Canada's Malicious Prime Minister
"At all material times, the investigation was tainted by considerations of political expediency, by unfairness and by lack of due process.""Carried out under rushed, politically sensitive circumstances, the die was cast before the investigation was fully and competently completed.""The political actors made the decision to publicize the investigation and the allegation against Major-General Fortin. [Eyre and other military officials] acquiesced to this decision.""The reality that Major General Fortin's reputation has been so tarnished by the defendants' conduct that the CAF [Canadian Armed Forces] itself will not accept his return; and the climate that the defendants have created in which an individual who has done nothing wrong cannot continue or advance with their career simply because a complainant made a sexual assault allegation."Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin Statement of Claim"[The lawsuit] seeks to address the grave harm and damage that has been inflicted [on the officer].""Major-General Fortin regrets that he has been forced to start litigation in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice against the Canadian Armed Forces, an institution he has served loyally for over 30 years.""He has sadly concluded that he has no other recourse to redress the injustices to which he has been subjected throughout the ordeal described in the Statement of Claim."Legal team representing Major-General Dany Fortin
Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau has amply demonstrated on several occasions
that he will not tolerate insubordination to his wishes. Declaring
himself a 'feminist' he is nothing but an imposter, claiming for himself
what he delineates as virtues representing any issue that falls into a
progressive category. His sense of entitlement and his natural antipathy
to anyone who might question his sanctimonious positions in the belief
that he is always right and those who find fault with his reasoning must
pay the price, this is the second military serviceman of rank whose
reputation he has personally slurred and ruined.
On
a previous occasion it was the Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff,
Vice-Admiral Mark Norman whom the prime minister accused of leaking
secret information to the press, and in so doing embarrassed Justin
Trudeau. Aside from the fact that Norman did no such thing, and the
so-called secret information had already reached the press, Trudeau
boasted that Norman would be found guilty of the charge of releasing the
fact that the prime minister vetoed a decision of the previous
government to purchase a badly-needed naval supply ship to an
underfunded, under-supplied navy.
In
the event, the-then chief of staff rather than standing by his deputy
and defending him as an honourable man would, chose to support the prime
minister, just as has happened with Dany Fortin who had been assigned
to head the national strategy of COVID defence three years earlier. He
was removed from the post on the strength of a former female naval
officer-cadet charging that he had molested her 30 years previously. A
charge that was found to have no substance, and that saw Major-General
Fortin acquitted. By that time his reputation was in tatters and he had
lost the position he had worked to attain.
He
is now suing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, military officials, police
investigators and Chief of the Defence Staff, General Wayne Eyre. Filed
in the Superior Court of Ontario, the statement of claim alleges shoddy
police work and political interference damaged his reputation and led as
well to a sexual assault charge with no basis in fact. He is now
seeking $5 million in general damages and another $1 million in punitive
damages. The unfortunate thing is that should he be successful in his
mission it will be the Canadian taxpayer that will foot the bill.
There
is irony in that as well as a sense of justice. Taking into account
that the Government of Canada paid millions of taxation-raised treasury
out to Canadian Muslims who were held to be involved in terrorist
activities, several held in Arab state prisons fund guilty in their
places of arrest. When they were released the Muslim-Canadian citizens
-- one of whom was in fact a member of a terrorist group who had
participated in jihadist al-Qaeda conflicts with the West -- accused
Canadian government agencies of aiding and abetting in their prison
stays.
If
Canadian tax dollars can be expended for the purpose of settling
accounts with Muslim Canadians whom authorities are alleged to have
wronged, then there should be no complaints when said tax dollars are
paid out to settle other legitimate complaints of federal government
wrong-doing. Another irony, General Jonathan Vance, the-then chief of
the defence staff who abandoned Mark Norman in favour of pleasing Justin
Trudeau in his vendetta, was later himself found to be guilty of a
sexual misdemeanor of long standing.
Being
sued by Maj.Gen. Fortin are Justin Trudeau, defence chief General Wayne
Eyre, former minister of defence Harjit Sajjan, former health minister
Patty Hajdu, former defence deputy minister Jody Thomas, clerk of the
Privy Council Janice Charette and a number of political aides. All of
whom lent themselves to Trudeau's vendetta against another innocent man.
Named as well in the lawsuit Canadian Forces Provost Marshall
Brig.Gen.Simon Trudeau, members of the Canadian Forces National
Investigation Service, members of Eyre's staff and advisers, along with
other generals. Quite the list.
But
then Fortin had quite a stellar reputation in his military career.
Derailed when the Canadian Forces announced he was under investigation
on an allegation of sexual misconduct that dated back over 30 years.
Removed from his position as senior military commander leading Canada's
COVID-19 vaccine rollout, his reputation was befouled. Charged with one
count of sexual assault in August of 2021, he was acquitted in December
2022 by Quebec judge Richard Meredith's ruling he was not convinced
beyond a reasonable doubt Fortin was the assailant who had assaulted a
member of the military in 1988.
Two
witnesses had been interviewed by military police. Their information
failed to corroborate the complainant's allegations or her version of
events. The claim alleges that public statements relating to the case
came about as a result of pressure by politicians. A review of Fortin's
case was conducted by the military following his acquittal, concluding
the major-general had not, on a balance of probabilities, committed the
sexual assault as alleged.
"The
review was based entirely on information and evidence that the CAF
always had in its possession or control or that it could easily have
obtained had it conducted its investigation with a reasonable degree of
skill and diligence", the statement of claim pointed
out. Despite the acquittal of the criminal charge and exoneration by an
internal review, the major-general's legal team alleges the Canadian
Forces continues to refuse reintegrating Maj.-Gen.Fortin into the
military and to assign him work at his rank level.
Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, right, arrives in uniform with his wife Madeleine Collin and daughter at a Gatineau, Que. courthouse for the third day of his criminal trial. (Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press) |
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