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Back in 2014, Dentons & Imperial Oil partner on Internationally Trained Lawyer Articling Program in Calgary

 Fraser Milner Casgrain (FMC) law firm was aquirred by Dentons. Their report shows how Harper tried to bypass First Nations consent. Josh Jantzi who wrote it became a solicitor for Enbridge for the Supreme Court case vs Chippewas of the Thames re: Line 9. https://t.co/7qTYcWt1Yi
Report dated May 28-29 2012 titled: Aboriginal Consultation and Project Development prepared by Bernard J. Roth and Joshua A. Jantzi of Fraser Milner Casgrain. Mr. Jantzi now works for Dentons. Hired by Enbridge for Line 9 Supreme Court vs. Chippwas of the Thames.
Dentons endorsed the Isle of Man tax evasion system. https://t.co/oSTIbobyNq
Dentons created from merger of SNR Denton, Fraser Milner Casgrain and Salans and later merged with Chinese law firm Dacheng in 2015.
Interesting to note this senior partner of Dentons worked with Jack Ma. (Ant, Alibaba etc. ) https://t.co/n5KLiof1Ck
2014 Harper was dealing with China when Ma said he intends to sell almost a quarter of a million Canadian lobsters, ten times what it moved the year prior. https://t.co/CZ7jT3PBSV
After he left office Stephen Harper like Jean Chrestien and James Moore ended up working at Dentons.
https://t.co/Xpmo1WswKj
The company calls the relationship with Harper a "strategic affiliation," noting that Harper remains chairman and CEO of his own consulting agency.
Harper worked out of the Dentons office in Calgary. https://t.co/Xpmo1WswKj
Kpmg and Dentons were linked here with Beth Wilson. Beth Wilson, former KPMG Greater Toronto Area Managing Partner was selected as Dentons Canada CEO effective July 1, 2017. https://t.co/zRgOyyIfae
The Honourable James Moore was appointment to the Board of the Canada China Business Council. https://t.co/LNNFZPM2ZP
Citic links to SNC Lavalin, Barrick, Demarais and others at the Canada China Business Council. https://t.co/9AKImu7R0p.
André Desmarais was member of Citic's board of directors for 16 years.
https://t.co/pjQaLYsALf
Qatar invested billions in Citic. https://t.co/nfBtCegeN1
At Brookfield there are concerns insiders wield such power that the companies below them could face risks similar to those of “pyramid control companies”, according to a draft investor disclosure that Brookfield filed with the Securities.https://t.co/0lZYaOMfS1
Brookfield Asset Management and Doha connected with Brookfield Property Partners (BPY). Through a sovereign wealth fund, Doha holds $1.8bn worth of BPY and Qatar can force Brookfield Asset Management to buy them back for $1.8bn over the next 6 years. https://t.co/m3bCvbj4i6
In 2018 Brookfield's Senior Manager James Flatt's base salary was $795,334 with $5,385,958 in shares making his total compensation $6,181,292. Giving shares to CEOs is a horrible tax loophole. Reduces taxes 50%. They should be paid in cash. https://t.co/YeNr8HosUv
Brookfield Asset Management unveiled sweeping changes to its "unusual" ownership structure that for decades has given a secretive group of self-styled partners the right to wield huge influence over the US$500-billion investment firm. https://t.co/h8BjL4tSqI
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Brookfield and SNC Lavalin have to be stopped to stop the funding of Muslim Brotherhood. They bind to expensive nuclear under the guise of climate action to put in debt the nations. They delay funding of local, simple renewable energy to take power and money away from people.

They know oil and gas is failing and now we see ridiculous schemes planned to bring BC oil and Natural Gas to East Coast via Panama Canal for shipment globally under the guise of hurting Russia's pipeline prospects.

“Our entire project is about geopolitical issues,” Sorensen said at the London event. “It’s about diversifying western European gas away from Russia. And it’s why the German government is as supportive as they are.”

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It is absolutely possible to bleed without hurting anyone. It is absolutely possible to bleed without self injury. Ask any woman. God gave us that power. It's time for peaceful bloodshed in the Vatican. Bring the women priests into the community. Include us in faith.


The exclusion of equity and the disregard of women has resulted in this in Canada. The richest 44 people have made 53 Billion during Covid. We cannot afford to keep this going. They have no inheritance tax.

Canada was founded upon the clear disregard of women. Canada is actively human trafficking people by making us wards of the state with welfare, prisons, residential schools and poverty. They turned our own blood into a tool to strip us of our rights by blood quantum laws.


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@ChiefSAugustine You want to know why Germans liked the Indigenous people so much? My family were Habsburgs married with the lines of Membertou. Charles V was the king of Germany. We had trade with Europe since 1550's at least.


Our Mi'kmaw baskets were in Antwerp in use along with hockey sticks and snow shoes. We had voyage along the path of cod because it prevented scurvy. Our dwellings were of Denmark. Our Walnut trees too. The history is with me brother.


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The Lavvu shelter is of the Sami people. The same look as Mi'kmaw shelter. We shared textiles and goods and many things, even spices because we were internationally connected by trade for centuries. We had the whole world in our area because the jet streams & cod.


The Habsburgs are the Royal line of the Holy Roman Empire. The lines run through the mothers. It always did in our kin. Canada targeted First Nations women with blood quantum and with rapes, trafficking with welfare, jails, making us wards with military etc. I lived it.
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Richard Bird, a former VP of Enbridge is linked to Ecopatrol, missing money and a massive sex scandal in Colombia and Prison Schemes with bid rigging, corruption and collusion.

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Less schadenfreude, more "what now?" https://t.co/a0oTwblBHB


2/ First of all, the USG is going to lose.

I don't even need to read the complaint. They might force a settlement, but they're outclassed on legal.

Remember Ripple engaged former SEC Chair Mary Jo White in a civil matter in 2018. A hint of their

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