Dear Supporters,
Many of you probably predicted that I would not be saying this today, but this message is not a dream: You came up with yet another $100,000 payment — now making a total of $400,000 provided to the Arvay team.
In the last twelve days you actually donated more than $40,000 — an amazing achievement for small donors. This accomplishment proves to all those people who want us to fail — that we are very determined.
You gave until it hurt and then you gave a lot more. It’s hard not to get teary-eyed over the generosity of our supporters, who have come through every time.
We know that the pace of your litigation is painfully slow, and this is unfortunately as expected. The Government will continue to do its best to slow down the process, but we now have the assistance of a case management judge to help keep the process moving more fairly.
We filed in August 2014 and it has taken a very long time (one year) before we are finally into a (summary) trial (August 4-5, 2015). We cannot predict the outcomes of this trial, based on only part of our arguments and, with your continued support, we will prepare for all possibilities.
[Happy birthday Gwen!]
Thank you for your trust,
Stephen Kish,
ADCS-ADSC Chair,— on behalf of Plaintiffs Ginny and Gwen, their families, and the ADCS-ADSC Directors
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Chers amis et donateurs,
Certains d’entre vous avaient probablement pensé que je ne pourrais pasvous annoncer une si bonne nouvelle aujourd’hui. Mais voilà : ensemble, nous avons réussi à ramasser un autre montant de 100 000 $, ce qui fait un total de 400 000 $ à remettre à l’équipe de MeArvay.
Dans les 12 derniers jours seulement, vous avez donné plus de 40 000 $, un exploit tout à fait extraordinaire pour des « petits donateurs ». À tous ceux qui souhaitent nous voir échouer, cette réussite prouve que nous sommes des plus déterminés. Et que nous réussirons.
Vous avez donné jusqu’à ce que ça fasse mal, puis vous avez donné encore. Difficile de rester insensible devant une si grande générosité.
Nous sommes bien conscients du fait que notre litige avance de façon péniblement lente. Malheureusement, tout ça est normal. Le gouvernement continue à ralentirle processus, mais on nous a maintenant attitré un juge responsable de la gestion de notre dossier qui veillera à ce que le processus progresse de façon plus juste.
En août 2014, nous avons engagé une poursuite contre le gouvernement canadien. Près d’un an plus tard, nous avons enfin la date pour notre procès sommaire : les 4 et 5 août 2015. Impossible de prévoir le dénouement de ce procès, basé uniquement sur une partie de nos arguments juridiques. Mais avec votre appui, nous serons prêts pour toutes les possibilités.
(Bonne fête, Gwen !)
Au nom de nos deux plaignantes, Ginny et Gwen, de leurs familles et des directeurs de l’ADCS-ADSC, je vous remercie de votre confiance.
Stephen Kish,
Président de l’ADCS-ADSC
Another beginning to another success.
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Long live the FATCA finger!
Has our litigator, Joseph Arvay, given an estimation or time-line as to when we might see this in court?
according to this link, North America should be one country anyway….
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/26/opinion/martinez-kurtz-phelan-north-american-passport/index.html
OMG. completely away with fairies I think.
Thanks, crystal London — and a big Yuck to that CNN North American Passport article, with the result being US taxation law for all of North America.
i certainly hope the NA passport idea goes down as one of the worst idea’s ever floated……..i want nothing to do with america ever……
The authors of the CNN article clearly have been drinking too much Manifest Destiny Kool-Aid. Variations of this stupid imperialist idea have been around since at least 1845 when the US stole Texas and California from Mexico. I guess the first author listed has forgotten his Mexican history. I suspect the second author is an American who has never learned anything about Canadian or Mexican history.
Anyone out there who seriously thinks Hilary Clinton would be any kind of improvement over Obama as president should take note that the second author is a former policy advisor to Clinton. By their company shall ye know them …
I’m surprised that so-called Canadian-US dual Diane Francis hasn’t been slavering all over this article. She’s been drinking from the same vat of Kool-Aid.
The people who wrote the CNN article about a creating a North American Union are globalists obsessed with the idea that bigger countries / empires are always better, provided of course, they are somehow in charge.
Those people are dangerously naïve, perhaps to the point of being mentally ill.
Are paypal payment secure from US IRS investigation?
As we begin the climb towards the second to last plateau I think it might bolster our resolve to look again at Suki Mills “Subversive Sonnets: FATCA, the War of 2014” which can be read in full here:
https://fbariswrong.wordpress.com/2014/10/18/subversive-sonnets-fatca-the-war-of-2014/
My favourite verse is this:
@bubblebustin,
I envision one of those foam shapes that sports fans are seen waving and pointing at events.
But this one would say: “Long live the FATCA finger!”.
I just realized that the latest figures on foreign aid http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/foreign-aid-poverty-spending-shrinking-says-federal-budget-watchdog-1.2929922 do not include the substantial assistance that Canada is now dedicating in direct foreign aid to the US: in the form of the Canadian taxpayer revenues and Canadian-generated and Canadian-owned and sited savings of Canadian resident families and businesses affected by the FATCA IGA.
Shouldn’t the direct dedication and transfer of substantial Canadian tax dollars and Canadian assets earmarked to implement the FATCA IGA in Canada, in order to directly assist the US with its national debt be headline news?
Shouldn’t the Harper government have issued a PR news release to trumpet the substantial Canadian aid dollars we’re sending to bail out American debt – in the form of services rendered by the CRA on behalf of the US Treasury and IRS as a direct donation to the US government? A VERY generous donation – incalculable really, since the Conservatives have told us that no actual cost/benefit value was done – (or at least is transparent to Canadian taxpayers), the transfer of revenue and data will be ongoing, and there is no maximum contribution level – the FATCA fund was designed to be forever.
We can start referring to it as a new foreign aid initiative of the Conservative federal government – “Harper’s Foreign Aid program to the US = FATCA: Fund America; Transfer Canadian Assets!”
Our FATCA foreign aid to the US is an even more generous gesture in light of Canada getting absolutely nothing in return – except for a respite from the US threat to pull the trigger on the FATCA financial weapon being waved wildly and irresponsibly at Canada and the rest of the world.
Amen, badger.
“the most blatant imperialist bullying the World has seen since the fall of the USSR.”
The US is the new USSR.
What the hell is the lawyer doing with all this money, yikes, another 100 grand is needed ?!!?
@ Tim “What the hell is the lawyer doing with all this money”…He’s working on defeating the government and opening the gates to the “plantation”. You cannot put a price on freedom. You can rest assured that he is reporting and itemizing line by line his cost to his clients. He is one of the TOP lawyers in Canada. He has successfully argued for civil liberties & constitutional rights. I work for a law firm and they were impressed when I told them that he had been hired to take on the FATCA. I am new to the Isaac Brock site. I have no problem giving because I believe in the lawsuit. My MP told me recently that he believed that if one lawsuit was successful, others would follow, then maybe the US would have to listen to reason and change.
@ new tim
It’s not “another 100 grand”. It’s an installment payment on the $500,000 flat fee that ADCS negotiated with Joe Arvay. This type of litigation is very expensive … if you want it done right … if you want the most qualified lawyer making your case. I have had absolutely no problem donating to the ADCS fund and will continue donating right up to when we reach that $500,000 goal.
tim,
It’s the cost of what we hope will be justice and freedom from US citizenship-based tax law slavery. Might you be an unsuspecting US-defined *US Person Abroad* or a *US citizen who happens to reside in Canada* victim of the Conservative government of Canada signing and implementing in OMNIBUS Bill C-31 an IGA for FATCA with the United States of America to have Canada’s *foreign financial institutions* (which are really our local, CANADIAN financial institutions) and our Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) arms of the U.S. IRS?
@Tim We have been clear from the beginning that we require $500,000 to go to Federal Court. We are fundraising in $100,000 increments. To date we have raised $300,000 mainly from Little People with $200,000 to go.
Unfortunely, justice is expensive. As Ann#1 said, Joe Arvay is one of the TOP Lawyers In Canada.
@Ann#1 Is that the MP who placed the blame for FATCA on the shoulders of Obama without taking any responsibility for how our own Con government sold us out because “Congress has spoken?”
It is horrifying if our own elected officials are forcing us to raise money from pensioners, stay at home mothers and other Little People to sen if our lawsuit will be successful so the US will “have to listen to reason and change.”
Through it all, the Cons and the Canadian government will fight us with our own tax dollars and stalling tactics to make this as long and brutal as they possibly can.
A better solution would have been “Parliament has spoken. Parliament will not allow foreign laws to dictate to Cansda. Parliament will not surrender its citizens, residents, laws, constitution, Charter and sovereignty to a foreign power.”
The Con MPs did not speak for Canada or for Canadians. Instead they laughed and joked at the plight of Calgary’s son and all of us. That is why we are all living this never-ending nightmare.
The amendment could so easily have resolved all of this and shown leadership to the world. But “Congress has spoken” was more important to the Cons.
That is why we are in this battle and why it is so important to donate.
Thank you to all the Little a People in Canada and around the globe for doing what our elected representatives failed to do–protect us from a foreign bully. I wish some Deep Pockets would do the same!
@ Tim
Your bank will spend over $100,000,000 attempting to comply with the Terms of the FATCA IGA. A portion of that $100,000,000 will come out of your account(s). Your bank no matter how hard it tries to comply with the terms of FATCA may well see massive fines or even 50% of its US income withheld, again its your account that will be raided. The Conmen were bald faced liars when they claimed signing the IGA would somehow protect the banks from the IRS. The only thing the IGA does for the banks is to protect them from the consequences of violating Canadian Laws, regulations and the Charter of Rights.
Many individuals who are too old to start over could lose their life savings even though they do not “owe” the US government a single dime in taxes.
Given all of the above, I would suggest that asking each of those Canadians who have the misfortune to be tainted by a single drop of American blood, to make a small contribution to fight this battle is extremely reasonable.
tim,
Might you be, or one of your children, an “Accidental American” born in the US to Canadian or another-country parents (for whatever reason) but who returned to their own country as infants or minor children or a person born in another country to US citizen parent(s)?
This is what Blaze refers to, the Conservatives mocking my Canadian-born son’s and the situation of many others like him, as they are entrapped into a US-defined US citizenship and year-after-year expense of compliance with that would come with the high cost of US tax and accounting professionals because of developmental disability, a ‘mental incapacity’ to understanding the concept of *citizenship*, not allowed to renounce automatic US citizenship by birth to US citizen(s) in another country, must not have any influence or assistance from anyone in doing so and the US says that a parent, a guardian or a trustee cannot act on such a person’s behalf to renounce, even with a court order:
@tim
Joe Arvay on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Arvay
@GeorgeIII
Re: “Are paypal payment secure from US IRS investigation?”
I don’t know about IRS investigation. But paypal is firmly within the US system.
Statement from PayPal Canada spokeswoman Malini Mitra:
“As a U.S. company, PayPal and all its foreign subsidiaries have to comply with the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions regulations.”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/paypal-canada-freezes-gardener-s-account-over-cuba-connection-1.2933495
@Shovel,
There is nothing in the world that is secure from Government eyes.
If people are worried they can donate “anonymously” by sending cash (as we say on the ADCS website) or they can ask a donation buddy to donate on their behalf.
The very fact that the question was posed:
is the very reason why the donations to the Charter Challenge Fund must accelerate!
Obviously there is NOTHING in the world that is completely secure from investigation.
As the great American Thomas Jefferson is believed to have said:
http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/when-government-fears-people-there-libertyquotation
FATCA is a symbol of U.S. Tyranny. Some say that FATCA is an acronym for:
Fear And Terror Caused By America!
Therefore a contribution to the Charter Challenge is not only a struggle against FATCA but it is a contribution to the struggle for Liberty in general and:
Liberty and Justice for U.S. Persons Worldwide.
Furthermore, contributing to the Charter Challenge by cheque, paypal, cash, money order or any other way is completely legal REGARDLESS OF WHO YOU ARE, WHERE YOU ARE, OR WHAT YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES ARE. Yes completely legal.
You shouldn’t worry about the risk of contributing to this noble and worthy cause. You should worry about the risks of NOT contributing.
As Edmund Burke so famously noted:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/edmundburk377528.html
Contribute! Contribute more! Contribute often! Contribute with pride and without fear!