Restore CSA: I had a lovely discussion recently with someone named Tracy. She’s the manager of the Courthouse Libraries of a particular Province in Canada.

Someone – finally – has been paying attention.

The Government of Alberta has advised, thus far informally, that it will not comply with Manson’s Law, the Court Ruling which permits private ownership of legislation. The Government has advised that a formal declaration on the matter will be released this summer. Watch for it folks, this is big.

This is just abysmal.

The Supreme Court was the last chance to overturn Manson’s Law, the Ruling that introduced private ownership of legislation. Private law is now entrenched and unappealable.

Utterly predictable, given our banana republic courts.

Restore CSA;

For this week’s article, given that it’s a short week, I enclose below a sampling of a RestoreCSA summary for external (that is, non-legal) audiences. This particular doc was created in March 2019 as an abbreviated issue intro, a summary of a single aspect of CSA conduct. It was sent to a number of authorities. Right now, the CSA only knows about two of them. We sent more of them.
 
It warms me somehow that CSA doesn’t know where to defend, as they don’t know who all received the salvo. To hold the surprise for them, I’ve redacted the subject persons list and the appendices.
 
If the law is to be respected, the doc below should be a bombshell. And if you’ve ever wondered what it takes to beat back a bully like CSA, well, here’s a primer on it.

So, we have companies bankrupted from CSA’s sales of counterfeit certifications and their subsequent dereliction of responsibility to ensure compliance with minimum requirements of safety law. We have CSA taking a lot of money from industry for what CSA tells them are genuine certifications, and customers like MCM paying a lot of money for products they’re told are safe and legal. We have towns like Asquith barring use of units bearing CSA’s counterfeited marks and real estate boards issuing Province-wide public warnings against CSA certified importations. Purchasers can’t use the products they paid for, can’t install them or re-export them elsewhere, can’t sue CSA for damages due to their immunities from litigation, and can’t seek a refund from the manufacturer because unknowingly buying CSA’s faked certifications put the manufacturers out of business too.
 
The only party left standing, the one holding all the ill-gotten gains, is CSA and their [Professional Engineers of Ontario] engineers. And what did PEO do about that?

A new one from Restore CSA. (This one has a language warning).

Restore CSA: A Tale of Two Scandals

Restore CSA;

Discovery sessions are a tedium. For an honest witness, they’re about candour. For a dishonest witness, they’re a pageant of evasive answers, misleading answers, obfuscation and, you know, lies. Remember; Witnesses don’t have to swear an oath anymore and Canada doesn’t prosecute for perjury.

A setback: The FCA Ruling is blunt and revolutionary. The law, we’re told, is privately owned.

A win for the “Respondents”.

“Actually, did you know that CSA doesn’t list any errata in the Code at all? It’s true. You can tour their website as long as you like, you’ll not find any such listing anywhere.”

On April 18th, during a cross-examination session for the Canadian Standards Association’s (CSA’s) sixth lawsuit, their counsel requested a list of names and contact information of PS Knight’s customers.

 

No, was the answer, absolutely no chance.

 

For fairly obvious reasons, we have no intention of giving CSA the means to harm our customers merely for being our customers.  That’s why they want the list.  And I said so to their counsel, Kevin Sartorio, on transcript.

 

“Your client has a long record of retribution,” I said, they target those who step out of line.

Restore CSA;

A few weeks ago, we asked our readers this question;
“So, how do you suppose the civil service will handle [the Canadian Standards Association’s (CSA’s)] violation of public review law? Will the Standards Council actually uphold the law in respect of the Court Ruling? Will they really rescind CSA’s accreditation? Or are calls being made”?
Their choice was pretty clear, as between compliance with law and violation of law. Would CSA comply with law? Would the civil service enforce the law? Or were the civil servants calling each other, rigging the rules and the Ruling to exempt themselves from law?

The B149.3 Committee deals with natural gas and propane installation codes. Our new source is a subject matter expert in oilfield burner controls. These controls are covered under B149.3.
I got my coffee and took a seat at the back, beside a big window, commanding spectacular views of the parking lot and the rubbish compactor. In time, my source arrived. It turns out this guy’s retired now, CSA can’t harm him for talking.

… says CSA, “we are not a government body.”

Back at National Archives, my telephone directories had arrived. My wee workstation was now entirely festooned with phonebooks.
You remember phonebooks, right? Not too many years ago, we were awash in them. Every house across the land received a new phonebook every year, and every basement of every house had its own mini-archive of phonebooks from years’ past.

A win for the good guys.

This is a really, really big win for us. With this Ruling, we’re in a dominating position in Court, and CSA’s standards racket is now on death watch. Yes, it’s that big.

Restore CSA;

The CSA announced that the next amendment to Canada’s electrical laws will be released in the first week of January, 2018. Indeed, the CSA is even taking pre-orders on their website. They’re also offering review seminars in December. That is, if you pay them five hundred dollars, they’ll tell you what they’ve changed in the law before they release it this January.
That’s illegal.

Restore CSA;

While threats are usually issued by phone or private meeting -anything but in writing- here we have written confirmation that CSA relationships, including their Chair, actually referenced by name, are responsible for the constriction of our business activities.
Were that all there was, we’d have an annoyance of course, but not evidence of collusion. But that’s not all we’ve got.

In the name of transparency, the CSA is now concealing all of their financials…