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THE TYRANNY OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS:TORONTO FIREMEN FIRED FOR INAPPROPRIATE TWEETS

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THE TYRANNY OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS:TORONTO FIREMEN FIRED FOR INAPPROPRIATE TWEETS
Toronto Fire Chief Jim Sales calls himself an “agent of change” trying to politically correctify the “culture”  at the Toronto Fire Department. The recent suspension (August 22) and firing three weeks later of three Toronto firemen for  sexual insensitive twitters comments on their own cellphones on their own time makes one wonder whether “agent of change” shouldn’t be read as “agent of the thought police”? The Toronto Fire Service didn’t even have a policy about the use of social media on one’s own time, but, hey, fire the outspoken twitters anyway; they were in that catch-all of political correctese “inappropriate”.
The Canadian Press (*August 22, 2013) reported: “Bringing change in culture and attitude to Toronto’s firefighter community is not easy, the city’s fire chief said Thursday as he announced the suspension of two members over comments made on Twitter. The suspensions came after a published media report said two firefighters had posted several sexist messages on Twitter, including one that read “Reject a woman and she will never let it go. One of the many defects of their kind. Also weak arms.”

 Fire Chief Jim Sales said the two firefighters — identified as Matt Bowman and Lawaun Edwards — have been suspended with pay, but he wouldn’t comment on specific details of the case. Chief Sales said Toronto Fire Services is conducting an internal investigation on what he called ‘a personnel matter. I came here as a change agent,’ said Chief Sales, who has served with Toronto Fire Services for more than three decades.Photo: THE TYRANNY OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS:TORONTO FIREMEN FIRED FOR INAPPROPRIATE TWEETS Toronto Fire Chief Jim Sales calls himself an "agent of change" trying to politically correctify the "culture" at the Toronto Fire Department. The recent suspension (August 22) and firing three weeks later of three Toronto firemen for sexual insensitive twitters comments on their own cellphones on their own time makes one wonder whether "agent of change" shouldn't be read as "agent of the thought police"? The Toronto Fire Service didn't even have a policy about the use of social media on one's own time, but, hey, fire the outspoken twitters anyway; they were in that catch-all of political correctese "inappropriate". The Canadian Press (*August 22, 2013) reported: "Bringing change in culture and attitude to Toronto’s firefighter community is not easy, the city’s fire chief said Thursday as he announced the suspension of two members over comments made on Twitter. The suspensions came after a published media report said two firefighters had posted several sexist messages on Twitter, including one that read “Reject a woman and she will never let it go. One of the many defects of their kind. Also weak arms.” Fire Chief Jim Sales said the two firefighters — identified as Matt Bowman and Lawaun Edwards — have been suspended with pay, but he wouldn’t comment on specific details of the case. Chief Sales said Toronto Fire Services is conducting an internal investigation on what he called 'a personnel matter. I came here as a change agent,' said Chief Sales, who has served with Toronto Fire Services for more than three decades. 'I’m committed to that, and some of that is the culture and some of that may be the attitudes. Change in the fire service sometimes doesn’t come quickly or easily,” he said. “We’re an evolving organization. Chief Sales said he was made aware of the tweets from reports in the media. The National Post first reported the controversial tweets in a story published Aug. 10. Toronto Fire Services does not have its own policy on social media, but it follows all protocols for City of Toronto staff, said Chief Sales. 'I think any form of social media should reflect on the Toronto Fire Services positively, when our staff are using it understand that they are in the public realm,' he said. 'We don’t condone negativity brought to the fire service by individual members or other members.'” Okay! Got it. So, no negativity can be brought by employees to the Toronto Fire Service, even comments that have nothing to do with fire fighting, made on their own time to other people. Now, that's tyranny. So, for a couple of semi-humorous misogynistic fat boy comments three men lose their jobs. Columnist Elizabeth Renzetti (Globe and Mail, September 20, 2013) shrewdly asked after the men were fired: "How much of your time does your employer deserve? Eight hours? Or is it the whole day, and the evening too? More important, how much of your public identity do they control? Does every thought you express need to reflect a golden light on the people who write your cheques? On your own time, are you allowed your beliefs, even if they’re repellent? The case of three firefighters dismissed from their jobs this week is instructive – and alarming. Two of them, Lawaun Edwards and Matt Bowman, were investigated after their sexist tweets were exposed in a National Post story this summer. One of Mr. Bowman’s tweets read, “I’d never let a woman kick my ass. If she tried something, I’d be like HEY! You get your bitch ass into the kitchen and make me some pie.” Mr. Edwards, responding to a tweet about a woman using the word “like” too much, wrote, “Would swat her in the back of the head been considered abuse or a way to reset the brain?” The tweets, apparently, quoted a couple of (distinctly unfunny) TV shows. The Toronto Fire Department launched an investigation, first suspending and then firing Mr. Bowman and Mr. Edwards, as well as a third firefighter who is unnamed but may have posted something offensive on Facebook. The key word here is “offensive.” Not illegal, or threatening to a specific individual, but distasteful. The firefighters weren’t tweeting on official City of Toronto accounts.A statement read by Toronto Fire Chief Jim Sales said, “The Toronto public service fosters a corporate culture that sets the highest standard of integrity, professionalism and ethical behaviour. It is our expectation all employees demonstrate and uphold these core values.” There’s no indication that these firefighters were let go for any transgressions committed at work, on the company dime. If they’d made lewd comments or overtures to colleagues, that would be one thing, and you could understand that the hatchet would fall. But, in essence, they’ve been fired for (at worst) holding a set of beliefs that the rest of us find offensive or (at best) having a stupid and juvenile sense of humour. They’ve been fired for expressing their thoughts, however idiotic those thoughts are. I’m not sure that’s a road we want to be travelling." Shouldn't the Chief's concern be the competence, training, strength and courage of the firemen, not their off-work comments and attempts at humour? The public who pay their salaries expect their courage and competence at the risky job they are required to do. One of the long range curses of Cultural Marxism or political correctness is that ideology trumps competence. In this case, apparently having the |"right" opinions is more importance that ability on the job.

‘I’m committed to that, and some of that is the culture and some of that may be the attitudes. Change in the fire service sometimes doesn’t come quickly or easily,” he said. “We’re an evolving organization.

Chief Sales said he was made aware of the tweets from reports in the media. The National Post first reported the controversial tweets in a story published Aug. 10. Toronto Fire Services does not have its own policy on social media, but it follows all protocols for City of Toronto staff, said Chief Sales.

‘I think any form of social media should reflect on the Toronto Fire Services positively, when our staff are using it understand that they are in the public realm,’ he said. ‘We don’t condone negativity brought to the fire service by individual members or other members.’”

 

Okay! Got it. So, no negativity can be brought by employees to the Toronto Fire Service, even comments that have nothing to do with fire fighting, made on their own time to other people. Now, that’s tyranny.

 

So, for a couple of semi-humorous misogynistic fat boy comments three men lose their jobs.

 

Columnist Elizabeth Renzetti (Globe and Mail, September 20, 2013) shrewdly asked after the men were fired: “How much of your time does your employer deserve? Eight hours? Or is it the whole day, and the evening too? More important, how much of your public identity do they control? Does every thought you express need to reflect a golden light on the people who write your cheques? On your own time, are you allowed your beliefs, even if they’re repellent?

 The case of three firefighters dismissed from their jobs this week is instructive – and alarming. Two of them, Lawaun Edwards and Matt Bowman, were investigated after their sexist tweets were exposed in a National Post story this summer. One of Mr. Bowman’s tweets read, “I’d never let a woman kick my ass. If she tried something, I’d be like HEY! You get your bitch ass into the kitchen and make me some pie.” Mr. Edwards, responding to a tweet about a woman using the word “like” too much, wrote, “Would swat her in the back of the head been considered abuse or a way to reset the brain?”

The tweets, apparently, quoted a couple of (distinctly unfunny) TV shows. The Toronto Fire Department launched an investigation, first suspending and then firing Mr. Bowman and Mr. Edwards, as well as a third firefighter who is unnamed but may have posted something offensive on Facebook. The key word here is “offensive.” Not illegal, or threatening to a specific individual, but distasteful. The firefighters weren’t tweeting on official City of Toronto accounts.A statement read by Toronto Fire Chief Jim Sales said, “The Toronto public service fosters a corporate culture that sets the highest standard of integrity, professionalism and ethical behaviour. It is our expectation all employees demonstrate and uphold these core values.”

 There’s no indication that these firefighters were let go for any transgressions committed at work, on the company dime. If they’d made lewd comments or overtures to colleagues, that would be one thing, and you could understand that the hatchet would fall. But, in essence, they’ve been fired for (at worst) holding a set of beliefs that the rest of us find offensive or (at best) having a stupid and juvenile sense of humour. They’ve been fired for expressing their thoughts, however idiotic those thoughts are. I’m not sure that’s a road we want to be travelling.”

Shouldn’t the Chief’s concern be the competence, training, strength and courage of the firemen, not their off-work comments and attempts at humour? The public who pay their salaries expect their courage and competence at the risky job they are required to do. One of the long range curses of Cultural Marxism or political correctness is that ideology trumps competence. In this case, apparently having the |”right” opinions is more importance that ability on the job

Terry Tremaine Exposes Junk Science and Lysenkoism

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Terry Tremaine Exposes Junk Science and Lysenkoism
VANCOUVER. September 5, 2013. Former political prisoner Terry Tremaine offered an enthusiastic audience a glimpse of his work as a mathematician and scientist. Before he was victimized by Richard Warman for his political views, Mr. Tremaine was a well-respected university lecturer in Saskatoon. His talk was part of a four city Western Canadian speaking tour which takes him to Vancouver, Victoria, Edmonton and Calgary,
Mr. Tremaine exposed the trend of Lysenkoism or ideology-motivated junk science. “Lysenkoism is masking ideology as science,” he explained,  Trofim Lysenko was a fanatic pseudo-scientist in charge of Stalin’s agricultural programmes. He was a radical proponent of nurture or environment, as opposed to nature or genetics, in raising crops and animals. His lunacy led to repeated famines and shortages.Under the Czar, with little mechanization, Russia fed itself and had considerable excess for export. Under communism, the Soviet Union never once fed itself. “Lysenkoism as a failed ideology of agricultural science was not abandoned by the Soviets until the 1960s after repeated wheat crop failures,” Mr. Tremaine said.Photo
Trofim Lysenko
In more recent times, he explained we’ve had the hysteria over “global warming.|” Contrary to what the global warming advocates insist, “the science is NOT settled,” We know the earth’s climate has been changing for a million years, getting warmer and then colder. The assertion that the current slight increase in temperatures is due to carbons emitted by automobiles and the oil industry is laughable, he said. The largest source of carbon dioxide emissions is the sea. There were period of rising temperatures in the early Middle Ages when carbon emissions caused by humans were negligible. Another likely cause of slight temperature changes is change in the heat of the sun.
The major impetus for the global warming campaign is economic and political, not scientific. Al Gore and his associates, for instance, imagined a market of arbitrary “carbon credits”. They hoped to run an exchange for such credits and pocket huge commissions. Low energy using Third World countries would be given carbon credits. High energy using Western nations like Canada would have to buy the “credits” as punishment for producing carbon emissions. The regime to combat the non-problem of global warming would also fulfill the leftist goal of a massive wealth transfer from the Developed World to the Third World, he explained.
“Human inequality is the subject of my talk along with the intrusion of political correctness into science,” he said. “Political correctness is simply another word for Marxism. When you strip away the mumbo jumbo of ‘dialectical materialism,’ it’s all about radical equality.”

Terry Tremaine 
Unlike pure ideology, “science is about formulating testable hypotheses,” Mr. Tremaine explained. “The way good science works is to try to offer methods to show its hypothesis is wrong, while bad science tries to insulate itself from  refutation.”
“Charles Darwin,” he pointed out, “did not set out to develop the Theory of Evolution. Man has always sought to know his place in the universe and every culture has a creation myth.”
The Industrial Revolution caused considerable cutting into rock to build railways and canals and to dig mines. “This work revealed stratified rock levels which showed different fossil creatures tied to different historical ages.”
Darwin was trained in Divinity. “However, like many rural vicars, he loved to collect bugs and butterflies and birds nests. These amateur scientists use their findings to remind their congregations of the glory of God’s creation.”
When Darwin got he chance to accompany the Captain of the Beagle as his travelling companion on a five-year voyage around the world, he jumped at  the opportunity. He brought back samples from his explorations. For instance, he found the Galapagos Islands a living laboratory and he could trace the differentiation of finches from one island to another, as they adapted to radically different environments.
He concluded that there had been modification by natural selection. “However, he was reluctant to publish his findings for 20 years. What do you do when you fear your conclusions may lead to social disruption and the possible breakdown of society? His wife was a dedicated Christian. Darwin identified with the rural aristocracy and feared his findings might lead to the sort of anarchy of the French Revolution.”
In Darwin’s time, “the problem was the evolution of man. People could accept animal evolution, but many had trouble accepting that man is part of the animal kingdom lions or eagles..”
Mr. Tremaine recalled the “member” or judge at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling on the Richard Warman complaint about his Internet postings in 2007: “He said, in his decision, ‘Mr. Tremaine’s writings are not legitimate political discourse because they do not promote equality.’ It makes no sense that just because the government wants to promote equality that I must too. What does equality even mean? We are genetically different and look different. Some are stronger, faster, smarter.
“Now,” he continued, “some will respond that in the eyes of God we are all equal. But that is not a scientific comment; it is an article of faith,”
“So, is equality a false concept?’ he asked. “Scientific claims must be testable. The Human Genome Project seeks to map out all human variations. It has been determined that variations among all human populations constitute just one and a half per cent of all DNA. So, the ideologues will argue, we are all essentially the same or equal. However, the seemingly small differences are huge. We differ from chimpanzees by only one and a half per cent of our DNA. Thus, any human being could be genetically one third of the way toward being a chimp!”
“Genetically,” he added, “we share 50 per cent of the DNA of a banana. “
“We’re being sold a false bill of goods about human equality. If we really are all equal, why are there campaign throughout the West to level things. Ultimately, the attempts to impose equality will discourager excellence,” he warned, “with dangerous results for our civilization. You can ignore the facts, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring the fact.”
“Most people have forgotten that the subtitle of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species was The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. The world is a constant struggle among the races,” he added.
According to Canada’s weird Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which he called “a muddle of stupidity, we have equality  of rights before the law under Sec.  15.1 but, then, under Sec. 15.2, there are special rights for special minorities.”
Tom Paine, Mr. Tremaine pointed out, warned not to trust charters of so-called rights, as they take real rights away. “We have rights by our very nature as humans. These are unalienable rights,” he added. and concluded by reminding of a warning by the late Doug Christie; “Once the State can define your rights, it can also take them away.” This has happened in spades in Canada under the deceptive Charter.

Letter-to-the-Editor re: Tyranny of Ontario Human Rights Commission & Nepean Redskins

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Letter-to-the-Editor re: Tyranny of Ontario  Human Rights Commission & Nepean Redskins
Canadian Association for Free Expression

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Rexdale, Ontario, M9W 5L3

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Website: http://cafe.nfshost.com

Paul Fromm, B.Ed, M.A. Director

September 21, 2013

 

The Editor,

The Globe and Mail.

 

Dear Sir:

 

 Re: “Ottawa football club agrees to drop Redskin name”(Globe and Mail, September 21, 2013).

 

Whatever use they might have served in the distant past, human rights commissions have outlived their purpose. They provide privileged minorities a tool to harass and blackmail the majority. In a move that may well cost $100,000, the Nepean Redskins will change their name. One Ottawa Indian, musician Ian Campeau, found the name “offensive” and, when the team wouldn’t budge, filed a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission.

 It cost him nothing but a letter. The Commission will do the legal work for him, If he loses, he pays no costs or penalty. From the get-go, all the costs are on the team. They must hire a lawyer, present a case, answer motions and correspondence and, eventually, appear before a tribunal. Even if they, win, they are out thousands, likely several tens of thousands of dollars. Human rights tribunal members are often highly biased in favour of minorities. They are part of the human rights industry. The odds are stacked against the victims. .

The threat of burying an amateur team for children with legal costs gives an unfair blackmail hammer to privileged minorities.

Your report notes: “About 550 kids and volunteers run the flag, tackle, touch and cheer programmes with the club. … It left the youth football club facing an expensive transition or a lengthy, high-profile legal battle.” (Globe and Mail, September 21, 2013)

The time has come to rid the province of this meddling and unfair institution. Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leader Tim Hudak promised to do just that when he was running for his party’s leadership in 2009. So, too, did one of his rivals, and eventual ally in the final vote, MPP Randy Hillier.

 Regrettably, as soon as he’d clutched the leadership prize, Hudak, apparently, heard from the Big Boys and shelved his promise. It’s time, in light of this latest outrag4e, for him to pledge himself to purging this Province of the bullying institution.

 Paul Fromm

Nepean Redskins to Change Their Name After Rights Complaint Blackmail — Come On Hudak: Promise to Abolish the Ontario Human Rights Commission

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Nepean Redskins to Change Their Name After Rights Complaint Blackmail — Come On Hudak: Promise to Abolish the Ontario Human Rights Commission

 

Whatever use they might have served in the distant past — and I question that — human rights commissions have outlived their purpose. They provide privileged minorities a tool to harass and blackmail the majority. In a move that may well cost $100,000, the Nepean Redskins will change their name. One Ottawa Indian, musician Ian Campeau, found the name “offensive” and, when the team wouldn’t budge, filed a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission.

 

It cost him nothing but a letter. The Commission will do the legal work for him, If he loses, he pays no costs or penalty. From the get-go, all the costs are on the tream,. They must hire a lawyer, present a case, answer motions and correspondence and, eventually, appear before a tribunal. Even if they, win, they are out thousands, likely several tens of thousands of dollars. Human rights tribunal members are often highly biased in favour of minorities. They are part of the human rights industry. The odds are stacked against the victims.

 

The National Post (September 20, 2013) reports the latest victory for minority blackmail and bullying enabled by the skanky creature called the Ontario Human Rights Commission: ” An Ottawa amateur football club — the Nepean Redskins — is changing  its name and logo under mounting pressure from critics who say it’s a racist  reference to aboriginals. The team’s president Steve Dean said Thursday the change is voluntary and  will be officially announced Friday.The team “understands that the current name is offensive to some, and thus  divisive to our community,” he said in a statement. …

Dave Chan for National Post/Files

The decision comes weeks after an Ottawa musician, Ian Campeau of the band A  Tribe Called Red, filed a human rights complaint alleging the name is  racist. Campeau hailed the news Thursday, posting a triumphant “WE DID IT!!!” on  Twitter.

 

Not all were on board with the switch, with a few on social media accusing  the team of giving into political correctness. Dean said the club will choose a new name, logo and colours at the end of the  football season in November. Parents, players and volunteers will be consulted,  he said. The full transformation is expected to cost more than US$100,000 and ‘may  take a number of years to complete,’ he said.”

An earlier National Post story (September 3, 2013) explained: “Arguing that the name of the Nepean Redskins, an Ontario amateur football  club, is ‘offensive, non-inclusive and dehumanizing,’ an Ottawa man announced  Tuesday he is approaching the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal to force a name  change. …  Ian Campeau, a member of the Nippissing First Nation  and a DJ with the aboriginal electronic music group A Tribe Called Red.” He had led a two year campaign of e-mails and media agitation to try to force the name change.”

Incidentally, doesn’t Campeau’s group’s name “A Tribe Called Red” call attention to race and seem, well, uh, a little bit racist.?

 

The September 3 National Post story, but not the version still on-line, made extensive reference to local Ottawa Indian groups who had no problem with the name “Redskins” for the amateur football team, and saw no offence in in/ The Ottawa Citizen (September 3, 2013) report notes: “The National Capital Amateur Football Association has resisted the name change, claiming that it has consulted the native community and received support for continuing to use the name.

Association and Redskins president Steve Dean  said: ‘This is a small not-for-profit entity doing work in the community with a name that has been around for 30 years. It was never our intention or objective to offend anyone.’ The football league has aboriginal players and coaches, added Dean.”

 

 

The threat of burying an amateur team for children with legal costs gives an unfair blackmail hammer to privileged minorities.

“About 550 kids and volunteers run the flag, tackle, touch and cheer programmes with the club. … It left the youth football club facing an expensive transition or a lengthy, high-profile legal battle.” (Globe and Mail, September 21, 2013)

 

 

The time has come to rid the province of this meddling and unfair institution. Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leader Tim Hudak promised to do just that when he was running for his party’s leadership in 2009. So, too, did one of his rivals, and eventual ally in the final vote, MPP Randy Hillier.

 

 

The Toronto Star (September 21, 2009) reported: “Hudak, who has followed long-shot candidate Randy Hillier’s lead on calling for the rights body to be scrapped, …  emphasized Tories are profoundly concerned about the rights body, which has become a bête noire in conservative circles where it is perceived as infringing on individual and press liberties.

‘Everywhere I go in this province, speaking to PC members, they want to see changes to the human rights commission, because it doesn’t serve victims well nor those who have been accused,’ said the Niagara West-Glanbrook MPP.’When (Tories) see somebody like (chief human rights commissioner) Barbara Hall out championing for the ability to censor the media while those that have real cases of discrimination languish on waiting lists, they want to see changes,’ he said.”

 

Regrettably, as soon as he’d clutched the leadership prize, Hudak, apparently, heard from the Big Boys and shelved his promise. It’s time, in light of this latest outrage, for him to pledge himself to purging this Province of the bullying institution.

 

Paul Fromm

Director

CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION

 

Greetings from CAFE To Australian League of Rights New Times Dinner

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Greetings from CAFE To Australian League of Rights New Times Dinner
I had the honour of meeting your founder, the late Eric Butler, on several of his visits to Canada. As well, I worked, both in Canada and on a speaking tour of Australia in 2005,  with his son and my friend, the late Phillip Butler. It was my honour to be one of your guest speakers at the New Times Dinner in 2005.
On behalf of the many Canadians who share your dedication to real immigration reform to protect the European character of our countries, to freedom of speech, and to economic reform and justice as outlined in the works of Major C.H. Douglas, I send my greetings and best wishes for a most successful 67th New Times Dinner.
Eric Butler, Australian League of Rights
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Major C.H. Douglas, Founder of Social Credit
Paul Fromm
Director
Canadian Association for Free Expression

Dave Lindsay Links Property Rights & Freedom of Speech

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Dave Lindsay Links Property Rights & Freedom of Speech
REXDALE. September 4, 2013. In a wide-ranging speech tonight, Dave “The Unlicensed Man” Lindsay, who has appeared in more than 300 courts cases challenging Canada’s Income Tax Law and assisting other rebels fighting for individual rights, linked property rights and freedom of speech.
“I haven’t filed an income tax return since 1996,” Mr. Lindsay explained, ” because it is against Christian principles, it contradicts the Coronation Oath and it imposes usury. The courts won’t touch the Coronation Oath because, if they did, 80 per cent our laws would be ruled illegal.”
In his own failure to file case, he explained: “I was convicted and sentenced to 60 days in jail in Kamloops. My case seems to be the first in Canada where the accused was not fined $1,000 and issued with a compliance order. For me, it’s not a matter of the money. I probably made less than $10,000 in each of those years.”
Perhaps, an explanation for the judge’s unusual sentence is that the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) “is trying to keep me out of court as an agent for defendants.” Last year a judge acknowledged: “Mr. Lindsay’s arguments are thorough and competent.”
“The Crown is supposed to be independent,” he said with disgust, “but they are just thugs for CRA!”

Photo: Dave Lindsay Links Property Rights & Freedom of Speech REXDALE. September 4, 2013. In a wide-ranging speech tonight, Dave "The Unlicensed Man" Lindsay, who has appeared in more than 300 courts cases challenging Canada's Income Tax Law and assisting other rebels fighting for individual rights, linked property rights and freedom of speech. "I haven't filed an income tax return since 1996," Mr. Lindsay explained, " because it is against Christian principles, it contradicts the Coronation Oath and it imposes usury. The courts won't touch the Coronation Oath because, if they did, 80 per cent our laws would be ruled illegal." In his own failure to file case, he explained: "I was convicted and sentenced to 60 days in jail in Kamloops. My case seems to be the first in Canada where the accused was not fined $1,000 and issued with a compliance order. For me, it's not a matter of the money. I probably made less than $10,000 in each of those years." Perhaps, an explanation for the judge's unusual sentence is that the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) "is trying to keep me out of court as an agent for defendants." Last year a judge acknowledged: "Mr. Lindsay's arguments are thorough and competent." "The Crown is supposed to be independent," he said with disgust, "but they are just thugs for CRA!" Since 9/11, he explained, there has been a massive erosion of our rights: "The State is waging a constant attack on our rights." Holding a pen aloft, Mr. Lindsay explained: "I have the right to use and dispose of this pen. You don't have to possess something for it to be your property," he added, referring to someone with a package of pea or carrot seeds who would have the right to the produce these tiny seeds might grow. Quoting Bastiat in The Law, Mr. Lindsay reminded his audience: "God created us with physical and moral life and faculties. We use our faculties to develop resources." "When you come up with thoughts, you have the right to express them. All the information in your brain is yours -- it's your property. The state has no right to interfere with the exchange of your property -- your ideas via e-mail, or writing or phone," The state, he added, "has no lawful right to spy on us and our intellectual property." He noted that a Supreme Court of Canada decision stated: "The Constitution Act of 1982 is not exhaustive;" there are other rights not in there. "You have the right to use your intellectual thoughts. You cannot fully exercise this right if you're worried you're being spied on by government. Laws allowing the state to spy on us is a trespass on our property. We should not even have to prove damages in this regard," Mr. Lindsay added. "When you talk to somebody, you are are exercising your right to communicate your property. We have a constitutional right to our ideas and a right to communicate these thoughts as they are our property. The Coronation Oath imposes a constitutional obligation on the Queen not to proclaim laws which violate our rights to property, Privacy is one of the most important things we have. It is absolutely critical to watch what you say in e-mail," he warned, "until we can stop government spying on us." In referring to Richard Warman's numerous anti-free speech complaints about posting on the Internet, Mr. Lindsay concluded: "I have a constitutional right to hate," because I have a constitutional right to my property-- to my thoughts, whatever they might be.

Since 9/11, he explained, there has been a massive erosion of our rights: “The State is waging a constant attack on our rights.”   
Holding a pen aloft, Mr. Lindsay explained: “I have the right to use and dispose of this pen. You don’t have to possess something for it to be your property,” he added, referring to someone with a package of pea or carrot seeds  who would have the right to the  produce these tiny seeds might grow.
Quoting Bastiat in The Law, Mr. Lindsay reminded his audience: “God created us with physical and moral life and faculties. We use our faculties to develop resources.”     
“When you come up with thoughts, you have the right to express them. All the information in your brain is yours — it’s your property. The state has no right to interfere with the exchange of your property — your ideas via e-mail, or writing or phone,”
The state, he added, “has no lawful right to spy on us and our intellectual property.”
He noted that a Supreme Court of Canada decision stated: “The Constitution Act of 1982 is not exhaustive;” there are other rights not in there.
“You have the right to use your intellectual thoughts. You cannot fully exercise this right if you’re worried you’re being spied on by government. Laws allowing the state to spy on us is a trespass on our property. We should not even have to prove damages in this regard,” Mr. Lindsay added.
“When you talk to somebody, you are are exercising your right to communicate your property. We have a constitutional right to our ideas and a right to communicate these thoughts as they are our property. The Coronation Oath imposes a constitutional obligation on the Queen not to proclaim laws which violate our rights to property, Privacy is one of the most important things we have. It is absolutely critical to watch what you say in e-mail,” he warned, “until we can stop government spying on us.”
In referring to Richard Warman’s numerous anti-free speech complaints about posting on the Internet, Mr. Lindsay concluded: “I have a constitutional right to hate,” because I have a constitutional right to my property–  to my thoughts, whatever they might be.

MEMO TO VLADIMIR PUTIN RE: G-20 MEETING

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MEMO TO VLADIMIR PUTIN RE: G-20 MEETING
To: President Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
From: Paul Fromm, Director Canadian Association for Free Expression
Re: Complaints About Your Crackdown on Homosexual Propaganda
Dear President Putin:
I know you’re busy hosting the meeting of the G-20 leaders n St. Petersburg. So, I’ll keep this memo brief.Photo
Along with discussion of economic issues and the planned U.S. aggression against Syria, you may also find yourself criticized for recent legislation passed by the Duma restricting homosexual propaganda and recruitment. I know homosexuality is not the issue. It is legal in Russia. These people can pursue their peculiar practices in private. However, consistent with your country’s Christian traditions, your parliament does not want to see the sort of recruitment and aggressive propagandizing that we see in Canada and the U.S. That is your right as a sovereign country.
The restrictions on homosexual propagandizing have attracted much criticism in the West in the run-up to your hosting next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi.
At this Summit, you may run into Canada’s Foreign Minister John Baird. He is an outspoken ultra Zionist and sometimes makes one think he is really the Honourable Member for Tel Aviv, rather than a minister charged with promoting Canada’s interests.
Even though many in the Conservative caucus are strong Christians, the Canadian government has recently become a key promoter of the homosexual agenda. Baird is a preachy pest and may try to bend your ear with criticisms of your country’s law against homosexual propaganda. He’ll tell you pompously how Canada believes in free speech.
I don’t know the Russian words for “hypocrite” and “phony”, but they would certainly fit. After he tells you all about Canada’s commitment to free speech, ask him: “What about Brad Love, Arthur Topham, and Craig Cobb, Mr. Minister? Aren’t they your political prisoners facing prison solely for the non-violent expression of their political or religious views? Don’t you have a ‘hate propaganda’ law that seeks to protect privileged groups from criticism?”
And just to send the canting finger-wagger on his way, you can give him a copy of this “information” laying charges against Craig Cobb under Canada’s notorious “hate law”: “Paul Craig Cobb between the 10th day of January, 2010, and the 18th day of June, 2010, in the Province of British Columbia by communicating statements other than in private conversation did willfully promote hatred against identifiable groups, namely, Jewish people, Black people and non-White people contrary to Sec. 319(2) of the Criminal Code.” 

It’s not even clear, from this information sworn out by Det/Cst. Terry Wilson commissar of the “hate squad” on December 31, 2010,  how or where  Mr. Cobb is supposed to have communicated these alleged statements. He is a dual U.S. and Canadian citizen. He went into political exile in the U.S. to stay beyond the reach of Canada’s thought control police.
So, if John Baird starts any of his free speech is “a core Canadian value” cong and dance, call his bluff and give him the Russian equivalent of a big old horse laugh!

CAFE Accepted As Intervener in McCorkill Case

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                   CAFE Accepted As Intervener in McCorkill Case
St. John, New Brunswick, September 3, 2013. The Canadian Association for Free Expression was granted intervener status by the New Brunswick Court of Queen’s bench. CAFE will be supporting the …Estate of the late Robert McCorkill who left a large legacy to the National Alliance. This legacy has been challenged by McCorkill’s estranged sister Isabelle, who came forward nine years after his death after a U.S. anti-free speech group the Southern Poverty Law Centre of Montgomery, AL sought to prevent the NA from receiving the legacy.

“This is an incredibly crucial case,” says CAFE Director Paul Fromm. “The enemies of free speech, with significant Establishment assistance, are seeking to reach the skeletal fingers of political correctness even into the disposition of a person’s private property.”

Supporting Isabelle McCorkell’s [yes, there’s a spelling difference] motion to negate the legacy are the Attorney General of New Brunswick, the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. All are arguing  that the bequest is contrary to the public good. Photo: CAFE Accepted As Intervener in McCorkill Case St. John, New Brunswick, September 3, 2013. The Canadian Association for Free Expression was granted intervener status by the New Brunswick Court of Queen's bench. CAFE will be supporting the Estate of the late Robert McCorkill who left a large legacy to the National Alliance. This legacy has been challenged by McCorkill's estranged sister Isabelle, who came forward nine years after his death after a U.S. anti-free speech group the Southern Poverty Law Centre of Montgomery, AL sought to prevent the NA from receiving the legacy. "This is an incredibly crucial case," says CAFE Director Paul Fromm. "The enemies of free speech, with significant Establishment assistance, are seeking to reach the skeletal fingers of political correctness even into the disposition of a person's private property." Supporting Isabelle McCorkell's [yes, there's a spelling difference] motion to negate the legacy are the Attorney General of New Brunswick, the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. All are arguing that the bequest is contrary to the public good. Marc-Antoine Chiasson, Isabelle McCorkell's lawyer has said: “Hate speech in Canada is criminally prohibited. Secondly, Canada has signed on to numerous international conventions with the specific goal and aim to get rid of hate speech, hate groups and the financing of hate groups.” We signed on to some poxy agreement preventing donations to groups the biased SPLC says are “hate groups”? " The National Alliance is a perfectly legal group in the U.S." Paul Fromm points out. "The New Brunswick Attorney General is arguing that the bequest is contrary to the public good or public policy. Abortion on demand is the laws of the land. Would a bequest to a pro-life group be ruled contrary to the public good? The implications of this case are frightening!" Interestingly, neither of the parties, the petitioner Isabelle McCorkell or John Hughes lawyer for Fred Streed, executor of the estate, were in Court this morning, CAFE lawyer Andy Lodge reported. Mr. Hughes had written to the Court giving his consent to CAFE's intervention. Lawyers for the other three interveners did attend Court. The New Brunswick Attorney General indicated that he neither consented nor opposed CAFE;s participation. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs indicated it did not oppose CAFE's intervention, but did "want to go on the record as opposing any substantive evidence CAFE might submit and CAFE's arguments." It might be noted that these arguments are still to be filed. ____________________________________________________________ Please Help CAFE Defend Free Speech from Those Who Would Submit Beneficiaries to Some Politically Correct Litmus Test Time is of the essence. The case goes to Court September 10. Our lawyer has had to devote a good deal of time (and our money!) getting up to speed on this case, We are being billed weekly! We anticipate that the intervention could cost up to $20,000. WE NEED YOUR HELP AND, NOT TO BE PUSHY, WE NEED IS QUICKLY! CAFE, Box 332, Rexdale, Ontario, M9W 5L3 __ Here’s my donation of ____to help CAFÉ's autumn programme, including the intervention in the McCorkill legacy case. __ Please renew my subscription for 2013 to the Free Speech Monitor ($15). Please charge ______myVISA#________________________________________________________________ Expiry date: __________ Signature:_______________________________________________________________ Name:____________________________________________________________________________________ Address:__________________________________________________________________________________

Marc-Antoine Chiasson, Isabelle McCorkell’s lawyer has said: “Hate speech in Canada is criminally prohibited. Secondly, Canada has signed on to numerous international conventions with the specific goal and aim to get rid of hate speech, hate groups and the financing of hate groups.” We signed on to some poxy agreement preventing donations to groups the biased SPLC says are “hate groups”?

” The National Alliance is a perfectly legal group in the U.S.” Paul Fromm points out.  “The New Brunswick Attorney General is arguing that the bequest is contrary to the public good or public policy. Abortion on demand is the laws of the land. Would a bequest to a pro-life group be ruled contrary to the public good? The implications of this case are frightening!”

Interestingly, neither of the parties, the petitioner Isabelle McCorkell or John Hughes lawyer for Fred Streed, executor of the estate, were in Court this morning, CAFE lawyer Andy Lodge reported. Mr. Hughes had written to the Court giving his consent to CAFE’s intervention.

Lawyers for the other three interveners did attend Court. The New Brunswick Attorney General indicated that he neither consented nor opposed CAFE;s participation. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs indicated it did not oppose CAFE’s intervention, but did “want to go on the record as opposing any substantive evidence CAFE might submit and CAFE’s arguments.” It might be noted that these arguments are still to be filed.
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Please Help CAFE Defend Free Speech from Those Who Would Submit Beneficiaries to Some Politically Correct Litmus Test

Time is of the essence. The case goes to Court September 10. Our lawyer has had to devote a good deal of time (and our money!) getting up to speed on this case, We are being billed weekly! We anticipate that the intervention could cost up to $20,000. WE NEED YOUR HELP AND, NOT TO BE PUSHY, WE NEED IS QUICKLY!

CAFE, Box 332, Rexdale, Ontario, M9W 5L3
__   Here’s my donation of ____to help CAFÉ’s autumn programme, including  the   intervention in the McCorkill legacy case.
__  Please renew my subscription for 2013 to the Free Speech Monitor ($15).

Please charge ______myVISA#________________________________________________________________

Expiry date: __________ Signature:_______________________________________________________________

Name:____________________________________________________________________________________
Address:__________________________________________________________________________________

CAFE Seeks Intervener Status Today in McCorkill Will Case to Protect Private Property & to Defend Free Speech

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CAFE Seeks Intervener Status Today in McCorkill Will Case to Protect Private Property & to Defend Free Speech

Cause Number: S/M/49/13
…

IN THE COURT OF QUEEN’S BENCH OF NEW BRUNSWICK

TRIAL DIVISION

JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF SAINT JOHN

BETWEEN:

ISABELLE ROSE MCCORKILL,

PLAINTIFF

– and –

FRED GENE STREED, Executor of the ESTATE OF HARRY ROBERT MCCORKILL (a.k.a MCCORKELL), deceased,

DEFENDENT

LEAGUE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS OF B’NAI BRITH CANADA, CENTRE for ISREAL and JEWISH AFFAIRS, the PROVINCE OF NEW BRUNSWICK, as represented by the ATTORNEY GENERAL,

INTERVENORS

THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION,

INTENDED INTERVENOR

Numéro de dossier:

COUR DU BANC DE LA REINE DU NOUVEAU-BRUNSWICK

DIVISION DE PREMIERE INSTANCE

CIRCONSCRIPTION JUDICIAIRE DE

ENTRE:

DEMANDEUR

– et –

DÉFENDEUR

NOTICE OF MOTION
(Form 37A) AVIS DE MOTION

(Formule 37A)

TO:            Marc-Antoine Chiasson

MCINNES COOPER

Blue Cross Centre

644 Main Street, South Tower

Suite 400

P.O. Box 1368

Moncton, N.B.  E1C 8T6

Solicitor for the Applicant,

Isabelle Rose McCorkill

AND TO:  John Hughes

BARRISTER & SOLICTOR

145 Whitfield Trites Road

P.O. Box 29072

Moncton, NB

E1G 4R3

Solicitor for the Respondent,

Fred Gene Street, Executor of the Estate of Harry Robert McCorkill (a.k.a. McCorkell), deceased

AND TO:  Catherine A. Fawcett

LAWSON CREAMER

801-133 Prince William Street

Saint John, N.B.  E2L 2B5

Solicitor for the Intervenor,

League for Human Rights of B’Nai Brith Canada

AND TO:  Danys R. X. Delaquis

CANTY LUTZ DELAQUIS GRANT

43 Broad Street

P.O. Box 6488, Stn A

Saint John, N.B.  E2L 4R9

Solicitor for the Intervenor,

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs

AND TO:  Richard A. Williams

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Legal Services Branch

P.O. Box 6000

Fredericton, N.B.  E1G 4R3

Solicitor for the Intervenor,

Province of New Brunswick, as represented by the Attorney General
DESTINATAIRE:

The Intended Intervenor, the Canadian Association for Free Expression, will apply to the Court at 10 Peel Plaza, Saint John, New Brunswick, on the 3rd day of September, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. for an order that:

The time for service of the within motion be abridged pursuant to Rule 3.02 of the Rules of Court;

That the Canadian Association for Free Expression be added as an intervenor pursuant to Rule 15.02 of the Rules of Court;

In the alternative, that the Canadian Association for Free Expression be granted leave to intervene in the proceedings as a friend of the court for the purpose of rendering assistance to the court pursuant to Rule 15.03 of the Rules of Court; and

Such further and other relief as this Honourable Court deems just.

The grounds to be argued in support of the Motion are:

A hearing was scheduled to take place on July 31st, 2013 before this honourable Court prior to the Canadian Association for Free Expression being able to retain counsel to apply for intervenor status;

The Canadian Association for Free Expression has an interest in the subject matter of these proceedings;

The Canadian Association for Free Expression may be adversely affected by the Court’s decision in the matter;
The granting of intervenor status to the Canadian Association for Free Expression will not unduly delay or prejudice the determination of the rights of the parties;
This matter involves questions of public policy and public interests;
Such further and other grounds as the Canadian Association for Free Expression may argue at or before the proceedings.

The Canadian Association for Free Expression will rely on Rules 1.03(2), 1.08, 3.02, 15.02, 15.03, 7, 39 and 59 of the New Brunswick Rules of Court.
Les défendeurs demanderont à la Cour située à 770, rue Main, Moncton, N.-B, le ________ de _______________, à ________ d’ordonner:

Upon the hearing of the motion the following affidavits or other documentary evidence will be presented:

1. Affidavit of Paul Fromm dated August _____, 2013
À l’audition de la motion, les affidavits ou les autres preuves littérales suivantes seront présentées:

You are advised that:

Sachez que:

(a) you are entitled to issue documents and present at the hearing in English or French or both;
a) vous avez le droit d’émettre des documents et de présenter votre preuve à l’audience en français, en anglais ou dans les deux langues;

(b) the defendant intends to proceed in the English language;
b) les défendeurs ont l’intention d’utiliser la langue française; et

(c) if you intend to proceed in the other official language, an interpreter may be required and you must so advise the clerk at least 5 days before the hearing.
c) si vous avez l’intention d’utiliser l’autre langue officielle, les services d’un interprète pourront être requis et vous devrez en aviser le greffier au moins 5 jours avant l’audience.

DATED at Saint John, NB this ___ day of August, 2013.

____________________________________          Andy W. Lodge

BLR LAW
Solicitors for the Intended Intervenor

The Canadian Association for Free Expression
FAIT à Saint John, N.-B., le _____ jour de _____________ 2007.

BLR LAW

20 Marr Road, Suite 200

P.O. Box 4790

Rothesay, N.B.  E2E 5X5

Telephone:  (506) 848-4444

Facsimile: (506) 848-4445

File No.: 17242-1

Cause Number: S/M/49/13

IN THE COURT OF QUEEN’S BENCH OF NEW BRUNSWICK

TRIAL DIVISION

JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF SAINT JOHN

BETWEEN:

ISABELLE ROSE MCCORKILL,

PLAINTIFF

– and –

FRED GENE STREED, Executor of the ESTATE OF HARRY ROBERT MCCORKILL (a.k.a MCCORKELL), deceased,

DEFENDENT

LEAGUE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS OF B’NAI BRITH CANADA, CENTRE for ISREAL and JEWISH AFFAIRS, the PROVINCE OF NEW BRUNSWICK, as represented by the ATTORNEY GENERAL,

INTERVENORS

THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION,

INTENDED INTERVENOR

Numéro de dossier:

COUR DU BANC DE LA REINE DU NOUVEAU-BRUNSWICK

DIVISION DE PREMIERE INSTANCE

CIRCONSCRIPTION JUDICIAIRE DE

ENTRE:

DEMANDEUR

– et –

DÉFENDEUR

NOTICE OF MOTION
(Form 37A) AVIS DE MOTION

(Formule 37A)

TO:            Marc-Antoine Chiasson

MCINNES COOPER

Blue Cross Centre

644 Main Street, South Tower

Suite 400

P.O. Box 1368

Moncton, N.B.  E1C 8T6

Solicitor for the Applicant,

Isabelle Rose McCorkill

AND TO:  John Hughes

BARRISTER & SOLICTOR

145 Whitfield Trites Road

P.O. Box 29072

Moncton, NB

E1G 4R3

Solicitor for the Respondent,

Fred Gene Street, Executor of the Estate of Harry Robert McCorkill (a.k.a. McCorkell), deceased

AND TO:  Catherine A. Fawcett

LAWSON CREAMER

801-133 Prince William Street

Saint John, N.B.  E2L 2B5

Solicitor for the Intervenor,

League for Human Rights of B’Nai Brith Canada

AND TO:  Danys R. X. Delaquis

CANTY LUTZ DELAQUIS GRANT

43 Broad Street

P.O. Box 6488, Stn A

Saint John, N.B.  E2L 4R9

Solicitor for the Intervenor,

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs

AND TO:  Richard A. Williams

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Legal Services Branch

P.O. Box 6000

Fredericton, N.B.  E1G 4R3

Solicitor for the Intervenor,

Province of New Brunswick, as represented by the Attorney General
DESTINATAIRE:

The Intended Intervenor, the Canadian Association for Free Expression, will apply to the Court at 10 Peel Plaza, Saint John, New Brunswick, on the 3rd day of September, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. for an order that:

The time for service of the within motion be abridged pursuant to Rule 3.02 of the Rules of Court;

That the Canadian Association for Free Expression be added as an intervenor pursuant to Rule 15.02 of the Rules of Court;

In the alternative, that the Canadian Association for Free Expression be granted leave to intervene in the proceedings as a friend of the court for the purpose of rendering assistance to the court pursuant to Rule 15.03 of the Rules of Court; and

Such further and other relief as this Honourable Court deems just.

The grounds to be argued in support of the Motion are:

A hearing was scheduled to take place on July 31st, 2013 before this honourable Court prior to the Canadian Association for Free Expression being able to retain counsel to apply for intervenor status;

The Canadian Association for Free Expression has an interest in the subject matter of these proceedings;

The Canadian Association for Free Expression may be adversely affected by the Court’s decision in the matter;
The granting of intervenor status to the Canadian Association for Free Expression will not unduly delay or prejudice the determination of the rights of the parties;
This matter involves questions of public policy and public interests;
Such further and other grounds as the Canadian Association for Free Expression may argue at or before the proceedings.

The Canadian Association for Free Expression will rely on Rules 1.03(2), 1.08, 3.02, 15.02, 15.03, 7, 39 and 59 of the New Brunswick Rules of Court.
Les défendeurs demanderont à la Cour située à 770, rue Main, Moncton, N.-B, le ________ de _______________, à ________ d’ordonner:

Upon the hearing of the motion the following affidavits or other documentary evidence will be presented:

1. Affidavit of Paul Fromm dated August _____, 2013
À l’audition de la motion, les affidavits ou les autres preuves littérales suivantes seront présentées:

You are advised that:

Sachez que:

(a) you are entitled to issue documents and present at the hearing in English or French or both;
a) vous avez le droit d’émettre des documents et de présenter votre preuve à l’audience en français, en anglais ou dans les deux langues;

(b) the defendant intends to proceed in the English language;
b) les défendeurs ont l’intention d’utiliser la langue française; et

(c) if you intend to proceed in the other official language, an interpreter may be required and you must so advise the clerk at least 5 days before the hearing.
c) si vous avez l’intention d’utiliser l’autre langue officielle, les services d’un interprète pourront être requis et vous devrez en aviser le greffier au moins 5 jours avant l’audience.

DATED at Saint John, NB this ___ day of August, 2013.

____________________________________          Andy W. Lodge

BLR LAW
Solicitors for the Intended Intervenor

The Canadian Association for Free Expression
FAIT à Saint John, N.-B., le _____ jour de _____________ 2007.

BLR LAW

20 Marr Road, Suite 200

P.O. Box 4790

Rothesay, N.B.  E2E 5X5

Telephone:  (506) 848-4444

Facsimile: (506) 848-4445

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