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Innate Capable's avatar

Thanks for being there for those of us that couldn't, but have a deep interest in the outcome. I am especially excited to see the Emergency Management Act brought up. That would have been the best solution to a "pandemic" as it was intended. The choice to ignore it, in itself, should be enough to bring down the culprits.

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Luc Lelievre's avatar

Yes. Based on Schwab's two to three books, the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is designed to cause significant harm to the economies of Western countries. Even vaccines, in this context, are meant to inflict major damage: "It’s based on these specificities that Rath argued that the Province acted in ‘Bad Faith’ as the basis for their case, in that, the province made decisions that they didn’t have the authority to make and absolutely had to have known would harm businesses and made them through the PHA which restricted these businesses from being compensated."

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Independent Contrarian's avatar

Thanks for the summary Sheldon. I appreciate that you took the time to sit through the court sessions and take copious amounts of notes. You’ve done a great job for the rest of us.

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WillB's avatar

Thanks for the score keeping on this one Sheldon. As always.

You might not think so.

But you are a legend in the makes my man.

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Sheldon Yakiwchuk's avatar

Thanks, Will.

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Art's avatar
Oct 4Edited

Sheldon is correct, the Judge was incredulous at some of the arguments made by Alberta. First Alberta argued that the 'Ultra Vires" orders were legal at the time of enforcement by AHS. The judge actually schooled Alberta that because the mandates/orders were made without legal authorization, (ie by cabinet under the Public Health act) and cabinet wrote the Public Health Act, they had a duty of care to know the orders were improperly crafted and thus not in effect 'ab initio' (from the start). On the second day Alberta tried to make the case that Alberta was not responsible, it was AHS and AHS was the proper respondant. The judge again schooled them, that he Judge Fisby had ruled that AHS was interchangeable with Alberta. The judge again tried to help their case, saying they could submit cases after the fact to show Alberta was not the correct respondant, pointing out that cabinet made the decisions. At the very end in rebuttal Rath and Eva Chipiuk pull out an appeal ruling on Greengen vs the Province of BC. Further, as noted by the Court of Appeal, “The key issue on appeal was whether a claim for misfeasance in public office could be made directly against public authorities without adding the individuals as named defendants. The Court of Appeal held that it was not necessary to add individual officials as defendants, the requirement to name individuals only applies when a remedy is sought against them personally" The BC Court of Appeal ruled 5-0 that Greengen could sue the government without naming individuals. GAME SET MATCH. The Judge told Alberta that he didn't need their additional filings and that he would have a decision in 1-2 months and to bug his assistant if the decision was not released by end of November. This is an unbelieveably short time for a decision on a case of this magnitude, and Rath and Chipiuk are cautiously optimistic over the Class action suit progressing.

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TRM's avatar

I do hope that Kenney, his cabinet and that skank Hinshaw all got their shots and boosters.

That would be poetic justice and the punishment would fit the crime.

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Danalee G's avatar

Thank you for your hard work.

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Andria Wilson's avatar

Thank you Sheldon for keeping us in the know. 🙏

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Stewart's avatar

What can I say but THANK YOU for this summary. I could hear the guffaws, it must have been priceless.

Now we'll see if we have a compromised judge.

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Kevin Simpson's avatar

I'm repeating everyone else's thanks but Thank You Sheldon. I hope I can join you over a beer again before the year is out! K

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Sondra L.'s avatar

Thank you for this summary and update! 👍🏻

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