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WALLICE BELLAIR

Preface Walking amongst the cannibals - Watching out for the sharks? While this poor guy was being massacred, dismembered and eaten, Canadas Police Force [the Royal Canadian Mounted Police] waited, and waited, and waited? Shocking beyond belief that the RCMP, in my eyes did nothing to stop this. I lost all respect for the RCMP. They are nothing but clowns in uniform. This shows, yet again, the pathetic actions of the RCMP. I don't trust them and I'm embarrassed to say that they are the security of this country. Shame on the RCMP again and again and again. This author writes about such deplorable behavior.

Index
Page 5 Page 8 Page 10 Page 14 Page 17 Page 20 Page 26 Page 39 Chapter 1 [The RCMP waited, and waited, and waited what cowards?] Chapter 2 [The RCMP taser, and taser, and taser until dead what cowards?] Chapter 3 [The RCMP taser to death unarmed Polish immigrant what cowards?] Chapter 4 [The RCMP taser to death unarmed Polish immigrant and the skunks at B.C. Criminal Justice cleared the RCMP officers - what cowards?] Chapter 5 [The RCMP taser to death unarmed Polish immigrant and the head skunk cleared the RCMP officers - what cowards?] Chapter 6 [What is this chief skunk, RCMP Commissioner William Elliott, going to offer Interpol?] Chapter 7 [And what about the other RCMP skunks who sat quietly while perjury was going on what cowards?] Chapter 8 [One could go on and on about the RCMP cowards who tasered Robert Dziekanski to death but lets look at some other RCMP cowards who tasered an 82 year old man in the hospital what cowards?] Chapter 9 [One could go on and on about the RCMP cowards who tasered Robert Dziekanski to death but lets look at some other RCMP cowards who beat up a 70 year old woman what cowards?] Chapter 10 [Weve looked at the cowardly RCMP tasering Robert Dziekanski to death, and tasering an 82 year old man, and beating up a 70 year old woman lets look at the other extreme RCMP taser 11 year old boy what cowards?] Chapter 11 [Cowardly RCMP taser 11 year old Native boy Many people have said there is an intrinsic prejudice towards Canadian Natives by many RCMP officers now they are going to kill us?] Chapter 12 [Cowardly RCMP taser 11 year old Native boy Many people have said there is an intrinsic prejudice towards Canadian Natives by many RCMP officers Before his death he was able to tell a nurse at a the hospital that an RCMP officer jumped up and down on him?] Chapter 13 [You can imagine what the RCMP would pull on someone who wrote about them?] Chapter 14 [Whatever happened to Vincent Li?] Chapter 15 [Selkirk Mental Health Centre is no place to be harassed by the sharks?]

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Page 111 - Chapter 17 [What kind of harassment did the apparent RCMP sharks use against the first female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Centre in Manitoba, Canada?] Page 113 - Chapter 18 [Was any of the management in cahoots with the apparent RCMP sharks to help harass the first female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Centre in Manitoba, Canada?] Page 127 - Chapter 19 [Is this further proof the management was in cahoots with the apparent RCMP sharks to help harass the first female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Centre in Manitoba, Canada?] Page 175 - Chapter 20 [If the reader thinks Ministries of Health have your interests at heart, think again?] Page 183 - Chapter 21 [Come on Justice Minister Andrew Swan, you give a pass to incompetent social workers in Manitoba, Canada] Page 195 - Chapter 22 [Come on Justice Minister Andrew Swan, where New York charges their social workers, Manitoba tries to cover-up!] Page 198 - Chapter 23 [Come on Justice Minister Andrew Swan, lets not deny racist attitudes?] Page 201 - Chapter 24 [Come on Justice Minister Andrew Swan, Manitoba also discriminates against the first two female security officers hired?] Page 204 - Chapter 25 [Come on Manitoba Justice Minister Andrew Swan, what kind of frigging moron is this agent of yours?] Page 208 - Chapter 26 [The second female security officer complained to CEO Danah Bellehumeur and the HR Manager Debbie Kelly and she was fired too!] Page 210 - Chapter 27 [And guess what, this investigator Pat Roberts with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission could see nothing wrong with all that????] Page 211 - Chapter 28 [And now the coup de grce, the smoking gun, Yah, Yah, Whatever!]

Chapter 1 [The RCMP waited, and waited, and waited what cowards?] As cited, after repeatedly stabbing Tim McLean aboard a Greyhound bus, Vince Li proceeded to defile, dismember and eat parts of his body, a Winnipeg court heard this morning.1 Reading from an agreed statement of facts, Crown attorney Joyce Dalmyn revealed for the first time horrifying details of McLean's death last July aboard a Winnipegbound bus.2 Dahlman said Li took a seat next to McLean following a stop in Brandon. About 20 kilometres west of Portage la Prairie "Li began to repeatedly stab Tim McLean for no apparent reason," Dalmyn said.3 "Tim McLean struggled and tried to escape, that is clear because he suffered a number of defensive wounds."4 As passengers scrambled to escape the bus, "Li appeared to be preoccupied with Mr. McLean and continued to stab him as he lay on the floor," Dalmyn said.5 Court heard police officers at the scene saw Li in the bus eating pieces of McLean's flesh.6 McLean's eyes and a large piece of his heart have never been recovered and are presumed to have been eaten.7 And what was Canadas police [the RCMP] doing, and what did people think of their inaction? These comments say it all: In Bus 1170, the fifth estate recounts the story from the perspective of two of the surviving passengers. Stephen Allison vividly recounts his sense of foreboding as Li walked down the aisle and took the seat across from him, beside Tim McLean. And Kayli Shaw remembers the chilling moment when Allison ran by her yelling at the driver to pull over, that someone was being stabbed. She says she is still haunted by the sound of Tim McLeans screams.8 Bob McKeown also introduces us to truck driver Chris Alguire, who stopped his truck when he saw the Greyhound at the side of the road. Alguire tried to confront Li. What he saw has left him unable to resume his former job or life since then.9 And the fifth estate talks to Tim McLeans family his father, stepmother and mother who today still struggle to understand why the RCMP stood outside Bus 1170 for five hours, as Li cut up their sons body.10

I am a tour/charter bus driver. I am appalled at the people on that bus and the RCMP. I can tell you for certain had I been on that bus I would have jumped on him and bashed his head against that window until I knocked him out or killed him. And to think that the RCMP just sat outside and watched doing nothing. I can't believe it. Why not go in and shoot the idiot. Excuse me, but I am so angry at this, I have to close.11 Another terrible crime is being committed and the police ignore doing what's right. What bothers me most about this crime is that it extends far beyond just the murder of this young boy What the reports FAIL to mention is that why did RCMP stand around and put crime scene tape around yet not attempt to just get on the bus.12 Shocking beyond belief that the RCMP, in my eyes did nothing to stop this. I lost all respect for the RCMP. They are nothing but clowns in uniform.13 As for the behavior of the RCMP in this case every officer that showed up should be fired for their indecision.14 RCMP are against us, theyre not there to protect us!!15 This shows, yet again, the pathetic actions of the RCMP. I don't trust them and I'm embarrassed to say that they are the security of this country. Shame on the RCMP again and again and again.16 Inept, incompetent RCMP. As usual.17 Our NATIONAL police force who chose to stand down on this crime. I am ashamed of our RCMP.18 Maybe if Mr.Li had of been holding a stapler instead of a knife the outcome may have been different. Shame on the RCMP.19 The RCMP should have taken action and removed that man from the Bus a.s.a.p. Not only should they have protected the citizens who were there, but their obligation is to see to it that the man was stopped from causing any more assault.20 As for the cops, I am so full of rage. I have no faith in the police. Perhaps the RCMP should stick to its Musical Ride as that is all they excel at. Look at how they are equipped: guns, tasers, bullet proof vests, cuffs, rubber gloves, metal batons, etc. They are not here to serve and protect... they are at war with the populace. 21 I can't imagine why anyone would want to be an RCMP officer now a days!22

7 The RCMP delayed taking action for over 4 hours and this is unacceptable. There is simply no excuse for allowing such reprehensible behavior to continue while effectively doing nothing.23 As for the RCMP. Whomever is responsible for the reason the officers didn't board the bus and stop this animal, is guilty of a crime as well.24 My heart goes out to the family of Tim. I was watching the Fifth Estate on T.V .The Police should of at least did something about that instead of just watching.25 Would the term arse holes seem appropriate to describe the RCMP? Wait around, wait around, wait around and do nothing while Vincent Li massacres, dismembers and eats this poor victim just cowardly behavior! Footnotes 1 - 7. Li pleads not guilty at bus beheading trial By Dean Pritchard, SUN MEDIA 3rd March 2009 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:ixJzYOtpah0J:www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/03/03/8605606.html +Li+pleads+not+guilty+at+bus+beheading+trial+Dean+Pritchard, +SUN+MEDIA&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca&source=www.google.ca 8 - 10. GREYHOUND BUS 1170 http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2009-2010/bus_1170/timeline.html 11 - 10. Bus 1170: Your Comments http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2009-2010/bus_1170/timeline.html

Chapter 2 [The RCMP taser, and taser, and taser until dead what cowards?] As many viewers and readers commented to the tragic, tragic death of Tim McLean aboard a Greyhound bus1, the RCMP are not above tasering people at the drop of a hat even tasering them to death! Just cowardly, disgusting behavior by the RCMP. As stated: They so quick to use tasers on people who arent a threat but yet they sit on their butts for someone who decapitated someone on a greyhound bus whats wrong with this picture?2 The police do not hesitate to use their taser guns for far less serious reasons.3 Our fereral police won't hesitate tazering an innocent man to death at an airport but do nothing to stop another man from consuming/eating another in the presence of innocent onlookers - it makes me sick.4 Given the RCMP use of deadly force, on innocent people, example Mr D. at Vancouver airport, and the 82 years old man in the hospital ... the question to ask now is why they did not force the issue with the murderer on the bus?5 I am totally horrified after watching this program. The RCMP certainly did not waste time tasering a man to death from a foreign country in the Vancouver Airport. 6 I don't understand the police. They have no problem tasering somebody who is unarmed and kill them but we can't seem to pull the trigger on somebody standing there with a knife and somebodys HEAD?????7 Ah, could this be the reason the RCMP waited, and waited, and waited Vincent Li was armed with a knife, while was unarmed? What cowards taser an unarmed man to death however they wait, and wait, and wait while Vincent Li massacres, dismembers and eats this poor victim? What case are these folks talking about the RCMP tasering someone to death in the Vancouver Airport? Why none other than the RCMP cowardly tasering to death of 40-year-old Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski.8

Footnotes 1. Li pleads not guilty at bus beheading trial By Dean Pritchard, SUN MEDIA 3rd March 2009 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:ixJzYOtpah0J:www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/03/03/8605606.html +Li+pleads+not+guilty+at+bus+beheading+trial+Dean+Pritchard, +SUN+MEDIA&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca&source=www.google.ca Also see: GREYHOUND BUS 1170 http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2009-2010/bus_1170/timeline.html 2 - 7. Bus 1170: Your Comments http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2009-2010/bus_1170/timeline.html 8. Still they get no consequences. By Suzanne Fournier, The Province, June 20, 2010. http://www.theprovince.com/news/Still+they+consequences/3178031/stor y.html Also see: RCMP say deceased man was 40-year-old Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski. Last Updated: Tuesday, October 16, 2007. CBC News. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/10/15/taserdeath.html Also see: Inquiry deservedly hammers RCMP in Dziekanski death. By Paul Schneiderit, The Chronicle Herald, Tue. Jun 22. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TeQCCRcGIYJ:thechronicleherald.ca/Columnists/1188456.html+rcmp+lie+at+ Robert+Dziekanski+inquiry&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca Also see: I saw more RCMP officers lie to cover up this cowardly crime. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:O1wmRBqPANUJ:www.thepetitionsite.com/95/justice-formother-of-late-robertdziekanski+rcmp+lie+Robert+Dziekanski&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

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Chapter 3 [The RCMP taser to death unarmed Polish immigrant what cowards?] Apparently the RCMP within seconds had tasered Robert Dziekanski and, even after falling to the ground, shrieking in pain, the RCMP repeatedly tasered him to death! Thats Canadas police force for you, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police! Four burly RCMP officers, Constables Gerry Rundel, Bill Bently, Kwesi Millington, and supervisor Corporal Benjamin Robinson were involved in this cowardly incident where, about 25 seconds after arriving at the scene, Corporal Robinson ordered the Taser to be used. Constable Millington tasered Dziekaski. He began to convulse and was tasered several more times after falling to the ground, where the four officers pinned, handcuffed and continued to taser him (to death).1 Did the RCMP get away with murder? Some appear to think yes! And, just like the cowards they are, the RCMP lies started immediately. Richmond RCMP Sgt. Pierre Lemaitre said officers struggled to subdue the man: 'Even though he had received what they call pulses, two pulses from Taser, he was still out of control.'2 The man actually died after 4 Taser jolts, witness alleges.3 In fact, one witness said she offered to tell the RCMP officers what she witnessed, and that one officer said, "'I'll be with you in a few minutes.'" But the officers did not take a statement from her, she alleges.4 As reported, within seconds, he had been Tasered. Dziekanski, even after falling to the ground, shrieking in pain, was Tasered repeatedly.5 The cover-up begins! After the event, the Mounties all gave similar statements about how Dziekanski had come at them, yelling and wildly swinging the stapler, and how several officers had to wrestle the man to the ground.6 However, a video proves the RCMP officers outright lied! A witnesss video of the event showed none of that happened ... if not for

11 the video, might have got away with whitewashing what the judge called the forces "shameful" conduct in the events that led to an innocent mans death.7 As further reported, I saw more RCMP officers lie to cover up this cowardly crime.8 Incredibly, on Dec. 12, 2008, B.C. Criminal Justice branch spokesman Stan Lowe "cleared" the four officers of any wrongdoing and portrayed Dziekanski as a violent and agitated alcoholic whose irrational behavior contributed to his own death.9 However, even this Stan Lowe was put in his place when Cisowski had the satisfaction of hearing Thomas Braidwood call the four Mounties "inappropriately aggressive" and "patently unbelievable," while emphasizing Dziekanski did nothing wrong nor in any way caused his own death.10 Caught in their lies thanks to videotape of the cowardly crime, as it has been described. Braidwood called the bystander video by Paul Pritchard of Dziekanski's Tasering death "invaluable" evidence that "couldn't be cross-examined."11 Onlookers were incredulous when RCMP Commissioner William Elliott said Friday he wouldn't be announcing any disciplinary measures for any of the four Mounties for their role in Dziekanski's death.12 Get away with murder and no consequences? Even the apology to Robert Dziekanskis mother was a bunch of RCMP bunk? A raft of internal RCMP emails was released through an Access to Information Act request showing that the April 1 apology was a carefullycrafted script designed not to blame any RCMP member.13 On the day before the staging of the apology, RCMP Deputy Commissioner Gary Bass reassured RCMP staff relations supervisor Brian Roach that their "apology" to Cisowski did not mean they were apologizing for anything specific that any of their officers had done.14 "Essentially, even though the word apology worries some, we are not apologizing for the actions of specific members or saying anything about specific actions.15

12 Cisowski said yesterday "this just shows that the RCMP even when they apologize to me, they coverup.16 Actually tasered five times! The e-mail, sent by RCMP Chief Supt. Dick Bent to Assistant Commissioner Al Macintyre suggested for the first time that the four Mounties who responded to a call at Vancouver's airport planned to use a Taser on Robert Dziekanski, who died at the airport on Oct. 14, 2007, after he was Tasered five times.17 Finally, why do the people of Canada put up with this police force? Footnotes 1. Robert Dziekaski Taser incident http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dzieka%C5%84ski_Taser_incident 2 - 3. RCMP say deceased man was 40-year-old Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski. Last Updated: Tuesday, October 16, 2007. CBC News. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/10/15/taserdeath.html 4. One witness said she offered to tell the RCMP officers what she witnessed. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IF56ES6gNEJ:vancouveraiportpolicekillpolishman.blogspot.com/ +RCMP+KILL+POLISH+AT+AIRPORT&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca 5 - 7. Inquiry deservedly hammers RCMP in Dziekanski death. By Paul Schneiderit, The Chronicle Herald, Tue. Jun 22. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TeQCCRcGIYJ:thechronicleherald.ca/Columnists/1188456.html+rcmp+lie+at+ Robert+Dziekanski+inquiry&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca 8. I saw more RCMP officers lie to cover up this cowardly crime. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:O1wmRBqPANUJ:www.thepetitionsite.com/95/justice-formother-of-late-robertdziekanski+rcmp+lie+Robert+Dziekanski&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca 9 - 12. Still they get no consequences. By Suzanne Fournier, The Province, June 20, 2010. http://www.theprovince.com/news/Still+they+consequences/3178031/stor y.html

13 13 - 16. RCMP's apology grudging, evasive. By Suzanne Fournier, The Province, June 17, 2010. http://www.theprovince.com/news/RCMP+apology+grudging+evasive/31 64920/story.html 17. E-mail Suggests Four RCMP Officers Committed Perjury While Senior Officers Sat Silent. Contributed on Sun, 2009/06/21 - 2:30pm. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:Ae1cCKW4u6cJ:mostlywater.org/email_suggests_four_rcmp_off icers_committed_perjury_while_senior_officers_sat_silent+assaults+com mitted+by+rcmp&cd=18&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca Also see: Startling New Email Halts Inquiry. By Neal Hall and Lori Culbert; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun. http://www2.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=1716658 Also see: Damning e-mail suggests the four officers committed perjury and that senior officers sat silent while they did. By Ian Mulgrew; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Column+Mounties+Tasering+sh... http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:Ae1cCKW4u6cJ:mostlywater.org/email_suggests_four_rcmp_off icers_committed_perjury_while_senior_officers_sat_silent+assaults+com mitted+by+rcmp&cd=18&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

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Chapter 4 [The RCMP taser to death unarmed Polish immigrant and the skunks at B.C. Criminal Justice cleared the RCMP officers - what cowards?] Its very apparent, the B.C. Criminal Justice is no better than these cowardly RCMP? As reported above, incredibly, on Dec. 12, 2008, B.C. Criminal Justice branch spokesman Stan Lowe "cleared" the four officers of any wrongdoing and portrayed Dziekanski as a violent and agitated alcoholic whose irrational behavior contributed to his own death.1 What miserable skunks! Zofia Cisowski's "darkest hour" after learning that her son Robert Dziekanski was dead came when B.C. criminal justice officials declared that the RCMP had done nothing wrong -- and that it was her son's own fault that he died.2 On Friday, Cisowski had the satisfaction of hearing Thomas Braidwood call the four Mounties "inappropriately aggressive" and "patently unbelievable," while emphasizing Dziekanski did nothing wrong nor in any way caused his own death.3 Friday was an exhausting day after a night in which Cisowski slept little, coming at the end of years of hearings in which a video of her son's death was screened repeatedly -- although it helped a kind and patient former judge get to the truth.4 Braidwood called the bystandervideo by Paul Pritchard of Dziekanski's Tasering death "invaluable" evidence that "couldn't be cross-examined."5 "Nothing will happen to them, still they are on the job, the four policemen who caused Robert's death by what they did, and then they lie," said Cisowski.6 "Many people [not just in B.C.] remember where they were at the time the film was shown," he said.7 "We are welcoming and one of the friendliest countries in the world -- we didn't display it that day."8 Not with cowards like this in the RCMP? Footnotes

15 1 - 8. 'Still they get no consequences' Four Mounties involved should not get off scot-free, says Dziekanski's mother By Suzanne Fournier, The Province June 20, 2010 http://www.theprovince.com/news/Still+they+consequences/3178031/stor y.html Also see: RCMP say deceased man was 40-year-old Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski. Last Updated: Tuesday, October 16, 2007. CBC News. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/10/15/taserdeath.html Also see: One witness said she offered to tell the RCMP officers what she witnessed. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IF56ES6gNEJ:vancouveraiportpolicekillpolishman.blogspot.com/ +RCMP+KILL+POLISH+AT+AIRPORT&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca Also see: Inquiry deservedly hammers RCMP in Dziekanski death. By Paul Schneiderit, The Chronicle Herald, Tue. Jun 22. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TeQCCRcGIYJ:thechronicleherald.ca/Columnists/1188456.html+rcmp+lie+at+ Robert+Dziekanski+inquiry&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca Also see: I saw more RCMP officers lie to cover up this cowardly crime. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:O1wmRBqPANUJ:www.thepetitionsite.com/95/justice-formother-of-late-robertdziekanski+rcmp+lie+Robert+Dziekanski&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca Also see: RCMP's apology grudging, evasive. By Suzanne Fournier, The Province, June 17, 2010. http://www.theprovince.com/news/RCMP+apology+grudging+evasive/31 64920/story.html Also see: E-mail Suggests Four RCMP Officers Committed Perjury While Senior Officers Sat Silent. Contributed on Sun, 2009/06/21 - 2:30pm. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:Ae1cCKW4u6cJ:mostlywater.org/email_suggests_four_rcmp_off icers_committed_perjury_while_senior_officers_sat_silent+assaults+com mitted+by+rcmp&cd=18&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca Also see: Startling New Email Halts Inquiry. By Neal Hall and Lori Culbert; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun. http://www2.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=1716658

16 Also see: Damning e-mail suggests the four officers committed perjury and that senior officers sat silent while they did. By Ian Mulgrew; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Column+Mounties+Tasering+sh... http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:Ae1cCKW4u6cJ:mostlywater.org/email_suggests_four_rcmp_off icers_committed_perjury_while_senior_officers_sat_silent+assaults+com mitted+by+rcmp&cd=18&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

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Chapter 5 [The RCMP taser to death unarmed Polish immigrant and the head skunk cleared the RCMP officers - what cowards?] Its very apparent, the head of the RCMP Commissioner William Elliott has no scruples? Onlookers were incredulous when RCMP Commissioner William Elliott said Friday he wouldn't be announcing any disciplinary measures for any of the four Mounties for their role in Dziekanski's death.1 Listening to Elliott say the RCMP has reformed its training and Taser policies, Cisowski whispered: "Still they get no consequences for causing my son's death."2 Braidwood's 460-page report, entitled simply Why? The Robert Dziekanski Tragedy, is a blistering denunciation of the four Mounties who Tasered and restrained Dziekanski face down, then left him unattended until he died.3 Braidwood said the four Mounties behaved as if they were responding to a "barroom brawl," and senior officer Robinson "intervened in an inappropriately aggressive manner."4 "I found that Mr. Dziekanski had been compliant, was not defiant or resistant, did not brandish the stapler and did not move toward any of the officers," Braidwood said.5 "I concluded the constable [Millington] was not justified in deploying the weapon and neither the constable nor the corporal honestly perceived that Mr. Dziekanski was intending to attack any of the officers."6 Braidwood said the other two officers also "offered patently unbelievable after-the-fact rationalizations of their police notes and statements to [the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team]."7 As for Robinson's claim that the Mounties made a point to check if Dziekanski was alive, Braidwood was dismissive.8 "I can place little reliance on the testimony of Cpl. Robinson that he constantly monitored Mr. Dziekanski's breathing until the firefighters arrived. Similarly, I find unpersuasive the testimony of Const. Rundel that . . . he knelt down near Mr. Dziekanski and heard him breathing and snoring.9

18 "I am satisfied that Mr. Dziekanski went into cardiac arrest first, then went unconscious, and finally showed signs of cyanosis, all within 75 seconds of being handcuffed."10 It must be asked: What is this chief skunk, RCMP Commissioner William Elliott, going to offer Interpol he was apparently a skunk in Canada and hes not going to change his apparent cowardly stripe with Interpol? Footnotes 1 - 10. 'Still they get no consequences' Four Mounties involved should not get off scot-free, says Dziekanski's mother By Suzanne Fournier, The Province June 20, 2010 http://www.theprovince.com/news/Still+they+consequences/3178031/stor y.html Also see: RCMP say deceased man was 40-year-old Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski. Last Updated: Tuesday, October 16, 2007. CBC News. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/10/15/taserdeath.html Also see: One witness said she offered to tell the RCMP officers what she witnessed. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IF56ES6gNEJ:vancouveraiportpolicekillpolishman.blogspot.com/ +RCMP+KILL+POLISH+AT+AIRPORT&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca Also see: Inquiry deservedly hammers RCMP in Dziekanski death. By Paul Schneiderit, The Chronicle Herald, Tue. Jun 22. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TeQCCRcGIYJ:thechronicleherald.ca/Columnists/1188456.html+rcmp+lie+at+ Robert+Dziekanski+inquiry&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca Also see: I saw more RCMP officers lie to cover up this cowardly crime. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:O1wmRBqPANUJ:www.thepetitionsite.com/95/justice-formother-of-late-robertdziekanski+rcmp+lie+Robert+Dziekanski&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca Also see: RCMP's apology grudging, evasive. By Suzanne Fournier, The Province, June 17, 2010. http://www.theprovince.com/news/RCMP+apology+grudging+evasive/31 64920/story.html

19 Also see: E-mail Suggests Four RCMP Officers Committed Perjury While Senior Officers Sat Silent. Contributed on Sun, 2009/06/21 - 2:30pm. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:Ae1cCKW4u6cJ:mostlywater.org/email_suggests_four_rcmp_off icers_committed_perjury_while_senior_officers_sat_silent+assaults+com mitted+by+rcmp&cd=18&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca Also see: Startling New Email Halts Inquiry. By Neal Hall and Lori Culbert; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun. http://www2.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=1716658 Also see: Damning e-mail suggests the four officers committed perjury and that senior officers sat silent while they did. By Ian Mulgrew; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Column+Mounties+Tasering+sh... http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:Ae1cCKW4u6cJ:mostlywater.org/email_suggests_four_rcmp_off icers_committed_perjury_while_senior_officers_sat_silent+assaults+com mitted+by+rcmp&cd=18&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

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Chapter 6 [What is this chief skunk, RCMP Commissioner William Elliott, going to offer Interpol?] What is this chief skunk, RCMP Commissioner William Elliott, going to offer Interpol he was apparently a skunk in Canada and hes not going to change his apparent cowardly stripe with Interpol? After all, only a coward treats underlings this way - RCMP Commissioner William Elliotts behavior was "abusive, ignorant" and "bullying"? Incredibly, apparently the idiocy still continues, where senior RCMP members have complained about Commissioner William Elliott to some of the highest levels of the federal government on two separate occasions in the past seven days, CBC News has learned.1 On Tuesday, CTV's Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife spoke to a senior Mountie who described the beef senior officers have with their commissioner. Fife quoted the unnamed Mountie as being "fed up" with Elliott's behavior, describing it as "abusive, ignorant" and "bullying."2 As further noted, the complainants, possibly as many as 10, include some of the force's top officers,3 with Deputy Commissioners Raf Souccar and Tim Killam laying complaints against Elliott, along with four assistant commissioners: Francois Bidal, Pat McDonell, Mike Cabana and Mike McDonell, who quit in frustration.4 What was Prime Minister Stephen Harpers government reaction, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Tuesday he is troubled by revelations that up to a dozen senior deputy and assistant commissioners complained directly to his deputy ministers office about Elliotts bullying behaviour.5 Last year, the RCMP spent more than $44,000 to send Elliott for a threeday executive coaching session in Scottsdale, Ariz.6 Did it work not really. Maybe the guy cant learn? Incredibly, one complaint described Elliott, who became the first civilian to head the Mounties in July 2007, in a rage, throwing papers at another officer.7 In another episode, Elliott went over the top when he exploded at a more junior RCMP officer after the gear the commissioner was provided for his visit to Afghanistan didnt fit properly.8

21 In fact, Elliott, said one source, had been repeatedly taken aside by senior members after shouting at other officers during meetings or in front of other RCMP members.9 There is supposed to be zero tolerance in the RCMP for managers who harass their subordinates and yet Elliott epitomized the bully boss, the insider said.10 As mentioned, for members to go outside the force with a complaint against the head of the RCMP means that many people have been pushed beyond a point where they're willing to tolerate it."11 The CBC's Brian Stewart, who has followed the Mounties for decades, said the RCMP protest is unprecedented.12 Elliott declined to appear on CTV to discuss the matter. "He will not comment publicly, he will not come on camera, we've made that effort," said Fife.13 Elliott later chastised the complainants for going public.14 Its almost Zack, the sequel said one source yesterday referring to former RCMP commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli. I think the authority went to his head.15 As emphasized, "I don't see how they can fix it up right now. The genie's out of the bottle."16 Elliott was to fix the problems left by Zaccardelli, a showboating, hierarchical leader who played favorites within the force, and stepped down after misinforming a parliamentary committee about the forces actions in the Maher Arar scandal.17 He didnt seem to be doing a good job? What was Prime Minister Stephen Harpers government response, Toews said the government expects the assessment to be conducted expeditiously and without further rancor. Frankly, it is unacceptable for individuals in leadership positions in an organization as important as the RCMP to air internal disputes through the news media.18 In other words, keep it hush, hush! Linda Duxbury, a professor who has studied the RCMP extensively, said that the new problems are indicative of deep-seeded problems at the agency.19

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The RCMPs internal troubles are now another political nightmare for Harpers Conservatives, coming at a time when the governments other top security pick, Richard Fadden, the CSIS boss, is also under fire.20 No wonder their job is making them sick with leaders like this running the show? What was Richard Faddens indiscretion, apparently he wanted to highlight some troubling revelations for the public. As cited, Fadden told the CBC that at least two provincial cabinet ministers and a number of other government officials and employees are under the control of foreign countries as part of espionage schemes, Canadas top security official said Tuesday.21 In an exclusive interview on CBCs The National, CSIS director Richard Fadden said foreign powers are infiltrating Canadian political circles and influencing public servants, fuelling a growing concern about economic espionage in Canada.22 Finally, economic espionage, the trading, sharing or theft of federal secrets, can be considered a crime. He would not name the provinces the cabinet ministers are from.23 Interpol has announced that William J.S. Elliott, currently Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), is being appointed as Special Representative of INTERPOL to the United Nations.24 William J.S. Elliott will bring a wealth of experience and commitment to his important and challenging new post. His decision to take on this key role as the primary liaison between INTERPOL and the United Nations will enhance the relationship between the two organizations and benefit international law enforcement cooperation, said INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble.25 As stated, what does this guy have to offer Interpol well maybe his "abusive, ignorant" and "bullying" behavior? What a joke! Footnotes 1. Top RCMP staff complain about boss Last Updated: Monday, July 26, 2010 http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/26/rcmp-commissioner-

23 complaints.html 2. Assessment underway in RCMP conflict: Toews CTV.ca News Staff 27/07/2010 11:03:42 PM http://news.sympatico.ctv.ca/home/assessment_underway_in_rcmp_confli ct_toews/d78bb0b6 3. Top RCMP staff complain about boss Last Updated: Monday, July 26, 2010 http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/26/rcmp-commissionercomplaints.html 4. Assessment underway in RCMP conflict: Toews CTV.ca News Staff 27/07/2010 11:03:42 PM http://news.sympatico.ctv.ca/home/assessment_underway_in_rcmp_confli ct_toews/d78bb0b6 5 - 6. Revolt in senior ranks spurs probe of RCMP chief Tonda MacCharles, Ottawa Bureau, Published On Tue Jul 27 2010 http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/840930--revolt-in-seniorranks-spurs-probe-of-rcmp-chief?bn=1 7. Top RCMP staff complain about boss Last Updated: Monday, July 26, 2010 http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/26/rcmp-commissionercomplaints.html 8 - 10. Revolt in senior ranks spurs probe of RCMP chief Tonda MacCharles, Ottawa Bureau, Published On Tue Jul 27 2010 http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/840930--revolt-in-seniorranks-spurs-probe-of-rcmp-chief?bn=1 11 - 12. Top RCMP staff complain about boss Last Updated: Monday, July 26, 2010 http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/26/rcmp-commissionercomplaints.html 13. Assessment underway in RCMP conflict: Toews CTV.ca News Staff 27/07/2010 11:03:42 PM http://news.sympatico.ctv.ca/home/assessment_underway_in_rcmp_confli ct_toews/d78bb0b6 14 - 15. Revolt in senior ranks spurs probe of RCMP chief

24 Tonda MacCharles, Ottawa Bureau, Published On Tue Jul 27 2010 http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/840930--revolt-in-seniorranks-spurs-probe-of-rcmp-chief?bn=1 16. Assessment underway in RCMP conflict: Toews CTV.ca News Staff 27/07/2010 11:03:42 PM http://news.sympatico.ctv.ca/home/assessment_underway_in_rcmp_confli ct_toews/d78bb0b6 17 - 18. Revolt in senior ranks spurs probe of RCMP chief Tonda MacCharles, Ottawa Bureau, Published On Tue Jul 27 2010 http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/840930--revolt-in-seniorranks-spurs-probe-of-rcmp-chief?bn=1 19. Assessment underway in RCMP conflict: Toews CTV.ca News Staff 27/07/2010 11:03:42 PM http://news.sympatico.ctv.ca/home/assessment_underway_in_rcmp_confli ct_toews/d78bb0b6 20. Revolt in senior ranks spurs probe of RCMP chief Tonda MacCharles, Ottawa Bureau, Published On Tue Jul 27 2010 http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/840930--revolt-in-seniorranks-spurs-probe-of-rcmp-chief?bn=1 21 - 23. Government infiltrated by spies, CSIS boss says Sarah Boesveld, Globe and Mail Update Published Tuesday, Jun. 22, 2010 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/fadden-raises-espionagealarm/article1614071/ See also: What Richard Fadden told the CBC http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/what-richard-fadden-toldthe-cbc/article1618765/ See also: What the CSIS director said and why http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/what-the-csis-directorsaid-and-why/article1614631/ See also: McGuinty says more info needed on claims governments infiltrated by spies. Reference to: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/mcguinty-says-more-infoneeded-on-claims-governments-infiltrated-by-spies/article1614604/ 24 - 25. INTERPOL appoints the RCMP's William J.S. Elliott as its

25 Special Representative to the United Nations https://www.interpol.int/Public/ICPO/PressReleases/PR2011/PR069.asp

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Chapter 7 [And what about the other RCMP skunks who sat quietly while perjury was going on what cowards?] No one but a moron (RCMP Commissioner William Elliott) overlooks the import of an e-mail like this in the vicious tasering to death of 40-year-old Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski? As noted, we have seen often-quoted Mountie mouthpiece Cpl. Dale Carr tell the Braidwood inquiry that top RCMP brass made a deliberate decision not to correct misinformation RCMP had given to the media about Dziekanskis death.1 In fact, e-mail suggests four RCMP Officers committed perjury while senior officers sat silent,2 specifically suggests Mounties planned to deploy Taser before they arrived at YVR, contrary to their testimony.3 As reported, after months of outrage about the conduct of the four Mounties who responded to Vancouver Airport Oct. 14, 2007, who can believe that at the last minute, a federal lawyer would produce what many would consider a smoking gun -- an e-mail saying the officers decided to use the Taser before confronting the Polish immigrant?4 If true, the Nov. 5, 2007, e-mail titled "Media strategy -- release of the YVR video," from RCMP Chief Supt. Dick Bent to assistant commissioner Al McIntyre, establishes the four have been lying through their teeth. This critical document suggests the four officers committed perjury and that senior officers sat silent while they did so.5 "The documents that have just come to our attention include a critical email from very high up in the RCMP chain of command, disclosing that the officers decided in a premeditated way, en route to the scene.6 Even the RCMP lawyers apparently lie? Lawyer Helen Roberts, who represents the RCMP at the inquiry, offered a tearful apology to inquiry commissioner Thomas Braidwood, a retired judge, for not disclosing the e-mail sooner.7 Helen Roberts had every reason to be in tears Friday as she apologized to the public inquiry into Dziekanski's death for failing to disclose what appears to be not just germane but also startlingly important evidence.8 Roberts crocodile tears dont wash! If Roberts had cried over Dziekanski mother's pain, I would be moved --

27 but a veteran lawyer wet-eyed over another screw-up in this case? I think they were crocodile tears.9 "I find this delay in disclosing it to the commission appalling," Braidwood said. "The contents of this e-mail goes to the heart of this inquiry's work."10 "It should have been disclosed much, much sooner ... months and months ago."11 "It's a stunning turn of events," Don Rosenbloom, the lawyer representing the government of Poland at the inquiry.12 Rosenbloom said the 11th-hour disclosure "is totally inconsistent with testimony given under oath" and goes to the heart of the issue of police fabrication. During the hearing, he said, "we were alleging [the four Mounties] were fabricating their story."13 The RCMP fabrication was, in fact, true! Dziekanski's mother told reporters she was surprised and angry about the e-mail being released so late. She suggested there had been a "coverup."14 "This is the kind of evidence someone should have known would have important consequences," said Walter Kosteckyj, the lawyer representing Dziekanski's mother at the inquiry.15 He said he had spent the last two weeks preparing his final arguments for the inquiry, only to find not all the evidence has been heard.16 The RCMP lawyer tries to white-wash the facts? David Butcher, the lawyer representing Const. Bill Bentley, one of the four Mounties involved in the in-custody death, said Bent's e-mail was hearsay and not credible evidence.17 B.C. Attorney-General Mike de Jong said he was concerned about the new development, "the possibility that new evidence may be emerging at this late date is troubling, and I'm sure very troubling for the commission itself," he said.18 "Commissions of this sort, and really our system of justice, rely on all witnesses who give evidence under oath to provide truthful and honest answers."19 Incredibly, Commissioner William Elliott's carefully parsed press release

28 was equally unbelievable: "This was simply an oversight. Unfortunately in an exercise of this magnitude, such an oversight can occur."20 Elliott a moron, as cited, no one but a moron overlooks the import of an e-mail like this [see Appendix 1, 2 & 3, cited below].21 That was not an "oversight." It was professional incompetence or a coverup.22 Paul Kennedy, the chairman of the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP, using a news conference in Vancouver, took some well-aimed verbal shots at stagnant RCMP culture, especially its notorious, self-destructive resistance to change. It is a massively inert organization, he said, and that must not stand.23 Footnotes 1. RCMP admissions in Dziekanski Taser death are troubling. By Damian Inwood, Wed, Apr 22 2009. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:cIe04eO43_QJ:communities.canada.com/theprovince/blogs/lordo ftherings/archive/2009/04/22/rcmp-admissions-in-dziekanski-taser-deathare-troubling-for-vancouver-2010-security-watchers.aspx+Now, +we+have+seen+often-quoted+Mountie+mouthpiece+Cpl. +Dale+Carr+tell+the+Braidwood+inquiry&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca 2. E-mail Suggests Four RCMP Officers Committed Perjury While Senior Officers Sat Silent. Contributed on Sun, 2009/06/21 - 2:30pm. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:Ae1cCKW4u6cJ:mostlywater.org/email_suggests_four_rcmp_off icers_committed_perjury_while_senior_officers_sat_silent+assaults+com mitted+by+rcmp&cd=18&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca 3. Startling New Email Halts Inquiry. By Neal Hall and Lori Culbert; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun. http://www2.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=1716658 4 - 5. Damning e-mail suggests the four officers committed perjury and that senior officers sat silent while they did. By Ian Mulgrew; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Column+Mounties+Tasering+sh... http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:Ae1cCKW4u6cJ:mostlywater.org/email_suggests_four_rcmp_off icers_committed_perjury_while_senior_officers_sat_silent+assaults+com mitted+by+rcmp&cd=18&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

29 6 - 7. Startling New Email Halts Inquiry. By Neal Hall and Lori Culbert; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun. http://www2.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=1716658 8 - 9. Damning e-mail suggests the four officers committed perjury and that senior officers sat silent while they did. By Ian Mulgrew; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Column+Mounties+Tasering+sh... http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:Ae1cCKW4u6cJ:mostlywater.org/email_suggests_four_rcmp_off icers_committed_perjury_while_senior_officers_sat_silent+assaults+com mitted+by+rcmp&cd=18&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca 10 - 19. Startling New Email Halts Inquiry. By Neal Hall and Lori Culbert; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun. http://www2.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=1716658 20 - 22. Damning e-mail suggests the four officers committed perjury and that senior officers sat silent while they did. By Ian Mulgrew; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Column+Mounties+Tasering+sh... http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:Ae1cCKW4u6cJ:mostlywater.org/email_suggests_four_rcmp_off icers_committed_perjury_while_senior_officers_sat_silent+assaults+com mitted+by+rcmp&cd=18&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca 23. RCMP watchdog goes out firing with Dziekanski report. Posted: December 08, 2009, 6:35 PM by Ron Nurwisah. By Brian Hutchinson, National Post. http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/08 /rcmp-watchdog-goes-out-firing-with-dziekanski-report.aspx

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Appendix 1 [Damning e-mail suggests the four RCMP officers committed perjury and that senior RCMP officers sat silent while they did] Column: Mounties in Tasering should face prosecution: Damning e-mail suggests the four RCMP officers committed perjury and that senior RCMP officers sat silent while they did By Ian Mulgrew; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Column+Mounties+Tasering+sh... Cited here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:Ae1cCKW4u6cJ:mostlywater.org/email_suggests_four_rcmp_off icers_committed_perjury_while_senior_officers_sat_silent+Ian+Mulgrew +%22Damning+e-mail+suggests+the+four+officers+committed+perjury %22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca The Braidwood Inquiry into the Taser-related death of Robert Dziekanski has been blown up and left in ruins by the revelation a key RCMP e-mail was withheld from the commission. After months of outrage about the conduct of the four Mounties who responded to Vancouver Airport Oct. 14, 2007, who can believe that at the last minute, a federal lawyer would produce what many would consider a smoking gun -- an e-mail saying the officers decided to use the Taser before confronting the Polish immigrant? If true, the Nov. 5, 2007, e-mail titled "Media strategy -- release of the YVR video," from RCMP Chief Supt. Dick Bent to assistant commissioner Al McIntyre, establishes the four have been lying through their teeth. This critical document suggests the four officers committed perjury and that senior officers sat silent while they did so. Worse, it seems there are many other documents that have not been turned over that may be relevant. This e-mail was one of 260 documents on a CD sent by the RCMP to the justice department last April, yet the federal lawyers didn't open the CD until last week. Last week? Evidence delivered in April didn't get opened until last week? What?

31 Helen Roberts had every reason to be in tears Friday as she apologized to the public inquiry into Dziekanski's death for failing to disclose what appears to be not just germane but also startlingly important evidence. If Roberts had cried over Dziekanski mother's pain, I would be moved -but a veteran lawyer wet-eyed over another screw-up in this case? I think they were crocodile tears. Commissioner William Elliott's carefully parsed press release was equally unbelievable: "This was simply an oversight. Unfortunately in an exercise of this magnitude, such an oversight can occur." Bollocks. No one but a moron overlooks the import of an e-mail like this. The officers deny the explosive content is true and Roberts says Bent was wrong in what he said. But their protestations ring hollow after almost 18 months of bluster and denial. So does Elliott's threadbare these-thingshappen excuse. The situation is as bad as the most virulent critics of the Mounties feared. This is no longer about four officers who made mistakes in judgment: It's about an organization that thinks it is above the law. "I find this delay in disclosing it to the commission appalling," an upset Braidwood said. "The contents of this e-mail goes to the heart of this inquiry's work." Exactly. Braidwood says his inquiry will resume on Sept. 22 after commission lawyers have time to review the e-mail, conduct an investigation and perhaps call the senior Mounties to testify about the document. I think not. There was a time when I thought Oct. 14, 2007 was the day that would live in the annals of RCMP infamy, but June 19, 2009 has eclipsed the tragedy of Dziekanski's death. On Friday, a country's faith in a once proud, once revered institution died. We have left the realm of how to regulate Taser use and the circumstances of Dziekanski's death and entered the world of criminal conduct -- which is beyond Braidwood's provincially rooted authority to investigate.

32 If we needed any prod to reopen the decision not to prosecute these officers, we now have been given it. It is time to thank commissioner Braidwood for his excellent work in bringing these unsettling facts to light and it's time to appoint a special prosecutor. The B.C. Law Society should also begin an investigation into the conduct of Roberts and any other federal lawyer involved in this staggering lack of disclosure. That was not an "oversight." It was professional incompetence or a coverup.

33 Appendix 2 [E-mail Suggests Four RCMP Officers Committed Perjury] E-mail Suggests Four RCMP Officers Committed Perjury While Senior Officers Sat Silent By Neal Hall and Lori Culbert; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun Contributed by blackandred on Sun, 2009/06/21 - 2:30pm. In sections: British Columbia Canada Accountability Rights Security apparatus: Startling New Email Halts Inquiry Cited here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:Ae1cCKW4u6cJ:mostlywater.org/email_suggests_four_rcmp_off icers_committed_perjury_while_senior_officers_sat_silent+Ian+Mulgrew +%22Damning+e-mail+suggests+the+four+officers+committed+perjury %22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca Suggests Mounties planned to deploy Taser before they arrived at YVR, contrary to their testimony A shocking e-mail found last week brought the Braidwood inquiry to a sudden halt Friday and may result in the most senior RCMP officers in B.C. being required to testify. The e-mail, sent by RCMP Chief Supt. Dick Bent to Assistant Commissioner Al Macintyre suggested for the first time that the four Mounties who responded to a call at Vancouver's airport planned to use a Taser on Robert Dziekanski, who died at the airport on Oct. 14, 2007, after he was Tasered five times. Under the subject line "Media Strategy - Release of YVR video," the email, dated Nov. 5, 2007, said: "Finally spoke to [Supt.] Wayne [Rideout] and he indicated that the members did not articulate that they saw the symptoms of excited delirium, but instead had discussed the response en route and decided that if he did not comply that they would go to CEW [conducted energy weapon]." Lawyers for the four RCMP officers involved in the fatal incident said Friday their clients deny they formulated a plan to use a Taser on Dziekanski. The officers testified at the inquiry they arrived in separate police cars and had no discussion beforehand. Alex Pringle, a lawyer representing Rideout, who was in charge of investigating Dziekanski's death, appeared at the inquiry Friday and read a

34 statement from his client, which said Bent's e-mail was in error. Pringle said it was a "misunderstanding of a conversation I had with him." Lawyer Helen Roberts, who represents the RCMP at the inquiry, offered a tearful apology to inquiry commissioner Thomas Braidwood, a retired judge, for not disclosing the e-mail sooner. She also said Bent was mistaken in his e-mail and that the officers did not plan to use the Taser. She offered to have senior Mounties testify. "I find this delay in disclosing it to the commission appalling," Braidwood said. "The contents of this e-mail goes to the heart of this inquiry's work." The e-mail will have to be investigated and further hearings may be required, the commissioner said. He ordered the inquiry adjourned until Sept. 22. The delay was due to summer plans already made by many of the lawyers involved in the inquiry, he added. Friday was supposed to be the start of final submissions by lawyers representing various parties, including the four Mounties involved in the in-custody death. Commission counsel Art Vertlieb told the inquiry that the new e-mail was disclosed Tuesday by lawyers for the federal justice department, which represents the RCMP. "It should have been disclosed much, much sooner ... months and months ago," Vertlieb later told reporters, adding he was "upset and frustrated" by the last-minute disclosure. He said he didn't know whether the RCMP disclosed the e-mail to Crown counsel before a decision was made that no criminal charges were warranted against the four officers. Vertlieb told the inquiry that the Bent e-mail was among 260 documents on a CD sent by the RCMP to the justice department in April, just before RCMP media relations officers testified at the inquiry about the botched handling of information released to the media in the days after Dziekanski's death. He said the federal lawyers didn't open the CD until last week, discovering the Bent e-mail and other documents.

35 "It's a stunning turn of events," Don Rosenbloom, the lawyer representing the government of Poland at the inquiry, told reporters after the commissioner ordered the three-month adjournment. "The documents that have just come to our attention include a critical email from very high up in the RCMP chain of command, disclosing that the officers decided in a premeditated way, en route to the scene, to use the Taser if Mr. Dziekanski did not comply." Rosenbloom said the 11th-hour disclosure "is totally inconsistent with testimony given under oath" and goes to the heart of the issue of police fabrication. During the hearing, he said, "we were alleging [the four Mounties] were fabricating their story." Dziekanski's mother told reporters she was surprised and angry about the e-mail being released so late. She suggested there had been a "coverup." "This is the kind of evidence someone should have known would have important consequences," said Walter Kosteckyj, the lawyer representing Dziekanski's mother at the inquiry. He said he had spent the last two weeks preparing his final arguments for the inquiry, only to find not all the evidence has been heard. David Butcher, the lawyer representing Const. Bill Bentley, one of the four Mounties involved in the in-custody death, said Bent's e-mail was hearsay and not credible evidence. "The chief superintendent is simply wrong," he said. The late disclosure of the e-mail was the result of an oversight, RCMP Commissioner William Elliott said in a statement issued Friday. "We have produced thousands of documents to our legal counsel for their review and for them to transmit all relevant material to the commission," Elliott said, pointing out that it was the RCMP that brought the Bent email to the attention of the inquiry commissioner on Friday. "Commissioner Braidwood was informed that a specific document was not provided and he himself accepted the government of Canada's sincere apologies for this oversight," Elliott's statement said.

36 "The RCMP wants all of the facts surrounding this tragic event to be known so that we can learn as much as possible and make any further required changes to the RCMP's policies and practices." B.C. Attorney-General Mike de Jong said he was concerned about the new development. "The possibility that new evidence may be emerging at this late date is troubling, and I'm sure very troubling for the commission itself," he said. "Commissions of this sort, and really our system of justice, rely on all witnesses who give evidence under oath to provide truthful and honest answers." Whether the testimony in the Dziekanski inquiry has been truthful will be up to Braidwood to decide, de Jong said. It will be up to Braidwood to assess the new evidence and determine its relevance before making his findings, he said, adding that it was too early to comment on the possible fallout from Friday's events. The attorney-general said it would be premature to comment on whether criminal charges against the four officers should be reconsidered. "I'm not going to rule anything in or out. I am going to wait with keen interest for Mr. Braidwood's report." Dziekanski, who spoke no English, had travelled for 24 hours from Poland and spent about 10 hours at the airport, unable to find his mother, who went home to Kamloops after being told by officials that her son couldn't be found. The 40-year-old man eventually started throwing around furniture, prompting a bystander to call 911. Seconds after four Mounties arrived, Dziekanski was Tasered. He died at the scene.

37 Appendix 3 [The RCMP had decided to electrocute him before they even saw him] They had decided to electrocute him before they even saw him 19.06.09.18:24:00 Rusty Idols,New Democrats Online http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:7K66KZTx4z8J:newdemocratsonline.ca/node/20701+ %E2%80%9Cno+one+but+a+moron+overlooks+the+import+of+an+email+like+this%E2%80%9D&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca In the car on the way to the airport as revealed in an email the government finally revealed on what was supposed to be the last day of the Braidwood Commission. And you thought the RCMP's behavior couldn't look any worse. This e-mail was one of 260 documents on a CD sent by the RCMP to the justice department last April, yet the federal lawyers didnt open the CD until last week. Last week? Evidence delivered in April didnt get opened until last week? What? Helen Roberts had every reason to be in tears Friday as she apologized to the public inquiry into Dziekanskis death for failing to disclose what appears to be not just germane but also startlingly important evidence. If Roberts had cried over Dziekanski mothers pain, I would be moved but a veteran lawyer wet-eyed over another screw-up in this case? I think they were crocodile tears. Commissioner William Elliotts carefully parsed press release was equally unbelievable: This was simply an oversight. Unfortunately in an exercise of this magnitude, such an oversight can occur. Bollocks. No one but a moron overlooks the import of an e-mail like this. The officers deny the explosive content is true and Roberts says Bent was wrong in what he said. But their protestations ring hollow after almost 18 months of bluster and denial. So does Elliotts threadbare these-thingshappen excuse.

38 The situation is as bad as the most virulent critics of the Mounties feared. This is no longer about four officers who made mistakes in judgment: Its about an organization that thinks it is above the law.

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Chapter 8 [One could go on and on about the RCMP cowards who tasered Robert Dziekanski to death but lets look at some other RCMP cowards who tasered an 82 year old man in the hospital what cowards?] As cited: Given the RCMP use of deadly force, on innocent people, example Mr D. at Vancouver airport, and the 82 years old man in the hospital ... the question to ask now is why they did not force the issue with the murderer on the bus?1 What cowardly case is this, where the RCMP would taser a frail, 82 year old man in his hospital bed what skunks? As cited, in May 2008, at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, an RCMP officer used a taser on 82 year old Frank Lasser while he was in his hospital bed. He was reportedly delirious and wielding a knife. Yep, theres the RCMP theyve got this 82 year old guy dead-to-rights he cant move! Way to go RCMP, youve got your man! Job well done eh boys? This is something you can sure brag about over your next donut run? As further cited, according to CBC News, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), responded to a call at the Royal Inland Hospital after a delirious patient pulled a knife on a nurse. The man was back in bed when the RCMP arrived and they tasered him in his bed.2 Frank Lasser, 82, was in the hospital with pneumonia. Because of a previous heart surgery, he is required to carry oxygen at all times and Lasser told CBC News that he becomes delusional when he cannot breathe properly, which is what he says happened on Saturday.3 "I was laying on the bed by then and the corporal came in, or the sergeant, I forget which it was, and said to the guys, 'OK, get him because we got more important work to do on the street tonight,'" Lasser said.4 "And then, bang, bang, bang, three times with the taser, and I tell you, I never want that again."5 If this wasnt so sad it would be comical? What is that comic police force called oh, yes the Keystone Cops?

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That what these idiot RCMP officers were in this situation -- Keystone Cops? Lasser, who is an ex-prison guard, believes that the three RCMP Mounties could have "easily" handled him without the taser and he asserts, "They could have gone in there and taken an old man without any trouble at all."6 As further emphasized, Frank Lasser, 82, says RCMP officers could have subdued him without resorting to using a Taser gun.7 Frank Lasser, 82, appeared fragile Thursday when he showed the Taser marks on his body and talked about the ordeal he went through Saturday.8 "They [police] should have known I had bypass surgery," Lasser told CBC News.9 Heres a couple more stories about these big, brave RCMP? As cited in B.C. police charged after Taser used on man 73, a Taser was used on a 73-year-old man, resulting in charges against a Mountie from Surrey in connection with a 73-year-old man who was jolted with a Taser after being arrested under the Mental Health Act.10 The incident happened in April when police responded to a call of a man with a knife causing a disturbance at a home. The man was taken to hospital, where he was stunned once by an RCMP Taser and suffered facial injuries, police said.11 Thats it, wait till the guy is restrained in hospital and then taser him? In another incident, as ited in Coquitlam RCMP officers charged with assault, the incident allegedly occurred last June 17, when Const. Marko Duran, 38, and Const. Trevor Doylend, 33, were conducting a radar speed trap on Prairie Avenue in Port Coquitlam.12 The officers flagged a vehicle over and were issuing a ticket when an altercation ensued. The driver was removed from his vehicle by Duran, with assistance by Doylend, police said.13 In reviewing the file, the officers' supervisor had some concerns about the arrest and reviewed an audio/videotape of the incident from the camera inside the police cruiser.14 A criminal investigation was then launched, resulting in an assault charge being laid against both officers.15

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No charges were recommended against the driver, who did not file a complaint with police.16 In other words, the driver did nothing? Incredibly, Doylend, who has four years of service, remains on duty with Coquitlam RCMP Traffic Services.17 Why? So he can assault another motorist? In one more incident, B.C. RCMP officer charged with assault, a B.C. Mountie appears in court next month to face a charge stemming from an alleged 2008 assault.18 Const. Mike Cardinal, of the Ridge-Meadows RCMP detachment, is alleged to have assaulted a male during an arrest after several officers responded to a report of a noisy party in the Metro Vancouver city of Coquitlam Feb 21, 2008.19 The complainant claims Cardinal hit him on the face with a flashlight. The man was treated at the scene by paramedics and then taken to police cells where he was later released without charge.20 Another case of the man doing nothing? Cardinal, who has remained on active duty since the alleged assault, is scheduled to appear in court June 14.21 He's the second B.C. Mountie to face assault charges in a month after Const. Imran Saeed of Surrey was hit with a third assault charge related to two incidents three months apart last year.22 They occurred while he was on duty and involve an accusation that Saeed assaulted a woman after he stopped her for a traffic violation.23 What about this nonsense? As cited in RCMP will not probe allegations in B.C., although the RCMP in Terrace, B.C. face serious allegations from community members, according to the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, the RCMP says it cannot investigate allegations outlined in a B.C. Civil Liberties Association report released Wednesday.24

42 Although the report cites numerous allegations of excessive force, racial profiling, and abuse of authority by RCMP in Terrace accounts of false arrest, assaults, illegal seizures and the use of "stress positions" on people accused of being drunk ... the RCMP said it will not investigate the claims.25 Thats it, dont look into any allegations that could make the RCMP look even worse than they are? As if thats possible? Footnotes 1. Bus 1170: Your Comments http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2009-2010/bus_1170/timeline.html Also see: Royal Inland Hospital Taser Incident: Chronology of the October Crisis, 1970, and its Aftermath Claude Blanger, Department of History, Marianopolis College. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:Ujejcj_ck3oJ:faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/ chronos/october.htm+1977+Keable+Inquiry&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=c a 2 - 6. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Taser Hospitalized 82-Year-Old Man By Susan Duclos. http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/254480 7 - 9. RCMP subdue hospitalized man, 82, with Taser Last Updated: Thursday, May 8, 2008 CBC News http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/05/08/bckamloops-man-taser.html 10 - 11. B.C. police charged after Taser used on man, 73 CBC News Last Updated: Monday, October 25, 2010 http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/10/25/bc-tasersurrey-rcmp-assault.html 12 - 17. Coquitlam RCMP officers charged with assault Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun: Tuesday, January 4, 2011 http://www.globaltvbc.com/world/Coquitlam+RCMP+officers+charged+ with+assault/4059116/story.html

43 18 - 23. B.C. RCMP officer charged with assault CBC News Last Updated: Friday, May 28, 2010 http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/05/28/bc-rcmpofficer-assault-charge.html 24 - 25. RCMP will not probe allegations in B.C. CBC News Last Updated: Wednesday, February 9, 2011 http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/02/08/bc-terracercmp-excessive-force-allegations.html

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Chapter 9 [One could go on and on about the RCMP cowards who tasered Robert Dziekanski to death but lets look at some other RCMP cowards who beat up a 70 year old woman what cowards?] This is just too much now! Ultimate thugs, anyone? As cited, RCMP in Richmond, B.C., have denied using excessive force in the arrest of a 70-year-old woman on the weekend. Henriette Durand said she was mistreated by one of four officers who arrived at her home investigating a 911 call about a possible disturbance involving someone threatening another person with a knife.1 Ms. Durand suffered bruises to her right arm when an officer took her down and put handcuffs on her after the police had entered her home.2 In another report of his despicable behavior by the RCMP, seventy-yearold grandmother Henriette Durand says she has felt the long arm of the law and has the bruises to prove it. They just threw me on the floor, face down, hands behind my back, handcuffed, Durand told The Province Wednesday at her home.3 Durand says she feels lucky police didnt try to subdue her with a Taser gun otherwise, I just might be dead.4 She was escorted to a cell at the Richmond detachment for about three hours, then spent several more hours in the emergency room at Richmond Hospital having her injuries patched up, she says.5 Richmond RCMP could not be reached for comment.6 Durand, who is an instructor in non-violent crisis intervention and has four university degrees, took her complaint to the B.C. Civil Liberties Association: Theres really no recourse for this woman, except by bringing it to the public and publicly shaming the RCMP.7 Better watch it if you are a female with these guys? For example, as cited in B.C. grandma's licensed grow-op busted by RCMP, a 62-year-old woman from the Castlegar, B.C. area says RCMP raided and damaged her property and hauled her to jail even though she has a licence to grow marijuana.8 Thats it boys, another old lady at your mercy?

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What a brave lot? Velma Mullaney said that despite a Health Canada permit that allows her to grow 98 plants, police showed up at her rural home last month, kicked in the doors, cut off her electricity and confiscated her marijuana.9 The officer in charge refused to look at her permit or count the plants, the grandmother said.10 Maybe he couldnt read? Maybe he couldnt count? "He kept saying, 'You are way over in plants,'" Mullaney said. "I said, 'Get those guys to go in and count them and you'll see everything is legal.' And he kept saying, 'You are way over and you are going to jail.'"11 Mullaney was taken to jail and later released. No charges have been laid.12 Ah, another one who didnt do anything? Her lawyer, Don Skogstad, said "It is one thing to believe you have grounds for illegal activity," Skogstad said. "But once you get there and you can see how many [plants] there are and know about the licences, why don't you just leave?"13 What fun is that for the RCMP? Gosh darn, pass up a chance at harassing an old lady? Not on your life? He said Mullaney may sue the RCMP for damages and file an official complaint ... RCMP would not comment on the case.14 Footnotes 1. RCMP deny using force on 70-year-old. Postmedia News Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010. http://www.nationalpost.com/todayspaper/RCMP+deny+using+force+year/3371443/story.html 2 - 7. Grandmother, 70, says police bruised and scraped her after neighbor's mischief call. By John Bermingham, The Province August 5,

46 2010. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:H2EDpMHC_acJ:www.theprovince.com/Grandmother%2Bsays %2Bpolice%2Bbruised%2Bscraped%2Bafter%2Bneighbour%2Bmischief %2Bcall/3360370/story.html+Henriette+Durand+rcmp&cd=3&hl=en&ct= clnk&gl=ca 8 - 14. B.C. grandma's licensed grow-op busted by RCMP CBC News, 31/03/2011 http://news.sympatico.cbc.ca/local/bc/bc_grandmas_licensed_growop_busted_by_rcmp/028d76a2

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Chapter 10 [Weve looked at the cowardly RCMP tasering Robert Dziekanski to death, and tasering an 82 year old man, and beating up a 70 year old woman lets look at the other extreme RCMP taser 11 year old boy what cowards?] Who are the hair-brained RCMP recruiters that chose this quick-draw guy who tasered an 11 year old child? Thats the issue police forces and the provinces child watchdog is grappling with after the RCMP used the weapon on an 11-year-old boy.2 Officials say the boy, who is believed to be the youngest person ever Tasered in Canada, was living in a group home at the time of the incident, which occurred last Thursday. The Taser is designed to incapacitate a person by delivering a high voltage up to 50,000 volts of electrical pulse into the target.3 Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, the B.C. governments independent representative for children and youth, said ... These are young people and to have police show up and use the Taser, these are things not associated with a good outcome, said Turpel-Lafond. This is not the way conflicts should be defused.4 Then, again, maybe this guy didnt like Natives, as asked: Many people have said there is an intrinsic prejudice towards Canadian Natives by many RCMP officers.5 A human rights group says it would be tough to justify using a stun gun on a child and it's concerned about such a case in B.C.6 "When you have someone with very low body mass and hearts that are still developing and these kinds of things then the concern that we have is that if you don't know what the outcome the device is going to have, including death, then it really should be a last resort," he said.7 The question should be asked: Who was the hair-brained RCMP psychologist that passed this quick-draw RCMP officer? Footnotes 1. No charges for using RCMP Taser on B.C. boy, but police refuse to explain why By The Canadian Press Thu, 15 Sep, 2011. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/independent-review-rcmp-taser-jolt-11-old-

48 released-115952547.html 2 - 4. Questions raised after boy Tasered By Petti Fong, Western Bureau http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/973050--policeinvestigate-use-of-rcmp-taser-on-11-year-old-boy 5. RCMP taser 11 year old Native boy http://www.scotster.com/forums/human-rights/RCMP-taser-11-year-oldboy.4584.html 6 - 7. RCMP in B.C. use Taser on 11-year-old boy By: Staff Writer Winnipeg Free Press -- The Canadian Press http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/rcmp-in-bc-use-taser-on-11year-old-boy-119557464.html

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Chapter 11 [Cowardly RCMP taser 11 year old Native boy Many people have said there is an intrinsic prejudice towards Canadian Natives by many RCMP officers now they are going to kill us?] The tasering of an 11 year old child by the cowardly RCMP raised an interesting question: Many people have said there is an intrinsic prejudice towards Canadian Natives by many RCMP officers.1 Lets explore that angle? There may be some truth to that statement. Apparently, if given the chance, they would rather shoot to kill? As cited, later in the summer of 1995, Secwepemc traditionalists at Gustafsen Lake (TsPeten) mounted an armed defence of a sun dance ceremony from racist White ranchers who were threatening and intimidating those at the Sun Dance camp [see Appendix 4 & 5, cited below]. This conflict spiraled into a month long siege of the camp by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).2 With military assistance and equipment, including land mines and nine armoured personnel carriers, 450 RCMP followed shoot-to-kill orders, using 70,000 rounds of ammunition against the Secwepemc defenders.3 A significant element of the RCMPs strategy was tight control over the media to facilitate a smear campaign against the defenders, as described in RCMP training videos.4 The Gustafsen Lake standoff was particularly important because of the defenders strong stance on asserting their indigenous sovereignty, their control of their territory and their independence from the bureaucracy of the Canadian state and its Indian Act band councils.5 Footnotes 1. RCMP taser 11 year old Native boy http://www.scotster.com/forums/human-rights/RCMP-taser-11-year-oldboy.4584.html Also see: Secwepemc History of Resistance

50 By Wiinimkiikaa Wiinimkiikaa, Issue 2, 2005 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:XlMC5hZkvdgJ:wiinimkiikaa.wordpress.com/secwepemchistory-of-resistance/ +rcmp+kill+residential+school+escapees&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca 2 5. Secwepemc History of Resistance By Wiinimkiikaa Wiinimkiikaa, Issue 2, 2005 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:XlMC5hZkvdgJ:wiinimkiikaa.wordpress.com/secwepemchistory-of-resistance/ +rcmp+kill+residential+school+escapees&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca Also see: There are videos on this site, if they are still there: RCMPs Terrorist at the Olympics http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:Gv2mCcHkPYwJ:ziofascism.net/blog/2010/02/rcmps-terroristat-the-olympics/ +RCMP+MASSACRE+NATIVES&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca Olympics Top Cop Helped Blow up Truck at Gustafsen Stand-off By Geoff Dembicki and Bob Mackin, Vancouver 24 hours, October 20, 2009, TheTyee.ca http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/10/20/GustafsenStandOff/

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Appendix 4 [450 RCMP followed shoot-to-kill orders, using 70,000 rounds of ammunition against the Secwepemc defenders] Secwepemc History of Resistance By Wiinimkiikaa Wiinimkiikaa, Issue 2, 2005 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:XlMC5hZkvdgJ:wiinimkiikaa.wordpress.com/secwepemchistory-of-resistance/ +rcmp+kill+residential+school+escapees&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca The Secwepemc peoples resistance to colonization is rooted in their spirituality, which is based on the balance brought by the Creator and his helper, Coyote. The lessons handed down by the Coyote discouraged greed and disrespectful behaviour amongst the Secwepemc and reinforced the Secwepemc peoples connection to their land. But the invasion of European fur traders disrupted the balance of Secwepemc life, as it took time away from hunting, fishing and food gathering. In 1812, David Stuart of the American Pacific Fur Company built Fort Shuswap at the site of the present-day town of Kamloops. That same year, Joseph Laroque of the Montreal-based North West Company established a trading post across the river from the fort, where the Kamloops reserve would later be established. These were the first colonial outposts within the territory of the Secwepemc Nation. The North West Company bought out American Pacific in 1813, and Fort Shuswap was renamed Fort Kamloops. By 1821, the North West Company was absorbed by the British Hudsons Bay Company (HBC). The HBC further consolidated their control of Secwepemc territory with Fort Alexandria, opened in 1821, and Little Fort, built in 1851. Under a Royal Charter, the HBC was responsible for trade regulations, settlement and governance. The company had the military backing of Royal Navy gunboats, while also maintaining its own security force. The wealthy businessmen of the HBC quickly established private enterprises such as mines, sawmills, and canneries, and sold land to settlers to pay for the construction of roads, ports and other infrastructure. As animal populations declined, many Secwepemc became dependant on the fur trade for survival. Periods of starvation hit the Secwepemc in 1822, 1827, and throughout the 1840s and 1850s. Many Secwepemc children died in a 1927 whooping cough outbreak. Throughout this phase of colonization, the HBC sent annual gifts of tobacco to Secwepemc chiefs to dissuade them from waging war on the

52 company. These chiefs often became businessmen themselves. At least two Secwepemc chiefs saw the damage the fur trade was doing and urged a boycott. Secwepemc warriors took a direct approach, regularly attacking fur traders property and robbing Hudsons Bay employees. In 1826, Fort Kamloops was burned to the ground by indigenous insurgents. It was rebuilt with a fence by the Hudsons Bay Company in 1843, only to come under renewed attacks. In 1841, Samuel Black, the chief factor of Fort Kamloops, was killed by a Secwepemc named Kikoskin, who blamed Black for the death of his uncle, Chief Tranquille. The HBC then sought to impose British law on the Secwepemc by punishing Kikoskin, going so far as to steal Secwepemc horses and kidnap one of Kikoskins children, and attempting to persuade his fellow Secwepemc to turn him in. One person did eventually betray Kikoskin, leading to his capture, but Kikoskin somehow drowned before he was brought to justice. This incident lead to widespread Secwepemc resentment towards the Hudsons Bay Company, since the Secwepemc considered themselves a free and independent people who were not subject to the laws of a foreign nation and occupying power. John Tod (who took Samuel Blacks place as chief factor) reported that his men were afraid to leave Fort Kamloops because Secwepemc warriors were shooting their horses. Secwepemc rebels also continued to rob HBC traders found on their territory. In 1843, William Norwich, the chief factor of Fort Alexandria, was shot and killed by an indigenous insurgent, who was himself killed before he could escape. A Christian missionary arrived that same year, after the Secwepemc had suffered from three waves of disease epidemics (most likely diptheria). With starvation setting in again, the missionary found fertile ground for his work of assimilation. But Secwepemc resistance continued. Fur traders property was pillaged in 1851 and an HBC agent was killed the following year. The Gold Rush of 1858 brought 30,000 American prospectors into the territories of the Secwepemc and other neighbouring indigenous peoples. The mainland of British Columbia was established as a colony that same year to solidify British control of the area. The Secwepemc clashed with gold miners, leading to deaths on both sides. At first, the Secwepemc were able to expel prospectors from areas along the Thompson River, but in 1859, some 400 British soldiers were brought in to crush the resistance. Some Secwepemc became miners, while others became capitalists, employing and exploiting other Natives. It was at this time that Secwepemc reserve boundaries were outlined by the colonial governor, James Douglas.

53 In 1862, a smallpox epidemic decimated the indigenous population of British Columbia. This came at a perfect time for the Hudsons Bay Company, since it worked to quell indigenous insurgency just as settlement and capitalist industry was expanding. The company, in fact, actively promoted the spread of the disease by burning Native villages on Vancouver Island, forcing the survivors to flee to Native communities throughout the province. John Tod refused to vaccinate more then 70 Secwepemc until they delivered him a years supply of salmon. Smallpox was followed by epidemics of measles, influenza, whooping cough and tuberculosis, wiping out 70-75% of the Secwepemc population. Only 17 of the original 30 bands survived. In 1864, the construction of a road for mining purposes in Tsilhqotin territory provoked warriors to kill the road construction crew, along with five or six settlers. Five Tsilhqotin chiefs were tricked into being captured, and were then sentenced to death. Chief William of the Secwepemc discouraged his people from supporting the Tsilhqotin insurgency. Also that year, Joseph Trutch became BCs Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works, and reduced reserve sizes by 92%. The Indians have really no rights to the lands they claim, nor are they of any actual value or utility to them said Trutch. I cannot see why they should retain these lands to the prejudice of the general interests of the Colony, or be allowed to make a market of them either to Government or to individuals. Christian missionaries increasingly traveled through Secwepemc territory during this time, gathering converts, translating Christian songs into the Secwepemc language and building chapels and missions. In 1871, Christian day schools were established at Kamloops and St. Jospehs, south of Williams Lake. The colony of British Columbia became a province of Canada the same year. With the Indian Act of 1876, the Canadian government came to control all aspects of Secwepemc life. Band council governments were imposed and Christian residential schools became official colonial policy. A residential school was built on the Kamloops reservation in 1890, while another was set up at St. Josephs the following year. The Kamloops residential school operated until 1978. By 1877, young Secwepemc and Okanagan rebels were arguing to band councils that armed warfare against the colonizers was once again necessary. Some had recently spent time amongst Nez Perce insurgents in the United States and had been inspired by their struggle. The rebels met in Okanagan territory to organize a confederacy and discuss tactics and strategy, but were undermined by the efforts of a Christian missionary who convinced the Adams Lake Band to not attend. Settlers feared an Indian uprising that never materialized.

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A resurgence of resistance took place in the 1970s, including the occupation of the Department of Indian Affairs office in Kamloops and the armed highway blockade against poor housing conditions on the Bonaparte Indian Band reservation at Cache Creek in 1974. This time period was characterized by a rebirth of indigenous struggle all across North America, influenced by the American Indian Movement and the Lakota Nations stand at Wounded Knee. In 1990, Secwepemc people blocked a road at Adams Lake and set up an informational roadblock on the Trans-Canada highway at Chase in solidarity with the armed Mohawk warriors defending Kanehsatake from a golf course expansion. Another blockade at Adams Lake in the summer of 1995 stopped the development of a 60-unit Recreational Vehicle park development over a burial ground. The Adams River bridge was burned during the conflict. Later in the summer of 1995, Secwepemc traditionalists at Gustafsen Lake (TsPeten) mounted an armed defence of a sun dance cermony from racist White ranchers who were threatening and intimidating those at the Sun Dance camp. This conflict spiraled into a month long siege of the camp by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). With military assistance and equipment, including land mines and nine armoured personnel carriers, 450 RCMP followed shoot-to-kill orders, using 70,000 rounds of ammunition against the Secwepemc defenders. A significant element of the RCMPs strategy was tight control over the media to facilitate a smear campaign against the defenders, as described in RCMP training videos. Despite this, Mohawks in eastern Canada staged solidarity actions for the Secwepemc, including an occupation of the Department of Indian Affairs office in Brantford, Ontario. The Gustafsen Lake standoff was particularly important because of the defenders strong stance on asserting their indigenous sovereignty, their control of their territory and their independence from the bureaucracy of the Canadian state and its Indian Act band councils. The standoff was followed by the year-long trial of the rebels, which exposed the RCMPs media manipulation and inspired the Vancouver Native Youth Movement chapter to begin organizing against the BC Treaty Process. The trial ended in convictions for 13 defenders, with Wolverine receiving the longest sentence of four-and-a-half years. In August of 2000, Secwepemc people held a demonstration at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) office in Kamloops to support the Mikmaq of Burnt Church who were then struggling against White fishermen, (DFO) officers and the RCMP. The demonstration was also

55 attended by Natives from Cheam and Penticton. In September, Adams Lake and Neskonlith band members blocked the Canadian Pacific Railway for three hours in solidarity with the Mikmaq. October of 2000 marked the beginning of the campaign against the Sun Peaks ski resort, which encompasses three mountains and several lakes. This sacred territory is known as Skelkwekwelt and has always provided the Secwepemc with a variety of plant and animal food sources. Many Secwepemc ancestors are buried in the area. The campaign against the destruction caused by Sun Peaks has included the building of homes and cultural structures at the site, roadblocks, and occuppations of government offices. More than 50 arrests were made over the course of four years, and several Secwepemc homes and structures were bulldozed or burnt down by Sun Peaks employees and supporters, with the complicity of the RCMP. Throughout this time, various solidarity demonstrations for the Secwepemc held in Vancouver and Toronto targeted the Delta Hotels chain, which is a major player in the Sun Peaks resort. In 1997, the Indian Act chiefs of eight Secwepemc bands signed a Protocol Agreement with thge Sun Peaks resort. In 2001, Felix Arnouse, chief of the Little Shuswap band, and Richard LeBourdais, chief of the Whispering Pines band, signed a joint venture agreement with Sun Peaks for an $8 million dollar housing development. We have to seize every opportunity to work with Sun Peaks if we want to succeed as a band and as a business, said Arnouse, who also complained during the 1995 Adams Lake blockade that the action was costing him business. An RCMP Emergency Response Team raided the homes of Native Youth Movement members on the Secwepemc Neskonlith reserve and at Bella Coola in Nuxalk territory in 2003, seizing computers and files. In August of 2004, traditional Secwepemc built a new re-occupation camp at the Sun Peaks Resort, after a march through the resort village by about 200 Natives and non-Native supporters of the Secwepemc struggle. A court injuction against the camp occupants was enforced on September 21, resulting in three arrests. One Skwelkwekwelt defender gave his name and was released. Two others refused to give their names and began fasting, but another prisoner recognized one of them and gave his name to the police. Crown counsel eventually decided to not proceed with the contempt charges against the three defenders. Solidarity pickets were held on September 23 at Delta and Fairmont Hotels (Delta is owned by Fairmont) in Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Montreal The Sun Peaks Resort is in the midst of its $285 million dollar Phase 2 development, which will add 6,000 bed units. Darcy Alexander, vice

56 president of Sun Peaks, also sits on the BC governments Resorts Taskforce, which is working to advertise BCs existing resorts and promote new development throughout the province. Getting in on the ground floor is always a little adventurous. It means you see something that others initially overlook. And we believe that this pioneering spirit should be celebrated. Sun Peaks Resort real estate advertisement, January, 2004 Sources: A Century of Change, by Annabel Cropped Eared Wolf (Secwepemc Cultural Education Society) The First Hundred Years of Contact, by John Coffey (Secwepemc Cultural Education Society) Coyote U (Theytus Books)

57 Appendix 5 [Now theyre gonna kill us] There are videos on this site, if they are still there: RCMPs Terrorist at the Olympics http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:Gv2mCcHkPYwJ:ziofascism.net/blog/2010/02/rcmps-terroristat-the-olympics/ +RCMP+MASSACRE+NATIVES&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca Olympics Top Cop Helped Blow up Truck at Gustafsen Stand-off By Geoff Dembicki and Bob Mackin, Vancouver 24 hours, October 20, 2009, TheTyee.ca http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/10/20/GustafsenStandOff/ RCMPs Bud Mercer was in the thick of several famous clashes with dissenters. This story, with video of the exploding truck, is first in a series. Bud Mercer pictured rifles aimed at him as he pushed deeper into the forest. A short run behind him, past mid-sized poplars and aspens and scraggly bush, lay the smoking remains of a red pick-up truck, destroyed minutes earlier by RCMP explosives. A yellow Labrador retriever was slumped close to it. Two police bullets had cut the dog down as it fled on the rutted gravel road. Mercer feared an ambush in the sparse forest. He strained the leash to keep Lukar, his German shepherd police dog, from running too fast. He was flanked by three other officers. The team squatted close to the forest floor every 12 metres, muscles tense. Within minutes, they broke through the bushes and onto the grassy shoreline of Gustafsen Lake. Mercer saw the two fugitives, stripped to their waists, wading into the water. He went to unclip Lukar, knowing the police dog would attack. But before he could do it, buzzing, whining bullets ripped through the air above him. He hesitated. On Sept. 11, 1995, up to 7,000 police gunshots climaxed a month-long standoff with natives in the backwoods of interior B.C. Fifteen people were convicted for their armed defence of sacred land they said was never ceded to Canadian settlers. Mercer now commands a $491.9 million RCMP-led force, tasked with securing the 2010 Winter Olympics. Hes a central figure in the biggest peace-time security operation in Canadas history. When athletes and officials arrive next February, many observers wonder if and how hell unleash that force.* Gustafsen Lake isnt the only high profile clash of law enforcement with dissenters where Bud Mercer played a key role. He was on the frontlines

58 when APEC protesters were pepper-sprayed in 1997. And when treesitters tried to stop logging in the Elaho Valley in 2000, Mercer led a team to roust them from their perches. The Tyee and 24 Hours have researched these incidents, interviewing Mercer and many people involved, in order to provide a multi-part, in-depth portrait of the top cop of the 2010 Olympics his present duties and past controversies. The story starts 14 years ago, as a rebellion brewed in the Shuswap. Now theyre gonna kill us On Aug. 18, 1995, Percy Rosette woke to the stamps and grunts of horses stirring in the morning mist. Normally that meant a wolf was nearby. He grabbed a hunting rifle, and went to see what was wrong. Rosette was a Shuswap faithkeeper. That made him the caretaker of sorts for a few acres of sacred land at Gustafsen Lake, a remote piece of wilderness near 100 Mile House. Each year, Shuswap natives gathered there for a holy ceremony called the Sundance. A 70-year-old rancher named Lyle James owned the land, but an agreement with Rosette kept the peace. Yet the relationship collapsed early in the summer of 1995. The Sundancers were sick of cleaning up manure left by James cattle, so they built a fence around the holy site. On June 14, 1995, James and 12 ranch hands served a trespass notice. They pulled up to the native encampment on horseback and 4X4s, threatening to hang a red nigger, Gustafsen defence lawyer George Wool alleged. One cracked a bull whip. Another had a 30-30 Winchester rifle. When they left, the natives surrounded their camp with defensive walls, made from hundreds of logs stacked about a metre and half high. More than two months passed in a standoff as native constables met with James and camp occupants to broker a deal. Neither side would back down. Such was the state of affairs when Rosette rose early on August 18 to check on the camp horses. Rifle in hand, he scanned the forest carefully, trying to make out shapes in the low fog. He saw movement: Men dressed in camouflage, crawling on their stomachs through the woods. They were carrying big guns. You have to sort of think that through, Wool said. Because a few weeks earlier these redneck cowboys had been threatening the camp occupants. It appears the people in the camp interpreted this as being the rednecks are coming back and now theyre gonna kill us. Rosette aimed at the intruders, and fired. We see this as an act of terrorism

59 The camouflaged men werent cowboys, but an RCMP reconnaissance team, dressed in combat boots, camouflage pants and green vests. Four of them carried M-16 semi-automatics and one had a sniper rifle. The team fled, frightened, when a bullet whizzed over Constable Ray Wilbys head. Days later, 400 heavily armed RCMP officers laid siege to the native camp. Military helicopters criss-crossed the sky. Armoured personnel carriers (APCs) roughly double the height of an average person cruised the perimeter. It would become the largest paramilitary operation in B.C. history, a $5.5 million display of state-sanctioned might. We wont just sit back and do nothing, Inspector Len Olfert of the Kamloops RCMP subdivision said at the time. There has been an escalation; the threat is serious. We see this as an act of terrorism. Bud Mercer arrived at Gustafsen Lake that August with almost 20 years experience on the force. He was accompanied by Lukar, a German shepherd trained to track the scent of people through city streets and forest. Mercer was a veteran dog handler on the Vancouver Emergency Response Team (ERT). Hed trained with Lukar since the dog was an 11month-old puppy. In six years together, theyd responded to as many as 1,600 police calls. Mercer liked being a dog handler it put him right in the middle of the action. On Sept. 10, 1995, he and Lukar were posted to a deeply rutted backcountry road just south of Gustafsen Lake. Mercer stood guard as his fellow ERT members sunk shovels and picks into the gravel road. His colleagues laid thin, rectangular sheets of explosives, which Mercer later compared to fruit rollups, in the hollow. The team shovelled gravel onto the ditch and stretched a wire from the buried explosives to the west side of the road. They had orders to disable a red pick-up truck used to shuttle firewood and water into the camp the next day. (Beyond identifying the truck as a target of opportunity, its not entirely clear why the RCMP gave the order to blow it up, though court documents suggest police knew it was used primarily to transport water.) The ERT was expected to apprehend anyone inside the truck. Mercer and Lukar spent the night outdoors. Police lay in wait During the month-long standoff, the camp defendants expected the worst. They performed elaborate sweat lodge ceremonies to purify their bodies, minds and spirits. They fanned sticks of smouldering sage to rid themselves of negative energy. The people in the camp wanted to prepare for the eventuality that something happened if there was an all-out shoot-out and maybe someone got killed, said Splitting the Sky (aka John

60 Boncore), a Mohawk native who communicated often with his friends inside. Food came from supporters on horseback, who knew how to enter the area undetected through secret backwoods trails. The natives also relied on a red pickup truck to get safe drinking water into their camp. At noon on Sept. 11, 1995, James Pitawanakwat and non-native supporter Suniva Bronson were spotted by the RCMPs Eye in the Sky a videoequipped airplane as they loaded water bottles into the back of the truck. Theyd brought the camp dog along for the ride, a well-liked yellow Labrador retriever from the Kamloops SPCA. When the truck-bed was full, they drove the pickup along a grassy track and turned left onto the main road. It was an older vehicle, and pretty banged up. Frequent trips in and out of the bush on bad country roads had chipped paint and left scratches across its red exterior. Mercer was crouched behind a log, about 30 paces from the buried explosives, when he got the heads-up over the police radio. Lukar was lying down beside him. He could hear the rumble of rubber tires on gravel as the truck approached the RCMP position. The truck explodes With a crushing boom that could be heard in the native encampment, the explosives went off. (Video below.) A cloud of dust, dirt and black smoke mushroomed dozens of metres above the poplars and aspens that fringed the road. On instructions from the explosives unit, Mercer lay on the ground for two seconds to let the air clear. But when he stood up, the air was so thick from dust and dirt he couldnt see. In that time, a dark-green APC the size of a tank rammed the disabled pickup, sending the terrified camp dog sprinting for safety. RCMP officers fired two bullets into the yellow retrievers side, killing it by the side of the road. Mercer would later replay his memory of the explosion and the events that followed about a hundred times. The police radio buzzing like crazy. Two gunshots cracking somewhere in the cloud. The confusion of grey dust blending with bush and tree. After 30 seconds, the forest became visible again. Mercer heard over the radio that the truck had been found empty, so he set off with Lukar and three ERT members into the woods. The sparse forest presented ideal tracking conditions. It was the kind of place where the RCMP would train a young dog. But wary of an ambush, Mercer didnt let Lukar run too fast, keeping a firm grip on his six-metre tracking line. The team soon stumbled upon a loaded banana clip, and then a set of gloves. Mercer felt as if theyd travelled a kilometre, but it was only a couple hundred metres. When the radio crackled that two

61 weapons had been found in the red truck, the team went full tilt, breaking through the bushes and into a clearing on the shores of Gustafsen Lake. Mercer hesitates Mercer could see Pitawanakwat and Bronson wading out into the water. They had somehow survived the blast and escaped the destroyed truck alive. He knew if he unclipped Lukar, the dog would attack one of them. He decided to do it. But as bullets began to land all around him, he dropped to the ground with the rest of the RCMP team. They were in swampy terrain, patched with knee-high grass and not adequate cover for the hunting rifles pointed at them from across the lake. Mercer sensed their lives were in danger. He kept Lukar clipped to the leash while the team retreated back to the tree-line and crouched behind some logs. From there, they saw an APC pull onto the shoreline directly behind the two fugitives. The hatch opened and Corporal George Preston emerged, aiming his rifle at Pitawanakwat and Bronson, then firing two shots into the water beside them. He ordered them to put their hands up and move towards the shore. But when bullets started slamming into the APC, Preston ducked back inside. Mercer was some 23 metres west of the shore. He carried a 9mm handgun yet stayed out of the action because he was too busy keeping a handle on Lukar.* The dog was so agitated from all the gunfire it was trying to attack fellow ERT members. During the next three hours, RCMP forces fired up to 7,000 shots, according to their own estimates. The battle ended in stalemate. Suniva Bronson suffered the only injury, a bullet in her arm. Six days later, the camp occupants surrendered. A very legally volatile situation During the ensuing 10 month trial, the 18 defendants and their supporters invoked the 1763 Royal Proclamation, an elusive piece of legislation meant to protect native lands from settler encroachment. They claimed the Shuswap nation had never negotiated binding treaties. The rancher James said the Sundance site was his, because hed paid for it. The ramifications of the native position were huge. In terms of what motivated government and RCMP action, the decision-making on those things was driven by trying to keep control of a very legally volatile situation, said Janice Switlo, a legal advisor who wrote a comprehensive account of the standoff. As the trial came to a close, 15 defendants were convicted of charges ranging from mischief to property to weapons possession, but many of the more serious accusations were dropped.

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Not long after the standoff, Mercer had to retire Lukar. In 1991, the dog had suffered a severe injury while on assignment in northern Alberta. Mercer had sent Lukar after an armed man whod just murdered his wife. The man smashed his rifle on Lukars head so hard the gun broke in half, each piece dangling from its sling. The German Shepherds neck cracked in several places. He survived, but would never fully recover from a damaged spinal cord. As the wound calcified over the years, Lukar began to limp on both front paws. Mercer forced him into early retirement after Gustafsen Lake. Yet the two didnt part. I kept Lukar as a pet, which was a little different, the Olympics security boss told The Tyee and 24 hours. I couldnt give him up. He stayed with the family until he was 11 or 12. Gustafsen Lake the worst case scenario Fourteen years after the standoff at Gustafsen Lake, the events of Sept. 11, 1995 still resonate deeply for some members of B.C.s native community. United Native Nations president-elect David Dennis pointed fingers at Mercer last month during an Olympics and civil liberties forum in Vancouver. Its concerning, he said, that the same RCMP officer who stood by as a red truck exploded now leads Games security. Those fears hold strong for Splitting the Sky. He hurled invectives at Mercer during a recent Tyee interview, claiming the Gustafsen Lake connection is becoming well-known in B.C.s native community. Word is going around, thats for sure, he said. Defence lawyer Wool also views the events of summer 1995 as an injustice. But he doesnt think individual officers such as Mercer should be singled out. He was a dog handler back in 1995, Wool said. He was there because he was told to be there. Switlo agreed. Yet Canadians must still remember the standoff as an alarming misuse of RCMP force, she said. Its the worst case scenario: How not to handle matters that become difficult between indigenous nations and Canadians. The kind of situation that can be a learning experience for the law enforcement officials who were there. What lessons they take away arent revealed until the next time they find themselves in similar circumstances.

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Chapter 12 [Cowardly RCMP taser 11 year old Native boy Many people have said there is an intrinsic prejudice towards Canadian Natives by many RCMP officers Before his death he was able to tell a nurse at a the hospital that an RCMP officer jumped up and down on him?] The tasering of an 11 year old child by the cowardly RCMP raised an interesting question: Many people have said there is an intrinsic prejudice towards Canadian Natives by many RCMP officers.1 Lets explore that angle again? This time apparently confirming that prejudice? As cited, the Fred Quilt Affair was a media scandal involving the November 28, 1971 beating death of Fred Quilt a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation at the hands of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in the British Columbia Interior [see Appendix 6, cited below]. Before his death he was able to tell a nurse at a the hospital that a RCMP officer jumped up and down on him.2 Quilt's wife, Christine and sister-in-law, Agnes, later confirmed his account.3 An autopsy performed by Han Choo Lee found that Quilt died from a peritonitis as a result of, "complete severance of the small bowel.3 As further cited, Indians Protest Indians held province-wide demonstrations on Friday and Saturday to protest the death of Williams Lake Indian, Fred Quilt.4 Three Chilcotin witnesses testified that Quilt had been beaten by police; and a nurse stated Quilt told, her before he died that an RCMP jumped up and down on him.5 However, the coroners jury stated that the death was unnatural but accidental and would attach no blame to any person in connection with the death. 6 During the demonstrations many held signs reading: HELP KILL INDIANS. JOIN THE RCMP.7

64 All the author can say, in conclusion, it appears the only thing unnatural seems to be some of the RCMP, as per their crimes and behavior, as cited in this book: Canadas Police Force: Lies, fabrication, perjury ... and much worse? Before his death he was able to tell a nurse at the hospital that an RCMP officer jumped up and down on him http://www.amazon.com/CANADAs-POLICE-FORCE-fabricationperjury/dp/1461102812/ref=sr_1_18?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311552272&sr=1-18 Its apparent the RCMP have been abusing our Native brothers and sisters for decades Today, the RCMP have added vulnerable children, Polish immigrants, and elderly women to their hit list And any poor sap on the road when the RCMP drunks are behind the wheel And dont believe the excuse that the RCMP is a big outfit and theres bound to be a few bad apples Theres a lot more than a bad few apples, the culture is corrupt and broken: The Very Thin Red Line: This police force is "horribly broken"! http://www.amazon.com/Very-Thin-Red-Line-horribly/dp/1453881891/ref=sr_1_13? ie=UTF8&qid=1318524478&sr=8-13 Footnotes 1. RCMP taser 11 year old Native boy http://www.scotster.com/forums/human-rights/RCMP-taser-11-year-oldboy.4584.html Also see: Fred Quilt inquiry http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CXMhrIyppcJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Quilt_inquiry+Fred+Quilt+beatEN+b y+RCMP+officers+1971&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca 2 3. Fred Quilt inquiry http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CXMhrIyppcJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Quilt_inquiry+Fred+Quilt+beatEN+b y+RCMP+officers+1971&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca Also see: 'Help kill Indians, Join the RCMP' Broadcast Date: July 15, 1972

65 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:EgMIMDqEL7UJ:archives.cbc.ca/society/native_issues/clips/159 89/+rcmp+discriminate+against+natives&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca 4 7. Indians Protest RCMP Killing http://library.uvic.ca/site/archives/featured_collections/uvic_newspapers/ martlet_1970/The%20Martlet_1972_03_02.pdf Also see: Fred Quilt Committee http://www.metisnation.ca/NEW_BREED/1970/1972/1972_JUL.PDF

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Appendix 6 [Before his death he was able to tell a nurse at the hospital that a RCMP officer jumped up and down on him] As cited in: 'Help kill Indians, Join the RCMP' Broadcast Date: July 15, 1972 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:EgMIMDqEL7UJ:archives.cbc.ca/society/native_issues/clips/159 89/+rcmp+discriminate+against+natives&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca "Indians feel there's too much law and order and not enough protection for the people," says host Johnny Yesno, introducing a special Our Native Land show on the RCMP. Ex-RCMP corporal, Jack Ramsay, slams the Mounties poor treatment and "attitude" towards Native people. The second half of the show looks at the results of inquest into the death of Fred Quilt, a Chilcotin Indian who died from injuries after an alleged beating by RCMP officers in 1971. As cited in: Fred Quilt inquiry http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CXMhrIyppcJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Quilt_inquiry+Fred+Quilt+beatEN+b y+RCMP+officers+1971&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca The Fred Quilt Affair was a media scandal involving the November 28, 1971 beating death of Fred Quilt a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation at the hands of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in the British Columbia Interior. Later inquests into the beating would clear the RCMP but First Nations groups have consistently seen this as a cover up. Before his death he was able to tell a nurse at a the hospital that a RCMP officer jumped up and down on him. Quilt's wife, Christine and sister-in-law, Agnes, later confirmed his account. An autopsy performed by Han Choo Lee found that Quilt died from a peritonitis as a result of, "complete severance of the small bowel. As cited in: Indians Protest RCMP Killing http://library.uvic.ca/site/archives/featured_collections/uvic_newspapers/ martlet_1970/The%20Martlet_1972_03_02.pdf Indians Protest Indians held province-wide demonstrations on Friday and Saturday to protest the death of Williams Lake Indian, Fred Quilt.

67 The, demonstrations were supported by both the Union of B.C. Indians Chiefs and the National Indian Brotherhood. Indian Leaders do not accept the verdict of coroners jury which inquired into the death of Fredrick Quilt who died in hospital on November 30, 1971, following an alleged beating by Alexis Creek RCMP; Three Chilcotin witnesses testified that Quilt had been beaten by police; and a nurse stated Quilt told, her before he died that an RCMP jumped up and down on him. However, the coroners jury stated that the death was unnatural but accidental and would attach no blame to any person in connection with the death. Tony Belcourt, President of the Native Council of Canada said, There are too many discrepancies in the testimonies of the two RCMP constables, Daryl Bakewell and Peter Eakins. We arent going to drop the issue here. Besides questioning the validity of the jurys verdict, Indian leaders question the legal procedures involved in the inquiry itself. Points of legality are involved in the RCMP selection of an all white, allmale jury which was sworn in the night of Quilts death - and before allegations were made against the RCMP. Also questions concerning the admission of testimony have been raised. Furthermore, although the witnesses at the inquest included both Indians and white people; the 8 only ones subpoenaed were white. UBCIC member and Saanich Peninsula chief, Philip Paul, stated Monday night that UBCIC now has a transcript of the inquest and with the national organization will have questions concerning its legal procedures brought before the courts. Speaking to a gathering sponsored by the Victoria Voice of Women in the Provincial Museum, Philip Paul suggested the Quilt case was just a symptom of a larger issue of Indian human rights. I see nothing new about this case. It happens all the time, only some cases get more publicity than others.

68 Last year twenty-five Indian girls died unnatural deaths in Vancouvers skid row alone! During the demonstrations many held signs reading: HELP KILL INDIANS. JOIN THE RCMP. Groups such as Vancouvers Native Alliance for Red Power, have openly declared the RCMP a racist police force. Also see: 1. Reference to: http://www.metisnation.ca/NEW_BREED/1970/1972/1972_JUL.PDF 2. Reference to: http://library.uvic.ca/site/archives/featured_collections/uvic_newspapers/ martlet_1970/The%20Martlet_1972_03_02.pdf

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Chapter 13 [You can imagine what the RCMP would pull on someone who wrote about them?] With cowardly behavior like that cited above, you can imagine what they would do to an author who tried to write about their atrocities 20 years ago the RCMP would try to bury him or worse? Take the author of these articles: Human rights violations in Canada: Individual being denied employment with the Federal Government of Canada due to false "murder charge" statements made by M.J. Hauser of the Correctional Service of Canada (continuing case study from Cour superieure en matiere de faillite, Palais de justice, Montreal, File #500-11-002290-894) OCLC Number: 29205400 1990 Human rights violations in Canada: Individual being denied employment with the Federal Government of Canada due to false "murder charge" statements made by Nicole Bomberg of the Public Service Commission of Canada (continuing case study from Cour superieure en matiere de faillite, Palais de justice, Montreal, File #500-11-002290-894) OCLC Number: 29205400 1990 Human rights violations in Canada by federal agents of the Canadian Human Rights Anti-Discrimination Agency of the Public Service Commission of Canada. ISBN: 0969594453 9780969594451 OCLC Number: 46528081 - 1997 Canadian anti-discriminate [sic] directorate and Canadian public service staff Nicole Bomberg's legacy to Canada. ISBN: 0968290469 9780968290460 OCLC Number: 46563169 - 1998 Canadian anti-discrimination directorate and Canadian public service staff Lorisa Stein's legacy to Canada. N: 096959447X 9780969594475 OCLC Number: 46563137 - 1998 The RCMP fabrications kept him unemployed to this day? And, when he wrote about their conspiracy: R.C.M.P. Sgt. John ("Jack") Thomas Randle's legacy to Canada. ISBN: 0969594429 9780969594420 OCLC Number: 46531882 - 1996

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Is he Canada's example of another Mark Furman : R.C.M.P. Sgt. John ("Jack") Thomas Randle purposefully committed lies, fabricated evidence, made false statements & committed illegal acts! ISBN: 0969594437 9780969594437 OCLC Number: 43152171 - 1997 Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers Sgt. John ("Jack") Thomas Randle's & Cpl. Jackett's legacy to Canada. ISBN: 0968290442 9780968290446 OCLC Number: 46563215 - 1998 Judge John Gomery's inappropriate comments based on lies, false statements, fabricated statements & illegal acts by R.C.M.P. Sgt. John Thomas Randle. ISBN: 0968290477 9780968290477 OCLC Number: 46563154 1998 Complete discharge from bankruptcy including preferred student loans due to Royal Canadian Mounted Police harassment: a most unusual case of bankruptcy. ISBN: 0968290469 9780968290460 OCLC Number: 46563182 1997 Can police harassment involving illegal acts, false statements and fabricated evidence lead to a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder sufficient to approve permanent disability pension? ISBN: 0969594488 9780969594482 OCLC Number: 46563102 - 1998 The RCMP conspired against him again citing other fabricated b.s. in 1998 to railroad him into jail to keep him quiet!

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Chapter 14 [Whatever happened to Vincent Li?] Whatever happened to that monster cannibal Vincent Li? As cited, Manitoba Attorney General Andrew Swan stepped in Thursday to shut down a decision that would have allowed Vince Li to leave a locked forensic unit for short periods of time, saying it is "contrary to the interests of public safety."1 Swan's overruling of the Criminal Code Review Board's decision means Li will not be allowed to stroll the Selkirk Mental Health Centre's grounds until the facility beefs up security measures.2 "The Department of Health and our government will make sure that there are appropriate steps taken to protect public safety before Mr. Li is anywhere other than inside that locked forensic unit," Swan told reporters.3 Li was found not criminally responsible last year for the 2008 beheading of 22-yearold Tim McLean on a Greyhound bus near Portage la Prairie. He admitted responsibility for the attack, but a judge found him to be suffering from hallucinations and untreated schizophrenia at the time, which left him unable to appreciate or control his actions.4 On Thursday, the Criminal Code Review Board gave Li -- over the objections of a Crown attorney -- clearance to start receiving supervised passes from his locked, high-risk ward.5 What other kinds of patients do they have at or have had at Selkirk Mental Health Centre? As further cited, the man accused of killing 80-year-old Ralph Larson of Selkirk during a weekend home invasion is a schizophrenic who was previously warned by a judge to stay on his medication after assaulting Larson's neighbour, the Free Press has learned.6 Ryan Otte, 33, was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Larson. Neighbours found him beaten and bloodied in his home on Sunday morning. He died in hospital on Monday.7 Justice officials expressed concern about Otte during a 2006 sentencing hearing for an incident that happened in 2000. Otte had been staying in crisis stabilization in Selkirk when he asked his father-in-law, Grant Settee, to visit him. When Settee -who was Larson's neighbour -- arrived, Otte rushed at him and repeatedly punched him in the face, court documents reveal.8

72 Settee suffered cuts and bruises to his face. Otte was charged with assault causing bodily harm and was sent to the Selkirk Mental Health Centre for treatment and therapy.9 Another case involved a schizophrenic Winnipeg man randomly stabbed his cousin to death just weeks after being sent away from a mental-health clinic by doctors who didn't believe he posed a danger to himself or others.10 Darryl Monkman, 27, was suffering from a severe psychotic disorder when he brutally attacked 38-year-old Kelly Godfrey inside the Bannerman Avenue home they shared last January. Queen's Bench Justice Morris Kaufman made the NCR finding Monday after hearing from Dr. Stanley Yaren, the Crown's only witness.11 Yaren, head of Manitoba's forensic psychiatry program, told court Monkman thought his ceiling tiles were laced with rat poison and that mice and spiders were living inside his body.12 "He believed his cousin had a microchip in his brain and he needed to get it out," said Glazer. Monkman also claimed Godfrey had a "velvet revolver" hidden in the bathroom, which he planned to use to kill him, and thought rat poison was raining down on him from above.13 Monkman grabbed a knife from the kitchen and began stabbing Godfrey as their spouses watched in horror. The women briefly pulled Monkman off the victim, who fled upstairs and barricaded himself in the bathroom, court was told.14 Monkman followed him and began smashing down the door, yelling "You can't hide." Once inside, he threw Godfrey into the bathtub and continued stabbing him.15 The board could recommend placement at a long-term facility, such as the Selkirk Mental Health Centre, or agree to return him to the community under certain conditions. His status will be the subject of annual reviews for the rest of his life.16 And another case, a mentally ill Manitoba killer plans to defend himself on criminal charges related to a series of high-profile incidents at the provincial health facility where he was being housed.17 Earl Joey Wiebe, 28, appeared in court Thursday to announce he was firing his longtime lawyer, Greg Brodsky. Provincial court Judge Janice LeMaistre pleaded with him to consider other counsel, but Wiebe insisted on being self-represented while calling for a divorce from Brodsky. No trial dates have been set.18 He made national headlines in 2009 when he was accused of hiding a knife, drugs, alcohol and cash in the ceiling tiles of his private room at the Selkirk Mental Health Centre, a medium-security facility.19

73 He allegedly lit his pants on fire in another incident, causing all doors to the facility to be automatically opened. Wiebe was accused of having a key that allowed him access to several rooms in the building. Justice sources say he allegedly discussed purchasing a gun to help him flee the facility, about 25 kilometres north of Winnipeg. He escaped in 2006 and spent three weeks on the run while calling to taunt staff members before being nabbed in B.C.20 He was also involved in a romance with a psychiatric nursing student who was hired in early 2009 and quickly assigned to be his lone escort during several off-site day trips in which he obtained the contraband. Love letters from the woman, who has since been fired, were found in Wiebes room. There were explicit photos of the two taken on a cellphone camera, which are now in the custody of the Crown.21 Manitoba justice officials are planning to kick Wiebe out of the province because they no longer have the ability to control him at Selkirk or any other mental-health facility. But they must wait for his criminal charges to be dealt with. For now, he is in remand custody at a provincial jail.22 I dont fear Selkirk. Selkirk fears me, he said at a hearing last year.23 Would the reader agree, with patients like this, Selkirk Mental Health Centre can be a potentially dangerous place [see Appendices 7 - 13 of other high-risk individuals, cited below]? Footnotes 1 5. Province bans Li's walks: Overturns ruling that approved escorted outings for Greyhound killer By: Larry Kusch and Mike McIntyre 4/06/2010 8:41 AM Brandon Sun - ONLINE EDITION http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:uuMXtogX7UcJ:www.brandonsun.com/breaking-news/province-bans-liswalks-95597894.html%3FviewAllComments %3Dy+Joey+Wiebe+sociopath&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

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The province says Vincent Li (inset) cannot have escorted walks on the unfenced grounds of the Selkirk Mental Health Centre. 6 9. Accused has history of mental illness: Ran into trouble with law over violent outburst By: Mike McIntyre Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition May 6, 2010 A4 http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/accused-has-history-of-mental-illness92946059.html 10 16. Mentally ill killer avoids jail term: Found not criminally responsible By: Mike McIntyre Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION Posted: 15/12/2009 http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/mentally-ill-killer-avoids-jail-term79291057.html 17 16. Man found not criminally responsible in murder of step-mom now his own lawyer Posted on May 21, 2011. http://www.4darcie.ca/2011/05/21/man-found-not-criminally-responsible-in-murderof-step-mom-now-his-own-lawyer/

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Appendix 7 Doctor worried after threats made By: Mike McIntyre Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 10, 2010 A4 http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/doctor-worried-after-threats-made100327399.html A Winnipeg man who is accused of threatening to kill his longtime family doctor was ordered to undergo a mental health assessment while remaining behind bars. The 59-year-old was arrested last month after allegedly leaving disturbing phone and written messages, which were turned over to police. "This is scary," Crown attorney Mike Desautels told provincial court Judge Heather Pullan during a bail hearing last week. "The doctor is concerned he may act out some of these threats." The accused was seeking to be released but Pullan agreed with the Crown's request to order a psychological report to determine whether the man can be held criminally responsible. "These are allegations which appear to be delusional," said Pullan. Desautels said the accused claimed to be Adolf Hitler and told his doctor of 12 years he would hire a gang to "execute him." He also made threats against the doctor's children, saying he would "poison them" and made a reference to Vince Li, who was suffering from untreated schizophrenia when he killed a Greyhound Bus passenger in 2008. The threats began in March. The doctor reported them last month when he felt he could no longer deal with the issue on his own. "I think there are some underlying issues here," said Desautels. The accused was taken to hospital on at least two prior occasions on the strength of mental health warrants obtained by family members, court was told. However, staff determined he had no "serious medical health issues" and released him.

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Appendix 8 An obsession with Satanism Man, 22, accused of slitting throat of former co-worker, friend By: Gabrielle Giroday Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION 7/08/2010 1:00 AM http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/mobile/an-obsession-withsatanism-100178869.html The man accused of slitting the throat of a 25-year-old friend and then reporting the attack to authorities was fascinated by Satanism and collected Nazi memorabilia, said a former roommate. The 22-year-old man was staying temporarily at the apartment of his friend, Jennifer Paraton, and her husband when he allegedly attacked her Friday afternoon, said a source. He then called 911 to calmly alert police to the crime. Police said Friday officers arrested Maxwell Zavitz outside the apartment building at 36 Carlton St. and charged him with second-degree murder. Police allege Zavitz used an "edged weapon" to attack the woman, but would not provide further details of the attack. A source told the Free Press the man has a history of mental health problems. Zavitz's former roommate and friend, Bruce Carroll, said Zavitz had earlier shown him a red and white flag with a swastika on it and pins that referred to the Nazi SS. The two men lived together in early 2009, but Carroll said they lost touch after Zavitz moved out and got an apartment in Osborne Village. He said Zavitz was friends with Paraton from a Main Street call centre where they all worked in 2008 and 2009. Police and a human resources manager at the call centre would not confirm Friday the two were former co-workers. "He was into a lot of stuff," said Carroll, who said the man was "really into Satanic beliefs." He said Zavitz was "intelligent" and didn't appear to be racist, but did show the Nazi items to his friend. "He didn't talk much about it, it wasn't something that I wanted to hear." "I never judged him, that's why I was his friend," said Carroll. He said Paraton was a "really nice" woman pursuing a nursing career.

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Shortly before Paraton died, he said, she'd posted a Facebook message saying she was tackling a hectic schedule, including a professional photography course and a financial planning course. "Nothing is too impossible," said her message. Police did not release Paraton's name Friday, citing a request from the woman's family. A friend said Paraton had worked hard to forge a life with her husband after moving from her parents' home about five years ago. "She was there for anybody," said Rae-Lynn Graham, Paraton's best friend. "She does anything she can for anyone." She said her friend was due to start a new job at a bank on Aug. 16 and was kind to Zavitz because she "felt sorry" for him. She said she warned her friend to stay away from Zavitz because he was a "freak." "He had nobody," she said. Police also did not say how they became aware of the attack except that officers received a call indicating "suspicious circumstances." A police spokesman emphasized, however, the homicide was not domestic violence and did not involve strangers. "They are still investigating. I don't have any indication at this point that they've come up with a motive," said Winnipeg Police Service spokesman Const. Rob Carver. Police said Zavitz had no fixed address in the city. He has no record, but a source said he has a history of mental illness. A family member said the victim's husband, Joenel Paraton, was not at the apartment when the attack occurred at about 3 p.m. The relative said the couple married about two years ago and the husband, a care worker, was devastated by news of his wife's death. A source said the woman was rushed to hospital and declared brain dead. The source said she was put on life support until her family could arrive to say goodbye. Her death was the 13th homicide in Winnipeg this year. Zavitz is scheduled to appear in court Monday. In an online profile, Zavitz described himself as "clinically insane" and listed himself as a current employee of a city call centre.

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Appendix 9 Winnipeg mom charged with stabbing kids Last Updated: Friday, June 4, 2010 CBC News http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2010/06/04/mb-children-stabbedwinnipeg.html A Winnipeg woman has been charged with three counts of attempted murder after her two young sons a nine-year-old and a four-month-old and her sister were stabbed. The children were taken to hospital in critical condition Thursday with wounds to their upper bodies but have since been upgraded to stable, police said. The mother's 32-year-old sister was also stabbed as she tried to intervene, but was released from hospital after treatment. The sister's four-month-old daughter was not injured, said Const. Jason Michalyshen. A four-month-old infant with stab wounds is taken to a Winnipeg hospital on Thursday. (Sheila North-Wilson/CBC) The nine-year-old boy fled the suite in a downtown housing complex after being injured and notified security at the apartment, who then contacted emergency services, police said. The 35-year-old mother was arrested shortly after the incident, which happened around 5:30 p.m. Thursday at a downtown housing complex at 355 Kennedy St. Neighbours told CBC News the family had moved to Winnipeg from Somalia about five years ago. The woman has also been charged with assault with a weapon and assault. She is in custody at the Provincial Remand Centre. The children have been placed in the care of the provincial government's Child and Family Services agency. Mental illness suspected A close family friend believes the accused woman, who speaks little English, has been suffering from mental illness.

79 "I believe she was depressed. I am not a medical professional to diagnose but she wasn't herself lately," said Abdi Rizak Adam, vice-president of the Manitoba Somali Association."She was withdrawn. Kind of upset about everything." Adam said the woman was anxious about trying to bring her husband to Winnipeg from a refugee camp in Ethiopia. She knew she would have to work full-time to sponsor him but she didn't want to leave her children alone. Immigrants face challenges People who work with newcomers say there can be stressful challenges for people who come to Canada. There can be a sense of isolation for people because of language and cultural differences, said Noelle De Pape, executive director of the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba, which offers transitional housing and social services to new Canadians. While there are many support programs available, people need to be made aware of them and take advantage, she said. People who have gone through refugee camps may not know how to access help, she added. "We end up dealing with many issues that are at a crisis point with very expensive front-line services like police and hospital, but we need to focus on prevention and supporting families and their children," De Pape said. She also noted the location of Thursday's stabbing "is right in the heart of the newcomer service community, near Central Park."

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Appendix 10 Man 'likely to kill,' but gets release; Psychiatrist's opinion, judge's reservations, breached conditions not enough to detain him DATE: May 8, 04:45 PM By Mike McIntyre Winnipeg Free Press http://mikeoncrime.com/article/21561/mcintyre-exclusive-man-likely-to-kill-but-getsrelease-psychiatrist-s-opinion-judge-s-reservations-breached-conditions-not-enoughto-detain-him A Harvard-educated Winnipeg businessman with a history of terrorizing his estranged family is back on the streets, despite a psychiatrists opinion he is likely to kill. The man who the Free Press is not naming to protect the identity of his victims was arrested last week for allegedly breaching conditions of his bail and probation orders. Provincial court Judge Ray Wyant agreed to release him back into the community despite expressing serious concerns. There are a lot of things that raise a lot of red flags for me, Wyant said in a hearing that wasnt covered by a publication ban. Crown attorney Terry McComb argued the man, who is in his 30s, should remain behind bars. He spent nearly an hour going through extensive details of the mans troubling behaviour. He has been diagnosed with a narcissistic personality disorder and has made repeated threats to go on a deadly shooting spree against those he believes wronged him. He speaks of himself as being a ticking time bomb, McComb told the judge. He speaks of having a holy war, of having another Columbine or Virginia Tech (massacre). The man pleaded guilty in a Kenora courtroom last year to holding his parents hostage for several hours inside their Lake of the Woods cottage. He was under both a bail order and a restraining order to have no contact with them at the time of the 2007 incident, court was told. The man, who has both Canadian and American citizenship, chartered a boat on the U.S. side of the lake, used a bogus name to get through customs then broke into the cottage, armed with an aluminum bat.

81 He ordered his parents to sit on a couch, saying I could kill you both right now. He blamed them for problems with his business interests and difficulties he had with his ex-wife and her family, who are also prominent Winnipeg business owners. He was also angry at not being allowed to see his children without supervision, court was told. Ultimately his parents were able to talk to him, to calm him down and he said he couldnt kill them, McComb said. The man admitted to charges of criminal harassment, unlawful confinement, uttering threats, assault with a weapon and numerous breaches. He was given time in custody and two years of probation, which would be monitored by Manitobas high-risk offender unit. He still faces two charges of uttering threats from 2007. Those involve allegations he said he would kill his parents, his ex-wife and several members of her family during telephone conversations. He claimed he had bought a .45 from a black man and was prepared to use it. He said this would be all over the news, that he was incapable of surrender. He said Ill fight to the death. This is war. It will go down in blood. I dont care if I go out in a hail of bullets, McComb told the judge. The mans trial on those charges is set for this fall. Hes free on bail, and his conditions include a nightly curfew and non-contact order. He has reluctantly attended court-ordered counselling but has shown little interest in taking responsibility, court was told. Last month, he told his psychiatrist he would no longer participate in conversations and would instead do yoga during future sessions. He apparently feels the whole system should bend to him. He doesnt appreciate how serious this is, McComb said. (The psychiatrist) does indicate he believes he is likely to kill. Police arrested the man last week after probation officials conducted four curfew checks in which he didnt answer his telephone at the Pembina Highway hotel where he lives with his new girlfriend, court was told. The man took issue with his arrest during his bail hearing, in which he acted as his own lawyer. He said he was inside his room, as required, but never heard the phone ring.

82 I havent breached. I dont take my release lightly. My freedom is very important to me, he said. The man blasted the Crown, police and probation officials for targeting him. The system keeps screwing me, he said. Im hearing a lot about a monster. That person I dont recognize as myself. Im trying to work towards peace and reconciliation. I do not have any major mental problems. Im not capable of doing these things that people said I could do. Im not a danger to society. The man spoke for nearly 30 minutes straight, pleading with Wyant to give him another shot at freedom. He bragged about his many accomplishments, from his education at a prestigious U.S. college and winning a Winnipeg business award, to dominating the competition during weeknight floor hockey games at a Winnipeg church. Im the top scorer, by the way. But that sounds narcissistic, so I wont say that, he told the judge. The man also compared his plight to that of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Im a guy whos been dealt a bad break by his family, he said. Wyant chastised the man for his me, me, me attitude, noting he has already been convicted of serious criminal charges. However, he agreed to give the man one more shot at bail, warning any further breaches would likely result in a lengthy stay in jail. The authorities are going to be watching your every move, he said.

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Appendix 11 Cannibals, Psychiatrists and the CPS Posted by Anthony Daniels http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:EECmMk9IrTAJ:www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/000329.php+c annibals+in+forensic+psychiatric+units&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca The recent conviction of Peter Bryan - who killed a man and ate his brain two years after being released from a secure psychiatric hospital for killing a young woman has ignited much comment in the British press. Anthony Daniels - who has worked until recently as a prison doctor - argues that this case obscures a much larger problem: namely the frequent failure of the police and the CPS to prosecute psychiatric patients for crimes up to and including attempted murder. Why, asks Anthony Daniels, is it wrong to prosecute mad attempted murderers when mad shoplifters are frequently incarcerated for months on end without medical treatment? Everyone loves a cannibal at a safe distance, of course. I once met a man who delighted to tell people that his own grandfather, a missionary, had been eaten by cannibals in Fiji. I believe there has long been a controversy in anthropological circles, of the kind in which intellectuals delight to engage, as to whether cannibalism ever really existed as an everyday phenomenon: the answer given probably depending on the anthropologist's fundamental belief or disbelief in the concept of noble savage. But the story of the psychiatric patient who killed a man and ate his brains two years after being released from psychiatric hospital, where he had been detained for having brutally murdered a young woman while in a state of madness, and who killed a third time in the hospital to which he was sent yet again, is too horrible and immediate to us to be the subject either of jocularity or comfortably abstract debate. The story seems redolent of the state of urban and moral decay in the very midst of prosperity, and of the failure of various public agencies to protect us, that we all feel. And the very randomness of the killer's victims causes us disproportionately to feel under threat from some such attack. One can already see in one's mind's filing cabinet the conclusions of the report that will inevitably follow from these events. There was a lack of communication between the various agencies and professionals charged with the man's care and supervision. Yet again agencies, professionals and individuals will be enjoined to impart their relevant knowledge to one another. But hard cases make not only bad law, but probably bad social commentary as well. After all, failures and failings there will always be. Much criticism has been directed at the Mental Health Review Tribunal for having released the man despite contrary advice from, among others, the Home Office. But so long as there are such tribunals, however they are composed, there will always be errors. If we decided that people

84 who kill in a state of madness are at some time to be released if they appear well, there will always be the possibility no, it will happen that a few among them will kill again. What we have to decide is whether it is better for ninety-nine cured killers to remain in custody than that one such killer should kill again. There is no indubitably 'correct' answer to this question, and I have little doubt that if we opted to keep all mad killers in custody forever, before long there would be protests at the injustice and expense of it - avoidable public expenditure is unjust. Dramatic cases such as that of the cannibal killer occur but rarely otherwise, I suppose, they would cease to be dramatic. However, I should like briefly to draw attention to what, in statistical terms, is a much larger problem, though perhaps not very large in the scheme of things. It is the failure of the police, and of the Crown Prosecution Service, to understand, respectively, the law and the public interest. I refer to the frequent failure to prosecute psychiatric patients for crimes up to and including attempted murder. When a psychiatric patient commits a serious and even dangerous crime, the police often argue that they can do nothing precisely because he is a psychiatric patient. They refuse even to arrest him, let alone detain and charge him. If pressed to do so, they will change their argument: they will say that they know from experience that the Crown Prosecution Service (known to them as Couldn't Prosecute Satan) will not prosecute, and that therefore all the work necessary to process an arrest and detention will be wasted. Insofar as this is true, it is because the CPS argues that it is not in the public interest to proceed. The CPS is required to consider two matters before continuing with a prosecution: first, is there a reasonable chance of conviction, and second is it in the public interest that the prosecution should go ahead? The first question hardly applies: the evidence that the psychiatric patient has committed the offence is almost always overwhelming. But the second question seems to bring out the sentimentalist in the CPS: poor chap, he's ill, he couldn't help it, how can it be in the public interest to persecute him? Prosecution in such cases is persecution. In fact, it is vital that there should be a legal record of convictions, not to wreak vengeance, but to establish a clear picture of escalating offending (if any). Furthermore, the law already allows for sufficient legal control over dangerous lunatics, if it were applied with anything like straightforwardness. We don't need more laws, give or take an amendment or two, we need competence and honesty in applying the ones we already have. Needless to say, the failure to prosecute mad attempted murderers (or should I say attempted manslaughterers?) is not incompatible in the slightest with the incarceration for months on end, completely without medical treatment, of raving mad shoplifters. They turn up regularly. Doctors in prisons cannot treat prisoners against their will, except under the direst emergency, but there are no longer any places in hospitals to which they can be sent for treatment outside prison.

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Thus, a giant apparatus of law enforcement and medical care, disposing of resources that would have made our ancestors gasp, has recreated the conditions of eighteenth century Bedlam in the prisons while failing to protect us adequately in the streets from the actions of mad axe-wielders. This, surely, is emblematic of the current expansion of the British state, whose purpose is to give employment or disguise unemployment and provide a fund of loyal voters for political masters rather than to solve any problems that our society actually faces. This corrupt purpose is furthered by the inability of people any longer to think in a straightforward and honest fashion. One sees in the convoluted and dishonest workings of the British public service the magnificent truth in Pascal's famous dictum: let us labour, then, to think clearly, for such is the foundation of morality. Anthony Daniels is a writer and retired earlier this year as a doctor.

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Appendix 12 Cannibal was released to kill twice London http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ndKbGV1Eh4J:news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4350705.stm+Cannibal+was +released+to+kill+twice+London&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca&source=www.goog le.ca Peter Bryan was released from secure hospitals to kill again and again. Officers labelled Bryan "the cannibal" after they found him frying some of Brian Cherry's organs. The mental patient, who suffered paranoid schizophrenia and a personality disorder, told police after his arrest: "I would have done someone else if you hadn't come along. I wanted their souls." After walking out of a mental health unit in Newham, east London, Bryan had gone to visit his friend Brian Cherry - there he cut him up with a Stanley knife. Mr Cherry's niece Emma, 20, of Falkirk, Stirlingshire, said: "I just can't believe anyone could do this to Brian. "He was my favourite uncle and a totally kind and gentle man. He would never have hurt a flea. "It's like something out of a horror film. Bryan was a convicted killer who had beaten 20-year-old shop assistant Nisha Sheth to death with a hammer as she worked in her family's clothes shop in Chelsea, southwest London, in 1993. He was sent to Rampton secure hospital in 1994 but was freed in 2001 after applying to a health review tribunal. Health deterioration The Home Office is thought to have objected but was overruled and Bryan was released into the care of a psychiatric social worker and psychiatrist. After a spell in a local east London hospital, he was allowed to live as a care in the community out-patient. But his health deteriorated and he went to Topaz ward a week before the killing.

87 As a voluntary patient, Bryan was allowed to leave the locked ward after being there a few days. After appearing in court for Mr Cherry's killing, Bryan was remanded to Broadmoor special hospital. But in April last year, he attacked fellow patient Richard Loudwell, 59, formerly of Gillingham, Kent. Independent inquiry Nisha Sheth's parents have criticised authorities for letting Bryan out of a secure hospital. Mrs Rashmi said: "It is terrible. He shouldn't be out. He shouldn't even be alive. We are paying taxes to keep him alive. "This brings back all the memories. It reopens the whole story and we are a family who are just trying to get on with our lives." A review by the East London and The City Mental Health NHS Trust in the immediate aftermath of Mr Cherry's death resulted in the trust "enhancing its specialist community-based forensic teams to strengthen local mental health services". It has also launched an inquiry which will be conducted by three independent panels. Sheila Foley, chief executive of the trust, said: "I would like to extend my deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Mr Cherry and all those affected by this case. "The issues raised in this highly unusual case will be the subject of an independent inquiry but I would like to give my personal assurance that the trust is doing and will continue to do everything in its power to improve the services we provide to local people."

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Appendix 13 Blunders let cannibal kill The Sun Published: 03 Sep 2009 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2620799/Blunders-let-cannibal-kill.html A CANNIBAL who slaughtered his friend and ate his brains was freed to kill after a series of blunders by social workers and medical experts. Convicted killer Peter Bryan who suffers from schizophrenia was released from a secure hospital just THREE HOURS before murdering pal Brian Cherry. The 39-year-old killed his friend and cooked and feasted on part of his brain. He had been discharged from the mental health unit and given permission to live in a hostel in North London, after experts decided he was fit to live in the community under supervision. He was admitted to hospital after beating shop assistant Nisha Sheth to death with a hammer in 1993. In a damning report into the case, authors found that for the short time Bryan lived in the community he was looked after by an inexperienced social worker and a psychiatrist who had never worked with a convicted killer. The report found "there was a systemic failure to ensure that the key professionals allocated to care for Peter Bryan in the community had the necessary experience to deal with someone with his forensic history and complex presentation". It added: "The two professionals, who were a supervising psychiatrist and social supervisor, for this unusual and complicated patient were a general adult psychiatrist who never before had had responsibility for a patient who had killed someone, and a very inexperienced social worker who had no training in mental health." Bryan, who was admitted to Broadmoor Hospital after Mr Cherry's murder, struck again just two months later strangling fellow patient Richard Loudwell, 59.

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Chapter 15 [Selkirk Mental Health Centre is no place to be harassed by the sharks?] The current author waited 30+ years until the truth came out about the RCMP? Now its impossible for them to hide their cowardly acts, their lies, their fabrication(s), their perjury and much worse: Canadas Police Force: Lies, fabrication, perjury ... and much worse? Before his death he was able to tell a nurse at the hospital that an RCMP officer jumped up and down on him http://www.amazon.com/CANADAs-POLICE-FORCE-fabricationperjury/dp/1461102812/ref=sr_1_18?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311552272&sr=118

Hush, Hush: Someone will sweep it under the rug! http://www.amazon.com/Hush-Someone-will-sweepunder/dp/1453854819/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1318524414&sr=8-11

Their Job is Making Them Sick! Ever work for an employer that makes you sick? http://www.amazon.com/Their-Making-Them-employermakes/dp/1453832335/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1318524359&sr=8-8

Is Canada's Police Force Filtering What the World Reads about Them? The "Crazy Canuck" apparently wrote a bogus review to help out? http://www.amazon.com/Canadas-Police-Force-FilteringWorld/dp/1463601832/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311552066&sr=1-4

Has the WetCoaster made another fabricated statement because the author has written about the Lies, Fabrications, Perjury and much worse by Canadas Police Force? Is the WetCoaster and the Crazy Canuck the same person?

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Cry Babies! A pile of dirty tricks and when they are revealed boy do they cry? http://www.amazon.com/Cry-Babies-dirty-tricksrevealed/dp/1466423188/ref=sr_1_21?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1318962646&sr=121

The Thin Red Line: They implied they were the best, it turns out they may be one of the worst? http://www.amazon.com/Thin-Red-Line-implied-turns/dp/1453815317/ref=sr_1_6? ie=UTF8&qid=1318524216&sr=8-6

If You Like To Catch Bad Guys This Police Force Doesnt Want You? http://www.amazon.com/Like-Catch-Police-ForceDoesnt/dp/1456352059/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&qid=1318523694&sr=8-18

If You Live at Home This Police Force Doesn't Want You? What kind of "wacky" police force is that? http://www.amazon.com/Police-Force-Doesnt-wackypolice/dp/1456327305/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311552066&sr=1-11

The Very Thin Red Line: This police force is "horribly broken"! http://www.amazon.com/Very-Thin-Red-Line-horribly/dp/1453881891/ref=sr_1_13? ie=UTF8&qid=1318524478&sr=8-13

As we have seen in the previous chapter, the Selkirk Mental Health Centre in Manitoba Canada can be a very potentially dangerous place?

However, could the RCMP be behind the harassment of the first female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Centre simply because her father successfully sued them [see Appendix 14, cited below]?

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Chapter 16 [Were the RCMP behind the sharks harassment of the first female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Centre in Manitoba, Canada because she was the daughter of the little guy who successfully sued the RCMP?] As questioned: Were the RCMP behind the sharks harassment of the first female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Centre in Manitoba, Canada because she was the daughter of the little guy who successfully sued the RCMP [see Appendix 15, cited below]? Very likely! Why else would the sharks think they could lie with impunity about the first female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Centre in Manitoba, Canada? Why else would the management think they could lie with impunity to cover-up this harassment against the first female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Centre in Manitoba, Canada? Why else would the Minister of Health and the Manitoba government think they could ignore with impunity to cover-up this harassment against the first female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Centre in Manitoba, Canada [see appendix 16, cited below]? Quite simply, the RCMP would make it all go away? After all, the RCMP run the Government of Canada, and the first female security officers complaints to Federal Minister Diane Finley was kiboshed with her departments further lies: Canadas Very Own Three Blind Mice! Who concluded that antibiotics are for stress? http://www.amazon.com/Canadas-Very-Three-BlindMice/dp/1466431334/ref=sr_1_23? s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1318962853&sr=1-23 The RCMP intimidates other provincial governments [see Appendix 17 & 18, cited below], and the first female security officers complaint to Manitoba Human Rights Commission was mysteriously held up until one day after the provincial election: Something fishy going on here? Why wait till one day after election?

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And, oh yes, a message from this author to the Manitoba government - a female employee has every right to protest, especially when being mistreated! The Manitoba Government, apparently, was very happy to oblige the RCMP and do their part to kibosh any flak from the RCMP shark stooges that lied and harassed the first female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Centre in Manitoba, Canada?

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Appendix 16 [The author will be amazed?] Does the first female security officer hired at the Selkirk Mental Health Centre have a hope in hell of getting justice from the NDP government (Canadas Socialist Party1) now that they have been re-elected in Manitoba Canada for a fourth term? The author doubts it very much?2 Footnotes 1. Socialism Today - Socialist Party magazine: New Politics in Canada http://www.socialismtoday.org/65/Canada.html As cited ver batim: LAST NOVEMBER leaders of Canadas New Democratic Party (NDP) received a shock when 37% of delegates at the partys national convention voted in favour of the New Politics Initiative (NPI), a current of NDP lefts and social activists outside the party who are proposing to replace the NDP with a new left-wing formation. The NDP (Canadas Labour Party) has reached social democracys nadir since it was formed in 1961 and since its predecessor, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) was founded in Regina in 1933. In its first Canada-wide federal election in 1935 the CCF won 8.9% of the vote. In the last federal election in November 2000, the NDP won 8.5%. At provincial level the NDP is on the verge of losing party status in Ontario (Canadas largest province), has only two seats in British Columbias legislature after squandering two terms in power, clings to government in Saskatchewan (the partys birthplace) thanks to a rotten coalition with the Liberals, and enjoys relative security only in Manitoba. Just twelve years ago it looked like the NDP had achieved its greatest breakthrough, winning its first ever majority government in Ontario Canadas industrial heartland with one-third of the countrys population. From being largely confined to western Canada, it looked on the verge of taking power nationally. The meltdown in NDP fortunes can be traced to the partys abandonment of socialist principles. The Ontario breakthrough came with the partys election manifesto, Agenda for People, which promised numerous social and political reforms including the nationalisation of auto insurance. Premier Bob Rae quickly turned his back on his partys pledges, however,

100 and led the NDP into a doomed attempt to run a business-friendly government. In 1993 it adopted the social contract, arbitrarily reopening collective agreements with public-sector unions and imposing salary claw-backs to the tune of $2 billion. While maintaining formal ties with the labour movement, this betrayal of the workers effectively ended the NDPs role as a labour party in Ontario. Subsequently, the federal NDP and its Ontario section began a precipitous decline. In the 1993 federal election the NDP lost more than two-thirds of its seats and was reduced to a nine-seat rump in the federal House of Commons in Ottawa. In 1995 the Ontario NDP, having betrayed labour, cut social programmes and prepared public services for privatisation, was booted from power. After this fiasco the party leaders concluded that the NDP should move to the Third Way and the political centre. Its 1999 election campaign in Ontario was virtually indistinguishable from that of the Liberal Party. The result was a second Tory majority, a slightly larger Liberal opposition and an NDP rump. NDP membership in Ontario has dropped from 30,000 in 1990 to barely 15,000 today. Nationally the party has declined from around 100,000 members in the late 1980s to around 60,000 today. Over the past decade the NDP has lost most of its base of social movement activists and working-class militants to become a party of middle-class intellectuals, professionals and union bureaucrats. Inspired by rising social militancy and the anti-globalisation movement in particular the NPI was formed last summer by a handful of activists, trade unionists and intellectuals around the thesis that a new left party was needed as the NDP was no longer capable of filling that role. Attracting such notables as the chief economist of the Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW), Jim Stanford (and the tacit backing of CAW president, Buzz Hargrove, and the leadership of the CAW, the largest and most left wing of Canadas unions), author and leading feminist, Judy Rebick, NDP MPs, Svend Robinson and Libby Davies, and several young social movement activists, the NPI signed up 1,000 endorsers, evenly split between NDP members and non-members. Rather than completely break from the NDP, however, it was proposed that the NDP take a leadership role in forming the new party. NPI challenged the NDP to take on this commitment at its November 2001 Winnipeg convention, winning 37% of delegates votes. While the NPI initially described itself as socialist and insisted that the new party would be formed regardless of what happened at Winnipeg, the months leading up to the convention saw a process of moderation and accommodation to the party establishment. The word socialist was dropped from the NPI endorsement form. Even the question of whether the

101 NPI is anti-capitalist has been controversial, with some fearing that such talk would alienate potential green and left-liberal supporters. Discussions over a basis of unity for the NPI have broken down as a result. A renewal document issued by the NDP executive in the fall attempted to co-opt the NPI with vague promises about reaching out to social movements and instituting democratic reforms in the party. The NPI, in turn, extended its timetable for the creation of a new party by several years, becoming increasingly vague about whether it would be launched with or without the NDP. Talk of a new party has been placed on the back burner and the NPI has been granted three seats on the NDPs 25member Renewal Committee. The NPI sees its lack of programme as a strength an example of participatory democracy and the need for a programme to flow out of a democratic process rather than be imposed, pre-formed, in a manifesto. While it is essential for any programme to be attuned to the real needs of society, the idea that a party can be built around a purely structural concept with policies added later (if ever) is erroneous. Anti-capitalist policies are slowly being developed in practice, however, as NPI activists attempt to build a party on the ground by participating in broader campaigns, such as defending public healthcare in Ontario and the movement in British Columbia against that provinces right-wing Liberal government. Such campaigns provide the NPI with an opportunity to build its organising capacity at a local level and to persuade social movement activists of the need for a party with some sort of strategic vision. In her book, Imagine Democracy, NPI coordinating committee member, Judy Rebick, promotes participatory democracy and particularly democratising the state as the principle project of the left. There is a strong tendency within the NPI echoing that sentiment. However, this position is devoid of any real understanding of the question of state power. Though Rebick (and most of the NPI founders) have a background as socialist activists the emphasis on structural political reform as an end in itself shows a move towards left-liberalism or radical democracy. Absent from Imagine Democracy and the NPI is the essential concept that in order to take state power and democratise the state, it is necessary to control the means of production, that is, take economic power and that the only force capable of playing such a role, in the name of the vast majority of people, is the working class. Socialist Alternative, the Canadian Section of the CWI, endorsed the NPI at the outset and participates in the movements forums. We agree that a

102 new party of the left is needed and that the NDP is not capable of filling that role. However, we contend that the NPI should campaign to break the unions from the bourgeoisified NDP and build a new party independent of it. We also argue that the NPI must advocate a clear economic programme based on a class analysis and socialist demands. Whether the NPI will be able to progress towards this perspective, instead of being pulled back into the morass of the NDP and its move towards becoming an out-and-out liberal capitalist party, remains to be seen. The next test will be the NPIs first national conference in October which will decide on structure and possibly a vision statement. Andrew Messing, Socialist Alternative 2: As you will see the Manitoba Government apparently couldnt give a shite about the sex-discrimination / unequal treatment of the first female hired at Selkirk Mental Health Centre but they sure do apparently love the soused workers? What is the Manitoba Government like? The Manitoba NDP government sees nothing wrong with an employee receiving WCB after turning up drunk at work? However, when the author tried to upload the news article, surprise, surprise it had disappeared: Sorry, but the article you have selected is no longer available for viewing as it has been removed from our back issue access. http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx Did the Manitoba NDP government have it removed? Probably! However, here is the article:

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Appendix 17 [What kind of swine would threaten an entire province with no police presence why the RCMP sign this contract or we are gone?] RCMP wont pull out of B.C. if province signs new deal Ian Bailey Vancouver Globe and Mail Update Published Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011 1:47PM EDT Last updated Friday, Oct. 21, 2011 8:47PM EDT http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bcpolitics/rcmp-wont-pull-out-of-bc-if-province-signs-newdeal/article2183419/ As cited ver batim: Ottawa is willing to keep RCMP municipal detachments in British Columbia as long as the province goes along with deals struck in other provinces where the force has a leading role in policing, says the federal public-safety minister. In their first comment on the matter, Vic Toews office issued a terse statement Wednesday responding to the disclosure that the federal government is threatening to pull the RCMP out of the province if B.C. does not sign a take-it-or-leave-it new policing contract by the end of November. Our Government is willing to sign new agreements with provinces. It is up to provinces to decide whether to come on board, said the e-mailed statement from Julie Carmichael, press secretary to the public-safety minister. The same fundamental terms and conditions will apply to all provinces. Mr. Toews was not immediately available to comment or explain the communication. Ottawas contract proposal is similar to agreements signed this year covering RCMP services in Alberta and Saskatchewan. However, B.C. municipalities have become increasingly agitated at the price of policing, and are demanding better cost-control measures from the RCMP. B.C. solicitor-general Shirley Bond said the federal governments ultimatum leaves the province with no option but to begin investigating the possibility of re-establishing its own police force, something it hasnt had since 1950.

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I dont want to characterize it that Im looking at a provincial police force, Ms. Bond told reporters, after her startling announcement Tuesday at the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities convention. My number one priority is reaching a settlement with the federal government to maintain an RCMP contract. But when you receive an ultimatum that the RCMP may be withdrawing from this province, I think any responsible minister would begin to do their homework. Hardball federal negotiators have demanded that B.C. accept Ottawas last offer for a new 20-year policing deal by Nov. 30, or RCMP services will be withdrawn at the beginning of 2014. The current agreement between the parties expires next March 31. B.C. has the largest provincial RCMP contingent in Canada, employing about 6,000 officers in more than 60 municipalities. Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts blasted Ottawas threatened withdrawal. Its outrageous, she said. They have basically walked away from negotiations and said: You have to sign this, or were pulling all of our officers from the province. Ms. Watts said the cost issue is crucial. The current situation is that unpredictable, somewhat mysterious costs arise simply from employing officers for their regular duties and cities are simply asking for some fiscal containment measures and accountability, she explained. All we want is something that is defined. Policing is the highest item in municipal budgets. Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart said local politicians feel they have too little control over how RCMP officers are deployed in their municipalities and how they are billed for them. Both Ms. Watts and Mr. Stewart said they were astounded that the federal government would walk away from negotiations, leaving only a take-it-orleave-it proposal. We need to be listened to a little bit, said Mr. Stewart, adding that he believes the federal stand puts the entire RCMP at risk. Local governments also question why they should pay for training RCMP members. Earlier this month, Langley City Mayor Peter Fassbender, co-chair of a

107 committee of Lower Mainland mayors who have the Mounties as their police force, said municipalities are prepared to replace the RCMP with provincial police if an acceptable deal cannot be reached. We are not afraid to look at the alternative, which would be forming our own provincial force, he said in an interview with a local newspaper. At the moment, only 13 communities in B.C. have independent police forces. No one from the federal Ministry of Public Safety could be reached for comment Tuesday.

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Appendix 18 [Would De Jong actually throw the RCMP out?] As reported, the RCMP didnt like being told what to do. They were Canadas national force and they considered themselves the cream of the cream. They figured they were the best of the best.1 As this book exemplifies, they have turned out to possibly be one of the worst lending credence to the statement: the RCMP is still, alas, horribly broken.2 As further cited, author Paul Palango in his book Dispersing the Fog: Inside the Secret World of Ottawa and the RCMP says the public record shows that the RCMPs collective reputation is undeserved. For more than 35 years the force has found itself mired in a seemingly unending litany of organizational, legal and political controversies.3 As the former solicitor-general, and a former municipal chief of police, Mr. Heed said B.C. must assert more control over its police. He said he has heard too many times the RCMP promise to do better following controversy. Somehow, mistakes continue to be made, he said in an interview this week.4 The Vancouver Police Departments internal report on the Pickton case, released last month, painted an unflattering picture of competing priorities and jurisdictional squabbles that hampered the investigation into scores of missing women.5 It capped off a summer of bad press for the Mounties. In June, the forces conduct in the Air India case, Canadas worst mass murder, was condemned in an inquiry that uncovered errors, incompetence and jurisdictional bickering.6 Next, the commission looking into the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski, tasered at the Vancouver International Airport, concluded with a harsh denunciation of the behavior of four Mounties.7 One of the few communities that have elected to abandon the RCMP is, ironically, Mr. de Jongs own hometown of Abbotsford. In 1995, when the communities of Abbotsford and Matsqui amalgamated, the Abbotsford RCMP was dumped in favour of Matsquis community police force.8 Abbotsford Mayor George Peary, who was involved with the transfer, is a staunch supporter of his homegrown force. We are not subject to the whims of a national police force, he said proudly. Nearly all 209 members of the Abbotsford police live in the community, and he said that

109 naturally means better policing. They coach teams and go to parentteacher meetings, they attend churches, whatever it might be they are part of the fabric of our community.9 Would De Jong actually throw the RCMP out, when one of his relatives appears to be with the RCMP?10 Footnotes 1. RCMP arrogance cited in bungling of Pickton case: Reluctance to cooperate with other police forces played a role in allowing pig farmer to go on killing, critics say Dirk Meissner, Victoria The Canadian Press Published on Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010 Last updated on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/rcmparrogance-cited-in-bungling-of-pickton-case/article1681717/ 2. Globe Editorial: The RCMP is still broken From Thursday's Globe and Mail Published on Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/the-rcmp-isstill-broken/article1655180/ 3. Dispersing the Fog: Inside the Secret World of Ottawa and the RCMP By Paul Palango Press Release: October 16, 2008 http://www.dispersingthefog.com/ 4 - 9. Pressure to end B.C.s 60-year ride with the Mounties is growing Justine Hunter and Robert Matas Victoria and Vancouver From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published on Friday, Sep. 10, 2010 Last updated on Saturday, Sep. 11, 2010 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/britishcolumbia/pressure-to-end-bcs-60-year-ride-with-the-mounties-is-growing/ article1703538/ 10. Would De Jong actually throw the RCMP out, when one of his relatives appears to be with the RCMP, and doing a great job with them?

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Chapter 17 [What kind of harassment did the apparent RCMP sharks use against the first female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Centre in Manitoba, Canada?] Selkirk Mental Health Centre is not the kind of place to be isolated, harassed, and discriminated against as was the first female Security Officer hired at the place incredibly by just a few male guards that didnt want her there [were they the RCMP sharks]? Authors Note: Who should have to put up with this crap, as the father called it: -12 December 2010, S.F. [apparently also a CORS employee] knowing full well that SMHC has a same sex search policy still protested to Bob that she was not searching male patients / visitors, and even held everyone up because he had to email Bob Lechow right away to make a [bogus] complaint, while the PNAs were demanding he hurry up with his email to Bob Lechow [incident cited in her evidence book, and mentioned in her email to CEO dated 09 January 2011]. -Around the same time, B.S. said to her that if she couldnt do male searches than why bother (doing the job) [mentioned in email to CEO dated 09 January 2011]. -On 24 December 2010 when C.D. told her to stay out of the control room, go on patrol so to keep busy she spent a good number of hours doing patrols; she was on patrol from 11:50 to 16:45 in the frigid cold [incident cited in her evidence book, and mentioned in her email to CEO dated 09 January 2011]. [Note: a control room roster was implemented by the CEO to prevent anyone, including C.D. from hogging the control room]. -On 29 December 2010 C.D. again told her to stay out of the control room so to keep busy she again spent a good number of hours doing foot patrols, from 09:00 to 14:25 in the frigid cold [incident cited in her evidence book, and mentioned in her email to CEO dated 09 January 2011]. -29 December 2010 Security Manager Bob Lechow mentioned that he had [bogus] complaints from C.D. that she was not searching male patients / visitors, some of the complaints apparently dating back to October 2010 and these could lead to her dismissal [see her emails in Part III of this book dated 30 December 2010, 31 December 2010, 02 January 2011, 03 January 2011all sent to Security Manager Bob Lechow about these bogus complaints]. - 08 January 2011, Jeremey Matovich [Matvichuk] when he found out she was coming in for a sick shift said: Why is she coming in; She cant do anything; I have to do the searches (i.e., the male searches); We dont want any female SO as they cannot do the work (i.e., search male patients / visitors) [incident cited in

112 another S.O.s evidence book, and mentioned in her email to CEO dated 09 January 2011]. [Note: a call-in roster was implemented by the CEO to ensure everyone got an equal crack at available shifts, although people like Jeremey Matovich [Matvichuk] still seem to be circumventing it] -08 January 2011 when she arrived on duty she was told by Jeremey Matovich [Matvichuk] to stay out of the control room because he was busy playing with his ipod and lap top [mentioned in email to CEO dated 09 January 2011].

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Chapter 18 [Was any of the management in cahoots with the apparent RCMP sharks to help harass the first female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Centre in Manitoba, Canada?] Was the first female security officer at Selkirk Mental Health Centre gullible, she thought everything was going fine little did she know of the conspiracy [as the dad calls it]? Authors Note: For example, although the first female security officer at Selkirk Mental Health Centre passed the Sheriff training [see Appendix 19a] and there was no indication from the instructors of any problems with her performance [see certificate Appendix 19b], it appears that security manager Bob Lechow had other ideas [see Appendix 19d]? Specifically, in Appendix 19a, it clearly is indicated by Sheriff Instructor Peter Waldie on 23 July, 2010 that the first female security officer at SMHC passed the Written Exam for the PPCT Defensive Tactics System receiving a score of at least 80% [see Appendix 19a]. Specifically, in Appendix 19b, it clearly is indicated by Sheriff Instructor Peter Waldie on 23 July, 2010 that the first female security officer at SMHC had also passed the Practical Exam for the PPCT Defensive Tactics System with no failures indicated [see Appendix 19b]. Specifically, in Appendix 19c, it clearly is indicated by Sheriff Instructors Peter Waldie and Ian Chipka that the first female security officer at SMHC had passed the Sheriff Course, with the issuance of her Certificate [see Appendix 19c]. However, security manager Bob Lechow had other ideas when he said, words to the effect that she didnt really pass the course [see Appendix 19d].

Two important points in security manager Bob Lechow note dated 23 July 2010 [see Appendix 19d]: Did Peter Waldie really make these comments that the first female security officer at SMHC marginally passed the course, as there was no indication of this in her performance [see Appendix 19a to 19c]?

If he did, wasnt this a bit biased against females a sexist comment?

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If Peter Waldie didnt make these comments, then why has security manager Bob Lechow said these things are they fabrication? Will the Manitoba Human Rights Commission resolve this dilemma when they investigate the first female security officers sex-discrimination human rights complaint with them file # 11EN027? Did Peter Waldie really make these comments that the first female security officer at SMHC only worked with her brother during the Sheriffs course?

If he did, this would be a fabrication because the first female security officer during the Sheriffs course also practiced the techniques with a male by the name of D? If Peter Waldie didnt make these comments, then security manager Bob Lechow is apparently again fabricating statements? Will the Manitoba Human Rights Commission resolve this dilemma when they investigate the first female security officers sex-discrimination human rights complaint with them file # 11EN027? Authors Note: In essence, it then becomes a question as to which one, either Peter Waldie and/or Bob Lechow that initiated the all boys club idea where females are not welcome at SMHC?

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Appendix 19a Authors Note: For example, although the first female security officer at Selkirk Mental Health Centre passed the Sheriff training [see Appendix 19a] and there was no indication from the instructors of any problems with her performance [see certificate Appendix 19b], it appears that security manager Bob Lechow had other ideas [see Appendix 19c]?

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Appendix 19b Authors Note: For example, although the first female security officer at Selkirk Mental Health Centre passed the Sheriff training [see Appendix 19a] and there was no indication from the instructors of any problems with her performance [see certificate Appendix 19b], it appears that security manager Bob Lechow had other ideas [see Appendix 19c]?

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Appendix 19c Authors Note: For example, although the first female security officer at Selkirk Mental Health Centre passed the Sheriff training [see Appendix 19a] and there was no indication from the instructors of any problems with her performance [see certificate Appendix 19b], it appears that security manager Bob Lechow had other ideas [see Appendix 19c]?

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Appendix 19d Authors Note: However, security manager Bob Lechow had other ideas when he said, words to the effect that she didnt really pass the course??

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Chapter 19 [Is this further proof the management was in cahoots with the apparent RCMP sharks to help harass the first female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Centre in Manitoba, Canada?] Was the first female security officer at Selkirk Mental Health Centre gullible, she thought everything was going fine little did she know of the conspiracy [as the dad calls it], see Appendices 20 to 20n, cited below? Authors Note: It was security manager Bob Lechow that told the first female security officer on 29 December 2010 about the complaints [by C.D.] that she was not searching male patients / visitors and that these complaints stemmed back to October 2010 and that these complaints could lead to her dismissal [see Appendix 20a]? Authors Note: Isnt a supervisor, in this case security manager Bob Lechow, supposed to inform an employee IMMEDIATELY about concerns, instead of waiting months later? Authors Note: Or, was waiting for months part of the conspiracy to get rid of the first female security officer at SMHC? Will the Manitoba Human Rights Commission resolve this matter when they investigate the first female security officers sex-discrimination human rights complaint with them file # 11EN027? Authors Note: This seems to be confirmed when security manager Bob Lechow did not respond to any of the first female security officers emails about this matter [email dated 30 December, 2010 - see Appendix 20b]? Authors Note: This again seems to be confirmed when security manager Bob Lechow did not respond to any of the first female security officers emails about this matter [email dated 31 December, 2010 - see Appendix 20c]? Authors Note: Once again, this seems to be confirmed when security manager Bob Lechow did not respond to any of the first female security officers emails about this matter [email dated 02 January, 2011 - see Appendix 20d]? Authors Note: One more time, this seems to be confirmed when security manager Bob Lechow did not respond to any of the first female security officers emails about this matter [email dated 03 January, 2011 - see Appendix 20e]? Authors Note: As security manager Bob Lechow didnt bother replying to the first female security officer at SMHC, she made a formal complaint to Deputy Minister Mr. Milton Sussman on 05 January 2011 [see Appendix 20f]?

129 Authors Note: Once again, this seems to be confirmed when security manager Bob Lechow did not respond to any of the first female security officers emails about this matter [email dated 10 January, 2011 - see Appendix 20g]? Authors Note: Because matters even got worse for the first female security officer at SMHC after she made the initial complaint to Deputy Minister Mr. Milton Sussman, she again wrote on 11 February 2011 [see Appendix 20h]? Other emails are also cited below, Appendices 20i to 20n!

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Appendix 20a Authors Note: It was security manager Bob Lechow that told the first female security officer on 29 December 2010 about the complaints [by C.D.] that she was not searching male patients / visitors and that these complaints stemmed back to October 2010 and that these complaints could lead to her dismissal? Authors Note: Isnt a supervisor, in this case security manager Bob Lechow, supposed to inform an employee IMMEDIATELY about concerns, instead of waiting months later? Authors Note: Or, was waiting for months part of the conspiracy [as the dad calls it] to get rid of the first female security officer at SMHC? Sheriff Certificate attached Sent: April 13, 2011 12:06:56 AM To: kelly.jones@gov.mb.ca Hotmail Active View1 attachment (1349.3 KB) 13 April 2011 Ms. Kelly Jones Mediator The Manitoba Human Rights Commission 700- 175 Hargrave Street, Winnipeg, MB R3C 3R8 Kelly.jones@gov.mb.ca RE: Manitoba Human Rights Compliant against the Ministry of Health signed 11 February 2011 and registered by MHRC File # 11 EN 027. Dear Kelly, Nice speaking with you the other day. Please remember when you are speaking to the Ministry of Health representatives they would not readily want to admit to anything having to do with female discrimination. However, thats what it all boils down to some of the male security officers [particularly C.D.] at Selkirk Mental Health Centre [SMHC] wanted it to be an all boys club and the security manager Bob Lechow has done everything in his power to appease them.

131 Please remember it was security manager Bob Lechow that told me on 29 December 2010 about the complaints [by C.D.] that I was not searching male patients / visitors and that these complaints stemmed back to October 2010 and that these complaints could lead to my dismissal. Please remember too that Bob Lechow did not respond to any of my emails about this matter leading to my complaint to Deputy Minister Mr. Milton Sussman on 05 January 2011 and again on 11 February 2011. Please remember too that SMHC would also like to protect themselves from a complaint of female discrimination and that is why HR Manager Debbie Kelly has asked all male SOs anti-female questions in her so called independent complaints [05 January 2011 & 11 February 2011] to Deputy Minister Mr. Milton Sussman. -do you feel safe working with the first female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Centre [i.e., a female SO]? What kind of sexist question is that? Also please remember I passed the Sheriff training and there was no indication from the instructors of any problems with my performance I dont think Sheriff instructors would jeopardize their reputations by passing someone who was not up to par [see my certificate attached]? Also, please remember I have at least 3 witnesses to C.D. behaviour one senior SO does not want to work days so he doesnt have to deal with C.D. and the harassment by him and his fellow SOs [S.F. and B.S.] who make his life miserable when working days. Another SO cant stand C.D. because he made nasty comments to his aunt who also works at SMHC, as well as C.D. being rude to others at SMHC. However, Bob Lechow seems to love this C.D. [does he have connections high up at SMHC] as Bob Lehow has assigned C.D. to the Labour Committee which is supposed to look into staff complaints such as mine what kind of cover-up is that by Bob Lechow? Thank you, First female security officer at SMHC

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Appendix 20b NO REPLY FROM SECURITY MANAGER BOB LECHOW 30 December 2010 probation review board Sent: December 30, 2010 5:43:48 PM To: Lechow, Bob (HEALTH) (bob.lechow@gov.mb.ca) Bob I would to meet with you to go over apparent "complaints" before my review board to hear full details, when they occurred, who made complaints? I would like to include my Union Rep in this meeting with you as well as at my review board hearing! Do you contact my Union rep or can you do that or me? I know one of the complaints you mentioned was by C.D. that I was not searching male patients? Why would he make such a complaint -- especially as he is apparently gearing up for the supervisor spot -- as per your email dated 18 October, 2010 that Centre policy indicates same se searches -- and C.D. should know this? The only time you indicated that security would do opposite sex searches is during an emergency -- which I have already done that? So why a complaint for following Centre policy? As such I want my Union rep at our meeting and at my Probation review board. Thank you First female security officer at SMHC

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Appendix 20c NO REPLY FROM SECURITY MANAGER BOB LECHOW 31 December 2010 SHMC Union Representative Requested for my Probation Review Board 19th January, 2011? Sent: December 31, 2010 5:52:18 AM To: Lechow, Bob (HEALTH) (bob.lechow@gov.mb.ca) Cc: resourcecentre@mgeu.ca Bcc: debbie.kelly@gov.mb.ca Re: Wednesday 29th December meeting Re: Official Request for a Union Rep Robert (Bob) Lechow Manager, Security Services Selkirk Mental Health Centre Phone: (204) 482-1606 Fax: (204) 785-8936 Email: bob.lechow@gov.mb.ca Hi Bob, Further to your meeting with me on December 29th, 2010 during which: You gave me a heads-up that there had been a few minor complaints during my six months probation period (July 19, 2010 to January 19, 2011); That you wanted me to make my probation and that the complaints apparently consisted of: a) C.D. apparently complained that I was not searching the male patients however, I was following your instructions in your e-mail dated 18th October 2010 that it was SHMC policy that only same sex searches be done [current policy dictates that the search to be performed by a same sex staff member male for male female for female it can be witnessed by a staff member of either sex]; As C.D. is apparently being groomed for the supervisor position, C.D. should know the Centers policy about same sex searches so why has he complained about me following the Centers policy?

134 The only time opposite sex searches are allowed according to your further e-mail is during an emergency. b) C.D. apparently complained that during slow periods I was using a simple pen and paper notepad to edit a story I have been working on? However C.D. has never apparently complained about other security who use their personal laptops to watch movies, etc during their shifts? Also apparently C.D. has not complained about one particular security who apparently sleeps quite a bit during his graveyard shift? c) C.D. also apparently indicated that I do not get on with the other security? I would like proof of this, as I work well with the other security and staff [PNAs and nurses] on all the units, and I willingly perform any duty that the other security direct me to do. In fact, on several occasions staff [PNAs and nurses] in other units have expressed surprise that I have come into their units while I am on my patrol(s) to see how things are going and to make a security presence known many saying they rarely see security staff come into their unit during the evenings. The only other security staff member who gave me static was S.F. who kept insisting that I search male patients irrespective of the Centers policy of same sex searches and I believed that he complained to C.D. about this so C.D. should have put an end to S.F.s insistence that I breach SHMC same sex search policy but apparently C.D. did not do that and apparently made the same complaint to you? Why C.D. would do that makes no sense, especially as he is apparently in line for the supervisor spot. This doesnt help our security departments consistency in being in line with SHMC patient policy, including visitor searches. d) Im aware that several PNAs and nurses have complained about the sexist comments that some of the security make while in the control room. I must ask, does C.D. feel uncomfortable with me being a female security officer? Would C.D. prefer an all-male security force at SHMC [an old boys club]? As a potential supervisor, its always nice to be upfront with your crew so that they can learn and not just complain behind their back as apparently C.D. has done in complaining to you without being given the benefit of his experience at SHMC.

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It would have been nice had he approached me to explain the problem(s) as far as he saw my apparent error(s). e) Finally, on another note, apparently I scored the lowest on the Sheriffs training however, thats not surprising since I was the only female in the course. The fact remains that I passed the Sheriffs training and was awarded the Certificate of Completion by the Sheriff instructors. I spoke with a Union Rep [Sandy Young, switchboard operator] at SHMC last night 30 December 2010 about your meeting with me on 29th December, 2010 who said: I should have had a Union Representative with me during your meeting with me on Wednesday 29th December, 2010; She also gave the impression that the (minor) complaints were nit-picking, and that she was under the impression that our security officer training was inconsistent, which might explain the reason for these? As such, I am making a formal request that: I be represented by a Union Representative regarding and during my probation review board; That if available Tim Byers [ext. 697, Area 7] who has apparently been a long time Union Rep at SHMC be approached to represent me as my Union member; If Tim is unavailable I am putting in a request to my Union today [MGEU] that they help me identify a Union Representative at SHMC to represent me during my probation review; My preference would be a long-time female Union Rep if possible. I also request: My Union Rep and I meet with you before my probation review board on 19th January 2011 so my Union Rep can be given details of the minor complaints you mentioned on 29th December, 2010, including when the complaints were made, who made the complaints, and any other pertinent information my Union Rep would need to represent me at my probation review board; That the meeting with you, my Union Rep, and myself occur significantly before my probation review date of 19th January 2011 so that my Union Rep will have time to digest the information prior to, and be able to prepare for, my actual probation review board;

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That my Union Rep as well as myself be informed of the actual date/time/location of my probation review board. In closing, I would like to add: I have always turned up for my shifts, usually a good half hour beforehand; I have never missed a shift; I have always come at a moments notice when you called me because someone had called in sick at the last minute or were unable to do their shift for some reason; I have always been glad to help SHMC and you out; I have given 100% to my job and have enjoyed every minute of it; I hope I pass my probation review board as I wish to make SHMC a long term career goal. Finally, did you still want me to do the fill-in 14th January, 2011 shift [1700 to 0100 hrs] for the security officer that wanted this shift off? Thank you very much, The first female security officer at SMHC cc. SMHC Union Rep requested MGEU, resourcecentre@mgeu.ca cc. Debbie Kelly HR Rep SHMC, debbie.kelly@gov.mb.ca

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Appendix 20d NO REPLY FROM SECURITY MANAGER BOB LECHOW 02 January 2011 More information for my SMHC Union Representative Requested for my Probation Review Board 19th January, 2011? Sent: January 2, 2011 6:38:18 AM To: Lechow, Bob (HEALTH) (bob.lechow@gov.mb.ca) Cc: resourcecentre@mgeu.ca Bcc: debbie.kelly@gov.mb.ca Re: Wednesday 29th December meeting Re: Official Request for a Union Rep Robert (Bob) Lechow Manager, Security Services Selkirk Mental Health Centre Phone: (204) 482-1606 Fax: (204) 785-8936 Email: bob.lechow@gov.mb.ca Hi Bob, Further to my email dated 31 December, 2010 and sent the same date. In preparation for my 6 month probation review board, I had a look at MB Health Employee Handbook, Orientation Manual which clearly states: Trust is promoted by providing honest and open feedback and relevant information to all staff. I dont believe this has occurred in my instance. Taking the SMHC same sex search policy as an example: You indicated in your email to me dated 18 October, 2010 that I was to do [and all security officers] were to do same sex searches only [current policy dictates that the search to be performed by a same sex staff member male for male female for female it can be witnessed by a staff member of either sex]; Obviously, my trying to carry out this Centres same sex search policy has led to other security staff [at least two, C. who is being groomed for supervisor and S.F.] have complained to you that I was not searching males as you mentioned during your 29 December, 2010 meeting with me.

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And, apparently, in spite of the fact that my not searching males is in keeping with the Centres same sex search policy, you gave me the impression that these complaints that I was not searching males [in violation of Centre policy] will be placed before my probation review board? This is inherently unfair, prejudicial and, frankly, doesnt make any sense? The other security officers were apparently informed by you in October that security was supposed to be doing same sex searches in keeping with the Centres same sex search policy? So, why are these erroneous complaints that I am not searching male patients / visitors [a direct contradiction to Centre policy] still in my file in December? And, why are these erroneous complaints that I am not searching male patients / visitors [a direct contradiction to Centre policy] going to be submitted to my probation review board? Does MB Health want me to violate the Centres same sex search policy to appease these security officers [at least two, C. and S.F.] that want me to violate Centre policy and search male patients and visitors in contradiction to the Centres same sex search policy? Similarly, does SMHC management want me to violate the Centres same sex search policy to appease these security officers [at least two, C. and S.F.] that want me to violate Centre policy and search male patients and visitors in contradiction to the Centres same sex search policy? And, as C. is apparently being groomed to become a supervisor what kind of example is he giving, basically brow-beating me into violating Centre policy by basically demanding that I search male patients / visitors in violation of the Centres same sex search policy? Its apparently plain inappropriate behaviour from a potential supervisor, C. I might also add that apparently C. is ticked off with me for not violating Centre policy and performing searches on male patients / visitors in violation of the Centres same sex search policy as all other security say hi and talk with me, but this C. appears to ignore me? Again, its again apparent inappropriate behaviour for a potential supervisor to give me the cold shoulder because I will not violate the Centres same sex search policy, as the SMHC refers to respectful behaviour to patients and fellow staff alike?

139 Giving me the cold shoulder because I will not willingly breach the Centres same sex search policy doesnt seem very respectful to me? Instead of approaching me and giving me the benefit of his experience at SMHC, this C. apparently simply writes complaints about me to you [you called them minor complaints during your 29 December meeting with me], without this C. having spoken to me about the matter? Again, apparent inappropriate behaviour by a potential supervisor for C. not to correct minor errors by an employee while they are learning the job? In fact, in your recent email to me dated 23 November, 2010 you indicated that the next FT shift would likely go to me, with no mention of any complaints on my file, so I was quite shocked when you referred to minor complaints in my file for my probation review board as you mentioned during your 29 December, 2010 meeting with me? Im frankly confused, as I thought employees were to be informed of errors at the time they occur so the employee can correct and learn? As cited: Arbitrator Deems Termination Excessive July 5, 2007 Late last year a 29-year employee of the Civil Service was terminated due to what the employer cited as a series of events which occurred throughout the summer of that year. At a hearing conducted this spring, an arbitrator heard evidence from the employees supervisors, who cited a number of examples of what they characterized as culpable conduct. The reaction from the arbitrator was that it was difficult to believe such matters warranted termination, given that the employer failed to discipline the grievor at the time they occurred. For these reasons, and because a number of the matters raised in the letter of termination had occurred several months before and/or were based on hearsay, the arbitrator ruled that dismissal in this case was excessive and unreasonable. The case above is apparently about serious errors, but it clearly states that errors are to be brought to the attention of the employee at the time they occur.

140 Obviously, no one informed me about any errors I made at the time they occurred, although apparently C. has apparently given you some minor complaints at this point in time [close to the end of my probation period]? In fact, I have self-corrected any (minor) errors I have made learning the job and have never repeated them. The only thing I cannot alter is C.s apparent insistence that I ignore the Centres same sex search policy so I can become one of the boys? I also want to again raise the issue that C. also apparently indicated that I do not get on with the other security / not a team player? I would like proof of this, as I work well with the other security and staff [PNAs and nurses] on all the units, and I willingly perform any duty that the other security direct me to do. I think what C. is referring to is that I will not violate Centre policy about same sex searches, especially as C. and S.F. have apparently complained that I am not doing male searches [except emergencies as you have directed] again what kind of complaint is that? What C. should have done was to put a stop to S.F.s complaint that I was not searching males, as this violated the Centres same sex search policy however, instead of doing this C. processed this erroneous complaint to you and, according to you on 29 December, 2010 this erroneous complaint will be part of my probation review board? This is unfair, prejudicial, and doesnt make any sense? As asked: Does MB Health want me to violate the Centres same sex search policy to appease these security officers [at least two, C. and S.F.] that want me to violate Centre policy and search male patients and visitors in contradiction to the Centres same sex search policy? Similarly, does SMHC management want me to violate the Centres same sex search policy to appease these security officers [at least two, C. and S.F.] that want me to violate Centre policy and search male patients and visitors in contradiction to the Centres same sex search policy? As such, I am making a formal request that: I be represented by a Union Representative regarding and during my probation review board;

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I have been notified by my Union that Tim Byers [ext. 697, Area 7] at SHMC has been contacted on my behalf to hopefully represent me; My Union says Tim will be in touch with me in due course; If Tim is unavailable I will be requesting my Union to help me identify another Union Representative at SHMC to represent me during my probation review; My preference would be a long-time female Union Rep if possible. I also request: My Union Rep and I meet with you before my probation review board on 19th January 2011 so my Union Rep can be given details of the minor complaints you mentioned on 29th December, 2010, including when the complaints were made, who made the complaints, and any other pertinent information my Union Rep would need to represent me at my probation review board; Im not sure if these are the pertinent parts of the MGEU contract to access such information, however, Im sure my Union rep will know how we go about this [31:04 Upon written request and at a mutually agreeable time at the site of employment, an employee shall be given the opportunity to examine any document which is placed in her personnel file, provided no part thereof is removed from the file, and her reply to any such document shall also be placed in her personnel file. Upon written request the employee shall also receive an exact copy of any document forming part of her file. 31:05 An employee accompanied by a Union Representative if she so elects, may examine her personnel file on request as per Article 31:04 of the Collective Agreement.] That the meeting with you, my Union Rep, and myself occur significantly before my probation review date of 19th January 2011 so that my Union Rep will have time to digest the information prior to, and be able to prepare for, my actual probation review board; That my Union Rep as well as myself be informed of the actual date/time/location of my probation review board. Again, in closing, I would like to add: I have always turned up for my shifts, usually a good half hour beforehand; I have never missed a shift; I have always come at a moments notice when you called me because someone had called in sick at the last minute or were unable to do their shift for some reason;

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I have always been glad to help SHMC and you out; I have given 100% to my job and have enjoyed every minute of it; You mentioned the complaints, apparently from C., are minor; Any minor error I have made has been corrected by me and never repeated; I hope I pass my probation review board as I wish to make SMHC a long term career goal. Finally, did you still want me to do the fill-in 14th January, 2011 shift [1700 to 0100 hrs] for the security officer that wanted this shift off? Thank you very much, The first female security officer at SMHC cc. Tim Byers, SMHC Union Rep requested MGEU, resourcecentre@mgeu.ca cc. Debbie Kelly HR Rep SMHC, debbie.kelly@gov.mb.ca

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Appendix 20e NO REPLY FROM SECURITY MANAGER BOB LECHOW 03 January 2011 Final information for my SMHC Union Representative Requested for my Probation Review Board 19th January, 2011? Sent: January 3, 2011 8:48:29 AM To: Lechow, Bob (HEALTH) (bob.lechow@gov.mb.ca) Cc: resourcecentre@mgeu.ca Bcc: debbie.kelly@gov.mb.ca Re: Wednesday 29th December meeting Re: Official Request for a Union Rep Robert (Bob) Lechow Manager, Security Services Selkirk Mental Health Centre Phone: (204) 482-1606 Fax: (204) 785-8936 Email: bob.lechow@gov.mb.ca Hi Bob, Further to my email dated 31 December, 2010 and 2 January, 2011 I just wanted to mention this: When I came on staff as the only female Security Officer the PNAs and Nurses basically said, finally a female S.O. to do patient /visitor searches [see original email dated 19 Nov., reply email dated 19 Nov., and 25 Nov email]. However, in looking at my emails dated 31 Dec. and Jan 02, it appears that at least C. [who is apparently going to be supervisor] is trying to weed me out and apparently keep it as an all-boys club? In fact, when one of the new male S.O.s helped restrain a patient, C. said to him that he did a good job, were really impressed with him, and said to him youre one of the guys now. I thought there was supposed to be equal treatment of staff, whether male or female? Ive had, as of 31 December, 2010 a total of 442 hours on the job and I find C.s apparent insistence that I search male patients / visitors so I can be one of the

144 boys is putting me in jeopardy as this would be against the Centres same sex search policy. I dont know why C. has not used the time I have been on the job to help me so there would be a badly needed, and properly trained female S.O. on staff. Instead, C. has apparently been content writing minor complaints to you about me? Is this unequal treatment of a new female S.O. contrary to MB Health policy, MB Civil Service policy, and/or MB Human Rights legislation as it smacks of a sexist attitude? I raise this possibility, because of concerns raised by some PNAs and Nurses about the sexist comments that some of the security make while in the control room, which have been overheard by staff and possibly patients . In fact, one of the PNAs asked me one time how I put up with these sexist comments? As mentioned, does C. feel uncomfortable with me being a female security officer? Would C. prefer an all-male security force at SMHC [an old boys club]? As such, I am making a formal request that: I be represented by a Union Representative regarding and during my probation review board; I have been notified by my Union that Tim Byers [ext. 697, Area 7] at SHMC has been contacted on my behalf to hopefully represent me; My Union says Tim will be in touch with me in due course; If Tim is unavailable I will be requesting my Union to help me identify another Union Representative at SHMC to represent me during my probation review; My preference would be a long-time female Union Rep if possible. Again, in closing, I would like to add: I have always turned up for my shifts, usually a good half hour beforehand; I have never missed a shift; I have always come at a moments notice when you called me because someone had called in sick at the last minute or were unable to do their shift for some reason;

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I have always been glad to help SHMC and you out; I have given 100% to my job and have enjoyed every minute of it; You mentioned the complaints, apparently from C., are minor; Any minor error I have made has been corrected by me and never repeated; I hope I pass my probation review board as I wish to make SMHC a long term career goal. Finally, did you still want me to do the fill-in 14th January, 2011 shift [1700 to 0100 hrs] for the security officer that wanted this shift off? Thank you very much, The first female security officer at SMHC cc. Tim Byers, SMHC Union Rep requested MGEU, resourcecentre@mgeu.ca cc. Debbie Kelly HR Rep SMHC, debbie.kelly@gov.mb.ca

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Appendix 20f BECAUSE NO REPLY FROM SECURITY MANAGER BOB LECHOW, FORMAL COMPLAINT TO DEPUTY MINISTER 05 January 2011 formal complaint that I am being pressured to violate SMHC same sex search policy and nothing has been done or is being done to correct the problem Sent: January 5, 2011 7:50:35 AM To: dmhlt@leg.gov.mb.ca Cc: Lechow, Bob (HEALTH) (bob.lechow@gov.mb.ca); debbie.kelly@gov.mb.ca Bcc: resourcecentre@mgeu.ca 5 January, 2011 Milton Sussman Deputy Minister's Office 327 Legislative Building 450 Broadway Winnipeg, MB R3C 0V8 Phone: 204-945-3771 Fax: 204-945-4564 Email dmhlt@leg.gov.mb.ca cc. Robert (Bob) Lechow Manager, Security Services Selkirk Mental Health Centre Phone: (204) 482-1606 Fax: (204) 785-8936 Email: bob.lechow@gov.mb.ca cc. Debbie Kelly HR Rep SMHC, debbie.kelly@gov.mb.ca cc. MGEU, resourcecentre@mgeu.ca Dear Sir, I wish to make a formal complaint that I am being pressured to violate SMHC same sex search policy and nothing has been done or is being done to correct the problem. As a result, I am being ostracized and prevented from doing my security officer duties as the first female S.O. at SMHC jeopardizing my being in line for the next F/T position.

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I make reference to: 50:03 an employee may complain or grieve on any unsatisfactory working condition up to and including Step 2 of the grievance procedure. The decision at Step 2 shall be final for such grievances. 50:10 It is mutually agreed that an effort shall be made to resolve complaints through discussion before a written grievance is initiated. The aggrieved employee shall have the right to have a representative present at such a discussion. When a grievance cannot be presented in person at any step, it may be transmitted by registered mail. 50:12 Step 1 : (a) Within twenty (20) working days after the date upon which the employee was notified orally or in writing, or on which the employee first became aware of the action or circumstances giving rise to the grievance, the employee shall present the grievance with the redress requested to the director or designate. At this time I wish to make a formal complaint. I make reference to: In an e-mail dated 18 October 2010 by Robert (Bob) Lechow, Manager, Security Services, Selkirk Mental Health Centre clearly indicates it is SMHC policy that only same sex searches be done [18 Oct. - current policy dictates that the search to be performed by a same sex staff member male for male female for female it can be witnessed by a staff member of either sex]. The only time opposite sex searches are allowed according to Bob Lechows further e-mail dated 03 November 2010 is during an emergency [03 Nov. in an emergency I would say it would be ok for a female to search a male policy states same sex if anyone does otherwise and a complaint is received you could be viewed as a breach in policy]. On 29 December 2010 Bob Lechow told me that he had received complaints that I was not doing male searches of patients / visitors and that these complaints were being included in my file. For me to do male searches as a female security officer would violate SMHC policy that only same sex searches be done as per Bob Lechows e-mail dated 18 October 2010. Although Bob Lechow apparently advised all security staff at SMHC in October 2010 of SMHC policy that only same sex searches be done as per his e-mail dated 18 October 2010, Bob Lechow has continued to accept complaints from other security that I am not doing male searches of patients / visitors.

148 As a result, I am being ostracized and prevented from doing my security officer duties as the first female S.O. at SMHC jeopardizing my being in line for the next F/T position. I make reference to: Obviously, my trying to carry out SMHCs same sex search policy has led to erroneous complaints as revealed to me by Bob Lechow on 29 December, 2010. On 29 December 2010 Bob Lechow revealed to me that C. has apparently complained that I was not searching male patients / visitors? As security manager Bob Lechow should have returned the complaint(s) that I was not searching male patients / visitors as null and void as this would violate the Centres same sex search policy? Bob Lechow should have also corrected C.s behaviour for making these complaint(s), as the complaints violated the Centres same sex search policy! As C. is apparently being groomed for the supervisor position, C. should know the Centers policy about same sex searches so why has he complained about me and why has Bob Lechow accepted C.s complaint(s)? And, as C. is apparently being groomed to become a supervisor what kind of example is he giving, basically brow-beating me into violating Centre policy by basically demanding that I search male patients / visitors in violation of the Centres same sex search policy? I might also add that apparently C. is ticked off with me for not violating Centre policy and performing searches on male patients / visitors in violation of the Centres same sex search policy as all other security say hi and talk with me, but this C. appears to ignore me? Giving me the cold shoulder because I am not willingly to breach the Centres same sex search policy doesnt seem very respectful to me? On 23 December 2010 at approximately 15:30 C. told me not to go into the lunch room for security presence / cutlery count because 2 male staff were needed, although there were already 2 male staff [PNAs or Nurses] so I think B. took my rightful place and went into the lunch room? On 24 December 2010 C. told me to stay out of the Control room, go on patrol so to keep busy I spent a good number of hours doing patrols in freezing weather [From my evidence book on 24 Dec I started my patrol at 11:50 to 16:45].

149 On 29 December 2010 C. again told me to stay out of the Control room so to keep busy I again spent a good number of hours doing foot patrols in freezing weather [From my evidence book on 29 Dec I asked C. and B. multiple times if they wanted to go out (on patrol) they answered no hence I was out on patrol from 09:00 to 14:25]. Im aware that several PNAs and Nurses have complained about the sexist comments that some of the security make while in the control room, over heard by staff and possibly patients. One PNA even asked me how I could put up with the sexist comments being made [From my evidence book asked of sexist complaint by PNA (T.?) on November 2010 at 22:00]? Bob Lechow is aware of this complaint by PNAs and Nurses as he spoke to me about this staff complaint as well. C. has also apparently indicated that I do not get on with the other security / not a team player? However, I work well with the other security and staff [PNAs and Nurses] on all the units, and I willingly perform any duty that the other security direct me to do. In fact, on several occasions staff [PNAs and Nurses] in other units have expressed surprise that I have come into their units while I am on my patrol(s) to see how things are going and to make a security presence known many saying they rarely see security staff come into their unit during the evenings. I think what C. is referring to is that I will not violate Centre policy about same sex searches, especially as C. and S.F. and B. have apparently complained that I am not doing male searches [except emergencies as directed in Bob Lechows email dated 03 Nov. 2010]. What C. should have done was to put a stop to S.F.s and B.s complaint that I was not searching males, as this violated the Centres same sex search policy However, instead of doing this C. processed these erroneous complaints to Bob Lechow and, according to Bob Lechow on 29 December, 2010 these erroneous complaints are part of my file? I make reference to: Because Bob Lechow has apparently not corrected these security officers in their error about same sex search policy, at approximately 08:17 on 12 December, 2010 security officer S.F. was protesting that I was not searching male patients [My

150 evidence book 12 Dec room searches / S.F. protested / showed S.F. Bobs email - 18 October email]. PNA [T.] complained to me [and staff in area] that S.F. had to write an email to Bob Lechow before finishing room searches [with T. in raised voice telling S.F. to hurry up and finish his email complaining that I was not doing male searches]. S.F. should have been told way back in October [as per Bob Lechows email dated 18 October, 2010] about the Centres same sex search policy! If S.F. did not listen to Bob Lechow way back in October, then it is his fault and his behaviour should have been corrected. Instead, Bob Lechow revealed on 29 December, 2010 that S.F.s complaint that I was not searching male patients / visitors was going into my file? I make reference to: Because Bob Lechow has apparently not corrected these security officers in their error about same sex search policy, I have been the brunt of snide comments about not searching male patients / visitors. B. recently said to me that if I couldnt do males searches than why bother (doing the job). If B. did not listen to Bob Lechow way back in October, then it is his fault and his behaviour should have been corrected. Instead, Bob Lechow revealed on 29 December, 2010 that B.s complaint that I was not searching male patients / visitors was going into my file? I make reference to: I dont think MB Health wants me to violate the Centres same sex search policy to appease these security officers that want me to violate Centre policy and search male patients and visitors in contradiction to the Centres same sex search policy? Similarly, I dont think SMHC management and treatment staff want me to violate the Centres same sex search policy to appease these security officers that want me to violate Centre policy and search male patients and visitors in contradiction to the Centres same sex search policy? As I cannot have this problem corrected by myself, and Bob Lechow has apparently not corrected these security officers in their error about same sex search policy, I am making this formal complaint for help in doing so, so I can perform my job duties

151 without inappropriate pressure to violate SMHC search policy or be the brunt of snide comments. I might also mention, that when I came on staff as the only female Security Officer at SMHC the PNAs and Nurses basically said, finally a female S.O. to do patient /visitor searches. Ive had, as of 31 December, 2010 a total of 442 hours on the job, I have passed the Sheriffs training and was awarded the Certificate of Completion dated 23 July 2010 by the Sheriff instructors, and I find some of the S.O.s insistence that I search male patients / visitors so I can be one of the boys is putting me in jeopardy as this would be against the Centres same sex search policy. In fact, in Bob Lechows recent email to me dated 19 November 2010 and again on 23 November, 2010 he indicated that the next FT shift would likely go to me, whereas the above is definitely hindering my long term career goals at SMHC and the Manitoba Government as a civil servant [19 Nov email she will be the only casual till the others are brought on line she will get any / all hours that come up until the next FT position to be filled; 23 Nov email If something comes up soon it would likely go to you]. It is just not fair, it is prejudicial, that I am being limited and ostracized because some S.O.s have got it in their head I should violate SMHC same sex search policy and Bob Lechow has apparently not corrected their misconception. I would like a cessation of this behaviour and complaints that I am not searching males patients / visitors [as I cannot as per SMHC same sex search policy]. The SMHC badly needs a full time female security officer and I am in line for this spot, but the above is playing havoc with my chances. Without this correction, I will be subject to a continued hostile work environment being the brunt of snide comments that I am not searching male patients / visitors and being ostracized from becoming one of the boys. In closing: I have always turned up for my shifts, usually a good half hour beforehand; I have never missed a shift; I have always come at a moments notice when Bob Lechow has called me because someone had called in sick at the last minute or were unable to do their shift for some reason; I have always been glad to help SMHC and Bob Lechow out;

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I have given 100% to my job and have enjoyed every minute of it. In addition, Bob Lechow called me on 4 January 2011 but gave no indication that the practice of accepting complaints that I was not searching male patients / visitors was going to cease nor were the current complaints in my file that I had not searched male patients / visitors were going to be removed nor were the S.O.s who had made complaints were going to be corrected in their misconception that I can violate the Centres same sex search policy and their insistence that I violate the Centres same sex search policy so I can apparently become one of the boys. As such, I have no alternative but to make this formal complaint. It also appears that I have to do so within 20 days of being made aware of this problem, which occurred on 29 December 2010. I naturally wish Union representation in trying to resolve this problem. Thank you very much, The first female security officer at SMHC

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Appendix 20g AGAIN NO REPLY FROM SECURITY MANAGER BOB LECHOW 10 January 2011 in preparation for my meeting with the CEO, Danah Bellehumeur Sent: January 10, 2011 4:13:55 AM To: Lechow, Bob (HEALTH) (bob.lechow@gov.mb.ca) Cc: debbie.kelly@gov.mb.ca Bcc: timothyebyers@hotmail.com; bod-area5@mgeu.ca 10 January, 2011 Robert (Bob) Lechow Manager, Security Services SMHC, bob.lechow@gov.mb.ca Hi Bob, I understand that C. and J.M. called in sick today [Monday, 10 January 2011] and no other casuals wanted to come in [they were busy]? I dont know how many times I raced up to SMHC to fill a shift [no matter what I had on the go, and even one time when I was taking antibiotics for bronchitis] when you called me? As such, one FT SOs [L.] had to come in to fill the shift under over-time and the 4th spot was left vacant. Ironically, the two SOs [C. and J.M.] that called in sick are mentioned in my email dated 09 January 2011 in preparation for my meeting with the CEO, Danah Bellehumeur, on Tuesday, 11 January to try to sort out the prejudice I am receiving as the first female SO at SMHC. Specifically, in my email dated 09 January 2011 [you have been sent a copy], when SO (J.Mat.) found out I was coming in to fill the unexpected sick shift on the weekend [08 January 2011], he said: Why is she coming in; She cant do anything; I have to do the searches (i.e., the male searches).

154 We dont want any female SO on the weekend as they cannot do the work (i.e., search male patients / visitors). Is this the attitude I receive after all my efforts? I cant search male patients / visitors as per SMHC same sex search policy so some male SOs [for example J.M.] dont want me on site? Also, as mentioned in my email dated 09 January 2011 You can imagine my surprise when Bob Lechow saw me on 29 December, 2010 [without a Union rep] when he told me he had received several complaints that I had not or was not searching male patients / visitors and that these complaints were in my file and that they could lead to my dismissal? And, as one of these SOs [C.] is apparently being groomed for the supervisor position, C. should know the Centers policy about same sex searches so why has he complained about me and why has Bob Lechow accepted C.s complaint(s)? Is this the behaviour I receive after all my efforts? I cant search male patients / visitors as per SMHC same sex search policy so some male SOs [for example C.] make bogus complaints that I am not searching male patients / visitors and they dont want me on site? Ironically too, I also mention in my email dated 09 January 2011 the fact that where Mondays are supposed to be a 4 person SO crew: This prejudicial attitude may also apply to shifts during the week because apparently on the days where 4 SOs are supposed to be on duty, and one is away [e.g., sick] I am not being called to replace them even though I have first crack at the shift? Ironically, this Monday [10 January] there were actually two off sick [C. and J.M.]. As a result of this prejudicial attitude and behaviour [i.e., some male SOs dont want me on site because I cannot search male patients / visitors], you and the SMHC has had to put up with a 3 person SO crew instead of the usual 4 person SO crew because of both C. and J.M. calling in sick and none of the other casuals coming in? Thats an extra risk to patients and other staff not having a full 4 person SO crew. As a result, Im looking for a concrete resolution during my 11 January meeting with the CEO to this prejudicial attitude and behaviour of some male SOs that have quite clearly made it obvious they do not want me [as a female SO] on site because I cant search male patients / visitors?

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I reiterate J.M.s comment to one of the male SOs that dont want any female SO on the weekend as they cannot do the work (i.e., search male patients / visitors), with J.M. saying to this guy whats the big deal, its part of your job? In other words, its part of a male SOs job search male patients / visitors! Whats the big deal? Likewise, as a female SO, it is my job to search female patients / visitors! Do I bitch or complain that I have to search female patients / visitors? No, never! Its part of my job! So whats wrong with some of the male SOs that dont want me on site because they are expected to do their job and search male patients / visitors? Hopefully you will be able to assist the CEO in addressing this prejudicial attitude and behaviour of some male SOs so I can get back to work and in line for the next FT spot, as per your emails: email dated 19 November 2010 I will get any / all hours that come up until the next FT position to be filled; email dated 03 November 2010 If something comes up soon it would likely go to you.

The first female security officer at SMHC cc. Debbie Kelly HR Consultant SMHC, debbie.kelly@gov.mb.ca cc. Tim Byers, MGEU -SMHC Union Rep timothyebyers@hotmail.com bod-area5@mgeu.ca

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Appendix 20h BECAUSE NO REPLY FROM SECURITY MANAGER BOB LECHOW, FORMAL COMPLAINT TO DEPUTY MINISTER - MATTERS ACTUALLY GOT WORSE AT SMHC FOR THE FIRST FEMALE SECURITY OFFICER AT SELKIRK MENTAL HEALTH CENTRE 11 February 2011 Manitoba Human Rights complaint form signed 11 February 2011 Sent: February 11, 2011 11:46:08 AM To: dmhlt@leg.gov.mb.ca Cc: hrc@gov.mb.ca; pat.daniels@gov.mb.ca Bcc: resourcecentre@mgeu.ca; diana.delroy@mgeu.ca 11 February 2011 Milton Sussman Deputy Minister's Office 327 Legislative Building 450 Broadway Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 0V8 Phone: 204-945-3771 Fax: 204-945-4564 Email dmhlt@leg.gov.mb.ca PERSONAL & CONFIDENTIAL

RE: Grievance form signed 10 February 2011 RE: Manitoba Human Rights complaint form signed 11 February 2011 Dear Sir, Just up-dating you from my initial email to you dated 05 January 2011. I asked my union a while ago to evaluate the treatment I have received at SMHC, and after doing so they sent me a grievance form to sign, which I did on 10 February 2011. Hopefully, my union rep will be able to offer some external monitoring and be able to follow who gets the available Full Time shift apparently coming due in 9 days as the current Full Time male SO hired during my competition and currently filling the position is going off to another opportunity. Similarly, as the union is apparently limited in what they can do for me, I also asked the Manitoba Human Rights Commission a while ago to evaluate my treatment at SMHC.

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After their evaluation, they asked me to sign an MHRC complaint, which I did this date [11 February 2011]. My initial email to you dated 05 January 2011 explained that I was being pressured by just a few male SOs to violate the SMHC same sex search policy [Bob Lechows e-mail dated 18 October 2010 current policy dictates that the search to be performed by a same sex staff member male for male female for female it can be witnessed by a staff member of either sex]. Since my initial email to you, matters have actually gotten worse? In fact, where I was first in line for the next Full Time spot in November 2010 [as per Bob Lechows email dated 19 November 2010 I will get any / all hours that come up until the next FT position to be filled] now I cant even find out where I am on the list for the next FT spot [see HR Debbie Kellys emails to me dated 13 January 2011 cited below]. Nonetheless, its a fact that all the male Security Officers hired during my competition have been made permanent Full Time, whereas I as the only female SO hired during my competition remains casual? In fact, even those who had no shifts at SMHC were made full-time [e.g., S.H. and D.L.] ahead of me. When I started at SMHC, I was getting all hours of work: 19-07-2010 TO 30-07-2010 = 40 HOURS 31-07-2010 TO 13-08-2010 = 32 HOURS 14-08-2010 TO 27-08-2010 = 24 HOURS 28-08-2010 TO 10-09-2010 = 32 HOURS 11-09-2010 TO 24-09-2010 = 56 HOURS 25-09-2010 TO 08-10-2010 = 6 HOURS 09-10-2010 TO 22-10-2010 = 45 HOURS 23-10-2010 TO 05-11-2010 = 21 HOURS 06-11-2010 TO 19-11-2010 = 80 HOURS 20-11-2010 TO 03-12-2010 = 52 HOURS 04-12-2010 TO 17-12-2010 = 28 HOURS 18-12-2010 TO 31-12-2010 = 48 HOURS This totals 464 hours in 12 pay periods, or 38.6 hours on average per pay period. This all changed on 29 December 2010. On 29 December 2010 Bob Lechow told me that he had received complaints that I was not doing male searches of patients / visitors and that these complaints were being included in my file and that this could lead to my dismissal.

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29 December 2010 you mentioned that you had complaints from C.D.. that I was not searching male patients / visitors, some of the complaints apparently dating back to October 2010. o 12 December 2010, S.F. knowing full well that SMHC has a same sex search policy still protested to Bob that I was not searching male patients / visitors, and even held everyone up because he had to email Bob Lechow right away to complain, while the PNAs were demanding he hurry up with his email to Bob Lechow. o Around the same time, B.S. said to me that if I couldnt do male searches than why bother (doing the job). 08 January 2011, J.Mat. when he found out I was coming in for a sick shift said: Why is she coming in; She cant do anything; I have to do the searches (i.e., the male searches); We dont want any female SO as they cannot do the work (i.e., search male patients / visitors). As a result, I have been ostracized and jeopardized in my being in line for the next Full Time position: o On 24 December 2010 when C.D.. told me to stay out of the control room, go on patrol so to keep busy I spent a good number of hours doing patrols; I was on patrol from 11:50 to 16:45 in the frigid cold. o On 29 December 2010 C.D.. again told me to stay out of the control room so to keep busy I again spent a good number of hours doing foot patrols, from 09:00 to 14:25 in the frigid cold. o C.D.. [40+ adult male] still continues to give me the cold shoulder because I am not searching male patients / visitors although I cannot as the first female SO at SMHC. o 08 January 2011 when I arrived on duty I was told by J.Mat. to stay out of the control room because he was busy playing with his ipod and lap top. In fact, since 29 December 2010 my hours at SMHC have decreased considerably and the only shifts I seem to get now are as a direct result of my emails reminding everyone about this continuing discrimination: MGEU Article 7: 7.01 The parties hereto agree that there shall be no discrimination, harassment, coercion or interference exercised or practiced with respect to any employee by reason of sex [i.e., I as a female SO]. MHRC Code:

159 9(1) In this Code, "discrimination" means b. differential treatment of an individual or group on the basis of any characteristic referred to in subsection (2) Applicable characteristics 9(2)(f) sex [i.e., I as a female SO]. For example, during pay period 01-01-2011 to 14-01-2011, my initial email dated 05 January 2011 to you [the Deputy Minister Milton Sussman] led to one shift for me on 08 January 2011 [0700 to 1800 = 11 hours]. Likewise, my email dated 09 January 2011 to CEO Danah Bellehumeur led to one shift for me on 14 January 2011 [1700 to 0100 = 8 hours]. Similarly, for pay period 15-01-2011 to 28-01-2011, my email dated 18 January 2011 to the Union with cc to Bob Lechow led to one shift for me on 21 January 2011 [1700 to 0100 = 8 hours]. For pay period 29-01-2011 to 11-02-2011, my email dated 03 February 2011 to Bob Lechow led to one shift for me on 04 February 2011 [0600 to 1800 = 12 hours]. Likewise, my email dated 07 February 2011 to Bob Lechow led to one shift for me on 11 February 2011 [1700 to 0100 = 8 hours]. This totals 47 hours of work in 3 pay periods, or a meagre 15.6 hours on average per pay period. Irrespective of this, what I am extremely worried about is that apparently one of the Full Time male SOs is leaving for a new opportunity in approximately 9 days and although I should be in line for this position, I will be passed over for it again! In fact, during a pay period I was actually assigned an FT schedule [i.e., 06-11-2010 to 19-11-2010 = 80 hours] due to an Full Time vacancy, however, this available FT spot at that time again went to a male SO. As I have completed the requisite Sheriff training and the NVCI training [required for an FT position at SMHC, and none of the male SOs hired after me have completed this training], I assume I will get this apparent up-coming FT vacancy? I also add to my credentials for this apparent up-coming FT vacancy the following: Mental Health First Aid, Hearing Voices Workshop, Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Responding to Psychiatric Emergency Calls / Incidents of Aggression / Seclusion Room Escorts etc. plus the fact that I have 511 hours on the job seems to indicate I would be ideal for this apparent up-coming FT vacancy? I would also rely on Bob Lechows recent kind offer of a reference in an 03 February 2011 email to me [I am able to confirm that you always attend to duty when requested and are punctual].

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As there are currently 12 FT male SOs on staff at SMHC, this would also establish a female SO as an integral part of SMHC if I am made FT. However, with Debbie Kellys emails to me dated 13 January 2011 [see below] I dont know if SMHC is again planning to pass over me giving credence to J.Mat. comments: We dont want any female SO as they cannot do the work (i.e., search male patients / visitors). The reason I say this is that, although in Bob Lechows minutes to his staff meeting on 01 February 2011 clearly indicates that SO staff are to check availability list prior to calling priority given to those available that date, a few recent incidents indicates preference is going to male SOs hired after me. On the first date Bob Lechows call-in sheet was implemented, J.Mat. apparently called everyone on the list reaching the Rs in the alphabet without finding anyone to fill in resulting in J.Chor. having to do 5 hours o.t. on 28 January 2011. Theres two points I wanted to make, the first is that I never received a call from J.Mat. otherwise I would have come in and my name appears long before the Rs in the alphabet on the call list. I would also be far above anyone else in terms of availability [being available 7 days per week, day or night] and I should have been one for the first called by this J.Mat., but I was not? The second point is that apparently J.Mat. did not write anything on Bob Lechows casual SO call list roster sheet, so there is no way to keep track of who he actually called? Obviously, if some of these male SOs keep insisting they do not want a female on site, theyll simply not write anything in the call-out log or theyll simply pass over a name saying there was no answer when called? After all, I have never been called for a shift by S.F., B.S., C.D.. or J.Mat.? As well, when I was speaking with Union rep Tim Byers recently on 18 January 2011 he said that he had heard I was offered two shifts, and I refused them I never was called for a shift, and I have never refused a shift? Obviously someone is making up stories that I am being offered shifts, but am refusing them which is utter nonsense! If truth be told, the ones who seem to be getting all the available shifts are, surprise surprise, male SOs hired after me: N.A. and J.C. for example?

161 For instance, apparently on 09 February 2011 one of the new male SOs hired after me [J.C.] told Bob Lechow he did not want the 12 hour shift that was available [1800 to 0600?], as he was working at his other job and couldnt get to SMHC until 10 pm. Instead of calling me, Bob Lechow apparently said that J.C. could come in from 2200 to 0600 [8 hour shift], which resulted in only 2 SO staff being on duty from 1800 to 2200 instead of the usual 3 SO staff on duty from 1800 to 2200. And were talking about a forensic psychiatric unit where a full complement of SO staff shouldnt be played with to accommodate a new male SO who cant come in until 10 p.m. because he was tied up at his other job? Thats all the Ministry of Health needs is a serious staff injury at SMHC because Security is left short staffed trying to accommodate a new male SO who couldnt come in on time because he was tied up at his other job. Bob Lechow apparently purposefully left only 2 SO on staff to accommodate the new male SO hired after me [J.C.] so he could get some time in at SMHC? In closing, this is the year 2011, and such discrimination against females is no longer tolerated, especially in government employment where equity, respectful work environment, fair play, and equal opportunity for advancement are bantered about as if they actually occur. In my situation at SMHC, in spite of my initial email to you dated 05 January 2011, these words still do not seem to apply to me? For your info, The first female security officer at SMHC cc. Diana Delroy, Selkirk Staff Representative Grievance Form signed 10 February 2011 Manitoba Government and General Employees' Union diana.delroy@mgeu.ca cc. Bruce Buckley, Director of Rural and Legal Services MGEU Head Office, resourcecentre@mgeu.ca cc. Beatrice Watson, Intake Officer MHRC Complaint signed 11 February 2011 Manitoba Human Rights Commission 700- 175 Hargrave Street, Winnipeg, MB R3C 3R8 hrc@gov.mb.ca cc. Pat Daniels, Initial Intake Officer

162 Manitoba Human Rights Commission Room 341-340 9th Street Brandon MB R7A 6C2 Pat.Daniels@gov.mb.ca

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Appendix 20i NO REPLY AGAIN FROM SECURITY MANAGER BOB LECHOW 13 January, 2011 I believe my belonging & room searches are correct - please advise otherwise? Sent: January 13, 2011 8:01:23 AM To: Lechow, Bob (HEALTH) (bob.lechow@gov.mb.ca) Cc: debbie.kelly@gov.mb.ca Bcc: timothyebyers@hotmail.com; bod-area5@mgeu.ca 13 January, 2011 Robert (Bob) Lechow Manager, Security Services Selkirk Mental Health Centre Phone: (204) 482-1606 Fax: (204) 785-8936 Email: bob.lechow@gov.mb.ca cc. Danah Bellehumeur, CEO Debbie Kelly HR Consultant SMHC, debbie.kelly@gov.mb.ca cc. Tim Byers, MGEU -SMHC Union Rep timothyebyers@hotmail.com bod-area5@mgeu.ca Hi Bob, On the advice of my Union rep following my 11 January 2011 meeting with the CEO, he advised to cc copies to all concerned. The reason I write today is that the CEO during my 11 January meeting mentioned: Are you searching the rooms also, with respect to my being a team-player indicating that this aspect is also something the other security officers have complained about. The CEO also questioned if you search the bags and personal belongings of guests and visitors. This is the first Ive heard of these complaints.

164 Isnt an employee supposed to hear about complaints at the time they happen? My reply to this information from the CEO is this: I have been taught by the other security officers the general procedure with respect to body-searching is for one [same sex] security guard and one of the staff [usual a PNA] to attend to the patient or guest. Usually the PNA is the individual whom at this particular point in time will search any of the patients/visitors personal belongings - bags while the person is getting body-searched by a [same sex] security officer. If there are a number of patients to be searched and there are additional security officers around they may go and assist the original officer do body searches [if the same sex] otherwise they can do belonging - bag searches, which I always do to assist my fellow SOs. The only time I couldnt assist in doing belongings - bags searches [and this applies to my male SO counterparts] is when there is only two security officers on duty and one has to be in the control room [as per policy] in these situations the same sex SO leaves the control room and does the body searches, while the PNAs do the belonging bag searches. So, I dont see where the complaint is being made that I am not a team player and that I do not search belongings and bags? I might also add that I have never skirted my responsibilities, including my fair share of room searches. What I have even proposed to all the male SOs is that, if they have males to search, to even out the work I will do the room searches. This, however, has obviously not appeased those male SOs that do not want me on site because I cannot do male searched. If this is not correct procedure, please advise. In fact, if truth be told Ive been the brunt of double duty when it comes to some of these same male SOs that do not want me on site because I cannot search males. For example, on December 30th, 2010 one of the PNAs [C.] was annoyed that, although I had just returned to Area 15 after a 2 hour patrol, the other male SO who had sat in the control room for those 2 hours immediately told me to do a room search.

165 What appears to be the case is that the same male SOs who have clearly indicated they do not want me on site because I cannot search male patients / visitors have embellished their complaints about this [you revealed their male search complaints on 29 December 2010] with the above revelation that I am not searching belongings or rooms, which is not the case whatsoever! Jeremey Matovich [spelling?] on 08 January 2011: Why is she coming in; She cant do anything; I have to do the searches (i.e., the male searches). We dont want any female SO on the weekend as they cannot do the work (i.e., search male patients / visitors). C.D. De Grave [spelling?] still gives me the cold shoulder because I am not searching male patients / visitors. S.F. [spelling?] recently protested on 12 December 2010 that I was not searching male patients and even held everyone up because he had to email Bob Lechow right away to complain, while the PNAs were demanding he hurry up with his email to Bob Lechow. B.S. [spelling?] recently said to me that if I couldnt do male searches than why bother (doing the job). Thanks The first female security officer hired at SMHC

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Appendix 20j NO REPLY AGAIN FROM SECURITY MANAGER BOB LECHOW important to clarify if C.D. an unofficial supervisor? Sent: January 17, 2011 2:06:54 AM To: Lechow, Bob (HEALTH) (bob.lechow@gov.mb.ca) Cc: danah.bellehumeur@gov.mb.ca Bcc: bod-area5@mgeu.ca; resourcecentre@mgeu.ca 17 January, 2011 Robert (Bob) Lechow Manager, Security Services Selkirk Mental Health Centre Phone: (204) 482-1606 Fax: (204) 785-8936 Email: bob.lechow@gov.mb.ca cc. Danah Bellehumeur, Chief Executive Officer Selkirk Mental Health Centre Box 9600, Selkirk, Manitoba R1A 2B5 Phone: 204 482-1607 Danah.Bellehumeur@gov.mb.ca cc. Tim Byers, MGEU -SMHC Union Rep timothyebyers@hotmail.com bod-area5@mgeu.ca cc. The Equity and Human Rights Committee MGEU Head Office, resourcecentre@mgeu.ca Hi Bob, First let me say that any queries I had about my 11 January 2011 meeting with the CEO should be ccd to those involved, according to my Union rep who was also at the meeting. As such, maybe you can answer this. During my meeting with CEO Danah Bellehumeur on 11 January 2011 she indicated that C.D. was not the supervisor nor was he being groomed for supervisor? If this is the case, why is C.D. giving tests to security as if he were the supervisor?

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Have you given him permission to act as supervisor and give tests to security? If not, then why did C.D. leave a message in our Communication Log Book and dated 14 January 2011 the first day I worked last week: C.D. wrote words to the effect that he had tested S.F., and C.D. found that S.F. was the best standard for security at SMHC. [It should be noted that someone tried to white out the author of the message, but if you look at the back it appears to be C.D.s name as the author] [It should also be noted there has never been a message like this in our log book before] What was the purpose of this message in our Communication Log Book? Was it one old time guard supporting another old time guard? Arent C.D. and S.F. left-overs from the old security firm [CORS] that supplied security guards for SMHC? Isnt C.D. one of the male security at SMHC that doesnt want me on site because I cannot search male patients / visitors [even though he knows full well that SMHC has a same sex search policy and I cannot search males as per your email dated 18 October 2010]? Isnt this sex discrimination under the Code? Isnt C.D. the guy that complained that I am not a team player because I do not search male patients / visitors although I cannot under SMHCs same sex search policy? Likewise, isnt S.F. one of the male security that doesnt want me on site because I cannot search male patients / visitors? Again, isnt this sex discrimination under the Code? Wasnt it S.F. who just had to email you on 12 December 2010 protesting that I was not searching male patients / visitors and even held everyone up from doing our work while he emailed you? Even the PNAs were demanding S.F. hurry up with his email to you so we could finish our work [even though S.F. knew full well that SMHC has a same sex search policy and I cannot search males as per your email dated 18 October 2010]?

168 The question is, was the CEO mistaken during my 11 January 2011 meeting and youve actually given C.D. permission to be a supervisor? If not, its unfortunate C.D. feels himself to be a supervisor because these two old time guards have apparently inflamed other new male SOs [hired during my competition and even the competition after mine] with their same hang-ups or apparent sexist attitude. For example, B.S. has adopted their old guard attitude and doesnt want me on site because I cannot search male patients / visitors. B.S. recently said to me that if I couldnt do male searches than why bother (doing the job). Again, isnt this sex discrimination under the Code? Similarly, when Jeremey Matovich heard I was coming in on 08 January 2011 to fill a sick shift, he told another SO: Why is she coming in; She cant do anything; I have to do the searches (i.e., the male searches); We dont want any female SO on the weekend as they cannot do the work (i.e., search male patients / visitors). Again, isnt this sex discrimination under the Code? Sort of bolsters my impression that SMHC should have cleaned-house when they went to in-house Security Officers [a much more professional category, where some are more in tune with a respectful work environment, and the new standards expected of employees toward each other and to clients (patients) as per the Code and out of decent courtesy]. Thanks for a reply to clarify if C.D. is a supervisor and, if not, why is he testing other security and placing the info in our Communication Log Book [which wasnt intended for such personal messages]? Thank you, The first female security officer hired at SMHC

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Appendix 20k NO REPLY AGAIN FROM SECURITY MANAGER BOB LECHOW possible solution? Sent: February 6, 2011 11:17:09 AM To: Lechow, Bob (HEALTH) (bob.lechow@gov.mb.ca) Cc: debbie.kelly@gov.mb.ca Bcc: danah.bellehumeur@gov.mb.ca 06 February 2011 Robert (Bob) Lechow Manager, Security Services Selkirk Mental Health Centre Phone: (204) 482-1606 Fax: (204) 785-8936 Email: bob.lechow@gov.mb.ca cc. Danah Bellehumeur, CEO Danah.Bellehumeur@gov.mb.ca cc. Debbie Kelly HR Manager debbie.kelly@gov.mb.ca Hi Bob, Further to my emails to the DM [Milton Sussman] dated 05 January 2011 and my great meeting with CEO Danah Bellehumeur / HR Manager Debbie Kelly on 11 January 2011 and your valiant efforts to address the reluctance of a few male SOs as cited in my 03 February 2011 email to you, I think a definite solution may present itself shortly. Ive heard through the grape-vine that one of the FT male SOs may be leaving SMHC for another opportunity. If so, I have completed the requisite Sheriff training, the NVCI training, as well as Mental Health First Aid, Hearing Voices Workshop, Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Responding to Psychiatric Emergency Calls / Incidents of Aggression / Seclusion Room Escorts etc. plus the fact that I believe I have 503 hours on the job seems to indicate I would be ideal for this apparent up-coming FT vacancy? In fact, during a pay period I was actually assigned an FT schedule [i.e., 06-11-2010 TO 19-11-2010 = 80 HOURS] due to an FT vacancy, however, this available FT spot at that time again went to a male SO.

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As there are currently 12 FT male SOs on staff at SMHC, and I was first in line for the next FT spot [your email dated 19 November 2010 that I will get any / all hours that come up until the next FT position to be filled], this would establish a female SO as an integral part of SMHC if I am made FT. I would also rely on your recent kind offer of a reference in your 03 February 2011 email to me [I am able to confirm that you always attend to duty when requested and are punctual], as well as the fact my becoming FT would be a perfect solution to my initial email to the DM [Milton Sussman] dated 05 January 2011 who Im sure would be pleased to hear Ive slipped into this apparent up-coming FT spot as the first female SO at SMHC. Thank you, The first female security officer hired at SMHC

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Appendix 20l NO REPLY AGAIN FROM SECURITY MANAGER BOB LECHOW RE: Information Up-Date Sent: February 18, 2011 9:56:05 AM To: Lechow, Bob (HEALTH) (bob.lechow@gov.mb.ca); diana.delroy@mgeu.ca Cc: pat.daniels@gov.mb.ca Bcc: dmhlt@leg.gov.mb.ca 18 February, 2011 Robert (Bob) Lechow Manager, Security Services Selkirk Mental Health Centre Phone: (204) 482-1606 Fax: (204) 785-8936 bob.lechow@gov.mb.ca Diana Delroy Staff Representative Manitoba Government and General Employees' Union Phone: 1-866-982-6438 Fax: 1-204-785-8653 diana.delroy@mgeu.ca cc. Pat Daniels, Intake Officer Manitoba Human Rights Commission Pat.Daniels@gov.mb.ca cc. Mr. Milton Sussman Deputy Minister of Health dmhlt@leg.gov.mb.ca Hi Bob & Diana, To save time, I have pooled this email reply to both of you. About the meeting: Theres a few things to clear up first that are outstanding related to my initial email complaint to Deputy Minister of Health Milton Sussman dated 05 January 2011 [that I was being pressured to violate SMHC same sex search policy and that I wasnt a team player because I was not searching male patients / visitors in keeping with

172 SMHC same sex search policy] and my follow-up email to Mr. Sussman dated 11 January 2011. As you may also know, I mentioned to the Mr. Sussman during this latter email: I asked the Manitoba Human Rights Commission a while ago to evaluate my treatment at SMHC. After their evaluation, they asked me to sign an MHRC complaint, which I did on 11 February 2011. Under their code, any kind of unequal or differential treatment of a female comes under MHRC Code violations. On 15 February 2011 Diana Delroy spoke with CEO Danah Bellehumeur who said they are nearing completion of their investigation regarding your complaints of discrimination. Diana mentioned she would get me the gist of the results of this investigation I look forward to receiving an email about the investigation results before the meeting so I can prepare my comments as per Article 15 [as well as for the MHRC]. Also, on 11 February 2011 Diana Delroy also spoke with the CEO Danah Bellehumeur who informed me they will not be direct appointing you into the position as they have some concerns with your performance. I would like a copy of those concerns mentioned by the CEO I look forward to receiving an email listing these concerns before the meeting so I can prepare my comments as per Article 15 [as well as for the MHRC]. Again on 15 February 2011, when Diana spoke to CEO Danah Bellehumeur, Danah mentioned a five month review??? However, it is now 7 months since I started at SMHC with well over 500 hours on the job? Is SMHC doing a 7 month review? Am I going to be seeing a 7 month review? Also, in this 7 month review do the concerns CEO Danah Bellehumeur mentioned to Diana Delroy on 11 February 2011 still appear in this 7 month review? If yes, I would definitely want to receive a copy of CEO Danah Bellehumeurs concerns before the meeting so I can prepare my comments to be placed on any such 7 month review as per Article 15[as well as for the MHRC].

173 If not, then I would be looking for an explanation as to why I am not being appointed full-time like all the male SOs hired during my competition, some of them with no shifts at SMHC when they were appointed full-time [as well as for the MHRC]. Also, I asked HR Manager Debbie Kelly on 05 January 2011 for these documents under 56:02 and 56:03 examine and request a copy of the content of any file held by the employees employer and / or Supervisor. I did not look at or receive copies of the documents I requested: I'm looking for all complains by security officers that I have not done male searches, when these complaints made, who made the complaints, where occurred, and why complaint was made as my searching males violates same sex search policy, and who received complaint. I would now like to receive those before the meeting so I can prepare my comments as per Article 15 [as well as for the MHRC]. In addition, I have never received word whether or not I have done room / belonging searches properly as per my emails to Bob Lechow dated 13 January and 17 January [you have copies]; I would like to receive a reply to my email as this would form part of my comments as per Article 15 [as well as for the MHRC]. Thank you, The first female security officer hired at SMHC P.S. There should be no problem in receiving this information under 56:02 and 56:03, or for my comment preparation under Article 15. Just in case there is, I have also requested the same from Nancy Love, Manager, Manitoba Ombudsman, Privacy & Access Division, 750 - 500 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 3X1 and I can wait for this department to obtain this information if you prefer.

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Appendix 20m AUTHORS NOTE: NOTICE THE USELESS REPLY FROM HR MANAGER DEBBIE KELLY PREVENTING THE FIRST FEMALE SECURITY OFFICER HIRED AT SMHC FROM GETTING AN ANSWER? 15 February 2011 FW: Reason for no reply to my room / belonging search emails From: Kelly, Debbie (CSC) (Debbie.Kelly@gov.mb.ca) Sent: February 15, 2011 6:25:52 AM Hello: I feel that I must again ask you to stop sending e-mails regarding these issues. We are in the middle of an investigation and these e-mails are adding to the complexity of the investigation. We understand what the issues are and are dealing with them. We are endeavoring to complete this investigation as quickly as we can, however, you have cited many issues for us to review so it may take a bit more time. Thank you for your co-operation. Debbie Kelly

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Appendix 20n AUTHORS NOTE: NOTICE THE EQUALLY USELESS REPLY FROM CEO DANAH BELLEHUMEUR PREVENTING THE FIRST FEMALE SECURITY OFFICER HIRED AT SMHC FROM GETTING AN ANSWER? FW: Information Up-Date From: Bellehumeur, Danah (HEALTH) (Danah.Bellehumeur@gov.mb.ca) Sent: February 18, 2011 11:49:11 AM Cc: 'diana.delroy@mgeu.ca' (diana.delroy@mgeu.ca); Kelly, Debbie (CSC) (Debbie.Kelly@gov.mb.ca); Lechow, Bob (HEALTH) (Bob.Lechow@gov.mb.ca) Hi Debbie Kelly has asked you several times to stop sending emails because you are complicating their investigation. We are aware of your issues and need to investigate them fully before we are able to provide you with any feedback. Bob planned to provide you with your five-month performance appraisal in January; however, we have been advised by Labour Relations not to proceed with the performance appraisal until the investigation is complete. Once the investigation is complete, you will receive information about the outcome of the investigation as well as your performance appraisal. We will not be making any more direct appointments into vacant full-time security positions. The current vacancy will be posted for everyone to apply. In the meantime, you need to stop sending emails to the Deputy Ministers Office. There is a grievance process that indicates when the Deputy Minister would become involved and you have been advised of this by MGEU as well as SMHC (see Grievance Procedure 50:01-50:19). I strongly suggest you work through your union rep in addressing these issues. Danah Bellehumeur Chief Executive Officer Selkirk Mental Health Centre Phone: (204) 482-1607 Fax: (204) 785-8936 Email: danah.bellehumeur@gov.mb.ca

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Chapter 20 [If the reader thinks Ministries of Health have your interests at heart, think again?] And, although there was proof of harassment, disrespectful work environment, sexdiscrimination and / or unequal treatment of the first female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Centre, the Minister of Health Theresa Oswald ignored it and the Deputy Minister of Health Milton Sussman would not respond to it:

From: Lechow, Bob (HEALTH) (Bob.Lechow@gov.mb.ca) Sent: April 1, 2011 1:36:35 PM Cc: Kelly, Debbie (CSC) (Debbie.Kelly@gov.mb.ca); Osland, Maureen (CSC) (Maureen.Osland@gov.mb.ca); Bellehumeur, Danah (HEALTH) (Danah.Bellehumeur@gov.mb.ca)

Also, please note that the Deputy Ministers Office will not be responding to your emails because this is an HR matter to be dealt with by SMHC. If the reader thinks Ministries of Health have your interests at heart, just look at this crap? Lets look at the lobby for Pharmaceutical companies to run their Guiana-pig studies on un-suspecting consumers? At last someone has paid tribute to the Whistleblowers!1 Indeed, the article mentioned the three Health Canada scientists:2 In 1998 three Health Canada scientists, Dr. Shiv Chopra, a senior veterinary drug evaluator in Health Canada's Therapeutic Products and Food Branch, along with Dr. Margaret Hayden in the Animal Health Division, and Dr. Gerard Lambert blew the whistle on the drug approval process for bovine growth hormone and animal feed.3 They said human health concerns were being ignored due to pressure from lobbyists of drug companies. In June 2004 all three were fired by Health Canada.4 Corrupt to the Core paints a disturbing picture of the internal machinations of a government regulator bent on pleasing its drug company clients, often with scant concern for the public health implications.5

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Dr. Shiv Chopra is one of three Health Canada scientists whose testimony before a Senate Committee in 1998 triggered headlines around the world. The scientists testified that Health Canada managers had pressured them to release suspect veterinary drugs into the food chain without the evidence of safety required by the Food and Drugs Act.6 Another lobbyist case, as cited, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Bennett delivered a scathing and far-reaching decision Monday that not only embarrassed the RCMP and special prosecutor in the Basi-Virk case it stems from an unprecedented search of the B.C. legislature on Dec. 28, 2003, that police at the time ominously linked to drug dealing, organized crime and corruption said to extend to the highest levels of government.7 Subsequently it became clear the search was in fact connected to the $1 billion privatization of B.C. Rail by B.C. Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell.8 Two former ministerial aides -- David Basi and Bob Virk -- now face charges of breach of trust and fraud for allegedly passing confidential government documents on to lobbyists representing OmniTRAX, one of the corporations that bid for B.C. Rail. Aneal Basi, a former government communications aide and cousin to David Basi, faces money laundering charges.9 The case has exposed the extensive political connections between the B.C. and federal Liberal parties, provincial lobbyists, the leadership campaign of former Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin and even the RCMP.10 Another Whistleblower was Dr. Nancy Olivieri a scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children and clinical professor at the University of Toronto discovered in 1998 evidence suggesting that a drug she was testing might be life threatening.11 Apotex Inc. which partly funded her research, insisted that she should not publish her results and threatened legal action if she were to inform the patients in the trials. The U of T refused to intervene, in spite of its responsibilities for public health and for scientific integrity. Critics observe that the U of T was at that time negotiating with Apotex Inc. for a multimillion dollar donation for a new building.12 An example of more swine putting money first, and patient health second. Anyone want to buy from this company? As cited, Apotex Drug Recall:13

178 Certain Lots of the Apotex drugs have been recalled ... The Three Products are on the Canadian market. Health Canada is conducting inspections in Toronto of Apotex manufacturing facilities. Health Canada is now also continuing with their inspections in Ontario Apotex facilities to determine whether manufacturing standards are being followed and to see if any other products are affected.14 Apotex was warned by the FDA in June that the new drugs use could be frozen in the U.S. if they failed to fix the multiple manufacturing breaches found at the Toronto facilities. The FDA also warns that they could ban Apotex drugs from entering the country. Apotex is accused of not properly investigating the failure of the batches of some of the drugs and also being guilty of an unusually high number of reject batches.15 And what about Dr. Olivieri? After independent investigations vindicated Dr. Olivieri, she took a leave of absence to pursue her research. In 2004, after six years of legal proceedings, Olivieri reached a settlement with Apotex which included a substantial payment to her. However, the company then refused to pay, claiming that Olivieri had violated the terms of the settlement by 'disparaging' the company or its drug.16 In 2008, after another four years of litigation, Apotex was ordered by the Ontario Superior Court to perform all the terms of the settlement. The company immediately announced its intention to challenge this ruling, and launched a new lawsuit against Dr. Olivieri.17 That is apparently the nature of governments? Take for example the apparent pharmaceutical lobbyists that have convinced government to turn a blind eye to the crap these companies are selling to the public, many times directly to the public. In fact, the Legal Law Help website on Wednesday, July 06, 2011 mentioned: Dangerous defective Drugs are all too common. Not a week goes by without a warning or recall being issued by a company or the FDA regarding a pharmaceutical drug. While some drugs work well for many patients, others are dangerous drugs that have numerous side effects and can inflict injury on the patients and users. Drug side effects are life changing and even life threatening, and often the companies who make the dangerous drugs know the risks involved. Some have proven to be complicit in actually covering up drug side effects in order to gain government approval. Many dangerous drugs result in class action lawsuits by lawyers against the companies that manufacture them and can reach into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Thats why apparent scam artists like Paxil have apparently agreed to pay 1 billion in class action suit / settlements.18 In July 2010, GlaxoSmithKilne (GSK), the manufacturer of Paxil, agreed to a settlement of more than $1 billion to resolve more than 800 Paxil lawsuits that had been filed against the company alleging Paxil-related heart defects. The agreement brought the total amount paid by the company to settle Paxil-related cases to more than $2 billion.19 The average payment under the July 2010 Paxil settlement agreement was $1.2 million. Experts say that the high settlement amounts were due to the serious nature of the heart-related birth defects that were caused by taking Paxil during pregnancy, and due to the fact that the victims in the case were children.20 GSK agreed to settle these 800 Paxil cases following a ruling earlier that month in which the company was ordered to pay damages of $2.5 million in a birth defects lawsuit filed in Philadelphia. Jurors in that case ruled that Lyam Kilker, whose mother took Paxil while pregnant, suffered birth defects that were caused by his exposure to the antidepressant while in the womb.21 During the Kilker trial, lawyers for the family presented evidence that officials at GSK tried to hide studies showing the link between Paxil and birth defects, and the risk of side effects to newborns. Jurors ruled that Paxil was the cause of the heart defects suffered by Lyam Kilker, and that GSK failed to properly warn his familys doctor about the health risks of taking the antidepressant during pregnancy.22 GSK is still facing more than 100 lawsuits filed on behalf of children who suffered birth defects after their mothers took Paxil while they were pregnant. Despite the large amounts it agreed to pay in settlements and several studies which have linked Paxil to an increased risk of heart defects and other birth defects, neither GSK nor the Food and Drug Administration has announced plans to issue a Paxil recall.23 What do these evil lobbyists and corrupt government officials who are supposed to be testing this crap to make sure it is safe for consumers say about Paxil why arent they charged? Didnt these swine learn anything from Thalidomide catastrophy? Thalidomide became available in sample tablet form in Canada in late 1959. It was licensed for prescription use on April 1, 1961. Although thalidomide was withdrawn from the West German and United Kingdom markets by December 2, 1961, it remained legally available in Canada until March 2, 1962, a full three months later. Incredulously thalidomide was still available in some Canadian pharmacies until mid-May 1962.24

180 Thalidomide, was hailed as a wonder drug that provided a safe, sound sleep.25 It was not realized that thalidomide molecules could cross the placental wall affecting the fetus until it was too late.26 Thalidomide became notorious as the killer and disabler of thousands of babies.27 For those babies who survived, birth defects included: deafness, blindness, disfigurement, cleft palate, many other internal disabilities, and of course the disabilities most associated with thalidomide: phocomelia.28 For us, who are not doctors, typically the symptoms of phocomelia syndrome are undeveloped limbs and absent pelvic bones; however, various abnormalities can occur to the limbs and bones.29 Usually the upper limbs are not fully formed and sections of the hands and arms may be missing.30 Short arm bones, fused fingers, and missing thumbs will often occur.31 Legs and feet are also affected similarly to that of the arms in hands.32 Individuals with phocomelia will often experience missing thigh bones, and the hands or feet may be of an unordinary petite size or appear as stumps due to their close attachment to the body.33 Individuals carrying phocomelia syndrome will generally show symptoms of growth retardation previous to and after birth.34 The syndrome can also cause mental deficiencies in infants.35 Infants born with phocomelia will normally have a petite head with sparse hair that may appear silvery-blonde.36 Hemangioma, the abnormal buildup of blood vessels, will possibly develop around the facial area at birth and the eyes may be set widely apart, a condition known as orbital hypertelorism.37 The pigment of the eyes will be a bluish white.38 Phocomelia can also cause: an undeveloped nose with slender nostrils, disfigured ears, irregularly petite jaws [also known as micrognathia], and a cleft lip with cleft palate.39

181 Severe symptoms of phocomelia include: A fissure of the skull and a projecting brain known as (encephalocele); An accumulation of spinal fluid under the skull also known as hydrocephalus; causing vomiting and migraines; An abnormally shaped uterus (bicornate); Inability to clot blood efficiently due to a low amount of platelets running through the blood; Malformations in the kidney and heart; Shortened neck; and, Abnormalities in the urethra40 Around the world, in the late 1960's and into the early 1970's, the victims of the drug thalidomide and their families entered into class action legal suits, or threatened actions, against the various drug companies who manufactured and/or distributed the drug, and they were eventually awarded settlements. In most countries, these settlements included monthly or annual payments based on the level of disability of the individual.41 In Canada, the story was quite different.42 Canadian victims of the drug were forced to go it alone, family by family.43 No case ever reached a trial verdict.44 Rather, families were forced to settle out-of-court with gag orders imposed on them not to discuss the amounts of their settlements. This resulted in wide disparity in the compensation amounts, with settlements for individuals with the same levels of disability varying by hundreds of thousands of dollars.45 What else do you expect from the Canadian government with the scum they have working for them beating up the little guy wherever and whenever they can just a few such stories cited in this book: Canadas Police Force: Lies, fabrication, perjury ... and much worse? Before his death he was able to tell a nurse at the hospital that an RCMP officer jumped up and down on him http://www.amazon.com/CANADAs-POLICE-FORCE-fabricationperjury/dp/1461102812/ref=sr_1_18?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311552272&sr=1-18

182 You think the judges are out to protect the little guy, think again? Not with guys like this around, as one author put it: Judge John Gomery's inappropriate comments based on lies, false statements, fabricated statements & illegal acts by R.C.M.P. Sgt. John Thomas Randle. AMICUS No. 18458664, National Library of Canada. -- 1998 Definitely one unethical joker, as recently reported: A Federal Court ruling has blasted the biased musings of Judge John Gomery http://www.amazon.com/Federal-ruling-blasted-biasedmusings/dp/1456331027/ref=sr_1_10? s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1318185066&sr=1-10 Footnotes 1 4. Some Canadian Whistleblowers Topics: Whistleblowers http://fairwhistleblower.ca/wbers/canadian_wbs.html 5 6. Book Review: Corrupt to the Core Friday, April 17th, 2009 Review By David Hutton http://shivchopra.com/?cat=6 7 10 Canadas Police Force: Lies, fabrication, perjury ... and much worse? http://www.amazon.com/CANADAs-POLICE-FORCE-fabricationperjury/dp/1461102812/ref=sr_1_15?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1307998916&sr=115 11 12. Some Canadian Whistleblowers Topics: Whistleblowers http://fairwhistleblower.ca/wbers/canadian_wbs.html 13 15 Apotex Drug Recall R. Jones Lawsuit News Alerts - Recall Lawsuit http://doihavealawsuit.com/lawyer-attorney/side-effects-recall-lawsuit-attorney/198apotex-drug-recall.html 16 17. Some Canadian Whistleblowers Topics: Whistleblowers http://fairwhistleblower.ca/wbers/canadian_wbs.html 18 23. Paxil Settlements

183 Hissey Kientz, LLP, 9442 Capital of Texas Hwy. North One Arboretum Plaza, Suite 400, Austin, Texas 78759 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:JFTIKOrF7UIJ:www.paxilbirthdefectslawyers.com/paxil-lawsuits/paxilsettlements/ +Paxil+agree+to+pay+1+billion+in+class+action+suit&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca &source=www.google.ca 24 28. Thalidomide: The Canadian Tragedy http://www.thalidomide.ca/the-canadian-tragedy/ 29 40. Phocomelia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phocomelia 41 45. Thalidomide: The Canadian Tragedy http://www.thalidomide.ca/the-canadian-tragedy/

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Chapter 21 [Come on Justice Minister Andrew Swan, you give a pass to incompetent social workers in Manitoba, Canada] Your search - TOM BRODBECK "union just shameful" - did not match any documents.

Did the Manitoba Employees Union have it removed?

Probably!

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However, here is the article:

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Heres more about these Manitoba Social Worker Cruds:

Godmother tells inquiry she warned Manitoba social workers not to give baby back By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press December 12, 2012

WINNIPEG - The godmother of a young Manitoba girl brutally beaten to death told an inquiry Wednesday that she warned social workers two years earlier not to return the child to her father, but they ignored her.

The testimony from Kim Edwards, who cared for Phoenix Sinclair for much of the girl's short life, is the latest evidence that social workers often failed to monitor Phoenix and didn't heed warnings about her troubled parents.

Edwards and her former husband, Rohan Stephenson, cared for Phoenix on many occasions, including the summer of 2003, when the child had been taken from her father Steven Sinclair.

Social workers were called to Sinclair's home and found him partying with suspected gang members. No one was caring for Phoenix, who was three years old at the time.

Two months later, a social worker named Stan Williams phoned Edwards and asked her whether she thought Sinclair, who was her longtime friend, was ready to parent again.

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"I said, no, not really," Edwards testified.

"But then, the next day or the day after that, I got a phone call saying, 'We've decided to return Phoenix to her father.'"

Sinclair was drinking and was still grieving following the death of another child in 2001, Edwards said. As well, Phoenix had been with Edwards for so long, the little girl considered Edwards's home her own.

"Everything about her world was at my home."

The inquiry has already heard that Williams, the social worker who called Edwards, ignored another warning at the time. An intake worker assessed Sinclair in 2003 as having a "questionable parenting capacity, along with an unstable home environment, substance abuse issues.''

Yet Williams decided within weeks to start working toward giving Phoenix back to Sinclair. By October, Sinclair had his daughter back officially, although he would continue to leave her for days at a time at Edwards's home.

The inquiry is examining how child welfare failed Phoenix, who bounced between foster care, Edwards's home and her family before she was beaten to death at the age of five by her mother, Samantha Kematch, and her mother's boyfriend, Karl McKay. The girl had suffered horrific physical abuse and neglect. Her death went undetected for nine months.

Phoenix was taken from her parents days after her birth in April 2000. The couple had troubled, violent pasts and was unprepared to care for her, but social workers repeatedly worked toward reuniting the family.

An internal review of the case found that social workers frequently lost track of who had care of Phoenix. It also found that workers failed to enforce conditions on

189 Sinclair and Kematch made prior to the girl's return, including a psychological assessment for Kematch in 2000 and alcohol counselling for Sinclair in 2003.

"From October 2000 to the last contact with this family, actual service was almost non-existent,'' says the review by the Winnipeg Child and Family Services agency.

Sinclair and Kematch separated in 2001 and Sinclair had much more contact with Phoenix over the following two years. But in 2004, Kematch went to Edwards's home and took Phoenix for what was supposed to be a short trip to a nearby mall and playground. She did not return.

Social workers had written to Edwards and her former husband, advising them not to let anyone take Phoenix especially either parent without first alerting child welfare. Edwards's former husband has already testified he disobeyed that advice because he had little faith in the system.

Edwards said Wednesday she never saw that letter.

"Had someone told me not to give Phoenix to Samantha, I wouldn't have."

After two or three days, Edwards called the local child welfare agency and police to try to track down Phoenix. She was rebuffed.

"I was given the information that Phoenix was with her mother, and that I was no longer her foster mother, and that Phoenix was no longer my concern," Edwards testified.

Kematch, McKay and Phoenix lived in Winnipeg, then moved to the Fisher River reserve, about 150 kilometres north of the city. There, Phoenix was neglected, beaten, forced to eat her own vomit and sometimes shot with a BB gun. She died after a final beating in June 2005.

190 After Phoenix's death, Kematch continued to collect welfare benefits with the child listed as a dependent. The girl's death went undetected until the following March. Kematch and McKay were convicted in 2008 of first-degree murder.

Edwards sobbed Wednesday as she recalled learning of Phoenix's death in 2006 and trying to tell her side of the story to child and family services and the Association of Manitoba Chiefs.

"Almost immediately, I started trying to get to CFS and to the AMC and to everybody the truth of this little girl and nobody, not one of them, listened."

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And heres even more about these Manitoba Social Worker Cruds:

Social worker testifies about final response in case of Manitoba girl who died By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press | The Canadian Press Mon, 14 Jan, 2013.

WINNIPEG - Three months before little Phoenix Sinclair was beaten to death, social workers had a final chance to intervene.

But a vague, second-hand tip that the girl was being abused was not treated as an emergency, the inquiry into Phoenix's death was told Monday.

"A child who may be abused, with no information on what the abuse is or that it actually even was abuse, is not considered an emergency by the after-hours unit," testified social worker Jacki Davidson.

The inquiry is examining how Manitoba child welfare failed to protect Phoenix, who spent much of her life in foster care or with family friends. The five-year-old girl was beaten to death in June 2005 by her mother Samantha Kematch and mother's boyfriend, Karl McKay, after Kematch had regained custody.

Kematch, McKay and Phoenix's father, Steve Sinclair, all had troubled, violent pasts that included substance abuse and Phoenix's child welfare file had been opened, closed and reopened many times during her short life.

In March 2005, two of Kematch's friends grew concerned that she was locking Phoenix in a bedroom and possibly abusing her. They reported their concerns to Child and Family Services anonymously, but said they weren't taken seriously. They asked another woman a foster parent to call as well. The identities of all three women cannot be revealed under a publication ban.

Davidson, a worker in the after-hours unit, took the call on the night of March 5, 2005, and recorded the allegations of abuse and a locked bedroom. But instead of

192 going out to Kematch's home immediately, she referred the case for "consideration" to crisis response workers who worked during the day.

Davidson also said she did not designate the case as a formal abuse investigation, which would have prompted a detailed investigation by a special abuse unit, because the caller had not seen any abuse herself and could not provide any detail.

"Some people call in and say, 'I saw somebody at Safeway spanking their child.' They consider that physical abuse," Davidson said.

"Somebody would attend to the issue, but not as an emergency."

Derek Olson, one of the lawyers leading the inquiry, challenged Davidson's assessment. He pointed out Kematch and her daughter had a lengthy file of past troubles that were listed in the province's child welfare central database.

"But here you've got a history, a long history (with the family), doesn't that change how you view an allegation of abuse?"

The information from the caller was simply too vague to be treated as an emergency or to prompt a specialized abuse investigation, Davidson replied.

"I had no information that a child was being physically harmed, sexually harmed, emotionally harmed at that time."

An external review by Andrew Koster, a social work expert from Ontario, criticized the decision not to begin a formal abuse investigation.

"The determination not to treat this as an abuse case because it did not, in their opinion, meet the strict definition of the (law), was inappropriate," Koster wrote.

193 "This decision had dire consequences for Phoenix because it meant that the 14 required steps in an abuse investigation which would have potentially saved her life were not met."

Koster's review was completed in the fall of 2006 but is only being made public, section-by-section, at the inquiry as related evidence is presented.

Another social worker, Richard Buchkowski, testified Monday that he was assigned the case and tried to visit Kematch's apartment twice on March 7. He could not get into the building and was unable to contact Kematch.

Two days later, two other social workers went to Kematch's apartment and talked to her. She kept them out in the hallway and they left without seeing Phoenix. Her file was closed. Three months after that, Phoenix was beaten to death in the basement of Kematch and McKay's new home on the Fisher River Cree reserve north of Winnipeg.

The inquiry has already heard that social workers repeatedly missed warning signs that Phoenix was in danger.

The workers were sometimes unaware of who was taking care of Phoenix usually friends of the family or relatives for days or weeks at a time. They also missed that McKay, the man Kematch started living with in 2004, had a long history of domestic violence that including beating one former girlfriend with the leg off a bathroom sink.

Davidson had already dealt with the family in January 2004. She received a call from someone who said Kematch was drinking frequently and leaving Phoenix with a grandmother who smoked crack in the child's presence. As she did in 2005, Davidson did not treat the case as an emergency requiring an immediate visit, but referred it to crisis response workers for a followup in the ensuing days.

Another social worker visited the home of a family friend who was caring for Phoenix, decided all was well and shortly afterward closed the file.

194 Even after Phoenix's death, social workers believed she was still alive. Kematch and McKay continued to collect welfare benefits with the girl listed as a dependent.

Phoenix's death was only discovered in the spring of 2006 after a relative called police. McKay and Kematch were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Their trial was told they repeatedly hit, confined and abused Phoenix, sometimes shooting her with a BB gun and forcing her to eat her own vomit.

The two social workers who talked to Kematch in March 2005 and left without seeing Phoenix, Christopher Zalevich and Bill Leskiw, are to testify later this week.

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And the final straw about these useless Manitoba Social Worker bastards:

Manitoba social worker insisted girl was fine, even after she had died: witness By: Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press Posted: 01/21/2013 11:19 AM | Comments: 4 | Last Modified: 01/21/2013 8:05 PM

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WINNIPEG - The inquiry into the death of a Manitoba girl has been told at least one social worker insisted the girl was doing fine, even though the child had been beaten and killed two months earlier.

The testimony Monday from a relative of Phoenix Sinclair is the latest evidence that Manitoba's child welfare system failed the troubled child throughout her short life and even after her shattered body was buried in a makeshift grave near a landfill.

"I called basically every single agency Manitoba has to offer," the relative, who cannot be identified under a publication ban, told the inquiry.

"No one knew who she was or how to locate her."

The relative was worried Phoenix was being abused by her mother, Samantha Kematch. The girl was often dirty, had head lice, and was overly quiet and withdrawn when with Kematch, the inquiry was told.

By 2005, Kematch stopped bringing Phoenix to the relative's home, saying the girl was staying with other family members. In August of that year, the relative decided to try to get social workers to check on the girl.

The relative got nowhere in the first 20 or so phone calls, the inquiry was told, but ended up being directed to a social worker named Stan Williams at Winnipeg Child and Family Services. Williams had been the case worker for Phoenix and her family two years earlier.

"His last words to me were, 'she is doing fine and well,'" the relative testified.

"Those words ring in my head almost every day."

In fact, Phoenix, who was five, had been killed two months earlier by Kematch and Kematch's boyfriend, Karl McKay, after suffering horrific abuse and neglect. Her

197 death would go undiscovered for another seven months as Kematch and McKay continued to collect welfare benefits with Phoenix listed as a dependent.

Stan Williams died in 2009. Monday's testimony marks the second time his work has been criticized at the inquiry.

The inquiry, which started last fall, has already heard that social workers repeatedly missed warning signs that Phoenix was in danger. She was taken from Kematch and Steve Sinclair, her biological father, days after her birth in April 2000 because both parents had violent histories and were unprepared to care for her. Months later, Phoenix was given back to the couple.

Social workers were sometimes unaware of who was taking care of Phoenix usually it was friends of the family or relatives for days or weeks at a time. They also missed that Karl McKay, the boyfriend Kematch started living with in 2004, had a long history of domestic violence that including beating one former girlfriend with the leg of a bathroom sink.

In 2003, Phoenix was seized from her father's home after a day-long drinking party where suspected gang members were present. Sinclair was told by a social worker named Laura Forrest to undergo alcohol counselling before he could get his daughter back. He didn't. He also said he didn't feel ready to parent again. Forrest left the agency, Williams took over the file and decided to give Phoenix back to her Dad anyway.

Two social workers had a final chance to save Phoenix in March 2005. Acting on an anonymous tip that Kematch was abusing Phoenix and locking her in a bedroom, they visited the family's Winnipeg apartment. Kematch said she had a visitor, kept the men in the hallway, and said she had simply yelled at the girl. The workers left without seeing Phoenix or inspecting the apartment, decided all was well and closed the file.

Three months later, Phoenix was dead.

Kematch and McKay were later convicted of first-degree murder and are serving life sentences. Their trial was told they frequently confined and abused the girl,

198 sometimes shooting her with a BB gun and forcing her to eat her own vomit. Phoenix died after a final assault on the concrete basement floor of the family's home on the Fisher River reserve, north of Winnipeg. The family had moved there weeks earlier.

The supervisor who signed off on the final decision to close Phoenix's file defended her actions Monday.

Diva Faria said workers were acting on a vague, anonymous tip and had not seen anything to indicate that Phoenix was in danger.

"Based on the information we have today, absolutely ... Phoenix should have been seen," Faria said.

"I'm suggesting even further, that based on what you had at that time, that would have been a wise decision also," Jeff Gindin, the lawyer for Phoenix's biological father, fired back.

Faria said she couldn't remember details of the case, but based on reports tabled at the inquiry, there was little evidence at the time that Phoenix was at risk.

"I had two social-work staff that were identifying that there were no protection concerns and based on their assessment and whatever other discussions we may have had, we concluded the case."

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Chapter 22 [Come on Justice Minister Andrew Swan, where New York charges their social workers, Manitoba tries to cover-up!] Welfare Worker and Supervisor Charged in Death of Child By MOSI SECRET Published: March 23, 2011 The New York Times

A former New York City child welfare worker and his supervisor were indicted on charges of criminally negligent homicide, the Brooklyn district attorney announced on Wednesday, saying that their failures had contributed to the death of a 4-year-old, Marchella Pierce, who had been repeatedly beaten and tied to a bed and weighed 18 pounds at the end of her life in September.

The girls grandmother, who witnessed her being tied to the bed many times, according to the district attorney, was also indicted, on manslaughter and other charges. The girls mother already faces a murder charge.

It was believed to be the first time in the citys history that child welfare workers had been charged with homicide in a childs death, and the district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, made it clear that he did not believe they were the only ones to blame.

Mr. Hynes said he was convening a special grand jury to investigate evidence of alleged systemic failures at the child welfare agency, the Administration for Childrens Services. The grand jury will seek to determine whether the agency had followed through on its plan for reforms after the 2006 death of Nixzmary Brown, a 7-year-old Brooklyn girl, one of a long series of abuse and neglect deaths that have pockmarked the citys halting efforts to protect its large numbers of vulnerable children.

Damon Adams, the caseworker on Marchellas case, and his supervisor, Chereece Bell, were indicted on charges of criminally negligent homicide, official misconduct and endangering the welfare of a child. Mr. Adams was also charged with tampering with public records and falsifying records.

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Prosecutors said agency workers indicated significant concerns a year ago after Marchellas mother, Carlotta Brett-Pierce, who had a history of drug abuse, left her alone in an emergency room and acted inappropriately.

Between then and the childs death half a year later, Mr. Adams made two entries in agency computers, recording a phone call in March and an attempted home visit in June. After her death, he made five entries, saying that he had had contact with the family in March, April, June and August, and that in August he had observed her head, neck and torso and had seen no changes from previous visits.

Jacqueline Kagan, a prosecutor, said at Mr. Adamss arraignment on Wednesday that signs of malnourishment would have been obvious by then, and that the entries had been falsified. Even if he had made the visits, she said, they would have been insufficient, because biweekly visits were required.

After Marchellas death, Ms. Bell made several entries saying she had met with Mr. Adams on the case, prosecutors said. Mr. Hynes said Ms. Bell had failed to properly oversee and monitor Mr. Adamss work.

Baby Marchella might be alive today, Mr. Hynes said, had these A.C.S. workers attended to her case with the basic levels of care it deserved, or had her grandmother stepped in and put a stop to the shocking abuse she is charged with facilitating.

Mr. Adams, 36, and Ms. Bell, 34, who have resigned from the agency, pleaded not guilty. Both were jailed, with bail set at $35,000 for Mr. Adams and $25,000 for Ms. Bell.

Ms. Bells lawyer, Joshua E. Horowitz, blamed Mr. Adams, calling him a substandard worker whom Ms. Bell had wanted removed from her unit. Mr. Adamss lawyer, Wayne C. Bodden, said his client had been directed to make the post-death computer entries by his superiors beyond Ms. Bell.

Both lawyers blamed the agency. Why is she being thrown to the wolves? Ms. Horowitz said. Why does it stop at her?

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John B. Mattingly, the commissioner of the agency, has acknowledged that it did not do its job to protect Marchella. But he warned that charging agency employees with homicide could have a chilling effect on recruiting people to the profession, a task already hampered by low pay and a high rate of burnout.

They are going into peoples homes all hours of the night and trying to do it in ways that keep them safe as well, Mr. Mattingly said. If people who are interested in those kinds of jobs see this action taken by the district attorney, we have a concern, with social workers all around the country, that this will hurt our ability to recruit and retain talented people.

According to prosecutors, Marchellas mother tied her to her bed, beat her with a belt and a videocassette tape, deprived her of food and water, and force-fed her medication. Marchella died on Sept. 2 of child abuse syndrome, along with acute drug poisoning, blunt impact injuries, malnutrition and dehydration, prosecutors said.

Her life had never been easy. She was born more than three months prematurely, with underdeveloped lungs, and had spent most of her four years in hospitals. She returned home in February 2010, with a tracheal tube to help her breathing. The city became involved in her home life the previous month, when Ms. Brett-Pierce gave birth to a son and was found to have drugs in her system.

The agency assigned the case to Child Development Support, an independent agency in Brooklyn, to work with the family and help the mother with her drug problems. In a report on the case in October, the agency acknowledged that it had failed to properly assess the girls condition and plan for her care with Child Development Support. That failure was compounded by inadequate home visits and assessments by both it and the independent agency, the report said. Child Development Supports role in the case ended in June, returning full responsibility to Childrens Services.

The case was handled by the field office in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the same one that did not prevent Nixzmary Browns fatal beating by her stepfather despite several complaints to the agency about her treatment.

202 The district attorney said Marchellas grandmother, Loretta Brett, 56, witnessed the girl being bound to her bed on most days from last March to her death. For part of that time, prosecutors said, the bed was in the grandmothers room.

Ms. Kagan, the prosecutor, said that Ms. Brett had acted as a second parent to Marchella her father was not involved in the family and that she had acknowledged to the police that Marchella had been bound regularly since May, basically day and night, by her hands and feet. Ms. Brett has tried to get custody of her daughters other two children the infant and a 5-year-old boy though she has tested positive for marijuana use, Ms. Kagan said. Those boys have been removed from the home.

Ms. Bretts lawyer, Julie A. Clark, said Ms. Brett had helped investigators after Marchellas death and denied that she had known about the beatings and restraints. Bail for Ms. Brett was set at $300,000.

Also see: Marchella Brett-Pierce Murder: 2 Social Workers Indicted in Girl's Beating, Starvation Death, by Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, homicide. Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 11:29 am http://www.truecrimereport.com/2011/03/marchella_brett-pierce_murder.php

Also see: Death of A 4-Year-Old Brooklyn Girl May Change How Social Workers Work, by R. Asmerom, March 24th, 2011 - By TheEditor http://madamenoire.com/108825/death-of-a-4-year-old-brooklyn-girl-may-changehow-social-workers-work/

Chapter 23 [Come on Justice Minister Andrew Swan, lets not deny racist attitudes?]

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As cited:

A former RCMP officer who claims to have faced racism and bullying in the police force says she was not the only aboriginal Mountie to have experienced discrimination.

Marge Hudson, who was Manitoba's first female aboriginal RCMP officer when she joined the force in 1979, says she quit in 2009 as a result of years of harassment, bullying and racism in the workplace.

But Hudson says she was not alone, as almost every aboriginal RCMP officer she knows has experienced some kind of racial discrimination and harassment on the job. Some of them turned to her for help, she added.

204 "One night I got a phone call from a member stating that they're holding their gun against their head and they were going to shoot themselves. I spoke to that member for many, many, many hours on the phone until I knew that she was going to be OK," Hudson told CBC News in an interview.

When asked what the member was troubled about, Hudson replied, "The organization, the bullying just everything. And I understood that, because that's the way I was treated, too."

Officers fear retribution

CBC News has spoken to about a dozen current and retired aboriginal RCMP officers who claim they have also faced discrimination, but Hudson has been the only one willing to talk openly about her experience.

Other members have declined interviews, saying they fear retribution if they speak out.

One current RCMP member, who did not want to be identified, told CBC News about feeling deeply depressed after being mistreated by a superior.

"He told me, 'Hush, don't say anything. You're opening a can of worms, and in the end you're going to be at the bottom.' That sounded like a threat," the member said.

The RCMP's commanding officer in Manitoba, Assistant Commissioner Bill Robinson, says he has no knowledge of racism, bullying or intimidation.

BULL-SHIT BILL ROBINSON!!!!

ANOTHER RCMP ARSE-HOLE!!!

LIE, COVER-UP THATS THE RCMP FOR YOU!!!

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AND TO PROVE THE POINT:

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Manitoba Justice Minister Andrew Swan ads to misery: Refuses public inquiry into 75 Missing Aboriginal Women http://www.amazon.com/Manitoba-Justice-Minister-Andrewmisery/dp/1482344033/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361605142&sr=11&keywords=wallice+bellair+manitoba

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Chapter 24 [Come on Justice Minister Andrew Swan, Manitoba also discriminates against the first two female security officers hired?]

Yah, Yah, Whatever: CEO Danah Bellehumeur lies through her teeth http://www.amazon.com/Yah-Whatever-Danah-Bellehumeurthrough/dp/1482319535/ref=sr_1_1? s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1359715155&sr=11&keywords=WALLICE+BELLAIR+Yah%2C+Yah%2C+Whatever

The question, what does the reader think of the treatment of this young female worker by the Minister of Health Theresa Oswald and her crew?

Another question, do you think Pam Roberts of the Manitoba Human Rights Commission confirmed that once the first female Security Officer complained to Deputy Minister Milton Sussman about unequal treatment / harassment / unsafe working conditions / isolation / sex discrimination by the cool kids gang [a few of the male security officers that did not want a female at Selkirk Mental Health Center because she could not search male patients, the majority of patients there] the game became get rid of that female officer and fabricate [to the point of outright lies] to do so??

208 After all, Pam Roberts made it perfectly clear in her 15 January 15, 2013 Investigative Assessment File # 11 EN 027 that the CEO of Selkirk Mental Health Center was not pleased that the first female Security Officer complained to Deputy Minister Milton Sussman because nothing was being done about the unequal treatment / harassment / unsafe working conditions / isolation / sex discrimination commencing in October, 2010?

CEO Danah Bellehumeur and the HR Manager Debbie Kelly said the first female security officer should have complained to them first about the unequal treatment / harassment / unsafe working conditions / isolation / sex discrimination?

Well the second female security officer did just that and guess what her hours were cut until she wasnt working for Selkirk Mental Health Center either???

And now the coup de grce, the smoking gun, Yah, Yah, Whatever!

CEO Danah Bellehumeur was so anxious to get rid of first female security officer for complaining about sex discrimination she makes up things!!!

CEO Danah Bellehumeur at Selkirk Mental Health Center lies through her teeth and heres the proof!!

On page 13 of Pam Roberts so-called investigation report for the Manitoba Human Rights Commission she quotes the CEO Danah Bellehumeur saying if she was given direction or feedback from a more senior or full time officer she would say things like YAH WHATEVER!!!!!

This CEO Danah Bellehumeur at Selkirk Mental Health Center is a BIG FAT LIAR the first female security officer never says this however, that was a favorite expression of a male security officer at Selkirk Mental Health Center!!

He said yeah whatever and rolled his eyes.

209 So, in CEO Danah Bellehumeurs haste to get rid of the first female security officer for making a complaint of sex discrimination to the Deputy Minister Milton Sussman and the Manitoba Health Minister Theresa Oswald, CEO Danah Bellehumeur was not averse to lying to Pam Roberts investigator with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission??

And, Pam Roberts was too stupid or too lazy to have read the 824 page submission to the Manitoba Human Rights Commission on behalf of the first female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Center.

Because in that submission it clearly says which male security officer used to say YAH WHATEVER all the time????

He said yeah whatever and rolled his eyes.

In fact, this fellow still uses this expression all the time and you will have to read this book to find out who actually said this [see the final concluding comment #5 in this book]???

He said yeah whatever and rolled his eyes.

And, it wasnt the first female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Center!!!

Ironically, when the second female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Center complained directly about sex discrimination to CEO Danah Bellehumeur, this second female security officer was soon gone from the Center too!!

Something surely stinks in Manitoba, Canada!!!

Including Manitoba Justice Minister Andrew Swans refusal to hold a public inquiry into the missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Manitoba, Canada?

One might think that Manitoba, Canada is sexist against females?

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One might think that Manitoba, Canada is racist against females?

CEO Danah Bellehumeur said complain to her first: The second female security officer did and she's gone too http://www.amazon.com/Danah-Bellehumeur-said-complainfirst/dp/1482064006/ref=sr_1_13?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361607842&sr=113&keywords=wallice+bellair+manitoba

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Chapter 25 [Come on Manitoba Justice Minister Andrew Swan, what kind of frigging moron is this agent of yours?] Is he another Manitoba moron, or worse a LIAR?

How can this Jerry Woods send such a letter after reading the information submitted see below]?

Pam Roberts made it perfectly clear in her 15 January 15, 2013 Investigative Assessment File # 11 EN 027 that the CEO of Selkirk Mental Health Center was not pleased that the first female Security Officer complained to Deputy Minister Milton Sussman because nothing was being done about the unequal treatment / harassment / unsafe working conditions / isolation / sex discrimination commencing in October, 2010?

CEO Danah Bellehumeur:

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HR Manager Debbie Kelly:

Pam Roberts Manitoba Human Rights Commission investigator

Issues raised by the first female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Center about the unequal treatment / harassment / unsafe working conditions / isolation / sex discrimination were raised in October, 2010 and Pat Roberts confirmed nothing was done about it by Security Manager / HR Manager Bob Lechow?

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Whats that again:

Whats that again:

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Chapter 26 [The second female security officer complained to CEO Danah Bellehumeur and the HR Manager Debbie Kelly and she was fired too!] CEO Danah Bellehumeur and the HR Manager Debbie Kelly said the first female security officer should have complained to them first about the unequal treatment / harassment / unsafe working conditions / isolation / sex discrimination? Well, the second female security officer did just that and guess what her hours were cut until she wasnt working for Selkirk Mental Health Center either???

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Is there something rotten at Selkirk Mental Health Center?

First two female security officers gone after complaining about sex discrimination??

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Chapter 27 [And guess what, this investigator Pat Roberts with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission could see nothing wrong with all that????]

And, guess what, this investigator Pat Roberts with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission could see nothing wrong with all that????

Another Manitoba government frigging moron and LIAR!!

What does the reader think???

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Chapter 28 [And now the coup de grce, the smoking gun, Yah, Yah, Whatever!]

And now the coup de grce, the smoking gun, Yah, Yah, Whatever!

CEO Danah Bellehumeur was so anxious to get rid of first female security officer for complaining about sex discrimination she makes up things!!!

CEO Danah Bellehumeur at Selkirk Mental Health Center lies through her teeth and heres the proof!!

On page 13 of Pam Roberts so-called investigation report for the Manitoba Human Rights Commission she quotes the CEO Danah Bellehumeur saying if she was given direction or feedback from a more senior or full time officer she would say things like YAH WHATEVER!!!!!

This CEO Danah Bellehumeur at Selkirk Mental Health Center is a BIG FAT LIAR the first female security officer never says this however, that was a favorite expression of a male security officer at Selkirk Mental Health Center!!

He said yeah whatever and rolled his eyes.

So, in CEO Danah Bellehumeurs haste to get rid of the first female security officer for making a complaint of sex discrimination to the Deputy Minister Milton Sussman and the Manitoba Health Minister Theresa Oswald, CEO Danah Bellehumeur was not averse to lying to Pam Roberts investigator with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission??

And, Pam Roberts was too stupid or too lazy to have read the 824 page submission to the Manitoba Human Rights Commission on behalf of the first female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Center.

221 Because in that submission it clearly says which male security officer used to say YAH WHATEVER all the time????

He said yeah whatever and rolled his eyes.

In fact, this fellow still uses this expression all the time and you will have to read this book to find out who actually said this [see the final concluding comment #5 in this book]???

He said yeah whatever and rolled his eyes.

And, it wasnt the first female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Center!!!

Ironically, when the second female security officer hired at Selkirk Mental Health Center complained directly about sex discrimination to CEO Danah Bellehumeur, this second female security officer was soon gone from the Center too!!

Something surely stinks at Selkirk Mental Health Center!!!

And it appears that Manitoba Justice Minister Andrew Swan has a good bunch of liars working for him??