[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).
Bravo to Gwen and Ginny – you are so brave to represent all of us in this historic legal challenge! I know you must have already contemplated how much your lives, and ours, will be forever changed by making this first tangible step to reclaim our rights as Canadian citizens. I will be forever grateful for your willingness to put your own personal privacy and freedom on the line for yourselves and for so many others. Thank you so much!
Wow, what a great start to what will become yet another very public and mortally-wounding repudiation of the traitorous Conservatives. The timing is perfect and will dovetail ever so nicely with the next federal election campaign in Canada. It will also provide much-needed tinder and spark for awareness of our issues in the US. It will certainly help to reinforce the RNC’s party plank of FATCA repeal, Jim Bopp’s legal challenge, and the ongoing efforts of Rand Paul and others, not to mention all our hard-working bloggers and swat teams. This small acorn is destined to become a mighty oak indeed!
Finally, here are a few more articles, in case they haven’t been reported elsewhere:
http://www.cayman27.com.ky/2014/08/12/lawsuit-claims-fatca-unconstitutional
This one has a brief video report as well.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/the-law-page/dual-citizens-launch-legal-challenge-on-canada-us-tax-deal/article20007176/
http://www.law360.com/articles/566464/us-expats-sue-canadian-gov-t-over-fatca-cooperation
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/the-law-page/dual-citizens-launch-legal-challenge-on-canada-us-tax-deal/article20007176/
http://globalnews.ca/news/1504452/dual-citizens-sue-feds-over-fatca-deal-letting-banks-pass-info-to-irs/
Good article written by Patrick Cain.
@badger
Great minds…
A big bravo to these two courageous ladies!
I wish the lawsuit would end up with Harper being sentenced to death for TREASON. I would gladly bring my family to see him dead, hanging downtown and explain to them why this happened.
@NativeCanadian
Dear NativeCanadian
With full compassion, let me recommend: when you have these feelings, go for a walk, have a rant with your friends, but try not to vent them here, where words once uttered cannot be withdrawn. Best for you and also probably best for the cause.
@Northern I have been saying this for months now with no negative responses. This is how the people of Canada dealt with a government official that committed treason years ago. I am stating that I believe this was a valid way to keep Canada safe. Thanks for your input.
BRAVO! Gwen and Ginny! I do not have words enough to thank you for what you are doing. Thanks too to Mr. Arvay and to all who are contributing from around the world!! We can perhaps look for as many translators as possible to spread this news to outlets far and wide.
It is time after three years to begin to protect the laws and citizens of Canada. The cons knew this would come, they were warned many times. They should have stood their ground with the U.S. but, did not and this became necessary to protect Canadians. There is no reason why Canada should violate the rights of Canadians or violate our laws for the U.S. when the U.S. is the outlier in the world with CBT which is what is causing all this. The U.S. can very well if it really wants this exchange go to RBT. Why should every other nation be required to violate their own laws while the U.S. does nothing!
This lawsuit is a spear head to embolden other nations to step up and ask that any such agreements be equal and not violate the laws of any nation. I can’t believe how far this has come in three years. The voices we were able to bring forward in Parliament, the efforts of so many over such a long time and finally because of the ADCS here we are!! Donate people! We will get to the Supreme Court of Canada and uphold the laws of this country. We’re little but, there are a lot of us and we are on the side of what is right.
Funny. I am finding that my posts to a variety of media are no longer appearing or are disappearing shortly after they are posted …. like yesterday’s posts are not there today ….. like responses to “Vaquero” and “commonsense” and similar trolls …. Hmmmm …. from two PCs …… smells fishy to me.
I guess that I will need to change my nom de plume, open a new email address and use a third internet device to make the posts.
Huffington Post, August 13, 2014: Lawsuit Over U.S. FATCA Law Alleges 1 Million Canadians Had Charter Rights Violated
Holy we made it into Huffington Post!! Thanks everyone for supporting the cause and the two plaintiffs! We must prevail and we WILL prevail! This is all over the news, which I hope means we reach more people having their “omg” moments and whom we can help deal with that and who can help us and themselves fight this injustice!
Talk Radio 1010 should have the interview I did this morning online by 1:00 pm today. I mentioned ADCS in the talk and they said they will be linking the site to their online post so people can find us. Finally we Cassandras will not only be heard, but believed. I am sure there are going to be doubters as always, but we have to keep on pushing back, folks. This is the power of the people in action!
That video is complete BS though, GwEvil.
Ah! well I didn’t actually watch the video…so…
See in Post above the response of Government of Canada to Claims made by Ginny and Gwen.
Link will be provided.
Good work, GwEvil. Keep up the good momentum. Stay strong — you have lots of us here backing you and Ginny.
I really look forward to this going forward and being resolved. It’s inspiring, and I wish that it could happen in each country, but every country requires massive funding to make it happen. Grateful that the Canadian flock is large enough to fund this.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/ontario-women-sue-ottawa-over-compliance-with-new-us-banking-law–271030961.html?cx_navSource=d-tiles-2
http://nationalmagazine.ca/Articles/August-2014-Web/Trading-up.aspx
‘Trading down?’
By Justin Ling
‘How international trade deals could force Canada to drop oversight over a growing number of regulatory issues.’
See also mention in context of other privacy issue and international agreements entered into by the Harper government. Read the whole article.
@GwEvil
Just listened to your interview on 1010…..Fabulous!
Seems Jerry Agar is also affected by this yet seemed relatively uninformed. Go figure. As Stephen says; inch by bloody inch.
@Charl
Oh good…so it came across well then? I felt a bit breathless trying to get it all in that short segment. And yes he did not understand the ramifications of it all did he? But it is typical that people who think they are compliant really aren’t as no one but no one has ever heard of FBARs. And that bs about being able to renounce and forget about all this! jeez! I WISH!!
Thanks for the link to the Huffington Post. I noticed a link on that webpage to a story titled ´FATCA compliance slowing down after ´ambiguous´ IRS notice´ but the story is carried on Risk.net which requires a subscription to access. Does anyone know anything about an ´ambiguous´ IRS notice? Has FATCA hit some internal speedbumps? Thanks for your response.
@GwEvil
Yes, you came across as confident and knowledgeable. It is quite a challenge to get out so much information in such a short time. You were marvellous. Now don’t you go and listen and get all self critical…it was perfect.
OK, the really scary part for me is if Agar, who is generally informed, relatively smart, in the news business and also affected by this doesn’t understand the ramifications we have a LOT of work to do.
toronto star published the canadian press article.
even better is a survey showing over 80% of canadians support us. 77% think it infringes our rights as Canadians. almost 4% think it makes us second class canadians.
http://www.thestar.com/business/2014/08/13/canadians_born_in_us_sue_ottawa_over_tax_fraud_law.html
Gwen on NewsTalk 1010 Jerry Agar Show, August 13th, START at 34:28: https://soundcloud.com/jerry-agar-show/jerry-agar-show-august-13-2014.
Thanks, Gwen!!!!!
Jerry Agar thinks ADCS-ADSC.ca is a mouthful and we ‘should have a title “Canadians Screwed by Americans” — sayspeople would go to it in droves.’