OWZW  ‘Conflict of Interest’

On March 06th, 2002, after an illegal and police assisted hostile eviction of myself from 2060 Broad Street, Regina, SK, my husband and I sought legal counsel. From the phone book and in great distress we chose Mr. Perry Erhardt (OWZW). Mr. Erhardt was the first one who heard my story (with the exception of the deaths of the grand babies) and commented:

“This is huge!” After a second hostile eviction on April 09th, 2002, from 2352 Smith Street, Regina, SK, I contacted Mr. Erhardt again and pleaded with him to to do something.? He had already advised me to not pay the mortgage but let it lapse as the Directors were responsible for paying it.

Unfortunately he should have advised me to pay it to protect my interests and file a motion to protect my interests as they were sure to default on it. He could not or better said, would not get Access to Information for me, acting like they did not know how to go about it. * I hired Mr. Erhardt to protect my interests but this is what happened and not one motion was filed by him on my behalf with the court TO PROTECT MY INTERESTS but instead he protected theirs.

For holding on to this lawsuit beyond the two-year limitation period I paid him approximately $10,000.00 and I lost everything! * During this time?I learned that this law firm had as one of their most prominent clients the Saskatchewan Government being aligned with the New Democratic Party as their most prominent clients.

*? Definitely they had a serious Conflict of Interest in representing my interests. In January, 2005 I wrote Mr. Erhardt and told him I was no longer in need of his/their services and I retired this lawsuit Sine Die until such time that I could bring it forward.? He now has Q.C. behind his name.

*Documents for this lawsuit will be attached at a later date.

Finally at the beginning of May, 2002 he agreed to help and filed this lawsuit against the Aboriginal / First Nations Board of Directors. I told him that we should go after the public servants and Joyce LaPrise instead of the Directors who had been drawn into their scheme but because they did nothing to stop these damages and abandoned the Smith Street property it was they that should be held accountable.

The others, public servants, did not hold any legal position within the organization and therefore no culpability. My argument was the governments withholding program money and threatening to end the program itself if this was not done was despicable yet Mr. Erhardt claimed it was the Directors who had to be held libel for the evictions and our losses and the governments’ could do whatever they wanted when it came to their money for such programs.

He informed me shortly after that he’d filed a Quit Claim, turning my investment over to the party holding the first mortgage.? The investment I had in the property and my right to dispose of it or keep it as per the mortgage agreement was flushed ‘down the drain’!

They knew more of what was going on but they were not talking and the mediation was a FARCE. * The Directors’ lawyer Mr. Worme, in a letter addressed to the Saskatchewan Labour Board claimed that Ms. LaPrise’s actions were very troubling and implied she should be held accountable.

See Exhibit for Part Three QBG. 1306 (2005). The problem was she was the Saskatchewan Minister of Social  Services employee who was on a one year leave to complete a mission for them.

The mortgage papers were also to protect me should the Directors renege on their responsibilities towards the property and not honor their debt to me. If this should occur I could take the property over from them and sell it to recoup my investment. This mortgage was a legally binding contract between the Directors and me and the one who carried the first mortgage. These mortgage papers were done for me by Mr. Wayne?Bernakevitch of McDougall & Ready Law Firm.

They should have had some legal weight for Mr. Erhardt to be able to pursue my legal interests.

Every time I thought of resigning myself to the fact that trying to receive justice was a ‘lost cause’ I remembered Charlene’s ‘pain and suffering’ foremost, and the promise I made her to ensure she received justice.

Secondly I thought of families torn apart like ours, whose parents were addicted and misguided and the help they needed through rehabilitation programs like the one that was now defunct Lastly my significant financial losses worried me.

Now I would have no heritage to leave my children and grandchildren because the money my parents left me went into program funding and the house bought for a headquarters for the organization as my investment for The Anchorage was a loss.

Lawyer expenses, moneys invested in the house lost, moneys that I had put upfront to begin and complete these programs, lost wages were denied us.? What they’d done to us was soooooo wrong, on so many levels! At the end of July, 2003 it became apparent that this entire matter was not going to go away and I had to keep going in His strength because on my own I could not do this.

My husband and I were both 56 years of age and now raising four grandchildren and extremely stressed. My husband took a heart attack in 2007 which nearly took him from us.

 * This song reflects that time in my life at this link:

Selah~ Part The Waters/I Need Thee Every Hour, Your Are My Hiding Place –