The bank account was closed yesterday and I made the final entries in the journal yesterday evening. The records were done in Quickbooks.
I will do my best to answer any questions you have. I ask your understanding in knowing that I cannot disclose anything that could in any way, reflect on the identity of any donors, etc.
If you have a question of a confidential nature, kindly contact me privately at nobledreamer16 at gmail dot com.
Thanks,
Tricia
These records will also be posted at MapleSandbox and the CCCF website.
No, no, bubblebustin. I am NOT lucky. Michelle Rempel is my MP.
I believe you’re thinking of northernstar — Charlie Angus is her MP.
@Chears, let me respectfully disagree.
Disclaimer first, I am not Canadian. My objective is to see a successful Charter Challenge in Canada because that will open the door to the same thing in the EU. Politicians look at other countries and their Courts. This will be the leaking water in the Dam and we know once water starts leaking, time will collapse the concrete.
Today 9 April 2014, there is no law on the books that can be challenged. In theory, it could be defeated in the end in Parliament. But there is NO law to bring a challenge against. If a suit was brought this week the Judge would ask what law are you challenging?
Next, it is indeed appropriate to keep things tight to the vest whilst these matters are being debated in Parliament. They need to make their bed and lay in it, first. If they were to get any details of the path to a Charter Challenge, they could amend the law before the challenge and maybe make it harder to defeat. I do not want them to have information where with a few word changes they could make this acceptable to a Court.
It would be reckless for Counsel to make any moves prior to an actual law being passed.
However, I would expect Counsel to be planning on what the law would look like so that legal action could begin the day after Parliament acts. (That is my mind speaking)
My heart says, bring it on….NOW. Yet, that is not the path to victory.
GO Charlie GO! Wait a minute. He just did and he went brilliantly. Thanks be to Charlie Angus!
@ CBE — 99.99% of us are happy with the choice of Joe Arvay and it was OUR money in the C3f. OUR faith remains with those who made the fund a success. WE will be patient even if you aren’t.
@Calgary411,
Try not to feel too bad. My MP is Pierre Poilievre. One of the responses I got from him from the many emails I sent, was something like “What do you want me to say?”. At least it was an actual non-canned response for a change. Charlie Angus did not have nice things to say about P.P. in the radio interview I heard last week.
I’ll be sending Charlie an email to thank him for his efforts, I’ll also order his book “Unlikely Radicals”
northernstar,
The NDP have voted, along with the Green, the Bloc, the Liberals. The Conservatives had the most votes — they voted as a block, every last damn one of them:
Vote #99 on April 8th, 2014
Bill C-31 An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 11, 2014 and other measures
Vote topic: That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Finance.
See context in the Debates.
Result:
YES 149 (ALL MPs WHO VOTED “YES” ARE CONSERVATIVE — No NO’s BY CONSERVATIVES)
No 125 (MPs WHO VOTED “NO”: GREEN, LIBERAL, BLOC, NDP)
Ok, Northernstar’s MP rocks, our just lie like one!
@Mr. A. I went to the GP, two days after getting home. That morning I had exercised for a couple hours.
My BP in his office was normal on the lower end of the scale.
He said to me, “I told you your break in America would do a world of good for you!”
I then showed him my self BP readings from the diary of my trip, he had this shocked look. He just does not get it.
All your suggestions are the right thing. The one I need to improve is my diet but I am ship shape on all the rest.
Yes, alcohol is the one thing through all this we need to stay away from. Initially my consumption went up, then I said wait a minute…..and have greatly cut back to one or two glasses a week. But never to take the edge off, only with a meal.
I am exercising everyday and I too would encourage others to do whatever you can, even just walking outside your home in the neighborhood or in a woods.
My Christian faith has grown stronger through this and my prayer life has grown because of it. I would encourage others to start with the Serenity Prayer if they are disposed;
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.
@Bubblebustin, consider yourself lucky that you are in a country with an opposition. In my home they all rolled over and said HOW HIGH after the US said Jump.
Anyways, I think the Conservatives have swallowed political poison with this. They are now open to attack on nationalistic reasons which should have been a Conservative lock. Someone should photoshop a US Flag with 51 stars and send it to Harper and Flaherty. Send lots of them and notify the press.
@WhiteKat
Rest assured that I am still reading – I check this site a number of times every day. I sometimes feel guilty for spending too much time here and neglecting my (what used to be) normal life. Other times I feel guilty for not spending enough time fighting this battle. I try to read every post and comment, and never cease to be amazed by the wisdom, passion and commitment of you regulars. It takes me a long time and lots of reading to work my brain around these complicated US issues – seems nothing is simple where the US is involved. I am trying to figure what to do next – possibly a letter to local papers. People here on the east coast seem totally oblivious to the underhandedness of the Harper government (including our local MP).
I hope my previous letter has helped some, and will continue to try to do my share. Like the rest of you, I am in for the long haul – I’m just one of those guys who doesn’t say much until I figure I have something worthwhile to say! I am also going through a bit of an identity crisis, having been betrayed by the Conservatives and feeling “warm and fuzzy” about the NDP!
@canadian cop
Agree wholeheartedly with writing to local papers. May I suggest a letter to the editor mentioning your MP and sending it to all the community papers in his/her riding? Locals love reading these letters.
My apologies for misspelling Peter Hogg’s last name on the April 9, 2014 at 5:50 pm comment. Could someone fix it please?
@ Canadian Cop
Thanks to your contributions I had the base and more for making a Brock Quiz. Your words have been used by more than me I’m sure in e-mails to MPs and such. Thank you.
http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/author/canadiancop/
@Em
I love you questions. All MPs and the Media should get thesenemsiled to them.
I am going to write Charlie again to tell him how much Brock appreciates his speech.
Looking over my Emails to Charlie and the other MPs I did send Canadian Cops Brock entry the day CC wrote it. I thought it was a very good written account of CC’s American Person problem.
Thank you so very much for your work setting up the mechanism for us to donate, collecting the funds, banking and administering it. We won’t go down quietly.
Here are some inspirational words of wisdom:
You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing, there will be no result.
Mohandas Gandhi
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
Karl Marx
There is a tendency to think that what we see in the present moment will continue. We forget how often we have been astonished by the sudden crumbling of institutions, by extraordinary changes in people’s thoughts, by unexpected eruptions of rebellion against tyrannies, by the quick collapse of systems of power that seemed invincible.
Howard Zinn
@Mr. A
All inspiring and so true. I loved Howard Zinn especially and learned from him.
A few more quotes related to the situation so far…
“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.”
― Winston Churchill
“Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.”
– Robert Goodloe Harper
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
― Winston Churchill
ChearsBigEars. The vitriol is being misdirected from where it rightly belongs – those who are the authors and enforcers of FATCA, not to those who are allies or advisors to us. Haste sometimes makes waste.
I would also like to thank all those involved in setting up and running the CCCF, and those that donated.
Greatly looking forward to when Mr Arvay’s legal opinion is finished and we hopefully move on to:
“Return of the Canadian Charter Challenge Fund”, subtitle “This Time it’s (Even More) Personal”.
@ northernstar
I just wrote a BOO TO YOU e-mail to John Weston and now I’m about to do a YAY FOR YOU e-mail for Charlie Angus. He and Elizabeth May (others too) have been absolutely valiant in parliament this week.
Recently, from a US rep, Alan Grayson, I received one of his bulk yet always appreciated e-mails. I was quite down, literally down (back problem flare-up — old age and stress, no doubt), and didn’t feel the least bit feisty. Let’s just say I have come back up from the count. Rep. Grayson ended his e-mail with this Dylan Thomas piece:
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
We have had Fatca lead to issues in our home. My wife has taken time off work because of it and she is a front line health worker. I will help, support and will appear in person to any and all protests that we can muster up. What about something HUGE in Toronto? The shit needs to hit the fan and real soon…. This idiot running this country can’t get away with this.
Thank-you Mr.A and Wondering for your words of wisdom. I relate to Canadian Cop,I long for a normal life.
On April 4th several friends and I officially opened the Calgary Chapter of Occupy. We beat the drum carried protest signs and passed out literature in front of city hall. I explained FATCA to a few passersby and received their sympathies.I never imagined I’d become a radical senior. I’m waiting till a balmy day in May before going topless.
@Em
Fantasic. I can imagine what you write to Mr. Weston. You are such a straight talker. Charlie will like your support.
And Em I have like Rep Grayson for years.
@NativeCanadian
I agree we need a big movement. There are plenty of hate harper govenment groups and Canadians hurt by his government. Summer big one woild be good in all major cities.
@Disgusted
I too never imagined I would become a raging senior. Grat you started uour Calgary group.
George