is very voluminous and after 3 days, we are still in the
process of printing it. I have asked one of my lawyers to review it
in my absence and report back to me upon my return in the office. We
will then provide you with a reply.
Martine Turcotte
Chief Legal Officer / Chef principal du service juridique
BCE Inc. / Bell Canada
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Tel: (514) 870-4637
Fax: (514) 870-4877
email: martine.turcotte@bell.ca
Executive Assistant / Assistante à la haute direction: Diane Valade
Tel: (514) 870-4638
email: diane.valade@bell.ca
Comment by David Amos.
Anybody bother to notice I am the only person posting here with a real name and it is the same name that is on the ballot in Fundy Royal?
Do ya think the lawyer Rob Moore "The True Conservative" or any of the others would dare to debate me in writing with their true name within a website funded by the taxpayer and controlled by questionable public servants? How about outside the CROWN"s domain within the Yankee website called Twitter? That is where I play very serious Political Hard Ball. See for yourself or ask Rob Moore's hero Stevey Boy Harper if I am a liar or not.
Comment by David Amos.
Clearly there are FIVE candidates not merely four.
http://www.elections.ca/
Scripts/vis/candidates?L=e&ED= 13004&EV=41&QID=-1&PAGEID=17 and everybody knows it
Reply by CT.
October 17, 2015@David Amos I'm sorry they ignored you,you have great points but you should really pick a demographic that is smarter.Here people vote for cons without ever using their brains.Sad really when all they represent are Irving ,the potash corp and their minions.They are owned by them and they don't even know it.
Comment by David Amos.
Go figure
CBC writes lots about people who BS a lot then don't bother to put their name on a ballot. Yet I have done so FIVE times and they have never said a peep other than bar me from the airwaves and try to have their pals in the other CROWN Corp known as the RCMP arrest me. Page 14 of this old pdf file of mine is the reason why.
http://www.checktheevidence.
com/pdf/2526023- DAMOSIntegrity-yea-right.-txt. https://www.blbglaw.com/cases-investigations/mfs- mutual-fund-litigation MFS Mutual Fund Fraud Litigation
Court: United States District Court for the District of Maryland Case Number: 04-md-15863 Class Period: 12/15/1998 - 12/08/2003 Following a hearing on May 3, 2004 in the massive mutual fund litigation, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland appointed BLB&G client the City of Chicago Deferred Compensation Plan as Lead Plaintiff in the securities fraud class action against Massachusetts Financial Services Company ("MFS"), the investment advisor to the MFS Funds, and others.
On March 1, 2006, the Court sustained the Consolidated Amended Class Action Complaint, allowing the case to move forward against certain defendants.
SUMMARY OF ALLEGATIONS:
The Complaint in this litigation alleges that MFS and certain of its senior executives were aware of, engaged in and facilitated "timing" trades in the MFS Funds: a money-making act involving short-term trading in and out of a mutual fund. The technique is designed to exploit inefficiencies in the way mutual fund companies price their shares by allowing certain customers to trade shares at distorted prices that no longer reflect the true value of the fund. As a result, those few customers permitted to engage in market timing typically reap huge profits, the cost of which are borne primarily by the long-term investors in the relevant fund.
The public filings issued by the Defendants stated that, "MFS funds do not permit market-timing or other excessive trading practices that may disrupt portfolio management strategies and may harm fund performance." In reality, however, the Defendants knew, or recklessly disregarded, the fact that trades were being timed and that these timed trades negatively and materially impacted the MFS Funds, thereby causing significant losses to investors in the MFS Funds.
On February 5, 2004, MFS agreed to entry of a cease and desist order by the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") against MFS and John W. Ballen ("Ballen"), MFS's current chief executive officer, and Kevin R. Parke ("Parke"), MFS's current president and chief investment officer ("Cease and Desist Order"). Specifically, the SEC found that MFS, Ballen and Parke allowed widespread market timing trading in certain MFS Funds from at least late 1999 through October 2003, in contravention of the Funds' public disclosures. In particular, MFS explicitly informed certain select brokers in a written memo that "unrestricted" trading would be permitted in certain MFS funds (known internally at MFS as "Unrestricted Funds"), including the Massachusetts Investors Growth Stock Fund, "even if a pattern of excessive trading has been detected." Not only did MFS selectively enforce its market-timing policies, but executives at MFS facilitated the frequent trading in and out of certain MFS Funds by steering select investors to these "Unrestricted Funds." As the Cease and Desist Order confirms, as much as $2 billion in timing money flowed into MFS Funds during the Class Period.
Internal MFS documents and policies acknowledged that market timing was detrimental to long-term shareholders. In fact, as early as June 2000, an internal presentation entitled "Market Timing Wheel of Terror," warned that "[l]ong term investors are being penalized" by market timing activity. Nevertheless, the market timing activity persisted in the MFS "Unrestricted Funds." Moreover, MFS's select enforcement of its trading policies also included late trading, which alone caused well over $100 million in investor losses. And, as further alleged in the complaint, various brokers and financial institutions also participated in the market timing schemes, to the detriment of ordinary investors.
MFS's policy of allowing market-timing and steering select investors to the "Unrestricted Funds" was adopted as a means to increase profits by luring market timing assets so as to increase funds under management, and, therefore, increase fees paid to MFS for investment advisory services. These additional assets under management also resulted in an increased bonus pool from which MFS employees, including Ballen and Parke, were paid excessive compensation. During this period, none of the above detailed material information was disclosed to the members of the Class. In addition to the profits from their market timing, MFS also profited by charging ordinary investors hundreds of millions of dollars in management fees while breaching their fiduciary duties to those very same investors.
On May 20, 2010, the Court preliminarily approved proposed settlements, totaling $75,042,250, that would resolve this litigation. On October 25, 2010, the Court entered Judgments granting final approval to the settlements and entered separate Orders granting Plaintiffs' Counsel's application for an award of attorneys' fees and expenses and approving the Plan of Allocation of the settlement proceeds.
The claims administration process has concluded and the net settlement fund has been fully disbursed. This matter is considered closed.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND
IN RE MUTUAL FUNDS INVESTMENT
LITIGATION
This Document Relates To:
In re MFS
04-md-15863-04
MDL 1586
Case No. 04-MD-15863
(Judge J. Frederick Motz)
BRUCE RIGGS, et al., Individually and
On Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated,
Plaintiff,
v.
MASSACHUSETTS FINANCIAL
SERVICES COMPANY, et al.
Defendants.
Case No. 04-cv-01162-JFM
CONSOLIDATED AMENDED CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT95
Dated: September 29, 2004 BERNSTEIN LITOWITZ BERGER
& GROSSMANN LLP
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Date: Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Date: Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Subject: 617 954 4225 RE Robert Pozen Former executive chairman of MFS Investment Management
To: <Leadership@mfs.com>, <kimc714@mit.edu>Review of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the Mutual Fund Industry
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 Time: 10:00 AM
Topic
The Committee will meet in OPEN SESSION to conduct the first in a series of hearings on the “Review of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the Mutual Fund Industry.”Witnesses
Witness Panel 1
- Mr. William H. Donaldson
ChairmanSecurities and Exchange CommissionWitness Panel 2
- Mr. Matthew P. Fink
PresidentInvestment Company Institute- Mr. Marc Lackritz
PresidentSecurities Industry AssociationReview of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the Mutual Fund Industry
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2003 Time: 02:00 PM
Topic
The Committee will meet in OPEN SESSION to conduct the second in a series of hearings on the “Review of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the Mutual Fund Industry.”Witnesses
Witness Panel 1
- Mr. Stephen M. Cutler
Director - Division of EnforcementSecurities and Exchange Commission- Mr. Robert Glauber
Chairman and CEONational Association of Securities Dealers- Eliot Spitzer
Attorney GeneralState of New YorkReview of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the Mutual Fund Industry: Understanding the Fund Industry from the Investor’s Perspective
Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 Time: 10:00 AM
Topic
The Committee will meet in OPEN SESSION to conduct a hearing on “A Review of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the Mutual Fund Industry: Understanding the Fund Industry from the Investor’s Perspective.”Witnesses
Witness Panel 1
- Mr. Tim Berry
TreasurerState of Indiana- Honorable Gary Gensler
ChairmanU.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission- Mr. James K. Glassman
Resident FellowAmerican Enterprise Institute- Mr. Don Phillips
Managing DirectorMorningstar, Inc- Mr. Jim Riepe
Vice Chairman of the Board of DirectorsT. Rowe Price Group, Inc.Review of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the Mutual Fund Industry: Fund Operations and Governance.
Date: Thursday, February 26, 2004 Time: 02:00 PM
Topic
The Committee will meet in OPEN SESSION to conduct a hearing on “Review of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the Mutual Fund Industry: Fund Operations and Governance.” Rescheduled from February 3rd.Witnesses
Witness Panel 1
- Mr. Jack Bogle
FounderThe Vanguard Group- Ms. Mellody Hobson
PresidentAriel Capital Management- Mr. David Pottruck
President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of DirectorsCharles Schwab- Mr. David Ruder
Former ChairmenU.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionReview of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the Mutual Fund Industry: The Regulatory Landscape
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 Time: 10:00 AM
Topic
The Committee will meet in OPEN SESSION to conduct the sixth in a series of hearings on "A Review of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the Mutual Fund Industry: The Regulatory Landscape."Witnesses
Witness Panel 1
- Ms. Lori Richards
Director, Office of Compliance, Inspections, and ExaminationsSecurities and Exchange Commission- Mr. Paul Roye
Director, Division of Investment ManagementSecurities and Exchange Commission- Ms. Mary Schapiro
Vice Chairman of NASD and President of NASD Regulatory Policy & OversightNational Association of Securities Dealers- Honorable David M. Walker
Comptroller General of the United StatesReview of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the Mutual Fund Industry: Fund Operations and Governance
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 Time: 10:00 AM
Topic
The Committee will meet in OPEN SESSION to conduct the sixth in a series of hearings on "A Review of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the Mutual Fund Industry: Fund Operations and Governance."Witnesses
Witness Panel 1
- Professor Mercer Bullard
Associate Professor of LawUniversity of Mississippi School of Law- Mr. William D Lutz
Professor of EnglishRutgers University- Mr. Robert Pozen
Non-Executive ChairmanMassachusetts Financial Services Co.- Ms. Barbara Roper
Director of Investor ProtectionConsumer Federation of AmericaReview of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the Mutual Fund Industry: Fund Costs and Distribution Practices
Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 Time: 02:30 PM
Topic
The Committee will meet in OPEN SESSION to conduct the nineth in a series of hearings reviewing the current investigations and regulatory actions in the mutual fund industry.Witnesses
Witness Panel 1
- Honorable Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI)
United States Senator- Honorable Susan Collins (R-ME)
United States Senator- Honorable Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL)
United States Senator- Honorable Carl Levin (D-MI)
United States SenatorWitness Panel 2
- Mr. Paul G. Haaga, Jr.
Executive Vice President and Director of Capitol Research and Management Company, and Chairman of the Investment Company Institute- Mr. Chet Helck
President and Chief Operating OfficerRaymond James Financial- Mr. Thomas Putnam
Founder and CEOFenimore Asset Management- Mr. Edward Siedle
Founder and PresidentThe Benchmark Companies- Mr. Mark Treanor
General Counsel and Head of Legal DepartmentWachovia CorporationReview of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the Mutual Fund Industry: The SEC's Perspective
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2004 Time: 10:00 AM
Topic
The Committee will meet in OPEN SESSION to conduct the tenth in a series of hearings regarding a "Review of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the Mutual Fund Industry". This hearing will focus on the views of the Securities and Exchange Commission.Witnesses
Witness Panel 1
- Mr. William H. Donaldson
ChairmanSecurities and Exchange Commission
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REVIEW OF CURRENT INVESTIGATIONS
AND REGULATORY ACTIONS REGARDING
THE MUTUAL FUND INDUSTRY
HEARINGS
BEFORE THE
COMMITTEE ON
BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED EIGHTH CONGRESS
FIRST AND SECOND SESSION
ON
INVESTIGATIONS AND REGULATORY ACTIONS REGARDING THE
MUTUAL FUND INDUSTRY AND INVESTORS’ PROTECTION
NOVEMBER 18, 20, 2003, FEBRUARY 25, 26, MARCH 2, 10, 23, 31, AND
APRIL 8, 2004
Printed for the use of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs(1)
REVIEW OF CURRENT INVESTIGATIONS
AND REGULATORY ACTIONS REGARDING
THE MUTUAL FUND INDUSTRY
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2003
U.S. SENATE,
COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS,
Washington, DC.
The Committee met at 10 a.m. in room SD–538 of the Dirksen
Senate Office Building, Senator Richard C. Shelby (Chairman of
the Committee) presiding.
OPENING STATEMENT OF CHAIRMAN RICHARD C. SHELBY
Chairman SHELBY. The hearing shall come to order.
This hearing is part of the Committee’s ongoing oversight of the
mutual fund industry. Today, the Committee will review current
investigations and enforcement proceedings and examine regu-
latory actions taken to date in order to fully inform and guide the
Banking Committee’s consideration of possible legislative reform.
On September 30, 2003, this Committee first examined the scope
of problems confronting the mutual fund industry. At that time,
Chairman Donaldson testified about the SEC’s ongoing enforce-
ment actions and described the SEC’s regulatory blueprint for
adopting new regulations aimed at improving the transparency of
fund operations and stopping abusive trading practices. Since
Chairman Donaldson’s testimony, we have learned that improper
fund trading practices are a widespread problem that fund insiders,
brokers, and privileged clients have profited from at the expense of
average investors.
In early September, New York Attorney General Spitzer uncov-
ered arrangements through which brokers facilitated improper
trades for their clients in certain prominent mutual funds in ex-
change for large, fee generating investments. Since this initial set-
tlement, we have learned the extent to which both intermediaries,
such as brokers, and fund executives have engaged in illicit trading
activities. We have read about the backhanded ways by which the
brokers colluded with their customers to disguise improper trade
orders to make them appear legitimate, thus evading detection by
mutual fund policing systems.
Even in situations where mutual funds attempted to halt im-
proper trading activity, certain brokers created fictitious names
and account numbers to fool fund compliance officers and to con-
tinue trading. Recent investigations have also revealed that mutual
fund executives and portfolio managers have actively engaged in2
improper trading activity. And these allegations are particularly
troubling because fund executives and portfolio managers have
represented themselves as protecting client assets, but they failed
by either knowingly permitting improper trading by brokers or
actively engaging in illegal trading activities themselves.
Such practices may not only violate prospectus disclosures, but
also violate the fiduciary duties that funds owe to their share-
holders—the duties to treat all shareholders equitably and to pro-
tect shareholder interests. Further, regulators have indicated that
they may soon file charges against funds that have selectively
disclosed portfolio information to certain privileged investors and
fund executives that may have engaged in illegal insider trading by
acting on the basis of nonpublic information.
As this Committee made clear during Chairman William H.
Donaldson’s September 30 appearance here, a regulatory response
to improper trading activities is just one of the many actions that
the SEC must take to address the many troubling issues that have
come to light in the mutual fund industry. This Committee remains
concerned with the transparency of fund operations and ensuring
that investors can learn how their fund is being managed. It has
become very, very apparent that many of the questionable fund
practices that are now being examined are not just the result of a
few bad actors, but are longstanding industry practices that have
largely gone unregulated and not well disclosed to, or understood
by, most investors.
Therefore, this Committee must take a comprehensive look, I be-
lieve, at the industry to determine if the industry’s operations and
practices are consistent with investors’ interests and the greater
interests of the market. It may be that we must consider possible
realignment of interests to ensure that mutual funds are operating
as efficiently and fairly as the market and investors demand. We
will examine fund disclosure practices regarding fees, trading costs,
sales commissions, and portfolio holdings. So, we will continue to
question the conflicts of interest surrounding the relationship be-
tween the investment adviser and the fund and how potential
changes to fund governance and disclosure practices may minimize
these conflicts.
We will also focus on fund sales practices to ensure that brokers
sell suitable investments to their clients, provide adequate disclo-
sure of any sales incentives, and give clients any breakpoint dis-
counts to which they are entitled.
Chairman Donaldson has told this Committee that the SEC has
the necessary statutory authority to reform the mutual fund indus-
try and is in the process of conducting a comprehensive rulemak-
ing. As we have learned in other contexts, however, additional reg-
ulation is not the only answer. Late trading is clearly illegal and
market timing is actively deterred and policed. Despite prohibitions
and warnings, these activities continued unabated because of the
inadequate compliance and enforcement regimes at the SEC, the
mutual funds and the brokers. Whether due to a lack of resources
or other pressing priorities, mutual fund abuses simply did not re-
ceive adequate attention from the SEC. Although recent enforce-
ment actions indicate that priorities have changed, we need tounderstand how the SEC will revise compliance programs to detect
and halt future fund abuses.
Vigorous enforcement remains the key to restoring integrity to
the fund industry, and Attorney General Spitzer’s timely actions
once again demonstrate, I believe, the significant role that States
play in prosecuting fraud and abuse in the securities markets. Re-
gardless of the number of rules or amount of resources, it would
be impractical to expect the SEC to detect every single fraud and
manipulation in the fund industry. Therefore, the mutual funds
and the brokerage houses themselves must proactively adopt new
compliance measures to detect fraud and abuse. For many years,
participants in the mutual fund industry maintain industry ‘‘best
practices.’’ These practices, however, have clearly proven to be in-
adequate as brokers and funds have disregarded conflicts of inter-
est and colluded at the expense of investors without detection.
Although funds and brokers owe different types of duties to their
investors, both groups have an obligation to refrain from knowingly
ignoring their clients’ interests and profiting at their expense.
With over 95 million investors and $7 trillion—yes, $7 trillion—
in assets, mutual funds have always been perceived as the safe
investment option for average investors. America has become a Na-
tion of investors, but there is no doubt that recent revelations
about mutual funds have caused very many to question the per-
ceived fairness of the industry. Many are surprised to learn that
the mutual fund industry is plagued by the same conflict that was
at the root of the Enron scandal and the global settlement—one set
of profitable rules for insiders and another costly set for average
investors.
Beyond the legal concepts of fiduciary duties and transparency,
there is a more fundamental principle that should underlie the
operation of the mutual fund industry and our securities markets
in general.
This principle is that securities firms and mutual funds should
not neglect investors’ interests and knowingly profit at their ex-
pense. Until firms can demonstrate an ability to abide by this
ideal, investors will not trust the markets, nor should they. In our
own way, Congress, the SEC and regulators, and industry partici-
pants must collectively work to reform the mutual fund industry in
order to restore investor confidence. I believe, we must reassure in-
vestors that mutual funds are a vehicle in which they can safely
invest their money and not fall victim to financial schemes. The
mutual fund industry is simply too important to too many Ameri-
cans to do otherwise.
Examining the mutual fund industry is a priority for this Com-
mittee, and I look forward to working with my fellow Committee
Members, especially Senators Enzi, Dodd, and Corzine, all of whom
have already expressed significant interest in this issue.
Our first witness today is Chairman Bill Donaldson, and on the
second panel we will hear from Matthew Fink, President of the In-
vestment Company Institute, and Marc Lackritz, President of the
Securities Industry Association.
Now, I will call on my Members.
Senator Sarbanes.Statement of Robert C. Pozen
Chairman
MFS Investment Management
and
Visiting Professor
Harvard Law School
“REVIEW OF CURRENT INVESTIGATIONS AND REGULATORY ACTIONS
REGARDING THE MUTUAL FUND INDUSTRY:
FUND OPERATIONS AND GOVERNANCE”
COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
UNITED STATES SENATE
March 23, 2004Thank you Chairman Shelby, Ranking Member Sarbanes and other members of the
Committee for this opportunity to present my views on appropriate reforms for the mutual fund
industry.
My name is Robert C. Pozen and I am from Boston, Massachusetts. I am currently
Chairman of MFS Investment Management, which manages approximately $140 billion for
approximately 370 accounts including over 100 mutual funds serving approximately six million
investors. I am also a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and author of the textbook The
Mutual Fund Business (2 ed. Houghton Mifflin 2001).
I commend the Committee for engaging in a deliberative and broad-ranging review of the
operations and regulation of the mutual fund industry. While I welcome questions about any
aspect of the fund industry, I will limit my testimony today to three areas where I believe that MFS is helping to set important new standards for the fund industry:1) maximized shareholder valuethrough fund brokerage;2) individualized reporting of shareholder expenses; and3) structural enhancements for fund governance. We are making changes in these three areas to benefit MFS shareholders and, if followed by the rest of the industry, to benefit all fund shareholders.
I. Reducing Reliance on Soft Dollars
The current system of paying for goods and services with “soft dollars”, taken out of
brokerage commissions, is detrimental to mutual fund shareholders. The use of “soft dollar”
payments makes it virtually impossible for a fund manager to ascertain the true costs of executing trades because execution costs are bundled together with the costs of other goods and services such as research reports and Bloomberg terminals. If these costs were unbundled, then fund managers could pay cash out of their own pockets for independent research or market data, and could negotiate for lower execution prices for fund shareholders.
Currently, if a trader from a mutual fund executes fund trades through a full-service
broker on Wall Street, the trader pays five cents a share for execution plus a broad range of
goods or services from the executing broker or third parties: e.g., securities research, market data and brokerage allocations to promote fund sales. These goods and services are paid in “soft dollars”: that is, they are bundled into the five cents per share charge in a non- transparent
1 of 6manner. If MFS does not accept these ancillary goods or services through “soft dollars”, it will still
be required to pay five cents per share by the full-service broker.
In other words, it is almost impossible to obtain a price discount from a full-service
Wall Street firm for executing a large fund trade. However, that firm is willing to provide an in-kind
discount in the form of soft dollars that can be used to purchase various goods or services. This is
more than a technical pricing oddity. The key point is this: a price discount on the trade (for
example, from five cents to three cents per share) would go directly to the mutual fund and its
shareholders. In-kind services like market data services go directly to the fund management
company and only indirectly to the mutual fund and its shareholders.
MFS has already eliminated the use of “soft dollars” to promote sales of mutual fund
shares. Since January 1, 2004, MFS has been paying cash out of its own pocket to broker-
dealers to promote fund sales. While the SEC has proposed a rule to this effect, MFS has
switched from soft dollars to cash to promote fund sales regardless of whether and when the SEC
adopts its rule.
More dramatically, earlier this month MFS decided to stop using soft dollars to pay for
third-party research1 and market data. Again MFS will pay cash out of its own pocket for these
items. MFS estimates that this decision will cost the management company $10 to $15 million per
year. Yet MFS has agreed not to raise its advisory fees for its funds over the next five years.
Why is MFS willing to take the lead on getting off the addiction to soft dollars and moving to the healthy environment of price discounts?The simple answer is: MFS puts the fund shareholder first. We recognize the need to employ a full-service broker to execute a large block trade (e.g., 500,000 shares in Genzyme); we need their skills and capital to actively work the trade and take up a portion of the trade themselves if necessary. But we want to pay a price in the range of three cents per share for an agency-only trade, though we are willing to pay more for a trade requiring capital to be put at risk by the broker-dealer.
1 We are not stopping the use of “soft dollars” for proprietary research and other services. Only recently has the SEC issued a concept release on accounting for all the elements of a bundled commission. SEC Release IC-26313 (Dec. 19, 2003).
2 of 6The broader answer is that MFS wants to lead the industry to lower and more transparent execution costs. To accomplish this objective, MFS will need support from other asset managers as well as the SEC. Section 28(e) of the Securities Exchange Act provides a safe harbor for asset managers using “soft dollars” for research and brokerage services. Initially, the SEC interpreted this safe harbor narrowly--allowing payment in “soft dollars” only if a good or service or product were not readily available for cash. Several years later, however, the SEC broadened the safe harbor to include any “legitimate” purpose for soft dollars (SEC Exchange Act Release 23170, April 23, 1986). The SEC should move back to its initial narrow interpretation of 28(e) to reduce the reliance on the use of “soft dollars”.
II. Individualized Expense Reporting
MFS will issue an individualized quarterly statement, rather than a general listing of fund expenses in basis points, which will show each fund shareholder a reasonable estimate of his or her actual fund expenses in dollar terms.The MFS design for this individualized quarterly statement is cost effective as a result of one key assumption: that shareholders hold their funds for the whole prior quarter. This assumption is reasonable because over 90% of MFS shareholders fall into this category.
At present, the prospectus of every mutual fund contains an expense table listing the
various categories of fund expenses in basis points. The table might say, for instance:
Advisory Fee 53 bp
Transfer Agency Fee 10 bp
Other Fees 2 bp
12 b-1 Fee 25 bp
Total Expenses 90 bp
In addition, the prospectus of every fund includes a hypothetical example of a $10,000 investment in the fund to show the dollar amount of actual fund expenses paid by such a fund shareholder during the relevant period. The hypothetical example for the mutual fund with the expenses described above, for instance, would show $90 in total fund expenses over the last year.
Nevertheless, some critics have argued that mutual fund investors need customized
expense statements. By that, these critics mean the actual expenses paid by a shareholder in
3 of 6several funds based on his or her precise holding period as well as the fund dividends during that
period. For example, we would have to compute the exact expenses of a shareholder who held
Fund A from January 15 until March 31 without reinvesting fund dividends; another shareholder
who held Fund B for the whole year and reinvested all fund dividends; and yet another
shareholder who held Fund C from February 1 until June 15 as well as from August 22 until
December 11 (during both periods, assuming no record date for fund dividends occurred).
This type of customized expense statement would, in my opinion, involve enormous
computer programming costs. The program would have to track the holdings of every fund
shareholder on a daily basis, take into account whether a fund dividend was reinvested or paid
out to the shareholder, and apply monthly basis point charges to fund balances reflecting monthly
appreciation or depreciation of fund assets. Of course, these large computer costs would
ultimately be passed on to fund shareholders.
At MFS, we will provide every fund shareholder with an estimate of his or her actual
expenses on their quarterly statements.2 We can do this at an affordable cost by making one
reasonable assumption—that the fund holdings of the shareholder at the end of the quarter were
the same throughout the quarter. Although this is a simplifying assumption, it produces a good
estimate of actual fund expenses since most shareholders do not switch funds during a quarter.
Indeed, this assumption will often lead to a slightly higher estimate of individualized expenses
than the actual amount because some shareholders will buy the fund during the quarter and other
shareholders will reinvest fund dividends during the quarter.
In addition, MFS will send its shareholders in every fund’s semi-annual report the
total amount of brokerage commissions paid by the fund during the relevant period as well as the
fund’s average commission rate per share (for example, 4.83 cents per share on average). But
this information on brokerage commissions should be separated from the fund expense table
because all the other items in the table are ordinary expenses expressed in basis points. By
contrast, brokerage commissions are a capital expense added to the tax basis of the securities
held by the fund, and brokerage commissions are expressed in cents per share.
2 These individualized expenses will not include brokerage costs because they are capitalized in the cost of the portfolio
security.
4 of 6II. Enhanced Governance Structure
The mutual fund industry has a unique governance structure: the fund is a separate entity from its external manager. The independent directors of the fund must annually approve the
terms and conditions of the fund’s contract with its external manager. Of course, the independent directors usually reappoint the management company. In an industrial company, how often do the directors throw out the whole management team? But the independent directors of most mutual funds, in my experience, do represent fund shareholders by negotiating for contract terms and monitoring potential conflicts of interest.
At MFS, we believe we have the most advanced form of corporate governance in the
industry. To begin with, over 75% of the board is comprised of independent directors, who elect their own independent chairman. The chairman leads the executive sessions of independent directors, which occur before or after every board meeting. The independent chairman also helps set the board’s agenda for each meeting. A lead independent director could definitely take charge of the executive sessions and a lead director could also help set the board’s agenda. Thus, it
does not matter which title is employed; the key is to insure that a senior independent director
plays these two functions.
In many boards, the independent directors have their own independent counsel, as
the MFS boards do. But the independent directors of the MFS funds are going one step further by
appointing their own compliance officer. This officer will monitor all compliance activities by MFS
as well as supervise the fund’s own activities, and will report regularly to the Compliance
Committee of the Board (which itself is composed solely of independent directors).
On the management company side, MFS is the only company I know of that has a
non-executive chairman reporting to the independent directors of the MFS funds. This is a new
position designed to assure that the management company is fully accountable to the funds’
independent directors.
Finally, MFS as a management company has established the new position of Executive Vice President for Regulatory Affairs, and filled the position with a distinguished industry veteran. In addition, MFS has hired a distinguished law firm partner as its new general
5 of 6counsel. Both will serve on the executive committee of MFS. The new Executive Vice President will be in charge of several regulatory functions—compliance, internal audit and fund treasury.
This high profile position within MFS is more than symbolic; it represents the great significance
given by MFS to these regulatory functions. While these functions are performed in most fund
management companies, it is rare to see the person in charge of these functions having the title of executive vice president and serving on the executive committee of the firm.
Conclusions
In summary, MFS is trying to establish standards of best practices in three important
areas to fund shareholders:1) reduced reliance on “soft dollars”,2) individualized expense reporting, and3) enhanced governance structure. Other management firms are trying to take the lead in setting industry standards in other areas. At the same time, the SEC is in the process of
proposing and adopting a myriad of rules on disclosure requirements and substantive prohibitions or the fund industry—which overlap to a degree with the efforts of the fund management firms.
Because the SEC and the management firms are making such serious efforts to develop
higher behavioral norms for the mutual fund industry, it might be useful for Congress to monitor these efforts before finalizing a bill on mutual fund reforms. These are complex issues that may be better suited to an evolutionary process, led by an expert public agency with the flexibility to address the changing legal and factual environment.
Thank you again for this opportunity to testify on mutual fund reform. I would be pleased
to answer any questions the Chairman or Committee Members might have.6 of 6Robert C. Pozen
- Former president of Fidelity Investments and executive chairman of MFS Investment Management
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>> ---------- Original message ----------
>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:15:59 -0400
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>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: "Murray, Charles (Ombud)" <Charles.Murray@gnb.ca>
>>> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:16:15 +0000
>>> Subject: You wished to speak with me
>>> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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>>> years.
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> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 19:25:31 +0000
> Subject: RE: YO Pierre Poilievre I just called and tried to reason
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> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:25:26 -0400
> Subject: Fwd: YO Pierre Poilievre I just called and tried to reason
> with David Lametti's minions and got nowhere fast Surprise Surprise
> Surprise N'esy Pas Petev Baby Mackay?
> To: Support@viafoura.com, darrow.macintyre@cbc.ca,
> carrie@viafoura.com, allison@viafoura.com
> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, LPMD-DGPD@justice.gc.ca,
> Mark.Blakely@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:00:58 -0400
> Subject: YO Pierre Poilievre I just called and tried to reason with
> David Lametti's minions and got nowhere fast Surprise Surprise
> Surprise N'esy Pas Petev Baby Mackay?
> To: pierre.poilievre@parl.gc.ca, olad-dlo@justice.gc.ca,
> David.Lametti.a1@parl.gc.ca, maxime.bernier@parl.gc.ca,
> andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca, charlie.angus@parl.gc.ca,
> PETER.MACKAY@bakermckenzie.com, tony.clement.a1@parl.gc.ca
> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, scott.bardsley@canada.ca,
> scott.brison@parl.gc.ca, scott.macrae@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Beverley.Busson@sen.parl.gc.ca
>
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>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: Ministerial Correspondence Unit - Justice Canada <mcu@justice.gc.ca>
> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 17:58:23 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: C'yall in Court
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> Thank you for writing to the Honourable David Lametti, Minister of
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> Merci d'avoir écrit à l'honorable David Lametti, ministre de la
> Justice et procureur général du Canada.
>
> En raison d'une augmentation importante du volume de la correspondance
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> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: Ministerial Correspondence Unit - Justice Canada <mcu@justice.gc.ca>
> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 22:18:45 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks David Lametti should go back to law
> school too N'esy Pas Pierre Poilievre?
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> Thank you for writing to the Honourable David Lametti, Minister of
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> Merci d'avoir écrit à l'honorable David Lametti, ministre de la
> Justice et procureur général du Canada.
>
> En raison d'une augmentation importante du volume de la correspondance
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca
> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 22:18:49 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks David Lametti should go back to law
> school too N'esy Pas Pierre Poilievre?
> To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
>
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> Merci d'?crire ? l'honorable Jody Wilson-Raybould, d?put?e de
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: michael.chong@parl.gc.ca
> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 22:18:49 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks David Lametti should go back to law
> school too N'esy Pas Pierre Poilievre?
> To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 18:18:40 -0400
> Subject: Methinks David Lametti should go back to law school too N'esy
> Pas Pierre Poilievre?
> To: David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca, Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca,
> pierre.poilievre@parl.gc.ca,mcu@justice.gc.ca,
> michael.chong@parl.gc.ca, Michael.Wernick@pco-bcp.gc.ca
> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, Newsroom@globeandmail.com,
> Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca, serge.rousselle@gnb.ca
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 15:44:16 -0400
> Subject: Jagmeet Singh says that maybe Jay Shin should go back to law
> school??? Too Too Funny Indeed EH Karen Wang and Laura-Lynn Tyler
> Thompson?
> To: info@jayshin.ca, jay@lonsdalelaw.ca, karenwang@liberal.ca,
> lauralynnlive@gmail.com
> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>,
> jmaclellan@burnabynow.com, kgawley@burnabynow.com
>
> Jagmeet Singh on Tory opponent: 'Maybe he should go back to law school'
> Conservative candidate Jay Shin said Singh was 'keeping criminals out
> of jail' during his days as a criminal defence lawyer
> Kelvin Gawley Burnaby Now January 13, 2019 10:27 AM
>
> Julie MacLellan
> Assistant editor, and newsroom tip line
> jmaclellan@burnabynow.com
> Phone: 604 444 3020
> Kelvin Gawley
> kgawley@burnabynow.com
> Phone: 604 444 3024
>
> Jay Shin
> Direct: 604-980-5089
> Email: jay@lonsdalelaw.ca
> By phone: 604-628-0508
> By e-mail: info@jayshin.ca
>
> Karen Wang
> 604.531.1178
> karenwang@liberal.ca
>
> Now if Mr Shin scrolls down he will know some of what the fancy NDP
> lawyer has known for quite sometime
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Singh - QP, Jagmeet" <JSingh-QP@ndp.on.ca>
> Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 16:39:35 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Re Federal Court File # T-1557-15 and the
> upcoming hearing on May 24th I called a lot of your people before High
> Noon today Correct Ralph Goodale and Deputy Minister Malcolm Brown?
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
>
> For immediate assistance please contact our Brampton office at
> 905-799-3939 or jsingh-co@ndp.on.ca
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Kennedy.Stewart@parl.gc.ca
> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 18:18:35 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Attn Minister Ralph Goodale and Pierre
> Paul-Hus Trust that I look forward to arguing the fact that fhe Crown
> filed my Sept 4th email to you and your buddies
> To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michael Cohen <mcohen@trumporg.com>
> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 05:54:40 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: ATTN Blair Armitage You acted as the Usher
> of the Black Rod twice while Kevin Vickers was the Sergeant-at-Arms
> Hence you and the RCMP must know why I sued the Queen Correct?
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Justice Website <JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca>
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:21:11 +0000
> Subject: Emails to Department of Justice and Province of Nova Scotia
> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> Mr. Amos,
> We acknowledge receipt of your recent emails to the Deputy Minister of
> Justice and lawyers within the Legal Services Division of the
> Department of Justice respecting a possible claim against the Province
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> against the Province of Nova Scotia may be served on the Attorney
> General at 1690 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS. Please note that we will
> not be responding to further emails on this matter.
>
> Department of Justice
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Eidt, David (OAG/CPG)" <David.Eidt@gnb.ca>
> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 00:33:21 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Mr Lutz howcome your buddy the clerk
> would not file this motion and properly witnessed affidavit and why
> did she take all four copies?
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> I will be out of the office until Monday, March 13, 2017. I will have
> little to no access to email. Please dial 453-2222 for assistance.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Marc Richard <MRichard@lawsociety-barreau.nb.ca>
> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:16:46 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: RE: The New Brunswick Real Estate
> Association and their deliberate ignorance for the bankster's benefit
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> I will be out of the office until August 15, 2016. Je serai absent du
> bureau jusqu'au 15 août 2016.
>
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:32:09 -0400
>> Subject: Attn Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
>> To: coi@gnb.ca
>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>
>> Good Day Sir
>>
>> After I heard you speak on CBC I called your office again and managed
>> to speak to one of your staff for the first time
>>
>> Please find attached the documents I promised to send to the lady who
>> answered the phone this morning. Please notice that not after the Sgt
>> at Arms took the documents destined to your office his pal Tanker
>> Malley barred me in writing with an "English" only document.
>>
>> These are the hearings and the dockets in Federal Court that I
>> suggested that you study closely.
>>
>> This is the docket in Federal Court
>>
>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_ info_e.php?court_no=T-1557-15& select_court=T
>>
>> These are digital recordings of the last three hearings
>>
>> Dec 14th https://archive.org/details/BahHumbug
>>
>> January 11th, 2016 https://archive.org/details/Jan11th2015
>>
>> April 3rd, 2017
>>
>> https://archive.org/details/April32017JusticeLeblancHearin g
>>
>>
>> This is the docket in the Federal Court of Appeal
>>
>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.gc.ca/IndexingQueries/infp_RE_ info_e.php?court_no=A-48-16& select_court=All
>>
>>
>> The only hearing thus far
>>
>> May 24th, 2017
>>
>> https://archive.org/details/May24thHoedown
>>
>>
>> This Judge understnds the meaning of the word Integrity
>>
>> Date: 20151223
>>
>> Docket: T-1557-15
>>
>> Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 23, 2015
>>
>> PRESENT: The Honourable Mr. Justice Bell
>>
>> BETWEEN:
>>
>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>>
>> Plaintiff
>>
>> and
>>
>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>>
>> Defendant
>>
>> ORDER
>>
>> (Delivered orally from the Bench in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on
>> December 14, 2015)
>>
>> The Plaintiff seeks an appeal de novo, by way of motion pursuant to
>> the Federal Courts Rules (SOR/98-106), from an Order made on November
>> 12, 2015, in which Prothonotary Morneau struck the Statement of Claim
>> in its entirety.
>>
>> At the outset of the hearing, the Plaintiff brought to my attention a
>> letter dated September 10, 2004, which he sent to me, in my then
>> capacity as Past President of the New Brunswick Branch of the Canadian
>> Bar Association, and the then President of the Branch, Kathleen Quigg,
>> (now a Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal). In that letter
>> he stated:
>>
>> As for your past President, Mr. Bell, may I suggest that you check the
>> work of Frank McKenna before I sue your entire law firm including you.
>> You are your brother’s keeper.
>>
>> Frank McKenna is the former Premier of New Brunswick and a former
>> colleague of mine at the law firm of McInnes Cooper. In addition to
>> expressing an intention to sue me, the Plaintiff refers to a number of
>> people in his Motion Record who he appears to contend may be witnesses
>> or potential parties to be added. Those individuals who are known to
>> me personally, include, but are not limited to the former Prime
>> Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper; former
>> Attorney General of Canada and now a Justice of the Manitoba Court of
>> Queen’s Bench, Vic Toews; former member of Parliament Rob Moore;
>> former Director of Policing Services, the late Grant Garneau; former
>> Chief of the Fredericton Police Force, Barry McKnight; former Staff
>> Sergeant Danny Copp; my former colleagues on the New Brunswick Court
>> of Appeal, Justices Bradley V. Green and Kathleen Quigg, and, retired
>> Assistant Commissioner Wayne Lang of the Royal Canadian Mounted
>> Police.
>>
>> In the circumstances, given the threat in 2004 to sue me in my
>> personal capacity and my past and present relationship with many
>> potential witnesses and/or potential parties to the litigation, I am
>> of the view there would be a reasonable apprehension of bias should I
>> hear this motion. See Justice de Grandpré’s dissenting judgment in
>> Committee for Justice and Liberty et al v National Energy Board et al,
>> [1978] 1 SCR 369 at p 394 for the applicable test regarding
>> allegations of bias. In the circumstances, although neither party has
>> requested I recuse myself, I consider it appropriate that I do so.
>>
>>
>> AS A RESULT OF MY RECUSAL, THIS COURT ORDERS that the Administrator of
>> the Court schedule another date for the hearing of the motion. There
>> is no order as to costs.
>>
>> “B. Richard Bell”
>> Judge
>>
>>
>> Below after the CBC article about your concerns (I made one comment
>> already) you will find the text of just two of many emails I had sent
>> to your office over the years since I first visited it in 2006.
>>
>> I noticed that on July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the the Court
>> Martial Appeal Court of Canada Perhaps you should scroll to the
>> bottom of this email ASAP and read the entire Paragraph 83 of my
>> lawsuit now before the Federal Court of Canada?
>>
>> "FYI This is the text of the lawsuit that should interest Trudeau the
>> most
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original message ----------
>> From: justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca
>> Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:18 PM
>> Subject: Réponse automatique : RE My complaint against the CROWN in
>> Federal Court Attn David Hansen and Peter MacKay If you planning to
>> submit a motion for a publication ban on my complaint trust that you
>> dudes are way past too late
>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>
>> Veuillez noter que j'ai changé de courriel. Vous pouvez me rejoindre à
>> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>>
>> Pour rejoindre le bureau de M. Trudeau veuillez envoyer un courriel à
>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>>
>> Please note that I changed email address, you can reach me at
>> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>>
>> To reach the office of Mr. Trudeau please send an email to
>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Merci ,
>>
>>
>> http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2015/09/v- behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
>>
>>
>> 83. The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war
>> in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation to
>> allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over
>> five years after he began his bragging:
>>
>> January 13, 2015
>> This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate
>>
>> December 8, 2014
>> Why Canada Stood Tall!
>>
>> Friday, October 3, 2014
>> Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And
>> Stupid Justin Trudeau
>>
>> Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide
>> behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
>>
>> When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean Chretien
>> actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second campaign
>> in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or contrary to
>> the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were
>> involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There were
>> significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the dearth
>> of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for
>> operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “last minute”
>> Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its mind.
>> The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not
>> deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a
>> Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins to
>> redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was
>> less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq. But
>> alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister Chretien’s
>> then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s
>> incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic,
>> professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle
>> Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway
>> campaign of 2006.
>>
>> What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that then
>> Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the
>> Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice, consent,
>> support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament.
>>
>> What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and babbling
>> chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment of
>> less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by planners
>> as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a
>> deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make.
>>
>> The Canadian Government or The Crown unlike our amerkan cousins have
>> the “constitutional authority” to commit the Canadian nation to war.
>> That has been recently clearly articulated to the Canadian public by
>> constitutional scholar Phillippe Legasse. What Parliament can do is
>> remove “confidence” in The Crown’s Government in a “vote of
>> non-confidence.” That could not happen to the Chretien Government
>> regarding deployment to Afghanistan, and it won’t happen in this
>> instance with the conservative majority in The Commons regarding a
>> limited Canadian deployment to the Middle East.
>>
>> President George Bush was quite correct after 911 and the terror
>> attacks in New York; that the Taliban “occupied” and “failed state”
>> Afghanistan was the source of logistical support, command and control,
>> and training for the Al Quaeda war of terror against the world. The
>> initial defeat, and removal from control of Afghanistan was vital and
>>
>> P.S. Whereas this CBC article is about your opinion of the actions of
>> the latest Minister Of Health trust that Mr Boudreau and the CBC have
>> had my files for many years and the last thing they are is ethical.
>> Ask his friends Mr Murphy and the RCMP if you don't believe me.
>>
>> Subject:
>> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:02:35 -0400
>> From: "Murphy, Michael B. \(DH/MS\)" MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca
>> To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>
>> January 30, 2007
>>
>> WITHOUT PREJUDICE
>>
>> Mr. David Amos
>>
>> Dear Mr. Amos:
>>
>> This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29,
>> 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP.
>>
>> Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have
>> taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve
>> Graham of the RCMP “J” Division in Fredericton.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Honourable Michael B. Murphy
>> Minister of Health
>>
>> CM/cb
>>
>>
>> Warren McBeath warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote:
>>
>> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500
>> From: "Warren McBeath" warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>> To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca,
>> nada.sarkis@gnb.ca, wally.stiles@gnb.ca, dwatch@web.net,
>> motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>> CC: ottawa@chuckstrahl.com, riding@chuckstrahl.com,John.Foran@gnb.ca,
>> Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,"Bev BUSSON" bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>> "Paul Dube" PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>> Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has
>> forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have not
>>
>> Dear Mr. Amos,
>>
>> Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off
>> over the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured I
>> was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
>>
>> As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our position
>> is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
>> testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the
>> Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
>> services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
>> instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
>>
>> As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
>> imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear
>> that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada
>> the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment
>> and policing in Petitcodiac, NB.
>>
>> It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on
>> December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Warren McBeath, Cpl.
>> GRC Caledonia RCMP
>> Traffic Services NCO
>> Ph: (506) 387-2222
>> Fax: (506) 387-4622
>> E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>
>>
>>
>> Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
>> Office of the Integrity Commissioner
>> Edgecombe House, 736 King Street
>> Fredericton, N.B. CANADA E3B 5H1
>> tel.: 506-457-7890
>> fax: 506-444-5224
>> e-mail:coi@gnb.ca
>>
>
>
> On 8/3/17, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If want something very serious to download and laugh at as well Please
>> Enjoy and share real wiretap tapes of the mob
>>
>> http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2013/10/re-glen- greenwald-and-braz
>> ilian.html
>>
>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/06/09/nsa-leak- guardian.html
>>>
>>> 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?v=vugUalUO8YY
>>>
>>> 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/ITriedToExplainItToAllMaritime rsInEarly200
>>> 6
>>>
>>> http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/2006/05/wiretap-tapes-impeach- bush.html
>>>
>>> http://www.archive.org/details/ PoliceSurveilanceWiretapTape13 9
>>>
>>> http://archive.org/details/Part1WiretapTape143
>>>
>>> FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006
>>> Senator Arlen Specter
>>> United States Senate
>>> Committee on the Judiciary
>>> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
>>> Washington, DC 20510
>>>
>>> Dear Mr. Specter:
>>>
>>> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
>>> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters
>>> raised in the attached letter.
>>>
>>> Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wire tap
>>> tapes.
>>>
>>> I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this previously.
>>>
>>> Very truly yours,
>>> Barry A. Bachrach
>>> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
>>> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
>>> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
>>>
>>
>
> http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/11/federal- court-of-appeal-finally-makes. html
>
>
> Sunday, 19 November 2017
> Federal Court of Appeal Finally Makes The BIG Decision And Publishes
> It Now The Crooks Cannot Take Back Ticket To Try Put My Matter Before
> The Supreme Court
>
> https://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fca-caf/decisions/en/item/ 236679/index.do
>
>
> Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
>
> Amos v. Canada
> Court (s) Database
>
> Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
> Date
>
> 2017-10-30
> Neutral citation
>
> 2017 FCA 213
> File numbers
>
> A-48-16
> Date: 20171030
>
> Docket: A-48-16
> Citation: 2017 FCA 213
> CORAM:
>
> WEBB J.A.
> NEAR J.A.
> GLEASON J.A.
>
>
> BETWEEN:
> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
> Respondent on the cross-appeal
> (and formally Appellant)
> and
> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
> Appellant on the cross-appeal
> (and formerly Respondent)
> Heard at Fredericton, New Brunswick, on May 24, 2017.
> Judgment delivered at Ottawa, Ontario, on October 30, 2017.
> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY:
>
> THE COURT
>
>
>
> Date: 20171030
>
> Docket: A-48-16
> Citation: 2017 FCA 213
> CORAM:
>
> WEBB J.A.
> NEAR J.A.
> GLEASON J.A.
>
>
> BETWEEN:
> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
> Respondent on the cross-appeal
> (and formally Appellant)
> and
> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
> Appellant on the cross-appeal
> (and formerly Respondent)
> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY THE COURT
>
> I. Introduction
>
> [1] On September 16, 2015, David Raymond Amos (Mr. Amos)
> filed a 53-page Statement of Claim (the Claim) in Federal Court
> against Her Majesty the Queen (the Crown). Mr. Amos claims $11 million
> in damages and a public apology from the Prime Minister and Provincial
> Premiers for being illegally barred from accessing parliamentary
> properties and seeks a declaration from the Minister of Public Safety
> that the Canadian Government will no longer allow the Royal Canadian
> Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Forces to harass him and his clan
> (Claim at para. 96).
>
> [2] On November 12, 2015 (Docket T-1557-15), by way of a
> motion brought by the Crown, a prothonotary of the Federal Court (the
> Prothonotary) struck the Claim in its entirety, without leave to
> amend, on the basis that it was plain and obvious that the Claim
> disclosed no reasonable claim, the Claim was fundamentally vexatious,
> and the Claim could not be salvaged by way of further amendment (the
> Prothontary’s Order).
>
>
> [3] On January 25, 2016 (2016 FC 93), by way of Mr.
> Amos’ appeal from the Prothonotary’s Order, a judge of the Federal
> Court (the Judge), reviewing the matter de novo, struck all of Mr.
> Amos’ claims for relief with the exception of the claim for damages
> for being barred by the RCMP from the New Brunswick legislature in
> 2004 (the Federal Court Judgment).
>
>
> [4] Mr. Amos appealed and the Crown cross-appealed the
> Federal Court Judgment. Further to the issuance of a Notice of Status
> Review, Mr. Amos’ appeal was dismissed for delay on December 19, 2016.
> As such, the only matter before this Court is the Crown’s
> cross-appeal.
>
>
> II. Preliminary Matter
>
> [5] Mr. Amos, in his memorandum of fact and law in
> relation to the cross-appeal that was filed with this Court on March
> 6, 2017, indicated that several judges of this Court, including two of
> the judges of this panel, had a conflict of interest in this appeal.
> This was the first time that he identified the judges whom he believed
> had a conflict of interest in a document that was filed with this
> Court. In his notice of appeal he had alluded to a conflict with
> several judges but did not name those judges.
>
> [6] Mr. Amos was of the view that he did not have to
> identify the judges in any document filed with this Court because he
> had identified the judges in various documents that had been filed
> with the Federal Court. In his view the Federal Court and the Federal
> Court of Appeal are the same court and therefore any document filed in
> the Federal Court would be filed in this Court. This view is based on
> subsections 5(4) and 5.1(4) of the Federal Courts Act, R.S.C., 1985,
> c. F-7:
>
>
> 5(4) Every judge of the Federal Court is, by virtue of his or her
> office, a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal and has all the
> jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court of
> Appeal.
> […]
>
> 5(4) Les juges de la Cour fédérale sont d’office juges de la Cour
> d’appel fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que
> les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale.
> […]
> 5.1(4) Every judge of the Federal Court of Appeal is, by virtue of
> that office, a judge of the Federal Court and has all the
> jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court.
>
> 5.1(4) Les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale sont d’office juges de la
> Cour fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que les
> juges de la Cour fédérale.
>
>
> [7] However, these subsections only provide that the
> judges of the Federal Court are also judges of this Court (and vice
> versa). It does not mean that there is only one court. If the Federal
> Court and this Court were one Court, there would be no need for this
> section.
> [8] Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act provide that:
> 3 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court
> — Appeal Division is continued under the name “Federal Court of
> Appeal” in English and “Cour d’appel fédérale” in French. It is
> continued as an additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and
> for Canada, for the better administration of the laws of Canada and as
> a superior court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.
>
> 3 La Section d’appel, aussi appelée la Cour d’appel ou la Cour d’appel
> fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée « Cour d’appel fédérale » en
> français et « Federal Court of Appeal » en anglais. Elle est maintenue
> à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et d’amirauté du
> Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit canadien, et
> continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant compétence en
> matière civile et pénale.
> 4 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court
> — Trial Division is continued under the name “Federal Court” in
> English and “Cour fédérale” in French. It is continued as an
> additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and for Canada, for
> the better administration of the laws of Canada and
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Attn Nic Meloney RE BP wanting to drill in our stomping grounds I just called from 902 800 0369
---------- Original message ----------
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Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 19:37:49 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Attn Nic Meloney I sent the email as
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 4:37 PM
Subject: Attn Nic Meloney I sent the email as promised but it appears that Gmail is blocking me again so I published it
To: <nic.meloney@cbc.ca>, Catherine.McKenna <Catherine.McKenna@parl.gc.ca>
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Perhaps if I don't include much info this one will get through
http://davidraymondamos3.
Sunday, 22 April 2018
Attn Nic Meloney RE BP wanting to drill in our stomping grounds I just
called from 902 800 0369
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 11:13:35 -0400
Subject: Attn Nic Meloney RE BP wantin to drill in our stomping grounds
I just called from 902 800 0369
To: nic.meloney@cbc.ca, "Catherine.McKenna"
<Catherine.McKenna@parl.gc.ca>
<Hon.Jim.Carr@canada.ca>, media@neb-one.gc.ca, spinks@cnsopb.ca,
dmurphy@cnsopb.ns.ca, sdogra@cnsopb.ns.ca, PREMIER
<PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, "brian.gallant" <brian.gallant@gnb.ca>,
"Bill.Morneau" <Bill.Morneau@canada.ca>,
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
BP granted approval to start drilling off Nova Scotia's coast
Project has been strongly opposed by Mi'kmaq communities
Alex Cooke · The Canadian Press · Posted: Apr 21, 2018 1:38 PM AT
http://www.cbc.ca/news/
Mi'kmaq voice concerns over proposed drilling as BP Canada rig en
route to Nova Scotia
Drilling licences not yet approved; exploration project may have
impacts on Mi'kmaq fishing areas
Nic Meloney · CBC News · Posted: Apr 13, 2018 12:31 PM ET
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Telephone: (902) 422-5588 (24 hour)
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Memorandum of Understanding between the National Energy Board, the
Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board and the
Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board [PDF 602 KB]
http://www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/
Scotian Basin Exploration Drilling Project
Environmental Assessment Report
February 2018
© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the
Minister of the Environment (2017).
Catalogue No: En106-203/2018E-PDF
ISBN: 978-0-660-24432-7
https://www.bp.com/en/global/
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Craig Marshall - Group head of investor relations
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investor relations team, having also worked in the London investor
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of the financial markets across the UK and US, and also deep
experience of the upstream business having worked in a number of
finance leadership roles. Craig is a Chartered Management Accountant.
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developments. He acts as a key point of contact for North American
institutional investors. Brian has been with BP and predecessor
companies since 1981 working in a variety of commercial roles within
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To: <canadianawareness@live.ca>; "pm" <pm@pm.gc.ca>; "bob.rae"
<bob.rae@rogers.blackberry.net
<Nycole.Turmel@parl.gc.ca>; "maritime_malaise"
<maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>; <emb.ottawa@mfa.no>
Cc: "occupyTOmedia" <occupyTOmedia@gmail.com>; "occupyfredericton"
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Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 11:02 AM
Subject: Re Banksters, Potash Corp and Norway's very strange sense of
ethical conduct
I waited for over week for Norway's Minister of Finance of his
Ambassador in Canada to call me back before sending this email as I
promised. They assistants in Canada and Norway didn't believe that I
sent them emails in 2009 and demanded that I resend them before I
could discuss anything with their bosses. I did as they requested but
told them I wished to discuss more recent events concerning Potash and
the European Union but they didn't seem to care. They only wanted me
to prove that I had sent them email before for some strange reason.
This was what I wanted to discuss with Norway while the Canadian
parliaments were in session.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/
http://www.regjeringen.no/
However long ago Byron Prior said the Judge Hickman, Norway and a host
of others covered up what happened to our cod and the sinking of the
Ocean Ranger
http://news.google.com/
http://www.onepetro.org/mslib/
http://archives.cbc.ca/
http://qslspolitics.blogspot.
"Byron had some incredible stories for me when we talked on the phone.
He is a jack-of-all-trades who cannot get a job because of his pursuit
of justice in a land ruled by his tormentor. He has worked on oil rigs
and in repairing ships wounded on the treacherous shores of
Newfoundland. One day a cargo ship owned by Paul Martin the current
Canadian Prime Minister and named after his wife, limped into port for
repairs, in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Kilos of cocaine, were found in the
steering section, no one was charged. Another story he told me was a
story of resource exploration gone badly. As it turns out,
Newfoundland is sitting on some of the richest oil and natural gas
reserves in the North-Atlantic, in fact the Canadian Government sold
the known reserves to the Multi National oil companies. An exploration
Rig, The Ocean Ranger, was surveying for oil/natural gas, on the Grand
Banks, off Newfoundland. Because of the voracious greed of the oil
company doing the surveying the rig was operating in waters, 30 meters
or approx. 100 feet, shallower than it was built for. It had all the
tractor-trailer office-boxes on top, which added more weight, which
meant it needed even more water. Then a storm kicked up and the swells
picked this rig up and down till one of the legs hit the bottom and
snapped off. The whole rig capsized. Everyone on board was killed. T.
Alex Hickman, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and
Commissioner of the Ocean Ranger Inquiry, said, The Companies are
neither responsible nor liable for what happened to this oil rig. As
it is said, "There is no loyalty among thieves".
Another story Byron was a witness to involving the exploration of
natural resources gone badly this time off the Northern Labrador Coast
which was known as one of the richest fisheries in the world. They
also happened to be one of the richest sources of natural gas in the
Northern Atlantic. A Drill Ship, The Pelerin, was surveying for oil
and natural gas off the coast. They wound up hitting pay dirt on a
fearsome level. While drilling they hit what must have been a fissure,
because the volume of natural gas that erupted threatened to sink the
ship. When any gas is dissolved in water it reduces the buoyancy of
anything floating on the surface. It would have sunk instantly for
lack of buoyancy had the strong current not carried the natural gas
away from the ship. They tried in vain for three days to seal the leak
but it overcame their abilities. It was this incident that may have
caused the death of the cod fishery in the richest grounds of the
North Atlantic. Byron is a witness to this incident."
"I left home today with the intention of filling a, Writ of Summons, A
Statement of Claim & An Affidavit with the Supreme Court Of
Newfoundland aganist T. Alex Hickman & The RCMP, I didn't & left the
building more determined than ever to inform the PUBLIC. On public
display, upon entering, a picture of Alex Hickman & The Queen, great
start, a list of Supreme Court Judges, Mr Justice R J Halley, X
partiner of Halley, Hunt & Hickman, Hon Chief Justice J D Green, a
member of the Ocean Ranger Inquiry which white washed the sinking of
the Ocean Ranger & said the Oil Companies were not Responsible or
Liable Legally for the SO CALLED, ACCIDENT.
Most of the other Judges also sat on the inquiry with Alex Hickman,
than Chief Justice as Chairman. None of these people would know an Oil
Rig from an Oil Delivery Truck. After the Ranger sank, I came home
from Tanzania, East Africa, to help 2 sea Captains, start an Offshore
Safety Course For the oil rigs, Basic Offshore Survival Training, BOST
Course, at the marine institute. I had worked on 4 continents for a
company called Helmer Staubo, of Oslo, Norway, a hobby for me was
collecting Rig Photos from around the world, one of which was the
Ocean Ranger. This rig had one thing completely different from ALL
other Semi Submersable Rigs, it's anchor chains were moved up ,on the
legs, so the chains were always visablely out of the water, this was
done to try to add stability.
The sister RIG of the Ocean Ranger is still working , to this day in
the Norwegan Sector of thr North Sea, to work in 3 meters, 6 ft. less
water than it was designed for, 20 tons of weight had to be removed
from the work deck, to compensate for the 3 meters of less water, to
prevent it from hitting bottom during a storm, NOT ONLY WAS THE OCEAN
RANGER IN 30 METERS LESS WATER THAN IT WAS DESIGNED FOR BUT EXTRA
EQUIPMENT WAS ADDED TO THE DECK FOR HALIBURTON TESTING EQUIPMENT.
I was showing these pictures in my saftey classes when an order came
from CAPT. Jack Strong to remove my Photos from the class room &
instruct only from the prepaird text book. After that my teaching
career ended & I was black listed from the offshore."
Wheras Norway's government has ignored me for way past to long Perhaps
I should talk to the opposition before its parliament says ok to this
nonsense. It appears that those right wingers could use some good
press about their actions but we all know why i don't wish to be
friends with Right Wing Wackos EH Mr Harper?
http://www.thesundayleader.lk/
http://frsfreestatenow.
http://www.regjeringen.no/en/
“Norway has today offered up to 6 billion SDR (equivalent to 7 billion
euros) to the International Monetary Fund, as a bilateral loan to
contribute to stabilising the European and international economy, and
thus also to safeguard the Norwegian economy and Norwegian jobs”, says
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.
http://www.regjeringen.no/en/
http://www.regjeringen.no/
http://www.regjeringen.no/en/
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 11:13:35 -0400
Subject: Attn Nic Meloney RE BP wantin to drill in our stomping
grounds I just called from 902 800 0369
To: nic.meloney@cbc.ca, "Catherine.McKenna"
<Catherine.McKenna@parl.gc.ca>
<Hon.Jim.Carr@canada.ca>, media@neb-one.gc.ca, spinks@cnsopb.ca,
dmurphy@cnsopb.ns.ca, sdogra@cnsopb.ns.ca, PREMIER
<PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, "brian.gallant" <brian.gallant@gnb.ca>,
"Bill.Morneau" <Bill.Morneau@canada.ca>, "bill.pentney"
<bill.pentney@justice.gc.ca>, Wayne.d@plfn.ca, info@ecologyaction.ca
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
BPInvestorRelationsN@bp.com
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
BP granted approval to start drilling off Nova Scotia's coast
Project has been strongly opposed by Mi'kmaq communities
Alex Cooke · The Canadian Press · Posted: Apr 21, 2018 1:38 PM AT
http://www.cbc.ca/news/
Mi'kmaq voice concerns over proposed drilling as BP Canada rig en
route to Nova Scotia
Drilling licences not yet approved; exploration project may have
impacts on Mi'kmaq fishing areas
Nic Meloney · CBC News · Posted: Apr 13, 2018 12:31 PM ET
CBC Indigenous Unit
6940 Mumford Road #100,
Halifax, NS B3L 0B7
E: nic.meloney@cbc.ca
M: 902-233-4268
Tw: @nicmeloney
http://www.cirl.ca/files/cirl/
https://www.cnsopb.ns.ca/
Stuart Pinks, P. Eng., Chief Executive Officer
Email: spinks@cnsopb.ca
Phone: 902.496.3206
Dena Murphy, M.Sc, MMM, CRSP Director, Operations/Health, Safety and Environment
Email: dmurphy@cnsopb.ns.ca
Phone: 902.496.0723
Shanti Dogra, General Counsel
Email: sdogra@cnsopb.ns.ca
Phone: 902.496.0736
Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board
6th Floor TD Centre
1791 Barrington Street
Halifax N.S. B3J 3K9
CANADA
Telephone: (902) 422-5588 (24 hour)
https://www.neb-one.gc.ca/bts/
Memorandum of Understanding between the National Energy Board, the
Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board and the
Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board [PDF 602 KB]
http://www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/
Scotian Basin Exploration Drilling Project
Environmental Assessment Report
February 2018
© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the
Minister of the Environment (2017).
Catalogue No: En106-203/2018E-PDF
ISBN: 978-0-660-24432-7
https://www.bp.com/en/global/
London BP p.l.c.
1 St James's Square,
SW1Y 4PD
Switchboard: + 44 (0) 207496 4000
Email: ir@bp.com
Craig Marshall
Group head of investor relations
Craig Marshall - Group head of investor relations
Craig is responsible for leading the London and Houston-based investor
relations teams and accountable for all investor relations for BP. He
joined the company in 1997, most recently leading the North America
investor relations team, having also worked in the London investor
relations team earlier in his career. Craig has an extensive knowledge
of the financial markets across the UK and US, and also deep
experience of the upstream business having worked in a number of
finance leadership roles. Craig is a Chartered Management Accountant.
BP America Inc. 501 Westlake Park Blvd TX 77079
Shareholder Services: +1 877 638 5672
North America Investor Relations: +1 832-664-3187
Email: BPInvestorRelationsN@bp.com
Brian Sullivan
Vice President, BP North America Investor Relations
Brian joined the IR team in January 2008. He is primarily responsible
for communicating with the investment community regarding BP’s
strategy, financial and operating results, and the impact of special
developments. He acts as a key point of contact for North American
institutional investors. Brian has been with BP and predecessor
companies since 1981 working in a variety of commercial roles within
the Upstream businesses prior to joining IR.
https://nsadvocate.org/2018/
The Oaks, room 214
Saint Mary’s University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3H 3C3 Canada
ccrn@smu.ca
+1 902 420 5003
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Amos" <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
To: <canadianawareness@live.ca>; "pm" <pm@pm.gc.ca>; "bob.rae"
<bob.rae@rogers.blackberry.net
<Nycole.Turmel@parl.gc.ca>; "maritime_malaise"
<maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>; <emb.ottawa@mfa.no>
Cc: "occupyTOmedia" <occupyTOmedia@gmail.com>; "occupyfredericton"
<occupyfredericton@gmail.com>; "OccupyBostonMedia"
<OccupyBostonMedia@gmail.com>; "Arthur Taylor"
<brother.chao@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 11:02 AM
Subject: Re Banksters, Potash Corp and Norway's very strange sense of
ethical conduct
I waited for over week for Norway's Minister of Finance of his
Ambassador in Canada to call me back before sending this email as I
promised. They assistants in Canada and Norway didn't believe that I
sent them emails in 2009 and demanded that I resend them before I
could discuss anything with their bosses. I did as they requested but
told them I wished to discuss more recent events concerning Potash and
the European Union but they didn't seem to care. They only wanted me
to prove that I had sent them email before for some strange reason.
This was what I wanted to discuss with Norway while the Canadian
parliaments were in session.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/
http://www.regjeringen.no/
However long ago Byron Prior said the Judge Hickman, Norway and a host
of others covered up what happened to our cod and the sinking of the
Ocean Ranger
http://news.google.com/
http://www.onepetro.org/mslib/
http://archives.cbc.ca/
http://qslspolitics.blogspot.
"Byron had some incredible stories for me when we talked on the phone.
He is a jack-of-all-trades who cannot get a job because of his pursuit
of justice in a land ruled by his tormentor. He has worked on oil rigs
and in repairing ships wounded on the treacherous shores of
Newfoundland. One day a cargo ship owned by Paul Martin the current
Canadian Prime Minister and named after his wife, limped into port for
repairs, in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Kilos of cocaine, were found in the
steering section, no one was charged. Another story he told me was a
story of resource exploration gone badly. As it turns out,
Newfoundland is sitting on some of the richest oil and natural gas
reserves in the North-Atlantic, in fact the Canadian Government sold
the known reserves to the Multi National oil companies. An exploration
Rig, The Ocean Ranger, was surveying for oil/natural gas, on the Grand
Banks, off Newfoundland. Because of the voracious greed of the oil
company doing the surveying the rig was operating in waters, 30 meters
or approx. 100 feet, shallower than it was built for. It had all the
tractor-trailer office-boxes on top, which added more weight, which
meant it needed even more water. Then a storm kicked up and the swells
picked this rig up and down till one of the legs hit the bottom and
snapped off. The whole rig capsized. Everyone on board was killed. T.
Alex Hickman, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and
Commissioner of the Ocean Ranger Inquiry, said, The Companies are
neither responsible nor liable for what happened to this oil rig. As
it is said, "There is no loyalty among thieves".
Another story Byron was a witness to involving the exploration of
natural resources gone badly this time off the Northern Labrador Coast
which was known as one of the richest fisheries in the world. They
also happened to be one of the richest sources of natural gas in the
Northern Atlantic. A Drill Ship, The Pelerin, was surveying for oil
and natural gas off the coast. They wound up hitting pay dirt on a
fearsome level. While drilling they hit what must have been a fissure,
because the volume of natural gas that erupted threatened to sink the
ship. When any gas is dissolved in water it reduces the buoyancy of
anything floating on the surface. It would have sunk instantly for
lack of buoyancy had the strong current not carried the natural gas
away from the ship. They tried in vain for three days to seal the leak
but it overcame their abilities. It was this incident that may have
caused the death of the cod fishery in the richest grounds of the
North Atlantic. Byron is a witness to this incident."
"I left home today with the intention of filling a, Writ of Summons, A
Statement of Claim & An Affidavit with the Supreme Court Of
Newfoundland aganist T. Alex Hickman & The RCMP, I didn't & left the
building more determined than ever to inform the PUBLIC. On public
display, upon entering, a picture of Alex Hickman & The Queen, great
start, a list of Supreme Court Judges, Mr Justice R J Halley, X
partiner of Halley, Hunt & Hickman, Hon Chief Justice J D Green, a
member of the Ocean Ranger Inquiry which white washed the sinking of
the Ocean Ranger & said the Oil Companies were not Responsible or
Liable Legally for the SO CALLED, ACCIDENT.
Most of the other Judges also sat on the inquiry with Alex Hickman,
than Chief Justice as Chairman. None of these people would know an Oil
Rig from an Oil Delivery Truck. After the Ranger sank, I came home
from Tanzania, East Africa, to help 2 sea Captains, start an Offshore
Safety Course For the oil rigs, Basic Offshore Survival Training, BOST
Course, at the marine institute. I had worked on 4 continents for a
company called Helmer Staubo, of Oslo, Norway, a hobby for me was
collecting Rig Photos from around the world, one of which was the
Ocean Ranger. This rig had one thing completely different from ALL
other Semi Submersable Rigs, it's anchor chains were moved up ,on the
legs, so the chains were always visablely out of the water, this was
done to try to add stability.
The sister RIG of the Ocean Ranger is still working , to this day in
the Norwegan Sector of thr North Sea, to work in 3 meters, 6 ft. less
water than it was designed for, 20 tons of weight had to be removed
from the work deck, to compensate for the 3 meters of less water, to
prevent it from hitting bottom during a storm, NOT ONLY WAS THE OCEAN
RANGER IN 30 METERS LESS WATER THAN IT WAS DESIGNED FOR BUT EXTRA
EQUIPMENT WAS ADDED TO THE DECK FOR HALIBURTON TESTING EQUIPMENT.
I was showing these pictures in my saftey classes when an order came
from CAPT. Jack Strong to remove my Photos from the class room &
instruct only from the prepaird text book. After that my teaching
career ended & I was black listed from the offshore."
Wheras Norway's government has ignored me for way past to long Perhaps
I should talk to the opposition before its parliament says ok to this
nonsense. It appears that those right wingers could use some good
press about their actions but we all know why i don't wish to be
friends with Right Wing Wackos EH Mr Harper?
http://www.thesundayleader.lk/
http://frsfreestatenow.
http://www.regjeringen.no/en/
“Norway has today offered up to 6 billion SDR (equivalent to 7 billion
euros) to the International Monetary Fund, as a bilateral loan to
contribute to stabilising the European and international economy, and
thus also to safeguard the Norwegian economy and Norwegian jobs”, says
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.
http://www.regjeringen.no/en/
http://www.regjeringen.no/
http://www.regjeringen.no/en/
-----Original Message-----
From: John Bennett <jb@sierraclub.ca>
Subject: Re: i just called some of you again. Instead of calling me
backSuzuki's people just surf the net and play dumb Correct?
To: "Paula Boutis" <pboutis@ilercampbell.com>,
"JeanPaulBourque@gmail.com" <JeanPaulBourque@gmail.com>, "Wayne
Gallant" <Wayne.Gallant@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
<webo@xplornet.com>, "Gretchen Fitzgerald" <gretchenf@sierraclub.ca>,
"maritime_malaise" <maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>
Cc: "pfalvo@yellowknife.ca" <pfalvo@yellowknife.ca>
Received: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 2:26 PM
He is known to Gretchen as not quiet rational.
John Bennett Executive Director Sierra Club Canada 613 291 6888
-----Original Message-----
From: "Paula Boutis" <pboutis@ilercampbell.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:18:46
To: JeanPaulBourque@gmail.com<Jean
Gallant<Wayne.Gallant@rcmp-
webo@xplornet.com<webo@
jb@sierraclub.ca<jb@
gretchenf@sierraclub.ca<gretch
maritime_malaise<maritime_
Cc: pfalvo@yellowknife.ca<pfalvo@
Subject: RE: i just called some of you again. Instead of calling me back
Suzuki's people just surf the net and play dumb Correct?
I am not responding to Dave Amos' emails, but I believe I have heard
he has some "issues". I have no sense of what his involvement is with
the organization or why he is threatening law suits (my receptionist
just intercepted a call and he told her he didn't want to leave a
message and to just tell her that he would "see me in court").
Does anyone have any idea what to do about this guy? Should we just
ignore him?
Paula
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 12:59:59 -0300
Subject: I called you all and tried to explain how I can help with
your concerns I repeat just say my name
To: action@ecologyaction.ca, gretchenf@sierraclub.ca, tracy
<tracy@jatam.org>, dgiroux@tlb.sympatico.ca, mjgorman@ns.sympatico.ca
Cc: nmiller <nmiller@corridor.ca>, "wally.stiles@gnb.ca" <wally.stiles@gnb.ca>
If nothing else listen to this and get pissed off lIke mean old me. At
least that emotion is honest.
http://www.archive.org/
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/
http://atlantic.sierraclub.ca/
COALITION CALLS ON LEADERS TO ACT IMMEDIATELY TO STOP OIL AND GAS
EXPLORATION IN GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE
For Immediate Release - October 4, 2010
PICTOU, NS – Today’s decision by the Canada Newfoundland and Labrador
Offshore Petroleum Board (CNLOPB) to allow seismic blasting in the
Gulf of St. Lawrence was met with shock and concern by a coalition
calling for a moratorium on oil and gas development in the Gulf of St.
Lawrence. The coalition - made of aboriginal, fishing, and
environmental organizations - is calling on municipal, provincial,
federal, and aboriginal leaders to act swiftly to halt the testing.
“With this decision, the CNLOPB has approved an activity that could
damage this entire precious ecosystem,” according to Mary Gorman of
the Save Our Seas and Shores, “We want this decision reversed
immediately, and action taken to allow jurisdictions bordering on the
Gulf to have a say in its future.”
“Seismic testing could start in the next 48 hours, potentially
damaging marine mammals like blue whales, and disrupting fish and
fisheries. This approval has given oil and gas as a toehold in the
Gulf that could lead to full scale drilling,” according to Danielle
Giroux of the. “Fishermen I work for need more say over protecting the
Gulf. We want the CNLOPB’s decision reversed immediately.”
“An oil spill in the Gulf of St. Lawrence would impact fish stocks and
coastal communities in Quebec, PEI, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and
Newfoundland. Moreover, the national importance of this ecosystem must
be upheld.” says Gretchen Fitzgerald, of the Sierra Club Canada. “
Federal laws to protect endangered species and fish habitat recognize
the importance of protecting our shared biodiversity and resources.
This decision is not reflecting this shared responsibility or concerns
expressed by groups around the Gulf.”
-30-
For more information, please contact:
Mary Gorman, Save our Seas and Shores, 902-926-2128/mjgorman@ns.
Danielle Giroux (Francais), Attention Fragile (Magdalen Islands)
418-969-9440/dgiroux@tlb.
Gretchen Fitzgerald, Director, Sierra Club Atlantic, 902-444-3113/
gretchenf@sierraclub.ca
Mark Butler, Policy Director, Ecology Action Centre,
902-429-5287/action@
FYI I must say that t his was an interesting place for one of my
deleted videos to pop up EH?
http://www.crewvacancies.com/
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:57:17 -0300
Subject: How is your conscience and sense of ethical conduct doing now
ladies?
To: Jane.McAloon@bhpbilliton.com, Susan.J.Collins@bhpbilliton.
Cc: "william.elliott@rcmp-grc.gc.
"Dean.Buzza" <Dean.Buzza@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
Jane McAloon (Group Company Secretary) BEc (Hons), LLB, GDipGov, FCIS
Term of office: Jane McAloon was appointed Group Company Secretary in
July 2007 and joined the BHP Billiton Group in September 2006 as
Company Secretary for BHP Billiton Limited.
Skills and experience: Prior to joining BHP Billiton, Jane McAloon
held the position of Company Secretary and Group Manager External and
Regulatory Services in the Australian Gas Light Company. She
previously held various State and Commonwealth government positions,
including Director General of the NSW Ministry of Energy and Utilities
and Deputy Director General for the NSW Cabinet Office, as well as
working in private legal practice. She is a Fellow of the Institute of
Chartered Secretaries.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Collins, Susan J (COSEC)" <Susan.J.Collins@bhpbilliton.
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:23:12 +1000
Subject: Email to BHP Billiton Chairman's
To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Please find attached a letter from Mr Jac Nasser, Chairman of BHP
Billiton
Susan Collins
Company Secretariat
BHP Billiton | 180 Lonsdale St | Melbourne Vic 3000 |Australia
T: +61 3 9609 2654 | M: +61 427 713 994 | F: +61 3 9609 3290
E: susan.j.collins@bhpbilliton.
<<Amos D 2010 09 14.pdf>>
----- Original Message -----
From: "McKnight, Gisele"
To:
Cc:
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:53 PM
Subject: David Amos
Hello Lisa,
David Amos asked me to contact you. I met him last June after he
became an independent (not representing any political party) candidate
in our federal election that was held June 28. He was a candidate in
our constituency of Fundy (now called Fundy-Royal).
I wrote a profile story about him, as I did all other candidates. That
story appeared in the Kings County Record June 22. A second story,
written by one of my reporters, appeared on the same date, which was a
report on the candidates' debate held June 18.
As I recall David Amos came last of four candidates in the election.
The winner got 14,997 votes, while Amos got 358. I have attached the
two stories that appeared, as well as a photo taken by reporter Erin
Hatfield during the debate. I couldn't find the photo that ran, but
this one is very similar.
Gisele McKnight editor
Kings County Record
Sussex, New Brunswick
Canada
506-433-1070
Raising a Little Hell- Lively Debate Provokes Crowd
By Erin Hatfield
"If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it? If your
world is all screwed up, rearrange it."
The 1979 Trooper song Raise a Little Hell blared on the speakers at
the 8th Hussars Sports Center Friday evening as people filed in to
watch the Fundy candidates debate the issues. It was an accurate, if
unofficial, theme song for the debate.
The crowd of over 200 spectators was dwarfed by the huge arena, but as
they chose their seats, it was clear the battle lines were drawn.
Supporters of Conservative candidate Rob Moore naturally took the blue
chairs on the right of the rink floor while John Herron's Liberalswent
left. There were splashes of orange, supporters of NDP Pat Hanratty,
mixed throughout. Perhaps the loudest applause came from a row towards
the back, where supporters of independent candidate David Amos sat.
The debate was moderated by Leo Melanson of CJCW Radio and was
organized by the Sussex Valley Jaycees. Candidates wereasked a barrage
of questions bypanelists Gisele McKnight of the Kings County Record
and Lisa Spencer of CJCW.
Staying true to party platforms for the most part, candidates
responded to questions about the gun registry, same sex marriage, the
exodus of young people from the Maritimes and regulated gas prices.
Herron and Moore were clear competitors,constantly challenging each
other on their answers and criticizing eachothers’ party leaders.
Hanratty flew under the radar, giving short, concise responses to the
questions while Amos provided some food for thought and a bit of comic
relief with quirky answers. "I was raised with a gun," Amos said in
response to the question of thenational gun registry. "Nobody's
getting mine and I'm not paying 10 cents for it."
Herron, a Progressive Conservative MP turned Liberal, veered from his
party'splatform with regard to gun control. "It was ill advised but
well intentioned," Herron said. "No matter what side of the house I am
on, I'm voting against it." Pat Hanratty agreed there were better
places for the gun registry dollars to be spent.Recreational hunters
shouldn't have been penalized by this gun registry," he said.
The gun registry issues provoked the tempers of Herron and Moore. At
one point Herron got out of his seat and threw a piece of paper in
front of Moore. "Read that," Herron said to Moore, referring to the
voting record of Conservative Party leader Steven Harper. According to
Herron, Harper voted in favour of the registry on the first and second
readings of the bill in 1995. "He voted against it when it counted, at
final count," Moore said. "We needa government with courage to
register sex offenders rather than register the property of law
abiding citizens."
The crowd was vocal throughout the evening, with white haired men and
women heckling from the Conservative side. "Shut up John," one woman
yelled. "How can you talk about selling out?" a man yelled whenHerron
spoke about his fear that the Conservatives are selling farmers out.
Although the Liberal side was less vocal, Kings East MLA Leroy
Armstrong weighed in at one point. "You’re out of touch," Armstrong
yelled to Moore from the crowd when the debate turned to the cost of
post-secondary education. Later in the evening Amos challenged
Armstrong to a public debate of their own. "Talk is cheap. Any time,
anyplace," Armstrong responded.
As the crowd made its way out of the building following the debate,
candidates worked the room. They shook hands with well-wishers and
fielded questions from spectators-all part of the decision-making
process for the June 28 vote.
Cutline – David Amos, independent candidate in Fundy, with some of his
favourite possessions—motorcycles.
McKnight/KCR
The Unconventional Candidate
David Amos Isn’t Campaigning For Your Vote, But….
By Gisele McKnight
FUNDY—He has a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket, a chain on his
wallet, a beard at least a foot long, 60 motorcycles and a cell phone
that rings to the tune of "Yankee Doodle."
Meet the latest addition to the Fundy ballot—David Amos.
The independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife
and two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from
running for office in Canada.
One has only to be at least 18, a Canadian citizen and not be in jail
to meet Elections Canada requirements.
When it came time to launch his political crusade, Amos chose his
favourite place to do so—Fundy.
Amos, 52, is running for political office because of his
dissatisfaction with politicians.
"I’ve become aware of much corruption involving our two countries," he
said. "The only way to fix corruption is in the political forum."
The journey that eventually led Amos to politics began in Sussex in
1987. He woke up one morning disillusioned with life and decided he
needed to change his life.
"I lost my faith in mankind," he said. "People go through that
sometimes in midlife."
So Amos, who’d lived in Sussex since 1973, closed his Four Corners
motorcycle shop, paid his bills and hit the road with Annie, his 1952
Panhead motorcycle.
"Annie and I rode around for awhile (three years, to be exact)
experiencing the milk of human kindness," he said. "This is how you
renew your faith in mankind – you help anyone you can, you never ask
for anything, but you take what they offer."
For those three years, they offered food, a place to sleep, odd jobs
and conversation all over North America.
Since he and Annie stopped wandering, he has married, fathered a son
and a daughter and become a house-husband – Mr. Mom, as he calls
himself.
He also describes himself in far more colourful terms—a motorcyclist
rather than a biker, a "fun-loving, free-thinking, pig-headed
individual," a "pissed-off Maritimer" rather than an activist, a proud
Canadian and a "wild colonial boy."
Ironically, the man who is running for office has never voted in his life.
"But I have no right to criticize unless I offer my name," he said.
"It’s alright to bitch in the kitchen, but can you walk the walk?"
Amos has no intention of actively campaigning.
"I didn’t appreciate it when they (politicians) pounded on my door
interrupting my dinner," he said. "If people are interested, they can
call me. I’m not going to drive my opinions down their throats."
And he has no campaign budget, nor does he want one.
"I won’t take any donations," he said. "Just try to give me some. It’s
not about money. It goes against what I’m fighting about."
What he’s fighting for is the discussion of issues – tainted blood,
the exploitation of the Maritimes’ gas and oil reserves and NAFTA, to
name a few.
"The political issues in the Maritimes involve the three Fs – fishing,
farming and forestry, but they forget foreign issues," he said. "I’m
death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say chuck it
(NAFTA) out the window.
NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement which allows an
easier flow of goods between Canada, the United States and Mexico.
Amos disagrees with the idea that a vote for him is a wasted vote.
"There are no wasted votes," he said. "I want people like me,
especially young people, to pay attention and exercise their right.
Don’t necessarily vote for me, but vote."
Although…if you’re going to vote anyway, Amos would be happy to have
your X by his name.
"I want people to go into that voting booth, see my name, laugh and
say, ‘what the hell.’"
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