According to the
CBC, Canada's top lawyer and very close advisor to the Canadian Government,
Deputy Minister of Justice, John Sims, Q.C., suddenly decided to throw in the towel effective April 1, 2010.
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According to the Department of Justice, earlier this week, Deputy Minister John H. Sims -- a three-plus-decade veteran of the civil service -- gave notice, via widely-distributed letter, that he would be leaving his post, effective April 1.
The news apparently provoked mild-to-middling surprise on the mandarin circuit, since generally speaking, the imminent departure of such a senior official would have been telegraphed months in advance, and not announced in a brief note just two weeks before his last day on the job.
The timing is especially curious given how deeply enmeshed in the Afghan detainee controversy his soon to be former department has become, particularly given yesterday's Questions of Privilege."
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/insidepolitics/2010/03/farewell-soon-to-be-former-deputy-attorney-general-john-h-sims.html#socialcomments-submit
What the
CBC did not report was that
John Sims had been accused of lying in documents filed in
Federal Court and he was he was due to appear in
Federal Court on April 20, 2010, to defend against an accusation that had lied in written submissions that were filed in the Court in June, 2008, and which were used to dupe a
Federal Court Prothonotary acting as case management judge in the
WaterWarCrimes lawsuit. In fact, the
Chief Justice of the
Federal Court, Alan Lutfy had ordered
Sims and all opposing legal counsel advise the Court by April 1, 2010 if he would be attending in person or by telephoneconference.
There are now eleven dead linked to the
WaterWarCrimes lawsuit.
John Sims has, so far, escaped with his life but his tactics of stalling and dealy, since Janaury 2008, contributed to the deaths of
BC Chief Judge Hugh Stansfield, BC Supreme Court Justice David Vickers, retired BC Supreme Court Justice John Bouck, BC politician,
Stan Hagen and retired BC civil servant,
Jack Ebbels.
These people all died after the
WaterWarCrimes lawsuit was filed in Janaury 2008. Plaintiffs John Carten and Karen Gibbs warned
Deputy Minister John Sims and
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson that there would be
"death and destruction" but, their warning was ignored and now five more people lie dead needlessly.
On their Web Site, Water Exports and the Water War Crimes,
http://www.waterwarcrimes.com/ and in correspondence with the Prime Minister and Minister of Justice, Mr. Carten and Ms. Gibbs began targeting Mr. Sims for his corrupt activities in late December 2010.
In 2005, Mr.
John Sims was awarded the
John Tait Award for Excellence established in 1998 to honour, recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of Public Sector Lawyers in Canada. Originally named the Inukshuk Award of Excellence, it was renamed in August 1999 to honour an outstanding lawyer and public servant who passed away in the summer of 1999.
Recent investigations in the WaterWarCrimes lawsuit are now uncovering a more unsavory side to
John Tait who was an early player in the
WaterWarCrimes as Deputy Minister of Justice for Canada from 1988 to 1994.
John Tait's death is sudden death number 12 linked to the WaterWarCrimes - a statistically impossible co-ioncidence. Murder is suspected.