Ethical and Social Commentary on Life in PEI

Episode #12: Recruiting Package? What Recruiting Package? If you have been following this series, you’re hopefully beginning to get a better understanding of how CMT/FMT’s business relationship with the PEI Government first began in earnest in 2010. Garth Jenkins got the ball rolling after introducing his cousin Paul Jenkins to Paul Maines at Smitty’s restaurant in Charlottetown, near the end...

Preamble This one’s MUCH shorter than the last! +++++++++++++++++ Episode #11: Judge Campbell’s Unfortunate Confusion Over “Claimatrix” In the last very long and complicated episode, it was explained how CMT was in the process of becoming “FMT” by acquiring a “shell company” (RevTech) to become listed on the stock exchange. What’s important to understand with all this corporate stuff is...

Episode #10: The Securities Commission “Agreement” with CMT and Paul Maines Preamble This is the final part of my three-part “mini-series” on the Securities Commission within my 25-part “Truth and No Consequences” series. The next episode will return to the initial format with shorter pieces on targeted parts of Judge Campbell’s decision. It’s been an incredible education for me to...

Episode #9: The Securities Investigation Hearing that Never Happened! Episode #8 set the stage for the Securities Investigation Hearing scheduled to take place against Paul Maines and CMT on March 7, 2013. This episode deals with the period of time from when the Hearing Notice was served (February 14th) to just after the scheduled Hearing on March 7, 2013. This...

I receive a lot of private facebook messages and emails about the research I’m doing on  e-gaming and the CMT lawsuit, and I really appreciate all the comments and  feedback. A frequent question I get is: “Why are you still beating a dead horse?” I’ve pondered how to respond to that question a lot, and I have given different answers...

Preamble It’s not possible to understand Judge Campbell’s ruling, or the ongoing cover-up of this multi-pronged and continuing scandal, without knowing why Steven Dowling’s six-year old affidavit features so prominently in the Motion to Dismiss ruling by Judge Campbell. The answer lies in what happened with the Securities Investigation and Scheduled Hearing against Paul Maines and CMT that Dowling initiated...

Episode #6: Did Paul Maines Solicit an Investment from Paul Jenkins?  The real story behind the CMT/764 lawsuit will only be fully known when the truth about what happened during a few fateful days in September, 2012 is revealed – when the first and only Securities Investigation (file #001) to EVER have been conducted in PEI was launched. There’s an incredibly-important...

Episode #3: Was Chris LeClair an “Agent of Government”? CMT made a number of “claims” involving Chris LeClair, who was Robert Ghiz’s Chief-of-Staff from June 12, 2007 until October 17, 2011.   In episode #2, I dealt with Chris LeClair’s investment in a CMT-related business venture and noted that Judge Campbell made no mention of that conflict of interest and insider...

Question #2: Did Chris LeClair commit “Insider Trading” with the egaming file? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Background After the Auditor General made public her report Special Assignment on E-gaming, the media jumped all over her finding that two senior government officials had an appearance of “conflict of interest” in the e-gaming file: Billy Dow and Chris LeClair. Chris LeClair was Premier Ghiz’s Chief-of-Staff from June...

I posted a blog article on April 2, 2019 titled, “Complaint Letter to the Law Society against Billy Dow,”   That followed another article in my e-gaming funding series which documented Dow’s involvement in that fiasco: “A Conspiracy to Commit Fraud: The Full Story on the E-gaming Loan.” I’ve since received a decision letter from the Law Society Secretary-Treasurer, Susan Robinson....

Island Farmer reporter, Andy Walker, recently wrote an excellent synopsis of the recent Irving land grab of 2,200 acres titled, “The Line has been Drawn.”  Please take the time to read it before continuing. Walker agrees with me that there is no “loophole” in the Lands Protection Act that allowed this Irving land deal.  The claim that the deal was...

Yesterday I posted an article with  information on the market price of prime farmland in Prince County at rates as high as $6,500 per acre, pointing out that the Irving family was somehow able to acquire the 2,200 acres for a little more than a third of the market value for the land, roughly $2,300 per acre ($5.1 million).  After...

Talking with farmers in the Bedeque area, I’m hearing that the 2,200 acres of farmland the Irving family acquired from the Gardiner family was “prime” farmland. Prime farmland in the area has been selling for as high as $5,500 per Acre;; one farmer told me a woodlot that had to be cleared recently sold for $4,000 per acre.  I found confirmation that...

  This is the public announcement from Stewart-McKelvey lawyer Geoffrey Connolley in today’s Guardian (August 24, 2019 – you can find it on the bottom right-hand corner of page B9). It gives notice that Galloway Farms Ltd., will be asking the office of the Attorney General to “surrender the Charter of the said company”. Few Islanders likely read this notice,...

  Following my recent Facebook post of a quote from Premier King saying interlocking corporations within the same family are “one corporation” and subject to the Lands Protection Act’s limit of 3000 acres of arable land, I received a number of requests for the “source” of that quotation, so I’m providing a link to the video clip. I really don’t...

The public revelation earlier this week that 2,200 acres of farmland in the Bedeque area was acquired by Rebecca Irving – one of Mary-Jean Irving’s two daughters – came as a shock to many Islanders. Using a secretive corporation acquisition and/or transfer scheme to avoid submitting a second application to IRAC to purchase the land may seem like a shrewd...

If this same amount of money had been loaned out to Islanders wanting to start small businesses in communities across the province at $100,000 increments it could have promoted the emergence of 568 new businesses in Prince Edward Island!