March 8, 2016 UPDATE: Legal fees paid — on to Federal Court for Charter trial contesting Canadian FATCA IGA legislation.
Canadians and International Supporters:
You came through once again: $594,970 for legal costs have now been donated and our outstanding legal bill is finally paid off.
Thanks especially to those who donated even though they never had any “spare” money to give, and despite this gave over and over and over again.
This last round of fundraising also shows that our Canadian lawsuit remains dependent on the kindness of our International Friends: There would be no lawsuit without their financial help.
Know that a very generous donation (today) from a supporter in the United States made it possible to pay off the remaining legal debt. Also please appreciate that there would be no lawsuit without the help of the Isaac Brock Society which has kindly let us use its website to solicit funds.
Our next step is the Constitutional-Charter trial in Federal Court.
For this we need more Canadian Witnesses, and my next post will be devoted only to a request for Witnesses willing to go public, like our Plaintiffs Ginny and Gwen.
For the future: I want a win in Federal Court — and I want the new Liberal Government not to appeal that win.
Thank you all for your support,
Stephen Kish,
for the Directors,
Alliance for the Defence of Canadian Sovereignty
@NativeCanadian
Have you spoken with the CCLA or Steve Paikin. I wrote to both over a year ago.
@Marie, yes I did. I got an answer from Steve Paikin’s office here it is “Thank you for taking the time to write. I will share your message with Steve Paikin and the producers of The Agenda.
Regards,
Michelle
Customer Relations”
I have heard nothing else at all and feel I got the brush off. I did not get any response from the CCLA. Lets face it, we are not loud enough. We need taxi drivers to go around Toronto with Fatca signs on their cabs going 20kilometers per hour crippling traffic, possibly truckers going 50 kilometers per hour down the 401 with huge FATCA signs on their rigs and a whole other slew of things to get attention that others have done before. This issue is such a hot potato that even so called “journalists” run scared from it. I can show proof of that too. One AM radio station talk show host/journalist wrote ” I don’t want to die” to me regarding doing a show on Fatca. Blaze has a copy of that one. There has to be a way of getting ALL Canadians on board here, we just have not figured it out yet.
Here is what I wrote to Steve Paikin over 1 year ago…….” Where in the world is Steve on this? A huge threat from the USA to Canada, a huge court case going on and Steve is asleep? What kind of journalism is completely mute on this? Check out the Issac Brock Society website. I am a First Nations Native who is involved and am fighting by donating to pay for a lawyer to fight this. The Agenda should have covered this 3 years ago. Are you afraid of the Americans and their government? Again, Where is Steve Paikin?”
Canadian journalists are just waiting for their “big break” with one of the US networks. I can’t believe our Canadian government is treating Canadian citizens so poorly. I guess the only opinion that matters at this point is the Supreme Court.
…and the first step is getting ALL *US Persons in Canada* (excluding the homelanders abroad that temporarily reside here) to get on board. Where are we all?
It is also pretty darn hard without good Canadian journalists not subject to limited number of words or minutes for a story to legitimize for Canadians what is happening. That’s a whole lot different than corporate journalists who are merely collecting a pay cheque for publishing press releases / cut & paste if it fits their corporation’s policy parameters.
(I could not / did not renew my membership to CCLA.)
Indeed, where are we all? One million “US persons in Canada? Even if you excluded those temporarily in Canada, we should be a much larger group.
And where are some of the original Brockers? I scroll down to the bottom of the page and see names like Geeez, Karcan and foxyladyhawk. Who are they and where are they? Did they lose interest and stop following or maybe renounce? I wonder if they know about the charter challenge?
I also contacted Paikin long ago and also received a similar message from his assistant. I had had a previous good working relationship with him on a completely different topic which he featured on his show relating to Canada’s health care system.
I also contacted my local CBC tv station to offer to work with them shortly before the announcement coming out July 01. Perviously, I had done many local and National CBC tv and radio interviews on the health topic and had a very good working relationship with them. But they had changed local tv managers by then and… no response or interest. I thought that might change once the Windsor Star ( let’s just say the Star and I were not really bosom buddies at that point, as they could tell from their file cabinet full of my letters to the Editor) actually gobsmacked me on their very supportive Editorial about my taking on the IRS/CRA etc. as one of the plaintiffs. I think that editorial is still somewhere in the archives @ Brock?
Just demonstrates their disinterests or fear of repercussions. No surprise to those of us who know exactly who we are up against. Later of course, after other news stations picked it up, CBC came reluctantly onboard a bit. This in retrospect emphasizes to me the tight control via economic threats that Harper had on them. I still don’t understand how TV Ontario, knowing how the majority of Canadian citizens and permanent residents tainted by this live in this province continues to ignore our issues.
While we haven’t had the media exposure we deserved and expected in Canada, we have had some good across the country exposure from some. Lynne Swanson, Stephen Kish and others, and many of you have also contributed to the effort, as you know, to this day. Those who are able to reach out in various ways, twitter, blogs, Facebook, letter campaigns etc, all the current ways we now have available…. are doing the job. But we must press on in our efforts and we will.
This is why I continue to say it is not just a question of the plaintiffs or ADSC that advances our cause. It is all of us together. The powers to be ( PTB) really do not get who they are up against. We can and will do this through as many changes of governments it may take. Heads of state and Prime Ministers may leave, finish their term or be defeated. But not us.
At this point, I also ask myself where are the rest of our people? Still hiding in fear, I expect or relying on us to do this? Be not afraid. Look to the helpers.
I did not renew my CCLA membership. Between me and spouse, CCLA is now out $300.00. This is the only thing that ever catches any of their attention.
donations@ccla.org
xxx-xxx and I have not renewed our memberships due to the CCLA’s unwillingness to speak up about how the rights of 1,000,000+ Canadian citizens are being violated by the FATCA agreement. I found it laughable that your latest campaign about Supporting the Charter failed to mention this issue.
That’s $300.00 you are out this year and I believe you will be hearing from others on this point.
Native Canadian: I sure hope you are correct that the CCLA and the politicians are scared to death and that that is why they are not answering us positively …. or answering us at all. We would actually understand their fear because many of *us* are too scared to share our names or protest in person in public. (This is a free country? Hah!) It would be good to know that they *are* all paying attention to our constant insistence that FATCA be dealt with. But the end result so far is that we just feel completely ignored. Every evening I turn on the TV hoping I will see that FATCA traffic jam on the news!
Now seeking Witnesses for Charter Trial. See post — more details later.
Hoping for your help.
If interested, contact me on the ADCS site: http://www.adcs-adsc.ca/ContactADCS.html
Did you see the Cabbies in Toronto today? The illegal protest got them a meeting with the Police chief. WOW! Is this the New Canada we are beginning to see? Did they get told to stay 18″ from the curb(As Brock protesters were told)? Hell no! there were too many of them to break up. this country is just starting to fall apart and the illegal protests seem to be just starting. Why illegal? Well, if they were legal, they would not have been rewarded a meeting! Canada’s future is here!
Today, at 4pm, a TV station that I grew up watching has gone bankrupt. Born in Hamilton Ontario, I remember the station well and watched it every day. The management and owner claims that losing the “local program improvement fund” along with falling NATIONAL revenues has taken its toll. The National revenues mostly came from the USA. We now have an idea as to why no news journalist will cover the Fatca tragedy in Canada against it’s own people. That would be “TV or Radio station suicide”!
You’re likely correct, NativeCanadian. Banks, TV stations, corporate media journalists, governments, ordinary us — are we all beholden in ways to the USA? Will we, the people of Canada, realize the importance of our country’s sovereignty?
NativeCanadian –
The illegal protest got them a meeting with the Police chief. WOW! Is this the New Canada we are beginning to see? Did they get told to stay 18″ from the curb (as Brock protesters were told)? Hell no! there were too many of them to break up. This country is just starting to fall apart and the illegal protests seem to be just starting. Why illegal? Well, if they were legal, they would not have been rewarded a meeting!
What legality-obsessed Brockers amusingly refuse to comprehend is the same fear button that cops and Canadian officials love to buzz: Deference to Authority. (Add subtitle the case of Canada and find an illuminating book by Edgar Z. Friedenberg.)
All the Brockish yap about Charter-this and Charter-that resounds with near-total disconnect from the actual exercise of Charter freedom to protest — a freedom that goes much farther than the severely atrophied can begin to imagine. You don’t use it and you already lost it.
“The National revenues mostly came from the USA.”
What?
I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHCH-DT
but still don’t understand about funding coming from the US.
“We need taxi drivers to go around Toronto with Fatca signs on their cabs going 20kilometers per hour crippling traffic, possibly truckers going 50 kilometers per hour down the 401 with huge FATCA signs on their rigs and a whole other slew of things to get attention that others have done before.”
That would make enemies. We need to learn how to make friends.
Folks may offer comments re FATCA at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/bank-accounts/12039897/I-paid-a-US-cheque-into-my-Barclays-account-and-became-unbankable.html
UK – BBC The Apprentice update
Vana Koutsomitis is one of the final five candidates.
Will Lord Sugar be happy being a business partner to a US Person and have to share his details with the IRS as well?
If she wins, time will tell.
@Norman The main revenues to CHCH came from their National advertisers. This was mainly in the auto industry which comes from the US. They had plenty of local advertisers, but the accounts were not large enough to get them over their costs. There will be articles coming out on it and we will learn more. The Cabbies in Toronto along with the truckers who illegally protested along with the farmers have not made enemies. they got public support and results. Unless people hate truck drivers, cabbies and farmers, maybe I am missing something here….
@usx
Too bad that book is out of print…
I liked the SDS. Yikes………have I missed my true calling? reading, reading……..
usxcanada,
Stephen asks for Witnesses…
Will you lend your considerable expertise on our Canadian rights and how they should be defended by joining me in putting your name forward as a Witness?
Calgary411 –
The witness tactic amounts to sporting a bright red coat, standing upright in daylight, and properly lockstepping toward hostile muskets.
Very Isaac, that approach is. Not very me.
So different from daubing on war paint, going out after dark, boarding three ships, and in three hours destroying 342 chests of tea worth about $1,000,000 (1773 money converted forward).
Thanks, usx.
I surmised from prior comments that you did want demonstration, but my reading was incorrect. What would your approach be?
So many will not or can never come out. It is so few standing up for the many in litigation (plaintiffs and witnesses on behalf of all). I know the reasons people are scared, but we as scared people will only be run over by our government and, of course, the USA.
Are you done with it all, your own personal journey completed and come to offer critique for what I and others decide to individually or together do? It would be helpful if you could give us some of your ideas for a more successful approach (in other than the riddle format).
I just got another “thank you” Letter from Steve Paikin’s secretary. Same as the one I got a little over 1 year ago….