COURT SEAL
Court File No.:T-2010-11
FEDERAL COURT
B E T W E E N:
COMMITTEE FOR MONETARY AND ECONOMIC REFORM (“COMER”),
WILLIAM KREHM, AND ANN EMMETT
Plaintiffs
- and -
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, THE MINISTER OF FINANCE,
THE MINISTER OF NATIONAL REVENUE, THE BANK OF CANADA,
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA
Defendants
STATEMENT OF CLAIM
(Pursuant to s.17 (1) and (5)(b) Federal Courts Act,
and s.24(1) and 52 of the Constitution Act, 1982)
(Filed this 12th day of December, 2011)
TO THE DEFENDANT:
A LEGAL PROCEEDING HAS BEEN COMMENCED AGAINST YOU by the
Applicant. The claim made against you is set out in the following pages.
IF YOU WISH TO DEFEND THIS PROCEEDING, you or a solicitor acting for you are
required to prepare a statement of defence in Form 171B prescribed by the Federal Courts
Rules, serve it on the applicant’s solicitor or, where the applicant does not have a solicitor,
serve it on the applicant, and file it, with proof of service, at a local office of this Court,
WITHIN 30 DAYS after this statement of claim is served on you, if you are served within
Canada.
Copies of the Federal Courts Rules, information concerning the local offices of the Court
and other necessary information may be obtained on request to the Administrator of this
Court at Ottawa (telephone 613-992-4238) or at any local office.
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IF YOU FAIL TO DEFEND THIS PROCEEDING, judgment may be given against you
in your absence and without further notice to you.
Date: December 12th, 2011 Issued by:
Address of local office:
Federal Court of Canada
180 Queen Street West, Suite 200
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3L6
TO: Department of Justice
Ontario Regional Office
First Canadian Place
The Exchange Tower
130 King Street West
Suite 3400, Box 36
Toronto, Ontario
M5X 1K6
AND TO: Bank of Canada
234 Wellington St.
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A
18. The Bank may
…
(i) make loans or advances for periods not exceeding six
months to the Government of Canada or the government of a
province on taking security in readily marketable securities
issued or guaranteed by Canada or any province;
(j) make loans to the Government of Canada or the
government of any province, but such loans outstanding at
any one time shall not, in the case of the Government of
Canada, exceed one-third of the estimated revenue of the
Government of Canada for its fiscal year, and shall not, in the
case of a provincial government, exceed one-fourth of that
government's estimated revenue for its fiscal year, and such
loans shall be repaid before the end of the first quarter after
the end of the fiscal year of the government that has
contracted the loan;
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B/ and further that the refusal to request and make (interest free)
loans under s. 18(i) and (j) of the Bank of Canada Act has
resulted in negative and destructive impact on Canadians by
the disintegration of Canada’s economy, its financial
institutions, increase in public debt, decrease in social
services, as well as a widening gap between rich and poor
with an continuing disappearance of the middle class;
iii) that s. 18(m) of the Bank of Canada Act, and its administration and
operation, is unconstitutional and of no force and effect, in
Parliament and the government, including the Defendant Minister of
Finance, abdicating their duty to govern, and insofar, as monetary,
currency and financial policies, per se, are concerned, and in turn as
they effect socio-economic governance, have abdicated their
constitutional duty(ies)and handed them over to those international,
private entities, whose interests, and directives, are placed above the
interests of Canadians, and the primacy of the Constitution of
Canada, not only with respect to its specific provisions, but also with
respect to the underlying constitutional imperatives, and which
provision reads:
(m) open accounts in a central bank in any other country or in
the Bank for International Settlements, accept deposits from
central banks in other countries, the Bank for International
Settlements, the International Monetary Fund, the
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and
any other official international financial organization, act as
agent or mandatary, or depository or correspondent for any of
those banks or organizations, and pay interest on any of those
deposits;
http://www.comer.org/content/COMER_CourtCaseFiling.pdf
COURT CASE PROCEEDS Two individual Canadians and COMER confront the global financial powers in the Canadian federal court.
Press Release (pdf) • Court Filing (pdf)
Court File No.:T-2010-11
FEDERAL COURT
B E T W E E N:
COMMITTEE FOR MONETARY AND ECONOMIC REFORM (“COMER”),
WILLIAM KREHM, AND ANN EMMETT
Plaintiffs
- and -
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, THE MINISTER OF FINANCE,
THE MINISTER OF NATIONAL REVENUE, THE BANK OF CANADA,
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA
Defendants
STATEMENT OF CLAIM
(Pursuant to s.17 (1) and (5)(b) Federal Courts Act,
and s.24(1) and 52 of the Constitution Act, 1982)
(Filed this 12th day of December, 2011)
TO THE DEFENDANT:
A LEGAL PROCEEDING HAS BEEN COMMENCED AGAINST YOU by the
Applicant. The claim made against you is set out in the following pages.
IF YOU WISH TO DEFEND THIS PROCEEDING, you or a solicitor acting for you are
required to prepare a statement of defence in Form 171B prescribed by the Federal Courts
Rules, serve it on the applicant’s solicitor or, where the applicant does not have a solicitor,
serve it on the applicant, and file it, with proof of service, at a local office of this Court,
WITHIN 30 DAYS after this statement of claim is served on you, if you are served within
Canada.
Copies of the Federal Courts Rules, information concerning the local offices of the Court
and other necessary information may be obtained on request to the Administrator of this
Court at Ottawa (telephone 613-992-4238) or at any local office.
2
IF YOU FAIL TO DEFEND THIS PROCEEDING, judgment may be given against you
in your absence and without further notice to you.
Date: December 12th, 2011 Issued by:
Address of local office:
Federal Court of Canada
180 Queen Street West, Suite 200
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3L6
TO: Department of Justice
Ontario Regional Office
First Canadian Place
The Exchange Tower
130 King Street West
Suite 3400, Box 36
Toronto, Ontario
M5X 1K6
AND TO: Bank of Canada
234 Wellington St.
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A
18. The Bank may
…
(i) make loans or advances for periods not exceeding six
months to the Government of Canada or the government of a
province on taking security in readily marketable securities
issued or guaranteed by Canada or any province;
(j) make loans to the Government of Canada or the
government of any province, but such loans outstanding at
any one time shall not, in the case of the Government of
Canada, exceed one-third of the estimated revenue of the
Government of Canada for its fiscal year, and shall not, in the
case of a provincial government, exceed one-fourth of that
government's estimated revenue for its fiscal year, and such
loans shall be repaid before the end of the first quarter after
the end of the fiscal year of the government that has
contracted the loan;
4
B/ and further that the refusal to request and make (interest free)
loans under s. 18(i) and (j) of the Bank of Canada Act has
resulted in negative and destructive impact on Canadians by
the disintegration of Canada’s economy, its financial
institutions, increase in public debt, decrease in social
services, as well as a widening gap between rich and poor
with an continuing disappearance of the middle class;
iii) that s. 18(m) of the Bank of Canada Act, and its administration and
operation, is unconstitutional and of no force and effect, in
Parliament and the government, including the Defendant Minister of
Finance, abdicating their duty to govern, and insofar, as monetary,
currency and financial policies, per se, are concerned, and in turn as
they effect socio-economic governance, have abdicated their
constitutional duty(ies)and handed them over to those international,
private entities, whose interests, and directives, are placed above the
interests of Canadians, and the primacy of the Constitution of
Canada, not only with respect to its specific provisions, but also with
respect to the underlying constitutional imperatives, and which
provision reads:
(m) open accounts in a central bank in any other country or in
the Bank for International Settlements, accept deposits from
central banks in other countries, the Bank for International
Settlements, the International Monetary Fund, the
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and
any other official international financial organization, act as
agent or mandatary, or depository or correspondent for any of
those banks or organizations, and pay interest on any of those
deposits;
http://www.comer.org/content/COMER_CourtCaseFiling.pdf
COURT CASE PROCEEDS Two individual Canadians and COMER confront the global financial powers in the Canadian federal court.
Press Release (pdf) • Court Filing (pdf)