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
The sovereignty thermometer is up again…
OK guys lets get it done!
Donation was sent Friday a donation that I nicknamed surf and turf
Just donated.
p.s. We can do this! This is the same group that raised 70K for the opinion paper in what, 11 days????
Thanks, Stephen, for your update on what to generally expect for the financial requirements going forward.
I have just sent a small September donation, but will carve out a bigger ADCS-ADSC donation from my family’s October budget.
Perhaps more important than my relatively small financial donations, I (only on behalf of my son) will be available as a witness regarding my family’s situation. I so hope many other Canadians here will see their way to do the same.
Just donated
Calgary, because of your family’s situation, you would make a powerful witness. Thank you.
@Calgary 411
Thank you for offering to volunteer. Your situation is a perfect example of why this law is so wrong.
Thanks, Marie.
It never escapes my mind (often prodding me in the middle of the night) that even though I officially renounced my US citizenship in 2012 and have a CLN to show to my local Canadian foreign financial institution, I still hold *foreign* Canadian accounts for my son, including the RDSP for which I handed over US$3,661 to the US IRS. That makes me a *US Person* though I am no longer a US citizen. The US’ information gathered in my FBARs of my Canadian bank account private financial information, including accounts I hold for my son, is in US hands. Entrapment of my son and like sons and daughters in other US-tainted families, with no way to…
The absurdity is staggering.
Another good reading in video form of the absurdities of FATCA law implemented by IGA’s in countries outside the US except for the statement in this EU video, though some points have obviously changed, including…
which just highlights the inequities of FATCA law as some can (thankfully) fly under the radar.
It is, then, just the luck of the draw on how identifiable one is.
Working on sending more salmon your way, thanks!
Thank you for offering to be a witness, Calgary411. You are a TROOPER!
Me and my T-Shirt attended an all candidates gathering last night. If looks could kill!!! the Con candidate would not engage me in any conversation however, ALL other candidates did and over 50 people did. The Cons do not have a snowball’s chance in hell of being voted in around here. This was a local gathering of farmers at an agriculture center. I told ALL farmers to go to their credit union shareholder’s meeting and ask how much FATCA is costing THEM to implement. I had 2 people tell me they are involved but will keep their birthplace silent. I told them of the law and how in the 60’s it was the law for all black people to sit at the back of the bus. I told them I am breaking this law to protect my family and it seems they are too.. I’ll be working on my next appearance, stay tuned! Another donation is on the way!!!
@NativeCanadian
That is Great! The fact that the Con candidate would not engage you is totally irrelevant. Like all the other Con’s, he/she would not have cared and you would have been wasting your time. They are only loyal to their party. Your time was much better spent talking to the other candidates and 50 of your fellow voters, and what an accomplishment.
NC, Congratulations on another positive appearance for you and your shirt.
Looking forward to more chapters of *FATCA-affected by marriage NativeCanadian and his shirt attending candidates gatherings*.
Here is a link I just found on the Twitter feed (https://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2015/09/19/the-stopfatca-press-release-and-social-media-page/)
The Economist, September 19, 2015: ” Indigenous Canadians On the electoral war-path. After years of abstaining, aboriginal people could now be swing voters”
Should this be a ‘sticky’ post and appear at the top of the page like it used to?
Noone,
The decision as to what post is sticky is up to the administrators of Brock, who have kindly let ADCS use their website to solicit donations for the lawsuit.
My personal preference is that until September 29/30 (designated handover day) or earlier (Canada agrees to delay turnover-day) a very important objective is to keep the maximum pressure on Government to ask IRS for a delay. We still have a chance to stop the turnover and ask that our supporters keep maximum pressure on the Government. This is the message of Tricia’s post which is now “sticky”.
I want to thank so much those supporters who are tirelessly keeping the pressure on Government by their emails, letters, tweets, and phone conversations with recalcitrant politicians — at a minimum this should make the politicians running for office, who do not support our rights, uncomfortable.
Ideally, this page should be displayed at the top of the Isaac Brock Society homepage. That way, people will be able to see the funding appeal; at the moment, it is too far down…
Duality, ideally but we have a related and time-sensitive problem we who can in Canada need to work on at the moment — trying to obtain a one-year delay from the government in the deadline for passing private Canadian financial information to the US IRS.
@Stephen Kish, @ADCS team……….
1. I do not know how you do it……..
2. I wish I could be in the fight with you but you guys know my Canadian nationailty is clinging and I am over here not over there
3. I just hope the £££$$$€€€ I send is some small encouragement
All of you keep pulling rabbits of the hat……..
I will begin donating again in October on my regular schedule but will probably not have the funds to donate in September. As you may recall I stayed up all night one night last week expecting emergency donations were going to be required literally within hours in order to file for a stay possibly that very day. I’m glad to see that the timetable has not turned out to be so urgent–but I was willing to act urgently had it been required. Based on this new timetable, I expect to resume monthly donations in October. Thanks to all for their hard work on moving this legal action forward!
I’m still not 100% sure what I think of the effort to notify the IRS that Canada is delaying–I’m still nervous about the requirement to make a “good faith” effort to eventually turn the data over–but I understand and respect that others may have a different view than me on that side of things and am certainly following that effort closely.
I’m sad to say that I cannot donate this round. My husband, the sole income earner for our household, is facing possible layoff sometime in the next few months. 🙁
@TheMom
Do not even think about it…..you have already helped so much….others will fill in…we are sending our best wishes for your situation and do let us know what is happening there….Take care.
Agree, Tricia. We all do what we can do in the way of donating. Hopefully, we will pick up some others who wish to join the fight for their supposed rights to take up the slack, The Mom.
I echo, Take Care.
(I see people all around me in Calgary who are now facing tight times. Some have been through the ups and downs of this province’s economy before; some are new to it this time. I may be a long haul this time around. In many ways, I count myself lucky to be retired and better able to stretch the almighty dollar or 3/4 of that US dollar.)