International EditionIssue 02/2002 Update on Litigation Challenging Bill C‑78 By Fiona Campbell, Caroline Engelmann Gottheil The case challenging the federal government's confiscation of the surplus in the federal public service, Canadian forces and RCMP superannuation plans is moving forward slowly but steadily as the parties continue to exchange their documents which are relevant to the case. As of May 2002, the lawyers for the Attorney General of Canada had provided several thousand documents on three separate CD ROMs. The parties involved in the three actions are currently in the process of reviewing these documents to determine how, if at all, they affect the claims and whether it will be necessary to request further documents from the government lawyers. It is a time consuming process given the number of documents involved. The plaintiffs are also required to provide their documents and have been doing so over the summer and fall of 2002. The next step is a case conference with counsel for the parties in the three actions and the Case Management Master which is scheduled to take place on October 30, 2002. At that time, it is expected that dates will be set for examinations for discovery. This is a chance for the parties to examine each other's representatives regarding the issues relevant to the case. It is expected that the examinations for discovery will take place within the next few months. Once the examinations for discovery have been completed, it will be time to start planning for the trial which could take place during the fall of 2003. Meanwhile, there are still some preliminary issues in the case that have not yet been finally determined. We are still waiting for a decision from the Ontario Court of Appeal to determine whether the trade unions and the RCMP Associations will be permitted to be parties in the litigation. In September, 2001, Justice Morin of the Ontario Superior Court had decided that the trade unions and RCMP Associations were not proper parties in the action because of the provisions of the Ontario Rights of Labour Act. This decision was appealed by the AFP/AAC, the RCMP Associations, SSEA, CUPTE, the PIPSA and the PSAC. The appeal was argued on June 19, 2002 and it is expected that a decision will be released shortly. Finally, it is useful to note that there have been some encouraging developments in the case law which could prove useful when these cases get to trial. In particular, the Ontario Court of Appeal decided the Authorson case in March of 2002. In that case, the Court was very critical of the government's mismanagement of pensions for disabled war veterans and set out some basic principles regarding the governments obligations in administering pension plans which could also be applicable in this context.
Addendum The legal machinations (stalling by government lawyers) are not to be unexpected. There is a total of over $30 billion of employees' money involved which this current federal government wants to use to buy the next election. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much help from the Opposition Parties. The CA is completely indifferent to our problems and the NDP is somewhere on cloud nine. Only Joe Clark has expressed some sympathy but then we know where sympathy is in the dictionary. We are on our own!
Ontario Government Grab There is a new situation which may tend to make our case more difficult. The Tory government of Ontario, taking a page from the Liberal Party's book, introduced an omnibus Bill which will make the theft of Ontario employees' pension fund surpluses legal and back dated to 1988! Monkey see monkey do. Specific reference is made to Conrad Black's raid on his employee's pension surplus which he had to return. There are huge surpluses in the major pension funds of Ontario workers. The legal theft of those funds should make the Tory's Bay street friends very happy. But somebody in Queens Park has forgotten that the Ontario workers outnumber the Bay street friends when it comes to votes. Strangely, nothing has been heard from the executives of the many unions whose funds will be robbed! To add to the misery of Ontario residents the party hacks with patronage appointments to the Ontario Energy Board gave Union Gas company a huge retroactive gift of $140 millions cover the company's mismanagement. Then adding to the insult, part of Ontario Hydro was sold to a near bankrupt English power company and the price of electricity jumped. The new premier has rolled the electricity prices back and will be refunding the excessive charges to the users. Presumably the money will come from the pension surpluses taken from provincial employees pension funds. Either that or there is a money tree growing in Toronto. The provincial election has been postponed for eighteen months Here too the Opposition is noticeably silent! As are the voices of the unions! The pension surplus grab has been temporarily suspended pending "more consultation". Presumably awaiting a more auspicious time to ram through a confiscation Bill before closing down legislation for a long holiday. Talk about sleaze politics.
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Supplementary Death Benefit Litigation by: Jeanne Smith President APSAR (APSAR ‑ Association of Public Service Alliance Retirees). I spoke with the law firm handling the class actions and I thought I would share the information that was given to me. Back in May, the lawyers challenged the government's right to challenge the class action suits on the grounds that this was an abuse of process, since they had not appealed the first decision. The judge's decision has now been rendered as follows: Because these class‑action suits could result in more than two billion dollars having to be paid out by the federal government, she felt that she should hear the whole case and decide on the merits of the case as opposed to allowing payment because of a process technicality. The lawyers for the plaintiffs as well as the Attorney General are now involved in the discovery process and a tentative date for a trial for discovery has been set for sometime in January 2003. The actual trial date will likely be in the autumn of 2003. Many people are wondering why this case ever succeeded in the first place as it is the common belief that life insurance has limitations based on age and this is an accepted principle. However, the favourable decision handed down in the first trial was based on the fact that the Supplementary Death Benefit is not a life insurance but a benefit that the government agreed to pay to offer some financial assistance to survivors of public servants and members of the Canadian Armed Forces. Apparently all this is clearly explained and outlined in Hansard 1953. It remains to be seen how this judge will rule, however, as the lawyers point out, the plaintiffs now have the law on their side. I will keep you posted as this case develops. With respect to APSAR's many complaints to the CHRS with respect to age, gender and marital status discrimination in federal legislation, it seems that our complaints are now in the hands of the mediation branch of the CHRC. We hope to have hearings this fall and at that time, we will also address the discrimination issues in federal laws that affect armed forces retirees. After all, we filed our complaints on behalf of retired and Senior Canadians without making any distinctions and we will point out that should someone challenge our right to speak for retired armed forces personnel. Anyway ... this is where we are at this point and you will hear more from me in due course. Best Regards, Jeanne
What About Our Heroes? By Colonel JG Poulin, DSO, CD (R22eR) There was no Media in the early days of mankind to bring home the news of great victories or that of ignominious defeats; it was done by word of mouth, couriers. Such was the case when famous Greek soldier and athlete, Pheidipides ran all the way from the battle site at Marathon in 490 BC, to drop dead on arrival at Athens, crying, crying. "Nike, Nike!" Pheidipides left the name Marathon to now mean a famous event of athletics, the 26 mile race bearing the name where the Greeks defeated the Persians As early as 490 BC the "West" had started feuding with the "East" ‑ today's Iranians. There was rejoicing in the victorious camp. And there was also grief there, as well as in the towns and cities of the Persians! The expression of human exultation as well as it's grief, was to be heard after Battle of the Plains of Abraham, Waterloo, Mons, Vimy, Stalingrad, Ortona, Pearl Harbour and Wake Island, to name only a few major engagements that changed history. Thus it was after 9/11, that inhuman tragedy forced on a nation, indeed on a whole World by a few madmen ‑ but today, word of mouth is replaced by the Media: Newspapers, Television, Radio, the Web, etc., all of which contributes to prolong, to perpetrate the pain for the kin of those murdered, by incessantly bringing back scenes of incredible horror. Sad as I may feel at remembering those pictures, I cannot fail to realize or understand why a Nation, indeed a World can unite in compassion as that at 9/11, yet more or less forget those volunteers of 1914/18, 1939/45, and Korea on 11 November of every year. Those men had volunteered for the Cause and thousands died for it! They too had relatives to mourn them. This makes me wonder why on 11 November each year, we see not much more than a handful of people at the various cenotaph ceremonies? These men suffered and so many died so that we today live in peace, that treasured gift they bought for us at the cost of their blood. Those poor wretches had a choice, but they opted for volunteering, for putting life and limb at risk, for their kin, their friends, as well as we of following generations. Whilst my heart and soul goes to those who died on 9/11 as well as those they left behind, I feel I cannot forget those others, nor should the People of Canada forget those who died in the Wars. Whereas those of 9/11 had no choice since Fate had decided for them, the others, the soldiers did have a choice, they could have abstained from volunteering ‑ but they did not! From what I have read, many of the former faced death magnanimously, with a great deal of courage under dreadful conditions! To me, they were darn good soldiers wearing civilian garb. I remember how traumatized I was when I saw bodies plunging ..... to a splattering death below to escape the merciless flames that roared behind them. What utter despair pushed them to such self‑destruction! What could possibly have gone through their minds as they were contemplating their next step. It was not a question of "the lesser of two evils", both courses were equally abominable! Then again, my mind goes back to a dark night in Italy, as we were fighting our way through 2,000 yards of bush, trip flares and air‑bursts, and I see a couple of my men struggling in the barbed‑wire, being machine‑gunned mercilessly, yelling for help which just could not be brought up! These poor b.....s were men who had volunteered; they had had a choice but they opted for the tough one. How then can we be so callous as to forget them and the likes of them? Come on, Canadians, wake up ‑ borrow a bit of patriotism from our American cousins; a bit of pathos won't hurt you! Render our dead heroes the honour they have so courageously earned whilst bleeding to death. Go on grieving those who fell on 9/11, but please, do not forget our own worthies. They died for US! An old soldier who remembers.
The RegimentOttawa Citizen Letters to the Editor The enemy has destroyed our troops' equipment, ground their numbers down through attrition, penned them in terrible living conditions and blown off their uniforms. Yet they can still fight. So now the foe is using psychological warfare to destroy the unit cohesion that is all that's keeping them going. Who is this fiendish adversary? Ludendorff? Mussolini? Kurt Meyer? No, it's the Department of National Defence, which has a study under way by a cultural anthropologist living in Holland on whether to destroy the storied regiments that have distinguished themselves from Lundy's Lane and Queenston Heights to the Somme and Vimy to Sicily, Verrières and the Scheldt to Korea. According to Col. Mike Capstick, overseeing the project, DND is not considering abolishing regiments, just transforming them from the centre of a soldier's career into another box on a bureaucratic flowchart: death by 1,000 paper cuts. Many Canadians may not grasp how irresponsible this plan is, because our public education system doesn't exactly stress what a regiment is or what it does. (If this government has its way, they won't know what a gun is either, even if they're in a regiment.) I didn't know until, unlike Art Eggleton, I began to read books about war and talk to combat veterans. (And hasn't my public skepticism about his judgment on appropriate sources of military advice been amply vindicated?) Very briefly, a regiment is the military unit where strategy and tactics meet. Above the regimental level, flags move around on maps; below it, companies take individual strong points. A regiment turns the movement of flags into the capture of bunkers, and the capture of bunkers into the movement of flags. A Second World War infantry regiment had around 1,000 men at full strength, organized into four rifle companies of just more than 100 men each plus support and logistical units commanded by a colonel, and historically was raised from a given region, obviously with the Winnipeg Rifles or North Nova Scotia Highlanders, if not with the Black Watch or Seaforth Highlanders. It's not the division that has reunions, nor the brigade, company or platoon. It's the regiment. Farley Mowat's eloquent account of serving in Italy during the Second World War with the Hasty Pees (an abbreviation, reflecting life in a combat zone, of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment from the Ontario county of the same name) is called The Regiment. Our current minister of defence, economist John McCallum, should read it, if he hasn't already. Regiments have a history that inspires current members to live up to the deeds of the past and to their regimental comrades. A book mark given to me by a Canadian veteran of a British regiment, the Green Howards (as distinct from the Brown Howards), shows the crest of a regiment linked directly to the Glorious Revolution of 1689. Now that's a history to live up to. Like Waterloo, the Armada and Juno Beach. Last week, Col. Capstick said, "Our gut tells us that the regimental system is well worth retaining, but at the same time our gut tells us that, OK guys, it's time to get out of the '50s." The 1950s? The battle honours of our regiments go back to the war of 1812. Ortona was in 1943. Canada became a nation at Vimy in 1917. Later he changed his story, saying in an opinion piece in the Thursday Citizen that the regimental system's "roots and rituals can be traced to the Victorian era ... when the country was far more culturally homogeneous than it is today and when the stratified class system of the era was replicated in the regimental messes. In short, it came of age in a society that no longer exists." For the record, Victoria reigned 1837‑1901, somewhat before D‑Day. But unfortunately, an influential segment of the Canadian elite regards all of history as an ugly, undifferentiated grande noirceur from which Pierre Trudeau and the Canadian Human Rights Commission finally rescued us. So apparently now it's time to bring the army into the modern era. The era of subs that can't dive, helicopters that can't fly, bright green uniforms in a desert country and lucky to have those, and snipers making world‑record shots with American ammunition and British uniforms in Afghanistan and our government doesn't even tell us about it. I expect 21st century battles will be as different from Normandy or El Alamein as those were from Waterloo. But if we're still winning them, it will be because storied regiments live up to their history. So let's reassign that anthropologist to find out why Dutch children still place flowers on the graves of Canadians who liberated them from Nazi tyranny. Be sure he examines the plaques all over Holland commemorating Canadian regiments who didn't crack, even when under equipped, under strength and under attack. John Robson is Senior Editorial Writer and Columnist. The Ottawa Citizen This article was published in the Ottawa Citizen during the summer but it deserves to be republished for informative purposes for those who do not take the Ottawa Citizen.
He's Only A Poor Dead SoldierIt's only the tomb of a soldier, A place for us to play; We don't know what to remember now, on Remembrance day; He's only a poor dead soldier, He doesn't have to pray; He's only a long dead soldier, He cannot get away. Oh sure, he had a father, and a darling mother too; A Sister and a brother; ‑ He died for you, ‑ and you: The paper flags tossed on his tomb He never saw nor knew, His flag was red, and white, and blue, before King Louis bleu.. In the day the children play, and trample on his face He's only a dead soldier. He cannot feel disgrace. And in the night the dogs make pause, as they roam astray, And symbolize what Peaceniks think of a soldier's way. Once each year the Bigwigs come, for their "photo ops", Top hats and capes , surrounded by their Gendarme cops, They preen flapping with a flag the soldier never saw; And wail Oooh Cana dadada ‑ the soldier's wounds are raw. For he died to save Democracy under the red white and blue, An ensign with three hundred years of heritage of his Canada too; The Whigs are not what he was fighting for, dat dugh an diz; With the Liberal logo flag, their corruption's worse than his. By: R. R. Dixon. A World War II Veteran who fought not far from where the unknown soldier met his death. The Unknown Soldier's corruption is in the sense of "for all flesh is as grass" 1Peter:24
Employment Insurance Benefits Canadian military personnel continue to pay into the Employment Insurance Fund yet are denied any entitlement to that insurance plan upon release from the Forces. This of course is a fraud but then who on Parliament Hill ever let ethics interfere in the political world? For a short while (a very short while) Randy White of the Canadian Alliance showed some interest in pursuing this matter but just as suddenly his interest waned! The CA Defence Critic, Leon Benoit, has shown no interest whatsoever in Canadian Armed Forces issues such as this prepaid savings insurance plan or the theft our savings from our Superannuation Account. Sheila Copps, the "I wannabe the prime minister", who was so supportive when the military lost any entitlement to the insurance under the Mulroney government, has become a turncoat and has not shown one bit of support since Chretien became dictator. Martin and Catterall too have disappeared under a rock. At the 2002 Annual General Meeting of the National Council of Veterans Associations in Canada, a resolution was unanimously approved that the NCVA undertake the task to have entitlement to the full benefits of the Employment Insurance Fund be reinstated for all Canadian Forces Retirees!
Castaway One day this guy, who has been stranded on a desert island all alone for ten years, sees an unusual speck on the horizon. "It's certainly not a ship," he thinks to himself. As the speck gets closer and closer, he begins to rule out the possibilities of a small boat, then even a raft. Suddenly, emerging from the surf comes this drop‑dead gorgeous blonde woman wearing a wet suit and scuba gear. She approaches the stunned guy and says to him, "Tell me, how long has it been since you've had a cigarette?" "Ten years", replies the stunned man. With that, she reaches over and unzips a waterproof pocket on her left sleeve and pulls out a pack of fresh cigarettes. He takes one, lights it and takes a long drag and says, "Man oh man! Is that ever good!" "And how long has it been since you've had sip of bourbon?" she asks him. Trembling, the castaway replies: "Ten years!" She reaches over, unzips her waterproof pocket on her right sleeve pulls out a flask and hands it to him. He opens the flask, takes a long swig and says "Wow, that's absolutely fantastic!" At this point, she starts slowly unzipping the long zipper that runs down the front of her wet suit, looks at him seductively and asks, "And how long has it been since you've played around?" With tears in his eyes the guy falls to his knees and says. "Oh sweet Jesus! Don't tell me you've got golf clubs in there too!!!
Gold Miniature Paratroopers Wings For the paratrooper who has everything here is a gift suggestion. There is available 14 carat solid gold miniature parachutist wings for $60.00 (plus GST and Ontario PST and $5.00 postage) suitable to be worn on the left lapel. The wings are 23 mm long and weigh 3.5 grams. The wings are the same size as those available from various kit shops. The Maple Leaf is not coloured. If interested, the wings are available from: Danielle O'Connor 112 Oakdale Av., STRATFORD. ON. N5A 7W2 1 519 275‑2164 email: doconnor31@hotmail.com
Your Tax Dollars at Work Once upon a time the Government had a huge, abandoned scrap yard in the middle of the desert. A member of parliament discovered its existence, and worried that someone may steal from it at night. So they created a Night Watchman position and hired a man for the job. Then Parliament asked, "How can the watchman do his job without proper instruction?" So they created a Planning Department and hired two more people: a documentation Specialist to write the instructions, and a trainer to teach the Night Watchman how to watch. Then Parliament asked, "How will we know the Night Watchman and the Documentation Specialist are doing their tasks correctly?" So they created a Quality Control Department and hired two more people: one to do efficiency studies and one to write reports. Then Parliament asked, "How are these people going to get paid?" So they created positions for an accountant, a Payroll Officer, and a Manager to keep track of everyone's time, and hired three more people. Then Parliament asked, "Who's going to be accountable for all of these people?" So they created an Administrative Section and hired three more people: an Administrative Officer, an Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary. Then Parliament said, "We have had this facility in operation for one year, and we are $22,000 over budget! We must cut back our overall costs!" So they laid off the Night Watchman.
Centenary Military Communicators The Military Communicators will be celebrating their One Hundredth Birthday Friday 29 August 2003 to Monday 1 September 2003 inclusive. The Centenary will be held at the School of Signals, Vimy Barracks, KINGSTON, Ontario. Attending the Ceremonies will be the Colonel of the Regiment, HRH, the Princess Royal and the Royal Signals Band. There will be a Raffle for an antique Rolls Royce, vintage 1968. For further details and reservations contact: Celebrations 2003 (Kingston), Canadian School of C and E, PO Box‑ 17000 Stn Forces, KINGSTON, ON. K7K 7B4. Web site: www.commelec2003.ca email: kingston_2003@yahoo.com 1 (613) 541‑5010 ext ‑ 5154
Veterans Affairs Canada At one time there was system within the Forces that was to assist personnel in the transition from military life to that of civilian It was called SCAN (Second Career Assistance Network). Two important functions of the SCAN were to help individuals prepare their resumes and help them find work in the civilian jungle. The system didn't work too well. Some WO 1s and generals were found employment but the vast majority of the retirees never participated in SCAN Seminars and none were found employment. In time the Seminars were allowed to die on the vine, presumably there were more important things for the 73 generals to worry about than ordinary troopers returning to private life. Veterans Affairs Canada claims that it has stepped into the breach to fill the void. At least the VAC bulletin SALUTE claims that it has. (One Transition Coordinator team has taken up position in Winnipeg. The makeup of the team reads like a who's who of bureaucrats: financial aid, family support, health care specialists; rehabilitation and education retraining and "Client Service Teams to meet releasing CF needs"). If this is an effective benefit for upcoming retirees, great! But if it is but another Photo Op public relations ploy then the funds could be better spent on veteran and retiree needs. More Hospital beds for long term veterans' care is one urgent need! VAC Web site: http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca
Medals Most Miniature Medals are available from The Royal Canadian Regimental Kit Shop for $3.00 each. Court Mounting of medals is also available from the Kit Shop. Charges are $5.00 for the first large medal and $3.00 each thereafter. Miniatures are $4.00 for the first medal and $3.00 each thereafter. Contact: Regimental Store, RHQ, The RCR, Wolseley Barracks, 750 Elizabeth St., LONDON, ON. N5Y 4T7 Tel: 1 (519) 660‑5332 Fax: 1 (519) 660‑5344
Retirement My request for someone to step in and take over the position of National Chairman brought in a flood of volunteers ‑ all two of them. I must turn over the volunteer position, having done my share for the past twenty‑five plus years. Someone younger than I has to take over. It must be pointed out that all Executive positions in the AFP/AAC are voluntary and there is NO remuneration except for real expenses, be they for travel or office equipment and maintenance. E.W. Halayko Still Chairman
Cost of Living ‑ 2002 The government has decided that the cost of living index increase for 2002 was ONLY 1.9%. The government must employ accountants from the same school as those employed by ENRON. The cost of gasolene alone in creased by 19% in 2002 (from 62 cents a litre to 75 cents a litre). So did the cost of electricity jump in Ontario and Alberta and so did natural gas. To be added were the huge increases in insurance (blamed on 9/11) and fresh food prices have climbed astronomically. But then we Canadians don't understand StatsCan (creative) bookkeeping so how are we to know anything? No wonder the MPs, including our illustrious leader for life, gave themselves that huge pay raise back in June. They need it to counter the mere 1.9% increase in the cost of living!!!
Hiring Spree Federal government The unemployment figure for 2002 was kept low by a massive hiring spree by the federal government. Some 30,000 new employees were added to the payroll. Were they recruited for the military? Certainly not! It is the bureaucracy that needs more hands to continue to waste tax dollars by buying the next election. Also we need more guards to protect the hides of our MPs, don't we? It is now a much larger public service than before 1994, when an effort was made to thin out the ranks of the public service. Unfortunately, at that time, only workers were fired and the managers, department heads, ADMs, DMs etc. were retained and given pay raises. As only the chiefs were kept, so workers had to be hired this year to do some work. Reread article: "Your Tax Dollars at Work"!
Litigation Expenses Litigation expenditures by the AFP/AAC fighting the blatant discrimination of the CF Retirees and their survivors by this federal government for the past 5 years now exceeds: $160,278.00
Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation CMHC has a programme called Home Adaptations for Seniors Independence (HASI) whereby disabled senior citizens, over 65 years of age, are given "forgivable" loans with which their homes can be made more user friendly. The modifications must be permanent, except for some items such as bath tub lifts. Any disabled senior, whose income is below a "certain" level and who chooses to live at home, may qualify for this "forgivable" loan. The programme is administered by provincial offices and the maximum income levels vary between $20,000.00 to $35,000.00 per year depending on the province in which you reside. To have your queries handled by your provincial office, and obtain an application form, call: 1 (800) 669‑2642 and after pushing many buttons an operator should eventually route your call to your provincial office.
Who's a Moron? One of our Prime Minister's chain pullers has done it again. His Communications Director ("spin doctor")(?) has given Canada another black eye by calling President Bush a "MORON", in public, with world media present. Being a female (quota correct) and French Canadian (politically correct) she has retained her job in the Prime Minister's Office instead of being fired. You don't insult the most powerful man on earth, and a supposed friend and ally, and expect to be treated with any respect, except in Canada. Here we are the most powerless country on earth calling the leader of our biggest trading country and our protector (we have no defence force), a MORON, and expect there will be no retaliation. Wait for the next US‑Canada trade dispute! The PM will never get an invitation to the Bush ranch in Texas now. All other world leaders have been invited. Hey, wasn't he recently presented with the statesman of the year award? That must have been a joke. Instead of firing the flunkey the PM, under pressure, finally accepted her "Resignation"? She retains her job as a highly paid public servant!
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