PART 1
BACKGROUNDER ON THE SUMMARY JUDGEMENT
MOTION FILED AGAINST WHISTLE-BLOWER “KARI REYNOLDS” by PAUL MAINES
Earlier today I posted the following on Facebook, promising an update on the Dennis King lawsuit.
This is that promised article.
It’s about a Summary Judgment Motion filed in the PEI Supreme Court just a few days ago against one of the very same whistle-blowers who gave Paul Maines the documents upon which he relied in filing his legal action about the Gamesys online gaming scam that King et. al. were allegedly concocting at the time…uh…that is, according to Jeffrey Warren Reynolds and his wife Kari.
I’ve been publishing articles on this law suit since it was first launched in 2021.
It’s now 2026.
That’s 5 years that both:
(1) the Island media, and;
(2) Opposition Party MLAs have said NOTHING at all about this HUGE political scandal brewing backstage, about to land itself centre-stage.
I guess we shouldn’t really be all that surprised that so many Islanders still have no clue that this unfolding scandal is even happening, let alone know anything about the case.
I say “scandal” because someone’s lying, and whoever that is, those individuals (either “JR & Kari” or “King et. al.”) have committed a crime spelled out with penalties in our Canadian Criminal Code!
Here’s one of a handful of comments below this morning’s FB post:
For readers who may not be aware of the legal guts of this case, I’ll start by giving the “Coles Note” version (notice, not “notes” plural, this case is that simple to explain!
All the procedural twists, changes in legal representation with JR, and “flips” over the last 5 years by the Whistleblowers….well, that’s quite another story indeed, one that you’ll have to go back through my articles to piece together on your own.
For the purposes of this article, where the Plaintiff, Paul Maines, has made a bold strategic legal move effectively ” turning the tables” on King et. al.’s attempt to abruptly have his case tossed in the dumpster with their own summary judgement Motion filed over a year ago, with a Summary Judgment Motion of his own against one of the two Whistle-blowers, Kari Reynolds!
And as you’ll see, it’s a very clever move, because it is a case that’s structured in such a way as to compel some disclosure of truth on this matter from the court, and some much-needed transparency.
It’s against Kari Reynolds. Not the main Whistle-blower, JR, who did most of the communicating with Maines.
Why Kari and not JR?
Read on.
JR and Kari worked together as a husband and wife whistle-blowing team in providing Paul Maines with hundreds of documents, many from FB messenger exchanges that JR claimed to have had with lots of important PEI people.
Important people including former Premier Dennis King, with some of them explicitly discussing a “secret” and “off-the-books” scam led by King to set up an online, privately-owned and run, gaming, gambling portal.
A number of the same people who were involved with Robert Ghiz and Wes Sheridan’s failed attempt to set up an online gambling portal trying to get around the law by bringing the Mi’kmaq Confederacy of PEI into the scheme back in 2012 show up again with this secret scheme.
People including Chris LeClair (named as a Defendant in this case AND the main egaming case), as well as the head of of Gaming company in Ontario, Keith Laslop.
There are also new people allegedly involved as well, powerful people like Frank Zhou, who was the key PNP Intermediary who Robert Ghiz gave the power to bring whomever he wanted to bring to PEI from China, by nominating them for Permanent Residency status…hundreds of powerful Chinese streaming into Canada via PEI over the years; a few of whom have stayed in PEI, like Frank Zhou, and senior Bliss & Wisdom Inc. executives; however, most have long-since moved on to other places in Canada.
Why sue just one of the two Whistle-blowers….the Mrs.?
Before a judge ever got a chance to look at all those FB messages, emails and other documents that Maines got from JR to file his lawsuit, something that should have happened early, years ago, in the normal course of civil litigation procedure and process, wherein it would be determined whether the whistle-blowers had in fact pr9vided Paul given authentic or fraudulent documents to, something, or someone, apparently “flipped” JR and Keri!
Maines was suddenly no longer their buddy in a cause for government justice, and they without notice “ceased being whistle-blowers,” leaving Maines in a pretty precarious and potentially dangerous legal predicament!
What else happened around that time….hmm…let me think…oh yeah!
Keri suddenly got a big promotion at work. Really big.
Related to the flip?
Who knows?
Jeffrey and Kari then bought and moved into a great-big, brand-spanking new house they proudly posted about on FB.
Related to the flip?
Who can say?
Then, just before that crucial “document disclosure” and discovery phase of the litigation process that’s supposed to happen very early in the process, immediately after the lawsuit is filed and receive Statements of Defenses from those being sued, took YEARS in this case.
But before JR could be questioned under oath, the poor guy had a stroke.
Maines’ lawyer was informed he would be unable to give testimony.
King was however, questioned under oath, but refused to answer key questions.
I haven’t written an article about the Judge’s ruling on a Motion that was filed to compel testimony from King yet, in accordance with the most basic rules of civil procedure, but the Judge found AGAINST Maines, King didn’t have to give testimony!! More to come on that ruling, but it is being appealed. Not a single media from any Island media was in the Court room to witness Andrew Kirk in action with what was his debut court performance since establishing his Atlantic office for Phillips Barristers in Charlottetown.
Meanwhile, King et. al., who had previously denied everything in their Statements of Defense, but had never actually filed any sworn affidavits, suddenly filed a Motion for Summary Judgment about a year ago in a bid to end Maines’ case against them, i.e., a judge ‘ending’ Maines’ case (like Judge Gordan Campbell did, or I should say, “tried to do,” with Maines’ $50 million egaming lawsuit).
That “Summary Judgement Motion” decision against Maines was appealed, and the PEI Court of Appeal overturned Campbell’s completely flawed ruling (which I wrote over 20 articles about, meticulously exposing the entire 200+ ruling as biased, flawed, and in appearance, the pernicious product of judicial corruption!
That’s really all I need to say at this point to introduce the latest development initiated by Maines in a procedural battle for transparency in this judicial war being waged against the disclosure of truth.
ONE SIMPLE QUESTION REMAINS UNANSWERED AFTER 5 YEARS
Not by the RCMP, although they’ve been investigating this matter for 18 months. from the time Maines reported to them that a crime had been committed, which he found out after being served with the Summary Judgment Motion and sworn Affidavits from King et. al. Affidavits swearing that the documents Maines filed from JR and Kari were fraudulent.
JR had reached out to me as well as Paul Maines and had shared material with me. I gave a substantial amount of first-hand testimony to the RCMP in a 1 1/2 hr video interview at the West Prince station, and provided a lengthy document dated January 28, 2025 as well, which I shared in an article about that testimony: [See: “My testimony in the criminal investigation into Dennis King et. al.,”].
Nor was there any investigation by anyone in government – neither by the Executive branch nor by opposition MLAs.
Why has the PEI government never bothered to investigate allegations that a person claiming to be a “whistle-blower” is actually fraudulently REPRESENTING key government officials and making very serious accusations and claims of wrong-doing against them?
That’s exactly what Dennis King et. al. are saying is the case! It’s all a fraud!
If the converse of that turns out to be true, then Dennis King, Allan Campbell, and Chris LeClair have all lied in their sworn Affidavits (which is a criminal offence).
But even more importantly, it also means that PEI’s former Premier Dennis King and now Canada’s Ambassador to Ireland was indeed involved in an effort to capitalize illicitly on the recently-implemented federal laws making it legal to set-up ‘online gaming,’ by attempting to establish online gaming in what the documents provided to Maines by Jeffrey and Kari Reynolds refer to as the “Gamesys Proposal”.
PART 2
SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTION AGAINST KARI REYNOLDS
“YES” – “NO”: EITHER ANSWER FROM THE JUDGE IS BAD NEWS FOR KING
You can read the entire Motion Record submitted for a Summary Judgment against Kari Reynolds here, but this Index with give you a sense of what it covers, broadly speaking:
Notice that Kari Reynold’s “Statement of Defense” was filed back in October, 2023. In it, she denied everything basically. Here it is:
Of course, that’s “par for the courts” with Statement of Defenses: deny everything.
You can lie through your teeth without penalty in Statements of Defense. They’re not sworn. There are no unpleasant consequences for lying through your teeth at this stage of the litigation game, as far as the Courts are concerned.
But how in God’s great green earth is that woman going to explain all the hard evidence?
Evidence like the following paragraphs in Maines’ Affidavit in this Motion about:
(1) a meeting that Kari, he and Mark Rodd had where those very documents that Kari-the-whistleblower was promising to send discussed, AND
(2) a private investigator meeting (Maines’ counsel insisted on obtaining the key pieces of evidence mentioned below, a condition to which JR and Kari happily complied at the time (2021), with JR actually “documenting” the transfer happening as Kari faxed the document WITH A PHOTO!!
A CBC article published just one month earlier about the exceptionally early opening of golf courses in 2021 featured Frank Zhou, who, according to the CBC reporter’s article, golfs between 30-50 games a season.
JR was pretty stoked to have been invited to this golf game based on a reading of his messages shared with Maines about that invitation. He couldn’t contain that excitement, messaging a goodly number of others about it, then sending all those documents to Maines, who included them as Exhibits in the initial case filed against King et. al., that docket being a MUCH larger body of documentation forming the Record than the current Motion, material I used for a number of my previous articles.
If you’d like to read more about JR’s golf game, yep, you guessed it, I wrote an article about that in my Dennis King lawsuit series as well, one titled, “Golfing with the Gamesys Proposal Gang. Who’s Frank Zhou?”.
Although Maines Affidavit and Exhibits in this Motion constitute a pretty thin Motion Record as far as legal filings go (less than 50 pages in total), the evidence is very powerful!
You can read the technical details about one of those messages constituting exception evidence and proof of origin for the document, but suffice it to say here that it was a “live” one apparently (the kind that has a few seconds of motion) and key metadata is included in that type of photo…enough said, like I say, you can read the details in the full Motion Record I provided a link to above.
This case should be of special interest to a National audience with this entire case, but especially this particular motion – especially the National Whistleblowing Canada Research Society:
Which brings me to my third and final section of this article – perhaps the most important – a closer look at “whistle-blowing” and how this case in particular impacts the integrity of that element of our democracy, a critically-important means of confronting entrenched and secret corruption within governments.
PART 3
WAITING FOR TRANSPARENCY
“A BLIND EYE – AS THE YEARS PASS BY”
Canada’s whistleblower protection systems are often criticized for being slow, cautious, and institutionally defensive. But there’s a deeper vulnerability that receives far less attention: what happens when serious transparency disputes are simply not investigated at all?
The Motion just filed by Maines that is now before the courts in Prince Edward Island offers a revealing example.
Paul Maines filed this lawsuit with this issue of disputed documents connected to senior political offices and provincial freedom-of-information obligations in 2021.
The allegations created a simple “true/false” challenge regarding literally hundreds of documents, all of which had authentic-looking picture profiles and/or standard messaging formatting, exactly like what you would see on FB messenger.
Either the documents were fabricated and improperly relied upon in legal proceedings, or they were and are authentic and implicated undisclosed communications subject to access-to-information law.
Both possibilities are serious outcomes…neither is trivial.
Yet, for 5 years there doesn’t appear to have been any independent, government-initiated investigation to determine which version of the truth is actually true.
Only now—five years later—are these stalled issues being tested openly before a judge, and not before time, because time is not neutral in accountability matters. Digital evidence can degrade. Context can disappear. Human memory can falter. Plaintiffs die (God forbid in this case!)
The key individual initially positioned as the whistleblower in this case = Jeffrey Warren Reynolds – has since suffered a stroke. He now asserts memory impairment—an outcome that underscores why delay carries consequences beyond legal strategy.
When disputes over document authenticity linger unresolved, the system absorbs the damage, but flesh and blood people suffer the negative impacts of sustained injustice and/or resolved situations causing stress, financial legal burdens, etc.
Stripped of political framing, the situation presents two mutually exclusive possibilities which I don’t mind repeating, because it shows both the unstated “intentionality” behind these years of delay over a matter that could, and should, take days or even hours to answer!
If the documents from Kari and JR are not authentic, then misrepresentation occurred in a way that strikes at the very integrity of court proceedings. That would and should trigger immediate scrutiny for the simple reason that no credible justice system can function without confidence in documentary evidence.
If the documents are authentic, then serious questions arise about disclosure practices, record retention, and the use of private communication platforms by senior officials—precisely the kind of conduct freedom-of-information legislation is meant to regulate, but has failed miserably in this instance.
What’s notable and worth pondering is not which scenario ultimately proves correct, although I know where I’d put my money if I was a betting man, with money. The truly important thing is that the question itself appears to have gone unexamined by institutional authorities for years.
In fact, the only known referral to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police reportedly came not from any government officials, but from the individual who has relied on the documents and possibly faces some unpleasant consequences if they prove to be false.
That’s completely backwards from what should happen and is very suspicious —i.e, that the burden of initiating scrutiny on a matter like this falls outside the institution and member who are the direct victims of that fraud —and raises far broader concerns about the responsible initiation of investigations when politically-sensitive matters arise.
The former PEI Premier, Dennis King, has denied any attempt to circumvent freedom-of-information obligations. That denial will now be examined through sworn evidence in open court.
And again, I want to stress that this issue extends far beyond our little province, but is setting a really bad and freedom-destroying precedent that, if not checked and set right, could have significant implications for the fine art of whistle-blowing across this great land from “didn’t sea” to “didn’t sea” to “didn’t see”!
Whistleblower protection depends on two complementary principles:
(1) that good-faith disclosure is protected, and \;
(2) disputes about authenticity are resolved promptly and independently.
When institutions, especially governing bodies such as provincial governments, the Office of the Information Commissioner, or even Supreme Courts, hesitate or refuse to investigate serious transparency allegations, then both principles weaken.
Transparency delayed is transparency diluted.
Whether the documents at issue are ultimately found to be genuine or to have been fabricated, one lesson that is already clear is this:
Accountability systems must act quickly when their integrity is questioned.
If they don’t, public trust erodes—not because of proven wrongdoing, but because of prolonged uncertainty.
In a democracy, prolonged uncertainty can be as corrosive and corrupting as misconduct itself.