This is Jeffrey Rath. He is legal council for the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP). The APP are seeking separation from Canada. Members of the APP, including Rath, have sought support from US interests such as the Trump administration.
The text above shows how strident a separatist Rath is. He is known to make controversial, out of the park statements, such as the following,
“The Americans see it within their national interest both under the Monroe Doctrine, that has been around forever, and their new national security strategy to support Alberta independence and freeing the third-largest oilfield in the world from control by the Communist Chinese.”
Rath was also quoted as saying the following, with regard to meetings in Washington,
“To explore the benefits of either Alberta becoming an independent sovereign nation with economic union to the United States, becoming a U.S. territory, or pursuing full statehood.”
Rath’s company, Rath and Company, was involved in a dispute between the company and the TallCree Band, a few years ago. The company represented the Band in negotiations between the band and the federal government on an agricultural benefits settlement. The band claimed that the 20% contingency fee, charged by the company, was too high given the amount of work done by the company in arranging the settlement.
Given that the settlement totalled over $55 million, Rath’s company had a payday of over $11 million.
A judge reviewed the case and determined that the $11 million payment was much too high given the work that was performed. The judge noted that much of the work were emails that were ‘ created and signed’ by the company’s paralegal. As a result, the company actually received a substantially lower amount of payment, totalling $3 million, after the judge’s findings. The company appealed the decision to the Supreme Court of Canada, but that court decided not to hear the case.
This is an example of who will be representing the separatists in their fight for separation from Canada. The federalist side will need to be at the top of their game this summer because things are going to get down and dirty.
That’s all I have for today.