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Contempt of Court Trial in Newmarket - Sept 10 - 12 |
ALERT
September 3, 2008
Dear Friends and Cow Share Owners
September 10, 11, and 12 is the Contempt of Court Trial in Newmarket at the court house at 50 Eagle Street.
Hopefully, it will start around 9: 30 a.m. each day.
At the motion hearing on July 31, 2008, counsel for the health unit, Dan Kuzmyk, told the judge that he would call two or three witnesses to testify in support of the York Regions motion. As a surprise move, he decided to summons six cow share owners, perhaps because he realized that he had great difficulties proofing his case “ beyond reasonable doubt”.
This promises to be a very interesting and revealing event. Winning is not at the center of this case. The facts that relate to the issue need to be looked at in the context of the law and dealt with properly in a court of law. What is astounding is simply the fact that York Region, despite its knowledge of the other court proceedings scheduled for January 2009, wants to use another tactic to throw rocks in our way.
We have requested as witnesses the chief medical officer of health in York Region, Dr. Karin Kurji, as well as chief medical officer of health in Bruce- Grey- Owen Sound, Dr. Hazel Lynn, along with Dominic Fortuna who, according to documents, apparently started the whole under cover operation in June 2006.
When I delivered the summons, I was glad to meet Mr. Fortuna and Dr. Kurji on a more personal level with a friendly handshake. Dr Hazel Lynn successfully avoided me and needed to be served by a professional court server who told me plenty of stories about how often he had to play the game of cat and mouse in order to serve court papers.
Please be sure that we all enter the court with dignity. I assure you that I also will leave the court with dignity whatever the ruling might be.
It is always a blessing to face the other side in front of a judge. We are all humans and we all need to stand for what we feel and think is morally right.
Now it will be up to the judge to rule.
Warm regards
Michael Schmidt
Please note that the court case is on 50 Eagle Street. Not Davis Drive as previously mentioned.
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