cross-posted from the Isaac Brock Society
by Stephen J. Kish
OCTOBER 29, 2017 CANADIAN FATCA IGA LITIGATION UPDATE:
Our trial on Canada’s FATCA IGA legislation in Federal Court will now be delayed further because Mr. Justin Trudeau’s lawyers are having problems obtaining their expert witnesses (our side’s experts have already filed affidavits).
The problem is that Government’s contracting/procurement process is not functioning as it should, and Government is having difficulty establishing the necessary retainer contracts for each of the experts they wish to use.
The hoped for time frame for the experts contracts is now end of November; however, Government experts want at least 12 weeks to prepare their affidavits.
I can’t give you a firm date yet on the trial, but speculate that trial might take place sometime early summer 2018.
— Each year more and more Canadian citizens are rounded up and turned over to a foreign country…