Our Plaintiffs believe that the sacrifice of Canada’s sovereignty to a foreign state is wrong. Canadians can support Plaintiffs Ginny, Gwen, and Kazia by being a Witness in our FATCA IGA lawsuit. — If interested contact me at Stephen.Kish.Chair@adcs-adsc.ca
Plaintiffs Ginny and Gwen now have a new Plaintiff in our Canadian FATCA IGA lawsuit:
Her name is Kazia Highton, lives in British Columbia, and like Ginny and Gwen, left the United States at an early age. All of our Plaintiffs happen to be strong-minded women….
As some of you know, it takes a very special courage to be a Plaintiff in a Canadian lawsuit. We welcome Kazia to the litigation and to our supporters — and thank her for acting on behalf of ALL Canadians — most of whom will never know of, or appreciate, her actions today.
I hope that you will understand that I cannot disclose the specifics regarding the strategic reasons why our litigators felt that it was important to select Kazia as a Plaintiff.
The Amended Statement of Claim is pretty much identical to the original Statement of Claim, the difference being the addition of a new Plaintiff. However, you might notice that some statements on “sovereignty” are beefed up somewhat. We now state for example: “The distinction created by the Impugned Provisions causes the Plaintiffs disadvantage, including but not limited to the facts that the Plaintiffs: a. are denied the protection of Canadian sovereignty…“.
For all of us, sovereignty is a very important and obvious Claim. Previously, Canada was a sovereign nation until it gave up that sovereignty because of fear of economic harm promised by the United States — if it did not comply with the FATCA “agreement”.
To remind you, our Claim is that the FATCA IGA enabling legislation violates the Constitution Act of 1867, including “… the principle that Canada will not forfeit its sovereignty to a foreign state”, and Sections 7, 8, and 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Once the Witnesses have been selected and their affidavits submitted to the Federal Court, I will have another update. Thank you for your support and for your investment in this lawsuit.
THERE IS STILL TIME TO INCLUDE NEW WITNESSES IN THE LITIGATION. If interested, contact me at: Stephen.Kish.Chair@adcs-adsc.ca
We have a new Plaintiff.
Congratulations of finding your new plaintiff! I hope this means you have now found your mythical unicorn plaintiff/witness with $50k in a reportable account which has not been reported–but will understand if you can’t say much more than you’ve already said in the revised Statement of Claims.
Thank you Kazia.
Greetings, and many, many thanks Kazia for joining Gwen and Ginny on behalf of those who cannot come forward or who have never heard of FATCA.
Thanks, Kazia, for joining Gwen and Ginny as plaintiffs for the Canadian litigation. I hope you know how grateful we are for the strength you’ve found to join them. Bravo!
Thank you, Kazia! Much appreciated!
Thanks from around the world. Go team!
Thank you Kazia for stepping forward and joining the other Canadians standing up for Canada. Our weasel slimeball lying prime minister knows nothing about people standing up for Canada. Thanks for showing us!
Big huge warm welcome from Gwen and me, Kazia. Welcome to the team.
This is wonderful news and I want to join the Brock chorus to thank Kazia for linking arms with our intrepid Ginny and Gwen. Surgite!
Go team Canada! Thank you Kazia, Ginny and Gwen for stepping up to the plate. Also a big thanks to the ADCS team for keeping the ball rolling (I <3 metaphors).
Hi Kazia, I am late to the plate here (borrowing a metaphor from Bubblebustin ^), due to working on some tight deadlines and asked Ginny to send greetings from the both of us. But here I am now, taking a break from work, to say welcome to the trenches 😉
And while we celebrate this news about our third plaintiff, I want to also acknowledge all of those Canadians who have applied to be witnesses, whether you were ultimately selected or not or are still awaiting word from the lawyers. Thank you so much for volunteering and stepping out of the shadows to help our cause.
And as always, thanks to our many other supporters from so many countries besides Canada who have been with us now for many years and help in so many ways. That any of us have been able to come this far is a testimony to the support we have all received from each other.
And that’s what the USG can never take away from us. Solidarity. I have them in my targets, not the other way around.
This is big news! A third hero to cheer on! We salute you!
@ Dash1729
She is not a myth. Read pg 15 of the Amended Claim. We now have three brave souls to be thankful for because without them there would be no legal challenge. I don’t know how many witness affidavits the legal team will be presenting to the court but thanks be to all who volunteered to offer that crucial element of the case too.
Kazia Highton, welcome from Australia.
I expect a good fight from the Canadians to set precedents that the world may note.
And my thanks as well, Kazia! This is GREAT news!
thank you from London , England Kazia for taking up the banner
Thank you from Jamaica Kazia. I endorse everything that Native Canadian has said above …. and so much of what he has said in multiple fora and multiple posts in the past. You are all heroines and heroes.
I wish I do could more to say thank you.
Welcome and thank you Kazia. Our third plaintiff is from British Columbia, my home province.
As the amended statement of claim says, “The distinction created by the Impugned Provisions causes the Plaintiffs disadvantage, including but not limited to the facts that the Plaintiffs: a. are denied the protection of Canadian sovereignty…“. Sovereignty is the most important issue for me. With FATCA, the USA is impinging on the sovereignty of Canada and many other nations around the world.
Wonderful news! Thank you very much, Kazia.
Thank you Kazia!
Thank you so much, Kazia.
@JC
For all Boris’hot air of ‘outragious’ indignation. There is no record of him renouncing his US citizenship. I think he is an opportunist.