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Katey Montague, the daughter of former Ontario gunsmith Bruce Montague, has just released another video update on the decision by the Ontario Government to steal the Montague family home using Ontario’s Civil Remedies Act.  This is legislation that was supposedly to be used against drug dealers and organized crime, but is now being used against [...]

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 [...]

Ontario Crown Counsel is moving forward with their attempted theft of the Montague family home.  Using the civil forfeiture provisions of the Proceeds of Crime Act, senior counsel James McKeachie sent the following letter to the Montagues on September 17th. 17 September 2010 I am writing you to you directly because I understand from our [...]