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   John KingofthePaupers Turmel to All   
   TURMEL: Jeff Harris 1st Manson Amender i   
   15 Jun 15 00:45:28   
   
   From: johnturmel@yahoo.com   
      
   JCT: Jeff Harris served and mailed off his Application for   
   Leave to Appeal the Federal Court of Appeal's refusal to   
   grant legal standing to appeal Manson's refusal to expand   
   his remedy to all patients only to Conroy's clients Beemish   
   and Hebert. And since they're not asking, no one can.   
      
                                          File Number:   
                  IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA   
           (ON APPEAL FROM THE FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL)   
   BETWEEN:   
                               Allan Jeffery Harri   
                                                      Applicant   
                                            Appellant in appeal   
                               And   
                      Her Majesty The Queen   
                                                     Respondent   
            NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO APPEAL   
                    NAME, APPLICANT   
         (Pursuant to Rule 25 of the Supreme Court Rules)   
      
   TAKE NOTICE that Applicant  seeks leave to appeal the   
   decision of Federal Court of Appeal Justice Dawson on April   
   15 2015 dismissing Applicant's motion for an extension of   
   time to appeal the Dec 30 2014 decision of Federal Court   
   Justice Manson in Allard et al v. HMQ.   
      
   AND FOR an Interim Exemption from the CDSA for the Personal   
   Medical Use of marijuana by Applicant pending the appeal.   
      
   THE GROUNDS OF APPEAL are that members of the a class   
   affected by a Federal Court ruling should have a right of   
   appeal.   
   Dated at Vancouver on Friday June 13 2015.   
      
   For the Applicant:   
   Allan Jeffery Harris   
      
                      APPLICANT'S MEMORANDUM   
      
   PART I - OVERVIEW   
      
   1. Applicant is one of a group of 36,000 medically-licensed   
   marijuana self-growers under the MMAR but the government   
   wanted to turn the business over to large commercial   
   concerns.   
      
   2. To shut the self-grows down, in July 2013, Health Canada   
   announced that all MMAR personal grower permits would be   
   terminated on April Fool 2014 when the MMPR commercial   
   growers took over. There would be no more renewals after Oct   
   1 2013. Upon expiry of a license, the exemptee should take   
   down the garden, destroy all stock, and provide proof of   
   purchase of the commercial product to continue to be exempt.   
   Of course, security, packaging, labeling regulations were so   
   onerous that after a year, only 13 of the 1,000 applicants   
   overcame the mountain of red tape to be approved!   
      
   3. The "Allard" Federal Court legal challenge against the   
   MMPR as deficient was launched and asked to extend the MMAR   
   for those Authorized To Possess pending the trial to be   
   heard Mar 18 2014, two weeks before April Fool expiry for   
   all permits.   
      
   4. In the next half year until April 1 2014, few of the   
   18,000 expiring exemptees destroyed all the medicine they   
   had spent years producing when their permits expired so they   
   could have proof of purchase from commercial producers to   
   validate their exemptions because most couldn't even afford   
   the commercial prices.   
      
   5. Exemptee Stephen Burrows had cut his tumor in half with   
   cannabis oil before his permits expired in January. Unable   
   to afford the MMPR, what could be do but shut down, go   
   outlaw with the rest of his stash, and hope he'd get his   
   permits grandfathered back at the hearing.   
      
   6. Robert Roy's permits were expiring on Mar 18 2014, the   
   very day of the hearing with no disruption at all if the   
   MMAR is extended.   
      
   7. After the hearing, Justice Manson reserved his decision!   
   So the next day, Robert Roy's permits expired and he became   
   an outlaw for not destroying his grow as he waited for the   
   judge's decision on the extension. Luckily, he wasn't   
   raided.   
      
   8. On Mar 21 2014, 3 days later, Justice Manson ruled the   
   medically-qualified group had the right not not to be   
   deprived of their medicine while the MMPR was unready and   
   grandfathered everyone's grow permits back to Oct 1 2013.   
   But not their Possess Permits, only those holding currently   
   valid permits were extended! And a Grow Permit is no good   
   without a Possess Permit!   
      
   9. So, by only 3 days, Robert Roy was Left Out of the relief   
   with Stephen Burrows and the other half of the 36,000   
   exemptees whose permits had expired.   
      
   10. And no more amendments to permits, if your Designated   
   Grower dies, your permits die with him.   
      
   11. Upon a motion to expand the relief to all, the Federal   
   Court of Appeal sent it back for an explanation of why   
   Manson had granted all in the group Right but then Beemish   
   and Hebert the remedy granted to others. Judge Manson   
   refused to expand the remedy to all nor allow any permit   
   changes in order to protect the commercial viability of the   
   MMPR regime!   
      
   12. When John Conroy, attorney for Beemish and Hebert,   
   failed to file an appeal for his clients and the affected   
   group on time, Applicant filed a motion for an extension of   
   time to appeal the Manson refusal to expand his remedy to me   
   and for interim expansion of the remedy to me.   
      
   13. John Conroy did file an Appeal late against the Manson   
   refusal to expand the remedy but did not move for interim   
   expansion of remedy pending the appeal.   
      
   14. Applicant has been denied legal standing to file such   
   appeal on the grounds first elucidated in Justice Eleanor   
   Dawson's decision of April 14 2015 in Allan Jeffery Harris   
   v. HMTQ:   
       i) In order to obtain an extension of tim an applicant   
       must establish:   
       (1) a continuing intention of pursue the appeal;   
       (2) the appeal has some merit;   
       (3) no prejudice arises from the delay; and   
       (4) there is reasonable explanation for the delay.   
       ii) The applicant has adduced no evidence with respect   
       to the first and last criteria.   
       iii) Nor has the applicant shown there to be some merit   
       in the appeal. He was not party to the order under   
       appeal and so lacks standing to bring the appeal.   
       iv) As a result, the interests of justice do not require   
       that that the extension be granted.   
      
   15. On April 30 2015, John Conroy has now discontinued the   
   appeal of the Manson refusal to vary the remedy before the   
   higher court and filed instead another motion to vary the   
   remedy which Justice Phelan has already refused before   
   Justice Phelan in an equivalent court leaving Applicant   
   without recourse to avoid the violation of rights of the   
   group originally accepted by Justice Manson.   
      
   PART II: ISSUES   
      
   16. The learned judge erred in:   
   A(1) expecting evidence of "continuing intention of pursue   
   the appeal" before the appeal is even filed;   
   A(2) finding there was no reasonable explanation for the   
   short delay after John Conroy failed to file an appeal for   
   the affected group on time;   
   A(3) seeing no merit in the appeal though an identical   
      
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