As promised Robert's claim is being checked out:
Austin Rayder <arayderxxxxxxxxxx.com>
To:
[email protected]
Mon, Jan 10 at 1:34 PM
Mr. Dunn,
I am contacting you to check on the accuracy of a report by Robert Menard, a so called freeman-on-the-land, claiming that in 2017 he forced North Cowichan to resend an order for repairs to a suite in the home one of his "clients", identified as "JV".
Below you can see a copy of the letter Mr. Menard posted on his Facebook page.
In subsequent interviews Mr. Menard claimed that he forced the North Cowichan to resend the order by claiming that the order was the same as an order for goods and services, or a "bill".
See 29:00: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7ZpINjWaMc
My question is whether Mr. Menard's report is accurate?
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Austin Rayder
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Friday, April 21, 2017
TO:
Mike Dunn
Bylaw Compliance Officer
[email protected]
CC: [email protected]
File No: 0XXXX-001
CIB 00XXX
RE: Order Letter Dated March 31, 2017
Hello and good day. Robert Arthur Menard here, acting as agent for my friend Jxxxx Vxxxxx.
You had contacted him and informed him that something on his private property was in violation of one of your corporation’s rules.
I lieu of arguing or abandoning his common law rights, we asked that you send us a work order under corporate letterhead and properly signed by an identifiable party willing to accept the liability for the order. Let it be known he is willing to comply with the order and allow access, provided the order is lawfully issued and payment for the order is first received.
We accept that many people may wish to simply voluntarily comply and pay for the work themselves, and may even consider it to be a civic duty or feel they have some sort of obligation at law to follow the corporate rules of the municipality. Through ignorance they may fail to exercise their rights fully, and you may now consider that path of ignorance to be standard procedure. However the ignorance of the foolish does not bind the wise, and one person’s refusal to exercise their rights does not destroy that right for other parties. Our perspective is somewhat different, and in order to understand this perspective, you will need to understand some basic incontrovertible facts which many people simply ignore or fail to realize.
Therefore for the purpose of identifying agreed to facts, we will share our beliefs and perspectives with you. These are a series of facts which if all are true, result in one and only one outcome concerning our mutual obligations. I apologize if this is less than brief, however it is necessary not only for your benefit, but for the benefit of any future adjudicators, and for the public at large.
1) You are a human being in a common law jurisdiction operating as an agent for a municipal corporation ordering compliance to the bylaws of that corporation by someone who is not employed by or subject to your corporation. The best description of the relationship which exists between JV and your corporation is one of a customer or recipient of services and a service provider.
2) You are a human being in a common law jurisdiction and equality is paramount and mandatory. JV is also a human being in the same common law jurisdiction. He is not your employee, agent, servant or slave. There is no function at law which makes him obliged to follow your orders.
3) A bylaw is a rule of a corporation, and corporations are imaginary constructs, or fictions, and you are acting as an agent for a corporation. The people providing municipal services cloak themselves in the legal construct known as a corporation. This construct provides them with certain benefits and protections from liabilities, but must therefore carry certain burdens and obligations.
4) The limited ability to act only within a certain geographical area does not grant the power to act without limit within that geographical area. Provincial legislation empowers you to provide municipal services. But Federal legislation and the common law limits those actions as well. You do not have free reign, and are in fact bound by the law when providing your services and securing performance.
5) Giving an order creates a liability for a bill. This is true for everyone. Placing an order without intent or ability to pay for the goods, services or performances received is an act of fraud. After all, you got paid for giving the order. It is ludicrous to believe the one fulfilling your order and doing the work should not be paid.
6) The property in question does not belong to the corporation but instead is the private property of JV. Fulfilling your order will cause JV to incur considerable cost, loss and cause ongoing future damages in the form of lost revenue and decreased property value.
Care to test this concept theoretically? Imagine changing your bylaws so that agents for the corporation can go to any restaurant in the geographical area within which you are allowed to operate, and order them to fill your orders or the orders of all employees of the corporation and tell them they do not have a right to present a bill. Try telling people who operate cleaning services that they are obliged due to your corporate bylaws to provide the corporation and all their employees with free cleaning services. Try telling tradesmen and contractors that they must provide services to city hall for free, due to the bylaws dictated by the corporate officers. Try passing bylaws which state that employees must come to work without any pay, merely because the corporation passed a bylaw to that affect. You can see how absurd such a position rapidly becomes, and would require people to be essentially slaves to the corporation and the agents and employees thereof.
�So we see the people have three choices. They can voluntarily comply with the corporations rules, believing they are applicable automatically. They can operate upon an order and then not issue a bill for services rendered due to their ignorance of the law. Or they can demand an order, and then issue a bill for that order, refusing to fulfill the order until payment has been received. Because they are not slaves, and this is their right in a common law jurisdiction when dealing with corporations. Any corporation. Even those established to provide municipal services.
Let us also not forget that this so called ‘illegal suite’ is in no way interfering with, harming or affecting the livability of the neighbourhood or the quality of life of residents, and has been in place for well over a decade.
Therefore JV is now in the process of securing tenders from tradesmen and contractors and will choose the most suitable one to do the work, and will get a quote from them for the work. He will also analyst his loss of income fulfilling your order will cause. Once done, he will issue a BILL for the amount calculated, and present it to you for payment. Work will commence once payment has been received and processed, and not before. I remind you that issuing an order without intent or ability to pay for the order being filled is an act of fraud and contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada. Failure to pay the BILL within 72 hours will result in the order being deemed withdrawn.
JV is more than willing to take this matter to the highest court in the land, and is confident they will rule that we are all equal, and orders from corporations, (even municipal ones operating under provincial legislation) directed towards an individual generate liability for the cost of fulfilling orders on the one who issued them. Otherwise we are all slaves.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.
Sincerely and without malice aforethought, ill will, vexation or frivolity,
Robert Menard
Agent for JV
xxx-xxx-xxxx
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Dope Clock II: It's been 203 days since Bobby Menard announced plans to create "Artists Valley". So far all he has done is lie through his teeth.
