[We now have a NEW POST taking us up to February 1, 2015. This post will be retired from service.]
THE AUTUMN 2014 UPDATE
Dear Donors,
Together, we reached our goal of $100,000 to pay the November 1 legal bill 11 days ahead of schedule!
Thank you Canadian donors from coast to coast and our friends from around the world for your generosity, support and determination — and especially for not being afraid.
The name of our non-profit corporation is the “Alliance for the Defence of Canadian Sovereignty.”
We were very deliberate in including in our name the word “sovereignty”, which forms a cornerstone of our Claims against the Government of Canada.
Canada and dozens of other countries throughout the world gave into a bully because their “leaders” were afraid of harm caused by a trading “partner” — and they gave their sovereignties away.
Help us convince by example the Leaders and Governments of all countries worldwide that they should return their sovereignties back to their Peoples.
Please continue to support our lawsuit.
“Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.” (Helen Keller)
— Plaintiffs Ginny and Gwen, and the ADCS-ADSC team
Chers donateurs,
Ensemble, nous avons atteint notre but d’amasser 100 000 $ pour payer notre facture légale du 1er novembre 11 jours d’avance !
Un gros merci à vous, donateurs canadiens, et à nos amis de tous les coins du monde pour votre grande générosité, soutien et détermination. Et surtout pour votre courage.
Le nom de notre organisme sans but lucratif est « l’Alliance pour la défense de la souveraineté canadienne ».
Nous avons choisi délibérément le mot « souveraineté » puisqu’il constitue la base fondamentale de nos revendications envers le gouvernement du Canada.
Le Canada et des dizaines d’autres pays se sont pliés devant l’intimidation des États-Unis parce que leurs « leaders » ont eu peur des menaces de notre « partenaire » commercial. Ils ont donc vendu leur souveraineté à rabais.
Aidez-nous à convaincre les dirigeants et les gouvernements de tous ces pays qu’ils se doivent de remettre leur souveraineté à leurs peuples.
S’il vous plaît, continuez à soutenir notre cause.
« Seuls, nous pouvons faire si peu. Ensemble, nous pouvons faire beaucoup. » (Helen Keller)
— Ginny, Gwen et toute l’équipe de l’ADCS-ADSC
DONATE to www.adcs-adsc.ca (ADSC en français).
Twig#4 will be dedicated to our courageous Ginny and Gwen. Wish I was a deep pocket person. I only “knew” one such person — took a shot but it missed the net.
Thank you, Mr. Arvay for getting off to such a quick start. I honestly thought it would take months before any filing could be made.
All the best in your battle as plaintiffs, Gwen and Ginny!
thank you for your courageous stand…..I will keep donating what I can for this very worthy cause and will keep the message out there.
My thoughts and best wishes with you Gwen and Ginny. May the force and our funding be with you.
Gwen and Ginny,
Thanks for standing up for what is right on behalf of all of us. My best is with you through this.
Carol
Excellent news! Again, congratulations to all on this latest milestone! Best of luck to all but especially Ginny, Gwen, Joe, and David!
I will continue to contribute monthly to this effort. Thanks of course are due to the courageous plaintiffs!
I have started forwarding the press release, and asking for funding and support.
Thank you everyone who made this possible. This is a turning point for Canada. I really hope we can show how incredibly important it is to support and keep Canada in the hands of Canadians. I will continue to donate, as well as spend as much of my time as possible educating anyone and everyone I meet on how this will effect Canadians and I mean ALL Canadians. My full support and attention, always… Mike.
This is really super news. Thank you much, Ginny and Gwen! And the ADCS team!
Another donation coming from me, I like the news of moves.
Ginny and Gwen, you are exceptional. Thank you from Australia.
“The distinction created by the Impunged Provisions causes the Plaintiffs disadvantage” Then 76 and 77 sound like the whole case against CBT in addition to FATCA interference into normal living. So is there potentially broader implication here than invalidating significant parts of the Canadian IGA?
Superb! I have watched this episode progress from a few folk offering ‘inconvenient truths’ at the Expatforum to a discussion, to a web forum, to a movement, and now to a direct legal challenge to FATCA. Not Canadian, but I’m cheering this on from the UK (poodle central).
@ brockers…. also from poodle central. (much as I love the UK). We hold Ginny and Gwen our hearts fro their bravery and raise glasses to the rest of the active Brockers for all their work. All I can do now is budget budget budget to keep making the donations and keep the faith to see Ginny and Gwen through to the bitter end, which I hope and pray will derail FATCA in Canada and thereby worldwide poke inthe Eye to USG Fiscal imperialism. Maybe by that time rBT will come in if the Republicans win. If i still had USP{ status I would swtich from Democrat to Republican solely on this point. –
Dear Ginny and Gwen;
Though I am not Canadian, I write this as a proud fellow Commonwealth Citizen, that other Citizenship which we all enjoy and respect. I am proud that we share the same Monarch, HM QE II as it helps to bind me closer to your efforts.
Upon reading this news here in the UK, my first task and I believe is the greatest task is to pray for your protection, wisdom for the litigation team, sanity for the other side to see their error and for a path making it possible to dig deeper into my own pockets.
My donations had gone to monthly with the next planned for September, that was my handwritten note to Stephen Kish. Regardless, I will post another donation this week from this side of the pond in respect to the actions just occurred. Its time to dig deeper in the pocket, bottom has yet to be found just when you think you found it.
God bless you all, George
@Crystal, @Watcher. We have to donate because the line in the sand will keep moving. I honestly believe that otherwise there will come the day when all former US Citizens will regardless be dragged back into the ever changing definition of US Person.
Schumer and Levin could easily say that there is a lifetime debt because of primary and secondary school education. They could even say there is a lifetime debt because you were born in a hospital that had the best healthcare system in the galaxy.
As the US National Debt grows and grows they will look further and further to find revenue.
So even though we are no longer US Citizens, that mark of Cain/US Person can endure.
We also must demand that our Parliaments (UK/EU) define once and for all what British/EU Citizenship means and that they respect the Master Nationality Rule. A British Citizen can only be a British Citizen whilst in the UK. Ditto for being a EU Citizen in the EU.
Thanks to whoever sent the Press Release to Forbes:
“There’s been talk of such a suit for years, but now the gloves have come off and the case is public.”
“The legal claim is that the agreement to implement FATCA between Canada and the United States violates provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. That’s the document enumerating the right to life, liberty, security of person; security against unreasonable search and seizure; equal protection of law without discrimination. That’s a serious charge. So is the contention that the FATCA agreement flies in the face of the ‘principle that Canada will not forfeit its sovereignty to a foreign state’.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2014/08/12/canadians-file-suit-to-block-fatca-and-prohibit-handover-of-u-s-names/
More from the Forbes article:
“FATCA is America’s global tax law. More than 80 nations have signed on to the U.S. law, so what’s the big deal about Canada? Many Canadians are still hopping mad that their own government bowed to pressure from the south.”
Bravo from New Zealand. Spread the news.
Bravo!
Fingers crossed here. Good luck!
Another big thank you to all who have put so much effort into this lawsuit and a gigantic thank you to the brave plaintiffs.
More money will be on the way.
Just spoke with a few people from Germany on ham radio yesterday. They are know about Fatca and are furious at the US with regards to Fatca. They feel helpless! I pointed them to this site and asked them to please pass the word around and visit/donate to the ADCS site. This could be “world changing” as Canada will be the country that finally stood up to a ridiculous(lack of better word) attack on Canadians and other US persons who have their permanent lives, and are citizens of other countries. All over the world, this news will hit and I’m sure people will finally say THANK YOU CANADA for standing up. We won’t back down!
Congratulations from Jamaica to the wonderful plaintiffs and to the team at Alliance for the Defence of Canadian Sovereignty.
I am only sorry that I cannot give more than my circumstances permit … but I will contribute.
I see from one of Robert Wood’s comments on his Forbes article http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2014/08/12/canadians-file-suit-to-block-fatca-and-prohibit-handover-of-u-s-names/
repeats his conjecture/question as to whether the US will “inject its way” into this CANADIAN legal challenge. I suppose the US may find a way to skulk behind the Harper government whilst whispering instructions in Harper’s ear, and issuing FATCATalking points (similar to those the US Treasury promulgated during the IGA ‘negotiations’ – ala Mythster Stack?) or even provide legal or funding resources. If the US seeks standing, and Canada gives it, that will be even more evidence of the ceding of Canadian sovereignty, the arrogance and overreach of the US, and the need for Canada to protect Canadian citizens and legal permanent residents in their own HOME – within Canada’s autonomous borders.
His mention of the other nations that signed on with FATCA IGAs is a red herring. We all know that it was due to the extortion by the US via threats of economic sanctions (which my in itself be a trade violation ala the WTO and NAFTA), and any attempt to gloss over that is disingenuous.
Woods also knows what the initial reaction of Canada was to FATCA – in then Finance Minster Flaherty’s letter penned for publication in major US newspapers (though not published by them); http://business.financialpost.com/2011/09/16/read-jim-flahertys-letter-on-americans-in-canada/
“…We appreciate efforts to combat tax evasion. In fact, our two jurisdictions co-operate to prevent it. But FATCA has far-reaching extraterritorial implications. It would turn Canadian banks into extensions of the IRS and would raise significant privacy concerns for Canadians….To rigidly impose FATCA on our citizens and financial institutions would not accomplish anything except waste resources on all sides………” posted online September 16, 2011, Financial Post
@George says
“We also must demand that our Parliaments (UK/EU) define once and for all what British/EU Citizenship means and that they respect the Master Nationality Rule. A British Citizen can only be a British Citizen whilst in the UK. Ditto for being a EU Citizen in the EU.”
couldn’t agree more, somehow …………..we need to achieve critical mass in UK to do a similar challenge.
Indeed chilling to think about, Badger!
This will be a monumental David and Goliath fight. Support / Donate: http://www.adcs-adsc.ca/