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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

2,208 thoughts on “CANADIANS AND INTERNATIONAL SUPPORTERS: Thank you for $594,970 donated and overdue legal bill paid off — Next step is Federal Court Constitutional-Charter trial”

  3. or else Google is. I am trying to make oatmeal raisin cookies here and typing is even lousier with sticky fingers!

  5. Not saying I agree or disagree, from the political prisoner article referenced above:

    “Judges are appointed to their roles by the government which is in turn controlled by the Privy Council, aka the secret government that holds the real strings of power. There are no standards Canadian judges are held to, their term in the office is not limited in any way, they never face prosecution or jail even when exposed as corrupt, and the only body that oversees their activity is composed of their carefully selected buddies who are appointed to these roles by the same government who appoints judges according to how fitting they are for the purpose of achieving the government’s goals in the first place.

    No Canadian lawyer who’s defended freedom of expression, or other cases in which the government took interest, has ever been made a judge.

    Most Canadians are not even aware of the fact that political participation is intentionally made impossible to them and that the politics is a “buddy business” in their country. Most would surely get offended if you implied to them that their judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world, and that it reflects on the entire government which keeps it that way, and which in turn make their government one of the most corrupt and tyrannical in the world. Just because Canada does it the Tyrannism v2.0 way, it doesn’t make it any less dictatorial.”

  6. Well, I sent my MP the CCLA report yesterday and got a response today:

    “Thank you for forwarding the important information contained in this report. I have copied Pam and will also send to Minister Lebouthillier’s office.”

  7. @ Whitekat When a government has lost ALL moral ethics, how do they expect the people to remain ethical? There are more and more people in Canada wanting to shut down this government and their corrupt ways before they sell our country behind our backs. Government hatred is at an all time high if you talk to anyone on the street. Most people seem to desperately want a way to shut down the government and re-work Canada’s laws and constitution so that this can never happen again…..

  8. WK: when you site an article from even a semi reputable publication ( like HP for example) I may respond. Mark Marek and other conspiracy theorists will not take me away from my cooking baking day. It’s my therapy from reading all the stories here over the weekend about how people are being so adversely affect by FATCA.

    You need better reading materials.

  11. @CG, google is not my friend as you previously suggested it was, cause that is where I got my “reading materials” from….you know how it is….the searches depend on the mood, so when in a downtrodden one, this is where google friend gets me….lol.

    FATCA has made me this way!

  12. @CG, also wanted to say, I hope I did not offend you, but feel like I have. I’m sorry. Such was not my intention. 🙁

    Excuse my questioning, suspicious nature. Partly it comes from the fact that I am truly among the ignorant when it comes to anything law related, and partly from having had my eyes opened up to the true nature of Canadian government. Thanks to FATCA, I will never view any organization, profession, association, etc. with out at least some modicum of suspicion. I just don’t trust anyone or anything anymore.

    Yes, having investigated Marek further (I didn’t when I posted excerpts shown to me by my friend ‘google search’), he appears to be a little out there. But then again, some accuse Brockers of the same, so who am I to judge Marek’s version of the facts, especially when I haven’t the background to do it – that is where you come in. Thank you for setting me straight my friend. 🙂

  13. WK: FATCA has made me this way!

    I hear you! The damn gift that keeps on giving ( or destroying). I have not been in my normal happy place this last week either. Too many very sad stories piling up.

    Thus cookie therapy. It may or may not be possible that there is one happy making ingredient I am missing. If I report scrubbing cupboards, send in the shrinks. There are days when I don’t understand how any one gets through this. Apologize if I sounded snarky today WK et al.

    Ginny’s current mood: snarky with a touch of desperation and impatience because today is not a good day to be a plaintiff. But I signed up for this, so I know we will get this done. I don’t ever want to read another suicide report nor any other reports of how the USA is hurting and hunting people nor how our Canadian government keeps ignoring us. We exist; we are not invisible. We deserve answers that don’t try to diminish us. Where is that all inclusive society JT said he would restore?

    Still waiting in Windsor.

  14. WK you have not offended me. You have an inquisitive mind, and like most of us, trying to figure things out. All questions are important. Keep them coming. But yes it is fair to say I am a bit of a stickler in terms of sorting out sources. Or is that sourcing out sources?
    My mood is improving: last batch of cookies cooling on the counter. Cheap therapy. Off to tonight’s meeting with our refugee steering committee, bearing cookies. Our city has now received our allocated numbers as of this weekend, and all systems are in place. So many helpers, so many years of my town being good at this. This is my once a week break from FATCA, so tomorrow I hope to be a little cheerier.

    Shall I save you a couple cookies if you forgive my mood?

  15. Ginny, I picked the wrong topic to comment about on the wrong day on the wrong post. You had reason to be snarky. Big Hugs.

  16. WK, CG and many, many more (including MB) would feel better if this week was a good one for donations. I think ADCS would gratefully receive donations from MPs who know they are letting down Canadians who ARE Canadians (despite some icky, sticky USness) but are afraid to buck the will of the banks and to fight the bully to the South. I’d like to believe that they value Canadian sovereignty and the financial privacy of ALL Canadians. If they can’t/won’t speak up for what is right, then why not donate something to ADCS which IS speaking up for what is right? Stephen Kish meticulously respects the anonymity of ALL donors, in case any MP should worry about that.

    There … wishful thinking is my therapy today.

  17. If I recall correctly, Canadian lawyers were passing around the snark “To become a judge in the US you have to win an election. In Canada you have to lose one.” I was ready to stop listening after the first part of that because it’s not true where it really counts, but fortunately I kept listening.

    But even when the Canadian system was for the winning party to give consolation prizes to loyal candidates who only lost in their ridings, I wouldn’t call that any more corrupt than the US system.

    I’ve learned that the Federal Circuit, the same court that made it mandatory for filers of US income tax returns to fabricate social security numbers when the SSA has dithered on an application and the IRS has rejected ITIN applications, also hears appeals of patent cases for the entire US. No wonder the US patent system is the laughingstock of the industrialized world.

  18. U.S.A. presses foreign governments to impose strict anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) rules. As a result, I was unable to buy a cheque in Dominican Republic pesos any other way than by opening a savings account, depositing the money and then withdrawing the amount of the bank cheque plus fees. That required finding a place that would open such an account, in 2012, and a savings and loan did.

    Meanwhile, here in U.S.A. anybody wearing shoes and a shirt can stumble into a convenience store and buy a Western Union or Moneygram money order for up to $500 U.S. ($1000 in some stores) with cash, no name, no I.D.

  19. It is also possible The Animal has a disability which prevents him from using Public Transport.

    Ellen, for me; it’s called being “anti-social…” 😛 I was diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder in 2004. That coupled with my back injury (and being unable to stand for long periods of time (they cram them in like sardines on Translink)

  20. Hello Fellow-Readers of this site, I have just made another donation to support our court case and I challenge other readers and concerned citizens to do the same. I don’t have a lot of money, but figure the little I have, plus my rights as a Canadian, need to be protected and this is one of the only tangible efforts I see being undertaken. Its one thing I can do to push back against the insanity and arrogance of the USA. I see myself as a Canadian and only as a Canadian; I don’t care what another foreign country may think, and it will certainly not dissuade me from supporting a cause that is fighting for me. Thanks again to those who are working so hard on our behalf. We are so close to paying off this bill, if everyone can donate even a small amount, we can pay this off!

  23. Archiving in “Comments” today’s thoughts from a donor-supporter from Jersey:

    Thanks also for State of Jersey Pound notes from a long-time Jersey supporter.

    The Islander wants my message to all of you to be more unequivocal and should be:

    1) “There is no place for slavery in the 21st century”; and

    2) “Canada gave up its sovereignty to help enforce another states’s feudal rules”.

    (S)he asks that I keep the word “slavery”:

    “It is like racism: Nobody can say that there are good or even acceptable sides to it.

    It is one of the unarguable terms of the Social Justice Warriors. It cannot be condoned, whatever the issue is; it stops everyone in their track.

    We need that completely unassailable position. Something that cannot be argued according to remote jurisprudence or arcane interpretation. Forcing people to work without reward or chance of escape solely because of their origin is slavery. There is no place for slavery in the 21st century.”

  24. What a nice way to start the month of March — a four digit number. And the fine words of our Jersey supporter inspire us to set our sights on a four letter word — FREE! “There is no place for slavery in the 21st century.”

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