First hand knowledge of CRA tactics from someone who’s been there…

 

As we’ve stated on numerous occasions this blog was put together to document the wrongdoings and cover ups by the government of Canada. It documents just a little of what is going on at the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) Montreal Tax Service Office (TSO). The situation at the Montreal TSO was so bad that in June 2012 the CRA announced job cuts eliminating the Montreal Special Enforcement division responsible for many of the issues brought up here; this is the audit division which hid the fact that most audits were truly just criminal investigations.

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 win at all costs.

Today we share a document prepared by Clint Kimery, president of Gunner Corp (http://www.gunnercorp.ca/). The document, entitled “Predominant Purpose”, details how the CRA regularly crosses the line from "audit" to "investigation"; it exposes the esoteric functions within the investigation sectors of the Canada Revenue Agency mandated to develop prosecutions, using special AIMS Audit Groups that covertly discriminate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.[1]

From the author[2]:

The primary intent of this document is to provide the impetus that advances the law in this area of criminal justice, an area where judicial determinations have traditionally been misguided and improperly rendered from limited fact and opinion alone, which has notably resulted in a zigzag of assumptive judgments easily overturned, often to the detriment of the accused, by a Crown appealing to a higher court.

The secondary objective of this document is to provide legal defence teams, litigating tax prosecutions, with a guide of concise explanations and directives with an exclusive disclosure listing that identifies pertinent disclosure evidence data necessary for full answer in defence with respect to the determination of “Predominant Purpose”.

Click on the link http://www.davidsherman.ca/files/opener.php?file=PREDOMINANT PURPOSE (Revised 2014.02.07).pdf

 

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[1] Clint Kimery, Predominant Purpose (2014.02.07 Revision), 1.

[2] Clint Kimery, Predominant Purpose (2014.02.07 Revision), 1.

DESMARAIS FAMILY’S INFLUENCE ON CRA

 

Back when we first began to blog about the depth of corruption at the CRA, our initial introduction from June 2013 contained the following paragraph:

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We need an inquiry. Why do some corporations belonging to the wealthiest families pay no tax? Get audited almost every year? (Even though, apparently, very little is ever found). In the past; have offered employment to auditors while those same auditors are auditing their corporations; and no red flags are raised. Even send tugs to warn auditors to back off or else… See letter dated September 6, 2011.

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In that paragraph we were referring to Power Corporation (part of the Desmarais Group of companies):

Back in the early 1990’s, an auditor from the Montreal Tax Service Office (TSO), Maurice Fréchette, while in the process of a lengthy audit of the Desmarais group of businesses decided to accept an offered of employment at Power Corporation. This alone should have raised concerns at the CRA, but for some reason no alarm bells went off. What’s even more bizarre is that around the same time Mr. Fréchette was being investigated by the CRA in regards to a scandal which involved him and his brother falsifying R&D claims. Of course the investigation was dropped when along came the employment offer from Power Corp.

Again in that same paragraph from our June 2013 intro: we referred to an incident where a senior auditor in the tax avoidance department of the Montreal TSO was subjected to threats of physical harm when someone went to his home and bluntly told him to stay away from a certain case he was working on. Well we are reporting here today with reasonable certainty (because the auditor would not confirm anything) that the case in question was Power Corp. Once again no action was taken by CRA management. In fact, we suspect that it was CRA management who hired the thugs…

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And again the CRA showed their favourable treatment of the Desmarais family in 2011 when they were given a list of Canadian tax cheats whose Swiss bank-account records had been turned over by a whistle-blower and former IT employee of HSC Private Bank in Geneva.

Our fearless leader, Mr. Harper, before the House of Commons vowed to pursue Canadians who are using Swiss bank accounts to avoid paying taxes “to the full extent of the law”; see article below.

Unfortunately for Mr. Harper, the “HSBC” list included the accounts of 2 sons of Paul Desmarais. So rather than investigate and tax the individuals as they had done in most of the case on the list; the audit into the accounts of the Desmarais pair was suddenly called off.

We have to wonder who benefited from the preferential treatment given to the Desmarais’?

Bribery, collusion, and corruption have been all too common at the senior executive level of the Montreal and Ottawa Headquarter offices for too long.

 

REVELATION YVON TALBOT

 

• Surveillance électronique de la GRC révèle qu’Yvon Talbot à accepter un pot de vin.
• M Talbot a admis en Cour du Québec d’avoir détruit des documents appartenant à l’Agence du Revenu du Canada.
  • Ceci est un acte criminel.
• Sa récompense est une promotion comme chef d’équipe dans le secteur construction.

Over the past few months someone has been mailing evidence from criminal cases to taxpayers and ex-CRA employees in the Montreal area. Most people receiving these mailings assumed that an ex-CRA employee turned RCMP informant was the person behind this since that person was providing his social insurance number (SIN) along with other information…

However, since our July 25, 2014 posting mentioned that Yvon Talbot had sent hate mail to a now retired CRA team leader; people aren’t so sure anymore, they’re beginning to realize that it might be Yvon Talbot up to old tricks.

Then we heard about an audio recording making the rounds; a recording which is part of the evidence of a criminal case still to be tried by the courts. Someone had gotten hold of a recording of a taxpayer telling a wired informant that he’d been told that Talbot accepted a bribe: Here’s a transcript of just a small part of the recording:

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TAXPAYER	J’ai entendu qu’il a demandé de l’argent avec un autre, j’ai entendu ça de Talbot.
INFORMANT	Talbot?
TAXPAYER	Oui.
INFORMANT	Il doit de l’argent? Il a demandé de l’argent Talbot? Non. il a toujours dit non.
TAXPAYER	Il a toujours dit non
INFORMANT	Il aurait demandé de l’argent?
TAXPAYER	Oui, à quelqu’un que j’ai parlé.
INFORMANT	Quelqu’un que vous connaissez a parlé pis il vous a dit ça? Mais vous avez dû être surpris?
TAXPAYER	Non je n’étais pas surpris, parce qu’avec moi aussi je pensais qu’il trouve quelque chose.
INFORMANT	Que c’était possible de faire quelque chose?
TAXPAYER	Jamais, jamais dit, il m’a dit: “O.K. bon. C’est quelle sorte d’arrangement, je voudrais payer, je pourrais te passer“.  Mais c’est parce que ce n’est pas la vérité. Donnez-moi de la vérité…

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If you read the above transcript carefully: the taxpayer has been told by another person who had recently been audited by Mr. Talbot, that in that case Talbot accepted a bribe.

The taxpayer then goes on to claim that he wasn’t surprised to find out that Mr. Talbot was taking bribes because in his own audit Mr. Talbot was inflating audit results but never coming clean with honest figures… instead we learn that Mr. Talbot was imprecise about any arrangement always beating around the bush (probably waiting for the taxpayer to make an offer).

Later in the tape it is revealed that the taxpayer is talking about a case we reported to the Commissioner Canada Revenue Agency, Mrs. Linda Lizotte-MacPherson, nearly 2 years ago. Click here to see: October 30, 2012 – CRA promotes racism.

That letter to the then Commissioner speaks of a multi-million dollar tax proposal which had to be written off to zero because we were made to believe that Mr. Talbot had been very racist in his dealings with the taxpayer…

So CRA what will it be? Should Mr. Talbot be fired for being a racist (only about the 100^th incident of racism by this same employee)? Or should he be fired for accepting a bribe?

Why do you stand up for an employee who lies on his T2020: Canlii case: Douville (Re), 2009 FC 986. http://www.canlii.org/eliisa/highlight.do?text=douville+revenue+canada&language=en&searchTitle=Search+all+CanLII+Databases&path=/en/ca/fct/doc/2009/2009fc986/2009fc986.html&searchUrlHash=AAAAAQAXZG91dmlsbGUgcmV2ZW51ZSBjYW5hZGEAAAAAAAAB

He lies to judges.

He’s even admitted on the stand to destroying evidence…

You need to fire Mr. Yvon Talbot (not promote him).

Is this what the conservatives had in mind when federal revenue minister Kerry-Lynne Findlay stated: “Our government is committed to cracking down on any misconduct by officials and cleaning up the situation at CRA”?

Mrs. Findlay: we are not impressed.

I guess the BITCH deserved it…

 

It’s been more than a year that we reported that an employee of the Montreal Tax Service Office was convicted of taking part in the gang rape of a minor. This person should never have been employed by the CRA; the rape charge should have disqualified him from receiving security clearance, however due to bureaucratic error he was allowed in…

Our post re. David S Gallant had us questioning why the CRA would fire some poor guy for making a video game loosely based on his job at the CRA, while a rapist continues to be employed by the Government of Canada?

So we’re forced to conclude that the Government of Canada has decided to keep this employee because the girl/child who was raped probably deserved it. What else can anyone conclude?

The sad fact is Mr. Prime Minister: Just like we learnt a few years ago when your friend Tom Flanagan  commented about child pornography not hurting anyone because these men were simply viewing pictures; the truth of the matter is that every time someone views child pornography that child is being victimized again and again.

So in the same way: Everyday that that sad sac of shit is allowed to work at the CRA, that child who was raped years ago is raped again and again. Don’t reassign him to another job or another department of the government.

FIRE HIM.

 

 

Gone are the days when a man could just sit back with a friend (Tom) and spend the day “just viewing” pictures on the web…

Thank you CRA

 

The authors of this blog would like to thank the CRA for leaks it regularly provides its managers concerning the ongoing “closed door” arbitration process with fired employees…

So CRA, you’re surprised by the fact that 1 employee has recently won her arbitration… maybe you should look at what you provide as proof for her dismissal… BTW who she slept with was never anybody’s business but her own; the government has no business in the nation’s bedrooms… That said we just have to ask, why is this employee naked in front of the Montreal TSO? :)

Anyways we enjoy the leaks and you will be hearing more about these in the following updates to this blog. Please keep illegally leaking information to your managers, it gets to our ears sooner or later.

André St-Amand (UPDATE)

 

In May 2014 we posted an article concerning Mr. André St-Amand who had gone from abused to abuser when a couple of years after allegedly receiving a “beating”, he turned on a fellow employee, assaulting her in full view of others at the Montreal offices.

Well, after we wrote that post, it got people talking in the Montreal TSO, as our posts usually do. We overheard an interesting sidebar to this story. It would appear that the employee in question (we called her Julie) heard that Mr. St-Amand would be testifying at the B.T. Ceramics case in a Laval courtroom. As told to us: as soon as Mr. St-Amand witnessed Julie enter the courtroom (while on the stand) he began to cry. I guess Mr. St-Amand didn’t realize that Julie was there just to watch his testimony, and feared that he was going to be questioned by a lawyer about the assault that happened last year.

We also know that one of the witnesses (another female) to last year’s assault was immediately confronted by Mr. St-Amand at her desk, telling her that she’d better not tell anyone what had just happened. It seems like she had the courage to defy this senior manager, and told Julie she would be willing to help. (We did not speak to either of these females because our source did not wish to implicate either of them in our blog).

Jack Triassi

 

Racism was all too common at the Montreal Tax Service Office in the years before the department of National Revenue was converted to an Agency in 1999 (CCRA); which only 4 years later was again reorganized to the present day Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).

Unfortunately racism still rears its ugly head at the agency, as we’ve noted in past posts.

Today we’d like to report on an incident involving Jack Triassi.

Back in 2003-2004 while in the position of Manager of Audit SME (small and medium enterprises) Jack Triassi instructed members of a selection committee in a PM-02 competition not to hire any Haitian applicants who might be applying from Revenue Quebec. Fortunately for Mr. Triassi. the investigation into the matter was ended quickly after it began.

The reason why Mr. Triassi was unwilling to hire any Haitian applicants was due to the fact that in the previous training group hired in late 2001, 1 Haitian was fired because he could not do the job... So for one bad apple an entire community were tarnished, ignoring the fact that the vast majority of workers with Haitian ethnicity at the CRA do a wonderful job.

Mr. Triassi however had no problem bypassing the rules when hiring Patrick Bélanger and George Sayegh on the instructions of Michel Gionet. Mr. Triassi also authorized that Marc André Rathé be hired at a higher salary than all of the other colleagues who were hired at the same time at the PM-02 level; just because André Rathé’s father was a CRA director.

To put it bluntly Mr. Triassi was never well liked, he was considered a rat, and back stabber.

So now we find out that in order to deflect scrutiny directed towards him by the RCMP, Mr. Triassi was throwing members of his own community under the bus. On many occasions he volunteered misleading information in an attempt to deviate the attention from himself when he realized that the RCMP was investigating him.

What will the tax community think about you, Mr. Triassi, when they find out about this?

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Of course Mr. Triassi is not the only racist at the Montreal TSO: There was a very racial incident that happened in the training group hired in 2001; that group included Yvon Talbot; who complained that the English group of employees were making more changes (recovering more income tax dollars from their audit changes) and closing more files than he and his group because as he put it (remember this is the reasoning of a racist) they (the English group) were giving away all their findings just to close a file.

So let’s try and understand this logic… the English group was giving away audit results in order to close files more quickly. How could that be? Logically the group not giving away audit findings would have the better results, no? Or are we missing something?

Some members of the English group asked that Paul Lemieux, the team leader of the training group, fire that racist incompetent clown Yvon Talbot; however Paul Lemieux did not have the heart to do it… which is ironic because today Mr. Lemieux often receives hate mail from that same employee that he helped years ago.

We’ve also been told by the Italo-Canadian ex-employees of the CRA that Mr. Talbot is always prepared to make false allegations against others, but in a courtroom he is easily brought to tears as he recently did in a Laval courtroom when he admitted in front of a judge that he had committed a criminal act by destroying documents belonging to the CRA.

His lies were also prominently featured in affidavits used to order the release of the famous “Bell Centre” pictures to the media.

Mr. Talbot even starred in a RCMP video which has been labelled as 90 minutes of lies by those same ex-employees who’ve seen it. Of course, in the future, he will be given the time to reflect upon his statements and, again, cry on the witness stand.