Did David Eby interfere with RCMP criminal contempt charges?

 

Question? Who is in change of prosecuting criminals arrested for defying Supreme Court Injunctions?

The British Columbia Prosecution Service (BCPS) is the government’s legal body responsible for prosecuting criminal cases on behalf of society in British Columbia, Canada. Comprised of around 500 Crown counsel (lawyers) and support staff, its role is to ensure impartial decision-making within the criminal justice system by presenting evidence against accused individuals and advocating for society. The BCPS handles matters such as charging decisions, bail, sentencing, and the consideration of victim impact statements across five regions in the province.

Question? Who controls the The British Columbia Prosecution Service? (BCPS)

The British Columbia Prosecution Service (BCPS) is controlled by the Attorney General, who has overall supervisory authority over prosecutions within the province’s jurisdiction. The Crown Counsel of the BCPS act as agents for the Attorney General to manage the daily prosecution function, with decisions made by Crown Counsel subject to a system designed to protect against political influence.

Question? Who was the Attorney General when the following actions took place?

1. The first RCMP action (2019) was the raid on the Pallet Hotel otherwise known as 44K
2. The second RCMP action (2020) was on the Unist’ot’en Camp
3. The third RCMP action  (2021) on Adam Gagnon’s Road blockade
4. The forth RCMP action was this year (2021) once again on Molly’s Pallet City
5. The filth RCMP action was on the drill pad site (2021), one the hoodlums called Camp Coyote

 

In 2017, David Eby was appointed attorney general in Premier John Horgan’s cabinet where he remained until November 18, 2022, Eby became leader of the NDP following the resignation of Premier Horgan, who stepped down due to health concerns. Eby was subsequently elected party leader by acclamation and was sworn in as premier on November 18, 2022.

The following section is in two parts, the first in regards to a combined total now is well over 70 arrests of persons intentionally breaking the law quashed by the Attorney General David Eby run BC Prosecution Service? The second a story that just broke by the Globe and Mail “RCMP tried to get photojournalist Amber Bracken charged and detained without bail, documents show“

Roughly 58 people being arrested by the RCMP at a cost of over 20 Million Dollars (according to the left wing rag the Tyee) all these highly trained and educated police officers doing what they are trained and paid to do. Add to that the criminal contempt charges in Hazelton where 14 more people were arrested, then another two more in 2022, so the combined total now is well over 70 arrests of persons intentionally breaking the law.

Let me quote from the Vancouver Sun.

“In a B.C. Supreme Court ruling earlier this month, Justice Ward Branch said the B.C. Prosecution Service is “not the sole arbiter of the public interest.”

“While the BCPS has expertise in assessing and pursuing criminal offences, the court undoubtedly has its own expertise in protecting the administration of justice and ensuring respect for the courts …” Branch ruled.“

 

One can only legitimately surmise even Justice Ward Branch was staggered by how the B.C. Prosecution Service was refusing to do what it was legally bound to do. So who gave those orders? If they came from David Eby, does that mean he should be charged with criminal interference for his involvement?

 

Oh but there is more from Justice Ward Branch

Its perfectly understandable now why the B.C. Supreme Court clearly saw this interference to block he B.C. Supreme Court’s ability to enforce court injunctions.

Then this…

Justice Branch agreed that the situation “is not ideal,” but when Crown counsel declined to press charges “the court is effectively left to ‘make the best out of a bad situation.’”

Branch noted that “judicial contempt power has existed for as long as courts themselves,” later ruling “that the long term repute of the administration of justice is imperilled by the mass public disobedience of a court order.”

 

So the goverment funded legacy media spun this story as a failure on the part of the RCMP to do their jobs properly and wasting 20 Million taxpayer dollars. The question they all should have been asking is “was this criminal interference at the highest level inside the BC NDP Goverment by David Eby?

Clearly even Justice Ward Branch was stunned by how the B.C. Prosecution Service was refusing to bring criminal contempt charges against those people who were operatives of the Molly Wickham and Freda Huson blockades.”

 

As we cannot run the entire Globe and mail story, due to copyright issues, we can dissect what they published. So we begin with the intro.

The story that follows really shows a very different Amber Bracken than the one the “paid” mainstream media reported to Canadians and the world. But it reeks of complicit goverment interference.

 

 

Recall how the mainstream press painted her as a peaceful kind loving journalist? Well could it be they had her all wrong, and that she was more of an accomplice than a journalist?

Let me quote Ian Harvey a well respected journalist who has written for The Toronto Sun, National Post, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Macleans, Readers Digest and many other publications. 

 

“Claims they are journalists are suspect. I have been a journalist for 45 years and I would not sign on under these conditions.
These are the restrictions the “journalists” were working under. In which case they were no longer journalists but in fact PR agents IMHO.

“All media requests must be sent to Jennifer Wickham (Molly the ringleader’s sister) through email or phone. All reporting must center,, prioritize and uplift Wet’suwet’en voices and sovereignty (which in this case means the Hereditary Chiefs’ version not the band councils and majority who voted for CGL). Reporting focusing on or using non- Wet’suwet’en voices (supports, etc) must be FIRST approved by Jennifer Wickham. Failure to respect Media Protocol could result in being banned from reporting on Wet’suwet’en stories.”

 

 

 

Here we go AGAIN – Crown never approved charges!
Crown meaning David Eby who was the Attorney General at this time?

 

 

 

 

A lawyer for the federal Department of Justice told the court last week the government wants the details of Ms. Bracken’s second arrest struck from the current civil suit.  The court heard that hours before she was ultimately released for good, a Prince George detachment staff sergeant called a Crown prosecutor and then that prosecutor called him back 20 minutes later. The details of those conversations were redacted from the police files entered into court.

More Goverment Interference?

 

Now some of the missing context to this whole story published Jan. 28, 2022 (Link to the original is here) We took the liberty of transcribing this important story, so you can read what the media never disclosed.  It changes the entire public narrative of peaceful demonstrators and illegitimate journalists. Feel free to verify what we wrote by listening to the audio, and if the link fails, we have a copy of it here. Please take the time to read this, or listen, its a critical component when speaking goverment interference at the highest chain of command.

 

Alex Pierson:

Did Canadians get the whole story about a confrontational protest at a BC pipeline?

No, they did not.

This happened just before Christmas when there was this confrontation between the RCMP and First Nation and environmental protesters at a Wet’suwet’en protest camp that was trying to stop the construction of the Coastal Gaslink pipeline.

And this is a pipeline that was not just approved, but it had a lot of support in many Indigenous communities.

And the protesters ended up blocking off the road, which trapped several of the workers inside who could not get out to get food or water or anything.

So police moved in to remove the protesters and arrested 15 people, including two journalists.

And at the time, the reporters accused the officers of coming in violently and arresting them at gunpoint and that they weren’t read their rights.

Well, this was rebuked by politicians and media across the country, except emails obtained by the Department of Public Safety by Black Locks Reporter seems to tell a very different story, which is where we meet up with a friend, Tom Korsky, who is the managing editor of Black Locks Reporter and who got that scoop.

Hello, Tom.

Tom Korski:

Hi, Alex.

Alex Pierson: Yeah, not often we get to talk twice in a row, but I’m glad to have it because this was a very big story before the Christmas break where you had these this violent kind of protest and everyone was aghast at what happened.

And then you find out, no, no, there’s another side to the story.

Tom Korski: And this is the version presented by the Department of Public Safety and to its minister, Mr. Mendicino.

So not an opponent of the environmental group or the reporter in this case for one of them was for the CBC, publicly funded.

The other was for the Narwhal, an environmental advocacy website, also publicly funded.

This is a big problem, Alex.

This story drew international attention and condemnation.

The RCMP were depicted by some commentators as sort of a gestapo, you know, barging into this cabin of these

Peaceful unarmed protesters with barking dogs, guns and a chainsaw inspired very dramatic YouTube video that has been seen hundreds of thousands of times.

Problem, said the police and the Minister of Public Safety in this memo.

What was not shown and not reported by the reporters at the scene was the fact that police stood outside the cabin for an hour and more.

reading the court injunction explaining their role.

At no point do the journalists identify themselves as such until they’re in custody and the arrest is underway.

This is a serious problem, Alex.

Everyone understands the concept of advocacy journalism, but you can’t leave out facts.

We cannot get answers from the Narwhal or the Canadian Association of Journalists,

that describe the RCMP’s conduct as misconduct and disgusting, a national disgrace.

A lot of questions here.

Alex Pierson: Yeah, and ultimately the charges were dropped against the two reporters, as I understand.

But hey, I mean, don’t let facts get in the way of a good story.

But herein lies the problem.

Why didn’t the Public Safety Minister come out and clarify that?

Because there is an issue.

I mean, we get these protests and they do shock people and then people go away with only one narrative.

But

Why wouldn’t they be more proactive in making sure that there was, you know, a full reading of the facts?

Tom Korski:

Mendocino was never asked.

It never occurred.

He was asked briefly once, and he’s a former Crown prosecutor, and the minister said, you know, yeah, this was unfortunate, but you know, you got to do what you got to do.

Meanwhile, there’s no doubt he had a memo on his desk that indicated that the, according to the police version, they were there.

This was a misrepresentation of what occurred, and it was a very serious misrepresentation.

You know, in this business, Alex, I gotta tell you a couple of secrets.

This is 40 years in the newsroom.

You always look for the reason not to report the story.

That’s called being fair-minded.

You don’t leave out facts that you may not like.

When you look for a reason not to report the story and you can’t find one, you got a hell of a story there.

But if you don’t want to report the fact, as according to the government memo, that you don’t identify yourself as a reporter for more than an hour,

The police memo said the people in the cabin, while the cops are trying to communicate with them, exchanged derogatory remarks.

It almost looks like you’re manufacturing a point of confrontation so you can cry press freedom.

That’s not a good look, Alex.

Alex Pierson:

Well, it’s not.

And you’re also taught in journalism school, do not make yourself a part of the story.

I’ve covered a lot of protests.

I get how they can get very heated.

I was covered off G7 with the black block.

I’ve seen it.

And so I can see how these things get out of control.

But I also know that, generally speaking, when you’re at a protest and the cops are there and it’s getting heated, you say, look, I’m journalist, here’s my credential.

And generally speaking, they’ll kind of step back and calmer heads will prevail.

But on the flip side, you know, this is one of those stories that also infuriated a lot of indigenous groups that are part of the coastal link gas line who want the project to go forward, who were very angry that this confrontation happened because they actively want this.

And they felt like only one group gets kind of the story.

And then it doesn’t actually tell the facts that is indigenous groups do actually want pipeline.

It’s not all of them who don’t.

Tom Korski:

You know, there’s no doubt that there are five or six different sides to this story.

But no one side gets to omit or fail to present certain facts that may undermine a point of view.

Alex, if this is what passes for media reportage in this country now, subsidized by the taxpayers of Canada,

We’re so far down the slippery slope, we don’t know which way is up anymore.

You can’t do it.

Why should taxpayers pay for that, and why should anyone have to put up with that?

It’s answer time.

We can’t get answers from the narwhal, and we can’t get answers from the Canadian Association of Journalists.

Isn’t that ironic?

They just like to ask questions, but they don’t like to provide answers.

Alex Pierson:

Well, the CBC Ombudsman has been very busy in the last year or so dealing with the reporting that is not accurate.

So is this going to go to the is this going to get to them?

Tom Korski:

Well, who knows where the complaints will go, but there’s no I mean, this was raised in the House of Commons as a sad, sad instance of police violence.

It was called police violence by the reporters at the scene.

You know,

I’m no friend of the RCMP, in particular the Commercial Crimes Unit, but no one has to put up with this, especially when you’re doing your job and you’re standing on the line explaining to people who don’t identify themselves as reporters who may be calling you filthy names so they can do the big takedown video.

That’s a big, big problem.

Alex Pierson:

Yeah, and also at a time when trust in the institutions like our military and policing are kind of at an all-time low, you would think that the government would want to come out and say, Hey, just a second.

Catch your breath.

Here’s what actually happened.

Make your own.

Here are the facts, lay them out, let people make their own decision.

But good digging on you.

We’ll see where this one goes.

Appreciate you updating us.

Tom Korski:

Thank you kindly, Alex.

Alex Pierson:

That is Don Gorski over at Black Locks Reporter.

They dug this up, and of course, I thought…

Let’s get the other side to this story, so we’ll see if this goes any further.