The Windsor Star objects to the Harper government’s FATCA agreement with the United States.  Here is the money quote showing how the Tory government actually admits to capitulation:

In fact, when the Tax Compliance Act first surfaced just over two years ago, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty was one of the strongest critics, pointing out that the proposal “has far-reaching extraterritorial implications. It would turn Canadian banks into extensions of the IRS and would raise significant privacy concerns for Canadians.”

What happened to “never surrender”?

The Star’s view: Ottawa shouldn’t be in bed with the IRS

Facebook comments are welcome at the Windsor Star.

It has been a traumatic last couple days for ‘Brockers’ as well as recently stunned ‘US persons’ who have just had their ‘OMG moment’.  This is just the tip of the iceburg.  We sit at a precipice looking down, and looking back. Many have not yet arrived at the point some of us are at.  The current Canadian government helped create the precipice. They had a choice; they made the wrong one.  We warned them; they didn’t listen.

My twenty-one year old daughter instantly grasps the concept of why you do not sacrifice a minority of people for a majority  when you have a CHOICE to do otherwise.  She used the example of a bus (yes a bus) traveling down the road towards a group of five people.  She asked me, “if you had the power to grab the bus and throw it in another direction directly in the path of one person, would you do it?”    We both agreed that the answer in this case is ‘Yes’, and yet this is the supposed argument our government is using to justify its agreement with the USA to implement FATCA.    My twenty-one year old daughter and I intuitively get that the two situations are not the same.  Apparently our Conservative government does not.

One of the cool things about Brock for me, has been the opportunity to correspond with, and meet in person, many intelligent, kind, moral people, and if it wasn’t for FATCA, I would never have had the opportunity to make my life a lot richer despite the pain of being persecuted for being born in the wrong country.

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Having just renewed my membership in Canadian Civil Liberties Union, I contacted them…
For general inquiries:
Phone: 416-363-0321
type in Deshman to reach woman responsible for this file. She has previously spoken at a Brock meeting so be nice when leaving a message.
email: mail@ccla.org
NDP —
malcolm.allen@parl.gc.ca
charlie.angus@parl.gc.ca
niki.ashton@parl.gc.ca
alex.atamanenko@parl.gc.ca
Robert.Aubin@parl.gc.ca
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Mr. Harper will expose innocent Canadians to the capricious and evil treatment of the IRS.  Just how bad is it?  The IRS is a criminal organization that regularly abuses elderly people, just like our beleaguered Canadian citizens whose bank accounts will now be exposed to the IRS under FATCA. Read what one insider has to say.  Powerline blog reproduces a letter by Bill Henck an IRS insider (emphasis mine):

Bill Henck: Inside the IRS

I have been an attorney in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel for over 26 years. Over a number of years, I have attempted, largely unsuccessfully, to alert the public to abuse within the IRS. One of my kids suggested that I contact a blog and Power Line has graciously agreed to publish this account.

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A law enforcement officer who is an “Accidental American” writes the Prime Minister asking for the protection of the Canadian government.

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They re-iterate their fight continues to be with the Obama Administration though:

https://www.facebook.com/republicansoverseas

Jim’s comment on big disappointment yesterday is very interesting. But what Canada’s supposedly “Conservative” government did will not be Republicans Overseas’ focus since our job is to hold the Obama government’s feet to the fire and put pressure on Congress to repeal FATCA. However, as constitutional conservatives, we do believe FATCA has trampled on 7.6 million overseas’ American citizens’ right to privacy, to make a living, to private property, and to due process since neither the Obama government nor Canadian government could claim all 7.6 million Americans, including close to 2 million of them residing in Canada are tax-cheats. What we have witnessed is that both governments take away everyone’s constitutional protection in order to catch a few tax-cheats. This dragnet approach could only happen in authoritarian societies, not in free societies like Canada and America. In a free society, voters do hold parties and politicians accountable. Would this Canadian government regret that it could be blamed for helping the IRS to collect personal financial data on its own citizens due to FACTA’s reciprocity feature on the next election day? it depends on you, the Canadian voters.

On pages 40-41, section II, paragraph B2… it seems to state that credit unions are Deemed-Compliant Financial Institutions.! Please look!
http://www.fin.gc.ca/treaties-conventions/pdf/FATCA-eng.pdf

For at least two years now, people concerned about FATCA have pleaded with the media to stop treating them as tax cheats.  We are law abiding Canadian residents and Canadian citizens who pay all our taxes in Canada.  Yet the media continues to treat us as criminals.  This is a form of libel, to be sure.  But it is worse.  It is destroying our ability to get our message out:  We are law abiding but even the Canadian media treats us as shirkers and tax cheats.  Consider this headline by Barbara Shecter of the National Post:  Canada signs agreement to dull impact of U.S. crackdown on tax cheats.

This is journalistic incompetence at best; but at worst, it shows malice towards people of US National Origin. It is incompetence because it employs a logical fallacy, a common  propaganda tool called “Poisoning the Well“:

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