From: AlanBaggett@volcanomail.com   
      
   Patron Saint of Newfoundland Fisherman Gets Diamond Jubilee Medal : CRA SOTW   
      
   Her war medal   
      
   Published on September 10, 2012   
   Brodie Thomas    
             
   Elizabeth Harvey wasn’t expecting any mail on Aug. 31. So when her husband   
   brought back a parcel among the usual letters and bills, she was anxious to   
   see what was inside.   
   "I was shocked,” said Mrs. Harvey, who opened the parcel to find a Queen   
   Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.   
      
   Mrs. Harvey waged a six-year battle against the Canada Revenue Agency over   
   unfair taxation against fishermen who sold their licences in 1999. Her husband   
   was one of those fishermen.   
      
   The fishers had been wrongly advised to pay capital gains tax on their buyout   
   money.   
   Last year a federal judge ruled in favour of the fishers and ordered the   
   federal government to pay them back.   
      
   Mrs. Harvey led the fight in the media. Her story eventually gained national   
   attention. Journalists with CTV’s news magazine show “W5” recently travelled   
   to Isle aux Morts to profile her battle.   
      
   The vast majority involved in the case were Newfoundlanders, although a few   
   fishers from Quebec were also involved. The 52 Quebec fishermen chipped in at   
   Christmas time to buy her a new big-screen TV and a microwave to thank her for   
   her hard work.   
   While the attention was nice, the medal was unexpected.   
      
   “It is surprising,” she said, “fighting the government and then to turn around   
   and here is a medal for what you did.”   
      
   Mrs. Harvey still has a pile of names and addresses in a bundle of paper much   
   thicker than the Western Newfoundland phonebook. She said there are 1,086   
   names and addresses in her documents. Not all were eligible for the case   
   against the taxman.   
      
   “There were so many communities I didn’t even know existed when I started this   
   fight,” she said.   
      
   Mrs. Harvey said she is still getting calls. One recent call was from a   
   fisherman’s wife in New Brunswick. Her husband had sold his licence in 1999   
   and she was looking for advice on how to challenge Revenue Canada.   
      
   “What hurts me is the ones who have passed away,” she said.   
      
   One widow called her just days ago. She told Mrs. Harvey her husband had lived   
   to see the cheque arrive in the mail, but he didn’t get to enjoy it.   
      
   Mrs. Harvey was nominated for the Jubilee Medal by Newfoundland Senator Ethel   
   Cocharane, from Lourdes.   
      
   In her letter, Senator Cochrane credits Mrs. Harvey for finding justice for   
   the fishermen.   
   “Your persistence and dedication to the fishing licences issue was   
   instrumental in bringing justice to so many who had been unfairly taxed,” she   
   wrote. “Your efforts produced a monumental result that benefited people far   
   beyond your own community.”   
   Canada will award 60,000 of the medals to citizens for their contributions to   
   society.   
      
   Mrs. Harvey’s medal even came with a short guide on when and how to wear it.   
   Rules include wearing it in order of importance with other medals, and always   
   wearing it on the left breast above the heart.   
      
   She said the medal is something she will cherish forever.   
      
   “We fought for six and a half years but it was worth it,” she said. “Justice   
   was done.”   
      
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