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Dean, I still haven't got through all your info. I decided to send you the Claim & Counter Claim now anyway, use it as you see fit. This will be the first and I'll just number the others if I need more than one. 2005 01 T 0010 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR TRAIL DIVISION BETWEEN: WILLIAM MATTHEWS PLAINTIFF AND: BYRON PRIOR DEFENDANT STATEMENT OF CLAIM The Plaintiff is a resident of Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador, and a Member of the 38th Parliament of Canada representing the constituency of Random-Burin-St. George’s. The Defendant is a resident of Long Pond, Conception Bay South, and at all material times hereto has created and submitted written material to be posted on the following web site: (the "Site"). On or about 25 October 2004, the Plaintiff learned that the Defendant had published or caused to be published, inter alia, the following words on the Site: ...Liberal MP Bill Matthews & his friend, raped the same child repeatedly for than 3 Yrs. At 14, she had a second baby, Aaron, she said she was 80% sure he is Matthews son. A third baby, Harriett, at 18 & 3 miscarriages also, by this time, what abuse of a child. 2 On the Site, the Plaintiff learned that the Defendant published or caused to be published the following words: To whom it may concern: July 24, 2001 My name is Byron Prior. I’m the oldest living of these 12 children. I not only had to live through my abuse but, watch as the rest of my sisters and brother were abused and raped. Three of my sisters raped ... a second raped ... at age 12 $ Bill Matthews & friends from 13 on. ... The legal system are only concerned with keeping all this under cover and protect themselves. ... I have copies of my full statement on all the details of what happened, which I gave the R.C.M.P. on March 9, 1998, 52.5 hours at their office. I will send it to anyone who will send my a E-mail address. I will never forget the abuse, shame, and persecution to this day, from the animals who did this to my family. Sincerely, Byron Prior The Plaintiff says that the Defendant also sent electronic mail messages to persons making the allegations referenced in the preceding two paragraphs and inviting those persons to access the Site. The Plaintiff says that the Defendant’s electronic mail messages inviting persons to access the Site and the publication of the words in the two preceding paragraphs were sent and published respectively with the intent that the allegations against the Plaintiff receive wide circulation. The Plaintiff says that the allegations made against him in the Site are false and that have been published by the Defendant to cause persons receiving his electronic mail messages or accessing the Site to hate and despise him. The Plaintiff says that the words that the Plaintiff has used in his electronic mail messages and the Site have 3 caused him embarrassment and required him to defend his reputation. The Plaintiff says that he has suffered damages as a result of the Defendant’s publication of his allegations. The Plaintiff says that he demanded, through correspondence written and delivered to the Defendant on his behalf, that the Defendant cease the publication of the statements referenced in paragraphs 3 and 4 herein. The Plaintiff says that the Defendant has ignored the demand and continues to publish the words on the Site. The Plaintiff therefore claims: general damages to be assessed; aggravated, exemplary and/or punitive damages; an injunction prohibiting the Defendant from publishing the words contained in this Statement of Claim or words having the same defamatory meaning against the Plaintiff through any site on the world wide web or through any other medium; pre-judgment and post-judgment interest pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment Interest Act, R.S.N. 1990, c. J-2; cost on a solicitor and own client basis; such further relief deems to be equitable and just in the circumstances. 4 DATED at St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador this 31st day of December, 2004. Stephen J. May PATTERSON PALMER Suite 1000, Scotia Centre 235 Water Street P.O. Box 610 St. John’s, NL A1C 5L3 Solicitors for the Plaintiff TO: Byron Prior Reader Hill Road Long Pond, NL A0A 3Y0 The Defendant ISSUED at St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador this 4th day of January, 2005. --------------------------------------- 14370 0001 Statement of Claim 2004 01 T IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR TRAIL DIVISION BETWEEN: WILLIAM MATTHEWS PLAINTIFF AND: BYRON PRIOR DEFENDANT NOTICE TO DEFENDANT You are hereby notified that the Plaintiff may enter judgment in accordance with the Statement of Claim or such Order as, according to the practice of the Court, the Plaintiff is entitled to, without any further notice to you unless with ten (10) days, after service hereof upon you, you cause to be filed in the Registry of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland at St. John’s a Defence and unless within the same time a copy of your Defence is served upon the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff’s solicitors at the Plaintiff’s solicitor’s address for service. Provided that if the claim is for a debt or other liquidated demand and you pay the amount claimed in the statement of Claim and sum of $ for costs to the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff’s solicitors within then (10) days from the service of this notice upon you, then this proceeding will be stayed. TO: Byron Prior Reader Hill Road Long Pond, NL A0A 3Y0 The Defendant 2005 01 T 0010 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR TRAIL DIVISION BETWEEN WILLIAM MATTHEWS PLAINTIFF and BYRON PRIOR DEFENDANT AND BETWEEN BYRON PRIOR PLAINTIFF and WILLIAM MATTHEWS T. ALEX HICKMAN THOMAS MARSHALL DANNY WILLIAMS EDWARD M. ROBERTS COUNTERCLAIM 1. The Plaintiff, Byron Prior was born and raised in Grand Bank Newfoundland. He is an out of work former employee of the offshore oil exploration industry who is now on social assistance. He has been unable to find employment in the area of his expertise because his outspokenness in the 1980’s about oil industry matters that caused Crosbie Offshore Services to be investigated for its wrongful acts. The aforesaid company was then controlled by Andrew Crosbie, brother to John Crosbie a former Minister of Justice of Canada. 2. The Defendant, Edward M. Roberts was once a member of the law firm of Patterson Palmer who acted against the Plaintiff years ago on behalf of the Defendant William Matthews. He knew the truth of the plaintiffs allegations and did nothing to up hold the law in the pursuit of his own gain. On September 8th, 2004, the Plaintiff made personal service upon Edward Roberts as the Leutenant Governor of Newfoundland Hard irrefutable evidence proving the crimes that concern his friend David Amos on the same day that Amos was having a lawyer file the same documents attached to his affidavit in defence of a friend unjustly charged with criminal behavior in a New Brunswick Provincial Court in Sussex NB. Roberts continued to stay the course of his deceit and merely passed the evidence on the Defendant, to Thomas Marshall the Attorney General of Newfoundland and Labrador who has done nothing whatsoever to uphold the law. Marshall has refused to answer or return one phone call or email in order answer or ask one question about the allegations of crime by the plaintiff and his friend Amos. 3 The Plaintiff further states the Defendant, William Matthews was born and raised in Grand Bank Newfoundland. on July 22, 1947. He attended Memorial University and in 1969 he earned a B.P.E., B.Ed. He was first elected to the Newfoundland and Labrador Legislature in 1982 as the MHA for the Grand Bank District. He was re-elected in 1985 and was appointed Minister of Culture, Recreation and Youth. In 1988, Mr. Matthews was appointed Minister of Career Development & Advanced Studies. In 1989, Mr. Matthews was re-elected to the Newfoundland and Labrador Legislature and was appointed Finance Critic. From 1990 to 1995, he served as Fisheries Critic, and in 1991 was appointed as Opposition House Leader. In 1993, Mr. Matthews was again elected to the Legislature and was re-appointed House Leader and Fisheries Critic. On June 2, 1997, he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Burin-St.George’s. the Defendant did serve as Vice-Chair of the Standing Committees on Fisheries & Oceans. On Sept 1st, 2000, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs. The defendant was re-elected November 27, 2000 as the Member of Parliament for Burin-St. George’s and re-appointed September 1, 2001 as the Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs. The Defendant was reelected on June 28th, 2005 but is now a backbencher in the Liberal caucus of the 38th Parliament of Canada still representing the constituency of Random-Burin-St. George’s having apparently fallen out of favor with Paul Martin’s minority government. 4 The Plaintiff further states he has no doubt that his actions are part of the reason for the Defendant’s loss of Stature within the Liberal Caucus and the cause of his stated embarrassment in paragraph number six (6) of his statement of claim. 5 The Plaintiff further states the Defendant, T. Alex Hickman was born and raised in Grand Bank Newfoundland. The Plaintiff whose mother was a whore with Hickman as a client has known him since childhood. The Plaintiff witnessed the fact that Hickman sexual abused his younger sibling at 12 years old on the day of his first political win in 1966. Hickman and his associate John Crosbie rose to positions of great power and wealth beginning under the corrupt leadership of Joey Smallwood before turning coat on the Liberal party and climbing even higher on the political totem pole of Public Corruption. Hickman finally retired as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and was later awarded the Order of Canada with the courthouse in Grand Bank now bearing his wicked name. 6. The Plaintiff has never made any secret of the fact that he hated and despised the Defendants Matthews and Hickman ever since he was a child chucking rocks in the street at Matthews’ big green fifties Chrysler as he sped away to sexually abuse another one of the Plaintiff’s underage siblings. Both the Plaintiff and Matthews knew that he would never be punished because of what everybody in Grand Bank new of the sexual misdeeds of Hickman. The Plaintiff is grateful for the invention of the World Wide Web in his lifetime in order that he may tell all who wish to read of it what he knows to be true in Newfoundland. Now the Plaintiff can hurl simple truths far and wide at the defendants on the Internet highway. He will not stop telling the world the truth because the defendant, William Matthews feels embarrassed and justifiably hated and despised by many others. The Plaintiff is proud of his work legally published in another country so that the crooks in his home Province of Newfoundland can no longer keep their dirty secrets to themselves. 7. Plaintiff was denied legal aid in this matter by the government lawyer, John Duggan for no stated reason that the Plaintiff can find within the Legal Aid Act. However the Plaintiff is well aware that he will never receive any assistance from law enforcement or the judicial system because of the cover up of the sexual abuse of his family when he was a child by T. Alex Hickman, the former Minister of Justice and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador. 8. The Plaintiff further states that when his friend Amos heard that the Province was unwilling to offer legal aid to him or even look at the supporting evidence from Amos they knew for certain all government employees in Newfoundland were acting against the Plaintiff under orders from the Premier Danny Williams. Amos did the best he could to help compose the Plaintiff’s answer and counterclaim within the time allowed by the rules of this court. 9. The Plaintiff further states that Amos also went one step further to make certain their suspicion of the malice of Danny Williams was true. On January 20th, 2005, Amos called Danny Williams’ office personally and asked why he had not responded to the identical letter and materials Roberts, Crosbie and the Newfoundland Law Society had received. The Plaintiff had served it upon his office on September 9th and the receipt is signed by one of his assistants. The aforesaid material also included a copy of a police surveillance tape numbered 139 recorded in the USA of the mob. This letter certainly warranted a valid answer for someone in law enforcement. However later in the day another one of Danny Williams’ assistants called Amos back and denied any knowledge of anything. That man’s words affirmed what the plaintiff and his friend already knew and that is almost everyone employed within the justice system is willing to be a liar and support Public Corruption for their own personal gain. People employed in the Public Service of law enforcement only act ethically and do their job if it’s politically correct to do so in order to keep their job. It truly is just that simple and everybody knows it. The plaintiff and his friend merely went to great lengths to prove it after the Justice Systems of two countries had practiced many crimes against each of them. 10.The true facts of this matter are stated as best the Plaintiff could in his answer to William Matthews now a defendant in this Counterclaim. For the sake of brevity for the court, the benefit of the Plaintiff and the Public Trust, the Plaintiff, Byron prays the court to review his answer filed at the same time as this counterclaim in a timely fashion as per the rules of this court. 11.The Plaintiff is now prepared to reveal all that he knows to be true about wrongful actions within the offshore oil exploration industry and to be a supporting witness to the allegations of much Public Corruption within Canada and the United States of America (USA) recently exposed by Amos. The Plaintiff truly believes that is the reason he was served the malicious claim against him by William Matthews at this time and compelled to answer it on or by January 21st, 2005 is because of the actions of Amos in the USA and his court ordered appearance in Dorchester District Court in Boston Massachusetts on the very same day. All of the above named defendants are involved in a cross border conspiracy to cover-up many crimes. 12.The Plaintiff further states that he and his friend are well aware that their knowledge and evidence of many crimes are a very serious and a legitimate threat to the false integrity of many persons employed to protect the Public Interests of the people around the world. They have no doubt whatsoever that their lives are in great danger. History has proven many decent men acting as they have died for much less. However history has also proven that if good men do nothing evil will prevail. The Plaintiff and his friend have no choice but to proceed in their efforts to expose Public Corruption because it is not in their nature to quit. They also recognize the fact that as fathers they owe to their children what their forefathers fought so hard in so many wars to secure for them, Freedom within a Just Democracy. 13.The Plaintiff further states that the sincere actions of he and his friend to make what they know of many crimes become common knowledge has the entire corrupt Justice Systems of Canada and the USA greatly concerned. If the two friends do prevail in revealing the truth to all it will be to the detriment of many malevolent Global Corporations, Bankers, Politicians, lawyers and the most importantly the Catholic Church. There has been much ado in recent times about the affiliations within such societies as Skull and Bones and the involvement of Presidents and Senators who attempt to appear to be on the opposite side of the political fence. Politicians come and go every four years or so. However it is the puppet master that pulls the strings who always remains behind the scene that is the one who is truly obscene. The Plaintiff, Byron David Prior and his friend David Raymond Amos want the world to know they truly believe their most evil foe is none other than Count Peter-Hans Kolvenbach the Superior General of the Jesuits. 14.The Plaintiff therefore claims: a. general damages to be assessedb. aggravated, exemplary and/or punitive damages; pre-judgment and post-judgment interest pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment Interest Act, R.S.N. 1990, c. J-2; d. cost on a solicitor if one is found and own client basis; e. such further relief deems to be equitable and just in the circumstances. DATED at Conception Bay South Newfoundland and Labrador this 21st day of January, 2005. Byron Prior Reader’s Crescent, Conception Bay South, NL A1W 5B4 The Plaintiff TO: William Matthews C/o Stephen J. May PATTERSON PALMER Suite 1000, Scotia Centre 235 Water Street P.O. Box 610 St. John’s, NL. A1C 5L3 Solicitors for the defendant. TO: T. Alex Hickman 62 Carpasian Road St. John’s, NL A1B 2R4 Defendant TO: Thomas Marshall Department of Justice 4th Flr., East Block, Confederation Building Box 8700 St. John's, NL A1B 4J6 Defendant TO: Danny Williams Confederation Building St. John's, NL A1B 4J6 Defendant TO: Edward M. Roberts Government House Military Road St. John's, NL A1C 5W4 Defendant ISSUED at St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador this _______ day of January, 2005 Seal of the Court. 2005 01 T 0010 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR TRIAL DIVISION BETWEEN: WILLIAM MATTHEWS PLAINTIFF AND: BYRON PRIOR DEFENDANT AND BETWEEN: BYRON PRIOR PLAINTIFF AND: WILLIAM MATTHEWS T. ALEX HICKMAN THOMAS MARSHALL DANNY WILLIAMS EDWARD M. ROBERTS DEFENDANTS Notice to Defendants Counterclaim You are hereby notified that the plaintiff may enter judgment in accordance with the counterclaim or such order as, according to the practice of the Court, the plaintiff is entitled to, without any further notice to you unless within ten (10) days after service hereof upon you, you cause to be filed in the Registry of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador a defence to the counterclaim and unless within the same time a copy of your defence to the counterclaim is served upon the plaintiff at the plaintiff's stated address for service. If the counterclaim is for a debt or other liquidated demand and you pay the amount claimed in the counterclaim and the sum of $(or such sum as may be allowed on taxation) for costs to the plaintiff within ten (10) days from the service of this notice upon you, then this proceeding will be stayed. Endorsements RECEIVED on ___________ the _______ day of _______, 19_____. This counterclaim and attached notice to defendant(s) (counterclaim) was served by me on the defendant(s) (counterclaim), at _______________, on ___________ the _______ day of _______, 19_____, at approximately _____.m. Endorsed on __________ the _______ day of _______, 19_____. (Sgd.) (address) Affidavit of Service 2005 01 T 0010 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR TRIAL DIVISION BETWEEN: BYRON PRIOR PLAINTIFF AND: WILLIAM MATTHEWS DEFENDANT I, Byron Prior of Reader’s Hill Crescent, Conception Bay South, NL A1W 5B4 Newfoundland and Labrador, make oath (or affirm) and say that I did on , the day of January, 2005 at approximately _____.m., serve ______________, with the within counterclaim by leaving a true copy of the same with _____________ personally at ______________, and that I endorsed the date of service thereon on ______________ the _______ day of _______, 19_____. SWORN (OR AFFIRMED) to at _______________ in the Province

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RCMP CORRUPTION AND THE HIGH COMMISSION STAFF


Below will give you a grand scale of the corruption. W-5 Exposes the inside workings of what the RCMP has been up to. While Canadian authorities are supposed to keep those criminal drug lords out of Canada, but one such immigrant was Lee Chau Ping, a notorious drug trafficker who is known as the Ice Queen.

In 1992, after police raided her labs and one of her safe houses, the Ice Queen got on a plane headed for Canada. It was puzzling as to how known criminals were able to get into Canada, but a little bit of digging by W-5 turned up connections between the Triad members and government officials working inside the Canadian embassy. In fact, according to a person named McAdam, the High Commission staff was on the receiving end of expensive gifts, cocktail parties, yacht trips and visits to the casinos in Macau.

But according to W-5 CBC program goes, the RCMP have been up to other things like, Corruption and cover up

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1080323626556_1/?hub=WFive

And believe this, they the RCMP sure as hell drop the ball on this one aright when high ranking officials are known to be bought off. See W-5's video on the story and were it began.

Video Passport scandal and the RCMP 1

Video Passport scandal and the RCMP 2

Video Passport scandal and the RCMP 3



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MPs criticize border security - "New World Order coming in place for Police state Thugs"
Broadcast News
Tuesday, March 22, 2005

http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=960fae93-4b1e-4c59-8c11-72258df2e2d5

OTTAWA -- Members of Parliament are highly critical of the RCMP commissioner, asking if Giuliano Zaccardelli has made the right decisions on border security. Conservative MP Peter MacKay says he's stunned and alarmed to hear that 1,600 vehicles ran the border last year. He notes the border guards' union blames a cutback on RCMP officers at the border for the increasing number of people simply not stopping for inspections. Zaccardelli defended his decisions at the Commons justice committee, saying he has re-deployed officers from detachments he has closed. He says the border is safer. MacKay says the top Mountie's assessment doesn't square with the facts. He says the RCMP is cutting its presence at the border at a time when the U.S. is increasing the number of police at the border.
© Broadcast News 2005



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Political Commentary and Option

According to one of the RCMP's websites, they claim to strive to provide enforcement of offenses pertaining to illegal immigration and misuse of Canadian passports and citizenship documents, but W-5 an CBC program dug up corruption and cover-up.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2005/04/12/993276-sun.html

MacKay wants Mounties off probe
By Bill Rodgers - SUN MEDIA
Canada's national police force can't be trusted to conduct a wide-ranging investigation into new criminal allegations made at the AdScam inquiry, Conservative Deputy Leader Peter MacKay suggested yesterday. He points to RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli's "perceived" cozy relationship with the government of Jean Chretien and the fact the force was itself tangled up in the sponsorship scandal. "There's already been significant examples of where the RCMP have been too -- and I emphasize too -- closely linked to the Prime Minister's Office," MacKay said, recommending the Quebec or Ontario provincial police conduct a probe instead. Zaccardelli, however, hinted yesterday the Mounties could broaden their investigation into AdScam.

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This is what their website say's, while not doing their jobs, and where corruption is at the highest levels.

What the RCMP are to be doing as law enforcement officials.

Combined Forces Special Enforcement Units (CFSEU)

This unit is made up of officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Toronto Police Service (TPS), York Regional Police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Peel Regional Police working in correlation with Citizen and Immigration Canada, Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA), Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), the Federal Department of Justice and the Criminal Intelligence Service Ontario (CISO).

The CFSEU investigates, prosecutes, exposes and dismantles organized criminal enterprises. Also, they share intelligence with their partners and cooperate and assist other organized crime units at the national and international levels.

CFSEU is operated out of Cornwall, the GTA and the Golden Horseshoe areas.

For more information on the unit visit their web site www.cfseu.org

Immigration and Passport Sections
The RCMP in partnership with domestic and foreign agencies and the community will strive to provide enforcement of offenses pertaining to illegal immigration and misuse of Canadian passports and citizenship documents.

The following legislation is enforced by the Immigration and Passport Sections:

Immigration Act
Citizenship Act
Passport Offenses Sec 57 Criminal Code
Various Offenses under the Criminal Code, Fraud, Forgery and Uttering
The Toronto West Detachment (Milton) has an Immigration Task Force that assists Citizenship and Immigration in the arrest of individuals and has been very successful in arresting dangerous offenders who are subject to a Deportation Order. These individuals are wanted for or have been convicted of serious crimes. The Toronto West Detachment is also home to an Alien Anti-smuggling Unit.

Undercover Operations
This area is in all avenues of enforcement, conducted towards organized crime and illegal activities

‘O’ Division Drug Enforcement Programs
The aim of the ‘O’ Division Drug Enforcement Program is to prevent the importation, production, traffic and use of illicit drugs. To achieve this objective, investigative resources will focus on high level criminal organizations and individuals involved in the importation of large scale trafficking of drugs, on proceeds of crime and drug prevention. To this end the directorate has maintained a Minimum Priority Enforcement Level (MPEL) that is applicable to all units/sections in the drug program.

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RCMP CORRUPTION AND THE HIGH COMMISSION STAFF


Below will give you a grand scale of the corruption. W-5 Exposes the inside workings of what the RCMP has been up to. While Canadian authorities are supposed to keep those criminal drug lords out of Canada, but one such immigrant was Lee Chau Ping, a notorious drug trafficker who is known as the Ice Queen.

In 1992, after police raided her labs and one of her safe houses, the Ice Queen got on a plane headed for Canada. It was puzzling as to how known criminals were able to get into Canada, but a little bit of digging by W-5 turned up connections between the Triad members and government officials working inside the Canadian embassy. In fact, according to a person named McAdam, the High Commission staff was on the receiving end of expensive gifts, cocktail parties, yacht trips and visits to the casinos in Macau.

But according to W-5 CBC program goes, the RCMP have been up to other things like, Corruption and cover up

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1080323626556_1/?hub=WFive

And believe this, they the RCMP sure as hell drop the ball on this one aright when high ranking officials are known to be bought off. See W-5's video on the story and were it began.

Video Passport scandal and the RCMP 1

Video Passport scandal and the RCMP 2

Video Passport scandal and the RCMP 3



MPs criticize border security - "New World Order coming in place for Police state Thugs"
Broadcast News
Tuesday, March 22, 2005

http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=960fae93-4b1e-4c59-8c11-72258df2e2d5

OTTAWA -- Members of Parliament are highly critical of the RCMP commissioner, asking if Giuliano Zaccardelli has made the right decisions on border security. Conservative MP Peter MacKay says he's stunned and alarmed to hear that 1,600 vehicles ran the border last year. He notes the border guards' union blames a cutback on RCMP officers at the border for the increasing number of people simply not stopping for inspections. Zaccardelli defended his decisions at the Commons justice committee, saying he has re-deployed officers from detachments he has closed. He says the border is safer. MacKay says the top Mountie's assessment doesn't square with the facts. He says the RCMP is cutting its presence at the border at a time when the U.S. is increasing the number of police at the border.
© Broadcast News 2005



Case summary of RCMP External Review Committee's decision on Corporal Robert Read
PDF- U.S. Library of Congress report on Asian organized crime and terrorist activity in Canada (.pdf)




Lineups at the Canadian High Commission in Hong Kong



Lee Chau Ping, a.k.a. the Ice Queen



Brian McAdam



Garry Clement



Happy Valley race track, where Triad members allegedly took staff from the Canadian High Commission



W-FIVE's source who explained the link between organized crime and the Canadian mission

Corruption and cover up
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1080323626556_1/?hub=WFive

language=javascript type=text/javascript> var byString = ""; var sourceString = "CTV.ca News Staff"; if ((sourceString != "") && (byString != "")) { document.write(byString + ", "); } else { document.write(byString); } </SCRIPT> CTV.ca News Staff

In the 1990s, before Hong Kong was reverted from British to Chinese control, millions of residents were looking to relocate on the chance that things went bad after the handover. Canada, with its huge expat communities in Vancouver and Toronto, quickly became a desirable destination.

Day after day, people lined up at the Canadian High Commission in Hong Kong, waiting to apply for visas. Many of those seeking landed immigrant status were people looking to come to Canada for the right reasons, but according to former Royal Hong Kong Police Chief Detective Inspector Sandy Boucher, Canada was also gaining a reputation in organized crime circles as a haven for those mixed up in shady dealings.

“We knew that many of our organized crime figures -- people with records, people without records but serious criminals – were looking to move to Canada,” says Boucher.

But while Canadian authorities are supposed to keep those kinds of people out, in Hong Kong, something appeared to be going very wrong. “Some applied (for visas) and were turned back, some applied and got in,” says Boucher. “It was no secret.”

One such immigrant was Lee Chau Ping, a notorious drug trafficker who is known as the Ice Queen. In 1992, after police raided her labs and one of her safe houses, the Ice Queen got on a plane headed for Canada. Not thinking that the Canadian government would let her stay, Boucher assumed the Ice Queen had headed oversees to wait for the heat on her gang to die down a little. So he was shocked when an RCMP officer told him she had been granted landed immigrant status.

“I said, ‘It can’t be – she’s got a criminal record. I know she’s known to Canadian authorities.’”

But apparently, Lee Chau Ping – who posed as a businesswoman ready to invest $170,000 in a Chicken Delight franchise in a tiny town in northern Saskatchewan – had slipped under the radar. And Brian McAdam, the immigration control officer at the High Commission in Hong Kong, soon learned that other criminals had too.

“I discovered that these Triad people (members of secret Chinese organized crime fraternities that have ties to members of the Hong Kong business community) were regulars at getting visas to visit their families or go on holidays as the case may be, and yet clearly on the file was intelligence information identifying who they were.”

McAdam was puzzled as to how known criminals were able to get into Canada, but a little bit of digging turned up connections between the Triad members and officials working inside the Canadian embassy. In fact, according to McAdam, High Commission staff was on the receiving end of expensive gifts, cocktail parties, yacht trips and visits to the casinos in Macau.

According to Garry Clement, who worked at the time as an RCMP officer stationed at the High Commission, the freebies even included cash for betting on the horses at Hong Kong’s Happy Valley racetrack. But he was suspicious that those perks would come with a price.

“At what point do you draw the line? And you’ve got to ask yourself who are the people that are giving, and what do you owe in return? It was a Chinese gentleman that I had met … (who) told me very early on nobody in Chinese culture does anything for nothing. And I never forgot that. And I think that’s where you have to look at – why was the Canadian mission being targeted? Why was the Canadian mission being invited out to all these events?”

McAdam and Clement set out for the answers. Immediately, they found obvious signs of corruption: complaints from a Chinese couple that someone at the embassy had offered to expedite their visa application in exchange for $10,000; fake immigration stamps and a fake visa receipt. In one incident, McAdam actually saw the criminal records of Triad members literally drop off their files after he pulled them up on the computer.

W-FIVE found a man who knows firsthand of the links between Hong Kong’s organized crime circles and the Canadian High Commission. He agreed to be interviewed, but, fearing for his life, only under the condition that his identity be protected.

The man told W-FIVE that the corruption at the High Commission was a “fairly open secret” among Hong Kong’s middle class. He said Triad members, including “famous businessmen, solicitors, legislators (and) accountants” used to invite embassy staff to the races and lavish parties.

“Some money change hands, some handshake and problem solved,” he said. “They give you a Rolex, fancy car, then when you get hooked, they ask you to do a favour.”

The source told W-FIVE he was never aware of the exact price for a Canadian visa, but he estimated the entry cost for a Triad member’s family would be in the neighbourhood of $500,000 HK. And he said the corruption was far and wide within the embassy. “Without help from insiders it won’t work. … It takes more than one person in the High Commission to get the job done, not just one single person – there must be big, big scandal behind it all.”

In 1992, the Department of Foreign Affairs sent over a computer expert from Ottawa to probe the lapses. The top-secret report prepared by that expert, David Balser, confirmed the existence of some alarming security breaches at the mission, including the fact that unauthorized staff had access to the computer system where visas could be approved with a check mark and criminal records could be scrubbed clean.

But though the report revealed some major problems, it went virtually unnoticed. In 1995, Liberal MP David Kilgour wrote a letter to then-prime minister Jean Chretien warning of the “highly irresponsible and/or illegal practices” at the High Commission and asking for a full public inquiry. It was never acknowledged.

Then, in 1996, RCMP Corporal Robert Read was assigned to review the Hong Kong file. And while he too thought there were clear problems that needed to be investigated, he says he was urged by his superiors to turn a blind eye.

“This is water under the bridge, why go over this again,” Read says he was told. After he encountered more and more roadblocks thrown up by his bosses and government bureaucrats, he says he “arrived at the opinion that the progress I was making was not that pleasing to my superiors.”

And Read wasn’t the only member of the RCMP to be shut down by the force. In 1993, Staff Sergeant Jim Puchniak requested permission to go to Hong Kong to conduct a full investigation, but he was told by the RCMP liason officer at the mission, Inspector Gary Lagamodiere, that doing so would upset the High Commissioner.

“Why would anybody who is the head of a mission fear the RCMP coming in to conduct an investigation if everything is above board?” he recalls wondering. “My instinct then, and still is, if there was nothing to hide, you would welcome a police investigation, so obviously there was something going on.”

But unlike Puchniak, Read wasn’t willing to accept the roadblocks he encountered. In 1999, he made an unthinkable move for a police officer, breaking his oath of secrecy and going public about the scandal. The RCMP reacted quickly, firing the 24-year veteran after finding him guilty of professional misconduct.

But Read appealed his dismissal, and in 2003, the RCMP’s External Review Committee issued a scathing indictment over the handling of the Hong Kong affair. In its decision the committee wrote the “the RCMP was walking on eggshells whenever it conducted an investigation into activities at a Canadian mission abroad and basically restricted to what the Department of Foreign Affairs was willing to allow it to investigate.

“What is at issue was a deliberate choice made by the RCMP not to pursue an investigation into possible wrongdoing even though the numerous examples had been drawn to its attention of incidents that suggested an immigration fraud ring was operating within the very premises of the mission and possibly involved employees of the Government of Canada.”

Scott Newark, the former head of the Canadian Police Association, said the decision makes clear the proper relationship between police and government agencies.

“For me, the larger issue here, the thing that is most problematic is not even all of the clear wrong-doing going on in Hong Kong and the after-effects of that. It’s the fact that the institution and the people involved who we give guns and badges to and swear public oaths and that have the obligation to investigate and enforce the law decided that their duty was not to do that.”

While the report clearly vindicated Read, the RCMP has refused to reinstate him – a decision he is fighting in Federal Court. But because he never got the investigation he wanted into the Canadian High Commission in Hong Kong, questions about the depth of the corruption and political interference there will probably never be answered. Both John Higgenbotham, the Canadian High Commissioner in Hong Kong from 1989 to 1994, and RCMP Superintendent Giuliano Zaccardelli – people who may be able to lend some perspective to the unanswered questions -- refused to be interviewed by W-FIVE.

But regardless of who was responsible, for retired RCMP superintendent Garry Clement, it all comes down to one thing.

“Did we drop the ball? I have to take as much credit – I was a senior officer in the RCMP. … I don’t think we should try to defend it. The bottom line is, we dropped the ball in this investigation.”

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In the 1990s, before Hong Kong was reverted from British to Chinese control, millions of residents were looking to relocate on the chance that things went bad after the handover. Canada, with its huge expat communities in Vancouver and Toronto, quickly became a desirable destination.

Day after day, people lined up at the Canadian High Commission in Hong Kong, waiting to apply for visas. Many of those seeking landed immigrant status were people looking to come to Canada for the right reasons, but according to former Royal Hong Kong Police Chief Detective Inspector Sandy Boucher, Canada was also gaining a reputation in organized crime circles as a haven for those mixed up in shady dealings.

“We knew that many of our organized crime figures -- people with records, people without records but serious criminals – were looking to move to Canada,” says Boucher.

But while Canadian authorities are supposed to keep those kinds of people out, in Hong Kong, something appeared to be going very wrong. “Some applied (for visas) and were turned back, some applied and got in,” says Boucher. “It was no secret.”

One such immigrant was Lee Chau Ping, a notorious drug trafficker who is known as the Ice Queen. In 1992, after police raided her labs and one of her safe houses, the Ice Queen got on a plane headed for Canada. Not thinking that the Canadian government would let her stay, Boucher assumed the Ice Queen had headed oversees to wait for the heat on her gang to die down a little. So he was shocked when an RCMP officer told him she had been granted landed immigrant status.

“I said, ‘It can’t be – she’s got a criminal record. I know she’s known to Canadian authorities.’”

But apparently, Lee Chau Ping – who posed as a businesswoman ready to invest $170,000 in a Chicken Delight franchise in a tiny town in northern Saskatchewan – had slipped under the radar. And Brian McAdam, the immigration control officer at the High Commission in Hong Kong, soon learned that other criminals had too.

“I discovered that these Triad people (members of secret Chinese organized crime fraternities that have ties to members of the Hong Kong business community) were regulars at getting visas to visit their families or go on holidays as the case may be, and yet clearly on the file was intelligence information identifying who they were.”

McAdam was puzzled as to how known criminals were able to get into Canada, but a little bit of digging turned up connections between the Triad members and officials working inside the Canadian embassy. In fact, according to McAdam, High Commission staff was on the receiving end of expensive gifts, cocktail parties, yacht trips and visits to the casinos in Macau.

According to Garry Clement, who worked at the time as an RCMP officer stationed at the High Commission, the freebies even included cash for betting on the horses at Hong Kong’s Happy Valley racetrack. But he was suspicious that those perks would come with a price.

“At what point do you draw the line? And you’ve got to ask yourself who are the people that are giving, and what do you owe in return? It was a Chinese gentleman that I had met … (who) told me very early on nobody in Chinese culture does anything for nothing. And I never forgot that. And I think that’s where you have to look at – why was the Canadian mission being targeted? Why was the Canadian mission being invited out to all these events?”

McAdam and Clement set out for the answers. Immediately, they found obvious signs of corruption: complaints from a Chinese couple that someone at the embassy had offered to expedite their visa application in exchange for $10,000; fake immigration stamps and a fake visa receipt. In one incident, McAdam actually saw the criminal records of Triad members literally drop off their files after he pulled them up on the computer.

W-FIVE found a man who knows firsthand of the links between Hong Kong’s organized crime circles and the Canadian High Commission. He agreed to be interviewed, but, fearing for his life, only under the condition that his identity be protected.

The man told W-FIVE that the corruption at the High Commission was a “fairly open secret” among Hong Kong’s middle class. He said Triad members, including “famous businessmen, solicitors, legislators (and) accountants” used to invite embassy staff to the races and lavish parties.

“Some money change hands, some handshake and problem solved,” he said. “They give you a Rolex, fancy car, then when you get hooked, they ask you to do a favour.”

The source told W-FIVE he was never aware of the exact price for a Canadian visa, but he estimated the entry cost for a Triad member’s family would be in the neighbourhood of $500,000 HK. And he said the corruption was far and wide within the embassy. “Without help from insiders it won’t work. … It takes more than one person in the High Commission to get the job done, not just one single person – there must be big, big scandal behind it all.”

In 1992, the Department of Foreign Affairs sent over a computer expert from Ottawa to probe the lapses. The top-secret report prepared by that expert, David Balser, confirmed the existence of some alarming security breaches at the mission, including the fact that unauthorized staff had access to the computer system where visas could be approved with a check mark and criminal records could be scrubbed clean.

But though the report revealed some major problems, it went virtually unnoticed. In 1995, Liberal MP David Kilgour wrote a letter to then-prime minister Jean Chretien warning of the “highly irresponsible and/or illegal practices” at the High Commission and asking for a full public inquiry. It was never acknowledged.

Then, in 1996, RCMP Corporal Robert Read was assigned to review the Hong Kong file. And while he too thought there were clear problems that needed to be investigated, he says he was urged by his superiors to turn a blind eye.

“This is water under the bridge, why go over this again,” Read says he was told. After he encountered more and more roadblocks thrown up by his bosses and government bureaucrats, he says he “arrived at the opinion that the progress I was making was not that pleasing to my superiors.”

And Read wasn’t the only member of the RCMP to be shut down by the force. In 1993, Staff Sergeant Jim Puchniak requested permission to go to Hong Kong to conduct a full investigation, but he was told by the RCMP liason officer at the mission, Inspector Gary Lagamodiere, that doing so would upset the High Commissioner.

“Why would anybody who is the head of a mission fear the RCMP coming in to conduct an investigation if everything is above board?” he recalls wondering. “My instinct then, and still is, if there was nothing to hide, you would welcome a police investigation, so obviously there was something going on.”

But unlike Puchniak, Read wasn’t willing to accept the roadblocks he encountered. In 1999, he made an unthinkable move for a police officer, breaking his oath of secrecy and going public about the scandal. The RCMP reacted quickly, firing the 24-year veteran after finding him guilty of professional misconduct.

But Read appealed his dismissal, and in 2003, the RCMP’s External Review Committee issued a scathing indictment over the handling of the Hong Kong affair. In its decision the committee wrote the “the RCMP was walking on eggshells whenever it conducted an investigation into activities at a Canadian mission abroad and basically restricted to what the Department of Foreign Affairs was willing to allow it to investigate.

“What is at issue was a deliberate choice made by the RCMP not to pursue an investigation into possible wrongdoing even though the numerous examples had been drawn to its attention of incidents that suggested an immigration fraud ring was operating within the very premises of the mission and possibly involved employees of the Government of Canada.”

Scott Newark, the former head of the Canadian Police Association, said the decision makes clear the proper relationship between police and government agencies.

“For me, the larger issue here, the thing that is most problematic is not even all of the clear wrong-doing going on in Hong Kong and the after-effects of that. It’s the fact that the institution and the people involved who we give guns and badges to and swear public oaths and that have the obligation to investigate and enforce the law decided that their duty was not to do that.”

While the report clearly vindicated Read, the RCMP has refused to reinstate him – a decision he is fighting in Federal Court. But because he never got the investigation he wanted into the Canadian High Commission in Hong Kong, questions about the depth of the corruption and political interference there will probably never be answered. Both John Higgenbotham, the Canadian High Commissioner in Hong Kong from 1989 to 1994, and RCMP Superintendent Giuliano Zaccardelli – people who may be able to lend some perspective to the unanswered questions -- refused to be interviewed by W-FIVE.

But regardless of who was responsible, for retired RCMP superintendent Garry Clement, it all comes down to one thing.

“Did we drop the ball? I have to take as much credit – I was a senior officer in the RCMP. … I don’t think we should try to defend it. The bottom line is, we dropped the ball in this investigation.”

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In 1903, however, there was a great awakening of interest in American Masonry in China. The acquisition of the Philippine Islands, the declaration of the famous "open door policy" by John Hay, and the general renewal of interest in the Orient on the part of Europe and America caused a rapid increase of American population in China and a desire for American Freemasonry. English Freemasonry was solidly established in China, but the English lodges did not offer precisely what the Americans desired. Naturally, there was a tendency to turn to Massachusetts, as the American Grand Lodge with missionary experience and with an existing establishment in China.