From: johnturmel@gmail.com   
      
   JCT: This is a fascinating story. John Clay has a grow   
   permit but his Guardian Medical Services has applied for a   
   micro-grow permit to grow for clinical trials and his   
   renewal included an amendment to move his personal location   
   to make room for his micro-business at the old location.   
      
   He had prepared a promotional video and posted it on his   
   site saying: these plants (his home garden) will be going to   
   clinical trials. He can't do any clinical trials until he   
   gets his permit when he'll have to take another picture   
   (same place, different crops) but that video got Health   
   Canada concerned he was providing his private pot to his as-   
   yet not-registered Guardian. Har har har. So here is his   
   Reply to McGuire's affidavit (haven't we kept him busy over   
   the years) in response to his motion for an interim permit   
   allowing him to move.   
      
   John Clay Turnbull   
      
   Monday Jan 13 2020   
      
   Senior Registry Officer   
   Courts Administration Service   
   Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0H9   
      
   Dear Registrar   
      
   Re: TURNBULL, John Clay v. HMTQ File No: T-1222-18   
      
   I have received the Defendant's letter dated Jan 6 2020 in   
   response to the motion for interim remedy. Please place this   
   reply to that response before His Honour Judge Brown, Case   
   Management Judge.   
      
   Mr. Michael McGuire's Affidavit states:   
      
   a) On Oct 17 2018, Health Canada issued a Registration   
   Certificate to produce marijuana for medical purposes that   
   was to expire on Oct 17 2019.   
      
   b) On Aug 13 2019, my application was submitted to renew my   
   exemption and amend it by changing the location which was   
   not mentioned.   
      
   c) On Sep 24 2019, the application was returned as   
   incomplete.   
      
   d) On Oct 4 2019, I filed a completed application.   
      
   e) On Dec 31, Health Canada wrote requesting additional   
   information stating:   
       Guardian Medical Services appears to be operating an   
       unlicensed clinical trial, which we believe may be   
       supplied by the cannabis you are growing..   
      
   My application #8G0IMISRLS for my Guardian Medical Services   
   to be a micro-producer for clinical trials is pending.   
      
   Guardian cannot yet produce its own marijuana or deal with   
   it and so cannot have been supplied by my growing the   
   cannabis it did not yet need. Guardian has not yet conducted   
   any tests nor trials nor business of any kind other than   
   make preparations to do so. Mr. McGuire must know that the   
   Guardian application has not yet been approved and that no   
   illegal diversion was yet necessary for non-existent   
   clinical tests and trials.   
      
   This explains the application to amend the location of my   
   personal garden so my original facilities may be used by   
   Guardian. So everything is stalled until Health Canada   
   ascertains whether I was growing cannabis for Guardian that   
   it could not yet use.   
      
   Mr. McGuire says Health Canada will rule on the application   
   by Jan 16 2019, three days after the deadline for my Reply   
   to their Response. I would move that a decision on the   
   motion for interim remedy be deferred until then.   
      
   If my personal renewal and amendment are granted, the   
   interim remedy motion can be dismissed as mooted.   
      
   If not, I would ask to file a Supplementary Reply on why the   
   interim remedy should still be granted pending any further   
   hoops Health Canada can find to make me jump through.   
   ______________________________   
   John Clay Turnbull   
      
   CC FAX: Benjamin Wong 416-952-4518   
   Counsel for the Defendant   
      
   JCT: Why do you think Health Canada put off their decision   
   until after he had to file his Reply? How does it help   
   to keep it hanging? How does it hurt John?   
      
   So they made us deal with incomplete information until Jan   
   16. Forced Judge Brown to work around their timetable.   
   Imagine, it could be decided in 10 days but not 7 days.   
      
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