Anything But Harper – a post election parting shot at an a-hole.

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The following article was originally going to be posted during September 2015, but due to the Federal election we decided to delay it so that we wouldn’t run afoul, in any way, of the Canada Elections Act. Thankfully Harper is gone, he led the most secretive, divisive and hyper-partisan government in Canadian history. The article that follows might shed some light on why Mr. Harper was so secretive:

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Unfortunately many of our colleagues and partners working at the CRA, Foreign Affairs, Ottawa HQ and Justice Canada are extremely cautious and are afraid to come forth with additional interesting stories fearing retaliation by Mr. Harper and his band of thugs.

As many of you already know all government communications (email, telephone calls, text messages and faxes) are monitored by internal affairs and the RCMP, 24/7. This monitoring policy is not limited to government employees; at times it is applied to all Canadians as well.

We all are aware of what the NSA did in the US; however Canadians are relatively clueless about what our spy agency is doing here. Our sources have informed us that law enforcement officials and their counterparts regularly show up unannounced at Bell Canada, TELUS and Rogers, without a search warrant to obtain telephone records of individuals. The employees working for our telecommunications companies feel intimidated and bullied by these officers. Despite having reservations, they simply give out the information because they are afraid of law enforcement. Our sources have also described in detail some of the special installations and locations that have been built and created for the purpose of intercepting all forms of communications where data is analyzed and stored; disregarding all privacy concerns under the guise of National Security.

One such location in Quebec that we are aware of is in the downtown Montreal Bell Canada tower on De-La-Gauchetiere Street; entire floors have been dedicated for monitoring phone conversations.

So, what happened to our privacy and freedoms? It seems as though Mr. Harper flushed that down the drain by giving into mounting requests for additional funds and powers demanded by law enforcement.

More importantly, why did Harper do this? It seems that according to our friends in Ottawa, Mr. Harper has skeletons in his closet which have been uncovered by the RCMP and CSIS that are being used to blackmail the Prime Minister on a regular basis. Specifically they uncovered a special relationship between Mr. Harper, Dr. Arthur Porter and the Conservative party of Canada.

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Arthur Porter who was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone became a member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada, when in 2008 Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed him to Canada’s Security Intelligence Review Committee; Porter resigned as chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee in November 2011.

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Where did all the millions of dollars in commissions paid to SNC Lavalin for building the Montreal’s ‘superhospital’ really go? Apparently there was a secret war chest fund set up to pay the Conservative election campaign (all those TV advertisements you saw at all times of the day). There is also a golden parachute account set up for high ranking members of the Conservatives party of Canada.

So now we understand why all the special legislation that has been adopted by the government giving more and more powers to law enforcement, especially the RCMP. Hence the government is basically being held hostage by the police.

This is scary stuff to say the least.

Tom Glowacki

As you all know, our colleague Tom Glowacki is an auditor working for the SR&ED department at the Montreal Tax Service Office for the past 16 years or so.

For those of you who don’t know Tom – Tom has had no other ambition in life other than to remain as a low level auditor in the same department; so we were shocked to see Tom was proactively posting newspaper articles of ex-employees facing legal battles, laughing and mocking their demise, and boasting to everyone at the office that they got what they deserved.

Perhaps he may have a point, however we feel that he should join them as well. You see, for the longest time, Tom and Vince Belmonte (who is an SR&ED consultant) have been very close acquaintances and financial partners as well.

Over the years, Tom and Vince have been seen at restaurants enjoying a nice meal, going to bars to have a drink and the occasional game of golf (a few times a year). Furthermore we can confirm that Tom has received financial compensation from Mr. Belmonte, not only in the form of cash but also Tom was given a special credit card so he could make personal purchases when he needed to.

These facts can all be corroborated by simply looking at the inventory of SR&ED files Tom has “audited” in the past where the representative on the file was Vince Belmonte. You see, Tom knew exactly which files to select for his audits. How was he able to do that? Where did he get his list from? The facts will speak for themselves in due course.

In addition, Tom did not limit his moonlighting services to Mr. Belmonte’s firm only; there are at least 2 other firms which he provided special services to, and from whom he’s received compensation.

So our message to our esteemed colleague Mr. Tom Glowacki: People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Hope you will enjoy your upcoming retirement, Tom.

Perhaps now you finally can go work directly for Vince Belmonte as you have expressed to us on so many occasions. Ciao buddy!

Salut Guylaine Gaudreault

 

 

It has been a while since we’ve updated our blog and for that we must apologize. Rest assured we haven’t retired and there are more articles to come.

Speaking of retirement, we would like to wish Guylaine Gaudreault a very happy and pleasant retirement. By the way, that email that was sent to us by CRA management (announcing her retirement) was very strange; short and sweet. Although she is not yet 55 years of age, Guylaine has suddenly and unexpectedly decided to hang up her G-string at the Canada Revenue Agency; hope this blog had something to do with it. ;)

Where will her retirement party be held at?

Who will be invited?   Who will attend??

Hope that she will be happy in her new functions in life.

What will happen to her hapless incompetent sidekick Raymonde?

Arrivederci! “Ma chère Guylaine c’est à ton tour…”

Enjoy your furniture.

Cirque du Soleil

Écoute Jean-Guy RCMP, j’ai aucune idée de quoi tu parles, mais il y’a plusieurs choses que les CLOWNS chez vous front bien:

• Abuser leurs collègues féminines

• Prendre avantages des prostitues

• Mentir en cour et aux juges

• Voler l’argent saisie lors de perquisitions

• Faire partir d’un service de tueurs a gage

• Dénoncer leur propre mère, père et autres membres de la famille pour avancer leurs carrières de CLOWNS

P. Ne cherche pas d’emploie au Cirque du Soleil, ils ne veulent pas de rats.

Votre Reponse

 

 

 

Ben oui, on a trouvé une au crique qui se trouve au 4225 Boul. Dorchester Ouest avec des clowns qui sont déjà là.

Message Pour Pierre Gaboriault

Pierre Gaboriault, est-ce que tu dors bien avec Guylaine Gaudreault sur des meubles fournit par Mobilia? 

Quelqu’un devrait enquêter sur ce dossier…

Pierre, tu devrais chanter pour Guylaine:

Pour toi Guylaine

 

 

La Donna e « MOBILIA »

Elle a des nouveaux meubles

Pas besoin payé pour les meubles

Vérification fini

Ya très peu changement

 

Véri

Véri

Vérification fini

Ya très peu changement

 

La Donna e « MOBILIA »

Livraison es gratuit

Tout est gratuit

Merci MOBILIA

Pas besoin payé pour les meubles

Vérification fini

Ya très peu changement

 

Véri

Véri

Vérification fini

Ya très peu changement

 

Ya pas

Ya pas

Ya très peu changement

Hey Gabe

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It’s come to our attention that you’ve been telling people that our blog posting are a bunch of lies. You might have a right to your opinion, but as Assistant Commissioner Canada Revenue Agency for Quebec when you make your opinion known during office hours we have an issue with that.

We will soon be providing proof of many of the things that have been said on this blog. Thanks Gabe, we needed a push; just give is a few months; maybe we should consider publishing the name of the audits, where you influenced other auditors to “go easy”, because it was your friends being audited.

In the meantime maybe you can get the CRA to stop all the delay tactics in court. I’m specifically referring to the B T Ceramics case being heard in Laval, the CRA has delayed this case so many times that it continues to drag on even though we originally expected it to end in May 2013. Now we wait for the CRA’s final arguments; the defendants made theirs in December 2014. Can you see to it that your organization gets their closing arguments done… people who claim that others are engaged in criminal activity shouldn’t use the court system to delay justice. Besides, isn’t it the CRA’s and MRQ’s lawyers who fear being disbarred?

Additionally we will see other cases heading before the courts this year (as early as June 8, 2015), unless of course the prosecution is planning on delaying that process too. We’re confident that there must be a mountain of evidence against the former employee charged in that case. We say this because in the entire history of Revenue Canada (in the many organizational forms that it has gone through in the past 100+ years) we presume that there must have been maybe 20,000 employees fired for similar conduct, and none (to our knowledge) has ended before the courts.

The fact that Yvon Talbot, Ghyslain Goddard and others have admitted to destroying evidence and have committed perjury during the recent trial, and to date none of them have been punished… we can only imagine what this former employee has done to warrant criminal charges! Maybe we’ve spoken too soon and you’re planning on firing the employees that lied in court. Then in that case, we hope you do it soon.

Finally Gabe, a word of advice – you should rethink a few of the things you do. You should decline this year’s invitation to the Honda Gabriel Golf Tournament because your participation in the past was a direct violation of the CRA’s conflict of interest policy. Also with regards to the recent passing of your father Umberto: Maybe you should rethink where you decide to expose your loved ones not that we have a problem with the place (the Loreto Funeral home) but you might remember that in 2011 a tax auditor was reprimanded in the French media in part for having audited a company leasing office space from the Rizzuto family...

See a double standard here?

 

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Menteur

Pour avoir détruit des documents appartenant à l’Agence du Revenu du Canada, et avoir menti devant la cour du Québec,

Salut mon Yvon, c’est a ton tour de collecter ton 4%!

Bon Départ.

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Message a Guy Veillette:

Pauvre Guy forcer a repayé $380 de dépenses refusé pour l’achat de tes cigares.

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Le Cave

Maybe someone can find out if there is any policy on gambling on CRA property. Especially gambling with money received from taxpayer’s (bribes).

Mulroney… again…

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We recently blogged about the tax amnesty deal negotiated by tax attorney Wilfrid Lefebvre on behalf of ex-prime minister of Canada Brian Mulroney. At the time, we decide to cover only half the story, today we’ll report the other half, and this time we’ll also link Lyin’ Brian with Carole Gouin - former director of the Montreal Tax Service Office . You may remember Carole Gouin from a blog posting we made in June 2014 which eluded to inappropriate behaviour on her part.

At the same time as the Mulroney negotiations were in progress, Wilfrid Lefebvre was negotiating another voluntary disclosure, closely associated with Lyin’ Brian’s deal, for the firm of Ogilvy Renault; the firm where Lyin’ Brian became a partner after leaving politics; the firm where Lyin’ Brian had begun his law career in 1964; the same firm where Maitre Lefebvre now practices (now called Norton Rose Fullbright, since the June 1, 2011 merger). What a tangled web of lies and deceit…

Because of Lyin’ Brian voluntary disclosure, Ogilvy Renault had to come clean on a tax problem they had with regards to Provincial Income Allocation: The firm did not declare all its income to the province of Quebec. Ogilvy Renault saved taxes every year by attributing 50% of their income to Quebec and 50% to Ontario (where tax rates were more favourable); whereas in truth the allocation was closer to 90% Quebec, 10% Ontario. The law partnership knowingly falsified these ratios to cheat Quebec out of its share of income taxes, it was no secret that the firm did far more business in Quebec than Ontario.

Now the odd thing about both voluntary disclosures was that Madame Gouin decided that she would personally handle their filing; and just as things couldn’t get any more curious we discovered that the accountant who worked on correcting Ogilvy’s Provincial Income Allocation was none other than her common-law spouse, Mr. Veillette (at Samson Belair).

Madame Gouin personally arranged that the voluntary disclosure was accepted by the CRA, thus ensuring that Revenue Quebec would not come back and penalize the $1,000,000 of unpaid taxes. For practical reasons only the managing partners (roughly 10 of the over 200 various partners) at Ogilvy Renault were reassessed for the $1,000,000 owed.

RCMP CRA conspire to fabricate evidence

Today’s blog entry is a true story about what happened to a tax auditor in December 2011 working at the CRA’s Montreal Tax Service Office (TSO). The auditor was targeted by the CRA's Internal Affairs and Fraud Prevention Department's investigator Pierre Léveillé when the auditor turned whistle blower: he distributed documents, that he had received in the mail, alleging that the director of the Montreal TSO, Mr. Patrice Chouinard, had helped his entourage at the Laval TSO steal $1.2 million.

Note: Pierre Léveillé was the IAFPD investigator who made the remark that there were too many Italians in management at the Montreal TSO; in addition to other racist comments he's made in the past regarding Italian employees. There are sworn affidavits to this effect. The auditor in our story was of Italian decent. See a problem here? The CRA didn’t; their view was that the racism displayed by Léveillé was just an interview tactic! We have than in black and white; imagine the level of intelligence of the senior Ottawa civil servant willingly putting that in writing!

So, to get back to our story, we’ll quickly summarize the most outrageous accusation made by the IAFPD investigator:

Mr. Léveillé accused the auditor of losing protected CRA property when he left the Montreal TSO a few nights earlier. Mr. Léveillé also let the auditor know that the documents had been found and returned to the Montreal TSO by a passerby walking in downtown Montreal (a couple of kilometers from the office). Additionally, all of this had been captured on a building's security camera.

The accusation was later withdrawn for the following reasons:

• The alleged video from the building security camera turned out to be a video made from someone’s iPhone; all those who have seen it have told us that it was a poor attempt to create a video of an event which never happened, in essence it was a complete fabrication and a poorly done one at best.
  • The video did not capture the auditor losing protected information as Mr. Léveillé had claimed. The video began with a briefcase on the sidewalk in front of some establishment in downtown Montreal (how it got there was apparently not important to the IAFPD); a shadowy figure (who remains unidentified to this day) walks up to the briefcase, opens it, shuffles through the papers and leaves the scene with it.
• When the briefcase was returned to the Montreal TSO; it was brought directly to Mr. Chouinard's office, bypassing the usual protocol for lost and stolen items. Security personnel had been pre-alerted that missing documents were coming back to the office that day; they were told not to get any information which might identify the person who found the “lost” briefcase containing the documents.
• Finally, Mr. Léveillé and Mr. Chouinard obviously forgot that the Montreal TSO is equipped with security cameras and security guards. The office is used to guard sensitive taxpayer information. The security cameras showed that the auditor had not left the building with the briefcase containing the documents in question.

We believe this incident is just one reason why Pierre Léveillé is no longer working for the CRA; but don’t worry about him because the CRA doesn’t fire accomplices, they just reassigned them to other divisions of the Canadian government.

So you might wonder why we are bringing this up now, 3 years after the fact.

We were recently shown an email (obtained though the Access to Information Act) from Constable Pierre Breton, of the RCMP, to Pierre Léveillé which clearly indicates that the RCMP was aware that evidence was being fabricated, and furthermore was requesting that Mr. Léveillé change the time stamp on the video... Imagine the RCMP asking that already fake evidence be modified some more. The email is in several people’s hands including some attorneys in the Montreal area.

If you are willing to share fabricated evidence or are willing to provide perjured statement(s), we urge you to contact Constable Pierre Breton of the RCMP.

Guylaine Gaudreault

The above paragraph is taken from a letter to (then) RCMP Commissioner William J.S. Elliott; the letter can be viewed in its entirety online here. 

We published that letter in May 2013 and ever since we’ve been trying to get the employees of Montreal Tax Service Office’s R&D department to supply us with proof that Guylaine Gaudreault had (in the past) taken it upon herself to override the opinion of R&D scientific advisors and accord tax credits to ineligible taxpayers.

We’ve been frustrated all the way; the employees of that department remain a very tight lipped group.

So just when we were about to give up, we heard from a member of management of the Montreal TSO, who informed us that he was aware that Guylaine was taking it upon herself to override R&D scientific advisors and issue tax credits to undeserving taxpayers; furthermore stating that it was no secret to anyone in management that she was doing so. According to the managers we spoke to, Guylaine doesn’t try to hide what she was doing; confidently stating that she takes responsibility for the audit cases in question...

So what does that mean?

Is she going to pay back the millions of dollars that she has apparently given away. It is preposterous that such a situation exists at the CRA. A person with no scientific training, overrides the professional opinion of the scientific advisor, and not only is this known around the office, but she keeps getting promotions!

The Conservative government, in Ottawa, have stated that they are committed to cracking down on any misconduct by officials and cleaning up the situation at the CRA…

From where we sit it looks like they’re about as competent at doing that, as OJ Simpson was when he stated that he was going to work hard at finding who really killed his ex-wife, and then spent the summer golfing…

Lyin' Brian and Wilfrid Lefebvre

 

As employees of the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) we are shocked by how gullible the Canadian public is when it comes to accepting what is reported in the Press as having transpired in cases involving better known taxpayers and the CRA.

Case in point, Brian Mulroney:

In 1993 shortly after his term as Canada's Prime Minister, but still a member of parliament, Mulroney accepted $300,000 in cash from Karlheinz Schreiber (delivered in brown paper bags containing $1000 notes). In 1997, under sworn oath Brian Mulroney denied any significant dealings with Schreiber and went on to successfully sue the Government of Canada when they conceded that the bribery charges could not be substantiated. Lyin' Brian received an apology and $2.1 million.

Finally in 1999, Brian admitted to receiving the money when Schreiber, under criminal investigation in Germany, threatened to expose the bribery scandal; however Brian had an excuse for not declaring the income; the money was simply a retainer for services to be rendered at a future date; he would declare the money as income in the year that the services were rendered.

Retainers, even when paid in cash, are held in trust accounts. But Brian decided to stash the cash in a home safe and in a deposit box in New York; hidden from the CRA so that Brian would not have to declare the cash on his yearly tax return (why else forgo the $16,000 to $17,000 in yearly interest).

So Brian didn't declare the money when it was received in 1993 or 1994. Neither did he declare the money in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, or 1999. No, he reported the undeclared income in 2000 with the help of tax attorney Wilf Lefebvre - former chief counsel in charge of prosecutions at Revenue Canada. Maitre Lefebvre successfully negotiated a tax amnesty deal with the agency using the voluntary disclosure provision, which allows taxpayers to come forward and pay back-taxes due, plus interest, without fear of prosecution and huge penalties. Of course the so-called "services" were never rendered... (Well actually they were rendered in 1993 and 1994, when the bribe was paid).

So if we are expected to accept the transaction at face value, the CRA allowed Mulroney to clear his debt in full by paying just half the tax owing on the $225,000. Not the $300,000 that Karlheinz Schreiber alleged that he paid Brian. No contempt of court or contempt of parliament charges. No penalties. No criminal charges.

Even Justice Jeffrey Oliphant noted at the Mulroney inquiry: "It's a pretty good deal." To which Lyin' Brian replied "He's a pretty good lawyer." To which we say "No, he's not". This so call "deal" required the payment of a bribe to the CRA. We know that Wilfrid Lefebvre was the lawyer who bribed Patrice Chouinard in a case we reported on previously where Mr. Chouinard gave away $57 million in interest (that case was also a voluntary disclosure / tax amnesty deal).

So a while back we heard that Me Wilfrid Lefebvre's offices were raided by police... No big surprise here since it’s no secret that the RCMP’s has been carrying on a criminal investigation into the on goings at the Laval TSO for 2 years now, and Maitre Lefebvre was a regular “user” of that office’s “services”. The only thing that surprises us is how so little has been reported in the media: Except for the suspension of 3 managers, the RCMP has leaked little else about the case; we wonder why?

Me Lefebvre has been involved in many cases of bribery of government officials. The only unfortunate thing about the raid is that the police were not investigating the Mulroney deal. But we can only hope that in the future the truth will come out.

... you may say I'm a dreamer,

but I'm not the only one.

I hope one day you'll join us...