Injurious Falsehood & Deceit
As anyone can imagine, trying to be silenced about being robbed, controlled and discriminated against is humiliating, dehumanizing and requires significant emotional fortitude. I can't wait for this all to be over.
Petition
On July 19, 2024, I registered a petition on the House of Commons website. As you can see, this petition doesn't mention Barrie Housing.
In order to register this petition, I had to get five other people to support it before asking a politician to support it. So I sent out some emails seeking support.
I ended up sending this email out to more people, but out of all the people I asked to support, only one didn't want to. Her name is Yanet Montero.
On July 27, 2024, Yanet sent me another text. I was so overwhelmed with everything that was happening with the HRTO, though, I didn't notice she texted me. Not responding to her text message probably made her more paranoid.
Interestingly, I told Paige McWilliams, an Ontario Ombudsperson in Toronto, Ontario about Yanet's discriminatory treatment by the Ontario Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services ("CCSS"). When I first met Yanet, she was having some issues with the CCSS and I just read a part of legislation that told me specifically how the CCSS violated Yanet's human rights.
As you can see in this email to Paige, I already knew never to "oust" Yanet to Barrie Housing or they'd destroy her life.
Sometime after this, Yanet sent this email to Barrie Housing employee Soula White.
I suspect Yanet did it because she was scared that I would say something "on her behalf".
Furthermore, the petition wasn't about Barrie Housing nor did it even mention Barrie Housing.
On August 28, 2024, the Barrie Municipal Non-Profit Housing Corporation delivered by email, its Form 2 Response to the HRTO and the other Respondents. Paragraph 28 states:
“28… on at least one occasion, Barrie Housing has learned from another tenant that the applicant is actively enticing or otherwise soliciting the “support” of other tenants and falsifying those tenants “concerns”. For example, see the email attached hereto as Tab “E” concerning a Barrie Housing tenant and the confirmation of their report of their dealings with the applicant.”
Even if the petition was about Barrie Housing - which it wasn't - but even if it was, there's nothing wrong with trying to register a petition on the House of Commons' website.
If anything, it sounds like Barrie Housing asked Yanet Montero to falsify concerns about me.
On August 21, 2024, I wrote a letter and taped copies to the doors of 85 per cent of my own housing project; Summitview. This letter did not ask other tenants to take action; it was informative in nature, including informing tenants of a private Facebook group they could join if they wanted to witness and/or participate in conversations about Barrie Housing’s thefts, illegal evictions, breach of contract, breach of privacy, and other criminal wrongdoings.
On September 4, 2024, the Barrie Municipal Non-Profit Housing Corporation delivered a letter by process server to me at home, titled, 'Notice of Libel'. Paragraph 3 of this letter states:
“3. Our client is further aware that you are disseminating defamatory letters to tenants of our client, making defamatory verbal statements to tenants of our client and members of the public, and attempting to invite or recruit, on false pretences, other tenants of our client into fabricating complaints against it.”
If you read the letter, though, I clearly don't attempt to invite or recruit other tenants into fabricating anything. So this is a lie and Barrie Housing never provided evidence of this because it doesn't exist.
On October 4, 2024, I delivered by email my Statement of Defence and Counterclaim. In paragraph 19, I stated:
“… the Defendant (Leah Dyck) requests the Plaintiff (Barrie Housing) to point-out which statement(s) in this letter are attempts to incite or recruit, on false pretences, other tenants into fabricating complaints against either the BMNPHC or the SCHC, or anyone else at all.”
Barrie Housing ignored this question because they could not answer it.
On September 5, 2024, one of the tenants at the Coulter Glen housing project “vandalized” a sidewalk with chalk by writing the words “NO MORE ABUSE!” Despite the fact that I have no idea who did this, Barrie Housing accused me of inspiring this “vandalism”. Later on, I found out that some tenants at that housing project want to “go after Barrie Housing for quality of life”. I'm sure the actual abuse we're all experiencing is the true reason for this "vandalism" and not some fabrication that I "inspired".
I decided to make a post about it on Facebook in an effort to deter other tenants from doing this kind of thing, because I personally think doing something like this serves no purpose. Barrie Housing staff are well-aware they're abusive and pointing that out to them and only them will not make them stop.
On October 29, 2024, Barrie Housing and myself attended an urgent motion hearing. The motion judge didn't listen to anything I said, so I filed a motion for leave to appeal her decisions with the Divisional Court in Toronto, Ontario.
But when I asked for the digital audio recording of the hearing, I was denied it. And the Motion Judge knew I couldn't afford to get it transcribed. I estimate it would cost between $300-$400.
This recording would have showed me balling my eyes out when I was telling the Motion Judge some of the horrible things Barrie Housing has done to us.
I took this video right after the urgent motion hearing. I was so shocked that such a perversion of justice could have happened. I still am actually.
On October 30, 2024, at 11:18 PM, I delivered by email to Barrie Housing and to the assistant of the Motion Judge my Response to Cost of Motion. Here's what I said:
“…If I’m ordered to pay them any amount at all, there’s a good chance I’ll commit suicide instead. There’s a threshold on the amount of injustice I can endure. There’s a good chance I’ve already reached this threshold. For nearly a decade, the Plaintiff has wreaked havoc on my mental health to such an extent that I can no longer hold down any kind of employment. The affects of this have compounded at an exponential rate over time.
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I’ve reached out to +530 lawyers/law firms to try to get legal assistance and I’ve had no luck.
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Legal Aid has told me twice that they do not support civil cases, or launch any kind of case against criminals.
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The local community legal clinic does not “do” civil or criminal matters.
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It appears the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario isn’t concerned about any of this.
… everything Riley Brooks spoke about in the urgent motion on Oct. 29th had previously been removed at least a week prior. I did that because I couldn’t handle knowing how many people know what’s going on and chose to do nothing about it…”
At one point near the end of the urgent motion hearing, I told the Motion Judge that Barrie Housing refuses to provide me with the audit it conducted on my housing account file back in April 2022. When I told her this, she said; "what audit?" That's when Barrie Housing's lawyer, Riley Brooks, told the Motion Judge that this audit wasn't a CRA audit and therefore, it was irrelevant. When I insisted it was relevant, she threw her hands in the air and said; "that's not what this is about!"
The Motion Judge wouldn't hear anything about this audit.
In paragraph 5 e of the Endorsement / Order issued by Justice V.V. Christie on November 5, 2024, she stated:
"...The Defendant (Leah Dyck) even claims that this court ordered her to be quiet during the motion, while in reality, the Defendant was offered the same amount of time as the Plaintiff to make her submissions – which she chose to make in much less time than was allotted to her. The Defendant’s behaviour is worthy of sanction."
Clearly the endorsement was written by Riley Brooks and signed by Justice V.V. Christie. And paragraph 5 e isn't true at all. I never once said I was ordered to be quiet. I said I was told we couldn't talk about the audit because Justice Christie didn't think the defamation was about me accusing Barrie Housing of stealing, which could have been proven with the audit / review document in Barrie Housing's sole possession.
So in the Endorsement / Order above, Justice Christie ordered me to pay Barrie Housing $7,500.00, which is one of the injuries I incurred due to Barrie Housing's falsehoods. Another injury I incurred is severe emotional distress. I also had my human rights violated under section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms when Justice V.V. Christie did not give me equal treatment before the law: There was no evidence provided by Barrie Housing that I was defaming them (simply its words of accusations) and there was ample evidence that it is covering-up a mass-scale fraud scheme.
On December 16, 2024, Barrie Housing's lawyer tried to break rules of the Courts of Justice Act ("CJA"). I had filed a Motion to Dismiss under rule 137.1 of the CJA and I filed it online. But the Barrie Courthouse was over three weeks back-logged so my online filings hadn't been processed by December 16th. Riley Brooks tried to tell me that I didn't schedule the December 31, 2024 motion hearing date to have my Motion to Dismiss heard, despite the email confirmation that I showed him it was confirmed by the Barrie Courthouse trial coordinator. Furthermore, Riley Brooks tried to schedule Barrie Housing's motion hearing date, despite not being allowed to have it heard until my Motion to Dismiss is completely disposed of (including appeals).
As it turned out, I did schedule the December 31, 2024 hearing just fine the first time.