From: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca on behalf of Cdn-Firearms Digest [owner-cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca] Sent: Tuesday, 08 May, 2001 22:02 To: cdn-firearms-digest@broadway.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V3 #759 Cdn-Firearms Digest Tuesday, May 8 2001 Volume 03 : Number 759 In this issue: 6 YEARS IN JAIL FOR DRUG KINGPIN London RCMP: Second seizure of loaded guns No jail for shooting off her husband's arm GPC did the survey on the number of gun owners too WANTED MAN ARMED AND DANGEROUS: COPS Re: Giving citizens guns doesn't reduce crime.... (fwd) Alberta and Manitoba - Election of Provincial Directors Of national symbols and beavers.... Drapka v. Alberta [CFO] RE: Can the U.N. Disarm the U.S.? What are the pony soldiers smokin now? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 08:06:15 -0600 From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: 6 YEARS IN JAIL FOR DRUG KINGPIN PUBLICATION: The Ottawa Sun DATE: 2001.05.08 SECTION: News PAGE: 8 SOURCE: Ottawa Sun BYLINE: Lisa Lisle KEYWORDS: Trial; Drug; Sentence - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------- - ---- 6 YEARS IN JAIL FOR DRUG KINGPIN; KANATA DAD PLEADS GUILTY, FORFEITS $200GS IN ASSETS - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------- - ---- The kingpin of one of the region's largest narcotic networks made an emotional apology yesterday before being sentenced to six years in prison and being forced to hand over $200,000 in assets. After pleading guilty to seven of the 148 drug-related charges against him, Ronald Trempe criticized police and the media for what they had done to his family. Trempe was busted last July after a seven-month joint-forces drug sting, dubbed Project Cape, in which Trempe and two of his local associates were targeted. The project netted 55 arrests, including Trempe's wife Marianne Sloan, more than $800,000 in drugs, stolen property and cash along with 27 . Charges against Sloan, 49, were dropped yesterday after her husband pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiring to traffic cocaine and one count each of proceeds of crime, income tax evasion, conspiring to cultivate marijuana and money laundering. Reading from an agreed statement of facts, federal Crown prosecutor Ann Alder told the court that Trempe bought about 10 kg of cocaine from Montreal middleman Richard Clarke, who was also sentenced to six years in prison last November. Trempe then sold the coke to local drug pushers as well as dealers in Hamilton. FATHER OF THREE Wire taps and surveillance on the Kanata father of three also showed that he was looking for land to grow marijuana. After one of Clarke's associates was stopped by police in early July 2000 on Hwy. 417 and had cocaine in his car seized, Alder told court that Trempe got nervous. "I don't think they know about you and me," Clarke told Trempe during one of their intercepted conversations. When Trempe expressed concern about police obtaining phone records, Clarke told him, "they aren't that smart." Two weeks later police raided dozens of houses and businesses, including Trempe's Kanata home at 5 a.m. Describing the scene in his home that morning, Trempe told the court that his four-year-old daughter hasn't been able to sleep in her room since she was confronted by an officer who was carrying a machine gun. "I know that what happened to my kids I'm responsible for," he said, noting that police could have handled it differently. He also criticized police for telling the media that he was a dealer for the Hells Angels. NO BIKER LINK "In my 43 years of life, I have never met a Hells Angel," he said. Trempe said his intentions were good and he wanted to raise capital for business ventures, so his children would not have to worry about money. Alder said that Revenue Canada calculated that Trempe failed to claim about $400,000 in income between 1995 and 1999. He was fined $119,360 for income tax evasion and given no time to pay with a six-month concurrent jail sentence as a consequence of failing to pay. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 08:04:01 -0600 From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: London RCMP: Second seizure of loaded guns PUBLICATION: The London Free Press DATE: 2001.05.08 SECTION: News PAGE: A1 SOURCE: Free Press Reporter BYLINE: Jennifer O'brien KEYWORDS: Drug Charges; Weapons - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------- - ---- SECOND RCMP DRUG BUST FINDS GUNS - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------- - ---- London RCMP have made a second seizure of loaded guns in a week from suspected drug dealers, a discovery they call "scary" for Londoners. Two loaded handguns, a knife, $150,000 worth of cocaine and $13,000 worth of methamphetamine were found at a York Street home May 1, RCMP announced yesterday. One man has been arrested and police are seeking his son. The bust came less than a week after the Mounties seized a loaded in a rare opium bust in London. "The thing that stands out the most here is we have seized three loaded guns in the last two weeks," Const. Paula Rogers said yesterday. "That could be pretty scary for the citizens of London. The drug business is a nasty business, a dirty business and it could be a dangerous business." But Rogers said Londoners can breathe easier because of the seizure. It "got the guns off the street before they got into the hands of the wrong people." In an April 27 raid on a Sprucedale Avenue home, officers seized a .22-calibre handgun and four kilograms of opium worth $200,000. In the May 1 raid on York Street, .32- and .38-calibre handguns, a kilogram of cocaine and 135 grams of methamphetamine, or speed, were seized. Police don't believe the drug operations are related. RCMP believe the opium was bound for Toronto, but the cocaine and speed were for the London market. "There is definitely a demand for cocaine and meth in the London area," Rogers said. The May 1 bust was sparked by an April 28 arrest in Sarnia. Sarnia police seized 30 grams of cocaine, drugmaking equipment and chemicals. "They apprehended two individuals in Sarnia, and we took it from there in London," Rogers said. Police believe the suspects were making speed, she said. One suspect was in custody already in Sarnia on trafficking charges when the Mounties charged him with six more offences. It isn't known if Raymond Alderic Dunn, 42, lives in London or Petrolia, because he has an address in each city, Rogers said. Sarnia police charged Dunn with possession for the purpose of trafficking, possession of the proceeds of crime and breach of recognizance. The RCMP charged Dunn with two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking, and possession of a loaded restricted firearm. The RCMP are still seeking Dunn's son, Steven Raymond Graham Dunn, 20, who is listed as living on York Street. Sarnia police also charged Randy Paul Marentette, 35, of Bothwell with trafficking offences. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 08:05:01 -0600 From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: No jail for shooting off her husband's arm PUBLICATION: The Calgary Sun DATE: 2001.05.08 SECTION: News PAGE: 7 SOURCE: Calgary Sun BYLINE: Kevin Martin KEYWORDS: Crime; Shooting; Calgary ILLUSTRATION: Photo by CRAIG DOUCE, Calgary Sun photo of SHANE SIMEON - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------- - ---- SHOOTER NOW SPOUSE'S 'LEFT ARM' - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------- - ---- Shooting off her husband's arm after fending off allegations she was cheating on him won't mean jail for a Morley woman. Instead, Vanora Wesley was handed a 22-month conditional sentence yesterday, in part so she can continue to assist her one-armed husband attend to his ranch. Wesley, 27, was given the community term after pleading guilty to a charge of careless use of a firearm. Crown prosecutor Gord Haight said the Nov. 11, 1999, incident began with a bout of heavy drinking by Wesley, her common-law husband, Shane Simeon, and some friends. During their party, another woman, Mary Holloway, came by and accused Wesley of sleeping with her husband, said Haight. Holloway wanted to fight Wesley, but was talked out of it and the party ended, the prosecutor told Queen's Bench Justice Terrence McMahon. But while Simeon and Wesley slept, Holloway returned with her sister and renewed her attack on the accused. "Miss Holloway was clearly getting the upper hand and Mr. Simeon ... broke up the fight," said Haight. Wesley ran to a bedroom and barricaded herself in, firing two rifle blasts into the ceiling to scare her assailants. Soon after, Wesley emerged from the bedroom with the in hand and had a confrontation with her husband. "At that point, the hunting rifle discharged accidentally," said Haight, adding the bullet shredded tissue in the victim's elbow. Simeon's arm had to be amputated below the elbow. Defence counsel Allan Fay said the couple remain together despite the quarrel. "Miss Wesley has effectively be-come his left arm," Fay said. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 08:37:08 -0600 From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: GPC did the survey on the number of gun owners too PUBLICATION: The Ottawa Citizen DATE: 2001.05.08 EDITION: FINAL SECTION: News PAGE: A3 BYLINE: Jack Aubry SOURCE: The Ottawa Citizen - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------- - ---- Pre-vote poll cost taxpayers $193,000: PM used survey to sell idea of fall election to caucus - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------- - ---- On the eve of last year's election call by Prime Minister Jean Chretien, a taxpayer-funded national poll was presented to the Liberal cabinet that revealed a friendly electorate ready to re-elect the incumbents. The Canada Information Office, a federal agency overseen by Public Works Minister Alfonso Gagliano, paid for the comprehensive poll as part of its tracking of government communications. Among other things, the massive telephone survey by Ipsos-Reid Group and Communications showed that Canadians' optimism about the future of their country was at its peak. A majority of the respondents said Canada was headed in the right direction and ``the government should maintain its present policies.'' Importantly, it also showed that the Liberal government had weathered the storm of criticism over mismanagement in Human Resources Development Canada, as revealed by a particularly damning audit in 1999. While the government's performance rating was showing a slight decline, it was roughly back to where it was in previous years. The prime minister ran into opposition from his cabinet and caucus over the fall election and the CIO poll was one of the counter-arguments used to defend an early call. The ensuing re-election campaign accentuated the status quo while attacking opponents as bringing in radical change. A spokesperson for the sometimes-secretive agency said the poll, which cost $192,805, was a regular survey conducted every fall since 1998 and had no connection with the election call. Nevertheless, the timing of the poll couldn't have been better for the Liberals. It was performed Sept. 11-25 and the recently released final report prepared by the pollsters was delivered to the CIO in October. Opposition critics have often called the CIO a propaganda agency for the Chretien government and say it is too closely tied with the Liberal party. Created after the 1995 referendum in Quebec, the CIO started ministerial tours in Quebec after the 1997 election. The tours, which have now begun in the West, follow the Liberal campaign model in Quebec developed by Gagliano-associate Michele Tremblay. Mr. Gagliano was under fire yesterday in the House of Commons over a $600,000-plus contract issued to an advertising agency with close Liberal ties to evaluate its own work. Mr. Gagliano, the Liberals' Quebec political lieutenant, defended the contract to Montreal-based Groupaction Marketing in 1999, saying it was awarded after a competitive bidding process. The poll also informed cabinet that social issues such as health and education were leading the public's agenda as top priorities. Almost one-third cited health care as the top-of-mind concern for Canadians, with no other issue receiving more than 10 per cent of the respondents' support. The second tier concerns included education (10 per cent), taxes and debt (botheight per cent), and unemployment and the economy (both seven per cent). In financial questions, 37 per cent of respondents said paying down the debt was the priority, followed by income tax cuts, with 31 per cent and spending on social programs at 29 per cent. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 08:01:26 -0600 From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: WANTED MAN ARMED AND DANGEROUS: COPS PUBLICATION: The Edmonton Sun DATE: 2001.05.08 SECTION: News PAGE: 24 KEYWORDS: Fugitive; Alberta ILLUSTRATION: Photo of MICHAEL ALLAN PHILLIPS Skipped bail - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------- - ---- WANTED MAN ARMED AND DANGEROUS: COPS - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------- - ---- Sherwood Park RCMP were last night hunting a man who skipped bail and was convicted in absentia in Edmonton's Court of Queen's Bench of attempted murder and firearms offences. Police are calling Michael Allan Phillips - who failed to return to court Thursday after the jury deliberated - armed and dangerous. The 27-year-old man was spotted by police at the Southbend Motel, 5130 Calgary Trail, at 4 p.m. yesterday. He fled through another hotel and escaped. Phillips was convicted of firing a handgun at one of three men outside a Sherwood Park restaurant on Dec. 24, 1999. He was disarmed after the weapon misfired. No one was hurt. Phillips is wanted on a nationwide warrant and RCMP say he also faces other charges in Edmonton. He's described as five-feet 10, 230 pounds with brown hair in a brush cut and blue eyes. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 09:12:15 -0600 From: Ken Pisichko Subject: Re: Giving citizens guns doesn't reduce crime.... (fwd) I was recently made aware of the following Montreal Gazette editorial and have decided to comment on the editor's allegations that hand-gun registration in Canada has prevented Canada from becoming like the USA (my paraphrase). > > PUBLICATION: Montreal Gazette > DATE: 2001.05.07 > EDITION: FINAL > SECTION: Editorial / Op-ed > PAGE: B2 > SOURCE: The Gazette > > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Giving citizens guns doesn't reduce crime > > - -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Stephen Buddo (Letters, May 1) believes that arming ordinary > citizens with will result in a ``substantial decrease in crimes > such as rape and homicide.'' In fact, the opposite is true. > [snip] > ...Mr. Buddo that perhaps the reason guns are the third weapon of > Canada's strict control on handguns (which have been registered > since 1934) have clearly helped us avoid the handgun-violence epidemic > rampant in the United States. As a result, the U.S. handgun-homicide > rate is 15 times higher than Canada's while the rate of murder by other > means is only 1.7 times higher. > > This statistic alone clearly refutes the notion held by Mr. Buddo > that arming civilians with guns will somehow decrease crime. > How does it do so? What is the basis of this statement, except personal sentiment. I find no evidence of any CAUSAL effect. The published statement is as foolish as saying "Birthdays are good for longevity since the more birthdays you have, the longer you live". Obviously the writer did not take any statistics in previous training and SHOULD take at least some elementary statistics course before being allowed to write any more articles critical of events and their causes. On the other hand, if opinion is the only thing that is important (lets exclude facts and actual data) then "Carry On". I must remind those who are reading this note that Herb Grey (Deputy Prime Minister of Canada) admitted in the House of Commons that there was NO evidence that the hand gun registry was able to solve any crime. I'll bet that there is NO evidence that this expensive and error-ridden registry has been able to prevent any crime either. Criminals ignore such data banks when getting firearms for their illegal purposes. > According to Mr Buddo, ``An armed society is a polite society.'' I > would say rather that increasing the availability of guns condones > violence and perpetuates its cycle instead of attempting to alleviate the > problems. And what is the basis of this - excluding personal opinion? > Actually, an armed society is a fearful society. > And is this another personal opinion from a Canadian living in a large city? I know lots of folks who have firearms and none of them are fearful - - nor am I of them. These folks are hunters and target shooters and are hardly the kinds of folks who anyone should be afraid of. Besides, they have taken all the government-approved training and have all the needed licenses (FAC/POL/PAL as well as needed hunting licenses). I wonder how the writer of the publicized letter can say that guns are evil. Is the writer using data that we should all know about, or is the writer just spouting anti-firearms baloney? Ken Pisichko Winnipeg. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 09:16:30 -0600 From: "Gordon Hitchen" Subject: Alberta and Manitoba - Election of Provincial Directors NFA Members - Alberta and Manitoba You should all have ballots now for the Election of Directors in Manitoba and Alberta. It is very important to the future of the NFA that you participate in this election by voting. No democratice endeavour can succeed fully without the full participation of its members. Since less than half our members in Alberta and Manitoba are online I urge you to speak with other NFA Members that you know and urge them to participate. You need not vote for 5 candidates if you are not inclined - you may choose as few as one. But you must choose at least one or the vote cannot count. For many , this is the first time we may participate in a vote by the rank and file membership. A large "turnout" by sending in your votes will influence the future of our NFA! Please VOTE today and urge your off-line friends to Vote also. The numbers of voters will be as important as who is elected. Gordon Hitchen Field Officer - NFA - Alberta ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 09:53:58 -0600 From: "Paul Chicoine" <701506@ican.net> Subject: Of national symbols and beavers.... A recent commentary appearing in this digest has brought one of our national symbols, the Beaver, into disrepute. It should be clear that the Beaver is busy nibbling down that other national symbol, the Maple Tree and to ensure that no one interferes there is an armed Mountie behind every other tree in every national park. All bases covered. It should be noted the Beaver is an industrious critter. Very adept at construction and the first economic engine for the fledgling Canadian economy. When cornered the little buggers can at least give you a nasty bite. In view of the geographic fact that Canada is corralled on three sides by mighty bodies of salt water I suggest a newly minted Canadian symbol, a marine symbol ! I thought at first to propose the mighty Prairie Oyster but whatever a mighty Prairie Oyster is, I don't think it's a salt water species. I also considered the mighty Cod, however this would be a federal symbol and the federal has already expropriated quite enough from the Maritimes. The mighty Pacific Salmon! Nope, also expropriated . No friends, the new national symbol should be the mighty Squid ! When confronted they'll confuse you in a cloud of ink and they'll make good their escape in a bubble of hot air. __________ Paul Chicoine (DSS) 0x3B0DB246 *Illegitimi non Carborundum* Non Assumsit Contract, All Rights Reserved, Without Prejudice ________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 19:23:19 -0600 From: "Richard A. Fritze" Subject: Drapka v. Alberta [CFO] This recent desision is of interest to all firearms owners. Anyone wanting an electronic copy of it can contact me at www.fritze.com . Richard A. Fritze, Barrister & Solicitor National VP - Finance National Firearms Association (780) 449-3808 - Phone (780) 464-6707 - Fax www.fritze.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 20:07:57 -0600 From: "Jeff Gurnsey" Subject: RE: Can the U.N. Disarm the U.S.? Tony Bernardo, Thanks for your timely response on this issue. It is nice to see we have someone at the wheel; let's just hope that it will not be the UN who is doing all the driving. And where possible, please keep us posted on any details of the July event and any items which us folks on the CFD can lend a hand. Jeff Gurnsey Kingston, Ontario ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 22:01:34 -0600 From: Lee Jasper Subject: What are the pony soldiers smokin now? London Free Press; Tuesday, May 8, 2001 Sender: owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Precedence: normal Reply-To: cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Second RCMP drug bust finds guns By JENNIFER O'BRIEN, Free Press Reporter London RCMP have made a second seizure of loaded guns in a week from suspected drug dealers, a discovery they call "scary" for Londoners. Two loaded handguns, a knife, $150,000 worth of cocaine and $13,000 worth of methamphetamine were found at a York Street home May 1, RCMP announced yesterday. One man has been arrested and police are seeking his son. The bust came less than a week after the Mounties seized a loaded gun in a rare opium bust in London. "The thing that stands out the most here is we have seized three loaded guns in the last two weeks," Const. Paula Rogers said yesterday. "That could be pretty scary for the citizens of London. The drug business is a nasty business, a dirty business and it could be a dangerous business." (Er, if I had a quarter million in product laying around, and known criminals hanging about, I might be packin' too. That's only rational behaviour). But Rogers said Londoners can breathe easier because of the seizure. It "got the guns off the street before they got into the hands of the wrong people." (WHAT???? Weren't the guns already IN the hands of the 'wrong' people)? In an April 27 raid on a Sprucedale Avenue home, officers seized a .22-calibre handgun and four kilograms of opium worth $200,000. In the May 1 raid on York Street, .32- and .38-calibre handguns, a kilogram of cocaine and 135 grams of methamphetamine, or speed, were seized. (And let's be thankful these folks weren't packing some real serious hardware. Do you suppose this take down took one of those 'combined enforcement' SWAT teams)? FYI in the list of charges, there was no mention of the lack of registration of the handguns, unsafe storage, or how these guns could be possessed by unsavory, unlicenced persons. After reading this we wonder that the CPA had difficulty figuring out whether to support, or not support, the feds registration of long guns. ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V3 #759 ********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Moderator's e-mail address: mailto:acardin33@home.com List owner: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca FAQ list: http://www.magma.ca/~asd/cfd-faq1.html and http://teapot.usask.ca/cdn-firearms/Faq/cfd-faq1.html Web Site: http://teapot.usask.ca/cdn-firearms/homepage.html FTP Site: ftp://teapot.usask.ca/pub/cdn-firearms/ CFDigest Archives: http://www.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca/~ab133/ or put the next command in an e-mail message and mailto:majordomo@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca get cdn-firearms-digest v03.n198 end (198 is the digest issue number and 03 is the volume) To unsubscribe from _all_ the lists, put the next five lines in a message and mailto:majordomo@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca unsubscribe cdn-firearms-digest unsubscribe cdn-firearms-alert unsubscribe cdn-firearms-chat unsubscribe cdn-firearms end (To subscribe, use "subscribe" instead of "unsubscribe".) 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