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
Hope this isn’t already posted elsewhere!
Love this cartoon, sums it up:
Trudeau says;
“A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian” and Obama says; “unless they’re an American too”….
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CcFriNnVAAAOwcl.jpg
https://twitter.com/JasonPedley/status/702961253681991681
Lets show the Canadian federal government and all the other governments that signed over their citizens rights to the US that we’re not going to give up the fight.
STOP the COLONIZATION OF CANADA and the rest of the world BY THE US!!
Donate to this ADCS lawsuit and let OUR OWN CHARTER of RIGHTS and FREEDOMS TRIUMPH OVER FOREIGN EXTRATERRITORIAL LAWS AND US COLONIAL AMBITIONS!
FATCA knows no bounds:
Saw this story highlighted via Twitter;
https://twitter.com/NOTOFATCA/status/702995515668037632
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1041262055920480&id=629761943737162
Chris Dalton, victim of Nov. 13 terrorist attack was denied a bank account in France due to FATCA;
See;
http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2016/02/25/chris-dalton-victime-du-13-novembre-je-passe-mes-journees-a-regler-des-tracasseries-administratives_4871183_3224.html
‘Chris Dalton, victime du 13 novembre : « Je passe mes journées à régler des tracasseries administratives’
LE MONDE | 25.02.2016 à 08h48 • Mis à jour le 26.02.2016 à 15h54 | Par Patricia Jolly
Google translate version:
..”……At the hospital, Chris left in mid-December with crutches and where he had to redo his bandages every other day, the reception staff, overwhelmed, suddenly became less friendly. “One weekend, I was even denied care, and the social worker who handles my file had to intervene. “He had an apartment in Paris: 1700 Euros for a studio in the neighborhood of the Gare du Nord.
The provision of the compensation fund for victims of terrorism, supposed to cover such costs, did not arrive until later. “We had a RIB says Chris, and French bank branches would not open an account for me because of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act [Act to control offshore accounts], which complicates their life. “He eventually found an arrangement with a US bank. He must be content for now a temporary passport because the police officer who took his deposition to the hospital lost his.”…..
Are the over 1 million Canadians deemed to be ‘taxable persons’ by the IRS laughing?
Only if you don’t know about FATCA and US extraterritorial taxation of CANADA could you find this funny:
http://www.thenownewspaper.com/entertainment/370143711.html
‘MELANIE MINTY: ‘Love, Sex & the I.R.S.’ will leave you laughing — even at tax time’
It sure does sum it up.
The story of the Frenchman who was injured and reinjured by FATCA is horrid.
This is very, very disappointing. Rocco Galati’s COMER case appears to have come to an end but I so hope he can find some alternative action to further the cause. He has described this case as the most important of his career.
http://pressfortruth.ca/top-stories/comer-case-against-bank-canada-reaches-its-end/
http://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fc-cf/decisions/en/item/142581/index.do
Hmmm, badger, we need to take our show on the road to community theatres across this country. We already have the billboard ad (from your earlier comment).
We can call the production *FATCA =F#$% ALL THE CANADIAN AMERICANS*. Who will be Trudeau and who will be Obama?
That is very disappointing to hear, EmBee.
F is for you know what and shows contempt for all things America deems to be foreign
# is for pound all “overseas” Americans in Canada into the ground
$ is for the money to be extracted from Canadian earned assets
% for the 30% sanction threat on Canadian banks to ensure compliance and CONTROL
Yep, that’s a very good slogan.
@Embee, you hit that nail on the head – as always!
@calgary, I believe we already have enough songs for a musical, the lyricists like Embee, and the performers. FATCA and US Extraterritorial CBT is already farce and a tragedy all in one.
It ain’t over until the fat lady sings, and thanks to IBS, Maple Sandbox, ADCS, all the donors and all those working on the lawsuit, the human rights complaint to the UN, and other worthy efforts, we’re nowhere near the last act.
@Badger, Glad to see people have made use of the ‘Fuck All the Canadian Americans’ slogan I came up with over a year ago. I thought it was a bit out there at the time, but seems to be more and more the reality of the situation.
http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2015/01/22/boris-johnson-mayoroflondon-acceptance-of-u-s-jurisdiction-means-he-must-now-resign/comment-page-4/#comment-5364137
Since the government changed hands, I’d hoped the status quo would have changed to ‘Free All The Canadian Americans.’ But no, here we are still fucked. Meanwhile $11,000 stands in our way of setting the date for the Charter trial – our chance for freedom.
@ WhiteKat with another cute Gravatar
Thank you … sorry we forgot where it came from. I, personally, plead the dwindles (hopefully not a precurser to dementia). Not saying the past four years of FATCA immersion is the cause but it has sure been a contributor.
FWIW,
February 26 at 2:47pm
RE: Bank of Canada Lawsuit, from a member of the COMER Steering Committee
“We’re down, but we’re not out.
…
People I’ve spoken to say that this is a delaying tactic. Common, apparently. We’re going to put more effort into going public, but strategically. “
@ calgary411
Just wondering where you found that. I searched unsuccessfully today for a statement from COMER and/or Rocco Galati.
EmBee,
It was sent to me in an email – subject: *Comments from COMER site re. Bank of Canada Case*
@Embee,
regarding your disappointment with the COMER case, you’ll love this article, “Canada is Corrupt When it Comes to Choosing Judges”.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/jj-mccullough/canada-judicial-appointments_b_5264567.html
Hoping a Brocker lawyer or two will tell us that the above article is crap, otherwise we may be even more f’d than we thought.
“Indeed, the fact that Prime Minister Harper’s efforts to democratize Supreme Court appointments have gone nowhere — why the parliamentary advisory committees have been so pathetic and toothless — can be directly credited to the strength of the legal community’s strident campaigning against anything remotely resembling the dreaded “American model” in which a candidate’s fitness for judicial appointment is assessed in (gasp!) an open hearing where their resume and philosophy is permitted to be scrutinized by folks other than their lawyer buddies.”
“….human rights watchdog group Global Integrity…gave the integrity of Canada’s judicial appointments a pitiful 32 out of 100 in their 2010 survey on good governance around the globe. On whether there’s “a transparent procedure for selecting national-level judges” Canada received a flat “no.” Our rating on whether “judges are appointed fairly” received an astonishing 17. Angola got 25. Hell, Bangladesh got 83.”
I don’t even know where to begin to correct the misinformation in that article or the highly slanted and pejorative terms used by the author.
One thing is correct: it is true that the legal community does not want to adopt any American model. Their lower court judges run and are elected by voters, for instance. So you can get a hanging judge who gets the popular vote in an area that has private jails which the locals like to see filled, and that judge is happy to accommodate by applying the options of the highest penal penalties.
The author also states the PM farms out the selection to a committee of non government lawyers. Think about that for a minute. It’s a good thing. Would we have liked Harper to have a committee of his own salaried lawyers who would just have to rubber stamp his demands?
The Chief Justice did not decide the Nadon case before it came to court. She stepped out and reached out to Harper as a courtesy to warn him, as incidentally his own justice department did, that the appointment was not constitutional and Nadon was not qualified for the appointment under law. He then went on a campaign to ridicule her and more. All bar associations stood up for her, because unlike the US model, our PM doesn’t get to interfere with the judiciary or condemn them. He ignored her advice and a challenge was brought and we know what happened. I don’t know how many non lawyers cared whether Nadon would be appointed, but the legal community knew it wouldn’t stand up to legal scrutiny which is why Harper lost that case.
Our model, based on common law is there to keep the government from interfering with the judiciary. There have been some changes and movement towards openness in selection processes that have been put in place recently. More lay people on committees, who put forward the name of candidates.
My prediction is that we will either never move to the political biased American model ever or it won’t occur in the next 100 years. Ours is in better accord with our parliamentary system for a reason which speaks for itself.
Ginny,
I was hoping you would comment. Thanks, feeling a bit less F’d now.
Global Integrity (referred to in the Huffpost article) which found the Canadian judicial system to be one of the most corrupt in the world, rated our “legal framework score” as STRONG, but the “actual implementation score” as WEAK.
https://www.globalintegrity.org/research/reports/global-integrity-report/global-integrity-report-2010/
Also more discussion on this topic: http://www.politicalprisoner.ca/2014/11/persecution/canadian-justice-system-one-of-most-corrupt-in-world/
” In Canada, there are no elected judges. All Canadian judges are appointed to their position by the State. And you can rest assured the state ensures only the “right” people are appointed as judges.”
The more I read about anything these days, the more I feel like I have no idea what is reality and what is not.
WK, go read who is Global’s major funder. Down the rabbit hole you will go. I treat HuffPost as a blog lite.
Ginny, agreed about Huffpost, but what about Global Integrity?