Pursuit of Justice by the Armed Forces Pensioners'/Annuitants' Association Inc. of Canada (AFP/AAC) on behalf of the Canadian Forces Retirees.
The following is report on legal expenses in pursuit of Justice.
LITIGATION COSTS to:- 31 Mar 2001
Legal costs incurred since the Armed Forces Pensioners'/Annuitants' Association Inc. of Canada (AFP/AAC) undertook challenging the government on its unwillingness to provide justice for the Canadian Forces Superannuates (CFS).
1. Contesting the issue of there being no provision for a survivors' benefit for those Canadian Forces Retirees who married after age 60. This lack of benefit is in contravention of the Canada Pension Benefits Standards Act;
$5,113.91 to Nelligan Power towards costs incurred by the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPS) which was originally the prime litigant and $33,649.65 in direct payments to Caroline Engelmann Gottheil and $989.75 to LA McBride for a total of $39,753.31.
2. Contesting the initial grab of superannuation funds and the creative booking with respect to interest paid on funds in the Canadian Forces Superannuation Account:
$24,203.22 in costs regarding irregularities by the government regarding the withdrawal of funds from the Canadian Forces Superannuation Account and low interest payments. It is to be noted that this litigation was commenced in June 1997, and that the AFP/AAC was the only retiree group to participate in commencing this legal action. The SSEA, the RCMP Association/de la GRC and the Aircraft Operations Group Association (AOGA) were also involved in this litigation. The SSEA was the prime Plaintiff. As a result of this litigation, the government obviously decided that its actions were illegal and proceeded to legalize its action through Bill C-78/1999. This Bill thus precluded any further action with this initial litigation. Reiterating, when Bill C-78/1999 was introduced, and during the limited debate in the House of Commons, the President of the Treasury Board, Marcel Massé repeatedly stated that the Bill was supported by the "largest public service retiree association in Canada". Access to Information has now revealed that the name of that association was the Federal Superannuates National Association (FSNA).
3. Contesting the legality of Bill C-78/1999. The federal government has failed to prevent the Trial to be held in an Ontario Provincial Court. The federal government is stonewalling on this issue by claiming that the Provincial Court system is inappropriate whereas a Provincial Court judge has ruled otherwise and ordered the Federal government to pay court costs on this side tracking exercise. The battle continues over this issue as the Federal government continues to appeal Provincial judges decisions! Therefore no trial date has been set on the main war, that is, to return our savings. So far the government's stubbornness has cost:
$37,547.91 to Caroline Englemann Gottheil in the pursuit of justice to have the confiscated retirement surpluses returned to its rightful owners, the contributors (in the case of the CFS Account the total sum is $16.6 billion). We undertook a separate action to that of the two union consortiums as it was felt that, as the military was not unionized, it would be best to seek justice on behalf of those who Served/Serve Canada Honourably, in uniform. Three RCMP Associations are also participating with us in this litigation. They are: L'Association des Membres de la Police Montée du Quebec (L'AMPMQ), the B.C. Mounted Police Professional Association and the Mounted Police Association of Ontario. The L'AMPMQ has contributed $10,000.00 to the AFP/AAC as its share of litigation costs.
4. Total payments by the AFP/AAC consortium for all legal actions since June 1997 to 28 Mar 2001: $101,504.44.
This sum has been audited. The number sent by E-mail previously had an addition error.
Hopefully we will not have to wait until the next millennium for justice.
SERVIVIMUS PATRIÆ NOSTRÆ
ADDENDUM due to recruiting drive of the FSNA
Who supported the government when it wanted to de-index your superannuation? Why the FSNA! This was Bill C-33/1986. A fact.Who supported the government when it decided to legalize the theft of your superannuation "surplus"? Why the FSNA! This was Bill C-78/1999. A fact.
Who tried to restore full UIC entitlement when CF Retirees were denied this pre-paid benefit? Certainly NOT the FSNA! A fact.
Who continues to fight for a 60% survivors' benefit. Why the AFP/AAC.
Who continues to fight and continues funding legal action for a survivors' benefit for those who marry after age 60 in order to bring the CFSA up to the regulations contained in the Canada Pension Benefits Standards Act 1985. Why the AFP/AAC. This discrimination is NOT applied to the Canada Pension Plan Act (CPP).
There is NO similarity in aims between the two associations. Only the AFP/AAC has fought for and continues to fight for the rights of the CF Retirees!
Note
: The Royal Canadian Legion, with its considerable power, is working in parallel with us to remove the discrimination regarding marriage after 60, and to obtain more effective representation on the Canadian Forces Pension Advisory Committee. The Legion's actions are based on resolutions adopted at its Dominion Convention June 2000.]
Addendum
Subject: Costs Order
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:20:06 -0500
From: Fiona Campbell
AFP/AAC Legal Counsel
You will be happy to hear that the government has now paid up on the two costs awards - a total of $5,500.00. The cheque was payable to our firm in trust, so we will apply it first to any outstanding accounts and any remaining amount will be kept in our trust account. We are also working with the PSAC and PIPSC lawyers to try and get the cases assigned to a case management judge. We will let you know if there are any developments.
Fiona Campbell
REGISTERED MAIL
Oakridge PO Box-28029
LONDON, ON. N6H 5E1
12 Feb 2001
re: HRDC-01/01
The Hon. Jane Stewart PC MP,
Minister of Human Resources and Development,
House of Commons,
OTTAWA, ON. K1A OA6
Dear Ms. Stewart;
Starting in 1968 all members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) were compelled to pay into the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Account.
Effective 5 January 1986 the entitlement to the Unemployment Insurance Benefits, fully paid for by those who Serve(d) their country Honourably in a military uniform, were denied any right to those benefits by an Order-in-Council rushed through Parliament on the closing day in 1985, just before the Christmas break.
After a suicide by retired and unemployed member of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), who could NOT provide for his family on his meagre Canadian Forces Superannuation; a Protest March on Parliament Hill by hundreds of CAF retirees and their supporters; thousands of protest letters to Members of Parliament (MPs) and the very strong support of Liberal, NDP and a couple Conservative MPs, the government introduced Bill C-50/1986 which partially reinstated the UI Benefits to CAF Retirees upon the loss of second career employment.
Upon the passage of this discriminatory Bill, at least those who were unfortunate to lose their second career job were entitled their right to the insurance for which they paid, at the second career rate.
Liberal MPs at the time; including: Sheila Copps, Warren Allmand, Paul Martin, Joe Fontana, Marlene Catterall, J-R Gauthier and others now deceased, vowed to remedy the penurious discrimination against those who retired, were released or discharged from the CAF. The penurious Order-in-Council was to be rescinded and newly released CAF personnel and unemployed were to again receive the insurance benefits for which they paid - just like any ordinary Canadian citizen.
Needless to say, upon achieving power, the CAF Retirees never once heard from their erstwhile Liberal friends, and of course, the promise, like so many political promises, has NOT been kept.
The 1986 Report of the Forget Commission recommended restitution of full entitlement to the pre-paid UI Benefit.
The recommendation was never implemented!
During the final debate on Bill C-50/1986 on 9 June 1987 on page 6917 of House of Commons Debates you will note that the government has continually benefited from the compulsory CAF contributions to the Account, now called the Employment Insurance (EI) Account. Those surpluses amount to several ten of millions of dollars annually and do not include the non existent contributions of the employer. The employer, the government, has never contributed its share to match the CAF members contributions to the account, even though by law it was and is supposed to.
You are currently preparing amendments to the EI Act to accommodate extra benefits for new parents and extending benefits to seasonal workers. (It is to be noted that newly released criminal are entitled to EI benefits). Now would be an excellent opportunity to correct a blatant discrimination (and keep a promise) to those who Serve(d) our Country Honourable in a military uniform, and restore the pre-paid unemployment benefit for which they pay and have paid since 1968.
I am certain that the aforementioned MPs, some now cabinet ministers, will gladly assist you in the passage of such an amendment. All Opposition members assuredly would jump at the opportunity to correct the injustice to Canada's civilians in a military uniform!
SERVIVIMUS PATRIAE NOSTRAE
E.W. Halayko
E.W. Halayko, P Eng, CD,
National Chairman
(519) 471-9232
e-Mail:
Web Site: http://www.afp-aac.org
cc:
Leader of the Official Opposition
Art Hanger MP Defence Critic CA
Roy Bailey MP Veterans Affairs Critic CA
Val Meredith MP HRD Critic CA
John Williams MP Treasury Board Critic CA
The Rt Hon Joe Clark PC MP Leader PC Party
Mrs Elsie Wayne MP PC Party
Art Eggleton PC MP Minister National Defence
Lawrence MacAulay PC MP Solicitor General
The Rt Hon Jean Chrétien PC MP, Prime Minister
Now to show just how urgent our issues are. The following pompous response was received from a low level clerk and NOT her esteemed ladyship. You know the one who didn't to know where a couple billion dollars disappeared.
Subject: Amendment to Employment Insurance Act
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 9:26:48 -0500
From: <min.hrdc-drhc@hrdc-drhc.gc.ca>
To: <>
Dear Mr. Halayko:
On behalf of the Honourable Jane Stewart, Minister of Human Resources Development, I wish to acknowledge receipt of your Internet message.
Please be assured that your request will be given proper consideration.
Thank you for taking the time to write.
Yours sincerely,
José Legault
Correspondence Liaison Officer
NO reply was ever received to the Registered letter mailed to Stewart! She probably is too busy arranging for more political handouts to Liberal friends. Maybe even some in Shawinigan!
You will note the urgency and priority.
Some interest was shown by the office of the Defence Minister.
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps Association
100th Anniversary Reunion
On 4,5,6 May 2001 The RCASC Association will celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Corps at a reunion weekend at CFB BORDEN, Ontario. All former members of the Corps are encouraged to attend.
Details of planned activities and Registration Forms are available on the web site:
by contacting:
Don Basinger,
2 Kelley Place,
BARRIE, ON. L4N 8N2.
Tel 1 (705) 734-0981.
E-mail: mailto:basinger@bigfoot.com
Cornwallis Historical Association
Cornwallis museum
The Cornwallis Historical Association is Fund raising to maintain a Museum at the former CFB Cornwallis. The Association secured title to the former St George's Chapel in May 1997.
The Association is seeking funds and artifacts for this worthwhile project. All donations will be acknowledged. Mail all donations, large or small, to:
The Cornwallis Historical Association,
PO Box-31,
CLEMENTSPORT, NS. B0S 1E0
Tel: (902) 532-7996
National Defence Booklet
The Department of National Defence has published a booklet Your Pension Plan and Release Benefits (AFN 109 001 ID001). This booklet describes the various benefits available upon retirement.
Although it is aimed at current retirees it is also valuable to those who have been retired for some time. It can help answer some of the questions that come to this office.
The only error is that CF Retirees do NOT receive a PENSION but a SUPERANNUATION! There is a vast difference. A pension is basically a FREE BEE, whereas a SUPERANNUATION is a return on investment i.e.: your monthly contributions. MPs get a PENSION. To satisfy an Income Tax regulation they call their dipping in the public trough a "RETIREMENT ALLOWANCE"!!!!
Publication of this booklet was very limited and is NOT available to current CF Retirees. It has been posted on a web site.
The English version is at: Web Site: http://www.dnd.ca/admfincs/dappp/pension/intro_e.asp
The French version is at: Web Site: http://www.dnd.ca/admfincs/dappp/pension/intro_f.asp
The booklet is extensive so have plenty of paper in your printer. Depending on print size, it can take up to 52 pages!
Don't Forget Flanders Field
Flanders Field where our brave men and women lay;
where they died for the freedom, we enjoy today.
Our men and women, we shall never forget;
on Remembrance Day, shake the hand of a Vet.
As years go by, and out parades diminish;
what someone else started our Veterans finished.
Let's teach our children, and their children too,
what war was all about;
and when they see the last parade,
there will be no doubt.
Teach them to pray, there be no more war;
and to remember, those who went on before.
submitted by Vernon Amero CD
It would be funny, if not true
Subject: Always read the directions
In case you needed further proof that the human race is doomed through stupidity, here are some actual label instructions on consumer goods:
1. On Sears hair dryer: "Do not use while sleeping".
[Gee, that's the only time I have to work on my hair]
2. On a bag of Fritos: "You could be winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside".
[Evidently, the shoplifter special]
3. On a bar of Dial soap: "Directions: Use like regular soap."
[And that would be how...?]
4. On some Swanson frozen dinners: "Serving suggestions": "Defrost."
[But it's *just* a suggestion]
5. On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert (printed on bottom of box): "Do not turn upside down".
[Oops, too late!]
6. On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding: "Product will be hot after heating'".
[As sure as night follows the day . . . .]
7. On packaging for a Rowenta iron: "Do not iron clothes on body".
[But wouldn't this save even more time?]
8. On Boot's Children's Cough Medicine: "Do not drive a car or operate machinery after taking this medication".
[We could do a lot to reduce the rate of construction accidents if we could just get those 5-year-olds with head-colds off those forklifts.]
9. On Nytol Sleep Aid: "Warning: May cause drowsiness".
[One would hope!]
10. On most brands of Christmas lights: "For indoor or outdoor use only".
[As opposed to what?]
11. On a Japanese food processor: "Not to be used for the other use".
[I gotta admit, I'm curious, what could it be?].
12. On Sainsbury's peanuts: "Warning: Contains nuts"!
[NEWS FLASH!!]
13. On an American Airlines packet of nuts: "Instructions: open packet, eat nuts."
[Step 3: Fly Delta](of course you know I don't condone the flying of Delta - at least what you get on the AA nuts qualifies more as customer service than at Delta.)
14. On a child's Superman costume: "Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly".
[I don't blame the company. I do blame parents for this one!]
15. On a Swedish chain saw: "Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands or genitals".
[Was there a chance of this happening somewhere?.....Good grief!!]
Contributed by a bystander.
Annual Report
Canadian Forces
Superannuation Act
The Defence Minister's Annual Report for 1999/2000 on the financial status of our Canadian Forces Superannuation Account has been received. Extracts are as follows:
Contributors:- 58,769
Recipients, CFSA:- 101,123
DSPCA:- 870
Total Revenues:- $1,040,020,000.00
Expenditures:- $1.791 Billion of which
$1.731 Billion was for Superannuations and indexation.
(Misappropriations for Bill C-78/99:- Unknown?)
Balance as of 31 March 2000:-$48,410,185,000.00
Surplus for FY 98/99:-$3,087,827,000.00
Interest paid was 2.24 percent per quarter, down from 2.3 percent in 1998.
The Report shows that only $328 Million in interest was credited to our account.
Supplementary Death Benefit Account
Revenues FY1999/2000
Contributions by Participants:- $11,149,000.00
By employer (government):- $2,287,000.00
Interest:- $16,453,000.00
Expenditures:-$27,004,000.00
Surplus Revenues over Expenditures: $3,515,000.00.
Balance 97/98:- $178 Million
Balance 98/99:- $181,679,000.00
Surplus 2000:- $3,515,000.00
"The over $60,000.00 per year Pension Account"
(Retirement Compensation
Arrangements Account)
For FY 99/00
Contributions:- $1.208 Million
Contributors:- Unknown.
Government contribution:- $16.1 Million!
Expenditures to 299 recipients:- $4.449 Million.
Marriage after age 60
The Report requested by Attorney General Anne McLellan on changes to the mandate for the Human Rights Commissioner has been gathering dust in the offices of the Attorney General since it was submitted last summer.
The Report recommended changes to the Commissioner's mandate that would give the Commissioner the power and authority to examine the Canadian Forces Superannuation Act, and for once and for all provide for a survivor's benefit to the survivors of any marriage to a Canadian Forces retiree regardless when he or she decided to get married. Age discrimination would be eliminated.
The matter is so urgent that our information is that the Canadian Human Rights Act Review Panel will be briefing the Attorney General Anne McLellan's sometime in the next four to five months!!!! A year after the Report was submitted! The matter must be urgent!!
How to light a fire under McLellan is the problem. With its huge majority, the Liberals need not do anything for, or make any promises to, the military or the retirees, at least until the next election four or five years down the line.
The suggestion is that a few thousand letters to McLellan, the Opposition Justice Critic, Vic Toews, and the media just might encourage hastening some action on the Report. No point appealing to the Defence Minister, he has shown himself to be completely off in orbit somewhere with Darth Vader. The Minister for the Status of Women, Hedy Fry has also proved to be a useless dead loss, merely warming a seat in the House. You might however, consider sending a copy of any letters to the above to your own local MP.
(The excuse that there is NO money for this improvement in our "retirement allowance" would be more than paid for by the small change continued within the surplus of $3.8 Billion for FY 1999/2000 and each and every year).
Eligible CF Retirees are getting older and of course, if the Liberal government procrastinates long enough, those being discriminated against will all be dead! One caution, do not expect too much help from the Opposition. Somehow it seems to have dropped the ball.
Effectively, we are on our own and must act as though we CF Retirees and our survivors have no friends on Parliament Hill. We are prevented from progressing through the courts with that Report not having been dealt with. How convenient for a government when it does not want to provide justice. Stall by calling for a Report and the sit on it, maybe the problem might go away.
One friend who will help is Conservative MP, Mrs Elsie Wayne. She may be but a lone voice in the wilderness but she has heart and is supportive and hers is a loud voice; particularly when Liberal MPs and TB bureaucrats consider women who marry a CF Retiree after he reaches the age of 60, a "gold digger" and imply that those women are "paramours" engaged in "death bed marriages"!
It is however, absolutely proper or mandatory for candidates to the office of Governor General to live in sin until appointed to that high office. Age or morals are not obstacles in that case. Just don't get married to a 60 year old CF Retiree!
Addresses for McLellan, Teows and Mrs Wayne are:
The Hon Anne McLellan, PC MP
Attorney General and Justice Minister,
House Of Commons,
OTTAWA, ON. K1A
e-mail: mailto:mclela@parl.gc.ca
Mr Vic Teows MP
Opposition Justice Critic,
House of Commons,
OTTAWA, ON. K1A 0A6
e-mail: mailto:teowsv@parl.parl.gc.ca
Mrs Elsie Wayne MPOTTAWA, ON. K1A 0A6
Let me know if you have any further questions.
On 9 March 2001, with great fanfare, it was announced that females will be serving as crew members aboard the new submarines! Obviously the lesson that the Royal Navy learned is NOT good enough for the "politically correct", "senior management" in the Department of National Defence. Not one peep of criticism from the CDS who served with such distinction in the Battles of Brooklyn and Manhattan, to earn the Canadian UN medal.
On the other hand, it is quite acceptable, to those who pursued this latest round of "correctness", as dictated by the Human Rights Commissioner, to consider Canadian women who marry a CF Retiree after the CF Retiree reaches the age of 60, a "gold digger engaged in a "death bed marriage"!
E-mail addresses
Do we have your correct e-mail address? Every e-mailout we receive information of wrong addresses. The worst being @home.com
Membership
Application - Renewal
(Still only $15.00 per year)
Rank or Title & Init:_______________________
(Mrs Ms Mr or Capt etc)
Name:__________________________________
Decorations:_____________________________
Address:________________________________
Apt No:__________
City:__________________________________
Prov:____________.Post Code:______________
Telephone :(____)________________________
E-Mail:_________________________________
Please make cheques out to: AFP/AAC
Mail Application/Renewal forms, with fees, to:
AFP/AAC
PO Box-28029,
LONDON, ON. N6H 5E1
A Renewal Form is NOT necessary. If your Membership number or Postal Code is legible your data can be easily accessed and updated. Therefore it is NOT necessary to damage your NEWSLETTER.
Please note the membership expiry date on the envelope.
We DO NOT mail out notices!!
Tel:- 1 (519) 471-9232
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Please make your e-mail address legible! Also if changes have been made please advise. We lose thirty to forty addressees every mail out. Mostly to @home.com addresses.
War Museum
Just when we all thought that the War Museum issue had finally been decided and the location to be out at Rockliffe, with the other military museums, it appears that the PM has decided to change the location. It was reported in the Ottawa Citizen that Mr Chrétien is after a monument to himself so has decided that the museum is to be built at LeBreton Flats!
This, in spite of resistance to his scheme by all participants in the War Museum project.
The new museum at Rockliffe was to cost $65 million with some of the money to come from donations. The museum at LeBreton Flats is to cost $85 million and totally funded by the government!!!
A question arises; who is getting that extra $20 million? A friend of someone in high places?
Strangely, the Heritage Minister, Sheila Copps, is noticeably silent on this issue?
The following is an item by one of our members who is not too pleased with that proposal:
Subject: Jean Chrétien's ego.
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001
From: Reginald R. Dixon
mailto:reginaldr.dixon@sympatico.ca
The Ottawa Citizen of March 8th reported that Jean Chrétien, the Liberal Prime Minister, has grand designs for Ottawa-Hull as he wants to leave a monument to himself, as historic figures have done in the past. Obviously, if the report is true, it is to make the LeBreton Flats via the NCC scheme a fitting monument for his ego and arrogance, all paid for by we hard pressed taxpayer suckers across the land.
Now, with Chrétien's end in sight, after years of his deliberate neglect, a War Museum, with its true primary role to tell the history of the Canadian volunteer efforts and sacrifice in defending Canada against dictator aggressors, and after much effort by some to try to raise money from private donors to build a new place for that purpose, comes the announcement that such a museum is to form a small part of a vast scheme to reshape Ottawa to Chrétien's glory. It would not be a monument to those who volunteered in war and sacrificed and died for Canada. This reminds those Canadians who have read or been taught any history, of such people as Napoleon, Hitler, the Caesars, or the Persian ruler Darius, who built the Persepolis, 500 BC, and of the Soviet Stalin, of their plans for monuments to their own self-glorification.
I met a traveller from an antique land who said:
two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert sand.
Below was written,
My name is Jean Chrétien, King of Kings:
Look on my works ye mighty and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Beside the decay of that colossal wreck: boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
(With a salute to poet PS Shelley.)
Now the museums mentioned in the article are to become a legacy to the man whom newspaper reports said he wished General Montcalm had won the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, and thus Canada now would be Quebec from coast to coast. What happened to the man whom taxpayers pay to be his "ethics adviser" and reports only to Chrétien and not those who pay him? Does the advisor think all this self-worship scheme ethical? One can be sure also that the new "War" museum theme will incorporate the idealistic political aims of enforcing the "global concepts" of what this Government thinks the world should be like, even before they clean up their own backyard. Our men who have been ordered to go all over this globe to achieve a political aim, and not to defend Canada from an aggressor and to kill him, will be patted on the head as heros. One could also see a special place for Pierre E. Trudeau in it, for he was proclaimed a Canadian "Hero" for his scurrilous war effort, and given an artillery salute when death caught up with him.
In all this planning, the National Capital corporation, another Federal Government Corporation creation takes its orders from the Prime Minister, for he appoints its boss, and decides what the boss is to be paid, and what its objectives are to be. An organization that conducts its affairs behind locked doors, and can draw on the apparently unlimited cash from the taxpayers across the whole of Canada. One has to ask how, and why, if it ever happened, the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec ever ceded or transferred any land at all to that Corporation, and what were the terms of such a surrender of Provincial land and authority? A Federal Corporation that has now extended its power to cover a huge tract of land in this Province and in Quebec. The reader should study just what power over the City of Ottawa and the Provinces that Corporation, a Prime Minister's tool, now enjoys. The N.C.C. it appears is not beholden to the Provinces, nor to the municipal Cities of Ottawa and Hull. Only to the Prime Minister. As, apparently, a Federal Prime Minister can take whatever land he wants to create his legacy or colossal monument in this region, then what is to stop him doing the same in any region of Canada? Only public tumult and uproar, as was the case when a mountain in British Columbia was to be renamed as a legacy to Chrétien's now dead mentor.
By: R.R. Dixon,
25 River Oaks Court,
STITTSVILLE, ON. K2S 1L3.
(613) 836-3690
Information of interest
to CAF Retirees
Recently, I phoned Phyzer about the drug Viagra, and they informed me that the incidence of death was so infinitesimal, that they didn't bother to run the "study" for longer than five months (normal test requirements are a 10 year double blind, placebo controlled study).
When I pointed out that exactly one year BEFORE approval of the use of Viagra in Canada to the Health Protection Branch of Health Canada, that in the city of Vancouver there were 16 deaths thought to be attributable to Viagra in a two week period, it attempted to ignore what I said.
Paul Harvey, News broadcaster on CFRB Winnipeg, revealed that in the United States, this year, during a two week period, there were 350 deaths attributable to Viagra.
When one considers that Veterans Affairs Canada have magnanimously granted veterans 6 caps per year "FREE", one begins to wonder just why!!!!
This information, just might, be of interest, to CAF Retirees!!!
Submitted by: Mr Ray E. Parker CD
AFP/AAC Member
The Aircrew Memorial Association
Memorial Statue
The Aircrew Memorial Association, CFB Greenwood (a unit of the Western Nova Scotia Branch of the Aircrew Association) is a registered charity.
The association is currently working on a new Military Aviation Museum at CFB Greenwood, NS and is seeking donations, large and small. The money to be used for a six foot life sized bronze statue of an RCAF Aircrew member. The cost of this project is $70,000.00.
Receipts will be issued for all donations. If there is an oversubscription the residue will be used to fund annual scholarships in aviation related studies.
Donations or inquires to be directed to:
The Aircrew Memorial Association,
86 Hazelholme Dr.,
HALIFAX, NS. B3M 1N5
1 (920) 443-0270
e-mail: mailto:cjdunbar@istar.ca
Final Note
Subject: Pension Surplus Litigation RE: MeetingDate: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:59:17 -0500
From: Fiona Campbell
To: ,
We were finally able to meet with counsel for PIPSC and PSAC and have come up with a strategy for trying to move the case forward. Basically, we have proposed that the Government file its Defence by the end of April, that we all complete our Affidavits of Documents by the end of August and that discoveries take place by November 15, 2001. If necessary, we will also set up a conference with a case management judge or master to work out further scheduling issues, including any additional motions that the Government intends to bring. We have not yet heard from the Government lawyer, but expect that we will soon.
Regards, Fiona Campbell
Newspaper Report- Ottawa Citizen
01 April 2001. by Katherine May.
It was reported that the "Gold Plated Pension" of the public service was again under attack.
There was also a quotation by John Williams MP, Canadian Alliance Treasury Board Critic, to the effect that Canadians simply can't afford the federal (pension) plan. The Tories under Brian Mulroney originally made that argument, Chrétien's bureaucrats embellished it! Furthermore, why is a Reformer, oops, an Alliance critic supporting the Liberals? If our pre-paid retirement plans are NOT affordable, how come the government was allowed to steal some $30 billion in surpluses from the three accounts? $16.6 billion from ours alone!
We taxpayers can however afford the MPs' "Platinum Plated" Retirement Allowance!!!!
Whose side is the CA on?
Who is on our side?
RIP
