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Description: http://www.peoplestandup.ca/whosvicki.htm http://www.peoplestandup.ca When A Government Breaks the Law and Avoids Accountability Our group, Concerned Residents of Frost Fish Cove, made a complaint in 2006 about construction for sewage disposal at the water's edge in our community. This led to an Investigation by the Nova Scotia Department of Environment and Labour, in part because the engineer designing the system had not done an on-site inspection as legally required. Glen Warner is the inspector with Environment and Labour who carried out interviews and data collection for the investigation. However, his department has refused to provide any information on what is being investigated, what the consequences might be, or the time frame of the investigation. With total secrecy and no statement to the public, it makes you wonder whether there ever was an investigation. Is this just an old boys' network, or is there accountability when environmental regulations are not followed? Our group therefore made a Freedom of Information request on July 17 2007, for: "Any and all files, documents, reports, email and information concerning on-site sewage disposal applications, approvals & investigations for 50 Indian Point Road". Although the Nova Scotia government is legally required to respond to Freedom of Information requests within 30 days, this request was ignored until late September 2007. As the spring of 2008 approaches, documents about the Investigation, interviews by Glen Warner, and written communications, continue to be withheld illegally by the Nova Scotia Department of Environment and Labour. We are now at seven months and counting. According to the law: Right of access 5 (1) A person has a right of access to any record in the custody or under the control of a public body... (2) The right of access to a record does not extend to information exempted from disclosure pursuant to this Act, but if that information can reasonably be severed from the record an applicant has the right of access to the remainder of the record. In response to a FOIPOP request under Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, you either have to release every document in the file requested, or provide specific exemptions from the Act. With this Investigation however, the provincial Environment officials have done neither. A word to those who betrayed the Public Trust Take notice that as of this moment you are on trial in The Great Court of Public Opinion! Right here, right now, today, on this very website, you are on trial! Everything comes around, you see. You forgot this, didn't you? For years you've grown accustomed to always getting your own way. In fact you have become so used to getting everything you want that you simply cannot imagine losing or being defeated! So now be afraid! Be very afraid of this website court. There will be no intimidation of witnesses here! You cannot threaten people in return for lying testimony. You have no one who will toady to you, no one you can bully, no one you can scare into submission, and no one to buy so you can get your way! No one here will lie and cheat for you! And no one here is afraid of you! You cannot speak the truth here, for you would be damned out of your own mouths! Perjury will not help you, for the evidence against you is a mountain of simple truth. When you lie it will be instantly apparent to everybody, and your transparent perjuries and contemptible falsehoods will be seen for what they really are! You cannot subvert this website court to your own selfishness, neither can you cut back-room deals with other dishonest hacks and crooks, and self-serving politicians! Your sins have finally caught up with you! VICKI CONRAD, NDP caucus chairwoman