Nothing could be further from the truth.

In Canada today, because we are a blessed nation of plenty, the ELITES, the ELITES’ friends, the Public Sector Unions, the senior bureaucrats, and sadly about 10% of our elected and appointed officials have sold us out!

THEY routinely, every moment of the day, work to steal our hard earned money and to destroy our rights to liberty, good health, happiness and property.

THEY rig the game to enrich themselves with our money.

THEY rig the game to create thousands of new laws and regulations and policies every year, of which, the vast majority are not in the public interest, and do not even comply with our most fundamental “De Jure Rule of Law”.

You must, as Canadian citizens, understand what our most fundamental “De Jure Rule of Law” is, in order to ensure that THEY behave themselves. If you are not a Canadian citizen, you need to learn about the “De Jure Rule of Law” in Canada; because it will help you to assert and protect your inherent rights in your own country.

The structural problem with the ELITES AND THEIR FRIENDS being out of control, at our expense, exists almost everywhere in the world today. In Canada, right now, we have a unique opportunity to force THEM to become “Accountable” to the “De Jure Sovereign Rulers of Canada” – the PEOPLE.

If we, the Sovereign PEOPLE of Canada, can in a peaceful and effective manner, force the resolution of our “De Jure Rule of Law”, “Constitutional” and “Structural” issues, we can become a model for a different “New World Order” on a “Global” basis, than the ELITES' current model.

In last week’s VIEWPOINT, there was a series of “Black Letter Rule of Law” questions – did everyone do their homework?

You cannot be a good citizen without becoming informed about the most basic structures of our wonderful country and participating actively.

The following are the answers to last week's quiz – please, if anyone needs evidence of the answers please e-mail me at Trueman@tucksprofessionalservices.com. All e-mails will be answered.

1. What word most closely describes the sovereign [defined as where the Ultimate Authority is vested] legal structure of Canada?

   1. Dictatorship

   2. Oligarchy

   3. Monarchy

   4. Republic

   5. Confederation

   6. or two or more of the above     1)__a___ 2)_b____

2. Who is, according to our written legislation our "DE JURE" [legal], Ruler?

   1. The Queen of the United Kingdom

   2. The Governor General

   3. Prime Minister

   4. or two or more of the above     1)___a__ 2)_____

3. Who, according to our written legislation [DE JURE], is authorized to appoint our judges?

   1. The Queen of the United Kingdom

   2. The Governor General

   3. The Prime Minister

   4. The Senate

   5. The Privy Council

   6. Federal Parliament

   7. The Lieutenant Governors

   8. The Provincial / territorial Parliaments

   9. or two or more of the above     1)___a__ 2)___b__

4. Who, according to our written legislation [DE JURE], is authorized to appoint our senators?

   1. The Queen of the United Kingdom

   2. The Governor General

   3. The Prime Minister

   4. The Senate

   5. The Privy Council

   6. Federal Parliament

   7. The Lieutenant Governors

   8. the Provincial / territorial Parliaments

   9. or two or more of the above     1)___a__ 2)__b___

5. Who, according to our written legislation [DE JURE], is authorized to appoint our Ministers?

   1. The Queen of the United Kingdom

   2. The Governor General

   3. The Prime Minister

   4. The Senate

   5. The Privy Council

   6. Federal Parliament

   7. The Lieutenant Governors

   8. The Provincial / territorial Parliaments

   9. or two or more of the above     1)__a___ 2)_b____

6. Who, according to our written legislation [DE JURE], is authorized to appoint our heads of federal Government departments and agencies, including our ambassadors?

   1. The Queen of the United Kingdom

   2. The Governor General

   3. The Prime Minister

   4. The Senate

   5. The Privy Council

   6. Federal Parliament

   7. The Lieutenant Governors

   8. The Provincial / territorial Parliaments

   9. or two or more of the above     1)___a__ 2)___b__

7. Who, according to our written legislation [DE JURE], is authorized to appoint our Prime Minister?

   1. The Queen of the United Kingdom

   2. The Governor General

   3. The Prime Minister

   4. The Senate

   5. The Privy Council

   6. Federal Parliament

   7. The People of Canada

   8. The Political Party that dominates the House of Commons

   9. or two or more of the above     1)___a__ 2)__b___

8. Who decides who can run for election as a Member of the federal Parliament?

   1. The Queen of the United Kingdom

   2. The Governor General

   3. The Prime Minister

   4. The Senate

   5. The Privy Council

   6. Federal Parliament

   7. The People of the riding

   8. The Leader of their political Party [if applicable]

   9. or two or more of the above     1)__h___ 2)_____

9. Who, according to our written legislation [DE JURE], is authorized to appoint the Head of our federal police?

   1. The Queen of the United Kingdom

   2. The Governor General

   3. The Prime Minister

   4. The Senate

   5. The Privy Council

   6. Federal Parliament

   7. The Lieutenant Governors

   8. The Provincial / territorial Parliaments

   9. or two or more of the above     1)__a___ 2)___b__

10. Who, according to our written legislation [DE JURE], is authorized to appoint the Head of our federal military?

    1. The Queen of the United Kingdom

    2. The Governor General

    3. The Prime Minister

    4. The Senate

    5. The Privy Council

    6. Federal Parliament

    7. The Lieutenant Governors

    8. The Provincial / territorial Parliaments

    9. or two or more of the above     1)__a___ 2)_____

11. Who, according to our written legislation [DE JURE], is authorized to appoint the Lieutenant Governors?

    1. The Queen of the United Kingdom

    2. The Governor General

    3. The Prime Minister

    4. The Senate

    5. The Privy Council

    6. Federal Parliament

    7. The Lieutenant Governors

    8. the Provincial / territorial Parliaments

    9. or two or more of the above     1)__a___ 2)_b____

12. Who can approve reserve or disallow any proposed federal legislation according to our written legislation [DE JURE]?

    1. The Queen of the United Kingdom

    2. The Governor General

    3. The Prime Minister

    4. The Senate

    5. The Privy Council

    6. Federal Parliament

    7. The Lieutenant Governors

    8. The Provincial / territorial Parliaments

    9. or two or more of the above     1)__a___ 2)__b and d ___

13. Who can approve, reserve or disallow any proposed Provincial or territorial legislation according to our written legislation [DE JURE]?

    1. The Queen of the United Kingdom

    2. The Governor General

    3. The Prime Minister

    4. The Senate

    5. The Privy Council

    6. Federal Parliament

    7. The Lieutenant Governors

    8. the Provincial / territorial Parliaments

    9. or two or more of the above     1)__a___ 2)_b and g____

14. Who can approve wages and benefits and / or fire a Judge according to our written legislation [DE JURE]?

    1. The Queen of the United Kingdom

    2. The Governor General

    3. The Prime Minister

    4. The Senate

    5. The Privy Council

    6. Federal Parliament

    7. The Lieutenant Governors

    8. Provincial / territorial Parliaments

    9. or two or more of the above     1)__a with d and f___ 2)_____

In our last week’s VIEWPOINT, I also spoke about the lack of an independent and objective, legislatively created federal Ombudsperson.

Well, this week in Ontario, we had an excellent example of how successful a legislative created Ombudsman can be with protecting our interests from decades of systematic government abuse.

The following article is on the Ontario Property tax system that I had written in 2003 for my local Chamber of Commerce newsletter. Remember in my last week’s VIEWPOINT, I had identified an estimated over 100 million dollars per day as being wasted by our federal, provincial, country and municipal governments due to incompetence, corruption, patronage, and partisan political processes and activities.

REMEMBER – THEY will always increase expenditures beyond any revenues that THEY can steal from us! The secret to holding THEM accountable is to restrict the funds that THEY can steal from us. In Ontario alone, over 16 billion dollars are taken ever year from some 4.2 million property owners and occupants in Ontario, and at least 10% is, in my opinion and now that of the Ombudsman of Ontario, literally stolen illegally.

How to protect your bottom line from the negative impact of property taxes in Ontario, Canada and elsewhere

By Trueman Tuck, Legal & Political Rights advocate with Tuck’s Professional Services Canada – Belleville office

In Ontario, property and business taxes have always been a controversial and complex issue. Property assessment related charges and fees have become a significant and frustrating cost factor of doing business in Ontario.

The long-promised improved accountability, transparency, fairness, and efficiency has not been delivered. There are over 4,000,000 properties in Ontario contributing over 16 billion dollars of revenue annually to the 500 or so municipalities. These municipalities rely very heavily on these revenues for operational survival.

For decades chaos, confusion, and a lack of fairness and transparency have plagued the property owners of Ontario. The most victimized sectors were the seasonal, waterfront, multi-residential, industrial and commercial properties,

In the early 1990’s a property and business tax revolt was brewing. It started with cottage owners and quickly spread to almost every tax classification sector. Literally years of meetings with elected officials, committees, concerned organizations and lobby groups caused the government of the time in the mid 1990’s, with much fanfare and many promises, to create a new property tax agency. It became the governing authority on January 1^st, 1998.

As it too often happens with the government these days, the government ignored the most rational, logical and reasonable proposals for the reform of the property and business tax systems in Ontario. They rushed into the now infamous “Current Value Assessment” or as it is general known “CVA”.

At the time, the most senior levels of the then ruling party were told that this would be the most expensive, confusing and hard to implement concept that the government could adopt, AND that it would not deliver the promised reforms.

There has been very little publicity on how dismally CVA has been and how badly it is failing to deliver the key promised values and principles. Those being:

[1] Fairness to the taxpayer.

[2] Transparent and cost effective for appeals by the taxpayer or their agents.

[3] User friendly for taxpayers and municipal officials.

[4] Revenue neutral.

[5] Efficient and cost effective.

[6] Good for the economy of Ontario.

[7] Legislatively simple and consistent with the constitutional structure of our Province and country.

[8] Eliminate business taxes.

[9] To create a fairly distributed actual user-pay system of real local costs to provide the accessed services.

As often happens, the powers that be bulldozed forward and then, when they realized the many pitfalls and enormous political costs involved, lost their courage and started backing off in critical areas. The legacy of this failure of courage is one of the most expensive, complex, patchwork property and business tax systems in the G8 nations.

The simple reality is that very few private sector taxpayers, involved in commercial and industrial properties, have the expertise, time or resources to decipher the property related cost component to their businesses or organizations. There has been, since 1997, over 20 legislative amendments, which have created a complex nightmare.

Everyone with any significant financial stake in Ontario property, now including lenders for the first time, must be aware of and stay on top of this significant potential accumulating liability that may erode their security.

If you are an owner/occupier, this liability can erode the net profit [NOI] of your operating business, and if you are an income producing property owner, your ability to attract and retain tenants, and to operate profitably, is contingent on how well you are able to manage the assessment-related property cost factors [can range from $2.00 a square foot up to $8.00 or more]. As a general rule, your property taxes on a square foot basis for commercial or industrial property, should not be more than in the $3.00 per square foot range.

If you are an owner of residential, cottage, or other kinds of property, you need to protect your interests. The same is true for churches, non-profits, charities, etc.

It does not matter whether the property is owner occupied and/or tenant occupied, vacant, derelict, or whatever, the daily costs to someone for that property in Ontario is a serious financial liability that requires “Smart Handling”.

Today, Ontario property related costs are amongst the highest in the industrialized world, especially for the largest property based manufacturers, which are so critical to our economy and have, in most municipalities, exorbitant punitive mill rates.

Regardless of who you are, there are a number of basic steps that either you, or someone you trust must take to protect your interests. In the current environment, that probably includes seeking outside expert assistance.

The following simple steps will give you a chance at minimizing your property tax related costs. This is critical to be competitive and to survive in the increasingly complex and ever-changing environment of Ontario’s property assessment related fees and charges.

For seniors and others it is essential to protect your home and personal wealth from literally being stolen by the local government.

[1] You need to understand the scheme

There are literally hundreds of millions of dollars in unwarranted fees being collected by Ontario municipalities. This is caused because: [1] the taxpayers lack access to the right information at the right time to minimize their fees [which is systemically kept from them by MPAC’s normal operating style], [2] property owners fail to file annually under the right laws and regulations, [3] taxpayers do not properly prepare applications with the right supporting evidence, and [4] property owners and many of their agents do not use the full legal process available to them.

As a result of this “unbridled” power and abuse, the revenue hungry municipalities now have created a modern f eudal age in our own local communities, which is in creasingly attacking three of our most basic rights in a democratic society under the Rule of Law; [1] th e right to earn a living, [2] our civil rights, and [3] our property rights.

There cannot be any real life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness and the resulting joy of freedom, when the Municipalities operates the assessment corporation as a shakedown scheme to endlessly inflate your taxable property values and mill rates .

The municipalities are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

[2] Defending yourself

[a] You must learn all of the deadlines for filing all of your objections, not only to your assessment, but also to the other actions that you have rights to pursue. You must do this every year.

[b] You must learn to carefully audit all of your tax bills to ensure accuracy.

[b] You must actively join and support some organization or organizations to collectively speak on your behalf. You must also ensure that that organization is really pushing for true reform to reduce your property and business tax related costs year by year.

[c] You must either directly and/or indirectly pressure the Ontario political parties to restructure, not only MPAC to be totally independent of municipal influence, but you must also get an Ontario Bill of Rights to include property protection similar to the 1960 federal Bill of Rights.

In closing, it is totally ridiculous to not have a 100% separation between the assessment creator and the tax collectors. It is like hiring a fox to guard your hen house.

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