Judge not impressed by David Lindsay's colon

[Lambkin]

Sovrun news from Canada...

http://reason.com/blog/2010/06/21/man-d ... -not-a-per

http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/loca ... 8/20100618

An Okanagan Valley man's argument that he shouldn't have to pay taxes because he isn't a "person" was rejected by a B.C. Supreme Court judge on Thursday.

David Kevin Lindsay, who also goes by the name David-Kevin: Lindsay, had appealed his 2008 conviction and sentencing on five counts of failing to file income tax returns. He argued the appeal on the grounds that he is not a "person" as defined by the Income Tax Act.

According to Thursday's ruling from Judge Frits Verhoeven, Lindsay filed a notice with the minister of national revenue in 2002 denying that he is a "person," and explaining that he ceased to be a "person" in 1996.

Instead, Lindsay argued that he is, "David-Kevin: Lindsay, a full liability free will flesh and blood living man."

In his judgment, Verhoeven rejected the idea that a Canadian citizen can simply opt out of personhood.

"The ordinary sense of the word ‘person' in the (Income Tax Act) is without ambiguity. It is clear that Parliament intended the word in its broadest sense," the judge wrote.

[Judge Roy Bean]

Oh, dear - he didn't get the memo that it's a semi-colon north of the border.

[bmielke]

Maybe what we should do is buss all of our colon people up to Canada and tell them it is the land of the soverigns and they can have fun, run free, and never pay taxes. Then we MUST seal the border. Also we must not accept any deportations from Canada.

We'll tell them that we only accept deportations from country's spelled CaNaDa or cAnAdA ot some other funky spelling.

[Pottapaug1938]

Maybe what we should do is buss all of our colon people up to Canada and tell them it is the land of the soverigns and they can have fun, run free, and never pay taxes. Then we MUST seal the border. Also we must not accept any deportations from Canada.

We'll tell them that we only accept deportations from country's spelled CaNaDa or cAnAdA ot some other funky spelling.

I'm waiting to read a story describing how some Canadian is "refusing for cause" (or "accepting for value") an adverse court decision because it refers to "Canada" rather than "the Dominion of Canada"....

[Leftcoaster]

Maybe what we should do is buss all of our colon people up to Canada and tell them it is the land of the soverigns and they can have fun, run free, and never pay taxes. Then we MUST seal the border. Also we must not accept any deportations from Canada.

We'll tell them that we only accept deportations from country's spelled CaNaDa or cAnAdA ot some other funky spelling.

Please don't, unless you can get the bus to drive all the way to Nunavut.
In that case, go nuts.

[bmielke]

Maybe what we should do is buss all of our colon people up to Canada and tell them it is the land of the soverigns and they can have fun, run free, and never pay taxes. Then we MUST seal the border. Also we must not accept any deportations from Canada.

We'll tell them that we only accept deportations from country's spelled CaNaDa or cAnAdA ot some other funky spelling.

Please don't, unless you can get the bus to drive all the way to Nunavut.
In that case, go nuts.

What about Quebec? Don't they want to leave the Union(?) anyway?

[Pottapaug1938]

Maybe what we should do is buss all of our colon people up to Canada and tell them it is the land of the soverigns and they can have fun, run free, and never pay taxes. Then we MUST seal the border. Also we must not accept any deportations from Canada.

We'll tell them that we only accept deportations from country's spelled CaNaDa or cAnAdA ot some other funky spelling.

Please don't, unless you can get the bus to drive all the way to Nunavut.
In that case, go nuts.

What about Quebec? Don't they want to leave the Union(?) anyway?

Depends on who you talk to. The indépendantistes are getting more and more insistent on purifying Quebec of its non-Franco heritage; and a perfect example of this is how they intimidated a complaisant provincial (pardonnez-moi: gouvernment nationale) government into scrapping a commemoration of the battle on the Plains of Abraham in 1759, and turned it into a souveraintiste whine about how oppressed the Français were by those maudits Anglais. They rave on and on about how the mean, nasty English did this or that to them back in the 18th century, as if everything had happened yesterday, and they pretend that, from 1604 to 1756, New France was this happy, unilingual and unicultural Franco paradise, until the mean, nasty English took it all away from them.

There are still some Anglos and Federalists around (and many of these are Francophone) ; but even they are, all too often, left high and dry by the Canadian government, and by the "notwithstanding clause" in the Canadian constitution, which for example permits a provincial government to pass a law denying their Anglophone citizens the right to send their children to Anglophone schools, except under increasingly limited circumstances, notwithstanding the existence of any rights enumerated under the Constitution.

I love going up to Quebec, especially Montreal; but if for some reason I ever wanted to move up that way, you'd better believe that I'd settle on the Ontario side of the border with Quebec.

[Leftcoaster]

Need to keep Quebec for Unibroue and Le Club Hockey du Montreal if nothing else. They're also essential to ensuring that we don't get a majority government ever again...