James "Jim" Mattison
Salary 2009 $132,033.00
Alleged Criminal - Perjury
James "Jim" Mattison
According to the BC Government directory on October 10, 2009 Jim Mattison, also known as James Mattison is the Assistant Deputy Minister, Water Stewardship Division.
We believe Mr. Mattison is an un-convicted criminal.
This article was originally published on the WaterWarCrimes web site on October 10, 2009 shortly afterwards Jim Mattison no longer appeared in the directory for the Government of British Columbia although he continued to be listed in the Victoria telephone directory and a telephone call to his home on Sunday March 14, 2010, was responded to by an answering machine indicating we had reached Jim's residence so we presume Jim Mattison is still alive and well.
Then in May, 2011, British Columbia Premier Christy Clark appointed James Mattison to positions with with the Oil and Gas Appeal Tribunal, the Environmental Appeal Board and the Forest Appeals Commission, until December 31, 2014. (See Orders in Council
280, 281 and 282).
In the opinion of the editors, Mr. Mattison was a key player in the crimes of fraud, perjury, and obstruction of justice, carried out by a crooked cabal of lawyers with the Ministry of the Attorney General between 1993 and 1999 in the lawsuit filed by Sun Belt
Water Inc. against the Government of British Columbia.
It is an open question as to what was the full role of Mr. Mattison in the creation of the form of Order-In-Council No 331, made March 18, 1991, which, artfully, conferred an illegal monopoly over bulk water exports on W.C.W. Western Canada Water Enterprises Ltd.
that excluded its competitors, Sun Belt Water Inc. and Aquasource Ltd., from the competition
to supply fresh water by marine tanker to the Goleta Water District in 1991 and which has resulted in two major lawsuits against the Province. However, to affidavits filed by Mr. Colin Beach, President of Aquasource Ltd., in the Aquasource lawsuit, there is documented evidence showing that Mr. Mattison was involved in the drafting of correspondence signed by Premier Bill Vander Zalm and sent to California promoting the secret, illegal, agreement between the Province and W.C.W. Western Canada Water Enterprises Ltd. which supports the position that Mr. Mattison was later engaged in a deliberate and willful act of perjury when he denied and covered up the existence the agreement referred to both at
Examinations for Discovery and by affidavit in response to Interrogatories in the Sun Belt Water Inc. litigation.
Given these facts, it is our opinion that Jim Mattison is compromised and it is an inappropriate decision for the government of British Columbia to select him for a position where he will decide the rights and obligations of others who might have cases before the Oil and Gas Appeal Tribunal, the Environmental Appeal Board or the Forest Appeals Commission of British Columbia.
However, to be fair Jim Mattison is not a lawyer and he would follow instructions from the lawyers at the Ministry of the Attorney General when he swore, under Oath, a fraudulent affidavit in 1997.
False affidavits are not uncommon in litigation. People often make an honest mistake and get the facts wrong. However, fraudulent affidavits, where the maker is lying or is reckless as to the truth of the affidavit are less common because the penalty for using such an affidavit in a lawsuit is 14 years imprisonment.
On May 5 1997, James Mattison swore a false affidavit and we think he did so knowing it was false and as part of a deliberate strategy to deceive the court. This is what is knows as a “fraud on the court”. It is a form of obstruction of justice and, when under Oath, it becomes perjury.
If Mr. James Mattison was guided by lawyers when he swore the false affidavit, they would be guilty of the same crimes.
We think James Mattison knew exactly what he was doing when he swore the false affidavit and that the BC Government lawyers working on the Sun Belt Water lawsuit at the time, also knew exactly what they were doing and deliberately committed perjury because they thought they could get away with it.
You be the judge.
Here are the facts.
In November 1996, Sun Belt Water legal counsel delivered a set of Interrogatories to the Government lawyers.
Interrogatories are written questions that must be answered, in writing, by affidavit, and that means under Oath or solemn affirmation.
The questions were carefully crafted and asked how much revenue the BC Government would have received under its agreement with W.C.W. Western Canada Water Enterprises Ltd. if Western Canada Water had supplied water to the Goleta Water District in the quantities Goleta was looking for in 1991.
Mr. Mattison, a professional engineer, had been a senior employee at the BC water branch, so he was in a position to do the calculations and answer the questions.
During the lead up to the delivery of the Interrogatories, government lawyers had responded to requests for a copy of the agreement between the BC Government and Western Canada Water by delivering to a copy of an agreement dated March 21, 1986, between Western Canada Water and a BC Government owned corporation and fraudulently claiming this was the agreement that was in existence between Western Canada Water and the BC Government when the events took place in March 1991 and the BC Government killed the Sun Belt Water business opportunity by denying Sun belt a source of fresh water and tried to force Goleta to do business with Western Canada Water at inflated prices.
Sun Belt Water Inc and its legal counsel were completely unaware there was a second agreement dated September 25, 1989 between W.C.W. Western Canada Water Enterprises Ltd. and the BC Government that had replaced the agreement dated March 21, 1986.
It took a long time to get answers to the Interrogatories. The Rules of Court provide that Interrogatories must be answered within 21 days of receipt.
Sun Belt Water Inc legal counsel was forced to make several applications to court to compel the BC Government to respond.
The BC Government strongly objected to answering the Interrogatories.
During this period Sun Belt Water Inc legal counsel, incorrectly, advised the court that the March 21, 1986, agreement was the agreement in force between the BC Government and Western Canada Water. This advice was a genuine mistake because he had relied on the disclosure by the Government and statements by the government lawyers who concealed from him the existence of the September 1989 agreement but error led the BC Government into believing Sun Belt Water Inc. did not know about the September 1989 agreement.
Finally, Mr. Justice John Bouck ordered the Government to respond to the Interrogatories and the Government, thinking Sun Belt Water Inc. did not know about the September 1989 Agreement responded with an affidavit by Mr. James Mattison that was based upon the 1986 agreement. Mr. Mattison's affidavit was false and the BC Government would have gotten away with the fraud and, what we believe was Mr. Mattison's perjury, except that, at about same time legal counsel for Sun Belt Water Inc obtained a copy of the September 1989 Agreement from a third party and he recognized James Mattison had probably committed perjury .
The discovery of the September 1989 Agreement explained why the BC Government had resisted answering the Interrogatories. The lawyers guiding Mr. Mattison would be naturally reluctant to counsel Mr. Mattison to answer the Interrogatories and commit perjury and only did so when confident Sun Belt Water Inc. and its legal counsel knew nothing about the September 1989 Agreement.
The discovery of the September 1989 Agreement changed the whole nature of the case. Sun Belt Water Inc. now had written proof of a conspiracy to violate the Water Act, the Free Trade Agreement and the GATT. The conspiracy was no longer a theory but a proven fact.
Well, what does a liar do when he or she is caught in a lie?
A liar, when caught in a lie, invents another lie to support the earlier lie.
As the poet wrote "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive".
And that is exactly what the lawyers working for the BC Government did when caught by Mr. Mattison's false affidavit. They began to weave a tangled web of lies deceit and perjury. They persuaded BC Government staff lawyer, Anne Wilson, to swear an false affidavit setting out a false and fraudulent interpretation of the September 1989 Agreement. They filed that affidavit in legal proceedings in the Supreme Court of British Columbia and confirmed themselves as a criminal organization.
And that is where things stood in 1997 and, a few weeks later, the BC Government moved to block the Sun Belt Water lawsuit entirely by getting a judge to make an Order that Sun Belt Water Inc. must post security for costs if Sun Belt Water wanted to continue the lawsuit. Mr. Justice James Shabbits refused to hear legal arguments on behalf of Sun Belt Water Inc. and made the Order requested by the government.
Click here for more particulars about Justice James Shabbits.
In 1998, Sun Belt Water Inc. decided to leave the BC Courts, that were clearly prejudiced against it, and file its claim for arbitration under Chapter 11 of the NAFTA.
Then between 2001 and 2005, documents were acquired that in our opinion, prove that James Mattison Anne Wilson, William Pearce and deputy Attorney General Gillian Wallace were involved in fraud, perjury and obstruction of justice. We gave copies of the documents to the RCMP and the Victoria City Police in a package called Sun Belt Water Inc. Police Report.
You can review the First Sun Belt Water Police Report at:
http://www.sunbeltwater.com/images/policereport.pdf
The RCMP refused to carry out the investigation of our complaint. The Victoria City Police visited the Ministry of the Attorney General and the Deputy Minister Gillian Wallace promptly resigned and dropped out of the Law Society of British Columbia. No charges were laid.
A few years later, further documents came into our possession that, in our opinion, proved the Ministry of the Attorney General had been engaged in fraud going back to the months immediately after the signing of the illegal September 1989 agreement that violated the Water Act, the Free Trade Agreement and the GATT.
We gave copies of those additional documents to the RCMP and the Victoria City Police in a package called Second Police Report
You can review the Second Sun Belt Water Police Report at
http://www.sunbeltwater.com/images/policereport2.pdf
Again, the RCMP refused to carry out the investigation of our complaint. The Victoria City Police agreed to carry out an investigation but the investigation was stalled and after the Chief of Police got caught in a sexual affair with a lawyer (female) from Jean Chretien's law firm, Heenan Blaikie, the Victoria City Police refused to carry out the investigation.
In 2008, the Second Police Report was to RCMP Commissioner, William Elliott, in Ottawa, and asked for a competent investigation. We have had no report from Commissioner Elliott.
We think James Mattison committed perjury and, not being a lawyer, he was most probably guided by legal counsel working inside the Ministry of the Attorney General.
You be the judge.
Is James Mattison an unconvicted criminal?
Should he be permitted to hold a government job?
We believe Mr. Mattison is an un-convicted criminal.
This article was originally published on the WaterWarCrimes web site on October 10, 2009 shortly afterwards Jim Mattison no longer appeared in the directory for the Government of British Columbia although he continued to be listed in the Victoria telephone directory and a telephone call to his home on Sunday March 14, 2010, was responded to by an answering machine indicating we had reached Jim's residence so we presume Jim Mattison is still alive and well.
Then in May, 2011, British Columbia Premier Christy Clark appointed James Mattison to positions with with the Oil and Gas Appeal Tribunal, the Environmental Appeal Board and the Forest Appeals Commission, until December 31, 2014. (See Orders in Council
280, 281 and 282).
In the opinion of the editors, Mr. Mattison was a key player in the crimes of fraud, perjury, and obstruction of justice, carried out by a crooked cabal of lawyers with the Ministry of the Attorney General between 1993 and 1999 in the lawsuit filed by Sun Belt
Water Inc. against the Government of British Columbia.
It is an open question as to what was the full role of Mr. Mattison in the creation of the form of Order-In-Council No 331, made March 18, 1991, which, artfully, conferred an illegal monopoly over bulk water exports on W.C.W. Western Canada Water Enterprises Ltd.
that excluded its competitors, Sun Belt Water Inc. and Aquasource Ltd., from the competition
to supply fresh water by marine tanker to the Goleta Water District in 1991 and which has resulted in two major lawsuits against the Province. However, to affidavits filed by Mr. Colin Beach, President of Aquasource Ltd., in the Aquasource lawsuit, there is documented evidence showing that Mr. Mattison was involved in the drafting of correspondence signed by Premier Bill Vander Zalm and sent to California promoting the secret, illegal, agreement between the Province and W.C.W. Western Canada Water Enterprises Ltd. which supports the position that Mr. Mattison was later engaged in a deliberate and willful act of perjury when he denied and covered up the existence the agreement referred to both at
Examinations for Discovery and by affidavit in response to Interrogatories in the Sun Belt Water Inc. litigation.
Given these facts, it is our opinion that Jim Mattison is compromised and it is an inappropriate decision for the government of British Columbia to select him for a position where he will decide the rights and obligations of others who might have cases before the Oil and Gas Appeal Tribunal, the Environmental Appeal Board or the Forest Appeals Commission of British Columbia.
However, to be fair Jim Mattison is not a lawyer and he would follow instructions from the lawyers at the Ministry of the Attorney General when he swore, under Oath, a fraudulent affidavit in 1997.
False affidavits are not uncommon in litigation. People often make an honest mistake and get the facts wrong. However, fraudulent affidavits, where the maker is lying or is reckless as to the truth of the affidavit are less common because the penalty for using such an affidavit in a lawsuit is 14 years imprisonment.
On May 5 1997, James Mattison swore a false affidavit and we think he did so knowing it was false and as part of a deliberate strategy to deceive the court. This is what is knows as a “fraud on the court”. It is a form of obstruction of justice and, when under Oath, it becomes perjury.
If Mr. James Mattison was guided by lawyers when he swore the false affidavit, they would be guilty of the same crimes.
We think James Mattison knew exactly what he was doing when he swore the false affidavit and that the BC Government lawyers working on the Sun Belt Water lawsuit at the time, also knew exactly what they were doing and deliberately committed perjury because they thought they could get away with it.
You be the judge.
Here are the facts.
In November 1996, Sun Belt Water legal counsel delivered a set of Interrogatories to the Government lawyers.
Interrogatories are written questions that must be answered, in writing, by affidavit, and that means under Oath or solemn affirmation.
The questions were carefully crafted and asked how much revenue the BC Government would have received under its agreement with W.C.W. Western Canada Water Enterprises Ltd. if Western Canada Water had supplied water to the Goleta Water District in the quantities Goleta was looking for in 1991.
Mr. Mattison, a professional engineer, had been a senior employee at the BC water branch, so he was in a position to do the calculations and answer the questions.
During the lead up to the delivery of the Interrogatories, government lawyers had responded to requests for a copy of the agreement between the BC Government and Western Canada Water by delivering to a copy of an agreement dated March 21, 1986, between Western Canada Water and a BC Government owned corporation and fraudulently claiming this was the agreement that was in existence between Western Canada Water and the BC Government when the events took place in March 1991 and the BC Government killed the Sun Belt Water business opportunity by denying Sun belt a source of fresh water and tried to force Goleta to do business with Western Canada Water at inflated prices.
Sun Belt Water Inc and its legal counsel were completely unaware there was a second agreement dated September 25, 1989 between W.C.W. Western Canada Water Enterprises Ltd. and the BC Government that had replaced the agreement dated March 21, 1986.
It took a long time to get answers to the Interrogatories. The Rules of Court provide that Interrogatories must be answered within 21 days of receipt.
Sun Belt Water Inc legal counsel was forced to make several applications to court to compel the BC Government to respond.
The BC Government strongly objected to answering the Interrogatories.
During this period Sun Belt Water Inc legal counsel, incorrectly, advised the court that the March 21, 1986, agreement was the agreement in force between the BC Government and Western Canada Water. This advice was a genuine mistake because he had relied on the disclosure by the Government and statements by the government lawyers who concealed from him the existence of the September 1989 agreement but error led the BC Government into believing Sun Belt Water Inc. did not know about the September 1989 agreement.
Finally, Mr. Justice John Bouck ordered the Government to respond to the Interrogatories and the Government, thinking Sun Belt Water Inc. did not know about the September 1989 Agreement responded with an affidavit by Mr. James Mattison that was based upon the 1986 agreement. Mr. Mattison's affidavit was false and the BC Government would have gotten away with the fraud and, what we believe was Mr. Mattison's perjury, except that, at about same time legal counsel for Sun Belt Water Inc obtained a copy of the September 1989 Agreement from a third party and he recognized James Mattison had probably committed perjury .
The discovery of the September 1989 Agreement explained why the BC Government had resisted answering the Interrogatories. The lawyers guiding Mr. Mattison would be naturally reluctant to counsel Mr. Mattison to answer the Interrogatories and commit perjury and only did so when confident Sun Belt Water Inc. and its legal counsel knew nothing about the September 1989 Agreement.
The discovery of the September 1989 Agreement changed the whole nature of the case. Sun Belt Water Inc. now had written proof of a conspiracy to violate the Water Act, the Free Trade Agreement and the GATT. The conspiracy was no longer a theory but a proven fact.
Well, what does a liar do when he or she is caught in a lie?
A liar, when caught in a lie, invents another lie to support the earlier lie.
As the poet wrote "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive".
And that is exactly what the lawyers working for the BC Government did when caught by Mr. Mattison's false affidavit. They began to weave a tangled web of lies deceit and perjury. They persuaded BC Government staff lawyer, Anne Wilson, to swear an false affidavit setting out a false and fraudulent interpretation of the September 1989 Agreement. They filed that affidavit in legal proceedings in the Supreme Court of British Columbia and confirmed themselves as a criminal organization.
And that is where things stood in 1997 and, a few weeks later, the BC Government moved to block the Sun Belt Water lawsuit entirely by getting a judge to make an Order that Sun Belt Water Inc. must post security for costs if Sun Belt Water wanted to continue the lawsuit. Mr. Justice James Shabbits refused to hear legal arguments on behalf of Sun Belt Water Inc. and made the Order requested by the government.
Click here for more particulars about Justice James Shabbits.
In 1998, Sun Belt Water Inc. decided to leave the BC Courts, that were clearly prejudiced against it, and file its claim for arbitration under Chapter 11 of the NAFTA.
Then between 2001 and 2005, documents were acquired that in our opinion, prove that James Mattison Anne Wilson, William Pearce and deputy Attorney General Gillian Wallace were involved in fraud, perjury and obstruction of justice. We gave copies of the documents to the RCMP and the Victoria City Police in a package called Sun Belt Water Inc. Police Report.
You can review the First Sun Belt Water Police Report at:
http://www.sunbeltwater.com/images/policereport.pdf
The RCMP refused to carry out the investigation of our complaint. The Victoria City Police visited the Ministry of the Attorney General and the Deputy Minister Gillian Wallace promptly resigned and dropped out of the Law Society of British Columbia. No charges were laid.
A few years later, further documents came into our possession that, in our opinion, proved the Ministry of the Attorney General had been engaged in fraud going back to the months immediately after the signing of the illegal September 1989 agreement that violated the Water Act, the Free Trade Agreement and the GATT.
We gave copies of those additional documents to the RCMP and the Victoria City Police in a package called Second Police Report
You can review the Second Sun Belt Water Police Report at
http://www.sunbeltwater.com/images/policereport2.pdf
Again, the RCMP refused to carry out the investigation of our complaint. The Victoria City Police agreed to carry out an investigation but the investigation was stalled and after the Chief of Police got caught in a sexual affair with a lawyer (female) from Jean Chretien's law firm, Heenan Blaikie, the Victoria City Police refused to carry out the investigation.
In 2008, the Second Police Report was to RCMP Commissioner, William Elliott, in Ottawa, and asked for a competent investigation. We have had no report from Commissioner Elliott.
We think James Mattison committed perjury and, not being a lawyer, he was most probably guided by legal counsel working inside the Ministry of the Attorney General.
You be the judge.
Is James Mattison an unconvicted criminal?
Should he be permitted to hold a government job?
Save Your Life Jim Mattison - Come Clean
This is a personal message to James Mattison, his friends and family. There are now over forty people who have died very suddenly and who were linked to the WaterWarCrimes.
We suspect murder in more that one instance.
Jack Ebbels, a WaterWarCrimes insider, suddenly died on Febraury 25, 2010. Jim Mattison could be next. In our opinion, the only way to save Jim Mattison is for Jim Mattison is to come totally clean and blow the whistle on everyone involved. We invite Jim Mattison to use our blog to do this but we also encourage him to put his information in an affidavit form with as much details as possible and send it to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the RCMP and British Columbia Premier Christy Clark.
If you are a friend of James Mattison we encourage you to counsel him on this matter. There are people who wish to cover up the WaterWarCrimes and there are now thirty one potential witnesses who are dead. Help us save Jim Mattison and put the real crooks in jail.
Click here to return to Water War Crimes Homepage
We suspect murder in more that one instance.
Jack Ebbels, a WaterWarCrimes insider, suddenly died on Febraury 25, 2010. Jim Mattison could be next. In our opinion, the only way to save Jim Mattison is for Jim Mattison is to come totally clean and blow the whistle on everyone involved. We invite Jim Mattison to use our blog to do this but we also encourage him to put his information in an affidavit form with as much details as possible and send it to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the RCMP and British Columbia Premier Christy Clark.
If you are a friend of James Mattison we encourage you to counsel him on this matter. There are people who wish to cover up the WaterWarCrimes and there are now thirty one potential witnesses who are dead. Help us save Jim Mattison and put the real crooks in jail.
Click here to return to Water War Crimes Homepage