DOCSLIB.ORG

What Really Happened at Concordia University and How the Media Lied About It

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
What Really Happened at Concordia University and How the Media Lied About It <html><head></head><body><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"> WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY AND HOW THE MEDIA LIED ABOUT IT Regretfully, I was precluded from presenting this argument in court due to the partiality of the trial judge. She wrote in her judgment that The Gazette publication "was well researched". You can decide by yourself whether this is true. I reproduce the text from "Fabrikant File", with each line starting with "&gt;", and then present my comment. The Gazette of May 27, 1994 has displayed in the left top corner the quote from Mark Twain: "Get the facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." The Gazette journalists took this joke quite seriously: this is exactly what they do in their daily work. Here is a quote from the article by C. Adolph, in the same issue on page A2: "Fabrikant ... killed four colleagues ... to draw attention to his disputes with the university." Can one imagine something more stupid than that: killing four people just to attract attention to a dispute! The whole "Fabrikant File" is written in exactly the same manner: take the facts first and then distort them any way they please. Here are some examples of how they did it. &gt;The investigation also reveals that once he arrived in Canada: &gt;He falsified his curriculum vitae by altering the field of his PhD degree &gt;and other titles to try to get hired full time at Concordia. The yellow journalists here claim that I had degree in a field different from Mechanical Engineering (they claim further that it was in physics). Well, why on earth would I need to alter the field, instead of going where I belonged, say, to physics? Even Cowan, who can not be accused of any kind of sympathy towards me, had to admit in his report (Page 25): In fact, much has since been written about Dr. Fabrikant falsifying elements of various CV's over the years. I have compared them, and the differences are largely explicable, if one examines the differences in academic ranks and degree granting systems between North America and the former USSR. Thus his "upgrading" of his USSR academic ranks and subsuming of "Mechanical Engineering" within his degrees in Mechanics and Applied Mathematics in post-1983 CV's are not uncommon reinterpretations made by such emigres once they fully understood Canadian equivalencies, according to a number of them I consulted. End of quote. I explain for a curious reader the system of soviet scientific degrees, so that everything would be clear. The soviet system of technical education is totally different from canadian. First, it is based not on universities, but on specialized institutions. For example, in Canada one goes to a university, gets his degree, say, in electrical engineering, and then he can go to work in any industry. In Soviet Union, if you wish to work, say, in aviation industry, you have to go to an Aviation Technology Institute, and if you wish to work in Textile industry, you would go to a Textile Institute, etc. Canadian universities give general education, and specialization is acquired at the workplace; soviet institutes gave both general education plus specialization in a particular industry, and this is why soviet students spent 5 years, rather than 4, and a very intense studying schedule (the total number of hours is about double of that canadian students spent). Soviet undergraduate degree is called "engineer", and it is about equivalent to a canadian Master degree due to the number of hours spent and the intensity of the program. The lowest scientific degree in the Soviet Union was (I give the literal translation) Candidate of Technical Sciences, which was given to a person, passing certain graduate program and defending a proper dissertation, regardless, whether it was in the field of Mechanical, Electrical or other technical sciences. In addition to a general title, there was an indication of a subfield, which was quite narrow, for example, my subfield was "Dynamics and Strength of Machines". The requirements for such a degree were much more stringent than the general requirements for Ph.D. in Canada. For example, one would not be allowed to defend an otherwise ready dissertation, if its results were not published in at least three scientific articles, and it should be done in journals of a certain scientific standing. No such requirements exist in Canada. One can get here a Ph.D., without having to publish anything at all. Very few Institutes were authorized to have graduate school, and the supervisor should have had the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences (no equivalence of such a degree exists in Canada). A Candidate of Technical Sciences was not generally allowed to supervise a graduate student. In addition, the degree, conferred by any institution was not valid, until it was confirmed by the governmental Higher Attestation Commission, consisting of top scientists in the field. This was done in order to make some uniform requirements throughout the country, so that the degree conferred, say, in Moscow would be as valid as the one in Kiev. Due to these stringent requirements, there were very few specialists with even lowest degree of Candidate of Technical Sciences, for example, in the whole Institute in Ivanovo, Liakishev and I were the only two employees with scientific degrees. All other "leading scientists" had no scientific degrees. In Canada almost every university can confer the Ph.D. degree, and it is not a subject to any revision by an outside body. The requirements for the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences was defence of yet another dissertation, and its results should be equivalent to a major breakthrough in the field. Such occurrences were so rare that, for example, Prof. Bolotin was the only Doctor of Technical Sciences in the whole Department, In Ulyanovsk, only Rector had such a degree, nobody else; in Rybinsk at the time of my arrival there was nobody with such a degree. There is no canadian equivalence for the soviet degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences. When I arrived in Canada, I had no idea of all the differences described above. So, as an honest person, I presented myself to T.S.Sankar as a specialist with a Master degree (I even told him that I planned to write a Doctoral dissertation, having, of course, in mind the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences). It was T.S.Sankar himself who explained to me that I already had an equivalent of Ph.D., so I did not need to defend any doctoral dissertation. So, if I did misrepresent myself on arrival to Canada, it was quite opposite kind of misrepresentation. &gt;He fraudulently bumped up his students' marks at Concordia and also &gt;marked test answers correct that were wrong. At the trial Marsden was forced to admit that he, in fact, had no evidence to support such a statement. I asked him whether he saw any of the exam books, where I allegedly committed my fraud, and he admitted that he did not see any. I asked him why, and he responded that Osman refused to show it to him citing confidentiality. I asked him whether he saw any student's complaint, and he admitted that there was not a single written complaint, he believed Osman that oral complaints existed. Then I asked him whether he spoke to any of complaining students, and he said that there was no need, since he trusted Osman. There is no way one can do such things for 12 years, without being detected. Students know very well, how they wrote their exams, and even those, who would benefit from such a fraud, would have no respect for a professor who would do such a thing. And the fact that students did respect me was established during my criminal trial when several former students of mine voluntarily came to testify, knowing full well that I was accused of the worst possible crime - murder. All of them testified that I was one of the best teachers they ever met. All this was not a secret to the yellow journalists - this is a quote from an article (The Gazette, August 25, 1992, C. Adolph): " 'He is the best teacher I've ever had,' the student told the reporter. Apparently the quiet man with sad face was a motivated teacher, a good listener." &gt;He lied about being offered jobs and publicly berated professors who &gt;refused to hire him. He also tried to evade his teaching &gt;responsibilities. ........... &gt;Fabrikant told his colleagues at Concordia he was offered jobs at the &gt;Universite du Quebec at Trois Rivieres and at Trent University in &gt;Peterborough, Ont. He said he had rejected them because he didn't want &gt;to go to the "boonies". But officials at those universities made &gt;extensive checks and found no record of Fabrikant being offered either &gt;temporary or permanent jobs. ............ &gt;[Osman:] "He said he had applied to 700 places, I said to him, 'You have &gt;applied to 700 places and you can't find anything? You shouldn't tell me &gt;that' ". Had I been inclined to lie, I would not have told Osman about "700 places". I did not lie when I said there were some offers, and I did not lie when I said there were none, I just do not lie, period. I was offered a one-year replacement position in Mathematics Department at Trent university somewhere in 1984, and I was offered a research professor position at Universite du Quebec; I never said it was at Trois-Rivieres, it was at Chicoutimi.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Active Shooter Recommendations and Analysis for Risk Mitigation
    New York City Police Department Active Shooter Recommendations and Analysis for Risk Mitigation Raymond W. Kelly Police Commissioner Table of Contents Acknowledgements……………………………………………………………………....ii Part I: Introduction…………………………………………………….………................1 Part II: Recommendations………………………………………………………..………2 Part III: Analysis …………………….…………………………………………………..4 Part IV: Analytic Methodology …………………………………………………….........9 Appendix: Compendium of Active Shooter Incidents - Office Buildings……………………………………………………………...12 - Open Commercial……………………………………………………………29 - Factories and Warehouses……………………………………………………61 - Schools……………………………………………………………………….78 - Other………………………………………………………………………..151 i Acknowledgements This report was prepared by the Counterterrorism Bureau of the New York City Police Department (NYPD), led by Deputy Commissioner Richard Daddario and Assistant Chief James R. Waters. The drafting of this report was a collaborative effort. The various authors and subject-matter experts include: Sgt. Richard Alvarez, Det. John Andersen, Sgt. Christopher Biddle, Lt. Stephenie Clark, Det. Joseph Cotter, Ryan Merola, Det. Peter Montella, Peter Patton, and Capt. Michael Riggio. In addition, NYPD Intelligence Research Specialists Aviva Feuerstein and Nathaniel Young, Det. Raymond McPartland, and Dr. Evan Levine, Chief Scientist for the Office of Risk Management and Analysis at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, made extraordinary contributions to this report; the completion of this work is due largely to their efforts. Active Shooter
    [Show full text]
  • DECEMBER 2, 1993 CONCORDIA's THURSDAY REPORT Open House Showcases Students' Work MITE AVISTA Opens the Doors to the Magic of Media Technology EL E
    0 N C 0 R D I A,S SDAY ~PORT Proceeds of concerts, bake sales to help needy students Spreading the spirit around group cooking," he said. ers: a decorated tree in the atrium of BY JENNIFER DALES Both the co-op kitchen and food the J.W. McConnell Building. The voucher programme are supported J\ t Campus Ministry, staff and tree's lights were switched on Tues­ by the Ministry's annual Spirit of r-lstudents are revving up for day afternoon, and since then, it's Christmas Drive. Peter Cote, its co­ their busiest season of the year. being decorated with fund-raising ordinator, said the drive raised "Our primary concern is social ribbons. $8,091 last year. action," said Father Bob Nagy in an The Drive's roots date back to 'We have used almost all of the interview at Belmore House, the money," he said. "Well over 200 1914, when a collection was taken up home of Concordia's Campus Min­ students have used our service." at Loyola College to help the some of istry on the Loyola Campus. The the families affected by W odd War I. annual Spirit of Christmas Drive Calls for donations The first drive, organized in 1974, supports a food-voucher pro­ Drive organizers sent letters was known as the Christmas Basket gramme for needy students and a requesting donations to depart­ Drive. It provided food baskets to co-op kitchen. ments throughout the University. needy families in the Montreal_com­ The food voucher programme To supplement the donations, pro­ munity and helped students who helps students who are temporarily jects are organized by Concordia were having short-term financial broke.
    [Show full text]
  • AND CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY (1992) SHOOTINGS C/O Kathlene Dixon [email protected]
    SURVIVORS AND VICTIMS’ FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES DAWSON COLLEGE (2006) AND CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY (1992) SHOOTINGS c/o Kathlene Dixon [email protected] May 3rd, 2021 Members of parliament Liberal Party of Canada House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 Dear parliamentarians, Next September 13th, fifteen years will have passed since a young man from Laval carried out a premeditated mass shooting at Montreal's Dawson College with a semi-automatic assault weapon and a handgun. Over a period of mere minutes, he shot twenty victims, one of whom was Anastasia De Sousa. Anastasia was shot twelve times at close range. She died of her injuries. She was 18. Had police not happened to have been close by, the carnage would have been much worse. The co-signers of this letter include Anastasia’s family, students who survived their gunshot wounds as well as our parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles – all of whose lives are forever impacted by this terrible event. Also include are family and colleagues of professors Phoivos Ziogas, Matthew Douglass, Michael Hogben and Aaron Jaan Saber who were shot and killed in 1992 at Concordia University. For the last decade and a half, a small number among us have been advocating for change with respect to the law that allowed a troubled and angry young man to have legal access to weapons that enable mass shootings. Anastasia’s mother Louise, survivor Meaghan Hennegan and her mother Kathlene Dixon who also witnessed the shooting, as well as Hayder Kadhim who survived a serious head injury have spent years lobbying Ottawa for tougher gun control, including a total ban on assault weapons like the Beretta CX4 Storm that shot all but 6 of the 78 bullets that were fired that day.
    [Show full text]
  • Arthurs Report on Fabrikant
    INTEGRITY IN SCHOLARSHIP A REPORT TO CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY By the INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY INTO ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY H. W. Arthurs, Chair Roger A. Blais Jon Thompson April 1994 INDEX Section Page 1. Introduction 1 2. Context 3 2.1 Introduction 3 2.2 The production-driven research culture 4 2.3 Accountability procedures 10 2.4 The situation in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science 11 3. Policies and Practices: Concordia and the 15 University Community 3.1 Introduction 15 3.2 Outside professional activities and the use of university resources 16 3.2.1 A perspective on "outside professional activity 16 3.2.2 Concordia's rules and policies relating to professional activities and the use of university resources 18 3.2.3 Practises relating to outside professional activities and the use of university resources 19 3.2.4 University policy on contract research 20 3.2.5 Summary 21 3.3 Professional responsibilities: Scientific and Academic Integrity 21 3.3.1 Honesty and integrity in research 21 3.3.2 Concordia's policies and procedures relating to scientific and academic integrity 22 3.4 Financial and other central control systems 23 3.5 Moving forward at Concordia 25 3.6 Creating a positive environment for responsible and ethical behaviour 30 3.6.1 Introduction 30 3.6.2 The granting councils 31 3.6.3 Government contracting policies 33 3.6.4 Learned societies, scholarly journals and academic presses 34 3.6.5 The CAUT and AUCC 35 3.6.6 Local campus cultures 35 4.
    [Show full text]
  • Active Shooter: Recommendations and Analysis for Risk Mitigation
    . James P. O’Neill . Police Commissioner . John J. Miller . Deputy Commissioner of . Intelligence and . Counterterrorism ACTIVE SHOOTER James R. Waters RECOMMENDATIONS AND ANALYSIS Chief of Counterterrorism FOR RISK MITIGATION 2016 EDITION AS RELEASED BY THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................................2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................................................3 RECENT TRENDS ........................................................................................................................6 TRAINING & AWARENESS CHALLENGE RESPONSE .................................................................................... 6 THE TARGETING OF LAW ENFORCEMENT & MILITARY PERSONNEL: IMPLICATIONS FOR PRIVATE SECURITY ........ 7 ATTACKERS INSPIRED BY A RANGE OF IDEOLOGIES PROMOTING VIOLENCE ................................................... 8 SOCIAL MEDIA PROVIDES POTENTIAL INDICATORS, SUPPORTS RESPONSE .................................................... 9 THE POPULARITY OF HANDGUNS, RIFLES, AND BODY ARMOR NECESSITATES SPECIALIZED TRAINING .............. 10 BARRICADE AND HOSTAGE-TAKING REMAIN RARE OCCURRENCES IN ACTIVE SHOOTER EVENTS .................... 10 RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................................................................................11 POLICY .........................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Anton Oleinik
    JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ISSUES Vol. XL No. 4 December 2006 The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Institutional Transfers Seen Through the Lens of Reforms in Russia Anton Oleinik Reforms in most post-Soviet countries did not lead, contrary to widely cherished expectations, to the emergence of democracy and a full-fledged market. On the contrary, the elements of democracy, however weak and imperfect they have been since the start of the 1990s, are progressively disappearing and leaving only the façade, if that, of formally free elections. The idea of “strengthening the vertical of power” (i.e., all important political decisions are to be made only at the highest levels of the state’s hierarchy), to use an expression that is popular in contemporary Russia, contradicts the principles of diversification and delegation of powers. Instead of market capitalism based on competition and private initiative, political capitalism emerges. “Profit is made through the state, via contacts with the state or under physical protection of the state” (Swedberg 2003, 60). The case of Yukos illustrates this. Once the major Russian oil company, its owners were prosecuted for fraud and tax evasion as soon as they lost their privileged relationships with state officials. There are two perspectives from which the unexpected outcomes of post- Soviet transformations can be viewed. First, they can be seen as country-specific The author is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland (St. John’s, Canada). This article was initially written in the framework of a research project: “The Historical and Cultural Path-Dependency of the Transition Processes in Formerly Socialist Countries of the Baltic Sea Region and Its Significance for EU-Enlargement,” funded by VolkswagenStiftung.
    [Show full text]
  • Vice Versa No 39
    DE L'ATROCE AU SUBTIL LÉOLO s 16 DE JEAN-CLAUDE LflUZOH 9 770821 682006 Magazine transculturel • Transcultural magazine • Rivista transculturale Deux Québécois sur trois font affaires avec nous. Il doit bien y avoir une raison. Fédération des caisses populaires Desjardins de Montréal et de l'Ouest-du-Québec iUf^6 g) Desjardins L'incroyable force de la coopération. Summary SOMMAIRE S ommario Les auteurs du dossier OCTOBRE/NOVEMBRE (992 Illustration de la couverture : Gérard VRAC FICTION 4 Une capsule éditoriale, etc. 34 Entomonecrologia Tommaso Macrî Bernard Charbonneau, pionnier de la CINÉMA 35 Le violon vert lune écologique en France, il représenta 8 Léolo de Jean-Claude Lauzon ou la vie avec Jacques Ellul le mouvement Marie José Thériault personnaliste dans les années 1930. est un songe Anna Gural-Migdal SOCIÉTÉ Bernard Lévy se définit comme un communicateur. Il fait partie du comité de 12 Montréal sut le Bosphore 37 Diaspora et flux des cultures rédaction de Vice Versa. Ses activités Lamberto Tassinari Perspectives schizo-ethniques s'étendent du journalisme scientifique à la Carlo Bengio création littéraire en passant par la criti­ TRAVAIL que d'art. II est rédacteur en chef de la ART revue Vie des Arts de Montréal. 14 Du travail-loisirs au chômage-emploi Bernard Charbonneau 39 Michelangelo, l'artisan de génie Kimon Valaskakis, Ph.D. in Economies, 17 Does Human Work Have A Future ? Silvana Villata is the Chairman of Isogroup Consultants Kimon Valaskakis and president of the Gamma Institute in 41 Jocelyne Alloucherie Montreal. He is also professor of 21 Entre torture et plaisir... ou l'emprise de l'ambiguïté Economics at Université de Montréal.
    [Show full text]
  • Robert Steinhauser DATE April 26, 2002
    SHOTS FIRED list of the shooters as they appear in the video NAME DATA NOTES Robert Steinhauser DATE April 26, 2002 “Erfurt Massacre” LOCATION Erfurt, Germany TYPE High School shooting WEAPONS 9mm Glock pistol & Pump-action shotgun IMPACT 16 Dead > 14 School staff (13 Teachers, 1 Administrator) > 2 Students and 1 Police Officer 7 Injured MOTIVE Expelled from school, aimed at teachers CONCLUSION Suicide Buford O. Furrow Jr. DATE August 10, 1999 “LA Jewish Community LOCATION Los Angeles, California Center Shooting” TYPE Shooting, Day Care Center, Jewish Community Center WEAPONS Uzi-type sub-machine gun & 9mm Glock Handgun IMPACT 1 Dead > US Postal Service Carrier 4 Injured > 3 Children and 1 receptionist MOTIVE White supremacy CONCLUSION Arrested Dylan Klebold DATE April 20, 1999 Eric Harris LOCATION Near Denver, Colorado “Columbine High School TYPE High School School Shooting Massacre” WEAPONS Shot guns, 9mm semi-automatic carbine IMPACT 13 Dead > 12 Students > 1 Teacher 23 Wounded th 4 deadliest school shooting in US history (1. Bath School Disaster, 1927 2. Virginia Tech Massacre, SHOTS FIRED Shooter Information Page 1 of 3 NAME DATA NOTES 2007, University of Texas Massacre, 1966) MOTIVE Angry, dispossessed teens CONCLUSION Suicide Byran Uyesugi DATE November 2, 1999 “Xerox Murders” LOCATION Honolulu, Hawaii TYPE Workplace Shooting WEAPONS 9mm Glock handgun IMPACT 7 Dead > 6 Co-workers > 1 Supervisor MOTIVE Angry at being fired for insubordination CONCLUSION Arrest Marc Lepine DATE December 6, 1989 “Montreal Massacre” LOCATION Montreal,
    [Show full text]
  • Valery Fabrikant: “Am I Sorry?”
    Am I sorry? I shall probably die soon, so now is the time to give final analysis of 1992 shooting at Concordia, with 10 years of hindsight. During my trial, I expressed my sorrow to the families of professors I killed, and this feeling of sorrow is valid today, as it was then. My position during the trial was: I was not guilty of murder; I did not plan to kill anyone; I was deliberately and maliciously provoked into shooting; the real murderers are former Chief Justice Gold, Sankars, Swamy, Osman, Kenniff, Sheinin and psychiatrists (I know of one name - W.Steiner, but in the newspapers some other names were mentioned), who "scientifically" designed the procedure of provocation, and this procedure succeeded when I felt my life to be in danger. I have spent past 10 years searching whether I could have done something different back in 1992, because to say I am sorry would mean that there was another way of action. I have asked several jailers, as well as several people on the Internet, who reproached to me 4 murders, what would they have done in my situation. I did not get any answer from anyone, except for general phrase: "I would not kill", to which I always answered: "I am not asking you, what you would NOT do, I am asking you, what you would do", and there was no answer to this question. The media repeatedly and falsely reported that the shooting took place because I was denied tenure or because I was angry for stolen articles.
    [Show full text]
  • Lessons from the Fabrikant Files
    LESSONS FROM THE FABRIKANT FILE: A REPORT TO THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY An independent review of the employment history of Valery Fabrikant at Concordia University, with particular emphasis on concrete measures to enhance the future ability of the University to deal with a wide range of issues raised by the case in question. John Scott Cowan May, 1994 TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE Page 1 INTRODUCTION Page 2 STRUCTURE OF THE REPORT Page 4 PART 1: OVERVIEW AND CONTEXT Page 5 PART 2: FABRIKANT AT CONCORDIA Page 12 PART 3: RECOMMENDATIONS Page 32 CONCLUSION Page 37 APPENDIX A: MANDATE GIVEN BY THE BOARD Page 38 APPENDIX B: INVITATION TO THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY Page 41 PREFACE The police arrested Dr. Valery Fabrikant and escorted him from the campus of Concordia University on the afternoon of Monday, August 24, 1992. They left the institution from which they had removed him awash in a sea of fear, regret, guilt and blame. Now, over twenty months later, it has still not fully made landfall. The ubiquitous "what if" and the corrosive "why didn't I", either overtly or by implication, suffuse scores of postAugust 24th documents and nearly every interview I have conducted over the past four months. It is not a secret that the institution remains riven over many issues, and the public battles of its senior officers have been blamed for a profound stasis, of which that battle may be more symptom than cause. Indeed, finger-pointing has become a substantial intramural pastime at all levels. The decision by the Board of Governors, following the conviction of Dr.
    [Show full text]
  • Core 1..190 Hansard (PRISM::Advent3b2 14.00)
    House of Commons Debates VOLUME 146 Ï NUMBER 039 Ï 1st SESSION Ï 41st PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD) Friday, October 28, 2011 Speaker: The Honourable Andrew Scheer CONTENTS (Table of Contents appears at back of this issue.) 2653 HOUSE OF COMMONS Friday, October 28, 2011 The House met at 10 a.m. That event led to the creation of the registry we have today. We remember that before the registry was created, there was another massacre in Montreal. Valery Fabrikant killed four of his colleagues at Concordia University. I was there at that time as well. He killed Prayers four of his colleagues. Now they are dead. I want to repeat their names: department head Phoivos Ziogas; professors Matthew Douglas and Jaan Saber; and president of the teachers' union at GOVERNMENT ORDERS Concordia University, Michael Hogben. Ï (1005) [Translation] Mr. Fabrikant killed them because he felt he was not getting ENDING THE LONG-GUN REGISTRY ACT enough support from his colleagues. If the registry had been in place The House resumed from October 27 consideration of the motion at that point, I have no doubt that those four people might be alive that Bill C-19, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Firearms today. For weeks, Mr. Fabrikant had walked the halls of Concordia, Act be read the second time and referred to a committee, and of the perhaps with a rifle, and people suspected he was dangerous man. If amendment. police had had access to a gun registry that identified him as the owner of a firearm, I doubt that those people would be dead today.
    [Show full text]
  • <Html><Head></Head><Body><Pre Style="Word-Wrap: Break-Word
    <html><head></head><body><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">C A N A D A COURS UNIFI​ES DU QU​BEC PROVINCE DE QU​BEC CHAMBRE CRIMINELLE ET P​NALE DISTRICT DE MONTR​AL CAUSE NO.: 500-01-017372-928 ​TAPE: PROCES - SUITE PR​SENT: L'HONORABLE JUGE MARTIN FRASER, J.C.Q. ET JURY NOM DES PARTIES: SA MAJEST​ LA REINE Plaignante, c. VALERY FABRIKANT Accus‚, COMPARUTIONS: Me Jean Lecours PROCUREUR DE LA PLAIGNANTE DATE DE L'AUDITION: LE 11 MAI 1993 FICHIER: 3208 P-5148 MICHEL DAIGNEAULT, S.O. TABLE DES MATIERES PAGE WITHOUT JURY 3 WITH JURY 12 EXPERT WITNESS: CLAUDE POTHEL Examined by Me Lecours 16 WITNESS: JEAN DION VOIR-DIRE Examined by Me Lecours 98 WITNESS DECLARED EXPERT Examined by Me Lecours 101 Cross-examined by Mr. Fabrikant 153 ​ PROCES - SUITE WITHOUT JURY THE COURT : I came in alone to settle one or two small housekeeping details before we commence. The article 672.28 of the Criminal Code reads as follows: "Where the verdict on trial of the issue is that an accused is fit to stand trial..." Which is the case here: "...the trial shall continue..." I'm editing as I go: "...as if the issue of fitness of the accused had never arisen." I interpret that to mean, and it's new law, I interpret that to mean that just as a "voir-dire" in the traditional sense, the fitness hearing is a separate hearing, and that the Jury must be instructed to disregard all of the evidence which has been heard during the fitness hearing.
    [Show full text]