St. Catharines Ontario Court Updates

For speaking in St. Catharines Ontario.  

1.       Part III summons Fail to comply with a continued 7.0.2 Order contrary to the Ontario Re-Opening Act 2020, section 10(1) 82/20 Ontario Regulation, schedule 4 section 1(c)

St Catharines

For speaking in St. Catharines May 1

Septhember 20, 2024:  This is FINALLY OVER.  You can see this just hasn’t been updated at all as there have been so many meetings and back and forths and it just amounted to a whole lot of nothing.  But finally it’s done:

Good news!  My 2 charges for Welland County have been stayed. 

The story:
Charged May 5 2021 when I spoke in Saint Catherines at their freedom rally May 1, 2021. Since then I’ve bounced between many different court meetings: speak to ones, JPTs, back to speak to ones, set a date etc.  It’s been so long that my Crown Prosecutor, Marie Strub now no longer even works at the Welland County court. 

I didn’t know if we’d have to start all over again when they got a new Crown Prosecutor.  Also, the court didn’t know who it was going to be for quite a long time.  At my last court date the JP said that I was to reach out and come to an agreement with my new Crown Prosecutor or we would finally schedule a date for trial on September 10. 

I don’t know about you but I’ve had enough of this zoom court stuff.  Convenience isn’t necessarily best!  I decided to go in person to meet my new Crown Prosecutor on the drop-in date for self represented people such as myself.  So September 3 I went in to Welland County court to meet with my new Crown Prosecutor.  

When we got there the police insisted that I was supposed to have scheduled an appointment but I showed them the email reply I received that said we could drop in – it was a lot of work talking to them!  I told them that I actually drove there from New Brunswick just for this. He couldn’t believe it but he did get me in right away which was fantastic. The police all kept saying that the Crown Prosecutor was new and just started but I knew that since of course they were replacing Marie. 

My new Crown Prosecutor was a breath of fresh air, let me tell you! 

I explained that I was there to work something out before our next court date in which we would schedule trial. Of course I had plenty prepared to present to her on why my charges should be dropped as we worked something out. However, none of it was needed as she looked at my summonses and saw the date. She expressed that it wasn’t in the court’s interest to pursue something so long ago and we agreed.  I didn’t even need to present her with any of my information in order to ask her to drop the charges.  It was really something speaking with her because this was the first person in the justice system that didn’t seem to have any underlying agenda or angle.  Very refreshing.  She was a happy person and said that hopefully lockdowns don’t happen again so we don’t have to do this!  Amazing.  

Of course she wanted me to plead guilty and make a peace bond in which I did nothing – no fines or anything – but I explained that I wasn’t guilty so I couldn’t do that. She said that it was my right to pursue trial of course. I told her that an option, for instance, would be to stay the charges like they did with me in London, Ontario and then we get the same result but I don’t have to plead guilty.  And she went with that!  It was that easy.  Yay! It’s about time reason prevailed.

She sent me a follow up email to confirm that all would be stayed on September 10.

I thought for sure that anyone with charges like mine would also be stayed on that day. However, I was the very last person on the docket and all the other defence lawyers had left by then and so none of them know what happened with my charges! I usually stay and watch the other proceedings when I have a court date just so I know what’s going on with people in my boat. It’s too bad they didn’t! If you know anyone in Welland County with charges like mine (I’m certain there are as I was at the meeting) they should be made aware of what happened to me. Let them know!

In spite of the overbearing involvement of the Aylmer police in trying to paint some warped picture of me in my disclosure for Welland I’m happy to say it was fruitless! That rare and sorely missed common sense prevailed in Welland despite its complete absence in Aylmer and Elgin County. What a spectacle Aylmer and the Elgin County court have made of themselves!

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May 3, 2022: Sorted out my next directions.  Rocco will need to file a motion before the court to be removed from the record so that I can move forward.  We will pick up my files from Rocco’s office.  The date for Welland next will be August 16 2022, at 1:30PM and is called a date to be spoken to.  I will be giving Marie Strub a call once I’ve gotten my files and go from there.  I will then be able to tell her that I will not be pleading guilty and will be moving forward to trial representing myself.  Otherwise, I have heard from a previous update that the court would like me to plead guilty and pay $1000.  I would rather continue to trial standing up for myself and our freedoms and the judge shall have to hear my plea.

March 30, 2022:  Still trying to contact for phone pre-trial.  Re-scheduled to call Ms. Strub April 11, 2022, 1PM.  Speaking to the matter May 3, 2022, 11AM.

December 16 2021:

Disclosure is complete.  No preliminary discussions.  Will reach out for a phone pre-trial hopefully within the next month.  Depending on those discussions, on the next court date – it would either be resolved (withdrawn), or it would be a pre-trial.

Adjourned until March 30 2022, 11AM for CPT or JPT if required.

September 29, 2021: second appearance take 2.

September 1, 2021: second appearance.

Still gathering disclosure.  Next meeting September 29, 9AM.

June 15, 2021: first appearance