This blog talks about the wrongdoing and cover up by the government of Canada.
It shows you a part of what was going on in the Montreal CRA offices that the media never picked up on, and in most cases never wanted to report; You figure out why.
Here you will find over 20 letters sent to Ms. Linda Lizotte MacPherson, the then Commissioner Canada Revenue Agency. The letters didn’t get much of a reaction, or get the changes we wished for, possibly due to the fact that she also was part of the problem and was caught up in the cover up. (See letter dated March 30, 2011 – “The MacPherson Cover-up”)
The letter dated October 26, 2011, to the then RCMP Commissioner, Mr. William J.S. Elliot, (among other details of corruption by senior tax officials) speaks of a CRA employee Guylaine Gaudreault who is presently being considered for the senior position of Manager, Audit and Enforcement at the Montreal TSO. The letter casts doubts on her character; she conspired with the TSO director to interfere with R&D staff, to the benefit of the taxpayer and herself. Or (see letter dated September 22, 2010) how she was foiled from giving a taxpayer over $100 million dollar break for buying her lunch (what else was she going to receive had she was successful?).
The letter dated November 10, 2011, includes a spreadsheet detailing which former employees of the CRA received (conspired to steal) nearly $1.2 million dollars, for services never rendered, and which they weren’t allowed to receive; and never asked to repay.
Our article entitled Vikileaks speaks of media leaks and sensitive protected tax information being stolen from the Montreal Tax Service Office without triggering an investigation; it also shows how the CRA and RCMP have allowed a convicted rapist into our homes through the internet. And, how a former Hells Angels associate was allowed to work at the CRA - directly dealing with law enforcement.
If you are a racist, you will enjoy the letter dated October 30, 2012, “CRA promotes racism”, which discusses the promotion received by one openly anti-Semitic employee of the Montreal TSO. You might also enjoy our article entitled “Millionaires waiting to move to Canada, so the CRA can tax them. It discusses how the CRA is targeting 15,000 mainly Asian investors coming to Canada.
The article “CRA counsels its employees to break the law” is a true story of government corruption and how (despite their denial) the RCMP “need only ask and they shall receive” when it comes to protected information in the CRA databases. Did you know that CRA employees work hand in hand with the police at the RCMP offices! That’s not supposed to happen; I wonder how that ever got started in a democracy, which claims to adhere to the rule of law!!
See our letter dated June 16, 2010, which shows the director of the Montreal TSO was “buddy buddy” with a convicted money launderer.
The June 4, 2010 letter, speak of Patrice Chouinard giving away $57 million to a billionaire for his personal gain. Oddly enough CRA employees working in both Ottawa and Montreal, trying to gather evidence on the former director, have reported that everything to do with Patrice Chouinard seems to have been pulled from the case banks where they would normally be held. Very Strange! why help out a criminal?… What does he know that has everyone in Ottawa protecting him? Maybe he knows that the Charbonneau Commission is nothing compared to the corruption that goes on in the highest levels of the CRA. Maybe he knows the name of the political animal who in just 2 years was able to pocket $25 million working closely with some CRA auditors.
We need an inquiry. Why do some corporations belonging to the wealthiest families pay no tax? Get audited almost every years? (Even though, apparently, very little is ever found). Have, in the past, hired the same auditors that have just finished auditing their corporations (with no red flags are ever raised). Even send tugs to warn auditors to back off or else… See letter dated September 6, 2011.
Why is it that when a prominent law firm reported that 2 special investigators (Dany Guay and Jonathan Lepage) had asked for a $150,000 bribe, the employees in question received no suspension? And, hardly any investigation? See the letter dated February 16, 2010. However employees of another “community” are suspended immediately, even when the evidence shows that the accusers have lied?
There’s simply too much to write about in this introduction. Do yourself a favour print the entire site and you will have days of reading. And, when you re-read it a few days later, you’ll find how much corruption you missed the first time...
To be honest there is a whole lot more we could have written; the employees of the CRA have a lot to divulge, and we have more and more tales to tell every day. More and more employees, retirees and auditees are fed-up with what they see, and what they are being asked to do. We have deliberately gone easy on our union (PIPSC) because some of them (few of them) have tried to help the Italian (former) employees of the Montreal TSO, despite instructions from the head of the union not to do so. Stay tuned, next time...
P.S. What our years at the CRA have taught us:
All English speaking employees of the CRA are on the take;
All Italian English speaking employees of the CRA are also mobsters;
All English taxpayers are crooks;
All Italian corporations are simply fronts for the mob (Thank Yvon Talbot for that lesson);
All tax lawyers are scum, for defending tax clients;
All judges and attorneys for the defendant are imbeciles;
All judges are on the take.
CRA COUNSELS ITS EMPLOYEES TO BREAK THE LAW
Whether it be counselling their employees to commit perjury, human rights abuses, acts of harassment towards female employees of the Montreal Tax Service Office, sexual harassment of a terminated female employee of the Montreal TSO, even physical assault of another female employee of that same TSO… the CRA has no limits to what it is willing to do to to win at all costs.
The CRA regularly provides RCMP with taxpayer information, despite assurances that taxpayer information is held in the strictest confidentiality. Even ignoring the fact that sharing information with the RCMP is, in most cases, against the law.
So we were really not very surprised when the letter above was circulated to several employees of the CRA. The CRA is now counselling employees to ignore section 241, break the law and speak to the RCMP; even though doing so could result in termination of the employee or even criminal charges. It looks like the CRA will search to the lowest end of the gene pool to find an employee (Johanne Charbonneau) that would be willing to sign such a letter.
Additionally, some union stewards actually told union members that they had no choice but to cooperate with the RCMP. Imagine that, unlike other Canadians, (even murderers, drug dealers, and rapists, politicians included) a CRA employee does not have the right against self-incrimination guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom (remember that fact the next time you renew your contract).
By the way, where is the union after all this? Sipping coffee with management, and stealing the members contributions (Ray Lazzara - PIPSC). What will it take for the union to finally speak out for its members? How about counselling employees on their rights when being questioned by the RCMP, or CRA internal investigators, like Pierre Leveille, who immediately turns over what you’ve told him (thinking you have to cooperate with an internal investigation) to the RCMP. So far the employees have receive 4 years of silence from their union. Maybe it’s time to stop taking directions from Claude Tremblay and do the right thing.
As for taxpayer information being shared with the police. We just had to laugh when we saw the article below. Trust us the police and the CRA collaborate on files all the time. When you send in your tax return you might as well send a copy to the RCMP, because audit findings are regularly shared with police; in fact, the RCMP share an office (in the Montreal burrow of Nun’s Island) along with several members of the CRA’s Montreal Tax Service Office Special Investigations unit. And you can be sure that if it’s happening in Montreal, it’s happening all over Canada.
Roughly 15 years ago, when the union brought up the subject of Special Investigation employees giving information to the RCMP (to the then head of the Montreal Special Investigations department), they were told that he was aware of what was going on, he had warned the employees involved, and as far as he was concerned - if the news ever got out, would deny any knowledge of the illegal sharing of information that was going on, and the employees involved were on their own because he could not protect them.
Even more interesting, when the illegal criminal investigation of the Italian employees of the Montreal TSO began in 2006, the employee leading the investigation (Jean-Pierre Paquette) was housed by the RCMP in Nun’s Island. Oddly enough that employee was, at one time, a Hell’s Angels associate, using the CRA database, to locate individuals of interest… To this date, at least to our knowledge, the RCMP never knew or were never told of the CRA employees involvement with the biker gang.
That said, today, that same Nun’s Island RCMP unit have in their office a CRA employee (Sylvain Desharnais). This person should not even be employed by the CRA (let alone work as a computer specialist with the RCMP) due to his conviction of the gang rape of a minor! This fact was and is well known at the highest levels of management in Montreal (both CRA and RCMP); however nothing is done about rectifying the situation because Mr. Desharnais is not part of the ‘ethnic community’ that is so despised in the Montreal.
Furthermore, the RCMP will often use the CRA to do what it can’t do directly, even though they’re not allowed to do so. In investigating the former employees of the Montreal TSO, the RCMP got CRA employees to consult FINTRAC “Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada”, even though FINTRAC’s records are barred except in drug trafficking, money laundering, and terrorism cases. Additionally the RCMP got CRA employees to give them information which they directly could not get without first getting a warrant.
Finally, we have documentary evidence that the RCMP have used the news media illegally, providing them with leaked (and sometimes false) information, and we have strong circumstantial evidence that the CRA has done the same (ex-employees and private taxpayers). RCMP, CRA and the news media working a file together. Not the first time this has happened… just think of Pamela Wallin, and Mike Duffy; what do you suppose they did to earn their place in the Senate.
Next time the CRA comes to audit you, you might be told that you are under audit, but you won’t know for sure if it’s really an audit or is it a criminal investigation disguised as an audit. Maybe you should just refuse to be audited…
