This post has been updated following the development of evidence in the election interference matters to be addressed by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue. Saturday, the 9th of September, 2023.
Isaac Asimov once claimed that people are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.
Coincidences are not only a state of mind that individuals will surrender to when no rational explanation is immediately available , they are a convenient tool to sow doubt.
They are the product of one’s inabilities and/or unwillingness to comprehend how certain circumstances come about.
Sort of a deniable one legged strut.
Life from a newborn's perspective, begins with a continual flow of what appears to be coincidences. Sights, sounds and these characters, how they interact with an apparent purpose of convenience. These observations fill the first moments of life of every human beings, and are the first forms of events that begin as coincidences, that every child rationalizes and accepts as reality, evidence and facts, eventually.
As children adventure further into life, survival priorities take precedent over the degree of legitimacy we are willing to live with. Suddenly, a child will try to manipulate his mother's conclusions using coincidences as a defence. For example, although the child was alone in the kitchen, he'll imply that it is merely a coincidence that cookies are missing out of the proverbial cookie jar. Just like that, we betray our honesty for the sake of self preservation.
We turn on its head the very abilities that enabled us to appreciate and understand life. We abandon real integrity for an alternative reality where we argue the validity of our honesty, and force others to prove us wrong...
Clamouring coincidences is often how we prevent others from discovering the facts, the truth. It becomes a way of life, a disease that if left un-checked, affirms the anecdote of one’s life.
For example, a suspect in a criminal case might suggest that a series of unrelated events, out of his or her control, would establish their innocence- often alleged in pseudo- ignorance pleas, if only for the fact that they could not reasonably foresee and avoid the implications that led to a perceived criminal result.
This is usually followed by a Gish gallop defence-an erratic technique in which a debater attempts to overwhelm an opponent by excessive number of arguments, without regards for the accuracy or strength of those arguments.
Disentangling such predicaments requires motivation, it requires understanding and commitment, and it can take a long time, a lifetime sometimes...
That’s where I come in and break down the circumstances that will lead any reasonable individual to question the integrity of the CBC's News Journal The Fifth Estate and, more precisely investigative reporter and producer Harvey Cashore.
Let's break it down.
Claim #1: Cashore claims at a lecture for investigative journalist students, that he first was made aware of the Airbus/Mulroney bribery case by happenstance and in part, through discussions with former Fifth Estate reporter Jock Ferguson- whom eventually broke the story, and Stevie Cameron, a former journalist and anchor for the Fifth Estate.
Truth #1: According to journalist Lucy Komisar, a New York City relative of a CBC News executive first contacted the CBC following claims obtained through leaked statements from an investigative product produced then by Kroll Inc., a juggernaut in the private investigator industry at the times. I contacted Kroll's New York offices once it became clear that, the very journalist that Cashore claimed had sensitized him to the Airbus case, was now working for Kroll's Florida operations- an American company with a Canadian subsidiary that did consulting work for both, the Canadian Government and The RCMP. Soon after my call, Ferguson either resigned or was let go.
Claim #2: Cashore claimed that he found nothing in our files on Isle of Man entities that we provided to him and the CBC's Fifth Estate, at the suggestion of the Vancouver detachment of The RCMP.
Truth #2: According to Stevie Cameron, the research that she and Harvey Cashore did for the book they co-authored, " The Last Amigos", they were aware that Brian Mulroney owned and/or was otherwise involved in the development of condominiums in Telluride Colorado through offshore entities but, they could not link the ownership of the condo, to Isle of Man companies they researched or were otherwise aware of. Now this is surely understandable but, The RCMP was well aware of that fact through the files we had provided to them in 1995, that they returned to us for the purpose of sharing the information with the CBC's fifth Estate. The RCMP was then motivated to work with Cashore and Cameron in order to suppress such information to go public. Cashore and Cameron met in a hotel room at least once, with RCMP Inspectors to discuss the Airbus file, and that is when The CBC, Cashore and Cameron abandoned journalism and deliberately fed the Canadian public half-truths. Stevie Cameron admitted that she became a confidential informant and Harvey Cashore, by association, a co-conspirator in sharing information with the police and, omitting parts of the story willingly and presumably, at the insistence of The RCMP. My contact at The RCMP in Vancouver was well aware of the role of the named Teluride Isle of Man entity in the Airbus case, I wasn't at the time. In fact, when I began questioning the intentions of The RCMP to refuse to take on my clients' case to protect their Airbus case, that is when it was suggested that I provide the file to the CBC. Promptly The RCMP send me the files we had provided in our 1995 complaint. and I provided them to Cashore. These files are posted in part in this blog.
The auditors of my clients' company were KPMG as evidenced in the documents provided to the CBC.
Claim #3: Stevie Cameron testified in front of the Ethics Committee that she had no conversation with anyone pertaining to the Airbus case before her testimony.
Truth #3: Both the Chair of the committee and I, as well as a few members of the committee, had written and verbal communications at length, of my conversations with Stevie Cameron in the weeks that led to her testimony. I told Stevie Cameron that they had the wrong Schreiber, that the funds used to pay bribes to Mulroney came from dubious Isle of Man Companies with ties to terrorism financing. Cameron claimed that she would have to dust off her files on the case in her basement to find these Isle of Man documents, but she never testified to such. Stevie Cameron was eventually handed one million dollars from The RCMP and went back to work on another project that was also of particular interest to The RCMP, the case of the missing prostitutes in Vancouver. The RCMP had a vested interest in suppressing the fact that their Vancouver Heroin Squad knew for years of the disappearances of these young women, they used Stevie Cameron to suppress these facts and control the story.
Soon after Harvey Cashore published a book on the matters entitled, "The Truth Shows Up".
In 2021, Harvey Cashore again is producing reports about KPMG schemes to launder money. Again, the Cashore reports are misleading, grossly inaccurate but flattering to The RCMP.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kpmg-emails-denial-shell-companies-isle-of-man-1.5998374
Now ask yourselves, should you believe what The RCMP, The Fifth Estate and Harvey Cashore are investigating, or is Harvey Cashore producing reports to conceal election interference and mitigate the liabilities The RCMP might incur?