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I read a recent article written by Jason Unrau in Blacklocks Reporter a great publication in Canada. Canada’s weak laws, criminal centric legal system, and then there is this article that speaks to the almost total non-enforcement of Copyright laws.
Professor Amir Attaran at the University of Ottawa law faculty had a few quotes:
Canada’s enforcement of Copyright and Trademark laws are “poorer than a banana Republic” and “these figures are not a surprise at all…Canada is a great place to be a white collar criminal- in fact, one of the best in the world, as you can see from these statistics.” “These are more than intellectual property crimes- it is closer to homicide” referring to counterfeit pharmaceuticals “Health Canada is doing an appalling job.”
My personal experience confirms this “banana republic” status in Canada. The government itself has grabbed billions in seismic data (acoustic images of the layers of earth similar to sonogram and ultrasound technology). Not only did they do so in a tricky way, slowly and incrementally over time, without notice, or warning…when we tried to find out what they were doing via Access to Information requests they concealed information, blocked us, pushed us to the courts to force disclosure, and tied us up for years keeping us in the dark.
The whole thing was unauthorized and simply a decision made at the bureaucratic level to “promote Canada” by stealing our information and giving it to the needy oil companies (apparently who need welfare and cant pay for this data), while trampling property rights and intellectual property rights, ignoring international treaties dealing with Copyright, and creating more of a lawless piracy haven atmosphere in Canada. Now its no wonder why people are now exposing the “deep state” pulling all the strings in the dark. But if you have the eyes to see it and look for it you can find it.
The unscrupulous defendants have claimed our firm knew the “rules of the game”. This is so dishonest and fraudulent it is beyond comprehension. The facts are the legislation was not at all clear, the permits we signed had nothing in them and certainly there was no; all captial, bold and underlined words saying: ” YOUR DATA WILL BE CONFISCATED AND GIVEN TO YOUR CLIENTS AND CUSTOMERS IN RETURN FOR THE ACCESS PERMIT YOU HAVE TO GET ALTHOUGH WE ARE CHARGING YOU HUGE FEES FOR THE PERMITS” Our counsel argued “It is like saying because you need a permit to build your house that the city can take possession of that house after 10 years just because they say so, and after the fact” It is obscene …but in Canada the obscene happens all the time. What is so misleading about this is that these same defendants know that the laws they rely on were created before seismic data existed so there is no way anyone can say it was contemplated. In the beginning there was no submission and no disclosure of seismic data. Then there was limited submission, then disclosure of oil company seismic (“exclusive data”) only and the government lied and assured us our “non-exclusive” data would not be disclosed. Then the submission of data grew into more products and into digital data on tape expanding from paper. Then the disclosure expanded slowly to the disclosing of paper, then copies, then digital processed data and then the plans if not policy to disclose field data. The dishonesty of the government gets creative when they used data to create maps and disclosed those derivative works. They do this because they claim it is a new product knowing full well this is illegal under Copyright laws.
These liars take it even further and state that the current policy has always existed and functioned as it is today. This is done to mislead the court or direct the court whatever it is to discredit us and mislead judges, who are already inclined to do all they can to “protect the crown”. This lie is accepted because it is repeated over and over with conviction and a straight face ” GSI knew the rules of the game” and now they are just not happy. This is the corrupt and deceitful story line.
Then even worse the government induced our clients to breach the keystone or hallmark of any intellectual property license, including ours, which is to not disclose the licensed material. Not only do they disclose it without seeking the owners permission, they sell it and usually get more money from the government than they paid us the owner to have a licensed copy. Why would the government induce our clients to breach our license agreements (common in many industries and one wonders who is next)? What an outrage and how lawless can you get with a Marxist government totally ignorant, malicious, and devious at the same time.
Back to the bureaucrats…their brilliant marxist meddling idea was to take our company’s intellectual property and give it to our clients, potential clients, and our foreign competitors (interfering in our license arrangements with those clients and destroying our relationships). This is what we pay taxes to the government for, so they can do this?
What is worse is because of the government’s idiotic schemes, private piracy firms sprung up overnight to get in on the gravy train of billions of dollars of free intellectual property, scanning and reselling it. They were fully supported by the government and incredibly government agencies paid these firms to scan and copy data from other government agencies to support and fund their piracy activities. I called the competition of bureau of Canada they were hostile and combative calling all of this more competition and they were fine with it. The RCMP is so busy stealing from Canadians they have no interest in actually investigating this billion dollar government and white collar crime ring. How infuriating those that I am paying to protect me and my property are so hopeless and abusive.
The professor above indicated Canada was one of the top countries to perpetrate white collar crime and get away with it…I would add a country where the government can steal property, take bribes, abuse its power, and get away with it.
In addition to government I have a theory about so many of the abusive and corrupt large corporations and how they get that way. The oppression of the government with all its corruption, picking winners and losers, the oppressive regulations, the lack of enforcement of criminal activity, the courts supporting criminals over victims, ….the only way these corporations can survive in this environment is to play dirty, to abuse power, abuse the courts, abuse the law, find shortcuts, find loopholes, push for oppressive and competition limiting rules and regulations. But they have to do so because the government creates this environment and perpetuates it.
The anti-Americanism, pervasive socialism and Marxism pounded into children in schools and universities in Canada allow the twisted notion of the “greater good” to justify anything if the end goal is to their liking. But this sickness actually destroys society, destroys the individual, destroys freedom, destroys the will to work hard, punishes honesty, promotes corruption, because it tramples all over individual rights, it rewards corruption, it rewards government picking winners and losers on a whim and beating those who disagree into submission. Quite simply this way of thinking and the system in Canada undermines any principle of Justice, Law, or Order, no one is free and no one is safe.
After decades fighting this tyranny and crony communism in 2017 we are now faced with applying to the Supreme Court of Canada to appeal the “implied license”, and pursuing expropriation claims against the government, and the injustice continues even in the process itself.