[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).
@GwEvil – the same applies to nations. The IGAs were authored by the US so Canada and other have essentially signed a credit card agreement without reading it.
Go onto Word, fill in the name of the country and sign here. That’s looking out for your citizen’s rights.
@GwEvil
I have done that… signed & not realize what the heck I did… Most people… say… I have nothing to hide… let them have it… that is the biggest mistake that everyone should be aware of… all your info… is being gathered for a database… or how about… good old id theft… I had family that had their id stolen.. its been 5 yrs… but stuff is still going on… no one can help u… no one… even with a police report… u are guilty until u can prove u are not… this has wrecked their credit history… money is gone… Why should anyone know everything about me.. my own family don’t know everything about me… or my funds
Contribute… cause this is the foot in the door… if we don’t slam that door shut… more of the door will open, we will stop being Canada, & become… US territory… Every single dollar makes a difference.. so whatever u can send will be appreciated…. Stop these foreigners from invading our country with their laws…
@US_Foreign_Person, I know! I have done the same and just thank my lucky stars that I haven’t had my ID stolen too!
Thank you for telling people to donate. Our cause was started by the regular folks and will be won by them, but unfortunately, we have to dig deep to do it. However, if every single affected person was to donate $100 every quarter, we’d have no funding problems at all. That’s doable! And everyone who is able to give more than that, please do. We need and appreciate every donation.
It’s so important for us to stop these mofos before they give away everything to the US! Roadblocks, roadblocks, roadblocks, people!
Why the destruction of Canada now?
“ A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” Marcus Tullius Cicero – 58 BC
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What if the State of Vatican City passed a law saying everybody who has been baptised in a Catholic church is a citizen of the Vatican and must pay a tithe.
http://www.scotsman.com/mobile/lifestyle/money/jeff-salway-tax-dodging-law-goes-for-family-trusts-1-3554569
more on how the rest of the globe – who are NOT USPs will still have to pay the FATCA bill and buy the US a free lunch forever:
Everyone should contribute to the legal challenge to FATCA. Because it is not only those deemed by the US to be ‘taxable persons’ who will be FORCED to pay for its implementation in the countries where we live.
All of our registered savings accts are considered ‘foreign taxable trusts’ by the US. Those Scottish and UK trusts aren’t even owned by USpersons, yet they are being forced to undergo ‘reviews’ to prove it?
Will this happen in Canada and elsewhere too?
We need to raise more funds quickly in order to stop the FATCA ‘n FBAR fundraiser.
Any ideas?
@badger
“We need to raise more funds quickly in order to stop the FATCA ‘n FBAR fundraiser. Any ideas?”
Yes.
Stop playing games and insist on a response from the Canadian government.
People are paying with their hard earned money to support this lawsuit. The Canadian government is legally obligated to respond within 30 days–a deadline they have already missed. Quit f**king around with the Charter–not to mention the hard earned money of your donors–and hold them to their obligations. This isn’t a game.
Also, I just tried calling Mr. Kish and Mr. Arvay to get a quick update as to the status of the government’s response. I was able to leave a message for Mr. Kish (obviously it is late at night so I wasn’t expecting to reach Stephen directly). However when I tried to call Mr. Arvay at (604) 684 9151 I consistently got a busy signal even at this late hour. Anyone know what is up with that?
A glimpse down the rabbit hole.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11125962/US-threat-to-British-online-privacy.html
@nervousinvestor
The US cannot be allowed to win its war on privacy. Unfortunately, the response to FATCA by Canada, the UK and other major countries doesn’t inspire much hope in me.
The news media’s silence is deafening. Go to NEWS.GOOGLE.COM and type in FATCA and you see only a small sampling of blogs and obscure trade journals, mostly.
I would invite Brockers to access Free Talk Live daily 19:00 – 22:00 Eastern / 16:00-19:00 Pacific through FREETALKLIVE.COM and phoning in 1-855-450-FREE. The program is hosted in Keene, new Hampshire by hosts who do not like the U.S. Government, and it is carried live by numerous stations across the USA. I am usually able to get through and women are given priority.
@Dash,
Everyone here is very serious about these efforts. The plaintiffs, the organizers, Joseph Arvay and the other lawyers are very well aware just how much is at stake here – even more than we are.
I am a donor and I am completely confident in the judgement of the people above and know that we can rely on all of them. Our job now is to continue to broaden awareness of this issue and this legal challenge, AND to raise the necessary funds.
We must not fail. The cause is just.
I was just thinking: ObamaCare was upheld by SCOTUS under Congressional power to tax, as no other constitutional power could be twisted into a right to make people buy insurance. Likewise, FATCA does not REQUIRE Canadian banks to comply or report, they are only doing so to get a tax break.
Brockers might do well IMHO to write individually to Supreme Court of Canada justices and humbly point out that banks in Canada would not be forced to choose between disobeying the laws of the United States or the laws of Canada, they are just trying to get a tax break from IRS, namely, being exempt from the 30% withholding on outbound payments. Judges love to look at technicalities and they will remeber this one if they get lots of letters about it.
http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/home-accueil/index-eng.aspx
Supreme Court of Canada
301 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0J1
The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada
The Honourable Mr. Justice Louis LeBel
The Honourable Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella
The Honourable Mr. Justice Marshall Rothstein
The Honourable Mr. Justice Thomas Albert Cromwell
The Honourable Mr. Justice Michael J. Moldaver
The Honourable Madam Justice Andromache Karakatsanis
The Honourable Mr. Justice Richard Wagner
The Honourable Mr. Justice Clément Gascon
Badger: Re: the “Scotsman” article. I recall that Mary, Queen of Scots gave a coin to her executioner to pay him for the “service” he was about to perform. I see that the British people as a whole (at least those with family trusts) are now being required to pay their executioners as well. I’m going to make note of this for a follow-up re: the Human Rights Complaint. Thanks for posting it!
@MuzzledNoMore,
Good analogy.
And those trusts are not even ‘suspects’ of the ‘crime’ of being US citizens or UStaxable persons.
Yet they are to prove that they are not? The onus is on EVERYONE in the world with any assets at all to prove to one country – the US, and its minions, that they are not UStaxable? Lets hope the hubris gets more and more media like this http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/tax/11050777/British-families-billed-500-to-prevent-Americans-dodging-tax.html
There will be more and more evidence of this aspect of FATCA – the cascading effects on non-USPs and non-US taxpayers, accountholders, etc. – which can only strengthen the case. The US may claim that they did not direct the trusts to do those costly reviews, just as they claim that non-US FIs do not have to stop offering accounts and financial services to tainted USPs abroad, but clearly, FATCA is the reason.
@Muzzled No More;
I should also have noted that there are other ‘trusts’ which would have exceeding difficulty being ‘reviewed’ or reported for FATCA (and FBAR) purposes. I am thinking of lawyer’s trust accounts holding client monies. There is the issue of attorney-client privilege, and of the fiduciary duty to clients. Will the Law Societies everywhere need to vet the citizenship/UStaxable status of all their lawyers with signatory powers, and all their clients?
I would hope that Canadian Law Societies would be interested in complaining about that angle of things.
If Canadian and other lawyers trust accounts had to be FATCA compliant and report to the IRS via the CRA, it might interfere with the access to legal services and the administration of justice – which might constitute another type of ‘right’?
Badger: Duly noted! Thanks!
@Dash, I have met Mr. Kish and I can assure you that I have the highest confidence in his judgement. There is no way on earth that Mr. Kish or the others I have met here would engage Mr. Arvay if there were any questions about him and further I think Mr. Arvay’s creditials are easily searched and clearly speak for themselves.
I will be donating againt this week. As for fund raising efforts much can be done while the weather is still nice. Look for events for fall in your area and see about setting up an information booth to collect donations perhaps. Even going to your local farmers market with some flyers which connect to the Charter Challenge website would be helpful. Put flyers in the mail boxes *while we still have them* of people on your street or in your neighbourhood with a little note “I donated to this, please help.”
@Tom Alciere and @All
Writing directly to justices of the Supreme Court of Canada would be extremely inappropriate.
I just put Twig#5 in the mail today and I’ll repeat what I wrote in the little note I enclosed — I think about Ginny and Gwen every time I do this. They boldly went where 99.99% of us (including me) did not go. We need to keep donating to make sure this litigation is successful. It’s for them, it’s for all of us and it’s for the world too because, in case you haven’t noticed, it has gone quite mad lately and if we can carve out even a small niche of sanity and justice within it, then that’s quite an accomplishment. Surgite!
Hearing the news of the delay makes me feel stronger and more and more willing to support this challenge. There will be a substantial donation from my family very shortly. We WILL succeed I wish we could get punitive damages from the incredible pain and suffering my family is going through because our Country’s government FAILED us when we needed them most!
Arvay-Gruber are filing a STRONGER amended claim. That sounds good to me. I never thought I’d ever be watching the wheels of justice grind away like this — an interesting education to say the least.
What if it was the other way around?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7807001.stm
Baby girl born on US-bound flight
A Ugandan woman has given birth to a baby girl on board an international flight from Amsterdam to Boston after going into labour mid-flight.
The six-pound (2.7kg) baby named Sasha was delivered on New Year’s Eve with the help of two doctors on the eight-hour-long Northwest Airlines flight.
Mother and baby were taken to a Boston hospital on landing and are doing well.
Sasha was deemed a Canadian citizen for customs’ purposes because she was born over Canada’s airspace.
Canada’s immigration ministry has not yet commented.
The rare trans-Atlantic birth was greeted with cheers and applause from passengers on board flight 59, reports said.
The excitement began some six hours into the flight, when the Ugandan woman who was eight months pregnant went into heavy labour.
Flight crew located two doctors on board the plane, and the woman gave birth to Sasha at 0900 Boston time (1400 GMT) – some 90 minutes before touch down.
“Everybody was there to help,” Dr Natarajan Raman, who helped deliver the child, told the Boston Globe.
“People offered baby food, people brought things, people vacated their seats…The spirit of America is alive,” he added.
The mother’s identity – as well as her reasons for travelling so late into her pregnancy – were not clear. She was said to be travelling with a toddler and a friend.
http://news.wbfo.org/post/american-expats-living-canada-fighting-us-tax-law
“………..many Americans in Canada are resisting. An extreme step is to renounce your U.S. citizenship, but even that has become more difficult since FATCA went into force. The process used to take weeks, but now it’s taking up to six months, and Washington, too, is turning up the pressure. The plan is to hike renunciation fees from $450 to $2,350, an increase of 422 percent.
Others in Canada are taking the issue to court because they say FATCA runs afoul of Canada’s charter of rights and freedoms. The agreement between Ottawa and Washington has Canadian tax authorities collecting the information from financial institutions, then passing it on to the U.S.
A lawsuit has now been filed by two women who argue that the agreement between the two countries violates the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms. The two were born in the U.S., but left at the age of five to live in Canada. They have never had American passports or any meaningful ties, but say they are considered tax cheats by authorities in the U.S. for not being IRS compliant.
The case is expected to go to the Supreme Court of Canada……”