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Letter to the Editor: Déjà vu all over again!

A letter to the editor from Percy Hill
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S/E Industrial Park – Canadian Protein Innovation (CPI) – Carpere Canada (C.C.)
 
A sordid sago rife with examples of: inadequate negotiations, ignoring bright red flags, rampant use of secrecy, stifling of Freedom of the Press and trashing Freedom of Information requests — all of which appears to have, in-effect, aided and abetted CPI & C.C.  
 
CPI:  In 2014, Mr. Schoenert, Chief Financial Officer Emsland Starke of Germany, is dismissed for “serious breach of trust.” 2015, Mr. Schoenert mysteriously becomes Director (and possibly financier) of CPI. Provincial government does vetting and shuffles Schoenert off to Moose Jaw for business negotiations until German courts find him guilty of stealing 2.1 Million Euros. He gets four years and two months in a German slammer. More charges for missing 10s of millions may follow. CPI now Kaput. 

Mr. Schoenert via CPI negotiations gets to know all the information including connections to the scandalous GTH, yet we the citizens are kept in the dark without the information required to judge the performance of our Elected Officials. 
 
Carpere – Canada: Their innovative negotiations and questions resulted in Carpere signing an Agreement to Purchase (one signatory having connections to the Totalitarian Government of China). That agreement was cancelled due to Carpere’s “due diligence.” Once again, Freedom of Information requests are trashed by heavily redacted and/or blank pages. Thus, Carpere is privy to all information while we the people are deprived of our right to know. However, thanks to the gleaning of reporters, certain transactions are noteworthy:

Sept 25, 2018:  Question from Carpere Canada to City Administration: “a businessman” asked about Civic Elections and City replied, “Mayor’s term ends in two years so good stability and support there.”

Oct 5, 2018:  City Administration to “someone,” Chinese investment group was also, “very interested” in something – “land perhaps?”

Oct 10, 2018:  Mayor will meet the “businessman.”  

Do those questions indicate that Carpere used the S/E Industrial Park deal to get a foot in the door for a land purchase “perhaps?”  e.g. Valley View Centre (VVC)
 
Now that the S/E Industrial Park, CPI & C.C. deals have collapsed, Freedom of Information requests should result in complete and immediate disclosure. The abuse of using the Private sector involvement (no matter how much) to hide the facts is a serious breach of the Public’s right to know and it must STOP!
 
-- Percy Hill

 The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the position of this publication.  

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