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As amazing as it sounds, it’s true.  After no word from the parole hearing last week, it’s a great relief (moreso for Bruce and Donna Montague, I’m sure!) to hear that he has actually been granted parole. He arrived back to his Dryden, Ontario home last night, and was greeted by his wife Donna, and [...]

As you’re probably aware, this morning at 11am Bruce Montague had a parole hearing that will determine if he is released from the Thunder Bay correctional facility where he’s currently being held. The reports so far are that the hearing went well, but there has been no decision released. If you’re the praying kind, I [...]

Crown Counsel James McKeachie is very annoyed with the Montague family for making public the letter he wrote to them where he spelled out his intention to take their family home using Ontario’s Civil Remedies Act. They posted his letter on the website about their legal challenge to Canada’s Firearms Act, www.BruceMontague.ca. McKeachie’s letter, dated [...]

And what happens to all the money and property seized? Well, of the $13.4 million seized in Ontario since 2003, only $1.2 million has been turned over as compensation to “victims of unlawful activity”, whatever that phrase means. Almost half of it, $5.7 million has been handed back to law enforcement agencies in the form [...]

Donna Montague was not impressed. “At every stage of this process, whenever we’ve ‘negotiated’ with them, we’ve been railroaded,” she said. “The search warrants were illegal.  They said that for our Constitutional challenge to go forward we had to drop our challenge of them.  After they arrested Bruce, did the first search and were holding [...]

McKeachie, and through him the Attorney General’s office as a whole, was being forced to answer for his actions to the public.  He doesn’t like that at all.  Why should the Ontario Attorney General’s office or McKeachie personally be upset about public scrutiny of this case? Openness and transparency should be the hallmark of government. [...]

Crown Counsel James McKeachie is very annoyed with the Montague family for making public the letter he wrote to them where he spelled out his intention to take their family home using Ontario’s Civil Remedies Act. They posted his letter on the website about their legal challenge to Canada’s Firearms Act, www.BruceMontague.ca. McKeachie’s letter, dated [...]

Justice Minister Marian Horne, during the debate on the budget last week, told the Yukon Assembly the government will not move forward with their proposed Civil Forfeitures Act until the public has been “consulted”. It’s a shocking move for a government to take, given the optics of “getting tough with criminals” looks so good.  Standing [...]