Dear Shareholders,
Below is the link to the Supreme Court of Canada website, our case 37438. Both motions, leave and certiorari, were dismissed.
http://www.scc-csc.ca/case-dossier/info/dock-regi-eng.aspx?cas=37438
2017-06-01 | Decision on the application for leave to appeal, Abe Ka Br, The motion for an order of certiorari is dismissed. The motion to adduce new evidence is dismissed with costs. The application for leave to appeal from the judgment of the Court of Appeal of Alberta (Calgary), Number 1501-0131-AC, 2016 ABCA 375, dated December 5, 2016, is dismissed with costs. Dismissed, with costs |
Congratulations
to Lanny McDonald
on his induction into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.
You can read more about it here: http://bit.ly/2pGs4KH
As our representative plaintiff, he presented the following evidence in court on June 15, 2016 to the Appeal Court. http://bit.ly/2oZkqgF
It is clear from this Computershare letter that the interest payment on the Unsecured Subordinate Debenture was paid.
"John Clarke sent this cheque to us before the interest payment date on the hope that Birch Mountain could reach an agreement with its Senior Creditor in the days following the cheque issuance. It has now been one month and, as the situation has not yet been resolved, we feel it is in our best interest that the cheque be returned"
How could there be a material default if the interest was paid? Brookfield prevented the interest from being paid causing a material default and the beginning of the end for Birch Mountain Resources.
And yet the Alberta Appeal Court, with the above piece of evidence in hand, stated:
"[42] Interest was payable by Birch Mountain on the Convertible Unsecured Subordinated Debentures. The failure to pay that interest would adversely affect Birch Mountain’s financial reputation in the public markets, and likely be deemed a further default under the Tricap financing as well. Birch Mountain did not have funds available to pay that interest, but Tricap consented to the interest being paid out of a new issue of equity. "
There is no Hall of Fame for Class Action Lawsuits or Egregious Injustices but if there were we might very well be it's first inductee - the Birch Mountain Shareholders.
PROVE IT!
Here's what the Alberta Appeal Panel stated in a decision on December 23, 2016
"The panel never ruled during the oral argument that the fresh evidence was admissible, and merely confirmed that it could be referred to. The fact that the evidence was subsequently ruled inadmissible is not inconsistent with permitting its use during the oral argument. As stated in Stolar at p. 487: " .. . there is a distinction between an order which actually admits the proffered evidence and one which allows consideration of the evidence for the purpose of determining whether it will be admitted".
"The request for release of the transcripts of the oral argument is accordingly refused."
This is NOT what shareholders in attendance in the courtroom remember.
The shareholders version is entirely different.
The easiest way for the Alberta Court of Appeal to settle this matter would be to release the transcript to avoid all appearances of impropriety.
But, they won't.
Conclusion: There must be some impropriety!
Where is the accountability for the Alberta Courts?
What is their justification for not releasing the transcripts?
What do they have to hide?
Is the Canadian Judicial Council participating in a cover-up?
Have the judges been influenced by Brookfield?
It's real simple.
The evidence on record shows that “they did” [Birch] and the Alberta Court decision states “they did NOT.”
Is the English different in Alberta?
If it’s like English elsewhere, then clearly there has been a miscarriage of justice.
It doesn't take a Oxford English professor to know the difference.
Why won't the Appeal Court release the transcripts unless:
Excerpt from complaint to the Appeal Panel:
f. the Appeal Panel has chosen to ignore the evidence that the Appeal Panel confirmed was part of the evidentiary record and which evidence proves that there is a genuine issue requiring a trial:
i. the Appeal Panel in the December 05, 2016 Judgment stated:
“[42] ... Birch Mountain did not have the funds available to pay the interest, but Tricap consented to the interest being paid out of a new issue of equity. ... .”;
ii. the Appeal Panel, for unknown reasons, overlooked the following evidence set forth in the July 03, 2008 Birch Mountain email (Extracts of Key Evidence, exhibit 19, which was discussed at length during the oral argument):
“Jim [Reid] responded that we had 30 days to rectify the payment and he was confident we could do it within this time. He [Reid] seemed surprised to read the draft news release that we were waiting their approval to pay the interest. I noted that ComputerShare had the cheque and we had the funds set aside to make the payments. ... .”
iii. the draft press release of July 03, 2008, edited by Brookfield/Tricap, deleted the following sentence, highlighted by strikeout, and thereby created the contrived interest default:
“CALGARY, July 3, 2008 - Birch Mountain Resources Ltd. (“Birch Mountain” or the “Company”) (BMD: TSX and AMEX) announces that is has not made the scheduled June 30, 2008, interest payment to the holders of the Convertible Unsecured Subordinate Debentures. As a consequence it the company being in breach of a single minor loan financial covenant under its senior secured credit facility, the lender, Tricap Partners Ltd. has exercised its rights under the loan agreement to direct Computershare Trust Company not to make the scheduled interest payment until further notice from the lender. Birch Mountain which it is working to rectify the breach and secure the necessary liquidity to make the interest payment., the Company has applied to and is waiting for its secured lender, Tricap Partners Ltd., to authorize release of the interest payment by Computershare Trust Company.”
g. again, the significance of the deletion from the draft press release of July 03, 2008 is that the draft press release is evidentiary proof that Brookfield and Tricap orchestrated the contrived interest default to acquire the Birch Mountain asset valued at $1.6 billion for less than $50 million;
http://www.brookfieldclassaction.com/Letter%20to%20CAA%20Jan%2016%202017.pdf
The "single minor" breach of the financial covenant under the loan agreement was NOT MATERIAL. Brookfield turned it into a MATERIAL event by NOT ALLOWING Birch to pay the interest payment for the unsecured debenture and thus began the rapid demise of Birch Mountain and the $1.6B asset falling into Brookfield's hands.
Dear Shareholders,
If you can accept that the Alberta Court of Appeal decision states:
Birch "... did not have the funds available to pay that interest, ..."
with the evidence we submitted that states:
[Doug Rowe to Brookfield] "I noted that ComputerShare
had the cheque and
we had the funds set aside
to make the payments. ... .”
then you can probably accept that 2 + 2 = 5.
If you can't accept the obvious contradiction error and bias and losing a $1.6 billion dollar asset, then get your pens ready and give us an hour of your time and show solidarity.
Details soon.
We have complained to the Appeal Panel to release the transcripts and were shut out.
We complained to the Canadian Judicial Council to release the transcripts based on bias, errors, and misconduct by the Appeal Panel and were shut out.
We have sent a complaint to the Supreme Court of Canada, Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin.
We need to add your voices to the uproar.
Please Tweet and Retweet appropriately.
Update:
After the December 5th, 2016 decision from the Alberta Court of Appeal we submitted a request for the transcripts of the court hearing that took place on June 15th, 2016.
We were denied the transcripts.
We wrote letters to the Appeal Court asking why. But, it was just "no" without any realistic justification. There are no juvenile names mentioned in the case, no industry secrets - if you don't count exposing the methods by which Brookfield takes over companies in an underhanded predatory way.
We wrote letters to the Canadian Judicial Council. We were shut-out.
Attendees at the June hearing heard things. And those things were different than what was in the Appeal Court decision.
So, why won't the Appeal Court release the transcripts unless they are trying to hide their mistakes?
If there is nothing to hide, then why hide?
Don't you find it interesting that attendees at the hearing heard a judge state: "something smell" and ask "is there a precedent for overturning a receivership."
Gotta wonder if there is more behind the Appeal Court decision.
DON'T INVEST IN ALBERTA.
DON'T INVEST IN CANADA.
Dear Shareholders,
We have applied for leave to the Supreme Court of Canada. It was a lot of work to accomplish in a short amount of time but as you see we are on the docket - they accepted our application.
If the SCC approves the leave, we will be presenting our case to the Supreme Court.
Link: http://www.scc-csc.ca/case-dossier/info/dock-regi-eng.aspx?cas=37438
Look for more news and Tweets sometime next week.
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