From: johnturmel@yahoo.com   
      
   TURMEL: Luc Paquette files to vary conditions   
      
   JCT: Another self-defender in the Gatineau courts Friday   
   morning. He was one of the couple of dozen charged in the   
   Operation Nouage grower ring. He was busted with 174 plants   
   and charged with selling it to a gang. So he's part of a   
   "conspiracy!" Har har har. Sad to make light of what   
   originally sounded like serious charges. But taken in true   
   context, he's just another small grower with added charge of   
   whom he sold it to. Har har har. Things would have been so   
   much better if only he had peddled it on the streets! But to a   
   gang!!   
      
   http:##ottawasun.com#2016#10#06#massive-outaouais-based-drug-ring-   
      
   dismantled#wcm#513e5af7-9ee8-463b-9abf-d378c43d4748   
      
   The others are represented mainly by Michael Swanston and   
   Me. Mendo and I sent them both copies of the   
   Parker-Krieger/Hitzig Quash arguments but they're helping   
   their clients plead guilty. Luc had Mendo.   
      
   Luc has been convinced to put up a fight. But being part of   
   a "criminal gang" meant that his release conditions would be   
   onerous:   
   1) No passport, guns, drugs, getting into trouble;   
   2) 10pm-5am home arrest   
   3) $12,500 bail.   
      
   It also said that a J.P. or judge of provincial court could   
   vary the condition. I'd always gone to Superior Court to   
   vary a condition but the Recognizance said that it could be   
   varied by a judge or Justice of the Peace so I prepared a   
   Motion to Vary:   
      
                 APPLICATION TO VARY RECOGNIZANCE   
      
   TO AN HONOURABLE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE OR JUDGE OF THE COURT   
   OF QUEBEC (CRIMINAL CHAMBER) SITTING FOR THE DISTRICT OF   
   GATINEAU, the Applicant states as follows:   
      
   FACTS:   
      
   1. Applicant was charged for growing 174 marijuana plants   
   under   
   Sections 7-1-2-b, 4-1-4-a, and 5-2-3-a of the CDSA.   
      
   2. On Nov 11 2016, Applicant signed a Recognizance posting   
   Bail of $12,500 and promising to be home between 22:00-5:00   
   hours every night and other conditions not sought to be   
   varied.   
      
   3. Applicant holds a job which pays about $900/week, about   
   $3,900 per month.   
      
   4. Applicant has fixed expenses for mortgage, auto, Hydro,   
   Taxes, Communications, credit card payments of about $3,000.   
      
   5. With the remaining $900, Applicant must provide for 3   
   children aged 11, 14, 17 and is getting deeper into debt.   
      
   6. The curfew makes visiting family very difficult and   
   Applicant cannot pick up his kids after 10pm at night.   
      
   PART II - ISSUES   
      
   Is the Applicant's stability and risk of flight such that   
   the Bail and Curfew are not necessary.   
      
   PART III - ARGUMENT FOR ORDER   
      
   7. Given a stable job, stable home situation, and no risk of   
   flight, Applicant seeks to vary the Recognizance by changing   
   the $12,500 bail to a $12,500 bond and end the curfew.   
      
   Dated at Gatineau on Dec 15 2017.   
      
                                ________________________________   
                                Luc Paquette   
      
                         NOTICE OF MOTION   
      
   TAKE NOTICE that on _______ 201__ at _____m or as soon   
   hereafter as can be heard the application made to a judge of   
   the Superior Court at the Courthouse in Gatineau.   
      
   THE MOTION IS FOR AN ORDER varying the Recognizance by   
   changing the $12,500 bail to a $12,500 bond and ending the   
   curfew.   
      
   AND FOR ANY ORDER abridging any time for service or amending   
   any error or omission as to form, color, font, margins,   
   content which the Honourable Justice may allow.   
      
   FOR THESE REASONS, MAY IT PLEASE THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE   
   GRANT the present Application.   
      
   Dated at Gatineau on Dec 15 2017.   
   __________________________   
   Luc Paquette   
      
   AFFIDAVIT   
      
   I, Luc Paquette, make oath as follows:   
      
   1. I hold a stable job as a crane dispatcher taking home   
   $900/week, about $3,900/month.   
      
   2. My records show monthly fixed expenses about $3,000:   
   1) Mort-gage $1,200   
   2) Automobile $800   
   3) Hydro $300   
   4) Taxes $300   
   5) Communications $200   
   6) Credit Card debt $200   
      
   3. With the remaining $900, I must provide for 3 children   
   aged 11, 14, 17. I am getting deeper into debt.   
      
   5. The curfew makes picking up my children after 10pm at   
   night impossible and visiting family very difficult.   
      
   6. This Affidavit is made in support of a motion to vary the   
   Recognizance by replacing the $12,500 Bail with a $12,500   
   Bond and ending the curfew.   
      
   ___________________________________   
   Luc Paquette   
      
   Sworn before me at Gatineau on Dec 15 2017   
   __________________________________________   
      
   JCT: It was Judge Desaulniers again. It seems that Mr. Mendo   
   had already spoken to the Crown about lifting the curfew for   
   his Defendants for the holidays until Jan 3 2018 and it   
   extended to Luc too. But there was no way he was going to   
   try to get the bail money back.   
      
   So Luc decided to present his motion and go for the cash and   
   no more curfew at all. He laid off Me. Mendo and made his   
   motion.   
      
   Judge Desaulniers pointed out that she did not have the   
   power to vary it without the consent of the Crown. He   
   pointed at the Recognizance which said that she or even a   
   J.P. did have the power to vary the Recognizance. She stated   
   that it was an error on the form! Without Crown consent, it   
   had to go to Superior Court.   
      
   Fine. So she dropped his curfew until Jan 3. I've re-titled   
   the motion to Superior Court and sent it to Luc and he'll   
   get it served and filed early next week. Should be long   
   before we find out why the Crown thinks holding his cash   
   better ensures his appearances. Har har har.   
      
   I find it hard to see how a judge will think it does. Looks   
   pretty rosy for a happier Christmas. Even if he just pays   
   off his credit card. That's almost $200 a month more for the   
   family. (Most payments are interest, almost nothing on   
   principal).   
      
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