MR. WALLY OPPAL
Attorney General of B.C.
Room 232Parliament BuildingsVictoria, BCV8V 1X4
Phone: 250 387-1866
Fax: 250 387-6411
RE: NATHALIE GETTLIFFE; JOSEPHINE GETTLIFFE-GRANT; MAXIMILIEN GETTLIFFE-GRANT AND MARTIN GETTLIFFE-GRUZELLE
Dear Mr. Oppal:
Given your previous experience as a Judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, a Justice of the Court of Appeal of British Columbia, and a Director of Family Services of Vancouver, we confess our confusion in your notable detachment from the Nathalie Gettliffe-Scott Grant case.
As this case involves the safety and well-being and the fundamental human rights of four young children and their mother, we are concerned that your office has not acted upon its mandate. In your letter to your constituents on your website you state:
“I will fight to make the streets of Vancouver-Fraserview safer and to strengthen our community as a whole. I have studied and practiced in the Canadian legal system for many years and am confident that together we will create a safer community for our children.
I am committed to being an advocate for you and your issues. I will be accessible and accountable to you at all times. I welcome your concerns with open arms and give you my word that I will work to find solutions and resources to address your concerns.”
With respect, we have not seen you making the least effort to appoint a legal representative for Josephine and Maximilien Gettliffe-Grant, which is their legal right according to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and according to UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, nor have we seen you dedicate any effort to creating a safer community for the Gettliffe-Grant children. In fact, we are convinced that if you took the time to interview the children, they would tell you that they are desperately unhappy and afraid.
“By agreeing to undertake the obligations of the Convention, national governments have committed themselves to protecting and ensuring children’s rights and they have agreed to hold themselves accountable for this commitment before the international community.
States parties to the Convention are obliged to develop and undertake all actions and policies in the light of the best interests of the child. Canada is a State Party to the Convention.” UNCRC
As members of the public who are concerned for the safety and well-being of the two minor children, Josephine and Maximilien Grant-Gettliffe and the infant child in this case, Martin Gruzelle-Gettliffe, we would appreciate it if, in your role as Attorney General, you would provide us with answers to the following questions and your intended action with regard to this File:
1. Why was Dr. Gettliffe lured to Canada under false pretences and arrested in Vancouver after the Canadian embassy in Paris had informed her that there weren’t any outstanding charges against her and that it was safe to travel to Canada?
2. Why were Josephine and Maximilien Gettliffe-Grant lured onto a plane in France by Rev/Dr. Lucien Larre in July after their pregnant mother had been incarcerated in Canada?
3. Why did the Attorney General and the Crown Council not bother to investigate Lucien Larre to understand that in 1992 this man was arrested, charged and convicted of two counts of assaulting a minor; that he was also charged with 9 other counts, including 1 for sexual abuse?
4. Why has the father of these children, Scott Grant, allowed Lucien Larre unlimited access to both his young children since 2003 or before?
5. Why has your office not appointed an independent legal representative for the children?
6. How are we, the people of Canada, supposed to have any trust in the justice system when David Frost, a pedophile in Ontario, was released on bail in August 2006, and yet Dr. Gettliffe, a pregnant mother who claims to have acted to protect her children, was denied bail by the Supreme Court of British Columbia at the same time?
7. Why was Dr. Gettliffe forced to give birth to her son, Martin, while imprisoned?
8. Why has the low birth-weight of baby Martin been kept from the public knowledge?
9. Why has the Canadian Press not published the true facts about Dr. Gettliffe’s journey to Canada: that she came to finalize a mediation agreement that had been sent to her by Scott Grant through the Canadian Embassy in Paris?
10. Why has the Ambassador to Canada in Paris not informed the Canadian public of these facts instead of misleading the public and causing them to believe that Dr.Gettliffe only came to Canada to support her thesis?
11. Why, on the very day that B.C. Crown Council publically announced that Dr.Gettliffe would plead guilty, did the local media publish Front Page news of you speaking to women about domestic violence in Vancouver?
12 Why was Scott Grant’s speech from a podium broadcast to the public and yet, the mother’s television interview was not relayed to the Canadian public?
13. Is Dr. Nathalie Gettliffe a political prisoner in Canada?
14. Why have the children not been allowed to express their views, as is guaranteed in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?
15. Has your office determined whether it is true that the children are in distress and not doing well at school?
16. Is your office aware that the children are becoming depressed because they are not allowed reasonable access with their mother and that they do not have the freedom to express their own views or needs?
18. Has your office determined whether Dr.Gettliffe pleaded guilty under duress?
19. Has your office investigated the reason for the involvement of Lucien Larre in this matter? (Re:Article 36 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child)
20. The Attorney General of B.C. provided funding for the accused in the Air India trial. Why then will the Attorney General not provide funding for the legal representation of Dr. Gettliffe and her children?
21. We respectfully remind the Office of the Attorney General of its fiduciary duty to the minor children according to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, as they pertain to Josephine and Maximilien Grant-Gettliffe and to the infant Martin Gruzelle-Gettliffe who remains in prison with his mother, Nathalie Gettliffe.
We look forward to your response,
Canada Children First
B.C. Chapter
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
Attorney General of B.C.
Room 232Parliament BuildingsVictoria, BCV8V 1X4
Phone: 250 387-1866
Fax: 250 387-6411
RE: NATHALIE GETTLIFFE; JOSEPHINE GETTLIFFE-GRANT; MAXIMILIEN GETTLIFFE-GRANT AND MARTIN GETTLIFFE-GRUZELLE
Dear Mr. Oppal:
Given your previous experience as a Judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, a Justice of the Court of Appeal of British Columbia, and a Director of Family Services of Vancouver, we confess our confusion in your notable detachment from the Nathalie Gettliffe-Scott Grant case.
As this case involves the safety and well-being and the fundamental human rights of four young children and their mother, we are concerned that your office has not acted upon its mandate. In your letter to your constituents on your website you state:
“I will fight to make the streets of Vancouver-Fraserview safer and to strengthen our community as a whole. I have studied and practiced in the Canadian legal system for many years and am confident that together we will create a safer community for our children.
I am committed to being an advocate for you and your issues. I will be accessible and accountable to you at all times. I welcome your concerns with open arms and give you my word that I will work to find solutions and resources to address your concerns.”
With respect, we have not seen you making the least effort to appoint a legal representative for Josephine and Maximilien Gettliffe-Grant, which is their legal right according to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and according to UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, nor have we seen you dedicate any effort to creating a safer community for the Gettliffe-Grant children. In fact, we are convinced that if you took the time to interview the children, they would tell you that they are desperately unhappy and afraid.
“By agreeing to undertake the obligations of the Convention, national governments have committed themselves to protecting and ensuring children’s rights and they have agreed to hold themselves accountable for this commitment before the international community.
States parties to the Convention are obliged to develop and undertake all actions and policies in the light of the best interests of the child. Canada is a State Party to the Convention.” UNCRC
As members of the public who are concerned for the safety and well-being of the two minor children, Josephine and Maximilien Grant-Gettliffe and the infant child in this case, Martin Gruzelle-Gettliffe, we would appreciate it if, in your role as Attorney General, you would provide us with answers to the following questions and your intended action with regard to this File:
1. Why was Dr. Gettliffe lured to Canada under false pretences and arrested in Vancouver after the Canadian embassy in Paris had informed her that there weren’t any outstanding charges against her and that it was safe to travel to Canada?
2. Why were Josephine and Maximilien Gettliffe-Grant lured onto a plane in France by Rev/Dr. Lucien Larre in July after their pregnant mother had been incarcerated in Canada?
3. Why did the Attorney General and the Crown Council not bother to investigate Lucien Larre to understand that in 1992 this man was arrested, charged and convicted of two counts of assaulting a minor; that he was also charged with 9 other counts, including 1 for sexual abuse?
4. Why has the father of these children, Scott Grant, allowed Lucien Larre unlimited access to both his young children since 2003 or before?
5. Why has your office not appointed an independent legal representative for the children?
6. How are we, the people of Canada, supposed to have any trust in the justice system when David Frost, a pedophile in Ontario, was released on bail in August 2006, and yet Dr. Gettliffe, a pregnant mother who claims to have acted to protect her children, was denied bail by the Supreme Court of British Columbia at the same time?
7. Why was Dr. Gettliffe forced to give birth to her son, Martin, while imprisoned?
8. Why has the low birth-weight of baby Martin been kept from the public knowledge?
9. Why has the Canadian Press not published the true facts about Dr. Gettliffe’s journey to Canada: that she came to finalize a mediation agreement that had been sent to her by Scott Grant through the Canadian Embassy in Paris?
10. Why has the Ambassador to Canada in Paris not informed the Canadian public of these facts instead of misleading the public and causing them to believe that Dr.Gettliffe only came to Canada to support her thesis?
11. Why, on the very day that B.C. Crown Council publically announced that Dr.Gettliffe would plead guilty, did the local media publish Front Page news of you speaking to women about domestic violence in Vancouver?
12 Why was Scott Grant’s speech from a podium broadcast to the public and yet, the mother’s television interview was not relayed to the Canadian public?
13. Is Dr. Nathalie Gettliffe a political prisoner in Canada?
14. Why have the children not been allowed to express their views, as is guaranteed in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?
15. Has your office determined whether it is true that the children are in distress and not doing well at school?
16. Is your office aware that the children are becoming depressed because they are not allowed reasonable access with their mother and that they do not have the freedom to express their own views or needs?
18. Has your office determined whether Dr.Gettliffe pleaded guilty under duress?
19. Has your office investigated the reason for the involvement of Lucien Larre in this matter? (Re:Article 36 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child)
20. The Attorney General of B.C. provided funding for the accused in the Air India trial. Why then will the Attorney General not provide funding for the legal representation of Dr. Gettliffe and her children?
21. We respectfully remind the Office of the Attorney General of its fiduciary duty to the minor children according to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, as they pertain to Josephine and Maximilien Grant-Gettliffe and to the infant Martin Gruzelle-Gettliffe who remains in prison with his mother, Nathalie Gettliffe.
We look forward to your response,
Canada Children First
B.C. Chapter
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
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