Proposed Opening Statement of Daniel Deilgat.

 

 

 

DRAFT

 

 

 

 

Dear Chair, Members of this Committee/ Inquiry, Canadians.

 

I am here today to testify about my research for the last 30 years.

 

I have catalogued circumstances and events on the record with various Prime Ministers, the RCMP, through court applications and multiple interaction with journalists, throughout the years.

 

These circumstances began with an early warning to the RCMP which would end up as the tragic attacks of the 9^th of September 2001.

 

In time, my research product was utilized in an American Senate investigation. 

My files contributed evidence that the financing of the individuals that piloted those planes, on that day, were financed through the very entities I had documented, and provided to the RCMP in 1994-95.

 

The 9/11 Commission subsequently corroborated the payments after I suggested the Dr. Henry Kissinger resign as Co-Chair.

 

I created a list on individuals involved and found that one Engelbert Schreiber Sr., had handled part of the funds paid to the terrorists.

Then I found out that the same Schreiber, was actually the individual that had handled the funds earmarked for Brian Mulroney, in the Airbus case.

 

News magazines such as the CBC’s Fifth Estate, ignored my observation of the fact that they had the wrong Schreiber in their reports on the Airbus case.

 

I suspected that due to ongoing litigation, the CBC did not want to admit guilt.

 

The memorialization of events however did not stop there.

 

The research demonstrated that the Russian scandal that was Yukos Oil also touched on the list of entities we had provided to the RCMP, the American Senate and others.

 

That Brian Mulroney, through his partner Yves Fortier, managed to infiltrate themselves in the arbitration process of the Yukos Oil case, whereas shareholders claimed losses of in excess of 50 billion dollars US.

 

As a result of litigation back and forth, Vladimir Putin became isolated and I suspect, directed his frustration into what we now know as the Russian war on Ukraine.

And we now have to live with the threat of nuclear revenge.

 

Extraordinary claims must be substantiated with extraordinary evidence and as such, officials records of the Prime Minister’s Office as well as the RCMP have my letters for the last 28 years on the subject, as my investigation progressed.

 

The claims have evolved as time went on, but never deviated from the heart of the issues.

 

Hundreds of individuals have followed my journey, into the dark depths of the geopolitical organized crime, that is the intelligence community.

Lawyers, American Senators such as the late Carl Levine, journalists such as Timothe O’Brien of the New York Times and another from the Wall Street Journal, Mark Robichaux, journalist in Canada such as Stevie Cameron and Harvey Cashore as well as a complaint to the CBC Ombudsman.

 

The list is too long but I must include all members of Parliament through the years 2007 to 2009.

 

Someone even noticed The Hon. Allan Rock on a Saturday morning eyeing me as if he saw a ghost.

 

Needless to say that the record is undeniable, and that the allegations stood the test of time.

 

Yet here I am, again.

 

Finding myself in the position to testify as to activities that I uncovered over the years, is not an enviable situation.

 

What started out as circumstances that I should have stayed clear of, turned into catastrophes that no individual would be qualified to handle, let alone by themselves.

 

The personal attacks came furiously, my competences logically disputed, and repackaged into some sort of self-serving derogatory allegations against me, depending on whom was the target of my research.

 

Yet, here I am before your committee to testify about the failures of law enforcement and intelligence agencies through matters of substantial criminal frauds that developed into almost apocalyptic tragedies.

 

I am not here to lecture the current school of politicians of this 44^th Parliament, nor do I intend to unjustly be critical of current law enforcement and intelligence leaders, for the sake of gaining notoriety.

 

My motivation solely rests on what I said in the past, on the record, with various political and law enforcement administrations, here in Canada and in the United States.

 

I did not predict terrorism attacks, I simply pointed out that unusual and extraordinary liquidation of assets were taken place weeks before the 9/11 attacks.

Law enforcement here in Canada ridiculed my concerns and privately associated what I said, with what they thought was an unsubstantiated conspiracy, whereas planes were to be flown into buildings on Tuesday the 11^th of September 2001.

 

Sgt Bennington of the financial crime division in British Columbia nicknamed me Legend.

 

It seems that in fact law enforcement and intelligence agencies in North America had credible and actionable intelligence that was taken in vein. 

In fact, here in Canada at Division “E” of the RCMP in Vancouver, that intelligence, in the hands of individuals that were clearly incompetent in their analysis, decided to laugh about my concerns based in facts, by setting up a phone interview on September the 11^th  2001, at 09:00 Am sharp.

 

I could never come to terms with the irony that I was the one everybody thought to be incompetent.

 

From the time I was asked by the Directors of Allied to report on the scope of the alleged theft of treasury, it seemed like I could not avoid extraordinary circumstances and the disbelief that ensued.

 

Directors of the public company were wondering where the $4 million dollars that the company had in its treasury went.

On my return from Washington DC, I reported that, according to a reputable evaluation firm that specialized in cellular systems valuations that, the company’s assets at the time of liquidation, could have been worth as much as $340 million US.

When asked where the money went, I reported that proceeds of the sale of the various systems went to Isle of Man entities.

 

It wasn’t long after, that a picture developed whereas we identified clear involvement by intelligence agencies agents.

 

I took the selfless and ill-advised decision to look into the matters further.

 

This led to the development of information that exposed the financing of the terrorist attacks of September 2001 as evidence by an investigation by the American Senate into Riggs Bank’s money laundering practices.

Such investigation began in the same way my interaction with this committee has  initiated, I forced the issue.

 

I developed a directory of individuals involved in the financing of the attacks, which led to the discovery that here in Canada, news outlets and law enforcement had the wrong Schreiber in what is known as the Airbus case.

 

As I advised the then Prime Minister in writing of my findings, Stephen Harper called for the appointment of a Royal Commission/ Commission of inquiry, to investigate the circumstances that implicated former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, in suspicious illicit commissions schemes.

 

David Johnston was appointed to define the terms of the upcoming inquiry, his counsel Mrs. Sheila R. Block retained as a legal advisor and a new crisis management firm took on the responsibility to protect Brian Mulroney, Navigator.

 

David Johnston surprisingly declared the Airbus case well-tilled grounds, as such denying the victims of 9/11and all Canadians, their right to know.

 

From that time on, I decided to scale back my public involvement in the matters, out of concerns that I could become inadvertently privy to classified information.

 

My efforts from the time that David Johnston torpedoed the Airbus case would be limited to the periphery of the matters, staying clear of any activities that could infringed on national security investigations and compromised any operations and/or investigations that might be undertaken.

 

Nevertheless, a lawyer associated with Mrs. Sheila Block, in time, volunteered unsolicited information that, while Mrs. Block was of Counsel to David Johnston, her firm acted on behalf of at least one intelligence agency here in Canada, the Communication and Security Establishment, “The CSE”.

 

This was significant because the journalist that, years before, had developed the Airbus story, was a “former” communication agent for “The CSE”.

 

As it turns out, Mrs. Stevie Cameron was not only a journalist with ties to the intelligence community, her husband was a Canadian diplomat and, Mrs. Cameron was classified as an RCMP confidential informant.

 

Mrs. Cameron lied to the ethics committee when she testified that she had no prior contact with anyone prior to her testimony. She was right however that we never discussed her upcoming testimony.

 

The public record would eventually acknowledge that Mrs. Cameron would later be the beneficiary of some type of research grant worth 1 million dollars, from the University of New Brunswick through a fund financed by the RCMP.

 

While the incestuous relationships I addressed today are a serious concern, it isn’t clear if the intelligence community manipulated the administration of justice in Canada, for the benefit of national security interests, or for the sake of staving off political or administrative embarrassment.

 

When Prime Minister Trudeau appointed David Johnston as Special Rapporteur in the election interference file, along with key advisors previously involved in the Airbus case, legitimate questions surfaced as to the integrity or vulnerability of the Prime Minister and his ability to make independent decisions.

Advice volunteered to the Prime Minister likely was designed to lead to the appointment of Johnston and company, without the Prime Minister’s full appreciation of the circumstances.

 

I believe that the answers can be found through the analysis of the actions by various intelligence agencies and their subsequent efforts at compromising politicians for the sake of covering up their short comings.

 

Understanding the circumstances that allowed election interference to flourish in Canada begins by appreciating the lack of oversight the intelligence community is subjected to.

 

The lesson I learned in the last 30 years is that very little is impossible when it comes to the abilities of the intelligence community to conceal their mistakes through questionable classifications.

 

Imagine a suspect dictating what evidence you can or can’t use against him/her.

 

David Johnston likely could have made a difference and I believe that he realizes that now.

 

I cannot say for certain that Vladimir Putin will use nuclear weapons out of desperation, just as I had no idea at the time I warned the RCMP, that a terrorist attack was imminent.

 

What is clear is that the RCMP could have cross-referenced intelligence complemented with my files and perhaps pre-empt the attacks through international collaboration.

 

Unlike today where we have a chance to curtail Russian efforts in Ukraine.

 

I have not looked into which law firm acted for which Chinese entities that might have made donations to the Trudeau foundation, but I wouldn’t be surprise that David Johnston found out, which is likely when he realized that he had been manipulated and resigned.

 

We are in unchartered territory when a sitting Prime Minister is likely to be a witness through his realization that he was duped.

 

 

Daniel M. Deilgat.

Mine to All Members of Canada's 44th Parliament

  

 

 

Mrs. Janice Charette

 

Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet

Privy Council Office

85 Sparks Street

Room 1000

Ottawa, Ontario

Canada

K1A 0A3

info@pco-bcp.gc.ca

 

And

 

The Honourable Anthony Rota

 

Speaker of the House for the 44^th Parliament

Office of the Speaker of the House

Speaker.President@parl.gc.ca

 

 

 

To all Members of Canada’s 44^th Parliament.

 

 

 

Thursday, June 8, 2023

 

Dear Members.

 

I am Daniel Deilgat, a self-made analyst and financial crimes investigator. The investigations that I undertook spans the better part of 30 years and focus on distinct circumstances.

 

Those are:

 

.1-      The theft of treasury of Allied Cellular Systems Ltd, a Canadian corporation that was trading on the Vancouver Stock Exchange:

 

 

Allied acquired the right to cellular systems in the US for the purpose of developing the systems and selling such assets.

 

Allied was formed after one of its undisclosed principal, Lee Gilson Lovett- a former CIA operative and a Washington DC lawyer, illegally acquired the rights to such system.

In a consent decree issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington DC, Lovett was ordered to liquidate the assets.

But before he could do that he had to develop and build the systems in order to generate value.

That is when he caused for the formation of Allied Cellular Systems Ltd.

 

Once the assets were liquidated, their book value was more than $340 million dollars US.

At least one of the officers of Allied at the time was a former Director of Communications for the Bush/Quayle Whitehouse, while another was a former transition Team director for the Bush/Quayle campaign.

 

All of whom had indirect ties at various times with the CIA and other American Intel agencies.

 

.2-      The 9/11 Attacks:

 

When in the summer of 2001 I observed an inexplicable and sudden liquidation of assets in the Isle of Man, and in various jurisdiction including the British Isles, I advised Sgt Bennington of the RCMP’s “E” Division, financial crimes unit.

         My statement was met with sarcasm and frankly humour that was bordering on personal insults, but nevertheless, an appointment was made for me to call Sgt. Fozard at 09:00 AM sharp, on Tuesday the 11^th of September 2001.

 

         That morning I realized that Bennington’s humour was at the behest of the 2,977 victims that died on that day.

         It became clear in the following days that the Allied case reached corners of dark geopolitical depths.

 

         Through request I made to the Privy Council and the office of then Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, I was met by two officers of the national security directorate of the RCMP, the very next day if my memory serves me correctly.

One of the officers seemed still shaken from the developments and stated as he walked in the door that: the “ Fuckin’ Republicans have gone mad”.

 

This would be the second time in two months that the RCMP would ignore warnings and my offer of assistance through information gathered in our files.

 

         Sources a few days after the attacks in New York, led me to follow a couple of individuals of Arab demeanour, from the Niagara-Falls Border in Canada to Toronto by bus.

         One clearly stating to the other that the knives used in the attacks had been concealed in arm rest prior to the passenger boarding. That information was never substantiated, and I have no reason to believe it to be true but, I passed the information along to the RCMP, that arrived late at the Toronto terminal and lost the two individuals.

 

         The next day I contacted an FBI agent at the American Embassy in Ottawa, he promptly set up a yahoo email and I sent him my brief.

I never heard back from them.

 

I then reached out to Senator Carl Levin in time, whom promptly began an investigation of the bank at the center of various cash transfers, Riggs Bank, colloquially known as the CIA’s bank.

 

The Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations found Riggs Bank guilty and levied a record fine of 25 million dollars against the bank.

Subsequently Riggs Bank was sold to a Pittsburgh Bank.

 

This would mark the first time that we tested our investigative product and it hit the bull’s eye.

 

Eventually we were able to compose a list of individuals that took part in facilitating the transfers and we discovered that one Engelbert Schreiber Sr, a Liechtenstein banker with dubious ties with South American drug cartels, was allegedly the person that facilitated transfers of cash and direct real estate transactions to former Prime Minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney, in the Airbus matters.

From that point on, I committed time to understand better the Airbus Case.

 

 

.3- The Airbus Case and Mulroney’s ties to Isle of Man corporations:

 

For example, we believe that one Peter Michael Bond, a resident of the Isle of Man was a secretary for various entities where funds from the liquidation of my clients’ assets were laundered.

Bond was also a secretary in at least one company involved in the Yukos Oil liquidation of assets after Vladimir Putin ordered that the company be appropriated by the Russian government.

Bond’s name also appeared in the incorporation of an entity called Telluride Investments, a company that it is alleged, has invested in condominium project in Telluride Colorado, where according to journalist Stevie Cameron, Mulroney had owned an apartment at one point.

 

Peter Bond was charged in the United States and reached a deal with the Justice Department that gave him his freedom, he never went to jail.

 

Incidentally, we had provided a list of Isle of Man entities in a complaint I filed with the RCMP in 1994-95 with the details of, in part Telluride’s incorporation details, and in 2006 had provided a copy of the complaint to the CBC’s Fifth Estate at the request of the RCMP.

 

Yet I was never convinced that Mulroney and the Airbus case had anything to do with our case, or for that matter the financing of the 9/11 Attacks.

My concerns that Mulroney, in his capacity as a senior advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, were serious enough that I wrote to the Prime Minister.

 

Hours later, Harper advised his caucus to not have any dealings with Brian Mulroney and he announced that he would call for a commission of inquiry in the matters.

 

That is when David Johnston defined the terms of the inquiry and on the advice of his legal team, declared the Airbus matters “well tilled-grounds”.

Counsel at the time for Johnston was Sheila R. Block of the firm Torys LLP while Navigator and Jaime Watt were hired to manage the crisis for Brian Mulroney.

 

What we didn’t know at the time, because it hadn’t happened yet, was that the fact that Johnston had dissipated the fog of Airbus, Mulroney was able to continue and quarterback the legal wranglings that involved the Isle of Man entities he had been involved in that tied into the $50 billion dollars Yukos Oil debacle.

 

Mulroney’s partner, Yves Fortier, became the lead in the arbitration process that was to settle the dispute between the shareholders of Yukos and Vladimir Putin. 

 

.4- Putting the election interference in Focus:

 

         Now comes the time to put all of this into context.

 

First, we have circumstances of dubious money laundering schemes designed by KPMG that for years, was used to defraud investors from around the world, and that facilitated the financing of the 9/11 attacks.

 

Then, and because David Johnston issued a pass to Brian Mulroney in the Airbus case, Mulroney’s firm was able to provoque the ire of Vladimir Putin, through the involvement of Yves Fortier in the arbitration process against Putin.

 

From 1995 until now, the RCMP and the government of Canada have never inquired about the circumstances I have raised, never.

Journalist of the CBC’s Fifth Estate to this day, refuse to admit or recognized that they had the wrong Schreiber all along. 

Moreover, one journalist with ties to the Communication and Security Establishment, Stevie Cameron, was a confidential informant for the RCMP while writing a book about Karlheinz Schreiber with a producer for the Fifth Estate, Harvey Cashore.

 

From the time that David Johnston, Sheila R. Block and Jaime Watt of Navigator got involved in the Airbus case, until now, where they are again re-united in the election interference matters whereas David Johnston is a Special Rapporteur, one common denominator is crystal clear, Sheila R, Block’s and her firm were in a clear conflict of interests whereas they stood to lose millions of dollars in fees if the Airbus investigation would have explored the terrorism affiliations of Mulroney.

What isn’t clear at this point is what role does Brian Mulroney have, if any, in the election interference matters.

 

Anyone with intelligence experience would tell you that this is a collection of miscalculations by the intelligence community, that might or might not have used Mulroney as a source to develop intelligence and that such laps of judgement on behalf of the various agencies, led to one distinct tragedy- the 9/11 Attacks while the second has just put the world on the verge of a nuclear conflict.

 

The non-arms length relationship of the law firm Torys LLP and David Johnston with the intelligence community raises all kinds of questions about any role David Johnston has undertaken and how he became Governor General of Canada.

 

Like Stephen Harper once quipped: I don’t know how much Johnston got paid for his work in defining the terms of the Mulroney/Schreiber inquiry, but whatever it is it wasn’t enough…

 

The reality is that Johnston and his team have failed Canadians in the Airbus inquiry and with the intelligence community, they likely will again cause another catastrophe.

 

If the intelligence community couldn’t prevent the 9/11 attacks, how are we to assume that Putin will not use his nuclear arsenal?

 

This, the 44^th Parliament is likely the last bastion of truth the world might have.

 

I will make myself available to any committee should you consider that my testimony under oath, would advance your work. 

 

Daniel M. Deilgat.

Mine to Sheila R. Block of Torys LLP, Counsel for Special Rapporteur David Johnston.

                                                                         VIA EMAIL

 

 

For Immediate Release.

 

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

 

Mrs. Sheila R. Block

 

Torys Llp.

79 Wellington St. W.
33rd Floor
Box 270, TD South Tower
Toronto, ON M5K 1N2 Canada

Tel. 416.865.0040

 

Re: Conflict of interest.

 

Dear Mrs. Block.

 

I will spare you having to endure my lack of editorial skills and get right to the point.

 

I claimed that the role played by David Johnston in determining the terms of the Oliphant Commission led to a series of circumstances that eventually developed into and in part, the exasperation of the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and culminated into what we currently know as the war on Ukraine.

 

Our analysis is based on extensive investigation into money laundering schemes that spans the better part of 30 years, and that in part, involve former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and his involvement in the purchase of Airbus aircrafts by Air Canada.

 

Our involvement was necessitated by the clear obstruction that the RCMP played in the case of my clients’ lost of in excess of $340 million dollars worth of assets, due to converging evidence that touched on the Airbus matters, that the RCMP attempted to suppress.

 

We have assessed that in fact, the enterprises we investigated throughout the years, have either defrauded the CRA- formerly known as Revenue Canada, investors for the benefit of organized crime, terrorism financiers and, as is the mater here, Canadian politicians of all stripes.

 

The tally is well north of $25 billion dollars.

 

I have personally infiltrated several organizations throughout the years, whether criminal, extremists and/or law firms through surrogates.

I have caused for informants to volunteer information with us at law firms such as Ogilvy, Renault and others, but never at your firm.

 

Indeed, one of your partners candidly shared with us that your firm had at least one lucrative contract with the Communication Security Establishment- The CSE, at the time you were retained and were involved in various aspects of the Airbus inquiry commission, through Mr. David Johnston.

 

At both times the CSE had a hand in the matters, through Stevie Cameron in the Airbus case and the Five Eyes group in the election interference circumstances.

 

It is clear that your firm, yourself and/or any clients you might represent, and/or act on behalf of, in any matters pertaining to any file related to any agencies of the intelligence community here in Canada and abroad, is/you/are in an apparent conflict of interests.

 

From the time I was catapulted into this mess, I was obliged to investigate the 9/11 attacks circumstances, and have since come full circle to the war in Ukraine.

 

Two catastrophic set of circumstances book-ended by your client’s involvement here in Canada, David Johnston, with your counsel.

 

It is clear to any reasonable individual, that you and your firm must recuse yourselves at once from any further involvement in any files David Johnston is implicated in.

 

 

Respectfully,

 

Daniel M. Deilgat.

 

c.c.:    -George E.H. Cadman KC. via email.

         Boughton Law.

David Johnston’s credibility at odds with over classified intelligence.

 

 

The Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs will interrogate David Johnston on Tuesday the 6^th of June 2023.

 

What they will likely ask are mundane questions regarding his decision not to call for a commission of inquiry. They will be passive aggressive about his ties with Justin Trudeau and who knows, maybe they will ask about a summer job that the Prime Minister’s father had in a Malartic, Québec gold mine, just a few decades ago- yes, PET was a gold miner as a young student.

 

If time permits, they will awkwardly ask about Johnston retaining Navigator as a crisis management consultant.

 

What they will not touch is any of the concerns and allegations I outlined in mine of yesterday to all members of the POC.

They will not take the opportunity to take my offer to have a witness testify to the fact that Johnston, in the past, has knowingly suppressed well supported allegations, that supported concerns that criminal and terrorist interests had compromised the PMO through the involvement of Brian Mulroney as a senior advisor to the Prime Minister at the time.

It was then that American intelligence agencies became concerned with the Mulroney affiliations, that might or might not, have compromised then President Bush Jr, given the close relationship between the Bush family and Brian Mulroney.

 

In the middle of President Bush’s war on the Axis of Evil, Mulroney and his terrorism financiers, was vacationing regularly with the Bush family.

 

It was when Johnston was appointed to determine the terms of what would become the Oliphant Inquiry, that we had advised that the involvement of terrorist financiers that also complemented their business model with laundering cash for South American drug cartels.

 

Back then, once those allegations were reduced to writing, Brian Mulroney scrambled to hire the only crisis management team that would take on the job, Navigator.

 

Insiders at Navigator described the chaos of the firm’s early start in the basement of a North York house that, it was said, belonged to Watt’s mother.

 

Watt’s first big gig was a national security shit show that in time, paid off in spades for him.

 

A former employee confided that at the time, the Navigator strategy was to lie, which in turn created the chaos.

 

Now today, Navigator is employed by David Johnston in the matters that pertain to election interference, where again, David Johnston is avoiding the meat of the issue, like he did in the Airbus case.

 

In the Airbus case as with the current election interference matters, somehow what is known publicly turns out to be classified privately.

But, in both the election interference study and the Airbus case, a Prime Minister of Canada is on the hot seat for inappropriate ties.

Mulroney with terrorism and organize crime ties and Justin Trudeau in yet another charitable racket.

 

David Johnston somehow coincidentally finds himself arbitrating and defining the rules of how it will all go down, again.

And in both situation, Navigator will handle the public, yet classified, details.

 

One has to wonder why David Johnston would want to put himself in that situation, after all, hasn’t he jeopardized national interests enough?

 

The answer to that is a little more practical. Whether it be the safety and security of the Mulroney and/or Trudeau families, Johnston is the guy that will preserve the integrity of our former and current elected officials, because our politicians are so greedy that they will do anything for cash.

 

The question we need to come to terms with, is whether or not we will continue to tolerate damaging Canada’s reputation and interests with our allies just so our politicians can make a buck on the side.  

 

To the exception that at least one witness exists, and that this individual could torpedo Johnston’s credibility, the rest of the allegations herein were at one point or another the subject of public reports, unclassified public reports. 

 

As soon as Johnston got involved, the toilet paper in bathroom stalls at CSIS headquarters in Ottawa became classified.