The Gualtieri Family Requests your Help

Oct. 4, 2007

The Gaultieri Family has asked me to be a clearing house for information for their lawyer.

They are requesting that anyone who was at Stirling on the day of the attack and has any videos, photos or eye witness accounts of anything that happened that day should pass it on to CaledoniaWakeUpCall.com

If you have any first hand information on how the OPP acted before, during or after the attack you should pass this information over to us. Please write down your statement with as much detail, time, etc. and sign your name, address and your phone number. All information will be kept confidential.

Send all information to: Info@CaledoniaWakeUpCall.com

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Canadian Taxpayers Federation Support ‘Remember Us’ March

Statement for the Freedom March, Caledonia 

Today is a day when we should all be at home with family celebrating Thanksgiving.  Instead, sadly enough, you are here making an important point about freedom: freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom not to live in fear in your own homes and your own city.

We have been blessed to live in Canada, a country that usually celebrates these freedoms even when they challenge us on sensitive issues such as this.   Everyone wants to see a peaceful resolution to the troubles in Caledonia. Everyone wants a quick resolution to the troubles and disagreements in Caledonia.  

Governments need to step up to facilitate an end to the standoff so freedom can be returned to Caledonia. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is a national, not-for-profit organization with 68,000 supporters. Our mandate is to fight for lower taxes, less waste and greater accountability in government.  The standoff has cost taxpayers over $50 million dollars and government has not been accountable for the tremendous hardships all have faced. People like the Gualtieri’s and the Brown’s, injured OPP officers and so many others can attest to that. 

It has been more than 19 long months since this standoff began and it appears no closer to resolution today. Thanks to the unfortunate acts of a few, the failure of governments and the failure of police to act, all are suffering.

Read the full statement here

Tory says premier living in bubble

OTTAWA — Dalton McGuinty is insulting Ontarians by living inside a bubble, afraid to meet real people, John Tory charged yesterday.

“What is Dalton McGuinty afraid of?” Tory asked a breakfast gathering of Progressive Conservative supporters in Ottawa.

“Real people with real problems don’t get inside his bubble,” Tory said, campaigning on McGuinty’s home turf.

On the rare occasion when the Liberal premier has encountered Ontarians such as a cancer patient in Ottawa, the Conservative leader said, he merely brushes by.

“You brush them off, you tell them off” is McGuinty’s approach, a fired-up Tory told a crowd of about 60. “This is a shocking abdication of responsibility.”

McGuinty, he recalled, rushed past a terminal cancer patient in Ottawa who was upset at a lack of funding for cancer drugs, saying, “That’s not true.” And the premier ignored a Kitchener mother who felt his government should fund religious schools.

“You don’t see Dalton McGuinty talking to a lot of real voters out there,” Tory said. “He is not exposing himself to real people.”

The Conservative leader said McGuinty is afraid of confrontation in the campaign.

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Police liable for inadequate work, Supreme Court rules

Police investigators can be sued if they conduct an investigation negligently, the Supreme Court of Canada said Thursday in a ruling that will send shudders through police ranks.

”Police officers owe a duty of care to suspects,” Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin said for a 6-3 majority. ”Their conduct during an investigation should be measured against the standard of how a reasonable officer in like circumstances would have acted.

”Police officers may be accountable for harm resulting to a suspect if they fail to meet this standard,” she said, writing on behalf of Mr. Justice Ian Binnie, Mr. Justice Louis LeBel, Madam Justice Marie Deschamps, Mr. Justice Morris Fish and Madam Justice Rosalie Abella.

The court nonetheless dealt a personal loss to a Hamilton man – Jason George Hill – who had argued that he was negligently arrested, resulting in his spending 20 months in jail for a string of robberies that he did not commit.

Mr. Hill was ultimately exonerated when the real robber was found and convicted. He sued investigators, specifically citing an inept police lineup procedure, but the court ruled against his suit.

Mr. Hill’s lawyers – Sean Dewart and Louis Sokolov – were exultant about the legal implications of Thursday’s ruling but disappointed that Mr. Hill’s lawsuit was thrown out.

This is a bitter day for Jason Hill,” Mr. Sokolov said. “The court acknowledges that he was wronged by the justice system, and yet excused the police from liability because their conduct in this case met the very low standards that prevailed more than a decade ago.

“On a happier note, this is a very good day for police accountability in Canada. The Supreme Court stated in resounding language that police are no different from the rest of us, and can be sued if they do their jobs negligently.”

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Still hooked by the fight for a race-free B.C. fishery

Globe & Mail

JOHN CARPAY Executive director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation The Japanese Canadian Fishermen’s Association is once again asking the Supreme Court of Canada to rule against racist policies in British Columbia’s commercial fishery.

This December, Canada’s highest court will hear the appeal of John Michael Kapp and other commercial fishermen who were arrested in 1998 for fishing in protest against a private commercial fishery for members of two aboriginal bands. This race-based commercial fishery allows individuals with bloodline ties to the Musqueam and Tsawwassen bands to fish once in a commercial fishery for their individual benefit, and a second time in the public commercial fishery left over for other Canadians. Other fishermen – including aboriginal Canadians and Canadians of Croatian, Vietnamese, Norwegian and other ancestries – are excluded from the first commercial fishery because they lack a bloodline tie to these two bands.

Introduced by Brian Mulroney in 1992 and continued under Jean Chretien, Paul Martin and Stephen Harper, this race-based commercial fishery is radically different from the non-commercial aboriginal “food fishery.” Traditionally, the “food fishery” allowed aboriginals to fish in limited quantities for food and social and ceremonial purposes, without imposing any barriers to participating in B.C.’s commercial fishery. Working under rules that apply equally to all Canadians, aboriginals have enjoyed great success in B.C.’s commercial fishery. More than a third of B.C.’s fishermen, licence holders and vessel owners are aboriginal, and aboriginals are among the 145 fishermen arrested in 1998 who are now asking the Supreme Court to strike down this policy of segregation by race.

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Frontenac Ventures Corp. Granted Interlocutory Injunction Regarding Sharbot Lake Uranium Camp

OAKVILLE, ON, Oct. 1 /CNW/ – Since June 28, 2007, members of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation (“AAFN”) and the Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation (“Shabot”) have occupied private property in Frontenac County and prevented Frontenac Ventures Corp. (“FVC”) from accessing its exploration property to conduct exploration activities.

By decision dated September 27, 2007, Associate Chief Justice Cunningham granted FVC an interlocutory injunction ordering, among other things, that representatives of AAFN, Shabot or anyone supporting their position or associated with them, leave the subject property immediately. The Court also ordered that FVC have immediate, unfettered and unobstructed access to the subject property.

The Court granted various other injunctive relief in favour of FVC including an order restraining the AAFN and the Shabot from interfering with, disrupting or hindering in any way, directly or indirectly, FVC’s access to the property and any work or exploration activities. Associate Chief Justice Cunningham’s order is based on a 40 week exploration program proposed by the company.

In his endorsement, Associate Chief Justice Cunningham expressed the hope that contempt proceedings will not be necessary and that the AAFN and the Shabot will not only obey the order but rejoin the table to permit ongoing and meaningful consultation to occur. FVC is committed to participating in any efforts of Ontario and the First Nations’ to consult in good faith.

For further information: George White, President & CEO, Tel: (905)
722-8077, Fax: (905) 722-3296

Courtesy of www.CaledoniaWakeupCall.com