Dr. Arthur Porter a new petition on its website because he is asking us gifts and hope of never be prosecuted because of his precarious physical condition

Dr. Arthur Porter a new petition on its website because it asks us gifts and hope of never prosecuted because of his precarious physical condition

The petition

Arthur Porter was illegally arrested and detained in the prison's Joya in Panama for more than 1 year without any medical treatment or hearing.

The law states that the extradition of a person requesting country has 60 days to present evidence to show that the person to be extradited stand trial. 60 days came and went.

It now has more than 800 days and even Canada has shown no evidence? And Arthur is still there! Panama why not complied with the law and released? Why Canada has apparently stopped the process, they started? Why an innocent man locked up and deprived of their human rights? Since when has it become guilty until proven innocent?

Since May 2013, Dr. Arthur Porter has undergone countless injustices unlawfully confined keep it in one of the most notoriously dangerous prisons without allowing for health care worlds which he needed urgently. He currently remains in the prison of La Joya in Panama.

La Joya is a prison in Panama City, Republic of Panama. The facility is overcrowded and repeatedly accused of systematic abuses against its people. He was named one of the most notoriously dangerous prisons in the world. Drinking water is sometimes not planned days. Arthur Porter and other detainees captured rainwater when they can.

In January 2013, Arthur Porter was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer with metastases to the liver nodes, bones and lymph nodes. It features an oxygen tank he uses to help him breathe. He began chemotherapy and radiation therapy immediately after diagnosis. It was to begin its second radiation treatments round 4 June 2013. However, he was arrested May 27, 2013 and has not been authorized for medical care.

Although the press was given documents that shed light on the current situation, the documents never seem to print in their entirety or sometimes not at all. On this site, maintained by the Porter family, we will provide you the documents and our knowledge of what has happened so far to ensure that the public is fully informed. What is happening is wrong. That the family is going through is terrible. And especially that Arthur Porter is put through is a violation of human rights. In other words, it is unfair.

This story is not just about Arthur Porter. We must consider the system. This story is all of us.

Everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Media, Canada and Panama act as judge, jury and executioner. All donations will be collected by the liberal associations in your province and a receipt will be issued tax. We'd amounts above $ 100,000 if where appropriate you should have a trial. A group of corrupt lawyers will be at your disposal day and night in case of arrest. Some mayors will also collaborate in this collection as Mayor Gilles Vaillancourt know well that bare for his honesty and monetary.  

For a complete list of our constituents send an email to the Charbonneau Commission for a list of corrupt customers that have passed the Justice France Charbonneau. The UPAC is shoed a great pleasure to send it to you in person for it was lost in the wrong hands. As you well know we can not trust some elected.

From his prison cell in Panama, Arthur Porter roundly on Charbonneau Committee and says defamed.

An investigator from the squad Hammer Associate MUHC former boss' corruption of the biggest fraud in the history of Canada, "last week, before the Charbonneau

commission."All I can say about it is that it is probably one of the most slanderous I've never heard statements, "said the doctor to his biographer, Jeff Todd, who told him on the phone on Friday and posted the interview on his blog, Monday.

"I have not had my trial nor was tried, unless the judicial phase is now become superfluous! I have been involved in any fraud, "said he added.

Dr. Arthur Porter is still awaiting extradition to Quebec to face charges of fraud, money laundering, money laundering the crime and conspiracy in the scandal of bribes of $ 22.5 million that he and a colleague were allowed to assume former leaders of the SNC-Lavalin for the construction of the McGill University Health Centre. Arthur Porter even states that it will "win" this prospective trial.

A "laughing stock"

Detained in La Joya prison with 4,000 prisoners, Porter says he can not believe everything he recently heard about it as part of the work of the Charbonneau Commission.

"Although at this stage, I should not really be surprised, he argued. These testimonies to the commission undoubtedly help to make future judicial proceedings (for the accused) a real joke.

""Only refers to one side of the coin. Overwhelming evidence are delivered and no effort is made ​​to test the validity of this supposed evidence. Witnesses have been carefully selected.

"Arthur Porter added that the bidding process of the super hospital of $ 1.3 billion was" fair "and led to the rules, all of which were" supervised "by a government delegate.

His Bentley and expenditures

He also joked about the recent reports detailing his salary at the MUHC ($ 282,000 in 2011, according to The Gazette), expenses allowances ($ 62,400 in 2010-2011) and the gleaming car brand Bentley as his former employer paid him.

"I find it quite incredible as it may fuel the news. All this was negotiated and approved by the Boards of Directors (MUHC). These conditions are not unusual for a director general at the head of such a health facility ", was he justified.

Frail state, Dr. Arthur Porter can not pay his medical expenses

We believe though will have to make a special request with the RAMQ for all predicated care in Panama are refunded. Benefience of conspiracy Quebec who as general manager Tony Acurso there shoed all possible steps and unimaginable for Dr. Arthur Porter and friend Philippe Couillard, Quebec Premier, can have satisfaction.  

We can not let this dog die before our eyes flowing crocodile tears. We asked ourselves, in our own rooms with our multidisciplinary consciences when he dies? Our thoughts are with him because do not want to see his thoughts return to Canada, our integrities be questioned cancer.

Regarding his health, the prisoner of 57 years made ​​no update on his fight against  - Which he is the self-diagnosis in January 2013. The cancer would be the "stage 4" or terminally ill, and would have spread to her liver, and the bones of his pelvis. He just mentioned that his condition was "uncertain".

In March, Porter had unsuccessfully claimed that the prison transferred to a hospital to undergo treatments.

He had also interfered in the election campaign arguing that his "good friend", Philippe Couillard, would "excellent" Prime Minister.

The former boss of the MUHC, who participated in a fraud of $ 22.5 million in connection with the award of the construction contract super Montreal hospital, has again been praised Wednesday morning before the Charbonneau commission.

"Dr. Arthur Porter, it was someone who was extraordinary ... that seemed to be," Gabriel spoke Soudrys. At the material time (2009-2010), the engineer was responsible for the project at the MUHC PPP Agency (an organization representing the government and oversaw the award of the contract).

"Since St. Clair Armitage (eg Right-arm Porter) was arrested, I sent a lot of documents to the commission ... I then thought, "but it was a conspiracy '" he recounted, realizing the situation after! stroke.

Dr. Arthur Porter and his two former arms straight, St. Clair Armitage and Yanai Elbaz, would thus be reached easily cheat their public partner during the award of the contract process MUHC $ 1.3 billion.

The three senior MUHC leaders (who are now facing criminal charges) would have increased the shenanigans that SNC-Lavalin wins super hospital project at the expense of the second consortium vying (PCUSM, led by OHL firm).

In return , Porter and Elbaz would have received in bribes totaling $ 22.5 million by SNC-Lavalin, through shell companies (see diagram), explained the investigator of the Sûreté du Québec, Jean-Frédérick Gagnon, the Charbonneau commission Tuesday.

Police also noted frequent telephone contacts between the bosses of the MUHC and their counterparts in the engineering consulting firm Pierre Duhaime (former CEO) and Riadh Ben Aissa (ex-VP), while Such relationships were strictly forbidden during the contract award process. Yanai Elbaz would also handed sketches P CUSM SNC-Lavalin to its competitor.

Eminently qualified to be fooled so many of our political elites and business executives that were in front by honest!

Tuesday, Normand Bergeron, former president of the PPP Agency and former head of Gabriel Soudrys, had already heaped praise on the famous Dr. Porter, evoking a man "eminently qualified" of impeccable integrity.

"Nobody questioned the integrity of Mr. Porter, "said he explained to Justice Charbonneau, perhaps recognizing that it would have had to" turn

"."Without a doubt, Porter wanted to negotiate with SNC "acknowledged Mr. Bergeron , calling the doctor man "very persuasive." "He was playing cards on the table, he dropped ministers copy of emails, it was an open book," said the witness.

Arthur Porter avoid facing justice in Canada

Although it is subject a warrant of arrest for fraud and breach of trust,the former CEO of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Arthur Porter could avoid facing justice for years, according to the criminal lawyer Jean-Pierre Rancourt.

Arthur Porter and his partner Jeremy Morris, also under warrant, both reside in the Bahamas and it is not clear whether the local police authorities intend to stop them.

Last Wednesday, the Unité permanente anticorruption Quebec ( UPAC) had issued five arrestwarrants.Besides Porter and Morris, mandates aimed former executives of SNC-Lavalin Pierre Duhaime and Riadh Ben Aïssa and Yanai Elbaz, a former leader of the MUHC, who had finally made ​​Thursday morning. He had appeared on the same day at the courthouse in Montreal and was able to regain his freedom in exchange for a deposit of

$ 150,000.

All five are accused of taking part in a scheme of collusion and corruption in which SNC-Lavalin's leaders would have paid in bribes to the leaders of the future MUHC to make sure to get the superstructure construction contract worth over a billion dollars.

I promess to contunu the corruption of Montreal Denis Coderre

Porter said to be too ill to travel to Canada, while Morris would be at the bedside of his friend in the capital of the Bahamas, Nassau.

In an interview with QMI Agency, the criminal lawyer Jean-Pierre Rancourt said Sunday that for proceed with their extradition, UPAC must first contact the police in the Bahamas and claim the arrest of two men.

However, the UPAC refused Sunday to tell QMI if it had made ​​the request or if she had added Porter and Morris to the list of persons wanted by Interpol. Sunday, the two men still do not appear on the list.

"If someone has committed a crime and it is brought to our attention, then that person will be expelled," said Sunday the spokesman of the police Bahamas, Hulan Hanna, who declined to confirm if they had received a formal request for arrest from UPAC in cases of Porter and Morris.

Also, impossible to know if the Bahamian authorities consider Porter and Morris as criminals.

In the context of extradition proceedings, the host country must first recognize the crime committed by the person referred. This means, according to Jean-Pierre Rancourt, Porter and Morris could exploit the flaws in the extradition partnership between Canada and the Bahamas.

"If it comes to murder, there is very little loopholes, Mr. Rancourt said. But is it a crime such as fraud is clearly defined in the treaty? Do we judge the Bahamas fraud in the same way that in Canada?

"In addition, the Foreign Ministry told QMI email that for Porter and Morris are arrested, it would first the Quebec Minister of Justice, Bertrand St-Arnaud, make him into the formal request.

M. St-Arnaud, however, contradicts Sunday the Department of Foreign Affairs. He told QMI that it is the Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions of Quebec must make a formal request to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the justice system is independent of politics.

The arrest and extradition proceedings are obviously complex, but the criminal lawyer Jean-Pierre Rancourt said it was clear to him that Porter will experience some difficulties using his medical condition as an excuse to avoid Canadian justice.

"The disease is not a defense, does -he said. We have doctors in Canada. We'll take good care of him.

"The former CEO of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Arthur Porter, imprisoned in Panama for over a year, published on the web a letter in which he said persecuted . by Quebec and Canadian authorities

"I wonder what next low blow in store for us - for me and my family - Quebec and Canada," he wrote on www.illegalinlajoya.com, a site created by his family who wants to denounce the injustices they are a victim.

The letter was posted shortly after a riot that occurred recently in La Joya, Panamanian prison where he is incarcerated, and in which he was manhandled. "Last Friday, my cell block was invaded by masked gunmen. I was "gassed" and thrown down the stairs, "he wrote. Mr. Porter also said to be concerned about the increased monitoring of prison guards about him, which he, cast a glance on him every hour.

Mr. Porter was arrested on 27 May 2013, in Panama, while he was on the radar of the UPAC and Interpol. He challenged the extradition request to Canada which he is subject. He is accused of fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, fraud on the government, breach of trust, secret commissions and laundering the proceeds of crime.

The two former bosses of the MUHC, Arthur Porter and Yanai Elbaz, would have received a bribe $ 22.5 million in SNC-Lavalin. Last May, the investigator Sergeant of the Sûreté du Québec Police , Jean-Frédérick Gagnon, said before the Charbonneau Commission that it was the "investigative project to Canada's history of corruption of the greatest fraud" .

"To that I seem more guilty, Quebec put my case before a judicial commission, headed by Justice Charbonneau where biased and sensationalist claims are made, but not checked or it is possible to defend, "wrote Mr. Porter. The latter says that in many ways, the governments of Quebec and Canada have sabotaged his demands, he considered legitimate for bail or medical treatment. Mr. Porter said to be suffering from a serious cancer.

It is also noted that Arthur Porter has not yet received his early departure MUHC, steps must be made ​​soon to clarify this unfortunate evil expected, we need him deliver justice that is due to him, this great man, this visionary.