“It Ain’t Over”Freedom activists are critical thinkers!
Our society is so dumbed down and indoctrinated that anyone who is a critical thinker is labeled as a Conspiracy Theorist
Did you know: The term ‘conspiracy theorist’ was first coined and used by the CIA to ridicule anyone who opposed the gov’t narrative?
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Kelowna Courts
Falsified assault charge
Kelowna Courthouse
R v David Lindsay s. 266 Criminal Code Assault
Next Provincial Court Hearing Date:
August 9, 2024
2:00 p.m.
Thank you for all your support and belief for freedom!!
Remember the Freedom Principle:
An attack against one is an attack against all.
An attack against all, is an attack against one.
Update on July 10, hearing
I would again very much like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to everyone for all your kind support over the past week, and even ongoing. The amount of support was really overwhelming.
I appeared in court last week and this new date of August 9, 2024 was set for hearing of the sentencing judgment.
Next Supreme Court Appeal
Hearing Date:
September 9, 2024 — 10:00 a.m.
Notice of Conviction Appeal
Hearing
This hearing date was set on Monday, July 22. It was once again set over to Sept. 9 to set the agenda for the hearing of the appeal from the conviction and sentence of J. Heinrichs.
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City of Kelowna v David Lindsay et al
Petition to Stop Rallies
Week of September 3, 2024 10:00 a.m.
1355 Water St.
Kelowna Courthouse
for hearing on my SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) application to strike the City’s Petition against us. (See the B.C. Protection of Public Participation Act)
We had one day before the Hon. Justice Hardwick. The remaining two days were canceled apparently due to the judge either being ill or otherwise not available to appear.
There has now been a further three days set aside during the week of Sept. 3, 2024 for the continuation of this hearing. I will be notified on the Friday, Aug. 30, 2024 of what days this will be. Considering that Monday, Sept. 2 is Labour Day, it appears we will be heard starting Tuesday or Wednesday of that week.
Our documents in this case are located on our website at:
Please remember other innocent people who have stood up for our rights and freedoms against our tyrannical governments during COVID-19 and to the present, who are now in the midst of their ongoing, oppressive trials:
Tamara Lich
Chris Barber
The Coutts prisoners: Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert
Pat King
and many other real victims.
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And a big thank you to Tanya for all her hard work and dedication and support for the Christian principles that founded our nation!
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CLEARBITS:
Lawrence Greenspon,
the same lawyer representing Tamara Lich in the prosecution against her, is now also representing Ottawa Councillor Matthew Luloff, who viciously opposed the convoy and issued repeated pejorative name calling against us, in charges against him of impaired driving. I would think morals would dictate that you would not be helping an enemy in another case you are involved in. But this is why lawyers have such an ongoing bad name.
Former Pfizer VP: Why evidence is lacking for the existence of COVID-19 ‘virus’ or any other
Joining his voice with many other scientists, Dr. Michael Yeadon argues that not only does the COVID-19 virus not exist, neither do viruses in general, which means there was no pandemic but instead a coordinated ‘long planned attack’ upon civilians.
Our society is so dumbed down and indoctrinated that anyone who is a critical thinker is labeled as a Conspiracy Theorist
Did you know: The term ‘conspiracy theorist’ was first coined and used by the CIA to ridicule anyone who opposed the gov’t narrative?
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Kelowna Courts
Falsified assault charge
Kelowna Courthouse
R v David Lindsay s. 266 Criminal Code Assault
Next Provincial Court Hearing Date:
June 13, 2024 9:30 a.m.
Courtroom #9
Sentencing Hearing, Con’t
July 10, 2024 – Sentencing Decision 9:30 a.m.
Thank you for all your support and belief for freedom!!
Remember the Freedom Principle:
An attack against one is an attack against all.
An attack against all, is an attack against one.
Next Supreme Court Appeal Hearing Date:
July 22, 2024 — 10:00 a.m.
Notice of Conviction Appeal Hearing
This hearing date will be to set the agenda for the hearing of the appeal from the conviction of J. Heinrichs.
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City of Kelowna v David Lindsay et al
Petition to Stop Rallies
Next hearing date – The week of June 17, 2024
for hearing on my SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) application to strike the City’s Petition against us. (See the B.C. Protection of Public Participation Act)
Please remember other innocent people who have stood up for our rights and freedoms against our tyrannical governments during COVID-19 and to the present, who are now in the midst of their ongoing, oppressive trials:
Tamara Lich
Chris Barber
The Coutts prisoners: Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert
Pat King
and many other real victims.
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Empower Hour
Every Wednesday Action4Canada hosts the Empower Hour, an online zoom meeting open to everyone. We have a special guest each week, who will educate, inform and answer your burning questions. Also, watch the Weekly Updates HERE.
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Sunday at 10:30 am
June 16, 2024
Sign-up on the Newspaper Delivery list so that you get an email confirming the deliveries for each Sunday. With winter in mind, we will only do this if roads are bare and it’s not snowing. The advantage of delivering this time of year is that nobody is hanging out in their front yards except for the odd snowman.
We meet at the Capri parking lot between A&W and De Dutch Pannekoek House
Bring a large bag for carrying the papers if you want
Grab a free small Kelowna mapbook that can help you get situated. Your cell phone will be tracking and tracing you. Learn how to read maps again
You will be provided with a printed google map of the area you will be delivering to. Bring a yellow marker to indicate which streets you completed. You may run out of papers or you may end up with extra
We ask that with every paper you deliver, you remove the inserts and place them in the mailbox in front or behind the paper. That way, someone who may hastily throw out the paper will still be forced to see each individual flyer
Please deliver only one paper per mailbox, regardless if you have different papers (we usually have a combination of different papers and editions). Some houses may have up to 4 mailboxes; put one paper in each as they are for different tenant
Make sure you arrive before the designated time so we can all get going ASAP!Add your name to the delivery list and make sure to check your email on Sunday mornings for confirmation that our paper delivery will take place that day
Sunday at 10:30 am
June 16, 2024
Sign-up on the Newspaper Delivery list so that you get an email confirming the deliveries for each Sunday. With winter in mind, we will only do this if roads are bare and it’s not snowing. The advantage of delivering this time of year is that nobody is hanging out in their front yards except for the odd snowman.
We meet at the Capri parking lot between A&W and De Dutch Pannekoek House
Bring a large bag for carrying the papers if you want
Grab a free small Kelowna mapbook that can help you get situated. Your cell phone will be tracking and tracing you. Learn how to read maps again
You will be provided with a printed google map of the area you will be delivering to. Bring a yellow marker to indicate which streets you completed. You may run out of papers or you may end up with extra
We ask that with every paper you deliver, you remove the inserts and place them in the mailbox in front or behind the paper. That way, someone who may hastily throw out the paper will still be forced to see each individual flyer
Please deliver only one paper per mailbox, regardless if you have different papers (we usually have a combination of different papers and editions). Some houses may have up to 4 mailboxes; put one paper in each as they are for different tenants
Sign up as a Volunteer to participate in one of the many focus groups we are working to organize. Most people are too busy to commit to fighting for freedom. I guarantee you will have plenty of extra time after Canada becomes a full-fledged communist country and your jobs & businesses are gone. Time to add freedom-fighting to your list of priorities. Much of the help needed can be done at home and even one hour per week will be helpful. Even if you don’t want to join a specific group, maybe you have something you can offer to help out. Let us know!
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Our society is so dumbed down and indoctrinated that anyone who is a critical thinker is labeled as a Conspiracy Theorist
Did you know: The term ‘conspiracy theorist’ was first coined and used by the CIA to ridicule anyone who opposed the gov’t narrative?
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
By now, almost everyone is aware of the recent Federal Court judgment in our favour on the Emergencies Act orders from the Trudeau Gov’t. This is likely being appealed but that doesn’t stop the fact that this decision is presently lawful and binding. I hope to chat more on this in our next newsletter having just finished reading it yesterday.
Pursuant to s. 6-8 of the B.C. Limitations Act, you have two (2) years from the date that you discovered (or reasonably ought to have known) the injury, loss or damage from the Federal Gov’t in relation to its actions to freeze bank accounts and other actions in relation to the Emergencies Act orders.
This limitation is likely to apply on Feb. 14, 2024 – in two weeks. If your bank account was frozen or if you suffered damages, injury or loss, you need to look at getting your claim filed in the next two weeks. You may wish to possibly check to see who is required to be named on any such claim and the reasons for your claim, ie: torts, alleged to have been committed.
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Saturday, February 3, 2024
Kelowna Freedom Rally
Stuart Part, Kelowna 12:00 Noon
It is important to remember that bail is a common law and Constitutional right in Canada (s. 11(e) Charter: not to be denied reasonable bail without just cause.) Bail can only be denied pursuant to s. 515 of the Criminal Code on extensive grounds. People are released on murder charges, sexual assaults, and many other horrific crimes regularly across Canada – including many who have extensive criminal records. Many of these alleged offenders go out to commit other offences while on bail, constituting a large ‘catch and release’ program in Canada.
These four innocent men, having no criminal records, were alleged to have committed various offences under the Criminal Code. There were no victims involved. Everything is alleged only. They are presumed innocent until their trial at the end of May, 2024, by judge and jury. Keeping them in remand jail for two years is an injustice. They are only several of many people who have been criminally charged and have likely done nothing wrong except expose the Government’s COVID-19 tyranny upon us.
Judge Johnna Kubic, a Trudeau appointed judge has denied bail three times to Chris Carbert, and who it is claimed has donated to the Liberal Party 26 times!
The Crown is really opposing their release on political grounds only, ie: that these people opposed the COVID-19 unconstitutional lockdowns and restrictions, and are being punished to frighten off others from opposing further unconstitutional government restrictions on our rights and freedoms. There is no such recognized basis for denial of bail nor Crown opposition to bail being granted, on this basis.
In this case, the Crown has, improperly and in abuse of its powers, made the procedure to be the punishment, or large part of it, more so as these innocent prisoners are being held in various remand centres, which are notoriously known for their inhospitable environments, such that many innocent accused frequently plead guilty to avoid time spent in remand centres awaiting trials.
Note, that the RCMP were the first organized police force in the world to use agent provocateur tactics as far back as the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike. They continue to use such tactics today.
They need our support.
Join us Feb. 15 at the Kelowna Courthouse, Vernon Courthouse and Penticton Courthouse, for rallies starting at 9:00 a.m., for the morning. We will have brochures to hand out to people. Please feel free to make your own signs as well.
From Darren in Vernon:
Feb paper is a real doozy!
– Front page sneak peek below – End of month fundraising campaign – Let’s get Canada talking about the Coutts Boys
Just 36 hours left
Druthers needs to raise $10,000 in the next day and a half. We just sent the February paper off to print and we aim to print at least 200,000 copies. Anything you can do to help is greatly appreciated and your contributions are wisely and efficiently used to print more papers and wake up more Canadians.
Or etransfer your contribution to admin@druthers.net and we will manually add it to the fundraiser.
Sneak Peek
Have a peek at the front page. The Coutts Four! It’s time to get Canada aware of this situation and apply some pressure to get these political prisoners set free. Sitting in remand for 2 years without a trial is so wrong. Please help us print as many as we can of this important issue of Druthers.
This is one of my favorite papers so far. There is so much important news and information in these pages this month, I hope we raise enough to print 300,000 copies or more!
Special Note: All donations dropped into the Druthers can at the Vernon rallies over the last three years goes directly and entirely to Druthers, averaging in between $150 to $200 per month. Thank you to everyone who donates at the Vernon rallies. Keep up the flow of donations for this worthy cause!
Next Provincial Court Hearing Date: April 12, 2024 – Sentencing
I will provide more specifics and updates in the coming weeks. Not much happening until then, except the Crown Persecutor, David Grabavac, wants two years in jail, three years probation, a firearms weapons ban, and a DNA sample. Unbelievable. From those who have seen the video, this is nothing more than political harassment and intimidation by Mr. Grabavac who is abusing his powers and should be removed from the office of a Crown Prosecutor immediately.
Next Supreme Court Hearing Date: April 22, 2024
Notice of Conviction Appeal
In the B.C. Supreme Court today, Jan. 29, 2024, I appeared before Justice Weatherill. I was ordered to file my Constitutional Challenge to the payment of transcripts fees and serve them on the AG of Canada and BC, by April 5, 2024. Next hearing date is simply to see how to proceed with the appeal after that.,
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City of Kelowna v David Lindsay et al
Petition to Stop Rallies
Next hearing date – The week of Feb. 20, 2024
for hearing on my SLAPP application to strike the City’s Petition against us. The schedulers will call me on the Friday before this week to confirm the exact dates at which time we will let everyone know as well.
Two weeks ago, I cross examined City of Kelowna Bylaw Supervisor Kevin Mead on his affidavit in this case. The transcripts are currently being prepared and will be posted on our website as soon as they are done, hopefully in two weeks.
My documents in this case are located on our website at:
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Join us for an online zoom meeting open to everyone. We have a special guest each week, who will educate, inform and answer your burning questions.
Add your name to the delivery list and make sure to check your email on Sunday mornings for confirmation that our paper delivery will take place that day
Make sure you arrive before the designated time so we can all get going ASAP!
Every Sunday at 11:30 am
Feb 4, 2024
Sign-up on the Newspaper Delivery list so that you get an email confirming the deliveries for each Sunday. With winter in mind, we will only do this if roads are bare and it’s not snowing. The advantage of delivering this time of year is that nobody is hanging out in their front yards except for the odd snowman.
We meet at the Capri parking lot between A&W and De Dutch Pannekoek House
Bring a large bag for carrying the papers if you want
Grab a free small Kelowna mapbook that can help you get situated. Your cell phone will be tracking and tracing you. Learn how to read maps again
You will be provided with a printed google map of the area you will be delivering to. Bring a yellow marker to indicate which streets you completed. You may run out of papers or you may end up with extra
We ask that with every paper you deliver, you remove the inserts and place them in the mailbox in front or behind the paper. That way, someone who may hastily throw out the paper will still be forced to see each individual flyer
Please deliver only one paper per mailbox, regardless if you have different papers (we usually have a combination of different papers and editions). Some houses may have up to 4 mailboxes; put one paper in each as they are for different tenants
Sign up as a Volunteer to participate in one of the many focus groups we are working to organize. Most people are too busy to commit to fighting for freedom. I guarantee you will have plenty of extra time after Canada becomes a full-fledged communist country and your jobs & businesses are gone. Time to add freedom-fighting to your list of priorities. Much of the help needed can be done at home and even one hour per week will be helpful. Even if you don’t want to join a specific group, maybe you have something you can offer to help out. Let us know!
3 Simple Things Freedom Activists can do to WIN this War:
Spread the Word by delivering papers and flyers everywhere:
1 Knowledge is power!
2. Replace your cell phone with a flip phone:
Think of your apps as TRAPS!
3. Use CASH:
Hand out the “Use cash cards” and “pay cash” business posters
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REMINDER
New Credit Card Fees & Lack of Privacy
It is starting – Use cash as much as possible – use credit cards or digital only if there is no other alternative.
Companies will not use digital currency if we are not using digital currency! It will cost them too much in lost business.
Here is an awesome poster you can distribute to all businesses to put on their entrance doors, advocating for the use of cash. Print on 8 1/2 x 11 glossy hard stock for best results.
The dangers of digital gov’t ID and currencies are here… you need to use cash as much as possible. As recognized by Freedom Rising, there are many inherent dangers of using digital currency. What do you do, not if, but when:
The internet is down
There is a power outage
The card reader malfunctions
Your phone battery dies or doesn’t work for other reasons
WE SUGGEST YOU CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING AS WELL:
Your phone is stolen
Your passwords are co-opted
Your credit/debit card strip is damaged – needs replacing
There are errors in relation to the quantum of $$ on your card
Gov’t limits your purchases/CRA liens the balance on your card
AND MANY OTHER DANGERS
CLEAR has promoted the non-use of digital currencies and credit/debit cards as much as possible, for years.
Suggestion:
Withdraw money on Saturday/Sunday from the bank or bank machine, and then leave your money at home if you are scared to carry it with you, and just carry the amounts of cash for each day’s purchases for the week.
NO MORE CARDS!!!! NO EXCUSES!
USE CASH $$$$$$$$$
Do you want to be the next person to be “unbanked” because of your political beliefs????
Get these cards below at the CLEAR booth to give out everytime you use cash – or print your own to hand out!
Make Business sized cards to hand out at all your cash purchases!
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Thanks Nadia for this link:
Find out which institutions near you Support Digital ID
The Digital ID System is being supported by a rapidly growing number of provincial and federal governments, financial institutions, networks for payments and for identity verification, technology service providers, strategy and integration experts to name a few…
This is a long read. Worth it, for those who were paying attention to the law-fare during the COVID episode. It took years for the God damned traitors, to put in place the elements of their SCAMdemic. It will take years for us to pick up the pieces
What comes across to me in this well written critique by Kip Warner, is : Tanya Gaw was a babe-in-the-woods, who got ‘eaten alive’ by the lawyer Rocco Galati. Mr Galati is one of those referred-to in the Bible, as being “sent to wear out the saints” And he sure did. No ordinary person could have done this much damage to the Freedom Movement. The devastation he wreaked took a special kind of talent. https://www.covidconstitutionalchallengebc.ca/galati-defamation-dismissal-opinion Gordon Watson
18 January, 2024: A Brief History of BC’s Anti-Lockdown Movement: The Rise and Fall of Rocco Galati and His Claim of $1.1M Against CSASPP
Friends,
I have some wonderful news. We would like to bring to your attention another recent victory and our opinions on it.
Let me begin with a few housekeeping matters. If you wish to share this or any other publication of ours with your peers, and you are by all means welcome to do so, we encourage sharing a direct link to this page. Otherwise when copying and pasting you might accidentally remove formatting and references.
Today’s update is inevitably going to cause as much intrigue and celebration as it might be cause for scandal. Not our own, but for a small minority who may have gone to great lengths for several years to intentionally undermine the advocacy work we undertook on your behalf.
We are not referring to your government. It actually has, generally speaking, behaved better both inside and outside the courtroom than the subjects of this update.
The background context extends over several years, with a length perhaps better expected of a Seymour Hersh article. It certainly could have been shorter if we had provided you previously with intermittent updates. You might be wondering then why you are only coming to learn about what follows now, given our tradition of transparency. I made the call. It was not an easy decision to make, but I think most will understand.
We predicted that any attempt to provide prior disclosure would have been met with the other side seeking refuge behind the comfort that the court was yet to adjudicate, and therefore their vindication was pending.
Secondarily, we believed their likely efforts to undermine us were intended to be a red herring. Even a cursory review of our status updates over the last several years makes it clear they failed to prevent us from delivering results regardless. Suffice it to say, their plan did not work out the way they may have intended.
Many of you already know where this is going and have suspected for a long time. The awkward conversations that quietly took place in private circles across the country for several years now, in our view, are ready to move further into the sunlight.
I will begin where I often have, with a little history.
The Blitz
In 1941, during The Blitz, London was being pounded by Luftwaffe aerial bombardment. The period was an especially chaotic time for the people of England. Profound hardships at a scale endured by civilian populations are difficult to fathom today. Historians recall virtuous tales of neighbours helping neighbours between air raid sirens, clearing away rubble, tending to the wounded, and eventually helping each other rebuild.
Conflict, in particular war of all kinds, historically brought out the very best and the very worst examples of human behaviour. A less well-known fact was that crime, not exclusively organized, actually proliferated during The Blitz. The unfortunate reality was that many Londoners were quite content to clear out their neighbour’s silverware whenever the opportunity presented itself.
Bandits would blend in with the rest of the population during the chaos, garbing themselves in civil defense uniforms. They moved about among the unsuspecting while looting with impunity. It was a golden period for criminals. Wally Thompson, reflecting on his own participation, said that it was “the best ally London’s crooks ever had.”
Obviously not everyone was compounding the living hell. But the ones who did flourished within the collective pandemonium. With urban centres in ruins people were less likely to pay attention to certain activities going on in broad daylight.
Grassroots crime enabled by chaos is a pattern that has repeated itself in many other events, manmade and natural. The looting that took place in the streets of Port-au-Prince in Haiti in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake was another.
The Post-Mortem Era
The majority of the COVID-19-related mandates have been rescinded. The Freedom Convoy of early 2022 has long dispersed. The general hysterics that swept across the country from social media to provincial and federal privy councils have found relative calm.
As the dust settles we now journey into the post-mortem era where the time for sober analysis on what exactly happened over the last several years has become an area of great interest for many Canadians. To that end we hope post-certification discovery in our proposed class proceeding will further that.
But in the meantime the belligerents on both sides of the conflict have already begun to learn obnoxious truths. Despite the exoneration of our Prime Minister’s 14 February, 2022, invocation of the Emergencies Act, the conspiracy theorists within his progressive segregationist cabinet were nevertheless forced to reconcile a number of inconvenient revelations of the Rouleau inquiry.
There was no smoking gun. It was not interesting. The Russians had to sit this one out.
Then there was the issue of what happened to all the money we spent implementing the mandates. It was not looking good, even for those who still believed we needed them.
Testimony before Parliament was damning. We wrote off over $54 million on sole sourced contracts to develop ArriveCAN to keep grandma safe. A mobile application assembled from mostly free off-the-shelf components, it did not push the envelope in innovation. Time will tell whether the federal police and the auditor general’s investigations bear fruit.
On the other side, the John Birchers that had come to dominate – at least by decibel – the protest movement had their own reckoning as they struggled to reconcile an intransient narrative with the dearth of evidence that failed to emerge of a monolithic Sino-Communist conspiracy. The supposed Marxists were the usual suspects, predominantly balding American corporate executives focused on their next quarterly projections.
Any review of the merchant’s unbridled profit motive in the social design of their much romanticized aspirational model state, the great American republic, would remain politically incorrect and firmly denounced with claims of Communism.
With the Berlin Wall gone since 1989, and with that the former Soviet Union, the Fox News crowd’s desperate attempt to find the next best substitute, which just happens to counter American hegemony in the world, failed. Sadly Red China had to sit this one out too.
But the preferred narratives were not all that fell apart. So did many of the relationships. With juvenile demarcations drawn in the sand between activists, there was constant infighting and conflicts of interest. The label of “controlled op” was liberally applied whenever there was disagreement on even the most trivial of issues.
The Messiah
With the post-rally hangover set in, the music set over, the A/V equipment packed up, and some of the party guests unable or unwilling to recall the salient details, there still remained the outstanding question of what happened to all the money we spent on the organizers and their ventures.
During our lockdown there was a proliferation of activists that appeared on the scene in 2020 onwards, mostly from obscurity. Many of us remember passionate speeches on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery and elsewhere. Millions were desperate for hope and change across the country.
We were reminded that when people are afraid they are prepared to make concessions they might otherwise not have been willing to make in an unencumbered state.
But help arrived. Like manna from heaven, Toronto-based lawyer Rocco Galati made his debut in the lockdown dissident scene’s onset in 2020. With a reputation that preceded him, revered as a messianic figure by his patrons, he would be their saviour. Evangelized by some as no less than our nation’s top constitutional lawyer, he was the Second Coming.
Tough talking, heavy hitting, and ready to come out swinging, Galati was crass and had every right to be. He had the street credentials and was always eager to remind us.
He had brought a notorious claim everyone vaguely remembers when prompted with his name against the Bank of Canada – arguably the most important financial institution in our country. It was highly publicized, earning him a 2015 televised interview with the CBC’s Amanda Lang. “A kind of legal David known for tangling with Goliath sized courtroom opponents,” she prefaced the segment.
The previous year in 2014 Galati earned his crowning achievement in disqualifying Prime Minister Harper’s appointment of Justice Nadon to the Supreme Court of Canada, the nation’s highest court. He did so on the grounds that Nadon was constitutionally ineligible to sit as a judge. “Most people don’t understand the seismic importance of that decision,” he told Lang.
The protesters had found their man. There was a wave of hysterical euphoria. He was ready to execute. He just needed the financing.
Surrey-based Tanya Gaw was ready to meet that calling. God fearing, she had — by her own analysis — been provided with a divine mandate from the Almighty, a claim she would repeat. As time moved on it would subsequently expand to meet all of society’s woes, or at least as she understood them. The scimitar-swinging Mohammedan, the sin of Sodom in our public schools, and the John Birch Society’s understanding of atmospheric physics would eventually find their way into her campaign portfolio.
Granted, there were a few obscure naysayers. Admittedly I had my own musings, but she was adamant the critics just wanted to crash the party.
Who had time to dive into the minutia anyways? Humanity was confronted with an existential threat. Even progress understandably had a price tag.
The Franchise
Various Galati marketing arms, affiliates, clients, franchises, subsidiaries, choose your nomenclature, rapidly began to emerge across the country. A few others already operational were repurposed to provide financial and logistical support to their new focus.
But two of the most prominent Galati supporters were British Columbia’s Action4Canada, Gaw being its principal. The other was Ontario-based Vaccine Choice Canada, the principal being Kelowna-based Ted Kuntz. These two organizations and their principals were instrumental in financing and promoting Galati’s nationally distributed ventures. Both would eventually commence similar mandate-related suits with Galati’s assistance in their own respective provinces.
Based on our research Galati’s total mandate-derived revenue has a conservative and unsubstantiated estimate of, at a minimum, a little over $1M. The evidence we have reviewed is strongly suggestive of at least $3.8M that we were able to trace, but there are some estimates as high as $10M.
The amounts sought from Galati for some of his cases ranged anywhere from $400,000 to $1,000,000. On occasion, based on fundraising requests, he would seek additional funds from the same clients for appeals.
On 2 September, 2020, Galati was featured in a lengthy interview with an influential Canadian alt-right tabloid where the VCC venture’s prospectus was lauded by entertainer Ezra Levant. When asked on timing for execution Galati pledged to do his best to apply for an initial injunction before Christmas 2020 on behalf of his client. VCC would challenge a City of Toronto mask mandate, or at least something to that effect before the conversation needed to move on.
Several days later on 16 September, 2020, Action4Canada enjoyed a spontaneous fundraiser on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery to support Gaw’s parallel venture. Her emotive rhetoric and theological references, reminiscent perhaps of a slightly less polished, but just as passionate Benny Hinn, had the blue, mostly blue, and white collar throng pouring seemingly endless cash into an open cardboard box in the town square in response to her call for a litigation jihad to be waged against the government.
There did not appear to be any accounting as deposits were made, nor for that matter the issuance of any receipts. The Horn of Cornucopia had been generous that day and there was no going back. The villagers were ready to mobilize under their new shepherd.
Former Gaw loyalists candidly described her following as parochial who all followed a similar ideology. Admittedly I had my own musings again when I saw a campaign that appeared to be more heat than light. But that was her business and not ours.
Meanwhile, over in Ontario, VCC did not apply for that much anticipated injunction. There had been no need. When confronted by critics Galati, Gaw, and Kuntz would allay their concerns. Galati’s clout and his filing of 6 June, 2020, had been a sufficient deterrent. He had succeeded in intimidating the city into rescinding its mask mandate without ever having to step foot in a Toronto courtroom.
The city passed a motion to rescind the mandate on 9 March, 2022, with 26 of the 28 councilors voting for it. They neglected to cite Galati with the credit he apparently deserved.
According to Galati on 13 July, 2022, the filing merely needed to be a “shot across the bow.” A win had been obtained without needing the courtroom. By 26 May, 2023, Gaw still maintained that “by filing, the mask mandates in Ontario were lifted unbeknownst to the public.”
Galati’s followers were by no means bad people. One of his patrons enthusiastically shared with her peers on social media on 21 February, 2021, the news that Galati had apparently succeeded in altering an unspecified federal law that sought to mandate injections. The post gained traction in countries around the world.
Few had any interest in checking sources, a pattern that would repeat itself among his greatest devotees. Faith was enough. Many of his clients would continue to enjoy an influx of donor revenue for a period of time.
Frequently Unanswered Questions
But as time moved on and the money continued to pour into Kuntz and Gaws’ coffers, some donors became uneasy that Gaw’s proposed litigation she had sold them on was still yet to materialize in British Columbia. One donor grieved to her on 22 June, 2021, that there was “a growing number of people who are feeling very disgruntled over (…) Rocco ‘the gangster’ Galatti [sic]. He seems to be holding our donations hostage until he receives his full amount.” The same donor compared Gaw’s venture to ours which he claimed was “actually moving forward for far less money.”
Her critics were becoming increasingly vocal on social media.
A recurring question Gaw was confronted with was how much had actually been raised. Rumours were plentiful, but the reality was nobody really knew. Gaw responded on social media that she was unable to provide an answer because “donors are protected under the privacy act and it would be a violation for me to make that publicly available.”
Perhaps she misunderstood their question. The critics were not asking for the identity of the donors, but simply the amount raised and what became of it. With merely a handwave, Gaw rewrote the legislation governing personal information held by government institutions to now extend itself to her nonprofit’s disclosure obligations.
Her finances remained opaque. Internally Gaw and Galati had come to a private agreement. He would not bill hourly. Instead, Gaw agreed to a flat fee retainer of $400,000 to provide his services to Action4Canada. She later confirmed she paid Galati’s firm $200,000 by the end of 2020 and with the remaining $200,000 settled on 29 April, 2022. Galati also confirmed a flat fee arrangement.
Well before Galati began drafting for Gaw in January 2021 his self-valuation of $400,000 already had precedent. According to two previous disgruntled clients who retained him in March of 2017 seeking to have his bill taxed (reviewed) by the court, Galati’s invoice listed his fax machine’s usage at the rate of $2 per page for 492 of them. That was in addition to the $400,000 retainer.
When his then rate of $700 an hour was applied to the time he claimed he spent on the clients’ file, by his own math, he conceded that the flat fee retainer was a 40% increase above the actual time he claimed. That was an inflation of $158,850. The invoice was carefully annotated with a disclaimer that it might not be accurate.
A flat fee retainer arrangement with Gaw ensured there was no need for Galati to be burdened with the hazards of trust account management imposed by his regulator that were intended to protect the public. A flat fee retainer was the way to go.
In his defence he might not have known that the law still required him to track actual time regardless. Sometimes judges tax legal bills at the request of their clients to validate their legitimacy. When that happens they need to know the actual time spent. He may have his memory refreshed in the future.
Despite the $400,000 retainer disclosure which leaked on 23 March, 2023, Gaw continued to insist on Manhattan Project level sensitivity regarding the figure — even months after it had already leaked. Her own records noted she had $239,788 in cash as of 15 August, 2021, and $415,928 by 15 August, 2022. Within that same period she had raised $790,446 in donations.
At the time, however, the lack of visibility into her nonprofit’s finances was not simply external. Those in Gaw’s inner circle were not privy to her books either. That included her own bookkeeper who we were advised subsequently resigned in protest. No one was getting anywhere near the Ark of the Covenant.
But she had another card up her sleeve that was more persuasive than the Privacy Act. It almost made sense. Galati had provided her with the sagely advice that her proposed government defendants might use the knowledge of what was available in her war chest to convince the court it was insufficient to indemnify them, even partially, for whatever the court thought they were entitled to if her numerous individually named plaintiffs eventually lost under the rules.
That might have created procedural obstacles to prevent her litigation from ever getting out of the gate if she was ordered to post security for costs. That is, a deposit held by the court similar to a bond, pending the outcome of the suit.
In order to convince donors of this danger she needed to rewrite more than a century’s worth of case law. Up until that time it had been clear that no individually named plaintiff, regardless of their limited means, would have been ordered to post security. Lord Bowen declared in 1885 that “the general rule is that poverty is no bar to a litigant, that, from time immemorial has been the rule”.
Her critics were still not satisfied. They suspected the real reason had nothing to do with security for costs, but that public disclosure would raise eyebrows undermining an already fragile public confidence.
She was clearly happy with Galati. From our position that was her choice and CSASPP never sought to counsel her otherwise.
Due Diligence
But early in our own campaign Galati’s name had come up in selecting one of many service providers among the many job interviews we conducted. We performed an extensive internal due diligence on the quality of Galati’s services, including case law. This is when the research began to depart from the carefully curated image.
With respect to his fees the Federal Court provided some insight. In 2014 a judge characterized his billings as excessive and unwarranted.
But his crowning achievement, the Nadon challenge, surely he would not be deprived of. It was heralded by his fans and cited prominently amongst his publications for years.
There was just one problem. He lost, despite having taken credit for it. This had already been well known for years in the legal community.
But it did not end there. The heavily publicized Bank of Canada challenge was also quietly struck without leave to amend. He brought an appeal. That too was dismissed with costs.
Institutionalized Vanity
Why did the donors not know? But there might have been several very reasonable explanations. Galati, or someone on his behalf, appeared to have gone to some effort over the years to sterilize his brand image on places like Wikipedia, one of the world’s most popular websites accessed daily by millions.
But there is another far less understood reason. It is quite subtle and you will not find it in any legal textbook or academic paper.
As in any domain consulting with an expert can be a wise idea for a layperson considering any kind of investment. If you are contemplating purchasing a new car and your neighbour previously had a similar model, they are not going to feel muzzled in any way in being candid with you. General Motors is not going to sue them when they recall their transmission having broken down a week after they bought it.
That information could be just as valuable to you as anything you might have heard from an expert professional racecar driver or automotive engineer when deciding whether to make the purchase. And with there being no risk in information sharing, anyone has the option of becoming reasonably informed in that marketplace.
Being at least reasonably informed is a necessary condition of an actually functional marketplace in which individuals are expected to make rational choices, at least according to the prevailing theory.
But the subject matter experts on providers of legal services are primarily lawyers themselves. Unlike in other fields, they are the only ones who are expected to understand in any meaningful way what it is that they are actually doing. Customers are not expected to have even a rudimentary knowledge. This has been the case since Ancient Greece when most people, save paid advocates, were illiterate.
Customers of legal services have a relationship of great dependency on experts, the lawyers. They are the most important people, if not the only people, whose disclosure on the competency of another member of the bar could determine whether the customer commits to making a costly investment in a lemon lawyer. This is a unique quality of the market for legal services seldom found in others.
Your neighbour, regardless of whether they are an expert or not, can still post a bad review for a Honda Civic. But it can carry grave risks for a lawyer to criticize another lawyer. It is not simply that they might land themselves in hot water before a disciplinary tribunal for having said something that might not have been true. They could just as well be sanctioned even if it was but their regulator determined it was “discourteous.” Note that the regulator’s choice of language, discourteous, casts a net far wider than statements that are merely untrue.
In the lawyer’s mind their license is worth millions. It is simply not worth the risk in extending the same courtesy to the customer with frank disclosure.
The end result is a system that works contrary to the public interest and the administration of justice, as defined in s 1(c) of our Justice Administration Act. The system had been designed that way for centuries, despite the common law already being clear that criticism of a lawyer is fair game.
This social stigma within the bar acts as a subtle, yet profound, catalyst or disincentive that delays the distribution of information in the market for legal services. This in turn leads to less rational, less informed choices, thereby undermining how a market is allegedly supposed to work. This is one of many reasons why the market for legal services is not actually a market.
Galati’s History of Intimidation
And so the general public is left to try to investigate on their own. But that is not without its own perils.
Galati has a history of sending threatening demand letters with the purpose of intimidating or silencing those who criticize him. One such critic was advised by Galati that he would seek an order barring the critic from ever posting anything on the internet ever again unless an apology was forthcoming.
One cannot help but wonder how intimidating it might be for a layperson confronted with apparent barrister sorcery to receive legal letterhead, some irrelevant and cryptic citations in the jurisprudence, and peppered with a little Latin. It would be enough to make many capitulate.
Our directors have always had a fiduciary duty at common law to ensure the good stewardship of our donors’ resources. Galati was not a prudent investment based on our own extensive research. Since that time the endless scandals, whistleblowers that have come forward, and the evolving jurisprudence in his wake continued to validate that decision.
Preemptively Avoiding a Mess
Having said that, it was not our place to compel other organizations into who they retained or any other aspect of their administration. These were decisions they must make on their own.
We were, however, gravely concerned that if Galati filed in British Columbia it could create procedural complications for us. A bad precedent might prevent us from achieving any meaningful milestones here. If he made a mess in another jurisdiction, and that too being undesirable, it would potentially have been to a lesser degree than if he did so here.
By December 2020 while we were in the process of bootstrapping our organization we already knew Galati intended to file in British Columbia. We also knew the risk might be attenuated to some degree if he at least did not file before us. Otherwise that could have raised two serious problems.
The first is the issue of carriage, a problem arising when different lawyers attempt to prosecute similar cases at the same time in the same forum. For Galati this could constitute an obstruction of commerce. Since we suspected his career ambitions were primarily economic, there was a strong likelihood that such a problem could arise.
The problem of carriage is a serious one. Imagine two people arrive at different times at a party with two different apple pies. The first to arrive is half baked, the second fully. Guests are not forced to eat the first. But the courthouse is different. It is not a potluck. You could be forced to eat something half baked.
The second issue could be some form of estoppel raised by our defendants, like res judicata, in which the court refuses to hear our claim because it already decided a similar one. That would be fine if his case had met with success, but we were quite confident it would not. It was very important that the first to the courthouse put their best foot forward for everyone and so we needed to work quickly.
It was never about egos or rivalry — at least not for us. It was a bona fide practical reality we had to contend with. We always tried to have amicable relations with other organizations that approached us, even among many of the good, albeit naïve, within his many client organizations. We supplied factums, case law, and expert reports whenever practical to assist anyone who asked to further their goals.
While our filing was the result of our own internal decision making, we were still concerned that even if he filed after us, it could still create problems for us — albeit to a lesser degree.
Preemptively our counsel called Galati on 14 December, 2020, a few weeks before we filed. Our goal was to provide gentle notice that we intended to file shortly with the hope that his anticipated mess would be compartmentalized to Ontario, so far as possible.
Galati was initially amicable and even requested her assistance with the litigation he advised he was preparing for Action4Canada. She politely declined.
On 29 January, 2021, our counsel followed up by letter with a courtesy copy of our then filed class proceeding’s pleading:
“Thank you for speaking with me on December 14, 2020 and the invitation to participate in the constitutional challenge your client was contemplating. Since then, we were retained by the Canadian Society for the Advancement of Science in Public Policy, to advance the interests of British Columbians with respect to the provincial government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please find enclosed the filed Notice of Civil Claim in this respect. I understand that your clients have not filed any materials. Doing so at this point may cause unnecessary delay and procedural issues in advancing our client’s claim. However, there may be an opportunity to collaborate at a later date.”
The language was carefully crafted to be as polite and diplomatic as one could possibly be when attempting, without offending, to persuade someone from driving a bus into a ditch and obstructing traffic.
Galati Demands Apology
Galati was furious. He responded 3 February, 2021, asserting that we sought to “hold a monopoly over COVID-19 litigation in B.C.,” a claim he would periodically repeat later. He also noted that he was “not wholly impressed” with the quality of our counsel’s pleading. But that did not appear to be the primary purpose of his correspondence.
Galati demanded an apology for “highly defamatory” comments that had been brought to his attention. Our treasurer Dee Gandhi had previously emailed Vancouver-based Dan Dicks, an independent evangelical journalist on 27 January, 2021. Gandhi had shared with Dicks some of our thoughts on why we chose not to engage Galati.
Galati knew we had done our research. The door had to be bolted shut before the horses got out of the barn again.
He ended his demand letter cautioning us that if he did not receive “a full and unmitigated apology” he would commence a defamation suit in Ontario. The impugned statements were “beyond the pale”.
We responded promptly the following day requesting Galati advise us what specifically it was that was allegedly defamatory. The notes Gandhi had shared with Dicks eventually became the genesis for portions of our FAQ which had not been published by that time. There was still plenty of time to revise our understanding of his work had we received a reasonable response, or any response at all for that matter, but none was forthcoming.
Our FAQ
People were already comparing our work to the Galati affiliates of their own accord since we began the month prior. That was without any prompting on our part. The public was understandably interested. The amount we raised was always public. Our work began with only around $10,000 dollars by the time we had already filed the first revision of our proposed class action pleading on 26 January, 2021. They were also aware that we had a different understanding of the costs of properly supervised litigation.
We carried on with our work. But we slowly began to find ourselves increasingly inundated with inquiries about Galati. Why did we choose not to retain Galati? Can you confirm rumour X or Y about Galati? In particular, what became of the substantial funds that were raised for him through his various organizations?
Over time these inquiries continued to increase as Galati’s donors looked for an outlet to grieve. We were not set up as a service bureau to support his customers.
In an effort to reduce the workload on our volunteers we published an FAQ at some time in June of 2021. It was our hope that its publication would greatly reduce the influx of inquiries. It did not. Instead it signalled we were in possession of contraband knowledge.
Nearly every speaking engagement, town hall, and sometimes even unprompted in interviews, people would make inquiries about Galati and his various organizations to us. We would encourage people to do their own research and support whomever they felt comfortable with.
Gaw’s Inner Circle
But even before our FAQ’s publication, Gaw’s inner circle that were intimately involved in fundraising for her and other Galati affiliates were already upset with us. Dicks had been promoting Gaw early in her campaign. He was aligned with her. He had forwarded our treasurer’s correspondence containing our reasons for not having engaged Galati initially to Gaw.
According to Galati, Dicks forwarded Gandhi’s notes because he was allegedly alarmed by them. Dicks subsequently debriefed with Galati by telephone after Gaw immediately brought Dicks’ correspondence to Galati’s attention. Dicks and Galati were already well acquainted with each other for more than fifteen years.
Gaw and her associates had managed to convince themselves that there was a conspiracy to undermine Galati and, by extension, their work. They were deeply invested socially, enjoying the limelight and social relevance which had elevated them. The mandates had given their lives new meaning they had not enjoyed before and they were not prepared to lose any of it.
Gaw’s inner Praetorian Guard of gospel diva promoters were well known in the anti-lockdown activist community for their inability to work with virtually anyone, including others in which they had a close ideological affinity. They carefully rationed social endorsement by curating who would speak at their rallies, for how long, and the permitted messaging.
Merchants in the Temple
As in many religious movements, there is often an underlying secular motivation animating it. Gaw’s promoters were ultimately stakeholders financially too.
One of her promoters intimated to her colleagues on 4 February, 2021, that Gaw had been contemplating bringing a claim in defamation against our organization and myself with the assistance of Galati unless a “public apology” was forthcoming. Afterall, “all the statements he’s making can make people question whether or not they donate.”
Their animosity was clearly rooted in our knowledge of Galati’s CV and how it might affect them. Another promoter was prolific in her promotion of Galati. She admitted that she had been helping herself to a 25% brokerage fee on all funds she raised for Galati’s venture. Their motivation was obvious. They had a lot to lose, even if we were not trying to undermine their work.
Galati’s public relations continued to spiral out of control. Gaw was under increasing pressure to justify what the public suspected was a king’s ransom of a retainer poured into an endless Bermuda triangle of money. She began making acrimonious remarks at public events and in private to her stakeholders about us, at times citing scripture inviting our destruction.
Although we would not seek atonement for our sins, we also would not retaliate. It was petty and a distraction from our actual mandate and the substantial work we have managed to achieve. If Gaw’s promoters wanted to prioritize maintaining their social relevance over simply answering their donors’ questions, that was their choice.
Staying On Topic
Gaw’s organization was always fundamentally different from ours in terms of not only who ran it, but the breadth of its mandate. Ours has always been narrowly focused on challenging the mandates. We are secular and non-partisan. That does not mean our followers reject theology or any particular mainstream political framework. We do not tell them what to think. It just means the organization itself would not be a vehicle for said.
We never identified a good reason, given our purpose, to tether our organization to every conceivable social conservative position emanating from the Fox News’ circuit.
Whistler’s Pique Newsmagazine opined that Gaw seems “to long for a simpler time. A time when more of the country was white, Anglo-Saxon, Judeo-Christian.”
Whether her position on any of her campaign’s issue portfolio is correct or not, or has anything to do with Christianity for that matter, is not the point. None of it assists us, or her for that matter, in any way in challenging COVID-19-related mandates. The court has already been clear with her about the importance of staying on topic.
The criticisms were coming from everywhere, including Christian institutions too. The United Church of Canada, the largest protestant denomination, eventually weighed in. “Action4Canada does not speak for all Christians and people of faith. Their distortions of theology and Biblical interpretation are dangerous and we denounce them.”
But even if we thought there was a strategic reason to incorporate at least some aspects of Christian theology, the 2011 census allocated only 2.9% of our population to those self-identifying as evangelical, a minority demographic. This might create challenges when trying to obtain class certification where we are required to demonstrate to the court our willingness to fairly advocate on behalf of all affected class members.
There has never been a consensus on any theological doctrine as made clear from Thomas Aquinas to Galileo. The provisional answer of the separation of church and state was the settled compromise arrived at centuries ago in the West during the Age of Enlightenment and it would never be our purpose to resurrect it. Obviously Gaw was of a different mind.
We chose not to use our organization as a vehicle for any of the aforementioned topics. It is not strategic from a political standpoint either when crowdfunding ambitious litigation activism in respect to broad government mandates that affected several million diverse demographics across British Columbia.
The Olive Branch
Movement leaders and revolutionaries need not be Rhodes’ scholars. Jesus was a carpenter. Socrates cut stones. Spartacus was a slave. Great minds can have humble origins and need not emerge from privilege. But in our opinion her ambitions clearly exceeded her capabilities in managing the substantial public investment in her venture.
At a time when we were watching her ship engulfed in flames at a safe distance from the shore, and despite the repeated warnings that no one would be able to reason with her, we nevertheless made polite overtures on 13 July, 2021, in extending an olive branch. It had not been the first attempt.
Join us for a cup of tea and good faith dialogue. Take the opportunity to provide input into our process on behalf of your demographic. But most importantly, for your own sake, seize an opportunity to become socially relevant again and for the right reasons.
The letter naturally went without a response. We carried on with our work. I instructed my team to give her a wide berth, never attempt to interfere with her organization, not to disparage her at public speaking events, nor to encourage anyone who contemplated a donation to her or any other Galati organization to redirect it elsewhere.
Had it been our purpose to destroy her organization, she did not need any assistance.
The Mutiny
In October of 2021 a chapter leader of one of Gaw’s largest regional branches reached out to us seeking to collaborate. His colleagues had been enthusiastically following our work in the headlines. It was not clear to them why we were not already collaborating. We were of course amenable, but gently encouraged him to liaise with Gaw and seek her authorization first for his own sake.
Several months passed. We received a phone call one evening sometime in the Summer of 2022 from the same. Gaw had issued a fatwa. We were informed that chapter leaders were “forbidden” from such an initiative. Disobedience would result in unspecified legal action.
The public relations disaster was no longer merely external with several hundred ideologically affiliated organizations now distancing themselves from her. There was a mutiny in the ranks. An avalanche of chapter leaders across the province tendered their resignations in protest over Gaw. A lack of financial transparency and a long laundry list of internal grievances played a role.
This would have serious operational implications, at least until she found new people, since her venture had dozens of regional chapters or subsidiaries of its own from British Columbia to the Maritimes that generated revenue.
Our FAQ remained up. We had no intention of taking it down. It was having a positive impact in our communities, even if Galati, Gaw, and Kuntz were livid.
According to Galati his donations were “virtually obliterated” from the $786,706 in revenue he claimed he enjoyed in 2021. He blamed us. The critics were not simply directing themselves to his clients, he was also personallyreceiving significant complaints. Donors were calling him. They left colourful voicemails and emails. They had lost confidence and were divesting.
Action4Canada Struck
In fairness to Gaw and Galati, they did eventually file in British Columbia on 17 August, 2021. It was met with the defendants bringing an application to strike that was returnable (heard) 31 May, 2022. This was after numerous requests for adjournment on Galati’s part.
At the strike application hearing and upon concluding his arguments Galati ended his virtual attendance by advising all of the lawyers present for the 24 defendants that their knowledge of constitutional law was wanting, and that they should consider signing up for his online course. Justice Ross stoically invited a reply. Counsel for the defendants remained seated with no further submissions. Justice Ross said he would reserve his judgment to be released when ready. With that the hearing concluded.
Gaw left the courthouse, but not before enthusiastically entertaining an interview. In her mind she had already won. It would have been like arguing with Captain Ahab to convince her otherwise. Galati had “hit a home run,” “shame on those who have criticized his case,” and “it was the best decision I ever made two years ago to retain Rocco as our lawyer.”
Several months went by. Our FAQ aged well. Their 391 page pleading met with disastrous consequences for all of her plaintiffs when the court struck it in its entirety when Justice Ross released his ruling on 29 August, 2022. It was not a loss on the merits, a minor technicality, or a close call. Galati was incompetent in the most basic of clerical requirements and Justice Ross made it clear.
Some plaintiffs began firing Galati. They learned of the ruling, not from either Gaw or Galati, but from the last place they should have — the media. One of the disgruntled plaintiffs had never even provided consent to Galati to be a plaintiff in the first place, let alone having executed a retainer agreement.
On 5 September, 2022, an interview was published featuring a still-hallucinating Gaw in which she reassured the public that what they understood was a loss was actually a victory. In the interview she conceded that the filing that did not comply with the rules had been intentional, on her own instructions, for the purpose of having “everything on record”.
Gaw’s pleading, like most that are struck in Canada, no matter how badly drafted, was given a second chance at life to be amended. This is in keeping with the Canadian judicial philosophy of trying to give everyone a chance to have their day in court. It merely means that sometimes a pleading that is struck and subsequently amended prevails at trial and it would be bad if the court pulled the plug on all of them prematurely. It is by no means an endorsement of a plaintiff’s claim.
But not all of Galati’s struck suits were considered salvageable by the court and given a second kick at the can. But in Action4Canada’s case Gaw was given a second chance. She had been thrown a life vest because Justice Ross took note of our work demonstrating it is possible for a suit critical of some aspects of the mandates to be credibly framed in compliance with the rules. Galati, Gaw, and their promoters were mute on that point.
Despite her reassurances to her stakeholders that she had been given a second chance, her critics informed us that they were of the view that Gaw’s venture was a publicity stunt that recklessly gambled with the lives of millions of Canadians for personal gain. Similar allegations were made against some of the more prominent Freedom Convoy participants. Even counsel for Gaw’s defendants argued that it was a publicity stunt.
After the court’s ruling made headlines Galati was unavailable for comment when his stakeholders understandably wanted answers. He was out of the country and would not be expected to return until 22 September, 2022, wrote Gaw in an email to her donors.
But the Lord’s vineyard would not bear fruit overnight. A few days later on 28 September, 2022, Galati filed an appeal. He needed more money, of course. “An appeal is always a separate cost from the original claim. We therefore request, and would appreciate, your donation and ongoing support to help keep Action4Canada’s legal war chest replete and equipped for the ongoing battle. Action4Canada’s case is the only major case proceeding in British Columbia and that is thanks to Rocco’s expertise,” she wrote on 13 November, 2022.
Gaw would diversify her campaign’s issue portfolio to include everything that had nothing to do with her COVID-19 donor’s actual inquiries.
Bogus legal documents developed by Galati and Gaw began being widely circulated. They were promoted by Kuntz for distribution to public officials or anyone else. Businesses on the receiving end were cautioned by their insurers to ignore them because they were phony.
Fictional legal documents and techniques of this nature are so common they are given a name in law, organized pseudolegal commercial arguments or OPCA. Also long documented on our FAQ. Despite not working, they remain popular.
But Gaw’s interest in OPCA was not merely casual. It was expensive. OPCA guru David Lindsay’s work has been discussed at length by the courts. In 2007 he was permanently banned from ever using the court again without permission of a judge. In 2008 he even did time.
“As is typical of most recent gurus, Lindsay also advertises his services on an Internet website (…). Sadly, some persons have taken up that offer,” wrote Associate Chief Justice Rooke in 2012. Gaw was one such, having invested in February 2022 at least $12,600 in cash of her donors’ funds on Lindsay.
Donors continued to ask what happened to their money. Gaw would draw their attention to purported obscenities that violated the Criminal Code that were being exposed to children in specific publications at a specific school library.
Okanagan School District superintendent Kevin Kaardal became the subject of violent threats. Part of a wall outside of his office collapsed. Gaw said it was “amazing that God chose Mr. Kaardal’s wall to come tumbling down.”
Federal police commenced a formal criminal investigation in respect to Gaw’s claim of obscene materials. On 22 February, 2023, they announced that they had found nothing.
Donors kept asking about their money. Action4Canada was now citing scripture that called for agricultural equipment to be placed around the necks of heathens before throwing them into the ocean if they did not share her understanding of it.
Action4Canada Fallout
It was bad enough that the $400,000 invested in Galati was clearly gone. But that was not the end of the donors’ liability. All of his plaintiffs were individually and severally liable to pay approximately $13,000 in costs to the defendants. That too had been predicted.
Shortly before the ruling of Justice Ross was released Gaw was asked by the media if she would indemnify her plaintiffs for any adverse cost award if her suit was dismissed. Her answer provided little comfort: “That will be something for Rocco to answer.”
Public outrage led to mounting pressure on Gaw to settle the costs on behalf of all named plaintiffs, some of which were already in financial ruin due to the mandates. She eventually did, presumably out of the donor funds.
A whistleblower recalled early in Gaw’s campaign that one of her promoters had made inquiries on her behalf while her suit was still being drafted. Gaw was seeking individual plaintiffs that had no assets, despite Gaw being personally unwilling to expose herself as one. She later went on the record confirming that had been her intent, acknowledging she was cognizant of the risks she had exposed her plaintiffs to.
In having acted preemptively in filing when we did we probably dodged a bullet. During our certification hearing on 14 December, 2022, Galati’s Action4Canada suit was brought to the attention of Justice Crerar when he asked if there was any other related litigation that sought Charter damages that he should be made aware of. He found it incredulous that a lawyer could have actually drafted such a document.
Justice Crerar: But there’s no other case in Canada to your knowledge where someone has sought Charter damages flowing from a governmental pandemic response where it has been adjudicated?
CSASPP Counsel: Where it’s been adjudicated, no. Recently there was one that was struck or granted leave to amend the 400 page notice of claim.
Justice Crerar: Maybe not drafted with the assistance of counsel?
CSASPP Counsel: Oh no there was counsel.
Justice Crerar: Oh there was counsel involved. Alright, hopefully not charging by the word.
Despite Galati’s drafting of Action4Canada having been characterized by the court as “bad beyond argument,” the public’s investment did provide at least some pedagogical value towards the improvement of the legal profession’s curriculum. The 2023 edition of a mandatory textbook in use for all lawyers seeking to practice in British Columbia was amended to feature Galati’s work as an example of an incompetently drafted pleading.
Gaw continued to generate bad headlines for over a year, sometimes daily, reflecting a never ending train wreck. Her former supporters turned whistleblowers were not letting up, but some were prepared to do more than take to social media.
Donna Toews’ Complaint to LSO
Donna Toews is a mother who was residing in Ontario at the onset of the mandates. She was upset about the effect they were having on her and her children. Since 2020 she had been following Galati’s work, initially with enthusiasm. By June of 2020 Toews had generously donated a thousand dollars to VCC and at some point Action4Canada as well.
Still not having heard anything about what became of her donation to VCC, she did what so many before and after her had done. She reached out to us, unsolicited, with her concerns in February 2021 about Galati. We encouraged her to contact VCC directly, which she did in December of 2021. A representative responded:
“Our case filed in the summer of 2020 has not had a hearing yet. The lawyer is working backstage, but he does not want to tell anything of what he is doing so that he does not give any opportunity to the enemy. If if [sic] we just said we are confident or we are not confident, it is enough to give metadata to the enemy.”
She was being given the runaround. We referred her to lawyer Gavin MacKenzie who on 15 January, 2022, submitted a formal complaint drafted on her behalf to Galati’s regulator, the Law Society of Ontario.
The LSO began to investigate. The investigator asked Galati a number of questions when it forwarded the complaint to him on 19 May, 2022. It was not the first.
There was no need to investigate according to Kuntz. Toews was not being intentionally ignored by VCC. It was merely a clerical error, wrote Kuntz in his unsolicited correspondence to the LSO on 28 June, 2022.
For decades Galati had managed to walk between the raindrops. In every complaint that had ever been brought against him since he was called to the bar in 1989 no client had ever managed to successfully hold him personally financially accountable for anything. Whenever his clients lost due to poor drafting he had never been ordered to personally pay the costs.
As the old joke goes, lawyers do not lose cases. Clients do.
But MacKenzie had formerly held the prestigious position of Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the precursor to the LSO. His letterhead carried significant weight. Galati blew a gasket. This one would not flush easily.
Galati responded to the LSO on 29 June, 2022, in which he chronicled his narrative of the events leading to Toews’ complaint. Among the irrelevant anecdotes he claimed our counsel had requested Galati collaborate with her back when she called him on 14 December, 2020, to advise of our intent to file, contradicting the record.
Toronto-based Adamson Skelly, owner of Adamson Barbeque, had famously refused to close indoor dining at his restaurant during the lockdown. Galati had initially courted Skelly for a $250,000 retainer. Skelly took a pass and hired lawyer Michael Swinwood instead to defend him from a regulator. Skelly was armed with a crowdfunded warchest of $300,000. According to Skelly, Swinwood took the money and ran to Peru where he bought himself a home.
Swinwood knew when to cash out. The arrival of MacKenzie’s letterhead at the LSO would have been as good a time as any to pull the ejection seat handle, especially with retirement on the horizon. But Galati would insist on going down swinging.
As a former adjudicator on the LSO disciplinary panel from May 2015 until his tenure ended abruptly in February 2021, days after the LSO received Toews’ complaint, he knew the process. He was also familiar with the nuclear option.
If he retaliated by suing Toews over the subject matter contained in her complaint, regardless of how the suit ended, it would stay (pause) the investigation. It had been a longstanding tradition with the regulator to wait and defer to a judge’s finding whenever there was sufficient overlap. This may have been Galati’s intention.
Galati also knew the LSO had no jurisdiction to continue its investigation if he voluntarily relinquished his license when ready to ride off into the sunset with the loot. The litigation could drag on for years without anything meaningful happening. He was an expert on that.
Galati Sues Everyone
With his response to the LSO on 29 June, 2022, he enclosed a courtesy copy of a fresh suit brought in defamation he had just filed in Toronto the day prior. In it he named his former donor Toews, a misspelled CSASPP, Gandhi, and myself as defendants.
He also brought two parallel suits against the LSO itself. The first on 12 July, 2022. The second on 31 July, 2023, just to be thorough.
As a brief aside, Galati’s first suit against the LSO faced a motion to strike on 21 September, 2023, on the grounds that it had been improperly drafted. On 11 October, 2023, Galati’s pleading and his proposed amendments were struck. Leave was granted to file a third revision, but with the court urging him to “reflect on the wisdom of so doing.” It ordered $14,600 in costs against him.
Galati’s suit against CSASPP extensively canvassed his CV. He had been featured in a very important magazine — twice. People thought highly of him. He even won an award, the first lawyer to do so. He deserved better and his critics needed to be taught a lesson.
Galati was demanding $1,100,000 from us. His pleading laid out a lengthy list of complaints, but effectively distilled itself down to three underlying sources of alleged harm. Our FAQ, Gandhi’s email to Dicks, and Toews’ complaint to the LSO were all part of an elaborate “anti-semitic” conspiracy that had apparently destroyed his livelihood.
Some weeks went by before the LSO wrote Toews, copying Galati, on 12 September, 2022, referencing Galati’s defamation suit:
“I have considered the issues raised in your complaint, the issues currently before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Law Society’s public interest mandate. Based on the information received from both you and Rocco Galati, no further action will be taken in this case at this time.”
Galati was quick to boast about the suit with Kuntz, as if the very act of filing itself was vindication. He knew the few followers he still had would not know the difference, even if it might have unintended consequences. “I’m not putting up with this shit,” said Galati. “What it tells me, Rocco, is they’re afraid of crossing you in court,” responded Kuntz.
At last we were embroiled in our own pearl-clutching worthy scandal, or at least that is what Galati’s promoters may have desired. Gaw’s in-house publicistDennis Young was quick to mobilize. Writing to us on 11 August, 2022, with a tone only fitting for a grass roots inquiry:
“Have you publicly addressed the defamation lawsuit by Rocco Galati? Many people are wondering in the freedom movement.”
It was good that Galati had boasted, otherwise we might not have ever felt a need to respond since he appeared to not understand how to correctly serve us with his claim — unless that was intentional. The clock requiring a response starts only after that.
But this was not the first time defendants had come to learn that Galati had initiated a claim against them through online media before he followed through with any formal steps actually obliging them to respond.
In our situation there was no requirement to respond for fear of a default judgment because he had not served us. It was clearly just another publicity stunt to mitigate his declining brand image at the cost of our time, money, and reputation. It was likely never intended to actually be heard by the court. It appeared to be an idle prop, another placebo pleading, brought into existence merely to be waved in front of a camera.
But without having actually served us and with no risk of facing a default judgment in Toronto there might still have been challenges if we chose to respond anyways.
We thought about it, hit the books, and quickly came up with a plan that would cost us virtually nothing on lawyers. That was important because we did not want to spend good money chasing bad money. It would, however, cost us our time.
His regulator was evidently useless, even after having received fourteen complaints in only fifteen months, one of which was self-generated by the LSO itself. Galati claimed he wanted his day in court and we would make every effort to assist. We knew it might be the only way for his critics to see closure since his regulator had deferred to the court in which he had commenced a claim against us. What would happen next would be up to us.
The Law of Defamation
The law of defamation in Canada had its genesis in England centuries ago, in turn evolving out of the Middle Ages. It was originally intended mostly to protect the reputations of the upper social strata of British society, namely aristocrats, from being criticized by commoners.
A tort is a category of an alleged wrong in civil law. Defamation is just one kind of tort, among many others. For example conversion is another tort which refers to the act of someone taking something that does not belong to them. In criminal law we know this more commonly as theft when it does not concern itself with a lawsuit.
Because of the original problem it was designed to solve, the tort of defamation is also a strict tort. A strict tort is a tort in which the defendant’s liability was presumed. That meant that if a plaintiff satisfied the legal test then a judge would normally be required to do something favourable for the plaintiff, like award damages — even in the absence of any evidence of loss of income or other harm.
Defamation in English law is framed as a strict tort. Since only the wealthy could afford to litigate in the first place, an aristocrat’s reputation was easily serviced. That was the point.
It was not difficult for a person of means to bring a claim in defamation against someone who was not. Even if the plaintiff knew there was nothing to convince a trial judge, it did not matter because it did not need to get there to achieve the plaintiff’s intent. The traumatic experience alone for a defendant could be sufficient enough to bludgeon them into submission in settling on terms favourable to the plaintiff, such as a retraction of the critical expression, the issuance of a public apology, or whatever the plaintiff could muscle the defendant into.
The preferred defendants for such suits were, of course, those incapable of defending themselves. But if, on the other hand, the defendant actually turned out to be, the suit would survive until trial where they would prevail. But the defendant would still be out of pocket for the expense of their victory.
Under the English rules on court costs in effect around most of the world, including in Canada, as the prevailing party the plaintiff would normally be required to reimburse the defendant — but for pennies on the dollar. A successful defence that consumed $100,000 they might see a recovery of only $30,000 in costs.
In the end, even after the defendant prevailed at trial, the plaintiff’s intent might still have been realized in dissuading the defendant from ever criticizing them again. This has been a flaw in the system’s design for centuries.
If the defendant wanted to recover more they needed to prove there was something improper about the plaintiff’s intent. If the defendant was able to convince the trial judge that the plaintiff knew they did not have a case and was merely intending to shut them up then the defendant could recover more of their costs. Sometimes up to and including all of it, otherwise known as full indemnity.
But that was traditionally a very high evidentiary burden for a defendant. That is why such an award has been exceedingly rare. The defendant would need to have something that showed the state of mind of their adversary. It could not be mere speculation.
For these reasons the law of defamation for most of its history was generally favourable to plaintiffs. This pattern of abusive litigation has been so common it has been assigned its own industry term of art, strategic lawsuits against public participation, or SLAPP. The longest running defamation case in English legal history was a SLAPP. Much ink has been spilled on the subject.
Even if the parties took the matter all the way to trial where the plaintiff actually prevailed, the assessment of their damages still remained highly discretionary on the part of the judge. A courtroom win for the plaintiff might still work contrary to their interests with only a nominal award.
As an example Kyla Lee is a lawyer who evidently does not like our work. In 2017 she had a client, Hoan Nguyen, who retained her to assist with a DUI matter. Nguyen posted a negative review online for the “worstest lawyer”. Lee brought a claim in defamation. Nguyen ignored it. Lee tendered unchallenged evidence of harm. The judge was not convinced. But the comment itself met the legal test for the tort of defamation. In exercising her discretion, as well as her disapproval of having brought the suit in the first place, Lee’s reputational harm was assessed at $1. The media ensured people knew.
SLAPP Legislation
Values change. As values change, laws sometimes do too. Western liberal democratic values in the mid-20th century reduced the emphasis on Victorian-era class consciousness and social stratification. The membranes of separation were becoming increasingly semi-permeable. The privileged comforts monied interests, among them the barristocracy, had enjoyed within the law of defamation were beginning to show signs of decay in recent decades.
Canada was colonized starting mostly from the eastern Maritimes before moving westward. This is why our oldest institutional norms and traditions that originated domestically tended to originate from the east. That includes the law. When it changes in British Columbia the inspiration often comes from Ontario, the “Silicon Valley” of law where lawyers “innovate.”
The SLAPP problem was not one the courts could solve on their own. They needed new tools from the legislature. A new innovation would emerge from Ontario.
By 2015 the Ontario parliament had enough. It had stepped in after years of lobbying from civil liberties groups and prominent legal scholars to deal with the problem of SLAPPs stifling public debate on issues of public interest. It enacted new legislation which amended the rules governing how their courts would hear cases that might be SLAPPs moving forward.
By 2018 British Columbia’s then Attorney General David Eby introduced provincial legislation for the enjoyment of British Columbians with virtually identical language. It was arguably the strongest free speech law ever introduced in British Columbia.
What the new legislation did was offer a new summary procedure for defamation defendants, though the claim need not be framed in defamation. By summary that means dispensing with the traditional formalities of going to trial. The new procedure provided a tool designed to be favourable to defendants to expeditiously and economically purge SLAPPs from the system.
The philosophy behind it was to encourage individuals to express themselves on matters of public interest, promote broad participation in such debates, to heavily disincentivize the use of litigation that suppresses such expression, and of course protect the court itself from hemorrhaging ever scarce judicial resources. The latter can happen when a plaintiff uses the court for a publicity stunt.
The new legislation is a tool that is best not to be on the business end of. As soon as a defendant brings a motion under the new s 137.1(3) of Ontario’s Courts of Justice Act, the suit is immediately stayed.
Whatever the plaintiff arrived at the courthouse with, regardless of whether their original intent was sincere or they experienced a change in sentiment, was what they would be stuck with as it eventually made its way before a SLAPP motion judge per s 137.1(5-6). The plaintiff cannot discontinue (abandon) their suit or amend any of it so as to clarify that what they really meant to sue for was X and not Y in order to increase credibility.
A defendant’s SLAPP motion obliges them with only one burden. They must show that the plaintiff’s suit arose from the defendant’s expression that related to a matter of public interest. Public interest is defined liberally, our work having already been found to be by Justice Crerar. After that the burden then shifts to the plaintiff. Justice McLachlin of the Supreme Court of Canada defined it in Grant v. Torstar Corp., 2009 SCC 61, [2009] 3 S.C.R. 640 as:
[106] Public interest is not confined to publications on government and political matters, as it is in Australia and New Zealand. Nor is it necessary that the plaintiff be a “public figure,” as in the American jurisprudence since Sullivan. Both qualifications cast the public interest too narrowly. The public has a genuine stake in knowing about many matters, ranging from science and the arts to the environment, religion and morality. The democratic interest in such wide-ranging public debate must be reflected in the jurisprudence.
After the defendant satisfies the public interest test, the plaintiff must then show three things to defeat a SLAPP motion. The plaintiff’s claim must have substantial merit. Second, the defendant must not have even a single defence available to them. Third, the plaintiff’s purported injury must be serious enough that it exceeds the value in protecting the defendant’s expression. It is not enough that only one is satisfied. All three must be (a “conjunctive test”).
If the defendant prevails in a SLAPP motion the plaintiff is normally required to allow the moving party, the defendant, recovery of their costs on a full indemnity basis per s 137.1(7). That is, all of their costs.
The case law that emerged since Ontario’s introduction of the new legislation has added further refinement in clarifying when the stay actually takes effect. As soon as a defendant makes formal arrangements with the court to schedule its SLAPP hearing, even before their pen has been put to paper in drafting the motion itself, it is automatically and immediately stayed.
On 29 August, 2022, without any advanced notice to Galati, we made scheduling arrangements with the court to hear a SLAPP motion.
He had evidently forgotten the SLAPP statute. Even for VCC the lethality of a SLAPP motion was not lost on him when his client voluntarily discontinued on 15 July, 2022, its claim against the CBC in response to the CBC’s threat to bring one.
That was not the only warning either. He had formerly served as counsel for plaintiff Kulvinder Gill when the tool was successfully used against her. The mandate-critical medical doctor was ordered on 31 October, 2022, to pay in the amount of $1,115,357 to the defendants who she had sued in defamation for comments made on social media.
Galati filed a notice of appeal for Gill claiming a litany of errors. This move was criticized by the defendants as a bad faith effort to circumvent the cost order by filing a baseless appeal.
The healthcare worker confronted with the possibility of finding herself homeless brought an appeal. Galati claimed he was too ill to make an appearance and would be required to terminate his retainer with Gill.
This was not the only defamation lawsuit Galati had brought on behalf of Gill. In March of 2021 he filed a $7 million claim against Amir Attaran and the University of Ottawa. The defendants brought an anti-SLAPP motion to be heard 2 October, 2024.
Had the legislatures not anticipated the likelihood of plaintiffs dragging their heels upon realizing their mistake after being given notice of a pending SLAPP motion they would not have required it to be heard quickly within 60 days or the next available hearing date the court makes available.
Galati’s $2M Toronto Property
Because of the magnitude of expected SLAPP awards it is always a good idea for defendants to confirm that there is actually something to recover from. This is important because there are ancient stories going back nearly a thousand years of successful litigants having lost vast fortunes in the process of trying to recover their award.
With demand on food bank usage at record levels amidst a national housing crisis we were reassured after identifying some of the fruits of Galati’s career. We located two properties valued at $1,950,000 and $725,000 in Toronto neighbourhoods. The former was purchased in September of 2021 and with no registered mortgage.
But sometimes debtors try to conceal their assets by reassigning the title of their property to a third party in the hopes of avoiding a creditor. Thankfully this is illegal both in British Columbia and in Ontario.
Since he sued us in his personal name, as opposed to using any of his corporate entities, or those of his clients as plaintiffs, it would be difficult to evade a creditor by dissolving or relocating to another jurisdiction.
Galati found himself locked in the breach of a karmic making that was entirely of his own doing.
Scheduling SLAPP Hearing
On 12 October, 2022, we had our first appearance before Justice Black to confirm a timetable. Cross-examinations would need to be completed by 15 June, 2023. The SLAPP motion itself would be returnable in Toronto on 12 September, 2023, for a four hour duration.
As the evidence continued to accumulate it became clear that we would need additional time to deal with all of it. We made another brief appearance on 14 June, 2023, to ask Justice Shin Doi for additional time at our upcoming SLAPP hearing without seeking to move the date. Galati insisted that it would need to be adjourned (rescheduled) in order to accommodate our request. Galati also claimed he had annual Summer vacation plans in Turkey that needed to be accommodated.
Our judge was indifferent. The 12 September, 2023, hearing would proceed as scheduled, but with an additional hour to now make for five hours in length.
The additional hour was necessary because Galati went to great effort to try to find anything he could to put in evidence. At times it was not clear whether he was attempting to redeem himself before the court or his patrons.
Cross-Examinations
Cross-examinations continued as scheduled. Galati performed his cross-examination on 23 May, 2023, of all of the witnesses he called. These were Gandhi, Toews, anti-lockdown activist Vladislav Sobolev, and myself. He was unable to find a smoking gun because there was none.
He took great interest in my CV, generously annotating five pages of it with a highlighter. I was informed of the inescapable conclusion he had come to. I was apparently an agent of the World Economic Forum, an organization with a close affinity to Bill Gates. It was not immediately clear to me since having boycotted and divested from all Microsoft products nearly twenty years ago.
His argument was as follows. I have a degree in artificial intelligence, education being suspect among his few remaining loyalists. With it I sat as co-chairman on an AI-related industry working group. That working group belongs to an industry consortium’s nonprofit. That nonprofit, provided you do not read its incorporation documents, apparently operates as a legal entity under the Linux Foundation. The Linux Foundation, an organization that was founded by people seeking to divest from Bill Gates’ offerings, was apparently in turn “under the auspices of the World Economic Forum.”
“The inescapable conclusion from this is that Mr. Warner, as a self-proclaimed AI expert, works under the WEF,” Galati asserted.
The deductive gymnastics were of Cirque du Soleil proportions. He had it all figured out, carefully tracked in no less than Microsoft Word and armed with Wikipedia, again.
Galati’s cross-examination of me was not a productive experience for him. Nor did his luck fare any better with any of the other witnesses. Gandhi’s email to Dicks was exactly what it appeared to be, without a conspiracy. Toews had not been coerced under a conspiracy into submitting her complaint to the LSO.
Three days later on 26 May, 2023, it was our counsel’s turn to cross-examine Galati and his witnesses. Galati would be the first to be called.
We had previously seen what appeared to be Galati consuming alcohol followed by a chaser while dispensing with legal advice to Gaw and her donors in an interview discussing their work published February 2023. But his cross-examination that day we expected to summon the full extent of his martial spirit, the most capable version of Galati, given his career and its legacy were on the line. We were surprised then to see Galati again with what appeared to be a little liquid courage.
Galati denied being involved in Gaw’s fundraising efforts. He denied being aware Gaw was raising funds at her famous 16 September, 2020, Vancouver Art Gallery fundraiser. His memory struggled to recall the Ezra Levant interview in September 2020 in which he pledged the City of Toronto masking injunction.
He denied his Constitutional Rights Centre was a fundraising arm before contradicting himself. He was unsure if he was the sole director of it, before being reminded that the incorporation records confirmed as much.
He claimed he was only following his client’s instructions in drafting Action4Canada and VCC’s claims, despite the law saying he cannot do that.
Galati was seeking damages on behalf of the CRC, despite the CRC not being named as a plaintiff. He was questioned on the CRC’s finances and its tax returns. For 2021 he confirmed revenue of $786,706. He refused to disclose how much of that was paid to himself. Beginning in the prior year of 2020 for fifteen months he deposed he had raised close to a million dollars, but that the CRC’s fundraising was separate from Action4Canada and VCC.
Then came the Nadon challenge. Galati insisted he had prevailed. He was confronted with the actual ruling again in which his work was condemned by the Federal Court of Appeal. A vexed Galati responded that the court had made a “lunatic finding,” confirming that it had made such a finding. My mind reminisced again.
It was then put to Galati the claim that he is a “top constitutional lawyer.” He said journalists and other people have claimed that, but he has never claimed that himself. He was then taken to a publication on his own website repeating the claim. He blamed one of his clients, but humbly conceded to be “one of the top constitutional lawyers.”
After Galati, Gaw was called. Years of evading answers would prove more difficult under oath. Her testimony was counterproductive to her interests.
Gaw was confronted on her OPCA materials she had encouraged others to distribute. She still insisted it had merit.
Gaw claimed the Action4Canada suit was struck only for its length, but that Justice Ross allegedly said it had merit. She struggled to understand that the judge did not say that.
She was then asked what hourly rate had been paid to Galati. Galati refused to allow her to give that testimony. She was asked how much in total had been paid to Galati. Galati would prevent her disclosure again.
Gaw claimed we interfered with Action4Canada’s “economic interest and its legal representation.” She recalled how her grievance began in the Fall of 2020 at a rally when activists began circulating one of our flyers which upset some of her promoters. This was further aggravated with Gandhi’s email to Dicks.
She claimed the subsequent publication of our FAQ, as well as Gandhi’s email, had undermined her donors’ “faith” and “caused a great deal of significant harm.”
We then turned her mind to the wording of the FAQ itself which was presented to her. She was asked what, in her own words, was “vile, untrue and malicious” about the document as alleged in her affidavit. Her response spoke for itself as line by line she was guided through it. She eventually conceded with great reluctance she knew of nothing in it to be untrue.
Galati periodically needed to be reminded on numerous occasions to stop interjecting during Gaw’s cross-examination because he was not the witness. He had attempted to provide testimony on Gaw’s behalf many times.
Champerty and Maintenance
The picture that had emerged from everything we had listened to, seen, and read by this point was strongly suggestive Gaw, and quite possibly Kuntz, were instrumental in instigating or financing Galati in bringing his claim against us for their own benefit. Gaw, who is not named as a plaintiff, stated her understanding of the reason Galati had sued us:
“We are here because all of this has led to interference with the public’s confidence in our lawyer and the public’s confidence in our fundraising, giving to our fundraiser. All of this is tied together.”
When a third party encourages a plaintiff to bring a claim against a defendant, such as through providing financial support, this is called maintenance in the common law. When that same third party provides financial support in addition to having an agreement with the plaintiff to facilitate the third party’s benefit in some way this is called champerty.
In common law jurisdictions champerty and maintenance have been illegal since medieval England. Corrupt royal officials and aristocrats were sometimes caught financing or lending their names to bolster otherwise weak claims, sometimes against a political rival, in exchange for a share of the profits.
In Canada champerty and maintenance was a criminal offence that could land you in jail until 1953. Since then it remains a civil tort. Ontario, where Galati sued us, has had a statute since 1897 that invalidates any champertous agreement. If such an agreement had been made Galati would not be able to benefit from being indemnified with Gaw’s donor funds.
SLAPP Hearing
Eventually we completed cross-examinations of all of Galati’s witnesses on schedule on 26 May, 2023. With all of the evidence compiled into our 4,760 page motion record to be put before the SLAPP motion judge we were ready for our hearing.
As scheduled we appeared on 12 September, 2023. Justice Chalmers had been assigned as our motion judge. The parties more or less stuck to their mutually agreed upon time allocations. A transcript of the entire hearing was prepared.
We began by traversing our factum, or written arguments. Galati was generally well behaved, but did present two surprises.
A person’s religious convictions are a private affair according to a tolerant and tacit societal understanding in Canada. They generally should not be subject to overly permissive inquiry or ridicule. That understanding, in my view, is set aside when a person parades their religion, not even with consistency, for apparent economic gain.
When courting The Globe and Mail in 2014 Galati professed his Catholicism. When donors asked what became of their money he deflected the criticisms against a “Calabrian Jew” as “anti-semitic”. And when finally ready to distance himself from Gaw’s views he claimed during our hearing to have converted to Islam twenty years ago.
That would be a challenge for Gaw to reconcile. But it did not end there. We were also surprised to see Galati profess, unsolicited, his triple injected status. Given his public sentiments on injection mandates this too would be a challenge to reconcile for his clients that might need to work themselves into a pretzel.
After the parties completed their submissions and addressed any questions the court had Justice Chalmers indicated he would reserve his decision to be released at some time in the future.
Galati Sanctioned
On 11 December, 2023, his ruling was released to us and published publicly on 15 January, 2024. Galati had his clocks cleaned. His suit was thrown out with costs presumptively awarded on a full indemnity basis, exactly as predicted.
The court made no concessions to Galati. It was not a minor technical victory or a close call. It appeared to be the first time in his entire career he had ever been professionally sanctioned personally with a monetary liability for anything that we were aware of.
The court recited the history leading to the claim, including Galati’s news conference in September 2020 and his interview with Ezra Levant in September 2020 promoting his mandate related litigation on behalf of VCC. He cited Justice Ross’ having struck Action4Canada’s claim for having been “bad beyond argument”.
The court tracked the research we had conducted on Galati early in our campaign, Toews’ complaint to the LSO, Gandhi’s email to Dicks, and our FAQ. The portions of our FAQ that relate to Galati were reproduced in their entirety in the ruling, forever immortalized in the Canadian common law.
The court was satisfied that the expressions Gandhi and our FAQ made pertained to matters of public interest and that segments of the public have a genuine interest in receiving that information.
With the public interest burden met the test then shifted to Galati to establish that there were grounds to believe that his claim had merit. That meant any basis at all that is legally tenable and reasonably capable of belief. Galati was not required to demonstrate a likelihood of success had the suit gone to trial, only that he might.
The court concluded our FAQ and Gandhi’s email to Dicks stuck to known and provable facts and did not venture into defamatory speech. Toews’ LSO complaint was found by the court to be entirely factual.
The court concluded that nothing alleged by Galati had a real prospect of success in that there were zero grounds to believe that the claim had substantial merit, or any at all.
The court accepted all of our available defences, the most important of which was justification. In the law of defamation justification means we were justified in saying something. That is, what we said was true. Truth has always been a complete and total defence to a claim of defamation.
He also determined that Galati was not permitted to sue Toews for filing a complaint because a complaint to a quasi-judicial body, including the LSO, is protected. That alone is likely professional misconduct.
There was a strong public interest in the public’s freedom to evaluate a lawyer’s services, the court wrote. We had argued that the stifling of reasonable public debate as to the value of a lawyer’s services, tactics or approach to litigation negatively affects public confidence in the legal system. The court agreed.
Justice Chalmers wrote that what was really going on in this case was an attempt by Galati to stifle public criticism about his work, which he agreed was incompetent.
He also said that Toews had been named as a defendant in an attempt by Galati to intimidate members of the public who may be considering making a complaint about Galati to the LSO. And specifically, the lawsuit was filed to derail her complaint that the LSO had expressed an interest in. The harm this would cause, if Galati were permitted to do this, would obstruct the regulatory process and the LSO’s ability to receive and process complaints about lawyers.
Galati was not found to have suffered any harm by us. The only evidence of harm he was able to put before the court was the loss in revenue to his CRC. However, he refused to disclose how much of that had been paid to himself. He is not permitted to claim damages on behalf of his corporation since it was not named as a plaintiff when he drafted his suit.
The court said that persons who donated to Galati’s litigation have a right to information about Galati.
Under the new anti-SLAPP legislation a defendant is permitted to request damages on top of full indemnity under s 137.1(9). Unlike traditional common law damages, these damages do not need to be compensatory meaning a defendant need not show evidence of harm. They are there to sanction the plaintiff, not necessarily to compensate. They are highly discretionary and very rarely awarded on SLAPP motions because the costs alone are usually high enough to achieve the same effect.
The test for damages on a SLAPP motion is evidence the plaintiff had brought their claim in bad faith or for an improper purpose. You will recall this was the traditional test for increased costs in the common law predating the new SLAPP legislation. That is generally very difficult to do as discussed. We were not surprised to learn we were not awarded damages, but were very surprised to learn the court still believed we qualified for them.
Justice Chalmers agreed that Galati had brought the suit for the improper purpose of stifling debate with respect to his handling of his proposed COVID-19-related litigation that was publicly funded. He also noted that Toews was sued the day before Galati responded to her LSO complaint. That was further indicia of an improper purpose because it was intended to torpedo the LSO investigation.
We were presumptively entitled to our costs on a full indemnity basis. As of this writing these costs are $159,921. Galati must now try and convince the court to depart from the legislative intent of our full indemnity cost award.
This may sound like a substantial sum of money. But to put it in perspective Galati had sought unsuccessfully to deprive us of $1,100,000 we never had in damages, and if he had won, to recover not only that, but also his own costs on a “substantial indemnity basis”.
Galati proposed a maximum cap of $50,000 on 3 January, 2024, in his arguments on costs following Justice Chalmers’ ruling. Since the parties did not agree on costs the court would be required to determine them for the parties. That additional procedural step has the probable effect of further increasing Galati’s anticipated liability.
It would have come to no surprise to anyone if Galati appealed the dismissal or the amount of costs awarded. It would not be the first time he made a poor business decision in not knowing when to cut his losses. Indeed, during our 12 September, 2023, hearing without a ruling yet or even the conclusion of the hearing itself, Galati was already alluding to the possibility of appealing both a dismissal and a cost award — neither of which existed yet.
On 4 January, 2024, Galati provided us with formal notice that he intended to appeal the dismissal. In choosing to appeal he must move with haste under the new legislation. Further, if he loses again, and he likely will, the costs awarded to the defendants are presumed to be on a full indemnity basis again. In essence, either pay a substantial amount of money now or pay even more later.
In filing an appeal our recovery of whatever costs Justice Chalmers awards us will automatically be stayed pending the outcome of Galati’s appeal or appeals.
Takeaways
This will not be an end to the Galati saga. But at this point there is enough information to provide some hopefully useful reflections.
We often are asked why we never sued Gaw or Galati for making a multitude of defamatory remarks about us. We were lobbied many times, in particular by her own former fans. The reason is simple. It is sometimes important to allow ignorant people to say ignorant things. Otherwise people will not know they are ignorant.
With millions of dollars of the community’s money gone, and not to forget the grave harm directly caused to some of his plaintiffs, people rightfully want accountability in the wake of his seemingly endless victims. We do not propose a witch hunt.
Before Canadians try to pursue accountability from bad actors a distinction needs to be made between the innocent and the complicit. Those who promoted Galati, at least in the beginning, should not all be lumped together. The timing of their having abandoned his ventures is the key to differentiating a spectrum of complicity. The longer they waited, the more they ought to have known.
That spectrum begins with the innocent and well intended who simply did not know what was going on through ignorance alone. They eventually left as they became informed of the injury being inflicted upon their peers.
Somewhere in the middle there were those who knew what was happening, knowingly turned a blind eye, and when confronted, claimed they were only playing the piano.
At the far end there are those who were unequivocally complicit in the exploitation of their peers, personally profited, and to this day adamantly maintain not only their own innocence, but Galati’s.
When we set out with our campaign we were concerned about a lack of transparency in how our government operated, its encouragement of punitive behaviour towards those who asked critical questions, and above all accountability.
If we cannot be expected to govern ourselves with integrity then we will have no credibility in demanding the same of our government when decrying its conduct. It makes winning hearts and minds when the deck is already stacked against us all the more difficult.
What scandals the government and its sympathizers failed to find in the Freedom Convoy, Galati has supplied an embarrassment of riches. We can expect to see them leveraged whenever politically expedient in the future.
We are asked frequently if Galati is “controlled op.” The answer is probably not. I suggest instead he is “uncontrolled op.” That is someone who, like the former, works contrary to the public’s interest but entirely for their own benefit as opposed to as an agent of some conspiracy.
On the brighter side we did make history again. We succeeded in improving the framework in which future Canadian litigation activism will take place. The new case law has created more robust expectations on the conduct of future crowdfunded hired guns.
Eventually there will be another pressing need to aggregate the peoples’ money to combat some perceived great injustice in the world. They will now have greater security from those who might have come along and vacuumed up the world’s resources that could have been put to competently litigate the issue. Otherwise people might find themselves financially disarmed and pacified.
Galati is therefore the first success in our mandate that set out to hold anyone complicit in the enforcement of the mandates.
Gaw, on the other hand, and many of her demographic entered the anti-lockdown movement as activists. Like so many conservatives on the far right, this was for the first time in their lives. Despite her anachronisms, the civil rights movement that predated her, and which she evidently understood so little of, earned her the well fought and well deserved right to be a politically outspoken woman in the first place.
She would use that right to advance a message of intolerance, despite herself having become a minority during the mandates. She had experienced first hand what it was like to be persecuted, to be denied control of her own body, labelled as unclean, unsafe, publicly ridiculed, something less than human, turned away unwelcome at places of public accommodation.
It was a sobering Jim Crow experience for many of them. She did not evolve. But my personal experience has been that most did and Canada is a better country because of it.
Protecting Faith, Family and FreedomView Email in Browser After years of suffering harassment and persecution at the hands of the Alberta courts and top politicians, Pastor Artur is finally free.Pastor Artur Pawlowski was in a Lethbridge Courtroom on Monday September 18th, where he received a jail sentence of 61 days after he was found guilty related to a charge for delivering a sermon at the Coutts, Alberta border blockade in February of 2022.Pastor Artur is an innocent man who has been unlawfully harassed, threatened, detained, imprisoned, held in solitary confinement, tortured and falsely accused and now convicted of crimes that he did not commit. While Pastor Artur maintains his innocence, with plans to appeal his conviction, he felt Justice Gordon Krinke delivered a fair sentence which credited time-served in pre-trial custody allowing him to walk out of the courtroom a free man.Pastor Artur is coming out of this stronger then ever, determined to continue to expose evil, seek justice, love mercy, feed the homeless, serve his community, and to work at the political level to protect faith, family and freedom.We want to thank all those who responded to the Call to Action in July and signed the petition to support Pastor Artur, the Independent media for getting his story out there, and to everyone who prayed for him and his family through this trying time.
Though we rejoice that Pastor Artur is once again home with his family and free to continue serving the marginalized populations in his community, we continue to look to the true Just Judge, our Lord Jesus Christ, for the complete victory over the injustice in our land.We give God all the glory for sustaining Pastor Artur and for this positive outcome.A Powerful and Compelling Speech“I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right,free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.” – John Diefenbaker The Solidarity Movement of AlbertaAs Action4Canada continues to courageously defend Canadians rights and freedoms we ask that you would please consider courageously giving, either a one time donation or becoming amonthly donor. Help Action4Canada continue to bring solutions and hope to the nation!If you are in need of prayer please reach out to our Prayer Team at prayer-requests@action4canada.caRemember: Freedom of speech, thought, belief and the right to life, liberty and security of the person are guaranteed. We do not need to beg, barter or ask for them…they are ours for the taking.God bless you and God bless Canada!The Team @ Action4Canada
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
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Falsified assault charge
Kelowna Courthouse
R v David Lindsay s. 266 Criminal Code Assault
Court trial update:
Two days for final submissions were originally set for Dec. 13, 14, 2023. Apparently, the judge was not happy with this and forced a short hearing two weeks ago. At this hearing, she insisted upon a hearing date before then. This date has now been set for Sept. 12, 2023.
Further, she demanded that I provide all my submissions in writing to the Crown prior to that date. That is not going to happen.
Had a hearing taken place as schedule on Dec. 13, I would have simply showed up with my submissions.
I am not going to give my defence to the Crown months or even weeks in advance for Mr. Grabavac to start e-mailing every prosecutor in the country for Crown responses and help. That is neither fair nor just to me.
Meanwhile, the Attorney General filed her Motion to Strike my RCMP challenge and served me on Friday morning with it. Her claim is that it is moot (ie: the reason for it no longer exists) or would have no impact on the trial.
The Crown is dependent in my case upon all law enforcement by the RCMP, including investigation, interrogation of witnesses, and Crown Report. If the RCMP have no jurisdiction, because policing is a Provincial matter under s. 92 of the Constitution Act 1867, then all evidence obtained was obtained without jurisdiction to so do, and must be thrown out. Once that happens, the Crown has no evidence to rely upon, not that it has any to begin with.
The informant was an RCMP officer. The Crown is trying to claim that under s. 504 of the Criminal Code anyone can lay an information. That is true…but the informant did not lay the Information as a member of the public or ‘anyone’, he laid it in the capacity or as the person of an RCMP officer. Being so, again, once determined that the RCMP have no jurisdiction in B.C. then the Informant also had no power to lay the Information against me in that capacity.
Although a Provincial Court cannot strike down legislation, if the judge finds it to be unconstitutional, they simply cannot apply it pursuant to s. 52 of the Constitution Act 1982.
Thank you for all your support, despite having two enemies in the courtroom – the Crown and the Judge!
See you Sept. 12 9:30 a.m.!
In freedom
David
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Update — Petition to ban Kelowna Protest/Rallies
David’s Documents now up on the website! The document titled “Response” is the legal argument David has filed.
The Response or legal argument, to the Petition is now up as well as all supporting affidavits. One affidavit needs to be corrected however as it is not appearing properly formatted for some reason on the site. That will be corrected shortly.
The City is attempting to rush this into a hearing the week of August 28, however as I told the City’s counsel, it is likely to take 5-8 days for hearing of my Constitutional Challenge and other defences. It is simply not possible for me to be ready in this time period in any event.
This has now been adjourned to the week of Oct. 10 (no specific date is given until Friday the week before). Shortly, I will be filing my SLAPP application. This is done under the Protection of Public Participation Act of B.C. Essentially, it was passed to prevent governments like the City of Kelowna, from trying to stop people exercising freedom of expression and criticizing these governments, exactly what is happening here.
Once I have filed this Application, I will let everyone know and post it online as well. It will likely take a full day to be heard, and I believe that this Oct. 10 date will also be adjourned as the legislation requires that no other steps in the case can take place until this is heard.
This is the biggest attempt to control our freedom of speech and assembly in history.
The media has already confirmed to me that they were instructed by the Gov’t not to print anything contrary to the Gov’t COVID-19 narrative. If they deny us our freedom to protest where it is most effective, then other cities will follow likewise by banning our protests, and without any media assistance, the Gov’t will be free to do whatever it wants with no public exposure. Pure Communism. This is the most critical time in our struggle for freedom….right now.
Unfortunately, this case will have significant repercussions for every protest rally in British Columbia, and indeed, in Canada, as it is being heard in a superior court in this Province. This will be an incredibly complex case.
Donations would be very much appreciated as costs are now starting to come in.
E-transfers can be done to: clear2012@pm.me or cash donations can be mailed to: PO Box 21113 Cherry Lane Mall, Penticton BC V2A 8K8
To follow my court case as a public member, you may email the CNO at HearingsAdministrationGroup@cnomail.org Reference my case: Sarah Anahid Choujounian Abulu and ask them for the links
Reminder this case is no longer under CFLN therefore the e-mail and links to donate are different. There are a few ways to donate, and I want to specify that this is more of an investment in the future of our children than just a simple donation.
You can also help by connecting me with people who can interview me or host a fundraiser at which I can may be able to attend…and please share, share, share
Every Wednesday Action4Canada hosts the Empower Hour, an online zoom meeting open to everyone. We have a special guest each week, who will educate, inform and answer your burning questions.
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“All I know is in my province we have 650 fires and 500 of them were human caused, so we have to make sure that when people know that when it’s dry out there and we get into forest fire season, that they’re being a lot more careful because anytime you end up with an ignition that happens, it can have devastating consequences. And so, that’s what I wouldhope that we can educate the public on, on that front as well.”
Combined with geoengineering issues detailed by Bettina and Nadia and others, it is readily clear that there is no climate change causing fires. The graph below shows that, if true, this year’s fires are man made – figures do not change to this extent in less than one year – especially after a year with record snowfalls!!!
Directed energy weapons?
Learn the truth on the false “97%” of scientists agree humans are driving climate change:
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Direct from the BC Interior:
We need to get the story out about what’s happening in the Shuswap. Can you guys please post this everywhere. Send it to everyone you know. Please help us.
My name is Stef and my husband Jorne and I own a home at the end of Meadow Creek road in Celista BC. The fire department and forestry lit a back burn around 4pm on Thursday Aug 17th knowing there were 30km winds coming. No news outlet is talking out this. My husband has been monitoring the winds and the Adams creek fire for weeks. On Tuesday Aug 15th we knew the winds were coming. The fire was approx 15km away from us. We don’t know who decided to light a back burn knowing the wind forecast. They lit a 14km back burn right to our back door and never notified us. My dad who lives in Kelowna knew about a “out of control back burn” before we did. They didn’t even come to tell us. They notified the locals by posting it on a piece of paper at the gas station.
At 845 pm we saw the fire just over the ridge. And by 12pm it had reached meadow creek road and was in back yard. Without the back burn we could have had a whole day to prepare. We did have sprinklers up, water tanks loaded and generators ready to go. We knew we were pretty much on our own and would not receive much help. The fire department did come down the road and were there briefly. Once they deemed the fire out of control they left. When the fire came into the valley we watched it burn up the sides of the mountain due to the humidity dome created with all the sprinkler and water. The fire department abandoned us. About 2 hours had passed when some locals came down our valley with resources and help. I was notified the fire department was sitting in a field having coffee so I went t to get them. When I got there I asked them to come help us, told them the situation.
One of the firemen told me they wanted to help but had orders to sit. I yelled at them to get in their trucks and come help us. They said they would. I went back down the road to notify our crew they were coming. I sat and waited but no one came. About 15 minutes had gone by so I went back up the road and found them sitting about 1km away. They told me they were assessing the situation. I asked how they could assess if they couldn’t see it? I again asked them to come help and they finally did. Everyone ran around putting hot spots out. We wore water packs and half masks with headlamps for the next 3 days making sure our houses made it through.
In the initial days after the “superfire” the locals were able to get water, gas and supplies but now there is a heavy police presence. They have the roads blocked off saying they are preventing looting. The locals are being told to return to their homes. They are not allowed to be helping at all. There are spike strips on the roads. Police blocks everywhere. There are people trying to get essential supplies in such as water, gas and food by boat. They are being turned away. Police are patrolling the roads and water. They have the gas stations blocked off.
We need the real story to get out so we can get help.
We are more than equipped to help put this fire out but are being stopped. We need resources such as gas, diesel to keep us going. They’re trying to starve us out so they can let it burn.
My number is 250-509-0400 Please feel free to post my number. I’m willing to talk to anyone who can help us.
NOTE: Similar incidents occurred in the 2003 Okanagan fire. It appears that the management prefer to let these fires get out of control rather than stop them at source, in the hopes they will burn out. They rarely do and get out of control, then they all pat themselves on the back for all the dedication to put them out.
Now no doubt there are tons of committed firefighters doing their best – it appears this is a top management and financial issue.
The original reason CLEAR was founded was to expose the fraudulent usury (interest) based banking system. You should obtain a copy of the short book, USURY by Hilaire Belloc, as was as Billions for the Bankers, Debts for the People by Joe Thaughberger. Understanding the fraudulent banking system is the fundamental key to opening up the knowledge of freedom.
Every single problem in societies the world over, is traceable back to the fraudulent money system.
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An incredible examination into the reasons people blindly obey even tyrants. A must read for everyone who believes in peaceful civil disobedience.
In the absence of rallies every Saturday, we don’t get the funding we used to that allowed us to print all the resources we provide at the CLEAR booth, as well as the inserts that go into the Druthers newspapers for our Sunday paper deliveries. Thanks to your past donations, we have delivered over 8000 copies of Druthers, plus various inserts, in Kelowna and W. Kelowna, with lots more to go!
Future protests are being strategically planned right now for City Hall, the courthouse, and other locations.
Many people believe that the COVID-19 issue is over – and it is not. Freedom is a multi-generational struggle, where we hope to leave a better place for our children. Other serious issues are lurking ominously in the near future that we will need to focus on: 15 min cities; legal actions; digital ID and digital currencies to start. These will require ongoing research and production of signs and materials for public education. The digital ID and currency issues are two of the most critical and going to involve significant amounts of education for people.
Please give generously by e-transfer to: clear2012@pm.me or our endeavours
to educate the public we will not be able to educate people as effective as we are doing now. You can also mail cash (this remains safe) by Expresspost to: P.O. Box 21113 Cherry Lane Mall, Penticton, BC, V2A 8K8. Cash of course, would be the preferred method to protect everyone’s privacy.
These are unfortunately the only methods available right now to accept donations outside of the monthly rallies. Everything we do is on a volunteer basis and if you are not able to volunteer, your cash donation is what keeps the freedom wheel turning.
We do need volunteers to join our Fundraising Focus Group. If you are good at event planning and have some time to devote to organize regular fundraising occasions, please come see Linda at the CLEAR booth this Saturday or contact CLEAR.Linda@proton.me.
We need volunteers who are:
Proactive
Can work independently
Able to collaborate with others
Responsible and Dependable
Trustworthy
Enthusiastic
Result-Oriented
Committed
Motivated
If you possess these qualities and want to make a difference right now as a Freedom Activist, please add your name to the Volunteer List at the CLEAR booth this Saturday or contact CLEAR.Linda@proton.me to get more information.
Freedom requires time, energy or money. Thank you all for your help, in any form you are able to assist with. Everything you do for the sake of freedom is a seed planted. And although you may not see where it lands, trust that it will grow and bear fruit! Otherwise, why have the City, Province and Feds continually tried to shut us down?!! We are effective with one of the lowest vaccination rates in BC and Canada – thanks to YOU!
Sunday Paper Deliveries
Next delivery day: August 27, 2023
(Weather Permitting)
Add your name to the delivery list and make sure to check your email on Sunday mornings for confirmation that our paper delivery will take place that day
Make sure you arrive before the designated time so we can all get going ASAP!
Every Sunday at 11:30 am
August 27, 2023
Sign-up on the Newspaper Delivery list so that you get an email confirming the deliveries for each Sunday. With winter in mind, we will only do this if roads are bare and it’s not snowing. The advantage of delivering this time of year is that nobody is hanging out in their front yards except for the odd snowman.
We meet at the Capri parking lot between A&W and De Dutch Pannekoek House
Bring a large bag for carrying the papers if you want
Grab a free small Kelowna mapbook that can help you get situated. Your cell phone will be tracking and tracing you. Learn how to read maps again
You will be provided with a printed google map of the area you will be delivering to. Bring a yellow marker to indicate which streets you completed. You may run out of papers or you may end up with extra
We ask that with every paper you deliver, you remove the inserts and place them in the mailbox in front or behind the paper. That way, someone who may hastily throw out the paper will still be forced to see each individual flyer
Please deliver only one paper per mailbox, regardless if you have different papers (we usually have a combination of different papers and editions). Some houses may have up to 4 mailboxes; put one paper in each as they are for different tenants
Sign up as a Volunteer to participate in one of the many focus groups we are working to organize. Most people are too busy to commit to fighting for freedom. I guarantee you will have plenty of extra time after Canada becomes a full-fledged communist country and your jobs & businesses are gone. Time to add freedom-fighting to your list of priorities. Much of the help needed can be done at home and even one hour per week will be helpful. Even if you don’t want to join a specific group, maybe you have something you can offer to help out. Let us know!
3 Simple Things Freedom Activists can do to WIN this War:
Spread the Word by delivering papers and flyers everywhere:
1 Knowledge is power!
2. Replace your cell phone with a flip phone:
Think of your apps as TRAPS!
3. Use CASH:
Hand out the “Use cash cards” and “pay cash” business posters
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REMINDER
New Credit Card Fees & Lack of Privacy
It is starting – Use cash as much as possible – use credit cards or digital only if there is no other alternative.
Companies will not use digital currency if we are not using digital currency! It will cost them too much in lost business.
Here is an awesome poster you can distribute to all businesses to put on their entrance doors, advocating for the use of cash. Print on 8 1/2 x 11 glossy hard stock for best results.
For Business owners:
The dangers of digital gov’t ID and currencies are here… you need to use cash as much as possible. As recognized by Freedom Rising, there are many inherent dangers of using digital currency. What do you do, not if, but when:
The internet is down
There is a power outage
The card reader malfunctions
Your phone battery dies or doesn’t work for other reasons
WE SUGGEST YOU CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING AS WELL:
Your phone is stolen
Your passwords are co-opted
Your credit/debit card strip is damaged – needs replacing
There are errors in relation to the quantum of $$ on your card
Gov’t limits your purchases/CRA liens the balance on your card
AND MANY OTHER DANGERS
CLEAR has promoted the non-use of digital currencies and credit/debit cards as much as possible, for years.
Suggestion:
Withdraw money on Saturday/Sunday from the bank or bank machine, and then leave your money at home if you are scared to carry it with you, and just carry the amounts of cash for each day’s purchases for the week.
NO MORE CARDS!!!! NO EXCUSES!
USE CASH $$$$$$$$$
Do you want to be the next person to be “unbanked” because of your political beliefs????
Get these cards below at the CLEAR booth to give out everytime you use cash – or print your own to hand out!
Make Business sized cards to hand out at all your cash purchases!
Thanks Nadia for this link:
Find out which institutions near you Support Digital ID
The Digital ID System is being supported by a rapidly growing number of provincial and federal governments, financial institutions, networks for payments and for identity verification, technology service providers, strategy and integration experts to name a few…
Even though COVID-19 restrictions are, for the most part, no longer in effect, other freedom issues have arisen as gov’ts use the cover of COVID-19 to introduce other more formidable liberty restrictions, including privacy violations.
Freedom is a multi-generational struggle – our legacy is to leave a better place for our children, not simply to quit after an issue appears to be over and anger diminishes; and of course, it rarely is truly over.
We urge you to provide designs (clear2012@pm.me) and/or your own signs for upcoming threats, including Digital ID
Digital currency and no cash
Climate change fraud
Further health, property, rights and freedoms restrictions
– Withdraw Crown’s Incarceration Sentencing of Pastor Artur Pawlowski- Petition
– The End of Freedom
– Vaccines – Where Do We Go From Here?
– Freedom Rising Newsletter –Issue 52 – Digital Freedom Canada
– Druthers The June and July editions at our rallies! Donations are always appreciated.
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FAMILY FREEDOM EVENTS – Penticton4Freedom – every Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m.
COMING UP THIS SUNDAY
The local Bill 36 campaign is gaining momentum and support, and Laureen leads a team of eager volunteers visiting other communities. Talking to people one on one makes a HUGE difference. Join the fun!
As usual, there will be local reports and actions, open mic, and… (who knows what surprise speaker will show up).
Now being held at Lakawanna Park during the summer months
Moving to Lakawanna Park for the summer gives our events a more family-friendly name and environment as part of reaching out to the community around us. Lots of families at the beach. Lots of folks are out strolling.
Laureen’s table with important information and a petition to end BCs Bill 36.
Elsie’s table with Druthers and Crazy Times newspapers, Vaccine Choice Canada handouts and more, for parents and curious others.
Local speakers always, and Surprise Guest Speakers frequently!
This Sunday, the Action4Canada canopy and table of information, too.
And Derrick’s mobile freedom billboard.
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We welcome musical entertainers, and volunteers to manage a Kid’s Corner and help at information tables.
Please arrive early (12:30) to help set up the stage and the tables, and to invite passers-by to join us.
Miss a week and you miss a lot!Fighting for freedom is more fun with friends. Bring a few. Suggest a topic or a speaker, and we’ll be happy to find someone to share their knowledge with us.——————————- o0o————————————- OTHERS’ EVENTS · Kelowna CLEAR Rallies – 1st Saturday of each month at noon – Stuart Park, Kelowna · Oliver Rally – in front of city hall – Saturdays at 12:30 p.m. · · Local A4C – Every Tuesday at Noon Protesting with Purpose: Richard Cannings 301 Main Street Penticton ~ Next Planning Meeting August 1st and 15th at 4:30 p.m. – Winepress Church ~ · Check online for school board meetings and city council meetings in your area. They’ve been changing dates lately. ——————————————- o0o————————————————-EVENTSTo Carpool or Convoy, meet at Main & Warren at 8:15 and leave by 8:30 a.m.July 29th Kelowna – GeoEngineeringFreeCanada Event 10AM – 5PM PST (DOORS 9:30AM)Geoengineering Free Canada is putting on the biggest event ever.WE ARE THRILLED! We found the most amazing expert speakers talking about the TRUTH about Geoengineering. (More speakers TBA).Join us for a day filled with information, entertainment and food.Tickets are on sale now at either Eventbrite, BuyMeACoffee, e-transfer GFCEvents@proton.me or certainly cash.NOTE: If you plan on coming out and do not wish to do the electronic ticket purchase, kindly let us know in advance so we can better plan on the amount of food we need to order for you.Please fill out the CASH REGISTRATION form, then scan and email it to GFCEvents@proton.meYour speakers:Nikki Florio: beeheroic.comReinette Senum: GenSeven.org former mayor and governor candidate in California USDr. Ross Anderson: Naturopathic DoctorProf. Magda Havas: expert witness at the NCI Hearing in Saskatoon and environmental toxicologist
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WORTH A LOOKThe End of Freedom Brownstone Institute – We must not let them strip us of our freedoms by complying when asked, “Papers, please”. We must not let division creep in under the guise of public health when we are healthier together. (10:14) LISTEN——————————- o0o————————————-Vaccines – Where Do We Go From Here? Millions of people, including some who never considered themselves anti-vaxxers, are wondering about the “safety and efficacy” of vaccines. MillionsAgainstMandates.org READ AND WATCH——————————- o0o————————————-Action-Packed Freedom Rising Newsletter Issue 52 – Digital Freedom CanadaHERE This newsletter is now delivered every 2 weeks~ Life is meant to be enjoyed and summer is the time to do it! ——————————- o0o————————————- Please read… From the Druthers.net website, from the publishers: “I truly believe Druthers is the single most potent tool we have for defending our freedoms in Canada and getting more people to join us, so please, help this fundraiser along. It’s important that we keep the information flowing to our fellow Canadians.” And we agree. etransfers: admin@druthers.net If you prefer to make a cash donation, come to one of our P4F rallies and we will be happy to include your donation in our next e-transfer. A Big Thank You to last month’s contributors! Pentiction4Freedom supporters have dug deep to help make sure Druthers is available everywhere in Canada. Donations were down in June, perhaps because we haven’t kept it front of mind. $110 was collected at rallies and e-transferred to Druthers for the July issue (for which we are grateful). Let’s keep this in mind this coming month. Remember – there is always a separate Druthers donation box at every rally. Each month, volunteers like Sarah (thank you for being the distribution point for the Okanagan),Steve, Shar, David, Paul, Teri, Elsie and others, hand out multiple copies of Druthers to freedom-friendly merchants for their customers, and/or hand out individual copies at the A4C and P4F rallies and to their friends and neighbours. These are your every-day heroes, as are those of you receiving our newsletters as you are building community and providing support for your favourite initiatives. Read The July Issue Online or it will be available at our Sunday RallyPick up print copies at our Penticton4Freedom rallies Covering news and information that mainstream media won’t. DRUTHERS was able to print an extra 5,000 copies for the Okanagan because of our donations to the June edition. Thank you for being an everyday hero by donating, reading, sharing and distributing Druthers copies in your area. ML Read DRUTHERS
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– Experience of a TD customer who refused TD Digital Banking Agreement
– Freedom Rising Newsletter – Issue 43
– Druthers call to help! The April edition is online And now available at our rallies! Donations always needed
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In case you missed the rally last Sunday…
Several campaigns are in full swing: Doctors Package Deliveries, Alternative Health Care Practitioners and Business Education packages and more.
Thanks to Laureen, Shar, Darlene, Lynn, Steve, Elsie, Gloria, Carol and so many more whose names I may have missed, but to whom we all owe our appreciation.
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JOIN THE TEAM!
Want to join the fun in one of these initiatives or suggest another more important to you?
Just reply to this email or call 780-908-0309 to offer your help and suggestions.
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RALLY – Penticton4Freedom – every Sunday at 1.
Sunday, April 30th, 1 to 3 p.m. 2020 Main Street, Corner of Main & Warren, Penticton.THIS WEEKShar and Laureen take the stage as two very enthusiastic activist emcees. Mary Lou will be attending the second Cowichan Citizens Congress and will report back the following week.=============================================Future dates:May 14 – A former employee in the offices of the higher echelon of BC Health – TBCMay 21 – looking for a host for the day – Mary Lou will be away at a Freedom Event in CalgarySurprise speakers are a common occurrence at our rallies. Miss a week and you miss a lot!
Fighting for freedom is more fun with friends. Bring a few.Suggest a topic or a speaker, and we’ll be happy to find someone to share their knowledge with us.——————————- o0o————————————- OTHERS’ REGULAR EVENTS · Kelowna CLEAR Rallies – 1st Saturday of each month at noon – Stuart Park, Kelowna – May 6 CLEAR rally features Vincent Gircys – retired forensic OPP investigator and Canadian leader of Police4Freedom~There will be a convoy for the May 6 Clear Rally that day~ ·
Oliver Rally – in front of city hall – Saturdays at 12:30 p.m. ·
Local Action4Canada – Tuesdays at noon, in front of Richard Cannings’ Office – 301 Main Street ~ Next Planning Meetings May 2 and 16 – at 4:30 p.m. – Winepress Church · First & Third Tuesdays, Penticton Council meeting at 1. City Hall, Penticton. · School District 67 School Board Meetings 6:30 PM – last Monday of the month. · The Kelowna Courts of Injustice May 23 (9:00 a.m.) May 24-26, 2023, 9:30 a.m. R v David Lindsay s. 266 Criminal Code Assault ——————————- o0o————————————-
ACTIONS OF THE WEEKWitness History in the Making – Watch the National Citizen’s Led Inquiry LIVE!Recorded sessions are also available online. https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/ \ Vancouver, BC. This event takes place starting May 2nd to the 5th 2023.Hearings will take place from 9 am – 5 pm Pacific TimeRegister to attend and to volunteerHearing Location will be in Langley, BChttps://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/ dropdown Media tab, select from there for live and saved videos including Dr. Jordan Peterson’s testimony in Truro. Visit the rest of the site to get all the news, and see who is testifying next. IT – COULD – BE – YOU – OR SOMEONE YOU RECOGNIZE! IMPORTANT ACTIONS WHILE ON THE SITEHelp educate, create awareness, and involve all Canadians! Print and share poster & postcards – find HERE (also available at P4F Rallies) Sign Petition HERE (over 63,000 signatures – target 100,000) Buy NCI SWAG HERE Hearing Schedule HEREhttps://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/
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Canada wants to hear your story. Please send us your two-to-three-minute clip that we can post on our website telling your story.
What impacts did the governments measures have on your life?
What can Canada do better?
What questions would you like the NCI to ask and get answered?
This is your opportunity to help make a difference.
If you’re interested in watching the Inquiry hearings in Saskatoon, you can watch them here. Make sure you bookmark that link, because a lot more content will be added in the coming weeks.
The NCI Team ———————————— o0o————————————-Bill 36 Action~ The crucial independent and industry-specific regulation of regulated professions will be eliminated under Bill 36. Instead of bureaucrats who will operate in the best interests of the government, not the public or professionals, governance is best handled by people with the necessary skills, such as those who directly provide health solutions. Another point of contention is the government’s decision to attack and reform private health care when it is obvious that hospital and community medicine are in danger of failing. You can rapidly confirm this teetering implosion by talking to emergency personnel or hospital professionals. Under their control, politicians have systematically destroyed healthcare. Join the Local Bill 36 Action Print your own copies of the two letters and the Bill 36 petition and drop them off at alternative Health Care clinics and Businesses. Check with Laureen at our rallies for a list of locations already petitioned to avoid duplication. TAKE ACTION Thank you, Laureen, for initiating this ongoing project. And to Lynn, Shar, Darlene, Gloria, Carol and others for your hard work on this initiative.Join the team and get updates at our rallies on Sundays at our Penticton4Freedom ralliesBill 36 flyers from Unity Health Sciences and Uninformed Consent Brochures are also available at the rallies.https://www.cssem.org/bill36 NOTE: John Rustad, the sponsor of this petition, was an independent MLA when he first launched this petition and has already submitted 11,000 signatures to the BC Legislature. He is currently the Leader of the Conservative Party of British Columbia ———————————— o0o————————————-
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is giving your money to Volkswagen. He raised your taxes and now he’s writing Volkswagen a $13-billion cheque. That’s wrong and you need to fight back. The government shouldn’t give your tax dollars to any business. But the Volkswagen deal is especially bad. Trudeau gave Volkswagen $13 billion to build a $7-billion electric vehicle battery factory. Does giving a company $13 billion for a $7-billion factory sound like a good deal? Here are other ways taxpayers like you could use $13 billion: Canada could build more than a dozen hospitals, or hire 16,000 more nurses for ten years or cover the entire personal income tax bill of 67,000 average Canadians for a decade. You need to push back against Trudeau and big corporations taking your tax dollars. You can sign the online PETITION to stop Volkswagen from taking your money:Sign the Petition HERE——————————- o0o————————————-Petition e-4401 — The Amendments to the IHRS We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to urgently allow Parliament the opportunity to debate and vote on the amendments to the IHRs that have already been adopted by the 75th World Health Assembly and to allow the opportunity for parliamentary scrutiny of the proposed amendments currently being negotiated by WHO delegates. Sign the Petition HERE
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WORTH A LOOK STEP 22 – SUPPORT THE ‘WE ARE READY’ GLOBAL EVENT This is unlike any other event, it’s not a protest…it’s a DISPLAY OF COLLECTIVE STRENGTH. There are already over 30 events planned worldwide. From small towns to capital cities…multiple events are being added daily. This event is a great opportunity to connect with local like-minded people by utilizing the global promotion they’re already doing. Some organisers are hosting a rally, some are having a casual picnic or market. Some have organised swap meets…it doesn’t matter what you do as long as you bring people together and empower them with the message…”we are ready”. A great suggestion is to collect email addresses from attendees on the day. That way you can keep in touch with them and create a local community. You can organise weekly coffee catch-ups or walks and the group can be there to support each other when/if things get tough. You can also enrol them in activism activities and events when they arise. How to support the event 1. Read all about it first so you understand what it’s all about…ABOUT THE EVENT 2. If you’re interested in hosting an event…HOST AN EVENT 3. Cant host one but want to help spread awareness…SPREAD AWARENESS 4. Turn up to the event in style with a ‘we are ready’ trendy shirt or jumper OR make your own….CHECK IT OUT HERE 5. Download and share the promo video…see the video
HEREWe Are Ready Website——————————- o0o————————————- Articles in the Herald. A masterpiece letter to the editor from Teri McKnight on 15-minute cities. Read it HERE Not sold on the 15-minute city plan
Dear Editor: I recently picked up a brochure from Penticton City Hall’s front desk. It’s called Reimagine Northern Gateway, and is the plan to establish the city’s first 15-minute neighborhood. There are going to be more? Funny, we were told at the March open house that 15-minute cities wouldn’t happen here in our lifetime, calling it a neighbourhood doesn’t disguise the agenda. And greater Penticton is already less than a 15- minute drive to anywhere in the city. There were committees in the recent past that applied to Infrastructure Canada, apparently on behalf of the people of Penticton, to structure our city to be a SMART city, look it up, also C40. This entails using taxpayer dollars to develop our city to be a utopia where no one owns cars or travels, except by walking, biking, riding the bus. The new lake-to-lake bike lane is finished, what’s on the agenda now is to eliminate car use by installing concrete barricades to make vehicle use a lot less handy. RNG brochure details reducing traffic for “active transportation: aka walk, bike? Building more commercial space? Meanwhile the downtown is getting more and more vacant commercial space? More indoor ice surfaces, are the ones we have over-utilized? The City is acquiring land in the area, and spending over $200 million into SOEC campus, is this why taxes are going up? We have a $10 million, or more, electric reserve, which the city is “borrowing” from, for the unasked for, by the people, bike lanes. Are we being channeled into a controlled environment without our permission? Teri McKnight ——————————- o0o————————————- Check this out!! Amazing simple site with a ton of resources. HowBadismybatch.com https://www.howbadismybatch.com/index.html
Sunday, March 5th, 1 to 3 p.m. 2020 Main Street, Corner of Main & Warren, Penticton.Guest Speaker: Erica Massey – Scientist, Unity, Health & Science. Co-creator of the Doctors’ Packages will be bringing her team to put together kits and take volunteers with them after the rally, to deliver the Doctors’ Packages to local pharmacists. Let’s join in and help wake a few up.Surprise speakers are a common occurrence at our rallies.Miss a week and you miss a lot!
Fighting for freedom is more fun with friends. Bring a few.Suggest a topic and a speaker, and we’ll be happy to follow up to find an expert to share knowledge with us.——————————- o0o————————————-OTHERS’ REGULAR EVENTS · Other Kelowna CLEAR Rallies – 1st Saturday of each month at noon – Stuart Park, Kelowna· Oliver Rally – in front of city hall – Saturdays at 12:30 p.m.· Local Action4Canada – Tuesdays at noon, in front of Richard Cannings’ Office – 301 Main Street· First & Third Tuesdays, Penticton Council meeting at 1. City Hall, Penticton.· School District 67 School Board Meetings 6:30 PM – last Monday of the month. ——————————- o0o————————————-Events CLEAR Kelowna Rally & Convoy Saturday, March 4The CLEAR Kelowna Rallies are now being held only once a month, on the first Saturday of each month. This coming Saturday is March 4 and Kelowna Rally Time! Join others from south of Kelowna for a convoy to support the rally. Meet at 10:15 at the NE corner of Main and Warren, for the convoy that will be leaving at 10:30 a.m. this coming Saturday.
Purchase your tickets on or before Friday, Feb 17th for a 50% discount with the promo code UNITY50
After Feb 17th use promo code UNITY for a $10 discount.
Leaders in Dialogue is Co-hosted by former medical rep Lindsay Gabelhouse and former Global Vancouver newscast director Anita Krishna, this talk will cover important issues about the kids and how we can better serve and protect them. Have you heard about the Infants Act and Mature Minor Consent? Are you concerned about what’s being taught in our schools? Have you ever felt like the media only gives one side of the story or that the government is lying to us?
Guest speakers include Tanya Gaw, from Action 4 Canada, Sean Taylor, a former ER nurse (including pediatric) and military vet, and Dr Robert Johnson, a practicing dentist in BC. This talk will include a few short presentations, some lively discussions about what’s happening in our schools and public health system, plus plenty of time for audience Q and A. Special performances by Mitch Murphy (aka The Red Pill Rapper) and his awesome wife, Hailey.
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Join David on A4C Empower Hour
Wed. 4:30 p.m.
Smart Cities, Your Rights and More
When: Wednesday, February 22, 2023 4:30pm PST/7:30pm EST Register in Advance. The zoom doors open at 4:30pm PST and the Empower Hour begins at 5pm PST/8pm EST.
We are pleased that David Lindsay, co-founder of Common Law Education and Rights (CLEAR), is once again joining us on the next Empower Hour. Tanya and David will discuss the concerns about the 15 Minute Cities, David’s extensive Webinar series on a variety of Constitutional issues, and much more. The goal is to get you pumped up and educated so that you can walk out your freedom with boldness and confidence. Learn more about our guest and share the Empower Hour invite HERE.
Come out and support David against more Gov’t corruption as they continue to try and shut down our leaders and freedom activists
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The fact that the Canadian “authorities” have concluded that the Trucker convoy conspired an insurrection severe enough to warrant war measures action by the feds should strike horror into the heart of every Canadian who values freedom
Jordan Peterson
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Know Your Rights:
Guidelines for Peaceful Protesting/Gathering/Rallies and/or Attending Events (eg. Council Meetings, School Boards, Handing out Flyers)
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Sunday Paper Deliveries
Next delivery day: Feb. 26
(Weather Permitting)
Add your name to the delivery list and make sure to check your email on Sunday mornings for confirmation that our paper delivery will take place that day
Pick the time that works for you:
Make sure you arrive before the designated time so we can all get going ASAP!
Every Sunday at 11:30 am
Sign-up on the Newspaper Delivery list so that you get an email confirming the deliveries for each Sunday. With winter in mind, we will only do this if roads are bare and it’s not snowing. The advantage of delivering this time of year is that nobody is hanging out in their front yards except for the odd snowman.
We meet at the Capri parking lot between A&W and De Dutch Pannekoek House
Bring a large bag for carrying the papers if you want
Grab a free small Kelowna mapbook that can help you get situated. Your cell phone will be tracking and tracing you. Learn how to read maps again
You will be provided with a printed google map of the area you will be delivering to. Bring a yellow marker to indicate which streets you completed. You may run out of papers or you may end up with extra
We ask that with every paper you deliver, you remove the inserts and place them in the mailbox in front or behind the paper. That way, someone who may hastily throw out the paper will still be forced to see each individual flyer
Please deliver only one paper per mailbox, regardless if you have different papers (we usually have a combination of different papers and editions). Some houses may have up to 4 mailboxes; put one paper in each as they are for different tenants
3 Simple Things Freedom Activists can do to WIN this War:
Spread the Word by delivering papers and flyers everywhere:
Knowledge is power!
2. Replace your cell phone with a flip phone:
Think of your apps as TRAP
3. Use CASH:
Hand out the “Use cash cards” and “pay cash” business posters
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REMINDER
New Credit Card Fees & Lack of Privacy
The dangers of digital gov’t ID and currencies are here… you need to use cash.
Withdraw money on Sunday from the bank machine, and then leave your money at home if you are scared to carry it with you, and just carry the amounts of cash for each day’s purchases for the week.
NO MORE CARDS!!!! NO EXCUSES!
USE CASH $$$$$$$$$
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Contact Unity Health & Sciences Team to volunteer to distribute their professional brochures and Medical Doctor Packages throughout your home area, and to your medical doctor!
Not every doctor, analyst, and specialist is on the gov’t side and many have strong science and personal experiences opposing the gov’t narrative.
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New signs???
Even though COVID-19 restrictions are, for the most part, no longer in effect, other freedom issues have arisen as gov’ts use the cover of COVID-19 to introduce other more formidable liberty restrictions, including privacy violations.
Freedom is a multi-generational struggle – our legacy is to leave a better place for our children, not simply to quit after an issue appears to be over and anger diminishes; and of course, it rarely is truly over.
We urge you to provide designs (clear2012@pm.me) and/or your own signs for upcoming threats, including Digital ID
Digital currency and no cash
Climate change fraud
Further health, property, rights and freedoms restrictions
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Ed Kallio
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CLEARBITS:
Due to upcoming falsified legal action by the Province, and other time sensitive issues, CLEARBITS is on hold for two weeks. Thanks
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Including our own media
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Freedom Rallies
“It ain’t over till it’s over”
Next Kelowna Rally:
Saturday,
March 4, 2023
12:00 pm Stuart Park
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February 25, 2023 12:00 noon
Vernon Freedom Rally
12:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. @ Polson Park
Join Darren for the Largest rally in the North Okanagan, and growing weekly!