Does the Canadian Government Sanction Mental Torture?

Does the Canadian Government Sanction Mental Torture?

Mental wellness is the new maxim for enterprise in the 21st century, and governments tout it as a priority no less than the gurus of self-help. So, our government must know that they depart from that position when they allow bureaucrats to do the slow-roll to citizens, increasing response times to farcical levels when questions of impropriety are leveled against officials. The legal maxim that justice delayed is justice denied is part of the bedrock of western law, and yet delay and evasion are tactical weapons that our governments rely on to frustrate demands for clarity where injustice has occurred. Stretched long enough, this tactic is nothing short of mental torture.

Much governmental delay is due to the standard bureaucratic quagmire that traditionally exists, slowing the processing of building permits and business licenses or relating to the inexplicable departures on cost that always exist. Because these slow-moving systems are now accepted as the norm, Public Service has become synonymous with slow service. So, it is an obvious next step to go from slow to protracted when the required answers are inconvenient to the image of the bureaucracy as a whole.

Canadians are a resilient bunch and many push through this type of resistance, only to find that the extended delay makes their victory hollow, as the newly resulting data is deemed old and irrelevant. Dead on arrival, so to speak. So, that magnificent resilience only turns a death of a thousand cuts into a death of a million cuts, while the related bureaucracy’s “inert defense” has covered a multitude of sins.

Literally, it is by crushing citizens’ rights that the government covers up earlier crushing of citizen’s rights. Hardly the Duty of Care that the law has mandated from our bureaucracies.

Many of you know the history of WayFare Identifiers Inc. We were a R&D firm that was created at the behest of the Federal Government, which clearly stated support for our development of border security systems that could analyze cargo for products of illicit trade and flag related indicators of money laundering. The company was financially floated on the after-tax savings & assets of the Elderfield family, and there were no taxes owed. This last statement is specifically supported by the fact that SR&ED (an arm of the CRA) fully documented that we were due large amounts of rebated funds for technical research costs we had borne.

The slow roll of WayFare started with unexplained stoppage of those SR&ED payments, followed by accounts being frozen with no warning, followed by threatening calls that refused to address questions or to give any explanation. Our responses were utterly Canadian:

1)?????The CEO opened a Line-of-Credit against his personal home to address operational hold-ups, only to have the CRA have that LoC frozen & recalled.

2)?????When our first response resulted in foreclosure on the CEO’s home, the forced sale funds were used to fully address the CRA’s stated requirements. Though paid under duress, this should have closed the CRA’s files & their stated concerns about WayFare, since the agreement was made in foreclosure court.

3)?????The action the CRA took after our second response was to send a much larger tax bill, with no regard to the fact that we were a pre-revenue R&D company that had just met their own "final settlement" requirements in the foreclosure court. The WayFare team openly demanded that the CRA run a full audit of the company and the entwined financials of their CEO. And the CRA agreed to do this.

4)?????For 2 years CRA personnel delayed, evaded and lied in order to refuse us that audit, despite weekly calls we made to ensure it was booked and completed.

5)?????Our lawyers and accountants then started to enter ATIP requests to get to the documentation and underlying motives behind the CRA’s actions. After the involvement of 3 lawyers, 2 accounting firms, 8 MP’s, 2 Senators and 7 years of the same, the CRA sent 22 pages of their Diarized Notes (instead of the nearly thousand pages requested.)

6)?????That small package of Diarized Notes completely indicted the CRA’s actions against WayFare, so we knew the Taxpayers Ombudsman, Sherra Profit, would jump right on the issues and exonerate WayFare of any wrong-doing! But not so much. On finding that the Taxpayers Ombudsman actually reports to the head of the CRA, we knew we were dealing with another slow roll.

7)?????Over a 4 year period, Senator Percy Downe delivered WayFare’s 184 page data file, a well-organized outline of the facts, to the Taxpayers Ombudsman twice. Once during Sherra Profit’s tenure and again, more recently, under Francois Boileau’s tenure. Both times the Ombudsman was instructed by the head of the CRA that our data was not to be even opened, let alone reviewed.

8)?????The pressure that is building because of WayFare’s resilience caused a recent reversal of the Ombudsman’s position. And so, now they are reviewing the file… based on the exact same argument we made to them starting nearly 6 years ago.

This is the very definition of mental torture. When citizens have their patriotic work decimated without explanation and when that damage is carried out by Public Servants tasked by their own masters to help us, that is deep cause to investigate for corruption of a few. But when they, as a unified bureaucracy, further destroy lives to stop that investigation, that is sanctioned torture. At any time, I would gladly have met them in court had they openly brought charges (as requested) but instead they used insidious and protracted silence to cover their deeds, never officially documenting this abuse of power.

Does the Canadian Government sanction torture? Yes they do. But before we die, we still want to know their motive… don’t you?