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CFB Gagetown - Toxic Chemicals - 1956-1984

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« on: April 18, 2009, 10:50:18 am »

Saskatchewan/Gagetown Class Action Delayed Once More
Cpl. Kenneth H. Young CD (ret)
Nanaimo, B.C.

On January 30, 2009, Justice Zarzeczny' s handed down his written decision thereby dismissing the applications to stay court proceedings in reference to the CFB Gagetown Toxic Chemical Defoliant, class action law suit proceedings in Saskatchewan, sought by Ottawa, Pharmacia and Dow. This would seem to have meant that the court dates would proceed on schedule for Mar 9-13 but alas not so.
Pharmacia  served a notice of constitutional question respecting the class actions act of Saskatchewan, and the government is moving to cross-examine some of our affidavit deponents which without a doubt will be opposed by the Merchant law Group, leaving the court (Justice Zarzeczny) little other choice then to choose alternative dates where there would be more time for the parties in questions to present their submissions and/or arguments. The last week in April and first week in May were set aside to deal with this because it was the first date when all counsel and the court would be available.



Now I have never been one of the people who put all that much strength in the old wives tale that if you leave the scene of a crime that it indicates guilt but if a party, in this case the Government of Canada, Pharmacia and Dow, has nothing to hide, if they have done nothing wrong and if the soldiers from CFB Gagetown didn't die needlessly due to Political and the Chemical Industries' neglect and bungling of chemical formulas or the registration process, why are all defendants trying every trick in the book and some that will have to be added to it later, to prevent this case from ever coming to trial? Why is there a gag order on most of the evidence? And why are most of the news media staying away from this both National and International story as if it were the plague?

Seems to me if I were innocent that I would want to get it over with as soon and inexpensively as possible, yet here we are some 4 years with Class actions pending in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador and we the victims (Plaintiffs') still do not even have leave to file a class action law suit with respect to CFB Gagetown. There is little doubt that combined legal fees may be approaching if they haven't already surpassed the amounts paid out in the ex gratia so called compensation package.

But what is so bad, what secret is so awful that none of the defendants wish it to be brought to trial, or brought to the eyes and ears of the Canadian public and dealt with once and for all, before all of the plaintive are dead? I sometimes wonder if there is not more to it then just the Rainbow Chemicals, some dark and dirty secret which the parties in question fear might be brought to light if this did go to trial.


Ken
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